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Features
14 Democracy, Diversity and the Good by Richard F Moorton, Jr. With the demise of Communism, social critics speak of the end of history, the culmination of political evolution in liberal democracy. But is democracy really the answer to the problems of human social life?
18 And Then Face to Face by George M. Milne, Jr. For most of us, life's outcome is cloaked in mystery. That is about to change. The imminent decoding of the human genome, the 100,000 genes that control the machinery of life, will make it possible to know in advance much about how our lives will play out, banishing forever the comfortable uncertainty with which we approach the future ... and raising political, moral and social dilemmas.
DNA, fate and hard choices, 22 Islands of Integrity by Warren Cohen' 89 page 18 Nancy Zucker Boswell '65 is working to rid international business transactions of an age-old problem: Bribery.
24 We Can Get There from Here by Leslie Gifford Having proved its ability to meet "stretch" goals, the college sets an even more ambitious course for the future with its second five-year strategic plan.
Departments
2 President'sPage The Honor Code: A durableframework for human relationships
3 Wordfor Word Readers react to dropping the SAT, articles that moved them and a passel of pesky typos
5 CampusView Gen Ed revitalized; breaking the laurel ceiling; wUing the rug is back in style; new career services for alumni; and more
10 ChapterandVerse A new book on traveling through time in France; a haunting tale of political martyrdom; and others
12 Verbatim Mapper of the cosmos Margaret). Geller on wltivating wonder
28 Portfolio Social issues and value systems in works by Meredith Morten Davis '72
30 ClassNotes Alumni who searchfor fossils, jobs, human rights; and more
56 Last Look A retired CC prof is the inspirationfor 8 million greeting cards
The real "Maxine," page 56 President's Page
An Honor Code in 1995
Is it just what society needs or a totally naive and anachronistic idea? ConnecticutCollegeMagazi"e
VollJme 4 / Nnniber 5 t Connecticut College, the Honor of inc om- Code turns 80 this year. I share 109 some quotes from recent E-mail r freshmen, Co-Editors: Lisa H. Brownell, Chuck Luee A received from a first-year student. Her con- a group Assistant Editor/Class Noles: Mary Farrar cern dramatized for me the reason our of stu- Art Director: Kati Roessner '81 unique Honor Code has been sustained over dents urged the Admissions Office to put Photography: Paul Horton, unless the decades and why it is just what a civil a question about the code on the essay credited otherwise section of our application to the college. society ordered. Contributing Writers: The Honor Code creates a common Leslie A. Gifford, Patricia Logan Dear President Gaudiani: point of view on personal integrity. It develops and sustains trust among students Edilorial Board "I am writing to express serious concerns and between students and the faculty. It Warren Erickson '74 Chair, Allen Carroll about the Honor Code .... I came to '73, Lawrence Frieclman'89, Claire L Connecticut College for a number of rea- mediates between self-interest and the Gaudiani '66, Dirk r.D. Held, Ellen common good. It expects self-discipline Harris Knoblock '80, Robert B. sons, one of the biggest being the Honor Rasmussen. Ex officio: Lisa H. Brownell, Code. r was not completely surprised to see and expands freedom, and it cannot be Chuck Luce that it is not a perfect system .... In my math taken for granted. Director of college Relations course we discussed the code in the light of Connecticut College's Honor Code, Christopher T. Cory a violation .... It disturbed me deeply to dis- one of 12 like it left in the country, is Executive Director, Alumni Association cover that the majority of my classmates unique in three ways: Kristin Stahlschmidt Lambert '69 were indifferent to the violation. I have (1) It covers all academic and social heard you speak about democracy and the interactions of students. ConnecticutCollegeMagazitlc is a joint (2) It is governed completely by stu- publication of the Connecticut College role that the individual plays in ensuring the dents elected from each class by their Alumni Association and Connecticut rights of others. You have said that we are College. The mission of the magazine is all each other's guarantors of freedom ... peers. to maintain ties between the college, its Due to recent events, I do not feel as if my (3) Unlike Honor Codes at Quaker or alumni and all other constituents, and to rights are being guaranteed by my fellow Episcopal colleges, our Honor Code was report on issues of importance to these students. I want to deal with this in the designed by founders of the college who groups. best way possible, and 1 am hoping you will had no common religious point of view. Contributions: have some suggestions. I want the Honor They shared a commitment to education ConnecticutCollegeMIl~";llzil1e will con- Code to work, and I want to be able to in a framework of integrity and trust. sider but is not responsible for unsolicited believe in it again." manuscripts, proposals and photographs. An old idea; the right lime Address correspondence to: Editor, For the four years they are in residence, ConnecticutCollegeMagllz;rlc, Becker In my E-mail answer, I suggested among House, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New other things that she permit me to connect students at Connecticut College have a London, CT 06320-4196. her with the Judiciary Board chair, and that unique opportunity to experiment with her intensity is why the Honor Code will living in a community that defines a rela- ConnecticutCollegeMllgllz;lJe (USPS work and has worked. In each generation of tionship between the self and others, 129-140) is published six times a year, in between the individual and his or her July, September, November, January, students, a group feels an especially high March and May, and is mailed free of sense of urgency about maintaining the community. At this time in human histo- charge to alumni and friends of the col- Honor Code, and they act on that sense of ry, this concept is under great stress. lege. Second class postage paid at New urgency. Like this woman, who subsequent- Aristotle defmed the relationship London, Connecticut, and at additional ly met with the members of the J-Board and between self and others in a well-known offices. will become active in J-Board work this passage from Tile Ethics (J 169b.7). He postmaster: Send address changes to coming year, the Honor Code survives describes the other as a friend, as one's connecticutCollegeMagazil1c, 270 because students take it seriously and get other self. This is perhaps the most inti- Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT involved even when others are indifferent. mate way of defining the relationship 06320-4196. Just six years ago, to heighten the awareness Contil/lled 0/"1 illside back COlier
e Sprirlg 1995 J d Word for Word
If SAT flunks out, do CCsciences, too?
Test requirements keep college competitive however, as a parent of a bright, well- The first sentence in the "Cyberconn" The Winter 1995 issue contains a major rounded daughter who loves to read, box says "On Ground Hog's Day, article about the new F.W. Olin Science write, paint, sing and act, but whose Connecticut College launched it's [sic] Center and a small "Campus View" future plans include medical school. I home page on the World Wide Web." I piece on the elimination of the SAT as a have applauded almost all the changes hope you realize now that "it's" is not requirement for admission. The decision over the years that have made the correct form to be used in this sen- to devalue the SAT seems to Connecticut College a world tence. "It's" is a contraction of "it is." It me at cross purposes with class school. Ithink this is not used to convey possession. To recruiting outstanding science newest change is badly timed achieve that you must use "its." These students. and a mistake. words are often mixed up by writers, but Connecticut College is in a Doris King Mathieson '74 I did not expect to see such a common strong position CO compete for Rye, New York error in the alumni magazine of the col- students interested in the lege Icherish. In this computer age, I humanities and the arts. Indeed Dean ifAdmissions Lee Ccffin think. we're relying on spell-checkers a in many places it is a "hot" replies: 1 agree remaining compet- bit too much! school, able to attract a diverse itive is important. We made Scott D. Brenner '85 group of intelligent, creative, submitting SA T 1 scoresoption- Somerset, New Jersey interesting young people. For this pool of al, yet onlv 18 percent if the incomillg class prospective students, an admissions chose not to provide test results. Also, we still I was dismayed to find numerous editing process without a quantitative leveler may require ifall applicants three subject tests errors in the Winter 1995 issue of be justifiable. from the SA T II (formerly called achievement Connecticut College Magazine. [two mis- If, however, the college hopes to tests), if whidi students interested in science placed commas, one dropped word in a attract gifted students wishing to pursue routinely provide math and science scores. photo caption, one questionable verb careers in the sciences, it will have to tense]. In one case the errors seem to compete for them. Doing away with the have been made by the people whose SAT requirements screams "Liberal Arts" Cancer and heightened awareness words are quoted. I hope that an editor's (as well as "politically correct"). You are Having fought cancer three times job still includes either making correc- opting out of the competition, and this myself, I was very interested in the arti- tions of such errors or noting that the will send a velY negative message to cle on Alexandra Todd's (P'92) book errors were made by the speaker or prospective students and their parents. about her son's fight with the disease. I writer whose words are quoted. As a CC student I never considered agree with her that once you've been I hope future issues of your publication taking a science or math course. I speak, confronted with the idea that you or will be edited with more care. your husband or one of your children Mary Anne Grabarek '68 Faculty by the shore have cancer, you live on a much more Raleigh, North Carolina conscious level. Simple daily routines by Chris Burrell 'B7 suddenly become something special. We know iftwo other typos in that issue, I gave myself shots of mistletoe both if them errant apostrophes. That makes a extract, which is often prescribed here totaf of seven boo-boos among 60, 000 words. for cancer patients. It's not a cure but it However, no typographical error is acceptable, definitely helps. and we'll redouble our worts. - Eds. Dorothy Kraft Frerher '65 Bruehl, Germany The inspirational Or. Goodwin How I loved your article on Professor Ghost in the magazine machine Goodwin. It brought back a Hood of I just read page nine of the Winter '95 memories of our beloved lab teacher in issue of Connecticut College Magazine. I freshman bio. How lucky we eight or 10 am shocked that the educational institu- students were to be in his company. tion that taught me how to Everything in our study of biology was communicate effectively could allow a relevant to our lives. He sat on the table horrible grammar error to slip through. and told of his court fight to protect his
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ConnecticutCollegeMagazil1e land from pesticide spraying. In addition not two as one might suspect looking at to hatching our frog eggs, we learned Mr. Parker's handwritten letter). They Connecticut College Board 01Trustees about ecology, environmental issues and suggest that the absence of z or s at the John C. Evans P'86 Chair, Francine J. Savich the politics required to protect what we end may have been an effort to render '73 Vice Chair, Paul M. Weissman P'87 Vice hold dear. I knew right away that biology the pronunciation in which the final Chair, Robert H. Atwell, Henry P. Becton Jr. was to be my major. What has followed consonant is silent. The OED lists over a P'95, Cynthia Eaton Bing '65, Nicholas R. dozen spellings, some as one word, some Clifford P'SO & '88, Kevan Copeland '76, has been a happy 24 years working in Duncan Nelson Dayron '81, Anita L research in Boston, fanning, raising chil- as two. Among the oddest and most Def-rantz '74, Warren T. Erickson '74, Marisa dren in Amherst, Mass., and Albemarle amusing: Oh yes, 0 ys, Ooyess and 0 Guillen Farina '93, Barbara Hogare Ferrin '43, County, Va. Then to my surprise, at age ace. Marna Wagner Fullerton '56 & P'91, Richard H. Gordon, Frances Freedman Jacobson '56 & 40, I discovered that I loved and was good CC Magazine printed andite for Mr. P'82, Elizabeth Stuart Kruidenier '48, at teaching. Now fourth grade science and Parker's hastily written oudire. The more Kimberly A. Laboy '94, Susan Eckert Lynch K-4 computer fill my days. Many thanks common infinitive in old French is oi"r} '62, Helen Fricke Mathieson '52, Elizabeth to Professor Goodwin for such a wonder- later oufr which pretty much disappeared McLane McKinney '52, Sue 13. Mercy '63 & P'91,judith Mapes Metz '61, George McLean ful beginning. in the 17th century. The form oyer is MilneJr., Simon Nicholas O'Rourke '92, Ann HuckJe Mallek '71 used only substantively. Carol). Ramsey '74, Harvey S. Sadow, Lyn Earlysville, Virginia CC Magazillc printed "0 yea, 0 yea." Gordon Silfen '67, Ellen CL. Simmons '69, The hand-written version is fairly clearly Gretchen D. Smith '58 & P'96, Frederick P. Stratton Jr. P'91 & '96, Dhuanne "0 yes," "eyes," but I had the advantage Schmitz Tamil! '64, William O. Taylor P'84, "Telling them" through the generations of having consulted the OED. Benjamin K. Watts, Virginia Eason Greetings from the Arctic! Your article on James H. Williston Weinmann '51, Diane Buchanan Wilsey '65 Waterford, Connecticut & P'91, William Ziegler III P'92, favorite quotations ("Quotable Quotes," Ex-cifJicio: Claire L. Gaudiani '66, M.John Campus View, Winter 1995) caught my Srrafaci, Marny Morris Krause '66. eye. The quotation from David Jaffe TI,e writer is prcifessoreinetitus if French at ("Tell them what you're gonna tell them; Connecticut College. - Eds. AlumniAssociationExecutiveBoard President: Marny Morris Krause '66; tell them; tell them what you told them,") Vice President: Mark Warren '75; was a favorite of my grandfather, a lifelong Secretary/Treasurer: Marcia Morris '70; teacher. Interestingly, both his daughters All right, all right, we can take a hiot Alumni Trustees: Kevan Copeland '76 and attended Connecticut College, as did one Observant readers will note that with this Elizabeth McLane McKinney '52; issue we return to our old format for the Nominating Chair: Samuel Bottum '89; of ills granddaughters. Iwas a visiting stu- Directors: Joan jossen Biven '49 and Janet dent there for the 1969-70 school year as table of contents. Reactions to our Foster '80. Advisers: Catherine Young '75 well, and I follow the advice in that quo- experiments with a version modified to (Human Resources); John Sharon '86 tation in my own teaching. Thanks for the accept larger photos were, shall we say, (Accessibility); Tammy Kagan Levine '78 (Legal). Ex qfJicio· Kristin Stahlschmidt kick of seeing it in print. less than enthusiastic? - Eds. Lambert '69. RussellJosephson '70 Kiana, Alaska ConnecticutCollegeMagazil1c Copyright 1995 ConnecticutCollegeMagazine welcolnes by the Connecticut College Alumni Associa- tion, all rights reserved. Reproduction in reader correspondence, We can be contacted in whole or in part without written permission is The continuing saga of Hear Ye, Hear Ye a 1IIIIIIber of ways: Voice Mail, 203-439- prohibited. Views expressed herein are those In the Summer 1994 edition you pub- 5135; E-mail, cbluc@Jtol1/'/coll.edu;Fax, of the author and do not necessarily reflect lished Yale Professor William N. Parker's 203-439-2303; Write, official policy of the Alumni Association or letter regarding "The Verdict Is In," an Editors, Conneaicut College the college. 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o Spring 1995 Campus View
A professorship to honor Oakes
He says, believably, that he was taken e IIcompletely by sur- prise. Oakes Ames, the physicist and president of the college from 1974 to 1988 who returned last spring to teach a course in energy alter- natives, was just starting his salad at the dinner following F.W. Olin Science Center dedication when President physicist Claire Gaudiani made an with announcement. The new accomplish- endowed faculty chair in ments in physics being created with the teaching bulk of a recent $1.7 million and a grant from the Sherman research Ames: "Speechless." Fairchild Foundation, she said, specialty will be named to honor him that is accessible for under- At last, new GE requirements - the Oakes Ames graduate participation. Professorship in physics. "It's rare for a former col- Mter five years of once-a-week "common Caudiani said the college is lege president to be study and debate, hour," in which no other recruiting the new professor speechless," Ames said in IIthe faculty has final- activities are scheduled. who will join the faculty next accepting the honor, "but for ly approved an updated set of • Complete a "foundation year. He or she will be a once, lam." - CTC General Education require- course" in each of seven ments - including a new areas. Unlike the old system, TRENDS freshmen tutorial program - these courses must be taken which will be implemented in different departments. this fall. Foundation courses" offer a Breaking Ihe laurel ceiling ... The tutorials stand out as basic introduction to the Since early in the coilege's history, graduates have entered and left the most innovative new fea- central issues or major texts the commencement ceremony by walking through The Laurel Chain, ture. First-year students must of a discipline, or the skills an aisle formed by 60 women from the junior class wearing white attend a series of tutorials with and methodologies needed dresses and carrying long garlands of laurel. their pre-major adviser, each to pursue a given discipline This year for the first time the chain included men. of which is a one- to two- at the intermediate and Women still led the seniors in, to represent and give thanks to the hour discussion of short, advanced levels," said Larry women forerunners of the college. But a group of junior men carried shared readings, beginning Vogel, associate professor of half the chain while leading the graduates out, to represent the col- with the summer reading philosophy. lege's future as a coeducational institution. books. • Take two courses desig- The change came about at i the suggestion of students, The new program also nated as writing intensive or who thought after 25 years ,of coeducation it was about requires freshmen to: writing enhanced. time for men to start ~ taking part in old • Participate in six GE The foreign language college traditions. - PL "events" by the middle of requirement was not altered. their sophomore year. These These changes were devel- cross-disciplinary events will oped by the Educational relate to an annual theme Planning Committee (EPC), (next year: "Human under the chairmanship of Difference and Diversity"). Vogel and Alan Bradford, Many will occur during a professor of English. - PL
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The Bing/Metz team Trustee dynamic duo to lead 1911 Society/Annual Fund
As the college gets CC's dedication to honor and new chair of the 1911 closer to formally civic virtue. And she has a his- Society, Cynthia Bing, to • announcing its tory of fund-raising success: As boost annual giving at the comprehensive development president of the Society of higher levels. At the same campaign, two heavy-hitting Memorial Sloan-Kettering time, she will work with volunteers have stepped up to Cancer Center, she helped staff and volunteers to key positions on the fund- raise $7 million in each of her increase participation at all raising team. two years at the helm. levels, to "get people into As a single woman working the habit of giving." Metz: Good habits die hard in New York City in the "She disarms everyone with 1960s, she began her volunteer Bing: Straighllo the point an abounding sense of humor career by joining the New A savvy, straight-to-the- and casual sophistication." So York Junior League when, she point woman, Cynthia reads the description under says, she felt she had "no sense Eaton Bing '65 has a rep- Judy Mapes' 1961 yearbook of giving back to the commu- utation for getting things picture. nity" in which she was gaining done. 1911 Society Chair Cynthia Bing '65 She hasn't changed. And as such success. In the late '60s a The chair of the college's she steps into her new role as friend asked her to work with Trustee Development sent her three children Annual Fund Chair - and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Conunittee, Sue Mercy '63, through The Day School, an chair of the Trustee Annual She's been there ever since, in and the director of the Annual independent school in New fund Committee - Judith increasingly responsible roles. Fund, Alison Woods, both say York City, she served the last Mapes Metz is excited about Concurrently, this econom- Bing is perfect for heading the 11 years as president of that taking on a new challenge. ics major pursued a successful 1911 Society, the critical lead- institution's Board of Succeeding Marny Morris and varied career, both nation- ership group whose examples Directors. During her tenure, Krause '66, who led the fund al and international. She was at recently have fueled the the school successfully com- through three outstandingly the forefront among women Annual Fund's growth. Each pleted one capital campaign successful cycles, Metz is well crashing through the glass ceil- is confident the society's and is planning another. prepared to lead the Annual ing when she landed the first growth will accelerate under Equally important to her has Fund to still greater heights. A female associateship - and the Bing's determined leadership. been her work on the devel- trustee and class agent chair, only female partnership to date A trustee and member of opment committee at Phillips she is tied closely to the - in the international man- the society herself, Bing looks Academy Andover, another of administration and to her fel- agement consulting and forward to continuing the her children's schools and in a low alumni. She exemplifies executive search finn Egon good work of outgoing 1911 way her own high school alma Zehnder International. Chair Mercy in developing a mater (Abbot Academy, the Now retired, she lives strong corps of leadership girls' school she attended, with her husband Frank donors to the Annual Fund. merged with Andover in 1973 and their dogs in Rockland The timing, she thinks, is to create a coeducational insti- County, New York, an right. tution). She is now chair of easy jaunt back into the city "There is tremendous the Campaign at Andover for for her continued work at interest on the part of alums," the Arts and Communications Sloan Kettering. Good she says, adding that "the Center, an effort that has raised habits die hard. school is communicating what over $5 million to date. Her work at Sloan it's doing today better than it Married to investment Kettering was all with indi- ever has before. I believe it is banker Alexander "Sandy" vidual donors, and gift size incumbent on all of us who Bing, Cynthia has been ranged vastly, a fact that has care about Connecticut involved in several additional given her keen appreciation College to continue to get causes, primarily those aimed for both the major gift and that 'message out." at strengthening the social and the smaller one. Bearing on Bing brings a rich career in educational infrastructure for this dual appreciation, she volunteerism to her new role young people in New York
Annual Fund Chair Judith Mapes Metz '61 will work closely with the as 1911 Society chair. Having City.-LAG
o Spring 1995 . All the right moves Ballroom dancing makes a surprising comeback on campus
By day, she studies student, danced professionally This year she came back with first lesson, bur 150 showed ~, American lit, until her partner hung up his a twirl. up, forcing her to split the • sociology and edu- tuxedo for a chefs whites a Vivi's student adviser at class into three sections. Each cational sciences. By night, few years ago. But Vivi car- CC, Lila Nicolaki '97, class lasted an hour and a half she declares, "I make a really ried on, training two or three babysits for Robert Proctor, and covered three dances. good man. I'm better than times a week and entering founder of the college's So why all the ballroom other guys." She is Genevieve contests in Latin and ball- Center for International hubbub? "Our generation Sussemihl, Vivi for short, and room dance on weekends. Studies and the Liberal Arts. knows how to jump up and she is, indeed, very good ... at She first came to America as Nicolaki knew that Proctor, a down and throw ourselves leading on the dance floor. an au pair then returned to professor of Italian studies and around, but we don't know Vivi, a German exchange Germany to start college. an admirer of grand old tradi- the formal dance moves," says tions, dreamed of holding a Chris Martin '97, who takes formal ball for CISLA students. the class with his girlfriend, The alert Nicolaki saw the Kelly. mutual need and put the two In April the classes culmi- SWM needs ride 10 Germany. Will pay gas and lolls dance fans together. After a nated in a smashing formal This year, when seniors Katharine Hambleton and Sara Becton semester of organiz- ball, complete with live music Invented The Daily CONNlacl, a daily newsletter at campus events, ing, Vivi's dance class and Vienese refreshments. they had no idea the personals column would become so enter- toe-tapped its way - Emily Luce '97 taining. Here are a few of their favorite" entries; only the names and into being. phone extensions have been changed: Vivi was antici- • Class of '98: Pray Hard! If it rains on Floralia, you're dead! Much pating about 30 love and affection, Class at 1995. students for the • Curran: Will you keep me warm at our next fire alarm? Merci. • Looking to increase your social potential? Why not buy my car? 1990 Nissan 240SX. Will go fast! More info, Jenn, x4960.
• For sale: One jumbo jetliner. Will go fast - call now. • Ladies: Today is the last day to kiss Campus Safely's Darryl: Marriage will lead to his demise this Saturday. • SGA Candidates: Egomaniacal tool-dam and shameless self-pro- motion are curable problems. Call1-800-BIG-HEAD for help!
• Raynor: Close your curtain when you change. • Help! I need a ride to Germany. Will pay gas and tolls and provide hours of wacky automobile companionship. Call Dan, ,2345 • Son, it is finally time you knew the truth. Love, the mailman. • Lost: One tongue. Last seen at Beaux Arts Ball, Saturday night If found, please contact: Richard, x6004. • Lost: My self esteem. If found, please return to Phil, Box 3113. • Found: Collection of valuable baseball cards. Call Phil, x1132 (I did not find, however, your Andre Dawson rookie card or the '79 D.J. ONE, TWO, THREE, DIP: Paige Orr '95 Simpson card). and Meghan Cady '95 • Congratulations AI Zatz! Ice fisherman of the week. waltz, tango and lox trot in preparation lor • Would you like to shave my head? No experience necessary! Just a "Viennese" nau. call Doug, x7302. • SWM-desperately seeking Physics 104 textbook. Please call Grant, ,4239. • Campus View
New man in the provost's office CISLA director moving upstairs TIME SURFER
10 Years Ago." Proctor's career at the col- In the lead arti- lege began in 1971 when he cle 01 the was named an assistant pro- Winter 1985 fessor of Italian. He chaired the department of French issue of The and Italian from 1982-85. In Connecticut 1988 he published Education's College Alumni Magazine, Great Amnesia: Reconsidering English Professor George the Humanities from Petrarch to Willauer previewed college Freud, with a Curriculum for plans to transform Palmer Today's Students for which he Library into the Blaustein received the Frederic W. Humanities Center (the reno- Ness Award in 1990, given vation was completed in early annually by the Association 1986).Before oullining archi- of American Colleges for the tect Graham Gund's ideas, book that contributed most Willauer related warm memo- to liberal learning. ries of the building'S previous In the fall of 1989, Proctor incarnation. Among them: was appointed founding How he had his own carrel director of CISLA, which with his name on it on the Proctor: Champion of liberal learning. offers a paid work/study third level of stacks near Ihe internship abroad, courses on Dewey Decimal 800 section; how each Christmas, students Robert E. Proctor reflected my desire to live the origins and dynamics of dressed the oversized bust of will literally be within the liberal arts tradi- modem global society, a spe- Dante to look like Santa Claus 11 moving upstairs tion," said Proctor. cial senior integrative project (see below); and how poetry when he leaves the first floor "Students who are preparing and oral proficiency in a for- Fanning Hall offices of the to assume positions of eign language. readings held in the Palmer Center for International responsibility and leadership Proctor was chosen from Room became a part of one of Studies and the Liberal Arts in society need to be able to four final candidates, all of Harry Montzoures' New Yorker stories. (CISLA) to become the col- put their Lives and their them Connecticut College lege's next provost and dean work in the broadest possi- professors. - PL of the faculty. ble context. That's what the Proctor officially begins liberal arts enable you to Found: One Dante bust, still charmed hISnew job July 1, 1995, do. " but irrunediately started Proctor, 49, was born in working closely with the Los Angeles and graduat- In 1960, one Mr. Frank Fasullo gave the col- outgoing Provost Stephen ed summa cum laude from lege a plaster bust of Dante, which was H. Loomis. the University of San installed on the tirst-f1oor landing ot Palmer As originally planned, Francisco with a bachelor of Library (now the ataustetn Humanities Loomis, a professor of zoolo- arts in English. He received Center). It soon became a campus icon. Exam- gy, is returning to teaching his Ph.D. from the Johns bound students swore touching it brought luck, and research after completing Hopkins University in and, as Professor Willauer describes above, his rwo-year term. Romance Languages (Italian they delighted in designing coslumes for it. "All the major professional and French). Proctor has The bust disappeared during [he decisions of my life - my been a Fellow of Villa I Blaustein renovation, but it was Tatti, the Harvard choice to live and study in recently rediscovered, a bit the worse University Center for Italy, to come to Connecti- for wear, in the former horse barn. The cut College, to write a book Italian Renaissance Studies bust is now being returbished and will he on the history of humanities, in Florence, Italy, and of the returned to its traditional seal during the to help create CISLA - all National Humanities 1995-96 academic year. of these decisions have Institute at Yale.
o Spring '/995 Getting the job won CYBERCONN
Career office is stepping up alumni services Screenshot at the month ... Time was when the word herbarium recalied dusty old In the one-and-a- referral service. Its sophisticat- coliections of dried plant specimens pressed and half years since the ed database matches alumni glued to sheets of paper then stores'm file cabi- college Office of and graduating seniors with nets. The problem for researchers is that Career Services moved across employment opportunities herbaria, which can contain hundreds of thou- Route 32 to the more spa- received by Career Services. cious Vinal Cottage, a major Once a match is made, Career sands of specimens, are scattered at locations effort to expand, update and Services immediately sends all over the world and comparing them is a logis- improve services for alumni the employer a copy of the tical nightmare. Carl Lewis '95 has a better way. His has been under way. student's or alum's resume senior honors thesis showed how herbaria networked on computer "We have quality services and cover letter. This new databases can facilate information gathering and offered an easy way available that we're very program replaces a system that for smaller, often understafted herbaria to get their collections online. interested in offering our was slow to make matches alumni," said Jack Tinker, and resulted in lost Lewis designed software he calls Herbarium Curator Toolkit, then director of Career Services. opportunities. used it to put data and pictures from CC's Charles B. Graves Herbar- "We can save them a great "We've been working to ium on the World Wide Web. It is the first herbarium database ever to deal of money over the cost make the service completely provide images. View them at
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Letting history set your itinerary A new book on traveling through time in France
published in half a century. It Ina Caro '60 which we are traveling," if a trip to France is a[antoine, lists most of the books and TIle Road From the Past: writes Caro, "we must know Care's book offers a mini- periodicals containing Traveling 11nollgh History in something of the kings and vacation in itself, transporting the reader with a sweep of Beardsley's illustrations, France, 1994, Nan A. counts, the queens and cour- drawings, bindings and writ- Talese/Doubleday, 323 tesans - some famous, some the centuries. Ina Caw received a mas- ings published during his pages, nonfiction. not- connected with build- ing the structures we will visit ter's degree in history, with a lifetime, along with posthu- mously issued items of Ina Caro '60 has given us a and in shaping the significant concentration in medieval significance. wonderful gift with TIle Road historical events that took history, from Long Island Samuels Lasner is a book From the Past: Traveling place within their walls." University. Married to collector and bibliographer Through While Caro loves France, Pulitzer Prize-winning histo- specializing in late 19th-cen- History ill she does not necessarily love rian Robert A. Caro, she has tury English literature. His France. At the French. She understands worked as researcher on his articles have appeared in T71e once a trav- that while some places in acclaimed biographies of Book Collector, Browning el guide and France are architecturally Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Institute Studies, Notes and a history stunning, they are not pleasant Johnson. They live in New Queries and TIle Gazette the book, it to visit. Her tour takes the York City. - MHF !.if GroUer Club. The firsr male offers a new perspective on traveler through attractions Winthrop Scholar at vacationing in France. where "the tourist - regard- Mark Samuels Lasner '74 Connecticut College, Instead of embarking on a less of his accent - is treated Samuels Lasner is president of whirlwind tour that leaves like a welcome guest." William Aflinghalll: A the William Morris Society. senses overtaxed and memo- The Road From the Past is a Bibliographical Study, 1993, -MHF ries blurred, Caro suggests must-read for anyone plan- Holmes Publishing Co., 88 traveling through history and ning a trip to France. Better pages, bibliography visiting sites in chronological yet, take the book with you, Shelley Stoehr '91 order. and enjoy Caro's informative A Selective Checklist of the Her tour takes the traveler and beguiling writing while Published Work !.if Aubrey Weird on the Outside, 1995, Delacorte, 212 pages, fiction. off the beaten path to dis- visiting the Pont du Card or Beardsley, 1995, Thomas G. cover beautiful fortresses, the gardens ofVillandry. Even Boss, 128 pages, Stacey Bascombe has every- monasteries and chateaux bibliography. thing a lS-year-old girl could from Provence to Paris and want: beauty, brains, money encompasses a historical Mark Samuels Lasner revised and freedom. But after get- period of more than and expanded articles pub- ting expelled from a private 2,000 years. The book lished in The Book Collector to school, Stacey leaves her offers fascinating produce William Allingham: A Boston home and her father, accounts of the men Bibliograpfu'cal Study. The an MIT professor. A disap- and women of French book begins with a lengthy pointing trip history in addition to introductory comment on to the South discourses on the poet Allingham - whom to see her architecture. Yeats once called "my master estranged "To under- in Irish verse" - and his mother stand the works, together with full leaves Stacey centuries descriptions and notes on his feeling even through first and later editions. Based on examination of more unhappy. Finally, she public and private collections, runs away to New York recent scholarship and City. Life is not easy for a archival materials, A Selective high school dropout without Checklist of the Published job skills, and she soon is liv- Caro: "To understand the centuries through which we are traveling, we must know something of the kings and counts, the queens and courtesans - some Works of Aubrey Beardsley is ing in a welfare hotel. Then famous, some not- connected with building the structures we will visit." the first bibliography to be Stacey becomes "Amanda," a
G Spring 1995 • stripper who works in a series the stars with other bouncers of sleazy bars. from different lands. On the first night of her An art major while at new profession, Stacey is cold Connecticut, Knutson lives by a fellow dancer to "never in Massachusetts with her mix this place with the real husband, Michael world." But the worlds of McMahon. - MHF Stacey and Amanda become blurred, and in untangling them, Stacey learns some Peter J. 8rown '76 truths about herself. Providing Executive Protection, Stoehr's writing is honest Vol. II, with various writers, and gritty. She presents a Iik- 1994, The Executive able character in Stacey, who Protection Institute, 335 holds onto her self-respect pages, nonfiction and humor in the seamy world of stripping. The word "bodyguard" con- Shelley Stoehr is a dancer, jures up images of menacing dance teacher, choreographer With 'n the Time o/Butterflies, Middlebury English professor Julia Alvarez '71 looking men in suits who and massage therapist who has created a haunting tale of political martyrdom. hover around important dig- lives in San Francisco with nitaries. In fact, executive her photographer husband, the Hispanic Caribbean. Their Accmts. Now a professor protection is a complex field Mark Buhler. Weird on the Dede Mirabal, the fourth of English at Middlebury that requires preventive mea- Outside is her second novel. sister, who escaped the fate of College, the author attended sures and preplanning. Her first book, Crosses, writ- the others, was and is, in a Connecticut College for two Providing Executive Protection, ten when Stoehr was 19, won sense, doomed to relive their years. She is the daughter of Vol. II, is one in a series honorable mention in the final moments by telling their Julia Tavares Alvarez '48. from The Executive Eighth Annual Delacorte story again and again. -LHB Protection Institute. Press Prize for an Julia Alvarez chose Dede Although written for Pt'> Outstanding First Young as the central fessionals, the book offers Adult Novel. - MHF voice in her Kimberley Knutson '85 insight for anyone who book, a work Bed Bouncers, 1995, might be interested in pursu~ that combines Macmillan, 29 pages, chil- ing a career in executive Julia Alvarez '71 personal and dren's fiction. protection. Brown's chapter In the Time if the Buttesfties, political histo- deals with the growing use 1994, Algonquin, 325 pages, ries to produce Kimberley Knutson is a cross of portable computers and fiction. a fictional account of the sis- between Dr. Seuss and Ezra telecommunications equip- ters' lives. For readers who Jack Keats. She combines ment in the field. On the night of November prefer a clear delineation wonderfully rhythmic and Brown, a freelance writer, 25, 1960, three sisters were between fact and fiction, ill nonsensical rhymes with cut devotes most of his energies ambushed and murdered on a the Time of the Butted1ies may paper collages to create to covering the international deserted highway in the raise more questions than it endearing satellite television industry. Dominican Republic; their provides answers. Those who books for His interest in the field of bodies were later recovered surrender to Alvarez's narra- young chil- executive protection was from the base of a l Su-foot tive will find this a haunting dren. Bed sparked by a book about the cliff The Mirabal sisters, tale. Bouncers, her terrorist Carlos the Jackal, known by their underground Raised in the Dominican third chil- given to him by his classmate code name of "Las Republic, Alvarez came to dren's book, Jay Dezeeuw '76. A former Mariposas," (The Butterflies) the United States at age 10 tells the story of a favorite president of Abbey House had paid the ultimate price when her family fled the bedtime activity - bed and a weNT disc jockey, for opposing the dictatorship oppressive Trujillo regime. bouncing. But in Knutson's Brown lives in Mount of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Alvarez called on these early book, the ceiling fades away, Desert, Maine, with his wife, Trujillo, and their martyrdom experiences for her first nov- and the bed bouncers "spro- Sandra, and daughter, became the stuff oflegend in el, How the Garcia Girls Lost ing, jounce and being" about Jocelyn. - MHF
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Why ask why? Mapper of the cosmos MargaretJ Geller on applying a sense ifwonder
they existed at all - not to Margaret Geller is a pnifessor if universe, all brought to his or here it's really appropriate) find them. But fortunately our astronomy at Harvard and senior her own size. experience of discovery. It is a strategy was well designed and scientist at tile Harvard- Like the artist or composer, high you never forget and one nature was not subtle. The first Smithsonian Center for the scientist is a master of you want to share. slice of the universe we Astrophysics. Her pioneen'ng abstraction. In the process of fn the early 1970s, when I mapped reveals a striking and work in mapping the nearby uni- discovery or understanding, first started to work in cos- surprising pattern. Galaxies verse revolutionized commonly the scientist finds the most mology, there was very little appear on thin surfaces around accepted theoties about its struc- powerful model by painstak- data. Three-dimensional maps vast dark regions, like soap ture. These remarks are excerpted ingly exploring its of the nearby universe con- bubbles 150 million light years from the speech she made at the correspondence with nature. tained about a thousand of the across. This enormous pattern dedication if the F. W. Olin Less restricted by the demand ten or hundred billion galaxies Science Center, April 9, 1995. that their pictures match in the visible universe. is part of me. nature, the artist, the writer Pictures of large areas of the The beauty of understanding eople often ask me, and the composer all construct sky along with these limited Often the scientific gues- "Doesn't it make you pictures of the world they see. maps led people to a simple tions we ask are deceptively Pfeel insignificant to The artist idea about the simple. How do trees know study something so large as makes pre- . general appear- the whole universe?" Some liminary ance of the which way is up? . Children might ask similar days it certainly does, but I sketches; a universe today. questions (and often do). They have to admit that most of composer We knew that the time I feel empowered by tries different 'la galaxies···<· like our ask out of a natural curiosity the curiosity that drives me to sequences and ":'. -. own Milky about the world around them. ..J " Children instinctively recog- continue asking questions. combinations ..•• .:_,;x Way often clus- We human beings are of notes to Eter together in nize the value of knowing for grand because we are refine the systems con- the sake of knowing. endowed with a sense of picture and to taining as many The best scientists are those test how ele- . ."I!fJJ...... ~ as 1000 galaxies who retain the somewhat wonder. We ask questions ~.t In a regIon a naive curiosity of a child. They about nature and, most ments work • t- '. :, remarkably, we can construct to convey the few million see the world with a special models that explain how it message. At light years eye. The extraordinary artistry works. Other creatures may the end of the process, the across, and these clusters of nature is not enough by think, communicate, even creative work is a part of the sometimes form aggregates a itself; it has to be understood wonder, but we are unique artist. A scientific discovery is few tens of millions of light and in that understanding is an in our ability to understand. a part of the scientist. years across. Most thought even greater beauty. In order" to understand, the that was all. The spare elegance of scientist makes a model - a An unforgettable high First indications that there Newton's law of gravity picture - an abstraction A scientist recognizes pat- might be even larger patterns explains the bouncing ball, the which contains (hopefully) all terns in nature. Individual in the universe came in 1981 launch of a rocket, motions in of the important properties of scientists have distinctive styles when Bob Kirshner and his the solar system, and the the natural phenomenon. in approaching these puzzles. colleagues discovered a region motions of galaxies on scales of The more advanced the sci- First there is only the vague they called the void in Bootes hundrecls of millions of light ence, the more complex the outline, a feeling based on - a region 150 million light years. This economy of being picture. Often the picture is experience that there is some- years across where there are able to understand so much cast in mathematical lan- thing which can be few if any galaxies. Well, with so few rules is a triumph guage. Whatever the understood. Then a scientist regions like this one were not of the human mind. One of description, the scientist applies every tool at his or her supposed to exist. But the dis- the great mysteries of nature is "sees" the picture and views disposal to make connections covery raised the question, that we are constructed so that it from many perspectives in that were not recognized and in 1985 John Huchra and we can fmd these laws. the mind's eye. The scientist before. And then, sometimes, I decided to have a look. We This understanding also sees the atom, the cell, the there is the awesome (I know actually expected to show that underlies our technological it's an overused word, but large patterns were very rare if achievements. The construe-
e Spring 1995 d tion and instrumentation of Today we have a model. and in some tens of billions of ancient Chinese philosopher the new generation of very The Big Bang model is our years or so we will end with warned, "Life has a limit, but large - 6.5- to 10-meter - picture of the way the uni- one (you don't need to lose knowledge is without limit. telescopes on the ground verse evolves. This model sleep worrying about this For the limited to pursue the depends on these technologi- makes the simple statement possible catastrophe). The unlimited is futile. To know cal advances, among others. that the early universe was hot universe will have a dense, this and still pursue knowledge The universe is a time and dense; now it's less so hot end. If the density of is even more futile." Douglas machine. With these tele- because it has been expanding, matter in the universe is low, Adams, the author of The scopes we will be able to stretching, for 10 billion years the expansion will continue Hitchhiker's Guide to the observe the distant, younger or more. The universe may be for ever to a very dilute, very Galaxy, cautioned: "There is a universe. When we look out finite or it may be infinite in cold, dark end. The data theory which states that if ever in space to a distance of, say, a extent. point to this end (although anyone discovers exactly what few billion light years, we see The model tells us what to there is plenty of uncertain- the universe is and why it is the universe as it was a few measure to find out which it ty). This conclusion leaves us here, it will instantly disappear billion years ago. The history is. The model says, "Go mea- a bit queasy because it means and be replaced by something of the universe is there for us sure how much matter there is that this history - our histo- even more bizarre and inex- to see! During the last 20 years in every cubic centimeter of ry - is the only one; the plicable. There is another we have made substantial the universe. Easier said than universe will not have anoth- which states that this has progress in learning what the done. Nature er chance to already happened." universe looks like today; dur- has played an begin again in ing the next 20 we will begin unkind trick Children instinctively the future. Preserving wonder to see directly how the enor- on those who recognize the value One of the I am not about to heed mous patterns came to be. try to obtain of knowing for the fascinating these warnings. I want to this number. aspects of this know, and I believe we can Connecling curiosity and self We explore sake of knowing. The rather simple know the answers. I have the It is easier to attach a dollar the universe best scientists are perception of perhaps naive belief that the value to technological by detecting the universe universe is comprehensible achievements than to the fun- ancient pho- those who retain the based on and what we don't manage to damental quest for an tons, light somewhat naive Einstein's theo- understand during my career, understanding of nature, and from galaxi es curiosity of a child. ry of relativity is I have confidence that the many people busy themselves which has the way images next generation will. trying to justify science by traveled to us connected with Our store of imagination doing just that. But what is for hundreds of millions, even it pervade literature and art. and wonder for the future is the value of our sense of won- billions, of years without hit- For example, E.E. Cummings in our children. But in this, der, our curiosity? My ting anything until it ends its wrote, "lenses extend unwish the richest country in the personal answer is that our journey in our detectors. All into curving wherewhen world, one third of our chil- sense of wonder is our most the information we obtain until un wish returns on it dren will spend at least a year valuable asset. Our curiosity about the present universe and unself." Obviously he liked a in poverty before the age of combined with our uncanny its history is contained in these finite universe. T.S. Eliot 16. This situation is far from ability to find explanations ancient photons. But most, 90 wrote, "This is the way the typical of other industrialized defines us. percent or perhaps even 99 world ends ... this is the way nations. With this uncon- My own field, cosmology, percent of the matter in the the world ends ... this is the scionable choice of priorities demonstrates this age-old con- universe is dark, it doesn't way the world ends ... not we are wasting our greatest nection between our sense of emit light detectable at any with a bang but a whimper," resource for the future. wonder and who we are. wavelength. Thus we don't an infinite universe with a Hunger, inadequate med- Every civilization we know know what it is or where it is. cold dark end. ical care, poor housing and wondered about the nature of We can detect it only from the Today, those of us who inferior schools are the ene- the universe - and we motions it causes in the objects work in this field believe that mies of wonder. Doors closed admire that curiosity. The we do see. we can understand the history for so many of our innately ancient Greeks wondered If the universe is dense of the universe and define its curious children cannot easily whether the universe was enough, if there is enough extent. Warnings about limits be opened. It is easier and less comfortably finite in extent, matter to halt the expansion, to our ability to understand expensive in the long run to or was it infinite, extending the universe is finite. In this echo through the ages. For prevent a loss of imagination on and on forever. case we started with a bang example, Chuang Tsu, the than to try to restore the loss.
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and t 1£-00D BY R'CHARD F MOORTON, JR.
uring the past six years the world has seen the themselves situated in an intercon- nected, hierarchically ordered demolition of the Berlin wall, the end of Leninist cosmos. People were defined by socialism, free elections in Russia, and the corning their places in the orderly cosm..ic topography of relationships inter- of the stock exchange to China. The victory of joining nature, animals, humans and Western democracy over Communism has even led social critic gods. In this world, "the good," whether conceived as the cosmic and American foreign policy specialist Francis Fukuyama to order, the will of the gods or the traditions of human society, was pri- speak of the" end of history," the culmination of human political or to and entitled to make claims all evolution in liberal democracy. But has democracy really solved "the right," which may be charac- terized as the freedom of individuals the problems of human social life? to choose. In this conception, the good of the part depended on the good of the whole. Does "The Right" Matter More Than "The Good?" Modern democracy, on the other hand, arose in a world where the individual was being gradually detached from her The Athenians invented democracy at the end of the sixth or his cosmic context by complex cultural forces evolving in century B.C. with the tenet of popular sovereignty exercised the Renaissance, the Reformation, Cartesian psychology, sci- through direct participation of the electorate. In the United entific empiricism and the European Enlightenment. States we modified this concept for the nation-state by creat- The effect of this detachment was to weaken the sense of ing representative democracy, in which citizens are knowing the good and the immediacy of its claims on the represented by elected officials. now insular human being. In this universe, the humanity of A crucial difference between now and then is that persons was conceived less in terms of their location on a Athenian democracy arose in an enchanted world, to use 111ora1map and more in terms of their ability to make choic- sociologist Max Weber's phrase, where human beings felt es suggested by their own reason rather than outside authority. That is, the right came more and more to be principle as isolable from others and in important ways thought of as prior to the good. essentially private, communitarians see the individual as These days, the question of the priority of the good inevitably contextualized in a society and a social tradi- or rhe right is still disputed as part of a debate on the tion, as a being inseparable from her or his story, which nature of democratic culture that has profound implica- inevitably includes other persons whose relationships are tions for the future of democracy throughout the world. ordered by a social tradition. Posing this question is at the heart of the global civil society project at Connecticut College. [See sidebar, Diversity vs. Community and the page l7.-Eds.1 Debate on Multiculturalism Many American liberals (such as philosopher John Both communitarians and liberals view one another's Rawls) and libertarians insist on the priority of right positions as higWy problematic. Liberals insist that the over good. They agree with Jefferson that persons have individual's right to choose is prior to any traditional certain inalienable rights simply because they are good, and they point out that our own tradition has human, and these proponents of the right insist that the been hospitable to very dubious values that were parad- individual's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- ed as goods, such as racism and sexism. Comrnunitar ians piness must be the cardinal principles of democratic counter that liberal democracy has produced an inher- society. Liberals also argue that human beings are so ently unbalanced and even unsustainable social order, a diverse that they call never agree on what the good culture in which everyone has claims, but no one might be, so they must be left free to choose their own accepts responsibility. conception of it. This debate has great relevance to the issue of multi- Cornmunitarians on the other hand, (including such culturalism in the United States. In their quest for prominent thinkers as Amitai Etzioni, who received an diversity, American liberals have been in the forefront of honorary degree from the college last year), argue that a movement to make honored places for minority cul- rights arc inextricably bound up with duties imposed by tures in an American life hitherto dominated by a the sociZllllJture ofhumanity If we have unavoidable mainstream, Eurocentric culture. The diversity this duties, especially duties to others, the implication is that movement seeks is to an extent compatible with the lib- there is some good, some "ought" beyond our will, that eral conception of pluralism, with one important we should choose, even if it means that the freedom of reservation. our will is to that degree restricted. Liberal pluralism is predominantly individualistic. In This implies that some goods are not private but pub- lic. held by the majority of people in a culture. For r xnmplcs, cOllllllllnitarians cite allegedly universal Richard Moonon is all associate professor qf classics aT COIIIICCfi(1l/ virtues such as honesty, loya1ty and reluctance to take College and heads up the "Civic Virtne and tile Future of h1l1113n life. While classical liberals see the individual in Democracy" project, see sidebar page '17. this conception, a plurality of persons will inevitably lem here, too. Communitarians do not seem to provide choose a plurality of goods, all of which must be adequate mechanisms for critiquing from the outside respected since there is no rational way of adjudicating those moral choices that are sanctioned by a given cul- between them. But multiculturalism calls for a plurality ture in a multicultural world. If a particular culture is on of cultures, too, and cultures are social systems. the whole satisfied with its practice of c1itorectomy or African, Native American and Asian cultures are infant exposure or cannibalism (or, to give voice to oth- comparatively communitar ian systems to which the er cultures' criticisms of us, abortion, atheism or individualism implicit in the cultural ideal of pluralism is pornography), is that the end of the matter? Most com- relatively alien. Liberal atomism is potentially fatal to the munitarians would say no, but they have some difficulty tribalism of African culture, the nature spiritualism of in coping with such cases since they conceive of moral Native Americans and the intensely familial organiza- judgments as situated in specific traditions. In such a tion of natives of China. This certainly does not mean conception there are obvious problems with outside that Africans, Native Americans or Chinese must judgments of a moral habit that can only be understood choose between loyalty to their own cultural traditions and evaluated in its own cultural context. and democracy. The first democrats, the Athenians, were also a relatively communalistic people, in this Hope for Enchanted Middle Ground respect more like Africans, Apaches and Manchurians In his book Liberal Purposes, the political philosopher than modern Americans. William Galston has made a bold attempt to bridge the But none of these conununalistic peoples had any gap berween liberalism and communitarianisrn by aban- conception of the radically autonomous individual pur- doning the neutral stance of liberalism toward the good suing private ends that is so characteristic of the and deriving a series of liberal goods from a theory of dominant school of modern liberalism. The danger in universal human nature. These liberal goods include life, promoting minority cultures in America on the terms development, fulfillment, freedom, rationality, social of liberal pluralism is that we will create in the United relationships and the satisfaction of desires. For Galston, States an apparent diversity, masking the underlying the right must come to terms with the good. If valid, homogeneity of a culture of the radically autonomous his universal human goods would enable us to make self. In the name of preserving minority cultures, we cross-cultural moral judgments. would destroy them at their root. This United States As a Liberalthinker, Galsron still favors the individual, would be inhabited by a melange of peoples of many and thus his ideas undercut the values of communal colors but deracinared of their communal cultural tradi- subsocieties in the United States and communal cultures tions by American individualism. This is not a abroad. But unlike many modern liberals, he does not theoretical construct. It is an actual process already well categorically reject the idea of the spirit intrinsic to underway, yet many Americans would approve, since it many traditional cultures and to the roots of our own is precisely this assimilation to the American spirit that culture. Instead, he follows Hegel in identifying a realm makes one American. of "absolute spirit," consisting of art, religion and phi- At first glance, communitar ianism seems more hos- losophy. "Each of these, although it affectsand draws pitable to the real uniqueness of minority cultures in the sustenance from the political sphere, in part escapes and United States or disparate cultures all around the world transcends it," he says. (especiallywhen they are communalist, as they almost Ifby the transcendental we mean an imponderable alwaysare) than liberalism, for all of its championing of something greater than human beings, in relation to people different from the majority. But there is a prob- which human beings realize their meaning, it is proba- -
Teaching He-engagement bly fair to say that all cultures have an intuition of the hen Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S. in the 1830s, he transcendental (though not necessarily a theistic one) was struck by the remarkable commitment to civic associa- that plays a vital role in their traditional conceptions of W tions in this country. He concluded that the strength of American the moral order. democracy was a direct result of this social engagement. More As democracy spreads throughout the world, it is con- and more these days, social scientists think de Tocqueville was templated by people, sometimes of great intelligence and on to something. "Researchers in such fields as education, urban learning, who evaluate it in the context of some tran- poverty, unemployment, the control of crime and drug abuse, and scendental conviction. These convictions take many even health have discovered that successful outcomes are more forms, but in essence they are all varieties of the view likely in civically engaged communities," wrote Harvard interna- that the world is enchanted ~ mysteriously interordered tional affairs professor Robert D. Putnam in an article that in a morally meaningful way. Connecticut College trustees recently read as background for dis- The Western intelligentsia no longer publicly main- tain any variety of this conviction. In part, this is due to cussing the liberal arts. But just when Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia remind us that the natural tendency of democratic culture to conceive emerging democracies need a strong role model in the post Cold- the good too narrowly. Long ago Plato pointed out that War era, evidence of the passion for ultra-individualism, reflected a pluralistic democratic polity is driven by an internal everywhere from the militia movement to the litigation explosion logic to organize itself only around what its intellectually to personal fashion, points to a decline in American social and temperamentally diverse people have in common - the needs and passions of the body. For Plato there was, engagement. What is to be done? Severai years ago President Gaudiani became one of the first potentially at least, a remedy implicit in human nature, public figures to address these concerns when she began speak- the capacity of the rational part of every person to align ing about civic virtues and the need to update these classic these passions to the purposes of the spirit and the order concepts for the modern world. Her concerns became increasing- of the universe. But to do this the mind must look ly relevant as discussion increased among scholars and in reports beyond the political arena. by Newsweekand The New York Times Magazine. Galston rightly points out that the domain of the A major piece ot the intellectual work on civic virtues now is political is the immanent, the here and now. The found- underway at Connecticut College. "Civic Virtue and the Future of ing fathers of the United States would have emphatically Democracy," a two-year project of the Connecticut College Center agreed. Through the separation of church and state, they for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA), arose from kept religion in the private domain because it is too Gaudiani's vision for CC as a model of a civil society practicing important to be entrusted to politics. Marx was so sure civic virtues in a global community. Funded by a grant from the that the immanent was everything that he attempted to National Endowment for the Humanities, the project brings abolish the private sanctum of the transcendental and turn all of human life into the public, political realm. together faculty members from Connecticut College, Three Rivers The fall of Marxism has an implication that most intel- Community College and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. This col- laborative venture is exploring the art of responsible citizenship in lectuals have not yet drawn: the failure of the established and nascent democracies through the reading of clas- repudiation of the transcendental. sical works on democratic traditions, non-Western traditions and As we people of the West engage the world in a great recent studies on emerging democracies. The group is developing conversation about the nature of democracy and human- ity itself, we should remember that to affirm democracy new and revised curriculum materials at the three schools and as the best form of government need not imply that has plans to make them available across the country. - Holly Camerota nothing better lies beyond it. a
he human genome is the Rosetta Stone that be an extraordinary scientific accomplishment, but as with defines our possibilities and our limits. Its the advent of the nuclear age, it also will have revolutionary genes regulate human development, includ- political, moral and social implications. ing normal characteristics such as organ The question is, how greatly will our actions change function and abnormal ones such as disease. when we can know our fate: our likely cause of death pre- Everyone knows that physical characteristics are heredi- dicted to the nearest decade; our strongest aptitudes and tary, but there is growing evidence that our genetic failings; the prospect of painful chronic illness years before architecture defines us in more intimate ways. Over the the first symptom? What issues will it create if we could know all this about loved ones, even those not yet born? coming decade we are likely to find surprisingly strong determinants of intellect, emotion and other human func- What if we could extend this knowledge to include clients, tions that we consider intensely personal. OUf genetic colleagues or subgroups in our society, such as sexual preda- architecture is likely to be the reason why some of us are tors? Should we be permitted to use these insights in the musical geniuses or theoretical physicists or less favorably, decisions of our courts, our businesses, our schools? What if alcoholics, schizophrenics or misanthropes. This knowledge our genetic profile were a matter of public record? Wouldn't will change forever the comfortable mystery with which we we feel that our privacy had been invaded? Enough generalities! approach the future. Medical statistics are The human genome is abstractions - one in nine made up of DNA, a double- women will develop breast stranded molecule in the HOW WILL OUR cancer, or one nun III tune shape of a ladder. If uncoiled, will develop Alzheimer's the DNA in a single human ACTIONS CHANGE disease. They leave us free cell would stretch for about to assume that the "one" two meters, albeit in a very WHEN GENETIC will be someone else or thin strand about two bil- someone else's spouse, lionths of a meter across. To INFORMATION child or sibling. How visualize the challenge of things change when we finding one gene on a specif- ALLOWS US TO PRE- know that we are the one, ic individual's DNA, imagine that our personal chance of that we could enlarge this DICT OUR LIKELY developing Alzheimer's dis- single strand so that it encir- ease is 80 percent or cles the globe. On that scale, CAUSE OF DEATH? greater over the first 60 the DNA in a single gene would span just 11l2th of a years of our life. This is exactly what hap- mile, and a disease-causing defect would occupy only 1/20th of an inch. Yet despite the pened recently for women who carry a gene called BRCA 1. magnitude of the task and the incredibly small scale, essen- A woman with a single copy of this gene, corning from a tially all of the active genes in the body will be decoded over fam.ily with a history of breast cancer, will have a chance of the next three years. developing cancer by age 40 that is 32 times higher than that The knowledge of the function of these 100,000 genes of other women, and an absolute risk of86 percent by the and the ability to create precise genetic maps of individuals time she reaches 80. Similarly, work done by Alan Roses at will not come all at once. But that information, available Duke has established that men and women with a gene from the DNA of a single one of our cells, and its linkage to encodingfor the protein Apo A4 and not for its very close attributes such as intellect, physical appearance, relative Apo A2 will almost certainly develop Alzheimer's disease susceptibility and behavioral repertoire, will change disease. perspectives built over centuries" When complete, this will If you were the woman with the breast cancer gene, this would be good news. Knowing your prospects could greatly improve your chances of survival by close monitoring and George M. Mitne.]«, Ph.D., is a biologist and president if early surgery. Pfizer Central Research, a division if Pfizer, Inc., in Groton, If, however, you are the man facing the prospect of Connecticut, and a trustee if the college. Alzheimer's disease, you have no current therapeutic option.
ConnecticutCollegeM"agazille G Beyond arranging my affairs, I know what I would do. I might never have been realized. Career counseling might would handle my disease exactly the way the AIDS activists take on a more powerful and productive role. We could place have handled AfDS. I would create a politically and emo- individuals in jobs that maximize their potential and which tionally powerful lobby to work on a cure. minimize their environmental/medical risk. In the end it As more and more genes are decoded, imagine a govern- may be far more productive to embrace the reality of our ment and a health care system faced with not just one such genetically ordained uniqueness and regard the knowledge as set of pleas but a hundred. As a first consequence, it seems a form of superior insight. This would have not only pro- inevitable that public support for unprecedented levels of found personal consequences but would alter fundamental research will emerge and that this will create extraordinary approaches to education and social programming. opportunities for new generations of scientists at the NIH, in As for jobs that affect great numbers of people, would it academia and the pharmaceutical industry. At the same time, not be relevant to know if a candidate for high office such as frustration may emerge as the acquisition of genetic knowl- the presidency has a propensity for paranoia or suffers from edge outpaces, for a time, our therapeutic power to an unfortunate gene defect leading to early memory intervene. impairment? But long before the disease What about our off- is evident, as a still outwardly spring? How will or should healthy individual, [ would WOULD IT NOT BE this knowledge change our be facing problems. I would decisions and actions as par- be labeled with what the RELEVANT TO KNOW ents? A word that would insurance industry calls a apply here as never before is "pre-existing condition." I IF A CANDIDATE FOR "accountability." If you elect would likely not be able to not to get yourself screened get either medical insurance HIGH OFFICE, SUCH and your child is born with or life insurance at non- a now predictable defect, ruinous rates. In response I AS THE PRESIDENCY, what is your responsibility could raise the cry of person- to the child to have taken al privacy as the AIDS groups HAS A PROPENSITY preventive action? What is have, but that is not the safe the responsibility of society? haven it appears to be. FOR PARANOIA? As Richard Dawkins says For insurance to be prof- in ills book, The Selfish itable, it requires ignorance of Gene, "There is no welfare outcomes. Thus, privacy pre- state in nature. Any gene for sents a problem to the insurance industry because it allows overindulgence is punished. The children containing that me to "game" the system. If I know, but the company does gene starve." We increasingly recognize that the health care not, that I will die early, I will buy lots of insurance. But if I system must set priorities and may not be prepared to sup- know I am healthy I might forgo insurance altogether. I can port the diversion of massive resources to the treatment of protect my right to privacy, but the insurance companies will infants who have low prospects of survival, neglecting the force me to make a telling economic choice. I do not need needs of a larger constituency. The system may say that the to agree to an HIV test or any other, but they don't need to parents have a right to decide if a pregnancy will proceed to agree to a low premium. The result is that I will wind up in term, but the system only will subsidize the outcome up to a the high risk pool - albeit with my principles, if not my certain limit. Abortion is an option, but one that many will wallet, intact. find repugnant. The consequence will be a debate between The consequence of this scenario is that the insurance the ethicists, theologians, social engineers and the politicians industry and its premise of shared risk would cease to exist. that is unlikely to "set us free." Health care coverage without respect to prior conditions becomes not just nice but essential, since we will all have Not all difficulty and darkness pre-existing conditions at birth and even before. In other respects, gene science should indeed free us from What about the workplace? The tendency is to focus on maladies that today offer no escape. One exciting potential is the negative consequences. One potential positive outcome gene therapy that uses the information from the genome would be a greater ability to recognize hidden aptitudes that project in a pro-active way. While the full application of this fJ Spring 1995 •
technology is still years off, progress to date is impressive. I believe that combinations of information technology Recently a 29-year old Canadian woman with a hereditary with genomic knowledge will allow the design and delivery disorder that clogs her arteries had a normal gene trans- of highly individualized, outcomes-based medicine that will planted into her cells to perform a function that her own satisfy not only consumer demand for quality but also pro- defective gene could not fulfill. (She lacked the structures vide a better economic solution: The right therapy for the on her liver that allow it to detect and eliminate LDL cho- right person. Iesrerol.) The new gene was inserted into some of her liver cells, and her blood cholesterol dropped by 15-30 percent Power to the people - not a cure, but a major advance. It seems to me that decisions about what to do with Even in the case of parents who both carry the deadly genetic information belong to the individual or couple who Tay-Sachs gene there are new options. In a recent case, four will have to live with the consequences. The more genes we eggs were removed from the mother and fertilized with discover, the more difficult the decisions we face will sperm from the father. Three days later a single cell was become as we grapple with information that potentially removed from each fertilized could benefit (or harm) egg and tested for the presence us or our offspring. ofTay-Sachs. One of the eggs Increasingly, these situations that was free of the genetic will involve genes for con- defect was then implanted and ditions that are not likely to carried to term. prove lethal in adolescence, The trouble is that once you but that might affect longer start down the road of genetic and more meaningful sur- determinism it becomes diffi- vival. As these issues are cult to stop, and this leads to brought into larger relief in the question of eugenics. We the years immediately will be tempted to explain not ahead, the instinct will be just disease but all human to move to legislative solu- behavior in terms of genes. tions. This may buy time, Not that environment is irrel- but it is neither effective evant, it is just that the nor empowermg. evidence in favor of nature Motivated parents and indi- over nurture continues to viduals will evade these strengthen. This has potential- restrictions. Evasions aside, ly revolutionary implications for our penal and social is this the right haven in the storm that inevitably will sur- systems. The focus turns from a model predicated on pun- round us? ishment and rehabilitation to one that recognizes that Thomas Jefferson wrote in an 1820 letter: certain individuals, such as sexual predators, may be unable "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of to control themselves when faced with temptation and so the society but the people themselves, and if we think them need to be detained away from the broad public. This cre- not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a ates issues of individual civil liberties versus the safety of the wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from public, but it also may provide a more fact-oriented them but to inform their discretion." approach to these poorly solved problems in our society. In the end I believe the paradigm shift I have been outlin- ing will provide the rejuvenated basis in thinking and insight A possible boon for health care? that is needed to move us to a new level. I believe that the What will happen to health care as a result of the genetics United States, with its preeminent strength in biotechnolo- revolution? Here I am very hopeful for the place of the gy and its traditions of personal freedom and self-reliant individual. Right now governments and HMOs are trying problem-solving, is in a unique position to lead this revolu- to deliver cost-efficient health care by deriving rules based tion. The challenge will be to keep our nerve during the on the average patient as opposed to the individual needs of middle parts, when the outcomes appear most threatening. real patients. The result is far from rewarding, intellectually, We will be better prepared and more confident of our prin- emotionally or economically. ciples if we have taken the time to think. a
ConnecticutCollegeMagazillc -. Islands of Integrity
have focused on developing oonetuning Nancy Zucker Boswell '65 countries where the impact in to last of corruption is greatest. December's is working to rid international Boswell believes that recent summit business transactions of an efforts toward political and meetingN between the age-old problem - bribery. economic reforms must be United States and its entrenched. "We're in a cnri- Latin American neighbors cal window of opportunity in would have seen interna- tional lawyer Nancy by Warren Cohen '89 supporting democracies," says Zucker Boswell '65. Yet Boswell. Of the major economic Boswell was instrumental behind the scenes, mak- powers, only the United ing sure that the delegates would address the sensitive issue of States has a law preventing its companies from bribing for- government corruption. If public officials continue to accept eign officials. Other countries have refused to pass similar kickbacks from private sector patrons, economic and political statutes for fear that their business communities would be put reforms in Latin America would be endangered. Boswell at a disadvantage. Boswell deplores this double standard: achieved her goal. The final conference document included "Those governments won't allow bribes in their own coun- the first-ever resolution calling for a bribery-free hemisphere. try, but they make the practice tax-deductible if it's done Fighting corruption around the world, daunting as it may overseas seem, has become Boswell's full-time job. She is managing Along with the U.S.-Latin American conunitments, TI director of the U.S. arm of Transparency International. TI is achieved a big victory when the Organization of Economic a Berlin-based group formed in 1993 with an annual budget Cooperation and Development passed a declaration last May of$lmillion that is dedicated to stopping criminal and ethi- calling for its 25 member countries (including most cal violations perpetrated by bureaucrats and businessmen. European nations, Australia and Japan) to take measures to "We focus on abuse of public power for private gain," says combat bribery of foreign officials. TI is tracking legislation Boswell. "We have to change cultures by encouraging in these countries to make sure they comply and, if necessary, change from public officials, companies and individuals." to lobby for stricter standards. Corruption is like pollution: it may not be visible to the TI originally was modeled after Amnesty International, eye but over time can poison a country's civil atmosphere. which uses shame to generate negative public reaction toward Boswell sees the effects. When officials accept bribes while repressive governments that jail political prisoners. But TI doling out government contracts, the cost of the project is decided that same approach would be counterproductive in often inflated, hurting taxpayers. That is because a deserving fighting corruption because it would make bureaucrats close company that gets passed over probably would have done the ranks instead of promoting "transparency," or open dealings. work cheaper or better; principled companies may shut Boswell believes that the press or a country's judiciary offi- down if business flows to crooked competitors. Widespread cials are the appropriate bodies to ferret out individual graft also can disillusion citizens with the idea of democracy instances of corruption. Furthermore, Boswell says that and free markets. drawing attention to each case of abuse would not solve the Like pollution, the taint of corruption is evident in every structural problems that allow corruption to flourish. "There country. But to disinfect the political process, Boswell and TI are always bad people corning in and out of government," she
fa Spriug '1995 says. "You have to try to make systems that liThe honor code honor code was very influential, reminding us either don't allow them to take advantage of that everyone of us has responsibilities," she says. their position or that reveal what they are was very influential, Boswell's pursuit of careers in international doing." affairs and government relations, combined with TI opens chapters in countries that request reminding us that her ethical framework, prepared her for the posi- assistance and demonstrate a commitment to tion at TI. After graduating as a European history every one of us has fighting corruption. The group turned down major, she worked in Citibank's international banking department for five years. She then a request for aid from drug-infested responsibilities." Colombia, for example. So far, TI has estab- moved to Washington, nc., to represent the lished chapters in 40 countries. These branches help officials American Association of University Women. In 1983, pass anti-bribery measures, which can include laws that ban Boswell went to American University to gain her law degree the practice or end the tax-deductibility of bribes. and later worked as an international lawyer on trade issues for TI has seen tangible results. A few years ago in Ecuador, a the Washington firm Steptoe & Johnson. corrupt official was paid off in exchange for purchasing nine TI operates on donations from corporations, countries and trains from a French company. When the trains were deliv- private foundations. Boswell, who joined TI last May, is the ered, they were too heavy to run on the country's tracks. A only paid staffer in the U.S. and depends on volunteer sup- new vice-president, Alberto Dahik, asked TI to develop an port from board members and corporate supporters. anti-corruption strategy. The aim was to create a law requir- The arrangement doesn't give Boswell many resources for ing company executives bidding on Ecuadorian public her group's ambitious mission. Though she is confident projects to sign a pledge that there would be no bribes. about the chances to purify politics, she says that there is Ecuador would refuse bids from companies that did not sign. much work ahead. As she readily admits, "Changing cultures The policy was successful in the bidding process for a $160 could take generations." e million oil refinery project and will be used as the country privatizes more state-run enterprises. Boswell hopes to spread more "islands of integrity" throughout the world. Such idealism has been a part of her Warren Cohen '89 is a Midwestern correspondel'ltforU.S. News outlook since graduating from Connecticut College. "The & World Report.
ConnecticutCollegeMagazioe e . A TIME To LEAD II WE CAN GET THERE FROM HERE
More cross-disciplinary and experiential The new plan is a natural follow-up to its predeces- sor. Having proven its ability to meet "stretch" goals, learning, increased use of educational the college set even more ambitious objectives. (To technology, and community building are key receive a complete copy of the plan, call Vice President for Planning and Enrollinent Management Claire elements of the college's new strategic plan. Matthews at 203-439-2200.) The following are highlights of the plan. with a few by Leslie Gifford notes on the initiatives that are already being achieved. BLENDING THE BEST OF NEW AND OLD rx YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT TO INCREASE ACADEMIC RIGOR the college'san~bitiousvision for the future oflib- Seral arts education, observers of higher education hauled out the old Yankee saw, "Ya caan't get theyah he most i,:1portant academic goal in the plan is to from heeyah." What they didn't understand was, Thone the intellectual experience and stretch it in Connecticut College had a plan. new directions. The college envisions establishing new The college's first comprehensive strategic plan, "A programs that cross disciplines and build on existing Time to Lead," ended its five-year life in the spring of academic centers, 1994 with an impressive list of accomplished goals [See including the Center for sidebar] and the momentum to launch into the next International Studies five years. and the Liberal Arts, This past December, the Board of Trustees heartily the Center for endorsed" A Time to Lead II." Teams of students, (K- Conservation Biology ulry members, staff, alumni and trustees had drafted the and Environmental plan during the previous 18 months, and every signifi- Studies, and the Center cant campus constituency had ratified it. Then it was for Arts & Technology. time for action. The college also foresees a new Center for Community Challenges and is considering a center for teaching and research in the social sciences. The college commits to increasing academic rigor, as quantified by key factors: the number of graduates who have conducted joint research projects with faculty; the number of graduates who achieve post-baccalaureate national and international honors; the level of alumni engagement with academic departments and centers; and the number of students who have accomplished honors, individual study or senior integrative projects before graduation.
ew educational applications of information tech- Nnology are emerging at a dizzying rate. The plan
Used correctly, educational technology, such as this satellite transmission from abroad, will allow faculty 10 spend more personal lime with students.
G Spring 1995 provides for integrating video, CD-ROM and other of the information superhighway: The art of letter- interactive technologies into standard courses. The writing, it seems, has made a comeback through library is in the vanguard of these changes. With fund- E-maiL ing from the Davis Educational Foundation, the library "Every year, more and more students are bringing has established an elec- their own computers to campus," says Matthews. tronic classroom for Mandated by the plan, she adds, the Admissions Office library instruction and will continue to encourage this trend by educating spearheaded the drive to incoming freshmen about the climate for technology provide new ways for here at the college and by offering user-friendly orien- getting information to tations to campus technology and the opportunities users. Students and fac- for wiring into it. To ensure equal access to informa- ulty are gaining fast tion, every Connecticut College student will have a access to information personal computer. that in the past was out of their grasp or impossi- he plan strongly endorses improvements in tradi- ble to locate. Ttional and current academic activities. To prepare In fact, says Librarian Connie Dowell, by August of graduates to be "adaptable" throughout lives that will this year, "We will be the liberal arts college that has continue beyond the middle of the next century, the gone the furthest in infusing information technology, plan commits the college to grounding students in an and we will be a model for how small, residential liberal "understanding of human struggle and accomplishment arts colleges can give students. the ability to filter the in the past." It also promises to help flood of data and information, transforming it into students "generate new ideas, criti- knowledge, understanding and ultimately, wisdom." cally examine their own and other The introduction of sophisticated technology, she points of view, organize and lead, says, will greatly expand students' intellectual and cre- and respect and work effectively ative efforts. In addition to placing a complex trail of with others." cross-referenced information at scholars' fingertips, the The plan pledges the college to Internet and other resources make a vast variety of reforming the academic advising media - from music to moving pictures to dance pro- system and increasing the coher- ductions - easily accessible. ence and intellectual standard of Another benefit, she says, is that, "If technology is General Education. (The faculty used right, it will allow faculty to spend more personal passed new requirements this time with students," offering more opportunity for spring, see page 5.) The document incorporates a cam- meaningful discussion and joint research. Already, much pus consensus on improving the library's holdings and of the COl1U11Unityisquite at home on at least one lane increasing its services to faculty and students, on creat- ing stronger support services for "writing, study skills, and special and personal needs" and on strengthening the Gender and Women's Studies program. Foreign language proficiency is an essential and increasingly important component of the General Education requirements, and the college will continue to enhance its international vision. A new program in American Comparative Cultural Studies is designed to help students expand their knowledge of the U.S. by looking at it from the perspectives of other countries and cultures. The program's first course - offered last semester - gave students the opportunity to study the cultural and political impact of exporting American products, mass culture, values and foreign aid. Expanding on the existing Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts, a new program - Study Abroad/Teach Abroad, which in its pilot year wok stu- Video, CD-ROM and other interactive technologies, such as the music dents and faculty to Mexico this spring - emphasizes analysis software being used here, increasingly will be integrated into living and learning in countries less traveled. standard courses.
ConnecticutCollegeMagazilJc fa will develop in response Destinations for the 1995-1996 academic year are South to the changing needs Africa and Tanzania in the £111 and India and Mexico in of the world communi- the spring. ty. The center will Here at home, the Foreign Languages Across the formalize the college's Curriculum program encourages students and professors interaction with off- who speak or read in a foreign language to exercise campus communities their skills in non-language courses in the arts, sciences, and help share social sciences and humanities. FLAC-designated cours- resources. es are regular offerings that include an optional and A good portion of additional foreign language component. These special the center's mission will sections will meet for an hour each week - and "pay" an extra academic credit - in addition to regular class be to educate faculty members about the benefits of times, to discuss supplemental, course-related foreign service learning and to help them incorporate it into more of their courses. Says Art Ferrari, newly appointed dean of the college and professor of sociology, "Experiential knowledge lasts the longest, goes the deepest and has the greatest impact." The college remains actively committed to diversity in both faculty and students. Earlier this year, the New London Day compared Connecticut College to three other area institutions of higher learning and deter- mined that Connecticut had been the most successful in efforts to diversify. "One of the keys to Conn's success," the paper reports, "has been the receptiveness of the faculty to seek out and hire minorities ... " The account quotes Provost Steve Loomis as saying, "It hasn't been a top-down situation. There is a potential for hiring committees, dominated by whites, to continue to hire other whites for teaching positions unless 'the mold' is smashed." Loomis told the paper that "The college does The plan calls for new programs that build bridges across disciplines, such not set out to hire a minority teacher. Instead, it tries to as the Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies. see how a particular candidate will fit into its campus." So it is, too, with students. In the plan the college language texts. This fall, FLAC courses will include commits itself to maintaining diversity in the student Anthropology 232f, "The Ethnology of Mesoamerica;" population to reflect the average of colleges and univer- Computer Science I11f, "Introduction to Computers," sities nationwide. Currently, students of color comprise which will use Spanish interactive software and multi- 20 percent of the media and the Internet; History 237, "Early Modern freshman class (The Europe 1500-1750," which will address primary histori- national average is 21 cal texts in German; and Economics 416, "Topics in the percent.) The push History of Economic Thought: Adam Smith," which continues at all levels will invest in texts written by French economic of the admissions philosophers, in English. process. Actions taken to date, says STRENGHTENING COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY Matthews, include AND ALUMNI TIES increased interviews in urban areas; bilin- o b~lildconununity, the plan specifies "new options gual fact sheets on Tfor informal and formal student-faculty interac- college programs. tion." One such option will be participation in the new To boost institutional pride, the plan outlines new Center for Community Challenges, designed to coordi- ways to draw the entire community into the same con- nate all volunteerism, service learning, the Office of versation. The new Human Endowment Program Volunteers for Community Service, the High School supports projects that bring alumni together with peers Student Advancement Program and other programs that through career services and advisory committees, with e Spring 1995 current students through counseling, and internships which is to build the college's and with academic programs through continuing edu- endowment. In the last five years, cational opportunities, including those that make use of the endowment doubled. That's the latest in technological innovation. The Alumni good news, but at about $62 mil- Council program has been set in place to facilitate, rec- lion, Connecticut College's ognize and enhance opportunities for alumni endowment falls far short of its participation in college life. peers, thus threatening the col- lege's ability to do more. The THE BOTTOM LINE board set the specific goals of the campaign at its meeting in May. learly, the college has a lot on its plate for the next Details will appear in the fall Cfive years. These initiatives, which will not come Honor Roll of Giving issue of Connecticut College without a cost, are meant to endure. That will require Magazine. not only paying for them now but providing for the Suffice it to say that the targets for scholarships, pro- future as well. fessorships, program support and general use are Realizing this, the college has drafted a comprehen- ambitious. The plan is in place. The work has started. sive development campaign, the overriding goal of Connecticut College will get there from here. e
REVAMPED CURRICULUM, BETTER TEACHING SUPPORT, A MORE DIV,ERSE COMMUNJTY Accomplished actions from ?I Time To Lead'
I. FACULTY SUPPORT • Athletic Center additions include new swimming pool, • 312 teaching load; field house, rowing ranks, climbing wall; • Salary gap-closing improved ranking among peer colleges, • Financial aid approved for Study Away students; with 40% increase in average faculty salary; • Internships and research opportunities for students • Computers provided for all faculty; increased; • New communications system provides global access to • Increase in Honors and Independent study projects; scholarship and information sources; • Extracurricular opportunities reflect increased deversity of • Research and travel funds increased by 40%; student body, e.g. Case-], community service; Dean's Term • Full-year sabbatical support raised to 80%; created; • Intellectual Venture Capital fund supports innovative • Students participated in developing 32 multicultural courses teaching .initiatives, or course units through MIMIC grant. • Significant increase in faculty grant applications and awards. IV. COMMUNITY LIFE II. ACADEMIC STRENGTH • Faculty ethnic diversity increased from 3% in 1989-90 to • Six faculty positions added; 8% in 1994-95; • General Education plan approved; • Staff ethnic diversity increased from 12% in 1989 to 16% in • Centers created in International Studies and the Liberal 1993; Arts (CISLA), Conservation Biology and Environmental • 20% students of color in Class of 1998; Studies, and Arts and Technology; • Total compensation for staff made competitive with col- • Significant progress made toward increasing role of science lege's reference group and area employers; in the curriculum: applicant interest in science majors • Fringe benefits package made congruent with college's ref- increased from 12% to 19%; introductory courses revamped; erence groups; EW Olin Foundation funded a $7-million dollar science • Equirable higher education benefits plan for full-time facul- building; Keck foundation supports student summer research. ty and staff developed; • Alumni and parents better engaged with the college: alum- III. STUDENT LIFE ni participation in Annual Fund increased from 36% to 45%; • Honor Code strengthened: Honor Code question added to • Improved relations with the New London conununity. admissions application; unproctored final examinations denied to students convicted on Academic Honor Code vio- V.GENERAL lations; • Improved public relations: Connecticut College Magazine; • Unity House relocated and programs strengthened; more media coverage; improved name recognition; • Improved coordination of health and counseling services; • Endowment doubled from $30.9 to $62.7 million between • Crozier-Williams renovation fully funded 1988 and 1993.
ConnecticutCollegeiHagazille II Portfolio Meredith Morten Davis '72
Art with an attitude FAMILY VALUES V
Aform cf social COlllllleHrary, Family values presents an image if " MY installations are based conceptual- lyon experiences from my life as a domestic Iabor in thefonn if children's laundry and calls attention to 1950s baby boomer," says artist Meredith the traditional role of women within the home. More than 300 Davis '72. Allhough the symbolism may be T-shirts and undershirts of varying shapes hallgfrom intersecting personal, the works themselves address clotheslines visually suggestive if the spontaneity, joy and innocence cf social issues and value systems, striking smafl children: In the background, the sound if a washing machine chords that may be famitiar to many. cycles endlessly. On the wall are excerpts of letters and diaries written A member of Mobius, the Boston-based by women if d[lJerent geHCratioHs. Drawn into the piece, the viewer center for experimental work in all media, discovers statistics written on manila tags hangingfiol11 the sleeves of Davis works independently as well as collabo- the shirts. The statistics! gathered from sources such as the Us. ratively, incorporating sculpture, sound, light Bt/reau of Lobot, the Buremt cif Census and other agencies) reveal a and performance into her works. After gradu- harsh reality cifwomen!s economic status in America. Viewers are ating from Coonecticut College, Davis earned encouraged to interact with the piece by tOl/ching the tags and shirts an M.F.A. trom the Massachusetts College of and moving through the clotheslines. Art. Her multimedia works have been includ- Family values has been. imtalled five times since its conception in ed in exhibits at galleries, museums and October 1992; a sixth version will be installed at Dartmollth College universities throughout New England, most this 5/A111I1'ICr. - MJ\!ID recently at the DeCordova Museum in an exhibit titled "Strokes of Genius."
• Spring 1995 . I MADE My BED
This multimedia installation focuses on the relinquishment of child- hood. I Made My Bed presents riflections 0/1 my childhood through juxtaposition if iII/agel}' in sculpture, film and sound. An aura of dis- tant and fleeting memories permeates the blackened gallery within a context if death and departure. Entry to the installation is through a fivejoot-high opming. Having stooped to enter, the viewer finds hnn/hersetj in a dill/ly lit space punctuated withfaint yetjamifiar sounds. Seven cerulean swings hang at strange angles, son te too high, As part of the opening reception, my daughter and l performed a committal service. She personified my sonic too low, aile totally broken. Apart from the others, a [unctionot childhood, I represented myself in present time. In swing is availablefor lise. Oak leaves, lightly scattered on the fioor, an overly simplified account, I made a bed of leaves on which she came to rest. Blanketing her crinkle underfoot. Others partially bury old dolls, books and childhood body with the picnic blanket she had used earlier, J paraphernalia. surrounded her small frame with her dolls, stuffed Dividing the gallery is a Imge black partition on which blurry animals and picnic paraphernalia. As a final ges- ture I postuoned her toy wagon on end at her head imagery jrom Illy childhood is projected. A SO/HIdtrack - a layering and departed, leaving several 01 the tilted swings if children's voices, Raggedy AI/It stories, tolling bells, creaking swings silently swaying. and Ave Mario - wafts in and out ifrange. Behind the projection wall, a white hospital bed hangs disjointed and askew. A mass oj vines joraj/./Ily pushes up through the springs. The viewer is reminded that not all childhood memories are pleasant; the pahiflll ones remain vivid regardless how well hidden or denied. - MMD
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I) Spring 1995 bra ted Christmas at home with our families She spent two weeks in FL with her niece last They're (almost} Here! with the exception of Steven, who lives in Feb. and hopes to return. She frequently visits Snowmass, CO. r have a first cousin, two Ruth Chittim Eufemia in Norwalk. "At generations removed, Christopher MacLean, 80, I'm still on the payroll for my town." The 1995 alumni directories will who is a student at Cc. In Nov., I received a Evelyn Kelly Head writes, "My two girls happy call from Elizabeth Corbly Farrell, are now living on the Cape. What a great joy. be mailed around July 1, 1995 to who was visiting her son Michael in Indoor sports are bridge, reading, knitting and all alumni who pre-ordered. For Westport. Lunch in New Haven was her socializing with friends. I do enjoy the college goal, with as many alumnae as could be gath- magazine. Still think the women are short- more information, call the Alumni ered. Kay Jenks Morton, Dorothea changed in some areas since going co-ed." Schaub Schwarzkopf and I met her at the Office at 203-439-2300. train station, drove to jimmy's on Long Island Sound, where we ate well and enjoyed the sea Correspondent; view. We reminisced about our senior year in Thanks for your patience! Edith Burnham Carlough Harkness and came up to date on families. 2 Prospect Street Unfortunately, Marion Warren Rankin and Northborough, 1'vlA 01532 Marion White Van der Leur were unable 37 to Jam us. We put Betty-Ann on the train Correspondent: This is simply a report from your humble cor- and hoped we might get to see her in Sabrina (Subby) Burr Sanders respondent, written in advance of the 133 Boulter Rd. Columbia, MD. submission date, with apologies. I am in the Wethersfield, CT 06109 The class sends its deepest sympathy to the 35 throes of moving from NJ to MA to be near family and friends of Ruth Fairfield Day. one of my "chilluns" in my declining years. who died on 10/29/94 after a long illness. Virginia Diehl Moorhead, in good health, Once the dust has settled and my new little still enjoys her views of Lake Erie and again home has become familiar to me again, I hope urges us all to get to reunion. to pick up the threads of communication and Virginia Golden Kent met her family Send news to; have some news from all of you out there. for Thanksgiving in Mystic and took a ride Connecticut College },Ilagazille 270 Mohegan Ave. around campus before returning home. New London, CT 06320 Cortespondent: Maylah Hallock Park enjoyed golf this 36 Mary Caroline summer with her family, including their first (MC) Jenks Sweet great-grandchild, a little beauty. In Feb., they AIys Griswold Harnan writes, "None too 361 West St. went to Los Angeles for a cruise through the exciting - usual routine in Old Lyme." Alys Needham, lvl.A 02194 sees some of her classmates, including Alice 38 Panama Canal, ending at Sanibel and Do rrnan Webster and Betty Davis Gasparilla for a vacation. Last Dec., Kris Lambert '69, executive direc- Pierson. Her granddaughter is in her last year Barbara Hervey Reussow looks for- tor of the Alumni Association, was coming to at Roger Williams V., and a grandson is in his ward to moving to Lake Port Square in Boston and invited Frances Walker Chase first year at the U. of Eastern Kentucky. "I Leesburg, FL, after their house is sold and is Anne Oppenheim Freed and myself to join did accomplish someting in '94. I had shingles making an application for volunteer work in her for conversation and lunch at the in spring and at the age of 80 gave chicken the medical center there. Veronique Restaurant. Frances was readying Audrey LaCourse Parsons is taking a pox to my two grandchildren. They did not for a trip to London to see her family for the course in CPR and continues biking, garden- appreciate Granny's Easter gift!" holidays. Last Oct., the college presented Patricia Burton Burton writes that she's ing, swimming and bridge. Her 7-year-old Anne with the Harriet B. Lawrence '34 prize, granddaughter won three firsts in her first fortunate to have her children and 14 grand- which is given to a member of the horse show, and her grandson is a whiz at children close by. She and husband, Kember, Connecticut College community who has soccer. Her other granddaughter, who is in enjoyed a .trip to Greece in Sept. Kember is made outstanding contributions to a changing second grade, reads at the eighth grade level still working at a "post-retirement" job, and society. Anne received a Fulbright Fellowship Patricia is doing volunteer work. They are and wears Audrey out. to teach in a Bulgarian university that includ- Esther Martin Snow, still savoring her grateful for good health. ed special seminars for the Ministry of Social festive 80th birthday party, is busy volunteer- Margaret Stark Huepper sold her home Welfare. While there, Anne was instrumental ing at her church, Shaker Village and in Larchmont, NY, and moved to a retire- in starting a master's in social work program. Concord Hospital. ment community, Heritage Commons, in Both Anne and Roy are involved in countless Ceil Silverman Grodner and Dr. Milt Middletown, CT. Son Steven and daughter projects to aid Bulgaria: collecting books on have become professional volunteers who Nancy live nearby. Margaret had a wonderful social work and mental health and helping keep very busy. They are delighted with the time visiting her youngest son, Kenny, and Bulgarians come to this country with research best seller H01/! We Die written by Dr. family in Anaheim, CA. and a Balkin studies program at Boston Sherwin B. Nuland, Milt's cousin. Mary Griffin Conklin also sold her College. During the summer, they run a hos- Lois Smith MacGiehan adds the news home (of 44 years) and moved to Shelton tel on Cape Cod for Bulgarian friends. Roy that her daughter, Ruth, in Greenville, SC, CT, to be with her daughter, Judy; son-in- has been busy exhibiting his sculptures on the home schools her seventh grade daughter, law, Gil, and two grandchildren. The class Cape and is proud of his sculpture garden. volunteers at her son's third grade and serves extends sympathy to Mary who lost her hus- Win Nies Northcott really enjoys condo as home mom for her children's friends. band, Henry, on May 5. living in a rural setting with a gorgeous views, Katherine Woodward Curtiss has Olive Tubbs Chendali has been serving especially of sunsets. She is a member of the recovered from a TIA lasr sununer with no ill since,,'87 as municipal historian of East Lyme, Oral Interpreters Committee of the Bell effects except some loss of taste. She enjoys CT. Almost a full-time job without compen- Association. her winter in Bradenton, FL, and looks for- sation - but most interesting." Olive has fun Betty Wagner Knowlton was closing ward to hearing from friends - nothing bet- working in the schools. She's completing her her sumrner house in the mountains of NC ter rhan those to whom you can say, third book, Profiles - Famous and bifalllous,. before retunung to St. Pete when she wrote "Remember when?" Betty Davis Pierson's big news is a new that she and John are traveling more than ever Harry and r (Subby Burr Sanders) ce1e- great-grandchild (total count: 4) born in Jan.
ConnecticutCollegeMagazille G Margaret Kerr Miller has spent busy great. Her happy news is a new namesake having made a trip to Antartica and ending years recovering from bouts of surgery. She is born to cousins in Houston - Elizabeth 1Il New Zealand. They recently returned okay now. Margaret and Edgar celebrated Candee Gilbert II! Liz carries a busy schedule from a trip to New England where they their 50th anniversary with an Elderhosrel trip of travel, golf, bridge, church affairs, garden consumed their of lobster. Wag keeps in fill to Turkey. touch with Betty Smith Johston who club and Colonial Dames, to name a few. Apphia (Muff) Hack Hensley's high- Helen Canty Berns had a wonderful went to St. Pete on a museum tour. Betty lights are traveling and being a docent at the cruise to most of the great art museums on gave up her condo 011 the beach at Tequesta the Atlantic coast. and bought a house next to a golf course. St. Louis Zoo. Doris Hassell Janney reports from Jean Moore deTarnowsky just Wag boasts of 13 grandchildren and one Phoenix that her daughter, Lee, remarried in returned from a marvelous 15-day tour of great-grandson. Oct. in Payson, AZ. The wedding afforded a Switzerland, Austria and Alpine Italy. Selma Silverman Swatsburg always Jane Merritt Bentley moved into a sends a card from her various trips. She and family reunion - daughter Carol and her condo on a golf course with her Springer Harry went on a CC Alumni Archeological children: Land, 3, and Summer,S mos.: daughter Robin with husband and son, Peter, Spaniel in Crass Valley, CA. She is doing a Seminar to Jerusalem, reporting that the from SO; and daughter Kim who lives in slide show for the D.A.R. on "Sketches on weather was hot and the work strenuous. the First Ladies of the White House." Jean Pierce Field has moved to Exeter, Phoenix. Jean Keith Shahan (also in St. Louis) Donna Ed Reynolds and Fred keep NH, to a life care complex with a nursing busy with visits to and frOI11 seven grandchil- facility where her husband, Bob, is being says her portrait painting keeps her as busy as she wants to be. She also does Meals on dren and four great-grandchildren. She and cared for. Barb Twomey have lunch and keep in Please be aware that our class is pretty Wheels, works on the slide registry at the touch with Mary Farrell Morse. Dorothy Iowan the totem pole when it comes to Artist Guild and visits shut-ins as a deacon of Cushing Jealous' family joined them at a percentage giving. Do respond to Class her church. rented condo at April Sound in TX. Agent Ruth (Poofie) Earle Brittan's letter Naomi (Sis) Kissling Fortune, of Miriam Rosnick Dean and Harold say about the Annual Giving Program and to Westchester, NY, has taken her grandchildren nothing is new in their lives, and they are Frances Walker Chase to swell our Class to a ranch in AZ for a week at Christmas. She glad for that. of'38 Scholarship Fund. had to give up tennis and now plays golf - "a little late I'm afraid." Henrietta Dearborn Watson and Joe celebrated their 50th anniversary and took a nostalgic trip to New England. Correspolldellt: Estelle Fasolino Ingenito is still Cottespondesn: Doris Houghton Ott Jane Kennedy Newman employed full time as the director of epi- \72 Marlyn Rd. 46900 Bennonr, Unit 159 demiology at Magee Rehabilitation in Lansdowne, PA 19050 39 41 Punta Gorda, FL 33982 Philadelphia. Rosalie Harrison Mayer and Oscar cel- I received a good response from your post- ebrated his 80th birthday with a delightful cards. Thank you (Shame on you orhersl) trip to Provence. They also spent a week in Ccnespondcnt: all! CO at a Mayer family reunion. They have Elizabeth Thompson Dodge And, a special thanks to Class President 55 Woodland Trail Edythe (Chips) Van Rees Conlon for typ- lots of grandchildren and great-grandchildre». East Falmouth, MA 02536 ing her card. Let's face it, none of our Catherine Elias Moore and Earl have a 40 handwriting is improving - or our memories home on St. Pete where they go occasionally. for that matter! Please remember to sign and They also travel to HI in Nov. for an annual Nancy Beard Forbes is still living all her date your cards. coin convention and to Paris with side trips in Stony Creek, VA, with her brother. farm Chips chatted with Priscilla (Dux) to the mint, Biblioteque Nationale and the Her son was in Russia for three weeks this Duxbury Wescott who was off to South Champagne Country. past hoping to help farmers to make the £111, Africa for a wedding and to see her son. Ethel Moore Wills is busy supervising change to democracy. Chips had a great year visiting and traveling the building of a house on Lake Michigan. Jane Clark Gibney and Al sailed to - back to Switzerland and a house on Lake Janet Peto McClain had a beautiful visit South America for Christmas and New Maionie, and another in an olive grove just to the English countryside with a few days in Years aboard the ship, Crystal Sea. outside de Sienna, Italy. Chips had gorgeous London where she met Ruth Hankins '42. Barbara (Bumpy) Deane Olmsted weather in Seattle and Vancouver to see her Terry Heller-Rodegast had a great trip who already has a remarkable record for daughter Faith's publishing company receive to Prague, Vienna and Budapest. She visited repairs (knees, eyes, carpel tunnel) had more an award. Chips visited with Henrietta her former roommate Bobbie Srnith Srnith than seven hours of back surgery in Sept. Dearborn Watson and Sally Rodney and Gordie in St. Johnsbury, VT. Her daughter, Ann, and husband are moving Cooch, who is successfully battling cancer. Elise Keeney Irving lost her husband of to Coeur d'Alene, ID, and have had great Class Treasurer Mary Lou Gibbons 55 years, but is blessed with five children and trouble finding land to build on. B hopes to Mullen sent off a memorial gift to 10 grandchildren. join them someday when she sells her CA Connecticut in memory of o ur lateClass Phyllis Walters Williams' grandchil- house. She also reports her 10th grandchild, President Ginny Newberry Leach. dren graduated from Denison and Duke. She a boy, Can or, born to son Deane and wife Lots of words from classmates about a and Jack cruised through the Panama Canal in CT. HOT summer and COLD winter and lots of to Acapulco and San Juan. Both have recov- Elizabeth (Betty) Downs Bradley golf, bridge, cruises and good works. ered from heart surgery. spent Thanksgiving with daughter, Carol, Jane Whipple Shaw is an ice dancer. Lee and Millie Loscalzo Vanderpool and family who live less than two hours from She has entered competitions and won! cruised the Mediterranean and had a great trip her on the Cape. After Christmas, however, Congratulations, Jane! She also received a life- to Banff and Lake Louise. a new Job for her son-in-law will take them time membership to the Association of Ginny Chope Richmond is in FL for a way down to Raleigh, NC. American University Women. She and Ernie littl~ R & R after breaking her hip Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune had a heart cruise the western Caribbean on the Nieww Previously, she had a fine trip to Australia, attack in late Sept. at home in Indianapolis. Amsterdam and the southern Caribbean on the New Zealand and Fiji and has plans to visit She had angioplasty to remove a clot in her Windward. France and Spain. artery. Liz has recovered completely and feels
• Sprillg 1995 Ann Rubinstein Husch is doing better Adele Rosebrock Burr and Jack spent after losing Peter and her sister, Peggy. She's five weeks at their condo in Naples, FL, in the THIS NOTICE CONTAINS still teaching yoga, playing flute and visiting fall and another month there in Match. They family in Boston, St. Louis and San Diego. have been going to FL for several years now so CLASSIFIED Her hobby is people and their endless variety. they have found plenty of bridge partners. INFORMATION! Peg Lafore Wyatt and Jack live in a life Mary Stevenson Stow wrote that care retirement community near Stanford. "between bridge, theater, symphony, MUW, Place your classified ad in They enjoy hiking in the coastal range, lap some volunteer work, church and water aero- swimming and aerobic aquacise. The birth of bics, it's been a busy fall!" She went with her ConnecffcutCoNege their 12th grandchild and Jack's B'l sr birthday sister, Sue, and daughter, Susan, to Las Vegas Magazine! coincided. to visit her son Fred and his family, but they Meg Robinson Manning and Rob stayed at the Mirage on the Strip. Susan, who We will print classified advertising from went to England where their grandson was has divorced her husband, Bob, for the second rowing for Tabor Academy in the Henley time, called their threesome the two merry members of the college Regatta. They then drove with their grand- widows and the gay divorcee. Daughter Marty community. Categoriesinclude: sons to Edinburgh and stayed at a B & B. got married (for the third try) in March. Marry Dorothy Boschen Holbein's husband, entertained the entire family at Thanksgiving • For Sale • For Rent Powell, had successful heart surgery, and they in her new big house in Hockessin, DE, just • For Exchange • Bed & Breakfast were able to resume their travels. They took a minutes from Stevie's home. • Services • Wanted to Buy trip on a small ship to the Panama Canal and Beth Tobias Williams followed a great • Position Available • Position Wanted islands and went to 10 for white water raft- Thanksgiving at her daughter Tena's home in ing. Dorothy is the secretary of the Ann Arbor, MI, with two days in NYc. She 1& $25 for all one-time listings (maxi- Bradenton, FL, "Y," where she does aerobics. saw "Showboat," "An Inspector Calls," and mum 40 words). Payment for all inser- Sally Schley Manegold and Bob still the Christmas show at the Radio City Music tions must accompany request. enjoy traveling. Hall, with a personal behind-the-scenes tour. Deadline for the next issue - July 15. Sally Kiskadden McClelland recom- A couple of years ago, Beth fell and broke her Please make checks payable to mends an exotic trek to the Near East and arm while decorating her house for Christmas, Connecticut College Magazine. Send a Southeast Asia where tourists are needed and but it doesn't seem to have stopped her from typed copy of your ad, with your name, welcome. She is busy with hospital volun- either decorating or entertaining. teering and learning to work on a computer. Your correspondent, Jane (Woodie) class, address, and daytime phone to Worley Peak and husband, Paul, went to Classitieds, Connecticut College Paul's 50th reunion at the Coast Guard Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., New Cetrespondctu: Academy, including three days at Chatham London, CT 06320. No phone orders Jane Worley Peak Bars Inn on the Cape. At the formal parade Vinson Hall, Apt. 306 please. 6251 Old Dominion Dr. and review honoring the Class of '45, Paul, as president of the class (for the past years') McLean, VA 22101 51 1& FOR SALE 42 hung a 50-year commemorative medallion A BOX OF MEMORIES- Ten different around the neck of each member of the Class Doris Kaske Renshaw spent the holidays color photographs of Connecticut of '45 and introduced each man to the com- with her daughter, Nan. It was Doris' first mandant of the Coast Guard. An additional College mounted on white embossed Christmas in the North in 22 years. She thrill for us was having our grandnephew, cards with envelopes. $23 (CT add 6% admits that snow is pretty but doesn't like the Jason Peak, fourth classrna» at the Academy, tax). Tia Smith, Custom Stationery cold weather that goes with it. Doris still play in the cadet band for the parade and Photography, 7 Hudson Lane, Essex, CT spends summers at her family home in CT review. Later, Paul and I went to an 06426, Fax:203-767-0798 but winters in Boca Raton, FL. Elderhostel on genealogy at Bentley College, June Perry Mack was invited to a resort Waltham, MA, after which we drove to in Colorado Springs by the investment club 1& SERVICES Montreal to do research on my Loyalist ances- her husband belonged to. The club chooses a PARIS· FLORENCE & VENICE tors who fled New York Colony during the different site each year where they can play Spirited adventures. Unique, personal- Revolution. We spent Thanksgiving with our golf, and widows are always invited. June izedvisits: Paris Sept. 15-25 or Florence daughter Mary (CC '75) and her husband, played hooky one day and had lunch with Frank Helman, at their vacation home in and Venice Oct. 5-17. Art, architecture, Nancy Pribe Greenfield at the Garden of Boothbay Harbor, ME. artisans, gardens, cooking lessons, the Gods Club. Thanksgiving was a big event gourmet meals, countryside tours. in the Mack family, with 30 family members Delightful accommodations. Small and friends in attendance at her son's home in Correspoudeuts: Charlotte Hosfeld group, colorful local guides, lively and Glencoe, IL. June spent Christmas in VT with Tarpy, 50 Pequot Road, another son, and then had a birthday party for Pawtucket, Rl 02861 and jane knowledgeable leader. Loads of fun! For her mother who turned 103 on Jan. 2. Storms Wenneis, 27 Pine Ave., brochure and references, call Kitsie Madison, NJ 07940 Dick and Boots Hingburg Young have 43 ConverseSchelter '63, 215-242-5818. moved from their golf villa to Fleet Landing, a retirement residence in Atlantic Beach, FL, and are happy to be settled in such a lovely Correspolldcl/lS: Elise Abrahams Public Forum Series hit an all time high with Josephson, 25 Antigua Rd., place with warm and friendly people. They Maya Ange1ou. She brought an overflow Santa Fe, NM 87505 and Alice had just been to a "Welcome Aboard Party." Anne Carey Weller, 423 Clifton audience. Many stayed on the steps to hear Boors says that they are in good shape for the 44 Blvd., E. Lansing, MI 48823 her on a P.A. system- unforgettable." shape they're in! Norma Pike Taft and her Kaleidoscope Franny Hyde Forde spent television talk show were hightly commended Edith Miller Kerrigan's high points of '94 Thanksgiving at her daughter Nancy's home by Vice-President Al Gore on the 14th were our gala reunion and a trip to AK with in Annapolis, MD, and got to see her grand- annivers~ry of the show. "Your program is a son, Jack. "My job running the Springfield daughter Kate perf ann in a school concert.
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Twelve alumni who did not know President Gaudiani in Maine, each other met for food, drink and Hartford and Southeastern Conn. discussion. Fifty alumni and guests par- Pres. Claire L. Gaudiani '66 was ticipated in the six dinners hosted by enthusiastically welcomed in Barbara Sagan '70, Ken Jockers '88 Hartford at the Avon Old Farms and Blair Taylor '90, Jane Morgenthau Inn on May 9, in Maine at the '32, Dhuanne Tansill '64, Michael Portland Country Club on May Dubilier '77 and Lucy Siegel '72. 11 and at the college on May. Susan Spencer Cramer '86 coordinated More than 200 alumni.lguests, the event, and the club hopes to have parents and members of the Class a repeat performance next year. of 1999 attended the three events. Thanks to Susan and all the hosts for Special thanks to Nicole Champagne '92 and the Hartford their efforts. Forty five alumni and guests were executive board; to Jane Moody Alumni gather at the President's Reception in Hartford. '49, Michael Wilbur '81 and the entertained by the Cirque de Soleil, Maine executive board; and to Rick Arms MAT '87,Joe the world renowned Canadian circus in April. The executive Palmer '94 and the Southeastern CT executive Board for their board organized chis event specifically for alumni with families. organizing. And finally, more chan 100 alums of the 90s joined forces on April 26 at Polly Esther's, a popular hangout in D.c, Club Starts Washington Internship Program, Manhattan. The executive board was elated with the turnout Connecticut College students are always looking for job expe- and hopes to encourage more alums of the 90s to get involved. rience, and the D.C. executive board was looking for an activ- Thanks to Meg Sheehan '92 for coordinating this event. ity that would involve the club in meaningful work. Through these two needs, the Washington Club Internship Program Southeastern Connecticut Club Keeps a Home-Cooked was born. Washington, D.C., alumni will provide summer Tradition. Students always love a home-cooked meal, and dur- internship opportunities and housing for students from June ing the last week of February, 50 students got just that when 15- Aug 15. Twenty-five students applied for the internship, area alumni invited them to their homes. This year dinners and 10 were successfully placed for this summer's inaugural were held by Rick A1111S MAT '87, Kris Lambert '69, Mike program. The club's executive board plans to expand the pro- Stryker '86, Liz Moreshead '87, Marilyn Bue! '64 and Julie gram and involve more alumni in the coming year. Thanks to Doering '55. Faculty and staff members also were invited to Ken Crerar '77 and Tracey Shipman '86 for launching this participate in this long-standing tradition. Thanks to Liz for exciting new program. planning this event and to all What a Nice Way to Spend Spring Break! Executive Director the hosts. of the Alumni Association Kris Lambert joined Florida alumni for receptions in Fort Myers on March 10. More than 25 Look Who is alumni and guests came to hear Kris's update on the college Coming to and to report on the activity of the club. Cheryl Scheiner '66, Dinner! Have event organizer, is faithfully serving the club as president. On you ever won- March 11, Kris attended a luncheon at the Sarasota home of dered who in Mimi Edlin' 46 where "the company was as warm and inviting your area is a as the weather." Mimi has taken over as club president for the Connecticut Sarasota area. Sincere thanks to Mimi and Cheryl for their College alum Boston teachers gather at the home of Joanna Warner efforts on the Gulf and even better Kennedy '64 (back row, fourth from left). yet, are these New York City Club Scores a Hat Trick with three events. graduates employed in similar fields? Well, to tackle these two Dinner for questions, Marilyn Buel '64 has been organizing dinners for Twelve alumni in similar career fields in Boston, N.Y., Seattle, N.C., Strangers, Calif. and D. C. The first of these dinners was held on April held on ~8 at the home of Joanna Warner Kennedy '64. Joanna, who February 5 IS a teacher, was very interested in talking with other educa- brough t area tors from the Boston area. Eleven alumni attended the casual alumni to the dinner, and by .every account, it was a successful evening. homes of Thanks to Manlyn and Joanna for making this event a reality. alumni hosts in Manhattan. Mark Your Calendars for Thursday, July 27 for the third annu- The dinners al Cape Cod Luncheon. For information call the alumni office were casual at 203-439-231~. Marje Lawrence Weidig '45 has graciously New York's Dinner for Twelve Strangers and intimate: offered to coordinate the event again.
CD Spriug 1995 model worthy of emulation," the Vice- President said, "and has enriched tremendous- ly" its Westchester, NY, viewers. Marion Kane Witter's son George mar- ried an old kindergarten pal in June. They now live in Killer's old house while she becomes "more and more satisfied with my smashing small apartment." She had late sum- mer lunch with Nancy Hotchkiss Marshall, Tedi Pierce Gould and their families. Mary-Jean Moran Hart had visits this summer from a son and family and from a Seattle grandson who spent most of his time learning to play golf In Aug. and Sept., Mary- jean and Ai joined six friends on a trip to Russia and Scandinavia. Too much, too fast. Mimi Griffiths Reed's mother died in june, six weeks after her lOath birthday. The If you are over 55 and retired, or planning to retire, then a house last six months were very difficult. Later Mimi on a Hillcrest Mini-Estate may be for you. had a two week western trip - Spokane, Enjoy the benefits of a retirement community at each day's end Flathead Lake, Lake Louise, Banff, jasper, here in Connecticut near family and friends. Vancouver and Victoria. She's now home All homes are one floor detached houses built with simple luxury and the with time for children and grandchildren. older but active person in mind. Whether you are Virginia Passavant Henderson sends her thanks to all who helped make reunion a enjoying a wooded view from your sunroom, or takinga quiet walk in success. Sid's golfing. Passy's selling real estate. the woods, Hillcrest will help you get more out of life after 55. All four kids are still married to the same For further information call spouses. "A record, I guess." (203) 848-4204 Shirley Berlin Kahn thoroughly 3 Hillcrest Dr., Uncasville, CT 06382 enjoyed reunion. Spent much of her time Hillcrest Office hours: Open Daily with Virginia Binford Turner. Shirley, MINI-ESTATES 10,00 AM - 4,00 PM Binnie and Janet Comtois Stirn '45 met later From 1-395: Exit 79, left on rete 163. right on Rte. 32, right on Maple Ave .. left on Jerome Rd.. right on Moxley Pd., in NY. Reunion pictures in a family album right on Old Colchester Rd.. Hillcrest on right. are influencing granddaughter, Mollie From 1·95:Northbound Exit83, Southbound Exit84. rae. 32 North, 4 lights, then left on Richards Grove Rd . right on Goldburg, to look at CC as a college choice. Old Norwich Rd.. left on Old Colchester pd.. HillcrestIson right (2,8 miles) Brother, Seth, is a happy, busy Harvard sophomore. Lois Hanlon Ward was laid up much of Marjorie Moody Shiffer is recovering dolences - Helen Crawford Tracy's hus- the summer with knee pain, but at least the from surgery to relieve a pinched nerve. She band, Bill, died in his sleep of cancer on removal of two cataracts has made life dearer. was sorry to miss reunion. Wendell is semi- 10/12/94. Lois continues to explore various cities often retired saying that he is "too young to retire with son, Mark. In Aug., she went to Buffalo and has too much to do." They travel with a and Detroit then ended up at Mariana museum group that plans great trips. Parcells Wagoner's summer home on Lake Conespondeu: Mona Friedman Jacobson and George Jane Oberg Rodgers Huron. Mariana had a mini-reunion in Oct. spent a month in Italy. While in Rome, they 7501 Democracy Blvd. Apt. with Lois, Nancy Hotchkiss Marshall, had dinner with the widower of Terry B413Bethesda,MD 20817 Barbara Snow Delaney and Marjorie 45 Cerutti Mannino and their daughter, Gloria, Alexander Harrison. and her new husband, Mario. "It was a sad Elinor Houston Oberlin has no pain and lovely evening." Terry's three children walking after a hip replacement. She will be were educated in the U.S. Mona has a grand- Cor-espondent: Marilyn (Skip) able to swim in a heated pool in CA this win- daughter in the Peace Corps in Gabon. Coughlin Rudolph ter while Dave plays golf. Ellie is brushing up A message from Libby DeMerritt 539 Ford Ave. Kingston,PA 18704 on her Spanish in preparation. Cobb, "My job as class agent these past five 46 Also using her Spanish will be Mary years was a joy thanks to the willing and gen- Kent Hewitt Norton, who is in Mexico erous response of all of you. This was an Bea Littell Lib continues to volunteer two building for Habitat for Humanity. She and opportunity for me to become re-acquainted days a week for the International Executive Jerry have been teaching a course based on with so many of you in person, by mail, on Service Corps where she contacts all volun- the book, Conscious Loving. the phone and just by handling all your names teer spouses before they embark on projects Barbara Jones Alling and Ward cele- so many times. The reunion was a smash hit, all over the world. Most frequent destinations brated this year. First a cruise to the Bahamas, so let's always keep in touch." are Eastern Europe and former USSR coun- then the CC 50th - old friends and great Jane Day Hooker found the part of tries. She also spends one day a week at the hospitality, a honeymoon week in Newport, reunion she could stay for wonderful. Her hospital cancer center. In the spring of '93, plus a 50th wedding anniversary party for 100 husband, Tom, died of cancer on July 24. Bea traveled through the Panama Canal twice of their church family and relatives given by Classmates send their sincere sympathy to on the Polaris and visited out of the way son, Jim, and daughter, Carol. Jody and her family. She is spending a lot of islands where the snorkeling and wildlife were Marjorie Alexander Harrison is recov- time now visiting with her kids. fu she and excellent. In the fall, she took the Nantucket ering from an Aug. accident and enjoying the Killer will be co-chair for the 55th, she sends Clipper to the Chesapeake and then up the retirement/life care community of Essex a reminder to save your blue jackets. Hudson River. For Bea, nothing can surpass Meadows in CT, where she moved in July. Another sad note for which we send con- small ship experiences. She enjoys periodic
ConnecticutCollegeMagazine CD area. Give her a call and get together - it's fun. Contact the Alumni Office, 203-439- Correspondent: WANTED: CC MEMORABILIA 2300, for Marjorie's phone number. Peggy Reynolds Rist, for Connecticut College Archives To quote Ceres Geiger Henkel, "My 43 Balsa Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 twins are in high school - ninth grade. My 48 Traditionally alumni offer the fiiends speak of ailments and those hospitalized - quite a dichotomy." Ginny Giesen Richardson and Len have Archives their college memorabilia at Phebie Gardner Rockholz and Bill reached a "happy time." Len works part time, their 50th Reunion. However, dona- spent Christmas and New Years with an and Ginny does "pretty much as she wants," lnterhostel Group in Cuernovaca, Mexico. which includes such volunteer activities as tions of photos, videos, slides, scrap- Phebie regrets that she hasn't learned Spanish fundraising for their local library and tutoring books, diaries, letters home and arti- and would love to live in Mexico. Spanish-speaking immigrants. Among their Mary Eastburn Biggin is also an travels was a trip to Seattle, WA, where they facts may be offered earlier. Elderhosteler. She enjoyed her three-week trip were entertained by Challa Sladek Before sending materials, please to France in Oct. '94. They found the scenery Sdunidt. Marika Hartman Herndon and breathtaking and the people very friendly. Dudley were also guests there at the time. contact College Archivist Catherine When they returned, they had dinner with From Jane Tilley Griffin comes the fol- Phinizy '71,203-439-2686. Muriel Duenewald Lloyd and Bill who lowing news bulletin, "Have just returned were vacationing in Old Lyme while Bill, from spending a semester in Japan at Hikone, who is an accomplished artist, painted. an old castle town on Lake Biea; it was won- Joan Weissman Burness Writes of son visits with her 2-112-year-old grandson and derful to be able to live in Japan again -last Jim's marriage and a spectacular four-day cele- time was in the middle '60s! Our stay greatly his parents in Greenwich, CT, Q[ PA. Muriel Duenewald Lloyd and Bill bration in gorgeous MT. Jim runs his own revived my spoken Japanese. My husband corporate and financial communications con- spent some time in Spain and Morocco in taught U.S.-Japan relations at Japan Center for sulting business, and his wife, Rebecca, is a tal- '93, and in NM in Feb. When not volunteer- Michigan Universities. J am recovering from a ing in the NYC public school system, work- ent representative for creative people. The breast cancer operation and radiation treat- ing with 6- and 7-year-olds, Muriel enjoys newlyweds are living in Mill Valley, CA. ments. Am beginning to feel human again and her two granddaughters and Bill's six grand- Daughter, Patty, continues as executive direc- am trying to catch up on my mail. Also, I children. She saw Debbie Rabinowitz tor of filmmaker George Lucas's Education must meet deadlines for two books on Asian Wetzer recently and visits with Sue Levin Foundation. Joan's husband, Sid, has reached a art I'm writing - one on the Silk Route Steinberg and Cliff as much as possible. plateau in his dreadful disease, but Joan is able where J traveled last fall." Pursuing projects in the house and having to pursue her special interests: tennis, orchids, Phil Barnhill Thelen was delighted to time for travel has made retirement exciting theater and music. repOl.t that an art work of hers was collected for Kate Niedeckin Pieper. She made a Nancy Armstrong Wood happily recently by Rene di Rosa, the prenuer collec- trip to CO in Jan. with 10 friends for some reported the birth of her first grandchild in tor of Bay Area, CA, artists. fun and skiing. July '94 to her daughter. Her son is working Eleanor Allen Meyer, a retired bank With the arrival of twins, a boy and a girl on his MBA at OSU. Nancy visited her sister- director, and her husband, also retired, spend in July, Muriel Evans Shaw now has eight in-law last spring in Chevy Chase, MD, and idyllic summers at their home on Lake grandchildren ~ the oldest is at Phillips toured DC. In early '94, Nancy and Barbara Winnipesaukee, recalling their years of travel Exeter. She had a great visit to China in OCL Morris Davis took a cruise to Fairbanks, AK. in Europe and North Africa and looking for- '93 on a Goodwill Trip with the She also went on a Sister City Trip to Make, ward to more! International YMCA. Otherwise, she has Japan, and visited Taiwan and Korea. A Betty Morse Baptie, with a family of been busy as a Hospice volunteer and recent- Caribbean Cruise started off the new year for five happily married children and eight grand- ly went on the local board of Habitat for Nancy. She has lunch with Anne Frank children precluding much contact with class- Humanity. Painting, golf and working our Oser now and then. mates, does hear from Di Upjohn Meier in keep her in shape. Margie Caylor Veil, who transferred to MI, who lost her husband a few years ago. Eloise Vail Pierce has moved from ME C.C in '44, wrote to inquire about Betty Betty's husband Bruce h;1S been retired 10 to Ashland, WI. She had a wonderful trip to Pinn Perlman. Margie spent two years in a years, and he and Betty have traveled widely Patagonia and Chile in March '93 followed senior dormitory before graduation and conse- since then - to Egypt, Florence, Istanbul, the by an operation for husband, Charles, and a quently didn't know too many of her class- Greek Isles and Sicily. The Bapries also travel summer of packing and moving. mates. She lives in Wyomissing, PA, and I to San Francisco, Phoenix and Albany to visit Ethelinda Bartlett Montfort moved to hope to get in touch with her. their children and their families. Betty is still Thompson, CT, in '90 from Long Island, . _Mary Margaret Topping DeYoe had a playing tennis several times a week. Her other NY, where husband, Fred, practiced law for V~Slt with Chips Wilson Keller while shop- activities include acting as president of a dupli- 40 years. They celebrated their 50th wedding pmg WIth her granddaughter in Binghamton, cate bridge club, gardening, swimming and anniversary in Feb. '94. Their grandchildren NY. She also had a chat with Betty Finn watercolor painting! This Renaissance woman range in age from 24 to 14 years, four girls Perlman by phone recently. Mary and her also enjoyed our 45th Reunion and closes her and one boy. The Montforts are in good husband drove through the town where she postcard with "on to the 50th." health and enjoying retirement. attended boarding school in WI. She found Mary Sullivan Mahoney, who, despite Sarah Nichols Herrick is into some- the school had been turned into a museum. her busy life, is a faithful letter writer. Mary thing new ~ acting out a song! She is continues to teach reading to adults and plays singing with a cabaret group around the bridge, golf and tennis. She has fun with her Boston/Cambridge area. Marge Watson CorrespolldCllt: grandchildren and tries to keep up with the Fulham and Sarah stay in touch and see Ann Wether:lld GrafT "constant activity" of her children in five dif- Jane Seaver Coddington when they have Rabbit Tr:lil Rd., RD 3 ferent cities. Husband, Jack, is still practicing Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 dinner and attend the theater together. orthopedics but is trying to slow down. Marjorie Masinter Flocks is interested 47 On a shirring Nov. day in Tucson, Peggy in having a mini-reunion for lunch or dinner Flint Nugent and your correspondent, with classmates in NYC and the surrounding Peggy Reynolds Rist, enjoyed a walk
• Sprillg 1995 On the Up and Up Alumni Career News together across the U. of Arizona campus. We downed a delicious lunch enhanced by Sam Adams beer and topped the day by viewing a powerful photo exhibit at the uni- Agnes Gund '60, president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was versity's Center for Creative Photography. elected a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. The exhibit featured the great Mexican pho- tographer Lola Alvarez Braco. Peggy and Marny Morris Krause '66 has been named director of Charlie, now retired, spent two weeks last development at Skidmore College. Krause, who is the summer in their Normandy house, enjoying president of the Connecticut College Alumni Association, the area and the food cooked nightly by their daughter-in-law. worked at Bennington College for more than 10 years, Finally, I quote in its entirety a Christmas most recently as vice president for development and alum- note from Joan Williams Sokoloff, which ni relations. At Skidmore, she will manage the largest expresses the essence of the season: "We have fundraising effort in the college's history. some exciting news. About three weeks ago, Boris and I flew to Moscow with our SOil and James Willoll '69 MA, professor of psychology at daughter-in-law who were adopting three Northern Illinois University, has been appointed to the Russian children - a boy and a girl who are International and Cooperative Study Section in the Krause '66 twins, age 5; and their little brother, 2. Now Division of Research Grants of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Boris and I are about to depart for Morocco, where the newly enlarged family is adjusting. has been named director of design for Our daughter, Kate, will also join us for Lynn Staley '70 Christmas." Newsweek. Formerly deputy managing editor for graphics The class extends its sympathy to Ginny at the Boston Globc, she oversaw the redesign of the 123- Keifer Johnson, who lost her husband, year-old paper. "She brings a formidable array of jour- Dick, on 3/10/94. nalistic and managerial talents to NClvsweek," said Maynard Parker, editor of the news magazine. "Lynn is a true star in her field and a real catch for Newsweek." Correspondents: PhyllisHammer Duin, 827 179thCourt, NE, Bellevue, WA 98008and Michael Collier '76, a poet, has received a prestigious LynnBoylan, P.O. Box 316, Guggenheim Fellowship in the John Simon Guggenheim Duxbury, MA 02322 49 Staley'70 Memorial Foundation's 71 st annual competition. An associate professor of English at the University of With my mailbox being sadly CC-news Maryland, Collier also is director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His most empty these days, I can only send on what recent book of poems is titled Neighbors. came with Christmas cards. Ann (Dallas) Grayson went on a theater binge in NY in July and then whisked off to England for a Leslie Margolin '77 is the new president ofCIGNA week - vacations well-earned after the very HealthCare of Cali fa mia. Formerly chief counsel for the com- successful 45th reunion in June. She and pany, Margolin will be responsible for CIGNA's statewide Mary Elizabeth Stone and Phyl Nectow operations. The company serves 650,000 members and had Shy can had lunch recently, and she sees revenues of $900 million last year. Now one of the few Alice Fletcher Freymann frequently. women to hold a top post in the health insurance field, Frannie Adams Nichols and Nick have Margolin started her career at CIGNA's corporate headquar- been snorkeling in the Caribbean. Last time I ters in Hartford Conn. in 1984. Prior to joining the company, saw Frannie was here in Seattle .several years she was an employment attorney in private practice in ago; she and Nick were returning from a week's camping at Denali National Park in Hartford. AK. Margolin '77 Mary Stecher Douthit and Hal have Jeff Finn '92 is producing a play at the Charles Playhouse 111 ranged far and wide, too, from China to Boston. He is the head of]effrey Finn Productions, based in New York City. Greece and all over this country. Their chil- dren Ken and Susan live in Cleveland. Evan is in Chicago and Lue in Tucson. Like so many others, Stech has become interested in occasional hike leader. One of these days, I and I have been on the road - or rather in genealogy and spends what little spare time must join her stomping around our local the skies! His 50th high school reunion in she has immersed in research. mini-Alps. Last time we met some years ago, Omaha, NE; then a visit in Denver, CO, Only two other classmates live here in the we had to admit we would never have recog- with old friends; on to a very special wedding Pacific Northwest with me. One is Doris nized each other if we had met in the Safeway in Durham, NC; followed by a two-week trip Stone Foster, who lives in Seattle. The store. to London for a belated celebration of our other is Betty Anderson Culbert, who Betty Brainard Sandwich is active in 40th wedding anniversary (which we had to lives a few miles east of Seattle and 10 or so the arts and preservation and is "on too many postpone in April). We returned for a gather- miles from me. When I called her, she was boards." Her husband of 47 years had a mas- ing of the clan in DC and the burial at off cross-country skiing in central WA. sive stroke two years ago and Sandwich and Arlington National Cemetery of Jarvis' moth- Husband Bill told me that everything was Assoc. now operates from their home. "We er, who died at the age of 1021 A brief family fine with them and that Betty keeps active have seven grandchildren (two CC grads) and reunion in TX in Nov., Christmas in NYC, with driftwood sculpture, church activities, children living in NY and Chicago." and now happy to be horne. We expect to hiking and skiing.. There is a large and thriv- Alice Fletcher Freymann, writes "Ever spend most of'95 'catching upl'" ing hiking club in this area, and Betty is an since our fabulous 45th reunion in June, Jarvis My husband Bobby and I travel as much
ConnecliculCollegeMagl1zilic CD she can say "hello" when visiting. Daughter Adair believes that after living in MD for 30 Correspondent: years, she is a "federal government person, so Anne Russillc Griffin ALUMNI CALENDAR 1010 LangleyRd. is managing at the Justice Dept." Husband Norfolk, VA 23507 John debated about retiring, but Nicki assured 50 him that he'd hate daytime TV, so he contin- ues consulting. Hello again, 50s friends! We received a nice Nancy Clark Anderson, who is enjoy- letter from Joey Cohan Robin, who keeps ing the freedom of retirement, enclosed a New busy in South Hadley, MA, both as a perform- York Tinses article reporting the marriage of ing artist and a music therapist. Her son, Dave, Jocelyn Haven Mickle's 90-year-old father was married in June to a pediatrician, and to a woman he dated while in college. They daughter, Debbie, moved back to Winter rediscovered each other after 70 years. See, Park, CO, from Denver. In the fall, Joey you're never too old! joined Margaret MacDennid Davis, Mary ALUMNI TRAVEL Mary (Betty) Mott changed her fieldof + Lou OeHers Rubenstein, Brenda work after college. After getting a master's,she An Inside Look at China With Ginsburg Silln and Joanne Borden Glancy Professor Emeritus Charles Chu began teaching for a number of years and is for a mini-reunion. Joey sees Barbara still enjoying it. She lives in OH and spends Sept. 25-0cl. 12 Earnest Paulson at the V.A. Hospital in summers in ME on the ocean. Norchhampton, MA, where Barbara is a chap- Rae Ferguson Reasoner vacationed in PARENT'S WEEKEND lain. Joey will be at our 45th reunion! NC and enjoyed the fall leaves, cool weather, Sept. 23 & 24 Rachel Ober Burrell is hoping to come golf, tennis, trout fishing and bridge. She is to Reunion '95. She is still working for the "busy working at their nursery (landscaping) HOMECOMING Center for Grieving Children that she helped three to four days a week, playing tennis and found in '86. Paul has just retired after 38 years Sept. 29-0cl. 1 bridge." She still has two horses and rides as a professor of Romance languages at the U. weekly, often with her grandsons. Secondson, of Cincinnati. Their son Peter is an attorney in EXECUTIVE BOARD/ Ward, who works at the nursery, has two town. Son Chris is a teacher and cartoonist on sons, ages 4 and 2. Older son, Andy, is CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Martha's Vineyard. Daughter, Ann, is a tech- COUNCIL MEETING divorced and lives and works in Orlando. He nical writer for a computer company in Santa has a v-vear-old son, who lives in CA with his Oct. 13-15 Cruz. mother. Daughter Beth lives in Colorado Elaine Hansen Fraser of Amherst MA Springs and teaches high school specialeduca- INSIGHTS/CONNECTICUT is enjoying retirement. She and her husband tion. She is looking forward to seeing themall traveled to Australia and New Zealand in the COLLEGE COUNCIL at Christmas. March 1-3 fall. They go to FL during "snow time." She Leta Weiss Marks describes a terrifichik- looks forward to Reunion '95. ing trip she took with Susan Brown Joan Pine Flash and family are moving ALUMNI TRAVEL + Goldsmith and Marlene Schutt Folsom to Ecuador and the Galapagos to a house in the woods, though still in the British Lake District. They planned and Chat.ham., MA. She enjoyed a Cape Cod Islands With Professor of Zoology orchestrated the trip while taking a walkin the reunron luncheon in the summer with 25 Robert Askins ce Arboretum during the 40th reunion. She CCers. She also made a trip to Ireland and reports they "jumped over walls,climbedfells, March 10-24, 1996 England last summer and still plays tennis with crossed heather covered moors, and sawthou- 12 ladles. She reports that they are great sup- sands and thousands of sheep." They had REUNION '96 port group and have been for nine years. many pub lunches and picnics. (Seewhathap- May 31:/1"" 2, 1996 pens when you attend reunion!) Her daughter Correspondents: IrisBain had her first child (Rae's seventh grandchild) For //lore illforllldtiOiI call the Aiunmi Hutchinson, 7853 Clearwater and lives in Seattle. Their foreign servicechil- Office, 203-439-2300. Cove Dr., Indianapolis, IN dren (jonathan and Patty - both CC grads) Schedule subject ro dlal/ge. 46240 and Susan Askin are posted in Hungary with their three chil- Wolman, 2512 Stone MiU Rd dren. Her second son is in Boston, and 51 Baltimore, MD 21208 ., "Number 4" is in Seattle. as we can - rwo trips to France in '94 (one Julie Griggs Marty sends an update of for skiing) and one to HL, plus short trips her family. Lucy and John live in Corvallis, here and there in the Western states. Son Correspondent: OR, with their children: Nick, 12; Jessica,10, Rob is in sales and lives with his family in Catherine Kirch Dietrich and Tim, 6. Jon is an Episcopal priest, and 4224 91st Ave. NE North Bend, WA; SOIl Steve is the Metro Lucy is a music teacher and singer. Chnt lives Bellevue, WA 98004 columnist for I1Je Oregonian in Portland, and in Foster City, CA, and works for Franklin he and h.is tribe live in Lake Oswego, OR; 52 Resources, part of Franklin Templeton Group daughter, Julia, is city editor 'Of a newspaper of Funds. Judy and Bill live in Whittier, CA, in Farmington, NM. So far we can boast five Correspondent: with BJ, 14; Heather, 12, and Bethany, 11. grandchildren. If my mailbox remains empty, Judith Morse Littlefield Bill is a Methodist minister, and Judy is a psy- I am going to tell you ALL about them in my 3 Whittier Terrace, Box 187 chologist and counselor. Madeline, a high West Boxford, MA 01885 next column! 53 school English teacher, and Jim, an editor and Sympathy of the class goes to Lynn writer, live in Berkeley with Emily, 4, and Nibecker Corl who lost her husband, Bill, Elinor (Nicklj No bl e M artinez . writes that Deirdre, 2. to ALS on Feb. 14. her son, Adam (eC '80)1S .spen d ing the year Vita (Elvira) Martinez Schrader com- Inf' Poland .with the MBA Enterpnse . C orp pleted a Pilot Project in New Haven funded a ~e~ ~ece1VJng his MBA from the U f by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundatlon. Virginia. She has taken two Polish classe~ ~o The goal was to "find gaps in servicesfor sub-
• Spring 1995 stance abusing women of childbearing age." Correspondents: LoisKeating director of facilities, and Nancy has worked Her findings surprised many agencies, and Learned,10 LawrenceSt., on a house and garden tour this year as well as several of her recommendations have been Greenlawn, NY 11740 and on the board of a historic mansion in the implemented. Vita's new granddaughter, M'Lee CatledgeSampson,62 Annapolis area. PhillipsSt.,Stratford,CT 06497 Carla May, joins other granddaughter, 54 Pat McCabe O'Connell and Rocky were in Germany and Austria in May with Tatiana, 3. Daughter, Catalina, and husband, Sally Thompson Dammier is now in Rocky's choral group. Their daughter, Kath~, Len, live in Silver Spring, MD. Vita is look- Cannel, CA, " ...the five of us all crammed who lives in Oakland, CA, joined them lJ1 ing forward to a trip to Colombia. She into a little house on the divinely beautiful Munich. Family events took them to CA, RI, moved to the DC area this spring. central coast spending much of our time in NH and MA. In Oct., they cruised to Sue Weinberg Mindlin writes that she the world of Internet." Her daughter, wrote a letter to the editor of the magazine Bermuda with family "and had a fabulous Wendy, and two grandchildren: Kelly, 1~, correcting the dating of a photo of the Conn time." Pat retired from the hospital in April and Jimmy, 5, are also with them. Wendy IS Chords (Fall '94 issue). They said it was 1958 but continues to see her friends there, working designing characters for com~uter. games. ~ when it was 19531 She talks to Joan (Flugy) a couple of days a month. Rocky keeps his for her other children, "Bill IS doing well m hand in contracting via "telecommunicating." Fluegelman Wexler occasionally and when ME; wife, Laurie, has a hair salon that is vacationing in Santa Fe sees Joyce Mary Wright Heidtke writes, "This w.as booming. Nicole, 14; Rene, 12, and Travis, a year of additions - became grandparents 111 Hofheimer Strelitz, Her two grandchil- 10, are all growing up. John has completed dren live in Albuquerque. Other children are Oct. to Heath Jackson Heidtke (son of Jon). two years of college and has Dar~ie, ~, and in Houston and Corona del Mar, CA. She Our daughter and husband adopted daughrer David, 3. He's working on hIS sci en ce Oksona in Sept." reports that five members of the CC class of degree." Sally enjoys skiing in the winter. Judy Yankauer Astrove has been living '98 are from the Kansas City area. Even You can reach her through America On Line, in Honeoye Falls, NY, a suburb of Rochester, though she turned over her admissions rep [email protected]. for more than two years. She finds it great to work to a younger person (her husband Ann Dygert Brady moved to Sarasota, be living near three of her eight grand~hil- thought she was too old to be believablel), FL, this fall and is already involved with three dre»: the oldest is 16, and the youngest 1S 2. she still is interested and involved. volunteer jobs. She's recovered from a heart (Correspondent's Note: Sue, you're still believ- She stays busy playing duplicate bridge a cou- valve replacement operation last spring. ple of times a week and continuing her vol- able!) Carolyn Fried Cohen '52 and Su.e Lasca Huse Lilly reports that her son- rediscovered each other recently and renu- unteer work with people who have drug and in-law, Peter Frisch, has left education to alcohol problems. nisced about being Auerbach majors at G. become a stockbroker. He and Kit are living A card from Beth Sm.ith Brobst Fox in Hartford. in the Boston area. The Lillys were joined by brought word that she loves retirement, espe- When not busy with her eight grandchil- son, David, and the Frisches in Montserrat for cially since she now has time to care for her dren, Suzanne Toor Karpas' life passion is the Christmas holidays. Last spring, Sally grandson, Ryan, born on 4/26/94 to her the Karpas Health Information Center, Stecher Holling and Dick visited the Lillys daughter Judy Conklin and husband '. Beth's which she starred in '81. The Center makes in London. daughter Cindy is living nearby 111 PA. health education and information accessible Betty Sager Burlem and Bill went to Cindy's son, Bob, is a '94 graduate ?f to all and "serves more than 30,000 New the Sea of Cortez and the Copper Canyon Millersville U. in PA with degrees 111 Yorkers a year at its storefront and other off- with their two girls this past year. In jan., they oceanography and chemistry. He works for site locations. It maintains continuing contact went to Bali and Singapore. McNeil Pharmaceuticals. Beth's husband, with 25,000 persons who subscribe to its free Carol Connor Ferris and Tom were in Don, has had some cardiac problems, that award-winning conununiry health newslet- India in Oct. and missed seeing and trekking ter, Heotthline; operates Beth Israel's Physician in Nepal as the borders were closed due to medication is keeping under control. Your correspondent, Lois Keating and Dentist Referral Services; and supervises the plague epidemic in India. They spent 10 a community outreach program that provides Learned, took a wonderful trip to Sicily in days at New Year's in St. Croix.. . direct services to those living on the Lower the fall. Done Knup Harper and Rollie were 111 East Side." Suzanne's vision of a program Switzerland for 16 days in Sept. with her that effectively imparts knowledge and infor- brother and sister-in-law. "We stood on the mation about health is widely shared and val- steps of our father's college in Winterthur and ued by consumers and medical experts across Conespondetu: went to the town the Knups came from. Jocelyn AndrewsMitchell the country. She was awarded the "Unit.ed Quite a thrill for me." 16701 CutlassDr. Hospital Fund's Distinguished Community Betsy Freidman Abrams and Bob trav- Rockville, MD 20853 Service Award, sponsored by KPMG Peat 55 eled 2,300 miles in WA and OR this Aug., Marwick, which recognizes exemplary efforts spending a day with Janie Weiss Donnelly Catherine Myers Buscher moved to CO of private citizens and organizations to and Dick sightseeing. The Abrams have a improve the quality of New York's health about 10 years ago. She and her husband, grandson, Jonathan, born in July of '93 to care system and ensure its accessibility to all Herbert, built a vacation home in Aspen, and their second son, David, and hISwife, Sharon, in need." Congratulations to Suzanne. they just started staying longer and longer. She who live in NYC. Betsy was chair of the Jeanne Eacker Olson spent the past is a supporter of the area and its intellectual Biennial Convention of the New England year remodeling their home and visiting fam- and cultural aspects in addition to the beauty Federation of Temple Sisterhoods this year. ily and friends. that we think of. She has been a volunteer all Also westward-bound were Nancy Joan Oay) Graebe Flint has had a diffi- her married life - a "perpetual fimdraiser" is Maddi Avallone and Gene who traveled to how she describes herself. Catherine was a cult year after the loss of her youngest s~n, NM and AZ in the spring and Germany in 28, to heart surgery. Husband Dan ISpracoc- member of several boards in the Twin Cities, the fall. Their son John and family moved to ing law, and Jay works with him as a.parale- MD, where they lived "before CO.". The? the DC area in June, near them. John is an gal (a far cry from chemistry!) Their spare ski golf and hike for recreation. Travel is their oprhalmologist specializing in pediatrics at time is devoted to raising American Buffalo passion, with the latest trip to China and Bethesda Naval Hospital. He and Laura have (Bison) on their farm about 50 miles from Hong Kong. All three of her sons and one two children. Son Gene, his wife, Ilene, and Philadelphia. Our class sends condolences to daughter-in-law are graduates of Cc. their daughters are in Rochester, NY. He has Jay and her family. Dorothy Palm.er Hauser has been busy his own photo processing business. Big Gene with a contemporary craft and gift store she keeps busy at a local community college as
ConnecticutCollegeMagazille CD Sept., my apologies for their tardy appearance opened two and one-half years ago. The CorrespondWIS: Virginia Reed Levick, 10 SargentLn., Atherton, in this column. It was the letter from Dotty store is open 80 hours a week, and in the CA 94027 andJane Starrett Kraft Frerker that r just received that finally beginning, she was there almost all the time. Scvores, 920 Rye ValleyDr., jolted me into action. In chronological order She travels to craft shows for the store, so she Meadowbrook, PA 19046 of receipt, here's the news. is all the road a lot. Dorothy has six grand- 59 Ann Gordy Steidinger writes that she children - four live in the St. Paul, MN, and Drew celebrated their 30th anniversary in area. She had a great 60th birthday with her Sept. '93 in Antigua. Drew flies 767s out of sister and her children. She has spoken to Liz Correspoliderrr: Dulles International for United Airlines. Ann Buell Labrot. Nancy Waddell quit work to travel more. She and Drew 321 S.E. 14th St. toured the Pyrenees and france on their Portland, OR 97214 Corrcspendeuu : Ellie Erickson BMW motorcycles for their 31st anniversary 60 this past Sept. Back at home, she sits on the Ford, 78 SagamoreTerr. West, Westbrook, CT 06498 andJan Agnes Gund, chairman of the board of the board of the Virginia Youth Ballet and still Ahlborn Roberts, 39 N. Main Museum of Modern Art in New York, was takes ballet and tap classes. Son Adam is mar- St., Pennington, NJ 08534 56 elected a fellow of the Academy of Arts and ried and living in Larchmont, NY. His wife Sciences. works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Judy Missel Sandler, Joanne Karnow NYC. Son Eric graduated from johns Manheimer and Mickey Sinsheimer Hopkins U. with an M.A. in education. Peins and their husbands met for lunch in Correspondents: Joan Sumner Linda Norton Johnson reports that Wells, ME. Judy has three grandsons and tWO Oster, 255 HiJlcrestRd., Robin Pinkham came for a visit during a granddaughters in the NYC area. She keeps Fairfield,CT 06430 and Eileen business trip to NH. Robin lives and works in Item Chalfoun, 60 Birge St., West busy with her interior design business, bridge Brattleboro, VT 05301 Manhattan and looks very much like Cokey lessons, an investment group and traveling. 61 Roberts of ABC News. Linda and Jerry are Vicki Tydlacka Bakker had a wonder- active in their local taxpayers association in ful trip down the Big Sur with daughter Alice Randie Whitman Smith writes that while in Bedford and have gotten very interested in '82 and her family. Last summer, Vicki and Boston at a convention with her husband, they local and state politics in NH. She works full her husband spent several weeks in AK visit- were able to get together with Robin Foster time at home for jerry's business and does ing daughter Vickie. The trip included Spaulding and her husband and had a great some volunteer work on the side for kayaking in Prince William Sound. time catching up on 25 years. Caregivers Inc., helping the elderly and sick Norm and Marilyn Schutt Spencer Jan Hall's Christmas letter tells us that she to maintain their independence. attended the wedding of Tina Weisbrod is still conununng nearly 500 miles a week Dotty Kraft Frerker wrote us a long let- Sverdrup's ('57) daughter in Colorado working for Connecticut Therapies in Mystic ter from her home in Bruhl, Germany. She Springs in July. Lynn Twinem Gorman '57 and Niantic. Her son, jonathan McEwan '86, has battled breast cancer three times since '86, was also there. Nann and Marilyn's daughter, has his own design finn in NYC, and her and feels fortunate that her lymph nodes are Natalie, and her husband, Charles Lorio, had daughter, Jess, is a high school jr. clear. She says that the mastectomy wasn't their first child, Caroline Collyns Lorio, in much of problem, but that the harder part is DC. That totals four granddaughters for the learning how to live with the specter of can- Spencers. The Spencers spent much of the Cotrespondcnt: cer. Apparently, the power of positive think- summer trout fishing in NM and CO. Louise Brickley Phippen ing works for Dotty since she says that she Sally Smith LaPointe wrote that both 300 Highndge R.d. now feels great and is planning a four-week the flower and Chesapeake Bay Retriever 62 Centreville, DE 19807 trip to New Zealand in March with her dog businesses are going well! The LaPointes younger daughter, Petra, and Petra's now have six grandchildren. boyfriend. Dotty still loves teaching English at Ellen Wineman Jacobs wrote that both the University of Bonn in adult education she and Kenneth are still working to capacity. Correspendetu : classes. Her husband, Gunther, an architect, He is a surgeon in private practice, and she Sue BernsteinMercy retired early from Lufthansa and is busy paint- runs a travel business. The agency is full-ser- 1\\1 Park Ave New York, NY 10128 ing and enjoying having more time to pursue vice specializing in groups, conventions and 63 his artistic bent. Dotty finds it astonishing that incentive meetings. Daughter Meg is practic- she's spent 27 years in Germany now. She ing law in DC and has a daughter, Caroline. says that she still likes living there but is glad Son, Tonuny, a CPA, was married in June that she teaches English since it tends to keep Correspcndent: and lives in Nashville. Son, Billy, works with her native tongue less "Germanized." a money management firm in Chicago. Sandra BannisterDolan 1 Canberra Ct. Don't wait for a postcard to send us news! Mystic, CT 06355 Drop either of us a note at any time, and 64 CorrespoudCIIIS: BetsyGreenberg we'll include it in the next publication. Feinberg, 8014 Creenrree Rd., Bethesda,MD 20817 and Canespoudents: PamelaMendelsohn, P.O. Box LeslieSetterhclm Fox, 26 4597, Arcata,CA 95521 Ccrrespondetn: Conestoga Way, Glastonbury. 66 Anne Derarando Hartman CT 06033 and Ann Brauer 108AlbemarleRoad, Gigounas, 840 Stony Hill Rd., MA 65 Tiburon, CA 94920 Newton, 02160 57 Conespovden: SusanLeahyEldert I have received only three letters in the past P.O. Box 788 Wallingford,CT 06492 year and so have been remiss in my duties as 67 Correspolldeul: MargaretMorssStokes your class co-corespondent. To Anne Gordy 528 ProspectSf. S~eidinger, who wrote a year ago, and to 58 Westfield,NJ 07090 Linda Norton Johnson, whose letter r got in
CD SpriJig 1995 Cortespondov: Gail Weintraub Stem Cooney P.O. Box 1804 68 Ross, CA 94957 Pam Berky Webb writes that she would be interested in having a San Francisco Bay Area reunion of '68ers in the city. So would II All those interested, please contact me or Pam. Pam is directing and teaching classes at a mcrher/infanr and mother/toddler education program using her psychology and child development background. Husband, Peter, is a dermatologist who plays a lot of tennis. Allison, a jr., is beginning to look at colleges, while maintaining a busy calendar. Tyler, a freshman, plays football. Hilary, a fourth grader, loves horses, soccer and reading. Pam and her family live in Hillsborough, CA. A CAMEL·Y FAMILY. Trustee Ellen Lougee Simmons '65 poses with her daughters (left to right), Emma, Winnie Elisabeth Booth-Barton has opened and Lydia, at an alumni reception and dinner for Pres. Claire L. Ilaudianl '66 at the Simmons' home in Dallas. her own law office in Danbury, CT. Elisabeth earned herJD from the U. ofPuget CT, a private school for children with learn- ing science at the Williams School on the CC Sound Law School. She is a member of the ing disabilities that she founded in '77. campus in Sept. after teaching for the past sev- American Bar Association and the Husband, Ed, is also in education. Their three eral years across town at St. Joseph's School. Connecticut Bar Assocation where she has children are away at school, so she and Ed She finds it interesting to be back on campus. been active in the Law Works for People pro have been enjoying the life of empty nesters. She still pursues her technology interests, par- VOila program. Laurie is a sophomore at Skidmore; Mark is a ticularly laser discs in the classroom. Amy Greenberg Poster has just pub- sophomore at Rensselear Poly tech; and Ali is Ruth Kirschner Young and family live lished Realms if Heroism: [I/dial/ Pailltillgs From a first year medical student at Vanderbilt after in San Francisco and are house hunting. She file Brooklyn Museum (New York, Hudson graduating Will laude from Vassar. is doing a lot of educational software develop- Hills, 1994), a descriptive catalogue of 250 Sharon Mairson Odie and Charles ment consulting and some freelance writing. paintings. She also curaced the museum's fall retired in July and have been traveling exten- Her 17th book, Who Says Mod? (Viking), was inaugural show held in conjunction with the sively since. They have had several enjoyable just published, and "that's always a thrill!" publication. Amy, curator of Asian art, has visits with Anne Corpening Wentz whose Daughter, Lucy, is five and a great joy. been associated with the department since daughter jennifer is a freshman at Vanderbilt. Judy Irving, also of San Francisco, writes '69. Since '89, she has been on the faculty of Allyson Cook Gall is assistant director of that several of her film projects are complet- NYU's Museum Studies and recently was American Jewish Committee for NJ, involved ed. "Out of the Way Cafe," an hour-long appointed to the faculty of the Bard Graduate in lobbying on political issues, fundraising and television drama about the loves, memories Center of the Decorative Arts. education. One project she has coordinated is and fantasies of a waitress in a small town cafe Two years ago, Linda Solway started bringing an innovative Holocaust education/ premiered at the Uppsnla Film Festival in her own company, Millennium Resources, prejudice reduction program into schools. Sweden and was sold to Swedish television. It specialists in performance enhancement in Over ·\5,000 NJ students have experienced it had its U.S. premiere at the Film Arts Festival sales and sales management for the financial thus far. in San Francisco. "Hidden Treasures," a film services industry. "Business is great!" She and Carolyn Downes Kraemer began teach- about Southern CA and Baja Wetlands, will her husband, Stuart Spivak, celebrated their 19th anniversary in Feb. "No kids, but one dog, Rose, a miniature Schnauzer, and two cats, Heinz 57!" Sue Feigl O'Donnell writes that all is well, but life is going by too quickly! Whitney is 26, a fact that Sue can't believe,
especially since Sue was the mother of tWO at that age! Trevor, 23, graduated from Gettysburg College in May, spent the sum- mer in Cape May, NJ, working as a waiter and then traveling in Europe for five weeks. He now lives in Breckinridge, CO "so that he can continue avoiding a lifetime career for a few more months!" Gavin, to is a fifth grader at The Montgomery School. Larry, Gavin and Sue spent several summer weeks in Provence and recently had a marvelous visit from Gavin's godparents, Bob and Lauren Braluns Resnik. Sue also sees Gale PASSING THE BATON. Maggie Elbert Paar '73 succeeded Lynn Cooper Sitlion '69 as president of the Coast Rawson '69 quite often. Guard Officers Wives Club in Miami last summer. The alums' husbands also passed the baton. During the Paula Zanunataro Messina continues Haitian/Cuban immigration crisis, USCG Capt. Thomas Paar relieved Capt. Bob Sitton as USCG Group to work as a finance and curriculum director Commander Miami. From left to right, Judi Bamberg Mariggio '69, Kathy Swift Gravino '71, Maggie Elbert Paar of the Student Learning Center, Wallington, '73, Capt. Tom Paar, Lynne Cooper Sitton '69, Jeffrey Sitton '96, Barbara Cooper Neeb'72 and Ann Tousley Anderson '69.
ConnecticutCollegej\!lagazil/c ... Insights '95 Volunteer Training/ Recognition
eadership training and volunteer recognition were at the top of the agenda for Insights LWeekend March 31- April 2. One hundred and twenty Connecticut College alumni returned to campus, many to spearhead the new Connecticut College Council. Alumni volunteers from throughout the coun- try gathered to brainstorm at workshops, network at receptions and garner thanks for their efforts throughout the year. III addition to meeting students, many attended lectures on faculty research by Scott Warren,
lunch in the 1962 Room at the College Center Maria Cruz-Saco, Alex Hybel and Stanton Ching. Among those who participated were reunion chairs, class presidents, class giving agents, club leaders, Unity Alumni Council members, alumni admissions representatives and class correspondents. As Janet Cardona '93 wrote after the program, "The weekend was an excellent opportunity for me to learn about the many alumni programs. as well as meet alumni volunteers from various classes. It makes me very proud to be an alum."
Planning for Reunion '96
Above: Marny Morris Krause '66, president of the Alumni Association, greets her classmate President of the College Claire l. Gaudiani '66. Below: Alison Woods, director of the Annual Fund, conducts a reunion committee workshop. -- "- lee White Brown, president of the Class of '61 (left), and Judy Mapes Mell '61, a trustee and class agent chair, meet with Bob Rasmussen, vice president for Development and College Relations.
e Spril1g 1995 DC area. Nancy Bowen writes of her 20 years with the Federal Reserve Board and her '93 wedding. Barbara Kahn Stewart was "best woman" and other CC alums present were Barbara Negri Opper '61, Karen Zukunfr McGuiness '73 and Wendy Colart Wachter '76. Nancy works as a manager in the Information Resources Management Division working with Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data which are "used to deter- mine if depository institutions (banks, S & L's) are meeting the credit needs of the com- munities." Besides traveling to New Zealand and the Canadian Rockies, Nancy participates in Porsche high performance driving events! Patricia Stein Wrightson earned a Ph.D. in political science from the U. of Maryland in Dec. '93 and is now a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown U. She STILL THE SAME. Kris Kancavicus Hale, Susie Chadwick Pokress, Kathy Swift Gravino, Nancy James and Jane teaches courses ill international relations and Gilbert Snyder (all Class of 1971) had a mini reunion at the 25th reunion olthe U.S. Coast Guard Academy's lives in Rockville, MD, with her husband. Class 01 1969. The group notes that while their husbands have changed over the years, they have not! Cathy Spitz writes from Peachtree City, GA, where she and husband, AI Jensen, and be on PBS and "The Quiet Revolution," a son, Matt, have called home since last spring. series on sustainable development, aired on She is manager of organizational development Correspondent: PBS in March. and training with Tr edegar Industries PatriciaAllenShellard Aluminum Extrusive Division, where she Please continue sending me news and 25 Birchwood R.d. postcards. To those of you who already sub- Glen Rock, NJ 07452 does cultural change interventions like self- mitted cards, thank you. Your news will be 70 directed work teams. Matt is in fifth grade, featured in future columns. and AI is a health care consultant. She would love to hear from alums in the area. Terry Swayne Brooks checked in from Correspondent: Hollis, NH. She reports, "Still working as a Correspondent: CharlotteParkerVincent visiting nurse and love it!" Son Dave is a 5347GainsboroughDr. MaryBarlowMueller freshman at Williams College, and Bobby is a 5 Water Way Fairfax,VA 22032 71 fifth grader. Husband, Byron, has a company Barrington,RI 02806 69 that sells fire trucks. Married: Nancy Bowen to Hathaway The 25th reunion of the U.S. Coast Judi Bamberg Mariggio, new classreunion Cornelius, 10/93. Guard Academy Class of 1969 resulted in a chair, invites any or all input for our 30th. Alert classmate Judith Dem sent a great deluge of postcards, letters and a photo. The You can get her phone number from the feature article from the Sail Pmnasco Examiller event triggered a mini CC '71 reunion when Alumni Office (203-439-2300). She would about Josie Mooney. who broke a 100- Kris Kancavicus Hale. Susie Chadwick really love the feedback. year-old tradition when she became the first Pokress, Kathy Swift Gravino, Nancy Venetia Bell Valin writes from Paris woman president of the San Francisco Central James, Jane Gilbert Snyder and Janet that, after 18 years as the wife of a French Labor Council. Josie was elected in March '94 Newcomb Brown all met up in New diplomat living in Asia and Europe, she is to head the coordinating council of more than London. Susie noted with the photo, "As you now married to a civil engineer, Maurice 50 unions representing 80,000 workers; she can see, we have not changed in the least Valin, and living outside Paris in the town of has worked in various facets of the labor over these many years; surprisingly, our hus- Us! Her son Sebastien, 17, is at the U. of movement since '72. bands have changed!" As. might be expected, Paris and Emmanuel, 15, is living with his Carmelina Como Kanzler also made relocation are a part of their news - Kris father in Geneva and going to high school the news when she was appointed the district Kancavicus Hale and Gerry have recently there. Venetia is still writing, still trying to get governor's representative for Rotary District moved to Governor's Island. Kathy Swift published and learning German and Italian for 7980 for a six-week Group Study Exchange Gravino and Bob moved from Kodiak to the sheer pleasure in her spare time. in England. A member of the Rotary Club of Miami. Kathy reports she is unemployed as Susan Naigles Rosenzweig loved New London, she led a team of four profes- yet, but enjoying the sun! The Cravinos sionals visiting in the Midlands area in the fall reunion. She is still working as a special edu- daughter, Kelly, graduated from Trinity cation director and her husband, Steve, is a of '94. According to The Day, their tour College in Harford, and Kathy had a book included more than 40 Rotary clubs, institu- psychologist. Son, Seth, is 15 and a sopho- come out, Peace keepers and Their Wives. more in high school. Susan is thrilled that tions, schools, colleges, business and manufac- Nancy James and Gary Pavlik are in Susan Judd Harris still lives close by IIIMA. turing facilities, as well as historical and scenic Acton, MA; she is a school librarian in nearby Lynne Sitton Cooper, our new class points of interest. Lowell. Their three children: Emily, Mariel president, writes that her husband, Bob, Former class correspondent Francie van and Alex, keep them busy with sports and der Hoeven Camp also went abroad in the became U.S.c.G. District 7 Chief of teenage social life. fal. She and husband, Ron, moved to Readiness and Reserves right at the height of Susie Chadwick Pokress and Bob the Haitian Exodus and the Cuban Rafter Belgium from Baton Rouge, LA. She has remain in Andover, MA, where Susie is tak- done a great job as correspondent and our Crisis! Son Andrew, 15, spent three weeks ing up training as a travel agent, and Bob last summer on a youth mission trip in periodic telephone calls will be missed! We're accepted a new job with Boston Technology. looking forward to hearing from you, after Zimbabwe Africa, and Jay (CC '96) is finish- Son, Matt, is a sr. at Cornell who hopes to ing his jr. year. Lynne sees Ann Tousley you get settled. teach high school science and coach crew Anderson often. Several classmates have turned up in the
ConnecticutCollegeMagazille CD She used words from 10 languages that expressed international principles of unity and community. The project's tag line was that NYC can strengthen its city by combining the ideas of its various communities. Bruce Kevin Garnant and his wife, Lori, live on a 20-acre horse farm in Knoxville, MD. They fox hunt on weekends as well as pair race on horses. Bruce helps Ius wife with her business of selling antique equestrian prints, oils, books and collectibles. Daughter, Vanessa, 14, attends Randolph- Macon Academy in Front Royal, VA. Pam.ela Gleason Swearingen continues to be happy in her 13th year as a pediatrician at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. She lives in Belmont with her husband, Charles, and their 6-year-old son, Christopher. For their vacation this past year, they traveled to Quebec City and ME. OLYMPIC MEMORIES. Far from New london in miles but closely bound in spirit, three alumni met during the Nancy Hammell bought an older home Winter Olympic Games in lillihammer, Norway. From left to right, John Evans '86, director of the Sami Village; Anita l. DeFrantz '74, former Olympian and executive board member of the International Olympic in northern V A that she is renovating in her Committee; and Carolyn Jones Schorer '63, lillihammer Olympic Organizing Dnmmiftee and International lirnited spare time. Career-wise, Nancy con- Olympic Committee hostess for OeFrantz. tinues to work at NASA Headquarters. After several months of intensive work on the Space Station redesign last year, she vaca- when he graduates. Becca is a jr. in high Married: Bruce Kevin Garnant to Lori, tioned for three weeks in AK, her home school. "With color guard season just ending, 12/4/93. before moving to DC Nancy is a long-dis- our lives will regain some normalcy." An Anonymous Classm.ate who failed tance runner and has competed in several Susie Pool Moses sent her family's to identify him/herself has a new position as marathons, including three consecutive Christmas letter (great idea - such an easy catering-sales director of the Stanhope Hotel Honolulu Marathons, the Marine Corps way to send your news!) from their home in in NYc. His/her interests include raising pug Marathon, which she ran in the pouring rain Everett, W A, about 30 miles north of Seattle dogs, spending much time in Key West, FL, and still improved her best time by 40 nun- 011 Puget Sound. Dale is C.O. of the Navy's and deep sea fishing. Will the lIIystery dossniate newest home port; Susie reports his duties are please idelltify lIilllll/crse!! for our next issue?! utes, and two sponsored by Walt Disney like those in Guam, but without the Michele Bierenbaurn Reichstein is World. While there in Jan. '93, Nancy ran typhoons! They've traveled a lot in the last busy with her family: husband, Bob, and her into Sandra Shahinian Leitner, who was year and enjoyed skiing this past winter. three children - and with her work. She is in vacationing with her family at Disney World. Our class officers are slowly starting to analytic training at New York Psychoanalytic. Paula Dzenis Healey and her family, gear up for our own 25th reunion - only a Julia Bruning-Johns and her husband, husband, Tim; jonathan, 14, and Kristen, 8, year away! You'll be hearing directly, but Greg, own two businesses in Carlsbad, CA. returned to CT after living 15 years in DC. please be ready to respond with ideas, offers She loves her new career as a real estate agent. The children have settled into their new home of help and class dues. What would you like Her son, Austin, 17, plays soccer, volleyball and new schools in West Hartford. Paula and our reunion to be like? and tennis, and daughter, Adrienne, 14, is a Tim work in Hartford and look forward to the Darcie Holton Smith passed away on swimmer. julia has been trying to overcome a cold, snowy New England winters. 11/12/93. The class sends its deepest condo- depressive illness that began in her teens. She Jill Katzenberg reports that she is selling lences to her family and friends. writes that she "graduated from college by real estate in Cleveland by leaps and bounds sheer will power." She would love to hear while fixing up her 70-year-old Cleveland from Becky Lehman, Janet Morse and Heights home. She was chairperson for the Fern Zabriskie. Sell-a-bration Sales Rally - a residential real CorrespOJldclll: estate event catering to the top 1,000 agents Deborah Garber King Tom. Caruso and his partner, Art Francis, throughout the country. The rally was held in 548 Matrakeesetr St. are almost finished with the restoration of their Pembroke, MA 02359 Victorian-style home in New Haven. They San Antonio, TX, in jan. '95. She also just 72 enjoy volunteer work at Bartell Chapel at Yale. learned how to rollerblade. Janet Lawler works part-time, of coun- Carol Blake Boyd has joined Northern Jody Fabso Cassell is choreographing sel, in Hartford, CT. She continues to write Trust Bank of Florida/Naples as a tum officer. and performing again She continues to garden and backpacks. for children and published a short story in Ellen Feldm.an Thorp works part-time HUlIlpty Dumpty's magazine this past june. Correspondents: Mary Brady during the winter months at Solitude ski resort Spud, a lovable mutt, is the latest addition to Cornell, 11305 Alms House in UT where she skis for free! This past sum- her family Although much work, Spud is Cr., Fairfax Station, VA 22039 mer was a seven-day, 20-mile pack trip into her son's best friend! janet plays a lot of pad- and MalY Ann Sill Sircely, P.O. dle tennis, a sport to which she was introduces Box 207, Wycombe, PA the Saw Tooth wilderness. While there, a at CC by Kim Kinney '75. 73 18980 wildfire began and spread close enough for evacuation. This past fall, Ellen literally ran into Nancy McNally Wagner teaches Anita De Frantz at Salt Lake International enrichment classes in Queens, NY, and loves Airport. Anita has been involved in Olympic it. She has three great kids: Michael, 12; Correspondesus: Janice Clio-an, Lindsay, 11, and Laura jean. 7. Nancy stays in 28 Myrtle St., East Norwalk, CT Committee work in Salt Lake City. touch with Neil Pugach '75 and Phil Ford 06855 and Paula Marcus-Platz, Katherine Freygang Flagg was awarded 100 Evergreen Rd., Auburn, ME a grant to do a 32-foot poster for the jones and she would love to hear from Deborah 74 04210 Beach Station of the Long Island Railroad. Pope-Lance.
• SpriliS 1995 _ An Alumni Profile Barbara Meichner Doughty is the executive director of Flying Changes Center for Therapeutic Riding, Inc. in Topsham, ME. It is a nonprofit corporation that pro- An expert on thefossil record ... and life In the bush vides recreational/educational/ therapeutic services for disabled children and adults. Barbara and her family: husband, George; Barbara Brown '76 Seth, 16; Nick, 15; Ashley, 12, and Emily, 10, plan to build a home in Brunswick Barbara Anthropologist, Yale University also breeds and trains Golden Retrievers. Curatorial Affiliate, Peabody Kathy Powell Cohn writes that she had Museum a wonderful time at the reunion. She saysthat life is so hectic that she could use a wife. All ark Twain's barb that we of her three children are in different schools, and she is the cultural chairperson at two of descended from the higher the three. She is also on a curricular instruc- Manimals would probably not tion committee, a communicating with par- needle Barbara "Bobbie" Brown '76 ents committee and a testing and assessments the way it might the rest of us. She committee, all for the Baltimore County simply knows a lot more than most of Board of Education (100,000 students). She us do about our forebears. In 1974 she also works 15-20 hours per week. Whew! Mark Sarnuels-Lasner recently returned had the good fortune to be on the dig from two marvelous weeks in Tokyo. He had where "Lucy," the earliest fossil skele- three books published in one year. A Selected ton in the line of hominids that led to Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey modem humans, was unearthed. Beardsley and William Allingham: A After graduating with a B.A. in studio art and anthropology in 1976, Brown Bibliograp/Jical Stl/dy are all mentioned in the earned an M.A. in anthropology and a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Kent "Chapter and Verse" section of this issue.. State University in Ohio. Her research has taken her to China, Africa and Pakistan, Audrey Sharpe Bernard reports that she is married and has two children: Noelle, 14, and she has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities and at the Cleveland and Javier, 10. She lives on Long Island, NY, Museum of Natural History. Currently a post-doctoral associate at Yale, Brown and is the principal of the Sayville Learning also is helping design an exhibit on human origins at the Peabody Museum. Center, a special education school for emo- How Brown happened, at the start of her career, to join the team who discov- tionally disturbed children, ages5 to 12. ered "Lucy" was partly due to a lucky coincidence, she says. Tony Sheridan writes that he is first "I happened to have known Margaret Mead, and 1 asked her with whom I selectman of Waterford, CT, and is chair of should do field work," Brown says, but Mead's advice didn't pan out. Instead she Council of Governments of Southeastern, CT. His older son, Keenan, is in his first year introduced herself to Dr. Donald C. Johanson (who was in her hometown of at St. Lawrence College, and his younger son, Cleveland to give a lecture) and convinced him that she was the right person to go Tosh, is in his freshman year at Berkeley to Ethiopia. School of Music. Now the anthropologist is involved in the search for even earlier fossils. Nelson Stone has received an academic '''Lucy' evolved after the split between African apes and humans," she says. appointment on the staff of the Department "The fossil record between 5 1/2 and 12 to 15 million years ago is very sparse. We of Radiation Oncology as well as with the Department of Urology at Mt. Sinai School need something between six and eight million years ago, to find something that is of Medicine. During '94, he published 10 as close as we can get to a common ancestor." manuscripts and book chapters. The Baringo Paleontological Research Project, where Brown has been work- Ann Tabak-Fairman Pasquier had a ing, on and off since 1984, is a fossil-rich site in Kenya where geological activity is lovely trip to France where she visited bringing up Miocene-age (5-25 million years ago) remains. She says the experience L'Auvergne, Paris and Normandy as well as in '74 had a lasting effect on her career and that she became more interested in the enjoyed an 80th birthday rete for her mother- biological aspects of anthropology rather than the cultural aspects, particularly how in-law. Daughter, Wendy, is a neuroscience researcher. Arm continues to teach in Groton the body works and the difference in anatomies. and enjoys calligraphy and mushroom hunt- "I have a good three-dimensional mind," she says. "In order to understand ing as hobbies. bones, you need to understand what's attached to them - all the soft anatomy, the Polly Tornsett Walsh and her husband, muscles and tissues." But her favorite part of her career, she says, is the field work. Michael, breed and show Beagles. In their In the bush, improvisation is the name of the game, she says, describing meals third generation of winning dogs, three of of corned beef in myriad variations and a certain nocturnal hazard. their dogs were awarded their AKC champi- "Hippos live in the lake and come out at night to graze in grass right near your onships in '93. With her dogs, Polly partici- pates in a "pet therapy" program at a local tent, so you can't get up at night. You hear them chewing and their stomachs hospital. She also provides classeson pet care grumbling. They're very fast, and they have powerful jaws that can snap you in and responsible pet ownership at local ele- half Most of the time they're very polite. They don't intend to eat you, but if mentary schools. you're in their way ..." She leaves the rest to the listener's imagination. Janie Von Kaenel reports that she - Penny Parsekian rumed in her press credentials in '92 to work on the Clinton Campaign. After having been an anchor and TV reporter on Capitol Hill, Barbara Broum was a Distinguished Alumni Speaker at e.c. on April 12.
ConnecticutCollegeMagazine CD Larry Junda, Melinda Goding, Richard Lictenstein, Melanie Cotton, Wendy 20TH ANNUAL ECLIPSE WEEKEND Coleman, Cay Young and Doug and Jean Renfield-Miller should all be congrat- ulated for their hard work, time and energy PRIL 1-2 MARKED THE 20TH put into the reunion planning. annual Eclipse Weekend, ~ celebration of A African and African-Amencan culture sponsored by Umoja, Unity House and Genesis Correspondent: of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Laurene Giovannelli Palmer During the weekend, the Unity Alumni 23 Parish Hill Rd. North Windham, CT 06256 Council presented the Robert L Hampton 76 Award to Frank Tuitt '87 in recognition of his Poet Michael Collier received a prestigious dedication, commitment and service to the Guggenheim Fellowship in the John Simon Connecticut College conununity. Tuitt will be Guggenheim Meruoraial Foundation's 71st attending Harvard University in the fall to pursue annual competition. The award recognizes a degree in higher education administration. scholars and artists with noteworthy accom- In honor of the 20th anniversary celebration, Professor Marion Dora present- plishments and future promise. Collier recently published a book, The Neighbor, a ed an African ink print, shown above, for permanent display in Unity House. collection of portraits of middle-class people Carmen Perez-Dickson '78 brought a busload of high school students from from his neighborhood in AZ. Bridgeport, Conn. for the weekend to get a taste of the college experience and Congratulations, Michael! enjoy Eclipse Weekend traditions such as the talent and fashion show. Mary Yoshimura Elkin and Jeff Elkin Other alums who attended were: Kevon Copeland '76, Catherine Young '75, just built a home in East Lymne, CT. Jeff is president of New London Tape Distributors, Janet Foster RTC'80, Daughn Lee '84, Grissel Hodge RTC '86, Les Williams Inc., since his father's retirement. "I have '88, Phil Dawson '89, Leon Dunklin '90, Monique Carty '90, Michael Sorell '90, more responsiblities, but it is challenging and Doriellnez Larrier '90, Michelle de la Uz. '90, Debo Adegbile '91, Masako rewarding." Congratulations, Jeff Tamura '92, Lisa Phillips '92, Janet Cardona '93, Kim Laboy '94, Evelyn
Mendoza '94 and Marilyn Pacheco '93. CorrespO/1deIlIS: Wendy Crandall, 24 Landing Ln., North Kingstown, RJ 02852 and Sheila Saunders, 608 Milan Ave., been her boss during the '76 Carter classmates had changed. So, when you sit S. Pasadena, CA 91030 Campaign. She stays in touch with Anita down to think about whether or not you De Pr an tz , Jon Cotton and Rob should attend our reunion, think of it as a sur- 77 Hernandez. prise package that you definitely want to open. Married: Elaine R. DeMore to Harry H. I am quite sure you're going to like it. Gleeson, 9/10/94. On the news front, Mark Warren orga- Born: to Margy Erdman Becker and Correspolldwl5: Miriam nized the 28th annual Arbo/Opening Day Jim, Colin Rosenbury 9/9/94. Josephson Whitehouse, P.O. Softball game with the help of Mike I had the good fortune to visit with Box 68, Cape Porpoise, !'v1E 04014 and Naney Gruver, 2127 Ridgway and Steve Brunetti '76. Other Margy Erdman Becker and her family in Columbus Ave., Duluth, MN alums who played this year were: Dan Vermont this past Aug. They were busily 75 55803 Tucker, Chip Miller, Dave Biro '76, Adam preparing for the birth of their second child. Schneider '76, Andy Krevolin '77, Richie Recently, I spoke with Margy, and she was Glanz '77, Bobby Williams and Scott Carrey happy to say that everyone is well. She has a r hope you all attended our 20th reun.ion. I'd '77. Owen Prague '76 was the honored guest new part-time job as an assistant to the town like to share some reflections on. the Ultimate from the West this year. No one got hurt, and selectman for a neighboring town. Jim's fiirni- Reunion in '93. A5. I look back on that lively Steve Brunetti '76 provided his usual enter- cure business is doing well, and the kids keep weekend, a few things stand out. I didn't real- tainment. Big plans are under way for the them both busy. ize how easily it would be to pick up where 20th! Mark also urges aU to attend as it will be we left off and really have fun together. I a smashing affair! The interest level is high - think one of the benefits of seeing old friends many classmates have responded to his Correspoudeuis: Tom Kobak, 2 DewaI Ct., Norwalk, CT 06851 from your younger days is that you seem to newsletter saying they'll help out. and Susan Calef Tobiason, 70 shed your present responsibilities and just let Mark Warren participated in the 15th yourself relax and play again. It's easy to Park Terrace East, Apt. 41, New Annual Pan-Mass. Challenge, a two-day, 192- York, NY 10034 assume that you have "moved on" in life and mile bike ride from Sturbridge, MA, to some of those old friendships don't have a 78 Provincetown, MA, to raise money for the Married: Meredith Swan to Kinnaird place anymore, but what I saw was a blending Jimmy Fund. The goal this year is $2.5 million of the best of both worlds: past and present. Howland, 7/10/93. from the 1,600 riders. Priscilla Geigis '87 and The carefree, exuberant kids met the accom- Meredith Swan, husband Kinnaird and Peter Gregory '81 also participated in this their four kids are living in RI. Meredith plished and defined adults. How many of us worthy event. had a finn idea of what we wanted to do with writes, "We enjoy sailing and wish both our Mark Bandas recently accepted a posi- OUf lives back in '75? Compared to today's 22-foot boats (acquired pre-marriage) could tion as the assistant dean of residential and goal-oriented students, we were remarkably merge to form a 44-foot boat." judicial affairs at Vanderbilt U. in Nashville. footloose. (Some uncharitable souls say Jay Krasner, a die-hard Boston Garden might At this writing Mark Warren, reunion fan, was profiled in Tile Boston Globe in Apnl. we were directionless.) But it was a pleasant chair, hopes to break a record for a 20th Bakony, Section 98, Row E, Seats 1-2 have surprise to discover how people had "turned reunion! Bill Thomson, Dena Wolf been Krasner's second home for the past 12 out" and truly fascinating to see how our Yeskoo, Ted Schlette, Dan Tucker, years!
CD Sprillg 1995 Peers An Alumni Profile Cotrespondews: Christine Fairchild, 60 Winthrop Sc., Charlestown, MA 02129 and Christine Martire, 119 Twin 79 Hills Dr., Syracuse, NY 13207 BuildingJobsJor S.E. Connecticut
Born: to Mark Fiskio and Gail Finnerty Piskio '78, Emilie Sara 9/16/94; to Trish Michael G. Franklin '76 Cutler Silber and Greg Silber '78, Katherine Margaret-Mae, May '94. Executive Director,SEA TECH Trish Cutler Silber and husband, Greg Silber '78, are enjoying life in DC with their nevery sense of the word, two children, baby Katherine and 3-year-old Michael G. Franklin '76 is a Kyle. They moved to DC three years ago Ibuilder. When the economic after 11 years in northern CA where Trish recession destroyed the three busi- received her MBA from the U. of Santa nesses he owned, Franklin quickly Clara. Greg earned an M.S. in marine biology turned his bad luck around and at San Jose State U. and a Ph.D. in biology shaped a new career. Now in his from the UC/Sanra Cruz. Trish continues to work with Catalyst Consulting Team, a CA- third year as executive director of based management and organizational devel- SEATECH, a non-profit economic opment consulting firm. Greg is the assistant development agency in Groton, scientific program director for the U.S. Franklin uses the skills he gained as Marine Mammal Commission. Writes Greg, an entrepreneur to help others start "The kids are a blast, and life is great!" Boy, is or expand businesses. that nice to hear. Franklin, whose father, Lloyd L. Franklin, was Connecticut College's comptrol- David Stem writes from Los Angeles on ler from 1967 to 1977, graduated with a bachelor's degree in architectural studies and Twentieth Century Fox letterhead as vice engineering. He worked for a year as a carpenter and carpenter foreman in home president of legal affairs, a position to which construction and historical renovations. Then he set out on his own and started a he was promoted last spring. He is responsible for "production of motion pictures and construction company, a development corporation and a cabinetry business. Over acquisition and financing of the same." David the next 15 years, Franklin's enterprises won national awards, and gross sales grew reports that he two children, Jacob, 5, and from $50,000 to $5 million a year. His greatest challenges, however, lay ahead. Rachel, 1. The Sterns survived the earth- As the economy weakened in the late 1980s, Franklin focused on affordable quake, having to move out of their house for housing projects in order to keep his businesses going. But the deepening recession seven weeks of repairs. They see Lex brought an end to government funding, and he was forced into bankruptcy. "I made Richardson from time to time. and lost millions," he says. "I've been through some wild swings." I got a letter from Dennis J. Dale, who Franklin, who describes himself as stubborn and independent, says his innate wants to make sure to send an update to "all optimism sustained him. Only 37 years old when he lost nearly everything, he found those CC botany majors out there." Quoting from his letter, "First, the important things. I solace in the fact that he was still young enough to start over. "I know that at some am married to Sarah Kreger Dale r:w ellesley point in my career, I will have another opportunity to go for a bite of that apple." '77), and we have a terrific SOil, Christopher, With his wife, Henrietta, and their two young sons, Clint and Van, Franklin is who is 4 and a lot of fun. I have recently slowly but surely rebuilding his career. In 1992, he took ajob as executive director of been in touch with Jack Batchelder '78. I am SEATECH, the Southeast Area Technology Development Center Inc., which offers still using all the knowledge that Sally Taylor promising solutions to the shortage of jobs in Southeastern Connecticut. Founded in and Dr. Niering offered some 15 years ago in 1987, SEATECH supplies companies with opportunities to compete for government my everyday practice as a licensed landscape contracts and explore new markets for their goods or services. SEATECH also pro- architect. In the past years, I have worked for vides loans to small firms and technical and financial support to southeastern the international architectural firm of Connecticut's marine science and fishing industries. Benjamin Thompson Associates, Inc., work- ing on projects in NYC, London, Wales, Drawing upon federal, state, corporate and private resources, SEATECH has Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles. I am the evolved into a sound organization capable of creating new industries as well as small landscape architect in charge of 'streerscape' operations, Franklin says from his office at Avery Point on Long Island Sound. and site design for the New Jersey Although he is not sure what type of economy will be able to fill the void left by Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ. It is southeastern Connecticut's dwindling defense industry, Franklin says, he is certain always difficult to take time to write, but after the region cannot rely solely on tourism, which is currently flourishing. "We should seeing Daryl Hawk's photos in the maga- be focusing on higher paying jobs that will save the quality oflife," he says. "Maybe zine, J thought it's time to get in touch. Daryl the answer is a lot of small businesses. We'll continue to support that, because those and I ran track together in j r . high in numbers add up." Westport, CT. It is interesting to see how Over the past three years, SEATECH assisted in the opening 0£20 businesses people change and grow through the years." Liz Leger is finishing her MFA at the and the relocation or expansion of another dozen. The organization has obtained San Francisco Art Institute. more than $25 million in business funcling and financing, and its programs have saved Gail Finnerty Fiskio '78 wrote in to tell or created about 750 jobs, Franklin says with genuine satisfaction. "In addition to me about the birth of her and Mark Fiskio's these results, we are building the first economic development infrastructure for the daughter, Emilie Sarah, who joins the Fiskios' small-business community of our region. - Julie Miller two other children, Mark, 7, and Jack, 4. Gail
ConnecticutCollegeMagnzil1e .., Airways in China, Hong Kong and Macao. Mark, his Brazilian wife, Marilim, and their 4- 1/2-year-old daughter, Maire, live in a beautiful flat overlooking the South China Sea. Mark says, "with the handover of Hong Kong to China in '97, life and businessis very interesting here. I spend a great deal of timein China and am improving my rusty Mandarin (many thanks to the excellent Chinese Department at CC). I recently represented Virgin Atlantic in the Sino-British Air Services Talks in Beijing in Sept. Anyone wishing to contact me can call my office or home in Hong Kong, we're 111 the book!" Ben Robinson recently produced a ben- efit show which brought rock 'n roll to Lincoln Center. The show called "Live Art" featured the off-Broadway show "Stomp" and Dan Seiden of the Round Band. Ben is single, lives in NYC with his psychic parrot, Stubby, and still does magic. He regularly hangs out NEVER lET 'EM SEE VA SWEAT. More than 50, alumni basketball players and their guests reunited at the 25th with John Dire, Randall Klitz and Steve Anniversary of Basketball at Connecticut College. The event, organized by Michael Franklin '76, Steve Brunetti Clarendon '81. '76 and Retired Director of Athletics Charlie Luce, was held on Jan. 25th.
Correspondents.' ClaudiaGould, and Mark went (with Emilie!) to Paul Robinson, 9/24/94. 1612 North FiUmore St., Sanford's ('78) wedding to Paula Schreup in HoUy Corroon is a personal fitness trainer Arlington,VA 22201andGreta Santa Cruz, CA. Other alums who attended and lives in NYC with her husband, Marc Davenport Rutstein, 1723 were: Jim Glick '78, Jay Faber, Holly Mick Robinson, a real estate broker. Windmere Ave.,Baltimore,MD 83 21218 Faber '78, Tom Kadzis '78, Jay Krasner '78 Bob (Skid) Rheault just defended his and Sarah Burrows '80. I'd like to offer my thesis at URI Graduate School of personal congratulations to Paul as well. Oceanography. He is "still trying to grow an Tedd Saunders, executive vice president You may note that I did not write up the oyster aquaculture/consulting business in the reunion back in June that I attended with my frustrating regulatory environment of Rl." He and director of environmental affairs of Saunders Hotel Group, has won the husband, Jeff MacGregor, and good friends has two children, Ben, 4, and Sarah, 1-112. Alice English Johansson and Erik Skid encourages all of us to eat more oysters. Connecticut College Inherit the Earth Award Johansson. While it was fun to catch up Willialll (Kip) Tobin and Tasha Wise for Environmental Education. Saunders, who with the few people who were there (notably Tobin are still settled in suburban Akron, is the author of Tile Bottow Line of Creel! is Nina Korelitz, Jill Quirk Vernon, Lucy OH. Renovations on the house are done for Black, is also president of EcoLogical Sloman, Dina Carani, Hilary Henderson the most part. Kip is vp at E.P. Lambert Co., a Solutions, Inc. Stephens to name a few) the reunion, in my rubber importing company. Tasha still paints. opinion, was a total bust! Noboday showed Her specialty is painting designs on fumiture. up; it was pathetic! lt would be nice if our Correspondents.' LucyMarshall Son, William, 8, is becoming quite an athlete, Sandor, 253 KatydidLane, class could show a little more enthusiasm the and daughter Alexandra, 4, has a very busy Wilton, CT 06897;Sheryl next time around. social calendar. The family traveled to Maui EdwardsRajpolt, 24 BuggHill I am sorry that it's taken me so long to last year. Rd., Monroe, CT 06468and 84 ElizabethKolber,400East71st send in a column. I was thrown off this year After nearly four years as a full-time pop, St., 5L, New York, N.Y. 10021 by the untimely death of my brother, Mark Christopher Gottlieb is working as a '86, in Nov. I wrote his obituary for the mag- research associate for Grub and Ellis Real azine which was, needless to say, the hardest Estate in Houston, TX. Grub and Ellis is the Born: to Betsy Singer Abrams and Kenny, thing I've had to do in a while. Mark's death nation's largest full-service commercial real Dylan Harris 3/22/94; to Tony Catlin and has reminded me that it is very important to estate firm. Son, Johnny, is now in Miss Lucy's Amy, Rachel Anne 3/28/94; to Chris seize the day. - Judy Newman class at Southampton Montessori Schoo1. Vincze and Janet, Kyle Christopher 8129/9~; Editor's /lote: JlIdy has been pitlCIl-hittillg as to Hal Sizer and Susan Budd Sizer, David class onrespondent jor the last year. (Her tenn rjji_ Faust 11/3/94; to Martha Woodward Tuke dally elided at Reunion '94, bill 110 cue steppedfor- Cortespondews Kenneth and Jeremy, Matthew Thomas 11/6/94. ward to rake oller.) Recentiv, Christine Fairchild Goldstein, 94 Dudley Sr., Unit 1, Stephen Wilkins graduated from Yale and Christine Martire agreed to volunteer as class Brookline, MA 02146 and 712 Wall School of Management this past May with a correspondents. COIlgraculariom to the Christi ties! Christine Saxe Easton, Road, Spring Lake, NJ 07762 master's degree in public and private manag- Alld thanks, Judy,jor the past six years! 81 ment. He plans to return to Thailand and work in the capital markets for Deutsche Banle Conespondents: EllenHarris Knoblock, 11Shennan St., Correspolldellt: Belmont, MA 02178 and Paul Grace Sweet Bitter A. (Tony) Littlefield,122Emery 2 Oakwood Way Correspondents.' KathleenA. St., Portland,ME 04102 82 West Windsor, NJ 08691 Goodwin-Boyd, 54 A Landy 80 Ave., Florence,MA 01060and Anne-Marie Parsons,185 Mark Siladi was transferred to Hong Kong in Married: Holly Corroon to Mark Hubbard Sr.,Apt.I,Glastonbury, '93 and is general manager for Virgin Atlantic 85 CT 06033
• Spn'ug 1995 Peers An Alumni Profile RESUME REFERRAL FOR ALUMNI Keeping a dream alive
The Office of Career Services Atty. Lonnie Braxton '86
invites you to participate in our new President, New London County NAACP
Resume Referral Service. This ser- he document Lonnie Braxton treasures the most vice provides a database to match isn't his law degree or college diploma or Navy the demographic information and T discharge certificate. Instead he gives prominent display to his moth- personal employment criteria of er's receipt for a $2 poll tax she paid in her 3 Connecticut College alumni and hometown of Greenville, Miss., in 1963. Framed, the wallet-sized receipt hangs on a wall in the living graduating seniors to employment room of Braxton's home on Willetts Avenue in opportunities received by the Office New London. of Career Services. The service is Poll taxes, barred by the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act, were one of the mecha- customized to match job opportuni- nisms used to discourage blacks from voting ties to alumni Call or stop by OCS before the civil lights movement. to obtain a registration form for the For the 46-year-old Braxton, living through that period had a lasting effect. In January he was installed as the new president of the New London County chapter program, (203) 439-2770. of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In addition to his work with the NAACP, Braxton is also a member of the city's Planning and Zoning Commission and serves on the boards of the area branch of the Habitat for Humanity and the B.P. Learned Mission. Children's author Kimberley Knutson McMahon writes, "My husband, Michael During his one-year term as head of the local NAACP, Braxton hopes to McMahon, and I moved to the Cape and increase membership, now at about 150. He hopes to attract younger members and hope any alums out this way will look us up! see the group become more ethnically diverse. We married each other on 7/10/93. Linda "The original membership of the NAACP was made up of a multitude of dif- Cusack Libbey was a bridesmaid and some ferent kinds of people," said Braxton. "Anyone who's interested in ending hate and other CCs attended: Deb Vileno Esbom '86, mean-spiritedness and contempt for differentness should be a member. Marc Gearin, Steve Geiser, Christina "If the NAACP accomplishes one thing while I'm president, I want to erase Horzepa '86, Masako Nakamura, Scott the line that says 'us against them.' I want to strengthen ties with other minorities Wipper and Carol Spencer Wipper (who, and make their cause ours." by the way, just had a brand new baby boy, The NAACP's work against discrimination has benefited society as a whole, Michael Spencer Wipper!)" Kim recently published her third book, Bed Bouncers. Ska- Braxton said. One of its key challenges now, he said, is to m~ke sure the progress tar.' and Mllddlgl/slr received favorable reviews of the last decade continues. in Publisher's Weekly. Braxton says he owes a personal debt to those who preceded him. Past presi- dents of the local chapter helped open the doors to blacks at Electric Boat in Groton where Braxton worked as an electronics mechanic after completing a stint in the Navy in 1968. Connpo'ldel!r: Suzanne Muri Bright In 1971, he decided to pursue his lifelong dream to become a lawyer. He 172 Summer Ave. began attending Connecticut College part-time nights and summers as an R TC 86 Reading, MA 01867 student. After earning a BA, he entered the University of Connecticut law school and interned in the prosecutor's office at New London Superior Court. By the Married: Susan Brown to Steven Nagy, time he graduated law school in 1988, he had spent 17 years fulfilling his dream. 7/9/94; Kathy Martin to Greg Ocain, "I would never give up," he said. "I was never told by my parents that I 7/23/94; Lestra Litchfield to Steven Atlas, couldn't. I was never discouraged." 9/18/94; Suzanne Muri to Thomas Bright, Since 1991 Braxton has worked at the University of Connecticut School of 10/22/94. Born: to Patti Walsh and Steve, Ryan Law in Hartford. He is one of five who run the law school library and is in charge Steven 7/25/94; to Nina Calace-Mottola of campus computerization. He also practices law part-time with the Huntington Kiess and Kurt, Nicole Holly 11/18/94. Street (New London) firm of McGarry, Prince & McGarry. Suzanne Muri married Thomas Bright At the home he shares with his wife, Pamela, Braxton keeps an extensive col- in Ocr. at a small church just a block from lection of civil rights movement memorabilia. The collection includes newspaper their new house in Reading, MA. Alums pre- articles and a copy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It also includes a Martin Luther sent were: Athena Tsakanikas, Kathryn KingJr. autograph which Braxton obtained at a rally in Atlanta in the early 1960s. Price Pietila and Randall Lucas '87. Last The wall beside the staircase is filled with dozens of family photographs. He year was a busy one for Suzanne: She started a also keeps an anvil once used by an ancestor who had been a blacksmith and a slave new job, sold a house, built a house, crammed in the 18005. five people into a three bedroom apartment ''I'm the keeper," he said, "of the family history." - Judy Benson, TIle Day
ConnecticutCollegeMagazille CD clinical psychology at Yeshiva U. In Ocr., she husband, Peter, moved to Richmond, VA, had the privilege of being maid of honor in where she works at St. Catherine's School as her sister, Hilary Schacher '90 and Frank the director of residents. Caroline still teaches Suhers ('89) wedding. Hearing from history and coaches field hockey and lacrosse. Stephanie brings a reminder of her good She is getting to know her way around and is friends, Kathy Terdiman Spindel and looking forward to less snow. Jennifer Kolber. Wonder what they are up Susan Brown exchanged wedding vows to these days? with Steven Nagy in July. Susan is a teacher at the John Hancock Child Care Center in Boston and lives in Providence, Rl. Cosrespondesus: Lisa Pelosn. 2945 Kathy Martin-Ocain writes that "after Steiner Sc., San Francisco, CA 94123 and Alison Edwards 2119 wandering around from city to city (Boston to 11th Ave. West, Seattle, WA NYC to ...) and from degree to degree (M.A. 98119 '89, NYU, French literature ... )" she spent 88 four years at UConn teaching French and Married: Cathy Masinter to Christian working on her Ph.D. Kathy and husband Hildenbrand, 10/94; Elizabeth Cheryl Quick '87 and Brad Bane were married on Gary have settled in northwestern CT where McCullough to Kevin Wolfe, 7/9/94; April 16, 1994. Melissa Hennessey '8B (far left) they are renovating a 19th-century farmhouse. attended the wedding, and Nan McLean Robertson Rob Hale to Karen Johnston, 5/21/94; Lestra Litchfield married Dr. Steven '87 (far right) was a bridesmaid. Atlas in Sept. Lestra is a research assistant in the Julie Robison to John Fuller, 10/15/94; Gillian Allman to Matthew Najarian, architectural drawings collection at the MIT 4/3/93; Renee Rougeot to David Pease, for two months and during all this, planned Museum in Cambridge. her wedding. Eleven days in the Caribbean, 6/5/92. four days at home and another five days in Born: to Penny McKean Lazor and the Bahamas was all it took to L'1Cethe "real C(JfYCSpOIldCIIIS: Michele M. Sasha Lazor, James Alexander 9/6/94; to world" again. Austin, 506 Main St., Hingham, Renee Rougeot Pease and David, Amelia MA 02043 311dMartha Denial Nina Calace-Mottola Kiess. husband Ashley 7/6/94. Kendler,137 Westwood Ln., Gillian AIhnan Najarian left Tufts U. Kurt, and new baby, Nicole, are all doing Middletown, CT 06457 fine. When not on maternity leave, Nina 87 and is now assistant dean for academic ser- works at Elizabeth Arden Co. In her spare vices at the School of Social Welfare Policy at Married: Ana-Maria Zalles to Andrew time, Nina is redecorating their house. She Brandeis U. keeps in touch with Marie DiMattina Moore '88. 10/94; Pamela Sue Weiner to Quentin Nason graduated in May from Francescani and HoUy Heline - both are Robin Lacey, 10/94. Wharton with a MBA in finance and an doing well. Born: to Michele Grosser Kaufman M.A. in international studies. He lives in Patti Walsh and her husband, Steve, and Roger Kaufman '86, Allison 12/93; to NYC and works in Latin American invest- Margot Hartley MacArthur and Biran have welcomed their second son, Ryan, who (and ment banking at UBS Securities Inc. Quentin now joins his older brother, Jack. Patti works proud grandmother, Joanne Williams Hartley expects to travel extensively to South '54), Patrick 6/4/94; to Tiffany Cobb and for EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, M.A, as America. E. Gardener Asia 2/22/94; to a sales operator. She also gets together with Bradlee, Well, I was glad that our class had a few Susan Santis-Neal and Brett Neal, Zachary Andrea Trella Blakemore and her two newsworthy tidbits, but I'd like to see more! Philip children. Patti would like to let her former 417/94. The easiest part for me is to update you on Good friends and former freshman room- '84 and '85 swim teams know that she is con- that fabulous Seattle crowd. mates, Michele Austin and Maureen templating a return to the pool! Possibly an In Nov., Nancy Beanney of NYC visit- Tiernan Meech finally did it! With Ph.D.s in alumni swim meet at Reunion '96? ed for 10 days. She stayed with Victoria hand, they have entered a new dimension Timothy Dodge is a rravelin' man - Johnson for five days and then went to the world of work. Michele graduated in May he spent two months in Europe over the Anita Nadelson and TOOl Garvey's place from the URI and Maureen graduated this fall summer and can't wait to leave again! He's for five days. Anita and Tom are new to from Nova U. The two began the long jour- thinking AK by motorcycle next .. town though An.ita did grow up here. While ney through graduate school immediately after Jeffrey Kazin continues his employment Nancy was here, she went sailing on Puger finishing at Conn. Both earned doctorates in (four years) with the David Parker Dance Sound 011 Veteran's Day. She was joined by psychology and are now completing hours to Company, where is company manager. Some Alison Edwards, Anita Nadelson, Tom become licensed. Michele specializes in work- highlights in Jeffrey's career: In the summer Garvey and jen Taylor '89. ing with young children. Maureen's specialty of'93, he was commissioned to create a piece During the holiday season, CC alums is. working with young women with eating as part of the Young Choreographers and gathered frequently and joyously. Jen Tarcher disorders. Whew, it's finally over! Composers program. (The piece was per- '89 bought a house and gave a holiday party. Margot Hartley MacArthur wrote to formed to great reviews during a festival at Among her guests were Paula McGarry '87, tell us that she and her husband, Brian, recent- Duke U. and in NYc.); in Jan. '94, Jeffrey Randy Kline '90, Greg Porter '90, Sloane ly had a baby boy, Patrick Hartley. She is con- debuted 111 Europe in the IV International Deangelos '90, Melissa O'Neill '89 and Competition for Choreographers in the tinuing her work as manager of operations at Alison Edwards. Netherlands where he won a finalist prize Metasyn Inc., a start-up bio-tech company in Another fabulous Seattlite is Dan Collin and was first runner-up for the Public Prize; Cambridge, but Margot said that "being a who recently received another promotion! ' he then shared a benefit concert performance morn is the BEST!" Lucie Greer writes, "I love living in at the Four Seasons in Boston and two more Over the summer, Nancy Harvey Healy Santa MOJUca, CA, and am begininng a mas- benefits in NYC; last summer, Jeffrey co- wrote with news that she was getting ready to ter's in clinical psychology at Pepperdine U. hosted a lecture/demonstration at Harvard make some changes - "burned out on resi- to become a marriage, family and child coun- and then spent three weeks on Martha's dence hall life. I'll be leaving East Stroudsburg selor." She enjoys seeing Susan Evans who Vineyard with the dance company sponsored U." to try the Rochester, NY, way of life! works at BUZZ magazine. by The Yard - he was one of two choreog- Hope a111s going well. Victoria Johnson presented her research raphers selected from hundreds of applicants! .Stephanie Schacher sends good news. at the Pain Management Conference in This fall, she began working on her Psy.D. in Caroline Twomey Gilbert and her Miami.
• Spn'lIc~1995 pearance the night before Alumni Day made me very angry. While the banner is only a large piece of felt, it represents the pride we have in our class and in the coLlege. It was made by a classmate in '46. It survived two mascot hunts. It was held by us at for compet- itive sings (two of which we won), and it was carried at nine major reunions. Our 45th broke records for alumni giving and atten- dance. We should have had our banner. "Although we are separated by 40 years, we do have the following in common: we all graduated from CC; we all returned for reunion to be with friends; most significantly, FRESHMAN ROOMATES Tracey Cusick '88, Gillian we all spent four yeats under the Honor Allman Najarian '88, Dana Simpson '88 are all Code. I like to think the last is why you Elizabeth Irwin '88 and new husband Ben Schlosser smiles at the April '93 wedding of Gillian and returned the banner." pose with alumni at their May '94 wedding. Matthew Najarian. My apologies to Annika Bruhns- Standing, left to right: Amanda Kuklin Derderian Bischoff and Andrea Fazzari for the delay '88, Deb Lagerquist Hazlett '88, the bride and in the printing of news from them. [ had a groom, and John Derderian '86. Sitting, left to News from back east is that Duncan major problem with my mail for several right Sara Metzger-Deveau '88 and Alison Watson MacDonald has entered the business world months in the summer and just received their Faegan '88. with his wife, julia. They own and run Play letters dated several months ago. it Again Sports in Burlington, VT. Duncan As of July, Annika was singing and danc- Born: to Kris Enriquez Smythe and Ross said he also plays hockey on Monday nights ing away, looking forward to being cast as Smythe '88, Ross Woodward II 5/5/95; to with Pat Burke '89. Evita in a theater in Germany. Her band was Mark Hamell, M.A., and Karla, Hollyann Another alum who would like you all to also improving and playing quite a few gigs. D'nelll1/1/94. know he is alive and well is John Waters. She had also already signed several 'projects for Elizabeth Brown has moved to CA after He is still in DC working for Nationcl the future, including "La Cage aux Folies" completing a summer architecture program at Geograpfll'c (for nearly five years), but the and "Moby Dick" in the spring. Harvard. exciting news is that he is recentJy married. As of Aug., Andrea was working in NY in I received a terrific letter from Alicia On 8/6/94, John married Tracy Stroud, public relations for the Italian fashion house Hesse-Cleary, who is living in Hong Kong Congratulations! Rusty Logan and Peter Dolce & Cabbana. She had been living in with her new husband. Alicia was married last Mohr were at the wedding. \ Paris prior to that. Memorial Day in Florence, Italy, and moved The last bit of news I have is from Tiggy Nichola Minott finished her service in to Hong Kong soon thereafter. She is work- Howard, who married Suzanne last July. the Peace Corps in Sept. She plans to return ing for Star TV as a production assistant. She Congratulations, Tiggy! to the U.S. soon. In the meantime, she will continues to keep in touch with many CC travel through South and Central America, alumni and hopes that others who are seeking adventure will try Hong Kong as well. Correspondents: Deb Dorman, 220 Century Place#3205, Kris Enriquez Smythe and Ross '88 are Conespondeuu: JenniferHarvey, Alexandria,VA 22304 and the proud parents of Ross Woodward II, born 1522 Chestnut Hill Se., #1, San AlexandraMacCollBuckley, on May 5. Kris and Ross have also recently Francisco,CA 94123 and Dana 4826 BradleyBlvd., Chevy McAlister,78MyrtleAve., earned graduate degrees: Kris graduated from Chase, MD 20815 89 Westport, CT 06880 Salem College with an MAT, and Ross gradu- 90 ated from Wakeforest with an MBA. Married: Alix Davis to Bevan Cum min, Hedi Due is Jiving in Paris, working on a 9/17/94; Frank Heavey to Whitney Alexanderson, 7/16/94; Lucy Herman to Matthew Moog, 9/94; Amy Pavich to David Agus, 5/94; Chesca Sheldon to Emesto Mayser '90, 7/23/94. It took five years, bur it finally happened. The Class of '89 was hit by the Class Notes bandit! Evidently, someone seems to get a huge kick out of posing as a member of our class and writing letters to the correspondents with false information about fellow class- mates. We are not the only class to have this happen, and the information always sounds legitimate, so it's hard to detect these fake let- ters. Nonetheless, our apologies to all affected by this in the Dec. '94 issue. I received a letter from Ann Grayson, president of the Class of '49. The banner, A rip-roaring lime was had by alums at the July '94 wedding of Elizabeth McCullough '88 and Kevin Wolfe '88. From left to right: Mati Teare '87 (seated), Alex Mills '88, Peter Kris '88, Jim Crowley '86, Hugh Fraser '87, which was stolen from them at reumon, was Jeff Geddes '89, Stephen Frieder '89, Frank Suher '89, Lauren Meltzer '88, Hilary Schacher Suher '90, John anonymously returned in Oct. She asked that Bogaty '88, the bride and groom, Todd Taplin '89, Tim Killenberg '88, Amanda Kuklin Derderian '88, Steve we print the following: Barriere '87, John Derderian '86, lisa Pelosa '88, Tracy Thomson Teare '87, Burke LaClair '88, Mary Hope " ... J want to thank you for returning our McQuiston '87, Kim Priest LaClair '88, Patty Wade Stickley '88, Dave Gross '88, Paula McGarry '87, Rob Hale banner. I also want to tell you why its disap- '88, Derek Shoffner '88 and Laura Henricks '88. Not picture, bridesmaid Sandy Pfaff '88.
ConnecticutCollegeMagazine CD the NYC area. She's teaching first grade in the South Bronx and getting a master's in educa- tion at Fordham U. She sees Ted Heintz '94, who coaches hockey in Haverford, PA; Dianne Cavaliere, who is at Albany Law School and frequently visits NYC; Evelyn LaFave, who is pursuing a master's degree in art history at Case Western Reserve; Macon Pickard, who is working part time and start- ing courses in reading education at NYU; Sean Curry, who is working hard and living in NJ with friends. Mike Goldban, who is finishing law school and living in Manhattan; Tom Kessler, who is at Villanova Law School; JT Straub, who is living in Philadelphia and working at Merrill Lynch; Heather Meeker '90 and Rishava Green were married on August 29,1994. Alums in attendance were, left to Dianne Cisneros, who is working on 5th right: Frank Carberry '89, Stacia Murzyn '89, Scott Murphy '91, Wendy Osgood Murphy '9~, Ken ~~nso.n ~~C, Ave. in NYC and enjoying her apartment; Ashley Powell Hanson '82, the bride and groom, Joelle Patten '89, Denise Crump-Moody 90, Alicia Diem 90, Rebecca Childs '92, Scott Cave '91 and Jonathon Morancy '89. Mike Leibert, who is a paralegal in NY C, and Dan Kessler, who lives and works in NYc. master's in French through Middlebury Girardec '91. Rich would love to hear from his Other alums who are frequently seen m College. "[ also have a teaching internship classmates. Please call the Alumni Office (203- Manhattan or the Ha mp ton s, are Ted (teaching English) at a Paris high school - a 439-2300) for his address. Prischling '93, Bill Messer '91, Kevin Cuddihy great and challenging experience. If all goes Heather Meeker Green was married to '90 and Ken Smoltz '91. well, I should have my master's in Aug., and Rishava Green in Aug. '94. Afterwards, the Sheri Kaufman and Jenn Hartley are I'll probably return to the Boston area to look couble spent nine days in Belize on the beach living in Boston and enjoying their jobs in the for a teaching job with administrative duties." and in the rainforest. Heather is finishing a financial world. Mark Hamell, M.A., and his wife, master's in liberal studies with a focus on edu- Jeanine Catalano is at Tufts Vet School. Karla, gave birth to a 7-pound, c-ounce baby cation and women's studies. She also returned Jennifer Quigley wrote in via e.mail. girl, Hollyann D'nell Hamell, on 11/1/94. to campus to provide training for the She and Nat Harris have been living and Their first child (Parker Alexander) is now 4 Negotioation Course for Dean's Term. working in San Francisco, CA, for two years. and completely recovered from the open "Lucky me," writes Heather, "1 stayed on She is working at HarperCollins Publishers as heart surgery he had in Dec. '92. Marshall's first floor for two nights until a a sales support coordinator. Both Nat and Rich Powell was married on Aug. 13 in room opened up in College House!" Jennifer are in constant contact with Tracy Bloomfield Hills, MI, to Angela Swartz. They If you are interested in buying a Kaine col- Cashman (living and working in Boston) and are now living in Winnetka, IL, while Rich is lege yearbook from your class, contact Mark George Brewster (teaching skiing and living continuing to write his Ph.D. dissertation in Hoffman, director of student activities at 203- in Breckenridge, CO). political science all presidential communica- 439-2834 tion strategies at Northwestern U. In atten- Kim Tirnby bas been living in Paris since dance at the wedding were Tony Fisher, Nov. '92. She has completed her master's Eric Stern, Joe Rhames and Roland Correspondents: John Kogan, 3107 degree in anthropology at the U. of Paris and Coachman's Way, Durham, NC is working in the deparmenc of photography 27705 and Jonathan Zobel, 215 W. at the Musee Camavelet - Paris's museum of 108th St., Apt. 2, New York, NY history. Any classmates traveling through Paris 10025 91 should look her up. Kim's address and phone number are available from the Alumni Office, After moving back from CO and working in 203-439-2300. Boston, Paul Simpson has decided to start If you are interested in buying a Kaine his own microbrewery. Paul and two other college yearbook from your class, contact partners have formed Blackstone Valley Mark Hallinan, director of student activities at Brewing Company and are setting up the 203-439-2834. brewhouse in Worcester, MA. He hopes to have a product on tap by this summer and encourages any thirsty camels passing through Worcester to stop by the brewery for a tour Correspondent: and some samples. Carrie Stevens 106 I 1 Pine Haven T err 93 Bethesda,MD 20852 Cosrespondent: Liz Lynch, 1 Latham Married: Anne Palmgren to Edward St., Apt. 1, Mystic, CT 06355 and Bowen, 9/10/94. Jen Cahalanc, 1070 Franklin St., Stacy Sibley '89 and Jay Ackerman '89 exchanged Duxbury, MA 02332 Anne Palmgren Bowen had a large CC wedding vows on Oct. 22, 1994. Pictured at the 92 gathering at her Sept. wedding! Her husband, reception, from left to right: Bottom row, Donald Edward Bowen, was a few days late to the White '89, Ellen Boucher '89, the bride and groom, r received a Christmas card from Alex Foster. wedding due to the fact that his ship was and Kevin Walor '90. Middle row, from left to right: She is living in KY with plans to start rued. deployed in Operation Democracy in Haiti Julie Cahalane '89, Lori Rubin '89, Jeflrey Lewis school in the fall. Good luck, it was GREAT from Sept. i-Nov. 1, but he made it and they '90 and Benjamin Balkind '89. Top row, from left to to hear from YOLl, Alex! ended up getting :t full week for a honey- right: John Burke '89, William Messer '91, John Virginia Rivero was nice enough to moon. Anne's maid of honor was Jennifer McCormick '86 and Seth Alvord '93. write in and let us know what is going on in Boyd and her bridesmaids were Aimee
• SpriHg'1995 Beauchamp, Tara Rayder and Martha Andersen. Guests at the wedding included Jack Genther, Tim Cheney, Fran Higgins, Lee Gatchel, Todd Alessandri, Caroline Pool '91, Elizabeth Lynch '92, Ali Christopher '94, jennifer Sanders '94, Tom DiNanno '95, Patricia Kendall Boyd '64 (len's mom), Barbara Hickey Metzler '41, and Nina Elgo '84. After returning from Haiti, the Bowens will be living in Charlevoix, MI. Michelle Pereyo is in her second year of teaching first grade. She saysher classis "heav- en" this year compared to last year's group. She keeps in touch with Nell Forgacs, who is teaching second grade in L.A. After a year of studying japanese at the japan Society in NYC and working various "lousy" retail jobs, Mark Gilson hopes to A GATHERING OF CAMELS. Mare Neary '90 and John Rubin '90 were married on Aug. 27, 1994. Alumni at the have his act together before too long and get a wedding, from lett to right are: (top row) Jason Siewart '90, Julie Smilh '90, Peter Spoerri '90, Ernesto Mayser career going. Until then, he's quite content to '90, Chesca Sheldon Mayser '89, Kristin Lofblad '90, Dana Belcher '87, Bartley Johnstone '90, Patrick Coyle stay up all night drinking Pepsi and watching '91, Christin Shanahan '90, Gary Culler '90 and Ali Nash '93. Front row, lett to righl: Dana Pierce '90, Jodi the Cartoon Network. Simon Stewart '90, Nora DIson '90, the bride and groom, Jenner Thacher '90, Leslie Goodwin '90 and Brent Jen Ablen is in her second year of law Turner '90. school out in OR and has just survived finals. Terry Perreault graduated with her mas- She keeps in touch with Jen Yuan. who is area. He and Chris Simo share an apartment ter's in counseling from Catholic U. in May. producing four pieces profiling innovative in Somersville, MA. Contact the Alumni She plans on staying in the DC area and get- math and science teachers in Western MA Office for their current address. that will air on WGBH in jan. In Dec. she Heather Wolpert is a writer's assistantto ting her professional counselor license. Eric Widmer reports that Bob Turner also "pitched" for the pledge drive. the Head Writers/Producers of "Hearts Afire" Zachariah Combs just got back [rom at Mozark Productions in Los Angeles. and John McPhillips are living together in Mali for the second time. It was definitely his Rick Canavan is going to graduate Atlanta and loving their jobs at the Men's kind of place -lots of drumming and mango school at COJ11ellto study soil science. Helpline Center. Jamie Sweat is in DC working in a coffee shop and singing every eating. He's now selling jeubes and is thinking Lauri Richman has been living in chance he gets. As for Eric, he's enjoying life about teaching in the fall. Granada, Spain, since Sept. '93, teaching Rachel Warren, Timothy Crowley English as a Second Language in an academy. on the road - a different city, a different day. He's working and touring with Phil Collins. and Bill Yates are living in West Botto in She spent the summer of '94 in Seattle, WA, New York. Rachel works at W.W. Norton. with a friend from Spain. She is now back in Missy Ivers is attending the Columbus U. Tim works for Travelers, and Bill works at Spain and plans on staying until the summer School of Law at Catholic Amy the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. of '95. She is thinking about pursuing gradu- Robinson and yours truly, Carrie Stevens, They see a lot of Chris Coburn '91, jen ate studies in the field of public health. ran into Missy on the Metro heading to Silver jablons '94 and Lee Berendsen '94. Christine Megan Hanson is living in NYC and has Spring, MD, where they all live. Amy and Kim and Chivas Clem are also on the just begun a job at Jordan, McGrath, Case & Carrie are still sharing an apartment with Kris scene. Bill still suffers from asthma. Taylor. In her spare time, she's a housekeeper Rizzo '92. Greg Haines is currently working at for Parzin Azann '92, Cristo Garcia '92 and Amanda Frederick and Jen Ianniello Millstone Nuclear Plant in Waterford, CT. Rich (Tubby) Carter '92. She sang at Lincoln are living together 111 San Francisco. Amanda Alexis Audette is in her first year of Center on Nov. 19. In Oct., she visited has a job working in financial services for a working as a Teach for America Corps mem- Gillian Schair '94 in Boulder, CO, during the loan company. She is considering going back ber in Oakland. She teaches in a bilingual first snowfall of the season. Megan has a mes- to graduate school to get a master's in indus- Vietnamese class for first and second graders. sage for Nicene Pascal, "I still have your bed erial/organizational psychology so that she can Hugh Ewart is working as a legislative and carpet!!" work in management consulting. aide/systems administrator for United States Representative Maria Cantwell (Democrat, WA). He's living in DC. Laura Manzano and Robin Swimmer are still working for Bloomingdale's in NYC as assistant buyers. Laura reports that she is lucky enough to live with two '94 graduates, Xuan Phan and Makiko Ushiba. She hasn't been to campus in a while bur hopes to see more people in NYC in the future. Currently a graduate student at the URI, David Brauner is studying zoology and hopes to concentrate on reproduction in water snakes. He's living in Narragansett and enjoying being a graduate student. ..t! Rebecca Green is at Harvard. Please ., ,n h contact the Alumni Office for her address. HAPPY NEWLYWEDS Lisa and Mike Sandner '91 pose with CC alums at their Aug. 21,1994 wedding. Having returned from a year in Austin, Attending the wedding were: Amy Mass '92, Jill Delio Stritlo '91, Mark Waldeck '91, Erin McLaughlin '91, Jon TX, Holt Hopkins is living in the Boston Kweller '91, Matt Sisson '91, James Greenleaf '91 and Susie Cascio '92.
ConnecliculCollegeMagaziJie CD After attending graduate school at Yale, Mrs. Lee Rawles, one of your class correspon- Lucy Gunderson is in Moscow teaching Johnson taught English at f:lockville High dents, is working in DC as a legal assistant. In at the House of Stanhyevich, an English lan- School in Rockville, CT. Widow of the late addition to the mailing address listed obcve. guage school. Her students range in age from Thomas S. Johnson, she is survived by one submissions and general correspot~dence may 10 to 15, She has her hands full but IS happy. daughter and two grandchildren. be sent to him at his e.mail address: Kelly Grady works at the Connecticut Bessie Morehouse Kellogg '38, of "ra w lesl %dch u b%ws p r- [email protected]" Conference of Municipalities in New Haven Bethel, Vt., died on March 14. She received where she's been since graduation. She's in (without quotes). ., her master's degree in nursing from Yale U, If you are interested in buying a Kame col- government finance and enjoys working in and worked as a registered nurse at Yale-New lege yearbook from your class, c~l~tact Mark the public sector. Kelly recently took a trip to Haven Hospital for several years. She retired Hoffman, director of student acnvines at 203- Atlanta to see Jodi Mannarino '92. She'd love in 1973 as school nurse in the Stratford 439-2834. to hear from anyone living in CT ! schools. Surviving are two sons, two grand- Matt Hopkins is an assistant hockey and children and several nieces and nephews. lacrosse coach at Quinnipeac College. He's Florence Koenig Scharfenstein '48, of taking education courses and is doing a.Iot of Correspondau : Cos Cob, Conn., died on Jan. 3. A retired substitute teaching in middle schools 111 the Hilary Evans RTC '93 teacher, Mrs. Scharfenstien was director of the New Haven and Hamden, CT area. P.O. Box 494 Tiny Tots program at the Stamford, Conn., Christy Halvorson is living in Ivoryton, CT 06442 YWCA. She held a master's degree in English Georgetown with Garth Ross. She runs a RTC from Brooklyn College. Predeceased by her one-woman show in the Development Office husband, Lt. Cmdr Stuart Talmage at a small school (6-12 grades) called Scharfenstein, 111 1961, she is survived by three Park mont. She also teaches photography Obituaries daughters and three grandchildren. there. Garth is doing landscaping work which Joan Gesser Shafer '50, of Arlington gives him time to focus on music. He has Heights, Ill., died on Sept. 9, 1994. Mrs. sung at the White House twice with his a Margaret Smith Hall '26, of Woodstock, Schafer was retired as an operations manager cappella group, The Metronomes. They. see Conn., died on April 3. Mrs. Hall was a tutor from Unigard Insurance after 12 years of ser- Devon Danz, Kristen Ekedahl, Monisha at the college until her 1926 marriage to Adm. vice. She is survived by her husband, William Kaplan and Stephanie Bott often. Arthur G. Hall, superintendent of the U.S. E. Shafer; one daughter, three stepdaughters, Ventrice Shillingford started a master's Coast Guard Academy from 1950-54. She was five grandchildren and her mother, Jean in public health at George Washington U. a nurse's aide during World War II. Cesser. Medical Center in August of '94. She IS con- Predeceased by her husband in 1986, she Dorothy Pollock Cozadd '62, of centrating in epidemiology and biostatistics leaves two SOilS, four grandchildren and five Bellevue, Wash., died on April 2. A commit- and is also working for a biochemistry profes- great grandchildren. sor. ed volunteer in the Seattle area, Mrs. Cozadd Lucy Barker Keddie '27. of Wellesley If you are interested in buying a Koine worked in a domestic violence program, first Hills, Mass., died on Feb. 4. She was the wife college yearbook from your class, contact as a crisis-line counselor, then as an adminis- of the late James Keddie. Survivors include a Mark Hoffman, director of student activities trative volunteer and member of a long-range daughter, two grandchildren and four great- at 203-439-2834. planning committee. She is survived by her grandchildren. husband, Bennett Cozadd; one son; one Margaret Howard Ballantyne '28, of daugher and her mother, Dorothy Pollock. CO"cspOlldcIIIS: Lee Rawles, 1550 Cheshire, Conn., died on March 8. Wife of Jane Anderson Morse '65, of Massachusetts Ave., #243, NW, the late James S. Ballantyne, she leaves two Alexandria, Va., died on Feb. 18. The Rev. Washington, DC 20005 and). daughters and tvv o grandchildren. Mrs. Morse graduated Will in 1986 from Manning Weir, 4293 Hathaway laude Flora (Pat) Hine Myers '29, of West Lane, Memphis, TN 38117 Virginia Theological Seminary. A resident of 94 Hartford, Conn., died on March 21. Active in Waterford, Conn., for 20 years until last sum- the Connecticut College Club of Hartford, she mer, the Rev. Mrs. Morse was the former Tara Brassil is living just down the street served on the Board of Di rctors for the priest assistant at St. Ann's Episcopal Church from Paul's Pasta in Groton. She regularly YWCA and the Federated Garden Clubs of in Old Lyme and was an active layperson keeps in touch with Jon Pinnimore and Connecticut, Inc. She is survived by her hus- through the 1970s at St. John's Episcopal Shelli Catalina. band, Glenn H. Myers; three daughters, five Church in Niantic. Shortly before her death, Sarah Carlson is working at Columbia grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. she was appointed professor of Hebrew and Artists Management and living in NYC. She Doris Ryder Watts '30, of Seal Beach, Old Testament at Virginia Theological enjoys her work and continues to audition for Calif., died on Jan. 6. Following her gradua- Seminary in Alexandria. At the time of her dance companies. tion from Connecticut, Mrs. Watts pursued an death, the Rev. Mrs. Morse was working Jon Finnimore is living and working in acting career and later opened the Dorbetb towards a doctorate at Yale University. She Bath, ME. He urges anyone in the area to junior Players in Westwood, Calif. She earned was to graduate in May. She is survived by her look him up. a master's in library science from the U. of husband, Clayton Morse; a son, Benjamin; Sybil A. Haggard is working at CC and Southern California. She worked as a library and her mother, Adele Anderson Poor. The living in Mystic, CT. She keeps in touch with administrator in Long Beach, Calif.: Nassau Rev. Mrs. Morse was followed in death by Sarah Carlson, Mary Beth Palazzo and County, N.Y., and was county librarian for her daughter, Sarah, who cook classes at Rachel Dalton. Sybil writes, "If anyone is in Contra Costa in Calif. Survivors include one Connecticut College. the area, I'd love to see them." son, three grandchildren and two great-grand- Ellen Hermanson '74, of Brooklyn, Esther Potter has just finished her first children. N.Y., died on April 11 of cancer. Ms. semester at The Graduate School of Political Edith Walter Samuels '30, of White He1111anSOn was a crusader in the battle against Management at George Washington U. Last Plains, N.Y., died on Feb. 19. An artist and breast cancer, organizing suvivor groups and Nov., Esther worked on the Chuck Robb social worker, she is survived by a daughter, speaking at national conferences and regional Virginia Senate Campaign. She regularly Bobbee Samuels Hirsch '58; a son, eight workshops. In 1991, she helped found the keeps in touch with Carol Giusti and Jon grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jewish Healing Center in New York, an orga- Zaff'95. Elizabeth Weed Johnson '30, of nization that provides spiritual assistance to Ted Heintz is coaching hockey in Stonington, Conn., died on July 26, 1993. people coping with serious illnesses. In 1992, Haverford, PA.
• Spring 1995 Ms. Hermanson was appointed the first exec- utive director of the judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert. The group promotes She Gave Us Joy breast cancer awareness and provides educa- tion and legal services. Survivors include her An alumna remembers Nancy Rash husband, Hugo, Mareno; one daughter, Leora; and her parents, Harlow and Roslyn N1972, NANCY RASH ARRIVED AT Hermanson. Connecticut College after teaching for Salvatore S_ Eig li o meni '82, of two years at Hartford College for Women. Meriden, Conn., died on Feb. 15. A studio I art major, Me Figliomeni is survived by his Iremember being so captivated during my parents, Carmela and Frank Figlomeni; two first class with her. This brilliant young sisters, Marina leraci and Carla Figliomeni; woman exuded so much energy and love for and his maternal grandmother, Maria Teresa cbe history of art and for life. To begin with, D'Agostino of Reggio Calabria, Italy. The Nancy was beautiful: She looked as if she had family has established a scholarship fund at the college in memory of Mr. Figliomeni. All stepped out of a painting by Botticelli. Not donations should be payable to: Connecticut only did her charismatic demeanor command College in Memory of Salvatore S. attention, but Nancy radiated an inherent Figiliomeni and sent to: Michelle Robertson, enthusiasm for her subject. She had hooked me with her freshness, her passion, Office of Development, In Memory of her sensitivity and her desire to pass on all of this knowledge to her students. I Salvatore S. Pigliomeni, Connecticut College, immediately signed up to audit all of the other classes she taught that semester. 270 Mohegan Ave., New London, Conn. After being advised by other professors not to major in art history unless I 06320. wanted to be unemployed for the rest of my life (a clever way of "vetting" out the serious students), it was refreshing to talk to Nancy - particularly in 1972 when doors were just beginning to open to women in the arts. She encouraged me when others did not. Nancy opened by eyes and mind. Not having any interest in mosaics before I met her, Iwas suddenly riveted when she talked about her dissertation topic and dreams for future projects. But our relationship went deeper than this: Nancy Rash was there for me even beyond Connecticut College. She encouraged me when I needed advice about graduate schools. After surviving two years of graduate school in Washington, D.C., I was hired in the fall of 1976 by the National Gallery of Art. Nancy was the first person I called! She was truly excited for me, and our friend- ship continued to grow. But one of my greatest moments was in 1978: Nancy Elizabeth Carroll Cummings '88, of was to meet me at a function at the National Gallery and whenever she encoun- Coogee, Australia, died on May 6. A lIIaglJa tered J friend she introduced me, not as her former student, but as her Will laude graduate of Connecticut, Ms. "colleague" - it was a great honor that she would introduce me in such a way. Cummings received a Phi Beta Kappa Key Nancy always gave me her heartfelt attention and support. Certainly with- while at the college. A Chinese major, she out her, I would not have worked as hard as I did as a student. I certainly would won the Marjorie Lybolt Prize for Excellence not have had the vision I have now. in Chinese and was a Sykes Scholar. I met Nancy at the beginning of her tenure at Connecticut College. Now, Following her graduation, Ms. Cummings traveled extensively through Asia and 20 years later, I think of the gifts this vibrant woman gave to me and to the col- Australia. She was employed at the National lege community. We have been so lucky to have-Nancy here. I will miss her. I English Academy in Bondi jet., Australia. will remember her mellifluous voice (a word she taught me) speaking about St. Survivors include her husband, William Denis, or the windows of Chartres, or Heloise and Abelard or George Caleb Cummings; a daughter, Madelyne Bingham and (yes!) even contemporary art. Nancy Rash was an important force Cummings; her parents, William and joan to many of us at Connecticut College. She gave us joy, light and an unabashed Carroll; one brother, one sister, her paternal love for art and for life. And since 1980, but especially in the last six months grandmother and her materna! grandmother. before her death, Nancy has given us courage. Thank you, dear Nancy. Pax *Flill obituary wuwailable at tunc qf pllblicatiou. requiescat. - Trinkett Clark '73, Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. Family members, classmates, fellow alulIIl/i and Dr. Nalley Rash, Liley C. .i\1eDI1I/IIell!22 Prifessor of Art History! joined the [riends //lay make a memorial gift throllgh the Connecticut Collegefawlty ill 1972. She Was promoted to associate prcifessor in 1978, 10 Connecuou College Amilia! FUI/d. All)' indwid- projessor ill 1983, 11I1d to her endowed chair ill 1991. She served as chaif of the art histo- ual(s) designated by the donor will receive notifica- tion ofthegifi. TI,e /lamE oj the memorialized per- ry depanmentjroin 1980-84 alldfrolll 1987-93. She received herbachelo;'!s degree ill SOli and the donor will be listed ill the college's 1962fro1ll Radcliffe College, a master's degree in 1965 mid a Ph.D. in 1971frol/l BrYII Honor Roll of Civil/g. Please send checks payable Mawr College. Dr. Rash is tlie outiior of The Painting and Politics of George Caleb to Conneaicui College, clearl)' illdicatillg the /lame Bingham, published by Yale University Press ill 1991. In 1993-94) she was awarded a and address of the personis} 10 be /lotified, to: fellowship from the National Endowment ~f the Humanities to study iII/ages of Africall Connecticut College Development Office, 270 Americall popular culture. Mohegan Ave., New Loudon, CT 06320.
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nyone who has browsed through racks of Hallmark Acards is probably familiar with the cantankerous "Maxine," a chain-smoking crone who demol- ishes the image of "3 nice little old lady" with her bitter wit. It is a liltle known fact, however, thai this greeting card character and star of the nationally syndicat- ed "Crabby Road" comic strip, was inspired by a retired Connecticut College faculty member. Hallmark artist John Wagner had to look no further than his own mother, AnloineUe ("Toni") Wagner of Mystic, Conn., when he created a new character several years ago. And although Toni, a former assistant professor of physical education and aquatics director, does not have Maxine's attitude problems, the resemblance is unmistakable. "I wasn't upset, r was sort of naneren," says Toni, who was leatured recently in People magazine. Apparently, the eight million people who bought "Maxine" cards lasl year found her just plain irresistible.
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between self and others. But the defin- for the dignity and insights of others. international Olympic movement ition has undergone a series of This is just the kind of discussion the in her roles as head of the founda- transfonnations throughout history. In freshman student experienced in her tion set up by the 1984 Olympic the civic framework, the self and the class. Games in California and U.S. rep- other are fellow citizens equal before Students realize the benefits of resentative to the International the law. In the religious framework, meeting these expectations. The trust Olympic Committee. She said her they are brothers and sisters, children the faculty and administration have in four years here had made her a of a cornrnon God. In the Chivalric them expands their freedom. The lifelong optimist. From this expe- ethic, the self and others are defined by faculty trust students enough to per- rience she decided that human the roles they play in feudal hierarchy. mit self-scheduled, unproctored beings could work together in One of the characteristics of the examinations. Should a professor sus- mutual trust for individual and contemporary world is the quest for a pect plagiarism or other cheating, the common good. She became con- believable modern framework for faculty member addresses his or her vinced, here, that people indeed human relationships. Charles Taylor concerns directly to the student J- can make progress on goals focuses on this topic extensively in his Board. Trust means our students together. book, Sources if the Self, particularly participate in highly confidential At our most recent baccalaure- pointing out the difficulty in shaping a meetings and on search conunittees, ate service, I told our graduates believable and widely shared frame- and advise department chairs on that they have not lived in an work for the way individuals should tenure decisions. Students also expe- ivory tower on this campus. They treat others. rience expanded social freedom in have experienced life where hon- their self-management of dormitories. or and integrity expanded freedom Understanding rights and responsibilities Students today write the same and justice, where self-discipline As I reflect on the key values of a words of the Honor Pledge on their and social responsibility expanded Connecticut College education, I am blue books as students from the '20s, opportunities, where rights are struck by the centrality of the Honor '50s and '80s, but the Hon.or Code is connected to civic virtues. I told Code. under stress every year just as it was them that rather than adjusting In practical tenus, the Honor Code this year as a new group of students down to the rest of the world, it is makes clear to students the continuing arrived and struggled to understand their job to make the world more dialogue between personal rights and and then commit themselves to this like this place - with a call to social responsibilities. It makes clear to experiment in contemporary Living. honor, to social responsibility and students the moral choices they have The Honor Code is a critical dis- to citizen responsibility for shared - to cheat or not to cheat, for tinguishing characteristic of this governance. This should be a part instance - to meet or not to meet the college. It does not suggest that this of all the communities that they expectations of the community. The conununity is more perfect than oth- themselves are a part of code helps them see the repercussions ers, but that our conununity engages Like the first-year student who of their personal choices on the quality the subject of personal honor among entered vigorously into an exami- of our common life. It shapes opportu- citizen-neighbors as a framework to nation of the Honor Code, even nities for students to live the values define the relationship between indi- to the point of writing to the pres- that connect the college conununity viduals and others. ident, at some level all students members: self-discipline, self-reliance, will discover that, like their liberal fairness, trust, patience, compassion The code and life's outcomes arts education itself, the Honor and loyalty. The most powerful outcome of life Code they have lived under will Each year seniors, juniors and under an Honor Code became clear be a life-long asset to themselves sophomores introduce the freshmen to to me last month when college and others. the new code and freely commit trustee Anita DeFrantz '74 told about themselves to it again. The expecta- the value of her Connecticut College . . tions of personal integrity yield education to her adult life. DeFrantz ongoing discussions about justice, per- wrestles with the often-diverse poli- ~~2ni': sonal responsibility and consideration tics of Los Angeles and the President of the College , Al
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AN INSIDE LOOK AT CHINA WITH CHARLES CHU September 25-0ctober 12, 1995
See Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, The Great Wall, Beijing, the Yangtze River and more on this unique trip custom designed by Professor Emeritus of Chinese Charles Chu.
ECUADOR AND THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS March 10-24, 1996
Sponsored jointly with Wesleyan, the trip will be led by Connecticut's Professor of Zoology Robert Askins and Wesleyan's Professor of Earth Science ]elle de Boer. The tour will begin on mainland Ecuador and will progress to the Galapagos on the M/V Galapagos Explorer. Onboard seminars will be conducted by Professors Askins and de Boer.
BLUE DANUBE RIVER VIENNA July 3-13. 1996 March 1997
MAINE WINDJAMMER CRUISE BIKE VERMONT Aug. 12-15, 1996 Oct. 1997
LONDON'S THEATER DISTRICT ROME AND GREECE March 1996 Summer 1997 For more information on Alumni Travel, ...... contact Bridget Bernard in the Alumni Office, 203-439-2304. All schedules subject to change.
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