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C LBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE INSIDE: Creativity & Imagination AT COLBY-SAWYER FACULTY &STUDENT ART EXHIBITS DRAW CAPACITY CROWDS AND HIGH PRAISE S PRING/SUMMER 2003 EDITOR David R. Morcom CLASS NOTES EDITORS Tracey Austin Gaye LaCasce CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Patrick Anderson Adam S. Kamras Paul E. Kandarian David R. Morcom Kimberly Swick Slover VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Donald A. Hasseltine DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Beth Cahill DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Gaye LaCasce DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Kimberly Swick Slover COVER AND PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Julia Kate Dow ’90 DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Paxton Communications Concord, NH PRINTING Penmor Lithographers Lewiston, ME ADDRESS LETTERS AND SUBMIT ARTICLE IDEAS TO: David R. Morcom Editor Publications Office Colby-Sawyer College 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 Phone: (603) 526-3730 E-mail: [email protected] C LBY-SAW Y E R ALUMNI MAGAZINE FEATURES ALUMNI PROFILE The Landscape of the Mind . 10 Graphologists prove the pen is truly mightier than the sword ALUMNI PROFILE Long-Term Love Affair. 12 This family’s legacy spans 50 years On the Cover: Each year the Juried Remembering Student, Senior Art, and Art Faculty H. Leslie Sawyer. 14 Exhibitions grow in breadth and depth The college’s first president was beloved in terms of the diversity of talent on by all who knew him display. As three of the college’s more popular cultural events, they offer a look into the creative minds that are giving birth to the beauty, philosophy, Pictures at an Exhibition . 18 and thought-provoking pieces com- A sampling of creativity, imagination, and prising the Colby-Sawyer artistic talent on display at Colby-Sawyer panorama. Seen on our cover is award-winning, junior Art major Mayumi Nagayama (Tokyo, Japan) FACULTY REPORT in front of her powerful painting done Tamastslikt . 22 in acrylic and titled “Passion Rose.” Turned Around Perspectives on PHOTO: KATIE DOW ’90 Northwest Native Cultures STUDENT PROFILE DEPARTMENTS Painted Ladies Today, Colby-Sawyer Matters . 2 Tigers Tomorrow . 26 Beth Morel ’03 is ready to meet A CONVERSATION lions and tigers and bears The President and a Friend . 8 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Sports Round-up . 28 Confidently Colby-Sawyer: Alumni Notes . 45 Succeeding Together. 33 Class Notes . 46 Making Student Success Stories Possible SPRING/SUMMER 2003 1 C LBY-SAWYER MATTERS by Kimberly Swick Slover forsaken in one way or another but her previous adventure when she who find a way to triumph. I also vowed to free all the animals at a mink make a conscious effort to include the farm before her father’s second cousin world, as ridiculous and twice removed turns wonderful as it is, in my them into jackets “for novels. Taped to my the rich ladies and gen- computer is a fortune I tlemen, who pay him a got in a cookie three or great deal of money to four years ago, ‘Your do so.” ability to find the silly “I know from my in the serious will take own experience of life you far.’” that the ability to laugh, Elliott has pub- even perhaps at the most lished the The Crazy dire moments, is one of Cricket series and The the things that helps us Transmogrification of Children’s author David Elliott to survive,” Elliott states. Roscoe Wizzle. The latter “And this, maybe more Children’s Author Uses has been nominated for several state than anything else, is fundamental to Humor to Celebrate the awards and has been published in both my work for kids. I recently signed a Forsaken German and Italian translations. He has contract based on three pages of an as many more books in production, yet unwritten chapter book. I’m not In David Elliott’s literary world, the including two picture books, Hazel sure where the idea came from—evil heroes lead unusually imaginative lives, Nutt: Mad Scientist, and And Here’s To bunnies attacking the Earth—but when like the small boy whose junk-food You, and a novel, Evangeline Mudd and I explained to my editor that I didn’t habit turns him into an insect or the The Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti know where it might go, she told me young girl whose primatologist Jungle, all slated for not to worry about it. ‘I know the rest parents raise her as a “gold- publication in 2003. of it will be just as dumb...er...I mean... en-haired ape.” In recent The Evangeline as funny as the first three pages,’ she years, Elliott, director Mudd novel focuses on said. Ah, I thought, how satisfying it is of the English Lan- a girl’s quest to rescue to be known at last.” I guage and American her parents, world- Culture program at famous primatologists, ESS Professor Colby-Sawyer, has become who disappear into the a prolific author of chil- jungles of Ikkinasti. Appointed as Faculty dren’s books. Along the way, she is Fellow “Initially, I didn’t kidnapped by apes, set out to write for befriended by a head- Chair of Exercise and Sport Sciences children,” he says, hunter, and surrounded Jean Eckrich was appointed as a faculty “but when I sit by ill-tempered spitting fellow by the Institute of Experiential AND HERE’S TO YOU. Text Copyright © 2004 by David Elliott, down at my desk, Illustrations Copyright © 2004 by Randy Cecil. Reproduced by spiders. In Evangeline Learning (IEL) and the Association of permission of the publisher. that’s what seems Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Mudd and the Great American Colleges and Universities to be there. I feel very lucky to be Mink Escapade, the sequel scheduled to (AAC&U) for the spring 2003 semester. writing for young people. In my novels, appear in 2005, Evangeline seeks to ful- The fellowship, created for mid-career I’m interested in kids who have been fill a solemn promise she made during faculty members, combines an intern- 2 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE PHOTO: KATIE DOW ’90 PHOTO: KATIE ship, seminars, and teaching and learning, Money and the individualized enrich- including the Carnegie Meaning of Life ment programs. Professor Foundation for the Eckrich spent the semes- Advancement of Only after the last tree has been ter as a faculty fellow Teaching partnership. cut down, with the American She has also worked on Only after the last river has been Association for Higher preparations for an aca- poisoned, Education (AAHE) demic “Learning to Only after the last fish has been engaged in scholarly Change” colloquium caught, research and writing, the titled, “Good Work in Only then will you find that money investigation of grant and Challenging Times.” cannot be eaten. foundation sources, and Additionally, she inves- — Cree Indian Prophecy participation in academic tigated charitable foun- Last fall, Professor of Humanities seminars and conferences. dations through the Professor Jean Eckrich Amy Knisley arrived on the first day The Faculty Fellows Foundation Center in of class with a large poster in hand Internship Program enables faculty to Washington, D.C., an initiative through bearing the image of an Indian broaden their professional, disciplinary, which she gained insights into sources woman and the Cree prophecy and personal horizons, reinvigorating of potential support for the program- cited above. She asked the first-year their own work as scholars, teachers, matic and laboratory needs of Colby- students assembled for a new and educational leaders. Faculty Fellows Sawyer’s Exercise and Sport Sciences course with an intriguing title, spend one full semester in the Department. “Money and the Meaning of Life,” Washington, D.C., area immersed in a Professor Eckrich’s interests range to express their thoughts about the challenging professional environment, from student learning, the liberal edu- prophecy’s meaning. It was the first such as a government agency, non-prof- cation curriculum and connections to sign that the course would demand it organization, national association, the undergraduate major, to the role of the students’ full participation and museum, foundation, or other site. In faculty development in implementing challenge them to examine and collaboration with local leaders, partici- pedagogical initiatives. She received her discuss some of the most complex pants investigate applied areas of undergraduate degree from the Univers- and disturbing issues at the core of human existence. knowledge, develop skills, and explore ity of Delaware, her M.A. from the Over the course of the semes- the systems and policies of their host University of Wyoming, and her Ph.D. ter, the class explored the history of organizations or agencies. Through from Purdue University. DOW ’90 PHOTO: KATIE money and its evolving these professional internship experi- Colby-Sawyer’s Dean roles in society, and they ences, Faculty Fellows return to campus of Faculty Judy Muyskens engaged in passionate with new insights into how liberal edu- recommended Professor debate about its ability cation can be enhanced by high quality Eckrich for the fellowship to enhance and diminish experiential learning programs. because of her “vast expe- the quality of human life. “The experiences have been over- rience in teaching and They discussed money’s whelming,” Professor Eckrich said at administration” and her religious and cultural mid-semester. “I’m fortunate to work leadership on campus in relevance, its capacity to with people who have been in the fore- many areas beyond her divide or unite people, front of issues in higher education own department. “Jean and how its powerful surrounding teaching and learning. is eager to learn and pas- impacts play out among My primary goal is to become better sionate about higher edu- Professor Amy Knisley their own families and informed about higher education so I cation, with strengths in friends. As the semester can come back to Colby-Sawyer with faculty development, organization, drew to a close, the students began new ideas that will guide my work in teaching and learning, and diversity to reflect on what they had learned the classroom and in the college issues,” says Dean Muyskens.