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The Hemingway Woman: Cardboard Love Slave or Cassandra's Daughter?

Recently one of my most generous former students returned to campus to tend goal for the women's ice hockey grads, but also to give me a copy of the 1 September 1954 Life with the first publication of Ernest Hem­ ingway's The Old Man and the Sea. She'd read the book in To m Longstaff's and my course, "Biblical Images in American Literature;' and knew I'd appreciate a "first:' I promised to share with Longstaff. Hemingway was again on my syllabus this year for "The American Short Story:' Although students could write papers on Poe, Hawthorne, James, Crane, Wharton, Jewett, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Salinger, or Philip Roth, 47 of 142 analyzed a Hemingway story, clearly the greatest number for any of our authors. Of course, not all of these critic-analysts regard Hemingway as the originator of credible, let alone ad­ mirable, characters. My colleague Phyllis Mannocchi generated widespread approbation from rows of young women when we team-taught A Farewell to Arms several years ago by arguing that Hemingway's Frederick Henry is an apathetic twerp and Catherine Barkley a cardboard love slave. My contention that Farewell is most­ ly about the absurdities of war got buried by those who read the novel as an example of Hemingway's lifelong campaign to increase the stature of his male heroes by surrounding them with subservient females. Indeed, most feminist critics consider Hemingway a master builder of the American literary dystopia for women. Nonetheless, Hemingway continues to fascinate both casual readers and a vast academic/critical establishment. Between 1949 and 1980, Hemingway inspired some 17 personal memoirs, including reminis­ cences by a brother, two sisters, a wife, a son, and a mistress. Carlos Baker's definitive biography, Ernest Hem­ ingway: The Life Story, seemed totally exhaustive when it appeared in 1969. Yet the 1984 number of the MLA in­ ternational Bibliography alone lists 71 scholarly articles on Hemingway. This biographical wave crested in 1985 with Jeffrey Meyers' Hemingway and Peter Griffin's Alone With Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years, the first of a three-volume biography. Making by far the biggest splash, however, was the 1986 publication of the posthumous Hemingway novel, The Garden of Eden. Reduced by editors at Scribner's by some two thirds from the original, The Garden of Eden, with its bisexual menage a trois, stayed on the best-seller list for 17 weeks-not bad for a novel published 25 years after its creator committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho. The new novel both pleases and angers critics of Hemingway's women. In The New York Times Book Review, E.L. Doctorow maintained that the protagonist, Catherine, "takes on the stature of a self-tortured Faustian. She represents the most infom1ed and delicate reading Hemingway has given to any woman:· Other critics argue that Catherine is psychotic, jealous, and destructive. Whatever the case, Catherine evades the neat categories usually adduced by critics of the Hemingway woman: passive dream girl or bitch. Labels such as these tell us more about the Draconian corner-cutting of the critics than they do about Hem­ ingway's female characters. For every Leslie Fiedler who claims that "There are no women in his books," only adolescent fantasies, there is a Roger Whitlow who devotes· an entire monograph, Cassandra's Daughters, to demonstrating that Hemingway's women are more "interesting, dramatic .. . humane and decent" than his men. But readers who ignore ideology continue to take great pleasure in Hemingway's fiction. My current students and I especially like a very short 1927 dramatic narrative called "Hills Like White Elephants." In one sense, "Hills Like White Elephants" is about abortion, although the word is nowhere used in the story. A young American couple waits for the train to Madrid at a rural station on a hot summer afternoon. They drink in the shade to make the time pass, but the tension between them cannot be dissipated by beer or Anis de! To ro. The man, never named, is relentlessly literal, egocentric, manipulative, "sophisticated:' The woman, Jig, pregnant with his child, sees her condition symbolized in the swelling white hills around them. Yet the hills also look like white elephants-like freaks, devalued articles of reputed worth that no one wants. Jig's lover wants no child to discommode their travels, no responsibilities to burden his life. And although the man protests that "I don't want you to do it if you don't want to," he badgers her remorselessly to get the abortion: "I don't want anyone but you. I don't want anyone else:' Jig rightly believes that aborting this child will never allow "normality" into their aimless lives again. And she despises her Jover for his insensitivity. What Jig fears most is abandonment, in a country whose language she cannot speak, whose values she does not know. Jig will submit to the abortion, but she recognizes that any love they shared has died with the decision the man has forced on her. Jig will cope ("There's nothing wrong with me;· she tells him), but her nerve will not be able to ward off despair for long. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a wonderfully terrible story, and readers treasure Hemingway's pitiable, ad­ mirable Jig. She may not be one of the doctrinaire critics' "typical Hemingway woman;· but she's an unforget­ table creation. And Jig is why legions of students and I continue to admire Hemingway's achievement.

Charles Bassett, Dana Professor of American Studies and English

"Commentary" does not necessarily represent the editorial position of The Colby Alumnus nor the opinion of College officers. Readers are invited to submit proposals or opinion essays of between 500 and 1,000 words to the Editor, The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. The editor cannot guarantee publication of any submission. THE ALUMNUS

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FEATU RES DEPARTMENTS

10 The Plan for a New Campus Commentary (inside front cover) Fifty years after the laying of the cornerstone of Lorimer Chapel, Colby's Mayflower Hill campus remains remarkably faithful to architect Fredrick 2 Eustis Mailroom Larson's original "master plan:·

16 Canvas, Cadence, and Stone 3 ews from the Hill When Evans B. Reid retired from teaching chemistry at the College, he stepped into a brand 8 Ex Libris new career -or three.

19 Cross-Country Hits Its Stride 27 Class Correspondence The women's cross-country team enjoys a new coach and new success. 44 Milestones

22 Living "Away" Colby alumni living in various parts of the country distinguish the "regional flavor" of their areas. Alumni Club News (inside back cover)

Vo lume 76, Number 2, March 1987

The Colby Alumnus is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address cor­ respondence to the Editor, The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 0490 1 -4799.

Editor: Robert Gillespie; assistant to the editor: Nancy Fortuine Westervelt '54; design and production: Bonnie Bishop; production editor: lartha Freese Shattuck; editorial interns: Priscilla J. Phinney '87, K. Hilary Pfeifer '89, Julie Marks '90; photography: Mal Lebowitz '87 (p. 3), Catherine Anderson (pp. 5, 6, 17, 21, 39), Russell L. Longley (p. 13). Royal Studio IP· 14). Bonnie Bishop (p. 14). Paige Alexander '88 (pp. 20, 21), La alle Photo (p. 32). Chip Carey (p. 42).

Printed by Knowlton & McLeary, Farmington, Maine

On the cover: Architect Fredrick Larson sketched this vision of Colby's proposed Mayflower Hill campus in the early 1930s.

THE COLBY ALUMNUS __ :_u_s_T I_s _ I L R 0 0 M _,,,_f__ _ __Nl:A ) , .. � Congratulations Colby has developed its strong was quick to point out that the majority reputation based on the abilities and of the campus was built by the reve­ Congratulations on the September 1986 wide-ranging interests of its graduates­ nues from his Saturday afternoon games. issue of the Alumnus. What a fine cover! not, I assure you, on its quality of foot­ Colby will never even reap modest The magazine is newsy and carries the ball. Further, a lot of graduates can be riches, no matter how much they in­ tone and spirit of the College. heard deriving a certain perverse pleas­ vest. If Colby is concerned about reve­ I was specially interested to see the ure from the bumbling inadequacies of nues, maybe the emphasis should be notice of Margaret Payson's death (De­ our football team. placed on the hockey program. It con­ cember 12, 1985) on page 52. I believe I It distresses me to learnth at the sistently draws the crowds and has a furnished some information about Miss College has not only stepped up its long, successful history. Payson shortly after her death. I realize commitment to and expenditures on Three coaches in seven years does how pressed you are for space, but Miss football. but that it insists on using up not aid the cause. A nasty suit against Payson rates more than a formal obitu­ the already limited editorial space in the College by one, which was settled ary. I worked closely with her in estab­ the Alumnus to tell a largely uninterest­ out of court, continued to drag it down. lishing the program the College now ed group of alumni about "ringing No one can expect a coach to turn calls "Studies in Human Development:' phones in June:' Most of us hear ringing around the program overnight. You have She funded all of the preliminary work phones ten hours a day. In the future, to have a winning tradition. Amherst that went into the founding of that pro­ why not replace the article on football and Tufts have it, Colby does not. Why gram and other revisions in the curricu­ with an essay, written by a student, on would an academically sound, promis­ lum during the years 1965-1971. In all, the crystal clear fall days, the wonders ing football star choose Colby's program she invested nearly $200,000 in that of a new snowfall, or the lazy days of over Tufts?Consequent ly, what we get period. I know, because she funded the spring, experiences that we all shared and will always have is an advanced faculty position I held from 1966 to and remember fondly. I do hope that in high school program. 1971. She was most generous, in addi­ the rush to get to the football game stu­ I take nothing away from the hun­ tion, in making additional money avail­ dents have not forgotten how to write. dreds who have dedicated their time to able for special projects. No other hon­ a hopeless cause, but we must face the orary degree holder as far as I know Nicholas Si/itch '83 facts - the program is dead. Let's put an sent three members of his or her family Los Angeles, Calif end to this frivolous spending and sup­ to Colby as Miss Payson did. She and port a better cause. The school must her close friend and advisor, Margaret face reality and cast away the politics Jones of Portland, remained very close that shroud the facts. I hate to see a to the College for the five-year period I Kicking Football 100-year tradition be tossed out like the was there and paid all expenses for the trash, but let's save the school future history of the huinan development pro­ Thank God the season's over' The Mules embarrassment. gram that I wrote (a copy will be found are sporting another 1-7 season while in the College library). being outscored 206-57. That translates Ke lly Dodge '83 to three winning seasons in twenty-six Malden, Mass. Leonard W Mayo '22 years! Chagrin Falls, Ohio The statistics are staggering. Colby must make a serious decision soon to Concerned drop the program. The school seems to Recalling Colby be torn between dropping a 100-year ... I would like to echo the concern tradition and tampering with the poten­ brought up by Perley M. Leighton in In my brief sojourn to the West Coast I tial loss of alumni funds. The trustees the June 1986 issue, that Alumnus is an appear to have misplaced my college ex­ continue to believe the alumni wish to ill-suited name for Colby's magazine. perience. From reading the September keep the program when, in fact, they When I attended the Alumni College issue of the Alumnus it appears that I have no substantial evidence for this last June at Colby, many of my tem­ graduated from the University of Okla­ belief. I believe most would not care to porary classmates, who were women of homa, where football plays an integral voice an opinion either way. Regardless, all ages, expressed the same annoyance role in the school's social life and na­ a dying program survives.. at being so casually ignored by this in­ tional image. My memories of college A reliable source at the school has appropriate title. The Colby Magazine or are admittedly vague since I've been out informed me that the football budget is some other gender-less title would be for three years now, but I seem to recall larger than the entire women's athletic much more appropriate. What do you that I went to a small liberal arts col­ program. Equal opportunity for all? think?. lege in Maine, widely (if not nationally) Woody Hayes was once criticized by the known for its beautiful campus and Ohio State students on the unfair bene­ Julie Stewart '76 stimulating academic environment. fits his players received; however, he Philadelphia, Pa.

2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS _....,./r5_ws FROM THE 1-hL L

November Blackout

The lights flickered for a moment, then "Trivial Pursuit" sprang up in front of papers nationwide. Anderson gets his went out. "OK, who blew a fuse?" peo­ crackling logs. behind-the-scenes information from ple asked in the residence halls. "There Students began to hope that the high-level sources in Washington who goes an entire day's work!" groaned a lights would stay out all weekend, or at have come to respect and trust him dur­ student who had just finished dry-typ­ least into the next day, providing an ex­ ing his many years in the capitol. ing an English paper in the computer cuse for unfinished computer assign­ Anderson used his inside knowledge lab. "Get out the styrofoam plates'" was ments and hours of lost reading time. of Washington's institutions and policy­ the cry from dishwashers in the dining When the lights flickered on and hun­ makers to give his opinions about Presi­ hall, while a student who had been dreds of stereos, TV sets, and radios dent Reagan, the upcoming presidential busy all Saturday raising bread dough suddenly came to life on their own at race, and issues facing our government. in the Mary Low Cooperative Kitchen 9:00 that evening, the groans of disap­ Reagan, Anderson said, is "a lousy ac­ watched her cinnamon rolls fall in ruins pointment drowned out the sounds of tor ...he always played Ronald Reagan after only five minutes in the oven. relief. and he still does.'' Despite his own ini­ What had happened? Rumors ran tial wariness of this "cowboy-moviestar" KHP.JM, PJ P rampant. Too many hair dryers being and the continued reluctance of many used at once in preparation for Saturday of his journalistic colleagues to give night? Too many stereos blasting at too Reagan credit, Anderson praised the high a decibel for too long7 A hunter president's leadership and his ability to shooting out a power line, or a truck "steer the ship of state." Reagan dismiss­ driver running down several poles out es disapproval of his performance, An­ on I-95? In the darkness under the li­ derson said. and gives his attention to brary tower, passing students mused on "choosing and finding people who think how they had taken electricity for grant­ the way he does." ed. When carloads of people intent on Vice President George Bush was purchasing candles drove down May­ Anderson's choice as Ronald Reagan's flower Hill, they found the north end of most likely successor, barring the un­ Waterville also transformed into a si­ likely event that he should "somehow lent, dark world. stumble between now and the GOP Once they knew that the blackout nomination." He termed Republican con­ would not be resolved immediately­ tender Bob Dole "savvy, mean, and hunters, it turned out, shot out insula­ unpleasant," said that Jack Kemp "thinks tors on a transformer on an isolated sec­ backwards," and described Pat Robert­ tion of Quarry Road-students began to son as "giving the impression that God make the most of the new atmosphere. is his running mate." Anderson was no Dining halls were illuminated by scores less critical of the Democratic presiden­ of candles, and people spoke in soft tial hopefuls. He attributed forerunner voices as they ate their meals on paper Gary Hart's success to his haircut, and plates in the mood of peaceful calm claimed that Mario Cuomo's "oratorical evoked by the darkness. In Dana, where jack Anderson artillery" only works his audience into a a piano and guitar suddenly appeared, frenzy and then lets them down again. music accompanied dinner, "a nice Turning to the question of our gov­ Before the Fall touch" that students agreed should hap­ ernment's credibility, Anderson com­ pen more often, not just in the event of On October 15, nationally syndicated pared the United States' government a power failure. After dinner several columnist Jack Anderson spoke to an with the Soviet Union's. He spoke of the people stayed on for more singing. audience of some 150 people in Lorimer Soviet's "huge disinformation agency" While organizers of previously Chapel on "The News Behind the Head­ that forges documents. "But they don't planned parties were still trying to sell lines." Anderson started his journalism do it very well;' he added. They've been tickets at dinner, few others trusted the career at age 12 with a job on his caught at it "and they've therefore lost electricity to reappear in time. Many hometown's weekly newspaper "because credibility.'' Our own government sel­ students opted instead for spontaneous thinning beets was too disagreeable.'' dom lies, according to Anderson. "It just gatherings in their rooms and clustered Since that time he has become one of doesn't tell the truth. It tells part of the around battery-operated radios and the most successful investigative report­ truth. We should expect that:' Never­ flickering candles. Flashlights threw ers in Washington, D.C. His weekly syn­ theless, Anderson maintained, our gov­ shadow rabbits on walls. In the lounges dicated column, "The Washington Merry ernment is more honest with its citizens with fireplaces, enthusiastic games of Go-Round," is carried by over 900 news- than many other governments are. "I

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 3 guess you'd have to be an investigative Reunion Weekend, 1987 Alumni Fund and Reunion Gifts Soar reporter to know that we [America] are Reunion Weekend will be held on June strong enough to take the truth:' Building on the resounding success of 5-7, 1987. Classes celebrating reunions the Colby 2000 Campaign, the 1987 Anderson gave animated accounts of this year are those whose class years Alumni Fund is off to a smashing start. his interviews with figures ranging from end in Zs and 7s. Scheduled events in­ A progress report issued lo all alumni Libyan leader Moammar Khaddafi to clude the Alumni Awards Banquet, in February indicated that more than Ta kman Loy, a Cambodian refugee Alumni Association meetings, class di n­ 2,000 donors had already made com­ whom he helped to immigrate to the ners, entertainment, faculty seminars, mitments for this year, many of them al United States. Inherent in all of these and a parade of the classes. Class re­ higher levels than ever before. Class accounts was an ardent support for the union committees have been planning agent solicitations are now well under United States and for the actions of its the festivities for more than a year. way as the Alumni Fund moves to top public servants. Demonstrating why he The 1987 Alumni College will pre­ its $800,000 goal before the end of the has won the prestigious International cede Reunion Weekend on June 3-4. fund year in June. Platform Association's award for excel­ Courses are open to all alumni, parents, Of special note this year is the new­ lence in public speaking, Anderson and friends. This year's offerings in­ ly invigorated reunion gift program. employed his wit and eloquence to try clude "The Character of Contemporary Most of this year's reunion classes have to instill in the audience this same sup­ Japan," taught by Roger Bowen, associ­ set very ambitious goals for themselves port for our country's government. ate professor of government, and Ta mae and have already attracted strong sup­ PJP Prindle, assistant professor of East port. The Class of 1962, which will Asian studies; "Techniques of Effective celebrate its 25th reunion in June, is Communication," taught by Charles j. more than 80 percent of the way to its Windhorst '54, executive vice president goal of $30,000, which will be the Maine Treasures of Communispond, Inc.; "Jazz, Rhythm largest amount given to the Alumni and Blues, and Soul: Interconnections in Fund in a single year by a 25th reunion The Portland String Quartet. newly af­ American Popular Music," Laught by class. The Class of 1967 has already filiated with Colby as artists-in-resi­ Paul Machlin, associate professor of raised more than three times its entire dence, conducted its innovative first music; and "That Constitutional Curiosi­ class gift of last year and is moving January program on the "History of ty: The American Presidency;· taught by rapidly toward its reunion gift goal of Chamber Music from the Eighteenth G. Calvin Mackenzie, professor of gov­ $40,000. Overall, with three months still Century to the Present." The Jan Plan, ernment, and Robert Weisbrot, associate to go, this year's reunion classes have which earned twocredits for the thirty­ professor of history. already surpassed the total dollar five students enrolled, required textbook Registration materials and further amounts raised by any previous year's study, a paper, and attendance at four information about Reunion Weekend reunion classes. evening "classes" as well as Monday/ and the Alumni College will be mailed At the request of the Alumni Fund 1\.1esday day sessions. For some, the from the Office of Alumni Relations in Committee, these funds, like all those course also meant participation in the April. raised in this year's Alumni Fund, will actual music-making, as music depart­ be used to support Colby's two highest ment faculty and several students joined priorities: scholarships for talented PSQ members in rendering some of the students and support for the College's most significant pieces of the chamber McGee Is Full Professor excellent fa cu I ty. music repertory. The PSQ, whose members President Richard J. McGee, director of athletics Cotter termed "Maine treasures" in the al Colby since 1975, has been promoted honorary degree citations at last year's to the rank of professor. McGee joined commencement, consists of Stephen the faculty in 1967 and for several years Tenure Awarded to Skrien Kecskemethy and Ronald Lantz, violin, served as head football coach. In 1974 Julia Adams, viola, and Paul Ross, cello. he received the Murray Lewis Memorial At their January meeting, the Board of The group played to capacity audiences Award, presented by the Boston chapter Trustees granted tenure to Dale John at Given Auditorium in two free Sunday of the Eastern Association of Intercolle­ Skrien, assistant professor of mathemat­ afternoon concerts on November 24 and giate Football Officials to a coach for ics at the College since 1980. Skrien March 8. Both performances were fol­ "outstanding contributions to New En­ received his B.A. summa cum /aude from lowed by student workshops the next gland football." During McGee's term as Saint Olaf College in 1974 and his M.A. day. director, Colby's department of physical and Ph.D. in mathematics from the Uni­ The PSQ will be affiliated with Col­ education has expanded considerably. versity of Washington in 1979 and 1980. by over the next five years. The ensem­ Facilities have been renovated and en­ On pre-tenure sabbatical in 1984-85, he ble also plans a session on campus each larged lo include a 103,000-square foot was a teaching assistant at the Universi­ summer, which will include classes, indoor athletic complex and more than ty of Illinois, where he received an M.S. concerts, and student recitals. The 1987 50 acres of outdoor playing fields. In in computer science. Skrien's major in­ session will be held during the first two addition lo 14 intercollegiate teams for terest is graph theory, and he has read weeks of August. For further informa­ men and 13 for women, Colby has 3 papers at meetings of the Mathematical tion on the Portland String Quartet athletic clubs for each, and students Association of America and has pub­ Workshop at Colby, contact Director of may choose from over 30 individual lished papers on his research in a num­ Special Programs Robert H. Kany. and intramural activities. ber of professional journals.

4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Keeping Score

The football rivalry between Colby and Bowdoin continued this past season in a new light. In November, when the two schools met for the lOOth time. atten­ tion focused on a discrepancy that was uncovered in the record keeping when the anniversary game sparked some his­ torical digging. Records at Bowdoin showed them ahead of Colby. 57-32-8 in 97 games. According to Colby archives. the record stood at 57-33-9. The dii­ ference in count came about in 1945 when both colleges. in the general reori­ entation following World War II, decid­ ed to suspend fall sports. After \'igorous student and alumni campaigning, the schools agreed to meet in two "informal" footbalI matchups that November. The teams tied 7-7 in Brunswick. The next week Colby won 13-6 on its home field. Last ovember 8, just after the scores were recorded correctly in Bowdoin's Susan Conant Cook '75, director of alumni relations books, the Polar Bears added a 21-1-1- win to their record.

Good Sports Cook Promoted

Thanks to E. Evelyn Kellett '26, "You've Vice President for Development and come a long way. baby," since the days Alumni Relations G. Calvin Mackenzie Pestana's War when women were members of the announced the promotion of Susan Co­ Women's Health League at Colby, learn­ nant Cook '75 to director of alumni rela· Professor of Geology Harold Pestana's ing to dress and diet sensibly and all tions. Cook has worked in the Colby coliection of World War I memorabilia taking gym from a single instructor. Office of Alumni Relations since 1981. started as a personal hobby. It has since During Homecoming Weekend last Oc­ Said Mackenzie, "This promotion is a evolved into a valuable teaching aid that tober, when Ms. Kellett, a Lawrence, much-deserved recognition of the strong was on display in the E.A. Robinson Mass., resident, was named 1986 Colby leadership Sue gives to our alumni rela­ Memorial Room of Miller Library at "C" Club Woman-of-the-Year for her tions programs. It also signifies the key Colby until December 21. Several years outstanding contribution to Colby's role she will play as those programs ago, in connection \•vith a lecture he athletic programs, she said that while continue to blossom in the years ahead:' presented to a history course on the she was a student, women had to con­ Great War, Pestana compiled this mini­ tend with such hardships as the low museum to give students more im­ Alumni Council Appointments ceiling of the basement gym in Foss mediate contact with the culture of Hall. "We had to try to play basketball Jerome F. Goldberg '60, chairman of the World War I. The lecture has since in a seven-foot room whose ceiling was Alumni Council, has announced the ap­ become an integral part of Colby's covered with pipes;· said Ms. Kellett, pointment of several new members to history curriculum. whose contributions to Colby sports the Alumni Council Executive Commit­ The many books in the collection, began when she won the first Colby tee. Each of the new appointees will containing memoirs and reminiscences Sports League Cup for athletic activities chair a substantive committee of the as welI as fiction and poetry. illustrate and abilities. "As an only child," she re­ council. The new members and their the dominating effect the war had on called, "I had to play football and base­ committees are Elizabeth Corydon '74 the lives of the people involved. Art is ball with all the boys in the street. (National Clubs), Scott McDermott '76 another important part of the collection There wasn't much around for girls (Special Projects), Deborah Marson as it reveals the war's great impact back then:' Pleased with changes in the Mc ulty '75 (Nominations), Donald Shmi through illustrated books, photos, post­ athletic program for women, she said '64 (Athletics), and Donna Curran Stock ers, postcards, and reproductions of that "They certainly have come a long '82 (Admissions). 'These new appoint­ paintings and drawings produced at that way:' Ms. Keliett's most recent good turn ments;· said Goldberg, "will strengthen the time. Pestana notes that during and im­ to the College's athletic program, a sub­ council's contributions to the College in mediately after World War I, censorship stantial gift to the Colby 2000 Cam­ several important ways. They also pro­ strongly affected artistic representations paign, went towards renovation of the vide opportunities for a number of com­ of the war. The rest of the display con­ women's locker room in the fieldhouse. mitted and effective alumni leaders to sists of medals, pieces of uniforms, in­ The room, which has come a long way, lend their special skills and creativity to cluding a 1917 German helmet, and too, now carries Ms. Keliett's name. the work of the council:' scale models of artillery.

THE COLBY ALUM US 5 lieve our own government-when we have lo face the fact that some un­ friendly government reported events more truthfully than ours. It bothers me when the government is more interest­ ed in damning the press and plugging leaks than it is in leveling with its own people. It is not a private government. It belongs lo all of us. But there is an added twist. While there has been privatizing of the pub­ lic's government, the government has made more and more intrusions into the privacy of individuals. These have included proposals for domestic spying by the CIA-for wide­ spread government use of so-called lie detectors - and for large scale govern­ ment tests by urinalysis, in what might be called drugnet operations. There has also been a chipping away at rules that "The Way to Defend Freedom of thePress ... " protect us from search operations and that insure rights of suspects. Herb Block, cartoonist of The Washing­ ernmenl-lhe notion that once an ad­ In our country, where there is sup­ ton Post, received the 34th Elijah Pa rish ministration is in office, the government posed to be a presumption of inno­ Lovejoy award. His address in Lorimer belongs to the officials running it and cence, Attorney General Edwin Meese Chapel on November 7, 1986, is printed, that what they do is not the public's said, "You don't have many suspects in part, below. business. who are innocent of a crime. That is The director of the CIA. William J. contradictory. If a person is innocent of I'm delighted and honored to receive Casey, has threatened newspapers and a crime, then he is not a suspect." De­ the Elijah Lovejoy award. To be tapped broadcast networks with criminal prose­ spite the fact that tl\ere was a transcript for it is kind of an awesome and happy cution if they report government activi­ of that interview, Mr. Meese first claimed surprise. ties he decides lo call sensitive. . . He that he was misquoted, and later stated It's also a special honor for me be­ also said in a speech that he questioned he had not meant what he said .... Last cause of my great respect for the mem­ "whether a secret intelligence agency week he gave a speech on drugs in bers of the committee who make it ­ and the Freedom of Information Act can which he suggested that employers con­ and because it commemorates Elijah co-exist for very long" and that "the will­ duct surveillance of employees in the Parish Lovejoy, who gave his life fight­ ingness of foreign intelligence agencies work place, in locker rooms, parking ing for freedom of the press, and-al a to share information will dwindle un­ lots and "nearby taverns if necessary:· time of slavery-for human freedom. less we get rid of the Freedom of Infor­ This is not a sequence from a Doones­ We are alJ his beneficiaries, and we can mation Act:· When I drew a cartoon bury strip - this is the Attorney General best honor him by carrying on his battles. showing him calling for repeal of that of the United States. To day there are dangers from gov­ act, he issued a disclaimer, saying that It bothers me when government of­ ernment itself - including threats of he never advocated its total repeal. Per­ ficials adopt the idea that the state is criminal prosecution and unfavorable haps his speeches needed to be trans­ supreme over the rights of individuals cou·rt decisions. The weapons of the lated with a magic decoder ring. and that officials need not account for press are still words and images. There Only a few weeks ago we learned their actions. is still power in the pen -or the com­ of a National Security adviser's memo Some people seem to have a kind of puter terminal - if we use them effec­ about Libya that described what he fanatic zeal, which makes them feel that tively. called a "d isinformation" campaign -one anything goes. I'd like to say a few words about that managed to disinform the Ameri­ I bring this up because I think it il­ words. In my daily work, I don't get to can public if not our potential enemies. lustrates something basic. It is not just a use many of them and so I mull them George Orwell might have smiled at matter of "liberals" versus "c onserva­ over a lot. that one, too. tives," but between those who believe in A word that's come into use lately is Three years ago, when the invasion the expression of differences and those "privatization''._ the selling off of govern­ of Grenada was unfolding, a govern­ who want freedom for themselves but ment properties. Even when government ment official told the press that the idea not for the other guy. There are those officials turn over public resources to of such an action was "preposterous" who are not satisfied with their own private companies at knock-down prices, while at the same time the Castro gov­ freedom to worship or not worship as this is not called a scandal. It is "privati­ ernment knew lhe facts and was report­ they please-they want to make sure zation:' ing them. that the other guy and the other guy's What we need to be even more con­ It bothers me, and I think it should kids worship.. cerned about is the privatization of gov- bother all of us, when we cannot be- I think it's obvious from any study

6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS of history that freedom has defended days of our country, when outrageous been elected -or of people appointed by religion better than religion has defend­ accusations and slurs were common elected officials- the press that criticizes ed freedom. The late Elmer Davis, a currency. Yet today the press as a whole official actions is likely to be running great commentator, said that we in is probably criticized more than it was against current majority opinion. Com­ America have had a national faith -a many years ago. Po liticians who go plaints go \\"ith the territory. If every­ faith in freedom. But it is that faith that in for press-bashing point out that we body agreed with what we in the press is today being eroded by people in gov­ are not elected. That's right-and it's im­ were doing, and if the government felt ernment as well as out of government, portant that we're not. The founders did we deserved a pat on the head for who would make religious belief a sub­ the electing when they decided that bringing in the daily paper and fetching stitute for a belief in freedom. there should be a free press - a press its slippers ,,.e would have real cause The First Amendment, which pro­ which, in our system of checks and to worry -and so would the country. tects religion, also provides for free balances, would serve as a check on I think we need more good im·esti­ speech, free assembly, and a free press. government itself. The fact that the gative reporting not less. The way to There was never an expectation that press is not elected and is not subject to defend freedom of the press is to use it. free speech and free press would guar­ the same pressures as politicians, is In the press -and particularly in antee individual wisdom or accuracy­ what enables it to perform its critical broadcasting- there is some fear that if or proper decorum -only that they role -and to say things that politicians you criticize government, you might be would serve to insure a free system. don't say. accused of not giving both sides of the Actually the press today is far more And since criticism of government story. But everybody already gets one responsible than it vvas in the early means criticism of people who have side of the story from government of­ ficials in all the papers, on radio and on television every day and night. And op­ posing politicians, looking at popularity ratings and playing it safe, don't neces­ sarily keep the governing party in line. We should not be frightened by our own polls or fearful of being accused of being partisan. The press often needs to get out in front of the politicians. And its voice should add volume to what the politician hears from the still small voice of conscience. The time ,,-hen speaking up about abuses in government is most needed is when officials may be most popular and when few are pointing out their errors. Government actions in recent years have had the "c hilling effect" on the press we keep hearing about. But if anyone thinks hunkering down will help, he has only to see hov,r the attacks upon our freedom have been stepped up. We need not just a defense, but a vigorous offe nsive ... When government officials would curb basic freedoms, it's our job to put them out of their jobs... For those who are not members of the press: Many may not agree with any of us in it -we frequently don't agree vvith each other. That's okay, and so is criticism of the press. But we all have a common interest in the free flow of in­ formation and views.. I recall something that was said during the long period of McCarthyism. The speaker was Doris Fleeson, who was a great newspaper columnist. She said: "I wish I had some magic formula to suggest. There is none. There are no wonder men or wonder ""omen. There A snmple of political cartoonistHerb Block's work. are only you and 1 and others who believe in freedom."

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The special collections staff of Miller Fortunately, it's out in paperback Thenceforth, and for the remainder of Library catalogues and keeps any books now and will help many people work the book, Larschan the person fades in­ written by alumni and fa culty of which their way through the considerable to the background. Although this device they are aware. For this reason, and fo r traumas of illness. was consciously chosen to emphasize the purpose of this book review section, all Unfortunately, "while even modern the practical. utilitarian nature of the alumni authors are encouraged to alert the medicine may be limited in fighting "resource handbook," there are oppor­ College to the publication of their works. cancer;· fortunately "we can still do a lot tunities to sense throughout the book Please send boohs to the Office of the Col­ for ourselves to make living with cancer the sensitivity and humaneness of the lege Edito1; Colby College, Wa terville, more bearable."* The Larschans have author. Fortunately. Maine 0-/.901--/.799. done that, for themselves and for The remaining chapters present the others. reader with a variety of ways to attempt The underlying assumption of this to exercise control. Seriatim, the patient The Diagnosis Is Cancer handbook is that "the more you [the (or the patient's family members, though by Edward J. Larschan, cancer patient] feel in control, the less mostly the book is addressed to "you," with Richard Larschan your anger, the more others will enjoy the patient) is advised of ways to con­ Bull Publishing Co., 1986 being around you , and the greater pleas­ trol his/her emotions, physicians (and be $9.95 ure you will receive and give during the prepared for plenty of them, especially balance of your life." That there will be if you're in a teaching hospital or com­ a tremendous sense of loss of control prehensive cancer center). hospital set­ and much anger, irritation, frustration, tings, financial and legal problems. The and fear are acknowledged. Larschan final chapter and appendices offer clas­ does not hide his feelings from us, but sified lists and descriptions of helping in sharing them with his readers shares organizations across the country. foctun't'ly, ,;nee M•y 1982, Ed· his strength and strengthens our self­ Larschan's training as a clinical psy­ uward Larschan '58, a clinical psycholo­ understanding. chologist, and his two decades of ex­ gist, has been ill with liver cancer. The opening chapter describes the perience, much of it with seriously ill Fortunately, Larschan, with his first few hours of discovery, reviews patients in hospitals, have given him brother, Richard '64, an English pro­ briefly the variety of intrafamilial emo­ especial insight into his own feelings fessor at Southeastern Massachusetts tional responses and relationships ("I and the feelings of those around him. University, has written a book about mention my own family's reactions When he says that "your own honesty some of the coping skills developed dur­ because I believe they are typical of and openness will encourage others to ing the illness. what other patients and families ex­ reciprocate," the authenticity of the re­ Unfortunately, everybody who has perience"). and introduces the concern mark truly challenges the patient to cancer hasn't read it. for the doctor-patient relationship. follow Larschan's advice. When he notes

8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS that "it helps to learn how others have pages of lists and descriptions of help­ Crisis of Cancer. New Yo rk: Harper and handled similar problems," he follows ing organizations, the book clearly satis­ Row, 1978. through by providing us with just that fies its purpose "to concentrate ...on sort of information. the potential use my practical experi­ Cousins, Norman. Anatomy of an J//ness Many patients will not realize their ence might have for others." As Perceived by the Pa tient: Reflections 011 opportunity, nor have the will, "to locate Living with cancer is never easy. Healing and Regeneration. New Yo rk: W. and go see the best available oncologist:• Making a major contribution to others W. Norton and Co., 1979. Ye t this seems to be a crucial decision while doing so is a remarkable feat. Ed­ in efforts to retain emotional control. If ward Larschan has accomplished this Cousins, Norman. The Healing Heart: the doctor-patient relationship is truly feat remarkably well. Antidotes to Pain and Helplessness. New one of partners, some of the emotional Yo rk: W. W. orton and Co., 1983. problems are eased, and "maintaining a Jonas Rosenthal positive self-image while hospitalized" is Professor of Sociology Simonton, 0. Carl, Stephanie Matthev\'S­ more likely. Larschan warns, however, Simonton, James L. Creighton. Getting that "the tremendous emotional pressure Jonas Rosenthal had surgery fo r renal cell We ll Again. New Yo rk: ]. P. Ta rcher, on cancer specialists frequently causes cancer in 1960, and surgery and radiation 1978. them to retreat from close personal at­ therapy for renal cell cancer in 1981. tachments to their patients;· and that "it's Sontag, Susan. Illness As Metaphor. New best to have these needs met by family, * Thanks to Fortunately by Reny Charlip Yo rk: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. friends, and other hospital staff:' The (New Yo rk: Macmillan Publishing Com­ author has obviously succeeded in de­ pany, 1964). riving such support, and provides tech­ niques for others to use. Although The Diagnosis Is Cancer is Other Books of Related Interest Other Noteworthy Books by a brief book, the Larschans provide an Alumni and Faculty incredible amount of detail, and almost Abram, Morris B. The Day Is Short. San any cancer patient will find almost all Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Anthony, Robert N. '38, and Charles A. of it valuable. From descriptions and Anderson, L.H.D. '75. The New Cor­ critiques of experimental cancer treat­ Attwood, William T. Making It Through porate Directors: Insights fo r Board ments to recommendations on how to Middle Age. New Yo rk: Atheneum Members and Executives. New Yo rk: John make appointments by telephone and Publishers, 1982. Wiley & Sons, 1986. how to read your medical insurance policy, from charts to demonstrate ways Cantor, Robert C. And a Time to Live: Pratt, Thane K. '73. Birds of New Guinea. to keep medical expense records to 22 To ward Emotional We ll-Being During the Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1986.

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The Plan for a New Colby

by Stanley A. Nicholson

At fo>t 'ight of Colby, vi,itm campus is familiar to most readers of Colleges Commission on College Ar­ invariably notice that the layout, build­ this magazine. Many alumni directly ex­ chitecture:' His concept of the new cam­ ings, and landscape make Colby distinc­ perienced the time of decision, the tran­ pus was sketched and presented to the tive among college campuses. Residents sition, and the early years on Mayflower trustees in June 1931, fewer than five and friends of the College explain this Hill. The excitement of that dramatic months after he was selected for the distinctiveness by noting that Colby's is move from the cramped 16 acres in task and nearly one year after the deci­ a "new" campus, built according to a downtown Waterville to 600 acres on sion to relocate the College. The citation master plan. In 1987, 50 years after the the outskirts of town, together with the from his honorary degree, awarded in placement of the cornerstone for Lori­ foresight and dedication of President 1964, reads: mer Chapel, one can easily discern Franklin Johnson, key Colby trustees, When the trustees ...made their historic close correspondence between the plan and Waterville citizens, is well docu­ decision in 1930 to move from the town of and the actual layout of buildings, mented in Dean Ernest Marriner's Waterville to the new tract of land on May­ roads, and other physical features. Al­ books, The History of Colby College, The flower Hill, they turned to you. At that time though the master plan does not ac­ Man from Mayflower Hill, and The Strid­ your achievement at Dartmouth had marked count entirely for Colby's building in re­ er Ye ars. The part played by the archi­ you as one of the leading college architects cent decades, that original plan stood tect and his master plan, however, is in the nation. . You have planned and de­ the test of years of discussion and delib­ not fully known or appreciated. veloped the campuses of more than thirty eration prior to the construction of the When Colby began to think about a colleges and universities in this country, Can­ first buildings; it survived detailed alter­ new campus, Jens Fredrick Larson, the ada, and abroad, and you have been called upon to design public buildings of many ations during the nearly 25 years of architect, already had a plan in mind. kinds. Colby owes you a special debt, for you construction of the new campus; and it At the time, Larson was described have ...shaped the destiny of this college as has exerted a guiding influence on sig­ variously as "of Dartmouth College," as you have planned from the beginning of the nificant building since 1960. "practicing architect in the field of col­ Mayflower Hill campus and helped it grow The story of Colby's daring move lege development planning;' and as "a to its present stature and its widely ac­ from downtown Waterville to a new member of the American Association of claimed beauty.

10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS At least part of the explanation of cordance with simple and chaste architec· ing: "]. Fredrick Larson, noted college the trustees' choice of Larson as ar­ tural standards, has an art and a life \·alue architect, was commissioned to draw chitect and the "success" of Larson's which the students, certainly a majority of plans for an ideal small college in the · plan is that he was one of a group of them \\ ill assimilate unconsciously. Architec­ best New England traditions." tural simplicity and dignity may be secured architects and college presidents who, The selection of Larson and the without the expenditure of large sums of for over a decade, had been working to adoption of his campus plan were ap­ money. If this could be impressed upon col­ improve the architectural character of parently easy choices for the special lege boards and if proper steps are taken bv liberal arts colleges. The mission of the college boards to secure work of this sort the committee of seven trustees and, later, American Association of Colleges Com­ colleges of this country in their \'isible out­ the entire board. From the perspecti\'e mission on College Architecture, first lines would be real promoters of cultural of the mid-l 980s it appears that board stated in 1922, is restated in the second education _ . . it is possible for every college, members spent the vast majority of of two important books written under even with limited means at its disposal to their time and enormous emotional the commission's sponsorship. In Archi­ contribute to the elevation of life by careful energy on a debate over whether to tectural Planning of the American College, attention to its campus program. move Colby to Augusta or to remain in Jens Fredrick Larson and Archie Macln­ Waterville. Much less attention was nes Palmer quoted the commission: devoted to the choice of an architect Colby trustees were impressed with than to the selection of a particular site Larson's vision. Typical of summary There have been enormous sums of money for a new campus. expended on college buildings without any statements in newspaper articles, fund­ When the trustees decided on June reference to proper grouping or to architec· raising booklets, and even Marriner's 13, 1930, to move the College to a new tural dignity. A grouping of buildings, on a writing is a comment in the program and more adequate location "if and properly designed campus, constructed in ac- for the Lorimer Chapel ground break- when feasible;· their decision in effect

With President Fra nklin Winslow Johnson (second from right}, the building committee of the Board of Trustees inspected the architect's model of the Mayflower Hill campus in 1937. Left to right: George Otis Smith, Class of 1893 and trustee 1903--J3, Wa lter S. Wy man, trustee 1929-42, Johnson, president 1929-42, and George Goodwin Averill, trustee 1928-54. Opposite page: Fredrick Larson's 1933 drawing of the proposed Colby campus.

THE COLBY ALU 1 US 11 rejected an earlier plan, prepared by At the regular meeting of the trus­ daeo-Christian influences. The library stands Franci Asbury Robinson of Boston in tees on April 18, 1931, it is recorded in the center of the campus showing that the 1926, for relocation and development of that "Mr. Fred Larson presented a chart college's main concern is the life of reason. buildings on the existing downtown Wa­ of the campus site and possible build­ At the side, however, and on slightly higher terville site. Next the debate turned to ings and developments thereon. He was ground is the chapel as a reminder that the whether to accept William H. Gannett's heard with great interest:' And in June heart has its reasons of which the head is often ignorant. The ideals of democracy re­ offer of property in Augusta or to re­ the Tr ustee Committee on Campus De­ ceive their share of attention also in the fact main in Waterville. 1\vo architectural velopment "voted to recommend to the that the fraternity houses are all cast in the firms consulted with the Waterville Board of Trustees that we engage Mr. J. same mold and arranged so that they cannot Citizens Committee, the group working Fredrick Larson as architect to do the withdraw from the common life but must to help retain Colby in Wa terville. Des­ work on the buildings and grounds in make a continuous contribution to it. Accord­ mond & Lord of Boston favored the accordance with plans set forth by ing to the Colby plan the fraternities exist for Ta ylor property at the confluence of the him .. the sake of the college, not the college for Messalonskee and Kennebec rivers, For Colby's trustees in 1931, Larson the sake of any of its parts. I should also like to comment on the in­ roughly where Thomas College is pres­ was an easy choice. Paul V. Turner, au­ ently located. Stiles and Van Kleck of thor of Campus: An American Planning fluence of the least conspicuous part of May­ flower Hill. As they look at the campus most Boston submitted architectural layouts TI·adition, called Larson "a traditionalist" observers are not aware of the digging and for each of three possible sites: May­ who usually attempted to impose his tunneling and grading and landscaping that flower Hill, the Messalonskee-Kennebec own eclectic preference on campus de­ has been done. The buildings look as if they site, and the Mountain Farm location signs. Larson apparently favored Beaux­ had grown where they are and the contours between Waterville and Fa irfield Center, Arts principles of planning in symmetry, of the land appear as if they had always which is the ridge behind the Colby ski axiality, focal point, and overall geomet­ been there. One can imagine the difference slope. These plans were available to ric clarity. He also preferred the coloni­ if a set of Gothic matchboxes had been Colby when on November 21, 1930, the al American "Georgian" style. For Colby perched on the summit of the hill with no trustees voted: Larson used a pattern based on Thomas attempt to produce the flowing lines the Jefferson's design for the University of campus now presents. The arrangement we have achieved seems to me to symbolize the that a committee of seven be appointed by Virginia - extended rectangular space, way in which education ought to treat the the Chairman to draw up plans for future defining a longitudinal axis, with a procedure, to definitely select a site in raw material of life. Ideas should transform dominant structure (Miller Library) as Wa terville, to develop a complete plan of nature not so much by fighting it and em­ focal point at one end and subsidiary organization for the removal of the College phasizing its unruly aspects as by enhancing from its present site to the proposed site, and buildings along the sides. Larson's plan its own beauty and building on its capacities for financing the same and that this Commit­ also called for women's dormitories and for good. The style of our buildings and their tee have authority to expend such money as a women's union building on the south relation to each other and to the hillside rep­ necessary to that end, including the right to end of the campus and men's dormito­ resent the flowering of a natural New En­ purchase any land and to accept any gifts. ries and fraternities with a men's union gland growth. When visitors ask me whether the campus is truly "functional" I am happy This Committee [is] to report its doings at on the north end. The trustee's choice to quote the remark of a modernist teacher the next meeting of the Board of Trustees, of Larson and his layout determined the of architecture in one of our leading univer­ either regular or special and to be authorized dominant architectural character of to engage such assistance whether of archi­ sities who said in a lecture here that he Colby. tects or others as it may deem necessary, and failed to see how any buildings could be The selection of architectural style more fitted for the work they had to do. any other thing necessary in the premises. and the location of the campus were in­ As that decision closed debate on tertwined. Of the three sites, Mayflower Of course, it is possible to dispute the possibility of moving Colby to Au­ Hill, which is essentially level for 400 the choice of the Neo-Georgian architec­ gusta, the next decision, the choice of a yards along Mayflower Hill Drive in ture. For example, it is not easily adapt­ site in Waterville, quickly became en­ front of the campus, offered the greatest ed to modifications in interior space. twined with the choice of an architect latitude for the Beaux-Arts principles And the strong use of symmetry calls for the new campus. Trustee Henry H. and Neo-Georgian architectural style, for level placement of buildings and ter­ Hilton, who had resigned from the the hallmarks of Larson's work. About racing of the ground, which sets limits Dartmouth board to serve on Colby's the architectural style, the interrelation­ for expansion. Larson's plan also calls board and assist his friend President ship of the buildings, and the landscap­ for formal planting and creates a special Johnson with the exciting new challenge ing, J. Seelye Bixler, president from challenge in suiting trees, shrubs, walks, to move the College, appears to have 1942 to 1960, would say: and roads to the natural contours and to recommended Larson to Colby in No­ the regrowth of natural vegetation on vember 1930. On December 2 of that A lady with modernist tendencies once the broad expanse of cleared fields sur­ year Larson visited Johnson and viewed remarked to me that she thought it inap­ rounding the developed campus. Such only the Mayflower Hill site. Before propriate for Colby to put Greek temples on limitations would become more appar­ Christmas, Johnson and Trustee Frank a Maine hillside. In reply I said that they ent after the new campus was built and were not temples but that we liked the Pade!ford traveled to Hanover to see occupied. Greek feeling because we wanted to be re­ Larson and examine his work at Dart­ Thirty years lapsed between the minded that the mind of man as a rational first Larson presentation and the com­ mouth. On January 17, 1931, other ar­ being works the same way whether he lives chitectural firms that had asked to be on the Mediterranean or the Messalonskee. I pletion of the plan. Even though the considered were informed that Larson remarked further that I felt the architect had Great Depression and World War II had been chosen. achieved a real sy nthesis of Greek with Ju- hampered fund raising and normal Col-

12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS lege life over those three decades, Lar­ pleted the master plan. After 1960, Lar· an accommodation of full coeducational son served as the architect for 24 build­ son designed only one building. Dana life on a campus planned for separate ings, Galen Eustis acted as secretary of Hall, the last use at Colby of Georgian divisions. allowance for the regrov,•th of the faculty and trustee building commit­ revival brick architecture. By President J\1aine woods, and the intrusion of auto­ tee, treasurer, and later administrative Robert E.L. Strider's inauguration in mobiles. After 1960 the master plan vice president, and Hegman and Harris 1960, 28 buildings had been constructed continued to exert a considerable force. Company was the general contractor. (25 in Neo-Georgian style) and one of but factors beyond those contemplated This continuity under the leadership of the farmhouses (Hill Family House) in the original plan have required addi­ presidents Johnson and Bixler rendered from Mayflower Hill had been relocated tional buildings with attendant decisions a result remarkably faithful to the origi­ on the new campus. about architectural style placement. nal plan. Thus the "first phase" of building the and landscaping. Indeed the need for For many, the dramatic high point "new Colby campus" was guided by a modifications was anticipated by Lar· in the story of Colby's move to May­ well-conceived master plan. embraced son, who wrote in 1933: flower Hill was 1952, when all of the by the trustees and Waterville leaders, students and classes were at last housed and faithfully implemented. People \Nho

in the new location. The story of the know Colby today could easily recog­ The value of an adequate campus develop· decision to move, the fund raising, and nize "their College" in the 1931 render­ ment plan cannot be over-estimated. The the actual construction was recounted ings of the plan. That recognition is a painter in preliminary sketches blocks in the in a 6,000-word article in the Saturday tribute to planners and a statement lines and masses of his composition before Evening Post, May 9, 1953. From the about the quality of the plan. beginning to work out details; the architect perspective of the master plan, howev­ Likewise, today's Colby residents and building committee confronted with a er, the peak more appropriately came in can detect deviations from the master comparable task can do no less. The plan as originally concei\·ed is. of course. in no sense 1960. The growth of enrollment to more plan. The principal variations or modifi­ binding; it may be modified as conditions than 1,000 students and the completion cations have resulted mainly from the change and as new needs arise. Its impor· of three buildings (Lovejoy, the social continuing growth of Colby beyond the tance lies in the fact that it represents a science classroom bujlding; Bixler, the 1,000 students contemplated in the mas­ logical solution of architectural problems· art and music building; and Eustis, the ter plan, the introduction of less formal and no decision for change should be made administration building) essentially com· architectural style for recent buildings, without reference to the whole scheme.

A current landscaping challenge: choosing replacement species and locations for nine of the twelve elms removed since this mid-1950s photo of the walks approaching Lorimer Chapel.

THE COLBY ALU 1 US 13 Since 1960, another 14 buildings or annexes to existing structures have been added. [t is apparent that architects, building committees, and presidents have been careful to assure that new buildings be consistent with the scale of existing structures and blend harmoni· ously within the dominant style. For ex­ ample, most of the major buildings have used "Colby brick." The rationale for de­ parture from Larson's Neo-Georgian ar­ chitecture was most fully explained by President Strider in the Summer 1966 Alumnus, at the time when the decision was made to engage new architects. Ex­ plaining the reasoning behind the ad­ vice of Benjamin Thompson and Associ­ ates and Richard Hawley Cutting and Associates, Strider said: ...our objective at Colby, as we build both for the present and for the next century, is to create a college campus on which the tone is one of harmony, balance, and beauty. What we have now is justly admired throughout the nation, and we have every reason lo be proud of it. The chapel, for example, is a superb building. And even though one may cavil al the proportions or certain perspec· lives of a building here and a building there, or al various relationships between buildings, the total complex is surely harmonious, balanced, and beautiful. Above: looking north toward Miller Library in 1949 from the Dana playing fields. Below: Even a very good thing, however, can be the same trees nearly 40 years later frame the post-modernist architectural style of the overdone. If a pattern, no matter how lovely, new Student Center. is too long continued, monotony rather than harmony will be the inevitable result. Same­ ness is stultifying rather than dynamic. Fur­ thermore, as Mr. Thompson himself has observed, sameness may reflect "institution­ alized thinking:· A college, of all institutions, should reflect the changing world, in its academic and social life, and in its physical appearance. Our planning, to quote Mr. Thompson again, rnusl be "flexible for change." Another consideration is the terrain of Mayflower Hill. As our landscape and long­ range planning consultants, Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates, Inc. of Watertown, Mass., pointed out to us some months ago, the prin­ cipal characteristic of the land upon which the Colby campus rests is fluidity. It is gently rolling country, and its appearance is grad­ ually being softened, year by year, as trees and shrubs grow. Too rigid a symmetry, or too inviolable an insistence upon geometrical patterns, would create conflict with the natu­ rally fluid and flexible surroundings. Might I add a further consideration? We are two-thirds of the way through a century marked by exciting architectural develop­ ment. We think of Colby as a college in lune with its century in every sphere of its activi­ ty. With our handsome and dignified nucleus of eighteenth century buildings, typifying the age of rationalism and the enlightenment, is it not appropriate for us now to expand upon

14 THE COLBY ALUMNUS this nucleus with visible symbols of the It was also clear upon my arrival that structures built since 1960 and the thinking of our own time? This loo is an age 1\liller Library needed to be substantially ex­ regrowth of the natural forest on nearly of rationalism and of a different sort of en­ panded. Built for 1,000 students, it was simp­ 450 acres surrounding the developed lightenment. The decision of the Board on 1.675 ly too small for a student body of and portion of the campus. The choice of the architectural future of the college reflects a faculty of 160. The planning committee of replacement species and where those its conviction that the appearance, as well as the trustees, augmented by a large student­ trees are located are questions to be ex­ the academic and social program, of Colby faculty working group, chose to expand should take account of the age that we are Miller rather than build an entirely new plored this spring. in. library. with the result that the library st ill To those who know Colby well, or remains al the center of Fredrick Larson·s even to visitors, the campus appears The first modifications to the master plan. although now nearly twice the size of orderly and beautiful. The professional plan, the construction of additional the original building. literature on campus planning and buildings, were made to accommodate The decision by the trustees to reorganize design, hovvever, has generally ignored the residential and other needs of a residential life beginning in 198..t resulted, Jens Fredrick Larson's extensive work larger college ( 1,675 students) than the ai11011g other things. in the construction of a and, specifically, his Colby plan. Insofar new Student Center that has literally shifted 1,000 students allowed for in the Larson as Larson is mentioned, his work is both the psychological and physical focus of plan. In all, 13 buildings have been con­ characterized as "traditional;' "anachro­ student life from the northern end of the cam­ structed, and one, the Millett Alumni pus to the true midpoint. It has become the nistic;' or rigid. Interestingly, two of the House, has been acquired. Some tem­ hub arorn1d which a good deal of the social architects who have designed recent porary crowding and some shifting of and cultural life of the new residential com­ buildings for Colby have won major ar­ functions among buildings has resulted. mons system revolves. chitectural prizes: Benjamin Thompson The overall impression, however, is one was awarded an American Institute of of open space, ample room, and suffi­ By 1987, Colby has achieved a concen­ Architects prize for the Hillside dor­ cient facilities. tration of the common activities in the mitory complex and Jefferson Riley won The second modification was made center of the campus with the library the American School and University necessary during the 1960s and early and chapel, Student Center, health magazine's Louis I. Kahn Citation for 1970s when Colby transformed itself center, and classrooms and laboratories. the Student Center. Time will tell if from a college with separate men's and 1\venty-two residential halls, the presi­ Larson's work at Colby will gain ap­ women's residential divisions into a col­ dent's and alumni houses, the athletic preciation beyond the College's family lege with truly coeducational residential complex, the guest house, and the and acquaintances. life. Modifications in the individual resi­ physical plant shops form the perimeter The new and vigorous Colby can dential halls were required. The prin­ of structures. draw perspective from its recent past. cipal effects of this new need, however, The third modification in Larson's In the 1953 Saturday Evening Post article, were the expansion and modification in master plan is the current challenge of the author paid tribute to President the athletic complex to accommodate 12 how to mix and blend trees, shrubs, Johnson: "1\venty-one buildings now women's varsity teams in the relocation and grass with paths, roads, and park­ stand on Mayflower Hill in testimony to of student social and club activities. Func­ ing lots. There is a cruel irony in the a magnificent triumph of spiritual tions originally planned for the women's story ·of Colby's move to Mayflower engineering. There has never been union on the south axis and the men's Hill. Because the small, 16-acre campus anything quite like the miracle that Col­ union on the north axis were united, in in downtown Waterville was virtually by has wrought in the apple orchards 1977, in the Roberts Union on the north encircled with railroad tracks and rail outside Waterville." Even allowing for end of the campus and, in 1986, in the yards on the west and the Kennebec the author's exuberance and hyperbole, centrally-located new Student Center. River with a large pulp mill on the op­ that was quite a tribute. Certainly there Concerning the need for new posite shore to the east, Colby moved 2 were miraculous feats achieved in the buildings and remodeling of older struc­ miles out of town. In the new, semi­ move. The choice of Larson and his tures, President William R. Cotter has rural campus on Mayflower Hill, the master plan, certainly an important fac­ observed: automobile interrupts some of the most tor in the story, was no miracle. His pleasing vistas, and a main road cuts work was deliberate, traditional, and ra­ When I arrived in the summer of 1979, through the center of the campus. Hav­ tional. Thirty-three years later, as the Colby's campus was already one of the most ing escaped the railroad, Colby must beautiful in the nation. But we were im­ "new Colby campus" reaches its 50th mediately confronted that fall with a housing now deal with automobiles. And Lar­ birthday, visitors and residents alike are crisis and had a number of students living son's plan, with no parking lots, gives inspired by the beauty of old Colby in temporarily in the health center and in no guidance. new clothes, even if they have been "let Howard Johnson's Motel. We realized that The irony goes on. Dutch Elm out" to fit better and tailored to allow Colby's student population had swelled by Disease, which has decimated this tall, for new styles. 150 since the Hillside dormitories were built stately species in New England, has and that it was unlikely to shrink in the killed 180 of the 220 elm trees on the For the late Carolyn Hussey elson future. Consequently, we began to work im­ campus. The architectural style and the '-/.8, mediately on the design for the new 100-bed who treasured the history of Colby, geometrical layout in the central part of "Heights" residence hall, which opened in the research fo r this article was a labor of the campus call for formal plantings. fall of 1981. We simultaneously began an love. ambitious program to remodel our older stu­ Should the fading elms now be replaced dent residences and have now finished refur­ with a disease-resistent species? The bishing nearly two thirds of the 1,560 resi­ trees and shrubs that are chosen must Stanley A. Nicholson is Colby's adminis­ dence hall places. also be harmonious with the less formal trative vice president.

THE COLBY ALUM US 15 Canvas, Cadence, and Stone

wn he ceUced in 1978 " 1954 as chair of the department and influence is apparent; though Reid's Merrill Professor of Chemistry, Evans professor of organic chemistry. At Johns style is by no means imitative, it is Reid told the Alumnus, "I wish I had Hopkins where he taught previously, he evocative: Childe Hassam, Albert Pink­ another 25 years. There are some published several dozen articles in ham Ryder, Georges Braque, Salvador wonderful things going on in science:· chemical journals on his work syn­ Dali, Andrew Wyeth, Pablo Picasso, and To day he remarks, "but it just goes on thesizing plant growth hormones, on others peer from behind his canvases. A like a train ...once you jump off it, it small ring compounds, and in polymeri­ large collection of art books and art keeps on going by you, getting further zation, projects completed primarily in periodicals has replaced the shelves of away." Not that he's turned his back on collaboration with a group of graduate scientific journals that he sent to the a lifetime of interest and achievement students. Some of this work continued Chemical Society in India - "I shucked in science, but prospects are different al Colby, particularly in the January 'em off" -when he first retired. These now that he has time to muse on new Program. and an accumulation of photographs interests and has new ways to capture Reid has been painting non-stop for from his trips abroad provide back­ and examine an image of them: now he nine years in the first of many hobbies ground, inspiration, and technical ad­ works on canvas, in cadence, through pursued since he has "had time:' He vice for much of his work. stone. Reid is a painter of astonishing began his study of painting in 1979 Some of Reid's paintings are starkly versatility, a poet of statewide distinc­ with Alan Lehtis of Albion, Maine. realistic still lifes and landscapes, in­ tion, and most recently, a sculptor in After he worked with Lehtis for a year cluding several studies of fields and marble and alabaster. and a half. he was off on his own. He woods at his former home in Sidney, Born in Ontario, he was educated at learns now from the study of pictures, Maine. His lessons with Lehtis stressed McGill University and came to Colby in mostly modern and contemporary. Their draftsmanship but he leans now toward

16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Evans B. Reid in his painting studio. Left: "Spring Elm," one of several studies painted at Reid's fo nner home in Sidney, Maine (from the collection of Thorn­ dike Press}. Right: "Torse Jeune fille, ' lll/2 inches, a recent marble sculpture.

abstracts, claiming that at his age it is Tu rkish designs. The studio is new, built kand;' a painting based on a line from a difficult to avoid a certain "hard-edged onto the far wall of the garage and de­ poem by James Elroy Flecker, shows realism:' He would prefer to paint in signed for a painter's needs. The drawer black road bisected by a golden line the style of Helen Frankenthaler or pulls on storage cabinets are of orna­ running past blue-domed tombs that Richard Diebenkorn: to begin a picture mental brass and were salvaged by climb a hill into the middle distance. with a blank mind, to dissociate himself Dorothy Reid from a workbench for­ The golden line represents Beg's Cres­ from a preconceived idea, to avoid the merly in the chemistry laboratory on cent, an early astronomical "tool" that psychological tension that makes a work the old campus. Space abounds- shelves was a deep trench dug into stone. Used "fidgety'.' His use of color owes a good for supplies, bare walls for hanging pic­ as an enormous sextant, it was aligned bit to the study of Cezanne and Matisse. tures. Easels stand about the open floor. with one of the earth's meridians by He paints in oil, acrylic, and alkyd, and Fifteen windows on three sides and two Ulugh Beg, a fifteenth-century Samar­ recently has learned to use a knife as a deep north-south skylights flood the kand stargazer and grandson of Mongol painting tool. With the knife, he achieves room with brightness. Leading a tour of conqueror Tamerlane, as he plotted U1e some remarkable effects, particularly in his house and studio, Reid made a small courses of 1,000 stars. Reid's sabbatical in pictures of storms and winter landscapes. detour into the side yard, commenting, Baghdad and later visits to Egypt and Reid's house on Highland Avenue in "This is my spring and fall garden: For­ Israel left strong in1pressions on his work. Waterville is small and modern, filled sythia in the spring, Burning Bush­ Another painting, "Masada;' is a dense with paintings that are frequently Euonymus -in the fall. I call it our black backgrow1d brushed with feathery changed, pieces of sculpture, and rugs Hieronymus bush:' Such enlightened strokes of metallic paint, an eerie, abstract handmade by his wife, Dorothy, many whimsy suffuses some of his best pic­ vision that suggests ilie ancient tragedy of of them copies of classical Persian and tures. "On the Golden Road to Samar- ilie mountaintop fortress.

THE COLBY ALUM US 17 The Middle East is a favorite theme in Reid's poetry as well. Inspired by the Holy Land, "From a Land of Small Riv­ ers" is a series of poems -with titles such as "A Song to the Holy City;· "Cae­ sarea;· and "Lament for Babylon" -col­ ored by his response to haunted, hal­ lowed ground. One of the Middle East poems, "Walking in Gethsemane;' is a sonnet.

While I was walking in Gethsemane, Weary with the throbbing heat of noon, There came a gentle breeze to hearten me And move the ancient olive trees in bloom. With noxious city traffic out of sight And noises muffled by the rustling leaves, My mind was freed to grapple with that night When He, alone. had prayed for His release.

Then it was, to the Garden's oldest tree, That a kindly Father came and plucked a leaf. He blessed it, smiled, and handed it to me, And said, "You know, it's my most firm belief That this old one is the very tree "Enigma Va riations Ir Ballet and Cello" (from the Thal saw Him praying in His agony:· collection of Charles D McKee}.

Reid has been a member of Poetry that he acquired at a yard sale down Hidden veins in the chunk can cause it Fellowship of Maine for four years. The the block. Mounted on four wheels and to split in a way the artist had not in­ society, 50 years old in 1986, has about fairly tall, the table is actually a relic of tended. Undaunted by potential catas­ 50 members statewide. A local group the Central Maine Morning Sentinel com­ trophe, Reid can usually "find" the idea ("Round Robin") includes Priscilla Per­ posing room and once held metal page hidden in a fractured piece, probably kins McLaughlin, Leonard Helie, and impressions for the newspaper. Nearby because he seldom starts out with a Bertrand Hayward, all Class of '33, and are chunks of raw marble and alabas­ predetermined concept. For some sculp­ Margaret Wickes of the Colby Museum ter -Cipollino, Carrara, Gallo Sienna tures, though, he does plan and will of Art. Members send poetry around Chiara, Belgian Black, Persian Traver­ make small clay prototypes. Reid ex­ the group for reading and criticism and tine - some "scratched" to reveal the in­ hibited sculptures at the Harlow Gallery are expected to have a poem ready each side color and the grain of the stone. in Hallowell, Maine, two years ago. month for the "robin." Reid, who has Reid's tools are at hand: chisels. mallet, Reid has also placed his paintings in been writing poetry since high school, electric drill and sander to buff the fin­ several exhibitions around the state since has produced dozens of poems in recent ished piece, and oxalic acid for bringing 1980, including the Learning Resource years, enough for at least one collection up the color. His "Torse jeune fille" is Center at the University of Maine at that is now awaiting a publisher. Other made from Gallo Sienna Chiara, a Augusta; the 63rd and 64th National poems have been published by Kenne­ "warm stone" that particularly lends Juried Exhibitions at the Art Center, bec, a periodical from the University of itself to flesh tones. Ogunquit; the Harlow Gallery in Hallo­ Maine at Augusta. He has also been Reid is a self-taught sculptor - "! well; several Waterville locations; and judge of his fellow poets in the Poetry bought a book''.__and claims he learns most recently, the Maine Biennial, Port­ Fellowship contests, most recently last best by making his own mistakes, "rath­ land Museum of Art. Both of Reid's pic­ fall. er than being told you're doing it wrong:· tures chosen for that 1985 exhibit were Soon after he stopped teaching, Reid In the process he has evolved his own purchased privately by museum trus­ found that he spent eight hours or more techniques and style for fashioning his tees. One of them, "Enigma Va riation II, a day at his painting. Now some of the small, elegant pieces. Most are table-top Ballet and Cello;' is an homage to Sir hours are shared with poetry writing or size. Easiiy held in the hands, they in­ Edward Elgar and a favorite piece of with his newest hobby, sculpting stone. vite stroking. music. An artist's studio, however, is no place Michelangelo observed, "The more Ye s, he is a musician, too. An account to chisel and polish marble. The fine the marble wastes/The more the statue of Evans Reid's uncommon talents is not dust flies about and sticks to wet can­ grows:' Although no one would purpose- complete without noting that he also vases. Reid works in a corner of his ga­ 1 y waste marble (at $1.50 a pound plus played first chair violin in the Colby rage, which is open at both ends, and freight charges from New Yo rk). it is Community Symphony Orchestra for 16 for this reason he does his sculptures perfectly well understood among sculp­ years. only in temperate weather. He works tors that the wrong blow from the mal­ on a sturdy, square, steel-topped table let and chisel can waste a lot of marble. NFW

18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Cross-Country Hits Its Stride

by Priscilla J. Phinney '87

T•nb to the <•lent •nd the already on the team could be developed Aitken feels each athlete deserves a lot energetic efforts of coach Debra Aitken's further, but she was admittedly "a little of credit for this outcome. When every squad of harriers, the Colby women's disappointed" with the school's failure to runner achieved her peak performance cross-country team hit its stride during recruit distance runners for the follow­ in the national qualifiers at the end of the 1986 season. Over five-kilometer ing season. Only two freshmen came the season, that showing climaxed a fall courses, up and down hills and through out for the team in 1985. "The first of hard work. "Everything that could woods, in sun and rain and sometimes year, all we talked about was enjoying have gone right, did," said Aitken. "Oth­ in snow, the women ran first or second the season, if nothing else, and improv­ er teams began to notice Colby:' in all of their regular season meets and ing a little for the next year." Once people "expected things" from won the NESCAC conference mee and Aiming for both enjoyment and im­ Colby in 1986, the women set off to the Maine state meet. Aitken is quick to provement, Aitken takes the emphasis prove they would be even better than point to the dedication of the women as off high-mileage workouts. Her training they were the season before. With a the key to their impressive results. "Run­ philosophy concentrates instead on group of 19 athletes-7 varsity and 12 ning is as much a part of their daily keeping workouts interesting "so that junior varsity runners - the team had routine as breathing, eating, and going practices aren't a chore." Aitken encour­ added depth in 1986 as well as added to classes;' she said of this season's 19 ages each runner to follow a training enthusiasm. Aitken describes the team runners. Undoubtedly, Aitken herself is schedule she thinks will work best for as close-knit. They are all very com­ also an important factor in the turn­ her; for some, this means "cross-train­ petitive, but "they don't lose it if some­ around the team has experienced since ing," for others it means concentrat- one else takes a position away- no one she took over the track and cross-coun­ ing on running distances. Cross-training gets upset if positions flip-flop:' try coaching responsibilities in 1985. combines two hard running workouts a Senior co-captain Jeanne Guild, a Aitken came to Colby from the State week with swimming and biking the native of Chester, Vt., proved to be the University of New York at Cortland, other days. And instead of traditional top runner for the team in most races where she coached national-caliber cross­ speed workouts on the track, the team of the 1986 season, substantially im­ country and indoor and outdoor track often goes to a golf course for their proving on her already swift times of teams. Although the Skowhegan, Maine, hard running workouts to do inter- the year before. Aitken credits Guild's native was excited about coming back vals - repeated running of short dis­ improvement to overall hard work even to her home state, she accepted the tances at a relatively quick pace to im­ before the season began: "Jeanne trained coaching position at Colby with the prove cardiovascular fitness and speed. not just for running but made sure she understanding that she would be re­ During Aitken's first season, the women was stronger and more confident than building the cross-country and track were given a chance to train gradually ever before." Guild is a tenacious worker teams. ''I knew we had some good sprint­ and to build their confidence. She en­ who has loved running out-of-doors ers, but the rest of the program really couraged them to follow a racing philos­ ever since her childhood in rural Ver­ lacked enthusiasm;' she said. Her plan ophy of finishing each race strong, feel­ mont. Growing up on a farm included was to maintain the level that the ing they could have gone faster instead running in the woods and fields with sprinters had already reached and to of feeling drained at the end. her brothers and sisters. In elementary build up the cross-country program. The team's success exceeded both school she discovered she could outrun Going into the 1985 cross-country the coach's and the runners' own expec­ the boys when playing tag, and she con­ season, Aitken felt sure that the talent tations by the end of that first season. tinued to outrun many of them as the

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 19 only girl on her school's cross-country learn in seventh grade. Her love of run­ ning and her achievements continued in high school as she raced on the wooded trails of her school's cross-country course. Guild's favorite place to run is still through woods. This season she enjoyed the University of Southern Maine course the most. "It was a narrow, winding, hilly trail all through the woods:' she said, "and when you looked behind you, you couldn't see everyone corning'.' Guild qualified along with team­ mate Jill Vo llweiler for the 1986 wom­ en's national cross-country meet in Fre­ donia, NY These two women join only one other in Colby's cross-country his­ tory to qualify for the national meet, in which Guild placed an impressive 50th out of l 15 ru nners, a finish she was pleased with. "ft was the toughest course we've been on all season,'' she said. "Hilly and muddy, with a lot of ice and snow:' Jeanne Guild (left} and Jill Vo l/wei/er at the NESCAC cross-country meet in Octobe1'. Placing 39th overall in the national meet was Colby's freshman sensation, Jill Vo llweiler of Purchase, NY A for­ mer high school All-American in cross­ country, Vo llweiler was heavily recruit­ than she is already- if she can run schedule to only two running workouts ed. "J ill deserves a lot of credit for injury-free. Before the indoor season a week and no biking, Redfield is a con­ having the confidence to come in as a began, Rebore had gone the 1,500 meter sistent performer. "Without her, we freshman, knowing there are so many distance in track only once, finishing in wouldn't be the same team,'' Aitken said. upperclassmen on the team to compete 4:48-which also happens to be Colby's Redfield supplemented her two weekly with,'' said Aitken. Vo llweiler followed school record. "Deborah has tremendous running workouts with swimming or closely on Guild's heels most of the sea­ speed,'' said Aitken. If Rebore runs the walking the other days of the week. son, encouraged by Aitken to follow indoor track meets despite a problem Redfield's times improved dramatically Guild's racing tactic of going out gradu­ she has with outdoor training in cold in 1986 over 1985 because she was ally and then finishing strong. At the weather (strangely, her feet go im­ more confident with her new workout state meet, Vo llweiler took the lead for mediately numb), Aitken feels that she schedule, which reduced her knee pain Colby and for the first time in the sea­ could make a tremendous difference to while keeping her in top shape. Red­ son finished ahead of Guild, giving the team. field is described by her coach as an herself a boost of confidence. Aitken ex­ Sophomore Karen Boomer, from "o utspoken individual" who says what pects both Guild and Vo llweiler to be Hingham, Mass., traded third and she thinks. "She generates a lot of en­ standouts in the indoor and outdoor fourth positions with Rebore. Already a thusiasm,'' Aitken said. When Redfield's track seasons in the long distances such competitive runner in the 1985 season, enthusiasm is paired with the quieter as the 1,500, 3,000, and 5,000 meters. Karen improved tremendously in 1986 - leadership of co-captain Guild, Aitken The third, fourth, and fifth positions she was at least 30 seconds faster on said, "they balance each other out. on the cross-country team traded around every course. Like Guild, Boomer uses Both women lead by example." A strong during the season. The third slot usually strength and stamina to advantage, half-miler in indoor and outdoor track, went to Deborah Rebore, a freshman often passing other runners on the Redfield has the potential to break the who in her junior year of high school tough uphill climbs. Even though her school record this year. ran times comparable to Vo llweiler's. first love is outdoor running, she will Junior Linda Roberts, described by Serious anemia prevented the West stay on with the team through the in­ Aitken as "o ne of the tinier people on Islip, NY, runner from competing dur­ door season as well, most likely moving our team,'' traded positions five and six ing her senior year of high school, and down to the 1,500 and 3,000 meter with Redfield. "I think I had my most she came to her first Colby cross­ distances. competitive season this year,'' said Rob­ country season apprehensive that she Senior co-captain Sarah Redfield, of erts, a Waterville native, daughter of might not live up to the coach's expecta­ Marblehead, Mass., was the runner Dave '55 and Ruth MacDonald Roberts tions. Although Rebore was bothered most likely to hold the number five '55. Her times have improved by almost again with a mild recurrence of anemia position during the cross-country sea­ a full minute over last year, and she can at the start of the season and with a son. Despite suffering from the restric­ challenge or pass Redfield on any given slight knee problem later, she has the tions of chondromalcia, a knee problem day. Roberts was particularly pleased potential to be even more competitive that forced her to modify her training with the upturn in the team's fortunes

20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS scribing the personalities of cross-coun­ try runners. These are important quali­ ties, especially when a runner tries to maintain concentration during a race itself while still having fun before and afterwards. An equally important facet of college-level competition is team spir­ it, according to Guild, "because you've got a whole team of former high school standouts. Fortunately, we all handle the competitiveness among ourselves very well." To talk with Colby's runners is to see that their talent and dedication to running are matched only by Aitken's talent and dedication to coaching them. "One reason why I came to Colby was that she talked to me beforehand, and I liked her philosophy;· said Vollweiler. Aitken "sets you in a direction. but doesn't oven.vork or force you. She makes you motivate yourself, which is good:' The coach talked to each runner before The 1986 women's cross-country team: (left to right} Linda Roberts '88, Leslie Dougherty the season began, allowing each one to '89, Deborah Rebore '90, Karen Boomer '89, Sarah Redfield '87, Jill Vo l/weiler '90, and set her own goals. "She's always willing Jeanne Guild '87. to talk to you and help you - she knows a lot;• Vo llweiler said. Redfield agrees "She's probably the Indoors with coach Debra Aithen (hneel­ tionals, Colby could not run in the na­ best coach I've ever had. She's dedicated ing} are (left to right} Linda Roberts, tionals as a team because of a NESCAC to each individual athlete, and she'll Jeanne Guild, and Melissa Trend '89. rule that bars its member colleges from take time to talk to everyone - from the post-season competition. (Guild and best runner to the worst runner:' Like Vo llweiler competed only because they Vollweiler, Redfield also mentioned qualified as individuals.) "It's really un­ Aitken's ability to get the athletes to mo­ fair because the nationals competition is tivate themselves. Rather than working only one meet;' Roberts commented, the runners hard, Redfield said, "she "not a whole week of tournament games makes us want to work hard for our­ like some other sports:' The team mem­ selves and for her, too:' bers would not miss any classes be­ Aitken believes that Colby will fare cause the competition takes place on a well in both the indoor and outdoor weekend. Putting this disappointment track seasons. One good indicator is that behind her, however, Roberts looked the outdoor team has grown from 14 forward to the indoor and outdoor track members to 25 this year. "A lot of kids seasons when she'll run both the 1,000 are going out for track specifically and 3,000 meters. because of Debbie;· said Redfield. Most Filling the seventh spot for the har­ of the 1986 cross-country runners will riers is sophomore Leslie Dougherty, a continue to run for the track team high school cross-country champion throughout the year, giving Colby from Atlanta, Ga., who didn't run the strength in the distance races. Aitken is 1985 season because she was in Colby's still optimistic about the sprinters, and Cuernavaca Program in Mexico. Several has "high hopes" for the jumpers, too. injuries from the past have hampered "We're a very young team, and we're re­ her, and she has yet to hit her full po­ buildir.g;' she said, sounding the same tential. Nevertheless, she placed con­ note about track that she did a couple sistently as Colby's seventh runner dur­ of years ago about cross-country. If the ing the 1986 season, displacing other 1986 cross-country season is any indica­ teams' potential scorers. Aitken feels tion, the young team is moving forward in the past two years. "It was nice to be that given the opportunity to train a full with leaps and bounds. able to say I was on a team that was year without sickness or injury, Dough­ successful this year;' she said. Never­ erty will be competitive in the 3,000 theless, she was disappointed that de­ and 5,000 meter events in track. Priscilla j. Phinney, a senior government spite winning the New Englands as a Determination and perseverance are major, is a runner sidelined with leg team, which qualified them for the na- two words that often come up in de- injuries.

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21 Living "Away" by Regina Gilmartin Knox

Life in Tem ;, my to oonjuce up hear the comments of some Colby the incredible wealth of opportunity- be in the mind's eye: a long-legged cowboy alumni living "away,'' to see through it cultural, social, professional, or intel­ stalking down a dusty main street, cat­ their eyes the people and places that lectual''....he says that "Daily life in New tle everywhere under the sun. Suddenly many of us know only from pictures or Yo rk City is incredibly taxing. An influx a wheeler-dealer in a ten-gallon Stetson brief visits -or from the stereotypes. of three million people a day into the appears, striding ·in front of an oil refin­ New York City has long called to borough of Manhattan fosters inhuman ery. If the stereotypical Te xan changes the young and ambitious who have behavior. The city grunts and groans from era to era and from El Paso to caught its fever-and there is none under the weight, and you must be con­ Houston, perhaps other regions of the other like it, in this country at least ­ stantly flexible in your approach to any country and other character types - the until they marry, have families, and ostensibly 'normal' activity.... Every­ Maine Yankee, say- may be represented move out and away from the place that one, however, would agree that New with equal succinctness and color. Per­ captivated and enriched them. But New York City is filled with seekers - not haps the "typical Mainer" has changed, Yo rk City is also a place called home by necessarily content with their lives but too. those who stay on or move there later content to continue their search here To learn about Colby alumni's per­ in life, such as Jacqueline Bendelius for the time being .... The life-style is ceptions of their own regions of the Davidson '59, or Richard Kaplan '5 1, what you make of it. Generally speak­ country, the Alumnus randomly sent who moved to the city four years ago ing, things move quickly, and people questionnaires asking for alumni obser­ after nineteen years in Wellesley, Mass. move more quickly in an attempt to vations on the distinctive "regional fla­ Nathaniel Bisson '84, who is with the take advantage of what is going on:' vor" of their areas. Many respondents advertising agency of Yo ung and Ru­ That one's search in the city is not noted generalizations or prejudgments bicam, is one of those who appears to necessarily feverish but "what you make about people and places that were cor­ have "the fever:' of it" is supported by Jacqueline Bende­ roborated by their own experience. One "New Yo rk," says Bisson, "is the most lius Davidson '59, who carries on her alumna, for instance, living in her na­ complete city in the world. Apt at dif­ life as artist, free-lance editor, wife, and tive Te xas, commented that "most gener­ ferent times to provoke both your ad­ mother in Greenwich Village in a peace­ alizations about Te xans are true." But miration and ire, the balance falls most ful and orderly manner, characteristics sometimes the respondents' experiences often to ire -one doesn't 'like' New York not always associated with New York contradict the generalizations. Perhaps City, but it is great." Accepting the cliche City. Her recounting of the start of her the next best thing to being there is to that "the city is what it is by virtue of family's day is strikingly similar to the

22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS day's beginning in many American house­ Yo rk City's daily life takes a greater toll, "all over:· says that California is like Pen­ holds. But "by 9 a.m. most days I have and ome of these problems are eased sacola. Fla. "without the humidity "the finished most of the routine housevvork in California." trees and greenery are like Virginia and am at work on the day's projects;· A.re they? At least some alumni liv­ and "the cost is close to Hawaii. His Davidson says. "If it is between January ing there agree that they lead lives as narrative of his -1-0-minute journey to and April, some of most days is spent sophisticated and productive as a large the city each morning stresses the relax­ on The Newcomer's Handbook fo r New East Coast city could offer them - but ation of the commuters who sleep or Yo rk City and a related series of guides without the stress. read the paper during the mostly under­ to Tew Yo rk neighborhoods. For the Robert Williams '36, president of a ground trip. By the time he arrives at past six years I have copy-edited and macaroni products company, moved to \\·ork, Sambi to observe that ·From my proofread, along with some research, Los Angeles in 19-1-1 "to escape New office on the 11th floor the city appears writing, and fact-checking, the annual York City." He describes Los Angeles as quiet and far removed. revisions. . . lf I have the time, I \\"ill "the most comfortable large city in the Like getting off the train in Grand work in my studio in our building on a world:' The "space and climate," the "ad­ Central Station or walking the streets oi fiber wall-hanging or a collage or on ac­ venturous" people, and the "free" life­ San Francisco, there is apparently no tivities related to my art. ... Our 184-1- style that Williams cites also appeal mistaking where you are \\·hen you li\'e brick townhouse contains our garden greatly to Mary Ann Papalia Laccabue below the Mason-Dixon line. As one duplex (yes, garden), three rental apart­ '56, who teaches in the Los Angeles Te nnessean says, "The food and the ac­ ments, and my studio. With a total of School District and lives in a communi­ cents give it a\,·ay." Questionnaire re­ six bathrooms and the age of the build­ ty of -1-0,000 outside the city. Others spondents characterize the people of the ing, repair work is a constant. Oh, yes, \\·ho find life in California relatively South as open and friendly on the one I am also interrupted several times a ea y refer mo t often as William Whit­ hand but also conservative and narrow day by two "pet" squirrels in our back temore '45 does. to the comfortable cli­ minded" on the other. However, many yard who rattle the back door so I \·vill mate. John H. Martin '59, Robert Boro­ strong prejudices about Southerners give them peanuts. And I enjoy \Natch­ voy '39, and Robert Schultz '80 all "love held by Northerners - that the South is ing the cardinals, purple finches. downy it." The fall-like temperature year-round backward, provincial, and a ha\·en for woodpeckers, golden-crowned kinglets, is "moderate" or "beautiful:' Laccabue prejudice - are denied by some of the and other birds that join the ever-pres­ lives near ocean and mountains "not too alumni who live there. ent sparrows and blue jays and occa­ far for any kind of enjoyment, in winter A self-described "outlander" is Ian sional pigeon in our garden:· or summer," and the "weather [and the] Robertson '5 1, former editor of The Col­ That last acitivity is shared by anoth­ relaxed and casual living of California" by Alumnus. In Fairhope, Ala., a town of er ew York City alumna, Grace K. make one "more free to move about," 8,000 near Mobile, a community that he Parker '45, who "can look at the small although her comments suggest that, describes as '\·ery good," he likes both park-birds, etc:' while waiting for the like Williams, she also feels the conges­ the physical and the mental climates. bus to work in the morning. A relative tion of the area. Congestion seems to Fairhope is "first rate;' "an easy place to newcomer to the city after seven years, make living near these enjoyable things get around, ... [and] very tolerant of she still likes 'The people, my job, my a questionable good if one has to live in the arts and 'different drumming: " husband, our view of the Hudson River:· the city itself. Robertson's sentiments echo those of But her problems seem to be problems That life in California is more re­ other Southerners who value the gentle we commonly hear about from many laxed and easy yet stimulating without climate of the communities in which other sources: "Having to be streetwise stress is supported by David Weber '..J.7, they live. Stanley Levine '4 7 a rare for personal safety, graffiti, litter:· Another a native of Burleigh Street in Waterville, book dealer who lives in Savannah, Ga., alumna confirms that the worst aspects who is now director of libraries at Stan­ writes that "Savannah is 25 years behind of living in the city are: "The air. The ford with a staff of 388 and a budget of the times spiritually and mentally" the crime. The inescapable stress:· Richard S 18 million. Coming to Stanford after best part of living there. Life is definite­ Kaplan '5 1 finds life in the city "glamor­ 13 years at Harvard, he says of Stanford ly "laid back" with "Time for everything:· ous" and "exciting" but he also dislikes and Palo Alto: "It's a superior communi­ Levine says that it "takes two hours for the "dirt" and the "crowds" and "the slow ty, a superior university, and great peo­ us to go to the shoemaker, the bank and pace" of traffic in the city. Kaplan, a ple" with "high professional standards:· the fishmarket -on foot' We own one director of marketing and sales for Bac­ Weber likes the "lovely setting, views, motorcar. ... Savannah is a secret carat, Inc., adds that "The summer is [and] mixture of urban and rural within paradise:' not a delight:' a mile." Congestion is not as noteworthy Georgia is also the home of Carl The downsides of life in ew York in his part of California as it is for Wil­ Glickman '68, a professor at the Univer­ City, and of many other cities as well, liams and Laccabue, but at times he sity of Georgia in Athens. Glickman seem to be exaggerated in ew York as misses the magnitude of open country, feels that Athens, where he and his is everything else. At times they temper especially Maine's "water-land relation­ wife, Sara (Orton) '71, and his family the excitement, the drive, and the pa­ ship (as in Belgrade Lakes, Kennebec have now lived for Se\ en years, is "the tience of the most tenacious of individ­ River. and the Messalonskee Stream)." best place we've ever lived for overall uals, and with time will drive many of William Sambito '61 lives near San priorities - families, schools, climate, job, them away. Bisson writes, "I shall even­ Francisco, where he is director of the environment:' In this university town, tually move back to California [where emergency control center for Pacific "the people are friendly, open, from all he grew up], for the simple reason that Bell Te lephone. Retired from the U.S. over the country," and the living is "cas­ as I/we grow older, the taxation of ew Marine Corps, Sambito, who has lived ual but fairly conservative."

THE COLBY ALUM US 23 The larger cities, Nashville and Knox­ ville in Te nnessee fo r instance, not un­ like the cities of California, also offer a comfortably-paced life at the same time that they are not the backward provin­ cial cities Northerners often seem to assume. Erik Thorson '66, a songwriter and substitute teacher who has lived in Nashville for ten years, ays that "it still has some of the feel of a small city ... [and is] still more 'laid back' than New Yo rk, Atlanta, L.A., etc., but things are heating up:· Similarly, David Larsen '63, an educational administrator in Knoxville, is most pleased with the "pace of life, not slow, but not the Man­ hattan rush either." Living is "busy but not hectic;· nor is it "rural, primitive, [or] impoverished ," generalizations he believes that many mistakenly make. To others. however, the South does appear to be spent, although moving away from the degree of provincialism long associated with it. Marcia Curtis '54, retired dean of the college of nurs­ ing at the Medical University of South Carolina, stays from November to May in Charleston, S.C., where she has lived the last 18 years, and in Wa terville Va l­ ley, N.H., from June to October. She finds that the most difficult conditions the South contends with are "the amount and degree of poverty of its citizens, which is evident in city and country­ side; the low socioeconomic level of many of the citizens of the state; the low level of academic achievement of the general population ...which limits their ability to solve the large problems facing the state of South Carolina:· Still, she claims that the South is not, as many stereotypes hold, "'a backward, non­ progressive' area of the country:' If this were true in the past, it is "no longer attitude that the South is what it was true in the 'new South; which is pros­ like [before] civil rights." Sherry Phipps pering in many ways." Pettyjohn '71, who lives in St. Andrews, Ian Robertson apparently agrees. He Te nn., claims that while her area is dislikes "the tendency of many people "c onservative" and she would move back to be extremely narrow minded, un­ to New England "tomorrow," she doesn't ago to teach in Ames, and Sorensen, a open to new 'ideas,' new thinking," and think she has "ever met a red-neck." If pastor, over a year ago to Fort Dodge to he concedes that "the South has not we are to judge from the views of these work as director of development for a been known for education,'' but he con­ transplanted Northerners, images and retirement home. Last June Sorensen firms that "this is changing:· One change generalizations need to be updated if a returned to the ministry in Webster is in stereotyped race relations. Says more accurate picture of the South is to City, Iowa. Gottfried likes Ames "moder­ Robertson: "there is probably less black/ emerge. ately well in that [it] is a family town, white race strife here than anywhere in In contrast to the South, however, but politically it's too conservative. It is the North:' He says that "it can be a standard images of the Mid-West con­ also an unimaginative place:· If he re­ violent culture," but anticipates stereo­ tinue to exist into the mid-1980s, al­ sponds favorably to "trees, quiet, basic, types when he adds that "not everyone though two alumni living in Iowa offer salt of the earth people," he is negative down here packs a gun:' Thorson dis­ different opinions why. Herbert Gott­ regarding "the farmer's mentality [that] putes the view that Southerners are "a ll fried '63 and Ve rnon Sorensen '56 moved pervades everything, which means peo­ hicks. That we're racially bigoted'.' Glick­ to new locations when they made mid­ ple like routine and expect disaster." He man condemns the "Northern parochial life career changes, Gottfried six years misses "diversity in people, passion as

24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS "The surrounding area is beautiful with lots of low mountains (\"'e are at 4AOO feet);· Wahl says, but the city is "a work­ ing class city with high unemployment" and is "very depressed and run down and can make you depressed, too." Com­ pared with other places Wa hl has li\·ed Pocatello is "more depressing and a lot more isolated." However, "people here are more relaxed than easterners and are less likely to reject people from out­ side simply because they come from another state (in contrast to Maine, for example):' Three respondents moved to Mon­ tana because they like "the outdoors," even though all live in or quite near towns of considerable size - Helena, 22,000, Missoula, 65,000, and Butte, 20,000. David W. Armstrong, Jr. '50, now retired, came to Montana for the "opportunities for hunting, fishing, camping, skiing, dog sledding." His sen­ timents are those of Craig Spencer '76 and of Kathleen Beebe Lundberg '66, both of whom would not move again from the "Big Sky" country that is so conducive to outdoor sports. With its history of cattle ranching, mining, and logging, Montana has a history of sweeping enterprise in the "outdoors:· Hundreds of miles away, Las Ve gas, a city associated primarily with gambling and floor shows, is a place of­ ten perceived as completely "indoors''­ and completely unreal. Both Colby alumni in Las Vegas live their lives in ways that are surprising in that city of gold and glitter. Following a description of the typi­ cal "shower, dress, eat, and run" begin­ ning of her family's day, Jody St. Hilaire '74 says that it's "an ordinary beginning timidates by its vast spaces and sheer for any family, except that we live in variety of nature, the awesomeness of Las Vegas, gaming capital of the world. the environment does not come as a Roads traveled to work are the single surprise, but some aspects of living in unusual part of the day. Tropicana the West, the weather, for example, do. Av enue boasts billboards of current part of life;' and says that he would Beatrice Mullen Campbell '30 dis­ entertainment and glittering attractions move if he could, either east or west. pels one myth about Idaho: "most peo­ of The Strip. Flamingo Road abounds Sorensen, on the other hand, likes ple think of it as cold, but north Idaho with casinos: Caesar's Palace, MGM where he lives because the "friendliness has the benefit of the Japanese current Grand, the Dunes, the Flamingo Hilton, of the people" contributes to a com­ and has no violent weather." Campbell the Ba:bary Coast. What other eighteen­ munity that is conservative but "good moved to Post Falls, a town of 5,736 month-old car seat prisoner;· she says of and solid:' near the Washington border, 13 years her child, "is captivated by flashing neon Of the 15 alumni who responded ago. "After living in New Yo rk, Boston, signs at 7:30 a.m:· Does St. Hilaire ever from the western states, only one is a and Los Angeles, this is heaven," she stop in for a show? ''I'd like to fib and nabve. Most of the others moved to the says of the "rivers, lakes, mountains, say that I enjoy the Las Vegas nightlife, West for job opportunities. One went to and forests:' Another view of Idaho is that I fraternize with the stars;· she Texas 34 years ago with the navy, and presented by Russell Wahl '74, assistant says, "but that is not the case. [After three retired to Utah and Idaho. Be­ professor of philosophy at Idaho State dinner] I relax ... my life is very or­ cause the West appears to impress most University in Pocatello in the high dinary, like the life of any parent in the Americans as rough and ready, and in- desert country of southeastern Idaho. U.S.A."

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 25 Amy Thompson '36, who moved 21 life in Houston. A Texas resident for 22 Freda Abel '39 moved, after years of years ago straight from Wa terville to years, she prizes the "year-round livabili­ living in New York City, back to Bar Las Ve gas, says that "Las Vegas is often ty, proximity to water, [and] stimulation Harbor on her retirement from the tabbed as evil, because of the gambling of education and arts in the area:' But pharmaceutical industry three years ago. and crime," yet she points out that "We she does not like the summer heat, a Compared to New Yo rk, all of Maine's still have families and home living with feature of Te xas life also mentioned by regional characteristics shore up her good schools and religious people. ll has Elizabeth Yo umans Wathen '42, who has belief that "it is the best" and that "This been said that we have more churches lived for 34 years in the much smaller is itl" Since she grew up in Bar Harbor, and places of worship per capita than community of Freepo1i, a town of 13,000 she feels as comfortable with the beau­ other cities in the U.S.A .... There is a on the coast. Small size creates a certain ty of the island, mountains, and sea as strong influence of the Church of the "lack of living in a small town," but ac­ she does with the relaxation and old Latter-day Sai nts, the Mormons:' She cording to Wa then the friendliness of friends she has come back to. adds that Las Vegas contains "a city the people makes up for it. Now retired Mainers St. John and Abel appear to within a city. We have the residential from her work as a medical technician, live where they live, like most Colby areas, schools. churches, and we have she is happy with her "easy going life­ alumni, for one of two reasons: they the entertainment areas, called 'The style" and appreciates the fact that all like the work or they like the place. Strip' and 'Downtown Las Vegas' with her fa mily live nearby. Other than the retired, who may have the gambling casinos, hotels, and show­ Native to Te xas and to Galveston, reduced the matter to preference alone, rooms," but she concludes that life in an island city of 70,000 on the coast the most content alumni are those who Las Vegas is "much as [it is in] any ur­ about 50 miles from Houston, is Alison have both satisfactions together. Perhaps ban locale" and that "in many ways it is Cox '85. Unlike Dallas or even Houston, a place matches the mind's eye image of anywhere U.S.A." Cox says, little job opportunity or cul­ the self, sustaining an individual's per­ North and west of Las Vegas in Car­ tural stimulation exist in Galveston, sonality and desire for the "search" in son City, a city of 30,000 about 15 miles where the population is "provincial:' But the city, or for the "space" of sea or from Reno near the California border, is because Galveston was her hometown, mountain, or for community "friend­ Shea Smith '70, a geochemist who feels she returned to the "familiarity" as well ships:' Perhaps in that regard nobody that "gaming sets Reno apart from being as the natural surroundings of her life lives "away" at all. Perhaps Colby alum­ 'a nywhere,' and the East Flank of the on the island. Last fall, however, after ni have acknowledged regional generali­ Sierras are characteristic of only this completing the Alumnus questionnaire, zations and learned about themselves area." But "Reno is not predominantly a Cox moved to Boston. sufficiently to make wise choices and to gaming town. Agriculture and mining Back in Maine, a region all Colby feel at home in their chosen part of the created larger revenues for the area people know and many love - even world. than gambling:' For this reason he de­ Maine in the dregs of February - are scribes the people as "provincial in the alumni who stayed on, a few of them valley and jet-setters in town. It's a ga­ Maine natives. Commenting on life in lactic cross-section for a city this size:' Maine that doesn't fit the Ya nkee image He sums up the people as "generally: - but is surely part of Maine's heritage conservative, refugees from Los Angeles and economy today - Louis St. John '40, or San Francisco:' a retired potato farmer who has lived in Of the Te xas respo ndents, one veri­ Fort Kent for 69 years, says, "I am from fied the cowboy stereotype mentioned French Acadian descent and I am proud earlier, but three other alumni disputed of my ancestry -I am completely bilin­ this image. Alden Wagner '44, who gual:' St. John laments that northern came to Te xas 39 years ago with the Maine "is the forgotten area of the state navy, has been there the longest. A self­ ...but we have no bitterness:' He dis­ employed real estate investor, he char­ likes the cold winters now, but the only acterizes Dallas as a "perfect" area, with a place he'd even consider exchanging for "fast and interesting" life-style, and "friend­ Maine is Louisiana, to follow his Aca­ ly, active, involved, [and] optimistic" dian ancestors. people. That vigor is also noted by Carol Sutherland Patterson '68, who lives in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas. She writes that "Dallas is an energetic city with lots of business:' Like others who live there, she dislikes the summer heat. But unl ike Wagner, who wouldn't move if given a chance, she would pull up stakes because she prefers the "liberal politics of California and the scenery of New England:' "Perfect;' however, is the assessment given by Eleanor Thomas Curtis '40 of

26 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Co RRESPONDENCE

Gladys and I were privileged to attend the Alum­ ni Vo lunteer Workshop held on campus last fall. As usual after a visit to Colby, we came away with a feeling of uplift and enrichment derived from our brief exposure to this intellectual milieu. All of us in the 50 + bracket are of the pre-Mayflower Hill Colby. If you haven't been exposed to the present institution, I encourage you to take advantage of any opportunity tc ex­ perience it. If you are geared to the limited facilities of the old campus. you should allo" yourself an inspection of the expanded physical plant with computer centers, sc ientific equip­ ment, new library facilities, and new Student Center. I think you will be impressed with the opportunities available to present-day students. As with most in our age group, there is a tenden­ cy to resist change, but I feel strongly that if you come to scoff, you will remain to praise • James N. Buckner '36 and wife Ruth, Marco Island, Fla., and Belgrade. Maine, concluded a trip north for Jim's 50th reunion with a visit to their daughter in Lexington, N.C. lv!rs. Buckner Gordon and Helen Ky le Swan '26 also attended her 50th reunion at Brown Univer­ Sixty Ye ars To gether sity, Providence, R.l. • Winona Murchie, Woburn, Mass., widow of the Rev. Harold ]. Murchie '33, received the Va liant Woman "She is one of those girls who loves and is loved by all the world - and let's not Award from the Church Women United of forget the Swan;· says her entry in the 1926 Oracle. Helen Kyle Swan '26, born Woburn in June • A history of the school in Chester, Maine, was working during the summer of 1924 at Ocean Park, Maine, system in Milo, Maine, a detailed compilation when she met Gordon Swan. They were married in Wa terville in September 1926, that required 15 years of research and writing, three months after Mrs. Swan's graduation from Colby. has been published by Lloyd J. Treworgy '23. He is also the author of a book of poetry • Last fall the Swans observed their 60th wedding anniversary in Sandwich, A project is underway to build a Maine military Mass., with a family reunion that brought together their two children, seven grand­ museum that would contain, among others, the children, and four great-grandchildren. "It was a wonderful party;' Mrs. Swan said, collections of Judge Harold C. Marden '2 1 , modestly suggesting that the reunion itself was the noteworthy part of the celebra­ Bradenton, Fla. Judge Marden was a colonel in the Maine National Guard when it was federal­ tion. Their daughter lives in Harvard, and their son has recently returned from ized in World War II. He was in charge of de­ Saudi Arabia, making the family once more close by. classification of records after the war, and he was For many years Mrs. Swan was active in the Milton, Mass., Woman's Club, able to retain much for hjs personal collection • which she served as president. She was also a member of the Woman's Republican Edward T. Kyle '36, a retired officer of the Club and the Milton Hospital Auxiliary and a board member of the Milton Players. Union TrustCompany of Danbury, Conn., is now living in New Milford, Conn. • Priscilla Per­ In 1951 she became the first woman to serve on a jury in Norfolk County, Mass. kins Schumacher '33, Waterville, Maine, was She was also the first woman to serve on a homicide case and the first woman married to George H. McLaughlin, also of Water­ to act as foreman of a jury. Now retired from volunteer positions, she no longer ville, last August. Priscilla is a retired school works at flower arranging at the Sandwich Glass Museum, but said, "I still keep teacher. They are living in Waterville • The Rev. Percy G. Beatty '24, Penney Farms, Fla., active:' The Swans are members of the Sandwich Historical Society, the Thornton celebrated the 60th anniversary of his ordina­ Burgess Society, the East Sandwich Grange, and the Sandwich Senior Citizens Club. tion in October, a month after his 86th birthday For 44 years Mr. Swan was employed by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Com­ in September. His ordination took place in the pany in positions ranging from announcer to program manager for both radio and Getchell Street Baptist Church in Waterville • television. He is a charter member of Radio Pioneers. Vandals stole the capital "C's from the Colby Col­ lege name plate at the campus entrance last In 1968 the Swans built their retirement home in East Sandwich on Cape Cod, September; the Central Maine Morning Sentinel where they had a summer home for many years. New Englanders both, neither reported the offense as a "Capital Crime" • of the Swans would consider moving to Florida or other such sun belt climate. The Gene Letourneau, Colby honorary M.A. '76, couple, said Mrs. Swan, is "staying right here;' which suggests that while she hasn't Waterville, Maine, was honored as Maine Press Association Journalist of the Year 1986. Author forgotten the Swan, he hasn't forgotten the girl either. of the column "Sportsmen Say" for the Gannett RG papers, he is still an active writer after 57 years • Although he says he doesn't travel very far any more, David T. Kronquist '29, Ft. Myers, Fla.,

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 27 can still find the sandy beaches and fine eating for their summer home. "Too busy on mainte· Spain from Margaret Ann Whalen in October places. He describes his activities as "living the nance to sail,'' he bemoans. Compliments are due reported that she had been in Valencia for two life of Kronquist" • Malcolm Wilson '33, him for winning first in pastels and a second in weeks with Interhostel and had had a five-day Waterville. Maine, a past president of the Water· watercolors al the Bangor Fair Art Show • tour of Andalusia. She was on her way to Por· ville Rotary Club, received the praise of Maine's Larry Humphrey and wife Dora spent four tugal for a week • Esther McBride Parsons mental health commis ioner for the club's men· days at the Vancouver Expo. He came out of sends the sad news that her husband, Stan. died ta! health housing project. G. Cecil Goddard retirement for a short stint at Lockheed • in July. They had planned to spend a month in '29 , China, Maine, and George Putnam '34 , Since retirement, Kermit La Fleur has gone into New Zealand, where Stan had visited during Oakland, Maine, are listed among the 22 Paul landscape painting and is also a serious student World War II. and he had expressed the wish that Harris Fellows of the club • John Jenkins, the of philosophy, which he says has led to a broad­ their daughter make the trip with Esther if he friendly, efficient, and competent Seiler Corpora­ ening of his perspective. He plans to come to our couldn't go. Esther and her daughter were to tion food manager at Colby for 15 years, has 50th from South Carolina • Alfred Wheeler's leave in January, and I hope their trip was re­ retired. Gladys remembers him especially for his children have maintained the musical tradition, warding in every way. She was planning to visit prompt action in relieving the painful burn she as Marilyn excels at the flute, John '66 at the a son in Montana and to spend some time with received on her arm when someone splashed hot French horn. and Bill as drummer and audio· her Colby roommate, Lois Britton Bayless, in coffee in the cafeteria line • Mary Watson technician • Bob and Beulah Fenderson Smith Te xas • Edith Hendrickson Williams and her Flanders '24 and her sister, Jean Watson '2 9 , '36 run the Elmere Campground at Wells, Maine. husband, Paul, have moved to Lexington, N.C., Ft. Myers, Fla., spent last summer with another Their children are militarily inclined, having to help their son care for his two children. They sister, Elizabeth Watson Gerry '27 , in Brewer, spent, in total, many years in the navy, a wor· hope to move to Raleigh, where they once lived Maine. All attended Reunion Weekend. Jean and thy occupation • Belly Wilkinson Ryan is and have friends. Edith mentions that it's not so Elizabeth played golf in the first Colby Open now a free-lance editor. She measures her sue· easy to make new friends in a new place at our To urnament. Jean and Mary took a fall trip to cesses, in her 23 years of a happy marriage, in age, for most of us, anyway. So thank goodness New Yo rk City with a continuation to the Mo· having an occupation that seemed to utilize her for the old ones! • Buell '40 and Evelyne Short hawk Valley to view the autumn colors • Ruth best talents and in going along in her rather Me rrill have explored the West this year, the Allen Peabody '24 has sold her Maine home "placid way at my own pace:· Well put, Betty. California gold country and Colorado • At a and is now a resident of Ft. Myers, Fla. She vis­ Yo urs will be a long and continuously rewarding nice Colby luncheon at Lucile Naples Weston's ited friends in Escondida, Calif., last summer • life • A mini-reunion occurred at East Boothbay house, Lucile regaled us with a hilarious account E. Evelyn Kellett '26, Lawrence, Mass., a world in June with Marjie Gould Murphy, Janel of her intrepid purchase and mastery of a mo· traveler and a Colby sports fan, attended the Goodridge Sawyer, Hazel Wepfer Thayer, ped. After her initial what-have-I-done dismay, 1986 Alumni Vol unteer Workshop. She was hon· Betty Wilkinson Ryan, Ruth Ye aton McKee, she has now put a good many miles on her new ored as Colby's 1986 "C" Club Woman-of-the-Ye ar Edmund Barnard, Lucille Pinette Zukowski, toy. See? Yo u can still learn something new, do at the annual Colby Night dinner during Home· lppy Solie Howard '39, and assorted husbands something different, as those cheery senior· corning Weekend • William M. "Bill" Clark for a full day • Ed Barnard has joined us with citizen publications are always telling us • Send '36, Caratunk, Maine, whose column, "Logroll· new bifocals. He is active in choir work and on news' ing," appears in Maine newspapers, says that the the administrative board of his church. Ed ceased Class secretary: SALLY ALDRICH "old Colby was a school for academically de­ blueberry farming recently • Yo ur correspon· ADAMS, 22 Miller St., Medfield, Mass. 02052. prived children of working men rather than a dent and wife will shortly go to the Costa de! refuge for youngsters who already know more Sol on holiday. Thank you for all your kind than the faculty about the real world:' assistance over the years. And as is now ap· Correspondent: ERNEST E. MILLER '29, propriate, God bless. 218 Pickett District Rd., New Milford, Conn. Class secretary: FREDERICK G. DE­ 06776. MERS, 17 Thatcher St., Thomaston, Maine __ 04861. 'fQ I would like to report to your classmates about the important events in your life but I need in­ put from you! • Julia Wheeler O'Sullivan Morton is now making her permanent home with her daughter in West Orange, N.J. She would like to hear from some of our classmates. 50th reunion: June 4-7, 1987 • Not without Julia's main interests now are her two grand· a certain sorrow, I realize that this is almost the children. Previously, she spent her time as a In reporting his new book, The New Corporate final column to be submitted after my six years nurse. taking care of other people's children • Directors, co-authored bv Charles A. Anderson, as your correspondent. It behooves me, then, to ; Jean Bridges has joined the ranks in retirement L.H.D. '75 jsee "Ex Libris '). Robert N. Anthony take this opportunity to ask that this year of all and expects to accomplish much in fields she had noted that in August 1986 he was inducted as years you make an extra effort to make our class little time for previously • Ernie Marriner has the 46th member of the Accounting Hall of Fame. contribution to the Alumni Fund the largest we a question for everyone in the Class of '40. Can A year previously. he was named Accounting have ever made. Let's finish with a bang1 We owe you come up with an idea for a suitable class gift Educator of the Ye ar by Beta Alpha Psi. the ac­ it to the "old school,'' for without the education on the occasion of our SOth reunion? He and counting society. for our future work/vocation, where would we Prudence (Piper) '41 are contemplating a cruise Class secretary: LAWRENCE W. DWY· be? If you review your life seriously, you will on the Rhine, but I believe the highlight of their ER, 286 Church St., Berlin, N.H. 03570. have to admit that during that four-year period year was a visit to their lakefront home with their the foundation was laid for your future prosperi· three children and their spouses and their six ty, be it in money or learning or both. So please grandchildren • Ruth Hendricks Maren make an effort to give thanks where they are spends much of her time traveling and that due. As for our reunion weekend, it appears we sounds great to me. She made her first Elder will enjoy a day's outing involving water and that Hostel trip to North Carolina and looks forward ubiquitous boat' These affairs have been great, to one in Bermuda. In the meantime, she's on so others say. Finally, I ask forgiveness of many a trip to Russia. Can you believe this?-she's a who over the years have supplied oddments of 'J\.ndthough life's tide may part us wide,'' we sang step-great-grandmother • David Hunter Cot­ information that were never squeezed into the in the old "A lma Mater''- and it has parted us ton has retired as a school and college ad· space provided • Jane Tarbell Brown got back wide. Our classmates live in 21 states, from ministrator. He now devotes his time to wood· to her home in Smyrna Mills, visited cousins, Maine (37) to Hawaii (1) to Texas (1) to Florida carving, from which he reaps great reward and found an old, old antecedent, and all in all relived 18). We live in places as big as Los Angeles and satisfaction. He wonders how people find the those glorious years of youth. Win, her husband, as small as Matinicus, Maine. We have such in· time for golf, tennis, and traveling. Who can give was treated to a view of five moose at one time, teresting addresses as Pooks Hill Road, Back 'froy him the clue? • Roger and Ruth Gould Steb· a rare opportunity • Luke "Rod" Pelletier and Road, Kaiolu Street, Clapboard tree Street, Rum bins vacationed three weeks at Clark Carter's wife are proud owners of yet another sailboat Hill, and Seminole Highway • A card from Boothbay Harbor cottage, and in return, Clark

28 THE COLBY ALUMNUS G. Allan Brown: Good Wo rks

Class correspondent Sally Aldrich Adams recently sent a letter to fellow '39ers that featured the retirement activities of G. Allan Brown and his wife, Priscilla. The Browns' lively response to "free time" seems deserving of a larger audience. Brown retired in 1981 from the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, D.C., where he held several positions, including director of program and budgeting in the of­ fice of the Senior Postmaster General/Operations. Previously, he was with American Airlines for 21 years in reservations, sales, and promotion. The couple. who celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary in January, moved to Nellysford, Va ., in 1981, to join Wintergreen, a retirement resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville. The community covers 11,000 acres, three of which belong to the Browns and provide them with plenty of garden space for their "leisure." There isn't much of that, however; both have been busier than they thought possible. For 18 months they assembled meals for 19 families served by Meals-on-Wheels. Brown is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and both are active in the Presbytery's Older Adult Work Unit and the Older Adult Camp-Retreat Staff. He is also county representative to the Jefferson Area Board for Aging, an organiza­ tion that serves Charlottesville and five counties. Mrs. Brown has been volunteer organist for their church for six years since she retired from teaching psychology, sociology, and world history at WT. Woodson High School in Fairfax County. In the midst of these good works, the Browns have made time for the travel­ ing that both enjoy. They recently returned from a nine-week trip to the West Coast, visiting relatives and friends along the way. Hospitality is an old custom with the Priscilla and G. Allan Brown '39 couple, too, dating back to the days when they lived near Washington, D.C., and Brown was both vice president and treasurer of the Washington alumni club. To continue the tradition, the Browns hope their Colby friends feel welcome to stop by when they visit in the Wintergreen area. NFW

and Barbara will housesit the Stebbins' home in more functional. She is now teaching at Dwight and boating • Allan Knight has moved from Honolulu while Ruth and Roger travel to ew Englewood School in Englewood, N.J. • As you Connecticut to Portland, Maine, and retired in Zealand. Sounds like a fair swap to me. Clark know, Norris Dibble has slowed down a bit but July 1986 from J.P. Salmini Co. as an application and Barbara visited Don and Helen Brown is still practicing law. To keep in shape, he par­ engineer. In 1979 he had retired from inside Gilfoy in Nantucket so they could help her ticipates daily in calisthenics and, during the engineering for Honeywell. He and his wife, celebrate a birthday. During the time that Clark week, in golfing, walking, and swimming. orma, have a son and a daughter, Elizabeth '76. was working on the Colby 2000 Campaign, he Bravo1 • Ruth Stebbins Cadwell says she is Allan and Norma are also eager to keep fit by visited with Joe Chernauskas (The Judge) and "an Executive Horne Engineer alias housewife walking and riding an indoor bike • Three Don and Phy! Chapman Gardner. If your and one never retires from that" (don't we women cheers for Mary Hitchcock Baxter in Ware, traveling plans take you to Florida in the winter, all know1). but she has taken up weaving and Mass.! She has just completed a 60-hour course you might see the Carters. They are mak.Lng their basket making. Great! • It was good to hear with Mary Lane Hospital Visiting urses to permanent winter residence al Mariner Sands from John Hawes again in Smithfield, Maine. become a home health aide. She is also taking in Stuart, Fla. • My husband, Morton, plans to He is a retired U.S. Army major and, he says, a 16-hour course in hospice care. She wrote that formally retire from Rice University in July 1987 ''an exhausted teacher," with a daughter and four she has discovered she should have been a nurse. but will continue to teach one course each year. granddaughters, another expected. He also has For recreation she enjoys gardening with her He hopes to have more time to devote to writing a son involved in international business who daughter, Mariellen '74 • And it was surely books on mathematics, and I look forward to our speaks both German and Russian. To keep fit great to hear from Benjamin Hains, the first having more time for sarnng • I continue to John plays golf, fishes, and putters around his time for this correspondent. He is right there in plead with you to send me information about North Pond acres • Walter Sherys has retired Waterville and retired in 1984 as owner of Ben's your activities. in Rochester, N.H. He and his wife, Agnes, at­ Meat Market. He and his wife, Marion, have a Class secretary: ELEANOR THOMAS tended his 50th high school reunion in son. Mark. who graduated from Husson College CURTIS, 4607 W. Alabama, Houston, Te x. Wakefield, Mass. Surely several of us have been and is now food purchasing agent for Carnival 77027. celebrating that one over the past year or two! Cruise Lines in Miami. They also have a Walter wrote that, to cope with "mid-life crisis," daughter, Paula, a graduate of Bentley College both he and his wife have joined their health in Waltham, Mass., who is in advertising and club and work out three times a week cycling, sales for New Wo man Magazine, in ew Yo rk rowing, swimming, and running on a tread­ City • One sad note. Perhaps most of you saw mill • Claire Tilley Henderson in Ashland, in the September 1986 Alumnus the notice of __ llz,..__ Maine, stated that she doesn't seem to retire from Paul F. Kierstead's death back in January 1984 Yo ur correspondent and undoubtedly most of anything. She and her husband, Edward, a in Acton, Maine • So on we go into 1987. What our classmates as well think we of the Class of retired engineer, have two daughters and three are some of the rest of you up to7 The rest of '4 1 are doing a fine job of keeping active and in­ grandchildren. To celebrate Edward's retirement, us would like to know. volved in interesting and health-promoting proj­ they spent the winter in New Zealand and Class secretary: RUTH "BONNIE" ROB­ ects. A welcome letter from Jane RusselJ Ab­ Australia. But they stay active and healthy main­ ERTS HATHAWAY (Mrs. Henry). 25 Graham bott informed us that her hips are mending and tainingthe grounds at their farm, and also fishing St., Fitchburg. Mass. 01420.

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 29 45th reunion: June 5-7, 1987. INAUGURATIONS Class secretary: CHRISTINE BRUCE SH EA (Mrs. Charles), 1 Springdale Ave., Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02 181. Periodically, Colby is invited to send representatives to special academic events at colleges and universities. The following persons have represented the College at inaugura­ tions in the past months.

The leaves have fallen, have been rained on, and are now more difficult than ever to rake up. Sleet R. Geoffrey Neville, Jr. '8 1, at the inauguration of Ofelia Gar­ is predicted for tomorrow and no matter when cia as president of The Atlanta College of Art. it appears, it's too early! • Muriel Mclellan Flagg made a trip to Hawaii last spring and while on Kaui was the guest of George and Doris Hugh Gourley, director of the Colby Museum of Art, at the Heaney Batt '42. Muriel continues with the inauguration of Peter deCourcy Hero as president of the Maine State Museum Commission as well as Po rtland School of Art. with the Border Historical Society, Retired Te achers' Association, and other organizations. In 1986 she was appointed to the advisory board John F. Church, Jr. '59, at the inauguration of Alan E. Guskin of the Maine State Housing Authority. In early as president of Antioch University. summer she visited Pat Powers Parker '42. in Brewer • I'm sure many of us will empathize with Mary Page Foster IGmball who answered John D. Neeson '81, at the inauguration of Harold M. Kolen­ the question, "What aren't you doing but wish brander as president of Mount Union College. you were?" with "traveling and eating out:• She keeps busy with crafts, gardening, swimming, bowling, and Bingo. After six grandsons, she now Curtis M. Johnson '75, at the inauguration of Shirley Strum has a granddaughter • George '42 and Geral­ Kenny as president of Queens College. dine Fennessy Parker have a total of eight grandchildren. Gerry, retired from teaching, now has a travel escort job. She goes to New Yo rk City every month and sees all the Broadway shows. She would like visits from classmates at one of their three homes -in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Florida • Kathleen Monaghan Corey con­ tinues as a social worker but plans to retire in with a trip to northern England and Scotland • in June 1985 in order to care for her. He and July 1987. She says she has never been so busy And with that, I come to the end of my allotted Virginia have many blessings in the form of a and finds the job as class agent hard but reward­ space. Hope you're having a good winter. combined total of 11 child ren and 18 grand­ ing, as our class did make its goal in the Alumni Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART children • From Ralph Braudy of Hyannis. Fund drive. No spare time for Kaye! • In April BRAUNMULLER (Mrs. Albert R.), 115 Lake Mass.: "Since leaving the labor force I spend 1986 George and Stephanie Popper took a trip Rd., Basking Ridge, N.J. 07920. equal amounts of time in London and Califor­ to Israel, and they continue to make regular visits nia as well as Cape Cod:' How does he use his to Kennebunkport and other spots in southern time? In "hedonistic and sybaritic self-indul- Maine. No retirement yet for either of them • gence:· I like a man who tells it like it is1 • Ressa Flewelling Edmunds moved into a new Wedding bells' Mary Weeks Sawyer to home this summer, a move necessitated by the Frederick M. Drummond '47, September 21, extension of Interstate 287. Ressa does the of­ J 986, in the Congregational Church in Wa ter­ fice work for John, who is a consulting engineer. ville • Professor Emeritus James M. Whitten They hoped to take a cruise to Bermuda in the In the last issue we heard from A to L. Here's (adult education. the University of Southern winter • Louise Trahan McCombs was in the scoop on M to Z: Eleanor Eisberg Foster Maine) has left Maine for the sunny shores of Maine in the winter of 1985-86. Daughter Jane, Watson has retired after 25 years of teaching, Florida. Jim was married while at Colby in 1942 who lives in Bath, had a baby so Louise and Mac spent 5 weeks in the British Isles. has an 18-room and had three boys, but his wife, Laura, died in braved the snowstorms to be there. They've been house that eats up her time, has been "e xtreme­ 1981. He is now married to Te resa Henderson doing a lot of traveling in the western United ly happy, healthy, and content;• and is especial­ and says both wives have given him a sound States and to Jamaica • I wish I had space for ly proud of her daughter, "a fine teacher:· Eleanor education in women's lib • Many women of '44 a complete account of Elizabeth Durand Ran­ sends word that Alice Leigh Paul Fisher and expressed an interest in collecting antiques. som's interesting family and activities. She says husband have moved to Florida • Fred '43 and Priscilla Keating Swanson's collection includes visits from relatives in the States and trips Jo-Jo Pitts McAlary both retired last year and amethyst, glass, tinware, lustreware, majolicas, through New Zealand's South Island and to Aus­ are "happily doing our thing with the children:' old tools, Victorian items, and cut glass. Priscilla's tralia's Great Barrier Reef keep her out of the Jo taught for 22 years in the Bangor school sys­ husband has retired and they have plans for rocking chair. How about a Class of '43 trip to tem and continues to substitute in the Camden­ overseas travel. Their recent trips include Mex­ visit Betty in New Zealand? We'll never be any Rockport area. She's looking forward to travel­ ico, Bermuda, and Nova Scotia • Make that younger! • Dr. Frank Miselis is spending his ing • Jean Ferrell Howe was at Colby in 1943 grandchild count eight for Jim '43 and Evelyn retirement time doing carpentry, building stone and 1944 as a transfer student and still lives in Gates Moriarty (last report it was seven) • "I walls, and landscaping his two homes in Lake Waterville so she keeps up with events on cam­ have had a very satisfying career with respon­ Ta hoe and Phoenix. His recreations are skiing, pus. She's a recent widow but busy with two sible, if not spectacular, positions in good librar­ flying, and hiking; his occupation -finance. children and five grandchildren at Great Pond ies of several types and enjoyed Christian Sounds great • Priscilla Moldenke Drake and in Belgrade • From Ya rmouth, Maine, Richard fellowship and service in some good churches husband Bill celebrated his retirement as head Mountfort wrote that his wife, Virginia, is bat­ through the years," says Bob Si lien from Brain­ of the laboratory at the Missouri Baptist Hospital tling cancer. He retired from an active ministry tree, Mass. Bob recently attended the 25th wed-

30 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ding anniversary of Doug and Doris Borton found "very interesting as well as challenging." '48 • The briefest of news from Martha Before returning home, she and her husband par­ Wheeler Zeltsman. She and her husband are ticipated in an Earth Watch project on the South professional photographers, which keeps them Pacific island of To nga • Ros Kramer reports busy, but have raised four children. Their daugh­ that she thoroughly enjoyed serving as '45 class 40th reunion: June 5-7, 1987 • Our 40th re­ ter, Nancy, performs in the Boston area as the representative to the Alumni Council, working union is June 5· 7. Have you sent in your reser· marimba player in a marimba-violin duo and also on the Awards Committee. Now class president, vation? This is a big one and we need you all composes music • Not planning ever to retire Ros looks forward to planning our 45th reunion there to share the fun, so circle the dates. See is Alden Wagner, who lists his occupation as in 1990. She'll welcome suggestions on how to you at the Lobster Bake! • Thanks to Dorie "investor in real estate and shopping center make sure it's a good one • Ernest Rotenberg Meyer Hawkes and Helen Jacobs Eddy for do­ developer" and his achievements as "started a wrote that he's author of a new textbook on ing the planning and to Stan Frolio for organiz­ business. educated three children through col­ Domestic Relations: The Substantive Law. Here's ing the class gift. Even if you can't make it to the lege and one through MBA, stayed married to to best-sellerdom for Ed • Alumnae I keep up reunion, we need your support for the gift • Re­ one woman for 35 years.'' He and Helena con­ with include Rae Gale Backer '44, who, with hus­ cently I talked with Liz Hall Fitch, who teaches tributed the outdoor concourse and patio for the band Morty, planned to make a three-week visit fifth grade in Concord, Mass. She finds it a very new Student Center at Colby. Beautiful! He's also in December with her son, who lives in busy year. Since her six children are all doing busy teaching five grandchildren to ski at Va il, Israel • I also keep track of Joan Gay Kent, their own thing now, she is planning to retire in Colo. • Malcolm McQuillan was verysparing who runs her own creative services agency and June • I also talked with Dotty Briggs Aron­ in his remarks on the questionnaire. He has finds time to join up with me for an occasional son, who would be delighted to meet Colby retired as a high school and junior college teach­ outing, and Helen Strauss, who is on the job friends for lunch any time in Boston. Give her er-counselor and is now into volunteer educa­ at Franklin Spier Ad Agency and a prime mover a call when you have free time and can meet tional work. Mac is a horseback rider! • Anoth­ in the very active Tew Yo rk alumni club • her • Best wishes to Fred Drummond and er one planning never to retire: Nancy Pattison Keep the news coming, folks, and I'll recycle it. Mary Weeks Sawyer '44, who were married in McCarthy, associate real estate broker, with two Class secretary: NAOMI COLLETT Waterville September 21 last year • Ray Greene daughters (four grandchildren) and a son, all PAGANELLI, 2 Horatio St., New Yo rk, NY. represented Colby at the Needham, Mass .. High married. Pat has enjoyed 30 years of traveling 10014. School awards ceremonylast year by presenting extensively throughout the world with her army the Colby College Book Prize. (Does your high husband • Virginia "Bonny" Howard Ather­ school present a Colby award? If not, you can ton has been married 41 years to Bill Atherton arrange for it to happen. Just contact the alum­ '48. She also skis "not expertly but enthusiastical­ ni office.) Ray has also been busy working as na­ ly." The really big event in her life was touring tional co-chair of the Colby 2000 Campaign. Holland, Belgium, England, and Scotland. Bon­ We're proud to count him a member of our class. ny and Bill have four children and nine grand­ Thanks, Ray, for all your efforts • Dana and children. She has retired as volunteer coordina­ '16-- Harriet Nourse Robinson have bought a con­ tor in a nursing home and is enjoying the time I've enjoyed receiving responses to our most re­ do in Juno Beach, Fla. Dana has a new position to take classes, see friends, bike, sail, and garden. cent questionnaire. Austin Ryder, who now with Intercontinental Te chnology and travels a Her big hobby is a huge, eclectic collection of lives in West Chatham, Mass., has retired after good bit. However, they are both planning to be dolls! • Nancy Curtis Lawrence became a 35 years in the retail lumber business • Rowen at the reunion. Harriet says they would never Vista volunteer with the literacy program in Kusnitt Kessler, who, with her husband, Wil­ dream of missing it. Hope you all feel the same Jackson, Miss. Besides interviewing students and liam, traveled all the way from Castro Valley, • Thanks to Shirley Lloyd Thorne, who took tutors for a one-on-one reading program for Calif., to attend our 40th reunion, wrote to say part in the Fall Phonathon • Keep information adults, I'm teaching four classes a wee - . I still that the most important events she's looking for­ coming so the column will flourish. lf I've missed swim regularly! • Keep the letters coming ­ ward to right now are the graduations of her something important that you wanted to see in regards to all. children from lawschool and medical school • print, send me a card and it will be in the next Class secretary: NANCY CURTIS Bette Scalise Kilham, who was also at the re­ time. Thanks for all your help. LAWRE1 CE (Mrs. Watson A.J. 185 Wildwood union, is an announcer for radio station WXKS Class secretary: ELIZABETH WADE Te rrace, Jackson, Miss. 39212. and professor of communications for the New DRUM (Mrs. John J.J, 44 Country Village Lane, England Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences Sudbury, Mass. 01776. in Boston. Widowed for a second time, Bette recently sold her home and bought a con­ dominium. She also bought a cottage in Maine and says she's going through "reorganization of life -again." She's learned to take charge of her own life, she wrote, and she's very grateful for Apparently retirement is catching up with us a "terrific, caring son" • Recently I had dinner '45ers. Dee Sanford McCunn and I had a long with Carol Robin Epstein, a social workerwith Buddy and I are recovering from a busy fail. A overdue and truly delightful luncheon reunion a child welfare agency. Carol is making a real visit from our new Danish grandson and his in August. InJw1e, Dee retired from teaching and contribution to this community as director of a parents, construction projects, holidays with has now relocated to Canaan, Conn. There was program for teenage mothers, a project she runs houseguests, preparations for a show of my art­ no way we could cover all the years since we'd in conjunction with the public school system. work, and an upcoming trip to Honduras have last seen each other, and it was just real good She and I find that it is a great challenge to work hardly given me time to catch my breath. Lo and to relax over talk about the here and now and with young people, and it has helped keep us behold-a column deadline! In early fall I went the years to come .... Subsequently, I myself aware of the interests and problems of the new to the Gloucester, Mass., area to spend an eve­ decided that there are other dimensions to life generations • This year I have been released ning with Norice Mahoney Smith, who had besides working at a career, and I've just retired from half my teaching duties at Quinsigamond come north fromPompano Beach, Fla., for a visit (11/28) as I write this • Augusta-Marie John­ Community College in Worcester so that I may with her brother, "Chick;' and her stepmother, son Alexander, an early childhood educator, is serve as coordinator of a Writing Across the Cur­ who happens to be my sister-in-law. Although another retiree. She and Ed '43 summer in Han­ riculum program for the college. The program Norice had visited often in earlier years, it had cock, Maine, and winter in Brooksville, Fla. • is part of a nationwide effort to improve the been decades since we met. One evening WuS And Eleanor Mundie O'Neill (also a teacher) writing skills of students, and I'm finding my certainly not enough time for getting "caught up:' and her husband have retired. They'll live half new role a stimulating and rewarding one • If I hope to see her again soon - perhaps in Flori­ the year (which half, Eleanor?) in Calais, Maine, you haven't lost your questionnaire by now, da • Betty Coombs Corke Myers, who remar­ and will welcome Colby visitors • Polly please take a few minutes to fill it out. We'd all ried just a year ago, answered an aging question­ Callard Guild is still on the job as minister of enjoy hearing from you. naire and wrote a letter full of news. She lives the Unitarian Universalist Church in Lexington, Class secretary: HAN AH KARP LAIP­ in Upper St. Clair, Pa., now, and at the time of Mass. Last spring she served for three months SON (Mrs. Myron R.), 25 Pomona Rd., Worces­ her marriage had a reunion with Alice-Marie as minister in Adelaide, Australia, which she ter, Mass. 01602. "Ali Rie" March Miller, Haroldene "Deanie"

THE COLBY ALUM US 31 Charmian Herd Is Still Stage-Struck

Charmian Herd '50 laughs: "I want to remain on stage until I fall down in a heap of brittle bones:' That may happen in 40 or 50 years, but there's no imminent danger. It's been a long, fascinating journey from Winslow, Maine, where Herd was born. She sang, danced, and acted all through her college years, earned an M.Ed. from the University of Maine, and did graduate work at Boston University Col­ lege of Music. True to her pragmatic Scot's background, she recognized that "act­ ing is chancy, so I decided to teach:' In Central Maine, she taught music and drama at Wa terville and Skowhegan area high schools. At Lawrence High School in Fa ir­ field she started an experimental program in theater, all the while acting in com­ munity theater and opera and singing at the College and in local churches. She was one of the original company members of the Theater at Monmouth, which has become the professional, classical repertory theater in the stale. In 1983, while hunting for an elusive prop, she met and married Paul Rallis, owner of the Scarborough Trading Post. To gether they started the St. John Thrift Shop in Portland. For two years they trafficked in the "hard-to-find item" needed by Portland's many music and drama companies and became antique and costume purveyors of the unusual or unique. When they inherited a house in Roseland, Fla., in 1985, they left Maine for "pastures new:· On their second day in Florida, Herd answered a newspaper ad for an audition with the Vero Beach Riverside Theater, a professional company, and landed a role in Our To wn. It's been a delightfully hectic scramble ever since. She has also worked with the Vero Beach Theatre Guild, a semi-professional community theater, and since Our To wn she has appeared in a variety of productions with the two companies, including Te n Little Indians and Delta Queens, a composite of Te nnessee Williams' heroines. She recently decided to "perk up" her ballet and is presently studying with professional teachers in Fort Pierce, Fla. She danced the role of Clara's mother in The Nutcracker last winter with the Fort Pierce Ballet Company and simultaneously performed with the Treasure Coast Opera Society in two operas. Currently she is appearing in Rigoletto. In a letter to the Alumnus in December, Charmian Herd concluded, 'Tm off for the Nutcracker rehearsal this afternoon and Die Fledermaus rehearsal this eve­ ning. That's living for me - I'm still stage-struck!"

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Whitcomb Wolf '49, and Nancy Semonian New­ the Boston chapter of the Financial Executives love '49. Betty has fond memories of the Bixlers, Institute • Jack Alex traveled in the Far East Foss Hall, skating to town one very cold day, and last summer, a journey that featured a boat trip lifelong friendships she made at Colby. That par­ on the Yangtze River in China and visits to ticular phrase, "lifelong friendships made while Bangkok and Singapore. In June, he took all the at Colby," runs through the mail I receive like a kids shooting the rapids through the Grand Can­ Class secretary: MARY HATHAWAY golden thread, connecting us all • A young Col­ yon • Phil Shearman has been appointed CHERRY, 63 Indian Pond Rd., Kingston, Mass. by man, Thomas Claytor '85, read my "Commen­ associate minister of the First Parish Congrega­ 02364. tary'' in the March 1986 Alumnus, "Success by tional Church in Gorham, Maine. Phil and his Other Measure," and wrote to me from Malawi, family have lived in Gorham since 1979 when Africa, telling me of the "risky" paths he is tak­ they moved from Ohio • Bob Millett's Lincoln­ ing. While on a Watson Fellowship, he is writing Sudbury tennis team tied for the league cham­ a book about bush pilots in different parts of the pionship last spring. He was named coach of the world. He has been flying supplies to the SPLA year in Division I • Dick Bowers is practicing rebels in southern Sudan and has headed south law in Delhi, N.Y. • Please keep the cards and to fly in Botswana and South Africa for the Na­ letters coming. tional Geographic Society, which is now mak­ Class president: NELSON T. EVERTS, 121 ing a film on bush pilots in Africa. Tom told of Jim Bradford is a senior vice president with the Richardson Drive, Needham, Mass. 02 192. having a mini-Colby reunion there with Bill Boston consulting firm of McGuire, Anthony and Mayaka '72 and his cousin, Charles Angwenyi Bradford. An 11th generation descendent of '64. I have a feeling we will be hearing more from William Bradford, he has made an extensive To m Claytor • Thanks to those of you who study of early colonial times. Jim recently made wrote and shame on those who did not. a presentation on 0( Plymouth Pla ntation, William Remember-I might be able to put you in touch Bradford's classic of American literature describ­ • with that friend with whom you have Jost con­ ing the early years of the Pilgrim experience Si/..._- - tact. For now, warm regards. Dick Armknecht has joined Kazmaier Associ­ Class secretary: VIRGINIA BREWER ates as vice president of this sports marketing Class secretary: WA RREN FINEGAN, White FOLINO, RR l, Box 613, Grand Isle, Vt. 05458. and financial services firm. He is president of Pine Knoll Rd., Wayland, Mass. 01778.

32 THE COLBY ALUMNUS rently V.P. for sales and marketing for the Preci­ sion Seals Division of Chicago Rawhide Com­ pany. He and his wife, Judy, pass through Bucksport each summer on their way north for vacation, and we check out the local golf courses • Incidentally, last July a very hand­ some and distinguished looking gentleman ap­ proached me as I was departing the 9th hole, and said, "Hello, Whitey, I haven't seen you for 32 __ years:· It was Gil Alfano '55, returning to Florida 35th reunion: June 5-7, 1987 • Let's face it. 56 from a trip to Nova Scotia via Bucksport. Small Keep those questionnaires coming' \Ve ha\'e only June 5 and the 35th reunion are just around the world' Gil was on the range maintaining his two solicited the A thru Ls so far and the resp0nse corner. I hope you are signed up and will be handicap • Ruth Brindley Cheney. who was has been great but I won't be satisfied until I \'e • there with bells on Kemp Pottle has been with our class for two years. sent in a note that heard from ALL of you! • Ar line Berry Julia named director of transfer admissions at Clark­ she is still a "Down Easter" at heart. She lives in is in her second year as head coach of girls and • son University in Potsdam, NY Jerry Holtz Concord, N.H., and still misses this part of the boys indoor track at Lawrence High in Fairfield was reelected to his second term as president of • country • Jack King and his wife, Helen, live Maine. Both teams practice at Colby Profes­ the congregation at Te mple Israel, Boston. He in Boston, Mass. Thei: two children, Jim and sor Barbara Duer A.rnstine leaches philosophy gives a great deal of time to many organizations, Paula, graduated from Colby in '85 and '86 of education at California State Uni\'ersity where • including serving as a trustee at Colby Patri­ respectively. Helen is executive V.P. of Insights, she was given an award for meritorious teaching. cia Erskine Howlett received the Gold Medal­ a private school counseling service, and poor old She received her master's degree at Han·ard and lion Award for designing an "issues management" Jack just keeps on accumulating radio stations. Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and over system for the National School Public Relations They recently celebrated their 25th wedding an­ the past 22 years has managed to raise four Association. She is a director of communications . niversary jone year late) with a family trip to children. During a three-month sabbatical in for the Association of California School Admin­ France. With four radio stations at his conunand, London in 1986, Barbara had a great time renew­ • istrators Ben Sears wrote to say hello and to we think Jack certainly ought to "keep in touch" ing her "Christmas card relationship with her urge you all again to attend the 35th. After 20 • Joan Hall Parker is an education specialist 'major professor " Mark Benbow and his wife straight years of kids in college, he and Nancy with the Department of Education, and she and Ann • Another California-ite Shirley · eed­ think they can find enough money to make it to her husband have two sons, David and Daniel, ham Eaton, is beginning to feel a mag;1etic tug Waterville that weekend • See you all soon. both in the entertainment field in New Yo rk toward New England after being away for 25 Class secretary: DO 1ALD G. HAILER. 28 City. Joan would like to know why her class­ years. How about our 35th in '91 Shirley' • Forest Rd., Glen Rock, .J. 07452. mates all seem so much younger and lighter than Patricia Bateman Cope, having recei\'ed her her spouse. l'm not sure what her husband's oc­ divinity degree from St. Lawrence University cupation is. I think she mentioned something and master's in education from the University about "writer:· jAce, if you're going to turn Boston of Connecticut, worked for nine years as a Uni­ into a Hollywood East, I hope Spenser doesn't tarian-Universalist minister. She then became an come any further north than the Portland "at home mom" to raise her daughter. Pat recently massage parlors.) In spite of all the hoopla sur­ visited with Barbara Porte Niblock in New rounding Robert B. Parker. he claims to be the Yo rk City • Alfred C. Clapp, Jr.. has recently same sweet guy he always was. Some of us know become professor of finance at Hartwick College Just as I feared ...that long newsletter ate up better! • Bill Sullivan is head of the English in Oneonta l .Y., where he has just launched a all the class news and I am now left with a bare department at Somerset High School in Somer­ "Management in .Y.C. Program." He is also column. Please ...write to me. Te ll me all your set. Mass. He and his wife, Millie, report that launching further financial consulting efforts to good news, bad news, any news at all • To start Michaela '83 was married this past September. work with upstate small and medium-size man­ things off. I may as well report my rather dismal Sully, if you are serious about banging heads on ufacturing companies • Susan Miller Hunt bet with Martha Friedlaender during the the golf links, I know a couple of pushovers at receives great satisfaction from workiilg with World Series. It wouldn't be so bad if Marty Colby who even give strokes -Dave Roberts '55 emotionally disturbed children in a teachin · weren't such a damnably smug Mets fan1 And and Sid Farr ·55 • Barry and Judy Holtz Levow hospital and also from serving as docent in the it's not that the bet broke the bank either ... S5 '55 are both deeply involved in the business Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts • could hardly do that. No, it's just that the Red world. Barry's Little People's School is not so lit­ Lucy Blainey Groening is excited about her Sox broke our hearts . . again; and I'm finding tle any more, having grown to over 200 learning­ new job as director of Thorniield Conference it rather hard to mean it when I say, "Wait until disabled students. His other business is the man­ Center of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New next year" • On that melancholy note, I leave ufacture and sale of computerized equipment for York. Prior to her new position. Lucy was asso­ you. Perhaps the above will elicit a few sympathy hearing tests, under the name of G.A. Levow, Inc. ciate director of administration of the . ew Yo rk notes, if nothing else! Judy is an interior designer and her business is State Council of Churches, and most recently Class secretary: CAROLYN E GLISH known as Levow Interiors. They sound like pret­ served as training coordinator with the Central CACI. 288 Wellman Ave., orth Chelmsford, ty busy grandparents, courtesy of daughter Faye. New Yo rk Council on Adolescent Pregnancy • Mass. O 1863. They still live in Weston, Mass. • Philip Rein­ Judith Pennock Lilley and husband Al er-Deutsch gave up his pursuit of meteorology celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary by and jumped aboard the Amtrak line. He operates touring four Hawaiian Islands. A highlight was out of Los Angeles Union Station, selling tickets, ha ing dinner with John and Te ss Jubinsky • fighting with the computer, arbitrating fare dis­ Martha Meyer Kugler has found satisfaction putes, and reminding Trailways bus customers doing some writing and going back to school. She that they are at the wrong end of the counter. would like to hear from Barbara Porte iblock Class secretary: ROBERT F. TH RS'IO and Jam.! Hamilton K.riek. Lucy Blainey Groe­ To date you have sent in 36 written responses P.O. Box 414, Bucksport, Maine 04416. ning would like to hear from Gail Allen Warner, to share with our classmates and Colby friends. and Sue Hunt would like news from ancy ot a bad start. We also need to hear from some McLeod Stephenson and Ruthann Sim­ of the more reticent or "lost" members of our monds MacKinnon. So would we all! How class. I did receive a telephone call from Dan­ about some news from more of the men in our ny Harrington, a two-handed set-shot artist class' • Write to me if you need help with some­ from Oyster Bay, who left our class to graduate one's address -the College keeps me as up-Io­ from Hofstra College. He lives in Huntington Sta­ date as possible -or perhaps you have an address tion, N.Y., and works in the contracts department we need. for Eaton Corporation • Since Aub Keef won't Class secretary: SUE BIVEN STAPLES !Mrs. Class secretary: HOPE PALMER BRAM­ send in his questionnaire, I will take the liberty Seldon C.). 430 Lyons Rd., Liberty Corner, N.J. HALL (Mrs. Peter T.C.), 1 Meadow Creek Lane, to pass on a few tidbits of information. He is cur- 07938. Falmouth Foreside, l\1aine 04 105.

THE COLBY ALUM US 33 The Sounds of Brown

Many a Colby graduate from the late 1950s and early '60s will remember the Four Lads and their hits "Moments lo Remember," "Standing on the Corner;' and "No, 30th re union: June 5-7, 1987. Not Much." What Colby alumni may not know is that Robert ]. Brown '59 was F. Class secr etary: BRIAN OLSEN, .:1.6 the lead tenor in the Four Lads from the spring of 1983 to the summer of 1986. Washington Drive, Acton, Ma s. 01720. Brown left the group last July lo perform on his own at the Brown Derby in Madeira Beac h, Fla., where he'll stay for two or three years. Although he enjoyed his time with the Lads, "I was at a crossroads;· he said. "The time had come to move on:· Brown studied piano, violin, and clarinet as a child. At Colby, he sang in the Glee Club and was a member of the Colby Eight singing group. "My career proba­ bly owes more lo the Eight and the music department's Peter Re than any other

A liberal arts backgrow1d tends to spawn diverse influences at Colby;' said Brown. At one point, Chauncey L. Brown '2 1, Brown's interests, careers, and avocations. These interests father, "threatened to cut off my tuition because he felt I was spending too much take our classmates from the East Coast to the time with the Eight instead of the curriculum:' (Brown's sister is Betty Brown West Coast and from North to South. An inter­ Holmes '52. Other Colby Browns are an aunt and an uncle, Helen A. Brown '23 esting letterarrived from Ellie Fortenbaugh de la Bandera. She did a superb job covering the and the late Harold S. Brown '17.) After graduation, Brown stayed at his first job past 28 years since leaving Waterville. She was as an insurance salesman for only two years before pursuing his musical interests. at the embassy in Buenos Aires, then in Monte­ As well as performing on his own and in groups such as the Four Lads, Brown video, Uruguay, where she met her husband, has worked in the "j ingle business" -writing, producing, arranging, and singing Jo.rge, and where their two children were born. commercials. He buill his own recording studio in his New York apartment and All four came to the States in 1967 and Ellie has put her Spanish major to use working for Berlitz, would like eventually to open a workshop. Recalling his difficulty getting started for a computerized translation service, and in in New York City-"! all but went bankrupt" - Brown said he would offer a legal interpreting. She is currently employed by laboratory where people of any level could practice songs and spoken lines and the courts of the state of New Jersey in a sec­ "get their feet wet in a situation that's not going to hurt them:' tion called Court Interpreting/Legal Translating and Bilingual Services. This year she also started What he likes most about the music business is the freedom to move from work on her master's degree in Spanish • ow one aspect of music to another without losing the advantage he has gained. Another from west to east and back west. Sara Stewart attraction of the business is that "when you sing a song, the whole concept of it Johnson came to Colby from Hawaii and now is yours -it's a very personal thing:· lives in Bend, Oreg., where, I have a definite feel­ Brown admits that he could earn more money and have greater job security ing, Mountain View High School could not sur­ vive without her. Sara's three children are about being something other than a musician. "As a business, it's lousy," he said. "But through the academic process. Sara has seen it's a calling. We have to do it:' Peggy Beebe Ramsay, who has been in the state of Washington for about a year now. The last I P} P knew, Sara was heading east to an archeological "dig" in Virginia • Carl '59 and Debbie Robson Cobb moved west several years ago and live in Seattle, Wash., where they are taking advantage of the Northwest. Debbie, once more you deserve our accolades. The Class·of '58 Jed the decade of the 1950s with the highest participa­ tion in the Alumni Fund, and you were our mo­ tivator • It was good to hear from Joe and Carolyn Evans Consolino '61 recently. Joe's pres­ ent position involves traveling in all directions. He is an officer of Random House, dealing in everything from reference book publishing to in­ ternational salesand marketing. He and Carolyn have lived mostly in New England, where they have been busy with 4 children ranging in age from a 12-year-old 7th grader to a 19-year-old. They attended Carolyn's 25th reunion in June • And that's what makes us unique-the diversi­ ty among our similarity. After all these years we're still on the move in various ways and are still discovering new things about one another. Did you know that Don Kennedy, presently the superintendent of schools for Duxbury, Mass., grew up on an island in Maine, where he attend­ ed school his first eight years in a four-room schoolhouse and later commuted by coal-fired boat to high school? No boat for me, Don, but my school was only a one-room schoolhouse for all eight grades, and it was fired by a wood stove! Class secretary: LOIS MUNSON ME­ GATHLIN, 20 Ledgewood Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107.

34 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Construction Company, operating from Enfield, library, a leader of Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts, Conn. • Richard and Sally Fields live in Lex­ and an active church member. She and her hus­ ington, Mass. Dick is executive vice president band, Jere, have four children, two in high school for Whiting and Davis • Richard and Cory and two in college • David Norman is a Port­ Gibbs are still in Swampscott, Mass. Richard land, Maine, lawyer who was elected regional sold Gibbs Oil Co. and started a new venture in Class secretary: KAY GERMAN DEA r, 295 vice president of the Defense Research and Trial Pierce St., Leominster, Mass. 01453. the oil-related businesses as well as in banking Lavv)'ers Association. It is the defense equivalent and TV. He's now a V.P. of Astroline Corpora­ of the American Trial Lawyers Association and tion • Beverley and Liz Rowe Lapham '63 one of its primary concerns is trying to hold back traded city for country living on their "Change- the litigation explosion that has led to a spiral­ 0-Pace Farm" in Otisco, N.Y. Bev wants to devote ing number of medical malpractice, products full time to farming but is executive vice presi­ liability, and other civil cases • Graham Bark­ __ dent of the Skaneateles Savings Bank. Liz is ham's recent gifts of African art were on display 60 weaving beautiful baskets for fun and profit • in the Colby Museum of Art during the obser­ Ray Berberian was named a commissioner of Anne Larkin Connolly has moved again, vance of National Black History !onth • Gary the proposed Bergen County Improvement courtesy of Colonel John's army reassignment to Davis is a management consultant in Marion Authority iN.J.) by the Board of Freeholders. The Hawaii. This is their 12th move in 17 years' Anne Mass. He specializes in the human resources authority will sell bonds to create a funding pool is setting a good example for young military field in such areas as technical recruiting, com­ from which municipalities and school districts wives • Carol Walker Lindquist is happily pensation, and executive development. He has in the county will be able to borrow funds for busy teaching reading to "melting pot strivers" held human resource management positions at capital improvements at low interest rates, so at the Borough of Manhattan Community Col­ LTX Corp., Code! Corp., Te xas Instruments, and Ray's banking and financial expertise is need­ lege and fixing up her brownstone in Brooklyn, Acushnet Co. • Well, pack your bags and make ed • Can you believe that last summer Charles N.Y. • Diane Scrafton Cohen Ferreira is a your plans to arrive on Mayflower Hill to enjoy Murphy was listed in Massachusetts' Marlboro full-time instructor in the language arts division the most memorable reunion yet. I know it Enterprise's "25 Years Ago" column? That was at Leeward Community College, Honolulu, doesn't seem possible but the big 25 is here. See when Charles received his master of education Hawaii, and travel consultant with A To uch of you June 4, 5. 6, and 7 !Thursday to Sunday). degree from Suffolk University • Also in Class travel agency. Diane and husband John 1987. Massachusetts, Leon Nelson ran a fall campaign were our 25th reunion's travel-distance record Class secretary: PATRICIA "PATC H" for the 7th Suffolk State House seat. The policy holders • From Lakewood, Colo., Cynthia JACK MOSHER (Mrs. Arthur L.), 226 Pleasant issues of public safety, economic development, Spaniack Elsey tells us she was a member of St., Pembroke, Mass. 02359. education, and environment, along with "creative the Colorado Ballet Company for four years, but leadership;' were the thrust of his person-to­ has since stopped dancing. She says, "age" had person canvassing • Since our class letter, news something to do with it; her husband, Edward, has been slim. Please try to remember my empty an anesthesiologist, might give us a different mailbox. answer- such as raising two teenagers • Nor­ Class secretary: BEVERLY JACKSON man and Ginny Wriggins Hochella now live GLOCKLER (Mrs. Anthony S.), 39 Whippoor­ in Medway, Mass. Before she took up "domestic will Way, Belle Mead, N.J. 08502. engineering" full time, Ginny taught zoology at Greetings Classmates' Bill and I were at the Col­ the University of North Carolina. She hopes by Homecoming football game in October and eventually to return to teaching and is volunteer­ enjoyed a beautiful warm fall day on campus. ing every chance she gets • Thanks, '6 lers. A We ate lunch with Pen Williamson, who is now class newsletter will have to give you all the info working in the Hurricane Island Outward Bound l couldn't include here. The first draft was four program and enjoying it greatly • The new Spa times too long. Keep it coming! in the Student Center was dedicated shortly after Jeanette Benn Anderson lives in Houlton, Class secretary: EDWIN "NED" GOW, the game, and John and Mary and Pete and Bar­ Maine, with husband Robert. Jeanette's volunteer RFD Box 395, Canaan, Conn. 060 18. bara were there to acknowledge the name: The jobs have been curtailed by multiple sclerosis, Joseph Family Spa. The lower lounge within the but she still works with the state M.S. society, Spa itself. the Jess R. Marchese Room, its has started an M.S. support group, and attempts plaque now in place, is an attractive space. Its to educate others about the disease • Peggy walls are decorated with old Colby photos that Bartlett Gray resides in Southport, Conn., and will be familiar to all of us -a nice touch • But is busy as homemaker and "volunteer" in several for news of more classmates: Stephen Weeks nonprofit organizations • Debby Berry Den­ has been promoted to associate professor of ar­ niston is raising dairy heifers for sale and show 25th reunion: June 4-7, 1987 • Confiden­ chitecture at the University of Minnesota in Min­ in Nassau, N.Y. Debby also does part-time work tially, less than three months remain before we'll neapolis, where he has been teaching design and for the area school district by writing a weekly be together again. If you're hesitating about at­ completing housing research projects that won column for the paper • William Byers is assis­ tending our 25th reunion, why not call a couple a national research citation from Progressive Ar­ tant professor of photography and TV produc­ of friends to see if they're coming? • Judith chitecture (a leading professional journal). Steve tion and living in To lland, Conn. Bill just com­ Dupras Stanford is a publisher's consultant and and his wife, Karen, have two children, Sarah, pleted 550 illustrations for a book, Sculpting teacher who co-authored a college writing text 6, and Seth, 3. Steve is busy with ownership of Wood: Contemporary To ols and Procedures, by published by Prentice-Hall. She and husband two houses, consulting, and designing additions Mark Lindquist, photos by Bill Byers. He used Don, an international marketing manager for for homes, in addition to spending time with his the '6 1 Reunion Book to locate and contact Norm MIT Press, edit and publish a small press literary family • Charles Stokes and his wife. Rose­ Macartney in Katonah, N.Y. They plan to get magazine, jam To -Day. They have fun doing mary, live in McLean, Va ., where Charlie designs together • Mary-Jane Rutherford Carroll mutually enjoyable activities with their sons and builds custom home additions while Rose­ lives in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and wishes she wasn't David, 11, and Aaron, 9 • Marge Brown Yo rk mary works as an art teacher and jeweler. Their currently unemployed • Gordon S. Cum­ and husband Sam reside in Old Greenwich, son, Nolan, is at American University, and mings is associate professor of physical therapy Conn., with their 17-year-old daughter, Sandy. daughter Mari is a high school senior. A favorite at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Ga. In Oc­ Marge teaches Spanish and guitar and she en­ family activity is whitewater kayaking • If yoi.. tober he was honored as opening speaker at the joys providing music for church, town, and need information on asbestos from the Environ­ Conference of Physical and Occupational Ther­ senior citizens' events. Along with a friend, mental Protection Agency, call Susan Ferries apists meeting in Brazil • Kent Davidson is Marge has recently developed a "Kids Connect­ Vo gt, as she is the manager of the Asbestos Pro­ director of marketing for Eldon Office Products icut History Program" of folk songs and histori­ gram and Pesticide Applicator Program and real­ in Los Alamitos, Calif. • Carol Davidson Jack cal commentary • Arlene Gauthier Scanlon ly enjoys it. She and Peter live in Cabin John, is a medical technologist living in Hopewell Junc­ is employed by Ve rmont Children's Aid Society Md. Peter is still working as an independent film tion, N.Y. • Stephen Dell Aquila Lives in as an adoption social worker. She has been a producer. Sue is active in Cabin John's local Longmeadow, Mass., and is president of Della school board member, a volunteer in the school citizens association, working on zoning and en-

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 35 vironmental issues. She enjoys gardening and Cate School • Roger Hiss is strategic planning reading and is pleased that their youngest son, manager for E.L DuPont Co. He lives in West Andrew, now has a driver's license. No more car Chester, Pa. • No more room. Next time, look poolingl The other Vogt children are Judy, 22, for news of Carl and Judi David Floyd, Jan­ and Brad, 21 • Doug Mulcahy keeps fit by na Va ughan Kasarjian, Bill Koster, Judy playing tennis four to five times a week, golf· Kelley Casey, Martha DeCou, Jon Hill, Pam ing, and working out on Nautilus. He attended Lots of news! Thanks for your responses; keep Harris Holden, and others. grad school a year ago !where, Doug?). but those questionnaires coming in • Pat Berg Class secretary: MEG FALLON WHEEL­ spends his spare time "trying to make ends meet, Currier lives in Columbia, Md., with husband ER !Mrs. William A. Ill), Box 493, West Boxford, paying tuition bills:' !You are not alone, Doug!). Colby '69, a mathematician, and their two Mass. 01885. He is remarried. His wife is self-employed as an children. Pat has returned to work as a govern­ author and model, while Doug works as a ment analyst. The Curriers have a cottage on registered financial planner. His two children are Pemaquid Pond near Damariscotta, Maine • Elizabeth, 20, and Laura, 18 • Roberto Crespi When not practicing law in Danvers, Mass., Dick !known to me as "Bob") is professor of Latin Gilmore enjoys recreational flying and running. American literature at the University of Califor­ Look for Dick in the April 1987 Boston Mara­ thon. He skied in Switzerland last March • nia at Santa Cruz. His two children are Marus __ Antonio, 12, and Spencer, 6. Organizing for a It's been a year of celebrating "20s" for Bob 61,__ workers/socialist party has been Roberto's Adams-his Colby reunion, his wedding an­ 20th re union: June 5-7, 1987 • Recent political activity • Bill Witherell's letter niversary, and his years of service in the U.S. newspaper articles note the following: To ny reached me from Paris, where he is deputy direc­ Army. Congratulations, Bob! • Terry Clark Wilkins has been elected senior investment tor of financial, fiscal, and enterprise affairs with teaches math and coaches football, basketball, officer-public securities at New England Mutual the Organization for Economic Cooperation and and baseball at The Gunnery School in Wash­ Life Insurance Company. Prior to this position, Development. "B.J." !Campbell) '64 teaches Eng­ ington, Conn. He recently built a house on Frye To ny was responsible for investment strategies lish as a foreign language. Their children are Island in Sebago Lake, Maine • Gary Knight's for portfolios of Digital Equipment Corp. • David, 20, who attends William and Mary, and daughter, Kathryn, is a freshman at Colby. He Ken Johnson is pastor of Covenant Evangelical Steve, 18, a student at the American School of and Lynn !Longfellow) '65 combined business Lutheran Church in Gardner, Mass. • Gil Cong­ Paris. Bill and B.J. are active in the American and pleasure at a banking meeting in the don has moved his secondary teaching base Church of Paris, and Bill has just finished serv­ Dominican Republic in January • Doris from Reading, Mass., to Manchester • George ing several years on the board of the Fulbright Chalmers Bedinger lives in Salina, Kans., Kay has been appointed to the Country Club program in France. Spare time activities include where she enjoys her work as a financial plan­ Development Committee in Hingham, Mass. He traveling, skiing, and working with the Apple ner. Her daughter attends Grinnell College in is manager of Sears Roebuck in Brockton • computer • Julie Dodge Burnham wrote Iowa, which is "like Colby in many ways:' Doris Along with a partner, Doug Schair has acquired about the challenges in her life during the past and her two children ski in Colorado at Christ­ the non-cash assets of the Franklin Company, year. She is a guidance counselor and director mas time • George Cain and family skied at which includes large parcels of land under the at Concord High School in Concord, N.H., where Gray Rocks in Canada in February. Congratula­ streets in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, as well she and her colleagues were deeply affected by tions to George on his recent promotion at as 85 surrounding acres of city property • Pat Christa McAuliffe's tragic death. The support Capital Cities !ABC) • Like so many of us, Neil Jenks is the full-time director of the William generated by teachers and students was most '65 and Jean Hoffman Clipsham have sent Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston in welcome. Julie married Jonathan Burnham, a their oldest child off to college - son David is a South Carolina. After spending two years at Col­ construction manager, and in doing so increased plebe at the U.S. Naval Academy. The Clipshams by, Pat went to work at Duke University and later her family by two children; in addition to Cecilie settled briefly in Texas following seven years in graduated from the University of North Carolina. Korst, 17, and Heidi Korst, 14, Julie and Jonathan England. By the time this column is printed, they She received a master's degree from Clemson in have Seth Burnham, 16, and Hannah Burnham, expect to be living in Albuquerque, N.M. • 1982 and then started teaching at the College of 13. They are restoring an "ancient" Cape and con­ John Cookson is vice president of finance at Charleston • Debbie Te rrio Glass is working templating meadow and mountains from the Kingsbury Machine To ol Corp. and lives in for Harvard Realty Company in Harvard, Mass. 'backyard'.' Julie noted that she is particularly en­ Keene, N.H. John attended Red Sox League She had taught French and Spanish for the past joying advising her own children on college Championship and World Series games. Wait 'til 14 years at Lexington High School. With one choices after years of advising other young peo­ next year, right, John? • Bonnie Zimmer­ daughter in college and one in high school, Deb­ ple • That's the news for this issue. I hope to mann Henricksen of Buchanan, Mich., sent bie still finds time to ski, jog, read, and do aerobic have a class letter in your hands before June. child #1 off to college in September and will have dancing • Fred Hopengarten is president and Please drop a line if you have news or thoughts given birth to child #8 by the time you read this general counsel of Channel One and lives with to share with our classmates. column! Bless you, Bonnie • David Benevy his wife in Lincoln, Mass. A recent milestone Class secretary: KAREN BEGANNY and his wife, Susan, are partners in their own was passed when his bookkeeper handed him BRYAN !Mrs. William L.), RFD 2, Box 662, East computer software consulting business, Davan 41 checks to sign - "not bad for an industry Holden, Maine 04429. Software. They live in Bridgewater, N.J. • Mac !satellite and private cable TY) that didn't even Donaldson works for Digital and lives in Stow, exist in 19781" • Pam Hunter Fisher is teach­ Mass., where he serves on the board of asses­ ing chemistry at Wells, Maine, High School. With sors • Good to hear from Adele "Deedee" Par­ husband William and four children lone in col­ dee Cunningham, who is taking time off from lege), Pam still managed to find time to pursue computer work to restore a house in Winchester, graduate studies at Harvard and was to receive Mass., play tennis, and answer Colby question­ her degree last June. She is also winning road 6q_..___ naires! • Peter and Elena Anderson of Morgan races, a lOK and a 15K !now that she, too, is Hill, Calif., visited Allen and Janet Meyer 40)! • Diane Pierce Murphy, husband Jeff, Class secretary: BARBARA WALTON DARL­ Throop recently in Oregon, where they all en­ and two chiJdren live in Chester, Vt. Diane has I N G, Clover Ledge, RR 1, Box 326, Hinesburg, joyed a canoeing trip on the Willamette River. been promoted to supervisor of records for Con­ Vt. 0546 1. Peter and Allen are both geologists • Barry tinental Te lephone of Vermont and notes: "40 isn't Blatz is materials manager for Duracell Bat­ so bad -I'm really enjoying my life in the coun­ teries, Lithium Division. Barry remarried in try" • Laila Walji Alidina is a physician spe­ January 1985 and lives in Morganton, N.C. • cializing in allergy treatment in Orlando, Fla. Jim Bither of Reading, Mass., is vice president Laila's husband is a professor at the University of institutional sales for Aubrey G. Lanston & of Central Florida, and they have two children. Co. in Boston. He, Peter Redmond, Bayard She would be happy to hear from classmates Kennett, and Frank Neal appeared together in who find themselves in the Windermere, Fla., Class secretary: MARCIA HARDING AN­ a comedy movie about golf . . check your local area • Gail Robbins Henningsen is an at­ DERSON, 15 Brechin Te rrace, Andover, Mass. listings! • Te rry and Sally Vaughan Eagle live torney and free-lance writer in Pennington, N.J. 01810. in Carpinteria, Calif., where Te rry teaches at the Husband George is an assistant attorney general,

36 THE COLBY ALUMNUS "Restaurant-repreneur"

Bonnie Allen Rotenberg '69, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., is a female entrepreneur with a unique business -she sells and staffs restaurants. Rotenberg developed her idea to start a restaurant brokerage while working as a realtor on the North Shore of Massachusetts. She found that ''a restaurant is a totally different animal to sell than anything else on the market. You can't let anyone else know that you're selling it, otherwise customers assume something is wrong with the business, and sales decline:' Finding the number of real tors experienced in the sale of restaurants limited, Rotenberg created Restaurant Brokers of America and Motel and Restaurant Per­ sonnel of America. In addition to selling and staffing establishments, the two com­ panies also do appraisals, feasibility studies, and design and layout of restaurants. Her staff, "a group of very specialized people," know how to make a restaurant successful and profitable for its owner. "Owners must go out and eat in other restaurants;' Rotenberg said. "They have to make a yearly trip to California to know what will happen here in three years, because eating trends develop on the West Coast:' These days, grilled food is the hottest trend. "In fact, the three most popular new restaurants in Boston have the word 'grill' in their names," she said. After graduating with a degree in art, Rotenberg pursued a variety of interests, working several years as an art editor at Ginn Publishers, a year on a kibbutz in Israel, and two years in investment real estate. Although the years spent incor­ porating her art major into her job were few, they did affect the direction she even­ tually chose. The possibilities for careers in art depend on self-motivation, she explained, and this self-motivation led her to self-discovery, to her decision to enter business, and to her eventual self-employment. What is it like to be the female president of your own business? "Initially, there is a generalization people might make about you, but that generalization dissolves very quickly once they realize you know what you're talking about;' Rotenberg said. "The key to success is to be the best at what you do. If you're just mediocre, you will suffer all those generalizations:' Obviously, Bonnie Rotenberg doesn't hold Bonnie Allen Rotenberg '69 still for any of those old saws about female entrepreneurs. PJ P

Division of Criminal Justice, State of New Jersey, at Colby. Do you remember reading Hiroshima • George and Mary Rideout wrote from Ni­ and they have four children ranging from 18 to and - what the heck was the other book? Alas, geria about their desperate need for school staff. 10. Gail collects "dirty laundry" and has no spare early Alzheimer's has set in and the name eludes I hope that they got their personnel and that their time (I wonder why!). The family spends as me, as does much else these days • Rick school is still open • Finally, kudos to all of us much time as possible in Maine every sum­ Mansfield continues his hunt for the perfect piz­ for our generosity to the Colby 2000 Campaign mer • Speaking of summer, don't forget to re­ za. Any helpful suggestions? During sales trips and the Alumni Fund. Our class continues to give serve the weekend of June 5-7 for a trip to Col­ to Chicago, Rick often sees John Birkinbine and in large numbers. We may not all have a lot but by for our 20th reunion. We're looking forward his family • Richard Riemer moved last fall apparently we're willing to share. to a good turnout and lots of catching up. See to a new house in Cedar Grove, N.J., about 15 Class secretary: JANN SEMON IAN, Box you there! miles west of New Yo rk City. Dick visited Col­ 109, Sandwich, Mass. 02563. Class secretary: SALLY RAY BENNETT by for the dedication of the Student Center, his (Mrs. Charles K.J, 47 West St., East Greenwich, first trip back since graduation, and he was R.l. 02818. impressed with the physical changes on cam­ pus • Jane Finkeldey Stephenson is a medi­ cal social worker at Dartmouth Hitchcock Med­ ical Center in Hanover, N.H. She and her husband, John, and their two girls visited with 6C/---- Dana Heikes, his wife, Kathy, and their son, Immediately after I write this column I will be Dana Heikes III, who should be about to writing a cover letter to go out to each of you celebrate his first birthday. Dana is a plastic along with another questionnaire. I hope the March, "the cruelest month" of the year, has surgeon in New Jersey. Do you do wrinkles, response is as positive as the last time. If so, it changed its stripes for our class. Congratulations Dana? • Hope Jahn Wetzel and her husband, will keep me going for the duration and bring first to Chris Tarbox Nelson, who was elected Fred '65, are in Kingston, N.H., where Hope, a us to our 20th reunion (incredible!). By the time assistant general counsel for Prudential In­ fourth grade teacher, works closely with Virginia you read this, your questionnaire might be surance Co. in Newark • John DeSimone also Morse Morse '65 • Barb Brown Ralston loves buried somewhere in your desk; if so, how about rates applause as the first head of Freeport, Scottsdale, Ariz., where she is a learning dis­ resurrecting it and sending it to me so I can let Maine, High School's computer literacy program abilities teacher. She is thoroughly enjoying everyone know what you are up to • Benjamin • Judy deLuce was in the news for a program watching her children grow and develop distinct Mague was hired this year as minister of music for freshmen at Miami University of Ohio. She personalities • Dr. Bill Soller is in Alexandria, at the First Congregational Church of Milford, modeled it in part after the freshman readings Va ., enjoying the warmth of the South, we hope N.H. He lives in Methuen, Mass., and also works

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 37 for the Andover Organ Company. I guess the menl of Hubbard Regional Hospital in Worces­ in Connecticut to their new house on the Maine Milford congregation recognized a great thing ter, Mass. Mike had served as a staff member coast • In Clarion, Pa., Cathy Joslyn has been and snatched him up after he helped build a new at the Human Services Center for more than five named director of the new Clarion University organ for the church • If you flew American years and was instrumental in developing the honors program. She is an assistant professor of Airlines last summer, you may have read an ar­ child and adolescent services there. He also art • David Cheever has been Maine Gover­ ticle in their in-flight magazine written by Cher­ recently completed his doctoral degree in clinical nor Brennan's press secretary since 1981. Prior rie Dubois. The article, "Captured on Canvas," psychology al the Union Graduate School in Cin­ to this, he had been a city staff reporter for the deals with the dangers to African animals as a cinnati, Ohio • Bonnie Belanger wrote that Bangor Daily News. He is also a hockey coach and result of poaching and illegal hunting. This is not she received her master's degree in gerontology an on-ice referee for Augusta youth leagues • Cherrie's first publication. In fact, she seems to in May 1985 and is currently serving as vice Swift and Kathy Ta rbell are living in Arlington, be quite prolific and continues her Wakefield, president of the Hebrew Home and Hospital in Va ., where Swift is employed by the U.S. Depart­ • Mass., High School teaching job as well Bon­ Hartford, Conn. She recently wed Daniel Gau­ ment of Labor • Peter Crosby is a vice presi ­ nie Allen Rotenberg was recently described in thier, a surveyor, and is "extraordinarily hap­ dent at the Passumpsic Savings Bank in St. Johns­ the news as one of America's most successful py" • Janet Hancock Ahern is currently liv­ bury, Vt., and a trustee of the Northern Vermont • female entrepreneurs. (See profile) Barry At­ ing in Plymouth, N.H., with her husband and Regional Hospital • Don Snyder finished a wood has also become an entrepreneur after a four sons. Chad, To dd, Craig, and new addition master of fine arts degree at the University of successful 16-year stint as a news photographer Steven. Janet works as a homemaker and part­ Iowa Writers' Workshop last spring. In addition with Channel Six in Portland, Maine. His new time adult education teacher. She said that the to publishing numerous short stories and essays, business is Smith Atwood Video Services, and family has experienced two exciting recent Don has been working on a trilogy of novels. The he offers wedding, industrial. and training events: the purchase and renovation of an old first will be published this summer. This year videos. His ties to Channel Six remain, however. house and the adoption of Steven. Janet also he is living at Colby and teaching courses in jour­ as his wife, Diane, is a reporter there • Jeffrey reports seeing Joanne Sturtevant Anable at T­ nalism and fiction writing. Clunie has been elected a partner of R.W. Beck ball games last spring and running into Ken Class secretary: A N BONNER VIDOR, and Associates of Seattle, Wash. Jeff has special­ Didsbury at a seminar at Plymouth State Col­ 1981 Innwood Rd., Atlanta, Ga. 30329. ized in the financing of solid waste resource lege • And finally, on the lighter side, some recovery facilities while working in the Welles­ honeymooners have rel urned and taken up their ley, Mass., office • And lastly, Edward Roger­ respective residences. Henry Walker and his son ran for To wn Meeting Member in Milton, new bride, Katherine Brady, spent their honey­ Mass., last spring. ed is very active in his com­ moon last July on a cruise to Alaska and a tour munity, has two daughters, and works at the of British Columbia. They now live in Saunders­ Bank of Boston. I hope you were elected, Ned ­ town, R.l. Richard "Ken" Kenworthy and his and congratulations to all these classmates who new bride, Beth Wood, spent their honeymoon seem to be making it through their 40th year this past September on Martha's Vineyard and Yo ur response to our most recent questionnaire pretty darn well! have returned to their beautifully restored 18th was tremendous. I'll cover as much news as Class secretary: DONNA MASSEY SYKES, century home in Glastonbury, Conn. possible in this column and continue next time. 228 Spring St., Shrewsbury, Mass. 01545. Class secretary: LINDA C H ESTER, 46 1\.vo of our classmates work as foreign service Lincoln St., Hudson. Mass. 01749. officers- Hope Gottlieb in Palermo, Italy, and Norman Olsen in Oslo, Norway. Norman and Pat (Flanagan) have competed in a 42K cross­ country ski race and sailed the entire south Nor­ way coast in their 30-foot sailboat. Ed Kemp '74 (as of this writing) had been assigned to a con­ 7Q __ sulate in South Africa • Chris Schopp House Kennedy was remarried this past August and Class secretary: LAURA STRUCKHOFF works in the translation department at the Chris­ CLI E (Mrs. Steven D.), 6602 Loch Hill Rd., 15th reunion: June 5-7, 198 7 • Daniel and tian Science Publishing Society • Joan Emery Baltimore, Md. 21239. Christina Belsky Russack are living in Frank­ is back in school for her second master's de­ lin Square, N .Y. Chris is an associate manager, gree -in genetic counseling at the University of casualty claims, for Prudential Insurance. Her California at Berkeley. Joan wrote that she is husband is a teacher and his school's science proud of her "recent extracurricular activities, department chair. In addition, he is a volunteer which include giving birth to Rachel !June 1986) paramedic and fireman and has been taking and improving my surfing!" • Margaret courses for his administrative certificate in Lichtenberg was recently promoted to vice education, in the hopes of becoming a school president of systems development within her Pa ul Spiess was elected president of the Mort­ principal. The Russacks have been busy reno­ company • Kathy O'Dell is a Ph.D. candidate gage Bankers Association of New Hampshire. vating and relandscaping the house they bought in twentieth-century art history at the Graduate Paul is president and co-founder of Colonial -a project that will take several years but one Center of the City University of New Yo rk and Mortgage, a residential mortgage lending firm, they feel will be well worth the effort. In De­ was married this past August. Kathy would like and still resides in Amherst with his wife, Susan cember 1985 they celebrated their 10th anniver­ more time to work on her body building - "I've Sammis Spiess, and their two children • Deb­ sary in Ta hiti • Mike and Shelley Amster are been pumping iron for two years and am an ad­ orah Fitton Mansfield '70 joined the faculty of living in North Attleboro, Mass. Mike is the in­ dict'" • Susan Rennau lives in Salt Lake City, the Jefferson Village School in Damariscotta, dustrial hygiene and safety manager for the Utah, where she works as a nurse in labor and Maine, this past September. Debbie is teaching Digital Equipment Corporation plant in Andover. delivery. She enjoys greenhouse gardening and seventh and eighth grade reading, language arts, Shelley is employed as a laboratory coordinator since her last contact with the Alumnus has mar­ and social studies there • Charles Colgan has in reproductive endocrinology for Tufts New ried Rick Hoffman, a general contractor • been appointed director of research for the England Medical Center in Boston. The Amsters Elizabeth Michaud Urie and husband Glenn Finance Authority of Maine. In this new posi­ have one son, Adam • Pete Haskell bought a are building a farming operation on their 55 acres tion, he is responsible for economic analysis and house in 1984 on Alameda Island (in San Fran­ in Vermont. Next summer promises to be their strategic planning for FAME. He is also adjunct cisco Bay). Pete is a computer consultant in San biggest commercial farming summer so far for professor of economics at Thomas College in Francisco and the East Bay area, where he helps their organic produce. She would especially like Waterville • Stanley Parsons was named local companies (ranging from traditional banks to hear from classmates Eileen Burns, Carol president of the Rotary Club in Plainville, Conn .. to trendy clothing manufacturers) on a short­ Chalker, Sue Beth DeMers, and Ingrid Svens­ this past summer. He is still vice president and term basis. In recent years, he has made yearly son • Christine Mattern Way left her job as general manager of Parsons Buick in Plainville trips to Hawaii, has vacationed in Mexico, and an attorney specializing in probate law when her and lives in Southington with his wife, Mary, and has been actively involved with various Alameda son, Matthew, was born. Christine enjoys being son, Jacob • Mike Gareau was appointed Island sports teams. Last summer, Pete helped home with her son and now teaches a legal clinical director of the Human Services Depart- his parents move from their home of 35 years writing course part-time at Boston University

38 THE COLBY ALUMNUS School of Law • Colbv beer afficionados should be on the look-out fo; lager ale. and specialty products produced by Hope Brewing Corpora­ tion founded by Stephen Woerner • As of this writing. Sue Feinberg Ad ams and husband J\!ichael are expecting their first child and have just bought a wholesale European-style bakery and import food distributorship • Tanya Homa Van Pelt is an administrati\'e assistant in stock and bond portfolio administration • le­ lissa Briners Hagstrom Hildebrand is a Ph D candidate in anthropology at UCLA having com­ pleted her dissertation research on contemporary and prehistoric pottery • Doug Hufnagle is a captain in the U.S. Air Force and was recentlv promoted to chief of nuclear chemistry in his outfit, the Te chnical Operations Division sta­ tioned at McClellan Air Force Base • Bruce Cummings has "abandoned" the pastoral life of Va ssalboro, Maine, for "city" living in Wa terville. Bruce works as vice president of strategic plan­ ning, marketing, and corporate development at Mid-Maine !edical Center in Waterville • More next time ... Class secretary: ]A 1ET PERETH IA ' BIGELOW (Mrs. Lawrence C.J. 144 Washington Av e., Needham, Mass. 02 192. Ken Eisen '73 at Railroad Square Cinema

Film Directions in Wa terville

Starting a movie theater in 1976 in the old Beverage Warehouse near the railroad 7'-f____ _ tracks in Wa terville, Maine, was "a big mistake," said Ken Eisen '73, because of Rodger H. Silverstein resides in Cheste1 N.J., "the financial frustration, trying to get people through the door." Opening in a larger on a small horse farm, where he raises American city would have made economic sense, but Eisen and his partners in Railroad Cream draught horses (similar to Clydesdales). Square Cinema, including Gail Chase '74 and Lea Girardin, former audio-visual He lives with his wife, 1iki and two children, librarian at Colby, had emotional ties to the Waterville area. Besides, it takes hun­ Rhett, 3, and Suzanna, 2. Rodger is a board­ dreds of thousands of dollars to build a theater. The old warehouse, "a concrete certified ophthalmologist and is in joint practice with his wife, also an ophthalmologist. Their of­ block that looked like a basketball court;' was transformed into a theater as the fice is in Clifton, N.]. Rodger is the third­ partners themselves installed walls, ceilings, projection booth, seats. Showing a generation ophthalmologist in his family • movie, especially with a 16 mm army surplus projector, was all a good deal more Hope you all received the questionnaire. Please complicated than it had been when Eisen directed the film society at Colby. return it soon, if you haven't already, so that I will have a longer, more informative column for When Railroad Square opened a cafe in the lobby four years later, Eisen said, the next issue. "we were running the projector at the same time we were trying to make a Greek Class secretary: CAROL D. WYNNE, salad:' On top of that, audiences weren't turning out for the theater's offering of Noyes Ave ., Wat erville, Maine 0490 1. old movies, and when VCRs came in, the market for older films dried up. Railroad Square Cinema still does business in 1987 in the same place, but it has 35 mm projectors now and it features new movies, "specialized interest" or "o ff-beat Hollywood" films of the likes of A Room with a View and The Gods Must Be Crazy. The theater also shows the work of independent American filmmakers, presents "revivals" such as a recent series of Kurasawa movies, and runs animation festivals and prize-winning foreign films. Hello again' Paul Coleman is down in sunny It's easy to be cynical about Hollywood's "multi-million mentality" that treats San Diego practicing dentistry. He opened his every movie as the new Sylvester Stallone, Eisen said, and he looks to steer other own office in 1984 after a three-year stint in the film directions to Maine. He and Girardin are now distributors of a Canadian film, Navy Dental Corps. He wrote me last year that he and wife Mary Barbara were expecting their Wa terwalker, and he writes film reviews for The Maine Times and teaches film first last May. I assume congratulations are in classes for the continuing education program of the University of Maine at Augusta. order, Paul? • Running his own law practice in He's also the host of "Prime Cuts," a program of jazz on Maine public radio. Wellesley, Mass., is attorney David A. \Vhite. In spite of the financial frustration with the theater, Eisen feels "a great deal After six years in a large firm in Boston, Dave is enjoying being his own boss. He specializes of satisfaction:' Railroad Square Cinema is "important to a lot of people. It's a real in corporate and securities law • Curtis '73 and thrill to show people what they couldn't see otherwise:· A culture speaks through Jeanne Lorey Sears are back in Waterville. Busy its film, he said, and expresses "the tenor of what was going on in people's minds." taking care of Benjamin, 4, and Timothy, !, Ken Eisen is bent on giving central Maine "a cultural link to the world" in the old Jeanne will be job hunting once they get set­ warehouse he's helped to turn into a projector of the sensibility of our own time. tled • From Cincinnati, Ohio, Gayle Rooney Reisman wrote that she is a manager of pen­ RC sion and annuity marketing for Ohio ational Life Insurance Company. She had her first baby, Raebel, last year and is now continuing her work

THE COLBY ALUMr US 39 Stork Harps on Excellence

Born intoa family of musicians, Susan Diana Stork '74 has been playing music almost as long as she can remember. But during one summer's hard work in a cannery in Alaska, she developed painful tendinitis in her hands. Yes, three doc­ tors said it: she'd never play an instrument again. Back home in San Francisco, Stork worked with Meir Sc hneider, a therapist who had utilized both physical and mental techniques to cure his own blindness, and together they adapted these techniques to Stork's needs as a musician. Exer­ cising nerves and muscles of hands, arms, shoulders, and chest, she began in earnest to play the harp. Using visualization techniques, imagining her arm "100 feel long and made of feathers;' Stork said, she soon aimed for a state of technical excellence on the harp instead of just getting back to normal. After only three months, she gave her first public performance. Three years and numerous concerts later, she is a composer and innovator in the rapidly growing field of folk harp. The diatonic or non-pedal harp is one of the most ancient of instruments. In performances, Stork plays a 31-string Celtic-style harp and a 41-string Ve nezuelan harp as she blends a number of different folk traditions from around the world. The melodies most commonly associated with the folk harp are Celtic, but at a harp convention three years ago Stork discovered Latin harp, which is based on lively, complex dance rhythms that fully challenge the artist. Discovering the polyrhythms and percussive style of the African harp, Stork said, she "fell in love with that, too:· Her concerts bring together this wide variety of musical traditions, from ancient to modern and acoustic to electric. When she performs with longtime friend Teed Rockwell - he plays Chapman Stick, a 10-stri nged instrument invented only 12 years ago - Stork is half of the duo called Geist. As Rockwell's Chapman Stick adds rock, funk, and jazz to this ethnic mix, Geist makes "world fusion music:' Already the two have appeared on three cassettes, and Stork is preparing a solo album. After three years of perform­ ing together professionally, Stork and Rockwell, a successful duo in every way, are to be married this March. At Colby Stork played classical flute and guitar, wrote songs, wrote a novel as a Senior Scholar. "To have been able to work independently on my own proj­ ects," she said, "was very valuable to my development as an at tist:' All of these explorations of the arts over the years are coming together now in the harp. Pro­ phetically, as soon as she picked up the instrument, Stork said, she knew that what she wanted most was "to become the world's greatest harp player -in my own way:· She appears well on her way to sounding that note.

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on an M.B.A. • Wendy Kjng Dennis is in­ In addition to that, Marty has a certified Ameri­ to hear from you • Pam Hebert Southland is volved in the environmental war on fresh water can TheeFarm as well as a small flock of sheep' a computer scientist, technical contract manager. algae in Cochnewagon Lake in Monmouth, • Rodney Deprey tied the knot with Katherine She and husband David were married last Oc­ Maine. As project coordinator, Wendy is often Moddrell last spring. With a graduate degree in tober in Yosemite Chapel, Yosemite National out on the lake trawling for plankton • Director economics from the University of Georgia, he Park • Rebecca Guild teaches at a middle of wildlife programs of the Audubon Society of is an economist with Conte] Service Corporation school in Boston. Becca and her husband, Kevin New Hampshire, Carol Foss Smith frequently in Decatur, Ga. • Stay tuned for more next time! Jenness, an antiques dealer, spent last summer gives lectures. Recently she spoke on owls at the Class secretary: BARBARA CARROLL in England traveling and visiting friends • Fran Goffstown, N.H., Community Garden Club. Ca­ PETERSON, 92 1 Dolphin Drive, Malvern, Pa. Colangelo was married in February 1985 to Tia rol has a master's degree from the University of 19355. Doyle. They are proud parents of a son, Henry. Connecticut • Ray F. Merrill has made a Fran is owner of a building company, Nar­ career switch from farming and cutting wood to ragansett Post and Beam • Michael Halsey teaching. After a year of training under the wrote from Te sugue, N.M., where he owns a con­ Te acher's Secondary Schools Program at the sulting firm. Recently having learned to fly, University of Southern Maine, Ray has been in­ Michael can better service his clients and cer­ tern teaching at a local high school • Marty tainly have more fun - but how much more? Re­

Womer has taken on an additional career -real __ cent trips include Seattle, Vancouver, sailing in estate sales - in Rockport, Maine. After 10 years 76 the San Juan Islands, and hiking in the Oregon of research and development and technical My mailbox has been crammed full of good mountains • Richard Clunie also owns his marketing with the Marine Colloids Division of news, a pleasant change from the usual stack of own business, in Newburyport, Mass. He and EMC Corporation, he continues to assist FMC window envelopes. Many of you have written his wife, Kathryn, have two daughters, Lindsay Bioproducts as a technical marketing consultant. for the first time. Let's make it a habit; it's great and Leslie • Shirley Cunningham, after six

40 THE COLBY ALUMNUS years of teaching French and Spanish at her old Currently, Qaiser is a senior economist with Dan Hoefle as ushers, and Steve Culver as best high school, has changed careers. She received Louis Berger International, a major international man. Reco,·ered \·et Ron� Has Ellsworth recov­ her M.A. in tele ision production and journalism consulting firm located in Hoboken N.J. Qaiser ered? Congratulations, all! • Karla de Steuben and is working for Norfolk General Hospital as wrote that it's a nice change from academia! • has joined the law firm of Bowditch and De,1·ey a satellite teleconference coordinator • Can­ Jennifer Holan has a new job as proofreader in \\lorcester :\lass. Karla earned a master's dace Campbell is a free-lance writer, new mom. with an international publisher of materials on degree in industrial relations from the London and new step-mom. She and her husband, James, handcrafts, although she already admits that she School of Economics and her law degree from an attorney, just built a new home. Candy spent may return to librarianship sometime in the the University. of Iowa • Dan Driscoll M.D. a week last September traveling around a reser­ future • Karen Caputo Craft is a copy editor is a staff physician at the Sou th Boston Com­ vation doing public relations for the Navajo In­ with the Wa shington Post • Mark Arnold has munity Health Center. where he practices inter­ dians • Another entrepreneur. Scott Adams, stepped down from the post of conservation nal medicine. What's it like to be out of school owns a company, of the same name, in China, commission chairman in Nantucket, Mass., to Dan? • Chris Bradley married l\.largaret Wil­ Maine. He and his wife, Priscilla, are also build· devote more time to the growing business at his liams on June 28 in Lorimer Chapel. Chris ing a new home. The entire family. including Jen­ restaurant, Fooods for Here and There • Coming earned an J\1.B.A from the Uni,·ersitv of Utah nifer, 12, and Matthew, 10, is involved in scout­ Glass Works announced that Frederick Hodg­ at Salt Lake City and works at Chase' l\lanhat· ing, as both parents are troop leaders • Karen don is project manager-planning systems of the tan Bank in New Yo rk Citv • Thanks to all who Smith Clark wrote that she experienced labor consumer products division. He has been with returned their news. l'll share one qu�stionnaire and delivery from "the other side of the bed" with the company since 1979 • John Einsiedler is with you. Phil McCarthy recently took a job the birth of daughter Sarah. Karen, an R.N., design department head of Lavalley Lumber in at the Uni,·ersity of Maryland. He plans on B.S.N., labor and delivery nurse, was on mater­ Kennebunk, Maine. "Slider" has used his talents enrolling in a Ph.D. program in higher education nity leave until after the holidays. Her husband, to design a home for his family • Jo-Ellen Bois policy and planning, and fantasizes about becom­ Frederick, is an architectural draftsman study· Smith has made a career switch from marketing ing assistant dean for Greek life at Colby - good ing to be an architect • Jeff Garden is living research director to branch manager of the luck1 Phil included some news of others. Jim in a small fishing town of 300 people in northern Pacific First Sa,·ings Bank. She and her husband, Gagne got married last summer and celebrants Scotland. A former accountant turned officer in Greg '74, live in Issaquah, Wash. Due to Greg s included Jim Crook, Tim Porter Gerry the U.S. Coast Guard, he received his "wings" in successful sales efforts at Frigoscandia Contract­ Skinder. Ronnie Davids, Charlie Beckett. 1983. Currently in a three-year exchange pro­ ing, they have won a trip down under for the Jeff Bernard, Danny Baillargeon '79, and Den­ gram with the Royal Air Force, he's flying Sea America's Cup races • William Howard Ellis nis Lundgren '77. Phil and Tim sailed in a race King helicopters 40 miles north of Inverness • wrote that life by the Pacific is good and so is from 1ewport to Ensenada earlier in the sum­ Ann Conway is a sociologist, college teacher, the Santa Cruz coffee. He teaches autistic mer and prepared their race plans at Hussongs and public relations consultant. She joined a children •..vho have severe behavior problems • Cantina, where interested alums "should look for delegation of teachers who were setting up a Stephen Church moved from Boston to Los Tim's business card, which is pinned to his teacher exchange program in Nicaragua. Ann in· Angeles, where he says there's nothing quite like toupee1" Phil added that contrary to popular tends to spend more time there in 1987 • Leslie the earth moving under your feet. Jimmy To r­ belief, "I am not the 1985-86 poster child for Taylor Cooley is program ad ministrator at St. ra nce, if you're out there, he's looking for you r Maryland Drug Te sting:' [V !aybe next year' Joseph's Hospital in Milwaukee. She and her hus­ • Jane Williams Blumberg, on the West Coast, Thanks for the news. Did I hear McCarthy for band, Te rrence, married in June, spent I 0 days and Peggy Horstmann H odes, on the East class correspondent in '88? Cheers. backpacking in Alaska's wilderness • Heather Coast, are both volunteers for Beyond War, an Class secretary: JAMES S. COOK, JR., Finney Eng has recently left Wall Street to educational foundation dedicated to changing the RFD 1, Box 3470, Albion, Maine 049 10. become MIS manager at Citibank. Heather is way we think about resolving conflictso that we considering a move into medical research com­ can avoid the ultimate nuclear confrontation • puter work- any leads? • Mark Helmus and Here's a final bit of "dirt" for those of us living now his wife, Joann, are both optometrists. in the metropolitan ew Yo rk area: Brian But­ However, listed first under "occupation" is Wild terick '78 runs the Pyramid Club ...the most Water West, a white water rafting company they avant-garde on the club scene here! own. The entire family, Julie, 2, Scott, 1, and the Class secretary: LINDA LACHAPELLE, 7q______rafting business recently moved to Davis, Calif. 320 East 42nd St., Apt. 20 12, New Yo rk, NY Mark, was that before, during, or after the raft­ 10017. Remember March on Mayflower Hill? With the ing trip through the Grand Canyon? • Gary last traces of snow still clinging to shaded road­ Jones, his wife, Barbara, and their two children, sides, many of us clambered to dormitory roof­ Lauren, 7, and Josh, 4, are living in Charlotte, top "beaches" to catch the first tanning rays of N.C. Gary is a manufacturer's representative and the season' That's what ancy Mott Brew really plans to retire to Maine in 1996. Sounds good misses. Nancy's now in College Park, Md., where to me, Gary; you'll be in the area for our 20th. she's the mid-Atlantic sales manager for Spring­ Class secretary: PAM ELA M. CAME, 2540 house Publishing. Her marriage to Bernard Brew Overlook Rd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106. This column represents a dangerous new prece­ in September 1985 got off to a rather "stormy" dent for me: I'm preparing it fully one week start as hurricane Gloria cruised up the Atlan­ before (gosh) deadline. I have much more news tic coast just in time for the big day in Paris, than ever before, and more than I can use in the Maine. Leslie Chanler Brook s. Paula Polak traditional ways before it becomes old and out· Bartlett, and Jessica Coleman Holm were in dated. I'll work to come up with an innovative the wedding party. They competed in a fun golf way to disseminate information from the 75 tournament while there, and Paula's team won questionnaires returned to me so far (lest my (she and her husband, Bill, are always some­ name become connected to the oxymoron "old where exotic on a golf course!) • Others who 10th reunion: June 5-7, 1987 • Dr. Stefan news"). But in case 1 trike out, I will welcome tied the knot include Julie Sydow, who married Karas is a Glaucoma Fellow at Harvard Univer­ ideas from you • At least three New England Robert Palmason in ew Hampshire. LouA.nn sity • Alexandra Levintow Howell lives in papers carried news of Sandy Buck's appoint­ Takacs was a bridesmaid and Ingrid Gjesteby Dartmouth territoryin White River Jw1ction, Vt., ment as Pingree School's director of admissions. Janes and Amy Burdan were guests. LouAnn where she works as a science researcher. Alex· Sandy previously served as chair of the history is in Atlanta, Ga., working for Georgia Pacific. andra moved from Colby 10 years ago to Wash­ department and head of the upper school at the and Amy's in Long Branch, N.J., with her hus· ington, D.C., to work for a year, then moved Applewild School in Fitchburg. He, his wife, band, Philip Schissler (they were married last again, to Houston, to obtain her Ph.D. in im­ Anne, and their daughter, Sarah, live in Hamil­ October). Julie and Rob bought a condo down munology. In 1983 she moved on to Dartmouth ton, Mass. • Tom Palmer was married on Sep­ the street from the Janes in Boxborough, Mass. for her post-doctoral training • Qaiser Khan tember 13 to Heidi Jean Theurer. Tom's sister, Julie's a sales rep for Digital Equipment Corpora­ received his Ph.D. from the University of Penn­ Anne, married Ron Graham on June 28 in tion; she'd love to hear from other Colby class­ sylvania in 1983. He taught in the economics Ellsworth, Maine. Ron's wedding party includ­ mates • Ralph Peterson was married July 19 department at Bowdoin for the next few years. ed To m, Dan Fitzgerald, Scott Packer, and to Karen Simpson in Sanford, Maine. Ralph

THE COLBY ALUM US 41 teaches and coaches football at Hall-Dale High School in Hallowell, Maine, and Karen is an elementary school resource room teacher in Manchester, Maine • A year ago Eric Rosen­ gren earned his Ph.D. degree from the economics department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison after defending his thesis, "Tax Effects in the Corporate and Government Bond Market:' Eric is now an economist at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank. Greg Pfitzer helped celebrate the occasion with a Federal Reserve fi rst: he arranged for a man in a purple tuxedo and top hat to arrive at Eric's desk with a bottle of bubbly and giant balloons, which flew to the ceiling where they remained for several days • Last spring in San Francisco, Gene Crawshaw was admitted lo the CaliforniaState Bar after completing his degree at the Hastings School of Law. He is now with the firm of McManis and Holly in San Jose • Patricia Col­ lins received her law degree with honors from the Law School of American University in Wash­ ington, D.C., and is working with the firm of Cot­ ten, Day and Doyle there • Also last spring, Daisy Dore received her master's degree in social work from Simmons College in Boston • In Watertown, Mass., Laurie Atwater has joined G-R Direct, Inc., an affiliate of Giardini-Russell, Inc., as an account executive • And in Man­ Nancy L. Briggs '82 in a grooming machine at Sugarloaf/USA chester, Mass., Robert Kellogg has joined Man­ chester Marine as retail sales manager • Jan Nancy Briggs Resorts to Maine Morris Whelan wrote from Grapevine, Tex ., where she lives with husband Hugh, that she's Nancy L. Briggs '82 is living proof that "life does not have to be dull north of busy training her new Labrador retriever and Portland, Maine." This energetic young Colby graduate who majored in American working as an analyst for Purvin and Gertz, an studies and French had irons in several fires from the moment she entered the oil and gas consulting firm. She mentioned that working world. she saw Blair Washburn Tracey when she was After graduating, Briggs remained in Maine, tackling two jobs at once. One in Dallas on a business trip • Ever heard of Hound Dog Ta ylor, the Hoodoo Gurus, Blind was a part-time position at WC BB television station in Lewiston, continuing work Lemon Jefferson, or (here's one that's bound to she'd done during her Colby years as a camerawoman and public relations manager be familiar) ''Decible Dennis" MacDonald? The for the station. She also made on-air appearances for auctions and pledge cam­ former are musicians and the latter now man­ paigns. As a result, "little kids in the supermarket recognize me now;' she said. ages Roundup Records, a mail order record com­ pany in Cambridge, Mass_, which specializes in At the same time, Briggs taught French to four classes at Mount Hebron Academy, alternative and sometimes obscure music. Den­ a spot she was well-suited for after spending her junior year at Colby's foreign nis says he enjoys his job so much he almost feels study program in Caen, France. guilty about it! • Ta ke care, all, and Happy Following these initial jobs, Briggs extended her work in the public relations Spring! field, filling the position of assistant communications director at the Sugarloaf ski Class secretary: JANE VE MAN LEDE­ BUHR, 4590 Rocky Hill, Williamston, Mich. resort while serving at the same time as the editor of the Sugarloaf Irregular, a 48895. regional weekly newspaper. When Sugarloaf experienced financial difficulties last spring, Briggs accepted a position doing public relations work and research on the company history for the Henry R. Hinckley Yacht Company in Southwest Har­ bor, Maine. This winter, Sugarloaf has reorganized, and Briggs is back as their "marketing communications representative:' Her new position involves selling ski packages to tour operators at various ski shows as well as writing "News from the Moun­ 80--Art and Carrie Weeks Di Prospero were ex­ pecting their first baby in February. Meanwhile, tain," the company newsletter. "Sugarloaf made me an offer I couldn't refuse;' she their golf business continues to thrive • Kevin said of her decision to return. Her time at the Hinckley Company was interesting Shea was promoted to vice president of com­ enough, however, for her to plan a book about the founder of the company. mercial and construction lending at Lowell In­ Briggs still finds time to do free-lance camera work for television stations. Don't stitution for Savings in Lowell, Mass. • Grace her many responsibilities overwhelm her at times? "It's hectic, but I kind of asked Koppelman is a first grade teacher in Fairfield, Maine • Andy Dumont is also teaching: he's for it," she said. 'Tm certainly not a couch potato!" responsible for introductory social studies, cur­ Briggs sees only a fine line between her work and play. While her friends in rent events, geography, and government al the city pay exorbitant prices in restaurants on their half-hour lunch breaks, she George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. He is "riding the chairlift and loving it:' She hopes ultimately to channel her abun­ spent the last two years teaching at Upper Ken­ nebec Junior-Senior High School in Bingham, dant energy into her own public relations agency, which will specialize in publicity Maine • After receiving his D.M.D. al Tufts for recreational establishments: "a sly way of going to resorts," she described it, University School of Dentistry, Steven Hof­ "while doing the kind of work I enjoy:' mann spent three years as a general dentist in the U.S. Army at Ft. Stewart, Ga. He and his wife, PJ P Charlene, now reside in North Conway, N.H., with their children, Andrew, Erin, and Steven

42 THE COLBY ALUMNUS • After six years with Fleet ational Bank in Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Te x. count representative for the Thaveler's Insurance Providence, R.I., where she was most recenth· Keith is employed by the Hartford, Conn. post Co. • Brian Preney is climbing the corporate a vice president in the financial institution� office • Bob Benjamin is engaged to be mar­ ladder at Bath Iron \Vorks. He also has a diving department, Joanne Shannon has relocated to ried to Lynne Hughes this summer. Bob is an business on the side • Lawrence "Scott" 1ie­ Boston to pursue middle market lending with the English teacher at the King School in Connect­ mann and Elaine 1cLellan '83 were married in Bank of ew England • Ann Albee and lain icut; Lynne is a registered nurse • One final September 1985 and now reside in New Jersey Hoefle '82 were married last August; they reside wedding note ... John Curseaden married • Missy Rihm Thibault also lives in New Jer­ in and spend much time working on their con­ Doreen Archiprete in August. John is enrolled sey with husband Skip 81. i\1issy is involved do in Cambridge. Mass. • This past summer, in a graduate program at 'ortheastem, while his with operations management • Jill Lord and Cynnie Auman decided to move to the Big Ap­ wife works as a word processor at AVCO Systems Sandy Winship both live in Boston and work ple to work with Va nity Fair !ills public rela­ Te xtron • That's it for now. I hope you are all for Digital • Joyce Hartwig and Cathy Cole­ tions department. She previously worked in looking forward to Reunion Weekend! man are also in Boston. Joyce works for Sad­ advertising and public relations in Lancaster, Class secretary: J LA NE M. CULLY dlebrook Corporation, designing computer soft­ Pa. • Debbie Clark is an investment analyst 101 South Angell St., Providence. R.I. 02906. ware programs. She was sent to California to with The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and train people to use one of her programs. Cathy Insurance Co. in Connecticut. She is still quite does free-lance work for an ad company • Jeff involved with Colby as president of the local Wickman was teaching first in Maine and now alumni club • Jack McBride is finishing up his is in l\!assachusetts • Brewster Burns a M.B.A. at New Yo rk University, having spent this former high school teacher as well made a past summer working with Moody's Investors • career witch to harness-driver in Maine. What Kelly '8 1 and Ann Nichols Kash had another started as curiosity has become a full-time baby and are enjoying family life in the Mid­ endeavor • Brenda Scheider has been in Greetings to the Class of '83! I received a letter west • Ben '79 andJoanne Lynch Thorndike Ghana West Africa, working \,·ith the Peace from Sally Lovegren Merchant, who married are expecting their first child in the early spring Corps under the supervision of Sister Madeline Wayne l\!erchant on August 16, 1986. Sally is • Ellen Mercer Papera is now an attorney with Chorman, a 74-year-old Roman Catholic nun. currently employed as a commercial lines serv­ Rolls Royce Corporation • Gail Cimino re­ Brenda ha been researching reasons why some ice representative with The Knowles Company ceived her M.B.A. from New Yo rk University in traditional medicines work in this area • Con­ in 1 ortheast Harbor, Maine. She and her hus­ spring 1986 and then proceeded to tr�vel gratulations to Mia Rosner, who married Larry band are looking forward to building a home in throughout the Far East • Leslie Mitchell is a Roop '82 last August in Bedford, Mass. Mia the area soon • Congratulations are also in patent and trademark lawyer in ew Yo rk and works at Lotus Development Corporation in order to Karen \Ve.x.ler. She was married in June very much enjoys life on the Upper East Cambridge • Seth \Volpert also tied the knot to Douglas Waite in Amagansett, Long Island Side • I'm in desperate need of news - please with Robin Bye '85 in June in Longmeadow at her parents' home. Karen and Doug spent their write! !ass. Seth and Robin live in Chicago. where Seth honeymoon in Portugal • 1 also received a note Class secretary: DIANA P. HERRMANN, is in his third year of medical school. Present at from Mair Sirakides Hill, who wrote that she 360 E. 65th St., Apt. 3H, New Yo rk, .Y. 1002 1. the wedding were Charles Boddy jwho is in his is a manufacturer's representative in the trend third year at Boston College Law School) and gift industry. After one and a half years, she is Greg Walsh lwho did a fellowship in education number one in the Midwestern region! She and at Columbia University this summer and is her husband recently moved into their second presently teaching in Pennsylvania) • To all home, which was built in 1910 • Mark Maher classmates . . please keep us all updated on recently graduated cum/aude from Boston Col­ your address changes! Thanks. lege Law School. He joined the Boston law firm Class secretary: KATHRYN N. SODER­ of Burns and Levinson in the trial depart­ 81_-- BERG, 5 Smith Farm Trail, Lynnfield, Mass. ment • Christi Smith wrote that after three Class secretary: PA LA HINCKLEY BUR­ 01940. years as a graduate student in computer science ROUGHS (Mrs. Jack). 55 1. Reading St.. Man­ at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she has finally chester, .H. 03104. joined the ranks of the gainfully employed! She is currently a software engineer in quality assurance for the CAD/CAM division of Prime Computer in Framingham, Mass. • Unfortu­ nately, that is all the news for now. I apologize for not sending out a questionnaire sooner. 1 didn't realize ju t how low I was on news. Class secretary: SUSA L. JAMES, 41 orth­ However, l do solemnly promise that the next wood Drive, Portland, !aine 0-1-103. column will be lengthy and extremely 5th reunion: June 5-7, 1987 • Well, here we are, on the verge of our 5th reunion ....He re's informative. Class secretary: DELISA A. LATERZO, what's new. Greg Hancox has received a 4887 White Rock Circle, #E, Boulder, Colo. master's degree in science, earth sciences, and 8030 1. oceanography from the University of New Hampshire. Greg is now working in the labora­ tory of Cove Corporation in Prince Frederick, • David Znamierowski 86-- Md. has received his The response from all of you has been over­ M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dart­ whelming, and I'm happy to report that mouth • Diana Riley and Steven Yo ung were everybody is keeping busy and enjoying life. For married in May 1986. Diana is employed by those of you whom we missed this year at Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc., and Steven Homecoming, it was a great weekend filled with works for China Rainbow, Inc. • In September, Hi! It was great to see some Colby '84s on cam­ laughter and warm friendships. We shared old Karen Va rnum married Paul Matt. Karen is the pus for Homecoming Weekend last fall. The new stories and new dreams, but also discovered that regional manager in the Central Massachusetts Student Center is fantastic. ow for the news perhaps our lives have not changed all that office of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Paul is ...some of it new, some not so new.... Sara much. While we have relocated, established a a sales rep for the Cambridge Corporation in Hill has a job at the Harvard Development Of­ variety of new careers, and become more in­ Billerica, Mass. • Beth Ellis was married June fice • Jim Pfirrmann spent one summer ma.k­ dependent, our appreciation for Colby and the 21 in Connecticut to Keith Ta utkus. Susan ing a yacht delivery to the Caribbean. He has also important parts of our lives that started at the Kallio was maid of honor, while Denise Glen­ sailed to Europe. Sarah Jordan met up with Jim College seem to keep us together. non and Colleen Plourde Harvey were at one point, but then returned to Newfound Class secretary: GRETCHE A. BEA 1, bridesmaids. At the time of her marriage, Beth Harbour Marine Institute in Florida, where she c/o The Harvey School, Rte. 22, Katonah, N.Y. was attending Officers Thaining School at teaches ecology • Tim McCrystal is an ac- 10536.

THE COLBY ALUi\1 US 43 ____ f\11LESTONES ... _

MARRIAG ES

Mary Weeks Sawyer '44 to Frederick M. To ni Marie Ciota '8 1 to Nicholas Ramsay Karin E. Foster '83 to Ralph E. Palmer Ill, Drummond '47, September 21, 1986, Water­ Chadler, Lynn, Mass. Scituate, Mass. ville, Maine. Martha MacMillin '8 1 to George A. Plesko, Michaela A. Sullivan '83 to Joseph P. Hayes Ill, William Morse lll '65 to Ellen Goodman August 31, 1986, New London, N.H. September 1986, North Dighton, Mass. Ta nger, July 20, 1986, Swampscott, Mass. Mary Lynn Quincy '81 to Charles Stanley Brenda J. Scheider '84 to Enoch Edusei '84, Janet Blatchford '71 to Christopher Gordon, Albert, September 13, 1986, Laurel, Md. October 25, 1986, Manchester, N.H. October 10, 1986, North Hampton, N.H. James P. Violette, Jr. '81 to Mary E. Flaherty, Daniel Wells Allegretti '85 to Judith Susan Dean Jordan Eaton '73 to Carol Lynn Napior, August 26, 1986, Old Lyme, Conn. oyes '86, June 13, 1986, Hudson, N.H. April 5, 1986, Keene, N.H. Rebecca Ann Badger '82 to Paul Christopher Brian Mullin Clark '85 to Kristen ancy Elizabeth Rippere '73 to Robert Long, Char­ Fisher, Hanover, N.H. Feifert '86, August 2, 1986, East Providence, R.I. lotte, N.C. Daniel James Ferguson '82 to Janet L. Rudell, Heather Starr Morton '85 to Joshua Slavitt Paul Francis Barresi '74 to Leslie A. Burr, August 16, 1986, South Portland, Maine. '85, August 23, 1986. September 14, 1986, Marion, Mass. Ruth Ellen Harkins '82 to Christopher Paul Stephen B. Reed '85 to Marcy L. Sitnik, William M. Callahan '74 to Jane Smith, August Lawler, June 21, 1986, Wellesley, Mass. Wilbraham, Mass. 29, 1986, Bridgewater, Mass. William Ridley Moorman, Jr. '82 to Amelia Randy Douglas Mitchell '86 to Lynn Marie William H. Narwold '74 to Nancy Gauger, May M. Dehner, September 6, 1986, Danvers, Mass. Poulin, September 20, 1986, Waterville, Maine. 24, 1986, Waseca, Minn. Pa tricia Eve Roscoe '82 to John P. Slattery, Jr.. Joyce Sutton '86 to Kevin L. Anderson, August Karen Tinsley Bacon '77 to Thomas R. Mitch­ Malden, Mass. 9, 1986, Waterville, Maine. ell, September 20, 1986, Amherst, N.H. Ann E. Skinner '82 to Thomas Rider, October Lynn M. Wunderlich '86 to Matthew S. Salter, Peter Harrington '77 to Ann-Marie Ye ghian, 18, 1986, Long Island, NY. Limestone, Maine. October 11, 1986, South Attleboro, Mass.

Diane Kathryn McCoy '77 to David S. Bither, August 2, 1985, Wilton, Conn.

Peter C. Woodhouse '77 to Margaret E. Graff, August 16, 1986. Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Ronald W. Graham, Jr. '78 to Anne Madeline Palmer, June 28, 1986, Ellsworth, Maine.

Kathleen F. Hastings '78 to Richard E. Van Dorn, August 16, 1986, Nashua, N.H.

Elizabeth Cleaver Treadwell '78 to Chris Leonard Oehmen, Milford, N.H.

Julie Sydow '79 to Robert A. Palmason, September 13, 1986, Wolfeboro, N.H.

Katherine Ruth Wall '79 to Gordon Alexander Hunziker, Littleton, Mass.

Pa mela Jean Bembridge '80 to R. Finn Mur­ phy '82, July 12, 1986, Leicester, Mass.

Cecily Cannon '80 to Edward G. Schildbach '80, June 21, 1986, Fairfield, Maine. Celebrating the marriage of Mary Beth Whitaker '82, president of the Boston alumni club, to Jon Mcintyre on September 20, 1986, are (rear} Karen Cowles '82, Mary Coe Connolly '81, Heidi Proctor '81, Donna Michelle Adams '81 to Samuel Allen, August Curran Stock '82, Janice McKeown '82, Harry Whitaker '58, Jon Mcintyre, Mary Beth Whitaker Mcintyre, 2, 1986, Lorimer Chapel, Colby College. Joan Shaw Whitaker '58, Deirdre Duffy '82, Sarah Fox '82, Colleen Glovins '82, Carol Hathaway Delemos '58, Karen Va rnumMatt '82, Beth Fe ldman '82, Helen Dooley Jurseh '82, (front} Chris Murphy '82, Brian Deborah A. Bartlett '81 to Peter J. Smist, Coakley '82, Pat Fo rtin '82, Mark Schafer '83, Rich Grace '82, Bill Moorman '82, Seth Medalie '82, and August 2, 1986, Concord, N.H. Michael Koonce '82.

44 THE COLBY ALUMNUS BIRTHS D E A T H S

A daughter, Sarah Falkson, to ancy and Philip A daughter. Marthe Kristen Schreitmueller, to Fayalene Trefren Leonard '1 1 August 13 1986 B. Falkson '60, June 16, 1986. Randall J. '77 and Mary Shumaker Schreit· in Lyndonville \'t., at age 96. She was born in mueller ' 7 7, February 12, 1985. St. Johnsbury \'t. After leaving Colby she was A son, Sinan Denny-Brown, to Nese Celebi and active for many years with the Cobleigh Public Myles Denny-Brown '65 , October 20, 1985. A daughter, Ingrid Backlund Seggerman, to To by Library of Lyndonville. Survivors include a son and Anne Backlund Seggerman ' 7 7 , Septem· Donald, a daughter, Lois Ryder, six grand­ A son, Peter Edward Scherer, to Edward P. '67 ber 8. 1986. children, several great-grandchildren, and two and Leslie Anderson Scherer '70, December great-great-grandchildren. 16, 1985. A daughter. Justina Marie To rrance, to Susan and James G. To rrance ' 77, September 30, 1985. Anthony Willard Berry Ashford ' 14. March 8, 1985, in Placerville, Calif.. at age 93. Born in A daughter, Paige Alison Clunie, to Faith and Jef­ A daughter, Ta ryn Lee Cummens, to W. Chester, Worcester, Mass., he attended the Litchfield frey F. Clunie '69, April 23, 1986. Jr. and Donna Long Cummens ' 78, June 23, Academy before entering Colby. He was a 1985. member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. From A son, Raphael Chalmers Hill, to Walter Hill and 1913 to 1915 with the Civil Service, he helped Lois M. Chalmers '70, July 9, 1986. A daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Devine, to John B., to build the Panama Canal. and in 1916· l 9 l 7 he Jr. '78 and Pamela Cleaves Devine '78 . July was with General Pershing in Mexico. He also A son, Adam Harris Amster, to Shelley W. and 18, 1986. held many jobs in the fields of electrical Michael B. Amster '72, April 14, 1986. engineering and insurance. He was president of A son, Babacar Diop, to lbrahima and Karen the Camino school district for several years, and A son, Christopher James Bigelow, to Lawrence Keithline Diop '78, September 25, 1985 served as the county secretary for the Califor· C. '72 and Janet Perethian Bigelow '7 3, nia Farm Bureau until his retirement. Surviving September 5, 1986. A daughter, Kristin Fine, to Howard and Jeanne is his daughter, Elizabeth Yates. Greiter Fine '78 , December 13, 1985. Twin sons, Andrew and Trevor Hardigan, to Lori Chester 0. Wyl lie ' 1 6, October 21, 1986 in and Kenneth R. Hardigan '74, July 3, 1986. A daughter, Emily Victoria Dee Genzlinger, to Waldoboro, Maine, at age 93. Born in Camden I eil and Donna Dee Genzlinger '78 , August r--taine, he attended Mansfield High School in A son, Russell orman Michaud, to orman A. 22, 1986. Massachusetts. After graduating from Colby he and Sandra Spurr Michaud '74, August 8, served with the U.S. Army in France during 1986. A son, Douglas Lary, to Joanne 1 orskey and World War I. For over 35 years. he was a U.S. Steven P. Lary '78, September 1985. rural mail carrier. A licensed lay minister of the American Baptist Churches of Maine. he was a A son, William Michael Werner, to ancy and A son, James Martin McDonough III. to James full-time minister at Nobleboro First Baptist Jeffrey L. Werner '74, August 9, 1986. M., Jr. and Jane Linge McDonough '78, May Church and held interim pastorates in Warren, 14, 1986. Te nants Harbor, Washington, and Martinsville. A daughter, Jordan Elizabeth Agusti, to Filiber· In the Warren area he was a well-known tenor to and Susan Whilton Agusti '76, September A son, Nicholas Steven Plomaritis, to Kathleen soloist and in the 1930s was a member of the 12, 1986. Campbell and Steven T. Plomaritis '78, May mixed quartet at the First Universalist Church 23, 1986. in Rockland. He conducted summer concerts in A daughter, Courtney Frances McDermott, to Warren for over 25 years. For 50 years, he was Kelly Hynes and Scott F. McDermott '76, A daughter, Laura Elizabeth Szum, to John and a member of the St. George Masonic Lodge in August 14, 1986. Susan Reilly Szum '78, May 8, 1986. Warren and was a past patron of Ivy Chapter. He was also a president of the Warren High A son, Dana William Mc 1ally, to Brian and A son, Kirk Pelham Banks, to Alan K. '79 and School Alumni Association and organized a boys Sharon Walsh McNally '76, September 29, Va lerie Brown Banks '78, September 13, 1986. club in the 1930s in Warren. His wife, Grace Ler­ 1985. mond Wyllie '18, died in 1975. Survivors include A son, Colin Mackenzie Donihue, to Michael two sons, one daughter, six grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. A daughter, Sarah Janney Rose, to Boykin and R. '79 and Susan Mackenzie Donihue '80 , May 30, 1986. Sarah Janney Rose '76, August 19, 1986. Marion White Smith '17, August 23, 1986, in A son, William Adam Janes, to M. Dale and In· Ellsworth, Maine, at age 91. Born in Worcester, A son, Phillip Perris Blumberg, to Bruce and grid Gjesteby Janes '79, June 12, 1986. Mass., daughter of Professor and Mrs. Clarence Jane Williams Blumberg '77, April 14, 1986. H. White and sister of Donald H. White 13, she A son, Joshua Scott Many, to J. Scott '82 and spent her early life in Waterville and attended A daughter, Elizabeth Anne Chadwick, to Jer­ Lynne D'Angelo Many '8 1 , October 4, 1985. the Coburn Classical Institute before enterin3 rold '77 and Ligia Campana Chadwick '77, Colby. She was a member of Sigma Kappa sorori­ October 6, 1986. A son, Erik Daniel Ermer Russell, to Scott R. ty. A Phi Beta Kappa, her interests ranged Russell '83 and Eve-Lynne Ermer '86, through music, dramatics, public speaking, and A son, Christopher Ryan Guillory, to Deborah September 1, 1986. basketball. From 1941 to 1947 she served the and Robert L. Guillory '77, October 3, 1985. College as a trustee. Married to the late Ralph A daughter, Elizabeth May Poulos, to Arthur F. . Smith '17, she is survived by her son, Douglas A daughter, Katherine Ashley Pare!, to Janet and '86 and Va lerie Spencer Poulos '83, September . '45, her daughter, Joan Smith Rogers '49, nine Ronald S. Paret '77, October 18, 1985. 22, 1986. grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

THE COLBY ALUM TUS 45 Grace Fletcher Willey '17, February 13, 1986, Pa ul M. Edmunds '26, September 6, 1986. in Maine. She was a member of Sigma Kappa in Newton, N.C., al age 89. She was born in Har­ Nashua, N.H .. at age 83. Born in Brooklyn, NY., sorority while at Colby. Her late brothers, Thad­ rington, Maine, the daughter of William Fletcher. he attended the Manual Training High School deus F. '20 and John P. '23, also attended the Col· Class of 1891, and Winifred Roundy Fletcher. before coming to Colby. He was a member of lege. After graduation from Colby, she went She served as state president of the Federation Zeta Psi fraternity. After graduating from Col­ to Boston University Medical School. She was of Women's Clubs in New Hampshire and was by, he attended New York University. He was a resident at Worcester State Hospital and a Worthy Grand Matron of the New Hampshire an insurance sales manager in Newark, N.J., for was a secretary-technician at Howe Laboratory Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include a many years. He was also a lector at the Holy of Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and daughter, Frances Rippere '45, a son , a sister, Trinity Church in Westfield, N.J., and was a Ear Infirmary. For 30 years she was secretary for Harriet Fletcher Lockwood '27. six grand­ member of the Old Guard of Westfield. A loyal her husband, Dr. Mahlon T. Easton, who sur­ children, including Elizabeth Rippere '73, and supporter of Colby, he served as class agent and vives her. She is also survived by a stepdaughter, nine great-grandchildren. as president of the New York Colby Alumni a niece, a grandniece. a grandnephew, three step· Association. Relations who attended the College grandchildren. and eight step-great-grand· include his father, Frank H. Edmunds, Class of children. John C. Wriston '19, August 1, 1986, in 1885 and trustee, his uncle, Charles D. Edmunds, Enosburg Falls, Vt ., at age 88. Born in Cohasset, Class of 1883, and his brother, the late Warren Nathaniel M. Gallin '28, August 15, 1986, in Mass., he graduated from Enosburg Falls High F. Edmunds '27. Survivors include his wife, New Yo rk, N.Y.. at age 80. Born in Brooklyn, NY., School before attending Colby. He served for two Margaret. a son. Paul M .. Jr. '7 1, three daughters, he attended Manual Training High School before years in the navy during World War I and then including Eleanor "Nori" Edmunds Grout '56, and entering Colby. where he was a member of Tau graduated from the University of Ve rmont in fourteen grandchildren, including Emily Grout Delta Phi fraternity. He received his LL.B. at the 1922. He worked for L.G. Treadway in the hotel '79. Fordham University School of Law in 1929 and business for 17 years. managing several hotels went on to a long practice in New York City. He in New England and Florida. He was an assis· Lindzay C. Va rnam '26, September 10, 1986, was president of the Greater New York Colby tant managing director of "Real New England in West field, Mass., at age 83. Born in Caribou, Alumni Association, a member of the Alumni Inns," and was at one time the president of the Maine. he attended Wa terville High School. Council. a member of the Colby Alumni Fund Vermont Hotel Association. In 1939, he began While at Colby. he was a member of Kappa Delta Committee, the founder of the Annie Callin developing in Highgate Springs under the name Rho fraternity. He majored in physics and par­ Memorial Book Fund, and a recipient of a Col­ of the Tyler and Wriston Place. He served in ticipated in public speaking. He then went on by Brick in June 1974. He recruited many stu· World War II as a food supervisor, retiring with to receive his M.Ed. in psychology from Boston dents for the College. Surviving is his son, David the rank of major, and then returned to hotel University. He was a boys' work secretary at the Gallin '62. management, operating the century-old Ta vern YMCA in Lynn, Mass., and taught at the Mary at Grafton, Vt ., until his retirement in 1962. In E. Wells High School in Southbridge, Mass. He Donald L. Clement '29, November 1, 1986, in 1969, his wife of 46 years died, and he later mar· was chair of the mathematics department at Waterville, Maine, at age 81. Born in Rome, ried Rhoda Orvis, who survives him. Other SUI" West Springfield High School in Massachusetts Maine, he graduated from Cony High School in vivers include a son, a daughter, a brother, two from 1957 until his retirement in 1969. He was Augusta. After leaving Colby, he went on to sisters, six grandchildren, and nine great-grand­ a member of the Mittineague Methodist Church, receive a bachelor's degree in 1930 from children. the Royal Arch Chapter of the Blue Lodge of Springfield College in Massachusetts. He was a Masons, and the West Springfield F.O.R.M. Club. teacher and football coach in Fairfield and Madison. As a registered Maine Guide for 28 Barnard Chapman '25, August 1, 1986, in War· Surviving are his wife, Faith, a son, a daughter, years, he spent much of his time hunting and wick, R.J., at age 85. He was born in Haverhill, a sister, seven grandchildren, and a great-grand· fishing in Maine and Canada. In 1936 he built Mass., and attended Classical High School in daughter. Clement's Camps in the Belgrade Lakes area, Springfield, Mass. While at Colby. he was a which he operated until 1983. He is survived by member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Helen Harmon '2 7, September 16, 1986, in his wife, Ethel, a daughter, two step-sons, a step· participated in the Glee Club and College Manchester, Conn. She is survived by a daugh· daughter, and numerous step-grandchildren. Quartet. He continued his education at Andover· ter, Helen Partridge. Newton Theological Seminary, later acting as a ' John D. Jones 29, September 12, 1986, in trustee of the school. He was the pastor of the Prudie R. Moore '27, March 28, 1986. in Portland, Maine, at age 81. He was born in Far· First Baptist Church in East Greenwich from Houston, Tex ., at age 84. She attended the North· mington, Maine, and educated in Farmington 1928 until 1941 and then served at the First Bap· field School for Girls before graduating from Col· schools before coming to Colby. He owned and tist Church in Keene, N.H., until 1952. He was by, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. She received operated the Jones Insurance Agency in Farming· also pastor of the Church of the Master in Prov­ her master's degree from Radcliffe College. ton for 40 years, and was a member and trea· idence, R.I., and regional minister under the Before she moved to Houston, she was for many surer of the Franklin County Agricultural Socie· Massachusetts Baptist State Convention in years the assistant director of admissions at ty, a state representative for two terms in the Weston, Mass.. for four years. He retired in 1966 Northeastern University. She was a member of 1960s, and a 49-year member of the Farmington from the Federated Church of Sturbridge, Mass.. the First Presbyterian Church and did charity Lodge of Masons. He is survived by two daugh· but in his retirement he continued to serve as work for Jefferson Davis and Memorial hospitals ters, Loraine Spencier and Reiden Jones, two sis· an interim pastor for 14 different churches in in Houston. Survivors include a brother, Maurice ters, and two grandchildren. Rhode Island. He was past president of the New Moore, and a nephew. Hampshire Baptist State Convention and chap· Sophie Reynolds '29, December 19, 1985, in lain for the Rhode Island State Institutions from Ralph H. Ayer '28, June 13, 1986, in Norwalk, Saco, Maine, at age 78. Born in South Portland, 1935 through 1941. Surviving are his wife, Conn., at age 79. Born in Salem, N.H .. he studied Maine, she attended South Portland High School Elizabeth Kingsley Chapman '25, three sons, a at Brown University after matriculating at Col­ and Earlham College before graduating from brother, a sister, ten grandchildren, and one by. During his years at Colby, he founded Powder Colby, where she was a member of Sigma Kap· great-grandchild. and Wig, the still-existing theater group, was pa sorority. She was a secretary for many years director of the Colby Band and the Glee Club, for the Maine Council of Churches and for Sylvester F. Sullivan '25, July 16, 1986, in St. and a "C" Club member. He served as a major Headlight Film Services. She was also a member Petersburg, Fla .. at age 86. Born inBoston, Mass.. in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was of the Friends Church in Portland, the Order of he attended Dorchester High, Boston Latin the director of public relations for All Air Forces the Eastern Star, and the Women's Literary School, Cushing Academy, Coburn Classical In· Pacific. Surviving is his wife, Florence Plaisted Union. Surviving are a niece and a nephew. stitute, and Stone School in the six years before Ayer '27. attending Colby. He was a class officer, a George Gilbert Henry, Jr. '30, April 9, 1984, member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and played Ruth Tilton Easton '28, September 24, 1986, in Florida at age 76. He was born in Bangor, N.Y., both offense and defense on the 1923 state cham· in North Scituate, Mass .. at age 79. She was born and attended the Sanderson Academy and Tilton pion football team. In later years he was a strong in Saco, Maine, to John F. Tilton, Class of 1888, School before coming to Colby, where he was supporter of Colby's athletic teams. He is sur· and Katherine Berry Tilton, Class of 1893. She a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He vived by his wife, Elvira Royle Sullivan '26. attended Deering High School in Portland, was a salesman for several insurance companies

46 THE COLBY ALUMNUS before becoming postmaster for Ashfield, Mass., Supreme Court Justice Charles P. Barnes Class a post he held for 36 years. After retiring, he of 1892; his mother, Annie Richardson Barnes, started a printing business. During World War Class of 1894; three brothers, Phineas P. '20, John II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three A. '24, and George B. '26; and two nephews, Phin­ years, and following the war was civi.lian defense eas P.,Jr. '54 and Charles P. II '54. He continued director for Ashfield. He was also commander his education at Harvard Law School and went of the Ashfield American Legion, was master of on to practice law for 27 years for a firm in the Morning Sun Lodge of Masons, and was on Boston. He was alsosatellite director for H & R several Massachusetts State Department com­ Block on Cape Cod from 1966 to 1980. During mittees. In 1982 he was the recipient of a Colby World War II, he served as a corporal in the field Brick for his efforts as class president and for artillery. He was a member of the Cape Cod Sym­ his work in career counseling, admissions, and phony Orchestra and a counselor for Alcoholics campaign goals. He is survived by his wif e, Anonymous. Surviving are his wife, Virginia, two Lillian Morse Henry '29, a daughter, and two sons, two daughters, a stepson, two stepdaugh­ grandchildren. ters, five grandchildren, and two great-grand­ children.

Barbara Hamlin Cummings '3 1 , June 27, 1986, in Pleasant Hill, Calif. She graduated Phi Dorothy Smith Brown '3 7, March 17, 1986, in Beta Kappa from Colby and studied theology Fairfield, Conn., at age 70.Born in Newton Cen­ from 1932 to 1935 at Andover-Newton Theolog­ tre, Mass., she attended Jenkintown High School ical Seminary. She also attended Union Theo­ before attending Colby, where she was a mem­ logical Seminary. For 40 years she taught adult ber of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She continued classes in churches and homes as she devoted her education at the University of Pennsylvania Clarence R. Fe rnald '.JO much of her life to Christian foreign missions Graduate Hospital and worked as a technician in many hospitals and medical schools in Penn­ and American Baptist church life. Surviving are Clarence R Fernald '40, August 9, 1986, in her husband, Richard Cummings '32, and two sylvania and 1ew England. She was awarded a Falls Church, Va ., at age 70. He was born in daughters, Carolyn Cummings Crain '59 and Bar­ Colby gavel in 1967 in recognition of her elec­ Portland, Mai.ne, son of Dr. Clarence J. and ellie bara Foster. tion as national president of the eedlework Keene Fernald '10. He attended Central High Guild of America, an office she held for six years. School in Washington, D.C., and was a member She was married to Dr. John H. Brown, Jr., and of Delta Upsilon fr aternity and the Colby "C" John Francis Clarke '32, October 30, 1986, in had three children, two sons and a daughter. Club, participating in track and cross-country Portland, Maine, at age 76. He was born in There are no known survivors. while at Colby. He served in World War II in Wa terville and attended Wa terville schools. After Europe. For many years he worked for the U.S. graduating from Colby, his first position was with Lawrence ]. Sullivan '37, October 31, 1986, in Government as an archivist and retired in 1976 the Department of Justice in the New Yo rk Im­ Middleboro, Mass.. at age 72. Born in Mid­ as chief records administrator of the Army migration Service. He served in the navy dur­ dleboro, he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega Security Agency. He was a member of Colum­ ing World War II. Following the war, he worked fraternity. He served as a corporal in the U.S. bia Baptist Church in Falls Church and served at Franconia Paper Co. in New Hampshire. Retir­ Army during World War IL A retired corrections the church in many capacities, among them dea­ ing after 20 years, he moved to Portland in 1978. officer at MCI Bridgewater, he was also a mem­ con, treasurer. and trustee. He was the nephew Surviving are his wife of 51 years, Stifonia, a ber of theJohn J. Glass Post of the VFW of Mid­ of the late Robert Ross Fernald'1 3. Surviving are daughter, and two grandsons. dleboro. He was the brother of the late John F. his wife. Dorothy Smith Fernald '42, two daugh­ Sullivan '34. He is survived by his wife, Victoria, ters, and four grandchildren. and a sister. Sarah Toabe Levine '32 , July 13, 1986, in Alfred N. Timberlake '40, October 28, 1986, orthampton, Mass., at age 75. Born in Law­ at age 68. Born in Livermore Falls, Maine, he at­ rence, Mass.. she received her nurse's training Julia Haskell McNamara '38, January 11, tended Livermore Falls High School before com­ at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1985, in Mystic, Conn., at age 67. She was born ing to Colby, where he was a member of Delta graduating in 1935 as a registered nurse. For the in New London, Conn .. and attended Williams Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Following World War next 50 years she lived in Amherst, Mass., in­ Memorial Institute before entering Colby. When II service in the Army Air Corps, he worked at volved with the American Red Cross and serv­ her husband, the late John H. McNamara '38, S.D. Warren Co. in Westbrook, Maine, for 32 ing on the advisory boards of Greenfield Com­ retired from a career with the State Department years, retiring as a personnel manager. He was munity College, the Family Planning Council of in 1961, the couple returned to New London, a 32nd degree Mason. He is survived by his wife, Western Massachusetts, and the Health Commit­ where she developed a process to make plastic Margaret Campbell Timberlake '42, two daugh­ tee of the Amherst Senior Center. Surviving are rocks for lawn and patio decorations and win­ ters, including Sharon E. Timberlake '69, and a her husband, Arthur, a son, a daughter, a brother, dow displays. She is survived by a sister, Bar­ granddaughter. Jason Toabe '46, a sister, Ruth To abe Fried '35, bara H. Pitman. a niece, Surah Toabe Whelan '68, and three Sarah Winnifred Odlin '41, ovember 11, grandchildren. A. Wayne Ross, Jr. '38, September 5, 1986, in 1986, in Portland, Maine, at age 66. Born in Hyannis, Mass.. at age 70. Born inBoston, Mass., China, Maine, she attended Lawrence High Barbara Gauthier Ewing '35, August 1, 1986, he attended Milton High School in Milton, Mass., School in Fairfield before coming to Colby. After i.n Falmouth, Mass.. at age 72. Born in Waltham, before matriculating at Colby. He was a member Colby, she attended the New Yo rk University Mass.. she attended local schools before enter­ of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He received his Graduate Schoolof Business Administration and i.ng Colby as an education major. She worked in master's degree in French from Middlebury Col­ the ew School for SocialResearch. For 29 years, real estate for a time and also worked at WT. lege in 1947, following service in the army as she was employee benefit manager for overseas Grant in Falmouth for 12 years. Survivors in­ a sergeant from 1941 to 1944. He taught French operations for General Motors Corporation. A clude her husband, Paul C., three daughters, two at schools in Vi.nalhaven, Rumford, and Cape member of Powder and Wig while at Colby, she sisters, thirteen grandchildren, and three great­ Elizabeth, Maine, between 1938 and 1941, and acted in many plays and went on to serve on the grandchildren. then after his mi.litary service he returned to board of Joan Miller Danceplayers at Lehman teach at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn .. College in New York, where she was also in­ and at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., volved in choreography. After retirement she Francis Barnes '36, July 28, 1986, in Wareham, until 1979. In his later years he was active with worked for the Petting Zoo at the Bronx Zoo and Mass.. at age 72. Born in Houlton, Maine, he at­ the Federated Church of Orleans, the Orleans also worked for Amnesty International. She was tended Ricker Classical Institute before coming Newcomers Club, and the Orleans Ya cht Club. a member of the World Wild Life Fund. In 1983 to Colby, where he was a member of Delta Kap­ Surviving are his two sons, Arthur W. III and she moved back to Maine. She died of injuries pa Epsilon fraternity. Other members of his fami­ Robert H., a daughter, Wendy B., two sisters, and sustained in an automobile accident in Scar­ ly who attended Colby i.nclude his father, Mai.ne two grandchildren. borough, Maine. She is survived by five sisters.

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 47 Alexander E. Dcmbkowski '44, August 28, John F. Gilhooly '5 1, September 26, 1986, in HONORARY 1986, in Falmouth, Mass., at age 65. Born in An­ Washington, D.C., al age 60. Born in Waterbury, dover, Mass., he attended Chelsea High School Conn., he served in the navy in the Pacific dur· Norman L. Cahners, M.A. '69, March 17, 1986, before coming to Colby. He was a member of ing World War II. At Colby he was a member in Boston, Mass., al age 71. He was a member Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He served from of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Until his retire­ of the Board of Tru stees at Colby from 1969 to 1943 lo 1946 as a lieutenant in World War II in ment, he worked as an officer for the Stale 1975. The lobby of the Colby Museum of Art is both the Atlantic and Pacific areas, and he was Department Foreign Service, specializing in named in his honor. Born in Bangor, Maine, he also in the Korean Conflict. He was a lieutenant political and military issues in the North Atlan­ attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He commander in the Naval Reserve until he retired tic Treaty Organization. He spent many years received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1936, in 1960, having earned many campaign and serv­ completing assignments for his positions with as well as honorary degrees from Colby in 1969, ice ribbons. He served with the North Atlantic NATO in Ta iwan, Burma, Cambodia, India, Viet­ Franklin Pierce College in 1969, Suffolk niver­ Treaty Organization in Paris. Between the wars nam, Thailand, Berne, HongKong, and Brussels. sity in 1970, and Husson College in 1972. In he received his LL.B. from Boston University, He retired in June 1986 after completing a three­ 1946, he founded the Cahners Publishing Com­ and after retirement he practiced law in Boston year assignment as a member of the faculty of pany in Boston. Mass., which he served as chair­ and Falmouth, Mass. He was a past member of the National War College in Washington. Sur· man of the board and chief executive officer. In the board of directors of Logic Electronics, vivors include his wife, Suzanne, a daughter, his 1970 he was named "Man of the Year" by the Kahler & Paton, and the Chelsea Pro,·ident Co­ mother, two brothers, including Raymond '61, Advertising Club of New York and received the operative Bank. Surviving is his mother, and one grandc hild. Busine s Statesman Award from Harvard Busi­ Catherine. ness School Association of Boston, presented Nancy Hughes Bates '52, June 27, 1986, in San annually for outstanding business and communi· Carolyn Hussey Nelson '48, November 2, Jose, Calif.. at age 55. Born in Albany, N.Y., she ty leadership. Among his many accomplish· 1986, in Vassalboro, Maine, at age 60. She was attended Mechanicville High School. She was a ments, he was chairman of International Busi­ born in Newton, Mass., and graduated from Er· member of AJpha Della Pi sorority. After gradua­ ness Press Associates and director of Stop and skine Academy in South China, Maine. She al· tion from Colby with a degree in business ad­ Shop, Inc., and Friendly Ice Cream Corp. of tended Colby for two years and had worked at ministration. she worked as an underwriter and Boston. He was president of the Museum of the College for the past 18 years, for many of supervisor with insurance companies before she Science in Boston and vice president of the them as secretary to the assistant to the presi­ was married. She is survived by her husband, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, as well dent and, recently, to the dean of the College. Robert E., a son, Robert E., Jr., two daughters, as vice chairman of the board at New England Daughter of the late Frederick K. Hussey '17, she Betsy and Barbara, and three sisters. University, a member of the overseers commit­ compiled a genealogy of the Hussey family. Her tees to visit Harvard Business School and Har­ '55, love of history extended to her work, which was Ronald Francis October 13, 1986, in vard and Radcliffe colleges. and a fellow al much admired not only for her skill and help· Henrietta, NY. al age 52. A native of Fairfield, Brandeis University. He is survived by his wife, fulness but also for her understanding of and Maine, he went on from Colby to receive his doc­ Helene. torate in inorganic chemistry from the Massa· care for items andinf ormation from the College's past. Survivors include her husband, Harold, a chusetts Institute of Te chnology in 1960. He began teaching at the Rochester Institute of son, two daughters, a brother, three grandsons, FACULTY A D STAFF Te chnology in 1969 as an assistant professor in an aunt, and several nieces, nephews, and cous­ the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, ins, including Robert D. Hussey '37. Lorraine . Gaudreau, April 19, 1986, in became division chair in 1972, and in September Rochester, N.Y., at age 58. Born in Claremont, 1973 was appointed professor in the division of N.H., she graduated from the Perkins School for Robert F. Barlow '50, August 26, 1986, in photographic science and instrumentation. Na­ the Blind in 194 7. received her bachelor's degree Bridgton, Maine, at age 59. Born in Cambridge, tionally known for his work, he was a consul­ from Syracuse University in 1951, her master's Mass., he attended Waterville High School before tant to nine industry and government agencies. degree in education from Smith College in 1955, entering Colby, where he was a member of Phi He had been a consultant to the U.S. House of and her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1963. Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. Representatives Select Committee on Assassina­ She was a faculty member of the Grier School from the Fletcher School of Law at Tufts Univer­ tions and worked on projects associated with for Girls in Tyrone, Pa., before becoming an in­ sity and then attended the London School of photographic evidence of the assassination of structor of sociology at Colby in the early 1950s. Economics as a Fulbright scholar. He began President Kennedy. He was invited to the Peo­ After teaching sociology at Salve Regina College teaching at Colby in 1952 as an associate pro­ ple's Republic of China to teach. Author of nu­ in Newport, R.1., she became assistant professor fessor of economics and later served as an ad­ merous technical publications and holder of of sociology at the University of New Hamp­ ministrative assistant to the president. He taught several patents. he received many awards in the shire. In addition to teaching, she was a voca· at the University of Delaware and was a fellow field of education. including the Eisenhart Award tional counselor for the Bureau of Blind Services of the Merrill Center in Economics at Amherst for Outstanding Te aching in 1985 and the Ray­ for the State of New Hampshire, as well as pro· College. In addition, he held visiting professor mond C. Bowman Award in 1983 for his con­ gram coordinator for visually impaired college appointments at universities all over the world. tributions to education in photographic science. students. She was also education specialist for He founded the Whittemore School of Business In January 1986 he was named the first Frederick visually handicapped children for the Maine and Economics at the University of New Hamp­ and Anna B. Wiedman Professor in Imaging Department of Health and Welfare and a super­ shire, where he also taught economics and Science at RIT Surviving are his mother, Mabel visor of social services at the Concord, N.H., served as dean of the school and director of Francis. and two aunts. Mental Health Center. She is survived by her graduate programs in economics. He was ap­ mother, a brother, Ronald, and byseveral aunts, pointed academic vice president in 1966. He was Stedman B. Amory '60, October 9, 1986, in uncles, and cousins. active in the New England Council for Economic Denver, Colo., at age 48. Born in Beverly, Mass., Development and Research, the Natural Re­ he attended Middlesex School before coming to sources Council of Maine, and the Conservation Colby, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Arthur Otis, August 9, 1986, in Belfast, Maine, Foundation. He died after a long illness and is Epsilon fraternity. He completed his education at age 49. Born in Fairfield, he was educated in survived by two sons, Ian and Mark, a daughter, at Babson Institute of Business Administration Fairfield, graduating from Lawrence High School Andi, and a sister. and then went on to serve two years in the Army in 1957. He was employed by Colby for nearly Intelligence Corps. A member of the Eastern and 30 years in the physical plant department. In the Paul J. Miville '50, August 26, 1986, in Pleon yacht clubs in Marblehead, he once was words of Keith Stockford, grounds supervisor of Slingerlands, N .Y. , at age 61. He was born in a crew member on the Nefertiti, a challenger in the department, "[He] was a close friend and Lawrence, Mass., and attended Lawrence High the America's Cup race. He was the president valued associate who perhaps typified the best School before coming to Colby, where he ma­ of Johnny Appleseed in Beverly, Mass., and later in a Colby employee . . in his dedication to his jored in business administration. He worked for the owner of Eastertide Ranch in Silt, Colo., work and his service to the College:' Survivors 30 years as a sales representative and division where he was director of the Colorado River include his wife, Pauline, a secretary in the sales manager for the Quaker State Oil Refining Watershed. He is survived by his wife, Mary department of physical education, and a brother. Corporation. Surviving are his wife, Verna, and Alice, three daughters, three stepchildren, two Raymond, also employed by the physical plant a cousin, Gloria Auger Luttenberger '49. brothers, and a sister. department.

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At the Western Massachusetts club dinner in November, {left to right} Charles Barnfather '.J I chatted with Paul "Red" Fe ldman '34 Also at­ tending this event were Pa ul Reichert '59 and Barry Knapp '77.

hough many people like to leave ew and Barbara Hills Stuart '52 were hosts for Many Colby athletic teams participated in England to go to Florida in the cooler the potluck supper • Brooklyn was the tournaments during the \'acation break, months, one alumnus traveled from Florida scene, but Waterville was the location. and fans were there to cheer them. In lo attend the Western Massachusetts when alumni enjoyed the opening-night Princeton, the Philadelphia club spon- club dinner in ovember. Maybe he didn't show of Arsenic and Old Lace. At a dessert sored a reception at the women's ice hockey come just for the dinner, but Jim Cousins and coffee party prior to the performance, tournament. At Salem State College the '75 certainly set the record for distance the group met the director, Muffie Guthrie North Shore club sponsored a hospitality traveled to a club function, and the club '88 • The men's varsity basketball team room at the women's and men's basketball welcomed him heartily. President Cotter was on tour to sunny outhern California games in December and the men's hockey " as the guest speaker at the dinner • in January, giving alumni and parents in tournament in January • And at least one President Cotter also spoke at the Boston Los Angeles a chance to enjoy Colby ew Englander did go to Florida this club's annual dinner. Bostonians also en- basketball first-hand and to enjoy an eve- winter. Dean of the Faculty Douglas Ar- joyed a mid-winter faculty lecture by Pro- ning together at the home of Jack Alex '50 chibald spoke at club functions in Ft. fessor Charles Bassett, who is well known • The New Yo rk club conducted a varie- Myers, Orlando, and Jackson ille " to many alumni for his popular courses on ty of activities, including their annual holi- Many thanks to the volunteers who helped American literature • Professor Sandy day party at the end of December, a ski trip make these programs available in their Maisel and his student research assistant, to Austria in January, and monthly infor- area. If you need more information or John Beaudoin '87, were in Atlanta to pre- ma! get-togethers at Intermezzo restaurant would like to become involved, please con- sent a paper at a conference and met with • Both Boston and Hartford celebrated tact the Office of Alumni Relations, Colby a large contingent of area alumni. Ned '52 the holidays with receptions as well • College, Waterville, Maine 0490 1. The Colby Al umnus Nonprofit Organization Colby College U.S. Postage Paid/Permit 7 Waterville, Maine 04901-4799 Portland, Maine 04101