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Sally Baker cx�nmt•c ed1rnr Colby's Foot Soldiers J. Kenn Cool This issue's tory ahout Dean of Admissions Parker Beverage'- travel during the fall mwwging ediwr recruiting season clarified for me why Colby is a srecial institution among the rantheon of Brian Sreer small, liberal arr- colleges. It'� the shoes. an d1recror/Jesig11LT That's right, hoes. Parker Beverage's shoes are a lot like him-unpretentious, comfort K Aneste' FotiaJes '89 a Colby mindset-is that he hare the credit for everything. Given the record numbers of Eli:aheth Baker '97 applications over the past fevv years and the wide rread acknowledgment that Colby is conrrilniring wrirers among the hottest schools in the country, Parker could justifiably gloat a little. Instead, he talks about the commitment of his admissions staff, the cooperation of helpful faculty, the Administration: surport of other administrative derartments. He ays recruiting is everybody' job and at William R. Cotter, presiclenr: Peyton R. Helm, i·1ce pres1denc for Colby everybody does it. deioelopmenc and al11m111 relarions: Anecdotes abound. There was the time a family visiting campus during a break period Earl H. of ihe College: Snmh, dean wanted to see a science laboratory, so a phy ical plant en1ployee walked them over to the Susan Conant Cook '75, clirecror of alumni rdarions building, let them in and showed them around the place. Similarly, when a prospective student and her parents stopped by the campus on a Sunday afternoon recently, they asked Alumni Council Executive o Committee: a Colby student f r directions and she volunteered to give them a full tour. Ron Lupton '71, chair; Joanne Admissions in the '90s is much more than recruiting, although efforts to attract superior WedJell Magyar '71, vice chair; students still drive the process. The men and women charged with filling each incoming Libby Corydon-Ar1cella '74: class invest hundreds of hours on the road, on the telephone and in personal meetings with Arthur Brennan '68; John Devine '78: Diana Herrmann '80; prospectiv students and parents telling the Colby story and cultivating relationships. Anne Hussey '80: Lou Enormous energy is required to be rerpetually "on stage" while representing the College, and Richard;on McGinity '67; yet the folks in admissions seem like those Energizer bunnies on television-they just keep Leslie Mitchell '80; Susan Jacoh;on Nester '88; David White '75 going and going. But the admissions officers would be the first to tell you that without the residence hall custodian and the grounds keepers and the scores of peorle working quietly Cnlh)' is publishecl four times yearly for the alumni, frienJs, parents of behind the scenes, the enrollment numbers would look much different. studenrs, senior;, faculty and staff As you read the article about recruiting keep this subtext in mind. And the next time of Colby College . you read or hear about Colby's success in admissions, remember all of the pairs of shoes it AdJress correspondence to: took to achieve it. Managing Editor. Colby 4181 Mayflower Hill Waterville, ME 04901- 841 or e-mail to: [email protected] J. Kevin Cool cov<.:r photo by Marc Glass Managing Editor, Colby COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 2 Periscope Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from hi weekly Win Rate Up S[Udent leaders and lots of campus newsletter, FYI Drama Pioneer Feted administrators ll'ho laid careful trong e\·idence of Cc)lh·\ Gene Jellison '51, directur ,,f plans to ensure good Ccl!'1duct. growing popularity is fnu�d in a dramatic' Cl[ c,)lhy for a rennJ recent survey that refures an We Don't Stay Home shorrh· follo\1·ing his rn1·n outdated opinion that Colby graduation, recently 11·a: Colby is second among all of Web Weaving often loses admission candidates hc)noreJ by the Perforn111w the nation's colleoes and The number ,)f 1·isitors to head-to-head against top college Arts Depa�rment, markm,; the un11·ersities in tl1 percentage ,)f olhy's World Wide Web site competitors. The sun·ey sho\\'S ; occasion of hio -15th Culhy that Colby takes 61 percent students studying abroad. A has increased dramatically o\·er m reunion ·ear. Mark Benbow ' sun·ey by the Institute of the past year. This 1·ear's use is direct competition with Bates, Roberts Professor of English I nternat1onal Education 10 times that of th year before 29 percent 11·1th Bowdoin, 16 � Literature, Emeritus, prompted published by The Chronicle of wtth nearly half (4 percent) of percent 11·1th Williams, 17 the special recognition. !ark Hiaher Education shm1·s Colby, the traffic from off campus. percent with Wesleyan, 7' recalls rhar Gene laid the ll'ith I .6 percent of its students Folks ha\·e been looking in percent with Trinity, :'.5 percent grnund ll'ork for the late enrolled in foreign programs, rom e\·ery state and 6 foreign with Middlebury, 71 percent Irving Suss in gi1·ing high topped only by Carleton c,1untries, including Argentina, with Hamilton and 72 percent \'isibility to drama at Colby. College, at 20.2. In actual Croaria and Indonesia. Most with Connecticut College. The department dedicated its numbers of students in study popular are pages for the recent production of Hamler to abroad programs, Colby ranks library, admissions, alumni, Admissions Smasher Gene and l·)l)nored him at a third among the top 15 communications, WMHB, the When Colby received 27 dinner prior to the November undergraduate institutions with Echo, math and computer round-one early-decision 30 performance. applications la ·t year, most 318 students, behind St. Olaf science, chemistr ·and religious thought it was a record that Cl'llege with 454 and Carleton tudie·.Se\·eral hundred Salute Scholars wit 1 3 6. The only other candidates for the next would srand for a while. Not so. A tip of the mortar boards to NE CAC colleges listed in the freshman class filed applica Admission dean Parker the four \1·inners of Phi Beta top 15 are Bates (15.3 percenr), tions using the Internet. Beverage reports that this year's Kappa Scholarship Awards, Middlebury (14.6 percent) and round-one action, which closed presented h· rhe local chapter Bowdoin (13.2 percent). The To Name a Few No\·ember 15, reaped 305 and awarded on Family most popular destinations of all Dean of Faculty Bob McArthur applicant , an astnni,hing new Weekend. They are Heide U.S. tudents studying abroad has been named to the board of high. Round-one ED applica Girardin '97 (Jay, Maine), are, in order, the United overseers of the State of Maine tions have nearly tripled since Noah Owen-Ashley '97 (Essex Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Bar. ... Paul Machlin (mu ic) 1992, \\'hen 11 l 1Vere received. Junction, Vt.), Brigette Krant: Mexico and Germany. Nation recently 1\·as inten·iewed by AnJ, cit thi writing, the '9 Cpringfield, l\!o.) and ally and at Colby, far more ABC ews ( ew York) number of regular admissions Emilie Archambeault '9 women students (63 percent) regarding the collection of Fats applications appears headed for (Sunn ·\·ale, Calif.). yet another record. study abroad than men. Waller tapes that's been donated to Wesleyan. Paul has Moosecellaneous Cornering the Market been doing some research and Ah, Sweet Victory! Gene Chadbourne of the Debra Spark (visiting professor, work on this collection.. .. It's hard to say how good it felt physical plant department has English) has been named the Associate Dean of Students Jan to avor December' 2-1 vicrory uncovered the original plan, 1995 recipient of the John C. Arminio is co-author of a over Bowdoin in men's ice dated October 19, 1939, for the Zacharis First Book Award for research article in the January hockey. In recent years, the loop Hero weather \·ane atop her novel, Coconucs for the Saim i sue of the Journal of Swdenr Polar Bears rarely have mer Miller Library. It was dra1rn by (reviewed in Colb)•, April '95). Personnel Adminisrrawrs .... defeat in A I fond Arena.Better the master architect for the The award, funded by Emerson Margaret Felton Viens '77 has till, some 0 former Colby Mayflo\\'er Hill campu , J.F. College and named for the been promoted from assi tant to player IV re on hand ro observe Larson, in a rhree-inch-to-one college's first president, honors associate director of annual the 40th anniversary of the foot scale. heathed in copper, the be t debut book published gi\·ina.... Karen Bourassa's opening of the rink and, the the finished \'ane is I feet by a Plough hares writer, new title a manaoer of next day, to duel in an alumni wide and seven feet rail. ... alternating nnually between cheduling and fa�ilities will game. And we can be proud of The Colby Museum of Art has fiction and poetry. Last year's better identify her role to the the Colbv student fans who met the rigorous standard of award for poetry went to folks who arrange the hundred behaved them elves after a accreditation by the American Colby's Tony Hoagland for his of special meetings and events handful spoiled the match by Association of Museums. The work, Sweec Ruin. that take place on campu every repeatedly throwing objects on label will give the museum academic year. the ice during the 1994 home enhanced international credi match with Bowdoin.Salute bility and profe sional standing. 3 FEBR UARY 1996 COLB Y The Pope of Journalism by Sally Baker he 1995 Lovejoy Award Newspapers Editor-in-Chief that i honorable and con T recipient, Murray Louis Ureneck, who chairs istent with what they do." Ke1npton, is among the finest the American Society of Understand that, friend reporters and writers ever to Newspaper Editors' New ay, and you understand work in the AIT1erican press. Technology ComIT1ittee. why John Gotti would In a career panning more Kempton's friends and invite Kempton to the than five decades-IT1ostly as felk1w journalists speak of Ravenite Social Club to a reporter and columnist for him with extraordinary "The reason people celebrate an acquittal, why The New York Post and New respect and were anxious to respect him is that he's mobster Carmine "The York Newsda:v-Kempton contribute thoughts for the never forgotten how to Snake" Persico' wife ent has been renowned for his informal remarks President work," Neiusday Washington Kempton flower on his elegant style and thorough Bill Cotter delivered at a bureau chief Jim Tedman 75th birthday, or why he going integrity, for mining dinner for Kempton before said. "If there's a big story, was enraptured of Jean important stories that others the convocation. he's there. And he has an Harris but thought her mis , for skewering windbags shooting three bullets into and charlatans and for the Scar�dale Diet Doctor sen·ing as a conscience of wa� questionable. ("As his profession. Murray :aw it, two hots But Kempton' \·ocational into a cad are fine, the third kills account for only a was overd,)ing it," ex portion of the enthusiasm plained Bob Liff, a friend with \\'hich friend and from Newsday.) colleagues speak of him. Mario Cuomo, then ew They cite, too, his kindness York's governor, tired of and generosity, particularly being critici:ed in print by to younger journali ts. "It's Kempton and called almost unthinkable for Newsday columru t and Murray to be unkind," said 1992 Lovejoy recipient \\'riter D;wid Halberstam. Sydney Schanberg. "What "He has a great mind and a can I do tO make Murray \\'Onderful humanity." like me 1" the governor Kempton wa on campu asked. chanberg said, "Get in twember to receive the Chris Davenport '95, a former Newsday intern. talks with legendary yourself indicted." Newsday reporter Murray Kempton. Lovejoy A ward and an The writing, though, i honorary Colby degree and "If journalism had an uncanny ability for finding the core of Kempton. to deliver the 43rd Lovejoy ecclesiastical hierarchy, the small Storie , for finding "A 75-word sentence, Addre s (see excerpt). He Murray Kempton would be details that others under sinewy and ironic and al o participated in a the Pope," New York Times pressures of daily deadlines demanding, is something symposium on The Media columnist Rus ell Baker said, would miss." newspaper reader seldom and The Internet with expressing succinctly a nearly Asked what makes see," George Will wrote everal members of the industry-wide opinion. Kempton's columns so good, when Kempton received a Lo\'ejoy Selection Commit "There is no one in writer Calvin Trillin said, Pulitzer Prize in 1985. "Some tee, including Bill Kovach of journalism who has a more "Murray writes not about Kempton sentences, climbing Harvard's Nieman Founda detached, skeptical eye for what people ay but about a winding path up a pillar of tion, Jane Healy of The what i happening or a how they behave. It's based thought, must be read twice Orlando Senrinel and William deadlier wit in capturing on the notion that people can to be properly enjoyed. But Hilliard, retired editor of and di secting it. I wish we find them elves in variou why complain about a second The Oregonian. The panel could clone him," said walks of life through no sip of vintage claret?" was moderated by As ociate David Broder, a 'vVashington particular fault of their own, His style has often been Professor of Government Pose political columnist even if the walk of life is called "baroque." Many of Anthony Corrado and also who received the Lovejoy contract killer. But then it's his friends like to tell the included Portland (Maine) in 1990. up to them to behave in a way story about the 1955 New COLBY FE BRUARY 1996 4 York Supreme Court decision that make him the only libel-proof reporter in In Praise of Reporters the country. The court ruled Below are excerpts from rhe Lovejoy Convocation speech by Murray Kempton, that a column he had winner of the 1995 Lovejoy Award. written couldn't be libelous ... It ha been said omewhere that the one e sential sentence in Holy Scripture i because it was "frequently "Thy Will Be Done" and that all else is commentary. Our trade remains for me the cryptic in meaning, some story you cover, the bumps you take, the people you meet and the struggle to make times contradictory and only en e of it all in the only way \.Ve can ever hope to make sense, which is by eeing, dubiously suggestive of touching and smelling. All else is commentary. matter defaming plaintiff." I have lately noticed not in my elf but in my bosses a tendency to think me too old The judges claimed that if to go around as I used to, and 1 find my elf liding further and further away from being a they couldn't under tand reporter and toward becoming a commentator and what he wrote, the plaintiff commencing to rely upon what's in my head, an couldn't either. under-populated premi e not enough diffe rent Such Kempton lore from Rush Limbaugh's as a re ource for public abound . There's the rickety enlightenment and forthe stimulation of the self. old three-speed bike on All my life, when called upon to identify myself to which the 78-year-old the Internal Revenue Service, the la t judgment, I Kempton get around New have preferred to enter not journalist, not York City, his e er-pre ent columnist, not commentator, certainly not three-piece uit in a blue author, but simply as "new paper reporter." And jean world, the in iahtful even now when my entitlement to make that one-liners that everyone quiet affirmation seem to dimini h year by year, a loves to quote. (Arriving newspaper reporter is as fervently all I want to be late for a pre conference as it ever was. given by Ed Koch, News And o I am worse equipped than many of my day' legend at in a chair predecessor in your Pantheon to talk to much that promptly collapsed. purpose about the responsibility of the media for "There' Murray Kempton, earning the tru t of the public. breaking my furniture,' It may or may not be parochial of me to sa) that I am by no means certain that we Koch aid. reporter ought to worry all that much about the danger of lying to the public. The "It's the people's furniture, public i , after all, an abstraction. We would far more erviceably take care not to lie to Mr. May r," he replied.) or about the people we are covering. For after all, if they can tru t u if not to be fair by During the Lovejoy their light at least not to lie to them, we may not be correct about them-who can be convocation, the self-depre assured of being correct about anyone else?-but we will not be false to them. When cating Kempton was cited by we go among human , we are unable to deal with them as abstract pre ences; their very Bill Cotter for hi manifest faces command us to be honorable, and once you learn not to lie to a face, you're pretty contributions to journalism. ecure from the peril of lying to the generality of the faceles . "You are, as you mo- I have lately been commissioned to review the two huge volumes of the Library of ro ely put it to your friend America's Reporting World War II, a compilation of the journalism from those days that columni t Jim Dwyer, 'The seemed to its editor fittest to endure, although it would have lain forgottenstill Elder Murray Kempton," without their curio ity and their initiative. Cotter said. "It i a mark of What truck me most in these men and women was not just how magnificently they your unwarranted but truly rose to the occasion but how much more they were able to learn than their editors at felt mode ty that you the home desk or their audience at far civilian remove. find that Murray Kempton ... Ofall this noble company, ErniePyle, whom I never had much chance to read at the -with hi Pulitzer, hi two time, rand above the re t because he most fully incarnatedwhat a reporter ought to be. George Polk awards, his Pyle went again and again wherever the worst extremes waited, the unconscripted National Book Award, his man bound by conscience to the comradeship of the conscripted and enduring by free Grammy and hi member- will what they were compelled to endure by neces ity. hip in the American ...No reporter, however good, can avoid realizing that the novelist is his better; but Academy of Art and both know that the victim is in the end mo t of the story. Since the victim is and Letters-irritating. Fortu probably will ever be less and les able to come to us, the reporter who is worth his salt nately, the re t of us recognize that his one commanding duty is to go out himself and look for thevictim. find him intellectually And that i why I so much fear that the futurist may be right and that in time to challenging, in ightful and come the accountants will have had their way and the reporter will lip into the even heroic." + category of surplus labor and affliction to the profit margin. 5 FEBRUARY 19 96 COLBY Pretty Flaky At printing time, Mayflower Hill wa in the midst of one of the HILL SIDES snowiest winters in memory. Waterville received nearly three feet of snow by the time Colby broke for the holidays in mid-December. Fit For a King Shortly after students returned in early January, three more now Due to a mechanical error that resulted from using text from storm in quick uccession dumped several more inches on the a 1995 calendar, the date of Martin Luther King Jr. Day was campus, creating snow piles normally not een until late in the season. incorrectly listed in the 1996 Colby calendar. The College Fortunately, the snow was uncharacteristically dry, which made apologized to members of the community, and the mistake did removing it less of a chore. Even so, Colby work crews seemed in a not impede a campus celebration of the King holiday. perpetual rate of catch-up. Alan Lewis, director of the physical A program of gospel music, ongs for choir and a reading plant, said that a pre-Christmas storm dropped so much snow so from Dr. King's "Letter From a Birmingham City Jail" were part quickly that the 12-per on crew a signed to remove it needed of the observance on January 1 S in the Page Commons Room reinforcements. The crew arrived to begin snow removal at 11 p.m., of the Student Union. Students in the Colby Sounds of Gospel Lewis says, and were still attacking sidewalks and parking lots at 7 group performed, as well as a community ch ir led by Professor a.m. the next day. Lewis asked for volunteers from other phy ical of Music Paul Machlin. James Varner, a faculty member from plant departments to help and wa overwhelmed by the response. the University of Maine and president of the Bangor Chapter "Electrician , plumbers, carpenter , custodians, everybody was out of the NAACP, read from Dr. King's famous letter written there shoveling," he said. while he was in jail in Alabama. Lewis says that although the massive snow amounts are "nothing Several members of the Colby community also participated we haven't seen before" he is concerned that continued heavy snow in a King Day breakfast at the Muskie Center in Waterville. may create problem . "If we keep getting snow like this we may run out of places to put it," he said. Domestic Dramas Mark Greenwold, selected by three top modernart curators as the 1995 winner of the Jere Abbott Emerging Artist Prize, Searching for Meaning exhibited his works at the Colby Museum of Art from Novem ber 5 to December 29. iversity has been a buzz mean socio-economic Greenwold, a professor of art at SUNY Albany who is word on college cam diversity. We would like to D represented by the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York City, is puses for years, but seldom come up with a definition so known for his diminutive yet intricate paintings, which tum does the word mean the same there is some common the depiction of family life on it ear. Greenwold's work, said thing to different people. In understanding." Nan Rosenthal, con ultant in the Metropolitan Mu eum of an attempt to improve Ryan says the group, Art's Department of 20th-Century Art, "includes a number of communication and enhance composed of 18 students, tv.io neo-surrealist domestic scenes of strife and psychological com policy making, a steering faculty members and three plexity. It i small, impeccably crafted and highly imaginative.'' group has been formed to staffmembers representing a The Abbott Prize was established in 1993 with funds from a build consensus on a defini broad cross-section of the bequest by Jere Abbott, the first associate director of the tion of diversity. campus, will work toward Museum of Modem Art. It is given biennially by the Colby Led by Student Associa building a consensus, but will museum, and Greenwold is the second recipient. tion President Tom Ryan not impose a manifesto on the '96, psychological counselor campus. "It would be pretty June Thornton-Marsh and pompous of us to ay 'this is Hamlet Unplugged Associate Dean of Residen diversity at Colby.' We want "A younger generation blasted by the error and crimes of an tial Life Jan Arminio, the to build understanding, not older one"-that was the promotional line for the Performing group hopes to overcome write a description." Art at Colby's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which open misunderstandings created Colleges everywhere are ed at Unity College on November 29 before returning to by differing interpretation .struggling with issues of Colby's Strider Theater for performances on November 30 and of diversity, Ryan says. "It's a diversity, Ryan says. "It wa December 1 and 2. very ambiguous word," he a common theme among all The play was directed by Richard Sewell, a member ofColby's said. "People have been of the student presidents I performing arts faculty and founderof the Theater at Monmouth. upset in the past because met at the World Youth The performances were the culmination of a semester-long when we talk about issues of Conference [last summer in course for a dozen Colby students, 10 of whom played double diversity nobody agrees on Korea]," he said. roles while also helping as technicians and dressers. One of the what that means. For some it The steering group hopes production's goals, Sewell said, was to explore ways that young mean racial diversity, for to present its recommenda actors can produce classical theater without the equipment and others it means religious or tion to the trustees at their support crews that often render professional productions pro political diversity. It also can April meeting, Ryan says. hibitively expensive. COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 6 written by Sttlph�n Collins '74 Visiting hen Cri tina lovita, a dark-eyed, high-voltage, 41-year-old Romanian play \\'rightand director, erved coffee to gue t in her faculty apartment, it was an Artists W inky and opaque T urki h brew, boiled in a saucepan and flavored with three drops of Drambuie. Of hundred of cups of coffee ipped in a eme.rer, this wa the memorable one. And fora group of rerfom1ingart students, T urki h coffee,cla ical theater and improvi ation coaching were part fa ready diet erved up in lovita's flat last fa ll. Bring Jovita wa on Mayflower Hill as guest director of the Performing Arts at Colby production of Luigi Pirandello 192 1 play Six Characters in Search of an Authar. One of the top director in the Romanian national theater, she came to the United rate in 1993, and h i the lare tina erie ofvi itingarti t whobringa worldofthearerexperience roColby'· performing arts program. In two month on campu , ·he built from cratch a production f New Pirandello's pre-ab urdi t play, which i a· den e and complex a her fla\'oredT urkishcoffee. At the ame time he imprinted en the ca tof student her indomitable pirit and her passion Vision � r theater and what he call it unique ability to tell the truth. The visiting artist program in performing art ha been in place omewhat informally for a number of year but didn't become a regular departmental feature until 1994, according to Robert McArthur, dean of faculty and vice pre ident for academic affairs. Before that the College hired a variety of directors, de igner anJ theater coaches for pecific project and ometime fi lled abbatical vacancie with profes ional , but, to beca11se of a College-wide hiring freeze, couldn't fonnally acid a po ition. When a enior facult member retired, the Performing Art Department got the green light to recruit two vi ittn artt t· each academic year, and lovita wa the fir t for 1995-96. In January, Pamela cofield, the econd visiting arti t thi year, wa in residence Colby tory you might work in four or five plays in four years. It's very competitive. At Colby you can do 20 plays, you can write, you can direct." Faculty benefit as well, he says. "I have colleague who talk about lecturing to 500 tudents, and they're kind of sour on it. Here, we get to kn w the kid and then fo llow them for year after they graduate. To get to know the kids is the greate t," Wing said. For the fall of 1995, the department decided to recruit a director for the Pirandello play. Thur ton explained that the performing arts faculty select plays that repre ent a particular genre within the department' plan of a broad four-year program. There were more than 100 applicants for the eight-week position, and fourfi nali t were invited to campu for interviews. As part of the evaluation they were asked to teach improvisation classes. This brought srudent into designer who works for Jim Henson Producti ns, did the selection process and exposed them to four outstanding talents costumes and ma ks for What I'm Noc and for Mocher from the world of profe sional theater. Courage and Her Children. The four finalist included a South African woman who had "It's an incredible infusion of energy to our program worked with playwright Athol Fugard, a director from Los Angeles every time it happens," said Jim Thurston, the adjunct who was directing soap opera and situation comedies for network assistant professor of performing arts who directs scene televi ion and an African-American playwright from New York and lighting design. "They shake the place up and they City. Even the election process was educational for performing arts give us a lot of constructive feedback." student , Wing says, as they worked and dined with these experi They also allow a small department to cover a wide enced professionals and heard about their experiences, good and range ofperforming arts skills in thecour e ofa student's bad, in the theater. four-year stay at Colby. Last fall, for example, the Jovita ultimately was cho en, in part because of her experience as faculty agreed that students in the future would benefit a top director in Romanian national theater and as the founder of an most from a voice coach-someone who could help independent company, the ChamberTheater Ensemble in Bucharest. with projection, breathing and even, perhaps, dialects. She also was di tingui bed by her success since coming to Boston, "We can't afford to hire new faculty, but with this where she won the "be t play of the year" award at the 1993 Emerson position we can hit those needs over a period of time," Playwrights Festival and directed The Merchant of Venice at The Thurston said. The position works well, says Associate Professor Joylynn Wing, chair of performing arts, because it bring working theater professional from New York, Los An geles and London to Waterville. "Between the Colby in London program and a steady stream of visiting artists, we're ending our students into the world and we're bringing the world to our students." "We think a liberal arts training is the be t you can get for a career in theater," she said. "Theater is com munication. That's rhe urge; that' the creative in stinct." But effective communication requires the broad understanding of both the material being pert rmed and it context, Wing says. Knowing Shakespeare' literature, not just his line , inform the craft, a does knowledge of international i sues and philosophy and the aesthetic appreciation one might get in the art department. "M.F.A. program are looking fora range of experience," he said. Colby's program al o give tudents lots of opportu niti s to perform, according to Wing. "At a conserva- Publick Theater, anJ bccau;c ,he came ll' ith a Jeer interest in and understanding of P1ranLlellu and his ru::ling layers of m ll'hich she promoted the CnlbY rrnduct1on and talked abnut her life and ll'ork in Eurnre. ''I'll gi1·e ynu an examf'leof ;1 play that couldn't get appro,·;1[ w get intn rroduction "Under �lacbcr/1 ; because 1t dealt ,,·nh po11·er and especially 11· 1th 11·omen taking rower. The dictator's 11·ife ll'as the' problem in this case . • ":-\n old actor from one of my productillm told me, 'Lnnk-make sure you do communism snmething outrnge,,uson stage , like ha,·e a \\'Oman taking ofther clothes. Then they II' ill rick nn that and \'LlU can finally 1·1eld and say, "Ok And II' hen Richard ell'ell and Perform ing .Art, at Colby produced Hamler m th end of the first seme;,ter, piro drO\·e from Waten·ille to Boston in the winter's first snOll'Storm to pick up IOl·ita and bring her to Mayfloll'er Hill for the Fridny night sholl'. "I gained a on Hubbard 77 and Do ug t\laflucci 78 o pe ned a b1c;·cle relllal shop m Bar 1-!arbc1r: l\l:l inc. in 1980. It ,,·as�H ubba rd said ITccrnl;. . · ]ike cmcnng a marriage ....\h appy one. Their l ;-year panncrsh1p has resulted 111 ,rn Jcl llreprcncunal port k•liL1 LhaL Loda; 111clucles a restaurant and bre"· pub. commcrci,1! prnpe rty and real estate de,·clopmen t . Like"·ise, john l\ liller "86 says that "·hen he and Kalie Colben ,..\ ]kn "86 and three other c lassmates began the leg" ork m Lhe fa ll of 1 986 Lo L) pcn Pi==a Oasis 111 Ponlancl, Ore .. ·· People replaced money. There \\·as a Je,·c] or immediate Lrusl Lhal \\"e (L1Ltlcl ,1 11 \\ l)rk togcthn. That's hem· \\"(' nude lL . he said. ""the "·hole family ,,.L1rk111g.·· Other Colby sm,111-busincss pMLne rsh1ps ,1] -L1 Jun.' endured k1 r yurs. 1-!usb,111cland \\·1fcjl1th Da,·1s ·16 and K,nen BrL1\\·n Da,·is "/6 gro\\· oysters and clams at Bay,,·,1tcr. their :iqu Keith Donnellan ·ss. Tl1m Heyman ·ss. Ted Pappadopoulos "87 ,1 11cl Teel \\.,nrcn "88. ,1 ka the l"lKk band Gl1 To Bl;i=es. not only ha,·e performed and recL1rc.lcd tL1gcLhcr buL ]i,·cd tL1gethcr for ; cars 111 the s,1me house in Philadelph1,1 -until late bst summer " hrn PappaclopL1uk1us got married (Lo Jessica \lorns "l)(l) and rno,·cclout. Trymg tl1 pin cll1\\·n "·hy SL1rncCl 1lby p.mnersh1ps thriYe 1 like trymg lO e:-- pJam kw c. Qua!Jues of learni ng. \\"Orking ,md gro\\ing together are fostered or di-cL1"crecl al Colby . but the precise origins of the relationships that led to successful partnersh i p and artistic collaborations-only a sampling or \\"hi ch arc featured here-are less important than the e1wiron ment that nurtured them. The happy mixture of stimulated stuclellls, opportunities for aclvemure and the conndence LO ri sk failure that pro duces clllre preneurial teammates ma>· be the besL evidence yet that Colby educates for life byRohf7-t Gi\\espie ...... PHOTO ILLU TRA TIO couple of years after gradua thinks "maybe that's the common thing A tion, Jon Hubbard and Doug in the Colby min have to rely on the aged ales to carry them cated. Others here are intelligent the brewery. Maffucci ays they through "an insatiable demand." Al but maybe a bit ...prov incial? We collaborated with Colby junior though their beer is sold around the coun didn't invent the brew pub," he Tom Moffitt on a Jan Plan project try, half is sold right on Mount Desert said, "but we could see its impor to te t for impurities in yea t Island, keeping their marketing costs low. tance, and we made it happen." strains from Europe and to en, "It's like an old milk route, very per onal," All colleges have their sure that their fe rmentations Maffucci said. The pub, re taurant and legends, but it's doubtful that are free of contaminants. brewery together employ about 30 people many have institu tionalized Moffitt, under the guidance at the ummer peak, which Maffucci calls the concept of serendipity as of As ociate Profe or ofBiol "a nice business, a nice scale." Despite a Colby did with Pre ident Rob ogy Frank Fekete, set up a phenomenal growth rate in the brew pub ert Strider's talk to generations te ting laboratory at the brew market, their aim is to stay only within of entering classe : you go to ery and taught Hubbard and the tate, he say , discounting "the Ameri the library, look for a book and Maffucci procedure for con can drive to make 'em bigger and better. stumble across another book ducting the te ts themselve . The whole point of the industry is that it's that leads you to your life'swork. "It's a real practical thing," fresh and local. It's proof that you can Hubbard says he can't recall said Maffucci,a history major, make a good local beer, a true beer." whether he actually ever heard anticipating refre hing biol Maffucci feels that he and Hubbard President Strider's "serendipity ogy lab skills he'd learned at could take the plunge on their bike rental peech," but he knows that ev Colby. "l really think mall and other enterpri es together because erybody knew it, and he business allows you to pursue Colby "wa a breadth of knowledge." didn't have a clue when I left Colby to reach marketable ize, "They look at you dealing O\·er eas again, Joth ay , but I what I was going to do," said Karen and ay, 'Yeah, right."' Startino ·mall and their main focu continue to be "j u t Davi , who shares the aquaculture work without partner , theyputtheirown money p1ecino careers rogether." of Baywater, Inc., with her husband, Jo th. into the business, got it incorporated in Their farmin Hood Canal adjacent to the 1989 and had their first marketable crop in o To Bla:e , a Ph iladelphia-based Olympic Peninsula is 40 minutes from the spring of 1991. Initially they sold mo t band who took the ir name from their house on Bainbridge Island, a Se G 88 vinyl record of that title, of their product in Japan. their 19 attle suburb with a population of20,000- A their three kid grow up--"smell have mixed country, rockabilly and blue and a far cry from her homewwn of anra ing like oyster ," aid Karen- he is stay music in three CDs. E\'en though they're Fe, N.M. A partnership that began as a ing closer to home and al o working as a all doing day jobs to keep body and ·oul marriage currently manages a busine mediator in di\'orce and cu tody cases. together (one of the original member , that grow about 250,000 oysters a year. Even as she does all of Baywater's book Chris Homer ' 5, left the band fora fu ll Joth Davi worked ummers on a keeping and taxes, he claims that her time teaching job in 1989), "It's a real Fisher's Island, N.Y. oyster farm while M.B.A. from the UniversityofConnecti eriou thing," according to lead guitarist pur uing an M.A. at Yale, and he knew he cut isn't being u ed very much. But today and vocalist Tom Heyman. wanted to be his own boss and to be near the busine s is about to add a third crop, "Love, Lu t and Trouble," their second the water. He also learned the biology of a huge clam called a goeduck (pro record, appeared on Skyranch, a French shellfi h culture and did genetic research nounced "gooeyduck") that is used in label, followed in eptember 1994 by on how to grow clams and oy ters to sushi in Japan and in Asian res marker ize fa ter. By chromosome ma taurants in this country. nipulation, Joth makes the animals un They would like to ex- able to reproduce, and the result i more pand the company, and better tasting meat. growing more ani The business is hard work. Twice a mal and, possibly, week at low tide he walks or goes by boat to pull up the three and-a-half-foot by two-foot bag of clams. On a little cart he take them back to a working table and orts, count , tags, in voices and puts them in a cooler for the 35-minute boat ridetoSeattle, where everything is sold. With two low tide everyday, he' work ing half the year at night with a head lamp. Karen call it "great fun,"although he admits he' "not big on the middle of the night. I prefer to do that kind of work in the summer." ln the pring and summer she "seed out" the mall oy ter or clams into hell bags and places the • onto growing racks. ' Karen say that when banks see people Doug Maffucci and Jon Hubb� (opposite page) looking to fi nance oyster farms, which are have been bu�ess partners since 1980. Karen (above) easily swept away in high ·eas or tainted by and joth Oa\iS (left) enjo orking red tide in the 18 months it take an oyster for themselves-and with each other. 13 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY knockoffs of Lou Reed and Gordon Lightfoot and others, Heyman say , which they're selling in the State themselves to cut out the middlemen. "For years we've been do- got a little buzz going with 'Anytime ... Anywhere.' We're till moving for ward."The buzz -which inten- ified when one of their songs recently was included in a Melrose Place epi sode-hasn't led yet to offer from a major label, but when Atlantic napped up Ea t Side's top act, a vacuum was of American ie that we chose created, and Donnellan think Go To not to chase." Blaze will he East Side's priority for the In 1988, after Heyman and next year and that the majors will look Donnellan " curried back to again at what the label is doing. Waterville for a while" to regroup ("! think there' a certain mellow ohn Miller says that although most of ness to being in Maine," aid the Pizza Oasi founders were his "Anytime ...Anywhere" on East ide Donnellan), they migrated to Washing friends at Colby, he didn't even meet Digital. That record also was picked up ton, D.C., "out of convenience," accord Katie Colbert Allen until three weeks by a German label and netted the band ing to Heyman, "because it's better than Jbefore graduation. Allen says she knew "a hell ofa deal," said Keith Donne Ilan central Maine for a band." When they got only one of the group of five when they a tour of witzerland, Germany and Hol their fir t record deal soon after, Heyman were at Colby. A native of Abington, land last August. Go To Blazes al o said to himself, "We can do this." Mass., she wanted to ee the We t Coast toured the State in support of "Any Donnellan remembers a time when the summer after graduation and ended time ...Anywhere," performing in Chi he and Heyman and Ted Warren were up in Berkeley, Calif. From there, everal cago, Cleveland, Minneapoli , an Fran living together in Washington and com Colby people "with a mutual past" got in ci co and other cities. "We did well for muting together to work with the same a car and drove up to Portland, where them. We sold the five thousand records con trucrion company. "Driving to they hared a cheap apartment. they'd hoped we'd sell," aid Donnellan. Maryland, we aw just a little bit too Miller, who majored in economics at The band members, who began play much of each other," he said. But, Colby, was delivering pizza part time ing in their teens and shared musical Heyman said, "Ba ·ically we like what when, he say , it suddenly occurred to rastes formed on Aerosmith and other we're doing, and the fact that we're him, "I can do thi my elf." '70s group , played together or were in friends makes it work. We were friends Allen says he believes they took a competingbandsatColby. "There weren't before we did it. We're doing good stuff. chance starting the restaurant becau e of very many of them, and we were in them," Belief in that keeps you going." their imilar background and similar out Heyman aid. "We just were friends." Go To Blazes has made vinyl 45 looks. "Colby people took life a bit more Three ofthe four were English major , but singles for collector ' market and ha seriously," said Allen, an Engli h major. the exception, biology major Donnellan, two ong each on the soundtracks of "Education to them is a valuable thing and aid, "I've lived with Tom Heyman al three films, including a oon-to-be-re provide a certain trong foundation,a base most a long a ! lived with my parent ." leased oundtrack record for Kill the Moon togoon. ltgive you a real enseofsecurity." That' becau e he and Heyman alway lighr. For the German company they re When Allen reflects on the change shared "a imilar world view, a certain cently recorded "And Other Crime ," in her partner hip-the exodu of three cynicism about ...you name it ... the lice mo tly acoustic, ob cure cover songs, of the original five owner , the sale of the COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 14 original restaurant and the new place "Katie and I have figured out how to pendence enhances the value she places with a new name, Oasis Cafe-she real do the dance. We get along very well," on her relationships with neighbors and izes that she had no idea what an educa said Miller. In January of 1988 he and her talks with customers, and even if tion she was in for when the business Allen bought a second restaurant, Miller things go poorly, she says, she can't blame started. She was "twenty-two and naive," taking over the original store and Allen anybody else. "There's quite a lot of pride she says, and through inexperience made taking the new. When Miller became a in doing the work. You put a hundred and mistakes in managing employees and in vegan and would consume no animal ten percent of yourself into it," she said. planning. Eight years later, she is aston food or dairy products, working with "It really does give you a sense of being ished to find herself managing a thriving cheese and pepperoni became difficult. able to determine your own future." But business. "College kids who didn't want He sold his store, openinghis ownhealth she ees the fle xibility of her job as a to wear a suit now employ twenty-five food restaurant for a year and also produc double-edged sword. She can take time people and have a health plan," she said. ing a whole-wheat cheeseless pizza that off when she needs it, she says, but if "It just amazes me that we provide health didn't take offowing to a limited market. people quit or get sick, she has to take and paid vacations and a viable way for Fitting in back at tl1e OasisCafe was hard, over. The business inevitably offers dis people to make a little bit of money. It's he says. He became an investing partner, couragements, the frustration of being nice to see the results of a kind of whim." with Allen the managing partner. broke, the down time in February, the Throughout the changes in the Oa need to lean on next month's money to sis Cafe venture, the Colby tributaries pay bills. She and Miller also talk about continued to flow.Amy Vander Vliet '86 hiring a manager so she can start a family, joined the staff.Through friendsof friends, but with her husband struggling to make Allen met and married Michael Allen a career as a writer and their income '86, whom she says she didn't know at irregular, it's tough to plan a budget, she school. A biochemistry major at Colby says, and she wonders if she can afford the and fledgling writer, Michael does some move. "In my grumpy moments, I think of the bookkeeping for Oasis Cafe . sell! But," Katie said, "I don't want to give "It' strange how life works up the independence." out," said Katie. "If I'd Of course, nothing is forever. The followed my plan independence common to all of theseColby travel, go to grad partnerships have even emboldened Miller school and be to leave Oasis Cafe for veterinaryschool in come a professor Colorado in the fall, although he will re ! wouldn't have the life tain his interest in the business. Even I have. I had no clue that start- though he'd always wanted to be a veteri ing a business would introduce me to narian, Miller says, he took no science the man I married. It's pretty neat." courses at Colby and before hi "family" Katie likes working forherself. lnde- business venture with Katie and his other enterprises, he would not have had thecour age to try vet school. "I've already started two other businesses," Miller said, "and both failed,but l 've learned a lot. I don't regret any ofthis. It's a whole other college educa @) tion. Neither of us (Opposite Page) Go to Blazes band left Colby thinking members, from left, Keith we were going to be Donnellan, Tom Heyman, Ted restaurant owners. Warren, and Ted Pappadopolos There were other have played together since their dreams-and hope ColJ:>y days, but Oasis Cafe owners Katie Allen and john Miller (right) fully it's easier to ful barely knew each other in college. fill them now." + 15 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY TheSowing!}2�9- C: OLRY 1-l:RRUAR� 1996 16 Success inAdmissions Begins in a Thousand Places One Student at a Time In many ways, Madawaska H igh School and Trinity School could not be further apart. The former is a public community school in a small, northern Maine mill town along the banks of the St. John River. The latter is a private preparatory school in an upscale neighborhood on New York City's Upper West Side. The Madawaska school is a rectan gular, blond brick building surrounded by a gravel parking lot; Trinity's gray stone edifice could pass for another fashionable apartment build ing on its tree-lined street were it not for the school name engraved above the entrance. Madawaska's athletic teams play on fields that offer panoramic views of southern New Brunswick; Trinity teams play Route 11 is a hard road. It swoop anJ on artificial turf on the roof of their building. But these two schools have wirls, rises quickly, hottoms out. Every 1 one thing in common. Both supply Colby with top students. miles or so you meet a car, or, more often, a In the span of a few weeks last fall, Dean of Admissions and logging truck, teetering ominouslyarounJ a Financial Aid Parker Beverage visited Madawaska and Trinity, as well comer or over the crest of a hill as it fights as several other schools in Aroostook County and in New York, during the momentum of it load, straddling the trips that showcased the challenges and successes of Colby'srecruit center line. lntersper d along the highway's ing efforts. How does the College attract sons and daughters of rural well as ll Street path berween Bangor and the Canadian Mainers as children of Wa executives? Spend a few days on the road with Beverage and you begin to see. border are a sprinkling of outposts just big enough to warrant pot on the map--Sherman ration, Knowles Comer, Winterville. It is fair to suppose that Route 11 is not on the itinerary of most college admission representative . And it certainly is not the kind of road upon which one would expect to encounter the dean of ad mis ion from a top-20 college. Unless that dean is Parker Be,1erage. Beverage ha been navigating the route for many years to vi it high schools in small horJer communities in extreme northernMa ine. Far from considering uch journeyshar dship Jury, he look forward to them, hecause at the other end of that long road are talented, hard working students who may be memhers of a future Colby class. Beverage's three-day swing through northern Maine included stop in Fort Kent, Fort Fairfield, Lime rone, Carihou, Pre que Isle, Houlton and Madawaska. After an early morning stop at Bangor his fir t day out, he began the long drive up Route 11, catching an occasional glimpse of Mount Katahdin, its head in the cloud . Three hours into the journey,he topped in Ashland to refuel and eat. Option were limited; in fact, there was only one-Lil' , a quare, squat road ide cafe urrounded by mud-caked pickups. Beverage ordered the pecialty, hepherd's pie, and let the waitress talk him inro a bowl of Grape Nuts pudding for dessert. He enjoyed the reverie of the midday crowd, mo tly men in hallcap with insignias of agricultural companie . "The people in this part of the country are wonderfu l," he said after getting back on the road. 'They're really alt of the earth." The remainder of the day was consumed hy a vi it to Fort Kent, where both teacher Owen R. Haley '58 and the guidance counselor, Garland Caron, have strong Colby connection . Caron sent two daughter , Vickie '8 and Kellie '92 , to Colby, and Haley' daughter Kristen is a fir t-year tudent, following the path of her ister, Laurie '87. Beverage sat in Caron' office as Haley leaned in the cl orway and the three men chatted casually. "Kristen loves it down there," aid Haley. " eem like all of the students we end you do well." 17 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY Fort Kent has provided Colhy several outstanding students in Indeed, he ne\·er fa iled tll 'quee:e intL) h1, remarks 19 FEBRUARY 1996 CL1L F\Y lvlanhar ran\ m11'r 1·enernhle ;mJ pre:,[i!.!inu' prq1<1rarory ,chl1l 1b a-, 11·ell as kecl.(A gain thi� year, Colhy 5et a new record for excites his seme,, he say,. "The Ji1·ersiry here i, >ll ama:ing," he s<1id a:-. early decision applicants with 460.) he strolled past an outcloor pn1duce market heing rended hy rwn Asian Beverage clearly is mme than a recruiter. He counsel students men. "You rnulJ11·alk intu any one of rhese shops and prnbably hear about the college selecrion process in an COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 20 if Collw 11·eren't a good schoL1l they 1wrnkln't recl1mmend it tLl their students," he said. BY -f r.m. Be1·erage h,1d Cl1tnplered his first dily uf 1·i-;ir,, ,mll he begm1 the long 11·alk back to the hl1tel. A fe11· hnurs later, he ll'a' b<11.:k un the Li�t Side fL1r dinner at Zucchern.an 1 t 21 FEBR UAR Y 1996 COLBY A Man for All Reasons By Sally Baker �culty ·suciate Professor nf Legacie::-,the program bring:, R1le "I'm used to reading A Philosophy Dan Cohen together 18 mcm be rs of Descartes as a philosopher, '75 S8)'S it has taken a [,mg c,)lby's faculty and three top and I read him with a sense time to develop the cuur�e Descartes experts from other of where he'- going and he will help teach this institution:, to ponder such Cohen �aid. "Ifyou ask me what's happened to this spring. Four hundred years, subjects a:, dualism in 'Who was Descartes?' I say dis ussion in phi losophy for to he exact. literature, the mind-hody he wa� <:1 great philnsopher. the last four hundred year ," "It all started in 1596," split in psychology and \\'hat If you ask a mathematician, Cohen said. "It' often hard Cohen said. "Rene Descartes it means to he "mndern." he wa · a great mathemati to keep sight of the extra- was horn." Students will write re earch cian. If you ask a phy icist, ph ilo:,oph ical motivations Cuhen and Professur Jim papers on aspects of Des he was one of the leaders of that he had, his connections Fleming, the head of Colhy's cartes' thought and partici the sc ientific revolution." to science, religion, politics interdisc iplinary Science pate in recitation sessions, In the course's planning and 8ll the other things that and Technology Studies and each lecture will be stage, Fleming and Cohen were going on in his life that program, decided two years open to the public. recruited faculty member� hy formed his thought. I hope ago th8t the College needed The course i:,re miniscent asking them what difference the course will give me a to celehrate the 400th of an interd isciplinary Descartes made-and whole new per pective on the anniversary of Descartes' seminar on Thnmas Aquinas continues to make-in their context in which Carte ian birth in some meaningful that Cohen took as a student disciplines. As the person ph i losophy developed." way. So, said Fleming, at Colby from Professor of whose world-view sup Fleming ays he i "We're having an event." Phi losophy (now Dean of plante.:l Ari totle's during interested in "putting In a spring- emester Faculty) Bob McArthur. the Renaissance, De ·cartes is phi losophy into conversa course that underscores Cohen loved that course , considered the father of tion with all the e other Colby's commitment to "even though I find Thnmism modern thought. So, Cohen disciplines." The value of cross-disciplinary learning, dry as dust," he said. says, "we had no prohlem the course for students, he Cohen and Fleming have "Descartes is one of the fi nding people who could says, is that "they'll see lots combined a seminar and a few figures who begs for talk about his influence." of interesting threads but colloquium series in an all interdisciplinary treatment And both he and Fleming are they'll find one to identify out examination of Descartes' because hi effect has been anxious to hear about these with and will write a paper influence. Called Carte ian across the curriculum," other point of reference. and see connections rather Outdoor Market rofessor Thomas Tietenherg, in inviting industry to participate in environmental cleanup "is Pa lecture during Fall Trustee treated as roughly akin to showing up with the Devil for Weekend inaugurating the Mitchell communion." He said many ecologists blame big busines for Family Professorship in Economics, cau�ing environmental problems in the first place, and spoke on the value and limitations trusting the pol luter· to solve those problems is for them "a of market-based approaches to form of ideological ·uicide." environmental problems. Either extreme-wholesale adoption or rejection of "U ing the market to protect the market-based solutions-is inadequate, Tietenberg said. He environment has become almost a noted that tremendous strides have been ma le where fad in U.S. policy circ les, and it has regulators have approved programs that allow one entity to already spread to Latin America, transfer pollution credits to another. If a region is restricted Africa and the Far East," said to a finite number of pollution units, one company that does Tom Tietenberg Tietenherg, 8n internationally not use its full allotment may sell its excess units. This recognized expert in environmental economic . "[It] is clearly proces can lead to a reduction in pollution, ince the an idea whose time has come." But in some circles, he added , number of pollution units available may be reduced over COLBY FEBRUARY IY96 22 - PUNDITS & PLAUDITS Keeping It Together The referendum la t fall to decide whether Quebec would remain part of Canada created extracurricular activ ity for Jane Mo s, Robert E. Diamond Profe or of Women' tudie and French, who became a frequent commentator for ariou new organization . Mo s, one of the premier U ..academic expert on Quebec, was quoted in two nationwide Associated Pres tories, on Reuters Canadian wire ervice and in the International Herald Tribune. he al o wa interviewed about events in Quebec by CBS and Maine Public Radio. Jim Fleming and Dan Cohen '75 found a special way to celebrate Descartes' birthday. Spinning Their Wheels The budget impa e between Pre ident Clinton and than di ciplinary splitting teaching as a career that thi Congres was becoming agame of"Rus ian roulette," A i - off. They are going to ee i my life, thi is what I do, tant Profe or of Economic Saranna Thornton '81 told connection between math but I very rarely get to ee the Boston Globe in a November 14 article. and history, between other people do it," Cohen Thornton, a former taffmember at the Federal Re erve, philosophy and environmen said. "It' a treat to hear my aid that the di agreement was more serious than a imilar tal studies, between anthro tar colleague . " rift between then-pre idem Ronald Reagan and congre - pology and English." Fleming and Cohen are ional leader in 1981. "It wa resolved without thi sort of Remembering McArthur' in e tigating ways to publi h big tandoff," he aid. "The two ides were more willing eminar, Cohen adds that, a the colloquia paper , perhap then to negotiate than to manipulate the debate." he did, student will "get to in an anthology. Fleming The drawn-out battle threatened to damage financial hear a lot of Colby legend ," note that ome faculty market if an agreement was not reached quickly, Thornton popular professor from member may come away aid. "They're playing Ru ian roulette on an i ue that is whom they haven't had a from the eminar with fre h traditionally dealt with at election time u ing ballot ,' he chance to take cla e . He idea for re earch projects said. "The Republican believe they have a mandate from recalls the friendly competi and p rhap , too, with a more the last election and the president fe els like he ha a tion that developed among interdi ciplinary outlook. mandate from hi election. For this to be re olved, there ha the fac ulty of McArthur's "The idea is to get the to be a compromise." course. "People didn't want fe rment of knowledge to embarra themselve in throughout the curriculum, Changing Landscapes front ofthe ir colleagues, so o you might find, for A New York Times article ovember 26 cited Jame M. we got some great lectures, ' in ranee, ociologi t puttina Gillespie Profe sor of Art and American Studies David he aid. "I think that may more and more about Lubin as an influential voice in the recent reinterpretation happen with the De canes medical technologie into of the work of 19th-century African-American painter course, too." their cour e on death and Robert S. Duncan on. "It' an odd fact about dying," he aid. + Lubin, whose 1993 book Picturing aNation: Art and. Social Change in 19th Century America included a chapter about Duncan on, has helped engage art critics in a reevaluation time, and it could be extended to include wap and trades of the land cape that previously were di missed a second among nations. rate example of the Hudson River School of painting. But Tietenberg, an early proponent of uch program , said they are no cure-all. "In ome way we were a bit naive in Letter of Recommendation? our a umption about how ea y implementation would be Hawthorne expert Pat Brancaccio, John and Caroline and how completely these system would produce cost Zacamy Profe sor of English, commented on the film The avings," he aid. "On the other hand, we underestimated Scarlet Letter for the Voice of America in November. the impact they ultimately would have both in term of the Brancaccio said that the fi lm, although wildly inaccurate in number of pas ible application and the degree to which its depiction of colonial life, was 'not a bad co tume they would tran form the regulatory y tern." drama" if taken on it own merits. It depiction of He ter Tietenberg' lecture wa delivered in the Colby Mu eum and Dimme dale bore little resemblance to the character of Art, and hi audience included College Tru tee Ed on V. in Hawthorne's book, he said, "but if you remo e your elf Mitchell Ill '75, who e gift endowed the profes or hip from the idea that it' a faithful repre entation it wa n't o Tietenberg hold , and Mitchell' parents, Helen and Ed on bad. They changed everything but the names." V. Mitchell Jr. + 23 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY Making Math Count By J. Kevin Cool om Berger says mo t Perhap that's why he has returned again in 1990 as people don't want to Tpeople don't under spent much of his profes director of the evaluation listen, they can't. The stand math. Anybody who sional career trying to unit. But for all his adminis scale is too large. Things has agoni:ed over the value figure out the best way to trative accomplishments, like that [retreat] funda of "x" knows what he teach kid math. Berger stiII is happiest in mentally change the means. But that' not what Berger ha immersed the classroom. And, in that character of the fa culty he mean-. him elf in virtually every respect, he feels that and create an attitude, a "There is little appre a pect of math education, coming to Colby i a re turn fee ling, that makes Colby ciation for math because of from developing materials to his r )Ots. the place it i ." the way we teach it," aid for various curricula to "! taught for a year at Berger says that Colby is evaluating how federal Trinity [College] early in just what he expected-a agencies determine grant my career and it wa a toss humane place where faculty rec ipients for new program up whether I would go back and tudent care about "I'm a relative late-comer to [to Minnesota] because I their work and about each education, but it's an loved the mall college other. "The faculty here intere t I've had for a long environment," said Berger, rake teaching very eri time," he said. who did his undergraduate ously," he said. "This is not Since the early 1980s, study at Trinity. "l made surprising because the Berger has been involved in the choice to go back faculty are close to their the University of Minnesota because of the re earch I tudents. l have student Talented Youth Mathemat was doing at that time, but coming into my office all ics Program (UMTYMP most of my career has been the time, working next affectionately referred to as a compromise. l always have door, down the hall "umpty-ump"), a program wanted to be in this kind of there's a re lationship." for exceptionally gifted teaching environment." A personalized environ middle and high chool He concedes that Colby ment is particularly impor students. The experience is an adj ustment after 28 tant for math students, led Berger to a deeper years at a sprawling univer- Berger says, because the understanding and aware ity with 50,000 tudents, work can be intimidating ne s of the shortcomings in but ays the differences can without a faculty mentor to Tom Berger math education and be ummed up in one help. "Studies have hown Berger, Colby's new Carter prompted his involvement word-scale. "l had never that tudent in calculus Professor of Mathematic . in formulating programs at attended a fac ulty retreat begin a downward spiral "We put too much empha the national level. In 1988 until l came to Colby," when they're truggling to sis on computational he took a leave of absence Berger aid. "They f1ew me understand the material, mathematics, teaching from UM to serve as back for the retreat la t and unles they get help at kids to turn the crank. So program director for teacher summer and l sat next to that early stage they what if you can solve preparation and enhance Bill Cotter. He and Bob probably will fa il. A math quadratic equations? What ment at the National McArthur were both there cla s should have no more does it mean ?" Science Foundation. He li tening to what faculty than about thirty students, Berger, who came to remained at the NSF the had to say. After you've which is the maximum we Colby after nearly 30 years next year to oversee the been most of your career at have at Colby. The teachers at the University of agency's program in instruc a large univer ity you are available and the Minnesota, says he is a tional materials develop aren't accustomed to being students prosper as a re ult," pragmatist, not a theorist. ment and research, and listened to. It' not that he said. + COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 24 Tr ouble in Paradise Faculty Notes U A lien" specie from endangering or extirpating Charlie Bassett, Lee Family Profe or of English and .!"\.. Argentine ants to the nati\·e fauna, Cole aid . American Studies, Phyllis Mannocchi, as i tant profes or mongoo e are deva rating The combination of ofEngli h, andA ociate Profe orofEngli hJames Boylan indigenou Hawaiian flora exotic predator and lo of were li ted as Colby "legend " and fauna and threatening habitat have far-reaching in the 1996 Insider's Guide to the world' most pri tine effect , he aid. "We are Colleges.. . . Tamae Prindle, evolutionary laboratory, aid losing, on average, twenty associate professor of Ea t Asian F. Rus ell Cole, Oak specie per year [in Hawaii]. tudies, erved a a panelist for Profe or of Biological Under normal circumstance the Japanese Women' Studies Science , at the inaugural the rate of extinction would As ociation in 0 aka .... Nikky Oak Profes or hip lecture on be about three or four Singh, as ociate profe sor of re October 27. pecie per hundred years." If ligiou tudie , presented papers Cole, whose talk wa it continue unchecked, the for the In titute of Common presented in conjunction lo of biodiver ity will wealth and American Studie with the annual convocation deprive the world of it mo t Nikki Singh and Engli h Language in My ore, honoring Bixler and Dana extraordinary "living India, and for the American Academy of Religion in Scholars, aid that plant mu eum of evolution," Philadelphia ....Barbara Best, a sistant professor of biol and animals brought to according to Cole. ogy, presented a paper and chaired a panel forthe Ameri Hawaii by missionarie , He aid effort to top the can Society of Zoologist in Washington, D.C. ...Ji m merchant and tourist over degradation of Hawaii' Webb, a sistant professor of hisrory, has been named the the past few hundred years fragile eco y tern include fir t president of the Saharan have wiped out many carefully monitoring Studies As ociation ....Assi - indigenous species unpre biological control experi tant Profes or of Sociology and pared to deal with the ments, uch as the introduc Anthropology David Nugent di ease, predation and tion of predators to off:et presented a paper and erved a habitat de truction the the pre ence of other pecie a panelist for the American An foreign invader introduced. who have no natural thropological As ociation in For example, Cole said, predators. He noted that Wa hington, D.C. . . . Paul mosquito larvae brought to the e experiment have Doss, assistant profe or of ge the island in water barrels backfired in the past becau e ology, was elected chair of the by whaling vessel and the control animal disre Committee on Geology and dumped into local tream garded its intended food Public Policy at the recent na- Barbara Best became e tablished and supply and selected an tional meeting of the Geological Society of America in transmitted a new and altemati e. For example, ew Orleans... . Vi iting In tructor of ociology and virulent di ease-avian mongoo e introduced to Anthropology Constantine Hriskos pre ented a paper for pox-that has virtually control rat in ugar cane the American Anthropol gical Association in Washing destroyed the lowland bird fields in tead entered the ton, D. C. . .. Sandy Grande, instructor of education and population. In another case, rain fore t and decimated human development, erved as a panel moderator for the he aid, feral pigs introduced the bird population.. American Educational Studie As ociation in Cleveland. by human and now e tab "Research ha shown ...Assistant Professor of Government Paul Ellenbogen lished in the wild deva tate that these ecos tern are presented a paper forthe Southern Political Science As o vast area of nati e gra ses. re ilien.t if the de truction is ciation meeting in Tampa, Fla . ...Mary Beth Mills, That allows hardier foreign stopped," Cole aid. "We as i tant profe sor of sociology and anthropology, pre- plant pecie to proliferate don't have a lot of time left ented papers forthe American Anthropological Associa and remO\ e habitat for to save the remaining tion in Washington, D.C. ... JillGordon,a i tant profe or indigenous fauna. biodiversity of Hawaii. If we of philosophy, presented a paper for the Society for An Argentine ants, probably fa il, it may be the folly for cient Greek philosophy at Birmingham Univer ity .... brought to Hawaii by which our descendant are Visiting A i tant Profes or of History Robert Lafleur merchant r military hips, lea t likely to forgive u ." presented a paper fora conference on 16th-century tudie are particularly destructive The Oak Profe orship in San Francisco ....Robert Nelson, assi tant profe sor because they breed rapidly was established in 1993 by and chairof geology, pre ented a paper for the Geological and devour defen eles local fo under of the Oak Society of America in New Orleans .... Charles Conover, insects. The e voraciou Foundation, a private a istant profe orof physic , pre ented a paper for the New eater are re ponsible for philanthropic organization England Section of APS at Bowdoin College. + actually altering ecosystem devoted to education and where they reside by ocial ervice. + 25 FEBRUARY 19 96 COLBY Sentenced to life by Sally Baker hen Richard Daniel crimes themselves or Danny One by one, the other W Starrett confessed to Starrett's journey through members of Starrett's family police that he wa respon the legal system, lies at the were convinced of his guilt sihle for a t1n�-year spree of heart of A Stranger in the was arrested. '·She was acting (and his mental illnes ), and kidnapping, rape and Famil)': A True Star)' of I ike she almost expected they pu lied away from murder in Georgia and M �crder, Madness, and things to turn out this way. Gerry. Danny's father South Carolina, one person Uncondirional Lo11e (Penguin It was almost as if l had withdrew emotionally. The was skeptical. Starrett\ Books, 1995), the latest invited her out for a week familyfe ll apart. Danny was mother, Gerry, couldn't hook from Pulit:er Pri:e end date and had just sentenced to 10 life term . beliel'e that her son was winners Steven aifeh and dropped hy to rick her up." His mother told a reporter involved in any crimes. Gregory White Smith '73. The murder increased the that the experience had After all, she maintained, made her "free." he came frnma "perfect" "'! have done everything all-American family. A Stranger in the Family is right,' she explained," write Gerry Starrett 's stance "a stunningly intimate portrait Naifeh and Smith. '"I have 11·ent deeper than maternal worked forty hours a day, love. Despite her son's of a diseased mind and a loving making sure that everything confession, the testimony of family's slow and painful with th is fa mily was perfect, several of his victims and and all of a sudden, none of fu rther eviJence uncovered disintegration." it make any diffe rence. And by police-and despite so all that ffort, I now gentle prodding from her reali2e, just doesn't matter. hu band-she turned away A Stranger in the Family intensity of the manhunt for And, in a way, unJerstand from reality. Her on was not is, as its jacker copy attests, Starrett, and once he was ing that has set me free ." . guilty, period. "a stunningly intimate captured his conviction was "After [the] day [Danny This, more than the portrait of a diseased mind almost a matter of course. was ente-nced]," they write, and the moving story of a But Gerry Starrett mounted "Gerry never worried about loving family's slow and both a costly legal battle and Danny again-at least not painful disintegration." To a public relations campaign in the same way. She still understand Danny Starrett, in her son' defense. How, had waking nightmares it's almost enough to know she asked over and over, about what might happen if that he chose his victims could a young man who was he ran into 'some male three by cru ising the classified married, the father of a 2- time his size who was ra ised ads. He would call the year-old girl, and a former on the treets and didn't advertiser's number, and if a model child be a serial rapi -t share Danny's concept of woman answered he would and murderer? She main reasoned discourse.' But at then show up at her door tained that Danny's child least the real nightmare hoping -he was both young hood oddities-he was were gone, the one that had and alone. If so, he was hyperactive, disruptive in come in the middle of the likely to kidnap her, take her school, a verbal bully to his night to ro il her sleep, the to his home and rape her. siblings-had largely ones in which a child Eventually, Starrett disappeared once he became, wandered into the path of murdered one of his 1·ictims, in his preteen , a voracious an onrushing car or teetered a teenager named Jeannie reader. She said he had a on the edge of a great cliff McCrea, whom he described brilliant mind and an while she watched helplessly a a willing hostage. "She ea y oing, attractive from a di ranee, unable to didn't fight back," tarrett per onality-hc had every run to save him or call out a '73 Gregory Whrte Smith wrnte in a journal after he thing going for him. warning." + 'OLR) FERRui\RY 1996 26 Shifting Sands ntil relatively recently, the study of African history U meant examining the exploits of Europeans in Africa. AlanFre Taylorsh '77 Prints Introductory courses in the continent's past generally paid William Cooper's Town lip ervice to African kingdom that rose and fe ll even Power and Persuasion on the Frontier beforethe first Portuguese traders arrived in the 15th of the Early American Republic century-and, one uspected, tho e kingdoms only got Alfred A. Knopf noticed becau e their organization paralleled that of Euro Historian Alan Taylor '77 once pean monarchies. The pattern of ordinary life across most of again tum his deft hand to a Africa were counted valueless or, at be t, lost in the mi t of portrait of a particular American preliteracy. The influence of Africans on Africans was left place in a rollicking time. A he for anthropologists and archaeologists to sort out. did in Liberty Men and Great Pro Times have changed. But, as Associate Professor of prietors (University of North History James L.A. Webb notes in his newest book, Desert Carolina Press, 1990), Taylor Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western erves up an engros ing tale of Sahel , 1600-1850 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), entrepreneurship--and kulldug there still are time-honored "truths" about African history POWEM A?\0 PE-RSU/1.510" 0°" rut. tRO�TIER Of THF. F.AllLY that can stand reconsideration. gery-in the early United States. William Cooper, who came from Webb's study describes the ways in which ecological ALAN TAY LO R change in a region of We t Africa called the ahel (now humble, Pennsylvania Quaker largely con urnedby the rapacious Sahara De ert) forced stock, learneda a young man how to manipulate political sahelian populations into new social and political alliance and economic circum tances to his own advantage. Di plac and influencedtheir congress with North Africa, sub-Saharan ing a ho t of more rightful owners, he assumed control of a Africa and European trading stations on the coast of what is large tract of land in New York and founded Cooper town, now Senegal. A the desert moved relentlessly southward settlingthere withhisfamily-including onJamesFenimore sahelians who had urvived on farmingand live tock herding Cooper. William Cooper eventually became presiding judge found that they either had to and U.S. Congressman from Otsego County. move or to take up new economic James Fenimore Cooper chronicled his father' life and Thanks to Webb's activities such as trading. Those the settling of Otsego County in a novel, The Pioneers. book, another who moved ahead of the desert Taylor u e quotations from The Pioneers to provide a loose framework for thi book, and they not only help put piece of African and into the savanna lands on its edge eventually merged with other historical facts in a fa cinating second dimen ion (we look history has been groups from the north and east. at them from Taylor' viewpoint and fromJa me Fenimore liberated from The new residents of the desert Cooper's), they coincidentally make the reader want to revisit Natty Bumppo, Chingatchgook & Co. Eurocentrism and edge, who called themselves Whites to differentiate themselves Taylor's exquisite attention to details of place, time and returned to the from sub-Saharan black Africans, metaphorical setting make this book, winner of the 1995 peoples of the establi hed trade links with North New York Historical Association Manuscript Award, read continent. Africa and with the European like a sprawling novel. Mo t readers will be hooked from trader on the coast. Their the first page and will hardly look up until the last. + communities were headed either by clerics or by warriors. The cleric-headed groups grew grain and other crops to trade for meant acquiring increasing numbers of tradeable slaves. But, precious salt. The warriors captured hundreds of thousands of though Webb's conclusions are clearly supported, they may slaves for markets around the world. raise a few eyebrows in the Africanist community. Until It shouldn't be controversial to write that the North now, it was broadly assumed that the Atlantic lave trade African demand for black African slaves exceeded that of accounted for most of the economic changes wrought in the the Atlantic slave trade. It did. As Webb describes it, sahel and sub-Saharan Africa from 1600-1850. European and political violence spread through the sahel and southward, American demand for slaves was supposed to be the key and black Africanslaves "poured" north, where the demand element in building new economic, social and political wa insatiable. In one horrible irony, he notes, the trade in systems in the regions. It was important, Webb says, but it laves for Arab-bred horseswa both brisk and symbiotic: the was not determinant. That dubious distinction is shared by horses were needed forli ghtning raids on villages, where ecology (the desertification of the sahel) and by White children were scooped out of sorghum fields into bags and activities in trading and warfare. thrown onto the horses' backs, but they also were usceptible Thanks to Webb's book, another piece of African history to a host of insect-bornedi eases and died in great numbers. has been liberated from Eurocentrism and returned to the So the sahelian raiders needed more and more horses, which peoples of the continent. + --S.B. 27 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY At Home Far From Home By J. Kevin Cool tudent f this rnntinues,Colhy prngrnm and 'll lo\'ed the I may neeJ tl l urgani:e an College that she "mo\'cd e alumni chapter in Rus�i<1. hem·en and earth" tll enroll, Thi, year, for the fir�t accurd ing to A!>!>OC iatc if time in the school's hi�tnry, Prnfe,Sl)r of Ru,,iiln Sheila three fu ll-time ,tudent, �1cCarthy. "I looked Serhu-Crnatian literature "friendly atrnu,phere " ancl and L1ngL1<1ge. He ;1bo i� a the camaraderie amung repmter for the l'' >pular St. 'tudent,. "I wa, surrfr,ed hy says, the wonders of elec Petcrshurg daily ne\1'spaper thi::.,"he 'aid. "There i' quite tl\ >n ic mail keep him in close Chns Pih (Ru�h Hnur ) and i' <111 COLl1\ Ff:l'RuAR\ 1996 28 Picture This ecky Lebowitz '96 barrier, Lehowit: say-. "At B wanted to teach photog fir t I would walk mtn the raphy. In Russia. With help classroom a11Li eYerytme from outside beneficiarie would tand up." But once and Colby, she wa able to the class became more do it when she pent a informal, the stuLlent seme ter abroad last year in were much more outgoing St. Petersburg. and he was able to make a A Ru sian major, Lebowitz real connection with wa upposed to attend them, he says. cla ses and teach English to Lebowit: concentrated junior high-aged students in on a diffe rent theme each a St. Petersburg school week. "One week we y tern. However, she asked would do composition and to teach photography in read per pective, the next color and was told that if she could Becky Lebowitz (center) organized and taught a photography class and pattern ," she aid. acquire the appropriate for Russian junior high students. The cla s would discuss equipment her idea would be approved. Lebowitz reali:ed the theme and then students would venture out into the that because she would not have acce to a darkroom, she street of St. Peter burg and take pictures. would have to teach the cla s with Polaroid cameras. After Having virtually no previou photography experience, ome persuading, she say , George Hamilton, a "very gener tudent at first "ju t wanted to take nap shot of their ou " Colby parent with connections to Polaroid in Rus ia, friend ," Lebowit: aid. But after he explained the real agreed to donate eight camera and film for the project. purpose of the clas , she aid, "they were great." Lebowitz started her photography cla with a group of "It's a good thing they don't have liability law in five eventh graders. "I wa surpri ed that the class ize was Ru ia, becau e they were u ually running around like cra:y o small," she aid. "But 1 gue they liked it, because every in the treets," she said. "People walking downtown week there were more and more kid . And they kept coming thought it was a little strange, and some people were really until the cla s wa fu ll." She ende The Other Mr. Clinton Approximately 3,000 funk music fan de cended on Colby' Alfond Athletic Center on October 21 for a concert by More Party Mix, Please George Cl inton and the P-Funk All Stars. More than half of the tudent who responded to a survey Judging from the costume , inging and conducted by The Colby Echo aid the College should provide dancing, they couldn't haYe been happier. more weekend ocial activitie . Featuring an entourage of more than The urvey, conducted in November, revealed that while 30 mu ician in full-funk reoalia-char tudents like the availability and variety of campus activitie , acterized by purple and orange clothing they would like more. According to the Echo, only 20 percent and ourlandi h hat -Clinton and the All Stars treated the of the 203 tudent surveyed aid they were atisfied with the crowd of students and community member to three hour- of on-campus ocial cene. The new paper quoted one memberof the mu ic and merriment. Clinton, whose unique fu ion of rock, Clas of '99 a aying, "We need more Stu-A ponsored event jazz and reggae produced the ound de cribed a "funk" popular on can1pus becau e off-campus partie take away from the ized by his 1970's band Parliament, now tour mall venues but community and create more problem uch a driving drunk." retains a trong following. Nearly half of the survey re pondent aid they prefer on Co-publicity chair Paul Fontana '96 of Scar dale, N.Y., aid campus parties becau e they are more convenient and don't the concert wa "a huge event. It wa the mo t fu ll concert in require tran portation. recent memory." 29 FEBRUARY 19 96 COLBY The Sciences' Big Bang By Sally Baker he student sitting in the but \\'e haven't been teach gathered members of the T new Paul J. Schupf ing students how tn decide various science departments Scientific Comr"'uting which cumpounJ� to make ifts& and, with them, spent two Center ,m the wr floor of in (1rdcr to accomplish a rants and a half years researching the Keyes Building ha� task," he �ays. " nw we can." G and writing the Plan for the Je layed supper for a \\·h ile. He adds that Colby students Sciences, which was imple He's tapping on Cl keyhoard, are ahle tL) mine Jaraha�es mented in January 1991. �urrnunJeJhy equipment dcscrihin,g crnnpuuml an ywhcre, thanks to a half The three-phase plan called that \\·ould make student'iat acti\'ity anJ structure that decade's effort hy members for re\'amping the curricu many majl1r uni\·ersitie� are availahle alnwst Sl)lcly to of the di\'ision in partner lum to focu · on research by \\'ecp \\'ith envy. ix Silicnn pharmaceutical firms and ship ll'ith ollege adminis students at all levels, for Graphics Wl)rkstatim1s ring chemical c11mpanic�. tratms and �raff and several adding to the physical space the room. On a far table a �hattuck is prnudnf the don1.,rs. Enrollment in in which science was taught gleaming Po\\'er Challenge technology, purchased with mathematics are up l 00 and for upgrading to state desktop supercomputer of-the-art equipment across quietly goes COLflY FERRUARY 1996 30 Dramatic Improvement rving Sus didn't introduce theater to Colby, but during I his 23-year tenure on the faculty (1957-80) his name wa ynonymous with it. He wa a teacher, director and actor, and he parked an interest in drama on Mayflower Hill that ha never waned. Su died in November 1993, and the College ha learned that he left an additional legacy to the art he loved-a $183 ,000 bequest to endow a performing art fund at Colby. Earning from the Irving D. u s Fund forthe Performing Arts will be u ed to bring to the campus visiting "promi nent practitioner in the field of performing arts, including such people as actor , dancers, motion picture directors and m l Che istry teaching assistant Terri Poon loads an autoc ave cene de igners." grant from The Kresge ment and Alumni Relations Joylynn Wing, chair of the Performing Art Department, Foundation of Troy, Mich., Randy Helm, Corporate and aid he and her colleague were "delighted" about the gift announced in November, Foundation Relations from Suss. "His generosity and vi ion will urely enrich not bol ter the final portion of Director Linda Goldstein only our program but the entire campus community," she aid. the plan. The grant requires and A ociate Director Betsy And that will be fitting ince Su s did so much in hi Colby to raise more than Brown make visits, too, and lifetime to instill a broad enthusiasm for drama on the campus. $1.8 million in new gifts by they craft written propo al "Many of Sus 's early production , under the auspice of May 1, 1997 toward the in concert with members of the student club Powder & Wig, were in a mi erable wood completion of a $5-million the Science Division, led by framed former storage garage near the tenni courts-aptly project to renovate current Cole, Shattuck, Chemistry named the Little Theater," remembered Dean of the College buildings and to endow Profes or Brad Mundy, Earl Smith. The building burned down in 1968, but Suss was future needs in the sciences. Biology Professor David undaunted. Thereafter, productions were staged in the The renovations will include Firmage and Division Chair orche tra rehearsal room or Given Auditorium of the Bixler everal new laboratorie , Jay Labov. Depending on Center, in the Runnals Union gym, the unfinished loft of equipment and technologi the nature of the grant Robert Union, a dining hall or the downtown Opera House. cally advanced classrooms. propo al, that core group is Six years before he retired, uss, who e faculty a signment Other recent phase three expanded to include other wa one-quarter performing arts and three-quarters English, grants include $750,000 faculty members and saw the Runnals gym rechristened Strider Theater. Two from the Sherman Fairchild administrators. Science years later the Colby in Lon.don theater program was Foundation, Inc. to help faculty have devoted established, and in 1984 performing arts was added to renovate and upgrade the hundreds of hours to various Colby's list of majors. In a 1991 interview with Colby, Suss cience complex; $250,000 grant effort , often giving up reflected on the program' progress and showed he was aware from the W.M. Keck weekends, evenings and of how much a bequest could mean to it. Foundation, Los Angeles, for holidays to help develop "When I came here in 1957," he said, "part of my salary a molecular and cellular proposal while keeping up was two hundred dollars fortheater. We subsisted primarily biology re earch laboratory; with their regular teaching on ticket sales. At one faculty meeting I complained that and $50,000 for a cell and duties and research. And there were twelve false chimneys on the buildings, at two microbiology laboratory always, Cole says, the thousand dollars apiece, which repre ented my budget for from the Ira W. DeCamp College's Physical Plant two centuries." + Foundation, New York. Department comes through Execution of the Plan for once the money has arrived the Sciences has been and the project is underway. Phone It In possible because of Colby's "People on the outside One goal of the Campaign for Colby is to rai e the propensity for teamwork don't realize that there are percentage of alumni who donate to the Alumni Fund, and hard work. On the all these people involved," and the Office of Annual Giving has made it imple to administrative side, President Cole said. "They don't ee make a donation over the telephone. If you would like to Bill Cotter and McArthur the year of focused work. vi it alumni donors, founda We developed a plan for the contribute to the fund and charge your gift to VISA, an tion officer and other sciences, published it and American Express card or MasterCard, call 1-800-3 11- friends of the College to then went out and funded 3678. For all other call to the annual giving department help ecure major grants. components of it. We've had dial 1-207-872-3186. Vice Pre ident for Develop- a great team." + 31 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY Getting More Than the Money's Worth by Stephen Collins '74 )_ nlhy has been described almost legendary for their printers, he says. With rrice _ C as a big family, and thi� ahility to squee:e e,·ery drop increase- for paper becoming fo mily has big expen�es. The frmna dollar without sacrific aging front-page news, Phillips said monthly electric bill for ing student and faculty needs. he already spends about Mayflower Hill is 83,000 on Fiscal respt ln ·ihility is Paaren . ts 5,000 on the 1,600 ream m·erage- ' l million a year. almost a religion wirh the that student use in laser A year's supply of roilet Cnllege\ admini�tration. So printers each year. Staff and tissue and raper tu\\'els runs just where does the College's director of information faculty department budgets 27,000. And when it's time 61.6 milliun 1995-96 hudget tcchnolngy services. Ignore pay for the paper they use; go l for a moment that there ll'as student� aren't charged for Trea�urer Doug Reinhardt nu regular budget for their paper u e. Despite an '71 ride� herd Dn the hig computers and printers 15 amhi tiou!>red uce-reuse items-the increase in the year� agu anJ Cl m�iLler that recyc le pro.gram (alumni numher llf foc ulty member� Phillips ·pent $31,000 thi!> relations and development and cmrelari,·e increa�e� in year fL 1r the toner cartridges offices turn outdated -tatiL1- salarie�. �upporr cu,t� and thm go in the College's 0 nery into notepads and use office and c lassr0<1m space; the addition nr rapiJ gro\\'th l)f L)ffices like lnfmmarion "We spend $27,000 a year on Technology, Career cn·ice� light bulbs and we pend and Off-Campu:o.Study; and the expansion of Athletic� $63,000 on paint." frnm a mL1dest men'. program and a women's tenni� team Alan Lewi� Jirccror of /)lrysiclll /)/(lnc when Reinhardt ,i;raduated tL1 a fu ll men's and a fu ll women'.;; ath letics prngram. ]a:,erprin ters. That despite the hack side of used paper But, says Reinhardt, the the fact that he has kept the fl1r faxes), Gagnon predicts hig picture is more ahout numher of laser printers on thar, "Our volume has not Colhy's expectation -which campus low hy investing in peaked yet." He sees elec come from the top dn\\Tl. networking and shared access tronic information technol Cotter insist!> that Colby to printers. Figure that each ngy contributing to rather adhere to a rigorous cheJule nf the 48 toner cartridges than reducing paper use since to pay Bill Gates and for maintenance, repairs and might print 4,000 page and it ha increased the volume Microsoft for majnr upgrades replacement of won1-out yuu don't need the College's of available information that tn Microsoft Word and Excel materials. He helps make sure new upercomputer to student and faculty members rrngrcim� already running on that the detail are seen to conclude that, electronic find useful. People tend to campus comr"uters, the and that the campus look information technology hrowse the Internet, find Information T echnolu,L,')' and runs well. "(Former notwithstanding, Colby uses something they like, print it en·ices office forks m·er Adrninistrati\·e Vice Pre:,i a lot of paper. out and ometimes even copy approximately 22,000. dent) Stan icholson and l "If you laid all the paper it for their colleagues, say This year's tuition used to joke that we ought to Colby puts through photo Gagnon. increase \\'as the lowest (as a hui!J a tunnel from the copiers end to end, it would Alan Lewis, director of rercentage) in 20 years, and president's house to Eusti , tretch from Waterville to physical plant, acknowledge Colby scores high am mg becau e every rime he walked Omaha, Nebraska," said Ken that Colby' budget for colleges in cost-value across campu · it cost us ten Gagnon, director of adminis operating and maintaining analyses. Under President thousand dollars," Reinhardt trative services. That' a 700-plus acre and 46 William Cotter the College said with a chuckle. rough estimate, ba eel on building is more than most has balanced it budget 16 " ornplexity and cost about 14.000 reams or 7 Maine towns pend. "We year� in a roll'. Colby taffers, come in when you do million sheet each year, and spend abou t 1.3 million particularly in the Phy ical anything on the cale we're it doesn't include paper that cleaning-on cu todial Plant Department (PPD), are doing it," aid Ray Phillips, goes through the laser service. -and about another (' L) L Jl \ F [ I' R l .'\ R ) I u 4 I> 32 � half a million on grounds College sub cribe to about maintenance," he aid. "We 2,100 periodical . Fifteen t NOTHING NEW spend 27 ,000 a year on year ago about 30 percent of necdotes from the Colb, r\rcl1ives lightbulb and we pend the library's budget went for $63,000 n paint." periodicals and 70 percent for Stage of History That million-dollar book ; it' now ju t about Though the Performing Art Department wa n't annual electric bill ha about reversed." ub cription rates founded until 19 4, it root tretch back to the earlie t doubled in the pa t 10 year , for individual periodical da softhe College.Training in public peaking was part and it ha Lewi and his ha\ e g ne up 10 to 15 .,; of the curriculum; rhetoric and elocution were re- colleague investigating co percent per year, and ome quired cour e for every Colby tudent for mor than generation of electricity in titles in the cience have i1 l 00 years. the College's new steam doubled in a single year " . l"�I I The earlie t recorded dramatic production wa She plant. "It's in the rate and Muehlner said. In addition, � Stoops to Conquer, a benefit for "athletic mtere � " the utilization," he aid of the the librarie pay about ·�� directed by In trucror of Elocuti_ on and Gymnastic electric bill run-up. "A lot of 60,000 a year for access to �mi W1ll1am Bams rn 1890. Eight year later tudent it's in the dorms. I've been in library materials uch as . ·� �l�I founded the Dramatics oc1ety, which for the next dorm room where I've electronic database , an �--&i two decade produced play for the town and cam counted eventeen electrical amount that is "a lot more � pu communities with the help of drama coach appliances-popcorn than we paid for the printed Exerene Flood of Waterville. popper , andwich toa ter , material they replaced." By 1926 the Dramatics Society, under the guidance of Prof. tereos, immersion heater , The bottom line is that Cecil A. Rollins '17, had become Powder & Wig, which. merged electric toothbrushes, you efficiency and Yankee with the women's drama club, Ma que, a few year later. In 1933 name it." ingenuity serve Colby Rollin began to teach a work hop that sought to give tudent The paper products- students and faculty member "training in the art of the theater." It was a very unu ual course $2 7 ,000 worth of toilet tissue well. In a recent study of the : for it day because in the 1930s the applied art were not yet and paper towels-tell a tory leading 19 liberal art regarded as a legitimate area of study. about the admini tration's college in the mid-Atlantic Yankee thrift. everal year and New England state , ago a paper manufacturer Colby ranked at or near the in.stalled large-roll toilet top in pending on in truc paper holder in all College tion and student ervices and bathrooms forfree a part of well down the Ii t for what it an agreement to supply the pend on "executive-level" paper. When Lewis and management activitie and Arthur Sawtelle, supervisor its physical plant. As a of custodial ervice , aw the percentage of its overall price of the paper the budget for educational and followingyear, they removed general expenditure , Colby all the holders and put in ranked fir t of the 19 colleges their own so they could hop in tudent service , including for a better price. Sawtelle athletic , counseling and found a year's supply at career ervices and the Marden's Surplus & Salvage financial aid office and fourth in Waterville and got an in in truction, including incredible bargain. This year fac ulty alarie and academic · Cast of A Society Racket (1903) he anticipated the run-up in department expenses. The Eugene Jellison '51, Roll ins's uccessor and theater director paper prices that's now big same table put Colby 14th of · during the 1950s, brought a new energy and creativity to · news and bought as much as 19 for both institutional th.eater at Colby and laid the groundwork for Irving uss, he could store at pre support and for operation and generally regarded as the founder of the College's modern inflationprices. maintenance of the physical theater department (see Gifts & Grants). Paper prices have librar plant, largely thanks to the ians wringing their hands vigilance of Alan Lewis and Record Attendance too. The libraries rely the PPD staff. Among the 83 students who are children of alumni are i ters Jennie increasingly on subscriptions "It's very clear," said to keep up-to-date informa Cotter, "that we put our '99 and Le lie Record '98, daughters of Duane C. Record '65, of tion on the shelve . Suanne dollars into fa culty and Plattsburgh, N.Y., and their cou in, Emily Record '9 , daughter of Muehlner, director of the students and save money on Ralph S. Record '66, of Readfield, Maine. Colby libraries, say the the administrative side." + 33 FEBRUARY 1996 COL BY Passing the Puck By Marc Glass � Thirty year� afte r he hi� former teammates on the uleson played un Cnlby's 1965-66 ice ft )r a C t)mmen]L)ratil'e M h olhy, but he does recall ECAC Di,i�itm II champi cercmnny, recalling the ove t e hearing tories about the onship ice l·h1ckey team, champinnship g<-rn1e evokes championship sea�on. He Paul rnn in '67 11·a� hack in nt lt nnly nt ) talgia hut a �ays he feels no pre sure to uphold a champiomhip A lfond Arena on December sense t)f r"'erspecS til'e. "It \\'a� 9, this time \\'atching his the gn.' P;rnl has seen almost all [Waterville] hotel where of his son's Colhy games, but Ho-Jo's is nnw. All the none matched the Bowdoin parents and significant Still J(icking game for paterna l pride. others 11-cre staying there, In some ways basketball marvel Matt Hancock '90 never left the Before a cro11·d of nearl y and they had all the room - hard11\1od. Hancock, co-winner of the Division Ill Male Athlete of 2,000 and with j ust 1:19 left in one corridor. We had the the Year award as a senior and the fifth-leading scorer in Division Ill h i�tory with 2,678 points, is now executil'e vice pre ident and in regulation play, Brian clean-cut celebration any cored to gi1·e Culhy a 2-1 team \\'Ould ha1·e after a long director of saw mill operations at Hancock Lu mber Company in vic tL1ry. season and winning the Casco, Maine. Along with his brnther, Kevin, Hancock represents Later, inside the locker ECAC Division II champi the sixth generation to work in the family's 140-year-old bu ine s. mom, Paul watched as a onship," he said. "Bu t the After tryouts with the Bnston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors, Hancock was offered a chance topla y with the Continen reporter interviewed Brian, thing that makes it special tal Basketball Association' Albany He chose instead to whose face wa� still flushed for me now is reali:ing that Patroons. play the 1990-91 sea on for High Five America, a California-based from the l'icrnry and the when my parents came to professional exhibition team of former BA and CBA players en�uing randemonium. It the championship game, committed to raising awareness about substance abuse. wa a familiar scene for Pau l , they were younger than I am Hancock now re ide in Casco with his wife, Tracy, and coaches though he wa-;n't in the roday as l watch Brian play." limelight this time. Paul, a hi tory teacher at girls 1·arsity basketball at Lake R gion High chool in n e rby Bridgton,where, as a player, he led the boys team to a Class B rate For Paul, ll'ho earlier in Revere High School in a championship in 19 5. the Boll'doin game joined Revere, Ma . , coached high t(lLRY l·ERRlJ/IR\ J<1ll6 34 Mules Out.,kick Foes SPORTS SHORTS he women' soccer team ended the ea on with a 10-4-3 Trecord and it fir t appearance in the ECAC tournament Ranked ·econd among Oivi ion Ill New England �chOL)h, since 1984. Seeded second, the White Mules defeated the women's tennis team ended the sea on \Yith a 7- 1 record Gordon College in the fin : and a third-rlace finish at the ew England tournament. round and Connecticut · Colby's top player, Kim Chea '99 (Pinang, Malay ia), ,,·nn rhe College in the semi-final · Maine ingles championshir en route to a 15-3 season. Number before yielding to Plymouth two player Jessie Anderson '98 (Norwell, Mas .) repeated as State, 2-1, in the finals. Maine double · champion with partner Heidi Tyng '99 (Ea:it The White Mules et several · Orleans, Ma s.). Anderson al n won the second ingles fl ight at record . Senior tri-captain the New England Champinnshir without dropping a et and Sarah Eu tis (Waterville, fini hed the sea on 16-2 ....Fa cing a tough schedule this fall, Maine ) ended the sea on the field hockey ream wa 5-9, although four opponents second in career as ist with e caped with overtime victories. Season highlight. included a 15. Forward Shannon Tracy 1-0 victory over Trinity, ranked third in the NCAA Oi,·i ion Shannon Tracy ·97 and Sarah '97 (Old Bridge, N.].) tied the ll!Norrhea·t poll at the time, and a 1-0lo stoWilliam ,ranked Eustis '96 celebrate a goal. record for most assists in a · first in the same poll throughout the sea eason with ix and currently ranks fourth in career points . son .... Men's soccer finished the sea on with 18 goals and 10 assi t . Goalie Heather Garni '99 with a 6-8 record but captured the CBB (Wellesley, Mass.) broke the record for most hutout in a title with a 1-0 win at Bowdoin and a 4-2 season with 7 .5 and tied the record for mo t consecuti\'e ,·ictory over Bate on Family Weekend. hutout with three. Forward Marc Small '96 (Acton, Mass.) Several team records als were broken thi ea on, and midfielder Tyler Walker '96 (Hamp including number of wins, fewest lo e , mo t goals in a ton, N.H.) were selected to the Maine ea on (4 ), fewe t goals allowed (14) and mo t shutout (8). College enior Soccer All- tar NCAA The White Mule look forward to another strong eason in team. Head coach Mark Serdjenian '73 1996, says head coach Jen Holsten '90, led by tri-captain was selected by hi Maine coaching peers Kara Marchant '97 (Lakeville, Conn.), Jennifer Lawrence '97 to lead the NCAA team ....Up etting · (Piedmont, Calif.) and Cathy Neuger '97 (Princeton, N.].). . Tuft and Brandei and running only 11 points behind fourth- eeded Middlebury, Marc Smal l '96 · the women's cross country team finished · in sixth place at the New England Championship . Elizabeth A Winning Way · Fagan '97 garnered several honors, including state champion, ead coach Tom Austin : All-NESCAC second team and All-New England Oivi ion lll. H urpassed Ed Roundy · Farrell Burns '98 (Clinton, .Y.) and Sarah Nadeau '99 a the Colby football coach : (Grahamsville, N.Y. ) also v:ere named All-New England .... with the most win (39), . The golf team, led by Eben Dorros '96 (Milwaukee, Wis.), won and the White Mules the Sid Farr Invitational Tournament witha 77. Todd Guilfoyle garnered a share of the CBB '96 (Marshfield, Ma s.) won the CBB tournament with a Championship for the 79 ....Men's cross country runner Pat Fournier '98 (Bellow eighth consecutive year Falls, Vt.) beat 88 competitor to fini h third in the rate of during a 5-3 eason. Maine Collegiate Cros Country Champion hip .... In it The team kicked off the third season a a varsity team, Colby crew ended it sea on with eason with a 14-11 victory impressive fini he at the Frostbite Regatta in Philadelphia. Junior running back Luwaun Curry. over Trinity, avenging la t : The men' novice eight and the women's var ity lightweight year's eason-opening lo s to the Bantams-Colby's only lo s . boats finished in third place, though the women rowed to in 1994. But injuries to key player , including Brad Smith · within a boat-length of the winner. The women's novice boat '96 (N. Bridgton, Maine), Jason Jabar '96 (Waterville, : won its heat and rowed to second place overall. ...The volley Maine), Lawaun Curry '97 (Roxbury, Mas .) and Peter . ball team ended its fifth sea on of var ity statu with a econd Matson '97 (Westborough, Ma s.) left the White Mule at : place fini hat the NESCAC tournament and a surprise ECAC le s than full strength formany games. · tournament berth. Senior Teresa Tiangha (Redondo Beach, Six player were named to the All-NE CAC team, Calif. ) topped Colby' ingle- eason a sist record with 564 and includi11g Jabar, Brett Nardini '96 (Scituate, Mass.), Gregg leads in career a i ts with 89 . After the NE CAC tourna Forger '97 (Canton, Mas .), Jerrod Deshaw '97 (Burlington, ment on November 3-4, Jackie Bates '98 (Spokane, Wash.) Vt.), Kevin Pirani '96 (Stoneham, Mass.) and Tom Beedy wa named All-NE CAC fir t team and Anna Thomson '97 '97 (Livermore Fall , Maine). (Aspen, Colo.) was named All-NE CAC econd team. 35 FEBRUARY \9�6 COLBY Reunion committees have been busy for more than a year planning activities that will make this a special weekend for their classe�. Below is a general schedule of events for the weekend. Reunion class s also will receive a more complete schedule and reservation form in the mail, along with details about class activities. All events take place on campus, unless specifically noted. When you check in at registration you will receive a program that will provide you with the full schedule and the location of all activities. The registration desk in the tudent Union will be open Wednesday 3-9 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday :30 a.m.-11 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Please let us know if you expect to arrive other than during those times so we can make arrangements for your check-in. Reservation deadline is May 24; there i a $10 late fee per registration after that date. No refunds after May 31. We cannot guarantee meals or rooms without reservations. Children are welcome, too! A full program of supervised child care activitie i planned for children of all ages. Infant care (ages 0-4) begins Friday 5-11 p.m. and continues Saturday 9 a.m.-midnight. Youngster, pre-teen, and teen programs begin Friday 3-1 1 p.m. and continue Saturday 9-noon and 1:30 p.m.-midnight. Youngsters and pre-teens also have activities Sunday 9 a.m.-noon. You may choose the aturday-evening-only option (starting at 5 p.m.) for a reduced rate. A list of private babysitter is available through the Reunion Hot-line. Children not registered for child care may purcha e tickets individually and participate in children's meals. A reduced price is available at breakfast and lunch for children ages 5-12, and complimentary "Happy Colby Meals" will be provided for children age 4 and under. For more information, call the Reunion Hot-line at 207-872-3190. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1996 Evening Class Reunion Get-togethers 3-9 p.m. Reunion Registration Desk Open-Student Union Lobby 10 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous All Day Class of '56 Check-in at Samoset Resort, Rockland Clas of '6 1 Check-in at Colby SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1996 Class of '66 Early Check-in Option at amoset Resort 7-9 a.m. Breakfast in Dining Halls Evening Clas of '56 Dinner and Light Entertainment 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Reunion Registration Desk Open-Student Union Lobby Make reservation directly to the clas . 8:30 a.m. Alumni Fun Run 9:30 a.m. Class of '71 eminar THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1996 9: 15 a.m. Tour of the Harold Alfond Athletic Center 9 a.m.-9 p.m Reunion Registration Desk Open-Student Union Lobby 9:45 a.m. Alumni Association pring Meeting-President Cotter Daytime Class of '56 Activities: Boat trip, eal watch, lunch, etc. will provide an update on the College. Mid-coastMaine, Camden/Rockporc/Rockland Alumni Council Business Meeting All Day Class of '61 White-Water Rafting Trip I l a.m. The Parade of Classes Clas of '51 Check-in at Radi on Ea tland Hotel, Portland Class Reunion Photographs for Fifty-Plus Club and Cla s of '66 Check-in at amoset Resort, Rockland Classes of 'Sl, '56, '6 1, '66, '76, '81, '86, '9 1 Evening Cla s of '61 Lobster Bake 11:30-1:30 p.m. Class Luncheons, Cookouts, Class Events: 6 p.m. Class of '5 l Reception and Dinner in Portland Fifty-Plus Club and Classes of '46, '51, '56, and '66 Lobster 6-8 p.m. Dinner Buffet in Dining Hall Bake/Chicken Barbecue 7:30 p.m. Class of '7 l Reception and Dinner in Portland Cla s of '6 1, '71, '76, '81, '86 Cookouts Evening Class of '56 Lobster Bake and Dance at amoset Resort Class of '91 Big G's Lunch Clas of '61 Get-together Afternoon Class of '36 Meeting at 2 p.m. Class of 'S l Theater/Concert in Portland (optional) Clas of '46 Campus and Museum Tour at 1:30 p.m. Cla s of 'S 1 Tour of Waterville at 2 p.m. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1996 Class of '66 Discussion Seminar 7-9 a.m. Breakfast in Dining Hall Clas of '71 oftball Game, Volleyball :30 a.m.-1 l p.m. Reunion Registration Desk Open-Student Union Lobby 1-2 p.m. Colby Author Booksigning 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Class of '66 Trip to Hurricane I land, Rockland Afternoon Alumni and Faculty Panel Discussions 8:30 a.m. Alumni Golf Tournament and Luncheon 2:30 p.m. Tour of Davi and Jette Galleries in Bixler Art Museum Wacerville Country Club with Museum Director Hugh Gourley M ming Class of '56 Activities: Golf, tennis, museums, etc. 3:30-5 p.m. Math Department Reception Mid-coast Maine, Camden/Rockporc/Rockland 5:30-6:30 p.m. Dinner for Youngster and Teens All Day Clas of '61 Activities: Tennis, softball, golf, etc. 6 p.m. Cla of '46 SOth Reunion Photograph l 0 a.m. Class of '5 l Tour of Portland Museum of Art (optional) 6:30 p.m. Cla s of '71 25th Reunion Photograph 11 a.m. Class of '51 leave by ferry to Diamond Cove Island Evening Class Reunion Dinners Class of 'S l Lunch at Diamond Edge Restaurant Dances, Entertainment, Cla s Events: 1:45 p.m. Class of '5 l leave Diamond Cove, return to Portland Fifty-Plus Club and Class of '46 Reception Noon-I p.m. Lunch in Dining Hall Class of '5 l After-dinner Get-together and Mu ic Gig 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Classes of '71 and '76 Boat Trip on Casco Bay Class of 'S6, '6 1, '66, '71, '76, '81, '86, '9 1 Parties/Dances 2 p.m. Tour of Davis and Jette Gallerie in Bixler Art Mu eum IO p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous with Museum Director Hugh Gourley 1-4 a.m. Colby Diner-the after-hours hot-spot 4-6 p.m. Clas of '51 Welcoming Reception 4:30-5:30 p.m. Class of '71 Reception Su DAY, JUNE 9, 1996 5:30-6:30 p.m. Clas of '66 Reception 7:30 a.m.-noon Brunch Buffet in Dining Hall 5:30-7 p.m. Dinner for Youngsters and Teens Morning Coffee and Doughnut in Clas Reunion Headquarters 5:45-6:45 p.m. Awards Banquet Reception 8:30-10:30 a.m. Le bigay Alumni CoffeeHour, Spon ored by The Bridge 6:45 p.m. All-Class Awards Banquet-All alumni are welcome. 10, 11 , noon Tours of Miller Library Tower Reunion classes will be seated rogether. Music by Al Corey 10: 15 a.m. Boardman Memorial Seivice After Dinner Dancing with the Al Corey Band 1996 Reunion Weekend Reservation Name (fir t, maiden/Colby, last): ------Class year: ____ Spouse/guest' name: ------Colby cla s year (if applicable): ___ _ Pkue �d�are pre�rred nam� for n�n�ag� ------ Address: City/ rate/Zip: ______ Home phone: ______Business phone: ------ Adults Children age 5-12 MEALS & EVENTS Number Rate Total Number Rate Total TOTAL Thursday , June 6 $ Class of '61 Whitewater Rafting $79.00 $_ _ Class of '66 Trip and Lunch $11.00 $_ Cla s of '6 1 Lobster Bake $20.00 $ __ '71 Reception and Dinner $24.00 10.00 Dinner on campus* 8.50 4.25 Friday , June 7 Breakfast* 4.0 $3.00 $_ All-Clas Golf Tournament $ and Lunch 50.00 $_ _ Classes of '71, '76 Cruise $ and Lunch $15.00 $_ 10.00 _ $ Class of '5 1 I land Lunch $25.00 $_ _ $ Lunch on campus* $6.00 $_ $3.50 _ Youngsters and Teens Cookout (same price for all children)= $5.00= $_ $_ All-Clas Awards Banquet* 20.00 $_ Saturday , June 8 Breakfast* 5.00 $3.50 Lunch: Lob ter Bake* $20.00 20.00 $_ $_ $ $ or Chicken BBQ* 16.00 16.00 -- _ 4.00 $ $ or Cookout (circle one) $7.50 $_ _ _ '61, '71, '76, '86 or Class of '81 cookout I 0.00 $_ $4.00 $_ $_ or Clas of '9 1 Big G's lunch 6.00 $_ $5.00 $_ Youngsters and Teens Dinner (same price for all children) = $6.00= $_ $_ Reunion Class Dinner (circle one) 50+ Club, Cla s of '46 no charge Cla s of '51 $60.00 $_ Class of '56 36.00 $_ Cius of '61 $25.00 $_ $_ $ Clas of '66 $32.00 $_ _ $ Class of '71 $32.00 $_ _ $ Class of '76 $32.00 $_ _ Class of '81 $33.00 $_ $_ $ Class of '86 $32.00 $_ _ Class of '9 1 $42.00 $_ $_ Sunday , June 9 $3.50 $ $ Breakfa t Buffet* $5.00 $_ _ _ * Cla of '46 and SO+ Club-no charge but youmust indicate if you plan to attend. #Meals marked with # are included with Child Care package price. Other children may attend but mu t purchue ticket. Complimentary "Happy Colby Meals" will be provided for children age 4 and under. SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS Check as many as apply: 0 Kosher 0 Vegetarian 0 No fat 0 No salt 0 No cholesterol Other: ______On-Campus Accommodations (Rate per pmon for entire length of stay) Ad1drs Children 12 and 1mder Rate Total =of people Rare Total 30.00* $_ 15.00 0 Check here for Wednesday arrival 0 Check here for Thursday arrival. 0 Yes, I would be gbd ro �hare a room. Please cissign me with ______or 0 another clas mare. * Class of '46 and 50+ Club-no charge, bur you must indicate if you need on-campus accommodations. Activities :J Check here if you wish to reserve a golf cart for the Golf Tournament ( 25 charge payable at the cour e). Child Care Programs All -Week - Sat. p.m. Na mes/Ages/Sexes umber end Rate Only Rate Total 0-4) Babysitting (age $40.00 $15.00 $_ 5- ) Youngsters (age $40.00 $15.00 $_ 9- 12) Youngsters (age 40.00 $15.00 $_ Teena er (over age 12) 30.00 15.00 Class Reunion Memento Rate Toral Class of '61 Sweater Med L XL $28.00 $_ Class of '66 weatshirt Med L XL 27.50 $_ Cla s of '7 1 T-shirt Large ___ XL M L 8.50 $_ Cla s of '76 T-shirt Large ___ XL hild M L $7.50 $_ Class of ' 1 T-shirt Large ___ XL Child M L 750 $_ Class of '86 T-shirt Large ___ XL Child M L $7.50 $_ Class of '9 1 T-shirt Large __ XL 7.50 Classes of '51, '56, '9 1 momenta included in class reunion dinner package. Total Meals and events Payment form: Accommodations 0 ca h Reunion memento 0 check Child care 0 credit card Lare/On-sire registration fee (after May 24) @ 10 Total Credit Card Payment Exp. Date ______ 0 Mastercard OVI A 0 American Expres pecial needs: ------ Mail to: Reunion Reservations 4312 Mayflower Hill Alumni Office Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901 Fax: 207-872-3073 lumni Fifty--Plus ._... _ _.; at shaped Haverhill, Mass., over its arge Carolyn Herrick Crit: '29 re Correspondent: more than 300-year h istory . sides in 39 FEBR UARY 1996 CO LBY A L U �\ N I 1\ T L \ R l> � mini�ter in Maine, Vermont anJ \\'Ork at his community ho pital. Ma:,sachw;ett . W1rh rhree chil To keer phy.ically fit, he walks at dren, 10 granJchilJren anJ 13 least one mile a day ....Ellis M. NEWSMAKERS grcar-grnndchilJren, he remains Anderson '33 'ay> that he can nm Yery hu,y 'imply enjoying his fam ar this time tell what the best Esther Wood '26 wa- the fea ily. He keeps fir by walk mg o\'er decbion he ever made was be tured speaker at the 44th annual a mile each Llay and ;ay, that he caL1'e he !:>till ha. many deci:,ions meeting of the Maine Retired wi he::. he were as young as he rn make and hopes to he making Teachers A:,sociation. She ·poke feels . . . . Christo T. Nasse '32 them for many years to come. on "What I Have Learned From says that rhe he>t deci:,ion' he Anderson has one daughter and My tudents." . ..George ever made were to mn\'e ro Florida rhree granddaughters and spends Nickerson '24and hi wife, Ruth, and to marry his second wife. much of his time writing hi- mem posed for a Central Maine Morning Beatrice, after the !-)::,::,of hio wife oirs. He tries to stay healthy by Sentinel camera as they prepared of more than 50 year,. He has t\\'O excrci::-ingwirh wcighr-....Char for a turkey supper to benefit the children, both of whom are har lotte Blomfield Auger '33 Mid-Maine Homele helter in pily married. He i · rakmg advan recenrly celehrareJ her 50th wed Waterville. . ..Charles "Chick" tage nf retirement by rlaying ding anniversary with her hus Nawfel '3 7 and Howard A. Howard A. Miller '40 shuffleboard anJ briJge and rak band, Ne:,ror, her son and his Miller '40 were inducted into the Waterville Area Boy and ing a calculus class at Dayruna fa mily. She Joe> not have much to Girls Club Inspirational Hall ofFame ....Ruth Crowell Knight Community College ....Donald say ;:ibourher life except thar she '42 repre ented the College at the inauguration of Bernard M. Christie '32 says that the best and her hu,hanLl live quietly, Knorh a president of Loyola Univer ity in Baton Rouge, La. decision he ever maJe was to thankful ro be able roget up each marry his wife, Dorothy. They morning. . .. Anne Tuck Russell have rwo children and two grand '34 i- enjLiying traveling to differ MILEPOSTS children. Christie enjoyed a 35- ent places in rhe UniteJ State year career as a teacher, principal wirh her husband, Frank. Afrer Deaths: Allen C. Hodgkins '23 in Eastport, Maine, at 95. and superintenJenr. In 1991 he years of reaching English ar the ...Russell M. Squire '25 in Waterville, Maine,at93 ... . Carl concluded the rask of organi:ing ninth grade level, she ha- retired R. MacPher on '26 in Abington, Ma s., at 91. ...Ena True aChristiefamilyhisrory . ...Bar roreading and playing bridge twice Carson '27 in Epson, N.H., at 89 ....Arline Mann Peakes '27 bara ]ohnson Alden '33 -ay that a week. She also would like to add in Gorham, Maine, at 89 ....Philip R. Higgins '29 in pring rhe he:,tdec i ions she ever made rhat he is glad the O.j . impson field, Ma s., at 87. _ ..Robert E. Seamen '29 in Wood tock, \\·ere going to Colby and marry trial i:, O\'er. . . Arthur W. Conn., at 8 . . . _ Roderick E. Farnham '3 1 in Bangor, Maine, ing her husband, John. Together Stetson '34 says rhar the be r de at 85 ....Margaret McGann Merrill '3 1 in kowegan, Maine, -he and John had three children, ci ·ion he evermadewa- hi choice at 85 . ... Roland McCann '34 in Miami, Fla., at 86 ....Otis 10 grandchi!Jren and two great of a mate, Helen, 55 years ago. B. Read Jr. '34 in Baltimore, Md., ar 84 ....Harold M. Together they have two children grandch i ldren. A Iden now spend:, Salisbury '35 in Rochester, N.Y., at 82 . . ..Robert C. Thomas her time attending a cla s at and ix grandchildren. tetson '38 in Ell.worth, Kan., at 80 ....Paul G. "Duke" Winsor '38 retired in 1978 a a legal consult Merrimack Coilege and volun in Kennebunk, Maine, ar 80. . . . Kenneth G. Stanley '39 in ant in the Deparrment ofVeteran's teering. To keep physically fit, Brielle, N.J., at 78.. . . Ruth Stebbins Cadwell '4 1 in she regularly walks and rides her Benefits in Washington, D.C. He Doylestown, Pa., at 75.... Nassur A. Ha san '4 1 in Braintree, bike. . C. Malcolm Stratton now spend his time doino Mas ., ar 76 ....Geraldine Stefka Jones '4 1 in Needham, mechanical and decorative repairs '33 married Dorothy tratron in Mas ., at 74. . . _ George Carothers '42 in Zephyrhill , Fla., at 1993 after the death in 19 7 of on his home. He also serves on the 78 ....Shirley Wagner Lerette '42 in Augusta, Maine, at 74. board of trustee a secretary at an his wife of 53 years. Together . _ . Madeleine Hinckley Gibbs '43 in Bethel, Maine, at 74 .... they hare eight granJchildren associate reformed Pre byterian Jeanice Grant Keese '43 in York, Maine, at 74 ....Ruth and two great-grandchildren. church, where he is an elder. Fol MacDougal Sullivan '43 in Dus eldorf, Germany, at 76 ..- . Stratton had served for over 30 lowing by-pass surgery, Sterson Pauline Seekins Blair '44 in Dover, N.H., at 73. years in the U.S. Army when he keeps in shape by bicycling, walk retired as a colonel. Now he ing and being chief vacuum op spend his time doing volunteer erator in his household. + COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 40 A L U \I I ..\ T L .'\ R ti E mer place on Loon Lake, N.Y., in ber mu ic. Occa ionally he acts a Correspondent: the Adirondaks. Mary' husband, an e cort at a reproductive �er Correspondents: Nancy Jacobsen Don, cooked, cleaned and gave vices clinic. One ofhi� two daugh them boat ride while they caught ters works for the state of Texas, Y )U are all wonderful. l up. "Highlight of the summer," and the other teaches biology at a 1946 got so many notes that she said. Joyce lost her hu band, JLmior college. His two grandchil Nancy Jacob en 4 6 writing the cla s news David, in 1992 and no\\' is plan dren are now teenagers (and he 3627 Northlake Drive is a joy. I heard from many people ning to move back to California, added the comment, " hudder, Atlanta, GA 30340-4137 not heard from before. Keep it where her kids are and no\\' hudder," to which l think many 770-934-907 5 up ....The phone rang, and it i n't. ...Huber t Smith' wife, of us can probably relate) ....Who wa Dotty Dunham Hobbs m Eleanor, wrote from King ton, ·ay that Colbyites don't continue 1947 ew Hamp hire, giving me ne\\'� N.H., that Hubert had died on their education long beyond their Mary Hall Fitch of the SOth reunion commirtee August 6, 1995. They had four college year 7 Stanley Levine went 4 Canal Park, = 712 meeting in Portland. Ruthie children, six grandchildren and back to chool in his 70th( !) year Cambridge, MA 02 141 Lewin Emerson, Betty Scalise fh e great-grandchildren ....At and earned an M.F.A. degree in 61 7-494-4882 · Kilham and Emily Holbrook age 71, I now have the nose I 1993. He is no\\' working as a 1948 Pelissier all sat 41 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE aunt, Susanna Willard Johnson, and is an oncology social worker. was quite a fruitful courtship that year round in Gay Head. Marvin hornin 1730, ll'ho spent four years She de cribed going to Oregon began at Colby.) The Colby is a volunteer fireman, and al in capti\·ity with the Indians, wa. this summer for the wedding of a sticker on his car occasionally though we were at a peaceful taken to Montreal, and finally young friend and then two days attract the attention of a Purdue mooring, the night was punctu exchanged by way of England. later flying to Paris for an excit grad student who migrated we t ated by the chatter on his radio usanna was descended from ing week with her oldest grand from Waterville. Thanks for all from the control point. l think imon Willard, who wa·a founder child, who was tudying French the news and the humor,Jack. As Marvin may keep the dam thing of Concord, Mas·., and whose son, and art. She also wrote that she you pointed out, it was obvious on even when he goe to bed. We Benjamin, wa, a well-known clock had just completed an annotated that you majored in penmanship grilled swordfish and did a little maker. lntere tmgly, John and I bibliography for cancer patients at Colby ....Sanford "Sandy" damage to some catch-a pic lived for 36 years in Concord, and their families . ... Gordon LeVine wrote from Boynton turesque top, a brilliant unset where our children arrended Miller has now been retired about Beach, Fla., saying that he i and valued friends of many years. and 1 taught in-the Simon 13 years. He and his wife, Jane, mo tly retired but still represent Marvin promised tO write us a Willard School. ... I hope tohear live in hrewsbury, Mass. He has a few companies ju·t to keep busy. detailed report on his life on the from more of you �oon. + three children and two grand He is vice president of the World Vineyard. It must be an epic of children (we hope we interpreted Council of ynagogues and has some sort because we have yet to that message correctly). Also seven grandchildren ranging in see it. Perhaps it will arrive for Correspond en ts: there i a Hollywood ralent agent age from 1 to 11. He has some the next edition of Colby . ... David and Dorothy Marson in the family. Gordon says he has chronic back and arthritic prob Thanks to al I who wrote.To those logged 25 or so Windjammer lems but says that he refu es to let of you who found these notes We received a good cruise in the Caribbean with the them keep him down ....This enjoyable, why not contribute to response to our most "kids" and lots of golf at the year Dorothy and I once again the next edition by writing to u ? 4 8 recent questionnaire Worcester Country lub. He sailed ro Menemsha on Martha's We can't print everything you and hope that you enjoy the misses the fraternity connection Vineyard to visit Betty and send, but we will do ur best to se news. ... Hazel Huckins Merrill at Colby ....Betty Coombs Marvin Joslow. They now live lect the most interesting part .+ classifies herself as a retired cot Myers wrote a lengthy summary tage owner at Newfound Lake in and a most appreciated per onal East Hebron, N.H. She writes note. She has 12 grandchildren. that retirement i great! ...Paul She rook a five-week trip to New NEWSMAKERS Choate is a retired lawyer living Zealand, driving on the "wrong Gene Hunter '48 wa honored at a testimonial dinner in outh in Auburn, Maine. Hi three chil side" on both island and then Portland, Maine, a an out randing coach, athletic director and dren include his onAndrew, who snorkeling on the Great Barrier role model for young men. Hunter coached basketball at South graduated from Colby in 1979. Reef in Australia.... Jack Portland High chool for26 years; in retirement, he coache an Paul's wife, Virginia (Yorke '39) Kimpel lives in West Lafayette, eighth grade team . . ..Cyril M. Joly Jr. '48 was elected to the passed away in 1993, and he has Ind., and classifies himself as a Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club Inspirational Hall of Fame. since remarried. . . George Kren long-retired bureaucrat. Jack writes from Manhattan, Kan., wrote that heand his wife, Frances that he is a professor of hi tory (Benner '49) just came from a MILEPOSTS and his wife is a painter and pro week-long fa mily reunion, and fessor of art . ...Evelyn Helfant his children came with seven Deaths: Barbara Foley Felt '49 in Woburn, Mas ., at 67. Malkin lives in Wayland, Mass., grandchildren. (He added that it COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 42 ALUMNI AT LARGE 1958 N.H. Charles '49 and Virginia posed to radiation while in the Correspondents: Margaret Smith Henry Davis Pearce, Mary Lou Kilkenny service, e pec1ally during the at 1304 Lake Shore Drive Borah, Richard T. Borah, Jean mospheric resting of nuclear weap Massapequa Park, NY 11762 Chickering Nardozzi, Jim and ons from 1945 to 1963. He also 516-541-0790 Charlotte Crandall Grave and has been editing the quarterly 1950 Bob and Dale Avery Benson Aromic Veceran Newsleccer ince Virginia Davis Pearce 1959 joined for a nice luncheon. Dale 1990 and has turned out more P.O. Box 984 Ann Marie Segrave Lieber was on her annual trip norrh from than. 20 issues. Some of you may Virginia Beach, Va., visiting recall that he used to write a weekly Grantham, NH 03753 7 Kingsland Court South Orange, NJ 07079 friendsand relatives ....I haven't column, "Yogi Speaks," for The received any questionnaires yet, Colb'I Echo. While at rhe Univer- 195 1 201 -763-6717 so I haven't much news of the rest ity f Wisconsin he wrote music Barbara Jefferson Walker � of the class. We want to hear reviews for the Wisconsin Daily 3915 Cabot Place, Apt. 16 from you-especially those ofyou Cardinal and also began to take Richmond, VA 23233 who weren't at the reunion.. + voice lessons and music courses 804-527-0726 Correspondent: while tudying history because he Virginia Davis Pearce really wanted to become an.opera 1952 Correspondent: singer. He decided to stay with Edna Miller Mordecai The great time we had Barbara Jefferson Walker history but sang opera leads with 1145 Walnut Street at our June reunion an amateur group in Berkeley and Newton Highland , MA 02 161 5 0 seems to have spurred This column is based musicals with another in San Fran 617-332-3707 on more get-togerhers' Gloria on a new questionnaire ci co until 1964. He says he still Gordon Goldman entertained a 5 1 with only two questions: sings in the shower, is in preny 1953 group while Barbara Starr Wolf 1) highlight of your life since good shape at the youthful aae of Barbara Ea terbrooks Mailey wa vi iring in the area. Connie graduation from Colby? and 2) 73 and has recenrly resumed rak 0 Lincoln Avenue Leonard Hayes, Mary Lou what new things do you dream of ing tae kwon do. Much of the South Hamilton, MA 01982 Kilkenny Borah, Joan Foster doing in.thefuture? ...Hi ghlights inspiration for what he i doing 508-468-5110 Barndt '51 and I drove down to for John Linscott, Annandale, now, he says, is the result of his New Hampshire. Charlotte Va., include running in 19 Boston three year at Colby when Julius Crandall Graves and Priscilla Marathons; being a working jazz eelye Bixler was pre ident. Bill and Penny Thresher Edson Tracey Tanguay also attended. mu ician; biking solo 1,500 mile Deborah Smith Meigs, Danville, 3253 Erinlea Avenue Barbara entertained us with tales through Holland, Germany, Oen. N.H., retired after 31years as town Newbury Park, CA 91320-5811 of her life in South America, and mark and Sweden. His hope now librarian..She lists highlights such 805-498-9656 we all exchanged pictures taken. is to run his 20th Boston Mara as serving for 10 years with the fire at the reunion as well as ome thon in 1996 . ...Marie Donovan department, serving a captain and 1955 taken back at Colby in our tu Kent, Canton, Mass., a nurse at being the fir t female cerrified Jane Millett Oornish dent days .... Bill and Elisabeth Norwood Hospital, has three high firefighter in New Hampshire. The "Dudie" Jennings Maley sp�n.t a light -her three son . And, she family genealogy she ha worked 9 Warren Terrace weekend with us last fall. They adds, "I am so proud of them." on for years has been published, Win low, ME 04901 and their two sons, both Colby ...David Miller,Plainview, N.Y., and now she would like to go to grad ,are run.ning thefamily bu i is on the executive board, Heidewij England and Scorlan.d to visit 1956 ness. We also aw Patricia Root Environmental Service. He trea birthplaces and do more re earch. Eleanor Edmund Grout Wheeler, who didn't get to the sures "actually making a living as . ..Mark Mordecai, Newton RD 3, Jone Road, Box 28 June reunion. Her granddaugh a geologist." His dream is to sur Highlands, Ma s., gives his occu Gouverneur, NY 13642-9504 ter wa valedictorian.of her high vive to attend our 50th class pation as small goods manufac 315-287-3277 school cla , and Patty wanted to reunion ....Oscar Rosen, Salem, turer, tennis teacher and skiing attend the graduation. She still Mass., wrote that since 1990 he teacher. Now he wan.tsto "break 1957 teaches at her nursery school in has been the national commander 80." ... Shirley Raynor Ingra Brian F. Olsen Jaffrey, N.H., but plans to retire of the National Association of ham, Clearwater, Fla., has been 46 Washington Drive from serving on the chool board Atomic Veterans, a nonprofit, working with Latchkey Services Acton, MA 01720 after 12 year . Patty has six chil charitable, educational organiza for Children, Inc. Highlights of 508-263-9238 dren. and 21 gran.dchildren tion that eeks to obtain adequate her life are the honor awarded her surely a class record! ...Another compensation and medical care son for puttLng Colby's endow "mini-reunion" took place at the from the Veteran Administra ment information on computer. Shaker Village in Canterbury, tion for veterans who were ex- Her trip to see the Bach Tower in 43 FEBRUARY 19 96 COLBY A L U �I N I A T L A R G E Winter Haven, Fla., was "worth Conference on Women. Betsy has China ....George '52 and Betty their winter trips to the Virgin the lifelong dream." Now she been active for decade in Winkler Laffey enjoy the be t of Islands and ummer relaxation in dreams of being a great organist, Planned Parenthood and thereby both retirement world , spending their econd home in New Hamp traveling world wide and playing in women's issue ....George ix months in Chatham on Cape shire. . I heard from Sally "not only Bach but boogie." With "Lum" Lebherz travels daily in Cod and the remaining ix month Mathews MacLean, who added her income from thi dream she his capacity a a Massachusett in Vero Beach, Fla. They recently that she did orne traveling in the would establish uperior child district judge. He, like many of welcomed their fourth grandchild. outh, then headed we t to development centers . ...Guy us, has taken up golf.... Many ...John Lee is now a contract Monterey, Calif., to attend a emi Mcintosh, Tempe, Ari:., has re of our number al o are building tour guide in the Washington, nar. She still keeps her hand in tired from the Department of In new homes, as we may have done D.C, area. He recently attended counseling and does not antici dian Affairs. Highlights of hi life ome 30 years ago. Some are ful the dedication of the Korean War pate retirement oon ....1 wrote ince graduation from Colby are filling lifelong dreams of living Memorial and now likes tour-guid a note to Craig Bell months ago, the mapping of the United States on the ocean. Bob '51 and Nancy ing veterans and familie to it. He and when he answered he prompt and Equatorial Africa, working Weare Merriman are in Rye, al o keeps bu y teaching part time ly let me know he was known as with the Hopi and Apache Indi N. H. Dick and Bev Baker at Virginia Commonwealth Uni "Pete" at Colby. He said he was an ans for 25 years and owning a dude Verrengia have settled in Rock ver ity, Richmond; and the re executive director of information ranch in Colorado. What Guy port, Mas . Jim and Janice erve offers him more activities. services with the National Ex wants to do now i to travel to Vaughan Crump are on the Gulf John's daughter recently moved change Carrier As ociation until Asia and outh Africa ....]. Ed of Mexico. Dave Morse and wife to Madrid, pain, o now he has his retirement in 1990. Pete says ward Martin wrote on hi ques Joan are in Boothbay Harbor, his own bed-and-breakfast when he comes to my neighborhood tionnaire that he was a physician Maine, where Dave ays that he he ha the time and extra money every May to march with the and in the antiques and art busi and Joan are active on arts foun to fly there. John say anyone in American Legion Po t in the ness. Ed's wife lipped a newspa dation boards. He has started a the Wa hington, D.C., area should Memorial Day Parade. We hope per article about Ed into the writer's group about to render a contac t him for expert tour to get togerher then. . I received envelope with his questionnaire. reading of their work. + guiding ....Bruce McRoy sent a new of Folkert Belzer's death From this I learned that Ed has note from North Carolina, saying recently. He had sent me a nice had a family practice for 35 years that he plan to retire by the end note about his family a while back in his hometown of Rumford, Correspondent: of May 1996. His wife, Sandra but never mentioned the many Maine, that he has delivered over Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey ( ivert '55), is now a retired third contributions he had made to the 2,500 babies and that three of his grade teacher. He and Sandra field of transplant urgery. He re children have become physician . Dave Harvey i now spent a week in Switzerland last ceived many award for his In the article Ed quotes Lou Gehrig retired dean of the col May and a week in Chatanooga, work .... I received o many let who once said, "l think I am the 5 3 lege emeritu , Mitch Tenn., inJune, attending Virginia ter and po t card that if you do luckiest guy in the world." . ell College. He and hi wife, Joan Tech's annual Civil War seminar. not see your news in this issue, it BJW says acknowledge your high (Chandler '55), are enjoying re ...Mike Wechsler Pressman has will appear next time. + light , dream of your fu rure, hare tirement, spending winters in developed an integrated program yourself with your cla srnates and Florida and ummer in New Ha of Engli h, humanitie and ocial Correspondent : come to reunion! + ven, Conn. Dave says they re studie , which he has presented cently climbed in the Grand all over the state ofNew York. On Bill and Penny Thresher Edson Canyon.They have three children the trength of it, she received Correspondent: and two grandsons. Dave does several awards and an NEH fel There is actually a hint Edna Miller Mordecai coun eling; in fact, just fini heela lowship to tudy Mozart in Vienna of fall in the California pre ident of the Connecticut and was to receive a New York 54 air. The pumpkins are Very recently it was Counseling Association. . ..Al State Teacher of Excellence on the doorsteps and an occasional brought home to me Hibbert is also retired, o he golfs Award. Mike and her husband tree ha leave that are turning red, 5 2 that 1995 is the year every day now. Two of his sons love to travel. In 1995 they went orange and yellow. Not exactly the when many of us reach our se work for the tare of lllinoi , an to Vienna, Prague and Bratislava beauty of a New England October, niority: retirement, Medicare, other son is in the electrical busi and then on to Hawaii. Mike says but we try to pretend . . ..Beverly enior discounts, children who ness, and his daughter i a school she is not ready to retire ....Art Barrett Nichols write from La are in their 40 (wasn't that just teacher. Al and his wife returned Klein, however, i very happily Mesa, Calif., where she and her us?). Nevertheless, my mail indi to New England in May when Al retired. Art' wife, Marianna, sent hu band, Robert, a formerprofe - cates that the Class of '52 isn't was inducted into his high school him to cooking school as oon a or at SUNY-Buffalo, are "happily paying much attention to all that! port hall of fame.While there he he retired; now he too makes the retired." They have six children As Carol Leonard wrote from wa reunited with fellow players kitchen his space. They spent a (her fourand hi two) and a total of Dover, N .H., "Retirement is won and coaches who had not seen week in Bermuda with hi Colby 12grandchildren. he write , "We derful, but 1 wonder when 1 ever one another for 45 year . They roommate, Roger Huebsch, and decided after living in Buffalo for found time to work." She plays visited Priscilla Eaton Billington he i till very much involved with 30 year or more that we deserved tournament bridge, volunteers as and husband Ray '54. From the N.Y.C. Colby Club. He has the very best climate we could find. a trustee for a retirement home Somerset they set off forMain e to twin daughter , both married, and We love San Diego." Bev' son, for the elderly, gardens, cans and visit Dot (For ler '54) and Roger three grandchildren ....Ted Bob Templeton Jr., i an attorney freezes and has taken on a new Olson, who had ju t built a new Lallier lives just 20 minutes from in the area. Her other kids are in French poodle puppy ....Geor house in the Monson-Moo ehead me, and l alwayspas his officeju st Albuquerque, N.M. Bev see Judy gia "Betsy" Fisher Kearney sent Lake area, then saw Martha around the corner from my Thompson Lowe and her husband a letter from Alabama just as he (DeWolf '55) and Phil Hussey, daughter's home in Arne bury. about once a year. They were plan was about to leave for China as a whohadju rretumedfromGreece Both he and his wife keep bu y in ning to meet in San Francisco in delegate to the International and were repacking to go to the bu iness of law. They enjoy early September, following the COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 44 ALUMNI AT LARGE Lowes's tripto Hawaii ....Accord is an institutional food service ing to Dot Forster Olson and her supervisor at a long-term care fa husband Roger '53, "retirement is cility. Model railroading, photog NEWSMAKERS wonderful." She retired last year as raphy and gardening will occupy di trict office manager/teacher for more of his time if retirement Jack Alex '50 is a member of H&R Block, and Roger retired 12 begins next year. Beverly the Visiting Committee of the years ago. Their three children are Mosettig Levesque, pringfield, University of Chicago Law all on theirown. She said, "We live Va., writes of the memorable ex School. ...David Harvey '53, half a year in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., perience she and husband Paul (a Jean Pratt Moody '56 and John play lots oftennis, summer in Maine U.S. government retiree) had at Ziegler '56 were Colby's re at a new cottage on Lake Hebron our 40th reunion. She remark presentative to the inaugura and play lots of golf." Sounds like that Paul was impressed by the tions of new presidents at the be t ofboth worlds to me! They organization of the event and by Mitchell College, St. Jo eph' visited with Pat and Al Hibbert '53 the camaraderie and school spirit. College and Kenyon College, and Marilyn and Ed Fraktman '53 She says he'll easily be convinced respectively ... . Robert B. Ned Shenton '54 while in Maine . . ..Dick Noonan, to return.... Moving to Marl Parker ' 54 was keynote speaker at the Fourth Annual Newport retired USAF, and his wife, Ann borough, N.H., in early '96 is in Writer Conference ....Chief photographer of the lee Core (Burger '53), are living in Colo the plan for retirees John and Project Ned Shenton '54 has edited a film documentary titled rado Springs, Colo. They have five Dot Dunn Northcott. The ir 'The lee Core Time MachLne." The project extricated the daughters, one son and six grand on Evan was in the Class of longest and oldest ice core in the NorthernHemisphere from a children. Number seven was due in 1982, and Dot was in Maine this glacier in Greenland ....C. Freeman Sleeper '54 has been November, and Dick and Ann ummer visiting Kathy Flynn appointed a research fe llow at the Union Theological Semi planned to travel to Seattle for Carrigan in Rockland. It was a nary in Richmond, Va.... Lee Fernandez '55 was elected Christma to meet the new baby. long drive when Dor decided to member of the year by The Theatre Historical Society, a Dick recently has seen Charlie avoid Freeport traffic and went Chicago-based preservation group. Fernandez is a 15-year et Windhorst and Bob Hudson. "around." ... If you were in eran volunteerat Boston's 1928 Keith Memorial TI1eatre ....Sid ...Philip Reiner-Deutsch is an Manhattan's Union quare Park Farr '55 was elected to the Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club Amtrak travel clerk in Los Ange one fine summer day after re Inspirational Hall of Fame. le , "still working in customer ser un ion, you might ha\'e seen Don vice officeat L.A. Union Station," Hoaglund playing his pocket he writes, "primarily coordinating trumpet in an impromptu Dixie MILEPOSTS motor coach dispatching and ar land ja:: gig. From Maine to New rivals from Bakersfield or Santa York to California and Costa Marriages: Marian Woodsome Ludwig '58 to WolfeE. Springer Barbara." ... Thanks for all the Rica, Don continues to travel. in Falmouth, Mass. news, and keep it coming! + sometimes writing travel com mentarie · for local newspa Deaths: John J. Miles '50 in Wirtz, Va., at 68 ....Robert A. pers ....Pete Parsons continues Stander '50 in Lafayette, La., at 67.... Annalee Nelson Correspondent: to enjoy working with rudent Bohjalian '5 1 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., at 65 ....Robert F. Jane Millett Dornish both as a profes or at Holy Cro Staples '51 in Amber t, N.H., at 69 ....Robert M. Harris '53 and at a "young people's" camp in Asbury Park, N.j., at 77... . Harold A. Leathe '53 in Retirement seems to be summer . Like many of us, his Danver , Mass., at 66 ....Gilbert B. Sewell '53 in Prescott, a recurring theme for travels include visits rn children Ariz., at 64. 5 5 us. Pat Levine Levy and grandchildren in Arizona and say she plans to continue work California. He writes, "Life i ing as a claims person until 1997. great with many opportunities, we think, and it is time to really but reunion 35 was so great that I Husband Sevy Levy '53 is a respi many responsibilities." ...Jud y put some dates down on the cal am counting the days to our 40th ratory therapi t. They frequendy Holtz Levow u ed her interior endar for reunion. I hope you and am enclosing the names of see Paul '53 and Estelle Jacobson design talents in decorating an have already done so, but in case those attending or planning to at Ostrove ....Many ofyou remem 1858 showhou e in Belmont. She not, here they are again: June 5- 7 this time in the fa ll. Definitely ber Anne McGowan Kubic, who praised the cooperation of Hugh Samo et, June 7-9 Colby. Class coming: Richard Abedon, Hugh lives in Charlestown, W.Va. She Gourley and Lee Fernandez for President Jean Pratt Moody Anderson, Grace Mainero An writes of her husband (now re the loan of several Winslow write that "Plans for the BIG drea, Hope Palmer Bramhall, tired from the U.S. State Depart Homer's (pan of Lee's donation EVENT are progressing well." Jane Collins, Katherine Coon ment) and six children. Anne rn the College) forthe library she Jean also has sent me news of Dunlop, Lucy Blainey Groening, left Colby after her sophomore decorated in the showhouse . Mary Ann Papalia Laccabue. Nori Edmunds Grout, Bill year to attend Columbia's nur - . ..Chick Marchand has been Mary Ann's third grandchild, Haggett, Barbara Preston Hayes, ing school. She, too, has retired mayor of Somerset for 35 years.+ Michela Anne Laccabue, arrived Frank Huntress, Martha Meyer but volunteers for Hospice and last September in Dallas, Texas. Kugler, Don Kupersmith, Mary rai es sheep! As a non-grad, she Mary Ann retired from teaching Ann Papalia Laccabue, Peter wonders if she's been long-for Correspondent: in June 1995 and i enjoying re Lunder,John and Joan Williams gotten by her classmates-not o, Eleanor Edmunds Grout tirement. She and her husband, Marshall, Janet Nordgren Mery l have rea sured her. It was great Ron, and daughter Andrea toured weather, Shirley Verga Montini to have her questionnaire . ... It is the first cold southern Italy and Greece late in T uriansky, Jean Pratt Moody, Hugh MacDonald writes proudly morning of the fall September and early Octo Larry Pugh, Robert Raymond, of his.and Lillian' four children. 5 6 eason, and the day is ber ....No w I don't want you to Don Rice, Charlene Roberts Hugh is i.n Brockton, Mass., and Halloween eve.June i closer than think I have a one-track mind, Riordan, Liz Russell Collins, 45 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE Charlotte Wood Scully, David of two gab in their 60s; the rest of Hope to ee many of you at re LaVigne Press in Worcester, and Rosie Crouthamel Sortor, the crew were in their 30. and union. I still need new·, o let me Mass. His wife, Edith, is a home Dave Van Allen, Kathleen Vogt, 40s. Hope's intere ts are certainly hear from you. Till next time.+ maker, and they are busy keeping Harry and Lynn Brooks Wey, varied. She told me she also man up with daughters' graduations: Sue Veghte Wilson, Bill Wyman, ages the Colonial Dames Tate in May 1995 all three girls re Kathy McConaughy Zambello, House in Portland, the oldest Corre pondent: ceived degrees on the same day, John Ziegler and Judy Pennock house and museum run by volun Margaret Smith Henry one from olby, one a master's Lilley. Hoping to come: Charles teer; ....Bob and Dodi Aikman from U of Maryland and a third Brown, Joanna McCurdy Adel write that they are sorry I've used all the letter an M.B.A. from the John on Brunso, Bob Erb, Sue Miller they will nor be able to attend the l received as a result of School at Cornell. Their son, Hunt, Carolyn Graves Nelson, 40th reunion because they will 58 my omewhat per an Rob, was also married in that Karin Slavin Reath, Charles be on a "Grand Alaska" trip al ized letter of August 1994, and month ....Gail and Robert Rice, Ann Stiegler Richards, with Victor Emanuel Nature if some of you till haven't seen Hesse are now retirees living in Ron Sandborg and Gerald Tours, celebrating their 40th yourselves in this column, l think Centerville, Mass. All three ons Silverstein . ... Had a nice chat wedding anniversary. he said, this is ue of Colby will remedy have graduated from college, one with Hope Palmer Bramhall, who "The amoset was lovely the last that. By now you must have re from Colby, one from Bates and is on the reunion committee, and time and we are pleased you are ceived the new questionnaire. If one from Wa hington & Lee. there will be something fun offering it again." They report you respond, I should have Although "retired," he now finds planned for sure. Hope and Peter that they have been traveling a enough raw material for another time to spend with a granddaugh are just back from a barge trip in lot, doing birding festival and year' worth of columns. Even if ter and with Rotary as well as to France. Forher 60th birthday she enjoying retirement. Their fam you feel you just answered me, read (something he ha threat took an Outward Bound eight ily is fine-and they are the proud humor me and keep me up to ened to do since Colby). Bob day sailing cour e. Hope was one gyeat-grandparents of two. date! ...Tom LaVigne runs credits fraternity life at Colby Fashioning a Life in the Arts arbara Starr Wolf '50 was organized a "Colby Nightat the Bo ton Pops," where the late Arthur Bsteeped in the arts before Fe idler gave hi baton to Peter Re, director of the Colby Symphony, arriving at Colby in 1946. She who conducted his own composition, "Variations on Airs by Supply attended her fir t opera at age 12 Belcher." Colby Night at the Pop continued for a number of years. and took cour e at the Boston Her marriage in 1960 to Wolf Wolf took her to Bueno Aires, Museum ofFlne Arts while grow where she immediately jumped into Argentine cultural circle , ing up. "The art were very im coordinating program for university students and arranging tours portant in my family," she said. of museums and art collection . During the 1960s, she arranged Now a chamber music impre programs in Buenos A ire on arts and opera, organized lectures by sario in Brazil, Wolf has dedi the likes of Jorge Luis Borge and with her hu. band wa involved cated much of her life to visual in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music art, classical music and culture Festival in Massachusett . in South America, where she The Wolfs moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the late 1960s, and has lived for the past 35 year . in 1977 Neiman-Marcus a ked Barbara Wolf to organize and Despite living on the other side coordinate the store's "Brazilian Fortnight" in Dalla . Her experi of the equator, she has maintained a close relationship with Colby, ence in fashion and her work in the art wa a perfect combination attending her 45th reunion last summer and maintaining regular for pulling together the Brazilian products, arts, crafts and cultural correspondence with her cla smates as class agent for many year . programs. The Dalla how led to a position a director of an Wolf recalls Colby in the late 1940s a "a very good liberal arts export firm that became the exclusive buying agent for stores such college that left me well prepared for life in the art . The instruction a Mar hall Field's and Saks Fifth Avenue in the U.S. and Eaton's I received in foreign languages, music and art helped very much," in Canada. she said, "e pecially when I went to Europe in 195 l." A history More recently, Wolf organized photography exhibits at muse major with courses in world civilization, European history, English ums and galleries in Brazil and Argentina, organized a variety of literature and Spanish, he al o was president of Hillel and a cultural tours in South America and, since 1982, represented member of the Inter-Faith Association, busines manager of the foreign cla sical musicians performing in Brazil, Argentina, Co Echo and president of the Women Student ' Government League. lombia, Chile and Uruguay. Among groups she has brought to "It was just after the war and Colby wa a more in ularplace than South America are the Melos Quartet from Germany and the it is now," she said. The College had separate governance structures Takacs String Quartet from Hungary. She has arranged tours for for men and women, but Wolf credit Dean of Women Ninetta Jean-Pierre Rampa! and the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, and in Runnals '08 for bringing a r'.leasureof equity to Colby's women's 1994 she organized the first South American tour in 25 year for program and for being a mentor and role model. "We [the women] Isaac Stem. This winter she wa busy working on a 1996 tour by had a lot more rules and regulation then, but she treated everyone Maurice Andre, who has not been in South America in the pa t very fairly." 10 years. Following her graduation and a brief stint working at Harvard's Julia Adams, a member of the Portland String Quartet and a Widener Library, Wolf became a sportswear and acce orie buyer perennial artist-in-residence at Colby, reported that Wolf re for her parents' firm, Anne Starr Inc., which ran women's specialty cently came to a P Q concert in Sao Paulo for an impromptu hops in Wellesley and Quincy, Mass. From 1952 to 1960 she Colby reunion and that they have remained in contact since. "Her traveled to Europe each year as a buyer for Anne Starr. In 1958 she enthu iasm for Colby was so strong!" Adams reported. COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 46 ALUMNI AT LARGE with instilling in him a sense of thing she loves. Daughter Kim, a my best to consolidate. (Remain children (and grandchildren) in community that carried over into high school senior, is interested der of the class: please take note Florida, Connecticut and France. his involvement with Rotary. in pursuing a career as a ballet and try to be equally responsive ...Wendy (Ihlstrom '6l)and Bob . Another retiree is Lois dancer and is currently looking for our next column!) ... Insur Nielsen work together at Nielsen Macomber, who does not miss at schools ....Peter Doran is a ance account manager Paul and Wigder, their insurance bro her work with taxes and insur professor of health education at La Verdiere sti II enjoys those kerage. Bob ays hi hair is getting ance and instead has expanded the University of Maine-Farm wonderful Maine lob ter and says gray; I can identify with thatl her activities at her hostel, over ington, and his wife, Loi , is a he's getting younger by the day. . .. Bachelor Bob Keltie is a con seas travel (Norway from "tip to homemaker as well as the Bel Could there be a connection, sultant to mall bu ine e and an toe") and volunteeri m ....One grade town health officer. Last new-grampa Paul? ...Floridian adjunct instructor at Florida At of my be t correspondents is J oho year she received an award for Pete Lockwood i executive lantic Univer ity. He still play Edes, who lives in Smithfield, outstanding health ervice. director of New Beginnings, a ice hockey (impressive!) and ref R.I., with his wife, Valerie. John ...Connie Rockwell Ward and junior high renewal program erees four or five games weekly.... is a registered representative for her husband, Warren, live in sponsored by the Episcopal Jim Plunkett ha completed 31 the National Association of Se Portsmouth, N .H., and have three Church. Earlier this year Pete years in Peru, where he has trav curities Dealer . Since last being grown children and four small returned to Maine for the first eled through the Andes by VW, in touch, John has a new grand grandchildren. She is a book statewide New Beginnings week owned a small hotel, founded a son and new dog. In response to keeper/ secretary, and Warren is end. . . Aaron and Cyndy donut shop chain and directed an "gaining or losing the e day ," retired. Most of their time now is Crockett Mendelson are fixing overseas program similar to John replied, "Lo ing-weight. spent overseeing the building of up their new home in Long SCORE. Now he's general man Strict diet so I can look younger their new home ....That's all, meadow, Mass., while Cyndy con ager of the American Chamber of at the 40th reunion." He credits folks. Please do take a few min tinues to represent The Apple Commerce of Peru, a paying job Colby withgivinghimself- moti utes to get to that questionnaire. Basket clothing collection and with an organization for which he vation and self-reliance as the If the specific questions bother substitute teaches at a middle formerly volunteered. Threeofhis re ult of a knee injury that ruined you, don't feel obligated to an school. . . . Bruce Montgomery four children are in the United his senior year athletically. From swer them; just the bare facts will has relocated to Colorado after States while his lawyer daughter that experience John realized he do. I'd like to hear from you. This retiring from Ford Motor. Bruce remains in Peru. Thank foragreat would probably have many other column would be blank if you and Tricia are enjoying their two letter, Jim! ...My calligraphy ob tacles to face and overcome. didn't answer, so I depend on daughters who live in Colorado, business continue to be active, Colby taught him to be a "survi you. I hope 1996 is a happy and buta tim e-share in Ogunquit per and my chorus is preparing for its vor." ...Caroline Hall Hui has healthy year for all. + mit an annual return to Maine. annual series of Messiahconcerts been out in Sunnyvale, Calif., for . Lloyd Cohen keeps in touch in New Jersey and at Carnegie a long time (l last visited her with several Colby alums and, Hall. Our daughter Beth, a recent there in 1977) and i an adult Corr pondent: with his family, paid a recent un Colgate graduate, ings with the education teacher. Her husband, Ann Marie Segrave Lieber announced visit to our beloved chorus also as well as playing vio David, is a program manager for campus. Imagine his surprise lin in a local amateur (excellent) Argo Systems. She doesn't con Wish I could pass along when he spotted "Lloyd Road" symphony orchestra.... If you sider her elf retired, just "putter every word of the won ju t opposite First Rangeway! haven't written to me recently, ing." She teaches needlepoint, 59 derful re pon e I re ... Mary Ranlett Mossman and how about a contribution forour cross stitch and knitting and feels ceived from this fifth of our class, husband Philip have made many next column? All good wishes for guilty being paid for doing some- but since that's impo sible I'll do trips away from Maine. They have a happy and healthy '96. + Alumni Trustees Nominated The Nominating Committee of the Alumni Council has three-year term. Stone lives in Groton, Mass., and is nominated fouralumni for alumni trustee positions, with president of Sterilite Corp., which manufactures plastic terms to begin thi year at commencement. products and custom molding, in Townsend, Mas . He Nominated for a second, three-year term is Ellen Haweeli '69, currently serves as an overseer for the College. Old Greenwich, Conn., president of EBH Associates, Inc., of Nominated fora two-year term (to complete an unex New York City. As trustee, she serves on the Development, pired term and realign the alumni tru tee terms) is Audrey Nominating and Student AffairsCommittees. Haweeli also Hittinger Katz '57. An overseer, Katz, who lives and works chairs the Women's Leadership Task Force, is a sponsor of in Silver Spring, Md., i vice president at Dara-Prompt, Inc., tudent internsand previously served the College as an overseer. a company which provides data processing service . Also nominated for a second, three-year term is Joseph In accordance with the by-law of the Alumni Associa Boulos '68, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, president of Boulos, Inc., tion, other nominations may be made by petition to the a real estate, management, and development firm in Portland. executive ecrerary of the Alumni Council with the signa A trustee and former overseer, Boulos serves on the Invest tures of one percent of the members of the association on or ment, Nominating, and Executive Committees, and chairs the before March 31, 1996. If no nominations by petition are Physical Plant Committee. submitted, the above candidates shall be declared elected by Albert Stone '51 has been nominated for a renewable, the chair of the Alumni Council. 47 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY A L U �I N I A T L A R G � ______The Si xties 1968 from an Diego. He is pre�iJent her daughter, who is an attorney Correspondents: Mary Jo Calabrese Baur of Gerber lnve·tment Corpora in Oregon. Just before ending 137 Lex mg ton Road tion and partnerofVietnam Elec this column off, l talked with Dracut, MA 01826 tric Partner . He says, "I've made Judy and learned that her father 1960 508-454-9733 even trips ro Vietnam since the had passed away the night before Carolyn Webster Lockhart embargo was lifted in February and that ·he i now on her third 170 County Road 1969 1994. Doing business with these round ofchemo, which he says is New London, NH 03257 Diane E. Kindler fine people make me feel far bet more gentle than the other . We 1961 117 Alba treet ter than when I served two tours all wish her well in her fight to Penny Dietz Sullivan Portland, ME 04 103 there ( '64 and '65) as a destroyer regain good health. . ..Bob and 11145 Glade Dr. 207-774-7454 officer in the U ..Navy. Build Liz Chamberlain Huss are in Reston, VA 2209 1 ing is better than destroying." Moretown, Vt., where Bob i a 703-620-3569 ...Tony '57 and Bev Jackson professor at Champlain College e-mail: [email protected] Glockler live in Belle Mead, N.]. and Liz is a retired teacher doing Bev is an emergency medical private tutoring and consulting. 1962 Correspondent: technician, and Tony is with They celebrated their 35th anni Judith Hoagland Bri tol Carolyn Webster Lockhart Educational Testing Service. Bev versary in eptember and have 3415 unset Blvd. said, "Ir was great to be back at two grand ons. They regretted not Houston, TX 77005 A questionnaire went reunion! More people hould try being at the reunion, but they 71 3-667-2246 out soon after Re it." . . . "Bo" Haggett, who is in were raking their boat from Lake 0 union Weekend, and the second year of hi human Champlain down the canal, 1963 Barbara Haines Chase a6 welcome response came from resources management and con down the Hudson River, around 11 Salisbury Road several of you. Unfortunately,the sulting business, wrote a long let New York City and out Long Is Keene, NH 03431 column only has room for high ter after reunion. They have three land Sound) to the Vineyard. 603-352-9330 lights ....Linda Mackey Foehl children and 19-month-old twin ...An update from Gail Carter contmue to teach kindergarten grandsons. Bo writes that "per Ferguson. who with husband 1964 at a public school in herborn, haps the mo t significant, educa Gayne is continuing on their long Sara Sh.aw Rhoades Mass. The piano, she ays, re tional and interesting aspect of voyage, brought word that they 76 Norton Road mains very much a part of her our lives since my Colby years managed to encounter their Kittery, ME 03904-5413 teaching and leisure life. She and has been the opportunity to live fourth natural disaster inas many 207-439-2620 Bill '59 have four children and and work in several parts of coun years (the previou three being 1965 four grandchildren (two sons are try, including Maine (of cour e), the 1992 Malibu fire, the floods Richard W. Bankart successful profe sional musi New Hamp hire, Ohio, Wi con the following year and then an 20 Valley Avenue Suite D2 cians), and they are still in The s in and New York." ...Jim earthquake). Thi year's adven Westwood, NJ 07675 Centre Streeters band, which is Haidas is the owner of Cooke's ture was an encounter with Hur 20 l -664-7672 still going trong after 19 years. Restaurant in Hyannis, Mass. He ricane Luis when they docked in They have renovated an old and his wife, Frances, moved to St. Martin. Gail writes, "There is 1966 chicken coop on their property Osterville in August, "a great no more awesome, or terrifying, Ru sell N. Monbleau into a temporary record ing town at a great spot." He aid the pectacle than nature gone 3 Lovejoy Road studio .... Al '59 and Justine tough part was that they had just wi Id." ...Ted '61 and I traveled Milford, NH 03055 Brown Gengras are now living sentbothson offto Milton Acad to California in eptember to 603-673-5508 in Alton, N.H.Ju tine isa project emy ....Doug '58 and Judy attend the wedding of our son e-mail: monbleau.russell@al. archaeologist for New Hampshire Ingram Hatfield live in Hill - and aw Steve Levine '59 and mkots l.mko. mt .dee.com contract project , which involves borough, N .H. A couple of things Dave Bloom '59 .... I am sure happened this summer, said Judy, that many of you still have blank 1967 directing research and writing Robert Gracia technical repons. Al is director that have changed their lives questionnaires. We would all love 295 Burgess Avenue of college coun eling and an En one being that their youngest to hear from you. + a Westwood, MA 02090 glish teacher at Tilton chool. graduated in June, o this f ll wa 617-329-2 101 Justine writes that after 30-plus their first without a tuition pay Correspondent: e-mail: Bob_Gracia@ years of "on-campus" residence ment since 1979! ...Judy Miller Penny Dietz Sullivan brookline.mec.edu at a boarding school, they have Heekin was feeling well enough moved totheir own "off-campus" after a second round of chemo to Judy Gerrie Heine residence and joined the "com travel to Cape Cod to visit her Soon you will be receiv 21 Hillcrest Rd. muters club" and the "real 94-year-old father and do some ing information from Medfield, MA 02052 world." ...Ron Gerber wrote ance tor hunting in Maine with 6 1 Colby about our 35th COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 48 A, L l' !I.I "> I A T L :\ R (; E reunion. Thank to tho e of you rngether with Bob Hartman '60 who responded to the que tion NEWSMAKERS and his wife, ue. He will try to naire. The committee met m Sep attend the reunion and Wt)nJer' 1f tember and et a number of goals anyone ha- seen Phil Walther. Retired Rear Admiral Ted for the Class of '61: at least 61 . ..Addi tional people who are Lockhart '61 spoke on 'The members of the class should at going to try to attend the reunion Navy, The World and Haver tend the reunion, and 61 percent since rhe questionnaire wa> >ent hill" at the Haverhill, Mass., of the class should participate in are: Sandy Arens. Bill Bai n Rotary Club. ...Cynthia Dunn rai ing a total of $61 ,000 as our bridge, Jane Bowman, Iris Barber '62 recently purcha ed reunion gift to Colby. David Mahoney Burnell, Carol Stearns historic Smugglers Notch Inn Ziskind, our hard-working presi Clement, Bill Clough, Dottie in Jeffe rsonville, Vt. . . . Ralph dent, would like to hoot for 61 John Christmas, Sue Parmalee A. Bradshaw '62 was named percent of the class at reunion, Daney, Charlie DeWitt, Tom president of the Federation of but that i the one goal that may and Marilyn Blom Evans, Regina American Societies for Experi not be attainable. The others are I Ted Lockhart '61 Foley Haviland, Tom and Dotty mental Biology ....St ephen Bob Burke ha as embled a large Boynton Kirkendall, Cici Clif Carpenter '62, chairman and CEO of the United California committee to ensure that you are ton Lee, Diane Sherman Luth, Bank, was featured in an ed ition of the Los Angeles Business contacted by someone in the class Helen Johnson Mcfarlane, Judy Journal last fall. ...Ro ger B. Jeans Jr. '63 is Elizabeth Lewi whom you knew who will encour Parker Millen, Pat and David Otey Professor of East Asian tudies at Wa hington and Lee age you to participate, at what Marr, Ed Ruscitti and Anne University in Lexington, Va. Jeans also represented Colby at the ever level you can. Remember, Lovell Swenson. Looks like we'll inauguration of Washington anJ Lee's new president, John Elrod, you do not have to have gradu ea ily get the 61 returnees. N,1w and Barbara Howard Traister '65 did the same for the inaugu ated from Colby to be part of the let' meet the other goal ! + reunion party! We welcome all rationofJohnStra sburgerat Ur inu College.. . . Pauline Ryder who were ever a member of the Kezer '63 i the new chief executive officer of the Hartford Ballet... Richard M. Pious '64 was appointed to the Adolph . class. The committee voted to . Corre pondent: have the cla s activities start, at and Effie Ochs Chair in American Srudie and History at Barnard Judith Hoagland Bristol Colby, on Wednesday, June 5, o College in New York ....Stonebridge Pre s Inc., a new company formedby David Cutler '65 and John Coors, has purcha ed the you can arrive any time that is Patch Jack Mosher, a Worce ter County (Mass.) Newspaper ....Joseph Boulos '68 convenient for you. Activitie panish teacher, got ha teamed with Edward Haddad of Boston to form Boulo will be scheduled for ju t our her master'- m 1993. Advi ory Service , offering real estate ervice ....Sari Abul class during tho e fir t t\vodays, Her husband, Bud, retired from Jubein '69 took ome ribbing in the Bosron Globe' "Names before the other cla ses arrive. & reaching6 2 English in eptember Fa e " column for being een repeatedly at a health club after . . . Peter Stevenson write from 1994, but Parch say it's at lea t year of disdaining such establishment . According to the Globe, Haverford, Pa., to confess that five more years to a decent retire Abul-Jubein "got out hi winter clothe one Saturday ...and the reason Karen Johnson Fenton ment for her-she spent 14 years disco ered to his horror that the pants no longer fit." '63 remembered all the A TOs at home raising their five kids, and whose nicknames had been used it rake longer to build up rho e (Height-a, Dopey, Squirrel, MILEPOSTS retirement years. Son Jeff, ba ed Goomba and T orang) is that he in Quantico, is a Marine helicop (Height-a) dated her back then. ter pilot who get to fly the presi Marriages: Irving Faunce '67 to Jan Collins in Kennebunkport, On behalf of the entire crew, he dential helicopter; Chris is a Navy Maine. wants to invite her to our 35th upply officer on the John Paul reunion and promi es to supply a Jones; Brendan i a manager of an fir t-clas ticket. Welcome to the Births: A on, Brian Jason, to Judith and Richard Riemer '68. Diego's Restaurant in Plymouth, Cla s of '61 as an honorary mem Mas .; Tiffany got her ma ter's ber, Karen! He also has a sugges Deaths: Rus ell B. Graves '63 in Valrico, Fla., at 54.... Jo an L. from the University of Maine tion of an activity for the Nelson '63 in Worcester, Mass.,at 53.... Martha Beck Webber Orono in 1994 and is now work '67 in Carabas ett Valley, Maine, at 52. reunion-auction off Torn"Red" ing in the human re ource Evans . ..he will have to tell you department of Grand Circle the "rest of the story." ...From from Colgate does not interfere, in from Merrimack, N.H., where Travel in Boston; and Erik is a 21- Connecticut, we heard from she hopes to be at the reunion. he is a senior buyer in the Osram year-old college tudent. Patch Nancy Schneider Schoonover, Since he and her husband, purchasing department. He hopes and Bud have two new grand who owns, with her husband, Knute, have seven children and to be at the reunion and see Bruce ons ....Cathy and Tony Main- Jack, a company called PR Data even grandchildren and she Turner, Sandy Graham and ero also are grandparents for the y terns. They expect to sell the works at The Whitney Shop in Hans Veeder. He regularly ee fir t time with the birth of Grant bu ine and retire in the next New Canaan and Greenwich, she Bob Gannon, who manages a ser Andrew last April. Tony is senior year, so, Nancy, please update us ha a busy Life ....Amy Eisen vice station in Sharon, N.H .... VP and general manager of Lee on your status .... Also in Con trager Birky live in Lincoln, Hank Sheldon write from the Hecht Harrison, a management necticut i Carolyn Evans Neb., where he i an elementary Chicago area that he is now a con ulting company,and Cathy i Consolino Albrecht. As you can school mediaspeciali t. She trav captain with United Airlines, fly a director of religiou education. ee, he remarried in April, and eled with Lynn Ehrlich '63, who ing wide-bodied DC- 10 . He Tony is also the administrator of a he sounds very happy. She saw attended Colby with us in 1959- spend time at their condo in Park 5,000-per on pari hand preaches John and Jill Williams Hooper at 60, to aipan, Mariana Island . City and is looking for a retire every weekend. Cathy and T any their on's wedding in September. he had taught there 30 year ment place in a warmer climate. rook their three grown children If her younge t son's graduation ago ....Bill Swormstedt checks He and his wife, Elise, often get on a grand tour of pain and Italy 49 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY _I ALUMNI AT LARGE forfive week inJuneandJuly .. have traveled recently to Chile College, and daughter Shana i a on my mind the la t time we met. Dedra and Hank Phillips'sdaugh and Co ta Rica. Rich invites ev Hollins College graduate. At a She is a good role model! Any ter Traci was expecting in Janu eryone to stop by and vi it. (As I recent reunion in Deer Isle, way, her daughter was married at ary. Hank is a trade development mentioned before, maybe we Maine, with Nancy Kudriavetz the Mount Washington Inn last manager, and Dedra is a director could include a visit to the Grog Ramsey and Patty Downs year, and son Jack '91 is now of nursing in Pottstown, Pa. The Shop and Newbury Gardens prior Berger, the consensus was that all engaged to another Colby grad Phillip es have had recent trips to to our 35th in Waterville in were better than ever a far as and will be married at the Col Magarita and Aruba, where they 1997.) ...Richard Mittleman is brains and beauty! Lael planned lege chapel next June. She also have taken up wind surfing, and an attorney, and wife Linda is a to attend the Fourth World Con reports that at long la t business planned an October trip to Scot real estate broker in Providence, ference on Women in Beijing, has turned around at the radio land. Hank said he saw Dick R.I. They have two grandchil China, last September.. ..Anne station and is looking ro y. Judy, Leiser a few years ago and i look dren. Dick purchased a new boat Ticknor McNeece is a special ed like so many of us, is involved ing forward to eeing Rich in May and ay he enjoyed a great teacher and find that as each year with aging parent and grateful Nobman ....Gary Miles is a summer on Narragansett Bay .... goes by she has more interest for all the family events that still professor of hi tory at Cowell Col Bill and Alice Webb celebrated out ide of her job and home. include them.... Craig Millett lege, the Univer ity ofCalifornia their 25th wedding anniversary Anne' hu band, Robert, is a sys and her hu band are pastor and Santa Cruz, and wife Peggy Bone this year and spent eight days at tems analy t, and between them co-pastor of Pilgrim ' United Miles is an instructor in ESL and Prince Edward Island-the same they have two sons, two stepsons, Church of Christ in Leesburg, writing. Their daughter, Melanee, place they honeymooned. Alice two stepdaughter and three Fla., and are enjoying every married in June 199 5 and is now a and son Michael, who is getting grandchildren. Christopher and minute of it, especially con truct permanent re idem of France. into the theater bu iness, were Chuck both married this year. . ing their church's first building, Gary served three years as chair of both in a local production of Hello !ju tgot the mostdelightful letter which they expect to be a unique the hi tory department and re Dolly. Alice still sings in the from Mike McCabe, which I'll structure with two monolithic cently publi hed his second book, church choir and local choral save to share next time.+ dome and an atrium connector. Livy: Reconsrructing Early Rome groups. She also belong to the I'm looking forward to a picture (Cornell Univ. Press, 1995). He Republican Town Committee in when it's finished ....Jon Pit also won third place in the Ha Reading, Mass ....Lael Swinney Correspondent: man reports that both his chil waiian State Long Board Surfing Stegall still lives in Washington, Sara Shaw Rhoades dren (Marc and Shelly) graduated Championship in 1991. ..Rich D.C., and is now president of So from Gordon College last May Simkins celebrated his 25th year cial Change International, her JudyFassettAydelott and that Marc was married a week as president of the Grog Shop, own international consulting ser is such a satisfactory later. These events completed a Inc., which includes the restau vice working in the formerYugo 64 corre pondent. Every year of highlights that included a rant in Newburyport and and slavia with women leaders in the couple of years she sits down at trip to India and Nepal for Jon, Newbury Perennial Garden . Balkans. Her husband, Ron, is the typewriter and bangs out a Marc and helly. They visited Rich and wife Patricia, who is VP doing internationaldevelopment good two-page letter catching me leprosy colonies and hospitals, of Grog Shop and owner ofT own in Russia. The Stegalls' son, up with her family and remem spent time with the bishop of the and Country of Newburyport, Skyler, is a senior at Wheaton bering whatever wa uppermost Southern India Church and even Dream Weavings hen Mike Tschebull '63 of the archaeological treasures oflran." Among the highlights was Wwa studying history at a visit to Isfahan, an ancient city that Tschebull described as "an Colby he never imagined that architectural masterpiece." he would one day be buying He says that contrary to popular belief in the United States, pieces of it. A world-renowned average Iranian are not hostile toward American , although there dealer and collector of antique remain ome "ritualized" antagoni m from governmentoff icials. Islamic carpet , Tschebull is a "We didn't encounter any anti-We tern hostility at all," he said. leading expert on 18th- and An ongoing economic embargo again t Iran by the United 19th-century folk artweaving of States everely limits the purchase of any Iranian product by westernIran and the Caucasu . American citizen or entities. "The odd thing about the embargo "I grew up with these rugs is that it generally applie to Iranian artworks regardless of when and inherited them," Tschebull they were made, no matter that they have been out of [ran for said. "They have always held a many years," Tschebull said. As a result, he ays, the embargo special place in my life and [ feel inhibits imports of old carpets from Europe or the Middle East. lucky to be able to make my Tschebull majored in European history at Colby, an academic living talking about and working with these extraordinary works ofart." path he says built upon a desire to live and work abroad. He spent Hi cachet is such that the government of Iran has repeatedly 10 years in Germany and Spain working for Banker Trust and invited Tschebull to present papers at symposiums in Tehran. He later worked forCredit Sui se in New York City. He left in 1989 was one of a handful of Westerners-including only three Ameri to run his own busine s, T chebull Antique Carpets. However, he cans-who participated in a two-day conference la t Augu t, his had establi hed himself a an expert on Iranian carpets long before second symposium in Iran since 1993. then-as a collector ince 1965 and as curator for a show in 1971. During both visit , Tschebull has been given extraordinary "There isa lot wecan learnabout Iran bylearning about the e freedom to explore Iran. "We were not controlled," he aid. "We carpets," Tschebull said. "They offer a glimpse into a culture that wandered Tehran at will and went into the countryside to see some is often mi understood by the West." COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 50 ".LUM I AT LA R (; E \'isiteJ two hour with Mother Lutz Ott teache French at winter i an immigration control Teresa. He write , "What a beau Middletown (N.J.) High School Corre·pondent: measure--or is everyone coming tiful per on-What a simple South. he i active with the Girl Russell . Monbleau in from Finland ? ..."Di slocateJ philosophy!" . ..Ray Perkins re Scour- and church activities and Worker" i h w Ralph Record port that he has recently had his ju t packed =1 offto Dartmouth. Happinessmay merely "correctly" descnhes hb current econd book publi·hed. lt is titled . ..Mike Ward, a school princi he the remi ion of situation. When hi · c,1mpany de Logic and Mr. Limbaugh. 1 wish he pal in Falmouth, Mass., rafted 66 pain. . You will cided to relocate out of the area, had given us an excerpt. 1 lot•e the down the Grand Canyon on hi reaJ el ewhere in this i sue ofthe Ralph elected to pa5' and face the title ....Morgan McGinley is 30th wedding anniver ary la t pas�ing of George Sheridan challenge of findmg a new career editorial page editor of The Day ummerwith hi bride, Diane ... Dukes, hu ·band to Joan Mane for the next five to 10 years. Ralph in New London, Conn., and his Linda Stearns al o wa on the gold Dukes. Both George and obserYed that the move was ju t wife is editor and writer for Ml's water la ·t um mer, taking weekly Joan wished ro expres some part of the national movement ro tic Coast and Country Magaz:i�e. ailing lessons in Bar Harb<1r. Next thought and feeling to their make life e peci<1lly difficult fnr Their oldest ha graduated from summer she hopes to certify as a friend-. As thi would be our·ide those of u over 50. Ain't that the Fordham, their middle child i a solo sailor. In the interim, she of the normal obituary format, we truth! . . . Dick Dunnell, proving junior at Fordham and the young continues painting silk and sell will share these with you here. On that rhere is life after 50, is an est is in high school. ..John ing scarves, pocketbooks, etc., and July 7, 1995, George heridan nouncing his impending summer Pomeranz owns two businesses is the purchasing agent for or Duke "Took his lifeand brought wedding to Marcia Hayward after on Nantucket: an envelope dis oanic produce and the free:er de it Home." His last thoughts for his a year-long engagement. Dick i tributorship and a landscaping partment at a Bangor health food friends were, "[ chose when to an office manager for Chubb Life bu ine . He has two grown sons store. Linda is also a founding come into thi world. And now I America, and Marcia is a high and a daughter in school. .. member and secretary of the choo e when ro leave. Though school science teacher. They have Brian '63 and Sue Sawyer Japan-America ociety, Bangor it' not that imple, it's just rhat ju t purcha ed a condo in La McAlary have moved to aoinaw, chapter. Last summer they publi imple. See y'all on the other ide. conia .... Carol Lordi just pur Mich., where they are both work cized and hosted a women's chorus Much Love, George (Sher)." chased a new home in ilicon ing in anesthesiology and have a from Shizuoka, Japan .... Randy Gifts in his memory may be sent Valley, Los Altos, Calif. he i granddaughter born May 4, 1995 ! Williams has new dutie at Fleet to the Community Nature Cen planning to move in right after Sue report that "life begins when BankofMassachusetts as VP, com ter, a nonprofit environmental the new year.... I received a the kid leave home and the dog munity banking di vi ion. He keeps learningcenter, which, although great letter from Sue Mahoney dies!" ...John Oaks writes that active with sailing and squash. open to all, has developed special Michael, who reports among he has been elected vice pre i Wedding bells for his eldest daugh environmental awarene pro other things a recent trip to dem of the American ociety of ter preempted a 30th reunion with gram aimed at children. He had Brisbane, Australia, to watch and Parasitologi ts, which "i the first us ....Eliot Terborgh, who did upported the school as an out support her son, who is on the of four positions that will lead to make he reunion, commented that growth of his support for Joan, international Junior World a uming thepresidency in 1997. "despite the low tumour it was a who has been a volunteer teacher Champion hip skating circuit. Although thi will involve a great very enjoyable time." Eliot and at the center and i a co-founder (Boy, areyou lucky-lately 1 only deal of work for the ociety, it i fa mily pent a weekend in Lon of a planned much-expanded fa get to go to M iiford District Court an honor to be elected by col don after a trip to Russia and Scot cility. He is survived by his wife, to watch my kid -and it's not league from the U.S. and outside land. While in London he sighted his mother, two si ters, and, as he because they are working closely our border . 1 wish some of the a "genuine Phantom-Ralph aid, "many many dear friend ." with the judge either. l think it's individual re ponsible for this Bunche i alive and well. He is ...Janice Holt Arsan accompa referred to as "Rules Impairment success, particularly Prof. Thom with Morgan Stanley Bank arrang nied her hu band, Noyan, this Syndrome.") ue recently started a Ea ton of Colby' Biology ing financing for large infra truc ummer for a three-week combo her own company, Michael & Department, were here to hare ture projects. Hi two daughters business trip and vacation to Tur Company, focused in two area , the pride!" He adds, "P.S. Heard are in college (one in Massachu- key. They stayed on the T urki h fund rai ing for nonprofit organi that Larry Dyhrberg is back af etts), and hi son i in high chool. Mediterranean, an area formerly zations and magazine editing. ter a year in Poland teaching Unfortunately, the rest of his fam known a the Lycian Penin ula. ...That's all I can squeeze in Engli h for the Peace Corps!" ily wa at their ummer home, but Janice reports that their oldest here right now. Please keep Larry, plea e check in with your we hared a delightful dinner with daughter is getting married in the those questionnaires trickling in. class correspondent! + Ralph. Believe it or not, he has not spring and their youngest started I'm desperate for material. And changed a bit!" ...The new end college this fall. According to my remember, things are more like with hearty congratulations to our experience, thi is the recipe for they are today than they ever Correspondent: class prez, Bud Marvin, who moving rapidly from parenting were before. + Richard W. Bankart nagged the Colby "C" Club Per through empty nesting straight son of the Year honor last Home into grandparenting.... Terry Lanky Lew Krinsky coming Weekend during the Saunders Lane i the associate Corre pondent: and Ellen continued annual Colby Night dinner. Bud dean at Boston University Gradu Robert Gracia and 65 their New England od was cited "forhi commitment to ate School of ocial Work. he i Judy Gerrie Heine y sey after our reunion with a top Colby ports over the years. He looking forward to taking a group in Burlington, Vt., "for the wed erved as chair of the Athletics of ocial work graduate tudent Two of Mike and Pam ding of a young lady whom we Committee of the Alumni Coun to Denmark this coming spring to Cooper Picher's ons ho ted during her Jan Plan in Jan cil and can be seen at numerous compare their programs to those 6 7 are at Colby: Jean ' 9." La t fall Lew ho ted Hung var ity games each year." It is not of the United States, with par Michel will graduate thi June, Bui '94 from Colby' Admis ions known if Bud still wears hi tradi ticular focu on immigration and with Gregoire to follow a year Office during his two-day recruit tional "pre " hat to these event . health care. Please report back if after. At home in Toronto, ing trip to Houston . ...Margo ...Hail, Colby, Hail! + you discover that 11 month of Marielle i in grade six and Andre 51 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE in grade l2. Mike and Pam work Northampton School. ... Eric the Azores and Spain on the way and Erica are at Brooks School, as arbitrator . Pam negotiates for Meindl and wife Vickie live in to their destination in Majorca. and Charles is an eighth grader. the Ontario Medical A sociation Waveland, Miss., where Eric i· a Tom writes, "It was quite an ad She's trying to maintain her anity and the government of Toronto meteorologist/oceanographer for venture, but I longed for a walk in with three at home and says jug while Mike practice his trade the National Data Buoy enter. the New England wood . Too gling phone time is a major ac with the National Hockey Asso A - chief of the data systems divi much ocean for me!" (On the way complishment. For diver ion she ciation and the N.H.L. Player sion, Eric will travel to Pretoria, home, he flew.) + plays tennis, golf and skis. She also Association. At some point Mike South Africa, a a member of the enjoys watching sports her chil may negotiate with Steve Freyer United tates delegation to an dren are involved in and plays her Correspondent: '68, who represents a number of international meteorological husband directs for Salem, N.H., Mary Jo Calabrese Baur players. Mike occasionally puts conference. In August, Eric con Community Theater and for hi on the skates and pads as in the nected with Ed Scherer, who was drama class at Salem High .. Colby alumni game along with in New Orleans for an American Rich Larson of Cu Last June, Richard Riemer and Paul Cronin and Dick Lemieux. Bar Association convention. pertino, Calif., write his wife, Judy, spent a week in ...Ross Kolhonen write that he ...Victor Marshall retired from of taking a year and a Bethel, Maine. He still finds took time offfrom his record ex the Air Force eight year ago and half6 off from the "rat race" to relax, Maine a special place and tries to change to run a marathon in Ant after some time as an indepen travel8 and start a new career. He's vacation there every year. Rich arctica (a feat that we assume was dent consultant joined Booz involved in researching the his ard recommend that tho e living accomplished during the South Allen and Hamilton Inc. before tory of the Army unit with which in the New York City area join the ern Hemisphere summer). This joining Science Applications In he served in Vietnam and will New York Colby Club. He's dis column was not notified of Ross's ternational Corporation recently. visit Hong Kong and perhaps covered that the activities are var time .... Phil Kay sent a picture Victor works in the field of com Vietnam this year. He adds that ied, many and always fun, and he of a healthy-looking group of puter security and helps govern he wi hes he could retire per enjoys meeting grads both old and White Mules skiing the Swiss ment and commerc ial clients manently ....Ne ws from Bill recently graduated ....Ted Alps. Phil runs his consulting enhance their security programs McKinney-he's a dean of Hart Swartz is superintendent of business from his home overlook and comply with federal laws and ford Seminary, and his wife, Linda, schools in Mahopac, N.Y., while ing Manchester Harbor in Man policies. Victor and hi wife, is reference librarian at Trinity his wife, Vicki, is a library media che ter-by-the-Sea, Ma ., and Veronica, who has sung in profes College. He loves his I ife and work specialist. Their on, Matthew, i says he welcomes old friends to sional choral groups and i inter at the seminary, which he de a sophomore at Rochester In ti call him and visit. And if domes ested in endeavor ranging from scribes as a small but dynamic ecu tute of Technology, majoring in tic skiing is your choice, Phil rent flower arranging to medical treat menical theological school. communication, and daughter his Sugarloaf house at attractive ments and discoveries, have been Travel is a large part of his life; he's Rachel, the artist in the family, rates to those who know the first married since 1971 and live in been in 49 tates and was in West is a high school ophomore. verse of "Hail, Colby, Hail." ... Alexandria, Va ....Bob Merrill Africa in August. . Carol . ..Thanks for your news. Till Sandy Miller Keohane reports and his wife, Phyllis, live in Sugar Sutherland Paterson and her hu - next time. + that she has tarted running and Land, Texas, and have three boys: band, Jim, reside in Richardson, competed in her first race, a dis Grant at Southern Methodist Texas, where she' an information tance of five kilometers. Her "en University, Scott, a junior in high technology audit manager for Correspondent: chanted cottage" from the Boston chool. and eth in eighth grade. Texas Instrument and Jim is a Diane E. Kindler Junior League show house will be Bob's a geologist for Unocal and production manager. They have in the March issue of Country frequently travels outside the two children: Tracy, 21, and Roz Manwaring An Living. Sandy and Ken also have U.S., especially to Central Asia tephen, 19, who both attend drews writes from enlarged the Milton, Mass., shop and the Far Ea t. We congratulate Trinity University in San Anto 9 Fryeburg, Maine, where Earthly Possessions so that it looks him on being elected president of nio on partial academic scholar she is executive director of Har ships. Carol, who has moved from 6 like an adult doll house with lots the American Institute of Profes ve t Hills Animal Shelter. Roz of individual room ....Chuck sional Geologists ....Patricia managing one of the U.S. audit notes that she takes her work Levin has expanded and moved Jenks, recently separated, has re groups to worldwide l.T. audit re home with her-she live with, hi law office from Boston to turned to Maine and i enjoying sponsibility, visited eight Euro among others, Spicey, Mikey and Needham. Chuck's son Jonathan life in her new home on Orr pean sites la t year and hoped to Stumpster. Sounds like quite an is a junior at Colby, his son Island with her two cats, but she hit majorA ian sitesthis year.She interesting fa mily.... Judith Lee Michael is a senior at Needham also is plea ed to be near her says it' a great job but wishes he Moeckel and her hu band, Jeffrey, High and his wife, Jo Ellen, works sister's family in Topsham. Pat is could figure out how to do it in live in Durham, Conn., with their in real estate sales in Needham. an exhibiting artist, teaches draw fewer hours.... After eight years, dogs, Monty and Python. Judith i Chuck says he sees George ing and design at UMaine-Au Hope Jahn Wetzel has moved a rehabilitation counselor and is Markley frequently and that gusta and is a fac ilitator for "Art from teaching fourth to teaching deeply involved in music tudies George is president of the New from the Heart" workshops. fifth grade at her Kingston, N.H., (piano and voice) and teaching. England Council ofThe Union of ...South Face Farm in Ashfield, school. She's al o having her first Judith, who is planning a trip to Hebrew Congregations ....Don Mass., is home to Tom Mc student teacher in 21 years of Alaska, reports that she feels bet Jepson and wife Dee (Thompson Crumm and his wife, Judy Haupt, teaching. Her daughter turned 21 ter now than at any other time in '69) live in Northampton, Mass. an adult nur e practitioner, step and will graduate from Carleton her life and wonders if other clas - Don has joined Strathmore Artist son Jed and a black lab. (Jed is 17 in Minnesota in May '96. Hope mates feel the ame ....Barbara Products and is marketing a line and showing interest in Colby. ) says it doesn't seem that long ago Klingerman Morgan is an attor of computer art papers for P.C.'s. Tom spent the month of May as that she graduated from Colby. ney in Trenton, N.j., and the Don and Deehave twoson ,Matt, extra crew on board a 110-foot . ..Diana Soule Seifert has re mother of three big kid - a junior at Colby-Sawyer, and sailboat that departed from turnedto teaching as her four chil Corrine, who works for Merrill David, a junior at Williston- Florida, visiting ports in Bermuda, dren are now teenagers. Megan Lynch, and Chri and Kim, tu- COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 52 .'\ L l.J �I N I .'\ T L A R G E dents at Lehigh . . ..Eric Siegel tuch reports from New York that he cays in touch with Moses Silverman and Tom Schulhof. He remains active in the art world, both as a contemporary art dealer specializing in the work of young arti ·ts and as a financial planner for Mutual of New York, helping colleagues in the arts plan investments. Eric's wife, to whom he says he has been happily mar ried for 24 years, manages a social service agency and ings and record classical mu ic ....Sha ron Timberlake was given an award in Portland, Maine, re cently for her work to end hunger. As executive director of Youth and Family Outreach, he organ ized Teen A id, a rock concert to aid programs that help homeless youth. In organizing the sell-out concert, Sharon no doubt called If the prospect of capital upon skills learnedar many a ba e ment mixer. Rock on ....The re gains taxes has you cent focuson the Beatles andtheir music must have touched many of feeling that you can't you, as itdid me. ltwa fun to hare afford to take advantage my feelings for their music with my on, David, who does a mean of the rise in the market, ver ion of"Twist and Shout." But 1 don't think anyone who wasn't a you might want to part of that era could under tand contact the Planned the poignancy of seeing and hear ing John Lennon again .. Giving Office at Colby. A Enough nostalgia. Please stay in touch with news of your selves, properly planned gift to families and classmates. All the Colby may enable you to best for the New Year and a healthy and happy 1996. + unlock the income potential of those highly appreciated securities while benefiting your College AND avoiding capital gains taxes. For more information contact: Steve Greaves, Director of Planned Giving Colby College Waterville, ME 04901 (207) 872-3212 scgreave@colby .edu 53 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY 1\ L U hi I A T L A R G E _____The Se venties 1979 fromus all. ...John Lombard is in occasion. Retracing my daily ac Corresponden ts: Robert Kinney his third year a� senior (i that tivities, I wandered over to the 291 1 E COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 54 ALUMNI AT LAROE Black takes his wife, Marta, and Nancy Brunnckow Marion'· old daughters on expedition trips est, Stephanie, is "looking at col NEWSMAKERS from their home in Yardly, Pa., to leges but wants a warmer climate sights like their favorite beach' . .. than Colby's. Mark, 15, hn-; at Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. '70, I remember William HJadky as tended Colby's soccer camp for directoroftheMaine Historic Pre - the "Mountain Man," the only three summers and love · it." .. ervation Commission, was the sub person I'd ever known who could So, back to Marilyn McDougal ject of a lengthy fe ature in the climb up flagpoles and the sides Meyerhans and husband �teven. Bangor Daily News . . ..An exhi of brick re idence halls (not to Did you run w the dictionary to bition ofnew culpture by Duncan the glee of admini tration offi look up "pomologist"? They arc Hewitt '71 was on display at ICON cials!). He writes from Hartsdale, apple grower . "Agriculture i-; a Contemporary Art in Brunswick, N.Y., of running hi own pre difficult way to make a ltvmg," Maine ....Dan Bloomer '72, who mium audit services busine s and say Marilyn, "but it' · hard to recently fom1ed Bloomer& Cucci, finding great joy in his family, imagine anything else! Our land Master Stairbuilders, in Winslow, wife Diana and 2 1/2-year-old i our livelihood. I have three Maine, was the subject of a feature son Jacob .... l look forward ro riding horses and numcrou · cat�. Dan Bloomer '72 article in Augusta's Kennebec]our seeing you all at the Cla�s of '71 a small house, several barm anJ nal. Bloomer's background in cu tom cabinet-making, fine fur 25th reunion. We are preparing over 200 acre of land ( 70 m niture and winding staircases led to the partnership ...."Winter special events to mark this his apple trees). My only real rnm Work," a diary of a day laborer by Don J. Snyder '72, was the toric time in all of our lives and to plamt-time is speeding up1" + lead story in the November 1995 Harper's ....David Baird '73 make everyone feel comfortable wa named enior agency field consultant for StateFarm Insur as part of our class's gathering. Correspondent: ance Companie in South Portland, Maine ....Jer i Theriault Your unique contribution to our Shelley Bieringer Rau '73 i theauthorofCom Dance, acollectionofpoetry ....Karen collective elf is valued, and we Heck '74 was named to the board of directors of the Waterville look forward toremembering our Colby day with you. + Area Boy & Girl Club. . . . Mike Roy '74 is the new Oakland, Peter and Rochelle Maine, town manager.... The sculpture of Chris Duncan '75 Weiner Kaplan are 7 4 living in N.Y.C., was on exhibit at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, Correspondent: N.Y.... Scott Shagin '75 wa appointed chair of the New where Rochelle is with Harper Janet Holm Gerber ]er ey tate Bar As ociation' Entertainment and Arts Law Collins Publi ·her-. They have an Section . ... Peter Allen Luckey '7 5 is the new senior pastor of English pringer spaniel, Ollie, Sadly, hare with Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, Kan . . . . Gerry 1 and collect books primed by the Boyle '78 was named best daily columnist in the Maine Pres you the news of the Roy Crafters. Rochelle is tudy 7 2 death of Jane Thayer ing computer tech at Columbia, As ociation' 1995 Better New paper Contest. ...Andrea Dumont Handel '78, recently named educational technician at Hutchinson. Just before she died hoping toswitch careers and head Lincoln Academy in Newca tle, played Madeleine in May of cancer, Nancy Brunnckow for the Pacific Northwest or the Sarton' The Underground River for The Chamber Theater of Marion and Jeanne Emerson Southwest ....Warren and Gail Young flew to San Francisco to Howard Dent are in Washing Maine ... . Robin Walmsley '78 was promoted to lieutenant be with her. To her fa mily and ton state, where Gail is a regional colonel in the U.S. Air Force... . Savas S. Zembillas '79 wa named priest of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in friends we extend deepest sym manager for Eli Lilly. Her four pathy ....The strongest theme Kalamazoo, Mich. stepdaughters are all in college in your mail to me i aging ...not and grad school. She did lots of MILEPOSTS of our elve but of our children. traveling last summer-to Banff, Rick Leslie has just sent his old Cancun and Grand Cayman 1 - est daughter, Laura, off to UNC Marriages: Ellen Kornetsky '73 to Dennis Pickering in land, "all beautiful places." ... Chapel Hill (and with wife Jean Claudia Dold Stover is in At Kennebunk, Maine.... Alfred M. Sheehy Jr. '78 to Susan J. is expecting their first child to lanta. She lists her job title as Levine in Scarborough, Maine. gether). Marilyn McDougal "Mommy" and has one "excep Meyerhans and husband Steve tional" 10-year-old son. Hu band Births: A daughter, Sally Earon Meli to S. Ann Earon '74 and (pomologists in Skowhegan Carl is a senior engineer with GE. Robert Jame Meli ....A son, Bradley Raymond, to John '78 more later) watched their olde t, Claudia and her son tented the and Susan Raymond Geismar '79.... A son, Jared Richard, to Noah, head off to Northeastern Oregon trail last summer, then Lois and David Linsky '79 ... . A daughter, Elizabeth Jean, to Univer icy. Erland and Janet Claudia headed to Germany to Nathan and Kate LaVoie Lowell '79. Veasey McLetcbie write that pursue herstudie in German .. their"oldest on, Andy, is a fresh Kenneth and Pamela Brownstein one remember my questions of Colin MacKay and Lucille Zuk man at Colby! He is playing foot Lipstein and two sons, ages 10 the day and how black the inside ow ki. l don't think he's alonein ball and hopes to play hockey. He and 7, are in Scotch Plain , N .J . of tho e brown coffee cups got saying that her love forMaine is is living in Johnson and loves it! Pam edits the N.J. law journal, i· beforethey were bleached brown an important part of her life that Colby is even better!" Marcia active in the environmental com again ?} ....Nancy Gaston Fore started at Colby ....Lee Fawcett, Adams O'Neil has two children mittee of the PT A and super man lives ju t two blocks from di rector ofsystems integration for who have attended Colby: "Mich vised 480 elementary rudent in her favorite beach at Belfast on AT&T, was in communication ael graduated and is working in planting a perennial flower gar Penob cot Bay. She remember via e-mail with AT&T' profes the finance field. Meghan is a den for Earth Day .... Donald Foss Hall's all-girl's dining room sional serv ices group's Paul senior, biology major and rugby Toussaint is executive vice pre i first emester fre hman year and Edmunds, who has recently re player. My children grew up- dent of Fleet Bank in Connecti professors Len Mayo, Don Small, turnedfrom Argentina .... Bruce became adults and fr iends !" cut, where he lives with his wife, 55 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE A Ground--breaking Book he birth of a baby brings lightweight hand tools or long-handled garden hoes, for instance, Tchanges in careers, in she examined countless mail-order catalogues so she could supply come, prospects, outlook. specific descriptions of tools and company names to gardeners Janeen Reedy Adil '76says that with disabilities. when her daughter, Rachael, Somebody whose only real disability is not having a green was born seven years ago with thumb can benefit from her work, too. 'There're millions with spina bifida, a disability in disabilities-and millions who like to garden," Adil said, joking which a section of the spine that she already has collected "a small file of volume two, the does not close properly, he leaflet."She'd like to introduce as many people as possible to the had to learn to sec anew. therapeutic benefits of gardening. "You have to look Jiffer Adil, who earned a master's in comparative literature at the ently at whether you can get in University of Connecticut, majored in Spani h and also took a building or not," said Adil. creative writing courses at Colby. She ays she is "trying to spin From curbs and parking places off from gardening" with articles in children's magazines ro how society aid the hanJi pieces about house plant that purify the air and how to grow a capped, "You look at just about everything differently." pizza garden. She has published Storie in Highlights, Cobble An article Adil wrote five years ago forthe Hanford Couranc not stone and Spider. only helped her clarify what being the parent of a child with spina Adil currently is in the beginning stages of editing a book, bifida involves, it helped her to make a career switch from teaching Children with Spina Bifida: A Parent's Guide. Despite the many to freelance writing. The gift of a book containing a chapter on medical issues she and her hu band, Thoma , have yet to face, she gardening aids for the handicapped led her to examine the world of says having a child with a disability has brought them closer. They the disabled, research that culminated in November 1994 when recently moved to Quakertown, Pa., where Thomas Adil is a Woodbine House published her book Accessible Gardening for United Church of Christ minister and a soon-to-be-certified art People with Physical Disabilities. therapist who uses art to diagnose and treat psychiatric unit Although she grew up "messing around with plants," Adil said, patients. Adil saysshe and her husband have discovered resources she is "no expert. But I do know how to research, whom to talk to." they didn't know they had in facing their child's disability. Her book provides gardening directions and instructions on how "I'm certainly not the person I would've been," she said. "I like to obtain special implements. After coming across references to to think I'm a better person. You grow up fast." Libby. They have two sons, Scott, harmonic Society and was study in New England after two years 12, and Ryan, 10. Donald serves ing people who have never heard in the remote U.P. of Michigan. Correspondent: as trustee and executive commit live music before. He wishes he ...Mariellen Baxter had a down Nan Weidman Anderson tee memberofNew England Col were writing novels and wishe summer '94 in Rocky Hill, Conn., leges Fund ....Priscilla Ballou he were not paying bills. (I'll sec laid up with a herniated lumbar Late summer must is in Jamaica Plain, Mass. She is ond that!) ...Phil Deford is now disk. She's better without sur have been a busy time project leader in applications de in Singapore, where he is enior gery, is back to all her usual ac 7 5 for our classmates as velopment with BU. Priscilla says director with American Expres tivities and is looking forward only two found time to report. she is active at her Episcopal Bank ....Ju dy Sidell Wester to retirement-some day-in Curtis Johnson writes from Sing church, where she share in the lund visited N.Y.C. last ummer Maine.... Louise and Scott SingCorrectional Facility (on the lives of many people and fami and enjoyed a meal at Libby Hobden are in Litchfield, N.H., right side of the bars) that he is lies. She speaks on behalf offemi Corydon-Apicella's restaurant, where Scott is the general man dental director forthe New York nist and lesbian concerns, she Zucchero. Judy wishes she were ager of the Manchester Country State Department ofCorrections. likes to surf the 'net-anony playing piano. . . Mary and Club. After 20 year in the pri He also holds his certification as mously ! , he collects mismatched James Signorile are living in vate club industry, Scott has de a hostage negotiator for the state china and hymnals, she is getting Teaneck, N.j., where Jim is e cided that club management is system. In Curt's spare time, he ri COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 56 ALUMNI AT LARGE 1850s, when New Englanders one of whom is presently attend her husband, Robert, own an en Eliot Morison. Greg and wife Mia moved to Kansas ....Libby Fay, ing Wheaton College. Peter Lee vironmental lighting design and have two children, Michael. 8, CPA, operates out of offices in Man, S. Mei-Shen and David are consulting company with the lyri and Sally, 7, as well as pets of Denver's fashionable "Lower still at home with Robert and cal name of Lampyridae (Latin severalspecies .... AndreaJames Downtown" district. Libby started Sim ....Carrie Getty now lives for lightning bug). Nancy shares Spangenthal is a middle schoul her business about 10 years ago in Idaho with her husband, Gregg with us the news that she has Spanish teacher in Northampton, and now employs four staff ac Smith. Carrie moved from New developed MS but considers her Mass., and is starting courses to countants. When she's not York City in 1994 and is cur self in reasonable shape. A poet, ward her M.Ed. this fall. Daugh crunching numbers, youcan find rently engaged as a campaign co Nancy continues to write and to ter Alissa, 7, wants to go to Colby, Libby and her husband, Dave ordinator for a $3.5-million drive interview Colby applicants from but sister Rebecca, 5, favors Mustoe, bicycling the back roads to restore a beautiful old theater. Brooklyn. Our thoughts are with Smith. l suppose it's a good thing of countries like France and Italy. They love their location-near you, Nancy ... . Jack Hoopes and that husband Eric is an invest ln country, Libby and Dave cycle Jackson Hole, Sun Valley and his wife , Jocelyn, reside in ment broker. Andrea writes that with their short dog with the tall Yellowstone Park. Carrie said that Fairfield, Ohio, with John, 7, and she is in close touch with Maria name-Jefferson-who rides in she hardly misses N.Y.C., where Emily, 4. Jack directs the public Macedo Dailey, who ha two style in a homemade pull cart she was burglarized, had her purse relations program at a closed ura boys, Andrew, 4, and Zachary, fashioned from lawn furniture.In snatched and car broken into, nium production plant, which was ix months ....Gerry Skinder October, Libby and I junketed to and was even shot at in the sub formerly part of the nation's has been teaching English at California, where we visited way. The only thing she misses is nuclear weapons production Winchester (Mass.) High School Laurie White, yes, our long-lost Chineserake-out.CanieandGregg complex .... There are not too for the last 13 years anJ also valedictorian. Laurie delights in are both national beer judges, many months until our reunion. coaches baseball. He took a her San Francisco artist's life. Her judging at home brew and some Dig out the 1976 yearbooks so couple of years offa while back to tudio and apartment are one and commercial beer competitions you can show off your memory for play guitar and sing for a living. the same, infused with natural around the country.... Richard names and associations! + Gerry recently bought a camp in light from high-ceilinged spaces. and Janet Breslin Gilmartin Hartford, Maine, about an hour Painting is still her major me "finally" moved back to the U.S. west of Waterville, and wntes dium. She currently is celebrat after 13 years living abroad in Correspondent: that he is "not married but haven't ing her dog's life in playful, Switzerland, England, France and Robert Kinney given up yet." ...Louisa Bliss abstract images. We also spent Hong Kong. Last winter their Kenney teaches science forfifth the afternoon with Mike Belt. sons-Jason, 7, and Kenton, 5- I had this odd flash through eighth grade in Bethle Mike has had a very rough time saw their first snow and already back to my senior year hem, N.H. She and parmer Sam recently, battling a brain tumor have learned to ski. Janet ha 7 9 in high school a few manage a "Brady Bunch family," that first appeared 10 years ago been occupied with acting as a weeks ago when I received sev which includes two 10-year-old and reappeared within the past general contractor and interior eral pieces of mail from various boys, two 8-year-old girls and one year. Still an avid geologist, de igner on her home, a tum-of colleges-Bates, Harvard and 4-year-old girl. They live on a Mike maintains a fantastic col the-century house in Southport, Skidmore. These were not, after farm with lots of animals .... lection of egg-shaped, semi-pre Conn. She is psyched for ourre all, extremely late-arriving rejec Cmdr. Patricia McNally, USN, cious stones. His field guide to union next June, having been tion letters but greetings from is wrapping up a three-year tour gems and minerals is the most out of the country for the last classmates. Steve Singer is direc of duty in London and will trans accessible book on his shelves. If several reunions ....We also tor of communications and ad fer to Hawaii in the fall of 1996. you have time to drop Mike a heard from Olen Kalkus recently. junct lecturer at the Kennedy Husband Andrew Kittell is dean line of encouragement (2426 He and his wife, Kim, are princi School of Government at Har ofadmissions for American Com 15th Street, San Francisco, CA pal and teacher, respectively, of vard. Steve and wife Kimberly munity Schools in London and 941 14), I'm sure it would help.+ the International School of recently welcomed the arrival of will beat Harvard forthe 1996-97 Prague in the Czech Republic. their second child, Matthew, to academic year. Tricia writes that The Kalkus family, which in join big brother Nicholas, 3. ln she recent!y bought a "retirement" Correspondent: cludes sons Jan and Evan, arrived addition, Steve notes that he home in Vermont! ...Kristin Noel Barry Stella in Prague in 1994 to help build a has done some advance work West Sant recently opened her school that has grown to over for President Clinton.... John own travel consulting business in Greetings from Eliza 400 students, pre-K through 12. Smedley, associate professor of Venice, Calif.,where she lives with beth (Barrett '80) and Olen's decision to leave the pri physics at arch rival Bates, re architect husband Michael and 7 6 Martin Hubbe, who vate school life in the States and cently returned from a one-year son Solon, 2. Kristin's travel busi reside in Indianapolis with their move to Prague was based some sabbatical in Boulder, Colo., ness specializes in exotic adven two children, Allen and Gerilyn. what on the fact that his parents where he worked on laser experi ture trips, mainly to Asia. Michael Martin is a chemist at Interna escaped from there in 1948. He ments in atomic colli ions and (with lots of input from Kris) tional Paper ... . Enid Gardner said, "It is a challenge to run a atom trapping. John and wife designed their new home .... Eilis's daughters are young ladies chool, with no gym, no cafete Carole have two children, lan, 5, Finally (for this installment}, now, freeingher up forthree part ria, no lounge or playing fields and Anna, 3, and John till Deborah Lieberman Moore, time jobs. She and Bill recently and a tiny library, but our back dabbles in jazz guitar and compo retired from tanker piloting, is built their dream home in the yard is one of the most beautiful sition ....Greg Pfitzer, tenured proprietor of the Inn at Chester northeast kingdom of Vermont, cities in Europe. It is a wonderful professor of American studies at (Conn.) and notes that she and in which they spend winter and opportunity for me and my Skidmore, is working on a econd husband Roy enjoy "cruising" on summer vacations ....We also family." ... Nancy Bengis Fried book about "popular histories" a 32-foot skater that goes 110 heard fromSim -Kuen (Chan '75) man would love to be in touch fromthe 19th century. Greg's first mph in water! . . . Much more in and Robert Gregory. Sim has with Mary Mabon Colonna. book was a well-received biogra the next column. Thanks for home-schooled their children, Mary, are you there? Nancy and phy of naval historian Samuel writing! + 57 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE 1988 wrote a book on ecosystem man l. Her husband, Mark Ingram, Correspondents: Sara Dickison agement scheduled to be pub is teaching anthropology and 25 Fayette Street #l lished next year by Island Press French at UConn and West Boston, MA 02 116 and Mike worked in the Clinton minster School, respectively, in 617-292-0015 administration; in Cambridge, addition to recently defending 1980 Mass., where Sue has a research his dissertation on these subjects John Veilleux 1989 appointment at Harvard's JFK at NYU. On top of writing for the 84 13 Park Cre�t Drive Deborah A. Greene SchoolofGovernment;at Colby, Miss Parker's School alumni Silver Spring, MD 20910- 5404 62 Locust A venue #2 where Mike continues as an eco magazine and editing the sum Worcester, MA 01604 e-mail: 72072,l l [email protected] nomics professor; as well as in mer program newsletter, Lydia France, Yellowstone and the also is branching into desktop 1981 Grand Tetons-sites of similarly publishing ....Heidi Misslbeck Beth Pniewski Wilson lofty vacationing. In the midst of write from Southhampton, N. Y. P.O. Box 602 all this, Colin has reached 9 and (Cow Neck Farm North Sea Rd.), Harvard, MA 0145I Correspondent: Ross, 6 ....Fred Madeira '80 is that she is a landscape architect, 508-456-8801 John Veilleux thrilled to report his return to performing commercial site plan e-mail: [email protected] Maine (9 Hemlock Dr., Cumber reviews for the Southhampton Peter Hedberg has land Center) after 13 years of the town planning board. At home, 1982 joined the Norfolk nomadic life in Chicago, Boston she describes a family unit that Mimi Rasmussen Surgical Group in Vir and northern New Jersey. From Dr. Doolittle would envy, includ 63 Reservoir Street ginia, where he and Lisa now his base as eastern division ales ing Otter the Giant Schnauzer, Cambridge, MA 02 138 reside.8 0 Peter's "primary interests manager for Wright Express in Bear the Mame Shepard, Thor 617-492-1002 are general surgery, laparoscopy, South Portland, Fred does a lot of the Bullmastiff, Max the Wire 1983 esophageal and hepatobiliary traveling keeping up with the 15 hair Pointer, Erick the Koi dog, Sally Lovegren Merchant surgery." ...Ann Albee Hoefle sales reps he has covering the Jessie Poca and Jimmie the Paso HCR 62, Box 244B confides that she and Ian '82 are territory east of the Mississippi. Fina's and Belgian Morgan. More Mt. Desert, ME 04660 settling down some now that On the recreational side, Fred personally, Heidi reports that she 207-244-3678 they've dropped anchor in Mid and wife Trish were part of a has cleaned up her closet to ac dlebury, Vt. (RD 1, Box 339A) Colby alumni sailing"team" glid commodate some elegant new 1984 and Colin, 4, and Kiera, 2, are ing a 42-foot catamaran through suits .... I hear that Jay Moody Maura Cassidy getting a little older. Ann is an the Briti h Virgin Islands last is working hard (as a geologi t) 181 Winthrop Road #9 administrative officer for the April. Other crew members were and living the good life in Brookline, MA 021 46-4442 Salzburg Seminar, overseeing its Laurie and Geoff Emanuel '79, Falmouth, Maine (34 Johnson 617-566-00 12 computer and in-house publish Matti and Chris Bradley '78 and Rd.), with his wife Sue, a realtor, e-mail: [email protected] ing activities; Ian teaches in a Steve Hart '77 and friend, with and their twin 5-year-old boys. drop-out prevention program. an unexpected cameo appearance Jay followed-up our 15th reunion 1985 . . . Liz Yanagihara Horwitz has with a fishing trip with guide Barbara Knox Autran by seasoned Colby sailor Phil Kay returned to the work force-and '67, whom they met while "refu Andy Goode, bagging a 37-inch 174 Degraw Street is spending her days with 2-year eling." Prudently, Fred already striped bass ....Thanks to ev Brooklyn, NY l I231-3008 olds as an internat the Wellesley has a couple of future crew mem eryone who's written. To those 1986 College Child Study Center. Not bers in training: John, 3 1/2, and whose news hasn't appeared in Gretchen Bean Lurie surprisingly, her daughter, Alison, Nathan, I. . . . Tom Marlitt has the column yet, you'll make it 2606 San Marcos Drive 7, has taken up the violin, and moved to Los Angeles (1161 into the next issue. I encourage Pasadena, CA 91107 Michael, 10, already has played Amherst Ave., #302) to take a those of you who haven't writ 818-356-7538 with the Boston Youth Sym new job as college counselor at ten to drop me a line so that I phony; both also include soccer the Crossroads School in Santa can let everyone in on your life 1987 in their repertory. Liz and hus Monica. Tom adds that he en after Colby. + Lucy Lennon Tucker band Barry live in Newton, Mass. joyed the reunion very much. 9 Wellstone Drive (18 Durant St.) .... Susan ... Lydia Mason writes from her Portland, ME 04103 Mackenzie describes some excit educationally oriented household Correspondent: 207-772-7127 ing work-and play-that she in Farmington,Conn. (60 Main Beth Pniewski Wilson and husband Michael Donihue Sc.), that she is house director at '79 have been at during the last Miss Parker's School and the Deb Cook has been couple ofyears. They've had stops mother of Emmett Mason Ing developing a consult in Washington, D.C., where Sue ram, 5, and Noble Cooke Ingram, 81 ing firm forthe past two COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 58 ..\ L l \I :--; I .\ T L A R \; t: year ·, Cook Consulting, in September-busine, for Jon, va lyst) program. Joel says Ta lie i · company, and Jan is the pre ident Falmouth, Maine. Deb write, that cation for everyone else ....Sue making great trides a a writer. of Info �\'Stem' Architects, a most of her work i in the public Perry is living in Upton, Mass., She ha.., ll'ritten a tuds Terkel computer 011v.. ult ing company policy area with a concentration and is a large-animal radiology style hook on Vietnam, a collec work ing \\' 1rh bintechnol\H.(\ on small busines and community technician. ue write that she tion of 1men·iews from both sides comparnes in eattle. The) ha,·e development. La t June she at spend much of her time with her of the domestic cnnf1ict, includ twn children, Carolyn and Rich tended the White House Confer horses, Magic and nowy (\\'ho b ing ,ome very hig names. She ard. They han'. heen husy hu 1kl- ence on Small Bu ines in 45 years old!). She spent t\\'O hopes to ha\'e it published. Joe 111g a garage on rheir hou'L' and Wa hington a one of 21 Maine \\'eeks on Deer Isle in Maine last see- a lot of Henry Kennedy ''O, land cap mg the yard but hm-e ab\1 delegates. And on Great Dia ·ummer and tonk Maoic on the Bob Bower ''O and John '80 and lrnd time tu hike the N11rth Cv, mond Island in Maine, Deb mar carriage ride in Acadia National Ronni-Jo Po ner Carpenter '7 , cade l'vlountains. + ried Tony Holt, an attorney in Park. Sue keep in touch with Sue ll'ho all li"e nearby. Joel wants to private practice in Pordand, and Slawson Brown and Nancy end an APB on Shawn Morris now has three stepchildren, Welsh Isbell. ...David Bolger is sey, who was la t seen on the oil Correspondent: Christopher, 16, Gabrielle, , and lh·ing in Seattle, Wash., with his fields of Texas ....Mimi Pratt Mimi Rasmussen Jonathan, 6. Colby alumni at \\'ife, Julie Ro enblatt. David bi Valyo is living in Laguna Nigel, tending the wedding were Ellen cycled across Australia and Indo Calif., with her husband, John, In Rumford, Mame, Freedman, Ellen Huebsch Ander- nesia by himself in l 992, and he and their t\\'O children, Allison Edward Paterson h on '82, Susan Polli ' 78, John '80 and Julie were married on Whid and Chri tian. Mimi says they in an exranded mar and Ronni-Jo Posner Carpenter bey I ·land in Puget Sound in ha\'e mm·ed into their "h igh ket of indi,·idual insurance and '78 , Deb's brother, Jim Cook '7 ' , 1993. Dave i· at Antioch Univer ·chLml house," the one rhat is big im·esrment8 2 in 11·e tern Maine. and hi· wife, Sue Conant Cook sity in eattle pursuing a master's enough to get them through the Ed has \l"nrked for Prudential In '75 ....Jonathan Light is living in education ....Peggy Chamb kids' high school years. They en surance and Financial erdc6 in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., and is the lin is liv ing in Boulder, Colo., and joy ,·isiting friend- and fam ily in for 12 year· as manager and regi> uea urer of Banque Paribas in is an instructor and an admission- Connecticut each summer, in tered rep and is responsible for 15 New York. He and hi wife, Mel counselor for Colorado Outward cluding Jodi Johnson Groesbeck representath·e , recruiting and i sa Waters, are busy raising iden Bound ....Joel Harris write and Brian Picard. . Jose marketing. Ed' ,,·ife, Diane, is an tical twin on-, Ryan and Matt. from North Yarmouth, Maine, Sorrentino i a general surgeon in office manager in a medical of Jon says that the whole family has th.at he and his wife, T alie, \\'el Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He and fi ce. Their three children are been studying karate the past two comed their third child, Made his ll'ife, Laura, have two son , Chelsea, 7, McKen:ie, 3, and year . He ees Peter Cocciardi line, in May 1994. he joins big Sergio and Jo e ....Wayne and Delaney, born in July 1994. often ;m d ays they are looking brother, Morgan, 8, and i ·ter Jan Johnson Gombotz are li\'ing Robin Meisner Lindquist is a forward to our 15th reunion in Phoebe, 6. Joel is selling munici in Kirkland, Wash. Wayne i the law librarian, and her husband, June and plan to take vacation pal bonds for Fleet Bank and has director of deli,·ery and formu Eric, i an attorney. Their fir r around it. Jon write that the been working on a three-year lation for lmmunex Corp., a child , Anna Rachel was burn last whole family went to Pari last C.F.A. (chartered financial ana- eattle-b;:ised biotechnology May. Robin is now working part Driven to Succeed hen most people think each day, making the Impact' 70-to 90-mile range adequate. "Yet W about electric cars, ays when you ask people about electric l'ehicles, they feel constrained ean McNamara '83, they by the limited range," he said. "In reality, they don't need it." imagine putting around on McNamara say the best marketing strategy for an American slender paths on their way to driving public su picious of an "extra agenda" will not feature the next tee. But when they testimonial from environmentali ts or utilities representative . test drive the Impact, General Instead, McNamara developed the Impact Pre,·iew Drive Pro Motor ' experimental electric gram, which will give 900 driver from 11 citie· a chance to drive car, "We tell them to get ready the electric vehicle for a long as two weeks. McNamara hopes the for a helluva golf cart ride. preview drivers will be ambassadors for the new technology. "We People are tunned when the have to reach the early adopter customer in order to reach the car pins them in their seat." mainstream customer," he aid. "The early adopter i someone Even though the Impact who's not intimidated by new technology-someone who has a emit no pollutants, reaches trong income, is fairly well educated and is environmentally 60 mph in about eight ec concerned but not a zealot." onds and leaves te t drivers with what he calls a "giggly" look on Calling his work a "hobby," McNamara ay hi upbringing and their face , McNamara, a Colby psychology major, say the interest are well- uited for marketing the Impact. Gr01 ing up in marketing hurdle for electric vehicle i the p ychology of the We t Lebanon, N.H., he wa surrounded by automobile -his American automobile driver. "We have to overcome a hundred family owned a dealership. In his sophomore year at Colby, he took year of conditioning that say a car allows me to go anywhere I a Jan Plan psychology cour e with Profes or Diane Winn, during which he re earched cognitive psychology in automotive adverti - want to, anytime I want to, with only five minute necessary to refuel," he said. ing. "After the course, I took the concepts back home to the family McNamara, marketing manager for General Motors Electric dealership," said McNamara. "We tried them out in the advertis Vehicles, ays 0 percent of Americans drive fewer than 40 miles ing to see what worked and what didn't." 59 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE time for an educational grant on me he enjoyed tellingpeople the my que tionnaire ....Scott and band William Ritzel, who is Mr. Desert Island, Maine, where age of her kids: 2 (Annie), 4 Ashley Lasbury Dow have en president of American Family they are currently living. They (Ryan), 6 (Robbie ), 8 (Katie) joyed parenthood with daughters Benefits, Inc., hare their busy spent a great year in London while it ounds like a cheer! Her hus Samantha and Eleanor. Scott hou eh.oldin Charlotte with their Eric was getting his advanced law band, Bob '8 1, is VP of sales and works as a district agent for North son Austin, 2, and Delisa's tep degree at the London School of marketing for GT! Graphic Tech. westernMutu al Life in Portland, son, Marshall, 17. They hope to Economics and are now enjoying When Bob isn't traveling forGT !, Maine, and Ashley has been ac sell their house in the spring the peace and tranquility of he is painting the outside oftheir tive with LaLeche League .... needing more room! Eric and Mount Desert. . . Brian J. hou e, which got a new roof and Greg and Maria Jobin-Leeds live Susie and boys Charlie, Jackson McGrath and his wife, Jean porch this past summer. ... Wes in Cambridge, Mass., with 1-year and cott just left Boston to live Blaney McGrath, have built a Martin has tarted a new law old daughter Casey. Maria's still in Woodside, where Eric works new home in East Troy, Wi ., a firm, Martin & Rome, in Nor working in AID education as a for Apple Computer ....Thanks mall southeastern Wisconsin walk, Conn., where he is an attor training manager, and Greg is a for new addresses, everybody. town surrounded by farmland. ney. His wife, Martha (Merrifield political activist. They're learn Good luck to everyone! I'll be anx Brian, a telecommunication sales '85) is a high school English ing how to enjoy their activities ious to hear from others soon.+ engineer, ha witched from the teacher. They have a 3-year-old "at a different pace." ...Also in user to the vendor side of com son, Luca .... Seth Medalie was Mas achusetts, in wamp cott, munications and says that the appointed general agent with The are Lisa and George Katz. George Correspondent: work has been more challenging Guardian in 1993. His wife, is associate district manager of Maura Cassidy and exciting than his previous Leslie, i in public relations, and Employee Benefit Sale , and Lisa jobs. Jean is a homemaker and they live in Needham, Mass., with is a producer. Their daughter, Ken and Nancy Sil home-schools their two children, their children, Ryan, 5, and Gillian, i almost 2 ....Dan verman Levinsky live Megan, 6, and Sean, 3. She al o Caitlin, 2 . . ..Patricia Philbrook Matlack sent his new noting a 8 4 in Portland, Maine. leads Megan's Brownie troop, Levine and her hu band, Tom, new address in Needham, Mas . She finds time to coach high while Brian coaches Megan's soc are the proud parents of a daugh Dan ha taken the po ition of school tennis, announce at col cer team . . ..David Marcus is ter, Katie, born in April 1995. teacher/coach at Noble and lege basketball games and be a an assistant United tates attor Patricia is a technical writer and Greenough School, and he and full-time mom to daughter An ney in Los Angeles ....Cindi Tom is a chemical engineer. They wife Alli on and daughter Han drea, 2 . . ..David Rosenberg Moor Young is an attorney with are living in Lee, N.H ....Beth nah, 2, are eagerly awaiting a new live in Marblehead, Mass., with Chevron N.S.A. Inc. She and Ross is a director for Redwood baby as you read thi .... I en wife Karen and two daughters, her husband, E. Kevin Young, an City 2000 and currently is facili joyed running intoOtto and Jean helby, 3, and Amanda, 1. He i attorneywith the San Francisco tating a strategic planning pro Christie Mejia last ummer in an auto dealer. ...Another city attorney'soff ice, are living in cess aimed at improving the Bar Harbor as they vacationed Marblehead resident is Karin Walnut Creek, Calif. Cindi says coordination of health and hu from home in Arlington, Mass., McCarthy, who just bought her hello to New England and won man service delivery systems in where Jean i an assi tant direc first hou e, a little cottage by the der if anyone has heard from Redwood City, Calif. She has had tor of occupancy for screening sea. She recently received her Karen Shaps ....Eric Ridgway a pivotal role in establishing two and Otto works as an HVAC M.B.A. from Boston College. and hi wife , Patti, live in school-based family resource technician. Jean recently began Karin is back in the public sector Sandpoint, Idaho, a mall com centers and developing related a master's program at Suffolk as deputy director of Massjobs munity with many recreational program to as ist local commu University in human re ource Council after a stint in con ult opportunitie surrounding them. nities rai e healthy children. Her development ....Scott ' 4 and ing ....Ja y '81 and Maureen They love to garden, and Eric husband, Brian McMahon, is an Jane MacKenzie Morrill's chil Hagerty Polimeno recently pur listed nine different fruit trees entrepreneur, and they are home dren are Kenny, 10, John, 7, and chased the Alpine Club and Pub and bushes plus a variety of annu steading a piece of rural coastal David, 4. Jane has maintained in N. Woodstock, N. H. They also als that they tend to. Eric and property located just outside the herCanadiancitizenship, and the run the rental company for the Patti own their private practice village filmed in Outbreak. They family lives in Tualatin, Ore . ... Alpine Village Resort near Loon as licensed profes ional counse have one pup, Bohdi. Visitors are Greg Marco is a science teacher, Mountain Ski Resort. Their two lor and have been so bu y that always welcome! + chair of the science department, little girls, Katy, 6, and Aimee, 3, they've needed to hire additional dorm parent, golf coach and ka love to have the run ofthe place. counselors. They also are active rate instructor at Westminster Please contact Mo if you're look in their community, with Eric Correspondent: School in Sim bury, Conn. He ing for a vacation pot! ...Lisa being on the boards of everal Sally Lovegren Merchant and wife Cathy, a speech patholo Patten is alive and well and liv committee . This past summer gist, and children Sarah, 5, and ing in L.A.! Having graduated Eric, who is still swimming as a Everyone must be busy Andrew, 3, note that boarding from UCLA Film School, she has master and competes in tri these days, so plea e chool life i hectic but very en igned as a screenwriter with an athlon , organized the 1st An 8 3 take a few to let me joyable. Greg enjoy making a agent. he wrote her first novel, nual Lake Pend Oreille Long report to our class your antics! I difference in the lives of young which she hopes to find a pub Bridge Swim, an open-water two know a a mid-30ish mother and people ....Finally, my la t two lisher forsoon, and recently had mile event. ...Ginny McCourt woman of the '90s that there are newsletters came from Delisa a short play produced in Holly McCurdy ha been busy organiz a lot of fir t for us every day to Laterza in Charlotte, N .C., and wood.... Peter Necheles has ing peaker for a parenting cen hare with other '83ers. There's Susie Macrae and her husband, been living in Washington, D.C., ter in the Newburgh area of New comfort in knowing other class Eric Broadbent '84, in Woodside, since December '92 when he left York, where she live with her mate are going through some of Calif. Delisa noted that 1995 was work at a N.Y.C. law firm and family, and also has been active the ame experience daily, o stressful and full of changes. She joined the Clinton/Gore presi on the board of the nursery chool send me your news! And thanks took a job a account manager dential transition team. He her children attended. Ginny told to those who wrote in response to with Maritz, Inc. She and hu - worked for twoyears on economic COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 60 ALUMNI AT LARG E NEWSMAKERS '89 has joined the Crisp & Associates law firm in Concord, N.H. Geoffrey Becker '80 won the MILEPOSTS Drue Heinz Prize for Short Fiction for Dangerous Men, a collection of Marriages: Lawrence Anderson III '81 to Kathryn Mack in short stories ... . Anthony Per Cheshire, Conn. ... Douglas Cawley '81 to Lauri.an Rhode in kins '82 was appointed co-chair Troudale, Ore.... Cheryl M. Carr '81 to Norri L. Holt in We r of the bankruptcy law section of Barnet, Vt. ... Wende Davis '82 to Joseph Shultz in Beverly, the Maine State Bar As ociation. Mas ....Mary Godbout '83 to Charles Thomp on in tandi h, . ..Charles Rousseau '84 earned Maine .... Scott 1. Benson '84 to Elizabeth Leuthner in New a chartered life underwriter di London, Conn.. . . Marie Joyce '84 to Daniel W. Fletcher lII in ploma and professional desig Lake Worth, Fla ....Diane Perlowski '84 to Craig Alie '84 in nation from American College Kennebunkport, Maine.... Michael Swift '84 to Deborah Petersen Pennsylva Marlayna . . in nia. ··· Edith Be rnhard van Breems '87 in Hartford, Conn . . Molly T. Couch '86 to Sean T. Ward in Schmidt '84 i pastor ofRiverside Ea thampton, Mass .... N. Scott Bates '87 to Karen Croff '88 in Congregational Church in Haverhill, Ma s ....Kathryn Soderberg Coruit, Mass.... Jennifer Carroll '87 to DanielSchildge in Groton, '84 accompanied Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci on a trade Conn ....Hannah L. Howland '87 to Bruce W. Judson Jr. in mission to Argentina, Brazil and Chile sponsored by the Brunswick, Maine. . . . Sarah E. Redfield '87 to Gregory M. commonwealth's Office of International Trade ....Philip DelVecchio in Marblehead, Mas . ... Cheryl Renaud '87 to An- DeSimone '85 joined Spaulding & Slye real estate company in thony Dowd in Old Saybrook, Conn. ...Katherine Webster '87 l?oston, Mas ., as vice president in the property/asset management to Peter Kocks in San Francisco, Calif. ...Richard Angeli '88 to group ....Mark Burke '86 ha been named interim athletic Patricia Haxton in Warwick, R.l.. . . . David K. Brooks '88 to director at Sewickley Academy in Sewickley, Pa .... Douglas Kathleen Gilmore i.n Chatham, Mass.... Eric L. Swan '88 to Scalise '86 is pastor of the Brewster Bapti t Church in Brewster, Sheri Burger in Shoreham, N.Y ....Catherine Andrew to Roland Mass ....Guilford Collegein Greensboro, N .C., appointed Steven Rogers in New York, N.Y. . . Randy Barr '89 to Suzanne Ellis in S. Shapiro '86 a istant professor of phy ics and Karen Jo Kennebunkport, Maine ....JenniferCooke '89 toRichard Rotman Giammusso Shapiro '86 counselor for the college' Center for in Danvers, Mass ....Katherine Keller '89 to Michael Garfield Jr. Personal Growth ....Peter Taubkin '86 was named vice presi in Holderness, N.H. dent of government relations and public affairs for Time Warner Cable in Albany, N.Y. ... Ceramic by Melissa Hruby Bach '87 Births: A son, John Paxton Marshall, to Carol Sly '80 and Stephen were exhibited at the Fog I lands Gallery on North Haven I land, Marshall ....A on, Frazier Jack Sheehan, to George and Judy Maine ....Tim Bonang '87 was featured in the Pon/and Press Heral.d Sheehan Metcalf '81. ...A daughter, Lauren Marie, to Todd and for his business, Total Experience Sport , which " pecialize taking Denise Brunelle Preiss '84 ....A daughter, Grace Connors, to people to the ball game in tyle." . . . Nicholas Papapetros '87 i a Colleen and James Polk '85 .... A on, Cameron Lockwood, to new parmer with Thomas Swi.ft in family denti try in Andover, Paul '86 and Melissa Rustia Grosheck '86 ... . A daughter, Janet, Mass .... Stephen Sanborn '87 is now a eventh grade teacher at to Jane and Bill Maher '87 ....A son, Brian David, to Mark '87 Marblehead Community Charter School in Massachusetts ....Edith and Linda Roberts Pagnano '87 ....A on, Liam Thomas, to Bernhard van Breems '87 exhibited her photographs in a how, Heidi Irving-Naughton '88 and Kevin Naughton.... A son, "Chateaux of France," at Barnes and Noble in New York City . ... Samuel Caleb, to Jeffand Mary Federle Porter '88... . A son, Greg Gatlin '89 was named busine s reporter for the Middlesex Gabriel Jonathan, to Scott '88 arid Kristen Foss Smith '88 ....A Community New papers inMassachusetts ....Tanya Goff Richmond on, Andrew Jacob, to Ellen '88 and Steven Teplitz '88. development is ues for Rural three kids, Kenny, 9,John, 6, and Grundstrom Lemoine are living proved quality of life it has America, including many areas David, 3. Scott is an attorney. in Saco, Maine, where Diane is a provided ....Paige Lilly write in Maine. Currently he is with The Morrill recently went to physical therapist and John is an from Blue Hill, Maine, that she the Treasury Department work British Columbia for a family re attorney. They have one son, and husband Bob Stephens have ingon financial policy, including union, where Scott gave a speech Andrew, 2, and another on the been married 10 years and had privatization of government in French that probably would way ....Catherine and Bill their first child, Lorna, in June fu nctions. In September '94 he not make hi ex-professors proud, Rogers are taking a leave of ab '95. Paige is a librarian/archivist married Marlis a Shea Briggett. but everyone there laughed .... sence from their jobs-both of at the Penobscot Marine Mu e .. Don and Sarah Rogers Tom McDermott is attending them attorneys in Boulder, um . . . . Andy Lufkin :s a vice McMillan are both teaching, Northeastern University Law Colo.-to travel around the world president in investment banking French and English re pectively, School in Boston, Mass. Last sum for a year. First top: Papua, New in San Franci co, Calif. ...Mar at St. Mark's School in South mer he worked for a federal dis Guinea. They will see how ap ian Leerburger-Mahl and huband borough, Mass. They have two trict court judge in Bangor, pealing the practice oflaw is upon David have completed their boy , Noah, 3, and Cameron, Maine. Prior to law school, Tom their return.... Vi to and Bar three-year tour working in the 1 ....Sarah Lund Peck and hus spent three and a half years in the bara Duncan Marchetti are liv outback of Australia and are back band David are living at Mt. Army as an infantry officer at Ft. ing in Plaistow, N.H., and both in the U.S. in Maryland. Marian Home Air Force Ba e in Idaho. Benning, Ga.... Helen Kacoy own their own businesses. Bar is completing her Ph.D., working Sarah wa working as a travel anis Balzano and husband Silvio bara's is a consulting firm. he at the Department of Defense, agent prior to marrying into the are both dentist and hare a prac al o i on the public peaking teaching part time and taking military three years ago ....Ja ne tice in Dover, N.H. They have circuit, which takes her all over care of son Alexander, 1. ... (McKenzie '83) and Scott Morrill rwo boys, Joseph, 3, and George, the country. She loves having Thanks to all who wrote recently are living in Oregon with their 2 ... . John '83 and Dianne her own company and the im- with new . I have too much to 61 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY A L U �I N I A T L A R G E report, so some wil I have ro wait engaged to Tom Higgins, an at (and �till thinking it' the hesr expecting-their new addition for the April edition. If anyone torney, and set the wedding for job around! ). Their son Matthew will be arriving in the spring. In needs the latest address for c la>s last September in Waitsfield, is 15 month old .... Brenda and preparation, they sold their town mate , please contact me. + Vt. . Carol Eisenberg sent me Stephen Poirier have two chil house and bought a three-bed a beautiful picture of her daugh dren, Meghan and Kiernan,2 and room home in Sunnyvale, Calif. ter, Maxine (thanks, Caroll), who 1. tephen is director of client Jay is now working for Kirk Corre pondenr: turned 2 on June 8. Carol has service for a systems consulting Paper. ... Bill Nicholas report Barbara Knox Autran graduated from the Univ rsity of company in Portland ....Mi ch for the first time, he thinks, since Maine School of Law, and in Sep ele and Philip Lapp moved back graduation. After receiving a l had so much new to tember she planned to start work home to Vermont, where they master of architecture degree write about last rime asa part-time associate at the Port bought an old farmhouse. When from Harvard in 1992, Bill 8 5 rhat I really didn't have land firm of Richard on, Whit not practicing medicine (endo worked briefly in London before a chance to introduce my elf as man, Large, & Badger. Thar' all crinology ) or sighting deer, wild returning to Lo Angeles, where your new class secretary- o here the news for now, folks. + turkeys and bear prints on their he opened his own practice, goes: I've decided to put off going property, Phil and hi· wife are Nicholas/Budd Design. In Bill's back tD work as my on, Dylan, enjoying parenthood with Kath last year at Harvard, Mark Gor keeps me very bu y, and it's won Correspondent: erine Grace, l. ... Lohini and don showed up for his first. Bill derful to have o much rime with Gretchen Bean Lurie Chapman Mayo write from their speaks periodically to Peter him. My day are filled with swim home in St. Paul. where they are Voskamp, who is in Austin, ming le·son , music class and Becau e of the great al o experiencing the joy of par Texas, trying to get his band' walks in the park. His favorite re ponse from rhe la r enthood-Hugh Armstrong ar second CD released. Mike Va - word is "no," which l hear is typi 8 two que tionnaires rived last May. Chapman is quez '87 is al o in Au tin, run cal of most kids around the age of sent out by the Alumni Office, l finishing up his M.B.A. at the ning a successful recording .. 6 2 ..Cathy Urstadt Biddle is am finally catching up in report Univer·ity of Minnesota. studio .... It will be great to get al o a proud parent. Her daugh ing clas news. For those of you Brian and Robin Venditti Stoll everyone back up on the Hill in ter, Elinor Phoebe Biddle, was thinking of writing in for the col have their hands full since the June-mark your calendar for born November 24, 1993. umn, please do, and for those of arrival of rwin girls, Mary and the 10th reunion, June 7-9! Un Paul Doyle wa elected to the you who have already replied, Meghan, last March. They are til then, best wishes for contin Connecticut House of Represen thank you, and l promise toget to finding life ab olutely crazy but ued happiness and success! + tatives in 1994 ....Lori Gus everyone .... It seems that the fu ll of joy ....Gary and Heather tafson Adams writes, "Having baby boom has hit rhe Class of Freeman Black's kids are four an infant, a preschooler, and a 1986 (lots of new little people to legged and furry. Zeke, a cat, and Correspondent: fu ll-time job i quite a challenge 1 welcome to the growing list of Spritzer, a black lab, help keep Lucy Lennon Tucker (Bur lots of fun, too!)" Her daugh Colby legacies!). Tim and Car the home fires buring in Ver ter, Jennifer Jean, was horn in oline Nelson Kris have been busy mont, where Heather is a pho Donna Rago Fahey' April 1994 .... Kelli Crump with the publication of the New tographer and her husband is last three ummer moved to Wellesley, Mass., in England Prep chool port Page, owner and publi her of Ski Racing 8 7 have been busy one . August of '94.... John '86 and a business they started 3 1 /2 year lmemational. They had an incred l n June of '93 he married Michael Imogen Mintzer Church pur ago. Their summer was high ible experience lastsummercom Fahey. In June of '94 she com chased a house to make room for lighted by the birth of daughter ing face to face with a brown bear pleted her M.B.A. at Bentley, Connor Augustus, born last Casey, who joined big brother during a boat trip from Ala ka to and in July she and Mike relo March 20. They moved into their Cory, 4 ....Ji m and Lila Hopson Seattle ....Tom '87 and Pam cated to Atlanta. In July of '95 home in eptember of 1994 . ... Monahan celebrated the fi rst Christman Sawyer moved from they were expecting their first Rebecca Bullen rerurned to the birthday of their daughter, Maine to Oregon in late 1993, child. Mike is a tax consultant for States from Paris in 1993. After Cassandra, last fall. Thi· sum found new jobs and bought a new Price Waterhouse and Donna ubstitute reaching in Claremont, mer Lila will finish her first year home in time for the arrival of plans to stop work for awhile and N.H., for more than a year, mostly of a fellowship in pediatric criti Cole Jordan in January 1994. stay home with the baby . . . . at the middle chool, she writes, cal care at Denver Children's They report that they are all out Marianne MacDonald Wessman "Unhappy thing are going on in Hospital. . . . Bob and Beth of changes in their lives for the and husband John have moved the public chools up here-tru Schwartz Kenney welcomed next decade1 •••After working from Hou ton, Texas, to Na h ancy, kids just floating from class Lauren Elizabeth last May. While in the Northeast with Oti Eleva ville, Tenn. Marianne i bu y to clas with no fear of being held Bob has started a succe sful new tor for even year , Daniel Bullis working for an in urance com back. It makes me wonder when management and ream consult got his M.B.A. at RPI and relo pany supervising 15-20 employ it' going to get better. It really ing firm, they say the arrival of cated to Mi souri with his wife, ee and spend her free time seems like it can't get any worse." their daughter was many time Dorothy, and 2-year-old son, enjoying being an aunt to four (We seem to have followed the more exciting ....Li nda (Flight Andrew. Dan is currently a nieces and nephews... . Ellen same path. l experienced a simi '85) and Peter Lull are proud to branch manager with U.S. Eleva MacDonald is still living in Bos lar frustration in the New Hamp announce the arrival of William, tor. . Suzanne Swain Masiello ton working for NYNEX. She is hire public chool system after born la t June. While at a Red "retired" from her job at an in at BU pursuing her ma ter's in my returnfrom Paris. ) Rebecca is Sox game with Harry '85 and vestment banking firm last sum social work, which she was to living next door to the Goddard Trish Martin Raphael and Jeff mer o he could relax and prepare complete last December. Ellen Mansion, which is run by her D'Agostine, the group saw the for the arrival of her little bundle recently became engaged and mom, Debbie Wilson Albee '60. long-lost Bill Yardley.. . . Maria at Christmas time. (We hope to planned a wedding forJanuary of Rebecca wa planning to move to and Michael Marra are living in hear all the fun details for our '96 ....Sue Payne i living in ourhem New Hampshire last Barrington, R.l., where Michael nextcolumn.) ... lmogen (Mint Corona de! Mar, Calif., but gets ummer. ...Linda Carroll got is in his 10th year of teaching zer '85) and Jay Church al o are back East quite often as she is still COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 62 A L U �1 I A T L .'\ R G E working for Talbot' , headquar working with autistic children Harbor, Maine. Kristin and around the Boulder, Vail and tered out of Hingham, Mas ... when Tom and Jen Shackett Michael tied the knot a do:en Aspen area. he ha worked for Tim O'Donnell lives in down Berry introduced her to Steve. years after being high school Planned Parenthood for three town Boston, where he runs a Dede plan to return to grad sweetheart . David Brooks got year· and i currently a graduate succes ful bu iness doing health school when the kids are a little hitched last September to Kate tudent at the University of Colo care consulting. Tim earned his old et . Dede keeps in touch with Gilmore in Chatham, Mass. rado chool of Puhl 1c Affa irs. law degree from Suffolk Univer Elseke Membreno Zenteno, who David recently was promoted to ...Guy '86 and Amy Lumbard sity in 1993 ....Helen Muir recently had a baby girl, Mari vice president of marketing at Holbrook bought a hou e in Milby married Joe in October of anna.... Robert and Elizabeth Miramax, where he has been Duxbury, Mass., lastMay and lm·e '93 and lives in Alexandria, Va. "Buffy" Connor Bullard are liv working since getting his master's ha\·ing their own homestead de- Helen's job keeps her active in ing in Alfred, Maine. Buffy gave from NYU in 1990. He has been pite the horrible commute into the world of pol itics and candi birth to Matthew Robert in July living in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Bo ton. Since she received her dates in our nation' capital. . .. 1994 and has taken a year leave loves the neighborhood sense of master's in American studie from Gina Cornacchio Leahy wrote of absence from her teaching po community de pite the looming Bo ton College in 1993, he ha that she, too, has added a new sition at Thornton Academy to city. Karen Adler Walsh, an as been working for a linguistics oft member to her family. Gina and stay at home with Matthew. She sistant vice president at Pumum ware company in Boston .... her husband, Ed, had a baby boy, sums things up pretty well when Investments in Bosron, got mar John Davie i an attorney in the John James, on April 5 last year. she writes that it is a "joyous, ried in the fall of 1994 to Joseph real e·rare department of the ew At the time she wrote, she wa wonderful, exhausting job!" ... Walsh ....Of course, after mar York office of Sleadden, Arp , enjoying her spring and summer Greg Ciottone wrote from riage comes the addition. Steven Slate, Meager, and Flom. John offbut planned to returnto work Wilbraham, Mass., to say that on and Ellen Krause Teplitz an and Kristin Hock '90 tied the last fall as an associate at the November 5, 1993, he actually nounced the birth of Andrew knot in eptember 1994, and the Boston firm of Parker, Coulter, delivered his daughter, Heather. Jacob last October. Joshua and many alum in attendance in Daley & White. Gina has kept in Greg and wife Laura are both Stacy Mendelsohn Marx re cluded Ed Barr, Dave Caspar, touch with Donna (Curran '86) physician . Greg has joined the turnedfrom the Peace Corps la t Kirsten Geiger Rider, Steve and Dan Webster, who had staffofUniversity of Mas . Medi spring and now have a girl named Masur, Harold Rider, Todd Samuel Keith in September of cal Center in the department of Sallie Aijlen ("the a is ilent, a Wallingford and Eric Zieff. John '94. They al o have a daughter, emergency medicine. He will also Chilean indigenous word for hap says that Dave Caspar "is burning Madeline Kay, who was 3 in June continue as a flight physician on pine s"). Stacy has taken time off the midnight oil at NYU' bu i of last year. ...Lisa Bothwick the New England Life Flight to be a mom; Josh i still working ne s school" and by day work for and Glenn Wilson were married helicopter. ... I mere ted in hear in local government as a legi la the Bank of New York in their inSeptemberof'94 and are enjoy ing from any Colby grad in hi · tive aide to an elected council mortgage-backed securitie area. ing living in Manchester, Mass. area 1s Ned Case, who has been member in eattle, Wash. Mich Todd Wallingford picked up hi Gina also sees a lot of Laurie living for the past three years in ael and Mary Shepard DiSandro master's in education from Bo - Franklin Collins and her hus Raleigh, N.C., and working for had a daughter, Elizabeth Lane, ton College and is teaching in band, Mark, who live in Framing GE Capital Mortgage as a project last April ro go along with Sarah, the Bosron area ....Jo n Selko ham .... My former roomie, team leader. His reggae band, 3. She has been busy with the witz lives and works in Jackson, Carolyn "Cece" Crowe Hyce, is Wa pafarians, i currently on sab girl and working part time a the Wyo., as a photographer and ki still living in Cantwell, Alaska, batical, and he bought a hou e executivedirectorfor asmall non coach. ...Kevin Oates i a com with her husband, Richard. Cec and is using his spare time to foeit profit group called The Haitian mercial litigator with the New and Rick, who i a foreman/ u up . . ..Rebecca Binder and Project. They live in Rhode Is York office ofCo:en and O'Con perimendent ofVeco, Inc., share Charle Cohen moved to N.Y. C., land, where Michael works for ner, and Jon Earl, al o living in their acres of land with a dog, where they recently celebrated Fleet Bank in Providence .... the Big Apple, i working in hi Roper, and several horses. In their first anniversary. + Geoff and Deedra Beal Dapice family's business .... Noshir January '95 they made two more have two daughters, Coralie, 4, Dubash is an R&D engineer of addition to their family unit as and Shannon, 2. Geoff is a tech Superconducting Electronics in Cec had twin boys, Reno Everett Correspondent: nical ale rep at Binax Inc. in Silicon Valley after getting hi and Lucas Raymon ....Timothy Sara Dickison Portland, Maine, and Deedra Ph.D. in electrical engineering at and Kelly Brown Huntington works as a science teacher at the Universiry of Rochester. He honeymooned in Italy and re Matthew '87 and Be Massabe ic High School in love biking to work year round. cently celebrated their first anni vin Dockray Gove Waterboro, Maine.... Na te and ...Als o on the coast is Gil versary. They are living in Boston, have lived in the Big Mandy Howland Huber have Falcone, who teaches scuba div where Tim is a writer and plan Apple for the pa t four years. been building a home in Fal ing while volunteering and teach ning to attend divinity school. Bevin8 8 is a public relations spe mouth, Maine. Mandy has started ing at the Monterey Aquarium in Kelly is a research analyst cur cialist with Joseph E. Seagram classes in preparation forpossibly outhern California. Gil's room- rently working on a re earch and Sons, Inc.; Matt i vice presi attending veterinary school; Nate mate i Scott Stratton, who also project at Ma . General involv dent at Landover Holdings Corp. owns a cabinet shop and con works in the area ....Keep the ing pregnant women who are Rebecca Bruce, Suzanne Mac structs furniture.... Aero s the new coming! + alcoholics.... Steve and Deidre lachlan, Jill Heslam and Meg ocean, Jennifer Gaylord Donat Boothby Carter and their two Galloway Pierce all attended has enjoyed not being allowed to children, R;tchel, 3, and Nicho their December 1994 wedding work in Switzerland and ha rel las, 1, live in Portsmouth, N.H., party. Other nuptial thi pa t i hed all the perk of motherhood at the Portsmouth Abbey School, summer: Toby and Vickie Caron while traveling thi past year. where Steve i a math teacher, Bell in Portland, Maine, and ...Whitney Gustin has enjoyed hou ema ter and coach. Four Kristin Scholl to Michael Perry her five year of Colorado and years ago Dede was living and on Squirrel Island off Boothbay her many Colbyite encounter 63 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY A L U �\ N I A T L A R G E • ______The Nine ties San Franci�co and saw Wendy Brackett, Karen Crebase and Correspondent: Correspondents: Langdon and Laura Pizzarello. Maryann Hutchinson were all Portia Walker She is now pursuing a double guests at Christine Murphy master's in international relations Abbatiello's wedding last April, 1990 Video pick of the year: and international communica in her current home of Atlanta. Laura Senier Crimson Tide, starring tion at Bo ton Univer ity. She Christine i a software con ult 4 Menotomy Road, Apt. 9 91 Gene Hackman, Den also said that Christina Tuccille ant for the legal industry, and her Arlington, MA 02174 zel Washington and '9 1' very i off traveling in Asia. Laura has husband, Tom '89, is a salesman 617-64 1-3467 own Dan Raymont! Look for hi settled in San Franci co, has her for Fukikura America ....Aaron 1991 performance a one of the ma master' in graphic de ign and Mosler was spotted at a Colby Portia Walker rines. He also appeared in Ed, say , "ye , 1 am till dating Club of Boston event with his 10 trathmore Road =3 two plays and a commerical and Norwood Scott '89." he i now a new wife, Stacy Karp ....Jenni Brookline, MA 02 146 has been doing voice-overs .... freelance designer and having a fer Woods Jencks i going to Deb Lloyd is enrolled at Thunder blast! She sees Hilary Robbins become a mother. Stay tuned.+ 1992 bird, the American Graduate Katie Martin and Bill Goodman quite a bit and 181 Larchmont A venue School of 1 n ternationalManage saw Kristin Herbster-Davis. Correspondent: Larchmont, NY 10538 ment, pursuing her M.B.A. She' ...Meredith Palin is an art ad 914-834-5537 still studying Chinese in hopes of ministrator and client relation Katie Martin e-mail: [email protected] joining Stu Eunson and Ron manager for the French Institute/ Thompson in Beijing .... Jane Alliance Francaise in New York First the e-mail. Zach 1993 Maloney is in her second year at City and says that the activity of Shapiro i till in rab William Miller Jr. the Amos Tuck Business School which he i proudest is attend 9 2 binical school in Cin 14 Ellery Street ,,,,]Q4 at Dartmouth and will graduate ing the weddings of her friends: cinnati. He spent the summer in Cambridge, MA 02 1 38 in June '96 .... Julie Moran is Kim Norberg Burke, Stacy Israel and looks forward to spend 61 7 -44 1-2815 working towards her Ph.D. in Porath Bruder and Twisty ing next year as a student rabbi in 1994 toxicology at the University of Gogolak to Tom Dorian. She Great Falls, Mont ... . Norm Alicia S. Hidalgo Colorado Health Science Center also has at least two more, Ellyn Stillman is at Virginia-Maryland 28 Mar hall Street in Denver. .. Sally Hewitt spent Paine and Grace Liang to Andy Regional College of Veterinary North Reading, MA 01864- 30 18 her summer working for the Bos Shpiz. racy Porath Bruder and Medicine specializing in small 508-664-5128 ton Pops and on Martha's Vine her husband, Christopher, ju t animal and planning a June '96 e-mail: alicia_s_hidalgo@ccmail. yard as a carpenter/painter/fence moved to Newton Centre, where wedding with Diane Osgood dch.ray.com builder and is now getting her he is an account manager for '91. . ..Brian Meehan is al o ma ter's in communications at Design Times magazine in Boston engaged-to Eraena Bracy, a 1995 Emerson College .... Audrey and he is a tenni pro. She says, nur e at Children's Hospital in Alyssa Falwell Witteman has a new-found in "in the last three months I've Bo ton. He i working as a resi 1610 Clarwndon Blvd., A terest in politic through her job moved to Newton, started a new dential coun elor for mentally ill Arlington, VA 22209 as manager of communications job and got married-never a dull patients while pursing his master's 703-276-9421 at the Washington Center for moment!" . ..Erik Potholm is a in education. . . Jennifer Mc Internships and Academic Semi media consultant in D.C. ...Iris Leod has worked at UMaine nar . When he started,she found Kelley is a development a sistant Orono for the past two years and a picture of President Cotter and at Harvard, a part-time student recently became the webmaster former Colby students-she is and engaged to be married in for the university' Web site.Jen definitely home! ...Katherine April '96 to Ho Jin Park, a me nifer wrote that Craig Mertens Roth i a Ph.D. candidate in ro chanical engineer. Diane Osgood and Kris McGrew plan a wed mance languages and literature and Carol Rea Christie will be in ding for ummer '96, Margaret (French) at the University of the wedding party . . ..Frederic Russell plan a spring '96 wed Michigan and is beginning her Ramstedt has done everything ding and Jon Thometz is pursu dissertation. Her fiance, Alex from painting hou e to elling ing a master' in education after andre Dauge, is also a grad tu wine and selling stock to teach getting his master' in hi tory at dent in the French program at ing English at a USM ummer Marquette University . . ..Mary UM. They will be married July exchange program with Rissho Beth Heiskell i till working at 27, 1996 . . ..Lauren Knebel wa University. Now he is a regi - the National Marine Fi heries working in marketing communi tered ales a i rant at Paine Service and will begin a ma ter's cation and public relations in Webber in Portland . ...Becca in marine biology through BU' COLf\Y FEBRUARY 1996 64 A L U :-1 \J I A T L ,\ R G E NEWSMAKERS Suslowicz '93 is marketing as i rant at Spaulding & Slye real Dana Allara '90 is rhe new psy e rate company in Boston ....Christy Everett '94 and Anne chologist for the Penn Brook McManus '95 hiked al20-mile portion of the Appalachain Trail School in Georgetown, Ma s .... inMaineand rai ednearly 5,000fortheNew Beginnings Women' Navy Lr. Reed J. Bernhard '90 i Crisis Center in Laconia, N.H ....Larry Rulison '94 is the new serving in the Adriatic Sea near editor of the Baldwinsville, N.Y., Messenger ... . Melissa Wilcox Bo nia aboard the aircraft carrier '94 i working in a Rwandan refugee camp in northern Tanzania U ..S. America . . . . Jon Gale '90 with Volunteer for Mi ion ....John Dunbar '95 i an imem in has been named assistant district the cience and mathdepartmenrs at Vermont Academy... . Chris attorney for Aroostook County, tine Haigh '95 has been named assistant coach of the Rhode ls land Maine ....Deanna Mitchell '90 College women's oftball team .... Rachel Sotir '95 i an agent for is teaching grade two in Maine' Hunneman & Co./Coldwell Banker in Newton Centre, Mas . School Administrative District Anne McManus '95 (left) 35.... John Gause '91 joined the MILEPOSTS and Christy Everett '94. Berman & Simmons law firm in Bridgton, Maine... . Kimberly Swon Lewis '91 has been named Marriages : Julie Ambrose ' 90 to Benjamin Gray in Bath, to the staff of the Greene County Primary School in Greene Maine .... Christopher W. Jones '90 to] ennifer Fenton in Green County, Va ....Jake Silberfarb '9 1 was promoted to captain in wich, Conn ....Rebecca Bancroft '9 1 to David Mills '91 in the U.S. Marine Corps . ... Kevin Whitmore '9 1 is assistant South Orleans, Mass . . ..Frederic Harlow '91 to Jill Gardner '95 men's basketball coach at the University of Maine.... Con in Ellsworth, Maine . ... Debra MacWalter '91 to Frederick Bright st.antinos Zioze '91 was admitted to the New Hampshire in Waterville, Maine ....Elizabeth Reutlinger '9 1 to Jacob Fal- Bar . . ..Amy Selinger '92 is assi tant coach of girls' basketball coner in Pemaquid, Maine . ... Kimberly Swon '9 1 to Thoma and lacrosse at Montc lair Kimberly Academy in New Lewis in Kewick, Va. . . . Seth Wheeler '9 1 to Beatrice Lewis in Jersey ....Zachary Shapiro '92 is tudent rabbi for Congregation New Durham, N.H. . . Jessica D'Ercole '92 to Michael Stanton Aitz Chaim in Great Falls, Mont. ... Angela Ten nett Butler '93 '92 in Melvin Village, N.H. . ..Heather Maureen Glynn '92 to was appointed commercial lender at Merrill Merchants Bank in Peter Ginolfi '92 in Greenwich, Conn . ...Jen nifer Griffin '92 Bangor, Maine .... Jennifer Larsen '93 teaches grade six lan to Richard Harkin· in Scarborough, Maine.... Sarah Hamilton guage arrs in New London, Conn. ...Tyler Lewis '93 has joined '92 to Scott Barringer in Cohasset, Mas .... Karen Whitcomb the math department at Blair Academy in New Jersey . . ..Kristen '94 to David Bryan '94 in Meriden, Conn. marine program at Woods Hole. ham, Mass ....Kim Ereminas is Katie finished her master's in Lisa (Miller) and Todd O'Con ...Now the Pony Express mail: braving her fourth winter in Min English at UConn and last year nor '91, Sean '91 and Megan Felicia Gefvert left teaching, neapolis, working as the director worked at the Colby Writers' Fitzpatrick Lucey '94, Deb Brown spent a few weeks in Europe over of development for a nonprofit Center before moving to Chapel '91, Steve Collier '91, Steve the summer and is now working organization ....Chris Froth Hill, N.C., to begin a Ph.D. pro Marshall '91, Clark Weber '91, in management for Starbucks ingham, still living in North gram in English at UNC. Steve Swartz (just recen tiy trans Coffee.. ..Jodi Ernest graduated Andover, i applying to medical Camper Dan Belvin called from ferred to Montreal with Morgan from law school in San Diego in school. ...Andrew Finn, after Fort Bragg, where he serves in the Stanley), Poppyann (Mastrovita December '94 and is living in long hours and lot of hard work, 3rd Special Forces Group; he was '93) and Mark Longsjo, Chris Greensboro, N.C., working in real is now one of the youngest pilots looking forward to a stint with '90 and Clare DeAngelis Con estate while srudyingfor the N.C. flying for American Eagle after the Airborne Division jumping nelly '90 and Billy Burke '91. ... I bar exam.... Bill Higgins i ide training there since January '94. out of airplanes and wa hoping am now working as a marketing by-side with Derek Bettencourt He is currently checking out the for no more broken bones. manager at Donna Karan for at Sun Life of Canada out of Chi major airlines, including United, ...Garin Arevian '9 1 and Kelly DKNY Hosiery, Eyewear, Acces cago. They've had visits from Delta, American and North Evans were married in October sories, Shoes and Menswear in Mark Flaherty, Brian Mulvey, west ... . Grace Grindle i still in Chatham, Ma s. Chuck Leach Manhattan and am finally enjoy Bill Foster and Chuck DiGrande teaching high chool Spanish '91 (who is working at Bowdoin ing my job. Now all I have to do '93 ....Laura Weymouth Horne with Teach forAmerica in North in communications), Scott Allen is move out! ...Please keep the pent two year in the Peace Carolina. This pasr summer she '90, Rachel Klein, Nicole Dau mail coming. My e-mail is Corps in Malawi, Africa, where rai ed more than $6,000 for teuil Begin, Helen Suh and I [email protected] + she met her husband (as of Sep Habitat for Humanity by rid were in the wedding party. Also tember '94). She i currently the ing her bicycle from Seattle to in attendance were Peter '89 and Correspondent: director of Big Brothers/Big Sis Asbury Park, N .J .... Mike Gorra Laurie Meehan Reed '8 , Becky William Miller ter in Brunswick, Maine ... . Jay and Michelle Tupesis were mar Graham (who ju t produced her Hermsen wrote from Savusavu ried in March '95 and are living first feature film), Sandrine Dufils in the Fiji Islands, where he has in Ithaca, N.Y. Mike is in his '89, Jack Higgins '93, Grace Liang Hello to everybody! pent almost two years in the third year at Cornell Veterinary '91, AndyShpiz '9 1,Eric Johnson Kristin Owens has re Peace Corps. He wa to return to School, and Michelle i working {who is living in Milwaukee and 93 linqui hed her duties the U.S. in December and was toward her master's in education. working for Srrong Mutual as author of this column; I, Bill thinking about graduate school. Bob Gramling George Linge, Funds), Dave Edelstein (back at Miller, am now doing it. Thanks . . . Heather Hamilton i in grad Katie Drowne, Karen Santoro Princeton after spending the sum for the responses to the partial chool at Emerson, pur uing a and Amy Vreeland were in the mer in D.C. working for the mailing.... Karyn Rimas i master of fine arts and planning wedding party, just a few of the Council of Economic Advi or ), working for the Taipei Economic for a June '96 wedding in Chat- 26 Colby alums in attendance. Mark Boles, Andrew Eldredge, and Cultural Office in Boston. 65 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY ALUMNI AT LARGE he is engaged to Jeffrey Pantry, Augu t 12, 1995, in Connecti· Wilcox went to Africa for two for the Massachusetts Waste whom she met at the wedding of cut, where Tim Merrigan was his year to work with women refu Water Recycling Program and Angela Tennett ancJ Paul But be t man and Chris Baynes, Paul gees and that Amy Clapp, back lives in Somerville with Rebekah ler. The wedding is et for Janu Froio, Shawn Jenkins and Will from her bike tour of New Freeman, Carolyn Hart and Kim ary 6, 1996 .... Sheri Petelle is a Berglund erved as usher Zealand, now leads bike tours in Morrison '90. . . Josh Lutton's panish teacher in Lawrence, . Amy Partridge-Barber is in Vermont. She a! osays that Devri new job in technical sales sup Mass. She spends her time grad her final year as a student in Bos Byrom is in an Francisco with port with Motorola Cellular In ing papers and seeing the religion ton College's master's of social Andy Ros i '93, Michelle Sat frastructure Group in lllinois has teacher, with whom she was fixed work program. Her husband, Ken terlee and Janet Powers; Jess taken him to India several times. up by some of the students. Barber, i a life insurance under Cornwell works for a publishing He writes that he is happy to be "Thing get a little tricky," she writer at UNUM in Portland. company in Bo ton; Jon Mitchell till dating Laura Pavlenko. writes ... . Laura Lepler is a sec ...Naomi Pietrucha is enjoying works in Portland, Maine; Paul . Laura Miller moved from ond grade Spanish teacher in living in New Jersey and working White enjoys his job in Minne D.C. to Nashville, Tenn., to work Denver, Colo., after she finished in N.Y.C. as a special project apolis; and Jim Lindstrom, Kim for Lamar Alexander's presiden grad school and received her coordinator for Cancer Care, Inc. Kessler, Adam Furber and Jason tia I campaign. She and Jack teaching certification. he has a She had previou ly been in Wash Sudano are all in N.Y.C. Thanks Nestor are on the campaign trail year-old black lab named McKin· ington, D.C., with Holly Coxe. for all the news, Bonnie! . ..Liz together and hoping to work in ley. . . Kristin Ostrom is work· ...Jorma Kurrywa marriedJuly Moody works as a legal assistant the White House in '97. Jack ing in the dermatology lab at the 1, 1995, to Karin Killmer '90 in at Debevoise & Plimpton in wrote that hi good pal Mike B.U. School of Medicine. She is Camden, Maine. He i currently N.Y.C. and lives in Brooklyn. Malony is engaged ... . Katie engaged to Andrew Allen and a grad tudent in Russian linguis· ... Jessie Newman, who partici Morrison i in a four-year-pro will be married July 6, 1996. he tics in Iowa. His wife is a profe - pated last May in the California gram at San Francisco Theologi tarted nursing school this past sor/coach at Iowa We leyan AIDS Ride from San Francisco cal Seminary, pursuing a master's summer. ... Candace Killmer has University .... Sue Krolicki is to LA. to benefit AIDS research, of divinity and preparing as an moved from N.Y.C. to Cam living in Cambridge, Mass., and was still in Denver and planned open lesbian to become a pastor bridge, Mass. he i working at working at a transportation plan to tudy physical therapy after in the Presbyterian Church USA, Coopers & Lybrand in Boston ning and management firm. completing all the prerequisities. which at this time will not ordain and i living with Cristen . .. Elizabeth Rogers is living in She was looking forward to a vist her. She is one of the authors of Herlihy, Michele Kennedy and Portsmouth, N .H. She has joined from Babs Coulon and Tracy Called OUT: The Voices and Gifts Mary Fitzgerald ....David Rea a writing group and recommends Larsen and hoped to visit Steve of Lesbian , Gay , Bisexual, and is a litigation legal assi tant in everyone read Erne t Hebert's The Warwick and Michelle Mathai Transgendered Presbyterians .... Philadelphia, "enjoying life." Dogs of March ....Ka therine in Seattle ....Marine! Mateo Carie Nelson "survived" her first ...Elli e North has moved to Rogers Roberts is living in Dal likes working for a real estate year at yracuse University Col Allston, Mass., and is re earch las, Texas, with her husband, company that purcha es old aban lege of Law, worked at the U.S. ing infectious diseases at Bo ton William. The two have traveled doned apartment buildings in attorney' office in Syracu e last University. She writes that Beth throughout the U.S . ... I hope poor neighborhood in Chicago, summer and continues to work Cronin and Josh Bubar spent to hear from you soonl + renovates them and rents them on the Journal of Legislation and the summer in Aruba, teaching out to low-income fa milies. She Policy during the school year. ... at the International School of enjoyed a visit from Emily Congratulations to Junko Kito Aruba. She also writes that An Corre pondent: Chapman, who finished grad Saito, who married J uw Saito last drea Walker is living in Port· Alicia S. Hidalgo school and works for a publi bing June! She and her husband work land, Maine, where she spends company in Mas achusetts. in the foreign ministry of Japan, most weekends outdoors fi hing, Most of the news is Marine! wrote that Jenn Wolff and she hopes to return to the biking and camping. . Sarah from questionnaires teaches in Bangor, Andrea Stairs U ..as a diplomat in the future.+ Burditt is living in Little Rock, 94 mailed last summer. moved to New Hampshire and Ark., facing a "drastic adjustment Jess Matzkin returned from a year teaches English at amiddle school in culture, weather, terrain and of teaching in Ecuador and is in Derry and Andy Carlson, at Correspondent: attitudes" after moving from the pur uing an M.A. in American Colby soccer camp last summer Alyssa Falwell Northeast. She writes that Sarah studie at the Univer ity of for Coach Serdjenian, now Inman stopped by on a road trip Wyoming ....Heather Johnson teaches in southern Maine . . . . Bryan Carey is a para from Rhode Island to New worked as a legal ca e manager in Ali Meyer, assistant director of legal at Covington & Orleans . ... Shannon Roy is !iv· Charleston, S.C., but is now en admissions at Colby, is looking 9 5 Burlington in Wash ing in San Francisco and working rolled in a Ph.D. program in soci· forward to recruiting in western ington, D.C. He says that Gino a a freelance photographer. She ology at Northeastern.... After and southern states this year. ... delSesto is working towards his rides her mountain bike and says working in Denver for a political Ben Morse received a B.E. in master's at GW, Brett Santoli is she drink fa r too much consultant on a U.S. Senate cam· mechanical engineering from at Cornell Law School and coffee. . . Jamie Perlman i liv· paign, Bonnie Johnson returned Dartmouth, where President Patrick Tedesco is studying Ger ing is Buenos Aire , Argentina, to work in a ummer camp for Clinton spoke at the graduation. man in New York ....Also in where he has a five-year record inner-city kids in New Hamp· Ben is now a manufacturing engi D.C. is Jennifer Ancker, who contract ....Dana McClintock hire and planned to move to neer with Texas In truments after spending the summer out is living in Hoboken, N.j., where Bo ton in September. Elliot Motor Control Division in We t hikingand white-water raft he is a publicist for CB . He is Barry lived an hour away from Attleboro, Mass., and sees Jen ing, works with Beth Timm and engaged to Jenna Macunochie her in Colorado but is now in Hurd, who works as a computer Peter Du back at an environmen (Bates '94-he apologize ) .... terning with the Tyler Wildcat· consultant with Quality Solution tal consulting firm. She wrote David McCarthy is a newlywed. ter , a baseball team in Texas. in toneham, Mass ....Heather that Madelyn Meyn was working He married Jayce McCarthy on Bonnie also say that Melissa Lounsbury works as a chemi t in New York City but planned to COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 66 .-\ L l \I :-.; I .-\ T L A R l; E move in with her in D.C. in \\'here she i· a qualified mental Chicago . . . . Leah Babcock i h "·orking m the 1'his,achu,ew , December.... Joe Schwart:, retardation supen·isor and liv working http://www.colby.edu/ Colby' site on the World Wide Web contains a variety of informa tion for the Colby community both on and offMayflower Hill. Parents and alumni can fo llow life at the College by reading The Colby Echo or Moose Prints, the daily calendar. Colby magazine has been published on the Web for the past year; the magazine's web page provides links to other sources with additional information about the people and subjects featured in each issue. Colby has established an on-line forum-an area in cyberspace where readers can gather to discuss topics they could only read about in the past. It offersa way to interact with other Colby alums as well as to respond to current issues concerning the College. The Colby web site adds new features almost every week. Visit regularly to keep up with Colby. 67 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY OBI TUA RIES RODERICK E. FAR HAM '3 1 CLYDE E. RILEY '27 Omega fraternity and an editor of the news paper. After Colby, he attended Harvard Roderick E. Farnham '31, a personnel director Clyde E. Riley '27, a teacher, died July 9 in University and Boston University and be for Great NorthernPaper Company and Colby Worcester, Mass., at 89. He was born and came a sales representative for the LG. emeritus trustee, died December 2 in Bangor, educated in Bridgton, Maine, and majored in Balfour Company. After retirement he lived Maine, at 85. He was born in Brownville Junc geology and education at the College. After in Seminole, Fla. tion, Maine, and attended schools in the area. Colby he earned a master's degree in educa As a youngster he worked for the Canadian tion from the Univer ity of Maine. He wa a Pacific Rai !road and later worked in what is now member of Theta Kappa Nu fraternity and Xi RUTH VOSE JANES '33 Baxter tate Park, guiding climbers up Mt. Epsilon Mu professional fraternity. He began Ruth Margaret Vose Jane '33, a longtime Katahdin. He was a history major at Colby and his career at Ea t Boothbay High School in Red Cross employee and volunteer, died April a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Maine and was a science teacher at Westboro 2 in Ridley Park, Pa., at 82. She grew up in From 1968 to 1976 he erved three tenns in the High School in Ma sachusetts for 40 years, Caribou, Maine, and prepared for Colby at Maine House of Representatives, where he in retiring in 1969. He was the recipient of two Caribou High School. At Colby she wa a troduced the tate law requiring hunter to wear National cience Foundation grants for teach member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and blaze orange. For many years before his retire ers and attended several N F institutes. He belonged to a number of clubs, including the ment in 1972 he was a lobbyi t and personnel was a Shriner and a Ma on. Hi brother Arthur YWCA, Aroostook Club, International Re director for Great Northern Paper Co. i.n the B. Riley '16 and niece Virginia Coggins lations Club and Engli h Club. She was vice company's Woodlands Department. His er Eilertson '55 also attended the College. He is pre ident of the junior cla , chair of Fo ter vice to the College was lifelong and devoted. survived by his wife, Josephine, his niece, two House and Mary Low Hall and a member of He was an alumni trustee from 1959 to 1965, nephews and grandnephew and grandniece . the Health League, and she played basketball chair of the Alumni Council and president of and peedball. She worked in the Works the SO-plus club. For his many year of superb AVA DODG E BARTO ·28 Progre Administration and the State of work as class agent he received the G. Cecil Maine after graduation, and married her hus Ava France Dodge Barton '28, a teacher and Goddard Award, the highest recognition given band, George N. Janes, at the outbreak of civil ervant, died July 3 in Atlanta, Ga. She by the College to its class agents. The Colby World War II. During the war he went to was 89. Born in Newcastle, Maine, she gradu Brick awarded to him and hi wife of 57 years, work for the American Red Cros , an associa ated from Lincoln Academy. At Colby she Margaret Davis Farnham '28, cited "one of tion that continued until 1992, when she majored in French, was a member of Phi Mu, Colby' great team ." He erved several local retired as a social worker in charge of ervice Kappa Alpha and the Glee Club and played organization as well, including the Hampden to military families. Predeceased by her hu - softball, field hockey and volleyball. She school board, water commission, conservation band, she is survived by three son , a brother, taught at Lincoln Academy and in the committee, library board, historical society and Thomas Vose '39, a sister, Mary Vose Wiscasset, Maine, schools, and later was Kiwanis Club. His brother Albion L. Farnham McGillicuddy '29, and seven grandchildren. '35 predeceased him. Survivors include hi wife, employed by the Office of Price Administra his stepson, Alden C. Sprague Jr. '53, a son, tion in Damariscotta and the Selective Ser three daughters, including Patricia Farnham vice in various Mainecommunitie . She leaves MURIEL HALLETT KE EDY '33 Russell '62 and M. Jane Fam.ham Rabeni '66, a son, Charle , three grandchildren and three Muriel Hallett Kennedy '33, a homemaker, two brother , including Raymond W. Farnham great-grandchildren. died July 11 in Westport, Conn., at 82. A '36,a nephew, Raymond W. FarnhamJr. '67, 11 French major at the College, she was born in grandchildren, including Jeffrey Russell '87, MARGARET MCCA Houlton, Maine, and attended Ricker Junior Timothy Farnham '9 1 and Margaret Rus ell MERRILL ·3 1 College. At Colby she was a memberofSigma '92, and a great-grandson. Kappa sorority and a Latin major. After Colby Margaret McCan.n Merrill '3 1, a homemaker, he taught in the Houlton and Hodgton, died September 25 in Skowhegan, Maine, at 5. Maine, schools from 1934 to 1943, then ALLE C. HODGKI S '23 She was bornin Waterville and graduated from worked at the Andover Newton Theological Allen C. Hodgkins '23, a dentist, died October Waterville High School. She was an English eminary in Massachusetts until 1945. She 5 i.n Ellsworth, Maine. He was 95. He was born major at Colby, and after graduating she taught raised her family, then earned a master's de in Eastport, Maine, and after Colby graduated at the Good Will-Hinckley School and was a gree from Fairfield University at age 60. he from the Harvard chool of Dental Medicine. bookkeeper at Waterville's Thayer Ho pita!. was a member of the Westport Woman's Club He practiced dentistry in Waterville until 1948, She married Edward N. Merrill II in 1938 and and the Order of the Ea tern Star. Her hus when he was commissioned senior dental sur was a homemaker and mother. She is survived band, The Rev. Dana Kennedy, urvives, a geon with the U.S. Public Health Service and by a daughter, usan Blaisdell, a grandson, two do a son and three grandsons. served in Alaska for two year . ubsequently great-grandchildren and two cousins. he lived in Lamoine, Maine. He was town CHARLES M. TYSO '33 selectman and assessor for 14 years and served WILLIAM A. LYO S '32 on the planning board and the school building Charles M. Tyson '33, a self-employed business William A. Lyons '32 died January 21, 1994. committee. His wife, Leurene, and several man, died February 25 in Clinton, N.C., at 84. At Colby, he wa a member of Alpha Tau nieces and nephews survive. He was born in Bangor, Maine,and followed his COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 68 brother, Forrest C. Tyson '32, to Colby. After War II, and was a cu tom inspector for the Providence, araduating from Hope treet graduating from the College, where he wa a U.S. Immigration Service for 32 years, retir High chool there. At Colby he was the member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, he ing in 1971. His wife, Jeannette, survive , pre idem of Phi De Ira Theta fraternity hi became a wholesale clerk for the tandard Oil along with several nieces and nephews. senior year. After graduation from the Col Company of N.Y. and a department head for lege he worked for the Automobile In ur Montgomery Ward. In 1943 he enli red in the ATALIE GILLEY REEVES '36 ance Co. of America, becoming an assistant U.S. Naval Re erve, eventually earning the vice president in 1957 and retiring in 1981 rank oflieutenant. He later became a partner at Natalie Gilley Reeve '36, a bookkeeper, died a enior a i tant vice pre ident. He wa a Tire ales and Service in Clinton. He lived in on June 3 at 79. he was born in Melrose, member of the Turks Head Club and the r Clinton with hi wife, Loui e. Mass., and graduated f om Wayland High Providence Art Club and past prestdent of School. At Colby she was a member of the the Gloce ter Country Club. Be ide his wife, YWCA and Chi Omega sorority. After gradu MARGARET SALMO D Elise, he is urvived by two daughter and ation she tocikbu ine s courses at Boston Uni two grandchildren. MATHESO ·34 versity and worked as an analyst for Lever Margaret Salmond Matheson '34 of Water Brothersfrom 1939to 1945.She marriedRalph EARLE E. GLAZIER '40 ville, Maine, died on June 25 at l. Born in Reeve in 1945 and reared three sons. he was Winslow, Maine, and educated at Coburn employed as principal bookkeeper at Montclair Earle E. Gla:ier '40, a long-time resident of Classical Institute, she was a popular and State College in New Jersey and was acti\·e in central Maine, died August 22 in Pittsfield, active Colby student. A member of Sigma the Montclair Women's Guild and Women's Maine. He wa 7 . Born in Fairfield, he was Kappa sorority, she was Junior Prom queen, Club and in her church. Predeceased by her educated at Lawrence High School and student commencement speaker, a member husband and one son, she is urvived by two Coburn Clas ical Institute. After Colby he of Phi Beta Kappa and winner of an honorary sons and several grandchildren. worked for the Keyes Fibre Company in cholar hip for tudy at the Ecole Normale Fairfield for 25 year and wa a member of the Superieure inSevres, France. he was a French BARBARA DAY STALLARD ·36 Oddfellow of Waterville and the Rebekah teacher at Rockland High School in Maine Lodge. An accompli hed trumpet player, he Barbara Day tallard '36, a church secretary, and, later, taught French and creative writing played in bands and at churches; he also died in Montclair, N.J., on April 22 at 79. She at Higgins Classical Institute. In addition to enjoyed square dancing. He i urvived by his was born in Fairfield, Maine, and educated at community work with such groups as the wife, Dorothy, a son, a daughter, two step Lawrence High School, where she was a mem Maine Children' Home for Little Wander sons, two stepdaughters, grandchildren, niece ber of the National Honor ociety. She wa er , she was a dedicated Colby volunteer, and nephews. ecretary for the Watchung Congregational erving as cla s correspondent and as infor Church in Montclair from 1957 until her mal admission recruiter. She wa awarded a retirement in 1977. She was predeceased by VI RGIL J. HI CKLEY '40 Colby Brick in 1984. She was predeceased by her husband, Bernard Stal lard '3 7, and is Virgil J. Hinckley '40, a retired teacher, died her husband, Donald. urvi ed by a daughter, Joanna Morrow, and in York, Maine, on May 20. He '"·as 86. Born two grandchildren. in Blue Hill, Maine, he prepared for Colby at DOROTHY WAS HBUR George Steven Academy. At the College he POLLEY '35 JA E TARBELL BROW ·37 majored in mathematics, ran track, was a memberofDelta Upsilon fraternityand Kappa Dorothy Wa hburn Polley '35, a homemaker, Jane Tarbell Brown '37, a teacher, writer and Ph i Kappa academic society and played intra died in Concord, N.H., on March 16. he was homemaker, died August 28 in Troy, N.Y., at mural sports. He recei\·ed a master's degree in 80. Bornand educated in We tbrook, Maine, 7 . Bornand educated in Smyrna Mills, Maine, education from the Univer ity of Maine and at Colby he wa active in Delta Delta Delta he followed her father, Frank W. Tarbell '04, to served a principal in everal Maine chool orority, the German Club, Student League Colby. At the College she majored in English systems, including Danforth, Richmond and and Health League and played field hockey, and was an officerof the Aroo took Club and Biddeford. He retired in 19 71 after 12 years as volleyball and speedball. She was elected to the Art Club. After Colby she attended the a teacher at Traip Academy in Kittery. He i Phi Beta Kappa and received the Fre hman University of Maine forpostgraduate work, and survived by hi wife, Gertrude, five daugh cholarship Prize and the German Prize. Af she taught English at a number of schools, ters, including Wanda Hinckley Brill '75, ter Colby she taught in Waldoboro, Maine, including Ren salaer Polytechnic Institute. An nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and wa an office worker in Framingham, interest in poetry ignited by her Colby com and two sister . Ma s., and Chicago. She was a volunteer in mencement speaker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Nashua PTA and Girl Scouts and the led her to write ver e for most of her life. She New Hampshire Historical ociety. Prede published a volume of her poems, Two Crows: DORIS A. RUSSELL '40 cea ed by her husband and a on, David Joy!, atage 59- he kidded that the publication Doris A. Ru ell '40 died December 17, 1994, Polley '64, she is urvived by a daughter, "turned me overnight into almo t the mo t at 77. She prepared forColby at Dedham High Linda Mock, and three granddaughters. celebrated woman in Cropseyville [N.Y.]" School in Massachusetts. At the College he and was in demand for poetry workshops and majored in English, was a member of the Stu Do ALD P. ROBITAILLE ·35 library reading . he also taught a writing work dent Christian Peace Committee, Student shop at the Troy enior Citizens Center. She i Christian A ociation Cabinet, Library Asso Donald P. Robitaille '35, a customs inspector, survived by her husband of 46 years, Wentworth, ciates, International Relation Club, the died June 1 in Waterville, Maine, at 86. He two sons and five grandchildren. French and German club and the Arts Club. was born inWaterville and prepared for Colby After graduation she worked in a variety of at St. John's Academy in Danvers, Mass. At jobs, including teaching in rural school in the College he wa a member of Phi Delta GEORGE . BURT '37 Maine, working at the Bendix Aviation Corp. Theta fraternity and participated in hockey, George N. Burt '37, an insurance execu during World War II and ervingas an English track, interfraternity baseball and the Mys tive, died May 5 in Providence, R.I. He wa in tructor at ortheasternUniver ity and as a tics. He served in the U.S. Navy in World 80. Born in Superior, Wis., he grew up in foster parent in Brighton, Mass. In later years 69 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY he worked in public health and social work. from the University of Miami, where, as he had of the board ofdirectors ofthe Hornell chapter She is survived by a brother, David Russell. at Colby, he played varsity football and base of the American Red Cross and chairman of its ball. He taught and served as an administrator service to military fa milies division He is sur SARAH FUSSELL COBB '42 in the Dade County chools in Florida, retiring vived by hi wife, Vivian Maxwell Brown '44, in 1979 after 32 years. In 1992 he was elected to a daughter, two grandchildren and a brother. Sarah Fussell Cobb '42, a teacher and librar the Lowell High School Athletic Hall of Fame. ian, died March 24 in Brookline, Mass., at 74. He i urvived by his wife, Penelope, two son , She was born in Swarthmore, Pa., and gradu HORTO W EMERSO JR. '49 a daughter, fourbrothers and a sister. ated from Swarthmore High chooL She taught Horton W. Emerson Jr. '49 died Augu t 12, school in Windsor, Conn., and Duxbury, Mass., 1994, at 74. He was born in Blue Hill, Maine, and served as children's librarian for Braintree, HUBERT E. SMITH '46 and graduated from George Stevens Acad Mass., town librarian for Rockland, Mass., and Hubert E. Smith '46, a technical writer, died emy there. In 194 3, he was enlisted in the school librarian for Whitman-Hanson Re August 6 in Derry, N.H. He was 73. Born in U.S. Marine Corps and served in World War gional High School. She is survived by her Lynn, Mass., he was reared in Saugus and II. After Colby he received his Ph.D. from husband, A. Spencer Cobb '42, her sister, graduated from augus High School. He al o Yale in 1957 and became a professor of his Catherine P. Fussell '41, four children, seven attended Kents Hill School in Maine before tory at Gorham State College. He is survived grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. enrol ling at Colby. He served as a pharmacist's by two daughters and a son. She was predeceased by her sister-in-law, mate in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Kathryn Cobb Kimball Quinn '36. then attended the University of Massachu JOH H. IVES '49 setts. He worked for the New Jersey Depart John H. Ives '49, an insurance salesman, died PAUL ABRAMSO '43 ment of Health, General Electric and two Ma achusetts companies before being re March 29 in Schenectady, N.Y., at 70. He Paul Abram on '43, a writer and photogra called to Navy duty in 1950. For more than 28 served in Europe in World War II, and at pher, died on July 30. He was 76. He was born years he was a technical writer forRaytheon Colby he worked on the Echo and was a in New York City and prepared for college at in North Andover, Mass., retiring in 1984. member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Che hire Academy in Connecticut. He served urvivors include his wife, Eleanor, three Outing Club. After college he was employed in the U.S. Army during World War II, then sons, a daughter, six grandchildren and five by the Insurance Company of North America studied phorography and began writing and great-grandchildren. and, later, by Atlantic Mutual. He was an taking photographs forpublication. Two de insurance salesman at the Hequemburg cades ago he and his wife, Florence, retired to Agency in Schenectady for30 years. He was Sarasota, Fla., where he became a collector of JACQUELI E M. ALLE '48 a member and president of the East Glenville violins. Besides his wife, he i survived by two Jacqueline M. Allen '48, a lab technician, died Volunteer Fire Company and a member of children and two grandchildren. April 16 in Bridgton, Maine, at 67. She was the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ameri born in Bethel, Maine, and graduated from can Legion. He is survived by his wife, PAULINE SEEKINS BLAIR '44 Fryeburg Academy. At Colby she was a mem Marjorie, a son, two daughters, a brother, a ber of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the Glee Club sister and five grandchildren. Pauline Seekins Blair '44, a painter, commu and the Outing Club. After her graduation nity volunteer and homemaker, died Sep from the College, she moved to Boston and CHARLES R. WOODMA '49 tember 26 in Dover, N.H., at 73. She was worked as a lab technician at M.LT. and for born and educated in Norwood, Mass., and Massachusetts General Hospital. She also Charles R. Woodman '49, an accountant, left Colby after her freshman year to marry. worked as a research assistant at Boston Uni died May 27 in Augusta, Maine, at 76. He was During World War II she worked at Bendix versity Medical School. She is survived by her born in Rumford, Maine, and attended Au Aviation in Massachusetts and drove an am nephew, David Hodgdon of Conway, N.H. gusta schools. He served in the Army during bulance for the Red Cross Motor Corps in World War II, received the Bronze Star and Massachusetts and New York. She reared a retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant family and, in 1976, began painting in oils, JOHN W. BROWN '49 colonel. During hi career as a elf-employed winning local prizes for her work. She was an John "Jack" Brown '49, a labor relations direc accountant he also served as town manager of active volunteer with the Boy Scouts and tor, died June 3 in Coming, N.Y. A native of Chelsea, Richmond and Mexico, Maine. He Girl Scouts, the Red Cross, church groups Chelsea, Mass., he was a graduate of Chelsea is survived by two sons, one daughter, two and children's musical programs. Her hus High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force brothers, three si ters and two grandchildren. band, Bill, survives her, as do two sons, in in 1942 and was discharged with the rank of He was predecea ed by his wife, Mary. cluding David Blair '69, a daughterand several captain in 1945. He also attained the rank of grandchildren. She wa predeceased by a lieutenant in the Air Force Reserves. After hi JOHN MCSWEENY '50 daughter. graduation from the College, he was director of personnel and public relations for the C.F. John McSweeny '50, an athletic director and legislator, died March 18 in Cape Elizabeth, PETER S. KOUCHALAKOS '44 Hathaway Co. in Waterville, Maine. In 1959, he assumed the same position at the J.W. Maine, at 71. He was bornin Saco, Maine, and Peter S. Kouchalakos '44, a teacher, coach and Greer Co. in Wilmington, Mass. In 1965 he was on the all-state football team while at school administrator, died August 7 in Coral became the manager of labor relations for the Thornton Academy. After high school he Gables, Fla. He was 75. Born and reared in Combustion Engineering Corp. in Chatta joined the U.S. Marine Corps, attaining the Lowell, Mass., he was an outstanding high school nooga, Tenn., and in 1967 he became the rank of sergeant. At Colby he played football athlete at Lowell High School and at Bridgton corporate director of industrial relation for and was a member of Phi Delta Theta frater Academy in Maine. His Colby education was SW Industries Inc. in Newton, Mass. In 1982 nity. He received his ma ter' degree in history interrupted by service in World War II; he he retired from his positionas director oflabor and governmentfrom the University of Maine served as a platoon sergeant in the U.S. Army relations at SKF Industries in Hornell, N .Y. in 1969. After graduating from Colby, he be Corps of Engineers and earned several decora After his retirement, he was a substitute teacher gan his teaching and coaching career at differ tions, including the Bronze Star. He graduated in the HornellCity School System, a member ent schools in southern Maine. In 1953 he COLBY FEBRUARY 1996 70 became a teacher, coach and athletic director sible for major advances in the field. In the A THO Y S. GILES ·55 at Old Orchard Beach High School, where he 1960s he developed technology that allowed worked until 19 2. In 1971, the school hon organs to be kept viable for everal day before Anthony S. Giles '66 died December 15, 1994, ored him by naming the new gymnasium the transplant, a process he refined for several years. in Marblehead, Ma s., at S 1. Born tn John McSweeny Memorial Gymnasium. After In 1987 he andJames Southard, a biochemist at Marblehead, he graduated from Marblehead his retirement, he was elected to the state the university, developed "UW Solution," a High School. After graduating from the Col legislature, where he served until 1990. For fluid that can keep organs viable for 18-30 hours lege with a major in English, he received hi many year he delivered Meals on Wheel to and helps prevent transplantrejection. In April master's and Ph.D. from yracu e University the elderly in his community and was a mem 1995 he received the Medallion for cientific and became a profe or of speech at the Univer ber of St. Margaret's Parish. He is survived by Achievement from the American Surgical As sity of New Hampshire's Paul Arts Center. He two sisters and was predecea ed by two broth sociation, only the 12th such award in the is survived by two sons and a granddaughter. ers and a sister. as ociation's 1 17-year history. Last year he also received the first Pioneer Award from the ROBERT . LE\'I E 73 American Society of Tran plant Surgeon . He MARIL SCOTT ALLEN '5 1 Robert N. Levine '73, a consultant to na i survived by his wife, Marion, a daughter and Marilyn Scott Allen '51, a banker, died June tional literacy campaign and a volunteer three sons. 14 in Prague, The Czech Republic. She was AlDS care worker, died May 28, 1994, in 65. She was born in Terre Haute, Ind., where New York City at 42. He was born in Hart she spent much of her life. She attended St. RA NDALL L. HOLDE ·55 ford, Conn., and educated in We t Hartford Mary-of-the-Woods College and received her Randall L. Holden '65, a professorof music, died schools. At Colby he majored in p ychology, bachelor's degree at Colby, where she was a May 17 in Louisville, Ky., at S l. He was bornin and after graduating he attended Hartt Col member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Bronxville, N.Y., and graduated fromScarsdale lege of Music. In the 1980s and 1990s he was Glee Club. She was an assistant vice presi High School. After receiving his B.A. from a consultant to several outstanding literacy dent of Terre Haute First National Bank, Colby, he received his M.A. in music history campaigns, including the Readasaurus pro retiring in January 1995. She was a member of from the Univer ity of Connecticut and his gram and ABC Television'- Project Literacy the St. Benedict Catholic Church and served M.M. and D.M.A. in opera production at the U.S. He also was a volunteer with God's Love on the boards of Hospice of the Wabash University of Washington. He also attended We Deliver, a group that delivers meals to Valley, Catholic Charities of Terre Haute, U.C.L.A.'s Arts Administration Program in homebound person with AIDS. He is sur Visiting Nurses' Association of the Waba h 1970-71. He was a professor of music and direc vived by his mother, Ruth Levine, a brother, Valley and the YWCA. She was predecea ed tor of admis ions in the School of Music at the a niece and a nephew. A cousin, Paul Feldman by her husband and a daughter and is survived University of Louisville. He was a production '34, also attended the College. by two daughters, three sons, her mother, a manager for the Kentucky Opera, president of sister, two brothers, nieces and nephews. the National Opera Association and a member ARCHILLE HE RI BIRON of the board of Ars Femina. Earlier in his career, Archille Henri Biron, emeritus professor of he was an administrator and teacher at Arizona ROBERT L. SWAI '52 modem languages, died December 6 at his State University and worked for the Seattle home in Waterville, Maine, at 84. Born in Robert L. Swain '52, an insurance executive, Opera Association and the Phoenix Symphony Pittsfield, Mass., he was a 1932 graduate of died June 8 in Augusta, Maine, at 72. He was Orchestra. He is urvived by his wife, Pamela Clark University, earneda diploma from the born in Swampscott, Mass., and graduated Harris Holden '66, a brother, and cou ins Jane Institute De Phonetique at the University of from local schools. He served in the Army Air Holden Huerta '60, Juan Huerta '92 and Jon Pari in 193 7 and, in 1940, earned a ma ter' Corps during World War II and majored in Huerta '95. English at the College. He was associated for degree from Middlebury College. During many years with the Macomber, Farr and World War II he served with the U.S. Army Whitten insurance firm in Augusta and was LORNA WRIGHT DALE '66 in France. He taught at the Riverdale Coun involved in many civic organization , includ Loma Wright Dale '66, a teacher, died May 13 try School in New York City for IO years ing youth baseball and hockey. He is survived in Lewiston, Maine. She was 50. She was born before joining the faculty of Rutgers Univer r by his wife, Eileen, three daughters, three in Farmingron, Maine, and graduated from jay sity, where he taught f om 1946 until 1950, sons, grandchildren, a brother and sister and High School. A Spani h major at Colby, she when he directed the Colby-Swarthmore several nieces and nephews. tudied at the University of Mexico City. After Summer School of Language and joined the graduation from the College she taught lan Colby faculty as an instructor. He was named assistant professor in 1953, associate profes- FOLKERT 0. BELZER '53 guages at Pinkerton Academy in New Hamp- hire and in Chicago, eventually becoming a or in 1965 and full profes or in 1973 and was FolkertO. Belzer 'S3, a leading transplant den sub titute teacher in the Lewiston school sy - granted emeritu status following his retire tist, died on August 6 in Madison, Wis., at 64. tern.She was a band musician and a pianist. Her ment in 1977. A leader in developing Colby's He was bornin Seerabaja, Indonesia, andcame father, Philip Wright, survives her, as do a first foreign language programs abroad, he to the United States in 1951, becoming a U.S. sister, two nieces and many other relative . was particularly interested in 19th-century citizen in 1956. At the College he majored in French literature, especially the works of chemistry and was a member of Delta Upsilon Balzac. He also was a supporter of the Colby '66 fraternity. He earned a master's degree and an GEORGE SHERIDAN DUKES library and the Colby Friends of Art. With his M.D. from Boston University. His long aca George Sheridan Dukes '66 died July 7 in wife, Dorothy, he traveled exten ively in demic career included posts at the University of Prescott, Ariz., at SO. He was born in Europe, North Africa and Canada, and a Oregon, the University of California in San Hackensack, N .J ., and graduated from scholarship fund in honor of the Birons is to Francisco, where he was chief of transplant Cranford High School in Cranford, N.J. He be established at the College for the scholar service, and the University of Wisconsin, where was married for 28 years to Joan Manegold ship upport of Colby student wishing to he was chair of the surgery department from Dukes '66, who survives him along with his study in France. Besides his wife of 55 years, 1964 until his retirement last July. He special mother and two sisters. he is survived by a brother and sister-in-law ized in kidney transplantation and was respon- and a nephew. 71 FEBRUARY 1996 COLBY inal . Well Connected by Sally Baker camera nrer;itnr ancl Forh s Jr., who can afford to A sound man bustle around finance their O\\'n campaigns. A;soci<1te Protcs>ur c1f GO\-.:rn Ifill a>b complicated questions ment Tony Curradn. trying to and Corrado doesn't miss a get the lighting right, ;1sking quarter-heat. rre>enting a each other for "le1·eb" and clear exrlanation of the speaking my�tcric1uslv l)f effects such candidates have ":eroing our." When Lme begin> on the electoral process-in arrlying makeur tn Cnrradn\ general . he thinks, they face as he sit> under the bright squee:e out candidates with lighr-, a College photograrher more rele1·ant experience. snars a picture to tea>e Corrado. It is a 10-minute seminar "I take it that\ for blackmail delivered by a master-and purposes," Corrado says, smiling. Corrado can speak ju t as The photogr::ipher grins back. insightfully about most aspect Corrado has been waiting of national and state rolitics, for more than an hour as the includ ing the use of the NBC Nig/idy News camera crew Internet in campaigning and sets up in Dean of Admissions fund raising and the rise and Parker Be\'erage's Lunder Tony Corrado waits as an NBC camera crew sets up. fall of candidacies. Newspaper House office, one of the few on stories quoting Corrado flow to campus that could accommo cloth to cover the window- and coming to Washington next Colby from all over the date the needs of a network enough cable to strangle King week," Corrado says. ''I'll get country, many the result of long news crew. Ir's lunchtime, and Kong. But after talking to my share of no snow then." telephone interviews he fields he's ettled for a canned Diet dozens of print and broadcast Ifill already knows that during the evenings at home. Coke. While waiting he's sat at reporter and serving for several Corrado will be at the Nat ional Interview over, Ifill thanks Beverage's conference table years as a political analyst for a Prt>ss Club presenting the Corrado and the camera crew, talking to some bystanders Bangor television station on findings of the 20th Century tells Corrado she'll give him a about everything from a election and primary nights, Fund's Task Force on Presiden call once she knows when the workshop he's doing for Maine Corrado is a pro. He is cordial tial Debates. "I'm not sure I story will air and hangs up. As broadcasters on how to cover and patient. "I know how these want to know what your the crew packs up Corrado elections, to the fact that he'll things go," he say . "I should conclusions are," she says with waits again-this time to go be meeting with the last class of have brought some work to do." a laugh, noting that the media outside and walk around the semester later this after Once everything i prepared, often are criticized for their campus a bit for the camera. noon, to his belief that Corrado sits in a Colby debate coverage. "You're really good at this, "everyone in Rhode Is-land" captain's chair with Beverage's Corrado is a sought-after Tony," the camera operator source among top journalists, his home state-"knows desk and computer as backdrop. says, going on to describe aca and as Ifill conducts her on-air everyone else." Reporter Gwen Ifill chats with demics he's filmed who forget interview it is easy to ee why. Like clowns at a Shriner him over a speaker phone. It is to look at the camera or who The two discuss presidential circus, the crew produces winter and this is Maine, o ponder their answers too long. and Congressional bids improbable amounts of they talk about snow. Maine is "One thing I've learned," mounted by candidates, like equipment from a few boxes covered; Washington, D.C., Corrado says, "on TV, a three Ross Perot and Malcolm lights, cameras, reflectors, black Ifill' home base, has none. ''I'm second pause and you're dead."+ COLBY FEBRUARY !996 72 By the time you arrive for reunion, this sign willma ke more sense. Right now we're deep in that test of character known a a Maine winter. But by June, the lakes and ocean will parkle again, and this sign will welcome you back for a weekend of fun and fr iendships renewed. Check this issue for a schedule of events, day trips, and children's programs planned foryou and your family from June 5�9, 1996. For more information, call the reunion hotline, 207 �872�31 90. And tuck a jacket in your bag, ju tin case. It's cooler on Mayflower Hill. Reunion Weekend • June 5-9, 1996 IJ