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8 South Africa: 19 There's Magic in his Method The Last Crisis By Roldah N. Cameron '51 By Marion Doro The bullet catch. the ThisIS the lost crisis the South disappearing troy of Harris African government can Refectory food. and other contain through coercion abracadabra 21 Round & About 22 In Memoriam 25 Class Notes 32 Alumni in Print

3 The Prisoner of Text By Paul Baumann Nine distinguished writers discuss the subtle retotico ship between fiction and nonfiction

12 The Reaction is Chemical By Gory G. Giachino Elementary school students find out what chemists do- Credits: Cover drawing by Mary and try it themselves Barthe/son; page 35 Kambrah Got- land '83. Photographs; Ken Laffol. 2·5 16 Philosopher in a New Key bock cover; Marion Dora, 7-11, Lindo By J Melvin Woody Kauffmann. 12·13. Harry Bishop. 14. 15 Symbols. Susanne Longer George W Pofts. 16; Bill Regan 18. taught us, are the very Nancy Ney. 21; Mary Toy/or. 33 essence of human On the Cover: Norman Mailer. WI/liam consciousness. Styron, and Francine du PlessixGray THE PRISONER OF TEXT

Nine distinguished writers discuss the subtle relationship between fiction and nonfiction

By Paul Baumann

Clockwise from upper left William McPherson, Norman Moiler. Renata Adler, Joe McGinniss, William Styron, Barbaro Grizzuti Harrison.

2 adventuresome nonfiction writer: scene- readers. The personality of the writer became inseparable from the event. Most writersdo not considerthem- by-scene construction, reliance on dia- A good many writers brought the same selves stage. performers, and many a logue, the use of detail to create character sense of personal engagement, even ad- revered novelist has become tongue-tied in and "fooling around" with point of view. vocacy, to journalism in the 1960's and the presence of an admiring audience. Con- These literary devices have traditionally after. Tom Wolfe, who excoriated Leonard se.quently, the literary symposium stocked been reserved for the omniscient narrator Bernstein and the fashionable Left in ~lth gold~plated names does not always in fiction. But over the last 20 years, a live up to Its billing. promiscuous transposition of fact and fic- Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) and extolled the astronauts Any such worries about the writers' con- tion has become common. Many of the in The Right Stuff (1979) is perhaps the ference at Connecticut College September conference's authors-among them, invi- writer most readily identified with the 19~?1.' ~owever, proved to be misplaced. tees hold four Pulitzer Prizes, a National bravo style of so-called new journalism. Fictionj Nonfiction: A Troubled Rela- Book Award and an American Book But the nonfiction novel, fiction that tionship" was the subject of the conference Award-ha ve carried it off with great skill. boldly appropriated historical figures, part .of the College's 75th anniversary cele~ When did the controversy, the "trouble" appealed to writers like Gay Talese (Honor bration. The nonfiction novel, what some between fiction and nonfiction, begin? Thy Father), E. L. Doctorow (Ragtime) call "the novel as history," and the new and, perhaps most prominently, Norman journalism were among the issues of Mailer, another of the symposium's featured debate. speakers. The talking started on Thursday at 4 Capote, it is generally agreed, did not p.m. and continued until Saturday after- invent the whatchamacallit. According to noon. The talkers-Norman Mailer McGinnis, 19th century authors like Charles William Styron, Joe McGinniss, Renat~ Dickens and Feodor Dostoyevski frequently Adler, Alexander Cockburn, William blended real and imagined events and McPherson, Francine du Plessix Gray, characters. Capote "kind of rediscovered Barbara Grizzuti Harrison and Thomas this idea," McGinniss said. Winship-are among the most important Mailer, who along with Styron is prob- voices in contemporary American writing. ably the conference's best known author, "What's the difference between how you has dabbled in virtually every kind of writ- think as a novelist and as a journalist?" ing, from the orthodox, naturalistic war asked Connecticut College writer-in-res- novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) to idence Blanche McCrary Boyd, the prin- his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Execu- cipal organizer of the conference. tioner Song (1979), an account of the life "I know the difference when I'm doing s of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer one or the other," said Boyd, 39, who has executed by a Utah firing squad. published two novels and a collection of Mailer knows his way around the essays. "But how do you actually enter the "novel as history" and has always written a point of view of people you're writing profuse, highly personal and disputatious about? These are really living, working kind of journalism. In 1968 he received the questions for writers." "What's the difference National Book Award for The Armies of Blanche Boyd tells her writing students between how you think as a the Night, a vivid account of a protest that their fiction should be so good the march against the Pentagon in which he reader will think it's true and their nonfic- novelist and as a journalist? masterfully evoked the third person to des- tion so unusual the reader will conclude How do you actually enter the cribe his own thoughts and actions. that it had to be made up. point of view of people you're Like Mailer, Styron is part of the genera- There has long been an uneasy relation- writing about? These are really tion of writers that emerged after World ship between fiction and nonfiction, though living, working questions for War II. Styron, born in the South but a one conference participant, Joe McGinniss, long-time Connecticut resident, achieved author of Fatal Vision (1983) and The Sel- writers," his most conspicuous success in 1979 with ling of the President (1968), shied away -Blanche Boyd the best seller Sophie's Choice. He made a from the implications of the conference precocious literary debut in 1947 with Lie title. Most people point to the appearance in Down in Darkness, a novel published when "I'm not so sure what the trouble is," he 1965 of In Cold Blood, what its author he was only 26. said. Truman Capote labeled a "nonfiction Styron's involvement in the fiction! non- "Certainly there's a difference between novel" and what novelist and critic Wilfrid fiction debate began in 1966 with the publi- the two," said McGinniss, whose second Sheed later teasingly referred to as cation of his Pulitzer Prize work, The Con- book, The Dream Team, was a novel. "You "Capote's whatchamacallit." fessions of Nat Turner. Styron called this really use an entirely different set of mus- Capote's compelling recreation of a re-imagining of a bloody 183l s-lave revolt cles" writing fiction. But any story has to be grisly 1959 Kansas murder and the eventual "a meditation on history." In it he assumed judged by its "impact and power. Anything capture and execution of the killers was the voice of the insurrectionist leader Nat is valid if it works." presented with all the imaginative free- Turner, manipulating and interpreting the Boyd outlined four of the most widely dom-what some would call license-of a actual events of Turner's life with the used fiction techniques employed by the novel. The book was a sensation, a critical impunity of a novelist. and financial success, an event that seemed Blanche Boyd said the line-up for the This article is adapted from stories written to rearrange the accepted relationship of a writers' conference was the product of the for The New London Day by Paul Bau- reporter to the facts. In a subtle way, combination of a good topic and the good mann, and is reprinted here with permis- Capote interposed himself and his own dis- connections of those who helped organize sion frorn The Day. tinct sensibility between the facts and his the symposium.

3 Francine du Plessix Gray loosed such a torrent of erudi- Novelist Francine du Plessix Gray tion that everyone in the room began it using the most delicate eggshell seemed abashed, if not over- imagery to evoke a vanished childhood world. It ended with equal felicity as whelmed. Literature was suffer- Norman Mailer spoke passionately of how ing from a "diiation of self," writers are "unwitting agents for forces "the hierarchy of genre," beyond our imaginations." "tainted mediums," "the It was no ordinary three days at Connec- tyranny of the novel." and var- ticut College. "I had a blast," said Blanche Boyd, ious "dialectics." ~ writer-in-residence at the College and prin- cipal organizer of the symposium on fiction and nonfiction. Three panels, each featuring three prom- "The fundamental rule is, you inent writers, explored aspects of what must never deviate into fact at Boyd called the "complicated and blurred" all," according to Alexander lines separating fiction and nonfiction. The Day Publishing Co. was co-sponsor of the Cockburn. Journalism, he conference. "Instead of talking down to an declared, is basically an ideo- audience they talked to each other about logical exercise, and the jour- real issues," said Boyd, who shaped the nalist confirms the prejudices panels to "bring together a group of writers of his readers. Below, Wendy for whom that controversy is a living, working reality ...(and) basically allowing Wadsworth '86 listens as Elisha us, as the audience, to eavesdrop." Hoffman '86 (left) interviews Lisey Good, a 20-year-old Connecticut Cockburn for a journalism class College junior from Princeton, New Jer- assignment. T sey, liked what she heard. "You got a sense of how personality affects style," Good said after Thurday's panel of Gray, journalist Joe McGinniss and novelist William Styron. "I'm afraid I'm not sophisti- McGinniss, author of the best seller cated enough to agree with Fatal Vision, clearly won the audience's him. I think it's a little more heart with his unpretentious defense of the elemental than that. I don't formal distinction drawn between fiction think it's as conspiratorial as and nonfiction. He further endeared himself Thursday night by reading a funny and that." ~ affecting piece from his book about Alaska, -Thomas Winship Going to Extremes. Styron, 60, renowned as the author of Lie Down in Darkness, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice, seemed to shrug off the whole so-called controversy. "I don't think we need really fret too much at all," he said at one point. "I got the impression that he almost didn't want to be there, that it wasn't worth discussing," said Lisey Good. However, Gray's animated participation in the discussion of "the cross-fertilization of fiction and nonfiction" made a strong impression on her. "My first reaction when I looked at her-I thought she looked kind ofhaughty," Good said of the Warsaw-born Francine Gray. "She was very aristocratic." To be sure, Gray, a critic as well as a novelist, made an indelible impression on the audience. Sitting between the casually dressed McGinniss and a rumpled Styron, Gray, wearing a smart white suit, loosed such a torrent of erudition that everyone in the room seemed abashed, if not over- whelmed. Literature was suffering from a "dilation

4 of self," "the hierarchy of genre" as well as a What troubled relationship "hybridization of genre," "tainted medi- between fiction and ums," "the tyranny of the novel," and various "dialectics," with some "enormously nonfiction? "I don't think we aberrant behavior" thrown in to boot. need really to fret too much at Despite the arcane vocabulary, these ques- all ... The story to me is of tions set the boundaries of discussion for ultimate importance. A lot of the entire weekend. people don't know how to do it." Gray was never less than lucid, but many in the audience found her staccato delivery ...-William Styron hard to follow. In a particularly fastidious moment she condemned the whole business of classifying fiction and nonfiction, saying she preferred to call any particular piece of literature simply a "text." "We're so semantic here," McGinniss objected. He and Styron sat like two prosperous and unpretentious builders listening to the airy plans of a brilliant but erratic archi- "Journalism is an opiate, it's a tect. They nodded in admiration at Gray's drug, it's a poison. It's all fiction lovely designs, but then seemed to point . Journalism has nothing to knowingly to something she had over- do with facts. It's fiction and it's looked, as if to say "but you gotta pour the a desperately low grade of foundation first." "The story to me is of ultimate impor- fiction." tance," Styron said in his diffident manner. ... -Norman Mailer "A lot of people don't know how to do it." "To go from point A to point Z compel- lingly," was the measure of his kind of writer. Mary H. Barthelson of Ledyard recalled Styron-agreeably shy, rather awkward, with a flushed face and a shock of gray hair-rather wistfully. "To me he was always that young boy who came from the South up North to become a great author. I guess I remember him as that young man who wrote Lie Down in Darkness." Each author read Thursday night before a warm and receptive audience in Dana Auditorium. The McGinniss piece cap- tured the ironies of an Eskimo woman's assimilation into American life. Gray read from her autobiography, revealing an ex- otic pedigree: she is the daughter ofa Rus- sian beauty and a dissolute French aristo- Journalism, he added, serves the inter- crat and war hero. Styron caused under- ests of those in power, and the "appallingly standable excitement by reading from a timid" and "craven" attitude of the press work in progress about the coming of age toward the Reagan administration only of a young man in the Marine Corps during confirms this thesis. Even the welter of World War II. information brought to us by TV and radio Friday's panel-"Journalism: Just the serves an ideological end. "If you are just Facts?"-featured Thomas Winship, retired completely saturated with news you're not editor of The Boston Globe, Renata Adler, going to look at anything very long ... it a writer for The New Yorker magazine, and does prevent investigation." Alexander Cockburn, a columnist for The It was the Irish-born Cockburn who Nation and The Wall Street Journal. dominated the tone of the discussion, but Listening to Cockburn describe the fail- Thomas Winship of The Boston Globe was ings of contemporary journalism was a bit pithy in defense of the craft he had prac- like finding yourself on an airplane piloted ticed for some 40 years, rejecting Cock- by a man who thinks flight is an amusing burn's political assessment of the biases fiction. inherent in the press. "I'm afraid I'm not "The fundamental rule is," Cockburn sophisticated enough to agree with him. I said, "you must never deviate into fact at think it's a little more elemental than that. I all." Journalism, he declared, "is basically don't think it's as conspiratorial as that," an ideological exercise," and the journalist Winship said. "confirms the prejudices of his readers." Wearing a wide red and orange tie and

5 sporting a handsome pair of suspenders, ship pointed out. "We don't make up the Joe McGinniss and William Winship looked relaxed and obviously news agenda. . it's hard to get away from Styron sat like two prosperous enjoyed bantering with Cockburn. His the message of distress," and unpretentious builders unpretentious vocabulary was liberally Saturday morning's discussion with listening to the airy plans of a spiced with expletives, and his gravelly Norman Mailer, journalist Barbara Griz- brilliant but erratic architect, voice commanded attention. zuti Harrison and William McPherson of "He reminded me of Spencer Tracy," The Washington Post on "Thinking Like a They nodded in admiration at said Robert Hennion, 31, of Quaker Hill. Novelist, Thinking Like a Journalist" was Francine du PlessixGray's "He almost reminded me of a stereotype of decidedly livelier. lovely designs, but then a gruff, cynical big city editor. One you'd "You are going to hear the remarks of a seemed to point knowingly to get in a movie." profoundly prejudiced man," Mailer said, much to the audience's delight. "Journal- something she had Despite Cockburn's broad, if not gran- diose, characterization of the press as a ism is an opiate, it's a drug, it's a poison," overlooked, as if to say, "But compliant tool of the powerful, neither he declared. you gotta pour the foundation Winship nor Renata Adler really locked "It's all fiction," Mailer said, proclaim- first," horns with the columnist. As a result, the ing that the distinctions once drawn participants often seemed to be talking past between the novel and journalism were not each other. merely meaningless but pernicious. Daily "What is objectivity injournalism? What journalism and its specious presentation of are its limits and what are its limitations?" the facts "lead us away from the nuance of a was the question posed to the panel by situation," he asserted. "Journalism has moderator Blanche Boyd. nothing to do with facts. It's fiction and it's In Winship's opening remarks he said a desperately low grade of fiction." Like that objectivity was "not limiting in any Francine Gray, Mailer dominated his way ... I wish there was even more objectiv- panel, bringing to it a verbal agility and ity." True objectivity, he added, does not lie personal charisma unmatched by his in merely reporting what people said, but in colleagues. putting the story in full context, "in full Shamina Qureshi, 19, of Stamford, who relation to the things that surround it." The came to the conference with her mother former editor admitted he was talking after reading about it in the paper, des- about the ideal case. "When you get right cribed the gray-haired novelist as "exuding down to it," he said, "most newspapers are a certain sense of force ...earthy, virile, far from objective." charming, witty. Pretty set on his own He said that newspapers need to look ideas," much deeper into events and to develop "1 was surprised I liked Mailer, because stories from a variety of angles. "Good I've always disliked his personal views newswriting and truth seeking should be towards women," Qureshi said. "I think 1 the same thing ... objectivity is liberating, like Barbara (Harrison) the best," she not limiting." added. "I found her very down-to-earth, "So there," Winship said, turning to very articulate and very thoughtful, and yet Cockburn. "Go ahead, Castro." After de- you didn't feel intimidated by her." scribing his adolescent decision to follow in Harrison punctuated her remarks with his father's footsteps and become a journal- amusing everyday observations that had ist, Cockburn went on to question the most the effect of bringing a sometimes elusive basic assumptions of journalism. There is a discussion back to earth. She tended to side myth about facts, he warned, and all facts with Mailer as opposed to McPherson are "meaningless until put into relation to when debating the question of journalistic other facts by the journalist." Therefore, objectivity. Mailer advocated a highly per- Cockburn suggested, all reporting is politi- sonal form of journalism, one that centers cal and objectivity an illusion. on the journalist himself and begins by "When you're really in the know," he presenting "every defect in the lens." said of those he claimed controlled the "There has to be some sense of who is news, "you know it's all lies." Newspapers, telling the story," he argued, "and objective Cockburn repeatedly asserted, fundamen- journalism violates that," tally reassure the prejudices of readers, and On the difficulty of writing good journal- he compared the whole enterprise to ism or fiction Mailer was magnanimous. astrology. "I've always envied poets," he said, "be- Renata Adler, although not agreeing cause, by God, when God visits them he completely with Cockburn's bold analysis, visits them in a hurry." developed several of his points. "You're not Divine visitations aside, after three days going to get fact that is pure," she agreed. of pondering the condition of contempor- You cannot deliver the whole of it." But she ary letters the conclusions drawn by the found Cockburn's theory of reassurance eminent were few and the worrisome dis- only partially correct. "It doesn't give peo- tinction between fact and fiction remained ple reassurance at all, it's a story of dis- blurred. tress," she said, noting the prevalence of But, taking nuance into account, it bad news in the media. would be hard to deny that some touch of "The world is in a helluva mess," Win- poetry hadn't visited the proceedings.

6 To reduce opportunities for public gatherings. officials closed communal dining hall in Longo, on African township in Capetown SOUTH AFRICA: THE LAST CRISIS

We are witnessing the last crisis the South African government can contain through coercion, What will become of one of the world's most fragmented countries is unclear, But apartheid will end.

By Marion Doro Professorof Government

7 won the 1948 elections. Since that time, however, they have constructed a policy of The current crisis in South Africa is apartheid, or separate development, which not a test of whether the Afrikaner domi- extended and refined the discriminatory nated government can sustain its policy of framework well beyond the policies of pre- apartheid, but rather whether apartheid vious governments. Afrikaners argue that will be dismantled through evolutionary or the policy is not discriminatory, but rather revolutionary means. Each crisis that the a process of making distinctions between government has experienced since State racial and ethnic groups so that each com- President P. W. Botha came to power in munity can preserve its cultural identity. 1978 has prod uced its own possibilities and Since 1948 the government has classified balance of choices for the white commun- all individuals by race, and on the basis of ity, and each in turn has indicated that the this classification, among other things,. policy of "separate development" is not required maintenance of separate public politically durable or socio-economically facilities, regulated where Africans could sustainable. While one cannot predict what live, controlled their influx into the cities, kind of political system will replace it, or established residential segregation, main- • what the cost will be, it is clear that this is tained separate educational and health the last crisis the South African govern- facilities, reserved specific jobs for whites ment can contain through coercion. only, and limited collective bargaining for The situation in South Africa today is African labor. Such a network of regula- the product of systematic socio-economic tions prevents Africans from making socio- racial inequalities that are deeply embedded economic progress from generation to gen- in the country's political history. The eration, and it burdens them with hardships immediate cause of this current crisis dates few whites either experience or understand. from September 3, 1984, when Africans in Moreover, additional legislation, de- Sharpe ville, near Johannesburg, organized signed to suppress dissent, restricts indi- a peaceful protest against rent increases, vidual liberties which, in most liberal and unemployed youths and school children democracies, make it possible for citizens turned the event into a demonstration. to express themselves freely, to mobilize Gradually and inexorably sporadic African for political action, and to contest or criti- challenges to the authority of the Afrikaner cize government policies. Since 1960 the dominated government spread throughout government has used detention without urban and industrial areas until civil dis- trial, bannings, and prevention of public order reached the level of near anarchy in assemblies to stop both whites and Africans many African townships and President from protesting the injustices of apartheid. Botha felt compelled in July 1985 to By the time the State of Emergency was declare a state of emergency in 36 of the declared these measures were not only country's 265 magisterial districts. It was intimidating but punitive as well. not surprising that the government invoked The two key features of apartheid are the such extraordinary powers to cope with the Homelands policy and influx control. growing tide of apparently spontaneous Based on legislation in 1913 which demar- political activism spearheaded by unorgan- cated certain areas of exclusive "reserves" ized groups of youths. But few observers for Africans, the Homelands policy estab- Influx control prohibits Africans from anticipated that urban black resistance to lished ten territorial units based on ethnic living or working outside the Homelands apartheid could be maintained so long or tribal identification and traditional unless they are lawfully resident in a white against an authoritarian regime whose authorities. For each area the government area or have a permit. Both categories are legalistic and coercive power has effectively gradually created representative institu- regulated by a "pass system" that limits restrained and paralyzed opposition since tions, extending "self-governing" status to African movement beyond the specific area the first Sharpe ville crisis in 1965 when 69 six and granting four of them "independ- where they live. It is difficult to qualify for Africans were killed by security forces ence." Through this method the govern- lawful residence because the requirements while peacefully protesting the "pass" laws. ment established a Homeland citizenship involve lengthy residence and continuous The growth of endemic unrest is a logical for Africans, and thus justified denying employment in one area; furthermore, the outcome of systematic discrimination that them citizenship in South Africa and government arbitrarily uses its authority to deprives all non-whites of fundamental excluding them from the country's political banish lawful residents to the Homelands if political and socio-economic rights. Dis- process. Taken together, the Homelands they are regarded as "idle," "undesirable," criminatory practices and laws existed in constitute 13 percent of South Africa's land or "agitators." The majority of the Africans South Africa long before the Afrikaners area where 80 percent of its population is in the white areas hold permits based on came to power when their National Party required to live. On the whole, the Home- work contracts that are valid for one year lands are economically destitute, over- and cannot be renewed until the African Marion E. Dora, Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 crowded, impoverished by drought and returns to his Homeland. In these cases, the Professor of Government, leaches African soil erosion; with poor educational and African leaves his family in the Homeland politics at Connecticut College. During her health facilities, they are essentially ghettos and lives in a single-sex hostel while work- 1984-85 sabbatical she was a Visiting and labor reserves. Dependent on subsidies ing in urban or industrial areas. Faculty Fellow at Yale University and was from the government for economic devel- Apart from the human suffering and affiliated with the Southern Africa Research opment, about half of the Homelands' social costs, and the administrative costs Program. She spent February and March population live and work in the so-called required to enforce this system, it is eco- 1985 doing research in South Africa. "common area," i.e., white South Africa. nomically counterproductive because it

8 prevents the growth of a stable and skilled work force. This has had especially negative effects in the last decade when industry has been hampered by a shortage of skilled labor, and is a measure of the extent to which government gives priority to racial control over economic development. Equal- ly significant, a population explosion in the poverty-stricken Homelands has increased the influx of the "illegals" into urban areas and has overloaded the government's capacity to monitor the system. A Fragmented Political Spectrum While apartheid works to the advantage of the white community and the disadvan- tage of the blacks, it cannot be assumed that each racial group acts as a monolithic unit. Few countries in the world are as politically and culturally fragmented as South Africa. It may be compared to Lebanon, except that in South Africa one of the factions is currently in control. Out of an estimated population of 32 million, there are 24 million Africans, divided among eight ethnic groups, 4.7 million whites divided between 60 percent Dutch- Afrikaner and 40 percent English speaking (many of whom retain their British citizenship and cannot vote), 2.7 Coloured or mixed race who are located primarily in the Cape Province, and nearly 900,000 Asians, who are confined mainly to the Natal Prov- ince in the Southwest. None of these groups are politically homogeneous. If apartheid's purpose was to preserve separate cultural identities, it also served to prevent significant cultural exchange and assimilation between and among all the races and ethnic groups. As a result, it is exceedingly difficult to find a common ground to mediate differences. Although African leaders share anti- apartheid goals, they are seriously divided by philosophical and political differences as well as ethnic competition which occasionally borders on hostility. Three patterns of behavior distinguish these groups from one another. The first is essentially a conservative ethnic element which prefers to work within the system and preserve the gains it has made thus far. The most

SOWETOin early stages of development, photographed by the author in 1964 (top). All urban Africans must live in racialiy segregated areas. A few African professionals have homes like these (bottom) in SOWETO,outside Johannesburg, photographed in 1985.

9 A woman outside a makeshift house in the squatters' settlement at Crossroads (top). Opposite. a child in Crossroads. Helen Joseph (bottom), a veteran ot the anti-apartheid campaign. speaking on opening day at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Ms. Joseph is banned in South Africa- neither her picture nor her words can be printed there.

obvious example of this category is the INKATHA, primarily a Zulu organization, with an estimated membership of one million. Its leader, Chief Gatsha Butlelezi, is Chief Minister of the self-governing homeland kwaZulu, whose population SOWETO Committee of Ten that repre- ior; during the last year many of UDF's constitutes the single largest ethnic group sents civic groups in the African township major leaders have been arrested and .in the country. of SOWETO outside Johannesburg. An- charged with treason. On a normative pol- The second category, the moderates, other organization, the United Democratic itical spectrum the U OF would be regarded tends to incorporate multi-racial or multi- Front (UDF), founded in 1983, represents as a moderate political party, although the ethnic groups under umbrella organiza- over 600 religious, civic, sporting, student Afrikaner government regards it as no tions. Although they seek radical change and labor groups. Multi-racial and initially more than a front for the exiled African they tend to reject violence and try to func- moderate, it has recently been pushed by National Congress. tion within the system. One of these is the circumstances toward more radical beha v- The last category includes radical revo-

10 lutionaries of two types, both of which rather than consensus about constit utional lute, not dismantle the National Party's advocate violence but differ over multi- procedures, one-party states, and the eco- policy. His purposes were economic, not racial cooperation. The most important, nomic failures in socialist as well as political. Long accustomed to using the and certainly the most popular, is the Afri- capitalist-oriented states. They fear their state for socio-economic goals, and recog- can National Congress (AN C), whose vulnerability under majority rule, the ma- nizing that traditional apartheid was ulti- origin dates back to 1912, and which was nipulation of under-educated and unem- mately unproductive economically, the banned in 1961 following the Sharpeville ployed masses, and the hazards of compet- verligte were motivated by a technocratic massacre. Revolutionary and socialist in ing factions. Finally, many are cognizant of ideology that required easing racially based outlook, it supports multi-racialism as out- the economic costs of apartheid that have legislation to accommodate African de- lined in the 1955 Freedom Charter, which contributed to current unemployment, low mands as well as the needs of business. states that "South Africa belongs to all who productivity, and political unrest. These Consequently, the leadership of the Na- live in it, black and white." fears and concerns unite them in ways that tional Party initiated a series of reform ANC operates out of Lusaka, Zambia, foreign observers should not underestimate. measures designed to blunt the socio-econ- under the leadership of Oliver Tambo. Its Divisions within the white community omic edges of apartheid and to broaden former president, Nelson Mandela, was are most apparent among the Afrikaners, opportunities for political participation. sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 who agree on the principle of apartheid but The English speaking community is after being convicted of sabotage. Although differ about its application. The difference somewhat less divided; its political represen- he has been imprisoned for two decades, tation in parliament is numerically min- most opinion polls indicate that urban imal although its constant questioning and African leaders regard Mandela as their challenging of the government holds the leader. NP publicly accountable in ways that no The second type of radical revolutionary other group can. The Progressive Federal rejects multi-racialism in favor of an Party (PFP) is an amalgam of several exclusivist strain of Africanist nationalism groups, including the Progressive Party, that would not include whites in any which had civil rights leader Helen Suzman power-sharing arrangement. These include as its sole representative through the early the banned and exiled Pan-Africanist years of the NP's majority in parliament. Congress (PAC), which broke away from PFP has 26 seats, and is the official opposi- the ANC in 1959, the Azanian People's tion. The second party is the New Republic Organization, and the National 'Forum, Party (NRP), the former United Party of founded at the same time as the UDF. Jan Smuts, which has eight seats. At this stage, these divisions within the African community seem irreconcilable. Reform and Polarization Homeland leaders who administer the President Botha began his reformist apartheid system in the ethnic rural areas measures against this background. In 1982 could be pitted against activist urban lead- the constitution was revised, creating a ers. Multi-racialists who fa'vor an evolu- Tricameral Parliament which extended tionary multi-racial democracy may strug- electoral and representative rights to the gle against Africanists who advocate revo- Coloured and Asian communities. The lutionary communal socialism. Is the government allowed opposition groups to rhetoric of all these groups the expression organize, and the UDF and the National of preference and intentions which pre- Forum emerged to oppose the referendum cedes bargaining and compromise, or is it for the new constitution and the elections an unalterable declaration of future div- for the new Parliament. The Coloured and isive behavior? The answer to that question is essentially between a verligte (or "en- Asian communities were deeply divided will condition whether the final outcome lightened") approach, which is techno- over the new dispensation and less than 20 will be a chaotic struggle for power or a cratic, flexible, and economically oriented, percent of the eligible voters in each com- contribution to a relatively peaceful solu- and a verkrampte (or narrow) view, which munity turned out for their elections. tion to South Africa's problems. is traditional, Calvinistic, and politically Many observers concluded that this min- At the moment, however, it is the white oriented. The former recognizes that a po- imal turnout deprived the newly-elected community which can determine the shape litically inspired racist policy inhibits mod- non-white representatives of legitimacy in of South Africa's future, although that ern economic growth and social stability, their constituencies and that they would power is quickly slipping away. While the and that neither Homelands policy or appear to be stooges or collaborators. The Afrikaner and English speaking whites influx control can be enforced in the face of first year of their parliamentary service- differ on the question of power-sharing the African demographic explosion. The 1984-85- coincided with severe budgetary with the Africans, they are united in the latter reacts negatively to any changes that cuts because of the economic recession and goal of maintaining a capitalistic, free might alter the Grand Design of apartheid consequently the government 'could not enterprise system that not only reflects and is prepared to resist African claims afford to reward these legislators' com- their western political outlook but could whatever the cost. munities with economic benefits that might also insure their survival as a group. Cen- When P. W. Botha became the leader of have enhanced their political legitimacy. tral to the concerns of all white South Afri- the Afrikaners' National Party (NP) in At the same time the government created cans is the fear that African majority rule 1978 and adopted his "adapt or die" slogan, African local authorities in urban town- would be accompanied by the chaotic polit- he represented the advent of verligte senti- ships as a means of granting blacks a mea- ical and economic conditions that they see ment and a watershed in the history of sure of political participation. But their in many of the Black African states to the Afrikanerdom. One should not conclude, authority and operating budgets were min- north. They are aware of the dozens of however, that Bothe's goal is to dismantle imal. Operating on the fiction that Africans coups d'etat in Black Africa, ethnic hostil- apartheid. The reformist measures he has ity as in Uganda and Nigeria, personal rule introduced since 1979 were intended to di- Continued on page 28

II Dr. G·s rapt audience at New icooco': Harbor School. THE REACTION IS CHEMICAL

Elementary school students learn there's more to chemistry than smelly chemicals. A professor shows children what chemists do- and lets them perform their own experiments.

By Gary G. Giachino Associate Professor of Chemistry

12 Gary G. Giachino, more commonly known the abstract nature of chemical theory can is this involvement that has made the as "Dr. G." is an associate professor of be difficult and often makes the material program so successful. Many of the students chemistry, who was raised and received his appear to be irrelevant. What is needed are have written me a thank-you note-no formal education in California. After some pleasant encounters with chemistry; doubt as part of a class assignment-and a receiving his Ph. D. in physical chemistry not only could these offset some of the typical comment is, "the best part was from the University of California, River- negative information, but they might help doing our own experiments." side, he escaped from the harsh climate of students "stay the course" if the going gets The activity begins with a talk about the California by moving to Hanover. New rough in a chemistry class. This is one of things chemists do and the way in which Hampshire. Following tlVOyears of teach- the reasons I have been visiting elementary they work. The first topic is safety, and its ing and post-doctoral work; at Dartmouth. schools and presenting an activity I call importance is emphasized throughout the he accepted an appointment as a visiting "What Chemists Do." presentation. Particular attention is paid to assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytech- l n 1982 I was asked if I would be willing the precautions that must be taken to nic Institute in Troy. New York. While at to come to the Harbor School in New prevent chemicals from getting into a RPI he helped develop their integrated London and give a presentation to children chemist's eyes and stomach, but no less laboratory program in chemistry and co- in the program for gifted and talented important in the discussion is the warning authored a laboratory text. He then spent students. Apparently my daughter had told against indiscriminately mixing chemi- six years as an assistant professor in the cals-even those found at home. While chemistry department at the State Univer- o discussing the last point, two powders are sity of New York, Geneseo, before coming mixed together, causing a small explosion; to Connecticut College in 198/. afterwards, .one of the powders is mixed At Connecticut his primary teaching with sugar and a drop of liquid is added, duties range from "Quantitative Analysis" which causes the sugar to burn vigorously. and "Instrumental Methods in Chemistry" Such demonstrations are very important to "Controversial Chemistry." The last of parts of the talk; not only can they these reflects his interest in relating chemis- graphically illustrate a point, but they help try and science to non-scientists. His keep eyes facing forward. research interests are in the area of molecu- The next topic I describe is the so-called lar emission spectroscopy as well as the scientific method, or how scientists do general area of chemical education, and he research. A bottle containing a colorless has published several papers in both areas. liquid is shaken vigorously, which makes He is currently directing the research of the solution turn blue. On standing the three undergraduate students. color fades, and the process can be repeated. The students are asked to suggest a possible cause for the blue color, and CHEMICAL-to most people the very their hypothesis is experimentally tested. word brings to mind unpleasant things: At first they are hesitant to respond, and I probably it is something hazardous; at the usually suggest a possibility, which I know very least, it stinks. The word chemistry is suspected by many, namely that there is fares little better: exasperating equations something on the cork. This guess is tested and bubbling beakers tended by strange by covering the cork, but still the blue color men (they are almost never women) in appears. I point out that even wrong white coats are often envisioned. Such guesses such as this one are useful, because stereotypes and negative attitudes toward The proselytizing Dr G. the elimination of a wrong hypothesis can chemistry, and to some extent science in be a step toward finding a correct one. I general, often begin at an early age. Yet the the teacher something about an activity I also point out that scientists are quite fre- fact is that everything in the world is made had done for similar students a few years quently wrong, and gradually the children of chemicals, and few could dispute the earlier, when I was teaching at the State begin to suggest several possibilities. Such claim that advances in chemistry have led University of New York in Geneseo. There formulation and testing of hypotheses are to more benefits than liabilities. So why the were, however, two important differences. the basis of all science, and it is noted that bad image? First, the activity in Geneseo was only a they will be doing the same thing during It doesn't start out that way. The small part of an all-day visit to the college. their laboratory exercise. boundless curiosity possessed by children More importantly, being at the college Since the specific science of chemistry is generally makes them naturally interested meant we had the facilities required to concerned with how molecules behave, I in chemical phenomena. But, alas, this perform experiments. This time, however, spend a few minutes trying to describe what interest may never even be discovered. I would be expected to do something at the molecules are and how they are related to Unfortunately many teachers are uncom- elementary school. Nevertheless, I felt that the three states of matter. Most of the fortable-perhaps even incompetent-when the experiments were simple enough, and children are not aware that all matter can teaching science in general, so it is not the chemicals safe enough, that a similar be converted to any of the three states, and surprising that little or none of the activity could be developed; certainly it was they are particularly fascinated by the specialized area of chemistry is brought worth trying. properties of liquid air. (It is actually liquid into the elementary school classroom. Although it was somewhat less common nitrogen, but in our experiments with the When students do hear about chemistry, it in 1982 than now, there is not anything "blue bottle" they learned that air is mostly is usually in the negative context of a mad particularly unusual about a chemistry nitrogen.) scientist in a movie or from the media, professor visiting local schools. What Of course, one of the main activities which tend to emphasize (and sensation- distinguishes my visits from most of the associated with chemists is the making of alize) the problems. As a result, many others is the degree of student involvement, new molecules. This is first illustrated by people dislike chemistry before they have especially the fact that they actually means of some magic or "tricky" demon- ever studied it. For people who do study it, perform chemical experiments. I believe it strations, but the ubiquity of useful syn-

13 which is a solution containing either chosen in part for their colors and the room Dr, G, warns the children copper, silver, iron, nickel, or lead, and is soon filled with "oohs'' and "ahs'' as well against indiscriminately mixing they must tell me which metal it is. The as excited children making a first guess. chemicals-even those found students are handed a copy of a chart that There is also some complaining about the at home, Above, he mixes two describes what happens when a solution safety goggles, but the rule that they be in powders and-presto-a small containing each metal is tested with five place at all times is strictly enforced. different test solutions. For example, the explosion. Such demonstrations Virtually all of the children will correctly chart tells them that if silver were present, identify their metal without much diffi- not only illustrate a point, They adding test solution "A" would produce a culty, but the excitement that follows such also keep all eyes facing white solid, while using"E" would produce an identification often conceals this ease. forward. a reddish-brown solid; on the other hand, When they have successfully analyzed their nothing would appear to happen if we were unknown, they are issued a new one. to test a solution containing silver with "c." Unless they had difficulty with the previous When every student has a copy of the unknown the new one will be more chal- chart, I perform a few tests using solutions lenging, and will contain two metals. There of "known" metals to demonstrate both is a substantial jump in logic necessary how to do the tests and how the chart was when going from an unknown containing constructed. The students are then shown one metal to one with two, and several of thetic molecules is emphasized. Oil of win- how the chart can be used to identify a the students will need some help; however tergreen is prepared as one example, and metal from the results of the tests. Although most of them will understand the process the children are asked to identify it from its a metal can frequently be identified using before leaving. In a typical visit some stu- smell. Although the most common reac- only one or two ofthe tests, I tell them that dents will identify five or six unknowns, tion is one of delight and questions as to they must do all five before telling me what although three or four is more common. whether they could eat it, sometimes the they have. Performing the extra tests veri- However, even those who only do two will response is "yuck, mint." fies their hypothesis, by using essentially finish with a feeling of accomplishment. The final activity of chemists I describe is the same predicting and testing process In spite of the apparent success of the the analysis of mixtures, and this forms the that we used earlier. The students are then presentation, it remained somewhat un- basis of the students' laboratory exercise. issued safety goggles and an "unknown" known until last semester. Although I had They will each be given an "unknown," and told to begin testing. The tests are no objection to visiting other schools, it

14 was up to them to invite (and discover) me. be about the upper limit. As might be a short group of experiments that the The need for close supervision of the chil- expected, these visits to the college have teacher and students could perform using dren severely limited the size of the group also been very successful. Unlike the event commonly available materials. that could be accommodated, and I would at Geneseo, the emphasis here is clearly on The activity has proved to be extremely often have to make several trips to a school. chemistry, but we also take a brief tour of successful in all respects. It has certainly Because each visit required about one-half the campus, including a visit to the tele- succeeded in introducing the children to day of my time and the preparation took at scope. The opportunity to work in a "real" some chemistry in a non-threatening way. least that long, I did not actively seek chemistry lab and to visit a college campus While the activity has been fun for all con- schools to visit. Thus, until last semester, makes the event more exciting. Thus for cerned, it has also helped the children the only school outside of New London those schools that can arrange the trans- develop the ability to make logical deci- that I had visited was Dean's Mill School in portation, this option may be the preferred sions. The cost of these benefits has been a Stonington. However, last February The one, regardless of the number of students. considerable amount of my time, but I New York Times published an article For those schools that cannot come to the believe it has been well worth. it. Students about these visits, starting a chain reaction. college, I am hoping I can increase the size who have heard little or nothing about Not only did I receive several requests, but of the group slightly after the teacher has chemistry are suddenly enthusiastic about two of these presentations were covered by experienced the activity several times. For- it. It is not uncommon for a child to ask if local papers, precipitating more requests. tunately I have not had to turn down any he or she can skip lunch to do another Because "What Chemists Do" is becom- requests by local schools, but by mid- unknown, and one of the teachers told me ing increasingly popular, I am now trying September I had already been asked to that one mother said her son talked about to modify it to accommodate larger groups. make arrangements for over 70 students. chemistry for several days afterward. Cer- The major limitation is having enough In addition to trying to increase the size tainly I can't eliminate all of the stereo- qualified help, and one obvious modifica- of the groups, I am considering developing types, but it may help. For example, one tion is to return to the original idea of some follow-up material for the teachers. girl wrote "I thought I would never really having the children visit the college; chem- For example, some of the thank-you notes get to like chemistry, but when I get older I istry students could then be invited to help. sent to me show evidence of some interest- think you just gained another student," I tried this last year, and was able to easily ing misconceptions. Clarification of these while another claimed "Someday I might handle about 22 children on one occasion. I ideas could provide the teacher with an become a chemist." Perhaps someday peo- have recently arranged for a visit this year opportunity to discuss a little more chemis- ple will envision strange women in white bya group of26 students, which I believe to try with the students. I also hope to develop coats.

15 Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Susanne Langer, one of this century's leading philosophers, died July /7,1985, at her home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, She was 89 years old. Born in Manhattan to German immi- grant parents, she earned her bachelor's degreefrom Radcliffe in /920, her master's in philosophy from Harvard in /924, and her doctorate from Harvard in 1926. Mrs. Langer became a tutor in Harvard's philosophy department in 1927, a position she kept until 1942, the year her most famous book, Philosophy in a New Key, was published. Mrs. Langer's work in esthetics, The New York Times wrote, "profoundly affec- ted 20th century thinking in psychology and the social sciences." She came to Con- necticut College in 1954, after teaching at Wellesley, Smith, Northwestern, Ohio State, and the Universities of Washington and Delaware, served on our faculty until /962, and spent many more years on campus, doing research and writing. Professor of Philosophy J. Melvin Woody's article on {he impact of Mrs. Langer's work is reprinted here by permission of The Day. Mr. Woody's more personal tribute to Susanne K. Langer, read at a fall faculty meeting, also appears in this issue.

What do the symbols we use tell us about the world and about ourselves? We use very different sorts of symbols in everyday speech and in religious rituals, to formulate the laws of physics or chemistry and to create works of art that express our deepest, most intimate feelings. What can we learn about human psychology from language and logic, music and mathematics, myth and ritual? These are the philosophical questions that challenged Susanne Langer -questions with which she, in turn, has challenged two generations of Americans, When I was a student, everyone had at least one dog-eared copy of Mrs. Langer's Scutpture of Susanne Langer by Norman Legossie Philosophy in a New Key held together with a rubber band. It was the first serious intellectual work published in America in a cheap paperback edition and it fell apart as you read it. Loose pages drifted about the PHILOSOPHER campus. By the time I graduated, I had accumulated three or four copies, none complete. Philosophy in a New Key was a non-fiction best seller and it seemed to be IN ANEW KEY assigned reading for half the courses in the college! Because the book posed basic questions about the whole range of human Symbols are more than just symptoms culture, from science to primitive myth and of human consciousness. from linguistics to modern art, it was not only assigned to philosophy classes, but They are, Susanne Langer taught us, turned up on reading lists for courses in anthropology, literature, psychology, reli- its very essence. gion, art history, and even introductory science. That book changed the way I thought and changed the direction .of my By J. Melvin Woody life. It did the same for many others. She Professor of Philosophy

16 insisted that everything depends on asking argued that we find works of art meaning- ter, which invite us to understand educa- the right question and she taught us to ful because they offer us objective images tion as "programming" and to reduce the pursue exciting new questions. or symbols of our subjective feelings. That life of feeling to being "turned on" or Mrs. Langer was a boldly independent is because works of art are organic forms, "turned off." Mrs. Langer had long since thinker who stubbornly defied the popular forms that vividly display the tensions and discovered that computer logic has limita- philosophical currents of recent years. rhythms and patterns of dynamic balance, tions that derive from its very advantages. That did not make her popular among her growth and decay that characterize the life Instead of trying to understand the mind as professional colleagues. But she was one of process of all living, feeling organisms. We software for the brain, she conceives of the most original and important philos- experience those same patterns of tension, mental life as rooted in sentience, in the ophers of this century and she appealed to a rhythm and growth from within as the feelings that enable the simplest of organ- far wider public than any of her critics. Her qualities of our feelings, as "the way it isms to adapt to its environment. Then she influence spread as far beyond technical feels" to be living, thinking beings. traces how the evolution of higher forms of philosophy as her interests, which were That insight irito the relation between life yields expanded awareness of the sur- boundless. Mathematicians and musicians, art, biology and the life of the mind raised a rounding world. poets and priests, biologists and psycholo- whole new set of questions about the mind But although we may discover the sources gists found understanding and inspiration and its place in nature-and Mrs. Langer of human thought in animal awareness, in her works, and often wrote to tell her about it. Susanne Langer began her career as a logician, excited by the power of modern mathematic logic, which has since led to the development of the computer and to attempts to understand human psychology based on the assumption that the mind must work like a computer. She wrote An Introduction to Symbolic Logic that was more than a textbook for college logic courses. It taught students to expect that logic could reveal the pure form of virtually anything-much as we now can create computer models of everything from corporate cash flows to forest fires and hurri- canes. But her own attempts to apply logic to the analysis of music soon taught her the limitations of the logic of mathematical computation. In Philosophy in a New Key she explored those limitations in a lucid and exciting study of the other forms or symbolism that serve human thought, communication and creativity. In that book, she developed a more adequate understanding of music as the creation of forms that can communicate the range and subtlety of human feeling better than any verbal description or scientific formula. But feeling is not simply opposed to to science and reason, Mrs. Langer insisted. We experience "the way it feels" to think could never leave a good question alone. human consciousness is unique because through a legal argument or solve a prob- With singular intensity of purpose, she set human beings alone can use symbols to lem in physics as well as the way it feels to out to master new fields, teaching herself think about their world, to communicate fall in love or lose our tempers. biology, psychology, neurology, linguistics with one another, and to preserve what That theory of music furnished Mrs. and anthropology in preparation for her they have learned for future generations. It Langer with a "new key" that opened the final, three-volume work, Mind: An Essay is our music and mathematics, our myths door to a bold and sweeping theory of all on Human Feeling. It was a staggering and rituals, our languages and sciences that the arts, which she presented in 1953 in undertaking for a woman already close to made us what we are and vastly expanded Feeling and Form, one of the milestones of retirement age. She was over 70 when the our awareness of our environment. Human modern esthetics. She came to Connecticut first volume appeared, over 85 when the symbols are not merely the symptoms of a College and settled in Old Lyme the follow- last volume was published in 1982, after a higher form of mental life, they are its very ing year. Three years later she published long battle with failing eyesight, hearing substance, the implements and activities Problems oj Art, which provides a short, and health. that open the way beyond animal feeling- popular introd uction of her esthetic theory. It is far too early to estimate the impact but also beyond the logic of computation. She could easily have spent the rest of her this monumental work may have upon Music and art may point the way to the life basking in her secure reputation as the contemporary thought. But it is already biological origins of human awareness but foremost philosopher of art of her day. obvious that the understanding of the mind they also open the way to a fuller and richer Instead, she embarked upon a vast new that Mrs. Langer offers is deeper and mental life thananyanimal-orcomputer- project. Her theory of art had opened the broader than anything to be found in the can ever enjoy. door to a whole new inquiry. currently fashionable attempts to under- Mrs. Langer's legacy to us all is that In Feeling and Form, Mrs. Langer stand the human mind as a kind of ccmpu- fuller, richer understanding of the mind.

17 THERE'S MAGIC IN HIS METHOD

He made a tray of food from Harris Refectory disappear in mid-air. For his next trick, Ben Robinson plans to catch a bullet in his teeth.

By Roldah Northup Cameron '51

18 On Halloween 1985 Ben Robinson '82 will describes him as "urbane, sneaky and stand on the grave of the legendary magi- sophisticated" and pictures him in white cian, Harry HOUdini, in Glendale, Queens, How Does shirt, bow tie and vest with a barbecue New York, while a skilled marksman takes skewer comfortably lodged in his tongue. aim at him with a .22 caliber rifle from 50 He Do It? Comfortably? Is it really piercing his tongue? How does he manage this blood- feet, and will attempt (0 perform the most dangerous trick in the lexicon of magic, the less feat? Don't ask me-or him. It is Ben the Magician asks some- Bullet Catch. against the principles of better magicians to Is this a publicity stunt? A suicidal one in his audience to lend expose their magical secrets. Do keep in impulse? A scene from a macabre film? him a gold ring so that he can mind Ben's frequent assurance, "Remember, "Yes" and "no" to all of the above. Ben's change the ring into a Span- I deal in illusion." Producing a goblet from nowhere, easily career as a magician could certainly benefit ish doubloon. Sensing reluc- from the attendant notoriety if he does suc- undoing an impossible knot, discovering a tance from the audience, he ceed in catching in his pearly white incisors silk handkerchief in the inside pocket of an the bullet fired at him. He has arranged to offers, as insurance in case the amazed spectator, and assorted card tricks have reporters from two prominent New ring is lost or damaged, the are all stock-in-trade for Ben, but he does York dailies present for the occasion. keys to his New York apart- those tricks with a style and smoothness that make even the skeptic marvel. Don't There is no doubt that Ben would prefer ment. If he fails to return the not to be the unlucky thirteenth victim of dismiss these maneuvers as sleight of hand gold ring intact. the lender the Bullet Catch, but, as he explains in his any more than you would dismiss the newly completed manuscript, Twelve Have can have the entire contents works of a great painter as scribbles. In Died, a dozen other magicians who dared of his apartment. magic as in other art forms, it's not so much to attempt the stunt have not survived to The key ring is handed to what you do as how you do it. Ben's skillful magic presentations clearly remove him boast of it. Ben confidently maintains that the audience member before miscalculations and sloppiness were the from the Las Vegas sequins genre of per- cause of their deaths and that he is not he or she gives Ben the gold formers. Calling himself a "miracle worker" doing something purposely dangerous. ring. He tries to change the is less a boast, however, than a matter of The Bullet Catch will be filmed by an inde- gold ring into a doubloon but stagecraft. Can this bespectacled, book- pendent filmmaker, and if the stunt is suc- is unsuccessful. The ring dis- wormish fellow be anything more than a bumbler? It's obvious he is not superhuman, cessful, will be part of the "package" that appears in the attempt and goes with publication of Ben's opus Twelve but there is humor and surprise in seeing Have Died. the magician is revealed as a him trying to prove otherwise. Everything Why would any sane person do this, you bumbler. he says and does in the process has a rhyme ask. The question was lurking in my mind Or is he? Ben then suggests or reason to it. "My premise," says Ben, "is as I interviewed Ben Robinson in New the lender of the ring look on that it is more interesting to see Clark Kent deflect a bullet than to see Superman do it, York City about six weeks before he the key ring that he ar she has attempted the Bullet Catch. My purpose in because we don't expect Clark Kent to be meeting with Ben was to learn how an been holding during the trick. able to." Not only is the audience surprised Asian Studies major from Connecticut lo and behold, the gold ring is when the bumbler turns out to be a miracle College had come to have a career as a hanging on it with the keys' worker, we identify with the bumbler and professional magician, the star of Pure That's magic! thus find his triumph doubly pleasing. Magic Productions. Our conversation fo- Ben Robinson is keenly aware of the psy- cused initially on the Bullet Catch because chological factors present in his act; his it was the day that Ben had received a writ- philosophy of magic results from long ten Forward to his book from Harry Ander- study and experience. son of Night court fame, "the hottest magi- Ben grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New cian around," who has successfully per- York, the youngest of four children. At the formed the Bullet Catch 124 times. Eu- age of nine he saw the Dutch magician, phoric over this endorsement of his book Fred Kaps, perform on television and will by Anderson, Ben explained that his own vouch for that medium's formative influ- year-long research of the stunt fascinated ence. When Kaps smoked his thumb like a him so much that he decided to write a pipe, puffing smoke into a glass, Ben was comprehensive history of it. The actual captivated and determined to learn the writing took him a month this summer, and magician's art. If Kaps provided the seed, during that time he realized that he knows your field-be it sports or science or the late Milbourne Christopher was the sun more about the Bullet Catch than anyone business-has always been a trait of cham- and the rain. Christopher, one of the fore- alive "except that I haven't done it." That pions. So why not in the field of magic? Ben most historians and scholars of the art of omission he intends to remedy on October is sane all right-and totally dedicated to magic, became Ben's teacher and remained 31st. Call it insanity or showmanship or magic. his mentor until his death in 1984. By the chicanery. Whatever. Ben clearly sees it as He has been quoted as saying "Magic is time Ben was 14 he was performing magic thoroughness, dedication, a search for an art form as powerful and artistic as shows professionally, but his family back- excellence. Striving to reach the pinnacle in ballet with a poetry to it and much more." ground was such that college was a "given" Certainly Ben has an intellectual approach and his sister, Randall Robinson '70, led Raldah Norrhup Cameron :5/, a former to magic, although his continual search for him to Connecticut College. My first sur- member of this magazine's editorial board personal understanding and excellence in mise that Ben might have been a Theater and a past president of the Alumni Associ- his work may not be obvious to the casual Studies major was wrong; his only acting ation, is nolV a regional director of the observer. Promotional material from the courses were taken at a summer session Campaign for Connecticut College. Talent Connection, his booking agency, elsewhere. Nevertheless, Ben says that

19 magic-its history, art and performance_ "Everything I did at Conn helped me in students. During his senior year Ben trav- despite the knowledge that financially what I am doing now." eled around New England and to New secure magicians are a rarity. Making the In his freshman year Ben met fellow York doing his magic shows as a pro, but decision to pursue a magical career seems Lambdin resident Steve Clarendon '81, he valued his education enough to limit his to have been a good one; for the past two who has turned out to be so close a friend engagements. His senior thesis was ~ritten that Ben characterizes him as "the left side on Asian magic and the famed jadoo- years now Robinson has been successfully of my brain." Together they produced a wallahs of India, who were often dispar- supporting himself as a producer, writer television special called Pure Magic with aged by Western magicians. In it Ben and performer of magic. Private parties, Ben as star which was shown at prime time upheld the theory that mystery stands at clubs and schools are arenas for his ever- on Connecticut Cable TV. That led to local the heart of both true art and true science, expanding repertoire of tricks that enter- recognition and to performing dates that quoting Albert Einstein: "Whoever does tain and amaze. With his uncle, actor Tony helped him pay his bills. By sophomore not know (mystery) and can no longer Randall, he assisted Doug Henning on his year Ben was performing his magic act reg- marvel is as good as dead and his eyes are NBC-TV special promoting the Broadway ularly at the Cro Coffee House on campus dimmed." Graded "C" by his Connecticut show Merlin. A performance for patients and finding an enthusiastic audience among College professor, the thesis was later pub- at the New York Hospital last Easter was his fellow students. In fact, a campus inci- lished in The Linking Ring, a magazine covered by The New York Times, and the dent was the inspiration for one of his more devoted to magic and magicians. accompanying photo showed him pulling astounding feats, the disappearing tray. A As Ben tells it, his graduation caper was an Easter bunny from a top hat to the classmate complained to Ben one night intended as a "metaphorical gesture," not wonderment of a small boy. At a recent about the quality of the food they were as a bid for publicity in the face of post- "CiC. Comes to New York" partyat Chris- being served at Harris Refectory, saying, college job hunting. Whateverthe case may tie's, Ben gave the College's capital cam- "This stuff is awful! Can't you make it dis- be, the press took note when he came forth paign a boost by changing a measly dollar appear?" Accepting the challenge, Ben to accept his diploma from President contribution into a $100 bill-right before practiced alone and then promised to Oakes Ames. With sheepskin in hand, Ben our very eyes! That c.c. connection with deliver in public. On the appointed date turned to the audience, smiled broadly and Steve Clarendon has continued and together about 350 people jammed the Coffee lifted his mortarboard to reveal a white they have recently filmed and produced House to watch, and they cringed as he rabbit sitting on his head! Because the Steps, a video in MTV style showing a threw a tray of food out across the room. Associated Press picked up the story, it was whirling kaleidoscope of Ben's magic tricks Not to worry. The tray and the food van- carried in newspapers from Maine to with a background of music by Jean Luc ished in mid-air. You don't believe it? Well, Oregon and on TV newscasts. A week after Panty. ask some young alum who was there. The graduation the New London Day did a Making life magical for himself and oth- feat became a reputation maker for Ben. large spread on Ben with the headline ers is Ben Robinson's vocation and avoca- The presentation of a full-blown Coffee "Magician's Professional Life Overshad- tion. The requisites for success in the House production for Parents' Weekend ows Other Roles." field-imagination, showmanship, self-con- was a highlight of Ben's junior year. He Great press is one thing; earning a living fidence, technical expertise, energy-are also worked with Steve Clarendon on a TV is another. Ben's family assumed he would not all that different from those necessary program entitled Concert of Close-up Con- turn to more serious business than magic to succeed elsewhere, but Ben insists that juring in which the camera came in close on once he had earned his bachelor's degree, being a magician is different: "It's a psycho- Ben sitting at a table doing card and money and in fact, he did spend a year and a half logical mind set; your whole being is tricks. Solving the acoustic and lighting after graduation as the "token heterosex- wrapped up in it." Becoming a magician, problems attendant upon this production ual" in a Manhattan interior design firm. theorizes Ben, may have been his way of was further valuable experience for both But his real interest continued to be compensating for the death of his father when he was seven years old. "The world around you may be unstable, but with magic you are in command and can fix things." Qualify that vocational goal, for just being a magician isn't enough. His aim is to become a Master Magician like his mentor Christopher or Harry Blackstone or Doug Henning. The distinction of Mas- ter Magician is given to those who have consistently presented all forms of magic in As we went to press, news an original way. arrived of Ben Robinson's As long ago as 1978 when Ben was a success on Halloween. He freshman, the Connecticut College Voice reports. "I spun around and wrote this about him: "People say to Ben, fell-I didn'f know if I was dead 'You are on your way to becoming the next . or alive af firsf. When I knew I had done if. Houdini; to which he replies very simply, I JU':lped up and down. If was exhilarafing, like 'No, I'm the first Ben Robinson.''' Some- getting a perfecf 10 in fhe Olympics." thing tells me that kind of confidence, An importanf facfor in fhe Bullef Catch is along with his thorough preparation, will hovinq confidence in fhe marksman. "I frust stand Ben in good stead on Halloween when the goblins of criticism and the ghosts him implicitly," Ben says of Theodore Anneman, of twelve- who died circle around him. Kaboom! a mechanic for fhe New York City Police Houdini backed out of performing the Departmenf. Would he do if again? Yes. Bullet Catch at the last minute, but I'm betting on Ben to pull the stunt off successfully. Remember, he deals in illusion.

20 Round & About

Yuppies in love

Teaching himself to type as he went along, Kevin Wade '76 set out to write a play that his friends would enjoy, and managed to create Key Exchange, a sell-out off- Broadway hit that has since evolved into a movie produced by 20th Century Fox. The success of Key Exchange is somewhat phenomenal, considering that it was Mr. Wade's first play, involved only three major characters, and was written in a very short time, between acting jobs. The play was sold out in a five-week run at the WPA Theater, and subsequently ran for a year at the Orpheum Theater. Selected by Time magazine as one of the ten best plays of 1981, Key Exchange also had successful runs in Boston, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and other cities at home and abroad. The story begins with Lisa, an assistant TV producer, and Philip, a novelist, two young lovers who agree to exchange apartment keys but fear commitments. Together with Philip's lawyer friend Michael, the trio bicycles around Central Park and other parts of Manhattan. According to Vincent Canby in The New York Times, the film Key Exchange "looks at the Yuppies with wit, candor, and a sweetness that never slops over into sen- timentality." Many of the original cast and crew of the play, including the director, Barnet Kell- man, and the original Lisa and Philip, played by Brooke Adams and Ben Masters, Brooke Adams and Ben Masters in "Key" Exchange" were carried over into the movie. As luck would have it, New York City Century Fox, and is currently writing a done solo, using a sextant for navigation. mayor Ed Koch happened to be in the new play, Cruise Control. Margaret Alton '67 has become the ABC-TV studio on the day that the movie Maryland chairman of Citibank, the lar- crew was filming a scene there. Director gest banking corporation in the world. Ms. Barnet Kellman was able to convince the In the limelight Alton, who worked her way up the corpo- mayor to do a bit part in Key Exchange on rate ranks from service assistant to the top the spot. Daniel Hays '83 completed a thrilling job in Maryland, has her hands full with Mr. Wade says he's pleased with the way 17,190-mile journey on a 25-foot sailboat the company's battles with the legislature the movie turned out, although his role in on May 30, [985, and became the second over expansion in the state. its production was minor. Not content to person in history to sail around Cape Horn Also on top of the banking situation is sit back and bask in success, he has been in such a small craft. The 312-day voyage Kevon Copeland '75, the new assistant writing screenplays for MGM and 20th on Mr. Hays' cutter, Sparrow, was partly vice-president in the Asia-Pacific depart-

21 which he was a charter member. ment of the International Banking Divi- Through the bread th of his scholarly and sion of Pittsburgh National Bank. Mr. artistic achievements, his years of devoted Copeland also serves on the National Black service to the students and faculty of Con- MBA Association's board of directors. necticut College, and his modest manner, Judith A. Mapes '61 is the first female Paul Laubenstein epitomized the scholar- partner in one of the world's largest execu- teacher of the liberal arts. tive search firms, Egon Zehnder Interna- -s-Paul Althouse, Associate tional. Ms. Mapes has been with the firm Professor of Music, and Garrell Green, since 1980. Two alumnae, both Massachusetts resi- Professor of Religious Studies dents, have been appointed to Boards of Trustees. Attorney Mae Concemi Brad- shaw '66 of Newburyport will serve a two- Rita H. Barnard year term at Salem State College. She has a law practice in Newburyport, and is involved in many professional and com- Rita H. Barnard, registrar emeritus and munity organizations. associate professor emeritus of economics, Meanwhile, Wendy Allen Wheeler '57 died on June I, 1985. has joined Walnut Hill School's Board of Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, in Trustees in Natick. For three years, she has 1905, she attended Boston University been the school's director of student coun- which conferred upon her the degree of seling, and is currently employed in private B.S.S. in 1927 and M.B.A. with distinction practice. in 1933. Further studies were pursued at Betsy Brininger '75 is the new director of Harvard and Columbia Universities. the Arnold Bernhard Center for the Arts at Professor Barnard joined the Connecti- the University of Bridgeport. cut College Department of Secretarial Robin Hanser '60 has been appointed Paul F. Laubenstein Work and Office Practice in 1929, later director of annual giving at Webster Uni- transferred to the Department of Econom- versity in St. Louis. She is responsible for During World War I he played flute and ics, and retired in 1971. The quality of her all facets of the program, including re- piccolo in the Marine Corps' Tenth Regi- teaching and the warmth of her personality search, solicitation, and special events. ment Band. He later taught those instru- are attested to by the affection with which ments for many years in the College's music she was greeted at alumni reunions, includ- department. In 1941 he founded the Pales- ing that of 1985. trina Society of Connecticut College, a She served the College not only as a pro- group of 16 to 20 singers drawn from both fessor but also as secretary of the faculty In Memoriam the College and the local community. They and, from 1958, as registrar. To the regis- performed twice a year, limiting their rep- trar's position she brought an ability to ertory to Renaissance liturgical music. handle infinite detail with care and patience, Paul F.Laubenstein Their typical concert consisted of a setting a sense of perspective and equity, and good- of the mass along with several motets. humored respect for the preferences of Paul Fritz Laubenstein, professor emeritus Among his compositions special men- faculty colleagues and students. She was a of religion-scholar, musician, teacher, tion should be made of the Te Deum for widely known and respected member of the and preacher-died on June I, 1985, at his chorus and orchestra, composed in 1936 Association of New England Registrars home in Quaker Hill. Born March 17, and presented by the New London Orato- and Administrative Officers. 1892, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. rio Society. Perhaps best known of his Her interests were manifold. She was an Laubenstein received his A.B. and A.M. compositions, however, were his Christ- amateur authority on English gardens, degrees from Dickinson College. He was mas carols, which he sent out to friends antiques, and cooking. She contributed ordained a Congregational minister and over the holidays. Many of these, as well as much to the Waterford community, being earned a Master of Sacred Theology several smaller pieces, were subsequently instrumental in the construction of the (S.T. M.) degree from Union Theological published. public library and serving as secretary of Seminary. He came to Connecticut College As a performer of older music, Paul the Charter Commission and as a member in 1928 as assistant professor of religion Laubenstein possessed a vision unusual for of the Representative Town Meeting. and director of Harkness Chapel. his time. In 1944 he set up a fund to pur- She was an officer in many organiza- A member of the Society of Biblical chase a harpsichord, which in those days tions, including the local chapter of the Literature and the National Association of was little more than an esoteric curiosity. American Red Cross and the YWCA, and Biblical Instructors (predecessor of the And of course his beloved Palestrina was an active member ofSt. James Episco- American Academy of Religion), he was Society had its birth long before the estab- pal Church, New London Landmarks the author of numerous articles in their lishment of early music groups became Society, Connecticut River Historical Asso- journals, as well as in such other publica- fashionable. ciation, and numerous other associations. tions as the Atlantic Monthly, the Sewanee After his retirement from teaching in She was a student of history but also of Review, the Christian Century, and Reli- 1957, Professor Laubenstein and his wife planning and urban development. This gious Education. His musical interests Sarah remained neighbors of the College interest led to visits to the New Towns of found expression in articles for Musical and continued for many years to be famil- Britain as well as similar projects in the Quarterly and Musical America. iar faces at campus lectures, concerts, and United States, the Netherlands, and Scan- In addition to his contribution to the faculty buffets. One of his last public dinavia. religious life on campus, Professor Lau- appearances was his participation last Former colleagues and students remem- benstein maintained a lifelong interest in April in the 50th anniversary celebration of ber her as a person of style, taste, and music, both as performer and composer. Delta of Connecticut, Phi Beta Kappa, of charm. Nor will we forget her sense of

22 sciences, and during those hard times for conditions in Southeastern Connecticut the mother tongue during the 1960's, he and in 1968 prepared a study on the continued to educate for clarity in thought inmates at the former Connecticut State and expression: the mixed metaphor and Farm and Prison for Women in Niantic. misplaced modifier withered under his He ran on the Democratic ticket for a seat scrutiny. His own conversational and prose on the Waterford Town Council in 1948, style was precise and elegant, a talent that long before it was fashionable for academi- was recognized by President Charles Shain, cians to be involved in community life. who asked him to up-date and rewrite Through most of the 1950's, he served on Information for Faculty. I fear we have the Waterford Board of Education, as both mangled that text rather badly since then. member and chairman. His persuasiveness Mason's distinguished service as the there-c-vLincolnesque," as one colleague secretary of the Instruction Committee, described it-resulted in rapid growth of (which did nearly all of the College's busi- the school plant and program on all levels. ness in those days, including supervision of He also served as vice-president of the commas in catalogue materials), permitted Connecticut State Mental Health Associa- us to see him as firm but also as diplomatic tion. To these positions in the College, and conciliatory. Very early on, President community, and state, he brought fairness, Blunt appointed him to a sensitive commit- breadth of vision, excellent judgement, tee, saying of that committee's work. "We selflessness, and dignity, all qualities which have several not too easy problems." made him an admirable colleague and Mason was very good at resolving the "not- friend. 1came to appreciate these qualities too-easy" problems. more as he and 1co-chaired the department While at Yale, Mr. Record studied with of sociology and anthropology the few some of the major shapers of American years before he retired. sociology and anthropology. Their insights Mason Record was one of the most Rita H. Barnard about Mason at that time are extraordi- broadly educated colleagues 1 have had at nary. Maurice Davis commented on his the College. He and Ruby Jo-I think of thoughtfulness and added, "He is no nar- them often together-were excellent men- drama as evidenced by her joy in participa- row specialist." Anthropologist George tors for a young anthropologist, for they ting in faculty shows and her consummate Peter Murdock noted his "mental acuity," both were interested in fostering my disci- skill as a raconteur. his "seriousness" and industry. Equally pline as well as sociology. Both offered -Katherine Finney, Professor germane is the comment of Professor A. G. excellent advice when I asked for it, and Emeritus of Economics Keller: "He seems to have the rarest neither ever said, "I told you so," when 1 quality-common sense." Professor James failed. Both were gentle and constructive in G. Leyburn observed in Mason an inde- their criticisms when that was necessary pendence that was to characterize him (much more often than they actually gave throughout his life: "He presumes to do his it), and they helped to socialize me and Mason T. Record own work, to learn how to avoid mistakes, other young instructors to the culture of to search out his problems and their solu- Connecticut College. In so doing, they Mason Thomas Record, professor emer- tions." This attitude prevailed in his per- connected us to more than 40 years of itus and chairman of the department of sonallife also, where he had to deal with a Connecticut College history. sociology and anthropology, died on July lifetime of pain as the result of osteomyeli- The Record family is equally admirable. S, 1984, in Florida, where he and his wife, tis of the bone, suffered when he was but Pauline, a graduate of the University of Pauline, have resided for the past several eight years old. Mason wanted no pity and Nebraska, with an advanced degree from years. Born on March 31, 1909, in Mena, did not indulge in self-pity. He handled his Columbia in library science, served long Arkansas, Mason grew up in New Haven health problems with irony and equanimity. and well at the Waterford library system as where his father was the head of the Professor Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, his well as with the state library system. Their department of forestry at Yale University. classmate at Yale in sociology, and long older son, Mason Thomas, Jr., is a Ph.D. He had taught at Sweet Briar College and chairman of the department of sociology at chemist, teaching and doing research at the the Universities of Connecticut and New Connecticut, always praised "his integrity, University of Wisconsin, and their younger Hampshire before joining the Connecticut his cooperativeness, his dedication, and his son, Steve, studied at the School of Forestry College faculty in the autumn of 1943. willingness to assume much more than his at Yale. Mason's sister, Alice, was a Con- Accepting his appointment here, Mason share of administrative responsibility in the necticut graduate, Class of '33. wrote to President Katherine Blunt, "I am department." His sense of humor was sub- Professor Mason Record's way of life ... sure ... that 1 shall want to stay. It (feels) tle, and demonstrated an appreciation for did not generate anecdotes, but those who very much like coming home after a long the nuances of the human condition. knew him well will understand why the journey." He served Connecticut College Mason taught introd uctory sociology, following quote evokes for me an image of faithfully in many capacities for 31 years, race and ethnic relations, sociological his- him: leaving only once to teach for a year at the tory and theory, and ran our senior semi- .. a man of an angel's wit and singular University of Arizona. nars for years with distinction. He appealed learning; I know not his fellow for Mason Record earned his Yale College particularly to our most able and commit- where is the man of that gentleness, lowli- bachelor's degree in English and history, ted students. But Mason's concern not only ness, and affability? And as time requireth, which bespeaks the catholicity of his inter- to understand the nature and functioning a man of marvellous mirth and pastimes; ests. Although his Ph.D.-also from Yale of human society, but also to apply his and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for -was in sociology, he was never limited by specialized knowledge was to be seen in the all seasons." intellectual provincialism. He was impa- ways he spent his time and energy. He con- -June Macklin tient with the cant and jargon of the social ducted a number of statistical studies of Professor of Anthropology

23 Old Lyme and surrounded herself with long nourished her researches. So this great Susanne K. Langer books and card files and embarked upon a philosopher of symbolism will remain relentless schedule of work. But every day among us symbolically in a singularly appropriate way. For while she taught at Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Susanne around noon, her blue Jeep station wagon Connecticut College only very briefly, she K. Langer, who died July 17, 1985, was one appeared on campus, with a tiny canoe remained among us a research scholar and of the foremost philosophers of her genera- named "Creek Mouse" perched on top. writer, honoring us by her presence, tion. She was probably the most widely Mrs. Langer had come to quiz her col- read and influential American philosopher leagues over lunch and to plunge into the inspiring us by her example and above all, of the mid-twentieth century. One popular stacks of Palmer Library. The canoe, the plaguing us with her questions. national magazine has recently named her lunches, and the library were apt symbols -J. Melvin Woody among the 100 most influential women of of the monumental project to which she Professor of Philosophy the last 100 years. Her published works devoted the last 25 years of her life: a three- display a truly extraordinary range of volume work on the mind and its place in interests-from a volume of fairy tales to nature. Always an avid amateur naturalist, mathematical logic, general theory of sym- she was prepared to pop the canoe into any bolism, esthetics, biology, anthropology body of water that looked promising. and philosophy of mind. They excited the But the author of Mind: An Essay on interests of an eq ually wide range of readers. Feeling needed far more than an amateur's When Mrs. Langer's Philosophy in a knowledge of nature. She had to delve deep New Key reappeared after World War II, it into the scientific literature in botany, became a non-fiction best seller and went zoology, neurophysiology, psychology, on to become one of Harvard University semiotics, and anthropology. She turned to Press' all-time top sellers and to be trans- her Connecticut College colleagues for lated into over a dozen languages-the last help and advice-and to the staff and count I can recall was 18. Feeling and Form stacks of Palmer Library to answer her was hailed as one of the most important voracious research needs. Doubtless, she works in esthetics of the century. Mrs. relished those luncheon conversations as Langer presented bold hypotheses and social interludes in a solitary and disci- sweeping philosophical vistas with a clarity plined writing schedule. But she never and precision of style rarely to be found in really put the book aside-and she was the philosophy of the day. She was a philo- merrily blunt about her motives. "I've sophical maverick who stubbornly defied come to pick your brain," she'd say, as she the professional fashions of her generation. set down her tray and launched into such Yet she offered understanding and insight startling lines of questioning as "Do three- Chase GOing Woodhouse to people from all walks of life, from toed sloths dream? Granted, they probably painters and dancers to psychologists and don't think in any sense we would recog- anthropologists. I well remember a letter nize. But they sleep. Perchance they dream. Chase Going WOOdhouse the department received for her from an Who would know whether anyone has Army bandmaster who poured out his checked for evidence of rapid eye move- Chase Going Woodhouse died in New thanks to her for providing him with the ment in three-toed sloths?" Canaan on Dec. 12, 1984, at the age of 94. concepts he needed to think about his pro- Susanne Langer was a slight, strong She was a professor of economics at Con- fession and for squarely addressing ques- woman. She could paddle that little canoe necticut College from 1934 to 1947, while tions about music that had perplexed him of hers the length of an Adirondack lake pursuing a very active political career. Mrs. for years. Mrs. Langer was herself a music against the wind to reach her summer Woodhouse served as Connecticut's secre- lover and a capable cellist who delighted at cabin. She launched herself against the tary of state from 1941 to 1943, and was joining others to spend an evening playing wind of time when she set out on such a elected Congresswoman from the 2nd dis- string quartets or trios. long philosphical voyage at the age of60. If trict in 1944 and again in 1949. Mrs. Langer came to Connecticut Col- she never really put the book aside, it was Chase Going Woodhouse was the first lege in 1954, at the very height of her fame. because she feared that the book would last woman elected to Congress from South- Feeling and Form had been published just longer than she could. As she struggled to eastern Connecticut, an achievement The the year before. She had been an academic articulate a philosophy of organic form Day called "a continuous source of pride gypsy for years. Indeed, her career provides and sensibility, she was plagued by organic for New London ...and for Connecticut vivid testimony of the professional plight frailties that slowly destroyed her most College, which Mrs. Woodhouse helped of women. Although she was one of the precious senses-her sight and hearing. weave into the city's political mosaic." outstanding intellectual figures of the day, Still, she persisted. She was still writing at An early campaigner for women's rights, far outshining scores ofmen, she was never 80-and she was 86 when Johns Hopkins Mrs. Woodhouse was nominated for sec- appointed to a regular post at a major uni- published the third volume of Mind: An retary of state after a group of women versity and had spent her life shuttling from Essay on Feeling in 1982. That same year, stormed the Democratic convention plat- one institution to another. She came to Connecticut College awarded honorary form, according to The Day. Connecticut College to stay. Two years degrees for the first time and named Mrs. While serving on the Banking and Cur- after she arrived, she received a generous Langer Doctor of Humane Letters. She rency Commission, Mrs. Woodhouse de- grant from the Kaufman Foundation that received many other honorary degrees and signed programs to aid the unemployed. enabled her to retire from teaching and awards, including a fellowship in the Amer- She made many contributions to the fields devote all her energies to research and writ- ican Academy of Arts and Sciences and a of education, health, the humanities, men- ing. Yet she remained a conspicuous pres- Founders Award from Radcliffe, her alma tal health and the environment. ence at Connecticut College for the next 20 mater. Survivors include her daughter, Margaret years and more. Last year, Mrs. Langer donated her own Woodhouse Becker of New Canaan, and She settled into an 18th century Cape in collection of books to our library, which so three granddaughters.

24 Class Notes

Frances Andrews Leete was a docent during the Three 'Ivers made it to the cookout at Katherine Francke Stover is in a convalescent home summer at Westerly's historic Babcock Smith House. 19 reunion-Sadie Coit Benjamin, Rosa Wilcox in Rockford. IL near her son, but unable to write. Tappey, and Pauline Christie. Polly has very poor Diana Bretzfelder Levine leads a placid life, takes Lucy Barker Keddie reports. "I keep extremely busy vision but is fortunate to have a friend who drives for short trips often with her niece, finds social life pleasant in many routine activities that would be boring to recount, and yet 1 am never bored." A visit to her her and she sounded very cheerful when ltalked to her in her condo area, and swims for exercise. by phone. Sadie left right after reunion for a visit with Margaret Heyer keeps busy, sends greetings to all daughter in CA is anticipated. daughter Joyce '49 in Ft. Wayne. IN. where she enjoyed Marion Page French has been married 55 years, has Susan Chittenden Cuningham and Ted spent July at seeing three grandchildren and four greats. three children. eleven grandchildren, and two great- their cottage in Madison. CT prior to joining a tour of Marenda Prentis had a front seat at the dedication of grandchildren. She and her husband live near their England and Wales. CC acquaintances were renewed the Charles E. Shain Library and enjoyed a visit with children in a one-story ranch. which is convenient for with Mary wdeox Cross, Betty Cade Simon,and Elmo our honorary classmate whom we remember with pride them, as arthritis is troublesome. Ashton Decherd '28. and affection. Prent also attended the Sykes Society Mary Wheeler lives contentedly in a retirement Lillian Dauby Gries winters in Key Biscayne and dinner during reunion weekend. community where she has many friends. She still drives their telephone is listed in the Miami exchange. Lillian The request for news brought an enthusiastic reply her car short distances. would love to hear from any who are nearby. "Growing from Edith Harris Ward. "Though somewhat handi- Olive Holcombe Wheeler and Rufus stay busy and old is not so bad when there are ten grandchildren and capped with impaired vision and hearing, [still manage well most of the time. two greats." well with household chores and activities-garden. The past summer was happy and busy for me. The Dorothy (Red) Harris Clark now lives alone but has flowers. etc.-thankfully and gratefully. Of course I Houston family, 16 in all. met near Estes Park for a many interests. An ardent Elder hosteler, she has have an accomplished assistant-good manager and week in the Rockies. I became acquainted with my attended sessions in H[, AK, WY, CO, and Mexico; she chauffeur. fairly good secretary. excellent cook and seven great-grandchildren, celebrating I yr. birthdays hikes and is secretary of the NM Mountain Club; shopper(meaning I'm sure husband Jim). The Lord has there with two of them. Later I enjoyed a Tuthill reunion weaves and is a leader of the Albuquerque Handweav- continued me in better than good health and I still love in central New York. I send best wishes to all '2] ers Guild; photographs and presents slide shows; CC you bet!" classmates and ask for news items. freezes and preserves the fruits from a half-acre apricot Priscilla Ford Schenke is glad to be around again Corresponderu: Adelaide Sanerty Tuthill. 76 Hunt and apple orchard. after a cracked pelvis from a fall and a bout with shin- Ave .. Apt. I-A, Pearl River, NY 10965 Esther Hunt Peacock remains the athlete, swimming gtes. She writes she is a "tough old Yankee." with the MD Masters. She eagerly awaits going into the Ruth Avery French writes from her N H home where 80-84 group where she no longer will be second to a 75 she is known as "the lady with the garden." Her succes- year youngster. Daughter Ronnie of Southbury sion of bloom from hyacinth to rudbeckia delights the Correspondent: Emily ,Warner. Covenant belongs to the CT Masters 50-54 group. Larry con- passer-by and tempts an artist to catch its beauty. Ruth 25 Village. ApI. 3112, Missionary Road. Crom- tinues to teach swimming. All spent vacation with son says she still weeds on her hands and knees and is well, CT06416 Larry and his family in Small Point, ME. thrilled with 20/20 vision resulting from implants in Emily(Kola) Koehler Hammond asked a neighbor to both eyes last year. report that she is recovering from a stroke that [eaves May Buckley Sadowski still lives in Longmeadow Estrid Alquist Lund has lived in San Mateo, her unable to write; in spite of speech problems she and still drives her car although she no longer ventures 2 7 CA with a daughter since the death of her hus- welcomes visits from friends. Frank is in a nursing too far afield. She sends greetings to all 'f sers. band ten years ago. The years since college were spent home. Your correspondent spent the month of July in the teaching French in Puerto Rico and Ridgewood, NJ, Elizabeth Leeds Merrick and a friend spent a two- hospital, where I dispensed with my gall bladder and raising two daughters, traveling to Europe, Mexico, week vacation on a garden tour in England and Wales; am now glad 10 be about again driving my trusty old and South America, and retiring in Winter Park, FL. a visit to Leeds Castle was the highlight for Betty. On an Ford. While I was at the hospital, Roberta Morgan She enjoys trips into the Sierras and an annual visit in overnight trip to CT she lunched with Sally Barber Troland visited and we had a pleasant reunion. She DC with her second daughter and two grandchildren, Pierce in Norwich and stayed with Frances Hubbard looked bright and smart as ever and we had a merry but is homesick for New England. One of her brilliant '29 in Chester. She is an active volunteer typing for two time recalling Dr. Rodinetla's hygiene class when she French students was an instructor at CC for a few years. organizations for the blind and delivering Meals on inflated a pair of lungs from the butcher shop to dem- Alice Cook is busy and happy at her home in West Wheels. onstratc how they operated. It proved too much for Hartford which has a yard with trees, flowers. and Celeste Denniston Hoffman and Helen Tatum Roberta. whereupon Randy demonstrated how to birds. She knits for numerous nieces and nephews, and Rountree were together for the first time in 20 years as handle a case of fainting. does volunteer work for the church. She lives with her Helen, ona return trip to a granddaughter in CO, spent We arc sad to report the death of Marion Shea Kirby two sisters, one is Ethel '29. a few days in GA with Celeste. Crewel embroidery, on May 26. Constance Delagrange Roux found summer in the piano playing, and reading are continuing pleasures for Correspondent: Virginia C. Rose. 20 A very Lime. Lebanon, PA area offered a variety of summer theater Celeste. She belongs to the College Point Women's Waterford CT06385. and musical groups. A trip to Mackinac island pre- Club and especially enjoys working in the arts and ceded a visit with her sister in Sacramento, and then on crafts division to a 21 day trip to New Zealand and Australia. Madelyn Clish Wankmiller is up and about after a Don't forget about reunion coming up soon! Grace Holmes Morrison vacationed in Scotland and second bout with phlebitis. Supplements of a cane, a 21 Mark the weekend of May]O - June [on your London, where she [eased an apartment in Dolphin hearing aid, and a magnifying glass are helpful but calendar. Square. annoying. She misses traveling and while her reading is Correspondent: Olive Luttehates Corbin, 9 Brady Ave .. Frances Joseph watches the Palmer Library conver- slow her interests are wide. New Britain, CT06052 sion into the Blaustein Humanities Center and occa- Sally Pithouse Becker received long deserved recog- sionally she sees Frances Breit. Frances was a lone '27er nition for her decades of service to CC when she was at reunion when she celebrated with '25 and '30. awarded the Connecticut College Medal at Com- Melvina (Mopey) Mason Rosa and husband Miriam Addis Wooding was in the medical unit at mencement. Our heartiest congratulations are 23 spent March at the Cape, where they enjoy the Whitney Center for over two weeks. She, Louise, and extended to her who in undergraduate days demon- interesting shops and restaurants. Ruth have been friends since college days. strated the qualities of warmth and dedication. Our

25 their varied lives and eventual graduations. She had a in Barbados and cruised the Caribbean. Four children class has been most fortunate to have had two class- and nine grandchildren keep her busy. Son Paul is mates. Sally. and Helen Lehman Buttenweiser, receive recent trip to Europe. Ruth Johnson,after 20 years as consultant in nursing secretary for the Nat'! Chiropractic Assn. and daughter ces highest honor. Marie IS ass'r. director of nurses at Mt. Holyoke Hosp. It is with great sadness the deaths of five classmates education for the NY Ed. Dept., has moved to a very Her granddaughter IS a Tufts Junior working several are reported: Cora lutz, our distinguished scholar. beautiful retirement village. Olive Auer Figgatt has one married granddaughter, jobs to help defray tuition cost. Ericka still takes 3/28/85; Janel Paine. 3/11/85; Laura Drake Goddard, painting lessons and decorates articles for gift shops. 8/29/85; Louise McLeod Sleeper, 6/1/85; Ruth Stev- six unmarried and no greats Elizabeth Palmer Shurts spent two months last ens Thornton, 6/25/85. The sympathy of the class is Jane Williams Howell spends summers in VT and winter in Sarasota and one month on a Lindblad extended to the husbands of louise and Ruth; also to winters in Fl in a new abode in a retirement center. Intrepids trip to W. Africa-exciting and no starving Barbara Tracy Coogan, whose husband Peter died in Gertrude Smith Cook spent one week in Paris with tribes. but every day had a beige overcast due to the dust Boston on 6/20/85. artist daughter, Marsha, visiting museums and renew- storms In E. Africa. In Aug. Betsy was off 10 Switz .. Correspondents: Madelyn Clish Wankmifler, 422 ing old haunts from her junior year at the Sorbonne. In Austria, and N. Italy on a music festival routedriving Mill 51.. Worces/(!r MA 01602; Minnie u/aschinsky Rouen. they were treated royally by a former exchange with a cousin who lives in Spain. Her sons are welt and Peck, 1351 Sararoga Ave.. ApI. 1, San Jose, CA 95129 student and his American wife. While there. Jerry used the host's car for short trips. grandchildren still number three Dolly Swanson Varnum shows amazement at CC Helen Peasley Comber and Bilt traveled 10 Spain in growth but clings affectionately to the former, smaller May; took a three-hour ferry ride across the Correspondent: Amelia Green Fleming, 34-48 Mediterranean, passing close to Gibraltar and 29 81s1 51" Jackson Heights, NY 11372 ""'Billie Brown Seyfried went the rounds, seeing her Morocco. They stayed in Tangiers and visited the three children, Bob. Jim and Mary louise and six Casbah (a great place to people-watch) and other grands. They canoed in Pine Barrens, NJ, rented a sights. They then joined a TWA tour in Italy, but the Evelyn whittemore Woods has given up a cabin in Letchworth Park. NY, befriending a parr of trip was cut short when Bill had a kidneystone attack in 31 number of endeavors and has joined her almost tame racoons. Summer was completed at Lake Rome. They managed to see all the sights before husband in retirement. Charlevoix, Ml. boarding TWA 841 on May 30. Bill recovered shortly Peg Whitman Allen and Hugh have three daughters, Correspondents: Wilhelmina Brown Seyfried. 37 after and now they look forward to a visit with Betty three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. SOUlh Main St .. Nazareth. PA. 18064; Dorothy H. Kunkle Palmer and Hap in SC in Sept. They visit the source of their roots, Vermont. Gould, 184 Pequot A ve .. Apr. A-2, Nell' London, CT. Margaret Royall Hinck and Katherine Hammond Martha Weed lives in a log home in N H with lovely 06320 Engler are co-chairing our 55th in '88. Anyone who dogs and burns all wood for heal. She reads much. thinks up a good come-on slogan should write 10 Peger hikes. gardens and serves church and community. or Kay. Pegers eldest grandson graduated from tf.C. Jeannette Shidle Morris' son. Tim, lives with her. She Eleanor Husted Hendry is playing the piano with Santa Barbara in June and the younger brother from volunteers at a local hospital and is active in Woman's 33 the Scotia Ragtime Band in CA where the high school in Jakarta where their father is stationed Club and in church. Root-canal work presently replaces Hendrys have been living since our 50th reunion. The with the State Dep't. Peger loves living in NM and glamorous trips, band musicians are all excellent; one played with enjoys summers at Lake George. Marjorie Platz Murphy attended graduation with Woody Herman, another with Harry James. They gave Virginia Schaner Porter's mother died in Jan. at the honors of grandson at U of WI. She still winters in Palm two performances in Aug .. all Scott Joplin music. age of 100 yrs., 8 mos. Ginny and son Bill traveled by Beach. Husted never did anything like this before, says the train (Bill is a R R buff) to Sabot Hill. a VA plantation Elizabeth Riele y Armington keeps moving from OH rehearsals are wild. and she's loving every minute of it. where Ginny's mother was raised. Then on to to Naples. FL. She plans to be in Rio to view Halley's Dorothy Kellogg Stewart keeps busy at her North Richmond. a beautiful trip that gave Ginnya chance to Comet next March. Stonington. CT home (20 acres of woods with a pond) take advantage of her mot her's knowledge of that area Beatrice Whitcomb says that Connie Ganoe Jones working as a genealogist for the Denison Soc., N. in an earlier era, Ginny still works at the Indian Hill has agreed to be president of the Florida CC Club for Stonington Historical Soc., and Stewart Clan of Club, feels much too energetic to retire, and takes two years. Roger Gross of the CC Development Office America. She visited Sarah Buchstane while attending regular swim exercise classes at the Y. She recently visited the area. a genealogical convention in Hartford. Son Gary is a talked with Kathryn Jackson Evans and Winifred De Jane Williams Howell and Bea get together at Sara- psychiatric social worker in New Haven, son Robert Forest Coffin in Ml, remarking that Winnie is truly an sota meetings. recently purchased the Northeast Motel in Hancock, amazing person. Elizabeth Norton Neilson feels no need to travel as ME and daughter Margaret Van Patten is a member of Martha Sulman Ribner and Arthur took a Carib- three sons live nearby. They are employed by the the class of '86 (RTC) at CC having decided after bean cruise on the Norway in Dec. '84. Martha was Weekly Town Crier as publisher. editor and advertising mothering two children to further her-education. Dot bridge and backgammon pro and found her classes manager. One son plans to live on her property in a was laid up with a broken ankle for four months but is aboard interesting and enjoyable. They celebrated their yet-to-be built home. now back in action as a volunteer librarian at the 50th anniversary with a flying holiday to Puerto Rico. Jane Moore Warner had a great trip to Natchez, memorial library she established for her late husband. Martha still teaches in the high school adult education Vicksburg and San Antonio. She heard her grandson Ericka Langhammer Grimmeisen had a wonderful program in Tamarac. FL sing with the Texas Boys' Choir and her granddaughter visit in Feb. with Martha Johnson Willig and Alma Janet Swan Eveleth's older grandson graduated from who plays with the Dorothy Shaw Bell Choir, Jane, Skilton Yates. During March she and Erwin vacationed college in Dec. '84, is working fora computer company too, plays with an adult bell choir at church and was married in Aug. Her younger grandson is a U Dorothy Rose Griswold took a trip to England last of FL soph. Janet feels lucky that sons Lincoln and summer. Daughter Marion and two children are living Peter live in FL nearby. with her. A home wedding for daughter Sarah was put Dorothy Tomkinson Fairbankand husband recently on by aging parents who celebrated their fiftieth In Memoriam took a four-week trip to Ireland, England, and a Royal Marjorie Disbro Fichthorn and Luke have truvelec Viking cruise to Norway. They try 10 lake an annual to many lands; Brazil. Turkey. Greece and India. Two trip with friends. Now they are off 10 Olympia. WA grandsons attend Deerfield Academy. Helen H. Sturges '20 where their daughter recently opened an art gallery. Yvonne Carns wcgen had a reunion with C.B. Rice Esther White Cornish attended a mini-reunion of in NY where they exchanged everything from hip Constance Hill Hathaway '22 Branford '33crs in Royal Oak. M D at a 200-year-old replacements to Changing Times. A flower and garden Minniola O. Miller '22 country inn that Red recommends for any mini- tour in Europe with granddaughter, Yvonne Paine CC Mary Thomson-Shepard '22 reunions since it is located midway between north and '87. was exhausting but great. Granddaughter will south, is a charming place, has wonderful food and is spend her junior year in Florence. Italy, studying art. Laura Drake Goddard '27 priced right off-season. Besides Red and her husband Elizabeth Pyper Bauer'S son, John. teaches music in Ruth Stevens Thornton '27 Jean were Charles and Jane Wertheimer Morgenthau, the Montgomery County school system. Potomac. M D. Elizabeth Lathrop Stanhope '33 Hap and Betty Kunkle Palmer, Tom and Anna Ma}' Melicent Wilcox Buckingham's grandchild was Marjorie Maas Haber '36 Derge Gillmer, Evelyn Carlough Higgins and her graduated from Denison College. There are three more daughter and Jo Eakin Despres, who came all the way to go in the next eight years. In fallshe lunched with C.B. Barbara Caldwell McClure '41 from CA. They all had a great time. Rice and visited Betty Hendrickson Matlak in summer. Barbara M. Smith '42 Jessie wachenhetm Burack missed the above reunion On her 56th wedding anniversary. Lillian Burnstein Jean Brown Bagby '44 because I was having my lillie toes straightened. Now Hendel had a fifth great-grandchild. Grandson Jay was Anna Higley Wedge '49 I'm back on the tennis court and enjoying the lake graduated from College of Public and International acri vites and gardening. This year the youngest grand- Affairs at the American U in DCand has been commis- Suzanne Foster Higgins '52 child. now 12. outgrew me and once again I'm the sioned 2nd lt. in the US Army. Granddaughter Pamela Gloria Sterry-Quaratella '52 has completed two years at Johnson-Wales in Provi- Susan Paull Neff '69 smallest member of the family. The class extends its deepest sympathy 10 Esther dence. Of 6 grandchildren, 5 are college grads. Amelia Tovar Zari kian '69 White Cornish, whose husband Jean died on July II, Lois Truesdale Gaspar enjoys more activity with Charles in their new condo in FL Edith M. Thompson '82 1985. Correspondent: Jessie Wachenheun Burack, Box 408 Julia Stahle McKenzie enjoys grandchildren and Lakeshore Dr .. R.D. 1. Putnam Valley, NY /0579

26 Margaret T. Watson O'Neill's absence from reunion Mar)' Jane Barlon Shurts enjoyed her grand resulted from an accident suffered by husband Bill. who 35 son's wedding in May and the annual family reunion at her brother's Glastonbury. CT home. for- broke ribs and vertebrae. ln Nov. '84 she traveled to an merly the residence of Helen Andrews Keough '34. Her orchid show in Japan. collected plants in Burma and Thailand and came home with many lovely specimens. granddaughter's wedding is next. Golf and walking her In July a fire in the air-conditioner of her big green- dog keep her active. Charlotte Bell Lester regretted missing reunion. bUI house resulted in the loss of most of her irreplaceable did visit her daughter in NY. a mother of four. and her plants. M.T. says no trip this year Marion White Van der Leur. unable to drive because brothers in N H of her failing vision, keeps in touch via telephone. Son Olive Birch Lillich renewed her fascination with Egypt on a recent tour of the Middle East. Her volun- John visits weekly to do errands, help shop, and lighten teer work in the high school library continues and the load. Virginia (Ginny) Whitney McKee endured a very hot grandchildren occupy much time. Mary Blatchford VanEtten edits her monthly church summer in Sanibel. where she plays bridge and golf. volunteers at the library and works on civic committees. bulletin. enjoys Carleton Village. MA activities and Basket weaving. kniuing, needlepoint, and swimming summers in ME. Good health and family ties help her to Correspondents fill the hours. Her grandson goes to GA Tech this year adjust to widowhood. Betty-Lou Bozell Forrest had anticipated reunion. Please send your columns to: Editor. on a full football scholarship. but had to get her house in order to sell before moving Alumni Magazine, Connecticut Col- Marjorie Wolfe Gagnon appreciates the superb job to Kinderhook, NY. Children and grandies were most lege, New London, CT 06320. done by the reunion committee. She returned home in helpful. time to get so me paintings in a show and sell one before Sabrina (Subby) Burr Sanders and Harry played golf lea ving for A K. a flight over the glaciers. and a cruise on in May on a course developed from the estate of Robert the elegant ship, Sagafjord. Penn. son of William Penn, in Stoke-Pages. England Ruth Worthington Henderson regrets that more Leaving damp, cloudy weather they new to sunny classmates couldn't enjoy reunion with its memories France to swing on a layout carved from the woods ofa Audrey Le Course Parsons and John drove through and renewal of friendships. She sees 100 percent partic- handsome chateau. No electric carts, no puns given. Wales where they found golf courses filled with sheep ipation in rhe AAGP for all the years ahead. With Jane Cox Cosgrove. after two major operations this keeping the fairways clipped with quiet efficiency. generous thoughtfulness she has volunteered to help summer, is taking a sabbatical as our new class presi- Ruth Lambert Bromberg was 100 ill to make reunion Jane Cox Cosgrove, our new president, as she recovers dent made possible by the thoughtfulness of Ruth Wor- but is still working as a clinical child psychologist with from surgery. thington Henderson, who offered to continue as presi- various ages from infancy to teens, She toured China With deep regret the class extends sympathy to Doris dent for a while. with the American Psychiatric Assn. and attended a Gilbert Michael on the death of her husband Karl in Betty Ann Corbly Farrell visited Atlanta and luxuri- family therapy seminar in England and Holland. From Jan, '85 and to Dorothy Prillig Rosenblum on the death ated in a satisfying clan gat hering of her 19 at Lake Erie CA her eleven-year-old granddaughter comes to visit of her husband Julius in Jan. '85. We send our deepest with fishing, sailing and reminiscing. Time consuming this summer. sympathies to the families of Miss Rita Barnard and activities are interfaith affairs, garden club, LWV, with Virginia (Ginny) Latham Pearce missed reunion for a Dr. Paul Laubenstein. who both died on 6/1/85. an oil painting course for color. fine ca use-her daughter Susan's visit from San Diego. Correspondent: Sabrina (Subby) Burr Sanders, III Ginny Diehl Moorhead. after reunion and after 43 She enjoys learning sewing at the local community Boulier Ra., Wethersfield, CT06109 years in a large home, moved next door to a house college. one-half the size. with resulting problems. Helen Livingston Olden and Walter were in West Kaye Cartwright Backus enjoys happy reunion Germany, near Cologne. at reunion time visiting Adelyn Gitlin Watson and her sister Betty memories while planning with husband Gene to visit daughter Caroline, her German lawyer husband. and 3 7 Gitlin '30, who now lives with her, spent several weeks in DC in the spring and then went to Europe and Spain. France and Portugal. two children. Every two years they come to visit Helen. Betty Farnum Guibord, after directing an Explorer's Lois Smith MacGiehan rook time out from her part- Israel for three months. Adelyn is still subbing in the Club trip to a Mexican island. relaxed with tennis. time job to visit daughter Ruth. At home she and Neal LA city schools and loves it. Daughter Barbara, CC '73 and her family visited from enjoy their boat, the ducks, and the quiet living. Elizabeth Adams Lake and Malcolm enjoyed a trip Chicago, She keeps fond memories of reunion where Esther Martin Snow had lunch in Aug. with Peg to South Africa. going without any reservations and on she delivered her poem dedicated to her classmates. Baylis Hrones and John in Canterbury. N H where she their own in a rented car. Bette particularly loved the Merion Ferris Ritter, editor of Lexington's AARP told about all Peg had missed at reunion. Priscilla game parks with the wild animals roamingaboul. They chapter newsletter, is busy with grandchildren who live Geigis, one of the reunion student hosts. visited them stayed at small inns, formerly Dutch homes. Bette was next door. Husband Julius enjoys some improvement and went canoeing. Marty and Bill love traveling by glad she had read The Covenant twice and had done after acupuncture treatments, and they anticipate win- camper and visited architect son Richard, his wife and lots of research. ter months in Marathon, FL where she gears up for the son Bob and his family. Best visit of all-reunion. Dorothy Fuller Higgins and Henry made their '85-86 AAGP campaign. Doris Merchant Weiner, active in lineage work, is annual trip to visit their daughter and husband in CA in Ruth Fordyce McKeown is still on cloud nine after again governor of the AZ Society of Mayflower De- Feb .. returning to South Norwalk to resume a year of the joy of renewing friendships at reunion and is mar- scendants. With husband Frederick she visited St. Paul guiding at Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum and veling at the handsome CC campus. for a meeting of the general board of assistants of the various other activities. Dot and Bernice Parker Ken- Martha Funkhauser Berner travels mightily-a General Society. ney visit together a couple times a year. Royal Viking cruise to the Far East, Hong Kong to Mary Savage Collins announces a new grandson, Sara Bowman Sun called from Casey Key, FL in Malaysia to Singapore. ln June she and younger Townsend Savage Collins. christened in Knoxville. TN May. She was recuperating from pneumonia which daughter Jackie voyaged to A K and she has just left for where Mary joined her son and his wife and two other forced a cancellation of a trip to the Orient. Austria and Switzerland. grandchildren in mid-June. Shortly after reunion she Mila Rindgeand [had planned a trip to Scandinavia Virginia (Ginny) Golden Kent enjoyed whaling with had a brief visit with Hazel Depew Holden at Green in May but had to cancel due to the serious lung opera- her daughter who is now white-watering in ME with her Hill. Rl. tion my husband underwent at that time. Happy to father Don. Priscilla Sawtelle Ehrlich attended a conference in report he is well enough to go to CA for three weeks as Maylah Hallock Park sends a special vote of thanks Zurich at reunion time-tough choice. She vacationed soon as [ send this column in to Madlyn Hughes Wasley for her great efforts at our at Rockport with children and grandchildren. She The class extends its deepest sympathy to the family reunion enjoys having a golf course across from her home and of Betty Jane Cope whose death was reported in May. Barbara (Bobby) Hervey Reussow, following our plays when chores allow. Correspondent: Winifred Seale Sioughser. 1410 never-to-be-forgotten reunion, met husband Charlie in Beth Sawyer has retired from city life in Norwich, CT Siesta Drive. Sarasota FL 33579; Mav-Ocr., 8 Syracuse and visited old friends. On her return to Tulsa to beautifulcountry in Washington, NH She thanks all Cromwell Place, Old Saybrook, C1'06475 . she resumed volunteer work, now 3,000 hours in medi- faithful contributors who helped her column when she cal records at the local hospital. She recalls our two was a correspondent for so long. and misses hearing gracious student helpers who were outstanding in their from them Ruth Wilson Cess reports the birth of her fifth support at reunion. Polly Spooner Hays had a rare treat in Feb. with the 39 grandchild, a boy: her oldest is 23-three more Grace Hoffman Comes, a retired town librarian, visit of her Argentine grandchildren, Caroline 20 in in between. Her youngest daughter attends UCLA grad missed reunion because of construction in their ME medical school, and John 18 in the U of Buenos Aires. school in microbiology. The Cass family is still in Santa summer retreat. She is an aspiring. unpublished writer. Nancy Walker Collins spent three weeks with the Barbara and loving it. who has been a literacy volunteer and a member of Princeton Nature Tour in AK and looks forward to Jean Ellis Blumlein reports the birth of a second LWV. now becoming involved in environmental con- visiting Kenyaand Tanzania and going on an anthropo- granddaughter, Nicole, in 12/84. Jean and Joe went cerns. She boasts of four world-class grandchild reno logical trip to Morocco. "down-undcrvlast April to spend ten days each in New Madlyn Hughes Wasley and Fran recuperated from Marion Warren Rankin and Doug appreciate all the Zealand and Australia. En route home they visited their untiring efforts at reunion at their summer home work involved in a most enjoyable reunion. They will daughter Carol to hear her sing and play piano at the on Nantucket Island where their parents, children and enjoy a visit from daughter Jean and family from Kan- Outrigger Hotel in Honolulu. Also lunched with Chuck grandchildren take turns visiting. sas City. and Betsy Parcells Arms last Feb.

27 Betsy Parcells Arms sends the exciting news that she ance of apartheid to active defiance. SOUTH AFRICA will be sail~ng :he Costa del Sol with son Mike, who This atmosphere of political violence, actually built hIS own ship. Continued/rom page J I. which was preceded by the country's most Mary Driscoll Devlin and her husband live in Phil- had full participatory rights in the Home- lipsburg. N~. Bot~ ~re retired and playing lots of golf. lands, the government denied them access severe economic recession in over a decade, has escalated and exacerbated interna- They someumcs VISl!a daughter in Newton, MA and a to the national institutions that determine son in Dallas. TX and wonder if there are any class" their socio-economic condition. Election tional pressures for sanctions intended to mates for golf in those areas. Mary missed our 45th turn-out in the African townships was even force the government to dismantle apar- reunion but enjoyed a visit last June from Marge Abra- theid. In some respects, it is possible that hams Perlman, who was attending her husband's lower than that for the Coloureds' and Lafayette College reunion. advocates of sanctions fail to grasp either Asians' parliamentary elections, and in Ruth Kellogg Kent enjoyed a fantastic trip to India in consequence the newly elected African the mentality of Afrikaners whom they Jan. and the highlight was the cave temples. In May councillors were not only regarded as "col- wish to influence, or the hazards of revolu- Ruth and DIck visited the English gardens in the Lake District and Cotswolds. Later they attended a photo laborators" but became targets for attacks tionary consequences if sanctions succe~d in damaging the economy beyond repair. workshop in Mathias, ME "to do puffins and bog and assassinations. In the year of riots and orchids." demonstrations, so graphically televised in Thus far, the government has adjusted to Margaret (Mogs) Robison Loehr is working hard recent months, less than ten percent of the sanctions imposed in the past, and mini- and enjoying "her mountain" in Maggie Valley, NC. new councillors remain in office. A few are mized the impact of embargoes on nuclear She attended her 50th high school reunion last May technology, arms, oil and computer tech- where she saw Harriet Ernst Veale, Nancy Tremaine dead, some have been removed to safe ha- Dewoody and Kathleen Brown Wilhelm. vens by the government, and most have nology. However, South African business Kathryn Ektrch's major interest is her activity as resigned. cannot quickly adjust to the direct loss of chairman of the board of the Westchester/Putnam Throughout this period the government funds to the private sector. Recent deci- chapter of the American Heart Assn. She continues her sions by several American banks not to long-time addiction to golf, but finds it harder to shoot has sent out a series of mixed signals that in the '80's. have confused and frustrated all racial renew private sector or short-term loans Barbara (Bobbie) Curtis Rutherford had a great trip groups. Although it allowed opposition due by late 1986 probably mark the most to England, Scotland and Ireland in June and was groups to organize, it began to ransack important turning point in the interna- looking forward 10 an annual family camping trip in UDF offices, arrest their major leaders, tional movement to end apartheid. The August Edith (Happy) Gray Burger's husband, Bob. is par- and harass their members. While the cumulative effect on an economy already tially retired, which made possible a trip to Scandinavia government prepared legislation to devolve strained by inflation, unemployment and this year. Happy had a nice visit with Janet Mead wider authority to new regional govern- the cost of enforcing apartheid, and the Fuller. her junior year roommate, Also Ruth Brodhead ments, it designed the new framework in a demonstration effect on other foreign Heintz a nd Howie visited the Burgers, and they hope to see Peggy Kootz Surles and Bill when they go to Chi- manner that centralized power. It repealed banks and businesses concerned about the cago to visit Bob's Princeton roommate. Happy has a the law prohibiting mixed marriages but economic implications of continued vio- grandson at Dartmouth, a granddaughter at Colgate, made no provisions for where mixed racial lence and unrest, ha ve forced the Afrikaner another graduated from Northfiefd-Mt. Herman, plus couples could live or what racial label their government to reconsider its options. on~ more still in high school. children would bear. The Tricameral Par- Since Botha began his reformist mea- Mary Maas Harwood writes "Betty Ide Cosper and I have our jaws in traction since her visit with me in late liament extends legislative power beyond sures he has been inhibited by resistance July. She and spouse George came from Skidaway the white community to Coloured and from right-wing Afrikaners whose support Island, GA for our 50th high school reunion gala." Asians, but reserves final authority over is necessary to keep the National Party in Mary was widowed three years ago, keeps busy pursu- controversial issues for an executive coun- power. More recently he has sent new sig- ing volunteer work and traveling. Vivian Graham Hope moved to Pinehurst. NC ten cil which is in Afrikaner control. In early nals about restoring the citizenship of Afri- years ago from Winnetka, IL and loves the area. She's 1985 the government responded favorably cans, of power sharing plans, and ending playing golf all year. Viv has six grandchildren ranging to proposals from the business community influx control. The signals are vague and from 18 months to 15. She and husband spend the to relax influx controls but hedged its re- weak, but they indicate government ac- month of Jan. in Palm Beach. "Retirement is great!" Betty Patton Warner reports that Ruthie Broadhead plies with reservations about housing short- knowledgement that its apartheid policy Heintz is back in Wilton. working with her on a benefit ages. In view of the government's past has failed. Businessmen, concerned about for Public TV-WNET-I3. Betty is in charge of com- behavior, one might remark that all the the future of the country's economic infra- munity development in CT. She also devotes time tothe recent changes and proposals were unthink- structure, openly press the government to United Negro College Fund, the Grcenwich Health able two years ago and therefore represent Assn., and church. Husband Phil still works full-time in make meaningful change and openly seek NYC for the Nat"l. Exec. Service Corps. She and Janie credible moves toward change. But, given consultation with ANC leaders in Zambia. Krepps Wheeler ']8 went to the Japan House to see the mixed signals one might also reason- In due course, Botha could turn to white Janie's son John introduce the Sumo wrestlers. ably ask: What does it all mean? moderates for support, but time is running Jean Friedlander Schwartz writes that the last Meantime, before and after the Emer- out. Alumni Magazine clued her in to the nearness of Carolyn Kenyon Donlon's new home. She and Carolyn gency was declared, political violence has Clearly, the government will not make spent a long lunch together sharing CC memories. Jean spread to African townships across the concessions while demonstrations continue. is another Pinehurst devotee and loves her lakeside country. The police and the army patrol Yet unrest is unlikely to end unless mean- home. She and Bob were planning a trip in Sept. to troubled areas, funerals for the' victims ingful negotiations begin. African leaders Great Britain. have become scenes of mass demonstra- Jane Scott Mitchell has moved to Grosse Pointe, Ml. argue that there is nothing to discuss except and was able to attend her 50th high school reunion tions which escalate to further violence the dismantling of apartheid. Fragmenta- there in July. school children boycott classes and reck- tion within both the Afrikaner and African Lee Jenks Rafferty spent the month of March in San Jose, CA gelling to know son Steven's children a little lessly risk their lives defying the police, and communities reduces the possibilities for the African population becomes increas- better. Lee and Allen have just returned from a cruise evolutionary change and increases the on the Noordam up the inside passage to AK, the ingly polarized by extremist groups. Police intensity for racialist revolutionary devel- highlight of which was a Piper Cub night over the wound or kill Africans and are not held opments. Still, one dramatic gesture from Juneau ice fields and the Mendenhall Glacier Betty Young Reidel wrote from Center Harbor, NH accountable for their actions. Africans Botha-such as the unconditional release wound or kill other Africans, and their where they spent the summer building a shore-front of Nelson Mandela-could break the cur- apartment on the lake. Betty hopes to participate in the nominal leaders cannot restrain them. Per- rent stalemate and galvanize efforts to Fl mini-reunion this winter. She visited New London haps most significant is the attitudinal achieve peaceful change in South Africa. briefly for her 50th high school reunion. change among Africans, particularly among Bea Dodd Foster and husband have been laking full Meantime, it remains a jigsaw puzzle with- the younger generation, from passive avoid- advantage of their TWA sr. pass. and in CA visited out a picture. daughter Sue and spent three weeks in Europe to see

28 daughter Wendy, driving through Switzerland and riage of son Mark to Stephanie Ward of Westwood. Their youngest daughter was married this summer. Provence to the Cote dAzur and back to Munich along MA. The reception at the Blue Hills Country Club was Dorothy Gardner Downs and Wilbur live in CT and the Romantic Road. Also visited Vienna. Yugoslavia. also adelightful family reunionas daughter Sara CC74 their combined family totals six children and twelve Greece and Rome. While in FL saw Nancy Weston and granddaughter Sara Rose flew East from Albu- grandchildren. Lincoln. Barbara Myers Baldt and Winifred Valentine querque. daughter Anne drove up from VA, and rela- Nancy Marilin Wheelock's Dr. Frank has retired so Frederickson, tives from MA and ME convened to toast the happy they've sold their Boston area home and moved to their Elizabeth (Pokey) Hadley Porter and husband Ed couple. July found me on Sheller Island, NY devouring summer home in Cushing, ME. Nan was a volunteer for sold their large home and moved to an apartment in seafood. and August in Saco. ME with grandson Mark. the Boston Museum for years Wilmington. Their Bluebird motor home affords them age 8. How soon the summer passed! Dorothy Cushing Jealous is back in NE after many the luxury of extensive traveling. "Live on it for three We regret to announce the death of Marie Whitwell years in TX. New family combines eight children and 13 months in the winter in the Everglades (closest town. Gilkeson after an extended illness. Our sincere sympa- grandchildren. Dottie taught school in TX and did Naples, 35 miles away) so see Liz Taylor Dean in the thies are extended to her husband. Bob. and to her counseling for 21 years. She had a visit with Marjorie winter as well as here in Wilmington. Two grandchild- family. wteorr Cooper. ren. one girl in Bozeman. MT and one in Cheyenne. Correspondent: Madeline Sawyer Hutchinson. R 4 Priscilla Duxbury Westcott's sons are involved with WY, so our summers are spent in that area." Ox Hill Rd.. Newtown, CT06470 Africa, one in Nairobi and the other in Zambia. Dux Henrietta Farnum Stewart writes from ME that "life has been studying Spanish and reading about Spain in with Charlie never is dull." Last fall, after recuperating preparation for a Smithsonian tour to Spain. from two fractured vertebrae, he and He nny took 20 of Congratulations to our own Louise Stevenson Elizabeth Morgan Keil's daughter is a writer. Liz their children to Lantana forThanksgiving week. Also. 41 Andersen on being awarded the Agnes Berkeley leaches illiterates to read and is active in politics. despite another serious illness, Charlie and Henny Leahy Award in May for outstanding service to the Doris Goldstein Levinson has retired after many joined friends for a Royal Viking cruise through the Alumni Association. Busier than ever. she and husband years of teaching at Mitchell College in New London. Panama Canal in Feb. They missed seeing any CC Andy joined us, the Newmans. in Aug. for lobsters at Barbara (Bebe) Berman Levy and Thea Dutcher visitors to Milbridge, ME this summer but hope to next Abbott's in Noank. There we had an unexpected meeting Coburn also auended the mini-reunion. Thea and Eli- year. with Janice Reed Harman. celebrating her birthday zabeth Burford Graham are both summer residents in Peggy McCutcheon Skinner says "It's been a great with husband Jerry and daughter Holly. Kennebunkport, ME. summer with sisters. both brothers, son and wife, Edith Patton Cranshaw'S daughter is a needlepoint Mary Ann Smith Schmidt enjoys life by the Chesa- nephew and gal here in ME. No time fortrips other than artist and her son and family are living with her for a peake Bay. She sees Louise Radford Denegrc '43, Kay to fun time at Chebeague across the bay from me for an year while resettling in the Boston area. In April Edie Hadley Inskeep '43 and Marilyn (Mal) Klein Pratt of open house for Littlejohnj Cousins residents." had a mini-reunion at her Wellesley home with the Williamsburg. Mary Ann's daughter Susan CC '71 is Hannah Andersen Griswold reports that both of her following attending: editor at the VA Institute of Marine Science. Son Jeff. daughters are happily married. Rhee and her husband Virginia Newberry Leach is very much into civic also nearby, is Lancaster County Commonwealth are both physicians, Rhec on the teaching staff of GA beautification. She and Phil have eight grandchildren attorney. Medical College and Mike in the army stationed in and took two nine-year-old grandsons to AK in Aug. Lorraine Lewis Durivan had a great get-together in Augusta. Camilla taught sixth grade in Savannah, was Hartford with Jeanne Turner Creed and recently married in Aug., and now she and her husband will live retired Mark who had just visited family in PA. Helen in Heilbronn, Germany for three years. Hannah is Henderson Tuttle and Mary Helen Strong Heller were involved with the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, also present. Terry is in real estate in CT as is Lorrie attended this year's convention in Hartford and was who also "does" decorating. She had a hilarious trip to recently elected president of her garden club. Italy and Greece with daughter Nan. Two sons and Janet Dill Mudgett and husband Bill were in Bay- grand kids live nearby. ville. ME but were planning to return to Delray Beach. Miriam Rasnick Dean'S Harold. Assistant State's lRIENllON1 Attorney, will retire in Nov. They have a new grand- FL after Labor Day and "thence to CA for two weeks." Janet has five granddaughters: Seth in Darien has daughter. She sees Elizabeth Byrne Anderson and other three. Josh in Pasadena has one. and Gregory in MA NL area '4lers occasionally. has a brand new daughter. Jessie Ashley Scofield and sons visited Jane Kennedy Phyllis Harding Morton and Bill spent Aug. and Newman and John in Punta Gorda, FL. lRIENllON1 Ann Breyer Ritsonand Ian are lucky to have three of Sept. at Kennebunk Beach, ME and had granddaughters Paula and Abby with them for ten days. "Even got Bill five children living in southern FL. The Newmans have in the Maine water to celebrate his 75th birthday!" visited them in Key West, a favorite of daughter Cath- Daughter Cynthia in Wellesley visits them weekends. erine ·S2. Phyllis visited Helen MacAdam Leising and Charlie in We, Jane Kennedy Newman and John, spent the lRIENllON1 summer on the East Coast after attending the big Air- Boiling Springs, PA en route to her 50th reunion at Abbot Academy in June and raved about Helen's stream rally at Lake Placid, NY, followed by visits with abundant green harvest. daughters in Boston, Cape Cod and L.1. Janet Mead Fuller had a fabulous three-week trip to Our 45th reunion coincides with a year's celebration China in Oct. 'S4. She also co-chaired her 50th high of CCs 75th anniversary. Louise Stevenson Andersen school reunion with 'great success. After visiting Seattle lRIENllON1 and New London Mayor Jay Levin CC '73 are co- with friends from her China trip. she went hiking in the chairmen of the anniversary. Stevie is also our reunion Canadian Rockies. then visited her second home in chairman and she and Carol Chappell have wonderful Racine, WI. plans for you. Circle May 30 - June I and plan to be part Doris Houghton Ott writes from Lansdowne, PA, of this joyous occasion. "We are offin two days for New Mexico and will end up lRIENllON1 Phyllis Walters Williams and Jack spent a month in a in Denver after covering several states between and Gstaad. Switzerland condo and used their senior rail around." passes. Their twelve grandchildren are "perking right Charline Bush Schmelzer has been busy caring for along:' her Phoenix grandsons and nursing husband Charlie Mary (Brad) Langdon Kellogg is still director of the back to health after an accident which left him with a lRIENll0 N1 Council of Aging in Sandwich. MA and doing Out- fractured arm. but anticipates a very special trip at reach part-time. She talks with Beth Main Chandler. Christmas with him. their two children and spouses and Mary Farrell Morse and Roy golf with Donna Ed three grandsons to Mazatlan. Mexico. Reynolds and Fred. Mary tutors in special ed and both Harriet Ernst Veale visited CC in June with her son she and Roy are learning computers. and his wife and two grandsons. They stayed at the lRIENllON1 Sarah Kohr Gregory had a big family reunion over Norwich Inn and drove about "enjoying Memory Lane Labor Day in Hot Springs. She keeps in touch with Pat for me." Harriet also traveled to Europe. seeing Paris. It just won't be the same Fulmer Landis, Polly Frank Shank '40, Betty Schmidt Rome and the Riviera on the Sea Goddess cruise with Gilmore, and Jeanne Turner Creed and family, living in her daughter and family. "Good fun to see things without you. Santa Fe through the eyes of yout h." May 30 - June 1 Harriet Stricker Lazarus had a fine trip to the Medi- Libby Mulford DeGroff writes from Ft. Lauderdale terranean region, plus a visit to eight grand kids and that she and husband Ed have sold their big sailboat Connecticut College family in the NY area, DC and Seattle. She worksat the and are looking for a small powerboat. Ed still works Cincinnati Art Museum Library and docs some and has the usc of an airplane. enabling them to fly writing. around FL and take a trip to Nassau and Bermuda. Elizabeth Holmes Nichol sees Edie Looker Mitchell They plan to buy a house on Pompano Beach and were Belly is busy with Elderhostel courses, and travels planning a trip North to see family. which included Wimbledon and a family reunion in NC. Last April your correspondent celebrated the mar- Jane Merritt Bentley. busy playing golf, shared 3rd

29 .. attending Denison U.) Alfred, j r., a Cornell Engineer- Louise Schwarz Allis reports that her daughter. son- place in Sacramento area. Her husband is recovering ing grad. was married last summer and works In NYC. in-law and grandson came for a three-week visit from from by-pass surgery. Jane loves Grass Valley, CA Peter. a Trinity grad. is a commercial loan officer In a Morocco last June. Mugsie left in Oct. fora trip to Bali, Mary Hall. M D was happy 10 retire "after 35 years of Java. Thailand and Burma nights. weekends and holidays:' She's been busy with MA bank: Richard. a Colby grad, a stockbroker in ME; and Ann. a Georgetown Foreign Service student. Julia Florence Murphy Gorman became a grandmother travel to the Greek Islands. gardening. music. reading and Alfred still enjoy the outdoors. but have switched for the first time one week after returning from reunion. and doing over a 1699 house in Niantic. CT. Since Ashley Nicole Gorman and her parents also live Janet Pew McClain was on safari in Kenya. "a to cross-country skiing. Mary Ann Riegel Lockhart loves southern CA but. in Richmond. the Germans can really enjoy her rugged but wonderful adventure:' . Pat.rici~ Mannin.g Hogan has been retired and living Dorothy Gardner Downs spent the summer in CO in the last year and a half traveled to China. six West African countries, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, East 1rI Sun CIty, AZ smce '81 with her mother, widowed with four children and families. that year. Son Jonathan received a Tony nomination Sail)' Rodne}' Cooch has a granddaughter born in and West Germany. Czechoslavakia, and Austria. Grandson Jamie Gardner is a freshman at CC; his for hIS B'wa y performance in As Is. Daughter and two MA. grandchildren live in Philadelphia. Katharine Ord McChensey talked to Margaret (Peg) mother Joan was in the class of '66 and his aunt is Virginia Bowman Corkran was pictured in the Ford. Her travels include a cruise 10 "Treasures of Cricket Zoephel Lockhart '72. With four married child- Naples, FL newspaper as a top real estate sales asso- China" and the Java Seas. and a trip 10 Banff. Lake ren. grandchildren, and family on the East Coast, the ciate for Mueller Co. Louise. Vancouver and Olympia 10 visit her son. Lockharts spend a 101 of time "just checking in." Virginia Winkler Dunn wrote from the International "Healthy and happy, too:' Corinne Meyers Stransky. a travel agent, recently Edythe VanRees Conlon and family had visits with went to Australia and New Guinea. Daughter Sally also U 16 miles north of London where Bob was teaching Sail)' Rodney Cooch and Henrietta Dearborn watson lives in IL and Jan and two children in TX. Corinne two law courses. A umversny friend of Bob's and his She enjoyed a visit 10 NLand keeps busy with CC Club. plays golf. attends Ravinia concerts and often sees Shir- wife dined with the Dunns there. and the wife turned raising scholarship funds. the local museum. golf and ley Mellor Petry and Elizabeth Ruwitch Straus. outto be Dorothy (Skip) Webster Ansoff! The Dunns' trips to see grand kids in N E and Seaule. Chips took the Mariechen Wilder Smith and George celebrated their da ughter Suzy and family, who live in Paris were able to inland passage way to AK. Other trips include a Iabu- tenth year in FL where they are busy with real estate, visit and tour England with the Dunns. Ginny. Suzy lousone to India and Nepal. "exciting to see Mt. Ever- tennis and annual Caribbean cruises (Panama Canal and granddaughters spent the summer (Ginny's 22nd) est and the Taj Mahal." this year). They missed the CC reunion, attending at a camp on Lake Michigan where Suzy is now director and Ginny program coordinator. The Dunns live in The class extends its sympathy to Ruth Doyle zen George's 6th Bomb Group's 40th in Denver. The whose husband Edmund died in 3/85, Smiths have a TV producer/writer daughter in NCand Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Correspondent: Jane Kennedy Newman. 46900 State a banker son in FL. Margaret Marion Schifferl is editor and art director Rd .. Unit/59. Punta Gorda. FL33950 Clara Tracy Upson and Dave passed up reunion for a of Church Women United, an ecumenical organization. super Princeton alumni cruise around Ireland and the and also responsi ble for a bi-monthly newsletter. Peggy UK. with stops all over Ireland. Wales, Scotland and missed reunion because she was production manager of England, even met the "Queen Mum" in Tresco. Upson a newspaper published daily at the three-week UN Correspondents: Mrs. Stafford Campbell (Margie sons Christopher and David were both married last year. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. She Livingston], 3861 War/and 51.. Jacksonville. 4 3 Mary Elizabeth Power Lubitsh moved to a house in was the only North American woman asked to serve on FLJ221 I; Mr.I·. Lawrence B. Marshall (Belly Pease). 4 Wilmington. DE that is more convenient for a recuper- the newspaper staff. Peggy also operates Ideas and North Rd .. Niantic. CT06357 ating husband. now retired. M EP is active as a hospital Images, a French-English business that has taken her to trustee and on other boards. and has expanded her twelve European countries, three African countries. gardening pursuits. The territory demands it. several Caribbean islands and Quebec. Most of the Marion White Weber and Herb range in their 45 small plane from the Canadian Maritimes to Angel Falls in the Venezuelan jungle and just returned from his 40th WWIl Fighter Group reunion at Jekyll Island-fun and a good way to hold off "old age" In between. Marion does flowers for the Bowdoin Art Museum and volunteers in the local hospital where she REMEMBER was auxiliary president. Lucile Lebowleh Darcy regrets missing reunion but was on a glorious spring hiatus in Europe. The Darcys Connecticut College just sold the house they built in the Connecticut woods six years ago to a soap opera star and are moving temporarily to a beach condo while seeking another in your will. wooded site close to town. Betsey Payne Shannon has worked asa paralegal the past two years, sees Lynne Heinrich Miner and other CC grads in the Denver area occasionally. Betsey has a two-year old grandson. Helen Savacool Underhill again ran the summer community college ESL program for Hispanics and Haitian migrants in Asheville. NC. Then she and Fran- cis responded to their itchy former Foreign Service feet and traveled N to NE to S with the autumn and then LA to discover/explore New Orleans. In Jan. and Feb .. they will be resource people on a study tour to Burma, Thailand. Malaysia. Singapore and Indonesia. Ann Saalfield Mack's first report ever says she has two c~ildren. son and daughter: two grandchildren. boy and gIrL "Always a volunteer. raising money for everyone but myself:' Ann was an Ohio congressman's campaign. manager for ten years. She is a Jr. League and hospital board member. past president of her c~ureh women. does n.eedlepoint. makes miniatures. travels as much as possible. loves shelling and belongs 10 a shell club. Louise Markle)' Delisle has been living in AZ for seven years where she is a past president of the Phoenix Pia~o Teachers. As~n. and teaches a large group of pupils. The Dehsles daughter was married in June in their former No. Plainfield. NJ church and their son Your bequest and those of other alumni married in Oct. in OK City where he is a CBS-TV director. will help to ensure the future strength of the College. Margery Vallar Pratt and Brad were unable to attend Please see your attorney, or write Roger Gross, reunion because of a move from Woodhaven, NY to Green Valley. AZ where they bought a retirement home. Development Office, Connecticut College, Julia Shea Lyons missed reunion for her youngest [or information. son's graduation from Portsmouth Abbey (before

30 work consists of photography, interviewing, writing tion careers eventually. chunk of her professional life will be spent supervising a and designing brochures, and writing articles on Janet Pinks Welti and Phil are retired and she enjoys state grant for which she applied to help the New lon- assignment. She loves it and meets many fascinating the help around the house and yard. They enjoy their don school do a few extra things for students that they people. Husband George has retired from teaching, two grandchildren. couldn't otherwise afford. led a will still be teaching works around the house and prints many of her phOIOS. Marilou WiddelJ Wynne moved into a new condo in part-time. She would love to continue the research They celebrated his retirement by driving through OH in Oct. '84. They recently became grandparcnts ofa started when she f nished her PhD yet anticipates enjoy- France for four weeks last year. The youngest of their girl named Chloe. ing more vacation time, especially with her five-year- four children just graduated from high school. The Jane Sapinsle}' Nelson continues to be active in buy- old grandson. Schifferts have two granddaughters. ing for and running tennis pro shops in their indoor Beuv Beck Barrett. vacationing at her home in Booth Shirley Strang ward Maher's first ever report says she clubs. She is also involved in hospital trustee affairs, a Bay H~rbor, had lunch with Anne Jones Logan, who. has had six kids-four girls, two boys-all but one local school. and government. Two of their children live with her husband Ward runs a thriving business there. married, and only one grandchild, a two-year old Kan- nearby so they see their grandchildren often. Betty was ecstatic over the birth of her first grandchild, sas farm cuue. Divorced nine years ago. Shirl says she is Patricia (Pat) Robinson lobsters and fishes in ME in a son, born to daughter Mary CC '78 in June. Daughter basically an adventurer and has had an exciting life. the summers and had a trip to the island of Bonaire last Sally CC '83 lives in NYC, loves it and is working for Sarah Bauernschmidt Murray and Stu lived the winter for snorkeling. The New Yorker. Betty laughingly told me that she's gypsy life in Syracuse for several 1985 months before Jean Witman Gilpatrick has completed her first par- still "trying to keep it all together" because youngest son returning to Gales Ferry. CT in the fall when Stu's work ish assignment as minister of the First Unitarian Bill is only a sophomore in college. Sounded like fun! with GE was over. Church in Alton. Il. She is seeking another church Sue Brownstein Grod}' was in New London in June Jane Breckwoldt Harris couldn't make reunion since closer to Sweet Briar, VA where her husband is a col- with the objective of formulating plans for our 35th that weekend was graduation and reunion at St. Paul's lege faculty member. They attended a UN conference in reunion. She was getting ideas from Martha Harris in Concord. N H where the Harrises are and that means Kenya in July topped off with a safari. Raymond and Betty Beck Barrett, class pres., about "a houseful plus." Kitty Oplatek Branton and husband try to get away activities suitable for our spirited class and asked Leda Elizabeth Trimble Crosman was divorced in Sept. '84 twice a year 10 see parts of the world they haven't seen, Treskunoff Hirsch for suggestions of attractive places and accepted ajob in Dec. with Cooperviston. Inc. in spending three to four weeks in Paris "where our roots for the reunion dinner. With her advance planning, Sue Palo AIIO, CA where she isa manager of financial and are" and going on from there. She is in touch with is sure to have a great weekend planned for us. Circle administrative systems. She writes that it took courage Janice Cohen Zonn, her roommate. the weekend of May 30 - June lst, 1986 and plan to to move across the country but feels she made the right Your correspondent is off 10 a beach house in SC attend. See you there! decision. "I love my job, the CA climate and have four where my two daughters and their families will join me Correspondent: Helen Pavlovich Twomey, 338 Can- children in the area. California is youth and health for a vacation. With two one-year-old grandsons and a terbury Lane, Wycoff. NJ 07481 oriented, so I have lost weight, gained a tan and gener- four-year-old granddaughter it promises to be a busy ally feel that life is great. Sorry I missed reunion." and fun time. I was grateful for your enthusiastic Correspondents: Elizabeth Brown Leslie, 10 Grimes response. It is fun to hear from one and all. Rd .. Old Greenwich. CT 06870: Patricia Feldman Correspondent: Jane Coulter Mertz, 33 Crescent Beverly (Jinx) Church Gehlmeyer and Bob Whitestone. 73 Kerry LAne. Chappaqua, NY 10514 Road, Port Washington. N YII050 53 have moved to a house, formerly a stable on an estate in Greenvale. L.1. Its advantages are the large open spaces in the middle of the building and the Dutch Mary Ellen (Mel) Luff Clayton writes from Lois Broun Kennedy, 40 West 77th si.. Nell' doors. They had to wait 'til the end of tax season before 47 Memphis that she is involved in a doll housej 49 York, NY 10024; Barbara Norton Fleming, 19 all the painting and renovation could begin as Bob miniatures business five days a week and travels with Princeton s., Holyoke, MA 0/040 continues with his CPA firm. Their two sons now work husband John around the USA 10 visit their six chil- with them, one going into computers and the other dren and seven grandchildren whenever possible. working toward his master's and CPA. Jinx finds being Betsy McKey Hulbert is returning to DC 10 work Mary Jo Pelkey Shepard "hit the jackpot" both secretary and tax pre parer leaves little time for her again in the Phillips Collection after spending a beauti- 51 twice in four months with the births of her first painting. There is, however, a studio on their property ful summer at her place in MI. Desert, ME. Daughter two grandchildren, Benjamin, 11/84 and Nickolas. waiting for her when she does find the time. Daughter Kate was married in June in Bill and Ann Wetherald 3/85. Jo has happily joined the ranks of women who Meg left CC to work for a year on a newspaper and is Graffs garden in Poughkeepsie. She also mentioned need only a tiny push to display reams of pictures of now finishing her bachelor's at Columbia. her granddaughter born to elder son Bill and wife their adorable grandchildren regardless of whether the Joan Fluegelman Wexler is in her sixth year as dean Ada Maislen Goldstein writes from Hartford about interest is feigned or genuine. To add 10 her good for- of admissions at Wheelock College in Boston. In the enjoying her position as asst. vp in the group insurance tune, she had her chance at the role of mother-of-the- past few years she has added the responsibilities of division at CIGNA. Her husband has retired and they bride when daughter Carrie was married in Oct. Most financial aid and graduate admissions to the under- enjoy the role reversal-he cooks, runs errands, and of the time Jo is busy at the dept. of epidemiology and graduate component. She and Jerry make sure they plays tennis. Her daughter and husband live and work public health at Yale where she coordinates a multi- enjoy the sun during the year visiting the Caribbean in in NYC and her son is corporation counsel for the city center spinal cord injury study, the purpose to deter- the winter and Nantucket in the summer. Last March, of Hanford and likes the political world. mine which of two different drugs given shortly after daughter Debbie and her husband took them on a Ann Wet herald Graff welcomed her first grand- injury results in better neurological return. Jo put in a camping trip to the northeast section of AZ. Debbie daughter in Feb. and has made two trips 10 Albany to plug for wearing seat belts and also for checking the lives in Tempe, AZ, is a corporate travel agent and see her this year. Her son is in medical residency in depth of the water before diving! raises golden retrievers. Daughter laurie is in the Albany. Anch saw Lorraine (L.arry) Pimm Simpson and Anne wiebenson Hammond, not content with having gourmet food catering business in Mt. Kisco and son husband on their way to retirement in FL an empty nest now that her youngest. Barbara, is off for Bill is in real estate in NY. Each Jan., Flugy takes a CC Nancy Leech Kidder writes that after years of Navy, her first year of college, has taken an AFS boy from student as an intern in her office. which keeps her in industrial engineering and a large cattle farm, she and Chile under her wing. She is hauling out the primers in touch with the College and helps students get a picture larry own a beautiful horse farm ten miles from lex- order 10 communicate. Two years ago her AFS student of what a career in higher education administration ington, KY. Their son, a veterinarian, and family live was a W. German girl. Wiebie's oldest son Doug has his would be like. there also. Their three daughters are all married and own computer consultant business and younger son Betty Ann Schneider Ottinger saw Flugy when she pursuing various careers. Nancy still plays golf and Norman is completing his first year internship in inten- was in Boston visiting her son at Harvard Business bridge-competing in senior events these days. sive care, a sub-specialty of anesthesiology. wiebie also School. last summer RA. was on safari in Tanzania Jane Muse Matteson is leaving in Oct. for Kenya for took on a part-time job coordinating the tennis and and Kenya with two of her sons and dropped in on the two years with the Peace Corps. She is "thrilled with the teaching at the community center. Yard work, do-it- UN Decade of the Woman Conference. which was most opportunity and scared of the unknown." yourself projects (her latest is building a skylight into interesting. She still practices psychotherapy and psy- Joanna Swain Olsen wrote of surviving a hotel arson the kitchen) contribute to a very busy life. choanalysis in DC. fire in Manila and the subsequent outpouring of love by Speaking with Mona Gustafson Affinito, I was Cynthia Bassett Brown sells real estate in Greenwich the Philippine people because of the Olsens' near updated on our class Peace Corps volunteer, Harriet CT and lives in Bedford, NY. The past year has brought tragedy. She and her husband were deeply moved by Basset MacGregor. She and husband Bob are off for trips to Quebec City aod Bridgehampton. LI and a visit the caring and hospitality shown to them. They love two years in Tunisia. Harriet will be working with with Mary Ireland Rule and A.O. from Ohio. Cynthia's retirement and grandchildren. young children and Bob will be working on engineering son Curtis CC '80 last year married a member of his Virginia (Ginny) Pond is still with the Brookhaven projects. They left the U.S. knowing that their children class. Nancy Vaughan. All children are fine and Cyn- National Lab analyzing chromosome aberrations- were all set on their own paths since the last of their four thia has an adorable grandson human cells exposed to chemical mutagens rather than children 10 be married. Kathy, was wed this summer. Pal Browne Hunter had a marvelous week in SF this plant cells exposed to ionizing radiation. She thinks it Mona was well established in her new home and talked past summer, visiting Lulu Mendieta y Aboinz and her ironic and a sign of the times that we are now more of plans for an apartment addition for daughter lisa family, Lulu was an exchange student from the Philip- concerned about chemical pollution than radiation who is out of the Air Force and working at lance pines and a member of the class of '52. Her family exposure. Wiring and Cable. Son Doug is working on his master's spends about three months a year in the States. In May Elizabeth Mathewson Weiss has her pilot's license at Dartmouth. Pat went to the Boston area for the wedding of Lois and. with her husband, has been touring the country by Leda Treskunoff Hirsch has been burying herself in Waite Townsend's son. In Aug. Pat vacationed at Hil- plane. Two of seven grandchildren hope to pursue a via- research projects and teaching. The next three-year ton Head with her son and his wife and her daughter

31 Pam. Daughter Martha continues to live in NYC and Pat enjoys her visits there. Nina Davis Jackson and Bill live in Lawrenceville. NJ where Nina continues to develop her artistic abilities and joys by creating pieces on a wheel and glazing them. ALUMNI IN PRINT Her plant business does well and she spends a lot of time gardening. She also works as a touring docent at the Princeton Art Museum. She finds this stage of her life most enjoyable and happy. The three children are Connecticut College authors are explor- Disorderly Conduct: Visions of grown. two are married with one grandson. The whole ing women's roles as achievers, as sex- Gender in Victorian America, by Car- family vacationed together this summer at Martha's roll Smith-Rosenberg '57, is a collection Vineyard. ual survivors, as church women, as Katherine (Kit) Gardner Br)'ant writes from Cohasset. primitive rulers in a historical fantasy, of II essays examining the mythology MA that her life still centers around the water and and 'as creators of a rich emotional life of the 19th century in America. Dr. sailing. but she and John have managed a land cruise to in times of societal upheaval. Smith-Rosenberg, associate professor Europe. She is most active in support groups for Alz- of history and psychiatry at the Univer- heimer's Disease in MA and also coordinates the brain And for those women-and men- donation project for the state. She also is the manager who are balancing the life of the intellect sity of Pennsylvania, examines the of the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society and loves with the demands of the current Baby myths which surround the settlement of to tell people that she was its first female president. Boomlet, there is a new guide to plan- the American West and the industriali- Daughter Susan is a junior at CCand Kit loves to regale zation of American cities. She looks at Susan and her friends about life at CC when we all were ning parties for children. students. Son Gardner is in his 2nd year at the Buxton the "disorder" produced by the altera- School in Williamstown. Sarah, a Sexual Biography, by Paul tion of gender roles, suggesting how the Correspondent: Dorothy Bomer Fohland, 5/52 R. Abramson, M.A, '74, is a case his- male chauvinist values that still color Wedgewood Rd.. Lynchburg. VA 24503 tory of a young woman, sexually abused modern life came into being. She also from an early age, who went on to a life illuminates how women created "the Elizabeth Fiala Trone specialized in weddings that included drugs, prostitution, bi- female world of love and ritual" to deal 55 this spring with daughter Amanda's in May sexuality, pregnancies and hundreds of with this societal upheaval. The book and son Robert's in June. Libby and Dennis are being joined in the family business. the sternwheet steamboat love affairs. Dr. Abramson, an asso- was praised in reviews in The New York "Julia Bell Swain:' by daughter Lisa. Another daughter. ciate professor of psychology at the Times Book Review and Saturday Sophia. is a senior at the U of IL. Daughter Janet University of California, Los Angeles, Review, with the latter noting that the completes the family picture. Libby teaches kinder- has used Sarah's first-person account, essays would be of interest to both garten and special reading classes in Petersburg. I L Sondra Gelb Myers was awarded an honorary doctor as well as years of follow-ups, corres- serious students and lay readers inter- of laws degree from the College of Misericordia in pondence and observations, to docu- ested in the women's movement. Pub- Dallas. PA at commencement in May. in recognition of ment her gradual development of ways lished by Alfred A. Knopf. her service in the arts and humanities. Her activities to cope with and overcome the negative include: U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. National Fed- eration of State Humanities Councils. National Jewish patterns of her life. Sarah gets past The Church and Women in the Third Resource Center. Philadelphia Art Alliance. lacka- anger, depression and confusion to find World, by John C. B. Webster and Ellen wanna County Commission on Cultural Affairs, Scran- faith in herself. Published by the State Purdy Webster '60. Although much is ton Commission for Architecture and Urban Design, and the U of Scranton board of trustees. Sondra is University of New York Press, Albany, being written today about Third World chairperson of the States Arts Advocacy Organiza- as part of the SUNY series in Sexual churches and Third World women, tions, founder of the Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylva- Behavior. there is little scholarly literature linking nia. and past chairperson of the PA Humanities Coun- the two. The editors, a husband-wife cil. In Sept. '84 she served as program chairperson for the first international conference. "Faith in Human Pillar of the Sky, by Cecelia Holland team who were missionaries and teachers Kind: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust:' sport- '65, is the author's fourteenth historical in India from 1960 to 1981, attempt to sorco by thc U.S. Holocaust Memorial. Sondra and her novel. Ms. Holland imagines a society bridge the gap with a collection of attorney husband. Morcy. live in Scranton and have ruled by a man selected by the women- essays on such subjects as the first two sons. Jonathan and David. Carol Kinsley's Murchie's daughter Alison gradu- with the women having the real power- woman theologian in the Americas and ated from The Mac Duffie School during our reunion to create a fantasy to explain the origins the effects of cultural change on the weekend last June and is now a freshman in college. of Stonehenge. People magazine, which interpretation of scripture. Published Carol says she would welcome visits from any class- praised the book, calls Ms. Holland "a by the Westminster Press, Philadelphia, mates passing through Springfield. M A. Dorothy Palmer Hauser moved from thc Denver first-class storyteller." Published by area 10 St. Paul. M i\' late in the summer of '83. and Alfred A. Knopf. Parties for Home and School-A began a career as a real estate agent with Merrill Lynch. Piece of Cake, by Sandra Lamb and Her two daughters, Roddi and Cathy. both live in St. Winners: Women and the Nobel Paul. and son Tory and wife live in CO. Do and Roddi, Dena Kirkbride Bellows '74. Children who is mother of Do's two-year-old grandson Chase. Prize, by Barbara Shiels (Barbara John- live for holiday celebrations, but adults' run a contemporary American craft gallery together, ston Adams '65), describes the 21 busy schedules leave scant time for staging a combination show and sale approximately women who have won the world's most planning imaginative get-togethers. This four times a year. recognized honor, the Nobel prize. Elizabeth Root has lived in CA since 1958. Five years book, intended both for parents and ago she became head of the Phillips Brooks School. a Written for "young adult" readers-12 teachers of children up to grade four, private elementary school in Menlo Park with 200 stu- and over-the book features more has hundreds of ideas for birthday par- dents. an exceltem reputation, and waiting list. Bitsy is detailed biographies of eight of the ties and traditional holidays, such as thoroughly enjoying the switch into administrative work after years of teaching. winners, including Dr. Rosalyn S, Christmas and Halloween, and for spe- Cynthia Russell Rosik traveled from \V A 10 Toronto Yalow, Pearl S, Buck, Mother Teresa cial occasions such as the arrival of a in Aug. to-compete asa swimmer in the World Master and Barbara McClintock, and shows new baby, "braces off," "moving away," Games-theadult equivalent of the Olympics-even 10 what all these women had in common: and "neighborhood pet parade." Pub- the trading of pins between the 1.500 competitors coming from 60 nations. Cynnie achieved a personal best brains, determination, and a commit- lished by Good Apple Inc., Box 29, Car- time in each of the seven events she swam. and received ment to excellence, Published by Dillon thage, l1Iinois 62321-0299. medals for a seventh place finish in the mixed medley Press, lnc., Minneapolis, Minnesota relay and an eighth in the women's freestyle relay. She 55415. -Peggie Ford 73 reports that after swimming competitively for five or six years and intensive training this summer. she looks

32 The Hurricane of '38 she wasn't. But Gloria washed out Alumni Council. and uprooted or severely damaged over 70 ornamental trees on the main campus. The Arboretum was also hard hit. Right. a toppled tree outside Harkness.

"pretty good in a swimsuit." Pete and Cynnie's son, Christopher, is a graduate of the U afOR and is studying for his PhD in clinical psychology. Daughter Susie earned a mechanical engineering applied science degree from Whitman College and Cal Tech in '84 and is now working for the Jet Propulsion Lab, programming the camera on hoard Voyager [I. Correspondent: Henrietta Jackson Schoeller. 80 Lancaster Drive, Tewksbury, MA 0/876. Dlga Lehovich enjoyed a trip to Paris this My own life is getting busier. I'm off into the travel 5 9 Spring. She hiked, climbed and stretched her- business joining a local agency very soon. I'm thrilled Sarah Greene Burger, who received her MA in self. Olga has changed schools and moved from VT to and with daughter Julie off at boarding school and the 57 public health from Johns Hopkins in 1983, is a Summit. NJ. She has written a textbook and after younger, Suzanna, in for a full day at a local day school, troubleshooter for nursing homes in the DC area and effectively using it in her classes is now looking for a the pace of life at home has changed. Both girls were at writes a monthly column for Long- Term Care Man- publisher, camp in ME this summer, Julie a CIT and Suzanna agement. Daughter Heidi, a Wesleyan grad. is working Liz Pughe King, in Lincoln, MA, is doing volunteer being a complete camper. Husband Ted has a new on her MA in performing arts from Oklahoma City U case aide work and seeking that ideal part-time job. She college guide out this September, Best Buys in College and Hillary is in her senior year at Harvard. Sadie had has a family of skiers who went to Zermatt this past Education. He will be doing publicity for it nationwide, dinner in Chicago with Katie Lindsay, a psychiatric year. Cynthia is a junior at Oberlin, Brooks is at so look for him on your local talk shows. An update of social worker who is also involved in judging and writ- DePauw and Ginger in 8th grade at home. his original Selective Guide IO College.l·comes out again ing about horse shows. Jane Starrell Swotes divides her life between Phila- in January. Nancy Pollack Beres and Bob spend more time each delphia and FL. spending six months in each place. Linda will do the mailing for our next column-then year sailing. Last winter it was more than six weeks near Both boys chose to attend Duke, Michael a PBK '85 late next summer the rest of the class will have their St. Thomas. Son Bill is with E. F. Hulton in London graduate and Phil a sophomore. Jane is involved in the chance. Keep the news coming; you're all terrific. and son John is a graduate of Clark. Federation of Jewish Agencies and plays tournament Correspondents: Dale Woodruff Fiske, 45 South Marilyn Bensrock Snyder starred in the Broadway tennis. Turkey Hill Road, Greens Farms, CT06436; Melinda production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs Stephanie Allen Longman writes from CO, where Brown Beard, W. Waldheim Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15215 last season. Her book, An Informed Decision, was she is president of a company making artificially intelli- published by M. Evans. Marilyn's son, Eric Berkowitz, gent software for microcomputers. Son Scott just is a CC graduate, and daughter Nancy rooms with returned from climbing the Himalayas and scuba diving Julie Emerson Pew, our class president. con- Lainie Diamond Berman's daughter. Cindy, at Yale. in the China Sea. Sean, 16. dives in state competitions. 61 tinues to work in a bookstore in Yarmouth, Monica Hyde Peyton and husband, Scott, bought a placing fourth last year. ME, and husband Dick is a v.p. and broker for a wine and gourmet food store in northern NJ recently. Martha Ann Palmer Bullard lives in MA and works Portland insurance company. Julie's daughter Amy Courtney finished her freshman year at Mt. Holyoke for Anhur D. Little. Inc, with personal computers. She graduated this year from high school; daughter Allison and Justin is a sophomore in high school. and husband Jack love to travel, particularly 10 is a sophomore at Wellesley and spent the summer at Joan Sampson Schmidt reports that daughter Heidi Anguilla. They are antique collectors and keep the Dartmouth. works for a House subcommittee on Capitol Hill. son house full with two Shih Tzu dogs and two Himalayan Jo Anne Gates Eskridge and Nancy Hill Thompson Paul is a sophomore at Frostburg (MD) College and cats. were surprised to find they were both singing in the Jennifer is in 10th grade. Joan is active in the AAUW Writing us from Norfolk, VA is Katharine Lloyd- Houston Junior League Musical Therapy Group. They and is employed as an administrative assistant. Rees Miller. Her husband has his MA in Biblicalstudies don't know who gets more therapy-the singers or the Wendy Allen Wheeler was elected to the board of and directs the Extended University ofCBN in Virginia people in the nursing homes who listen. Jo Anne's trustees of the Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA. Beach. They have four children-George has just fin- daughter Lisa, a U of TX grad, works in public rela- Wendy, who has an MA in social work from Case ished at Emory, Mary Lloyd is at U VA and two are at tions. Son Chuck will graduate from Trinity this spring. Western Reserve, formerly served as Walnut Hill's home. Kathy has worked for 20 years, but stopped Husband Charlie has a lighting business. director of student counseling and is currently in pri- recently and entered the good life-tennis, volunteer NllnC)"Hill Thompson's husband Gib bas a real estate vate practice. work at her church, vegetable gardening, skiing and investment company. They have three children: Joe, a Disorderly Conduct by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg reading. high school sophomore. Carter in seventh grade, and was published by Alfred A. Knopf this summer. Sub- Barbara (Buzz) Wickstrom Chandler writes from Jamie in fourth grade. titled "Visions of Gender in Victorian America," this Fort Bliss, TX and sounds like she will be able to be Susan Troast Winiarski has been involved with fund- book received an extremely favorable review by Eliza- convinced to come to our next major reunion. I hope so raising for a local mental health service, and with work beth Janeway in The New York Times Sunday Book and that goes for all of you too. Buzz teaches at El Paso for the local Boy Scout troop committee. Sue's family's Review. The reviewer in Saturday Review said this Community College. Oldest daughter, Liz. is out of love of sports put her, husband Toby, and youngest book "is recommended for both serious students of college and writes for The Chartone Observer. Another son, Doug all in casts and therapy at the same time women's history and for the curious lay observer of daughter, Carol, lives in NYC and Hugh is still at home during the past year. today's women's movement." in 9th grade. Husband, acolonel, is commandant at the Barbara Thomas Yeomans has become a grand- As I write this in September '85. Richard and I are military school at the fort. mother. She continues 10 work in DC, enjoys golf and thrilled to be getting ready for a two-week trip 10 China. Suzanne Rie has been remarried 10 a professor at dressage, and singing in the Washington National Sue Krim Greene will be traveling with us. What a treat! Stockton State College, NJ. Suzanne is on the faculty Cathedral Society. Correspondents: Elaine Diamond Berman, 33 Nonh of Temple U, teaching in the department of health Marty Guida Young is also in the DC area, after Wyoming Avenue, SOUlh Orange, NJ 07079; Emily education. Both children, Bernie and Doren are grown more than three years in WI. She has been workingas a Graham Wright, II/ Sierra Vista, Redlands CA 92373 and working in eastern PA. church secretary while husband John (Capt USN) has

33 HOME ON THE THAMES Connecticut alumni organize in England and California

The sun will not set on Connecticut's empire, now that alumni have organized the Connecticut College Club of the United Kingdom. The club began when Helen Reynolds '68, the Execu- tive Board's nominating committee chairman, suggested a get-together for CC'ers in England. Ms. Reynolds was in Cambridge at the time, writing a book. From the 50 people contacted initially, 12 responded, meeting at the London home of Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann '66. The enthusiastic group became a club and has since been growing rapidly. Activities have included a wine and cheese party at the Bettmann home in February, a tour of the Cour- tauld Institute of Art and Courtauld Gallery with a pub lunch in March, and an English garden party for CC students abroad as well as alumni in May. The party, held in the garden of Frances Chase Walker '38, arose out of a desire to do something for students abroad, according to club president Diane Finiello Zervas Hirst '67. She sees the purpose of the club as twofold: to maintain interest in the College and visibility; and to be a "port in the storm" for students abroad. Meanwhile, alumni in the Los Angeles area are banding together to form another Connecticut outpost. Trustee Jane Muddle Funkhouser '53 and Esther Pickard Wachtell '56 organized a picnic for alumni and prospective students, held at the Wachtells' Rolling Hills home over- looking Catalina Island. Charles Luce, the College's athletic director, spoke on student life and athletics at Con- necticut. Tamara Brown '84, assistant director of the Alumni Association, who was also in California for the event, was delighted when some of the 70 guests approached her with the suggestion of organizing a club. -Peg Van Pallen '86

Guests pur down their teacups to pose Second row: Edie Berkowitz Har- Meanwhile. on the West Coast, for a photo 01 the C. C. Club of the greaves :59, Peter Shepard. Helen United Kingdoms Garden Party (lOP). (around table/rom extreme left ): Paul Reynolds '68. Jim Fear, Nini Rogers '8 Front row: Cynthia Beach :59, Lisa Escoll I, David Boros, Anita Fear :55, Beckie Imhoff Shepard '80, Watson, Alison Walson '88. Jason Synaradzki, Frances Walker Chase Will Eglin, and Liz Sears, who is the '38, Kris Smith, Brenda Kramer '85, Kamm '88. Carina Capps '89, Noel daughter 0/ Conde Spaulding Hack- Brohner '89. Andrew Slavin '89, Dana Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann b"6; barth :59. Friedman '8 I, Jeff Oshen '86.

34 been stationed at NAVSEA. Son Mike is 17, Doug is 15. daughter Susan is 12. Marty saw lydia Coleman Hutchinson and her husband Dwight at the CC meeting in Washington. Elizabeth Burger Jones directed a large nutrition education program for the Flint. MI public schools for three years. She is now a free-lance travel agent in Flint. Daughters Carrie 9. and Julie 7. keep Betty busy. She is PTO pres. and involved in the local Institute of the Arts. She and Dick travel as often as possible. most recently to England and Portugal. Judith Mapes Metz was elected the first female partner of Egan Zehnder International Inc., one of the world's largest executive search firms. She is a member of the administrative board of the Sloan Kcnering Cancer Society and is president of the board of the Rockefeller Center Luncheon Club. She and husband Frank. a v.p. and group exec. with IBM, reside in Saddle River, NJ Marcia Silverman Tucker, director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NvC'gave thc dedication address for M IT's latest addition. the Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center. Dorothy Cleaveland Svoboda went back to the June CC reunion to "prep" for our own 25th in June '86, She says the two things which stood out were more husbands attending than ever before, and some whole families were there. The atmosphere it generated was ter- THINK THESE CLASS NOTES ARE rific. So many people are now returning that the north complex of dorms (the ones with which our class does ODD? not identify) has been nearly outgrown. Dotty suggests that if as many of our class as possible come back next Well, you're right. Odd-numbered June. perhaps some older dorms will have to be opened classes report in the Fall and Spring to us! Janice Hall McEwen, your correspondent, is also issues. Even-numbered classes looking forward to our 25th reunion. [ hope as many of appear in Winter and Summer. you as possible will make plans to come back to New London next spring. Our class year represents a special There are esoteric exceptions tor year in the College's history, since our 25th reunion brand-new classes and reunion years. corresponds with Connecticut's 75th anniversary. Correspondents: Joan Swanson Vazakas. 140 Alfred Drive. Pinsfield. MA 0120!; Janice Half Me Swan. Rose Farm. Center Road, Lyndeborough. N H 03082 Laotian refugee children, finding it very rewarding. Her amid dairy farms. Daughters are Anna l6 and Lee II. travels have taken her to Asia, Turkey, Romania, and Wally, who received her MA in 1966 from Trinity, Germany. found CC helpful when she recently decided to return to Sarah Hewson Seiler is a social, worker (re- Susan Young Achenbach has run a small jewelry work. She now loves teaching high school Latin 63 ceived her MSW from U of WA In 1969) WIth business for the past 10 years. Recently she traveled to Beatrice Robinett Enright is a regional trainer with the Yellowstone County District Court Services in California, Mexico and Europe. Susan and six other the Michael Thomas Corp. where she presents work- Billings, MT. Her husband Mike is an advertising rep CCers held a mini-reunion at the home of Virginia Olds shops and seminars on business development topics with the Montana Farmers' Stockman Magazine. They Goshdigian last spring. Susan's husband Tom is a child She enjoys jogging, racquetball and fund raising for have two children: Sarah 14 and Michael 10. She skis, psychologist. Their children are Gretchen 16 and Chris- Africa. and has traveled to HI, Tahiti and FL. Bea fly-fishes and river-floats. Sarah saw Susan Wells lewis topher 12. They live on the shores of Lake Champlain resides in Alameda, CA with husband Rory, Western last year; would like to see anyone who comes to MT. near Burlington, VT. regional manager of Tymnet. lnc., and Sean 8 and Betsy Kraai Kohlsaat is an administrator on the Connie Cross lives in a charming old farmhouse near Tracy 4. Bea recently saw Berna Gorenstein Huebner South Carolina Commission for Women. She lives in South Casco, ME. Connie teaches junior high school and children Charlie and David in Palm Springs. Columbia, SC with her daughter Hannah 16. She English. She enjoys her country life-gardening, hik- Heather Axelrod Alberts, of Tucson, AZ directs the annually visits Rosalind Liston Newman '62 in NYC. ing, camping and X-country skiing. New Frontiers Program, which trains students and Sarah Bullock Desjardins' husband Richard is a Barbara Drexler lockhart of Denver works at a ed ucators in overcoming sex role stereotyping. She has selectman and lawyer. They live in Westport, CT with travel agency. travels. and plays in a local band. She traveled to Monte Carlo, Sweden, Japan. Hong Kong, children Jonathan 16, Stefan 14, Gillian 8, and Simon enjoys sailing with husband Ron, a TV technician, and CA, NY and MA. Husband David is an M.D. Children and Rachel 6. Sarah has a part-time postal position, their children, Rebecca 7 and Andrew 5. are Tim 19 and Sabrina 17. jogs, plays tennis, paints and plays the piano. Marlene Daniels is a partner in the law firm of Hill, Rebecca Holmes Post and husband Robert of Port- Evelyn Cherpak received her MA from Penn in 1965 Betts and Nash, where she specializes in ship finance land. OR have three children, Becky has taught at high and her PhD from the U of NC in 1973. Evelyn is and international corporate and banking law. She is schools in OH and TX. She is active in the Junior curator of manuscripts and archives at the Naval War active in a variety of bar associations and occasionally League, Planned Parenthood, the PTA and the US College in Newport, RI and teaches at Salve Regina escapes from NYC to the countryside in PA. Figure Skating Assn. Becky has been CCs admissions College's graduate program in international relations. Helen Frisk Buzyna lives in Tallahassee, FL with aide chairman in Portland since 1972. and is a director Her travels have taken her to Europe, the USSR. Mex- husband George. a research scientist, Tamara 16 and on the Alumni Assn. Executive Board. ico. the Caribbean and Canada Peter 12. She is an illustrator at the Center for Studies Judith O'Donnell Lohmann went to her husband's Judith Judson Tan and Djin, a psychiatrist, live in in Vocational Ed at Fl State. Helen received her BFA reunion at Yale in May and saw Carol Jaffin Veit '65 Cheshire, CT. Judy received her MA from U of New and MFA in graphic design in [966 from Yale. She has from NYC. Haven in 1982. She has been active in a gourmet group, traveled to the USSR (with an art exhibit), Finland. Correspondents: Judith O'Donnell Lohmann. a bridge group and the Meriden AAUW. Children are Europe, AK and CO. She also finds time for camping American Embassy, P.O. Box 5000, Ogdensburg NY Jeff 20 (U of MD), Rick 19 (U of Rochester), Carolyn and photography. 13669; Roberta Slone Smith, 16 Greene Drive, Law- 16, and Gary 14. Judy corresponds with Peri Pierce Virginia Olds Goshdigian lives in a restored farm- renceville. NJ 08648 Hart, lee Chapman Biederman and Sally Sweet Ward. house in Ashton. MD. Husband Haig has retired from Marie Hawley luft received her MA from USC in the Defense Dept. Ginny, who spent two years in Tur- [966, and is a reading tutor as well as project coordina- key with the Peace Corps after graduation. is a linguist Correspondent: Carol Murray Kim. American tor for the city of Glendale, CA for restoration of an and analyst for the Defense Dept. She enjoys working 65 Embassy, Seoul, Korea, A PO San Francisco, [890 Victorian house. She also sails. plays tennis and on their house, gardening, cooking and traveling. This CA 96301 hiked the Swiss Alps. Husband Glenn is a civil engineer spring they visited Chantal Le Heureau Fortineau in and son Glenn is 16. Marie saw Elizabeth Bartlett Bremoiselle, France. (Chantal was an exchange student McGinnis at the Summer Olympics. at CC.) Jeanette Cannon Ruffle is a tutor of English as a Wallace Coates Paprocki of Greenwich, NY and Correspondent: Robin Frost Dawson, 800 .second language, working mainly with Cambodian and husband Theodore. a dentist. have 15 acres tucked in 67 Hoydens Hill Rd.. Fairfield, CT064JO

35 MARRIED: Mar)' Medbery to Anthony most of his free time with Amanda Marshall '79. Correspondent: Susan Ninde Tresemer, I3 Giordano. 10/13/84; Scott Williamson to Sallv Correspondents: Louise (Pam) Sharp Hulme, ]3 81 South Siren, Hrattleboro, VT 05301-2656 Everett. summe rBo: Linnea Elsesser to Paul Weiss '82. 69 Hickory Hill Lane. Framingham MA 01701; Sharon 717/85: Linda Rosenthal 10 David L Maness, Jr.. McIntire Brown. 200 Eas/66/h Si., Apt. 0-1903. New 10/28/84: Andrea Bachike 10 William Wallace. fall '84: York. NY 10021 MARRIED: Claire Cooper Barrows to Brian Robert Spears to T onya Frederick. 6/ 15{85. 71 Franklin Hartman. [0/20/84. Brian Etowe has been promoted to assistant v.p. of BORN: to Susan Certman and Daniel Allman. Eli Marsh and McLennan. lnc.. and is working towards a MARRIED: Elizabeth Balding to William David. 12/30/84: to Barbara Ballinger Buchholz and Ruprecht. 4/85; Victoria Fitzgerald to Darwin MBA at BU. Edward. Lucy Rebecca. 4/25/84. 79 Beth Offenhartz is personnel development consult- Susan Greeley, after four years in advertising, has Cook '77 in the Arboretum 5/85; Jill Bleemer to Seth Weitzman '80 7/85; Lucinda Gra)' to Christopher ant at CIGI\'A, She lives in Hanford and is involved in made a third career change. She is studying fashion volunteer activities there. design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC Carey, 9/85. BORN: to Robert and Kathleen Finn Malkowski, John Weyrauch and Jacqueline Zuckerman are both after taking a year off "to do some traveling and much Christine Kathleen. 11/10/84; to William and Jane in their second year of M BA programs. John is study- thinking about past. present and future:' Blonder '77 Clark, Whitney Ann, 12/14/84; to Ed and ing marketing rnanagcrncnt of organizations at Colum- Barbara Ballinger Buchholz lives in 51. Louis where bia. and Jacquey is studying marketing/advertising at she is a reporter in the feature and business news Janice Bomely Stack, Heidi Kathleen, 2/17/85. Victoria (Vickie) Chesler and husband Matt Kouner Syracuse departments at the 51. Louis Posr-Dispatch and her Liz Rosoffleft her job as a medical social worker at husband Edward is a tax partner at the law firm of own a publishing company in Manhattan. They publish The Manhattan Cooperator for co-op and condo Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. and is pursuing an Bryan, Cave, McPheeters and McRoberts. Their two MSW full-time at BU. daughters are Joanna Emily, 2, and Lucy Rebecca. Her owners and The Apartment Buyers Guide, a quarterly magazine for people looking to buy in the metropolitan Bill Malinowski is a reporter with the Providence third and most recent book, The AI'ialor's Source Journal-Bulletin. He received his MA from Northwest- area. Book, was published by St. Martin's Press. ern's Mcdill School of Journalism Susan Schmidl is Sea Grant editor at the Virginia Peter Craft is working with Robert M. Lane law offices in Greenwich, CT. He and wife Susan have Wayne and Karen Lanphear Malinowski have Institute of Marine Science on the Chesapeake Bay. moved to Penfield, NY Wayne is a heating, air condi- Last year she cruised the Bahamas for several months, bought a condo in Stamford. tioning and ventilating engineer for Eastman Kodak earned her captain's license, and wrote for a sailing Mark McLaughlin is working at New Englund Busi- ness Magazine and is living in Brookline, MA. Karen has "ret ired" from teaching at the Northfield M t newspaper in San Diego for six months. Herman campus nursery school to stay home with their Susan Beck Blaney. elected president of the Women Jamie Marshall is living in Upper East Side New one-year-old son. Nathaniel. Lawyers' Association for 1984-5. practices law in St. York and is travel editor of Ski Magazine. She'll be Paul Costa received a JD degree from OH Northern Louis where she lives with her husband Michael and heading to Steamboat and Sun Valley this ski season. University two children, Lucy, 5 and Robert, 4. Jerry Carrington has decided to pursue yet another Robin Rapoport is an assistant art director with linda Herskowitz. your correspondent, is on leave degree, this time an MBA at the U of Chicago Business Designer's Wesl Magazine in NYC and freelances on from the Phi/adelphia Inquirer, where I'm a medical School. occasion with Bantam Books. writer, to attend Stanford, where I will study public Peter Flint and wife Denise have returned to Dallas, Ellen Levine is still with Wi'

36 Correspondents: Etten Levine. 168 Hicks 51.. Api. Wolcott in Windsor. CT. She spends the sum mer writing Elizabeth Greene teaches sixth grade in Andover, 4R. Brooklyn, NY 11201.- Marsha s. Williams, 13030 for Weekly Reader of Xerox Publications and is a M A and is working on her master's at BC She shares a Blanco Rd .. Api. 523, San Antonio. TX 18216 volunteer counselor for a battered women's center in place with Edie Taylor. who is attending Northeastern Hartford. Law School, and Kathy Lynnes '84. Jennifer Croll" is a business analyst for Sybrnn Julia Greenway has \cft her job with Hill, Holliday, Corp. and lives in Chicago. Conners, Cosmopulos, Inc. advertising to go to CO for MARRIED: Altressa Cox to Robert J. Robin- Monica Crothers is an exec assistant to the French the winter with Gardner Powell. 83 son Jr. 8/18/84; Cynthia Cunningham to Desk at Banque Nauonale de Paris located in NYC. Laura Haas was an electrician/technician during Frank Yuen 8/ 18/84: Heather Cusack to Kim Tetrault. She is a member of the I'YC Alliance Francais. is a summerBj at the theater at Monmouth, ME where she 7/ 13/85; Davld Fitzgerald to Shasta Jackson, 5/25/85: part-time student at the American Institute of Banking met her husband. They moved to Boston for lack of a Sally Grafstein to David Blinker. 5/31/84: Jim Gravel and lives in Eastchester better place with nothing in tow but each other. She is to Leanne Pedro, 6/15/85; Laura Haas to Richard Cindy Cunningham is a personal banking represen- now working at P3, a scene shop. researching and coor- Wood, 6/8/85; Daniel Hays to Kris Humphreys, tative at the Bank of Boston and resides in Medford. dinating the industrials and is doing a little freelance 6/1/85. MA with her husband. Classmates attending her wed- theater tech on the side David Austin Jives in Hell's Kitchen in a 5th floor ding were: Gino Annino. Frank Doole}', Rob Ingram Daniel Hays worked as a teacher at the Waterford walk-up over a wholesale distributor of video games and Susan Peterson. Country School. a residential treatment and educa- and cigarette machines. He has published two articles in Barbara Cusmano was promoted to assistant mar- tional center for handicapped children. Then in July '84 The New York Native, and began graduate work at keting director of City Federal Sa vings a nd Loa n Asso- he set sail on a 25-foot cutter around Cape Horn, Columbia U School of the Arts in Sept. He has dyed his ciation where she has been working for the past two returning May 29, 1985! Daniel is moving to NJ with hair four times and switched to generic cigarettes since years. She has vacationed in FL his new wife to set up a pet shop, dealing mostly in graduation. Bert Czuehra works for Sage-Allen & Co. in Hart- reptiles. Karen Bachelder is working at the Mohave Daily ford. CT where she is group manager in the home Lynn Herrick has been teaching and is now director Minernewspaperin AZ. She previously worked for the division of athletics at a boarding school in MD. Bureau of Land Mgmt. Wild Horseand Burro Adoption Jennifer Davis completed the CORD Fellowship in Julia Hewitt and husband have moved to Montpelier, program and the AZ Fish & Game Dept. public policy in SI. Louis. MO and is finishing her VT. She is teaching English at the Cabot, VT High Jill Baker i~ exec. director of the Westerly Senior graduate degree in public policy at Claremont in south- School. the smallest high school in the state with 70 Citizens Center in R I where she resides. She has traveled ern CA students. to Tokyo, Japan on vacation. Laura Davis has moved back to Cleveland, OH to Herb Holtz joined the Mondale campaign after grad- Randy Bangs is program director of Arts Reach, a sta n a two-year master's program in account: ng at Case uation, working on the national staff as a state coordi- social service program of Greater Rochester. He Western. nator and surrogate speaker, mostly in the West and extends an invitation to visit him in Rochester. Beeea Davies is an asxista nt b uyer at Macy's in NYC Midwest. He is now director of the non-Federal Pro- Valery Bataille attends law school at' the V of and sees Jeremy Kramer who works in the equity gram for Democrats of the 'SO's.. Bridgeport. research depanrncm at Goldman. Sachs Christina Hotz was promoted to administrative Michele Beaulieu spent the last two years with the Patrick Deal" is a stock broker with Merrill Lynch assistant to the NY graphic production mgr. at Little, Peace Corps, in Lastoursville, Gabon on Africa's west Pierce Fenner and Smith Brown & Co. coast. She toured Europe for the summer and returned Eileen Diener has started a new job leaching first Bob Ingram. in his third year at Northwestern U home in Sept. grade learning-disabled kids at the Jenicy School in School of Law, has just finished his most interesting Sally Becker is a research specialist for survival tech- Baltimore. coup as Judge Corinne Grande's law clerk in the retrial nology in DC. Her job includes clinical drug and medi- Ann Donihue teaches English in Washington, CT at of State of RI v. Claus Von Bulow. He researched the cal device studies, market research, and a consultant Wykeham Rise. a girls' boarding schoot. She takes grad motions and attended chamber conferences. He is back position to the pres. of the company. courses at Columbia U's Teachers College in NYC in school and bored, so urges anyone who wants to get Faith Benton does outpatient work at Mass Mental whe r c she s pccializc s in reading and learning in touch to do so. Health Center in Boston and loves her job. She Jives in disabilities. Eric Jacobson spoke about NYC in the SOS program Somerville. Leslie Doppler lives in Keene, NH where she is a for graduating seniors last spring. ln July he studied at Matthew Bernard is assistant director of leasing with radio news reporter/anchor at WKNE AM and FM. the U of Munich in W. Germany and has now entered Chase Enterprises in Hartford. CT. She says she has the 4:00 A.M. shirt burloves the job the Master of lnternaticna l Business Studies Program Martha Bitsberger was a mental health worker in a anyway. at U of S'C. He has seen classmate Jerry Gaffney often. cognitive behavioral inpatient unit at Mclean Hosp. in Joanne Ferrero has left the Conn, General Insurance Geoff Joyce has begun a two year master's program Belmont. MA for one and a half years. She is now in a Co. in Hartford group underwriting after 2 yrs. to work atUofMI. doctorate program in clinical psychology at BV. full-time for MA.L.S, at wcslcyan und a teaching ccr- Lisa Karas is attending the MBA program at Babson Tina Botond has been living/studying in Paris for tificate in math College. three years and has just round work in Madrid. Activi- William Field is working for Equitable Bank in Bal- Larry Kaufmann is living in NYC with wife Marilou ties include horse shows and exercising race horses, timore where he is a marketing research analyst. '82. He works for an institutional investment banking work on designs for a book due in the fall, and radio Leslie Fine has entered her second year of a master's firm in the international stock sales area work degree program in social work at UPenn. Mary Keating has moved to the Buffalo area and is Gayle Brady is attending Pace U, working on a MS in David Fitnerald works in Springfield. MA for tile happily settled down and working there. Nursing. She spent the summer biking in Scotland and Hampden County Sheriffs Dept, and attends Western Judith Krigman received her master's in art/art his- Ireland with Nancy Ruga '84. New England School or Law at night. tory from U of NC at Chapel Hill in June '84 and is Elizabeth Burpee has been traveling with a mission- Peter Foley is finishing his master's in spans biome- working in Research Triangle Park as a technical writer ary group from Rlto NO since graduation. chanics/exercise science at U Mass where he has been and Freelance illustator. Lynne Cascio is working on her master's degree in involved in research for the US Olympic Committee, Nane"(Anq) Lerner has been working in DC forthe journalism at the V of CO. US Ski Team and Rockport Walking Shoes, He was a past two years for Earthscan and is now in the process Kathy Cavanaugh has started full-lime work on a guest lecturer at CC three times talking about exercise of moving to Boston where the real fun is! Job? That master's degree in historic preservation at BV this Sept. science. He races a lot. sponsored by Et onic running will be in the next issue! after going through three apartments and a dead-end shoes. Lisa Narva is going for her M Ed and certification to job. She is sharing a place with Lisa Narva in Somer- Mark Foushee has started his last year in Duke's teach special needs children at Lesley College in Cam- ville and works at Mass. Historical Commission. MBA program, Both he and wife Sue Heline Foushee bridge. She is teaching in a special cd uca tion classroom Alan Cohen received a promotion to publicist at '152 live in NC. in Arlington this fall. WNET /Thirleen! He vacationed on the Cape as well as Kambrah Garland lives in Cambridge. MA and Karen Neilson relocated to Boston in the spring of'85 in ME. works in a health care management and development to work in the group operations/accounting depl. of John Cohen has moved to Long Beach, CA. He corporation in marketingj program devclopment for Garber Travers headquarters. She is sharing a place resigned from Naval Intelligence as a criminal investi- community care systems. with Nancy Lerner and three other roommates in gator to take a position as a police officer for the city of Mark Gershman was a naturalist at Voygeurs Newton. Gardena. l\'ational Park during summer '85 and is attending a The wedding of Heather Cusack and Kim Tetrault Dominic Colonna is living in Queens and works for grad program at UVM in field naturalism. was attended by Rod Wright, Lisa Sheehy, Andy Hoff- the music publisher CF. Peters Corp. Claudia Gould is a paralegal in DC for tbe rirm of man, Rick Auber, Mary Ellen Reardon and Dr. and Karen Condaris graduated in May '85 from VConn. Kirkland & Ellis and is traveling to Europe this fall. She Mrs. Scott Warren of the Botany dept. She isa psychologist in Lowell living in Burlington. MA has kept in touch with Katharine (Em) HarIman and Correspondell/s: Karen H. Nielson, 448 Lowell Ave., Joann Coppola is perplexed that most alums report- Oren Tasini. Neu'lOflI,ille, MA 02160; Erica H. Van Brimer, 1492 ingdefine themselves immediately and mostly by work. Sally Grafstein Blinken is a research project director Beacon 51. #6, Brookline. MA 02146 She loves San Francisco and her life. She thinks about at Della Femina Travisano E Ptnrs. visiting the Philippines, possibly the long way around. Jim Gra\'el is a full-time budget analyst for the town For now, she's keeping the '67 Dart rollin' down the of Andover. MA where hc lives witl1 his wife, Leanne Correspondents: Kalhleen Boyd, 4]02 Saul "Freeway of Life." Pedro. Both arc working on master's degrees at BU. 85 Rd .. KensillglOlI. M 020895.- Aline-Marie Par- Altressa Cox teaches fifth and sixth grades at Roger Betsy Greenberg works in an art gallery in LA sons, 531 Burnham 51., £. Hartford, CT06108 All Together Now . . .

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