Colby Magazine
Volume 89 Issue 1 Winter 2000 Article 15
January 2000
Alumni at Large
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BEFORE THE '40s Depression was sweeping the country, "the memory, I am reminded that I was part of all Reunion 2000 is closer than you think! Mark new Roosevelt administration began imple this, as a native of Waterville, an alumnus your calendars for the weekend of June 2-4, menting a hail of New Deal agencies to create and one who physically labored in the estab 2000, for a wonderful Reunion Weekend on jobs for the unemployed. It was my privilege lishment of the Rock upon the Hill." ... Mayflower Hill. ... For the 60th reunion of to work under one of these, the Works Progress We're looking for more news for our next the lass of 1939 last June, Nat Guptil '39 Administration (WPA). It poured in a mil- issue. Please remember to fill out the ques- organized a special gathering on tionnaire enclosed in this issue of Saturday afternoon at which class the magazine and mail it to Meg mates enjoyed refreshments in the BEFORE THE '40s MILESTONES Bernier'8 1, 4310 Mayflower Hill, beautifully renovated Dana Hall. Waterville, Maine 0490 1. Deaths: Mary Jordan Alden '18, April 18, 1999, in Fairport, N.Y., Other '39ers in attendance were at 102 . . Charles S. Lewis '24, August 9, I 999, in Augusta, Ed Boulos, Bennie Burbank, Vio . . Maine, at 98 ....John D. Swartz '29, October 2, 1999, in Fishkill, let Hamilton Christensen, Doggie 45 Following up on my first N.Y., at 92 ....Carol Hill Craven '30, July 19, 1999, in West Dore, Elliot Drisko, Helen Carter mention in the fa ll i sue of Colb)' Roxbury, Mass., at 88 ....Harold L. Grant '30, August 10, 1999, Guptil, Lester Jolovitz, Ginny concerning our 55th reunion com in Bangor, Maine, at 92 . ...Pauline Morin Miller '30, August 27, Kingsley Jones, Anne Simpson ing June 2-4, 2000, I want to repeat: 1999, in Palm Harbor, Fla., at 9l. ...Henry G. Bonsall '31, July Koch, Mary Crowley Lafleur Do try to make it. Several of us hope 28, 1999, in Waterville, Maine, at 90 ....Muriel MacDougall (with her daughter, Karen La Fleur to be there, with a little luck .... Lobdell '31, September 6, I 999, in Florida, at 93 ....Douglas B. '66), Estelle Rogers MacDonald, Now for some classmates' news. Allan '32, July 22, 1999, in Waterville, Maine, at 89 . ... Annie Kay Coffin Mills, Dwight Sargent, Connie Stanley Shane, who lives Tuck Russell '34, March 25, 1999, in Orlando, Fla., at 87 ... . Judith Quint Schreider, Marge with her husband, George, in Kathryn Herrick McCrodden '35, July 27, 1999, in Oakland, Towle Stinchfield and Lucile Watervliet, Mich., proudly reports Calif., at 86 ....John P. Dolan '36, August 22, 1999, in Des Naples Weston ....Members of that there have been no divorces Moines, Iowa, at 87 .... Willard H. Dunn '36, July 15, 1999, in the Class of 1934, the 65th reunion among their seven children. Connie Augusta, Maine, at 84 .... Ruth Michalek McAlary '36, August class, seen on Mayflower Hill in visits them yearly in New York, 26, 1999, in Hyannis, Mass., at 84 . . . . Hayden B. Wright '37, cluded Louise Williams Brown, Rhode Island and California, tim August 15, 1999, in Seattle, Wash., at85 ....Philip P. Charbonneau Paul "Red" Feldman, Pete Mills, ing those trips to occur in October, '39, August 28, 1999, in Northboro, Mass., at 85. Frank Norvish, Fred Schreiber and December and February, respec Francis Smith ....Jo seph Camp- tively. Connie's activities have in bell, Fred Howard and Rosalie '40s NEWSMAKERS cluded teaching, church work and hospital volunteering. She writes Mosher Reynolds represented the Lawyers, judges and former court employees packed courtroom Bat Class of l 929 as they enjoyed their that these days she especially enjoys Superior Court in Derby, Conn., to witness the unveiling of a nature walks and water exercises .... 70th reunion ....The highlight of portrait of the late judge Joseph. J. Chernauskas '40. Affec tion Grace Keefer Parker's endeavors the parade of classes was the arrival ately known as "Judge Joe," he served 27 years in the state's Circuit have also included teaching and of Merrill S.F. Greene '20. Fol Court, Court of Common Pleas and Superior Court and was church work. Currently she's a lit- lowing the 50-Plus Club reunion remembered as a man of "canny wit and wisdom." dinner, alumni danced to the tunes eracy volunteer. Grace tells us she's of Al Corey and his band ....The a strong activist, keeping in fre Civil War, the theme for last '40s MILESTONES quent contact with her representa- summer's Alumni College, at tive and senators.... I' m really tracted the largest attendance in Deaths: Helen Tracey Lykins '40,January 6, 1999, in West, Texas, impressed with (make that envious Louise Holt McGee '40, the history of the program. Sigrid at 81. ... July 21, 1999, in Yarmouth, of) Woody Tarlow's many automo Maine, at ...Charles A. Lord '42, September 27, 1999, in Tompkins '38, Peg Higgins Wil SL. bile trips- 16 in the last eight Philadelphia, Pa., at 79... . Albert I. Ellis '44, September 9, 1999, liams '38, Barbara and Lester years-across the U.S., covering in Lakeland, Fla., at 77 . . ..Paul N. Prince '44, July 17, 1999, in Jolovitz '39, Alleen Thompson '40 every state and, he adds, most routes. and Florence and Leonard Cohen Peabody, Mass., at 77 ....Joseph T. Page '46, July 30, 1999, in He and Helen, who live in Palm '43 headed back to class to enjoy a Waterville, Maine, at 74 ....Arthur A. Parsons '48, September Desert, Calif., have three children. lively and informative week. Other 24, 1999, in Burnt Hills, N.Y., at 75 ....Robert L. Cook '49, Woody, fo rmerly a judge, and "classmates" included a 1999 gradu August 23, 1999, in Framingham, Mass., at 74. Ronald Roy are both lawyers. ate of the College ... . George '34 Ronald and his wife, Mildred, live and Vesta Alden Putnam '33 were hosts for lion dollars (worth probably over $20 mil in Winslow, Maine ....Among his the Colby Club of Waterville's annual lobster lions today) into the Mayflower Hill project, many faraway travels, Bill Whittemore tells us bake at Alden Camps. Local alumni enjoyed building roads and sewerage foundations. It is about his '98 trip to Saudi Arabia with the first the Putnams' warm hospitality and delic ious unknown when Colby could have moved if it American tour group ever allowed into the food. Barbara and Mal Wilson '33 helped kick had not been given th is boost. Benefactors do kingdom. Bill asks, "Did you know audi Arabia off the local club season at the fa ll potluck. not normally make donations for roads and has 10,000-foot mountains and a five-star hotel Special guests were the editors of Colby's stu sewers! Mayflower Hill is located on a rocky at 8,000 fe et, owned by a Texan, Ro e Hunt?" dent newspaper, the Echo .... In a letter to ledge, which thousands of years ago was al No, I urely didn't know that. Fascinating. He former 50-Plus editor Fletcher Eaton '39, most covered by ocean waters. They left their also writes that it was President Bixler who Leonard C. Cabana '33 of Waterville, Maine, residue of sea shells, and the retreating gla "smoothed the way to Harvard Graduate recounted the story of the competition be ciers, in their turn, left massive boulders scat School, where I was a fe llow student with the tween Waterville and Augusta to become the tered across the Hill. As part of a work crew, founder of the company I've worked for these home of Colby's new campus. He went on "to it was my job t0 roll these two-ton boulders past 42 years." . Helen Strauss's and my assure the younger generation (and lest we into the prepared road beds that are the foun latest tour for "mature" Colby graduates in the forget) that Colby is built on solid ground." dation of the road network surrounding the N.Y.C. metropolitan area took place in Octo Cabana writes that by the time the Great College buildings today. In my treasured ber-lunch and a visit to the Museum of Jewish
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Heritage. Shortly thereafter I'm going to Rome nine more. She is tutoring one of the residents, 1940s Correspondents and Amalfi with my niece. Will all the work I a woman in her 60s who i working hard to earn do studying I ta! ian pay off? her GED, and also teaching English to Cambo 1940 - aomi Collen Paganelli dian and Thai refugees. One day a week she Ernest C. Marriner Jr. works forCi tydance, a scholarship program for RR #1, Box 1815-P 46 Cloyd Aarseth and Joan are enjoying third grade children from Lynn and Boston North Monmouth, ME 04265 lots of global adventure-the Benelux coun who want to learn ballet. Of 300 who are 207-933-2401 tries, World Figure kating Championships in cho en, 12 receive full scholarships. She i also Hel inki and t. Petersburg most recently. Cloyd on the board ofoverseers of Adult Education in 1941 sounds somewhat bemused to see the educa Boston, following a 40-year career in teaching Bonnie Roberts Hathaway tional films he wrote and produced a quarter and counseling. In summer she vacations on 142 Turnpike Road her 36 acres of land in East Andover, N.H., and New Ipswich, NH 03071 -9635 century ago on Classroom televi ion today on 603-878-4547 the A&E channel. He wa honored to give the enjoys gardening and pickling .... I hope you commencement address for the class of '99 at all noticed the new questionnaire that appears 1942 his alma mater, Montauk School, way out on in each issue of Colb)'. Please use it now and Robert S. Rice the tip of Long Island. "Follow your dreams ... frequently to keep your classmates up-to-date. 1978 Bucklin Hill Road Never stop dreaming . . . ever ever give up. I hate to have to beg for news. Bremerton, WA 9831 1 Good advice for all of u ....And in the travel -Mary "Liz" Hall Fitch 360-692-8734 department ... Shirley Martin Dudley and Chuck '45 stay busy-Hawaii, ew Zealand 48 111e summer has featured a long drought 1943 and Australia, where they sheared sheep, and in the information that we receive. However, c/o Meg Bernier Alaska, where hirley recommends taking the we did receive a lot of e-mail from Aaron Sandler, Colby College Office of Alumni Rela ions free school bus at Mt. McKinley in order to see a letter from Howell Clement with a printout of Wa erv1lle, ME 04901 more animals. The Dudleys live in Windsor, an unsuccessful effort he made to e-mail us (we 207-872-3185 Conn., in the summer and Safety Harbor, Fla., e-mailed a corrected address and our communi [email protected] in winter and keep in touch with Colby people cations are now successfully established) and a long letter fromKay Wiseman Jaffe that we will 1944 from all over: ancy Loveland Dennen '47, Vivian Maxwell Brown Bonny (Howard '44) and Bill Atherton, Marge detail further on in these notes. And we met 174 E Second Street Maynard Englert '4 7, ally and Jack Lowell Marvin Joslow twice this summer. Once he Corning, NY 14830 '4 7, Paul Murray '48, Andy and Dot Allen drove to Vineyard Haven with his grandson, 607-962-9907 Goettman and Wally and Shirley Armstrong and we took them out to the boat. The other Howe. They al o travel at least twice a year to time we met in Menemsha on Martha's Vine 1945 visit children and grandchildren in Minne yard. Marvin lives near the harbor, and we Naomi Colle Paganelli sota, California, Florida and Connecticut. The always try to see him there at least once a sailing 2 Hora 10 Street #5J whole family gets together every July. season ....Kay Wi eman Jaffee served as class New Yor , Y 10014-1608 -Anne Lawrence Bondy correspondent so she appreciates how difficult it 212-929-5277 is to function when there i a dearth of news. Arline Kiesling Wills writes that she Her lengthy letter included the following high 1946 47 and Charlie are resisting the urge to slow down lights. She has been described in Who's Who of Anne Lawrence Bondy and are anticipating what the 2 lst century will American Women 1999-2000 and in Who's Who 771 Soundv1ew Drive bring. They continue to travel, spending part in America. All that, even though her profes Mamaronec . NY 10543 914-698-1238 of their winters in Florida and summers at their sional work ended in 1973. During her career camp at Great East Lake, Maine, and are still she set up two synagogue libraries and the 1947 biking, hikmg and playing tennis. She ays, Brandeis ational Women's Association Used Mary L:z" Hall Fitch "We love to have the seven grandkids around Bookstore. She has "branched out" recently to 4 Cana: Par #712 and send them back when it's nap time (ours!)." historical societies and The League of Women Cambridge, MA 02141 . Richard Sampson attended the 50-Plus Voters. Kay writes that she spends time travel 617-494-4882 reunton m June and was pleased to see a num ing to North Carolina, New York and Pennsyl ax 61 7-494-4882 ber of friends from our cla s as well as Fred vania to spend time with her children. She and John_F1 ch@msn com ahagian '49, Kay Sahagian '49 and Fred '43 her husband, 1 ike, are about to celebrate their andJoJo Pttts McAlary '44. According to Dick, 50th anniver ary. Tentative plans are for all 16 1948 Dorie Meyer Hawkes and Tossie Campbell fa mily members to meet in Orlando, Fla., at David and Doro hy Marson Kozen were to be lauded for putting together Walt Disney World. Following that meeting, 41 Woods End Road the '4 7 part of the reunion. In July, Dick at he and Mike plan to travel the Panama Canal Dedham, MA 02026 tended the American ounc1l ofthe Orthodox JUSt before it is turnedover to Panama ....We 781-329-3970 hurch, "h1ch meet every three year . He fe lt have been busy this summer sailing and flying ax 61 7-329-6518 char "the >peaker' were wonderful and that the Brsto _41 �rnsn com back and forth to Florida to complete negotia D1nne Liturgy that began the ;es t0ns wa ttons to purchase a house in Jupiter, Fla. That is 1949 'plenJ1J and hcaut1ful." ...One of our bus1e t where we will be located in the winter, but in Anne Haga• E ...s s 1, hirley Lloyd Thorne, to \\ hom I recently the '>pnng, summer and fall we will be back in P 0 Box 594 'poke on the phone. he live' m Bmton and " Dedham and sailing our boat, Hero, in an Pr ce:o , A 0 541-0594 on the 1-oarJ of d1rcc.tor'of the ommmee to tucket and Vmeyard sounds ....We have been 978-464-5513 EnJ Elder Homclc"nc". At pre,ent there are quite ;kepttcal about the results from the new fax 978-464-2038 three rc,1dcncc' (one exclu"vcl1 for women) format for cla.,, mformation in the Colby maga ae s: sgs@aol co \\ 1th ,JCcommoJ.irwmfor a roral of 61 people. z111e. With that 111 m111d, and since many of you :\ norher 1 1-c mg huilt 1n Brooklme to hou'>C have the ability to e-mail, please note that our
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address is [email protected]. Send us the news, Berty, travel extensively in their RV and spend responsibilities, he assists executive producer Jon and we will include it in the next class column. winters in the deep South. They have, between Kimball in each year's play selections. ...Dave -David and Dorothy Marson them, 18 grandchildren with another ex Miller spent the summer as chase-boat operator pected ....Last fall, Constance Leonard Hayes for his two youngest kids at 15 diffe rent East 49 Time again to share with all of you and l hosted another of our mini-reunions here Coast sailing regattas, using his newest 21-foot, what little news l have of our cla smates. Did in New Hampshire. Among those attending 150HP rubber boat "toy" for this hazardous you discover the class news questionnaire bound were Priscilla Tracey Tanguay and husband duty .... Danny Hall has a "slightly used" classic into the summer issue of Colby at the beginning Pete, Jean Chickering Nardozzi, Richard and sail boat for sale as he has now surrendered to the of the Alumni at Large section, which begin on Mary Lou Kilkenny Borah, Elizabeth Jennings power-boat appeal. Amazing that the "thrill" of page 33? None of you used it, but perhaps you Maley and husband Bill, Alice Jennings Castelli, five-knot sailing seems to be less appealing as will in the future. Also note the request for any Beverly Deschenes Libby and husband Jim, some of us grow older. Call Dan if you have any update of your personal informationfor the new Charlotte Crandall Graves and husband Jim interest in a well-maintained sailor. (The boat, on-line alumni directory to be launched this and Nancy Ardiff Boulter and husband Dick. not the classmate.) ...Bob and Nancy Nilson fall. ...Thanks to our roving Maine reporter, Unable to attend was Barbara Starr Wolf, who Archibald spent time in a fall Elderhostel retreat Nellie MacDougal Parks, we have news of wrote from her home in Sao Paulo, Brazil-she in Center Harbor, N.H., and are now preparing Carlton "Red" '50and Anne Whitehouse Miller. does plan to be at Colby in June. She has had a themselves for their seventh visit to The Reefs in After nine children and teaching career for fascinating career in the internationalclassical Bermuda during March 2000.... Bump Bean both of them in South Portland, they retired to music world, working with the Brazilian govern and wife Dorrie had a wonderful spring '99 vaca Tenants Harbor. Red became a commercial ment. Barbara has received an honorary fe llow tion cruise around the British Isles on a small ! 00- fisherman and Anne the full-time proprietor of ship from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is passenger explorer cruise ship, hitting ports in Cod End restaurant. Seven of their children live currently on the Board of Governors of the England, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man and Scot in the Tenants Harbor area, and some of them museum at Colby. We are looking forward to land-even pa sing through a small village on work in the restaurant as do some of the grand seeing her-and all of you-in June! the Isle ofMan--on a steam train no less--called children! Although Anne has kept in touch -Virginia Davis Pearce Colby. Bump also was presented a 70th birthday with several of our classmates, she would par present, a Maine windjammer cruise out of ticularly like to be in touch again with Joan 51 Guy Mcintosh, Tempe, Ariz., is a pro Camden, Maine, with daughter Meredith '77; he Barnard Brady. (Are you out there, Joan?) Nell grams officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. also had the pleasure of socializing with Maine's highly recommends the Cod End to any '49ers On his first day at Colby, he reports, he was Gov. Angus King (honorary degree recipient in the vicinity of Tenants Harbor for delicious "ready to go home when [he] saw the cramped '99) .... Priscilla Ford Haselton is considering fresh seafood and a chance to say hello to the dorm room in old Chaplin." On his last day he writing an essay on why you should not be con Millers ....Don Nicoll, another roving Maine was "sad-had to go out in the real world to fined to a Spanish hospital even under emer reporter, sent me a page from the Maine Hu work." ...M. Cass Lightner, Toms River, N.J., gency conditions unless you are prepared to manities Council summer 1999 newsletter, is retired from the hardware business. On his undergo 24-hour party conditions. Somehow, which fe atured their Maine Center for the Book first day at Colby he discovered chat he would Priscilla survived and thrived fromher treatment program and A. Raymond Rogers. Ray was head the marching band and on his last day, there and looks terrific. Maybe we should all seek pictured reading to a group of children at a Born much to his "surprise," he graduated. His most the kind of treatment Priscilla received. Watch to Read program in a Winslow child-care risky harmless prank was "era hing the girls' for her essay when it is published.... 50th Re site ....After eight years in Honduras, our son dorm when they were still downtown." ...News union plans are already being formulated. Put the is back in Colorado for most of the time now, so from Ernie Fortin, Maine and Florida, is that dates June 7-10, 2001, on your calendars. That's Lon and l drove our camper out to visit him in Peter Valli, Long Beach, Calif., the past presi the weekend' For all on-campus activities that August. The only excitement was a brush with dent of Borg WarnerInternacional, is now cruis weekend we will be guests of the College. We are a couple of tornadoes in Nebraska on our way ing the world in his 62-foot boat, has crossed the also planning a pre-reunion "social retreat" at the home. We had to evacuate our campsite for ocean twice and journeyed from California to Sebasco Harbor Resort on Casco Bay in several hours, which was a new experience for a ew England via the Panama Canal. Class Phippsburg, Maine ( 10 miles from Bath) on Tues couple of campers from New England. The next mates hope he will sec sail for our 50th reunion. day-Wednesday, June 5-6, 2001. Put those dates morning the campground was littered with And Ernie hopes char any alumni who are in the on your calendars as well and stay tuned formore good-sized downed limbs-evidence of the high Sarasota, Fla., area in February 2000 will come details ....On January 16, 1999, The Colby winds that had rocked our vehicle ....Keep in to the luncheon at which President Cotter will College Board of Trustees recorded a memorial touch. I'm just waiting for the little man who speak. For derails contact Ernie(9 41-371- 5595) tribute to Warren Finegan, recognizing his many lives in my computer to be kept busy celling me, or the Alumni Office ....Bill Burgess, T uc years of service to the College ....We mourn the "You have mail." son, Ariz., wrote that he had traveled by freighter loss of Jacky Dillingham Schlier, who died in -Anne Hagar Eustis to Australia via the Panama Canal, the Concord, Mass., last summer following a long Galapagos Islands and New Zealand. He was illness. 5 0 Plans are now well underway for the glad he was a "good sailor" because crossing the -Barbara Jefferson Walker big 50th reunion! The Class of '49 had the Tasman Sea was really tough. After 40 years of largest turnout of any class yet, so let's try to waiting for the right opportunity he finally got 5 2 Now that the Alumni Office has break their record with a large attendance. J ud0- to see the Ayers Rock ....The wife of Robert stopped sending out the personally addressed ing from my correspondence, I think most class Brigham, North Port, Fla., wrote to report his questionnaires that had provided u correspon mates plan to attend. The program chat has death in December. He worked many years for dents with new items for these pages, my usu been arranged looks great. I haven't a lot of news Life in its Moscow and Paris bureaus, then be ally productive mail bag came up absolutely since you will be reading the biographies in our came an owner of the York County Coast Star empty this time around. As a substitute, a ques class book, and chat will keep you up to date (Maine) and finally returned to commercial tionnaire is bound into each edition of Colby with everyone. l recently heard from Newton fishing and lobster c 41 WI TER 2000 C 0 LB Y From Language, a Special Gift Having spent most of her adult life in Mexico, teaching and president of the Mexican Audubon Society and a full-time volun doing humanitarian work, Ruth Winterbottom Peacock '58 might teer working on river restoration and riparian habitats with a be forgiven if she were to lament how few resources the country coalition of environmental groups, community officials and the and most Mexicans have. Instead, she said, "I've been fortunate National Water Commission. in that I've always been in places where things need to be done." "Mexico woke up to environmental degradation only about Not only has she consistently risen to meet challenges that seven years ago," she said. In 1994, when 40,000 waterfowl were presented themselves around her, in fact she set out four de found dead at the Silva reservoir near Leon, Guanajuato, north of cades ago to look for them, inspired by the late Robert Reuman Peacock's home in Celaya, she wrote newspaper articles and (philosophy} to go and make a ditterence in the world. worked with the Audubon Society and two other environmental After teaching English and biology for two years in the United groups to bring attention to the disaster. It became the first case States, she set ott for Mexico, "for an adventure," and landed at brought before the trilateral Council of Environmental Coopera a Quaker house where she met her husband to be. They spent tion established under the North American Free Trade Agree two years in Venezuela on a Farmers for World Peace project ment (NAFTA}, and a $3-million World Bank loan to clean up the before returning to Mexico City, where her husband, an Earlham reservoir resulted. College graduate, was director of the American Friends Service As co-president of the Sociedad Audubon de Mexico she Committee's rural community development programs. recently spoke to a symposium on water quality and found listeners When their son was old enough for nursery school, Peacock surprised to hear that her degrees were in literature and linguistics. earned a translator's certificate and a master's degree in His "The biggest shortcoming in Mexican education," she told Colby, panic literature. She began teaching Mexican students at the "is that once you decide what career you'll study, you never study American high school in Mexico City. subjects in other fields." Too often, she says, people can't commu She also taught English as a second language to business nicate well with those outside their own field and can't see the executives "Back then." she said, for Mexicans who taught in such broader perspective. "The gifts of a liberal arts education are a programs "having spent one year 1n the United States was blessing," she said.-Stephen Collins '74 considered credentials to teach English " Tha 's no longer true n part because of Peacock's work. In the 980s a the University of Guadala1ara she and her colleagues se up hat school's first BA degree program 1n English as a Second Language (ESL) and recently she became he firs director of he English program at the Uni ers1 y of Celaya n the town where she now es A :11s1 1ng Fulbright professor recogn1z1ng her mas ery o he unique challenges o teaching ESL 01d her you should each at Harvard and for • years beginning 1n 986 s e did ius ha as part of Harvard Unrvers1 y s summer English Lan guage lnst1 ute for nterna 1onal s uden s Peacoc also has made a difference as an advoca e or e environment She c rren y 1s co- 42 ALUMNI AT LARGE in due course you'll show up in print. Better yet, John had some other news as usual (and I really 1950s Correspondents send me an e-mail note. You can even resort to enjoy his letters). He had been very busy as a the United States Postal Service. Although our tour guide in Washington, D.C., with only five post officehere in Bristol, Maine, is a small one days off since March 14; but he still seems to find 1950 (just one employee, and that's Carl, the post some time for his travels abroad. After reunion Virginia Davis Pearce master), we get very efficient and personalized he went to the lakes region of northern Italy, P 0. Box 984 service. Why, just this morning as I waited to plus Rome, Capri, Sorrento, Venice, Florence Grantham, NH 03753 buy stamps, Carl was on the phone reading the and more. He always includes a little of the 603-863-6675 mail to a lady who recently had a hip operation military history of these places, which makes for [email protected] and couldn't get down to her P.O. box. Carl very interesting reading. Last summer he de 1951 particularly enjoys post cards, whether or not cided to take in England, Scotland, Wales and Barbara Jefferson Wa lker you have a hip problem. So give Carl and me a Ireland and is already planning for a Greek 3915 Cabot Place #16 break; let us know what's happening ....Don T urkish cruise next summer. (Who does the Richmond, VA 23233 Hailer has done just that. An e-mail letter from tour guide job when he's gone ?) John has been 804-527-0726 him reports that this summer he and Sheila in this country for 50 years and a U.S. citizen for spent an evening with Bob '5 1 and Joan Kelby 45-but he wishes that we, on the East Coast, 1952 Cannell, Jean and Bob Lee '51, Dave Clark '49 could have a mini-reunion as four years seems Paul M. Aldrich and Ned '51 and Barbara Hills Stuart '54 at the too long to wait. His letters are full of news, and P 0 Box 217 Stuarts' cottage on Drake's Island. I asked Don I would be glad to share them ...ju st ask for a Bristol, ME 04539 where Drake's Island is. "Maine" was his reply. copy .... I had one other note-from David 207-563-8744 So much for my knowledge of Maine geography. Rudd, who sent a clipping about an award he [email protected] And me a sailor. The Hailers are planning to received during the Lucent Technologies 1999 move to Cape Cod for retirement. Their first Patent Recognition Ceremony held at the Bell 1953 grandchild arrived in July, which, he surmises, Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., on May 12. Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey makes him the oldest first-time grandfather in His was one of seven patents selected for their 80 Lincoln Avenue the northern hemisphere. Apparently to keep commercial benefit to Lucent and the Bell Sys South Hamilton, MA 01982 978-468-5110 mentally trim, Don has taken to working out tem. The patent described the process whereby mathematical puzzles. For example, he informs alpha quartz of high quality could be produced 1954 me that 1,000 days will elapse between Septem in large quantities. Single crystal alpha quartz Helen Cross Stabler was used in the days of analog technology for ber 6, 1999, and June 7, 2002, when we will be 206 Crestwood Drive celebrating our 50th reunion at Colby. (Ihaven't telephony frequency control in crystal filters, North Syracuse, NY 13212 checked Don's arithmetic, but I'll bet someone oscillators and timing devices. Quartz is still 315-457-5272 out there will! ) ...And speaking of our 50th, for widely used today, although not as much as in [email protected] those of you who do not read President Norma the past because the telephone system is prima Bergquist Garnett's Class of 1952 Web page, rily a digital system. However, some familiar 1955 plans are afoot for a pre-reunion reunion at a examples still remain. Time pieces, for instance, Jane Millett Dornish neat resort in the mid-coast area of Maine. It are almost always quartz-controlled. David com 9 Warren Terrace will not be on the now-famous Drake's Island. It mented on the award: "How fortunate I am to Winslow, ME 04901 will, however, be an easy drive up to Waterville have been a part of something of long-lasting 207-873-3616 for the official festivities. Plan on it! ... In the significance-it does not fall to many." ...Joan [email protected] meantime, Art White, our class agent, has as Rooney sent me a little note about reunion 1956 sembled an energetic crew whose job it is to remembrances and like John Lee would like to Kathleen McConaughy Zambello enlist all of us to contribute with historic gener see mini-reunions in the "off years." ...Nelson 135 lduna Lane osity to our 50th reunion class gift. You'll be Beveridge called to tell me that Roger Huebsch Amherst. MA 01002 passed away after a long illness. Roger, who hearing from Art's assistants. May I please hear docz@javanetcom from you ! served in the U.S. Navy and retired with the -Paul M. Aldrich rank of commander, was the former president 1957 and CEO of Katahdin lndustries. He certainly Eleanor Shorey Harris 53 Priscilla Eaton Billington called me will be missed by all of us who knew him. 13 Bow Road recently inviting me to go to the campus at the -Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey Wayland MA 01778 end of September, but I had other plans; and I 508-460-2359 will have missed Homecoming as well after 54 Bill and Penny Thresher Edson have fax 508-4850-0937 three straight years of attendance with Priscilla. written about our 45th reunion. It was great to [email protected] Ray and Priscilla are in the throes of planning a see so many old friends and catch up on their 1958 brand-new home in Somerset and will have to news. Now we can look forward to our 50th! Margaret Smith Henry go through 40 years of memorabilia and try not Penny and Bill have done a great job with this 1304 Lake Shore Drive to move it all. ... I had a fe w letters during the column for five years, and now l will do my best Massapequa Park, NY 11566 summer, the first two in June. Carolyn Doe to follow in their footsteps. My thanks to Penny 51 6-54 1-0790 Woznick announced the arrival of a new grand forsending along some of your class news forms that she hadn't used. Please note that from now daughter and her husband's A.L.N. degree earned 1959 will appear at the beginning of from Harvard. They had time to take a trip to on these forms Ann Segrave Lieber Colby. And Lyme Regis, backdrop for a Meryl Streep movie, the alumni notes in each issue of 7 Kingsland Court then went on to Waterville in July. And John please, Class of '54, send me any noteworthy (or South Orange, NJ 07079 Lee said he was just writing to thank me for a simply interesting) news about yourselves' . 973-763-6717 snapshot I had of our 45th and a clipping about Robert Parker, arguably the most famous mem [email protected] Gen. Patton that I had saved for him. However, ber of our class, has a new book due out this fa ll 43 WI TER 2000 C 0 LB Y A l u �I , ' I A T l A R G E (1999) called Famil)· Honor. It feature a fe Eugenie Hahlbohm Hampton will list the com were living on the Cape during our OtlS Air male detecti,·e instead of penser, quite an mittees for our 45th-and as always, we wel Force Base stint. intere ting witch. . . . ancy Eustis Huprich, come any sugge tions that will add to the special -Kathy McConaughy Zambello who wa unable to come to the reunion be time we will spend tooether. cau e of a severe illness, reports that she is -Jane Milieu Domish 58 After graduating, Bruce Blancard had recovered and back to her u ual activities but a brief stint in the Army and then entered the was very di appointed not to be at the reunion. 56 ews is slim. Remember that Colby corporate world, where he remained for 30 year . he enjoy gardening, bridge and e pecially magazine now has an insert questionnaire for After early retirement in 19 7, Bruce decided to her grandchildren .... Colby Lowe, who your use ... . Babs Faltings Kinsman visited follow a completely different path. He ha now evolved from the Judy Thompson we knew at overnight with Lois Weaver eil on a Cali written a book titled Please Listen While I Think, Colby ( he explains thi metamorpho i in fornia trip last winter. ...Had an e-mail from I'm a Vermonter, a collection of jokes and storie "Reunion Update"), was in ew Mexico thi Sarah Dunbar LaMonica enclosing a lovely with a Yankee twist. Bruce originally intended ummer at the Peace Action Con- to give the book to family and friends gre . Colby ha been very active in as a gift but instead found himself Peace Action, the largest gras roots N EWS MAKERS publishing his collection, and it has peace orga111:ation in the country, old well. Copies of the book are Norma Bergquist Garnett ' 5 2, an edu for many years. .. Anthony available by calling 203- 762-3835 cation consultant in foreign languages, Arthur, known to u at Colby as or writing to Four Corners Press, and Barbara Nelson '6 , assistant pro Tony Yanuchi, write that he has Box 7682, Wilton, CT 06 97 with fessor of Spanish at Colby, recently had a second operation to implant a check for 10.97. In April 1999, completed photographing the rem a nmulator in his brain to help Bruce spoke at an author's luncheon nant ofSpain' historic past along part conuol Parkin on's disease, a pro at the Windsor Library in Windsor, of the Roman Road while recording cedure that was recorded for TV Vt ....Cynthi a Fox Dancer evidence of the succes ful "bridging" of and radio. He caution , however: ([email protected]) lives in Jupiter, the pa t with the vigorous panish "Don't get ick; it really change Barnet Fain '53 Fla., and is a chemical dependency pre ent. They plan to develop a Web your renrement plans." We hope therapist. Recent travel has included based language program available via the Internetfor people inter the operanon helped him.... Re fa mily reunions with her husband's e ted in improving their understanding of and skill in the pani h member to send me your new i terns, family in Missouri and her own fam language and culture ....Barnet Fain '53 is the new chairman of especially those of you we haven't ily in Pennsylvania. They are con the board of directors of Lifespan, a Providence, R.1.-based health heard from for a while. sidering a trip to Moscow in the care partnership comprising several hospitals in Rhode Island and -Helen Cross Stabler ummer to visit Cindy's younger the New England Medical Center in Boston. Fain has been vice on, who is living there for two chairman ofthe board since 1994 ....Former Colby trustee William The one response I received years. When Cindy graduated from 55 E. Haggett '56 wa elected chairman of the board of trustees at from the Colh)· in ert was from Allan Colby, she never anticipated that Maine Maritime Academy, a public college in Castine that special Landau, who wnte that he is one he would spend 20 years helping i:es in ocean- and marine-oriented programs. Haggett, who has cla' mate who 1 not retired: a re others do what she has been able to erved on the board ince 19 9, is the former chairman and CEO of cent merger make him a partner in do, conquer an alcohol depen Bath Iron Work in Bath, Maine . . ..Carol Barton eubauer '56 Holland and K111ght, the fifth larg dency.... Daniel Yett has retired wa awarded a silver medallion for 25 years of service to the e t law firm 111 the country. Allan as a consultant for the State De Bndgewater tate College community. She i the associate librarian wa able to go to Tel Aviv for the partment and is currently a full-time 111 circulation at the college's Maxwell Library. open111g of an office there in July of student learning Turkish ( 44 weeks this year, and he ay that he and of cla ses) at the National Foreign Paula continue to travel. Allan par- MILESTONES Affa irs Training Centerof the State ticularly enioy:,his boat, fi h111g and Deachs: Helen Kelleher Breen 'SO, July 3, 1999, in ewburyport, Department in Virginia in prepara tcnn1, ....Jack and Ann Burnham Ma s., at 70.... Robert J. Keyes '52, October 21, 1999, in Indian tion for a eptember 2000 as ign Deering are well-and Jack cont111- River hores, Fla., at 71. ...Roger Huebsch '53, August 12, ment to Istanbul. Hi wife, Beverly, uc' h1, work with Paine Webber. At 1999, in ew Bedford, Mass., at 67.... Ruth McDonald Brown i still a foreign service officer with ,1 recent 45ch reu111on planning '55, eptember 2, 1999, in North Falmouth, Mass.,at65.... David the Department ofState. They have mccc111g at the Deenng,,' home, I Dunn '56, eptember 12, 1999, 111 Lee, Ma s., at 64 ....Laurence two children, a son with the U. . in gleaneJ a little more informanon J. Hoogeveen '57, Augu;c 11, 1999, 111 Bowdoinham, Maine, at63. Burundi and a daughter who is a ibout cla"mate,. Kath • Flynn psychiatric clinician in a Washing- arrigan pamc1pated 111 Bow l B ) f E R 44 ALUMNI AT LARGE tion award on July 30, 1999. Asof0ecember 3 l, the importance ofa strong fa mily support system 1960s Correspondents 1999, however, Helen will retire for the fourth and concludes with this wonderful compliment and la t time. But as a reporter for the Cape Cod to good parenting: "It wasn't until after college 1960 Times life tyles and arts section said, "it's hard that I learnedthat whether I earned a trophy or Carolyn Webster Lockhart for anyone who knows Helen Seager to imagine not, my parents still thought of me as their 170 County Road her without a cause." ... And that is it. The living trophy and were proud of my accomplish New London, NH 03257 re ponse to the questionnaire that is now part of ments, regardless." Nice going, papa Dennis. 603-526-9632 this magazine was hardly overwhelming. So, -Ann Segrave Lieber fax: 603-526-802 1 when you get your copy of Colby and read your [email protected] column, take a few more minutes to fill out and 60 Hope you all had a good summer. By 1961 quickly return that questionnaire. Or else we the time you read this, Hurricane Floyd will be Judy Hoffman Hakola will go out of business. a dim, dark memory and we'll be more con 25 Charles Place -Margaret Smich Henry cernedwith "white" rain-and that much closer Orono, ME 04473 207-866-4091 to our 40th reunion. Mark the weekend of June [email protected] 5 9 Greetings, classmates. Here are some 2-4, 2000, on your calendars now, and please do interesting responses to our final questionnaire not schedule any graduations, weddings or births 1962 Patricia Farnham Russell (remember, there will be no more individual of grandchildren for those dates. You have made 16 Sunset Avenue que tionnaire mailings; reply forms are included my job very easy these past four years by sending Hampden, ME 04444 in each is ue of Colby magazine). Joan (Crowell along lots of letters and news, and this time you 207-942-6953 '60) and Skip Tolette purchased property on made it really easy! Not a ingle questionnaire [email protected] one of the Thousand Islands, near Ian Tatlock. from the Colby magazine (the new system men 1963 They still love to ski, garden and golf and say tioned in the last column) wa returned. I could Karen Forslund Falb they expre s themselves by singing loud in make up juicy tidbits, which Kay always threat 245 Brattle Street church. An important part of Colby life for ened to do, but I think I will spare you the details Cambridge, MA 02138 Skip was working with the late Bill Bryan in and plug our reunion instead. And since you all 61 7-864-4291 admissions .... Mainer Tom Skolfield paints know how fa t ti me fliesas we get older, you had [email protected] watercolors and fools around with ragtime pi better start thinking about making your reserva 1964 ano. Contact him if you'd like a watercolor of tions soon. We should all give serious consider Sara Shaw Rhoades a scene or ubject with special meaning for you. ation to making the effort to get to this one. We 76 Norton Road Tom credits Colby with his "second career" in are not getting any younger, and most of us are Kittery, ME 03904-5413 207-439-2620 the Air Force and with an enduring interest in not yet plagued with health problems that might [email protected] Spain ....Dave Tamaccio has retired after 38 prevent us from attending future reunions-two years in airport operations with United Air powerful reasons to get together! What a great 1965 Richard W. Bankart lines. A 36-foot sport-fishing boat provides opportunity to share experiences and celebrate 20 Valley Avenue Apt. D2 much entertainment and has transported Dave our lives as we have lived them to this point. Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 and Barbara to the Bahamas and the south Through our travels with the Navy, and our life 201-664-7672 Florida coast on fishing excursions. Dave wi he since, we have discovered that olby ha turned 1966 us all survival into Y2K ....Jay and Chris out some wonderfully interesting and diverse Natalie Bowerman Zaremba Rand Whitman appeared in the Blue Hill graduates with a common bond. This could be a 11 Linder Terrace Troupe's 75th anniversary performance ofHMS really special occasion for all of us. We know the Newton, MA 02458 Pinafore last spring; Marty and I attended the "regular "will be there, but for those of you who 61 7-969-6925 performance in New York City, and it was haven't made it in a long time, and those who 61 7-266-92 19 x107 indeed spectacular-professional in every way. have never been back, please consider it. You [email protected] Their interest in and appreciation of music will find that no one is a stranger, old friendships 1967 grew and flourished at Colby, thanks in large will be revived, and new ones will emerge among Robert Gracia part to Peter Re. Jay, who teaches financial people who never had much to do with each 295 Burgess Avenue analysis and financing techniques in the insur other during our "conformative" (new word) Westwood, MA 02090 781 -329-2101 ance indu try, suggests that Colby would be a years. And the more people who attend, the [email protected] good starting point for classmates to venture more fun it will be! Please look for the question into volunteerism .... Mary Jane and Tony naire in this issue and take a few minutes to send Judy Gerrie Heine 21 Hillcrest Rd. Ruvo have a home in Hilton Head. Tony still along your news-or I really might fo llow Medfield, MA 02052 likes gardening, and he asks classmates to reply through on Kay's threat! 508-359-2886 more frequently to my inquiries. Thanks, Tony! -Carolyn Webster Lockhart [email protected] I'm with you .... Or. Bob Younes treats vari 1968 cose vein disease, making women even more My column-writing task this issue was 61 Nancy Dodge Bryan very simple because I have not heard from any of beautiful than they already are. Bob feels that 7 Weir Street Extension his confidence and elf-reliance were nurtured you' This is not a good state of affairs. Please Hingham, MA 02043 at Colby, and he asks cla smates: do you live either locate the questionnaire in this issue of 781-740-4530 every day to the fu llest? ...Received a charm Colb)' and fill it out and mail it to me at 25 [email protected] ing article written by Dennis Karkos's son harles St., Orono, ME 04473, or e-mail me 1969 Terry for the "Original Irregular" of Kingfield, your news ([email protected]). I'll c/o Meg Bernier Maine. Dennis wa an athlete, as were Terry's even give you another chance to respond to the Alumni Office siblings. Terry made many attempts in that topic I posed in the last issue: if you were going Colby College direction but fe lt more comfortable as a tour to choose a major again, would you choose the Waterville, ME 04901 nament chess player. Interestingly, he ended same one? If so, why? If not, what would you 207-872-3185 [email protected] up as a sports journalist. His article deals with choose and why? If that doesn't inspire you, 45 WI TER 2000 C 0 LBY ALUM 'I AT LARGE make up and ans\\'er your own forward to a trip to Costa Rica. She question. Just let me hear from NEWSMAKERS is still teaching Spanish and enjoys you. (C'mon, guys-it's so de visiting a Spanish-speaking coun meaning to beg. ) Retired teacher Barbara Haines try every year or so. Her cousin -J udy Hoffman Hakala Chase '63 is a full-time volunteer in Carolyn DoeWoznik '53 is a Brattle her NewHampshir e community-at Street neighbor of mine, and she 62 ews is a bit scarce as the a hospice, at a fire department, as an and I would love to have a visit summer winds down. Yesterday l emergency medical technician, as a from Elizabeth ....Connie Miller biked the carriage trails at Acadia builder forHabitat for Humanity. "You Manter wonders, "Who has photos with my daughter-in-law. ! must say, cannot think globally or generally," of the 35th?" She hopes the 40th l fe lt my age1 ... Had a surprise visit she told the Keene, N.H., Sentinel. reunion is at least as much fun as from Jo Ann Sexton Hardy the "You have to think that you're help the 35th and wishes we could have Barbara Nelson '68 other day. he has relocated to ing the person in front of you." . another lovely dinner in the Bixler Rangeley, Maine, and is living on a "Handwriting expert melds science, art," proclaimed the Detroit art center. Connie is an education small pond within a nature conser ews headline over its August profile of Ruth Elliott Holmes '67, consultant and social studies spe vancy. Jo continues to work a couple the state's leading handwriting analyst. A person's handwriting, cialist for the Maine Department day of week, which leaves her plenty said Holmes, can reveal anything, from family background to of Education ....Susan Ferries of time for her birding, fishing and preferred work style ....Barbara Nelson '68, assistant professor of Moore is vice president of envi garden111g ....Jan Cole Courant Spanish at olby, and Norma Bergquist Garnett'52, an education ronmental affairs at Georgia-Pa wrote from Greene, Maine. he consultant in foreign languages, recently completed photograph cific. Although she and her tarted a new job last spring as a ing the remnants of Spain's historic past along part of the Roman husband, Jack, live in Wicomico preschool teacher and just loves it. Road while recording evidence of the successful "bridging" of the Church, Va., she works three to Jan and John are fir t time grand past with the vigorous Spanish present. They plan to develop a four days a week at the corporate parents as of June, and Jan flew to Web-based language program available via the Internet for people headquarters in Atlanta. She Vail, olo., to visit with the new interested in improving their understanding of and skill in the greatly enjoys her four "neat" born-a first flight in many years for Spanish language and culture ....Governor Angus King, LLD. grandkids, ages 3 and under. Of a her. Congratulations1 ...Hats off to '99 has appointed Lynn Fontaine Duby '69 to head the Maine freshman course at Colby called Mike McCabe, our venerable class Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Creative Thinking, she says, "lt agent. Our class not only increased Abuse ervices. The governor said that Duby, who served as changed what I thought the bound our dollar goal but also the percent director of the Office of Substance Abuse since 1996 and is aries of education were." She won age of classmate giving. You're do- committed to community-based services, would bring beneficial ders if any other people who took 111g a great iob, Mike. Keep it experience from within and without stategovernment. that course remember it as making up ....On the Ru sell home front an important difference in their several changes have taken place. MILESTONES thinking. She would love to have My 91-year-old mother passed away old friends visit them at their week Births: Trip lets, David Lewis, Peter John and Charles Donald unexpectedly in Apnl soon after end house on Cheasapeake Bay.... Coriell, to Lydia and James Coriell '67. our return from a won . m.uh te.1Lher, 1 or lr1 111 our gr 1du.mon, 11 hen P<"mon,. Reth anJ her hu.,band, Rohe rt, I 1ve adm1ss1om 111terview with him, and I'm sure ,he reL<:l\eJ Je�ree l m.1 ra', trom 1lh\ 111 111 :L,lrhorough Eli:abeth Doe orwat his enthusiasm was an important factor in my 1Hne that ,he .111d her fa m1h 11erc looking choos111g Colby. Karen' special eel teaching at L 0 L R) 46 ALUM I AT LARGE a middle school in Orono is going well. ... morningafter Hurricane Floyd went through to Crowell called to pass on both happy and sad Class president Ann Bruno Hocking is ex make the final decisions. Bud Marvin, Jan Wood news about Gaylord "Jeep" Simonds. The happy cited that her son Benjamin is engaged to a Parsons, Sunny Coady (no column is complete news was that in July, Jeep married Nancy Colby graduate, Sherry Sangster '96. Both her without a Sunny Coady mention), Marcia Pittman at a ceremony at his mother's home in sons are in graduate school in the Boston area Harding Anderson, Chris Brown, Ginger York, Maine. Family and friends, including many and work for apient, a computer company in Goddard Barnes, Rick and Nancy Winslow classmates, attended the ceremony. Fellow Cambridge. She and her husband, David, were Harwood, Pam Plumb Carey and I hope you Maine builder Brad Coady and his wife, Sue looking forward to a trip to Hilton Head in will join us June 2-4, 2000, on Mayflower (Grigg '68), were there. Mike and Pam Cooper November. Ann is now gathering a committee Hill. ... Hail, Colby, Hail! Picher arrived from Canada. Tiff and his wife for planning the 40th and says Karen Beganny -Richard \XI. Bankart came from Vermont. Jomo Zimbabwe (Al Bryan has agreed to be vice president ....Re Haughton ) brought his wife and his four chil member to send in your news! 67 Ed "Woody" Berube has completed dren from Boston. Also from Boston was Cathy -Karen Forslund Falb his 30th year at Xerox Corp. and continues to Meader. "Chip" Bailey arrived for the cer reside in Webster, N.Y. Woody and his wife, emony, but he prefers to remain incognito and 65 o news? ...The only response card Connie, are proud to attend many of their didn't wish to pass on his current address. It was arrived from Marty Dodge, professor of conser daughter's softball games at Ed inboro State in a wonderful day, when everyone shared Jeep vation at Finger Lakes Community College in Pennsylvania. Some of you may recall that and Nancy's happiness, lots of good food and the Canandaigua, N .Y., who reports, "[Took] a dream Woody participated in a fe w athletic contests opportunity for good friends to reminisce. The trip with wife Kari in ummer '99 by bush plane himself, and he reports that those years may couple's happiness was cut short when Jeep (actually six in all) to the heart of the Wrangell have contributed to the need for four recent passed away of colon cancer in early September. St. Elias National Park and then on to Gates of orthopaedic procedures, two each on knees and His adopted son from his first marriage survives the Arctic ational Park-both in Alaska; the wrists. Aside from an aging body, Woody reports him. Tiff,who was deeply moved by the loss of latter way north of the Arctic Circle. Trip =8 to that he is well and sends his best to his such a good fr iend, spoke fondly about his years Alaska with students will include some of this classmates ....Sally Ray Bennett has returned of fr iendship with Jeep and the six-month trip over summer 2000." He says he'll use his fa ll '99 from a three-week tourofT urkey, where she and they took through the Mediterranean after Jeep sabbatical leave "to develop a course directed Charlie were awed by the many historic and got out of the Navy. (They even spent time on an toward sustaining society. My alliance with the religious sites they visited. Sally reports that her Israeli kibbutz, where Jeep kept chickens and Tiff 'deep ecology' movement remains strong. In daughter, Kirsti, was married last year, and she was in charge of the beehives. ) Tiff reports that deed, much of the new course will focus on Earth and her husband will be teaching at the British he is retired and that his wife still practices law in as a beautiful delicate life-support system in dire School in Athens, Greece. On the domestic Burlington, Vt. They were leaving on a trip to need of keeping all of its pieces rather than as a scene, Sally's son Matthew and his wife of two Greece, where they plan to do a lot of biking and source of personal gratification from mega con years are educators in Rhode Island. Her son to visit his wife's brother, who live in Greece. sumption and disposal of nearly all resource . Michael taught sixth grade in Scituate , R.l., last Surely Tiff will be thinking about hi previous I'm still competing in the professional lumber year and is exploring employment options at trip with Jeep. jack circuit-now often in the masters division. this time ....Tom Saliba has some interest in -Robert Gracia and Judy Gerrie Heine Finger Lakes ommunity College timber sports exploring environs well beyond South Freeport, teams (men's and women's combined) have Maine, his home port of the last 26 years. Tom 68 Jeanne Amnotte McCarthy is a read now the most wins of any school in the North is thinking about moving up to a larger boat ing specialist, elementary education, and mar east circuit." ...Ned and Lynn Urner Baxter than the 40-foot sloop that ha served him to ried to Jeremiah, who is about to retire after senta follow-up letter with an article about the date, a boat that would take him and his wife, 30-plus years of a teaching career. They live in bookmobile Ned drives for Adams aunty, Pa. Rita, to exotic and interesting ports of call. This Belmont, Mass. Their son Jeremiah, 23, gradu The article from the July '98 issue of Central PA is not to say that Tom is not sti II rooted in the ated from Harvard in '98 and is now a profes magazine explains why Ned gets such a big kick Portland area, where he serves on the Maine siona I hockey player with the Worcester ( Mass.) out of driving it when he's not attend mg to their College of Art board of trustees. Tom and Rita lee Cats. Their other son, Liam, 20, is a junior at Hope Springs Antiques shop in Gettysburg. are proud to report on their children. Nadia Harvard and is also a hockey player. Jeanne ays The bookmobile has a regular circuit at day-care graduated from Brown this past year and is they couldn't have orchestrated a more ideal centers, retirement communities and even pris working for Goldman Sachs, Leila is attending scenario because they can follow both of their ons. ed is also a "story teller" and has a flock of Elon College, and Serene and Jake are at St. games.... Richar d Lewis lives in .Y.C. and is children waiting at each stop. The author of the George's School. ...Eric Meinel! and his wife, the president of Richard Lewis Communica article, Annette Spahr, recounts how she "could Vicki, recently traveled with their singing group tions Inc., which offers integrated marketing read the lips of the children running alongside, ro Verona, Italy, where they won a bronze medal communications services. He sent along an at pointing excitedly saying, 'there's the bookmo in the 10th International Choir Festival. This tractive brochure; e-mail him at [email protected] bile!' I felt like an honored guest on board." The past year Eric was reassigned to chief of program if you would like a copy. In the past year he's approximately 2,000 titles, which rotate daily, management at the National Data Buoy Cen visited affi liated companie in Tokyo and Paris are not mere hand-me-downs. The Hardy Boys, ter. The new post will mean more travel to and established another affiliate relationship in Nancy Drew and anything about dinosaurs are South Africa and ew Zealand. Eric's son Patrick agasaki. And he says he's accumulating pic high on the list for the younger set. The New is a senior in prep school in Missouri .... Please tures of the fish he's caught, from .Y.'s East York Times best ellers and "the trip bag," a note that the College's long-standing practice River to Florida's Keys.... Received e-mail from loaded-down tote bag that is also known as the of sending out our yearly questionnaires, which Sandy High Walters, who lives with her hus "Have anything good for me today?" bag, serve has provided us with virtually all of our class band, Ken, in Gros e Pointe Park, Mich. They the older crowd ....Your correspondent spent column informatwn, has ceased. The tear-off just celebrated their 31st anniversary in Augu t. a fu n-filled 17 days driving through Morocco found in the maga:ine has replaced the mail Ken is a professor of classics at Wayne rate last August. The 700-year-old medinahs with ings. This means that we need you to take the University, and Sandy is a project manager of their colorful souks are a delight as are the initiative to jot something down and mail it off quantitative analysis at ANR Pipeline Com fr iendly Moroccans ....Your class reunion com to us if we are to have items to report. Please help pany, which is a natural gas pipeline gathering, mittee is hard at work. We met on the Saturday us to keep the news coming.... Timothy "Tiff" transportation and di tribution company. he 47 WINTER 20 00 C 0 LRY ALUM I AT LARGE says she's recently been in contact in the investment world. Another with Judith Freedman '70 via e N EWS MAKERS DU, Marty Kolonel, sent me a note mail but hasn't seen any Colby from his home in Colorado Springs. people in years. Sandy and Kenhave A recent article in the Boston Sunday Marry and his wife, Jo Ann, are now four children. ytasha, 30, lives in Globe Magazine chronicled the career empty nesters. To keep busy, Marty Seattle and works as an environ of Don J. Snyder '72 and the tale owns a cabinet manufacturer in mental planner for the state of behind his new book, Of Time and Grand Junction, Colo., is a business Washington and was to be married MemOT)'. Snyder said rhe book is his broker and flies a Cessna 206.... in July on Orcas Island. Matthew, parents' love story, his tribute to his Yes, l have heard from another class 1 , made Eagle Scout and is attend mother, who died ar 19, and an at mate who a) is not male and b) is nor ing Michigan tate University as a tempt "to return my mother to this a DU. Norma Rivero Biermeyer freshman studying zoology. Rachel, world while myfarher is stillhere." ... sent me a nice note and a picture Don Snyder '72 15, a sophomore in high school, is Gary Lawless '73 was rhe subject of a taken at her 50th birthday party. l varsity cros country and a 4.0 stu story in the Brunswick, Maine, Times Record last September. sure didn't look that good when I dent. Christopher, 11, is in sixth Lawless spoke of his six-month stay in 1973 with the poet Gary hit 5-0! orma lives in Caracas, grade and loves roller-blade hockey Snyder and rhe effect rhat Snyder's life and poetry has had on his Venezuela, where she is a professor and lacrosse. They live in an En own life and work as poet, reacher, publisher and bookstore owner. of English at University Metro glish Tudor that they have played . ..Carolyn Dusty Leef '74 was recently promoted to captain in pol i tana. She's still waiting for Anne "this old house" with: additions, res the U.S. Naval Reserve. She has served three years on active duty Peterson to make a bird watching torations, repairs, upkeep. Working and 16 years as a reservist. . . The Financial Times of London trip to Caracas.... Clark Smith for a natural gas pipeline, Sandy's spotlighted the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School writes from Reno, Nev., where for gone off shoreseveral times and has of Business Administration. Dean Edward A. Snyder '75, who is rhe past 15 years he's been a con een a great deal of Americana. She committed to expanding the school, said, "our intention is to have sultant in exploration geochemis collects antiques by going to auc the best business school facilities in rhe world, both physically and try. I can hardly write it; haven't got tions, estate sales and fleamarkets. technologically." ...Elizabeth Knight Warn '76 has been pro a clue to how he does ir! Clark, his They have a menagerie comprising moted to executive vice president in the retail mortgage lending wife, Jean, and their children, Shea, a three-foot iguana, a desert gecko, department of Peoples Heritage Financial Group, a $12-billion 14, and Mariah, 12, do a lot ofhigh rwo ferrets, a dog, a cat and Koi fish bank holding company in Portland, Maine ....With a background elevation back-country skiing .... in their pond outside. he sounds as intern forSenator Edmund Muskie and Senate Majority Leader Mike Self sent me an e-mail from very philosophical when she writes, George Mitchell, first-year Maine state legislator David Lemoine North Carolina. His "underachiev "This always happens when you '79 earned kudos from his colleagues and from the Biddeford-Saco ing" kids include son David, a jun have kids; kids and pets go together." Courier as "thoughtful," "hardworking" and "dedicated." ...Jeff ior at Cornell, where he's majoring Even though she's in Michigan she Wuorio '79's Got Money! offe rs tips as well as a comprehensive list in civil engineering and playing still does the skiing she began on of Internet sites and otherresources "that help readers understand baseball, and daughter Allyson, a Colby hill, but not with the old rhe often arcane world of money and investing .... Ir can't be bear," recent NC Stare grad, who will have wooden ski . he remembers slid declared a review in USA Toda)'· her master's in textile chemistry in ing down rhe hill on trays "stolen" another year. Mike also notes that from the dining hall. She tells her MILESTONES his nephew Brad (son of Mike's kid how Colby would winteri:e the brother Steve '72) was drafted in Marriages: Marguerite Y. Zientara '72 to Paul D. Lessard. campu by building rhe storm shel rhe seventh round by rhe Buffa lo ters outside the dorms, put wooden Births: A daughter, Ruby Schiller, to Susan Jensen and Rob Sabres of the National Hockey plank on the steps from the library, Schiller '73. League. A Self playing hockey- and con rruct walkways with hand what a novel conce pt! ..Well, rails so thar the rudent could make that's it guys-I'm totally out of 1t acros rhe campus on a cold, \\'indy day. She days-a fate worse than the Chinese water tor information for future columns, and I've got ar ended her mes age by asking, "Remember how ture rest! The day of our visit to Mayflower Hill least rwo more to write. Unless you're prepared we would go to rhe place outside Louise Coburn was absolutely gorgeous, and the campus to read the ravings of a middle-aged mid-Atlan and h1tchh1ke for nde down to the town1 Re sparkled. The view from rhe library steps was tic citizen, let me know what's going on with memberOme' and the R1ghteou Brothers play especially impressive. Colby was a big hir. Who you. Thanks1 Ann Arbor, phone home! ing 'You've Lo:.t That Lonng Feeling' and of knows, she may even apply ....While in -Steven line cour'e frarern1ry row and all the pames. o Waterville, we had lunch with Rob Saglio. Rob many memone>." ...A> you can ee I didn't hear 1 the president of Avian Farms, a Waterville 71 Deborah Wentworth Lansing writes trom too man1 las mate;,rh1 nme. I'm hoping base C 0 LB) \l. I TER 4 ALUM I AT LA RGE Austin .... l am hoping that since many of us helley also reports that the 25th reunion had 70 1970s Correspondents tum 50 this year that l will get some letters cla mates in attendance and was fun filled. Our describing some outrageous celebrations. class was housed in the "East Quad," known to us 1970 -J ames Hawkins as Butler, Champlin and Small. Although the Steven Cline dorm has been renovated, Shelley still found that 6602 Loch Hill Road 73 The mail from Colby classmates was the stay reminded her of her junior year in Small, Baltimore, MD 21239-1 644 light this quarter. I hope that indicates that all and she was impressed that there are still class [email protected] of you were busy enjoying summer.... Betty mates at our age able to party most of the night! Robinson found time to send news about herself And, to respond to Greg Smith's inquiry, no, there 1971 and several Colby fr iends. As dean at Lewiston does not seem to have been a midnight swim in James Hawkins 485 Locust Street Auburn College, University of SouthernMaine, Johnson Pond! Greg lives outside Seattle, working Attleboro, MA 02703 for the past three years, Betty has overseen a in "medium" tech, selling industrial food process 508-226-1 436 dramatic growth at the college. Student enroll ing machinery. His wife, Jo-Ellen (Bois '79), is an ment increased by more than 40 percent and the independent marketing research consultant along 1972 faculty by 100 percent. Her college plans in with super-mother to daughters Fiona, 11, and Janet Holm Gerber creases in its number of graduate degree pro Adrien, 10. Greg writes, "It was great reading the 409 Reading Avenue grams a well as in college facilities. She writes updates in the reunion book from those who did Rockville, MD 20850 that as a former participant in Colby sit-ins, she write in, though many interesting fr iends were 301-424-9160 [email protected] never expected that she would pursue an admin absent from the accounting ... (stage frightor time istrative position in higher education. Good pressures?) We seemed so disparate in personali 1973 friend Gail hase '74 is the first woman to be ties and interests when we were together in school. Jackie Nienaber Appeldorn elected Maine state auditor and owns a 34-acre Remember the big gaps between those who carried 1437 Old Ford Road farm. Another good friend, Bob Mayer, is the identities of jocks and brains, mainstream and New Paltz, NY 12561 Maine's chief information officer managing counter culture? Now, it's amazing to see the 914-255-4875 Maine's Y2K transition. He also is building a similar paths so many of us have ended up on. [email protected] gorgeous second house on the water in What I did sense was an appreciation that small 1974 Phippsburg.... Jonathan Fink also has estab pleasures and active families are truly rewarding." Robin Sweeney Peabody lished a successful career in academia. Last spring, ...Mary and Jim Signorile are still in Teaneck, 46 Elk Lane Arizona State University named him vice pro N.J., where Jim is a senior software engineer. He is Littleton, CO 801 27 vost for research. As provost, he is re ponsible busy composing music, something he has wanted 303-978-1 129 for overseeing all of the university's research to do since Colby, and has an independently fax 303-904-0941 functions, including administering grants (last produced CD of his music, ''Twilight Dreams." To [email protected] year ASU received $84 million in research learn more, visit his Web site (jsignorile@ funds), and the university seeks to double re pixdream.com) .... 1 know there is lotsofreunion 1975 Nan Weidmann Anderson search funding over the next five years. Jonathan news out there. Why not hop on line and send me 806 Partridge Circle began his career at ASU in 1980 as a geology your reunion news or drop me a line? In a column Golden, CO 80403 profe or with research focus on volcanoe . He like this, even old news is new news! 303-279-6287 went on to chair the department ofgeology and -Robin Sweeney Peabody fax: 303-278-0521 to serve as a program director at the National [email protected] Science Foundation. Congratulations, Jonathan. 75 Michelle Kominz e-mails that she is ... l, too, have recently taken on new responsi still seeking tenure at Western Michigan but 1976 bilities, al though mine involve leaving academia. has moved up the ladder to associate professor Va lerie Jones Roy 38 Hunts Point Road Having spent the last nine years as a professor in from assistant. She is not encumbered by so Cape Elizabeth, ME 04 107 the business technologies department at much as a plant, mind you, which frees her up to 207-767-0663 Dutchess ommunityCollege in Poughkeepsie, ski, swim, windsurf, jog, bike and do a host of fax: 207-767-8125 N.Y., this summer l accepted a position as gen other health activities. (Care for a Cheeto, [email protected] eral manager at Mohonk Mountain House in Michelle?) Teaching science is still her passion: New Paltz, .Y. Mohonk is a spectacular 261- "I love sharing knowledge with those bright 1977 room Victorian hotel established in 1870 by young minds." ... Bright young minds are what Ellen D. O'Brien twin brothers from Maine. If you find yourself in surround Flo Gutowski Harlor. Ranging in age 205 Fernwood Avenue Davenport, IA 52803-3606 New York's lower Hudson River Valley, make from 9 to 14, Flo and Dave's four children keep 319-359-4665 sure you include a visit to Mohonk, and be sure them moving from soccer to baseball to basket [email protected] to look me up ....That's all the news so far. I ball to choir to Boy Scouts, ad infinitum. We look forward to news from more of you this fa ll. noticed Odyssey of the Mind was on the list, Flo. 1978 -Jackie Nienaber Appledom Everyone with a child from 6 to 16 should try Robert S. Woodbury that activity! Flo should be awarded the red 484 Bridge Street 74 Greetings from Colorado! 1 am looking badge of courage for outlasting three minivans Hamilton, MA 01982 978-468-3805 forward to serving as cla s correspondent. Many (just when we're all thinking how great we'd fax: 61 7-951-991 9 thanks to Shelley Bieringer Rau for the past five look in a Masserati) ....Judith Farrin Janoo [email protected] years of columns and all her help getting me sends greetings from Strafford, Vt., where she operational! Please remember that you will no prepares income taxes and write fiction and 1979 longer be mailed a questionnaire but will find a poetry on the side. She and her husband, Cheri Bailey Powers card in Colby to mail to me. The best way, though, Vincent, have three kids, 12 to 20. Since her 6027 Scout Drive is simply to e-mail me! The next column is due matriculation on Mayflower Hill, Judith has Colorado Springs, CO 80918 mid-March. Shelley advises me that if I don't traveled to Malaysia, Holland, Paris and Lon 71 9-532-9285 receive enough news, 1 have to fabricate it! ... don-no doubt finding grist for her poetic mill- 719-380-6806 49 WI TER 2000 C 0 LBY The Apples of His Eye To the uninitiated. it might be just a table covered with few years and slowly dying. Since nobody can identify apples-and motley apples at that. But to John Bunker '72, them, they're essentially gone." the assorted fruit in his sunny home in the woods of Palermo, But not if Bunker and his apple "moles" around Maine, is a treasure trove, the artifacts of an orchardist's Maine get to them first. archaeological quest. When Bunker and his apple quest "Most of these, I don't even know what are publicized in print or on television, they are," Bunker said, picking up a small he gets a rush of letters, phone ish apple with burnished green skin. calls and even apples them "These I think are incredible. They look selves. One article prompted a like Jade to me." phone call from a man in Orland, A former Californian who moved to a near Ellsworth, who thought he 100-acre Palermo enclave one day after had the apple variety called graduation. Bunker has spent the last 16 Pumpkin Sweet. years working in Maine food cooperatives. Henow ,.=- "It's pouring rain and I pull into s a driving force with Fed co Trees. a co-op nursery that sells hardy his house at 9 o'clock at night, stay until 10:30. We get shrubs and trees. into his four-wheel drive and drive around his fields looking at But no just any trees. apples in his headlights," Bunker said. That visit uncovered an In his search for fruit trees that would withstand northern obscure apple called Garden Sweet. winters Bunker discovered that Maine was home to hundreds of But Bunker's apple discoveries are made even sweeter by local varieties of apples all with a history, most bound for his encounters with other apple fans, kindred spirits who share extinction Chronicled 1n 19th-century iourna1s and books, or just his admiration for distinctive apples like Black Oxford and Cana 1n local lore the apple varieties that once were staples for Maine dian Strawberry, Dudley Winter and Northern Spy, said to be arm families had disappeared named for a militant abolitionist. Bunker a s11ght and quietly persistent man, ma1ored 1n English As a result, the apples keep piling up. a Colby reading as much as he could because he knew he'd be One autumn afternoon. Bunker had 150 different apples to try busy a ter college.· He began to track apple varieties down one to identify. They were laid out on the table, stuffed in apple crates by one taking shoots rom old trees, propagating some variet1es- 1n storerooms and outside the back door. Four apples had just 1nclud1ng many gra ed to rootstock trees at his homestead-and arrived in the mail from York, Maine: an old Pennsylvania variety, selling em hrough the Fedco Trees catalogue Of the 200 or so Bunker surmised a1ne arie 1es hat existed two centuries ago he estimates he has Those apples went on the table with the rest. An appie shaped cap ured 30 or 40 A leas ha many o her varieties still are out like a star fruit. A hollow apple that yields slices shaped liked ere Bunker says bu t e•r numbers are dw1ndl1ng doughnuts Don t look for these apples in your supermarket. T e re r he back o some arm 1n some old field 1n a "I m not trying to find the next Braeburn or Red Delicious," re• en do \n ore ard 1n e woods he said Maybe even Bunker said I'm iust paying homage to all these people who be nd a s opp .-.g cen er Jus s1 1ng here ru1 1ng away every made this contribution to our history "-Gerry Boyle '78 5 ALUMNI AT LARGE and, she is proud to admit, "[ have written and her elf. ...That is abom it for now. Please drop language degree from La Sorbonne Nouvelle in risked rejection." ...From the far ends of our me a line or e-mail (sroy l @maine.rr.com) to Paris. She lives in Wolfeboro with her husband, collegiate state, we hear that Deborah Palman let me know what you're up to! Mike, and daughters Emma and Rebecca .... was honored as the 1998 Warden of the Year at -Valerie }ones Roy After working at Wyman-Gordon in Worcester the Maine Warden Service's annual meeting in for 10years, Courtney Grimes is now president Bangor. Deborah's forensic skills are instrumen 77 Jeff Gottesfeld and his wife, Cherie and chief metallurgist at his own company, tal in detecting and prosecuting fish and wildlife Bennett, are living in Nashville, Tenn. They Sturbridge Metallurgical Services, in Sturbridge, poaching. She has been a game warden since the are both writers. In addition to his teen books, Mass. According to an article in a local paper, '70s, when she became Maine' first fe male Jeff has done some soap opera writing for ABC. Courtney is purported to be the "Ken Burns of warden.... We need to hear from more of you Cherie's novel Zink was to be published in modem metallurgy." His clients are anyone with as we approach our fabulous 25th! Who has the November by Delacorte Press. They were an a question about the strength, composition, most interesting "surgical enhancement" story? ticipating a move to Los Angeles ....Janet corrosibility or culpability of a piece of Who has given up and traded in trotting shoes Josselyn wrote that her active occupation is metal. ...Doug Giron e-mailed (the preferred for tater tots? Who's made the most outrageous mother of Ian Wadsworth Koon, 3, who is one method of communication) that he's now with "mid-life crisis" purchase? Fes up now or face big active boy, while her inactive occupations Shechtman & Halperin as an attorney. Giro's the piper nextJune. Reach me at nananderson@ are architect and lawyer. Her husband, John busy raising four kids. His two older daughters andarch.com. Koon, is a management consultant. A year ago, are among the very best soccer players in Rhode -Nan Weidmann Anderson when they moved from Back Bay to Dover, Island. (Wonder where that talent came from ?) Mass. (where she grew up), Janet left her posi He's got the bases covered, as his two younger 76 I just haven't received much from my tion as attorney for the city of Boston because kids are boys. Giro, how's Kevin's curve ball classmates this time. Folks must be busy-or their new address didn't comply with the resi coming? ...Dian Weisman Miller finally has didn't pay attention to the new format for dency requirement. She has written a novel, a something new going on in her life after 13years sending news items to class correspondents! mystery, that still sits in a box in a closet. Let's on the Redneck Riviera in the Florida Pan ...What a wonderful summer in southern petition to publish! Who doesn't love a great handle. Her husband, Mark, got back into the Maine. Great for outdoor activities galore! But mystery, especially by one of us! . . Peggo air traffic control field in June and moved to with the days growing shorter, can the snow be Horstman Hodes, or "Peggy" as we all know Manhattan ... Kansas! Dian stayed in Florida to far away? ...Ran into Mike Boyson at a charity her, is singing her heart out, performing jazz, sell two of their houses and was going to leave in golf tournament a few weeks ago. Mike is doing classical and folk music in Concord, N.H., and August to drive the 19hours to the Big, er, little very well and playing a lot of golf. ... It has recording a holiday album, Peggo and Paul. I apple with the dog and two cats. Kansas State been a very long time since we heard from think the "Paul" is husband and lawyer Paul. University is there, and she was looking forward Karen Page Chapman. In a recent e-mail, Peggy teaches a workshop that combines writ to some major league football. Dian plans to Karen reported that she has rewmed to school, ing and singing "to free our souls" and writes "test drive" retirement to see how she'll like it. at the new Florida Gulf Coast University, to that "singing teaches me something new about Her golf clubs are ready, and she's looking for get a degree in computer information systems myself all the time." Peggy and Paul have two ward to seeing a new part of the country and management. This exciting change occurred children, Max, 15, and Ariana, 13, a dog and exploring a new chapter of her life ....Dan as she and husband Bill sold their salvage three cars and have just celebrated their 20th "Fuzzy" Driscoll dropped a line to say that he business after 18 years to become "retired." wedding anniversary. I n't life grand! got a kick out of my recent reference to Harry Prior to selling the company, she served as the -Ellen D. O'Brien Lill (aka Larry Hill) tobogganing on Runnals first female president of an auto recycling trade Hill with Chris Noonan and others. He and association, an organization she was active in 78 Hi, all. I hope everyone had a great Elaine (Regan '80) live in Milton, Mass., and for 15 years. For several weeks this past sum summer. As I type, Hurricane Floyd is bearing are busy raising Matt, 12, Alicia, IO, Danny, 7, mer, Karen "hung out" with John Allan '75 and down on the Carolinas ....Earlier this year, and Johnny, 3. He practices internal medicine Watt Bradshaw '74 in Virginia . ...I keep hear Steve "Plumbo" Plomaritis joined St. John (the years in the new dorm cubes paid off) and ing from more and more of you who are sending Macomb Hospital (Warren, Mich.) in estab helps coach youth lacrosse (Fuzzy starred for the children offto college or contemplating doing lishinga new orthopaedic sports medicine surgi Mules in his day) and hockey. He mentioned so. Can all classmates please report in as to the cal practice. Plumbo's academic and professional that they occasionally see the fa milies of Mike whereabouts of any college-age offspring? Any accomplishments and affiliations are extremely Carter '80 and Steve "Len Len" Leonard '8 1. at Colby? So far, I have a very short list-Sam impressive and too long to list. However, a small Fuzzy had a message for Tom "Suds" Suddath: and Karen Smith Gowan's son Josh is at Bates. sampling includes consulting with the Detroit "c'mon Suds, let's dreel." ...At last we received Harriet Buxbaum Pinansky's son Sam is at Red Wings and Pistons, serving on the staff of word from a Chopper. Tom Gilligan has been Carnegie Mellon. Steve and I sent our older the U.S. Figure Skating Championship (he living in Littleton, Colo., since 1991 with his son, Dan, off to Hobart. I undersrand that Ann treated Nancy Kerrigan after her run-in wife, Anne, and three kids-Andrew, 14, Sa Beadle's daughter and Melissa Day Vokey's withTon ya Harding's friends) and membership rah, 12, and Becca, 8. Tom's a general agent for daughter were in the throes of college applica in the American Osteopathic Association, Colonial Life and Accident, a sub of U UM/ tions last year but do not know their final American Osteopathic Academy of Orthope Provident Corp. His rerri tory is Colorado, U rah, decisions. Joe and Noel Barry Stella are assist dic Surgeons and many, many others ....Jeff Wyoming and Montana. It's his first job as an ing their oldest daughter, Abbey, with the Dalrymple joined the First ational Bank of independent contractor, which is hi first stint college search. I'm sure the list goes on and on. Bar Harbor last year as senior vice president for as his own boss. The best part is the freedom, he Good luck to you all. ...Rebecca Hushing lending and credit administration. He has re says, and the worst part's that you own the McCole wrote from Portsmouth, N.H., sound sponsibility for all commercial, residential and results of your freedom. Anne is getting her ing typical of a parent of the '90s-she owns a consumer lending. Previously, "Rimps" worked master's degree in early childhood/special edu business; maintains two houses, four (!) check for Key Bank in Bangor. He lives in Surry, cation at the University of Colorado-Denver. books and two cats; reaches aerobics; volunteers Maine . . .. Nancy Hulm Jones was named fi They're a "swim team fa mily" as all the kids at the school her child, Shaylagh, 7, attends; nancial coordinator at the Wolfeboro ( .H.) compete on teams and the 'rents help out. Tom walks/swims/works out regularly; and still finds Area Children's Center, which she joined in stays in touch with other Choppers. He went to time to be a wife and mother and enjoy April 1996. After Colby, ancy received a the annual golf outing this year in Massachu- 51 WINTER ZOOO C 0 LBY ALUMNI AT LARGE setts, golfing and parrying with Jim Crook, Jim than 10 years. She and her husband, Tom, have town, Cape Elizabeth, Maine ....Todd Cof Gagne and 23 other Choppers. They've main three children-Melanie, Julia and Naralie fin, who responded to my good luck e-mail in tained strong ties over the years ....That's it and a dog, Curly. In 1997, they moved to a August for his run in the same race, said his for now.Keep the letters and e-mails coming. newly constructed house and love being in a family enjoyed a week's vacation on Great -Robert S. Woodbury place where everything works. . . Jonathan Pond (one of Maine's Belgrade Lakes) with Light li,·es in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., and is the trea flawless weather. Next year he plans to check 79 Hello, classmates, from the beautiful, surer of Paribas's ew York branch. He and his out Colby's new cabin on Great Pond. Todd majestic state ofColorado1 I am happy to be your wife, Melissa Waters, have identical twin boys, and his wife were expecting their second child new cla s correspondent, and I look forward to now 12. The whole family takes karate. Jon this fall; their first, Alex, is 5. Todd is in hearing from everyone. The column will be short received his black belt in January of 1999, and environmental engineering with Jacque this time, however, because the only piece of Melissa and Ryan and Matt, the two boys, are Whitford in Portland, where he's been since news that I can share is that Kathy Bleakney currently brown belts with one stripe. They do 1992 ....Jan Wyper and Ed Twilley '84 live Pawley and her husband, Keenan, are finally a traditional style called Shotokan. The family in Gorham, Maine, with their two kids, 1 and moving north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Kathy planned on going to Alaska last summer. ... 2-1/2. Jan works fo r L.L. Bean as senior com accepted a tran fer to Manchester, N.H., in Oc Herb Perry is living in Berwick, Maine. His munity relations representative. . . My tober. he has found housing, daycare and school wife, Kathryn, is an assistant professor of occu Falmouth, Maine, high school class of 1979 for her children, Sean, 6, and Melissa, 2. Both pational therapy at the University of New En had a fun 20th reunion, but we missed seeing Kathy and Keenan were looking forward to the gland in Biddeford, Maine, and they have two Melinda Boehm. How many of you had re move and being closer to family and friends, daughters, Jennifer, 10, and Hannah, 7. Herb, a unions this year1 . . Jess and Becky Crook including Robin Towle Glynn, her freshman newspaper editor, wrote that he has gotten two Rogers had a wonderful two-week vacation in year roommate ....As for me, I am happy to be graduate degrees since he left Colby, something Alaska visiting, camping and touring with her we t of the Mi sissippi again, where the new is he never anticipated doing ....Susan Mann is husband's mom, who lives in Homer. Becky on at lOp.m. I work for Ent FederalCredit nion a fourth grade teacher living in Jeffe rson, Maine. and Jess's two sons had fun spending time as an accountant. My husband, Tom, retired She enjoys swing dancing and built a cedar with their Aka (eskimo name for grand from the Air Force in 1997, and we ettled in canoe last summer. ...Susan Perry lives in mother). But the family has moved again, this Colorado prings. We are very busy huttlingour Upton, Mass., and has been a large-animal x-ray time to Columbus, Ohio, where Specialized two girls, Kayleigh, 12, and Meredith, 6, to soccer technician at the Tufts Veterinary School in Bikes (Jess's business) is opening an East Coast (from Grand Junction, Colo., to Cheyenne, Wyo. ) Grafton, Mass., for 15 years. ue says she loves warehouse for which Jess is responsible. Becky and basketball (Kansas and olorado). As they her job and learns more about veterinary medi says they have to sell the house, but her big ay, there 1 no re t for the wicked. . . . o now I cine every day. She also shows her horses, Magic brother lives in Columbus so she will be closer need to hear from all of you1 I put out a special and Sugar, in many dressage shows throughout to family.... Je nifer Ambler wrote to say reque t to all of the Taylor- turtevant girls to New England and has won many events. Every that in February she went on her fo urth medi wnte m and tell me what' new in your lives. You summer ue rides on the beautiful carriage roads cal mission to El Salvador. She's also involved can contact me by e-mail ([email protected] in Acadia ational Park ....Because the in a Rotary committee, working on installing or [email protected]). Alumni Office is no longer sending out the solar water pasteurization units to provide -Cheri Bailey Powers surveys you have been getting over the years, I safe drinking water there (check out am running low on news and really need updates www.purewaterfortheworld.org). Jenny has 81 I saw John Yates at the 4th of July directly from you. Please fe el free to e-mail me completed a second term as president of her parade in Harvard, Mas .,John' hometown and ([email protected]) with news about local branch of American Association of where I now 11\·e. John 1 It,·ing in Mountainview, yourselves and any classmates. Looking forward University Women (AAUW) as well as being Calif., and working in the high-tech industry to hearing from you. state treasurer. ow she is state chair of Vi there ....David Ryley, Seph Huber and Seph's -Beth Pniewski Wilson sion, U.S.A., a national charity providing wife, 1kkt. k1eJ aero the French-Italian Alp free eye exams to low-income people. Jennifer's l:iorder to celebrate their 40th birthdays la t 8 2 Hello to everyone. Before reading any daughter, Kate, is now 5 and started pre January. Dav1J reported that they haJ an unbe further, please go to the middle of this magazine kindergarten this past fa ll. Jenny does stay in Ite,·al:ile week of >k1ing anJ were temporarily and pull our the enclosed questionnaire. Put it in touch with Christi Smith Farinelli and vis al:ile to forget about age.... Diane Young 1s your stack of mail or on your desk where you will ited with Ann Lacasse Theriault ' 2 on her working a' C. L BY 'J. I TE R • 52 ALUMNI AT LARGE wedding of Joanne I yo and Scott Lewis .... l for the subcommittee on immigration and read thi fall that our own Dana Maisel i claims for the House Judiciary Committee of 1980s Correspondents teaching school in Yarmouth, Maine. We the U.S. Congress; he is currently Democratic 1980 surely enjoyed the years she lived with her chief counsel and last year helped defend Presi John Veilleux dad, Sandy, and her brother in the basement dent Clinton on behalf of the House Demo 7104 Sonnett Court of Mary Low. Liz Murphy Kloak and I roomed crats. In December 1996 he married Muriel Derwood, MD 20855 together directly above their apartment and Buck, and Patricia Shelton and Veda Robinson [email protected] gave andy and his family good reason to find were present, as was Todd Robinson '85 .... alternative, off-campus living. Good luck, Two years ago, John Tawa gave up the practice 1981 Dana! (Li:, send news!) ... I'm working in the of law for a position as news and sports editor of Beth Pniewski Wilson Mount Desert town office. I'm on the execu a local newspaper. He and wife Lisa Dunne live P.O. Box 602 tive board of my PTO, on my church vestry, in Redondo Beach, Calif., and on April 7 thi Harvard, MA 01451 978-456-8801 on the board of directors of People , Places and year they welcomed Timothy John into the [email protected] Planes maga:ine and part of the collaboration family ....In Plaistow, .H., Vito and Bar on Mount Desert Island called Island Voices, bara Duncan Marchetti were excited about 1982 a group of not-for-profits connecting to serve their new addition-N icholas-in July 1998. Mimi H. Rasmussen all adjacent communities. Our boys, Jordan, Barbara is another classmate who is learning to 63 Reservoir Street 12, and Jake, 10, are in school, playing soccer "juggle." As well as being a new mom, she has Cambridge, MA 02138 and trading Pokemon cards. My husband, two businesses: Principal of Preferred Partner 61 7-492-1 002 Wayne, is busy with his property management ship Consulting, a training and development [email protected] and lobstering commercially, which he firm in Waltham, Mass., and president/CEO of loves ....You all should send me news now, Preferred Resource Group, Inc., a strategic 1983 Sally Lovegren Merchant since I only heard from a small number of our performance consulting company in Andover, 24 Easy Street cla smates this summer. Please contact me via Mass., that places executives on a per-project Mt. Desert, ME 04660 . Bill Sheehan letter, fax, phone call or e-mail. Ifyou have an basis (as consultants) ... re 207-244-0441 e-mail address but fe el like you do not have ports that Caitlin Elizabeth, bornJu ly 28, 1999, fax 207-244-9445 enough time to talk, please send me a brief, joins brother William Patrick, 4. Bill is cur [email protected] one-line on-line hello with that e-mail ad rently a partner at MF Private Capital, Inc., a dress for my address book. Then I'll contact venture capital concern in Boston he helped 1984 you. As always, many thanks. form in 1998. It's majority-owned by the larg Cynthia M. Mulliken-Lazzara -Sally Lovegren Merchant est insurance company in anada, Manufac 18 Sunshine Avenue turers Life Insurance. The Sheehans live in Sausalito, CA 94965 415-332-3542 A big thank-you to all who heard my Sudbury, Mass., near Craig and Diane 84 colbyl [email protected] cry for help and ent replies over the Internet Perlowski Alie and John and Debbie Pazary Ayer. Bill reports that Cindy (Gillis '86) and (remember that you can always find me at 1985 colby 1 [email protected]) ....Libby Warren Burroughs relocated to Tokyo for JP Barbara Knox Autran Wheatley, who's been squirreled away at UC Morgan . . . . Kenny Epstein'sdaughter Sophie 201 1 Rosedale Avenue Santa Cruz, received her Ph.D. in sociology in Rose was born August 12. He and wife Wendy Oakland, CA 96401 June I 998 and is currently a tenure-track assis (Howard '85) live in Westport, Conn., and 51 0-437-9462 tant professor of sociology at Smith ollege. have two other children, Lila, 8, and Jacob, 5. She reports doing a lot of"juggling" to keep up Kenny has been working for Credit Suisse First 1986 Wendy Lapham Russ with the demands of work and welcomes any Boston since July 1998 in the equity sales area, 206 Cheltenham Road advice from those who may have gone through focusing on technology stocks. The Epstein Newark, DE 1971 1 the tenure maze. She lives on a 20-acre horse family invites any old friends in the N.Y.C. 302-738-6261 area to look them up .... Gretchen Gehrke property in Southampton, where she keeps a [email protected] beautiful Morgan named AJ . She is also the and husband John Baker announced the birth "guardian" of three cats (here in Marin County of their son on April 20 ....Mar y Lou 1987 you are not allowed to be the "owner" of an McCulloch Jones is living in "beautiful" Jack Jane Nicol Manuel animal, you are the "guardian"-just trying to sonville, Fla., where her Navy pilot husband is 8 Wentworth Drive be politically correct). Maureen Pine lives in stationed. She volunteers in the readmg pro Beverly, MA 01915 Northampton on the same street as Libby's gram at the elementary school, coordinating 978-927-6084 jmanuel1 @aol.com office. As I'm sure many of you were, Libby was the "book swaps" and helping with a "dinner excited to read about the cholarship for cross theater" for the younger students as well as 1988 country runners . . ..Mary Kate Whalen left working as fu ll-time mom to Duncan, 10, Lauren Frazza Cameron, 6, and Nora, 4 ... . Lisa Wormwood Choate, Hall and Stewart and is chief of the 200 East 78th Street, Apt. 19A diver ion/regulatory section, office of chief is living in Medford and loves being back in the New York, NY 10021 counsel, DEA, U.S. Department of Justice Boston area. She's mom to Tarrah kye, 4-1/2, 212-7 1 7-7020 (sound like a long way from a biology major). and writing corporate communications as an [email protected] In May she became president-elect of the officer in the State Street orporation's Year Women's Bar Association of D.C.; he'll be 2000 Program Management Office.... Sharon 1989 president for 2000-0 I. For the next three years Kehoe wrote from Lander, Wyo. he' working Anita L. Terry 501 Warwick Street she'll spend her spare time getting a master' in for the National Outdoor Leadership chool St. Paul, MN 551 16 public health from George Washington Uni in their development office. he is "loving" 651-698-9382 Wyoming and is taking fu ll advantage of the versity. She asks if anyone has heard from fax: 651 -848-1 182 rock climbing and skate skiing (is this the Kitty Wilbur ....Another classmate working [email protected] for the government is Leon Buck, an attorney latest skiing cra:e?) available in the area. 53 WI TER 2000 C 0 LB Y When Duty Called, She Answered Valerie Jean Miller '84 has been pinned down by sniper fire, had knives pulled on her and witnessed the aftermath of train wrecks and airplane crashes. As a paramedic lieutenant in the Emergency Medical Services of the Fire Department, Miller spent more than a decade working the night shift in New York City's impoverished areas. Much of that time was during the crime-ridden 1980s. "It was like being in Vietnam," Miller said. Shootings were regular. She has been bitten and nearly pushed out a window. She has supervised rescue ettorts for train wrecks and worked two airplane crashes. As a testament to her capabilities, Miller was a member of the Dignitary Protection Unit, which escorts the president and other otticials during visits to New York City. Miller's first experience with emergency medicine was in the Emergency Medical Training (EMT) course she completed dur hopes to attract more minorities to the College, which "is going in the ing a Jan Plan at Colby. In 1986 she became a licensed para right direction." As a student she was one of 10 inaugural Bunche medic 1n New York. Scholars, a member of the Chorale and of the Early Music Group and The Bronx native and one-time hospital candy-striper soon participated in various musical productions. found herself at multiple shootings and drug overdoses, lugging Miller continues to sing-as soprano in two successful gospel patients down dark apartment house stairways and even up groups, one based at a radio station and the other at the church she sheer concrete walls. Miller's territory included Harlem and attends. Both groups have performed at Carnegie Hall, the Mead Washington Heights. a notorious drug haven, and the arduous owlands and Nassau Coliseum, and both recently released CDs. street duty took its toll. On the job front, Miller left the streets in 1998 to become an The single mother of a 6-year old son, Miller has suffered Equal Employment Opportunity investigator for the Fire Depart wo herniated disks and undergone three hand surgeries, all ment's Bureau of Intergovernmental Attairs. She was the only work-related Her dominant hand is partially paralyzed. In 1996 African-American in her EEO class, which prepared investigators doc ors said she might never use 1t again However several to probe allegations of racial discrimination and other EEO viola mon hs a er surgery she p1ayed Beethoven s Moonlight Sonata tions. "We try to change people's behavior at work," Miller said. on he piano • he doctors said no. but God said ·yes,"' she "We try to tell them what's acceptable in the workplace." explained simply While she has not come under sniper fire in her new post, the 1ller a r1bu es her positive perspective to her religious faith job 1s not without conflict. I wouldn ha e made 1t men ally w1 hout God she said "I did receive one threat since I moved indoors," Miller noted, 1ller s co m1t men ex ends o ayf lowerH She 1s a former but as she did when she worked the streets, she takes that in pres1den o er c1ass and a member of he Alumni Counc1 She also stride It s a def1n1te challenge," she said. "It's not the same, but 1s a member o e Admissions Comm1 ee of he Alumni Council and ts definitely a challenge."-A/icia Nemicco/o MacLeay '97 54 ALU !NI AT LARGE ...Again, thanks to all of you who wrote, and ever sits next to me will automatically be me. Instead, they are inserted in Colby maga if l haven't heard from you, drop me a line. I'll nominated! Anyway, writing this column ha zine, o do look for them ....Jim King will be be happy to pa·s the news along! been great fun and much easier than writing a anchoring the 5 p.m. news on Channel 12 -Cynthia M. Mulliken-Lazzara term paper, although I'll have to admit I have after being weekend anchor at WCCO-TV in suffe red from minor bouts of writer ' Minneapolis. I hope we can get a tape to show 85 Can you believe we graduated almost block ....Un fortunately, I have little news at the reunion .... Steve Reed and his wife, 15 years ago! Shall I get nostalgic ? Marcy, just bought a house in Con By the time our next reunion rolls cord, Mass., and will be moving in around, some of us may be grand N EWS MAKERS as soon as they sell their pre ent parents. o, it can't be, you say ... house in Stow, Mass. They trav Linda Davis '80 was quoted in Expe the deadline for this column was eled to London over Labor Day rience magazine and led off a New York two weeks ago, and I'm getting a weekend and spent time with Steve Times article on workplace attempts bit punchy-I'm starting to feel Langlois and his wife, Sally, who to avert office stress and burnout by like I'm back in college and l have live there, and with Sean Padgett balancing work and personal lives: a term paper due tomorrow. And I and Ann-Meg White, who had just "expectations have been lowered," the know I'm not the only one who moved over that week. Both fami- Great Lakes-area sales manager for enjoyed writing papers, so those 1 ies are living in the same apartment Hewlett-Packard said, but productiv writers or mathematic ians, econo- building in Belgravia. teve writes, ity has not suffered ....Alice Domar rnis ts or hi tori ans, politicians or Susan MacKenzie '80 "We miss them and wish them luck '80, director of Harvard's Mind/Body lawyers (and I know there are a in their international adventures. Center for Women's Health and an expert on stress, wa featured ton of you), at home moms or ... I am off now to cheer on the in the magazine Biography last fa ll. ...The Sierra Club's Maine dads: somebody must heed the Americans at the Ryder up chapter named Susan MacKenzie '80 Conservationist of the Year calling to become the correspon matches, as they try to retake the for leader hip in promoting con ervation at the grassroots dent of the millennium and pick cup from the Europeans. I hope to level. ...Swordf ish-boat captain Linda Greenlaw '83 continues up where I top writing, which see everybody at the reunion. to be written up in papers and magazines across New England. The will be around the time of our -Barbara Knox Atman Hungry Ocean spent weeks on The New York Times best-seller list reunion. And speaking of the re in the fall, and Hollywood is considering making a movie based on union, Steve Reed has been work- Tick tock everyone, it's the book ....Melissa Hruby Bach '87 headed a Boston Globe story 8 6 ing diligently to organize the best almost The Year 2000-1 hope about three Gloucester, Mass., artists whose work grows out of their party of the decade, and so has you're compliant' Please note that love of hands-on gardening. The article compared Bach's mosaics Meg Bernier '8 1. Stephen writes, my e-mail address has changed (to of flora and fauna to the fanciful, fluid designs of the Catalan "Reunion Weekend is going to be [email protected]), and while you're archnect Antoni Gaudi. June 2-4, 2000. We need volun noting this I want you to e-mail me teers to greet people as they arri ,.e immediately and tell me your news. to check in. It would be ideal to MILESTONES And no lame excuses about the Y2K have two or three classmates per Marriages: Jeffrey R. Johansen '82 to Jody Bruce .... Sonya bug crashing your hardware. Do it one-hour shift to greet people Fri Thompsen '83 to Jeffrey Halsey ....Juli e Abele '89 to Kurt now before it's too late! ...Paul day night." On Friday night there Wetzell in Shelburne, Vt. ...Karen Reilly '88 to Kevin Quirk. Duca e-mailed me in July, and it will be an open bar at the class sounds like he's gearing up pretty Birrhs: Twins, Camille and Jack Kerwin, to Joe and Paula Donahue headquarters (location to be de well 2K-wise. Paul is an accountant Kerwin '83 ....A daughter, Sophie Rose Epstein, to Ken '84 and termined), possibly followed by a for a construction firm in the Bos Wendy Howard Epstein '85 ....A son, Timothy John Tawa, to Lisa trip to You Know Whose Pub. ton area and recently moved to Dunne and John Tawa '84 ....A daughter, Caitlin Elizabeth Sheehan, Saturday will be fa mily oriented Whitman, Mass., where he was busy to Lisa and William Sheehan '84 ....A on, Andrew Groves Castle, with a parade at 11 a.m followed buying fu rniture, a new car and to Andrew '85 and Rachel England astle '90 ....A son, Timothy by a lobster bake. Lots of kids' mutual funds .. ..Robin Chalmers Nicholas Karoff, to Fran and John Karoff '85 . . ..A daughter, Emma activities include pony rides, still has Clyde, a houseplant she Courtney, to Vito Courtney and NancyGoldberg-Courtney '86 ....A storybook characters, games, etc. received from her Secret Santa dur son, Quin Peters, to Brian and Linda Michaud Peters '86 ....A son, Parents can participate with kids ing her sophomore year at Colby. Ryan Christopher Gove, to Matthew '87 and Bevin Dockray Gove or drop them off. Licensed day Robin is the marketing director for '88 .... A son, Maxwell Ashton Baines, to Robert and Ann Armstrong care for kids 5 and under is avail ew Age Publishing, which pub Baines '88 ....A son, Leo Cyker, to Frederick and ancy Donahue able as well as day care for older Ii hes holistic lifestyle magazine , Cyker '88 ....A daughter, Jessica Marie Cameron, to William and kids. The class dinnner Saturday and is also a freelance writer. ... Diane Malek Cameron '89 ....A daughter, Katherine Ralph, to night will be followed by several Diane Smith (dcsmithlO@ William '88 and Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90. different evening entertainment hotmail.com) moved to Washing choices. Day care will go until Deaths: Peter B. Murphy '87, July 10, 1999, in Rangeley Planta- ton, D.C., last summer and would midnight. Corneone and all. Per tion, Maine, at 34. love to hear from anyone in the onally, I was a little apprehensive area who has tips on fun stuff to do, about the last reunion, especially good place to eat and real estate. since we arrived right in the middle of Satur to report. We just recently moved to Oak he work for the ational Association of day evening's formal dinner. Classmates land, Calif., and I'm afraid some of you may Protection and Advocacy Services, a national couldn't have been nicer, letting my husband have written to my former address in San network of disability right attorneys and and me queeze into a table, fortunately next Francisco. If anybody's e-mail did get lost in advocates ....Nancy Goldberg-Courtney and to our former class correspondent, Mary Alice the shuffle, I sincerely apologi:e and ask you her husband, Vito Courtney, welcomed daugh Weller-Mayan. If I'm able to make it to our to write again if you don't see your news in ter Emma in March. They live in Portland, next reunion, I'll save a spot next to me for this column. And take note, you will no longer Maine, where Nancy teaches English at Port the incoming class correspondent-or who- be receiving questionnaire in the mail from land High chool. ... By the time you read 55 \X' I T E R ! 0 0 0 C 0 LBY A L U �1 N I A T L A R G E rhis, Meg Frymoyer Stebbins and her family they have two children, Daniel, 3, and class participation rate. Our solution: every will be settled in Scotland, rheir home for rhe Rebecca, 1 ....And my own congrats ro Karen body give! ...Keep the cards and letters nexr rwo years. Meg writes rhat she and her Reilly '8 and Kevin Quirk, whose wedding I coming, please. husband, Peter, and their daughters, Emily, 6, was in last June. Great time had by all! ...And -Anita L. Terry and Sarah, 3, plan to travel extensively while way to go, Joy Pratt, on her first sky diving rhey are rhere. Comacr me, Meg, and I'll send excursion! ...To send a donation for the Pam 9 0 Some new folks ro welcome into the you a lisr of expatriate classmates to impose on! Hoyt Sanborn children, write ro Guardian fold. Bill '88 and Wendy Kennedy Ralph had ...Arrenrion classmates in rhe Boston area Angel T rusr Fund (for Allana and Kristin a baby girl, Katherine Brooks Ralph, on August (all 90 zillion of you): Robin Scheuer Reynolds Sanborn), c/o Roger E. Cardian, American 24. Although she admits that she may be bi hopes to be showing her artwork in Boston Legion, Posr 114, P.O. Box 535, Barrington, ased, Wendy claims thar Katherine is the "most soon. She completed her M.F.A. in painting H 03825. perfect baby on earth." Wendy spent the sum from Savannah College of Art and Design in -J ane Nicol Manuel mer and early fall on maternity leave before May and recently had a show in North Caro returning ro her job at Fidelity Investments. lina. She and her husband, Peter, live in 8 9 I didn't get many class news rhingies Bill works for Number ine Visual Tech Cor orthboro, Mass ....Jo yce Seymour Rains since the lasr issue of Colby came out. Don'r poration in Lexington, Mass ....Grace and em me a photograph taken in July of herself forget to tear out the handy card and send it to Dan Johnston also had a girl, Natalie Hyun Ah and her daughter, Molly, wirh Beth Harrington, me so I can keep everyone updated on your Johnston, on July 19. They live in Idaho, where Jennifer Estes Vath and her son, Benjamin, comings and goings. I did hear from Peter Dan is a postdoctoral fe llow at Washingron Liz Walzer and Julie Archer Tunney and her Arsenault who is living in Edinburgh, Scot State University doing research in reproduc son, Graham. Thanks, Joyce, it was fun to see land. He is a chiropractor, is married and has a tive biology .. ..Karen Cuiffo Booker e-mailed everyone.... It is with great sadness that I son .... I gor an e-mail from Maria Douglass, that she is doing well with Lindsay Taylor report that our cla smate Scott Croll was killed who is living in Moscow and working for a Booker, born in April 1998; she keeps Karen in a May plane crash near Juneau, Alaska. foundation rhat assists former weapons scien and her husband, Nare, on their toes. Karen corr lived in Alaska and was returning to risrs and engineers in transferring their skills to also tells me that Steve '89 and Karen Faunce Glacier Bay ational Park and Preserve for his the private secror. Maria and her husband have Rand had a girl, Madison Paige Rand, in July. third season as a member of a coastal mapping one child and another on the way ....Diane She has an older brother, Mitchell. ...Stefan team. Afrer Colby, Scott concentrated his en Malek Cameron and her husband are rhe proud and Lisa Ensign Timbrell had a boy, Connor ergies on working for rhe National Park Ser parents of] essica Marie, born in March .. ..And Cooke Timbrell, in June. Lisa says, "he is a very vice, where his duries included climbing ranger, Julie Abele was married to Kurt Wetzell in relaxed, calm baby and, of course, beautiful!" . boat ranger and biology technician for na August in Vermont. Congratulations ro all! ... ..David Coleman moved to the West Coast tional parks throughout the U.S. His interest I ran into Jeff '82 and Jody Brace Johansson last year and is now a manager for a Silicon in photography had grown into a true passion, and their little girl at a concert in Richfield, Valley start-up, working hard and being con according to his parents, and some of his M inn.-it is indeed a small world ....Now for fused by the new economy. In between flying phoros were recently published in the Alaska more reunion reports. I heard rhat Kerri Hicks all over the place to consulting gigs, David Geographic Quarterly. A memorial service and was in attendance from Rhode Island, bur I hangs out with Nancy Spellman '89, who lives celebration of cott's life was held in May at didn't see her or her adorable little boy, who in the Bay area wirh her husband, one of Glacier Bay. The tudent Conservation As has his own Web sire. Cathy Taylor Hanscom David's closest friends from childhood. Dave sociation has established a memorial fund and husband Gregg lefr rhe kids at home in also saw Candace Bye Correa and Jen Riley in for cott, and donations will be used ro Bangor for the weekend to hang out with Los Angeles in January 1998 ....Bill Labrecque upport fu ture youth volunteers. Contribu Brenda O'Sullivan and the rest of rhe gang. is head of product development of Exotrope. tions may be made to the tudem Conser Tina Clifford Comparato looked as happy as a Prior to joining Exotrope, he worked with Casco vation A ociation, Memorial for Scott new bride should. I saw Sru '88 and Tanya Goff Development, Inc., in Portland, Maine ....Pete Croll, attn. Marilyn McCoy, P.O. Box 550, Richmond but didn't get to ralk to rhem. Sekulow lives in Washington, D.C., where he harle town, H 03603. Plea e contact me Melinda Pittis and Jenny Underhill rhoughr worked with the National Republican Senaro 1f you would l 1ke to extend your sympathy ro about an impromptu 'Ettes concert, but with rial Committee before becoming a self-employed the Croll fa mily. out Kirsten Sherman and Meg Christie it just political consultant ....Tina and James Reduto -Wendy Lapham Russ wouldn't have been the same. Joan Langer got married in September 1998; both are atror didn't look as sandy as she did when I ran into neys and live in Harrsdale, N.Y., happy to be 87 Geoff ' 6 and Lindsay Carroll her on the beach a couple of years ago. Jeremy living and working outside New York City. Jim Alexander fini hed renovating their home m Banks is living in Connecticut and hasn't is an ice hockey offic ial in his spare time ....Tom Cape Elt:aheth, Mame-they're thnlled to be changed a bit. either has Paul Stanislaw, Powers married Heather Hope Davis in Octo hack m anJ "· ill never move agam1 Geoff 1s an now a physician and living in up tate New ber 1998 in Newport, R.I. When we last heard, mve,tmem aJv1sor, anJ Lindsay, an at-home York. Mary LaPointe Farley left Jeff '88 and they were living in West Roxbury, Mas . Tom is mom to W 1 II, 5, and um , 2, 1:.on the fnend kid for the weekend while Dave and Kristen president of Group and Pension Services Com commmee at the ChilJren' Mu:.eumof Mame Dale Randall brought their little ones along. pany in Waltham, and Heather works at Massa and Im c' ni lunteenng. he was happy to bump peak mg of Colby couples, I saw Bob and Sue chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. mto arah Dooley orrigan 1n Boston la:,t Banta Gallagher, Dave and Cindy Cohen And we finally heard from our peripatetic and fall. .. Beth Harri on Cutliffe and hu band Fernande:, John and Sharon Bejian Cassidy intrepid sports reporter, Larry Rocca, who Larr, In e m BeJford,, .H., "tth J e,;1ca, 6, anJ and Laune (Meehan ' ) and Peter Reed. The caught up over the summer and claims to be Jennif1er, 4. . harle' anJ Jennifer Rubin other will have ro watt for future columns' It "much less spastic"-although he confesses that Britton mlwed to Pm,burgh, where harle 1; wa great to run mro haun Dakin and wife even he gets dizzy when he con iders the list of head of the enwr chool at hady 1Je AcaJ aleena; haun now keeps me updated on the states he has lived in since graduation (includ em1. The1 ha,·e two children, Trevor, 5, and worlJ of the Internet ' 1a e-mail ....Christi an ing Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jer ey, Texas, Annie, 2 .••. �lark and Laurie Franklin Antalics and Gaynelle Peebles '93 helped Chris Oregon, and California). He is now in New Collin wrme fmm Framingham, �fa, . . that Tierney anJ me olve the low Alumni Fund York City covering the New York Yankees for C 0 LBY �I TER Z00 56 A L U �I I A T L A R G E ewsday. Although he always expected that in tructor. ...Randy and Laura Friedewald 1990s Correspondents he'd work in sports journalism,he ha had expe Notes gave birth to Jackson Richard Note on riences and accomplishments he never dreamed August 3, 1998. She reports that she stopped of, such as getting sprayed with champagne working as assistant district attorney to raise 1990 during one of the Yankee ' World Series cham her son full time. They live in New York City Laura Senier 1 Parkman Street pionship seasons and writing a book. He says he and sound extremely happy! . . . Heidi Meyers Natick, MA 01 760 keeps in touch with most of his friends from Waugh and her husband, Ted, gave birth last 508-653-7927 Colby and looks forward to reading this column May to Sara Stewart Waugh. Heidi work a [email protected] for news of the "various women who rejected me city planner for Fairfax, Va., and her husband throughout my four years of blue-light anxiety." is an environmental attorney.... I have been 1991 ... I enjoyed a mini-reunion in September at the getting lots of wedding news. Heather Hart Jennifer Wood Jencks home of TJ and Melissa Organek Dupree. shorn married William Sweeney in October of 80 Walnut Street After a year and a half in Amsterdam they now 1998. She was working on a Ph.D. at Brandeis Seekonk, MA 02771 live in Somerville, Mass. TJ works for GE in niversity, and he was employed as a systems 508-336-7049 Fairfield, Conn., and Melissa for the art museum engineer at Hanscom Air Force Base. Brian [email protected] at Wellesley College .... Bill and Dover Norris Quinn married Lisa Fox in Milton, Mass., and York passed through the Boston area after vis both work for Putnam Investments. Shelly 1992 Michelle Fortier Biscotti iting his family on amucket, and we got MacConnell married David Kunath in Octo 8232 Arbor Drive everyone together. Dover and Bill live near ber of last year. he works for Hewitt Associ Shrewsbury, MA 01 545 Portland, Ore., where Dover i an attorney with ates, and he works forCit icorp. Kathleen Kali ff 508-845-6507 a commercial law firm and Bill manages a group married Thomas Reeve in June of '99. They are fax: 508-845-6843 of technical writers at Intel. Mike and Deb currently both teaching at Lincoln High School, [email protected] Wood O'Loughlin came up from Connecticut and they live in Cumberland, R.l. Patricia for the evening and brought along the new Shepard wed Robert Quinn last July in South 1993 kiddo, Connor. Deb is staying at home with him Glastonbury, Conn. She is an attorney, and he is Beth Curran for the remainder of the academic year while a chemical engineer at the Ensign Bickford Com 64 Dane Street #1 Mike finishes his residency at Hartford Hospi pany in Simsbury.... Thank you for the news, Somerville, MA 02143 tal; next spring they will move to Rochester, everyone. I have lots more letters for the next [email protected] Minn., where Mike has a fe llowship at the Mayo column, but keep your current news coming' 1994 linic ....Carol Lockwood and 1 got together -J ennife r Wood Jencks Tracy K. Larsen for lunch in my hometown of a tick one day in 529 Columbus Avenue #12 August. She i working for a Washington law John Rimas and his wife, Beth, had a 92 Boston, MA 021 18 firm, specializing in international import/ex baby boy last ovember. Sean Michael was 617-247-9650 port law, but has been accepted into the Peace born only three days after John's sister, Karen fax: 61 7-346-3 185 Corps. She's very excited and looking forward Rimas Patry '93, gave birth to a daughter, Layne [email protected] to thi new adventure .... Write me a note and Jennifer. John teaches eighth grade in the tell me what your New Year's resolutions are for Haverhill, Mass., public schools, and Beth is an 1995 the year 2000. I hope that one of them is that you EMT with the City of Boston. John also coached Alyssa Falwell will attend our 10th-year reunion this summer! basketball with John Daileanes for three sea 279 Fellsway West #2 -Laura Senier sons at Dracut High School (also my home Medford, MA 02 155 61 7-520-7239 town). The program made it to the state [email protected] 91 Charlotte Reece Moore is currently tournament for the first time in almost 10 years . . . . Deborah Fuller Berger married Ed working as a senior business analyst at Mi tretek 1996 ystems and living in Arlington, Va. Her hus ward Berger in Edgartown on Martha's Vine Amie Sicchitano band, David Moore, is an environmental con yard this past July. Elizabeth Welch Gustafson 25 Hundreds Circle sultant. At their wedding last year were Beth read at the wedding, and guests included Katie Wellesley Hills, MA 02181 Perry, Heather McLeman, Ellen Billey, Martin and Sue Feinberg Adams '73. The couple 61 7-235-0666 Charlie Donaldson and Deb Ives. The Moores honeymooned in Bermuda and are now living are looking forward to returning to New En on Beacon Hill in Boston. Deb is an assistant 1997 gland to escape the D.C. weather. ... Timothy interior designer and grad student, and her hus Kimberly N. Parker 16 Olive Street Palmer is an English teacher in Japan, married band is a oftware engineer at Parametric Tech Easthampton, MA 01027 to Mika Kawai Palmer. Tim has been practic nology Corp... . Mark Flaherty married Angela 413-527-3682 ing karate for eight years and holds the second Doyle in Florida la t November. After graduat [email protected] dan of black belt. He hopes to open his own ing from the law school ofFlorida State Univer language school, and they were expecting a sity at Tallahassee, Mark is now an assistant 1998 child last March (I haven't heard any news district attorneyin Sarasota. Hi wife is a gradu Allison L. Brown since the birth!). . .. Rebecca Streett is the ate student at Florida State and working for a 212 East 47th St Apart 30G director of program coordination at EF Educa private law firm in Sarasota. The wedding party New York, NY 10017 tional Tours in Cambridge, Mass., and is living included Brian Mulvey and Jim Burke .... 212-462-3589 in Boston with her husband, Matt Melander. Jason Nixon left his job as the producer of [email protected] They were married la t August 7, and Rebecca Robin Leach's Gourmet Getaways at the T elev i- 1999 Winokur was the maid of honor. ... Keith ion Food etwork and now splits his time Lindsay Hayes Thomajan is associate program director at Hur between Manhattan, Palm Beach and South 292 West 92nd St Apt 5C ricane Island Outward Bound. His wife, Edie, is ampton as the editor of two maga:ines. In Palm New York, NY 10025 an English teacher and Outward Bound Beach, Jason founded and edits Ocean Drive's [email protected] 57 WI TER ZOOO C 0 LB Y Science and Civil Disobedience It was 4:30 a.m. on a weekday last January, a few hundred industry. Critics argue that the risk of brucellosis transmission is yards from the western border of Yellowstone National Park. The almost non-existent and that wild bison should roam freely. temperature had dipped to 20 below, and everything for miles "What Montana doesn't understand is that the park bound seemed asleep beneath a thick blanket of Montana high country aries are not the boundaries of a complete ecosystem, and snow. It was at his unlikely hour, at this unpleasant temperature, buffalo can't be confined to certain areas just because that's what that Sue Nackoney '95 found herself dangling 30 feet in the air. feels safe to people," Nackoney said. "I think this is about a real She hung there, in climbing harness and swinging chair, from a fear of wilderness. It's an institutionalized fear, a cultural fear, and tripod constructed of lodgepole pine tree trunks. it's endemic to the West." Nackoney, along with companions from the Montana environ Nackoney has long been fascinated by such intersections of mental group Buffalo Field Campaign, had erected the tripod in people and nature. As a biology major, Nackoney focused her the middle of a road to block the transport of Yellowstone Park studies on the relationship between humans and the environment. bison to a nearby slaughterhouse. By mid-morning, Nackoney The last few months have seen a shift from Nackoney's direct would be arrested for her act of civil disobedience, the tripod action work to a less controversial form of environmental activ dismantled and six buffalo hauled away by Montana's State ism-membership in Arbor Eden, a 22-acre cooperative farm Department of Livestock. outside Portland, Ore. People in a nearby community buy shares While she was at Colby, this may not have been how Nackoney of the farm, where Nackoney and her partners grow organic planned to use her biology degree. But for her, science, passion produce. The farmers provide shareholders with a box of food a and environmental act1v1sm go hand in hand. "It can sometimes week and donate vegetables to soup kitchens and the needy. In be hard to say what civil disobedience accomplishes," Nackoney addition, Nackoney is working on an environmental education said "You may not immediately stop what you're trying to stop. program, in which children visit the farm and surrounding forest. But instead what you're saying 1s bigger-that your freedom, the "I feel like I'm using my biology degree quite a lot in trying most valuable thing people have 1n this country, is something to do sustainable agriculture," Nackoney said. "And I feel like you're w 1ng to sacrifice for the sake of something else." all the work I've done is pretty integrated. Whether it's helping ackoney spent the last two years the buffalo or working on forest protection or volunteering for the Buffalo Field Cam- , raising healthy food, those things pa1gn, serving as spokesperson. In are al I connected for me." his role she employed her biology -Matthew Testa '9 1 background to rebut Montana s ) policy of killing bu falo that roam ) across Yellows one Park borders The s a e ears the bison will ransm1 a disease called bru cellosis o bee ca e endan gering 1 s aluable lives oc 5 ALUMNI AT LARGE Palm Beach magazine and in the Hamptons he software company for the deregulated energy is working on one of his many degrees at Penn edit Hamptons magazine. By now, his book, industry. Brian wrote that Patrick "Oman" State University ....Tori Esser is working for ew York's 5 Best Places to Brunch, should have Smith is an attorney at Arthur Anderson in Exxon in New Jersey. She graduated with her hit the shelves at Barnes & Noble ....Dave Boston working in state and local taxes .... ma ter's from Tufts this past spring.... Jenn Edelstein e-mailed to say that he's been living Karen and Ted Gulley bought a house in Wolff is teaching at Shrewsbury High School. in Brazil for nearly three year , working with Mansfield, Mass., and have a chocolate Lab She wrote that Andy Carlson is teaching in McKinsey & Company, the management con- puppy named Colby .... Rachel Herf and Max Berwick, Maine, and that Lisa Conley is teach ulting firm. He lived in Sao Paulo for the first Lam on '95 got engaged ....Bonnie Johnson ing in Bangor, Maine ....Marine! Mateo is liv two years and recently moved to Rio de Janeiro. planned to ride in her second Boston to New ingand working in Chicago ....Emily Chapman In this time he's enjoyed traveling throughout York AIDS Ride (a 300 miler). She is still is working in the alumni office at Simmons Brazil and other South American countries, working in urban special education research College ....Frances Vanhuystee worked at the including Argentina, hile and Bolivia. He's and just moved to Jamaica Plain ....Last spring, XGames this summer and is back teaching near having a great time overall. Julie Ackerman started at Columbia University's Lake Placid .... Heather Post got engaged. -Michelle Forcier Biscotti School of Journalism.She will continue to work -Tracy K. Larsen as an associate producer with Court TV's docu 93 Angela Tennett Butler is an assistant mentary division while she earns a ma ter's in 96 Kristen Drake completed Peace Corps VP at Merrill Merchants Bank in Bangor, Maine, broadcast journalism.... Alyssa Schwenk is Service in Niger in December '98 and then where she lives with her husband, Paul, and an attorney in Fort Bragg, N.C., where she was traveled in West Africa before returningto the their two daughters, Mary and Katie. Paul is a recently promoted to captain in the Army's U.S.A. in February '99. In June, Kristen re fifth grade English teacher and a basketball JAG program .... Michelle Satterlee graduated turned to the EasternSierra Mountains in Cali coach in Bangor ....Poppyann Mastrovita in May from Pepperdine Graduate School of forniato work for the Mono Lake Committee.... Longsjo, a librarian in Duxbury, Mass., found a Education and Psychology ....Janet Powers Laurie Catino Durkin had her first child in strange book mark in a return book recently moved to Atlanta, Ga., in August to get an April, a girl, Jill South Durkin, named after a wad of 100 dollar bills! Twelve to be exact M.B.A. and a master's in public health at Emory Laurie's mother. Laurie is getting her master's in and she returned it to a very relieved library University ....Michelle Mathai is a foreign early childhood education at Lesley College and patron ....Karyn Rimas Patry gave birth to a service officer and will serve as vice consul in hopes to work with first or second graders.... daughter, Layne Jennifer, in ovember Auckland, New Zealand, for the next two Nicole Dannenberg, who works in D.C. as an '98.... Jeff Zlot started his own stock brokering year ....Carolyn Hart started a Ph.D. pro internationaldevelopment consultant, went to firm in San Francisco ....Brandy Chapman gram this fall in 20th-century U.S. women's Benin, West Africa, on a USA ID-funded trip to writes that Laura Steinbrink got married in history at the University of Michigan ....An conduct a case study on political development. October in Cleveland, Ohio. Brandy was the drea Stairs is teaching English at Cherry Creek She applied to Ph.D. programs in political sci maid of honor, and Crissie Coleman Simchock High School in Englewood, Colo.... Marika ence and could be anywhere next year! ...Tina was a bridesmaid. Also in attendance were Steve Schwartzman worked last summer in the Garand planned to be married in August in San Simchock and Claudia Tejada ....Rod treasurer's office at Florida Power & Light. She Francisco . ... Marc Small attends Harvard Gerdsen married Casandra Taylor in June in plans to move back to Boston after getting her Graduate School for his master's in education. Aiken, S.C. Jon Eddinger wa a groom man, M.B.A. from Duke University ....Barbara ...Abby Smith works at WR Grace and lives in and in attendance were Ellie orth and David Coulon was featured in an article in the August Brookline, Mass., with Tammy Smith and Alex O'Shea. Rod and assi live in Melbourne,Fla., 1999 issue of Glamour magazine ....Greg Chris Kean. Tammy planned to attend Indiana Uni where Rod is a biology teacher and Cassi is a topher and Erin Crossland got married on versity to attain her M.B.A.; Alex is studying for per onal trainer. . ..Gi nny Fowles lives in Labor Day weekend in Rhode Island. In atten her secondary education certificate at Simmons Washington, D.C., and is a psychotherapist. dance were Josh Eckel, John Grady, Jen Zwick College .... Patty Benson recently worked for Laura Schuler, an attorney, lives up the block Somer, Erinne Clark, Rebeka Freeman, Stacey six months in Washington state before return from her, and they see each other often.... Warner, Braydon McCormick, Heather ing to Boston to continue working for Steph Doyon lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Johnson, Ross Nussbam, Chris Austin and Bain ....Keith Albert, a graduate student and with her husband, Whitney Gross. Steph is a Jon Frothingham '95. Josh wrote that Stacey research assistant at Tufts University, i work published author. ...Kristin Ostrom Allen Warner is moving to California to attend ing on a fiber-optically-based artificial no e that lives in Beverly, Mass., and is a nurse ....Niki Stanford University, Braydon McCormick fin is geared towards land mine detection by detect Anderson-Kelly is in a nurse practitioner's pro ished his Ph.D. in music from Boston University ing explosives vapor. He had the opportunity to gram at USM and had a baby in March .... l and Ross Nussbaumgot an M. B.A. from Wharton test his equipment at a Defense Department had the pleasure of attending three Colby wed this past May. Josh was training for an lronman land mine test field in Missouri. Keith sees Mark dings this past summer: Betsy Arden and Bart triathlon in Orlando, Fla., in October. ...Jeff Johnson, who lives in San Francisco and is Rickards in Harwichport, Mass., in July, Tim Cohen married Joan Blatcher in August, and working for an Internet company ....Jenn ifer Von Jess and Jodi Goldstein in Amherst, Mass., Paul Matthews attended the wedding ceremony. Pope works for Pathfinder International, a non in August, and Sharon Rosen and Jay Dipietro ...Kathy "Toddy" Pierce got married in July profit organization that specializes in fa mily '94J in Manhattan in September. All three to Erik Hobbs. She is teaching biology and AP planning and reproductive health. She planned weddings were truly wonderful and were at biology at Providence Country Day School in to move to ewton, Mass., with me and my tended by many Colby folks. It was great to Rhode Island ....Andrea Bowman Rogers brother, Brad Sicchitano '99. She a! o is a trained catch up with everyone. l wonder who's next! wrote that her husband, Chris Rogers, is enjoy kickboxer. ... I finished up my first year teach Take care, everyone! ing his job at UUnet, an MCI Company. An ing kindergarten at Tenacre Country Day School -Bech Curran drea and Chris christened their son, Tyler, in and loved every minute of it. I'm teaching there June and named Kara Gilligan and Ed Ramirez again this year and coach lacrosse in the sum 94 Christy Lynch and Elliot Barry started as Tyler's godparent . Kara is raking an inten mer. Take care! Babson' M.B.A. program in September, while sive one-year teaching certification program -Amie Sicchiwno Jeff Cotter is in his second year at Bab on's through Lesley College; Ed works for Fidelity. M.B.A. program ....Brian Seidman is working ...Amy Wrentmore finished her second year 97 C.J. Polcari started the Starfish Foun at Excelergy in Cambridge, a start-up Internet of med school in Pennsylvania, and Jan Dutton dation, aimed at fostering hope in terminally ill 59 WINTER 2000 COLBY A L U �I N I A T L A R G E N EWS MAKERS South Freeport, Maine ....Kathleen A. Kaliff '91 to Thoma Reeve in East Providence, R.I. ...Sh elly A. MacConnell '91 to David The Boston Sunda)' Globe featured the Byrne& Carlson Chocolatier Kunath in Sanford, Maine ....Rebecca R. Streett '91 to Matthew and Confectioner shop, operated in Portsmouth, N.H., by Christo P. Melander '91 in Harbor Spring , Mich .... Patricia A. Shepard pher Carlson '90 and his wife, Ellen Byrne. They create handmade '91 to Robert Quinn in South Glastonbury, Conn ....Deborah E. chocolates and confections with the highe t-quality ingredients from Fuller '92 to Edward G. Berger in Edgartown, Ma s . ...Elizabeth P. around the world ... . Albert J. Evans '90 i a new partner in the Arden '93 to Barton Reese Rickards '93 in Harwichport, Potts\'ille, Pa., law firm of Riley and Fanelli, P.C. ...Hilary Greene Ma s ....Timothy J. Von Jess '93 to Jodi Goldstein in Amherst, '91, who co-founded Rus ia's fir t Western- tyle personnel agency Mass.... Sharon R. Rosen '93 to Jay Dipietro '94J in ew York, while she li,·ed in t. Petersburg from 1992 to l 995, ha been N.Y.... Laura E. Steinbrink '93 to Brett ovak in Cleveland, appointed program coordinator of the Jewish Federation of the Ohio ....J effrey E. Cohen '94 to Joan Blatcher. ...Erin T. Berkshires' So,·iet Resettlement Program and the New American Cro sland '94 to Gregory T. Christopher '94 in Rhode Cin:enship Coalition ....The Providence Journal reported recently Island ....Katrina L. Greenfield '94 to Ja on Hanevelt in Victoria, on a new "craft beer," Newport torm Hurricane Amber Ale. The B.C. ...Alison J. Meyer '94 to Michael L. Hong in Waltham, new brew, which reached local pubs last July, comes from the Coastal Mass.... Kathryn Toddy Pierce '94 to Erik Hobbs.... Elizabeth Extreme Brewing Co., a venture started in Middletown, R.l., by A. Dunn '96 to Michael Allen ....Margaret R. Harris '96 to Scott Derek Luke '98, Will Rafferty '97, Brent Ryan '97 and Mark Sanel '94 in Greenwich, Conn .... Sophia B. Trevor '96 to Louis Sinclair '97 ....Mary Ellen Shuttleworth '98 is mission coordina Girard in Newport, R.l. ... Stephanie L. Brochu '98 to Jake tor for Operation mile, a nonprofit organi:ation that sends teams of Voter ....Kate E. Dunlop '98 to Michael eamens. 40 medical personnel around the world on two-week mi sions to operate on as many as 150 children with cleft lips and cleft Births: A son, Andrew Groves Castle, to Andrew ' 5 and Rachel palate .... In informati\'e and often riveting weekly reports to the England Castle '90 ....A daughter, Katherine Brooks Ralph, to Cenrral Maine MorningSentinel, A.J. Wall '99 wrote up his adventures William '88 and Wendy Kennedy Ralph '90 ....A daughter, atalie a he and a friend biked across the country from an Francisco to Hyun Ah Johnston, to Grace and Daniel Johnston '90 ....A daugh Belgrade, Maine. ter, Madison Paige Rand, to teve ' 9 and Karen Faunce Rand '90 ....A son, Co1mor Cooke Timbrell, to Stefan and Lisa Ensign MILESTONES Timbrell '90 . . ..A daughter, Sara tewart Waugh, to Ted and Heidi Meyers Waugh '91. . .. A daughter, Jill outh Durkin, to Roberr and Marriages: Erin M. Coyle '90 to John L. Giesser in Boston, Laurie Catino Durkin '96. 1ass. . .. tephen J. ahley '90 to usan J. Dubin in Middlebury, Conn.. . . Christopher M. White '90 to Angela Fennel in Biddeford, Deaths: G. Stefan Durand '95, June 23, 1999, in Mammoth Lakes, Mame ....McCurrah K. Hamlin '91 to Michael R. Keller '92 in Calif., at 26. children and their families m the inner cities of captain/project manager. He' visited Panama, ...Kate evin is a first-year medical student at Bo ton and lew York.. . . Tony Rosenfeld fin- Samoa, Tonga, Galapagos, Au tralia, outh Tulane in New Orleans. She received her M.P.H. 1 hed two year of teaching in Rhode I land and Africa and Mauntius among other fascinating from Tulane last pring.... JJ Eklund is finish pent the ummer m Co ta Rica leading educa- spots but has settled down at a de k job as the ing her last year as a law student at the Univer nonal tour ....Melanie Macbeth 1 nil work- assistant director of admissions with the Wil sity ofColorado in Boulder and is contemplating 111g a; a proiect manager with a company liams-My tic Maritime Studies Program .... a career in the Attorney General's or D.A.'s 'Pe 1al 1:111g m biotechnology and chem 1cals and Alicia emiccolo MacLeay is back on May office ....Kara Marchant is engaged to be mar re ently made bu me mp to w1tzerland and flowerHill as the as istant director of communi ried nextJune to a fe llow teacher from the Texas France. . .. Brent Ryan orga111:ed t. atty's cations (event publicity, media relations and Military Institute. Jen Atwood is her maid of Day '99 in ewport, R.l. . . . tacy Joslin orga- wnting for Colby magazine). he and Dave live honor. ...Wendy Ridder is still with the Carson 111:ed a Front treet 4th of July reun10n, with 111 Oakland, and he telecommutes back to a Group in New York .... Dave Wright contin Linda Jenkins, ary Charlebois, Barb Gordon Web design company in towe, Vt., that he's ues working for Deutche Bank in New .md Becky Briber ;,howmg up .... Andrea worked with for more than two year ....Yawa Y rk ....Matt Burgener remains with Ander Dehaan completed her M.A. 111 crean\'e wrmng Duse-Anthony 1 a transportation plannet/en son Consulting and i currently working in .It BLJ and 1' 111 Dortmund, Germany, teach mg gmeer at a firm 111 Andover, Mass., after earning Calgary ....Mike Payne got out of corporate Engli'h Morgan Filler l'>the fourth-ranked an M ..111 mdu mal engineering from UMas - life in Wa hington, D. ., and spent the um mer wonun 111 the world for the Profes 10nal Open Amherst. ... Andrew Weber live in Manhat fishing, biking and working hockey camp . He \V,ner , 1arathon w1mm111g World up enes. tan and work 111 tructured finance at J.P. now teaches and coaches at the Northwood :>.!organ,11 ho ha, relocatedw eattle, ha com Morgan. He wntes that Peter heren is al o in chool in Lake Placid, N.Y., and fee ls "much peted 111 Bra: ii, Argennna, ;.nada,Japan(w here Manhattan and took a po 1t1on at J & W better ab ut life." ...Kate Gluck is living in 'he won f1N place), Eg, pt and Italy. Marathon eligman & o. lnc .... Kate Charbonnier and Davi quare with Steph Healy. Kate is in -11 1mm1111.( 1, bern een 25 kilometer, (15- 1'2 Jo h Oeltjen are en1oy111g married life together volved wnh marketing and hareholder com mill:,),mJ kilometer' 1nd take, manr hour 111 ew York 1ty. Jmh is pursumg his Ph.D. at mu111cat1on at Putnam Investment in Boston, to (1111,h ' alen arr 1' .m ad\ .mcc 'cout tor Princeton 111 molecular biology, and Kate 1 a and teph does economic consulting at NERA the B.."wn Red "ox,a 101'that he ,,l\'he "ne\·er l;rn >tuJent at Fordham ....Jen Mason is al 111 amhndge.... Kathy Kohatsu is hack in "' en re.1lh dre.1meJ of gemng" .m J 1' n:ry mo t Jone \\I th her M.A. 111 mternanonal ;,tud- Mame teach111g after a summer spent volunteer h.ipp\ t<> hcout <>! the t111anc1.1l world. Ru. h 1e' .lt the lJn1,·er it\· of Den\'er. he recently mg 111 Guatemala ....Steph Blackman fini hed Hamblernn 11111 ht!d t\\ O 1 ear nt ,,ulm.( on ,,rn Kerri Duffel, who 1 a f1r,t-\ear la11 tudent two year; of research in Oregon a part of \ In••U pn' Hc \ .JLht,, mduJmg .1 16-month "lt . 'orthea,tern LJ111\'cr,1ty, and Kate White, Amencorp' and now re ide permantly in Port urlumn,I\ lt!.ltll>n.1hoarJ a 3-toot kctc..h .i- co- who l'> ,nil workmg at the Ju t1 e Department. land, Ore. . . . imone Kaplan is work ing at C LB) TE R • 60 ALUM I AT LA RGE Fit:Gerald ommunications, a high-tech PR Fox.... Brent Katz, also living in .Y., is work also paid a visit to the New Zealand folks; she firm in ambridge, and waiting to hear from ing on directing his first movie with none other also told me that Leanna Hush works as an journalism graduate schools. She's spoken to than Sylvester Stallone's dad! hould you pass admissions counselor at SFS ....John "Rocki" Heather Bend, who i completing her M.Ed. at through ew York you may also find him doing Kurucz spent the summer running a recycling St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minn., with stand-up comedy at one of New York's program at Colby while living at the Outing the hope of working as a history teacher. ... finest. ...Corley Hughes ha enjoyed her much Club Cabin ....Doug Nilson was in Colorado Adrienne Clay is still in San Francisco and anticipated move to N.Y.C. from Princeton, after traveling to South America just after gradu recently passed the two-year mark as a researcher N.J. ...Jeff Brown, in Brook lyn, N.Y., is work ation. Doug will be working for the National and editor at the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers ing as a research associate at the New York Fed. Institutes of Health in D.C. ...Martha Rogers Project. The fourth volume is expected, and she He actually spent last summer backpacking and Laura Neale were accepted to participate will be I isted as one of the editors ....Al Rowe through Southeast Asia .... And Derek Luke, in SALT in Portland.... Living in Portland are is beginning his second year with the Peace Brent Ryan '97, Mark Sinclair '97 and Will John Bishop, Michelle Machalani and Brendan Corps in Estonia, teaching English and "taking Rafferty '97 are living the Colby dream ...they Bloom, though Brendan might be heading off to in a lot of saunas." ...Great hearing from you all. have opened their own microbrewery in Rhode N.Y.C. ... Emmett Beliveau was in Copen Keep dropping me random lines. Island, The Costa! Extreme Brewing Co., and hagen, involved in election monitoring of East -Kimberly N. Parker welcome any thirsty alumni .... I have much ernEurope, but in the fa ll was to begin working more to say in the next column-keep the on the Gore campaign ....Mark Renkawitz 98 Greetings! 1 hope you all enjoyed a letters and e-mails coming1 spent the summer clamming in hatham, fa ntastic summer. Thank you for all the e-mails -Allison L. Brown Mass ....Crans Baldwin taught creative writ and letters ....Congr atulations to all the new ing for Putney Student Travel this summer and lyweds. Stephanie Brochu was married to Jake 99 This task of class correspondent has then went to Oxford, Tuscany and Paris. Crans Voter in May. Also in May, Kate Dunlop mar given me an excuse to do what I love most: now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with Will Guthrie ried Michael eamens. Erik Dreisbach and gossip! The day after I was nailed by the Alumni and Reid Farrington, who has been working on Kristina Denzel '97 are getting married in Phila Office to take on this position, I ran into Erika set construction in N.Y.... Delphine Burke delphia in August of 2000, and Tina Goudreau Blauch, who provided a plethora of information has been waitressing but will leave to travel is planning a 2000 wedding to Chri topher forme. Erika worked as a publicist assistant for around the world next summer. ...Jessica Collison at Colby1 •••Laurel Hart, now in Oxford University Press last summer and was Banos is getting her master's in school psych at Seattle working at a clothing boutique, enjoyed contemplating moving to . Y.C. ... Appar Tufts ....Ju lie Simpson is a veterinary watching Shelley Wollert make her national ently, Brad Hoar is moving to the Czech Re assistant .... Shannon Landauer is temping at debut on Love Connection in April1 •••Abby public to teach English ....Abby Manock, the moment .... Laura D' Affliti is working at Lambert, Emily Larsen, Laura Jordan, Mon tine Doug Connelly and Eric "Goat" Cook are Planned Parenthood ....Lisa Berry is an envi Bowen, Justin Fredrickson, Tony Hernandez working on the Appalachian Trail as members ronmental consultant with Project Performance and Mary Holahan are all living and working of the trail crew .... Both Donn Downey and in D. . ...Greg Pope is also in D.C., working out in San Francisco.... Amy Forrer is a medi Kristen North moved to Lebanon, .H., and for Charles River Associates . ... Su nil Thakor cal student at Loyola University in hi are looking for jobs there ....Meg Rourke and is also working for Charle River but in cago ....Thi past March, Jon Bolton made Jason Flesh are in rhe ame alternative medi Boston .... Raj Khunkhun does research at headline for his efforts as an Americorps-VIST A cine school in San Diego; Jason is getting a Beth Israel Hospital. ...Kari Pearson is in volunteer in Lewiston, Maine. His dedication degree so he will be licenced to practice acu pharmaceutical sales in northern .J ... already has proven results and has gained recog puncture ....Chris Einstein was in Kenya Heather Hunter does psychology research at nition for his Temporary Aid to Needy through August, interning for the School of UNH ....Courtney Smith works in the alumni Families." ...Andrea Doucette is also living in Field Studies (SFS ) ....Carrie Peterson worked office at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols .... Maine and working for none other than Bates at Long Acre Expeditions for the summer and Christina Barnett is working rowards her College! ...Cheers to Farrell Burns for running now leads an outdoorsy life working for BU's master's in communications at BU ....Melanie in the Boston Marathon-and crossing the fin- Sergeant Camp ....Kate Lowe, Dave Matson Puza is getting her master's in school psych at ish line1 •••Betsy Metcalfe, who is working at and Geoff Herrick '98 live together, and so do Columbia . . ..Andy King is at SCORE in an the Hill chool in Pottstown, Pa., was training Andy Brown, Eliza Hoover and Ben Sigman, Franci co.... Adam Davis is into mortgage to run a marathon in Cozumel, Mexico, in all in Somerville, Mass .... I also heard from banking in an Fran .... Sarah Nadeau is November to benefit leukemia research .... If Erika that Becca Mets and Steve Kajdasz had teaching math to seventh and eighth graders at you are in the market to buy a boat, Andrew been traveling around the west. While I was in a private school in Connecticut and coaching Porter is working at Alden Yachts in Ports Queenstown, New Zealand, visiting roommates track ....Josh Young is getting his Ph.D. in mouth, R.I. ...KC McClelland and Geoff Scott Whitlow (who is working at an upscale biophysics at Yale .... Will Barndt is also get Bennett are both working in Boston for Cam resort as a bartender/waiter and skiing on the ting his Ph.D. but at Princeton (check out the bridge Associates ....Graham Nelson, Andy side) and Dave Wilkens (who recently quit his summer Colby magazine to read about Young, Dave Hall '97 and Eugene Buono '97 job at Kentucky Fried Chicken and is skiing and that1)•••• Keep the gossip coming. I hope all also are living in Boston. The former soccer traveling), a post card arrived from Becca in is well for everyone 1 players are spending much of their time on the which she explained that a bear broke into their -Lindsay Hayes golf course ....Kevin Soja is working in admis car in Yellowstone and ate the driver's seat! sions at the Millbrook School in Millbrook, While in ew Zealand, Dave Wilkens ran into . Y ....Dave Shivas i at Emory Law School, Alexis Azar and also bumped into Ben Sigman and former football pal John Barry has left and Anne Hutchinson on a ski slope ....Molly Washington, D.C., and headed off to Oxford for Pindell, who spent two months visiting Dave an advanced law degree ....Ami dst hectic ew and Scott, worked at a camp for gifted musicians York schedules, I often run into Jeff Urban, prior to her trip down under. ...Amy Erdmann, Brian Frank, Susan Matlock and Chris who is working as a pension analyst at Fidelity, 61 WINTER ZOOC C 0 LB Y A L U �1 I A T L A R G E 0 B I TU A R I E s Mary Jordan Alden '18, April 1 , 1999, in as a "roving ambassador" in the dining halls. In Ruth Michalek McAlary '36, August 26, Fairport, .Y., at 102. She was a teacher and 1959 he wa awarded a Colby Gavel. urvivors 1999, in Hyannis, Mass., at 4. he taught homemaker and for many year an active com include his wife of 65 year , Dorothy Bonsall. mathematics in Westfield, Mas ., public munity volunteer. Survivors include her three schools for 10 years and in orrh Olmsted, daughters, Patricia hrewsbury, Mary Van Alstine Muriel MacDougall Lobdell '3 1, eptember 6, Ohio, for two. he also wa active in commu and Alice Robinson, 12 grandchildren and 19 1999, in Florida, at 93. urvivors include her nity organi:ations. he is survived by her great-grandchildren. sons, Kenneth and David Lobdell, and a niece, husband of 64 years, Alan D. McAlary, two Mary Lobdell mith '50. sons, a daughter, a brother, six grandchildren Charles . Lewis '24, August 9, 1999, in Au and six great-grandchildren. gusta, Maine, at 98. For 35 years he taught ci Douglas B. Allan '32, July 22, 1999, in ence at Wentworth Institute and in the Boston Waterville, Maine, at 89. From 1932 until 1965, Hayden B. Wright '37, Augu t 15, 1999, in public chools. During World War II he taught with three years away for Army service in World Seattle, Wash., at 85. After serving in the Army nav1gat1on at Greenville Air Ba e in Mississippi. War II, he was employed by several paper com Air Force during World War II, he worked as a He leaves hi daughters, Ellen Lewi Huff'52 and panies, including ashua River Paper Co. and pharmacisr. Survivors include his daughter, Betry Graves, his son, Raymond Lewis, I 0 grand Haverhill Paperboard Mill. He retired in June Janette chueller. children and 12 great-grandchildren. 19 0 as personnel director of the Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital. He was predeceased Philip P. Charbonneau '39, August 28, 1999, John D. wart: '29, 0ctober 2, 1999, in Fi hkill, by hi wife, Elizabeth Swanton Allan '33. Survi in orthboro, Mass., at 5. He was a re earch .Y., at 92. A life long anti-trust lawyer, he vors include his daughter, Margaret Allan Ewell engineer in chemistry for 20 years at Bay Stare worked wnh the U ..Department ofJustice and '69, a grandson, a granddaughter and a niece. Abrasives Co. in Westboro, Mass. His wife of wa a special a sistant to the U ..Attorney 59 years, Stasia, five sons, two daughters, a General before entering private practice as a Annie Tuck Russell '34, March 25, 1999, in brother, six grandchildren and nephews and repre entarive of everal major international Orlando, Fla., at 87. he was a ninth grade English nieces survive him. corporations. urvivors include hi son, reacher at Memorial Junior High School in Or Theodore wan: '6 , his daughter, Barbara lando. urvivors include her daughter, ancy A. Helen Tracey Lykins '40, January 6, 1999, in D'Andrea, a brother and four grandchildren. Northrup, herson, Walter Russell, and two sisters. West, Texas, at l. After service in the Army urse Corps in the 1940s, she was a homemaker Carol Hill Craven '30, July 19, 1999, in West Kathryn Herrick McCrodden '35, July 27, who raised five children. urvivors include her Roxbury, Mas ., at . he was a regi tered nurse 1999, in Oakland, Calif., at 6. After escaping sister, Louise G. Tracey '37. 111 Bo ton, Mass., at Framingham rnonHospital from occupied France during World War 11, she and at orwood Ho p1tal unnl he retired in and her hu band taught in Turkey. Later she was Louise Holt McGee '40, July 21, 1999, in 1975. he 1 su1"\'1ved by her on , Mark and a reference librarian for the University of Cali Yarmouth, Maine, at 81. She served on the tephen raven, and rwo grandchildren. fornia-bur still climbed mountains and went board of the Aroostook Medical Center and was paragliding in her 70s and 80s. Survivors in active in the Republican Party in Maine. Prede Harold L. Grant '30, August I 0, 1999, in clude her son, Brian McCrodden, a sister, Bar ceased by her husband, Robert V. McGee '38, Bangor, Ma111e, at 92. He wa a school reacher, bara Brown, and three granddaughters. she is survived by two daughters, Mary McGee then a principal at Wa h111gton AcaJemy 111 and Katherine Christie-Wilson '66, two sons, Ea't Machia,, Ma111e, anJ remeJ after erv111g John P. Dolan '36, August 22, 1999, in Des Robert McGee and Charles T. McGee '69, her a' >uperintenJenr of 5chools 111 Danforth and Moines, Iowa, at 87. He taught English and sister and four grandchildren. Caribou. [ uring WorlJ War II he wa> an officer foreign languages in public and private schools 111 the Ro\ al Canadian Air Force. He t> >un•1ved 111 rhe Midwest, 111cluding several colleges and atalie Mooers Daggett '42, June 16, 1999, h, a on,Jo,eph Grant, a Jaughter,JarnceGrant, urnvers1nes. For his loyalty and service to the in cottsdale, Ariz., at 7 . A homemaker, she ,mJ f1,·e granJchtlJren. College he was awardeJ a Colby Brick in 1997. was predeceased by her father, Wi I mer Mooers urv1v111g are a daughter, Jeanne Cox, two sons, '14, and by her husband, John Daggett '4 1. Pauline Morin Miller '30, Augu't 27, 1999, 111 Thomas P. Dolan and John P. Dolan Jr., a sister, he i survived by her daught r , Susan P.1lm Harbor, Fla., at 91. he earneJa ma,ter'> and five grandchtlJren. Daggett Dean '67 and Leigh Bowman, and her Jegree 1n French anJ Englt,h from olumb1a son, Peter Daggett, 23 grandchildren and five Uni\ er,tt\ anJ taught 1n ,chool 1n arihou, Willard H. Dunn '36, July 15, 1999, in Au grear-grandch i ldren. :\ ul urn.md Old Orchard, Ma111e. he al,o "a' gusra, Ma111e, at 4. A teacher and principal at ,1 w1irld tr.n eler , un·1nir' 111clude her hu,hanJ, herr1fielJ AcaJemy, he serveJ 1n the Air Charles A. Lord '42, eprember 27, 1999, in Alberr E. �filler, a '"n and a daughter Force during WorlJ War II. He also taught in Philadelphia, Pa., at 79. After ervice in the the Arm\ . Later he wa' , field repre entat1ve for avy during World War II he served on the Henq· . B nsall '3 1, Juli 2 • 1999, 111 oual ecurit\ 111 Augu,ta. He t'>>urv1ved by his Philadelphia ommon Pleas Court before his \\ 1ten tlk. �f.i111e, .It 9L . He worked .h .1 dt - d.1ughter,, Glom1 Burm and arherine Rogers, app01ntment as senior judge of the ommon tribuwr t1ir Kr.1ft Fnod' C 0 l R \ TER • 62 ALUMNI AT LARGE Albert I. Ellis '44, eptember 9, 1999, in Lake 1986. Besides his wife of 46 years, Mary Keyes, Simonds, in York. Survivors include his wife, land, Fla., at 77. He served in Europe in World he leave three sons, three brothers, including ancy Pitman Simonds, a son, his mother, two War ll, then worked for General Electric orp. Raymond Keyes '52, 10 grandchildren and sev stepdaughters, a brother, two grandchildren, an before establi hing an accounting practice in eral nieces and nephews. aunt and nieces and nephews. Bangor, Maine. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Ford Ellis '43, a son, two daughters, a brother, Roger Huebsch '53, August 12, 1999, in New Peter B. Murphy '87, July 10, 1999, in seven grandchildren and fourniecesand nephews. Bedford, Mass., at 67. For more than 30 years he Rangeley Plantation, Maine, at 34 in a boat headed Karahdin lndustrie and its operating ing accident. He worked for People's Heritage Paul N. Prince '44, July 17, 1999, in Peabody, companies. He also served active duty in the Bank in Portland, Maine, before attending Mass., at 77. During a lifetime career in the lumber U ..Naval Reserves and retired with the rank Purdue University and was a financial analy t business, he worked with Lester Cronin Lumber of of commander. In 1979 both he and his wife, with USF&G Insurance in Baltimore, Md. Maine, Prince LumberCo.,Georgia Pacific, where Susan Smith Huebsch '54, were awarded Colby Survivors include his wife, Jennifer Murphy, he was top sale man in New England in 1954, and Bricks. He leaves his wife, three daughters, and a daughter. Somerville Lumber. He is survived by his wife, Karen Huebsch O'Brien '77, Gretchen Huebsch Lucille Prince, three sons and a daughter, a brother Daly '80 and Ellen Huebsch Anderson '82, a G. Stefan Durand '95,June 23, 1999, in Mam and seven grandchildren. sister, Jacquelyn Huebsch Scandalios '56, and moth Lake , Calif., at 26. Survivors include his six grandchildren. father and mother, Pierre Durand and Stephanie Joseph T. Page '46,July 30, 1999, in Waterville, Durand, a sister and a brother. Maine, at 74. He left the College to serve three Ruth McDonald Brown '55,Seprember 2, 1999, years in the infantry during World War l I. After in orth Falmouth, Mass., at 65. She attended Paul E. Machemer, Merrill Professor of Chem the war he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and Dartmouth's Amos Tuck business school before istry, Emeritus, died October 24, 1999, in worked for 27 years at Seattle University, where raising a fa mily. She is survived by her husband, Camden, Maine. A member of the Chemistry he was head of the department of health and William J. Brown Jr., three sons, a daughter and Department at Colby for 28 years, he was known physical education. He is survived by his wife of six grandchildren. to generations ofstudents for his inorganic chem 52 years, Peggy Page, his daughter, his son, two istry course, "Machemistry," which he took par granddaughters and nieces and a nephew. David Dunn '56, September 12, 1999, in Lee, ticularly seriously because medical schools made Mass., at 64. After Navy service and work as a it a requirement for admission. As dedicated to Arthur A. Parsons '48, September 24, 1999, in ales engineer, he established and became presi- sailing as he was to chemistry-he owned a 35- BurntHi lls, N.Y., at 75. He served in the Navy dent of Dunlee Engineering in 1971. He retired foor teak sloop , Osprey-he also taught naviga during World War 11, then worked for 36 years in 1993. Two sons, James D. Dunn and John D. tion during Jan Plan. (Students who took the as a cost accountant with the General Electric Dunn, a daughter, Susan C. Haughey, a brother course include former fishing-boar captain Linda Co. He also served as a pastor to several United and six grandchildren survive him. Greenlaw '83.) He became chair of the depart Methodist Churches in the Albany, .Y., area. ment in 197 . Predeceased by his brother Donald A. Parsons Laurence J. Hoogeveen '57, August 11, 1999, An accomplished mountain climber, woods '42, he is survived by his wife of 54 years, Phyllis in Bowdoinham, Maine, at 63. A self-employed man and woodworker, Machemer was born in Blanchard Parsons, a son, a daughter, his brother, carpenter, he worked previously as an insurance West Virginia and grew up in Paoli, Pa. He Richard A. Parsons '45, and two grandchildren. and real estate broker. He is survived by his wife, earnedhis undergraduate degree from Princeton Dorothy, a son, a daughter, a brother, a grand in 1940 and his master's and Ph.D. degrees in Robert L. Cook '49, August 23, 1999, in son and a srepgrandson. chemistry at rhe University of Pennsylvania. Framingham, Mass., at 74. During World War Before coming to Colby in 1955 he worked on 11 he received the Purple Heart as a paratrooper David M. Copithorne '60, July 27, 1999, in the Manhattan Project and also taught at in Holland. From 1951 to 1989 he owned and Gilford, N.H., ar 61. He received hisJ.D. degree Villanova University for six years . operated Cooks Motors in Needham, Mass. He from Columbia Law School and was an attorney Both Machemer and his wife retired in 1984 is survived by his wife of 49 years, June Stairs in Laconia, .H., for 30 years before his retire to Port Clyde, Maine. He is survived by his wife, Cook, a son, a daughter, two sisters and a ment in 1994. Survivors include his wife of 3 7 Grace Skinner Page Machemer, three children, brother, three srepgrandchildren and several years, Martha Copirhorne,rwo sons, his mother, five stepchildren and 14 grandchildren. nieces and nephews. Mary Small Copirhorne'35, two sisters, includ ing Joan Copirhorne Bowen '65, five nephews David Ogilvy, July 21, 1999, ar Chareau Touffou, Helen Kelleher Breen 'SO, July 3, 1999, in and three nieces. near Bonnes, France, at 88. A Colby trustee for Newburyport, Mass., at 70. She worked in radio six years during the 1960s, he was an advertising and was a newspaper reporter before raising her Melvin Hans Veeder '6 1, May 13, 1999, in executive who was called the "father of soft-sell fa mily. Later he was vice president of a skating Lafayette, Calif., at 60. After service in the advertising" by the New York Times and was rink and senior clerk at Bellevue Cemetery in Navy he was general manager of a design com credited with creating the Hathaway Shirt ads Lawrence, Mass. She leaves her husband of 49 pany, K/P Graphics, in San Leandro, Calif., for featuring the man with an eye parch. President years, Louis J. Breen, two daughters, three sons, 30 years. In later years he ran several marathons. Emeritus Robert E.L. Strider 11 credited Ogilvy a sister and several grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Pauline Veeder, and with winning other trustees over to approve rhe three daughters. architectural design of the Hillside dormitories, Robert J. Keyes '52, October 21, 1999, in the first departure from Colby's traditional neo Indian River Shore , Fla., at 71. After receiving Gaylord P. Simonds '67, eprember 10, 1999, Georgian tyle. He al o cited Ogilvy as a cham his M.B.A. from Boston College, he co-founded in York, Maine, at 54. After service in the avy pion of civil rights. Ogilvy was the author of and was a partner with orrhernDara Systems and work in Boston with an insurance company, Confessions of an Advertising Man and Ogilvy on (later Conte! Bu ine s ystems). He retired in he started his own carpentry business, G.P. Adverrising, among other books. 63 WINTER 2000 COLBY