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Volume 84 Issue 2 April 1995 Article 1
April 1995
Colby Magazine Vol. 84, No. 2: April 1995
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for Alumni, Parents & Friends
22 Days in the Desert WHEN THE STANDARD
BY WHICH WE'RE MEASURED IS PARTICIPATION,
EVERY GIFT COUNTS.
One of the tandard by which Colby i judged i its participation rate. ParticiRation me ures the number of people who cared enough to join the effort. Every gift, whatever amount, count equally. the Participation is leverage: higher rate help Colby win important foundation gra ranking in national survey· such as U . New while upp rti 1 . & World Re/Jort and faculty salarie .
Although of alumni urveyed ay Colby i worthy of their up� rt, nly gave t 88% 45% Alumni Fund in Every gift ha a real impact on thi important tatistic. 1994.
College % participation in Annual Funds* Amherst 62 Hamilton 56 Williams 56 Bowdoin 55 Swarthmore 54 Dartmouth 49 Haverford 48 Carleton 47 Colby 45 Bates 41 Trinity 41 Oberlin 40 Smith 38 * based on 1994 CFAE survey reports
�ll gifts received by June count equally in helping Colby gain maximum leverage. So if 30, 1995, you haven't yet contributed to the Alumni Fund, please return the enclosed envelope today, 1995 or make a gift with your credit card by calling 207-872-3186.
THE CAMPAIGN FOR COLBY
Colby Alumni Fund 207 � 872 � 3 86 1 INSIDE C 0 LB Y
COVER STORY
WHERE KNOWLEDGE BLOOMS Fifteen Colby rudents went to the Mojave Desert expecting desolation. What they di covered wa an intricate ecosystem that fills the sen e and nourishes the spirit. 13
FEA T URES
WHY TENURE WORK CHARACTER STUDIE HITTING FOR THE CYCLE President William Cotter discus�es Adversity has deferred but not From "Baseball" to a best-selling book, how tenure liberates faculty and deterred the dreams of the e two Dori Keams Goodwin '64 has been strengthens the College. Colby alumni. all over the field. 9 20 22
DEPAR TMENTS
4TH FLOOR EUSTIS STUDENT LIFE ALUMNI PROFILES 2 30 Virginia Kingsley Jones '39 READERS WRITE GIFTS & GRANTS 43 3 32 Ronald Moran '58 PAGING PARENTS PERISCOPE 34 48 4
MULES ON THE MOVE John W. Kusiak '69 FROM THE HILL 36 54 5 ALUMNI AT LARGE Deborah Wathen Finn '74 FACULTY FILE 41 60 26 OBITUARIES Andrew Nemiccolo '93 BOOKS & AUTHORS 73 71 28 FINAL PERIOD 76 Colby Volume 84 Number 2
Colby Staff:
ally Baker executiw edicor Caught in the Web
J. Kevin Cool Two year ago I attended a conference for college periodical editor and at in on a managing editor sparsely attended eminar ahout on-line magazines. Few of us in the room had ever heard of Brian Speer such a concept-publi hing our periodicals in cyberspace. The prospect of reading a maga designer zine on a computer seemed pretty ridiculou at the time. What were the advantages of this Rohen Gillespie new medium for the reader? I was keptical. i Alumn ac Large ediwr Since then, on-line magazines and new paper have proliferated. While many are Stephen Collins '74 electronic versiow of their pap r predecessor , new periodical available only in electronic Lynn Sullivan '89 form are being founded with increa ing frequency. Recently, college have begun to trans sc.aff wi·iters late their printed publications into computer ver ions. And now Colby ha joined the
Christian Davenport '96 handful of pioneer . Beginning with the January 1995 is ue, Colby i available via the World Elizabeth Baker '97 Wide Web, a form of the Internet that can end picture , ound and video as well as text. i srudenr conrr buwrs Our resident computer guru, Anestes Fotiades '89, ha de igned Colby in its new electronic Anesres Fotiades '89 form. It's all there, the unabridged Colby magazine in an ea y-to-navigate form that transfers Jenn ifer Aengst '95 the stories, new and photos of the printed magazine into a new medium that ha potential edicorial rusisr.ant< to bring you even more information about the College. Contributing Photographers: Reading a magazine on a computer is no substitute for the real thing. The tactile J. Kevin Cool (cover) enjoyment of reading can't be duplicated by moving a mouse on a de ktop. Neither can the Administration: computer version be relied upon to perform many of the traditional function --coffee table William R. Cotter, presidenc; ornament, subway companion, fly ·watter-of its printed counterpart. Bur it has its charms. Peyton R. Helm, vice presidenc for First, the on-line versi n of Colby is acces ible virtually anywhere in the world. With a laptop developrnenc and alumni relations; Earl H. mith, dean of che College; computer and a phone modem you can read the magazine in the most remote parts of the planet. Susan Conant ook '75, director Second, the on- creen olby will become a jumping-off point for additional information of alumni relations about the College and it faculty. For example, an article about a Colby professor may be Alumni Council Executive linked to full-text papers he or ·he has presented recently. Your class's alumni notes may be Committee: linked to information relevant to your class. The possibilities of the computer version go Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella well beyond what can be imagined for the traditional magazine. '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman Third, depending on the software you're u ing, you can send a letter to the editor and let 111omas M. Dailey John '80; '80; us know immediately what you liked, or didn't, about the latest is ue. B. Devine Jr. '78; Solomon J. Harrman '67; Ronald L. Lupton The be t thing about the on-line Colby is that it's there if you want it. Here's what you'll '7 l; William E. Marvin '65; need to find and read it: access to the Internet and software to "browse" the World Wide Web. Judith Orne Ca l Shorey '55; ro G. Mosaic and Netscape are the two most popular Web browsers, and Colbycan be accessed by Sly '80; 111omas P. LaVigne '58 either. The address is http://www.colby.edu./communications/CM/CMpage.html. Colby is published four times Obviously, we don't expect hundreds of alumni to suddenly abandon the printed ver ion yearly for the alumni, friends, in lieu of its computer cousin. But if you have half a much fun reading the on-line Colby as parents of students, seniors, faculty and staffof we did pmducing it, it will have been wocth i � Colby College. Address correspondence to: $ Managing Editor, Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901-8841 or e-mail to: [email protected] J. Kevin Cool managing editor, Colby
COLB Y AP R IL 1995 2 eadersrite The Genuine Article Sally Baker's splendid arcicle on Sid Farr captured che essence of one of Colby's finesc people. On visits co Mayflower Hill, my wife and I alway headed co see Sid. His welcomes were invariably a ueac. I acrually mer Sid through my wife, Bene. She was once associated with the Alumni Officeof the University of Maine-Orono. Their com·ersations were punctuated with mucual remembrances of conferences and the ever changing role of college life in general. To dust off my Colby philosophy Designed to Please degree; Plato observed, "The way co get things done is not to mind who gets The anatomy of the new design is a success. I can 'c remember when the the credit for doing chem." That had to be a key to Sid's unusual success. maga:ine had a last makeover, bur I like this resulc. The results that we A happy, resourceful retirement to Sid and our many thanks. all now see seem to me to have captured enough of the old to provide continuity and enough of a new style to enliven the formac. Gilbert Y. Taverner '48 Pem1it me a general comment, which stems from your report that Concord, Mass. readers wish "for more news about the College." I also feel the need formore news of the campus and ics faculty and scudent life. This issue has too linle 1 just finished reading your arricle regarding Sid Farr's deserving recire of that. l don't mean information abouc sports (keep that to two pages, as ment fromColby. However, I was rather disappointed that you neglecced co you did). And I don't look for more on us alums; you already have enough mention one very important volunteer position in which Sid served---coach to portray how and where we have pursued our careers. However, if I want of the Silver Street Service Linle League baseball team of 1975. to find out what the faculty activities are, their research endeavors or the During an era when little girls were encouraged to be "mother's little changes in instruction in their deparcments, I only find the page and a half helpers, ' and boys were encouraged to play competitive sportS, along came ofFacultyFile. That is coo little. We far from Waterville would like to know Title IX. Aft:er reassurance that the Warerville Morning Sentinel had not how the academic heart of the College is doing these days, by whom and made a typographical error, and yes, girls had to be entitled to a tryout, knew how are our childeren being taught, what is the profile of the deparrment my little apron and rolling pin were about to be replaced by a bat and1 ball1 ofour own major, how are the library collections and services, the compmer Within days I was notified that I had not only been assigned to a baseball capacicies and che labs-the reaching environment. I suspect those are the team, but that I had the dubious distinction fbeing the first girl ever to make topics of which we out here would like "far more news." A full eight pages the league. The Sid Farr you WTote so highly about in your article was the on "Hard Time" is only depriving us of news of the Colby we love1 same personwho challenged tradition by selecting a girl for his baseball team. One can only imagine the torment a linle girl would encounter from David C. Weber '47 other players, parents, coaches and league adminisuators in the traditional Sranford, Calif. male setting of America's favorite pastime. It was not too long inco the season when I realized that most players' funwas at my expense. I recall my parents calling Sid and explaining my frustration and desire co leave the A Taste of Reality team. 'Tell her she'll go down in history and pave the way for little girls!" 1 am writing a short response to an article in the January 1995 issue of he said. Now I know why Sid has been so effective as a Colby development Colby that arrived today. The article, on page 6, is entitled B.Y.O.B. Jr officer. How could a 9-year-old girl quit after hearing those words? concernsthe new Colby policy rhac allows local liquor scores co deliver Sid Farr is a class act. I haven't seen him in 20 years, but his words of only kegs of beer to campus. encouragement ring in my ears as if it were yesterday. Thanks for the great It was just a year ago, January 28 to be exact, that our Colby College article and bringing back such good memories of a fine Colby person. son's best friend left his dorm on the campus of Springfield College with his buddies. They were headed to drink at a local bar. Springfield College Margie Arnold-Riley doesn't allow any alcohol deliveries though students can go to liquor Champaign, Ill. stores and bring it back to their rooms. Sometime during the evening he decided to leave the bar. By himself. No one saw him go. It was an evening when the temperatures were sub-zero, and few people were on the road A Few Feet Short and, frugal as he was, we think he tried co walk back to the College. He The Olin Science Center looks coo big from the drawing to be only never made it back. He collapsed along the way because he had drunk too 10,000 square feet. Could it be 10,000 square feet per floor? With four much hard liquor, and he died of hypothermia. To this day we believe if floors, 40,000 would be the total square footage. In any event, it's an he had stayed on campus and been around people, this would not have exciting addition. happened. Someone would have saved him. "The administration is treating the Colby population like mature Richard Riemer '68 adults by instituting this policy" leaves something to be desired. Alcohol Cedar Grove, N.]. is alcohol. The reality is, college students are going to drink. As a parent I would prefer they do so in the confines of the campus we entrust them The acrunlsquare footage is 37,150 . The article also shouU:Ihave said that to, and not out on the sueets of Waterville or beyond. the $6.4 million gift by the F. W. Olin Foundation was the largest in Colby's history. The article was corrected but an earlier version mistakenly appeared Pam Smith in the magazine. Sorry for the confusion. -Ed. North Bridgton, Maine
3 APR IL 1995 COLB Y Periscope Gleaned by Dean Earl H. mith from the weekly Hottest of All 'ummer faculty. Raden, a world in cl rrogram that provide campus new letter, FYI An informal survey of 3 3 llf rhe renowned foren ic 'cicnri,r, ha> health care in developing nation\ hc>t lihcral art> mndernted Colby\ forcmic Caribbean nations.. ..If ever college> >hows that Cilhy\ 23 medi ine cour'c for more than there was a reason to gloat over rer cnt increa>c in reguLir twll decadc,. Lee and Wolf have a tie :.core,it would be the 3-3 w;.i rming. Early re ult, of the admis, ion, a pplication, (M:c hccn fn:qucnr gue,t lecturer>. eric hetween Colby and rernrt were w,ed in rolicy rage 6) tor them all. Nexr Princeton in men's hockey on Only the Best dbcu,�iom al the lnter closest i> Recd College, which January 3. The Tigers had For the third time in pa. Govemmental Panel on nipped the vaunted Univer ity had a 17 rerccnt humr. Cnlhy\ · rhc '>t Climate hange meeting' in whtipring 49 percent jump in five ycar>, Performing An� at of Maine Black Bear , 3-2, in Japan earlier la'>t year . . . . Five early decision aprlicatiom wa' Colby wa, >elected to comrete their previ< u; outing and Cl1lby >tudent' recently gave torped only hy Middlebury, in the Region;:d American Maine, th same week, was rn:-.entatiom at a meeting of rated number nne in Division I. which saw a 55 percent ollegc Theatcr Fe>tival. the New England 'ection of We think thi; made Scott increase. The large volume of tudent' Scott Cole '95 the n iety o( Phy ics tudents Borek's extet at lea ta good applicanrs will improve Colhy\ (Littleton, Coln.), Mike Daisey , at Wel blcy C ul lcge. Of all the as any college hockey team in number>-in ac1dcmic quality, '95 (Erna Maine), Brent college:. rerre�ented, no other the nation .... Sara Westervelt in overall diver,ity and in Felker '96 (Care Girardeau, had a many tudent willing to enrnllmenr yield. Mo.), Ja on Spooner '95 Bizier, R.N., is a new day nurse (Wa>hingron, orm. ) and Katie rre enr their work. alure at the Garrison-Foster Health The Good They Do Thompson '97 (Lakewood, Dhumal Aturaliye '95 (Kandy, enter. ara' grandmother, the • ri Lanka), Mike Doogue '97 late usan Fortuine, R.N., wa A>sociate Dean of Re ·idenr1al Colo.) arrearcd in American ( Br<1intree, Mass.), Jim Porter the head nurse in the old Colby Life Jan Arminio comriled a Ii t · Buffalo February 2 5 CO LBY APRIL 1995 4 Spreading JAM All Around hat began a- a modest cultural and religious in active i1wuh-cment in W expr ssion of cultural traditions R,ither than a Hillel," he said. pride by a handful of Colby militant expression \J Jewish A\\·meness �lnnth stud nts has exploded into disaffection, he says, Je\\'ish included a tr;1Jition:1! an international event Awareness Month is an sh:1bbat with students fn1m incorporating more than 80 attempt to reach out to the Yeshi\" 5 I' R I L I 9 9 1 ' L� L 11 \' Te nure fo r Te n n January the Board of Colby' hemi try Depart- I Trustee� Clmfirmed the ment in He is active in 1989. recommendations nf the natural water photochemi try PromL)tion and Tenure research funded by everal ommittee and granted national organizations. tenure to olb cult . 10 y fa y hake peare scholar Eight who received tenure Laurie 0 home taught at appointments were pro Oakland University in moted to associate professor. Michigan before coming to Debra Barhezat earned her Colby's English Depart B.A. at Smith College and ment in A Yale 1990. her Ph.D. at the University graduate, he earned her of Michigan before joining M.A. and Ph.D. from the EcorH1mi s Departm nt yracu e U niversity. in he has publi hed 1992. Ursula Reidel-Schrewe, a many articles in the ecunom native of Hamburg, Gennany, ic of higher education and did her undergraduate work at labor economics. the University of Tubingen. James Rodger F leming Front row (1-r): Herbert Wilson Jr., Ursula Reidel-Schrewe, James She has an M.A. and Ph.D. specializes in the history of Webb. Back: Eva L1nf1eld, D. Whitney K111g, Debra Barbezat. David from Harvard Univer ity and cience in America and the Suchoff, James Rodger Fleming, Laurie Osborne. ha taught Gem1an language, history of the geophysical literature and culture at Colby sciences. He earned degrees MIT and Penn tate. Hi· rafJhy of Meteorology (co since 1989. in both science and history, books include Meteorology in edited with Roy Goodman). David Suchoff, who e including a doctorate from America, 1800-1870; D. Whitney King, whose areas of intere t are Victo Princeton University. He Science, Technology and the field is chemical oceanogra rian literature comparative has held fellowships from Em.iironment: MulridiscifJlinary phy and environmental literature and Jewi h studies, the National Endowment for PersfJecrives (co-edited with chemi try, earned a degree at joined the Colby English the Humanities and the Pugh Family Professor of St. Lawrence Univer ity and a Department in after 1992 Smithsonian Institution and Economics Henry Gemery); Ph.D. at the Univer ity of teaching for everal years at visiting appointments at and the lntemarional Bibliog- Rhode I land before joining Boston Umver ity. His Good Service he appointments of Alumni Secretary Sid Farr and '55 T Dean of the College Earl Smith to the rank of full Bucking a national trend, Colby's Admi ions Office i having a professor were announced at the January meeting of the Board record-setting year. In early March, the College already had received of Trustee . The promotion recognize "comparable records of 4,200 first-year applications, a percent increase over last year's 23 extraordinary service to the College in a variety of role ,"said total and a 4 7 percent increase over the total two years ago. Dean of President William R. Cotter. Admissions and Financial Aid Parker Beverage attributed the uc Farr's retirement after years of service prompted Cotter to cess in attracting pro pective students to everal factor 35 . promote him from associate to full professor. After he had made "The College is truly on the move and is finally earning that deci ion, Cotter ays, he realized Smithwas equally deserving. recognition for the extraordinary educational institution we are," Farr erved as alumni secretary, director of financial aid and he said. He credited faculty accomplishments as well as faculty career counseling, vice president for development and secretary of involvement in the recruiting process, enthusiastic student tour the co.rporation. "Sid is unique. Never a harsh word about anyone guides and lobby host , recent fund-raising succes and a commit and never a harsh word from anyone about him," Cotter said. ted and talented admissions taff for making Colby one of the About Smith, Cotter said, "Whatever Colby asks him to do, hottest colleges in the country. he adds it to his plate and then produces results." Smith served In addition to the increase in applicants, Beverage pointsout that as director of student activities, director of communications, more than 200 students already have been offeredadmission through assistant to the president and dean of students before becoming the early deci ion program, which means that about 40 percent of next dean of the college. fall's incoming class identified Colby as their clear first choice prior to "They are both confidants to very large circles of people, and January that kind of accessibility in the top levels of administration is 15. es ential to the College," Cotter said.+ CO L BY APRI L 1995 6 degrees are from the Univer Mauritania on a Fulbright awarded numerous research le bian tudies. She co-edited sity of California-Berkeley. grant and was a develop grants. He received his B.A. What ls an Emotion? She He is the author of many ment economist in Senegal and M.A. degrees from the earned her B.A. at North- articles and a book, Critical for three years before joining University of North Caro we ternUniversity and an Theory and the Novel: Mass the Colby faculty in 1987. lina and his Ph.D. from M.A. and Ph.D. at the Society and Cultural Criticism He is the co-author of Johns Hopkins University. University of Texas-Austin. in Dickens , Melville and Kafka. Mauritania and author of Wilson has completed A native of Germany, He was co-translator and Desert Frontier: Ecological and postdoctoral fe llowships at Linfield i a musicologist \\'ho author of the introduction to Economic Change Along the the Harbor Branch Founda specializes in 17th-century a translation of Alain Fink Western Sahel 1600- 1850. tion and for NATO at European music and music ielkraut's The lmagineryJew. W. Herbert Wilson Jr. Dalhousie University. theory. She also is director of Hi torian James Webb came to the College in 1990 Cheshire Calhoun in the Collegium Musicum. She specializes in the economic after three years of teaching philosophy and Eva Linfield received her B.A. from history of Africa and pre biology at the University of in music were awarded tenure Wellesley College and her colonial African history. Washington. A specialist in having previou ly achieved Ph.D. from Brandeis Uni\'er After obtaining his B.A., the identification and the rank of associate profes sity and came to Colby in M.A. and Ph.D. degrees migration patterns of birds sor. Calhoun's expertise is in 1993 after teaching at Yale from Johns Hopkins Uni and in marine biology and ethical theory, fe minist and the State University of versity, he studied in ecology, he has been philosophy and gay and New York-Stony Brook. Living History rganizers of this summer's Alumni College say that an O all- tar faculty lineup, an interdisciplinary curriculum and a World War II theme make the five-day event one of the most attractive ever offered by the College. Designed to coincide with the 50th anniver ary of the end of World War 11, the Alumni College will be held July 29-August 3 on the Colby campu . "We wanted to do something pecial for our war-years alums, and thi seemed Pushing the Envelope like the perfect opportunity," said Director of Alumni Relation Susan Conant Cook '75. "And the quality of the Colby's ethic of envi mean, the envelope has faculty and the curriculum will interest all alums, not ju t ronmental stewardship been circulating around those who lived through the war." shows up in several ways, Colby for nearly two even current and former Colby faculty member will teach including its campus-wide decades, and perhaps cla ses at the Alumni College. Jame M. Gillespie Professor of mantra of "reu e and longer. Also included on Art and American Studies David Lubin will lead a discu sion recycle." Envelopes often the family tree of u er about the film The Best Years of Our Lives, a cla ic "coming eris -cross the campu to are Profe or of Philosophy home" movie that depicts the experiences of three soldiers half a dozen or more and Religion Gu tave returningfrom the war. Associate Professor of Sociology and recipients before being Todrank, who died in Anthropology Terry Arendell will teach a course about change discarded. But an envelope 1983, retired Profe sor in the American family brought about by World War II. received recently in the of Mu ic Dorothy Reu Associate Professor of Engli h David Suchoffwill teach "The Communications Office man, the Accounts Holocaust as History and Memory." A ociate Profes or of may set the record for Payable Office and English Cedric Bryant will examine the great northern longevity. The original Associate Professor ofArt migration of African Americans and the literature inspired by recipient was Profe sor Michael Marlais. the war years. Distinguished Pre idential Professor of Govern James Armstrong, former Associate Director of ment G. Calvin Mackenzie will teach "World War II: The chair of the Music Depart Communication Stephen Century's Political Pivot." Emeritus Profes or of Philosophy ment who taught at Colby Collins '74, the most Robert Reuman will discuss con cientiou objectors to the war. from 1971 to 1983. That recent rec ipient, said it's Lee Family Professor of English and American Studies Charles would date the envelope at the first time he has Bassett, who helped organize the Alumni College, will teach a least 12 year , except that bestowed historical clas titled "Snobbery on the Homefront." the second rec ipient wa significance on an "We want to expose alumni to faculty that they know Dean Jarker Johnson, who envelope in campus mail. well and showcase new faculty that the College is excited to retired from Colby in 1978 "It's practically an have on board," aid Demetra Giata '88, assi tant director (he died in 1986), which artifact,"he said . of alumni relations. 7 AP R IL 1995 COLBY Bas�ett say� the classe� will he team tm1ght to capita l ize on the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum. "Th i::. be ing a small college where most uf the faculty know each remain after the College is concl uded may ·elect an a CO LBY AP RIL 199 5 8 WHY TENURE WORKS The Tenure System Encourages Creativity, Ensures Stability and Promotes Continuity by President William Cotter R. Alumni and friends ofthe College frequently ask if I favor views off campus and extensive reference checks, as well as the retention of the tenure ·ystem for Colby faculty. They are interviews and model lectures on the campus. After that ex often startled by my emphatic "yes-'' Although there can be tremely competitive process, the successful candidate is nor mi takes in tenure decision and there are opportunities to abuse mally given only a one-year contract. the privilege, my experience in 16 years at Colby is that these Mid-way through the first year, the candidate undergoes a risk are small when compared to the significant advantages of second evaluation. Assuming sound teaching and acceptable the tenure system for our students and for the College. progress in scholarship, the typical candidate receive a three First and foremost, the continuing heart of a college is its year contract renewal. If doubts arise during the first year, the faculty. Students, trustees, presidents and staff turn over with person might be given only a one-year renewal and would be some regularity, but tenured faculty make a lifetime commit subjected to a further evaluation during the econd year. ment to a college and are deeply invested in its quality and its The third evaluation is a comprehensive pre-tenure exami future. Faculty are the custodians of the values of a college and nation during the sixth semester of teaching. This inrnlves a the guarantors of its continuing excellence. It behooves the departmental committee ofat least three members which reviews: administration and the trustees to provide the resources and the the candidate's course yllabi, assignments, examinations and environment to liberate the creativity of the faculty and to laboratory instructions; all material published or submitted by the sustain their dedicated work over a lifetime of effort. The tenure candidate and any published reviews of that material; statements system plays a fundamental role in that proce and guarantee from the candidate evaluating hi or her own teaching, advising, academic freedom, enabling the entire institution to seek truth scholarship and contributions to the department, the College and unfettered by imposed orthodoxy. the discipline; a statement by the department chair evaluating the The recruitment and evaluation systems leading to tenure candidate' teaching as a re ult of departmental peer review; all at Colby are not unlike tho e in finance and law, the granting of evaluation forms that have been submitted by tudents in the tenure being equivalent to becoming a parmer. In all cases there candidate's courses; and stati tical summaries that compare stu is a probationary period, rigorous testing, careful evaluation by dent ratings of that candidate's teaching with departmental, the senior members of the organization and, finally, a decision division and all-College average . If the candidate pa ses this third that generally lead to a lifetime association. review, she or he is normally granted a pre-tenure sabbatical to In law and banking, of cour e, partnerships are not as ecure complete an important scholarly or creative work and is given a asthey once were, with many recent examples of enior partners three-year contract extension. being asked to retire early or otherwi e alter their tatus in the The fourth review is for tenure itself. The same kinds of face of radically changed economic circum tances. So, too, materials involved in the sixth-semester review are gathered for colleges may, in a financial crisis, terminate programs and end the six-year period, and the scholarship of the candidate is the tenure of the faculty in those programs. In higher education, submitted to disinterested (non-Colby) expensforreview. The e the example is rare, whereas the early termination of partners materials (collectively called "the dossier") are once more exam seem to have become more common. ined by the departmental committee, which makes a report and The pre-tenure or pre-partnership period is one of incred recommendation to the elected, nine-person faculty Committee ibly hard work and extreme pressure on young people, pressure on Promotion and Tenure. All faculty, including those not yet compounded in higher education, becau e the scholarly work is tenured, are eligible to vote in the election of the committee. ubmitted to review by those outside the college. The probation Once elected, faculty serve a three-year taggered term to ensure ary period at Colby involves four separate, rigorous step . First, continuity and consistency over time. all candidates have participated in national-and, ometime , The Promotion and Tenure Committee, chaired by the even international- earches involving 100 to 900 applicants. dean of faculty, will spend countle hours reviewing each The tenure-track appointee typically has gone through inter- dossier and di cu sing whether the candidate meet the high 9 APRI L 1995 CO LBY olby standards for teaching, cholarship and service. Member� fac ulty member to hecome ·rn even more pr ductive and impor 11f that committee vote individually on whether ro recommend tant contributor to the quality of our academic and campus life, tenure, and each member submit to me a demi led evaluation of am! her or hi finest scholarly work 1 usually produced after the every tenure candidate in which they compare the teaching, tenure dec ision, not before. Tenured faculty are motivated by a cholarship and ervice of the candidate to the very best faculty pride in their profession, a sense of responsibility and a recogni tenured in recent years. tion that they are the real "owners" of the College. In addition, The committee, the dean and I have operated on the the tenure selection proces looks forward and temls toyiel d only principle "when in doubt, don't tenure." Con equently, on tho e who are most likely to be stimulating teachers, productive average only two-thirds of tho e who reach the tenure decision ·cholar and active participants over a 30-year career. year are recommended for tenure. Other� fail to pass the first or Moreover, the tenure decision i not the end of tudent and third year reviews. In fact, some have worried that, given the peer evalumion of our faculty. tudents continue to rate the rigor of our tenure policie , fa ulty turnover at Colby might be effectivene of teaching through their wntten evaluations at the too high. This fear is mitigated by the fact that there is no annual end of every cour e, and these evaluation are closely reviewed tenure quota. Our procedure- emphasize that "who is tenured i each emester by the faculty member and the department chair. In more important than ht)W many." Nevertheless, the overall addition, olhy maintains a merit alary system in which faculty percentage of tenured faculty at Colby is members, department chair and the dean of comparatively low, allowing us ro continue faculty review teaching, cholarship and ser to hire young fac ulty, fre h from graduate I've found that the vice every third year throughout their ten education, who bring to the campu the ure. The merit y tem can add hundred of latest development" in their disciplines. In granting of tenure liber, thousand · of dollar to the lifetime earning the fall of 1994, of the 140 tenure-track of the mo·t out randing faculty. position at olby, only 77 were tenured- ates facultymembers Faculty also undergo a complete in 52 percent of the fu ll-time teaching faculty.* to become more ternal and external review, equivalent in Finally, the tenure sy rem it elf is regu all respect to the tenure decision proce , larly reviewed by ajoint committee offaculty productive and impor, when they are nominated for promotion to or the Committee on Promotion and Tenure tant contributors to the fu ll profe or. But, ome have asked, what and Trustee members of the Educational if the fu ll professor becomes ill or unpro Policy Committee of the Board, to be certain quality of teaching and ductive? There are procedure -although that it is serving the best interest of the they are, properly, circumscribed with great College and the faculty. campus life, and their afeguards-that allow the College to re- Those who achieve partnership in a finest scholarly work is quire a faculty member ro take a medical law or inve tment firm or tenure in higher leave (which can ometimes become per education achieve professional ecurity, usually produced after manent). ln other cases, faculty can be while tho e who do not are often expected the tenure decision. dismissed by the College for "adequate to leave. ln college they must leave, be cau e" that is "related directly and substan- cause the rules of the American A ocia- tially to the fitness of the faculty member as tion of University Profe sors (which Colby a teacher or a researcher." This procedure adopted in 1971) prohibit the fu ll-time employment of teach is rarely u ed in higher education, although there are many ers beyond seven years without tenure. In the examples of law in ranees of negotiated terminations in ca e where faculty and banking, there i generally no fixed limit on the probation members have become !es productive. ary period and individuals can be passed over in one deci ion Finally, the question ha been raised whether there i a year but made partner in a subsequent round. ln colleges, this danger that faculty member will stay well beyond normal is not possible. retirement, a problem that does not occur in partner hips, where Some commentators concede that the pre-tenure selection there i u ually a mandatory retirement age established as part of and decision-making process i indeed rigorous, but they worry the partner hip agreement. This is certainly a potential problem, that fac ulty may reduce their efforts once they obtain tenure and but it has not become one at Colby. Very few faculty teach lifetime security. My experience at Colby is to the contrary. ln beyond 65 and many retire earlier. Still others have reduced virtually every case, the granting of tenure has liberated that their teaching loads from full to part time a they approach *A recent survey of 12 nationally ranked liberal arts colleges revealed that tenure percentage for full-rime faculty ranged fromColby's low of 52 percent to a high of 77 percent. The average tenure ratio was 65 percent. CO LBY APRI L 1995 10 retirement. Ir will be important for rhe College ro encourage Of course, there are cost to rhe tenure sy rem. Faculty retirement around age 65, and I hope that our pension and member do nor punch time clocks and are relatively free to retiree health program · will continue to make that possible for minimi:e their workload if they choo e to abu e the sy tern. our senior faculty, who have, in most cases, given their entire Some faculty members, in fact, do so, but they are o fe\\" in professional careers to Colby. number that those costs of the system, for me at least, are clearly Some also worry that the tenure system will inhibit the outweighed by the O\'erwhelming benefit . Moreover, becau ·e College from making the curricular changes that are necessary to of the merit system, the pos·ibiliry of removing faculty, and respond to societal changes and student demand for new courses. other sanctions and rewards available to the College, ir is This danger i mitigated by the fact rhar faculty themselves are unlikely that abu e of tenure would become uncontrollable. constantly updating their own material and introducing new courses. Moreover, there is sufficient turno\·er (retirements, res The Balance Between Teaching and Scholarship ignations, denials of tenure or contract renewal, ere.) to enable Colby is a teaching institution, and having a tenure system the College to make new appointments in emerging disciplines. allows us to maintain a wise balance between reaching and Also, the curriculum tends to evolve more slowly at a liberal arts scholarship. Emphasis on first-rare teaching is what distin college as compared to vocational-oriented institutions where guishes liberal arts colleges in the United States from research rapid adaptations are needed to meet the uni\·ersiries. All ofour tenured faculty teach changing demands of technology or of the the same fo·e-course load (or four courses marker place. So, too, 75 to 0 percent of The Faculty Handbook plus laboratories in the natural sciences) Colby graduates will go on to graduate school and virtually all faculty reach all classes where more pecifically vocational training is makes it clear that the freshman th.rough seniors--every year. be t offered. Wherea undergraduate education will "paramount criterion" Colby depends heavily upon the volun frequently be neglected ar institutions where teer effort of the faculty who take on advis in determining whether graduate and professional programs domi ing, mentoring, committee and other service nate, the opposite is true for the American activities well beyond that which would be a faculty member college. In the large univer·iries, students found in any sensible job description. The should receive tenure frequently receive the bulk of their instruc great bulk of that volunteer effort-the extra tion from graduate students, but that never time with rudents, the long hour on campus is "the candidate's happens at Colby. Our students may work as committees, the pecial efforts with alumni re earch assi rants to our faculty, an oppor excellence as a teacher and regular consultations with trustees tunity typically available only to university comes from tenured members of the faculty. and adviser." graduate students. The central nature of If we didnot have a tenure system, we teaching is so much a part of the ethos of simply could nor compete for the best and Colby that most of the senior administra- brightest graduate students who prefer appointment at col tors reach at least one course each year.* leges where tenure is possible. Moreover, even if tenure fe ll The Faculty Handbook makes it clear that the "paramount out of favor everywhere, this might, arguably, reduce the criterion" in determining whether a faculty member should number of people going into college teaching becau e re la receive tenure is "the candidate's excellence as a teacher and tively low salaries combined with no job security would make adviser." Such excellence has become the sine qua non for teaching less attractive. Tenure may, in fact, enable colleges tenure at Colby, although the Committee on Promotion and to attract and hold very able people for less money, since they Tenure also looks for"demonstrated continued cholarly activ have the benefit of lifetime job security. Even if tenure were ity and professional development and potential for continued abandoned elsewhere, I am not certain that it would be wi e growth." The committee require that research, publications or for Colby to drop its tenure program. Maintaining this system other professional activities must be "judged by peers and by would give us a competitive edge in recruiting and retaining outside referees." Finally, service to the department, to the the very best fa culty, thu providing our students with a College and to the discipline "is expected." uperior education at no additional expense. It is undoubtedly true that research expectations among * Vice Pr,.sident for Academic Affairsand Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur reaches either logic or philosophy of law in me Philosophy Department; Vice President for Administration Amie Yasin ki teache Eng Ii h an 11 APRIL 1995 COLBY Cnlhi foculry ha\'L' 1ncn: f111l'>t te ,e.1rch 1H crcartn�JC ll\'ltie' that h,11'l' hccn an tntcgr,tl part of gr<1m. Fmally, faculty are exrected rn be active m their profe s1on, the ir ...eli-dcfi nninn at lca't ...11 1ce grnduare ...chu nl. Their ,chlll at tl'nd regrllnal and national meeting" bnng dtstingui heJ peak many field, 1n.n·e rc,earch ,md te<1ch111g cl during the academi c ye Thi::. \\'a' recnnfi rmed Ill the Princt.'con Ret'lt.'H', 111 ll'h1ch C1 ilhy faculty get rhc c hance to pur,ue their research and to prepare student' ranked our faculty m the tnr 20 nf all nillege ... nnd nc\\ cnur'c' f or the commg year. M any facu lty remain on uni,·er,it 1c;, for "hring111g m 1.,uarn·c duric� ,1 , department and div1 ion chair . l h ope they Faculty Workloads abo u.,e the ::.ummer for ;,ome real re·t-and t1111e with their omenme char a fa culty member rcache "only rwn or three fomil1e'>-'>llt hey can returnr etrn•1gorared to meet the new class course;, a ;,eme-ter" and make an a!:.,umpt1on that the total and rhe pace ofthe fall 'eme-rer. workk1ad con::.ist of the ::.ixur n111e hour> a \\'eek in the cla!,;,mom. Our fa c ulty, aim<) t u111versally, 1· compo ed of dedicated My own expenence m reach mgGl1,·ernment 319 every fall men and \\'omen who give oi themselve much more exren i that l need about rwo full week · 1n the ;,ummer rn re\"I e the ,j\·ely-ro their '>tudents. to the Colleoe and to their profe - course, produce the syllabus and obtain the new matenal,. l then ,ion-rhan. rerhap·, we ha,·e any right ro expect. spend about t\\'O to three hour::. to prerare for each hnur oi cla Tll ,u-ram rhat excellence for the generations to come we rime and many more hours in meeting with ·rudenr;,,w nring and have inittated, as part of ll1e Campaign for Colby, an effort to correcting qui:zes and examinations, making sugge>ted change mcrea.,eth e numher of endowed faculty chair . T ru tee , o,·er in draft; of rem1 papers, and then grading the final paper. '>eer anJ mher good friend· of the College have re ponded Consequently, I e timare that l pend 10 to 15 hour· a week on magnificently to that challenge, and we have now increa ed the my single course. Thi· \\' ill be double for a faculty member with number of fully endowed chairs from 4 in 1990 ro 24 in 1994. two courses a semester and triple for those with three. These chair- enable u to ay a peetal "thank you" to faculty Mo·r faculty have many more student ro advi e than I leaders who have continued ro put teaching fir t, bur who also have, many teach c ur·e· with much larger enrollment and have generally been \'ery active in College ervice and have ,·irrually all have ·ubsrantial committee and otherextracurricu achieved national and international reputation a cienti t , lar obligations that can require from re latively few tomore rhan cholars, arti ts, musician and writers. In addition, new chair 20 hours a week for one who serves on part icu larly time reinforce the decision of the T ru tee ro pay among the highe t consuming College committees. competi tive salarie at peer in tirutions, since tho e named to Faculty also devotetime to earche for new faculty member , chair receive a sub tantial alary increase. This has helped ro peer evaluation, contract renewals and tenure and promotion signal our continuing commitment to the faculty, who, in tum, committees. We also expect faculty to interact outside of clas , in have given of theircr eativity, energy, and loyalty to keep Colby infom1al setting with students. Faculty cheer for the athletic in the fir t ranks of national liberal art colleges. upport of the teams, attend the plays, concerts and readings and joinstudents for tenure s ystem send an equally important message. As we discus ed our long range plans for the 1990s, alumni, parent , tudent , fac ulty and others raised six general questions about the College that l promised to answer in a series of reports. I have already written in Colby about (1) the co t of a Colby education (Nov. '93 ), (2) political correctne (Aug. '94) and (3) the importance of endowment (Nov. '94 ). This letter ( 4) deals with tenure, teaching and cholarship, and future reports will discu (5) diversity at Colby and (6) liberal art a preparation for career and for life. COLBY APRIL 1995 12 erve, the lizard squirmed gently in the palm of Biolo� Teachmg Associate Tim Cluistensen, who held its tail gingerly be tween his thu and forefinger. As Christensen de, scribe the lizard's phy iology to the students clustered around two inches of disembodied lizard thrashing between hi "It' an adaptive mechanism," Christensen said, dangliQg the still,acti've appendage for all to e �. "When a predator grabs it, the lizard produce a chemical that a llo sit to drop its tail and escape. Then it grows another tail." Seff,amputaring l i :ard are just one ofthe wonders of the de ·ert that tudents in Clara C. Piper Professor of Environmental Stud, ies Dave Firmage' Jan Plan encountered during 22 days in the arid regiL)n · of outheastem California. Thi year 15 Colby students, most of them biology majors, participated in the Jan Plan that Firmage has offered every other year since 1979. he goab of the rrogrctm have nut Using Tbut the depth and richnc ·s of the exreri pl::ints-ryre of leaf, color, floweranJ o ence have increaseJ with every tnr. "We on-students spent most of the morning want fi r t of all to give them exrosure to identifying species of hruh and cacti in a different ernsystcm," Firmagc said. rhe rre-,erve. That C1ft moon they fanned "Most of these student s in five three-mem- have never been west of t am to conduct the M i:-.:-.issippi, sofor rhem "transect ," rest to deter- this is a ll rnmplerelynew. mine the density of vege- econd, we want ro teach ration in a given area. them fie ld technique-,. Within the ecr1on that The class [back at olhy] they te�red, -,rudents f ound that deab with these tech- alm\1st 20 different kind nique · is taught in the of planrs. Their name are spring. and we u ·ua IIy as exotic a. their setting. can't ger out until late in �panish bayonet. Darning the term. Thi gives us an opportunity to needle cactus. Cat's claw. Burro bu h. spend more time showing them the:.e kunk shrub. Joshua tree. technique anJ their use. We want them "I never reali:ed there wa o much ro be fa miliar wirh what it's like working Lhersity," ·aid Adam Wolk from Davis, '97 in a field situation." alif. "] had always envi ioned the desert "Student5 come out here ·aying they a thi- flat,barren wasteland." thought the desert was such a life le · place," There were, however, some places that Firmage said. "By the time rhey leave were virtually devoid of life , e·pecial!y they're all saying, '[ can't believe how Death Valley National Park, in which the much life there is here."' On their first sruderw ·rent a day early in rheir trip. day in the field students already were be- Blisteringly hor in summer-a tempera- ginning to understand life in the desert. rure of 134 degrees Fahrenheit, for many Jared Fine '98 holds the wil end. COLflY APRIL 1995 14 years the world record, was recorded at ing biology here seemed a contradiction Furnace Creek in 1913-Death Valley in terms. However, student found the during the winter months is slightly more absence of biodiversity as fascinating as hospitable but no less awesome. At the plethora ofvegetation they had found Badwater, so named because of the high the day before in the Mojave. In Death salt content in the pools that form here, Valley-where wind, heat and shifting the altimeter measured 282 feet below sea rock set the agenda for whatever life ex level, the lowest land point in North ists-students' perspective about the re America. Relentle swindsgustingupwards lationship between humans and their of 70 mile per hour did not deter student environment began to change. from walking onto Jared Fine '98, of the salt flats to better Westbury, N.Y.,said explore this unique thedesert forcedhim geological phenom- to confront an en- enon. Later in the day vironment harsh students crambled enouoh to resi t through the narrow human encroach- natural canyons of the Black Mountain ment. "I'm learning there are places be foothill in an area known as Artist's Pal- sides New York City," he said. "There are ette because of the shades of violet, green so many other environments, and now I and orange rock created by decomposing just want to see them all." volcanic ash. One tudentdescribed Death The trip to Death Valley was eye-open- Valley as a "moon cape," and the charac- ing and provocative for all of the students, terization wa apt. Other than a few creo- but for some, like David O'Connor of sore bushes that truggled to survive on Waterford, Ireland, the experience pro the fringe of the canyon, the only life vided a imple but profound poignancy. visible all day wa a coyote that wandered When asked to characterize his experi within a few feet of the road and pau ed for ence in one sentence, O'Connor rep! ied: students to geta better look. Indeed, study- "I saw a coyote." Stud.ems test vegetation demity . 15 APRIL 199 5 CO LBY It's aJunqle Out There While Dave Firmage' student were in science. "I would imagine it's import tr mping through the desert in California, ant in every field, but it's e pecially impor Vi iting A si tant Profe or of Biology Bill tant in biology becau e you are dealing Romey was leading another group into the with phy ical bject you have to hold and rain fore t of Ecuador. touch and examine," he aid. And just a the Mojave De ert exper The phy ical demands placed upon tu ience enriched tudents' understanding f dent in Ecuador al o contribute to the the i ue urrounding its pre ervati n, the educational experience, Romey ay . "A Ecuador aip clarified for Romey's tudents Lot of people have never been immersed in thecomplication of u tainingbiodiver ity a culture-particularly one where they while providing for couldn't speak En human need . gli h freely-that The theme of the doe n't offer ome Ecuador Jan Plan was basic thing they're human and environ u ed to. The bed we mental concerns re leep on are basically lated to rain fore t a thin bit of foam on destruction. Organ a piece ofboard. Most ized by Colby gradu BILLROMEY of the time if there i ate Abigail Rome '78, who has worked since a shower available at all it' a cold shower. 1990 to preserve Ecuador's eco ystems, the The food i quite plain, u ually a bowl of trip put students in touch with Ecuadorean potato soup and some rice." officials and scientists and with "squatters" Students pent long hours hiking at who Live and hunt in national parks. high elevations to villages accessible only "In this environment students get to by a crude cow path. 'It's no vacation," see that there are very poor people who Romey said. really have no choice but to go in and Romey expects some of the students will hunt game in the national parks," Romey lookback years from now and see theirex said. "When you read about that, you perience in Ecuador as a major influence in might say, 'Kick 'em out, lock 'em up, put their lives. A similar trip led to Romey'sdeci 'em in jail,' but being there you see that sion to pursue the study of animal behavior. you must balance saving the animals with "It was on the island ofTonga and a research people's livelihoods." er who was studying humpbacked whales Like Firrnage,Romey believes that the invited me to go out with him. There's just Jan Plan is crucial to students' educations no substitute forthat kind of experience." eary. hungry and red-eyed . their ally 'haring each other\ �race in a "hl rn1e" hoots cru�ted \\'ith -..alt from the th.at \\'as a radical dq,arturc fn 1m their Wflom of Death \1;1l b·. the Colh\' 'tudcnt' tr (H,1mc ,1f the Wnrld\ Talle't Thenrn1m- Center, llperatedd hy C;1lifnrnia , rate Uni ctcr) for their e\· nin meal. Within min H' r�ity-Fullenon. Lit ra lh· ,m l1a,i�. the utes nnc-l rnen;-e mn'rg at the ex�'en� of former lwalth 'Pa \\':1�c acce��ihle unl\' h· <1 the re�taur;mt\ name, Bun Boy-\l'ere nillc n1ch, at time,;bare ly pa"ahle, mad in the ing like tumhle\\'Ced,. de ·en interil1r There \\·a.; Burger� ;r nd �hake� ;1ll ,me open - ai r, ClHnmunal shu\\'er room, �parr,m k1dg- tureJ srarri ng \\' ith the ing and little in the \\'Cl)' Llf waiters. " Don 't get u�ed rn entertainment. After their thi-," Firmage rold the e\'ening classroom session group through the chatter with Chri. tensen and and bites of Run Boy -pe Firmage, students usually cials. "Thi - i� tie last treat broke into small groups ro for a while." play card , talk or write let As they piled intn their ters. Yet they responded van for the return trip, still joking and well to the simplicity of the lifestyle and laughing, it wa clear that after only two the lack of moderncon\'e niences. day together the e 15 Colby .tudent al Marc Hebert, a sophomore from ready were a community. Out here in the Madawaska, Maine, said the Jan Plan for Big Empty, getting along was one of the him was much more than an academic ex- most important lessons of the uip. perience; it was a time for personal growth. Thrown together for more than three 'This trip had a lot offirsts for me. It was the week , the tudents lived with an intensity first time I had ever flown, the first time I'd few had ever experienced-living, cook traveled out of the East, the first time I had ing, eating, traveling together and gener- been to the desert and the first time I've Amy Foner '98 analyzes a burro bush. 17 APRIL \9Q5 'OLBY J1\'L'\.I \\"Jlh ,lJl1 1thl'r gn lUJ1 11( rel lJ'k• 11 1 thJ\ J1kc thcrL' \\';I\ \\ll11l'th1ng Jllj.,-,jng in my k1ml d '1tt1.ll11 m," hL· ''llLI. "Ir h;1' rc;dly cJuL " \lJ'L·ncJ llr .1 l1 1t 111 Ill'\\' rhrng' Im nw. Rcg.m -,.11LI. "Reing here ;111d .,ec ing the F1 rm.l,l'.L' .icknu\1·lcJge' th;1t r;1rr d l he Je,l'rt fi r'I h.md i-,',( ) llllll h llll ire re\'c:;1 I 1 ng L'JUCHillJl,d \';iJUe 11! tlw llc,ert j;Jll ri.111 j, lh,rn rc;1Jing ,1h11Ut It JI) ,l hook." the"gn 111pJyn.1m1c," 1h.ll .irem1rk<:J 1n1t .i F1rmagL' hL·lie\·e, th;1t J ;m rl.m I'- "the .1 re,uli. SruJL·ntcrc\1·, 11·erL' L'.l\'1.'n rL''i'' 1n,1- 11111,t 11llp1 1rt<1nt thing 11·c Jo" for 'c icnce hdn1L'' Im pl.111111ng ,111LI J'rL'J' l·ad1 J,1y. Th1.·y ,iJ,l1 11·erL' re'J'l HN hle fl11· "We'\'l' h;1J c.h1.''- lll ll'h1ch j;m rl,m, h,1\'c h·L'J'lllg tr.11. kl if hl·kl cquq'- llctcrm 111eLl ,ruJent,' cin:cr ll1L'lll ;ll)J I; >r'J'L'L if IOl'll lrLJ- r·.Jan,," he ,,lJLJ. "Many 'tu- 111!_!<1nJ me.1,urin!..! 11t cht,1. dent-.. h;t\'e tulJ me ,iftcr j<1reJ F11w, the NL·11· !.!l llng tll i..:r;1Ju,ltl' ,chrn1l Yl11-k n.irn·e, ,,11,I the eJu- rh,1t th1,cxr•enence hi:lpeJ catilmal a'pecr li( the rrq1 tl1L'lll J'rq1arl' hec.1u'c they didn't enJ wnh the J1,cu'- h<1Li lwen Ill the f1elJ ;mJ ,1um ahl iut J'lant' anll an1- u'L'll the,1.' technique.,." mak "Thi, 1' not jll',t ;1h1 lllt FPr rn1n -,c 1ence maim�. h1ol11gy," he -..aid. "The he ,,1y,, expl1,ure t1 1 field 11thcr night \\'C <;tayed LIJ' 'C Jence !'fl l\'idc. C\lntCXt for late ha\'inga phil11,ophydi:-cu.,,ill11. Thcr1.·\ em·rnmlllcnt;1l i,:-ue' that :rudent' \\'ill he much mure tu le;1rnher e than I en:r \\'lluiJ concerned ah11ur At er c11llege. In the ha\·e imag111ed." Mnja\'e, fur example, F1rmage and Chris- Experiential learning wa:,new for mu:-t tcn,en de�crihed hnw gra:ing righ ts had of the student,, and they liked it. Da\'id been an i'suc in rhe dchare nver whether Regan, a �ophomorc from Li. hon Fa ! Is, the federal gnvemmcnt should �et aside Maine, said rhe Mojave Jan Plan "hrought ran- nf the de�ert a · rwtinnal preserves. the textbooks to life ." "When wc talkabout these issues and we're "I've really liked Colhy, hut I have fe lt actually standing in the place and examin- Dave Firmage has led deserr ) an Plans since 1979 . CULi>\ APRIL 1995 18 ing the ec,1system that is being affected, stu- annu<1lly pru\·ides as,istancc fur �[lJdcnr-, dents hm-e a much greater understanding of \\'hn cannot alford the trip. "\Xie Jidn't 1\·anr the complexities in\'oh-ed," Finnage said. thi� to becume Caroline Ketcham, a junior from Prath- '<11d. "It\ :uch Mojm·e ·e\·eral time · but al\\'ays \'ie\\'ed it m1dents \\'hu could affnrLI the full cost." as a "dull, lifeless place." "When I heard they F1rmage said that students 1\'hn sign up were hm·ing a Jan Plan out here I figured for the M,1ja\·e Jan Plan don't expect a there must be something more interesting," \·acatton. "This is definitely not Club she said. Nu\\', she says, she Med," he said. The kno\\'1- under tands em·iwnmen- edge and self-kno\\'ledge talists' concerns abl1ut the that student. acquire dur- fragility uf the desert em- ing the three \\·eeks in the system and the beauty that desert are e\·ident in juur- ·hould be rreserYed. nal entries \\·hose tones "The desert gets in your range from ra\\' excitement blood," Firm< ge said. "l to wide-eyed a\\'e. The kno\\' I mis" it ir l'm a\\'ay journals reflect all of the for too long." grandeur and harshness of Chri tensen ·aid, "Oc- the desert en\'ironment, ca ional trips to the de ert are reJ u\'enat- and theyreveal the spirits of curious learn- ing" partly because it contrasts with Maine er and fun-loving young adults. oah are o dramatic. "It' so \·ast; the hori:on is O\\'en-Ashley, a first-year from Essex uninterrupted," he said. "Also, it's nice to Junction, Vt., de cribed the biological get away from Maine winter-." and cultural lesson of his desert experi- Firmage is e pecially pleased that ence in an epigram that may best repre- Colby can offer the de en Jan Plan to tu- sent the collective mood of his program dent regardle of mean . Past foundation mates. "The desert," he said, "is burro upport has created a scholarship pool that bush and Bun Boy." Tim Christensen describes deserr flora. 19 ,o\ PRIL 1995 C(llllY Character Studies by Lynn Sullivan '89 Majester (Stewart) Abdul-Jalil and Anita Te rry, both Class of '89, experienced the death of a parent at different times in their lives and under very different circumstances. Their private reactions as they put their lives together display a common courage, resilience and desire to help others.Today Abdul-Jalil has completed his second year at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Te rry is in her final semester at Duke Law School. lthough hi· father has heen Jead for 17 year , Ahdul-Jalil say life and perhaps aveJ tt. A he'll never forget that Jay after Chmtmas tn 1978 that contin "Hyde i more concerned with personal growth, initiative and ues to influence his life. motivation," sa1J AbJul-Jalil. "Hyde helped me get back on track." These days he has taken upon himself some of rhe hurJcns left He says he hope Hyde help5 get Corey back on track a well. behind in the wake of hi· father's death while continuing to pursue On advice from a teacher at Hyde, Abdul-Jal ii deferred attend his lifelong dream ofhecoming a doctor. Abdul-Jal ii is on a year-long ing yracuse University anJ remained in Bath another year to hiatus from Morehouse to attend to family matters. His mother's apply to Colhy. He became the fi r t member of hi fa mily to earn brea t cancer, first diagnosed tn 19 7, has returned, a brother died of a college degree. AIDS in February and another brother has been diagnosed with Abdul-Jalil attribute his per everance and per onal achieve AIDS. He travels between New York and Atlanta to ensure that hi ments to hi· I · lamic fa ith. He converted to I lam in 1986 and in 1991 brother and mother are receiving proper medical care. changed hi name, which mean literally " ervant of the one who Abdul-Jalil has also become a urmgatc father to ·ome family hould be revered." member . He went to Denver when he nottced hi nephew Corey "Islam keep me focu ed. It helped me get through Colby and lam drifting emotionally and academically under lax parental gu idance. thankful for that," aid Abdul-Jalil, who married Colby classmate He eventually helped get orey a 'cholarship to the Hyde chool in Anne Burger '89. Bath, Maine, Abdul-Jalil's alma mater. He hope to get a similar After graduating from Colby with a degree in biology, Abdul-J alil scholar hip for Corey's younger sister next year. The strain, he ays, worked rwo year a an emergency medical technician, which pro is significant but manageable. Despite the eemingly Jaunting cir vided experience in the medical field and better prepared him for cumstances, he remains committed to becoming a physician and medical school. In the fall of 1991, a year after being accepted, he returning to his old neighborhood in New York City. began a five-year program at Morehou e, in Atlanta. Born in Harlem, Abdul-Jalil was the youngest of eight children. In the summer of 1993 Abdul-Jalil worked at Harvard Med i On the ucce of his father's restaurant business, the family was able cal chool researching pediatric AIDS testing method for the to move from their tenement building to their own home in a safer Children's Ho pita! of Boston and the DuPont Corporation. Bronx neighborhood when he was 5. Last ummer he worked at a clinic in Villa Rica, Ga.-the only Abdul-Jalil was only 11 when hi father wa · murdered. The event fac ility between Atlanta and the Alabama border-which aw sent his life spinning out of control, he says. more than 300 patients daily and gave Abdul-Jalil the opportu "[ didn't deal with my father's death very well," he said. "My mom nity "to do everything from dealing with newborns to geriatrics." had to go back to work, l didn't have any upervision and I ju·t didn't "My dream haven't all died, they've just been put on hold fora care about things that much. Ages eleven to thirteen were tough while," aid Abdul-Jalil about the current interruption in hi medical times for me." school training. "It's up to me to have fa ith that what God plans for His mother, Marion Stewart, one of the many role models he's had me is better than what l plan for myself." throughout the years, knew omeone who e child attended the Hyde He says he'd like to get his master's in public health in addition School. he encouraged her son to visit, and Abdul-Jal ii says he fe ll to his M.D. and then return to the Bronx to give back to the in love with the chool at first sight. community where he grew up. "The Bronx really needs good physi He says he knew his options were to stay home and get into more cians to come back," he said. "When people make it, they leave, they trouble or go to Hyde. He chose Hyde-a decision that changed his don't come back. l want to come back." few months before Anita Terry was to leave for a Ph .D. he says she coped well with her father's death because she had A program in philosophy at the University of Connecticut, time to tell him how much he loved him and his death wa n't he learned that her father was dying of cancer. The United unexpected. Most important, she says, she was able to ay goodbye Methodi t minister turned philo·ophy and religion profe sor did and relive many family memories with him in his final day . not have long to live. Terry had been \\"Orking in Colby' Admi - "It' not like you ever stop being sad," said Terry. "There are times sions Offi ce since graduatmg three year earlier and wanted to that I'll think about omething and want to tell my dad and then say, rake her education a step fu rther. Bu she deferred attending 'Oh, yeah, he's not around anymore."' Connecticut, not wanting to make any major commitment Terry endured: law chool enabled her to concentrate on thing while her dad wa so ill. other than her fatherand her family, and hi death gave her a greater During that time she happened to peak to Vice Pre ident for perspective on life and living. Academic Affair and Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur regarding "For law students it's very important to get good grades, but I could her choice of Ph.D. programs. not have cared !es because of my father's death," he recalled. "In the "When I talked to Bob he asked me if I'd thought about going to end that helped me a lot becau e I was more relaxed than other law school," said Terry, who now says she may have been opting for student . And now, ometimes l worry because I don't panic." phi lo ophy to please her father. "I thought about [law chool] in high As editor-in-chief of the Duke law journal,Terry reveals a spirit school a little, but never at Colby." similar to that di played during her Colby days--distingui hed by an She changed cour e and planned for law chool. Terry mis ed only enthu iasm for meeting people, singing and the pur uit of knowledge. four questions on the L AT, scoring 179 of a po sible 1 0. She wa (The law journaleditor at many law chools is the top student in the accepted at several school and opted for Duke. class; at Duke members of the journal elect their editor. ) "] liked philosophy," said Terry, whose concentration at Colby After her fir t year in law school Terry returnedto Maine to work was in women' tudies. "My dad taught philosophy at a local college in the U ..Attorney's office in Bangor. Last summer she split her [in Iowa], and for me it was challenging and inrere ting wh ile an time between law firms in Boston and Philadelphia. When she undergrad. But it ju t didn't feel right." graduate in May he will head to Jack onville, Fla., where she will Choo ing a small chool like Duke-with only 180 students in her clerk forJu dge Gerald Tjoflat, ChiefJudge of the 11th Circuit Court cla s-was a good deci ion, ays Terry. During her first semester of Appeal . She says he will consider working as a public defender or many law students' most inren e and demanding time-her father as an admini trator for a non-profit group and dreams of returning to died. he left chool for three weeks. Maine to teach at Maine Law School in Portland. "If I had gone anywhere el e," she explained, "I probably would "I'm not really interested in working in a law firm," Terry aid, have had to drop out of chool. But rhe professors made sure people despite the lucrative offer she received from a Philadelphia firm. were taking notes for me, they sent me my book and people ju t "The money is hard to tum down. But I have this bleeding-heart helped out. It was the be t that it could be." liberal de ire to help other , which i n t easy at a big law firm." he first time Doris Keams Goodwin '64 met President she was a little girl ("I didn't know they put all that ruffin the LL Lyndon John on, they danced. Literally and figuratively. paper the next day; I thought he wouldn't know what happened TGoodwin went to Wa hington in 1967 a a White Hou e if I didn't tell him")-and she'll tell you about the hearcbreak of Fellow, nominared for the program by Colby professor Al the Dodger ' move to Los Angele a if it happened yesterday. Ma rinac. After the induction ceremony, she attended a oiree She provides lively political commentary for a weekly, Bo ron given by the president that was packed with the most important based relevi ion program, and he' been wowing audience and people in government. Already angling to get Goodwin on hi interviewers on the book-tour circuit since No Ordinary Time raff, Johnson swooped her around the ballroom, making mall wa publi hed. Scheduled to peak on Mayflower Hill this talk. He asked her if he had a lot of energy. month, in January she held a record-breaking Colby Club of "Well," Goodwin said, "I hear you only need five hours of Bo ton crowd spellbound through a 45-minute talk about the leep, but I need only four o it Roo evelt book, having drawn rand to reason that I've got even more than 300 soul to Wellesley more energy than you." Johnson College on a miserable, driz:ly countered that when he was a young evening that begged for home, man he, too, had hated to sleep, but hearth and hot toddie . the burden of his office made re t Goodwin' formula for uccess more important. Then he went on goe beyond charm and intelligence. to his next partner. As a Colby tudent he wa noted The anecdote, told in Goodwin' forspending hours in Miller Library, fir t book, Lyndon Johnson and the poring over books and periodical , American Dream (Andre Deur ch, writing papers- nding things out. A fi 1976),say a much about Goodwin voraciou learner then and now, a it doe about the notoriou ly Goodwin ha u ed her endeavors to competitive John on, who couldn't pile knowledge upon knowledge. bear to lo e even a sleep-depriva he went from Colby to gradu tion contest. Whether or not he's ate school at Harvard and then to getting more leep the e day , the White House. After John on Goodwin hasn't lo t a rep. Her left the pre idency, Goodwin ac book., media interview and per- cepted a teaching position in onal appearance are te timony to Harvard's government department the level of energy he maintain . and, for the next fo ur years, Hi torian, biographer, political shuttled between Cambridge and commentator, baseball avant and Johnson' ranch on the Pedernales friend to pre ident , Goodwin' ca River in T exa to as i t him in reer highs have been meteoric. Bur compiling hi memoir . She mar Goodwin and her husband, Richard, in her study. even for her, 1994-95 ha been ried Richard Goodwin, a writer/ memorable. he' appeared everywhere, from Ken Bums's "Ba e attorney and a former peechwriter for John F. Kennedy and ball" documentary to The MacNeil/Lehrer ewsHour to every for John on. Hi contacts with the Kennedy family helped major television morning how, C- PA , all the important her gain acce s to never-before-publi hed paper tored at the new paper , PB and Arts & Entertainment Channel program , Kennedy compound in Hyanni Port, Ma . In 19 7 he national radio and The ew York Times best- eller Ii t. Her late t published The Fit�eralds and the Kennedys , An American Saga book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The (Simon & Schu ter), which wa the ba i for ABC-TV's Home Front in World War II ( imon & Schu ter, 1994), ha erie "The Kennedy of Ma achu etts." found ardent fan acros the country-including President and Each of her book pre ented unique challenge , Goodwin Mr . Clinton-and will be adapted for a televi ion mini erie . ay . "When I wrote the Johnson book I wasn't thinking of Goodwin's popularity is a ea y to under rand as her gift are myself a a hi torian so much-or a a writer-but rather a extraordinary. She ha the wealth of material and timing of a omeone who had this \.\Onderful material and wa trying to easoned raconteur and the charm of an accompli hed, con under rand it. Ir's not really a full-scale biography a much as a tented woman. In writing and peaking, her enthu ia m bur ts character study of Dohn on]." Lyndon Johnson wa a critical and through every story, making it eem a though each telling is the popular success, and the confidence it gave Goodwin led her to flrsr. he delightedly describe her fanaticism for baseball- he experiment more with her writing. In The Fitzgeralds and The recounted entire Brooklyn Dodgers game for her fatherwhen Kennedys, he says, he set out to create a world for reader . 23 APRIL 1995 COLBY ( work ing that much harJer to fu lfill her promi!:>e. But she al o i avvy enough to use her hushanJ's influence to push her agenda. Just a� The Ficzgeralds and the Kennedys proved to Go dwin I that he was a writer, No Ordinary Time gave her a chance to grow as a hi::.torian. It was the fir t hook for which she had no spec ial acce s to the subject and, like the Kennedy book, wa written after years of meticulous res arch-including combing the holJing!> at the Roosevelt library in Hyde Park, N.Y., and conducting hunJreJs of interview� with the Roo·evelt ' chil Jren , granJchildren, other re latives an ten ahout the Roosevelt , Goodwin i the fir t to make _J exten:ive u e of daily Ing kept by White Hou e u·her . She offers new in ights into the Roosevelts' lives ba ed on the The phone is seldom silent at the Goodwin home . che author in demand cakes a call from a TV re/)(Jrtcr. Abot•e, log , which recorded the coming anJ going of Franklin, Eleanor and their numerous fnen CO LBY APRI L 1995 24 But if you go over that line beyond the evidence and you claim something is true just because you want it to be so or because it titillates the audience, then 1 think you lose the readers' trust." Still, Goodwin's take on her ubjects hasn't been overly reverent. She has admired each of them but hasn't hesitated to write about their failings. She ays that's partly because she understands her re pan ibility as a historian to tell the truth and partly because she got to know one pre ident when she wa o young. "lt just made me think about the president in human terms," she aid of her time with Johnson. "In ome ways, probably because of seeing him day in and day out in those last years of his life and realizing the kind of turmoils and ordinary struggle he was challenged by in those la t years, it made me really see beneath the formal imagery of what he was doing as a president to the private joys and adnesses he was encountering at the same time." More than 300 people turned out to hear Goodwin speak at a Colby Chalk up her tyle, too, to "the fe male interest in relationships Club event in Wellesley. and in people," Goodwin said. She saw in Johnson's final years a cautionary tale about the price for putting one's profession above ant revelations-Joe Kennedy's decision to order a lobotomy all else. John on got o accu tamed to company that he could not for daughter Rosemary without Ro e Kennedy's knowledge, be alone-he even made aides talk to him while he sat on the the uncovering of an anti-Semitic letter written by Joe Jr. toilet and insisted they swim with him, doing a slow side stroke, and Goodwin heard that some members of the family weren't in a White House pool o choked with floating desks and drink pleased. "But as it turned out," she aid, "they eventually read holders and trays that there wa hardly room for people. He the book, and becau e the Fitzgerald part was new to a lot of sacrificed familyli fe and made those who worked for him sacrifice them they were willing to not just stereotype it from what it, too. By the time he retired to the ranch he had become uch a they'd read in the newspapers." workaholic and micromanager that he tormed and fretted if his A proposed next book may be less likely to ruffle egos. chickens weren't laying enough eggs. He hoped history would Goodwin and hu band Richard, who is the author of several remember him for the Great Society re- books and wrote The New Yorker's "Talk forms, but he probably knew that he wa of the Town" column for many years, more likely to be remembered for escalat- Goodwin offers new plan to collaborate on a book that will ing the Vietnam War. take several presidential decisions and Goodwin's examinations of]ohnson, insights into the tell each like a story. 'Truman firing the Kennedys and the Roosevelts are McArthur, Wilson and the League of Roosevelts' lives based unstintingly honest, despite her admira- Nations, Lincoln deciding to provision tion for and friendships within the fami- on the daily logs kept by Fort Sumter, th�reby bringing on the lie involved. "You have to be willing to Civil War.... It'll be like a biography of pay that price of some of those social White House ushers, the presidency, in a certain sense," Goodwin said, "because each will illus- relationships becoming strained, as long which recorded the as you feel honest about what you've trate a different power." done," she said. "I'm not trying to 'get' comings and goings of Goodwinalso has been asked towrite thesepeople-so there'snota tonalprob- about her childhood on Long Island in !em-but there will be things that they Franklin, Eleanor and the 1950s and about the way loyalty to don't feel good about. If somebody were their numerous friends one of New York's three baseball teams writing about my family I wouldn't want helped new suburbanites retain their anything negative written either." and guests. links with the city. "I'm really tempted She says she didn't worry too much to do it," she said, "because I can't spend l'======.i about what Johnson's relatives would ten years of research on it-there won't think of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. "The bigger be that much. And again, it's part of that challenge of trying to worry was him, even though he was dead. I sometimes have the figure out a new formand whether I can do it or not. So I've been feeling that even now he's looking down and saying, 'How reading memoirs lately ...." come the book on me is the shortest of the three?"' Early Take note, autobiographers. The competition is about to reviews of The Fitzgera/.ds and the Kennedys focused on unpleas- get stiff. 25 APRIL 1995 COLBY Mundy Inspires ' Positive Reactions . By tephen Collin '74 II t' hard not to notice first year of a doctoral making molecule to mimic I M iseI is Professor of Chem rrogram in chemistry. A L� culty natural ub tance produced istry BraJford Mundy. On the Mundy's research as i tant, by plant and animals. He fir t day of Organic Chemis he ay , he di:,covered has ynthesized natural sex try cla sin the fall of l 992, "- mething I really loved." "[ I'ile attractants (pheromone ) of recalls Sarri "Sarg " alman als 1 wanted somebody to pine hark beetles, Dougla Fir '94, "thi tall guy walks in care ahout me and I really T us ock moths and A ian wearing boots and a big belt think Mundy did," he said. atanol, a natural product u ed civet cat . He developed a buckle that says "Bozeman ," Frank Favaloro '96, one in Mexico as a folk meJ icin new way ro make one of the and l thought, 'Boze Man? of �even tudent work ing and a contraceptive. he aid ub ranee in the venom of What i· that1 Some kind of with Mundy as re earch he got excited about chemi - the fire ant and recreated the nickname ? What kind of a · istants thi, �eme ·ter, try a a high �cho 11 junior in toxic oil of hemlock that profe- or is th is?'" switched to a chcmi:-itry T exa , hut it wa:. her lab work killed aerate . It diJn't take long for biochemistry major after with Mundy that com·inced "At Colby," he explained, alman to answer hi own "we are trying to understand que tion. Bo:eman, it turneJ how atom uch a oxygen, out, i where Mundy used to nitrogen and ulfur, when teach in the graduate replacing a carbon arom, chemi try program at ub tanrially alter how the Mont ana tate University. material react." And the story of Mundy' · In addition to ongoing imract on Salman and that re earch, Mundy ha Organic hemistry clas · is publi hed two chemi try representative of the imprint textbooks ince 1992, both he's made upon Colby ·ince with aunder, , a divi ion of arriving three year ago. Harcourt Brace. But teach Mundy's credential - are ing, he :ay , i hi greatest impeccable and his penchant pa�·ion. "! enjoy hawing for hard work is obvious, youn women and men the evidenced by his duti e· as excitement of my field." department chair, hi Brad Mundy, right, discusses an expenmentw1th research assistants His career in the cla sroom workload on the Promotion Evelyn Oliveras ·95 and Frank Favaloro '96. b gan in 1967 at Montana and Tenure Committee and tate where he worked for25 his ongoing research in the taking Mundy's organic her, "Thi· is the onl thing I years, including two detours field of natural product chemi try clas·. "He'· ju ta know I can do every day, day into admini tration, a the synthesis. His reputation as a great, great teacher," he aid. in and da out." a ·ociate dean of the college gifted scienti t preceded him, Favaloro prai e · Mundy' Mundy ay- re earch i· of letter- and cience and a a but it i Mundy's enthu ia m teachin , hi acce sibility th cap tone of the in ·truc National cience Foundati n and approachability that and hi enthusiasm, but he is tional program. "It's true," program officer in Wa hing students often mention when most awed by the depth of he aid. "Colby students are ton, D.C. The admini trative describing him. M undy' · knowledge. When working on the ame kind of experience helped convince Salman says Mundy' one of the other re earch project· l u ed to give my him that "[ really liked my job "infectiou love of chemi - as i rants reported in a group Ph.D. tudents-they are a a professor-the teachino try" prompted him to declare session that he had u eel engaged in high-level and re earch." chemistry a a major even "The Mundy Reaction," as research." The work goe When he aw an ad for though it required an extra the procedure is officially more slowly with under the position at Colby and year on campus to fu lfill the known, Favaloro was sold. "[ graduates because they need how well he fit the criteria, requirement . Salman had hope I can know that much to learnproc edures and he decided to apply. "It high hopes for his under someday," he said. safety habits along with the eemed a po ition de igned graduate experience, he aid Evelyn Olivares '95 is theory. "It' slower, but it is for me," he said. Mundy's recently from a lab at Bo ton working with Mundy on a still very rewarding," he said. arrival at Colby coincided College where he is in the new way to ·ynrhesize z ap- Mundy' research involve with a period when the COLBY AP R IL 1995 26 Chemistry Department was additional space. the year and he expects to tudents that the facilities on a roll. In the last five years On top of all that, this make his selection before are as good as many graduate the number of chemistry winter Mundy was named a graduation. "It's really going programs offer. From my majors has more than 1994 Camille & Henry to have a positive impact on own experience I can agree." doubled, from 15 in 1989-90 Dreyfus Scholar. In that the program," he said. McArthur ees Mundy a to 36 now, according to Dean capacity, he will have a "This is an exciting a case tudy of how an of Faculty Robert McArthur. postdoctoral fe llow working place," aid Mundy, who is endowed chair can help the Introductory courses are alongside him in the labor in his second year as a College. "After Frank increasingly popular with atories and classrooms for fac ulty resident in Taylor Miselis '43, endowed the non-majors as well. The the next two years. Julie Hall. "The fac ilities are chair in chemi try we number of summer re earch Millard, Clare Booth Luce out randing, the fac ulty are launched a national search a sistants tripled in two years. Assistant Professor of exciting-thoroughly fora senior person and After a dozen years during Biochemistry and a Dreyfus engaged in teaching and recruited Mundy. He' had which no chemistry faculty postdoctoral fellow at the scholarship-and the an immediate impact in had received tenure, two University of Richmond administration is outstand chemistry, in the cience earned tenure in the last two before coming to Colby, ing." And despite coming division and on Colby as a years-Associate Professor nominated Mundy for the from a graduate program, whole as a member of the David Bourgaize in 1994 and mentorship. "It's an honor for he's impressed with the Promotion and Tenure Associate Professor D. Brad," he said. "It's recogni equipment. "People may Committee and as an active Whitney King this year. A tion that he' an outstanding moan, but I challenge them participant in faculty couple of major grants poured teacher and cholar." to vi it many state schools, recruitment efforts. ' more than 2 million into Colby students and and they'll know they're in But the industrious upgrading the chemistry labs chemist!) professors are hog heaven," he said. "! wish Mundy is not resting on his and expanding the depart excited about having another more students had the laurels. "It i my hope to have ment's space into a new chemi-t in the department, opportunity to see other one of the leading under bridge between Keyes and all expenses paid, to help places so that they could graduate chemistry depart Arey. And, when construc with teaching and lab realize the excellence of ment in the U.S.," he said. tion of the new Olin science re earch. Mundy aid that Colby. We have visiting "Give us a couple of more building i completed, impres ive re umes began scientists come to our years and I think we have a chemi try will inherit arriving at the beginning of seminar program and tell the real shot to get there." + PUNDITS & PLAUDITS Shelve "Mockingbird"? Shrinking Waste Line Responding to a controversy in a Spokane, Wa h., Distinguished Presidential Professor of American Go ern high chool over attempts to remove the Pulitzer Prize ment G. Calvin Mackenzie told USA Today that despite sugges winning no el To Kill a Mockingbird from freshman En tions to the contrary, federal governmentactually shrank during gli hcl asses becau eofits portrayal ofblack ,Cedric Gael the first two years of President Clinton's administration. Bryant told the Spokesman-Review that the key issue is Pointing out that the federal work force decreased by 86,000 how the book is taught. between 1992 and 1994, Mackenzie said, "Government isn't Bryant, associate professor of English, aid To Kill a getting bigger. It' getting smaller." Mockingbird i "ju tifiably reviled" unless it is put into proper "These are some of the most significant cuts we've ever had context by the teacher presenting it. in peace time," he said. "The book reaffirms what already is a given for African Americans: that it's very easy to be victimized without the Guns and Butter lightest provocation and the chance go up exponentially if The Miami Herald, in a report about profiteering scheme b you are a black male," Bryant told the newspaper. "Any ixteen former military officers in Latin American countries, quoted year-old black person knows there are more options [than those Associate Professor of Economics and International Studie pre ented in the book] and rejects ...polarized social con Patrice Franko. struction forblack men." Franko, who has done extensive research on the Latin Bryant said To Kill a Mockingbird should be taught "because American defense industry, said that many of the region's largest of its historical importance and as a metaphor for its own racial armies are getting rid of military industries established many moment." But he questioned whether it should be the only years ago. "They are going through a divestiture," she said. novel dealing with race in a high school literature curriculum. In many countries, however, army officials are involved in He suggested Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, business operations that have nothing to do with their country's Beloved, as an alternative. defense, the article reported. 27 APRIL 1995 COLBY Tr apped 1n a Circle of Fate By J. Kevin ool f Maria Elena had taken �park uses an unu::iu Elena begin a courtship, fall fo ur main characters. "None fe mini t per pective. "I gue s he confront Sandrofo, in love and eventually plan of them were reliable you could interpret it that who confe e that he is not to marry. But as their narrators on their own," she way, but that's not what I et who he claims to be. relationship evolves, Maria aid. "I wanted to see the out to do," she aid. Sandrofo, it seems, Elena is nagged by doubt-. same events through each of The relationships among believe one can change Although she mistrusts her the characters' eyes." the triplets articulate Spark's identities like coats. But intuition, she is bothered The three male charac theme about the search for Maria Elena, with Beatriz's by Sandrofo's shadowy ters in the book all are de identity. Tata is self-as ured help, comes to understand history and his unwilling scribed in the third per on. and popular; Melone is "the that who we are is a product ness to discuss it. Mean In addition to Sandrofo are mart one," witty and self of the sum of our live . "FatE while, the triplets-Tata, Rayovac (yes, like the deprecating; and Beatriz is is identity," Maria Elena's Beatriz and Melone-are battery), who lobbies for a quiet and introspective and friend Lucia tells her. "You dealing with their own fears, job at the bakery to be near more than a little neurotic. aren't your choice , but you desires and insecurities. er to Melone, and Angelo, a All of them understand are the product of what is to C LBY APRIL 1995 28 Arendell's examination of "gender strategies" employed by men in her research group reveals the extent to which society influences behavior after divorce. Parenting activities and Fresh Prints relationships driven by a "masculine discourse of divorce" is a Luisa Gonzalez primary focus of the book. At the Bottom: A Wo man's Life in Central America Arendell ays men who were committed to traditional Edited by Robert French '70 beliefs about gender differences and whose views about men's New Earth Publications and women's respective family roles were conventional were Thi English translation of the award most likely to engage in long-term overt conflict with their Bottom At the winning book by Costa Rican author former wives. She sees this as more evidence of men's reluc Luisa Gonzalez recounts the story of tance to let go of male prerogative. Gonzalez's mother, an illiterate woman An earlier book by Arendell, Mothers and Divorce: Legal , Eco who e sacrifices made it possible for nomic, and Social Dilemmas, dealt with women's roles afterdivorce. her daughter to obtain an education. Set in the qualor of a San Jose Anestes G. Fotiades '89 barrio in the early 20th century, At Colby College: A Venture of Faith the Bottom captures the dignity and Alan Sutton Press vitality of the men and women from A pictorial history of the College Gonzalez's childhood. The story of from 1813 to 1963, A Venture of Faith how she and her family struggled to focuses on the people and events that break the cycle of poverty and illit have shaped Colby. eracy is especially poignant because the riches they seek are of Compiled and written by Anestes the mind and spirit and not merely of money. G. Fotiades '89, the book contains At the Bottom received the prestigious Costa Rican Aquileo more than 200 photographs from the J. Echeverria Award for outstanding achie ement in literature Colby archives, including the oldest in 1970. The book was translated by Regina Pu tan, a long-time known photograph of Colby, a da North American activist who has worked to improve the lives guerreotype taken in 1856 of South of Latin American people. The book was edited by Robert College, Recitation Hall and North French, who is director of the United Front Child Develop College on the old campus. ment Programs of New Bedford, Mas . In addition to providing a visual chronology, A Venture of Faith fe atures a colorful and enigmatic cast of characters whose Terry Arendell, Sociology tories are ometimes well known and sometimes obscure. For Fathers And Divorce example, one page of photographs is dedicated to Samuel Sage Publications Osborne, an African-American born into slavery in Virginia Based on interviews with 75 divorced fathers in ew York state, who worked for 37 years at Colby a a janitor and whose Arendell's tudy explores the attitudes and actions of men dealing daughter, Marion Thompson Osborne, in 1900 became the with custody issues, family separation and gender politics. College's first female black graduate. Arendell interprets the response of her subject u ing a The book follows the evolution of the Kennebec River narrative analysis consistent with a fe minist perspective. Most campus and devotes several pages to the move to Mayflower of the men perceive themselves to be victimized and their rights Hill, including photographs of dirt paths passing through tree violated by divorce. What emerges, according to Arendell, i less pastures in what is now Colby's bucolic campus. the perception of a divorce as a battle to be won or lost, with the Historic and no talgic, A Venture of Faith is a delightful former wife as the "enemy." voyage through Colby's colorful past. happen to you." ambiance of a Caribbean interesting because of my wanted to go, but when I In Coconuts lives pivot on legend, fu ll of imagery and relationship with my sister," started I didn't have an single events- uch as Maria sprinkled with mysticism, he said. ending in mind." Elena's decision to forego romance and sensuality. A veteran short story Spark is teaching three her insulin-but cannot Spark writes knowingly writer-she edited the sessions of fiction writing escape the reach of per onal about the difficulties anthology Twenty Under this spring, her first teaching hi tory, as Sandrofolearns . associated with defining Thirty- Spark says she assignment at Colby. The book's surprise ending one's elf. A twin her elf, worked on Coconuts for 10 "Anything I write helps , closes the circle between the she says her own experience year . "I wrote a chapter and bring ideas to the classroom, daughters' fate , Sandrofo's provided insights into the then another chapter and but the short stories actually true identity and Maria characters of the book. sort of putzed around for a are more instructive to my Elena's search for answers. "I find the questions and long time. I knew what I students than the novel," Coconuts conveys the conflicts about identity wanted to say and where I she said. + 29 APRIL 1995 COLBY Sleeping on the Job By Lynn Sullivan '89 tudent hen the day ends and been a nic surprise." Not all events are serious W most fac ulty leave Don Saucier, a junior e or organized. O'Neill says he Mayflower Hill, 11 members from We tport, Ma s., ays has participated in a bowling of the community walk to that seeing professor as if night for charity, continues their homes and their other "regular people" is a po itive to watch football and will jobs as fac ulty residents. experience. Saucier met ometime socialize in the Faculty living in residence O' eill, he ay , while lounge when students have hall apartments offer a \\"atching a "Monday ight that he' patronizing or gathered. In December, unique opportunity for Colby Football" game involving intruding," -aid Saucier. Weisberger hosted a Hanuk students, although at first the Miami Dolphin . aucier O' eill, now in hi third kah party for the tudents, some students are leery of and his friends were reac t- year living on campus, ay and he often ho ts di cu - their presence because of a that he get a much back ion in re pon e to Spot misconception that they are from the tudent a he and light events. He ay he disciplinarians or administra regularly attend the hall' tion moles. They live on Thursday night study break campus to foster a sense of to watch the TV sitcom community, elevate cultural and, like O' eill, Seinfeld understanding, provide a watches "Monday Night more intellectual atmo-phere Football" with the tudent . and give students a chance to A i tant Profes or of interact with profe sors pani h Alison Maginn and outside of the clas room. husband John O' eill, Although not all fac ulty director of the Colby in members can participate and Cuemavaca program, have not all students take logged two year a faculty advantage of the opportuni re ident in Dana. tie offered, those who do "It's been a fine experi praise the program. ence for u ," said Maginn, "Having Kerill in the who e ub tance-free parties dorm has broken down the with pani hand Latin tereotype that I had Kerill O'Neill and Judy La nders chat with students in Treworgy Hall. American themes have adopted of a college profes- become popular events for or," said junior Grace silencing the group. When Landers give. many Dana tudents. "I Jeanes about Assistant the Miami team made a "There is an added would have a diffe rent Professor of Classics Kerill mi take, says Saucier, clo ene · with the students," impression of Colby if I were O'Neill, who lives with his O'Neill (a Dolphins fan ) wa said O'Neill, who sometimes ju t in the classroom. I wife, Judy Landers, in visibly and vocally upset. organize di cus ions around admire [the students] more Treworgy Hall. "I thought "We all thought, 'He mu t school i sues or Spotlight having lived with them." they'd be unapproachable, be okay.' I think of Kerill as a lectures. "We allow them to Faculty who choose to quiet and only talk academ friend now. I can talk to him reach a diffe rent level, maybe live on campus admit to ics. Having him here has about everything. I never feel have a discussion they never sacrificing a certain amount have had before. It is a of privacy and quiet. "It can casual, easy relationship." wear on you, being around Assistant Professor of 18- to 21-year-olds, 24 hours Sociology and Anthropology a day, seven days a week," Tamaura Kenton '9 of Baldwin, Md., was co-author of an article a 5 Adam Weisberger, f culty said Weisberger. "I get off in the about the gene isolation research Journalof Molecular Biology resident in Goddard campus to preserve my in which she collaborated with three other scientists. The research Hodgkins, says he tries to do sanity. I am virtually certain stemmed from a project Kenton began during a Colby Jan Plan at something formal once a of the fact that I have good Johns Hopkins University. She later presented her research at the month to help "elevate relationships, though." 2 lst annual Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Conference on Undergraduate cultural respect in the Maginn adds that one of Research in Biology. residence hall." the drawbacks of residential COLBY APRI L 1995 30 A Song for Joey oey Mc lain i perhap· as we ll known t)Colby students for inging folk ongs in the Coffeehou ea he is for making the menu in Fo s dining hall. Th popularity of the gregariou · Feud for Thought Jfood service manager terns in part From greeting hungry In early Januciry, the tudent Asso imion, the Dean\ tudents as th ey walk into the vegetarian-oriented dining hall ffice ;rnd the Non-Al oholi Programming Fund coordi and from playing his guitar at olhy any chance he get . nated a olby fac u l ty "Family Feud" game in the Page 0111- In both case , many tudents love to s e him. And if it mom Room at the Student Center. The well-attended event weren't for one of tho e students Mc lain, 37, aid he would fe ·1tured a "jock " team, ompo:;ed of various 'olby ;1thktic never have picked up a guitar. department coaches and administrators, and an "intcllccru;d" Colby student heard me "A team, mac.le up of olby professors from severa l dis i p l ines. singing in the kitchen, and she The profc!>sOr!>,capt ained by W illi am R. Kenan Jr. Professor said, 'Hey, why don't you ·ing of ovcrnment andy Maise l, took an early I ad in the match. with my boyfriend and me,"' Mc The jocks caught up quickly, however, led by aprnin Laura Clain aid. "T w Jays later, they Halldorson, head coach of the women'. varsity ice hockey came over t my apartment and team . Thegame went into extra rounds and the coa hes' team we pract iced." Hi new partner fi nally won. Chaplin ommon:, president Andy Vernon '96, old him a guitar and "I haven't who organized a similiar event last fall, says the game is very put it down since," aid Mc lain. popular with olby students. "It was a fe el-good event (or That was five years ago. everyone," he aid. Since then, he has been the Foss dining hall manager for four years Get Out There (he was a chef in Dana for two) and Joey McClain One of ol hy's oldest rudent organizations is abo its most has played at C !by more than 13 popular, accord i ng to a recent opinion poll ponsoreJ by th times-at least five in collaboration with students. And if he tudent Association. wasn't playing, "l was helping them et up becau e I have my The Outing l uh, 920, w s se lected by stu own P.A. y tern," he said. founded in J a dents as ti eir fa vorite in the pol l condu red in l ate F hru ry. "He's not a dining hall manager per se," said Sa ha Although the club sponsors cross country skiing, canoeing and Cornell '96 . "He's really more of a fr iend." kayaking trips throughout Maine, student said they would McClain' fir t concert, in Fos , was a tribute to El Salvador. like to ee the Outing !uh even more active. He ha often played at "open mike nigh " and performed at the The Environmental ouncil, the Bridge and the olby Vol International Extravaganza in the tudent enter la t year. unteer enter al o were among students' favorite organ izations. "Anyone who make magic when they ing inspire me," said McClain, who describes his music a folk with a twi t of New Age jazz that combines rock, hlues and jazz riff . "lf you've Days and Knights ever gotten totally lost in a ong you'll kn w what I mean." Ten years after their last appearance at olhy and 17 yecir!> After a heavy snow storm last year, McClain said he wa after their performanc in the movie Animal I-lousem ade them forced to pend the night in Fo . Student brought him a famuu , Ot is Day and the Knight re t urned to perform at a mattres , pillows and covers to make hi tay in the dining "toga party" pon orecl hy tudent Association c n M<1r h 4. hall more comfortable. Lead inger Otis Day, who e rendition of " hour" became a "We ang ong and told torie until two a.m.," he aid. party anthem for a gener tion of col lege students, tc le.I the Echo "I'm on campus even when I'm not working, and that opens he enjoyed his returnvi it to olhy and was happy that students up avenues for fr iendships." had embraced hi mu ic, ven if it rook a movi to do it. life occurs during the winter tolerant of [their lifestyle ]." coolest people in the world . student · they've met in the months when her ground The families of faculty She relates well with the residence hall. "[Adam level apartment roof becomes become a part of the residen kid . She know more We i herger] is one of my a tarting point for sledder . tial life as well. Maginn' [ tudent than 1 d . clo est friends here at "Sometime they forget we are daughter, Hannah O'Neill, " omeI of the students olhy," aid Kara Marchant below them, and we'll politely 10, ace mpanie students on end up babysitting or going '97 of Lakeville, onn. "We ask them to stop," she said. Friday aftemo ns when they outside to play with Han have similar per nal "When we decided to [be take pet to area nursing nah," said Maginn. "There i situations and we can t lk to • faculty residents] we were home for a olby Volunteer a fa mily atmosphere here; we each other. There is no conscious of moving in on Center program called Pet bring a fa mily and a bit of question that I wi 11 al way) their terrain. We can't expect Therapy. "She loves the culture into his institution." keep in touch with him. them to live like middle-aged students," said Maginn. "T a ome faculty re ident Plus, he makes a me n cup profe or so we try to be 10-year-old, these are the b come good friends with of tea when you're sick." + 31 APRIL 1995 COLBY Gift of Sketch Books a "C oup "cior M useum By J . Cool Kevin hree sketch books by Cott r called the TWilliam Glackens Glackens sketch books (1870- 1938), a member of "magn ificent." "We don't The Eight, or Ashcan have in our collection a rants School, recently were do major Glacken- work , so this Gifts& nated to the Colby Museum is a wonderful add ition to f Art by the Sansom Foundation, e tab! ished by -r�{f the artist's late on, Ira. The - I gift to Colby came about as ' • II ' the result of th friend hip I\ betvveen Stanford Becker, a board member of the foundation, and Paul J. chupf, a olby trustee and member of the museum' board of governors,who has been a major suprorter of the museum over the last decade. When Ira Glacken died, most of the paintings in his estate were di tributed to the foundation and the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Museum. Subsequently, the founda tion decided to distribute certain works to educational institution , Becker say . He contacted Schupf, a long time client and "a very clo·e the museum," he said. "We The three ketch book Henri, are credited with friend," about the pos ibility are extremely grateful ro contain a total of I 06 liberating arti ts from the of donating three Glackens Sandy Becker, to Paul and to charcoal, pencil and red con traint of academicians sketch books to Colby. "Paul the fo undation." chalk drawings. They when, in 1907, they thought it was a fine idea," Schupf, who has contrib includ land capes, view of mounted their own exhibi Becker said. "There wa no uted 650,000 toward park and town and fu 11y tion in defiance of the purpose in keeping them in a con ·rruction of the Kat: modeled human figure . ational Academy of warehouse collecting dust. Wing at the mu eum, aid "Sketch books provide the Design, which had rejected They should be in a place having the Glackens ketch viewer with a pecial many of their submi sions. where they can be een and books "is a big coup for opport unit y to see the They were derisively referred appreciated." Colby." "The foundation spontaneous respon e of the to as The Ashcan Group. As Schupf ays he was on the di tributed books to a few artist to subject matter," Glacken began to devote phone to President Bill carefully selected institutions, Museum Director Hugh more of hi time to painting, Cotter "in about two including Colby," he aid. Gourley said. Gourley says, he was seconds" after Becker's call. Schupf praised Becker' Gourley says Glackens influenced by the work of "President Cotter wrote a persuasiveness in convincing who was a newspaper the French lmpre ionists, brilliant letter outlining the Sansom Foundation to illustrator early in his especially Renoir. what the Colby museum had place Colby on its list of bene career-was dismissed by "We are particularly and its focus on American factors. "Sandy has a great most critics of his time fortunate to receive such art. Colby has other works bedside manner and he is a because of his realistic fine work by a major figure by artist from the Group of very trustworthy guy, so his re portrayal of everyday life. in the development of 20th Eight, so this was a good commendation to the found G lac kens and seven other century American art," match," Schupf said. ation carried a lot of weight." artists, including Robert Gourley said. COL BY APRIL 1995 32 The Marsons Keep Giving It was a classic win-win cant cash flow during my chair of the Board of situation. David Marson '48, retirement, but also help Trustees. Both Marson' who, along with hi wife, Colby. The remainder trust currently serve a Dorothy, recently estab- was a good way to achieve correspondents for the li hed a $100,000 charitable both of those," he said. Class of '48 and have remainder trust for Colby, Based on a 5 percent won Colby Bricks, and aid the gift satisfied both hi - return on a $100,000 he received the need for retirement income principle, the tru st would Marriner Distinguished and for providing an provide approximately Service Award. His important source of funds for $130,000 in before-tax family provided funds the College. income for the next 17 for the Marson Com Marson retired recently a years. As the principal mon Ground Room in chief executive officer of appreciates over the trust' the Student Center. The New Can Company, life span, the benefit to Marson ays he has Inc., a Holbrook, Ma ., fim1 Colby would be $229,000. been back to Colby in 44 that manufactures metal The unitrust would provide of the 4 7 year ince hi rubes and components for income for Marson, who is graduation. "Dorothy and the filter industry. Mar on 6 , every year until age 95. I have put about 40,000 Dorothy and David Marson '48 and hi brother, Richard, Mar on ha long been mile on our cars, driving have operated the family one of the College' most back and forth to Waterville," graduate, says his long and bu ine since the 1950s. As active and supportive he said. deep association with the he planned forhis retire alumni. He previou ly has "I see Colby as a real College ha- been one of the ment, Marson says he wa erved as chair of the citadel of higher learning," most rewarding aspects of his looking for a way to help his Annual Fund, chair of the Marson said. "And Bill Cot life. "So many of my closest alma mater without overex Alumni Council and ter is one of the fine t chief relation hips have Colby tending himself financially. member of the Alumni executive I've ever met." connections. It's only "I needed something that Counci 1 Structure Task Marson, whose daughter natural for me to want to would provide some signifi- Force an over eer and vice Deborah is a 1975 Colby give back to it," he said. "A Ticket to Opportunity" trengthening an already deep commitment to supporting Ottaway, who till spends much of hi time in Africafor S African-American students, David and Marina Ottaway, the Post, says he was overseas during most of Robin's four parents of Robin Ottaway '95, have established a full tuition years at Colby. Not forgotten, however, was a discussion he scholarship with a $300,000 gift to Colby's endowment. and Marina had with Cotter about minority scholarships David Ottaway, whose career has included stints as a South when their on was in his first year at Colby. When they met Africa correspondent forThe Wa shington Post, ays he and again last year, the Ottaways followed up with a propo al to his wife establi hed the scholarship to help Colby attract create a special scholarship for African-American students African-American students and to honor South African with need. "'W'e see education as the only way out for President Nelson Mandela. Marina Ottaway is an Africa African Americans," Ottaway said. "They are disadvantaged scholar and author who has collaborated with her husband in so many ways. Education is a ticket to opportunity." on three books and wrote her ownbook about South Africa. The Ottaways have funded African-American scholar- "While we fully realize that one scholarship does nor ships at other institutions, including fellow hips for children solve the problem, we know that Colby has had difficulty at a private Quaker school in Washington, D.C., and attracting minority students because of its location," fe llowships fordoctoral students at Columbia University. Ottaway said. He says the scholarship was named for Recipients of the Mandela scholarships will be selected on Mandela, whom he first met while living in South Africa their academic ability and financial need. The scholarship soon after Mandela was released frompr ison in 1990, will support fouryears of the tudent's education at Colby, at because "we really admire him and see him as a symbol of which time another recipient will be chosen. racial reconciliation." "David and Marina are both fascinating people," President William Cotter say he has known the Otta- Cotter said. "It's extraordinary to receive a gift of this ways "for a very long time," dating back to when Cotter was kind from current parents. It's a great help for the cam- president ,_,fthe AfricanAme rican Institute. "David was paign, which focuses on financ ial aid endowment, and working on South African issues at that time and so was I, their particular interest in helping minority students and that's how we came to know each other," Cotter said. makes it even more special." 33 APRIL 1995 COLBY Short.,term Jobs Go a Long Way By Stephen )_ Collins '74 here' a reason they call their v COLBY APRI L 1995 34 � ' NOTHING NEW Anecdotes from tl1e Colby Arcl1ives The Butler Did It A now dead but long-honored tradition at Colby, False Or At Colby in 1872 there was no place to go. ders, called for men of the sophomore class to lampoon some Dorms were rustic; steam heat had been installed only in the member or institution of the College. By 1900 False Orders previous year, and re idence halls " had taken the shape of a publication called The War Cry. In lacked indoor plumbing. In fact, the 1903, for � the econd con ecutive year and in defiance of only bathroom facilities on campu � ii College President Charles L. White, the sophomores inter were located in a primitive, decrepit . - I I rupted the annual Fre hman Read mg to announce and dis structure that survived despite f.IS . tribute the new issue of The War Cry. Outraged, White, repeated requests by students for � who a few months earlier had banned dancing at College replacement. And o on the night �� parties, suspended every man in the Cla s of 1905. of May 14, 1872, six students et fire �I� The re ult of that action wa the Student Strike to the campus privy. Little was left ·-t:l o'. 1903. Freshmen, juniors and seniors in the men's except for the bare tone walls. The · • . d1v1s1on demanded the reversal of the suspension and authorities investigated and sub threatened to boycott classe and commencement exercise . In peonas were issued, but mysteriously, solidarity with the men, the women of the Class of 1905 the case was quickly squelched. The declared that theywere equally deserving of puni hment. The fugitive leader of the Privy Arson strike had more bark than bite; after a flurry of meetings and the Gang was Nathaniel Butler Jr. '73, the son of a Colby alumnus appointment of a trustee commission, life returned to normal. and long-time Colby trustee. The incident did not damage In the end, commencement was held and the sophomores Butler's future with the College, however. In 1 95 he became missed a few day of classe . Colby's 12th president. Meehan said that, "with a college graduate he didn't liberal education, there' not know what to expect. Job Fare a ready-made slot for you." Meehan decided that Even a quick glance down the roster of Jan Plan field Colby students hould internship experience wa experiences this year makes clear that Colby students are graduate with good writing important enough that he taking full advantage of the College's ambitious program and communications skills would support his daughter of internship placements. and out randing analytical economically so she could The Office of Off-Campus Study, led by director Jon abilities, but sometimes accept an unpaid position Weiss and associate director Linda Cotter, organized 253 research and creativity are with a congressman in field placements in 30 states and 13 foreign countries required to merge those with Washington, D.C. during the recent January Program. Some examples: a suitable career. Internships Whether it was econ *Rebecca Nash '97 of Wayzata, Minn., developed an are part of that research, he omics savvy, parental eco-tourism project at Corcovado National Park in the ays, speaking as a mentor to guesswork or a combin Peninsula De Osa, Costa Rica. Colby students and from ation, Meehan reports that *Erin Carmichael '95 of Essex Junction, Vt., worked personal experience with he backed a winner when with the Vermont Department of Corrections to develop his daughters. he put money on his a leisure-time program for offenders. Two years ago Meehan's daughter. It was less than *Colin DeBakker '97 of Hudson, Mass., assisted in a daughter Shana graduated a month before Shana research project at the New England Regional Primate from Hartwick College in had a job at a trade organi Research Center at Harvard Medical School. Oneonta, N.Y. As a zation in addition to *Erin Duggan '97 of Chappaqua, N.Y., completed a specialist in the economics evening and weekend media internship at the NBC News program Dateline in of industry Meehan knows hours at a mall retail store. New York. all about corporate down Not only is she making it *Jason Kidwell '96 of Augusta, Maine, worked in the sizing and the declining inside the Beltway, she's public relations department for the Baltimore Orioles. numbers of white-collar putting money away for her According to Jason Mahoney '95, his internship at the jobs in an era of fl at growth fu ture, just like her dad law firm of Morris, James, Hitchins and Williams in his and increased global counsels his economics hometown of Wilmington, Del., provided valuable expe competition and the effects students to do. rience as well as a chance to evaluate his chosen career they have had on new "In a tough job market, field. "I am considering attending law school, and this graduates entering the the role you play as a parent experience will allow me to make an educated decision," work force. But as the is increasingly important," he said. "If I decide that I do want to attend law school, parent of a new liberal art Meehan said. this work experience will help me get intoa good school." 35 APRIL 1995 COLBY Heart of a Winner � By Lynn Sullivan '89 Walker is not · yler '96 "He is a tremendou ex around," aid Walker, who i Tone of the star of the ample of a hard worker and a ule Son re pon ible during practice Colby men's basketball team, vital team member." Move the for guarding enior tri but you'd never know it by Walker's contrihution captain Matt Gaudet, the the way his coaches and aren't sinking three-point team's leading corer and teammates talk about him. shots, making key rebound potential All-American. "[In "Tyler is one of the most or erring up play . "Every practice I get] to challenge focused guys we have," said day in practice Tyler works the tarter . The be t thing head coach and athletic harder than anyone el e [on T.J. Maine , a enior tri i playing against the good director Dick Whitmore. the court]," said teammate captain from Augu ta, and great player everyday." Maine. "He i · definitely a Walker, a 5'7" point leader. During game he guard, says that despite the get everyone involv d and fru tration of limited get [the player Jon their playing time, basketball is feet clapping." hi first love and he'll Mo t game Walker is on participate until he no the hench awaiting a rare longer ha fun- omething chance to play. The Hamp he hope never happen . ton, .H., native-who wa "I'm n t going to ay I'm cut from the team hi first content with [not playing]," year-has een roughly 20 aid Walker, "but I'm not minute of playing time going to expre s it. To during the pa t two ea on . complain about playing time That do n't faze Walker, would be ridiculou ... it who remain · enthu ia tic. di rupt team unity. It's "I get to pl y again t one natural to think you can play Tyler Walker in a familiar pose-guarding Matt Gaudet in practice. of the b t point guard and it' t ugh ometimes not A Whit of Difference As an exclamation point career record and a winning on Dick Whitmore' 25th percentage (.699) that's one year as head coach, the of the be t in ew England. men's basketball team He was named the 1994-95 breezed through the bulk of Maine State Colleg Ba ket its schedule, at one point ball Coach of the Year by the winning 1 7 straight games, Maine Basketball Coaches to compile its seventh 20- and Writer Association. win season in a row. It Led by senior guard Matt marked the 22nd winning Gaudet of Rumford, Maine, season in Whitmore's Colby the White Mules fini hed the career, which also has regular season with a 20-4 included 19 Colby-Bates record. Gaudet, voted to the Bowdoin championships or All-NESCAC team, averaged Dick Whitmore was recognized for his 25 years at Colby in a ceremony at Wadsworth Gymnasium. co-championships and three 18.l points per game and Eastern Collegiate Athletic finished his career as Colby's tournament, lost 80-66 to regular season, a 78-70 loss to Conference titles. seventh all-time leading Williams in the first round. Bowdoin-was the longest Whitmore, who was scorer. The White Mules, The 17-game winning since the 1984-85 season named athletic director in seeded fifth in the Northeast streak-which ended in when the White Mules won 1987, has amassed a 424-183 Regional of the NCAA Colby's last game of the 22 straight game . + COLBY APR IL 1995 36 playing, but you have to know by his actions. He have respect for seniority never says a word and is and the guys who've paid alwa s positi e." their dues. Plus the number Walker was an outstand � 1 ;ce theu one thing with everyone on ing high school athlete, second straight�� appearance� in the ECAC�� hockey�� tournament the team is wanting to win." playing basketball and and finished the season with a 14-9-2 overall record. The team's Assistant coach Gerry occer and running track. best game came in January when they played to a 3-3 tie against McDowell '76 says Walker is The American studies Division I powerhouse Princeton University, a team that handed an asset to the team. "Tyler major says he came to the 1993 NCAA champion University of Maine it first las . is tremendously supportive Colby because of its Seeded fifth in the ECAC championship tournament,Colby lost of his teammates. He give academic reputation, not 9-2 in the quarterfinal round to eventual champion Salem State everything he's got from the because of athletics. College. The women's ice hockey team had its fir t winning bench to help us win A starting outside season in more than a decade, finishing with a 12-7-1 record. The games," he said. halfback on the men's White Mules posted wins over Yale, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Walker says it's hard to soccer team, Walker helped Harvard and ortheastem. First-year standouts Heather argue about minutes played lead the White Mules to Richardson and Meaghan Sittler were named ECAC rookies of when you're part of a highly an Ea tern Collegiate the week-Sittler twice. Sophomore Barb Gordon and Sittler successful team. Last year Athletic Conference have been invited to try out for the U.S. national team. the White Mules had a 21-4 championship in 1993 and record and were seeded to the tournament semifi 12th in the Nation econd in the orthea t nals in 1994. He was Four members of the women's squash team represented Colby Region of the ational elected a captain for next at the Individual Nationals this season-second team All Collegiate Athletic Associa season by his teammates. American Kate LaVig ne '95 of Paxton, Mass., first-year student tion (NCAA) Division Ill 'Tm pretty lucky. I've Sonia Totten ofTokyo, Ellen Derrick, a junior from West Falls, tournament. This year the been on two pretty success N .Y., and Sarah Molly, a sophomore fromIn donesia. The squad team went 20-5. fulteams even though I finished the season with a 16-11 overall record and a national "If I didn't want to play [in don't play much on one," ranking of 12, the highest in the 12-year history of the program. games] I wouldn't try hard in said Walker. practice," said Walker, who "Part of what you do in runs a basketball and soccer coaching is admire," said Best Season Ever camp during summers in Whitmore, "and it's easy to The National Intercollegiate Squash Racquet Association Hampton. "If I'm not going admire Tyler because of coach's poll selected Colby's men's squad as the recipient of the to play in games, I've got to everything that he brings to 1994-95 BarnabyTrophy, which is given to the most improved tryhard in some other ways. I the table every day. He is team in the nation. In addition, the squad received the Sum want to win as much as invaluable as far as the team mers Trophy for its performance at T earnNa tionals in Febru anyone on the team. You just is concerned." ary. With a 16-8 final record, they finished the season with a have to keep in mind that "I think of Tyler as a national ranking of 17-the best in the program's 24-year you're contributing to a leader," said Maines. "Next history. Junior Jamie Cheston, of Ambler, Pa., and first-year winning [program]." year, in my eyes, I think he student Dave Dodwell, of Warwick, Bermuda, represented the "Tyler never complains," should be a captain." White Mules at the Individual ationals. said Maines. "He may be Said McDowell, "Tyler down but you'd never has the heart of a winner." Roundup The women's indoor track and field squad placed second, third and fourth at the three New England Challenge Cup meets and J(j<:!king secured second at the Maine State Meet. The team finished fourth Still at the New England Division III championships and 13th at the It's been a while since Frank Stephenson '62 laced up his hockey skates, ECACs. Senior Lenia Ascenso was undefeated in the 1000 meters so it's no wonder the former All-American goalie misses the game. and 800 meters until the Division III championships, where she Currently an education consultant living in Ojai, Calif., Stephenson still placed 12th in the 800. Brooke Lorenzen '95 broke her own holds Colby records for lowest goal -against average in a season (2.18)- : school record in the 20-pound weight throw with a toss of et in 1961-62-and in a career After graduating he did a three- 49'4.25." ...The men's quad tied for eighth at the ECAC (2.45). year stint with the Army beforereturning to Mayflower Hill to work in the championships. Senior Zach Nightingale won the 500-meter race admissions and alumni/development officeso ver a span of 14 years. In the with a time of 1 :05 .34, breaking a meet record held since 1992 and early 1970s he was instrumental in the formation of Colby's women's ice a Colby record held since 1983 by James McHugo '85 ....The hockey program. In 1980 Stephenson became director of admission at alpine and nordic teams placed in the top 10 at all the ski cami vals the Thacher School in California, leaving in 1986 to start his own this season except for the nordic races at St. Lawrence ....Inj urie consulting firm. and illness plagued the women's basketball team this winter as they finished the season with a 5-17 record. 37 APRIL 1995 COLBY Reunion Weekend - June 8-11, 1995 I] 9 9 5t � Reunion committees have been busy for over a year planning activities to make this weekend special for each class. Below is a general schedule of the events for the weekend. Reunion clas�e al o will receive a more complete schedule and reservation form in the mail, along with details about your class activitie . If you have not yet received thi , please call the Reunion Hotline at 207/872-3190. All event· take place on campus, unle pecifically noted. Y u will receive a program when you check in atregi tration that will provide you with the full chedule of activities and the location for all activities. The registration desk will be open Thursday, 3:00-9:00 p.m., Friday :30 a.m.- 11:00 p.m., anJ aturday 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Please let us know if you expect to arrive other than during thtre time so we can make arrangements for your check-in. Children are welcome, too! A full program of upervised child care activit1e is planned for children of all ages, on Friday 3:00- 1 l :00 p.m. and aturday 9:00 a.m.-midnight; and unday 9:00-noon for young ters only. You may choose the aturday-evening-only option ( tarting at 5:00 p.m.) fora reduced rate. A list of private babysitters i available through the Reuni n Hor-line. hildren not registered for child care may purcha e ticket individually and participate in children's meals. A reduced price i available for children ages 5-12, and complimentary "Happy Colby Meals" will be provided forchi ldren age 4 and under. Reservation deadline is May 26; there i a 10 late fee per regi trati n. Nor efund after June 2. We cannot guarantee meals or rooms without re ervations. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1995 SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1995 3:00-9:00 p.m. Reunion Registration Desk Open 7:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast in Dining Halls Stud.enc Center Lobby :00-9:30 a.m. Class of 'SO Breakfast 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. la of '60 Trip to Hurricane I ·land 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Reunion Regi tration Desk Open Meet in Rockland Scud.enc Center Lobby All Day la of '70 White-water Rafting on 8:30 a.m. Alumni Fun Run on the 3-mile loop Kennebec River 9:45 a.m. Alumni A ocianon pring Meeting-President 5:00-7:00 p.m. Class of '55 Dinner Crui eon Ca co Bay Cotter will provide an update on the College. 5:30 p.m. Cla of '45 Reception and Dinner Alumrn Council Bu iness Meeting. 5:30 p.m. Class of '65 Reception in outh Portland I l:OO a m. The Parade of Classes 7:00 p.m. Class of '70 Reception and Dinner in Portland Clas Reunion Photographs for Clas es of 50+ Club, Evening Class of '60 Reception and Dinner at amo er Re ort 'SO, '55, '60, '65, '75, ' 0, ' 5, '90 6:00-8:00 p.m. Dinner Buffet in Dining Hall Noon- I :30 p.m. Lobster Bake, Cookouts, Class Events Reunion Lob ter Bake/Chicken Barbecue FRIDAY, Ju E 9, 1995 Clas of '70 Cookout 7:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast in Dining Hall Class of '75 Lunch 8:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m. Reunion Registration De k Open Cla of '80 Cookout Scud.enc Center Lobby Afternoon Cla Activities Morning Class of '70 Golf Tournament I :00-2:00 p.m. Author Books1gning at the Colby Bookstore 8:30 a.m. Alumni Golf Tournament and Golf Luncheon Afternoon Alumni and Faculty Panel Discussions Waterville Country Club 1:30-4:30 p.m. "Estate Planning-Creatively" with Terry Mayo '57 9:30 a.m. Clas of '45 Tour of Waterville 3:00 p.m. "Colby in Per pective: 1970 a a Turuning Point" I 0:00 a.m. Cla s of '65 Boat Trip and Island Picnic with ociology Profe sor Tom Morrione'65 11:30 a.m. Clas of '45 Lunch at Alden Camps, Oakland 3:30-5:00 p.m. Math Department Reception Noon-1 :00 p.m. Lunch in Dining Hall 4:00-5:00 p.m. Country Line Dancing Noon-3:00 p.m. Cla s of '80 Boat Cruise, meetin Bremen 5:30-6:30 p.m. Dinner for Youngster and Teen 12:30-2:30 p.m. Class of '70 Boat Trip on Casco Bay (lunch included) Meal for infants served at child care ite Meet at noon, Casco Bay Lines, Portland 6: 15 p.m. Clas of '45 SOth Reunion Photograph I :00 p.m. Class of '85 Golf Outing 6:30 p.m. Class of '70 25th Reunion Photograph 3:00-4:30 p.m. Art Museum Exhibit Opening Reception-Winslow Evening Class Reunion Dinners Homer: Wood Engravings Portray America , After Dinner Dance , Entertainment, Clas Events 1854-1 874 , work from the Colby, a gift of Lee including Dance with The Blue Flame Fernandez '55 and Patricia Davidson Reef 10:00 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymou 4:30-6:30 p.m. Class of '70 Reception 4:30-6:00 p.m. Class of '65 Reception SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1995 4:30-6:00 p.m. Clas of '60 Reception 8:30 a.m.-Noon Reunion Registration Desk Open 5:30-7:00 p.m. Dinner for Youngsters and Teens Scuaent Cencer Lobby Meal forinfants served at child care site 7:30 a.m.-Noon Brunch Buffet in Dining Hall 5:45-6:45 p.m. Awards Banquet Reception Morning Coffee and Doughnuts in Cla s Headquarters 6:45 p.m. All-Cla s Awards Banquet-All alumni are 7:30-1 0:00 a.m. Cla s of '50 Brunch welcome. Reunion cla se will be seated together. :30-10:30 a.m. Lesbigay Alumni Coffee Hour, Sponsored by Music by Al Corey The Bridge After Dinner Dancing with the Al Corey Quartet Morning Class of '55 Brunch Evening Class Reunion Welcoming Receptions 9:00-11:00 a.m. Clas of '65 Breakfa t 10:00 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous 10:00 a.m. Cla of 1970 Informal Picnic 10:15 a.m. Boardman Memorial Service 1995 Reunion Weekend Reservation ~1 9 9 5 ame (first, maiden/Colby, last): Cla s year: Spouse/guest's name: Colby class year (if applicable): Please indicate preferred names for nametdgs: Addres : City/ tate/Zip: Home phone: Business phone: Adults Children age 5-1 2 MEALS & EVENTS Number Rate Total umber Rate Total TOTAL Thursday , June 8 Class of '60 Trip and Lunch $10.00 $_ $ '70 Reception and Dinner $17.75 $_ 10.00 $_ $_ Class of 'SS Dinner Cruise $30.00 $_ Class of '4S Dinner no charge Dinner on campus* $8.SO $_ $S.OO $_ Friday , June 9 Breakfast* $4.00 $3.00 $ __ All-Class Golf T oumament and Lunch S0.00 $_ Class of '70 Cruise and Lunch $15.00 $_ $10.00 $_ $_ Class of '45 Lunch* no chg. Lunch on campus* $6.00 $_ 4.00 Young ter and Teen Cookout (same price for allchildren)-= 6.00-= $_ All-Class Awards Banquet* 19.00 $_ $_ Saturday , June 10 Breakfast* 5.00 $_ $3.SO or Class of 'SO Breakfast $5.25 $ __ $5.2S $_ Lunch: Lobster Bake* 20.00 $_ $20.00 $_ or Chicken BBQ* lS.00 $_ $15.00 $_ $_ or Class of '70 cookout $7.50 $_ $4.00 $ __ $_ or Cla s of '7S lunch $8.00 $ 4.00 $ or Class of '80 cookout $7.SO 4.00 $_ Youngster and Teens Dinner ( ame price for all children) = 6.00-= $_ Reunion Class Dinner (circle one) SO+ Club, Clas of '45 no charge Clas of 'SO $24.00 $_ $_ Class of '5S $21.00 $_ $_ Class of '60 $23.00 $_ $ Clas of '65 $27.00 $_ Class of '70 $25.00 $_ $_ Class of '75 $24.00 $_ $_ Class of '80 $24.00 $_ $_ Class of '85 $29.00 $_ Class of '90 $26.00 Sunday, June 11 Breakfast Buffet* $S.OO $3.50 $_ or Class of '50 Breakfast $5.25 $_ $5.25 or Class of'65 Breakfast-no advance tickets-price a la carte * Class of '45 and 50+ Club---no charge but you must indicate if you plan to attend. #Meals marked with = are included with Child Care package price. Other children may attend but mu t purchase ticket. Complimentary "Happy Colby Meals" will be provided for children age 4 and under. SPECIAL DIETARY NEED Check as many as apply: 0 Kosher 0 Vegetarian 0 No fat 0 No alt 0 No chole terol Other: ______On�Campus Accommodations Ad1ilL1 ChiWr�n I 2 and under Rate Tnta l Rate Total $2 5.00* $_ $15.00 $_ 0 Check here fur Thur:,Jay arri\'al. 0 Ye>, I would he glaJ to '>hare a mom. Plea!>e Activities 0 Check here 1f you wish to reserve a golf cart for the Golf Tournament ($25 charge p Check here 1f you are mtere ted in the Cla s of '85 Golf Outing on FnJay. heck here 1f you plan to attenJ the Estate Planning Seminar on - aturJay. 0 heck here if you will play in the Class of ' 0 Tennis Tournament on _aturJay. Partner' name ______ Child Care Programs All-Week- Sat. p.m. ames/Ages/ exes umber end Rate Only Rate Total Babysitting (age 0-4) 25.00 10.00 Youngsters (age 5-8) 25.00 $10.00 $ __ Young ters (age 9-12) 2S.OO 10.00 $ Teenager (over age I 2) $20.00 $10.00 $_ Class Reunion Memento Rate Total Class of '4S umbrella and rote bag ___ o charge ro cla s member ; 20 add itional request $_ Class of 'SO T-shirt Large ___ XL $9.00 $_ Class of 'SS T- hirt Large ___ XL Cla s of '60 T-shirt Large ___ XL $ __ Class of '6S T-shirt Large ___ XL Class of '70 T-shirt Large ___ XL Child M L $11.00 $_ Clas of '75 T- hirt Large ___ XL Child M L $10.00 0 Check here for long-sleeve option for '7S T-shirt. Class of '80 T-shirt Large ___ XL Child M L 10.00 $_ Class of '8S T-shirt Large ___ XL Child M L $6.00 $ __ Cla of '90 cap $6.00 Total Meal and events Payment form: Accommodation $ 0 cash Reunion memento $_ 0 check Child care 0 credit card Late/On-site regi tration fee (after May 26) @ $10 $_ Total $ Credit Card Payment Exp. Date ______ 0 Mastercard OVISA 0 American Express Special needs: ------ Mail to: Reunion Reservations Mayflower Hill 43 12 Alumni Office Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901 Fifty--Plus .._.._lumni_.. at scorned or the law of gravity. arge visits daughters in New England Correspondent: ... Louise Williams Brown '34 is in the summer; Peg Chase proud of her three children and Macomber '2 7 ( \ ho had just cel their spouses and of her eight ebrated her 92nd birthday) of Fletcher Eaton '39 grandchildren; but modesty pre ness, which was presented by the Florida in winter and Maine in 42 Perry Drive vents her from telling us why. All junior class at the Waterville Op summer; Albert Piper '36 of Needham, MA 02192 but two of them spent Thanksgiv era House on April I 9, 1934. Dunedin in winter and Waterville 617-449-1614 ing '9 3 with her in Bemrnda. If all Music was composed by Kathryn in summer. Ralph Williams '35, went a planned, she joined a Herrick McCrodden '35 and who winters in Dunedin and um group of 30 for a trip to Australia Winthrop Clement '34. The cast mers in Boothbay Harbor, wa and New Zealand ....Ju st about included BernardC. Stallard '3 7, there with hi wife, Barbara [who everybody who was ar Colby in Beth Pendleton Clark '35, has since passed away]. E\·eryone TWENTIES the years 1930-1937 will remem Kathryn Herrick McCrodden'35, look forward ro id's visit and ber Harold M. Plotkin '34, who Arthur 0. Brown '36, Anthony news from Maine." Mike An ancient letter from Marjorie died on Seprember 22, 1994. C. Stone '36, Beulah Bennett Cohen '35 says he fe ars going to Gould Shuman '37 (dated Feb. Colby in the mid-'30s, darkened Sayles '35, Kenneth A. Johnson Hell because he's been told "down 1 , 1994) urge me to be of tout by the Depression and by the '37, Robert W. Colomy '35, there all the TV channels are heart if nobody sends any news. smoke of Maine Central Railr ad William H. Millett '34, Win fixed on round-the-clock ba ker There will be dry spells, she aid. locomotives, would not seem ro throp Clement '34, James L. Ross ball and you can't shut them off." Soon afterwards, I begged all of have provided an up-beat en\'i '36, Morton Goldfine '37, Carl Heand his wife, Kitty, do not ha\'e you to snow me under with an ronment, but there was a lot going E. Reed '35, Dana W. Jaquith a dog, and they don't want a dog, avalanche of mail-and you on that tended ro liven the place '35 and Francis Barnes '36. but if they did have a dog it would did!- 203 respon es. So, if you up and predict grear things forthe Arthur Feldman '35 ha had an be named "Brown Fang." "Better re ponded and haven't seen your future. It wa in chi decade, we aortic heart val\'e replaced, which to have a name and no dog than to name in this column yet, you mu t remember, that the college lowed him temporarily from hi have a dog and no name," Mike will. ...Arthur Sullivan '22 on l\- ayflower Hill was born.Curi very acti\·e life a president and observes profoundly ....Alice writes: "Imogen and I are as well ou ly ymbolic of the e years at founder of Search and Rescue Bocquel Hartwell '36 has had a as can be expected at 89 and 94. Colby, involving an idea ridicu Group of California,president of cataract removed and highly rec I'm till playing golf and croquet. lous at the time-a landlng on the the orth County Chapter of the ommends the procedure. She ha Croquet i a great game, and I've moon-the mu ical comedy World Affair Council of San Di been reading a college textbook, gotten quite good at it." A clip Moon Madness was one of the nu ego (Calif. ) and adjunct profes or Introduction to Literarure by ping that Arthur ent along leave merou entertaining brain chil at an Diego State University. Bedford. Reading old favorites the impression that he is a man dren of Harold Plotkin. "Harold ...A the result of two heart at and ampling new literature made you wouldn't want ro bet again t. Plotkin did many thing to en tacks and three angioplastie , her feel like a student again, he . .. Caroline Rogers Hawkes '2 7 liven Colby in the early '30 ," Sidney Schiffman '35 does a half says. The commentarie were in will have turned 94 on April I, wrote John Pullen '35 in a recent mile in 20 minute where formerly teresting and useful. ...Eleanor 1995. he has become blind, and tribute. "His column in the Echo, he did a mile in 10. He looks MacCarey Whitmore '36 had a her daughter, Ann Hawke 'The Plot Thicken , ' wa a picy forward to his 60th reunion two violent cru hon Professor Walter Paquin '52, read the newspaper commentary on Colby social life. months from now ....Gordon Breckenridge, and rhat' why she and the mail to her. Her daughter He introduced the College Inn tea Patch Thompson '35 write : "On remembers him. She loves mys and on-in-law live with her, but dance of I 933 and the three-day February 1 , 1994, Sid Farr '55, teries bur did take time (and make he till does hou ework and get Junior Week-End, which in 1934 alumni secretary, met with the the effort) to read Truman by out to church, to the Southern featured Moon Madness . His followingalumni for lunch at the David McCullough, 1,000 page�I, Maine Colby Group and to meet editor hip of The White Mule Clearwater (Fla.) Beach Hotel: and calls it "A \\·onderful tory of ing of the Women' Chri tian raised that publication almost to Louise Brown '34, who winters an important period in our Temperance Union. + re pectability a a comic maga in Clearwater and summers in history." ... Arthur L. Spear '36 zine. After he graduated, l did not Portland; Gordon Thompson '35 has sold his house and moved into ee him again for nearly 60 years, and \\ ife Maude, winter residents an apartment-no hoveling THIRTIES but we finally got together again of Clearwater and of Arlington, snow, no lawn mowing, no house Sumner Peter Mills Jr. '34 keep toward the end of his life. Except Mas ., in ummer; [the late] Paul chore : "At age 80, this i a good fit, he says, by outrunning bill col for the physical alteration that '3 7 and wife Babs Walden Palmer deal forme." He remember white lectors and angry women. Sadly, nature work upon us, he hadn't '40, winter residents of Dunedin chalk all over Professor Stanley's at the timf' he wrote (April '94), changed a bit. I sure missed a lot of who summer in Damariscotta blue serge suit, Professor Weber' he wa recuperating from a broken fun [by not seeing him all those (Maine); Ottellie (Ot) Greely incomparable English literature hip but says nothing about how it year ] . " Harold and John were the Ward '38, who winters at the classes and Professor Chapman's happened: bill collector, woman principal authors of Moon Mad- Marriott in Palm Harbor and kindly interest in the welfare of 41 APRIL 1995 COLBY .'\ I LI �I N I /I l I /\ I< t. I· c::ich of h 1s st udcn ts ....El izabeth Lake Michigan, five minutes from Thompson Clark '36 rermt' thm her aparrmenl in Milwaukee .... she has two married Jm1ghter•-: James Fox '38 ph1ys viulin with NEWSMAKERS tine a physical therapist living in an accord ionist at the Mona Lisa China, Maine, anJ the tllher Rest Home in Ft. Myer�. Fla. 1-l io Ludy Levine '21 celebrated his teaching English in a college in 'on Jordan hold a econd mate\ 96th birthd y la t November 30. China, a' in People\ Repuhli of. license with the Merch::int Ma When a ke COLBY APRIL 1995 42 Caring About Care ealth care reformis still up for St. Andrews, which was built H debate in Congre s, but it's a an in-patient building, already already underway in Boothbay Har is fu nctioning as an out-patient bor, Maine. Virginia Kingsley Jones fac ility, Jones says. One related '39, who has worked at Boothbay result i home health care, another Harbor's t. Andrews Hospital both front-line St. Andrew ervice. in paid and volunteer capacities for "Medicare won't pay for more than 50 years and headed people to tay in hospital owe the hospital' recently concluded have to send them home, but 160,000 annual fund-rai ing cam they aren't always able to take paign, ay t. Andrews already has care of themselve - o they need transformedhealth care in the region. home health care," said Jone . Despite being the largest employer "We are it." in what Jone calls "thi town down In a community with many here on the pen in ula," St. Andrew retiree , the ho pita! al o i do hasonly 22 acutecare unit and a30- ing a fea ibility tudy to see bed nur ing home and no trauma or how much interest exi ts in e transplantfacilitie . The hospital has niors' housing. "We need some lo t ome doctors to larger e tablish thing for the whole pectrum," ments and higher salarie and ha she said. "This i a busine s. foundit increasingly hard to reach people. Today, you have to get into the e outreach things or you " o we've gone beyond 'hospital' to 'health care.' Health can't survive." care mean working with chool and the YMCA or ha\'ing The board al o set up an advisory committee o that people clinic like our blood pressure clinic ," said Jone , who began with complaint or ugge tions can call regarding ervice . at t. Andrew in 1941 after receiving her medical technol "We're trying very hard to meet all the needs of the ogy degree at the Central Maine General Ho pita! School of community," he aid. Medical Technology. he ha erved as chief medical tech Her position a head of the recent fund-rai ing drive wa nologi t and a pre ident of the h pita! auxiliary and cur "only titular," claim Jone , a Boothbay resident since 1941. rently i ecretary of the ho pita!' hoard of trustee . A the "But everybody know me. They wanted somebody local only member of the hospital personnel on the board, he ay and on the board who's re peered in the community. I'm he brings "a different per pective toward employees." called on for how local people feel." t. Andrews feature three family practice doctor and During 10 year away from the hospital to raise her two intern in a group practice, which Jone ay she has been daughter, Jones did clerical work at the Hodgton Brothers advocating for years. "They're all employee of the hospital. shipyard. When the yard was sold, he worked in the office Before, they were in competition, now they're working of a local shrimp company for a year, then, armed with her together," she aid. "It's working." Colby chemistry major and biology courses, was employed Preventive health care i ju t around the corner, ay by the government as a biologist at a local research lab Jone , who ounds a savvy as a hospital administrator after tudying lobster and herring. he returned to the ho pita! her stint on the ho pita!' executive, strategic planning and in 1970, where she remained until she retired in 1984, a year human resource committee . While the ho pita! still offer before her hu band died. such services as x-rays and physical and draws blood for Retirement seem a mi namer. In her 70s-and now a blood work, it has e tabli hed fam ily clinic branches, one 15 great-grandmother twice- he joined a tap dancing group mile away in Edgecomb and the other, a women's health at the YMCA. ( he drew the line at public performance, he center, in Boothbay Harbor. Both are serviced by the hospital' aid, "but if they'd offer the old soft shoe, I'd do it again.") five phy ician . he al o has erved the College as a clas agent and currently "Preventive health is thecoming thing,"Jone said. "You're i in the middle of a three-year term a a SO-plus repre en- going to try to keep them out of the hospital rather than in.' tative to the Alumni Council. But it' the ho pita! that To be in a tronger po ition to deal with in urance compa claim the bulk of her attention. "It's been the bigge t nie , who, she say , increasingly want a facility to serve a base interest in my life ," she said. number of clients, St. Andrew i inve tigating networking "Except they don't pay me any more," he joked, then ervice uch as sharing physician and laboratory te ting with added, "It' nerve wracking. But financially we're better as man as nine other ho pita! . now and have more patients." "You'll only get so much money to take care of]ohn Doe. "We can now look to expand," he aid, already antici When it's used up, that's it. Health care i going to be a pating a St. Andrew capital campaign, perhaps forseniors' different thing," she said. hou ing, a couple of year down the road. A I LI �I N I A T L /\ 11. \� I and nine grandc hildren. Norn> ho,pital Cll h arc 'tupendous. rhilosnrh ical than piou . Howard mg program ....Marjorie Abar niluntccr:-.at the Bay � rate Medi While \'biting la>t >ummer 1n and hi, wife, Charlortc, have two Gray '4 3 has been teaching cal Center •1' a g\lfer-a ioh that nearby Mt. Gretna, Pa., I chatted 'om: Dana in Franconia, N.H., cour es on Native American at call:, for a l\lt uf walking. wnh Manny by rhnne , but he and onrcid m rm '1d nce, R.I. Athcnaeum (a Leaming After 50 Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter '4 1 'aid nmhing at that time about The latter ha-. three children program at Roche>ter I n�t1tute of sent me a c l irring a hour rhe late \ e health pruhlems. He ha� rur all hoy, ....Cha rle. Heath '42 Technology) and ha moved to Dr. Gordon Gates '19, who wa' cha,ed a Nord icTrnck exerc1 e �md h1 wife, Ruth, have eight he near fam ily. Her lare t add re : a friend and cla,::.marc ,if her machine and i> gernng 11wolved grandchildren, the olJe t of Apt. 458, Hollandale Apart mother, Ph y ll is turdivant in IL' w.e.Bc,t of luck, Manny! . .. whom graduated frllm Villanon:i ment,, Clifton Park, N.Y. 12065. Sweetser '19, and nf my >!Ster, Ernest Weidul '43 keep' ,1cm·c 1n l 994. Retirement hec1me hor- ...Priscilla Moldenke Drake the late Harriet Eaton Roger' hy fi,hmg, read ing, rlay111g hndgc 1 11g, '"Y' M r. Heath, >o he '' now '43 ha five children and eight '19, mother ,if Estel le Rogers ,ind tr) ing tu keer a I 50-ye.ir-old \\'l >rkmg almmt full tune a.,co ok grandchildren. he has heart MacDonald '39. Dr. Gate' wa' hou'e trom fa llmg dnwn. He 111 ·, e Thomas M. Clohe')'. works 111 Dr. Libb whose cla-,,e were the financi al fi eld in Ne\\' never dull, and Carl Weber,"who York .... Bob Rice '42 has fo ur made une rroud of being an En children and two grandchildren, glish maior." ...George A. Pop all of them adult-. "Lik very per '43 1 bu y \\ 1th community one else who has acquired a word activitie in We tfield, N.j., and processor," he writes, 'Tm writ recently jomed the We tfield ing a book. Thi one' about Rescue quad a a di-patcher. The WW!l activitie- and anecdotes Popper· enjoy traveling and have as a pilot." He wishes he had vi ired England, Germany, Po freedom to sit down and enjoy land, Czecho lovakia, Hungary, TV, but he i- too busy writing. wirzerland, ltaly,CostaRicaand He has been singing in his church everal Caribbean i lands . . .. choir for nearly 50 years . ... Patricia Ford Ellis '43 met her Dorris Heaney Batt '42 and her husband, Albert Ellis '44, in the hu band, George, went to Ha trombone ection of the Colby waii in 1976 to give guided tours band. Band wa fine during foot at Waioli Mission Hou e in ball sea on, but Profes or Com Hanalei, Hawaii. Later (1980) paretti changed to classical mu ic they became guides at Grove for the colder months and there Farm Home read(a former sugar aren't many note for trombone plantation home). The Batts in that kind of music, says Mr . have two daughters and a son. Elli . She enj yed being among One of the daughters has been the fir t to occupy the new rooms one of four florist in the White on Mayflower Hill.... Ruth House for the la t l 0 years under Graves Montgomery '43 has had Reagan, Bush and Clinton. both knee replaced and feels Class Year ______Mrs. Batt and my niece, Mar great. Next time she is at Colby, tha Rogers Beach '42, have she can walk with everyone. Address ______been close friends ever since Mrs. Montgomery has three their Colby days.... Emanuel daughter , including Patricia '71, "Manny" Fruman '42 still work and fo ur grandchildren . ... as the sales manager fora water Howard Johnson '43 was writ City/State{Zip ------proofing company in Plains, Pa. ing and revi ing a manuscript for Sadly, Manny had to be hospital a book on the meaning of Jesus, ized twice this past summer and according to his April '94 que - Is this a new address ? 0 tionnaire. The book will be more finds that even with Medicare, L ______� COLBY APRIL 1995 44 A L U �I I .-\ T L .A R G E traveling far and wide when not Correspondent: at home at 186 Flying Point Rd., Correspondent: Correspondents: Dorothy Sanford McCunn Freeport, ME 04032. . Dick Mary Hall Finch Dunphy wrote from Green Pond, As 1994 drew tu a clo e, N.J., where he is in real estate. I am taking over as the 1945 I found that l didn't Last year he and wife Sylvia at new correspondent for Dorothy Sanford McCunn 45 have much recent news tended hi 45th We t Point re 4 7 our cla and hope to 8 Honey Hill Road from cla mate . My sincere hope, union .... Dixie Roundy Bebee maintain the ·tandard et by Canaan, CT 060 1 then, is that e\·eryone has been reports from Rochille, Md., that Beverly Benner Cassara. She and 203- 24-7236 busy writing their autobiographies -he i deep into high school sports l had coffee together thi morn for inclusion in the cla s year thank ro her grand on. he ing, and it was good to get to 1946 book. l do ha\·e one sad item, watched him hit a grand- lam know her a bit better and meet Nancy Jacobsen however. The College recently was homer this summer and thought her husband. Ju t after the con 3627 Northlake Drive notified of the death of Miriam how her dad, Couch Roundy, ference on world population, Bev Doraville, GA 30340 Leighton Mayo on 1ay 31, would have cheered. orma was in Cairo a a member of the 404-934-9075 1994 .... I did have a telephone Taraldsen Billings write from executive committee of the In 1947 char with Helen Gould Sullivan, Augu ta, Maine, that she is tak ternational Council for Adult Mary Hall Fitch who spends the winter months in ing a break from soc ial work. Education, Fifth World As em 4 Canal Park, =7 12 Naple , Fla., and di\·ide the other Dick '4 is executi\·e director of bly, for a conference titled Cambridge, MA 02141 month between ciruare, Ma·-., Informed loraries of Maine. "Women, Literacy and Develop 617-494-4 2 and ew Hampshire. Helen in Their grandchildren are busy ment, Challenges for the 2 lst forms me that he has 13 grand graduating and like so many are Century." Attending were people 1948 children ranging from 1 to high aiming for graduate ·chool. . from 130 countries around the David and Dorothy Marson school age. She finds many activi Thank you all for sending in the world, who were invited by Mrs. 41 Wood End Road tie ro keep her elf bu y 111 each que tionnaires. The new system Mubarek, the keynote speaker. Dedham, MA 02026 location ....I hope ro see many i a big help to this procra tinat Bev wa the moderator of one of 617-329-3970 of you on the Colby campu -, June ing new hound. • the ession . In connection with -11 of '95! • 1949 Robert M. Tonge r. NEWSMAKERS 5 Greylock Road Correspondent: Waterville. ME 04901 Nancy Jacobsen 207- 73-3244 At the annual January meeting of the Maine Children' Home l got the nicest note for Little Wanderer , Dorrie from Ron Farkas, now Me er Hawkes '47 wa hon 46 living on the garden i - ored with a plaque of apprecia land of Kauai, Hawaii. Ron and tion upon her retirement from hi wife left Duxbury, Mas ., and the agency's board of directors. now own everal condomini ...Don Johnson '47 wa in ums-you know, low-slung lanai ducted into the Quincy-North types with huge veranda a few Quincy (Ma s.) Football Hall rep from the beach. He ent of Fame in early December for picture , and I have been dream hi football achievements at ing about it. Ron aid he'd love to Don ]ohnson '47 see ome Colby people on Kauai orth Quincy High chool. and could offer ome very good deals for vacations. I'm ready! MILEPOSTS He's at 2337 Nola Rd., Koloa, Hl 96756.. .. Laura Higgins Ander Dearhs: Wilber "Bill" Bastien '49 in Togus, Maine, at 74 . . .. son just checked in. What's new? Horton W. Emerson Jr. '49 in Maine at 69 . ...Jeanne M. "] got remarried after 13 year of Hall '49 in Englewood, Colo., at 69 ....Avard Holt '49 in widowhood," he report , "and Skowhegan, Maine, at 66 . . ..Thomas W. Samuelsen '49 in am very happy." Robert i a cap Cape Elizabeth, Maine, at 67. tain, US , retired, and they are 45 APRIL 1995 COLBY A I LI �I N I A T L A R l• I· her wmk in adult education, Be,· Jr. on August 12.. . hirley anJ coach anJ princ ipal at the high and Ma achu;em. Widowed 11 has traveled tn many cnuntrie� in Alex Richard were honored by ;chool from 1960 to 1979, anJ year ago, he al o has two grand Africa, w Tl·rniland and to the school adminiMrative Ji;trict 59 hirley, currently on the hoard of daughter and a strange Siamese envirnnmentalcnnfcrence in Rio. director; anJ Madison area high rrw.ree; of Hu\ on College, wa a cat nameJ M okie. Her ignifi . ..Dana and Harriet Nourse ,cho,>I when an academic wing of hu�ine; and EngJ i,h teacher at cant other, a former professor of Robinson arc in Beijing (Dana the school wa; ded icated in their the chool from l 954 to I 979.. .. English, 1s owner of Allen Scott works in high-tech electronic names. A bron: plaque wa; Elaine Noyes Cella, owner of the B oks on Exchange treet in exports) for a one-rn-rhree-yem mounted in the cnrridor close tn children' '>ec tion of the Anti Portland, Maine ....It 's alway stinr. �he says, "We h;we heen the main entrance of the high quanan Book tore Lil Portland, great to hear from cla smates. spending three month; there and ;chool. Alex, who d1 Jin March Maine, report; that her fouraJult end us your news. + three or four here for the pa;r few 1994, was a reacher, football children live nearby in Maine years. So this will really be easier. I hare the long flight and the continued packing anJ unpack ing. We like the hotel and ,taff have a two-room apartment with a small kitchen but five res taurant if I'd rather not cook Although thi was herfirst hrist mas in Ch ina, she thought it was Dana's 17th ....Jane Rollin ha; been vacationing in England for everal year and this October spent three week in Britain vi - iting friends in the central high lands of Scotland and a week in Yorkshire, England. Earlier in the year, she enjoyed an Ea tern Eu ropean rrip to "those wonderful old cities." Perhap we can per- uade her to write more about her spec ific impressions of each of Planned giving sound likea foreign language. thecities he visited ....John and can I will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary this year A carefully planned charitable gift provide you and your loved ones with immediate benefits: and as a treat will be spending a it can increa e your income, protect your as ets and reduce your tax burden, now and in the week on Lake George with our six children, their pou e and future. But such a gift can also create a legacy for generation of tudent who will benefit from our five grandchildren. In retire a Colby experience. ment, we both work at Recording for the Blind in Cambridge, Mass., Colby ha prepared alooklet de igned to help you tran late this language of PIFs, CRA Ts and which puts textbooks on tape for CRUT into easily understood, usable idea . For a copy of"Foresight: Colby's Guide to Planned print-impaired students from elementary through graduate Giving," please return the coupon below or contact Colby' Director of Planned Giving, Steve school level. Judy Dunnington C. Greaves, at 4373 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901 or call 207-872-3212. Vollmer '61 is on the taff there and would enjoy a call at 617- 1------1 5 77-1 111 from any of you nearby Return to: Steve C. Greaves, Director of Planned Giving who could volunteer your help. I 4373 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 40901 I It' a great place .... Please let I I me hear from many of you before the next issue comes out. Your I Plea e send me a copy of "Foresight: Colby's Guide to Planned Giving." I classmates would really like to I I I would like to discuss a planned gift forCo lby. Please call me. know what you're doing, so if you I I don't like to write, give me a call. Thanks! + I I I I Name Class Correspondent: I I Robert M. Tonge Sr. I I Address I I I am sorry to report City State/Zip 4 9 the death of two of our classmates: Geor : Phone : gette Yuill Carpenter on Decem I I ______ber 8 and Horton W. Emerson L � OLBY APRIL 1995 46 ALUMNI AT LARGE ___ The Fifties ___ 1958 din recalls a great time at the agent for them and for the Barus Corresponden ts: Margaret Smith Henry 40th and looks forward to our Group (department stores, in 1304 Lake Shore Orive 45th. He and Dorothy live in cludingSaks Fifth Avenue). Cur Massapequa Park, NY 11762 Manchester, N.H., and spend a rently she is planning tours and 516-541-0790 lot of quality time with their bookings for distinguished en 1950 1-year-old granddaughter. . . sembles and artists such a the Nancy Ricker Sears 1959 Newton Bates reminisces about Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra 31 Sweetwater Avenue Ann Marie Segrave Lieber spending his enior year in the and I aac Stem ....Jane Merrill Bedford,MA 01730 7 Kingsland Court vets' apartments after marrying Thomas of Lynn, Mass., will not Shirley in June of 1949. He ha be able to attend the reunion but 617-275-7865 South Orange, NJ 07079 not been back to Colby ince our has sentsome great photo , which 201-763-67 17 25th but says he think the cam Dunn House alums will want to 1951 pus is "one of the mo t beautiful see. . . Connie Leonard Hayes Barbara Jefferson Walker of all college campuses," and it recall that the most meaningful 3915 Cabot Place, Apt. 16 made him feel proud to be a and close friendships of her life Richmond, VA 23233 Correspondent: graduate ....Robert Armitage began at Colby. he and Dick 804- 527-0726 Nancy Ricker Sears writes from Vestal, N.Y., recall look forward in rwo or three years ing a Colby Eight reunion and to retirement in their new home 1952 Foster Bruckheimer is other friends with whom he has in Grantham, N.H., where they Edna Miller Mordecai keeping busy as a Palm lost contact. Let thi erve as an will be near Charlie '49 and 94 Woodridge Road 5 0 Beach County volun alert to Bob's friends. His wife is Ginny Davis Pearce and Walter Wayland, MA 01778 teer, writing tickets for violators no longer living, but he has three and Joan Foster Barndt '51. 508-358-5574 of handicapped parking spaces. children and I 0 grandchildren. Connie and Dick hope to make He included a picture of himself .. Shirley Cookson Hall loves the reunion .... ln Woonsocket, 1953 on the job, which you can see at being retired and having the op R.l., Lois Prentiss Mansfield, Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey reunion time if you haven't seen portunity to spend more time at who taught chool for 35 years 80 Lincoln Avenue the man him elf. ...Bud Everts, her camp on Norton's Pond in after getting her master's degree, South Hamilton, MA 01982 who continue to serve the class Lincolnville, Maine. She say that i struggling with Parkin on's but 508-468-5110 on the Reunion Committee, the names in this column are reveals a spirit that i both in writes that he enjoys golf and always familiar and bring back domitable and serene. She asked 1954 tennis as time permits from his fond memories, but as caregivers her daughter to write for her and Bill and Penny Thresher Edson inve tment practice. He and to elderly parents, they don't ex send wishes for good luck with 3253 Erinlea Avenue Elinor welcomed a second grand pect to be at the reunion. hidey our reunion plan . I'm sure she Newbury Park, CA 91320-5811 daughter in November, which says, "We like to be involved with would like to hear from class brings the count to four and our children and grandchildren, mates ....Remember, I can sup 805-498-9656 two ....Betty Jacobs Christo as well as contributing to com ply addresses so that you can get in poulos and her husband, Arthur, munity service organizations." touch with any "lost" friends. Also, 1955 winter in Bradenton, Fla., but Shirley chaired a fund-raising as l near the end of my term a Ann Dillingham Ingraham will be back in Maine ar reunion committee for her church, which class correspondent, I remind you 9 Appletree Lane time and are planning to be there. brought in$400,000 ....Barbara that we are looking for replace Manchester, ME 04351 Betty is active in the Sweet Starr Wolf writes, "I've spent ments for our present officers. If 207-62 2-0298 Adelines and also enjoys golf and more than half my life in South you are intere ted, contact me or bridge playing ... . Paul Titus, America since I married in Priscilla Tracey Tanguay. Hope 1956 who boasts a great-granddaugh Buenos Aires in 1960. I have a to see manyof you there inJune1+ Eleanor Edmunds Grout ter, also hopes to make the re very exciting life and live in the RD 3, Jones Road union from Solana Beach, Calif. most vibrant, explosive, active, Gouverneur, NY 13642 ... June Jensen Pelger sent a growing city in South America. Corre pondent: 315-287-3277 postcard of the QE2, the ship Sao Paulo has it all. I travel a Barbara Jefferson Walker that usually brings her to the great deal, at least once a year to 1957 United States from the Nether the States, combining business Ted Weaver gives his Brian F. Olsen lands when he come to spend and fa mily visits. They're all 5 1 addres a Roseburg, 46 Washington Drive time in Florida. Unfortunately, there, including my daughter and Ore., but writes that he Acton, MA 01720 she won't be able to be with us in granddaughter." Barbara has been "threw away the Advil and spend 508-263-9238 June but sends good wishes to all a key executive organizer for most of the time traveling in [his] her classmates ....Francis Blon- Nieman Marcu as well as buying RV home." Hi memorie of 47 APRIL 1995 COLBY Real Writing lemson University En scription of his poetry that C glish profe ·sor Rona Id Moran accept reluctantly. Moran '58's Getting the Body w At the hub of his world is Dance Again recently won the tate Route 123, a honky-tonk 1994 National Looking Glass strip in a mill town in the Caro Poetry Chapbook Competi linas, where Jonathan, the tion sponsored by Pudding :.peaker ina serie of hart nar House Publications in Ohio. rative , ob erve an extended Moran's fourth poetry collec fa mily of aunts, uncles, cous tion, the book won out over ins and other bu y citizen in several hundred entrant", and their daily coming and go reviewers are comparing his ing ·. Moran argues that rhyth portrayal of mall-town life mical language and scrupulou with Edgar Lee Ma ters' Spoon attention to details, place River Anthology and herwood name and credible events Anderson's \Xlinesburg, Ohio. "create rich ituations-rich Moran credits his writing in people, details and inci and teaching careers to hi dents"-and that what hap high school French teacher, ). pen to the character in the e Claude Bouchard '28, who led poem i ignificant, timely and him to Colby, and to Colby a lot less ephemeral than profe or Richard Cary. Un today's new paper. der Cary's influence, he aid, When he gives reading , "a number of us ·ighted our Moran said, "People say, 'How barrels." Moran, who was born in Philadelphia and grew up can he ay those thing about his family!' or 'You're writing in New Britain, Conn., says that when he told Cary he about my family!"' wanted to go "some place warm" to graduate chool in The poem are " udden fiction ," of cour e-Moran and American literature, hi mentor teered him to Loui iana hi wife, Jane, have 34-year-old twins and few relatives State University, where he received an M.A. in Engli h but the approximation of real people in a real world demon literature and a Ph.D in American literature. strate that audiences like the narrative, action, per onal "He did good by me," aid Moran, who thank Cary for experience and colloquial language. In an article he wrote introducing him to another literary influence, Maine poet about virtual joumali min Northeast, Moran predicted that Edwin Arlington Robin on, the subject of Moran's Ph.D. "the climate in American letters will continue to warm for dissertation at L U in 1966. the VJ poem." Moran taught at the University of North Carolina Moran says he didn't tart writing until he was 25. He and Chapel Hill before taking a position at Clemson in 1975. his wife and a friend were itting in their kitchen amused by From 1975 to 1980 he was Clem on's English department the type of poem coming out of San Francisco, "so we head. Recently, in addition to his department re pon ibili started writing little imitations, and I never stopped." ties, he has served as associate dean of liberal art , and he's He says he got so interested in the little magazines where also been acting head of the speech and communication he was publishing that at one point he made a list of more studies program since August 1993. He says he's now look than 200 for the LSU and UNC libraries to order. Although ing forward to being released fromsome of the e du tie and he's also had work in larger quarterlies-and has written a returning to the English department. book on the poet Louis Simpson and is co-author of an "I love teaching," Moran said. "I taught creative writing academic study, Four Poets and the Emotive Imagination last semester. It was like an oasis." His busy schedule of late Moran aid he's pleased to have made a career publishing in has left him only "finite and limited time to write," he aid, little magazines and chapbooks. "which leads to finite and limited poems." Whether his poems appear in large quarterlies or little One critic has grouped Getting the Body to Dance Again ones "just doesn't make a great deal of difference," Moran and Moran's third book, Sudden Fictions (which was pub said. "I just feel happy that there's some audience out there. lished by John Judson '58's Juniper Press in Wi consin), I like it that these editors like what I'm doing. I feel honored with the work of poets writing "virtual journalism," a de- that they responded so positively to what I've done." .A. L U �i 1 I ,A, T L .A. R G E Colby include Dean Marriner' ness keeping in touch with her thal Sacks ....Ben Duce \\'rire Engli h Lit and "Little Talks on Correspondent: wonderful family-Dennis in the of his activitie· in We tboro, Common Things," President Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey Marines, Katy in South Bay and Mas ., ince early retirement from Bixler asking, "Have you ever read Mary Lincoln in Dallas. Bobbie re earch in pharmacology. He ha the Bible?" and DKE picnics. Ted Carolyn English Caci, keep reminding me that l am e rablished hi own re idential pet appreciates hi B.A. degree, Nelson Beveridge only a bridge away from Cape care service, Comranion As oci which qualified him to "cackle 5 3 and I got together at a Cod, and l keep saying "next ates, and also work with resi any pursuit ,.. ...Bill Burgess, local restaurant in early Novem ummer." ...Retirement eem · dent at a local DMR fac ility. He T uc on, Ariz., ent in a copy of ber to hare news of classmates, to ha,·e treated Gwen (Van find this to be '\·ery re\\'ardmg the program at which he was hon and we decided to meet every Ee relen '5 5) and Dana Andersen mteraction with people less fortu ored for his many contributions once in a while just to keep in well. They live at the Boulder nate than ourseh-es." He enjoys in the drama department of touch. Carolyn aid he'd recently Country Club in Colorado. Dana being a producer for Community ahuaro High chool. He writes had a visit from Gig Roy on her ay· he has been retired ince Access TV, which he describes as that this award feels to him like way from ew York to Maine and eptember of 19 6 when he an exciting source of information the Tony, Emmy and Academy expected Marty Friedlaender worked for CBS Skiing maga:ine. ranging from municipal oovem Awards! ... Fred Boyle, Spring during Thanksgiving weekend. Although Gwen works part time ment to children's programming. vale, Maine, i a genealogist who Marty, who retired from her di forNOV A, they have done a lot Ben's wife, Diane (Stowell), work plans to publi h a second book rectorship of ocial work at t. of ·ailing-mostly charters, but full time in the high chool guid of local genealogy and then one Luke's/Roa evelt Hospital in they have their mrn boat, which ance department and enjoy the on the fa milies of anford- New York City pent three weeks they u ·e in Florida and Mexico. interaction with the student . he pringvale, Maine ... . Connie touring London and Edmburgh Dana ays he finds time to be also participates in Companion Preble Anding, having moved last summer, but -he can't seem im·oh-ed part time with a Hawai Associates and the DMR facility. from Minne ota to T uc on, Ari:., to distance her eli entirely from ian company that produce· Pa They both have great fun \\'ith i "blissfully retired and heavily ocial \\'Ork-she ha plan to do paya Energy Bars. Hi marketing theirfourgrandchildren, who, "to into hedoni m." he recently ·raft training and serve on social job sends him to Hawaii forplan gether with their parents, are the enjoyed a vi it from Patti An work committee· and boards. ning meetings, and his travels brightest people on earth." Ben is derson Ebinger ....Clayton ...Another recent retiree is Joan take him to Europe, the Holy hoping to become proficient in Bloomfield, anta Cruz, Calif., i Shea Conroy, former office man Land, the Caribbean and the ign language chis year . ...Bob retired and president of IR , an ager. Her hu ·band i deceased, Bahamas. He ay that he is will Hudson \\Tites that he has re organi:ation of eniorcitizen that anJ he now ::.hare a home with ing to reunite in a small way with cently been teaching physical ge "promote the enjoyment, dig her daughter. he reports that anyone who happen · to pass ology in the Hou ton area after nity and independence of retire she i active in Friend of the through the new Den,·er airport. retirino from a career in the oil ment." ...Margaret Slingerland Library in the Greem·ille, .C., ...Karl and Electra Paskalides indu try. He and hi wife, Betty ummers in Maryland, winter in area and that her pride and joy is Coumou'- big e\·ent of 1994 wa (Chilson '53). who hm·e five ·ons Florida and travels to Elder her garden. Perhap· he can take daughter Christina's wedding on and three daughter , have li,·ed in ho tels ....Audr ey Bostwick, that talent to Ari:ona in May Memorial Day weekend, a family Hou ton for ·ome time. During Perkai e, Pa., an in tructor in when he mm·e- there with her affair that brought her son from the ummer , Bob ha been con equine cience at Delaware Val daughter. he al o mentioned she California and a i ter-in-law all ducting research on the crustal ley College, went to England as would enjoy writing to or dsiting the way from Holland. Their son, tectonic· of the Big Hom �foun coach of the U. . team at the with ocher Colby grad Her Eric, and his wife, Nancy, made tains of Wyoming. He say he is world champion hips in dressage phone number i 919-757-0 64 Electra and Karl grandparent in still in touch "·ith Profe sor Don and exhibition driving competi for anyone with the same wi h .. March. Electra noted that it's nice Koons regarding hi research . . tion for the handicapped. ..Barbara Wei Alpert and to ·ray in touch, a thought 1 would Bill Sullivan tells u that he has Edward Bittar, after receiving his Hershel till live in the ew like to add myself: keep in couch.+ happily retired after 35 years of M.D. from Yale, pent time in Bedford area. They have four teaching English at omer et, Jeru alem, the Navy, Damascu children and two daughters-in Ma ., High School, where he \\·as and England. He is now at the law, two grand onsand two grand Corre pondents: department head. ince then, Univer ity of Wi con in Medi daughter . Barbara ha retired but Bill and Penny Thresher Edson " ully" has devoted time to his cal chool, where he ay he spe ay that Hershel, who i pre i golf and hisfamily. He till coaches cialize in "cell phy iology, dent of Alperts Furniture in We are continually golf at the high school and re particularly ion cran port acros eekonk, i working harder than ama:ed and surpri ed by cently became a member of the . 54 membranes." He is editing a com ever .. . Joe Bryant still li es in the variety of activities Mas achusetts Golf A sociation, pendium, Principles of Medical the Brunswick area but at a new you all are enjoying in what ome which he erve· on the tourna Biology, which i "directed at addre on Caribou Drive. He and may term "our golden year ." Our ment committee. Bill i · at the ...emphas izing self-directed, Evelyn have been married 41 conversation with you have been grandfather rage with two boys problem-based learning." ... years, and his family oftwo boy enlightening-and fun! We hope andagirl. Hi daughter i Michaela Dick Birch, Hollis, N.H., is in now include their wive and two that more of you will be motivated Haye ' 3 ....From Bob Fraser: reale tate ales with Dewolfe ew grandchildren in Amherst, Ma ., to end your news and comment . "Alumni magazine clas note , England. He enjoys golf and an and Freeport, Maine. A far a Many thanks to tho e of you who other than obituarie , in my expe ticipates "winter breaks" in travel goe , he says he ha been to have hared to date. Be t 1995 rience are univer ally a bore. At Florida.... Bump Bean, Con heaven and back, having visited wishes from all the '54 officers: our age, one either write about cord., Mas ., retired and nowcon- the Augusta National Ma ter President Ned Shenton; Vice Pre - achievements or about grandchil ults in tele ommunications .... Open la t pring ....Barnette ln identJ udy Jenkins Totman; Clas dren. Since I have neither, I am When you read thi , 1 will have du trie keep Bobbie Studley Corre pondents Bill and Penny writing about some thought trig walked among the penguins in Barnette busy, she says, but she Thresher Edson Alumni Coun gered by attending our 40th la t Antarctica. + keep the phone company in busi- cil repre entative Arlyne Rosen- June. Our class stayed at the old 49 APRIL 1995 COLBY A l U �l I A T L A R G E DKE house, which. among many update from som of our c la;� of the lncal group.... A n te the volunteers who aided in the other changes, currently feature mates. Jane Whipple Coddington from Don Hoagland bring'> the ongoing restoration of the Opera a condom machine prominently ha� five grandchiklren now in new; that in May 1993, whil Hou e, which wa shut down in displayed in its h1undry room. Had New Jer ey and still spends time pending five day� in Bmton vi; 1991 hecause of an accumulation it appeared there in I 9S4. two working with ho�pice and ·etting iting hi :,on, Erik, at Berklee of problems. + consequence:, would ha\"e been up a library at a :,mull chnnl for ollege of Music, he attended a nearly certain: social prob;:ition deaf infant� and rre-schooler... party at the Charle5town home for at least one year and CPR for he and hu:,band Chad 'rend of Lee Fernandez and had an Correspondent: the hou ·e morher. To my knowl time traveling, kiing, golfing ::ind opportunity to talk with Dick Eleanor Edmunds Grout edge, only one per on actually scuha Jiving. � he say� it mu�t he Bartlett. In May 1994 Don wa used one while at Colby. That was called "growing old nn the ra�t in Rome for the wedding of hi� Don '54 and your 'Super' Ganem. He used it fi lled track." Jane abo is enjoying Colby daughter, Hilary, a marine geolo 5 6 ometimes remis cor with water to bombard T;:iu Deir� over eerand trustee meeting�. gi'-t who is work ing an COLBY APRIL 1995 50 ALUMNI AT LARGE in the fall .... Mary Ann Papalia During their "spare" time, Al and his own way- plitting wood, computer data technician. Phil Laccabue was only fourmi les from Kay (German '59) commute to working on a book and enjoying remains "fiercely active" despite the epicenter of the Northridge Maine from their Ma achusetts the Green Mountains .... Sheila a second bout with cancer. earthquake. She wrote that the home, monitor two homes, do McDonald Gilman and her hu - Newlyweds Georgia and Stan house i still standing with many some, but not enough, flying and band, Goodwin (Goody), moved Armstrong (is a pattern emerg cracks. Mary Ann said they had sailing and attend antique car in the fall of 1994 from 70 Main ing here ?) race tunnel boars. Stan broken pipe , were without water shows (he till has the 1955 VW Street to 87 Main treet in New gave up the corporate life to focus for 36 hours and without power bug that wa at Colby). Al is port, Maine. Goody had lived in on the things he enjoys . ...Jay for 24 hours. Mary Ann i plan active with the Midas Dealer ' the first house for 53 years, and Church ay business life as the ning to retire from teaching after As ociation ....Al though he now they have moved into a house president of Cordage Papers is 25 year service in June '95. She resigned from Fleer Bank in Janu his grandfather built in 1912. hectic. Jay and Kitty are the taught math, stopping only nine ary 1994, Norman Lee immedi They invite everyone tocome for grandparents of seven1 • Al years to be home with the chil ately volunteered full time with a a visit. ...After 34 years in re though Lloyd Cohen say he's dren. Mary Ann hopes to attend nonprofit agency called The tailing with Sears, Larry Cud slower, chubbier and more or our 40th unless her daughter Bridge Family Services in West more has retired to the bliss of nery, he still manages to be active Marguerite' dental school gradu Hartford, Conn. Hi intern posi Cape Cod. He and wife Jane have in several organizations and is a ation conflict ....Bob and Dor tion was over at the end of the four children and four grandchil fund raiser for the Ciry of Hope. othy Aikman Adel have enjoyed summer, and at that time Norm dren. Larry golfs and doesvolun Lloyd and Sheila named their a year of travel. I received a was looking for a fu ll-time job in teer work consulting with small California bu iness, D 'n J Bears Christmas card from them writ the nonprofit world. He says he businesses and recently became a and Dolls, for theirchildren; they ten on the beach of Puerto wishe he had made rhi change Colby overseer. ... Mary Lou also have two grandchildren. Vallarta. We are envious of your years ago . . ..Peggy Fox Hutch Storm Donarski and her bu band, ... Carol Holt Case and author 70 new birds, Dodi. Don and I inson writes from Rockville, Md., Ray, have two children. Their son husband Dick made two trips to will have to get busy. Best to all where she i a private math tutor. (who went to Bowdoin1 ) recently England recenrly: research. for '56ers and remember to plan for Her husband, Ben, a consultant became a father himself. Their Dick and fun for Carol. They reunion in '96. + in the field of satellite communi daughter, who is 18, has Down's have a car named Chaplin, so cation , frequentlytravels toLon syndrome. During Down's Syn named because he is black-and don, and Peggy ha accompanied drome Awareness Month (Octo wh ite and funny. Carol owns Correspondent: him on everal trips. When not ber), Amy's picture wa up on the Copywriring Plus, a print-only Margaret Smith Henry working/tra,·eling or visiting big screen in Times Square, N.Y. advertising agency .... Edu familie in Boston or Atlanra, ... 1 was deluged with letters from cational specialist Gladys Frank Jane Daib Reisman Peggy and Ben sail their 31-foot my own que·tionnaire, and no Bernyk works with learning-dis 58 writes from Columbus, ailhoat on Che apeake Bay. doubt you are hearing from the abled high school student and is Ohio. Jane retired in ..Bob and Cathy Stinneford Alumni Office directly. Please becoming increasingly aware of June 1993 and John in April 1994, Walther also live in Maryland, in don't hesitate to reply to those the value, in today's business cli and thi past summer was a blur of Aberdeen, where Bob has been questionnaires even if you have mate, of learning real job skills in "being on the road, in the air and working for over 30 year a a already received mine. l enjoy conjunction with an academic on the seas." They also visited civilian mathematician for the hearing from all of you and have education. Gladys and physician Bob '56and Fran Wren Raymond U . . Army at Aberdeen Proving many letter waiting to be pub hu band Alex recenrly became in Maine. The Rei mans have Ground. Cathy works part time lished. I will try to give everyone grandparent for the first rime. three grandchildren .... Fran at Harford Community College pace in future columns. Please ...Carolyn Cummings Crain Wren Raymond her elf write tutoring accounting as well as stay tuned. + and Erla Cleaves Davis enjoyed that he and Bob are now in their teaching two accounting prin a fantastic trip to Greece last fall, ninth year in Hull Cove, Maine, ciple course a eme ter. All six aftera hectic period of coasr-to a tone's throw from Acadia Na grandchildren live with.in a 30- Corre pondent: coasrcoordination. Before return tional Park. Three grandchi Idren minute radius. Both Cathy and Ann Marie Segrave Lieber ing to Tacoma, Carolyn enjoyed live either in Ohio or southern Bob enjoy bicycle riding and three day of Maine's fall color. California. Fran is involved in managed over 1 ,000 miles during After a wonderful trip Carolyn is the proud grandmother lot of church things a well as 1994. They travel to Maine every 5 9 to Italy in the fall, of three .... l have the double ho pice, gardening, etc ....An ummer and have seen Joyce and we're entering 1995 pleasure of keeping up with Bob other retired couple i the Ed Rushton and Kay and War with vigor and enthusiasm. I'm Younes and familyboth visually Cochrans, Betty and Ding. Af ren Judd a well as checking out especially delighted by the re and verbally, as they alway in ter 36 year with American Na Colby ....Ju dy Levine Brody i sponses to the questionnaire that clude a family photo with their tional Can Company, Ding associate dean of admis ion at wa mailed to one fifth of our humorou and informative holi retired in September 1994. They Colby, and her hu band, Morton, class! ...Congr atulations ro day letter. Dr. Bob ha completed have moved to kaneateles, N. Y., is a federal judge, Di trict of Harvey and Sally Dine Bergman, his studies forhi M.B.A. and is having bought their house from Maine. They have three chil who were married in 1993 after evaluating some intere ting ca their daughter and son-in-law, dren-their married daughter, an ally had been widowed for five reer move . Children Nick and who were transferred to St. Loui . attorney in Boston; a son, an at year . They live in Mas achusett , Nora (are you a mystery fan,Bob ?) Their daughter, Ann, had de torney in New York; and another where she is a real estate broker are in elementary school, and Bob signed and built the hou e in on, a senior at Tufts. . ..Dick and he's a CPA. Sal's daughter and Anne have to stay on their 1989 . ...Al Dean has seven Mcfarlin is listed as a veterinar and on are an attorney and a toes to keep up with their youth Midas Muffler store in Maine, ian, but he ha n't practiced in currency trader, re pectively.... ful curio ity .... All the best for although middle on, Tom, will years. At pre ent he lives in St. Californian Phil Colburn own 1995, and keep those card and probably allow Al to cut back Jolmsbury Center, Vt., and spends an insurance agency and was re letters coming! + over the next two or three year . as much of each day as he can in cently married to Charlene, a 51 APRIL 1995 COLBY \ I LI �I N I 1\ T I \ R (i I; The Sixties 1968 th�ll he 1' now fi ne, hack at work ing keynme anJ workshop in Correspondents: Mary Jo \1lahresc Baur and lnok mg forward to '>ee111g a long-term care therapie ·. Seems 1 3 7 Lex mgl\ln Rl1aJ illt llf his clas�mate,. . . Maren that her time 1n dramatics at Dracut, MA 01826 Stoll herman-T rembly wi 11 be Colby is paying off, being on tage 1960 508-454-973) coord111atmg some of the mem Ml much . . . he ·rill remembers Kay White ber� of nur cla�s who wish to heir being Puck in A Midsummer 1228 anJringham Way 1969 with registration, etc. ...Connie Nighc's Dream. omehow she also Bloomfield Village, MI 48 101 Diane E. KmJler Maheu Armstrong wrote to offer finJs time to work on a master's at 313-646-2907 117 A lba Street to help s111ce she has been living VCU . he a·k if anyone has 1961 Port land, ME 04 10) m Minot , Maine, since 1986 heard from Heather Cambell Penny Diet: � ullivan 207-774-7454 when ,he moved hack towork for Carney ....From Northboro, 11145 Glade Dr. her father's motor home hu, ines . Ma ., we finally hear from Willie Reston, VA 22091 Work anJ rai ing her on, who Russell Merrill, who i a re earch 703-620-3569 now worb w1th her, made her technician/lab manager doing "post-marriage" transition gowe ll, research into gene therapyto dis 1962 and ·he wa plea ed to hear that cover bettertreatments for hem Judith Hoagland Bnstol there will be a variety of thing to ophilia and other hereditary 3415 unset Blvd. do for s111gles and people wh e disea es. he and her husband, Houston, TX 77005 Correspondent: ignificant others can't be at this Gary, a sale consultant, had three 713-667-2246 Kay White reunion a well a for mameds. o kids at UMass-Amher t at one 1963 plan to be there. Call a friend or rime: on Christopher graduated Barbara Haines Chase A very enthusiastic old roommate and get them to in '92 and daughter Jennifer in 11 alisbury Road committee i work111g come, too. If you need more infor '93; on Jona will graduate in '95. Keene, NH 03431 hard to produce a re mation, please call Jane Huerta They plan to retire on Cape Cod 603-352-9330 uni6on 0that will be interesting (617-4 4-332 ) or me (810-646- within the next two years .... and fun for all. Carolyn Webster 2907). ee you in June! + David and Patricia Houghton 1964 Lockhart is m charge of the "pre Marr check in from Natick, Mas . ara Shaw Rhoades reunion" at the amo et Resort They have three grandchildren 76 Norton Road in Rockport, Maine. Beth White Corre pondent: with a fourth on the way. Pat Kittery, ME 03904 head Baker, an antique dealer Penny Dietz Sullivan work as a tax consultant. Dave, 207-439-2620 in Rockport, has volunteered to an attorney, says about retire 1965 help ince he i right there. "The Fir t new new to arrive ment, "Attorneys don't retire, Richard W. Bankart Samo et doe a great job with was fromNorm Macart even if they lo e their appeal." 20 Valley Avenue Suite D2 groups," he report ; "food is ney, who has moved ...Iris Mahoney Burnell is still Westwood, NJ 07675 good." The best part is the variety from61 Katonah, N.Y., to Beaufort, working as a reverend but is trying 201-664-7672 of activitie offered-including N.C., where Norm has tarted a to enter semi-retirement by work doing nothing at all. . ..Jane landscaping/design business ing a an interim mini ter in 1966 Holden Huerta reports that there called One Green Thumb. Norm churches that are in tran ition. Russell N. Monbleau are 45 of "our" faculty members is still racing his motorcycle at Her husband is retired and is lov 3 Lovejoy Road living in the Waterville area Road Atlanta, Ga., and ummit ing it. Between them they have Milford, NH 03055 whom we plan to invite to attend Point, W.Va., and says, "It's the even children and five grand- 603-673-5508 various eventsduring the reunion. clo e t thing to flying and still children and have fun just keep ing up with all of them . . ..Carol 1967 This will be an excellent oppor being on the ground." Hi retire Robert Gracia tunity to catch up on a never ment dream would be to take a Ann Rancourt Ahem lives in 295 Burgess Avenue finished class discussion or to motorcycle around the world, but Orlando, Fla., where she is an Westwood, MA 02090 renew an enjoyable acquaintance. his wife, Mena, would only join instructor in Orange County 617-329-2 101 Jane's younge t on is graduating him if she getsto go via the QE2 schools. Her husband, Joseph, has from Colby in June, and she is and meet him at designated recently retired from Delta Air Judy Gerrie Heine pleased that they will be celebrat ports! ...Diane SadlerMartin is Lines. She is thoroughly enjoying 21 Hillcrest Rd. ing future reunion years togeth an activity consultant; her hus having him as a "Mr. Mom" be Medfield, MA 02052 er.... Russell Zych, our fearless band, an Episcopal priest. They cause he has taken a lot of the president, has been working hard have nine children, three grand burden off ofher. Unfortunately, to coordinate all this in spite of daughters and two grandchildren he planned to start working part having surgery to combat stom on the way as of last September. time after Christmas, so it will ach cancer. He is happy to report Diane travels country-wide giv- end. They have two children- COLBY APRIL 1995 52 A L U �! � I .-\ T L .-\ R G E Kimberly Ann, 25, and Craig, 21. tions in fostercare. She has done 15, is a sophomore at Kents Hill ally (Page '64 ), will return in Carol Ann's job is a challenging presenrario1r at an international School on the cross-country March or April from S\\'a:ilanJ, one-she teache · deaf students foster care meeting in Dublin and ream . . . . Peter Duggan and wife Africa, \\'here .he has been ;;en- using sign language and says that in Wiscon in and Minnesota. Mary Vance recently moved to ing in the Peace Corps. Al and he learnsfar more from them than With se\·eral colleague , Roey 1s Charlotte, N.C. Peter has a ne11· children tephanie, 24, anJ they from her. They al ·o ha\'e been spearheading a cooperative in position as \'ice president-mar Gregg, 21. tta\·eled to ourh Af enjoying traveling throughout the ternational urvey of foster care keting forLance, Inc. Peter and rica, Zimbabwe and Botswana, U ..and will be in Puerto RiCL abu ·e allegation· with research Mary have three children; daugh where they \·i-ited , ally and after the first of the year. She \\'Un ers in Canada, rhe U.K. and other ter Lesley, a seclmd grade teacher: roured. Al also tra\·eled ro Au - der if anyone ha heard from or ·ire·. Roey planned to .ee Margie son Peter in college at Miami of rralia, where Gregg spent la r about Anne Lovell or Frank Brown York and Elly Blauner Ohio; and daughter Jennifer at springsemester. lnSally',absence Wheat. Write soon with your o\'er the holidays and says that RollimCollege ....Keep the info Al ha taken up roller blad111g and news ...or fax it to 703-75 -6709 she usually misses Jean Gaffney coming. I love ro hear from you sea kayaking. He al o admir- to or e-mail to [email protected]. + Furuyama, \\'ho till li\·es and all. + dri\·ing a Miata on weekends, al practices denti try in ew York most always with the top do\\'n! City but traditionally visit· her Be t wishes to your family a� it Corre pondent: mother in Florida at this time. Correspondent: reunites1 ..Marsha "Fern" Judith Hoagland Bristol ... I got a bnef mes age that it Barbara Haines Chase Palmer Reynolds shares her was a "grear Year" for Bill and home in Connecticut with hus Thank goodness for Alice Webb in Reading, Mass. Bill and I just returned band John, Cra:y Chrissie from 6 the ritual of holiday How about some information from a week in our the animal shelter and Myriam card and message ! 1 or explanation on the "great 63 cabin in northernVer Montrat '94 from the l vory Coa ·t, loved2 hearing from Sandi Rollins Year," Alice1 . ..Gail Macomber mont celebrating the year end who is in a training program in Kilgore that her on Rob, 23, is Cheeseman and hu ·band Doug, \\'ith our family. One hope for the New York City. Marsha and John living on Beacon Hill nor farfrom co-owners of Cheeseman's Eco new year i that the Alumni Of are teachers and, when not enjoy where she and Jane Germer afari-, will be leading wildlife fice ha finally re\·ised it ystem ing their "getaway hou e" in Krebs lived 30 years ago. andi tours to Ala ka next summer and for mailing class que tionnaires. Biddeford, travel to more distant and Bob's daughter Lisa also lh·e to Au tralia for eptember. Gail' My apologies to those who ha\·e de tinations: last vear ormandv, in Boston, and although the daughter, Ro e, ha a 2-year-old received many and to those who during the cele ration of t e "Kilgores enjoy weekends at their son, and on Ted is now 21. . have recei\·ed none. Thanks to WWll landing, band next yearh ummer home on Cape Cod Brenda Wrobleski Elwell, who tho e of you who have re ponded possibly Alaska or the h·ory through ovember," according is the national account manager with ne11·s and philosophy and Coast. ...This holiday eason to andi, "they take advantage of for Carl on Wagonlir Travel, im·itations to visit! ... Dave Cox, found Sally Morse Preston, lot of cultural activitie in Bos planned a dri\·ing-hiking trip to farm manager for Lind Farms in spouse John, and daughter Emily, ton with family living in the city." ew Zealan 53 APRIL 1995 COLBY Going to Work in Genes hn W. Kusiak a neurobiologist who works for '69, especially the biochemistry training, helped me a lot in the Nat ional lnstitutes of Health (NIH) HuJying graJuate school," he aid. "I basically breezed through [gradu Al:heimer's disease, has n treim, Judy Allen Austin and nwn a home in Brattleboro. became vice president of the and Gerry-burg and say ·, "I never Dick Bonalewic:, who al n re ...Lynne Davidson-King i a Rhode bland women' golf as o let a conference stand in the way ponded, but l\·e included news ran-rime busmess professor at ciatinn. , usan and Frank enjl)yed nf rnun,m." Tom spent panofhb from them in the past year, and New York Univer-ity, and she an Alaskan cruise last summer Christmas holiday in Flagstaff, my editors are a stem group. + and husband Jim (married in 1991 and some sun in rhe Bahamas a Ari:., "v1siting rheGrand Canyon after a mere 15-year courtship) few months ago. Last ummer, and looking into real estate forl)llf ·rend their rime between NYC u an had lunch w1rl-1 Debbie eventual retirement ('eventual' Correspondent: and the Hamrron . Jim retired Davis and Lesley Forman Fishel being the key word there ). " Sara Shaw Rhodes last April and is doing consul ring man. Debbie is busy with ociety ..You have senr your check ro in environmental and urban ofFriends affair-, and Le ley con the Alumni Fund and maJe plan The new quesuon planning. They'd love to see tinues a- a p-ychiarrist at Han·ard to join your classmates at our glo 64 naires are ifring in, cla ·-mates! ...Lin da Spear Community Health ....Tom '63 rious 30th? Ye ? ee you there. and I hasten to up Elwell i till with Mary Kay but and Patti Raymond Thomas .. Hail, Colby, Hail! + date you on new and on book has moved to Sanford, Fla. he checked in with news of their recommendation . Sandi Albert- recommends Ageless Body, Time three-week safari in South Af on-Shea and husband Ray, both less Mind by Chopra ....Thought rica, Namibia, Bot wana and Zim Correspondent: profe or at Middlesex Commu you might like to hear some class babwe last summer. Their son Russell N. Monbleau nity College in Ma achu errs, statistic . We carry 312 people in Bob '8 married Carrie O'Brien have graduated two daughters rhe Cla s of 1964, of whom 2 77 '8 , and 25 Colby grad were at Sometimes too much from college o far and have one graduated from Colby. Fourteen the wedding. Patti is very in 66 drink i j ustnor enough. ro go. Meanwhile, they have ofourclas mare · have died. There volved in the boards of League of ... New Hampshire, bought an 1 26 farmhou e and have been 13 marriages between Women Voter of Doylestown, January 15, 1995: it's 60 degrees. are having a lot of fun. She rec class member- {by my account Pa., Central Buck County Fam Bur ince I have been absent for ommends Refuge ....Charlie ing), of which 11 still exist. There ily YMCA (she was Volunteer of the pa r two issues, my priorities Angell, profe sor at Bridgewater have been 19 "interclass" mar the Year in '94) and Planned Par for the day are e rabli hed. Stare College in Ma achuserrs, riages, and most of tho e have enthood. Patti also finished her Anne Ruggles Gere was the re pent the ummer recon trucring held up also. everal son and fifth year on the Colby Alumni cipient of a urprise 50th birthday a greenhou e. He recommend. daughters have gone to Colby Council. ...Bob Beechinor re parry that included cards, leners The Shipping News by Annie and many other· to -imilar New signed from the broken pencil and calls from old friends, in some Proulx and Baby , Will I Lie 1 by England small chools. When club and sent a lengthy update. cases people she hadn't heard Donald We dake {a good my - ever I .end out an all-cla-s mail He is a guidance coun elor at from in more than 30 year . Thi rery read ), amongorher ....Ben ing, I'm lucky to get a I 0 percent West Genesee, N.Y., High chool was the handiwork of Mary Jane, Beaver graduated one son from return, and about half of the class and reaches psychology a an her i rer, in con ort with Budge, Colby and has another at the ha\'e not responded to anything adjunct profes orar yracuse Uni Anne's husband. (Mary Jane be University of Vermont. Ben is from me in the la r five years. \·er iry and Onondaga Commu gan her sleuthing effort three rill refereeing occer and has One important note: whenever nity College. He celebrated a months in advance of the parry.) taken up golf with hi wife, you ch.1nge your addres , it costs econd wedding anniversary la r Anne has just finished a long stint Marilyn ....Je an Brennon Call the College a bundle of money if November wirhJoanne, a mental as a member of the Conference on came home to Maine for Chri t you don't not ify them right away. health therapist and pan-rime College Composition and Com ma thi year with her mother Any is ue of the maga::ine that fashion model. He writes: "Joanne munication, where she served in and brother . he recommend goe to the wrong addre s i re and I are dancing to bands in many capacities, including the Mama Makes Up Her Mind and turned to the College at our ex -read of playing in them. Keep in past year as national pre ident. Ocher Dangers of Southern Living pense and must be remailed fir r ·hape workino our, playing ba - With this activity fini hed he i by Bailey White.... By Camp cla . Every mailing produce 500- kerball, tennis, ere., keeping up turning to her per onal writings bell i enjoying dance cla e , i - 600 returned maga.;:ine-. Thar's with music on my guitar-hav while continuing to direct the still reaching English as a econd awful! Do your pan! + ing a ball." ...Ginger Goddard Ph.D. program in English and language and i living in a new Barnes keep busy as manager of education at the University of townhou e. he recommends human re-ource and cu romer Michigan .... Heidi Fullerton Joan Bory enko' Fire in the Soul, Correspondent: relarions at Avery-Dennison. he Warburton, after overcoming A New Psychology of Spiritual Op Richard W. Bankart has lots of business travel to Cali some challenging health matters, timism .... Sally Page Carville fornia (weekends at Big ur) and is back on track and ha been comes home from Swaziland in Let' go to Onie's! Thar Chicago.... Pam Plumb Carey promoted to district administra March ....Mike Cohen is gen 65 was the message I left and Charlie are now permanent torforthe Durham (N.C.) Guard eral manager of a Dodge dealer on Frank '66 and Su residents of Delray Beach, Fla. ian ad Lirem Program. They ship and has attended the Skip an Brown Musche's machine. They maintain a summer resi repre ent the best inrerestsofchil Barber Racing chool and tried Two hours later we had estab dence in Westport, Ma . Pam is dren who have a historyof family racing for fun ....Gail Koch and lished a rime and location over an interior designer and owner of neglect or abu e. In the mean Peter Cooper, teacher and guid the Chri tmas holiday in See Interior by Pamela. Charlie is a time, her husband recently ac ance coun elor in Vermont's konk, Mas ., for lunch with my partner in an investment bank cepted a position in Fort Lee, N .J ., school , spent one day of the holi old roomie. Joining us was Jay ing company in Ft. Lauderdale. which means they will deal with a days with Barb McClarin Bing Fell '66, home from Colorado to ...Tom Donahue ha put "a commuting marriage, Heidi in and Sandi Albertson-Shea. Gail visit his family. Susan is a busy thousand or so books" back on N.C. and Woody inN.J ....This recommends In theAbsence of the mother of 8-year-old Stephen and the shelve and repaired the dam seems to be a growing trend in Sacred by Jerry Mander, and Pe three older girls. When not at age after the January '94 Califor America, where a fickle local ter recommend Your Money or tending soccer games, ere., she is nia earthquake. He has visited economy may dictate long-dis Your Life by Joe Domingus. They on the golf course. In '94 she Civil Warbattlefields ar Mana as tance job commutes for people 55 APRIL 1995 COLBY A I U M N I t\ 1 I A R l; I. who an:unwilling to leave alll al sonal shame and guilt for nnt r - ta,b -,ucha' picking up the new'> degree.,;mJ theMule ., imperwn area th<1t offer> the quality uf life �plmJing in over 10 years, sent me paper have hecome ;i time chal ateJ Penn State, a group of one they Jcsirc . ... Craig James re a nice letter. Oag is ;1 senior un lenge. Add to thh i..:rnndchiklren t1 me D.U.\ gathered in the vealed hi' whereabouts hy letter. Jerwnting exccutivc anJ reside, numhers two ;md rhree th1'> year '>WnJ,and remini5ced about the After a stint in the Army ;ind a in Chelmsford, M;1,.,. He\ 'cay mg ( we'rc 'till all hoy•,, hy the w;1y ), day5 hnck when. Jim "Yukon" shorr carecr NEWSMAKERS the use of technology and the threats that technological advance could po e to hum n urvival. ... Law partner Nathaniel Pitnof The Leonard Davis ln titute '66 anJ teven Kre sler are ho ts of a unday morning program, Health Economics of theUni ver- "Legal Expre ," on AM ration WTAG in Worcester, Ma . Ac ity ofPenn ylvania instituted the cordmg to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Pitnof said, "We j ke Charles C. Leigh.ton, M.D., Me around, bur we give I gitimate answer to the question people morial Lecture serie on October have ....Mo tpeopledon'thaveacce roa lawyer. They're l oking 10. The series was e tablished by for home pun advice. owe talk in general about the nature of the the Merck Company in honor of problem, butwe don'tgive particularized advice." ...Todger Ander- Charles Leighton '60, who wa on '67, pre idem of Denver InvestmentAdv1 r,wa fe atured in the company's senior vice pre i the lnstinttional lnve tor m january OLBY APRIL 1995 56 ALUMNI AT LARGE year away from those parent tream. She shares her home with three children gave Glenna and birth of arah Colt Anthony on weekend trips as his daughter, a fo ur longhaired cats, including her banker hu band, Richard, a November .... Eric Cote is a senior at Needham, Mass., High, two Maine Coon cats. The wonderful surprise 25th wedding lawyer and chair· the aco, i about to venture into the world detoxification unit where she anniversary party, which included Maine, planning board .... Jane of higher education. Eric is con worked closed down due to lack many friend and relatives. he is Chandler Carney writes thatshe templating an early retirement of funds, and she ha been w0rk also active in raising funds for per loved our 25th reunion, \\anders from the legal department of ing as a psychiatric nurse for the fom1ing arts in Idaho, uch a bal about rhe whereabout of Tanya New England Telephone and last 15 months ....After her let, opera, an arts center and a McDowell '70and remembers Jan perhap teaching at a local law husband's brief assignment in museum. In October, Alan Hogendom a her favorite profes chool. An added bonus was a Rocky Hill, Conn., Kathy Denehy Gray, wife Donna and their three or. She notes that his constant visit from Phil Kay as he re Lewis has packed up and moved children moved imo their newly dwelling on the food giveaway newed old acquaintances. Later back to Nixa, Mo., where her built home in Concord, Mas . programs in Africa in the '60s was that evening, Jim Wilson joined husband, Bob, i head of the Alan's community activities in prophetic and that every rime she this crew at dinner and filled us group purchasing department for volve coaching children's sports. reads of famine in Africa, she i in on the trial and tribulations FASCO. ince they'd only been Daughter Erin, a high school reminded of Profe sor Hogen of running a one-man law office in Connecticut about a year, Kathy sophomore , son Chri topher, dom . ...Ines Ruelius Altemose on Cape Cod. This every-other was able to get her job back at the ixth grade, and Julie, first grade, look forward to doing "Thelma year event presents a fine oppor hospital, and she tried out her new all play occer. Alan bumped into and Loui e quared" once again tunity for Boston area people to PC at work to write her Chri tma Jack De mond '67 at a high school with Susie Mathews, Jeanne meet and cheer on what has be letter. She will be back in New "back ro school" night and al o Bryant and Judy Holden. ound come, of late, the White Mule England, though, because she ha attended a Tufts-Colby soccer interesting. Ines planned a late gridiron juggernaut. ...A new a daughter who recently graduated game last fa ll. ...Jo hn De 1994 trip ro London for both bu i year and many of us will cel from Keene State (N.H.) in ec Simone i a computer teacher liv ness and plea ure ....Shar on ebrate the big 50 when that next ondary special education and has ing in Saco, Maine. His wife, Timberlake traveled to London birthday roll around. But that' another in nur ing at URI. Eli:abeth (O'Gorman '69), is an and Paris in 1994 . ...Gary Aus OK, because the news we've re . . . Betty Coffey Gross and her antiques show promoter. l11eir tin lives in Maryland with his ceived hows that the Class of hu band, Mike, are relaxing oldest daughter, Anne, graduated wife, Kim, who work as a logistic l 967 is not getting older but that (cheaply) now that their son, magna cum laude from Bowdoin program manager, and they have we're getting better all the Matt, is at Hofstra. (Colby was roo last June and is now in NYU Law two children-Kimberly, an ac time! ...Perhap we should call cold and too far for him. ) She is School. Son Joshua is in a p.g. year counts manager for a health care Ed "Woody" Berube the bionic proud of having survived 25 years at Hebron Academy, where he firm, and Aaron, a member of the man. He writes that he recently of teaching with both her en plays hockey. Their youngest cla s of '96 at the U ..Naval had his left shoulder operated on ergy and interest intact but i daughter, Emma, is a sophomore Academy ....Anna Thompson for a tom rotator cuff, bur that frequently frustrated by ad at Thornton Academy and also Bragg faces the mixed blessing of goe along with his three knee ministrative, state and federal plays hockey as goalie on the having four children in college operations, back urgery and two "decrees." (1110 e of u in educa Thomronboy' var ityteam.John later this year. Anna wonder foot operations. (Even with all tion know just what you mean, notes that they spend their lives in which classmates are looking for this repair work, he carries a four BC! ) .... We've tried very hard very cold buildings . ...Reed ward to retirement. ... Gus handicap in golf! ) He's a product ro file a column for each issue, but Harman is an investment man Browne write from Lincoln Cen logistic project manager with we really do need ro keep in touch ager in California. He and wife ter, Mass., that he took an early Xerox and lives in Web ter, N.Y. and pa on your new and views. Nan ha e two children: Hayden, pension from NYNEX and joined His wife, Connie, is a fir t de Let' hear from all of you in rhe 25, who is a software consu lranr in Liberty Mutual Insurance in 1994. gree black belt in tae kwon do new year! + New York City, and pencer, 22, Gus soon will have two children, and hi 14-year-old daughter, a junior at the College of Wooster Jes ica and Alec, in college and Breanne, has a second degree in Ohio ....Linda Levy Fagen reports that travel plans will have black belt and play softball and Correspondent: holz and her husband, Allen, are to wait until after A.O. 2000! ... volleyball. ... In case you're Mary Jo Calabrese Baur both pediatrician living in Erie, I've moved my psychotherapy planning an at-home wedding for Pa. Their family includes Peter, practice to an office overlooking your daughter, you really mu t Greetings, all. Glenna 20, at Brown, Andrew, 18, at Wil Casco Bay in Portland, the sight contact Sandy Miller Keohane 6 8 White Crawforth liams, and Elizabeth, 11. That' all of our spend id reunion cruise. My m Milton, Mass. A mother of writes from Idaho, the news fornow. + son, David, keeps me busy and the bride, she employed her cre where she is the diversion unit fascinated with his nearly -year ative flair to tran form her house, supervisor for theAda County ju old zest for life . Plea e take the pool and yard into a beautiful venile court. She's very proud of Corre pondent: time to stay in touch. + setting for a ceremony and recep rhe volunteer program she insti Diane E. Kindler tion. It was o unique that it wa tuted three year ago to deal with the subject of a feature article on fir t-time offenders. Forty-five Thanks for the inrer wedding in the Quincy, Mass., adults meet twice a month to re e ting response to the 69 _ Patriot Ledger. lt sounded like a solve police complaints with last questionnaire. wonderful party .... Susan Fin youth and monitor the e clients Many of you wrote about travel, lay Chavez has been having a until completion of the terms of career changes and children leav great time landscaping her home their diversion agreement. Suc ing the nest. Of cour e not all ofu in Annapot ·�. Md., and has even cess is reflected in the very low 20 are in the same tage of life: Ann included a goldfish pond and a percent recidivi m rate. Their and Bob Anthony announce the 57 APRIL 1995 COLBY \ I l' �I N I •\ I I \ R (, I The Seventies 1979 Duncan Hewitt, .i,,1.,t COLBY APRIL 1995 58 ALUMNI AT LARl;E where Rhee was promoteJ to pro mmherand interiorJesigner. Her fe·sor of medicine in July. family inc ludes G. Kent Kahle, helley and Mike Amster li\'e in an investment banker, Carter, 11, NEWSMAKERS Concord, Mass., with their 8- Walker, 8, Page, 5, and a large year-old son, Adam, whom I re as ortmen t of pets. She keeps busy St. Mary's Hospital in Water member from our '92 reunion a - a as a chilJ advocate volunteer bury, Conn., appointed Sheila precocious and per onable young- and working on an animal spay/ King Green '73 as its senior ter. Mike is one of the principals neuter mobile. Cynthia would services coordinator. She will and foundersof Harvard Ecology like to be getting rid of the con develop a program to meet so Associates, an "environmental stant collection of junk in her cial, educational, recreational, health safety and transportation house (goe · with the three kids, 1 health and wellness needs for management consulting" com think) . She wi he� she were a senior citizens in the area .... pany . ...Anne Howard Cotton movie star and that she weren't Cumming & Lockwood law lives in New Canaan, Conn., and talking on the phone so much. fi rm in Stamford, Conn., is a re ·idential real escare broker ...Ju lia McNagny Hurley is in elected William Narwold '74 for Brotherhood and Higley Com Columbia City, Ind., where hus as managing partner and ex Jeff McKeen '76 and pany. She and her husband, Lee, band David i ·a farmer. They have ecutive committee chainnan Career Newell '77 have four children, the oldest fourchi ldren, ages 2-14, and also in November. He will split hi time between the Hartford and approaching college age. seem to collect children's toys Stamford offices.... Ja mes Shearard J r. '75 has been ap Peggy and Jim Colburn are busy and books.Julia rerumed to Colby pointed secretary and director of Nytest Environmental Inc., parenting Tyler, 3, whose "art last summer for the first time in where he has worked since 1992 as director of marketing and work" 1 enjoyed on Jim's ques 20years. She liked the new builJ sales. He ha an M.B.A. from Rutgers Universiry and 20 years tionnaire. The Colburn� are ing , appreciating how well they of environmental lab e>..rperience with public and private com experiencing the challenge of fir into the campus ....From fro panies at senior and executive level positions ... . Art Handman leaner time in the real estate :en Minnesota write Joe '72 and '76 has been named the director of grocery sales for T ropicana appraisal industry, where Jim is Mart ha Hamilton Benson. Products in Bradenton, Fla ....The Old Grey Goo e, a folk employed, but are grateful for the Martha is a real e ·rate appraiser, band featuring Jeff McKeen '76 and Carter Newell '77, has ·trength of their family and their Joe a mortgage banker. Meli sa, been collecting traditional mu ic from the Northeast and per Christian faith. . . Joan and Bill 13, and Tucker, 9, are in fun fonning in the Waterville, Maine, area. They also present Alfond live in the Beacon Hill activitie·-swim team, occer, stories and ballads depicting trad itional New England area of Boston. Joan is in a "·er indoor rock climbing. As a fam life ....Kevin R. Convey '77, managing editor of the Boswn vice busines for foreign students ily, they enjoy many outJoor Herald, spoke at the Seacoast Communications Network meet in New England prep schools." sports, but Martha wishes she were ing in Portsmouth, N.H., in January ....Richard Healey '77, Their oldest on, Justin, i at reading and sleeping more, get the president ofFoster-Healey Real Estate in central Massachu Tulane and a member of the golf ting t New England and ·eeing sett , is now president of the Massachusetts Association of team there ....Sally Barker and friends more often. She a k if Realtors . ... Evan T.M. Katz '77 has been appointed chief Steven Hamburg are new par anyone has heard from Liz budger officer of Newton, Mass.... St. Peter's Hospital in ents! Hemma Leah Barker Ham Belsky? ...In Michigan, Mark Albany, N.Y., has named Dr. Anthony Cagino '78 as co burg wa born in June 1994. Pestana is assistant professor of director of its new pulmonary rehabilitation program . ... Leslie Hemma means "daughter of the philmophy ar GranJ Valley tare Morgan '78 and his wife, Cindy, were featured in Harizons for mountain ," write Sally, who University. Wife Mary Beth was their medical mi ionary work in Bangladesh ....The hi toric adds: "we have a house we build a expecting any day. Mark volun Inn at Chester in Connecticut, owned by Deborah Lieberman little bit at a time in the White teers at a local retirement home Moore '79, has won numerous award for itsfine diningand cozy Mts. ofNew Hampshire. Twenty and collects books by Thomas atmosphere. Moore, formerly officerchief mate of a tanker in the four hour colic for the first 3 1/2 Aquinas. If anyone has a copy of Merchant Marine, bought the inn in 1992. months, coupled with a C-sec Thoma ' Commentary on Aris tion and our move two weeks wtle' s Treatise on Meceorology, MILEPOSTS after she was born were a true Mark would like to hear from endurance test. But not even th i you . . . . Barry Walch is also an Births: A daughter, Elizabeth Anne, to Mary Helen and Brian combination detracrs from the assistant professor--of mortuary Hurley '76 . . . . A daughter, Rebecca Mary, to David and Mary joy of being parents." + science-in Canton, N.Y. Heand Zukowski Hurd '79. wife Joyce have rwo boys, ages 14 Marriages : Pamela Bradley '75 to Ro s Burton in Glouce ter, and 11, who are avid occer play Mass ....George Kesaris '78 to Julie Gray in New York, N. Y. Correspondent: ers. Barry is a fraternity advisor Deaths: Luther Foster, LLD. '71, in Atlanta, Ga., at 81. Shelley Bieringer Rau trying "to move the frat system ...Benjamin A.Hawkins, M.S.T. '74, inBrandon, Fla., at62. out of the dark ages" and is active Greeting from the in the Presbyterian church. He 7 frozen north ! As I wishes he were bui !ding heirloom Braces "collect what we can, books and junk; also weight, 4 which isn't much" due cost write in January, we quality grandfather clocks instead to which she wouId I ike to get rid of! are in the midst of our first really of still rebuilding a very old house and fa mily restraints ....ln She would like not to be doing cold weather-those of you who and collecting grad school credit Monmouth, Maine, live Kevin housework and would like to be have left New England might re hours . ... S. Lynn and James and Bonnie Nielson Gimpel with teaching fifth- ixth grade. After member single-digit temperatures Brace live in Friedens, Pa., with children Zachary, 13, and Torrey, attending reunion last June, and a howling north wind ... . In kids Corbin, 16, and Deidra, 14, 10. They keep busy with music, Torrey has decided she wants to Houston, where the weather is both honors studen ts. J ames is an sports, acting, Scout and the lo attend Colby ....Tigard, Ore., warm, Cynthia Vietor Kahle is a excavator and avid cycler. The cal credit union. Bonnie collects is home to Perry and Phyllis 59 APRIL 1995 COLBY Running a Model Railroad " o you rea l ly run a orange ja kcts for the crews. D ra iiruaJ ?" Colby ask eJ "You've got to start hy Deborah Warhen Finn '74. valuing your employec5," said Before she C\luld amwcr, rhe Finn, who 111 1982-8 3 wa superintendent \lf the Rari natil mal prcsidentofWomen's tan Valley Rail Line in T ramportat ion eminar, a New Jer,ey hroke away for group of tramportation in a moment, then c.1me hack du:,rry profe;,sionals network on the ph\lnc to expla111 ing to affirm women's roles in that one of the engineer-. management in the tram ju�t checked in to ask how portation mdu�try. "My front her grand mother\ broken line employees come to me. hip was mending. One of They feel they can rake a ri k. the engineers? I think I �ee them taking more 'Tm . . . acces�ihle,"sa iJ initiative, makmg their own Finn, rhc only wnman line judgmcnt..,.._they know they'll �u r1eri n rendent u( the seven he �uppnrred. I ee an increase line operat e d hy New in 'uggestions. And I don't get Jer ey Tramit, t he agency crnckpot ideas. When you treat re ponsiblc for providing them well, they'll do it." public transportation in the J Finn ::.ay� her Colby gov tatc. "lt keeps you aware of what' going on. ernment ma1nr and concentration in international relation , A woman in a trad i rinnally male-Jomim1ted fielJ, Finn says 111volv111g image�. perception. and conflict resolution, have that a lot of people arc watching the way �he rum a rnilroad. Far heen va luahle, hut �he believe a general background in liberal from trying to derail her, she ays, most of them are �trong art� ha� contrihuteJ to her management style. supporters. ln the midst of one serious opcrntional issue, an ''It wa::. a good foundation that prepared you for a life of engineer even phoned her at home with hi- theone . learningan d w ant ing to better yourself. l'm never sari fied I've "l call them my Deep Throat calb," said Finn, who lives in learned enough," he said. he al o remember· "a sen e that Westfield, N.J., with her husband, Tom, and two children. ''People Colhy wa� preparing u to make the world a better place." cheering me on, giving advice and insights. TI1ey finJ a way to hare The Raritanlin e recently initiated focu groups to learn how information with me. It's part of an intere tin my uccess." 1t could improve ervice to the public. Finn says one sugge tion, Succe s means supervi ing 130 employees to Jeliver safe, in tead of sitting for two month · in a corporate memo, led to a reliable service to about 7, 500 daily commuter: on 50 trains protntype rail car in four month . In the future, she believes, the operating over the 45 miles between Newark an Hasegawa Auger and kids, Cody, children, Erin, 13, Michael, 9, injuries, news that was submitted ing at H.S. basketball, named 12, and Jesse, 8. Phyllis is an ex and Devin, 4, claim her time. by another classmate as a devious Maine H.S. Lacrosse Coach of hibit graphic artist. She would Janee met up last year with Mar but brilliant practical joke. Bill the Year in 1994." ...Susan and like to be traveling more and is guerite "Mugs" Nelson Sarson refuses to identify the perpetrator Eric Clise Live in Woodinville, hoping to celebrate her 20th wed at a gymna tic meet, where their but wants Doug King to know Wash., where they own a shop ding anniversary in Costa Rica daughters were both competing. that somewhere, sometime, when that provides finishing services this spring. She wishes they were Besides several volunteer activi he leasts expects it, his time to the printing communiry. Their not doing major landscaping at ties, Janee is back singing now will come! ... Hope you all are family unit is "five (yes!) kids. their new house---did it get done with the Heritage Chorale of making your plans for going Three adopted and two of our before winter,Phy llis? ...l'm out Framingham ...thisshedoesjust back to Colby in June for our own ranging in age from 2 1/2 to of space-more in a few months! for herself. ..."Supermom" Sue 20th reunion! + 19. Love to hear from members of • Blanker is busy with her two chil the band and friend . Drop me a dren, Sarah, 6 1/2, and Peter, 3, letter on America Online c/o R. in Darien, Conn. Ln April 1993 Correspondent: Eric." And to answer your ques Correspondent: Sue was elected president of the Leslie A. Ramsay tion, Eric, l don't hear from Sally Susan Gearhart Wuest Local Girl Scout Council, a vol Byrd anymore. She's not a letter unteer position with time require Jane Williams and writer like most of us ....Evi Thanks to thoseofyou ments similar to those of a Bruce Blumberg still Anne (Muller '78) and Chas u 7 7 7 5 in the first part of the f ll-time job. Besides volunteer live in Pepperell, Cowing also live in New York alphabet who re ing in both children's school Mass., a pastoral setting for the City, where she is a banker. sponded to the latest question classes, she is active in her moth Blumbergs' children, Phillip, 8, Grayson Miller Cowing is 4 1/2, naire! Beverly O'Brient Carne ers' group at church and serves on and Gwen, 5, and their various and Moppy, their cocker spaniel, and fa mily moved to Glastonbury, the Darien Youth Commission, farm animals to live in harmony. is 8. Writes Chas: "Bought an Conn., from New Jersey a year in addition to being a Colby asso Jane, having been home for the apartment in NYC. Had a son. ago. Describing herself as a pro ciate class agent! ...And rea pa t eight years, writes: "It's fun Am now broke." . . Karen fessional volunteer, Bev lists Girl Ward Antone, a physical thera to be back teaching (elementary Gustafson and Alan Crossley Scouts, PTO and Audubon Soci pist, is doing home care for a school)!' Her husband, Bruce, is continue to live in Madison, Wis., ety as just a few of her activities. private therapy practice in a graduate student at the Massa where he is a wildlife biologist for Husband Michael is a portfolio Warwick, R.l., which allows for chusetts Institute ofTechnology. the state of Wisconsin and she is manager forAeltus lnve tments; the flexibility she needs in her ... Paula and David Stephen director of development for the their two children are Jennifer, 8, schedule. Her three children, Boulanger live in Andover, School of Business UW Founda and Christopher, 6. Last May Bev Becky, 13, Jamie, 11, and Lind Mass., where she is in her last tion at the University of Wis had a wonderful time at a mini say, 6, are all into sports. Andrea's year of residency (pediatrics) at consin-Madison. Sam Crossley reunion with Deborah Marson greatest challenge these days is Tufts New England Medical turned 8 in November, and the and Barbara Carroll Peterson in having the three of them on three Center. She is now interviewing Cros ley twins, Hannah and Boston ....Alison Arthur mar different teams ! ... Charley for more local practice opportu Caleb, turned5 in July. Thereare ried Arthur Charbonneay in Sep Bolger isstill in the printing busi nities. He recently moved to no significant changes in Karen's tember 1994. They live in Center ne sin Edina, Minn. He and his KPM6 Peat Marwick-manage life, she writes: "Just rolling mer Conway, N .H. Alison will gradu wife, Gail, have two children, ment consulting: business strat rily along." ...And Karen and ate from nursing school this Christine, 9, and Bryan, 7. It is a egy/practice/management-and Steve Cummings live in Char June . . ..El izabeth "Binkie" small world, as Scott R yerse '7 4 is writes, "Look forward to partici lotte, N.C., where she is busy as Cammack Closmore imagines his daughter's soccer coach. pation in Colby events in Bos the mother of their six children that managing her family life is Charley visited Mark Farrington ton ....We missed homecoming and one dog, their eldest being 10 similar to the stress and excite on a recent trip to Washington, in October." ...James and Lee and their youngest, Adelaide, four ment of being "an air trafficcon D.C. ...Anita Baldwin is living CanningBreene live in New York months. He is chairman of Bowles troller 24 hours a day!" Child in South Berwick, Maine. She City, where she is an at-home Hallowell Conner & Co.-an number six, Catherine, was born and Richard McAvlay were mar mom of Molly, 7, and Cody, 3. investment banking company of in July 1993; the oldest is 11, five ried in May 1993 . . . . Lisa Turtz He is a bond trader in emerging, fe ring advice to middle market girls and one boy. All cynicism Birnbaum lists her occupation as thus more hazardous, markets. Lee companies in areas of mergers, ac aside, Binkie finds her Colby edu psychiatrist/painter in Larch is involved in a lot of fund raising quisitions and private financings. cation being put to great use, as mont, N.Y., where she Lives with for her children's schools-auc After 10 years of life in North her Life only gets more challeng husband Jesse and their two chil tion, Christmas sale, annual ben Carolina, and before that, seven ing every day .... Janee Keary dren, Zoe, 5, and Rose, 2. In Au efit. "I've Learneda lot," she writes, years in New York City, he writes: Connor is the owner of Janee's gust they moved into a beautiful "and gotten over any shyness "Things couldn't be better ..great Originals, custom dressmaking old house with Lots of room to about asking for help and/or mon place to Live, having a lot of fun and alterations, in Holliston, spread out with the two children. ey." ... M. Myers and Charles with our kids." More to come. + Mas . In June 1994 she was . . . Candy Skelly Crouch is busy Burch Ill live in Kennebunk, elected president of the Massa making wedding plans for Au Maine. They are both teachers, chusetts chapter of the Profes gust 1995 in East Boothbay Har and the family includes two step Correspondent: sional Association of Custom bor, Maine. In October Candy sons and a daughter. After 14 Nicholas Levintow Clothiers. Janee has di covered completed a century ( 100-mile years at Massabesic High School that running her own business is bike ride) and is looking forward in Waterboro, Maine, and 10 Greetings to all! very rewar ing and says that after to several more rides this year. years asthe lacrosse coach at Cape 7 8 "Multi-purpose three years she is finally begin ...Bill Muller wants to correct Elizabeth High School, Charles homemaker" Ronni ningto realize a small profit. Once the record concerningthe report writes (and l read between-the Jo Posner Carpenter writes from the school day is over, her three in the last is ue about his alleged Lines, with pride): "Still officiat- N. Yarmouth, Maine, to say that 61 APRIL 1995 COLBY A L U M N I A T l A R (; E life is easy now that twins Scott enjoyed he Correspondent: Robert Kinney ProfessorSandy Maisel visited with the Wash 7 8 ington Area Alumni Club in October and predicted that the Democrats would lose between 25 and 30 seats in the House of Representatives but nar rowly retain control. As we all know, this isn't quite what hap pened! Nonetheless, everyone COLBY APRIL 1995 62 ALUMNI AT LARGE 1989 to have that kind of second ca service officer. While stationed in Correspondents: Deborah A. Greene reer') Glen and his wife are en Greece, the Micsans have done a 38 orrel Road joying life with Jason, 7,Jonathan, lot of traveling around Europe Concord, MA 01742 5,and Stacey, l. . . . Julie Green to Rhodes, with a side trip to 508-369-6978 wood Kreutz is still living in the Marmaris, Turkey; to Prague, to 1980 Atlanta area and working in geri meet Dani's relatives; to Munich, Patricia Valavani mith atric rehabilitation. She saw Jean to visit Dani's mom and sister 6 Hammond Way Minkel a few months ago when and around the U.S., visiting Andover, MA 01 10 Correspondent: Jean and Julie' husband (who's friends all across the country. 508-4 70-1484 Patricia Valavanis Smith also a phy ical therapist) got to Dani also has found time to start a gether for a conference. Julie is cake decorating business. 1981 Don't forget ...re pleased to report that she and Dawn Brydon married Tim Beth Pniewski Wilson union weekend is June Erin Ireton Elliott, another Sweeney last November-a wed P.O. Box 602 8- 11! Hope you've Atlantan, finally got together af ding attended by Victor and Harvard, MA 0145 1 been making plans ro attend. ter two years of trying! ...Scott Ginny Bulford Vesnaver-and 508-456-8 01 8 0 There's a lot scheduled between Lehigh, a columnist forThe Bos is living in Arlington, Va. Dawn getting together for the reunion ton Globe, and his wife, Marsha, 1982 started a new job last October as Mimi Rasmussen parade, enjoying ome R&R at welcomed twin girls into the the director of marketing for a 63 Reservoir Street our own cookout with -oftball, world ...each weighing over trade association for the electric Cambridge, MA 02 138 tenni and family acti\·irie , and nine pounds! (ls that some kind utilities industry ....Ji m and 617-492-1002 a Class of ' 0 dinner with guest of record ?1) •••Karen Caine Laura Littlefield Bourne, also in speaker . If you have any ques Babbitt found herself thoroughly Arlington, are the proud parents 1983 tions about the reunion, feel free enjoying being back in the clas - of Kelsey Winslow Bourne, who ally Lovegren Merchant to give me a call ....Kelley Keefe room la t fall, teaching fourth was bornlast November in Wash HCR 62, Box 244B Slavin i living outside of Chi grade inNonh Dartmouth, Ma . ington, D.C. Jim and Laura found Mt. De en, ME 04660 cago and keeping fit enough to Emily and Ike keep her busy at time to travel to Sweden, Norway 207-244-367 make mo t of us jealous. She' home while he's grading paper and Poland last summer before teaching 12 fitne classe a week, and organizing lesson plans .. Kelsey's arrival. ...Doug and 1984 everything from regular aerobics Keep those questionnaires and Amy Parker Cook are busy in Maura Ca idy to prenatal classes to senior fit notes coming! As always, it's good Reading, Mass., raising their three 181 Winthrop Road ""9 ness and water aerobics. At rhe to hear from all of you. + children, Gregory, Abigail and Brookline, MA 02146-4442 ame time he's trying to keep up Benjamin. Amy says that having 617-566-0012 with Craig, 5, and Daniel, three chlldren in a little over three . Corre pondent: years has given them a lot of ex 1985 1. ..Weld Butler is the inve t Beth Pniewski Wilson Mary Alice Weller-Mayan ment coun el for Harbor Advi- citement and that there is never a RD 2, Box 149 oryCorp. Heand his wife, Sarah, dull moment in their house! Amy Camden, DE 19934 bought a house in Eliot, Maine, Fred and Nancy Welsh and Ann Albee Hoefle '80 orga 302-697-0142 and are "learning why human Isbell now have a third nize an annual gathering of Colby are called 'tool users."' ...Chris child, Katherine Mar friend that they call "Friends 1986 Jackson is alive and well and garet,81 who joined big brothers Thank giving." Everyone con Gretchen Bean Lurie teaching high school science, Brian and Scott on November l. tributes to the meal and football 2606 San Marco Drive mainly biology and genetics, m Nancy i taking a leave from IBM, game. This tradition has been Pa adena, CA 91107 anta Fe, N.M. he's on the cu p where she is a unit manager for going on for a number of years, 818-356-7538 of completing her master's in sci the consulting and -ervices group. and now the kid outnumber the ence teachmg and is looking to Nancy has been with IBM for parent ! As well as Doug Cook 1987 work more in environmental nmeyearsnowand live in Acton, and Ann's hu band, lain Hoefle, Lucy Lennon Tucker education ....Glen Coral i Mass. he often runs into Jeff Colbians who attend the annual 9 Well.stoneDrive managing hi own in urance bu i Protentis, also in Acton.... Jim feast include Bruce and Ellen Portland, ME 04 101 ne in the We t Chester, Pa., and Dani Nemec Micsan wel Reinhalter Shain, Dan '80 and 207-772-7127 area. His most recent challenge comed a third child into their Liz Pizzurro Ossoff, Deb (Zarella 1988 wa keeping the office together family, too: Joseph Raymond '79) and Rich Dube, Marty ara Dickis n la t ummer while his partner, joined big sisters Jessica and Julia MacMillin and her husband, 25 Fayette treet #l Jay igel, pent time {"very prof in December 1993. Dani and her George Plesko, and Greg and Bo ton, MA 02116 itably") on the Senior GolfTour. family are living in Athen , Ginny Low Pomeroy. Amy says 617-292-0015 (Wouldn't it be nice for all of u Greece, where Jim is a foreign they hope to keep up the tradition 63 APRIL 1995 COLBY :\ L L �I I\ I -\ T L :\ R G E for many 'ears ro come .... El mg m ramford, Conn., and i an BenJ NEWSMAKERS are running eidl Home Co., a home construction ompanv featuring quality craftman hip .... Jocel rn Wooten ' Joined in Dr. Karen Ferrante ' 0 re Oakland Unive it' 1ichigan as an admi ions office adYi r cently c mpleted a fellow hip for minority rudent recuianent .... BT curities Corporation in hematology and oncology at ha elected David Genove e ' 9 to the office of vice prei.idenr. ew England Dea one· and . . . Heidi Greenman 9 i · now the an bu ·er for the 1assachu of Houston Effler& Panners... e will work on the medical ·raff et ftrm . Brian Rign y ' 9 was appointed director of annual fund and alumni affai at the there and on the taff of Univ f, ew En land. Waltham We ron Ho.pital and . ity Medical Center in Rh de L land . . . . Harold Alfond, H' 0, MILEPOSTS donated l million in ovem ber to the Unive ity of ew Births:A daughter, rella trono, to Brad '79 and Li a Turner England mward the construc \ arner _ ...A son. tichael Philip, to Brian and Katherine tion of a healrh cience· Cowie Berkley ' 2 . . _.Twms, Meredith and Robin, to Rob buildin . ...John Cle enger and u an Wo d pofford ' 2 ... . A dau hrer, Catherine ' 1 ha joined 1eridian Consulting Group in We rporr, onn., a Grace, r Ann-Mariraret W'hite ' 5 and ean Padgett ' - .... a enior con ultanr. ...The Cleveland, Ohio, law firm of Hahn A dau hrer, London lane, to Donna and Andre' Do herty Loe er & Parks announced that Laura Gockel l has joined the • 6 . . . . A ,on, Jo eph Robert, ro Richard and Deb Pernice fim1 a. an a ociate. _ . . Paul Damren ' 2 w - promoted recently Duff ' 6 . .._A dauohrer, Rachel Ro e, to Jill Gli kman and to the rank of major in the u . . t-iarineCorp . ... Jim o· ullivan Michael Hill ' 6 ....A dau hter, Ta ·!or Chn tine, tO tephen ' 2 wa appointed \·ice pre idem and commercial broker of 1le. ' 6 and Cher ·I Lindenberg McCue ' 7 . .. . A :in, Peter Company in Bo ton in January .... ln Ocrober, Ri k Wald ' 2 t-1ichael, to iichael ' and Jennifer Erland on A ·er joined William M. Mercer Inc. in tinneapoli a pracnce leader in ' 7 . . . . Adau hrer,Jennifer L ·dia, to Thomasand b·dia Kelle' the health and welfare consulting group. _ .. Trevor tewan Bur el on ' 7. ___ A dauohter, Hallie Eli:abeth to Jam and ton & Jacob en Inc. in ew York City announced that Patrick u annah Crowell tridham ' 7. Woelfel' 2 ha become the director of the firm'· markerino and , 1arriages : Anne Marie Phaneuf ' 2 ro David MacKar m client ervice . _ . . Christopher Horner ' 5 is the new director of anrucker. 1a- . _ ..Daniel Parrott ' 3 ro KimbeTlv Hannon the instrumental program at Germantown Academy' upper and in Mclean, Va. . . . uzanneDe rocher ' 3 to Ke kin. Parrerson middle ·chool in Philadelphia . . _. lnJanuary, Ke •Tru tof 1aine in Cemerville, 1'fas _ .._ Frank Hamblett ' 4 to Cmthia promoted Lucy Lennon Tucker ' 7 to i rant vice presidem and Peter n in Harwich, Mas ....Paul Swart= ' 5 to Linda Cairn. participant recordkeepino upervLor. . . . Donald Pelotte, D.D. m ashingr n, D.C. ... Andrew piritoJr. ' 7roJulieJuchnik '87, mini ter in the Congregation of the Bies ed acrament in m Cran ton, R.l. _._Mar Jane Carry ' 8 to Brian Bro,,·n in Gallup, f., wa fe atured in a \'oice of the outhu.·est tor · about GI uc ter. fa· ._.. Matthew tet on ' ro Kri ten Beard m rrengtheninu the mini try. . . . In October, John Go lin ' was Blue Rocks, ova coria. ___Peter Ar enault ' 9 to Colleen named to the Ma achu et tate Police. Current! he i· workin Byrnein wamp con, fa . . . . . Patricia Cad on ' 9 to Clifford a a trooper in outh Bo ton . . - . Jennifer S haffer ' joined Ruprecht in auoaruck, Conn . ... Heidi Coughlin ' 9 to rty Parri h Wickersham , Parmer- in Bedford, M ., in ovember Davi in A pen, Colo. . . . Meli a Hallahan ' 9 to cott mailing ervice manager... . Law firm Gallaoher, Callahan Fairfield in Pittsbur h, Pa . . . _ cott Harve ' 9 to Tamm Gartrell named Dean Schwartz ' to irs C nc rd, .H., officein Fergu in prin a Lake, .J . .._K aren Lapac ' 9 to Dame! Powell o ember. ... In Boi e, Idaho, John eidl ' and hi i ter arah in We r Harrford, Conn. COLBY APRIL 199 - 64 ALUM I AT LARGE art classes to teenager as well as He finds hi dual careers in edu nancial strategy. She' thrilled to 1993 ....A quick hello from doing ·ome graphic design. Their cation and the military to bechal be able to ha\·e a more flexible Noble and Mariellen Sullivan children are Eric, 6, and Lydia, lengino and demanding ... .Ted schedule, which allo\\' for more Carpenter. They are in Bronx 4 ....Arny Bucklin is married Dickerson received his master's time with the guys at home ville, N.Y., where Noble i- a real to Phillip Brown. Their two chil in architecture last May from the husband Bob and sons Sean, 4, estate \·ice president and Mari dren are Elyse, 4, and Benjamin, University of Colorado in Den and Connor, 2. I know from my ellen i in brand management. 2. Amy i a technical writer, and ver and i designing branch banks own experience that to be able to They are expecting chilJ number Phillip i a senior ystems engi in supermarkets. Ted and hi wife, ha\·e some time at home with the three in April to join siblings neer. Phillip was laid off from a usan, have two children-Brad, children has been invaluable and Noble III, 3, and Nicole, 1. .. medical tart-upcompany and ha born in February '88 and in first wonderful for our family, and 1 Cynthia Trone Berger ga\·e U'i accepted a job in Chantilly, Va., grade, and Michael, born in July could feel Kelly's joy at being her new Burlington, Vt., addre-s. where they were to mm·e after '89 .... Scott Delcourt recently able to work two of her four days Hu ·band Derns owm the ym the holidays. Amy got back into accepted the position of execu in her home office. Kelly and Bob metree Company there. They\·e the professional working world tive assistant to the vice pre i keep in touch with George and been busy with Jack on, 3, and with a con.tract documenting dem ofresearch and public serYice Deb Bombaci Pappas, who are Kayla, 1 ....Also busy with kids imaging oftware. She now en at the Univer ity of Maine after doing well in Littleton, Ma . is Jenny Knoll Bouchard in joy a part-time chedule that al nine year as an associate scien They al-o noted that Regina and Evanston, Ill. he and Page, her lows her more time with their tist. He is clo e to completing hi Nick Silitch have a new baby. hu band, are settled in the Chi children. Amy, Kathleen Nichol M.Ed. in higher education ad The Corwens and the Pappa es cago area and are about to beg111 son Massey and Wendy Bauer ministration. His wife, Sherry had dinner with Mary and Chip the process of rehabbing their Castleman have been succes ful Kelly-Delcourt, is a registered Rooney, who al o are doing Victorian home. on hane is in having small reunions with nur eat the Ea tern Maine Medi well. . Dave Berno wrote from 2 ....Jen Thayer' letter from one another the la ·t few year- cal Center and is in charge of the St. Albans, Vt., to keep u po ted. Egypt are packed \\'ith nuance the last being la t summer. .. cardiac floor. Katie Ann is no\\' 4, He's an insurance broker with and the essence of travel. he Wende Davis is enjoying land and their basset hound, Beauford, Coburn In urance of Burlington, recently wrote from Cairo, ha\· scaping her small backyard at her is 3 ....Tom Cone and his wife, Vt. He' been with Coburn for i ng returned from a trip to new townhouse in an Diego, Tina, a regi-tered nurse, have two almost 10 years and is busy on the yria-incredible detail ofa busy Calif. hemis es the East Coast children, Zachary T., born in road in Maine, New Hampshire and eventful two-week journey especially the fall color and open April '8 , and Trevor A., born in and Rhode Island but keeps cur through centuries-old archaeol fields. Wende was able to leave November '92. Tom is a manag rent on Colby sports team each ogy. Jen will return ro the U.S. to behind her black lab, Cori, and ing partner for Chili' Restau ea on. Son Dylan, 8, and job search, hoping to find some her po ition a manager of toxi rants.... Thomas Dougherty is Brendan, 6, are his life. Dave thing that will keep her in the cology forCytel Corporation for a retail men' wear buyer, and he coache both in hockey and Little Middle East, which, he say , is a few week to travel to pain and wife Vicki have relocated to League baseball. ...Tom Ahern "still a frontier to conquer cultur with her boyfriend, Joseph northwest Arkansa following a claim to be "mellowing out with ally and ligui tically." Jen i · our Schultz ....After our five-year job change. Their daughter, age." omehow I'm ure he' got link to Scott Stein, who was "close reunion, Bob Benjamin wa mar Megan, was bornin March '90, more time to mellow, especially to moving" to New York and look ried to Lynne Hughe , a regi - and a second child was due at my ince he and his wife, Susan ing for a job, and to Barb Leonard tered nurse. They traveled to deadline. . . Bill Bower's answer (Hamano '84 ), still have to drive and Dan Marra, who are in England, cotland, Wales and to the question "What changes around the kids, helby, 11, and Waterville ....Keep those card Ireland. They have two children have occurred in your life ince Thomas, 8. Tom is an account and letters coming . As you know, now-Robert Patrick (Augu t we la t heard from you?" was an manager for a computer software postage is now 32 cents dome ti '89) and Caitlyn Marie (October under rated "A few ..." Bill i an company near Boston, and Sue i cally, o your gift of writing is '9 1 ) and live in tamford,Conn ., environmental consultant, or a conference director. ... From even r.iore valuable. My best to where Bob is an Engli h reacher, ganic farmer and cro country London, Emily Baker wrote of you all! + tenth grade dean and coach of a ki coach. His wife, ina, i an her sati faction with the balance variety of ports. He recently re in urance admini trator and or of motherhood and career. Zoe, ceived hi master's degree from ganic farmer. Bill ha a 6-year 1, live with Emily and her hu· Correspon.dent: Wesleyan University. Bob started old daughter, four stepchildren band, hu-ming Peng, a Euro Maura Cassidy hi second career in 1988 when ranging in age from 19 to 26 and pean equities trader. Emily is he enlisted in the U.S. Army two grandchildren! + e tabli hing her freelance career. Dave Augeri writes Re erve. He wa named di tin. (I really do love hearing from 84 that he just completed gui hed leader hip graduate in tho e of you who write. On occa- a contract with Banff Officer Candidate School, re Correspondent: ion, e pecially now that I'm en National Park on their ecology ceived an Army Commendation Sally Lovegren Merchant tering my seventh ecretarial year, and conservation. trategies for medal, was named to the com some of you will write to tell me large carnivores (bear , wolve , mandant' list for outstanding This column i printed you like the news and often end mountain lions, etc.). ow he is performance and has received the after the holidays but encouragement. Than.ks!) .. moving to the eychelle I lands 8 3 Lisa Campbell Bourgeault Army Achievement medal. He is gives that holiday and for one yearto work on a project currently the execution officer of cheer-all-year feeling. Please hubby Dominique live in Gan e for the Smith onian Institution the 733rd Tran portation Com give the gift we can all enjoy: voort, N.Y., where Lisa is a and the Royal ociety forNa ture pany, aCFP la unit, which means your news. I can't wait to hear credentialed alcoholism coun e Conservation.. He will be start that they are at the highest like from you. Thanks! Kelly Burke lor and Dominique is in the re - ing a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology, lihood of call-up. Bob was pro Corwen happily reported that he taurant business. Their daughter, too ....Cindy (Gillis ' 6) and moted recently to first lieutenant had gone back to work for Dun Melanie, 2, was the reason they Warren Burroughs were expect in the Officer Advanced Cour e. and Brad treet as manager of fi- weren't with u at reunion in ing their first baby in ovember 65 APRIL 1995 COLBY :\ I ll �I N I 'ITI .-\ I\ (; I arrcn ;i cnrpur COLBY APRIL 1995 66 ALU !NI AT LARGE tices internal medicine. They she's wonderful and find the many Burton and her husband are the October 1 in Glouce ter, Ma keep in touch with Charlie sleepless nights well worth proud parenr- of Lindsey, who is Karen Hentz Merriam, Amy Clippert and Chapman Mayo, it. ...Je nnifer and Christian now almost 2. (One is enough for Lumbard Holbrook and Susan who are also living in Minnesota. Barner are living in Cape Por now, she said!) Nancy works as a Zimmermann were in the wed ..Suzanne Swain Masiello and poise, Maine, and enjoy getting busines insurance supervior at ding party. Mark Wylie made her husband enjoyed a honey together with Chri Engstrom '86 Clark Associates Insu rance the trip from Miami and ang a moon through Italy, Turkey and and Henrietta Yelle. Chri tian is Agency in Portland, Maine .. beautiful a capella ong at the Greece last June. In her fifth year an attorneywi th Bernstein, Shur, Mary Eickhoff Dunn and her reception, "after which there at Fir t Bo ton Corporation, Sawyer and Nelson in Kenne husband bestowed our alma wasn't a dry eye in the hou e." Suzanne works in the institu bunk, and his wife is busy at home mater' namesake on their on, Mary Jane and her hubby are liv tional sales department. She had with their two boy , Nichola , 4, Colby, born in 1994 .... Peter ing in Arlington, Mass., where a visit with Laury Shea and her and Cameron, l. ..Ne w ar ' 9 and Laurie Meehan Reed he works in the Harvard Uni husband at their home in Ver rived from Florida, where proud have a on, Samuel, who wa born versity government department. mont but undoubtedly continue parents Donna and Andy Doch July 4, 1994, and is otherwise ...Greg Chronis, who was mar to run into a large Colby contin erty welcomed London Marie to known as Sammie. . . Lots of ried last October, writes that gent in her own Boston neighbor their fam ily October 10. Andy is engagements have come aero s he and his wife are living in hood ....Rebecca (Sears '87) a naval flight instructor stationed the wire also. It's been reported Scottsdale, Ariz., where he is a and Charles Cleary toured the in Pensacola. London join big that Brian Connors ha been en professional liability underwriter. Colby campus in the fall of 1993 brother Connor, now 2, at gaged recently. Brian work at "We ha\·e no kids or pets," he with their little legacy, Esther home ....Finally, I learned what the Colorado Public Defender's says ....Ed Barr, recently back Elizabeth, now 2 ....Thanks to a mall world this really is. La t office and lives in Salida, Colo. from Tokyo, got married last June Mr. James Cusack, we have an fall a new humanities teacher ...Ni na Colhoun is currently to Jennifer Pierce '89 in Boston. address for his son, Thomas joined the fac ulty at the private living in Cambridge and looking They are happily re iding in Cusack. Located in Berlin, Ger school where I am an admission fora job as a study abroad advisor. N.Y.C. , where Ed is an assi rant many, Tom landed his current a sociate. he came to u having he is completing her ma ter's vice president of a bank and Jen position a a mergers and acqui i graduated with an M.F.A. from work at the School of Interna works a an editor for Vogue tions consultant with Deutche the Universityof Arkansas, where tional Training in Brattleboro, magazine .... I saw Kevin Webb Bank (Germany's largest) just two he was classmates with our own Vt., while her fiance applies to and Tom Ferris at a recent party days before the Wall fe ll. Re Jay Prefontaine! That's all for medical school. . Rick Angeli in Maine, where I learned of cently he ha been as igned to now. Hope to be hearing from i one of the many getting mar Kevin's marriage to Kathleen work on other Ea tern bloc coun the rest of you soon. Best wishes ried in August. He is currently Hitchcock last October. They are tries, including Russia. To quote to everyone for continued happi tarting a career in sports market living in Maine, where Kevin Tom, "opportunities like this ness and success! + ing while working in ewton practice optometry. Tom Ferris come once every 100 year ." . Centre, Mass., for lMG-"the has been practicing law in Hamilton Brower is senior vice oldest, largest sport , marketing Waterville since he graduated pre ident account director for Correspondent: management firm." Rick finished from law school. . . . till on the Sara Dickison Deut ch, Inc., overseeing IKEA his M.B.A. at the University of hill are Demetra Giatas, the as marketing and advertising. Writ Rhode Island last May .... Al o si tant director of alumni rela ing from his newly remodeled Happy spring! Many in Augu t, Toby Bell and Vickie tions, and Scott Smith, who work circa 1863 Greenwich Village thank to those who Caron are tying the knot in Port as the assoc iate controller at apartment, Hamilton tell us that diligently filled out land, Maine. It' fun ro ee Colby. Keep the new coming.+ he wa commi sioned by the the8 que 8 tionaires last fall! There Colbyites match up in matri Clinton administration to pub have been lot of engagement , mony.... Lisa Collett i on the lish papers regarding the effect marriage , buying of home and marriage chedule for th is year, a Corre pondent: of adverti ing on Generation X. ..babie ! Pat and Patty Haffey is Laurie Anderson. Laurie writes Deborah A. Greene He also pent two weeks sailing Clendenen recently had their that she i teaching biology at the around eychelles last fall.... Jill third child, a girl named Claire. University ofTexas after recently Congratulations to Myerow Blinderman works flex Pat work a an attorneyat Minz, finishing her Ph.D. in plant biol Kirk Koenigsbauer, time in pharmaceutical sales, Levin Cohn, Ferris, Glou key, ogy. Her fiance is a postdoctoral 9 who was engaged to which i a great chedule for a and Popeo in Bo ton while Patty re earcher in developmental bi Anita Gattine last Thanksgiv busy mom at home with a 3 year keep her hands full being a full ology. Laurie is wondering how 8 ing. They met at Tom Wilde'· old! She hares some additional time mother. They have 4- and Alan Crowell, Ken Nye, Debbie wedding, and Tom no doubt will class news: Tom '87 and Kathy 2-year-old boys ....Bran Clay Gentile, Deedra Beal Dapice and be there when they tie the knot Pinard Reed welcomed their sec tor, a tudent at Thomas J effer on Linda Roberts Pagnano are do thi July l.Bob Gallagher will be ond son, Jo iah, la t fa ll. ... Medical chool, and his wife, ing? Let us know! ...Also en the be t man ....Adair Bowlby Suzanne Battit continues to arah, had twins last November. gaged are Whitney Kelting and graduated from UVM med school brave the cold winters in Chi ... Suzie Welch Carpenter had teve Runge '87, who are living in May 1994 and is a resident in cago, where he is with ZS A so a baby girl named Natalie a year in Bo ton while Whimey finishes family medicine at Highland ciates, a consulting firm.Suzanne ago January. She is working part her Ph.D.... I last heard that Hospital in Rochester, N.Y .... spent mo t of last ummer/fall time at the Bachman Company Jim Brandt was still teaching out- Mark Cosdon continue his eason a part of a sailing in Penn ylvania and over ee ide of New York City and wa Ph.D. work in theater history, crew.... Cheryl (Lindenberg their retail outlet at Vanity Fair named head football coach. Jim literature and criticism at Tufts '87) and Stephen McCue are "in Outlet in Wyomissing, Pa. he has recently joined the pre-mat Univer iry. His master's thesis is the pink" with their little bundle, work out of her home and really rimony ranks also! ...Mary Jane on the Flying Karamazov Broth Taylor Chri tine, who arrived enjoys the flexibility to be a Carty Brown wrote me a nice ers-"the jugglers with hair." August 30. Naturally, they think "mom," too ....Nancy Pare letter describing her wedding la t Mark' published in Asian The- 67 APRIL 19 95 COLBY .'\ LLIMNI AT ( ,\ 1( \, 1: wcr Journal anJ Tht!arer /might Jemie ll'mld COLBY APRIL 1995 68 A L u �1 I ,<\ T L .-\ R G E The N ineties ______ Killmer i livino- in Portland and gut Cro� in t. Louis, Mo .. with victims ma>ter'- in jL1urnalbm at Columbia Correspondents: engaged to Jorma Kurry '93; Melanie of the '93 flood_.\Xfhen Anna \\Tote, University in hope· of doing more Brockway 1s working in Boston and he wa preparing ro go to Maureen \\Titmg. Hisothernew :BradWillard attending uffolk Law chool; McGlynn's \l'edding m Boston on has mtwed back to Pirtsbur h from 1990 Kirsten Rossner graduated from the ew Year' he; Anna herself is Du eldorf and is working for a com Laura Senier phy-ical therapy program at Boston planning a June \\'edding to Gleim puter y terns adn mg compan\·; 4 Menoromy Road, Apt. 9 University \1·ith an athletic trainer Barker . ... Peter Bryant checked in Charlie Donaldson has mO\·ed out Arlington, MA 02 174 certification and is no\\' working in from Boulder, Colo., \\'here he Allen Carlson i- earning 617-64 1 -3467 to eattle; Charlotte \· ille, \ a .; Gretchen moved afterdri\·ingaero s the coun his Ph.D. in political cience at Yale 1991 Granger is li\·ing in Portland and try la·r ummer with Chris Haddad. and also dabbling in rudent teach Portia Walker \l'orking at Idex.x Labs. Julie has kept Peter i working as an account uper ing on the side; Craig Damrauer'92 17 0 ippe Road =Z in touch \l'ith Michelle Perron, \\'ho visor \\'Ith henkin and hennan (a is getting hi M.F.A. in creative\nit omerville, MA OZ 144 i at the Uni\·ersity of Vem1ont pub! ic relations fin11 in Dem-er), and ing at Ari:ona; Fred Stewart is now 61 -666-2102 !edical chool and is applying ro Chris continued on to eattle, a \·ery proud new w1cle--congrats, re-idency programs. Julie al-o tell where he has a job with an architec Fred!-andMattBourgaulthas (and 1992 me that Scott ullivan is now mar tural firm. Chris graduated at the top I quote) "dropped offthe faceof the Katie Martin ned and i enrolled in thephy ic1an' l 1 Larchmont Avenue of hi cl- \\·ith a master's in archi planet!" ... Susan Cummings, af Larchmont, Y 1053 assistant program at Hahnemann. tecture from yracuselast lay. Peter ter mo\'ing back north from North 914- 34-5537 ... Kerri Weise Augusto is com also tell me that David Freed is Carolina, is now workino in Harvard pleting her di- ertation for her Ph.D. living in WatertO\rn, Mas ., and ap quare at Cambridoe Energy Re 1993 m clinical p ychology. he' now plying w master' programs in com earch A ociate- (CERA) in their Kri tin L. Owen li\·ing m Virginia and has two part munications; Chris Jones is engaoed markeringresearch end. Whiledown 132 orthgate Road time teaching jobs at college in the to Jennifer Fenton '91 and teaching south, he and Colleen Halleck ran Northborough, MA 01532 area. In her spare time, Kerri -pends Engli·h in Han·ard, Mas ; Kate in the Marine Corp Marathon in 50 -393-2417 time \l'ith her hu band, Jonathan D. Carswell recently lefr her job at the D.C., both sporting Colby gear 1994 Augu ·to (an intern m \·eterinary Computer Museum in Bo ton and is they e\'en ran into one Colby !!rad Alicia . Hidalgo medicme) and d1e1r pets (two dogs, applying to M.B.A. program ; Beth and one Colby parent {literally)! Z Marshall treet two cats, one unconure and a school Kubik i li\·ing in Burlington, \ r., 111ey both finished in four hours, orth Reading, MA 01 64-301 offish). Kerri is applying for clinical taking physical therapy cl, -es and and "a finish !me ne\·er looked o far 50 -664-512 internship and hopes toendupback working with heroin addicts in a away !" . ..Trish Biros is in her last in the &1 ton area ....Sheri Berger research project. Thanks for all the year of grad -chool at Northeastern recently graduated with an 1.8.A. new , Peter! ...Brian Clement is for"clinicalexercisephy iology." he fromCornell University and i- now hing in Portland, Maine, workmg is doing all the pulmonary function Corre pondenr: \\'orking in human resource at the as a �tock broker at Tucker Anthony testingforthenew HasbroChildren' Laura Senier JP Morgan Bank m Ne\\' York City. and getting married in June of 1995 Hospital and is also im·ol\'ed in a heri tells me that Jenny Alexander to Carolyn Palombo .... Kathrine research project looking at the psy Thank to all of you ju t graduated from Carnegie Cole will be finishin<> her master' in chology of asthma. he also bought 90 who have ent in new Mellon with an M.B.A. and was Engli h at the Uni\·ersity of Con a hou e two years ago on her own recently. We're ending married in Pirtsburgh in December necticut in lay and is applyino- to and say , "the re ponsibility is cary out urveys to portions of the class '93. Paula Henriques i livmg in Ph.D. programs at chools in the but well worth it!" he mi es Tom e ery so often, and the response has Portugal but traYeled back ro the ortheast. he' currently teaching Brown like Cra.)'1 Deanne Newton beenoverwh elming! Julie Ambrose rare for Jenny' weddino-.... fre hman comp ar UC- torrs and was al o in her program at ord-1- graduated from Duke University' Anne PollockBrigg l\TOte that ·he li\·ing \l'ithJack R. Aydelott '91. ... easrern,then rransferred to a chool phy ician' assistant program in ep and her husband, John, have re Don't fo111et that we'll also have a back in Georgia.. . . John Avery 1s a tember of'93 and is now working in cently moved to the ashville area, chance to catch up at our reunion in di rributor for the We rpon Ri\·er theemergencyroomatMaineMedi where John i working as a computer June. Hope toseeasmanyofyouthere ineyard and Winery in Wesrport, cal Center in Portland, Maine. he consultant and Anne is enrolled in asposs ible! + Ma ., and also helps run the \\·ine occasionally sees Carolyn White, the M.B.A. program at Vanderbilt tasting room. He in\·ires one and all who is teaching biologyar McAuley University .... Anna Brooke ju t to come and \'isit and taste "some of High chool in Portland and work graduated from the Massachu etts Corre-pendent: Mas achusetts'- be t local wine." ing at Maine Medical Center in the tate Police Academy and i now Portia Walker ...Stephanie Carville received her poi on control center. Through working as a trooper (another Colby M.Ed. in ovember '92 fromLesley Carolyn, Julie heard that Erika arad wa' in her class at PA-Jolm Ben Ames, currently College, then traveled for the next Dresser and Rudy Penczer got mar G lin ' 8). Before entering the po 91li \' ing with his doa, two years to Eno land, Denmark and ried and that Erika i teaching and l ice academy, Anna spent about Killian, ha left the outhern Africa. he now i a fi rst coaching at Holderne ; Karen eight months working with the Red world of publi hing to pursue his grade teacher at Green Farms Acad- 69 APRIL 1995 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE emy in Connecticut and 1' ltwing Augu,t 12, 1995; ant! Jojo Hardy i ren Claytor hecamc an uncle when son is the assi tant director of ad it 1 . . . Seth Canter I> a chemic1l op eng;1gcd to Mike Willegal! from his brother Brannon '88 haJ twins m iss1on , teaches Eng lish and erntion> manager for Cbm Harbor; Minneapoli>, weddmg somenme m in Novemb r. Warren's in his fin coaches boy' !aero e at the Ern·inmmental Sernce' in incin 1996. • year of grad school for land cape Millbrook chool in Millbrook, nat1. He and Chn>tina were mameJ architecture at the Univcr iry of N.Y. He ran the Dutchess County la>tJuly �I. Steve ChernoffanJ Josh Penn.,ylva111a. ...John Cook i� a Marathon la r fa ll 111 3:30:23! Green were gmom>men, ha\·ing Cmre>pondcnt: >taff assistant at G A Admi s1ons . . . Jeremy Carver ts living in flo\\�1 in from St. Peter;hurgand New Katie Martin anJ Financial A1J at Harvard. He Menon, Pa., near Philat!elph1a. He York re>pectively. Other' pre>ent recenrly cnmpleteJ a w1m aero ., wrote that Toby Per e is an edito were Tom Bnllln, Tim Tanguay '90 Ethan Gettman ha Pro\'lncernwn Harhnr COLBY APRIL 1995 70 Roads Scholar fter spending a year ex pen es and al lm\·ed me A walking through Japan, to meet my daily budget." Andrew Nemiccolo '93 i While hiking a moun convinced that the journey, tainou ection of Nak not the destination, hold asendo road he vi·i red an the key to under randing. elderly couple, one of the Nemiccolo's 1993-1994 three do:en time he was odyssey, funded by the Tho invited to stay with local ma J. Wat on Foundation, re·ident . called for him to walk the "Staying in hou eholds entire lengths of]a pan's five and Buddhist temple all Gokaido roads, a total of over the country was en 1,000 miles. Gokaido, lit lightening," he said. "With erally "five roads," erved out question, it wa the as the routes for an ingen most valuable experience of iou 1 7th-century system of the project. In a sen e, my administration that re topic of study wa not road quired the daimyo, or lord at all but the people who under the hogun' author lived along the roads." ity, to visit the capital city Despite the hospitality and live under the shogun' watchful eye for half of every of many Japane e, Nemiccolo found the olo travel and long year. For almost three centuries the daimyo led colorful gaps between mail pickup -he had mail sent to his host proces ions to and from Tokyo along the Gokaido. With family's home, where he would pick it up every few weeks improvements made by the shogun, the roads became major challenging but ultimately atisfying. " everal month pa sed highways u ed by merchants, religious pilgrims, ight eers before I came to value the solitude of the road. Almost daily and other traveler . Nemiccolo' trip wa de igned to retrace I questioned and then reaffirmed my reason for walking." the e route to investigate the natural topography and Passing through picturesque communities, trip malls, current human environment. bu y downtown areas and re idential zone , Nemiccolo said Nemiccolo, who spent his junior year on the Colby in evaluating Japan's contemporary culture ba ed on his obser Kyoto program, aid the Watson year wa both intriguing vations was "quite subjective and potentially dangerous," and frightening. "I had not traveled more than a two-hour but he concluded that the country' development in the train ride from Kyoto during my junior year," he aid. "The 20th century has gone virtually unchecked. The natural di tinction between a year of living and a year of travel in landscape as well as the country's hi lorical structures have Japan wa dramatic." suffered, he says. Meanwhile, high-speed transportation and On a budget of 33 per day, Nemiccolo carried a tent and communications and the proliferation of national commer all of his clothe and supplie on hi back throughout the cial chain store have blurred geographic diffe rence within trip. Because of the proximity of "post town " along the Japane e society. "Japane e people till empha ize regional Gokaido routes, Nemiccolo walked only about five mile per diffe rences, but due to increased mobility and communica day, which allowed time to vi it historic ites and structures, tion, things are les di tinct than ever," he aid. "This collect road-related literature at local mu eum and conduct realization wa omewhat di couraging to me at fir t, ince interviews with local resident . "I permitted myself to ride the rich variety of related mini-cultures within traditional bu es or trains only to reach lodging, a museum or a hi tori Japan i what had attracted me. Fortunately, the hi torical cal ite that lay off my walking route," he said. "After the movement in Japan has been gaining momentum in the la t detour I would continue walking from the ame point. In this decade. Dozens of museums have prung up in the old post way I walked the entire length of the five roads." town in recent year ." He lept in virtually any open space where he was The journey wa enriching a well a enlightening, allowed. "Thinking of ome of my tenting ite , I have to Nemiccolo said. "I can say that I have profited greatly from laugh," Nemiccolo said. "They ranged from park , castle a imple lifestyle of walking, note taking and meeting people ruin:., abandoned mini golf courses and bridge overpa ses. from different lands," he said. "I would like to repeat the This wa n't always a barrel of laugh , but it helped cut my routine on another hi toric path ome day." Brown f1111,hcd ;1 rm1-yc.ir,tm1 ll'ilh rcmhcrand li1·e in Nell' )\irk. Karyl Martin .... Jeff Baron ha.,mol'ed to nmervdle, Ma'>'>., with Marty thl· Pe;Kl' c,'l"J" II) ()hana ;rnJwa' \\'l >rb .1� a field chcm1;t Im L11dlaw hack m Rrouklmc, Ma"·· Jnd ha' Hergert '93 '1nd Jenna Dinn ... gctt111g rc COLI\\' APRIL 1995 72 OBIT UARIES ( • •. CAROL HOFFER BASSETT of world concerns and in his patience, toler Grove Seminary. He interrupted hi College Carol HofferBa ett, who taught mathemat ance and search for consensus among his fac studie to serve a a second lieutenant in the ulty colleagues. When he retired in 1986, he ics at Colby for 20 years, died February S in Army during World War I. Following gradu Waterville, Maine, at 63. Rai ed in South was known for his work on William Blake and ation from Harvard Law School in 1924, he as editor of Colby which had Dakota and Nebraska, she received her B.A. the Quarter-ly, had his own law practice for a time, then broadened during the 11 years of his guidance and M.A. in mathematic fromthe Univer- associated with the late Cyril M. Joly r.'16. ityofSouth Dakota in Vermillion. he taught to include larger issue of literature and cul In 1942 he enlisted in World War II as a staff ture. He is survived by hi wife,Joyce, two sons mathematics at a high school in Iowa, then officer in the 43rd Infantry Division and re and a sister. taught at the Univer ity of South Dakota, ceived the Bronze tar and Legion of Merit Iowa State University, Kansas State Univer before leaving the service in 194 7 with the sity and the University of Kansa . Following IDA PHOE BE KEE ' rank of colonel. He was mayor of Waterville 05 from 1946 to 1948. I n l 9S3 he wa appointed her marriage to Charle Bassett in 19S6, ·he Ida Phoebe Keen 'OS, mo t senior of Colby's to the Maine uperior Court, and in 1962 he moved to Philadelphia, then in 1969 moved to alumni, died September 24 in Pomona, Ca moved up to the Maine SupremeCourt, where Waterville when her husband joined the Colby lif., at 110. he was bornMarch 1884, on a l, he served until his retirement in 1970. He is English Department. After raising two chil farm in Unity, Maine, and attended survived by a daughter, Roberta Marden Alden dren, she resumed her teaching career as in Waterville High School. After Colby she '4 7, three sons, including Robert A. Marden structor and as i tant professor of mathematics taught modem languages in secondary school '50 and Harold C. Marden 'SO, 15 grandchil at the College. She retired in 1994 a an in Maine and Delaware. In 1919 he joined dren and 17 great-grandchildren. associate professor emerita. She also wa presi the National City Bank of New York as a dent, vice president and secretary of the Colhy tran lator for French, German, Spanish and chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for 10 years. She is Italian customer , then became a secretary in MARY WATSO survived by her hu band, a son, a daughter, a the department of religion and psychology at FLA DERS sister and everal nieces and nephews. '24 the Union Theological eminary in New Mary Wat on Flanders '24, a retired teacher, York City. She retired in 1949 but continued died October 16 in Fort Myers, Fla., at 93. She GORDO W. SMITH working as a ecretary in the graduate Engli ·h wa born in Littleton, Maine, and attended department at Columbia University for nine Ricker Classical Institute. She was a member Gordon W. Smith, a professor of modem more years. She had re ided in Pomona since of Chi Omega and was involved in several language at Colby for 42 year , died on De 1961. No immediate relatives urvive. athletic teams at Colby, where she also ex cember Sin Waterville, Maine, at 87. Bornin celled academically and was elected to Phi Wareham, Mass., he wa educated in Beta Kappa and to Delta Sigma Chi, the jour Middleboro, Mass., public schools. He at MlLDRED GREELEY nalism honor society. For three years before tended Boston Univer ity as an Augustus AR OLD '17 her marriage she taught at Ricker. After re Howe Buck Scholar, then studied at the Mildred Greeley Arnold ' 17 died October 21 turning to the classroom in l 94S, she earneda University of Nancy and the University of in Connecticut, fourdays before her lOOth master's degree fromColumbia University and Pari . He began hi teaching career at Colby birthday. She was bornin Rumney, N.H., and taught in Bridgewater, N.Y., until her retire t in l 930af er receiving hi M.A. from Harvard attended high school in Plymouth, N.H. At ment. Survivors include her son and daughter, University. Predeceased by his wife, Doris, he Colby she earned a B.S., then became a high her i ter , Elizabeth Watson Gerry '27 and is survived by two nephews. school cience teacher. While raising three Jean Watson '29, and six grandchildren. children she earned certificates in psychol JOH H. UTHERLAND ogy and child psychology from Columbia Mo A HERRON University in 1930 and 1931. For a number of ERICKSON John H. Sutherland, English professor emeri years she wa employed by the Episcopal '28 tus, died January 31 in Vassalboro, Maine, at Diocesan Hou e in Hartford, Conn. Her sis Mona Herron Erickson '28 died September 9 71. He was bornin Boston, Mass., and received ter, WinifredB. Greeley '18, predeceased her. in New Bedford, Mass., at 87. She was born in hi B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1948 She is survived by three daughter , a sister, Brownville, Maine. At Colby she wa a mem and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren ber of Delta Delta Delta sorority. After receiv PennsyI van ia in 19S 1. Over the next 3 S years and one great-great-granddaughter. ing her degree in English, she taught fortwo he served the College as instructor, assistant years at Bridgton (Maine) High School. She pursued graduate studies at both the Univer- professor, associate professor, professor and HAROLD C. MARDEN chair of the Engli h Department. His lifelong '21 ity of Vermont and Bates College, earninga commitment to social justice, beginning with Harold C. Marden '21, a former justice of master's degree in education. Until her retire hi ervice as a conscientious objector during Maine's Supreme Court, died September 30 ment in 1972, she was employed by the World War II, and the spirit of the Friends' in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, at 94. Born in Dartmouth (Mass.) school department along meeting were always apparent in his awareness East Vassalboro, Maine, he attended Oak with her husband of 61 years, the late John N. 73 APRIL 1995 COLBY Ericbon '28, who wa, a ,chool rrinc1ral. Sev �i,ter, Helen Cohurn Smith Fawcett '27, and at Harv nrd Med ical ollege in 1956 and wa, eral ofherrdation,, including hcr,isrer, Maude her nephew, George I. Smith '49. cert ified m pediatrics in 1959. He is survived Herron Holt '24, alw artended Colhy. She '' hy his wife, Patricia, and four children. >urv1ved hy three children, 'even grnndchil ALBION FA RNI IAM dren and three great-grandchildren. l. ·35 FREDA K. ABEL A lh1on L. Farnh;im ') 5, a resident of Brown '39 , Fred<1 K. Abel '39, a chemi t, d ied August 4 in PAULI NE GAY RYDER vii le J u nction Maine, died Octuher 20 at hi, ·3 1 home. I k attended Br ownville Junction Rar Harbor, Maine, at 77. Born in North Pau lineGay "Polly" Ryder '3 1,a n.::t tred drafb High School ancl H1gg1t1> Cla,sical ln,r i Sulliv;m, Maine, ;he attended Bar Harbor man, died January 25, 1994, in Oak Ridge, tute. At Colby he wa' a memher ,if Lambda H igh Sc hool . After receivmg her Colby de Tenn., ar 83. She was horn m Manche�rer, Chi Alpha fraternity,served lrn the :,rudent gree in chemistry, s he did graduate work at Mas� .. and attended Hopk inron High Schliol. council, played baske1hall and wa, the �tar olumhia Universi ty, Brooklyn Polytechnical A sociology major, �he met and married Ster pitcher on rhe ha�ehall tcam. After grnduat Institute an COLBY APRIL 1995 74 was clas president and captain of the football Maine Medical Center Auxiliary, Sweetser FREDERICK GREIG team and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon A. '56 Children's Home and Northeast Hearing and Frederick A. Greig '56, a retired General fraternity. After leaving the College to serve Speech Center. She leaves two daughters, a in Japan and the Pacific area with the Marine Mocors Corp. manager, died December 14 in son, two brothers and two granddaughters. un Lakes, Ariz., at 64. He wa born in Corps during World War 11, he took evening classes at Boston University to complete his Yonkers, N.Y., and attended Gorton High DOMINICK R. NISTA ' School. After serving in the Marines during Colby degree. He became an executive with 46 Alexander and Alexander Inc., an insurance Dominick R. Nista '46, a retired postal worker, the Korean Conflict, he majored in bu iness brokerage firm in Boston, for whom he worked died July 28 in Weymouth, Mass., at 71. A administration at Colby. He worked for Gen until his retirement in 1990. His wife, two lifelong Weymouth resident, he graduated eral Motors' Cadillac Motor Division for 31 daughters and two isters survive him. from Weymouth High School. In World War year in Detroit and then at various zone offices, including Memphis, Tenn., Minne 11 he served as a medical corpsman in the U.S. apolis and Overland Park, Kan. He retired in Marine Corps and was awarded the Purple LUCILE UPTO 1987 as a district manager. He is survived by Heart for wounds suffered while rescuing GARRETT his wife, Patricia, two on , one daughter, one Marines on Guam. After the war he was '44 brother and eight grandchildren. Lucile Upton Garrett '44, a social service employed by the United Shoe Corp. in Bos worker, died July 14, 1993, at 71. She was born ton. In 1986 he retired after 31 years at the in Waterville, Maine, where she attended high outh Boston Annex and the Weymouth URSULA SENENKY school. After attending Hickox Secretarial Landing post offices. Survivors include two PASCARELLA School in Boston,she worked at the Pentagon sons, three daughter , eight grandchildren 74 Ursula Senenky Pascarella '74 , an emergency in Washington, D.C., in support of the troops and one great-granddaughter. in World War II and married a returning room social worker, died in Portland, Maine, veteran, Jo eph Garrett. Thereafter she gave at 41. Born in New South Wales, Australia, ER EST BER TER 40 years of service to the Maryland Depart T. '50 she was a psychology major at Colby and went ment of ocial Services. Survivors include her Erne t T. Bernier 'SO, a store owner, died on to Boston College of ocial Work, com four sons and a daughter, nine grandchildren October 5 in Waterville, Maine, at 8l. Bornin pleting her degree in 1978. She wa a psychi and a great-grandchild. Lewiston, Maine, he arrended Lewiston schools atric ocial worker at Webber Hospital in before serving four years in the military. He Biddeford, Maine. At the time of her death, attended Roberts Busine-s School before en the result of an accident caused by a drunken FORREST W. rolling at the College, which he leftto manage driver, she wa a social worker in the emer HUSSEY JR. gency room at Maine Medical Center in Port '44 Carroll's Cut Rate in Waterville. 1n 1948 he Forrest W. Hu ey Jr. '44, an electrician, died opened his own store in Pitt field, Thrifty' land. he i survived by her husband, 1110mas, Augu t 16 in Winslow, Maine, at age 71. He Variety Srore, which he continued to own and her parents and two sons. was bornin Waterville, Maine, and attended operate for many years. In 1976 he ran as an Winslow chools. He also attended Rutgers independent for the Maine House. He is sur T E A GA ETT HAWLEY. Univer ity. After serving in the Army Air vived by a daughter, two sister , a brother, two L.H .D. Corp during World War II, he worked as an brothers-in-law, twosi ters-in-law, three grand '59 Jean Gannerr Hawley, L.H.D. '59, a trustee electrician forMai ne Central Railroad, then children and many nieces and nephews. emerita of the College, died in Portland, Maine. established Hussey TV in 1956. In 1961 he Chairman of the board of Gannett Newspa established Hussey Communication , which WI LLIAM B. pers in Portland, she headed fund-raising cam installed and serviced two-way radio commu RIORDAN JR. paigns forthe Portland Symphony Orchestra, nication systems in central Maine. Survivor '53 the Multiple Sclerosis Society and many other include his wife of 51 years, Doris, three sons, William B. Riordan Jr. '53, a retired sales local organizations. She served on the Colby four daughters, a brother, a sister, 25 grand manager, died on September 30 in New York Board of Trustees from 1960 to 1972. Her children and three great-grandchildren. City. Born in Worce ter, Ma ., he attended hrewsbury High chool and Sr. Peter's High intere t in art and the Museum of Art in Schoolin Worcester. A Navy veteran ofWorld particular wa invaluable to the College. MARY L. ROBE RTS '44 War II, he was for many year a sales manager Mary L. Roberts '44, an artist, died in 1993 at for Baccarat Crystal in New York before retir LUTHER HILTO FOSTER. 73. She was born in Augusta, Maine, and ing. He leaves his long-time companion, LLD. graduated from Norway(M aine) High School. Angelo Bosica, a brother and two sisters. 71 For a number of year he was employed at The Luther Hilton Foster, LLD. '71, formerpre i dem ofTu kegee University, died November Catholic Warker. Employed as an artists' model, PETER S. STUTTS she pursued a career of painting, etching, '55 27 in Atlanta, Ga., at 81. He was born in sketching, tenciling and calligraphy. Peter . tutts '55, a retired insurance execu Lawrenceville, Ya., and earned a bachelor of tive, died September 30 in New Haven, Conn., science degree from Virginia State College in at age 60. He was bornin Brooklyn, N.Y., and 1932, hi master's from Harvard in 1936 and MIRIAM LEIGHTON attended South Side High. At Colby he was a his Ph.D from the Univer ity of Chicago in MAYO '45 philosophy major, member of Zeta P i frater 1951. ln 1953 he became president of Miriam Leighton Mayo '45, a retired ecre nity, captain of the rifleteam and president of Tu kegee University, where he remained until tary, died May 31 in Portland, Maine, at 69. the Gun Club. After serving in the Air Force, 1981. He was a trustee or board member of Born in Portland, she graduated from Cape he began a career in insurance and eventually many nationwide organizations, including the Elizabeth High School. After Colby she was became senior vice president of the Mutual United Negro College Fund and the George anadmim trativesecretary at Falmouth High Life Insurance Company of New York. Survi Washington Carver Foundation. Survivor School before transferring to the guidance vors include his wife, Susanne (Capen '55), include his wife, Vera Chandler, a daughter department. She erved on the boards of the three daughters, two i tersandfive grandsons. and son and five grandchildren. 75 APRIL 1995 COLBY A Tr ip to Hillary's House by Jane Moss Rohen E. Diamnnd Professor of Women's ruJies anJ Frcn h n January 1992, Hillary Rico and ,1ll uver the Unned and I walked (or ra ther I RoJham Clinton visited State�. Many of us w;mted to floated ) hack to the main Colby during a statewide tnur he there to show our �upporr reception, we all agreed that to kick off the Clinton for a long- t ime friend whom Hillary was a graciou and presidential campaign. David we admire greatly for her afternoon was being greeted beautiful Fir t Lady. Leavy '92, a Colby senior at intelligence, thoughrfulnes�, individually by Hillary in the The other r union events the time, was working for the courage COLBY APRIL 1995 76 Colby College: Venture of Faith is an A evocative pictorial essay about Colby, covering the first century and a half of the College' unu ual history. Anestes Fotiade '89 has assembled a chronology of more than 200 photograph depicting the remarka le people and familiar places on the Kennebec River campus and the fir t two decade on Mayflower Hill. It is a volume that Colby people will enjoy. Colby College : Venture of Faith, $14.95 A (paperback) Plea e direct your orders to: Colby Book tore Mayflower Hill 5400 Waterville ME 04901-8854 800-727-850 6 E-mail: [email protected] Plea e allow $3 for hipping and handling COLBY• BOOKSTORE