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THE (gMMENTARY
Success by Other Measure
Colby is more than my alma mater; my roots are there and, thus, my memories. Colby was part of my town, and Colby people were part of my life-they were my teachers, they ran businesses in town, they dated and married my sisters. I recall a childhood reverence for the old Colby campus and saw its transition to the new, and I remember Bill Millett from my school days-the slow drone of his voice and his warm smile-friend and mentor to youth of Water ville .... That is where I started, and now I am here, an artist and farmer in Grand Isle, Vt. The road between has been bumpy, and at every turn choices had to be made. The paved routes were the safest; the lanes and paths were risky. I'd like to thank you, Colby, for helping me make it down that road. The people and ex periences that make up Colby helped me to keep an open mind, to have courage to question and to weigh alternatives, and not to fear the risky paths but to see the beauty and excitement there. I am thankful, too, for the privilege of being a class correspondent because, in letters to me, classmates have shared and bared both facts and feelings about their lives since we were students together. Questionnaires help to fill in facts, but tucked in the narratives are feelings and philoso phies and the confirmation that success is much more than statistics of fame, fortune, and the at tainment of status, contrary to what a class column may imply. The whole subject of success by other measure raises a myriad of questions. If personal suc cess is to be measured, one needs a valid reference point for comparison-and that can only be oneself. So, if you are wondering if you've "made it" or not, you might ask yourself these ques tions: What am I compared to what I used to be? Have I continued to grow intellectually and humanely? Have I handled the tests of life -the pain, the tragedies, the fame and acclaim-with grace and integrity, or has adversity made me bitter? Have I outgrown my prejudices? Have I lost the color of life by becoming too comfortable in my security? Do I still dare to take risks? I asked myself these questions and searched for honest answers. I have been fortunate. A good marriage and loving family is wealth beyond description. No unspeakable tragedies have scathed me. I have survived pain, drudgery, insults, and bigotry. I have forgiven enemies and stood up for my rights. I know the joy of creative expression and the thrill of dangerous adven ture. I still take risks (I take one in writing this). I enjoy getting up in the morning and facing the day. I don't believe my mirror; I still feel young. It all comes down to how we feel about ourselves. Success, unlike beauty, is in the soul of the individual rather than in the eye of the beholder. So, thank you, Colby, dear friends and classmates, Bill Millett, loving family, and all the other contributors to the wealth of life ex periences that have brought me to this point. What happens from here -how I use these riches will be my measure of success.
Virginia Brewer Folino '48 Grand Isle, Vt.
"Commentary" will be a regular section in the Alwnnus but does not necessarily represent the magazine's editorial position nor the opinion of the College o(fi.cers. Readers are invited to submit proposals for opinion articles of 500-600 words to the Editor, The Colby Alwnnus, Colby College, Wa terville, Maine 04901-4799. TH E AL U MNUS
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FEATU RES DEPARTMENTS
13 Black and White Commentary (inside front cover} President William R. Cotter, having watched South Af rica closely for more than 20 years, writes of possible 2 Eustis Mailroom political and economic developments there and discuss es why colleges are taking such strong interest in them. 4 News from the Hill
19 Against the Odds 11 Ex Libris Lael Swinney Stegall '62 helps empower organizations that represent the traditionally powerless. 28 Class Correspondence
20 In Giving, Receiving 45 Milestones Increasing numbers of Colby students volunteer assis tance in the Waterville community, and some of them Alumni Club News (inside back cover} find it addicting.
22 Partners in Quest An amazing number of students are engaged in re search with Colby faculty or even on their own.
Volume 75, Number 2, March 1986
The Colby Alumnus is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to the Editor, TheColby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799.
Editor: Lane Fisher; Assistant to the Editor: Regina Gilmartin Knox; Design and Production: Bonnie Bishop; Production Editor: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: Thomas A. Hagerty '88, Brian Norton Connors '88, and Christian Antalics '89; Photography: catherine Anderson (pp. 4, 5, 6, 8, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27), Thomas Wilde '89 (pp. 9, 10), Jeffery Lockhart (inside back cover), Scott Davis (p.7), Susan Conant Cook '75 (inside back cover), Edward C. Day (p. 15). and Lane Fisher (p. 5).
On the Covers: The Colby Clowners are among the many Colby student volunteers who share happiness or give help to those in need. See page 20.
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Real Friends important in my view, the picture on page Congratulations, Gentlemen 16 shows some of the original Colbyettes I enjoyed the article in the December 1985 in repose, sitting and chatting quietly be The 1985 Colby football season must have Alumnus recognizing John and Peter fore the reunion performance. On page 17, been filled with feelings of frustration, Joseph's 30-plus years of service to Colby however, we see the original Colby Eight futility, and depression for both players students. Their genuine warmth and standing and singing, obviously enjoying and staff. To suffer defeats of such magni friendliness made the Miller Library Spa a themselves. The inference is subtle, tude and to continue to line up for the special place on campus. By the simple perhaps even slight, but real all the same. kickoff on successive Saturdays is not respect and kindness that they expressed With so many cameras clicking away that easy. Those more cynical might be tempt toward students, they demonstrated that evening, it's hard to believe that there ed to suggest that the only benefit to be working at a college involved more than wasn't one photo somewhere of the 'Ettes derived by the participants in such an ex just doing a job well. It also meant a good in an active, rather than passive, posture. perience is a deeper understanding of the deal of simply 'being there" for students. A "Original" though we may be, we are far word "endure.' friendly hello or calling someone by first from ready for the rocking chair, and I, But defeat must not be confused with name are simple things, but they can for one, am disappointed that the editors dishonor. The distinction between the two mean a lot when the demands of college didn't give proof of that fact! was well demonstrated by the conduct of life seem a bit overwhelming. Because the reunion was so special in the 40-plus young men who put on their so many ways, I felt that I had to set the pads and helmets to represent Colby at the Donald G. Richardson '74 record straight. Thanks for allowing me to homecoming game with Bowdoin. What Wo rcester, Mass. do so. they lacked in size and talent they made up in deportment. They did not model the Carolyn A. English Beane '53 conduct of many of today's professional In Concert North Chelmsford, Mass. sports superstars who pout, rave, and act out when frustration thresholds are Call it sour grapes, call it oversensitivity, The record is not set straight until Carolyn breached. Rather, they played hard, fairly, call it whatever you like. The fact remains Beane also receives recognition fo r her major and cleanly, even as the tide once more that when I saw pages 16 and 17 of last part in organizing the homecoming concert. turned against them. They did the best fall's Annual Report of the President, I did a Our apologies for a most unfortunate set of they could and, at the conclusion of the double take, swore a bit, and screamed, omissions. (LF} game and season, they swallowed hard, "Foul!" The reasons were twofold. lined up, and shook hands with the op First, no offense to Clifford A. ''Bump" More Beans position. Such behavior will not qualify Bean '51, but if there was any "master them for future inclusion on the rosters of minding" of the very successful 1984 I enjoyed reading the article about author the National Football League, but it does Colbyettes/Colby Eight Reunion, it was Carolyn Chute and her recent book The qualify them for inclusion in another, cur threefold, the participants being Ginnie Beans of Egypt, Maine on page 7 of the rently less fashionable group-gentlemen. Falkenbury Aronson '53, Sue Conant Cook September 1985 Colby Alumnus. I respect And so hats off to the Colby foot '75 of the alumni office, and Bump. The fully beg to differ, however, with the ball team of 1985: you showed us how to preparations involved in putting together reference to "the Bean family of fictional behave well in the face of adversity. In this first-ever joint effort were monumental Egypt, Maine." Egypt, Maine, is a very real today's world that is no ordinary accom and went on for over two years. For this community in coastal Hancock County. plishment. reason, I feel that credit should be given where really due .. . in equal proportion. john D. Allan '75 Theodore Rice, Jr. '54 Second, a minor point perhaps but still Charlottesville, Va. Portland, Maine
2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Boston's Good Cheer Since I am registrar of the Silence Independent Thinking Howard Hayden chapter of the DAR and Andrew D. Miller '83, in his letter in the In October I was fortunate to attend the have a copy of her application papers, my September 1985 issue of The Colby Alum Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. dates are correct. would have us regret the decision to While there I spent several hours at the nus, Colby hospitality tent. Your alumni were Flora Harriman Small '25 do away with fraternities as if 'Reagan, button-down collars, and a renewed patri very courteous and very generous- I write Winslow, Maine otism" set the standards to which a this with some chagrin, since my own private, liberal arts institution of higher alma mater's banner swung impotently in learning with a history of almost 175 years the wind, signaling no food nor drink nor On Truth should adhere. Of greater concern, Miller semblance of cheer. Thus, I wish to com tries to suggest majority behavior is the mend you and your [Greater Boston Col I often wonder how many people read right behavior for individuals or institu by) Alumni Association. Your spirit of and how much light is shed by "letters to tions to follow. Therefore, and because hospitality and festivity speak very well the editor." Nevertheless, I was fascinated some other colleges and universities seem for your institution. by Fletcher Eaton's response, in the to be experiencing an increase in fraternity Keep up the good work-and thanks "Mailroom" of September 1985, to my membership, then Colby should be also. again. earlier letter regarding the "Angela Davis This kind of thinking concerns me not controversy.'' only because it comes from a fellow Colby Christopher L. Santella Mr. Eaton tells of his decision as presi graduate, but because it too often prevails West Haven, Conn. dent of the SCA in '36 not to invite Earl on the national level as well. Attorney Browder, head of the Communist Party, to General Edwin Meese III, for example, speak at Colby because President Johnson earned a reprimand from Supreme Court pointed out that a Browder appearance Nice COOTs Justice William Brennan for Justice might cost Colby "large sums of money" Department actions that would weaken from potential donors. Then, following a I thank you for mention [December 1985 the protection of minority rights enshrined dubious but common comparison of Com Alumnus] of my mercy flight to my band in the Constitution. Brennan, a veteran of munists and criminals, he links moral and of COOTs in September. What a blast! 29 years on the court who has seen financial issues without clarification Although soaked by the rain and our ob ' political trends come and go, has been a which I find most unfortunate. jective embedded in the clouds, we were fervent advocate of the Constitution's No one fails to recognize colleges' need buoyed by the enthusiasm of the nine adaptability to current problems and of money and that donors withhold gifts if freshmen and two upperclass leaders. needs. This folly of adhering to whatever they are unhappy with certain aspects of What amazed me most about the is mainstream behavior at the moment is the college, from a losing athletic team to COOTs, after accepting that although half not limited to government. In the private a controversial speaker or teacher. How my age they had twice the endurance, sector, where I work as a banker, we have ever, the moral issue a college president was the level of maturity and thoughtful seen depositors' and shareholders' funds faces is a dilemma: should he control, cen ness toward one another. I don't know put at risk because of lemming-like sor, suppress the search for truth by per when I've enjoyed an outing more. Re tendencies of some banks and their of mitting potential donors with lots of stocking the larder was the least I could ficers to rush into syndicated energy, real money to dictate "the Truth" that shall be do for a most enjoyable group. I think estate, or ship-financing without independ taught or presented at college? Or should they enjoyed their COOT trip, and it was ent analysis and judgment. he assume some possible but not inevita my pleasure to share in their first Colby When I think of college, I am pleased ble financial sacrifice by insisting that the experience. to have had the opportunity to take advan primary role of such an institution is the tage of resources few schools Colby's size search for truth, including expression of john D. Koons '72 can boast in government, economics, and various points of view? Wa terville, Maine Asian languages. I am also impressed by After all, wasn't it Christ who said the systematic and open way the Trustee 'And ye shall know the truth and the ;ruth Commission on Campus Life seems to shall make you free?' And wasn't the early have gone about its task of deciding the Daughter of the American Revolution church, which was closest to Christ and fate of fraternities at Colby. It is unsettling, His teachings, a communist community? however, that some alumni would still try In the December issue of The ColbyAlum Capitalism has always been at odds with to romanticize their presence. This kind of nus, on page 42, you have a delightful pic the ethical teachings of Christ, as the static thinking, unfortunately, has forced ture and a fine article on Ina Taylor Catholic bishops' pastoral letter "Catholic the College to divert scarce resources to Stinneford '98. I would like to make one Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy" defend its decision in Maine's courts. correction. Ina was accepted into the Na most recently indicated. Most of us recog Recognition for independent thinking and tional Society of the Daughters of the nize that there are few true Christians or initiative is what makes some schools be American Revolution on February 6, 1906, communists. The two doctrines are too considered great. Another crucial factor is which made her a member for 79 years difficult for most of us to follow. the right ambience for quality education. rather than 81 years. Also Ina enjoyed the I hope I have not distorted Mr. Eaton's It's time some of our own alumni let Col longest membership in the Maine State So views. by provide such an education unhindered. ciety of the DAR, and this probably is true of her membership in the national society Lewis E. Weeks, Jr. '42 Joseph F. Meyer '79 as well, though not verified by national. Potsdam, N. Y. Seattle, Wash.
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 3 __./Vi w s FROM THE
New Trustee and Overseers Elected Tenure Awarded to Three at Hamilton and Pomona colleges and dur ing graduate school. A 1972 magna cum The Colby Board of Trustees elected one The Board of Trustees in January awarded /aude graduate of the University of Miami, new corporate trustee and three new tenure to assistant professors Murray where he majored in Spanish and English, overseers at the board's October 25 meet Campbell, Jorge Olivares, and Robert Olivares received his M.A. from Miami in ing. The trustee is Howard D. Adams, and Weisbrot. 1973 and his Ph.D. from the University of the overseers are Lloyd E. Cotsen, Peter Campbell, who has taught physics and Michigan in 1981. He was a National En D. Hart '64, and Paul J. Schupf. astronomy at Colby since 1980, received dowment for the Humanities Fellow at Adams, who is chairman of Crabtree his B.A. in physics, with highest distinc Cornell during the summer of 1983. Capital Corporation in Chicago, lives in tion, from Pennsylvania State University Through research on Spanish American lit Lake Forest, lll. A 1954 graduate of in 1968. Cornell awarded him an M.S. in erature and culture, Olivares has written Michigan State University, Adams serves 197 1 and a Ph.D. in 1974. From 1973 to many papers and articles as well as a on the boards of the First National Bank 1980 he was an assistant astronomer and book, La Novella Decadente en Ve nezuela, of Winnetka, the Harris Bank Hinsdale, postdoctoral research associate at the published in 1984. the First National Bank of Wilmette, the Steward Observatory of the University of Weisbrot joined Colby's faculty in Harris Bank Glencoe, the Addison In Arizona. Professor Campbell is the coau 1980, the same year in which Harvard surance Company, and the Metropolitan thor of 35 articles published since 1973, granted him a Ph.D. in history. He had Mortgage Corporation, of which he is and his research in far-infrared astronomy graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis president. He and his wife, Mary Jo, have has taken him to the Max-Planck-lnstitut in 1973 and was a graduate fellow in his two children, including Alan '87, and they fur Extraterrestriche Physik in West Ger tory at Princeton during the 1973-74 aca serve on the Parents Association executive many, where he helped to develop an in demic year before earning an M.A. from committee and as chairs of the Colby 2000 frared telescope to be flown on the space Harvard in 1975. A specialist on the his Campaign parents committee. shuttle. tory of civil rights, Weisbrot has published The president and chief executive offi Olivares joined the Department of two books, TheJews of Argentina in 1979 cer of Neutrogena Corporation, Cotsen re Modem Languages as a teacher of Spanish and Father Divine and theStruggle fo r Racial sides in Beverly Hills, Calif., with his wife, in 1982. Previously he had taught Spanish Equality in 1983, as well as a dozen articles. Jacqueline. He is a 1950 graduate of Princeton and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1957. He is a trustee of Prince ton, the University of California at Los Angeles, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the American School of Classical Studies. He also is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Hart is chairman of Hart Research Associates in Washington, D.C., where he and his wife, Florence, live with their two children. He is a trustee of the National Council on Public Polls, a member of the Advisory Committee on Public Opinion to the Society of Professional Journalists and of the National Association of Private Pollsters, and is a Woodrow Wilson Visit ing Fellow. Colby awarded the alumnus an honorary LL.D. at commencement ceremonies last May. Schupf is president of Schupf, Holt man and Company of Hamilton, N.Y., where he also resides. He graduated from Colgate University in 1958 and served as a trustee of that institution from 1977 to Ancient Capers 1983. Currently he is on the boards of the American Dance Festival, of which he is Stephanie Lowe '86, playing the title role in a November production of Lysistrata, con also treasurer, the Eye and Ear Theater, spires with other characters in the play. In this ancient Greek comedy, written by and the Aston Magna Foundation for Aristophanes in 41 1 B.C., the women of Greece declare a sex strike in an effort to end a Music, of which he is past president. futile war. Professor Richard Sewell directed the play, in contemporary translation.
4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS would endorse the candidates by mail in It's June 6-8 in '86 the year prior to the class's five-year re union. The proposal was to be acted upon Reunion Weekend, that is! There will be activities for all alwnni on Reunion at this month's meeting. Weekend, with special events for the five-year anniversary classes. A special new The alwnni activities committee may feature for this year is the Colby Alwnni College, to take place prior to the Reunion create several subcommittees so that its Weekend, with coordinated seminars and lectures open to all alwnni. So when you broad charges can be addressed efficiently. return to Colby this year, you can really return to college, your college. Committee chair Laurie Fitts '75 indicated Brochures and information about Alwnni Reunion Weekend and Colby Alwnni that admissions, alwnni clubs, athletics, College will be mailed to all alwnni in April. Watch your mail or contact the Office career services, and continuing education of Alwnni Relations for more information. are concerns that might be best addressed by separate subcommittees; alwnni inter ested in serving on them should notify the alwnni office. At present, rejuvenation of alwnni clubs remains the committee's priority. In other business, association Vice President Dennis Dionne '61, who con ducted the fall meeting, introduced the new senior class representatives to the Alwnni Council. They are Douglas Scalise '86 and Judy Swift '86. Those present spon taneously applauded the seniors for their goal of 60 percent participation by class mates making their senior class gift to the College.
Lawrence R. Pugh '56, Selden C. Staples '55 (standing), and Richard W. Bartlett '55 en joy lighthearted conversa.tion at last year's reunion lobster bake.
Elections and Alumni Activities candidates were to be declared elected at Discussed by Alumni Association the Alwnni Council's winter meeting in the Worcester, Mass., area March 7-8. Nominations for alwnni trustees and pro (The Alwnni Council is the representative Since You Asked ... posed alterations in class election proce body of the Alwnni Association.) The dures and alwnni activities with the alumni trustees' terms will begin at com Although the Alumnus does not usually iden College were among the business dis mencement this spring. tify models in "studio" photographs, the omis cussed at the Alwnni Association's fall Susan Conant Cook '75, associate di sion of such information fo r the photographs meeting at homecoming, November 9. rector of alwnni relations, explained that that ran with 'Worlds Together" in the De Nominations committee chair Susan proposed bylaw amendments would cember issue caused some distress among Smith Huebsch '54 announced that War streamline class elections and contribute to readers. The models, in any case, were won ren Finegan '51 and Rae Jean Braunmuller smoother transitions than often have oc derful and deserve some acclaim. They are Goodman '69 were nominated for their curred. The class nominating committee Lindsay Cole, daughter of biology Professor second three-year terms as alwnni trustees would prepare a slate of one candidate for Russ Cole and Science Librarian Suzi Wester and that Beverly Nalbandian '80 was nom each office, rather than two candidates per berg Cole, and Jeffrey Shattuck, son of chem inated for her first term. Unless opposing office as in the past. The candidates would istry Professor Tom Shattuck and Publications nominations were filed by alwnni, these agree in advance to serve. Alwnni then Production Editor Martha Freese Shattuck.
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5 nag a little more. Nobody needles Reagan about the hostages in Lebanon." And of the Peace Corps, McGrory remarked, 'it represents the way I would like America to look abroad." McGrory, a native of Boston and grad uate of Emmanuel College, wrote for the Boston Herald and reviewed books for the Wa shington Star before she became a na tional commentator in 1954, when the Star assigned her to the Army-McCarthy hear ings. Her column was syndicated in 1960 and now appears in 150 papers. Cotter remarked on the significance "that the Wa shington Post [where McGrory has worked since 1981] publishes her column not on the Commentary page, but on the News page." She won the George Polk Memorial A ward for national reporting in 1963, was made a fellow of Sigma Delta Chi in 1973, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1975. Colby honored her in the name of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, valedictorian of the Class of 1826, who was killed in 1937 while defending his press against a mob angered by his an tislavery writings.
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Gravitating toward the printed word, Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory reads over President Cotter'sshoul der as he presents her with the 33rd Lovejoy A ward.
Foundation Grants Pass Expectations Lovejoy Fellow Probes Public Ennui Contrasting the lack of comment she re ceives on most serious issues with fulsome When the Colby 2000 Campaign began, "I'm not taken in by all this," muttered reader response to those frivolous, she professional fund-raising consultants ad columnist Mary McGrory as President said, "I tell you this in honest bewilder vised the College that it could expect $1 William R. Cotter introduced the 33rd ment. I don't know what it is, if the public million from foundations throughout the Lovejoy Fellow on November 15. Hum is sublimely content ... [or] if those who campaign. At the end of 1985, however, bled by the stature of Elijah Parish Love believe, as I do, that a democracy is only with one year still to go, the College had joy and of preceding Lovejoy A ward as good as people insist that it be, have received foundation grants totaling over recipients, she called the latter "forest peo just decided it isn't worth the struggle." $3. 7 million, approximately $933,000 of ple. That is, they see the whole. They Prevailing pluralism on major national is which was contributed during 1985 alone. have a commanding aerial view of our sues and the breakdown of the two-party Among the six-figure grants that have trade. system have contributed to the public's been received during the campaign are "I am not of the forest calibre. I am confusion, she added. contributions from: Alfred P. Sloan Foun strictly trees. I have spent my working The press, then, has a responsibility to dation, $150,000; Charles A. Dana Foun years examining the underbrush, the sap be more vigilant but not overwhelmingly dation, $300,000; Andrew W. Mellon lings, and the occasional tall pine," negative, to "put the questions right: and Foundation, $325,000 !two grants); Gladys McGrory said. However, Cotter indicated, to write "with enough fire, force, and point Brooks Foundation, $175,000 (four grants); it has been said that McGrory "makes the to make people understand that they are The Betterment Fund, $290,000 (two 'big' stories 'small' in the sense of making involved." And readers have a responsibili grants); Christian A. Johnson Endeavor them real, understandable, and undaunt ty to react to what they read, McGrory Foundation, $122,000 !two grants); George ing to us; and that she has an uncanny said, closing with an appeal that we do so. I. Alden Trust, $110,000 !two grants); Wil sense of proportions.. .. She refuses to Following her address she fielded liam and Flora Hewlett Foundation, make the 'small' stories 'big.' " Moreover, questions. About Attorney General Edwin $100,000; Kresge Foundation, $400,000; she has "given us a moral vision of what a Meese, she asked, 'When does the man John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur better world could be," said Cotter. say anything but nonsense? As Jane Foundation, $300,000; National Endow It was on decreased interest in morali Austen would say, it's not worthy of a ra ment for the Humanities, $750,000; Pew ty, "the absence of passion, from news tional reply." She puzzled aloud as to why Memorial Trust, $250,000; Surdna Foun papers and their readers," that McGrory Jimmy Carter suffers low regard and said, dation, $100,000 !two grants); and Grace focused that evening, blaming "both sides." '1 think in the 'old days,' the press used to Foundation, $150,000.
6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Surdna to Support Financial Aid Addendum to The Report of the teaching of sociology. "The scientific Contributions method of sociology is appropriate, but we Last fall the Surdna Foundation offered mustn't forget the moral concern that Colby a challenge grant of $50,000 for fi The Class of 1960 received an additional makes the research worthwhile in the first nancial aid endowment. Under the terms President's Club contribution for the 25th place," said Spates. How sociologists can of the challenge, the alumni must contrib reunion gift, from Judith Miller Heekin. provide information that will help people ute $50,000 more to the Annual Fund this lead better lives should be sociology's criti year than they did last year. calconcern today, a goal he said was shared If the College is to win the challenge, Spates '65 Delivers Birge Lecture by the founders of the science. The soci regular contributors must increase their ologist lamented that there apparently is donations, and Colby must also receive The need for moral concern in the field of "no place for passion in sociology," where gifts from alumni who have not given be sociology was stressed in the fourth an as he suggested that passion, combined fore, or who have made contributions to nual Kingsley H. Birge lecture, presented with a moral concern, drives medical re the Alumni Fund only rarely. As of the on November 7 by James L. Spates '65, searchers to find cures for diseases like end of 1985, the fund was well on the chairman of the sociology department at cancer and AIDS. Spates would like to way toward that goal on both counts. Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Ex see sociologists similarly determined to Overall donations on December 31 plaining that the ideas in his lecture were resolve problems such as suicide and were 19 percent above where they were at the finished products of concepts he first anxiety. the same time the previous year; they addressed in Kingsley Birge's classroom, The Birge lecture series is funded by have been running strongly ahead ever Spates reminded his audience that Colby contributions from former students and since the beginning of the current fund has a distinguished heritage in the field of colleagues of King Birge, a professor of year. Total alumni giving by December 31, sociology. Albion Woodbury Small, presi sociology at Colby from 1946 to 1980. 1985, stood at $315,842. Even more heru:t dent of Colby from 1889 to 1892, was the This year's Birge lecturer received his ening, many new contributors are being founder of The American journal of Sociol M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. counted. 2, 130 alumni have made contri ogy and the coauthor of one of America's He has written more than a dozen arti butions to the College so far this fund first sociology textbooks. Some of the first cles, and the second edition of his latest year, a 9 percent jump over the previous college sociology classes in the United book, The Sociology of Cities, will soon be year. If the trend continues, the develop States were taught by Small at Colby. published. Spates's lecture, "Sociology as ment staff is optimistic that Colby will Spates vehemently opposed what he a Moral Discipline," was an adaptation meet the challenge by June 30 and signifi calls the "professionalization of sociology." of an article appearing in the December cantly increase the amount of financial aid Some leading voices in the field maintain issue of Thejournal of Ideology. it can offer to deserving students. that, in order to preserve the purity of the The Surdna Foundation, based in New science, morals should never enter into BNC York City, was founded in 1917 by John E. Andrus. Its broad purpose is to provide support primarily for general education - particularly higher education, medical ed ucation, health care delivery, medical research, social concerns, and cultural af fairs. It focuses its activities in the North east. This was Surdna's second grant to Colby during the Colby 2000 Campaign. In 1982 they awarded $50,000 to Presiden tial Discretionary Endowment.
Annual Fund Smashes Campaign Goal
The Annual Fund shot past its Colby 2000 Campaign goal of $5 million before 1985 was out. The campaign total for the fund ended calendar 1985 at $5.2 million. A bouquet goes to Susan Comeau '63, Alum ni Fund chair from 1982 to 1985, and very large boutonnieres to David Marson '48, chair from 1980 to 1982, and Victor F. Musical Tour de Force Scalise, Jr .. '54, chair for 1985-86, for their untiring efforts in shaping the fund's suc The Colby Community Symphony Orchestra, the Colby College Chorale, and the Water cess. Most of all, thanks are due to the ville Area Community Chorus joined forces under the direction of professors Jonathan thousands of alumni, parents, and friends Hallstrom and Paul Machlin to present J. S. Bach's Magnificat and Suite No. 3 in D Major who, through their contributions, made it on December 7 and 8. The concert, celebrating Bach's 300th birthday, was broadcast by happen. the Maine Public Broadcasting Network on January 5.
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 7 A Great Debate: Yippie vs. Yuppie
Two leaders in the antiwar movement of the 1960s and founders of the radical, left wing Youth International Party were re united in a crowded Lorimer Chapel on October 14, under the auspices of the Stu dent Association cultural life committee. The middle-aged Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin did not advise their audience "Don't trust anyone over 30," as in their younger years. Instead, they squared off in a theat rical and contentious assessment of their values today.
Dressed in a three-piece business suit and track shoes, sipping Perrier at the podium, and brandishing an American Ex press card, Rubin spoke first. As coordi nator of the business networking 500 Club in Manhattan, Rubin is very much part of today's entrepreneurial "baby boomer" gen eration and has abandoned the anti-estab lishment idealism of the 1960s. He defined his dialogue with Hoffman as 'basically a debate between living in the present and being effective, versus living in nostalgia for the 'tune in, turn on, drop out' past."
Rubin said that he is very proud of his Formeryippie jerry Rubin gestures expansively as his debate opponent Abbie Hoffman watches actions during the 1960s. But in the 1970s impassively at the left. To Rubin's right is Jill Myerow '86, Stu-A cultural life chair. his generation went through a dramatic readjustment. As Nixon resigned from of fice, young activists faced an American system that could work better than they nority, and that he and Rubin had rejected Students Leery of Leary had thought. Rubin asserted that the baby the yuppie values when they becan1e boomers, led by the women of their gener political activists. Hoffman condemned "My basic message has not changed. I can ation, began to take better care of their any trend towards entrepreneurialism: summarize it in five wonderful words, five physical and emotional well-being. In the "Entrepreneur is French for 'one who Yankee Doodle,red-white-and-blue, Amer late 1970s they contributed to an entrepre enters and takes.' What we need are 'en ican words: 'Think for yourself,' and 'Ques neurial explosion. "I think this is the most tre-donors,' ones who enter and give. tion authority.' When I say question important decision they made," said Rubin. Jerry's vision of the desirable society the authority don't get excited. [laughter] I He observed that no longer do baby baby boomers are creating is one of eter know the campus is seething with unrest boomers, or "yuppies," believe one must nally young business people who control and agitation. [less laughter] When I say "sell out " to be "successful, " and he predict the government." question authority I mean just that: ask ed that by 1988 the yuppies would not on In rebuttal, the debaters attacked each the guys who are running the show, 'What ly be a major economic force but a politi other's presentations with practiced malice. are you doing? What's going on?' • cal one. Rubin pointed out that "not many people What followed these, the initial com Hoffman opened with a wry observa can support themselves as political ac ments of guest speaker Timothy Leary, tion: 'When you 'ire a yuppie, you can be tivists because they don't have [Hoffman 's] proved a disappointment to a capacity shallow. When }' · go against the estab notoriety," adding that economic necessity crowd of expectant students and faculty at lishment, you ...better be prepared.' He forced their generation to go into business. Lorimer Chapel. Instead of offering in listed several successful environmental He refused to accept simple 1960s ideals sights into his experiences as former direc causes he has helped with the grassroots as probable solutions to today's problems. tor of the Psychedelic Research Project at political strategies he learned in the 1960s, Hoffman said he was not opposed to Harvard University or relating anecdotes and he urged Maine people to become young professionals but to romanticization about his interactions with the likes of G. more politically active. For Hoffman, the of the group and "equating success with Gordon Liddy and Charles Manson, Leary debate was about growing older and decid dollar signs.' The debate formally ended as hopped about before the altar and rambled ing what role each of us plays as we move Hoffman observed that "it would be nice if poorly connected thoughts on the history toward the next century. He maintained this university had a course in community of the "oral tradition" and the progression that yuppies are no more than a "myth of organization instead of business adminis of the written word. One student called the mass media [created] to sell more tration." his style 'brainstorming." Another com Mercedes Benzes and Rolex watches," mented ironically, 'He looks like he 's on that each generation has a yuppie mi- TA H drugs."
8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Leary eventually revealed that what Corrections ing that comparisons can still be made to had preceded was an intricate set-up to day, he contended that coloreds (persons promote his new computer software de In the December profile of Leonard Helie of mixed race) in South Africa have about vice, Mind Mirror. Leary, now president '33, his wife was incorrectly named. Our the same rights as blacks in America. "The of Futic Softwares Company, which plans apologies to both Len and Paula Helie. South African government would like to to market the program, described it as "the In the profile of David Mills '57 in the exploit the similarities between our two first truly scientific method of charting our same issue, reference was made to his countries so that we will be more sym thoughts... . I want to give the people the play, Over the River and Through the pathetic to their actions. They say they are technology to think for themselves." Woods, which premiered at Colby. The merely Western, Christian capitalists who A patient audience tuned in to the play was directed by performing arts Pro are changing their society as we changed first hour of Leary's lecture, and, obviously fessor Howard Koonce but not, as stated, ours in the 1800s," said Johnson. turned off and disinterested, about two produced by him. The student company He is perplexed by the diverse signals thirds of the group dropped out during a Powder and Wig produced it. coming from the American public. ten-minute intermission. Before the dimin Supporting President Reagan and the ished crowd, Leary's approach changed as abolition of apartheid seems dichotomous he fielded questions. Leary explained that Johnson Encourages Increased U.S. to Johnson. He lashed out at Reagan's he had become a psychologist because he Opposition to Apartheid sanctions measure, passed in September, felt "the only solution to personal and noting that the measure was actually writ social problems was to learn how to think "Does this country abhor apartheid? I don't ten by a former administration official and think better" and that he experiment know," mused Willard Johnson, director of who is now a $500,000-per-year lobbyist ed with drugs in the 1960s in quest of an the Boston branch of TransAfrica, an for the Pretoria government. effective way to change the mind. When American anti-apartheid group. A pro Johnson discounted claims that divest asked how he now feels about the use of fessor of political science at MIT who ment hurts those whom divestors would drugs he responded, "Every drug is a terri describes himself as an activist on the aid - South African blacks. "American in ble master and a wonderful friend," stress issue, Johnson lectured at Colby on vestment is like a ladder," he said. "If we ing that drugs are only safe if used November 11. pull out that ladder, those at the top 'intelligently." Emphasizing similarities in racial rela (whites) will hit the ground hardest." In creased American support and continued CA tions, Johnson drew parallels between the history of South Africa and the history of divestment will soon bring an end to apart the United States. Both countries began as heid, he predicted. "It is a new, qualita Undergraduate Review Seeks colonies where the native populations tively different day in South Africa. The Alwnni Views were massacred and displaced. Later the revolution has started already." two nations built strong economies The Northeast Undergraduate Review, which through the use of slave labor. Maintain- ENC gives expression to differing political, social, and economic perspectives and is intended to confirm the value of liberal arts education, seeks submissions from alumni. The publication's editors, economics major Thomas Fisher '86 and history major Eric Zolov '87, are convinced that a special section reserved for alumni per spectives would add diversity to the Re view and would expose the value of a Colby education years after its completion. "This magazine represents the concerns of students at Colby today," said Zolov, who believes that an alumni presence in the Review would create a dynamic balance in its content. While the publication is still in its formative stage, the eight students on its board of editors are enthusiastic and optimistic about its future as a liberal arts magazine. Requests for a complimentary copy of the Review should be sent to the Editors, Northeast Undergraduate Review, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. Following the sobering remarks aboutapartheid made by Willard Johnson, right, director of the Submissions of 600-1,000 words may be Boston branch of TransA{rica, he and President Cotter share spontaneous humor with a Colby sent to the same address. student. Julie Smith '86
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 9 Citizen Seeks Alternatives to War They may be viewed as a godsend some Nola Bene day," proposed Fuller. His organization is 'War is a game humans have engaged in called Mo Tzu, after an ancient Chinese Alumni interested i.n leading Colby Out for millennia. We're searching for a better who was the first to write about the dan· door Orientation Trips this year, August game than war," said Robert Fuller, a gers of offensive wars. They observed that 29-September 3, are asked to call Jim Pea pioneer in the field of citizen diplomacy wars mobilize huge masses for a single cock, Colby's director of student activities, who spoke on campus December 4. Fuller purpose, and the group hopes to similarly at (207) 872-3340. Leaders will be chosen was a professor of physics at Columbia mobilize citizens to prevent future wars. this month. and later president of Oberlin College, but In addition to continued teleconfer abandoned academia to promote under ences, Fuller proposed what he terms standing between the United States and "Peace Corps II." While the Peace Corps The psychology department's new facilities Russia. Fuller has traveled to Russia on sends Americans to aid Third World na on third floor of Roberts Union were the numerous occasions and helped to engi· tions, this new group would promote bet site of the Maine Psychological Associa neer a series of live teleconferences be ter relations between the United States tion's 35th anniversary meeting last fall. tween Soviet and American citizens and and Russia. He believes that a large cross "Trends in Treatment'' was the meeting's scientists. cultural exchange of citizens would help to theme, according to incumbent MePA He suggested that prior to this cen· bridge the gap between the two nations. president and department chair Nicholas tury, man viewed war as a mass-participa He plans to continue working as a citizen Rohrman. tion pastime. 'War was an activity with diplomat with financial support from excitement, glory, winners, losers, black various educational foundations. Although and-white divisions of good and evil, and he finds his efforts personally rewarding, A "BYOB" policy was instituted in the roles for many different people. It gave he acknowledged that tangible results are Colby Spa in early December, enabling meaning to the lives of many people." In usually difficult to see: 'Our work feels students legally entitled to consume alco World War I and II the percentage of like throwing a stone in a big lake. You hol to bring beer or wine into the Spa dur civilian casualties increased dramatically. can't see any effect, but you know that the ing prescribed hours. The policy, which "Only then did citizens begin to question level of the lake has to have risen now was to be enforced by students them wars. We might have gone on playing war that that stone's sitting on the bottom." selves, ran on a trial basis through Jan forever if it weren't for nuclear weapons. BNC Plan. As of early January, adequate liquor liability insurance remained unavailable, and College officers hoped that the Maine Colby Races Against MS State Legislature would follow Massachu The Colby community pledged about $3,000 to runners in the 10-kilometer road race organb,ed setts' lead in imposing a ceiling on awards by students at homecoming last November to support multiple sclerosis research. in liquor liability suits.
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The special collectionsstaff of Miller Library The book promises to be controversial The most controversial aspect of the catalogues and keeps any books written by for several reasons, not the least of which book, however, is the iconoclastic way alumni and fa culty of which they are aware. is that, in an academic world all too com that Professor Lubin interprets three hal For this reason, and for the purpose of this placently divided into traditional scholarly lowed works of American portraiture: The book review section, all alumni authors are disciplines, Lubin's work is insistently in Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins, The Bait encouraged to alert the College to the publica terdisciplinary. Not only does he write Children by John Singer Sargent, and tion of their works. Please send books to the equally well as an art historian, a literary Henry James's novel, The Portrait of a Offi_ce of the College Editor, Colby College, critic, and a cultural historian, he also Lady. In the first of these, a large-scale Wa terville, Maine 04901-4799. brings to bear his knowledge of feminism, portrait of a famous surgeon performing film theory, and psychoanalysis through an operation before a group of medical out the book. Few academic authors today students, Lubin discovers strong hints of Act of Portrayal: would attempt such an ambitious blending sexual voyeurism, of hostility toward Eakins, Sargent, James together of these widely disparate scholar women, and of the mystery that, to Vic by David M. Lubin ly approaches; even fewer would be as torian males, women represented. With Yale University Press, 1985 gratifyingly successful. The Bait Children, Lubin shows that the 189 pages The book is concerned with American four pretty little girls portrayed are $20.00 "portraiture"- what Lubin calls "the depic trapped within a patriarchal social struc tion of character" - in both the painting ture as rigid as the shape of the canvas on and the literature of one hundred years which they are painted. Finally, with The ago. But because the book is also con Portrait of a Lady, Lubin argues persuasive cerned with how we, as viewers or read ly that Isabel Archer, traditionally regard ers, unintentionally impose our present-day ed as an innocent American deceived by Portroyal• Eah;ns, Sa'!
Michael Marlais Instructor in Art
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 11 Other Noteworthy Books by Alumni Faculty Recommendations and Faculty From Miriam F. Bennett, William R. Ke nan, Binnie, Eric (associate professor of English Jr., Professor of Biology and performing arts). The Theatrical De signs of Charles Ricketts. Charlotte, N.C.: Chute, Carolyn. The Beans of Egypt, Maine. UMI Research Press, 1985. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1985.
Hogendorn, Jan (Grossman Professor of Elledge, Scott.E.B. White: A Biography. Economics). Development Economics. New New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 100 Years Ago York: Harper and Row, 1986. 1984. There was much joy on campus as Hogendorn, Jan. Shell Money of the Slave Griffin, Donald R. Animal Thinking. Cam the benevolent faculty decided to Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University bridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. make Latin and Greek 'wholly op Press, 1986. tional after the senior year." This Kitcher, Philip. Va ulting Ambition: Sociobi faculty was composed of 11 pro Kenney, Susan (associate professor of Eng ology and the Quest fo r Human Na ture. fessors, and tuition was an exorbi lish) . Graves in Academe. New York: Vi Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1985. tant $45 per year. However, stu king Press, 1985. dents were advised that "total necessary expenses of each year in Mackenzie, G. Calvin (associate professor From jean Sanborn, director of the Writing cluding board, washing, fuel, and of government; vice president for develop Center and lecturer in English lights are from $225 to $275." ment and alumni relations) . American Gov ernment: Politics and Public Policy. New Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. New York: Random House, 1985. York: Warner Books, 1984. 50 Years Ago
Olivares, Jorge (assistant professor of mod Kenney, Susan. Graves in Academe. New While today's Colby students have em languages, Spanish). La Novela Deca York: Viking Press, 1985. been known to voice their opinions dente en Venezuela. Caracas: Armitano, on matters affecting campus life, 1984. Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. certainly this is nothing new; only Berkeley: North Point Press, 1983. the issues have changed. In 1936 Rigby, Shirley Lincoln '57. Smaller Than students were up in arms over a Most. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred College regulation that required $2 Ye ars of Solitude. New York: Avon Books, fi nes for each class missed on days Reich, Leonard (associate professor of ad 1975. preceding and following vacations. ministrative science). The Making of Amer One sophomore suggests that Colby ican Industrial Research. Cambridge: Naylor, Gloria. The Wo men at Brewster could build a second library if this Cambridge University Press, 1986. Place. New York: Viking Press, 1982. rule were still in effect today!
Weiss, Jonathan (associate professor of modem languages, French). French-Canadi 25 Years Ago an Theatre. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
Many Colby professors, particularly those on campus in January, have been dismayed by the fact that their students' penchant for skiing sometimes exceeds their desire to study. The record shows that stu dents cannot be held responsible for this. InJanuary 1961 the Echo reported that Colby appointed an Austrian ski instructor to the facul ty. Werner Rothbacher, then direc tor of the Sugarloaf Ski School, gave free lessons in "the most modem techniques in skiing" during second semester. It is clear that today's students are merely carrying on a tradition. Any link between Colby and Sugarloaf was established by the faculty 25 years ago.
12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Black and White
In South Africa the two must be reconciled soon, or tragedy is certain
by William R. Cotter
Last fa ll, in the midst of intense campus de area is subject to a bewildering network of in the House and 80 to 12 in the Senate. bate on issues related to South Africa, Presi racial laws; where it is impossible to Subsequently, President Reagan imposed dent Cotter agreed to address here questions organize black political parties or other limited economic sanctions against South that had been raised by members of the Colby wise engage in nonviolent opposition to Africa. The president also called upon all community. He is an authority in this area, apartheid; where any outspoken black American businesses operating in South having begun to work on African issues in leader is subject to immediate arrest and Africa to sign and support the Sullivan 1962, when he was appointed an assistant at detention without charges or trial and is Principles. These are voluntary guidelines torneygeneral fo r the government of Northern denied access to family or legal assistance; first announced in 1977 by leading Ameri Nigeria under the MITFellows in Africa Pro and where widespread torture and deaths can corporations operating in South Afri gram Subsequently, he was a Ford Founda of political detainees in South African ca - under the leadership of the Reverend tion representative in Latin America and, prisons have been documented by such Leon Sullivan, a black minister who is also from 1970 to 1979, was president of the Afri groups as Amnesty International and the a director of General Motors - pledging sig can-American Institute in New York. Since U.S. Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights natory companies to upgrade the employ coming to Colby, he has remained a trustee of Under Law. ment conditions of and provide equal the African-American Institute and also None of these facts of South African treatment for black workers. serves on the National Council of the South life are new. They have resulted from a Last summer, widespread violence in African Education Program, a cooperative systematic set of policies followed by the the South African black townships became program of corporations, U.S. colleges and Nationalist government since it assumed a nightly feature on national television universities, the U.S. Agency for International power in 1948. The ability of blacks to news. That, combined with President Development, and fo undations to train black lobby peacefully for moderate change with Pieter Botha's failure to announce signifi South Africans in the United States. Recent in the system has virtually disappeared. cant policy changes at a critical point in op-ed pieces on South Africa byPreside nt American consciousness about South August, led large numbers of Americans to Cotter have appeared in the Boston Globe, Africa was heightened during the fall of the conclusion that only greater pressure and his major piece on U.S. policy options 1984 by three major events: (1) the receipt on South Africa to end apartheid could toward South Africa was published in Foreign of the Nobel Peace Prize by the head of possibly head off the violent revolution Affairs in 1978. the South African Council of Churches that appeared to be underway. Botha's (now Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg), January speech was described by the New Why has South Africa recently gener Desmond Tutu; (2) the beginning of the Yo rk Times as only a "one inch" movement ated such great concern in the United "free South Africa movement" in the Unit in the right direction -too little too late. States? ed States, where prominent Americans, on The South African system of apartheid a daily basis, offered themselves for arrest How has the Colby community ex is almost universally condemned in this after peaceful picketing of the South Afri pressed concern about South Africa? country and abroad. South Africa is the can Embassy in Washington and other tar As the 1985-86 academic year opened only remaining white-dominated country gets elsewhere in the country; and (3) a at Colby, the chair of the Advisory Com on the African continent, and the 5 million successful two-day general strike by black mittee on Investor Responsibility, econom whites have total political and economic trade unions that paralyzed the industrial ics Professor Thomas Tietenberg, began to control over the 23 million blacks, 'col heartland of South Africa. consult with the trustees, alumni rep oreds" (people of mixed parentage). and Our country responded. In the spring resentatives, and campus constituents to 'Asians.' It is a country where white earn of 1985 student and faculty pressures esca determine whether Colby's investment ings average four times those of blacks; lated on more than 200 U.S. campuses, guidelines were still an adequate response where 25 percent of whites graduate from and members of Congress realized increas to the increasingly volatile South African high school, but only 1 percent of blacks ingly that the American policy of "con· situation. This committee grew out of Col do so; where the government expenditures structive engagement" with South Africa by's first official resolution on South Africa on white education are seven times greater simply was not working. As a result, lead on April 15, 1978, when the trustees en per capita than those for blacks; where a ing conservatives joined their liberal coun dorsed the Sullivan Principles and divesti black's ability to accept a job, move terparts to pass a bipartisan sanctions bill ture of holdings in companies 'that fail to around the country, or live in a particular against South Africa by votes of 380 to 48 demonstrate adequate initiative in imple-
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 13 menting policies and practices consistent Colby must move beyond current policy," If business has made significant con with eliminating racial discrimination in but the trustees also felt that the Sullivan tributions in promoting social change South Africa." Then President Robert E. L. Principles had been successful over the in South Africa, why should the Col Strider II appointed the investment adviso seven years during which we have sup lege divest in 1987? ry committee, whose guidelines and rec ported them. They applauded the leaders American businesses in South Africa ommendations since have led Colby to of the Sullivan-signatory companies who have, in my view, accomplished a great divest nearly $3 million worth of holdings have now pledged to use their influence to deal since the Sullivan Principles were in in nine companies and to institute a "no persuade the South African government to augurated in 1977. The positive contribu purchase" list of another 50 companies. end apartheid and to initiate multiracial tions of U.S. companies were documented At the outset of the committee's in discussions with representative black in a recent study produced by the Invest quiry last fall, it was clear that campus leaders promptly, leading to the sharing of ment Responsibility Research Center for concern about apartheid had reached an political power within a united South the University Research Consortium on all-time high. In October, the faculty voted Africa. American Corporate Investment in South almost unanimously for complete and im At the same time, the trustees also Africa, of which Colby is a member .1 The mediate divestment of all Colby shares in recognized "that only a finite time period IRRC study, completed in October 1985, U.S. corporations operating in South Afri remains to demonstrate the fruits of such concluded that: "American firms appear to ca, and an anti-apartheid rally held on the efforts." Accordingly, they accepted and be doing somewhat better than the rest of steps of Miller Library attracted almost endorsed the general deadline - spring the business community in South Africa in 400 who stayed through nearly two hours 1987 -that has been established by Bishop seeking changes in the South African sta of faculty and student addresses. During Tutu and Leon Sullivan. The trustees hope tus quo: other campus meetings in the fall, our that legal apartheid will by then be in the Specifically, IRRC found that Ameri community had the opportunity to learn process of being dismantled and that the can firms that had signed the Sullivan firsthand about the realities of life under government and legitimate representatives Principles paid higher minimum wages apartheid from two Colby students from of the black majority will progress in talks and had significantly more blacks in key that beautiful but tragic country. The dealing with sharing power. The board set job categories than nonsigners. While trustee investment committee had dis forth these "minimum indicators" of prog there was still a wage gap between blacks cussed Colby's policies with Professor Tie ress toward dismantling apartheid: (1) the and whites employed by signers, the gap tenberg and, in conjunction with the end of the state of emergency, (2) the re was even greater among nonsigner and October 18-19 trustees' meeting, held open lease of all political prisoners and the re South African firms. Signers had a superi hearings where more than 60 students, moval of the ban on restricted political or record in training black employees, in faculty, and alwnni testified. Virtually all organization, and (3) significant progress desegregating facilities, in early recognition of them favored immediate and complete toward an end to the passbook and influx of black trade unions, and in community divestment of shares. control systems. Without such indicators projects (to which signers have contributed In addition to the faculty resolution of progress, the College will divest its re more than $100 million since 1977, includ and the overwhelming testimony favoring maining shares in U.S. companies operat ing substantial donations to the Legal Re total, immediate divestment, the student ing in South Africa, beginning immediately sources Center, which has successfully newspaper, The Colby Echo, editorialized: after Commencement in 1987, "in a man defended black rights through South Afri "After an obligatory amount of hemming ner consistent with the protection of Col can courts). Indeed, when 80 black leaders and hawing about its responsibility to safe by's portfolio assets." As of last fall, the in the Johannesburg area recently were guard the College's financial ability, the College's endowment portfolio totaled ap asked to "give the names of any companies Board of Trustees should vote this week proximately $50 million, of which $10 mil operating in South Africa (foreign or na end for divestment from companies doing lion was invested in Sullivan-signatory tional) which you think have a good rec business in South Africa. To do otherwise companies that were either "making prog ord of social responsibility," they named would be morally reprehensible .... ress" or "making good progress• in imple only five, of which three were subsidiaries While no Trustee is a member of South menting the Sullivan program. of U.S. firms: IBM, Mobil, and Ford. The Africa's black community, all the Trustees two South African firms named by black are members of the community of man. leaders were Anglo-American and South And as such, they have a moral obligation Will the trustees next decide to divest African Breweries. No European compa to speak up for their brothers in South Af shares of U.S. companies operating in nies were mentioned. rica whose voices have been silenced by other global trouble spots, such as Af But U.S. business involvement in oppression. Divestment is a must. To vote ghanistan and Central America? South Africa has not, by any means, been for anything less would be a vote for the No. The trustee resolution dealt with entirely exemplary. The IRRC also found betrayal of the principles upon which this this "slippery slope" problem in its last par that the percentage of blacks employed at College was founded and those for which agraph, as follows: U.S. companies was lower than at other Elijah Parish Lovejoy gave his life." firms; that while training programs for South Africa constitutes a unique problem. blacks have increased, they still trail the . It is the only country in the world where political, personal and economic rights depend What was the trustees' response? solely upon the color of one's skin. This extraor Despite the strong urgings from the dinary situation calls for the extraordinary steps 10ther members of the consortium include Am herst, Bryn Mawr, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, campus to divest immediately, the trustees which the Trustees have today taken. While there are other situations involving complex Dartmouth, Harvard, Haverford, Notre Dame, adopted a different tack, one which I, per moral issues elsewhere in the world, the deci Oberlin, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Rutgers, Smith, sonally, fully support. The board agreed sion today should not be construed as precedent Stanford, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Wesleyan, with the campus advisory committee "that for Trustee action on such other issues. Williams, and Yale.
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investment, per employee, that U.S. com possibility. If, on the other hand, there also finds support from some of the largest panies make in training their white staff; is no real change in South Africa by Com black trade union federations, Fosatu and that blacks rarely participate in planning mencement 1987, it is likely that a number Cusa. The largest federation of black or directing the community projects sup of U.S. firms will withdraw, in addition to workers, the Congress of South African ported by U.S. firms; and that the nearly the 45 that already have left. Moreover, Trade Unions, was founded in November $15 million that American companies con the business and college communities will and called for disinvestment by foreign tributed each year for community projects know that Colby supported the Sullivan firms. The National Union of Mine Work compared poorly to the estimated $84 mil Principles during their entire 10-year span . ers, however, has taken neither a pro- nor lion a year that they paid in annual truces an antidisinvestment stance, and the Food to the South African government between and Canning Workers Union, while sup 1980 and 1983. (Such true payments proba But wouldn't blacks suffer most if U.S. porting pressure on the government, has bly ended in 1984, when the U.S. firms, business withdrew from South Africa? not taken a formal position on disinvest collectively, lost over $300 million in U.S. corporations employ approxi ment either. South African operations.) Critics of U.S. mately 65,000 workers in South Africa, Three public opinion polls in the black corporate investment in South Africa also which prompts many, including some of community, conducted between June 1984 note that several American companies Colby's trustees, to express concern about and September 1985, found that there was have given strategic support to that coun the impact of U.S. business withdrawal on widespread support for economic sanc try's military and police, and that existing their employees, the employees' families, tions of some sort, but only a quarter of South African law could be invoked to re the customers, and the social service proj those employed by foreign companies quire U.S. firms to supply goods to that ects the business community has support favored disinvestment. A Gallup poll of government. ed in South Africa. Indeed, from a purely blacks and urban Africans conducted for These contributions and failures not economic point of view, most American the Sunday Times of London found that 77 withstanding, the most encouraging devel firms have little reason to hold on in percent favored economic sanctions opment in the Sullivan program relates to South Africa since the business climate against South Africa, even though 48 per the fourth amplification, announced in the has been deteriorating for a number of cent of those responding said they would fall of 1984, whereby signatory companies years now, and few American companies suffer personally as a result. An opinion now pledge themselves to work for the still make money from their South African poll of Africans in 10 major metropolitan end of apartheid itself. The U.S. Corporate operations. Moreover, most U.S. firms areas, conducted in September 1985, Council in South Africa, made up of the with investments in South Africa could found that nearly half of those surveyed chief executive officers of 53 American easily write off their equity investments support the Tutu-South African Council of corporations and led by General Motors with only a negligible impact on their an Churches stand that foreign firms must and Burroughs,2 have joined 91 South Af nual operating statements. put pressure on the government to end rican business leaders in a public call on In fact, the potential impact of disin apartheid, a quarter would support imme the South African government for the total vestment is unclear. Even the black com diate disinvestment, and a quarter support abolition of race discrimination, negotia munity in South Africa is divided on the continued investment. Similarly, 57 per tions with acknowledged black leaders question of whether U.S. corporations cent said that they thought disinvestment about power sharing, full South African should withdraw from the country. Cer would actually help pressure the govern citizenship for all people, and a restoration tain blacks, like Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthe ment to end apartheid, while only 33 per and guarantee of the rule of law. lezi, the hereditary leader of South Africa's cent said it would not. These demands by American and largest black ethnic group, explicitly favor South African business leaders parallel the increased investment by foreign compa "minimum indicators of progress toward nies. Similarly, the Labor party, the largest Can American firms, in fact, withdraw dismantling apartheid" stipulated in the political group among the "colored" opposi their assets from South Africa under Colby trustees' October 1985 resolution. It tion in South Africa, in 1985 called for a South African law? is hard to know whether such changes five-year moratorium on efforts to stop Perhaps not. Since September 1, 1985, can, in fact, be brought about by May of foreign investment in South Africa. the South African government has im 1987. I, for one, would not dismiss that On the other hand, church leaders posed a Rand exchange control law which, such as Desmond Tutu, Alan Boesak, in effect, would force American firms to Byers Naude, as well as the South African sell their assets through the "financial Council of Churches, the Azanian People's Rand pool," and, if there were little foreign ZAmerican Home Products; Baxter Travenol; Organization (Az.apo), and the United demand for new investments in South Af Borden; Borg-Warner; Bristol-Myers; Burroughs; Democratic Front would support with rica, could force American firms to sell Caltex Petroleum; Caterpillar Tractor; Chase Manhattan; CIGNA; Citicorp; Coca-Cola; Col drawal of foreign companies from South their assets at a deep discount from their gate-Palmolive; Control Data; Dart & Kraft; Africa . Some of these individuals and book value. However, if an American Deere & Company; E. I. du Pont de Nemours & groups urge companies to establish a company finds a European or other non Company; Eastman Kodak; Eaton; Exxon; Fed policy of "conditional withdrawal," under South African buyer and contracts to be eral-Mogul; Firestone; Fluor; Ford; General which a would announce publicly paid in a foreign currency, the U.S. com Motors; Hewlett-Packard; Honeywell; Ingersoll firm Rand; IBM; The Interpublic Group; Johnson & that it will withdraw its operations from pany could recover the full value of its Johnson; Kellogg; McGraw-Hill; Merck; Mobil; South Africa after a certain date if the assets. The pool of potential foreign pur Monsanto; NCR; Norton; Olin; Pfizer; Phelps government does not meet specific chasers of American companies is, in fact, Dodge; Rexnord; Schering-Plough; Smith Kline demands for political reform. now decreasing rather than increasing. A Beckman; Sperry; Standard Oil; Sterling Drug; number of countries - for example, Swe 3M; Union Carbide; Upjohn; Warner-Lambert; This policy of conditional withdrawal and Xerox. parallels the demand by Leon Sullivan and den, France, and Australia - now prohibit
16 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Time is running out. Unless the South African government is willing to begin talks soon with the current generation of black leaders, I fear that violence will escalate and that when negotiations finally do begin, the whites will face a much more ideological and intransigent group of black revolutionaries.
any new investments in South Africa, and Mandela admits that there are some withhold mineral exports from the West. Japan has prohibited direct investment in Communist members of the African Na Why should they? It is quite clear from South Africa since 1959. tional Congress, but he compares them to experience elsewhere in Africa that, no the radicals found in political parties in matter what revolutionary rhetoric pre If black South Africans get the vote, virtually every Western democracy. He in cedes independence, the realities of nation isn't there a danger of a Communist sists that the ANC is controlled neither by al self-determination require a government takeover or other developments con the USSR nor any other outside force. Fur to maximize the prosperity of its people, trary to our national interest? thermore, he speaks generously about and that means trade with and investment There is, of course, no way of know white South Africans: 'Unlike white people from the West. The record of most African ing what policy some future black majority anywhere else in Africa, whites in South liberation movements is that they are first government might wish to institute. How Africa belong here - this is their home." and foremost "nationalist" and only second ever, several factors encourage me to be In addition, Mandela has acknowl arily "socialist," "communist," or "capitalist." lieve that if the South African government edged the need for a gradual change from were willing to open dialogue with the apartheid to a multiracial society. In a current generation of moderate black lead 1985 interview, for example, he indicated How can black majority rule be com ers, a new governmental form could be that he would not press for the uncon bined with white minority rights? fashioned to ensure minority rights, pro trolled movement of blacks into all-white The assumption that the racial struggle tect private property, and retain close Johannesburg: "We want Johannesburg to in South Africa will lead to a "winner take commercial and, I hope, diplomatic ties to remain the beautiful and thriving city that all political power'' result is unnecessarily the United States and the West. Those it is now. Therefore, we are willing to pessimistic. Blacks talk about sharing who fear a Communist takeover point to maintain separate living until there are power, and it is inevitable. There must, the support that the African National Con enough new employment opportunities someday, be negotiation between blacks gress has received from the Soviet Union and new homes to allow blacks to move and whites concerning the future of their and the Eastern Bloc. That support is real, into Johannesburg with dignity." Mandela country. The whites are too numerous and but ANC leaders have insisted for years recognizes that whites need to be reas too well-armed to be "driven into the sea," that they turned to the East for help only sured about their own economic and prop and they have nowhere else to go; the when they were denied any sort of assis erty security if multiracial talks are, in blacks are too aware, too numerous, and tance from the West. fact, to prove fruitful. too aroused to accept the status quo much Nelson Mandela, the leader of the The white minority in South Africa longer. There is no lack of political models ANC who has been jailed since 1962, will, in all likelihood, maintain its econom to bridge the need for "one man, one vote" sometimes is described in the American ic dominance for some time, since it pos on the one hand and "minority rights" on press as a "Communist" or "terrorist,• but sesses the capital, educational background, the other. We have done that in our own those who know him better have a very and experience to keep the economy country through a written Constitution, a different impression. Indeed, Mandela's re healthy. A healthy economy, obviously, is Bill of Rights, an independent judiciary, lease has now been specifically mentioned very much in the interest of all South Afri and a decentralized federal system. Similar by the Reagan administration, among cans, and the United States need not fear provisions are available for black and many others, as the essential first step to that a new black majority government in white leaders who wish to fashion a South ward multiracial dialogue in South Africa. South Africa would decide, for example, to African compromise. Indeed, a number of
THE COLBY ALUMNUS 17 constitutional schemes have been suggest the opposition political parties receive free servative paper published by students) as ed by academics and others in South Afri space in the government-published news follows: ca, and I see no reason to assume that papers. Indeed, white minorities have In general, colleges should not be politically black majority rule need mean white mi stayed on happily in Kenya, Ivory Coast, active. The Board of Trustees should not en nority oppression. Senegal, Malawi, and even Zimbabwe (for dorse a candidate for the presidency, for exam merly Rhodesia), which is now more pros ple. It's a college's obligation to see to it that all perous than it was under the Ian Smith kinds of opinions can thrive on campus and Given the chaos, tribalism, and geno regime. Smith himself, despite his barba that no professors, no students feel inhibited about following their own ideas or expressing cide that have occurred elsewhere in rous treatment of blacks during the time them. The danger of colleges beginning to say, Africa, wouldn't it be better to support he held power, remains a prosperous "This is right, we have put our official stamp of minority rule in South Africa for the farmer with a guarantee of a constitu approval on this policy," is the danger that this indefinite future? tionally secure "white" seat in the Zim will inhibit free discussion and investigation.... The South African issue is slightly different The basis for this question warrants babwe parliament. because the issue comes to us as shareholders inspection. There are more than 50 coun Moreover, even if many African coun in American companies doing business in South tries on the African continent, almost all tries have experienced turmoil, one-party Africa. As shareholders we must confront some of which have become independent na states, and oppression of political oppo moral issues ....We should not be courting op portunities to make public stands. However, on tions during the last 30 years. Several of nents, the current situation in South Africa some issues, like this one, we really cannot these young countries have experienced at is, in my view, even worse. The majority avoid taking a stand. least some periods of tyrannical leader has no political rights, and even the white ship, and there have been one or two ex minority is, in turn, governed by the Afri amples in that 30-year period of true kaner subgroup which has held unchal The dilemma that has confronted Col genocide. In addition, African govern lenged power for almost 4-0 years. There by has, in fact, been the subject of board ments have, by and large, been unstable are probably more political prisoners per discussion at numerous leading colleges and there have been numerous military capita in South Africa than elsewhere on and universities throughout the country. coups on the continent and a few civil the whole African continent. I know of In the past five or six years, twenty-nine wars. These negative events have been nowhere else in Africa where there have colleges have decided to divest some of well-publicized by Western media that been recent mass roundups of political their shares in U.S. companies with opera dwell on crisis. The more common Afri opponents who have been held indefinite tions in South Africa (usually for failing to can experience of stable governments with ly by the police, without charges or trial, sign or make adequate progress under the vastly expanded educational opportunities without any access to the courts, lawyers, Sullivan Principles). Another thirteen have and health services for their people re or family. totally divested their shares (including, ceives virtually no coverage in our press. Finally, even if all other African ex most recently, Bates, Columbia, Rutgers, What political turmoil African nations periments had failed (and they clearly and Mt. Holyoke), and three others, have experienced is hardly unique to their have not), the white minority in South Af Amherst, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford, continent. Military governments have rica is much larger than the white minori have taken ·positions similar to that been extremely common in Latin America ty that existed in any other African country adopted by the Colby board. throughout its much longer period of inde at the time of the transition to majority A college must remain vigilant to be pendence, and civil wars have occurred in rule. The whites in South Africa are fully sure that no action taken by its adminis numerous countries including, of course, capable of negotiating protection for their tration or trustees compromises freedom our own. As for genocide, nothing on the economic and political security in a multi of speech or inquiry for its students or its African continent approaches the Nazi hol racial government under an enforceable faculty. Colleges like Colby abhor ortho ocaust. I do not mean, by citing these constitution. But time is running out. Un doxy and must do everything possible to Western examples of unstable and oppres less the South African government is will encourage lively debate and to discourage sive governments, to condone military ing to begin talks soon with the current mindless sloganeering, even for the most governments, genocide, one-party states, generation of black leaders, I fear that vio moral cause. As I told the Colby Crossfire, or civil war, but only to point out that the lence will escalate and that when negotia there was no way the Colby trustees could African continent has no monopoly on tions finally do begin, the whites will face avoid the appearance of taking a political such outrages. Just as we would not say a much more ideological and intransigent stance with respect to our shareholdings in that white majority governments in Eu group of black revolutionaries. companies operating in South Africa be rope were unfit for democratic rule be cause to maintain our current position, or cause of what Hitler did, there is no to agree to hold shares in U.S. companies reason to think that the black majority in The questions surrounding South Afri indefinitely, is as much a political stand as South Africa is unfit to share power be ca are certainly troublesome, but the decision to sell. We could not, nor cause the continent has experienced an ldi shouldn't colleges avoid taking stands should we, avoid the moral implications Amin. on political issues in general? of holding such shares, particularly since Is it impossible to think that blacks Yes. Indeed, one of the most difficult the College decided in 1978 that ethical and whites could establish a viable, multi aspects of the South African issue is that it considerations should, on rare occasions, party democracy in South Africa? This has places the board in a position where, no influence our investment decisions. How occurred in its nearest neighbor to the matter what it does, it will be viewed by ever, having taken the stand, we must be north, Botswana, where whites and blacks some group as having taken a political especially vigilant to protect and even to have shared power since independence in stand. I responded to a similar question in encourage the expression of views by 1966, where there are no political prison an interview published in the November those on the campus and elsewhere who ers, no genocide, no civil war, and where 1985 issue of the Colby Crossfire (a con- disagree.
18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Against the Odds
Most organizations to which Lael Swinney Stegall '62 awards grants are unlikely candidates for foundation support
the poor, and the elderly, and the fund friends, and in 1979 Malcolm asked Stegall favors grant proposals designed to increase to work for her. Until 1982, Malcolm's the political effectiveness of these con generosity remained anonymous. As she stituencies. Unlike most philanthropical later told FoundationNews, • ...I think I organizations, the Windom Fund is par shared a perception with most other wom ticularly interested in helping new, high en that using vast sums of money was risk efforts, especially those organized by men's work. Women don't always feel the and for women. Examples of Windom money is really theirs; and they don't Wi ndom Fund Director Fund grants in the last year include $5,000 know how to operate with big sums." La.el Swinney Stegall '62 to the Native Women's Project in Reno, Stegall's background well suited her to Nev., which provides technical assistance become Malcolm's collaborator. Following to native women trying to organize graduate school she had entered the Peace themselves politically; $5,000 to the Mon Corps as planned, serving in Turkey. Later tana Low-Income Fund in Helena, for she directed a youth program in a District public education and organizing around of Columbia settlement house, was a unde THE COLBY ALUMNUS 19 In Giving, Receiving A growing number of Colby students are volunteering time for causes apart from campus, but they do so for themselves as well as others Each day several students pile into senior skills. Noting that the activities of vision Bell and Greenslet work with a local flona Nagy'scar to go to work at the Wa ter impaired teenagers tend to be quite fami social worker, Winnie Turner, who identi ville Soup Kitchen in Sacred Heart Church. ly-centered, State Bureau of Rehabilitation fies possible little brothers or sisters from employee Carolyn Beebe explained that Waterville's Brookside and Pleasant Street A record of 80 Colby students this year share such simple companionship has helped schools. Turner secures a consent form time with '1ittle brothers" and '1ittle sisters" in handicapped teenagers to develop much signed by the youngster's parent/s, and the Wa terville area. needed abilities to take risks socially. Bell and Greenslet try to match each ado Beebe worked with Boyd last year to cre lescent with a Colby student whose inter Five students are trained rape crisis counsel ate the pilot Blind Buddy program. ests are similar. Although nearly equal ors, each on call several days monthly to pro While 10 students have befriended numbers of Colby men and women vide emergency assistance. blind peers, another 12 have 'adopted participate, Bell has a waiting list of grandparents" through Boyd's arrangement would-be little brothers. The Big Brother/ Another eight are "directors" working with with a local nursing home. The Adopt-a Big Sister Program has doubled in size in Colby Against MS chair Kelly Chopus '86 to Grandparent program, in turn, spawned the past three years, and its leaders re coordinate fund raising fo r multiple sclerosis the Ho Ho Hotline before Christmas, so ceive inquiries from neighboring commu research. that children could call the Colonial nities and social service agencies, forcing Manor nursing home 'hotline" during spec Bell and Greenslet to decide how far they ified hours and speak with residents pos can extend their own volunteer adminis Through these and many other stir ing as Santa or Mrs. Claus. trative labors. rings, it is clear that student volunteer ac Still other students have found very Another student endeavor, Colby tivities at Colby are surging. "Altruism young friends through volunteer work at Against MS, is part of a nationwide fund Awesome," proclaimed the title of a recent the Eustis Parkway Child Care Center at raising campaign that the National Mul Echo editorial, and it is, indeed, im the First Congregational Church. And the tiple Sclerosis Society organized last pressive. Furthermore, the dimensions of Colby Clowners find friends of all ages as summer. The carrot dangled by the MS So student community services are changing: they entertain in schools, day-care centers, ciety is a big-name rock concert to take whereas charitable works used to com churches, and nursing homes. place at the college with the most success prise mostly campus parties from which In addition to being personally re ful drive, but Chopus indicated that the proceeds were given to particular causes, warding, volunteer activities may be re Mules are motivated by more: "People are now students are giving more of their time lated to some future career interests. A aware that they might get MS. I think and energies, as well. "The more I get out training program for Literacy Volunteers that's a driving force." there, the better I feel," explained Perrin offered such a dual opportunity during sec During first semester Colby Against Boyd '86. ond semester. So did the special Jan Plans MS put about $3,400 in the bank and had Boyd is largely responsible for the at Mid-Maine Medical Center, where sev about $1,000 more in pledges due. It came number of students now engaged in vol eral students did volunteer work. from efforts so small as collecting deposits unteer activities. Through independent While Boyd deserves, and generally on bottles and cans and so grand as a study last spring, she identified groups of receives, generous credit for helping stu 10-kilometer road race on Homecoming greater Waterville residents who could dents find volunteer roles, she is not alone Weekend. The latter alone secured $3,000 benefit from Colby students' attention, and in that capacity. Others include Louisa in pledges, including $1,200 raised by this year, working out of the dean of stu Bell '87 and Leslie Greenslet '86, who head government Professor Sandy Maisel. Colby dents office, she is making her peers the Colby Big Brother/Big Sister Program. Against MS also is holding educational aware of opportunities to help others. Her Providing a model toward which other forums in the residence halls, sponsoring approach is personal. "I don't list their op student community service programs parties to make money, and planning a '1ip tions," said Boyd, "but instead I learn their might aspire, the Big Brother/Big Sister sync" contest in which students will im interests and try to find something to Program is an independent student organi itate famous singers. 'This whole thing is match them." zation with Stu-A funding of $480 for this fun: said Chopus, whose life, according to As a result, programs such as Be a year -a modest sum, but "enough," said one faculty member, has been trans Blind Buddy have developed. "Buddies" are Bell. With it, a few tricks, and great help formed by the drive. simply that - friends with whom legally from Seiler's Food Service, they plan free Other imaginative collections also re blind teenagers spend time, thereby devel dinners, movies, and games for the Colby flect student awareness of those less for oping confidence and improving social students and their young friends. tunate. Students in Chaplin Commons 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Youngsters deliver important messages to Colby flona Nagy '85chats with a friend whose acquaintance she made at the Wa terville Soup students playing Santa and Mrs. Claus early last Kitchen, where she volunteers time daily. December. initiated a canned food drive that resulted world is a significant consideration. there. By comparison our problems seem in each residence hall in that commons Bowlds, who began volunteer work in so minimal." Boyd relishes the chance to contributing a food basket to Waterville's high school in an effort to find satisfaction make different kinds of friends, noting needy. Commons cultural life chairs joined beyond alcohol and drugs, said, 'That's that few Colby students can relate to the with Boyd to sponsor a Toys for Tots col what you're here for. Ultimately you don't experience of a man she met at the Soup lection before Christmas. And a clothing find much meaning in just living for your Kitchen and who now walks her dog with drive cleaned out many closets so that in self.' Like other volunteers, he is acutely her. Poverty forced him to live in a dump ternational students might have adequate aware of others' efforts-and slightly un ster for two winters. Nagy said the Soup clothing for winter. Unused clothes then comfortable with attention drawn to his Kitchen, which serves a robust noon meal were given to members of the Waterville own. Of his twice-weekly trips to the Soup to 60-90 persons daily, has "opened up a community. Kitchen, Bowlds said, '1 wash dishes, have whole new world" for her, too. "I didn't Volunteerism at Colby is bound to fun, eat lunch, and when I leave, every know people before who didn't have mon continue growing if students keep talking body says 'God bless you,' and they mean ey, who didn't have nice clothes, who so positively about their experiences. For it. It makes you feel so small: they're the drank a lot. Those have always been the most students concerned, •fun• is a real ones doing all the work." Hagerty finds not kinds of people I've been afraid of." Hav element in volunteer work. "I go down to just the contribution but the avenue im ing arranged her final semester to allow the Soup Kitchen every day and play with portant: "A political achievement wouldn't ample time for the Soup Kitchen and an 80-year-old friend," said Nagy. Thomas mean as much to me as having [my little clowning, Nagy said, "The balance that it Hagerty '88 draws enjoyment from com brother] up here and enjoying a nice gives to the college experience is probably monplace activities shared with his little afternoon.' more than I can realize right now.' brother: "There's a lot of things we take for To break the sense of isolation that It also gives balance to townspeople's granted-just eating in the dining hall is students often feel on Mayflower Hill, a perceptions of students. As Bell recently fun for a kid who eats peanut butter sand few hours of volunteer work may be bet wrote for the Echo, "People are beginning wiches all the time.' Said big brother Mi ter than a week in Ft. Lauderdale. "One of to see that Colby students are not 'spoiled chael Bowlds '89: •At the parties you can the main benefits to Colby students is the rich kids on the hill,' but that we are real see that the [Colby] students are having as chance to get out of the world of 20-year people, with a lot to give and a lot to much fun as the younger ones.' olds and academics," said Bell. "It gets learn, just like everyone else." For most of the volunteers inter them out into the real world and reminds viewed, making a contribution to the them that everything isn't perfect out LF THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21 Partners in Quest Colby students have some remarkable opportunities to share scholarship with faculty mentors With a Colby faculty:student ratio of Yields of the Scientific Method self-confidence and the ability to think on 1: 11, one expects a greater degree of inter their own and to overcome obstacles." The action between the two than might exist at Students are actively involved in re faculty, in turn, is provided with both a larger college. But one would not neces search in all the scientific disciplines- •stimulus and feedback." For about six sarily expect the degree of student/faculty biology, chemistry, geology, and physics. years, Firmage himself has been working research that prevails at Colby. As re According to David Firmage, associate pro with students on the population dynamics search for this article began, it was a reve fessor of biology and chair of the natural of three orchid species at the Colby-Mar lation to learn just how many students sciences division, they experience the ston Preserve, a bog off Great Pond in Bel were actually involved and in the many 'whole gamut - from drudgery-type jobs to grade. Typically the students start out as ways that that involvement was initiated. exciting participation in the conceptual set paid summer research assistants and con A few are shown here, some of them up of a project to the work that results in tinue their work during the academic working on projects purely out of intellec publication. Aside from obvious research year. This involvement teaches them how tual curiosity, others involved with proj methods training, it brings the students to design the study and gather the data, ects that will - whether the students planned it or not - change the courses of their lives. The lists that run alongside the featured students indicate other students and faculty collaborating on research, but these lists cannot give credit to everyone. To those who were missed or remain unmentioned here, we extend our regrets and apologies. Those doing research include senior scholars, who are selected at the end of their junior year, those who asked a ques tion and are trying to find the answer, stu dents enrolled in independent study, and those who work with faculty as paid as sistants, during both the summer and the academic year. Several categories of re search exist, including student research on which a faculty member either collabo rates or assists and faculty research on which a student either collaborates or as sists. The Colby 2000 Campaign's $4.5 mil lion goal for faculty support bespeaks the priority that these endeavors rightly claim on Mayflower Hill. David Firmage, associate professor of biology, observes Jeffrey Norton '87, who is weighing or chid roots, a process necessary to their research on the population dy namics of orchid species at Great Pond in Belgrade. 22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Athletics Faculty advisor: Deborah Pluck, adjunct as sistant professor Student: Julie Tarara '88 Research: Intercollegiate activities in Maine; the development of a course on "Women in Sports' at Colby Biology Facultyadvisor: Miriam Bennett, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Student: John Pelletier '86 Research: Possible effects of continuous light on salamanders Student: Katherine Wincapaw '87 Research: Effects of acid rain environment on turtles Student: Tarnsen Wolfe '87 Research:Effect of continuous light on mice Student: Jehane Zakher '86 Research: Effects of exercise on humans in hot and cold environments Faculty advisor: Arthur Champlin, associate professor Student: Cynthia Kelly '86 Peter Westervelt '85 inoculates cultures of Azotobacter chroococcum B-8, the experimental Research: Ultrastructural analysis of the microbial system that is being studied under a National Science Foundation grant awarded to mouse blastocyst professors Mabbott, Fekete, and Reynolds. Student: Brent Harris '86 Research: Ultrastructural analysis of the mouse blastocyst Faculty advisor: F. Russell Cole, associate and then how to analyze that data and iron assimilation. His research has been professor prepare it for presentation or publication. presented at the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Student: Benjamin "Ted' Wolff '86 Peter Westervelt '85, son of Nancy Conference on Undergraduate Research in Research: Extinction of Hawaiian arthropods Fortuille Westervelt '54 and classics Pro Biology, at the Maine Biological and Med due to introduced species fessor Peter Westervelt, was a classics ical Sciences Symposium, and has been Faculty advisor: Frank Fekete, assistant pro maj or who graduated summa cum laude accepted for publication in a paper by Fek fessor and Phi Beta Kappa. He came to Colby ete, Mabbott, Michael Bloom '85, and Student: Peter Westervelt '85 Research: Characteri7.ation of the low and after two and one half years at Brown and himself. high affinity iron assimilation systems in ni Westervelt's research experience has five years in the rare coin business. After trogen fixing bacteria he left Brown, a decision he had made be helped not to define his profession, as he Faculty advisors: David Firmage, associate cause he was unsure of what he wanted to had already chosen medicine, but the di professor, and F. Russell Cole, associate pro do, he decided upon medicine and then rection of that choice -academic medicine fessor transferred to Colby in 1983. Once here, in a research setting. Already accepted for Students: Jeff Norton '87 and Lauren Ball '85 Westervelt became interested in the basic September enrollment at the University of Research: Survivorship and floral ecology of the white-fringed orchid and the grass pink science aspect of medicine, which he was Virginia Medical School, and at Washing orchid able to explore in an independent research ton University in St. Louis with a full six project under biology Professor Frank A. year scholarship, he is waiting to hear Chemistry Fekete, who, with chemistry Professor from other medical schools that offer joint Faculty advisor: R. Daniel Libby '68, assistant Gary Mabbot and physics Professor Ross M.D./Ph.D. programs, thus allowing him profe.>sor A. Reynolds, has undertaken an interdisci to pursue both the clinical and scientific Student: William Jenkins '87 plinary study of iron assimilation systems. aspects of medicine. Research: Chemical models for flavin and nicotinarnide dehydrogenases In February 1985 Fekete, Mabbott, and Scientists, said Westervelt, "are curious Reynolds received a $118,000 grant from by nature, concerned not only in describ Students: Robert Cobuzzi '86, Mlungisi Kwini the National Science Foundation, enough ing the physical world but in explaining '86, and Jill Myerow '86 Research: Mechanism of action of chloro funding to give 13 undergraduate biology, the phenomena they observe.' Looking for peroxidase chemistry, and physics maj ors the oppor answers not yet known, although some Faculty advisor: Gary Mabbott, assistant tunity to work as summer research assis times inherently frustrating, fascinates professor Westervelt, and his experience at Colby tants over the next three and one half Student: Michelle Toder '86 years. Westervelt's work, which he contin provided him the chance to be more 'than Research: Characteri7.ation of iron assimila ues, is on the mechanisms of microbial a pair of hands in the laboratory." tion systems in nitrogen fixing bacteria THE COLBY ALUMNUS 23 Faculty advisor: Thomas Shattuck, associate Senior Scholars: A Time to Explore professor Student: Christopher Cohoes '88 Wendy Lapham and Grantland Rice, to her advisor, English Professor Susan Research: Aerosol particle analysis this year's Senior Scholars, both are im Kenney, by the end of January, and the Students: Benjamin Allen and David '86 mersed in creative writing endeavors, Lap final piece is due at the end of the year. Quillen '86 ham in fiction and Rice in poetry. To help An American studies major, Rice, who Research: Nuclear quadrupole resonance of transition metal catalysts them pursue such independent work, the has been writing poetry for six to seven College excuses Senior Scholars from two years and had worked his way through all courses per semester. the College's poetry courses, sees his Sen &onomics Lapham's "work in progress" started ior Scholarship as an opportunity to find Faculty advisor: Henry Gemery, Dana out to be a collection of short stories that out whether he can write good poetry. His Professor are a "celebration of [a rural] lifestyle," but interests are history and writing- themati Student: Regan Hargraves '86 has evolved into a short novel. Lapham, call y his poems address a combination of Research: British immigrants in the early na who said that she had a "feeling of a real history and personal relationships- sub tional period; labor earnings functions; mi croeconomic bases for learning curve pat story inside" her, of "bits and pieces of jects that he will continue to pursue terns characters" in her head, sees the chance to should he win the Watson Fellowship for pursue her writing as a gift from the Col which he has applied. Writing is frustrat Student: Arlene Kasarjian '86 Research: The role of the public and private lege. The process of writing has been "very ing, said Rice -one spends a lot of time sectors in the industrialization of Russia and slow,' and she spent the first month writ doing nothing - and he finds that eventual Japan, 1870-1914 ing about what she was going to write ly about 20 to 30 hours go into the crea Faculty advisors: Henry Gemery, Dana Pro about. A completed rough draft was due tion of one of his poems. fessor, and Jan Hogendom, Grossman Professor Student: Kenneth OBrien '86 Research: Studies in migration; the microeco nomic basis of learning curves Faculty advisor: Kristin Hallberg, assistant professor Student: Jill Harris '86 Research: Development of computer docu mentation and materials for econometrics course Faculty advisor: Jan Hogendom, Grossman Professor Student: Christina Emond '86 Research: Editing of Economic Development to be published by Harper and Row this year Student: Kelly McPhail '86 Research: Editing of Shell Trade Faculty advisor: James Meehan, professor Student: William Yardley '86 Research: Vertical integration in the U.S. and Japanese automobile industry Faculty advisor: Fred Moseley, assistant professor Student: Randy Mitchell '86 Research: An empirical test of Marx's theory; Marx's scientific methodology Faculty advisor: Thomas Tietenberg, professor Senior scholars in creative writing Wendy Lapham and Grantland Rice sit amongst the tools of Student: Jill Harris '86 their trade. Research: Research for revised edition of En vironmental and Resource Economics by Tietenberg English Faculty advisor: Phyllis Mannocchi, associate professor Student: M. Jane Powers '86 Research: New course development on "Art and oppression: gay and lesbian literature in modem Anglo-American society" 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS COLBY READERSHIP SURVEY The following questionnaire was sent to a random sample of the Colby community in February, and we publish it here to invite additional feedback from other readers of Colby publications. Through this questionnaire we hope to learn how readers view the quantity, quality, and range of information that the College mails to them. Please take about 15 minutes to fill this out and, thus, help us improve the publications Colby sends you. l. How much interest do you have in receiving Colby publications? (Check one.) 11!--Great interest !3l--Little interest 12!--Some interest !4l--No interest 2. Which of the following Colby publications do you receive? _The Colby Alumnus _The Annual Report of _Colby Currents (II 121 (31 the President _The Report of _Colby 2000 _The Colby Engagement 14 15 161 1 Contributions 1 Campaign Report Calendar 3. How much of these publications do you tend to read? (Check one for each publication you receive.) All Most Some Very little Don't read (11 121 131 141 151 Alumnus President's Report Currents Campaign Report Report of Contributions 4. With respect to the quality of material presented in these publications, how do you generally find them? (Check one for each publication you receive.) Excellent Good Fair Poor No opinion 111 121 131 141 151 Alumnus President's Report Currents Campaign Report Report of Contributions Comments: ------5. The number of topics that Colby publications could focus upon is unlimited, and perhaps we over emphasize some at the expense of others. How would you rate the quantity of information provid ed about the following in Colby's publications? Too much About right Too little No opinion 111 JZJ J3J f4J Academic Curriculum Faculty achievements Faculty research Faculty selection and turnover Topics in: humanities natural sciences social sciences interdisciplinary issues Extracurricular Cultural events and performances Sports Visiting lecturers Institutional Admissions policies and results Campus facilities Colby's financial status Colby governance (trustees, overseer visiting committees, etc.) Colby history Fund-raising efforts Student Affairs Minorities at Colby Student opinion on issues Talented individuals Alumni Affairs Alumni club gatherings Alumni Council business and priorities Alumni in their lives and professions after Colby Alumni volunteers for Colby 2 The Colby Alumnus 6. Please rank the past year's Alumnus covers, numbering them with 1 as your favorite and 4 as your least favorite. °COLBY _March 1985 _May 1985 _Sept. 1985 Dec. 1985 VVhy?______� 7. VVhich sections of the Alumnus do you usually read? Read all Read most Read some Don't read 111 121 131 141 Eustis Mailroom !letters) News from the Hill Colby in Motion !sports photos and captions) Profiles among class columns Milestones Alumni Club News 8. VVhat is your favorite part of the magazine? !Check one.) 111-Letters 1s1-Profiles among class columns 121-News 161-Milestones f31-Features 171--0ther:______l4t-Class Correspondence 1s1-Don't know; depends on issue 9. If you read the Class Correspondence, how many columns do you usually read? (Check one.) 111-0nly my own class f4t-Most or all of the class columns 121-0nly the Fifty Plus column 1s1-0ther:______131-All of the classes that were 161-Don't read class colmnns at Colby when I was 10. Of the features in the past two issues of the Alumnus, which did you find interesting? !Check all that apply.) Very interesting Interesting Not interesting Didn't read Ill 121 f31 f4J Two Josephs-On VVheels Uohn and Pete Joseph retire) A Special Kind of Care (a look at hospices) VVodds Together !shared faculty appointments) Extending Our Limits (Colby faculty examine the curriculum) 3 Very interesting Interesting Not interesting Didn't read (I) (2) (3) (4) Schussing into the Skiwear Market (undergraduates' skiwear business) J. Seelye Bixler: Tributes to the Exceptional Man Toward a Better Colby (a review of the Commons system after one year) For the Love of Life (profile of Jane Russell Abbott '4 1) Colby's Irish Renaissance (interest in Irish studies) The Collegiate Rites of Spring ( 1985 commencement coverage) A Time to Remember (overview of 1985 reunions) 11. How would you rate the overall quality of the Alumnus in the following areas? Excellent Good Average Poor No opinion Ill 121 (31 (41 (5) Writing Photography Range of subjects covered General appearance and format Readability of print 12. Would you like the Alumnus to carry a commentary or essay by the president or a senior officer of the College? 111_Yes, in every issue 131--No 121--Yes, occasionally !41--Don't care 13. The Alumnus has a lengthy production schedule that sometimes dates its content, particularly the news, class columns, and milestones. Do you find this a problem? 111--Yes, dated Alumnus material often bothers me 121--Yes, dated Alumnus material sometimes bothers me !31--No, it doesn't bother me 141-.-No opinion 14. Suggestion has been made that the College change the name of The Colby Alumnus. Do you like the present name? 111--Yes 121--No 131-.-Don't care If no, what do you think is the appropriate name? 111_Colby 131--Colby Alumni Quarterly 121--Colby Magazine 141-.-0ther:______ 4 1 5 . Would you find it acceptable for the Alumnus to carry advertising? 111--Yes 121--No 131--Don't care If yes, what kind? (Check all that apply.) 111--General advertising as in commercial magazines 121--Institutional advertising (e.g., promotion of special summer programs or fund raising) 131--Bookstore items l41--0ther:______ 1 6. Would you like to see the magazine include tear-out cards -for example, for alumni to request ad missions information or to volunteer help to career services? 111--Yes 121--No 131--Don't care Annual Report of the President 17. In The Annual Report of the President, 1984-85 how interesting did you find the various sections? Very interesting Interesting Not interesting Don't recall 11) 12) (3) 14) The president's text Milestones Facts about Colby Appendices: The Corporation (officers, trustees, overseers) Colby 2000 Campaign Organization Other Volunteer Leaders Faculty Publications and Achievements Student Achievements and Publications College Prizes Selection of Campus Events The Colby Engagement Calendar 18. Do you use the engagement calendar? If so, where? 111-At home 131--Give it to someone else 121--At work 141--Don't use Colby Currents 19. Publications usually involve a trade-off between fast production and graphic embellishments. How do you regard the typewritten format of Colby Currents? p1--Easy to read 121--Difficult to read 131--No opinion 20. How do you find the range of content in Currents? (Check one.) p1--Excellent 141--Poor r21--Good 1s1--Don't read Currents IJ1--Adequate (Please turn to next page) 5 21. How do you find the quality of the writing in Currents? (Check one.) 11l--Excellent l4l--Poor 12l--Good isl--Don't read Currents 13l--Adequate For Statistical Purposes 22. Your age: 11l--under 25 13)..._3 5-44 IS)..._55-64 12)..._25-34 14)..._45-54 16l--65 or older 23. Your sex: 11l--Male 12)..._Female 24. Your state (or country, if other than U.S.) of residence: ______ 25. Your relationship to the College: (Check all that apply.) 11l--Alumnus/a; class year:___ l4l--Parent 12l--Faculty/staff isl--Student 13l--Friend l6l--Other:______ 26. Have you ever served in any volunteer role such as admissions interviewer, reunion planner, trustee, or fund raiser? Ill-- Yes 12)..._NO If yes, in what capacity?______ 27. If you attended Colby, how often have you returned to campus? 11l--Several times per yeal' l4l--Less often than every five years 12l--Once a year 1sl--Am at Colby now l3l--About once every five years !6l--Other:______ When were you most recently on campus? rnrn month year Thank you for completing this questionnaire to help us refine our publications. Please mail it to the Office of the College Editor, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. 6 Geology Faculty advisor: William Doll, assistant professor Student.· Stephen Potts '86 Research: Gravity and magnetic survey in Waterville and the surrounding area Faculty advisor: Robert Nelson, John D. Mac Arthur Assistant Professor Student: Cynthia Castro '87 Research: Pleistocene environments of north western Alaska Faculty advisor: Bruce Rueger, laboratory assistant Student: J.C. Connelly '87 Research: Analysis of fossil pollen and spores in evaporite rocks from Utah material that is about 300 million years old (Pennsylvanian age) Student: Ann Thayer '86 Research: Analysis of fossil pollen and spores in coal from Utah and Colorado that is 80 to 95 million years old (Cretaceous age) Government Grossman Professor ofEc onomicsJan Hogendom meets with his three student editors, from left Faculty advisor: Roger Bowen, associate pro to right, Kelly McPhail '86, Ken O'Brien '86, and Christie Emond '86. fessor Student: Elizabeth Rhoads '86 Research: Preparation of book manuscript, Economics: Junior Editors Whom Words Pursued, for publication Faculty advisor: Charles Hauss. associate This year, Jan Hogendom, Grossman worked at the Bath shipyard during the professor Professor of Economics, will publish two summer, compiling data on construction Student: William Castelli '87 books, Development Economics and The costs of the mass-produced Gleaves, Ben Research: Research for two books on French politics, on a piece on nuclear issues, and Shell Money of the Slave Trade. In addition, son, Fletcher, Allen Sumner, and Gearing for a seminar on the United States, France, he and Dana Professor of Economics class destroyers of World War II. and the USSR Henry Gemery together wrote a paper on Hogendorn, who in 1977 first em Faculty advisor: L. Sandy Maisel, professor learning curves in ship production at the ployed a research assistant to bring a book Student: John Beaudoin '87 Bath Iron Works, which they will present to completion, said that he believed that Research: Recruitment of congressional can at the Ninth International Conference on the use of undergraduate editors and field didates Economic History. From start to finish, workers then was rare at Colby and else student assistants have worked on these where, whereas now it is infrequent, at History projects, serving as editors, proofreaders, least at Colby, to fi nd a faculty book un Faculty advisor: Lee Feigon, associate pro fact checkers, library and statistical assis derway without student assistance. In fessor tants, and field workers. Their efforts have some ways Hogendom finds his corps of Student: Gregory Durnark '87 been funded through Colby's extensive undergraduates better assistants than the Research: Systematic history of American student aid to faculty research. graduate students with whom he has visitors to China Three students, Christie Emond '86, worked when on leave at other institu Student: Deborah Pfeifer '86 Kelly McPhail '86, and Ken O'Brien '86, tions. Because they are not distracted by Research: Sino-Soviet relations have had the chief responsibility this year their own master's or doctoral research, Faculty advisor: K. Frederick Gillum, pro for moving the projects along, each work they often give themselves more whole fessor ing on one of the manuscripts. Emond heartedly to the work, he said. For under Student: William Bartlett '86 concentrated on the development book. graduates, there is also a sense of novelty Research: Grant and Lee as statesmen and generals McPhail did the final proofreading of Shell about playing a part in published research, Money, having already undertaken in whereas, after a few years of that, a grad Student: Jonathan Greene '86 dependent field work in Australia and uate assistant can become pretty blase. Research: Zionist policy, the formative years, 1945-47 Hawaii on Cypraea moneta, the little shell According to Hogendom, the students that became the money of West Africa involved are almost always chosen be Faculty advisor: Marilyn Mavrinac, assistant professor during the slave trade, bringing to four the cause they have done very well in his Student: Scott Cameron '87 number of continents where research on classes and have expressed enthusiasm Research: Quantified study of Waterville Shell Money was carried out. O'Brien about participating in the work. Franco-American community, 1910 THE COLBY ALUMNUS 25 Student: William Northfield '86 Math for Math's Sake Research: Napolean Ill and the French econ omy, 1852-70 Philosophical questions - about infini infinite triangular array of numbers per Faculty advisor: Richard Moss, associate pro ty, abstract entities, and universal truth - petuate themselves. Sawtelle, who, like fessor lurk around every mathematical theorem. Peter Westervelt, took several years off in Student: Jonathan Russ '87 Research: History of Buffalo, N.Y. David Sawtelle '85, intellectually curious the midst of his college studies, does not by nature and a summa cum laude graduate know whether the problem's answer will Student: Philip Sunde! '86 who majored in mathematics and philoso have any applications; in fact, it was not Research: The city in detective fiction phy, seeks to answer some of them. known at the onset whether a solution ex Faculty advisor: Harold Raymond, professor Early in his senior year, Sawtelle had isted, although the answer now is being Student: William Bartlett '86 a problem posed to him by Donald Small, prepared for publication. Research: Lincoln: the man and the myths; the personality and character of Adolph associate professor of mathematics. He has The purpose was "to do mathematics,• Hitler been working on it ever since. The prob which this young man obviously enjoyed lem concerns Pascal's triangle, in which an doing just for what it is in and of itself. Library Faculty advisor: Frances Parker, faculty member Student: Carol Duplessie '86 Research: Development of documentation and instruction manuals for computer appli cations for library public services Mathematics Faculty advisor: David Kurtz, associate professor Student: Michael Alexander '87 Research: Graphs that close to Kn Faculty advisor: David Kurtz, associate pro fessor, and Donald Small, associate professor Studen t: David Sawtelle '85 Research: Periodicity in Pascal's triangle modulo k Medicine Faculty advisor: Earl Smith, dean of the Col lege, and H. Alan Hume, M.D., Colby overseer Students: Michael Hill '86 and Michael Marchetti '86 Research: Assistantship with physician Physics and Astronomy Pascal's triangle, the foc us of David Sawtelle's '85 research, is shown coming off the computer ad Faculty advisor: Murray Campbell, assistant infinitum. professor Student: Marc De Rosa '86 Research: Development of Fabry-Perot filters for far-infrared astronomy Faculty advisor: Ross Reynolds, assistant pro fessor Student: William Kules '86 Research: Interfacing between a microcom puter and an x-ray diffractometer Psychology Faculty advisor: Diane Kierstead, associate professor Student: Karen Kozma '86 Research: Effects of sex role identity on choice of college maj or Student: Linda Michaud '86 Research: Effect of initial testing on decay of McCollough effects; individual differences in 26 THE COLBY ALUMNUS McCollough effects as approached through the study of twins; relationship between basal metabolic rate and strength of McCol lough effects Student: Elizabeth Schwartz '86 Research: Light level as a factor influencing the accuracy of eyewitness testimony Student: Elizabeth Peters '86 Research: Contrast effects as judgments of physical attractiveness Faculty advisor: Lewis Lester, associate pro fessor Student: Lila Hopson '86 Research: The effects of fear reduction on children's motor-skill learning; the effects of ,.. -- parents and children's fear of water on the child's learning to swim Student: Robert Kenney '86 Research: The effects of victim's age and gen der on the perceived seriousness of crimes Student: Kathleen Pinard '86 Research: The perception of female athletes in England and the United States Student: M. Jane Powers '86 Katherine Pinard '86, a varsity soccer player with majors in psychology and administrative Research: The effects of gender of perpetra tor, gender of victim, and gender of juror on science, displays the concentration needed to play any sport well. sentence severity for child sex abuse crimes Psychology: Hard Work Rewarded Senior Scholars Faculty advisor: Susan Kenney, associate Kathleen Pinard '86 was surprised to The study, entitled 'The Perception of professor find out that English students are less apt Female Athletes in England and in the Student: Wendy Lapham '86 Research: Creative writing: fiction than their American counterparts to think United States," was carried out to deter that women who play sports are markedly mine if women athletes were perceived Faculty advisor: Peter Harris, associate less feminine than those who do not. differently than other women and whether professor Student: Grantland Rice '86 What started out as a mandatory research there were cross-cultural differences in this Research: Creative writing: poetry project for Psychology 215, a course in perception. A varsity soccer player, Pinard which 25 students select research projects started the research in her sophomore each semester, led to a paper that Pinard, year, worked on it during her junior year Sociology who holds a double major in administra at the University of Warwick in England, Faculty advisor: Sonya Rose, associate tive science and psychology, will deliver to and now as a senior has the pleasure of professor Student: Elizabeth Kerney '87 the annual meeting of the Eastern Psycho seeing her research taken seriously. Research: Teenage mothers logical Society this April in New York City. RGK Faculty advisor: Virginia Desch, assistant professor Student: Tanya Thomas '87 Research: Black women in the profession of law Faculty advisor: A. Hassan Danesh, assistant professor Student: Peter Solomon '86 Research: Impact of the use of personal com puters on inter-student associations Faculty advisor: Dallas Browne, assistant pro fessor Student: Barrando Butler '86 Research: South Africa's racial conflict: the philosophies of Bishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela Student: Heidi Arnao '86 Research: A nation divided: ethnicity in South Africa THE COLBY ALUMNUS 27 CO RRESPONDENCE Copy for these class columns was submitted to the College in early November. A Colby alumnus whose career in journalism has oyster stew for 50 cents • The Kennebec Valley paintings of flower arrangements and their joint had an impact on the history of our times will join Medical Center's Learning Resource Center was interest in flower gardening • PhoebieVincent the ranks of the Fifty Plus Club this year. John P. dedicated last year in honor of the late Leon Her Parker '17, Willimantic, Conn., is described in Roderick '36, Tokyo, Japan, one of eight Associ ring ' 1 6, a long-time Winthrop physician • the Windham Community Memorial Hospital's ated Press special correspondents, friend of James E. Fell '32, Fall River, Mass., presented Pulseas being "a realist with a lot of perspective." China's Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and later the Colby Book Prize to Brian Weissmann, a She is a founder of the hospital's auxiliary and has leaders, is credited with "opening the doot" to dip senior at Durfee High School • Leslie Black been a volunteer for 52 years • Abandoning our lomatic and trade relations with the United '19, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, participated in the long-established travel practice of crisscrossing States. His discovery of the Chinese interest in 1985 Retired Skippers' Race at Castine, Maine the United States by travel trailer, Gladys and I, Ping-Pong was the key. John's interest in jour • The late Irma M. Ross '17, Dover-Foxcroft, your correspondents, toured Norway and Swe nalism was honed through his high school and Maine, has been memorialized by the establish den last August. Our reactions: beautiful coun college jobs with the Waterville Sentinel. His suc ment of a nursing scholarship at the Plummer tries and friendly people. We also experienced the cess story is another instance of Colby's influence Memorial Hospital. She was formerly superinten novelty of sleeping under feather beds in August! in the crucible of world affairs. He is lecturing at dent of the hospital • Frederick C. Lawler '34, Disproved: the theory that a strong dollar buys a Colby as a distinguished professor whose work is Bristol, Maine, and his wife, Jeanne, have recent lot in Europe • Philip W. Hussey '13, Ken funded by the Jacob Ziskind Trust • David R. ly completed 18 months as missionaries for the nebunk Beach, Maine, retired president of the Hilton '35, Southport, Maine, has been elected Mormon church jsee profile in this issue). Fred Hussey Manufacturing Company, died there in chairman of the Waterville Savings and Loan has retired from a position with the Maine August. He was long active in alumni affairs and Association's board • Mary E. Warren '23, Department of Human Services • The former a Colby Brick recipient • E. Richard Benson Waterville, is co-founder of the newly organized Kappa Delta Rho fraternity home has been '29, Southbury, Conn., died there in October. He Waterville High School Alumni Association • designated Williams Hall in honor of Ralph was a retired vice president of the Union Trust Cecil H. Rose '28, Gloucester, Mass. jNote pres "Roney" S. Williams '35, Southport, Maine Company and was long associated with the Beth ent address: 14 Edgewood Rd., Gloucester, MA • Flora Rideout Philbrook '29, Dighton, el, Conn., office. 01930). had a busy year in 1985, traveling to Mass., and her husband, the Reverend Wayne Club correspondent: ERNEST E. MIL Israel, Bermuda, and Canada. His summer home Philbrook, were recently the subjects of a feature LER '29, 218 Pickett District Rd., New Milford, on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, has been designated story in the Ta unton Daily Gazette on her still-life Conn. 06776. a 'Heritage Home'' by that province • Proof that Fifty Plus members and even one Sixty Plus alumnus are still vitally interested in the College can be found in the fact that 17 of them took part in Colby's September Volunteer Workshop. Dean Ida Keen Enjoying Her Second Century of the group was Merrill S. F. Greene '20, Ida Phoebe Keen '05 was born in Unity, Maine, in 1884, less than 20 years after Lewiston, Maine. Also present were the late Ber nice McGorrill Partridge '2 1, Faimouth, Maine; General Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Miss Keen, who turned 102 at the beginning Mary E. Warren '23, Waterville; Helen Dress of this month, is Colby's oldest living alumna. She graduated from Waterville High er McDonald '23, Portland, Maine; Leonard School in 1901 and from Colby moved to Delaware, where she taught high school and Lena Cooley Mayo , Chagrin Falls, Ohio; '24 history, English, and French. Toward the end of World War I Miss Keen began train Edith "Ducky" Grearson Money '26, West ing to become a translator for the U.S. Army in France. In a letter to The Alumnus she Medford, Mass.; A. Frank Stiegler, Jr. '28, North Haverhill, Mass.; Deane R. Quinton '30, explained that she never quite made it overseas: "Our luggage was loaded on ship Auburn, Maine; George C. '34 and Vesta Alden board and we were to follow the next day. However, [on] November 7 came a rumor Putnam '33, West Sullivan, Maine; Douglas B. of peace and our luggage was returned to us." Allan '32, North Andover, Mass.; E. Evelyn After the armistice cut short her military career, she spent three years as a Kellett '26, Lawrence, Mass.; A. Keith Lit translator for a New York bank, and then for 20 years she was a secretary at a New tlefield '29, West Peru, Maine; ]. Warren Bishop '35, Falmouth, Maine; Franklin Nor York church. Miss Keen's last job was in the graduate English department at Colum vish '34, Needham, Mass.; and Ernest E. Miller bia, where she was employed until 1959. Pomona, Calif., has been her home for the '29, New Milford, Conn. These alumni are active past 25 years, and from Pomona this 102-year-old reported, '1 am spending my 'sunset class agents, planned giving agents, class cor years' very happily." respondents, and admissions interviewers • Old timers will be interested to know that the BNC restaurant on Upper Main Street, known as "Scribner's,"is still doing business as "Peter's Little Big Store." Some remember the large bowls of 28 THE COLBY ALUMNUS you feel that Colby was the place for you • Ker mit La Fleur is a professor at Clemson Universi· ty. His forte is soil chemistry, and he conducts research on the artifacts of early man. By way of diversion, he has painted for many years and con tinues to be an avid reader. (I wonder if Kermit recalls those July days when we used to shoot marbles in Winslow, Maine? Seems to me that he won an inordinately large part of the time!) He has a daughter, Karen, who graduated from our school in 1966 • Ruth Yeaton McKee is busy, busy, traveling to visit her three children and two grandchildren, which is something of a chore due to their disparate residences. However, she loves it • You will recall that the last questionnaire contained a number of questions. I have kept a record of answers expressed and find that hob bies are keeping all content and those with scheduled days ahead of them express satisfac tion with their lives. Roughly 70 percent of our class approve of the dissolution of fraternities in our College. The way they were going, I must say that I am among the 70 percent. Everyone said that these days since matriculation have been rewarding and that, without exception, all have achieved their respective goals. And on these hap py notes we will close for this edition with all Jeanne and Frederick C. Lawler '34 good wishes. Class secretary: FREDERICK G. DE Lawler Evades Retirement Blues MERS, P.O. Box 26, Owls Head, Maine 04854. Frederick C. Lawler '34 and his wife, Jeanne, recently returned to Maine from Ohio, where they served as missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. A retired employee of the state Bureau of Maine's Elderly, Lawler saw his mission as a unique way to share his skill and experience in working with people. "After retirement a lot of people are at loose ends ...one has a sense of being out of things. In my job I met quite a few people and traveled around the state; [upon You have been very responsive to the latest ques retirement] I felt I had lost that. tionnaire, the results of which were very re freshing. Before getting to the achievements and "But it's very true that, in ways, retirement releases you for community service. concerns of our class, I must mention some in In Ohio, I used the expertiseI have accumulated to help local members of the church class concerns. First, I have been reminded that develop strength and organization. I felt that I could continue to use the skills I had we have a 50-year reunion coming up in 1988. developed with the bureau and rely on my experience as a community coordinator." Let's all be thinkingabout that - without despair, if possible -so that purposeful plans can be made. Lawler now lives in Bristol, Maine, and though he admitted missing the people Sigrid Tompkins and Bob Anthony have been and involvement he was used to in Ohio, his plans are no less industrious. He and conferring about the big reunion of '88. Bob Jeanne have recently begun restoring the Lawler Homestead, an 1820 house that is received the Marriner Distinguished Service full of material for other interests of the Lawlers- history and genealogy. Award at the last Reunion Weekend and was also named by Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting TAH fraternity, as Accountant of the Year in education • I would like to bring to your attention the names of classmates who are lost to the alumni office. They are Edward Bradley, Conrad recently was named a deacon of his church, Cadorette, Carroll Danforth, Robert Gallup, which takes up a good bit of his retired moments. Robert Gilroy, Howard Libby, Victor Morin, He is also an avid gardener • Stanley Paine is Roland Nadeau, Tobert Neumer, Marguerite also in California, at Salinas. He is a surgeon and Pillsbury, Charles Russ, Rex Tarbell, Hollis is assisted by his wife as receptionist. He has Veysey, George Vose, and Barbara Werthern b-- achieved his college ambition of being a suc Hurd • Maynard Waltz is living the retired 50th reunion: June 5-8, 1986. cessful doctor and family practitioner. He assured life in Basking Ridge, N.J. His wife, Lubov Class secretary: AGNESCARLYLE HADDEN us that this activity "keeps him out of the rocking Leonovich Waltz '41, was born and raised in 15 (Mrs. Frederick C.), Pequot Rd., Wayland, chair' • Edmund Barnard keeps open house Berlin. They have traveled extensively. Maynard Mass. 01778. at Barcliffe, north of Northport, Maine. You are has varied hobbies -model railroads, woodwork assured of a cordial and pleasant visit any time. ing, gardening, and genealogy • A note from His home overlooks the broad bay bounded by John Madore informs us that he and his wife, Belfast and Searsport on the north. He has a few Mildred Thibodeau Madore, recently vaca blueberries now and also gardens. However, the tioned in Hawaii. While they were there they met presence of many teenagers speaks well for his at and chatted with Joe OToole '36, who is now titude towardyouth and their interests. Ed could retired and living in Honolulu • Ed Hooper has It is a pleasure to bring you up-to-date on the "do well be emulated for such interest, which is kept checked in again from Charlotte, N.C., where he ings" of several of our classmates from whom I up on a daily basis • Henry Wilcox is at Big and Helen (Lewis) have lived for some time. have not heard for a long time. Larry Hum Pine, Calif. (how many of us migrated to the big Though retired, Ed is still president and board phrey has retired (in California) after 39 years state!). He taught in Maine, New Hampshire, and chairman of his own company. The Hoopers still with the Lockheed Corporation. He has pursued California high schools for over 40 years. His have a mail order business and travel extensively a most interesting and lucrative hobby for many wife, plus two daughters, two grandsons, and one to show products. They have a place at Lake Nor years, that of making stained glass windows. He great-grandson keep him busy, busy! Henry, glad man. Ed was fortunate enough to serve as best THE COLBY ALUMNUS 29 man at his son's wedding • Ernest "Bud" and Walter '38, and had talked by phone with there's time for traveling, reading, yard work, and Ruth Fuller Frost '36 are retired in North Myrtle Ernestine Wilson • Wilson Piper was chair cross-country skiing. This year they went to Paris Beach, S.C. They sent two children to Colby. Bud man of the 32nd Estate Planning and Tax In and Switzerland, and they are planning a 1986 keeps very busy as president of the Bay Tree stitute at Colby in July • We had a somewhat trip to the Southwestand to California. Hope they Men's Golf Association. Naturally this position re unusual family celebration -a party in honor of include Houston • Everyone get your pen and quires him to play as many courses as possible. our two-year-old granddaughter becoming an notepaper in hand so you can send your congrat The last count was 293 • William Wright and American citizen. She was born in Colom ulations to Clark Carter. He was married to Bar wife, Edna, are retired and living in Sterling, Colo. bia • Waterville changes: the old post office is bara Crawford Van Hom on September 21, 1985, Bill, a retired minister, keeps busy in church and now an "Emporium" with shops; Verzoni's has in Wilton, Conn. • With that happy bit of news, conununity work and is called upon to pray for evolved into The Villager, but it still has fruit and I'll say "bye" for now and look forward to further the opening of the city council meetings. If that fresh-roasted peanuts. The College changes, communications from all of you in the Class of council is like ours, they are truly standing in the too-well, what would you expect in 47 years? '40. • need of prayer Martha Bessom Gorman is Imagine! Close to half the students spend some Class secretary: ELEANOR THOMAS still living in Marblehead, Mass. Her daughter time in a Colby program abroad. There is scholar CURTIS, 4607 W. Alabama, Houston, Tex. works in Danvers with G.T. and E. and her son, ship aid for all those in the Class of '89 who really 77027. Mark, teaches genetics at Baldwin-Wallace Col need it. There are 140 computer terminals on lege. Martha was upset that during the Greek campus, plus those that the students bring. Only revolution at Colby her Alpha chapter wasn't 21 percent of the students would want the frater mentioned • Joe Ciechon still resides in nities back. The bulletin boards are jammed with Ridgefield, Conn. The Ciechon children gave him notices of meetings. parties, films, concerts, trips. and Carolyn a 45th wedding anniversary party A notice for "Greek Night" sounds educational, tf.7,__ -- last summer. An interesting travel experience has but I doubt that Miss Runnals would have let us taken them to the Yukon Territory • I gave the girls go-irs a toga party. 45th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 • Attende class conunencement address at the local high school, Class secretary: SALLY ALDRICH AD mates! By now I hope that all of you are aware of which was observing its lOOth birthday, last June. AMS, 22 Miller St., Medfield, Mass. 02052. our class reunion. Your class officers do hope you I assume that some of the students thought I was are planning toattend. What a grand time it will there at the beginning. be to once again renew acquaintances and to Class secretary: LAWRENCE W. DWY share how we spend our time, how our philoso ER, 286 Church St., Berlin, N.H. 03570. phies may have changed as we revel in our six ties, and to reminisce about our Colby days! • The results of the 1985 Alumni Fund __ 'fQ drive show that our class did well, but not as well Keep those letters coming so I can inform your as in the previous one. We had 80 donors or a 62 classmates about your activities. Retirement has percent level of participation(65 percentin 1984). brought changes in lifestyle to some of us. We reached 88 percent of our goal of $7,500 According to those from whom I have heard, we ($6,633.50). Once again we are grateful to our The men did better than the women in providing are either retired or are close to it • Katheryn super class agent, Jane Russell Abbott • I am news for our column this time. Albert B. Par Reny Anderson has retired from teaching, grateful to have had a good letter from Ada sons, a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force, which gives her time for golf and needlepoint. Vinecour Mandell. After Colby and graduate wrote from Palm Bay, Fla., that he is now a Lucky her! She spends nine months in Florida school, Ada taught in the English department of broker with Transamerica Insurance Services, and three in Maine • Priscilla Mailey lives in Syracuse University. She married Stuart Mandell, and that his wife. Polly, is a tutor. They have a California, where she spends her time working at and they have two girls, two boys, and two grand son, twin daughters, and four grandchildren. Al the wo, for her church, and for the cancer socie children. Stuart teaches at University of Lowellin started flying under the CPT program while he ty. One of her pastimes is certainly interesting. Massachusetts. and has been affiliated with the ln was at Colby. He said that he applied for Flying She takes three native Californian animals-a temational Market Institute for 26 years. This Cadet training to save the $10 that a medical ex screech owl, a ferret, and a rosy boasnake -to takes him out of the country often and, in recent am for his conunercial license would have cost schools and convalescent homes for the students years, Ada has been able to accompany him to (''Ten dollars was a lot of money then," he com and patients to see. I wonder what they think Spain, South Africa, Portugal, and Israel, all of mented) and that led to his appointment, a com when she checks into a hotel • Isabel Abbott, which, Ada said, were "rewarding experiences.' mission, and a 30-year career, 15 years and 1 although retired from owning and operating a When she isn't traveling, Ada keeps busy volun month of it in the grade of colonel. Remembering store in Union, Maine, keeps active as a Union teering for civic and temple activities • It was his Colby days, he recalled the trains holding up Fair trustee and contributes her time to the also a pleasure to hear from Carolyn Beverage traffic, "fraternity goings-on which no longer chamber of conunerce, the historical society, and Keene. She and her husband, Donald, have five exist,' and the "conservative attitude, which also the public library • If you find yourself riding children, and seven grandchildren, ages 4 to 18, no longer exists" • Nostalgia for fraternity living along the coast of North Carolina, you might all of whom live close by. Carolyn retired about was evident in John 'Wendy" Tarr's conunents, catch a glimpse of Ralph Delano building a log five years ago after 25 years as a social worker too. No longer possible, he said, is "being an active cabin. Now that he is a semi-retired newspaper with the department of human services. Today member of a fraternity and living in a frat house." publisher, he has timefor it. He also loves singing she does a lot of babysitting for her small grand John is retired from active practice as a counsel in barbershop quartets • Ruth Hendricks Ma daughters but also volunteers at her local library ing psychologistand lives half the year in Augusta ren is enjoying community activities, gardening, and is a Friend of the Library and a Literacy and the other half in Florida. After graduate work swimming, and tennis. She is contemplating a trip Volunteer. She has found it fascinating "tracking at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston to East Africa, to travel in dug-out canoes and to down" her roots. Wonder how many more of us University, he had a rewarding career rehabili camp in the preserves. More power to her! • All have explored that field in the past few tating disabled veterans (he was chief of the you golfers take note. Carl McGraw has started years • Thanks, too, to Paul and Marion Mc counseling and rehabilitation division, VA practicing in earnest so that he will be prepared Ard.Je Burnham for writing again. Paul retired Center, Togus, Maine). He now enjoys flying, for all comers at the 50th reunion • J. Alton from Keyes Fibre in Waterville as a project riding a motorcycle, hunting, golf, and travel Burns spends much of his time restoring old fur manager in the research division. He now volun ing • At a time when many of us are retiring, niture. He bemoans the fact that costs for a col teers at Mid-Maine Medical Center. Marion does Leon Braudy has taken up an additional career lege education have increased so much over what volunteer work as well. Their granddaughter, as associate professor of accounting at Mercy Col they were when we were in school. You can ex Kimberley Burnham, graduates from Colby in lege, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., and said he loves teach pect him to be aware of it since he has six chil May 1986. They have a grandson at Bowdoin, ing • Buell '40 and Evelyne Short Merrill had dren • Cleon and Shirley Maddocks Hatch another at Northeastern, and one in high school. dinner with us one night last summer. They were have joined the ranks of those who have retired "Pud" and Marion camp at China Lake from mid seeing friends and relatives after driving from from teaching. This gives them time to intensify June to mid September • I promised a couple California to attend Euell's 45th reunion and were their interest in foreign policies and reli classmates that I'd update my activities. I did buying New England antiques along the way. gion • Add two more to retirement from teach retire from teaching in June 1982, but I don't They had visited Jeannette Drisko Rideout and ing, John and Ann Jones Gilmore '42. Now spend much time in the ole rocking chair yet. I'm 30 THE COLBY ALUMNUS on the board for what is called The Center for Well Being, a nonprofit organization that offers educational programs designed to increase the knowledge of the techniques, methods, and philosophical ideas that foster wellness and well being. We are looking forward with much delight to the class reunion (Hank usually takes pictures for us) and hope to see many of you there. Class secretary: RUTH "BONNIE' ROB ERTS HATHAWAY (Mrs. Henry L.). 25 Gra ham Street, Fitchburg, Mass. 01420. As I write we are enjoying a brilliant blue October and are cleaning up after Gloria • Bob Rice is at his Yo rktown reunion this month, in addition to taking a junket to Europe. He wrote at length of his Alaskan soj ourn, by way of British Columbia and the Yukon: rugged terrain, people, animals, and voracious mosquitos. You will be amused, or possibly horrified, at his prospecting for gold with a thirty-ought-six (vintage the Mademoiselle from Armentiers) as protection against the Alaskan brown and grizzly and suspicious claim owners. There has to be great satisfaction in experiencing the real Alaska • Thanks to the alumni office, I can write about Les Graffam, from an article in the Business Digest of Burlington, Vt. Like many Naomi Collett Paganelli '45 others, World War II interrupted his Colby years, and he actually graduated in 1946. The war ex perience was rough and damaging; he participat ed as a paratrooper in the recapture of Corregidor. Naomi Collett Paganelli: Staying Power Plus Eventually rural Vermont claimed him (with his When Naomi Collett '45 moved to New York City after graduation from Colby, she wife and daughter), and he established Graffam Business Forms and never looked back. I admire rented a Greenwich Village apartment for which she and a friend each paid $12 a your business methods, Les, and may e en adopt month. She recalled that 'Winters were very cold," and no wonder-winters spent in some • A while back I called Lin Palmer to beg a cold-water flat with a coal-grate fireplace and a gas stove would ably rival those of a boon (granted, of course). He is active as usual, Waterville. and in good health. I wish it all for you. Now, almost 40 years later, she lives in an apartment with her husband, Hugo, Class secretary: CHRISTINE BRUCE SHEA (Mrs. Charles), 1 Springdale Ave., just across the street from that first one on West Thirteenth Street; in fact, she can see Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181. that first flat from a window in her present apartment. Her firstjob in the city was for the New York Daily News, where she stayed for about a year. From there she went to Harper and Brothers, now Harper and Row, where she is manager of publicity, sales promotion, and subsidiary rights for the college textbook division, the same division in which she was first employed. Paganelli started out at Harper "lucky to work for a woman who [knew] advertis Contrary to my usual practice, I am writing this ing and was [also] an acquisitions editor." Thus, in her position as advertising/editorial in Waterville. The column deadline and family ill assistant, Paganelli was able to learn something about "both sides of the street." She ness came at nearly the same time. I had the foresight to grabmy Colby portfolio as I packed in must have learned well, for when her supervisor became a full-time editor, Paganelli haste • I was very pleased to hear from Virgin became the advertising manager for college textbooks, a position she held until 1980 ia Farrand McDonald. She is an antiques and when she assumed her present one. Her accomplishments and achievements have fine arts appraiser and lives on Hilton Head been noted in both Wlws Who of American Women and Foremost Women in Communi is Island, S.C. Her husband retired, and they have cations. two children and four grandchildren. In response to the question about her expectations when at Greenwich Village is very much a community to the Paganellis. Their apartment Colby, she replied that she had fulfilled them by building, an old high-rise that is home to some 240 families is the first; the neigh traveling widely and by continuing to study and boring streets of the West Village is the second. To help preserve that community, Pa learn • Kathleen "Kaye" Monaghan Corey ganelli works with the Greenwich Village Society, whose purpose is to preserve the remembers the influence that Dr. Bixlerand pro fessors Colgan and Morrow had on her. What she nature and character of the village and to give tours, such as the Edith Wharton Walk never anticipated while at Colby was marrying a ing Tour. Bowdoin man! Kaye remembers warm friend This inveterate New Yorker has lately been given toexploring the city more - go ships, the Outing Club, and dances, as well as the ing on walking tours, getting to museums, and attending concerts at Lincoln Center. le.53 happy occurrences of the many men who left For a life so well-lived in the world's second largest city, this Colby grad deserves ad Colby because of the war • Mac and Louise Trahan McCombs spend a Jot of time traveling, miration and respect. golfing, bowling, and "beaching." Now that the RGK last of their four children has been married for over a year, they have time to spend as they wish. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 31 Louise remembered the bonfires before games, and continues to train and show English springer five. I'm jealous, as I haven't any yet • Thomas the small closet in room 13 in Boutelle House, spaniels. More news to come next time on those Burke, retired and living in San Diego, Calif., and December 7, 1941. Strangely enough, she is folks. 1n addition, hope I'U have heard from plays golf whenever he . He remembers the • the only one who has mentioned that date The everyone else. In closing- how about the retire wonderful times at Phi canDelta Theta and all the flowers at Charles Barletta's daughter's wedding ment issue? Would you like to get into this subject nice people. He has traveled extensively, while were "the talk of the town." Charlie is a retail here? I know a few of us would like to share on active duty in the Marine Corps and while florist in Bronxville, N.Y .. and described his new thoughts. Use the questionnaire to give us yours. teaching school • Ruth Jaffe Gordon, involved • son-in-law as a "wonderful computer analyst" Already retired? Making plans to retire? How in her husband's business since he passed away, Elizabeth Tobey Choate recalled that we were about tapering off? Planning to relocate? Just how remembers very happy carefree days that she will the first class to graduate from the Mayflower Hill busy or unbusy do you think you want to be !or always cherish • Keep up the giving to the Col campus. but her fonder memories are of the old are you, if you're already retired)? by Alumni Fund. With one half of the class giving campus and of "J eff' and "Bugsy" Chester's biology Class secretary: NAOMI COLLETT PAG we met our goal for the 1985 fund year. How class. Do you remember that he always began the ANELLI, 2 Horatio St ., New York, N.Y. 10014. wonderful if all the rest would give their support, class with "Now that shredded wheat you ate for too. A challenge for the reunion year! Thanks for breakfast. ..?" Before I close the column, I do your reminiscences. Keep writing me and I'll pass want to pass along a conunent by one of our it along. Have a good year in '86. See you in '87. classmates -the fact that more women than men Class secretary: ELIZABETH WADE seem to contribute to these class notes. Let this be DRUM !Mrs. John J.), 44 Country Village Lane, a hint to you gentlemen, write! Beginning with Sudbury, Mass. 01776. this column, I'm going to include a couple names if6-- of "lost" classmates in the hope that someone may 40th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 • I have been be able to locate some of them: Richard De enjoying what has turned out to be the most col Nazario, Meyer Jacobs, and Ruth MacDougal orful fall season I've ever experienced. Nothing Sullivan. Let me know if you have a clue as to be more beautiful than a New England their whereabouts. canautumn! Our son, Tom, is now taking more de Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART sign courses in New York City and is working BRAUNMULLER !Mrs. Albert A.). 115 Lake part-time in a jewelry manufacturing company 'f8-- Rd .. Basking Ridge, N.J. 07920. there. Our grandson, Sean Edward, is already Denmark is a fairy tale country of thatched roofs, , walking. We are glad we are only 10 miles away neat farms, rolling ferries, castles, swans, • cobblestones, sand dunes,hills harbors, fishing boats, so that we can see often We've been holding monthly Colbyhim "Mini-Meetings' here in and warm hospitality. We understand why our our area. The most recent one was over at Chuck daughter chose to spend her life there. Betty is a '47 and Shirley Martin Dudley's home. Also first grade teacher at the Tikob School. Thanks for • present were Wally and Shirley Armstrong writing while I was gone Ed Birdsey, now a Howe, just back from Scandinavia, and Marge stockbroker, remembers the smell of sulfur, Class secretary: NANCY CURTIS LAW Maynard Englert '47, who recently returned from coeds pulling down the shades, and that Bill alarm REN CE !Mrs. Watson A.). 185 Wildewood Ter Switzerland. We all miss her husband, Herbert, Crowther '47 could throw the clock the far • race. Jackson, Miss. 392 12. who passed away earlier this year. Vinnie and thest Bill Bryan, farmer in East Holden, Nancy Loveland Dennen '47 drove up from New Maine, Quebec Labrador Staff, and Pirate Scout, Jersey. They are in the process of selling their wrote that his life work with young peoplestarted house and plan to move to Florida. Chuck and at Colby. He would boast about his Colby family Shirl will be visiting their son, Bill, who is a senior and the University of Maine, but most of all his his this year at the University of South Carolina on wife, Karen Beganny Bryan '63, five children, • their way to Florida in November. All agreed that five grandchildren, and two stepchildren the retirement years are busy but lots of fun. As I Charlie and Libby Hall Cousins lead busy, ac We are sorry to report the death of Joan Gay haven't received any news from you, you will tive lives in Duxbury, Mass. They are enjoying six Kent's husband, Steve, who passed away on Oc have to be content with mine this time. Please grandchildren -now tied with us but we have a on number seven • tober 23, 1985. Our sympathy is extended to Joan contribute some much needed items for the next head start Harriet Hutch • and her family It was great to hear from the 11 column. Thanks! inson Dusty, Wrentham, Mass., that classmates who filled in the questionnaire. Their freshman curfews and white tableclothsthinks could Class secretary: NORMA TWIST MUR now not happen at Colby • Evelyn Halfant news will require more space than one column. RAY !Mrs. Paul F.). 28 Birdsall St., Winsted, Malkin, a psychiatric social worker, mother of This time, here's the answers to the question Conn. 06098. 'What have you done that you never anticipated five and grandmother of five, appreciates and col while you were at Colby?" Laura Tapia Aitken: lects art. She and Sid have recently been to "Travel; writing proposals for grants that should Australia and New Zealandand will celebrate 40 be publicly funded" • Joan Gay Kent: 'Write years of marriage in June Uust three months advertising copy land do it well!)" • Dorothy ahead of us). Evie remembers the Blue Beetle, "Dee" Sanford McCunn: "Received my M.A. I cold walks up the hill, and her first date with had no interest in it when I graduated" • Ernie Sid • Sanford Kroll, who has resumed his Rotenberg: 'Wrote a textbook, Domestic Rela More memories of Colby: Cecil Burns, a retired education in Brown University's religious studies tions-The Substantive LaW' • Pearl Russakoff school administrator and two times a great program, discovered girls at Colby and boasts that Feldman: "Traveled around the world" • Grace grandfather, remembers the smell of the Jefferson he was editor-in-chief of The Colby Echo • Allan Keefer Parker: "Became a radical in my under and great times in the dorm on the lower campus. Samer, Dallas, Tex., remembers deer eating ap standing of, and goals for, society" • Joe Strup, He is very happy in retirement and traveled ples outside his dorm window on the old cam "Became a grandfather" • Barbara Kelly Mor recently to the Orient, beautiful Singapore, pus • Marion "Midge" Sturtevant Atwater ell: "Living overseas and world travel" • Emily etc. • Dorie Meyer Hawkes remembers Fri dropped a note as she and Samuel "Ship" left for Stocking Matsou.kis: "About seven years ago I day night suppers with "cod fish" and those awful a safari in Kenya, Africa. They await the birth of learned to drive" • Betty Chamberlain Ficker: sauces. She is retired from the National Associa their first grandchild. Their youngest son, an art "Operate my own business" • I, myself, never tion of Women's Gymnastics Judges after 12 ist, recently won the Purchase Award for the anticipated a 39-year las of October 1985) associa years. She wrote of a wonderful vacation in the Mystic Seaport Museum • Sanford Levine, tion with Harper and Row Publishers, where I Bahamas that she enjoyed last yearwith her three Oakland, N.J., is a national board member of manage an array of marketing functions in the daughters, sans husbands, and of what fun it United Synagogue of America !Conservative college textbook division. !Have textbooks ever was • Robert Lucy, retired school principal, Movement) and vice president for the New Jersey changed since the ones we used- some ways bet remembers being part of the old and the new region. He has been with Gilman Paper Company ter, some not.) • Answering other questions, campuses and coming back to Colby after being a for 35 years and is assistant vice president in Lois Loudon Cutler reported that she's living in POW in World War II. He has four children and charge of sales • Gilbert Taverner, St. George's El Paso, Tex., has two sons and three daughters, nine grandchildren. Dorie mentioned that she has School, Newport, R.I., has been asked to write the 32 THE COLBY ALUMNUS school's history. Gil is serving as an alumni inter viewer in Rhode Island • Virginia BrackJey Piccirillo, Medford, N.J., remembers French, English lit and Professor Chapman, studying by the river, the sound of trains in the night, the buses, and cold walks into town. Virginia is well justified in boasting of bearing and raising 14 lovely children -that is also what she never an ticipated doing while at Colby. Her husband, Vito, is a project manager, I guess! • Harvey Koizim, man of many professions in New Haven, Conn., said that Dave Marson was his freshman roommate, and because he has recently granted a general amnesty, he forgives Dave his sins against him . Harvey wrote that an abiding in terest in liberal economics and history and a humanistic attitude toward political issues started at Colby. As I read this, warm and appreciative memories surfaced of professors Wilkinson, Breckenridge, and Paul Fullam. Keep remember ing and writing. Class secretary: VIRGINIA BREWER FOLINO (Mrs. Francis R.), R.R. #1, Box 613, Grand Isle, Vt. 05458. Receiving your letters is like discovering the foun tain of youth. For every trip to the yearbook in search for a face with a name, there have been several envelopes addressed in a familiar scrawl. It's almost like looking at your lecture notes after 35 years. Whether your response to the question naire came on green paper or tan, I've enjoyed your wit and wisdom and the opportunity to share your enthusiasm (or your understatement) with our friends • Richard Fisch, who in 1982 published his second bookon griefpsychothera py. The Tactics of Change, found his own life changed by a visit to Germany. Falling in love Alvin Schwartz '49 with German beer, he thereby lost his taste for domestic. Though bursitis has ruined his Ping Pong game, he's been having fun meddling in other people's lives and letting animals (horses, Schwartz Tells Tongue Twisters and dogs, cats, rabbits, goat,) wife, and children med dle in his • After 20 years teaching first graders, Tales of Trickery Jean Desper Fitton finds that retirement bas changed her life. Now able to be active in church Each year the American Library Association singles out 50 notable children's books and hospital work, the historical society, and the from the some 4,000 that are published. Alvin Schwartz '49 has placed three books on Republican Town Committee, Jean finds her new this honor roll in the past three years. A long-time resident of Princeton, N.J., hobby, decorative painting, profitable. "People are actuallypaying money for it.' the new artist wrote Schwartz has written 39 books and now produces three books every two years. Be in disbelief • Mary Bauman Gates wrote, 1 fore electing to write full-time, he was an adjunct member of the English faculty at love my job, my family, my husband, and my life Rutgers and wrote a column on recreation for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. - not necessarily in that order. I have more to do Although his works have addressed such diverse topics as urban renewal, tongue than can possibly be accomplished and I love it twisters, and tum-of-the-century America, the great majority of his writing has been all. This year, for the first time in our life, we won't have a child living at home 12 months of aimed at young people. the year. Can't imagine what that will be Schwartz, an editor of The Echowhile at Colby, still has ties to Maine. His family like" • E\·en though Jean Beauchamp Johns summers on Deer Isle, where he does a good deal of his writing. On the rare occa rud's life has changed in some respects with the sions when Schwartz findshimself with free time, he said he enjoys biking and "doing addition of one grandson, one granddaughter, one on the way, and her last son married off, she's still what everybody else does." chasing Al around and being chasedby him- nor His latest work, Tales of Trickeryfrom the La.ndof Spoof, was released this winter. would she want that to change • Since last we Current projects include a book of treasure tales, a collection of folk poetry, and a heard from Ed Pniewski, his daughter, Beth '81, book of"very young ghost stories." He attributes his success with young readers to his has married (see her profile in May 1985 Alum experience with his four children. "I had four kids, so that's what I wrote about. nus). He confessed that he's gaining weight and losing hair while getting rid of badhabits and col Usually people write about what they know." lecting Boehm porcelain birds • Lorenzo C. BNC Rastelli's life changed when he retired from teaching and signed up to take word processing and computer courses. Now he's working part- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 33 time as a computer operator. !Thanks for the enclosure, Charlie) • Jean Sheppard Silva changed her address. She and Bernie built an oak post-and-beam Cape in Can1den, Maine, their own design, in addition to preparing for son Mark's wedding. She reported that Hope "Toby'' Harvey Graf Can1e by for a dooryard visit • In 1981 George I. Smith spent six months in Australia on a Fulbright Research Grant. Since then he has enjoyed extensive domestic travel and flying his Cessna 172. A geologist, he finds his job stimulating, his kids challenging, his wife car ing, and home and hobby matters never ending. Married to Teruko, he has five children 12 "Smith," 3 "Ono" - the oldest is 26, the youngest is 15) • This time our backyard fence stretched from Maine to California. It was good talking to you. Class secretary: MARY HATHAWAY CHERRY, 63 Indian Pond Rd., Kingston, Mass. 02364. Class secretary to be appointed. 35th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 • Last spring Joan and I went on a drive down South. We spent a very enjoyable day with Barbara Jeffer son Walker and her husband, who is a judge in Richmond, Va. • Arnold Sturtevant, author and Bible teacher, said that 3,000-year-old proph ecies indicate that the Lebanon conflict will worsen, and that we are presently experiencing Benjamin Pearson, Jr. '51 (front} with William ]. Hale '51, vice president and only a temporary lull before a worldwide storm treasurer, Byfield SnuffCompany, and his wife, Shirlie breaks forth • Raymond Reich was recently elected the new president of Holy Cross Pearson Carries on Family Tradition Hospital's medical staff in Chicago. He is married and has four children • Philip C. Heywood of Workers in the New England textile mills were faced with a dilemma. They wanted Shrewsbury, Mass., has been promoted to second to smoke but because their hands were rarely free the risk of explosion was great. vice president at State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America • On our way home from The solution: chewing tobacco, commonly known as "snuff." However, as the for our trip South we had supper with Barbara tunes of the textile mills declined, so did the fortunes of New England tobacco mak "Babs" Hillson Abramowitz • A couple of ers. Today New England has only one surviving tobacco mill, owned and operated by years ago I went to a Colby event honoring the Benjamin Pearson, Jr. '51. last three presidents. At intermission I couldn't The Byfield Snuff Company in Byfield, Mass., a seven-employee furn,operates get near the platform due to a videotape cable. So a year later I wrote our president and tried to say out of a one-time Parker River sawmill that was converted by Pearson's grandfather what I had hollered. Two days later I got a letter in 1865. Snuff, explained Pearson, isof a different texture and consistency than tobac from him, and he answered my questions and co. "The term 'smokeless tobacco' is a new invention of the big tobacco companies," closed with "remember me to Joan." He signed the noted Pearson, who prefers to call it snuff. He is the ninth generation of his family to letter J. S. B. • "Maury" Ronayne has retired operate a mill since after 32 years of federal service and has joined the 1635. sales force of the Metropolitan Home Realtors in Stiff competition from a few large companies and new questions about snuff's Alexandria, Va. safety have combined to drive most small mills out of business. Over the years the Class secretary: CHARLES S. McIN New England market has withered, and Byfield now does much of its business in TYRE, 27 Elm St., Marblehead, Mass. 01945. Georgia and Tennessee. Thus Pearson himself broke with family tradition when he discouraged his son, now an employee of L.L. Bean, from entering the snuff business. When not directing the operation of the mill, Pearson can be found hunting, fishing, and spending time at his second home in Sugarloaf, where, when he was a Colby student and a member of the ski team, he helped cut the first ski trail. Do you all realize iliat our 35th reunion is only a ENC year away? Imagine, 35 years! It might add to ilie festivities if you all went through your attic and 34 THE COLBY ALUMNUS collected two or three of your favorite photos for a mid-life crisis and small wonder! She's too Greene, Sid Farr, Dick and Jeanne Hahlbohm about Colby. They can be old or semi-new. Select busy with her job and her volunteer work at the Hampton, all of whom were involved with the ones that bring back fond memories. Send them Franklin County Animal Shelter, indoor and out workshop. Sel had the opportunity on Saturday to to me and I will make up a slide show to present door gardening, skiing (downhill), hiking, some drive to Bucksport and play golf with Bob Thurs when we all hobble back to the campus. I will mountain climbing, and socializing with her kids ton '54 • While coming out of Roberts Union, I take good care of them and will return them to and friends • Paul Dionne's reply was a model met Anne Burnham Deering, who was with you • Dick Tupper called to say that he and his of brevity. He's an attorney in Fort Stockton, Tex., her daughter and granddaughter and one of Jane wife, Joan, had returned from a late summer has "four kids and four grandchildren." He's in Millett Dornish's daughters. It is good news to vacation in France. He keeps promising to take volved in the "same old route," travel and golf hear that Jane and Karl '54 are back in Maine. me, but . . . • Tom Crossman lives in Stow, keep him out of the rocking chair, and out of his Jane is working in the admissions office at Colby Mass., and is chairman of the science department mid-life crisis has come 'joie de vivre" • Finally, • Last July Sel and I enjoyed a too-short visit at Nashoba High School. He and his wife, Judy, for this issue, I recently saw Roger Huebsch at a from Jane and John Dutton, who were on their have three boys • A group of about 40 of us recent Boston Colby Club dinner • Tune in next way from Duke to a vacation in Maine. John is from the New York and New Jersey alumni clubs time for news of Ken Gesner, Mary ScottJahn, now administrative assistant in the department of met at the Meadowlands Arena and watched the Thornton "Ted" Lallier, Sally "Nan" Murray electrical engineering at Duke • Many thanks to New York Rangers-New Jersey Devils hockey and Chase Lasbury, Bill McDonough, and any Judy Shipman Wilson, who returned her ques game. A good time was had by all. I hope all of others who respond in the interim. Please keep tionnaire with a check for Colby. Judy, I wish you you are well and will keep in touch with me. those questionnaires coming; they're great! had sent along some news of yourself! • Ber Class secretary: DONALD G. HAILER, 28 Class secretary: CAROLYN ENGLISH nice White Sanders wrote from Clinton, Maine Forest Rd., Glen Rock, N.J. 07452. BEANE, 288 Wellman Ave., North Chelmsford, where she is a wife, mother, grandmother, piano Mass. 01863. teacher, and bookkeeper for her husband's com pany. Bernice also sent along a poem she had written in memory of her father who died last January. In answer to the question, "What would you like me to ask our classmates?' Bernice asked: "Do they still feel there are miles to go before they sleep?" • Margo White Cottrell, as superintendent of Heritage State Park, is the first It must have been those questions. I mean, who s'i------The rest of the world is beginning to notice that female park superintendent in the state of Massa could resist responding to 'What keeps you out of we have some distinguished personages among chusetts. Margo was recently honored by the Fall the rocking chair?" and "What came out of your us! Last spring was inducted into Ray Billington River Business and Professional Women's Club as mid-life crisis?' After a paucity of Colby '53 news, the Durfee Athletic Hall of Fame in recognition of one of their three 'Women of Achievement" • it was delightful to get so many lively responses to his accomplishments as a football player at Germaine Michaud Orloff won a council seat these fun questions, so many in fact that they'll • Durfee High School in Fall River, Mass. Just in the November Waterville election, in which keep this column going for awhile. In alphabetical about the same time, Robert B. Parker was she was the only female candidate • Thank you order: Ginnie Falkenbury Aronson is a music made a member of the Academy of Distinguished Carol Smith Brown, George Haskell, Barbara teacher and choir director, lives in Skillman, N.J., Alumni of the Boston University Graduate Ayers Haslam, Joanne Bailey Anderson, Ted and refers to her still-new-after-1 V2 -years husband School. Spenser, the hero of "Ace's" series of detec Brown, and others who wrote. I will include as "Chester Samuel Aronson the Great!' Perhaps tive novels, is now the focal point of a television your news in my next letter. that is why her answer to question #1 was 'Mu series, "Spenser for Hire" • Nancy Fortuine Class secretary: SUE BIVEN STAPLES sic! Kids! Sex!" • Chuck '54 and Joan Rooney Westervelt, in a recent election, was elected (Mrs. Selden C.), 430 Lyons Rd., Liberty Comer, • Barnes of Cape Eliz.abeth, Maine, are new grand clerk of Waterville's 6th ward The results of NJ 07938. parents, and Joan reported that all their children last year's Alumni Fund, in terms of our participa are adults "and not a minute too soon." When not tion, were both encouraging and discouraging. teaching, Joan can usually be found 'in the rock Although we raised 109 percent of our goal, only ing chair ... napping.' She'll let us know when 31 percent of the class contributed. I hope we can her mid-life crisis is over and would like to know increase that percentage; a gift to the College if anyone can tell her "where I can find a good doesn't have to be big to be helpful • A quick cleaning lady." At Colby, she learned 'how to play count tells me that about 37 percent of the Class __ bridge and cribbage, drive a car, and eat of '54 has never responded to my pleas for news. 56 • 30th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 John S. lobster" • Quinn and Ruth Sheehan Bersani There are some interesting individuals out there, Dulaney (Phi Delt Jack), executive vice president of Melrose, Mass., have five children and two and the rest of us would enjoy hearing from you! and a director of Smith Barney, Harris Upham grandsons whom they'll have trouble spoiling Class secretary: BARBARA GUERNSEY and Company, a director of Smith Barney, and since they live in Colorado and Alaska. "Bowling, EDDY (Mrs. C. Arthur, Jr.), Box 198, R.F.D. 1, chairman of Smith Barney Venture Corporation, golf, and travel" keep them out of their rocking Lincoln City Rd., Salisbury, Conn. 06068. was named to the board of directors of Iomega chairs and, now that their mid-life crises are past, Corporation , an Ogden, Utah, based disk drive they have "more time to spend with each other,' producer. Jack is also a director of Berwind, which is especially poignant since the most im Prime Computer, and Zymark corporations • portant part of their Colby experience was Coming Glass Works named David Van Allen 'meeting each other" • Joe Bryant of Bruns vice president for corporate planning services. wick, Maine, learned a basic lesson in values Dave joined Coming in 1960 and has been vice when as principal of Brunswick High in 1980, president of food service and quality in the con "the local hospital ICU said WhoaJoe.' · Out of it Classmates: To those of you who have returned sumer products division. He is chairman and came "a deep respect for good health,' and the re our latest questionnaire, many thanks, and to president of Coming Canada • Margaret Dar alization that "possessions are nothing when com those of you who have put it on your desk with by Persons wrote from Los Alamos, N .M., where pared to a strong body." He tends the house while plans to send it in 'soon," please make 'soon" her husband, Roger, took a position at the ation his wife, Evelyn, studies family services at the today • We are saddened to learn of the death of al Laboratory. Maggie wrote that "during the University of Maine at Farmington, thus leading Ken Gray. Our sympathy to his wife, Barbara, spring of 1981, our two sons and our son-in-law to Joe's new-found admiration for the American and his children • In September, Colby invited all graduated from college, so we picked up our housewife! He refuses to sit in the rocking chair class correspondents (along with other "workers' empty nest and moved west to a new life.' Their unless his two-year-old granddaughter 'needs for the College) to a weekend of workshops and daughter, mother of two, lives in Bennington, Vt. consoling" and asks of all of us, 'Where is Paul talks entitled Alumni Leadership Workshop. I One son, a graphlc designer, lives in Pittsfield, 'Rocky' Appelbaum? Did he go West with the found it very helpful to listen to and talk with Mass., and their other son, a custom furniture Dodgers?' • After 23 years in New York state, Lane Fisher and her staff, and I learned a great maker, lives in Manchester, N.H. Between ex Barbara Squire Coleman lives and works in deal about putting together the Alumnus. It is ploring the Southwest, camping, working as a Farmington, Maine, with one son and has anoth always a pleasure for Sel and me to visit with parish secretary, and her volunteer work with a er living in the Portland area. She hasn't had time Dave and Ruth McDonald Roberts, Minot mission in the Spanish-speaking area of Santa Fe, THE COLBY ALUMNUS 35 she entertains friends from the East • Ruth Wa Live Living for Physically Handicapped Ameri nature, fishing, plain weaving, and salt-water ters has taught and lived in Seallle, Florida, and cans) in Portland, Maine, and also was awarded canoeing • Moreland Hills, Ohio, is home for Stuttgart, Germany. For the last eight years she their Herbert Merrill Independent Living Herb Wainer, who is happily married and has has been teaching in Guilford, Conn ., dreaming Award • Margot '88 and I sat with Peter and two children, ages 7 and 4. He commented that, of retirement on a Caribbean Island, preferably Mary Ellen Chase Bridge '58 at the fall Colby Sons although he has acquired "things," the most im Nevis. She is an amateur conchologist and a and Daughters Banquet • Has anyone been in portant are the health and happiness of family member of the Shell Club of Mystic, Conn. She touch with Josephine Deans Auchincloss, Bill and his personal growth. Herb neglected to men keeps in touch with Joan Wyckoff Olson and Droll, Don Kaufman, Paul Lambert, or Eme tion what he does for a living, but the important Ann Lowery. Ruth will be on board for our 30th lle Legare Phillips? Help us find them. fact is that he is content with it • John Wilson rew1ion, along with John Turner, Marilyn Class secretary: BEVERLY JACKSON and his wife, Anne Godley Wilson '65, spent Godsey Sahlberg, and Mary Ann Papalia Lac GLOCKLER (Mrs. Anthony S. ). 39 Whippoorwill 1983-84 as Fulbright Exchange Teachers in Mar cabue, who plans to join us from Tarzana, Calif., Way, Belle Mead, N.J. 08502. seilles, France, teaching English in a Technical where she and her husband, Jim, live. She teach Lycee. Sons Seth, 16, and Ben, 13, profited from es math in the Canoga Park High School. Interest meeting French people and traveling in Europe. ing sununers have been spent at UCLA in a math Seth and John also spent two weeks in Russia. teachers project and in an honors workshop for John teaches French at Belmont Hill School and math and science teachers at Harvey Mudd Col lives in Lexington, Mass. Besides the teaching, he lege in Claremont, Calif. • John Ziegler and his has worked on a workbook for students of wife, Linda, look forward to joining us in JW1e as _____- French, which Addison-Wesley published in well. They live in Colwnbus, Ohio, where John is 61 1981. He has also had photographs published, vice president of Buckeye Letter Service. He 25th reunion: June 5-8, 1986. and he and Nancy have extensive slide collections misses seeing his college friends • Andrew and Class secretary: SUSAN DETWILER GOOD of France to use in their teaching • Paul Rogers Julie Brush Wheeler are newly empty-nested ALL (Mrs. William L.). 88 Heald Rd., Carlisle, was featured this summer in the Rockland now that their yoW1gest is at University of Ore Mass. 01741. (Maine) Courier-Gazette with a 30-foot sailboat gon. Their oldest daughter is graduated and on that he built for a Massachusetts man. You may her own, and Molly is at the University of Red see "Bright Thread" sailing the coast of Cape Cod lands. Julie had a wonderful sabbatical from this summer! • Take a moment to drop a line or teaching awhile back when she and Andrew to fill out the questionnaire when it comes your spent a month in central Mexico and the Yucatan. way. If you have specific requests about class Class secretary: JUDITH PENNOCK LIL mates, I can ohen supply the information. Keep LEY (Mrs. Albert F.), 180 Lincoln Ave., Ridge Colby in your thoughts! wood, N.J. 07450. Class secretary: KAREN BEGANNY Class secretary: PATRICIA "PATCH" JACK BRYAN (Mrs. William L.), RFD 2, Box 662, East MOSHER (Mrs. Arthur L. ), 226 Pleasant St., Holden, Maine 04429. Pembroke, Mass. 02359. Class secretary: MARILYN PERKINS CAN 6q_.,___ TON (Mrs. Richard), 65 East India Row, Apt. llF, Boston, Mass. 02 110. Please note my change of address. I am leaving Greetings classmates! I enjoy receiving the ques my COW1try house on 10 acres of land to live in tionnaires that so many of you are returning. the town of Middlebury, Vt. I am looking for Thank you for the notes and for takingthe time to ward to being a more integral part of a com complete the questions. Without your responses munity • Linda Spear Elwell lives in New there is little news for me to print! • In the 'Can Hampshire and is the sales director for Mary Kay You Top This?" category, Maggie Briggs Gra Cosmetics. Her French major at Colby has little to bowski and Karen Forslund Falb lead off this do with her present "major in people!" Linda has a Class secretary: LOIS MUNSON MEGATH column. Maggie wrote from Bennington, Vt., that daughter in college and a son in high school. She LIN, 20 Ledgewood Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine she is the busy mother of seven: Jill, 16, Ivan, 14, recently met up with Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 04 107. Rachel. 13, Wally, 12, Emily, 10, Sarah, 8, and after 20 years and also saw Nancy Mitchell Ben, 6. Her husband, Eugene, is a surgeon. They Miner at a Mary Kay sales meeting • Bob welcome visitors traveling through the Ben Woodward lives in Rockland, Mass., and is nington area to stop for a good visit and also to president of an international tour business. learn about the area's role in the Revolutionary Perhaps there is a correlation between his present War • Karen Forslund Falb's latest accom job and his college desire to travel! He spends )Cj_,.___ plishments also involve children, but in her case three weeks each year skiing in Austria and has a it's the timing. Karen has given birth to two summer place on the Cape • George Shur, who Class secretary: KAY GERMAN DEAN, 295 healthy daughters since turning 40. She and hus is legal counsel for Northern llli.n ois University, Pierce St ., Leominster, Mass. 01453. band, Peter, live in Cambridge, Mass., with has been elected second vice president of the Na Hilary, 2, and Alison, 1. Karen taught biology at tional Association of College and University At Milton High before resigning to be a household torneys. He moved to Illinois from Portland, manager; her husband is a math professor at Maine, in 1983. George was also recently elected Brown University and has an investment con to the Illinois Bar Association's standing conunit sulting company. Karen wondered if anyone else tee on legal education • Andy Weiland, an or __ still has a Colby Outing Club lumber jacket and thopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins, has been 6Q asked, 'Where are you, Jackie Lee?' • Fran noted in the 'Medicine" section of Time magazine. Nancy Walker Mathews' son, Ken '88, is a Jones Vitaglione wrote from Raleigh, N.C., that Andy heads a successful surgical team (one of Dana Scholar this year • It was fun to meet she had a great visit in 1983 with Meredith four in the world) that performs vascular fibular Maren Stoll Sherman selling her candles at the Claus and Karen Johnson Fenton in Ohio. grafts. This pioneering work is used when other • Colby Craft Fair during Parents Weekend • Last Fran is married to Tom, a public health ad techniques for bone grafting have failed Cate spring, Eunice Bucholz Spooner received an ministrator, and has two sons, ages 14 and 16. "Candy" Camp Lund is still in Worcester, honorary master of hwnanities degree from the She is active in the League of Women Voters, is a Mass., and has a three-year-old daughter, Lilla. University of New England. This past fall she was volW1teer at the Museum of Natural History, a Cate has been building a house in Maine this past elected to the board of directors of Alpha I (Adap- lay-leader in the Episcopal Church, and loves year. She will be tutoring third graders in 36 THE COLBY ALUMNUS remedial reading. Cate wrote that an influential person for her at Colby was Mr. Carpenter- for his great ability to be understanding • Jean Martin Fowler and husband, Michael, have Manner of Giving moved back into a full-sized house ("to have room Irma Ross '17 displayed her mannerof giving in teaching, nursing, and support of for everything"). Their address is 12 Teak Lane, Colby. An English major, she taught school for several years and went on to graduate Princeton, N.J. They do a lot of sailing and have recently visited their grandson in Hawaii. Jean is from Plummer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1929. She served the hospital a director of management information systems. as superintendent of nurses until her retirement in 1964. Her giving extended to other She was honored by the YWCA as part of a trib organizations, as well as Colby: the Pleasant Street Christian Church of Corinna, the ute to women and industry • As part of his year Dover-Foxcroft Graduate Nurses Guild, and the Cosmopolitan Club. When she died as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Peter Hart spent a in July 1985, Colby was named in her estate. few days at Skidmore College in May. While discussing the choices for the 1988 election, Peter Her sister, Louise Ross '11, was a revered teacher who died in 1973. A named advised the students to "grow up to be 35 very scholarship at Colby honors her. The sisters' common investment in gift annuities quickly -so you can run.' Peter founded his own with the College also will carry their generosity beyond their lifetimes. public opinion research firm 14 years ago and has Colby is proud of the continuous contributions of Irma and Louise Ross. As a worked with Dan Rather on the past five national elections • Marcia Phillips Sheldon, now of beneficiary of their kindness, the College is better able to assist innumerable individ Westfield, N.J., is teaching in an alternative pro uals and to serve society as a whole. gram for emotionally disturbed high school stu dents in the Cranford, N.J., school system • Here are some more "lost alumni." Let us know if you have heard about anyone: Bill Hendrick capital. Now affiliated with Suesy, Fischer and band, Bill, and describes herself as an "empty son, Kathryn Hartford Huntley, Bernard Company in Chicago, she and her husband, Paul, nester'' as their son, Bill, graduates from Dart Johnson, Charles Kirtz, Michael Knox, Pat and children, Lisa, 9, Lauren, 7, Alison, 4, and mouth this June • Peter Blumenthal is presi Ross Leon, Bern.ice Levine, John Luternauer, Tyler, 18 months, live in Winnetka, Ill. • Shar dent of his own business -an art and framing Bruce Lytle, Vernon Macomber. on Lord Stackpole received her master's degree company in the Boston area • Tom Boghosian Class secretary: BARBARA DARLING, in counseling psychology in 1984 and is presently is in teaching and administration at a community One Buttolph Drive, Middlebury, Vt. 05753. a psychotherapist in an adolescent unit of a college in Mays Landing, N.J. He describes psychiatric hospital. Sharon has three sons, and himself as 'very gray" • George Cain has five she and her husband, Fred, live in Norwich, children and commutes to New York City from Conn. • Jonathan Moody is the chaplain at Riverside, Conn., each day. His devotion to fami Whittier (Calif.) College. He received his B.D. ly life and job sounds idyllic • Peter Densen is from Yale Divinity School and his Ph.D. from an associate professor of medicine in Iowa and Claremont Graduate School • Matt Riddell is a does medical research. He remains physically lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force presently active by jogging, playing tennis, and coaching stationed in the Azores. His 20-year career with soccer • Jim Lambert is president of the Dart Janice Wood and Cary Parsons live in Natick, the air force has seen him stationed in Georgia, mouth Savings Bank. He has a wife and three Mass. Jan completed her M.Ed. at Boston College Oklahoma, Arkansas, Virginia, Colorado, Ala children, one of whom graduates from Dart in 1982 and has been working as a guidance bama, New York, and now the Azores. He and mouth in 1988 • Carol Lordi holds a manage counselor at Natick High School for the last four his wife, Jane "Jemmie' Michener Riddell '66, ment position for IBM in Dallas, Tex. • years. Cary received his M.S. in geology and en have two sons • Mike Ward has recently as Russ Monbleau is involved with youth soccer vironmental science at the University of Virginia sumed the position of principal at Mullen-Hall programs in the Milford, N.H., area, where he and is presently working as a senior associate School in Falmouth, Mass., where he and his helped to design and fund a youth athletic com with Whitman and Howard in Wellesley. Their wife, Diane Burr Ward '66, reside. For the past 11 plex • Ed Phillips is in Louisville, Ky., where sons, John and Tom, are now 15 and 12 • years, Mike has been an elementary school prin he is director of water treatment for the Texo Cor Louise MacCubrey Robbins is an oncology cipal in Marion • Bruce Hertz is the director of poration. He did make it to the major leagues, social worker at Maine Medical Center in Port a recently opened bureau of the Bangor Daily folks! • Gayle Jobson Poinsett is a potter in land. She received a double master's degree in News in Pittsfield, Maine. Bruce came from the Sharon, Vt. She and husband, Mike, have two theological studies/pastoral counseling and social Somerset Bureau in Skowhegan, Maine, to as boys -one at Syracuse University School of Ar work at Boston University. She is now licensed at sume his new position • Do fill in your ques chitecture, and one at Carnegie-Mellon Universi the independent social work practice level in tionnaire if you haven't already done so. Le�s ty. She maintains that she has survived with her Maine, where she returned nearly two years ago. keep the column filled with news! 'sense of humor intact" • Stu and Linda Kaiser She has two teenaged sons and lives in Gray • Class secretary: MARCIA HARDING Wantmann live in Pennsylvania. Stu wrote of Nick Locsin lives in Sudbury, Mass., and is a ANDERSON, 15 Brechin Terrace, Andover, how proud he was that Linda was nearing com marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corpo Mass. 01810. pletion of her doctorate in clinical psychology • ration • David Hatch is a Spanish teacher at Peter Winstanley is president of Club Coffee Burlington (Mass.) High School. where he also Company. He lives in Toronto, Canada • John coaches tennis • Lesley Forman Fishelman is Carvellas continues to live near Winooski, Vt., a practicing psychologist living in Newton, Mass. where he is an economics professor at St. Mi She is the mother of two sons, Jules and Mark • chael's College. Activities that keep him fit are Pam Plumb Carey is an interior designer, hav softball, basketball, and quaffing liquid refresh ing obtained a fine arts degree from Rhode Island ment of t11e malt variety • Claudia Fugere Fin School of Design. She and Charley '63 have two kelstein has recently moved with her family to sons and live in Cumberland, R.I. • Margo 20th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 • Newsletters Cape Elizabeth, Maine where she continues to Beach Bj orn, who lives in Stonington, Conn., is are corning in fast and furious. Thanks! We are write, sing, and do psychological examining • a school psychologist and private psychotherapist preparing for a terrific reunion in June and want Tom Easton is living in Belfast, Maine, where he and is affiliated with Mystic Counseling Services to see as many classmates back at Colby as is continues to write (ten books published, three in in Mystic, Conn. • Betsy Lyman Rachal ob possible • Here's the latest news: Dick Am the works). He gardens, chops wood, and fishes tained her M.A. at the University of Michigan in mann, on leave from the University of Wiscon in his "spare' time • Lynn SeidenstueckerGall 1966 and for several years was involved with uni sin, is teaching at Lagos State University in lives in Augusta, Maine, with her two boys and versity administration at Brandeis and Radcliffe. Nigeria, Africa, while his wife works overseas husband, Ed. She keeps fit by walking, skiing, She received her M.B.A. from the Harvard Busi • Susan Haber Babash is a state officer for and playing tennis and golf • L. Gary Knight is ness School in 1973 and since that time has been Florist Transworld Delivery (FTD), where she in a banker in Livermore Falls, Maine. He has not involved in management consulting and, in re spects flower shops who want to qualify for FTD reached middle life yet and attends athletics at cent years, with investment banking and venture service. She lives in Dover-Foxcroft with hus- Colby on a regular basis • Sal Manforte is in THE COLBY ALUMNUS 37 market research sales in West Warwick, R.I. He is anxiousto return to Colby for the 20th • Mary Gourley Mastin teaches at Kents Hill School. She cites no physical fitness program, but bicy· cles, skis, canoes, swims, and does home main tenance and decorating. Class secretary: A. JAN ATHERTON COX, RFD #1, Box 36, Wiscasset, Maine 04578. 6-i_,____ Many thanks to those of you who took the time to reply to the recent A-M questionnaire. Francia Colrnes Davis, husband, Jed '68, and their two daughters, Megan, 8, and Anna, 3, live in Man· chester, Maine. Francie works three and one half days a week for the Maine Human Rights Com· mission and is also involved in the parent-teacher group at Megan's school • Tom McCrumm re cently moved from the mountains of Virginia to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts !Ash field), where he is currently a maple syrup pro ducer and a Christmas tree grower. He invites Colby classmates to stop by during sugaring season (March and April) for a free container of pure maple syrup! To the question 'What are you collecting and what are you getting rid of?" Tom responded, "Rare coins and old problems" • To the same question, Nick Hadgis responded, "Col lecting hotels and restaurants for my company." He is currently vice president of Hospitality Group, Pappas Development Corporation. Nick, his wife, Anna, and three children recently moved to Stamford, Conn., from the Philadelphia suburbs • Irv Faunce was recently selected to be project director for the nation's first boarding home solely for victims of Alzheimer's disease. Irv finds his new job in Gardiner very exciting and fascinating. To the above collecting question, Irv answered, "Children and children," as he and his wife, Julie, have four children ranging from a daughter at the University of Vermont to a four year-old! • Alice Hubert Gardner recently Jane Pfeffer Jerry '68 opened a full-time private practice in family and individual/couples therapy with a specialization in pre- and postnatal adjustments. Alice, her hus band, David, and two children live in Beverly, Jerry Promotes Experiential Learning Mass., where her office is located. To the ques 'Many people have often called me 'too nice,' and they have considered this a tion "What eats up your 'spare' time?" Alice replied, that she jogs and ran the Tufts lOK in weakness. I try to work with people and coordinate their strengths, not to be a real Boston with her ll·year-old daughter, Sarah • slave driver." To the same question, Margaret "Scottie" Jane Pfeffer Jerry, a "too nice" member of the Class of '68 has recently been Brewer Brower responded, "Considering the named executive director of the Children's Museum in Houston, Tex. A task force challenges and the relief of becoming 40.. . ." I agree wholeheartedly, Scottie! Residing in Mont from Houston, seeking "the best in the country or out of it," was attracted to her na pelier, Vt., with her family, Scottie is enjoying tional reputation as a devoted and talented community arts coordinator. Jerry, wife of teaching second grade in a local school • Anoth real estate developer and writer George Jerry, formerly served as the programdirec er teacher. Bruce MacAdam, is a first-year high tor for the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. It was she who, in 1976, helped school teacher. School "eats up his spare plan and prepare the Children's Museum in Pawtucket, R.I., the firstof its kind in the time" - "the price of a mid-life career change" for both himself and his wife. They live with their area, and eventually became its first executive director. two sons, Ethan, 12, and James, 9, in York • "A children's museum differs from a big museum because it's a participatory Richard H wmewell enjoys his position of art museum; children are able to participate in the exhibits, to see things, touch them, professor at Plymouth jN.H.) State College. He and taste them. For instance, there may be cookies baking on an old-fashioned stove. and his wife spent 1975 to 1980 in Holland while With a parent, teacher, or chaperone present, it can definitely be a shared learning ex Dick did .his research for his Ph.D. dissertation on 17th century Dutch artists' portraits. Their "spare perience. time" is nonexistent as they have two sons, '1 am very proud of my work here [in Houston]." Jerry continued. "It isthe second Joshua, 4, and Isaac, 2, after 15 years of marriage time I've worked with a museum before it's opened, and I've learned from experience with no children • Joe Connolly is a commer· to be a very strong part of that starting process." cial insurance broker and was recently made vice president of Carroon and Black. He enjoys golf, TAR tennis, and skiing and resides in Medford, Mass., with his wife • This has turned out to be a New 38 THE COLBY ALUMNUS England column ....Let's hear from some of you siderio, Lobowitz, Silverman and Wright. She is who have put geographical space between your also an officer and director of International self and Colby. As for me, I'm still in Rhode Island Business Center of New England. Her fiance is a and spend much of my spare time "creatively realtor in Fort Lauderdale • Richard Gallup '70 parenting" my three children, Kirsti, 14, and twins was elected senior vice president of operations at Michael and Matthew, 12; I use that term be Maine Fidelity Life Insurance. He is responsible � A fall visitor to our neck of the woods wasBeth �use I ave found �at one must be extremely for the company's underwriting activity and the _ Ryerson, who came equipped with her Canon creative to parent this age group. Charlie teaches home-office business administration. Rich earned camera to snap some glimpses of Baltimore. Beth history, and I am currently doing another long his M.B.A. from Suffolk University. He has been conducts walking tours in Boston, so was in term sub position, this time in guidance. We col with Maine Fidelity Life since 1983 • Richard terested in this city's architecture and sights. A lect pets (currently five in residence) and seem to Gray is with the Massachusetts financial services consultant on health promotion, presently free get rid of nothing! I look forward to hearing from of Waddell and Gray. He presented a work lancing with Blue Cross of Massachusetts, she firm you. shop at the Marlboro, Mass., public library last recently participated in the production of a video Class secretary: SALLY RAY BENNEIT summer on personal financial planning. Richard, series entitled "Health Thyself." The show, aimed (Mrs. Charles K.), 47 West St., East Greenwich who attended Northeastern University's Gradu ' at th general public, willbe seen on public televi RI. 02818. . � ate School for Professional Accounting, has ex sion m Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Beth ensive background in the oil and gas exploration owns her home in Roslindale, Mass., and can � mdustry • Pam Ryan has achieved her CLU often be spotted at Colby functions in the Boston de ignation, having successfully completed the area. She enjoyed a taste of Baltimore and en � senes of 10 examinations required. Pam is with virons-crabs, Orioles, Harborplace, Annapolis, the Portland firm of Morse, Payson and Noyes, and ?.C. -as much as we enjoyed showing her • . and superVlsesthe administrative functions of the David Dougan, who teaches high school in financial planning division and sells individual Ashland, Maine (Aroostook County), was award Class �cretary: JANN SEMONIAN, Box 109, and group health coverage plans • Peggy She ed two educational grants, including a Carnegie Sandwich, Mass. 02563. han McLean lives in Wenham, Mass., and is a Fellowship. In the fall of 1986 he willtake a sab reporter with the Salem Evening News. She and batical, made possible by that grant, to study h r husband, Nelson, have two children • Jane toward his doctorate at Idaho State University. � Hight Edmunds of Hollis, N.H., and Elizabeth The other grant sponsored a program to evaluate "E-beth" Allen Cain of Chelmsford, Mass., have a science curriculum for students in kindergarten both been hosts to Colby alumni gatherings in through high school, and a workshop offering therr homes • Jack Dyer, in addition to his real "hands-on" techniques for teaching elementary estate activities in northern Maine, has been science • Karen Knapp Lyons was awarded a As winter approaches I take comfort in vacation lected to the board of trustees of Husson College master of arts degree at the University of � fantasy. I have always wanted to visit Vancouver m Bangor, Maine • Elliott Libman, who '. Nebraska, where she also teaches English com and it would be delightful to see Virginia Du earned his M.S.W. at Boston University School of position. At last report she was headed for her pont Eckert there. She and Ron have three Social Work, has joined the staff of the Tri Ph.D. in English. Karen and her husband Bill '69 young children, and Ginny is a high school coun � County Mental Health Services Family Center in • who received an award for distinguished teachin selor Hawaii rates high, too, and Leslie Hitch Lewiston, serving Oxford, Androscoggin, and at the same institution in 1984, have two children Dunbar lives there. She is a school principal and Fr� counties. Elliott had previously been • It looks like I just missed Ben and Denise . mother of two and is actively involved in soccer working m Boston with emotionally disturbed • Kravitz in San Francisco, Calif., last August. and church education Two of our classmates adolescents and retarded adults in residential They took a West Coast vacation with their one turned their travel dreams into reality in the sum treatment settings • Kendall Didsbury, chair year-old son, Joshua, a couple of weeks after I mer of 1984. Roberta Kent English went to of the humanities division at the Tilton School was there with my two sons. Some day soon we Montana and the Canadian Rockies from her Tilton, N.H., has been appointed to a three-y� must compare notes on the cable car, sourdough ?ome in Summit, N.J. She is working on a degree term as a member of the Conunittee on Response bread, and all the memories of that special city. m speech pathology and her husband, Bruce, is a to Literature. The committee is charged by the Ben not only gained a wonderful wife when he Chase Manhattan Bank vice president • Talk of National Council of Teachers of English with married Denise but three other sons, and they are travel. Jane Master Rohrback drove across "review of existing professional materials at all a delightful family. They make their home in 8,300 miles of the United States in five weeks! l�vels of instruction on the subject of response to Easton, Mass. • Steve and I are hoping to get a Jane loves to travel (I hope so!), and she's into literature, assessing the need for statements ar Colby club underway in this area. There are a lot photography and quiltingas well. Husband David ticles, books, and other materials and dev�lop of Colbyites in greater Baltimore • We are still and two children live in Robesonia, Pa., where ment of needed materials." Ken is in his 15th year searching for quite a few lost alumni. Does any they have a printing business • If you should be of teaching at Tilton. one know the whereabouts of David Weitzman, on the road in Ohio, you could look up Steve Class secretary: LESLIE J. ANDERSON, Jane Sawyer, Judith Carlisle (Mrs. Kenneth Goodwin in Bowling Green. He is chairman of 30 Hall Ave., Somerville, Mass. 02114. the marketing department at the university's Col Santarelli). or Martha Belden (Mrs. Mark lege of Business, has two daughters, and enjoys K.leinerman)? Please drop me a line if so. Also send any news about yourself or classmates you duplicate bridge and golf • Thomas Wedekind see or know about. Thanks. would like to hear from Colby friends who visit Florida. He lives in St. Petersburg and is married Class secretary: LAURA STRUCKHOFF Hill with two children. Tom is a social worker and CLINE (Mrs. Steven D.). 6602 Loch Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21239. 72 seems to be an active man with interests in local politics and racquetball • Susan Mathews La�t surnmer David and I spent a week in Maine, _ Szydlowski is also active in interestingways. She Visiting my mother as well as friends in the area. and her husband, Ted, live in Lebanon, Pa., and We enjoyed our armual visit with Peter and Pam have tw� kids. She enjoys photography, sailing, Mause Vose, and meeting two-week-old Julia • and music • Closer to home is David Keene in We also stopped in Massachusetts to visit Frank 7,._/ __ Simsbury, Conn. David is in the real estate and Marjorie Chamberlain Bisognano in business. He and Vicki have two children • And 15th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 • Cheer up, North Reading • And I had an unexpected finally, Sharon Timberlake is in a master's classmates! Spring is on the way (even if it doesn't chance to see another friend from Colby when degree program in public policy and lives in make an official appearance in Waterville until at we ran into Ellen Muzzy Farnham and her Portland, Maine. I'd like to hear more from least July 3, if I recall correctly ...) • Mary family at Logan Airport at 8 a.m. on a Sunday Sharon and others, too, especially those of you Wright willbe married to Edward Zilonis of Fort r:img! Ellen had spent the previous month �� . who read the column and haven't yet written. Lauderdale, Fla., in July. Mary, who received her V!Siting family and friends in New England • Liz Your friends and I would love to hear about you. J.D. degree in 1979 from Suffolk University Law Ross Withnell is a trial lawyer with the Com Class secretary: DONNA MASSEYSYKES, School, is an international trade law attorney and modity Futures Trading Commission in Washing 228 Spring St., Shrewsbury, Mass. 01545. a partner in the Boston law firmof Grunfeld, De- ton, D.C. Husband David also has his law degree THE COLBY ALUMNUS 39 and is an associate with the private firm of Step toe and Johnson. They have a daughter, Jennifer Rose, born in October 1982. I had a good oppor tunity to visit Liz and David in Washington last January, when I was there to attend a conference of the American Association of College and Re search Libraries • George "J ay" Peabody and his wife, Robin Sweeney '74, have returned to the United States after four years in Belgium. He will be a business product manager for Calgon, in the area of industrial water treatment. Jay and Robin enjoyed their travels through various countries in Europe. They have a son, George Alan • Anne Howard Cotter and her husband, Lee, are living in New Canaan, Conn. Lee is a self-employed real estate developer. They have four children, three girls and a boy • Pam Rudolf Barrios and Rick have moved to Valencia, Calif. Rick is a real estate broker, and Pam is staying home with their two sons. In addition, Pam and Rick are distribu tors for Herbalife International products. Pam feels this is a great career opportunity, particular ly for a parent at home with children • Pat Thomas is a physician in Memphis, Tenn., where she is developing a geriatric evaluation unit for the Memphis VA Hospital and has a clinical appointment at the University of Ten nessee School of Health Care Sciences. Her hus band, Chris Bever, Jr., is also a physician. They have three children, two girls and a boy. Pat wrote that Lynda Moore married Joseph Mar ziani and lives in Glenside, Pa. • Swift Tarbell, formerly a Maine state representative, is current ly an attorney in Portland, Maine. Last August his engagement to Kathy Elizabeth Littlefield of Old Town, Maine, was announced. Class secretary: ANN BONNER VIDOR, 1981 Innwood Rd., Atlanta, Ga. 30329. Daniel Cohen '75 Cohen on Colby Daniel Cohen '75, assistant professor of philosophy at Colby, was recently congratu Class secretary: JANET PERETHIAN BIGE WW !Mrs. Lawrence C.), 144Washington Ave., lated by Director of Student Activities Jim Peacock for helping make the 1985 COOT Needham, Mass. 02 192. trips a great success. Cohen, an outdoorsman who hiked over 1,000 miles on the Ap palachian Trail during his senior year, feels that the Class of 1985 heralds a time of "great change" for Colby. 1t's an interesting freshman class, perhaps because of its wide span. There is more geographic, political, and social diversity than ever before, and I think that this class is representative of what Bob McArthur wanted to accom plish during his time as dean of admissions. "The mid 1980s are a very exciting time at Colby; we are poised for a great change. There are a fair number of grants to be used for new developments, such as This issue will continue where I left offlast time with news of classmates, gleaned from the many the revamping of the curriculum. Colby's not the college it was 30 years ago; across completed questionnaires I've received over the the board I see improvements. past few months. If you haven't yet returned ''But now you have what I feel is an inversion of the natural order of things. It's • yours, there's still time Robin Mycock wrote very rare to have the faculty more liberal than the students. But the changes I see from Sydney, Australia, where he established and here in the last 10 years that I don't like are the changes I've seen in the country in the now directs his own company. His job involves a lot of traveling to the Far East. He welcomes Col last 10 years that I don't like. When you have 60 percent of the country voting for by people "down under" • Phil Deford and his Reagan, you can't avoid a reflection of that." wife, Sheila, came to visit last year for a week of Cohen earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University before taking a fishing and wine tasting • George Knauer is a position at Colby. He lives on campus with his wife, Lesley Fowler '76, who recently little "closer to home" in West Orange, N.J., where he is a chiropractor. George and his wife, Rita became the coordinatorof a program for giftedchildren in Waterville's Pleasant Street Alice, were expecting their first child on June 13 and Brookside Elementary schools. The Cohens can often be seen eating breakfast in • Elizabeth Allan and her husband, James Dana, beginning their day as active parts of the expanding Colby and Waterville Polachek, had their first on June 20. Elizabeth is communities. the assistant to the president of Nomura Securi ties in New York • Robin Hamill McGum TAH completed her anesthesiology residency last April and has been on the staff of Mercy Hospital in 40 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Portland, Maine, since June 1. She and Bob '73 pediatrics on a part-time basis • Chris Dana to publish articles and is in the process of writing have two children • Peggy Barnes is in Suffolk, wrote that he has recently returned to Reading, another book • I'm excited about some news of Va., where she is the director of gerontology at Pa., lo practice law after attending law school in my own. After five years of being an at-home Hampton University. She saw Leo and Leslie California • Congratulations to Mike and Kris mommy, I'm starting a new job, maybe even Nickerson Bowers recently; they're residing in Bowen Lynes on the birth of their new daugh career. Two or three days a week, I'm learning Hampton, Va. • Dennis Delehanty was mar ter, Sarah Emily, born this summer in Bar Har about the antique print business while working at ried in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on May 4, 1985. bor, Maine • Lawrence Potter also deserves Haley and Steele, a Boston gallery. To be actually Dennis is an international postal affairs specialist congratulations; for winning a seat on the school using my art history degree after 10 years is with the U.S. Postal Service • Beverly Kraut board in the recent Waterville election • Laurie wonderful, and the requisite juggling of respon wrote from Oakland, Calif., where she is in Fitts has made a career change, leaving Maine sibilities is proving to be as equally wonderful in specialty food sales • Shelley Bieringer Rau Audubon for a new adventure in the world of its manageability. Can I keep up the column in wrote to announce the birth of their second child financial services marketing. In between, she my spare time? Tune in next quarter and find out! on May 19. Shelley was scheduled to return to took the summer off to enjoy "Looking at the And don't forget reunion, June 6-8! her job in September as an occupational therapist world through the eyes of' her five- and two-year Class secretary: MELISSA DAY VOKEY at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, olds • Finally, a big thanks to Deb Marson 16 Fox Run, Topsfield, Mass. 01983. Maine • Also in Maine is Beverly Crockett, McNulty and Sue Conant Cook for helping to who has become a Bahai. In addition to being a make our 10th reunion the fantastic affair it was! mother and teacher, Beverly is helping to start an Stay tuned for future updates on your classmates! independent school for five- to eight-year-old Class secretary: BARBARA CARROLL children • Mark Curtis is also in the area. He's PETERSON, 226 Swedesford Rd., Malvern, Pa. a central division manager with Central Maine 19355. Power Company in Augusta. Mark received his M.B.A. from Thomas College, where he had been a part-time student • Another Maine resident is Claudia Barbara Thornsjo Takacs helps her Pauline Morin Lyons and her husband, Bruce. husband run a 700-acre sheep farm in Albion, They recently purchased a home in Bar Maine, teaches high school English, trains for Mills • Rob Burgess and his wife, Donna marathons, such as the big one in New York City, Zeegers, are both lawyers i.n Augusta, Maine. Rob and devotes time to her two-year-old. What a is a bureaucrat (but a good bureaucrat!) and schedule! • Elizabeth Damon Weaver, anoth spends most of his free time working on their 10th reunion: June 6-8, 1986 • If you are er resident of Albion, works part-time as a social house on the coast • Victor Christensen and ever recruited to man a Colby fund-raising tele services administrator for an agency on aging. his wife, Ann Bicknell Christensen, are also thon, I say, do it! I just did and had a wonderful This allows her to dedicate the rest of her time to working on a house. They're renovating one in time talking with friends I used to see every day, motherhood. She writes that she would love to Jacksonville, Fla. Their news was that in the but now talk to once in 10 years. Here's the scoop: hear from her old buddies Nancy Groh, Mark space of five days, Ann moved 1,200 miles, Wally Gorman is married to Sharon Culf '78. Gildersleeve, and Linda Falcinelli • Leslie bought a house, started a new job, and got mar He's a flight engineer with Northwest Orient; Ramsay has new Colby neighbors-Judy Fair ried! On that note, 111 close. she's with IBM in New York City. Liz Johnson, clough '78 and Maureen Kelliher '76- now that Class secretary: CAROL D. WYNNE, P.O. that should answer your question of whatever she has moved back to her native state of New Box 96, Winthrop, Maine 04364. happened to Wally • Carrie Miller married Hampshire. Leslie has been in Boston since Lou Federici and completed a master's degree in graduation. She reported that she is happy with nursing. She's a nurse practitioner at the VA her new career as trust administrator with Mer hospital in Philadelphia • Steve McGill kept on chants National Bank in Manchester, N.H., and going to school after Colby. He has an M.B.A. and with a healthier lifestyle. I must also say thanks to a master's in chemistry from the University of Leslie, on behalf of Marion Mauran Mariner, Rhode Island. He now teaches chemistry there for answering the question posed in my March and owns a real estate/waterfront development 1985 column on the whereaboutsof Maureen Kel company called Waterfront Properties. Steve and liher • Richard Conant, Jr., a biologist in Ft. Thanks to those of you who were so speedy in an Maura have a two-year-old, Sean Patrick • Don Lauderdale, Fla., was recently promoted to sup swering my questionnaire. If I didn't get to you in na Bacchi finished her undergrad studies at Cor porting scientist with the U.S. government • this column, be assured that you aren't forgot nell, then went on to study medicine at the Eric Heinzelrnann is a systems engineer for Bell ten • Alice Smith wrote that she and Chris University of Cincinnati. Donna and her hus Labs/AT and Tin New Jersey • Patricia Lynn Duncan are busy at Bennington College; she, as band, David Smith, are both pediatricians at a Stuart Shaw is an assistant professor of econom director of publications and he, as a teaching public health center in Brownsville, Tex. Number ics at Williams College in Massachusetts. Lynn assistant in sculpture. They keep up with Rick one child is Christopher, age five, and by my received her Ph.D. in economics from the Uni English '73, who is the United Nations director of calculations, number two should be six months versity of Colorado at Boulder • Joanne Karlin Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan; Cathy Cornell old by now; Donna was patiently waiting to give Nordhagen received her M.B.A. from the Uni Lipman '73, who practices obstetrics in Burling birth when we talked • Andy Dennison sends versity of California at Berkeley and is a manage ton, Vt.; John Steer '76, who sails the deep blue as greeting to Fred McGrail from Colorado Springs, ment consultant in Silicon Valley • Malle a commercial fishing rig captain out of Cape Hat Colo., where Andy is editor of Concrete Pumping, Smith lists her occupation as weaver and stu teras, N.C.; Bill Howe '74, who is a camera/audio a trade journal for the construction industry • dent. She is currently studying for her master's tech man for New York State Public Television; Jane Lombard, no longer a trucking magnate, degree in library science from New York State and James Tonge, who is adventuring in the has put in her order for a Century 21 gold jacket. University of Albany • Jonathan Maslow lives Orient • Stuart Cushner now has a D.D.S. Jane now has her real estate license and is work in San Francisco, Calif., where he is a magazine after his name and is practicing orthodontia in ing for First Choice Realty in Portland, Maine editor • Horticulturist Mary Crain Penniman Eastchester, N.Y. • Bill Driscoll is busy in • Also working the phones at the Colby telethon is employed by Callaway Gardens in Pine Moun Stowe, Vt., as president of a local origination in Boston were Brian Hurley, Mario Cardenas, tain, Ga., in their education department, which is cable channel station. His station will also func and Peter Ashton, all of whom are well and primarily involved with environmental interpre tion as a production studio for video-taped adver looking very grown-up! Brian received a master's tation. Mary traveled to England in 1979 to ap tisements • David Turnbull has been pro in the Boston University health-care program and prentice at the Royal Horticultural Society's moted to district vice president of sales for the is now a nursing home administrator in Lex Garden in Wisley. She then completed her master Peabody Development Company, a marketing ington, Mass. Mario has produced two corporate of science degree at the University of London in and resource management company. He and rock videos for a computer company; he says his 1983 • Phi Beta Kappa at Colby, David Peck wife, Suzie Benson Turnbull, will be locating distinctive style on air drums isapparent on both. ham went on to receive his master's degree in themselves around Charleston, W.Va. • Moira Peter has started his own management and geophysics from the University of Washington in Shea and husband, William Wittman, both doc economic consulting company in South Boston, Seattle. Now David lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, tors, have relocated to Falmouth, Mass., with called Innovation and Information Consultants. where he works for Schlumberger Well Logging their two young daughters. Moira is practicing While enjoying working for himself, he continues Services • Nancy Epstein, a health policy ana- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 41 lyst, has spent the last few years with the Texas gott wrote from New York City that she was Legislature as executive director of the Texas Sen married at Christmas time to Louis Moore Bacon ate Committee on Hunger and Nutrition. This (Middlebury '79). Louis is a trader of financial fu w?r� resulted in the passage of legislation appro tu es for Shearson Lehman Brothers, while Cyn : . pnatmg $11.5 million in state funds to fight hun thia 1s a staff reporter for Newsweek • Finally, ger � One last note- thanks to all of you who 7q,____ Dave and I have returned to a more familiar cli Continuing from the last colurrm, Blair Wash contmue to answer the questionnaires. The re bum Tracy attended Lisa Hall's wedding to mate. Last November, we moved to northern sponses are becoming fewer as we get farther . . Lmdsay Keith Reed last June. Lisa's an assistant Mic�gan as a :esult of Dave's transfer and pro from graduation! . vice president for the Merrill Lynch Mortgage motion to distnct supervisor for Amoco. I am a Class secretary: LINDA LACHAPELLE, Corporation in New York, and her husband is a commercial art student and freelance artist and 320 East 42nd St .. Apt. 20 12, New York, N.Y. buyer for Herman's World of Sporting Goods. At am loving it! Happy spring! 10017. their wedding, Blair saw Dale and Ingrid Class secretary: JANE VENMAN LEDE Gjesteby Janes, Wayne and Bev Schnorr Lar BUHR, 88 17 Skegemog Point Rd., Williamsburg, mi�, Cindy �landreau, and Jodie Dwight. Mich. 49690. . Blau is now Living. m Wellesley, Mass .. with her husband, Clifford. She works for Technical Data Corporation marketing financial information • For Julie Borden and others inquiring about My commute to and from work, 25 miles each Lauren Wincig Kline, she is alive and well and __ way through rural Waldo County, is a source of 8Q Living in the D.C. area. She's been married for six pleasure for me. One of the large hills I crest in years now to Andrew, an attorney associated FLASH! Peter Golden goes to Hollywood with the morning provides a brief but magnificent with a private law firm. She completed her . Universal Studios ...moving up from casting the glimp�e of Pe�obscot Bay, golden with the early M.BA in May 1984, and is now working for Bell Bill Cosby Show to '?' • John Monroe's a morrung sunlight. The scene calls to mind the Atlantic as a market analyst • Planning a spring medical doctor at Naval Weapons Center, China view from Mayflower Hill, where, if not for those or summer trip? Consider Finland! Jan Raiha Lake, Calif. • Aimee La Morte has her own same hills, the coast could also be seen. The bids welcome to any Colbyites traveling there private investigator business in Denver, Colo. panorama from Runnals Hill is still one I seek out and offers to arrange accommodations! He and • Terry Dubois is an accountant in Los Angeles; from time to time. The latest news? Here is what I his wife, Maija, Live in Helsinki, where they both he'd love to hear from fellow 1977-78 University have • Ian Ogilvie was turned in by his practice veterinary medicine. When asked what of Caen students (540 Mt. Washington Dr .. mother. He is hiding out in Orr's Island, Maine. he remembers when he thinks of Colby, Jan 90065) • Jamie Hansman '79 is a stockbroker at He and his wife work in the Bath-Brunswick responded, "The smell of old beer the day after a Smith Barney in Boston • Cynthia Wigley area • Don Hyde married Annette Carluzzi last party in the KDR house" • Nick Menchers received her Ph.D. in geology at Rice University, summer, and Walter Olien served as usher. olfactory senses recall quite the opposite; the married Eugene Domack in June 1985, and is Congrats, Don! • If you have the chance to see smell of first floor Woodman popcorn! Nick Lives now a professor at Hamilton College • Barry '79 Tracers, a play by and about Vietnam veterans, on Riverside Drive in New York City (was that a and Elizabeth Yanagihara Horwitz are the see if you can get in touch with Anne-Marie coincidence, Nick, or did the Big Apple dedicate proud parents of Michael Shigeo • Robin Balis Hobson, who serves as production stage mana that street to honor your band by the same name zewski is acquisitions editor of foreign language ger. The show, after playing in New York and at Colby?). Putting to work his M.A. and Ed.M. in textbooks at Prentice-Hall Publishers; she lives in London, is currently on a two-year, twenty-city vocational and personal counseling psychology, Dumont, N.J. • Tamara Hannah married Bill national tour • Joseph William Tyler earned a Nick also works with his new wife, Joan Marie Hulburt on April 20, 1985; she's an attorney with master's degree in business administration from Scarpino (August 1984). They run a catering com Citicorp Chicago • Linda Alters an account Wake Forest University • I received a nice note pany feeding the hordes of hungry ranging from manager with Computer Associates. She's trav from Diane Whitehead Gates. who wrote that 20 to 100, and that, he said, "eats" up his spare eled to such places as Rio de Janeiro upon meet she and her husband, Paul, are the new parents time. Nick also wrote that former Riverside Drive ing various sales quotas; her spare time's spent of Mandi Lee, born September 3. Diane received and KDR guitar wizardJon Swenson is now in a maintaining the house she purchased two years a master's in social work from Boston University master's/Ph.D. program at the University of Dela ago in Falls Church, Va .. and playing soccer • and willdivide her time among several projects in ware • Elsewhere in graduate program news, Cathy Palmer works with the United Way of the field. In the future she hopes to use their dairy Steven Singer is at the John F. Kennedy School Massachusetts Bay, Boston; she continues to be farm as a site to work with troubled adolescent of Government at Harvard, enrolled in the rnid quite involved with her church and enjoys sing boys. She sends her very best to all her friends career master's program in public administration. ing a capella • Maureen "Mo" Flint's moved from freshman year • Is it too early to start He'll be finished later this spring, just in time for from Colorado back to Maine, where she's an L.L. thinking about our 10th reunion? Should we plan the 1986 elections. He wrote that Bill Leete is in Bean sales clerk • Kingsley Durant teaches a significant class gift? What are some ideas of in New Haven, Conn .. working as an associate with math, computers, and music at Cushing Acade teresting things to do in June of 1988? We'll have Wiggin and Dana, that city's largest law firm, and my in Ashburnham, Mass. His wife, Pam, had a to consider these in the near future, so keep them also mentioned that Richard Schreuer spent last baby boy, Nathan, in September 1984, and anoth in mind. Please send me some news, even (espe summer in Washington, D.C .. working for a na er is on the way • Cushing Academy has a large cially) if that's the kind of thing you don't normal tional polling firm. Where are you now, Richard? Colby contingent: Anne Badrnington Cass '73, ly do. Either that or I'll have to resort to a ques • Angela Mickalide is making waves in the Mike Schafer'83, Wendell Shaffer '82, and Kings tionnaire. Maybe I will anyway. Cheers. health field after receiving a joint Ph.D. in public ley replaced Joel Castleman as JV football and Class secretary: JAMES S. COOK, JR., health and psychology from Johns Hopkins Uni hockey coach • David Harvey is Portsmouth RFD 1, Box 3470, Albion, Maine 04910. versity back in May of last year • Cynthia Pig- (N.H.) High's new basketball coach • Richard Tonge is an investment counselor with David Wendell Associates in Maine. He previously worked with R. M. Tonge Company in Waterville Inaugurations • Steve Martin received his M.D. from McGill Periodically, Colby is invited to send representatives to special academic events at University, Montreal, in May 1985 and is now doing a three-year residency in family practice at colleges and universities. The following persons have represented the College at in Maine Medical Center in Portland • Rick and augurations in the past months. Terry Weber Ewing were married in June 1984, and both received master of science degrees in Li Janet Deering Bruen '79, at the inauguration of Paul G. Bunnell as president of Ur brary science from the University of North Caro bana University. lina at Chapel Hill in August 1984. They now own a house in Stow, Ohio. Rick heads audio-vis Kathleen McConaughy Zambello '56, at the inauguration of Frank S. Falcone as presi ual services at Akron-Surnrnit County Public Li dent of Springfield College. brary, while Terry is a children's librarian in one of the branches • Peter Lee recently graduated 42 THE COLBY ALUMNUS from the New England School of Law and recent eign service officer in the department of state. for Champion International in New York • ly married Lynne Seeley. Lynne is employed in Dani and James are living in Zaire, Africa. She re Martha Driscoll Kelley is with a law firm in Boston by Wallace Floyd Associates, an archi ported that Liz Burton is engaged to Wayne Sil Boston doing real estate work. Her husband, tectural and planning firm, and is pursuing her adi '80 • Alan Eric Wolf is engaged to Karen Raymond "Chip," is training to be a commercial master's at Tufts • Kathy DeWitt Grant took a Ann Frink. Both are lawyers who graduated from lender with Shawmut Bank of Boston • John one-year leave of absence from teaching during Syracuse University Law School • Attorney Munsey is now employed as an engineering 1984-85 to work at Madison Paper Industries in Peter Cocciardi will be wed to Leslie B. Ban geologist with Durm Geoscience Corporation • Maine. She and her husband will soon be pursu kowski, of Neponset,. Mass. • Todd Marble has Jennifer Beever, a senior marketing represen ing their master's at the University of Maine • been named head football coach at Kingwood-Ox tative for Marcam Corporation, wrote that she Linda Davis is a personal computer sales repre ford School in West Hartford, Conn. He will also recently moved to San Francisco, Calif., to open a sentative with Hewlett-Packard in Lexington, supervise the school's entire football program and sales branch for the company • Melinda Mass. She's pursuing her M.B.A. part-time at Bab weight program, coach lacrosse, and teach math Lowell was appointed to the position of commer son • Joy Crafts Cantrell is a law clerk with ematics • Margaret Ellen Carlton Bash cial lending officer at Bank Meridian in New the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, while her hus graduated May 18, 1985, from the Edward He Hampshire • Abigail King wrote that after band, Steve, is a combat systems engineer at Bath bert School of Medicine, of the Uniformed Serv working for Merrill Lynch in Boston for two Iron Works. ices University. She will continue her medical years, she decided to enter Boston University's Class secretary: DIANA P. HERRMANN, education in a pediatrics internship at Walter law school this past September • Congratula 360 East 65th St., Apt. 3H, New York, N.Y. Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. tions to Debbie Bombaci, who was recently 10021. Class secretary: PAULA HINCKLEY promoted to account manager at Bombaci and BURROUGHS (Mrs. Jack). 55 N. Reading St. , Mitchell Associates, an advertising firm in Manchester, N.H. 03104. Boston. Debbie is also pursuing her M.B.A. at Babson College. In addition, she was named 1985-86 co-chair of the Computer Marketing Group of the Boston chapter of the American Marketing Association • Sally Lovegren is liv 81_- - ing in South Portland, Maine, and is working as a customer service representative at Peoples • 5th rewtlon: June 6-8, 1986 Another winter Heritage Bank • Teri Mclellan is also in is behind us, and I hope that we all had a happy Maine, working as a substitute teacher in the holiday season. It is time to start looking forward Hello, everyone. I'm a little low on up-to-date in Waterville school district. She and her husband, to our class reunion. Please be generous when formation, so this will be a brief column. If you've Timothy, are expecting their first child at the end you are asked to give a donation to the Alumni yet to see your name in print, please drop me a of February! That's all for now! Please keep the • Reunion Fund Sue Perry wrote to say that line so we all can know what you're up to! • Ed news coming. she had boughta mini-farm in Southbridge, Mass. Paterson and Theresa LaPointe have announced Class secretary: DELISA A. IATERZO, She is still workingas an x-ray technician at Tufts their engagement. They plan to be married in 1427 Marine St., Apt. 3, Boulder, Colo. 80302. University Veterinary School • Janet Blau mar May. Ed is working as a sales representative for ried Daniel S. Cobb on June 29, 1985. Lauren Rumford Prudential Insurance while his fiancee Hampton was her maid of honor and Ellen is a hostess at the Homestead in Lewiston • Jim Owens Dion was a bridesmaid. After a honey O'Sullivan and Melise Maggioni '8 1 have also moon in Hawaii they settled into their new house announced their engagement. Jim is at New Eng in Shrewsbury, Mass. • Brigitte Raquet mar land Law, while Melise is a marketing representa ried Paul Farrell on September 21, 1985. Holly tive with Eastman Kodak. They, too, are planning Mackin Anzani acted as her matron of honor. a summer wedding • One fm al wedding note - They honeymooned in Negril Beach, Jamaica. Patti Roscoe is engaged to be married in March You people make my job easy and enjoyable! They are both working for John Hancock Mutual to John Slattery. Patti is working at the MGH Beth Stillings and Bob Brooks were married in Life Insurance Company. Brigitte also wrote that Bunker Hill Health Center in Charlestown, Mass. South Berwick, Maine, on August 10 by Father Holly and her husband just bought a home in Her fiance is director of advertising and promo Paul Cote. Sarah Chapin was the maid of honor. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. • Frank Moltz mar tion for New England Sports Network in Bos Beth is presently an editorial assistant for Allyn ried Laura Russell on June 15, 1985, and will ton • Jim Erskine has joined Mosley Associates and Bacon Company, and Bob is a financial ana begin teaching at the Baldwin School in Bryn in Portland, Maine. Jim will be working through lyst for Digital Equipment • Jeff Clements and Mawr, Pa. • Karen Pfeiffer is studying in the out central and southern Maine, providing insur Nancy Heselton were living in Portland, Maine, M.L.S. program at Simmons College. She lives in ance and financial services for his clients • Last, where they opened a summer office for Green • Boston and works part-time at Boston College but not least - Carson Stanwood has joined In peace. Jeff began Cornell Law School this past Sara Bunnel was awarded a master's degree in galls Advertising in Boston as an assistant account fall • Rob Fast is living in Atlanta. Ga., and Americanstudies from Trinity College • On No manager. working for Unionmutual • Tom Gratzer is vember 9, 1985, Brian Picard wed Gisele Noel. Class secretary: JULANNE M. CULLY, now at law school at Emory University (also in Miss Noel was awarded a nursing degree from St. 425 Front St., Weymouth, Mass. 02 188. Atlanta) • Frederick Canby is in his second Anselm's College in Manchester, N.H., and Brian year of dental school at Georgetown • Ginny is the regional marketing coordinator for Union McCourt married Bob McCurdy '81 in Septem Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York • ber 1984 in Kennebunkport, Maine. Ginny works Jennifer Sears became the bride of William Sup in Manhattan for Ralph Lauren/Polo Fashion ple III in North Conway, N.H. Jennifer works for Menswear, and Bob is a salesman for Graphic InternationalMountain Equipment in NorthCon Tech in ewburgh, N.Y. • Cathy AJtrocchi is way, and her husband is the general manager of in Horana, Sri Lanka, with the Peace Corps teach Wild Country USA, also in North Conway • ing English to would-be English teachers. She also Paul Meade and Clare Walker were recently Many thanks to all of you who responded so studies Sinhalese and coaches gymnastics • married in Charlotte, N.C. They both just re promptly to my questionnaire. I now have quite a Colin Cook had been working as a biomedical ceived graduate degrees from Duke University • bit of news to relate! A number of people recently engineer at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, N.H. Kim Wadkins, who is working for MCI Tele began new jobs. Terri Lewis wrote that she is He plans to continue graduate school part-time communications Corporation, was recently now employed as a publicist for New Medico for a while and then full-time in the New Hamp awarded an Excellence in Service distinctionfrom Head Injury System. She will be running public shire or Boston area. Colin is also working with MCI President Orville Wright. Kim is currently awareness programs for rehabilitation centers his brother on a fictional story based on their working out in San Francisco, Calif. • Thomas around the United States • Elaine McClellan, New England experiences • Victoria Crouch D. Schofield received his dental degree from who was married to Lawrence "Scott" Neirnann ley marriedTom Dougherty '82 on September 14. Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. He '84 on September 21, 1985, is now working o f r Victoria is managing an athletic wear store in will be working for Tufts Dental • Daniela Northwestern Mutual in their life insurance sales RhodeIsland. Last yearshe lived in Washington, Nemec Micsan wrote of her marriage to a for- division • Amy Fisher works as a microscopist D.C., with Lauren Mogenson, Marykate Wha- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 43 len, and Peggy Hale '85 • Todd Halloran ac cepted an offer to go to Toronto, Canada, for an assignment as a corporate credit analyst at Han over Trust's Toronto office • Elizabeth Keuffel is teaching English at the White Mountain School in Littleton, N.H. • Marie Joyce is working at a Portland real estate company and a local movie theater • Becca Cunningham is working in silkscreening in Burlington, Vt., and living in a Vennont country home • Maureen "Moe" Hagerty married Jay Polimeno '8 1 on June 22, 1985. Maureen is the personnel director for Un derground Camera • Nathaniel Bisson is working at Young and Rubicam (advertising) as a media planner • Cindy Hurlburt is a social worker at the Rockingham County Nursing Home and enjoys living in New Han1pshire • PauJ Deranian is in his second year at Dart mouth Medical School • Andy Sennett com pleted a one-year program at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. He is getting his B.E. in biomedical engineering • Sharon Kehoe is teaching math and doing a lot of rock climbing in ldyllwild, Calif. • There'll be even more infor mation about the Class of '84 in the next issue of the Alumnus! Class correspondent: KATH RYN N. SOD ERBERG, Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Por tuguese, 352 Burroughs North, Pennsylvania Lizabeth Murphy '83 State University, University Park, Pa. 16802. Murphy Helps Prime Perceptions of President A Colby grad in the White House? Although she doesn't occupy the Oval Office, Lizabeth Murphy '83 plays a major role in shaping the public's perception of the Reagan administration. As director of the White House Publications Office, she arm oversees the public of the White House Press Office. Murphy's staff processes Homecoming last fall proved to be the gala affair documents and press releases for distribution to corporations, lobbying groups, and we all had anticipated! U you missed it, plan a the public. In addition to managing releases for the president, the publications office road trip next fall for a guaranteed good time. if distributes material for the vice president, the Office of Management and Budget, and First off, I haven't seen or heard from you in the past year, let me know where you are and what the National Security Council. you've been doing • Laurie Herlihy and I are Murphy, a native of Hingham, Mass., admitted that the job offer in the fall of living in Portland and we have plenty of room, so 1983 came as a surprise. While spending her junior year at George Washington stop by and visit when in Maine! I must add that University, the founder of the Colby Republicans interned in the Republican Na the 'Old Port's" popularity is growing as Diane Albert, Liz Eddy, Tom Donahue, and Peter tional Committee's corrununications office. "Somebody probably recorrunended me to Pagano are now also residing in the general area someone else over lunch one day," she related, indicating that she was employed in • In Boston, Keith Turley has joined the ranks the publications office as a result of her internship. Following her supervisors depar of the Bank of New England/Colby team working ture, she was named director of the staff of five. alongside Beth Garcia and Bill Sheehan '84 • Kathy Hughes has also entered the Boston bank An All-American in track her senior year, Murphy has not abandoned athletics ing industry and is living with Cory Humphreys since leaving Colby. She plays on the White House softball and football teams and is and Lesley Melcher • Grapevine has it that attempting to organize a White House golf team. While the corrunander in chief Lisa Maxwell is in nearby Newton, Mass. • doesn't make it to the games, spectators have included members of the cabinet. Doug Brown, continuing his academic career, is Although Washington can seem overwhelming, Murphy said, "It's a big, powerful presently taking physics courses at B.U. and will be pursuing a master's program • Andrew My place, but after a while you realize it's just people." She noted enthusiastically that ers, meanwhile, is working for Abt Associates, a hers is the only White House office that is actually open for public visitation. Colby consulting firm in Cambridge, as an analystand is friends visiting the capital are urged to stop by for an insiders look at the White planning on law school next fall • Tom Sturte House. vant is attending Northeastern Law School. and Cathy Urstadt bas delved into this same field ENC working as a paralegal • Katie Hollander is currently with Inc. magazine and is living in Newton, Mass., with Carrie Rymer, Jen Tuttle, and Marjorie Harriman • Rich MacNeille is How Many Is Enough? with St. Charles Kitchens in New York City, where he keeps an eye on Mariette Castillo, With 20,000 copies of the Alumnus being mailed to alumni, parents, and friends of Colby, we now an IBM girl, and Christine Petersen who try to avoid unnecessary duplications-and sometimes we fail. If you are a married Colby may soon be running Metropolitan • What's Gin Pup doing? He has two wives, fivechildren, drives couple receiving multiple copies of the magazine or other College publications and you would a family wagon, and lives in the suburbs some prefer to receive just one copy, please send us each label, noting which one is correct for both where • Remember, Class of '85, keep in touch! of you. (We will not be able to send just one copy ifone of you prefers to receive Colby mail at Class secretary: SUSAN L. JAMES, 68 the office.) Thank you! Brentwood St., Portland, Maine 04103. 44 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ______f\1 1LEST0 NES _ MARRI A GES Donald P. Hyde '78 to Annette M. Carlozzi, Cynthia R. Wigley '80 to Eugene W. Domack, Quincy, Mass. June 22, 1985, Falmouth, Mass. Elizabeth Reed Patten '78 to Michael Stephen James W. Bourne '81 to Laura E. Littlefield Boucher, Wellesley Hills, Mass. '81, July 20, 1985, Block Island, R.I. Kyle J. Harrow '79 to Richard M. Kantor, Daniela P. Nemec '8 1 to James R. Micsan, May Robert A. Sheehey '63 to Linda Mohlenbrok, Boston, Mass. 25, 1985, Daphne, Ala. August 23, 1985, Lake George, N.Y. Kay LaVoie '79 to Nate Lowell, February 1985. Beth Ann Pniewski '81 to Phillip Duncan Wil Joseph C. Mattos '73 to Julie Ann Clay, July 27, Robert Lizza '79 to Tricia Ziehl, October 26, son, October 12, 1985, Rhinebeck, N.Y. 1985, Waterville. 1985, Westport, Conn. James L. Roberti '81 to Betsy J. Gould, August Sandra Jane Spurr '74 to Norman Andre Mi Elizabeth Sprague Maynard '79 to Peter Tay 25, 1985. chaud, June 16, 1985, Salem, Mass. lor Gordon, June 8, 1985, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Donna Kathleen Curran '82 to William Charles Jerre Robert Bryant '76 to Kimberly Jean Nicholas T. Mencher '79 to Joan Marie Scar Stock, September 1, 1985, Springfield, Mass. Sturgeon, South Portland, Maine. pino, August 18, 1985, San Francisco, Calli. Andrea Benevento '83 to Pearce Michael James P. Gay '76 to Patricia Welch, Tiburon, Bradley Warner '79 to LisaTurner '80, August Carlin '83, August 24, 1985, Duxbury, Mass. Calli. 3, 1985, Phippsburg, Maine. Scott Byron Dow '83 to Ashley Anne Lasbury David M. Systrom '76 to Kathryn A. Martin, Mary Zukowski '79 to David Hurd, August 3, '83, July 13, 1985, Hartford, Conn. June 15, 1985, Boston, Mass. 1985. Margaret Hessler '83 to Timothy G. Moore, Martin Hubbe '76 to Liz Barrett '80, Summer Peter Spence Lee '80 to Lynne Anne Seeley '80, June 22, 1985, Ellsworth, Maine. 1984. Hammond, N.Y. Susan Leigh Macrae '83 to Ericsson Bushnell David Peckham '76 to Judith Ann Duchesne, Ellen Marie Mercer '80 to Raymond Papera, Ju Broadbent III '84, June 15, 1985, Harnden, August 4, 1985, Utica, N.Y. ly 20, 1985. Conn. Mark Tilton '76 to Jill A. Smith, August 24, Janet L. Thacher '80 to Troy A. Dagres '83, Jeffrey Clark Moore '83 to Annette Elizabeth 1985, Missoula, Mont. August 10, 1985, Deerfield, Mass. Plummer '85, August 31, 1985, West Lebanon, N.H. Frederick S. Nicholas III '83 to Amy Ramsdell Gurney, September 14, 1985, Roxbury, Conn. Darilynn Ann O'Neill '83 to Lawrence Michael Evans, Cohasset, Mass. Robert F. Brooks '84 to Elizabeth Jayne Still ings '84, August 10, 1985, South Berwick, Maine. Victoria L. Crouchley '84 to Thomas Scott Dougherty '82, September 14, 1985, Narragan sett, RI. SusanC. Lang'85 to Bryan Welch, June 1, 1985, Madison, Conn. Wendell Perkins '85 to Dawn Marie Abt, June 29, 1985, Painted Post, N.Y. BIRTHS A son, Joseph James Belmosto, to Joseph and Holly Armitage Belmosto'73, August 21, 1985. A son, Samuel Tuttle Lemonick, to David and Mary Tuttle Lemonick '76, September 5, 1985. A daughter, Sarah Frances Spencer, to Suz.a.nnah and Craig N. Spencer '76, April 13, 1985. A daughter, Kirby Elizabeth Green, to Richard and Melanie Dorain Green '77, August 13, 1985. Among the Colby friendswho helped Brian Picard '81 celebrate his marriage to Gisele Noel on November 9 A daughter, Sarah Chenoweth Thomson, to were Tom '82 and Susan Banks Wright and their daughter, Kaitlin; jay Krusell '8 1; Stu Krusel/ '85; john Bruce '77 and Jennifer Davis Thomson '77, Krusell '54; Haluk Nural '82; Mark Gallo '81; Nancy Silverman '84; Ellen Owens Dion '81; Rob Highland August 26, 1985. '83; Rob Eber '83; Mimi Pratt Va/yo '81;janet Blau Cobb '81; and Lauren Hampton '8 1. Thewedding took A son, Eban Erik Kenney, to Michael and Louisa place in Southbury, Conn. Bliss Kenney '79, May 1985. A daughter, Avanelli Eva Riley, to Douglas and Dorcas Benner Riley '80, March 2, 1985. A son, Casey Gerard Teeven, to Gerard P. '79 and Catherine Fulton Teeven '80, June 16, 1985. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 45 DEATHS member, past president, and past treasurer of the Robert Carver Brown '25, August 4, 1985, in Franklin County Teachers' Association; and a Middletown, N.J., at age 82. Born in North deacon for 12 years at the Ashfield Congrega Haven, Maine, he attended North Haven High tional Church. In 1964 he and his wife were School before graduating from Colby magna cum awarded a Colby Brick for their service to the laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Clara Martin Southworth '03, October 20, CoUege. He is survived by his wife, Eugenie, and Delta Upsilon fraternity. He attended Harvard 1985, in Falmouth, Maine, at age 106. A Maine several nephews and nieces. Business School and then began a career that native, she attended Portland High Schoolbefore lasted for more than 37 years with J. P. Morgan graduating from Colby as a member of the Chi and Company. He was a member of the Harvard Omega sorority. She later attended Parsons Claramae Harvey Young '19, October 8, 1985, Business School Club of New York and is sur School in France, and in 191 1 she married Con in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, at age 89. She was born vived by his wife, Theodora. stant Southworth in Samlesbury, England. She in Charleston, Maine, and attended Foxcroft was a partner of the Boston Treasure House and Academy before matriculating at Colby. Before later became the owner and operator of South her marriage to the Reverend Andrew Young in Doris Roberts Gates '26, September 18, 1985, in worth Decorators in Portland, Maine, from which 1919, she taught school, and then with her hus Huntsville, Tex., at age 81. Born in Crystal, she retired fuUy in 1979. She was a supportive band served in the Maine Christian Ministry Maine, she attended Island Falls High School alumna and established an endowment at Colby parishes of Rockport, Topsham, Harrison-North before graduating from Colby as a member of the to provide lectures and exhibitions in environ Bridgton, and Andover. She was a member of the Sigma Kappa sorority. She continued her educa mental design, a series known as the Clara South AndoverCongregational Church, the Order of the tion at the University of Taus in France, and in worth Lectures. She also donated the Southworth Eastern Star of Bolsters Mills, and the Central Texas at the University of Texas, A and M Col Planetarium to the University of Southern Maine Grange of Dover-Foxcroft. She is survived by two lege, and Sam Houston State CoUege. Her career in honor of her husband, who died in 1955. She re daughters, Mary '46 and Roberta '47, one son, two as a teacher began in Greece, where she married, ceived that university's Distinguished Service grandsons, and several nieces and nephews. and then continued in Texas schools, in which Award in 1981. She was a member and past presi she taught English. She was a member and past dent of the Portland CoUege Club, a past member president of her professional sorority, Delta Kap of the Supreme Governing Council of Chi Omega, pa Gamma, a member and past vice president of Bernice Butler McGorrill Partridge '2 1, Oc and a member of the Cathedral of St. Luke. She is the Association of Classroom Teachers, a mem tober 20, 1985, in Portland, Maine, at age 86. survived by a nephew, Robert Southworth. ber and past district secretary of the Wesley Ser Born in Portland, she received the Brown Medal vice Guild, and a member of the American Asso from Portland High School before graduating ciation of University Women. She was also a from Colby as a member of the Sigma Kappa so member of the First Methodist Church and is sur Philip W. Hussey, Sr. '13, August 14, 1985, in rority. Affectionately known to her friends as vived by two daughters, Judy Bramlett and Jane Biddeford, Maine, at age 93. Born in North Ber "Bunny," Mrs. Partridge was a house director at Evans, two sisters, seven grandchildren, six great wick, Maine, he attended Oak Grove Seminary in Smith CoUege, Wayneflete School in Portland, grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Vassalboro, Maine, before graduating from Colby and Bates CoUege. Colby enjoyed an extremely as a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. fruitful relationship with her. She was a past After his graduation he joined his father in the chairperson of the Greater Portland Alumill growing Hussey Manufacturing Company. After Fund; a past member of the Alumni Council; a A. William Lawson '2 7, August 1, 1985, in 64 years with the firm, he retired from his posi past class president, agent, and class correspon Wickenberg, Ariz., at age 80. He was born in St. tion as president and chairman of the board in dent; a planned giving agent; an alumill represen John, Maine, and attended Caribou High School 1977. He served in France during World War I tative on the planning committee of the board of before graduating from Colby as a member of the o with the American Friends Service Committee trustees; and a member of the Southwestern Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He worked f r the unit of the Red Cross and on the Small Business Maine Alumnae and the Fifty Plus clubs. She was Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and the U.S. Administration during World War II. Extremely a recipient of a Colby Gavel and, in 1958, was Treasury Department before becoming involved in the resort business. He operated several resorts active in his business and in his conununity, he awarded a Colby Brick. She was a lifetime mem along the East Coast before retiring to his home in was a member and past director of the Maine ber and past president of Child and Family Serv Arizona. Survivors include wife, Helen, and a Publicity Bureau; a member and past president of ices in Portland, now known as the Conununity his sister. the Maine Chamber of Conunerce, the Associat Counseling Center, and was also a memberof the ed Industries of Maine, the Structural Steel board of Travelers Aid, the YWCA, the Friends of Fabricators of New England, and the North Ber the Maine Medical Center, and one of the found wick Industrial Realty Corporation; a trustee of ing membersof the Cumberland-Falmouth Health Gordon Welch '28, October 6, 1985, in the Maine Maritime Academy; and a member of Center. A member of the Central Square Baptist Woodsville, N.H., at age 81. Born in Peacham, the Maine Development Commission, the Maine Church, she is survived by two sons, John and Vt ., he attended Peacham Academy and Mont Engineers Society, the Newcomer Society, the Bruce, a stepdaughter, a sister, and seven grand pelier Seminary in Vermont before graduating Arundel Yacht Club, the Sanford Country Club, children. from Colby as a member and past secretary of the and the North Berwick Town School Board. He Kappa Phi Kappa fraternity. He earned a master's was also very active in alumru activities and was degree in education from the University of Ver awarded a Colby Brick in He is survived by mont. After coaching at Springfield CoUege, he 1979. Marion Cummings Mann'24, August 24, 1985, worked as a salesman at Elm City Motors and his wife, Marion, two sons, Philip, Jr. '53 and in Buzzards Bay, Mass., at age 83. Born in later at the Morrison-Blakney Company. He Peter '57, a daughter. and eight grandchildren. Hebron, Maine, she attended Hebron Academy taught at Townsend High School and at the Lin before graduating from Colby as a member of coln School in Massachusetts, and in the Vermont Kappa Alpha and the Chi Omega sorority. She school systems of Peacham, Canaan, Island Pond, Eugene K. Currie '14, August 9, 1985, in Dade taught English and Latin at Lee Academy in Lee, and Newbury, where he was a principal, as well City, Fla., at age 94. He was born in Lee, Maine, Maine, and at Brockton High School in Brockton, as at St. Johnsbury Academy, where he taught for and attended Lee Academy before graduating Mass. After her marriage in 1927, she moved to 15 years. He was a life member of the Vermont from Colby. He also studied at the University of Pittsfield, Mass., and worked as a substitute Teachers Association and of the Newbury and Is Vermont and at Massachusetts State CoUege. teacher in the Pittsfield school system. She was a land Pond historical societies. He is survived by Dedicated to education, he taught in various member and past assistant secretary of the Pitts his wife, Ruth, four children, nine grandchildren, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut field League of Women Voters, and a member of and one great-grandson. schools before becoming district superintendent the Pittsfield Literary Guild, the Pittsfield CoUege of schools in Orwell, Vt., and later union Club, the Hanson School Committee in Massa superintendent of schools for the Massachusetts chusetts, and the Order of the Eastern Star. She towns of Ashfield, Cummillgton, Plaillfield, and was also a member of the Hanson Congregational Myron J. Levine '33, August 11, 1985, in Nor Goshen. After his retirement from teaching, he Church and its Maids and Matrons. She is sur folk, Mass., at age 74. A Boston native, he attend sold books for the A. B. Rider Company of Bos vived by three sons, including Charles W., two ed Boston English High School before graduating ton. He was a member and past president of the daughters, a brother, thirteen grandchildren, and from Colby as a member of the Tau Delta Phi fra Franklin County Superintendents' Association; a a great-grandchild. ternity. He later earned a bachelor of science 46 THE COLBY ALUMNUS degree from the Boston School of Pharmacy. He Universite de Sorbonne in Paris, France. He Vincent X. Lemieux '73 (M.S.T.), August 18, owned and operated the Tucker Pharmacy in served as a Navy pilot during World War II in 1985, in Skowhegan, Maine, at age 49. He was Milton, Mass., for 36 years. After his retirement Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean and was a born in North Vassalboro, Maine, and graduated in 1980, he visited more than 45 nursing homes graduate of the staff course at the Naval War Col from the Coburn Classical Institute and the and gave piano concerts for the residents. He was lege in Newport, R.I. A lieutenant commander University of Maine at Orono. He earned his a member and past president of the Boston Asso upon his retirement, he was a member of the master's degree in science and teaching from Col ciation of Retail Druggists and the B'nai B'rith Retired Officers Association. He taught at public by. He taught school for 27 years in the Maine Pharmacy Lodge; a member of the Massachusetts and private schools in Connecticut beforejoining school systems of Mechanic Falls, Mars Hill, Retail Druggists Association, the Brotherhood the faculty of Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Lubec, Sebago, Farmington, and Standish. He Masonic Lodge, and the Aleppo Shrine in Wil Conn., in 1965. He retired in 1981. He is survived served as a basketball coach in Standish and a mington, Mass.; and a member and past president by his wife, Maude, his mother, four children, girls track coach at Mt. Blue High School. He was of the Men's Club of the Leventhal-Sidman and five grandchildren. a member of the Maine Teachers Association, the Jewish Community Center in Newton. He was National Rifle Association, the Pleasant Pond Pro selected as Man of the Year by the Boston Associ tective Association, and a past parish council ation of Retail Druggists in 1973 and served as a JamesJ. Williams '39, August 2, 1985, in Los member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. He was Colby class secretary from 1978 to 1983. He is Angeles, Calif., at age 69. Born in Waterville, he an avid outdoorsman and hunter. He died sud survived by his wife, Beatrice, a daughter, a attended Waterville High School. After his gradu denly and is survived by his wife, Jean, his sister, and two granddaughters. ation from Colby, he moved to Los Angeles, parents, four children, four brothers, one sister, three grandchildren, and his paternal grand Calif., and worked for MGM Studios as a super visor. ln 1961 he earned his LL.B. degree after mother. S. Eleanor Manter LeMaistre '36, August 20, four years of night study at Loyola University and 1985, in Falmouth, Maine, at age 69. She was became associated with his brother at the law born in Winthrop, Maine, and attended the September in firmof Williams and Williams in Los Angeles. He Richard John Page '73, 3, 1985, Coburn Classical Institute before graduating from Portland, Maine, at age 44. Born in Kittery Point, was a practicing attorney until his death. He is Colby as a member of the Sigma Kappa sorority. survived by four brothers, four sisters, and a Maine, he attended Fairfield, Maine, schools She earned her bachelor's degree from Simmons before graduating magna cum laude from Colby cousin, Ernest Williams '45. College in 1937 and worked as a secretary before as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He won the her marriage in 1942. After her marriage she Mary Carver Low Prize and the Maine State taught school and also worked as an independent Poetry Competition and became a teacher at Oak real estate broker and realtor for several firms, in Herbert W. Carpenter'46, July 10, 1985, in Mt. Grove-Coburn High School in Vassalboro, Maine, cluding the Beecher Agency. She was a member Kisco, N.Y., at age 62. Born in Providence, R.I., where he eventually became head of the English of the Maine Audubon Society, the Portland he graduated from Tuckahoe High School in and the social studies departments. He was an Country Club, the League of Women Voters, and Tuckahoe, N.Y., before attending Colby and avid outdoorsman and an artist, frequently ex St. Mary the Virgin Church. She is survived by a graduating from Pace University. He worked at hibiting his paintings in Maine galleries. He is sur son, P. Andre, a daughter, a brother, and four General Electric in New York City and later as a vived by his wife, Susan, his mother, and two grandchildren. controller for the Hudson Wire Company in Os sisters. sining. N.Y. He was a member of the Church of the Naz.arene in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and a George L. Ricker '38, June 8, 1985, in San Juan, volunteer at the Northern Westchester Cancer Listed below are alumni whose notice of death P.R., at age 67. He was born in Cherryfield, Prevention Center. He is survived by his wife, reached us after the time it was possible to write Maine, and attended Cherryfield Academy before Angela, three children, and two brothers. an obituary. Thus, obituaries for these individuals graduating from Colby as a member of the Lamb will run in the June issue. da Chi Alpha fraternity. He served for two years in the U.S. Army and was vice president of Prin Ethel Nicholson Bean '05, December 2, 1985, at James P. Doherty '54, June 30, 1985, in Air Commuter Airlines. He is survived by his son, age 91. Lawrence, Mass., at age 57. He was born in Daemon L. Lawrence, Mass., and attended Central Catholic Edith Gray Havice '25, September 17, 1985, at age High School in Lawrence before matriculating at 84. Colby. He graduated as a member of the Delta William F. MacLean '28, November 11, 1985, at Kappa Epsilon fraternity and a veteran of the age 79. Korean Conflict, and later became the owner of the Atlas Electric Company, in Lawrenceand An E. Richard Benson '29, October 4, 1985, at age 78. dover, Mass. He most recently was employed by William B. Brown '3 1, September 15, 1983, at age the Internal Revenue Service in Andover and was 74. a member of St. Michael's Church. He is survived by his wife, Justine Jackson Doherty '49, his James Blok '32, June 26, 1985, at age 85. mother, five children, and a grandson. Robert E. Waite '32, November 12, 1985, at age 78. Richard H. Franklin '36, April 28, 1985. Kenneth W. Gray '55, September 13, 1985, in Togus, Maine, at age 55. Born in Hallowell, L. Russell Blanchard '38, November 28, 1985, at Maine, he attended Hallowell High School and age 69. the Coburn Classical Institute before matriculat ing at Colby. He graduated as a member of the Alonzo H. Garcelon '38, November4, 1985, at age Phi Delta Theta fraternity and a veteran of the 72. U.S. Air Force and went on to study education at Roger G. Bell '39, April 17, 1984, at age 68. the University of Maine at Orono. From 1956 to 1968 he was a teacher and basketball coach in the Gardiner B. Husted '40, March 25, 1985, at age Paul M. Kittredge '39 Bar Harbor, Maine, school system; from 1968 to 68. he was superintendent of schools in Deer 1976 John B. Warner '42, June 14, 1985, at age 66. Isle-Stonington, Maine; and from 1976 until the Paul M. Kittredge '39, July 21, 1985, in time of his death he was a principal and teacher Shirley Warren Shirley '47, August 4, 1985, at age Portland, Maine, at age 67. A Maine native, he at in Rome, Maine. He was a member of the Maine 60. tended South Portland High School before gradu Principals Association and the Maine Teachers Patricia Bain Mills'50, November 4, 1985, at age ating from Colby as a member of the Zeta Psi Association. Mr. Gray is survived by his wife, 55. fraternity. He also received a masters degree Barbara, six children, a brother, two sisters, eight from the University of Florida and studied at the grandchildren, and several nephews and nieces. Russell Brown '51, August 4, 1982, at age 62. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 47 HONORARY Governor's Committee of Forest Legislation, the fection of his prose; for his keen eye, wry op Maine Environmental Improvement Commis timism, and lucid style." His many books range in Curtis M. Hutchins, M.S. '49, September 15, sion, and the State Credit Research Committee; a subject from keen satire to texts on composition 1985, in Bangor, Maine, at age 78. He was bornin past director of the Maine Development Corpora and memorable children's literature. In 1954 he Boston in 1907, the same year his father founded tion and the Association of American Railroads; was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane the Dead River Company. After his graduation and a trustee of the Eastern Maine General Letters from Colby, and President J. Seelye Bixler from Williams College, he trained as a forester at Hospital. He was a member of the Brook Club recognized him as a 'sensitive recorder of signifi the University of Maine to better enable himseli and the Pinnacle Club, both in New York City; a cant detail, tolerant observer of human foibles, to enter his father's business, which owned member of the Un.ion Club of Boston and the implacable foe of all forms of tyranny." He also thousands of acres of Maine woods. He joined the Downtown Club of Boston; and a member of the received honorary degrees from Yale, Harvard, company as treasurer and in 1935 became its Penobscot Valley Country Club, the Tarratine Cornell, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, the University of president and chairman of the board. He was a Club, and the Pot and Kettle Club, all in Maine. Maine, and Hamilton College. He was a fellow of Navy officer during World War II and served as He is survived by his son, Christopher, and two the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and head of the paper division of the War Production daughters. a member of the National Institute of Arts and Board. He was president of the Bangor and Letters, the American Academy of Arts, and Phi Aroostook Railroad; a founder and director of the Gamma Delta. He is survived by a son, Joel, nine Bangor Punta Corporation; and also a director of grandchildren, including Joel Steven '77, and ten the American Woolen Company, the Atlas Ply E. B. White, L.H.D. '54, October 1, 1985, in great-grandchildren. wood Corporation, Avis, Guiliord Industries, West Brooklin, Maine, at age 86. Born Elwyn Merrill Trust Company, Scott Paper Company, Brooks White in Mount Vernon, N.Y., he attend State Street Bank and Trust Company, and Bos ed local schools before entering the Army during FRIEND ton and Northeast Airlines. At the time of his World War I. He graduated from Cornell Univer death, he was commissioner of the Roosevelt sity in 1921. Long-associated with the New Yorker Doris S. Carpenter, March 14, 1985, in Augusta, Campobello International Park Commission; a magazine, where he joined the staff in 1926, for Maine, at age 89. Born in Madison, Maine, she member of Phi Beta Kappa and the University of many years he wrote essays in the 'Notes and graduated from Madison High School and the Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation; and a trustee CommenY' section. He also edited parts of the Leland Powers School of Dramatic Arts in of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, magazineand submitted stories to it, and in 1929 Boston. Following her graduation she spent eight Maine, and of the Bangor Theological Semi.nary. he married its ftrst fiction editor, Katherine years on the Swarthmore Chataqua Circuit and In 1949 Colby granted him an honorary master of Sargeant Angell. In 1937 they moved to Maine, with the Lakewood Theatre as a member of the science degree. He later served on the College in and he began submitting a column to Harper's cast. She later returned to Maine and worked for vestment committee. He also received honorary magazine called 'One Ma.n's Meat,' which ran un 18 years for the Hudson Auto Sales Agency and degrees from Husson College in 1971 and til 1943. He continued to write for the New Yo rker the Maine Department of Health and Weliare. Thomas College in 1985 and was a memberof the for more than 30 years. A recognized master of She belonged to the Augusta Humane Society, the Maine Higher Education Committee. An active graceful and precise prose, he received a number Koussinoc chapter of the Daughters of the Republican, he represented Bangor in the Maine of awards, including the Presidential Medal of American Revolution, the Augusta Country Club, House and was on the Bangor City Council for Freedom (presented to him at Colby), a Pulitzer and was an active member of St. Mark's Episcopal several years, serving as its chairman in 1943. He Prize, the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts and Church. Colby enjoyed a longstanding, unre· was a past member of the Canadian-American Letters, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for stricted gift from her in memory of the Carpenter Committee of the National Planning Association, children's books, and an award from the National family. She is survived by two cousins, Nellie the United Nations 1959 Mission to Chile, the Book Corrunittee, which lauded him for "the per- Gallison and Laura A. O'Neil. FACULTY AND STAFF Kenneth P. Blake, September 10, 1985, in Weld, Maine, at age 59. Born in Lexington, Mass., he graduated from Brown University. He also earned graduate degrees from Boston University and Simmons College. He worked as a teacher and principal in the school system of Harrisville, N.H., and later taught at St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Tex. He worked in the circula tion department and later as head librarian at Col by from 1959 to 1973. He was also a librarian at Yale University. He was active in the Weld com munity and served as selectman and code en forcement officer for several years. He was also director of the Weld Public Library, president of the Weld Historical Society, a member of the Weld Planning and Zoning Board, a postmaster relief worker, plumbing inspector, and president and sexton of the Mt. View Cemetery Associa tion. He is survived by his sister, Carroll Neyland. CORRECTIONS In the September obituary for Patricia Gregory Weaver, place of residence should have read Shingle Springs, Calif., not Colorado. In the obituary of Roy B. Shorey, Sr., the place E.B. White, L.H.D. '54, with President Robert E.L. Strider II at the time White received the Presidential Medal of residence for his son, Roy B. Shorey, Jr., o( Freedom at Colby in 1963. should have read Summit, N.J. Another survi vor of Mr. Shorey is Joel Shorey Harris 'B l not Joel Shorey '81. 48 THE COLBY ALUMNUS --4"L UMNI B �ws Left: Several Colby friendstraversed the United States to rally 'round Captain Theodore C. Lockhart '61 when the U.S.S. Valley Forge was commissionedin Pascagoula, Miss., on January 18. They joined about2,000 guests and participants in the day's ceremonies. Pictured, from left to right, are James H. Marchbank '5 7 of Maryland, Marion E. Dugdale '38 of Florida, Caroline We bster Lockhart '60, Captain Lockhart, Stephen B. Levine '59 of California, Penelope Dietz Sullivan '61 of Virginia, andSidney W. Farr'55, Colby alumni secretary. The Valley Forge, which will operate out of San Diego, is a Ticonderoga classguided-missile cruiser and is considered the most advanced ship in the U.S. naval fleet. Right: Gathered at the Southwestern Maine Alumnae Club'sannual meeting last March were, from left to right, Victoria Whited '85, Lois Munson Megathlin '58, Ina McCausland '15, Dorothy Harlow Skillings '33, Vivian Skinner Hill '16, Elizabeth To drank, fo reign study coordinator at Colby, and Sara Cowan '37. Nancy Mackenzie, assistant director of career services, will be the speaker at the club's meeting this year on April 9. W.you do if you' "When I give I give myself." Walt Whitman