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THE CAMPAIGN FOR COLBY Colby Alumni Fund 207-872-3186 IN S IDE C 0 LB Y COLBY Cover Story Volume 83 Number 5 1993�94 President's Report Colby Staff: Endowment growth can lead Colby to a new level of excellence. Sally Baker executive edicor J. Kevin Cool managing edicor Feature Brian Speer 6 designer page p. l The Book on Colby Roben Gille pie Aggressive scholarship in a nurturing environment gives Colby Alumni at Large edicor its distinctive character. Stephen Collins '74 Lynn Sullivan '89 staffwriters Anestes Fotiades '89 Departments editorial assistant 2 17 Jennifer Aengst '95 Periscope Alumni at Large ediwrial intern 3 Profiles: Contributing Photographer: From the Hill 23 Jack Deering '55 David Wilkinson (cover) 9 31 Steven Freyer '68 35 Deborah Shallcross '71 Contributing Reporter: page 6 Gifts & Grants 39 Alice Damar '80 Mary Ellen Matava 11 45 Administration: Faculty File Obituaries William R. Cotter, president; 15 Peyton R. Helm, vice president far 48 development and alumni relations; Books & Authors Earl H. Smith, dean of the College; Letters Susan Conam Cook '75, direccor of alumni relations Alumni Council Executive Committee: Albert F. Carville Jr. '63, chair; Elizabeth J. Corydon-Apicella '74, vice chair; Cynthia L. Auman '80; Thomas M. Dailey '80; John B. Devine Jr. '78; Solomon J. page 15 Hartman '67; Ronald L. Lupton '71; William E. Marvin '65; Judith Orne Shorey '55; Carol G. Sly '80; Thomas P. LaVigne '58 Colby is published five times J :" · - yearly forthe alumni, friends, r parents of students, seniors, &,., �� . --::-:. "I . ...... , faculty and staffof I : Colby College. �- - : ,, Address correspondence to: �- · - ' .. \''t Managing Editor, Colby 1-, 4181 Mayflower Hill � Waterville, ME 04901-8841 ,�-.· / or e-mail to: [email protected] page 39 On the cover: Students walkdown RobertsRow. AU GUS T 1994 COLBY � · P E R I s c 0 PE � · ___-.f'"" �·' � / �· r '/���� . ·.· ... � Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newsletter, FYI . Happy and They Know It istrator in the Athletic Department, a ing by students. Blue boxes and blue post formerly held by Carol Anne. lights are situated near the Athletic Cen­ Colby students are the happiest in the ter, the weight cage below Roberts Union, nation, at least according to the newest Staffers Retire Woodman and Coburn,Roberts and Hill­ Princeton Review StudentAccess Guide, in side parking lots, the north wall of Miller bookstores this fall. As reported in the A number of Colby staffers have retired Library, the Student Center, Lorimer guide, the happiest students among the 306 in recent months, all of whom will be Chapel, Taylor and Bixler. A push of the colleges and universities surveyed are right remembered by lots of alums. Roy box's red button immediately connects Brackett, a 28-year veteran of the here on Mayflower Hill. Under a section the caller to the security dispatcher, who titled "Quality of Life," Colby also appears electrician's shop, was a familiar face at nearly every major College event, han­ will send an officer. False or crank calls on the short lists of colleges having "profes­ will cost a culprit $7 50. sors who bring material to life" (20th), most dling microphones and speakers. Also retiring were P.A. Lenk, veteran library beautifulcampus (8th) and a "great library" Moosecellaneous (19th). The report was picked up by several employee who kept the Colby files; heat­ national media outlets, including USA ing expert Al Prince; and Virginia White, A Colby parent, impressed and grateful Today and Parade magazine. a custodian since 1967. for the special help Dean of Students Janice Kassman gave to his son during a Newcomers Cover Guy crisis or rwo, has offered to establish a We think no Colby campus per on has special discretionary fundfo r the dean to The newest first-year class represents what ever been splashed on the cover of a na­ use in similar circumstances ....Between admissions dean Parker Beverage says is tional publication, at least not until the August 17 and September 9, 1,006 UPS "one of the most academically able, in­ August 1 7 issue of TheChronicle of Higher packages arrived forstudents ....Graphic teresting and diverse classe ever." Some Education, which displays, in full-page designer Brian Speer of Colby's commu­ 440 members of the Class of 1998 were color, the visage of art professor David nications officewon a silver medal for his picked from a pool of 3,400-plus appli­ Lubin. Inside, the Chronicle's 100,000sub­ design work for The Children's Book cants, a whopping 20 percent increase scribers were treated to a terrific many­ Cellar in Waterville. The job was sub­ over the previous year. Nearly half hail column feature that describes David as "a mitted to a U.S. and Canada east coast fr om outside New England; 10 percent solid academic citizen" who has shaken design contest run by Neenah, one of the are students of color; and 7 percent are the world of American art studies. premier writing, text and cover paper from foreign countries. manufacturers in the U.S ....The fall Museum Receives Grant LL.Bean catalogue salutes Tom Claytor Hoop Scoop The Colby Museum of Art is one of 300 '85, bush pilot and independent film­ Beth Staples '86 has been named in­ museums across the country to receive a maker. There are two great photos of terim women's basketball coach, replac­ support grant from the Institute of Mu­ Tom, one in a sturdy Bean jacket that he ing Carol Anne Beach '88, who resigned seum Sciences. Some 1,200 museums dragged around the world. Tom's adven­ in August to take the head coaching slot applied. The grant notification said that tures were featured on "National Geo­ at Connecticut College. The search fora the success of Colby's application "dem­ graphic Explorer"on TBS this fall. ...97 permanent appointee will be conducted onstrates an outstanding level of profes­ percent of the new students went on in the spring. Beth, a psychology major sionalism among all of your staff."The COOT trips.... More than 500 prospec­ and standout basketball player as an un­ $46,000 grant will be used in part forthe tive students visited Colby this summer, dergraduate, has been coaching at nearby preparation of a catalogue of the museum's a new high .... The defaultrate of Colby Searsport District High School since 20th-century collection. grads in repaying federal loans is a very 1991. Laura Halldorson, head coach of low 2. 5 percent. The feds do not require women's hockey and softball and a mem­ For Safety's Sake special default reduction measures until ber of the coaching staffsince 1989, has Emergency call boxes have been installed the rate hits 20 percent. been named the senior women's admin- at 10 campus locations, the result of urg- COLBY NOVEMBER 1994 2 F R 0 M E H I L L Lessons From the Holocaust he irony of Colby's fall speaker e­ A serie of speaker -w hich Wei this book," Leff aid. "[After hearing about Tries and first-year reading program says resulted "from the goodwill of many the wastika incident] I wa n't sure what I about the Holocaust was that love, not people"-included Judith I aacson, an would encounter at Colby. When I saw hare, and hope, not despair, were the Auschwiusurvivor;Julie Go halk, who e that they cha e rhi book, I reali:ed I had predominant themes. parents survived the concentration come to the right place." In the mid t of conver ation Katie Loll, a fir t-year rudent about the horror visited upon Jew fr om Camarillo, Calif., ay he by Nazi Germany, even the most hopes Colby continues to educate painful remembrance evoked a using multicultural themes. "The ense of wonder about the re il­ thing that impre ed me mo t was ience of the human spirit. Stu­ the woman who sun·ived the Ho­ ' dents who read and heard ·vivid locaust (Isaacson). he was really de criptions of beatings, starvation amazing." and arbitrary killings said that in And Gilia Zuhovitzky, a fir t­ the end the storie were neither year from Israel, ays the emphasis hopeless nor di illusioning but he­ on the Holocaust made her feel at roic. The message, repeated often, home on Colby's campus. "I am was that cruelty, no matter how very plea ed and sati fied with the perver e and ambitiou , cannot way the administration, profe sor succeed if compa ion re i ts it. and student reacted again t the La t spring, in an unprec­ wastikas. I didn't have a negative edented 1 1th-hour move, the fac­ feeling at all, because it bothered ulty voted to replace the agreed­ people o much," he said.