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7 ,409 People said YES!

They all gave to the I 994 Colby Alumni Fund.

Thanks to all of you, as of June 30 we raised $1 , 769,000 in unrestricted dollars for the College.

To the 483 new donors who helped provide a 7% increase in giving, welcome aboard! One of the criteria for Colby's national rankings is the percentage of alums who support their college, and you helped Colby reach 45.2%.

And for those of you who thought "maybe I'll give something next year" - it's next year! I N s I D E C 0 L BY

COLBY Volume 83 Number 4

Colby Staff: Cover Story

Sally Baker 11 execucive editor A Remarkable Day

]. Kevin Cool The Class of '94 departed in memorable fashion, with be t managing editor wishe and advice from former president George Bush.

Brian Speer designer page 11 Features Robert Gillespie Alumni at Large editor 6 Back in Shape tephen Collins '74 Lynn Sullivan '89 A renovated and improved Alfond Athletic Center rises from staffwriters the a hes of a fire-damaged fac ility.

Aneste Fotiades '89 17 editorial assistant Outreach Agents Hannah Swenson '96 Colby's Alumni Council i empowering itself to erve the needs Amy Chamberlain '96 edicorial interns of its constituents and to assist the College.

Contributing Reporter: page 6 20 Selby Frame The Write Stuff

Administration: In pired by faculty to test their abilitie , student blo om in William R. Cotter, president; one of the nation's be t creative writing programs. Peyton R. Helm, vice president for development and alumni relacions; 24 Earl H. mith, dean of College; the Making a Life Out of Theater usan Conant Cook '75, director of alumni relacions A the curtain falls on hi 31-year Colby career, Howard Koonce reflects on the joy of nurturing a theater community. Alumni Council Executive Committee: Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman Departments '80; Thomas M. Dailey '80; John 41 '78; 2 B. Devine Jr. Solomon J. page 24 Periscope Student Life Hartman '67; Ronald L. Lupton '71; William E. Marvin '65; 3 43 Judith Orne horey '55; Carol G. From the Hill Alumni at Large Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58 28 Profiles: Colby is published five times President' Forum Steven Sternberg'4 1 yearly for the alumni, friends, 4 7 Dr. George E. Haskell Jr. '55 parents of students, seniors, 32 53 Joan Phillipp Thomp on '64 faculty and staffof Gifts & Grants 59 Colby College. 65 Abigail Rome '78 Address correspondence to: 35 7 5 Robert Scott Jr. '90 Managing Editor, Colby Faculty File 4181 77 Mayflower Hill 38 Waterville, ME 04901-8841 Obituaries Books & Authors or e-mail to: 80 [email protected] page 35 40 Letters Paging Parents

AUGU T 1994 COLBY � P E R I s c 0 PE� L.��� Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI.

Alumni In Admissions Move To Wellness thor of a book, Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, More than 1,000 Colby alums from some Colby's age-old physical education re­ 1897-1936, which has received the 45 tates are enrolled in a special program quirement has been renamed and rede­ Wallace K. Ferguson Prize awarded by to assist the College with identifying and fined, thanks to the work of a study group the Canadian Historical Association for interviewing prospective students. Judy formed by the Health Care Advisory Committee and including members from "the best book in non-Canadian history Brody '58, associate dean of admission published in 1993." ...Lyn MikelBrown heads the team whose members inter the staffs of the Health Center and the � (education) has been chosen as a Na­ viewed nearly 250 high schoolers last year Athletic Department. Effective in the tional Academy of Education Spencer and represented the College at more than fall, the name will be changed to the Postdoctoral Fellow. Administered by the 70 college fairs around the country. "Wellness" requirement. The centerpiece of the new program i a 10-week serie of National Academy of Education, the fel­ lowships are given to enhance the future Piper Life Trustee seminars on topics relating to wellnes , attendance at which will meet half of the of research by developing new talent in Trustees have elected Wilson Piper '39 new requirement. The plan preserves the the many fields of educational scholar­ a life member of the board. Piper, an traditional methods of meeting the re­ ship .... Work by Ira Sadoff (English) attorney with the Boston firm of Ropes & quirement th rough joining in any of seven has been included in the Harper's Ameri­ Gray, became a trustee in 1959 and has life-time sports activities (squash, tennis, can Literature Anthology, Vol. II, just served in numerous capacities, including aerobics, scuba, lifeguard training, yoga released ....Sandy Maisel (government) a term as vice chair. He is now a member and ice skating) and by participation in ha been elected president of the New of the executive, audit and budget and var ity or club sport teams. England Political Science Association. finance committees. For more than a half century, Piper has given the College Colby Pride Moosecellaneous his time and his talent and has been Shelby Nelson (phy ics) has received a This year's freshman book is Primo Levi's among Colby's most generous benefac­ Maine Researcher Enhancement Grant Survival in Auschwitz . ... Colby Book tors. He and his wife, Peg, established the from the Experimental Program to Stim­ Prizes were presented to students at 75 Clara C. Piper endowed chair, currently ulate Competitive Research. It is a pro­ high schools around the country this held by Dave Firmage. Other life mem­ gram established to help states that spring. Books are purchased from an ap­ bers on the board are Robert Anthony traditionally receive little federal proved list by alumni or alumni groups '38, Alida Camp and former Colbypr esi­ funding . ...Michael Donihue '79 and pre ented to juniors as chosen by dent Robert E. L. Strider. (economics) has accepted a one-year ap­ chool faculty. lntere ted alums should write the Admis ions Office .... Presi­ Let's Welcome pointment as senior economi t with the President's Council of Economic Advi­ dent Bill Cotter found the money to help Kevin Cool, new managing editor of this sors in Washington. He'll spend his a group of 15 Colby students who spent magazine, who comes to us by way of sabbatical year working with members spring break working for Habitat forHu­ Central College in Pella, Iowa, where, of the Council as well as with members manity by constructing homes in hurri­ since 1988, he has been director of col­ of President Clinton's administration in cane-ravaged Miami. lege communications. His work at Cen­ preparing economic forecasts and tral, his alma mater, won a number of macroeconomics policy .... Susan Ooops! awards including one for "exceptional MacKenzie '80 (government and envi­ In a "Periscope" item about an Alumni achievement in publication " from the ronmental ciences) has been awarded a Fund student phonathon in the June is­ Council for the Advancement & Sup­ research fellowship by the Center for sue of Colby, we should have included the port of Education (CASE). Before join­ Science & International Affairs at name of Susannah Kowal '96's mother, ing the college cene, Kevin was managing Harvard. She will conduct research and Diane Terry '65. Susannah was the event's editor of the Daily lowegian in Centerville write a book on international efforts to top solicitor, raising $12,190 from 171 and, beforethat, news editor of the Daily implement ecosystem management . ... donors. We apologize for the oversight, Union injunction City, Kan. Jan Hogendorn (economic ) i co-au- Diane.

COLBY AUGUST 1994 2 F R 0 M E H I L L

Panel To Address Housing Options

he Board of Trustees ha commis­ other college are doing to addre the special interest hou ing and whether it ioned a panel to evaluate Colby's hou ing needs of multicultural tudents would open the door to additional reque ts Tre idential life program and determine and asses oc ietal factor that pertain to for separate housing units ba·ed on aca­ whether it meet the need of all Colby questions of diversity. The group a a demic, soc ial or co-curricular affinitie . tudents. The issue was The ubcommittee raised at a meeting thi evaluating comparable pring in which 70 tu­ program at other col­ dents of color requested lege has already con­ that the College provide ducted a survey of 2 multicultural hou ing. ·chools to learn what The 21 -member T rus­ hou ing programs exi t tee Cammi sion on Mul­ romeet pecificneed of ticultural and pecial multicultural student . Interest Hou ingwas cre­ Member will \·i it a ated to address concerns handful of college thi aired by Students of ummer and fall to col­ Color United forChange lect more information. during a March 9 Cam­ The ational Cultu­ pus Community Com­ ral Evaluation subcom­ mittee meeting. The mittee, noting that "new centerpiece of the stu­ issues and new objectives dents' proposal wa a re­ regarding race relation quest for a multicultural are now evident," said hou e/center that would any deci ion regarding provide a "residential oa- Studems ofColor United For Change sought the establishment ofa multiculcural new hou ing arrange- house at a CCC meeting in March. i " for student made ments hould con ider uncomfortable by mainstream dormitory whole will di cu s how and to what ex­ ocial trends that may influence current life. The students emphasized that such a tent the creation of a multicultural house concernsand future need . house would be non-exclu ionary and de- would impact College policies regarding The commi ion expects to present a igned to "initiate multicultural dialogue." " pecial interest" hou ing option . The report to the tru tee board at its January ome student aid that they feel con- Tru tees Commission on Campus Life' 1995 meeting. picuous and unfairlyburdened by their December 1983 report recommending perceived role as diversity amba sador . the abolition of fraternities and sororities (Roughly 7 percent of Colby's student has been the ba is of sub equent deci­ Good Chemistry population i composed of orth Ameri­ sion oppo ing the creation of separate n a craggy island 2 mile off can minorities.) A multicultural house hou ing unit . Colby Pre ident Bill Cot­ 0 the coa t of Maine-an inho pi­ would ease a similation for tudents of ter has expres ed reservation about re­ table chunk of granite whose only occu­ color while providing a place to celebrate visiting this policy but ay he agrees that pant is a lighthouse keeper-Colby Colby's diverse population, they say. additional study is needed on the particu­ tudent Matthew Weaver '95 and A so­ The commission, whose members in­ lar issue of multicultural housing. He ciate Profe or of Chemi try Tom Shat­ clude trustee , faculty, students and ad­ called it "one of the most poignant and at tuck di embark from a Coast Guard boat, mini trators, held its fir t meeting May the same time one of the most difficult" cramble over a carpet ofrock and, reach­ 20 and appointed three subcommittee i sues faced by the College. ing the lighthouse, climb to the top. The to study separate is ues. The ubcommit­ One area of debate for the commis ion view i impre sive, but they aren't there tee will evaluate Colby' re idential life i expected to be whether the creation of a to admire the ocean. They are collecting program as it currently exists, tudy what multicultural hou e would be con trued as aerosol samples to study the way airborne

3 AUGU T 1994 COLBY Very Observant

A series of "public evenings" sponsored by the College we hould share what we learn," he said. "We feel we owe July 16-22 attracted about 300 Waterville area residents to it to the public to share this information." the Collins Observatory to see the results of comet frag­ The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet's collision with Jupiter, ment hitting Jupiter. approximately 480 mil­ Professor of Physics l ion mile from earth, Murray Campbell, who or­ intrigued veteran ky­ ganized the events along watchers and per on with Vi iting As-istant who had never looked Profe--orof Physics Rohdri through a tele cope, Evans and Will Yelle Campbell ays. "The pub­ '96 , was pleased with the lic is intere ted in as­ public's response. "I was tronomy for the same elated that so many people reasons astronomers are," came to look through the he said. "They want to see telescope and enjoyed do­ more and know more." ing so," he said. Celestial phenomena, Although he planned while scientifically impor­ to have the telescope open tant, also touch the human only one night, the public spirit, he says. "Science response prompted Camp­ teaches us how to solve bell to extend the sessions Professor of Chemisrry Murray Campbell lines up Jupiter. problems, but it' also aes­ through the week. thetic. There is an intrinsic On July 20, one of the clearer nights of the week, an beauty which the public can appreciate." estimated 100 people lined up for a one- or two-minute Because of its massive size and gravitational force, Jupiter inspection of Jupiter. Most said they were pleased by the i a comet magnet. Comet -aggregates of rock and ice quality of the image, and everal could make out distinct hurtling through the solar y tem--often come close to black patches that Campbell ays probably were clouds of Jupiter but seldom hit the planet it elf, Campbell says. "lf a dust caused by comet fragments vaporizing in Jupiter's comet doesn't have the misfortune of going close to Jupiter atmosphere. "I always worry that people will be d isappointed it will live the entire age of the solar system," he said. that they don't see a textbook quality image," Campbell Campbell i grateful for a gift by Anthony Kramer '62 that said. "But my wife [Linda], who was randing at the tele­ provided funds for the purchase of the tele cope. The gift was scope, heard a lot of people saying 'Oh, wow.' They were made as a memorial to Kramer's friend and cla smate absolutely thrilled." Lawrence Walker Collins Ill '62. Campbell say he was fo llowing a tradition within the "l hope to do many more summer evenings for the public in a tronomical community that emphasizes public educa­ coming year ,"Campbell said. "Thi one was a lot of work, but the tion. "There is a strong feeling among astronomers that appreciation by the people who came made it all worthwhile." particles travel in the atmosphere. "Clearly progress is lower than it would Olivares, who began her 10-week fel­ Thi summer 12 Colby students are be for a graduate student, but the quality lowship May 24, culminated the project involved in 14 separate projects in the of work is at the graduate-school level." with a presentation to her chemistry col­ College's Chemistry Department, colla­ Merck/Leighton Summer Fellow leagues late in ] uly and with a visit to the borating with faculty on erious, funded Evelyn Olivares '95 is conducting experi­ Merck pharmaceutical laboratory in New research that often involves fieldwork. ments on basic structures foundin natu­ Jersey, where she di cussed her research In the vernacular of the chemistry fac­ ral products, hoping to develop new and toured the facilities. ulty, the e students are "doing cience" approaches for recomposing those prod­ "This has been a very educational sum­ and doing it well. ucts organically. When she de cribe the mer," he said. "This gives me the indepen­ According to Shattuck, Colby's sum­ research, Olivares speak with the confi­ dence I need to think for my elf and give mer re earch assi tant compare favor­ dence of a seasoned veteran. "Rather me the tool to start on my own, to develop ably with first- or second-year graduate than just doing a cookbook kind of thing, omething new based on my idea ." tudent . Miselis Profe sor of Chemi try following directions, I'm thinking about Mundy, a self-professed "zealot" on Brad Mundy concurs. "These kids are what goes on next and developing my the merits of Colby's summer re earch working on real science," Mundy aid. own protocols," she said. program, said opportunirie Olivare and

OLBY AUGU T 1994 4 others in theChemi try Department have '94 (see Colby, March ), said tudent help um mer to work they will ha,·e later on-" are truly extraordinary for undergradu­ i "absolutely essential" to completing The benefits for -rudent are elf-evi­ ates. "Evelyn is now doing vacuum distil­ hi re earch. "Student make a huge im­ dent, ay chemi try faculty. "I would ay lations and using equipment that two pact on what I'm able to do," he aid. "I a good undergraduate research experi­ months ago she never even thought about can't do my science without their help." ence i equal to almost any other factor u ing," he said. The recipient of re earch grants from that a graduate -chool could look at," Another of Mundy's ummer research both the National Science Foundation Mundy said. "One of the really fanta-tic a istants, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Scholar and Research Corporation, King relie trengths of Colby College is that even tf Frank Favaloro '96, is analyzing how or­ on tudent a sistants J. Catherine a faculty member doe n't ha,·e funded ganic compound are reduced. "Frank is Kneece '96 and Jason Hosmer '95-both re earch they can get in the re earch doing catalytic hydrogenations; that's an of whom also received funding from game and give tudents these opportuni­ experience that probably one percent of HHMI-for data collection and lab ties. I'm very excited about the opportu­ the world' student will ever have and yet analy is. "They're collecting tons of nitie student have here." he's doing it routinely," Mundy said. data, and I've been able to get two papers Without fund ing to underwrite the Sarri Salman '94 is studying the syn­ out [this summer)," King aid. re earch the tudent a i rant program the is of carbon in wood rot fungus; Josh Shattuck points out that most stu­ would not exist. King ays a combination Smith '95, also a Bristol-Meyers Squibb dents will carry on research begun dur­ of external support-both of his re earch scholarship recipient, is conducting ex­ ing the summer into the fall semester, grants have fu nds designated for tudent periment on sulfide oxidations during perhaps culminating in a senior thesi . help-and Colby's internal upport the metabolic proces . Meanwhile, Clare "By the time they fini h college they drives the program. He also credit re­ Boothe Luce Scholar Sara Charnecki have a nice body of work they can be cent renovations in Keyes Science Build­ '95 andJennifer Marden '95, and Howard proud of," he aid. ing with providing adequate space for Hughes Medical Institute Scholars Daniel However, Shattuck emphasizes that eriou ummer research. Howe '94 and Rima Lathrop '96, are faculty try to structure research projects The effect of ummer research pro­ collaborating with Clare Boothe Luce that give students a sense of accomplish­ jects don't end when Colby student Assi rant Profes orofBiochemi try Julie ment. As a result, he ay , summer project graduate. Rob Aldrich '94, who worked Millard and Associate Profe sorofChem­ typically are an exten ion of faculty re­ with King on iron analysi experiments istry David Bourgaize, respectively. search. "It's absolutely necessary that stu­ last summer, i continuing hi collabora­ A istant Profes or of Chemistry dent projects be carved out of a bigger tion with King while participating in an Whitney King, whose collaboration with whole," he aid. "Ten weeks is not a lot of oceanographic cruise in Augu t during ummer research assistants last year re­ time, and so what you hope will happen which he will run an analytical ystem he ulted in two publi hed papers and a trip is that students develop a feel for the and King developed. to Switzerland for Heather Lounsbury research and can tie what they do in the Chemistry faculty enjoy the clo e in­ teraction with tudent during ummer re earch. "A real esprit de corps develops," In the Running King aid. "And we enjoy the teaching The United State- Corporate a peers, which i� part of the reason we're Athletic Association held its 16th at Colby rather than at a large research annual track and field champion­ institution." ships on Colby's Alfond Track on Summer research is b no means limit­ ed to the Chemi try Department, either. July 16-17. A thousand. competi­ tors from more than two dozen Aero the campus, a total of 45 student corporations across the U. S. at­ are as isting faculty with research in 18 tended the meet, which promotes discipline . Vice President for Academic employee health and fitness. Affair and Dean of Faculty Robert As the host in titution, Colby McArthur says the summer re earch entered everal of the competi­ program, now in it sixth year, was os­ tion . Chemi try Profe sor Julie ten ibly created for faculty upport, but Millard, Christine Durkee of Spe­ it reaches well beyond that. "It i cial Programs and A sociate Con­ enormously helpful to tudent who not troller Cindy Whittier Wells '83 only learn a lot but who often end up (about to take the baton from with their names on publication a co­ Durkee) ran to a sparkling third authors," he aid. place finish in the Divi ion II "It' good for faculty, good for the women's relay. College, and it' very aood for the tu­ dents," said King. +

5 AUG T l994 COLBY hey u�ed tl1 call it "the long walk." Down the gym corridor tL)Ward the unknown. Blasts of rock music _ T re\•erheratrng off the wal ls. Whn wa� there? How many1 They never knew. sl) it \\"aS fur Colhy's women athletes rwt many years agL). If they \\"anted to train with weights, they had to endure the long \\·alk tu the old weight mom set up in a d,)uble squa�h court. "Th biggest thing then was the long walk down the corridor. We'd hear the music. and we didn't knO\\" what was gning on," said Carn! Anne Beach '88. An athlete as an undergrad uate, Beach nL)\\" coache:, women 's ha�kerhall at Cul by and serves as assi ·rant director of athletic� and :,enior \\'omen\ administrator. As daunting as that walk \\"as, it \\"as nothing compared tuthe challenge of \\·mking out in the �'re\·ious weight mom, a clau\tl"ll­ phobic space near the boiler mom in Wad:-.\\'L)rth Gymna ·ium. "That was really intimidating," Beach :,aid. "Ir was a \·ery closed space. Very small. There wa· \'ery little \'entilation. Only a couple of \\"omen frnm track and a couple L)f women from basketball would use it. And you always went in with someone else. Ynu never \\"ent in alone." Nor that football players grunting and pumping iron endan­ gered Colby's handful of female I ifters. It was the idea of being outnumbered by bigger, stronger athletes and the feeling of venturing into an alien world of male jock talk that intimi­ dated Colby women. "lt was psychological," Beach said. "Basically, once you were in there it was fun. Bur it was getting in there." Fast forward from those not so happy day of yesteryear to 1994. An April afternoon. Colby women enter the Harold Al­ fond Athletic Center with a sense of purpose, not dread. Plugged into Walkmans or Discmans, they wear warm-up jackets and baseball caps with visor- rolled over like a used Red Sox core­ card. They leave their Colby IDs with an attendant, take a right through glass doors and enter the new Colby fitness center. Bright, airy and filled \\'ith the latest and be t exercise equip­ ment, the facility might as well be called Workout Wonderland. "I love irl" exclaimed Allison Alsip '94, of Bainbridge Island, Wash. "I come down here four times a week . I like all the new equirment." Carolyn Greene '94, of Grarn·ille, Ohio, nodded in ar­ proval. "It's so clean in here," she said. "Before, there was only one Stairmaster, and it was intimi­ dating. We'd be the only women in the weight room," Alsip said. "Now I ee more women coming in to work out." That's exactly what Colby administrators were hoping for when, in the wake of the August 1992 fire that destroyed squash courts, offices and part of the gymnasium. they discus ed the features they wanted for the new facility. Access and openness climbed the priority ladder when they saw how women re­ sponded to a change in the location of the weights. "When we had the fire, we had to put the weight room in the fieldhouse. It wasn't nice. We had no different equipment. But so many more women used it because it was open," Beach said. "lt wa a d ifferent atmosphere, and that's what we tried to build on when we created the new room."

COLl'Y ALGUST 1994 The

Harold

Alfond

Athletic

Center

lS a

bulked�up,

high�tech

� � fitness .1n tcl complex �Shape By Mike Szostak '72

.-\UGL" ST 1094 COLBY Colby's fitness center extends 40 feet over the fieldhouse • Two motorized treadmills; f1oor from the original athletic complex entrance. One f1oor • Three regular and two recumbent Lifecycles; above the fitness center is an aerobics/exercise studio. The • A piped-in stereo system. fieldhouse roof was raised to make room for the new spaces. "It's like a very nice health club with the track right there, Natural light from skylights bathes both areas. the tennis court , the pool, the gym, the ice rink and the squash Some of the center's aerobic equipment, such as stair courts," Dexter said. "The big advantage is that the athletic machines and treadmills, overlook the fieldhouse floor. Free complex fits a lot of different needs and a lot of people." weight benches are situated in the middle of the room and Annual membership for students in 1994-95 is a little over weight machines toward the corridor side of the room, which, $25,000, bu t that includes room and board, two semesters of a at 5,300 square feet, is slightly larger than the area of the liberal arts education and Jan Plan. basketball floor.Except for the exterior side, the walls are glass During the winter and spring, student monitors approved or mirrors, which enhances the feeling of open space. by Dexter were on duty during peak hours, approximately 2 "This was designed to be user friendly. We wanted a p.m. to 10 p.m. They supervised activity in the fitness center, comfortable atmosphere for everyone to work out," said Ed spotted for those who needed it and instructed others on using Mestieri, assistant director of athletics for operations. the machines. Monitors have a background in weights, have Tom Dexter, assistant football coach, head baseball coach trained with Colby teams or have worked out elsewhere. and coordinator of strength training, supervised the purchase The fitness center itself was open from as early as 7 a.m. and installation of $125,000 worth of equipment. The inven­ during the week to as late as midnight on Fridays and Satur­ tory is impressive: days. Only Colby students, faculty and staffmay use the room • Bodymaster free weigh ts-poundage: 4,000; because of it size and the demand placed on its equipment.

• Three squat racks; Waterville-area residents continue to have access to the field­ • One encased squat machine that permits users to lift house, as they have in the past. safely without the benefit of a spotter; Faculty and staff gave the fitness center high marks and last • Stairmaster Graviton, a device for weight-assisted spring were inquiring about summer hours (Monday through pull-ups and arm dips; Friday, 8-8, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5:30). • Nautilus and Bodymaster machines; "It's first class, no question about it," said Jim Meehan, • Selectorized equipment that employs pins to adjust Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor and chair of the Economics weigh t loads; Department. He uses a stair climber five days a week during the • Two step mills, stair machines that rotate on an axis; lunch hour, when faculty have priority. • Six stair climbers; "In the old days there were only two Stairmasters," Meehan

COLBY AUGUST 1994 8 said. "Sometimes I'd have Thanks, Harold! 1 li-,t�thatathlete"keerfiled to throw omeone off. I felt in a cahinet hy the fitness On October during Fall Parents Weekend, Colby will celebrate Harold awkward about it. The only 1, center entrnnce. Codche., Alfond Day with variou events and activities on campus, including a parade waiting line now seems to rrerare tra i ning regimen� during halftime of the football game v . Middlebury. be for the treadmills." for their rlayer�. hut it i" Before the game, which will begin at l :30, there will he guided tours of the Meehan said more people the athletes' re,rc >n,1h1I1t) renovated and renamed Harold Alfonrk. intercollegiate contests played by most of ol y's fallathletic team , which plex than before the fire. C b Colhy 'tuLlent' ha,·e will continue into the afternoon. The athletic center will be dedicated "The other nice thing is ' hegun tu use the f1tne'>'> officially at a ceremony held from 12 :30 to 1 p.m., and that evening there will the mix of men and women center a� a !Tleet i ng rhce be a fireworks salute to Alfond beginning at dark. students who u e it now," as \\'ell a' \\'urkout rlace. "j he aid. "There's also a good really bel1e\·e it 1� J tucal mix of faculty and staff. I've noticed people from the dean' point on campus," Mestieri said. "The atmosrhere is �uch that office here and from the treasurer's office. I've seen a few from it promotes social interaction, but most people are fncu,ed on buildings and grounds and even a spouse. I've been pleasantly working out. A lot of people go with friends or meet friend and surprised by the mix." work out, but people who take fitness or wellness seriously gu Unlike theold days, when the weight room appealedto varsity down and work out real bard." athlete , predominantly football players-"It was dark, closed in "Exercise is o social. 1\·e seen some die-hard guys srnnding and not user friendly if you were not a hea\'y lifter," Mestieri around between set and talking," Beach said. said-the new fitness center attracts all Colby constituencies. The fitne center should play a significant role in the Well-

'Tm beginning to see kids I never saw in the old weight ness Program the College has devised for students, faculty anJ room," said John Hebert '97, a basketball player from Van staff for the 1994-95 academic year. Colby in tructor will Buren, Maine. provide information on individual training program . "And athletes still have a quality place to train," Dexter said. "We can accommodate virtually any need of any tudent on Indeed, Colby athletes train along ide non-athletes-they campus, and we plan to do it in the fall," Mestieri said. "We will do not get preference in the fitness center or have hours re erved teach them what to do for cardiova cular improvement, mus­ for them. "I don't think that would go over here," Mestieri said. cular strength and weight control. The information has been "The fitness center is designed to accommodate the student body available, but now it will be on a much more organized ba i ." without having a specific advantage for athletic teams." Much of the athletic complex received a facelift after the fire. Sometimes the only way to tell the two apart is by the check The renovated entrance is decorated in blue and gray tile with

9 .-\ UGL"ST 19 94 COL B ) a blue Cl1lby Con the floor. The trophy case that adorned the left wall is gone. The new wall is painted a muted gray. Halfway down the corridor toward the Carl E. Nelson Physical Therapy Center, a stairway on the right provides access to the pool deck. On the left, just past the main entrance, the 3,000-seat Wadsworth Gymnetsium sparkles with a new basketball floor­ the old hcirdwood court warped from water damage in the fire-and new scmeboards at both ends of the court. Along the corridor he hind the top row of the gymnasium grandstand are the five rebuilt Dunaway Squash Courts, three American and two internat ional. The three American courts were built with false walls so they can be converted to international-sized courts. The rear wall of each court is glass. A new glass-walled conference room located just before the squash court provides space for post-game g

Mike Szostak is a s!Jorcs writer and coliimnisc at the Providence Journal-Bulletin.

COL BY AUl�UST 1994 a remarkable day by sally baker

former president george bush sends off the class of 1994 in style

Waterville may be a Democratic Party stronghold, but the Elm City-or at least one

comer of it-pretty much belonged to former President George Bush on Com­

mencement Sunday. After weeks of preparation that exceeded even Colby's usual

high standards for attention to detail, Bush's visit to campu was among the most

pleasant and relaxed occasions in recent memory on Mayflower Hill.

From the moment he literally peeked around the doorway of Miller Library's

Edwin Arlington Robin on Room and flashed a smile at Bill and Linda Cotter and

his facultyho st, government professor G. Calvin Mackenzie, to the moment he was

whisked back to Kennebunkport by hi Secret Service e cort, Bush charmed almost

everyone he met. He posed for dozens of pictures. He talked bluefi hing and admired

the weather and kidded around with the senior cla s officers. He even stopped on his

way out of town to autograph a "Thanks, Mr. Bush" sign a Waterville couple had

placed in their front yard for the weekend. (They, unfortunately, were out eating

lunch when the former president stopped by.)

COLBY AUGUST 199 4 12 Bush was only the econd United rares president to vi it Bu h also congratulated "all the broke but happy parent " m Colby. Herbert Hoover was a gue t of the College in 1930, the audience. "They charge you an arm and a leg for thi ," he though he had to give his speech in a downtown Bapti t church said, "bur I think it's worth it." becau e there wa no room on the College Avenue campu After a few more joke -he got thebiggest laugh when he large enough to handle the crowd that wanted to hear him. aid he wa worried that he might see Dana Carvey at com­ Rod Farnham '31 report that Hoover "wa not an orator by mencement, since Colby was famous for its lmpres ionistic any mean -in fa ct [the works-Bush ettled into the speech] wa quite boring." meat of hi peech, which wa Though Bu h acknowl­ all about ervice and \·alue . edged in hi commencement "Edwin Arlington Robin- addres that he was "not a good on, [whose] room graces your communicator," his remarks library, once wrote something were well received by the large, that was very imple and yet cheerful audience gathered on very es ential," Bush said. "He Miller Library lawn. Like se­ wrote: 'Life i the game that nior speaker Kendra A. King, mu t be played.' In a en-e, who wa chosen by her cla s­ that wa Kendra' theme, and mates to addre s them, Bu h in a en e that' what you're stres ed the idea that individu­ about to do-- tart playing the als can and should try to make game of life. And I hope for a po itive differencein ociety. you challenge will be plenty, King thanked retiring and I hope for you ucce s. Bur trustee Richard Abedon '56 most of all I hope that every for his upport and encourage­ one of you will find the depth ment throughout her Colby and meaning of! ife that comes career. Then he called on the from service to other ... Class of 1994 to "stop and do "Ir doesn't seem po ible ome seriou self-reflection so to me a I approach my even­ that we-the people, the com­ class of '94 senior speaker kendra king urged her tieth birthday in a week or munity, the world-can move classmates to push for positive change. two, but it wa forty- ix year forward, hand in hand, united, ago that I wa sitting out there to denounce the 'ugly way 'of raci m, sexism, classism, world where you are now, bur ting to get out there and claim my hunger and human strife that continue to directly, as well a take in the world, take a crack at anything. And I really hope indirectly, devour us all. that you all feel that way now. Do it all. Don't be afraid of "It i time," she said, "we top itting at the table of trying, of dreaming. Don't even be afraidof failure, f tear . We humanity only to feast off the ufferings of one another. all stumble, we all fear, and that's what makes u human. But ...Those of u who have the fortuneof fe asting well in thi none of us should ever regret. one of u should ever it at a ociety mu t challenge ourselves to create a place and space for grandchild' graduation and think: 'I wish that that were me all the 'Adam and Eves and their countle s generations' to be tarting over again, there's so much I'd do differently.' You treated, a well as appreciated, equally." have a lifetime of chances in your gra p right now, and don't Pre idem Cotter then took the dai to award the Condon lo e an of them. Don't gi e up on the chance to take a ri k, Medal to Kebba Tolbert of Bronx, N .Y., and to introduce Bu h, follow a vi ion, hug a child, touch a life .... who began his remark by lauding retiring College Marshal "I hope you craft for your elve lives enriched by service. Yvonne Knight '55 on 36year of service to Colby. "Herson and You can tart by reaching out to just one person. Maybe at fir t I are members of a rank minority group," Bush quipped. "We you'll give an hour to ome shut-in. Maybe ou can work on the were both Republicans in the tate of Maine in the fallof 1992. ' weekend to teach the written word to an adult who doe n't

13 AUGU T 1994 COLBY e\·en knn\\' huw tn rcaJ. for the fi rst time in their May he you'll fi nd some time short, tno-�aJ lives, the e kids Ll uring the Jay ju�t tn hulJ a got the chance to believe in londy kid whn dl )esn't have them�el ve, . That's where al l anyhndy el�e\ mm:- \\'aiting mi rncles start. for him. And when you Ju, "Pre:,iJenr Bill Cotter's y,1u' l l di�cm·er the most tolJ me ab out hundred� of rowerful bridge of all, the Colby kid who volunteer in human hridge of touch. nther programs-the Home ''ThornrnnWik ler wrote for Little Wanderers or the abllUt the forgotten, suffer­ soup kitchen or K learview ing people whn live like Manor, Charity Ball, Habitat ghosts on our streets and of for Human i ty , many other what we must do forthem. shawn keeler '94 shares his diploma with his places. And I think they've And he said, 'There's a land father, gary, his sister, tracy, and his mother, linda. found a rretty good example nf the l ivi ng and a land of right here in your president, the dying, and a bridge is love, the l1nly survival.' In too much because I was told by a secret informant that he's helped the of this great land that bridge is crumbling from disrepair. Gu health agency and the school for the deaf and the Red Cross. out there and fi x it, one out tretched hand after another. By You see, it's not whether you're a p resident or whether you're doi ng this you're going to transform the lives of a handful of a student, that's the kind o f life that you must carve for people you touch, and you're going to transform your own l ife . your elves, blending p ersonal and professional succes with a And that's the genius, real ly, of this great and good land. And richness of ti me spent caring for those who need you the mo t. that's how you w i l l hel p renew its soul-through one small act "Your edu c ation has given you much-and as I said, for that of consequence at a time. price i t o ught to-but although it takes you far it only goes so "You don't have to go very far for an ex­ ample. l want to tell you that you don't have to look any further than the rows around you foodfor thought today. You see, when I was president I spoke Each year Colby fetes its honorary degree recipient at Commencement-eve dinners held in Roberts Union. Each of the honoree i introduced by hi or her faculty host, and about how Americans can become one of a each traditionally makes someremarks and takes que tion from the faculty and adminis­ thousand points of light , volunteering to help tration guests. each other. And each day of my presidency I This year, the commencement speaker, George Bu h, was unable to attend the event, named an official point of light in recognition but the other three honorary degree recipients, Chuck Close, Lucille Clifton and Come! of the wonderful work done by individuals and West, each spoke briefly. organizations all over this country ripping Close, one of America's most famou contemporary artists, said Colby's job was to "keep betting on people." through the shroud of neglec t with wisdom and "I'm not omebody you would have bet on," Close said, recalling his school years as an courage. Well, one of those points of light that exercise in frustration. "I wa learning disabled and nobody knew it," he aid, adding that I chose was a student group right here on the the experience stood him in good stead for the shock and frustration of the paralysis that campus-the Colby Friends. And in this group hit him suddenly in the 1980 . this year, your clas mates Mike Antoniello and "I was at Gracie Mansion giving an award, and one hour later I was paralyzed from the down," Close remembered. He backed up his own decision to continue to paint by Kelly Boudreau have led Colby un dergrads neck recalling the way his parents had supported his diffe rences a a child, he said, and colleges determined to fight for this country's future like Colby ought to be havens where people can experiment with the things that makes one lonely kid at a time. Every week, I'm told, them unique. they brought fifty Waterville kids to campus Clifton, a poet and a writer of children's books who teaches at the Univer ity of and paired them up with Colby students one Maryland, said she, too, is "a rebel of a sort." She talked about her parents, whose educations on one, and some beautiful mentor relation­ were slenderbut whose curiosity and love of books were boundless, about her succe sfuland fulfilled children and about the place of multiculturalism in the world. ships started . They gave these borderline kids "This planet is a planet of color," she said, "and the norm forplanets is color.Just because some hope, some options, some dreams. And

COLBY AUGUST 1994 14 far, and now you'\'e got t o "The American fam ily has e mpower yourse lves and this heen under �iege in recent is where it all begins nnw­ time ·. Both inJ 1yiJua l fom1- the real l ife . lies anJ the id ea, the cnn­

"My grandk ids say, 'Real­ cepr, of an entire Americ an ity bites.' Okay, but it also family. Bur I 'm ClltW lllCL'LI challenges. I l ove the story that i r i� rhe tLlel nf fam i h· about the guy that was at a where the ;1 n�\\'er� tll llUr Baptist church in Texas. And prohlem� can he fm1nLI . �111Ll after every ser\'ice he \\'as so in rheabenceoffamrh \\'here moved by the pastor's words you as volunteers can heir. that he would say, 'Oh, use "l don't kno\\' if you re­ me, Lord, use me.' So finally, member when Barbara 1\'enr after about four day of this, former president george bush greets honorary up to Wellesley to gi1·e ll'h;1 t the p astor got ahold of him degree recipient cornel west prior to wa� considered tu be a rather commencement. to bush's right are honorary and said, 'The Lord has de­ controversial gradua t i on degree recipients lucille clifton and chuck close. cided to call you, son. He speech. She had Raisa G or- would like you to come to the Sunday School, sand down all bachev at her side. And she said something there that had a the benche here and ha\'e them \'am i ·hed and ready for the profound effect , certainly on me, and I t hink on many around next Sunday.' So the following Sunday, the guy's still there and rhe country. Because what she 'a id is, 'What happens in your the minister i wondering, 'Will this guy respond ?' He gets up house is far more important than what happens in the Whrre and he finishes hi sermon and the kid gets up and says, 'Oh, House .' And that' true. use me, Lord, u e me-but use me in an advisory capacity.' You We no longe r fear another superpower. We no l onger 11·orry can't do it that way. about a Berlin Wall that divides the free West from the brutali:ed East. We no longer liYe each J;1 y I love my elf doesn't mean I can't love ye u and others. omerime my student ay they are with the threat of a nuclea r holocaust . . . . But tired of talking about race. l a ure them that I am much more tired of it. Much." we\·e got to turn our attention to t he equ,dly Clifton then read everal poem , including "Dear Jesse Helm ," which expre se her devast at ing threats in our own homel and , b - opposition to the gulf war. "The misuse of language in that war wa obscene," she said in cause here lurk the old enem i es of the human introduction. "'Collateral damage,' 'friendly fire.' Collateral damage i people. How can fire s irit-bit e es , bigotr , despair. be friendly?" p t rn s y West, a philo opher, theologian, political activi t and recent appointee to a joint 'My fr iend, the tough political fighter , gut profe or hip in the Afro-American studie department and the chool of Divinity at political fighter Lee Atwater, died too young, Harvard, said hi aim i "to po ·e the be t of a radical democratic tradition" and to keep and r ight near the end of hi life he aid thiY alive "the be t of a very fragile experiment," democracy in America, by fo tering dialogue. 'Whoe\'er leads us must be made t)-peak to the "Two hundred eighteen year into th is experiment in democracy and we till have walls spiritual \'acuum at the heart of American soci­ of demarcation," aid West, who e new book, Race Maners, examine ju t what it title ety, thi tumor of the soul .' . implies. Despite what he called "a hunger in whites to interact with black and brown people,"We t aidwhitesare "trying to deal with tereotype "and"don't knowwhat to ay." As president I anguished each day about ho11· To ensure that dialogue occur , he aid, "We've got some seriou work to do." to fi ll the hollow in America's soul. And rf as In re pon e to the call by minority rudents at campu e aero s the country for eparate president I had the power to give just one thing minority hou ing, West cautioned that each ituation wa diffe rent and hould be to the nation, it would have been the re turn to examined eparately but termed Balkanization, division and egmentation "dangerous." an inner moral compass, nurtured by the fa m i ly The more important i ue, he aid, i "qualitative interaction" among tudents. Cultivate and valued the community. We cannot a multicontextualism, he urged, a oppo ed to unicontextualism: a college might have all by Catholic, all African American, all le bian housing groups, for in ranee, but each group continue producing generations born numbly mu t be able to engage in dialogue with other group and be encouraged to move from into despa ir, free falling through soc iety. We context to context. must say that every choice is a moral action and College campu es are places for dialogue, We t said, places to help overcome the some things are simply morally wrong. impediments that society has placed before young people. "The rest of your l ive begin today. A Yale

15 AUGUST 1994 COL B) teacher once wrote: 'Whatever y u behind Kevin Rothstein, who was an do or dream you can do, begin on crutches thanks to an auto mis­ it, for today has power, boldness hap he suffered while driving to and magic in it.' So be bold in your Portland to pick his parents up at dreaming, be bold in your living, the airport. be bold in your caring and your Dean of Students Jan ice Kass­ compassion and your humanity, man surprised Allison Guth by and then, when you sit at your announcing that Guth would re­ grandchild's commencement half ceive her diploma in absentia. a century from now, you'll look That took a few minutes to sort back at the tapestry of life and out, but Kassman discovered that you'll find it good. And that, dear she had kipped a page in her Class of '94, no matter what you compendium of seniors' names accomplish, that will be your great­ ("And this is a merit year!" she est success of all." said), and by the end of the cer­ Bush then recei\'ed his honor­ emony Guth had her sheepskin. ary doctor of laws degree along "On your commencement day you with fe llow honorary degree re­ ought to get your own diploma," cipients Chuck Close, Lucille Cotter said, calling Guth to the Clifton and Camel West. Clo e, a stage once all the new graduates world-renowned portrait painter, were seated again. "Allison, please was cited both for hi extraordi­ graduates adam furber and andy carlson come up. We found it." nary talent and for his demonstra- join in a post-ceremony celebration. When the ceremony ended the tion of grit in continuing to paint seniors and their families and after suffering a collapsed spinal artery that left him paralyzed. friends celebrated at an outdoor reception while Bush at­ Clifton, who is a poet, children's literature writer, university tended a VIP luncheon in the Millett Alumni House. The professor and former poet laureate of Maryland, was honored former president elected to walk fromthe library to Millett. As for works that "celebrate community, weaving fragment of he and Cotter and a coterie of Secret Service agents strode personal and fam ilial history into a distinctly African-Ameri­ down Mayflower Hill he was spotted from a passing car by can-but transcendent-narrative." And West, a writer and Matthew Curry, the son of Associate Professor of Government scholar of African-American and religious studies (author of Jane Curry. Stop the car, he begged, that's George Bush. Race Matters) who spoke to a more-than-capacity crowd in Couldn't be, his mother insisted. Matthew got his way and Page Common Room last fall, received a long ovation from sprang out of the car with hi camera-which Bush promptly the seniors as he was cited for his contributions to under rand­ seized and handed to an aide with orders to take a snapshot of ing race relations. him with the youngster. And at the luncheon itself, trustees Then, in time-honored Colby manner, the members of the handed their point-and-shoots to Bill Cotter and posed with Class of 1 994 received their diplomas one at a time, fi ling across the (other) president. the dappled stage, some stopping to greet one or two of the "Smile," Cotter said, over and over. honorary degree recipients, and picking up their diplomas from It wa that kind of day. Cotter. Some tudents wore stalks of broccoli hanging from Commencement Video Available their caps or from strings around their necks to tweak Bush, and Paul Gregoire '71 of Colby's Audiovisual Department others wore kente cloth stoles, but that was about as pointed as has produced a video recording of Commencement '94, the political commentary got. Parent jostled politely in the including the full addresses of Kendra King and George area set aside for picture taking; various graduates-including Bu h and highlights of the ceremony. Copies are avail­ Jonathan Mitchell, who wore a wizard costume-shot fists into able from Colby's Seavems Bookstore for $15. Send the air and whooped in triumph; a small flockof press swooped order to '94 Commencement Video, Seavems Book­ store, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901. Please toward the stage a Bush's nephew Billy Bush mounted the stage allow several weeks fordel ivery. and got a hug from Uncle George; and the line slowed slightly

COLBY AUGUST 1994 16 With more than

100 members, 1t is What Can the largest of Colby's alumni

committees. It

chooses nearly Colby's on e-th i rd o the College's Board of

Trustees. It has an

active task force on

minority recru it­ Alumni ment, oversees the Colby Club system.

presents annual

awards to alumni Council and other vo l un­ teers, helps current

students find

internships a n d

recent graduates Do For Yo u? pursue careers, oversees ma i nte­

nance of Millett utreac Alumni House and

helps man age the

annual Alumni

F und drive. Its

charge is "to

promote and to

foster the best ents interests of Colby College and to by strengthen relations between

the College and its

Sally alumni." The Colby

Alumni Council Baker ought to be a high­ profile organization.

17 -\l_;Gl.5T J'lq 4 C.1.)LP.Y It isn't. Many alumni report that they've never heard of the council or any of its activities. Attendance at

meetings is spotty-usually no more than 30 percent of council members participate. And although the council

works in noteworthy areas, it does not have a say in many of the most important aspects of College governance, including student affairs, finances and academics.

In 1991 , concerned that Colby wa sn't doing all that it could do to communicate with alumni and to monitor

alumni opinion, the Board of Trustees established the Trustee Committee on Alumni Planning, chaired by Richard

Schmaltz '62. Composed of Schmaltz, David Marson '48, Wi lliam H. Goldfarb '68, Beverly Nalbandian Madden

'80, Douglas Hatfield '58 and Peter Hart '64, the committee's task was to study the mission, goals, structure,

effectiveness and visibility of Colby's alumni program and to make recommendations for improvement. Its

report, issued late the following year, called for the formation of the Alumni Council Structure Task Force. That

group-chaired by Hatfield and including Cynthia Auman '80, John Devine '78, Meg Fallon Wheeler '66, Jackson

Parker '76, Madden and Marson-began meeting in October 1993 and identified what it perceived to be the key impediments to the effective, efficient operation of the council:

• that most alumni seem unaware of the council's existence or, if they are

aware of it, do not understand its structure or purpose;

• that membership on the council does not carry with it appropriate respect

or prestige;

• that councilors don't feel a sense of accountability to a particular

constituent group-or to anyone. As Hatfield puts it: "I've always

thought that one of the things that brings meaning to wo rk is

accountability, and the Alumni Council hasn't been accountable.

It's sort of meandered along";

• that there are significant failures of communication between the College

and the alumni and among alumni;

• that a shortage of real, meaningful work for council representatives results

in poor attendance at meetings; • that the scope of the council's functions does not relate, in many

instances, to what is happening on campus or in the life of the Colby

family, and that some of the most rewarding and interesting aspects of

the College are not within the council's purview;

• that the council has not provided the trustees with a sufficiently effective

channel for alumni opinion when potentially divisive issues surface;

• that despite significant progress in recent years there remains a lack of

integration between the work of the council and that of the board; and

• that the voice of the council is seldom heard in decision making at the

College and does not carry the weight or significance it deserves.

The task force examined each facet of the council and wrote a report, which was sent for comment to 500

current and former Colby volunteer leaders and garnered approximately 150 written responses. Respondents

said they welcomed the task force's candor in acknowledging the council's visibility problem, and they reacted

favorably to the proposed new role of the council as a communications channel.

"I was particularly pleased, " Hatfield said, "with the sincerity and the time people took to respond to those

questionnaires. It was a very positive thing."

COLBY AUGUST 1994 18 Taking those comments into account, the task force has issued another draft set of recommendations for revamping the group and its work. The members are still soliciting suggestions from alumni and would like to incorporate as many as possible into a final report. Alumni who would like to participate in the process should contact the task force (see the business reply card in this issue of Colby) . The draft recommendations also are available from the College.

In essence, the task force has proposed several steps for bringing the College and its alumni into closer contact through the council. Its goals are to increase accountability among council members. to make their work meaningful and rewarding and to have the council take center stage in alumni affairs.

Specifically, the group recommends:

• that council representatives be required to attend at least two of the three meetings each year;

• that council members be given more than one committee assignment so

there is less chance that someone would have to travel a long distance

for one 90-minute meeting;

• that. as part of the work of a new Committee on Alumni Relations and

Communications, constituencies be more clearly defined and representa­

tives communicate with their constituents at least once a year; • that, without expanding council membership, more groups be represented

directly, perhaps by reducing the current number of at-large members

and recruiting class vice presidents to serve on the council;

• that all class officers be invited to one council meeting each year;

• that the current committee structure, now consisting of "action" commit­

tees on admissions, the Alumni Fund, athletics, awa rds. career services,

the Millett Alumni House and Colby Clubs, be expanded to include advisory committees on academic, student and financial affairs whose

agendas would be developed in consultation with chairs of appropriate

trustee committees;

• that the House Committee be renamed the Alumni on Campus Committee

and have its responsibilities increased to include working with Colby's

alumni relations staff on the provision of campus hospitality for alumni;

• that, with the aid of a periodic interest survey, a wider variety of alumni be

identified as potential members of the council and its committees;

• that one alumni trustee report on recent board actions and deliberations at each council meeting; and

• that council committee chairs be invited to attend meetings of the corre­

sponding trustee committees or have council executive committee

members serve as liaisons to multiple trustee committees.

After considering alumni response, the task force plans to present a final report to the Board of Trustees in

October 1994. "I am very excited about the work that this group did, " Hatfield said. "This is a dedicated group of people­ and very productive. We didn't waste any time; we got right down to business and came up with this report.

And I hope the trustees will move forward with it, not just receive the report with thanks."

19 AUGU T 1994 CO LBY The Write Stuff

Tw o Decades On, Colby's Creative Writing Program Has Become One of the Best

by Haines Sprunt Ta te

C ll L R \ .-\ lJ \; L � T I 9 9 4 20 n the first workshop session of his introductory fiction visiting professors such as poet Jane Mead, who taught at I writing class, Professor ofEnglish Richard Russo lays out Colby last year. the ground rules. After several lectures on the basics­ More than half of the 57 students with concentrations in character, point of view, plot-it's time to get down to busi­ creative writing are EngLsh majors, but the rest are majors ness. He tells the class that helping other writers by responding from across the curriculum, including the sciences. Last year, to their work is helping yourself. according to Kenney, creative writing was the second largest "If you can spot problems in other people's stories, you can minor in the College. About one-third of the students concen­ spot problems in your own," he said. Writers whose stories are trate on poetry, the rest on fiction. Most start a sequence of being "workshopped" aren't allowed to defend their work. three workshops in poetry or fiction in their sophomore year, After all, Russo tells them, no professional writer gets to sit then add a fourth course that can include independent study next to an ecLtor and explain a manuscript. projects, honors projects or year-long Senior Scholar projects, "The purpose of a workshop is to make a workshop which result in a portfolio of publishable work and a public unnecessary," he said. "Sooner or later, we're reading. Writing students also read their work in alone with this stuff." the Mary Low Coffeehouse and. along Classes L.ke this are at the heart of Writers with students in other departments, put Colby's creative writing progran1, whose stories are �eing out the Pequod Lterary magazine. which began almost two decades Kenney says that unlike some ago and has been encouraging " wor k s h oppe d' aren' t other writing programs, Colby Colby writers ever since. The opens its introductory-level combination of a dedicated, tal- all_g_w.ed to defend their work. courses to everyone; advanced ented faculty, serious students Aft�e�...... o te them, no courses require students to sub­ and courses that create a quasi­ mit a manuscript to get in. But professional environment has ·r�r gets to because class size is generally lim- made Colby's program, by many sit ne JO "'-t/fll �.or"titor and ited to 15, students sometimes accounts, one of the best ofit s kind face waiting lists-although most in the nation. explain a man sen pt. gain admission to a course within a Ira Sadoff, a well-known poet and semester of starting the process. "If you fiction writer, came to Colby in 1977 to really want to do it, you have to be commit- cLrect the program, building on the foundation of ted to jumping through the hoops: going to the creative writing classes taught in the '60s and early '70s by registrar, getting your name on the lists and doing it," Kenney professors Jay Meek and Robert Gillespie. The writing faculty said, pointing out that persistence is something writers have to grew to include Susan Kenney, a prize-winning author of short learn anyway. stories and novels, and poet Peter Harris, both of whom were Kenney attributes the students' high level of commitment teaching on the Lterature faculty. (Kenney now cLrects the and motivation, in part, to the program's reputation. "[It] is program.) James Boylan, who has published a book of stories known, and there are a number of students who come here to and a novel, came in I 988, and Russo, author of three do creative writing," she said. "I think it's really showing in the acclaimed novels, joined the faculty in I 99 I. quality and level of the students that we have in the program. The range represented by Colby's writing faculty is a key We have students who do very good work." strength. Russo points out that in many undergraduate writing Two or three students each year go directly fromColby into programs, students study with only one or two different graduate school for writing, and more decide to return to writers in a genre. "Here, when a student goes through the pursue advanced degrees after a fe w years out. Recent grads

• fiction regimen, in most instances that student will have have entered the University of Iowa's renowned Writers' stucLedwith two, three and in some cases, four[teachers]," he Workshop, as well as master of finearts (M.F.A.) programs at said. Student poets also are exposed to a number of cLfferent the University of Arizona, Warren Wilson College and the teaching and writing styles, thanks to faculty members and to University of Virginia.

21 AUGU T 1994 CO LBY Steve Orlen, former director of the M.F.A. program at at Colby was on par with what he's seen so far in Tucson. the University of Arizona in Tucson, says the Colby alumni Classes with Boylan instilled in him "that love ofwriting right who come to that program arc better prepared than most from the beginning," he said, and he remembers as "amazing" from other schools. He names Colby, along with the Uni­ a class with Kenney in which she asked him to cut a I2-page versity ofTcn nessee at Chattanooga and Oberlin story down to eight.

College, as one of the three undergraduate "I was like, 'this story is so great, there's programs whose graduates submit the Steve Orlen, no way that I can possibly get it down best poems for admission. "Those to eight,"' Damrauer said. " And some- teachers seem to inspire good fo rmer director of the how I managed it, and it turn- writing, and ther also teach very M.F.A. program at the ed into a much better story. I had well about the basics," Orlen to examine what elements of the said. "Those people who apply University of Arizona, names story were working and what el­ from those programs already Colb one of the three ements weren't." know a lot of basic stuff about Also at Arizona is poet Cecily the writing of poetry." von Ziegesar '93. After having "I think what we do is close taken virtually all of Colby's writ­ enough to a graduate program ing classes and assembled a Senior without being that vocationally ori­ Scholar portfolio of poetry and fic­ ented," Kenney said. "We're turning tion, she says she's met no surprises in people out with liberal arts degrees, and a graduate school. One difference, though, is lot of them go on to do other things. But they in the amount of contact with professors. come out with an understanding of what it's like to be "I actually think the Colby program was more demand­ engaged in the creative process of putting words together." ing in a way, just because more attention was paid to each Poet Alex Peary '92 has completed two years at the Iowa student," von Zeigesar said. In her M.F.A. workshop, she says, Writers' Workshop. She was an aspiring fictionwriter when less of her work is discussed in class, and students seem she landed in Sadoffs poetry workshop one semester-the reluctant to take risks. "That didn't happen at Colby at all," she fiction class was filled-andshe says her years at Colby helped said. "Experimentation was encouraged, and you could really her develop the confidence and" spine" she needed for the long see your peers progress along with you." hours of independent work in Iowa's much less structured "The best part was just working closely with some of the program. Her studies with Sadoff have remained important. professorswho really took an interest in my work. I really fe lt "It was like being on firethat [first]semester. It was great," like they cared," said von Zeigesar, who credits Peter Harris she said. "He stJl continues to be one of the most amazing with pointing her toward the writing program in the firstplace, teacher I've ever had. In many ways, actually, a lot of the after she turned in a creative piece instead of a critical essay in [facultyJ I've had here can't hold a candle to him." his freshman seminar. She still counts Harris among the most Gregg Bach '87 considers his Senior Scholar project in encouraging teachers she's ever had. "No matter what you poetry one ofthe best experiences he had at Colby. "It was very write, he finds something good about it," she said. challenging because I had something pretty major to come up It is notoriously difficultto make a living writing fictionor with by the end of theyear, and I would be facing a lot ofpeople poetry, and so far, the Colby program does not boast a "big who would be judging my work and judging me by my work." name" graduate. Some have published poems and stories in Graduate courses he enrolled in at the University of New respected regional and national literary journals, but according Hampshire "didn't even come close to the level of work being to Kenney, it may be too early to tell what kinds of reputations done at the Colby workshops," he said. the alumni-even the first to enroll in the program-may In his first year of a graduate fiction program at the forge. "It takes a long time to get a career going so that you're University of Arizona, Craig Damrauer '92 says the teaching really visible," she said.

COLBY AUGUST 1994 22 Many graduates have pursued sidelines to pay the bills. to the University of Arizona's M.F.A. program this fa ll. "I

Peary, for instance, has been a poet-in-the-schools, helping mean, it's pretty hard to teach someone to write. The writing kids learn to use their imaginations; Damrauer has worked as workshops I've taken are the best courses I've taken here." a restaurant chef and is considering starting a catering business. Davis says that far from being intimidating, classes arc The challenge is to fi nd work that provides income but allows like small writers' communities where " it's easr to talk about the long periods of concentration needed to write. your work." Describing a workshop she had with Sadoff. At least two Colby writers, Bach and Jody Zorgdrager '89, she said, "He was here to help u -and we were here to have tried to solve that problem by becoming teachers. Bach help each other-produce the best writing possible." teaches high school English and creative writing on Mount Creative writing is a trickr subject to teach. "It's every bit Desert Island, Maine. His job consumes virtually all of his as difficult as nuclear physics," Boylan said, dismissing those time, Bach says, but he does get a chance to write in the who think writing classes are places where "everyone is sit­ summer, and in a few years, when he has a decade in the ting around holding hands and talking about their fe elings." classroom under his belt, "that'll be enough." He says he plans Far from it, he says, and the technical subtleties raised in his to look into an M.F.A. program and pick up where he left off. advanced fiction class-ranging from choosing a narrative In the meantime, he's trying to secure grants to link student point of view to creating verisin1ilitude-support his point. writers from his school with others around the country on a Russo jokes that teachers of creative writing get asked computer network. questions other professors don't, such as why they continue Zorgdrager, an elementary school teacher in Connecticut, to teach when 95 percent of their students will not be­ recently earned an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson come professional writers. But cluing someone in on how College, a low-residency program in Swan- to get published isn't the point. Sadoff says nanoa, .C., that requires intensive inde­ Colby's program is committed to connect- pendent work by correspondence. She At its ing the teaching of writing with the is now investigating grants and col­ reading of literature. lege teaching positions to sustain best the program "Ifyou don't know Wordsworth her writing. and you don't know Keats, it's Current students have a fe w turns out graduates who going to be really hard to be a years to think about how to fe ed �"th capacity not only poet," he said, adding that at its the muse while making a living. best the program turns out They are concentrating on get­ ·t the ion that graduates who have "the capac­ ting the most out of the program but to ity not only to appreciate the now, and they cherish the oppor­ vision that other writers have but tunity to work one-on-one with to make their own vision." accomplished writers and teachers. Boylan says he wants students to Darren Bruce '95, a fiction writer develop a love for the craft of literature planning to do an honors project this year, that "speaks to their soul and makes a differ- said he's been helped by "just being able to write ence to the culture." Sadoffhopesthey gain " some and then have fourteen or fifteen kids read it and talk to you passion for the transformative properties of art-the way in directly about your story." Hearing a professor discuss a story which engaging a work of art is engaging in a relationship to in professional terms, he said, "makes your writing fe el impor­ yourselfand to the world, andhow language provides you with tant" and boosts confidence: "You start comparing your work the skills to do that." to the professionals', and in a way it makes you push yourself Russo puts it more simply. "I think that writing stories and harder." writing poetry makes you more fully human," he said. "[The facultyJ take it seriously, and they have a clear vision ofhow to teach," said Emily Davis '94, a poetry student headed Haines Spru t11 Ta te 1s a freelance writer living i11 Wate-rvi//e.

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"This production is our tribute to Dorothy," Koonce said. program became an interdisciplinary major, performing arts is "She knew as much as anybody in the world about the subject." rich with courses plucked from art, classics, English, music and Howard Koonce has donned several hat since he came to the modern languages. With the 2 72-seat Strider Theater in Colby in 1963 as a member of the English Department, but Runnals Union and a program for Colby students in London none have fit so well that includes work- as the one he's worn shops, seminars and since the late 1970s attendance at 12-14 in performing arts. plays each semes­ Acting and direct­ ter, the Performing ing plays is a natural Arts Department outgrowth of a life offersoppor tunities in theater that be­ to both majors and gan hi fir t year in minors forpractical high chool when he experience in all earned a role as a area of theatrical Welsh boy in the production, dance Aspen Players pro­ and music. duction of The Corn Tina Wentzel, Is Green in Aspen, adjunct professor of Colo. He performed performing arts who in experimental the­ ). z succeeded Koonce ater at Dartmouth in � as chair of the de- the early 1950s. Dur­ � partment last Sep­ ing his five years as a > tember, says Koonce Navy pilot in the late � "singlehandedly 'SOs, he acted with Koonce instructs Bacchae cast member Zach Geisz '94 . propelled perform­ local theater groups ing art forward . -some of which he formed-in Corpus Christi, Texas, and in Unequivocably." She gives her colleague total credit for Pensacola and Jacksonville, Fla. His di sertation at the Uni­ developing the London seme ter, which she deems pivotal to versity of Pennsylvania was in Restoration comedy. And on the Colby program. "It provides tudents with such an ex­ top of the many productions he's been involved in as director perience that they couldn't get here. And it betters the or actor at Colby, he has appeared in plays at Maine theaters program when they come back," said Wentzel, who also has uch as the Park Street Players in Skowhegan, the Public high praise for the con ensus and collaboration Koonce fos­ Theater in Lewiston, the Gaslight Theater in Hallowell and tered in the department. the Theater at Monmouth. As a student, ay Jennie Holman '92, now artistic assistant "I've been in and out of one theater group or another at the Williamstown Theater in Massachusetts, she wa im­ practically all of my life," he said. pressed that Koonce brought in outside directors as well as new In 1968-69, following a two-year assignment as assistant to faculty members Joylynn Wing and Jim Thurston. While he President Robert E.L. Strider II, Koonce received a grant to maintained traditional views of theater, Holman says, Koonce investigate experimental living-learning units on other cam­ also allowed students to seek out new playwrights and pursue puses and drafted a curriculum plan for the College that aimed new ideas fortechniques such as how to use space. She says that to increase responsiveness to student needs. Koonce says that the increase in the number of graduates of the program and in the Center for Coordinated Studies, the program that grew out the number of performing arts minors "speaks highly of the of the plan, led directly to the creation of the program in interest he was able to generate." performing arts as well as to other interdisciplinary studies and Holman worked closely with Koonce on an independent majors. The center, which he directed for eight years, "was study in the Stanislavsky technique, in which an actor delves entirely interdisciplinary in its focus, it organization, and its into her own emotions for the partshe plays. For Shaw's Saint ambitions," said Koonce, "so the performing arts program was Joan, Holman said, "I was dealing on a very personal level with a natural kind of activity for the center to be involved in." Saint Joan's emotions. It's a very intimate exerci e. He had the The performing arts program that began in 1976 pulled gift for making that experience comfortable."Other students existing courses together under its rubric-dance from the envied her relationship with her performing arts professors, Physical Education Department, for instance, and dramatic Holman said, "but that's just the nature of it. It's a first-name literature from the English Department. "Special topics" were business. It's a collaboration." invented in other departments. Courses in technical theater "What we wanted to achieve when we created the major," and in acting were added gradually. Today, 10 years after the Koonce said, "was the sense that this is not an exclusive club

COLB Y AUGUST 1994 26 but something that work with, affiliates with, encourages and More than any other drama he could have chosen to helps train student -from wherever in this College-to be­ present, Koonce say , The Bacchae compels this conclusion come literate about theater and to enjoy theaterand to become about human life "in the toughest of all possible ways. You've 1 ifelong theater advocates. l think that's happening, and that' gotta believe in thi ," he aid, adding, "This vi ion of reality a most gratifying experience." that weld together the concrete and Koonce would be the fir t to say the ab tract and the ideal and the real that group effort is at the heart of per­ is overwhelming. The experience of forming arts, and he underscore the being in one of the e plays-when done capability and harmonious involve­ well-is enough to change your out­ ment of the staff. Like technical di­ look forever." rector John Ervin, who work in His dealing with theatrical talent professional theater every summer, all at whatever stage of development, pro­ are working professionals as well as fe sional and amateur, at Colby and in teachers. Koonce speaks highly ofDick regional theater, have rewarded him, Sewell, adjunct associate profe or and Koonce says, as he sees actor grow into the founding director and arti tic di­ their character , reali:e the dramatic rector, for most of it life, of the The­ thread of a play and become proudly ater at Monmouth. Dance teacher and aware of their achievements. choreographer Tina Wentzel's work is Koonce says that people with pro­ "of full professional caliber. So while fessional credentials working continu­ you have people who are teaching the ously with college-level tudent O\'er a literature of drama," Koonce said, period of time create a collaborati\'e "we're also deeply involved in the re­ aesthetic community. He thinks this ality of the productions." kind of collegiality leads to a level of Staging The Bacchae was a good test achievement that regional theater or of his stagecraft, says Koonce, who Broadway, with its expensive musicals believes that all theater has on the one hand and two- to be credible-the audience Theater has been a constant source person shows on the other, has to accept it. Although don't aim at. Unlike regional hi crew even produced "a of self-affirmation forme . In a way, or Broadway theater, ama­ very credible earthquake" teur performers and college that shook the floor under not ever having made my living in can dare to do production the audience ("We were theater, I've been able to like The Bacchae. thinking of putting blotters He cites recent perfor­ under the seats," he joked), make a life out of theater. mances-J S, Tara Estra '94's he says he looked to capture Senior Scholar production of the sense of a Greek location by impressionist techniques As You Like le and an original play, Promenade,written by Zach rather th.an an actual appearance. By blocking and stage Geisz '94 and acted as a senior class project. None of these, de ign, Jim Thurston created an abstract circular wall that Koonce ays, would have been staged at Colby before the gave the sense of a span of time. Wentzel's ta k was to translate advent of the Performing Art Department. the meter of poetic drama into movement and make the "The quality of choice as well a the quality of achievement chorus's song and dance, so fundamental to the action, fully has ju t gone through the roof," he aid. "These kid challenge realized musical theater. themselves now. And they're so much more aware of what a Mored ifficult for audiences, Koonce say , are Greek tragedy's theatrical challenge is." concepts of character and fate. The modem notion th.atpeople During an operation last fall,Koonce's surgeon discovered can avoid or transcend difficulty has no place in Aristotelian early cancer, so the road he'll take at this point is undeter­ tragedy like The Bacchae. Tragedy, he argues, is not something mined. Options include an offerto join a theater company just you avoid; it is something you grow into and accept. outside of Philadelphia. Also tempting is downtown "But that mammoth experience of realizing your destiny Waterville's performingarts center, where the current owner after struggle and truggle and truggle to assert individuality i ha ambitions to establish profes ional regional theater. not essentially a depres ing story," he said. Audience and And Koonce ha thought, again, of organizing his own player alike are witness instead to "the ability to suffer that company. Wherever it might be, it would be entirely in which mankind shouldn't have to sufferbut does. Tragedy is character. "Theater," he said, "has been a constant source of suffering to the ultimate extent, which fails to stamp the park self-affirmation for me. In a way, not ever having made my of divinity out of the human being." living in th.eater, I've been able to make a life out of theater."

27 AUGU T 1994 COLBY PRESI DENT s F 0 RUM 44

Dear Colby Friends,

As Colby developed its plan for the 1990s, we held extensive conversation with alumni, parents, students, faculty,staff and friends of the College. Thoe consultation reas ured us that, in general, the Colby community bel ieve, the College is heading in the right direction; i becoming tronger with each passing year; is well managed; and has remained true to it fundamental values, empha izing teaching, close student/faculty relations and adequate financial aid for students whose familie cannot afford the full cost of a Colby education. In addition, alumni and others have raised que tions about a number of matters on which they want more complete information. The first ha to do with the cost of a Colby education-both the reasons for past increases and likely future costs-and I devoted my 1992-93 annual report to that i sue. A econd concernre lates to the i sue of "political correctnes ," and this letter addre se

that topic. Other i sues to be dealt with in future annual reports, or in additional letters, include: the importance of endowment, balancing teaching and scholar hip, diversity at Colby and liberal art a a preparation for careers and for life. Pol itical correctness ha become an ambiguous and abused term. Because Colby students are concerned about perceived threat to their ability to express their views freely-threats that students frequently describe a examples of political correctnes -1 spent a few minutes of my 1994 Baccalaureate addre s talking about P.C. Thi letter incorporates many of tho e observations. Censorship, even self-censorship, would constitute intolerable political correctness, and every member of our community should do everything pos ible to see to it that our fu ndamental commitment to free inquiry and free expression-"a free marketplace of ideas"-is protected, above all else. At the same time, mo t endorse princ iple of civil behavior whereby we show respect for one another, particularly those who are different and perhaps less powerful than ourselve . With freedomof speech comes the responsibility to u e that freedom wisely and

to understand the special atmosphere of a small, residential, academic community. Colby tries to do both: maximize free peech and mutual re pect. What is P.C. ? In just the last few months, I have encountered an array ofdi sparate u e of the term. • A Nation.al Public Radio commentator declared that concern with diversity itself ha become "politically correct"; • a gay rights lawyer said that "homophobia is politically correct"; • a South African newspaper, responding to the desire of black to change some city names from those adopted under apartheid, commented: "It would be entirely unreal istic to expect any country to have had a history of unalloyed political correctness"; • a recent survey of college presidents by U.S. News & World Report a ked me: "How important is it to the fac ulty at your institution to be 'politically correct ?'"; • in the recent movie P.C.U., the film's stars throw meatballs at vegetarian ;

COLBY AUGU T 1994 28 • a conservative columni t characterizes as "over eager political correctne s" a new Coca Cola advertisement in which a group of women are watching a hanNew York Times reported, even American newspaper editors are divided on whether political correctness is a "force that is stifling truth everywhere" or is "just a trendy new package for a collection of old complaints, including those maintaining that Am­ erica' new rooms were long ago captured by the political left." The editor of the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale complained that editor run the risk of being labeled raci tor sexist whenever they try to deal with important issues concerning our diverse society. Indeed, 38 of the 41 editor polled said that political correctness was �rifling open discussions in their newsrooms. Stil 1, the editor of the Louisville Courier Journalsaid the fact remains that "words can brutalize-that there are limit ," and The Los Angeles Times has taken much criticism for banning words such as babe, bra burner, Dutch treat, mailman, mankind and deaf-mute, We are trying to maximize except when they are appropriate to the context. Not only is the media confused about political correct­ free speech, especially in ness but Newsweek devoted much of one issue to sexual correctness, and Time accused journalists such as The New public lectures and in the York Times' A.M. Rosenthal, who asked black leaders to take a public tand against anti-Semitism, of enforc ing classroom, sacred forums racial correctness. where the expression of It is difficult to define exactly what we mean by P.C. It is almost alway u ed in a derogatory fashion, but I would any op inion must be argue that, like chole terol, there are really two kind of political correctness-good and bad. Ifone advocates that encouraged. But we will members of minority groups be treated equally and with respect in our ociety, one may be assailed for being not permit personal politically correct. Such an attack should be worn a a badge of honor. attacks on individuals. But anyone who engages in actions that abridge free speech is guilty of bad political correctness. Let me try to sharpen the distinction between these categories. Conservative Judge Robert Bork, nominated for the Supreme Court by President Reagan, said in a television debate last December, "Political correctnes is part of a mood of radical egalitarianism which has taken hold. We are eeing it in the speech codes, which are judging speech not by what it objectively means but how somebody perceives it, over which the speaker ha no control." Professor Linda Green of the Univer ity of Wisconsin Law School replied, "Political correctnes i a clever rhetorical phrase which turns a debate about racism and sexism into a debate about censor hip. lf you can force u to discuss censorship instead of di cussing racial epithet or exual harassment or how we are going to transform our institutions into more diver e places, then you have et the terms of debate and prevented a discussion of the real issues." As their di cuss ion developed, they seemed to agree on where the dividing line i between what I consider good and bad political correctness. Bork, for example, condemned students at the University of Pennsylvania who tole an

29 AU GU T 1994 COLBY entire press run of the student newspaper because they regarded one of its article as racist. He al o attacked a college that "put a profe sor through sensitivity training for a remark that really was not offensive in the classroom. That's political correctness," Bork said, "and " that' what we object to. I agree with Bork on these two examples. Both were attempt to interfere with protected speech. Colby's polic ies would prohibit the wholesale eizure ofcopies of the Echo or of any other student publication or the ripping down of notice advertising a controversial speaker. Those are clear interference with free speech and should not be tolerated on a college campus. Colby' Student Handbook specifies: The right of freespeech-which does not include the right to harass , injure , or silence others-is essential in an academic community and will be vigorously upheld. Infringing upon the expression of views , either by interfering with a speaker or b)' defacing or removing properly posted or distributed notices or materials , will

not be tolerated. Colby's Policies on Free Speech I also agree with Bork about the sanctity of the classroom and the • Colby has no " peech code": academic freedom and lecture platform. Colby' policies freedom of expre sion constitute our most basic and concerning the classroom state: cheri hed values. • All members of the community have a right to participate "The tradition of academic free­ in cla se and campu activities without being hara ed dom is a long and honored one. or intimidated. In tructors have wide latitude to • Member of the community can invite any speaker to conduct classroom se ions in cre­ discu s any topic on campus. ative and intellectually stimulat­ • Any firm or organization may recruit on campus. ing ways. In the cla room, text, • The facultyhave wide latitude to conduct cla es and encourage vigorou debate, ome of which wi.ll inevitably ideas, values and objects should be make ome student uncomfortable. pre ented so as to elicit maximum potlight Event regularly fe ature debates on controversial critical and emotional response. It topic such a abortion, gay in the military, gun control, seems unlikely any tudent could health reform and others. pass through the education pro­ • Di play of po ter and ymbols in public places on campu cess without confronting uncom­ mu t leave room for proportionate di play of opposing or other points of view. fortable moments and ideas that • Removing noticesadvertising peaker or meeting or are disquieting." At the same time, confiscating bulk copie of student publications i a students have the right to "partici­ violation of free speech. pate in the classroom without be­ • College-spon ored event and organizations are open to all ing hara sed or intimidated." member of the community without regard to gender, religion or race. Thu , the dividing line at Colby is fairly clear. Admittedly, however, application of the guidelines can pose difficult problems. We are trying to maximize free speech, especially in public lecture and in the classroom, sacred forums where the expre sion of any opinion must be encouraged. But we will not permit personal attacks on individuals. Our regulations prohibit "hostile, intimidating remarks or phy ical ge ture directed at a person" because of his or her race, sex, sexual orientation, religious or national or ethnic origin (whether "majority" or "minority"). Thi i similar to the Con titution' exception to the Fir t Amendment which allow government to prevent threat , intimidation and "fighting word ." Colby, as a private college, is probably not legally bound by the First Amendment, and we would be free, if we

COLBY AU GU T 19 9 4 30 wished to do so, to place restrictions on what faculty could teach, which speaker we will have on campus and what students could ay. Some college affiliated with religious or other special interest groups impo e such restriction routinely. Even though private institutions have the right to restrict expression, we consider ourselves morally, if not legally, bound by the First Amendment, and we will protect free speech on our campus. Still, we and Judge Bork agree that colleges should take action against those who verbally harass others. Bork said that the Fir t Amendment does not protect " peech which expres es no idea but merely expre ses hatred or obscenity or something of that sort"-and Brown University ought to discipline a student who was expelled for shouting racist and anti-Semitic remarks into a quadrangle. I think Bork would also agree that putting a swastika on the door of a Jewish professor, which occurred thi spring at Colby, is not protected speech under the First Amendment. Thi is intimidation; it expresses the kind of hatred for which there is no Fir t Amendment protection. Colby, along with Brown, Stanford, Duke and many other colleges, tries to sustain a community where everyone is treated decently and where vigorous discus ion of all topics is encouraged. We believe that thi kind of community is central to our fundamental mission of helping each student develop her or his unique potential. Indeed, our catalogue has long declared: Colby stands for diversity, without which we become parochial; for respect ofvarious lifestyles and beliefs , without which we become mean-spirited; and for the protection of every individual against discrimination. In the classroom and outside , there is freedom to study, to think, to speak, and to learn in an environment that insists upon the free and open exchange of ideas and views. Finally, we believe that Colby has in place procedures that can convert a potentially explosive situation involving race, religion or gender into an opportunity for greater intergroup under tanding. Harassment issues at Colby, should they arise, will not be handled by the student judiciary, which is usually ill-equipped to mediate these potentially explosive situations. Under Colby procedure , a person who feels he or she has been haras ed and the person accused of harassment both select a representative to serve on a fact-finding and conciliation panel whose other members are appointed from the relevant tudent or faculty committees with an impartial convener selected by the president. In such a multi­ party arbitration panel, all those concernedknow that they are represented by sympathetic advocates within the panel and this is likely to encourage compromise and conciliation. We at Colby have spent a good deal of time in the last several years refining our procedures concerning harassment and have reaffirmedthe sanctity of free speech and the need for provocative presentations in the classroom and on the lecture platform. By definition, educational institutions must provide an atmosphere in which learning can take place. Order is required for meaningful discussion, and support for everyone­ particularly tho e who are most vulnerable-is neces aty if they are to participate in the educational process. We hope we have struck the right balance at the College, but we welcome comments of alumni, parents, students and other members of our community who feel that Colby' current policies need to be strengthened or changed. The freedom to teach, to learn, to inquire and to express oneself comprise our most fundamental values. We must do nothing that will compromise them.

31 AUGU ST 1994 COLBY G I F T S & GRANTS

Jette Bequest Largest Ever to Colby - Sally Baker -

he College has received the largest traits by arti ts such as John Singleton college they helped moved toward its bequest and largest cash gift in its Copley, Gilbert Stuart and Joseph Bad­ special kind of distinction." hiTstory, thanks to the generosity of the ger. Many of the portraits were repro­ late Edith and Ellerton Jette. The gift, duced for the 1994 Colby calendar. The totaling approximately $5.7 million, is Jette Professorship of Art wa established Chairs Get Padding designated for variou art-related funds in their honor, and one wing of the ne lonely research mole on this at Colby. Museum of Art bears their name. magazine staff couldn't turn up any Ellerton Jette, who was chairman and The Jette bequest will help support the organO izations that keep track of the num­ president of the C.F. Hathaway Com­ Jette professorship, the Edward H. T umer ber of endowed professorships at colleges pany for almost 30 years, was elected to Art Exhibition Fund, the Jette Art Resto- and universities in the United States. the Colby Board ofT rustees She was really looking for in 1950 and served as its statistics on the rate of in­ chair from 1965 to 1970. crease in chair giving on His service to the College those campuses in any given was extensive: in 1952 he time period. No such luck. led the Greater Waterville And that's too bad, be­ Campaign that helped Col­ cause if anything could make by complete the move to Colby's success in attracting Mayflower Hill; he headed new endowed chairs look bet­ the Tru tee Planning Com­ ter than it already does, it mittee in 1958; and four would be a fist full of charts years later he was chair and graphs comparing Colby of the Leadership Gift to other college . Committee, which raised Fortunately, however, the more than $4 million dur­ facts themselves provide ing the Ford Foundation strong evidence. The an­ Challenge. Edith Kemper nouncement at the Trustees' Jette was co-founder of May meeting by President the Friend of Art at Col­ Bill Cotter that two new by and worked with the chairs had been endowed Museum of Art staff on by trusteeJamesCrawford '64 early exhibitions that and his wife, Linda (Johnson brought the museum to na- '64), and by trustee Jane Ellerton and Edith Jette. ti on al prominence. Whipple Coddington '55 The Jettes were widely known as arts ration Fund and the Jette Art Acquisition and her husband F. Chandler Codding­ benefactors, especially in New England, Fund and will establish a fund for the ton, brought to 20 the number of endowed and as di ceming collectors. They were Museum ofArt and Art Department. The profe sor hips at Colby-up from three in among the first to recognize and support annual income from that fund will be 1990-a 666 percent increase in just four the work of American lmpressionists­ allocated by Colby's trustees. years. The Coddington chair is as yet in 1975 they donated 96 American lm­ Ellerton Jette died in 1986 and Edith undesignated; the Crawford Family Chair pre ionist paintings to Colby after the Jette in 1992. "Colby will not forget the e in Religiou Studies, held by Professor of collection had toured the nation. Their fine fr iends nor their contributions to- Religion Thomas Longstaff, was estab­ other gifts to Colby include the Ameri- ward its present excellence," President li hed in memory of religion professor can Heritage Collection of American Emeritus Robert E.L. Strider said at a Gustave Todrank. primitive art and, as a donation to the memorial service for Edith Jette in The gifts give Colby far more than Colby 2000 campaign, a collection of Lorimer Chapel, "and both of them will bragging rights. A Tom Tietenburg, 18th- and 19th-century American por- remain enshrined in the annals of the Colby' Mitchell Family Professor ofEco-

COLBY AUGU T 1994 32 nomics, told Colby in November, the es­ nated, but endowing a professorship-­ school tudents and their parent scour tablishment of a new chair releases money which co ts $1.l million-i e pecially college rating guides in books and in from the College's general fund for aca­ meaningful. Such a gift enhances a fa­ maga:ine such as U.S. ews & 'X'orld demic support, o Colby can continue to vored department and acknowledge the Repcm, they see evaluation that are based, devote significant money to recruiting value of a Colby education in a donor's in part, on endowment figure . AnJ ome andpayingtopfaculry member . Appoint­ life and career. Many, like Crawford, cite foundations and other charitable msmu­ ment to an endowed professorship i an a particularly influential or cherished tion regard ucce sful fund rai ing as one e teemed achievement for any scholar professor when they explain the motirn­ measure ofa college':.worth mess fur grants. and a way to reward the be t of the best. tion behind a chair gift (see related story). Along with providing fu nJ for finan­ Donors ay that endowing a chair is To outside constituent -including cial aid, increa ing the endowment is among the most satisfying ways to gi e to potential tudents-a college' total en­ among the core priorities of Colby' nexr Colby. The College couldn't operate ef­ dowment, including named professorship , capital campaign, which i �et to begin in ficiently if all gifts were strictly desig- is an indication of it quality. When high the fall.

CrawfordChair Honors Dr. To drank

Linda Johnson Crawford '64 was a European history Crawfords moved to Richmond, Va., where they have lived major at Colby. Her husband , tru tee Jame Crawford for 20 years. He currently is chairman and CEO of the Jame '64, majored in economics. So when it came time to River Coal Company. decide which academic department should receive the "Eventually," Crawford aid, "I was able to get involved brand-new Crawford Family with the College through the Profe orship, they chose ... over eer program and then as religion. Part of their reason­ a trustee. But it wa partly the e ing can be summed up in two connection and friend hip words: Gustave T odrank. that brought u back to Colby. «Linda and I both took There were a number of profe - cour e from Dr. T odrank," sors we had fond memorie of, Crawford said, recalling the late and that made u want to re ­ professor of philosophy and turn when we got the chance." religion. "He was a wonderful The fir t overseer commit­ teacher. He was warmand com­ tee Crawford joined wa to pa sionate-just the kind of the Department of Philosophy per on you enjoyed being with. and Religion (now two eparate But from a teaching perspec­ department , thank in part to tive, he had a way of chal­ the committee's recommenda­ lenging everybody. We were tion). In that ervice he met [exposed to] formal doctrine Profes or Thomas Longstaff, growing up, and then we were who has been named the fir t thrown into more current Crawford Family Professor of thought and philosophies. Religiou Studie . Crawford ...He was a very low-key per­ call Long taffa "wonderful per- son, very unassuming, but he on" and say he's pleased with had a way of talking about life the chair's de ignation. and the importance of religion "At this stage of it growth, in life." Gustave Todrank the College really does need to Crawford remembers fondly have support in the areas of invitations to Sunday night dinners at Gus and Libby endowment and the fu nding of the educational program," Tod rank's Waterville home and li tening to T odrank Crawford said. «And I think this i a great way to do it, preach at service in Lorimer Chapel. He says he and Linda becau e you accomplish two thi ngs-Tom Longstaff i lost touch with Todrank and other favorite professor - supported in his teaching, and the chair becomes a way to including Alfred K. "Chappie" Chapman, Walter fund a particular department and it operating costs. It' Breckenridge and Jim Gillespie-a his career took the good timing in terms of the College's need and in term of family fartheraway from Colby. Aftera decade in the New what we feel is important. And it' nice to be able to honor York area, where their two children were born, the Dr. Todrank, too."

33 AUGU T 1994 COLBY A Friend Indeed Department led her to become a College Scholarship Fund in 1983 to subsidize benefactor, will be devoted to strength­ Colby educations for deserving Maine A beque t from the late Dr. Blanche ening the holdings in Miller Library. tudents from Lincoln, Knox and Waldo Geer, a Northeastern University soci­ Geer, who lived in North Edgecomb, counties. At her death she left more ology profe sor whose admiration for Maine, in her retirement and who died than $1 million for the Dr. Blanche Geer several members of Colby's Sociology last year, endowed the Dr. Blanche Geer Library Fund, established formally earlier this pring. It will be used to buy books and other educational materials for Miller Library. Filling the Chair "Dr. Geer's association with Colby was nurtured-and then furthered-by Colby's Endowed Professorships the Sociology Department," said former planned giving director David Roberts Charles Bassett Lee Family Professor of American Studies and of English 'SS, noting that one of Geer's proudest moments came in 1987, when her former Patrick Brancaccio John and Caroline Zacamy student Cheryl Townsend Gilkes was Professor of English appointed to Colby' sociology faculty. Gilkes is now John D. McArthur Associ­ Arthur Champlin Leslie Brainerd Arey ate Professor ofSociology andof African­ Professor of Biosciences American Studies. F. Russell Cole Oak Professor of Biological Sciences Geer received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1956 and became David Firmage Clara C. Piper Profe sor of a noted practitioner of symbolic interac­ Environmental Studies tion fieldwork. An early and avid fe mi­ nist, she was co-author of Boys in White: Henry Gemery Pugh Family Professor of Economics Student Culture in Medical School ( 1961). Hugh Gourley Friend , Director of the Museum of Art She erved as editor of several journals, including American Sociological Review, Jan Hogendorn The Gros man Profes or of Economics Social Problems and Symbolic Interaction and of a book, Learning to Work. Thomas Longstaff Crawford Family Profes or of Religious Studies

David Lubin Jame M. Gillespie Professor ofArt Alumni Alert and of American Studie A member of the Class of ' S l ha pledged G. Calvin Mackenzie Distinguished Presidential $1 million to support a fund-raising ef­ Professor of American Government fort forfina ncial aid. And all Colby alum­ ni can help. L. Sandy Maisel William R. Kenan Jr. The donor and his wife, who pledged Profes or of Government anonymously, want to establish the Col­ by Twentieth Century Alumni Scholar­ James Meehan Herbert E. Wadsworth ship Aid Fund. The idea is for Colby Professor of Economics alumni from the 20th century to bank on Jane Moss Robert E. Diamond Professor of students of the 21 t-the first Twentieth Women's Studies and of French Century Alumni Scholars will be named in the fa ll of 2000. Bradford Mundy Miselis Profes or of Chemistry The gift carries a condition: the Col­ lege must raise an additional $2 million Jorge Olivares Allen Family Professorof in endowed financial aid funds from Latin American Literature alumni before the end of the decade­ David Simon Jette Professor of Art donations from parents, foundations and other fr iends of the College won't be Thomas Tietenberg Mitchell Family counted toward the total. Professor of Economics The pledge is the first of it size spe­ cifically earmarked for scholarships Robert Weisbrot Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Colby. +

(Unfilled Coddington Chair)

C 0 L B Y A U G U S T I 9 9 4 34 FACULTY FI L E rl Triple Threat - Stephen Collins '74 -

a woman, as an African-American, Ii terary and as a literary e ayi ·r grounded demic paper tirleJ "Playing the Devil'� as a visiting instructor f oc iology in ociology. Advocate: Defending a 1ulti-Racial Aat Colby on a year-to-year appointment Televi�ion journalist and language Identity" u e autohiographical mate­ for the last three years, Sarah Willie pundit Edwin Newman once wrote that rial-three "raciali:ed moments" of her knows first-hand about living on the "a large part of social cientific practice own life-to illu·trate how subtly strati­ margin. A a ociologi twho tudie strati­ consi ts of taking clear ideas and mak­ fication and oppre sion occur. he \Hite : fi cation and oppression in ociety, par­ ing them opaque." But Willie transcend "There is a peculiar ideological belief for ticularly in race and gender relation , the tereotype of the academic ociolo- each ethnic/gender or race/ ex rnnfigu­ Willie al o has a thorough aca­ ration in this country, but the demic grounding in the mechan­ ideology that Black \\'Omen are ics of marginality. dependent-and there i. a So it should come as no sur­ sliohtly different ideology that prise that Willie, one of this de-cribe Black men-ha- con­ year's new tenure-track fac ulty vinced many people that I am members, check in a the unable to exist without the will Colleae' fir t-ever appointee in of the government. It will be three separate program . Be­ supporting me in ome capacit\', ginning this fall he is a ten­ whether by 'gi,·ing' me welfare, ure-track in tructor in ociology, forcing .chools to admit me, or African-American ·tudie and threatening organ i:ations into women's tudie . hiring me .... When the College's overseer "In thi ociety ifl am, on the que tioned the idea of having a other hand, "·hire and male, and faculty member with a foot m especially if I am also traight, three cliff erent boats, W i II ie Protestant and affluent, the mes­ countered, "I don't even have sage, of which I am constantly three feet!" reminded, i that l am depen­ "I really ee it a being one Jent on no one. I am admitted to boat, though," he aid. "It's one chool becau e I am mart; I am that cover everything. It was a hired for a job becau e of my way for me to ay, 'I'm not choos- kill; I am paid my alary becau ·e ing one or the other."' That per- Sarah Willie I have earnedit. I am responsible ception help to explain both foreveryone el e. her academic philosophy and a world gi t by analy:ing complex ·ocial phe­ "After Karl Mannheim and Martin view that re i t clas ification sy terns nomena with elegant, direct and per- Buber, after Howard Thurman and Maya that ultimately leave ome people on the onal prose. The fact that Maine Public Angelou, I would argue that we are all margins. "I refuse to be subdivided; it's a Radio ha aired three of her essay dur­ dependent on other forall of the things rejection of marginality." ing the Maine Things Considered portion that count in life ....To be human i to "Being marginal in one en e has al­ of All Things Considered is evidence of be dependent. To be human is al o to be lowed me to find my center in another her succe s and kill, whether it' "Car agent invol ed in the haping of our en e," he aid. "Moving away from oci­ Dealer, Raw Deal" about a black woman wills. But the me ·age that urround ology into women' and African-Ameri­ buying a u ed car in central Maine or both you and me ob cure these truth ." can tudie give me more flexibility. "Over the Aby " about her parent ' 30th When Willie presented portions of They are new fields, still defining them­ wedding anniver ary. "Playing the Devil' Advocate" a part of selve . Both are interdi ciplinary, allow­ Willie' focuson her own experience Colby' Women' tudie Colloquia la t ing many more tyle of presentation." a a way of under randing and explaining winter, a standing-room-only audience Willie ees her elf as a teacher who what' going on in ociety i not confined was clearly moved by the torytelling in coun els tudent , a a sociologi t who i to her extracurricular writing. An aca- her scholarship. he used an anecdote

35 !\UGU T 1994 COLBY about her encounter with a teen-aged fi lled with granJio ity anJ self-loathing, I ing connections. She quotes C. Wright African-American bag boy at a grocery ll'anted to he she who WL1uld wipe out any Mills, who aid, "Neither the life of an -rore tll illustrate her own st ruggle with doubt in hi· mind that people like us are individual nor th history of soc iety being a multiracial per-on with Black not on the mm·e. I wanted to have gone to can be under tood without understand­ African ance::.try (her fa ther is Af ri­ Harvard for him." ing both." can-American, her mother white). The '"No,"' I said. '"Haverford. It' a diffe r­ "Autobiography gives me a greater hoy noticed t h e sweatshirt she \\'a::. ent college."' range to talk about things. We can talk \\'earing, \\'hich wa::. emb la:oneJ with Fol lowing Will ie's presentation, the about hard thing a little more easily," "Haverford," her alma inciter, but misread discus::.ion tn<1Lle it clear that her u e of she aid. "Starting with our own stories the \\'orJ. "Did you really go to Han·arcl ?" autobiography in cholarsh ip may have allows people to use their own stories and the boy asked. put her agai n on the margin of main- meet us." "I \\'ished with everyth ing im1de me, trearn ·ociolngy. Asked how the Eastern That's particularly important in a class \\' ith e\·ery choice I've e\·er made for me Soc iological Society reacted when she when the subject matter challenges stu­ and not 'The Race.' that I had gone to presented her paper, Willie replied: "So dents' mo t ba ic a sumptions-that men Han·ard. That I could -ay to that boy, far it's kind of met with tunned ilence." are dependent on no one and respon­ 'sister done madegood ....' That he could But he defended her first-person ap­ sible for everyone else, for example. "Of­ be proud of himself. That he could be proach to soc iology , vvomen' studies ten their first reaction to me and to the proud of me. That the world was gettin and African-American studies as an ef­ material is going to be an angry one," fairer. In t hat naked, bloated moment, fe ctive way of opening doors and mak- Willie said of her teaching experience.

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Girl Ta lk tudies. A sociate Professor of English Cedric Bryant, in a Boys may be boys, but apparently girls are often not recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, pointed given the same opportunity forself-expression. And that out Gaines's universal appeal. "My students are over­ may contribute to problems later in life , according to whelmingly middle class whites, and sometimes I find that Assistant Professor of Education and Human Develop­ there are cultural reasons that prevent them from assimi­ ment Lyn Mikel Brown, whose five-year study of 100 lating some work," he said. "But with Gaine there is an adolescent girls was cited in recent articles in Mademoiselle immediate identification, because he deals with timeless and The Washington Post wire service. Brown said many themes: love and hate and courage." (A9402) girls experience a loss of self-esteem between the ages of9 and 1 5 . Girls at those ages "lose their voice ," she said. Reserve Judgment it cost to buy money ? That's The Mademoiselle article discussed the difficulty How much money should 6 economic forecasters ponderas they some women have saying "no." Brown says this "yes the $ 4,000 question gauge the effects of Federal Reserve policies. habit" form when adolescent girls' assertiveness is attempt to Two Colby economist -As istant Professor Saranna suppressed by well-meaning parent and teachers who Thornton '8 1 and Associate Professor David Findlay­ try to help the girls be more socially acceptable. (A9401 ) each offered their two cents worth in separate newspaper Reading Between the Color Lines article recently. When studying the work of black author , white Thornton told Investor's Business We ekly that Fed fund student historically have found the material to be rate changes don't make any immediate impact on the na­ somewhat gray. That is, they either misinterpreted it or tion's economy. She estimated that it takes between six just plain didn't understand. But that appears to be months and two years for consumers and businesses to react. changing as facultyaero s the country incorporate the Findlay, in a recent issue of the Portland Press Herald, writing of Ernest ]. Gaines-be t known for his novel aid the Fed's planned interest rate increase-designed to The Autobiography ofMiss Jane Pittman-into literature thwart nationwide inflation-might actually help Maine's

COLBY AUGU ST 1994 36 That caused some heartache for students whether they're member of racial mi­ into social work-a kind of therapy for and the instructor in her early cour es, norities, sexual minorities or adopted the suhjects he wa interviewing. "I was and he recall tudent who ende d up children. People who aren't even in like a ponge," he . aid."! pent five year� hating the material, hating her and mak­ my classes come by anJ say, 'My room­ heing pretty unhappy." ing both clear with some unflattering mate aid I should come ee you.' Willie, who said ::.helackeJ a en e of reviews in their course evaluation form.. There's something about difference that fe llowship in Chicago, ha-. found the Willie has re isted the temptation to water people trust." atmosphere in Waterville m re to her down her material, to often the chal­ Willie arrived at Colby after five year liking. She ha taken Adult Education lenge to student ' beliefs or to reward in graduate ·chool at Nonhwe tern cour e and i involved in some church them with inflated grades. Univer ity. Though he describes Chi­ fu nctions and community programs in Her rapport with student was evident cago as a vibrant, multiracial city, she addition to her work on Mayflower Hill during the interview for thi article when was bothered by the egregated nature of and her writing. "If there hadn't been a a half-dozen student came to talk to her the metropoli::. with it preJorninantly sense of community I certainly wouldn't even though it wasn't during her posted black south side and predominantly have tayed," she said. office hours. white north end. In addition, the rigors of Stay she did, and with Willie as part of "Being different i an invitation to lots graduate chool took their toll on her. what Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur of tudents who feel different," Willie There wa too much of a "graduate- called a "stunning" group of new tenure­ said. "College i a time when lots of chool-as-boot-camp" mentality, she track faculty members, Colby students people are figuring out who they are, said, and her research too often turned are the beneficiaries. +

economy. "Thi could, potentially, be a wa h forMain e. The dishes are piling up at Colby, too, he says, In the long term, non-inflationary growth nationally will noting that the College now has three of them, includ­ help us," he said. (A9403) ing one that tracks a Russian satellite, Gorizon 7. (A9405) Sanctioning Sanctions outh Africa ha installed its first democratic govern­ Authority Figures ment, but that probably would not have happened with­ A recent piece in the National ]ournal introduced a out economic sanction fromthe We t. That' the view of collection of essay analyzing Congress's role in the A ociate Profe sor of Government and director of In­ management of federal program . Among the e ay ternational Studie Kenneth Rodman, who was quoted quoted was that of Professor of Government G. Calvin in a recent article in Investor's Business Weekly that such Mackenzie, who said: "There is no consensus in either anctions helped end apartheid. "Economic costs imposed branch, in the law or in the cholarly literature, on by the international community played a ignificant role where congressional authority properly end and ex­ in influencing the decision of the white leader hip," ecutive authority begins." Rodman aid. "They recognized that unless there were "In fact," Mackenzie wrote, "they overlap con tantly fundamental changes, they would never normalize their alma t everywhere, and the only meaningful restraints economic relation hip with the rest of the world." (A9404) are those that are elf-imposed and politically driven." (A9406) Colby's Favorite Dishes Satellite dishes were popularized by television junkie Politically Speaking looking for rerun of old shows, but the technology that Maine's wide-open legi lative races have kept Asso­ brings "Rocky and Bullwinkle" into living rooms al o ciate Profe sor of Government Tony Corrado busy provides an important utility for college . Sam Atmore, analying election new for the past several month . He audiovisual librarian, explained the increa ed use of at­ was recently cited in a Boston Globe article about the ellite transmissions on college campuses in a June is ue of opportunitie for Maine candidate to increa e their On Sat, a program guide for dish owner . "There is a lot exposure at the Democratic state convention. Corrado more interest in multicultural, international program­ agreed that the practice of platform debate "has been ming on college campuse these days. Be ides all the very important" in obtaining voter upport and that in programming, the costs involved are much more manage­ general "it's a wise strategy to u e the platform to lay out able," tmore told the magazine. your po ition." (A9407)

37 AUGUST 1994 COLBY BOOKS & AUTHO R S _fflta� Lubin Knocks Art off the Pedestal - Greg Gadberry -

avid Lubin makes some reople very, Picturing a Nation: Arr and Social Change rivative and by others a a minor artist. very angry. When you meet him, it' in Nineteench-Century America is the large ·t Lubin look beyond those criticisms. hardD to understand why. and most comprehensive example of "do­ Lubin leads readers through Duncan- Lubin is a smart, funny and, well, a pret­ ing a Lubin" to date. The hook, released by on's work and influences and then ex­ ty regular kind of guy. He speaks with ra - Yale University Press, studies the lives and plains the difficult and dangerous world ion and preci ion about everything from work of six American artists: John that African Americans inhabited prior to Amerirnn movies to the vagaries of rolitic Vanderlyn, George Caleb Bingham, Rob­ the Civil War. Although Duncanson wa to the hi tory of American art. He slide ert S. Duncan on, Lilly Martin Spencer, a free black man, he lived in Cincinnati, puns and jokes into his academic writing. Seymour Guy and William Hamett. where racial tensions were high and dan­ He make fun of himself. Next to his gers to blacks were alwayspresent. desk is a very un-professorial picture Lubin then speculate on how showing Lubin-laughing and up to the pressures of pre-Civil War soci­ his neck in water-in a grand old ety mayhave steered Duncanson's fountain in Rome. art. He suggest , for example, that So what's not to like? Ask some the calm and beautiful landscapes members of America's art establish­ Duncanson created may have re­ ment. One called Lubin "an X-rated flected the artist' inner wish for a pornographer."Another uggested he calm and peaceful America with­ made things up. Curators who invite out lavery and racial violence. him to art conferences wonder wheth­ Much of what Lubin posits can't er he'll "do a Lubin" while he i there. be proved-as he i quick to acknow­ Do a Lubin? ledge. "I invite you to laugh, scoff,be "ln a way, that worried me," said angry, scribble notes in the margin, Lubin, the] ames M. Gillespie Profe - write me a letter-and send it," Lu­ or of Art and American Studie at bin writes in the book's introduction. Colby. "l wasn't quite sure what 'do And neither does Lubin uggest a Lubin' meant." He grinned. "l think that only a single interpretation is it has to do with unpredictability." correct. ln many cases, he offerssev­ It's more than that. Lubin and eral possible rea ans why a piece of other scholar like him are storming art was done and what it means. He the often-stuffy world of art and art even offer contradictory explana­ criticism and are kicking over the tions. The idea is not to give readers pedestal . These American studie the answer but to provoke them into scholars and art historians are un­ finding their own answers. willing to view paintings and sculptures Like other art historians, Lubin com­ Some ofLubin's speculations may seem merely as things of beauty or examples of ments on the techniques and talent that farfetched even to the most open-minded high culture. They a k new questions went into each artist's work. But from reader. Can a modem critic really psy­ about old art-questions that make many there he probes the personal, societal and choanalyze an artist through his works, uncomfortable. Those new questions and even sexual influences that may have especially an artist dead for alma tacen­ techniques have provoked fierce debates helped create their paintings. And he tury and a half? about art scholarship and about the pur­ speculates on what viewers and buyers of Yet Lubin's writing is o killful that poses of art it elf. those paintings may havethought of them. most readers will probably overlook their "A lot of art historians see themsel ve In the chapter on Duncanson, for ex­ skepticism and followalong simply to ee as the last bastions of Western culture ample, Lubin looks at a mid-1 9th-century where Lubin is headed. Hi explanations against the barbarians," Lubin said. "And African-American artist who has largely of 19th-century history and culture are maybe that's why so many art historians been overlooked by modern audiences. well presented and believable. The specu­ are mad at me, because they think I'm Duncanson, who painted vivid and peace­ lations and theorie that follow ri e logi­ going to open the gates and say, 'Barbar­ ful landscapes in the Hud on River School cally and thoughtfully from a solid ians, come on in !' " style, has been dismissed by some as de- grounding in hi tory.

COLBY AUGUST 1994 38 Ab ent from Picturing a Narion i the farther than many art hi tory scholar!>," now 43, ha taken the broad ,·iew. His academic arrogance seen all too often in aid Pamela Belanger, a istant curator of intere r- have been many, anJ :eroing in cholarly work . Lubin add to that ap­ the FarnsworthArt Museum in Rockland, on a ingle field of stuJy proved difficult. peal with a fr iendly, personable writing Maine. "He ha hi own style. He' unique. In 1973, he received a B.A. in Eng­ tyle. Picturing a Nation is weighty and l don't know anyone quite like him." lish from Ohio tate Uni,·er�ity. It wa challenging. But it has little of the unin­ Belanger, who is cataloging the Farns­ hi fourth college. He had �tudied in telligible "art-speak" and academic jar­ worth's permanent collection, ha asked Illinois and Michigan and even in Lo gon that bloats many scholarly works. Lubin to submit chapter about artist Angele , where he made movies in the "l'm per anally very thankful for Thomas Eakins. pre tigiou Univer ity of Southern Cali­ people like David, who go out a little bit From his childhood in Ohio, Lubin, fornia fi lm chool. After college, he drm·e a truck, wrote a novel and moved to Paris, where he Heroes Are Back watched subtitled American movie and courted a young American writer named Susanna Hofmann McShea '7 1 's quartet of unlikely sleuths has returned-this time Libby Warner. Although the two had to solve the my tery surrounding the death of a seminary student. been introduced in the United tate , Ladybug, Ladybug(St. Martin' Pre s 1994 ) is the third in McShea's "Hometown romance didn't come until Lubin hitch­ Herne "series of mysteries ( ee Colby, November 1992). In this in tallment, the four hiked through France and appeared at a elderly, amateur detective McShea introduced in Hometown Heroes (St. Martin's vineyard where Libby wa picking grape . 1990) team up with a distraught mother who e on i murdered at a mall, financially "We've been together ever ince," he trapped Catholic seminary. The plotting is tight enough-and the mystery deep said. The Lubins now have two children. enough-to please easoned aficionado of the form. Plausible culprits abound, along Film was one of Lubin' early love·, with a creelfulof red herring . and o it remains. Since coming to Colby McShea also displays her talent for drawing complex character in ettings that are in 1983, he has taught several classes on never quite what they seem. Idyllic, fictitious Raven' Wood, Com1., is home to both movies. But at the Yale American Stud­ senior executives and fi nancially maxed-out wannabes. Families fall apart discreetly. ie program, Lubin became captivated by Cri e calls for do ed doors. And St. Sebastian's Seminary, fighting for its life behind a 19th-century American paintings, e pe­ facade of Catholic conservatism, house a few monsters along with its religious eekers. cially portraits. So in between writing Readers of Ladybug, Ladybugare warned to take nothing for granted--except an movie reviews for the local paper, Lubin intriguing tale. learned about painting, technique and theory from Jules Prawn, a renowned art Redefining Jewish Life historian and scholar. Lubin's first book, Act of Portrayal: Colby Professor ofEngli h David uchoffhas teamed with University of Colorado­ Eakins , Sargent, James, was publi hed in Denver professor Kevin O'Neill in a new tran lation of Alain Finkielkraut's The 1985. One of his Yale professor warned Imaginary Jew (University of Nebra ka Press, 1994 ). Lubin that once it wa published, "the Finkielkraut, a French native born in 1949 to Holocaust survivors, published a bullet would be flying." Critic railed at French edition of this book of essays in the early 1980s. In it he explores, among other topics, the idea that the Holocau t perpetrated a loss of pre-war Jewish culture and his speculation , claiming Lubin' theo­ memorie . He says that sub equent attempt to describe that culture have lacked ries were either too broad or just plain depth because writers have shied away from depicting the full range of Jewish wrong. Lubin's contention that some of experience-either in ympathy for Holocaust victims or becau e they can't recon­ the factors motivating the most beloved struct the milieu from it ashe . One is left, he says, with ympathetic portraits uch 19th-century American arti ts were a tho e found in the musical Fiddler on the Roof or the television series Holocaust, sexual sent traditionali ts up the walls. which de cribe paradigms (and paragons), not people with rich and complicated Since the printing of Act of Portrayal lives. nine year ago, more and more cholar In hi introduction to this volume, Suchoffsays Finkielkraut, the author of eight have opted to challenge entrenched view books including a critique of the Klaus Barbie trial, i "clear-eyed and critical" in of art, and some scholars believe that Pic­ describing the ways Jews born during the Baby Boom have been robbed of their turing a Nation may find a much more re­ cultural heritage. ceptive audience than Lubin's first book. "The Imaginary Jew," Suchoff writes, "describe the elf-contradiction of contem­ The author, however, i n't so ure. He porary Jewish identity a a fa mily affair. In many ways, Finkielkraut' book can be read remembers all the yelling and screaming as an updated ver ion of Kafka' Letter to His Father, sharing its longing forthe parents' too well. But he know he isn't ready to culture and resistance to assimilation and accommodation as facts of Jewish life .... narrow his focu or conform to old bound­ "Finkielkraut argues that the po t-Holocau t effect was to hand down an empty aries of taste, tyle and knowledge. and simultaneou ly inflated ense of what Jewi h identity might mean. Being a proud "Mywork," Lubin said, "is aboutcros - Jew became important, in other words, precisely when the Holocau t robbed Euro­ ing line ." + pean Jewi h culture of its content. Many parents, hoping to forget the horrors they underwent, silenced the very Yiddi h culture and ense of connectedness that their Greg Gadberry is an arts and entertainment children longed to po sess." writer far the Partland Newspapers .

39 AUGU T 1994 CO LBY PAG ING A R E N T s

Answers to First� Year Questions - J. Kevin Cool -

t is a ritual that occurs on doorsteps and Roseboro ays keeping parents informed them with the campus and Colby people. I in driveways and in the shadow of res­ avoids misunderstandings later. She re­ Academic concerns are high on most idence halls on campuses across America calls an incident at an institution where parents' lists. They often want their son or every fall. Parents say goodbye to their she worked previously in which the daughter to select an academic program children on the first day of college. mother of a student "came unglued" when that will lead to a specific career. The Even for the most secure mothers and she dropped off her daughter for classes liberal arts may be unfamiliar to some fathers, the most sophisticated higher ed­ and learned for the first time that she parents, depending on their own college ucation "consumers," this is a day fraught would be living in a coed dormitory. background or experience, Serdjenian with anxiety and fu ll of anticipation. And "Here was this tearful mother shouting, says. As a result, he said, "there are ques- there are questions. Lots of questions. tions like, 'What is my daughter going Mark Serdjenian '73, associate dean to do with an East Asian studies ma­ of students, says Colby works hard to "We're in a jor?' They want them to dive right into assuage parents' anxieties and to address pre-med or economics or something concerns ranging from where to open a partnership; we are they see as a practical major. Luckily, bank account to selecting a major. liberal arts colleges and graduates are "First and fo remost, parents are privileged to come in being seen as a hot commodity right concerned that their children have a now, and with the help of Career Ser­ challenging experience or they at this stage of a vices, I think we can put some of those wouldn't be at Colby, but they also concerns to rest." want that experience to be a comfort­ student's life, but Regardless of the specific concerns, able and positive experience over­ Roseboro believes the key to meeting all," Serdjenian said. the family will always parents' needs is opening a dialogue Many of the parents' questions will and maintaining a relationship have been an wered by the time school be there." throughout a student's college career. begins. The Dean of Students Office "The more informed parents are the provides a hotline number during the better their relationship will be with summer for parents who want informa­ 'How could you do this to me? How could the institution," she said. "We're in a tion. Serdjenian, who receives all hotline you do this to me?' She was not prepared to partnership; we are privileged to come in calls, says questions early in the summer leave her daughter in that situation be­ at this stage of a student's life, but the typically deal with cour e selections and cause nobody had explained to her what family will always be there." academic advising. the living arrangements would be." Dean of the College Earl Smith points "No matter how familiar one is with Colby produces a series of publica­ to the Parents Executive Committee as selecting courses at another college or tions and special mailings for parents. another example of Colby's commit­ high school or prep chool, the unique The Parents Handbook is a 62-page book­ ment to keeping parents informed. "The aspects of Colby's system bring a lot of let that describes college policies, ex­ Parents Executive Committee aggres­ questions," Serdjenian said. plains academic requirements and is sively tries to identifyparents' concerns," As the summer progresses, the ques­ chock-full of helpful, practical informa­ he said. The Executive Committee, tions become more practical. "Early on, a tion such as flight schedules in and out of composed of a group of parents of cur­ typical question might be, 'What does a Portland and a list of restaurants in the rent students, conceived the hand­ first-year schedule Look like?"' Serdjenian Waterville area. "We try to send parents book to inform and assist parents with said. "As the summer goes along, we get more than just the bill," Serdjenian said. useful information. questions like, "Should we send oversized "They get the College calendar, the hand­ Parents Weekend is also an important sheets for the room?" book and several other things to help component of Colby's outreach. Usually Jeri Fraime Roseboro, Colby's new as­ them plan their year." held in late September or early October, sociate dean of students for intercultural Parents who drop off their children Parents Weekend provides an opportu­ affairs, said parents often feel "left out of for COOT in Late August may parti­ nity for parents to reconnect with their the loop" unless there is a systematic cipate in a day and a half of orienta­ children and strengthen their ties with attempt to communicate with them. tion activities designed to familiarize the College.

COLBY AUGUST 1994 40 STUDENT LI FE �. � A Watershed Experience

- Stephen Collins '7 4 - hen two lake associations in protecting the water, both by working on the transparency of the lakes, measuring Belgrade, Maine, hired Brian D. exi ting condition in the water hed and dissolved oxygen in the water and re­ CarlsonW '94 to spend his summer moni­ planning for the future. cording acidity levels, all in addition to toring water quality in four ofthe Belgrade "I was really amazed at the amount of monitoring the amount of pho phorus in lakes, they knew they were getting more work they were able to get done in a each lake. "We have good dataon Salmon than the average ummer Lake from la t summer; intern.Carlson graduated now we have to do ome­ summa cum laude in May thing about it," Carlson with distinction as a bi­ said. Doing something ology-environmental sci­ about it includes trying ence major and a member to implement recom­ of Phi Beta Kappa. He mendations for improv­ also helped write the ing camp road- o their book-literally-about drainage ditches and water quality in McGrath diversion are more lake­ Pond and Salmon Lake. friendly. It means ap­ Carlson and 10 other plying grant from the seniors in Biology 493, tare' Department of Problems in Environmen­ Environmental Protec­ tal Science, took learn­ tion to improve buffer ing beyond the classroom strip -tree or shrub last year, working in the plantings to filter runoff 5,7 1 3-acre watershed area water as it enters the for Salmon Lake in Bel­ lake. Carlson is al o grade and Oakland. Their working with code en­ study was hailed by con­ forcement officers in servation group , town Oakland and Belgrade to officials and Maine De- Brian Carlson '94 prepares w exrract a watersample . identifymalfunctioning partment of Environmen- septic sy terns that may tal Protection biologists for its quality, semester. ... It was very thorough; I was be harming the lakes. thoroughness and u efulness in protect­ really impressed," said JeffDenn i , head The job entails more research, such as ing the lakes that feed Great Pond and the of watershed asse sment and planning for expanding the cla s' inventory of the rest of the Belgrades. Maine's Department of Environmental almon Lake watershed to include in­ "Land Use Patterns in Relation to Protection. "It' the kind of thing we'd pection ofall tributary treams. Carlson Lake Water Quality in the Salmon Lake like to do for every watershed where will also put together a pamphlet for Watershed," a 159-page compendium of there's concern about development. It landowner on the importance of plant­ graphs, maps, scientific data, reports and provides a service that noone else has the ing horeline buffer strips. recommendations, was published in Janu­ time or the resources to do." Recognizing the value of both applied ary following a detailed presentation of Carlson, now in the employ of the learningand community service, biology the findings on campus last December. It lake associations in a cooperative arrange­ profes ors Russell Cole and David Firmage concludes that water quality in Salmon ment with Colby, is spending his summer have developed the Biology 493 cour e Lake and adjacent McGrath (pronounced doing further testing on Salmon Lake, over the last decade so that eniors ma­ "McGraw") Pond five miles west of Colby expanding ome of the tests to cover joring in biology with a concentration in is not as bad as it has been in the past but Long Pond and Great Pond and working environmental cience can tudy a spe­ that future development could put the on grants and action plans to implement cific, troubled watershed. Pa tclasse have lakes at n k. More important, according the recommendations for protecting focused on China Lake and East Pond; to biologists and residents concernedabout Salmon Lake's water hed and environ . thi year was almon Lake' year. The the lakes, it offers pecific suggestions for His regimen of tests include checking cour e i tructured as if the tudents are

41 AUGU T 1994 COLBY This Research Was a Day at the Beach

Without the details to di. tinguish it, a ·rory about the The pair also researched the possible effects of steel mill activities of one Colby geology profes or and his student slag heaps on groundwater near Gary, lnd., a project spon- assistant could de-cribe a typical summer vacation: they ored by the Indiana Department of Environmental Manage­ slept in tents and played in the sand. ment. The research involved a week of sampling to determine But Assistant Professor of Geology Paul Dos and Jeff the chemical composition of groundwater in the heavily Harri on '95 were investigating groundwater movement at industrialized corridor along Indiana' northern border. lt's Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore under the au pices of the an extension of di serration research Doss conducted at National Biological urvey. Located on the southern shore Northern Illinois University and will likely result in a pub­ of Lake Michigan, the Indiana Dunes beache have occa­ lishable report combining data from both studies, Doss says. sionally been closed because of bacterial concentrations in Harrison, who will co-author at least one of the project the lake, but pre\ iminary studies found even more bacteria reports, say the experience enriched his under tanding of in the beach groundwater. Doss and Harrison wanted to and appreciation for hydrogeological fieldwork. "I'm really evaluate groundwater movement to find out the nature and grateful for the opportunity, and 1 think it's something I will origin of the contaminants under the beach itself. really use later," he said. "lt was exciting re earch because it directly affects public "Jeff assisted in every aspect of the project, from in tailing health," Doss said. wells to taking samples to interpreting the data," Do s said. The project required Dos and Harrison to live in tents Another of Doss's students, John Dawson '95, worked near the research. site and de ign pecial field procedures to with Associate Professor of Geology Robert Nelson in a field deal with the challenges of studying groundwater beneath.a project at the Great Bog wetlands in Maine's Belgrade Lakes public beach. Working amid thousands ofbeach.-goers daily, area. Dawson analyzed pollen samples from a sediment core Doss and Harrison dug well and extracted water samples for 20 feet long, which would indicate vegetation types over the analysis. They often had to returnseveral time to redig wells past I0,000 years. "The sample contain sediment from de troyed by torm waves from the lake. To avoid tampering when the last glacier moved through the area," Doss said. from people on the beach, they buried testing equipment and "By analyzing it we can find out what climatic and vegeta­ were constantly watchful to ensure the integrity of their data. tion changes occurred."

an environmental consulting firm with a scientists, lake a sociations and town Concerns a bout the water qua! i ty, fish­ contract to tudy a spec ific problem. The governments concerned about activity erie and wildlife habitat in central object is to teach students how to ap­ in the watershed. Maine's lakes have spawned a gra sroot proach a problem, develop a work-plan Besides integrating computer applica­ environmental movement in the form and implement the plan successfully, ac­ tions, scientific methods and report writ­ of lake associations whose mission is to cording to Cole and Firmage. Student ing, the class project gets into public protect, maintain and improve water draw on tools and skills they've learned policy as well. This year students worked quality and shorelands. The McGrath in earlier course and learn new methods with state-level environmental regula­ Pond/Salmon Lake A sociation was as required. For the Salmon Lake project, tors as well as town official who are founded in 1989 by a group of home­ new material included learning to use the trying to write (and get adopted) land­ owners and camp owners, including Maine DEP's methodology for evaluat­ use ordinances that will protect the lakes. Leonard Reich, associate professor of ad­ ing water quality and calculating the "It was really challenging-it was re­ ministrative sc ience, and his wife, Bar­ amount of phosphorus in run-off. allya bigproject,"Carlson said. "It seemed bara Allen, who live in Belgrade. In addition to water ampling and like every few days we hit another dead­ Allen, the current pre ident of the field research, students employ sophisti­ line." The Problems in Environmental association, said, "I think we're very lucky cated computer applications, including Sc ience class, which earned four credits, to have thi Colby study. lt will really a geographic information system (GIS) was more work than Organic Chemistry, help focus our efforts as an association." and a program called DeltaGraph for which is a fi ve-credit course, he said. But, While lake associations, including tables and graphs, according to Kristian he was quick to add, the Salmon Lake Salmon Lake's, have served as watchdogs Parker '94 of Celingy, Switzerland. Af­ study was one of the most valuable aca­ within the watershed and as leaders in ter scanning base maps into a Macin­ demic experiences he had, and the 159- public environmental education and tosh Centrus computer, students used page report is an impressive addition to awareness efforts, the Colby tudy give the GIS program to create overlays with the portfolio of every student who par­ the Salmon Lake Association a list of data on oil types and topography, thus ticipated, whether they're trying to get concrete things it can do to protect and creating new maps that are u eful to into graduate school or get a job. improve water quality. +

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FI FT PLUS y

children, nine grandchildren and writing to me, the name of the have three children and fu ur Correspondent: 11 great-grandchildren. Lee ay island gets into this column, Joe grandchildren. Gardiner he is slowing down a he gets ay- Ann Hilton ll'i!I never for- Gregory '39 ha� sent enough older. But he works out on a give him. "Couldn't stand that," material for a feature article. By Fletcher Eaton '39 Nordic Track regularly and want says Joe. Joe's wife has Al:heimer's judicious excerpting, I will try rn 42 Perry Drive to play golf in Florida ....Evelyn disease and is in a nur-ing home do justice to the fa�cinatinginf ur­ eedham, MA 02 192 Stapleton Burns '33 lo\'ed her bedridden and unable to c:1mmu­ matic n he sent. A pn:e-winnmg 617-449- 1614 60th reunion and wou Id ha"e gone nicate. Joe concludes by saying, "! photographer, Gard iner made again in '94 except for the fact love her and ha,·e wonderful Jide and photo· into a Yidel1- that her granddaughter in Florida memories. . ..Catherine Laugh­ tape, "Colby 1935-1939." 'ome was graduating from -chool down ton Briggs '36 sent me a six-page of Gardiner's memorie , all pre­ there at the -ame time. In recent letter (really, a long conversation). sen·ed in his photograph are: 1) year (' 6-'92), Mrs. Burns has I kwed it and was flattered to Flood-March 14, 1936-rook THIRTIES ser\'ed on a national board for recei\'e it. he retired in 1981 out car bridge. 2) Winter 1937- Professor Norman D. Palmer '30, peace and justice for her church. after40 years a an English teacher, tudent strike; change in ,·isit­ always a man of few words, as I ...Barbara Alden '33 play golf, although she did take time off ing regulations at Fo s Hall. 3) recall, ha responded to my ques­ walks, swims in Maine waters and when her children were mall. She Fin Colby Winter Carni\·al­ tionnaire with enough news and audits courses at nearby Merri­ has one on , two daughter and February 5-6, 1937. 4) lee culr­ information to provide material mack College. he Ji,·es in seven grandchildren aged 24 to ture contest-Winter 193 - forthree of the e columns. I am Ando\'er, Ma-s . . ..Char lotte 6 .... Jeannette Benn Beebe '36 LCA fraternitywon first pri:e. 5) thrilled to hear from him. By the Blomfield Auger '33 had an op­ had a slight uoke and light heart Blast starrs con rruction of time you read this, he and his wife, erable cancer removed last year. attack four years ago--which he LorimerChapel, Augu t 1 , 1937. Gurina, who is of Norwegian de­ She writes, "The experience has ays "slows me down a lot, but I'm 6) Herbert Hoover receive� hon­ scent, will have pent two and a made me realize how fragile life still attending the ballet in an orary degree from Pre ident half weeks in orway visiting her is-and how very much 1 want to Francisco." Jeannette attends Franklin Win lowJohrron- o­ numerous relative . Dr. Palmer continue." Her grandson, Mat­ Bible tudy once a week, where vember , 1937-at Waten·ille has friend in many land , some of thew, is an honors tudent in gram­ her pastor makes the cla very First Baptist Church. 7) Wilkie's whom take his state of Washing­ mar school, where he is enrolled interesting ....The jobof50-plus history classes-1935-1 939. ) ton to be the capital of the coun­ in the TAG program-Talented correspondent i full ofjoyou sur­ City of Waterville 50th anniver- try. As an adopted Westerner, Dr. and Gifted. he would love to prise , such a when I hear from ary celebration parade-June 2, Palmer explain to these friends hear from her classmate-.... someone who was a close friend 193 . 9) Dedication and corner­ that, in the words of an editorial Harold Plotkin '34 exercise by 5 7 year ago but with whom I had stone laid forLorimer Chapel­ i.n the Chicago Tribune, "Europe thinking of walking. After 40 year lost contact. That per on i Harold October 21, 193 . 10) Cla s of extends to the Alleghenies; of living in Marblehead, Ma s., "Pete" Allen '37, a fraternity 1939graduation, 118 graduate - America lies beyond." ...Evelyn the Plotkins have moved to a town brother and supportive friend with Monday, June 19, 1939 ... Maxwell Bubar '30 has lo t her house on a pond in orth whom I had some great times back More of Gardiner' material will eyesight but writes a cheery letter Andover. I infer that they mi then. Pete' granddaughter, ia, appear in subsequent i sues of in which he ay , "At 86, l do my the ocean in Marblehead because is a cellist in the Greater Boston this magazine ....I am ure I own work, hou ekeeping and Harold says he i putting a wave Youth Orche tra, a position that speak for the whole class in wi b­ meals; Jeffrey [her son] does my machine into their pond and will has taken her to Finland, weden ing Stan Schreider '39 well in vacuuming, tends to family du tie sprinkle kosher salt in the water. and Norway .... In February, his courageous recovery from can­ and takes good care of me. My ... Ellsworth Brown, eldest son Edith Barron '38 attended an cer, which took mu cle out of general health is very good." of Harold Brown '35, ha been Elderho tel in ew Orleans, an upper leg. Fortunately for ...Rod '3 1 and Peg Davis appointed pre ident of Carnegie where she learned a great deal Stan, he has a wonderful wife, Farnham '28 boiled 1,400 gallons In titute in Pittsburgh. Harold, about the city. She highly recom­ Judith (Quint '39), to take care of maple sap this spring and got 35 with his wife, [ abel, has moved mends Elderhostel programs.... of him. Stan is taking continuing gallons of syrup for their labors. into a retirement home-"a relief Classmates and friends of the late education classe at Harvard. Thi was at their winter cabin up from condo duties." ...J. Warren Philip E. Colman '38 are alerted .. In February, Wilson Piper '39 north of their home in Hampden, "Joe" Bishop '35 and four oth­ that his clas year was listed incor­ and hi wife, Peg, moved from Maine. They planned to attend er -David '35 and Ann Trimble rectly in the Boardman Service Wellesley to Kendall at Han­ the graduation from the Univer­ Hilton '35, John Reynolds '36 program. The Alumni Office re­ over, .H., a retirement commu­ sity of Mi ouri of their ninth and Marguerite Mosher, widow of grets the error.... Bob Borovoy nity. Their daughter, Elizabeth grandchild ....Lee '31 and Bar­ Bert Mosher '36--visited an is­ '39 is still working as a stock bro­ Piper De chen es ' 7 5, won a bara Merrick Brackett '33 live in land so perfect that they all agreed ker in San Francisco. He and his triathlon (swim, bike, run) out in Phillips, Maine. They have two never to reveal its identity. If, by wife, Marilyn (Stanford U. '43), California. +

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FORTIES Askjem '42 and her Norwegian encroachment by the Sahara. their individual contributions to husband, Arn , have five chil­ Forest growth i encouraged by our family strength." The ch il­ Isabel Abbott '40 ha, a half­ dren and nine grandchildren. the use of ferri I izer made fr m dren: Margo (Long '65), Christo­ border collie who take her our They own and operate a fe I i:er U . . >ewage! . . Martha Rogers pher, Peter, Robin and Ellen. for walks rwice a day. Lasr year company in Grand Forb, mN. D., Beach '42 states that she and her ...Muriel Flagg DeShon '43 say she ll'ent on an Elderhosrel rour where they have lived f r 42 yems husband, George Be;ich '4 1, are that her 50th reunion far ex­ ro Lou isbourg-"Wonderfull" . of their 46-year marriage.o They spouses, partners and ignificant ceeded all expectations and that D.M.D. Sidney Brick '4 1 had a ·p nd the winter month, in other� all at the ame time. At the reunion book was out rand­ golden weddinganniver ary parry Scottsdale, Ari:., and the sum­ the time of writ ing, George wa ing, thanks to Ross Muir '43. rhar attracted a big crowd in Boca mer months in Ea�tporr, Maine, waiting for the day that things Travels that he and her hus­ Raton, Fla. He keeps fi t by rlay­ but in pring and fall (the fcrr il­ would dry up so he could play band, Howard, enjoyed last year ing tennis twice a week and golf izer sea· on) they returnto Grand golf (F.E.: That' not the George included driving the coasrofCali­ four time a week . . ..Stetson Forks. June �ay , "We have a very Beach 1 know! Time was when fornia and two trips, one to Nor­ Beal ' 41 has had 14 years of doing pleasant life." ...David Brodie George wouldn't let a howling way, Sweden and Denmark and anything he 'ant, to do and not '42 works out ·even days a week hliz:ard keep him away from the one to Holland, Belgium and doing anythingll he doesn't want despite a rece bout with can­ links. ) Martha (my niece, 1 am France ....Eli zabeth Field to do. He writes, "l wi ·h everyone cer. He is 11·orknting on a projecr to proud to say) and George take Blanchard '43 works three days had it so good." ... June Totman ave the fore t· of Africa from pride in their five children "for a week as a volunteer chaplain at

Class of 1944

hew, 50 years in the Remo Verrengia and making. The Class of Gene Struckhoff were cel­ W'44 had a plendid showing ebrating 200 year ofmarriage. on June 2-5, 1994, with 53 (They and two other broth­ member· ofour war-tom cla s er -in-law are married to the reuniting phy ically on the Brewer sisters of Waterville: campus on Mayflower Hill. 50 x 4.) The prize for Stout We were hou ed in Dana Heart and Derring-Do should Hall-with 328A re erved go to Helen Watson Boldi, for our private reception who exhibited great courage area-a great convenience by her pre ence and did not for rho e of us who took ad­ allow a physical handicap to vantage of the College's gen­ -low her clown.The class voted erou gesture. And we had Vivian Maxwell Brown life perfect weather all four day . tenure a our president. A Joseph Marshall lnformed Thehighlightof the week­ me, "It' rare to have four or end activities was the Parade moredays in arowwith plen­ of Cla es. I wa honored to did weather in this part of carry the banner and elected Maine." As a native of - Frank Strup to a i trne. This Waterville,Joeshould know. gesture on the part of the Cla Josephine '44 and Fred McAlary '4 On Thursday, June 2, we 3. of '44 to select me for such an had a reception and dinner in the Millett Alumni Hou e. At 11 honor-to the applause of spectators who lined the parade route­ a.m. on Friday, two bu es took the cla to now Pond (where I helped ease the pain I endured in December 1943, when I wa not recall diving into ice cold water on a trip with the Colby Outing allowed to wear the cap and gown at that graduation ceremony Club in the spring of 1942). We went to Alden Camps on East becau e, in my haste to complete all requirements for graduation, Pond in Oakland for lunch, then returned to campus for the I overlooked the foreign languagereading knowledge requirement. Alumni Awards Banquet and reminiscing in Dana 328A into the Although I did receive my A.B. in ab entia with a later clas , it did wee hours of the morning. On Saturday, we had hardlya moment not have the same effect. to rest, what with council meetings, tour , the Parade of Classes Louise Callahan Johnson, who received the Golden Applefor at 11 a.m., the lob ter bake at 11:30 and the reception and dinner her teaching in the Weymouth Public Schools, brought Bob Sill en at 6. By departure time on Sunday morning we old duffies had and Shirley Ellice Lord with her, and I brought Phil Nutting. had it! Harry Levin appeared at the lob ter bake-and then di appeared. Harold Vigue was re pon ible forplanning several of our I doubt that he attended our informal gathering a I hardly had meeting and trips and did a great job. JoJo Pitts McAlary's contact with him. But we won't have to wait 50 years forour next presence was fe lt throughout the weekend. A you all hould be reunion. We are now 50-plus and have get-together annually. I aware, she and Fred '43 worked tirele ly to edit the 50th reunion hope we all can attend everal reunions in the year ahead. They book that was sent to all class member in May. are a lot of fun-and o no talgic. -Louis M. Deraney

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HEADLINERS under the pee ial cateoory of"Ou tdoor ports man." ln ven ror of the Dai y Mae treamer Fly, MacDonald wa a registered Maine guide During hi 4 -year career wirh rhe A sociared Press, corre pondent from 1929 until 19 1. His trout fi ·hing ucce through the years John Roderick '36 covered tories in China, Pari, , Cairo, Jerusa­ extend from a Maine record 6-pound, 12-ounce brook trout in lem, London, Hong Kono and Vietnam while interviewing both almon Lake in 1932 ro a 9-pound, 10-ounce brook trout in the famous and the infamou . Rod�rick' recent book, Covering Labrador, Canada, two years ago. As fora 11 his accolade , Mac Donald China, about his career a· ajoumali tempha ·i:es his work in China ays, "Don't pour it on roo heavy. I'm just a guy who like· ro ii h, during Zhou Enlai' admini rrarion. Zhou credired Roderick's work that' all."... Dorothy Dingwall '33 repre ented rhe College at the with opening the door of communication between rhe U.S. and March inauguration of Michael Easton as president of the Univer­ China in 1971. ·1ty of Maine at Presque Isle . ...Linwood Palmer '42 wa named co-chair of Jim Longley' campaign to be Maine' nexr NEWS MAKERS governor. ...George A. Popper '43 wa honored for hi 40 years of dedicared service to the B'nai B'rirh chapter in Wesrfield. .J ., where he ha erved on variou committee and held the offices of Ida Phoebe Keen 'OS celebrated her 1 lOth birthday on March l in treasurer and president. Mount an Antonio Garden· retirement home in Claremont MILEPOSTS and Pomona, Calif.... Another alumna celebrating a birthday was Deaths: Carolyn Stevens Thompson '16 in outh Yarmouth, Lucy Taylor Pratt '17. When Mas ., ar 98 . . . . Elizabeth Dyar Downs '22 in South Hadley, she turned 101 on February 25, Mas ....Lerene Rolls Mowatt '26 in Hemp tead, .Y.,ar 7 . ... some 50 friend and family were Dorothy Wilson Irvine '29 in Concord, .H., ar 85 ....Beatrice on hand at the Village Gate re- Miller Young '29 ....Walter S. Szlosek '30 in Springfield, Ma s., tirement home in West Hartford, Alden MacDonald '32 at 7 ....John S. Davidson '3 1 in Harrisburg, Pa., at 86 ....Pauline Conn., for the occasion ....Con- Dorothea Berry '32 in Kennebunkport, Maine, at 81. ...Doris tinuing their philanthropic ways in Waterville, Maine, Ludy '2 1 Campbell Wilson '32 in Barh, Maine, at 83 ....Ruth Hallinger and Pacy Levine '27 recently made the new for their 100,000 Slaven '33 in Wesrmonr, .J., at l. ...Elliott A. Diggle '34 in donation to the Waterville Boys and Girl Club. The donation will a hua, .H., at 0 ....Ralph 0. Peabody '35 in Daytona Beach, be u ed for the renovation and expan ion planned for the Fla., at 0 ... . Arthur W. Bartel II '36.... Katharine Watson club ....Frances Thayer '30 wa recently granted honorary life Addington '38 in Torrance, Calif., at 77 . ...William L. Gousse member hip in the Warerville, Maine, branch of the AAUW for Jr. '40 in York, Maine, ar 74.... John E. Ormiston Jr. '41 in her 50-year a sociarion wirh the organization ....Alden Salem, Ma s., ar 76 ....A. Thomas Clark '42 in Augu ta, Maine, MacDonald '32 wa inducted into the Maine ports Hall of Fame at 79 ....Charles A. Hannigan '44 in Lewiston, Maine, at 71.

a 100-bed (and growing) hos­ Comer (books you recommend): Allan Gurganus and Sailing by wirh nursing home expense - pital in Dade City, Fla., and "Some books are undeservedly Colby profes or Susan Kenney­ "revealing, helpful. loaded" loves it. She and husband Leon forgotten; none are uncle ervedly intere ring, hone t portrayal of (Elizabeth Field Blanchard '43). have four children: Arthur (rhe remembered," W.H. Auden husband-wife emotional reac­ ...Angle of Repose by Wallace Nerherlands), Bruce (Holden, ( 1962 ) ...."Pi ck up a book, read rions ro the husband' cancer Stegner and Truman by Da\'id Maine), Dorothy (Contoocook, a page or rwo, and the world (Manha Rodger Beach '42). McCulluugh (Barbara Alden '33; N.H.) and Ann (Norrh Berwick, around you recedes," Mary . . . Leaving Home by Art Buch­ Harold Brown '35 also votes for Maine). Grandchildren are age McGrory, Boston Globe, April 25, wald-borh witty and serious Truman) ....Profe sors we loved: 18, 12, 6 and 2 ....Barbara Brent 1994 ....Wordf or Word by Andy (Catherine Laughton Briggs Walrer . Breckenridge, Webster Biedermann '43 has just recov­ Rooney-a wry look ar the world '36) ....Retumingby Dan Wake­ Chesrer, Edward J. Colgan, ered from the di covery that he (Edwin Alexander '43) ....Dis­ field-de cribed by Bill Moyers Arthur Galen Eusti , Herberr belongs to the 50-plusClub. Writ­ closure by Michael Crichton­ as "The mo t imporranr memoir Carlyle Libby, Curti Hugh "Don­ ing from St. Croix, Wesr Indies, "nor great literature bur a of the spirit I have read" (Evelyn key" Morrow, Herbert Lee "Pop" he ask : "Where did rhe time provocarive peek at roday's mo­ tapleron Bum '33 ). . . Siibma­ Newman, Gordon Win lo\\" go?" While busy forgetting her res" (Barbara Brenr Biedermann rine by Tom Clancy-"My acrive "Pansy" mith, E,·ererr Strong, age, Barbara travel a lor, having '43 ) ....The Bible (Jeanette Benn duty during WWII wa anti-sub­ Julian Taylor, Carl J. Weber, ju r returned from Egypt and Beebe '36) ....All rhe book by marine patrol from the air, [dur­ William John "Wilkie" Wilk­ Panama ....Edwin Alexander Will and Ariel Durant (Harold ing which) I aw the importance in -on. Nore: The above li r i by '43 ha retired afrer 38 year a a "Pere" Allen '37) ....Bridges of of submarine . This book gives no mean complete becau e l am United Church of Chrisr pa tor. Madison County by Robert Wal­ you a verbal and pictorial tour only part way through the ava­ ln Brook ville, Fla., where he win­ ler-"so unu ual and well wrir­ inside a modernnuc lear war hip, lanche of lerrer you sent. With­ ters wirh his wife, Augusta ren" (Rod Farnham '31 ). (Harold a mo t powerful weapon" ( tet on out exception, your comment (Johnson '45), he occa ionally Plotkin '34 call Bridges the be r Beal '41).... Peace , Love, and on all these profes ors are warmly fills rhe pulpit ar the pring Hill book he has read recently bur Healing by Bernie . Siegel, affecrionare. However, it may UCC when the pastor is away. note thar Slow Waltz in Cedar M.D.-"there is more to healing intere r you ro know rhat "Wil­ He i on the tenni court two day Bend, al o by Roberr Waller, i than pill and operations"; How kie" i recalled more ofren and a week doing three-four er of rhe worsr!) ...The Oldest Living ro Protect Your Financial Security with greater affec rion rhan any of double each day .... The Book Confederate Widow Tells All by from the nighrmare of dealing the other . +

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dren for lengthy stays. He has versity as well as at emin­ Correspond en r: developed a post-polio syndrome ary ....Joan Gay Kent shared Correspondents: Dorothy Sanford McCunn that has left him weakened in her home la t summer with her physical ac tivitie but still active grandclaugh ter, a sophomore from Another deadline is mentally. Rohen has devoted hb tanford University. Her grand­ 1945 due, and I've ju>t re­ life to the ministry, and he ha daughter introduc clJoan to a lot Dororhy anford McCunn 45 of bright, healthy "apprentice" rurnecl from a month done re earch into the I ife ofJ oab, Honey Hill Road 8 on the road. Ian and I watched nephew of King David. Robert adult . They discussed many Canaan, CT 060 l >pring in irs various rage of de­ writes devotional article for concerns of inter-generational in­ 203-824-7236 ,·elopment as we headed north. maga:ines and has completed a terest and reached mutual under­ We explored the Outer Bank of Chri ·tian adventure story for standing and agreement on ideas. 1946 North Carolina and returned young people. ounds interest­ Joan's recent accomplishments Nancy Jacob,en from Florida via rhe Gulf Cmm ing! De�pite his polio attack in include learning to operate a 3627 Northlake Drive a far ;u, Mobile, Ala. Lot of l 950, Robert wa able ro gradu­ Macintosh computer, VCR, Fax Doraville, GA 30 340 counrry to see, and all of it i� ate from Boston Un1ver ity with machine, Xerox and answering 404-9 34-907 5 beautiful! We \' isited as many a S.T.M. (ma rerof·acreJ theol­ machine. ome of these instru­ 1947 historic �ires a we could com­ ogy ), and he received clinical ments are necessary to help her perform as a copy writer as well as Be\·erly Benner a�sara fortably manage.... I am in con­ tra ining a a hospital chaplain. president of the Port Wa hing­ RR 2, Box 116 .,tant need uf more responses, hut His memories of Colby include ron Public Library Board ofTrust­ Berhe!. ME 042 17 l thought rh1s time I would con­ playing piano for conferences and ees, as a member of the Port 207- 24-2957 cenrrarc on respon cs from two friend a well a >erving rwo clas·mates. Reverend Robert churches, living in Harrland, Wa hington Historical Board and 1948 Holcomb, w1d wer, wr ites from Maine, and commuting to Colby a a member of the town ofNorth Da,·id and Dorothy Maroon ew Gloucester, Maine, that he � r day classes. His final year Hempstead Hi toric Landmarks 41 Woods End Road now I ives alone hut visits his chi!- included course at Boston Uni- Committee. + Dedham, MA 02026 617-329-3970 Correspondent: 1949 NEWSMAKERS Nancy Jacobsen Roben M. Tonge Sr. 5 Greylock Road "Winter Peace in Stonington," We learnedthat Dixie Warer\'ille. ME 0490 1 by Virginia Brewer Folino '48, Roundy Bebeemoved took third place in the watercol­ 4 6 207-873-3244 from Florida to Rock­ ors competition in the annual ville, Md., ju t before Tex and I Waterville [Maine] Area Art discovered her town of Crystal ociety' art how... . Eugene A. River and its great sport of diving Hunter '48 received the 1994 to see the manatee. Dixie wants Carl Nel on Sport Achievement to ee snow and her daughter Award forhis outstanding record Carol, who i on her way to a a a high school coach. Hunter Ph.D. at George Washington was honored at the annual Univer ity. . . ome 30 Co lby­ "c;" Eu ene A. Hunter ,48 Club awards banquet held m g ites met for the second annual Portland . . ..Cyril M. Joly Jr. '48 was awarded the YMCA's Clearwater reunion in February. highe t honor, the Red Triangle Award, at the annual pledge Chuck '45 and Shirley Martin dinner in Waterville, Maine. Dudley started it last year. All members in the neighborhood MILEPOSTS attended. President and Mr . Cot­ ter were there after visiting alumni gatherings in Miami and Fort Deaths: Gordon A. Crook '45 in Buena Park, Calif. . . . E. Myer . Snowbirds, try to attend Wesley Perkins '45 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at 70 ....William one near you next February for C. Gutteridge '47 in Norfolk, Va., at 67 . ...Walter Towle '48 wonderfu I surpri es. Mine wa get­ in helton, Conn., at 77 ....Georgette E. Carpenter '49 in ting reacquainted with Nancy Portland, Maine, at 65. Grahn Christen en '44, who live in Pompano Beach. She is very

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Dr. tephen Sternberg '41 ays he was In addition to his duties as attend mg completely unsophisticated before en­ pathologi t, Sternberg waschief of the tering Colby in 1937. hospital's autopsy services for 18 year "I had never left New York City prior (1973-91 ), president of the medical to coming to Colby," ternberg aid re­ board from 1978 to 1981 and president cently, "and I had only left my neighbor­ of the general raff from 1981-83. He hood in Queen maybe twice before to also is a professorofpathology at Cornell visit Manhattan. I was completely naive." University Medical College, where he "My i ter's hu band suggested that has taught since 1972. getting out of [New York] would be Hi knowledge of pathology-the helpful," recalled ternberg, who says it study and nature ofdisease-i vast, but wasn't until hi first week at Colby his talent as a writer has enabled him to that he realized his name wasn't pro­ communicate thi knowledge. His cur­ nounced "Stoinboig." riculum vitae bibliography i· 12 page He say his brother-in-law, a phy i­ long with 140 entrie . He has written cian, "felt it would be easier for me to get forThe Wall Sr:reet] oumal,for book and into medical school coming froma small encyclopedia and for a va t number of liberal arts college like Colby." medical publications, and he i editor­ Growing up, say Sternberg, there in-chief and founder of the American was never any question that he would be Journal of Surgical Pathology. a doctor. Hi father, uncle and a cou in temberg also has edited two major all were doctors, his sister married a work that have received high prai e. doctor, and his older brother became a profe sor of pathology at Histology for Pathologists, pub I ished in 1992 by Raven Press, is now Tulane University. in its second printing and is considered the leading textbook in "I [majored] in English because, a I recall, at that time the the fie Id of pathology. ln 1992 the book took first place in the sciences at Colby weren't that trong, but the English course were phy ician's category of the American Medical Writers Associa­ so good that it more than made up for it," aid ternberg, an tion medical book award . A recently released econd edition of attending pathologi tat ew York City' Memorial Hospital and a Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, a two-volume work edited by member of the Memorial loan-Kettering Cancer Center. "I can't Sternberg and first published in 1988 by Raven Pres , wa hailed tell you how much I owe to Colby for my career. The classes, the by Modem Pathology magazine as "One of the real bibles in contact with the other students, helping me become more sophisti­ diagnostic urgical pathology." cated--everything has impacted my work." Hi many writings, awards and grants and hi work in the 1950 After Colby, Sternberg graduated from ew York Univer ity with obel Prize winners George Hitching and Gertrude Elion College of Medicine in 1944. He was an internat Mt. Sinai Hospital testing cancer chemotherapy agents are, says Sternberg, all a part in Cleveland before joining the U.S. Air Force during World War 11, of his job. serving fir t as a medical officer and then a a flight urgeon captain. He has come a long way ince hi day of playing in the After thewar he did hi residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, he admits, but tho e memo­ "I have been very fortunate with everything that' happened in ries help keep his di tinguished medical career in perspective. my life," aid Sternberg,who has given 45 years of ervice since the 'TU never forget my first Colby dance," said Sternberg, laugh­ day he arrived at Memorial Hospital in 1949. lt was at Memorial in ing. "A cla smate with whom l was dancing a ked if I were a ball 1958 that he met his wife, Dr. orma Wollner Sternberg, now an player. When 1 asked, 'Why?', he aid it was because I had chewed attending pediatrician at the ho pita!. Together they had two gum in her ear all night. That wa probably the last time I ever daughters, Ale andra and Su an. chewed gum. I remember it like it was ye terday."

active in tarting Florida's fir t of a string of weddings (not ours), In the meantime, I wonder if I classe of '48 and '49, a it cross-state hiking trail. Nancy I'm back to my land caping. + could make communication with happens ....Br adley Maxim brought all sorts of albums, in­ a few who have not responded by lives in Au tin, Texa , is retired cluding a wonderful group photo mentioning their names here. We from his work as. a catalogue li­ of the 1994 Chi 0 group. Oh, Correspondent: would ure like to hear from brarian and, now a widower, de­ those faces that jumped out to Beverly Benner Cassara Jeanne Snowe Ainsworth, Rob­ votes his energies to the mastery greet me. Jane McCarthy Craigie ert E. Anderson, Elizabeth Rich­ of the alto clarinet, basset horn '44, Marge Owen Fallon '45, Rita For this issue, I will re­ mond Anthony and James C. and bass clarinet. He participates McCabe '45, Connie Daviau port on two classmates Atwater for a start .... Dick and in mu ical ensembles and does Bollinger '45, Lannie Lanouette 4 7 Marge Collins Marcyes, who live some taping of material for the who have not previ­ Hughes '47, laura Tapia Aitken ously responded, and then on in Calabash, N.C., spend their blind. He notes th.at his concern '45, Lois Loudon Cutler '45, how three who are repeats. l would summers in outh Bri tol, Maine. for the environment leads him to are you all? I'll send high-quality like to note that I have a good Last year took them to Switzer­ recycle and compost. ...Lester xerox copies to anyone wanting backlog of interesting notes from land, France, Austria and Ger­ Soule, who i also fromCalaba h, to see thi wonderful group.... faithful correspondents, which I many. They enjoy regular visits N .C., and a neighbor of the After Tex and I attend one more will probably feature next time. with Colby folks, mo rly from the Marcyes, says he recycles every-

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thing po ible and writes to hi congressmen and women encour­ aging more global control . Re­ tired fr m the furniture industry, he enjoys golf and tenni and directs the Property Owners Class of 1949 Association ....Roberta Mar­ den Alden of Yarmouth, Maine, and her hu band have enjoyed ixty-some members of ourclass have just had a joyous 45th reunion. The weather was about traveling in cotland and Eng­ perfect-a little cool, but bright sun. When we arrived, we found that our class was headquartered . land visiting a daughter. They've �Sn Treworgy! Where? Referring to our campus map, we di covered it was in "fraternity row" and was, m fact, the former Lambda Chi house! also been to the Canad ian On Friday, 23 of u met in Boothbay Rockies, New Zealand and Aus­ Harbor and elected to take a cruise on the tralia and Alaska. Bobbie does volunteer work at a grade chool. 64-foot windjammer Appledore V. Leaving the wharf wa uneventful, but we barely had ...Dorothy Briggs Aronson says sail up before the NW wind began to freshen, that her children and grandch il­ and our peaceful cruise became an exciting dren last year celebrated her 40th ride with the lee side under water on occa- Chri tmas in the house they built ion and a wave or two over the bow eliciting in Medfield, Mass. She is the lo­ screams as the coldwater hit. John Appleton cal historical ociety curator and imagined the evening news headline: ings with the local German Club. "Twenty-three members of the Colby Cla s In addition to teaching German of '49 lost at sea in Boothbay Harbor!" classes, she hike with the Appa­ The Alumni Awards Banquet that evening lachian Mt. Club and went to was reported by rho e who attended to have Wa hington, D.C., with the been one of the best. Following the Parade of "Sangerchor" forthe nation's first a much Classes on Saturday came the presentation of " angerfest." he spends time as possible in Rangeley, the gifts to the Alumni Fund fr m each re­ Maine. + union class. Bud Nannig and Bob Latham presented the College with a check for $33,000! This, I believe, is the largest amount Corre pondents: we have ever raised. Congratulations! David and Dorothy Marson Our reunion reception and duu1er this year were in Roberts Union. Cal Mackenzie, profes­ Dorothy and I had a or ofgovernment, spoke to us of all the chang­ Tho Ma ire ' and David Lynch ' wonderful experience es we have survived Lt1Ce our days at Colby, mas gu 49 49. 4 8 when I represented and Sid McKeen regaled us with a ready Colby at the induction of Harry stream ofone-liners on the changes not only m the world but at Colby since we were students. We mis ed C. Payne as the 14th pre ident of all of you who were not there and hope you will make every effort to join us for our SOth in 1999! Williams College. After the re­ In the five years I have been your correspondent I have reported all kmds of news, but never a ces ional, President Payne told me wedding! In this, my final column, I am happy to tell you that Jean Desper Fitton married James that I would be having dinner Thur ton on May 10. The Thurstons are living in Jean" house in Nobleboro, Mau1e. Jean Bonnell with hi mother-in-law, who wa Day, who lives in nearby Damariscotta,Maine, stood up withJean. Congratulations, Jean and Jim! a Colby graduate. We dined with George I. Smith i still working as a geologist at the U. S. Geological Survey and plan to retire the family and had a Colby re­ "wh n the job becomes less mteresting than at present." John S. Choate has retired after teachmg � union with Hannah Karp Laipson phystc for35 years-10 years in Maine and 25 years m Lexington, Mass. (John, the memory you '46. David met the president of have of me in a Winslow elementary school must be omeone else because I was never in Maine many colleges, and it was gratify­ until I came to Colby in September 1949.) The news from Edward A. Waller i that he is still ing to hearhow highly they regard vertical and breathing! And Andrew B. Offenhiser is semi-retired but still domg some con ulting Colby and the respect and admi­ for American City Bureau, a national development consulting firm. ration that they have for Bill Doris Koshina Lindquist writes that for the last five years, they have lived on the EasternShore Cotter .... Back in December we m Maryland, gomg back across the bay maybe once a year. Livmg on the Wicomico River, in read of received the annual update from watchmg cars they watch tugboats, barges, pleasure boats and water-skiers. And the crabbing is great! Aaron Sandler, who retired on The Officeof Alumni Relations has notified me of the deaths ofMartha Roberts Schlick everal October 29, 1993, and is now liv­ years ago and Alexander Richard on March 9, 1994. Our heartfelt sympathies to the families of ing in his new house in Sarasota, Martha Schlick and Alex Richard. Fla. Sandy wrote a long and news­ The officealso says that a few Class of'49 reunion T-shirts are available at $6 per hirt and Class filled letter. He write that he is of '49 ungla ses for $2. If you're interested, please send a check payable to Colby College to the fortunate to be alive, having ur­ Alunmi Office, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901. vived a head-on automobile acci­ As your clas secretary, this column is my swan song. It's been fun, and I look forward to seeing dent the week before he left Texas. all of you at our 50th in 1999! One item worthy of note: he aid -Anne Ha ar Eustis g the air bag worked perfecrly. Sandy sent hi calling card and a picture

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of the new house. For any of you laundry and proctored a new dor­ Early was proctor in West Hall to graduate, for I am certain he who want to write, hi address is: mitory under Dean Marriner and when we moved up to the new could ha\·e had me expelled for 2815Wrenwood Court,Sara ota, Profe sor Early. The chronology campus in 1946. He really had to my rran gre ion . Of course lam FL 34235-0966 ....We received may not be precise but that is the contend with a wild bunch of re­ much better beha\·ed now. A k a news-filled note from Norma sequence in which it wa writ­ turning veterans. Thanks to hi Dorothy! + and Howell Clement. Howie said ten ....By the way, Benjamin kind nature l remained at Colby he remembered Marvin Joslow, with whom he shared some classes. He wrote of his life in Montana, mountain climbing and golf. He says they have visits from three deer and eight resident wild tur­ keys. A little bald spot, 158 to 163 You used to rollover your CDs .... pounds and chole terol of 198 are the co t of many good things such as butter and ice cream ....Note Now they roll over and play dead. this: both Sandy and Howie typed their messages. Thar is a real favor for these correspondent since deciphering longhand can be im­ possible at times. However, we will gratefully accept communi­ cation in any form whatsoever. ... In January, Dorothy received a letter from Mrs. LE. Lykins of West, Texas. The alumni direc­ tory lists her as Helen Tracey '40. The letter was addres ed to Ann McAlary [ evem ]. whom the same directory Ii ts as the Class of '48. The letter wa forwarded to the Alumni Office with a request Rolling over CDs used to make good sense, but now from us to send it to the addressee. most banks are paying only a 3.5% return. For a one-life gift Ifby chance Ann reads these no re and did nor receive the letter, we annuity, Colby pays between 4.7% and 11% depending have a copy and would be plea ed to end it to her. . .. Dick Bill­ on your age when you make the gift. And you generate a ings is executive director of the Informed otaries of Maine. He charitable income tax deduction and reduce your sent us copies of correspondence with . Carleen el on, who has capital gains tax liability. worked at Colby as an administra­ tive secretary for 33 years and was applying for member hip. She said he had notarized documents for Put some life into your thousands of Colby tudents and added that Bill Bryan wa a good investment portfolio friendof hers. Dick re ponded that both he and his wife, Norma (Taraldsen '46),have great memo­ with a Colby gift annuity. rie of the College, and he pro­ vided the following uccinct information: They met at Colby. For further information, Had their fir r child while living in the Vets apartments. Had Cindy please call or write: baptized in the chapel. Planted trees. Moved fromold to new cam­ pu . Norma was "campu ed" by Steve Greaves Dean Runnals because Dick Department of Planned Giving brought her in too late. Joe Smith Colby College, Waterville, Maine introduced him to the YMCA, 04901 and he spent 20 year with them. 207/872-3212 Worked in lumni Office cutting Fax: 207/8 72-3555 tencils. Took in cleaning and

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1958 the congregation in the inner city. of Medicine for his service to Correspondents: Margaret Smith Henry A trong advocate for the appre­ medicine and to the community. 1304 Lake Shore Drive ciation of the dignity of women Among Ed's memories of Colby Massapequa Park, NY 11762 and men, he served as state chair are the track team, "the great 516-541-0790 for fundraising for equality of all group of independents of Champ­ 1950 people across racial and ethnic lin Hall" and Dr. Bixler ....Bob Nancy Ricker Sears 1959 lines ....Some of you will have and Nancy Nilson Archibald live 31 Sweetwater Avenue Ann Marie Segrave Lieber received the 1994 class letter by in Scituate, Mass., where Nancy the time you read this. The letter works for a law firm and has a Bedford, MA 01730 7 Kingsland Court will be sent to a quarter of the "small but respectable" collection 617-275-7865 South Orange, NJ 07079 class at a time so that the news of shot glasses and Pair Point cup 201-763-6717 195 1 may be as timely as pos ible. plates. Bob, who retired in 1988 Priscilla Tracey Tanguay is gath­ after 43 years in the National Barbara Jefferson Walker ering committees to work on vari­ Guard and U.S. Naval Reserves, 3915 Cabot Place, Apt. 16 ous aspects of our 45th reunion continues consulting for an ad­ Richmond, VA 23233 Corre pondent: and needs the support of all class­ vertising agency and also does 804-527-0726 Nancy Ricker Sears mates. When you read the letter, technical writing contract work. please think about how youwould In 1964 he founded T aurine Bib­ 1952 Gerry Frank, who best like to participate. Even those liophiles of America, an organi­ Edna Miller Mordecai of all understands the who cannot attend can be part of zation of bullfight aficionados 94 Woodridge Road 5 0pl ight of class corre­ it by ending a message or sup­ who collect taurine books. The Wayland, MA 01778 spondents, again end up-to-date porting the College with a con­ membership has grown to 135 in 508-358-5574 news. He considers himself now tribution to the Alumni Fund or eight countries ....Ruth Smart retired, although apparently he's any other area of interest. Do Thurston, Machias, Maine, has 1953 as busy as in his days in advertis­ reply to the questions concern­ retired from her high school li­ Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey ing. Gerry has a deep and active ing reunion and send us news of brary job and now enjoys quilting 80 Lincoln Avenue interest in preserving and restor­ yourself and others. Thus begins and Engli h handbell ringing .... South Hamilton, MA 01982 ing open space in and around the renewal of friendships. And John W. Pettengill is a national 508-468-5110 Chicago, where he still liv es. as we know, friendships are among accounts manager for Union Gerry is a tree farmer and main­ the treasures of one's life. + Camp in Indianapolis, Ind. Ten­ 1954 tains a tree farm in Indiana 65 nis is his sport.... Polly Leighton Bill and Penny Thresher Edson miles from his home. He has been Robertson, Newport Beach, Cal­ Corre pondent: 3253 Erin lea Avenue president of the Openlands if., is a psychologist for a pre­ Barbara Jefferson Walker school assessment team and works Newbury Park, CA 91320-5811 Project several times. A music lover, Gerry also has served on with children and their par­ 805-498-9656 the president's committee of the Donald Maheu, Dow­ ents ....In Long Beach, Calif., 1955 Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has ington, Pa., has retired are Mildred (Thornhill '53) and had a busy life of community ser­ 5 1 from paper manufac­ James Reynolds. He has retired Ann Dillingham Ingraham vice over the years, supporting turing to a life of domestic and from his surgical pathology prac­ 9 Appletree Lane many local causes and a few po­ international travel and golf. tice and now practices golf and Manchester, ME 04351 litical candidates. The months of Donald reads in ancient history tennis ....Ted Weaver, Rose­ 207-622-0298 June through August find Gerry and government and collects berg, Ore., having "retired three in Ontario on the Georgian Bay, Civil War paintings by Don times," is now homeschooling a 1956 where he says he especially en­ Troiawo and Don Stivers. His 1 2-year-old grandson, is "open to Eleanor Edmunds Grout joys catching up on his reading. remembrances of Colby include what's next" and because of ex­ RD 3, Jones Road ...Phil Shearman enthusiasti­ travel between the campuses, lis­ tensive travel asks you to look for Gouverneur, NY 13642 cally continues to serve as pastor tening to President Bixler, Pro­ him in the RV campgrounds of 315-287-3277 of his First Parish Congregational fessor Fullam's history classes and America. Ted is proud of his Church in Gorham, Maine, a informal musicals at the Deke "new-found patience" and "less 1957 growing church with a large num­ House ....Dr. Ed Martin, Rum­ hurrying." Among his Colby Brian F. Olsen ber of young families. In the past ford Point, Maine, semi-retired memories are the Blue Beetle, an 46 Washington Drive Phil was mediator/arbitrator with from his medical practice, is writ­ A in philosophy and Dr. Averill. Acton, MA 01720 unions and management in To­ ing a novel and some poetry. In ...Bob and Helen Palen Roth are in West Hartford, Conn., 508-263-9238 ledo, Ohio, where he received a May 1993, Ed received an award national award forhis work with from the U. of Vermont College where Bob is president/owner of

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Mark Securitie , Inc ....Ja net It has been a long time ince I Sally Mathews Maclean wrote a ation in a retirement home and Clark Winters is the town clerk have seen so much snow in such a long letter about a very bu y year. u e her inging talent to help of Kennebunkport, Maine, and short time. Actually I saw the la t "Talk about late bloomers," she other . l must add that beforeSally play a lot of duplicate bridge. vestiges of snow in a nearby park says. "I will be 65 years young next sent me this long letter, she sur­ Louis "Marty" Patterson, a where I exercise my golden re­ May, and I am finally launched prised me with a phone call; we great-grandfather, lives in rela­ trieveron April 21. Beryl Baldwin into my career. ltseem my chool­ had a great time catching up on tive quiet on Peaks Island in Punt writes from the Rochester ing in life experiences has pro­ news of our re-pective fa milies Maine. He both collect and i area (bet there wa a bit of snow gre ed far enough that client are and occupations, and he also told getting rid of books ....Jim Ta­ up there, too), saying that he suddenly popping up all over the me that he is having some fun bor, Cheshire, Conn., has a enjoysgrandmotherhood. She has place-all imply by word of participating in a chorus contest granddaughter named Colby. He two grandchildren and two more mouth. I tarred in April 1993 in Michigan. ally also mentioned is retired from the insurance busi­ on the way as of late April; they teaching Communication for another son who ha two chil­ ness, collects tamp and Dept. are her two daughters' children. Clo eness at a center run by a dren. I hope I haven't left any of 76 Villages and is another Class o far, her on, who work on friend of mine. lr wa originally her family member out. Thanks of '51 golfer. ... Lucille Tarr Wall Street in ew York, has no planned as a four-ses ion class for the nice letter, Sally .... I do TwaddeI, Portland, Maine, re­ little ones. Beryl, who retired in course, bur it became ongoing. want to add that my office now tired after 30 years of nursing, June 1993, says, "a former art Soon I will also be reaching ar ha another Colby graduate, Li: teaching nur ing and teaching teacher and kindergarten teacher another center in counseling-in chwartz '89, a wonderful addi­ medical language ar the Maine of 26 years, 1 found clas i:e i workshops rather than in a er tion to our staff here in the fi­ Medical Center, i now "clean­ much too large if one wants to format. 1 tailor material to the nance department; her duties ing our everything possible, espe­ reach each individual. There are needs of the individual and role­ include accounts payable, collec­ cially out-dated and outgrown enough problems in this world play. Groups are limited to 10." tions and monthly storage billing. clothe-." Special memorie of that need special attention, par­ Sally has a son and daughrer-in­ I am the senior employee in this Colby are kiing down the chapel ticularly concerning young chil­ law and rwo grandchildren in the department; it' fun to work with lawn and helping clear brush and dren." Beryl added that she lo t Atlanta area, where her on i all these younger people. It keeps tree for the newly donated ski her mother and father within 12 training to become a commercial me on my toes and young-I hope. slope. Lucy still ees her room­ hours of one another-after they'd airline pilot. She also has a daugh­ ...The Alumni Office sent me mate Ann Morrison McCullum. lived happily rogether for 65 ter in the Glen Ellyn area, who i notice of a death in our clas : ...Shirley Raynor Ingraham, years ....From Glen Ellyn, lll., in charge of therapeutic recre- Arthur Andrew Hauck died Clearwater, Fla., i retired as ad­ mini trative a sistant of Latch Key Services for Children and now takes cour es at t. Pete Jun­ NEWSMAKERS ior College, take organ lessons and is just beginning a collection The YMCA' highe t honor, the Red Triangle Award, wa given of "family dres ed stuffed bear ." to Kershaw E. Powell '5 1 atthe annualpledge dinner in Waterville, Great excitement for hirley was Maine . ...David S. Crocket III '52, professor of chemi try at attending her first-ever Colby Lafayette College,was awarded the Jo eph Hardy Memorial Fund alumni luncheon. President and Award for hi 35 year of ervice to Lafayette ....One hundred Mrs. Cotter were in attendance thirteen Winslow Homer prints previously given to the Colby as well a Ernie Fortin and a good Mu eum of Art by Lee Fernandez '55 and others have been lent to friend whose husband is John the Cape Ann Historical Mu eum in Glouce ter, Ma ., forone of Lowell '42 ....Ray Reich, Chi­ the large t di play of the work of the American illustrator and cago, Ill., has a private medical marine painter in New England in several decades. Fernandez was practice in two ho pita! . Colby curator of the exhibition, which opened July 26 and runs through memories include Onies and the October 10 ....Barry M. Ginsburg '58 recently merged hi- com­ Prince ofFront Street . . ..Alfred pany, Gin burg Craig & Associate , with Chelsea Group, and the Thomson, newly retired from hi merged corporation, Chel eaGCARealty, wentpublic on the ew bankingcareer, i now in Venice, Norman P. Lee '58 York Stock Exchange.... A econd book of poem by Ronald Fla., and happily getting rid of Moran '58, Sudden Fictions, ha been published by Juniper Pres , the publi hing company in winter clothe . Hi remembrances LaCros e, Wi ., operated by John Judson '58 ....Norman P. Lee '58 resigned as vice president and of Colby include "good room­ branch managerfor the West Hartford Center officeof Fleet Bank to devote him elf fulltime to serve mates, good friends, cold winters, a local community ervice organization, "The Bridge," a director of pecial projects ....James R. intramural sport , good basket­ Mcintosh '59, profes or of ociology and anthropology at Lehigh Univer ity, received Lehigh's ball team, lousy football ream, Hillman Award forhaving done the mo t to advance the interests of the university. etc." ...Look for a new ques­ tionnaire and cla s letter. + MILEPOSTS Correspondent: '5 1 Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey Deaths: Alma Ward McGowan in Chandler, Ariz., at 64 . ...Jacqueline Toulouse Morissette '5 1 in Waterville, Maine, at 65 ....J. Mahlon Niles '5 1 in Kittery, Maine, at 68 ....Fay E. "Bud" Slingerland Jr. '5 1 in Reno, Nev., at 63 .... Charles P. Barnes II '54 in Gardiner, Maine, at My post cards brought 61. ...Joseph Lovegren '55 in Portland, Maine, at 65 .... Jane Maddocks Seib '57 in Fre no, some welcome new Calif., at 58. 5 3 after a tough and nowy winter in the Boston area.

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Class of 1954

he 54/40-YES! reunion i history. Rewarding, enjoyable, Clas officers forthe next five years were also announced: President memorable history. Close to 50 classmate- plu many spou es Ned Shenton, Vice President Judy Jenkins Totman, and the team Tand "significant others" returned to the old DKE House (Drum­ for secretary/treasurer, Bill and Penny Thresher Edson. Special mond Residence Hall) just newly reno­ thanks go to Dave Wallingford, who vated on Mayflower Hill to attend the took over the leader hip of our clas a big event, June 3-5. The Class of '54 pre idem following the last reunion. He gathered from as far away as California did an outstanding job of organizing our and as clo e as Winslow. For tho e who 40th, e pecially with the support ofBetsy were unable to join us, we're sorry you Powley Wallingford. weren't there-we mis ed you. On Sunday morning about 20 of u From the time the first people ar­ gathered on a unny pot near John on rived on Thursday afternoon, the Pond while the Rev. Victor Scalise weather cooperated to make this re­ conducted a moving memorial cere­ union far differentfrom our45th, when mony. As the name were read out, it rained constantly. The weekend fea­ friends, roommates and other poke of tured several memorable activities, their remembrances of the e departed tarting with the first official get-to­ cla smates. It was truly a special event. gether on Friday night at the Award Afterwards, manycla mate and spouses Banquet in the Student Center. We attende I a uperb brw1ch at the home of were pleased that a member of our Karl '54 and Jane Millett Domish before neighboring cla s, Jack Deering '55, departing for home or vacation-related received the Marriner Distinguished places. Be ides the wonderful gourmet Service Award for ervice to Colby. repa t erved, we al o "judged" the en­ OnSaturday atthe traditional Parade tries in the famous name-identifying con­ ofClasses, classmates wore their pecially test: an ongoing, weekend-long hot designed T-shirts in Colby blue and gray, Bob Cannell '5 1 (left) , Charlie Windhorst '54 contest to name classmates pictured on and we were all pleased with the an- and Nicholas Sarris blown-up preads from our yearbook, nouncement that the '54 fund-raising .54. which decorated our reunion headquar­ effort was a huge success. With a 55 percent participation rate (112 ter . And the winner: Helen Cross Stabler, who named 114 of the classmates contributed), we surpassed the $30,000 we aimed for by people in the pictures. achieving a net amount of$32,000. Many thanks to Sue Johnson and A thank-you to the College for the pecial ho pitaliry they all the people who telephoned, wrote and otherwi e helped us provided in our reunion headquarters with refre hments and mher accomplish this goal. ervices-it enhanced our many opportun itie to just get caught up At the clas dinner on Saturday night, we were treated to with each other informally through the weekend. We were all reminiscences of his career and the changes that have taken place especially pleased that Gene Floyd, along with hi wife, Shirley, at Colby by Mark Benbow, who first joined the College as an came back to join us after 40 year . English profe sor in our freshman year. Geology Professor Emeritu Watch your mail for a special Class of '54 follow-up letter, ome Don Koons also reflected on what he remembered of us a a cla s, additions to the 54/40-YE ! clas book, a complete rendition of all and later we heard remarks by Philosophy Professor Dick Gilman. who attended-and more! -J udy Jenkin.< Totman

October 7, 1992. I also must re­ vices. She adds that she would size the importance of di cus ing fes or of Education at Drake Uni­ port the death of a class friend, like to hear from former room­ mental illness and feel a better versity in Des Moine , Iowa, Charles "Chuck" Barnes '54. He mate Joan Sawyer Perey and job can be done of helping people where he and his wife, Mary, are always attended the reunions of Ann Seguin Horne. . . Tony through difficult time and itua­ co-chairs of the department of our class with his wife, Joan Leone writes with a correction to tions. The government can play teacher education and curricu­ Rooney Barnes. Our thoughts are a previous report; he has six grand­ a role, and Tony says he i glad lum studies and edit theJoumalof with Joan at this time. + children, not four, and a even th that Mrs. Gore is interested and Teacher Education. His book, The wa due in June. Tony adds that that President Clinton' propos­ Lives of Teacher Educators, wa he "often thinks of Colby and the als include mental health issues. published in 1993. + Correspondent: people I wish I had known to a ...A fine long letter from Ed­ Ann Dillingham Ingraham greater extent than has been the ward Ducharme filled me in on case. I know they are a wonderful his career in education. In 1991 Correspondent: A note from Nancy bunch of people, and I hope to he capped 20years at the Univer­ Eleanor Edmunds Grout Kelleigh Tavenner in­ come to the reunion in 1995 so sity ofVermon t by serving as dean 55 cludes the information that I may enjoy the company of of the College of Education and The firm I have been that she is planning to return to those who come back to Colby. I Special Services. After taking 5 6 with i now Century 21, chool at Lesley College and com- only wish that more would do early retirement, he i now the Hamilton Realty; we plete her degree in human er- so." Tony continues to empha- Ellis and Nelle Distingui heelPro- are till at the same location in

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Gouverneur, .Y. As I sit here in ter as many birds ....Lucy Lucy and her husband, Bruce, gu;t, wh ich is when this column the office and write this for the Blainey Groening ay that as of will keep for now .... My Don 1 will appear. I have exhau red all Augu t edition, winter is just leav­ June she has been the new execu­ full of ideas from his 40rh re­ the information received from the ing the north country, anJ the tive director of Duncan Confer­ un ion. I will share them with questionnaire, o it's time to pre­ Jaffodil are definitely about to ence Center, Episcopal Diocese you, and perhaps we can come up pare another. In the meantime, I bloom. Our spring vacation was of outheasr Florida. "Delray with another winner like our ha,·e heard from a few classmates. wonderful with all the flower Beach is on the ea-r coa r of 35rh. The mail the e day i not Cynthia Fox Dancer, from Jupi­ and shrubs of the outh in their Florida, just south of Palm Beach always reliable but eventually I ter, Fla., is a oc ial worker/rhera­ pring glory, especially at Monti­ and north ofFr. Lauderdale," Lucy Jo get my mai I-so plea e, plea e pi t tn a We t Palm Beach cello, where we had a wonderful wrote. "Duncan Center i · a very write. I need news and you need in-htrp1tal program treartng day and became even more en­ attractive small center, Jeeping news. Thanks! + chemical depenJency, Jepression gro sed in Jeffersonian history. about 80, just three mile from and the like. Last ummer -he We al o went to Assateague and the ocean. It has been a well­ and her hu band, Dick, haJ a "hi· Chincoteague ational Wildlife managed center, and the former Correspondent: anJ her family reunion" and "a Refuge and ea hore as we! I as director has gone on to a larger Margaret Smith Henry wonderful, jo)ful week" that m­ returning again for a week on camp and conference center." cluded the \\'edding of Cmdy'­ Cape Hattera . It is always fun, There i a director's apartment When lea,·es are bare­ and former hu band Glen'- son. but we did not see a many new right in the center, but it is smaller ly out, it i difficult to Cindy has another on, Keith, bird a last time or for that mat- than their town house, which 5 8 think ahead to Au- whL) I ive in Houston, T exa , anJ

Back in the Fold

eorge E. Ha kell Jr. '55 has always with the students, which I like very wanted to give back to Colby what much, and to meet and talk with all the heG felt it had given him. A scholar-hip profe sors in the department." fund allowed him to ray at Colby when peaking from experience, Ha kell he could not have afforded it him elf. says, the over eer program i one way to Grateful for thi opporruniry, Ha kell reconnect alumni who have "drifted vowed to one day repay his "debt." away" from the chool. Unfortunately, whenhe returnedfor a Haskell believes per onal participa­ reunion in the 1970 -the fir t time he tion i a important as monetary support had vi ired Colby ince graduating-he from alumni. "We've got many, many wa shocked at the condition of the accompli hed alurrmi, and they could College' phy ical plant. "Thedorm were erve in many way ," he aid. "If you wrecked. I went to my old fraternityhou e, don'thave money, owhar ?You can give the walls were ripped down. It wa just money if you have it, but even more o, horrible," he aid. participate, get involved with the chool." o Haskell returned to hi home on Ha kell al o ha created a cholar hip the We t Coast and fora while "separated fund in hi name to support rudents with himself" from Colby. Meanwhile, he was financial need. He ay hi scholarship developing hi own corporate training program i inspired in part by a imilar company, which he later old, reacquired fund that helped him get through Colby and then merged with a larger company. as a tudent. "My dad and mom couldn't In the 1980 , at the encouragement of afford to end me here, and I came up on cla smate and alumni secretary Sid Farr an ice hockey scholar hip, which ba i­ 'SS, Ha kell returnedto Colby for another visit. From the moment callypaid for my foodand helped with tuition," Ha kell aid. "Then he stepped on campu , he ays, he knew thing had changed. "The I became the recipient of a fund created for deserving 'tudents chool wa beautifully maintained. And the student were much during my last two year . I never forgot that and I alway fe lt 'I've more respectful of thing that were going on," he aid. got to give th.at back to the chool someday."' lmpre ed with hi meeting with faculty, ta.ff and especially "I'm ju t trying to help omeone come to this wonderful place President Bill Cotter, Ha kell again began looking for way to pay who couldn't afford it. I just love to do that. That' just what back the College that had given him o much a a tudent. ln 1990 happened to me; l wa fortunate to have omeone kind enough to he vi ired campu forthree days, at Cotter' invitation, to become give me the money to go to Colby." an over eer. ow a member of Colby' Board of Trustees, Haskell Haskell, who peak- regretful! about the time away from his fe els firmly back in the Colby family fold. family that hi career required many years ago, now delights in the Hi experience as an overseer gave Haskella richer appreciation fact that hi two younge t daughter , age- 6 and , are growing up forColby' mi ion and its commitment to student . "I think the a Colby kid . "I've got them wearing Colby T- hirts and Colby over eer program i out tanding from the point of view of what it hort , and they wear little Colby pajama at night. I'm trying to can bring to the College, but al o in bringing alumni and other ee if one of my kid can come up here to chool," he aid. people 1-ack to get involved," he aid. "I thoroughly enjoyed both After all that has happened between Haskell and Colby over of my experience a an over eer-1 wa on economics and then I the pa t 40 year , it would only be appropriate that the Ha kell erved on the p ychology one a well-because you get to interact legacy continue in name a well a deed.

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is married to a "delightful Nor­ wegian wife."They have a Z-year­ U,EUNION old daughter, Katinka. Like many ..,94 others who write, Cindy talks about her growing fa mily and Class of 1959 expresses what most of us prob­ ably think: "As I get older, fa mily hat a trear ir was lenge." Charlie Lueth­ again becomes more important to attend our ke's wife, Penny, also than anything else." ...Lois W35th reunion, to see ounded great over the Munson Morrill also hasa grand­ your dear faces and hear karaoke mike. child, a little boy named Eric, your sweet laughter Joyce and Chuck born to her daughter Laurieand once again. All debts Foley (whose I lsseafood her husband. Now that we are owed us by the weather­ to retailers along the reaching a certain age, our re­ man were paid in fu ll, East Coast) will make sponsibilities include caring for and we took advantage the pilgrimage to Colby our parents and older relatives, of all the outdoor ac­ again next year to watch but we also have the joy of caring tivities. Jack and Bar­ with pride as their son, for the grandchildren. Lois also bara Hunter Pallotta Charlie, graduates with included in her note some very organized an idyllic pre­ the Class of '95. Mike ad news, which I had al o leamed reunion get-together at Riordan told a horror from Beryl Scott Glover. Last The Samoset in Rock­ story about trying to pick December, Beryl suddenly and port, which wasenjoyed up Bob Keltie at Logan unexpectedly lost her wonderful by all anendees. Airport. Bob came up husband, Bob. Although he wa a We're o proud of from Florida, as did Bob Bowdoin graduate, Bob was re­ Cyndy Crockett Men­ "Tank" Auriemmaand ally an honorary member of our delson, who honored Bob '60and Pat Walters class and was part of many of the our class by receiving Marier. This sugge ts activities that Beryl took part in oneofourschool'shigh- Ritaand NashMcCaully '59 some po sible themes for over the years. Just before writing est accolade , a Colby mini-reunions: a flock this, I spoke with Beryl as she was Brick, for her years of dedicated service a fund of Floridian ! a bevy of Bobs? preparing for a trip to Italy with rai er, interviewer and Alumni Council rep. Pat Richmond Stull ells real estate in Dela­ friends. Anyone who has been in Cyndy and Aaron sold their store, but Cyndy ware; her husband, John, is an attorney. Kari her position of losing a spouse keeps her finger on the fashion pulse by howing and Gary Hagerman combined reunion with a know how difficult it i to re- designer clothing in her home, by appoint­ visit to relative and traveled with their young ume a regular, normal life. That ment, four months each year. children all the way from Hawaii. Brian '58 and trip was Beryl's first step. Now a The Parade of Cla ses featured reports on Carole Jelinek Barnard love living in Maine; residentofTu caloosa, Ala., Beryl alumni contributions, and outgoingcla'S agents they both sing with a large chorus. Jim and is contemplating returning to Bill and Dotty Reynolds Gay delighted us with Sally PhelanMcintosh brought !ides and photo North Carolina, where they had the news that we not only reached but exceeded albums. We had a good laugh at how we u ed to pent so many years. As Beryl the challenge pre ented by Ed Goldberg; many look, and our " ignificant others" were even aid, her roors are wide and deep thanks to Ed for his mo t generous gift and to more amused. Denny Kellner Palmer teaches there, and one of their ons and the Gays for their year of tireless devotion to and repre enr our class on the Alumni Coun­ his wife live in Raleigh, where the Colby cause. cil. Somerime he wears party hats! there is salt water and a friendly Our class banquet at the Spa was elegant; When we gathered in smallish groups for climate. La t December a memo­ Alumni Secretary Sid Farr '55 and Profes or some late nighr chatting, we eemed to talk rial service was held for Bob in Ralph "Roney" Williams '35, who truly did not more about our children rhan we did about Pearl River, N.Y., and was at­ need a microphone, poke to us, and it was our our elves; their good andbad life experience , tended by many of Beryl' cla s­ privilege to have Bill '48 and Karen Beganney their career , marriages and children. All the mates and friend . We extend to Bryan '63 as our guests of honor. Our yearbook stories were interesting, and we found that we Beryl and her family our deepe t was dedicated to Bill, and it was great to have could relate to each other' situations. sympathy .... Keep in touch, the opportunity to thank him again for accept­ There' much more, but I'll save some tid­ people. And when the ques­ ing us 39 years ago in his capacity as director of bits for the next column. (Incidentally, the tionnaire arrives, do take a few admi ion . Our Colby Eight foursome (Jay, Ed, Alumni Office says that a few specially de­ minutes to jot down a bit of infor­ Bob and Keet) ang beautifully and made us cry signed Class of '59 reunion T-shirt are avail­ mation-or else this pace will be with their rendition of "Halls of Ivy." able for $6 per shirt.lf you're inrerested, plea e for rent! + Bev (Johnson '60) and Keet Arnett set up end a check payable to Colby College to the their karaoke system in our ho pitality room, Alumni Office, Colby College, Warerville, ME and we rocked the rafters far into the night. Rita 04901.) Sincere thanks to outgoing class presi­ Reilly McCauley's husband, Nash, knew the dent Skip Tolette, and all good wi hes to in­ word to every ong, and he and Bill Nicholson coming pre ident Ed Tomey, who already has were strong competitors in the "Peggy Sue Chai- some exciting plans forour future.

-Ann Marie Segrave Lieber

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THE SIXTIES

1968 N.]., just bought a second home Berry Denniston write from Correspondents: Mary Jo Calabrese Baur in the wooded mountain of Co­ assau, .Y., that he i rill writ­ 137 Lexington Road lumbia County, .Y., and won­ ing a weekly new paper column Dracut, MA 01826 ders if any of hi classmates are in in addition to raising calves and 1960 508-454-9733 that area. He'd like to hear from heifers, while her hu band, Roy, Kay White you .... Kathie Linscott Barrett i teaching agriculture for ew 1228 Sandringham Way 1969 sent ome of the Iiterature for her York rare. (inAugu rher daugh­ Bloomfield Village, Ml 48301 Diane E. Kindler re-election campaign for select­ ter is marrying "a young man they 313-646-2907 117 Alba Street man in Pembroke, Mass. Kathie all like.") They have lots of 1961 Portland, ME 04 103 looked very qualified-hope she "young bovine "now, bur Debby Penelope Dietz ullivan 207-774-7454 won ....Maren Stoll Sherman­ says last winter was o bad that by 11145 Glade Dr. Trembly wa about to escort a next winter they will get rid of Reston, VA 2209 1 group of bikers through the horn them and she will be free to wrire 703-620-3569 of Holland as part of the "Bike for her book. Included in it may be Your Breath" program of the the day that she and her room­ 1962 American Lung Association of mates Brenda Browne, Ann Judith Hoagland Bristol Maine. Sounds very healthy! Weir Ventre and Ginny Murphy 3415 Sunset Blvd. Ron Gerber in San Diego ays Cragin were caught during Fresh­ Houston, TX 77005 Corre pondent: that California'sproblems aren't man Week without name tags. 713-861-5100 Kay White as bad as we may have heard. He The Kangaroo Court decreed that 1963 till likes the winters there, espe­ they had to wear long underwear Barbara Haines Chase Stars to the following cially when he remembers Maine. for a day. Thank goodnes for 11 Salisbury Road for being the first to . . Matt Gache is still teaching long skins and kneesocks .... Keene, NH 03431 reply to the question­ flying by instruments to students John Hooper has written for the 603-352-9330 naire:6 0 Dottie Baldridge Dzenis, from various branches of the er­ first time (in my memory) and Bradford, Vt., Bob Haggett, vice ....And congratulation to tells of living near Pitt burgh, 1964 New Hartford, .Y., Larry Dick Lucier on his marriage last which in his estimation can't hold Sara Shaw Rhoades Lathrop, Cumberland, Maine, February to a former business a candle to Portland. He is a news­ 76 Norton Road John Bailey, New Orleans, La., colleague, Hillary Garrett. They paper publisher and hi wife, Bar­ Kittery, ME 03904 and Ann Dudley DeWitt, Oak­ married in the English village bara, is a nur e. He has seven 207-439-2620 land, Maine. In fact Ann DeWitt of Hampstead with long-time children, the youngest being 4, as 1965 was so inspired she called me friends Jock and Pat Walker well as two grandchildren. Evi­ Richard W. Bank.art shortly afterwards to chat. She Knowles attending. Our best dently he saw Marge and Dave 20 Valley Avenue Suite DZ said that she notices how our wi hes for much happines , Tourangeau before they headed Westwood, NJ 07675 generation is being squeezed at Dick ....More news as your re­ for Tokyo. He would love to hear 201-664-7672 work between the downsizing of plies come in. But it does look what Steve Chase and Frank companie and pressures on all like quire a few of u are coming D'Ercole are up to, and o would 1966 employee to do more, often for to our reunion next June, so why I. . . . From Orono, we hear from Russell N. Monbleau less pay. Recently she met Peg don't you plan on doing that, Scotty MacLeod Folger, who is 3 Lovejoy Road Barnes Dyer forlunch when Peg too? + looking forward to retiring some­ Milford, NH 03055 was in Maine, and apparently where warm in the winter and 603-673-5508 both talked at once and still being in Maine in the summers. Correspondent: 1967 caught up with all ofeach other's She now has her own apartment Penelope Dietz Sullivan Robert Gracia news! Speaking of Peg al o en­ and is getting used to the peace 295 Burgess Avenue ables her to receive the "better andquietofhavingherown pace. Westwood, MA 02090 late than never" award after he Well, it seem to be She wa orry to miss the Febru­ 617-329-2101 returnedthe previous year's sur­ working-the replies ary gathering of the Boardmans, vey, which still proved inter­ we got to the February Dionnes, Laphams, etc., but she Judy Gerrie Heine esting ....Some of the news 1994 reque t were just the right wa kayaking in Florida. How­ 21 Hillcrest Rd. 61 gathered from the questionnaire: amount to do this column. When ever, she, Hilda Brown Daley, Medfield, MA 02052 Judith Sessler visited Colby a you receive your letter reque ting Nancy Cuneen Boardman, while ago and fe lt Waterville news, please answer promptly and Townly Gamage Budde and could use some urban renewal­ you, too, will see your new in Candy Castle Marsellus were could this be a reunion project? print before it has moss growing planning a get-together in April. ...Lee Holmes of Jersey City, on its north side! . . . Debby She is planning to go into ma -

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sage therapy and to volunteer in checks in from Atlanta, where he ever, she does admit to homesick­ nursing homes (and l would like is an associate profe sor of physi­ Correspondent: nes and huge phone bills. (Her to volunteer to be her guinea pig cal therapy and is having a won­ Judith Hoagland Bristol husband, Steve, has visited a few while she practices) ....Speak­ derful time traveling to Brazil to tim s, and she did get home for ing of the Dionnes, Denny is now share his physical therapy ideas l hope that ome of Chri tmas.) Mary said that the manager of corporate security and (this year will be his 11th trip you contacted Chris differences in the two school sys­ travel at The Analytic Science there ). Gordon is the only one of Wood after our last is­ tems are major, and she will be Corp. (TAS C), while his wife, thi group of responder who i sue,6 after2 the new that Joan writing up a comparison study. Mary, is a marketing manager at not planning to attend our re­ Tinker Wood died February 16, Mary also said that she, Nancy Shiva Corp. This is his second union in '96. The rest are looking 1994, from cancer. My heartfelt Rowe Adams, Lael Swinney career-he retired from New forward to it. And l am looking sympathies are with you, Chris, Stegal and Patty Downs Berger England Telephone after 31 years. forward to this weekend. Carolyn during this difficult time. She was had a wonderful reunion in Bo - They have all the chicks our of (Web ter '60) and Ted Lockhart a neat lady. . From Scotland, l ton. Although they have taken the nest and are enjoying their are coming from New Hampshire, got a wonclerfuI letter from Mary different paths, they all felt that first grandchild, born in Decem­ and Bebe Clark Mutz and her Ballantyne Gentle. Mary has been they had remained very much the ber. He wrote about the fun they husband, Dale, are coming over, spending this year in the Fulbright same. Mary and Steve' youngest had at the February gathering and so we are having a mini Colby Teacher Exchange Program in son, Stephen Jr., is getting mar­ mentioned that Wayne Fillback reunion. Have invited Carla An truther, Scotland, a small fish­ ried in September, and their other '64, Henry Lapham '60 and Don Possinger Short, too. So, until ing village off the east coast on the son, Rob, is director of residential Megarhlin '59 were also there. next time: be good and answer Firth of Forth. She is teaching living at Johnson State College in He wonders if anyone knows the your questionnaires or send me a what is comparable tofourth grade Vermont .... Pat FarnhamRus­ whereabouts of Ted Hohlshuh note on the information highway and having a wonderful experi­ sell, another elementary teach.er, '62. . Gordon Cummings (penny@opn ys.com). + ence beyond expectation. How- reaches gifted and talented stu-

HEADLINERS art college around the country ....James D. Henderson '64 has joined Boston Private Bank & Trust Company as execurive vice '63, Pauline Ryder Kezer Connecticut secretary of state, received pre ident responsible for the company's assest management divi­ the Republican Party's nomination for governor. If successful in sion ....George M. Shur '64, legal counsel for Northern Illinois November' elections, she would be the second woman and first Univer ity, received the Thomas S. Biggs Jr. Award at the Annual Republican woman to hold the office. National Conference on Law and Higher Education for his legal service to higher education.... Thomas A. Easton '66 was fea­ NEWSMAKE RS tured in the The Waldo Independent for his battle with the Waldo County (Maine) Sheriff's Department's censorship of reading ma­ W. Donald Campbell '61, a se­ terial for inmates ....Irving B. Faunce '67 ha been appointed nior vice president for NMHC, executive director of River Ridge, the brain injury rehabilitation was spotlighted in a feature in center for Maine. Faunce was formerly director of the center of National Real Estate Investor. occupational and environmental health at Exeter Hospital in Campbell has 15 years of experi­ Exeter, N .H .... Rev. Ledyard S. Baxter '6 7, minister of the First ence in working on Capitol Hill, Church, United Church of Christ in Ludlow, Mass., was presented most recently as the staff director with his doctorate of ministry degree from Hanford Seminary of the housing and urban affairs during worship service in the Ludlow Church on March 13 ....A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate recent article in the Portland Press Hera/a touted the successes of Committee on Banking, Hou ing, Joseph Boulos '68 as a real estate developer in Maine. His company Stephen Freyer '68 and Urban Affairs.... Funeral has broken ground for Freeport Junction, a 16, 700-square-footre ta i 1 home owner Winthrop S. Smith Sr. '61 was featured in the fir t center next to LL Bean ....Sports and media agent Stephen of a three-part article in the Milford, Conn., Sunday Citizen on Freyer '68 wa the subject of a March feature article in the Boston dealing with the death of a loved one ....Charles W. Carey '63 Business Journal. Freyer, who signed fresh out of college as a wide has been appointed managing director of Financial Consultants, receiver with the Denver Broncos, represented Bo ton Bruins Ltd., a sub idiary of the Fort Lauderdale-based law firm of Ruden, defenseman Ray Bourque in hi last contract negotiation, which Barnett,McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell. Carey willassist in netted Bourque a five-year, $13 million deal. ...Real estate spe­ the structuring of financial transactions ....Lillian Waugh '63, cialist Edward M. Quinto '68 was profiled last March in the who is associated with the West Virginia University Center for Manassas, Va., Ota Bridge Observer ....Thomas D. McBrierty'69 Women's Studies, spoke on "What's New in Women's Studies" at has been named vice presidentand general manager forthe western the Fairmont, W.Va., chapter of the American A ociation of and central Massachusetts operations of NYNEX. University Women's annual luncheon. . ..Doris Kearns Goodwin '64 addre sed the graduating class at TiffinUniver ity. Goodwin's third book, Franklin and Eleanor at War: The American Homefront MILEPOSTS During WWII, is pending publication ....Democratic pollster and MacNeil-Lehrer New Hour regular Peter Hart '64 was at Deaths : Esther Ziskind Weltman, LLD. '66, in Cambridge, Mass., Michigan' Albion College in February, where he spoke on public at 92 ....Glendon Newcombe Sr., M.S.T. '68, in Augusta, Maine, opinion surveying and offered advice forgetting jobsin the field. at 63. Hart devotes one week a year to talk with tudents at small liberal Marriages: Michael S. Sylvester '64 to Sarah E. Nash in New York City.

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dents ingrades K-5 in Millinocket, land Maritime Women-1790- walkingfour miles a day, the Nor­ tiona l Church in Co ha et, Ma s., Maine. Pat's husband, Rollie, who 1910-and publish it as a book. dicTrack, golf (which he play has a job she likes and is traveling has been in human resources, will She received her Ph.D. in Ameri­ creatively) and love keep him fit! to fa cinating places. She spent retire in October. Their children can studies from the University of Rod lost his wife, Trudy, in 1990, Christmas and ew Year's in t. include Jeff '87, a lawyer married Hawaii in 1993 and really wants but his social life sounds interest­ Thomas and found the beach a to Beth (Henry '88) (they are to teach American studies and/or ing and somewhat my terious. To festive as nowbanks! And she i expecting their first child); An­ women's history at the university quote him: "stay tuned." ...Allen planning a trip to Civil War battle­ drew, who graduated from Nor­ level. Connie wil 1 spend this sum­ and Rosemary Blankenship Hub­ fields along the Mississippi with wich in 1990, a journalist/reporter mer in Livermore Falls, Maine, bard are active in their commu­ Ken Bums. Oh, I gue he did married to Carla, who graduated and says that he ha made the nity of Charlotte, N.C. They sing mention that there were others from Colby-Sawyer; and Marga­ decision to leave Hawaii after 14 in the church choir, work with accompanying them, like her sis­ ret '92, who has been employed at year and also isthinking of teach­ Habitat for Humanity, were par­ ter and the Yale Alumni Asso­ the Colby Writers' Center and ing abroad, possibly in Japan or ent of a foster child, support the ciation ....I' ll soon be sending a who will study in Spain in 1994- Europe. Has anybody gut some Salvation Army and are involved new que tionnaire. Keep me 95 on a Rotary Ambassadorial suggestions or contact for Con­ in environmental concerns... . posted. + Scholarship. Pat keeps up with nie? ...Ben Blaney is a Gennan Brian McAlary, an anesthe iolo­ Paul '59 and Elaine Healey profes or at Mississippi State Uni­ gist in Columbia, Md., is eager for Reichert, who are retired and liv­ versity. His wife, Virginia, is also a change in location--orpossibly Correspondent: ing in Florida, Linda Laughlin an instructor of German and ESL. a new career! He is finding it Richard W. Bankart Seeley, Jo Sexton Hardy, Pat Ben and Virginia will have three difficult to work 12-hour shifts at Millett Kent, Kathy Hertzburg, ons in college in the fall: Wes, SO+! Having lived with a physi­ F.A.R.T. is not a four­ Lynn Kimball and Jo Littlefield 20, ajuniorat Miami of Ohio, and cian for31 years, l can relate to his letter word! lt' Fast Jones. Pat wrote in April, when Bill and Ted, both 18, high school plight. ...Another Maryland resi­ 65 Albert Racing T earn they were in the midst of maple graduates in May .... If you sent dent, Marcia Achilles McComb, (order a team T-sh in). Yep, Cae­ syrup season with 450trees tapped, in information and weren't men­ is manager of accounts receivable sar Seferian i out to show Paul and said that anyone in the area is tioned in thi column, I will get it for a group of radiologists. She ewman how it's done. Hi 12- welcome to visit. Last summer Pat in the next issue. Keep those ques­ and her husband, Don, were plan­ year-old Porsche now sports "race and Rollie spent three weeks in tionnaires coming in! + ning to celebrate their 25th anni­ legal specs," and Fast Albert went Germany and surrounding coun­ versary with a trip to Scotland to racing school at Summit Point, trib and covered over 2,000 miles this June ....Connie Miller W.Va., entered his first race there via car and train. They had Ger­ Correspondent: Manter truly filled both sides of in June '93 "under gentlemanly man host who really gave them Barbara Haines Chase the questionnaire, writing in be­ rule (no intentional bangin' and the "grand tour." ...Bruce Brown tween all of the lines and up and rubbin', Bubba! )"and later drove ays he's survived 22 years at Spring is most welcome down both margins. Her message at Pocono Raceway. He cel­ Freeport High School as an Eng­ thi year. Bill and I just and her mission: "transfom1ational ebrated SO there with a pit crew lish teacher, a sistant principal, 6 3 returnedfrom a week's changes in education are vital to that included Kathy and Russ gifted and talented coordinator exploration of Cape Cod and Nan­ our country." Her vehicles forwork Ives, who drove over from ew and now as pecial ed teacher. tucket by car, bike and foot. The are the Maine Department of Ed­ Jer ey. He finished the season at Bruce has pent the last seven wannth and the flowers, not to ucation and her own consulting Li me Rock, Conn., where he won summers curating exhibitions for mention the relaxed pace that a firm. She teaches at Colby occa- his class. Al's daughter was mar­ the Maine Coast Artists Gallery holiday encourages, were a wel­ ionall y and give conferences ried in July '93, and usan (Cook in Rockport (where Eric Mile '93 come change from the bleak win­ there. She and her husband, '67) and Nick Locsin attended. erved as a highly accompli hed ter landscape ....Jim Lapides is Walter, have a commuter rela­ Caesar's "best giveaway"-F inan­ intern last summer and where fir t VP and branch manager of tionship but seem to find time to cial Management for Program Man­ Bruce is looking forward to exhib­ Prudential Securities in New Ha­ sail, ski and play together and agers: Accoumability in Federal iting paintings by ancy Goetz, ven, a position he has held for 20 with their ons, Jon and Todd. Program Operacions-went to a Colby's newest painting profes­ years. He looks forward to the ...Retired Air Force Lt. Col. second printing at the White sor). He also said that he took rwo baseball season, recreational ten­ Gordon Moog is service technol­ House Office ofManagement and groups of students and adults to nis, his 25th wedding anniversary ogy manager for Toyota Motor Budget .... Betweenholidayson Paris in 1992 and to Greece in and enjoying the en e of balance Sales USA in San Piedra, Calif. the slopes in Oregon and log­ 1993 and went to London during that age and experience have His pre ent "air activity" is hang ging the Costa Rican rain forests, Christmas, where he met up with brought him. Son Matthew gradu­ gliding. Recently returned from Eliot Terborgh reports a heavy his Colby roommate, John Tuck­ ated from Colby thi year, and the U. . ational Hang-Gliding travel schedule as pre ident of er. Bruce ays that he would like daughter Emily will attend Con­ Championship in Lakeview, electone in California. His to hear fromSteve Kudriavetz '60, necticut College ....The execu­ Ore., he writes, "you re t, you rust." Chri tmas note mention China, Bruce Montgomery '59, Phil Janes tive director of the Maine State Some truth there; at the very Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, and Peter Duggan. He asked if Golf Association, Ralph Noel, least, you creak ....An intere t­ Thailand, Lao and Russia. I won­ there i any truth to the rumor divide his time berween Auburn, ing press release arrived from J. der ifhe ran into George Hooker that Peter Houghton died. Can Maine, and Georgia, often Jekyll Wesley Miller, Esq. He has re­ in Bangkok or Sunny Coady in anyone enlighten us on this? Island, winter home of his "new cently edited Gus Edward's Legal an airport? ...Jan Buffinton ...Connie Fournier i an ESL wife" (whom he neglected to Laughs : A]okefor Every]ury,origi­ Browning, who i now with teacher looking for a university name). Ralph loves his work, nally published in 1914 as a hand­ Charitable Insurance Agency in position. Connie is also applying find it stressful butcreative. What book for influencing Southern Gloucester, Ma s., sent me an for a po tdoctoral fellowship to a great combination ... . Rod jurors with humor .... Dee Dee invitation to the annual" oOne revise herd issertation-Undercur­ Pierce, president andCEO of the Wilson Perry, administrative a - Has a Party in February" open rents: The Experience of New Eng- StaffordSavings Bank, writes that sistant for the Second Congrega- house. Half the profits go to char-

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ity. he's also taken up golf' ... ft,EUNION eil Clipsham continues with '!> BCM Engineer in Philadelphia. 04 Neil's doing environmental en­ gineering and is VP of federal Class of 1964 programs. When not on the road, he and Jean "garden/remodel like Dusty Rhoades threw us a whale of a crazy." . . Ginny Marshall party! It began with a "tony little soiree" Cosbey entered her first Senior in a historic old tavern, where we all Olympics and placed third in the acted our age, and it ended with shoot­ women's 20K bike race in T uc- ing the breeze on a Sunday morning, on. he also completed herthird when we all looked and acted like col­ "El Tour de Tue on," a 1 1 1-mile lege kids. With one big difference: we perimeter bike race around the liked everybody. Over and over I heard, city. Ginny would like to hear "Why didn't I know what a nice guy so­ from Marnie Hale Fowler, Su­ and-so was when we were in college?" san McGinley and Nancy Kendig Peg Chandler Davey was back for Montagna. So would your scribe! her fir t-ever reunion, and it was a treat ..Randy Antik' on ju t fin­ for all of us. Charlie Angell and Dick ished hisfirst yearatColby. Randy Friary appeared f; r the Portsmouth has relocated to Edgartown on warmup , adding literature and limer­ Martha's Vineyard, where he is ick to the general conversation. Robbie president/CEO of Xpander Pak. (Gil-on '65) and Bob Drewes, newly urprise! Tom Boulette i elected class president, added grace and charm and avoir faire. Judy Fassett Aydelott came to alive and well and living in Portsmouth and gave us the latest news onWL TN. Jon Allen drove up fromNew Jersey for all the King ton, Mas . A long-time events, even rowing the shell. Thank heavens Lee Scrafton Bujold was there, because we can't have member with Art Beveridge in a reunion without her. Her husband, Joe, is a great addition to the party, too. TI1e next generation was the broken pencil club, Tom beautifully represented by Robin and Bruce Lippincott' daughter Sarah and by Candi (Wil on '65) writes that he is " r. VP Nuclear" and John Haynes' daughter Kris, who were checking out admi sions stuff. Jan Young Heath has at Boston Edison Co. in Boston. moved from Philly to Charleston, S.C., and drove up for all the festivities. George Shur, who ran much With Arlene, his brideof26years, of the early class activities, was a very appreciative participant in all the action and excelled on the he covered 3,300 miles on a Paris­ water! Another faithfulattendee i Jim Harris, who came all the way from Is aquah, Wa h. Marilyn London-lnvemess- lreland-Paris and Ben( rley) Beaver, Carol Worcester Place and Carol Haynes Beatty joined us on the boat to the tour in September 1993. Tom is Isles of Shoals on Friday for a unny, warm, informative tour of Star I land and the Piscataqua River. on the board of directors of Yan­ The Awards Banquet wa held on Friday night in the atmospheric Student Center, where John kee Atomic Electric and Con­ Oaks, Joan McGhee Ames, Steve Schoeman, Candi Camp Lund, Marge Convery and BJ Willis necticut Yankee and recently was Campbell were waiting for us (we all looked pretty young, mind you, but BJ ha actually reversed the named to the board of "several aging process). After the banquet, there was partying at our headquarters farinto the night. By the hospitals." ... Leah Aranovitch time of the parade the next morning, we had added PJ Downing Curtis, Will and Barb Mcfaul currently holds the "Ms. Ma ters Cook, Susan Ellsworth, Colleen Khoury (and her perfectly charming spouse, David Karraker), Maine" title in competitive body Lemon Morang, Dave and Jane Lewis Sveden, Suzanne and Cliff Olson andJudy Van Dine. This building. Her son, Gator, ha was the first Parade of Classes for us, a lei urely stroll winding up at the stadium for the presentation joined her in her personal trainer of cla s gifts. Thanks to Jim and Linda Johnson Crawford, we had the highe t gift total of all the bu iness, The Body Firm . . . . cla es: $1,292,755 in Alumni Fund donations and capital gifts! Joan Copithorn Bowen wa After a jubilant time at the Cla s of '64 lobster bake, we pent the afternoon under the few elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, remaining willow around Johnson Pond and rowing Dusty's boats lazily (well, mo t1y) on that water the national honor ociety in that we knew primarily as ice. The last of the returnee arrived in time for the class banquet: Bob business, based on being in the Dyer, Keo and Ann Schmidt Nye, Jany and Phil Choate and Nat (Furlong '67) and Alfio Graceffa, top 20 percent of her M.B.A. who added football stories and memories and updates to the general din. After dinner, a letter from class ....Your scribe i off to Fin­ Larry Dyhrberg wa· read (he' on his way to Poland with the Peace Corps!). I conveyed a few class land as you read this ....Hail, stats and then read excerpts from Adlai Stevenson's commencement peech. Then came the Colby, Hail' + dancing, and the Class of '64 di tinguished itself with energy, grace and enthusiasm! 1994 Awards. Best Oarsperson: Peg Davey; Best Page in the Book: John Oaks; Be t Choreogra­ pher: Colleen Khoury; Proper Stroking in the Whitehall: George Shur (although he lo t points for Correspondent: hitting the only rock in the pond); Best After Dinner Comment: Dave Sveden. Russell N. Monbleau Miscellaneou thought . Libby Nowers send her greetings to the motorcycle bunch. George ays he's biSoxual now. We sure missed Joan Phillipps Thompson's piano playing, although in our One seventh of your Averill headquarters it would have been air piano. life i pent on Mon­ If you want a copy of the reunion book (or the Stevenson speech), reque t one from the Alumni day .... My telephone Office. And a few of the specially designed Class of '64 reunion tote bags also are available for$7 .50. survey turned up another three If interested, please send a check payable to Colby College to the Alumni Office,Colby College, classmates66 from the "Not Heard Waterville, ME 04901. From Files." My standard greet­ ing of "Hi, this is Ru Monbleau Shaw Rhoades -Sara from Colby, and I'm not calling about money" still erves as a

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Chronicles of Adolescence

hen her youngest son, An­ mother thinks she's fat, al­ drew, now 22, entered nurs­ though neither girl is over­ eryW school 19 years ago, Joan weight. Thompson' ·equel, The Phillipp Thomp on '64 wanted to Terrible Turnoff and Me, deals capitalize on her newly acquired with a cla sroom experiment freedom. with television. Half the class­ "So I sat down and wrote a list the "brain "-mu t watch four of tho e things that I could do hour of TV a day while the with my time," aid Thompson. other half-the "couch pota­ "The only thing on the list that toe "--can't watch at all. Main really appealed to me wa being character Susan Hubbard, one a novelist." of the "couch potatoe ," discov­ That afternoon, Thompson ers reading as an alternative to ays, she began to write. She gave televi ion and i awakened to herselfa liberal 10-year time limit; the undiscovered po ibilities if she hadn't published by then, the world offers. she'd give up. With the help of a Thompson's stories deal with friend, and with only 39 page issue that all kids experience written, he sold her fir t man­ during adole cence. he pur­ uscript to St. Martin' Press of posely avoids theme uch as New York. In 1978, ju tone year divorce and death. after he began writing, Marblehead "Kids are getting enough books was published. with all the other eriou stuff in "I was very, very lucky," said them," said Thomp on, who al o Thompson, who lives in Marble­ has a son Christopher, 26. "I want head, Mas ., with her hu band, to deal with lighter issue but till Stephen '63. "That doe n't usually happen ro first-time writer ." deal with i sues. I want to write about the thing that thechil dren "Very few people will have the opportunity to do what they want to read, ornethingwit h a me sage but that comes packaged really enjoy," Thomp on aid. "The trick is to find out what it is with lots of laughter. you can do and do it. Do whatever it is that make you feel good. "I haven't forgotten how horrible eighth grade was," Thomp­ The rest will come." son said, "and I have the mind of a 12-year-old ! I think I can write Thompson's second novel, Parker's Island, was published in what the kids want." 1979, and her third, Interesting Times, reached bookstores in Thomp on says she tries to convey her messages with humor, 1981. She wrote about life,romance and love in and around the a va tly underrated device, in her opinion. She wants each child north hore of Massachusett . who reads her book to feel, "This per on understands me." After a 10-year publishing hiatu , and with Andrew preparing Thompson has three more teen novels coming out within the to enter college, Thompson says she fe lt the need to get back to next year, all to be published by Avon Book . Revolving around writing eriously. She decided to write novels for young adult . a group of kids involved in a drama group, the stories relate what In April 1993, The Mudpack and Me was published by Pocket happen when teen angst, acting and acne become a backdrop for Books on the Minstrel Book label, a subdivi ion of Simon & theater performance . Schuster. Last May came The Terrible Turnoffand Me. "I couldn't have predicted that this i where l'd be today," aid Although intended for young readers, Thompson says her Thomp on, a French major who ay she took someColby Engli h book are not frivolous. The Mudpack and Me details the hijink classes forfun but never felt like writing "all those long paper ." that occur when two eighth grade girls attend a summer health "I wa never a brilliant tudent and I'd never expected that I'd resort, one because she think he's fat and the other becau e her be a writer," he aid, "but now I can't imagine not writing."

useful opener. John Harrington 50/50 between regulation com­ season sports, they still make time ing woodchucks. Her goal this is rounding out 25 years as an pliance and litigation. John esti­ to take advanrage of the nearby year is ro harve·t more than 50 attorney pecializing in the niche mates that there are fewer than a bay for sail and power boating. percent of what she plants, gain­ egment of energy law. This wa thou and lawyers in the country ... Ann Retherford Drinker, ing at least a moral victory over his fir t job out oflaw chool, and with his specialty. With their long of Quaker Hill, Conn., ha the local rodent . he is actively while he originally envisioned three daughter and two ons, he her olde t daughter, Amy, en­ engaged in setting her have-a­ only a few years at this, it has and his wife of 22 year make rolled at the University of Michi­ heart traps and then crui ing the grown into a field that he truly their home in Annapolis, Md. gan; at 16, son Eric is in high backwoods of Connecticut look­ enjoy . His work involves repre­ Theirolde rcompleted hi sopho­ school. Ann's principal pastime ingforrelease site . Vacation time senting energy-producing client more year at Colby, and their include a lot of reading, family is spent camping in the family' to meet fe deral energy and DOT youngest i 10-promising a chal­ camping and gardening and an favorite pots in New Hampshire requirement for the production lenging 10 years of child rearing Elmer Fudd-type of relationship in the orth Conway area. of and inter tate transfer of en­ and major educational inve t­ with what sounds like a high lo­ ...Jeffrey Morse isan ensthi ... ergy-products. His work is divided ment . With all kid active in cal concentration of garden-bust- ane thesi ... inject mind-alter-

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ing drugs for medicinal purposes cooperative. He and wife Rowan, College in Massachusetts and "Yukon" Thomas will be cel­ (spell checker can only do so a real estate broker, enjoy sailing Jonathan was a freshman at Tufts. ebrating his 20th anniversary much! ).Jeffsaid thathe would be on their 30-foot Freedom out of Recently Led was back at school with Panasonic, where he has more responsive to the class cor­ Portland, Maine. The boat sleeps as he earned his doctorate in di­ worked these past two decades in respondent now that his 19-year­ six and makes for relaxing day vinity at Hartford Seminary, the internal auditingdepartment. old middle son has elected to trips and weekends.... I am now Hartford, Conn. Led is proud that Jim's son, Jim, graduated from attend Colby this coming fall. constructing this year's class ques­ his church is growing and says Montclair State, N.J., last June, This led to the next obvious ques­ tionnaire and hoping for enough that they are on the verge of and Jim is justifiably proud of this tion and a brain-teasing answer. stimulating questions to elicit a starting a building expansion pro­ accomplishment. Another ac­ "Oh, how old are your other sons?" higher rate ofresponse, especially gram. He reminds us that formal complishment worth a tip of the "They are all nineteen." "How do from the shy and communicat­ education can terminate with a tam is Jim's longevity as an active you do that?" "All at once­ ing-impaired. Well, it's time to ceremony and degree, but know­ baseball player. He continues to they're triplets." His other sons get ready for workand my morn­ ing what you believe and living catch and in a slight concession are enrolled at Lafayette and ing look in the mirror, where I those beliefs is a continuing, life­ to his (our) age has joined an Denison. Talk about your college tell myself: "I am not bald-I am long process .... Sally and Tony over-30 league, where he plays tuition shock. (Their names are follicly challenged." + Wilkins live in Hingham, Mass., with two of his nephews. Jim can Justin, Mathew and Ehren, con­ with son Drew, a seventh grader. still lift a fastball over the center firming my suspicion that other One form of recreation enjoyed fence at the old ball park; I won't than Huey, Dewey and Louie, Correspondent: byTonyand Sally issailing; come say anything about what he does you can't find three males names Robert Gracia summer they can often be seen with aslider, lowandaway. When that rhyme.) Jeff reports that he sailingasloopout of the Hingham not working or playing baseball, is just now getting back into a Led Baker is a min is­ Yacht Club. Son Jay, it seems, Jim likes to travel about, taking boyhood pastime (sort of a "River ter, serving in the pul­ tends more to the airy than in a Colby football or basketball Runs Through It" experience, 6 7 pit of theFirst Church aquatic. After astintasan Apache game. In a recent trip he visited when his father taught him how of Ludow, a UCC congregation helicopter pilot in the Army, Jay Eric Rosen, who works a an at­ to fly fish). He just returned from in Ludlow, Mass. He and his wife, now commands a platoon at Ft. torney forNYNE X. In addition a fishing trip to Flaming Gorge Nancy, are proud to report two Hood, Texas. Tony has a com­ to his legal duties Eric is very Dam in northeasternUtah, where son in college: Joshua graduated mand of his own as vice president active in the Jewish Big Brothers the trout were large, active and this June from Bridgewater State of LoomisSales in Boston.... Jim of Massachu etts ....Stu Clay-

Class of 1969

he 25th reunion was a definite success from beginning to end. On Saturday evening we were all in awe of Barry Atwood' Our reunion committee did an outstanding job as one would video. It was fun to take a trip back in time to relieve some of the expeT ct. Laurie Killoch Wiggins had memories we all hold of our year at • everything undercontrol atall times. r 1' Colby. As the kids would say, "It was ., We thank her and her husband, awesome!" Thank you, Barry. Wayne, for all the time and effort Dave Noonan outdid himself a they expended on our behalf. chairman of the reunion fund-rai - Several classmate should be men­ ing committee. Our class raised tioned fortheir contributions to our $143,232, which i close to the best reunion. Richard and Susan Gould ever raised by a 25th reunion clas , Hennessey were kind enough to al­ with a 4 7 percent participation rate, low the class to have a cocktail party � which is excellent. We were proud of at their home in Kennebunk on � ourselves when the money was pre­ Thursday. All reports indicate that !ll ented to the College. q A feature of the Saturd ay aft er- this party was a great introduction to 5;' the reunion weekend. Sari Ahul- rn noon activities was a slide how and J ubein also contributed to the cock- .a nature walk given by Ed Woodin. It tail party by assisting in the food i was nice to see one of our classmate Edward Woodin '64 speaking in the arboretum. department. No one went hungry. be a part of the campu -wide enter­ Rick Franz designed the T- hirt that became the conversa­ tainment. Ed ha become well known for hi activities with the tion piece of the whole campus. Everyone wanted to read all the Maine Audubon Society. hi toric events he incorporatedinto the design on the back of the These people are only a few of the many who made our 25th hirt. Rick also did an excellent job on the reunion tote bags. (A reunion a succe s. It was wonderful to ee old friends and renew few ofthe T-shirts remain at $12 apiece. The tote bags with the acquaintances from the past. Let's do it again for our 30th. 25th reunion logo are $5 each. If you're interested, please send a My thanks to all of you who have supported my class column in check payable to Colby College to the Alumni Office, Colby Colby over the past five years. My best to Diane Kindler, \'.lho will College, Waterville, ME 04901.) be doing the articles forthe next five years!

-Anna Thompson Bragg

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man, a p ychologist in a private ary. He claim he ha to go back practice in Boston, specialize in to work to relax and re t up for the forensic p ychology. tu, an ex­ following weekend. He also re­ ercise enthusiast, is currently ports that according to hi sons, looking into the effects of exer­ age 13, 11 and 8, he has suddenly For Yo ur Information ... cise on mental health from both lost all of his cerebral qualities and a remedial and preventive per- know nothing ... . Barbara pective. When not working, tu Brown Ralston and hu band is an avid traveler, logging many Larry and children Jami, 13, Admissions Office miles in Southeast Asia. He re­ Michele, 21, and Alixe, 22, plus interview appointments, alumni interviewers cently returnedfrom Singapore. assorted dogs have moved a lot 207-872-3 168 ...By the time you read this col­ over the years, but she says they umn, Joel Irish will be traveling are now in Idaho. After experi­ across the country with his wife encing diverse area of the U.S., Alumni Office a he begins his sabbatical from she truly loves the West and Boise address updates, reunion, club events the Univer ity of Southern in particular. Barbara is an educa­ 207-872-3 190 Maine, where Joel has taught tional therapist who specializes in mathematics for many year . teachingat-ri k children. This fall While traveling in the West, Joel she will begin doctoral work at the Annual Giving Office will vi it his two daughters, one University of Idaho. La t May he class agents, alumni giving living in Seattle and the other in attended Alixe's graduation from 207-872-3 186 Sunnyvale, Calif. Before leaving Tufts University .... Last March, for his trip, Joel will re ign from Patricia Davis Murphy and hus­ his post on his local school board, band Donal visited their son Bookstore a po ition he held for 23 year . Michael '95 in Ireland, where mall order available with credit card purchase ...Finally, just before sitting Michael spent a seme ter in the 20 7 -872-3 609 down to my word processor, I Colby in Cork program. Daughter received a call from my column Lori (a sophomore at Brown) i partner, Judy Gerrie Heine. She also a world traveler, having spent Parents Programs called to say that she had just her semester break with her parents weekend, handbook attended the Colby-Bab on Brown roommate's family in Ma­ 207-872-3 186 hockey game and saw, trange dras, India. . ..Bob Koons list as it might eem, Lee Potter his family unit as wife Jan, sons and Paul Cronin. Paul was there Brad and Matt, two llama and Registrar's Office to see his son core the first goal assorted other character that like transcripts-include · l for each requested for the Mules. Lee and Linda to be fed. Since leaving Colby, (Mitchell '66) were heading Bob reports he ha "less hair,more 207-872-3 197 north to ski after the game. + que tions, fewer an wer , more money and therefore more bills." Scheduling and Facilities He still doesn't know what he on-campus events Correspondent: wants to be when he grows up but Mary Jo Calabrese Baur is having "a helluva good time!" 207-872-3 192 ...Ken Lane in Bozeman, Mont., We have lots of news married Marcia Morrow in July. Sports Information this time. Ted Swartz Third time's the charm, he says. latest varsity scores, upcoming games ay hehad nomid-life He wants to start a family soon. crisis until he read the que tion He's avoided a mid-life crisis by 207-UP-2-DATE about68 grandchildren. He's sure we staying active skiing, biking, hik­ just graduated (it is hard to believe ing, nowboarding and roiler­ Student Activities it was 26 year ago). Hope the funk blading. Just when is it, Ken, that has lifted by now, Ted ....Bill you get to practice medicine? ... student programming, Oracle, Echo Palombo, now divorced, has Barbara Stanford Tremblay is 207-8 72-3338 bought a new hou e in Port - currently the a si rant principal mouth, R.I., and invites any class­ at Keene (N.H.) High School, Main swirchboard: 207-872-3000 mates traveling in the Newport her own alma mater. She and hus­ area to top by. He ha three won­ band Tony must be very proud Cenrral FAX number: 207-872-3555 derful children-Kris, Alex and of their children. Their oldest Tim. His new attitude is to "take on, Andrew, now attends Bo - things slow, enjoy life, have fun ton Universiry Medical School Mailing address: and take better care of my elf." ... after graduating from Holy Jay Sandak and hi wife, Mary Cross in 1993. Adam, their ec­ Colby College, Mayflower Hill Sommer, are attorneyspracticing ond son, enters his senior year W arerville, ME 0490 I in Stamford, Conn. He wa busy at Dartmouth in September, kiing at Bromley in Vermont ev- and daughter Suraiya will be a ery winter weekend and al o took junior at Bentley College .... a trip to Park City, Utah, in Febru- That's all fornow. +

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THE SEVENTIES

1979 educational leadership and in­ class notes for this issue in protest Correspondents: Robert Kinney struction at Memphis State Uni­ of the hate graffiti on campus 2911 Edgehill Drive ver ity. Somehow, she found time last spring. In a letter to the edi­ Alexandria, VA 22302-2521 to travel to London with her tor, she wrote: "Colby must be, 1970 703-836-422 7 daughter, Mary Alice .... David first and foremost, a place where Robin Armitage Cote Dougan has recently completed diversity of thought, expression One tratton Gate Road a econd master's degree at and experience is not simply Jamaica, VT 05343 UMass. He is living in Mapleton, tolerated but actively encouraged Correspondent: Maine, with wife Dawn. His fam­ and celebrated." 197 1 Robin Armitage Cote ily includes a son, Beryl, dog, two Nancy Hammar Austin cats and an iguana named Grim­ Colby regrets any inconvenience 29 Irving Street .:;ts Hope you're enjoying a mey. He has founded Chem afe to the Class of 1971. + Worcester, MA 01609 great summer1 Be sure Consulting, Inc., a hazardou 508-797-4711 7 to mark your calendar waste management and removal 1972 for next year's reunion-June 8- company . . . . David Schumach­ Correspondent: O Janet Holm Gerber Janet Holm Gerber 11, 1995. We've had two plan­ er calls Hallowell, Maine, home. 11112 Broad Green Drive ning meetings, with another He made a career change in '8 1 Potomac, MD 20854 scheduled for fall;there are plenty after completing his master's in For tho e of you who 301-299-6240 ofoppor tunities to help make this education at Indiana University. have not heard from a great time. Please join in! ince then he has worked in 7 2 Ellen Muzzy Farnham 1973 ... Let's hope Doug and Hazel schools in Portland and Bath and for quite a while-she has not Margaret McPartland Bean Parker Smith will make Colby a is now director of media services moved again as she fears you be­ 131 Dudley Street stop on their "annual trip to New at Maranacook School. His fam­ lieve. She is till in Brunswick, Presque Isle, ME 04769-2913 England" from their home in ily include two teenage sons, Maine, where her family has 207-768-602 [ A hland, Ore. Doug is an optom­ Matt and Peter. ...Another ettled after ight moves in 20 1974 etrist, and Hazel is a teacher (me­ Mainer is Gary Woodcock, who years. Ellen is recuperating well helley Bieringer Rau dia specialist). They enjoy ki is not only a long-time teacher from major surgery. Following sev­ 123 Hotel Road vacations and wilderness rafting but the owner, along with his eral seizures, she was diagnosed Auburn, ME 042 l0 with their two children, Erin and wife, Brenda, of Round Top Ice with a brain tumor. It has been a Ryan. Recent travels include 207-783-0829 Cream Co., a mall wholesale/ terribly difficult time, and she Yosemite, Yellowstone and Mex­ retail premium ice cream com­ wishes to be remembered to all 1975 ico ....Chris Woessner an­ pany. He says he can't believe he her Colby friends to whom she usan Gearhart Wuest swered our survey from Tiburon, now pays his freshman roommate, has not been able to write. From 65 Country Downs Circle Calif., where he is senior vice Bruce McNamee, "a small for­ al I of us, Ellen, our deepest wishes Fairport, NY 14450 pre ident at Duff and Phelps In­ tune" to do his taxes when they forarapid and trong recovery. 716-223-1967 vestment Management Co. He used to study for calculus exam With special appreciation I share 1976 says he does a lot of job-related together! Times change! .. Fleming Fallon's news, as this is traveling, love the San Francisco Addresses change too--l've been the first time since graduation that Noel Barry Stella area and has two daughter at­ spending my summer in the great he has written in. "Since Colby 28 Stuart Place tending expensive colleges .... state of Vermont after moving I've been to medical school, com­ We tfield, MA 01085 Rodney Buck was recently ap­ from Massachusetts. This fall, pleted a residency in occupational 413-562-5629 pointed senior vice president-in­ builders willing, I will become a and environmental medicine (pre­ 1977 vestment at National Life of Minnesota res id en t. That add res ventive medicine), done a fellow­ Leslie A. Ramsay Vermont in addition to his cur­ will follow but for now please ship in epidemiology at the 44 Appleton Street rent po ition as president and send your latest news to me at National Cancer Institute and Manchester, NH 03104 CEOofNational Life Investment One Stratton Gate Road, Ja­ taught at Columbia University 603-647-87 12 Management Co. He has been maica, VT 05343. + before coming to Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pa. 1978 with National Life since 1972, after earning his M.B.A. from (three year ago), where l teach Nicholas Levintow Dartmouth . . . . Deborah Thur­ Corre pondent: and conduct research. I'm also 10201 Forest Grove Drive low Scott wrote that she was due Nancy Hammar Austin returning to Maine to teach a Silver Spring, MD 20902-3949 to go on sabbatical from Arkan­ graduate course i.nresearch meth­ 301-681-3327 sas College, where she is assi tant Class correspondent ods at St. Joseph's College in profes or of education. She also Nancy Hammar Austin Windham for the fourth year. was completing her doctorate in 71 declined to submit Probably one of the neatest things

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NEWSMAKER S and hard-working and incerely try to do what they think is right Brian J. Cooke '70 was named when they have that choice." . ..The Bos con Globe reported on the a partner for the law firm work of the Ma achu ett tate archaeological team directed by Amstein & LehrofWest Palm Constance Crosby '76. The group is investigating a ative Beach, Fla ....Jo an F. Katz American burial ite recently found on Martha' Vineyard.... '70 has been named Middle- Attorney Mark Janos '76 and Edward Morri have formed the ex/West (Ma .) Area direc­ new firm of Janos and Morris in Newburyport, Ma ....Kevin tor of the Department of Convey '77 was named managing editor of the Boston Herald and Mental Retardation. Katz has will be in charge of the unday edition and features, entertainment been actingdirectorsince May and life tyle ection of the paper. Convey had previou ly erved 1993 and previou ly erved a a Sunday editor and executive city editor ....Jo hn W. Gray '78 the clinical director for the ha entered the race for the Republican nomination forrepresen­ Middle ex/We t office .... tative to the Massachusetts legislature. Gray previous[ erved in President and CEO of Fleet the legi larure from 1978 to 1984 and since then ha held a number Wayne C. Brown Bank of Maine M. Anne de of government po it ion ....Christopher Noonan '78 of Pre er­ Ponton d'Amecourt O'Hanian Szostak '72 ha '73 vation ervices, Inc., wa the guest peaker at a March lecture for been promoted to senior vice pre ident for Fleet Financial the Brimfield (Mass.) Historical Commission. A board member of Group in Providence, R.l., where she will oversee labor reduc­ Historic Massachusetts, Inc., Noonan spoke on "Cultural Re­ tions and corporate communications. ln May he was awarded source Great and Small." . . . Michael R. Donihue '79, an an honorary doctor of science in busine administration by assistant profe or of economic at Colby, has accepted a one-year Roger William University ....Fir tmark Corp., a Waterville, appointment as senior economi t with the Pre ident' Council of Maine-based fi nancial ervices fi.rrn under founder and presi­ Economic Advi or in Wa hington, D.C. Donihue will work with dent/CEO James Vigue '72, wa recently honored as a designee senior members of the Clinton administration in preparing eco­ in the 1994 Blue Chip Enterprise Initiative Program, which nomic foreca t and macroeconomic policy. recognize outstanding bu ines es acros America and is spon­ sored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nation's Business magazine and Connecticut Mutual Life In urance Company . MILEPOSTS . . . Wayne C. Brown de Ponton d'Amecourt '73 lent over 70 works of art from his private collection for an exhibit at the Births : A on, Alexander Candler, toJennif er and Paul Boghossian Colby Mu eum of Art during Reunion Weekend .... The Mid­ Ill '76 .... A daughter, Morgan, to Kim Ann Woodward and Maine MorningSentinel interviewed Gail Chase '7 4, who called Thomas Hearne '77. her first term a a Maine state repre entative "an incredible Marriages: Anne Marie Hobson '78 to icholas Pe arik in Rye education." Cha e aid, "a majority of the people are honorable Beach, N.H.

I've done is to write a cookbook chief priority is my family of two high school reunions seem like a and teaches piano and voice. She on muffins. A econd cookbook son , Justin, 10, and Taylor, 7. milestone, don't they? ...Jeanne i getting used to having both of on cooking with children is half And I teach art part time (also a Irving Angel ha earned her her children in high school and completed." Thank you, Flem. children' cooking/nutrition Ph.D. in English as a second lan­ marveling at the quiet. . ...Also practicing medicine in class-Flem, I'm writing to you guage and is teaching full time. Franc:s Dunn is in busine s in Pennsylvania, Larry Linnell re­ for your "cooking with children" She says that now she has no time Tokyo and has two children, cently joinedagroup medical prac­ book). But afterthat, I'm running for anything other than family, Lillian and Kenneth .... This i tice in Towanda, where he is a out the door as fast as I can­ job and hou ework . Sounds all of the news I have for now­ fam ily practice phy ician. He al o literally! I'm crazed with mara­ fam iliar! ...Jo nathan Fink drop me a card and let me know has done medical missionary work thon training. In the past year I've teache geology in Phoenix and what you are up to! + in the desert of northea t Brazil run in Houston, Boston, Twin is enjoying his toddler, Laurel. and has served as chairman of Citie (Minnesota) and a crazy Recently, Jon was in Kyoto--at Partners of the American Maine/ trail marathon in Connecticut. the Convention on International Correspondent: Rio Grande de Norte Brazil I'm in training now for the Twin Trade in Endangered Species­ Susan Gearhart Wuest Health Committee ....Also ven­ Cities in October and recently where he was involved in draft­ turing far south, Pat Downey made a re ervation for a small ing federal legislation regulating In March '94, Herrick Schannen visited Costa Rica in chartered group that will go to the the wild bird trade.. . . Vincent "Rick" Drake was ap­ Guess has moved from Maryland 7 5 February on a U.S. government Arctic Circle next July to run the pointed enior vice pres­ study grant. She is writing a school Midnight Sun Marathon. Does to Connecticut and is enjoying ident and chief marketing officer curriculum reflecting her obser­ anyone else have the bug? + the slower pace of life. He works of College Saving Bank, which vations of Co ta Rican culture as an attorney for the Pequot provides a patented saving-for­ and education. She recommends tribe.... Wendy Knickerbocker college investment known as the travel there-"beautiful country, Correspond nt: is a librarian and lives in a lovely CollegeSure Certificate of De­ friendly people." And she reveals Margaret McPartland Bean spot in the Rhode Island wood . po it. Congratulations! ...Wi ll a current obsession-horses. She She mentions that their setting is Tuttle sent me a newsletter. Here's is riding and taking lessons as much Greetings! I hope that as close to Maine a they could an abbreviated ver ion: Will de­ as possible ....I want to share an you are having a good get and still be in Rhode Island! cided to trade in his teaching ca­ 7 3 summer! Twenty-fifth obsession I've had for a while. My ...Ida Dionne Burroughs sings reer for a new life in music ...

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traveled around the world playing dent of Rutland Regional Medi­ seeing Colby jerseys on the Sun Cooper'76and Su an Reed Parker his piano music ...met his future cal Center, and Jean is coordina­ Valley hockey rink. Buck's view '76 attended .... In Aurora, wife, Madeleine, in Switzerland, tor of volunteers at a grade 4-6 these days: "life seems far richer Maine, game warden pecialtst and married in September 1993 intermediate school. They have and more easy-going for single Deborah Seel Palman is glad ...has recording studio and home two children, Ben, 14, and Emily, parents, such as myself, than it that Colby gave her such a broad in Healdsburg, Calif., north of San 11. While inging in a combined is for my friends who are single introduction to many subjects Francisco. In 1993, Will's third choir fr m their church and one without children!" Buck's on and such a broad knowledge of album, The Call, was born-12 in Bennington, Jean met up with Mark is 12. . ..Mark Farrington biology, because, as she ays, original solo piano piece , "each former Colby sociology profes or is a si tant professorof English at "you never know what you will piece crafted and woven to create Arthur Kingdon, who i now an George Ma on University in end up doing." Debbie is now the experience of an inner musi­ Epi copal prie t there. Jean com­ Fairfax, Va. He writes that his doing laboratory research in cal journey." Madeleine's water­ mented that she and Tom have partner, Barbara Es tman, has forensics, a field she always color art graces the cover. ...Ji m found their live going in the same published a first novel, The Other wanted to be in ....Alan '73 and and Sally Hawk Gibson spent direction as many of their class­ Anna. Mark recommends it Deborah Morre! Polackwich are the past school year in Mon on, mates: "we're each on a couple of highly, and he i now working on new homeowners in Vero Beach, Maine, where Jim was a middle community boards, struggling a novel ofhisown .... In Decem­ Fla. Alan is an attorney, Debor­ school science teacher and they with being over-committed and ber, Janet Hansen organized a ah is a mentor at the elemen­ and their three kids enjoyed the yet liking the opportunity to mini-reunion for some ChiO' : tary school, and they have two change of scenery. As of Augu t, make a tiny difference." ... After Debbie Baker, Dianne Billing­ children, Je sica, 17 (just grad­ the Gibson are back living in selling his practice in Salmon, ton Stronach, Prudence Reed uated from high chool ), and Fryeburg, Maine .... In Rutland, Idaho, Buck Drew is now a den­ Kraft, Susan Conant Cook, Joan Scott, 11. They are busy co-chair­ Vt., are Tom and Jean Crowley tist in "beautiful Sun Valley." DeSalvo Mansour, Alex Anag­ ing the United Way Campaign Huebner. Tom isseniorvicepresi- Colby memories are triggered by no t Theriault '76, Nancy Coyne for 1994-95. +

Class of 197 4

very five years the opportu­ In the musical category, Mary Enity ari es to hit the "still" Ellen Baxter wa the hands­ button on the big VCR and study down winnernotonlyforremem­ a framefeaturing some of the peo­ bering the words to Hail, Colby, ple who helped shape our lives Hail but al o for being able to during those crucial four(or more) contra tthem with thenew,gen­ years in college. It happened again der-neutral version. Accepting in June when 70 member of the the award (a kazoo?), she pro­ Class of '74 attended our 20th ceeded to lead a ometime rous- reunion on MayflowerHill. > ing, sometime feeble sing-along A commentator on NPR re­ z to the tune of O' Canada. Linda cently said of his reunion that he 9U> Krohn Kildow got a pedal award fe lt like he was on a conveyor � for mixing the lyrics of Kenni­ belt omewhere between people � on and Wynette: "Hail, Colby, with smooth kin and flatstom­ � Hail. ..Stand by your man" etc. ach and those sporting cane (Nice try, Linda.) and hearing aid . Though Bob Harvard Jones '74 and Marie Ellen Baxter '74. Nancy Spangler Tiernan and T omassino and Reggie Blaxton husband Bill '77 made it out of both received honorable mention for best-looking guy with the the woods just in time to join the fun after a 120-mile canoe trip least hair (Reggie by de ign, Bob by genetic good fortune), we are down the St. John River in northern Maine,trading the company happy to report that gray hair, lo s of hair and the need for of moo e, bear, and an occa ional blackfly forthat of classmates, somewhat larger trousers were the worst signs of wear exhibited by spouses and their children. the Class of '7 4 revelers. Several people remarked that, other than Among the official business of the weekend was the uccession the unfamiliar mu tache, Scott Ryerse looked like he did on of officers. Martha Bernard Welsh took over from Steve Horan as graduation day. However, no award was given for "most youthful" class president for the next five years. Artie Bell a sumed vice or "lea t altered" o that all 70 of us could go home secure in the presidential duties from Emily Wingate Ryerse. Michael J. Strone knowledge that, had there been one, it might have gone to us. is the new Alumni Council repre entative, taking over from Ann One might have thought that Judy Sidell Westerlund, who Graves McAuliff, and, most important, Shelley Bieringer Rau came fromStockholm, Sweden, would have gotten the "farthest relieved Steve Collins of secretary/corre pondent duties. Help from home" award, but she was trumped by Robin Mycock, all the Shelley out; send her some news. She's at 123 Hotel Rd., Auburn, way from Sydney, Au tralia. Domestic travelers included Howie Maine 042 10. And don't miss your last reunion of the 20th Lazar, in from Anchorage, Alaska. century-.XXV-the first weekend in June 1999!

-Stephen B. Collins

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From Jan Plan Student to Organizer

ix teen years after her Jan Plan experience at Colby et in oropendula (a bird that localfarmers call a pest), while other worked motion a career in ecological preservation, Abigail Rome '7 on a reforestation project inside the reserve. Rome say tudents on iS working to educate others about the dangers of habitat destruc­ the trip were rewarded not only with the knowledge they gained but tion and rainfore t degradation. also with a fe eling of accomplishment. "They really enjoyed fe eling Rome's environmental education has taken her into the heart they were doing something concrete," she said. Several students told of subtropical forests in Ecuador, where la tJanuary she led a group her they planned to return to Ecuador to continue their work. of Colby students on a Jan Plan trip he sponsored and organized. Rome believes students' embraced preservation efforts because The trip ha closed a circle that they got their hand dirty, liter­ began Rome' enioryearatColby ally and figuratively, with the at the Jackson Laboratory. work involved. She call plant­ "lsniffed yellowsnow," hesaid, ing and nurturing trees in the amused. "We were trying to track re erve "a real joy." "You realize pheromones that foxes use to howmuch maintenance is needed communicate with each other." [to protect the trees from human Indelicate details aside, the work and animal traffic]," she said. spawned apa ionforenvironmen­ Rome is organizing another tal cience. She followed up the Jan Jan Plan trip thi year. It will Plan experience with a semester of include a week of background field tudy in Augu ta, where she study at Colby before departing catalogued endangered plant pe­ forthree week tO Ecuador. Rome cie , then went on to tudy en­ admits she wishes she had more vironmental science at Duke, time tO immerse student in en­ receiving a master's in 1986. In vironmental projects. 1990 he joined the Peace Corp to "l would like to ee the Jan work in an ecological preserve sup­ Plan lengthened into a full e­ ported by the Nature Conservancy me ter cour e and work experi­ in the mountains of Ecuador. It was ence," she said. "January is too here that Rome became enmeshed short. If you're trying tO experi­ in a classic truggle to balance hu­ ence a country, the more time man need with the pre ervarion of the better." a fragile ecosystem. evertheless, the value of Jan The reserve at Mt. Antisana Plan and field work cannot be incorporates about 300,000 acres overstated, Rome say . "I tallow of cloud forest and subtropical tudent to get out there in the forest. It is home to the spectacled bear, the only bear pecie in real world and ee how people live, see the way people work, ee South America, and the Andean condor, both of which are how work gets done." endangered. The bears are hunted because they create a nui ance Rome now works full time as an independent con ultant forcorn farmers who have no other mean of income. Rome' goal teaching cour es in Latin America and the United States and i to provide ways for native people to protect Ecuador's natural leading field trip to ecological research ite in Central and South resources and still make a living. America. In late June she traveled to Belize and tO Costa Rica tO Rome wants to encourage "ecotourism" to provide local in­ participate in a field study. come. She hope to make Ecuadorians proud of the fact that they When he returnsshe will resume working out ofher Washing­ have the only bear species in South America and want to promote ton, D.C., office organizing con ervation "exchange " between the bear as a touri t attraction without encroaching on the bear ' North and South American countries. habitat and/or exploiting the local population. Although the work is hard and the obstacles many, Rome is Drawing upon her work in Ecuador and inspired by her own optimistic about efforts to pre erve ecosystems around the world. "I experience in Colby's Jan Plan, Rome created an educational ee some mall successes in raising the consciou ne of people consulting busine s, which last January resulted in her second Jan [about environmental i ue ]," Rome aid. Ecotourism, he says, Plan excursion, this time as an organizer. Rome designed the offers a way to involve people who might not otherwi e participate course, planned logistical detail and managed the project. in preservation measures. Person traveling to countries that pro­ The students stayed together at a camp at 13,000 feet on Mt. mote ecotourism enjoy an educational experience "learning about Antisana for the first three weeks of their experience, then eparated nature and human hi rory" while increa ing their awarene about to conduct their various projects. Two tudents conducted research environmental issues in other countries and in their own backyard. in an Ecuadorian community on the spectacled bear and on the "The is ue i preserving ecosy tern everywhere," she said.

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Class of 1979

ur 15th reunion was a record class T-shirts and favors (and the breaker: the Clas of '79 finally "evil" mastermind of the diabolical enjoyedO three days of gloriou Maine but thoroughly enjoyable clues unshine in ucce ion, whichallowed chase). Thanks so much, Jane. We us all to leave with warm faces as well mis ed you! (A few of theshirt are as warm feelings. We also broke the available at $8.50 per shirt, as well as record for reunion giving for a 15- a dozen tote bags at $10. Please end year cla s. Standing in for our very a check payable to Colby College to successful clas agent, John Lyman, the Alumni Office, Colby College, were Betsy Bucklin Gray (outgoing Waterville ME 04901.) president and new class agent) and Many thanks to all of you who reunion committee members Maria returnedthe que tionnaires; they pro­ Macedo Dailey and Emily Grout vided an interesting picture of our Sprague, who presented President diversity and lives ince Colby. A Cotter with a $65, 4 79 check. A large few major themes emerged, and some thank-you to John for all his hard amusing statistics. For example, the work and to everyone who was part of most disliked song in the pa t 15 this wonderful gift to Colby. years seems to be "The Barney Song" It was impo sible to get an exact (sung at full volume for the uniniti­ count of all who attended becau e ated at the cla s dinner), and the there was a lot of coming and going popular name for daughter eems to but those on campus at some point be Maggie or Margaret. We have during the weekend included (in no clas mate all over the world in in­ particular order): Debra Wallace teresting careers and situations (al­ Burbine (our class's standard bearer Peter and Betsy Bucklin Gray '79 though it eems that many of us in the Parade of Cla es), Bill Leete, con ider our most important career Stacey Cox Slowinski, Katie Cofsky, Russ Brewer, Gordon and to be parenting in thi often confusing and difficultwor ld). A Kathy Wall Hunziker, Kirk Paul, David Laliberty, Donna brief sampling: Catherine Courtenaye opened a show of her Drury Bleakney, Megan Thorn, Libby Maynard Gordon, Jack paintings at the Andrew Shire Gallery in Los Angeles on June McBride '80, Nick and Kim Rossi Nichols, Ellen Grant, Meg 10. Jan Raiha i practicing veterinary medicine in his homeland Matheson, Ingrid Gjesteby Janes, Leslie Nichols Rosenblatt, of Finland. Sue Fraser-Sullivan is parenting her two on and Julie Sydow Palmason, Andrea James Spangenthal, Blair running a quilt and textile bu iness from her home in Lee, Mass., Washburn Tracy, Bev Schnorr Larmie, Corinna Boldi while battling breast cancer. Our thoughts and prayer are with Tamburini, Sara Frolio O'Leary, Sid Karl Mohel, John Lyman, you, Sue; plea e let us know how you are doing. An anonymou Pat Collins, Beth Bailey Hodgdon, Hillary Jones, Laurie Borden classmate who listed his occupation as ag/hydrology in Casper, Ahern, John Smedley, Lindy Williams, Jane (Sullivan '80) and Wyo., acknowledged sharing his life with 200+ bovine crea­ Dwight Allison, Daisy Dore and Bill Muller. The above were tures. Cal Cooper teaches fourthgrade in Frankfort, Maine, and accompanied by congenial and smiling spouses, children and own the oldest vehicle, a 1940 Ford tractor. Amy Davidoff has friends. We may even have broken attendance record for 15- spent much of her time since Colby accumulating letter to put year reunion cla se ; but record breaking or not, those who did after her name but has finally settled on a career as research attend werea happily enthusiastic group. The Clas of '79 clo ed cienti t and assi tant professor of medicine at Wayne State the dance floor Saturday night. It is nice to know that ome thing Medical School in Detroit, Mich. Geoff Emanuel is in real do not change (unlike hairline , wai tlines and other such mea­ estate investment in Manchester, Conn. Jennifer Morrison sure of the pa sing years). Eastabrook owns The Briar Patch, a children's book store in Our newly elected class officer were introduced at our Bangor, Maine. I could go on, but I promi ed my successor to Saturday evening dinner: President Steve Earle, Vice President make the tart of his new job easier by turning over my notebook Jan Morris Whelan, Alumni Council Representative Janet to erve as a database forhis first couple of column ! It ha been Deering Bruen and Class Agent Betsy Bucklin Gray. Bob a lot of fun hearing from all of you. I will truly miss my official Kinney, our new ecretary-treasurer and class correspondent, job a class correspondent, but I will try to keep in touch in an couldn't make it but did a kMark McAuliffe to take notes. Also unofficialway. Thanks for all the help and letters. Farewell until mi sing was Jane Venman Ledebuhr, designer of the excellent the 20th.

-Emily Grout Sprague

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in their 1993 annual Ma achu­ hake pearean Festi\'al. I would whom I la t heard from in Decem­ Corre ponden t: -etts vs. Maine golf tournament. like to pa along Jenny'· compli­ ber 1992. Laurel and her hu·band, Noel Barry Stella Massachu ett ha yet to win thi ment to the Colby faculty: "Each Rick, ha\'e mm·ed to Milford, particular event. The Boy ons, profe ··or's individual teaching Ma-s., putting off their dream of Hello, classmates! Bill who keep busy skiing, hiking, bik­ style suited the course and made it mm·ing to Maine-until maybe Silverman has heard ing and watching their kids grow much diffe rent from the other-. l our 40th 1 Laurel continues to be a 7 6 that Heather Finney up, saw Carrie Getty la t fa ll got exci red when something came technical writer. he also wrote of is omewhere in Pitt burgh, and while he was in Portland judging up in one [class] that was con­ her recent e\'entful trip to Dalla , he wonders if anyone has any a beer-making competition. nected to a question I was work­ T exa , o ·ren ibly to \·i,it her in­ detail . (Bill, my source tell me Mike wrote that he thinks often ing on, or making discoveries law . Bur the "Carrie gra:ing that you should try the city of and fondly of his Colby times about, in another." (If l can read lands-Grand Canyon-Monu­ Pitt burgh telephone directory and wants to be remembered to between the lines, Jenny harks ment alley- edona, Ari:. (the under Eng.) Bill and his wife, all. Thanks for a great letter, back, a little ruefully, to her feel­ centerof'Ne\\' Age' culture)" rhat Margarida, celebrated the fir t Mike .... Arthur Levering i a ings ofanonymity in ourcla s. But he also \\Tires of ound · like a birthday of their daughter, composer who tudied at Yale I remember her as not just a face in wonderful experience ....To Joanna, in Mayofthi year. eed­ and Boston Univer ity after leav­ a place.) Jennifer send her love close, I recommend highly a ub- le s to say, the advent of a child ing Colby. He studied composi­ to Awetu Simesso. Please write cription to the Colby Quarrerl)' ha haken up the hou ehold a tion with the 19 4 Pulit:er and say you're "all right," Awetu. and the latest i ue devoted to the bit. Both of the elder ilvermans Prize-winner, Bernard Rand , and ... I had a very friendly update poet eamus Heaney .... Plea e are on the faculty of the medical ha been a fe llow at the Aspen from Laurel Van Stone-Lewis, write o there's more ro come. + school at Pitt, where Bill special­ Music Fe ti val, the June in Buf­ izes in gasteroenterology and falo Festival, the orfolk Cham­ ,------Margarida does bone marrow ber Music Festival, the Bowdoin tran plants. Despite impre ive ummer Mu ic Festival and What's New professional credential , Bill has­ Yaddo. He recently received tens to as ure us that he "ha n't awards from the National En­ hare your new and view with your clas mates! Plea e write in really changed much since Col­ dowment for the Arts (a 1994 the blank and end thi form to the Alumni Office forforwarding by-just put a respectable veneer composer fellowship) and from to your clas corre pendent. on what you remember. Life is Compo ers, Inc., of San Fran­ fun and an adventure. I still miss cisco (the 1992 Lee Ettelson the Outing Club and sleeping on Compo er's Award). Arthur's top of the water tower. We stilldo works have been performed in I that kind of thing." Bill wonders Britain, France and Italy as well I if anyone has heard from Mitch as in the United States. We Brown (last mentioned in this should watch for Arthur's name I column in 1993),Bob McAuliffe in the program the next time we I or Dave Galvin '75. I have a print­ attend a concert ....Gi ven that I out from the College listing the I'm out of room, Peter Shaw' addresses of all our class member letter will have to wait for the I and in exchange fora newsy note next is ue. If you have been read­ I from you will be glad to honor ing the column all the e year I specific requests. (If anyone does and haven't taken a minute to not want his addres shared, write, please do o. We all really I plea e notify the College.) ... enjoy catching up with old I Mike Boyson has seen lots of friend . + I '76ers. To bring you all up to I date, Mike began the 19 Os in the Peace Corps, did a tint with Correspondent: I the U.N. Development Program Leslie A. Ramsay I in West Africa, returnedto Maine I in 1983 and is currently a VP Peggo ("Margaret") with Smith Barney Shearson in Horstmann-Hodes I Portland. Mike i married to 7 7 was one ofa sextet per­ I Nancy Grant, the twin si ter of forming the mu ic offive com po - I Ellen Grant '79 ( Kevin Carley's ers at The Concord ( .H.) wi.fe), and the Boysons have a Community Music School on May I son, Oscar, 9, and a daughter 6. I once heard The Musicians of I Elise, 7. They live about two miles Wall Street, and they're very I from the Carley . Also in the good . . . . Jennifer Holan is a Add res neighborhood are Harry Nelson, children's librarian at the Leonia, I Ned Smith, Scott Pickett, Ted N.J., Public Library. Jenny loves I Kirkpatrick '77, Chris Foster to cut, paste and design with the I and Lindsay Huntington Han­ kids and to ham it up at tory hour. City/ tare/Zip ------cock. Mike reported gleefully Jenny loved mu ic and theater at I that he and Kevin thrashed Scott Colby and wrote of a recent trip to ls thi a new addres ? 0 I Utah to play music in the Utah McDermott and Rob Anderson L ______�

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617-266-3643 got married in Jack on Hole, Correspondents: Wyo., in September 1993 ....Dur­ Correspondent: 1989 ing the past year or o, John Mon­ Beth Pniewski Wilson Deborah A. Greene roe has traveled toeverycontinent 38 orrel Road except Antarctica. On active duty Tony '80 and Mickey Concord, MA 01742 in the Navy, he is an ophthal­ Mullen Cunningham 1980 508- 369-6978 mologist at Camp Pendleton, had a second daughter, Patty Valavanis Smith Calif., and getting more involved Madeleine Louise, last August. 6 Hammond Way Correspondent: in hospital information systems Wit81h two young daughters, Andover, MA 01810 Patty Valavanis Smith consulting. On Christma Eve Mickey writes that she now knows 508-4 70- l 484 1992 he was deployed with the the real meaning of exhaustion. 1981 John and Jackie Low Marine Corps to Somalia and Mickey's book on the German­ Beth Pniewski Wilson Chee are living in spent two long months in the gun­ American sculptor Heinz War­ P.O. Box 602 North Reading, Mass., fire and treet violence in Mo­ neke will be published by the with their eight-month-old daugh­ Harvard, MA 01451 8 0 gadishu ....After spending 14 1/2 University of Delaware Pres in 508-358-2845 ter and pur uing volleyball a an months in Avignon, France, 1994. Tony is a professor at St. avocation. Jackie had been a site of her husband's fieldwork, John's Univer ity in Minnesota, 1982 payroll manager at Staples in LydiaMason i running adorm at and they live in nearby St. Joseph, Mimi Rasmussen Framingham and is exploring go­ Miss Porter's School (her alma Minn ....Leslie Kaplan is living 63 Re ervoir Street ing back to work part time . .. mater) in Farmington, Conn. "It's in Boston and is managing direc­ Cambridge, MA 02 138 Scott Butterfield, a resident of somewhat of a biosphere setting: tor of the IQ) Cipolla Group, an 617-492-1002 Blue Bell, Pa., is a re taurant man­ meals, housing, utilities, postal adverti ing company. Leslie ager for McDonald's. When he service all included so we didn't writes that he renovated a Bo - 1983 was in England he met up with leave campus much all winter," ton brownstone in 1993 and in ally Lovegren Merchant Andy Goode, who is a dancer he aid. Just what we all needed 1994 will be getting married to HCR 62, Box 244B with the London Ballet ....At to survive this past New England Jerry Knopf. ...Tory Sneff Mt. Desert, ME 04660 the end of last year, Eden Reicher winter! Lydia's son, Emmett, 4, is Schulte i living in Sterling, Va. 207-244-3678 Anker wrote that she and her expecting a ibling this sum­ She is directorofbusine ervices 1984 husband had just completed more mer. ... Geoff Becker, a reader at Open Networks Global er­ Maura Cassidy than six months of renovations of this column and not a partici­ vices, a telecommunication com­ 181 Winthrop Road #9 on their 90-year-old house in pant until just recently, sent me a pany. She and husband David Brookline, MA 02 1 46-4442 Washington, D.C.-and that the very nice note of appreciation. have two daughters, Courtney 617-566-0012 wait wa worth it! Eden is back to Thank you! Geoff's been a vi it­ and Delaney. Tory says she got work part time at the Department ing fellow in creative writing at out of the re taurant business af­ 1985 of Labor writing documents for Emory University for the pa t two ter five years and went to work for Mary Alice Weller-Mayan procuring all kinds of hardware years and wa n't sure where he one of her clients. It is an upstart RD 2, Box 149 and software. Attention: Kim would be in the fall-"typical telecommunication company Camden, DE 19934 Hallock, Jon Crocker and Bill writer's life," he said. It was great specializing in internationallong­ 302-697-0 142 Linnell. Eden would like to know to hear from you, Geoff, and I d istance sales. She hopes to travel what you've been up to, owrite to hope others who haven't had a to the U.K., where they have an 1986 one of us! ...For the past seven chance to drop me a line will office. Tory adds that she went to Gretchen Bean Lurie years, Michael Fanger has been follow in your footsteps .. Lisa Denham's wedding in New 2606 an Marcos Drive vice president of Medallion Fund­ Where are you R.P. Higgin '77, York last September. Toni Ciota Pasadena, CA 91 107 ing Corp. He's been enjoying the Pat Collins '79, Al Danz '8 1 and Chandler and Susan Wolff 818-356-7538 commute into Manhattan by Andrea Jame -Spangenthal '79? Weiser also were there . . ..David 1987 train since buying a house in ...Rick Redlon Jr., who started Rocks i living in Prague in Lucy Lennon Tucker Westport, Conn. Michael and his with our class but graduated from the Czech Republic, where he i 9 Wellstone Drive wife were expecting their econd Vassar College, died last year in a journali t writing for the Portland, ME 04 101 child earlier this year. He'd like to Bath, Maine. He most recently Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe 207-772-7127 hear from Steve Martin and Sue worked at New England Anti­ and San Francisco Chronicle Miller.... Jay Moody continues ques in Portland, and he lectured among other new papers. He and 1988 to chase his fo ur-year-old twins frequently on historic preser­ Jacqueline Lucas were married on Sara Dickison when he' not working as a geolo­ vation and developed a number a cliff in outhem Portugal in 25 Fayette Street =t 1 gist outside Portland, Maine. of exhibits for the Portland Mu­ 1992, with Andy Frenkiel in at­ Boston, MA 02 116 He reports that Warren Pratt seum of Art. + tendance. They have been travel-

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NEWSMAKER S Runner magazine in July. Coffin's recent Maine road racing triumph include the 65th Annual Portland Boys and Girls Club Susan MacKenzie '80 ha been Patriot's Day 5-miler and the Veryfine/Sugarloaf 15k . ...Rachel awarded a research fellowship by the Graham '87 was admitted to the North Carolina Bar Association. Center for Science and International She currently work in Washington, D.C., a a legi lative aide. Affairs at Harvard to research and write a book on international effort MILEPOSTS to implement ecosy tern manage­ ment.... Trudi A. Chase '81, a taff Births: A daughter, Elisabeth Iolanda, to John and Jackie Low member at Central Maine Medical Chee '80 ....A daughter, Allison Marie, to Lynn and Randy Center in Lewi ton, ha been certi­ Mitchell '86. fied in hematology and medical Marriages: David G. Perry '80 to Julia Bohlen in Washington, oncology by the American Board of O.C. ...Mary Beth Boland '85 to Thoma J. Haut in Andover, Internal Medicine .... Christopher Mass . . . . Deborah A. England '85 to Charles J. Gray in Boston, Susan McKenzie '80 E. Landry '82 has been named de­ Mass . ... Sarah S. Wood '85 to David R. Langdon in Manchester- velopment officer at Historic Deerfield, Inc., where he will coordi­ by-the-Sea, Mass . . ..Marianne Palmer '87 to Robert 0. Ferrarini nate annual fund raising and a $12 million capital campaign .... in North Scituate, Mass. ... Amy Rosen '87 to Matthew Moran The Central Maine MorningSentinel named Michael P. McGee '82 '87 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. ...Cindy Ann Cohen '89 to David C. Boys' Basketball Coach of the Year after his Lawrence Bulldogs won Fernandez in Raymond, Maine .... Cherie Ann Poulin '89 to the state championship with a 20-2 record . ... Todd Coffin '83, Michael L Szustak in Auburn, Maine. former All-American steeplecha er, was profiled in New England Deaths : Valerie Anne Spierling in New York, N.Y., at 26

ing throughout Eastern Europe. and paintings at the Colby Mu­ Guam while he was there a the and other gue ts included Doug . . . Katie Critchlow Luther is liv­ seumof Art, "Regarding the Self," tax counsel to the director of the McCartney, Diane Conley ing in Mandan, N.D., and is an was about reclaiming the female Department of Revenue and LaVangie, Wende Davis (who environmental geologist. She and figure as active and unidealized. Taxation for the government of came from San Diego), Jed her husband, Mark, also a geolo­ Margaret writes that she was the Guam. Mark wonders what his Santoro and Helen Dooley gist, have two children, Megan matron of honor at DeAnn former classmates are up to now, J ursek. Sarah reports that Helen and Jed, one dog, two cats, four Lewis's wedding to Henry Coll and where people are living. He and her husband, Ted, had big guinea pigs and about 25 chickens last September. Also in atten­ ran into Peter Thomas in the news-Laura Ruth J ursek made on a 40-acre farm. Last winter dance were Tom Stall '82, Dave Denver airport upon Mark's re­ her debut November 11. Kim and Katie visited Boston to present a Condon '82 and Mary Jane Bate turn from two years in Guam and Doug McCartney also were ex­ paper and had dinner with Janet '82. DeAnn was recently pro­ Asia ....Becca Badger Fisher pecting this summer. Sarah and Blau Cobb, Ellen Owens Dion, moted to vice pre ident at Key does not recommend living ex­ her hu band, Garry, are living in Nancy Welsh Isbell and me. Bank of Maine and finished her tremely close to the epicenter of Andover, Mas ., with hi ·on , ...John Andrews is living in Salt master's degree in public policy an earthquake! Along with her Gregory, 8, Nicholas, 6, and Lulu, Lake City, where he is an assistant and management at the Muskie report that they had minimal their Maine coon cat. In the past attorney general for the state of In titute at the University of damage in the quake, Becca sent few years Sarah has taken up scuba Utah. He is responsible for the Maine .... Heidi Proctor Baxter news of the birth of Kyle Christo­ diving and has been doing a lot of legal work for Utah's 3 million and her hu band, John, are the pher on 12/2 1/93. Becca and fam­ skiing, hiking and traveling. She acre of state lands, which also proud parents of Nicholas John, ily live in Granada Hills, Calif., is currently a retirement product includes environmental and for­ born last November. Heidi i liv­ and would love to hear from any manager with Fidelity Invest­ e try law. He and wife Kathryn ing in Wellesley, Mass., and is a cla mates or Colby people in the ments and loves her job. Garry, a have a daughter, Emily, born in vice president of product market­ L.A. area.. . . Linda Zee is cur­ former Naval aviator and now a 1993. John wa the best man at ing for Fidelity Investment . rently living in Carlisle, Pa., and commander in the Naval Re­ Ken Sharples's wedding in Snow­ Heidi ays that she keeps in touch teaching at Dickinson College. serves, is a marketing manager bird, Utah, in 1993. Other clas - with several cla smates, includ­ She completed her Ph.D. at Indi­ forasystemsconsultingcompany. mates in attendance were Wayne ing Karen Orloff, Laura Lit­ ana U. in July 1993 in Latin arah is looking forward to being and Jan Johnson Gombotz and tlefield Bourne, Diane Young, American literature ( pecifically in touch with Jeff Brown, who Kathy Dornish ....Steve and Susan Wolff Weiser and Toni women writers, literature of the recently returned with his family Debbie Paul Healey had a daugh­ Ciota Chandler, who ha moved fanta tic and indigenous litera­ to the U ..from South Africa.+ ter, Caitlin Ro e, who was born back to the Bo ton area. + ture). . . Matt Figel sends in an last July. They are living in update that he and his wife, Linda, Holli ton, Mass. Debbie is a se­ had their econd daughter, Erin Correspondent: nior financial analyst and Steve Correspondent: Dora, March 16, 1994, and that Sally Lovegren Merchant works in technical upport for Mimi Rasmu sen life is great. ...Sarah Lickdyke ybase, Inc . . . . Margaret Libby Morissette sent in a lot of news. Witho�t your infor­ is living in Oakland, Maine, and Mark Heroux is a While visiting Lavinia Stefani in mation, I cannot i the a sistant lide librarian at chief counsel attorney Paris, Sarah became engaged to 8 3 report a thing. Colby. She and hu band Harlan 8 for the IRS. He and Garry Morissette. Her December If you don't end me a letter, why Bailey have a daughter, Emma his wife,2 Marc ia, have two chil­ 11, 1993, wedding wa- well at­ not give me a ring? Libby Bailey, born in 1992. dren: Benjamin, born 6/30/90, tended by classmates. Kim Smith You know my name and addre s, Margaret's olo how ofdrawings and Caroline, born 9/2 1/92 in McCartney was maid of honor, it's clearly noted here.

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Were each one of you to send an update, you'd all hear me cheer! The deadlines are quite frequent, O,EUNION I'll offer them again: �o.::a They're May 1, August 1, Octo­ ber 1, December I and Febru­ Class of 1984 ary I, and then I delight in sharing your letters The Class of '84 reunion welcomed back to Mayflower Hill many classmate and their families. with all of our class. Several of us arrived Friday night and checked out ome of the old haunt "down town" like Silver But if this column is empty, I treet and You Know Who e. Later that night the class gathered at the old DU Hou e for a party might feel like an a-. . .. including Deb and Dana Hanley, George and Sarah Chapin Reardon, Beth and Bob Brooks, So, get your news right to me. I've Trish (Martin '86) and Harry Raphael, Todd Halloran, Parris Pelletier, Cindy Mulliken done a lot in the way Lazzara, Mary KateWhalen, Lauren Mogenson, Kitty Wilbur, Tracy Weiner, Diane Perlowski, Of trying to make you feel guilty Kam McClennan, Debbie and John Ayer and Lisa and Bill Sheehan. Some of the class stayed for not sending some my way. there (including many former residents) while Without your personal highlights the rest of the class tayed at Johnson. to liven up this column, Saturday morning brought incredible weather. You will all be somewhat di ap­ A few folks, including Marlene Schmidt, Sara pointed, and l will be solemn. Hill, Charlie Boddy and Pete Saccocia, went Ha ten to your PC, to your blot­ down to Bonnie' for breakfast. At 11 a.m., the ter and your pad. class-led by Mary White Garrity, Karen Melino, Do send your letters often, make Jim Cruick hank '85, Derek Tarson, Kim Fitch, ir a new fad 1 • Bernie and Kaiya Vittands Hefele, Jeff Nottonson, Tammy Jones Howe, Sarah Woodhouse, Denise Brunelle Priess, Sarah Correspondent: Ludwig White and her husband, Kathy Soderberg Amy E. Carlson Downing and Carolyn Sterge Gluek-partici­ pated in the Parade of Cla ses down to the foot­ Greetings! As th is is ball field, and we pre ented a check to President my final column, I'd Corter for over $12,000-a record for our class! A 8 4 like to take a moment barbecue followed. to thank each of you and let you In an exciting volleyball game that afternoon, know how much l have enjoyed some of the star players were Carolyn Sterge Gluek, keeping in touch with you all for Bernie Hefele, Nils Gjesteby, Kathv Shaw, Lori the past five years. Maura Cassidy Sturgeon Davi , Joy Valvano, Craig Alie, Julie will be our next class secretary, and Todd Halloran, Derek Tarson, Tri h Martin and I'm sure she will enjoy the Raphael '86, Karen Melino,Jim Cruick hank, and John andSarah White '84 with son Timmy. position as much as I have .. Kit Williams. We were joined by our Colby stu- Sharon Stella Quigley wrote from dent host, Wilfredo Rodriguez '96. Lockport, Ill., where she and her Saturday night, a good turnout for our class dinner included Hall Adams, Caren and Paul husband, Daniel, are raising their Baker, Kevin and Daire Fontaine Starr, Dave Ballou, Tim McCrystal, Jeff Rosenberg, Jeanne two children, Ryan and Sarah. and Tim Crowley, Mike Day, Tom Gratzer, Eric Van Gestel, Sally Lee, Fran and John Karoff Their third child was due on June '85, Dave Scales and Li a and Blll Sheehan. Joyce McPhetres wa our speaker. She inspired and 7. Since graduating from Colby, challenged u with memorie· of the year at Colby and what had happened wh ile we were there­ Sharon received her master' in first peer counseling program, fir t coed fraternity, the fraternities abolished-and a ked u to tell public policy. She is currently ome of our stories to the group. I talked about the day the Mary Low dorm taff invaded (and working as a fu ll-time mom and conquered) Todd Halloran and the Coburn staff. Tammy Jones Howe reminisced about mud in her pare time is involved with volleyball fun. Lorie told a great rugby tory contra ting the Colby style of gearing up for a game a local economic development with our competitor' tyle, and Ro ey regaled us with a story about a quick trip from Colby in a group. . . Sonia Kaloosdian borrowed car for ice cream-in Danvers, Ma . And then Joyce talked about the many change Hale is the owner of a graphics in the world since we had left, like eeing the end of apartheid in South Africa and the end of the design studio (the Sonia Hale Cold War. She talked about how we had all changed ...and some of us thought now that the idea tudio) in Brookline, Mass. She of a great Saturday night was going to bed at 9:30 p.m.! And-since many of u had gotten a first and her husband, Brian, have pair of glasses recently-a we look to the future, Joyce challenged us to follow our dreams. enjoyed traveling to Greece, Ire­ The new class officers were announced: Valerie Miller, president; Kit William , vice land and England as well as president; Maura Cassidy, ecretary/treasurer; Charlie Boddy, Alumni Council representative; throughout the United States. Tracy Stoir Ramsey, head class agent. ...Thomas Gratzer al o lives in After dinner, there wa a dance in the commons area. Most of the class went over there and the Bo ton area. Tom graduated hung out and talked, and some danced. from law school in 1990 and cur­ Sunday morning, as we rounded up to depart, the class was served Bonnie's coffeecake at DU. rently works as a personal injury We thank Lynn Magovern '90, Wilfredo Rodriguez, Kim Krueger and the Colby stafffor helping lawyer in Massachu etts, Maine make our reunion such a success. And a special thank to Mary White Garrity and the class and Washington, D.C. ...Jes­ officers, who did such a great job coordinating everything. It was great to ee everyone! sica Gwynne Schum wrote that she and her husband, Shawn, are -Kie Williams living in Cincinnati, Ohio, and

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that both are working for Procter admits he doe n't run into many Murphy ....Ju lie Briggs wa at Mark Milliken Gallery and and Gamble. After Colby, Jessica Colby grads in Japan but wi hes married to Brent Bursey on June American Craft Museum. he is received her M.B.A. from the he did ....That's all for now. 25 in York, Maine. He i a geo­ also a writer forMera/smith maga­ Darden School at the University Once again, it's been a real plea­ graphical information specialist zine. Lynn and Mark Howard are of Virginia. Jessica and Shawn sure keeping up with you all. + for American Management Sys­ living happily in Brooklyn. recently spent two weeks cycling tems in Arlington, Va . Julie's . Cathy Fasolino i� getting her throughout the south of France. matron of honor was Kristi master's degree in nutrition at ...Ser ge '81 and Raphaelle Correspondent: Hazlitt, who wa married on April Boston University ....Lau rie Camille Sondak are the parents Mary Alice Weller-Mayan 30 to Fred Wickham in upstate Christos Gerard wa married in oftwo children, Victoria Helena, New York with Julie as her maid January 1993 to Christopher 6, and Alexander Marcus, 3. Would you believe of honor. ...Jo hn E. Anderson Gerard. She i the

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velopment manager. Any class­ Corp. Denis spent last summer home in San Jose. Chari ie, a tech­ Channel S TV (Boston area) mates passing through the area in cla ses at Suffolk University, nical support engineer for Apple weather, attends grad school at are encouraged to look him up. where he is pursuing an M.B.A. Computers, is also an active com­ Boston College and alsoserves as I'm sure I speak forJohn when I ...Lars and Barb Falcone Smith munity volunteer-planting trees an R.A. at BC. (Yes, he is admit­ recommend that you leave your were last seennegotiating for their and maintaining the city's pub­ tedly crazy!)... Nancy Gold­ spraypaint at home before trav­ first home in Londonderry, N.H. lic gardens. The McCabes see berg writes from her home in eling to see him. (Thanks to Lars, an associate at heehan, Kevin Farley in nearby Sunny­ South Portland, where she is a John's parent for keeping us Phinney, Ba & Green, works in vale regularly ....Karen and Ned fu ll-time English instructor at informed1 ) •••Beth McSorley is corporate law, and Barb is a Stinson had lots to brag about Southern Maine Technical Col­ currently working in property fo urth-year therapist at New last December, with the birth of lege and a part-time tutor at management around Cape Cod. England Rehabilitation Hospi­ their second child and the fea­ Southern Maine Learning and he purchased her fir t home tal. When not working, golfing ture of 2-year-old Mary Anna on Counseling Center. ...Lindsay there lastsummerand enjoys sail­ or biking, the Smiths try to keep the inside cover of the Lord & (Carroll '87) and Geoffrey ing thewaters of the cape during up with Chris and Cindy Lloyd Taylor Christmas catalogue .. Alexander are settled at home in the warm months ....De nis Brogan, Brian and Laurie Clark David Epstein describes his oc­ Marblehead, Mass. Geoff claims Foley and his wife, Katy, live in Cornwall and Cindy Fallon. cupation as "Jack fall Trades." to be a professional student, earn­ Sharon, Mass., where Deni is a ... Sara and Charlie McCabe He teaches grade school science ing money for school as a charter fi lm buyer for Hoyts Cinema love their northern California and swimming, anchors the captain for BayState Cruise Lines.

Class of 1989

ello, everyone! Ir was great to see Boston Co., while also getting her M.B.A. at many of you at the reunion, and I'm BU. Also in Boston is Brenda O'Sullivan, Htill trying to catch up on all the reunion who went through the training program at re pon e that were sent in. I did manage Arthur Andersen before ettling in the cor­ to take down a few note at the all-campu porate accounting department of TJX, the party that weekend (too bad the Lemon­ parent company for T.J. Maxx and Hit or heads couldn't make it, although the Red Miss clothing stores. Light Revue was pretty good), but some­ Here' where my notes get a little fuzzy: one absconded with my notes for a while Louise Tranchin ("Gail" to her close friends) (Manure!), so I'm not quite sure what i was reported to have written a book about all fact and what is fiction. Anyway, here the ha hing clubs in Warsaw, Poland; An­ goe : Bill Carr, who ha graciou ly ac­ kara, Turkey; Guadalahara, Mexico; and At­ cepted the responsib ilitie of class vice lanta, then to have married a grave digger president for another term, graduated before winning the Louisiana lottery; now from Emory with an M.B.A. with the dis­ she's living the easy lifein Maine in the sum­ tinction of being both class president mers and wintering in St. Martin. Yes, you and marshal at the graduation ceremo- heard it here first! And Kirk Koenigsbauer nies. Quote of the weekend: "This napkin couldn't make the reunion; he was reported to Scott Turtel • 89 smells like the seacoast," he said at the be so depressed over Kurt Cobain's death that class dinner, "or maybe it's my hands from the lob ter bake." We'll he couldn't leave Seattle and the big part he plays in the grunge never know. movement out there. Dana Hollinshead i finishing up a master's in public policy Wendy Dauphinais recently announced her marriage to Krist and public administration with a concentration in women's stud­ Nelson on July 30. They are building a house in Deerfield, N.H. ies at George Washington University in D.C. Last summer shewas Wendy i working forBristol-Meyers Squibb pharmaceuticals as a involved in local government on the Vineyard and plan to move business territory manager and also getting her M.B.A. at night. to the Southwest after graduating. Nicole Schamban graduated Maria Douglass couldn't make the reunion either, also with good from BC Law in 1992 and is practicing law in New Mexico and reason. She's a permanent resident alien of Russia and the fi rst skiing 30 days a year at Taos. As someone wrote on my note : American to live in the city ofTver, a few hours north of Moscow. "Nicole i the coolest!" Maria manages an agribusiness development program, funded by Newlyweds Robert and Hilary Barnes Hoopes made the trip to USDA commodities grants managed by the National Cooperative Waterville fromtheir home outside D.C., where Rob is with Inde­ Bu ines A sociation, and spends half her time in the field with pendent In urers (a lobbyist group, I believe). Rob and Hilary were farmers and the other half dealing with bureaucrats. married last October. Nancy Mahon i a corporate trainer at The Great reunion, great news. Thanks to all.

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After a four-year absence, Matt the Massachusetts bar in 1993 McArdle returnedfrom his writ­ and is working with the law of­ Get ready to come back to campus this fall for a fun-filled ing and traveling excursion in fice of MacGragor, Hart, Traki­ Asia and bunked with the Alex­ mas and Spurling in Haverhill, Homecoming Weekend! We have a schedule packed with great anders fora week last summer. ... Mass... . Allyson Goodwin and activities, entertainment and athletics, with plenty of time to On a final note, congratulations her husband, Mark Short, wel­ catch up with old friends. Look for the card inside this issue and go out to Peter and Meg Frymoyer comed their son, T. Jordan make your reservations today! Stebbins on the birth of their Goodwin Short, into the world first child. Baby Emily arrived in on February 3, 1994. Allyson is 1994 Homecoming Schedule early March and is, we hope, al­ still very much enjoying her po­ lowing her proud and weary par­ sition as director of annual giv­ ents some shut-eye by now! Best ing at Colby-Sawyer College in Friday, Oct 7, 1994 9:30, 10:30, 11 :30 wishes to everyone for contin­ New London, N.H ... . Brad Fay a.m. & 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 ued happiness and success. + and his wife, Diane, celebrated p.m. Campus Tours All day Classroom open house (pick up schedule the new year with the birth of and room location at registration desk) their first child, Brendan Robert, Homecoming Weekend Regi cration Correspondent: Noon- JO p.m. on January 5 , 1994. The three rudent Center Lobby Lucy Lennon Tucker Fays are living in Greenwich, 4:00 p.m. Field Hockey v. Williams Conn., from which Brad com­ 6:30 p.m. 90th Annual Colby Night Dinner, honoring the Greetings, class. I mutes into midtown Manhattan, late Jimmy Hayes '76 as the "C" Club Person oi don't have too much where he i a vice president of the Year ponsored by the Colby "C" Club 8 7 to report, but what I Roper Starch Worldwide, a pio­ 7 and 9:15 p.m. *Stu-A Movie, House of Spirits 7:00 do have is exciting. I heard from neering public opinion and mar­ p.m. Powder & Wig presents "American Buffalo" **Limited searing a few classmates who have writ­ ket re earch firm.. .. Last bu mot 9:00 p.m. Tom De Luca, hypnotist ten to me about how their fami­ least, I heard from Marianne 9:00 p.m. Alumni Open House, ·pon ored by Ludy '21 and lies have expanded recently. From Campbell Hockenberry in San Pacy Le ine '27 Fairbanks, Alaska, Tanya Thom­ Francisco, where she and her 10:00 p.m. Powder & Wig presents "American Buffalo" as Pinder wrote that she'd 1 ike to husband, Tim, proudly announced **Limited earing dispel the rumors about Alaska' the arrival of Maxx Campbell weather. Tanya explained that Hockenberry, born February 19, * Payable at the door although it i very cold in the 1994, and weighing a very healthy **For tickers plea e send $3 per person (checks payable to Colby College) to: 4901. winter, it i beautiful in the um­ 9 lbs. 10 oz. To quote Marianne, Valerie Mitchell, Colby Performing Art , Waterville, ME Please indicate dare and how nme. mer and actually reached 110 "He' a real joy!" Marianne has degrees at one point last year. been living in northernCalifor­ She al o wrote that they do not nia since 1987, when she came Saturday, Oct 8, 1994 have six olid months of dark­ out to as ist Professor Wei brot a.m.-2 p.m. Homecoming Weekend Regi.mmon ne s followed by six olid month with the book he was writing, rudenr Center Lobb1· 9:30, 10:30, 11:3 0 oflight. (They do, howe er, have Freedom Bound. She now has her a.m. Campus Tours Morning Alumni Council Committee Meenng­ about 18 hours of darkness in the own bu ines , with one fu ll-time 10:15 a.m. Alumni Association Meeting winter and 18 hours of daylight assistant, repping commercial 10:45 a.m. Brunch for Cla of '94 in the summer!) Tan ya and hus­ photographers! he works with 11:30 a.m. *Cookout for all alumni band Reg live with their two boy , all the major adverti ing agen­ 11:45 a.m. Dedication of the Colby mule statue, gift oi Reggie, 3, and Reid, 1, at Fort cie , primarily on national ac­ rhe Cla of 1943 Wainwright, where Reg isa mili­ count ( ike, Pep i, Kikkoman, oon Women' occt:r 1·. Clark tary policeman i.nthe Army. For Apple Computer, Avia, ju t to l:OO p.m. Field Hockey 1•. U. Mass Lowell 1:30 1·. the time being, Tanya has put name a few!). She met Tim in p.m. Football We leyan 3:00 p.m. Men' occer v. Clark her law school aspiration on hold California, and they married m 3:0 p.m. Tour of Colby Mu-eum of Art and is teaching paralegal studies 1992. Tim i a fu ll-time musician and Jette and Davis Gallerie· course , English literature and ( inger and keyboard player) and with Mu eum Director Hugh Gourle) grammar for Central Texas Col­ ha a band that plays in the Bay 4:00 and 5:00 Tower tours lege at the post. Tanya asked if ! Area .... That i all the news View Waterville Area from atop Miller Library knew the whereabouts ofHeather I have for now. I'd like to thank 4:30-5:30 p.m. Departmental Receptions: Histol) , American C. Anderson, whom she lost track all of the above for taking the tudies, Mathematics, Cla 1cs, Economics of after graduation. Unfo rtu­ time to fill us in on all their excit­ 7 and 9:15 p.m. * tu-A Movie, House of Spirits nately, I don't have a current ing news, and I'd also like to con­ :OO p.m. Powder & Wig presents "American Buffalo" **Limited earing addre s, so if you're reading this, gratulate all of you on the births 9:00 pm-1 a.m. "1 964" The Tribute: Concert/Dance parry Heather, drop me a line to let me of your children and wish you know where you are and what ucce on that very important * Payable at the door you're up to.... Philip Parry next stage of your live -parent­ **For tickets please send 3 per per on (checks payable to Colby College) to: wrote fromMerrimac, Mas ., that hood! Hope to hear from more Valerie Mitchell, Colby Performing Arts, Waterville, ME 04901. Please he married Denise Stevens in of you soon! + indicate date and how time. October 1992 and that they had their fir. rchild, Emily Lynn, Sep­ Sunday, Oct 9, 1994 tember 1 2, 1993. Philip passed 9a.m. Prore rant ervice 11:30 a.m. Catholic mass

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who's working at the Lawrence attle Children's Theatre. She is Correspondents: Correspondent: Indian Center in Kansas ....Bob also keeping up her play writing Laura Senier Scott wrote to me in April just and says, "Write to me!-1454 E. before taking off to Brazil for a Harrison St.,#101,Seattle, Wash. 1990 Time for a reality check, classical guitar tour. Bob's work­ 98 112." She also told me that Laura Senier folks! Plans are already ing on his master's at the Univer­ Sam Sharnik is now living in 4 Menotomy Road, Apt. 9 9 0 sity of Massachusetts-Amherst in the works for our Boulder, Colo .... Cherlyn Arlington, MA 02 174 fifth-year reunion! Get out your and released a CD this pring (see Neely has certainly been busy. 617-641-3467 calendars right now and mark profi le, page 75). He was very She earned her J.D. in tax law in 1991 down the date: June 8-9, 1995! much looking forward to the trip May from NYU and will receive Portia Walker Ami now the news ....Graham to Brazil, but he was also looking her LL.M. in taxation in Decem­ 175 Hancock Street, "'4 Powis writes from New York with forward to coming home because ber, also from NYU. Did l men­ Cambridge, MA 02 138 the happy new that he will be he, too, has a wedding to plan. tion that she is married to Steve 617-492-6959 married in August. He's currently ...Lynn Magovern passed on Gorin '92 and ha a bouncing ome news he had heard, that baby boy named Steven Todd, 1992 working in Equity Capital Mar­ Scott Schinneier is working in Katie Martin kets at Bear Stevens, an invest­ born June '93? Whew-Go 181 Larchmont Avenue ment bank in New York, and his Hungary. That's all he's heard, so Cherlyn! ... l also just heard Larchmont, NY 10538 fiancee, Diane Romley, is a Ph .D. if you're reading this, Scott, write from Stacy Porath, who has been 914-834-5537 candidate in clinical psychology. in and tell u more1 l also talked working for Penn well Publishing The wedding will take place in with Mohamed-Said Eastman re­ for three years now. She was re­ 1993 New York, and Paul Tolo and cently. He has changed hi name cently promoted from sale asso­ Kristin L. Owens Geoff Bysshe will be ushers. Paul to Said Eastman and is working in ciate to regional sales manager of 15 Carol Avenue, Apt. is still living in Seattle, and Geoff the marketing department of Bos­ New England and New Jersey. Brookline, MA 02 146 is working for "a small firm which ton Financial and Equity Corpo­ ...Ju st talked with Tracy 617-566- 1442 manages money in New York ration. The entrepreneurial bug Mungeam, who isdoing very well 1994 City," as Graham puts it. ...Jeff has bitten Said, and he has with UNUM. he wants to move Alicia S. Hidalgo Cox sent me a letter a few months founded his own company, called back East sometime oon to be 28 Marshall Street ago to bring me up to date on his ERA Trade International,an im­ closer to Ron Barberan, who North Reading, MA 01864-3018 life since Colby. After graduation, port/export distribution firm. Said works in New York, al o for 508-664-5 128 he joined the Peace Corps and was ran into Andrew Doolittle a UNUM. According to Tracy, stationed in Zaire for almost a year while ago. Andrew is living in UNUM truly appreciates a good until civil unrest caused the Peace Watertown and working as a re­ Colby education: along with her Corps to pull out of the country. search assistant at Bo ton Univer­ and Ron, Matt Dumas and Chris He returned to Massachusett and sity Medical Center. ...That's Brownsey are both working in worked as a carpenter beforeland­ all for now. I moved to Arlington their New York offices, and Pam ing a job at Long Island Univer­ this spring, so I'm orry if any new Newsome is wo�king in one of sity, where he's been the assistant didn't reach me, but keep those their Maine offices. Tracy also director of tudent activities since letters and phone calls coming!+ mentioned other '9 l ers living September 1991. He's been busy out in Chicago--Shelly Mac­ ever since, advising the 400 inter­ Connell, J.C. Kiser and Andrea national students and upervising Correspondent: Prochniak. . . Bonnie Van Der the over 80 clubs on campus while Portia Walker Sluys is in med school in Mary­ attending night classes for his land ....Christine Kerrigan, M.A. in English. Like Graham, No guys,J une's edition who along with Rebecca Streett Jeff also will be tying the knot in was not a figment of is working for E.F. Foundation August. His fiancee, Nicole 91your imagination. We for Foreign Study, is in Massa­ Girardi, received a master of fine are back for good. I just received chusetts ....Rabia Mirza is liv­ arts last May from Long Island a letter from Renee Blanchard, ing with her husband in Texas. University. Jeffsays he got a letter who is glad to be done with her ...Rich McCann is teaching in from Marc Winiecki and Tom requirements and can now focu New Jersey ... . Dan Bowman is Sherry on their cross-country on her re earch at the University working for ONY in New Jer­ bike tour (a photo was included of of lllinois ....I also heard from sey .... Sara Vacco and Brian the two of them on their motor­ Amy Havel, who is out in Seattle Carlson, who is in law chool cycles wearing Santa hats). Jeff having a great time working as a right now, are both living out in also heard from Dan Spurgin, volunteer coordinator at the Se- Colorado and rumored to be dat·

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usiciai:s usually can trace the origins of their inspiration to Wat on Fellowship to tudy and edit the guitar music of Brirnh M a particular genre, and some can identify a pecific artist compo er Sir Lennox Berkely. When Berkely died uddenly, Scott who e work influencedtheir own, but Robert Scott]r. '90, is even in tead made a concert tour of Europe, giving 70 informal and more precise. He remember a live concert performance by formalperformances in 14 countrie at ome of the finest halls on clas ical guitari t Andres e­ the continent. govia a the defining event of "That was the best year of hi musical development. He my career o far," cott aid. "I wa 11 year old. played London, Vienna, Pari . "Here wa this tired old pan­ I'll never forget performing at i hguy playing mu ic like I never the Bosendorfer Concert Hall heard before. He completely re­ in Vienna. It' thi wonderful defined what guitar was and what hall where all of my heroe have music was," cott recalled. performed-Beethoven, Schu­ Fifteen years and thou ands bert, Mahler. I could feel their of practice hours later, Scott gho ts there." ha e tablished himself as an La t year, while he com­ accompli hed classical guitar­ pleted cour e work fora master ist. He recently won a Rotary of education from the Univer­ Internationalcul tural exchange sity of Massachusetts at Am­ grant that funded a concert tour her t, Scott began to merge hi of Brazil, where his olo perfor­ musical and intellectual pas- mances won critical praise. ion . "I was teaching guitar Scott's just-released debut al­ there, and I was al o a case man­ bum, Works from Doblinger ager for their learning disabil­ Haupcsrrasse, features composi­ ities office," he aid. "It ju t tions by Bach, Villa-Lobo , seemed natural to combine the Wei s and Dowland and mu ic two, to offer mu ic lessons for of 19th-century Spain. students with disabilitie ." Scott' career route has been Through improvisation, ear unorthodox, which may account training and mu ic theory, cott for hi ability to cross mu ical ay he' found way to help bou.ndarie comfortably. Mo t learning-di abled tudents de­ classical guitari ts are products velop abstract thinking kills of conservatories, where re- and unlock their memory ca­ hearsals are crammed into 16-hour day and performance take pacity. He hope to u e his finding in doctoral-level re earch on the place of term paper . But Scott developed hi mu ical di ci­ human cognition. pline in Colby' Department of Music, where practice time wa "I'll never leave music, though," aid cott, who was awarded off:et by hour in the library re earchingmusic history and theory. a National Endowment for the Humanitie Younger cholar grant That academic grounding, he ays, gave him a richer under rand­ for hi transcription of the lute music of John Dowland. He ha ing of music and enable him to "perform in an appropriate performed with the Leningrad Chamber En emble and was in­ context that makes it more authentic." vited to play at the Bombay Madrigal ociety concert series in "I perform better when I know what wa happening in hi - India. He ha been featuredon radio and television broadcast in tory what the compo er were thinking, writing, feeling, Scott the U ..and England and continues to give live performance in aid, "to make tho e connection berween my elf and the com­ thi country. posers. I wouldn't trade my liberal art education with a conser­ "I till practice about twenty-five hours a week. Cla ical guitar vatory education." is one of the most per onal mediums for musical expre sion," cott While he was at Colby, Scott say , he was a curiosity, the only said. "It' a mall ymphony, with it own ba , its own melody. It clas ical guitari t on campu . He accepted virtually any gig can accompany itself. offered, from Board of T ru tee receptions to clas dinners, "I realize I have a long, long way to go beforeI even begin to get "anybody that called," he aid, laughing. to the in trurnent' potential. But I don't think about it like it' a After graduating with a B.A. in mu ic, Scott won a Thomas J. journey anymore. It' ju t what I do every day."

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ing1 ••• Sue Gouws is doing great work ing with the deaf. ... Chris i,med to do a large steel culp­ ing for Sun Life Insurance. Also in New York for Kidder Peabody, Flint wrote of hi engagement to ture project. It all sounds very employed by Sun Life-in Ba lti­ following stocks in the diversi­ Karen Larson. He is work ing in exci ting, Matt! . . Jason Nixon more, Md.-isMitch Rogers .. fied financial services industry. Dover, N.H., at a jun ior high is still in New York City working Rich Blumenthal is currently a She goes on many weekend sc hool and coaches a high school at Conde Nast Traveler magazine. counselor for the Outward Bound rollerblading escapades through baseball team. He has plans to go He edits his own column, "Gear program in Florida ....Mike Zhe Central Park for fun. She's also to pringfield ollege this fall for in Review," and recently was ent recently moved to Boston, Mas ., living with pal cott Wood '92. a master's degree in ports man­ on assignment to Venice, ltaly! to try out hi sports reporting She told me that Evan Metcalf, agement. He also wrote of the .. I received a po t card from there. . . Ben Trevor is currently working for Fangoria magazine in engagement of Mike Gorra and Kate Cain, who wa skiing Vail living and work ing in Portland, their art department, and Dave Michelle Tupesis ....Zach in March on pring break from Maine ....On the other coa t, Douglass are now married. . . I Shapiro i in his second year of Vanderbilt Law School, which Anny Mahoney is using the Japa­ have been hearing wedding bells the rabbinical program at He­ she starred last fa! l. She told me nese she learned at Colby in her for c rtain '9 l ers: Dante Self, brew Union College in Cinc in­ that Karen Dunn opted to join new hometown of Portland, who is the director of sales for nati. Once a month he goes to the ski patrol at Stowe rather Ore .... Jason Soules is currently the Holiday Inn in New Ha­ the Upper Peninsula of Michi­ than continue at BU Law. working as an analyst for Fleet in ven, Conn., i now married to gan, where he acts as the student Aaron Davis is studying at Tulane Boston. He was recently trans­ Doug Bartolomeo, a police of­ rabbi. He has participated in baby Law, and Annie Varanese con­ ferred from Providence, R.I., ficer in Conn.; Christine Macone namings as well as the bar mitz­ tinues to I ive in Prague ....Kris­ where he wa living with Greg was a bridesmaid, and Peter vah of a congregant. According ten McMahon recently left her Burns, also an analy t with lndovino attended. Kim Der­ to Anne Bowie, Zach was back po ition a a marine mammal Fleet. . . . Angela Tennett has rington Knighton was planning at Colby in April for a BMR trainer at the Indianapolis Zoo to returned to her hometown of to attend Christine Macone's reunion, along with Roger Schul­ head to Cleveland, Ohio, where Bangor, Maine, where she is em­ June wedding, if her fir t baby man, Becky Graham, Jen Green­ she will be at ea World working ployed by Merrill Savings Bank. due at the end of the month agreed leaf, Ben Beatie, Jen Coffin and with the killer whales and white­ ...Ju le Gourdeau i fi ni hing to it! Yes, everyone, baby! Con­ Elizabeth Kowal. Anne also in­ sided dolphin . ... Laura Arm­ up a year of teaching at Buck­ gratulations, Kim1 Paige Brown formed me that Gina Marsico strong wrote from Missoula, ingham, Browne, & Nichol in and Amey Knight were both has left Waterville and is now Mont., where she i studying en­ Cambridge, Mass., while com­ bride maids, Shawn Crowley wa· living and working in Vermont vironmental economics at the pleting her master's in education an usher, and Trish O'Sullivan at Eckard Youth Family Alter­ University of Montana while re­ through Lesley College ....Jack Hyland and Kim Webber at­ natives Wilderne·s Camp for searching "resource-efficient Higgins is working as an analyst tended .... l al o heard that Kurt Troubled Youths. he plans to be housing con truction." I mis ed with Needham & Co. . Dan Whited has been teaching En­ there for at least a year and so far her la t March when l headed O'Grady is doing research at the glish in Japan for the last year is having a wonderfu l time. we t to Boulder to ski Vail and Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infir­ and a half and is going on a six­ ...Kim Kennedy wrote from Winter Park with Jeannette mary in Boston. Also in Boston month fearless expedition to arasota, Fla., where she ha been Riddle. We became U. . ki are Jon Zack, who is working and China, Russia, Tibet, Nepal, living for a year and a half and Team groupies, as the World writing for a major radio station Vietnam and India (part of this loving it. he recently left her were at Vail and the U.S. Na­ downrown, Kristen Suslowicz, trip is being funded by North position as the director of soc ial tional were in Winter Park. We who is employed a an executive Face) ....Hey, does everyone ervice at a skilled nur ing home met up with Tommy Moe and administrative assistant in Inter­ remember John Lovett ? He' re­ to begin work a a medical a sis­ Picabo Street at the local bar and national Place, and Ben Marglin, turning this spring from Somalia tant in an out-patient physical had a blast! After my Colorado who i working as a manager in a and Project Hope, is re-entering therapy clinic that pecializes in expedition, I finally landed a job posh store on Newbury Street. In Colby and will graduate in either ports and orthopedic injuries. as marketing coordinator for a addition, Steve Simchock, Amy '95 or '96. Welcome back! Keep She has plans to returnto school company in tamford, Conn.­ Devin, Amy O'Mara and Liz it coming, Class of '9 1 ! + in 1995 to pursue a degree in although 1 am hoping to go back Winslow are all currently living phy ical therapy. She also has to school in fall '95 in educa­ and working in :he greater Bos­ plans to run in the 199 5 Disney tion .... Kelly Evans is just about ton area ....Spec ial thanks ro Correspondent: World Marathon! ...John Cook to fini h her M.A.T. program at Ja on Soules for providing me Katie Martin wrote from Bo ton, where he re­ Bo ton College and hopes to land with much of the information for cently landed a position in the a teaching po ition in Bo ton for this column. Keep the correspon­ Nancy Putnam has office of admi sions and fi nancial the fall. . Rachel Klein has dence coming-there are many returned from her aid at Harvard's Graduate chool plans to start a degree program at of you who haven't made Colb)1 9 2 of Arts and Sciences. His other U Penn in September in educa­ yet! Take care. + year-long adventure with Up With People, where she aspirations include break ing the tion administration. + visited the flooded Mid west, New icy waters from Peak Island to England and then Europe: Swit­ Portland and developing an en­ :erland, Germany, France and the trepreneurial venture . . ..Matt Correspondent: Netherlands. She got a big ur­ Noyes, a graphic artist at LL. Kristin L. Owens prise upon her arrival home in Bean, does a lot of layout and January-her high school sweet­ illustration for the catalogue and Greetings, Clas of heart, Chris Bentley, proposed. internal projects. He also contin­ 9 3 1993! Here's the news They will be married on October ues to do the artwork he began at since the la t i sue: 29, 1994. She also plans to return Colby: he has sold over 20 steel Former Stu-A pre ident Bill to graduate chool with hopes of culptures and was just commis- Higgins i in Chicago, Ill., work-

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CHARLES P. BARNES ·54 LAWY ER. COLBY TR STEE

Charle P. Barnes '54, a noted Portland, children and several great-grandchildren. She anJ he orened doors in rhe marker111g and Maine, lawyer, died May 8 in Gardiner, Maine, and her husband were lifelong supporters of corporate management field>. H1, mtere'r in at 61. Born in Albany, .Y., and a graduate of the College, and her tru t will now go to >tudent ucce · \\'as lauded in the Colby Brick the Albany Academy, he followed both grand­ scholarships for Colby students. Survirnr citation he recei\·ed in 1983. Sun·in1r, 111- fathers, hi father and three uncles to the include her daughter, Martha T. Wa hbum. clude his son, James E. Harri · '64, and hi> College. After Army service from 1954 to nephe\\', corr J. Turrel ' 9. 1956, he studied at Harvard Law chool and AVIS BARTO BIXBY ·22 in 1960 moved to Portland, where he joined CAMPBELL Avis Barton Bixby '22, a former high school DORIS and later became a partner in the law firm ·32 known today as Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley teacher, died February 23 in West Springfield, WI LSON and Keddy. He and hi wife, Joan (Rooney Ma s. She was 95. he was born in Westboro, Dori Campbell Wilson '32, a long-rime so­ '53 ), re ided in Cape Elizabeth, where he Ma s., and attended local schools. he later cial worker, died April 23 in Bath, �!aine, ar erved on a number of town committees and studied at the Rhode Island School of Educa­ 3. he was born in Litchfield, Mame, and boards and wa Cape Elizabeth town attor­ tion and at the University of Mas achu ett . attended Barh school and Mor·e High ney. During his College day , his leading roles After a long career a a reacher of English. School. he taught Latin and English at with the Colby Eight, the Glee Club and French and Larin at Westboro High School, Cherryfield Academy for two years after gradu­ Powder and Wig laid the foundation for an New Salem Academy and Athol (Mass.) High ating from Colby and, following her marriage accomplished career as actor with the Port­ School, he retired in 1960. Following the in 1935, was a ubstirute teacher in rhe Bath land Players and tenor soloist with the Port­ death of her husband in 1966, she returned to school y rem. In 1954 she began 2 5 years of land ymphony Chorus and church choir in work as a hou emother at the Univer ity of ervice a a social worker in the Maine Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Winthrop. He Massachusetts at Amherst and at the Department of Health and Welfare in rhe also wa an avid outdoorsman who was inter­ orthampton (Mass. ) chool for Girls. For division of child welfare. he al o was a ho - ested in the Maine woods and in all aspect of over 50 year she was a resident of New alem, pita! \·olunteer and a member of United fore try and the history of the lumbering Mas ., where she was a librarian and member Church of Christ Congregational. he i ur­ indu try. He was a member of the Northern of the Central Congregational Church. She is vived by a ·on, Stephen P. Wilson, three Forest Lands Council and of the Maine His­ urvived by herdaughter, Rebecca Bixby Casey grandchildren and a great-grandchild. torical Society. In 1990 he moved his law '4 , a son, Allan Bixby, five grandchildren and practice to Augusta and settled in Winthrop, seven great-grandchildren. RUTH HALLI GER becoming a member of Rotary Club in both ·33 towns. Equally invol ed in College affa ir , LERENE ROLLS MOWATT ·25 SLAVE he wa a delegate to the Constitutional Con­ Lerene Rolls Mowatt '26, a homemaker, died Ruth Hallinger Slaven '33, a homemaker and vention, was president of the Southern Maine December 12, 1993, at 87. She was a native of volunteer worker, died April 22, 1990, at 1. Colby Club and for many year erved on the East Peru, Maine, where she made her home A native of ew jersey.she lived in We tmont, Board ofTrustees. He wa elected chair of the for most of her life following her marriage in .J ., for most of her life. he worked as an Alumni Council in 196 and was awarded a 1927 to Jame Mowatt. he was the mother of executive ecrerary before adopting a daugh­ Colby Brick in 1976. Besides hi wife, he i three children. urvivors include her daugh­ ter in 1946. A 40-year volunteer with the Red urvived by two sons, a daughter, two sisters, ter, Mae Kincaid. Cross, she received pecial recognition from including Barbara Bame Brown '56, and two the organi:ation in 1975 for her dedicated grandchildren. "27 ervice. he was a communicant of the Epi - JAMES J. HARRIS copal Church and a licensed lay reader of the CAROLYN STEVE S Jame J. Harris '2 7, a ale man and Colby Grace Church in Haddonfield, .J. She also over eer, died March l in Fort Lauderdale, served as econd vice regent of the Haddonfield THOMPSO '16 Fla., at 9. Once featured in Time magazine chapter of the Daughter of the American Carolyn Steven Thomp on 'l6died April 12 for hi marketing rraregie a head of Guest Revolution. in South Yarmouth, Ma s., at 98. Born in Pac Corporation, he concentrated on the Portland, Maine, he attended high school in college market to build brand loyalties. Long MARGARET RAYMO D Windham, Maine. An English major and before his appointment a a Colby overseer, ·34 memberofDelta Delta DeltasororiryatColby, he was committed to student uccess. He SMALL she participated in ba kerball and dramatic esrabli hed an endowed Colby fund, the James Margaret Raymond Smalt '34, formerly a- i - and was president of her senior class. After J. Harri Prize in bu ine s administration, to tant district director with the Maine Depart­ two year of teaching at Mor e High School recognize rudent who e excellence in course ment of Heal th and Welfare, died January 9 at in Bath, Maine, he married Paul Thompson work and who e leader hip point to a signifi­ 81. he was born in Caribou, Maine, and '16 and thereafter immersed herself in her cant contribution to busine management lived most of her life in the Waterville area. family, community and chool activities. he practice and to ociery. He saw to it that She was a 1930 graduate of the Aroostook was the mother of four children, 12 grand- many tudent received financial assistance, Central Institute in Mar Hill. In 1964 he

77 AUGUST 1994 COLBY earned her M.S. in social work from Boston WILLIAM L. GOU SSE JR. '40 GILBERT PETERS '42 University. She worked for more than 30 year in the Maine Depamnent of Health and William L. Gousse Jr. '40, a research liaison Gilbert Peters '42, USAF, died February 22 specializing in infectious diseases, died May Welfare, beginning as a child welfare worker. in Tampa, Fla., at 74. A native of Benton, 15 in York, Maine, at 74. He was born in Eventually she became a district supervisor Maine, he was a graduate of Williams High uated from and th n a istant district director in the Fairfield, Maine, and grad School in Oakland, Maine. In the course of Lawrence High School. After earning his winning 10 varsity letters, he wa All-Maine Augusra and Skowhegan offices. She i ur­ Colby degree in chemistry and biology, he vivecientific infor­ is survived by his wife, Nancy, three daughters, High School in Auburn, Maine. He also worked mation am ng re earchers in New England a on and three grandchildren. for Metropolitan Life prior to joining the U.S. medical center , industry and academia. He Navy in 194 3. When he returned to Houlton retired in 1982. A re ident of York for 20 WA LTER R. TOWLE '48 after the war, he joineJ his father and brothers year , he i survived by his wife, Polly Gous e, at the Jame . Peabody Co., distributor> of two sons, fi\'e grandchildren and several nieces Walter R. Tow le '48, a Methodist mini ter for John Deere farm machinery, where he re­ and nephews. over 50 years, died March 20 in Shelton, mained until his death. Surviving are his wife, Conn., at 77. He began hi ministry during his studies at the Bangor Theological Semi­ Phyllis Peabody, two son , three daughter , a JOHN E. ORM ISTON JR. 41 tepson, a stepdaughter, 11 grandch ildren, nary, when he served as pa tor for even three great-grandchildren and a sister. John E. Ormi ton Jr. '4 1, a long-time town churches along the coast of Maine. He gradu­ official in Marblehead, Mass., died March 20 ated from Yale Divinity in 1952, then served in Salem, Ma ·s., at 76. He wa employed by as minister forseveral churches in the New GEORGE T. GRACE '36 the American Woolen Company and Ameri­ York and Connecticut area. After retiring in George T. Grace '36, a retired real e tate can Felt Company. A World War 11 Navy 1982, he was interim pastor for threeCongre­ attorney, died in February in Bal Harbour, veteran, he was a long-time Marblehead, gational Churches in Derby, Conn. He was a Fla., at 81. Originally from Brooklyn, he at­ Mass., town official as well. He served as a ninth-generation de cendant of Governor tended Brooklyn Law School and wa admit­ member and chair of the Marblehead chool William Bradford of Plymouth Colony and ted to the bar in 193 . With the Emigrant committee for 25 years and also was a member an active member of the Mayflower Society. lndu trial Bank he became expert in govern­ of the park and recreation committee and of He is survived by his wife, Patricia T wle, ment-financed hou ing development, and in the Marblehead housing authority. After three ons, four grandchildren and his brother. the 1940 he began his own legal practice, making hi career as a sale representative Grace & Grace, specializing in utilizing FHA with andoz, Inc., a New York-ba ed chemi­ ALEXANDER RICHARD '49 fi nanc ing to develop large middle-income cal company, he retired and began work as a housing projects throughout New York City con ultant for the Worce ter textile mill Alexander Richard '49, a Maine educator, and the rest of the country. He represented Crompton and Knowles. He held member­ died March 9 in Skowhegan at 71. Born in many of the country' lead ing real estate ships in the Corinthian Yacht Club and the Madi on, Maine, he attended the local schools developers before retiring from active prac­ Boston Yacht Club. He is survived by his before entering Colby. He joined the Air tice in 1987. Predeceased by his brother, wife, Annie Ormiston, three sons, including Force in 1942 and received numerous decora­ Thomas G. Grace '21, he is survived by his Michael J. Ormiston '79, a daughter, three tions, including the Purple Heart, for his ser­ wife of 55 years, Marie Grace, four daughter grandsons and a granddaughter. vice in Europe with the 460th Bomb Group of and five grandchildren. the 8th Air Force during World War II. He A. THOMAS CLARK 42 retired in 1976 as a colonel in the Maine Air KATHARI E WATSON National Guard and continued to serve in the A. Thomas Clark '42 died April 17 in Togus, Air Force Reserve. He made his career in edu­ ADDINGTON '38 Maine, at 79. A native of Sidney, Maine, he cation as a teacher and coach at DixfieldHi gh Katharine Watson Addington '38, a volun­ was educated in Farmington, Maine, chools. School and at Madison Memorial High School, teer worker, died in Torrance, Calif., Sep­ During World War II he served with the U.S. where he was the principal for 19 years. He tember 22, 1993. She was born in Concord, Naval Group again t the Japanese in China. received his M.S. in education from the Uni­ N.H., and attended East Orange (N.J.) High After the war he returned to Farmington, versity of Maine in 1953 and a certificate of School. Active in sports at Colby, she was a where he owned and operated the Farmington advanced studies in 1969. Following retire­ member of Sigma Kappa sorority and was vice Coca-Cola Bottling Company for over50 years. ment, he served five terms in the Maine state pre ident of hersenior class. She served with He served on several town committees and legislature. He wa a member of the Maine the WA YES during World War II. Her fa­ was a member of the local Masonic lodge. He Sports Hall of Fame Honors and Selection ther, Harry B. Watson, Cla s of 1897, an is survived by hi mother, two sons, a daughter, Committee and the Madison Area Chamber uncle and everal cou in all attended the six grandchildren, a great-grandchild and sev­ of Commerce and was president of the Madi- College. She is survived by two children, eral nieces, nephew and cousins. on Area Health Council. He received numer­ Steven Addington and Linda Montgomery, ous community awards. Surviving are his wife, and one grandchild. Shirley Richard, two brothers and four sisters.

COLBY AUGU T 1994 78 A BEVERIDGE of Mayflower Descendants and the ons of JOAN TI KER WOOD ·52 the American Revolution. Surviving are his TITTERI GTON '49 Joan Tinker Wood '62, a database operator, wife, Edythe Niles, three children, five grand­ Ann Beveridge Titterington '49, a teacher, died February 16 in Peapack-Gladsrone, N.J., children and a brother. died November 19, 1993, in New York at 65. at 53. he was born in Gardiner, Mass. At She was bornin Boston, Mass., and attended Colby she wa a history and government Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School. She was a FE. "Buo·· Su GERLAND major and a member of The Colh)· Echo raff. phy ics and mathematics major at Colby and JR. '5 1 A resident of Peapack-Gladsrone for 29 year , after doing graduate work at Columbia Uni­ she had been a database operator at Rafa no & F.E. "Bud" Slingerland Jr. '5 1, a Bell Atlantic versity and Hofstra University wa an engi­ executive, died December 29, 1992, in Reno, Wood in outh River, .J., for 10 year . he neer with the Long Island Lighting Company was a member of the Bernards High chool Nev., at 63. A native of Wellesley, Mas ., he during the 1950 . In the early 1960 she Booster Club and was a den mother with a left Colby to serve in the Navy. He began taught at Farmingdale State Univer iry, then local Cub Scour Pack. he also was a member work with telephone companies in the early became the owner and director of a nursery of t. Luke Episcopal Church in Gladstone, 1950s, eventually becoming an executive with where she taught Sunday school. Surv1\'111g school and kindergarten in Central Islip, Long Bell Atlantic. After retirement from Be ll, he are her husband, Christopher Wood '62, twu l land. She received a master's in education worked for AT&T International and from Dowling College in 1976. She i sur­ Ameritech International in the Far East and ons, her parents, John and Mildred Keogh vived by her son, Ronald Titterington, and by Tinker '34, and a brother. other parts of the world. He i urvived by his her daughter, Katherine Prior. wife, Margaret Preston Slingerland '51, three daughters and his sister-in-law, Barbara GLE DO H. T ACOUELI E TOULOUSE Preston Hayes '56. NEWCOMBE. M.S.T. '68 ·51 MORISSETTE Glendon Newcombe '68, a high chool ci­ Jacqueline Toulouse Morissette '5 1, a French JOH H. PEREY ·54 ence teacher, died March 4 in Augusta, Maine, teacher, died March 31 in Waterville, Maine. John H. Perey '54, an insurance adjuster, died at 63. A native of Augusta, he was a graduate She wa 65. A native of Waterville, she at­ January 17 in Wilke -Barre, Pa., at 65. Born of Hallowell (Maine) High School and earned tended local schools. After graduating from in Brooklyn, N.Y., he served in the U. . avy his undergraduate degree from the University Colby, she did graduate work at the University during World War 11. After graduating from of Maine and his master's in science educa­ of Hawaii and City College of New York. In Colby, he worked in insurance in Wilkes­ tion from Colby. He taught at the Univer ity 1966 she was awarded a governmentgrant to Barre. Recently, he was self-employed as a of Maine and at Skowhegan High School participate in the overseas National Defense freelancewriter and also worked in furniture before moving to Cony High School in Au­ Act Institute foradvanced study of French in restoration until retiring last year. He is sur­ gusta, where he was department head and Anger, France. She taught French in vived by his wife, Barbara Brockway Perey taught science for26 year . Surviving are his Waterville school and in Ship Bottom, N.J. '56, four daughters and 11 grandchildren. wife, Elaine ewcombe, and hi mother and She also worked as a buyer forStem Brothers stepfather, Muriel and M. Arthur Boynton. in New York City for many years. he is DAVID T. AMIDO ·55 survived by her husband, Clifford Morissette, JOH ALEXA DER 75 and by stepsons and stepdaughters. David T. Amidon '55, a machinist, died March 2 in Framingham, Mas ., at61. Bornin Worces­ John Alexander '75, an LL. Bean employee, J. MAHLON NILES '5 1 ter, Mass., he attended North High School. died in Auburn, Maine, on January 30 at age For 35 years he was a machine operator at the 40. He was born in Westfield, N.J., and at­ J. Mahlon Niles, former principal at Traip former Henley-Lundgren Co. in Shrewsbury, tended Colby as John Szabo. He was a drafts­ Academy in Kittery, Maine, died March 27 in Mass., before retiring in 1989. He was a mem­ man for Maine Cascade Iron Works, then in Kittery. He was 68. Bornin Waterville, Maine, ber of the Teamster Union Local 170 and an the early 1980 was employed in real estate in he was raised in Bath, Maine, where he at­ honorary member of the American Legion Miami, Fla. In recent years he worked at LL. tended Morse High School. He was a veteran Post 234 in Worcester. He leaves hi wife, Effie Bean in Freeport, Maine. A body worker and of World War II and the Korean War, serving Amidon, and four children. hands-on healer, he also was on the staff of in the Navy and the Marine Corps respec­ Spring Hill in Ashby, Mass. Surviving are his tively. He earned an undergraduate degree MARY ELLE GUIFFRA parents, Edward and Joan Szabo Alexander, from Ricker Junior College as well as from '57 and a brother. Colby. He also studied at the University of FALCK Maine, where he received his master's degree Mary Ellen Guiffra Falck '57, owner of a gour­ in education and was elected to the Phi Beta met foods business, died February 16 in RICHARD REDLO JR. '80 Kappa honor society. Making his career in Marblehead, Mass., at 58. She was born in Richard 0. Redlon Jr. '80, a historic preserva­ education, he taught and coached at several Montclair, N.J., and was a graduate of tioni t, died on April l5inWe tBath, Maine, high chools around Maine. He erved as Lacordaire Academy in Montclair. She also at 36. He was born in Bath and attended headmaster of George Stevens Academy in attended Catholic University. A resident of Morse High School. He also attended Vassar Blue Hill and for 19 years was principal of Marblehead since 1963, she was a speech College, graduating in 1980, and did graduate T raip Academy. He retired in 1985 but con­ pathologist and special needs teacher at work at Bo ton University. He moved to tinued working at Portsmouth Savings Bank Marblehead High School for many year . Later Portland, Maine, in 1983 and forfive years in Portsmouth, N.H., until recently. He be­ she founded Truffles, a gourmet foods and worked with Greater Portland Landmarks. In longed to several professional organizations, catering business and also worked in a local 1988 he joined New England Antique in including the executive committee and the greenhouse. Surviving is her husband, Erling Portland. His interest in historic preserva­ educati al policy committee of the Maine Falck, a daughter, her parents, Frank and Ethel tion led him to develop a number of exhibits State Principals Association and the Hancock Guiffra, two brothers and two si ters. for the Portland Museum of Art, and he gave County and Franklin County Teachers Asso­ numerous lectures on perservation. Surviv­ ciations. He also was a member of the Society ing are his parents, Richard 0. and Marion

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Redlon r., a brother, a sister and a grand­ mother. Colby welcomes letters fromreaders . We reserve the right to edit for brevity and clarity . We do not DAVID SA TORO '83 publish unsigned letters . Please send correspon­ David Santoro '83, a concierge, died February dence to: Managing Editor, Colby, Office of 17 in Dallas, Texas, at 34. He was born in Communications , Colby College , Waterville, Melrose, Mass., and graduated from Reading ME 04901 . High School. He was employed as a concierge _t for the Harvey Hotel in Dallas. Besides his parents, Evelyn L. Mortel and William D Santoro, he i survived by his stepmother, Standing Against Hate two sisters and two brothers. 1 was delighted to read in the June issue of Colby about the campus community's response to anti-Semitic sentiments that appeared in March and April. I was further pleased to read about VA LERIE A E the Philip Morris Foundation grant that funded the "Tolerance on Campus" student film . SPIERLI G '89 Reading the article on Josette Huntress, a fe minist Miss Maine, gave me great joy. (As a Valerie Anne Spierling '89, died of cancer lesbian fe minist, I was very proud of her peaking at the Gay and Lesbian Pride rally in Portland March 13 in New York City. She was 26. in June.) After graduating from Colby, where she was The celebration and honoring of diversity appears to remain a part of the Colby experience. a government and an history major, she at­ I am happy to know that Elijah Lovejoy's legacy to his Colby descendants is repre ented not tended Sotheby's Works of Art Program in only by an annual guest speaker but also in practice. London and went on to become an appraiser Thank you, also, Joel Simon, for your lovely tribute and memorial to Mark Frisch in the of old master paintings, English silver and June issue. Mark was a classmate of mine, and 1 wish that I had not lost touch with him. He French furn iture for the Tepper Gallery in was a fine and charming man. New York City. Predeceased by her father, Frank Spierling '59, she is survived by her Martha Smith Mickles '71 mother, Penelope Dean Robb '6 1. Cape Elizabeth, Maine

ESTHER ZISKIND A Dry Subject WELTMAN LLD. '66 I am a sophomore at Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., planning to spend my junior , year abroad in Chile. I have been on the Colby mailing list for ome time, and I always look Esther Ziskind Weitman, a philanthropist forward to receiving mail from your College. and Colby trustee emerita, died on April 30 Today the mail carrier delivered the article "Flight of Discovery" by Sally Baker (January in Cambridge, Mass., at 92. She was born in '94 ). The de criptions ofTom Claytor's bravery and adventures were very enthralling and well Lowell, Mass., graduated from Smith College written, but I feel obligated to make one correction. Claytor is quoted on page three as stating in 1922 and earned a master's degree in edu­ that "the Namib Desert is the oldest and driest in the world" (my emphasis). cation at Harvard University in 1924. As a After receiving my assignment from Rotary Internationalof Vallenar, which borders on trustee of the Jacob Zisk ind Trust for Chari­ the Atacama Desert in the northern part of Chile, I've done quite a bit of research on that table Purposes, a trust created by her brother beautifully diverse country. Every book I've read resoundingly announces that the Atacama upon his death, she oversaw the contribution takes, farand away, the title of the drie t place on earth. Some parts of that desert haven't seen of funds and build ings to a number of institu­ rain for centurie , while Yallenar averages eight centimeters a year. tions of higher learning,includ ing the Jacob I wasn't sure how to contact Mr. Claytor, so I thought I'd write to you, to let you know that Ziskind Research Building at New England the Atacama is more dry than the Namib! Medical Center, Ziskind House at Smith College and the Ziskind Memorial Lounge at Jessica M. Franz Boston University. The trust also endowed Portland, Ore. programs at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and at Brandeis, Brown, Harvard and Yale as A National Geographic Explorer segment, "Flight Over Africa ," about Claytor's voyage will air well as Colby, where she was responsible for in two parts , Sept. 11 and Sept. 18, at 9 p.m. eastern time, on WTBS-eds. the Ziskind Fund for East Asian Studies and served as a trustee from 1958 to 1973 and 197 4 to 1977. A long-time resident of Spring­ Upon Further Review field, Mas ., she was a founder of the National My husband and I were delighted with the publication in Colby (June '94) of Betty Anne Council of Jewish Women's Scholarship Royal Spiegel's review of Maine to the Wilderness. However, we found one error. Clearing House, a charter trustee of the Mas­ Near the middle of the fir t column (p. 23 ), the sentence should read, "Another Colbian, sachusetts Board of Higher Education and a John J. Pullen '35, author of The Twentieth Maine, wrote the book's foreword." trustee of the New England Medical Center. She also held trustee positions with Hebrew Jane Soule Engert '42 College, American InternationalCollege and Washington, D.C. several other educational in titutions. ln 1976 she was awarded the Smith College Medal for Correction her leadership as a servant of higher educa­ tion. She leaves a daughter, Etienne Squire, a In the June issue of Colby, the caption for a photo of Cicely Finley '94 on page 9 was son, David, seven grandchildren and four misidentified. She is shown in performance with the Colby Dancers. great-grandchildren.

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