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This Download Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. Volume 83, No. l January 1994 "IT'S FOR you!" Colby students are calling alumni because they ha\'e an imronant 1nessage for all those \\'ho care about the future.

Today, Colby is nationally ranked a - one of the top 25 rri\'ate liberal an- colleges in the nation. But without the -urrort of past generations we wouldn't he a1nong the best-there\\' re times in our history when the \·ery existence of the College depended on the generosity of alumni and friends.

We asked them to preser\'e the future, and they re-ponded. Each generation of Colby students b nefits frorn their gifts. Because the actual cost of a Colby education i- $ 7 ,000 more th.an tuition and fees, e\'ery student who attend - Colby recei\-e- -upport. Nearly one quarter of all financial aid funds conles from unrestricted annual gifts of alunu1.i, parents and friends and from endO\vment.

We're asking you to strengthen Colby by making ure we can continue to pro\·ide all the things that make us one of the best colleges in the country: a challenging environnlent in which to teach and learn, programs and facilities that attract outstanding faculty and the resources to admit and support promi ing students.

When Colby calls, it's for you. Please join generations of caring alumni by adding your gift to the 1994 Alumni Fund. INSIDE C 0 LB Y

COLBY Cover Story Volume 83 Number 1 6 Colby S taff: Flight of Discovery Tom Claytor '85's voyage around the world has taken him from Sally Baker executiveeiliwr the coldest to the hottest places on earth, fromjoy to despair, from wonder to anger to a deep and abiding sen e of self. Roben 0. Spurrier managing eiliwr

Brian Speer Features designer page 6 12 Roben Gillespie SHOC Therapy Alumni at Largeeiliwr A creative and committed group of students and professionals is sending imponant messages about health to Colby tudents. Contributing Photographer: Is anybody listening? John McKeith (inside front cover); (cover photo counesy of 16 Tom Claytor) Storybook Careers Contributing Reporter: Five Colby alumnae in children's book publishing share their Michelle Severance '94 insights into one of the most exciting realms of current litera­

Administration: ture-it's not all fun and games. William R. Cotter, president; page 3 Peyton R. Helm, vice presidentfar developmentand al wnnirelations; 22 Earl H. Smith, dean of cheCollege; Call of the Wild Susan Conam Cook '75, director A detour led Nick Jans '77 to the small Alaskan village of of alumni relations Ambler, where, as he writes in his new book, he panicipates in Alumni Council Executive an uneasy marriage between traditional culture and the influ­ Committee: ence of the Lower 48. Alben F. Carville Jr. '63, chair, Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair,Cynthia L. Auman '80; Thomas M. Dailey '80; Solomon]. Hartman '67; Mary Alice Campbell Kozen '47; Ronald L. Lupton '71; Beverly Departments Nalbandian Madden '80; 2 36 William E. Marvin 65; Carol G. page 16 Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58 Periscope Alumni at Large 3 Profiles: Colby is published five times 3 7 Fletcher Eaton '39 yearly for the alumni, friends, From the Hill 44 Anhur Goldschmidt '59 parencs of studencs, seniors, 28 faculty and staffof 4 7 Peter Jensen '67 Gifts & Grants Colby College. 53 Kenneth Melvin '74 Address correspondence to: 29 55 David Epstein '86 Book & Authors Managing Editor, Colby 62 Colby College 31 Obituaries Waterville, ME 04901-4799 Mules on the Move 34 • Student Life page 22

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What They Say About Us coach at Waterville High and holds the the RooseveltAdministration. ln Decem­ New England, Big East and ECAC colle­ Everybodyprobably knows by now that, in ber, 50 years later, she took her leave and a giate women's pentathlon records. its hugely popularAmerica's BestColleges well-deserved retirement. The veteran li­ edition, U .S News & World Report pegged brary secretary was the last remaining sup­ Colby l 7th among the nation's 140 most Sensational Speakers port staffmember to serve the College on two campuses.The fact that she had a nine­ selective colleges.The rating was down two While much of the rest of the country was year leave in the 1960s does not diminish place from the year before, ahead of Bates probably watching Seinfeld, senior Hung and behindBowdoin. ln a later edition, the Bui (Bartlesville, Okla.) held a smaller her astonishing record of service or the news magazine cited Colby among audience spellbound in taking first prize in gratitude of the legions of faculty and stu­ "America's bestcollege values." ln order to the annualLouiseCobumspeaking contest dents whom she served.We wish her well. be considered in the "best buy" category, in November.Senior Kendra King (Provi­ colleges had tofinish at or near the top of its dence, R.I.), took second place and first­ To Secure COOT category in academic quality. Elsewhere, year student Kimberly Parker (Lexington, The Classof 1994 Senior Parent Giftcom­ we should note, the Princeton Review cites Ky.) was an impressive third. Others who mittee has chosen the Colby OutdoorOri­ Colby among the 20 collegeswith the ''hap­ made excellent presentationswere Jonathan entation Trip program as the focus of their piest" students, however that was derived Kaye'97 (Avon,Conn.),LauraMiller'94 fund-raismg efforts.Sara Waisanen of the and whatever it means. (Worthington, Ohio ), Matthew Lapides annual giving staff will coordinate the ef­ '94 (Hamden, Conn.) and Elizabeth fort to create a $100,000 endowment to Staying Hot Labovitz '94 (Lexington, Mass.).We sa­ help underwrite the annual cost of the Applications to Colby in the first "early lute them all and we thankDavid Mills'57, program and to provide COOTscholarship decision" round that ended in November who coachesthe debate team and, among funds for students with need. Co-chairs of were up nearly 50 percent fromthe previous other things, sustains this fine program. the committee are Penn and Cornelia year. Dean of AdmissionsParker Beverage Kavanagh, parents of Alex '94, and Allan reports that 166 such applications were Small World and Ginger Miller, parents of Laura '94. filed this year compared to 112 in 1992. We salute them. Dana Professorof Governmentemeritus Al Some part of the increase, he said, could be Mavrinac was in Japan last fall, lecturing attributed tothenewpolicyofnot requiring on and teaching American law and busi­ Moosecellaneous achievement testscores as part of the appli­ ness ethics. As he took a van from Narita Mavrinac's cation process. much as one third of the Al tory of a chance encounter As Airport and began the trip through heavy next entering class may be admitted from with a Colby alum in Tokyo trafficis not so trafficto downtown Tokyo, a fellow jumped the two rounds of early decision applicants. surprising considering that the College has on the vehicle and demanded that the During November, a record-breaking 376 20,000 alums throughout the U.S. and in driver stop. "Hi, Professor Mavrinac," he prospective students had interviews in the some 70 foreign countries. Still, these are said, thrusting a card into Al's hand. "Call handsome new Lunder House facilities. interesting tales.lf you have one, please tell me; we'll have lunch." Then he disap­ u .. ..We don't remember another triple peared quickly into the crowd as the van Let's Welcome overtime in basketball at Colby. Dick moved on. The card was from Joe Meyer Whitmore'smen's squadnipped Wheaton Bruce McDougal has joined the person­ '79, Al's former student and now treasurer 107-104 on November 20 after three five­ nel office as director of safety.He held a of Morgan Stanley in Japan. Al took him minute extras to open the new seasonwith similar position at Irving Tanning in up on the offer and they were joined for a bang ....The Colby Eight was invited by Maine and hi focus will be on safety lunch by Bob Stevenson '78 and Yoichi LL Bean to entertain holiday shoppers in training and accident prevention, keep­ Hosoi'79, both also working in Tokyo. ing Colby up to snuff with OSHA An­ Freeporton a December evening. gela Frame is newly appointed as an assistant women's track coach.A gradu­ Tenure of Tenures ate of WatervilleHigh and the University EarlaRobertson came to work at Colby on of Connecticut, she had been an assistant the old downtown campus, in 1943, during

CO LBY JA NUARY 1994 2 FR 0 M E HI LL

ShanahanReceives Lovejoy Award ileen Shanahan, Washington some hideous greenish-yellow hue that often will see very little local coverage. bureau chief of the St. Peters­ makes everything it touches look Those newspapers are saving money, and burg Times, told a Colby audi­ sick .... [W]hat I am increasingly con­ short-changing their readers, by running ence in November that the cerned about is my sense that we in jour­ wire copy. You can buy a lot of wires for greatest threat to a freepress in nalism, print and broadcast alike, seldom what one reporter costs .... theE United States comes from the press cover anything but the horror and the ''With diminished local coverage, we itself. Shanahan was on campus to re­ failures,fostering in our readers and view­ in journalismdo not give the public suffi­ ceive the 4 lst Elijah Parish Lovejoy award ers the conviction that there is no hope- cient inforrnation about either success or and to participate in a failure.... lf journal­ symposiumon "Clinton ism asked the right and the Media: The questions, we might FirstYear." find some answers, or In her Lovejoy Con­ prod others into find­ vocation addres at ing them. Ln journal­ Lorimer Chapel, Shan­ ism, as elsewhere in life, ahan said she has we seldom find any­ perceived a profound thing unless we lookfor erosion in the public's it.... What we mostly belief in the value of look for-and find­ journali m. She cited now are the twice-told "our perceived arro­ and thrice-told and a­ gance and self-serving thou and-times-told pursuit of 'insider' ta­ 'ain't it awful' torie tus with the mighty, that contain nothing rather than with the very new.... [l]n our concerns of our readers lopsided choices of ... ; our lack of respect what we cover today, for the feelings of ordi­ we are already advo­ Colby Echo Editor-in-ChiefLaura Pavlenko '94 (left) andOpinions EditorHan­ nary people, especially nahBeech '95 (center) t.alkwith Eileen Shanahan during theLovejoy Convocation. cates. Advocatesof the in times of grief ... ; view that nothing and-in our desperate attempt to stem no point in even trying to fix any of the works. Advocates of despair." the decline in our readership-the greatly things that are so terribly wrong in our Shanahan had the opportunity for a increasing amounts of space we devote to country, or even improve them a little." little advocacy of her own earlier in the what we call 'new you can use': features Shanahan said she does not advocate day when she met with the staffof Colby's on how to deal with your sweetheart, your ''happy talk" journali m. But, he said, tudent newspaper, the Eclw, and with divorce, your in-law , your teens and your less coverage goes to " mall, important Assistant Professorof Economics Michael younger kids; when to refinance your mort­ success stories" than they deserve, be­ Donihue '79's erninaron economic fore­ gage; what to do this weekend; where to cause "editors and broadcasters do not casting. The woman who as a prize-win­ vacation; how to cook healthy." think to look for them." ning tudent journalistlocked horns with Shanahansaid journalists"need to dis­ "One reason forthis," she said, "is the the president of her alma mater, George play a more seriouspurpose more oftenthan appalling decline in local new coverage. Washington University, asked the Eclw we do today"and quoted the Scripps-How­ Travel around thi countrya bit and read crew "What kind of trouble are you get­ ardnews servicemotto, "Give light and the the local papers. At first you may be ting into?" and discussed their division on peoplewill find their own way," as a model impressed with the amount of serious na­ the question of whether hate speech ought "I'm afraid that today," she said, "the tional and internationalnew they carry. to bebanned on campus. Regarded as one light we journali ts shine is, mo t often,of But then, as you go through the pages, you of the top economics reporters in the

3 JA UAR Y 1994 COLBY nation, Shanahan went of state and local gov­ into Donihue's class ernment,and joined the promising to "crash " the St. Petersburg Times in whole idea of using 1991. She has served econometric models for on several prestigious forecasting. boards and committees, During his remarks at including the board of a dinner held in Shan­ the Nieman Founda­ ahan's honor before the tion at Harvard Uni­ convocation, President versity and the Pulitzer Bill Cotter noted that Prize jury. Shanahan's reputation The Lovejoy award for directness and hon­ is named for Elijah esty had preceeded her to Parish Lovejoy, a na­ Mayflower Hill. tive of Maine and an "Walter Cronkite, 1826 graduate of Colby with whom you ran a who is considered Am­ two-person radio bureau erica's first martyr to in the late 1940s, still freedom of the press. can't get over the work A panel discussion on "Clinton and the Media" featured (l-r) Orlando Sentinel He was slain Nov. 7, Managing Editor] ane Healy, Nieman Foundation Curator William Kovach, Eileen ethic you displayed, 1837, in Alton, Ill., de- Shanahan and Collry Assistant Professor of Government Anthony Corrado. learning everything fending his abolition­ there was to know about the congressmen tional economic policy, tax and budget ist newspaper against a pro-slavery mob. in the five states you covered and pepper­ issues and governmentregulation of busi­ Colby established the award in 1952 for ing him with information for his on-air ness. In her book The Girls in the Balcony, an editor, reporter or publisher who has interviews," Cotter said. "'The most Nan Robertson, a friend and contempo­ contributed to the nation's journalistic trusted man in America' says your dedica­ rary of Shanahan at the Times, says Shan­ achievement. tion to the integrity of journalism was ahan "made an immediate impact" on the 'almost frightening' and that you 'spared paper, "frequently getting out on page Cotteron Speech no one and no horses in describing' what one with such fluffy topics as John you believe to be right ....You have never Kennedy's tax program, the debt ceiling, resident Bill Cotter put his Harvard been shy about offering advice and opin­ the balance of payments and the trade Law School training to good use in ions.Paul Tash remembers a time, before tariff war." OctoberP when he defended Colby's ver­ you succeeded him as head of the St. In 1976 Shanahan became a named bal harassment code in a debate with Petersburg Times' Washington bureau, plaintiffin a suit brought against the New Robert Peck, legislative counsel of the when he began a phone conversation Yark Times by seven women employee American Civil Liberties Union. with one of your contacts by saying, 'Hello. who charged that the paper discriminated Peck attacked colleges for enacting I'm Paul Tash. I'm Eileen Shanahan's against women in its hiring, promotion "speech codes that prohibit or punish ex­ boss, and she said to call you, and I always and compensation policies. She has re­ pression," actions he said restrictfree speech do what Eileen tells me to do."' mained an outspoken advocate for and freeinquiry on campuses."The purpose Shanahan began her career as a United women's and minority rights. of the First Amendment," Peck said, "is to Press wire ervice reporter in Washington Shanahan leftthe Times in 1977 to serve put ideas out there, to see if people want to during World War II. Following the war as assistant secretary forpublic affairsat the accept them or reject them." she teamed with Cronkite, then-after Department of Health, Education and While agreeing with Peck's conten­ interrupting her career briefly to have a Welfare in the Carter Administration and tion that some campus speech codeswere baby-worked as a reporter at the Re­ later was assistant managing editor of the too broad, Cotter made the case that a search Institute of America and the Jour­ Washington Star and the Pittsburgh Post­ carefully drawn verbal haras ment code nal of Commerce and was a spokesperson Gazette, associate professor at Northwest­ helps protect individuals from those who and public affairsofficer at the U.S.Treas­ ern Univer ity's Medill School of use words "as an instrument to injure." He ury Department before being hired by Journalism'sWashington Program and re­ said that codes such as Colby's, which has James Reston, Washington bureau chief porter for CongressionalQuarterly. resulted in disciplinary action only three of the New Yark Times, in 1962. Shanahan co-founded and was execu­ times in the past 15 years, "do not chill At the Times, Shanahan covered the tive editor from 1986 to 1990 of Governing, free speech because tolerated verbal ha­ Washington business beat, including na- a national monthly dedicated to coverage rassment on campus reduces opportuni-

COL BY JA UARY 1994 4 Bush Is Coming

hi is Geor e Bush," began the famil- "T iar voice in a mes age that wa left on Bill Cotter' voice mail one October e\·en­ ing. Just two day earlier, the College had invited the fonner president to peak at Colby' l 73rd commencement on May 22, and Bush called to ay that he would come. Colby's senior class ,·oted last fall to invite Bu h, who will receive an honorary degree as part of the commencement cer­ emony. He continue an impre sive tring of graduation speaker that includes Senate Minority Leader Robert ]. Dole last year and actor Bill Co by in 1992. A summer resident of Kennebunkport, Osgood Files a Story Bush will be the second fom1er president to have addre sed the College in its 181-year Beware of numbers, warnedCharles Osgood, a CBS journalistwit h a degree history. In November 1937, former pre i­ in economic from Fordham Univer ity. "It seems that news tories have too dent Herbert Hoover spoke at ceremonies many numbers in them and many of them are wrong," he said, delivering a observing the centennial of the death of December lecture in Lorimer Chapel. He urged student to pay more attention Elijah Parish Lovejoy. His talk-from the to the qualitative aspects of a story than to the quantitative. College A venue campus-was broadcast Osgood, whose daughter Kathleen Wood '96 was in the audience, aid the to the nation on radio. point was brought home to him at a major fire he covered for CBS radio in New York. Other journalist pres ed the fire chief forfact -how many people were in the building, how many firefighters turned out, how many injuries. The real 11--0for NAFTA story, he aid, was the drama-the huge icicle that formed as firefighter sprayed water into the frigid night, tenants shuffling around in winter coat hile the debate raged and the out­ covering pajama and lipper , the mell of moke, the eerie red glow of the fire come was in doubt until the day the trucks' rotating beacons. WU.S. House voted to upport the North Most reports about the fire relied on numbers to give the story weight, but American Free Trade Agreement, all 11 many of the numbers pewed out at the scene would prove to be wrong in the members of Colby's Economics Depart­ final accounting, Osgood aid. Too often, he went on, number crunching ment signed a letter stating that, on bal­ dictates what program get yanked offthe air, what products are discontinued ance, "the treaty would be advantageous for or what busines es close. Politicians use number from polls to stake out the economy of the United State ." Seven positions they think will be popular. Legion of su pect numbers were used to Bate economics faculty members also signed justify upporting or oppo ing NAFTA. Where do the numbers come from? the letter to Rep. Tom Andrews ( D-Maine), "My guess is that they just make them up," he aid. who ended up voting against the treaty. Osgood is a 26-year veteran of CBS radio and television news and anchor of "This level of unanimity among econo­ "The Osgood File ," a four-time -a-day commentary in which he expres es his mists i unusual, to say the least," said sense of wonder, amu ement or di may over the events of the day. He has won Grossman Profe sor of Economics Jan the Washington Journalism Review's "Be t in the Business" award as best radio Hogendorn, who noted that the faculty reporter five years running. support for the pact cut aero liberal and conservative a well as Republican and Democratic line . Hogendom coordinated ties forfree speech and true interchange." disputes, replacing the slower and more the Colby signing effort and rumped cen­ Cotter reiterated Colby's "commitment legalistic student judicial proce . Cotter's tral Maine for N AFTA, speaking to service to maximum free speech in a harassment­ view on speech code reached a national clubs, journalists and student . free environment." audience when hi article, "Hate Speech­ Hogendom, on fir t- emester leave, was In the future, Cotter uggested, the Col­ How to Handle It," was printed in last fall' lecturing in Toronto on trade is ues when lege should con ider empowering a three­ edition of Nieman Reports, the magazine of Congres voted. "A I looked on fromCan­ member panel to re ol ve verbal harassment Harvard Univer ity's Nieman Foundation. ada," he said, "I was overjoyed."

5 ]A UAR Y 1994 COLBY FLIGHT OF DISCOVERY

TOM CLAYTOR'S ROUND-THE-WORLD JOURNEY Is THE STUFF OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES BY SALLY BAKER

"I was 35 percent over gross weight. I'd never been this heavy before-the lank behind me now fldl-when I finally got to the end of the nmway I sat there for most of seven minutes just looking at everything, touching every inslrnment to make sure I was registering what it was telling me. The guys in the tower must have thought me strange.

"So many thoughts race through your mind, like wings breaking off (crazy thoughts, but still they are there) At long last it was time. I eased the throttle forward, eve1y sense alert and monitoring our motion. There was a 30-knot wind from the left and soon, very soon, I was in the air and climbing rapidly The carb ice came and the power dropped

off-the air was so cold that even with carb heat on it didn't warm above O'C. I slowed down and added full power and slowly slowly the temperature crept up and the ice went away.

"All below was white. I had long since left trees to the south. The water was ice and the mountains snow, ice c1ystals suspended in the air ..

"On the horizon to my left appeared a shimmering orange igloo-way off in the dark It was so strange, I couldn't imagine what it was and wondered if my mind was playing tricks on me. I had watched the blue moon set late that

morning and now, four hours later, it was back again. I looked at my map, and we had just crossed 66'N and were nearing the Arctic Circle. I started to tingle inside-ahead in the night lay Greenland. The cabin was now warm, and

at I 1,000 feet I was so at peace. The moon flooded the sea with light." Baffin Island, April t 991

COLRY JANUARY 1994 6 hree year ago last month, Tom Claytor '85 climbed into his T Cessna 180 airplane at Wing Field, near Philadelphia, to begin a journeythat will, with luck, make him the first pilot ofasingle­ engine plane to flyaround the world and visit all seven continents in the pr cess.

He had a book contract from a maj r ew York publisher and the bles, ing of the National Geographic Society and the ew York-based

Explorers Club, and he had a plan. Following up on work he'd done in

Africa as a Thomas]. Wat on Fellow and, later, as a pilot and indepen­ dent filmmaker, he would rely on a loo e, worldwide network of bu h pilots forhelp in his travel . They would advise him about routes to take and to avoid, and he would stay with them when he could and use them as his primary re ource for learning abouta given area and its people.

Claytor' project, christened the "Bush Pilot Expedition: Seven Conti­ nents," was underway.

About 100 friend and family member gathered at the airfield to see him off.Claytor remembers that he couldn't summon any tears. Even the knowledge that he probably would not return home for more than six years didn't raise much emotion in him.

"It had been uch a truggle to create this project and to meet the editors and television people and all the others I had to meet and to get all the support I needed. I felt like I already had fought an incredible battle, all by myself," Claytor said in a recent interview from Namibia.

"I just got in the plane and left. I felt so alone-and so cared because of something someone in Zimbabwe had told me about this trip. He said,

'You either make it or you're just another guy who tried and failed."'

7 JANUARY 1994 CO LBY The le..,�l lll' he.�l i I a�ked i rnrneLI iatel y. Claytm (me man \\ 'hy they tlell' Ill 1rth, mTrCt U'>e �nO\\'­

;1da to Iceland and muhJle .... He �;11d to

Greenland. "l'd ne\·er me, ' Yl lu c1n't eat flmn1 in cunditi,1n:-, �Ill >wmohi le.... ' A few like that," he s;1id. "I day� later there \\'as a tlell' thrnu.�h four :-.torm; the ice I'd storms, hundred­ landed my rlane on mile-rer-hour wind:,. blew out to ea. TI1e

It \\·as dark twenty- plane wa� safe in a four hours a day, and hangar by then, but there were no clouds five fo,hermen didn't -just ice crystals in come home. They the air." were found two day

The money he'd raised and 'The Namib Desert is the oldest and driest in the world. later -they'd kept alive by eating hoarded so carefully for so many The no11hern pan is called the Skeleton Coast. Fog creeps one dog a day, feeding the left-

months dwindled fast. Fuel and over the shore in the morning, it i cold and harsh Inland I 0 overs to the other dogs. That food were expensive. The weather miles, the sun is beating down on the sand dunes creating a taught me the \'alue of being from mirage of reflected light. At I\\owe Bay a massive whale jaw was brutal-on Baffin Island at a place. That' their environ­ rises from the sand In a wooden shack there is a human kull Christmas the temperature fell to ment-they know it be t." sitting on a shelf. Along the entire J ,300-mile coastline there -39°C, and Claytor's present to By July Claytor was stalled in are skeletal remains of shipwrecks, the wood is preserved himself was a blanket to keep the and the metal flakes away-massive structures silhouetted by Iceland with a broken-down en­ Cessna's engine warm. His high­ glaring sand Jen Bartlett heaves the end of a fishing rod gine and no money. He was work­ tech gear was no good against the towards the sea. We are trying to catch our dinner but ing 16-hour day in a shrimp­ cold, so a woman in Greenland without success. She and her husband have lived in this processing factory to pay for re­ gave him some untanned seal­ desert for over nine years. Their camp is on the inland side pairs when a fax arrived from a of the barrier dunes. People very seldom come here, access is skin clothing lined with dog fur. National Geographic producer restricted. Along the shore, the hyenas and jackals feed on "The fat was scraped out," he said, interested in inve tigating sea birds and seals; their tracks are everywhere. . Mean­ "that's all. I smelled like a dead Claytor's project for a television dering sand rivers flow from the east. When the rains do seal, but it kept me warm." pecial. The prestigious organi­ come, the raging torrents are swallowed by the sand a In the f r north, Claytor says, Sometimes they break through to the ocean and days zation shipped a video camera to he learned to tru t his plan-the later are dry again." Iceland, and Claytor, tired but bush pilots he met were unfail- Cape Tou•11. 50111/i Africa, Noue111ber 1993 buoyed by the pro pect of work- ingly correct about how to fly in ing with National Geographic, the harsh conditions and had helped him meet people in departed for Europe, continent =2 on his trek. remote regions. Evidence of the project's value abounded. The Explorers Club and other friends had given Claytor letters After living in a small village in Greenland for a month, Claytor of introduction to many noted European adventurers, such as Lord say , he was more sure than ever that part of his task was to bring Hunt, who led the Hillary Everest expedition, Quentin Keynes the lessons of life off the beaten track to an audience in the (great-grandson of Charles Darwin), Winston Churchill (grand­ developed world. son of the British prime minister) and Sir Lawrence Vanderpost, "This village had four thousand people and eleven thousand author of Lost World of the Kalihari. With their help, Claytor says,

dogs," he recalled. "One day I went fishing with some men from he faced his next hurdle-how to chronicle the trip. the village, and I noticed that on their sleds they'd have fifteen "You go to a place like Iceland or Greenland and everything is different dogs on fifteen different lines. lt looked really difficultto so strange you're not sure what you should write about," he said.

COLBY JANUARY 1994 8 "Sir Lawrence V,rnderpost airplane in his language.) told me not to worry about ln early February J 992. over-noreraking,to \nire what Clayt11r cumpl1:-ed the fir-;t in interests me, and a- the trip a -;eries nf l1CC

Claytl1r s::iys he was some­ Salah anJ Tam

adYice, though, until he ar­ stretchi.n� p1lluwsl 1f,,md, \\"

ri\·ed in :\lgeria. He landed l111 like the .;ea. Then, further

January 1 2 , 1991, days after sl1urh, the s,mJ began tn flu\\·

the Chadli Benjedid gl1\·em­ like ri\·er.; bern·een rnck \\·,ill..;

ment \\'as ousted and in the anLI inw ,and lakes "·i th nKk

middle of the Gulf Cl1nflicr. pinnacle::- in l1Jd pl,lCe'i. Jr \\",b

Feel ing cunsp i c ul1u s '1' an \\·onderful tl1 see rhi, fn1m American, hassled by so=curity ,11 m·e. . . In A1-;1k we Lindell officer \\·ho thl1ught "bush l1n a dry ri\·erbeJ and met ,,,1me pilot" meant "pilot for Gel1rge gel1logists lnl1king forg11IJ. The

Bush," surrounded by ad1T1ir­ pel1ple are friend h-; it\ iusc the

ing po-ters of �addam Hussein, nfficiab \'OU ha\·e tn watch l 1U[ fu r." The rhino I'>sleeping 11<> dark eyes wacch1ng u<> all omeone Claytor began to write. l\\nne\· 1\·a:- st ill right, and hy co,·er<. them ll'1Ch a cloth The cha1nsa,,· 1s started and Dr. \\"nJce "The continual harred anLI in­ Kock begin> to np both harm oil ol 1l lace \\'e do 1h1s nine the time Claytor ::igain, frnm feel n ::.pection made me strn g in­ time<. 1n ll\'O day<; On the bank> ol the Okal'ango R1l'er 111 T1mhukcu, J\\al1, in .-\ pril. he re­ side," he -aid. "l "·a 'iirting on l tl'eryone r1oneJ Chat he'd lo::-.t crvauon \\'ill ne,·er an�I m,1laria p ilk Bue he'd had a >ucceed until 1t 1> put 111 the hand<. ol the local people they [nomads] riding arnund on camel-;, bit l1flu1:k in iger-he \\"as hi red mll'>t see its l'alue and want 1t >Ucceedto <1nd that's "'here I started \\Ti ting. to i•articipate in an ,1erial "urYe\'

l \\·a emoting on p<1per. l wa:­ of a national p

tarting to learn how \'l1u take an a ll)cal p ilt1c hy '22,000 anLI earn­ experience and try rn gi\·e a re.1der th<1t experience-not a ing ennugh 1rn w1ey tl) keei• che Ce��na in fuel for a fe"" munrh-;. travelogue. You write abnut what life i:; like in rhi-;area for the "Back in [che capital]," he "'wee, "! was in trnuhle for reader' l:enefit, and to teach." "·nrk ing l\'lthouc a rerm i t. But in Africa it i.; a whole lnt ea:;ier

ll1e loneliness \\'<1$ gone. Zimbab\\'ean ani�c Larry Norton, ro get pardoned than ic i� to get permisscon ....The rrohlem i:; who will illustrate Claytor\ book, haJ joined Cb\"tm in �forocco, that going from cciuntr\' tl1 CL1untry the rules change, and you 're and that helped. Clayror

in the places he vi ired. He posted a running list L1f their names on sad , but when I lefr the office the bill was for three dollars." the plane window, and, he say , that made him appreciate that the Claytor's innocence

in Greenland had christened it "Timmissarrok," the word for French and was misunderstood: once he landed the gendamle,

9 J ANL' t\R\ 1994 COLBY c1me running-Ill of I 2 1n h·or) Cua t

Franc\.? it i' illc.t.:al tl 1 ll'hl l gd \'C l he L'LJUi Vcl­

Lmd an .iiq1la1w l1ur­ knt Ill ;1 fL"w du br.,

'1Je ot

The media fu llrn\·cd rh

the ).!L'nclarmes, and more. "We t( )(ik the

\\ hen CL1ytl lr\ 'tnry I i't , iut tl igcther and gor ()Ul he 11icked UJ' added hi, name t\l 1t,"

;1 t()ll,i\\'int.:. Cla\'tur \\Tl ltL' 1n a

"I got .1 frcl.? t;mk 11f lem:r fn 1m T1 igl l. "A,

.l!< l' nut nf rhe \\'hl 1k I lrn1k

rhit\!..!,"hn;11cl. 'That\ l -,m1 k ;md fe el \·ery

\\'hen I karned the 'tra n.t.:e; there ;ire '>O

\·al uc of exp1N1rc." many people anLl 'o

The )e,,l in \\'

cenwnred in Tl l).!l l, ll'hcrc hi, ar­ "Tamanra<,<,et 1<, a \lra nge, oval-,haried town w11h a dried , Cl<1yr, 1r <1[,u h,1, 'cen Africa' dustv riverbed running through one '>1de ,\ \en 11 alk down the ri\·,11 al,() 'tirrcd rnecl 1a intLTe:-t trihu l. Hc\ tlu11·n rhniugh main '>lreel with their head" wrariped 1n delicate white or ,111Ll he <1prcarccl nn rhc C\'enmg c()nfl 1ct-ndden areheel> ol cloth, leaving only their eye'> exp\ >Cd e\l ne\\':. hrnadca,r. A fe\1· day' later h;1' huller hnk' tn 'h()ll' for it­ lo taxi� lcrtede� Jnd Peugeot'> on thei r \\'Jy south to he he \\'kl ier' ;1fter ,111d he\ heard h1 1rrnr't nrie . ln .,old 111 Niger loom magnil1cen1 camel<, w1tl1 ringed rorie' fi lming <1 J'IT,idcnt1al m1 1turc1dc. L1hcna, 'cene pf ;1 \'iciou" ci\·il through 1he1r nose<, Jnd beauti l u l bra"' and decorat1\'C leather L!eterrnined tu ,how nu fc;1r, he ro1111ed howdah, on their bock-, \\'ar, CL1ytor rnlled e<1rnen-1 while aprrnached the highe�t-ranking Tt1111tlllld>lfl, Al!JCl/d Fd,, 11<11)' f llO] penple wlkl.'.duf rttruc itie' they'd

11fficial. " ] a,ked him how thing' \\' t tne,,ed or heard ahout-

were going in Togo and if he'd ll'holesale torture and -laughter

�een the plane," Claytor sa id. "H e ,,1id n1 \ ;rnd ] ,aid, 'You mu't 1)f enemic-,, �nld i cr� hetting nn the �ex of unhorn children and

cnme. You must come in the morning,' and all uf a ;,udden we :-!icing open the mother�' wnmh� to :,ettle the her , children

were talking ahout whether he'd hring his eight-yem-old w the h;ittered tn Lleath on \\'alls ur skewered on hayonets.

airport in the morn ing, and one of the guys said, 'Oh, yeah, I �aw "I didn't knnw how I \\'as going to explain it," Claytor wrote.

him on TV .' All of a sudden I'm one of their fr iend�. and they 'Tm �till nnt sure I under:,tand it. In the end it was too much, and

haven't arrested me, I'm ju:,tvi siting and ha\'ing te

It' only after you leave that you start shaking." heard these stories. I filmed them because l really simply couldn't

Talking and writing about his experiences in Africa, Claywr believe them. Yet you could see it everywhere you looked."

is alternately sad and exhilarated. After nearly a year there he Claytor admits he may be out of his depth when it comes to

is still letting impres ions and cunver:,a tions sift through his African politics, but he has strong opinions of the conservation

mind. Many of the journey' superlatives-good and bad­ efforts he' seen. ''I'm viewing conservation -wries from the

have occurred on the huge continent. inside," he said. "I can see, visually, the conflicts in these area ,

"Yuu'J think that raising money in Africa is like squeezing and I'm not just a journalist arriving and look ing. I'm there, part

water from a stone," he said, "but I've been amazed." Claytor won of it-that's a diffe rent perspective."

honorable mention in the Ro lex A wards for Enterprise contest In Iceland and Greenland Claytor interv iewed people who

this year, but aside from that and other somewhat pred ictable had participated in "seal harvest "and were upset at a U.S. ban

ources of funds--conservationists who live in Africa, wildlife­ on the importation of seal products. ("You people in the United

protection groups on the continent who've hired Claytor for aerial States think chicken comes from a plastic bag in the supermar­

urveys-he ha been touched by people who are intrigued ket," Claytor wa told.)

en ugh to give what they can. He remembers especially a father On the Skeleton Coast of Namibia hefi lmed a man explain-

COLBY JANUARY 1994 10 ing that, while it was there he'll keeppu�h­ fine fororgani:ations ing east. Ea,t mean� like Greenpeace to home, he S

\\'here they are en­ to go hefore ruuch­ dangered, Namibia ing down again nn has plenty of seals Wing' Field. H 1s and shouldn't be sub­ rmject rc-,ume cal[, ject to prohibitions for him tl1 \·i-,it lndi;1,

again t killing them. era!, Thailand, In­

"There's a reason donesia, Austrnli::i,

why people in the New Zealand, Ne\\'

rates and in Europe Guinea, the Ph ili1�­ work hard and save rines, Jaran, Russia,

their money and come Alaska, outh Am­

to a place like this," Claytor said. erica and Antarctica. "Vivid images flash through my mind. A monument in "They want to stand here and be Benin of sculpted Africans with machetes-white mercenaries In the meantime, life goes on urrounded by desert. amihia is a landed on che beach to overthrow the government and were at home. His brnther Brannan fabulous wildeme . But wildeme· killed. A village on a lake suspended entirely on stilts. A '88 ha · married. Another mu t pay. Just like we have factories hundred canoes rafted together with large women sitting brother, Warren '92, set off on amidst piles of fish and bright-colored vegetables, a child anJ industries to fuel our economy, his own adventure in Nm·em­ doing a handstand on the bow. A boat full of wires, batteries they have wildeme and other re­ ber-he hopes to follow Chris­ and precarious speakers making loud distorted sounds as ource - eals, rhinos, elephants. By topher Columbu 's route politicians disappear around a corner. using these resources they can make through the A IT1ericas 111 a 24- "I am on my hands and knees with the artist. Pradel has a money that will sustain the resource foot sailboat. Claytor says he gun. \Vie have tracked aero s a field through the rain to the and ecure its future." misses his fa mily and friend , edge of the foresc. There are forest elephancs before us. Their Claytor also is not the first trav­ but he turned down an offer of tusks are straighter, chinner, darker. Their ears are smaller; elertoworry about the helter- kelrer round-trip airfare to Philadel­ they are meaner. \Y/e approach closer, although I'm not sure adoption of "Western" values by why. The mother and her calf already fill my lens. \y body phia from LL. Bean president

people in indigenous cultures. In pulses 1vich my heart I ny to breathe quietly. If I top I will Leon Gorman.

Greenland and Iceland, he ays, he begin to think and I lush with fear. There are no trees behind "It's a journey," Claytor said.

watched young chool-educated us; there is absolutely nowhere to run The choice is theirs- "You leave home and you live in villager reject their parents' ways the forest or us, at 35 mile an hour. They are not looking, these places with these people. and Pradel stands up. \Y/henthey look back he is standing a outmoded, and in Congo and If I were a millionaire I don't but still. They do not see us-we are 70 feet from them-but Namibia he saw pe ple at odds with think th.is trip would have any­ they hear \Y/ith each click of the lens their bodies freeze \Y/e traditions that sustained them fur where near the meaning that it all listen and wait." thousands of year . doe·, because I would tay in Brazz1w11/e, (01190, Noue111ber t 992 "Part of this project, for me, i to hotels and I wouldn't depend on maybe see some things we aren't people. You meet these people meant to see and to tell about them," Claytor aid. "I'm interesteJ and you ha\·e these experiences along the way, and forth em to in remote parts of the world and the changes that are occurring in have meaning, for you to sreak \\·ith conviction, you actually these frontline areas. When I meet people who hm·e something to haYe to suffer a little bit."

ay-and ometimes theysay unpopular things-! let them talk."

From southern Africa Claytor is slated to travel up the east Tom Cla)'tor'sjoume�» will be che subject of a National Geo­ coa t through Madagascar and Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia, and from graphic Explorer special to be aired in August 1994 .

11 j.l\NUARY 1994 0 L RY

Tw o stre sed-out roommates have been studying for a French exam) and one tells another) "Have a beer and relax.))

Later, two women students become skeptical when their friend describes how an evening with someone they know turned into a case of date rape. "But he's such a nice guy,)) they tell her.

Those are plot lines for two of everal kit performed in a big support system and trying to be visible." She and other club residence halls allover campu this fall by the member of a club members ay that di cussion in residence halls about tudent called Student Health On Campu , better known by it acro­ health issues are one of their most effective ways of reaching nym, SHOC. With perennial concerns over an array of health students, in part because they allow tudents to feel comfortable i sues uch as alcohol abuse now joined by new dangers in the approaching SHOC members later. era of AIDS, both the SHOC tu- "People come to you as a friend, dents and Colby's medical staffare and it's nice that they confide in exploring creative new way to edu­ you," said Guth, a human develop­ cate student about tho e issue . ment major who is considering a Following each five-minute skit, career in the health field. "We're the SHOC cast tays in character not counselors, but we are there to while a student facilitator encour­ listen and direct them to the health ages the audience to explore uch center if necessary." question as "What are the implica­ Guth says that many of the tions of using alcohol a a stress tudent who participate in reducer?" and "Wa it really rape?" SHOC have one special area of The SHOC members deal out in­ intere t-alcohol use, date rape, formation they hope will provoke stress management, drug abuse, di cussion-84 percent of women safer ex, exual orientation or nationwide who have been raped eatingdisorders-but all received knew their assailants, for instance, education in the wider pectrum and in informal urveys on the Colby of student health issues. A week­ campus mo t students said they end retreat in the fall helped ce­ drink less than their peer and can ment the training. hold their liquor better. "The whole group is evolving SHOC, which is runand financed to want more ongoing training by students, was formed a year ago as � for them elve ," aid Lydia a broader-based replacement for the � Bolduc-Marden, a nurse-practi­ Peer Health Facilitators group. The -----....,;:�...,. § tioner at the Garrison-Foster student peer education organization � Health Center who helped orga­ dates back to 1989, when it was a nize the retreat in her role as a component of the Sexual Healthand SHOC members discussing health issues try to reach fe llow faculty advisor to SHOC. Reproductive Education (SHARE) scud.emsin many ways, such asproviding information on the "[The health center staff] re­ program at the health center. Great American Smokeouc day in November . ally respect us forwhat we're do­ "SHOC is still in a transitional ing," Guth said. "They give us all stage," said its president, Alli on Guth '94 of Pound Ridge, N.Y. the information. We help them educate." "We're '"orking from the inside, learning pecific skills, building SHOC members use a variety of approaches to get their

13 )A UARY 1994 COLBY mes�ages out, including contributing art icles tn the health center's SHOC impro1· group along with Lynch, see-;the �ame trend and popular monthly ne\\'sletter, distributing anti-smoking materials says that "alcohol i-; being de-emphasi:ed, a millimeter at a at tables in the student center, taping information sheets about time." She, mo, ha· friend� who don't drink, includ ing one on �·reventing sexually transmitted diseases to bathroom rails and the rughy team, and she says that traditional drinking games organi:ing a candlelight procession across campus w Lorimer such as "beer die" sometimes include non-drinker�. who join in Chapel tu mark lntem.ational AIDS Awareness Day. and �·lay "water clie." Their wmk i-; enhanced by their familiarity with the is�ues­ tudents also say their sexual behavior ha� changed since some JT1emhers of the grou�• ha\'e \\'restled 11·irh drinking pruh­ the day� when the tudent A snc iation creened the X-rated lems or been \'icti m to sexual assault-and by their presence in fi lm Insatiable as a w i nter turn-on and upperclass men plotted Colhy's soc ial scene, which as­ ttl lure, intoxicate and score �ures fe llo\\' students that, in with the women whose pho­ Guth's words, "we're going tos they circled in the fresh ­ through the saIT1e things you are." man "meat book ." But Bolduc-Marden says she "People dnn't honk up a SL)tnetimes wnnder� ht)11· much randomly" as they once did, influence the SHOC-sponst1red sa id one student. Guth said e1·ents have. "You �ee the same there ha� been "a major, major people coming 01·er and 01·er change" since her freshman again, probably the people who year in the increased use of least need to be there," she said. condoms a� protection againsr In eptember, aht)ut 75 pet ple hoth pregnancy and sexually attended an e1·ening talk on transm itted dbeases. The Col­ AID by California-based actil'­ lege imralled condom vend­ ist Sharnn Lund, who is H IV ing machines in dorm laundry pl)Siti1·e and \\'ho pleaded with rooms three year ago, and they students to "wake up" and deal also are a\'ailahle, along with with the issue. SHOC 1·ice presi­ information a •out how to use dent arah Whitely '94 of East them and about sexually trans­ Wakefield, N.H., says she was mitted diseases, at both the frustrated by the small turnout health center's recepti n de k but somewhat encouraged the and the student post office. next evening when she heard SHOC members say there people who hadn't been there talking about Lund' visit. "E1·en also is a greater awareness of the is ·ue surrounding exual assault, when there is a small grnup,"Wh itely said, "I feel that someone a point made clear last spring when the group asked student to tie is tak ing the message and generating a conversation outside of purple ribbons on a tree branch at the Student Center to repre ent the group." people they knew who had been sexually a saulted. "It wa filled While Colby still has a ways to go in the area of student with more than a hundred ribbons after a couple of days," said health , there have been some noticeable changes in behavior SHOC treasurer Kimberly Valentine '94 of West Simsbury, on campus. The era of kegs being rolled into the Student Center Conn. "Even for us it was amazing to see." early on Saturday night and students of all ages staggering out Valentine said that there "may be a higher level ofawareness" later is gone. Now the consumption of alcohol at College of health issues among first-year students, a point borneout by an event is rigorously 1T1onitored, partly because Maine's drinking infusion of several freshmen into the SHO rank . Tony Moulton age has been ra ised to 21 and partly because the adn1inistration '97 of Atkinson, N.H., arrived at Colby having done similar i taking a harder stance on drinking. While students say the improvisational skits at his high school and said he hopes "we can changes have on ly pushed parties behind closed doors on bring people away from alcoholism and sexual promiscuity." campus and into off-campus apartments and brought new risks In a time when, according to Sharon Lund, one in every 95 invol\'ing drinking and driving, they also say there is a greater college students nationwide is HIV positive, both the SHOC acceptance of students who choo ea more temperate lifestyle. stud nts and medical staff realize a lot is at stake. Bolduc­ "There is a lot more respon ibility with alcohol," aid Greg Marden, who is in her seventh year at Colby, says student are Lynch '94 of Enfield, Conn., a co-captain on Colby's swim team increasingly aware of the dangers of HIV and AIDS, but "it i� who says he had his own troubles with alcohol as an underclass­ not real because no one has come out and said, '[ am HIV man. He notes that student have chosen to live in two "chemical­ positive. Watch out because this can happen to you.' There b free" dorms-Ma1Tiner and Pierce-and that he and many others still an awful lot of denial here." on campus make sure oft drinks are available at parties. Bolduc-Marden explains that the health center provides Emily Goetcheus '95 of Brooklyn, N.Y., who leads the confidential HIV testing and counseling and that students are

COLR) JANUARY 1994 14 SHOC members led a candlelight procession to Lorimer Chapel to mark IntemarionalAIDS Awareness Day on December 1. coming in to get their birth control needs met and exually health and behavior, drug use, drinking and fime s. Colby's transmitted disea e diagno ed and treated. Referring to the Phy ical Education Department, he explains, also i involved in student who come to the health center for information as discussions about student health and i looking at its requirements well a examination, he aid, "I have a respon ible population with an eye to emphasizing sports one can participate in well eeking me out." beyond the college year . "We want to look at the whole idea of More than 16,000 clinical contacts were reported last ear wellne ," Hume said. 'Why not teach them healthy living, by the health center, including more than 10,000 walk-in . nutrition and lifetime athletics uch as tennis and fitnes ?" Other medical needs were met at the new Carl E. Nel on Hume ays the health center "is erving a the coordinator Phy ical Therapy Center in the fieldhou e, which provided to put all these pieces together" as more and more College some 6,000 individual rehabilitation treatment la t year, and officials and student join in the discu ion . He said the group the student-operated Colby Emergency Respon e team. hope to put together a pilot wellne program a a Jan Plan a Director of Counseling Services Patti Hopperstead, who year from now, then have an introductory cour e in place a al o erve as a SHOC advisor, aid that la t year Colby early as fall 1995. Bryn Mawr College began it integrated coun elors saw 222 tudents-13 percent of the tudent body­ wellness program a dozen year ago, Hume ays, and it has been in more than 1 200 session . he aid that while there has been ucce ful in "as i ting in the development of a self-responsibil­ an increase in the number of tudents who arrive on campu ity forone's life tyle during the formative college experience." having had therapy to help them with their problems, "a large Bryn Mawr' program also includes making ce sation, weight number of tudents just come one time for reassurance that reduction and other component forfaculty and staffthat the what they're experiencing i in the normal range." Colby group al o i exploring. Hume said uch programs, Bolduc-Marden and her bo , Medical Director H. Alan including one at LL. Bean, have proven co t efficient at a time Hume, M.D., say they are excited about di cus ions just under­ of kyrocketing health care cost . " taff, faculty and students all way that would introduce dramatic change in the way health would benefit" if an integrated wellness program were eventu­ issue are addre ed on campus. Bolduc-Marden point to a ally developed at the College, Hume said. ucces ful SHOC pre entation during freshmen orientation Hume's current mes age to Colby students i tinged with and over ub cribed Jan Plan on exuality and health a evi­ urgency: "Make your own deci ions, think about what risks you are dence that the student intere t i there. going to take. Come and talk to us, to friend in SHOC, to hall For his part, Hume is enthu iastic about a proposed compre­ residents. Just think about where you're going. Develop relation­ hensive health curriculum covering such subjects as nutrition, ship based on something other than alcohol and ex and let them eati.ngdi order , tressmanagement, exual identity, reproductive mature. Don't be a member of a herd. Stop and think."

15 JA UARY 1994 COLBY By Haines Sprunt Tate

A long time ago , somewhere in the land that's now Nigeria , people never go hLtngry becaLtSe they can eat the sky. Then the sk)'grows tired of being wasted and moves far out of reach .

Meanwhile , the three little wolves give LIP on bLtilding houses of concrete and armor to keep ow the Big Bad Pig and decide to outwit him once and for all-with fl.owers that melt his angi-y heart .

Jn a small, coastal New England cown , T-Ball Knowles straps on her bicycle helmet to win a race for her gang offriends against bullies who think girls-and the boys who befriend them-are sissies .

Jn another town , on the front porch of Miss Ida's house , girls listen to grown-ups tell of a time when even great mLtSicians like Duke Ellingcon and Marian Anderson couldn't stay in some hotels or perform in concert halls because they were black .

COLBY JANUARY 1994 16 There's a lot going on hern·een are truly literature," ,;1id the brightly cnlored jackets uf Feldman. "and l think children children\ hm)b these Lbys, and learn ry. Bancroft for The Horn Boui<, <1 ''k,ue'i that are hig in the Bnstnn maga:ine that re,·ie"·s \\·nrlJ muund u�

Breed '86 are editors. B\)\\·en i::. 1·ice rre,1Jent ancl a"u­ recent munrh,, ancl 'tl irie' ahnut different cultun:''i and ciare publisher in Henry H t1l t'.; B\)(lb for Yt )ung Re,1ckr, ethnic group::. are tlt)uri�hin.g. di1·isinn; Rider is a ::-enit)racqu isitil1n, ecl itl1r fl1r Little, B, ll, en �'1Y' rhm 11·hat\ heh incl thc.;;e trenJ, 1s "the need

Br0\n1 and cl) ntpany an-.1 \\'l)rb fr\ )m her home in tll re,ich ;1[[ thu,e Cl1mmunitie, th.at �lre n1rningup in the Lutsen, Minn.; and Breed i,

Despite layoff::. and cuthach in the puhli,hrn.� mJu,­ majt1rin· pnpubtilm ah)ut \)ther culture.;;."Puhbher" ha1·e try, th.e.-e \\"l)nten are in a field that ,1lml1<;t Cl)uldn'r h::· expre,,eJ a cle,ire t�1r 'uch hl)Ub, ,he Sl\"�, and mi\\· ml1re hotter. During the 1980,, rnrnl,, 1[e, nf children\ hl)\)b pel1plt> r' . her \\'l 1rk : "[ like expll1ring Llifrerent cultures in picture

Breed -ay that in the '80, publi::.her, re;1li:ed th

" children's di1·i ·ions, once ClWl'i1dereJ -,1Je ,·enture,, \\'ere frnmNi geria L)r an .'\:"ianpict ure htl<) k . :he ::.ays rhm ll'hile becoming the hread and hurter nf the bu'iine::.s. A recent her preferences may Cl1incide \\·irh cunenr trends, her spate of articles and brnadcasts nn the 'iuhjec r sug�e,ts rea�nns f,ir pursuing a project mu:'tbe SL) lid. "By the time you • that those sale' ha1·e fo,tered a ne\\·found respect fnr folln\\' a rrenJ, it's usually 1wer "·irh by the time you get a

" literature aimed at the I -and - under ·er. book out, she said. A bl>ok she ed ited, \\,71:· che

"] think people hm·e come to real­ SI<:' ls Far AH·a:' , by Mary-Joan Gerson, is a i:e that children's books igerian folktale th.at has a timelye1wirnn-

17 JA1 UARY 1994 COL BY mental message about not brary," Bowen said,

named "Best Illustrated" by technique to comrete . • The New York Times. Rider say� it i:- a chal­

Rider also has pursued out­ lenge to come up with good of-the-ma instream topics for man u-,cripts fnr illu �trators.

the nonfiction hooks she ed­ "It's important to keer them

its for teenagers. Recently she going, and it\ really hard to worked on a rhotograph ic find ,l; ooJ picrure-bonk essay about children of mi­ m:-rnu-,cript�." she �a id. Art­ grant farm \\'orkers. "I fe lt ists often ll'ork for se\'eral

that there \\'a� a need for that differe n t puh li�her�. sh kind ,ihonk-that there hall �ays, \\'hereas authun, are us­

heen a hook about migrant ual ly expec ted to �tay loyal

worker�. hut that \\'e \\'eren 't t\ l \lne puhl i her. Find ing

hearing from the children a �tyl i�tic m

and what their li,·es are like," Brenda Buu·en '80 al\\'ay� gu�1ranree that the she said. She's now at work on a bo\)k for young teens, arti�t will accept the prnject, a!ld author� ll'hoc an com­

Peo/)/t.' Llkt.' Us, ahou t the g

she sa id. "It's imp\Xtant for teenagers who are confused, can take text so many diffe rent directions, anJ that's in their search for infonT1ation." where I feel editors play a hig rt )le," she aid. And as school cut arts programs, says Breed, a series New books use uch diverse media a� collage, pastel, of picture books she edited on women artists, including h

Trends in the content of children's books may have don't want to pay fifteen dollars for a picture book unless stirred more discussion than i llustration techniques, but they feel like the art is just that: art," she aid. changes there have had important market impact, Bowen What makes a good children's hook!"] look for some­ says. Recent improvements in pri n ting technology h

media. "That really made a big difference in the visibility don't h;;ivea n established "look" or style. "I want to publish • • of children's books, because suddenly there were al I of a book that in the end I can look at and feel proud about," these gorgeous books that were very attractive, that shesaid. "Part ofthat is that it will ell well, people wanted to buy and own but that' not all of it." Occasionally instead of borrow from the Ii- she'll read a book she's edited to her

COLBY )A UARY 1994 18 ' -year-old son, Chrisrnrher, 1i .A merican Puhli..;her..;' but says she wouldn't e\·er BuarJ ti. )rCh ildren 's Bnob, use him as a barometer t)f a Bu,,·en �ays the heads l•f book'-; success. "[ definite! · children'� l1ter;1ture di,·i- belie,·e in the right book fur 5ions are mostly \\\)men.

the right child," she added. RiL�er say..; 1•ne re

pany ruts good writing tibt. 111'•re men may be "the idea "We look for an indi,·idual that childhn1lLI i� the dl•­ n) ice and a diffe rent rnainof the mother." ,-\n­ sound," she said, adding nther may be its perce1,·ed that a story also must ha,·e hick t•f presti.�e compared

,. i.ual potential: "We to the glamnur of adult wouldn't rake on a manu­ puhlishing. "I srill ger com­ script that is totally static ments like, 'So. \'Ou're re­

or only rake · place in l)ne ally In trainin,g for adult room." rrength is impor­ publishing,"' she said. tant in the art a \\'ell. Bo\\'en names the late "We're not so much into the finely \\'rought or detailed Ursula ordstrom. k1ng-time heaJ of Harrer & Ro\\·'s tuff. l like very bold images," said Bm,·en. children's di,·ision, a: one of the mentor for \\'nmen Choosing a rotential book is uti:en a matter of editorial publishers. Nordstrom introduced no1\· classic authors taste. Breed prefers stories that portray realistic situations like Laura Ingalls Wilder and Maurice endak to enor­ and be l ie,·able characters. " l 'm not one of those people who mous audiences \\'hen male publishers took little intere-t. likes cute animal storie-," she �aid. Feldman says the manu­ "She quietly \\'ent llff and created all these 1T1asterpieces. scripr- she buys must ha,·e sm1ng plor- and ,,·ell-defined I think that's ,,·hat a k)t of us like to think \\'e're doing," character . "A lor of reople thin, that writing a children's said BL1wen. "\XI e \1·ant to be part of the corporate struc­

book is simple," she said. "I think you really haw to judge ture, and 1\·e don't \\'ant to be unnot iced. but at the same

a children· book by the ame ·randards that you judge adult time we want to be left alone to do children's bLx1ks, literature by." because it's an art in and of itself." Children's literature \\'as long considered a women's Feldman says children's book marketing diffe rs ::itmngly field, with men holding the top job . Rider notes that from marketing in other businesse-;."There's nothing about tradit1 nal women's careers-particularly teaching anJ li­ it that is a hard sell. The people that we are selling buoks brary work-produced women \\+10 later became editors 1)f to are teacher· and librarians and bookstores," she <;aid. • • children's books, and Bo\\'en add that many 1\·umen also "Marketing really means just making ure that theysee \\'hat came ur thr ugh the rank · after starting as secretaries, we ha,·e each .;;ea on."

learning the business fromother ed i ro 1.. . Early in a book'- production Feldman's A member of the Assoc iation department must assemble bound gal [eys and

19 l:\�l.. .\RY l'l'14 >Lf\)CL prnofa intll kits for sale� of the field m Colhy hy represcntati\'e� and re­ taking Pn ife�<;orS u-,an \'iewer::-. Anotherround Kenney\ Jan Plan :-ur­ of publicity fl 11ln\1·s \'ey of chi ldren\ litern­ • d1en the finished honk ture, then \\'nrked in emerges. "We just re i�­ hn,1bturc� in Bosrnn sued the nrigird Rag­ afrer Colhy 11·h ile get­ g Jy Ann mid Andy ting ,, ma�tcr\ degree

ho1Jks, so the publicity in children\ litc-rature manager is doing rire:,s

release� to send ro dnll- Ofereda marketingjuh 01llectl 1r�' ma.�;cine�,"

she ·aid. And she wel- Ne\\' Yurk, Feldman nme� her jnh\ \·mi cry. �wa I lo\\'ed her fear Lif "My day is ne\'er the the city and accepted, same t\\·ice, \\'hich is huping to mu\'e inw something l low," �he ediwrial work lacer. "[ Hi/(ln Bri?c!cl '86 (left ) with Little , Brown desizner Cunsumcc Jucobson said. "People think that fl 1unLI that 1 real! y lm·ed

publishing is \'ery gbm

the ranks in puhlishing. Feldmm1 and Bancrd.t hnth -;ay ll'here �he later hired Bancroft. At lvlacmilLm, she oversees

they had designs on ed iting career� hef ore heing di\'ert d hy trade and lihrary marketing forabout 175 h\loks each spring the unique cha I lenges of marketing. Bancroft says a fan1rite and foll sea:-l ln.

pan nfher job is heing <1hle to leaf through the sracb of nell' Fnr Breed, \\'hu studied art history a� well as English at

hoob in the office-The Hom Book recein�s close to 5,000 Cnlhy, a summer internship at The HornBook led to a Jan titles each year. "Ynu see all the hl1nb cnme in from all rn·er. Plan at the maga:ine and finally tn a ['OSition as an

It's a great introduction, I think , to all the different a::-.pects editurial as�istant as soon as she graduated. After a few of the fi eld," Bancrl ft said. years there and a hrief time in New York, she returned to

A Colby teaching practicum led Bancroft to pursue a Bo�ton in 1989, as assistant editor at Little, Brown. Breed l iteracy tutor's certificate after�he graduated in a course that acquires six or eight books for diffe rent age le\'els each emphasi:ed the use ofchildren's books in teaching reading. yc-ar for the company, eeking out proj cts, editing the After rounds of interviews, some with Cl1lhy contacts, she manuscripts and seeing tl1em through the complex illus- • • ended up at The Hom Book in 1992, working in marketing tration and production process. "I'm kind of the and customer ser\'ice promotions. hub of the wheel," she said. "I love to read, and Feldman got a glimpse ! like to critique and discuss people's writing.

COLBY JA 'UARY 1994 20 And the art classes [at the atmosphere was right. Colby] taught me a real ap­ "l really liked the fe eling preciation for what people of it. I thought, 'Oby, thi� can do." She often finds fe els right,' because there • • manuscripts through liter­ were books piled e,·ery- ary agents or authors with 1\'here and manuscript' whom she has worked be­ flrn�·ingoutofdrawer:," ·he fore and note that the said. From there she mo\'ed company no longer accepts on to editorial j ob - at the "slush pile" of un­ Harper Jr. Books and vari­ solicited manuscri pts, ous children's and young nearly 5,000 ofwhich used adult di,·isions at Scholas­ to flow each year to the tic Inc., where she stayed de ·ks of editorial assistants. for six year , editing such After Colby, where he books as Walter Dean heard a guest speaker talk Myers' Fallen Angels. a about publishing, Rider powerfu l -rnry about tried two internship in Viemam that is still ,·ery the field, one in the child­ popular. Bowen, nnw on ren's divi ion at Atlantic maternity lea\'e, supen·i ·e Rebecca Bancrnft '91 Monthly Press, the other at a raff of 12 and brings ortheastem University Press. "That was a pretty quick way about 0 new title through Henry Holt each year. he of figuring out that scholarly publishing wasn't for me," she credit- her Colby majors in Engli·h and art history with said. "There were children' l:xx1ks with great illustrations helping her as an editor. "I was taught to think critically and fun and humor, and scholarly publishing was sort of a and was trained well, and that s what I do," she said. narrow, pecialized field." he worked at The Harn Bookfor Asked about the future prospects for their industry, two years, in benveen jobs in Boston bookstores and an the Colbians note that children's publishing may be assi tant editorship at Knopf in New York. She -tarted at cooling off Breed reports that Little, Brown just weath­

Little, Brown in 1987, and now, as part of the deal she set ered the first round oflayoffs in company history; Feldman up that allows her to work at her home in Minnesota, she predicts that publi her will grow more selective as the is paid only when a project he works on is accepted by financial takes rise; and Rider says that as a virtual the company. freelancer, she's le willing to take on a risky project. Bowen was sharing a tiny apartment with another "The thing about publi hing is that there's no guaran­ • • Colby grad in ew York when she found a job as the tee," Rider said. "You don't know how something's goino assistant to the pre ident of Basic Books. The to tum out, and you don't know how something's work was clerical, she says, but

Haines Sprunr Tace is a fi-eelnnce writer in Waten•ille . Old Black Fly copyright 1992 by Stephen Gammell . Book jacket photographs by Warren Roos .

21 J A � l; A R Y I 9 9 4 C 0 l R ) NICK JANS SHEDS LIGHT ON A

BY STEPHEN FAST-DARKENING COLLINS '74 LANDSCAPE Looking past a row of Macintosh computers through a window in his junior high school classroom, Nick Jans '77 sees a middle-aged

Eskimo man on a ·nowmobile hauling a sled fullof dead caribou down the street. The view, he writes in his first book, The Last Light Breaking:

Living Among Alaska's lnupiat Eskimos, is typical of the incongruities of life in northern Alaska. "Satellite di he next to cabins chinked with mos ; racks of meat and drying animal skins by trim prefabricated houses; sled dogs and the latest high -tech-snowmobiles, VCRs and outhouse ; a tiny video arcade with a woodstove. It's as if you're viewing the aftermathof a violent collision between the past and the present."

Jans is both chronicler and participant in that collision. As a school teacher in Ambler, Alaska, he is part of the cultural clash between the

Stone Age and the Infonnation Age. As a fe llow hunter and gatherer with hi lnupiat Eskimo friends, he i an intimate witne s to the cataclysmic changes rocking their world. As a writer he observes two increasingly dear but endangered aspects of American consciou - ne s-native culture and what's left of the wilderness. Jans went to Alaska a "I used to write twenty-page decade and a half ago to papers when he wanted find adventure and was se­ five, and then he'd sit there duced by the land. lnsubse ­ and cut it to pieces and quent years he ha run a give me a B+. But I ended village trading post, taught up getting A's from him, by and coached in public god." In the process, Jans school , traveled some says, he learnedhow to ded­ 40,000 mile through the icate himself to writing. Arctic wilderness and "] haven't worked that learnedmany ofthe ways of hard since-not until I the lnupiat. wrote thi book ," he said, A few years after he took referring both to the year up re idence, Jans, who ha he spent revising old sto­ published es ays and poetry ries an

He was attracted to the courses taught by Professor of "I always knew I would go to Alaska; I had no idea I was English R. Mark Benbow, now retired, who emanated a going to live there," Jans said. pas ion for literature and whose exacting standards gave Jans chipped in his last $200 for a floatplane ride with

Jans something else to bang his head against. "I took Torres to the headwaters of the Kobuk River. The story of everything 1 could from him because he was such a hard their 700-mile canoe trip shows up in an essay called sonofabitch, because it was never good enough," Jans said. "Arctic Heroes." After detailing how they got duped into a

COLBY JANUARY 1994 24 heroic upstream ordeal and a herculean portage over the and Joe McGuiness's Going to Extremes, for example) is his Schwatka Mountains, Jans describes the descent down the residency. The difference between a New Yorker who visits Noatak River: Arctic Alaska for six months or a year and a resident is the We leanedinto our paddles and flew down the N oatak, fleeing diffe rence between impressionism and unsentimental real­ the pass as if it might rise up on its rocky haunches and give ism. "It's an outsider looking around saying, 'Jesus Christ, chase. With 300 miles ahead, we'd had enough . The country it's a bear!' instead of the more seasoned perspective of, had kicked our ass , pure and simple, and all we wanted now 'Well, there's a bear on that hill; it looks like a sow that was to get out before everything fe ll apart. Shoes , canoe and might have cubs nearby,"' Jans said. ankles were patched with duct tape , but that wouldn 't cover 'The landscape is so big. If you go up there without religion, the deeper damage . Peter and I weren't talking. you will fi nd it. If there is a god on earth, he lives in the Brooks A detour up the Ambler River in 1979 changed more Range, as faras I can tell," Jans said. The magical quality of the than just the two adventurers' route to Kotzebue Sound on primordial landscape has evoked fe ar and respect in the the coast. Passing through the Eskimo village of Ambler, Eskimos and in Jans. The natives have never lived in the Jans agreed to return at the end of his trip to run the Ambler mountains, he says; they only venture in and out. Away from Trading Post, owned by a non-resident from Holland. Jans the coastal villages, only 4,000 people live in the Ambler now lives in Ambler (population 350), 50 miles above the region, an area roughly the size of Maine. "A lot of my friends Arctic Circle and 200 miles from the nearest road. His have been attracted back (away from the Arctic ) by loneli­ writing describes early moments \.v hen he was ready to bail ness," he said. Bur for Jans, the lure of creature comforts, out and flee south, but it wasn't long before theland claimed professional opportunities, even human relationships that its hold on him and he saw signs of acceptance from some would be possible in the less isolated regions of the world of the villagers. cannot draw him away. Women have lefthim, he says, because What separates ]ans's prose about the Arctic from other they fe el he loves the landscape more intensely and genuinely popular accounts (John McPhee's Coming into the Country than he can love anotherperson-and he doesn't disagree.

Jans 'scanoeingpart:ner, Peter Torres '78, lines their canoe up the Ambler Rii1er into the Schwackn Mountains on the 1979 trip tlwt wok]ans to Alaska. 'The BroL1ks Range ready to faint from ex­ is a dream world," he hau�tion wh ile the said. "It's suspended . older women how no If a herd of mammoths sign of fatigue: came over the hill fol­ We continue, grad­ lowed hy a bunch of ually drawing in the guys wearing skin and net, fr eeing it from the carrying spears I would snags , scoo/)ing back not be urprised. The escaping fish . At last landscape has a Pleis­ we' re down to a few tocene look to it. " hundred lwlusraak (a "You can't know broad whitefish) and a the country, you can't dozen whitefish. Minnie know the animals, you In Jans' s j1mior high schuol classroom . st1tdents' hori�onsarc expanded beyond their snatches a fi sh bursting can't know the Eski- traditional /mi/)iat culciire. with roe , lifts it, and mos-j ust the way things are up there-without spending squeezes a cream of orange eggs into her mouth. a lot of time," he said. "I didn't fe el like I had any qualifica­ "Aaricraa l" (good! ) she exclaims , her lips glistening, an tions to write about it for seven or eight years. Even then I'd eggsw ck w her cheel< . Then she catches me watching her, and write something and look at it and say, 'Well, that's how I we both lower our eyes. "1 'm sorry t eat suvuks like that in felt then, but now I fe el differently.' Thing just don't hold fr ont of )'OU ," she says , embarrassed. still. That's why it ended up as a collection of essays." "No, no, it doesn't borher me," I re/)/y , but I know she While Jans write- with an almost religiou passion about doesn't believe me. I can't find the words to tell her why I'm the landscape, his stories about helping Esk im women net ashamed -it's not of her, but of my own squeamishness, of fish and about roaming the country with one of the fe w 1TI)' own inability to seize the land and suck life fr om it as it remaining hunter/providers explain just as eloquently why wriggles in my hands . he never returnedto the girlfriend, the law school , "the sort Perhaps the best essay in the collection are about ]ans's of life I'd been raised to live." friend Clarence Wood. A crusty, middle-aged Inupiat patri­

In "Black River Autumn" Jans writes about accompanying arch, Wood refuses to watch ba ketball even when hi sons two Inupiat widows to play on the high Jans pauses to talk with his friend Mark Cleveland, an lnupiat elder. ]ans 's their annual fall fish relationships with villagers have given him insights about Eskimo culture that he says school team, even camp. After a night of are not likely to come to transienc journalists writing about the Arcric. when the team wins stories about wolf packs, the state champion­ dog-sled journeys and ship. He clings to hauls of fish in years what he knows about gone by, Minnie Gray a good way to live and Sarah Tickett despite the tempta­ spend the next day tions of the welfare showing Jans how they state and the en­ seine the fish they'll eat croaching Age of during the winter. A Information. A suc­ they bustle back and cessful hunter back forth across the river, in the days of sled etting the net and dogs and snowshoes, skewering thousands of he i now armed with fi h, Jans realizes he's a high-powered rifle arrd mounted on a snowmobile. Jan describes Clarence to be a living museum while 1 teach his children to use computers Wood a "the ultimate predator, the apotheosis of Eskimo arul speal< sw1ulard English . hunting technology." ]ans's longing for that which is lost i neatly summed u�•, Their relationship is orre of master and apprentice, holy too, irr the book' title. He recalls sitting in Roberr Gille pie's n1an and truth-seeker. Jans help, Wood kill a wolf and poetry class at Colby reading Dylan Thoma for the fi r�t cheri he hi reward: a few words of praise and, ultimately, time. "Gillespie read the poem 'A Refu al To Mourn the a declaratiorr of re pect and fr iendship. Jan.s's reflections on Death of a Child by Fire irr London,"' he ·aid, quor ing: the hunt give one essay special re·onance: ei1er until the mankind making

Unlike some Eskimos who have come w regard a job in the Bird beast and flower cash economy as an end in itself, Clarence and others like him see Fathering and all hL1mbling darkness

such jobs as a means only : a means w li,ve up to the values of their Tells with silence the last light breaking. fa thers , who knew chac a successfu l man , a real man, was a "and I ·aid, 'Hold it, hold it, hold it.' And right then I skilled hunter . And Clarence's fa mily and relati11es (seemingly decided that I wanted to write a book called The Las e Light a quarter of the village) depend on che meat he prnvides­ Breaking, though I didrr't know \\·hat it was about. That caribou , moose , beaver OT bear--ac etiery meal . Quire simply, sounds apocryphal, that sound made up, but it just is true. '' these people would be impoverished

seTve as a land­ within these edd·y­ mark to guideus ina currents of home , orat least time , space and co mark our light; to them in­ rrail. Bue l have s i,1bs ranti a lit)' no right to ex­ �l'Gsn'taq11e ·rion , pect Clarence but a fa ce of life . GIFTS & GRANTS

Lee Family Endows 15th Faculty Chair - By Sally Baker-

n the four and a half decades since he 25 liberal arts college ], we've got to have 250 people; now it average about 150. arrived on the Colby campus, Bob some more endowed chairs," Lee said. "Things have been quiet ince the late Lee '51 has again and again proved "That's easy for me to unJerstand." 1980s because of the recession and the end himself one of the College' most "Colby was such a modest place in of the Cold War," Lee said. "But I think we ardent supporters. A a student he 1947," Lee said. "We had four buildings learned before then, anyway, that there playedI freshman basketball, served a. were diminishing returns when we got manager for the track team and as a too big." Increasing the size of the com­ coach for the interfraternity basketball pany could have taken a toll on his program and was sports editor :if the family, and that was a price he ays he Oracle. Since graduation he has been wouldn't pay. active in alumni organizations such as "You really ought to do quite a bit to the Boston and North Shore Colby keep family together," Lee said. "Don't Clubs, the Greater Boston Alumni As­ let your bu iness 01 your ambition run sociation and the "C" Club; he was co­ ahead of your family." chair of his class's 25th reunion, chair Lee' job is four part organization and of the Alumni Fund, Boston-area leader one part cheerleading-he's well placed of the Plan for Colby and national at the head ofa labor-intensive company leader of the Colby 2000 campaign's that relies on its ability to keep employ­ special gifts phase. He has been a Colby ees happy. As he takes a visitor on a trustee since 1975 (save for a hiatus factory tour, Lee stops here and there to from 1987 to 1989), and has willingly­ speak to someone at a workbench. Lee even cheerfully-put in hundred of describes his style as "paternal"but nods hours as a member of the Trustee Plan­ when someone else uggests "humane" ning Committee and on last year's might be as good a word. College governancepro ject. He steered Lee's community involvement i pro­ two of his three children, Peter '80, digious, and he pent much of his mid­ now a lawyer in Yarmouth, Maine, and and four million dollars in the bank when career years stumping for small business Sally '84, who works at MIT, to the Col­ I was there. Now we have forty-fourbuil d­ rights as a member-and president-of the lege and did the same for many high ings and one hundred million in the bank. Smaller Business As ociation of New En­ school students in his native Danver , We've all seen this incredible steep curve gland and as a delegate to various Congres­ Mass., as an alumni interviewer. of improvement and a commensurate level sional and White House conference on Only Bob Lee could top himself-and of excellence in the faculty and the kids the topic. Ten years ago Lee began jazz he has. At the October trustee meeting, who get in. We've had three great presi­ pianolessons-he plays inacoupleofbands, President Bill Cotter announced the estab­ dents, and there've been no disappoint­ he says-and he's helping to produce an li hment of the Lee Family Chair in English, ments, no nonsense." opera based on the Sinclair Lewis novel the College's 15th endowed professorship Lee is pre ident of Hotwatt Inc. in ElmerGantry. and the 12th to be fundedsince 1989. Danvers. He started the business, a manu­ Lee says his volunteer Colby work has a Lee's wife , Jean, a 1989 graduate of facturer of heating elements for machin­ practical as well as a generous side. "All of Gordon College whose education was in­ ery and appliances, with his father in these [duties] brought me into new Colby terrupted by child rearing, agreed that the 1952. Two years later, the company moved communities," he said. "While they were family hould fund the endowment, and fromthe basement of the family home to diffe rent classes-and all were task-ori­ he cho e the designation-English, her a larger building, and in 1962 Hotwatt ented-it was fun doing these things with major at Gordon. Bob Lee had hi reasons, bought its current digs, the former Stan­ ColbypeopleandhavingnewColbyfriends. too, for making the million-dollar gift. dard Crayon factory just offDanvers' main I think it made up for the gaps here. This is "I believed Bill when he said that if square. Orders for Hotwatt's resistance­ a straightforward business, and I'm good at we're going to compete with that gang of based heating units, which are used in it, but it's not enough. I think Colby fills twenty-five colleges that he brings up all everything from toasters to aircraft,poured some of the gaps-just being close to some the time [U.S. News & World Report's top in. At one time the company employed cerebral things." +

CO LBY JANUARY 1994 28 BOOKS & AUTHO R S ta@Hi� A New Focus on Fathering - By Robert Gillespie -

he experience a man bring· ro hood as "a place to learn, not a place to riety of ource , including Shapiro' experi­ this job is outdated, appropri­ perform"and aysthat"There maybe ubtle ence. The temptation i to jump ahead to ate models to guide him are deficiencies, imperfec tion that can be cor­ the ection on bad fathers and good ones, scarce and the goal of the job is rected with insight, practice and a few good but every paoe nudges your attention, to make himselfob olete. The model ." As he helps father become aware whether it's explaining the impact of your questionT is, why do o many men---eagerly of the personal hurt and rejection of boy­ father on your own fathering or wh your and earne tly-take on the nurturing and hood that they tend unconsciously to pa father wasn't more like your mother. socializing re ponsibilitie of fathering7 on to their children, hapiro celebrates the Despite the occa ional remark point­ A generation ago, write clinical ingout the ob\'ious-"childhood p ychologi t and profe or Jerrold i a training program for inde­ Lee hapiro '64 in The Measure of a pendent adult life" whose goal is Man: Becoming the Father You Wish "adult intimate relationship "­ Your Father Had Been (Delacorte this isn't omething we've read Pre , 22.95 ), the American father before. For one thing, literature was the family' distant breadwin­ on fathering skills only began to ner, its financial and moralsupporter, appear in the 19 0 -among and had no contact with pregnancy them hapiro's own When Men or birthorcare. lfanyone wa faulted Are Pregnant: Needs and Con­ for children' developmental, psy­ cerns of Expectant Fathers. And chological or behavioral problems, de pite ome similarity to other it was mothers. Today, ocietyfault books concerned with the im­ the fathers-" cruel, abusive, ab ent, portance offamily hi tory in adult foo lish, rejecting, capegoating, al­ live , The Measure of a Man i coholic, unfeeling and narci i tic not a self-help popular psychol­ father ," hapiro writes. Mo t fa­ ogy book about addiction or ad­ thers try hard, he believe , to give dictive personalitie . In hi themselve to work, to their wives profe sional counseling, hapiro and to their own father as well as to ays he deals mostly with people their children. But for many, in their 40s and 50s who "have a parenting till takes a back eat to lot of ego trength. I want to ee other re ponsibilities. what the strength of an indi­ hapiro i a licensed clinical psy­ vidual are and work with that. I chologist, family therapist and pro­ e chew one- ize-fit -all therapy." fessor of counseling psychology at Lifelong fathering is life long anta Clara Univer ity in Califor­ learning. Offering insights into nia. At age 38 he became a father, different periods of thefather -chi Id and he calls that the signal event of relationship, Shapiro ranges over his life. Twelve-year-old Natasha Jerrold Lee Shapiro '64 characteristics that children need and five-year-oldGabriel have given to learn froma father, like team­ him a "much greater sensitivity to men's brotherhoodof fatherhood. InThe Measure work, elf-trust and courage ("One of the i ues and a much better understanding of of a Man, he becomes a guide, a training places that fathers mo t need to how cour­ family life ," he aid in a recent interview. partner forfathers who want to be better at age is with their wives," he writes) to the hapiro' di covery that "As a father I the job. new behavior a father need to learnonce am more connected to mankind, to my own If only because everybody had a father, the children leave home. Looking at that fatherandto the future" underlies the book's it's likely you can fi nd omething of yourself longest period of fathering, which ends di cussio of good and bad fathering and or your own father here. The MeasuTe of a only with the death of the parent or the the insights it offersabout fathering today. Man is chock full of case hi torie and child, he ob erves one father letting go too hapiro counsel an approach to father- interviews and examples drawn from a va- easily, another unhealthily hanging on.

29 )A UARY 1994 COLBY And once the children are on their own, It' no longer just your own children, it's ages us only to bond with wives. We do he writes, a father faces questions that are children in general. You start hu banding most of what we do in isolation [so] a sense entirely new even in a 30-year marriage: the world." For Shapiro, it meant a change of connectedness i very important. Our "What can a man learn about fathering in philosophy toward "doing things for the friendships are crucial." Whereas women during the launching tage? Who he is future more than for the pre�ent" and trying a sume that men together talk only about alone. Who he is with his wife. How to he to "make a contribution to the world." At women, he say , the three main topics in a man without being a father." home it meant " wanting to give time to my men's groups are friendship, isolation and A divorced fathers struggle with sepa­ kid and to make sure they got it." Mak ing relation hip with their fathers. ll1ese re­ ration, trying to make the time and money time for his family has meant that he no cu1Ting topics he believe� speak to the im- for the children they love, they portance of men in men's lives. often form new fa milies. Step­ "The more we can communicate, parenting, Shapiro argues, adds to the more we get a �ense of com­ the normal difficult ies offathering The Measure of a Man, munality," Shapiro said, then quoted because all stepfamilie are bu ilt a line fromthe book: '"Intimacy is the on a foundation of loss. "And as a only antidote to mortality."' culture we're uncomfortable with the next best thing to "ll1 is," he said, "i the guiding tepfathers and stepmother ," principle in my life." The Measure of a Shapiro explained, cit ing tereo­ Man is written in that ·pirit. types of the sexual[y abusive step­ therapy, will To the person whu �rill blames hi father and wicked stepmother. father, Shapiro, who �ay he often Shapiro's understanding of the reassure you that no u es computer metaphor , remarked, stepfather's outsider status and the "Your hardware isdetennined but you difficulties faced in allocating time can do a lot with �oft ware." There are to children and pou e combat matter what stage or thing you will nut be able to change, these stereotypes and make The he ay , but blaming your father isn't Measure of a Man a significant ad­ condition of fathering the answer. "If you get into blaming, dition to the literature. Perhaps you have to reject all ofhim,"and that the best counsel the book offer mean "you have to reject part of ' . . stepfathers is that given by the you re m, you are not m yourself. It's important that we for­ eight-year stepfatherwho posted a give. Not that we forger. Forgetting letter on an electronic mail board can be dangerous. I'm not going to to men who were excited about it alone. forget that my fatherd1J such and o. becoming husband and instant I'm going to accept the fact that hedid stepdads: "run, don't walk, to a the be the could. The crucial truth i coun el or before the problem · to find ways of seeing what there is of come up." Shapiro believes that with longer , chedules evening therapy sessions, you there [in your father] and what you therapy a man can be a better father to his and he gets up early to see hi children off to want to make peace with." children than his own father was to him. school-he recently stopped by his son' The Measure of a Man is probably most The Measure of a Man, the next best kindergarten class to play the auto harp and beneficial for those whose children are thing to therapy, will reassure you that no teach them some songs. in the roddler-to-adole cent rage and matter what tage or condition of fathering The Measure of a Man devotes that same dealing with identity and eparation, but you're in, you are not in it alone. You're in kind of personal attention to the individual it' for father in the po t-launch rage, the same boat with lots of other father - father and to the hundred powerful forces too, a well a divorced, single and non­ one that has a keel and a rudder, the ort of working on him at once. Reading the book cu tod ial fathers. It's the ort of book to help that come from a upport group. If will tir memories and incite reflection on look into again five years from now. A confes ion is good for the soul, snippets of current relationships. And listening to the father and child grow, different model conversation, revelations offear and ad mi - troubles aired by the ons and fathers who or advice grow more pertinent. Reading sion of inadequacy bolster the spirits of came to Shapiro for help is, finally, socially and rereading will reorient and reassure other . With greater con ciousness and beneficial a well as personally instructive. you that fathering, never easy, was well understanding of the perils of fathering, This is an upbeat book. Shapir comes worth the connection. Shapiro ays, fathers can improve. 1l1e across a one of those remarkably sane, "Being a parent is hard work," Shapiro proof i the "electric charge" of love that caring people that you want to call up and writes. "A combination of factors helps u leaps between a man and his child. spill your story to. endure it: biological drive , cultural dic­ hapiro believes that many men reasse s He has an observation about that, too. tates, discipline, loyalty, guilt, and most of their priorities once they become fathers. "Ourculturedoes not encourage male friend­ all love for the child. A man who desires to "They give up skydiving or race car driving," sh ip," he explained, adding that neverthe­ be the best possible father needs to access he said. "ll1ey're vulnerable now. They're less he is till in contact with his Colby the love feelings within and learn how to responsible, and that changes everything. roommate once or twice a week. "It encour- express those feelings to his children." +

COLBY JANUARY 1994 30 MUL E S 0 E M 0 v E ~ Four Fields of Dreams - By Mike Szostak '72 -

t' 90 minutes before kickoffon a ixth consecutive Colby-Bate -Bowdoin then it' all busine . At 11o'clock he \rnlks gray October aturday, and the only football championshi�l have returnedto to the fieldhou e, which is on the edoe of ign of life at Seaverns Field is a few Waterville to check out thi New England campu , to get raped. At 11:3 0 Thomp on parents and children trolling aero mall College Athletic Conference grid­ sits in on a meeting. "If you're not into it the track towards the 22nd annual iron juggernaut. then, I don't know if you belong on the ColbyI Crafts Fair in the fieldhou e aero To my plea ant urpri e, the day be­ field," he ays. the street. come an all-sport adventure, because When the game tart , Thomp on con­ No tailgaters grilling steaks. No lines at Colby and Bate are playing important centrates on his assignment . Colby's of­ the ticket window. o fen e has struggled to marching band perfect­ score thi ea on, o the ing a halftime how. pre ure i on. Thi i how I remem­ Chuck's parent•;, ber football at Colby Tom and Ellen, ·it in College. When I wa a the old grandstand and student here 25 years cheer for their son and ago, it wa low ke . hi teammates. Something to do on a "My dad has a pretty aturday afternoon. A loud Yoice. I can usually good way to fill the hour tell where they're ittino," between lunch and fra­ Chuck ay . If the game ternity partie . is going well, Thomp·on To ay the White check out the sideline Mule truggled would be scene. If not, he focu es kind. Ron Lupton '7 1 was on foo tball. a tar running back in Two hundred yards the late 1960 , but there fromthe qu ietof the foo t­ weren't enough Ron ball field, Colby is pro­ Lupton to make the tectinga 2-0 lead inmen' White Mules any good. soccer. I am tunned by Victory eldom vis­ the ize of the crowd. ited Colby football in About 1,000 tudent those days. and parents fill a mall All seats were free as the Parents Weekend crowd savored the traditional Colby­ Two decades have grand tand and 1 i ne the Bates clash on Seavems Fie/.d. Notre Dame's games draw more fans , buc the Colby perimeter of the field. lipped b ince I last aw spectators know they've "got something that's very special here ." a Colby game. In tho e occerha boomed at autumns my job has taken me to every games in men' and women' occer and Colby. Twenty years ago Colby men­ outpo tin the Ivy League andYankee Con­ women's field hockey. there was no women's team-played on a fe rence. I have at among 85,000 fans at Chuck Thomp on '94, a 6-foot, 3-inch, lumpy watch of grass that was a quagmire Penn tate and 55,000at Pitt, een Bo ton 242-pound offen ive tackle, begins focu - as oftenas it wa a occerfield. If four dozen College play otre Dame and covered THE ing on the Bates game Friday night. rudents showed up for a arurday morning GAME, Harvard v . Yale. "It's Parents Weekend, o it' a little game, that was a huge crowd. So it is time to come back to Mayflower diffe rent," he ay . "There are more di - Today, occer i a big draw. The Colby Hill and check out a mall college game. I traction . I have to focu . I'm more of a men are 12-1, playing fortheir be t record could have gone to Wi.lliamstown, Mass., cerebral player. From Friday night to game ever and a po t-season tournamentberth. or Middlebury, Vt., or Middletown, Conn. time I'm quiet. My dad ay it' the quiet Mark erdjenian was a three-time all­ Or dare I ay Brun wick, Maine. before the storm." Maine goalkeeper at Colby before picking But becau e Colby is playing Bates­ Thomp on wakes up at about 8:30 on up hi degree in 1973. Three years later he and beginningits quest for an unprecedented aturday morning,has breakfast at 10, and was back on campus as the White Mule '

31 JA UARY 1994 COLBY occer coach. He ha coached 11 winning tickets because there are no tickets. AJmi - week th inkingabout anythingbut the Bates teams, and in 1990 he was named coach of sion to all Colby athletic events is free this game. "I find myself not being able to put it the year in New England. An elementary year. Officials determined that the $8,000 out f my mind. It's such an exciting time school teacher in Waterville for 11 years, ticket revenue for football, basketball anJ for us," she says. Serdjenian now is an assoc iate dean of ice hockey just covered the co ts of print­ Desautel meets her parents early in the students at Colby. ing, elling and collecting tickets, o they morning. Then it's off fora bite to eat and "I have a Jifferent perspective as coach said the heck with it. her pre-game routine of listening to tapes than 1 did as a player. There's more fu ll­ A few minute before kickoff, tight end that inspired her high school team to a 16- ness to the day now," Serdjenian says. John Grady '94, helmet in hand, helps the 0- 1 season in 1991. "OneMoment ln Time" 'There' a realsenseofcommunity here. Colhy Eightsingthe national anthem. Then by Whitney Hou ton. "Desire" by U2. When we finish our game we'll walk over to he Jucks under the rope to join hi team- When the game begins, Desautel doesn't the football game or go back pay attention to the noise for the women's soccer game. from the 500 or so spectators, It's like a sports festival on "but 1 can hear my mom and campus," he ays. dad. I can hear my dad's bel­ Soccer is so big at Colby lowing. My mom's voice is so that there' even an intramu­ weet and quiet, but I can still ral league. Alumni interest i hear her 'Go, Dor!"' high. After Colby beat On the fo tball field Bates Bowdoin, Serdjenian had four is no match for Colby this me·sages from alumni on his day. Pacy Levine, Class of '2 7 answering machine. and 87 year old now, finishes Colby hangs on for a 2-0 his andwich in the pre s box, victory.Thatnight SerJjeni<:m says hello to Athletic Direc­ and hi players learned that tor Dick Whitmore and care­ Colbyju tmi eJbeingnamed fu11 y descend the metal tairs to the NCAA Division lll to the ground. A few mo­ tournament but would play ment later, he is randing on for the ECAC championship the ·ideline. a the top seed. Pacyand hi brother, LuJy, Beyond the fieldhouse, Class of '2 1, are Colby's most which is being renovated be­ ardent alumni when it come Sarah Eustis (left) and fe llow sojJhomore Lauren Iannotti of the women's cause ofthe 1992 fire, the field to sports. They never miss a soccer team waited a year w gain revenge against Bates and fo und hockey team is working hard. themselves in a tense, overtime battle. game. Owner of a men's 1 mile. I know this field well. clothing store in town, they In 1969 this was the freshman baseball mates for the opening kickoff. have upported Colby ports for more than field. I can still see the mounds of snow pi led "Bet that doesn't happen at Notre 70 year . The football scoreboard at one high in right field as we played our game . Dame," assi tant coach Dick McGee aysof end of the field and the track scoreboard at Now it's the women's softball and field his singing football player. the other bear their names. hockey field. Title IX at work. FourminuteslaterGradycatche a touch­ "There's nothing like a Colby-Bates or About 100 parents and friends sit and down pa s, and Colby is on it way to a 2 7- Colby-Bowdoin game to me," says McGee. stand on the embankment. A father shouts 0 first-quarter lead. "When I tarted coaching at Colby in 1967, encouragement to hi daughter. I head back to the soccer field for the we played New Hampshire and Northeast­ Colby wins, 2-1, and finishe the sea on women's game. ern and Springfield and Maine. I could 7- 7, a nice rebound from 2-10 in 1992. Dori De autel, a sophomore sweeper have beaten them all, but if I had lost to I walk back to the football fi eld, which on the women's soccer team, played on Bates and Bowdoin, they wouldn't have has come to life. Bate is going through four consecutive division championship meant much. its pre-game drills. Colby specialists work team in high chool. She ha waited a "I read in Sports Illustrated about how out at the other end while the rest of the year for thi day. Florida and Georgia have the greatest cock­ team stretches beyond the beautiful all­ "Last year it was virtually the same tail party in the country. I read in TheBoston weather track. Rap music rolls out of the situation. If we beat Bates, we'd have a Globe about the tradition of Harvard and loudspeakers affixed to the three-0tory fairly good chance to make the ECACs. Dartmouth. But to Ludy and Pacy Levine, wooden press box. We lost, 2-0, but individually I played my to Dick McGee, this is the same. We've got Students and their parents wander by as best game," she says. "Thi year, we can't something that's very special here in Colby­ if the football stadium i their turf as well. let the same thing happen. Thinking about Bate -Bowdoin. CBB." At Colby, it is. the Bates game has been a way to psyche And competitive ? Yes, indeed. In the A few early arrivals ecure eats on the myself up for other big games." mid-1 980 , when McGee was AD and 40-yard line. They don't bother checking Desautel ays she has had trouble this Colby's football team was terrible, Bate

COLBY JANUARY 1994 32 had a good year. The Bobcats beat the And so it is again on this afternoon. late 1960s. The football team is 4-2. Mules badly. At the half it was 35-0. That timeless ritual of parents, relatives On the soccer field, tl1e Colby women "l was sick to my stomach. 1 wanted to and friends mingling with football players play hard but lose, 4-3, in overtime. Tii.eirS- leave, but we had to stay to show support," on the field after a game occurs. Colby 5-1 season is finished. Dori Desautel hugs he says. celebrates a 53-14 win, the most points her parents and tries to smile through her McGee is still so wrapped up in football the White Mules have ever scored in a tears. She knows she will have to replay this that on Saturday he wakes up at 5:30 in the game. Chuck Thompson poses with his Bates game for another year. + morning-"! can't sleep," he says-and father so a friend can catch them on a arrives on campus early. video camera. Head coach Tom Austin, "After the game, it takes us a long time Dick McGee and the rest of the coaches A longer version of this article originally ap­ to eras the field to the fieldhouse. Then shake hands all around. A half dozen peared in the ProvidenceSunday Journal, where I begin to see people l haven't seen in a players run up to Roberts Union and ring Mike Szostak is a sports writer and columni t. long time. And l talk to parents, alumni, the Paul Revere bell, a tradition observed The article is reprinted with the permission of family and friends." ni.oreoften in the 1990s than it was in the the Provi.dence ]oumal-Bullecin.

� Sports Shorts � Quarterback Matt Mannering of With its top five runners finish­ Walpole, Mas ., threw a record five ing under 19 minutes on the 3.1 mile touchdown passe in the football course, the Colby women's cross victory over Bate and set a season country team finished second in the mark with 12. In a season in which New England Division III champi­ the outcome in four games came onships, a race won by enior Mich­ down to the final play, the White elle Severance of Topsf ield, Maine, Mules were tied by Bowdoin for the witha l 7:26time. Seven membersof CBB title and ended up at 5-2-1. theteamhelpedColby finish 12th at Co-captains Sean Devine of the NCAA Divi·ion Ill champion­ Waterfo rd , Conn., and Brian ships in Grinnell, Iowa, marking the O'Sullivan ofMarlboro, Mass., and first appearance of a Colby team in fellow senior Rich Wagenknecht NCAApost-season action since the of Ellsworth, Maine, were named to NESCAC banon team competition the ECAC Divi ion III all-star team. was lifted. Severance finished 14th Wagenknecht was also named to to earn herfourth traight All-Ameri­ the New England Football Writers can honors in cross country. Division 11 and Ill All-Star Tearn. After po ting a 13-1 regular sea­ En route to their S-5- 1 record the son record, t�e Colby men's soccer women's soccer team set records team added three more wins and a with 40 goal scored and eight shut­ tie to capture the ECAC post-sea­ A thousand fa ns watched as (top to bottom) Josh outs, and senior Megan Fitzpatrick of son Divi ion Ill tournament. Radoff '95 , Brian Rayback '95 and Bill Lanagan Glastonbury, Conn., ended her ca­ Sophomore Marc Small from '95 made it a team effort against Bates . reer as the second leading points Acton, Mass., was the leading corer corer with 16 goals and 18 assists. Dori Desautel of Barrington, with eight goals and three assists while the defen e yielded R. I., was named to the All-New England team. only 10 goals all year. Senior co-captain Pat Skulley of Wakefield, Mass., and Ethan Spencer of Mar hfield, Mas ., The men's cross country team fini hed fourth in the New were selected to play in the New England Intercollegiate England Division llI championships, paced by the seventh­ Soccer League's all-star game, and the team received tli.e place fi nish of senior co-captain Brian Carl on of Jericho, Vt. NEISL's 1993 Fair Play Award forthe third time in the last Carlson earned All-New England honors and an invitation to four years. Skulley was named a first team Division llI All­ the NCAA Di vi ion III championships, where he ran the five­ American and received All-New England Division Ill hon­ mile course in 25:56, good for 44th place. ors along with Small and Spencer.

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Lovej oy Scholar Is a Dream Corne Tr ue - By Stephen Collins '74 -

fter spending the ummer King Jr. luncheon for two years. A helping to build andbag Robinson ay� she was all set barricades in the Mi is ippi to go to the Univer ity of South­ River town of Alton, Ill., the ern Illinois at Carbondale when College's fir t Elijah P. Lovejoy Charlene Cannon approached Scholar arrived on Mayflower her about the Lovejoy Scholar­ Hill last fall hoping "to do great ship. Though he ays she wa things at Colby." apprehen ive about traveling Crystal Robinson '97 say that 1,400 miles from home for col­ aside from a temporary loss of run­ lege, a visit to the campus last ning water, she and her family pring convinced her that didn't ufferin the flood that de- "it would be terrible for me to troyed many riverside towns last pass up the opportunitie at summer. Working downtown for Colby. I fell in love with the the Mercantile Bank in Alton, campus and the people. I felt however, she aw major damage in right at home here." the bu ine district de pite the Robinson aid Alton children andbagging efforts. "We all learn about Elijah Lovejoy be­ pitched in," he said. "ltwas amaz­ ginning in grade chool and that ing to see all the Altonians com­ hundreds of the town's residents ing together like that." tum out for an annual memorial That community pirit ha service at hi gravesite. "We learn helped to keep the memory of about him, what he rood for and Elijah Pari h Lovejoy, an 1826 what he died for," he said. "It Colby graduate who is recognized makes it special for me to carry a America's first martyr to free­ his name-to be the first." dom of the press, alive in Alton. A couple of weeks into her And the link between the lllinois fir t eme ter, Robinson, who al o town and Colby brought Robinson i a Ralph]. Bunche Scholar, had to Mayflower Hill. already been cho en as a member Ten year ago the Lovejoy Committee administers the J .L. Cannon Memorial T ru t of the Colby Chorale and elected vice at Colby cited Jesse Lundun Cannon of in lllinoi , said this fall that fulfilling her president of chemical-free Marriner re i­ Alton forhi s extraordinary commitment to hu band's wi h was a life goal and that he dence hall. She also i serving on the maintaining Lovejoy's gravesite. Cannon invested considerable time and effortfind­ board of directors of the Student Associa­ was honored at the 1983 Lovejoy Con voca­ ing "the right tudent-someone academi­ tion. In the classroom, a course on global tion for his work founding the Lovejoy cally worthy who was physically and emo­ perspectives on race, gender and class Memorial in Alton and his 38 years of tionally suited" to Colby. with A sociate Professor of English Phyllis service there. Cannon's widow, Charlene Robinson fit the bill. She graduated in Mannocchi had her most excited. Cannon, recalls the occasion as "the proud­ the top 4 percent of her class at Alton The journey from Illinois to Colby est day of his life." High School. She was student council netted Robinson more than a couple of While visiting Waterville and the president her senior year and senior year­ prestigious scholarships. She also ended Lovejoy homestead in nearby Albion, Can­ book editor and worked with the Alton up with an adoptive grandmother in non remarked that there should be an Alton Growth Association on a major fund­ Charlene Cannon, who remembers teach­ student at Colby. From that uggestion was raising effort for a local social service or­ ing Robinson' mother, Minnie, in third born the Elijah P. Lovejoy Scholars pro­ ganization. She was vice president of the grade. "I just hope I can live three more gram foroutstanding tudents of color from youth chapter of the Alton NAACP and years to see her graduate," Cannon said the Alton area. Charlene Cannon, who chaired the community's Martin Luther with a laugh.

COLBY JANUARY 1994 34 Colby Phoners Ring bad that I was only a fre hman. But I've 10 list; he sent a check. kept her name." "] wouldn't do thi job if I didn't believe In the New Year All phoners receive a pamphlet with in the cau e. Plu , l get a lot of enjoyment guideline that hould be followed during out of talking to some of the alumni," said tarting thi month, one of the key the phone conver ation. Most say they Cicely Finley, a senior anthropology major component of Colby' annual giving read the in tructions and then do what who is pre ident of the Colby chapter of campaignS begin as student phonathon feels natural and works best for them. All Society Organi:ed Against Raci ·m. "It's workers gather on the second floor of the are prepared to fill alumni in on Colby interesting. The older alumni have a lot Eusti Admini tration Building to share news, and they agree with Tilander that more time to talk and will tell storie�. The pi:za and oda-and to reach out to alumni. the response from alumni is generally younger alumni Jon't ha\·eas much money ll1e annual giving to gi\·e but really want staff hiresabout 35 stu­ to hear about what's dents each year to call happening on campus." alumni and ask for con­ Glockner said talk­ tributions to the Col­ ing to younger alumni lege. From January can be "a reality check." through March, they "It' hard rn call work the phone five someone for money day a week for three to and ha\'e them tell ynu four hour a day. they just got laid off nr "Most everybody lost their job orju st had know people don't a baby or are till pay­ want to receive un­ ing off school loans," solicited phone call at aid Glockner, who is their homes in the new ed itor at The evening," aid A oci­ Colby Echo. "It scares ate Director of Annual the heck out of you re­ Giving Nina Tilander, al i:ing that you are go­ who coordinate the ino to be where they phonathon. "But alum­ are in a few years." ni receiving call from Other expres: awe student - oon to be at how well Colby Colby grad -is really alumni do after gradu­ beneficial to the pro­ ation . " eeing the sta­ gram' uccess, and the tu of some of the Cicel)'Finley '94 (second from left) helps her fe llow Colby students call alumni from overall re ponse from oraduate i kind of en- the phonathon's Eustis Buildingheadquarters . the alumni i po itive. couraging," aid Larry A lot oftimes, along with their gift,alumni favorable, though they do receive some White '96 of Jay, Maine, a math and will end a note saying how pleased and blunt refu al , and once in a while a pro­ computer cience major. "You can gauge impre ed they were with the tudent." pective donor hangs up on them. where people go after Colby. It' nice to "Once I wa talking to a recent alum The students say many alumni want to find out the possibilitie and where a who had ju t graduated from law chool," know about sport core , about the Colby education can get you." aid Patri.ck Smith, a senior from Old weather in Maine (u ually if it i nowing Involvement in the phonathon al o Saybrook, Conn. "When I told him that yet), how campus ocial life is nowaday , seem to foster a ense of obligation to I wa intere ted in going into law he gave what the tudents are doing forfun, what Colby among the future alumni. "I am me all thi great advice-which areas of classe they are taking and what various definitely more apt to give money now," law to tay away from, which chool to profes ors are up to. Finley said. "I would ha.Ye given anyway, look at, the name of profe ors to talk to. One alumnus told Smith he wouldn't but being a worker with the Alumni Fund I really enjoyed the conver ation. He was give Colby any money until mith found has been good. I ee where the money we really helpful." out how the men' ba ketball team had receive goes, what it does for Colby and Whitney Glockner '96 of Wood ide, done the night before.A few phone call how the money is put to work. You can ee Calif., recall the time hecalled an alumna later with the previou night' core in it every day in the tudents. Everyone here who happened to work in an industry that hand, Smith called the alumnus back, is sub idized in ome way-the new build­ intrigued Glockner. " he aid he would reported the score and got the pledge. ing , new faculty, the library. We wouldn't et up an interview for me if I wanted Another alumnus challenged Glockner have a lot of thi tuffif we didn't have the one," Glockner said. "It wa great help to give him "ten good rea on " to donate money coming in from the alumni." ju t talking with her. It wa kind of too money to Colby. She ranled off her top- -Lynn utlivan ' 9

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the death of her father, Everett end Harold F. Lemoine '32 has de pairs that her long list of memo­ Correspondent: Arnold Fransen '26, on May 19, made eight trips to Australia and ries, many of them amusing, will be 1993, at age 92. She wrote, "] 40 trips to England and has forever lost, now that Marjorie wanted you to know how he loved preached at St. Paul' Cathedral in Gould Shuman '3 7 has retired Fletcher Eaton '39 Colby. His (Colby) stories were London ....EllisM. Anderson '33 from the proprietor hip of this col­ 42 Perry Drive bound Jes·, and h seemed rogather quotes a wise man as saying that umn. Fear not, Mrs. Darlow, this Needham, MA 02 192 renewed energy in telling them. when you look hack on your life, columnist positively dote on 617-449-1614 Hi idea of Heaven included im­ the things you regret are not the memories. end them along. ages of Colby." For her next re­ things you did but the things you . Mitchell E. Phillips '38 was an union, Myra Stone Knofskie '28 didn't do ....Portia Pendleton insurance broker for 45 years bur Note: A dearth of material leads to wishes 'That everyhody will have Rideout '34 is rhe mother of rwo has been retired for three years and thisshorrest ofall 50-pluscolumns. a grand rime vi iting. Peo/J/e are grandfathers, which is a neat way i moving rather carefully the e Thought for the day: Send Fletcher more important than places ." + of saying that her children's chil­ days following by-pass surgery in something to write about. dren have children ....Elaine December 1992. When up and Stafford, daughter of Charles O. about, he is a volunteer at the THIRTIES Pearson '35, called to report the hriners Bum In titute in Bo ton, PRE ..TWENTIES Verna Green Taylor '30 writes: "I death of her father on September where children up to age 18 are Charles Kyes, son of the late Eva am a 50+ alumna! Can't be pos- 8, 1993. Mr. Pearson wa a upervi­ cared for, courtesy of the Shriner , Macomber Kyes '13, reports that ible!-Teachers I'll never forget: sor at the Bendix plant in Spring­ with no expen e at all. . . . ome his son, Randy, and Randy's wife, Dr. Julian 'Judy' Taylor and hi· field, Ma s. Heissurvived by arwin people procra tinate a lot, but I am Kelly, recently becan1e the proud Latin classes. From him I learned sister, Alice, and rwosisters, Theda proud to ·ay thar I, Fletcher Eaton parent of a on, the great-grand­ the qualities of a superb teacher. I and Loi . Other urvivors include '39, and wife Nell finally got around son of Eva, whom they have named shall neverforgetJudy'squiet ques­ rwo children, four grandchildren to being grandparent on Septem­ Colby in keeping with the family's tion: 'Miss Green, do you consider and two great grandch ildren. ber 28 when urdaughrer, Martha, proud relationship with the Col­ that an adequate translation ?'Then "Colby meant a lot ro him," said presented the families with a cute lege over the years. + there was Carl Weber, who devel­ Elaine ....Our love and concern little bundle named Marie Nell oped my love for Browning and are extended to Amy H. Thomp­ Laposata, named after both Shakespeare. Still in memory l can son '36, who writes from Las Vegas grandmothers . . ..Leila Ross TWENTIES walk the old campu and chat with that she i retired and handi­ Hyman '39 planned to leave for Elsie Frost Rapp '26 recalls her old friends." ...The Very Rever- capped ....Peg Libby Darlow '3 7 Russia and the three Baltic tare wonderful classes in German and Latin with Dr."Dutchie" Marquart and Profe sor Julian Taylor. ... Going against mosr of the com­ NEWSMAKERS ments I have ever heard, Edith "Duckie" Grearson Money '26 George H. Hawes '28, a co-founder of the Waterville Boy Club in 1924, wa guest speaker at the ays Dr. Herbert Carlyle Libby '02 Waterville Area Boy and GirlsClubasanumberofareacitizens were inducted into the club' HallofFame. was "a cruel man who made fun of Several Colby alunmi were among the inductees ....Ralph E. Delano '40 wa Colby' delegate ro the shy student ." One day in 1924, inauguration ofNannerl Keohane as president of Duke University. according to Mrs. Money, Hilda Worthen '24 was late for a class being taught by Dr. Libby. On her MILEPOSTS arrival, the chairs were in a semi­ circle as Dr. Libby had arranged Deaths: Vivian Skinner Hill '16 in South Portland, Maine, at 100 ....Harold E. Hall '17 in Auburn, them, but nor a seat was empty. Maine, at 98 ... . Howard F. Hill '18 in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, at 98. ...Martha Gregory Shibles '19 Spyingachair in a far corner,Hil da inSouth Portland, Maine, at97 .... Madeline Beach McEwen '23 inNorth Conway, N.H., at92. ...Em.iJy pulled it over to the far side of the Barrows Bellows '25 in Scarborough, Maine, at 90.... Malcolm E. Bennett '25 in Sanford, Maine, at circle where the W's sat. Admon­ 90 ....Dorothy Steinert Sims '28 in Santa Barbara, Calif., at 88 .... Bertram Harding '30 in Keene, .H., i hed Dr. Libby: "Mis Worthen. at 86 ....Anna Tinkham Otis '33 in Tarpon Springs, Fla., at 83 .... John J.Alden '35 ln Portland, Maine, Proper young ladies do not drag at 81. ...Boris "Bert" Sherman '35 in Silver Spring, Md.... Joseph Chandonnet '36 in Bedford, Ma ., chair acros rooms." Replied Miss at 80 ....Clarence E. Staples '38 in Lewi ton, Maine, at 78 ....Robert S. Winslow '38 in Yarmouth, Worthen: "If there were a gentle­ Maine, at 78. . . . Edson R. Small '40 in Watervllle, Maine, at 7 5 ....Lubov Leonovich Waltz ' 41 inExeter, man in the room, I would have had N.H., at 73. no problem." ... In a loving note, Barbara Fransen Briggs '49 reports

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o something you've always want- began to "dry up," he ay , he moved to "D ed to do" was the advice Fletcher Polaroid in Cambridge, Mass. For 12 year Eaton '39 says he was given when he re­ he worked as a mathematical modeler, tired in 1982. "SoI bought a typewriter," writing pecifications involved in quality he said, "and tarted trying to write." control testing and analyzing Polaroid prod­ Colby's new 50-plus correspondent, ucts by computer, in particular the revolu­ who reports on the doings of some 1,800 tionary SX-70 camera. alumni of the cla e of 50 or more year­ "Polaroid said, 'Let the public find our ago, ay he ha enjoyed writing since he what wa wrong, then we'll fix it.' l didn't was a youngster. After a 3 3-year engineer­ agree," aid Eaton, who fe lt that the peci­ ing career whose "main preoccupation fications he wrote weren't being followed. and breadwinner" was mathematical work Hi pucki h humor invites hi mock elf­ and computers, he has now accumulated as essment that "nobody ever take me a five-foot . helf of books on writing. seriously." But he says he worked hard at Eaton say he felt encouraged about Polaroid and was able to predict problems taking on the corre pondem' du tie after with film and cameras. "l got a lot of pinch-hitting when hi predece sor, credibility because my predictions came Marjorie Gould Shuman '3 7, took time true," he aid. "I could al o show them off to get married. He also prai e hi what to do to fix the problem." Harvard night chool writing cla e and lluoughout his career he had powerful a writer group that hasmet every week for tool tosolve omeextremelycomplex prob­ years at the home of Sally Aldrich Adams '39 ("We inflict each lems, says Eaton, who brushed up on advanced computers at Northeast­ other's creations on ourselves," he said). Eaton's fondne for anec­ ern University, where he earned an M ..in mathematics in 1972. dote and history spurred him to edit the Class of'39's 50th reunion "I find thatalmo t anythingyou learnat school can be put rouse," book. And 12 years a secretary of his graduate school class at MIT he added. He recall a Colby geology cour e with Professor Richard also have kept him writing and in touch with engineering, too. Lougee and biology classes with Profes or Webster Che ter, which he Eaton tarted his engineering career with a po tgraduate year at ay gave him insights that "heightened my enjoyment of life." Colby tudying physics, chemistry and math to prepare him elf for Other illustrious Colby name Eaton knows of through hi father, MIT. World War II diverted him to Vought- ikorsky Aircraft in Harvey Doane Eaton, Class of 1 7 and a Colby trustee, who, Eaton Stratford, Conn., where he worked on the Corsair fighter plane. aid, "knew them all-Libby, Wilkin on, Averill, Julian Taylor. Afterhe completed his B.S. at MIT in 1949, Eaton spent fouryear They were all friends." As 50-plus columni t, he hope to relate perfecting a top- ecret German-made cryptographic device for the anecdotes about memorable profe sors as well as other new , uch as National Securiry Agency in Washington, D.C. When British pies a report on the 90-year-old who got her driver's licen e renewed and Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defectedto Russia and tookwith drives to the opera in Bo ton on weekends. them everything they knew, he aid, "All my work on that encrypt­ "Her handwriting was absolutely perfect," Eaton said, speaking as ing machine went down the drain." the appreciative columni t who delights in the latest word and rou es Eaton spent the next 15 years as a mechanical engineer at 50-plusers to get in touch o he can write it up. It' something he's Raytheon Co. in Wayland, Mas ., leadingagroup thatde ignedand always wanted to do. made gear trains and electronic packaging for military radar equip­ ment. Aftersolid-state circuitry appeared and his work in gear trains -Robert Gillespie

on October 7. Last year she went to next customer when a formidable recently lost their husbands.... nouncement I received: "The 20th Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. looking woman approached. One of the casualties in the Bartle Maine was one of the mo r colorful (Note: From what I can tell, Colby "Mardon me padam," aid Ernie. of the Wilderness in Virginia dur­ and courageous regiments in the needs an Association of Circum­ "May 1 sew you to a sheet?" Pausing ing the Civil War was Pvt. William Federal force , and Lamson's let­ navigators.) + for a moment to examine Ernie, P. Lamson of Sebec, Maine, great­ ters portray the simple soldier's view the lady aid, "I beg your pardon, uncle of Jane Soule Engert '42. of service and survival in such a young man." "Right this way," said The letters he wrote to his sister, remarkableunit." . . . BobRice'42 FORTIES Ernie.On hi return,Ernie moaned: wife ofJonathan Soule, Colby Class says that the two-page typewritten Historical note: Ernest Marriner "That wa a dumb stunt. I fe el of 1857 and Mr . Engerr' wear­ instructions on "How To Climb '40 has had a distinguished career, stupid. I'm going out and take ar­ grandmother, have now been col­ Florida's Highest Mountain," by filling important po ts with dis­ senic." "Don't take arsenic, Ernie," lected and edited by Mrs. Engerr's Nancy Grahn Christensen '44, tinction and dignity. Back around I advi ed. "ltrastes terrible and will husband, Roderick M. Engert, a are hilarious.... A recent i ue of 1937, I had the honor of serving up et your stomach." "Okay. I'll retired military historian. Titled Colby tated that the granddaugh­ with him as an usher at the lecture think about it," said Ernie.... A The Civil War Letters of Pvt. Wil­ ter of Marlee Bragdon Monroe series put on by Dr. Libby in the card from Virginia Gray Schwab liam Lamson, 20th Maine Infanrry, '42 entered Colby in eptember Baptist Church on Elm Street '40 ays she recently spent two with a foreword by John J. Pullen 1992 ju t 50 years after Mr . Mon­ aero s from the Waterville Public weeks on Prince Edward I land with '35, the collection has been pub­ roe entered. otso, saysMrs. Mon­ Library. t one of the e affair , a former Navy friend and planned lished by orth South Trader's roe stoutly. "It was fifty years after Ernie and I were standing at the to go to Bath, England, to vi it CIVIL WAR, P.O. Drawer 631, I graduated." + head of an aisle waiting for our another avyfriend.All three have Orange, VA 22960. From the an-

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Vivian is in contact with Eugene Phillips, who now live in Correspondent: Struckhoff's wife, Norma, a tal­ Moorestown, N.J ., says rhat he and Correspondents: Louis M. Deraney ented artist, and has approached his spouse arc planning to attend her to draw an appropriate cover our 50th, and he looks forward to A� thc deadlinc for this for our reunion program. Norma vi iringonceagain with some won­ 1944 column approached, I will attempt to persuade "Struck" derful Colby friend of the early Louis M. Deraney 44 hegan reviewing the . '40' .... Please respond to any in­ rn attend our reunion ... George 57 Whitford rreer mail.Someoneatsomepoint asked H. Conley, who is now retired, quiries you may receive so your Roslindale, MA 02 13l for an add res on Ralph Braudy­ re;ide in Ell ·worth, Maine, and clas mates will know you are till 617-327-4486 and you know what? Over the span say · he enjoyed his one year at fu ll of vigor! Better still, don't of my reporring for this column, I Colby and was sorry not to have wait-write ro me. + 1945 received four postal cards mailed returned after his Army service Dorothy anford McCunn by R.B. from four locations-Lon­ during WW 11. George write, that Honey Hill Road don, England; Pari�, France; Lo; he is active in the UCC church Correspondent: Canaan, CT06 018 Dorothy Sanford McCunn 203-824-7236 Angeles, Calif.; and Hyannis, Mass. and volunteers at the food pantry. In 19 3, Ralph wrote, "I wa sad­ He stares that women' liberation 1946 dened to read that Ralph Collazzo has not affected his life "at all." Hazel Brewer Warren ['49] Nancy Jacobsen had died. He and I were great ...Barbara Blaisdell Libby en­ report that she finds her pals in school. He and hitchhiked joy her daughter's family, who now 4 5 time taken up with the 3627 orthlake Drive I Doraville, GA 30340 to Boston during a school vaca­ lives with her in Damariscotta, village beautification committee 404-934-9075 tion. By midnight we were in Maine, ince the demise of her inCenterville, Ma .,on CapeCod, Kennebunkport and slept all night husband. Barbara is a diahetic and where Hurricane Boh caused a lot 1947 in the back of a truck." From Lon­ need watching. She retired from of damage to the landscape. he is Beverly Benner Cassara don, he wrote: "] am staying in teaching and says he always felt also chairman of the tree planting RR 2, Box 116 London until mid-April absorbing liberated . ...Ralph Hilton spend committee, is involved with the Bethel, ME 042 17 culture and casino . I'm slipping winters in St. James City, Fla., and local hi torical society and helped 207-824-2957 over to Paris for a weekend to summers in Rochester, N.H. Ralph plan avillage walkingtour. AAUW sample the cuisine." Ralph, be sure i retired from educational sales for board meetings as well as bridge 1948 to be at reunion in 1994 ... . Janice Scott, Foresman & Co. and rays and tennis keep her from having a David and Dorothy Marson Toppin Lowell wrote from healthyplayingtennisandgolfand lot of free time on her hands. 41 Wood End Road Bridgton, Maine, informing me fishing ....Doris (Blanchard '45 ) . . . Louise Groves Holtan i cur­ Dedham, MA 02026 that he married Frederick New­ and William Hutcheson still re- rently living in Portland, Maine, to 617-329- 3970 ton Whittemore in February 1993. ide in Needham, Mass., where Bill be near four of her six children. Jan's children and grandchildren was recruited by one ofthe late Al Loui e taught school for 30 years 1949 were allgue t· at thewedding.Jan'· McCoy's football scout , who and spends her spare time sewing, Anne Hagar Eustis son, Peter Lowell, graduated from thought Hutch could fit into the reading, doing cro word puzzle 315 594 Mirick Rd. P.O. Box Colby in 1970, and his daughter football program at Colby, a in­ and traveling with her kids. Louise East Princeton, MA 01517 Adrian graduated in l 992. Jan is deed he did. He wrote, "I'm a ca­ comments that she really misses 508-464- 513 5 looking forward to our 50th. he i reer hu band married to a career the carefree day pent at Colby. retired from Fryeburg Academy and wife for48+ years." Bill brags about . In August, l visited with Bobbe working part time at St. Joseph's two knee replacements, which are Holt Sachs. We spent a great College. . . Joy Paddison Cook letting him play golf and even ome e ening together at her home in mforrnedme of the exploit ofBob squa h without pain. ...Alden Seattle, Wash. Bobbe and Don are DeConnier '43, conductor emeri­ Wagner is still living in Texas and looking great. They are happily tus, New York Choral Society, and fe els he has surpassed his limited retired and living in a hou e that fo1mer conductor and arranger for Maine expectations as to his future look out on Puget Sound and it Harry Belafonte,music d irecrorfor career but is below hi Texa ex­ gorgeous sunsets. Bobbe hears from Peter, Paul and Mary and com­ pectations. Wag does not trust the Millie chnebbe Riordan '48 as poser of choral, ballet and Broad­ moralityofpoliticiansburdoesrru t well as Fran Whitehill '48. Bobbe's way cores. Colby profiled him in the morality ofbig business in fund­ si ter, Beverly Holt Wiegand '50, the November issue . ... Vivian ing political campaigns.... Phil lives nearby. Bobbe alsohears from Maxwell Brown infonned us that Nutting, who has been in and out Lois Pinkham Bridge , Vivian James Ming, originally in our class, of hospitals, hopes hi · kidney Maxwell Brown '44 and Frances is '49. Hi wife had a stroke in problem improves o that he can Willey Rippere. Bobbe wa mar­ February and is recovering slowly. make the 50th. . . . Wendell "Bud" ried one month to the day after

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graduation, and �he hasn'tchanged historie of the region and i work­ three-story log cabin in the wood� cialist. Twoyear· agotheydid some a bit-still friendly and outgoing! ing with the Maine Department of to a three-room apartment in town, really serious tra,·elmg in an effort It's a real plea ure to find that after Conservation to ·et up an informa­ "but we ·till have deer 111 the side rn >ee the whole United State>. 4 year , we could pick up a friend­ tion center and museum. She has yard." he would like to hear new ...At this writing, I myself am on ·h ip exactly where we left been married to Lee for 42 years, of Georgina Gulliford Fielding. my \\'ay to make a presentation at off. ...Naomi Collett Paganelli and she ha a chapter in a poetry ...lfyouaregl1ingthrnughChina, the Assoc iation of Continuing wrote that last Christma she was book, Voices from \X'i t/un ....A Maine, look up Ben Bubar. He has Higher Education in Jackson, Mis,. heading for Hong Kong to visit long-time Washingtonian, Francis retired after 35 years a superinten­ I think we have no one from our with her niece and family. Follow­ Heppner has retired as an archivist dent and director of the Christian cla in that ·rate, hut I mu,r ,ee 1f ing that, the four of them were with the National Archives. He Civic League of Maine and as a the Alumni Office can provide a going to take a ide trip to l ndone­ and his wife, Jeanne, have had a legislative agent at the tate House. contact for me. P ..-You will all sia, which included a vi it with old ummerrraveling, and like so many • be receiving a new questionnaire. friend· living in Jakarta. On her of us he attended hi 50th high Plea e end me some interesting return he was to vi ·it a cousin in school reunion last year. It was in details of your lives. + Eugene, Ore., before returning to Hartford, Conn., where he also Correspondent: New York City. It all sounded very visited hi brother, George Beverly Benner Cassara glamorous. + Heppner '45 ....Many people Correspondent : have written that they enjoyed Welcome to Lynn Ma­ David and Dorothy Marson retirement more than they had an­ govern '90, who i the Corre pondent: 7 We want to thank all ticipated. With some of us, the jury 4 new assistant director of Nancy Jacobsen is still out. Betty Scalise Kilham alumni relations. I met her recently 4 8 the membersofthecl� say that finding a "meaningful" when I tooksomefonnercolleagues for their wonderful re­ Alert, you Florida activity and community invoh-e­ from D.C. to vi-it the campus. Great spon e to the questionnaire sent 46 people, it' party time1 ment made it ea·ier. Betty lead· a good luck to her in her endeavor . out in July. Wh ile we're certain 111ere are lots of you ew Hori:ons widows' group and Thanks to Mary Porter '88, who that most of you were brilliant stu­ we have not found yet, and we is al ·o a certified counselor with has moved to Portland ....I fi­ dent , we've come to the conclu- want you to come to the winter the Rape Cri ·is Center of Greater na 11 y caught up with Mary ion that no one majored in reunion. It will be a fine lunch on Lowell, Mass. She also majors in "Sunny" Ellison Leavitt.Her three penmanship--or is it penperson­ a Saturday in February or March in lunch! ...Nancy Parsons Fergu­ on are in Maine, New Hamp- ship? In any event, we respectfully Clearwater, Fla., with lots of time son is a busy retiree traveling tO see shire and Ohio, and she has three reque t that you print or type fu­ to talk. Contact Chuck '45 and children and grandchildren in grandsons. One son teaches com­ ture news since it really is quite Shirley Martin Dudley, ( 813) 7 26- Ohio, Florida and New Hamp hire. puter cience in high school and difficult to read ome of the 41 16, or write to them at 639-C She and Bob do a bit of foreign another i a computer expert at writing.... Joan Crawley Pollock, Fairmont Ave., afety Harbor, FL traveling, too-Australia, New Wright Patterson Air Force Base. a retired teacher (reading special­ 34695 .... Faye O'LearyHafford Zealand and Fij i! ...Now we all Sunny recently suffered a fallfrom ist and coordinator), and her hu - says she never expected to give a must write to Joan Dougherty which he is recovering so she can band, Joe, have five children and high schoolgrad uation addre but Rosen, P.O. Box 336, Nashville, get back to her favorite sport of six grandchildren. he write that enjoyed it. Faye is researching a I 47448 becau e, she ay , "Very bowling. end her a card: 21 she has traveled to Russia, China, history of the Allagash River, right little filters out here. Once in a Manson Ave., .:r-154, Kittery, ME Japan and Australia and next sum­ in her Maine backyard. She i in­ while we get a Colby game score." 03904 ....la lways havetogetback merplans tovisit ingapore, Dutch terviewing old timers to collect oral She and Sam just moved from a to Ray and Tossie Campbell Kozen Indonesia and Thailand. She's tak­ to find out what is going on. They ing courses and wims every day recently spent two week baby­ when she' at home. About Colby sitting three little grandchildren he recalls the mell of sulphur NEWSMAKERS while their folks were away. (Their (bad ) and the smell ofpi.ne (good). son is a profe sor of computer sc i­ From her dorm window she saw the Harold Joseph '44 was honored recently at the annual reunion ence at Ithaca College.) Come railroad tracks on the old campus. of the U.S. Army' 43rd Divi ion held in Providence, R.I. Jo eph ovember 1 they go back to Florida Her freshman roommate was served as a commander in the 43rd ....At a dinner in Boston, for ix months or so, but in Shirley Carrier Brown, and June White Rosenberg '49, president of Atlas Liquors, received Waterville they are involved with Wilkin on (hi tory) and Smith the food bank and with the three (art) were her favorite professor . the Israel Unity award from the food and beverage indu try division of State of Israel Bond . meals a day that are provided five Since the bigCalifomiaearthquake day a week at various churches. two years ago, all the rooms in their Tos ie ay thatColby'47er in the house had to be restored and the area get together for tailgate pic­ structure bolted to the foundation. MILEPOSTS nics at the football games and in­ A year later to the day they had vites anyone interested to get another earthquake, bll[ this time Deaths: William Finkeldey '43 in Hanover, N.H., at 72 .... infonnation fromher at (207 ) 873- "the hou e held." ...John Pincus Robert H. Carey '44 in Tampa, Fla., at 73 ....Irene Ferris 0522. Keep thi in mind for next is a translator/interpreter living in Martin '47 in Ocean Ridge, Fla., at 67 .... Henry P. Seguin '48 season ....I also got to peak with Los Angeles. He has fourchi ldren in Decatur, Ga., at 68 ....Muriel Briggs Pitrat '49 in Florence, Clayton Currier recently. He and and eight grandchildren. He re­ Mass., at 63. Pri cilla (Weeks) have moved members the old campus, Professor back to Newcastle, Maine (which Fullam, the railroad tracks and cold was Priscilla' childhood home), weather but say that he has never after 39 1/2 years in Plaistow, .H., been back to Colby. (Come east for where Pri cilia was a reading spe- the 50th,John. 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with the College and the experi­ bear when we come ro understand ence.) John travels to Europe two we cannot personally change ev­ or three times a year, is expecting erything." Thanks, Kay, for your Reunion Weekend his ninth grandchild and spent the loyal service to the College and our June 3,5, 1994 spring and summer working. (Me, class, your intellectuality and your too, John. Some of us haven't re­ friendship. + Celebrating are the Classes of '44 and '49 tired yet, but you can probably count those on the fingers of one hand.) ...Helen Knox Elliott lives Correspondent: Anne Hagar Eustis in Plymouth, Mass., with her hus­ ALUMNfTRAVEL PROGRAM BEING CONSIDERED band, Charles. She writes a "little bit of poetry for special events" and The news for the Class The Alumni Council is considering an alumni travel program. indicates that her Colby English of ' 49 is getting scarcer We'd like your comments about what would make such a major helps. She recalls the bus 4 9 than hen's teeth! I ride up and down the hill and cred­ think you must all need to be revi­ program interesting to you. Please take a moment to answer itsherColbyexperience withspark­ talized by a rousing class reunion. the following questions and return your response to Alumni ing her interest in teaching high Well, there's hope, for that is j-u-s-t Office, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901. Thank you. school English. She la t visited the around the comer! OnSeptember campus in April of 1993 and says, 19, 1993, I went to a meeti.ngofour How many trips do you take each year? "lmpressed !"Helen hadaluncheon classmates in Cambridge chaired for members of the Class of '48 in by class president Bud Nannig. At 0 1-3 more than 3 May. Attending were Peg Clark that time there had been a good How many of those trips are with a group ? Atkins, Mildred Hammond Bauer, response to Bud's first letter re: re­ 0 1-3 more than 3 Betty Parker Forman, Barbara union plans, with 35 classmates Bond Goucher, Donna Elliott planning to come and nine more Do you prefer __ a fully planned schedule? Harriman, Mary Conley Nelson hoping to be able to. Just to reiter­ some free time ? and Ann McAlary Sevrens. Joan's ate, the date are TI1ursday, June 2, re ent or anticipated travel is to 1994, through Sunday, June 5, What services could Colby provide that would make a Denmark, Sweden and Switzer­ 1994. You might want to consider Colby program attractive to you ? land . . ...Evelyn Helfant Malkin coming a day or two earlier and __ a Colby lecturer accompanying the trip writes fromWayland, Mass., where taking advantage of the Alumni she is an oncology social worker. Adventure Getaways. Last year's __ trips to areas that are more difficult to arrange Ofher five children, four are mar­ pre-reunion escapes included an all details covered ried, and husband Sid is retired. in.n-to-inn bike tour, whitewater __ They have a dog and cat but no rafting on the Kennebec, an island OR flexibility in arrangements longer have horses. Evie and Sid inn getaway and a windjammer __ optional tours in conjunction with the regular trip were atthe 45th, and it was good to cruise on the Penobscot. Lon and I see them once again. She, as many are all ready to sign up for thewind­ Other colleges report chat Alaska cruises and African of us do, recalls the Blue Beetle. On jammer cruise ! . . Nellie photographic safari are popular with their alumni. Please list a more substantive note, Evie writes Macdougall Parks writes that in three or more destinations of interest to you: that she is concerned about the June 1993 she and her husband, lack ofdiversity in ourstudent body Warren, visited Jeanne Pelletier and fe els that one that is more Sutphin and her husband, Hoyt, in heterogeneous is needed to better Glen, N.H., where they were vaca­ reflect the larger world. She ex­ tioning. You may remember that pects to go to Australia in January Nell and Jeanne were roommates to Kangaroo Island and Sydney. A for four years at Colby and "shared 19-person family reunion at her hilarious memories from summer daughter's place in Chesapeake Bay jobs earningColby tuition." Jeanne Other comments, ideas or notes to help us in our planning: in July was a recent big event. and Hoyt had pictures from arecent ... Kay Weisman Jaffe, our retir­ 1993 Caribbean vacation. Nell and ed class correspondent who set a Warren had just returned from an standard of excellence that we are Oregon and Nevada vacation .... I trying to emulate, revealed that am sorry to report that the Officeof she went to Boston's Girls Latin Alumni Relations has notified me School, which impre sed this old of the death of two of our class­ Thank you for your comments and suggestions. Boston English graduate! Kay has mates: Richard Walter Clare Jr. on three married kids and five grand­ April !5, 1993,and Donald Harold children. She says, "lf my golden Daggett on June 22, 1993. On this years continue as they have started, sad note, I close this issue of our it will befine-ju tsome achesand class notes ....Remember the dates Class year/Parents of ______pains. Theheadachesofchild-rear­ of our reunion, June 2-5, 1994. I ing are over, and the heartaches of shall look forward to seeing you Address ______the world become a bit easier to ALL! +

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1958 has twosonsanda daughter,age 9, ebrate all thi�. I spent a week in Correspondents: Margaret Smith Henry 7 and 3. Needle to say, holiday August on the middle fork of the 1304 Lake Shore Drive are busy for Bobbie and me." The Salmon River in !Jaho-also Massapequa Park, NY 11762 Pullens claim that retirement i all known as the River of o Return! 516-541-0790 that it's cracked up to be and enjoy I was part of the first-ever allwom­ 1950 skiing when they can take time off en's group to raft that particular Nancy Ricker Sears 1959 from the tree farm. Dick ends his river. It is a "technical" river. The 31 Sweetwater Avenue Ann Marie Segrave Lieber letter by saying that he hopes oth­ water is white. The boulders are ers will be prodded to write. (Just big. The solitudeof the deep can­ Bedford, MA 01730 7 Kingsland Court thought I would put that expres­ yon is beyond description. It was 617-275-7865 South Orange, NJ 07079 sive verb of his into print here.) quite a ride. My daily attire under 201-763-67 17 Thanks, Dick, your letter was the life vest and hard hat was my 1951 great. ...Short column, hart on long polypropylene unders topped Barbara Jefferson Walker news. Hope you will fe el ufficiently by my Colby Cla of'S l reunion t­ 39 15 Cabot Place, Apt. 16 in ·pired, prodded, whatever, to shirt. You have heard all this about Richmond, VA 23233 Correspondent: send a short note. If you've lost the me,because I had no news of you! 804-527-0726 Nancy Ricker Sears address, it is right here at the top of Please write. + the '50s. + 1952 Joan G�lden McD�r- Edna Miller Mordecai mott 1 living m Correspondent: 94 Woodridge Road 5 0 Norwood, Mass., with Correspondent: Edna Miller Mordecai Wayland, MA 01778 herhusband, Francis,who i aqual­ Barbara Jefferson Walker 508-358-5574 i ry assuranceengineer. What keeps This is my first solicita­ her young and active? Her third From my fe llow Virgin­ tion ofChristmas cards. ian Maury Ronayne of 5 1953 grade class, tent camping and a 5 1 2 If any of you have extra Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey dozen grandchildren. Sounds like Alexandria, l learned copies of your super-newsy Xmas 80 Lincoln Avenue enough, but not quite. Joan is also that Oscar Rosen, Ph.D. and pro­ letters, how about sending one to South Hamilton, MA 01982 involved with Pulse, the drug fessor of history at Salem State in yourclass correspondent? ... l've a 508-468-5 110 hotline in Norwood.... A terrific Massachusetts, also serves a na­ most tempting invitation to you all letter fromDick Pullen gives us his tional commander of the Atomic (but not all at once) from Louise 1954 currentnews. He and Barbara(Bar­ (Military) Veterans and as editor Ginsberg Hirshberg, who is a Marlene Hurd Jabar row) are retired in East Swanzey, of the assoc iation's newslet­ health/educator/counselorand runs 11 Pleasantdale Avenue N .H., and keep very busy on a 130- ter. ...After George Haselton a bed-and-breakfast called The returned from a geology-related WaterviHe, ME 04901 acre tree farm. Dick served the NestingPlace in Marblehead,Mass. cornmuniryofWindsor,Conn., for summer project in Idaho, he and There she facilitates workshops/ 207-873-4471 34 1/2 years as a primary care inter­ wife Priscilla Ford Haselton en­ retreats in stre management with nist. He was also on the senior joyed an evening with Edie 1955 Harris individually designed programs. attending staffat Hartford Hospi­ Edgerton and her hu band, Sounds good to me ! . . Betsy Ann Dillingham Ingraham tal and was school physician for Brad ....lc aughtupbyphonewith Fisher Kearney writes of a busy 9 Appletree Lane Loomi -Chaffee School. Bobbie, Jane PerryLindquist. It sound as family life and respite time cruising Manchester, ME 04351 who did her senior year at the though she and Bob are happily the Caribbean. The family actu­ 207-622-0298 Universiry of North Carolina and involved with a wide variery of ally weathered Hurricane Andrew also taught school there for two interests, activities and family. in those southern waters, where 1956 years, has kept her hand in educa­ Retirement did not slow them Betsy's 5-year-old granddaughter Eleanor Edmunds Grout tion asan active volunteer teacher. down, it just changed their noted, as assorted debris flew by, RD 3, Jones Road Dick continues: "Our two lovely foc us .... I have recently made a that it was her very fi rst hurricane. Gouverneur, NY 13642 daughters were born while I was in major transition in my life. I have "Mine, too!" says Bets.... Jeanne 315-287-3277 residency. Cynthia graduated from soldmy house, dispersed mostof its D'Wolf Gronquist and husband Colby ['77] and then became a contents among my three sons, Charlie have found a great way to 1957 respiratory therapist, which she rented an apartment and made a get out of the winters in Minne­ Brian F. Olsen does now part time. She lives in down payment for residency three sota.They have a daughter to visit 46 Washington Drive Colchester, Conn., and has two years from now in a brand new in Hawaii.... Anne Plowman Acton, MA 01720 daughters, 9 and 7. Sharon gradu­ lifecare cornmuniry. I feel good Stevens and husband Robertwere 508-263-9238 ated from UNH. She is now a about having taken charge of my headed fa rther north on a long­ housewife in Interlaken, N.]., and future and my final care. To eel- planned trip to Alaska .... Patty

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Merrill Pratt also reports a great and found a gocxl life." He contin­ ing ....It wa a great summer and rrip---to Hawaii, including riding Correspondent: ues, "I have four nice kids, seven my house kept me so busy, I wasn't the waves on a "boogie board." Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey grandchildren. I am now married able to venture far from Hamilton. Patty is still working as a consult­ to a nice college professor gal But Joey Leader Creedon wrote a ant and management trainer and HELPI I would like to (teaches nursing) and we have a short note to me, hoping I would be somehow finds time to work with hear from more class­ nice time together." He ays, "my able to join some Colby grad in inner-city kids and to visit 5 3 practice isa limited one and I pretty mate . Paul Dionne the Cape Cod area next summer. pnsoners ....Mort Guiney writes wrote a newsy letter from Ft. tock­ well do as I please. I spend a few ... I was notified by the Alumni from Paris---yes, France-that he ton, Texa . He says, "After gradu­ hour in the office an

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ronmental company in Massachu­ and the photographer, DennisTing setts. Her daughter, Jessica, a RJSD '60, is now a multimillionaire busi­ graduate and photographer, is a nessman and honored citizen liv­ singer and songwriter for Made in ing in Hong Kong. . ..Aubrey Wood, a rock band in Seattle, ''Bones" Jones is a retired attorney Wash . ... Lee Fernandez sent a and lives with his wife, Lois, in Does Your Social Winslow Homer portfolio (which We ton, Mass. Bones reportsthat is beautifuland much appreciated) he had a new and more severe of woodcutengravings. It has won heart attack and now operates on everal graphic design awards and one third of a heart-and is grate­ Security Feel is available at New England mu­ ful for that. Nevertheless, he and seum gift shops. + Lois, along with their three daugh­ ters and one son, took a trip around the world, and Bonesand Lois later Correspondent: went to Korea to revisit sites of his Less Secure? Ann Marie Segrave Lieber military service . ... Susan Carll Thomes was married in July 1991. Many apologies for As a result of the Tax Act . many _ _ She is an educational development 1 993 5 8 m1SSmg this space m speciali t living in Cape Charles, of our alumni and friends have seen the November issue. Ya. Her husband is retired fromthe the taxable portion of their Social Now that I have lists of deadlines military .... Tom Roy's wife, Jan, and other pertinent information, I was promoted toass istant vice presi­ Security payments jump from 50% to don't think this will happen again. dentof surgical services and special 85%. By contributing a dividend or Fortunately, I inherited someques­ projects at New Britain General interest-paying asset to a Colby gift tionnaire responses fromMarietta Hospital in Connecticut. His old­ Pane and will u e some of them for est son, Steve, an aviator for the annuity, you may be able to reduce the this column, as they still appear USMC, received two Navy com­ amount you have to send back to timely and reintroduce us to some mendations for Persian Gulf duty Uncle Sam without reducing your classmates we haven't heard from and made it through eight m nths spendable income. in a while .... Dick Campbell is a in the gulfunharmed. Tom andJan group vice president for Textron have five children, three of them Corp., in Providence, R.l. As of daughters who all married between In addition , you will be eligible for an February 1993, he and his wife, November 1990 and September income tax charitable deduction when Carolyne Jean, had relocated to 1991! Their first grandchild was York, Maine. Dick's oldest daugh­ born in March 1992. . . . Debbie you make the gift . And you can be ter graduated from McGill Uni­ Williams Pinkerton ha three assured that Colby will pay you (and versity and medical schooland is a grandchildren, who all live near your spouse) a guaranteed fixed psychiatrist in Ottawa, Ont. her m Tulsa, Okla. She received income for the rest of your life . . . . Nancy Derderian Bagdasarian her M.B.A. from theUniv ersity of has been collection coordinatorfor Tulsa in May 1992. She say the herfamilybu iness,Waltham Lime most interesting thing to happen Even more important, your gift will help and Cement, for the past three to her in the past 10 years was Colby remain one of the nation's years. She has acquired two sons spending 15 days in the Boundary through her daughters' marriage , Waters CanoeArea with Outward leading liberal arts colleges. Nancy's in July 1990 and Lee's in Bound ... . Jane Daib Reisman August 1992. Bothdaughters now plans to retire from her8:30 to 5 To learn how you can accomplish all live in Salt Lake City, necessitat­ job a supervisor of customer ingmuch traveloutWesr. ...Mary service for an insurance company this, and for a confidential example of Lou Storm Donarski has relocated and return to the world of volun­ the income and tax benefits available to South Salem, N.Y. The most teering. Like many others, she to you, please call or write: Steve interesting and satisfying thing for mentions the empty nest, grand­ Mary Lou has been learninghow to parenthood,seeing children happy Greaves, Director of Planned Giving , help her Down's syndrome daugh­ in their chosen careers, gaining Colby College, Waterville, ME 0490 1, ter, Amy, reach her goals. Mary sons and/or daughters th.rough Phone (207) 872-32 12. Lou ays she is sorting out the marriage of the children, travel and importantthings in life and enjoy­ reconnecting with Colby friends. ing them much more as a conse­ And also, like many others, Jane quence . . . . Leigh Bangs, who lives praises Colby for enabling her to in Carmel, Ind., is a chemist/entre­ learn to th.ink clearly and to ex­ preneurforhi own business, which pre herself. It looks asthough our he and his wife started about five fouryear on Mayflower Hill made Reunion Weekend years ago. In 1988 their three chil­ an impre ion on us that is life­ dren received B.A., M.S. and M.D. lasting, even though the campus as June 3�5, 1994 degrees. Leigh reports that one of we knew it has changed so very Celebrating are the Classes of '54 and '59 the usher at his wedding, Ted moc� + Lockhart '61 , is now an admiral,

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Man in the Middle

n hi fi rst two years at Colby, Anhur Goldschmidt '59 recalls, he misgivings about going to Beirut in 1957 when he realized it would had no interest in the Middle East or its people, whom he take him out of the line of succession to become Echo ed i tor his senior remembersI beingcharacterized as "crazy Arabs" by some of his fe llow year. Today he relishes his occasional role as a "DeepThroat" source New Yorkers. But thanks to a conversation with Colby President ]. on the Penn State faculty when students on the university's daily Seelye Bixler and a visiting lecturer from Princeton, Goldschmidt paperwant the inside story, and he's amused whenhe recalls his own spent his junior year at the American University of Beirut. His efforts to tweak the administration as a student journalist. career-as an academic Arabist-was sealed. "I remember Dick Oyer calling me in and bawling us out for Goldschmidt learned Arabic after graduating from Colby and publishing a letter critical of the administration," he said. ''We were then earned master's anddoctoral degrees in Middle East history from led to believe there were a bunch of mastodons who were Colby Harvard. He has taught and alumni who would stop sup­ studied in Egypt, Lebanon and portingthe College if theyread Israel and is now a professor of something they didn't like." Middle East history at Pennsy l­ Now, along with his wife, vania State University. As a LouiseRobb Goldschmidt'60, scholar and author of A Con­ he is a member of an alumni cise Hist.ary of the Middle East group that holds a different (the most widely used Middle view of the College. Even East textbook in the United though he has seen a lot of States), Goldschmidt is occa­ academe-as a graduate stu­ sionally soughtby the media to dent at Columbia, Michigan comment on developments like and Harvard universities and last fall's peace effort that as a professor in Cairo, Haifa brought Yitzhak Rabin and and University Park, Pa.­ Yasir Arafat to Washington. Goldschmidt's ideals come Goldschmidttakes a longer from Mayflower Hill. He view of Middle East develop­ ended up ata major university ments than do some political with 40,000students only be­ scientists and most journalists. cause he realized hisfield was "It was a momentous event," he said of the White House ceremony too specialized for a small college. The best he can do, he says, is to and the mutual recognition agreement between Israel and the Pales­ bring a little bit of Colby with him to Penn Stare, where he makes an tine Liberation Organization, "but I was very cautious at the time. I effortto personalizeeducation forhis students, emphasizing teaching was happy-I want peace to come to the Middle East; I was just and nurturing. He likes inviting students to his home for meals and conscious of everythingthat could go wrong." discussions and going with them to the library if they need help First published in 1979, Goldschmidt's text is Westview Press's learning how to do research. best-sellingride, and he revises it every fouryears. The U.S. attack on "Anhur never has left a small school-he tries to maintain that Iraq in January 1991 threatened to delay the last edition until the caringrelationship with students," said MarvinW einbaurn,a former quick resolution of the Gulf war in March of that year allowed the Colby professor who directs the South Asian and Middle Eastern presses to roll on schedule. For the next edition, Goldschmidt says studies program at the University of Illinois. "It's easy at a large that he plans togive "a lot of weight" to the current peaceefforts, since university to cut yourselfoff from undergraduate students, but he's they change "a lot of things I've said about the Palestinians and the just so approachable. I've watched the way the students flocked to Israelis being unwilling to cooperate." him, even in Cairo. Anhur Goldschmidt carries Colby with him As a student, Goldschmidt was a writer and feature editor for The wherever he goes." Colby Echo-an experiencehe credits with helping him learn to write clearly. He enjoyed newspaper work so much, he says, that he had -Stephen Collins '74

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THE SIXTIES

1968 puters at all when we were there. most enthusiastic about being an Correspondents: Mary Calabrese Baur His introduction to them was a overseer for Colby's science de­ 137 Lexington Road class trip from Colby to MIT to partments, where hi expertise was Dracut, MA 01826 work with a computer. Hi-tech has probably most helpful. The absence 1960 508-454-9733 verynlllchchanged . . ..Judy Allen of his intelligence and :est for life is Katherine P. White Ferretti called me from her office. a loss for all of us. . Finally, on a 1228 andringham Way 1969 She's executive director of the personal note, American Foll< Arc Bi.rmingham, Ml 48010 Anna Thompson Bragg New England College B ard in Canes: Personal Sculpture, which 313 -646-2907 P.O. Box 267 Waltham, Mas,,., where he both my husband, George Meyer, and I 1961 61 South Main Street lives and works. Her schedule of wrote, won an American Institute Penelope Dietz ullivan Washburn, ME 04786-0267 traveling and working makes it of Graphics award as one of the 50 11145 Glade Dr. sound as if she rarely is found at best books in the counn)' in 1992. Reston, VA 22091 home, but she love her job and the The book accompanied the ex­ 703-620-3569 many challenges it offers. . A hibit of our canes held at the De­ nice conversation with Peggy troit Institute of Art through 1962 Hibbard Miller included informa­ Thanksgiving of this year. From Judith Hoagland Bristol tion that she is married to a pedia­ December 12, 1993, through April 3415 unset Blvd. trician and is elling real e tate, 12, 1994, the exhibition will be at Hou ton, TX 77005 Correspondent: which is begi.nning to pick up a the Museum of Our ational Heri­ 713-667-2246 Katherine P. White little bit. They go skiing in the tage in Lexington, Mass. We will 1963 West every year and enjoy their be speaking there in March. Try to Barbara Hai.ne Chase While in Boston, your two grandchildren. She has seen come by if you are near. 11 Salisbury Road 6 roving reporter had a Carol Seaman McFarland and Sue Keene, NH 0343 1 chance to call ·ome Edmond Merrick. All the people I Correspondent: 603-352-9330 classmates for a little new . (You spoke with are considering goi.ng 0 Penelope Dietz Sullivan never know whom 1 will call next, to our reunion, especially if they 1964 so write! ) Barbara Blackburn know the rest of you will be Sara Shaw Rhoades Bagas teaches elementary educa­ there ....A visit from Peg Barnes Here isitonawarm ep­ 76 Norton Road tion and remedial math in Dyer's husband, Cal, brought new tember eveningrealizi.ng Kittery, ME 03904 Brockton, Mass., although she aid 61 that Peg has left her job i.n social that when you read tl1is 207-439-2620 that teachi.ngi not a much fun as service and all its bureaucracy and it will be after Christmas, and you 1965 in the past. Barbara, divorced for is working for Prudential Insur­ will have ent me ome new news Richard W. Bankart three years, has three grown kids ance in Terre Haute, lnd ....And for my future columns. (Right? ) I 20 Valley Avenue Suite D2 living away and is havingfun being Bob Hartman dropped in one day have a few more letters from the We twood, J 07675 on her own . . ..Marguerite Lerro on a sales trip through this area and last request but they have aged like 201-664-7672 Dole is a secretary at Harvard Bu i­ regaled me with tales of his career bad wine in my Colby drawer and ness School. She is married and changes. He's now senior account are no longer relevant. The follow­ 1966 topped working when they executive for F.G. Montabert Co., ing people, who have not been Russell N. Monbleau adopted their son but returned to which designs and produce the heard of lately, either need to end 3 Lovejoy Road work s ix years ago. She said she has mostamazi.ngvarieryoflabels. He's me their obits or news of what they Milford, NH 03055 a few gray hairs (don't we all?) and married, living in Glen Ellyn, Ill., are doing (or some friend of theirs 603-673-5508 had recently met Ann lmpey Reed and has been very active with the needs ro get them off the hook): 1967 and Bev Johnson Arnett for a chool board there. Both son are Jay Adolf, Carol Rancourt Ahem, Robert Gracia "girl night out" and "a few in college, which is keepi.ng Bob Stewart Arens, Peter Armstrong, 295 Burges Avenue laughs." . ..Jo hn Kellom i working hard ....And in my area, Pat Zapp Amott, Becky Bachman Westwood, MA 02090 "overbusy, underpaid" but very Gordon St. John is conti.nui.ng (whom I have tried to call everal with his love of hockey by coach­ 617-329-2101 enthusiastic about his computer times and would personally love to work in air traffic control for i.ng the port for Redford Catholic hear from), George Bagas, Dave Judy Gerrie Heine Raytheon. At present he i work­ Central, a class A finalist team last Bergquist, George Bitgood,Howie 21 Hillcrest Rd. i.ngon control systems for Norway year. Gordie is still CEO of Blatt, Si Blum, Margie Irwin Medfield, MA 02052 and India fHe joked that he takes Bosquette and Co. General Insur­ Boilesen, Lawrence Bois, Scott train .) John, married, lives in ance, ohewillbeverybusy .... All Brackett, Connie Collins Bren­ Harvard, Mas ., and has two kid of us were addened to hear of the nan, Bob Brown, Dave Bustin (both living away). We talked death of Charles Leighton. When and Sturges Butler. Look at that- about Colby not havi.ng any com- I last spoke with Charlie, he was 1 only hit the A's and B's. Write

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soon before you are publically good chat with her old (oops, says that she is most interested in Massachusettsand Amyi a opho­ exposeJ for not keeping your fo rmer) roommate, Heather housing for people with AIDS. more at the Univer ity of Maine. classmates informed! . . . Carol Campbell Camey, whose daugh­ Nancy uses her spare time to do Good luck, Marijane, on your new Davidson Jack wrote from ter attends Wake Forest. . ..Bill "creative things" I ike painting, sew­ life ....Tony Kramer is in real Hopewell Junction, N.Y., that she Bainbridge is a phy ician in ing and needlework- he recently estate, and his wife, Linda, is an has a granddaughter who i , by Malvern, Pa., where he is now an completed a set of 18 needlepoint energy executive in Burr Ridge, Ill. now, almost l year old (her empty nestcr,oohepaintsand build kneelers for an Episcopal church! Tony, you need to compare notes daughter's) and that her son was to ship models when he isn't sailing, Nancy has been a widow for a with Ron Ryan and Dennis be marrieJ in August. Shehas been hiking, camping or ph1ying tennis. number of year but ay that al­ Connolly since they also ha,·e the working part time and enjoying He has no plan to retire, as he though it would be nice tO have a littles and bigs. Tony has a son, travels to vi ·itrelatives,skiing, hik­ loves his work. . Debby Berry partner, the right one has yet to Tim, whu i:, a commercial airline ing anJ garJening . ...Hans Denniston has by 11l)IV received cnme

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new ....Dr. Lillian Waugh is in­ manuscript, now accepted forpub­ education cenrer, he, hi wife, daughter, arah ....Mi chael rerim co-direcror of the cenrer for licarion. He and Carolyn are plan­ Helen, and two children moved to Archer' que tionnaire arrived in women' studie at West Virginia ning a trip to the ovier Union orridgewock, Maine, ro a I 0- the "exotic" envelope from ao Univer ity. In the spring she re­ to gather marerial for yet another acre fann. Ar presenr Warren is a Paulo, Bra:il, where he i an ac­ ceived the Mary Catherine Buswell tory ....After 25 year of law of­ self-employed narurali t, environ­ count executive with AJams and Award, honoring tho e who have fice management, Virginia Baker mental educaror, landscaper, car­ Porter. He reports thar the work is soughr equality and ocial justice has tarted her own computer busi­ penrer, Christmas tree and maple stressful and exce ive, which i for women. Congrarulations, ness ar home in New Yark and syrup alesper on and operaror of a probably why his wife. Rurh, Lillian! ....Congr atulations, roo, finds it wonderful. he now can wholesale bait bu iness. He say he stare -and he agree -rhar he ro Ceylon Barclay on his recenr chedule her own time to read, ha no plan or time for travel-no doe 90 percenr of the work at marriage ro Carolyn, a "cham1ing quilt and enjoy her three fe line kidding! ....Ju dith Allen Aus­ home. Herding rwo young boy redhead and Peace Corp grad, companion ....Warren Balgoo­ tin owTI" a real estate bu ines· in couldmean alorofwork! ..Mary with democratic leanings," who, yen enr me two page of hi story Durham, N.H. In this area the Michelmore Ackerman-Hayes i; he writes, counrerbalances his rilr "from then rill now," which I hall market is till down, and tress is a reacher in Brardeboro, Vr., work­ to the righr. Ceylon recently re­ try to condense for publication. In high. But her children are all ing with a special population oi at­ turned to St. Augustine after five 19 3, after 20 years at the Brook­ through college, and now he and risk kids. he and her hu band, years in the We t Indies, where he lyn Botanic Garden, evenrually as oel, her husband of 32 year , are Don, live in a wonderful hillrop found rime in which to complete a director of their environmental enjoying travel and their grand- house, where sheenjoysswimmmg,

Front-Line Doctor

orking in what he de­ "Clearly, weare inas ituanon scribes as "front-line medi­ where everybody who come to cine"W as the acting chief of the our clinic will eventually die," infectiou diseases clinic at the Jensen said. "That's hard ." He Veterans Affair Medical Cen­ notes that unlike those elsewhere, ter in San Franci co, Peter C. his HIV patients are the ame Jensen '67 often find him elf age or younger than he is and telling patients the news they equally accomplished in their fear the most: that rhey are HIV profes ional live -but they are positive. "They a k, 'How long facing their mortality decades do I have?,' and I say I don'r al1ead of chedule. know, but their chance are "It's a very humbling experi­ grearer being hit by a truck than ence," Jensen said. "Here you're dying of AIDS the next day." confronted with omeone with "One ofthe things you learn," the ame aspiration you have­ Jen en aid, "isthatyoucanmake for theparent it' having kids, for patients fe el better in the time the architect it's a building, for they have left."Jen en ay he the artist it's your work, for the tries to encourage patients to teacher it's your tudents." move through the stages of denial, anger and depression unti I they Jen en ees hi work as an affirmationof why he cho e to become "get to the other ide" and begin lookingat their priorities in order a doctor: "to observe, comfort, upport, not always win, but ustain to make the mo t of their remaining day . people." But in a profession who e centuries-old tradition i to Jen en has seen fi rsthand the explo ive growth in HIV and provide the cure and care that will heal a patient, Jensen ay hi AIDS, ince he has worked in an Franci co ever ince hi mission is "very rough when everything you do ultimately fail ." graduation from Colby. His fasc ination with cience began with "People' resolve and personal trength is inspirational," Jen en high chool lab projects in Pasadena, Calif., grew at Colby as a aid. "It help us to keep our priorities traight." He also finds biology major in classes with Profe or A Han cott and flourished atisfaction in passing on hi knowledge to a new generation of when he returned west to earn hi medical degree at the Univer- doctors. "There's omething about eeing people grow and become ity of Californiaat San Franci co, where he has taught medicine more capable and pick up ome of the wisdom and kills that' very ince 1978. He even managed to do hi two-year avy hitch in gratifying," he said. A part of a elect group of doctors who have the Bay area. dealt with HIV-related i ue for more than a decade, Jensen Jen en recall that in the 1970 , when he wa honing hi kill provide guidance to other ho pita! around the country. in internal medicine, the field of infectious diseases was limited Jen en' wife, Bonnie, also is a doctor,but he ay they make ure mainly to pneumonia and tropical di ease . With the onset of HIV, to "leave the ho pital at the ho pita!" when they returnto their Mill he ay , the field "became more interesting and more demanding." Valley home so they can devote time to their three children and to Once patients with HIV began eeking help in 1981, Jensen aw activitie such as travel,backpacking, river raftingand kiing. And many of them because of the complication involved in their con­ while he says hi work affirmshis goal of helping people, it al o has dition . By 1985 his case load was so great that he began a special provided him a useful prescription that is more universal: "l have clinic in the hospital devoted to patients with infectious disease . come to value my life more, come to value my kid more and come Jensen and his taffregularly followabout 700 patients who are HIV to value the day-to-day hassles less," he said. po ttive, employing various kinds of medical trategies to care for them, including experimental program for about 20 percent. -Robert Spurrier

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gardening and walking in the wood · Drewes enclosed a new bu ines and meadows of rural Vermont. card for her "Only Originals"­ Being "neighbor:,," we :,ee each fresh ...sp )ntaneous watercolors. NEWSMAKERS otheroften, both prt)fcs ·ionally and She write ·, "After year of'getting soc ially. + around to it,' I'm finally pa inring Elmer Bartels '62 was one of 12 and selling'" Robbie i als an ac­ · o business and community leaders tive volunteer with a youth group recentlycirpointed to the board Co1Tespondent: at church. She �eesBill and Shirlee of trustees of Boston's Wang Cen­ Sara Shaw Rhoades Clark Neil frequently ....Myles ter for the Performing Arts ... Denny-Brown writes that he has Connecticut Secretary of State Afew quick lines tt) let "completed the Executive Poten­ Pauline Ryder Kezer '63 served you know that our tial Program of the Office of Per­ as keynote peaker at the Mid­ 64 group is indeed prepar­ .,onnel Management in Mmch '9 3, dle ex County Chamber f Com­ ing to assemble once again on the but have yet to see any new jobs. " merce's annual "Women a Inspi- st�P> of the Libe or under the lin­ Myles spent evening- la;t spring ration" seminar . . . . Jay M. Smith dens orin the warmth of the dining m written two books in the " pound-, the same asin co llege. . article on junk bond ....General manager of the Bo ton last fi,·e year and has been invited Jim Foxman has completed 14years Celtics Jan Volk '68 wa a member of a forum in th Tufts to be a guest on SallyJesse Ra/>hael. as a circ uit judge-State of Florida University Lecture eries that introduced students to Bo ton's The Today Show etc. plu being and was the highest rated judge in historical, cultural and ocial opportunities. Volk spoke on the featured in The New York Times a recent Bar As�oc iation poll. He advantages of living in a big-time sports town ....Bill Burges and Harper's Ba�aar. She writes, keeps active playing tennis. Hb '69 wa featured in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article on hi career " I t's a giggle!" + oldest son i · dean' list at the U. of a a pol itical consultant. Burge worked closely with current Florida Law School. ... Hail, Cleveland mayor Michael White in White's bid for the Colby, Hail! + office ... . Sari Abul-Jubein '69 and Bob Hark '69 were the Corre pondent: ubject of an article in the Cenrral Maine Morning Sentinel Richard W. Bankart dealing with reaction to the peace accords in the Middle Ea t. orrespondent: Hark, who is Jewi h, and Abul-Jubein, a Palestinian, were Russell N. Monbleau A newsy note from Lew roommates their fre hman year at C lby. "I thought ooner or Krinsky. The envelope later, our people would have to settle their diffe rences and find 6 5 l have seen the truth bore a re tum addre s of solution ," said Abul-Jubein. BATES-BOWDOIN-COLBY c/o 6 6 and it makes no sense. Krinsky, etc. eerns Lanky Lew Joyce and I now have runs an annual falldinner in Hou - two married sons-Gregg, our old­ MILEPOSTS ton for 50 or more local alumni. e t, wasmarriedJuly 23 in Warren, He's become close to a number of Mich., just north of Detroit. That Deaths: Fredric A. Bonner '6 1 in Manche ter, Conn., at 54. young people who are part of the was the fir tofrwofamilyweddings . . . Ronald G. Conn '62 in Marblehead, Mass., at 53. Teach for America program. Lew this summer, the econd being my says several recent Colby grads are niece's. Joyce has had four birthday in this magnificent program, which parties, three of them surprises for August. I do not want to speak to have had our 2 7 1/2 reunion during sends young men and women into her and the fourth a surprise for her another caterer for at least a Colby' Homecoming Weekend in inner city and rural schools for two twin sister in Arizona. We al o year ....Speakingofparties, Linda October. Linda also remarked that years and leads to a teaching launched my parents' surprise Mitchell Potter reported that by her goal forthe summer wa to lo e certification ....Robbie Gilson golden wedding anniversary in the time you read this, we should ome weight, but then she realized

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that what he gained over the win­ in the last nine months, she ays, Michael are in school at Mary ·ee l) ld friends and renew acquain­ ter was really just fat converted to she ha· converted from an ugly Washington and Trenton tare. tances. Our class officersare work­ heavier muscle due to an acti,·e hou e into a beauty-with her own Family and her profession are the mg \'ery hard ro make this reunion kiing ·eason. That's an excellent hands! Susan also has changed jobs, mainstays of ucce s for Sally. our.randing' ... Jeanne Bryant rationalization. It's what I used moving from the detox to the p y­ . . . Jeff Browning li,·es with his Stanwood and her husband O\\'n a when I went from a i:e 44 to a 46 c h ia tric unit of her ho pita!. wife, herie, in Bend, Ore., where bicycle shop in Castle Rock, Cnln. the year I built my hou e .... Erik . . . Tim "Tif" Crowell wins the Jeff is audit manager at a ski and Jeanne is also a part-rime 4-H Ex­ Thorson was fe atured in the ash­ mi sing per-on· locator award. Af­ ummerre ort.Jeff"daughter,Lisa, ren ion agent and has been a 4-H ville Banner as part of an article ter filling us in on the whereabouts is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, and leader for owr 13 years. Her family titled "Dear Old Dad," with the of Al Haughton, Tim write that son Erich is a sophomore at the claim six pack goats and "lots of empha is on "Old." A pec ial he aw Kip Coughlin and his wife University of Oregon. ln addition angoragoats." he also hast\\'Osons, Father's Day article focusing on (whom you will recall as the to his family and his work, Jeff Josh and Ben, to keep her mind how fatherhood comes later in life youngernur eat the RobertsUnion counts the beauty of his urround­ occupied. . . Another lady \\'ho today was quick to point out that infirmary). Kip, a la\\-yer in Bangor, ings as a ignificant aspect of his has spent a lot of rime with young Erik was a first-time dad at 48. lli.e has three daughter , one of whom succe s ....Georgia Bizios is a people is Susan Mathews Szyd­ color photo of Eric, son, and wife attended Colby. Tif adds that he profe sor of architenure and a o­ lowski. usan is living in Lebanon, Rhonda shows that they are saw John '66 and Betry avicki ciate academic dean ar NorthCaro­ Pa., where she has been a Girl cout all very photogenic .... Joan Carvellas '6 at a Vem1ont riding lina tare Universiry, where she leader for over 12 yearsand has two Manegold Dukes i now a volun­ event. Tif goes on to say that being runs into Sue Nutter, who is head troops. She also has served on the teer docent for second grader- at semi-retired, he find- time to sing librarian at the chool. he has board of the Lebanon Cowi.ryCho­ her local nature center. he writes in a barbershop quartet. Regretta­ designed and built her own house ral ociety for many years. Her chil­ that she didn't know what the kids bly, he did nor report hi secret and each ummer takes tudents to dren, Kristen and Ellen, keep her enjoyed mo t, discovering tadpoles, path to semi-retirement ... . Scot­ Greece for a "field trip." Her fre­ involved in numerou school ac­ observing a bird's nest or watching tie Brewer Brower \.vrite from quent trips to Europe have also tivities as well. No time for a mid­ Joan fall flaton her face in the mud, Vermont that this past year she given her a chance to keep in con­ life crisi ! ...John Burnham and although the latter was the only won an award for being the reacher tact with Colby foreign tudents his wife, Ann,are both invoked in time the kids were quiet. I think of the year in her counry, and she Francois Villanne Chotard, who the medical profession. John is an you already have your answer, Joan. was treated for breast cancer. uc­ is still in France, and Dorothy internist and Ann is a pulmonary She and husband George had re­ cess, she says, is the ability to learn Staehelin Rothenback, who now nurse specialist in Dalton, Mass. A cently returnedfrom their norkel­ something from wharever life end live in wit.zerland.... Next time year ago they adopted twin girls, ing adventure on the i land of you, awards or illnes . Along with you're at your nearest Towet Record Claire and Emily, from Bolivia. Guanaja offthe coast of Honduras. her husband, Robert, a \.\ffiter and store, check out the latest album John also has maintained a career in ...As lamin the mid tofunpack­ therapi t, Scottie lives with her on the SUB-POP label by a hot the Army Reserve and served in ing from the wedding and execut­ daughter, Caitlin, 16. Her step­ new Portland, Ore., rock group Gem1any during Desert Storm. For ing surprise parties, the column daughter, Pepa, lives in New York called Hazel. The singer/drummer hi community, John is the medical will be short this month. I am still City, and her tepson, Jo h, i in is Jean Howard Bleyle's daughter advisor for the local rescue squad, anxiously counting the returned law schoolin eattle.... Susan and Jody, 23, a graduate of Reed Col­ and he particularly enjoys working cla s questionnaires-hoping that Paul Cronin have been keeping a lege. Jean and her husband, John, with citizen volunteers ....An­ we do better than last year. Re­ do e eye on Colby ports as on who live in Westport, Conn., also other man who enjoys working with member, it's never too late to send Brian enters his sophomore year are the proud parents of Susan, 21, his community is Eddie Woodin. Ed one in. + on his dad' old turf. Like his dad, a recent graduate of Oberlin Col­ lives in Scarborough, Maine, and is Brian is a mainstay on the Mules' lege, and Allen, 13, an eighth active in the Maine Audubon Soci­ hockey team. Brian made Dean's grader. ...In ca e you've earned ety as a trustee. He leads five trips a Correspondent: List last year, and it made Paul your second million and you're year to view puffins and bald eagles Robert Gracia smile with pride that Brian didn't looking for a private banker, you and lectures to schoolchildren, gar­ follow all the old paths! Back in should look up Roberta Kochi, den clubs and bird club . As Eddie John Cooper write Saugus, Mass., Paul and u havean who loans money to the rich as a says, everyday is a gift, andhe enjoy from Saco that he i two daughters at home, Amy, 9, private banker in New York City. giving back a little and inspiring 6 7 and Erin, 6. Paul has taken on a . Plea e don't fe el that what others. It sounds as though he does the proud grandfather of Lauren Alexandra Cooper­ new challenge at work this year as you've done is not quite spectacu­ more than hi share! + Mullett. Grandfatherhood, he ay , he teaches in a new program de­ lar enough to contact us. We want has led him to feel younger and signed to address the problems of to hear from all of you (we're ju t more pry than in recent year . low motivation and poor academic plain nosey !) because the inquir­ John volunteers at hi local library performance in at-risk high chool ing minds of '67 want to know Reunion Weekend setting up a computer sy ternto Ii t students ....Sally Ray Bennett where you are and what you're the collection. Being excited about continues in her position as coun­ up to! + Class of '64 going to work in the morning and selor at South Kingston High. She June 3�5, 1994 being able to leave the work at recently completed work for a sec­ work count high on his list of uc­ ond master' degree, an M.Ed. in Correspondent: Class of '69 cess definitions .... Susan Finlay school administration from Provi­ Anna Thompson Bragg Chavez has had an interesting and dence College. Her daughter, Kirsti June 2�5, 1994 bu y year. With her two cats, one a Morin, has graduated from Mary The new year ha 16-pound beast that attract the Washington and will become the 69 started, andwe are even · attention of local authoritie , Su­ third generation of Rays in educa­ closer to our 25th re­ san has moved to a new house that tion. Twin sons Matthew and union. Start making your plans to

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1979 Warner Book and has had his in nature important for her own Correspondents: Emily Grout Sprague work translated into five languages. spiritual renewal. Living in 758 Gotham Street As a psychotherapist, he works Gardnerville, Nev., he's a elf­ Watertown, NY 13601 extensively with the terminally ill. employed contract book writer for 315-788-5 119 1970 He is dad to three sons, Michael, Wilderness Press and is employed Robin Armitage Cote 10, Gabe, 6, and infant David. a a geologist for the U.S. Geologi­ ...Congra tulations to Nicky 45 Hayes Avenue cal Survey. Her favorite mountain Pach. Beverly, MA 01915 After a tough campaign, she retreat is Snowpas , because it's Corre pondent: was elected judge of the family 508-922-8874 "multifaceted, wild yet accessible Robin Armitage Cote courtofSuffolk County,N.Y. ome and brings many fond memorie . " 1971 of her case will involve deciding ...Ruth Moore Bamingham and Nancy Hammar Austin Thanksforthegreat re­ whether to remove children from her husband, Steve, enjoy watch­ 29 Irving Street =5 sponse to the survey. abusive parent . he and her hus­ ing Mt. Man field from their vet­ Worcester, MA 01609 7 0 I've enjoyed reading band, Stephen Kunken, are par­ erinary clinic in Jericho, Vt. 508-797-47 11 them and now have lots of news to ents of two boys, Charlie, 9, and ...KevinJagl a, living in Portland, share. If you've sent yours along, be Jake, 3 ....Can you believe our 1972 Ore., with his wife and two ans, assured that despite a publication 25th reunion is coming up next Janet Holm Gerber Patrick, 8, and Jack, 3, recommends time lag and space limitations, too, year? We will be starting the pre­ Mt. Defiant for great day hikes. 11112 Broad Green Drive youmews will appear. If you haven't liminary plan and would love to Since Colby, Kevin has completed Potomac, MD 20854 sent news, what's keeping you ? have your participation and input. two master's degrees and is work­ 301-299-6240 ... Leslie Seaman Zema, hu band If you can help in any way, please ing as an engineer. ...You might 1973 Gary and 5-year-old daughter call or drop me or class president find Dr. William Johnson biking Margaret McPartland Bean Lauren live in New York City, Debbie Williams Anderson a note. at his favorite mountain, Camel's 131 Dudley Street where she is a dance teacher at Debbie can be reached at 95 Hill­ Hwnp, Vt., with his children, Todd, Presque Isle, ME 04769-2913 George Washington High School. side Ave., Melrose, MA 02 1 76; 12, and Lynne, 9. He' a phy ician 207-768-6021 Respondingtotheque tion "What 617-662-9490. My address and in Hampton, Conn.... Lee Faw­ do you remember when you think number are in the column at the cett, father of five-Chris, 19, 1974 of Colby?", Leslie said, "My room­ head of the clas notes. + Andrea, 17, Michael, 8, Jeremy, 6, Stephen B. Collins mate for three years, Kit Wells and Emily,3-hasremarriedand is RFD 3 Box 6600 Poland." Interesting-first on Kit's living in Palm Harbor, Fla. He en­ Oakland, ME 04963 listofmemories wasLeslie! Kit and Correspondent: joys the great kiing at Keystone 207-465-3870 husband Michael and their two Nancy Hammar Austin Mt., Colo ....FredCopithomand 1975 sons, Aaron, 11, and John, 9, live H. Stevens Borden think that Susan Gearhart Wuest in Madi on, Maine. Kit describes After recently having Denali National Park is a fabulous 65 Country Downs Circle herself as the Jill ofall trades, wearer enjoyed a fabulouslybril­ mountain etting, especially be­ Fairport, NY 14450 7 1 Linda of many hats. Among her "trade " liantsunset and simulta­ cause it's in Alaska .... 716-223-1967 she lists editor (as well as part-time neous full moon rising from Chester, a Latin teacher at writer, typist, assistant to the art Cadillac Mountain in Acadia Na­ Leominster High School in Ma s­ 1976 director and general gofer) of the tional Park on Mt. Desert Island, I achusetts, looks at mountains dif­ Noel Barry Stella school district newspaper. ...John agree with the Rev. Bert Brewster fe rently, I suppose. Her favorite i 28 Stuart Place Marriner checked in from North ofOakland, Maine, that"the beau­ Vesuvius in Italy-its 79 A.O. erup­ Wesrfield, MA 01085 Aurora, Ill., where he is a physicist. tiful ocean view" makes that a very tion was responsible forpreserving 413-562-5629 He and his wife, Ann, have two special place. I'm sure that Rich­ Pompeii. ...Other classmates have 1977 daughters, Wendy, 12, and Eliza­ ard Handel would agree. He and other news: Joan Alway has com­ Leslie A. Ramsay beth, 9 ....Fairfield, Conn., is his wife, Marilyn, are the owners of pleted her Ph.D. in sociology at 44 Appleton Street home to Chris Nahabedian Mark­ Eden Rising in the Mayfair Mall on Brandeis. She's now teaching at Manchester, NH 03 104 ley. Chris is an English teacher and the corner of Cottage and Rodick the UniversiryofMiami in Florida. department chairperson. Husband in Bar Harbor, Maine. When (Might be a nice time to visit her 1978 George Markley '67 is an attorney; they're not offon travels to Hong now!) ...Philip Byers says that Nicholas Levintow their son is a student at Tufts Kong, etc. (I expect in search of he's "chubbier, funnier and better 10201 Fore t Grove Drive University ....Our survey finally marvelous merchandise for their dressed" than he was at Colby. A Silver Spring, MD 20902-3949 caught up with Paul Roud in lovely shop) they are close enough lawyer specializing in divorce, he 301-68 1-3327 Conway, Mass. He lists his occupa­ to enjoy many pensive moments in lives in Andover, Mas . His oldest tion as author/psychologist. Paul the Cadillac Mountain area .... son, Weslie, is at Bates College; has recently been published by Andrea Eddy finds going out alone David is 14 and Jennie is 9 ....

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HEADLINERS Mara '76 was promoted to vice president at Gemini Consulting, where he specialize in integrating strategy, operation and manage­ The Boston Globe announced that Benjamin Bradlee Jr. '70 has been ment principles to help financial institutions achieve aggre sive named assistant managing editor for projects and investigations. He performance goals . . . . Norm Skaggs '77, who has secured several has erved as Globe political editor, national con-espondent, potlight fe ature roles in nerwork productions in the last three year , appeared reporter and member of the State House bureau ....Robert H. Saglio in the TVdocudrama "The Flood," a story based on flooding in south '70, president of Avian Farms International, was honored with the Texas six years ago ....Hi torian Alan Taylor '77 poke at Bowdoin Finance Authority of Maine' Entrepreneur of the Year Award. ln College in conjunction with Bowdoin' exhibition "The Legacy of eight years the company, a world leader in the bioengineering of better James Bowdoin lIL" . . . Douglas B. Light '78, assistant profe sor of chickens, has grown from four to more than 500 employee in three biology at Ripon College, has been awarded a 150,000 ational tate and does busines around the globe ....Thomas A. Silverman Science Foundation grant, the large t ever received by a Ripon faculty '76 was written up by Business Week as "the brains" of Tommy Boy member. He i re earching how substance cross cell membrane via Mu ic Inc. Known for its ultrahip rap music, the company, which has ion channels.... An article by Middlesex (Mass. ) News sports editor grown to 40 million in ale , i now entering the clothing market. Rus Lodi '78 paid tribute to the athletic career of his Colby teammateJim Hayes '76, who died recently. . . Waterville mayor David Bernier '79 was the subject of one of Gerry Boyle '78's NEWSMAKERS column in the Cenrral Maine Morning Sentinel. Boyle himself has been making new -with a fir t place award in the local column category in the annual writing come t of the ew England As oci­ Film and video maker Huey ated Pre ews Executives As ociation and with readings, signings Coleman '70 aided rudent film­ and reviews of his newly published mystery, Deadline. . . Paula makers in their production of a Polak Bartlett '79 has been elected to the board of director- of documentary, "Best of 15 Year : Catholic Charities/North,which -erve more than 35 communities . TheMaine tudent filmandVideo north and we t of Boston. Fe tivaL" Coleman erves as direc­ tor of the annual student event . . . . The Rev. John Lombard '70 recently preached his first sermon MILEPOSTS in hi new appointment a minis­ ter at the Trinitarian Congrega- Births: A son, Samuel Theodore, to Donald and Meredith Bean Eley tional Church in Concord, Mas . Dou!!las B. Light '78 '77 ....A son, Nathan, to David and Cathy Worcester Moison '76 . . . . Paul Spiess '71 has been named ... A daughter, Sarah Ann Elizabeth, to Donald and Nancy Garnett executive vice president and director of retail services at Cheshire Thomas '77 ....A on, Steven Delano, to Susan Wadsworth '77 Financial Corporation, a bank holding company headquartered in and David Bourdelais '78.... A on, Patrick Ziehl, to Trish and Keene, N.H ....Anne O'Hanian Szo tak '72, chairman, pre ident Robert Lizza '79 . . .. A on, ean Gordon, to Keenan and Katherine and CEO ofFleet Bank of Maine, has been selected by Senator George Bleakney Pawley '79. Mitchell to serve on the national Gia CeilingCommi ion, a federal panel that examine opportunities for women and minorities to Marriages : Paul E. McGurren '72 to Carol des Laurier Cieri in advance into management .... Railroad quare Cinema parmer Ken Lincolnville, Maine ....David R. Saccone '74 to Mary Anne Egan Eisen '73 and Gail Chase '74 were spotlighted in a MorningSenri11el in Manomet, Mas ....Gregory P. Jordan '78 to Elizabeth Thurmond article about the flourishing downtown Waterville cinema, which in Bridgeport, Conn. opened 15 years ago in a former beverage warehouse . . . . Henry Sockbeson '73 was profiled in the orwich (Conn.) Bullerin. . .. John Deaths: Carl M. lnsoft '79 in Boston, Mas� .. at 37.

Thank to the great response from make electric motors, including parallel to de ign hi tory and criti­ the recent survey, I have too much Corre pondent: fan motors. TI1e company made it cism, and I am writing a book on new . But that's no excuse for not Janet Holm Gerber through the summer of 1992-the the Ghent Altarpiece-and la t sending back your form.I will men­ coldest in 100 years-but he' hop­ February traveled to Belgium to do tion everyone, I promise. Until next DanaFittshasn'tfound ing for hot weather. He recently research." . . . Cathie Joslyn has time, I'll do e with news from an­ his glasse yet, and Joe traveled to Spain and also chaired been elected chairman of the art 7 Benson still wan ts to the annual fund for hi high chool department at her college in Penn- other cla mate who never left 2 Maine, Richard Abramson. Liv­ know who dented his red Maver­ la t year, setting an all-time record ylvania. he' still traveling­ ing in Manche ter outside of Au­ ick during Jan Plan. That's an up­ for fund received. Doug' wife is lately to Japan todye wich indigo at gu ta, he travels extensively as the date from Doug McMillan. He also Ann, and they have three boys and an arti t' mountain rudio and to executive director of MADSEC, a talked to Mitch Fox, who has a girl. ...Jack Williamson lives in attend a textile de ign symposium. Maine association of directors of moved to Sacramento and is doing Birmingham, Mich., with his wife, he is now single and lives in a special education. Twice he has well at his new medical job. At a Johanna, and son and daughter. house she love with her ten-ier been to the tate ofKomi in Russia, high chool hockey alumni game Jack is an adjunct professor in the named AbigaiL ... Holland Gregg the highlight of hi travels. His 16- he saw Scott Ryerse '74, who i school of art at the University of invite cla smates to call when in year-old daughter, Trisha, was one happily man-ied with children and Michigan. He writes, "De pite the the Finger Lakes region of New of 10 students to visit Germany still a dam good goalie. Doug him- fact that I am focused on the 'de­ York. He, his wife, Patience, and with Project As i t. Until next elf is in St. Paul, Minn., operating sign arts,' my love of art history rwo children live in Skaneateles. time, Happy Trails to You1 + a manufacturing company that that began at Colby has continued, He owns and operates World

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Media Communications, an inde­ it happen each fall when his se­ isa dachshund named Willie. Lisa lake?" The bus, you say?"Yeah, the pendent television production niors begin applying to colleges, now lives in Old Greenwich, bus will do the climbing for you." company .... I'll end with Portia some to Colby, which usually ini­ Conn., and ha found a soulmate Within minutes we had filed that Iverson' interesting news: "In ad­ tiates a discussion. For me, what in John Salem. She i very happy advice where it belonged and were dition to my acting career, l have really triggers those Colby memo­ and lam happy for her. ... By now, putting boots to trail on an all-day just completed my first year of ries is being your cla s correspon­ Nick Jans' book of essays, The Last journey that fe atured spectacular graduate school at Union Theo­ dent for Three-plus years now. Light Breaking, is on the book­ views, at least 12 different kinds of logical Seminary in N.Y.C., where Please send me some mail1 + shelves. And in answer to an inter­ snow and a lunch break at roughly l am enrolled in the master of di­ rogatory on the questionnaire, 1 1,000feet. Highly recommended! vinity program. I am doing this so "What things have you done since After a second day of equally spec­ that regardless of my acting career, Correspondent: graduation that you would call suc­ tacular views, fickle weather and I can always do worthwhile work, Leslie A. Ramsay cess, even if they can't be measured no bu ride, we eriously consid­ and hope to be ordained a Presby­ by promotions, income, or pre - ered matriculating as freshmen at terian minister." + This column will be a tige?", Nick wrote, "made a life for the Boulder campus of the Univer­ 7 7 short take as my dead­ myself in an Eskimo village and sity of Colorado. Lee asked me to line is today. lam glad found purpose and peace there." pass along greetings to all and in­ Correspondent: we live in a world of next day And Nick would boast about see­ vites anyone passing through Santa Susan Gearhart Wuest delivery! l thought that I would ing 35 wolves last year ....Bob Fe,N.M., to look himup.... Tony start by answering Carl Witthoft's Kaake's "Family Unit" (I didn't Lopez wrote to announce that he CongratulationstoLisa question on the questionnaire, writeouralumni questionnaire, but hastakenanewjobteachingSpan­ 7 5 TurtzBimbaumonthe "Where's Mike Rieck?" Looking that's good, isn't it?) is a Blue Point ish at the Darlington School in birth of her second at the latest alumni report print­ Siamese named Chloe. A much­ Rome, Ga. Teaching has been his daughter, Rose Emma Birnbaum, out, Carl, I would suggest writing loved unit in my familywhen l was profession since I 986, when he on December 17, 1992. Lisa was on to your cla smate at 4 76 Meadow­ in high school through age 27 was finished seven years as an airborne maternity leave until November, lark Drive, Sarasota, FL 34236. a Blue Point named Ping. TI1ey are infantry ranger with the U.S. Army. when she planned to return towork ... Diane McCoy Bither earneda great cats. And Bob, I still have on Tony and his wife, Polson, have a at a mental health clinic. Life is master's degree, got married and my refrigerator the star-walking­ son, Christopher . . .. I heard re­ very hectic taking care of two girls, had a baby ("in this order!" Diane on-plastic magnet that you kindly cently from Ann McCreary, who but she is loving every minute. writes). Sarah McCoy Sither is now sent me .... I am looking at recent is legal advi er to the Scudder in­ Other recent happenings in Lisa's almost 3 and lives in Littleton, newsclippingsof us, and I see Peter vestment management firm in the life include passing the psychiatry Mass., where her mother is a soft­ Breu with his children, Anna, 2, Big Apple. Ann regrets having boards in October 1991 and show­ ware specialist. Diane's old friend and Martin, 5, trying their hands at missed the last reunion but prom­ ing her paintings at the Mari Gal­ Laurel Van Stone Lewis is a tech­ creating a ceramic totem pole at ises to make the 20th! Be ides rais­ lery in hometown Mamaroneck, nical writer, is involved in recy­ this summer's Sunapee Craftsmen's ing two girls, Jill, 4, and Mary, 3, N.Y., in May 1993 ....Michael cling exrracurricularly and lives in Fair just a little northwest of here. Ann spends most of her time at the Cantara continues to work as dis­ Framingham, Mass. They are prac­ It's a good newspaper photo; Anna track wagering her kids' educa­ trict attorney for York County, tically next-doorneighbors. Onher looks just like her mother, Susan, tional fund. She recently hit the Maine. His office has cho en to que tionnaire, Diane said she probably looked as a tot ....A lo­ Exacta and offers to interpret the concenrrate in the areas of sexual wished more people would write in cal paper carried a black and white daily racing form for anyone on a and physical child abuse, domestic to Colby ... . Priscilla Martin a ks ofMargaret "Peggo" Horstmann­ consultant basis. Ever practical, violence and elder abuse-both on the questionnaire whether any Hodes. Peggie still has that same my former housemate admits that physical and financial exploitation. of us know of good leads for adop­ pretty, dramatic, warm smile-and if she had to start over at Colby Mike has enjoyed prosecuting over tion via the private route as she and I also well remember the Colby­ the one thing she would do differ­ the past three years and plans to her husband, Don Bordley, are ettes. . . I really mu t go. + ently is get a pair of waterproof run again for a second term in hoping to adopt another baby. If boots ....I also got a card from 1994 ....Turning to some trivia you can help them out, please post L.A. King, who recently was or­ gleaned frommy survey as to what a letter to Pittsford, N.Y.... Correspondent: dained a deacon in the Episcopal in our lives now triggers memories Alexandra Levintow Howell asks Nicholas Levintow Church. She has moved to Florida of Colby. For Candy Skelly if anyone lives near her in Lyme, and will be teaching ethics at Crouch, it is seeing sons Ryan and N.H., and whether any of us know "Why would you want Eckerd College in St. Pete. Ian in Colby sweat hirts and talk­ the whereabouts of Anne Back­ 7 8 to hike on that trail?" ..Well, folks, that's the bottom ing about colleges with both of lund. According to the alumni re­ said the grizzled park of the mail pile. Please keep those them. For Ed Cronick, it is run­ port printout (where I am still listed ranger as Lee Roberts and l pored cards and letters coming. + ning into Howie Lazur '74 from as working as a legal assistant for over a topographic map of the time to time. Living with five little the town of Hudson, N.H.), Anne Rocky Mountain National Park. ones and a spouse in one house and has not notified us of her new ad­ Lee and I had stopped at park head­ Correspondent: sharing the bathroom remind dress. So, Anne, please write (or quarters for information-pru­ Emily Grout Sprague Binkie Cammack Closmore of write to Alex!).... Ja ne C. dently, or so we thought-before dorm life! As poetry editor for a Hoffman sent me a wonderful pic­ setting off on a brisk fall weekend Reunion is coming ! local rag, "Beta Rhythms," Vinnie ture of her two children, Rachel of hiking in the Rockies. We were Several membersofour 7 . Cassone is reminded of"how much Lauren Hoffman Crowe, 6 sitting not getting the encouragement we 9 reumon plannmgcom­ bad poetry can be written by smart beside her brother, David Eric had hoped for. "The aspens haven't mittee met with Sue Conant Cook people." Chuck Clement ha a Hoffman,2 ... . Jon Hubbard titled turnedyet, the trail is still icy from '75 and Pam Alexander in Sep­ recurring dream of trying to find an his wife's career "self-employed do­ last week's snow, it's steep climb­ tember in Waltham, Mass., to start oceanography class that he at­ mestic engineer." That is clever. ... ing-why don't you take the bus to the process oforganizing a wonder­ tended once. For Gerry Connolly, Lisa Hurley's "pet/son" (her words) Bear Lake and hike around the ful weekend of old friends, fond

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hings are changing in Virginia-and Kenneth R. Melvin '7 4 lier Manor in Portsmouth, VA, attended high school there and is part of the reason. received a scholarship to attend Colby, which he describes as "a TMelvin has served in the commonwealth legislature for eight culture shock."Looking back, he said, '11aving gone to an all-black years. He sharpened his political kills by helping elect two public school, goingto Colby was an interesting experience. But l members of the Portsmouth, Va., ciry council in 1982, then, definitely benefited from it. I learned abour other cultures and emboldened by the successof that effort, decided to run against an people who were unlike me. It opened many horizons for me." 18-year incumbent representative three years later. Aftergraduating from Colby with a major in history, Melvin "lt wa an uphill battle," Melvin recalled of the race. But an earneda law degree fromGeorgetown and worked as an attorneyat army of volunteers helped him overcome an eight-to-one disad­ the U.S. Department of]ustice. vantage in campaign spending,and he upsetthe incumbent to earn When it came time to raise a family, he and his wife, Sylvia the Democratic nomination. He has held the seat since-mo t HodgesMelvin '75, decided to leave Washington and relocateto his recently racking up 79 percent of the vote in November. neighborhcxxl in Portsmouth. The couple has two children, Derek, "I thinkwon I because people are pleased with the job I am doing," 10, and Nicholas, 6, and in addition to his duties in Richmond, he aid. "I have seniority in the assembly, I have backed a number of Melvin has a private practice in personal injury and criminal law. tough measures and introducedsome landmark legislation." "Being in the courtroom is great," Melvin said, "and every time is a Thanks to bills Melvin sponsored last spring, schools in the different experience." commonwealth must now erve free hotbreal.-fasts where there is a Melvin, who has so far spurned invitations to run for the pupil povertyrate of25 percent,mothers on welfare can marry with­ commonwealth enate, says that "the general assembly and the law out putting welfare payments in jeopardy and those receiving Aid for practice are a good mix right now." Although he is serving under a Dependent Children can amass up Republican governor for the fi rst to $5,000 in savings for school ex­ time, Melvin aid, "We're going to penses or home downpayrnents. do what we're going to do." Melvin said the proposals en­ And when it comes to improv­ courage fa mily stabiliry and "build ing his and other neighborhoods, elf-esteem and respect." Virginia' he has little patience for those who welfare reform package has won na­ have given up: "What I am frus­ tional attention for its innovation , trated with is capable people itting but Melvin notes that his bills "are around watching cable TVall night not always the most popular"-and long when there are things they his pro-choice and pro-gun control could be doing and ways they could stands have drawn criticism from behelping,"hesaici "Things can be the religious right and the gun lobby. accomplished. It can be done." Melvin grew up in the black middle-classneighborhcxxlof Cava- -Lynn Sullivan '89

memories and renewed acquain­ Sam Koch. Lalib was the best man Hull; he want to hear from fi ni hed that I must tell everyone I tances. Betsy Bucklin Gray, David at am's wedding to uzanne them! ... Gordon and Katherine was fir.ally awarded my master's of LaLiberty, Bev Schnorr Lannie, Patter on at Rollins College in Wall Hunziker welcomed their science in education, in econdary Kirk Paul, MariaMacedo Dailey, Florida in December 1992. uzanne new daughter, Elizabeth Kather­ English! I will now have more time Stacey Cox Slowinski and I all was the Rollins volleyball coach ine, who joined her older sister, to devote toplanning this reunion. had a verysucc essful initial plan­ and on the interviewing panel Margaret, on July 29, 199 3 (the Please respond to the mailings. We ning se ion. Our first decision was when Sam interviewed fora coach­ same birthday asourdaughter,J ulia, are anxious for your input. If the not to take the cold, wet New ing position. Little did they know 4). Gordon is still in banking and questionnaire format isn't appro­ England weather as an omen. An­ what his position was eventually now into late-night fe edings again. priate for you, write a letter! + other decision was to get as many going to be! Al o present as an Kathy is also busy with childcare of you involved in this reunion as usher at the wedding was Dick but is teaching a humanities possible, so we will be sending a Muther '8 1. ... Kirk Paul came to course as well. When I spoke to Reunion Weekend questionnaire to all of you to help the planning meeting fresh from Gordon, he was anticipating at­ us in our planning. Pleaserespond; an Arrowsmith concert and an all­ tending a Yankees game with Bob June 3,5, 1994 we want to hear from everyone! night drive. (Some thing never Lizza.We missed you at the meet­ ...News gathered at our meeting change! Your enthusiasm is appre­ ing, Bob, but we still will put you to Celebrating are the included Dave laLiberry's newest ciated, Kirk, thank you.) Kirk, who work! Bob and his wife, Tricia, also career as a graduate student in ath­ i married to Mary Fran, is the welcomed their second child last Classes of '74 and '79 letic counseling and his position as claims manager for Whitehall summer. Another son, congratula­ the assistant coach for men's soc­ Mutual, a properry and casualty tions! We're looking forward to cer at the University ofMassachu­ insurance firm in Ambler, Mass. meeting all the new potentialmem­ settsatAmherst. He'sworkingwith He asked me to put out a bulletin bers of Colby's class of 20?? at the recently married head coach, forJanet Ford Roberts and Dave reunion ... . I am so relieved to be

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1989 Shore ....A Colbycontingent was for the HarcfardCoumnt. He super­ Correspondents: Deborah A. Greene in full strength for the August '93 al vises a dozen reporters in north­ 38 Sorrel Road fresco wedding of Carol Sly and cemral Connecticut and lives in Concord, MA 01742 Steve Marshall in Lincoln, Mass. West Hartford ....Ji m Dwyerand 508- 369-6978 Sarah Russell MacColl '79 served wife Tina are living in Brookfield, as the "best woman," and guests Conn. They have two children, 1980 included Amy Butcher, Linda Molly and Gina. Jim is a research Patricia Valavanis Smith Davis, Brenda Bowen, Betsy engineer and Tina owns a bakery. 6 Hammond Way Correspondent: Morrell, me and my husband, Mark . . . Jane Hartzell is living in Andover, MA 01810 Patricia Valavanis S1nith Smith, Jan Barker McFarland '79, Underhill, Vt., and is a community 508-4 70- 484 I Jane Harrzell '81 and Stew Babbott health nurse. Recently she bought 1981 Paul and Kathy Mc­ '8 1. • a 100-year-old country house .... Beth Pniewski Wilson Culloch Wade reside David '80 and Sally Fernsten P.O. Box 602 in Enc initas, Calif. , Buffum are living in Dudley, Mass. Correspondent: Harvard, MA 01451 with their two daughters, ages 3 Sally i assistant vice president for 8 0 Beth Pniewski Wilson 508-3 58-2845 and 1 1/2. Paul, a marine biologist loan review at the Springfield Insti­ with the National Marine Fisher­ tute for Savings. David is an eco­ 1982 ies-a division of the U.S. Depart­ Mimi Pratt Valyo is liv­ nomics professor at the College of Mimi Rasmussen ment of Commerce-was on the ing in Laguna Nigel, the Holy Cross in Worcester. They 63 Reservoir Street cu poffinishinghis Ph.D. whenhe Calif., and is staying at have two children, Matthew and Cambridge, MA 02 138 wrote to me last year. Kathy is a home81 with her children, Allison Daniel. ...Jose Sorrentino is liv­ 617-492- 1002 vice president at Merrill Lynch han­ and Christian, while husband John ing in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and dling mortgage-backed securitie . works for UNUM Life Insurance is a general surgeon in private prac­ 1983 High on their wi h list: more time Company. If any other alumni live tice. He and his wife, LauraRivera, Sally Lovegren Merchant to explore southernCalifornia and in Orange County, Mimi wants have two children, Sergio Rafael HCR 62, Box 244B Mexico, ski, windsurf and re­ you to look her up! She visits Brian andJoseGabriel.Josewritesthathe Mt. Desert, ME 04660 lax! ...Accompanied by three Picard and his family every time hopesto beat our next reunion and 207-244-3678 horses, three dogs and a cat named she is back in Connecticut visiting that he visited with Amy Haselton 1984 Billie Holiday, Heidi Misslbeck is family. She also sees JodiJohnson in San Diego ....Dani Nemec Amy E. Carlson living on a farm in Southampton, Groesbeck ....Victor and Ginny Micsan is in Athens, Greece, with 605 Jones Ferry Rd., #RRS N.Y. She's working as a landscape Bulford V esnaver had a third chi Id, her husband, Jim, who is a foreign Carrboro, NC 27510 architect for the town planning Veronica, born last January. She service officer, and their two chil­ 919-942-4982 board ....Tracey Wiles, an emer­ joins sibling Victor Junior and dren, Jessica andJulia. Dani writes gency medicine physician, makes Valerie. Victor is assistant VP for that they are happy to be living in 1985 her home in Litchfield, Conn., with Hyatt Hotels and Ginny isa human Greece after twoyears in Lahore, Mary Alice Weller-Mayan her husband, Donald Lafayette, a resource manager for Deloitte & Pakistan, where her car was at­ RD 2, Box 149 proce s engineer, and her 2-year­ T ouche. The summer of 1992 tacked by demonstrators. She en­ Camden, DE 19934 old daughter, Hillary .... Henry brought many visitors to their Glen courages anyone who is travelingto 302-697-0142 Kennedy is director of Kieve Af­ Ellyn, lll., home, including Dawn Greece to look her up through the fective Education in Nobleboro, Brydon, who paid her annual visit American Embassy ....Mark 1986 Maine. He live in Cumberland while attending the Food Market­ Fortier is living in Skowhegan, Gretchen Bean Lurie with his wife, B.J ., and Sam, 7, and ing Industry Show in Chicago. Vic­ Maine, and is a law partner at the 2606 San Marcos Drive Blair, 5 . . ..Dan Ossoff, a real es­ tor and Ginny saw Peter Buzzini in firmof Merrill Hyde & Fortier. He Pasadena, CA 91107 tate attorneyfor Rackemann, Saw­ Connecticut and also saw Skip and his wife, Jayne, have a two­ 1987 yer and Brewster in Boston, wrote Neville and his wife, Donna, who year-old son, Lucas. They were Lucy Lennon Tucker that he was trying hard to find time had just had their second child. planning a trip to Prince Edward 9 Wellstone Drive to get back into running. When he . . . Stephanie Vrattos left the Island last summer ....Geoffrey Portland, ME 04 101 responded to the questionnaire last working world for Boston Neville is a vice president of insti­ 207-772-7127 year, Dan and his wife, Liz, a col­ University's School of Education tutional sales for Merrill Lynch and lege psychology professor, were get­ and completed a one-year master of lives in Atlanta, Ga. He and his 1988 ting used to having a baby around arts in teaching, specializing inhigh wife, Michelle, have a daughter, Sara Dickison the house again. Ben, now 6, and school English. Stephanie says she Kelsey Leigh, and two cats. They 25 Fayette Street # 1 Will, 1, are helping their parents sees Colby rear-window stickers were lucky enough to travel to the Boston, MA 02 116 discover some of the better ice everywhere.... Chris Morrill is opening of EuroDisney in France 617-266-3643 creamestablishmentson the North the Enfield, Conn., bureau chief in April of 1992.... Thar's all for

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now. Watch your mail boxe for a pany, a mall profe sional theater year Pit:er reunion, Matt \'i ited Board, who e mission i to work class survey. I would love to hear group in Portland. Jame also ha Alison Brown and her husbanJ, with pecial needs children and fromsome of you who haven't writ­ run up the Mount Washington au to Brian Hoare.... Sandy Whatley their familie ro create an optimal ten me over the last 2 1/2 years. + road twice ....Bruce Anderson is is a mason contractor and 1s mar­ growth em·ironment. Cathy got a managing consultant for Travel­ ried to Cathy Dwyer. TI1ey have a her B.A. in biology, but after re­ ers Corp. He and his wife, Le lie, son.Jame .ln his spare nme, andy ceiving a master\ in Spanish lit­ Corre pendent: who is an ophthalmic technolo­ has been carving granite and erature from the Univer;,it) ot Mimi Rasmussen g1St, have a on, Eric Robert. Bruce marble ....ColleenGlovinsCasey Washington- eanle, she 1s an ad­ has been skiing with Ron Agnes has been married for a year to Jo­ junct assistanr rrofessorof r:m1 h James Haddow is an and Richard Robinson . ... By the seph Casey. Colleen is an 1.0./ ar UMaine-Machias ....Con ­ attorney in Maine. He time this column appears, Matt Ph.D. program admmi tramr at grarularion;, ro Mary Rudolph and his wife, Michelle, Lewis will be married to 1arie Har\'ard Medical chool in Black, who ·tarted her own law have8 2two children, Hamish and Laguerre. Matt, who lives in the &1 ston. . . . tuan ' 3 and Cathy rracrice in 1991 and a of J unl' Max-and one golden retriever, ew York area, has been skydi"ing Leonard Swain aJded a second 1993 is the first woman rresident three cats, three heep, five chick­ (tandem), rarely gets topla) tennis child to their family--Gretchen of the Gloucester (Ma ·s.) Rotary ens and one rabbit. (Only one?) anymore, must wear a suit e\-ery Loui.e wa born shortly before our Club ....Eric Ridgway, who ll\·cd For the pa t two years he has been day (doe n't iron hisshinsthough!) 10-year reunion. Cathy is al o the in Kenya for a year in ' 6-'87, b in pre ident of the board of directors and now sports a beard. When he \'!Ce president of tl1e Wa:.hington Idaho in private practice a;,a coun­ forTI1e Mad Horse Theatre Com- returned to California for his 10- County (Maine) Child and Youth ·elor with his wife, Patti. They are

Highon Air n hour before he goes on air at 5:30 a.m. on Bo ton's WCVB- While rill freelancingas an on-air meteorologist last fall, Ep rein . TV/Channel 5, meteorologist David Epstein'86 is minkingof entered a master' deITTee program in psychology at Boston College, hisA audience. He's in me officeworking up the maps viewer· will ee where he also erves as a dorm re ident assistant. Aspart of his ma ter's on me screen, getting a feel for what me weamer i doing. program, he coun els students in Roxbury and Charlestown chool "My tyle i to tell people what they need to know," said Epstein, three day a week. What connects hi· intere ts in meteorology and who did three lots a day on weekends p ychology, he says, is "predictability." last August and presented me week­ "Bothare pred ictingwha t you mink day weather every 10 minutes on me isgoingto happen," he said."You can't 5:30 to 7 a.m. "eye-opener" segment as change me weamer. But you can try to well a the three cut-ins every hour for change a person." localstation break duringGoodMom­ Given the power to influence ing America.Should viewers wear rain­ people's daily choices, what does he coats? Will it be lippery driving to feel while he's on me air? work? What should people pack for "Ir' more a ense of respon ibility their weekend getaways? How hould man power,"he said,mindfu l ofpeople's the kids be dressed? weamer anxieties. The ocean and the "When you're out there forecast­ mountain combine to make forecast­ ing, you're trying to think what people ing weather around Boston especially are thinking. Ifit' rained forfour day , difficult,he says, recalling Thanksgiv­ you want to try to elevate them," he ing 1987, when his predicted snowfall said. He'll joke with the anchorpeople of one inch turned into half a foor­ to be personable, but he' not a comic "and a big me ." But he remembers weatherman. another day in me officewatchingdan­ "I don't try to be a funny man," he gerou tornadoes buildingon the radar said."I know thatpeople aresaying, 'Jeez, just give me me weamer."' monitor. He told the news director mey needed to break into regular All meteorologists in large marketslike Bostonare profe ionals, programing to get the word out. "And we did it," he said. "I had built Epstein says. His own weather knowledge was helped along by two me trust,and they did it." Colby Jan Plans, one in Boston wim NBC affiliate WBZ during hi Two of Epstein' articles, including "The Onslaught of Hurricane junior year andthe other in Palm Beach,Fla., where he worked at a Andrew," appeared last year in The New Book of Popular Science TV station and also delivered radio weather reports for morning Annual. And he recently accepted a con ulting job for Weamer commuters. After one year of teaching eighm grade science in hi ervices International, one of me largest distributors of weather hometown of Portland, Maine, and a year of formal training for information in me world, to help develop t11e next generation of meteorological accredition at Lyndon State in Vermont, he broke in software that will be used in forecasting and on camera. with weathermanstints on TV and radio stations in Vermont, Maine Hi greatest satisfaction still i being on air, Epstein says, particu­ and Connecticut. larly on me top-rated and mo t-watched station in Boston wim its Epsteinsays he' been interested in me weamer ever since fifth audience approaching a million viewers. Beingon camera is"a wicked grade.From hisearly teens on, he'd setsituation s-" It's a rain shower high. I'm like a little kid," he said. "But while the little kid is saying moving up the coast"-and practice delivering scripts. He minks his to himself, 'I can't believe rm up here actually doing mis!', me adult friendsfrom Colby days probably remember him running out of Foss supersede him. I say, 'relax.' The little kid becomes an adult." Hall like a little kid, shouting, "It's snowing!" "I like the weamer changes," he explained. "I like trying to figureout what's going on." -Robert Gillespie

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NEWSMAKERS Bourassa Dvorak '89 received the Vermont Law School'sAcademic Excellence Award during her second year at the school. Robert Wallace '81 has been named chieffinancial officerofMurphy New - MILEPOSTS papers, which include the Superior (Wis.) Evening Telegram and the Births: A son, Andrew Robert, to Matthew '80 and Susan Reese Ashland (Wis.) Daily Press, TheMesabi Krevat '82. . . Adaughter, Aru1a, toJanet and Dale Oak '8 1. ...A Daily News in Virginia, Minn., and the son, Ian Lorimore, to William and Lisa Smith Worden '8 1. ...A Hibbing Tribune and Duluth Budgeteer daughter, Casey Marie, to Susan and Stephen Brown '82 ....A son, Press in Minnesota ....Matthew C. Robert Jame , to David and Jeanne Preso Hillinck '82 ....A son, Donahue '82 was elected to the Lowell, Joseph Haven, to Daniel '82 and Juliet Blake Shagoury '86 ....A Mass., city council. Donahue's cam­ daughter, Chloe Marie, to Cyd and Brian Sharples '82 ....A son, paign promoted pub! ic safety, economic Austin Anthony Ritzel, to Delisa Laterzo '83 and William development and professional inte­ RobertWallace 'B l Ritzel. ... A son, Andrew John, to John '83 and Dianne Gundstrom grity.... Nancy Briggs Marshall '82, Lemoine '84 ... . A daughter, Lauren Hillary, to Richard and Allison formerlya memberof the Maine Tourism Commi ion, has been named Lary Goldsborough '84 ....A daughter, Andrea Margalit, to Ken toadminister the new marketing services contract for Maine's Officeof and Nancy Silverman Levinsky '84.... A son, Theodore Fernando, Tourism. She will oversee services such as free lance writing and to Peter Cheng and Valerie Jean Miller '84 ....A daughter, Mich­ motorcoach tours in an effort to promote Maine in print and broadcast elle Lynn, to Todd and Denise Brunelle Priess '84 ....A on, media ....Jon D. Schwartz '82 has been appointed director of N rth William Blanchard, toAndrewOkunandJuliaBlanchard '85 ....A American ·ales for Forrester Research, which is devoted to helping daughter, Catherine Fallon, to Chuck Parker and M. Meghan Casey companies develop and implement information technology strategie . '85 ....A son, Jameson Alden, to Bradford and Jennifer Imhoff He will manage a client base of over 1,000 corporate users of Foley '86.... A son, Timothy Kenneth, to M. Kelly and Timothy technology.... David L. Hyde '83 was promoted to director ofqualiry Kastrinelis '86 ...A daughter, Amanda, to Michael '86and Suzanne assurance at Kemper-Masterson, Inc., a Belmont, Mass., company that Pearson Marchetti '86 ....A son, Nathan Douglas, to Douglas deals with the validation requirements ofcomputer systems and process Scalise '86 and Jill Wertz-Scalise '88.... A son, Nicholas Samuel, equipment used in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical toStephen and Deidre BoothbyCarter '87 ....A daughter, Jasmine device industries ... . Donald L. Baker '84 wa promoted to vice Esther, to Larry and Theresa Sproul Heckler '87 ....A son, Ben­ president of small busincs banking at Bank of Vermont ....TI1e Peaks jamin Alan, to David and P. Jane Nicol Manuel '87 ....A son, Island, Maine, home of Carol Eisenberg '85 and David Simpson '86 Chandler, to Michael Harmett and Charmaine Twigg '87 ....A was fe atured last summer in the "Homes" section of the Portland Press son, Thomas Zachary, to Amy and T. Bryan Cook '89. Herald. ...Deborah A. England '85 represented the College at the inauguration of Jean Dowdall as president of Simmons College .... Nationally yndicated comic strip artist Linc Peirce '85 gave a talk at Marriages : Marjorie Smith '80 to Ronald Bo e in Bar Harbor, Maine. Colby on "The Great American Comic Strip." ...Evan Dangel '86, ...George Gignac Ill '84 to Mary St. Germain in Monson, senior financial analy tat Merrill Lynch in Boston, spoke on "How to Mass .... Emilie Letourneau '84 to Donald Baker in Burlington, Make More Income and Pay Less Taxes" at the annual busine and Vt. ...Deborah A. England '85 to Charles Gray in Boston, Mass. professional women's banquet of the North hore Bu iness and Profes­ ...Lewis B. Holmes Jr. '85 to Breena Welch in Hanover, N.H.... sional Women's Club ... . William Docherty '86 received the Navy Jennifer Creamer '86 to Randy Fink in Paxton, Mass ....Michael Achievement Medal for superior perfonnance of duty while serving Manning '87 to usan Carolan in Milton, Mass.... Eileen Stark '88 with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light-47 in San Diego, to Douglas Glas man in Lexington, Mass ....Timothy Wissemann Calif.... Helene Landers '86, a golf pro at Los Angeles CounttyClub, '88 to Michelle Wood in Scarborough, Maine. . . . Lisa Marie has produced"The Women' Golf Guide," a 60-minute video geared to Bontempi '89 to Steven Conroy in Greenfield, Mass ... . Stephanie businesswomen interested in learning the game .... Jeffrey O'Brien Folsom '89 to Brian Whitney in Augusta, Maine ... . Eric Hanson '86 joined the faculty at The Academy at Charlemont in Massachusetts, '89 to Anne Molleur in Greensboro,Vt ... . Michelle Horton '89 to where he teaches math, Latin and theater. ...Thomas C. Oxholm '86 Bradley Olson '90 in Sudbury, Mass.... Leslie AnnDougherty '89 is the new director of development at Vermont Academy . ...Lucie to George C. Biddle in Atlanta, Ga.

currently living on 6 1/2 acres in ing her residency at Newton Eve, 2. Laura is a management 25, Scott, 22, and Pam, 21, is a life the woods while finishing their Wellesley Hospital as thechiefresi­ consultant forGemini Consulting. insurance marketing specialist and home. They can ski, rock climb dcnt. Next she'll do a fellow hip at David would like u to know that is back at work part time ....Wal­ and backpack in the mountains­ Stanford Universiryand in Zimbab­ due to tl1e birth of his daughters, he ter Judge and his wife, Jean C. a ll locally. Eric and Patti are enjoy­ we in infectious diseases. Even is less of a chauvini t than we may O'Neill, are both lawyer and are ing a much less frantic and more though Claudia already has been recall and is more aware of subtle living in Charlotte, Vt. They are balanced lifestyle. Eric is tillswim­ to more than 30 countrie , she still discriminations ....Ni cholas making a slow ad ju tment to clean mingcompetitively in tl1e master's wants to do more traveling.... Norton is a director of human re- air, open spaces and gorgeous league ....Claudia Goulston did David M. Strage write from Lon­ ources and is married to Elizabeth, environment ....Lisa S. Goode a fellowship in neurophysiology in don that shortly after the 10th re­ an instructional designer. They are Preston and her husband, An­ Japan in '82-'83, worked at Mass union, he was offered the job of now living in Brookline, Mass.... thony, live in Clearwater, Ra., General Hospital for two year , executive assistant to the chair­ Ken and Laura Gagliano Nord­ where Lisa is the director ofprofes­ then graduated from the Univer­ man and CEOofDigital (UK). He strom mis ed our reunion due to sional services for Paragon Home sity of Vermont Medical Schoolin and wife Laura Agostini have two the birth of their daughter, Leslie. Health. She's learning to play 1990. Claudia is currently finish- children, Sonya Perry, 4, and Katya Laura, who isalsostepmom to Marc, golf-Anthony is a golfpro at the

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Stouffer Viney Resort ....Ross Ionia! home built in 1735. rook a consulting job in N.Y.C., Scalise and Jill Were-Scalise ' 8 Brennan married Mary Agne Linda Carroll moved from D.C. to where he now lives ... . Bob Sid­ are the proud parents of Nathan, Carey in eptember 1992 in Vermont in order to pursue a man is a fourth-year resident in born August 4, I 993. Doug, a pas­ Kokomo, lnd. They're now living ma ter's degree in higher educa­ emergency medicine at the Uni­ tor at Prospect Hill Baptist Church in the Dupont Circle neighbor­ tion and student affa irs adminis­ versity of Cincinnati and hoping near Ph ilade lph ia, preached forfour hood of Washington, D.C. Mary tration at the University of to move back to the East Coast nights at his first re vival in Agnes is a wire service reporter, Vermont. ...Joan Ray is a pro­ with his wife, Laura, soon ....The September .... Kevin and Joyce and Ross is still at the EPA. gram manager for Digital Equip­ Admissions Office on Mayflower Sutton Anderson added little . Thanks to those who have ment Corp. in Mass. She received Hillshould expect additional Colby James Colin to their family last sent information. Ir's never too her M.B.A. from Boston Uni­ legacy application in the future. May. They now live in Melro e, late to send in the questionnaire versity ....Kristin Hazlitt is an (I'm still in the proce s of complet­ Mas ., but plan tomove overseas in or a po tcard 1 + attorneyin Bethesda, Md . ... Sara ing Hunter's and Paige's fonns, a year or two .... Brian '85 and Babcock isa pastry chef in Durham, despite their father's determina­ Kristen Feifert Clark are en joying N.C. ...Alison Cox is in an art tion to send them to his alma ma­ their daughter, Taylor, and were Correspondent: graduate program at Columbia ter-West Point1) Nils '84 and awaiting the arrival of =2. When Mary Alice Weller-Mayan University in N.Y.C. Mark Janet Kelley Gjesteby welcomed Brian graduates from medical Howard is vice president of re­ their second daughter, Olivia school, they willbe moving ro New Happy New Year! Lots search at Lehman Brothers and Katherine, last February ....Doug Jersey, where Kristen will re-enter 85 of career news th is time. living in Brooklyn, N.Y. He fin­ ,------, Stuart Krussel is the ished business chool at N.Y.U. in chairman of the Alcoholic Bever­ December 1992 ....I still have ages Control Commission in loads of questionnaires and Iprom­ Massachusetts .... Kelly Keenan ise l will get to all of them. + graduated fromUCLA with a Ph.D. ! in biochemistry. In the summer of I What's New? '92 she bicycled across the U.S., Share your news and views with your classmates! covering 4,400 miles ....Carolyn Correspondent: I Please write in the blank and send this form to the Altshuler Currie plays the 12- Gretchen Bean Lurie stringguitar, writes urban folk music Alumni Office for forwarding to your class corre­ and sings. She is on leave from the Either mysummerques­ spondent. UniversityofWashington'sarthis­ tionnaire inspired a lot tory Ph.D. program ....Peter Viele 8 6 _ _ ofcreatt v1ty among you received a master's in allied health '86ers or else deep guilt set in for and is a paramedic for Worcester, previous lack of correspondence. Mass., EMS ....M.J . Georges­ Whatever the case, your responses Johnson is a librarian in Gaithers­ were terrific and much appreci­ burg, Md ....Brian Morin is an ated. Already six years since gradu­ orthodonticfe llow at Harvard Uni­ ation, and still nobody has slowed versity School of Dental Medicine. down. Here' what's happening: He is a graduate of Tufts Dental Arlene Kasarjian, who wed Dean School and plans a return to the Soultanian in November 1992, is Waterville area in June 1994 to an attorney with the Deparrment begin his orthodontic practice. . .. of Social Services in Boston. Sarah Stevens Clark is a kinder­ . ..Despite all attempts to rake over garten teacher in Wilton, Conn. forthe "Gin Pup," Kelly Chopus is . Todd Lachman is an assistant ecstatic about her new post as di­ brand manager for Procter & rector of fund raising for the U.S. Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio. He Ski Tearn. Stillan activist on so­ was married to Christine Rodgers cial issues and civil rights, Kelly on July 3, 1993, and Andy Castle, and husband Paul Start (Happy Peter Scheet:z '83 and Rick Ber­ First Anniversary!) are enjoying nard '86 were in the wedding party. Salt Lake City ....Michael Dobbs Andy is a manager of materials enjoyed a gathering of family and finance with G.E. in Greenville, friends at his home in Istanbul for S.C. ...Maria Morgan Grill is in his recent nuptials. He and wife Class Year ______an occupational therapy program Amy are busy purchasing a fine

at Boston University. She camps collection ofT urkish rugs and tour­ Address ______out at Sarah Land's apartment in ing the ancient sites ... . Pat Cambridge during the week. ... McClellan got married last fall in Susan Martin wrote a note from Chicago. Her summer was fi lled Portland, Ore., and said, "l have with lots of camping, biking, fish­

___ __ forgottenhow to spell many words, ing, wimming and canoeing in City/State/Zip ______which makes me very glad." ... Madison, Wis.... Walter and Stephen Reed is an attorney with Michiko Schwab were married last Is this a new address ? 0 Kearns& Rubin in Stow,Mass. He year as well. After graduating from and his wife, Marcy, bought a Co- business school in Arizona, Walter L------�

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college ar Rurgers ....After receiv­ on tourism in Guizhon Province. have had strokes .... Anne Clarke hopes to utilize her language ski lls ing an M.B.A. from DartmoU[h, ... Timothy Poutre and wife Wolff lives in Chicago with hu - in some capacity down the Alec Murray was quire the Wendy are living in Rockville, band Ted '86. They are remodel­ road ....Nina Calhoun, a former globetrotter la r ummer, when he Conn., where Tim is doing his ing a house built in 1880. Anne is Boston Colby Club organizer, spent two weeks in Thailand (a anesthesia residency at Hartford an investment banker with tarted at the School for Interna­ trip that included a jungle trek, Hospital. He graduated from Salomon Brothers and Ted is an tional Training in Brattleboro, Vt., hiking, bamboo raft ing and riding UVM's med school in 1991 and environmental attorney.. .. Carol this past September and should elephants). He also biked in the wa married in June 1992 ....Chris Kenerson is living and working as finish her degree by May 1994. She Loire Valley of France for I 0 Smith moved to Portland, Maine, a high school English teacher in loves it and looks fonvard to an days ....Juli e Archer is a public in the fallof 1 987 and worked as an Hull, Mass. Carol, who received internship afterwards! ...Brian health coordinator for the Ameri­ accountant for Peat Manvick for her master's From Boston College, Smith began his Ph.D. program in can Refugee Committee in Malawi. two years , Otis, Atwe ll and spent the summer in France trav­ ju tice studies at Arizona State She spent last summer hiking in Timberlake for five months and eling with a group of Vermont University last fall. ...Toby the mountains, enjoying the lake Citibank for four months. Then it high school students called World LaVigne wrote a newsy letter from and reading John Grisham books, was on to Taos, N.M., where he Learning. After a year in Africa Ithaca, N.Y., where he is getting which finally made it to South Af­ has heen with Winter Accounting that she said dra tically changed his M. B.A. at the Johnson School. rica .... David Lane is researching for two year . Chris, who's had her life , she is toying with the idea He and hi girlfriend, Jen Smith, his doctoral thesis in Japan on a enough of desk jobs for a wh ile, of teaching with the Peace Corps recently set a wedding date ofJune Fulbright Fellowship.... Mark may pursue grad sch ol in envi­ in a West African University. 18, 1994. Toby sees Rob Travis Leondires, a house staff member ar ronmental studies. . Stefanie ...Scott Bates worked in and Michele Leinbach '89 often. Maine Medical Center, received a Greenfield sent word From Berlin, Canakkale, Turkey, last summer They're on Cape Cod, where they fellow hip in reproductive endo­ Germany, where she is learning for Turkey's largest cement ex­ both work at Camex International, crinology. He proudly accom­ the language and working as an porter, purring together a report to an ophthalmic marketing consult­ plished the Boston Marathon in architect. Stefanie is designing a make their chedulingof hip and ing firm. Toby also talked to Norm less than four hours last spring. social housing building and hopes inventory management more effi­ Hugo and Jen Massengill. Norm is ... Bob Kenney and Beth to stay long enough to ee it cient. Scott is getting his M.B.A. in Marina Del Ray, Calif., and Schwartz-Kenney continue to Iive built.... Peter Voss, also across from Bab on.... Leslie Chin, Patti working for Borell Advertising. Jen the scholarly life in Virginia. Bob the Atlantic, moved to Pari in D' Agostino, Sue White and Eli lives in Irvine, Calif., where she i received his Ph.D in social and December of '91 and is working as Orlic spent the la t weekend in getting her Ph.D. in immunology. organizational psychology and European headquarter · manager June in Portland, Maine. They he also competed in two triathlons joined 311 independent consulting for American internationalGroup. sorely missed Paula Williams la t summer. Toby says he visited firm. Beth is a third-year psychol­ Peter pas ed on word that David Friedrich, who could not attend Brooks Patterson and his wife, ogy professor at Randolph-Macon Sullivan wa to be married la tfall. due to her recent move to Amy, in Maryland and that Ken Woman's College ....Look for Rob Grenda, like Peter, was un­ Michigan ....My roomie for two Ginder and his fiancee, Claire, got more news in March. Until then, able to attend our fifth-year re­ and a half years at Colby, Cece married in November ....Kristin best wishes for continued happi­ union due to being so far away; Crowe, called from Alaska. She Scholl recently took time out of ness and success1 + however, both ay they look for­ was married on September 25. Cec, her hectic Ph.D. psychology sched­ ward to attending our 10th. With I wish you all the best, and to all ule at Pace University in New York his wife of three years, Yuiko Imai, other clas mate , congratulations to see Kristen Shea perform with Correspondent: Rob lives in Japan, where both are on your marriages, births, new the Newton Country Players in Lucy Lennon Tucker translator/teachers. Rob has ap­ homes, graduations and new jobs, Andthe World Goes Round. Kristen plied to grad school to study be­ and good luck in all your exciting is an assistant buyer for boys clothes Dana Friedman is an havioral/biological anthropology. endeavors. + with Talbots in Hingham, Mass. 7 executive VP ar Cre­ ..Jane Nicol Manuel and her ...Todd Jepson is at the Hold­ ative Impact Adverti - husband, Dave, expected their first ernessSchool in Plymouth, N.H., ing and Public Relarions Firm. A child in October. In 1992Jane and Correspondent: where he has been teaching En­ 8 Sara Dickison copy of his ad for Air-B Bicycle Dave moved to Indianapolis, where glish and American history since inner tubes appeared in Adweek Jane works for Lotus as a market­ graduation ....John Goslin is on magazine in April. Dana was mar­ ing rep and Dave is the director of lt's nice that so many the high seas of Gloucester, Mass., ried in June of '92 ....Wendy annual giving at Wabash College. people have recently as part of the search and rescue Barrows Lyles has moved to south­ After Dave finishes his M.B.A. at written in with all their squad of the United States Coast ern Maine, where she and hus­ the University of M ichig311 Busi­ news8 8and career moves. On the Guard ....Mary Federle Porter, band Christopher live with their ness School, the Manuels would academic forefront, Sean Collins former as istant director of alumni daughter, Kelly Alice, born 4/10/ like to move back East ....Ji m is in a master's program in print affairs, is working part time for the 93, just nine minutes before the Feeley, also pursing his M.B.A. at journalism at Boston University. Maine Children's Cancer Center Lyles' first anniversary. Mother­ Michigan, will be getting married He will complete this program part in Portland. She did such a fabu­ hood and renovating the hou e to Alison Sughove in Newport, time while still working as a writer lous job helping to plan our re­ have kept Wendy busy while she R.I., in June .... Becky Moser for CSC Consulting in Newton, union-we'll really miss her in the was on materniry leave from her received her master's degree in Mass. Sean also said that Becky Alumni Office! ...While in Maine job as district sales manager for speech and language pathology in Spoerri finished her master's in last September, I saw Peter '89 and Carpet Products, Inc. ...Tim December of '92 and then moved public health last spring, also at Laurie Meehan Reed at Randy Oakes, a grad student at the Uni­ to Florida with her husband, Dave. BU,and is nowjobhunting inNew Catlin's wedding. They recently versity of Washington, was mar­ She is working as a speech and Jersey ....Kirsten Dalton has one bought a wonderful house in ried to Julie Smith '86 in August language pathologist in a private semester left at Boston College Cumberland, Maine, where they 1992. Last fall Tim headed to China practice, traveling to rural towns before she completes her master's enjoy the beauty of mowing lawns for a year of dissertation fieldwork to do home visits with people who in counseling psychology. She and fixing up a new abode. Brad

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Wirth was al o one of Randy's Years milestone. We can no longer However, this one-time econom­ laughing for the next eight months guests. Brad is currently working as callourselve "recentcollegegradu­ ic major broke out of the norm in at various clubs around the city. the manager of a Stop and Shop in ates." So remember to mark your eptember 1991 by auditioning for After omesucce sin commercials, Claremont, .H . . ..Heidi Irving calendars and start planning for and being cast in Greenwich, he's now involved in a new busi­ Naughton was recently named as­ our reunion, June 2-5, 19941 ow Conn., productions of The Gold ness and writes that if any class­ si tant headmistress for srudents at the new . Cathy Andrew, in her Coastand, later, TheLion in Win­ mates are interested in learning the School of the Holy Child in last year at Brooklyn Law chool, ter. "All this with no acting train­ more about an "entrepreneurial Rye, N.Y., where she also will reach found time bet'.veen writing legal ing!" wrote David. "My sales venture with potential for a lot of American hi tory. She wrote that brit:fs to fill me in on the ew York background must be paying off."A fun," contact him at 203-622- she doesn't ee a lot of '88ers but scene: "All accounts you have heard few months later he debuted with a 1572 ... . Clas mates, that' it for ha reinvented the arr of letter are probably true." Yikes! Cathy tand-upcomedy actat The l mprov now! Keep in touch. + writing with Kim Ellis ....Rick was a summer associate at ullivan in .Y.C. and kept audience Keigwin wrote that he was pro­ & Cromwell, a Wall Street firm, moted to the position of special and will be clerking for a federal assistant to the director of EPA's district court judge when she gradu­ pesticide regi tration program. ates. This year she's competing in AlumniTrustees Nominated "Although that sounds like a posi­ moot court on the national envi­ tion to help farmersand the agro­ ronmental law ream, now that most The Nominating Committee of the Alumni Council has placed in chemical industry," he wrote, "I'm of her Law Review work i done. nomination three alumni for three-year terms to begin at Commence­ acrually getting to work on some Somehow she al o finds time to ment 1994. fairly significant environmental race sailboats all m·er the orth­ issues at la t, including the devel­ ea t coast, too. Cathy ent much Frank 0. Apantaku '71 is president and general urgeon forApantaku opment oflower risk pesticide and news ofweddings and engagements: [ensuring) that the EPA's regi tra­ Laura Thornton wa married at Clinics Ltd. in Chicago and assi rant professor of surgery at Chicago tion effortsare in compliance with her ummerhouseonJune 12. 1993. Medical School and hold an M.D. degree from orthwestem Univer- the Endangered Specie Act." ... Jen Pierce, Tina Clifford, Sandy iry. Dr. Apantaku was an alumni trustee in 19 7-93, erving on the Kate Walker started as an elemen­ Humphrey '90 and Cathy were the Budget and Finance, Educational Policy, Honorary Degree and Student tary school counselor in Wilton, bridal party. Kim Murphy showed Conn., last September. She's been up from D.C., a did Tim Barnard, Affairs Committee , on the Pre idential Advisory Committee and on the teaching tennis during the sum­ who's in the midst of a Ph.D. pro­ Overseer Visiting Committee to Health Ser\'ices in 1993. He is a past mers and will continue indoors for gram at William and Mary. Ala , president of the Colby Club of Chicago, was a member of the Alumni the winters. She spends so much Ed Barr '88, who is Jen Pierce's time with kids that she says she's fiance, was not able to attend be­ Council in 1990-93, is an active admi sion and career services volunteer beginning to feel like one! . . . cau e he' in Japan for a year. ...I and wa a member of the 20th Reunion Committee. Dr. Apantaku Lauren Frazza is doing freelance also heard that Zeke Wing and received a Colby Brick Award in 1991. work, keeping up her hand-painted Maria Vallis are doing well in Se­ t- hirt biz and till working on her attle; Zeke' working foran import Susan Comeau '63 i enior vice president for Global Human Re­ master's. She has a sprawling two­ company and Maria' managing a sources, a sub idiary of tate Street Bank Corporation. As an alumni bedroom in New York City since Japanese arr gallery ....And Eric her roommate left last August. For­ Hanson is rumored to be getting tru tee from 1987 to 1993, Ms. Comeau served on the Audit and Budget get hotels, everyone call Lauren if married-but all I know is that his and Finance Committees. As a member of the Alumni Council, she you're in the Big Apple! ...There fiancee bake a mean lemon chaired the Awards Committee in 19 0-82 and the Alumni Fund in wasn't a big rumour at Homecom­ poppyseedcake! . . . RachelTilney ing in October due to the fifth i teaching at the Westtown School 1982-85. A past director of the Boston Alumni Club and a formerclass reunion and the many "mini-re­ in Westtown, Pa., and write that agent, he received the Frank S. Carpenter Clas Agent Improvement unions" everyone had with all the Colby has quite the reputation at Award in 19 0. M . Comeau received a Colby Brick Award in 19 6. wedding bashes across the country. Westtown due to a bunch of en­ It's great to hear from everyone. If thusiastic alumni. Good to hear! George E. HaskellJr. 'SS i pre ident and CEO ofVER Y Inc., and you send it to me, I'll write about it! (She also said something about formerly was a parmer in Venture Consulting Corporation, president of • Bates, but I won't mention that.) Rachel and CamillaJohansson had The Haskell Group and president of Spectrum Interactive Inc. Mr. a great trip to Dubai, UAE, after Haskell currently serves an alumni trustee and on the Educational Policy Correspondent: spending a year in Austria. Wel­ and Student Affairs Committee . He previously was an overseer forthe Deborah A. Greene comehome! ...Finally,newsfrom David Cleary, who spent the first College in 1990-92, serving on the Vi iring Committee to Economics in Happy 1994 everyone! four years after Colby working in 1991 and to P ychology in 1992. And you all know what New York City for the Portland, 8 9 Maine-based UNUM Corporation In accordance with the by-law of the Alumni A ociation, other that date means-yes, we're approaching the big Five as a group sales repre entative. nomination may be made by petition to the executive secretary of the Alumni Council with the signature of one percent of the member of the Reunion Weekend as ociation on or before March 1, 1994. In the event of no nomination June 3,5, 1994 by petition, the above candidates will be declared elected by the chair of the Alumni Council. Celebrating are the Classes of '84 and '89

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..Deb Wood just received her i teaching history and coaching at Hill, Maine, Eric in admissions and Correspondents: master's in American studies from the Lawrenceville chool in New Adria in college guidance. Nicole the University of Maryland and is Jer ey . ...Dyanne Kaufman re­ Dauteuil Begin wa married in now workingpart time at the Noah cently relocated fromWashington, August to Rob Begin, with Rachel 1990 Webster House, a living mu eum D.C., to New York City, where she Klein as her maid of honor, Helen Laura Senier in Conn cticut. Deb hears fre­ is getting her teaching certificate Suh and Kelly Evans as brides­ 471 Lowell Street quently from Barb Shaw '9 1,who i at Bank Street College . . . . Cindy maidsand Andrew Eldredge, Dave Reading, MA 01867 doing graduate work and teaching Demskie and Jeff Borhek bought Edelstein, Laurie Silverman '94 and 617-944- 1399 in the women'ssrudiesdepartment a house in Sandwich, Mass. Jeff Garin Arevian '9 1 among the 1991 at the University of Maryland .... work for an insurance company guests. Chris and Angela Toms Brad Comisar Mike O'Loughlin just completed and Cindy is very happy with her Forman were married last spring in 1752 1st Avenue, Apt lA a year-long fellowship in pathol­ job at Abington avings Bank. New Hampshire and are living in ew York, NY 10128-5298 ogy and is continuing thi fall with . ..Page Higgins is working as a D.C. As for engagements, Chantal 212- 348-8968 medical school at the University of paralegal in New York City. Begin is engaged to her long-time 1992 Connecticut. Mike tells me that . ..ElizabethleRoy i inthegradu­ boyfriend, Shawn, with wedding Katie Martin Bill Priestley is in his second year ate program for public policy at the plans for next June. And Sarah 181 Larchmont Avenue of law school at Boston Uni­ Univer ity of New Hampshire. Bramhall and Josh Reynolds have Larchmont, Y 10538 versity ....Lynn Magovernis now ..Jodie Brown is working for an decided to tie the knot-probably 914-834-5537 assistant director of alumni rela­ advertising company just outside sometime after her family recover tions at Colby after working as a of Boston.... Thanks again to all from the recent wedding of my 1993 coach and dorm parent at West­ of you whogot in touch with me for brotherandSarah'ssister ....John Kristin L. Owens over chool in Connecticut. this column, and to those of you Polischuk, who I neglected to 15 Carol A venue, Apt. Lynn' been in touch with lots of who have never wntten in, try to mention was at a party that I at­ Brookline, MA 02 146 '90 grads, and through her, I've keep in touch! + tended in Cambridge last March, 617-566- 1442 heard about the following people: wrote me that John Rimas is at Christa Chiarello just finished a UMass-Lowell pursuing a degree year as a dormcounselorat a school Correspondent: in education, John Daileanes is at for troubled adolescent in Stock­ Katie Martin Springfield in athletic administra­ bridge, Mas ., and will be heading tion and Tom Capozza is at Correspondent: back to chool soon for a degree in Welcome Lynn Ma­ Dartmouth Medical School study­ Laura Senier social work ....Jen Holsten has 9 2 govern '90 to the ing veterinary medicine. As for been coaching occer, ice hockey Alumni Office. (She's John, he is working at Brigham News from '90 grads and iacrosse for the past two years the one who gets to deal with this and Women's Hospital in leep 90 continue to pour in at the Northfield Mount Hermon column once I write it.) ...When deprivation research (not his in­ from around the coun­ School in western Mas I was at graduation last spring, I tended field but a good start) try. I got a letter recently from Tracey Bishop is working for Sena­ made a promise to my buddy Ken and has become a star handball Megan Wahl, who is at the tor Dianne Feinstein in San Barber '90 that his name would player. He was recently named Wilmington Friends School in Francisco ....Sara Madden has appear in my next column. So to NHAC Player of the Month in Wilmington, Del., where she has been working for I. Magnin and my first HR at Colby: congratula­ ew England.... I got an article taught a variety of earth- and envi­ wi II be opening another retail store tions on your marriage to Amy about Melissa Small, who is teach­ ron men ta I- cience courses for in Palo Alto soon. Tracey and Sara, Partridge '93 on October 9. 1 hope ing at the Leelenau School in Glen grades 5-12. 1hs year she'll al o both former ice hockey players at that your Colby ushers, Rich Cook Arbor, Mich., and in her second coach field hockey and lacrosse. Colby, have been showing Califor­ '90 and Malcolm Hill '90, helped year as coach forthe cross country ...Diana Howell is living in Jack­ nians how it' really done-they you survive the pre-marital jitters! team. The article sang her praises son, Wyo., working a a naturalist recently won the "3 on 3 Red-Hot peaking of weddings, I have as coach ....Camper Dan Belvin hike leader. She is thinking about Rolling Toumament" in Roller­ heard of a number of engagements phoned me in September to in­ going to graduate chool for physi­ blade hockey.... Margaret Cly­ and weddings over the past year. form me of his afe returnfrom his cal therapy. Diana often hears from mer is sharing an apartment with Julie T rodella Bruneau wrote that mission in Somalia. As second Anne-Louise Band, who's going Nancy Penrose '9 1 in Seattle and i she was married in October '92 to lieutenant, he worked closely with to graduate school for forest man­ teaching history ....Jen Lally just a man she met through Gretchen the American Hospital as an op­ agement in Missoula, Mont., and got married to JeffKentin Norwell, Anglund, her freshmanroommate. erations officer-and still found from Amy Shedd, who's pecializ­ Mas .-both she and her husband Eric and Adria Lowell Turner, enough energy to run each day ing in cardiology in medical chool teach and coach at the Hyde School married in June, are both working in 115degree heat (on a coolday). at the Univer ity of Vermont. in Bath, Maine ... . Emilie Davis at the Kents Hill chool in Kents He is now back at his base in

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Radcliffe, Ky., and wanted me to extend his sincere gratitude to Louis Dorogi (at UMO pursuing NEWSMAKERS his master's in medieval history) for joining him at the Bangor Air­ Elizabeth James'90 was named director of annual giving and research port at four in the morning for at the BelmontHill School in Massachusetts.... White House staffer coffee and doughnuts ....Hilda Cassie O'Neill '9 1 was the commencement speaker at her alma Westerveltwrote me from Dijon, mater, NotreDame Academy in Hingham,Mass . ...John Brockelman France, with three months left of '92 was named an assistant to Massachusetts Governor William F. her Watson Fellowship. (She has Weld ....Following her year as a Watson fe llow, Hilda Westervelt since returned to Waterville.) Her '92 wasback to hang up her hat in Waterville-literally. Featured in project-studying 11th century a MorningSentinel article, her fabulous creations, embellished with sculptureon the medieval pilgrim­ elegant materials, piping and hand-made flowers and other seasonal age routes of Santiago de Com­ items, were on sale at the annual Colby Crafts Fair in the fall. ... po tella--led her all o er France Caleb Cooks '93 is project director and technical consultant of a and into Spain. She was able to Colby video project that addressessocial issues. Theproject is funded travel to Germany, Switzerland, with a three-year grant from the Philip Morris Foundation, which is Holland and Moroccoas well. She using Cooks's "Common Ground" video as a demonstrator video nationwide ....John Dingee '93 ran haskept in touch with Colby friends fora seaton the schoolcommittee of Braintree, Mass.,where he attended high school.... Suzanne Liacos and says Jen Zampell and Nicole '93 has joined the foreign language department at Bishop Fenwick High School in Beverly, Mass., and Porter are living in the Boston Timothy Seston '93 has been appointed assistant director of admissionat Lake Forest Academy in Lake area, Jen working as manager of a Forest, Ill. French pastry shopand icole try­ ing to find a job that's interesting. MlLEPOSTS Amy Fang is in the process of getting a master's from Simmons Marriages: DanaFrost '90 to Mark Allara in Cambridge, Mass.... Meredith Post '90 to Robert in library science with a focus in Gramlich '91. ...Dover York '90to William orris in Portland, Ore.... Elin Baird'91 toBrian Cain archival studies and fortunate was in Villanova, Pa .... Mark Poulin '9 1 to KimberlySmith in Fairfield, Maine.... Nicole Dauteuil '92 to visit Hilda this year. Ethan to Robert Begin in St. John bury, Vt. ...Angela Toms '92 to Christian Forman '92 in Keene, Gettman is teaching English in N.H. . ..Christopher Whelan '92 toLee Ann Petropulos in Weston, Conn.... Christopher Caponi Japan and, wrote Hilda, "wowing '91 to Heather Hews '93 in Lorimer Chapel. ... Sarah Ann Steindel '93 to Joseph Blood Ill in teenage girls with his incredible Meshoppen, Pa. karaoke talents." . . . Heather Ferguson recently moved into a Chesmut Hill apartment with Brenda Burke and Heather Columbia in education and has Bindler are all working in Boston. is coaching theski teamand Caleb Glynn. Heather is still working at returned to her teaching position Also nearby: Mark Muir is work­ Cooks is helping Colby to develop Dana Farber Cancer Institute and while pursuing her master's.... I ing as a computer consultant in a video project . . ..Beth Her­ plans to attend grad school next just quit my job as an office assis­ Woburn;Linda Bourell is working manson, like other classmates, re­ fall in genetic counseling.She had tantfor the father of DavidRussell in Braintree; Kristen Mobilia and mains in school. Attending law talked recently with Edie Clark, '89 in order to pursue a positionat I are in Brookline;and Beth Mont­ school are: Chris Kueter in lndi­ who was home in Ohio for a brief a magazine in ew York. I'll keep gomery is a computer consultant ana,Rick Wallace at Wake Forest visit from China, where she has you posted. Thanks again to all of in the area.... Moving south: Ja­ andJeff"Biscuit" Koscat DePaul. been in school and teaching you who make a point of keeping son Goldberger, Justin Sheetz, March McCubrey is attending English ....Jen Pelsoncompleted me well-informed. + Sung Park, Jennifer Knapp, BowlingGreen in Ohio, where he her master's of education in coun­ Shawn Behling and Candace is also teaching. Eric DeCosta is seling at UNH and hopes to be a Killmer are currently living and still in academics also, help in<>out guidance counselor in an elemen­ Correspondent: working in ew York City .... at the graduate level as a coach at tary school. ...Nancy Putnam Kristin L. Owens Meghan Goughan, Hallie Hastert Triniry College in Connecticut. loves traveling with Up With and Chris West are in Washing­ . ..Michelle Addario and Jill People .... Jen Kosekis a parale­ Greetings, Clas of ton, D.C., and Glenice Nickerson Moran are currently employed in gal in Philadelphia and consider­ 199 3 ! Here we are, is in Orlando, Fla. . . . Elsewhere the law field.... Two '93 grads . 93 more than half a year in the world, Brian Waldes is in ing moving to N.Y.C. .. Karen have changed their names. Con­ Larson is working forLibeny Mu­ after graduation. I hope that allof Colorado and Flint Hobart is in gratulations to Heather Hews tual in Dover, Mass.... Becky you find yourseIves doing whatyou Korea untilJune. ...Closerto our Caponiand Kelly McEntee Good, Graham and Jen Greenleaf are always wanted to be doing. Okay, hub of Colby, Dave Bartlett and both married last June ....This living with Deb Brown '90 in Bos­ here' the good stuff.Chin Chris is Todd Bosselait are working in sums it up for my current informa­ ton. Beckynow works foraproduc­ employed by State Street Bank in Portland, Dave forJohn Hancock tion. I hope to write about our tion company and Jen is in the Quincy, Mass. (Before I go any Life In urance and Todd for other classmates in the next issue, libraryofa lawfum... . ChrisFlint further, I want to thankChris for Hannaford Bros.MikeZheremains but I need to hear from all ofyou. was working at a golf course near his help in writing this column.) in Waterville and is working with You all can find my address and hishome in Brookline, N .H., hop­ Amy Duncanis also in Quincy the Central Maine Morning Senti­ phone number in the recent mail­ ing to attend grad school this fall and is employed by Reebok. nel A few '93 grads are employed ingsas well as at the top of the '90's foreducation. ...Sarah Hamilton ... Cristen Herlihy, Diantha by Colby: Matt Isham is working columns in Colby. Keep in touch! spentthe SUfDillertakingcoursesat Neskey, Ryan Friel and Don in admissions, Jefferson Goethals Until next time. +

61 JA NUARY 199-t COLBY • OBITUARIES •

Howard E Hill '18, Renowned Ophthalmologist

Howard F. Hill '18, a world-renowned physi­ in Auburn, Maine, at 96. Born in East Oxford, cian,died November16 athishome in Belgrade Maine, he graduated fromOxford High School. lakes, Maine, at98. He was bornin Waterville, At Colby he was a member of Alpha Tau the son of Dr.James F. Hill, Class of 1882, and Omega fraternity. Following service in World attended Coburn Classical Institute. He left War I with Army Intelligence as a translator the College in l 917 and, as he later wrote, and censor of German mail, he worked in the "enlisted asan exchange student in the trenches foreign department of National City Bank of of France for avivid crash course in the science New York and was active in local Republican of high explosives!" His 11 months on the party politics. He received an M.A. in French front lines of World War I with the First from Columbia University in 1932 and, many Division Quanennaster Corp , he wrote, were years later, an M.A. in German from "very educational for a country boy." In 1920 Middlebury College. He taught languages at he received his Colby B.S. uponcompletion of Portland High School, the Princeton Prepa­ his first year at Harvard Medical School. In ratory School, Lawrence Academy and St. 1923, following graduation from Harvard, he Paul's School beforejoiningthestaffofHebron interned at Chesrnut Hill Ho pita! in Phila­ Academy in 1948. He caught German, French, delphia, and in 1925 he was surgeon at Wills Spanish, Italian, Latin and English, wrote Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He returned to news of Hebron alumni and served two years Waterville in 1926, became a Fellow of the as Hebron's coordinatorof development. Af­ American College of urgeons in 1927 and in ter he retired in 1965 he continued as alumni 1928 studied in Vienna. During a memorial secretary until 1983. His History of Hebron service in Lorimer Chapel in December,Presi­ Academy was published in 1979. His lifelong dent Cotter said, "There i no doubt but that interest in history led him to found the Hebron Howard's finest institutional contribution to Lancaster course in cararact surgery, and his Historical Society and to member hips in the our greater community was the gift ofll-iayer adopted son and colleague, the late Dr. Kevin Maine, Oxford and Bethelhistorical societies. Hospital, which he foundedwith hi brother, Hill '50, maintained the Hill family involve­ He also was active in the Hebron Republican Frederick Thayer Hill 'IO." The founding of ment in the program by serving as director in Town Committee and served the town as the hospital marked the beginningof Dr. Hill's the 1970s. In 1956 the College awarded him selectman and member of the planning board 50 years of service in ophthalmology to the an honorary doctorof sciencedegree, praising and as trustee of the Moody Public Library. At Waterville community and the world. Known him as "a person who has conferred special the Hebron Community Baptist Church he internationallyfor his revolutionary contribu­ benefits on his fe llow man." He was a Colby was moderator, chair of the board, clerk and tions to cataract urgery and paretic muscle Friend of An and served on his 40th reunion deacon. He also was a commander of the surgery, he delivered many papersin ophthal­ committee and as chair of his 50th. In 1978 an Oxford post of the American Legion. For his mology in thi country and abroad. A member appreciative College awarded him a Colby public ervice, he was awarded a Colby Gavel of the prestigious American Ophthalmologi­ Brick. That fall Colby named the Hill House in 1963. A loyal supporter of the College, he cal Society, he also held memberships in the in honor of the devoted service to the College served as class agent, donated paintings and French, Pan Pacific, Spanish and Pan Ameri­ by three generations of the Hill family. Fol­ books to special collections, contributed ar­ can ophthalmological societiesand was a teach­ lowing his retirement at 80, he continued his ticles to the alumni magazine and attended ing fe llow at the famed Barraquer Institute in hobby of world travel. In all he visited 54 many reunions, including his 75th in 1992. Spain. For his work developing a clinic in countries and was still traveling alone in his Surviving are his daughter, three grandchil­ Barcelona, Spain, a grateful government made early 90s. Concludinghis remarks at the memo­ dren and three great-grandchildren. him a Spanish Don. He was a trustee of the rialservice, PresidentCottersaid, "Howard Hill American Foundation for Medical Eye Care hasleft hismark. The community, this College Phoebie Vincent Parker '1 7, and held memberships in many local and state and the world of medicine are all better than medical associationsas well as the Masons,the they would have beenwithout him." Survivors HospitalTr ustee, Vo lunteer Rotary and the American Legion. For 10 years include his son, Howard F. Hill Jr., fourgrand­ he taught a course in Chicago at the American children, including Michael Hill '86, a great­ PhoebieVincent Parker '17, a long-time mem­ Academy ofOphthalmology. In the 1950s, he granddaughter and his daughter-in-law. ber of the board of trustees of the Windham and his brother, who was an internationally CommunityMemorial Hospital in Willimantic, renowned otolaryngologist, persuaded direc­ Conn., died July 5 in Farmington, Conn., at97. tors of the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmol­ Harold E. Hall ' 1 7, She was born in Island Falls, Maine, and gradu­ ogyto esrablish at Colbyand were instrumental Hebron Academy Te acher ated from Houlton High School. A memberof in setting up the various summer seminars, Delta Delta Delta sorority at Colby, she was workshops and courses in medical specialties Harold E. Hall '17, a teacher of foreign lan­ active in basketball and drama and graduated on the Colby campus. For years he taught a guagesat Hebron Academy, died November 7 with honors in chem istry. After a year teaching

JA UARY 199 4 COL BY 62 at Windham High School in Willimantic, she 1937 as district accountant in Bath and ad­ senior partner in 1965. When Paige merged married and began work as secretary of the vanced through various district assignments with the James Organization in 1972, he was Parker-Ellion Coal Co. Following the death of in Augusta and Livermore Falls. 1n 1956 he elected presidentand CEO of the organization's her husband in 1941, she took over manage­ became staffassistant at the company's gen­ Maine operation and made a director of the ment of the company, eventually becoming eral office and in 1963 was named southern Jamescompanies in Chicago. He was a member owner, vice president, treasurer and general division manager at Portland. He was elected of various Masonicorganizations and servedas manager beforeselling the businessto DahI Oil/ vice president in charge of administrative ser­ presidentof the Maine InsuranceAgents Asso­ Cities Service Corp. in the 1960s. She was vices in 1973 and was made a CMP director in ciation. An avid golfer, he was a member of active in Republican politicsand in 1946 ran for 1976, positionshe held until his retirement in several golf organizations and was the Maine the Connecticut House of Representatives. 1978 after41 years with the company. He was Senior Golfers co-champion in 1970. Surviv­ During World War II she was active in the Red vice chair of the Greater Portland Chamberof ing are his wife, Janene, three daughters, in­ Cross Motor Corps and throughout her life was Commerce's area development council, presi­ cluding ancy Winslow Lemieux '68,and two a volunteer with several organizations, includ­ dent of the Augusta-Hallowell Chamber of grandchildren. ing serving astreasurerof the Willimantic branch Commerce and a member of the Lions Club ofthe AAUWandaschairofvolunteerservices and the Bethlehem Lodge #3 5 and held lead­ of the Willimantic chapter of the Red Cross. ership posts in the Augusta Rotary Club. Sur­ Clare Donahue Libby '41, She was especially active in Blood Bank work viving are a daughter, a sister, two Nurse,Te acher and the Visiting Nurses Association and was grandchildren and nieces and nephews. instrumental in organizing the first auxiliary to Clare Donahue Libby '41 , a nurse and teacher, Windham Hospital. Predeceased by her son, died December 4, 1992, in HinsdaleIll., at 71. she is survived by several grandchildren and Lawrence C. Lightner '38, She was born inPresque Isle, Maine, and great-grandchildren. Reading Specialist attended Presque Isle High School. At Colby he was president of the Women' Division Lawrence Lighmer '38, a lifelong educaror, died during her senior year and graduated with a Lois Crowell '34, July 18 in Bangor, Maine, at 79. He was born in degree in English. She went on to receive a Physician New York City and lived in Spuyten Ouyvil, master's degree in nursing from Yale Univer­ N .Y., and Mountain Lake and Morristown, sity in 1944. After a year as a Yale faculty Lois Crowell '34, a retired senior physician at N.]., where he anended high school. He re­ memher, she served as administrator of Presque Tewksbury Hospital in Tewksbury, Mass., died ceived a bachelor's degree from Oberlin Col­ Isle General Hospital until I 949. From 1950 in Bostonon August 14 at 88. She was bornand lege in 19 36 and came to Colby for a year to be to 1953 she was employed as public health raised in Everen, Mass., where she anended certified forteaching at the same time that his nurse for Aroostook County. Following her high school. A chemistry major and member of father, E.A. Lighmer, was assistantto President marriage and move to Texas in 1953, she Sigma Kappa at Colby, she went on to earn her Johnson. He later anended the New York Uni­ taught for a year at IncarnateWord College in M.D. at Boston University Medical School in versity Reading Institute and earneda master's San Antonio, then became an associate pro­ 1938. She served as an obstetrician at New degree in education from Rutgers University in fessor at Lewi University in Romeoville, Ill., England Hospital for Women and Children in 1950. He wasa readingspecialist at Morristown where she was instrumental in the accredita­ Bostonand the Chicago Maternity Centerbe­ High School for 21 years fo llowing previous tion of the nursing school. She was president fore becoming a general practitioner at assignments at Dover Village (Ohio) High of the ArthritisFoundation in Joliet, Ill. She is Tewksbury Hospitalin 1941.When she retired, School, Westfield (N.J.) Junior High School, survived by her husband, Roscoe, three sons, a she estimated that she had been on call 120 Stevens Institute of Technology and the New daughter and fourgrandchildren. hours a week for 30 years and delivered more York University Reading Clinic. He helped than 2,000babies. She moved to her long-time create the special curriculum for the Salisbury summer home in Cape Porpoise, Maine, where (Conn.) Summer School of Reading and En­ Muriel BriggsPitrat '49, she took up model ship building and photo­ glish and in 1964 began teaching reading and Geologist graphed and reported on the wildlife of the writing skills at onhfield Mount Hermon nearby islands. In 1981 she was honored by the School in Massachusetts. 1n 1992 he received Muriel Briggs Pitrat '49, a geology assi tant at College with a Colby Brick for her service as the school's Community Service Award. Sur­ Mt. Holyoke College, died April 29 in Flo­ class agent, memberof the Alumni Fund Com­ viving are a son,two daughters and eight grand­ rence, Mass., at 63. A native of Waterville, minee and constant and generous supporter of children. Maine, and a graduate of Waterville High student scholarshipsat the College. She leaves School, she devoted much of her life to the her brother, Rohen Crowell. study ofgeology. While at Colby she majored in Robert Winslow'3 8, geology and was a charter memberof the Geol­ Insurance Executive ogy Club. For severalyears following graduation Walter Worthing '35, she servedas anassistant geologist at Colby and Business Executive Rohen Winslow '38, an insurance executive for the State of Maine, assisting in surveys and with the James Organization, died September the publication of several geological reports. Walter Worthing '35, a vice president and 19 in Yarmouth, Maine, at 78. A native of She anended the University of Indiana's Sum­ director of Central Maine Power Company, Winslow, Maine, heanended WorcesterAcad­ mer Institute in Field Geologyand alsostudied died September 9 in Hampden, Maine, at 80. emy. At the College he played foo tball and golf at the Universityof Kansas. 1n the early 1960s Born in Palermo, Maine, he attended China and was presidentofDeltaKappa Epsilonfrater­ she taught geology in adult educationclasses at schools and was a graduate of Besse High nity. HejoinedJohnC. Paige Companyin 1938 the College. Latershe was a geologyassistant at School in Albion. While majoring in business as an insurancebroker. DuringWorld War II he Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts.She was administration at the College he was a mem­ was a division commander in the Navy and predeceased by her mother, Martha Marden ber of lam a Chi Alpha fraternity and twice captained motor torpedo boats in the North, Briggs '24. Survivors include threesons, includ­ was managing editor of the Oracle. He began South and Central Pacific operations. He was ing Stuart '93, a daughter, and her sister, Vir­ work at Central Maine Power Company in made a junior partner at Paige in 1949 and a ginia BriggsZulieve '45.

63 JA UARY 1994 COLBY Rita Hamilton Hager '55, been in operation in Pittsfield since that time. Irving David Suss, A memberof the Kiwanis, he held the posi­ Librarian tions of l ieutenan t governorof Kiwan is Inter- English Profes.50r national and secretary to the ew England Rita Hamilton "Scotty" Hager '55, an assis­ Irving David Suss, a professor of English from Kiwanis Foundation, a fund-raising branch of tant I ibrarian at McKinley ElementarySchool, 1957 to 1980, died November 17 at his retire­ the organization. During his term the Kiwanis died July 1 in Arlington, Va., at age 60. She ment home near Princeton, NJ, at the age of established the Pediatric Traurna Institute in was born in Brooklyn, .Y., and lived in New 78. A native of Newark, N.J., he earned a B.A. Boston.Since 1973 he had served as president Rochelle, .Y., Mount Kisco, .Y., and Co - at the University ofNorth Carolina in 1936 and of the GoodWill HorneAssociation, a branch entry, Conn., and graduated from toneleigh­ spent the next six years with Max Rogel and of the Good Will-Hinckley School. A gradu­ Prospect Hill School in Greenfield, Mass. At Associates. He served in World War II as a ate of the institution, he was given the Alumni Colby she majored in history and was active in captain of cavalry and was wounded in action. Award for outstanding contributions to the the International Relation Club, Powder & In 1948 he received an M.A. from Columbia school.He also was a corporate member of the Wig and Canterbury Club. She taught school University and three years later completed a Waterville Osteopathic Healthcare Services for one year in South Dartmouth, Mass., then Ph.D. with a specialization in the drama, of and a charter member of CODA, a group moved to the Washington, D.C, area, where social protest and the Irish tradition. He was an formed to help control drug-related problems. he was employed at the ational Academy of instructor at Rutgers University and a lecturer He is survived by his wife, Geraldine, his Sciences for four years. In 1959 he married at both Columbia University and CUNY be­ mother, nvo sons, three grandchildren and John W. Hager '55. An active member in the fore he joined the Colby English Departmentin nieces and nephews. Episcopal Church, she served on the vestry 1957. For the next 23 years he was the theater and in various regional and diocesan offices. at Colby, directing three or four productions he is survived by her husband, two son , one Fredric Bonner'6 1, each year alone or in cooperation with the late daughter, a grandson and a ister. Ed Witham, who taught speech inthe English Busines.5 Manager Department. ln addition to teaching history of Nancy Gilligan To rborg '56, Fredric Bonner '6 1, a manager for the UNOCAL the drama and a number of other courses, he Corp. of Los Angeles, died September 28 in performed in professional theaterand in several Innkeeper, Antiques Dealer South Windsor, Conn., at 54. He was born in Colby productions and later servedon the advi­ Beverly,Mass., and graduated fromWaterville sorycommittee of the TheaterAssociation of ancy Gilligan Torborg'56, an antiques shop High School. After Army service in Germany Maine. A small man with a powerful voice, he owner, died May 17 in Massachusetts at 5 . A he earned his M.B.A. in corporatefi nance from was a feared opponent in faculty debate, but he nati e of Great Barrington, Mass., she at­ ew York University in 1968. He was a man­ was also a generous host and renowned story­ tended rnith College before transferring to ager in the stock transfer department for teller whose infectioushumor and radiant smile Colby, where he majored in mathematics and UNOCALCorp. in Los Angeles and had lived and laughter lit up the Lives of his Colby col­ was a member of the Outing Club and the in Californiafor many yearsprior to moving to leagues and friends. He will be remembered as Student Christian Association.Shed id gradu­ South Windsor in 1992. He was a nationally an innovative and original producer, director ate work in education at the University of active member of the Corporation Secretaries and actor who made theater at Colby a gratify­ Connecticut and went on teach in high schools of America and was listed in Who's Who in the ing experience. in ew York and Texas. With her hu band, J. WesL He is survived by his parents, Vivian and Gerhardt Torborg, a corporation engineer, George Bonner '38, a son, a daughter and a she traveled extensively, moving 24 times in brother, Robert '68. 25 years to such varied locations as Albena, CORRECT IONS Canada, and Libya. ln Mendham, .J., he caned a bu iness building and decorating Raphael Smith '88, Cicely Y. Finley '94, Kendra A King '94, Bronwyn K. Jones'96, Tara . Marathe'96 dollhouses for private collectors. After mov­ Journalist,Graduate Student ing to the Berkshires, she began restoring and Roberto ieves'96 were inadvertently Colonial homes in the area. Among her resto­ Raphael Smith '88, a graduate student at Co­ omittedfrom the listingofRalphJ. Bunche rations were the Colonel Ashley Inn, which lumbia University, died September 14 in Bul­ Scholars in 'The President's Report"(Colby, she ran as a bed-and-breakfast for nvo years, garia as a result of injuries received in a November). ebraska was omitted from and the Hubbard House, where she operated motorcycle accident. He was 26. He was born the geographical distribution of students, an antiquesshop. She is survived by her hus­ in France, educated in schools in Taconic, thereby omitting A Kent Bonham '94, band and three sons. Conn., and graduated from the Hotchkiss Colby' lone student from that state. Re­ School in Lakeville, Conn. Aftercompleting ports from the Deparnnent of Education his Colby education in three years, he spenta and the Deparnnent of Psychology were Donald Bishop '57, year at the BeijingLanguage Institute in China inadvertently omitted from the listing of Busines.5 Owner and also worked at the International Herald faculty publications and achievements. Tribune in Paris as an editorial assistant. Sev­ Donald Bishop '57, ownerof the Maine Fence eral of his articles had been published recently In the obituary for Marian Drisko Tucker Company, died September 24 in Pittsfield, in The Boscon Globe, The St. Louis Post-Dis­ '25 that appeared in the August Colby, her Maine, at 61. Born in Sr. Albans, Maine, he pau:h and The Chicago Tribune. He had corn­ sister was incorrectly identified. Her late attended the GoodWill-H inckley Schooland p leted one year of graduate school in twin ister was MaryDrisko Hall '24. Colby was a 1950 graduate of A erill High School. international and public affairs at Columbia regretsthe errors. At Colby he was a member of the baseball and at the time of his death was taking a year team and the Glee Club. Afterbrief service in off from his studies to tour Europe and write the Navy, he returnedto complete his degree freelance articles. Surviving are his mother, in business administration. In 1961 he estab­ Anne Smith Fulton, his tepfather and his lished the Maine Fence Company, which has brother and ister.

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