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May 1991

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MAY 1991

INSIDE COLBY

tephen Collins '74, a fre­ Cover Story quentS contributor to Colby who has more than a passing knowl­ 10 edge of the back-to-the-land An Eye for Beauty: Hugh Gourley-pictured on the cover with movement, tells us this month Study for Ada With Superb Lily by Alex Katz-has developed the about an alumna who never left Colby College Museum of Art into an institution of quality without the land, Mary Belden Williams pretension, which could describe his own 25-year Colby career. '54 (page 6). One point his story make i that for generations, rural ew England youngsters pg. 6 Features routinely leftthe familyfarm to pur ue a liberal education at 6 colleges such as Colby fully in­ Mary Williams Had a Farm: Mary Belden Williams '54 can trace her tending to return home. agrarian heritage back seven generations-and ahead two as well. Collins's account had barely reached our office when it wa under cored by a story in 17 the Middletown (Conn.) Press They'll Take New York: Three 1990 graduates et out from Colby about the 250th anniversary of with different goals but a similar dream-to conquer the Big Apple. the Lyman Orchard in Mid­ dlefield, where John Lyman lil 20 '79 is vice pre ident for produc­ Sibling Revelry: What happens when you see your si ter dancing tion and his brother Jim, a pg. 17 with your best friend? If all are Colby students, you probably take it graduate of Cornell, i vice in stride. pre ident for marketing. The Lymans have pushed modern­ ization a tep further than the 23 Williams family, opening a re - Physics with Feeling: Students and colleagues say Murray Campbell taurant and a golf cour e, but i typical in the be t ense. He's the virtual model of an ideal Colby they, too, are still working the professor. land their ancestors fanned in colonial times. The variety of other stories in this issue reflects Colby' vi­ Departments tality. Among them are the 36 cover story on Hugh Gourley's pg. 20 2 25 years at the Colby College Periscope Gifts & Grants Museum of An, the feature on three young alumni chasing 3 37 dreams in the Big Apple, the News from the Hill Mule on the Move survey of 28 sets of siblings at Colby, the account of under­ 28 40 graduates bringing a bit of do­ Student Life Alumni At Large mesticity to campus life and the portrait of a popular professor 32 78 whose quirks make quarks more Paging Parents Obituaries understandable for students of physics. 34 80 pg. 23 Books & Author Letters

Colby, May 1991 PERISCOPE

Gleaned by Dean Earl H. Smith from his weekly campus newletter, FYI.

Town and Gown The Mid-Maine Medical Center has Travel Jitters Some 150 tudems were planning to study sent word of its appreciation for recent emergency help provided by abroad for the pring term. Several cancelled becau e of concerns Whitney King and the Colby Chemistry Department .... The hos­ stemming from the war in the Persian Gulf, electing instead to return pital had concerns that one of their anaesthetic agents may have to Colby. Of those remaining abroad, a number switched to programs become contaminated. Whitney offered his kills and used depart­ in other foreign location they con idered more secure. All of the ment equipment to show no contaminants were present. Dr. David Colby-sponsored programs went forward as scheduled. Jon Weiss, Landry of MMMC has written to say that Whitney's "time and director of Off-Campus Programs, kept in close touch with the State contribution of the equipment available at the Colby facilities is only Department, ready to alert students and parents if necessary. The another example of the tremendous asset that Colby College is to the overall number of Colby students studying abroad remains high. For community." ... And thank Hugh Gourley, too. Hugh helped a the past several years, more than 50 percent of all students have Portland fi Im company (Barry Atwood '69, president) shoot a public studied in a foreign country for ome period of time during their four ervice spot in the vacant gallery in the mid t of the dust and rattle year at Colby. No other institution we know of has numbers that big. of renovations.... As ociate Profes or ofBiology Jay Labov has been notified that the Maine Department of Education has approved a Colby project titled Improving Skills of T eachersof Science, submitted Wonder of Wonders Thelma Plusquellic of the Dean for funding under the Dwight Ei enhower Math and Science Act. of Students Office got a call recently from Jane Marshall, a script The gram is for $15,000, and the project will be undertaken over the researcher for TV' itcom ''The Wonder Year ." Seem Dean Janice next nine months. Area science teachers and students will profit. Seitzinger's high school friend Dan Lauria, who stars as the father on ... Don Small of the Mathematics Department has also received an the popular show, got the vintage Colby jacket we sent and says he Eisenhower grant. Don will conduct a workshop on the use of hope to wear it on an epi ode next season.The jacket wa donated computer algebra systems and graphing calculators as teaching tool by John Bubar '68, who jokingly suggested that he should receive a in mathematics for southern Maine secondary school teachers. huge tax deduction if his jacket gets Colby national TV exposure. (Those AdSci majors are always thinking.) Turnsout that Mar hall's Colby Pride President Bill Cotter was elected vice chair of sister, Susan Marshall Littlewood '62, attended Colby,and her great­ the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities grandfather was none other than Samuel Francis Smith, author of at meetings in Washington, D.C., in February. NAICU is the "America" and faculty member at Colby from 1834 to 41. nation' largest lobby group for educational institutions, representing some 800 colleges and universities around the country.It is expected that Bill will become the association's chair in another year. ... Adam Sabbaticals Ahead Sabbatical leaves for the full aca­ Weisberger (Sociology and Anthropology) i the recipient of a demic year 1991-92 have been granted to David Bourgaize Junior Research Award under a 1991-92 Fulbright program in (Chemistry), Dan Cohen '75 (Philo ophy), Jay Labov (Biology), Germany.He will be doing research in the archives in Berlin.... The Charles Lakin (Library),Abbott Meader (Art),Pete Moss (History), rudent of Biology 493, Problems of Environmental Science, re­ Len Reich (Admini trative Science), Sonya Rose (Sociology), ceived a thank-you note from Charles Blaisdell of the Great Bog Dianne Sadoff (English), Ira Sadoff (English) and James Webb Protection Association for their study on the impact of a proposed (History) .... Half-year sabbaticals for the first semester were ap­ gravel mine on Great Pond.Blaisdell called the work "one of the most proved for Roger Bowen (Government), Cal Mackenzie (Govern­ important and valuable contributions to the record in a very signifi­ ment) and Phyllis Mannocchi (English), and, forthe second semes­ cant case." ter, forPat Brancaccio (English), Tony Corrado (Government),John Likins (Library), Cedric Bryant (English), Nick Rohnnan (Psy­ Curriculum Reform on Deck The Faculty Cur­ chology) and Joylynn Wing (Performing Arts and English). riculum Committee has issued a final report calling for a new set of distribution requirements and a seminar program for all first-year students. The proposal, which retains the current requirements of Moosecellaneous Earmuffs offto Dean Victoria Hershey English composition and three semesters of a foreign language, would and Fr.John Marquis, who bravely led the winter COOT expedition also require that, during their first two year , all students take at least for new tudems to Moo ehead Lake, and to students Shawn Crowley one course in each of these areas: arts, hi torical studies, literature '91, Katie Kaliff '91, Mary-Beth Cronin '93 and Julie DiMilla '93. (not to include creative writing or composition), quantitative rea­ All good sportsand truly fine leaders.... A bow to Professor Howard soning, science (including a laboratory component), and social Koonce (Performing Art ) and the Colby cast of The Venetian Twins. sciences. lt is hoped that the changes, as approved or modified by the The play won honorable mention at the regional American College faculty this spring, would be effective forthe class entering next fall. Theater Festival at the University of New Hampshire.

2 Colby, May 1991 NEWS FROM THE HILL

Colby Promised Use of 27 Masterpieces

he College is likely to receive a ignifi­ Whitney Pay 0n's memory.But Westbrook, Mu eum of Art. Colby wa elected a· the cant new teaching tool that al o should a small liberal art college that offers no appropriate academic partner for the new prove an exciting attraction forit Museum major in art, decided the collection would be arrangement. of Art-u e of the prestigious Joan Whitney better served where it could be seen by more "We are very grateful to John Payson Pay on Collection of Art for a full seme ter visitors and used by students uf art. Under and his family for thi wonderful gesture," e ery alternate year. the agreement reached among Westbrook Pre idem William Cotter aid."The collec­ Colby had been one of two in t1tur1ons College, Pay on and the Portland Museum, tion will be a magrnficent addition for the under final consideration by Mrs. Pay on's the museum will purcha e two paintings in College and a boon to individuals and choob heir forpermanent owner-hip of the collec­ the collection ownedoutnghtby We tbrook. throughout central and northern Maine." tion of 27 work by ma ters uch a Renoir, Colby will be granted u e of the collection at Cotter said Colby's access to the col lec­ Oega , Gauguin, Picasso, Whistler, Homer no co t ro the College. tion would benefit more than just stuJents and Wyeth. In March, John Payson P' From the beginning, both Westbrook who major in art. He e timated that rwo­ and hi famil cho e the Portland Mu eum and John Payson agreed that if the collec­ th1rds of all Colby students take the College's of Art a the permanent ite for the collec­ tion was to move from Westbrook, it shou Id ba ic course in art history and said Colby is tion, granting Colby use of the paintings for cay in Maine. A di cus ion progressed, de­ developing plans to u e the paintings' bien­ one semester every two year . ire emerged to have the collection be shared nial pre ence "as a magnet" to increase com­ The collection has been on display at between an outstanding in titution with its munity and chool participation in mu eum Westbrook College in Portland in a gallery own vibrant art mu eum and with Maine's programs on Mayflower Hill. the Payson family establi hed there in Joan principal public arr museum, the Portland

New Monthly Won't Echo the Old Weekly

"Colby i overflowing with opinionated people," Brian Monks '91 proclaim in the premiere is ue of The Response, a student-produced month! that began publi hing in February. "Our goal i to pre ent viewpoint from every per pective." The magazine, Monk ' brainchild, was concei ed la t summer in Diversity Lexington, Mas . "I wa itting at home brain torming about what kind Requirement of new paper I could pro ide on MayflowerHill, " Monk aid. "I looked at what the Echo lacked, at the void which could be filled with commen­ lnlonnedUnnecessary AW Choice taU..NllunlPllll\To taries, people' view and more editorials. F-Dl--ity "I felt the big thing wa that tudent had no idea what wa going on in the world. It's evident every unday morning when everyone cours over the Boston Globe.We need intelligent views from the inside." Moscow On In its first two numbers, The Response featured rudent and faculty MayflowerHlll An lnlervllW 11111\ Sovi.tColby article on subject as diverse as apartheid, the Swedi h welfare y tern --- and the use of animals in product te ting labs, a well as wine and movie reviews, op-ed pieces and a ew England cultural calendar. The Ending "The Echo only talks about Colby news and refu es to deal with of Aoartheld i sues offMayflower Hill," Monk say . "le ha its place in publishing .....silowd u.. Aeepond? u.a. new of Colby and tries to inform tudents.But that' not the philosophy of The Response. We want to add another dimension, stimulate discu - Kenneth ROdman sion over world events and ubject chat pertain to Colby." PRoffSSORNEW OfTHE WOflW ORDER

The cover of the March issue of The Response.

Colby, May 1991 3 Recession Limits cession brought about by the starters. This less and have led to offers and acceptances. leaves a countless number of lawyers at the Seniors flexible with regard to location and Field for Seniors end of the bench, and it will most likely be a position have already received offersfor very few from this group who specialize in bank­ competitive and rewarding positions. Sim­ Career Services Director Jim Mcintyre ruptcy and tax who will take over. ply stated, good candidates who follow ha fielded the question so many times this "There is also a new team in the league through properly can still get good jobs." year that his response has the ring of a well­ l call 'the old kids on the block,' a group of Mcintyre says programs such as Teach polished after-dinner speech. So, Jim, what professionals with experience and advanced for America and the Peace Corps and a is the state of the economy doing to the job training and degrees who are beingdropped­ number of public interest research groups market for graduating seniors? a.k.a laid off-in increasing numbers. As are attracting strong interest this year. An­ "The question is similar to asking a they begin to bite the same bullet that they other apparent byproduct of the tight mar­ ba ketball coach in pre-season if having al­ shot at random to make down payments on ket-increased interest in graduate and pro­ ready lost the starting five and having a weak their BMW and condos, they are compet­ fe ional education immediately after bench will influence the team's chances," ing for the same po itions and in the ame graduation-troubles Mcintyre, who tell Mcintyre said. "Real estate development, league a our rookies." students that lack of a job is not a good banking and finance, the computer indus­ Are there any ilver linings? rea on for further study. "Those who stay in try, major retail and consulting were all sick "On-campus recruitment is off by ap­ the educational womb to avoid facing the or buried in their own greed before the year proximately 40 percent,"Mcintyre said, "but real world," he said, "may find that they are started. The strong subs, which include ad­ result for second interviews from tho e rep­ finally delivered into even more frustration vertising, teaching, publishing and other resented has been extremely positive. Off­ and confusion." ervice industries were reeling from the re- campus consortium interviews have uffered

Not a Question of Controversy

To diffusepotential controver y, mem­ bers of the Women's Studies facultydecided to omit the public question and answer ses­ sion when radical feminist philosopher Mary Daly poke on campus in February. Daly fields no questions from men at public lectures. "We made the deci ion she would take no questions so people would listen to what she had to say, " said Debra Campbell, associate professor of philosophy and religion at Colby, who explained that Daly's policy is a device to help men under­ stand how it feels to be powerless. And in fact, Daly took questions fromboth men and women at a reception following her talk. Daly told a large crowd in Page Com­ mons Room that despite strides made during the late 1960s and 1970s, women are still held back from reaching their potential. The growth of pornography,now a $12 Radical feminist Mary Daly chats with Cameron Richardson '93. billion industry, is one of the things that

4 Co!Jry, May 1991 hampers women, Daly a sened. Even the History and the Smithsonian Institution. New YarkTimes Magazine carries ads that are Three decade ago, he established the Watson degrading to women, she said. "Some women Foundation to help recent college graduates have ab orbed pornographyimages into their pursue independent study abroad. very core," Daly said. "That's demeaning. It' the end." In the late 1960 and 1970 the fe mi­ nist movement gained momentum, Daly noted, but in the 1980s the "revolution" i Colleges Won't hidden. "They are pushing knowledge down and going back to the fiftie ,"she said. "Back Compare Notes in ·the fiftie , fe mini t and lesbian were bad word ." On the advice of attorneys, Colby and 20 other highly selective colleges suspended participation in the annual March "Over­ lap" meeting on financial aid. The colleges are among more than 60 reported to be Degrees Granted Margarer Chase Smith involved in an antitrust investigation initi­ Drawing by the !are Muriel Robinson Ragsdale '27 ated nearly two years ago by the U. . De­ to Five Honorees partment of Justice. The Overlap group i composed of col­ Colby will confer honorary degrees 1n rights movement, she worked for 20 years leges that offer financial aid on a need basis. five prominent American at 1t l 70th with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In They have exchanged information on appli­ Commencement exerci e in May. 1964, she wa elected a ew York state cant each spring, the college say, to help Ann Beattie, considered by many crit­ senator, and he is the only woman to have reach a more informed determination on ic one of the mo t in ightfulfiction writer served a Manhattan borough president. each applicant' actual need. This in tum, of her generation, i the author of nine Former SenatorMargaret Chase Smith they have aid, allow them to provide aid to book , including Chilly Scenes of Winter and wa the fir t woman to represent Maine in those students most in need. Falling In Place. he ha received an award Congre , rhe fir·r ro be nominated for presi­ "The College believes that neither 1t for literature from the American Academy dent of rhe United States and the only nor its personnel have violated the anti­ and In titute of Art and Letter , ha been a woman to have erved m both the Senate trust laws in any way," said relea es from Guggenheim Fellow and ha taught creative and the Hou e of Repre entative . Smith's Colby and each of the other 20 0Yerlap writing at Harvard and the Univer iry of Congre sional ervice panned more than colleges. "In fact, federal law requires that Virginia. three decade , and, as a member of the Sen­ federal financial aid monies be awarded on Dr. Victor McKusick, a Maine native ate Armed ervice Committee, he was the basis of-and not exceed--demonstrated who e twin brother, Vincent LLD. '77, i among the fir t in Congress to denounce financial need. ln addition, no court has chief justice of the Maine Supreme Court, i Wiscon in Senator Joseph McCarthy dur­ ever held that the antitrust laws apply to one of the world' leading medical geneti­ ing the 1950 . She is the driving force be­ core educational activities uch as the deter­ ci t . He ha chaired the Department of hind the Maragaret Chase mith Library in mination of rhe amount of financial aid Medicine at Johns Hopkins for nearly two her hometown of kowhegan, Maine. needed by an applicant. decades and directs the Univer iry' medical Thomas J. Watson, Jr. P'69 is the "The deci ion to suspend Overlap is genetics program. He i the author of numer­ formerchairman and CEO of IBM, a corpo­ motivated by a desire to continue the co­ ous scholarly paper and book , including ration foundedby his father. From 1979-81 operation with the Department of Jus­ the authoritative reference volume Mendelian he was United rates ambassador to the tice.The College hopes that it decision will Inheriumce in Man. Soviet Union, and he has erved on numer­ conrribute to the early and po itive re elu­ Judge Constance Baker Motley was the ou trustee board for bu iness, charitable tion ofthe investigation, o that Colby may fir t African American woman to be ap­ and arti tic fo undation , including the get on with its mission and o that its resources pointed to the United States Di trict Court. Rockefeller Foundation, theJohn F. Kennedy may be devoted to educational activities and An active participant in the American civil Library, the American Mu eum of atural financial aid rather than legal expense ."

Col.by,May 1991 5 Colby, May 1991 6 Mary Williams Had a Farm

A Connecticut Valley Alumna Preserves Her Family's Centuries-Old Love of the Land-and of Learning

by Stephen Collins '7 4

nearlier generations, it wa n't unu ual everywhere, and the calve and heifer are vances in technology, the fam1er' life is still for Colby student to pick up their muddy from the flank down. hard work. I diplomas one day and head for the While Mary hip-checks a day-old calf This farm doesn't conformto postcard farm the next, a practice revived in the back into it pen for its afternoon feeding, image of well-scrubbed cows grazing behind 1960 and '70 by a cadre of back-to-the­ her husband, Gordon (a.k.a. "Fla h"), takes rail fences under cumulus clouds, and the lander who are, forthe mo t pan, back at advantage of a 10-minute lull between hi farmersdon't conform to stereotypes of Ma the officeby now. farmchores and his errands to tart chipping baking pies while Pa dump can- of milk into Mary Belden William ' tory oflife on away at a big pile of firewood with a chain the cream separator. the farm with a sociology degree from Colby saw. Mary ha a master's degree from Smith harkens back to the earlier time. Her foray Flash has alread apologized for the College and another career a a teacher of into farming after her graduation in 1954 appearance of the cow barn. Recent sum­ deaf children. After the calve are fed and was no mere flirtation with the ruralagri cul­ mer have been so hot, he explain , that he upper is over thi evening, it will be time to tural lifesryle,eit her. She's till there, tend­ and hi on Darryl have taken offthe barn's clear offthe kitchen table so he can work on ing the calve with only a rare vacation, iding o the cow don't overheat. To keep midterm exam . Gordon, who ha two col­ living in the farmhou e where she was rai ed the cows warm in the winter they've racked lege degrees, i as apt to be analyzing com­ and helping with her young grandchildren, up ome tran lucent panel discarded by a puterized diet programs forthe cows as he is who live aero the treet. What make her nearby greenhou e. to be tinkering with a tractor. tory extraordinary i that those grandchil­ Initially the aroma of manure is almost The daughter of two college graduate , dren-Rebecca and Jackson William -are overpowering. But, Mary ay , that' true Mary says she grew up assuming she'd go to the 10th generation of the family to live on only for brief periods when the manure is college. When the 15 members of the and farm the same piece of ground in North being pumped from the barn intoa holding Hatfield High School Clas of 1950 gradu­ Hatfield, Mas . Mary's maiden name, Belden, container. The mell soon ubside . ated, three went on to college. Mary was one was on the deed back in the early 1700s. It's mud season, the trees are still bare, of them, and Colby-an eight-hour drive in The entrance to the William ' 19th­ and there's little to ugge t the bucolic farm those days-wa her destination. cenrury farmhouse i on the east side, facing life you might ee in a dairy indu uy adver­ Mary' mother, Evelyn Belden, now 82, the yard instead of the road. On an abnor­ ti ement. There' a utilitarian look about i till vital to the farm. She' the chief day­ mally warm day in early pring there' mud the place-it ay that de pite recent ad- care provider for her two great-grandchil-

Colby,May 1991 7 dren and chief gardener when the ground isn't frozen or soupy. She remembers hand­ ing Mary the lener that elevated her from the waiting list to membership in Colby's 1950 freshman class. (Later she would send her youngest daughter, attorney Martha Belden Kleinerman '70, to Colby as well.) Despite the fact that she had visited Waterville in winter and brought home memories dominated by high snowbanks, Mary was thrilled when she was finally ac­ cepted by Colby. She remembers meeting with future Dean of Women Pauline Tompkins in the Admissions Office. "I was so impressed with her-that's what made up my mind. And my parents', too," she recalls. Mary spent two years on the old campus downtown and two years on Mayflower Hill before graduating. As a student he was instrumental in forming a women's student judiciary board. That introduction to public service nurtured an interest in community The Belden family at the Monopoly board, 1947. Left to right: Fred, Evelyn, Luther and Mary affairs that has continued. She now chairs Belden, Mary Ladd and Sanford Belden. the Hatfield School Board. A paper assigned by Professor of Sociol­ achievements of the Belden family bring a college education as a ticket to a career," she ogy Kingsley Birge led her to the Clarke quizzical smile to the face of Evelyn Belden. said. School forthe Deafin Northhampton, Mass., Mrs. Belden, who worked in the Smith Nowadays it's not at all unusual to find to do research during a vacation. That exp - Registrar's Office in the late '60s and early college-educated farmers for another rea­ sure led to her po tgraduate tudy in educa­ '70s, espou e the philosophy of a liberal arts son, Mary says. With the technological in­ tion of the deaf-training that was split education that sometimes has to be explained novations and the pressure to achieve maxi­ between the Clarke School and Smith. to members of younger generations. mum efficiency,post- econdary education is Questions about the high educational "In those days we didn't consider a essential. Market realities have turned all serious farms into agri-businesses, and most of the farms to rhe west make New England dairy farms look like small businesses. Flash earned his associate's degree at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at Massachusetts State College in the late 1940s and went on to get a bachelor's degree in dairy husbandry at California Polytechnic Institute after the couple was married. With that, they were ready to start a dairy operation. After considering prospect in Californiaand Vermont, they returnedin 1964 to the old Belden farm. Their dairy herd was acquired on a buying trip through the East and Midwest. High-quality Hol­ stein cows (all pregnant) were selected, pur­ chased and shipped back to North Hatfield. Mary describes those days as a "three­ ring circus." The barn was still being fin­ ished, pregnant cows were arriving by truck all the time, and there were several young Williams children. A year later Mary's fatherdied, leaving her and Flash in charge of ambitious potato, cucumber and sheep operations as welt as of the fledgling dairy. Over the next several Evelyn Belden' s 80th birthday celebration. Front row: Megan and Brian Williams, Evelyn Belden, years, Flash and Mary converted to an all­ Rebecca and Lucinda Williams. Middle row: Kathy, Mary Ruth and] ackson Williams. Back row: dairy operation that was able to grow all its Lori, David, Mary, Gordon and Darryl Williams. own feed.

8 Colby, May 1991 That decision proved sound. Today they Wirh Darryl's familygrowing, ir's only ingredients of the fe ed are then custom­ are milking about 85 cow , which means a matter of time until the ritual is played out mixed to meet the cow's nutritional needs. they have about 150 on the farm, counting again, and they swap places with his parents. As a result of careful breeding and rhe heifer and cows thar are drying off.The goal Mary said she's already begun checking with feeding innovations, the average milk pro­ i a milking herd of 100. Lucinda before undertaking any interior duction of cow on the farm has risen from And despite rhe ever-increasing chal­ decoration projects in rhe main farmhouse. 45 pounds per cow per day in 1965 to about lenge of prospering in agriculture, e pecially While rhe proce ·ion of generations, 70 pounds now. The last report howed that in an age of government regulation, Flash the springtime mud and the smell of manure a half-do:en cows were producing more than and Mary have raised four children and put are timeless components of this dairy farm, 100 pound of milk per day. That level is not rhem all through college, and rhey even some of the modem refinements at the North nece sarily good, Flash said, since rhe Hol­ managed a two-week vacation to Great Brit­ Hatfield operation show how agriculture is steins can't sustain rhat production and ain last year. A rare treat fordairy farmers, changing, too. maintain rheir body we1ghr and healrh. the vacation was made pos ible when Darryl, For example, the bulky plastic tag that Keeping up with technology, learning rheir oldest on and farm- to maintain machines and ing partner, agreed to do mechanical systems and double sessions and bring being able to make your in some extra help. own decision all contrib­ After four years of ute to rhe ansfaction of college Darryl got started making it on a farm. in a career as a special And ar the W1lliams­ education teacher, but he Belden farm rhere are yearned to be outdoors much deeper forces ar plowing the soil that his work. "It was never laid great-great-great-great­ on u as children that we grea t-grea t grandfather musr carry on the farm," (and all the generation Mary aid. And she and in between) had rilled. He Flash were very careful not now lives across the road ro lay rhat on their own from hi parents with his children eirher. wife, Lucinda, and their "Bur," she continued, two children. "there's an unspoken feel­ Darryl's house, also ing. There is this heritage, part of the old homestead, and this feeling for the continues to play a role in land and what it can pro­ rhe cycle of generations. duce." When Darryl an­ In an era when a typical nounced he wanted to American familymight expect to buy a starter each milk cow wears around its neck pro­ carry on rhe tradition for another genera­ house, upgrade later to a dream house and vides more rhan just identification. Flash tion, "we were surprised, we were plea ed, we rhendownscale uponretirement, rhe Belden­ explains that they're actually electronic were thrilled," Mary said. William family has managed nicely with­ transponders rhat communicate with the "This is the ame land that my father out real estate agent or lawyers. Darryl's computer-operated feeding ystem. walked, my grandfather walked, my great­ house has traditionally shelrered generation Any time a cow stick its head into the grandfather walked," Darryl said. "The spir­ of Beldens while rhey are junior partner in feeding cation, the computer reads a dis­ its of all rhose people are around here." rhe farm, and rhen again once they get to crete code from rhe transponder to identify retirement age. just which cow is about to eat. The different

Colby, May 1991 9 An Eye for Beauty Twenty-fiveYears of Hugh Gourley at the Colby College Museum of Art

by Edgar Allen Beem

ugh Gourley is a mo t graciou boy. Later, he attended Providence's other lowing Army service between 1953 and 1956, man, thoughtful, discreet and major cultural institution, Brown, where he Gourley spent the next three years at Yale H loyal. In an art world overbur­ earned a degree in art history in 1953. Fol- doing graduate work in arr history. It was dened with egos, he seems alma r there that Gourley developed an selfless, one who excels nor so much interest in and discovered an ap­ at getting what he wants as at get­ titude formuseum work. ting the best our of other . And a The experience that turned an in titution ha a way of acquir­ Gourley away from his intended ing the character of its leader, the reaching career was an exhibi­ Colby College Museum of Art in tion of 19th-century print and the 25 year of Hugh Gourley's drawings he curated with fellow direction has established itself as a student in his fir t year of gradu­ place where culture, quality and ate study. The atisfaction of ta re are comfortablewithout being working with fine art to produce pretentiou . both an exhibition and a cata­ A testimonial may nor be what logue convinced him to pur ue a is called for on this ilver anniver­ curatorial career. Gourley spent sary of Gourley's arrival on May­ two of his three year at Yale flowerHill, bur praise is wharseems working part time for the print to rise to the urface of any conver­ and drawing department and sation about the man and the mu­ served a ummer intern hip at seum he has helped to build. Art­ the Wad worth Atheneum in ists, collector , tudents and faculty Hartfordin 1958. The following alike have all come to appreciate year, Gourley was recruited away the quiet depths of Gourley and hi fromhi s graduate studies by the devotion to the museum. Rhode Island School of Design "The man is eternal," says art­ museum, where, from 1959 to ist Abbott Meader, chair of the 1966, he served as curator of College's Art Department. "He ju r decorative arts. doe n'r change." The Colby College Museum Hugh J. Gourley III is a slight, of Art, meanwhile, wa bu y be­ reserved, composed man still ing born. After the College youthful in maturity. Born in Above: Joseph Badger, HannahGould(Mrs.]ohn MiddletonLovell), moved from its downtown Wa­ Providence, R.1., in 1931, he came oil on canvas, 42 1/2" x 33 1/2", gift of Mr. and Mr . Ellerton M. terville campu to Mayflower early to a love of art, attending Jene. Page 11: Hugh Gourley rands in front ofBernard Langlai ' Hill, art exhibitions were regu­ Saturday morningart classes at the Eagle, wood assemblage, 8' x 4', gift of Helen Langlai from the larly held in the new library Rhode Island School of Design as a estate of her husband, Bernard Langlais. building. Dr.Juliu Seelye Bixler,

10 Colby, May 1991

however, saw the need for a permanent art Four years after the museum opened, museum at Colby. As president of Colby Colby put the museum-and the rate-on from 1942 to 1960, Dr. Bixler presided over the American art map by organizing an ex­ a period of great growth and ex pan ion at the hibition titled Maine and Its Artists, a survey College, and, fittingly, the last building con- of the great American painters who have tructed under his administration was the worked in Maine. The landmark show trav­ Bixler Art and Music Center. eled to Portland, Boston and New York and When the Bixler Center opened in resulted in the publication of Maine and Its 1959, what is now the Art and Mu ic Library Role in American Art, 1740-1963, still the was the College's fi rst art gallery, and the standard reference on Maine art. nucleus of the Colby art collection was al­ At the time of the Maine exhibition, ready in place. Professor James Carpenter was serving as the In 1949, Mrs. Harold T. Pulsifer placed museum' director while also teaching art a number of works by Maine's most famous hi tory. Three years later, however, in 1966, artist, Winslow Homer, on extended loan to Carpenter would hire young Hugh Gourley the College. Then during the early 1950s, away from Rhode Island School of De ign to sisters Adeline and Caroline Wing, heirs to become the first full-time director of the a Bangor lumber fortune, gave the College Museum of Art. everal important works, among them paint­ "One ofthe appeals ofthe job at Colby," ings by Homer, William Merritt Chase, Gourley says 25 years later, "was that I felt Childe Ha sam and Andrew Wyeth. Those there was an enormous chance to build gifts were followed in 1956 by the nearly 100 something here. I just felt that it would be a American primitive paintings and drawings wonderful experience to be involved with Daphne Cummings, Cattails, charcoal, in the American Heritage Collection given omerhing young with a great potential for 48" x 36", anonymous gift in memory by Mr. and Mrs. Ellerton M. Jene, owners of growth." of Willard W. Cummings. the C.F. Hathaway shirt company in To realize that potential, Gourley con­ Waterville and rwo of the museum's greatest tinued to build on the foundation that had benefactors. In 1957, Willard Howe been laid for the museum. The first show he Cumming and hi wife, Helen Warren curated at Colby was an exhibition of l 8th­ Cummings '11, owners of the Guilford In­ century American arts and craft designed to dustries textile mill, donated their collec­ howcase portraits lent and given by the tion, consisting of both fine art and Ameri­ Jettes. In 1973, when a major new gallery can folkart. Thus rhe decidedly American wing was added to the Bixler Center, it was orientation of the Mu eum of Art's collec­ named for them. Two year later, Colby tion was established early on. received the Jette Collection of American

Gourley, art history major Maryam Mims '91 and museum secretary Margaret Wickes admire a book of prints in the museum lobby. The silkscreen prints, Numbers, behind Gourley are by American arcist Robert Indiana.

12 Colby , May 1991 Painter of the Impressionist Period. That loyalty of the Cummings to Colby One reason forthe museum's growth is and Gourley was repaid during the summer that there is no one in Maine better con­ of 1990 when Colby organized the first ret­ nected in the art world than Gourley. When rospective of Bill Cummings's paintings since the new museum wing opened in 1973, for hi death in 1975. example, Louise Nevelson, the queen of "There are two things that are very American art and a Rockland, Maine, na­ special about Hugh," said Daphne Cum­ tive, gave Colby 36 works of her art. At the mings, "and one is his eye. When he installs same time, Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, Jr., a show, it's always beautifully considered. decided to make Colby the primary John He has exquisite taste. You see it in the way Marin repository in Maine with a gift of 25 he puts himself rogether and in the way he Marin watercolors. approaches the world. "It was the quality of the permanent "The other thing is his collection, the fact that Colby was building character, his generous ap­ a new gallery and Hugh Gourley," said Norma proach tO everyone on a very Boom Marin of the reason she and her late personal level and his tre- I husband besrowed their gifts on Colby. "In mendou loyalty to people :.- ' ( Hugh we recognized a talent. He has a won­ in both his personal life and derful, innate fe eling for art. He's educated his professional life." in the field, of course, but the education was Gourley's taste and because of the love of art." loyalty have benefited a great Three years after the new galleries many artists-from students opened, the Colby museum was host to two to stars-over the past quar­ of the most important exhibitions of ter century. For in addition Gourley' tenure back-to-back. From July 4 to annual student art shows to September 26, 1976, Colby mounted and exhibitions by accom­ Maine Forms of American Architecture, an plished art faculty members exhibition that defined the architectural such as painters Abbott terrain of Maine and resulted in the publica­ Meader and Gina Werfel tion of the key book on the subject. The and sculptor Harriett following month the museum featured A Matthews, Gourley has ap­ Selection of American Arr: The Skowhegan plied hi discriminating eye School, 1946-1976, an exhibition organized tO exhibitions by many of by the Institute of Contemporary Art in the most famou artists asso­ Bosten. ciated with Maine-Wil­ Gourley says the credit for the Skow­ liamand Marguerite Zorach, hegan show, as well as the 1963 Maine art William Keinbusch, Bernard show and the 1976Mainearchitectureshow, Langlai , Lois Dodd, David belongs to Willard W. "Bill" Cummings. Bill Driskell, Robert Indiana, Cummings, on of Helen and Willard Howe Alex Katz and Neil Welliver. Cumming , was a noted portrait artist and a Gourley's enthusiasm cofounder of the Skowhegan School, now and appreciation for great America' premier ummer art school. art has, in tum, attracted a Cummings became involved with Colby in great many giftsfrom artists. 1958 when he was commis ioned tO paint "Whenever I have the official pre idential portrait of Bixler, anything I've seen and looked at until it' in Odilon Redon, Tree, graphite, and he ubsequently became one of the driv­ my head," aid Neil Welliver, arguably 18 1/2" x 12 1/2", bequest of Jere Abbott. ing forcesbehind the new College mu eum. America's greatest living landscape painter, "A great plus to art at Colby," aid "l give it to Colby, becau e I think it's an Gourley, "ha been its proximity tO the ab olutely ensational museum. It's oper­ Skowhegan School and the extreme loyalty ated with great kill, and the hows are of BLll Cummings." always beautifully hung. I just think Hugh Four generations of the extraordinary ha a genius for it." Cummings family have involved them elves Though the permanent collection and with Colby, and painter Daphne Cumming , the challenge of contemporary exhibitions daughter of the late Bill Cummings, says occupy most ofGourley's professional atten­ Hugh Gourley is the bigge t reason. tion, when asked which shows have given "F0r all of the Cumming , from my him the most plea ure he i apt to name grandmother to my on," said Daphne, whose exhibitions curated by tudent . Having son Doug graduated from Colby la t year, never forgotten the thrill of curating that "Hugh has been a wonderful friend." first show as a Yale grad student, he i willing

Colby, May 1991 13 An American Accent

Any critical overview of an art museum should begin with the building itself, and, purely as architecture, the Colby College Museum of Art adds a graceful note to an already harmonious campus. The distinctive saw-tooth profile of the truncated clerestory modules distinguishes the Johnson-Hotved design as a modernistpresence on a campus dominated by neo-Georgian buildings. The gallery space contained within this serrated package is remarkably varied and fine. Thereis a sense upon passing through the doors of The Jette Galleries that one can take in the whole exhibition with one long look. Then, as one proceeds through the gallery, it reveals its more intimate comers and its more dramatic views. Given the subtle complexity of the museum's internalplan and the quality of light animating its galleries, Colby clearly possesses one of the finest exhibition spaces in Maine. The completion of the new Davis Gallery will add yet another dimension to that space. The purpose of The Davis Gallery, of course, is to allow the museum to show more of its permanent collection when temporary shows are being featured. The permanent collection, which is at the heart of the mu­ seum, speaks very well for Colby, and it does so with a very American accent. Grounded in the Pulsifer, Wing, Jette and Cummings gifts of Winslow Homers, early American por­ traits and folk, primitive and American Im­ pressionist paintings, the Colby collection John Marin, Brooklyn Bridge , watercolor, 15 1/2" x 18 1/2", ha grown increasingly American through gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, Jr. the gift of the John Marin watercolors and

through its continuing association with the artists ofMaine andof the Skowhegan School. When l think of the Colby College Museum of Art, I think first of contemporary American artists Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, WilliamKienbuschandNeilWelliver. When l close my eyes to review images retained from a decade of visiting the museum, I see Indiana's bold, colorful numeral graphics behind the reception desk. I see the vibrant red Kienbusch abstractions flashing on the far rear wall of the upper gallery. I see Katz's billboard-like dancers waltzing along the soaring two-story wall in the lower gallery. Blink, and the dancing coupleshave become the dancing trees of Neil Welliver's grand "West Slope," commanding the same high wall. Indulging myself thi way, l come to the William Kienbusch, Sheep Island, Penobscot Bay, conclusion that while other museums in casein on paper, 31 3/4" x 41 1/8", gift of C. David O'Brien. Maine may have deeper and more diverse collections, when it comes to the combined quality of collections, exhibitions and space, the Colby College Museum of Art is hard to beat. And, certainly, no museum in Maine carries offsuch quality in so casual a manner. That's the American accent. -Edgar Allen Beem

14 Colby, May 1991 Emil olde, Boat, watercolor, 13 7/16" x 18 3/16", bequest of Jere Abbott.

to play mentor to eager Colby student with evolved into an important college art mu- independent study projects. eum with a collection of some 3,000 ob­ Among the most ambitious student ject , an annual operating budget of$ l 20,000 projects Gourley has directed wa a Jan Plan and 10,000 vi itors a year (exclusive of tu­ undertaken in 1977 by classics major Mark dents and faculty). And this growth shows Brady '78. Brady's project began with an no ign of lowing. inventory of drawings in major Maine col­ Like mo t museum collections, the lection and ended a year and a half later Colby collection depends heavily on gift for with an out randing exhibition and cata­ growth, but since 1982 the museum has been logue, Drawings fromMaine Collections.The in the enviable po ition of being able to project ultimately determined Brady's choice spend an amount equal to its annual operat­ of career . ing budget each year on art. No other mu­ "When we did the exhibition it was an seum in Maine has that luxury, and Colby extremely rewarding project. We got a great has the late Jere Abbott to thank. deal of good press, and it crystalized in people' Abbott, one of the founders of the minds the importance of drawing ," Brady Mu eum of Modem Art and a long-time said. "It was a big ucce s, and I got very director of the Smith College Museum of excited about that kind of work. It wa Hugh Art, wa a Maine native and a scion of a who suggested I do otheby's Work of Art prominent Dexter textile manufacturing course in London." family. When he died in 1982, he left the Today, Brady operates W.M. Brady & Colby museum a bequest in excess of $1.7 Company, Inc., in New York City, dealing million forthe specific purpose of acquiring in Old Master and 19th-century paintings art. Abbott had helped support the museum Assistant museum director Lynn Marsden­ and drawings. He also serves as an advisor to since the 1950s, giving, among other things, Atlass and preparawr Greg Williams prepare the Colby museum. the triking bronze by Engli h sculptor Lynn a painting for transportation. "The thing that is o astonishing to Chadwick that graces the Bixler grounds, me," said Brady, "i how the mu eum has but his close friendship with Gourley prob­ grown in just 32 year . The growth is spec­ ably played an important role in his deci ion tacularfora university mu eum. It approaches to lea e hi fortune to Colby. the growth you'd expect from an urban mu­ "l think Jere Abbott felt his beque t was seum. And chi has largely been through the in good hands with Hugh Gourley," said efforcsof Hugh in hi tenure. Jim Carpenter Edward Turner. and Hugh shaped the early direction, but the Gourley, in tum, credit Ed Turner, whole spirit of the mu eum is Hugh's." vice pre idem for development at the Col­ Indeed, from a few loaned painting lege between 1953 and 1978 and now a hung in the library for the educational ben­ Colby trustee, with developing the museum's efit of the tudent , the Museum of Art has 25th Anniver ary Fund. Since 1984, the

Colby, May 1991 15 fund has grown to some $500,000 and con­ secretary, attributes a great deal of her boss's tributes $25,000 annually to the museum's success to his patience. exhibition budget. "Hugh is such a wonderfully patient The biggest boon to the museum ince person," aid Wickes. "He's absolutely self­ the Abbott bequest, however, has been the less when it comes to giving time to people, gift of a new gallery wing from the Davis so he builds a lot of relationships on nothmg Educational Foundation. As part of a $3.3 but the goodness of his personality. He's not --i million renovation of the Bixler Center, looking for anything from anybody and, - --i' (e .7 Gourley, in characteristically unassertive therefore, it comes." fashion, had asked only for a little more Ultimately, though, the key to what storage and work space for the museum wing. Gourley has been able to accomplish at ( When Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Davis, founders Colby lies not in his ability to acquire things �,If---- (\ - - of the Shaw's Supermarket chain, toured the but in his abiliry to give things away. He I College, however, they found the museum's takes none of the credit for making the entire permanent collection in storage, dis­ Colby College Museum of Art a truly first­ placed by a Maine basketry exhibition. rate small-college museum. He gives all the �, "If you're going to build an additional credit away. Dr. Bixler did this. Ed Turner storage area at the end of the present gal­ did that. The Jettes did these things. The lery," said Mrs. Davis, seeing the obvious Cummingses did those. Jere Abbott did this. need for more gallery space, "why not put a The Davises are doing that. The Friends of gallery on top of it?" Art at Colby and the Museum Advisory The museum i now closed while the Council do everything else. new $833,000 Davis Gallery i constructed The fact of the matter, however, is that between the old Bixler building and the the Colby College Museum of Art has essen­ Jette wing. The new gallery will add one tially been a one-man operation formost of third more wall space to the existing 6,500 Gourley' administration. Only in 1989 did square fe et of gallery space. Hugh get professional help in the person of "That's typical of Hugh," said his pred­ assistant director/regi trar Lynn Mar den­ Above: Louise Nevelson, Standing Female eces or James Carpenter. "He just asked for Arlass. And last year Greg William was Nude, 15 7/8" x 11 1/2", graphite, gift of some more storage space, then along came hired on a part-time basis to serve as museum the artist. Below: The 1967 exhibition, A the Davises and he got a whole new gallery." preparator. Still, Gourley insists the mu- Selection of American Art: The Skowhegan Good things come to tho e who wait? eum i a team effort. School, 1946-1976, is among the most Margaret Wickes thinks so. Wickes, who is "The things that motivate you change important in Gourley's tenure at Colby. retiring this year after 17 years a museum as you get older," says Gourley. "When 1 did that first show at Yale with the other stu­ dents, it was just the chance to deal with very beautiful objects that inspired me. It was the contact, the one-to-one relationship between you and the work of art. As you get older, the job focus changes. Theart is always key, but you get involved in trying to build an orga­ nization to present the art. What I like now is the shared interest of building something with a group." And what Gourley has built with a group at Colby is a fine art museum where the director seems as much your host a the resident scholar or administrator, where he is very apt to greet you at the frontdoor when you arrive, where he has several pairs of old shoes tucked comfortably away beneath his desk. And no doubt this will be the way it i until he retires, because the Colby College Museum of Art is Hugh Gourley's life.

-Edgar Allen Beem has been the art critic for the weekly Maine Times newspaper since 1981. In 1988, he won the Manufacturers Hanover Art/WorklAward for distinguished newspaper arc criticism. In I 990, a collecrion of his writings was published as a book titled Maine Art Now.

16 Colby , May 1991 James Reynolds, Steve Nahley and Rick Kasten on the roof of their Manhattan apartment building. They'll Take New York

Three Colby Grads From the Class of '90 Share a Gotham Ap artment and Some Big City Dreams

by Edward Hershey

eir background are quite different. George "Rick" Kasten III '90 is a tall, self-assured Midwesterner who eems ready to follow his father into investment banking. Stephen Nahley '90 works at a high-powered Tdvertising agency now, but his easygoing manner reflects his upbringing in the New England town where his parents still own the local market. James Reynolds '90 is a study in subtleties and contrasts, a native of Nashville who has never set foot in the Grand Ole Opry and an aspiring artist with an unlikely position in sales management at Macy's. What the three have in common, besides their Colby diplomas, are a $1,975-a-month apartment and a wide­ eyed appreciation of their new home-New York City. Last summer, with the national media virtually dismissing New York as a place to be pitied for its poverty and feared for its lawlessness, the trio agreed to share an apartment so they could see forthemselves. Each knew the Big Apple remained a world center of his field-finance, advertising and art. Now they say they have discovered that, at least for a young college graduate with a good starting job, New York can still be a cosmopolitan dream come true. "The best thing about it," Nahley said, "is that you can get anything at any time of the day. Ofcourse, you have to remember that I come fromGaylord sville, Connecticut. Until I moved here, Waterville was the largest place I'd ever lived in."

Colby, May 1991 17 Kasten, who is from Milwaukee, says New York is like no place he has ever seen. "Every once in a while," he said, "I stop and look up and say, 'God, this is amazing!' This little island, two miles by five miles, has so many different kinds of people, so many cultures and attractions and opportunitie ." For Kasten, the opportunities begin with a career. He is one of70 executive trainees in the investment banking and insurance department at Citibank. "For me-for all three of us really-New York represents the best of the best," Kasten said one evening several weeks ago when he and his roommates sat down to assess their New York experience. "I think the song is true. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." It was Kasten who arrived first in June to set about finding a safe, comfortable and affordable apartment, a hunt that in Manhattan can assume proportions comparable to the storied searches of Diogenes, Don Quixote and Indiana Jones. But Kasten had help from a professional apartment-finder. That was his introduction to an ancient New York pastime: finding the angle. "She wanted $3,500, but I talked her down to $3,000," he said. "Since Citibank was willing to pay for my half, it only cost us $500 each." But if there are three roommates, why was the bank willing to pay halfl "Really, only Rick and I are on the lease," Nahley said. "Technically, Jimmy's subletting his room from us." Why pay someone $3,000 to find an apartment that costs each of the roommates about half his take-home pay? Becau e by New York tandard , the apartment on the third floorof a building at Second Avenue and East 27th Street was a find. It ha three bedrooms and two baths, 24-hour door service and a location at the confluence of two East Side Manhattan neighborhoods, Kips Bay and Murray Hill, that are stylish yet comfortable. The transplanted Colbians did not in­ dulge in an interior decorator to advise them on fu rnishings. In fact, they did not even bother to consult with a furniture dealer, re­ sorting instead to ingenuity. "I was able to contribute some furniture," Nahley says. "I brought my old bed down from Connecticut for Jimmy. My own bed came from Leona Helmsley." Leona Helmsley? "It cost us $40. I have a friend who works at one of her places uptown, and I find out when they ell off their old stuffonce a year. We rented a car and drove it down." For a finishing touch, the roommates were able to acquire the works of a future master to bedeck the walls. "Jimmy donated some of his drawings," Ka ten explained. Reynolds seems the most restless of the three, perhaps because he has yet to find his entree into the art world. But, he says, the experience at Macy's has been urprisingly instructive. "There were 24 of us who started a 16- James Reyno/as week educational program," he said, "and about half are left. The business aspects have intrigued me far more than hasn't put aside his I thought they would. Not to the point where I would consider a career in retailing instead of art, but I will say I have dreams of becoming learned a great deal. And ofcourse on my days off, in every spare moment in fact, I'm down in So Ho wandering through a Jlrofessional artist, the galleries or up at the museums. but far now , he's "The exhibit of 30 centuries of Mexican art at the Met last fall wa unbelievable. To think that all this was paying the rent-and accomplished on the American continent beforethe European center of art had even come of age. During my time learning the ropes of abroad at Colby I'd gone through many of the European museums, so I could put the Mexican exhibit in that kind New York life­ of perspective. It was the most fascinating and exciting exhibit l think I have ever een." working at Macy's. Not that Reynolds's employment has lacked excitement. Following hi classe , the department store named him sales manager of the lingerie department at its branch in the Parkchester section of the Bronx. "I think every one of the saleswomen was working there before l was born," he said. "They all thought l was so cute. The most bizarre thing that happened was the day a customer walked up to me and asked if we had a 46 double­ D brassiere. Or maybe it wa a 44. but I'm certain about the double-D part. I was just about to answer her, and suddenly she unbuttoned her blouse and said, 'It looks like this.' I almost died." Occasionally when they work late or find themselves fartherthan an easy walk from the apartment at the end of an evening, Kasten and Nahley will splurge on a cab, but the fare from the Bronx would be steep even if Reynolds were not counting pennies, o he is used to the subway.

18 Colby, May 1991 But long subway rides aren't the only facet ofReynolds's Bronx posting that makes his experience different from those of his roommates. While they spend their working days in midtown, Reynolds is seeing a diffe rent world. "It's been a good experience," he said, "because I'm seeing the New York I feel the immigrants saw when they first came here. Parkchester wasonce almost completely Italian and Jewish. Now there are other groups. It really gives Steve Naliley leaves you a sense of history." the high-pressure None of the threehas shied away fromwading into the city. Nahley had the most prior experience, coming down worla of advertising from Connecticut for family day trips to see a ball game or a show or to visit relatives in Manhattan. Perhaps that is behind with a jog why he has eased into social and recreational opportunities. Joining a health club might be expensive, but it costs him along the East River. nothing to jogalong the Frankl in Delano Roosevelt Drive on the East River or shoot hoops with the fe llows fromthe ad agency up at the LoyolaSchool on Monday nights. "It's a Catholic school, but I'm the only one who plays who isn't Jewish," he said. "The priest knew right away. He made a beeline for me the first night." He also enjoys stopping offto chat with the doormen in Spanish, preserving 10 years of formal study in the subject that includes a junior year abroad. Work, too, is going well. The prestigiou Limas agency recently promoted him from account coordinator to budget control coordinator, a move Nahley seems to be taking in stride. "The impor­ tant things are what I'm doing and what I'm learn­ ing," he said. "Titles don't mean much. l remember a kitchen job l got in college. I called myself a porcelain and glass refurbisher. I'm doing a lot of budget work now and, to tell you the truth, I didn't rake a math course at Colby. But l've discovered all it takes is applying yourself." At the suggestion of a friend who works at a shelter for the homeless, Kasten has started vol­ Photos by John McCabe unteering there, sleeping over one night a week, listening to the clients' life tories and offering encouragement when he can. "[ did an economics thesis on the homeless for [Professor Thomas] Tietenberg at Colby," he aid, "and this has given me the chance to see it in real life." Kasten says New York is not nearly a danger­ ous as the moviesand the newspaper portray it, but he and the others acknowledge that they are care­ fu l. One of the first bits of advice they got about New York, Nahley said, was from the parent of a Colby classmate, who told them, "When in doubt, don't do it."By then, Kasten had had his own object lesson. "l went up to Yankee Stadium to see a game not long afterI got here," he said. "On the way back I was coming up from the subway, and I saw this pool of blood on the ledge there where you come up the stairway. Right in the middle of it, there was a necktie. You just have to be careful. I talked to people, foundout what areas were safe, and I must tell you I have never felt overly threatened." One day when he was reading of a drug-related double murder in the Bronx, Reynolds says, he remembers thinking that he had been on that very cornernot 10 Rick Kastenhas minutes before the shooting started. But, of course, he was back there the followingday, too, and the day afterthat. learned about theflip An AfricanAmerican, he decided to have his hair cut in Harlem, but not before consulting a Colby friend wholi ves side of New York's there. "She talked to me about how to look and how to act," he said. charms byvolunteer­ Eventually, Reynolds says, he wants to move downtown, to live where the artists do and find out ifhe has what ing one night a week it takes to make it in New York. And that is what seems to have drawn them all there. Kasten remembers thinking at a Manhattan about that during the orientation Citibank conducted forhim and his 69 fe llow associates. "They didn't tell us much homeless shelter. about the city," he said. "They just gave us a book about New York and said, 'Here you go. Give it your best shot."'

Colby, May 1991 19 Sibling Revelry

W:hen 1 first started looking at colleges 1 said I'd never " he seemed to like everything about Colby," said John Phipps ome to Colby, partly because my brother is here," said '94, who came from Malibu, Calif., to join his sister Kathryn '92. "l J lie DiMilla '93, of Framingham, Mass. "But I visited wanted to go to a small liberal arts college, and why take a chance on Andy one weekend and found1 really liked it." Now she is glad to be a place I didn't know about?" near her brother, Andrew '9 1, and says that in the last two years they The Phipp es are both musical, and Kathryn says she is glad to have become very close. have her brother's bass clarinet around to fill out her woodwind The DiMillas are among 28 pairs of brothers and isters who ensemble. John implies that she appreciates his muscle , too. "When have decided, for a variety of reasons, to follow one another to she needs me to move her furniture around, he calls me," he said. MayflowerHill. If there was a sibling derby, Colby would place about Heather '91 and Jennifer Hanshom '94 were close while grow­ in the middle ofNESCAC: Bowdoin has only 14 sibling pairs, Bates ing up in Lexington, Mass. "She's my best friend,"Jennif er says. has 23 and Middlebury has a whopping 43 sets. The two cheer for each other at sporting events-Heather Many of the sibling at Colby say they didn't intend to end up played varsity soccer and Jennifer is a record-breaking middle­ at the ame college-but clearly, the younger ones saw a unique view distance runner. They meet for a meal at least once a day and socialize of Colby through their older siblings' eyes. together on weekends. And sometimes Heather makes a special trip to Jennifer's room in Mary Low. "It's clothes retrieval time," Heather said. "Every time they get over here they rarely come back." Even if sibling don't get together regularly, they usually seek each other out in times of crisis. Friends are great, they say, but can't replace fa mily. "It was a stressful time for me last spring. I had just broken up with my girlfriend," said Andrew OiMilla, who shares his sister's quick smile. "Julie and I went out to dinner at Steve's downtown, and we walked back in the rain. It was an awesome time." Julie nodded and recounted a time when he gave her a dose of much-needed moral support. "I was feeling down, and I wa walking back to the library to get my books when I ran into Andy. We stood there by the stairs and talked, with everyone walking by us," she said. "We had a deep, serious conversation fora whole hour." Julie '93 andAndrew DiMilla '91 A talk with his brother David "Toby" Frothingham '93 helped

20 Colby, May 1991 Same Colby Students Have Special Friends on Campus -Their Brothers or Sisters

Text and Photos by Mary Ellen Matava

Carolyn '94 and Elizabeth Greene '94

ea e Chri topher Frothingham' broken heart. "I didn't want to talk The Bensons wanted to attend college together and applied to to anybody, but I had to talk ro somebody,'' said Christopher, a junior all the same school . "I liked Bowdoin but Susan didn't, owe didn't from Andover, Mas . "It' nice to have omeone here who under- apply there," Sandra aid. tands me well, omeone who wouldn't meddle or take ides." Though they have given up matching clothe , the Bensons are Having a brotherorsi ter there can make college eem more like both on the cross-country ki team, and they make a point to eat, home, but on a mall campu , the younger one may have to work to exercise and study together. It appear they even think alike. e cape from the eider's shadow. "Once when we were playing Pictionary with our friends, I Jennifer Hart horn won'tbe a government major becau e it is guessed the word before he drew it," andra said. her i ter's field. John Phipp said faculty member are enthu iastic Another time as rhey worked on English papers in andra's when they di cover he i Kathryn' brother, expecting him to make room, Su an struggled to pell the word "invincible." "But I didn't ay the top grade he does. And while Tom Dorion '9 1 ha been a four­ anythingour loud," he aid. "The next thinglknew andy a ked me, year tarter on the var ity ba ketball team, hi brother Ja on '93 ha 'How do you spell invincible?"' een vety little playing time. The short path between their two residence halls on Robert "Hopefully my time will come," Ja on said. Row i well worn, and because the Ben on spend so much time The athletic rivalry between the Dorion brother ha calmed down ince their day at home in Bath, Maine, and the two have become closer ince Ja on came to Colby and joined Tom on the team. "Getting out of the hou e made u realize we don't have ro battle all the time," Tom aid. Two et of sibling who entered Colby together la t fall don't have to worry about coming in behind omeone-they are twins: u an and andra Ben on '94, of Concord, .H., and Elizabeth and Carolyn Greene '94 of Granville, Ohio. The Greene say they each liked Colby when they vi ited the campus but insi t they did not collaborate on the deci ion to attend. They�gree that having one another made it easier to ad ju t to college life. The twins were a hit when theyteamed up fora rendition of Barry Manilow' "Copacabana" at a variety show last fall,but, Carolyn aid, "we do thing on our own, too." Tom '91 and Jason Dorion '93

Colby, May 1991 21 My Sister, My Brother: A Colby Family Album

Jennifer '94 and Heather Hartshorn '91 Sandra '94 and Susan Benson '94 Mort '91 and IngridKristan '94 together, occasionally they do have an argument. "But we never and we have a lor of the same values." apologize or anything," said Sandra. "She just comes back over, and Heather and Jennifer Hartshornhave a deal. "She doesn't date we tart all over again." my friends," Heather said. And when Heather found a date for Adolfo Vaal Neto '91 expected that he and his sister, Ana Maria Jennifer for a parry, she passed up seniors, juniors and even opho­ Vaal Da Silva '94, would have regular disagreements at Colby. But mores for her first-year sister. "l founda freshman," she said. that hasn't happened. "We get along much better here," he said. "[ Sometimes, having a brother or sister around can be inconve­ guess she listens to me more now. She says I'm a better person here." nient, or even inhibiting. How do you have a good time at a Student Karen '91 and Pamela Crebase '93 both have campus jobs in the Center party knowing that a sibling is watching? Alumni Office,and Christianmichael '91 and Ingrid Kristan '94 work "[ worry. I wish she wasn't there," Adolfo Vaal Neto said of his together in the bookstore. They joke and catch up on each other as sister. "But it's not just at parties. There's a general feeling that you they stuff envelopes or shelve books. have to set an example." The Kristans have something of a rollicking relation hip, shoot­ The DiMillas laugh at the mention of Student Center parties. ing "friendly in ults" at each other across the text aisles, sometimes Andrew remembers looking at the dance floor from an upper-level in German. Christianmichael, or "Mort," admits he convinced hi balcony and seeing his i ter dancing with one of his friends. "She aw sister to take a geology cour e with him last semester partly so he me and pointed at me and started shouting, 'I love you! I love you!"' wouldn't have to buy the book. Maybe they aren't always that demonstrative, but Colby sibling Sometimes, Mort said, his sister can be a pain. "One time she agree that they wouldn't be on the same campus if they didn't have threatened to call my mother when I was going to the Courthouse [a some kind of friendship."Ir's nice to come to the same school a my local nightclub] on a Wednesday night," he said. "But I had already brother. I like my brother," Jason Dorion said. done my homework, and I went anyway." Going to college together has worked out so well forToby and Older siblings say they don't make it a point to keep an eye on Chris Frothingham that they hope their brother, Jonathan, will join their younger family members. "I totally have confidence in her," the Class of 1995. "We are putting a lot of pre sure on him to come Andrew DiMilla said of his sister. "We come from the same family, here," Toby said. "We really want to see him here."

22 Colby, May 1991 Physics with Feeling

A Mix of Quirks and Quarks Might Just Make Murray Campbell the Quintessential Colby Professor

by Edward Hershey

all orientation was far There was a knowing smile or enough along by the time two, a few giggle and some sheepish F Murray Campbell began his looks. Made to confront their readi­ session on campus diversity that most ness to buy into Campbell's diatribe, member of the Cla s of '94 wore the the freshly minted collegians were glaze of a group just about oriented to soon discu sing the follyof stereotyp­ sleep. ing. "He scared us to death," But professors are used to cap­ McPhetres-Maisel says, "but it was tive audiences. So Campbell plunged wonderful." into a dissertation on the distinc­ Murray Franci Campbell ought tions between people-men and to be good at puncturing stereotypes. women, for example. Wa n't it ad­ He has been doing the unexpected mirable that so many women even and making it work for more than a go to college, he asked, given the decade on Mayflower Hill, employ­ fe male predilection toward domes­ ing equal parts of rumpled innocence, ticity ? warm enthusiasm and calculating A few male nodded and some brilliance to lure, impress and capti­ female shifted in their seats. vate students of physics. Campbell was ju twarmingup. Surely That's right, phy ics. Campbell, they understood what he meant, who chairs a department often con- Campbell continued. Wa n't the idered a domain of recondite genius, primacy of woman's role a child is himself a campus crossover-an nurturer an accepted fact? Morenod engaging humanist who has never and even a few chortle , countered met a student he didn't want to like. by a few moans. The glazes were "He's a really good teacher and a thinning fast. good guy to be around personally," In the rear of Given Audito­ says Aditya Dayal '91, who came to rium, orientation taffersexchan ged Colby from Calcutta with thought of worried glances. "We understood specializing in computer cience and what he was trying to do," Associate is now contemplating a career in in­ Dean of tudents Joyce McPhetres­ Lynn Bushnell frared a tronomy. "But really I can­ Maisel recall , "but we were begin­ Murray Campbell not use the word teacher to properly ning to wonder ifhe wa n't carrying describe Murray becau e that ets him it too far." apart, and he's really o per anally By now, the bolder males were "Murray believes in human involved with his tudent . He' ev­ virtuallyanamenchorusasCampbell erything a professor should be, I think, rolled on, wondering why women dignity and equality, at a small college like Colby." would even want to abandon their Similar testimonials come from natural roles to compete with men. and that dictates other students who have al o had A few moments later-they seemed contact with Campbell out of the like weeks to McPhetres-Mai el­ everything he does .. " cla sroom. Campbell stopped as if to mull his "He's a very different kind of word and a kedbluntly,"lsn't thata Charles Hauss, professor of government guy," saysVincent Humplick '89, who load of crap?" worked with Campbell on ummer

Colby,Ma y 1991 23 research projects at Colby and is now a graduate student at Case joining forces to lead outdoor orientation sailing trips for new Western Reserve in Cleveland. "He was always willing to hang out; students on Moosehead Lake and team-teaching several courses. not aloof, very friend! y. He's fami I iar with so many students-not just Campbell's enthusiasm for interaction with students fits right into intellectually or out of token sympa- the "sense of community" the Colby thy, but because he is really inter- science faculty has tried to nurture, ested." Metz observes. Their rapport extended beyond Anyone surprised by such close­ the physics lab and even beyond "He's everything a professor ness between science professors and Mayflower Hill, Humplick remem­ should be, I think, at a their students, he adds, is missing a bers, to Murray and Linda Campbell's key point. "Most of us in the sciences lakeside retreat in rural Chesterville. small college like Colby. " at Colby chose this kind of life delib­ Humplick and his then wife-to-be, erately," Metz said. "We wanted to Case medical student Debbie McKay Aditya Dayal '91 teach in a small college. For us, it is '88, were frequent guests, using the almost like a calling. Campbell a soundingboardsfortheir "Remember that the Ph.D. is a fears and hopes. research degree and science is a re­ Roger Metz, chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department search field. You're suppo ed to go off to a government laboratory or from 1974 until Campbell succeeded him two years ago, recall a hot research university where teaching is a fourth or fifth priority. assigning Campbell an office near his own when Campbell came to Those who teach at a place like Colby have made a conscious decision Colby from the University of Arizona in 1980. to do this. They have a sense of dedication, of mission." "There was a constant stream of students going into Murray's Yet John Sweney, who chairs Colby's English Department, office," Metz said. "He's a dedicated scientist and a dedicated teacher." notes that the technical nature of their fields still sets apart scientists Campbell, outgoing and irreverent, and Metz, a few years older who teach. "Anyone can go to a lecture in history or current events and considerably more reserved, became something of an odd couple, and get something from it," weney said, "but if I go to a science lecture I'm hopele sly lost by the second sentence-or at least I should be ." Sweney got to know Campbell when the two jogged together, and he remembers being impressed that Campbell required his astronomy students to write essays. It was one of the reason , he says, that he agreed to serve as the nondepartmental member of Campbell's tenure-review committee. "I planned to watch a class or two o I could say something about his teaching," Sweney recalls. "Instead I found it so fascinating that I stayed for the rest of the term. Murray was delightful. It was more a history of astronomy than anything else. I got a kick out of learning how various theories of the universe were developed and slowly unravelled piece by piece." Charles "Chip" Hauss, a professor of governmentwho has served with Campbell on the President's Task Force on Racism at Colby and this semester succeeded him as chair of the Ralph Bunche Scholarship Committee, which ad­ ministers a special program forminority students, says that if Campbell is not the quintessential small-college profe - sor, he is very close. "Murray is one of a handful, maybe two handfuls, of faculty members who are special," Hauss said. "Everything in their lives hangs together in some way. Murray believes in human dignity and equality, and that dictates everything he does, from the kinds of activities he's involved in on campus to hi choices of adoption to his commitment to coming to and staying at a place like Colby, where people are the product, not physics." Murray, Linda and their two children, Rita, 7, and Irene, 2, live in nearby Fairfield, where the family cuts an atypical figure-Rita is Salvadoran and Irene is African Mary Ellen Matava American. MurrayCampbell and Adirya Dayal '91 examine a computer graphic in a Mudd The Camp bells decided to adopt a Salvadoran because Building physics laboratory. One of the hallmarksof Campbell's career has been his children there were available at the time and the state of eagerness to work one-on-one with students. poverty and war "made it seem as if we could be doing the

24 Colby, May 1991 as they could. " he is so bright that we thought if we showed any signs of concern, she would pick up on it right away," Murray says. "It wasn't until very recently that l realized exactly how well we did that. One day Rita said to me, 'Daddy, if Mommy ha to go back into the ho pita! again it's okay becau ewe can go all tho e places together and ha,·e fun like we did the last time."' Campbell al o managed to carry on in the classroom. "I marvelled at the way he handled him elf during that period," Vince Humplick says. "The pressure on him was enormous and somehow it never showed." Linda Campbell's prognosis is a private matter, but the surest sign of optimism was Irene's arrival, which wa preceded by reassurance from Linda's physician and a go­ ahead fromadoption officials.The sisters seem very differ­ ent in several respects. Rita is slender and a bit reserved, Irene round and bouncy. But it takes no more than a few minutes of visiting with the family to know that they have affection foreach other, and, like a lot of Colby students this la t decade, both are enamored of Murray Campbell. Campbell spent most of his childhood in West Chester, Pa., where hi father, a Harvard graduate, did public rela­ Mal)'Ellen l\laca,•a tions for thePennsylvania Railroad. He went to Penn State Campbell holdsIrene while he, Lindaand skatinginstTuctor Kelly Boudreau '94 watch on a company scholarship. "It was really designed for the Rita cut a figureon Johnson Pond. children of rail worker rather than people like us," Campbell says, "but it was a competitive exam and I won it." He mo t good for omeone," Murray explains. When they sought a settled on physics after declining to followan older brother into sibling forRita, he adds, El Salvador was no longer a fe rtile ground for engineering. (The brother eventually abandoned engineering, too, adoption. Effort to locate children in Mexico and Chile failed, and and is now a top-of-the-line cabinetmaker.) the Campbells were about to try Haiti when a Maine-based relief After graduating with highest distinction in physics fromPenn agency discovered Irene in Oklahoma, where a local adoption agency tate in 1968 and gaining election to Phi Beta Kappa, Campbell was was having trouble placing her. off to Cornell, where he earned master's and doctoral degree . At There was another, highly emotio al aspect to Irene's adoption. Cornell, Campbell made two further decisions that would help Coming not long after Linda was operated on for cancer, Irene's determine his career. He became an astronomer and an educator. arrival was a reaffirmation of life. "Confrnnting something like that "For me, the mo t dramatic thing about graduate school was changes your life forever," Campbell says of his wife' illness. "Some discovering how much I liked to teach," Campbell says. "I enjoyed things that seemed important before are not that important. It makes explaining things to students, answering their questions and antici­ you think about what you want to do in your life, what your goal pating the next question. That was what l enjoyed most-planning really are." a lecture and thinking about what the likely questions would be." Campbell say he i till taken aback when he considers how his Cornellwa then the site of one of the nation's tensest confron- colleague and neighbor , even ome he and Linda barely knew, tations over racial unrest. From his days in We t Chester, a multi­ rallied to the family's aid. Not an racial community with Jim Crow evening pa ed, he ays, when a vol- roots, Campbell had been concerned unteer failed to prepare dinner for about social issue . "At the height of him and Rita. "[ guess you could call the takeover [of Cornell's student it a blue-collar neighborhood," he ''You can teach at a place center by African Americanstudent J says. "The genuineness of concern one of my graduate professors told the and level of support came as a revela­ like Colby and still publish class, 'We can do physics today or tion. When you go through some­ " discuss the campus ituation,'" thing like that and get the kind of in the good journals Campbell recalls. "[ voted for the help we did, you feel this need to help discussion." others going through the same kind of Murray Campbell His research interest also had its ordeal." origins at Cornell, where he began (To their horror, Murray and using cryogenically cooled, far-infra­ Linda got that chance early this year red gamma ray survey telescopes after Roger and Nancy Metz learnedthe ir only son, Josh, had died in mounted on balloons to examine the density of quasars. There i a an auto accident in Florida. The Campbells devoted the next week decidedly philosophical bent to this work-it is nothing short of a to helping in any way they could. "They just came in and took over search forclues to the beginnings of the universe. when we needed someone most," Roger Metz says. "What they did for Campbell moved from Cornellto the Steward Observatory at us-well, it so surpassed anything we ever did for them.") the University of Arizona. In Tucson, his life took another tum when The Campbells tried to shield Rita fromLinda' illness a much he accepted a re earch partner's invitation to a Fourth of July

Colby, May 1991 25 barbecue. "He felt sorry for me, it. Sometimes the tension really Campbell says. The fe llow's sister-in­ shows, and you wonder if it's really law, a nurse, was to be there a well, worth it." but Murray and Linda don't think of His research projects, counsel­ their meeting as a blind date. "If any­ ing of rudents, committee work on thing, my sister seemed a Ii ttle shocked i sues such as racial awareness, com­ at how well we got along," Linda said. mitment to family and, of course, She and Murray were married in teaching can add up to an overload. a year and are still going strong, al­ It is quite the opposite, Linda though the same cannot be said of her Campbell notes, of the stereotypical sister. "My former brother-in-law and notion of a quiet, scholarly existence research partner ran off with hi lab on a small New England campus. assi rant," Campbell say with a "Murray would like to do the best job chuckle that might seem a bit insensi­ he can do at everything he doe ," she tive if it was not the same tone he use says, "and there are so many neat to describe the moment hi own fir t things at Colby that you can get marriage collapsed. "] was still at involved with that he feels bad when Cornell and had been away for three he can't spend enough time on some­ days doing research on a plane," he thing. Sometimes he's so tired, I get says. "I walked in the door and she tired by a sociation." looked up and said, 'You know, it was "You think you can do more better with you gone."' than you can possibly do,'' Campbell Campbell's personal and profe - interjects, "and it becomes a ques­ sional transition began at Cornell, but tion of time and energy, and you his arrival at Colby in the fa ll of 1980 have to pull back on some commit­ was the pivotal step. It represented a ments." commitment to teaching and family One of the thing they decided and a concommitant decision to leave to eschew from the start, the Camp­ the cutting edge to others. bells say, is the faculty ocial scene. "Sometimes I try to put people at There is a philosophical "We didn't do the cocktail parry cir­ ease by telling them, 'Not every physi­ cuit,'' he says simply. cist understands it all,'" he says."I had bent to his work-a search Before Rita's arrival, he and hoped to be among a small group of Linda did sign on for a College pro­ physicists working on elementary par­ fo r clues to the beginn ings gram that allows faculty to eat free of ticles in what was to become the study charge so they can mingle with stu­ of how quarks combine to form pro­ of the universe. dents. The Campbell thought the tons and neutrons and other particles. concept a bit forced. "It didn't work, I discovered that I didn't have the at least notfor us,'' he ay . "We'd get mathematical talent to be a pure our dinner andsit down at a table and physicist. The fact that I had to struggle in graduate physics classes it was as if the March Hare had just arrived. All conversation would became a bles ing of sorts. It helped to make me a better teacher. cease instantly." "You know the trouble with most university professors ? They Eventually, the Campbell say, they decided that meaningful have never had any trouble learning anything themselves-and it fa culty-student relationships develop over time, not lunch, and often makes them lousy teacher . It helps to be a little dumb sometimes. It start in the classroom. even helped me in my research because I found thatI didn't know as Teaching remains the focu of Campbell's campu pre ence. At much astronomy as the astronomers or as much physics as the the front of a cla s, he bubbles with enthusiasm, making students of physicists, but I knew more astronomy than the physicists and more elementary physics fe el he's discovering this shortcut or that insight physics than the astronomers. I was not a stargazer when I was a kid. for the first time. Yet, ever fearful of turningstudents off,he never To tell you the truth, I still don't know the constellations. It's clinches a point without acknowledging the difficulty of graspingit. embarrassing sometimes when I'm teaching astronomy. I'll go out at " ome of his phrase are just fantastic," Dayal say . "He'll be night with Linda before the semester and look up and try, but I still writing a complicated problem on the board and suddenly he'll stop can't find them." and say, 'OK, now we're going to integrate this fat turkey."' Campbell continues to do quality research. Reports of his work Campbell also is forever advertising formore physics major . still appear in the elite journals of astrophysics, but now he doe it as "I've been dying to u e that theorem because it is relatively much to pique the imagination of students as in hopes of making a compact if you're used to it,'' he said, chalk dust flying as he scrawled major breakthrough. a proof of Gauss's Law on the blackboard early this semester. "This is "You can teach at a place like Colby and still publish in the good great tuff-a good rea on to take the junior cour e in which we flesh journals," he says, "but you can't really compete with people in the this out in some detail. It has some intricacies, but it also has great major research universities. There are no special rules for small­ power to it." college professor , so you're up again t guys who really do only this And that last sentence might alsobe a good working definition work. After a while, you ort of wonder how many times you can do of its postulator.

26 Colby, May 1991 A Star Is Born

Colby asked MurrayCampbell to explain the research he has telescopes flown on high-altitude scientific balloon and with conducted since he joined the College physics and asrronomy fa culty the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a NASA telescope flown on in 1980. a converted Cl 41 military transport aircraft. When I first came to Colby, I continued the work l had been doing as a postdoctoral research associate at the University My work is mostly based on ob ervations oflong wavelength of Arizona. This project began in the late 1960s at NASA's infrared emi sion by dusty gas clouds heated by adjacent or Goddard Institute for Space Studies and continued at the embedded star that are unusually hot and bright. Univer ity of Arizona under William F. Hoffmann P'8 . To­ A spiral galaxy contain both stars and clouds. A galaxy gether with several Colby students-Michael Hawrylycz '8 1, contain two populations of star : an older, typically faint Manoj Kanskar '85, Richard Nawfel ' 2 and David iles ' 3- population and a younger population that includes some unusu­ 1 analyzed data of a balloon-borne telescope used to scan the ally bright and hot stars. In fac t, these are the tars that form the Milky Way for the brightest cocoons and to study the distribu­ brightest parts of the piral arms we see in photograph of spiral tion of diffuseemission from the galaxy. galaxies. In the early 1980s, I began a series of follow-up observations These very bright star must have been born recently in with another balloon telescope at the Harvard College Obser­ cloud of ga and dust within the galaxy. The interstellar cloud vatory/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with Giovanni are made up of about 64 percent hydrogen ga , 34 percent helium Fazio P'86. Later I concentrated on the development of a ga , 1 percent other gases like carbon monoxide and 1 percent specialized filter for infrared pectroscopy in collaboration with olid material, like pulverized rock, called "dust." Dr. Siegfried Drapatz at the Max Planck Institute for Extrater­ When a new tar form , it i bornout of the gas and du t of restrial Physics in Garching bei Munchen. Two uch filters were an inter tellar cloud and i en hrouded in a cocoon of the gas and successfully built and tested at the College with the help of dust. Initially, the cocoon hides the star, o the star and the several Colby students-Marc DeRosa '86, James Fast '87, formationprocess must be tudied indirectly-by ob erving the Vincent Humplick '89 and Nicholas Mark '87-and of two cocoon. Astronomer study the infrared emission of the du t, Colby alumni who worked as teaching associates in our depart­ which is heated by the hidden star, or the radio emission of some ment during the project, Steven Shapiro '86 and William of the gas component . Tieman '77. In the process of examining the cocoon , one learns about For the past three years I have worked with University of the stars, the tar-birth process, the post-birth evolution of the Texas astronomers on ob ervations made by the Kuiper Air­ inter tellar clouds and the distribution of star-forming cloud borne Ob ervatory of specific cocoon around a specially chosen throughout a galaxy. The earth and the un are part of a group of very young stars. The e observations are used as tests of spiral galaxy that we see from within as the Milky Way. computer-ha ed models of the detailed process of tar cormation Many studie of tar formation, including my own, are from interstellar cloud . Four current students are involved in ba ed on ob ervation of cocoon in the Milky Way. various aspect of this ongoing project-Aditya Dayal '91, For the studies I do, the infrared radiation from Derek Rozycki '93 , Chri Sabbey '93 and Samir hre tha the cocoons must be ob erved by a telescope in the '92-as is our teaching associate, A. Thoma Pickering '85. upper atmosphere or in space. I have worked with

Prepared by Chris abbey '93

Relief map of infrared-emitting cocoons around a group of very young stars. Analysis of the map will reveal details of theforma tion process for each star.

Colby, May 1991 27 STUDENT LIFE Jan Plan Offers Students Window on the Wo rld

Almost three decades ago, the January Program was bornat Colby. single out those that show experience in a related field. Known now as Jan Plan-and duplicated at colleges across the This January, more than 160 students served internships-at country-the program allows students to take month-long classes, do the Phoenix police department's crime detection laboratory, at law independent tudy or embark on internships in fields ranging from firms in Washington, D.C., and Hawaii and at a host of other advertising to zoo management. locations, including public schools, banks and doctors' officesacross "More and more students are realizing that internships can be the country. real key later on," said James Mcintyre, Colby's director of Career On these pages, Colby profiles four students who say their Jan Services. "They are looked upon highly by organizations when Plan experiences have helped them focus on careers-and one considering people for employment." In fact, Mcintyre says, companies special alumnus who uses the program to serve Colby. that screen resumes before interviewing students on campus regularly

Chandra Reflects on an Eye.-Opening Passage to India

Nearly every family in the villages ringing Sitapur, India, has a "My dad asked me to go with him before," she said. "I really member who suffers from cataracts. For many years, ophomore should have gone a long time ago. I don't think I'll ever be the same." Reena Chandra' father, ophthalmologist Suresh Chandra, has trav­ Chandra says she went not knowing what to expect but consid­ eled to Sitapur from his home in Wisconsin to do free cataract ered the trip a good opportunity to see if she wanted a career in surgeries at "eye camps" in the villages under the auspice of the medicine. "It was a perfect medical ituation for me to find out Combat Blindness Foundation. whether l can handle this," she said. Chandra has often accompanied her father to India, visiting Camps were set up in village schools, where a hundred surgeries family wh ile he went to the camps. But this year Chandra joined him. a day were done in marathon weekend sessions. Classrooms disin­ She spent Jan Plan assisting doctors and nurses as they performed fe cted by volunteers servedas operating rooms, with doctors moving surgery on hundreds of people. quickly from patient to patient in a line-up of tables. The cataract patients spent two weeks recovering on cots lining the school hallways. When they left, Chandra handed each person a pair of eyeglas es. Many of the patient could see for the first time in years, Chandra said, adding that in an especially moving moment, one man got his first look at hi grandson thanks to the surgery. Chandra says she remembers people arriving early for surgery, many with families in tow. They waited in long I in es in the hot sun for their tum to be seen and to undergo perhaps the first medical procedure of their lives. "They looked like they didn't know what was happening to them," she said. The camps were disorienting forChandra a well. Bornin the United States to two physicians (her mother, Sunita Chandra, is a pediatric pathologist), she spent her childhood in and around modem ho pital . "You know what a hospital andan operating room are supposed to look like," she said . "It was strange for me in the beginning, with all these people lined up in an assembly Reena Chandra '93 doles out cookies to a young patient at a Combat Blindness line. But seeing them every day, I began to realize thi Foundation eye clinic near Sitapur, India. was the only way to deal with it."

28 Colby, May 1991 Chandra is one of those graduates, and he says he wants to give something back to the country that gave him o much. Six years ago he founded the Combat Blindness Foundation, which raises thousands of dollars each year to run the eye camps for adults and a project to fight xerophthalmia, a disease that causes blindnes m young children. Chandraobserves as volunteers from theSir apur Eye Hospira!perform cataract surgery. A deficiency of vitamin A in the diet causes Flashlights helped illuminate the makeshift operating cheaters . xerophthalmia, so a major thru t of the project to prevent it is educating parents about proper nutrition. The accommodations may have been Spartan, but the surgeons During her month in India, Chandra visited children in several had a succe s rate any conventional hospital would envy. Chandra villages who have been part of the project for two years. watched a they made perfect inci ions and quickly removed cata­ Volunteers had pa sed out vegetable seeds in the villages the ract , averaging one patient every 10 minute . Complications were year before, and when they returned in January they were greeted by minimal, he aid. families with healthy children. The villagers held up their vegetables 'It was amazing forme," Chandra said of the way the surgeons like trophies and posed for pictures. "They had the most beautiful functioned. "It gave me a whole differentper pective on medicine. I vegetables," Chandra said, "and their children were cured." always had one view of what it was like." Working with the children was by far the most rewarding part of Some of their instruments appeared crude but worked perfectly, Chandra's month in India, she says, but she wa frustrated when she Chandra noted. Camp volunteer u ed a rubber ball and thick elastic tried to communicate with them. "The hardest thing was the lan­ band to reduce pressure on the eye to be operated on. And because guage," she said. "I can understand Hindi and I probably could reply there were no special surgery lamp , Chandra and others held in Hindi, but l did it in English. I couldn't express myself well." flashlights forthe surgeons to see by. Chandra says she treasures her strong Indian background, and "They're ingenious," she said. her time at the eye camps of her parents' homeland left a lasting "They" are volunteers from the Sitapur Eye Hospital and gradu­ impression. "It was a humbling experience," she said. ates of King George' Medical College in Lucknow, India. Suresh -Mary Ellen Matava

Villagers display vegetablesgrown fromseeds distributed by eye camp volunteers and essential w the battle against childhood blindness.

Colby, May 1991 29 Krinskys Open Their Lone ... Star Hometo Jan Planners

Jan Plan was in its infancy when Lewis Krinsky graduated from envelopes, sitting in those conferences more than made up forit," Colby in 1965. In those days, most students stayed on campus during Silver said. the program, working with professors in intensive classroom and Both students wereimpressed with Krinsky's enthusiasmand his independent study sessions. commitment to the January Program. Even though he didn't get much first-hand experience with Jan "l know from personal experience that it's hard to take in visitor Plan as a student, Krinsky has become deeply involved with the all the time," Silver said. "But I certainly was never made to feel that program as an alumnus. The Houston stockbroker has issued a I wasn't part of the family. They took me along to everything." standing proposition toColby students. "My offer," Krinsky said, "was Silver remembers visiting Krinsky with Bus ell at his office and still is free room, board and transportation so long as they can fly toward the end of their stay. As they left the building together, out here." Krinsky noticed a young cleaning woman working in the lobby. "She "Harold Alfondprovided some financialhelp for my education was smart enough," Silver said. "Her only problem was that English at the request of[Alumni Secretary] Bill Millett '25, and l have never wa her second language, so it took her longer to do things. The first forgotten it," Krinsky said. "One good tum deserves another .... If thing he said to us was, 'What do you think I could do to help her out?' kids are willing to put themselves out by paying the money to come He's always helping someone." down here-and if there's a decent report on them-I have no ba is But Krinsky i quick to note that he doesn't function alone. His for not taking them in." wife, Ellen, carrie much of the load involved with taking in guests. Two students, Robyn Bussell '91 and Arielle Silver '92, took "Ellen is like a lot of spouses of Colby grads," he said. "She gets very Krinsky up on his offer in January. Bussell, who says she is considering enthusiastic at the mention of Colby." a career teaching English as a second language, found Krinsky through Colby's Career Ser­ vices Office. After she contacted him about the possibility of spending the month in Houston, Krinsky arranged an internship for her at the YMCA, where she assisted with the resettlement of El Salvadoran refugees. "l had already spent junior year in Spain," �MCA Bussell said. "l wanted to stay here in the INTERNATIONAL SERVICES United States and help people become U.S. • REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT citizens." • ENGUSH CLASSES 'MMIGRA nON COUNSELJNG Silver's route to the Krinsky home was 108 PLACEMEN T less direct. "l wa working a a hostess at the Bar ERGENCY SERVICES Harbor Inn," she said. "I had just got offwork ''ITH PROGRAMS around two o'clock when l saw Lewis with a Colby jacket, o I approached him." "She said, 'l go to Colby,' " Krinsky re­ members, "and so we struck up a conversation. l mentioned to her that if she ever went to Tex as I'd help her arrange aJ an Plan program." Krinsky arranged Silver's internship at the World Trade Center in Houston, where she rubbed elbows at conferences with visiting business people and diplomats anxious to trade with the United States. As an employee, she was allowed to attend seminars on various topics in international business. Ellen and LewisKrinsky '65 pose withRobyn Bussell '91 at the Houston YMCA,where Bussell "Even though some of the time you stuffed worked with El Salvadoran refugees.

30 Colby, May 1991 /\1ary Ellen Mata,·a Sia Moody '93 spent January shadowing Dr. John Salvato, a Waterville pediatrician.

Moody's First Plunge into Medical Future Is No Feint

When Sia Moody '93 was a child, she never had to be cajoled steady stomach. Under a nurse's supervision, she wa even allowed to into a trip to the doctor's office. "If l had trep throat or something, give a few children their immuni:ation -after practicing on an they'd alway make it better," she aid. orange. But during a Jan Plan intern hip with Waterville pediatrician "The intern hip affectedme emotionally more than anything," John Salvato, Moody learnedthat no matter what he or he does, a Moody aid. "I didn't realize how much is going on with some doctor can't always make someone better. children." eeing ictims of sexual, phy ical and emotional abu e Moody aw what pediatricians face every day-birth defects, affected her deeply, she said. abu e and even death. But he remains un werving in her goal to The second of six children, Moody grew up in ashua, N .H. he become a phy ician. "It's a lot of re pan ibility, but I know I'm going ays her parents have always been deeply involved in their children's to do it," he said. "I'm e en more determined now. People need help education and their lives. "My Mom say , 'I love you' all the time," out there." he said. "Even if you're leaving just for a econd to take out the Moodywas overcome by her experience in more way than one. garbage, she say , 'I love you."' On her first day she went right into the operating room to watch Moody i drawn to children and says he loved taking care of her alvato do an emergency urgery. four younger iblings. "I was alway there with them," he said. "I'm "We have a 'bad' baby," the nurses told her as they buzzed around fa cinated by little babies." the nursery at Mid-Maine Medical Center's Seton Unit, scrubbing up o when a 5-year-old boy came with his mother to see Salvato and preparing for urgery. he donned a surgical gown and mask and at the ho pita!' developmental clinic, Moody was troubled by his wa hed her hand , and before he knew it he was looking over complete ilence. Salvato' houlderat the baby, bornprematurely 30 hours before. The "l a ked him, 'What's your name?' and he wouldn't say," she baby had a collapsed lung, which alvato wa to reinflate. explained. "That hurt o much. You want to be there. You want to Moody, who wa wearing a thick weater under her surgical help them." gown, began to wear under the heat lamp u ed to keep the baby She met children with peech delays, ome with Down' syn­ warm. drome or cerebral pal y, others with severe re piratory problems and "Dr. alvato made an incision on the ideofherribcage, without one brain-damaged child who could not eat. "His prognosis was ane thesia," Moody remembers. "I didn't have anything to eat or I death," Moody said. would have thrown up." Seeing o much pain and feeling frustrated by the number of Salvato inserted a tube through the inci ion to alleviate the parents she aw who seemed little more than children themselve , pre ure on the lung. With a tiny needle and thread he carefully Moody ays he wondered what the future held for many of Salvato's do ed the inci ion around the tube, and the baby cried through her patients. oxygen ma k. Moody tarted feeling lightheaded. "It reminded me of "Sia learnedthe reality of what medicine entails," said Salvato, ewing pants or omething," he aid. "the number of hour you put in to effect change and the fru tration A few minutes later Moody fainted, and the respiratory therapist that are part of that process." helped herout of the operating room. "They are all used to things like Moody say he came away fromthe experience convinced that that," aid Moody. Afterdrinking agla oforange juice, she ays, he a doctor can be a very powerful force in a family's life. felt a little better. "You learn o much about people, parenting and children," aid later i.nthe month, an old campaigner by now, Moody watched Moody. "Children are the future." a Caesarean section and a natural childbirth with a clear head and a -Mary Ellen Matava

Colby, May 1991 31 PAGING PARENTS Some Different Styles of Campus Life

olby sophomore Tim Brooks grows grass Coburn and Sturtevant are quiet halls, Cin his room. Wheat grass. where the 24-hour ban on noise is enforced Brooks, a strict vegetarian who subsists by the student hall-staffmembers. "It's prob­ mainly on brown rice, soybean curd and ably harder to be an R.A. in a quiet dorm," steamed vegetables, is one of several Colby aid Siddhartha Choudhury '93, a resident students who have chosen unique living a istant in Sturtevant, "because we have to arrangements on MayflowerHi ll. Brooks lives make sure that people are being really con­ in the Mary Low Co-op, where students siderate of others. We have to always be on purchase and cook their own food. He grows our guard to make sure there's a comfortable the wheat grass in windowsill trays and har­ amount of noise for everyone." vests it to make juice. "It cleans out the But those who choose to live in a quiet lining of my intestines and stomach," he hall seem eager to keep it that way. "I wanted say . peace and quiet, and I wanted to be able to The days of the traditional dining hall tudy in my room," said Wanda Rodriguez and the double room are by no means over­ '94. "I love living in a quiet dorm, and I those are still the nom1s of life on Mayflower definitely plan to live here again next year. Hill. Increasingly, however, Colby students I can go out to parties at other dorms and are taking advantage of a host of options, Donna Burbank '92 hits the booksin the Coburn know that it'll be quiet when I come home." including co-ed, six-person suites, off-campus study area. Next semester, depending on the num­ hou ing, quiet halls and-in the coming ber of students who are interested, one floor semester-a substance-freefloor or building. or an entire building will be "chemical free," Johnston said. "There The nontraditional kinds of housing have been instituted at the will be no smoking or alcohol." request of students. "If there is a void," said Associate Dean of Some incoming first-year tudents have already indicated a Students Paul Johnston, "something the students have identified preference for such an arrangement, a have current students. that Colby is lacking that a number of people would benefit from, we "The time is right for this kind of housing," Johnston said. "The try to accommodate that need." tide has shifted enough in the student population." Mo t residence halls have single, double and triple rooms and four-student suites. Some floors are designated formen or women only, other are mixed. The halls range in size from 33 to 210 people. Multiple roommates can present spe­ cial problems, ranging from loss of privacy to overcrowding to conflicting sleep and study schedules. Mari le Haylon '94 says she'd rather have just one roommate, but with two rooms, her triple in Pepper is bearable. She and her roommates set up their beds in one room and fumi hed the other with a lounge chair, desks and a trunk. Four-student rooms have two or four bedrooms and a common area, a do six­ student suites. While most of the six-stu­ dent areas house men or women, several are mixed. Patty Masters '91 says sharing a suite with several men and women is "neat," but Paul Matthews '94 she admits that there are some annoyances. Trevor Sides '92 and Aaron Zeisler '92 are among the majority of Colby students who live in "Sometimes thing are difficult just traditional housing. They share a double in Pierce Hall. because they're sophomores and we're se-

32 Colby, May 1991 niors, and they don't understand the big deal of job interviews and important phone calls," she said of her younger male roommate . "It's different from just living next door to guys in a dorm," she added. "In some ways it's also kind of gross, but it's a lot like having brothers around." One of her roommates, Andrew Ritch '93, says he's more respectful of women now. "Communicating with girls has become easier. The girls we live with definitely have been a good influence. We can talk to them about anything. I guess you could say it's a mutually beneficial relationship." Students who live off campus say it makes for a family-type atmosphere, particularly for those who hare hou es. Kristin Herbster '91 lives with four mher women in downtown Waterville, where they cook, clean, study and share the bills. "It's great having your own bedroom that's your own space but also having lot of other commu­ nity rooms like the living room and the kitchen," she said. George Moore '9 1 lived in residence hall for two years. When Sharon Labick '9 1 he returnedto Colby froma junior year in London, he opted to live Seniors Magda Lacharite and Mahun Sarkar collaborate on dinner off campus. "It's great ro have your own place to get away," he aid. preparations in the Mary Low Co-op kitchen. But Herbster says it's easy to withdraw from campu life while living in town and notes that because Colby is several miles from the Sarkar conceded. "But I think that people who live here become center of Waterville, anyone who wants t live offcampu must have closer than those living in a dorm situation. There are always a lot of access to a car. people hanging around, and you get to meet everybody's friends. The Mary Low Co-op is one way for some students to enjoy off­ There's more of a homey feeling than in a dorm." campu freedom and on-campus convenience. The co-op began in Food theft is a problem, going well beyond the occasional 1986 and is designed for tudents who wish to live on campus and "borrowing" inherent in shared-kitchen arrangements. "People come cook their own meal . into the kitchen and steal food all the time," lamented Sarkar. "It's Colby generally earns high marks for its campu cuisine, but really kind of disgusting, because we all have to buy our own food,and even at a college that features three separate menus forevery meal, it's not like any of us is extremely rich or anything." institutional dining take a toll on some tudents. Students have found that cooking for themselves is consider­ "When I analyzed it, l realized that about 90 percent of any bad ably cheaper than being on Colby's meal plan. "You pay Colby feelings I had towards Colby came from having to eat the food in the something like $250 a month to be on the meal plan," said sophomore dining halls," said Magda Lacharite '91, who has been a co-op Eric Miles. "If I budget carefully, I can get by on about $120 a month. resident since her second semester at Colby. "It's kind of a drag having I also think it's a lot healthier. Ifthere's ice cream sitting around, I'll to get the jitney to go downtown to go grocery shopping, but it's worth eat it. When I was going to the dining halls every day I was eating it to be able to cook my own food." about a half a gallon a day." Mahua Sarkar, a senior from India, agrees. "My freshman year l Many co-op residents are vegetarians who found the selection wa mi erable. It's a big change coming from India to the United in the dining halls limited. But not all are as concernedabout food. States, and l got sick and tired of the food in the dining halls pretty Senior Ernie Long, who says he joined the co-op because he didn't fast." have a car and living off campus was not an option, "pretty much ate Many international tudents choose to live in the co-op, bring­ peanut-butter sandwiches in his room every meal for abouta month ing recipes fromhome. In addition, other co-op residents who have when he first got here," Lacharite said. "We taught him how to cook traveled in other countries eagerly practice the cooking techniques a few things. He couldn't believe what a chicken looked like raw." they learned. Onmo t nights, a potpourri of exotic cents wafts from But it is po sible that even the grass-growers and peanut butter­ the co-op's kitchen. eaters of the co-op haven't made the most unusual lifestyle choice on "h',,really fun having the foreignstudents living here because Mayflower Hill. we get to tryall kinds of foods and learnhow to u e differentspices and This semester Trevor Braden '91 and GeoffZentz '9 1 are living auces," aid Lacharite. in a yun overlooking the campus. "The only real source of tension is if the kitchen is ju tawreck," -Mary Ellen Matava and Jennifer Scott '91

Colby, May 1991 33 BOOKS & AUTHORS "Not Really Gothic" Novel A

When we say somebody "devours" or "eats up" somebody else, provided by Tracy's anthropologist brother, Bill '72, and hi wife, who we're usually speaking metaphorically to illustrate how one person lived for two years in a Chipewayan Indian village in northern can dominate another. In Winter Hunger (Goose Lane Editions, 1990), Manitoba. Winter Hunger's village of Wino Day is complete with Ann Tracy '62 has written a novel of horror in which the devouring paths between trailers, government-issue homes and log cabins and is vividly literal. episode of tea-drinking and bannock-eating. The village is inhab­ "It's Gothic-it's a regional-feminist-cannibal novel. That's ited by authentically named Indians like Willy Powderhorn and what I call it when pressed," said Tracy, a professor of English and Proxene Ratfat and Dorcas Dantouze. Trips to "the Bay" and caribou department chair at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, hunts inter per e with urge to "go South" or fly outof "the bush" in whose published work includes her dissertation Patternsof Fear in the the little bush-hopping Otter. Gothic Novel, 1790- 1830. "This is what l teach, so I said, 'I should be Into this believably detailed locale, the author places a feckless able to write a scary novel.' I did it to ee if I could do it." young anthropologist, Alan Hooper, his wife, Diana, and their baby, Tracy ays the patterns of fear in Gothic novels fall into distinct Cam. Tracy then slips in the windigo myth, an extreme form of cabin categories. Virtuous women, alone fever and a documented, real-life in medieval castles or similar psychosis. The Indians feel that spooky dark places, are isolated "C am is getting nice and fat," he observed, and felt a "something hungry watches from familiar people and sur­ kind of itching ache in his back molars. He ground them them." Alan h imselffeels watched roundings, and absolutely vile vil­ together furtively, hoping that he hadn't aid anything out by "a hostile and po ibly car­ lains ravage the innocent and good. of the way. nivorous arctic spirit." The Ghosts and clanking chains in half­ Diana gazed at the child dotingly and pinched hi fat windigo turnsa person cold a ice lit rooms or menacing supernatu­ little leg with affection. "Mummy's big boy," she said. Alan and famished for human flesh, ral terrors in dark treets or forests was taken aback. So far motherhood had never driven her and when a dying old Indian create an irrational, nightmare to the u e of fatuous expre sions. Poor Diana, it had been named Naomi declares, "I have world of violation, misery, death a long winter for her too. hunger ...for the meat and bones and damnation. "They all are pretty The straightforward warmth provoked by that moment of my dear pretty friend Diana," much up to the same tricks," Tracy of sympathy told Alan how kewed his recent feelings had the horrors kick in. said, "the odd environments and been. He had almost forgotten what normal felt like, or Diana is the modernGothic the upernatural. 1 tried to hit these maybe he hadn't appreciated it when he had it. Intoxicated heroine: sensitive but tough, a general bases." with relief, he swung into an old favorite, a afe fantasy in wife and mother yet very much Winter Hunger seems most which he peeled offDiana' garments one by one. Thi was her own person, exposed to and indebted to Matthew Lewi 's The a fine, slow game in Wino Day, where Diana wore many embracing a whole new culture Monk, which in 1795 brought into layers of clothing to trap the heat, and he pulled off her and body of relationships, in­ English literature the audacious outer layer with lazy delight, coming closer and clo er to cludingsuperstition and folly.She lust, blood and gore of incest and that gem of warmth and good smells and basic pinkness is the liberated woman and con­ matricide. "Winter Hunger is one that was Diana underneath. Peel away the cardigan, find temporary feminist. of the horrible, nasty, gross-out the wool turtleneck. Peel away the turtleneck, find the tee Old Naomi's declaration of kind of novels," said Tracy, who hirt a little warmer to the touch, a little more redolent of "an idea so intimate" as cannibal­ explains that her long-time inter­ its owner. But tonight, before he knew what had happened, ism causes it to "detonate"-the est in Gothic fiction is "really a he had peeled too far, and the phantom Diana who rushed absolutely right word-in Alan's matter of temperament. I like scary into his outstretched ghostly arms was an anatomist's head. Already rattled by his things." She thinks readers are model of braided muscle, whose kin lay on the floor with dreams and feeling "out-anthro­ drawn by the "slightly taboo na­ the other layers (raw, red lingerie in the lean-to) and who e pologized" by Diana's eager ture" of Gothic subjects. sensuous entrails spilled into his lap and wrapped themselves involvement with the Indian Modem Gothics like Ira around his thighs. He came to with a start. culture, he gets crazier and cra­ Levin's Rosemary's Babyor Stephen And as he watched Diana turn his stew into the zier-helped along on his down­ King's The Shining and Carrie are garbage, holding his chair with both hands lest he fling ward path by some marvelously often set in the present in genuine himself to his knees and sink his teeth into her unsuspecting gruesome sights. Aware, for in­ geographical regions and have buttocks, he knew that something would have to be done. stance, of the Indians' cultural credible cultural trappings. The -from Winter Hunger tradition that family members are local color in Winter Hunger was obliged to kill those who threaten

34 Colby , May 1991 At one point Alan imagines Diana as"a doll-woman who could be dandled and petted and reduced to utter dependency before he swallowed her." Terrified of h1 ob se s1on with her and his child he flee . Wandering around Toronto, overwrought by fantasies of r�pe, incest, cannibalism, infant1c1deand uxoricide, he 1s sickened by such innocuou gastronomic delights as a pepperoni and mushroom pi::a. "That wa fun," Tracy said. "When you're writing about cra:i­ ne s, there' no limit to what you can do." Her favorite bit of dementia is Alan' exual fanta y of "magical interpenetration" with Diana in which hi "heretofore inspired piece of anatomical engineering was useless to his purpose , for it only put out, and he needed something that would draw in; he needed ic to work like the hose of an enormou ly powerful industrial vacuum cleaner, pulling Diana into his body." Tracy repeats with delight what a colleague told her: "The guy i so awful, it' immoral to have created him." Winter Hunger was published by Goose Lane Editions, a New Brunswick publisher, because "American aren't into cannibalism," according to Tracy, and because the book ha a Canadian erring. Being a best seller at the SUNY-Plattsburgh bookstore i no guaran­ tee that che book will make The New York Times list, but major re­ Ann Tracy '62, author of Winter Hunger views are in the offing.The novel's horrors could tran lace powerfully to the creen, too. Tracy says she has already sold an option on movie to tum into cannibals, Alan now watche helple sly a the old rights to an outfit in New York. woman's people drown her by pouring dippersful of tea down her " o, I've done that and it was fun,"she said, explaining that no throat through a black rubber tube. To be certain that the windigo i Gothic sequels are in the works. "Having begun late in life, it's not my gone so the dead woman can rest in peace, they will then "drill a little principal profession." Bue a book on adolescence is making the rounds hole in her chest ...and pour it in." of publishers now, and she hopes to write a nursing-home novel. The mood of the novel grows progressively agitated and sombre. "Black comedy i fun,"she said. "I see one on the horizon." The imagery i broodingly scenic: social, mental and moral i olation The ending of Winter Hunger is a genuinely unsettling but per­ and Alan' gnawing hunger are plausible in this vast, boring, relent­ fe ctly prepared wallop that leaves one in a quandary. (le may be le cold. Feeding on his own resentments against i olation, di er­ revealed thac certain tables-along with dishes, knives and what­ tation, Indians, mother, father,chil d and wife, he drives himselfloco. not-are turned.) Unlike mo c early Gothic mysteries, Winter Tracy revels in di ecting thi ravenously uxorious breakdown in Hunger offersno moral and makes no clear distinctions between good grisly detail. and evil. No noble savage contrast with degenerate interlopers from "The first draft concentrated on humor and surprises," she said. che outside, nor is nature a benign counterbalance to the depravities "I played that down in the econd draft. I changed the content of his of human nature. All along, however, Alan' angui hed nightmare dreams and added feminist stuff, made it more scary. The point of evoke hi unconsciou dreads of professional failure, women, family. view prohibited being inside anybody' head but Alan' . He' the one A villain who is goaded by so many modem-day and real-life con­ who' the outsider and not good at connecting with native culture. flicts-and who struggles again t his sadi tically ensual urge to He doesit badly because that's the ort of per on he is." devour the "doll-woman"-inspires pity a well as fe ar. Setting and plot often predominate over character in Gothic "When ome people are confronted with a deftly rendered fiction, but Tracy' character are spooky not becau e of their typi­ Gothic," Tracy said, "they'll say the book is so good that it's not really cally my terious origins-Diana, the mythological huntress, the Gothic." Winter Hunger is that good. One shouldn't read it merely a fe mini t; Alan the in ecure offspring of nonentities, the uxorious a story that touches all the ba e of a literary genre. Like the original male-but becau e they are ordinary people going nuttyduring a long Gothic novels, it appeal i to the underside of imagination in an era winter ut up together in an alien land. Fromthe credible intercultural driven batty with reason and with rationalism' sometimes lunatic and marital relations, the i olation and Alan' rampaging insecurity, technology. An examination of Alan's neurotic and erotic rage and Tracy constructs wonderfullyrealized-if ob essive and repellent­ his mental and moral deterioration, Winter Hunger i a p ychological human beings. novel of horror of the fir t, chllling water. -Robert Gillespie

Colby,May 1991 35 GIFTS & GRANTS Xerox Funds Summer Institute

olby's Top Five Summer Institute, an word proces ing, an explanation and di - experimentalC program that allows 25 t0 30 cussion of the liberal arts, how to finance a promising minority students tO spend two college education, mock college interviews weeks on Mayflower Hill before they start and the college application process-in­ their junior year of high chool, has been cluding recommendations, the essay and a awarded a $150,000 grant from the Xerox imulated SAT test." Foundation. Cotter added that attendees sample a The program, now known as the Xerox wide variety of college classwork in the arts Summer Institute, was conceived in 1987 as and sciences and participate in recreational a vehicle for introducing bright youngsters programs during their two weeks at Colby. from inner-city backgrounds in Boston and Members of the Colby faculty and staffteach other urban centers to the value of a liberal the cla e and run the workshops, he said, education at colleges such as Colby. Its and selected Colby minority students a si t original name was derived from the notion in the institute and live with the high school that applicants were likely to come from the participants in campus residence hall . top 5 percent of their high school classes. "We are very pleased that Xerox has "The program i well-structured, from endorsed this concept," Cotter said after early breakfast to evening rap se ions," receiving word of the grant. "This award will President Bill Cotter explained to David T. allow us tO continue and to expand the Kearn , Colby parent and chairman of the valuable work of what i now the Xerox Xerox Corporation, in Colby's grant proposal. Institute for t he next three ummers. l t comes "Workshop topics include writing, reading at a time when uch programs are more vital Mary Ellen Matava for comprehension, using the computer for and generally lessavailable than before, and Thomas Shattuck, ChemistryDepartment chair, 1 know that each and every youngster who conducts a summer lnb for visiting students from comes to Colby will benefit." urban high schools. Nelson Therapy Center: Cotter said that the Xerox funding Over the Top would help Colby expand the institute in two areas. For the past four years, he said, Alumni Endow A total of 2 74 individual contributors most participants have come from Boston, have donated and pledged $225,000 for the the nearest large city to Colby. Now the Tw o Scholarships new Carl Nelson athletic training facility­ College will recruit actively at high schools more than matching the $200,000 chal­ in every Northeast urban center and beyond. Two Colby trustee who were class­ lenge grant from Harold L.H.D. '80 and The institute's other area of expansion, mates onMayflower Hill are the latest alumni Dorothy "Bibby" Levine Alfond '38. he said, pertains to the curriculum, with who have responded to the College's cam­ "This has been an unusual outpouring greater emphasis to be placed on the sciences paign for major gifts to increase student that reflects the admiration and esteem so this year and in summers to come. financial aid. Each has contributed signifi­ many generationsofColbian have for Carl," "While we believe that the institute cantly to the establishment of an endowed said Peyton R. "Randy" Helm, vice presi­ should continue to stress raising aspirations scholarship. dent for development and alumni affairs, and making the liberal art education more The two donors are Peter Hart '64, who worked with David Robert '55, direc­ inviting to these tudent ," Cotter said, "we president of the Peter D. Hart Research tor of planned giving, and Sid Farr '55, also believe that we must strengthen the Association, Inc., the nationally prominent alumni secretary, on thecampaign. "What it science component of the program, focusing polling organization, and Robert Furek '64, means is that we are going to be able to more intently on sciences, e pecially math president and CEO of Heublein, Inc., the complete this important project on time and and computer science." Connecticut-based distillers. do it right." For more information on the Xerox "Such gifts are o important," Colby Helm said thatthe $4 25 ,000 now raised Summer In titute at Colby, write the coordi­ President Bill Cotter said, "because they go is in line with revi ed estimates of the train­ nator, Andrea P. McNeal-Smith, in the to the heart of our mission-our ability to ing center's costsand that the facility should Office of Admi sions at Colby, or call her at deliver quality, affordable education to those be ready by the beginning of next semester. (207) 872-3168. mo t qualified on a need-blind basis."

36 Colby, May 1991 MULES ON THE MOVE Basketball Teams Celebrate ECAC First

ucce ful ba ketball squads have been part of the winter scene for career bests of 23 at Bates and 29 at t. Joseph's. aS long time on Mayflower Hill. So with the men's team plugging along But as the season progre sed, Cimino emerged a the the go-to with a 5-3 record early thi year and the women's quad mired at 3- player, averaging 22.4 points over the final eight games, and the 5, campu partisans predicted that var ity fortune would improve. others assumed important roles. Derrington and co-captain Deanne But even the most optimistic fan could not have envisioned the Newton '91 were steadying influences who made key shot and extent of the turnaround. provided Kim with rare breathers from her play-making durie . On The two teams won 36 of their remaining 39 games, and Colby the in ide, opponents had to re peer the 6-foor-l Montgomery forher became the fir t college to win both Eastern College Athletic baby hook and her ability to drive the baseline. Conference Division III New England ba ketball championship in And when a spark was needed it often came from the bench in the same season. the presence of Kathy Pooler '94, Heather Belanger '92 and Lowell­ The champion hips came on succes ive weekends in March Pooler with spin moves to the basket, Lowell from three-point range before roaring throngsat Wadsworth Gymnasium. Largely on the and Belanger under and around the hoop. trengrh of a 33-point, 18-rebound effort from forward Li: Cimino Colby, which had bowed our in the first round of the ECAC '92, the women upset top- eeded Emmanuel, 73- 70, in a seesaw tournament the year before, eliminated Trinity, 74-60, in this year's thriller in doubt until the la t econd. Then, with senior forward opener, with Cimino scoring 22. In the semi-final, four starters scored Kevin Whitmore' 25 points and 12 rebound leading the way, rhe in double figures-led by Cimino with 17 points-and Colby came men defended their ride by routing Bab on, 97-63. from behind to down Clark, 62-53. Earlier that afternoon,Emmanuel It seemed that theearly setback left both var iries more bartle­ had drubbed Connecticut College, 84-52, to set up a rematch of irs tested than discouraged, especially since they were tempered with seven-point conquest of Colby just rhe previous week. everal notable succes es. The women upset BuffaloState and un­ The final game was a thriller. Each squad featured a quality beaten Franklin & Marshall to win a tournament in uburban starting lineup anda strong bench, and thescore seesawed throughout. Washington, D.C., and the men-behind Whitmore' season-high Kim's jumper with two seconds left in the half put Colby ahead 33- 35 points-won at alem Stare, 7- 0, in a victory that gained 32, burEmmanuel used fourthree-point hoops to seize a 50-43 lead, ignificance when theVik ing won rheir next 20 games to rise to No. 2 in the national ranking . Tho e were but glimmer of glory yet to come. Following a los to highly ranked SouthernMaine, theWhite Mule women reeledoff nine victo­ ries and won 18 of their next 20. Even thelosses-a 103-97 erback at the tiny St. Jo eph's gym in Windham and an 83- 76 defeat at Emmanuel-were indications of how far theteam had come. Four games in eight days in January produced a different lead­ ing corer eachti me, with Cimino coring 1 7 point against Wheaton, ophomore point guard Maria Kim 15against Clark, enior co-captain Kim Derrington 19 with 13 re­ bounds again t Thomas and junior guard Adria Lowell 14off the bench against UMass-Bo ton. Sopho­ morecenter Beth Montgomery also led the team twice with successive TheColby women's basketballsquad fo llowing its firstECAC Division III championship since 1985.

Colby, May 1991 37 the largest of the game, in the second half. Cimino, who scored 16 in to strip Anderson of the ball and Derrington found Kim streaking the first half to become the White Mules' top all-time single-season toward the hoop. Kim's layup with 17 seconds left gave Colby a 73- scorer, sparked the Colby comeback, scoring seven points over the 70 lead that withstood a last-second Emmanuel challenge. next 85 seconds. The score was tied at 50 with 10:58 to play. In winning 18 of their final 19 games to secure their second Six lead changes later, Cimino fielded a pass from Kim and sank consecutive New England title, the men's squad emerged as a team a jump shot to put Colby in front 70-67 with one minute and 24 with no discernibleweakness. Whitmore, the scoring leader, was also seconds to go. But when Cimino missed the front end of a one-and­ the defensive star. Junior John Daileanes matched Whitmore point one, Emmanuel guard Starla Anderson hit a three-point shot to knot for point before spraining an ankle during the 96-61 blowout of the game at 70 with 38 seconds left. Thomas and being sidelined for two weeks. Fouled in the open court, Cimino hit one of two from the line When Daileanes returned and senior playmaker Tom Dorion five seconds later to give Colby a 71-70 lead. Then came the raised his own point production to nearly 20 a game, the White Mules defensive stopper of the game, as Derrington and Cimino teamed up possessed too potent an attack for any Division III opponent. And if Whitmore, Daileanes and Dorion didn't make it happen, junior John Rimas, sophomore Paul Butler and seniors Clint Williams and Nate Carpenter did. Typical of thevelocity and ferocity of theColby attack was a late January encounter at Bates. The Bobcats hit their first six shots-and still trailed, 21-12. Whitmore scored 30, Dorion had 21 with eight assists, Rimas had 20 and Daileanes chipped in with 12 in his first game back. The final was l l l-82, a setback so humiliating for Bates that they went into a tailspin that co t them an ECAC tourneybid. The most exciting moment of the rest of the season came three nights later at Middlebury. After leading most of the way, the White Mules fell behind by two points in the final seconds. With Whitmore out on fouls, even a tying basket to force an overtime period did not seem to auger a positive outcome. Not to worry. Daileanes, still rusty after his layoff,had missed his previous 10 shots. He canned the next one from beyond the three-point arc, and Colby won, 80-79. The White Mules took the next six contests and entered the tournament as the top seed, assured of playing all their post-season games at Wadsworth, where they had won 19 games in a row. Anna Maria College of Paxton, Mass., champion of the Commonwealth Coast Conference, came to Waterville with high hopes and a 20-7 record and departed two hours later a 103-75 loser. Next up was Williams, which had beaten Colby, 73-68, in Williamstown four weeks earlier with 31 points from a junior sharpshooter named John Conte. Coach Dick Whitmore decided to counter Conte's three-point threat with a taller defender, his son Kevin, and Whitmore the player immediately made Whitmore the coach seem ingenious. He deflectedConte's first two shots and held the Ephmen star scorelesson the night in an 83-53 victory. One game remained, and a capacity crowd jammed Wad worth to see Colby battle seventh-seeded Bab on, surprise conquerer of Brandeis and Tufts. And when the Beavers from Wellesley, Mass., scored the first five points, it seemed a battle indeed. But Colby had come too far to fa lter. Whitmore and Rimas led an early 16-2 spurt, and the White Mules were already in command, 47-32, at the half. Dorion started the second half with a three-pointer, and the Mule Kevin Whitmore goes up for 2 of his 17 points in the ECAC semi-final. continued to pull away in the lopsided victory.

38 Colby , May 1991 parked by an All-American first-year stu­ Harriet "Twisty" Gogolak and junior dentS from Lexington, Mass., the women's Christy O'Rourke, who filled the team's track team won the New England Division top two spots, qualified for national indi­ III tide for the third traight year and finished vidual competition. O'Rourke secured a beth in a field of33 at the ECAC Division llI victory in the consolation bracket, but meet. Gogolak was eliminated after losing her At the New Englands, Jennifer Curtis first two matches. '93, Michelle Severance '94 and Kelly Jennifer Hartshorn '94 For the men's squash team, junior Redfield, a visiting student from Pomona Dilan Siritunga went unbeaten at the College, placed first in the 55-meterdash, the number two position at the team national , 1,500-meter run and the 3,000-meter run, Colby Captures and Mike Keller '92 represented Colby in respectively. The 00- and 1 ,600-meter relay individual competition at William Col­ team also took fir t . Third Straight lege. Redfield and cros -country tandout Two All-ECAC players, juniors Eric Severance qualified to run the 5,000 at the Women's Track Title Turner and Derek Bettencourt, led the national in March. Redfield fini hed ninth Colby men's ice hockey ream to a 9-10-4 in a field of 15; illness prevented Severance from completing her race. overall record and a near trip to the ECAC tournament. Jennifer Hartshorn'94 ran to a fifth place, 2:17. 8 finish in the 00- T wenty-rwo games into the season, Charlie Corey's squad faced meter event, earning All-America honor . In her debut eason as a arch-rival Bowdoin at Alfond Arena, eeking a victory that would White Mule, Hartshorn set Colby records in the 600-, 800- and have been the first against Bowdoin ince 1982-83 and could have 1,000-meters races. ent the White Mules into po t-season play for the first time since In other sports action this winter: 1986. The men's track team finished ninth at the New England Di­ Bur it was nor to be. The Polar Bearsdowned Colby, 3-1, in spite vision Ill champion hips and 11th at the ECAC ew England meet. of a 30-save performance in net by Turner. The Augusta, Maine, Sophomore Ben Trevor placed first in the 1,500-meter race at native posted two shutouts on the season, sported an .891 save the New England Division III meet with a time of4:0 0.83, ju t off a percentage and was twice named ECAC goalie of the week. qualifying pace forthe national Division III meet. Dave Donnelly '91 "We're moving in rhe right direction," head coach Laura turned in personal bests in the 3,000- and 5,000- meter run , and his Halldorson declared after her women's ice hockey ream concluded time of 15:09.83 at the Division I championships ranked him 15th an 8-8-3 sea on. The White Mules surged in the second half of the nationally in rhar event. Warren Shearer '94 was the only Divi ion season, winning six of the last 10 games to finish .500-a significant III athlete to qualify forthe national Division l finals in the 1,000- turnaround fromlast year's 5-12-2 mark. meter race. Senior Dina Cloutier was a key to Colby's fortunesthroughout Both the Alpine and Nordic ski ream ucces fully defended the season. The goaltender from Seekonk, R.l., topped the ECAC their NCAA Division II champion hips this winter. Division III ranks with a parkling .901 save percentage. At a championship meet ha tily relocated from the snowle s Fourteen Colby swimming records fell thi year, and senior Sally Camden Snow Bowl to Anita h in New Hamp hire with the help of White '91 made her fourthtrip to the national championship meet. Attitash general manager Jeff Lathrop '68, senior co-captain Ellyn The lone women's record to fallwent to Deb Stinchfield '92, Paine capped her sparkling Alpine career by racing to a first-place who bested sophomore teammate Karyl Brewster's 50-meter breast finish in the slalom event and third in the giant lalom. stroke mark, er last sea on. All of the rest were broken by the White The men' Alpine team was led by sophomore Chri Bither, who Mule men at the New England Division lll championships en route fini hed second in the slalom and third in the giant slalom. to an 11th place finish. Junior co-captain B.J. Gasperoni set three new The men's Nordic squad placed first in the Division II champi­ records in the 200-, 500- and 1,650-meter free tyle event and swam onship meet at Troll Valley in Maine, the women's team second. on two record-breaking relay reams. Junior Matt Davie bested his For the second traight year, enior Marc Gilbertson qualified Colby record in the 50-merer freestyle by two econds but mi sed the for national competition, fini hing 26th in the 20k classical race and national qualifying mark by two-tenths of a econd. In the diving 34th in the 1 Ok kating race. competition, senior Walker Fenton-who already owns all four The women's squash team et a new Colby mark with 14 win College diving records-finished eighth and 13th in one-meter and in a sea on, captured its fourth straight CBB title and finished 15th three-meter competition. at the national team competition held at Amherst College. Senior

Colby,May 1991 39 ' REUNION WEEKEND 9 1

JUNE 6-9

he schedule of general events for the weekend is listed here. be as isted by high school students, and will include meals, games, Additional informationwill be mailed to each reunion class (SO+, '41, movies, wimming, arts and crafts and entertainment. The Colby Care '46, '51, '56, '61, '66, '7 1, '76, '81, '86.) Last-minute weekend notes and Corps will be housed on the same floorsas the children to whom they the final schedule will be available at the regi tration desk during the are as igned and will be responsible for them until 11 p.m. only. They weekend. will resume their duties after breakfast the next day. The Corps will have a break at Saturday lunch from noon to l :30 p.m., during which Child Care Services time parents are respon ible for their own children. Plea e register A full program of supervised activities has been scheduled for your child in advance with the reservation form. children of all ages, from morninguntil 11 p.m. daily. Registration for Teenager's Program There will be a variety ofactivities avail­ child care programs will be held Friday 1 p.m.-10 p.m. and Saturday able for teenagers, supervised by College student organizers. These :30 a.m.-5 p.m. There is a $20 activity fee foreach child through age activities are organized to encourage teenagers to be active and 12 and a $15 activity fee for teenagers to participate in the child care socialize with one another. program. Unregistered children may attend children' meals and should make advance reservations for those meals. 50+ Club and SOth Reunion Class Babysitting-for children up to age 5 Group babysitting ar­ You and your spouse are guests of the College for the weekend, rangements are available forchi ldren up to age 5. Please register your but you mu t complete and return the reservation form for all meals child in advance with the reservation form. Hours available: Friday 6- you plan to attend and for your room needs. You must let us know 11 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-11 p.m. lt is recommended that parents which nights you will need lodging so we can reserve a space for you. bring a portable crib for their child(ren) if possible. Youngsters-ages 5-8, Pre-Teens-ages 9- 12 Thi child care Reservation Information program will begin on Friday at 8 a.m. and will run through lunch on Rooms are available on campus in the re idence halls for$25 per Sunday. Activities will be organized by fourCollege students who will adult for the weekend or part of the weekend and $15 per child under

Thursday, June 6 8:30 a.m.-11 p.m. 1991 Alumni Associarion 9a.m. 3-4:30 p.m. Regisrrarion Desk Open Award Recipients Road Race/Fun Run Math Deparrment 11 a.rn.-6:30p.m. Pick up reservarion Distinguished Alumnus Receprion Registrarion for Seminar lO a.m. informarion and final Award: John Roderick '36 Parricipants and the Classes Alumni A sociarion 4 p.rn. schedule of events Marriner Distinguished of '4 1 and '66 Meering wirh President President's Advi ory Su.u:lentCencer Service Award: Roberr S. StudentCencer Loblry Co tr er Council on Minority Loblry Lee '51 All alumni are welcome AffairsReceprion Noon-1 p.m. Noon- I p.m. Colby Brick Awards: and encouraged to attend Lunch for seminar par- Lunch Frank 0. Apantaku '71, 5:30-6:30 p.m. ticipants R. Dennis Dionne '61, 11 a.m. Children's Dinner Noon Michael Franklin '63, Parade of Classe 1:15-4:30 p.m. Class of '66 Cookour Evening Alumni/Sraff Seminar: Doris Hardy Haweeli '25, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Class Reunion Dinners and "Creative Estate Planning" 1 p.m. John B. Philson F'42 Lobster Bake/Cookout Dances 5 p.m. Colby Film Series starts 9p.m. Afternoon Class of '41 Open House Faculry/Alumni Open Class events, meering , & 3 p.m. Buffet Dinner House (beer, wine, mixers rennis, music and more! Sunday, June 9 Tour of Museum of Arr available) 6:30 p.m. Renovations with Mu eum 1 p.m. 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Dinner for seminar par- Direcror Hugh Gourley Saturday, June 8 Colby Film Series starrs Brunch Buffet Boxed lunches will be ticipants & rhe Class of '66 1:30 p.m. 5:30-7 p.m. 7-9 a.m. available fortravelers Children's Cookout Breakfa t Campus Walk: "Bugs, Bees, Friday, June 7 Bushes and Birds," a tour of Morning 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 5:45 p.m. the Perkin Arboretum Class Continental 6:45-9 a.m. Registration Desk Open Welcome Back Social Hour with Profe sor of Biology Breakfasts Breakfast Pick up reservation David Firmage 8a.m. 6:45 p.rn. informarion and final 10: 15 a.m. Alumni Mixed Scramble Reunion Weekend Awards schedule of events Afternoon Boardman Memorial Golf T oumament Banquet in honor of the StudentCencer Loblry Alumni and Faculty Talks Service

40 Colby , May 1991 age 12 forthe weekend or part of the weekend. Rooms include single and send to: Reunion Weekend Reservations, Alumni Office, Colby beds, bedding and towels. If you would be willing to share a room with College, Waterville, ME 04901. By phone: Reservation will be ac­ a classmate or a friend, please indicate so on the reservation form. cepted by phone, only with credit card payment (VISA, Mastercard Housing reservations will be made in the order that they are or American Express). There are no refundsfor phone-in re ervations. received. We will house reunion classes together in the same residence Please call Jodi Gifford at (207) 872-3190. No confirmation of hall, as space permits. We urge you to make reservations promptly, as reservation will be sent to you. there i a limited number of rooms on campus. Reservations may be picked up at the registration desk at the Student Center. If you plan to arrive after 11 p.m. Friday or 5 p.m. Making Reservations Saturday, plea e notify the Alumni Office at least seven days in By mail: Your check should be made payable to Colby College advance so that your room assignments may be sent ro you. and returnedwith the reservation form, or should indicate credit card Please, no refunds after June 3 or at any time for reservations payment. Please include one check to cover campus rooms and meals made by phone.

Please make reservations by May 24. For More Information \V« «annot guarant�·c that there will be meals or rooms Call Jodi Gifford on the Reunion Hotline at (207) 872-3190. availahl« without prior reservation. There is a late f«e F------of ------SI 0 for any reservation received after May 24.---1 I Name (first, maiden/Colby, last): Clas Year: ______I Spouse/Gue t's Name: Colby Class Year (ifapplicable): ______I Please indicate preferred name for nametags: ------

! Addre s/City/State/Zip ______Home phone: ------Bu iness phone: ------

Adults Children under 8 MEALS Number Rate Total Number Rate Total TOTAL Thursday, June 6

Lunch* $7.00 $-- $3.50 $-- $__

Dinner* $17.00 $-- $17.00 $-- $__ Friday, June 7 Breakfast* $4.00 $__ $3.00 $-- $

Lunch* $4.00 $ -- $3.00 $ $ __

Class of '66 Cookout $7.50 $-- $7.50 $ $ __ Awards Banquet* $20.00 $-- $ __ Children's Cookout (same price for all children) $5.50 $__ Saturday, June 8 Breakfast* $4.00 $ __ $3.00 $ -- $__ Lobster Bake* or $13.50 $ -- $13.50 $ $__ Cookout* $8.00 $ $8.00 $__ $ __ Children's Dinner (same price for all children) $4.00 $__ $__ Reunion Class Dinner (circle one) 50+ Club, Class of '4 1 no charge Class of '46, '51 $20.00 $ $__ Class of '66, '81 $25.00 $__ $ Class of '56, '61, 71, '76, '86 $23.00 $ __ $ __ Sunday, June 9 Breakfast Buffet* $6.00 $ $4.50 $ __ $__ Class Continental Breakfast: '66 $4.50 $__ $4.50 $ $__ Boxed Lunch for traveler $3.50 $ $3.50 $ $

ROOMS Adults Children under 12 GOLF TOURNAMENT Number Rate Total umber Rate Total Number Golf Fee Total

$25* $ __ $15 $ $30 $

__ ___ Yes, I would be glad to hare a room. Please assign me with ------or (please check) another cla smate. * Class of '41 and50+ Club-no charge.

CHILD CARE PROGRAMS Names/ Ages/Sexes Number Rate Total Babysitting (age 0-4) $20.00 $ __ Youngsters (age 5-8) $20.00 $ __ Youngsters (age 9- 12) $20.00 $__ Teenagers (over age 12) $15.00 $__

LATE FEE after May 24 deadline: $I 0 perper on

TOT AL (add meals, rooms, golf fee, child care fee and late fee [if applicable)) $ __

Credit Card Payment #______Exp. Date _ _)__ 0 Mastercard 0 VISA 0 American Express

Colby, May 1991 41 ALUMNI AT LARGE FIFTY--PLUS

Marjorie Gould Murphy '3 7 writes who still is his best 'girl fr iend.' the game with two Zetes, Warren enjoyed her trip last spring to from We t Oneonta, N.Y.: ...Melva Mann Farnum '23, Bishop '35, Falmouth, and John Australia and New Zealand. She Portland, says that she has no Reynolds '36, Waterville. A po­ Ii kes to read, do crossword puzzles, pare time, for she read a lot, litical science major at Colby, play golf, work in her garden, Pre.-20s "Classmates walks every day and does volun­ she now wishes that she could entertain and do things with her and friends will be saddened to teer work at the Maine Medical talk with 'Wilkie' about the situ­ two sisters ....Douglas C. learn of the death of Marjorie Center. She is grateful that her ation in the Persian Gulf. Her Grearson '28, Dedham, Mass., Barker Henderson '16, in sister, Arline Mann Peakes '2 7, hobbies are gardening, antiquing played hostto 25 fa mily members Nashua, N.H., at the age of 95. live nearby in Gorham House, and attending the symphony. ... at Thanksgiving. Theycame from ...Howard F. Hill '18 of Bel­ Gorham ....Helen Dresser Helen Kyle Swan '26, Milton, Sweden, California, Colorado, grade Lake , a retired eye sur­ McDonald '23, Portland, keeps Mass., and her husband, Walter, Massachusetts and New Hamp­ geon, repom that he has read all in touch with her Colby friends, have recently moved from Cape shire and included his sister, Edith the books by Leon Uris. Quite particularly a group of Phi Mus Cod back to their hometown of Grearson Money '26 ....Elwood the world traveler, he recalls his who get together at the summer 40 year to be residents of Winter J. Hammond '28, Lakeport, N. H., experience in 57 diffe rent coun­ home of Marguerite Rice Lary Valley. In September they cel­ a re tired dentist, now works our tries, especially his lectures in '23 on the Scarborough-Saco ebrated their 64th wedding on a rowing machine every day, Australia, Japan andYugoslavia." line; Marguerite is a 'wonderful anniversary .... Musician and walks, plays golf, cooks and cares cook and hostess .' Others are traveler Mollie Seltzer Yett '26, for his lawn . ...Ge orge E. Caroline Rogers Hawkes '2 7, Brookline, Mass., and Venice, Fletcher '29, Strong, and his wife, 20s "Ruth E. Wills '20, Windham, Myrtle Main Sher­ Fla., hopes to go ro Brazil oon to Claudia, are to be congratulated Ridgefield, Conn., former teacher man '27, Portland, and Sara vi it her on, Daniel '58, who is for celebrating their 65th wed­ of foreign languages, now prac­ Cowan '3 7, Portland. Becauseshe head of the U.S. con ulate ding anniversary. In the summer tices Italian with friends. She is a Tri Delt, Helen thinks that there ....Marion Sprowl Wil­ he tends to his garden, walks loves to read about fellow Colby­ the group should call itself'Delta liamson '27,Green Valley, Ariz., regularly and goes salmonfishing ites, a compen ation for being a Mu.' ...Mary Watson Flanders says that she has no pare time at with his son on the George River 'shut-in.' ...Oursympathy to the '24, Fort Myers, Fla., recently all, what with reading, doing in so-called 'New Quebec.' ... family and friends of Esther M. traveled west, fir t visiting her needlepoint, attending church Beatrice Palmer Frederick '29, Power '20, who died recently at son in Springfield, Ill., and then activities and being involved in St. Cloud, Fla., traveled back to the age of 92, and of Pauline W. on to Seattle, Wash., to spend PEO. A world traveler, she has Maine to attend her 65th prep Abbott '2 1, who died in Portland Thanksgiving with her daughter. been to Alaska, Hawaii, the South school reunion last June and to at 92 ....Elizabeth 'Betty' ...Members of the Class of 1925 Pacific , China, India, Israel, visit her si ter, Frances Palmer Whipple Butler '21, Waterville, were orry to learnof the death of Greece and the British Isles. '34, in Pittsfield. During the year comments that after achieving John N. Laughton '25, Bangor, ...Marie Holmes Ray '27, he is active in church work, the her 9lst birthday last June, she last spring. He had hoped to at­ Easton, Mass., enjoyed the re­ D.A.R., the Women's Club and set herself the target of reaching tend his 65th reunion ....News union last June. She is the former the Garden Club. She also con­ 100, so that she will have lived in has just come of the death of owner and publisherofa newspa­ ducts a story hour at the St. Cloud three centuries! She still laughs Hilda M. Fife '26, Pommouth, per and belongs to the prestigious Health Care Center ....Former at the 'bear feet' slippers that her N.H., at the age of 87. Our sym­ Scribbler's Club .... Norton alumni secretary and Fifty-Plus grandchildren once put on her pathies to fam ily and friends. Rhoades '27, Stamford, Conn., columnistG. Cecil Goddard '29, before she was wheeled off for ... Donald C. Freeman '26, was glad torenew correspondence China, had a serious fall a few surgery ....Doris Purington Haverhill, Mass., and his wife, with Gabriel Guedj '26, Joshua months ago but is recovering. Cunningham '22, Presque Isle, Isabelle, have recently moved to Tree, Calif., who reminded him ...Philip R. Higgins '29, says that she enjoys reading, an apartment, and although he of a famous motorcycle ride they Springfield, Ma s.,has passed the watching television and enter­ no longer drives his car, he con­ took once from Waterville to Scottish and York Rites in the taining friends in her new apart­ tinues to work for the John Belfast. Norton and his wife, Masons, play bridge, watches ment at Leisure Gardens, where GreenleafWh ittier organization. Anne, are proud to announce the television, reads, walks regularly she moved after selling her ...Loyal alumna Edith 'Ducky' arrival of their first great-grand­ and exercises three days a week at home . . ..Leonard W. Mayo '22, Grearson Money '26, West child, a girl, Katelyn Hanna the Y. He is happy to report that Chagrin Falls, Ohio, reports on a Medford, Mass., reports that the Weber, granddaughter of David following cataract surgery, he can great family picnic in September meeting of class agents during and Sheila Campbell Rhoades now see the world anew .... to celebrate his 9 lst birthday, with Homecoming Weekend was '58, Arvada, Colo., and also great­ Ernest Miller '29, former corre­ all 10 great-grandchildren pres­ worthwhile. She also attended granddaughter ofJoseph Cambell spondent, writes that he is till ent. He remembers that his first the sports banquet on Friday night '29, Augusta .... Elizabeth relishing memories of his trip to date at Colby was with the girl he with Edith Emery '37 and a Watson Gerry '27, Ft. Myers, England last summer with his son, married, Lena Cooley Mayo '24, tailgate party on Saturday before Fla., writes that she thoroughly with whom he hopes to travel to

42 Colby , May 1991 candinavia next ummer. He wishes for a 'holding pattern.'She almost attended Homecoming and her husband, Frank, go to but instead concentrated on his Newsmakers monthly meetings of the Inde­ granddaughter's volleyball play­ pendent TelephonePioneers and offs.... Also a traveler, Rosalie John Parker '28 was the subject of a feature article in the the Northwest Suburban Manu­ Mosher Reynolds '29, Groton, Waldo (Maine) Independent recently. The piece, pan of the fac turers' Association. They have Conn., reports that he spent la t paper's "Fireside Chat" series, examined Parker's contributions three granddaughters, two of June in cotland and England to the Belfast area ....The same newspaper recounts the whom live near them. They also vi iring her daughter, Bethia exploit of arti t-phy icist Bern Porter '32 in a column by have two Siamese cats that pro­ Reynold Morris '57, andBethia's Elizabeth Banwell '85 published on Porter's 80th birthday. vide many laughs and much hu band in Helensburgh, Scot­ Porter, the article said, "is remembered as the tudent who affection ....Orville J. Edes '3 1, land attending a grandchild' made it out of Colby College by leaping through an open Englewood, Fla., says that he wedding and visiting two grand­ window .... Among newspaper people, Bern is considered watches sportson TV and aggra­ daughter and her fir t great­ Belfa t's most persistent trumpeter of the underdog and the vates his wife, but he also attends grandchild in England ... . Jean artist." ...Jane Tarbell Brown '37, a former Union College Shriners meetings, including their Watson '29, Ft. Myers, Fla., profe or, appeared in a recent "Smithsonian World" docu­ Christmas party at the Anah writes that when she and herrwo mentary on gender. Temple in Bangor... . Phyllis si ter , Mary Watson Flander '24 Fisher Gulliver '31, Fort Fair­ and Elizabeth Watson Gerry '27, field, is a volunteer at the Fort were in Maine last ummer, they Mileposts Fairfield Nursing Home, but she had the plea ure of having lunch also enjoys reading, and she likes with Cecil Goddard and of Deaths:Ruth Young Taylor '15 inBiddeford, Maine, at to travel. Next year she hopes to attending plays at Lakewood 98 ....Violet French Collins '18 in Leicester, Ma ., at 93 .... go to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. . . Theater with him. There he in­ Pauline W. Abbott '21 in Portland, Maine, at 92 . . ..Helen Dorcas Paul Frost '32, York troduced them toMargaret Chase Hodgkins Berry '21 in Laconia, N.H., at 91. ...Raymond Beach, reports that she toured mith, Maine's first congre s­ Spinney '21 in Peterborough, .H., at 91. ...Clara Gamage Europe last fall with a group that woman." Woodbury '2 1 in Winter Haven, Fla., at 92... . John N. included three friends from her Laughton '25 in Bangor, Maine, at 86 .... Clarence E. Hale hometown. They flew to Lon­ '26 in San Marcos, Calif., at 88 ....Sylvia V. Brazzell '27 in don, then cro ed the channel 30s "Donald Edward Alli­ Waterville,Maine, at 85 ....Erwin M. Adams '29 in Keene, and vi ited Belgium and Holland, on '30, Westerly, R.l., and hi .H., at 85 ....Pearl Grant Dolloff '29 in Westminster, then went on to Germany, where wife, Virginia, were the first Calif., at 86 ... . Roy E. Smith '29 in Southbury, Conn., at they saw the Oberammergau pas­ couple to recei e the community 84 .... Lindon E. Christie, Sr. '30 in Portland, Maine, at sion play. From there they toured ervice award from the We terly 83 ....Dorothy Donnelly Gradie '30 in Warren, Ohio, at Italy, Switzerland and France and Chamber of Commerce. They l ....John I. Pagan '30 in Oklahoma City, Okla.... Nathan finally flew home from Paris: a have run Winnapaug Day Camp M. Tupper '30 in Englewood, Fla., at 82.. ..Marian Archer great 19-day trip through eight for 4 7 years. Recently, Donald Graffam '33 in Rorne, .Y.,at O . ...Richard N.Kimball '34 countries ....Wil liam H. made a jig aw puzzle of the in ewton, M ., at 77.... Rowena Mosher Brann '36 in Steinhoff '32, Ridge, N.Y., re­ American flag and took it to the Brunswick, Maine, at 76 ....John G. Rideout '36 in Thunder cently celebrated his 85th birth­ elementary school, where he Bay, Ont., at 75 .... Willard Smyth '39 in Falls, Pa., at 75 .. day, likes to swim regularly and poke to the children about the William A. Chasse '40 in Augu ta, Maine, at 72. enjoys listening to books on tape. flagandtheConstitution ....Our De pite his limited vision, he like ympathy to John A. Chadwick to tinker around the house or go '30, Cromwell, Conn., who lost on trip with his wife, Blanche, hi wife, Hazel, in eptember, ties. Last Augu the wa in China, tion. In October he showed a and other members of their but, ince the arrival of little where he pent a week in Gu izhou eries of historical !ides, with a retirement community . ...Ellis Thomas C. Waldman, i a great­ Province 'visiting remote village commentary, to a local audience. 'Andy' Anderson '33, Fresno, grandfather. . . . Norman D. peopled by fasc inating ethnic Like many, he says he enjoyed Calif., remembers vividly his ex­ Palmer '30, Friday Harbor, minorities, uch a the Miao, the PBSdocumentary on the Civil periences living in Saudi Arabia Wash., seem to know the secrets Dong, Li Sani, Ge and Tibetans.' War, but unlike many, he was 20 years ago and doubts if things of a happy retirement: reading, Next summer he plans to go to privileged to meet Ken Burns, have changed very much. Hu - writing, teaching, walking, so­ Tibet and Nepal. ... Henry the film's creator. ...Barbara bands or father alway accompa­ cializing and traveling. He also Bubar '3 1,Northampton, Mass., Gurney Cassidy '3 1, North­ nied women on visits to the doc­ participates in profe ional, com­ writes frequent letters to the edi­ brook, Ill., finds that time eems tor or dentist, women were not munity and internationalactivi- tor of his local paper on educa- to pass much fasternow, and she allowed to drive and young girls

Colby, May 1991 43 of 12 were sometimes purchased grove, Pa., finds that being on the of the mock White Mule. adly, themselve on the glaciers or on as wives for a few hundred dol­ theological commission for her John notes the death of his class­ icebergs-an exciting experi­ lars .... Donald H. Rhoades '3 3, conference of the United Church mate, Alton 'Bob' Blake, who ence!' ...Eleanor 'Ellie' Ross Claremont, Calif., and his wife, of Christ compels her to read a lot lived in Bryn Mawr, Pa ....Dor­ Howard '37, Houlton, and her Dorothy Gould Rhoades '36, in that field, but she also preaches othy Gould Rhoade '36 serve on hu band, Ralph, spend six months made a late summer tour of New regularly, knits, gardens and the board of directors of the Pil­ of the year in Maine working in England and upstate New York, swims. She is glad to have her grim Place Art Museum in the garden and doing lots of fi h­ visiting relatives and friends. He son, John, Jr., an environmental Claremont, Calif., is a member of ing and six months in Key Largo, maintains contact with Clare­ specialist, living at home. Some­ the advisory council and pa t Fla., swimming, biking, sewing mont'sSchoolofTheology, where day, she hopes, she'll make a re­ president of Pi Lambda Theta, and making new friend ....La t he taught for many years. He is turn visit to Greece .... David the honorary education society, summer, Roland 'Rod' Pelletier also active in church work and and Ann Trimble Hilton '35, and i president of her circle at '3 7, Orland, enjoyed making his enjoys doing the daily crossword, Southport, Maine, highly recom­ the Claremont United Church of new lodge more rustic by paint­ reading five newspapers and fol­ mend Bermuda and Barbados as Christ. She and her husband, Don ing, building some furniture and lowing the stock market. Out­ pleasant places to visit. . . '33, happily served Thank giving organizing the tudio loft. He also doors, he tends the lawn and gar­ Theophile 'Phil' Krawiec '35, dinner to 12 family members, in­ did some sailing and served as den, builds fences and walls when Bethlehem, Pa., enjoys his teach­ cluding Roger '40and Ruth Gould president of the Unity Historical needed and walks regularly. He ing as an adjunct professor, even Stebbins '40, Gilbert and Elinor Society ....Willard D. Libby and Dorothy recently visited their without compensation. He con­ Gould and me ....Beulah Fen­ '37, Roche ter, N.Y., and Pema­ daughter and her family in Seattle, tinues to work on the abridgment derson Smith '36, Well , con­ quid, reports on a summer well Wash.,as well as Dorothy' si ter, of articles submitted by early psy­ tinues to write a monthly column spent with the usual sailing and Ruth Gould Stebbins '40, and chologists to The History of Psy­ for her local paper. Her October family visits. He al o helped his her husband, Roger M. Stebbins chology in Autobiographies. He is column started with a poem called son, Lowell '77, winterize Lowell's '40, in Sequim, Wash ....Portia trying to condense 30-50 pages of 'The Autumn Hou e,' and Beulah new hou e in Brun wick .... Pendleton Rideout '34, Au­ material into five pages. Phil and went on to write movingly about Ruth Yeaton McKee '3 7, East gusta, reports that she drove to his wife, Stephanie, took a cruise the joys of reclaiming her home Boothbay, took advantage of be­ Mullica, N.j., in her 1978 Chevy, on the Danube in late summer. . and beach after the summer tour­ ing within easy driving di tance as well as across the northern Peggy Jordan Lewis '35 and her i ts left ....Edmund L. Barnard of Waterville and attended border into Harland, N.B., to visit husband, Miller, have moved to '3 7, Northport, says that he ha Homecoming in the fa ll, where fa mily. In Canada she went to a smaller quarter at 12733 Via finally recovered from the condi­ she saw a surprising number of Rideout family reunion with 75 Nasca, San Diego, CA 92 128. tion for which he was ho pital­ Fifry-Plu members. She enjoys others. She has also visited a Tales of travels later. . . . Gordon ized last winter but adds that he being near her daughter and fam­ nephew in Michigan and is plan­ Patch Thompson '35, Clear­ doesn'tappreciate the limitations ily and attracts Colby friend year ning a pring trip to Sarasota, Fla. water, Fla., and his wife, Maude, he now has, including not being round. Her only out-of-state trips She continues to volunteer in celebrated their 50th wedding able to drive at night or go out in are to California, where her two the elementary school and for anniversary last year. He has been hi boat alone. As usual, his sons live ....Elizabeth 'Betty' her church .... Arthur W. Stet­ a full-time volunteer at the Up­ latchstring has been out to fam­ Wilkinson Ryan '37, New York son '34, Silver Spring, Md., and per Pinellas Association for the ily, friends and Colbyites. He and City, continues to tutor foreign his wife celebrated their 50th Retarded and received the Vol­ his loyal dog, Happy, and cat, tudents in conver ational En­ wedding anniversary last June unteer of the Year award in Boots, welcomed Muriel and Fred glish. In November she accom­ with their fa mily on a Potomac 1990 ....Catherine 'Kay' Demers '37, who visited from panied two insecure Japanese River luncheon cruise. This was Laughton Briggs '36, Somers, Thomaston .... Margaret Libbey women and their husbands to a followed by a three-week vaca­ Conn., a retired teacher, volun­ Darlow '3 7, China, attended an performance of the Nutcracker at tion in July at their cottage on teers at her local chool, does Elderhostel for the first time by the Joffrey Ballet.She entertained Webber Pond in Vassalboro. genealogical re earch, plays the arranging to visit with her nephew a Japanese college tudent at ...Harold F. Brown '35, Bra­ piano, writes letters and cares for in Richmond, Wis. She learned Christmas and was looking for­ denton, Fla., former musical di­ her 8-year-old granddaugh­ about the legend of the North ward to meeting the Barnard­ rector, hopes to make a mu ical ter. ...WhenJ ohnP. Dolan '36, Woods .... Edith Emery '37, bound daughter of a former tour of Vienna, Salzburg and Des Moines, Iowa, returned to Haverhill, Mass., is enthusiastic student from Korea ....Con­ Munich soon. To keep fit, he Colby last fall for Homecoming about her first crui e, which she gratulations to Hazel Wepfer walks, plays golf and runs. He and he must have broken some kind took in September, from Van­ Thayer '3 7 andJ. Marble Thayer his wife spend their summers in of record, for he said it was his couver to Alaska. 'I explored '38, Orr's Island, who celebrated South Portland, where they enjoy 5 7th Homecoming.To prove that Ketchikan, Juneau and Sitka and their 50th wedding anniversary seeing Colby friends ....Beth he was there, he took pictures at saw eagles, five killer whale close in August at a surprise dinner Pendleton Clark '35, Selins- the footballgame, including one to the ship and seals sunning given by their two daughter ,Jane

44 Colby , May 1991 50.. Plus Correspondent

Marjorie Gould Murphy '3 7 P.O. Box 102, South Street West Oneonta, Y 13861 Phone: 607-432- 936

Thayer Hutchinson '72 and Bar­ Lauderdale, Fla., writes that he is some fun in the snow ....Violet Michael A. Spina '39 has moved bara Thayer Barry '74, at the a golferand fisherman, a Kiwanian Hamilton Christensen '39 re­ from New Jersey to 302 Halo St., towe Hou e in Brunswick. Many (past president) and a past presi­ porrs that she and her husband Duncanville, TX 75137 .... friend from the area, as well as dent of the county dental society. finally succeeded in elling their Arline Bamber Veracka '39, manyfromConcord,Mas .,where He is lay speaker atChrist United Ocean Grove, N.J., house and Norwood, Mass., writes of the Hazel and Marble used to live, Methodist Church in Fort Lau­ have moved to Williamsburg, Va., passing of a hectic year that in­ were pre ent. . . Henry V. derdale and at the First United where they are now settling in volved surgeries for her elf and Wilcox '37, Big Pine, Calif., was Methodi t Church in Miami. and getting acquainted. Theirnew her hu band, Peter, and the pleased to have Archie Follett '38 Also, he is a volunteer at Cov­ address is 30 Priorslee Lane, trauma of selling her mother's and his wife visit from Lakeland, enant Hou e and for Habitat for 23185 .... Fletcher Eaton '39, house and di po ing of its con­ Fla., during a tour of the West last Humanity. He was plea ed to re­ Needham, Mass., besides writing tents. All is well now." ummer. Henry likes to fish, work ceive a B.A. from Colby in 19 9. and sending off manu cripts to in his yard and read my tery sto­ Congratulation ! ...Two 193 publishers, is correspondent for rie , especially those by John D. classmates, Martha Wakefield his class at MIT. He complains 40 "Bob Bruce, Watertown, MacDonald and Earle Stanley Falcone of Hartford,Conn., and that hi engineers do not respond Conn., report that he and his Gardner, of who e work he ha Martha Bessom Gorman of as cooperatively as our Fifty-Plus wife, Olga, are going on their complete collection ....Whit­ Marblehead, Mas ., spent two group does. Fletcher retired from ninth Elderhostel, four of which ney Wright '37 says there has day together in Harrford in the Polaroid five year ago and won­ have been overseas. The most been a great improvement in hi fall, enjoying the foliage, the city's der why he doesn't have any more dramatic was at Shantung vi ion followingtwo cataract op­ sight , a good movie and a lot of free time ....Gardiner Gregory Teacher ' College in China in eration . He continues to erve talking. They report that it was a '39, Orland, ays his pictures from May of19 89, just as thestudents on the Boothbay Harbor Board of great joy ....Clifford R. Nelson the 50th reunion are still avail­ were beginning their protests. 'So Appeals, on the board of the Mile '38, aples, Fla., continues to able for the asking. He has put watch the new from Poland in Foundation of Mile Memorial help is wife, who wasinjured in them in an album, and you can August!' Bob says,betraying their Ho pital in Damariscotta and on an accident cau ed by a drunk peruse them when you come to next destination ....Philip M. the East Field Key to National driver. He also plays golf, help Colby. In addition to photogra­ Grant spent six weeks in New YMCA, Pine Tree Cluster of out with the MokaleeHabitat for phy, he raise caterpillars of the Zealand last fall and hopes to YMCAs. He is still excited about Humanity, garden , doe yard Saturnidae moth, reads, watches spend four weeks in Hawaii this Colby's win over Bowdoin in work and swims in the gulf.... sports on TV and plays with hi winter. Hi new address is 1140 football la t fall-'the most ex­ Mitchell E. Phillips '38, ew­ new beagle, Queenie . ... Eliza­ Baker Creek Road, McMinnville, citing and amazing game I have ton Centre, Mass., has been a beth 'lppy' Solie Howard '39 is Oreg ....Priscilla B. Mailey, ever seen, including on TV!' ... Ma on for over 30 year and re­ happy to be back in her Acton, Clovis, Calif., ay she is glad she Walter Zukowski H'37, of cently began working as a volun­ Ma s., home after living in an went to her 50th reunion last Waterville and Owl's Head, is teer at the hriners Bum Insti­ apartment in the ew York area June. She had a hectic summer now a proud grandfather: Mat­ tute, where children from all over while her husband, Dick, served and fall with vi itors and with thew David Hurd, on of David the world are treated free of as vice president of the Botanical working at the Fresno Zoo, but and Mary Zukow ki Hurd '79, charge-' a truly wonderful thing,' Gardens. A Chri tmas letter told surgery in February slowed her wa bornin the fall.Congr atula­ he says. He till remembers hi of their thrilling experience be­ down a bit. She hope to oon be tions to all. ... Ralph W. Brown 50th reunion with plea ure and ing in Prague on the day Vaclav perking again in her usual '38, Palm Harbor, Fla., and his hopes to return to Colby again Havel took the oath of office as style. ...Carl W. McGraw, wife,Bernice, have enjoyed their oon. ...Frank A. Record '38, Czechoslovakia's president. lppy Rochester, .Y., retired from 17 years of retirement by pend­ Carli le, Ma ., regret that he was singing in a chorus at St. Eastman Kodak and has now ing their summers in Searsport had to miss his 50th reunion be­ Nichola Church in Prague .... traveled in all 50 states. He has and their winter in Florida. They cause of eyesurgery. He pent last Ellis Mott '39, Ashland, Ore., is done research in Alaska and Ta­ recently completed a motor trip February in Ecuador visiting his a computer consultant and is also hiti and enjoy downhill and around the Gaspe Penin ula and new granddaughter. He and his working on a book. Last May he cro -country skiing in this coun­ hope to take a Caribbean crui e wife, Lucille, try to vi it their on became a life member of the Na­ try and abroad ....Edna Slater thi year. ...Congratulations to in Salt Lake City every year. ... tional Association of Science Pullen, Surry, trie to keep track Carolyn and Joseph Ciechon '38, Edwin H. Shuman '38, Penney Writers .... Congratulations to of her fourgrandch ildren, two of Ridgefield, Conn., on their 50th Farms, Fla., i grateful forhi chil­ Stanley and Judith Quint whom travel extensively, and she anniver ary la t ummer, which dren now thathe lives alone. At Schreider '39, Newton Centre, enjoy bowling, golf and bridge ... they penc touring the Canadian Christma time he flew to Cali­ Mas ., on celebrating their 50th Virginia Gray Schwab, Westlake Rockie . 'What a way to spend a forniato be with on Robert and wedding anniver ary. They met Village, Calif., ha been a Navy 50th honeymoon,' Jo eph ay . hi family and afterwards went on a fir t date foreach at Colby, wife, is the mother of three and a ...Richard J. Currier '38, Ft. with them to Park City, Utah, for and the romance was on! ... frequent traveler.

Colby,May 1991 45 Proud Son Restores His Mother's Legacy

Twice in his life, nearly six decades apart, Solomon C. Fuller '36 the Maine hinterlands in a beat-up car with cellophane window­ has worked to honor a professor he probably never met. panes. When they were students at Colby, Fuller and his brother, the One aspect of campus life from which both were barred, as late William "Tom" Fuller '35, convinced the Class of '35 to African Americans, was fratemiry membership. And although commission their mother, renowned sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, Fuller says he has fond memories of Colby, many of hi negative to cast a bronze relief tablet honoring Professor Julian B. Taylor. memories revolve around racial di crimination. Taylor, a Colby alumnus who taught Latin at the College for "We had this Thanksgiving inter-fratemiry track meet where 61 years, from 1868 to 1931, was a towering figure on the College the prize was a turkey, "he recall . "A a Negro you weren't eligible Avenue campus. He lived to see four of his students become Colby to become a fraternitymember at all, o I couldn't participate. A presidents and influenced generations ofColbian .The plaque wa few days before this track meet, the guys on the team would come hung in Memorial Hall but disappeared during the move to around and say, 'Hey Sol, when are you going to be running?' Mayflower Hill. knowing full well that if I ran against them they didn't have a "While the building lay vacant, the tablet must have been chance." stolen forthe metal," Fuller speculates. "I had in my cellar the head Colby, of course, didn't have a comer on prejudice-Fuller of the original cast, and I put it up in my room as a memorial to my says he has encountered it throughout his life. A long and distin­ mother's work. I then suggested, a few years ago, that Colby should guished career with the Boy Scouts of America began typically. have it recast and rebronzed.I pestered them because I think a man Armed with his Colby degree, Fuller showed up for work at a like him deserves to be remembered." Fuller is crafting the new summer camp--and wa a igned kitchen duty. "It's a condition of bronze, which will become part of the library's Colbiana collection. man that we have to understand," he says of racism. "It's a result Fuller ha no personal recollection of the man whose memo­ of natural human relations, and you shouldn't take offense too rial he has worked to preserve. "I don't think I ever saw Judy quickly." Taylor," he said. "My father [psychiatrist Solomon Fuller, Sr.] wa Still, understanding and forgiving will not erase all the a Latin cholar, among many other things. He came to Colby to see hurt--even after 60 years. me and was introduced to Professor Taylor by Mae Bragg '02, also Solomon Fuller says Tom never made peace with his alma a Latin scholar. He said it was an epic of his life to have spent 40 mater because he was deprived of a varsity football letter.Tom felt minutes talking to Judy Taylor. And my father worked with Dr. the absence of a campus social life more than he did, Fuller says, [Alois] Alzheimer and they, together, discovered Alzheimer' and journeyed to Bates to spend Sundays with friends there. This disease.So my father was no small potatoe ." weekly trip was soimportant to Tom that he skipped a rare Sunday Fuller's campaign will also serve to returnto the College the hockey practice rather than miss it, defying the coach, who was work of Meta Warrick Fuller, whose life and career were as also an assistant in football. In those days, Fuller says, football remarkable as her husband's. Before her marriage, Mrs. Fuller players had to play so many minutes in the Maine State series to painted and sculpted in Pari , where she was a protegee of Auguste qualify for a letter and in each succeeding season the offended Rodin, and she continued her work as an artist and poet throughout coach removed Tom moments beforehe qualified.The coach later her life. She was such a major influence in African American served for many years as a College administrator. sociery that her son still remembers such legendary figures as W. E. "That was why Tom never had anything to do with the B. DuBois calling at the Fuller home in Framingham, Mass. alumni organization, and neither have I until recently," Fuller At Colby each Fuller brother was a leader in his own way­ said. "But at my age, you can Look back and see how silly it was to Tom as a three-sport varsity athlete and Solomon on the Deputation get so upset about it." Tearn, a group of Christian students who took their message into

46 Colby , May 1991 THE FORTIES

chem . . . . Ruth Lewis Nowlan A. Lord (always Charlie to us), has filled us in on her earlier his­ "We alumni are alway still serves as senior library assis­ writes that he and hi dear wife, tory after graduating fromColby. glad4 to1 hear good news about our tant in Foxboro, Mass. She is also Shirley Ellice Lord '44, have not She worked for a time forCentral alma mater," Ruth "Bonnie" on the Republican Town Com­ retired. Charlie is a judge in the Maine Power Co., joined the Robert Hathaway notes. "Are mittee and was much involved in Court of Common Pleas in Waves, serving from February you aware that Colby still ranks the town's three-day celebration Philadelphia, and Shirley is still 1944 to July 1946, then married among the top 25 liberal art of Founder's Day. A great event! working with slow-learning stu­ in 194 he and her husband, colleges in the country? Colby Ruch i in her fourth year as dents in the Philadelphia school Forster, have three children. Now wa al o one of 14 American pre ident of the town's hi torical sy tern. He ays they talk about retired from secretarial duties in colleges chosen by the National ociecy. Busy-but she till takes retirement but don't know what her local school department, she Endowment for the Humanicie time to enjoy her four grand­ they would do with all the leisure i bu y with her four grandchil­ fora 1990 distinguished teaching children .... Elmer and Eliza­ time. He ays chat their five dren. he is also involved with grant. Congratulations, Colby! beth Sweetser Baxter, though children, now grown, are 'busy church activitie and the garden ...And congratulation to Vir­ retired, are involved in town af­ with five successful jobs.' He is club. This past fall she and her ginia Mosher, who is now retired fairs in Newington, Conn. Elmer especially plea ed that son Craig husband took a trip to the Pacific in Waterville, Maine, but still is treasurer at his church, erve i now a judge on the same bench Northwest. Time co put June 1992 bowling. Last May she returned on the Con ervacion Commis- as he, giving chem time to discuss on your advanced calendar, to ouch Carolina to bowl in her ion and is a computer consultant cases together. 'l am going to re­ Eleanor. ...Linwood Palmer, 30th state tournament and re­ for the Leukemia Society. Betty turn to Colby this year or next,' our class president, write thal he ceived a special certificate com­ i the town historian, which, he Charlie concludes. Come both is far from retirement. He is till memorating tho e 30 appear­ ays, offer lot of opportunities year , Charlie, but especially June active in the consulting field and ance ....Eleanore King Clark for research and writing, which 5-8, 1992, for our reunion .... lobbies at Maine's State House in Kennebunk, Maine, has an she enjoy .... lnclo ing, I would Lawrence P. Fitton has retired for a law firm. He is still active in intere cingoccupationasadocent like to say that I feel both joyful from optometry and pends his politic and has just been ap­ for Laudholm Farm, birdwatch­ and sad, as this is my last column time woodworking. He i also now pointed by President Bush to his ing in many area . She wrote that as your correspondent. I am joy­ active in hi local historical so­ Council on Rural America.He is she gets lots offresh air and makes ful becau e I have greacly enjoyed ciety and serves on the Nobleboro, also the owner of a fe w hame s good outdoor friends. he winter keeping in touch with our class­ Maine, Republican Committee. racehorses. 'Great fun but no in San Franci co and travels when matesandsharingtheirnew with Lawrence wa widowed at a young money.' He concludes with a he can. In 1990 she went to the re t of you. And I am sad, age, and in 1969 he married Jean mes age for all of us. 'As your Alaska and Newfoundland. Also knowing chat after 10 years I will Desper '49. Looking forward to class president, I wil� need a lot of in Maine-in Biddeford-is no longer be com po inga column eeing you at our 50th reunion in support to stage a real great 50th Claire Emerson, who, as a re­ forthe Cla of '41. But you will '92, Lawrence . . ..Theo dora reunion. I will be calling on tiree, raises Per ian kittens . . .. be in good hand from here on in 'Teddy' Wright Weston, now YOU.'" Robert Talbot lost hi wife about as Fifty-Plus members, and urely retired from teaching math at two year ago, but he till lives in we will all hear how that works. Hampden Academy and from their home in Nova cocia and My thank to all of you foryour rai ing four children, is bu y will be traveling down to join u contributions over the year and pur uing her hobbies, working on "Fifty years ago wewere for our reunion ....Bar bara for che privilege and experience community affairs and doing worrying4 3 about our cla maces and Vannah Moore lost her husband of being your correspondent. 1 historical research. She is pre i­ ourselves, now we worry about about two year ago. By now he tru cwewillsee mo cofyou acour dent of the Winterport, Maine, our grandchildren," Eleanor mu t have moved fromNi ceville, 50ch reunion,June 6-9. Do come hi corical soc iety, chair the Smart Braunmuller begins. "A Fla., to Jacksonville, a was her and help make it an out randing cemetery committee andi active fourthwar in ourgeneration eem plan .... Dr. Louis Salhanick i reunion!" in the women's club. She says she exces ive, to ay the lease, and l a physician in Coral Gables, Fla. i 'into' computers, has made sev­ hall say no more .... The Bangor He and his wife, Louell, have one eral trips to Europe, as well a Daily News on January 1 had on, David ....Alta Estabrook Australia and Hawaii, and has pictures ofpeople who were asked Yelle and her husband, Henri, "Your respon e to the crui ed up the Amazon River. their opinion of the icuation in are both active in the Norton, recent4 2 que cionnaireand postcard 'Problem with health ha e the Per ian Gulf. Muriel McLel­ Mas ., hi torical ociety.Last June ha been terrific," ays Marie slowed us, but we are still going lan DeShon was one of them. I they spent three weeks in France "Chris" Merrill Wy or. "Many strong,' he continue . We are think her cacement bear re­ and England, returning to thank to all, and to tho e who looking forward to seeing you at peating: 'We have to be there, Fontainebleau, where they had haveal oenclo edpersonalnotes, our 50th, Teddy . ...Eleanor although I'm very sorry we are. pent a previou summer. This it has been e pecially heart­ Forbush Chase, answering a We have made every overturefor was a most enjoyable trip for warming ....The Hon. Charles que tionnaire for the fir t time, peace and, adly, now there i no

Colby, May 1991 47 other way. I've got a great feeling invited me to join them at their of adness and dismay that this table. This gave me the opportu­ ha to be. I wa a teacher for 3 7 nity to chat at length with Remo, years and enjoyed working with who traveled fromhi ew Jersey youth. I sufferfor our youth now.' home to receive the coveted I had communications with award. I learned that Remo was a some of you over the holiday. and triple threat in high chool foot­ hope to have more before my Haro/cl C. Paul '43 ball (running, kicking and pa - next deadline. Dot and Don ing). He has aged well and carries Whitten have bought a condo in a healthy, erect and strong frame. Florida, where they can escape Headliners I doubt that I would ha e recog­ the ew England winter, play ni:ed my fraternity brother and golf and bicycle that many more Linwood Palmer '42 has been appointed to the classmate if we passed each other months. They planned to vi it President' Councilon RuralAmerica . ...To honorHarold prior rn this meeting.... In­ daughter Nancy and their second C. Paul '43, Concord College has renamed it tudio The­ ducted into the Pater on, .J., grandson in California in Feb­ atre the H. C. Paul Theatre. Paul directed the theater from Hall of Fame was our own John ruary. 1963 until hi retirement in 1984. Roukema, who was twice named Also in Florida for the win­ ational peed kating Cham­ ter are Leon and Beckey Field pion, ilver kares. John held Blanchard. Their departure from Newsmakers the two-mile record for 13 years Massachu ett was delayed while with a time of 6:2 . He and his they were awaiting the arrival of Robert H. Brunell '44 won a 1990-9 1 Award for wife, Wilhemina, now re ide in daughter Dorothy' baby, their Excellence fromCayuga Community College in ew York. Fr. Lauderdale, Fla. In retirement, fourth granddaughter, in late The award "recognize indi idual who demon trate con­ Johnny ha traded his ice skate October. Beckey completed her tinued excellence in teaching/profe ional ervice and make for golf club ... . Kay Howes last cour e for chaplaincy certifi­ outstanding contribution to the college." Brunellhas been Brooks' granddaughter recently cation last summer at Berkshire a profe sor of Engli hat Cayuga ince 1954. married and, according to Kay, Medical Center. She expected to that make a grandmother realize be volunteering again as a chap­ that age has a way of catching up lain in a nearby hospital in Florida Mileposts on u . She and Wendy Brooks '42 this winter. have been married for 4 7 years. Larry Gurney's Christmas Deaths: Howard H. Pratt '43 in Augusta, Maine, at ... William Frazier i an invest­ card brought 'highly seasoned 72 . ...George D. Godfrey '44 in Laguna Beach, Calif., at ment broker in Orlando, Fla. He greetings' and included an ex­ 67 ....Elaine AndersonHagstrom '44 in Bamstable,Ma ., has been a sociated with A.G. cel lent original poem titled at 6 .... Jean Ferrell Howe '44 in Portland, Maine, at Edward for 22 ears. He and I 'Lapidary Dawn.'T he imagery was 67 . ...Anne Foster Murphy '44 in Lewi burg, Pa., at 68. have in common the maiden ba ed on the gem mineral tour­ . . . Frederick P. Jellison '45 in Manahawkin, .]., at 68. nameofour pou e (McGee) . ... maline. I wasn't previously aware ...Barbara Kelly Morell '45 inMoultonboro,N.H., ar68. Nancy Curtis Lawrence is still a of Larry's gift in this area ...... Kenneth S. Inch '49 in Lincoln, Maine, at 71. master swimmer. he competed Priscilla Moldenke Drake has at Nanaimo, Vancouver, B.C., in had a busy year. Last fall she and December and came in first place Bill were in Washington state in the 100 brea t stroke and the and visited many geologically in­ her letter as 1 shall clo e this col­ Hall of Fame banquet honoring 400 free ryle races and second in teresting place -Mount St. umn, with a wish and a prayer for our own Remo 'Ray' Verrengia the 50 and 100 butterfly in the Helens, Ginko Petrified Forest, continued peace. that I reported on in my last col­ individual medley forwomen 60- the Scablands and Dry Fall umn: I had arrived at the hall 69 yearsofage ....Alden Wagner among them. In November they beforeRay as 1 wanted to urpri e has urvived Texas's wor t real spent a week in London, where him. We had not een each other e tare depres ion, still ha his they visited many well-known in 4 7 year . Remo and hi charm­ anity and Ii t the following in place -not enough time at the Class correspondent ing wife, the former Muriel answertotheque tionaboutwhat Briti h Museum, they aid-and 4Louis 4 Deraney says the re ponse Brewer, potted me right away. I con ritute ucce : 1. A loving got in a one-day trip through Kent to a recent class que tionnaire had trouble recognizing him. Such family all living within a three­ to Canterbury and a vi it to Leed wa gratifying."Keep writing," he a long time does have a way of mile radiu . 2. Major gift to Castle. Priscilla and Bill now have urges.... "More about the Mal­ changing one' fe ature . The Colby, the University of Texas even grandchildren. She closed den High chool' ninth annual Yerrengias were solicitous and and the Hinckley chool in

4 Colby , Ma 1991 Maine. 3. Three board member­ sorrow chat I learnedof the sud­ in three years. However, it does ships in major companies and den death of Dr. Hugo Paganelli, include others who returned to 7 "I hope everyone had banks. 4. Keeping himself strong Naomi Collett Paganelli's hus­ Colby and completed their tud­ an4 enjoyable time during the and optimistic by allowing time band. We all extend our sympa­ ies with us. The current class list holidays," correspondent June for tennis, golf and skiing .... thies to her. ... I had a nice let­ forwarded to me Ii ts 150 people, Chipman Coalson says. "We were Shirley Ellice Lord, wife of the ter fromJohn A. Dodd, who live including many who maintained together for the fir t time since Hon. Charle Lord '42, i the in Milford,Conn. I was sorry to their interest in Colby but did both my children were mamed. proud mother of Geoffrey Craig hear that he lo r his wife in 1979. not return to the campus for one We met in Orlando, where my Lord, who has been elected a He i the father offour. Oneof his reason or another. Of these 150 son, David, lives. Debbie live in judge. Shirley married before she children had Millicent Bolling people with whom the College Pensacola, and she and her fam­ completed her R. . course at Smith '43 a an English teacher. has maintained contact, 18 are ily came down. Her husband, Boston Children's Hospital and In spite of some health problems, deceased and no current address John, recently retired a a avy now says she regrets not finishing John has managed to retire from i known for 16. This leaves an pilot and now flies for Northwest the cour e. Charlie and Shirley two jobs. His spare time i pent active list of 116 former students. Airlines. He retired at the right have 10 grandchildren.... Mal­ gardening, reading, watching TV I make a plea to you to respond to time. David has a son, Brandon, colm D. McQuillan says the and enjoying his grown family. the questionnaire! Add your own who i 15, and Debbie' two boys questionnaire cover everything ...I have recently heard from comment and thought . U e the are 9 and 11-all hand ome, and say that every youngster in Lois Loudon Cutler, who started que tion a a guideline. They are mart boys, of course ....Bill his clas es who attends college Colby with the Cla of '46 but only suggestions of things you Crowther is till very bu y and receives a bank check from him. attended continuously and grad­ mighr wanttowriteabout. You are involved in Westport, Conn. He Thi includes grandnieces and uated with us. She has five chil­ the news!" is a consultant in marketing com­ grandnephews. Malcolm proudly dren and i the grandmother of munications and till doe a lot of displays a Colby ticker in the six, ages 2 to 18. he has lived in flying around New England. He rear window of his car and men­ El Paso, Tex., for l 0 years but is a member of the State Police tions Colby to students in and returns annuallyto New England Auxiliary and ride with them around Livonia, Mich.... Louise to v1 it relative . One of her one night a week. They patrol Callahan Johnson i still teach­ daughters is a career Army nurse "The letters from state highways, and on special ing fifth grade in South Wey­ who holds the rank of captain 4Shirley 6 Martin Dudley about our occa ions they are involved in mouth, Mass., and looks forward and is married to a career Army upcoming 4Sth reunion remind traffic and crowd control. They to retiring in June 1992. he is man. They are both currently at­ us that time i ru h ing by!" corre- also rake blood from hospital to actively engaged in women's golf tending the University of Texas pondent Hannah Karp Laipson hospital. Bill is on the board of at South Shore Country Club and in El Pa o tudying for their writes. "I hope you're all plan­ director of the local AARP wants to know how many of you ma ter's degrees. Loi is an office ning to be on Mayflower Hill for chapter as program chair. He is are still working ....Sad news­ manager, and her spare time is that event ....There isn't much also on the board of Green Farms George 'Bud' Godfrey died last pent training and showing Eng­ news to report this time, but Mike Association at the development spring in Laguna Beach, Calif. li h pringer spaniels and using and I had a mini-reunion wirh where he lives. Being so active is He i survived by hi wife of 40 her Apple 1165 computer. he Colby friends in January when what keep Bill young, he say . years, four children and four would like to read more about her we took our annual 'meanderina' ...Priscilla Weeks Currier grandchildren. According ro Mrs. cla mate , e pecially her closest vacation to Wa hington, D.C., wrote that he went to Poland Godfrey, Bud was generou to hi friendsin '46 ....Here are ome to visit our daughter, Ellen. En Spring, Maine, this past year and community and hi church in time general class statistics chat I've route we spent two lovely day visited the chapel where Embry and talents.... I' ve run our of been able to work out (they are with Anne Lawrence Bondy and and I were married. I'm glad she space but will catch up on other not necessarily 100 percent ac­ her husband, Gene. Aftergoing did, because it must have started in my next column." curate): According to the 1942 to a play in ew York, we all went her thinking about writing to me. yearbook, the entering fre hman to dinner at Marie Kraeler Her bigge t news is that he and clas (our ) Ii ted 215 students. Lowenstein' home, where she, Clayton are moving back to There were 136 men and 79 her hu band, Larry, and Helen Maine thi spring. Now I'll have women. According to our year­ Strauss '45 filled us in on the omeone el e to vi it when I go "The common refrain book, a total of 172 students from latest doings of mutual Colby back formy high school reunion 4that 5 I hear from everyone i that our class were Ii ted. Of these friend . It was a great way to tart at Gould Academy in the spring. they are hungry for news of their 172, there were 13 men and 68 our trip, and we decided this Priscilla has vi ited Dottie clas mo. es,and they immediately women who graduated, and 91 should become an annual event! Cleaves Jordan and says she and tum to the '45 class column," say were listed as in the service. This I would enjoy hearing from the Clay (her new husband) are do­ correspondent Dee Sanford does not include student who rest of you. Please keep the in­ ing fine. Priscilla also ays they McCunn .... "It was with deep attended steadily and graduated formationcoming." went to Colby last fall and saw

Colby, May 1991 49 the football game with Williams. then spent a week in Germany. They met several friends and ex­ my statistics, Chick), and he has She and Clay hoped to spend The most interesting part of that plored Richmond. The Museum a cat and a dog. He married a some time in North Carolina thi trip was finJing some of her un­ of the Confederacy there was very woman of Danish extraction, and winter. ...Amie Kiessling Wills known relatives in East Germany. interesting, they aid. While in they study yoga very serious I ywith sent me a picture of her fa mily. Now those relative want to visit the area they visited Jody helpful and positive results on his It's quite a feat getting them all Arnie, andthey don't speak any Scheiber in Washington, D.C., joint and other intricate compo­ together. She took her 14-year­ English. She says sheshould have and Jocelyn Hulme MacConnell nents. Philosophically, he main­ old granddaughter to Pari la t paid more attention to professors in Annandale, Va. They alsotook tains, '[ remain an ultraconserva­ April. he said she felt like McCoy and Bither .... I was de­ a trip to Europe, the highlight of tive American who believes the Hermoine Gingold in Gigi. She lighted to get Allie and Dick which was the passion play at tail is furiously wagging the dog and Charlie spent two glorious Sampson's annual Christmas let­ Oberammergau. Their tour em­ on many college campuses these weeks in the Canadian Rockies ter. They have had a busy year. braced many memorable inter­ days.' (Is that what's happening last June, and in October they They went with Elderhostel to vals, places and people: the as­ at Dartmouth?) 'Things change. went to Europe. They spent part the University of Richmond in cent of the Jungfrau, a cruise on If one doesn't change with them, of a week in Florence, then poked Virginia and learned about King the Thunersee, the sights of one should just write a check and around the Tuscan hill towns, Arthur and medieval England. Munich, the Dom in Cologne, a keep one' views to one's self.' cruise on the Rhine, touring the Chick ent an amalgam of his Cathedral of Saint Michel in views on health, aging, life and ,------, Brus els, mass at La Madeleine, yoga too long to include here, but viewingthe sightsofPari at night urely if you write directly, he'll from the Seine and celebrating send a copy to you from 12 their wedding anniversary in Rockbrook Drive, Camden, ME London. Dick and Allie are also 04843 ... . Peg Clark Atkins, Share yourWh news and at'views withs New?your classmates! Have you involved in many activities at bless her, not only raises funds for traveled recently, changed jobs? What's exciting about your home in Appleton, Wis .. includ­ Colby but doe such good works current job? Have you been married recently or moved to a ing the altar guild, choir and de­ for her town library as well. Two new area or a new home? Do you have a book to recommend votional groups at church, of her ix kids are in Dallas. The to other readers or movie pan to pass along? Please write in Democratic Party activities and oldest just passed the Texas bar, the blank and send it to the Alumni Office for forwarding Amnesty International. ...We and the youngest is an electrical to your class correspondent. are still involved in plans forour engineer. Five grandchildren are glorious 45th reunion in 1992. an added joy for her, the latest Make yourplans now to be there. born in late fall 1990. Peg visits There are still some who haven't with them whenever possible . ... an wered my cards, o I'll expect Charlie and Libby Hall Cousins to hear from you." were getting ready for another New England winter when they wrote in November. La t sum­ mer, however, had included vis­ Katharine"Kay"Weis­ its from their fourson and their man Jaffe sends "thanks to all families, including nine grand­ who48 answered the call" of her children. Charlie and Libby have latest questionnaire . . . . "Owen traveled in California recently, 'Chick' Bailey has been bu y as well as on the East Coast. At lately playing drum in a Ralph '50 and Ginny Hill Field' Dixieland band, a large dance Englewood, Fla., home, the band, a community orchestraand Cou ins also visited with Bob a town band. He also writes for Lucy '47 ('48 adopted him, as l Class Year ______his local paper and is involved in uppo e it should Ralph Field, projects forthe Rotary Club. An too), with Millie and Fran Ward

Address ______appointee to the Camden Budget '4 5 and George and Nancy Gager Committee, Chick has also Howard '43. In Baltimore they met with Chuck Sanborn and his City/State/Zip ______worked with stroke victims at the Camden Health Care Center. Hi wife . . .. Ron Farkas and hi wife two boys and one girl have given have been completing their re­ ls this a new address? 0 him five grandchildren (exactly tirement home in Poipu Beach, L ------_J 50 Colby , May 1991 Correspondents

1941 1944 1947 Ruth R. Hathaway Louis M. Deraney June Coalson Episcopal Church on the national (Ruth "Bonnie" Roberts) 57 Whitford Street (June Chipman) level, she travels for the church RFD 1, Box 381 Roslindale, MA 02131- 129 Janelle Lane about four times a year, and twice New Ipswich, NH 03071- 4210 Jacksonville, 32211 FL a year she travels in Europe with 9715 Phone: 617-327-4486 Phone: 904-725-1479 Phone: 603-878-4547 her husband on bu iness trips. Anne is another one of our class who gravitates ro Maine. July and 1942 1945 1948 August are spent in Jonesport, Marie Wy or Dorothy McCunn Katharine W. Jaffe where there i frequently a mini­ (Marie "Chris" Merrill) (Dorothy Sanford) (Katharine Wei man) reunion with Shirley Kydd '51 RR 2, Box 190-B 8 Honey Hill Road PO Box 113 and Wilbur Bastien, Pat Lydon South Harp well, ME Canaan, CT 06018 Mill River, MA 01244 Latham and Ethel Quincy Ryan. 04079-9802 Phone: 203-824-7236 Phone: 413-229-8171 Phone: 207-729-6506 'Would love to see more of you!' writes Anne. You might ee me, since my daughter, Elisabeth, has 1943 1946 1949 just moved to Machias! ... Mr . Albert R. Braunmuller Mrs. Myron R. Laipson Anne Eustis Marilyn Perkins Prouty volun­ (Eleanor Smart) (Hannah Karp) (Anne Hagar) teers two afternoons a week at a 115 Lake Road 25 Pomona Road 315 Mirick Rd. PO Box 594 veterinarian's office,doing a little Basking Ridge, J 07920 Worcester, MA 01602 East Princeton, MA 01517 of everyrhing. She is also serving Phone: 201-766-3586 Phone: 508-752-1204 Phone: 508-464-5513 on the allocation committee for the United Way. A part of an adult literacy program, she i tu­ toring an adult to prepare him to Kauai, Hawaii (address included fishing every day. Our Bruce was it forthe high schoolequivalency for tho e who can drop by), where Anne Hagar Eustis ordained in March ( 1990) and exam. She says she is looking they live from October to June. thanks classmates for their re- married in August. Meredith and forn1ardto a hiking, camping and They also toured ea tward from 4ponse 9 to her la t questionnaire. Vic had a darling baby girl in rafting trip on the Salmon and their Duxbury, Mas ., home to "Our notes thi issue are hot off October, Jordan Kaileigh.' Their Snake rivers thi August. You spend a few weeks in Paris, Lon­ the presses," she says. "l was glad younge t, Stephen, is al o in ought to love that trip, Marilyn. don and Amsterdam with their to hear from everal of you that orth Carolina. Nellie claims Lon and I spent a week rafting on children and young teen grands. I you are enjoying the '49 column. that she and her hu band, War­ the Salmon, Th{. River of o upposeRon figured they deserved 1 am, too,so keep the newscoming ren, lead very ordinary but full Return, four year ago. It is gor­ it after he had spent 30 years and together we'll keep in lives of church, community and geou wildernes , superb camp­ founding and operating Hope touch .... I have gleaned some family activities. They also enjoy ing and exhilarating whitewater! Chest, Inc. retail specialty shop news of Hedmanites: Nellie many outdooractivities, such as . . . Lorenzo Rastelli attended an in Boston and the urrounding Macdougall Parks write that she fishing, canoeing, driving into inten ive, two-week in-service uburb . They're expecting a new hears fairly regularly fromJeanne wildernessareas on logging roads, session at the University of Con­ grandchild in June. Best of every­ Pelletier Sutphin. Having lived picking blueberries and cross­ necticut with the Connecticut thing to all concerned.. . . Don in a pretty country suburb of country skiing. She regrets that Geographic Alliance, a part of and Priscilla Bryant Bourassa Syracuse, .Y., since 1956, Colby's Festival of Carols and the ational Geographic So­ keep busy entertaining familyand Jeanne and her husband, who is Light at Christmastime in ciety's Geographic Alliances other . They had 18 for Thank - recently retired from G.E., are Lorimer Chapel has become so etwork. Thi organization con­ giving. They mention upporting looking forproperty in the mid­ popular that even with three per­ sist of educator and other citi­ Maine Medical Center, but I'm Atlantic state for retirement. formances seating is by advance zens concernedabout improving not quite sure it was voluntary. Nellie also reports that Hugh '50 re ervation only .... Another opportunitie for geographic They note briefly having under­ and Audrey Fountain Jordan Hedman alumna, Anne Bither education in Connecticut's gone everal urgeries recently but (another Hedman alumna) have Shire, reports that since we last schools. He has become a teacher ha ten to tell us that all is well a new address. Upon Hugh's re­ heard from her, her children are consultant and expects to use the now. They have five kids, five tirement, they left New Jersey grown and out, with the last one knowledge gained. He has trav­ grand , a cat and a dog ....We and moved to a lake ide home in finally graduating from college in eled recently to Ireland, Wale were cHstre ed to learn that North Carolina. The new address 1990. Anne's occupation as a and England with an Elderhostel Sandy Kroll died recently at age is: 218A South Lakeside Drive, volunteer has her on many boards group." 65 in Boston. o funherdetails Whispering Pines, NC 28327. dealing with youth and their were mentioned in our notice." Audrey wrote that 'Hugh loves problems. A representative of the

Colby, May 1991 51 THE FIFTIES

Mary Bauman Gates '49 and telephone executive, were plan­ Wasserberger bring their new Nancy Ricker Sears Alfred 'Bud' Gates keep a home ning ro travel to Australia when brides to reunion. Congratula­ observes5 0 that "Americans were base in White Plain ,N.Y., where they wrote. Betty had a career in tions to you all. ...The election drawn together as they have not she works in appraisals and estate nursing. They are two more on ofTed Shiro for the Maine Sports been since World War II" by the sales and he (in retirement) is a the list of Colbyites who nor­ Hall of Fame was well deserved. Gulf War. ..."M any of our part-time consultant. The mally winter in Florida and spend Although he played many sportS, classmates compassionately recall Gateses spend July and August in ummers in Maine-in Litchfield. I remember him best on the bas­ a similar chapter in their lives . . . Meredith, N.H.,and February and ...Under 'Recent Changes in ketball court, and I can truly say Lucien Veilleux, M.D., recently March in Longboat Key, Fla. Your Life,' Helen Kelleher Breen that of all the outstanding players retired in Waterville, is back at ...Mary Ellen Jordan Megargee lists: 'Dog is dead; mortgages and at Colby none of them performed the books on Mayflower Hill lives in Portsmouth, R.l., with tuitions are paid; children are self­ with more skill and desire. And taking a French course. His sur­ her husband, Richard, who is a sufficient; we now buy gourmet to keep Teddy company in re­ gical sk ills are now being cre­ professor of strategy and policy at foods.' Helen is an officemanager, ceiving this honor, our old coach, atively devoted to the cutting and the Naval War College. They and her husband, Loui , is a fed­ Lee Williams, will also enter the polishing of stones as he learns have taken two trips to England eral housing administraror. ... hall. Best wishes to both of the techniques of a lapidarian. in recent years, and when Mary Robert B. Bonner, Jr., a recently them ....Well, it's been fun, and He says he also enjoys auto body Ellen wrote last fall, they were retired production planner with now I'm outta here. Peace." repair work. One of Lou's six sons planning a third. Other Anglo­ G.E., and his wife, Mary, a retired is in Senegal, West Africa, in the philes like me will color with teacher, live in Newron, Mass .... Peace Corps. . . Jane Merrill envy at such good fortune and Edith Tozier Stocks and her Thomas, of Lynn, Mass., says she hope for the vicarious pleasure of husband, Conrad, are retired and Correspondent Barbara lives quietly and happily in the details in another newsletter. . live in Palm City, Fla ....Foster Bone5 2 Leavitt writes: "Col. Walter routine of keeping house for her Russell Antell is in Florida along Bruckheimer, who says the 40th P. Hayes, USA Ret., has re­ two unmarried sons and keeping with the rest of you di placed was great, now has a grandchild turnedro Saudi Arabia as a con­ up with her 88-year-young Northerners who so much en­ in Tucson, Ariz. He says, 'Busi­ sultant. He lives in Punta Gorda, mother.Jane's husband, who died joyed the Maine winters on ne sis horrendous, but my health Fla .... Ann Ryan Pierce has a in 1984, was a civil engineer for Mayflower Hill. He celebrated is good.' ...Another classmate business in Falmouth, Maine. It G.E. for 35 years ....Fred '48 and his 50th high school reunion this joining the ranks of the retired in is called the Whispering Pines Charlotte Cowan Sutherland, past spring and looks forward to July is George Johnston, who will Tack Shop and is located at 11 who live in Rockland, Maine, 1993, when his 50th Navy re­ be leaving hisjob as an auto travel Portland North Business Park . ... and winter in Riverview, Fla., are union will be held in San manager for AAA. He and his Mary Sargent Swift and her enjoying retirement as they travel Diego . ...David Armstrong, Jr., wife, Bernadette,a second-grade husband, Ed, live in Glastonbury, from the northern coast to the and his wife, Alice, are retired in teacher, live in West Springfield, Conn. They are in the antique southern one,camping and visit­ Helena, Mont. The big event he Mass., and have five children and business. They have two children, ing old friends. Chardy notes that tells about is indeed that­ four grandchildren." Ed, Jr., and Louise . . ..John W. retirement affords opportunities completion of the Race to the Waalewyn lives in Dover, Mass. for a myriad of new ventures, as Sky, a 500-mile dogsled race, in He is president of his own com­ well as the opportunity for im­ February 1990. Congratulations! pany, Deluxe Systems, Inc. The proved communication between (No mention of Florida from "Interest in our reunion company distributes srorage and spouses. An insightful thought. Dave.) ... Nancy Weare Merri­ is5 mounting, 1 and we look forward officeequipment. He and his wife, ... Philip Shearman is the min­ man '52 and Robert Merriman toseeingasmanyofyouaspossible Martha, have two children .... ister at the First Parish Congre­ are doing lots of traveling. In the on June 7-9," says correspondent You have probably read of the gational Church in Gorham, springof'90, they visited Budapest Warren J. Finegan. "Call up a deaths of Edward M. 'Pete' Guild Maine. His congregation gave and Vienna, which they found friend or an old classmate and and F. Allen Thompson in the him a trip to the Holy Land, which 'exciting and very historical.' add to our numbers ....On the January i ue of Colby . We are all was 'a deeply moving event from With their children now scattered mend after hospital stays are Paul saddened to hear about this, and both a religious and political point ro California, Minnesota, Penn­ Kilmister and Bill Thompson. we send our sympathy to their of view.' He continues, 'Each day sylvania and New Jersey, Bob and Paul returnedro his advisory post families . . .. Sue Webster sent a is a gain in being able ro be a part Nancy look forward to retirement with the N.H. State Board of Christmas greeting and said she of a growing congregation with on the ocean in New Hampshire Education, and Bill is back as is doing well. ... I also heard from young families who want mean­ in 1994. They are living in safety supervisor at the Philips Ray and Merry Crane Evans. ing for their children and for Greenwich, Conn., where Bob is and DuPont Optical Co. in Kings They are busy with family and themselves. The breadth of be­ in the insurance business.... Mountain, N.C. ..After their their home in California.... That liefs is refreshing and stretches Betty Jacobs Christopoulos and recent marriages we're hoping is all the news fornow. Do keep in my own mind and concepts.' ... her husband, Arthur, a retired that Ernie Fortin and George mind our 40th!"

52 Colby , May 1991 Leroy Pulliam at Churchill High J. Nel on Beveridge School, 35753 Cedar Blvd., sent5 3 new gathered from both Newark, CA 94560."' coa t for this month's col­ umn.... "Hershel and Barbara Weiss Alpert are ' till keeping busy in the furniturebusine s with "The response to the a store located in Providence, R.l.' last5 4two questionnaires has been They have four grown children, practically nil," says corre pon­ Going Places three of whom are lawyers: a dent Marlene Hurd Jabar. "Un­ daughter in Chicago and two son less I hear from you, I will not be in Boston. Their fourth child, a able to continue writing for this ertrude Cleveland Miller '51 has headed back to chool son, is in New York City working class-unless, of cour e, you want every September since the day she started first grade in a one­ for the TV show 'Good Morning to hear all about me and my fam­ G America.' . ..Joe Bryant and his ily! usan Miller Hunt '56 roomschoolhouse in Purgatory Mills, Maine. Her 1989 retire­ wife, Evelyn, recently completed and Tom Hunt are enjoying his ment fromRockport High School in Massachusetts after a 3 7- a 10,000-mile trip across the part-time position. Tom had been year career teaching Engli h should have ended all that. But in country. 'With the help of the serving as a hospital chaplain with the fall of 1990, Miller was back in school-thi time as a law alumni magazine and a letter from 24-hour 'on call' responsibilities. tudent at Northea ternUniver ity. Whitey Johnson, I located Paul His part-time po ition, however, "The criminal ju tice y tern ha not worked in many Appelbaum in L.A. We had a still ound full time. He still is a ca e ," Miller aid, explaining her deci ion. She aid she cho e great time visiting Paul and his critical care coordinator in four law school because she hopes to work with people who are wife, Lois. I managed to beat Paul inten ive care unit , and he without fair legal representation, including victim of poverty, in golf, much to hischagrin. l also teache medical ethic . He also played a round of golf last sum­ runs/walks 20-25 mile per week. domestic violence and homele ne . After she get her de­ mer with Phil Kilmister '55 and The best part of his part-time gree--which will eat up most of her retirement saving - Al Obery '54, frat brother . I still position is the time he and Susan, Miller ay he plans to volunteer her legal ervices. work at LL. Bean from Septem­ a portrait pa interand homemaker, Miller ays he con iders her elf fortunateto have ecured ber to March and play golf all have to spend with grandchildren a place in the Cla of 1951, ince there wa fierce competition summer. We have three grandgirls Eva and Matthew . . . . Trudy fromreturning servicemen. She recall a "very warm, upport­ who keep us young.' ...John Jefferson Hummel and husband ive academic atmo phere [where] o many differentdimensions Lee's famil continues to give Henry live in New Jersey. Trudy were added to my life." After graduation, she taught in Maine him joy: 'Oldest on gave me a write that while many of our and earneda ma ter' degree in 1958. granddaughter eptember 18 in classmates are retiring, she i still Miller say she finds tudent life in the nineties stimulat­ addition to my 4-year-old grand- working. She doe ay that she on. My daughter's baby is now and Henry take as much time off ing but admit law school was overwhelming at first. "lt's a one year old and beautiful. My as possible to visit their four different type of reading," she aid. "I am ju t like any other on-in-law, Charlie Hart, is a children in Phoenix, Los Ange­ tudent--sometime l get behind and have to work veryhard Navy lieutenant about to be le ,ChicagoandConnecticut .... to catch up." promoted to lieutenant com­ Nancy Eustis Huprich has put More than half her cla mates are women in the mid t of mander. He just recently came her hu band, Paul, back to work career changes, Miller say , and he enjoy being in the group. off the U.S. . Coral Sea and i two days a week and keeps him Students today, he said, are "more open, from more varied tationed in Norfolk, Ya.' John busy refereeing basketball and backgrounds and able to talk about o many thing . I like what told me he applied for recall to softball games. So much for hi I am seeing for the future of young people." help out in audi Arabia, but he retirement! ... Joyce Whitham wastooold. Hard tobelieve! ... It Spencer and husband Chuck live Miller and her hu band, Royce, a profes or at Gordon i with regret that I report the in Lakewood, Colo. Joyce is sec­ College, have two grown children. "My famtly has been very death of Sally Baines Howard. retary to the coordinator of gifted said, though she added that her son, a supportive," Miller Her daughter sent the following education. She and Chuck have lawyer in England, had his doubts. "He told me, 'If you feel you note: 'My mother died October been boating off and on for 24 have to put your elf through that, I guess it's all right."' 24, 1989, from complications of year . They plan to explore as "l love being inthecla room,"she said. "Just becau elam cancer surgery. There i a chol­ many lake , waterways, river 62 and have gray hair doesn't mean I am any less pas ionate in arship in her name at the chool (come to the Allagash!) and response to what I read." -Llsa Twomey '91 she taught at forover 20 year . If coa tal area as they can in the anyone is interested, contact future, and then they'll decide

Colby, May 1991 53 Correspondents

1950 1955 Nancy Sears Ann Ingraham what they want to do! Are they (Nancy L. Ricker) (Ann S. Dillingham) tired from high school English kidding? ...Diane Lee Stevens 31 Sweetwater Avenue 9 Appletree Lane teaching in 1982. He and his wife, Brown writes that she has done a Bedford,MA 01730 Manchester, ME 04351 Peg, have traveled extensively­ lot in the arts. She has done sum­ Phone: 617-275-7865 Phone: 207-622-0298 often for 10 to 12 weeks at a mer stock, had her own televi­ time-including three camping sion show and is now doing por­ 1956 trips to Alaska. They have visited trait painting. Diane also has her 1951 Mrs. Peter T.C. Bramhall almost every place in the north­ own busine s called 'Art Origi­ Warren J. Finegan (Hope W. Palmer) ern United States that 'one can nals' in Bakersfield, Calif. ... 8 White Pine Knoll Road 1 Meadow Creek Lane drive to, fly to or take a boat to.' Well guys, congratulations are in Wayland, MA 01778 Falmouth, ME 04 1 OS They plan to do the 'southern order for Georgia Roy Eustis. She Phone: 508-358-2292 Phone: 207-7 81-2506 route' this summer on their way has joined the ranks of Honorable to visit their newest grandchild, Grandparents (her words). Joshua 1952 195 7 who is due in June. The Perhams Galen Eustis was born Hallow­ Barbara Leavitt Brian F. Olsen have three ons, a daughter and een night ....Finally, Roger '53 (Barbara J. Bone) 46 Washington Drive five grandchildren .... Arlie and Susan Smith Huebsch an­ 21 lndian Trail Acton, MA 01720 Porath is anticipating daughter swered the questionnaire by giv­ Scituate, MA 02066 Phone: 508-263-9238 tacy's graduation from Colby ing their home telephone num­ Phone: 617-545-4374 this month. His son, Brett, is a ber--does that mean they would 1958 professional golfer. Arlie is retired like some phone calls7" 1953 Andria Kime and says he'sdoing what he wants, ]. Nelson Beveridge (Andria H. Peacock) including traveling. Some recent 134 Border Street 73 7 TurnpikeStreet trips have included Florida, Italy Cohasset, MA 02025 Stoughton, MA 02072 and New England.... Joanne Correspondent Ann Phone: 617-383-1712 Phone: 617-344-8419 Bailey Anderson has moved to Dillingham Ingraham writes from China, Maine, and is an Avon Manchester,5 5 Maine: "Although 1954 1959 representative. Her son, Todd, is the latest questionnaire was Marlene Jabar Susan Frazer working with McGraw-Hill Pub­ mailed near to the deadline, (Marlene E. Hurd) (Su an K. Fether ton) li hing Co. in Boston and daugh­ several responses were received. 11 Pleasantdale A venue 6 Bellevue Place ter Lauren is an assistant man­ Classmates are urged to complete Waterville, ME 04901 Middletown, CT 06457 agerat Crestmont Federal Savings the formand returnit for the next Phone: 207-873-44 71 Phone: 203-346-8137 Bank in Westfield, N.J. Joanne issue of Colby, and the news will expects a new grandchild this be considered a connnuat1on .... month ....Allan Landau reports Sylvia Jennison Spike sent along that his two children are married a sample of 1 990 Scenes by Sylvia, Primerica, a full-service financial volved in the once-in-a-lifetime now. His son has two children, a truly attractive note card with a planning company. The Sanders experience of the graduates.' and his daughter, Marsha '84, was recipe on the front. She says that have seven grandchildren, ages 2 Yvonne also serves as a director married last year. More than 25 she has many to sell-as the art­ to 15, and Bernice says she and of LaYerdiere's Drug Stores and Colby alumni were present." ist, she would probably welcome her husband have 'retired from Somerset Telephone Co .... orders from classmates. Sylvia raising to grazing.' Recent travels Ross M. Bear is president of adds under 'bad news' that she have included Marci Island and Homer Bear Co., Inc. in Pennsyl­ has cancer and under 'good news' Iowa ....'Still teaching at Colby vania, which is an agent for Correspondent Hope that the oldest of her fourchil dren (33rd year),' writes Yvonne leather tanners. His son Douglas 5Palmer 6 Bramhall notes that "the has married and the youngest has Richmond Knight. The Knights works with him. Another son, last time we all saw Sheila 'Mac' graduated from college. She has have a son, Marc Fisher '78, who Gregory, owns Renaissance Gal­ McLaughlin Freckmann was 15 four grandchildren-all are a is director of corporate engineer­ lery and Frame Shop in Farm­ years ago, when she held the constant source of delight, love, ing for the FCC in Providence, ingdale, Maine. Ross writes that distinction of being the classmate humor and pride. Sylvia is a R.l., and consults for WMHB at he has purchased interests in a who traveled farthest, having trainee at the Portland Museum Colby. Yvonne is still the Colby retail leather store and a bicycle come back to Colby all the way of Art ....Bernice White marshal, and the big event for her helmet manufacturing business. from Kenya, in Africa. Marriage Sanders reports that she and her is a Colby graduation. 'Every alum The Bears have just returned from to an agricultural counselor with husband incorporated their busi­ should try to attend one,' she a ski trip to Utah and two weeks the agriculture foreignservice has ness in May 1990, which has given says. 'It will bring back memories in Colorado ....Joe Perham has proved to be anything but dull. her more time for her poetry and because so much is the same. It is taken on a full-time career in Following their tour in Kenya, for her job as regional manager of a privilege to be so closely in- free-lance entertaining. He re- Mac spent three years in Belgrade,

54 Colby , May 1991 Brad and Helen Payson Seager '58 performed in Pirates of Penzance lastsummer.

graduate from Colby, as have on now ....Eleanor Duckworth sometimes gets news I don't re­ Dave and Rosie ....A DKE re­ has been promoted to Professor ceive, but John Baxter sent me union in eptember at the quam of Education at Harvard's Grad­ the wonderful news of his mar­ Lake lodge of John Conkling '57 uate School of Education. Direc­ riage to Diane, who is a reading saw many DKEs from the Clas of tor of the Teacher's Network, specialise in the East Providence '56 return. Among them were Eleanor ha published several school sy tern. John, a retired John 'Ziggie' Ziegler, Ron books and papers and teaches educator, is a free-lance actor and 'Boogie' Sandborg, Capt. Andy several popular courses at the appeared in a video for a local Yugoslavia, went home to Wash­ Anderson,John 'Jube' Jubinsky, school. Our congratulations to insurance company. He also ington for 10 months and went Forrest 'Woody' Barnes, Fred Eleanor. ...An article out of starred in two stage plays last ea- off to Korea for threeyears. Their Moorhouse and Dave and Ro ie. Westport, Conn., cells of the on with City Nights Dinner last foreign post was a four-year Everybody enjoyed a wonderful many facet of Van Bernhard,an Theater in Pawtucket. He and tour in Vienna, Au tria, which time, which included touring the innovator in the environmental Diane are building anew home in concluded in August of 198 . lake, Ping-Pong macche , boat­ field and a successful bu inessman rural North Smithfield, R.l. Of They currently reside in Wash­ ing, wimming, hiking, story­ specializing in investments and great satisfaction to John i- 'mov­ ington, D.C. World condition telling and, of course, great food sound and light engineering. ing steadily forward in reaching permitting, they will be off for and drink! ...Our 35th reunion Somehow, I had trouble making new goals in a challenging new another two- to three-year tour in June promises to be the best the connection between Hum­ way of life that recent years have in Athens, Greece, this August. yet! Our enthusia tic response has mingbird Farms tomatoes in brought me.' ... Brad and Helen Two of the Freckmann's sons are been extremely gratifying. For Maryland, Bernhard/Brown Inc. Payson Seager sang in 12 per­ married. The aide t, Chad, i those of you who need more time of Dallas (sound and light com­ formances of Pirates of Penzance married to an Engli h girl and or are still on the fence, it' rill pany), sculpture in Connecticut last summer-he as a pirate, he now lives in Santiago, Chile, with nor too lace to make that com­ and an environmental lab in the as Ruth. 'It was such fun!' Helen her and their on. Barry was mie enttojoinus. Ourexcended Bahamas as I read the article, but says. 'Gwen Parker Dhesi and married in May to a girl from reunion will give us all a better then again, Yan alway was way Ruth Winterbottom Peacock Lamia, Greece, and is currently opportunity to renew old friend- ahead of me and obviously still is! showed up, as a surprise to all of studying at the London chool of hip and even make some new Multiple kudos to Van for all of us, on closing night! They came Economics. Son Andy graduated ones. SEE YOU THERE." his succes es ....Ellie Shorey backstage, and we went out after­ from Virginia Tech a year ago Harris, our class president, kindly wards.' Helen earnsher keep on and is in a management training prodded me to get going on chis antucket Island, Mas ., work­ program with J.C. Penney. Ann column, so thanks to her. Ellie ing for an executivic earch firm majors in biology at James Madi­ would like everyone to start chat as ists higher education and son and i doing research forCoor 7 Correspondent Brian thinking about the reunion in nonprofit institutions exclusively. Brewery, and Clare i a busy and "Bo"5 Olsen i back in print. "It's June of next year and make your The firm i based on the island active high chool ophomore. been over a year since you heard plans now to be there! The 30th and i 'the best in the business Last October Mac and Jim bought from me (and I from any of you)," was great, and we can make chi (also all women).' Yet Helen says a lakeside retreat, which may also he writes, "so it's obviously time one even better if more of us her heart is in her voice study and become a retirement home, in we tarted talking again. To pro­ come. 'Til next time ....Let' furnituredecoration ....Marian northern Wi consin and plan to duce a column like thi , I need hear from you." Woodsome Ludwig al o studies pend thesummerthere ....I was NEWS, NEW , NEW ! It's a voice and does lots of inging. saddened to learn that Barbara pretty simple formula-no new , She saw Phanwm of the Opera in Nardozzi Saxon lost her hu band no column. Well, to try to build New York, Les Miserables and The la t May in Wilmington, Del., our informationbase, you should Correspondent Andria Nutcracker in Boston and has sung and that Nancylou Hise Rapp have received by now the ques­ Peacock5 8 Kime sends "a sincere some of the beautiful ong Ii ted pa ed away unexpectedly in tionnaire from the Alumni Office thank you to all who re ponded in the programs. She describes January, leaving Karen, Kathy and with my brief note attached. to the last que tionnaire. If you chis pa t year a filled with many Kevin Krieger. La t heard, Peter Please, let's get some cards and still have yours, please send it on 'anochers,' such as another Krieger was in Au tralia. . .. letters coming my way so we can to me. It's never too late to re­ grandchild, another year teach­ David and Rosie Crouthamel prepare for ournext get-together ceive your new ! A newsletter ing music and another trip to Sortor recently enjoyed a dinner (our 35th reunion), a mere 15 will be forthcoming.... Did you Germany. The details of these reunionattheSherborne lnn with months from when you read thi catch Glen Goffin's letter to the events, she say , have added the fe llow Colby parents Louise column. I do have a couple of editor in the January issue of glimmer, sparkle and excitement Allen Freedman and Janet nice newspaper articles, sent to Colby? Al o, don't mi the news to all that ha happened.... Lee' 'Stebbie' Stebbins Walsh. Loui e the Alumni Office, about two of under Headliners, Newsmakers hope folk like Nathan Adams and Stebbie have had off:pring our classmate , and I'll pas these and Mileposts ....The magazine stay afe. If you read his article in

Colby, May 1991 55 the September Reader's Digest, you my very minimal Czech made for know he ha been followingter­ some amusing situations. They rorist activity very closely, espe­ were so thrilled with everything cially in the Middle East. He still they saw and experienced that it exhibits a dry sense of humor, made my efforts extremely satis­ with tales of setting a newspaper Norma Bergquist Garnett '52 fying.' ...Almost all who replied on fire at a candlelit dinner in to my questionnaire have men­ Zurich and falling into a reflect­ tioned the desire for peace, and ing pool at the Istanbul Sheraton. Headliners many ofyou were directly affected, And of course, Nate would ask, with family and/or friendsir. the 'What is a belief system?' when Marilyn Scott Allen '51 was named assistant vice pre i­ Middle East. To my knowledge, asked to describe his in the dent of marketing at Merchant's National Bank in Terre Marietta Pane is our only class­ questionnaire. 'I oftenwrite about Haute, lnd ....Norma Bergquist Garnett '52 has been e­ mate still on active duty in the the so-called future of the world, lected by the Milken Family Foundation as one of six recipients armed services. She has been very so I am less qualified to comment of its Rhode Island Educator Awards. Garnetthas chaired the busy traveling to different parts on it,' Nate says cryptically, 'other of the country for the Navy­ foreign language department at Toll Gate High School in than it surely belongs to Europe, which has made her supposed last post-EC, of 1992. We have Warwick for 20 years and is a foreign language consultant at year very complicated." squandered our own role with Brown and an adjunct facultymember at Rhode Island College consumerism and 'Me First­ and Providence College ....John F. Church, Jr. '59, presi­ ism ...Barbara NewhallArmel dent of Cincinnati Cordage and Paper Co., was elected chair of sends her news from Bloomfield, the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, which "In the last issue I asked N .J. She still teaches second grade represents a $1.8 trillion industry with five million employees. you to guess which memberof the and loves it. She, too, has done cl5a s9 became, on March 26, 1990, lots of traveling, including trips the daddy of a Colby pre-fresh­ to Hawaii, France, Spain, Italy man, Class of 201 1," begins cor­ and, last summer, Germany, Newsmakers respondent Susan Frazer Fether­ where she saw the passion play. ston. "Here's another clue: the She still sees Colby every summer Maurice F. Ronayne '5 1 recently joined a storm of pro­ baby's name is William Pono. while spending time at China test against an October 1990 Reader's Digest article about Pono is Hawaiian for 'great, Lake, and she hasn't mis ed one American civil servants. "The use of the 'half-truth' and the beautiful,righteous.' You got it if reunion and wouldn't miss our 'big lie' in this anti-civil service article would make Joseph you guessed Gary Hagerman. 35th! Church-related activities, Goebbels tum green with envy," Ronayne wrote in a letter Gary and Kari live in Honolulu,

including child care and chairing published by Retirement Life earlier this year . ... Margot White where Gary continues to practice a committee on housing and Cottrell '55 was appointed a directorof the Bristol Community law. He specializes in defending feeding the homeless, keep her College Foundation in Fall River, Mass. doctors and hospitals in medical busy. Her new grandson keeps malpractice cases and has written her going, too, and is a delight, a chapter on the subject in a text­ she says . . ..Janice Klem Benicek book on medicine and the law. In writes from Westboro, Mass., Mileposts his spare time Gary cultivates where she is coordinator of vol­ bamboo, and he says that he re­ unteer for Literacy Volunteers Deaths: Donald R. Livingstone '51 in Bo ton, Mass., at cently made hi first stained glass of Greater Worcester. While 62 ....Joan Haskell Hardy '52 in Stuart, Fla., at 61. ... window. He was active in com­ Janice has traveled extensively, William L. Poland '53 in Baltimore, Md., at 63 .... William munity theater a few years ago one of her most rewarding trips A. Schiebe '5 5 in Bridgeport, Conn., at 59 ....Nancylou Hise and hopes to get back into it was right in New England. 'My Rapp '56 in Windham, Conn., at 56.... Jay M. O'Brien '57 soon. AttorneyHagerman prom­ ises to be in Waterville for our late husband was from Czecho­ in Hartford,Conn., at 55 ....Margot Barrett Mclellan '58 in 35th reunion ....You were also slovakia,' she wrote. 'it was his Mount Kisco, N.Y., at 54. brother's dream to come to the asked to guess who had gone back U.S. to see and experience all last summer to an old Colby those things that our country love-his first, in fact-the Ap­ represents to those living in op­ We traveled throughout New the area in which my husband palachian Trail. It's really no sur­ pressive countries. So during the England so that they could see had lived ince fleeing from prise, since this person was ex­ summer of 1989 I brought him the wide variety of scenery and Czechoslovakia in the '50s. Their tremely active in the outdoors and his wife here for five weeks. attractions and also get a feel for total ignorance of English and clubs while at Colby. Raise your

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Want more information? Call, or send a postcard, with your phone number to: David L. Roberts '55, Director of Planned Giving, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, Phone (207) 872-3212

hand if you guessed Philip Hen­ courages anyone who can to take ter had a great time hiking in to the Persian Gulf. Sue works for derson. Last February he left part. Philip, from Crofton, Md., northernSpain and in the Cinque the Duchess County Probation Southland Corp. after 10 years will have more of a haul to Terre region of Italy. At home, Department, dealing with family and took a six-month vacation. Homecoming than I will, but I Penny manages a local florist court cases and domestic violence During this time he got back to expect to be there and will make shop. She has her own flower problems, which, she says, are being a erious history student it a point to look for Philip ....I garden, where she spends lots of always a challenge. Dick is in real again. He also hiked and explored have news of another hiker, time in the summer, and in the estate and insurance. The Russells the mid-Atlantic region of the Margaret 'Penny' Burns Win­ fall she makes dried flower ar­ celebrated their 30th wedding trail. Along the way he met and ship. She says that she had really rangements. With all that, she anniversary last June with a trip hiked with some of the year's wanted to come to our 30th re­ also finds time to play tennis and to seven countries in Europe. 'through hiker ,' who walk from union, but one of her three girls ski ....Two other skiers who Being skiers, they especially en­ Georgia to Maine. Philip has also was married that weekend. This missed the reunion becau e of joyed Switzerland and Austria. become involved in the Earth­ confirm what Denny Kellner family activities are Dick and They are getting tired of New watch organization. He recom­ Palmer told us at the time. Two Suzanne Moulton Russell, who York taxes and in a couple of mends it and says he thinks that of the Winship girls are now live and ki near Hyde Park, N.Y. years expect to start thinking of some of the winter projects would Purdue graduates, and the third They were having what Sue calls changes in direction and lifestyle. make guod JanPlan topics. Philip will finish at Purdue this year. quality time with their grandson That probably describes what takes note of plans by the Athlet­ While Cynthia, the youngest, was before their younger son, David, many of us will be doing before ic Department to honor Lee in Spain last year, Penny went was sent with the Navy to Ha­ too long." Williams at a futuredate and en- over to visit. Mother and daugh- waii. David wa sent in October

Colby,Ma y 1991 57 THE SIXTIES

racing motorcycles. He didn't say ture and dynamic energy' to the "1991 minus 1961 how his wife, Mena, an RN, fe el "The responses to the group's latest recording, T.E.T.O., equals61 30," notes correspondent about racing. Norm also bragged red questionnaire that have been according to the L.A. Rock Scene Edwin "Ned" Gow. "Folks, that is that he hit a hole-in-one at the 6received 2 thus far brighten the Report. Creativity must run in higher math to this ex-art major. Moreno Valley Golf Club in prospects of filling this and some their veins---daughter Abigail, Looking forward co June 7-9. Moreno, Calif. To the midlife future columns," writes corre­ 12, had thelead in seven perfor­ ...Louise Hahlbohm Crane sent cri i question, Norm answered spondent Linda Nicholson mances of Annie ....Another an announcement for her paint­ that he goes flying with Malcolm Goodman. ''I'm beginning this Maine classmate, Garth Chan­ ing exhibit at the Westchester 'Sandy' Graham. Sandy reported column with news culled from an dler, a Bangor attorney, updates County Center Gallery in White what Norm was really doing in 'in-depth' letter ent by Hope us on his family and current in­ Plains, N.Y., during November California-attending motor­ Hutchins Blackburn , better terests. Daughter Julie is a junior and December. Louise said the cycle racing school co prepare to known to mo t of u a 'Hopie' at the University of Maine and painting were mostly colorful compete on the East Coast. Sandy and one of the'missing classmates' on the varsity swim team, and acrylics in a neo-pointillist style, and Linda live in Darien, Conn., ince our 25th reunion. After the daughter Amy is a senior and along with some watercolors. where Sandy is chief of dental deaths of both parents and a di­ cocaptain of the Bangor High Yours truly really wanted co ee services at White Plains Hospital vorce, Hope moved back to School swim team, which ha won the show-partially out of envi­ and a member of the board of Bangor and began a new phase in state championships for the past ous curiosity and partially for in­ direcrors, New York Academy of her life.After chartering a sailboat three years. To practice what spiration, because I have not set Dentistry. You guessed it, a pilot's and captain to sail to Sarasota, environmentalists are preaching, aside the time co paint. Symp­ licensehascome out ofh is midlife Fla., two summers ago, she decided Garth has taken a labor-intensive romatically, I missed the show .... crisis. Sandy admits that his fly­ to immerse herself completely in forestry management course and Virginia W riggins Hochella says ing meets with 'con iderable this exhilarating new avocation applies his experience to a 135- he would like co be doing more family resistance-getting my by buying a 36' Tashiba (named acre wood lot. uggested reading community theater but can't find wife into the car is tough enough, Hope ) that has a permanent slip is the nonfiction We Took to the enough free evenings. Over the a plane is out of the question.' at Northeast Harbor, Maine, and Woods . . ..One final Maine re­ past two years, Ginny planned Linda is working on her ma ter' a winter lip at Marina Jack in sponse comes from Janet Cole and established a new middle in education and is already in­ Sarasota. In true Hopie fashion, Courant, who resides m Greene, school library for the Medway volved as president of the high she describes how he toughed it Maine, and is an assistant manager public school system. She is now school parents' association. Their out for53 dayssailingfrom Maine at Rhyme & Reason, an Auburn the librarian, and the library son, Scott, is a junior at Colby to Florida, learning everything educational toy store. Her hus­ serves 500 students .... It was and is going to the University of about the innards of the Hope band, John, has been a project nice to hear from one of our ex­ New South Wales in Sydney, while erving as captain to a crew engineer for Bath Iron Works but classmates, Peter Crooker, who Australia, with Thom Luth, of four. Colby classmates whom is currently on long-term dis­ lives in Pit tsford, N.Y. After Diana Sherman Luth' son. Hopie has een and sailed with ability. With obvious pride, Janet leaving Colby in 1959, he went Peter Stevenson is CEO ofStikon include Peter Thompson and reported that her oldest son, Jay, on co graduate from the Univer­ Corporation, a management Nancy Record Howell. Hopie' graduated last May from the sity of Maine. Pete vacations consultant firm. Petet acknowl­ son, Alec, is in col lege and University of Vermont with an during the summer months in edges that Judy 'takes care of ev­ daughter Julie, who graduated electrical engineering degree Maine to recharge after 10 months erything I don't-which is a lot.' magna cum laude from Ohio (with computer option), and son in one of the nation's most ...Frank Wheat i president/ Wesleyan, is married and will Dan is a junior at the University stressful jobs-he has been CEO of Atlantic International make her a grandmother in July. of Maine inFarmington majoring teaching high school socialstudies Association in Yarmouth, Maine. Our barefoot captain will be in economics ....A classmate for 23 years. His wife teaches His wife, Sue, is a preschool married on Memorial Day week­ who left after his sophomore year Latin .... Richard Gibbs com­ teacher. A proud Frank supplied end to a 'gorgeous, wonderfulman at Colby, Hooper Cutler, sent mutes between Boston and a list of his three girls' (ages23, 21 who taught me all I know about news from Marblehead, Mass., Housron as Texport Oil's co­ and 13) accomplishment . His sailing.' . ..John Chapman where he is captain of the fire principal but still lives in second childhood is being fueled shares with us his news of life department. He is in the process Swampscott, Mass. Out of his by a new Maserati convertible ... changes, including divorce, sell­ of getting a divorce, living alone midlife crisis has come 'a puppy, a This finishes the responses, so 1 ing his insurance and pension for the first time in 25 year and divorce, a new fiancee [wife by need to hear from more class­ planning business and moving to loving it. Hooper has two now?], a larger mortgage, a higher mates ....Hope co see as many new surroundings away from daughters, Diane, 22, and Laura, golf handicap and skiing like of you as possible at our 30th Damariscotta. Son Brian, 21, 19, and felt that part of 'getting Roseanne Barr.' ...Landscape reunion!" known as Shark Darkwater, new his act together and having more designer Norman Macartney guitarist for a hot rock group, fun' involved reacquainting admits that he would like to be They Eat Their Own, adds 'tex- himselfwithex-Colbycla smates.

58 Colby, May 1991 '' Expect a Lot of Myself' I Q. What do the Last three governors of Massachusetts, setts Association of Paraplegics. The association successfully Michael Dukakis, Edward King and William Weld, have in lobbied for state laws to make public buildings and sidewalks common? more accessible to the disabled. A. Elmer Bartels '62. In the meantime, Bartels returned to Colby, earning his First named Massachusetts rehabilitation commissioner in bachelor's degree in physics in 1962. He went on to a master's 1977 by Dukakis, Banels has served under the three governors in program at Tufts University. Then, he said, ''I'd had enough. l five administrations. needed to go to work, make a living. I had a wife and a daughter." "We've just been meeting to see how we can cut the budget," He went to work in the nuclear science lab at MIT. "I Banels told a visitor on the day his reappointment by Weld was couldn't do lab experiments," he says, "so l began working with announced in January. "We made cuts in September, in July and computers. They came along at just the right time for me." last spring. lt's like being pecked to death ....At the moment In 1968 Bartels leftMIT forHoneywell Information Sys­ we're struggling, but that too will pass. We have to hold things tems, where he rose to become department head in software together for a better time and retain enough of a skeleton to engineering. On the side, he continued with his work for the rebuild on." disabled, writing numerous articles and participating in a wide Clearly, Bartelsis not currying pity-either because of the variety of national, state and local disabled-advocacy groups. His fiscal hot seat he's on or because of the wheelchair that became prominence among those groups led to his appointment as a permanent fi xture of his life 30 years ago during an inter­ commissioner. "I was very happy at Honeywell," Bartels re­ fraternityhockey game at Colby, when he fe ll, smashing his head members. "l could have stayed there the rest of my life. But l knew into the boards. Since then he has been paralyzed fromthe neck that ifl didn't take the appointment I'd kick myself in the tail for down. "You do the best you can with what you have," he said. the rest of my life." Afterhis accident in December 1960 (when he was just one Barrels became only the second disabled American to head semester shy of graduating) Bartels recuperated for a year at a tare commission. He administers a staff of 1,000 and an $80 Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Massachusetts. "In those days," million budget, andthecommissionserves 32,000peopleannually, Bartels says, "people didn't expect quads to live, live indepen­ helping about 4,300 join the work force. In 1978 Colby awarded dently, or go to work. All of those expectations were unaccept­ him an honorary degree. able to me." Bartels credits his father, a doctor who headed the "What makes me tick is to make things happen," Banels Lahey Clinic near Boston, with ensuring that he received proper said. "I'm not happy unless I'm building something-helping care, though he admits that "my father didn't know anything somebody achieve a goal, helping an employee learn how to do abuut spinal cord injuries. Nobody did. He learned." a job better." He is a tough boss, he says. "l expect a lot. If you At Shattuck Bartels met his wife, Mary, a nurse, and don't expect a lot, you don't get much. l also expect a lot of together, they and a handful of patients formed the Massachu- myself."

Colby, May 1991 59 ...A most complete question­ Electric in their credit depart­ his spare time, Tim teaches at August with a 12-day trip to Ber­ naire was received from Dave ment here in Cleveland, but I'm Central Michigan Univer ity in muda. It was their 1 5th trip there! Jacobson, who resides in New­ told that I'll be traveling all over its extended degree program, and Tom owns and operates a tavern ton, Mass., and ha continued his the United States, so watch out. he is president of the board of the called The Norwood Business­ scholarly work in anthropology I'll be taking my Colby Alumni local suicide prevention center. man's Club. Joanna and Tom with the publication of a new Directory with me and trying to He also jogs a lot. Tim's vacation have two sons: Tom Ill, who book, Reading Ethnography, which contact as many of youas possible are frequently 'working vacations' graduated from Holy Cros and covers the field of anthropolo­ to see what's new and to thank in that the course he teaches is plans to go on to law school, and gists analyzing and describing the you forthe great response I got on presented at locations throughout Tim, a junior at the University of peoples and cultures they observe. the questionnaire. It's never too this country, Europe and the Far Tampa. Joanna has managed to Dave is also an advisor to the late to send it in to me. If you East ....From Lake Winnebago, return to Colby for reunions and Greater Bo ton chapter of the can't fi nd it, just write me Mo., Elizabeth Doe Norwat says she's impressed with the ap­ Stepfamily Association of Amer­ anyway .... Terrill Miller, who wrote that she andhusband Don, pearance of the campus and the ica, a position in which he both live in Albany, N.Y., works for a wildlife area manager, have a buildings. I'm impressed with helps and is helped, since he and the U.S. Postal Service, so he'll son named John and a dog and Joanna's fitness dedication. She his present wife, Lois, have five make ure I get yourmail . Terry cat. Elizabeth, a teacher, antici­ goes every day at 7 a.m. to do children and stepchildren. The has been to Washington, D.C., pates traveling to France and aerobics and is a lifetime member three oldest have graduated from twice to lobby to get the Postal Spain this summer with some of of Weight Watchers and still at­ college and are on both coasts. Service offbudget, and he reports her students. Her la t vacation tends weekly meetings. Joanna is Stepdaughter Abby is a junior at that his efforts were successful. started with a flight to Seattle also involved in the Dedham MacalesterCollege in Minnesota He is married to Dorothy, who is and then cross-country inro Historical Society, and she and and son Matt joined the freshman a registered nurse. Terry has two Canada to Jasper, Banff and Lake Tom have a time-share on Lido class at the same school after stepchildren-Daniel, who is an Louise. On the way they had a Beach in Sarasota, Fla ....War­ traveling around Israel and Eu­ investigator with the police, and lovely visit with Betty Dean ren Balgooyen reports that he is rope for a year. Dave and Lois, Diane, who is a radiology techni­ Johnston Rayle and her family now almost fully recovered from who is a marketing vice pre ident cian. Terry's spare time is taken on Whitby Island. Betty lives in a falling off a roof and landing on for Seminar Company, enjoy up with his ac tivities as past lovely home in a beautiful place his head in 1987. Warren and his biking, tennis, squash and trav­ president of the Uncle SamStamp and has become quite an artist, wife, Helen (a nurse at Colby's eling. They have explored various Club, as an assistant Republican reports Elizabeth. Then I heard Health Center), have part ici­ parts of the United Kingdom committeeman in the town of from Betty, who gave me more pated in Colby's COOT program during the last several summers. Colonie, as vice president of the details about her career. She does for the past two years and still ...Wonderful news received Capital District Postal Workers monorypes and etchings and ha manage to take care of their own from Jean Koulack-Young (for­ Union, as coach of the Colonie her own etching press. Betty's two kids, dog and various farm merly Jean Young Lawrence) of girl's softball senior team and as been in several juried shows and animals on their 180-acre farmin her marriage on November, 18, head usher at the Pine Grove had a painting selected for the Norridgewock. Warren is a 1989, to Doran Kou lack ....And United Methodist Church. He 1990 Children's Hospital Chri t­ naturalist and former director of finally, on a sadder note, I report also manages to garden, read and mas Card Collection. Her paint­ an environmental education that Lawrence 'Murray' Daley fish-and then claims he's not ings have beenchosen for a new center for the Brooklyn Botani­ died on August 8, 1990, in outgoing enough to attend re­ line of24 greeting cards to be sold cal Gardens. Theyare planning a Thorold, Ontario, of complica­ unions. Terry also talked to John nationwide in 1991. Betty and trip to England this next summer tions following brain surgery. His Hardy for the first time in 25 husband Frank, who is involved to tour English gardens. Warren wife, Colleen, sent a brief letter years. They may evenget together in real estate management, have spends his spare time building a relating Murray's reminiscences in California .... Tim Dakin, a three kids-Julie, employed by lakeshore cabin, taking canoe of varsity hockey and the Zeta Psi fe llow Ohioan, is a profes or of Peat Marwick, Steven, at UC­ trips, hiking, fishing, leading na­ fraternity house. Our belated contract law at the Air Force Boulder, and Lindsay Ann, a high ture walks and giving nature lec­ condolences to Colleen and to Institute ofT echnology, Wright­ school junior. ...There's also tures to schools, 4-H Clubs and their children, Joe, 14, and Katie, Patter on Air Force Base, Ohio. someone named Jellybean .... the like and writes a nature col­ 11." Tim's two children are both Recently named assistant to the umn for aweekly newspaper, the teachers. His son, Robin, teaches headmaster at Roxbury Latin Randolph, Vt., Herald. Warren elementary art in Toledo, and School is Joanna Buxton Gorm­ and Helen have a daughter who daughter Andrea teaches high ley. Joanna was formerly school is majoring in biology at Earlham "I started off the new school English and French in secretary and is enjoying her new and a son who just tarted at the year with a new job," reports cor­ Dayton. Tim and his wife, Irene, responsibilities. She and her Univer ity of Maine and will respond63 ent Jo-Ann Wincze became grandparents recently. husband, Tom, celebrated their major in music. Warren notes French. "I'm working forGeneral Boy, I'm glad I'm not that old! In 25th wedding anniversary last that he met his wife on his seventh

60 Colby , May 1991 ascent up Mt. Karahdin in 1968 Larschan's amique prints of lit­ and this past summer made his erary, geographical and academic eighth ascent. He also noted that subjects, Morgan McGinley' neither the mountain nor they bamboo fly rod and Mary Stim­ have changed ....Well, on that son Bowie's boat (Du ry too). happy note I will close for now. Nancy Saylor Kimball collects This is twice what the tell me early American antiques and I'm allowed to write, but I also nature picture and artifact . Her Patricia Andrea Zlotin '68 notice other columns are a lot sun room is her 'Audubon' longer, so, hopefully they will be room ....Todd Sherman re- lenient this time. Talk to you ponded, 'memories, unread again real oon." maga:ines and money (what little I can).' Joan Phillipps Thomp­ Headliners son also collects memories, plus books and old tennis balls. Also Building de igned by the architectural firm of Silver & "As I write thi , my book collecting are Dawne Wis­ Ziskind-of which David Ziskind '61 i a partner-were fea­ bank64 ha failed, the Geneva talks well Unruh, Alfred Fisher, who tured in recem cover tories in Identityand ArchitecturalLighting have failed, and who know what collects wine a well, and Jean magazine ....Dennis Connolly '62 i the new chair of the will ha e happened by the time Brennon Call, who al o collects advi ory committee of the Whanon Ri k and Deci ion Proce you read it," says correspondent refrigerator magnet . Peter Cemer at the Univer ity of Penn ylvania .... Pauline Ryder Sara Shaw Rhoades. "Blindly we Whalley listed 'beach rocks, golf Kezer '63 took the oath of officea Connecticut' secretary of carry on with our daily chores club , Betty Crocker point .' I'm state earlier this year, then po ed forphotographs with grand­ and deadlines, and thu I bring sure he'd appreciate any you'd daughter Victoria and Kade. The accompanying article, in the you more news from the 1990 like co get rid of! Both Jim Simon New Britain Hera/a,note that Kezer was the first Republican Opinionnaires ....Your collec­ and Art Fulman collect camps ' elected to catew1de office in Connecticut in 20 years. ... tion intere red me a lot. Eight of and coins, and Jim added 'bill co Charles W. Birlem '66 wa named controller for GTE' In­ you said 'Nothing' or leftthe space his list. Jackie Roe Lloyd collect ternationalLighting Division, which manufactures lamp , gla blank when l asked what you plants, which just might have and related products in Canada, Europe, the Far Ea r and Latin collected. Environmentally con- something to do with her land­ America .... Gail Robbins Henningsen '67 wa named cious Annette Petersen Green­ scape bu ine . Bill Pollock col­ county counsel in Mercer County, .) ....Patricia Andrea berg said recyclables, and l hope lects Oriental rugs{on the boat ?), Zlotin '68 wa promoted to executive ice presidem at Ma a­ most of u do nowadays. Andy ba eball cards, winter camping chu ett Financial ervice . ... Charles J. Hely '68 was ap­ Houlahan adds 'item for garage torie and Vivaldi concerti. pointed a superior court judge in Ma sachusett . ales,' yet another recycling Gardner Gray al o collects mu- hobby. Sue Sawyer McAlary ic, 'kind of.' I trust he has all confesses to collecting confu ion, Colby recordings, the latest of Newsmakers and Linda Spear Elwell collect \ hich is pretty dam good. Gail junk mail (ah ye !). (Bon voyage Koch Cooper collect 'good math Alan L. Neigher '62 was named 1991 chair of the board to Linda and her husband a they games to u e in the classroom and forMarch of Dimes in Fairfield County, Conn .... Anne Jones travel to Au tralia in March and ynop es of good children' book Willis '68, an authority on Victoriana, lectured on Victorian Copenhagen in May.) Sandi forreluctant seventh- and eighth­ fashions at a recent Hightstown-East Windsor ( .) .) Business Hayward Albertson-Shea col­ grade readers.' If you want to and Professional Women' Club meeting. Willis divide her lects lamps. Historic or household, contact any fe llow collector, I'll time between lecturing, presenting Victorian fashion hows Sandi? And Jon Pitman ave be glad to hare addresse with and consulting on the conservation of period fabrics and the unu ed vacation time ....More you.... Some wrote that they recreation of Victorian co tume and interiors. di playable collection include haven't been back to Mayflower Barbie Carr Howson' Chri t­ Hill. If you are al o in this group, mas angels, Bruce Lippincott's I strongly urge you to make the Mileposts pressed glass (Du ty and I collect pilgrimage. Ir's soothing to be in pres ed gla , too), Jean Martin uch familiar urrounding , and Marriages:J oseph Jambriska, J . '68 to Marilou Scalzi Fowler's Shelley china cup and it'svery rea uringtofindso man in Bridgeport, Conn. aucer , Ken Levy' erotic French people offering challenging con­ Deaths:Mary HydeMcGarrahan '68 in Miller ville, Md., etchings, Ken Nye's toy lead cept to futuregeneration and to at 44. soldier (he al o makes mold and fe el the pull and tug of debate and reproduces his own), Dick controver yin a 'safe place."'

Colby, May 1991 61 another woman to do design and "Three of our class- general contracting on house mates65 are wearing Air Force blue renovations. Being fe male in a and hold the rank of colonel," Correspondents predominantly male occupation correspondent Richard Bankart is more often seen by clients as a writes. "All are career military 1960 1965 refreshing alternative than as a Katherine P. White Richard W. Bankart officers who got their start in the drawback, Dee Dee reports, al­ 1228 Sandringham Way 20 Valley Avenue Suite D2 ROTC program at Colby ....A though she did ay that there have Birmingham, Ml 48010 scan of the 25th reunion year­ Westwood, NJ 07675 been occasions when she's been Phone: 313-646-2907 Phone: 201-664-7672 book shows Col. Dana Abbott asked to watch the kids or put the attached to NATO in Brussels in family's dinner in the oven while 'computers and systems develop­ 1961 1966 at work! ...Greg Chabot is a ment.' ...Col. Gerald McElroy Edwin K. Gow Margaret F. Wheeler free-lance copywriter, working earned an M.B.A. at Columbia 38 High Street (Margaret L. Fallon) mostly for high-tech companies. Univer ity and is attachedto the Canaan, CT 06018 42 Belvedere Road Box 493 Past experiences forhim include Pentagon 'in the comptroller Phone: 203-824-0195 West Boxford,MA 01885 running a federally funded teacher field.' ...Col. Gary Ross earned Phone: 508-352-2052 training program in bilingual an M.B.A. at the University of 1962 education out of Boston Univer­ Utah and is director of logistic Linda Goodman sity, writing three plays in French 1967 plans and deputy chief of staffat (Linda H. Nicholson) and acting in local theater pro­ Mrs. Ross A. Dean Scott AFB in Belleville, Ill. ... In FernwoldHeights Farm ductions. Greg lives in one of the (Susan R. Daggett) addition, Lt. Col. Matt Riddell, 96 Lynch Hill Road beautiful l 740s-era sea captain's 29301 N. 1 14th Street USAFRet., left the forcein 1986. Oakdale, 063 70 houses that l so admire in down­ CT Scottsdale, AZ 85255 A former B-52 pilot with 254 Phone: 203-848-0469 town Newburyport, Mas .... Phone: 602-585-0313 combat missions, Matt is in Pam Harris Holden traveled Huntsville, Ala., with Boeing as abroad again last summer, this 1963 a flight simulation analyst/B- lB Jo-Ann W. French 1968 time to the SovietUnion, Finland weapon system trainer. Matt, too, (Jo-Ann Wincze) Barbara E. Bixby and Switzerland. In addition to is a product of the Colby ROTC 864 S. Parkview Drive 12 Eighth Street her museum work in Louisville, program and earneda master's at Aurora, OH 44202 Bayville, NY 11709 Ky., Pam is also enrolled in a the University of Colorado while Phone: 216-562-9925 Phone: 516-628-1597 graduate school program in an he was stationed at the Air Force history . ...Ji m Murtie, a comp­ Academy. troller at Digital Equipment A Christmas card note dis­ 1964 1969 Corporation, lives in Westford, Anna T. Bragg closes that Tom Donahue has Sara Rhoades Mass., and his two sons are in (Anna E. Thompson) been named director of financial (Sara K. Shaw) high school.JimhashelpedColby PO Box 267 aid at the Harvard School in 76 Norton Road with placement work over the Kittery, ME 03904 61 South Main Street North Hollywood, Calif. He also years .... Peter and Linda Washburn, ME 04786 teaches seven courses in Spanish Phone: 207-439-2620 Buchheim Wagner's wonderful and history at this private school apple farm, Applecrest, in of 1,550 students. Hampton Falls, N.H., has been I regret to report that Betsy Umer Baxter in San Diego re­ Cumberland, RI 02864. Hail chosen as the likely site for the Lyman Rachal succumbed to ported that they were unable to Colby Hail!" filming of a movie based on John cancer on December 6. Betsy attend reunion due to a prior Irving's Cider House Rules, with earnedan M.B.A. at Harvard and family commitment but did Gene Hackman and Danny was an investment banker with manage a visit to New England in Glover in the lead roles. Produc­ Rachal Enterprises. The classex­ October to visit family and Correspondent Meg tion was to have begun this winter. tends sympathy to her husband, friends. Residents of California Fallon6 6 Wheeler writes, "After 10 I know Linda quite well, and she's Paul, and her five children. for 14 years, they say 'our roots years of employment in the always been one to make things Jann Buffinton Browning are in the East, and we're feeling computer field, Dee Dee Pardee happen, so don't be too surprised and Bruce wrote that grandchild pulled back there.' Cunningham of Winchester, if you see her and Peter at some #3 arrived last July, and they are A reminder: a videotape of Mass., decided to convert her side point in the movie-at least in 'spoiling him rotten, as good our 25th reunion is still available. interest, buying and renovating the background. We'll get full grandparents should.' Send $12 to Mrs. Pam Plumb multi-family dwellings, into a new reports at reunion! See you all A note fromNed and Lynne Carey, 6 Lantern Lane, career. She has teamed up with there."

62 Colby, May 1991 and '90 cards. They appear to be lege, and Greg is president of his ished classmates, till I re ume my 7 Correspondent Susan maintaining a hectic pace with own company, WINDATA, ramblings in three months." Daggett6 Dean begins her column Ginger and Jennifer away at dif­ Inc .... Bob Hayden, you most with a word of thanks "to Dick ferent school . Jennifer i attend­ happy fe lla, you! Bob is editor Heend for writing after many ing Colby and i involved in both and publi her of a magazine about years. Dick and hi wife, Mary, kiing and bike racing. Ginger i model railroads-a hobby that have been living in Hong Kong attending Holderne , a high he ha enjoyed since the age of Corre pondent Anna for le than a year. They expect school in New Hampshire, also 14. Bob reports that his family Thompson6 9 Bragg, writing on a to remain there until 1993. Dick attended by Laurie Lewin comprises himself, his wife and cold day in Washburn, Maine, works for Dow Chemical Com­ Simms' daughter, Mandy. 'nvo uselesscat .' ...John '66 and say , "! intend to write only about pany and manage their styrenics, Mandy and Ginger are both on Meg Schwartz Loomis have two classmates who reside in the sunny olefins and pla tics busine in the ski racing team there. Bob grown children, Bobbie Jo and states ....Craig Stevens and his the Pacific area. His bu iness take spends two days a week in Canada. Brad, adopted in '82. Meg has wife, Carol, have it made! Craig him to Asia and Australia. Of the He and Fran have had many op­ returned to school to earna B.S. lives in Savannah, Ga., during 400 people employed there by portunities to travel together. ... in nursing.... Dr. Rick Mor­ the cold months, then returnsto Dow, only seven are Americans. Ros and I are counting down the iarty, a sistant chief of pediatrics Maine for July and August. In He writes, 'The A ian people are days ( 424) left inhis term as a city at the ational aval Medical Savannah, Craig is a professor of wonderfuland have very differ­ councilman. (Public service i a Center in Bethesda, Md., has just photography at the Savannah ent cultures, both inter-country great way to cut your Christma completed a tudy on measles re­ College of Art and De ign. Hi and within the region of the in­ card list.) Christine has moved to vaccination for ado le cent . Rick wife is a French teacher at the dividual countries.' Mary i tak­ her own apartment, Katie is and Patry' children, Colleen and Savannah Country Day School. ing Cantone e le sons, ince that tackling both chemi try and Richie, are a perpetualsource of They also spend the month of i the language of choice in Hong phvsics at the University of pride ....And one of our other June in France, o Craig covers a Kong. Dick write , 'If any of our Col rado and we are temporarily phy icians, Dr. Ken Lane, an lot of ground during the year. ... cla mate are traveling in the alon in the house-not all bad. ane thesiologi t, has a pringer Mary Lyle Henry finds her elf in Paci.fie, plea e call u . ' I have hi We own a solar energy company paniel named Colby. Ken has Alexandria, Va., where she is an phone number and bu iness that i plugging away . . ..l would relocated to one of God's mo t instructor in writing at American addres ....I had a nice note at love to hear from any of you, but beautifulplaces, Bozeman, Mont. University. The birth of her third Christma from Adora Clark Hill it would bee pecially nice to hear ... Bob Garrett, up in the sky son in July 19 9 added a new '65. It was great to hear good from tho e who ha e nor written much of hi time as a pilot for twist to her life! She finds that thing from my Colby junior ad­ in years. 1 could use ome help American Airline , manages to 'having a toddler and working vi or. ome relationship flourish here!" land at home in York, Maine, to full time make life interesting even when not given the atten­ enjoy being with his wife, Kathy and has added a few gray hairs to tion they de erve. The Cla s of Alford Garrett '70, and three my humble head!' Mary's two '65ha ome reallyneatmember , children ....Cindyand Howard other boys are 16 and I 3. he is and she is #l on my list. ... Mosher of Ridgewood, N.J., are talking about working on her Natalie Furlong Graceffa is till "With luck thi column pleased to announce the marriage Ph.D. in her pare time. Good 'into' ice hockey. Both Joe, who will make its timely appearance," of one of their on , Mark. luck, Mary! ...'WhereareJanes, i in eighth grade, and Chuck, a writ68es correspondent Barbara Howard, as many of you know, Emery, Woodin, Anthony, etc.?' senior, are playing. Chuck i ap­ Bixby. "I am in a 'Jan Plan' frame was elected president of British That question comes from Peter plying to college , and Anne is a of mind and have presumptuously Automobile Manufacturer A - Wick Phillips. Memories of sophomore at Colgate. Nat is given a certain amount of lati­ ociation.... For quite a few year hockey come to mind! Wick is in working hard on the reunion .... tude to the deadline for these now, Susan and Rick Morey have Palm Spring , Calif., where he is John and Jean Howard Bleyle cla s notes .... Bill Palombo, been far removed fromBrooklyn, a realrnr-as ociate with The were looking forward to their enjoying the throne a Lobster N.Y. They live now in Wisconsin Prudential Hampton Realtors. daughters returning from Reed Maven of the Northeast, has thus with their three children. Rick i Either Wick i u ing his Colby and Oberlin forthe holidays.Jean found an ideal way of combining director of college counseling at graduation picture forhis bu ines i till in car pools and the PTA business and pleasure.... Mov­ the Prairie School. He ha visited card or else he hasn't changed in for Allen, who is in the fifthgrade. ing northward from Bill's Ports­ many college campu e , and his 20 year ! Wouldn't it be fun to She i looking forwardto attend­ mouth, R.I., to North Andover, visit to Colby 'will be .o;;6 -what watch him play hockey again? ing our 25th reunion ....Bob and Ma s., we find Gregory and Leslie else?' ...Teacher Donna Chick His port these days i tennis ....I Fran Richter Comstock never Mason Hopkins. Their two ons Gould and] im (he designed their feel warmer already. Enjoy your made it to the D' when doing are at Phillip Academy. Leslie own motel and campground) pring, everyone, and keep in their '89 Christmas cards, so la t just received a community er­ have two little grandchildren touch." year I received a bonus-the '89 vice award fromMerrimack Col- now ....Vaya con Dias, cher-

Colby, May 1991 63 THE SEVENTIES

the board at their middle son's 7 Correspondent Janet nursery school. Chris keep in Holm2 Gerher write� from Poto­ Gowdy to Speak t0uch with Debbie Mae! Man­ mac, Md.: "There's a good-si:ed Coordinating producer of ABC's "Wide World of Sports," di no and Jackie Nienaber pile nf your responses, which I'll Appeldorn ....Gary Lawless share in the coming is ues, hut Curt Gowdy, Jr. '75, will be the featured peaker at the annual Colby Sports Awards Evening, sponsored by the Colby "C" writes from Nobleboro, Maine, thi time I'm going to slow things that he is currently an arti t-in­ down with some verbatim news Club. Gowdy will receive the Carl Nel on Award forout tand­ ing achievement in the world of sports that was named after residence at Spindlework in from cla mare who are finding Brunswick, an arts workshop for nationally recognized sports trainer Carl Nelson. Gowdy has satisfaction domg things a bit 'developmentally challenged' won the Eclipse Award and even Emmy forhi s work, includ­ differently .... From Sheila adults, most of whom don't write ing the 1987 Kentucky Derby and the winter Olympics at Lake Marks: 'Our household has never or read. Nevertheless, with Gary's Placid in 1980. Hi production of the 1987 World eries also had a TV. We all read quire a hit help the group is compi I ing a book received a Sports Emmy nomination for best live ports pecial. and pend a fair amount of time and putting out a monthly news­ Also to be featured at the banquet are the senior student mucking around in the woods letter about the project. Good awards to be presented to var iry athletes in the Cla of'9 l who around us. The kids eem tO sur­ luck, Gary-sounds like a very have exhibited outstanding athletic, academic and leader hip vive just fine.' ...From Gary challenging but inspirational abilities throughout their Colby career . Newton: 'I've lived six of the la t undertaking ....Jo e Mattos, The awards banquet will feature a cocktail hour with ca h seven years outside the United principal ofJame Bean Elemen­ bar at 6 p.m. and a buffer-styledinner will followat 7 p.m. The States, in Bangladesh and now tary chool in idney, Maine, event will be held May 6 at the Howard Johnson's Hotel in Malawi (southernAf rica). Since since 1982, received rwo distinct Cambridge, Mass. All alumni, parents, and friend are cordially graduation from Colby, I've honors recently: the 1990 Di cin­ welcome to attend. For more information, contact tephen worked mainly in the interna­ guished Principal Award for the Pfaffat (617) 725-4026. tional health field and have tate of Maine and a special Maine worked in or visited about 30 Educator Award that carried an different countries, mainlyin the and I try to sell writing, as well a are in Broken Arrow, Okla., unrestricted$25,000prize.Joeha Third World in Asia and Africa. deal in collectibles, related to fly Dwain's home state. In Maine, uniquely successfulways of relat­ I'm currently in charge of man­ fishing. Fly Rod and Reel magazine Carolyn spent five afternoonsper ing tO young children and admit aging U.S. government support will be publishing an article of week doing hi tory, math, read­ that he ees nothing more to the health sector in Malawi for mine in a spring '9 1 issue. Any ing, writing and craft . Twice a worthwhile than guiding chil­ the U.S. Agency for International fly-fishing alumni should look me week, in the evening , Dwain did dren's lives. Heandhiswife,Julie, Development. ! generally get back up when they're in the Camden­ 'science things' with the children. a kindergarten teacher at Bean, to the States each summer, and Rockport area! I was divorced a Included, too, were field trip and have two preschool children, when I do I usually manage to little over a year ago. I have a tran portation for extracurricu­ Ju tin and Emily ....Please note visit with--or at least talk over significant other, a lovely young lar activities. In addition to the correct spellings of George the phone to-Paul Ford, Jack woman named Carrie. Since my teaching her own children, Weitman and Glenn Armbrus­ Taylor, Pays Payson '74, Dick retirement I'm much poorer, but Carolyn spent her mornings ter .... If you have any newsclips English '73 and Rob Wilson life is simpler, much less stressful teaching high school courses to a about your elf or a cla mate for '71.' ...From Paul McGurren: and consequently happier. I'd group of students who could not the 'Headliners' section, please 'This past June I retired after 16 highly recommend early retire­ be mainstreamed. Along with the send them along. Thanks." years in the restaurant business. ment-nothing like a major tutoring, she did individual As a result, I enjoyed a wonderful change to stir up the pot and get counseling with them. Carolyn summer for the first time since the juices flowingag ain!"' has published one book forteen­ moving tO Maine in 1974. Among agers, Coping With an Unplanned other things, I filled in as cook Pregnancy (Rosen Co., 1990) and 7 Correspondent Steve and crew on a Classic Alden another, Coping With Emotional Collins4 reports from Oakland, schooner cruising Penobscot Bay. Disorders, which she cowrote with Maine: "Dennis Delehanty writes In July, I became a registered 7 "There are few people Dwain, is set forpublication this from Switzerland that he's the Maine Guide, with the intention to report3 on this time, so please year.... Christine Mattern Way only American on the profes­ of combining my vocation with write beforemy May l deadline!" lives with her husband, Jon, and sional staffof the U.N .' Univer­ my avocation (fly fishing). I also urges correspondent Anne Huff three sons, who range in age from sal Postal Union (not the Inter­ foundeda small (one-man) bu i­ Jordan ....Carolyn Clarke 1 to 6, in Stow, Mass. Now a full­ national Postal Union as reported ness called Clyde Cook Fishing Simpson was homeschooling her time mom, Chris consider this here last year). After five years in Co. Through my business, I sell a three young children in Maine job the most challenging and re­ Europe, Dennis fears he may have line of postcards that I designed, last year, but now she and Dwain warding ofher life. She serve on contracted 'Euro-pessimism,' as

64 Colby, May 1991 Taking Over at Fleet/Maine

From her earliest days at Rhode I land-based Fleet/Norstar Fi­ say are inevitable cuts inthe formerMaine Saving Bank staff. But nancial Group, M. Anne O'Hanian Szo talc'72 has hown a knack Szostak says that overall, the takeover will have positive results. formaking the right moves. Her sure-footednesshas meant a teady "The strength of Fleet will help make the transition easier," she rise through the ranks-from management trainee in the person­ aid. nel department to president and second in command of Fleet Bank "There is significant excess capacity in the banking industry," of Maine. Szostak said, noting that there are approximately 14 ,000 banks in Szostak was named to the Maine position in February, le s the United States and that she believes rhi number should be in than a week after Fleet took over the failed Maine Savings Bank the 10,000 to 12,000 range. "Takeovers such as the Fleet/MSB and assumed responsibility for its 600 employees. The newly takeover will allow banks to provide a greater number of services expanded bank has approximately $3 billion in a et , $2.5 billion and provide them more efficiently," she said. in depo its and about 1,400 employees, making it the large t bank To ensure the existence of proper incentive in the banking in the state. industry, Szo tak says, some banks must be allowed to fail."At the In her first months on the job, Szostak says, her mo t urgent ame time," he said, "we must continue to encourage savings and task is to "move Maine Saving Bank into Fleet." Pan of that investment." process is deciding who among the former Maine Saving Bank Szo talc may bemore fonunatethan manyNew England bank employees will stay-and who will go. "Banking is a person,to­ executives in that Fleet has remained strong during ome troubled person business," Szostak aid, "and Fleet will try to retain as many year in the industry. employees as possible. But some changes in procedures will be "Fleet Bank is a well-capitalized, good earning institution and inevitable." has been an active lender throughout the recessionary period," aid Szo tak seems well suited co oversee the bank's transition. She Donald Demattea , Maine's banking uperintendent. has been with Fleet ince a year after her graduation from Colby, State Economist Steve Adams agrees. "Fleet is among the top moving from the per onnel officeto management po itions in the three banks in Maine and the top five or six acros the northeastern bank's computer center, operation , mortgage and loan depart­ states," he said. "It ha been succe ful because it has been free of ments to executive vice president of consumer banking. Three the overwhelming speculative activity that dragged down other years ago, when Fleet merged with Norstar, Szostak was corporate banks, and Maine is fortunate to have Fleet as such an active vice president for human resources and was in charge of blending participant in the state's economy." the banks' two taffs. lnan overwhelmingly male-dominated industry,Szostak may Now, according to Fleet/Norstar chair Terrence Murray, represent a new wave of upper level executives. "Ir is really unique Szostak may be positioned to a sume one of the corporation' and exciting that a woman has been promoted this far in the highest-echelon jobs. "There's no question that rhe possibility banking industry," Adams said. "It is a very con ervative industry." exists if she doe a good job in Maine," Murray told American "My hope," Szo talctold the Portland Press Herald'sJohnPoner, Banker. "And l have every reason to expect she will. She has a "is that we'll see more and more women doing what I've done. terrific way of working with people." Getting the training and being developed by their companies." She will need tho e skills when making what banking analysts -DavidFirullay and Sally Baker

Colby, May 1991 65 evidenced by his view that 'as the would rather not be. Travel and world becomes smaller, l see only life there is one long hassle, Harry more and more cultural mi un­ aid, and nothing i easy. derstanding , at least for many Leningrad, the most Westernized decades, as nations and races are Russian city, is very crowded. All pushed close together.' Dennis in all, an interesting place to visit report his wife has passports from but not to live! ...Peter Clark both ltaly andVenezuela, otheir also did some traveling lastyear­ daughter, Carmen Virginia, is a and some fishing. He spent a week Susanna Hofmann McShea '71 citizen of three nations (the U.S. in the Alaskan bush, fly fishing being the third), but she' not a for salmon with Ed Cronick, and Swiss citizen, even though she a weekend in the Florida Keys Headliners was born there. 'Working out of tarpon fishing with Curt Gowdy, the United Nations agency has Jr .... For a New Year change, Mary Langevin Hepler '70 was promoted to vice presi­ been a highly rewarding-if also John Mosley decided to leave dent of information and proce ing service at AAA challenging and frustrating-ex­ management, Massachusetts and Michigan.... Susanna Hofmann Mc Shea '71 is the authorof perience, and l would recommend New Hampshire behind and re­ Hometown Heroes, a my terynovel published by St. Martin' this career to all college students turn to the Portland area with hi Pre .... Bruce W. Haas '72 was appointed senior vice who are interested in interna­ family-wife Carol, Sarah, 9, and pre ident of the commercial lending divi ion of EasternBank tional affairs, culture and lan­ Christopher, 5 1/2. For the last in Massachu ett ....Air Force Col. Gary C. Ross '75 was guage.' Dennis says he keeps in four years he had managed a John named deputy commander for the Army Military Traffic touch with Steve Capaldo and Hancock general agency, but he Command, ea tern area, in Bayonne, N.] ....Karin Litterer Christy Pope and their fourchil­ found he missed working with Womer '75 was named managing editor of Down Ea t Books dren. The fa mily live near client and living in Maine. So in Camden, Maine .... Susan Woods '77 was named vice Toronto, where Steve is an inter­ John can now be found at Mosley pre ident and general partner of North Atlantic Capital preter for the Canadian govern­ & Associates, insurance and fi­ Corporation of Manchester, N.H. ment." nancial speciali ts ....Jo e Doherty and family spent a week skiing this winter with Bob '73 Newsmakers and Patty Kelly Landsvik and their two children. Joe and his Paul Boghossian 111 '76 is pearheading the Big Brother 7 "The mail is starting to wife, Patricia, both lawyers, live of Rhode Island "Walk-a-Thon forFatherless Boys" this month trickle5 in," notes correspondent in Medford, Mass., and are now in Warwick. Boghos ian i president of Concordia Manufac­ Susan Gearhart Wuest. "Ray the parents of four.John was born turing Co. in Coventry... . Linda A. Lachapelle '77 showed Merrill, of East Orland, Maine, is last July, Joe is 9, Jacqueline, 6, up in the fashion page of a recent New York Times Magazine . a farmer with hay, blueberries and and Matthew, 2. Besides coach­ Lachapelle, who was featured in a photo essay about office firewood for 'crops.' Besides being ing Little League, hockey and fashions, repre ents photographer and other fashionexperts foreman of a grand jury, the soccer, Joe plays football in an a president of Yellin Associates in the city ....Michael R. newest thing in his life is a cat­ over-30's league along with Bob Donihue '79, who teache in Colby' · Economic Depanment, his only companion these days. Landsvik. For four years now, they has been named a Dana Fellow at Yale for 1991-92. Ray would be glad to hear from have held an LCA reunion game anyone else who is available! ... with a strong showing of former Harry Friedman spent his two­ Colby LCAs. If anyone is inter­ Mileposts week summer holiday in the So­ ested inplaying,justgiveJoe (617- viet Union, visiting Leningrad, 396-2548) or Bob (617-942- Births A: daughter, Laura, and two sons, Dylan and Reed, T al inn and other places in the 1229) a call around Labor to Alan and Linda Krohn Kildow '74 ....A daughter, Baltic republic of Estonia. Stay­ Day ....At Christmastime 1 Alexandra, to Andrew and Anne Graves McAuliff '74 .... A ing with local families proved to heard from Dave and Suzie son, David Richard, toSydnaandPhilipFreund '76... . A son, be a good way to meet the natives Benson Turnbull. Dave is busy Matthew Peter, to Joseph and Stacey Cox Slowinski '79. ... A as well as to catch a glimpse of a and challenged as the vice presi­ daughter, Margaret Paton, to Peter and Elizabeth Bucklin Gray country in transition. Harry found dent of sales for Peabody's coal '79. that the people felt very free to division in West Virginia. Re­ Marriages : Raymond A. Mazurek '74 to Kathleen Ann speak their minds-Estonians sponsibility for all the coal mined Izzo in Reading, Pa.... Bruce A. Young '75 to Nancy A. were very quick to point out that there makes for a lot of traveling LillydaJe in Haverhill, Mass. they are an occupied country and time, on the road and in the air.

66 Colby, May 1991 Correspondents

1970 1975 Robin Cote Susan Wuest Dave sells to the exportmarket as mail.' ...St even Sharek is a (Robin C. Armitage) well, and his travels have taken (Susan C. Gearhart) conciliator for the Massachu ens 45 Hayes Avenue him to Europe, South America 65 Country Downs Circle Department of Industrial Acci­ Beverly, MA 01915 and Japan. Besides keeping busy Fairport, NY 14450 dents in Fall River. He is a mem­ Phone: 508-922-8874 with three kids (Elizabeth, , Phone: 716-223-1967 ber of the New Bedford Ciry Dougla , 6, and Caroline, 2), Suzie Council and was elected presi­ 1971 has become involved in Read dent for19 91. His wife, Kathleen, Linda A. Che ter Aloud W.V., coordinating vol­ 1976 is a TV and radio reporter in 46 Lincoln Street unteer readers in the schools. Pamela M. Came Providence, R.l. They have two Hudson, MA 01749 Learninghow to play the piano at 23 Fuller Road kids, Danika, 4, and Dylan, 5. Phone: 508-562-9 72 age 37 round out her life! . . Watertown, MA 02172 Steve left Colby in his junior year Sim-Kuen Chan Gregory write Phone: 617 -491 -8800 but still ha a fondness for the 1972 that her daughter, Mei-N ing, who place . . ..Dennis May writes gave a piano recital at our 15th Janet Gerber from Japan, where he is the ad­ (Janet Holm) reunion, attended the New Eng­ 1977 ministration department manager 11112 Broad Green Drive land Music Camp in Oakland, Li a Rapaport forEpson-Europe. He travels fre­ Potomac, MD 20854 Maine, last summer. Son Peter (Lisa M. Tripler) quently, for business as well as Phone: 301-299-6240 has just started trumpet lessons, 2 Tall Pine Road pleasure, all over the world. Den­ and younger daughter Mei- hen Cape Elizabeth, ME 04 107 nis received hi master's in theo­ 1973 has taken up the piano also. My Phone: 207-767-2406 retical lingui tics from Ohio Srate son Eric plays violin (Suzuki Anne H. Jordan in 19 2. During his nine years in method), and the two of u at­ (Anne Huff) Japan, he has built a collection of tended a week-long Suzuki Vio­ 36 Hillcre t Road Japane e graphic art. Next 1978 lin In titute at Ithaca College last Medfield, MA 02052 move-Holland ....Meli ssa Jame E. Scott ummer. Music abounds!" Phone: 508-359-5025 Day Vokey lives in New­ 674 Tremont Street buryport, Mass., with husband Boston, MA 02 118 1974 Mark and their three beautiful Phone: 617-262-7110 Stephen B. Collins children, Caroline, 10, ick, 9, 7 "Thanks forthe great RFD 3 Box 6600 and Cam, 4. Melissa is very in­ response6 to the latest question­ Oakland, ME 04963 volved in the Junior League of naire," writes correspondent Phone: 207-465-3870 1979 Boston, having <:ochaired the Pamela Came . "I've enjoyed Emily M. Sprague organization's largest fundrai er, 'catching up' my elf and will now Thomas K. Lizotte (Emily M. Grout) a show house,this past year. The share the new news with you .... RFD 1 Box 4970 758 Gotham Street success of this event wa tremen­ Mark Janos writes from orth Oakland, ME 04963 Watertown, NY 13601 dous, and Meli a has beenelected Hampton, N.H., where he is an Phone: 207-465-3109 Phone: 315-788-51 19 vice president for 1991-1992. attorney.He and wife Mary Ann And if that's not enough, she's have three children-Emanuel, also involved with setting up a 4 1/2, Louis, 2 1/2, and James volunteer program at her kids' Anthony, 1 1/2. Mark seems to David, 5. Bob pends alot oftime tie , Alex is working as an ac­ chool, as well as being very ac- be comfortable being a dad and with his children through hi in­ countant at Central Maine tive in the Colby Reunion Com­ report a story of how E.J. wanted volvement in couts and church. Power. Her 'pan-time' job takes mittee .... Steve McGill is a real a boogie boardfor body urfing at ... Jim and Alex Anagnost up close to 30 hours a week. Jim is estate broker and president of the beach. He could only have Theriault are living in Belgrade, al o with CMP, where he is a Waterfront Propertie , Inc., in one, aid Dad, if he learned to Maine, with their two great kid , district manager in Waterville. Rhode I land. He and wife Maura swim (good point). Well, E.J. is Stacy, 6 1/2, and Spen er, 3 1/4. ...Lynn Pitman writes from have three kids: Shawn Patrick, now into his fourth ession at the tacy attend a nontraditional Madi on, Wis., where he is a 7, Brenna, 2, and Bridget,3. Steve Y, and he can now wim. Accord­ kindergarten, which works out director of catalogue marketing ays that he' given up mud wres­ ing to Mark, 'he will get his boogie well, says Alex, as she loves for Pleasant Company. In answer tling in favor of golf and tennis. board.' ...Bob Gregory writes school. Spenser i a wild 3-year­ to the question 'what have you And when he' not on the course from Newcastle, Maine, where old 'in constant motion,' whose done that you never anticipated or on the court, he's the mayor of he is also practicing law. He and most recent incident wa to try to when you left Colby?' she re­ Green Hill, R.l. ... Thanks for Sim-Kuen Chan Gregory '75, drive the family car with Alex sponded that she didn't think your enthusiasm. Hope ro see you have fourchildren-Me i-Ning, only halfway in the car. In addi­ she'd 'end up a homeowner in the all at reunion, June 7-9." 14, Peter, 10, Mei-Shen, 8, and tion ro her family respon ibili- Midwest with a career in junk

Colby, May 1991 67 THE EIGHTIES

year Ph.D. student in finance at time for reading ('a challenge with attending reunion or not, return Correspondent Patricia the University ofNorth Carolina kids!') ....Erin Ireton Elliott is the questionnaire so that we can Valavanis8 0 Smith writes: "It was in Chapel Hill. He and his wife, working in sales in the Atlanta include you in the directory. I wonderful to hear from Becky Katherine, have a boy and a area and was expecting her first hope you can all come to reunion Peters, whom I had lost track of girl. ...Sue McLeod MacRey­ child in March ....Elisabeth to make it even better than our since she traded in her job as a nolds, a systems engineer with McCooey, mother of Kathryn, 2, 5th!" Washington, D.C., lawyer and MITRE in northern Virginia, is is a part-time, self-employed at­ went to Switzerland on a Fulbright keeping busy with her two teen­ torney in Montpelier, Vt., where scholarship several years ago. aged stepchildren and, when she she lives witn her husband, Robert Becky's now working for a Zurich wrote in December, was expect­ Sheftman ....Life in Boulder, "I must express my sin­ law firm, speaking German flu­ ing her first child ....Also on Colo., has prompted Lori cerest apologies for my obvious ently and trying to fit in tennis, the December maternityschedule Batcheller to take advantage of failure8 2 to provide the Class of skiing and hiking. She'd love to were Darcy MacKinnon Sledge all sorts of outdoor activities. As 1982 with any news during the hear fromanyone passing through and Cathie Marqusee. Darcy and a physical therapist, she's had the past year," writes correspondent town ....Amazed to find herself her husband bought a home in satisfactionofhaving her writings Emily E. Cummings. "I had fully 2,000 miles from New England, Westport, Conn., and she's published in professional journ­ intended to substitute the prom­ Carol MordecaiMyers now calls working as a banker in corporate als.... I'm finally running low ised 'lengthy newsletter' for two Colorado Springs, Colo., home. finance. Cathie, who lives in on the responses to the first oflast year'scolumns. I ubmitted She and her husband, Steven, Arlington, Mass., with husband questionnaire, so please continue that 'column' while working on assi ted by Kurt, 5, and Laurel, 3, James Pustejovsky, is an occupa­ to keep me up to date!" the newsletter to which about 50 are 'enjoying11' fixing up their tional therapist at Mclean Hos­ of you had responded in good first home ....Mimi Brodsky pital and tries to keep up with her faith. Before I was able to com­ Kress, who admits that she never photography and travel as much plete my project I began a rigor­ would've guessed that she'd 'be­ as possible ....Concord, Mass., "Believe it or not, our ous job search. While I was for­ come a capitalist-and like it,' real estate developer Jack 8110th reunion is right around the tunate to find a challenging new has assumed a new role. She says McBride and his wife, Melissa, corner; June 7-9 to be exact," position, I was delayed in com­ all her conversations with hus­ are the parents of John, 18 reports correspondent Paula pleting the newsletter, and the band Michael now revolve around months ....Rick Mulcahy says Hinckley. "Lots offun things are announcement had already gone the fe eding and sleep schedules he has broadened his horizons planned to give us all a chance to to press. Now, I fear, many of your of their first child, Max, bornlast 'beyond the narrow confines of catch up with old friends. We will response need updating. 1 am July ('strawberry blond hair just the New England lifestyle,' living definitely have a welcoming party sending out another question­ like Mom') . . ..Mark Cava­ and traveling extensively inAsia for ourclass on Friday night and a naire in hopes of freshening up naugh, a 1989 magna cumlaude for the past five years. He now picnic/lobster bake on Saturday, those responses I did receive and graduate of the University of lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and, - as well as a few secret surprises! soliciting 'real news' from those Connecticut law school, received as an Asian affairs specialist, works More exact details to follow­ classmates from whom we have an L.L.M. in taxation from NYU as a consultant and translator. but please let us know if you have heard little. I hereby vow, in print, Graduate School of Law in 1990 He'd like to know what we're any suggestions (the more wild, that I will send you a fresh and and now works at Milbank, doing to help the environment. the better! ) Please remember that heaping newsletter as soon as a Tween in New York City. He says ...One person knowledgeable in one of our goals for this year is to sufficient number of question­ he's looking forward to New York that area is 'wind urfing addict' raise $20,000 for the Alumni naires has been returned. To Colby Club activities and other and environmental consultant Fund. Ifyou haven't already done anyone who returnedmy previous social events after four years of Jay Moody. Jay and his wife are so, please show your support for questionnaire and ha no new hitting the books ....Heidi living in Falmouth, Maine, and Colby by donating. We would news to report: I will gladly Misslbeck, a landscape architect coping with the demands of their also like to get a preliminary in­ include the sameinformation, as living in Southampton, N.Y., new twin sons. (Given the turn­ dication as to the number of I have retained all your 'news'; I reports that 'time, the tide and out at reunion, doesn't it seem as people who will attend reunion. have just failed to report it. But I taxes haven't affected me at though our class is contending If you haven't already done so, have received some recent news all.' ...CatieFulton Teevensays for an honorary award from please fill out the questionnaire from a few angry and/or trusting she can't believe she and husband Doublemint?} ...Jo dy Jabar that was sent to you recently and classmates . . ..Wende Davis Gerry '79 are living half an hour Veilleux and her family are now mail it to Steve Pfaff, 18 Main dropped me a nice postcard to tell from where she trekked forspring in Springfield, N.]., after living Street, Apt. 2, Charlestown, MA me of her wonderful summer. break. They moved from Dela­ in six differentstates since 1980. 02129. We will also be putting After graduating from Tufts ware to Coral Springs, Fla., last She's taking classes for a master's together a reunion directory with Veterinary School of Medicine, year with their two children. in education, learningto be com­ a little informationabout class­ Wende did some sailing off the ...Steve Christophe is a third- puter-literate and trying to fit in mates, so please, whether you are coast of Maine. She then spent

68 Colby, May 1991 Seth Wolpert '84

Headliners

Seth Wolpert '84 ha designed a microchip to replace damaged nerve cells that may lead to a major advance in treatment of paralysi . Wolpert i a i tant profe or of electrical engineering at the University of Maine . ...Laura Senier '90 published "Making a pectacle: Con ranee Petersen' Cool P ychologist in Spellbound in a recent issue of The Wittenburg Review.

Newsmakers

Mark L. Gallo '80 wa appointed account manager in the list brokerage divi ion of the Millard Group, Inc., a Peterborough,

N.H., brokerage firm . . . . Cate Talbot Ashton '80, Colby' a istanr director of the Office of Career Services, was elected ro the Directorate Body of Commi ion VI of the American College Per onnel A ociation.... Michael T. Vail '85 was promoted to di trict manager at Hannaford Bro . Co. in Scarborough, Maine ....Lt . Robert D. Loynd '86, USMC, flew "Prowler" anti-radar aircraft in the Per ian Gulf. ...Chris T. Van Home '87 and Ron L. Caporale '87 have established a legal ·upport service, The CVK Group, Inc., in Washington, D.C. The firm pecialize in depo ition and transcription work ....En ign Peter Cawley '88 flew F- 14 Tomcats while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Rooset•elt in the Per ian Gulf .... Phy ici t Elizabeth Murphy '88 was featured

in a recent Scientist magazine article about the job market for future Ph.0.-eamer . . ..Robert Lewis '89 i a marketing manager at A ahi/America.... A painting by Colleen Bulger '90, Bridge by the Three-Mile Loop, Waterville, Maine, wa part of a Greenwich, Conn.-area exhibit of works by Greenwich High chool alumni.

Mileposts

Births: A on, Christian Pratt, to John and Mari-Ellen Pratt Valyo '81. . . . A daughter, Megan Katherine, to Thomas and Victoria Crouchley Dougherty '84 ....A on, Julian Damel. to Thierry Forsan and Rebecca Bullen-Forsans '85. Marriages: Christianna Smith '83 to Charles Farinellt in Bangor, Maine ....Jeffery Matthew Bistrong '84 to Theresa Ann Elvidge in Bar Harbor,Maine ... . Stephen Paul D' Andrea '84to Gretchen Smith Millspaugh in BellowsFalls, Vt. ...Nathan Putnam Emerson '84to Leslie Anne Mattson in Top field, Mass.. ..Jeffrey V. Perkins '84to Virginia E. Januen in Red Hook,N .Y.... David Scott Rosenberg '84 to Karen Sue Hazlett in Swampscott, Ma . ...John Wagner '84 to Dorisann Weber '87 in Bar Harbor,

Maine.. . . Scott Charles Blair '85 to Linda Jean Flora '85 m Magnolia, Ma s . . ..Ju lia Blanchard '85 to Andrew Okun m Beverly

Hills, Calif. . . . Christopher Karl Homer '85 to Margaret Elizabeth Vasell in Mount Laurel, N .J ....John P. Makiver '85 to Kathleen A. Joyce in North Andover, Mass . . ..Heather S. Morton '85 to David C. Tahan in orrh Andover, Mass ....Robert L. Casey, Jr. '86 to Anna McCaw '88 on Cape Cod in Mas achu etts . . .. Philip Ray Lapp '86 to Michele Lee Frostick in Montpelier,

Vt . . . Elise M. McDonough '86 to Oozier L. Gardner in Winche rer, Mas ....Laura Amy Brown '87 to H. Clifford Watkin in

Welle ley, Mas .... Jennifer Rubin '87 to Charles Britton in Andover, Mass ....Laurie A. Meehan '88 to Peter D. Reed '89 in

Manchester, Mass . ...Jennifer Shaw Spencer '88 to William Brandon Haddick in Dorset, Vt.

Colby, May 1991 69 the month of August in Jenkins Barbash.' Meg California and Hawaii, and Andy are living in where she biked down Watertown, Mass., Mt. Haleakala, a 10,400- where Carol Birch is a foot inactive volcano. As neighbor. Meg left Fi­ oflast September Wende delity a year ago to had started as a new as- complete her M.B.A. at ociate at the Arlington BU. As class pre ident, Animal Clinic. She re- Meg would also like to ports that he's been in Weber-Wagner Wedding pass along the follow­ touch with Cindy ing information: 'The Koehlner Bernstein as Dorisann Weber '87 wed John Wagner '84 September 22, 1990, in Bar Harbor, Maine . date for our 10th re­ well as Sarah Lickdyke Middle row: Maria Morgan Grill '85 , Rise Samuels Zaiser '84, Maureen Crehan Whelan union has been set for and Julanne Cully '84, Wendy Barrows Mace '87, Joan Ray '85, Markus Henrichs '88 and Rebecca Zeil.on June 5-7, 1992. l wel­ Wright, who were pre- '88. Back row: Sean McNamara'83 , Ted Wallace '84 , Penny Floyd '73, Dave Mace '86, come all volunteers for ent at her graduation. Linwood Palmer '42 and Dieter Weber '84 . the planning commit- ...Ruth Harkins Law­ tee from anywhere in ler announced the birth the country.' Meg can of her twins, Hannah be reached at: 229 Mary and Geoffrey Stephen, 'Plasma and Neutral Gas Jet In­ Naval Re erve unit was activated Watertown St., Unit 1, Water­ January 11, 1990. She and her teractions in the Exhaust of a and shipped out to Okinawa for town, MA 021 72. Telephone: husband, Chris, were most ex­ Magnetic Confinement System.' ix months. Midori count her (617) 964-5675 .... I will keep cited-as well as understandably Phew! Warren, Lisa and their blessings that they could spend you posted as reunion plans disappointed when this was not daughter, Caitlin, recently moved their first Christmas together in progress. Once again, my deepest included inpreviou columns. My to Virginia, where Warren is Osaka. On the homefront in sub­ and sincerest apologies for my apologies to Ruth, all other new­ employed by Science Applica­ urban D.C., Midori is busy with conspicuous and lengthy absence. lyweds and new parents, as well as tions InternationalCorp. as a staff newsletter-writing. She invites The Class of '82 deserves better to David Strage who says that, scientist ....l received some nice any and all to visit ....Last and and is welcome to tar and feather living in England, he eagerly Christmas greetings from some by no means least, Meg Torrey me at our reunion." awaits news from Colby and about other classmates. Michael Clark Crain sent me a long letter to fill classmates ....Susan Wechsler and Ann Rhinehardt-Clark say me in on all her doings, a well as Atkins says that she is enjoying that their big news is their son, to announce her new name. She her new job as a 'stay-at-home' Jackson, born July 16. Mike will was married to Andrew Crain, an "If you received but mom. She, her husband, Steve, graduate frommedical school this attorney, last September. To have8 3 not returnedyour question­ and their son, Jeffrey, born De­ May, is preparing to interview for quote her: 'We had a pretty good naire with news, please take a cember 1, 1989, are living in family practice residencies and Colby rumour for the wedding. minute to do o and throw in a Portland, Maine .... Another hopes to get back to Maine. Ann My three roommates made the photo," asks class correspondent proud parent, Peter Daniels, re­ reports that she is still involved trip, Lisa Clark Bureau, her Sarah Lovegren Merchant. "Ev­ ports that he and his wife, in cancer research and doing her husband and their one-year-old eryone should get into the habit Venecia, had a son, William, on art whenever she can.. . . Andrea came from D.C., where Lisa is a of writing a couple of times-at December 3. Their daughter, Brantner sent holiday greetings lawyer, Kathy McHugh Mirani least-

70 Colby, May 1991 Truck ales. Mindy is home with Buck. John ' 3 and Diane and would love m hear from any He wrote that John Gagne re­ on Ryan, who is 2 1/2, and she Gnrndstrom Lemoine are living Colby grads in the area. Her cently completed hi master' in love it. ... In Trumansburg, in Portland, Maine. Di ane is daughter, Megan Katherine, wa biology and D.M.D. and married N.Y., Jenny KnollBouchard i a tudying physical therapy at the born on March , 1990. Susan Meyer ....After com­ fi nancial analyst, and husband University of New England.. . . Caroline Sterge Gluek is a trust pleting hi Ph.D. in chemistry at Page has tarted his re idency at Brewster Bums is also living in officer for AmeriT ru t Bank in Tulane, Jeremy Springboro is Cornell University a a veteri­ Maine, where he teache English Ohio, where she enjoy helping working at Harvard." narian. Jen says they enjoy being to high school sophomores ... . people with estate planning. Last right outside Ithaca, a college Morgan Borer is working for the May she gave birth to a baby girl, town with lots of available cul­ First Gibraltar Bank a a funds Jessica ....I have al o received a ture .... Lisa Campbell Bour­ transfer supervi or in Dallas, Tex. lengthy letter fromJe ff Bistrong "Catherine Urstadt geault is also in ew York, living When he wrote last summer, he full of new about himself and Biddle i very happyin herhome in Clifton Park. She is a group hadju trerumed from ltaly,where other classmates. He married in8 Bedford, 5 N.Y.," reports corre­ therapist at an outpatient clinic he had spent 10 days singing in Theresa Elvidge, a high school spondent Mary Alice Weller­ and is finishing her studie for cathedrals with hi church choir. classmate of Dieter Weber, on Mayan. " he i an assi rant trea­ certification in alcoholi m One highlight of the trip wa a eptember 2 2. He and Theresa surer at the Bank of ew York counseling. Husband Dominique recital the group gave for Pope met at the University of Michi­ dealing with real estate and con­ i a chef.... Noble Carpenter and John Paul !!. ... Victoria gan, where Jeffreceived a joint struction lending. ... Gretchen his wife, Mariellen, have just Crouchley Dougherty wrote that M.A./M.B.A.Jeffcurrentlyworks Bean said she was going to be a moved from ew York to Chi­ he had just moved to Highlands in the Multinational Banking ski bum this winter. o, really cago. They mi s the Big Apple Ranch, Colo., from Connecticut Divi ion at the Bank of Bo mn. he'll be quite busy working part but ay they enjoy the life tyle of the Windy City. oble is a real e tate acqui ition a ociate with LaSalle Partner and Mariellen works as an a ociate brand man­ ager in marketing .... John Chapin is ingle and living in the Washington, D.C., area near Mt. Vernon.He i a Ru sian linguist and a consultant to the HL Wa hington Capital a an inter­ preter for a Soviet defen eman. ound exciting and hectic ! ...Aga in, greeting to all-and keep the news coming!"

Corre pendent Amy Carl84 on write fromCambridge, Ma ., "Leslie Perkins Anderson is working for an ophthalmolo­ gi t and running for a position on the board of director of the Na­ tional As ociation of Technical Personnel Ln Ophthalmology .... Sheryl Battit Biglow i an actu­ ary ar The ew England. Last Linda Flora and Scott Blair Wed ummer she and hu band Luke enjoyed the cenery of the West The sun shone on the wedding of Score Blair '85 and Linda Flora '85 September 29, 199 , in Magnolia , Mass. Coast ou a trip from Seattle, Front row: Virginia Blair Sensibaugh '46, Geol Barnes '85, the groom , thebride . Jennifer Kirk '85, Sara Babcock Wa h. to PaloAlto,Calif.Shetyl '85 , Alex Brown '85 and Larry Yorra ' 5. Middle row: Le.slie Desrosiers Barnes, Carol Hildebrand ' 4, Liz a ked if anyone know the Johnson ' 5, Heather Payson '88, Heidi Cool '85 , Robin Bye Wolpert' 5, Sech Wolpert ' 4, Dan Allegretti ' 5. whereabout of cla mate Leon Back row: Sean Sullivan '87, Andrew More '87, Sarah Drury ' 5 and John O'Toole ' 5.

Colby,May 1991 71 Peirce Draws a Bead On the

Lincoln Peirce '85 isn't giving up his day job just yet. everal day a week, Peirce leaves hi apartment m the Carroll Gardens ection of Brooklyn anJ commute to a downtown office, where he is employed as a computer typist. But on h1 day off, at night and on weekend , Peirce hole up in hi ·tuJy with paperand pencils and creates "Big Ne1re,"a comic trip rhe1r . cem� poi eJ to rake your Jaily paper by �rorm. "Word proce�sing pay· the rent," Peirce said in a telephone intervkwearlier this spring, "but as oon as I can quit my career, I will." That may be <1nyday now. According to United Feature ynd1- cate, rhe company rhar repre�enrs Peirce and "Big Narc," rhe 5tnp has already been purcha ed by 135 pnpers, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, San Francisco Examinerand Arlanra}oumal-Constiruaon.

''The syndicate 1 excited about 'Big Nate,"' Peirce aid. "It · ales a of the debut date were the be,t for any mp in year ." The cartoon b populated by Big Nate, h1 family-a teenaged i. ter and a divorced father-and h1 chool friend and teacher-. Nate, who :hares hi· nickname wnh Peirce' lllder brother, Jonathan, 1 an I I-year-old boy who a pirc tobe a great artist, Peirce ays. "He draws and write in hi own comro ition hook. He write , illustrate , create a comic trip. It gives rhe reader imight into his creative mind. His cartoons are amu�tng 1n a differenc fashion from mine, so there are two type of

humor m the strip-mine and an 1 1-year-old' ·." The carroon-within-a-carroon format 1 what make "Big Nate" fre·h, according to Peirce' editor. at United Feature, who ay they expect the cartoon to find a wide audience. "It' no·talgic," Peirce aid, accounting for the trip' · popularity among editor . "Pe pie remember vividly doodling in their own notebook as kid ." But he i cautious about predicting how the strip will fare. "There i a distinction between buying and running the trip," he noted. "It' common for a new paper to buy it and hold it fora while, because they want ro see how it nm in other paper or becau e they don't have a spot for it. That' ju t the way it work , even if the trip eems like a can't-miss prospect."

72 Colby, May 1991 Big Time Wi th "Big Nate"

United Feature ndicate receive about 3,000 comic trip ubmi--ions each year and puts only three or fourunder contract. Peirce say he knew whar his chance were from the beginning. "l\·e been trying ro ger yndicated since I wa at Colby, ubmitting idea -mo t of them ,·ery forgettable-andwith each rejectton getting do er and clo er to drawing what I knew be t. Thi i something I really know-I know what it' like to be a sixth-grade boy who likes to draw." "I alway wanted ro do this," he aid, "but although while I wa at Colby I did a trip for the Echo, I thought that wa a faras I would go because the odds again t symlication are o hioh. Ir eemed like a ,·ery remote pos ibiliry. 1 \ a pur-uing an art career at Colb . Almo-t immediately after earning my ma rer's in fine art [from Bro klyn College]. I knew rhar what 1 acrnall · wanted wa to be a cartooni t." Much like Big Nate, Peirce -carted drawing cartoon as a young boy growing up in Durham, .H., where hi father wa a profes or of plant ·cience at the univer iry. Hi­ hero--thenand now-wa Charle hultz. "He i the greatest," Peirce aid. "Everyone '':ho read 'Peanut ' connected with the characters. Ir is incredibly deep, the greate r comic strip of the modem era." Peirce credit hi "almo r photographic memory forwhat it wa like to be a kid" and hi three year of reaching at Xa ier High chool in ew York with keeping him in touch with ate' milieu. "How do I get into rhe head of an 1 1-year-old? I U'.!ein the head of an 11-year-old. I never left!" he -aid with a laugh. "[ totally identified with my rudem , " Peirce ·aid of his years ar Xader. "I hared going to the teacher ' lounge. I preferred to hang our with rhe kid in the classroom. Even though they were older than are' .uppo ed to be, 1t kept thin fre h forme in rem1 of what 1r was like to be a young boy." Time will tell whether reader�are attracted to "Big ate," but fornow, Peirce eems happy-if lightly overwhelmed-to be pla ·ing in the big league ar la t. "Charle- hult: i- part of my syndicate," he said, the awe evid nt in hi ,·oice. "He is the yndicare." Peirce ·ar rhe "real arti tin the family" i ·hi wife, Je sica Gandolf Peirce, who·e si ter, Alexandra Gandolf, graduated from Colby in 1979. Je ica' painting won a juror'·award in a recent ew York art how, and her hu band expect her work to receive great arrention in the future. Bur as much a he admireo;Je ica, it is al oobviou· thar Peirce feelsthat he, too, i making arr. "Comic trip. were bornin America," he atd. "They are one of tbe few cultural thing that thi coumry can claim a- ir own. The appeal of comic i that they are parr of the American ritual of getting up, buying a paper and reading the comic ."

For now, borh Peirce are working diligenrl · ar making their career take off. They are al o planning ro m ve ro Portland in the coming year, a pro p ct Lincoln Peirce i- excited about. "l rractically grew up in laine," he aid, "and I can't believe I've [i,·ed m ew York thi long."

Colby, May 1991 73 time for Colby admissions and part time for Patagonia, studying to complete her master' degree by the summer and heading to Chamonix, France, to learn to be an 'extreme skier.' Gretchen is engaged and a September 1991 date has been set for the wed­ ding . . ..Meghan Casey has been working as a freelance writer on Peak's Island, Maine, for the la t five year . She has sailed exten­ sively, including a trip down the East Coast to the Bahamas. She has also visited Colorado and St. John's, V.l. Meghan works as a bartender to keep body and soul together and will be attending McCaw ...Casey Wedding graduate chool in the fa ll. . Cape Cod was the setting[or the August I I , 1990, wedding of AnM McCaw '88 and Bob Casey '86. Colby friends Dede Galvin i a reporter and attending included Charlie Cleary'86, Becca Sears Cleary '87, Jeffie Pattison Gilvar '89, the groom , the bride, Patriot Ledger copy editor for the Chris Vickers' 87, Leslie Middleton G ilvar '89, Martha Smith '88, Rick Evans '88, Karen Croff ' 88, Doug Scalise in Quincy, Mass. She is engaged '86, Jill Wertz-Scalise '88, Whitney Gustin '88, Julie Phillips '88, Mike Hill '86. On stairs, right to left , Suzanne to Jerry Wemple, a reporter for Pearson Marchetti '86, Mike Marchetti '86, Mary Needham '86, Deb Morse '86, Sam Pietropaolo '86, Dan the same paper. They are plan­ Gulizio '86. ning a July 1991 wedding . . . . Kevin Bruen is a lawyer in the Navy. His rank is lieutenant jun­ leyball, soccer and track at ited Rebecca while she was groups in his Presbyterian minis­ ior grade. As of March, he was Casady. He extends this invita­ spending a month in the State try or with the college students scheduled to be stationed in San tion: 'Any Colby alums who are for Thanksgiving. Raymond is she and her husband live with at Francisco. In his spare time, he passing through Oklahoma City living in New York City and is Sterling College in Kansas. enjoys doing triathlons. He re­ are more than welcome to stay at currently 'courting the art world.' Tracy Gowen coordinates all cently completed a half-lronman my place!' Tom thought the fifth ...Julie Briggs is a student pro­ student activities and is al o a ( 1.2-mileswim, 56-mile bike ride reunion was great and can't wait gram manager for the National resident director at Sterling .... and 13.1-mile run). .. Mary for the 10th ....Sarah Kellogg Society of Professional Engineers. Dawn Gale-LaCasce announces Boston married Earl Tiapon in Baker is a risk management coor­ In her spare time she is doing the birth of her son, Charles Jared May 1990 and is living in Palo dinator for an HMO.Joe Baker is ome figure skating ....Imogen LaCasce, on November 5. Her Alto, Calif. They don't have any a second-year student at the Yale Mintzer Church writes from new job is alumni/development children yet, but they do have a School of Management in a Mountain View, Calif., where she director at Fryeburg Academy in chocolate-colored Labrador re­ ma ter's program ....Dr. Michael is living with her husband, Jay Maine ....Andrew Castle spent triever named Rola. Mary is an Bruno is a prosthodontic resi­ '86. She recently changed from a five months in Paris at a G.E. advertising sales manager for a dent at Columbia University retail management career to col­ affiliate. He is now working at computer magazine. In her spare School of Dental and Oral Sur­ lege administration. She is the Kidder, Peabody in New York time she enjoys mountain biking gery. His residency is in maxillo­ residential life coordinator at City .... Melinda Underwood and skiing Tahoe (where, she says, fac ial prosthetics at Memorial Crown College, University of Griggs has been a counselor with she does not miss sub-zero days at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. California-Santa Cruz, and is Planned Parenthood of Con­ Sugarloaf) ....After working in Also keeping him busy is a pri­ working on her master's in higher necticut for the past two years. New Hampshire for five year at a vate practice on Fifth A venue in education. Imogen and Jay have The previous three years were boarding school, Tom Colt de­ New York limited to prostho­ both been serving on the steering pent as a freelance reporter, cided that he wanted to see an­ dontics and maxillofacial pros­ committee of the Bay Area Colby working mainly for theNew Ha­ other part of the country, so he thetics.... Rebec ca Bullen­ Alumni Club. They enjoy hik­ ven Register. She is living in a big landed at the Casady School in Forsans's son, Julian Daniel, was ing, camping and the beautiful farmhousewith three housemates Oklahoma City, Okla. He says born on June 13 and weighed a weather of California .... and her dog, Estee, and welcomes the people are super friendly and whopping nine pound . He is a Suzanna Seymour Gaeddert is visitors passing through Guil­ damn serious about Sooner foot­ beautiful baby with a full head of always with young people-ei­ ford.... Sandy Codding write ball. Tom is busy coaching vol- blond hair. Raymond Bligh vis- ther with her husband's youth that he is a regional underwriting

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Contrary to prior policy, the staffin Career ervices can no longer assist tho e who have opened reference files in the review and election of letters. College attorneyshave indicated potential individual and in titutional liability problems with thi practice. Career Services regret the necessity of this decision and asks for your understanding and cooperation.

manager for Corporate Liability Beantown.... Kelly Chopus left Mass. She al o does some free­ George Luca ....Sarah Whit­ Insurance. He is the roommate of Utah in October to work on a lance design and production on tle Hansen just started a new job Dan Auslander '86 in Brooklyn, political campaign in Connecti­ the side when she and roommate at Harborside Graphics in Belfast, N.Y. In the winter, he share a cut. She enjoyed being home for Sharon Matusik are not on the Maine, where she i a cu tomer house at Mt. Snow in Vermont, the holidays and ran into Colette town having lunch with Heather service representative ....Wen­ and he enjoys golf during the Cote over New Year's. Colette i Reay and Janet Kelley Gjesteby. dy Birbrower Solomon and her warmer months ....I received a finishing a two-year a signment Janet, by the way, has an adorable husband reside in Pimburgh with long letter from James Gill about in Grenoble, France, and says she I -year-old named Anna ... their first baby-a Siberian hu ky hi recent, year-long adventure loves Europe. Kelly also repons Leslie Greens let is helping to put named l van. In my last conversa­ in Hong Kong, Macao, China, that Jill M ye row Blindennan has together a new museum, called tion with Wendy he mentioned Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, a full schedule with her M.B.A. the Academy of Achievement, an interest in freelance journal­ ingapore, Indonesia, Australia, studie , her job in pharmaceuti­ which is scheduled to open in the ism, but I haven't run across any Scandinavia and nonhern Eu­ cals and her marriage ....Kelly fall of 1992. Leslie says the most publication yet ....Br igid rope. He has ettled in Munich Donahoe is associate director of interesting pan of her work is the Hoffman gets top honors for for a few months and is working publications and press relations interviews she does with nomi­ communications. Between her on his German and making atDana Hall School in Welle ley, nees, including John Glenn and job in securities, golf lessons, money for the next leg of his wine-tasting classes, ski trips and trip-through Africa. Some gatherings with Colbians in highlights: staying in a Burmese Manhattan, she still manages to refugee camp in northern Thai­ keep in touch each week. Spread land, learning about Buddhism Correspondents the fever, Gidge! ...A reminder firsthand and earning cuba cer­ to all of you: Reunion Weekend tification on the Great Barrier 1980 1985 is June 7-9, and t.he events Reef. He say , 'No one would Patricia V. Smith Mary A. Weller-Mayan planned should be spectacular! recognize me. My hair i down to (Patricia Valavani ) (Mary Alice Weller) Do plan on joining us for a fun­ my houlder , and I've got a couple 6 Hammond Way RD 2, Box 149 filled weekend of laughter, frolic of earrings.' He'll keep us up to Andover, MA 01810 Camden, DE 19934-961 1 and renewed friendships. In the date about the next part of his Phone: 508-470- 1484 Phone: 302-697-0142 meantime, drop me a line with journey.... Ou rclas mate have your latest news as well as your posed some interestingque tion : 1981 1986 nomination forclas officers (to Doe anyone wish to be doing Paula Hinckley Gretchen A. Lurie be announced at the reunion). something other than what they 7 Eagle Nest Way (Gretchen A. Bean) ...That's all for now from the are doing now? I ir okay not to Manchester, NH 03104 2606 San Marco Drive land of diaper , formula and feel any urge to get married at the Phone: 60J-666-0508 Pasadena, CA 91107 mashed banana . (Little Hunter age of 28? Also, is the Head of the Phone: 818-282-8259 Lurie is six months old and grow­ Charle till the rowdy reunion it ing like a weed!) Be t wishes to 1982 everyone for continued happiness has been in the pa t? If you have Emily E. Cumming 1987 respon es, drop me a line. l would Lucy T. Lennon and uccess." 21 Temple ueet #5 9 Wellstone Drive like to know if any of our class­ Bo ton, MA 02 114 Ponland, ME 04101 mates erved in the Persian Gulf." Phone: 617-723-2671 Phone: 207 -772-7127 Correspondent Emily 1983 1988 Isaac reports fromNonhampton, Sarah Merchant 8 8 "Although cla news Emily J. Isaacs Mass.: "Dean Schwartz writes (Sarah Lovegren) parse in this i ue (get your ink 2 74 Prospect Street #2 that he is 'whooping it up in the is HCR 62, Box 244B 86 soon!), my thanks Northampton, MA 01060- wild world of advenising-NYC­ flowing-and Mr. Desert, ME 04660 out to tho e of you who sent 2127 style.' ...Also in NYC is Kyriak go Phone: 207-244-3678 update ," writes corre pondent Phone: 413-586-2443 Pappas who, if I read his hand­ Gretchen Bean Lurie ...."Meg writing correctly, is the front of­ Frymoyer and 1 had brunch to­ 1984 1989 fice assistant manager at the Mark gether in January while she was Amy E. Carlson Deborah A. Greene Hotel on the Upper East Side. on a busine trip to Lo Angele . 58 Granville Road #2 38 Sorrel Road Kyriak informed me that Jessica Her work with Reebok keeps her Cambridge, MA 02 138 Concord, MA 01742 Atherton Corkum, who married on the go but she's never too busy Phone: 617-868-0SS6 Phone: 508-369-6978 Robert Corkum, a graduate of the to enjoy the social life in University of Maine, a few years

Colby, May 1991 75 ago, has recently been blessed me where you work or go to loupes, along with everything else, the sea than the Boston Aquar­ with a second child, Kelen Rob­ school, nor must you wait until are reassuringly less expensive. ium .... I managed to catch up ert Corkum. Kelen and older sib­ you're engaged or having a child. With my upcoming deadline in with several people while I was ling Carlyle are living with their Justwriteandsaysomethingwitty, mind, I've opened a tall bottle of home, among them Bill 'Manute' parents in Roche ter,N.Y., where something provoking, something Sapporo (which, believe itornot, Carr. No longer with Faulkner Robert plays hockey for the Buf­ characteristic of you so that your quotes four lines of Shakespeare' Mazda in Philadelphia, he's opted falo Sabre . According to Kyriak, friends can smile with fond rec­ The Winter's Tale on the label. fora 'more challenging corporate Jessica is happy if busy, and both ognition when they read the '88 What more could an English route'-selling business equip­ children are 'definitely Colby column." major want in life? Prof. Benbow ment for Pitney Bowes. Although material.' ...Toby LaVigne would approve, I'm sure). My during his fir t month he didn't writes that he loves his new job object for the evening is to finish sell anything and had to dig his working for a real estate devel­ both beer and column simulta­ way through marketing manuals opment firm-no doubt this is "As I sit and freeze in neously. Should 1 fail to accom­ thicker than any Econ 391 text, partly because he is working on my tiny apartment (the Japanese plish this, however, I can simply he reported that during Decem­ the Cape and living in Sandwich seem8 9 to have perfected every item run down to the nearest beer ber he 'kicked some ass' and is in a hou e he built! Rob Travis is of modern technology except vending machine, pop a few yen now enjoying life immen ely, e - lucky enough to share the house heated buildings) I realize that in (well, more than a fe w) and get pecially with a 'hot new car,' no with Toby ....Becca Bruce is in it's time to put to paper the news resupplied. Beer sold in the ame doubt a perk of his former Boston, where he live and work I gathered while home," write manner as candy, cigarettes or job .... Manute also bumped into in customer service for hawmut correspondent Deborah Greene. soda is just one of the a peers of Ginny Brackett, who is currently Bank ....Last summer Mike "Yes, I'm back in the land of the Japan that never cease to amaze in medical school down there. l Burr went to a party at Allison $20 cantaloupe after a brief holi­ me. Another i my local 7-Eleven, must admit that he told me the Murray's, where he met one of day in the States, where canta- which holds more wonders from name of the school, but, unfortu- Allison's oldest friends, Kristin Nawrocki. At the end of this summer, on September 21, Mike and Kristin will wed. All those interested in a matchmaker, call COLBY C LUBBERS Allison. (Ofcourse, I've been her friend for six years, and I'm no closer to marriage than 1 wa then, Colby Club acros the country have taken "Randy" Helm and Alumni Secretary Sid Farr but perhaps I'm a special case.) a key role in assessing alumni reaction to the '55 fielded que tion and heard comment . Mike is getting his master's in recently issued "Approaching the Year 2000: Diversity was among the central topics raised accounting at Northeastern. He An Interim Report on Colby's Planning there and at a similar gathering in San Fran­ is scheduled to graduate in Au­ Process." Seven club-sponsored forums-in cisco, with several alumni expressing concern gu t. Kristin is a design colori tat such diverse location a Waterville, Boca that the College should strive formore diver­ Brewer's Wallcovering.... Also Raton, New York, Portland, San Francisco sity in both its student population and on the in school is Nancy Donahue, and Los Angeles-have already taken place, faculty. "Virtually everyone agreed that thi who, after a few years working, giving alumni an opportunity forface-to-face should be a high priority challenge for the has started law school at Suffolk. discussion on the plan with senior College College," President Cotter aid after leading . . . Finally, Suzie Welch, a former administrator . the San Francisco discussion. roommate of the above-men­ In addition, dozens of letter have been Other concerns addre ed at all of the tioned All1son, Nancy, Becca and received by Pre ident William Cotter. Sum­ meetings and in most of the written response myself, writes that she too is en­ maries of the forumdiscussions and copies of to the plan included keeping Colby afford­ gaged. She has known her in­ the correspondence are being shared with able, strengthening the advising system, en­ tended, Scott Carpenter, for years. Planning Committee members to ensure that hancing the Commons ystem and finding Scott currently lives in New Jer­ alumni feedbackis con idered as the strategic more meaningful ways to involve alumni in sey, where he is a real estate bro­ plan is drafted. recruiting. ker for Cushman and Wakefield. Typical of the thoughtful, insightful The assessment process i ongoing, with Until her May wedding, Suzie views received in the letters and at the na­ a final plan expected sometime thi summer. will remain in Boston, where she tionwide forum were those offeredby everal The Planning Committee and College offi­ is in a management training pro­ participants at a recent Los Angeles club cials welcome additional comment from all in gram with a finance company. event, where Vice Pre ident for Develop­ the Colby community. . . . Please write and tell me ment and Alumni Relations Peyton R . something. You don't have to tell

76 Colby , May 1991 '90 Correspondent Debbie Adams, Assistant Basketball Coach BostonUniv ersity, 285 Babcock St., Boston, MA 02215

nately, now I can't read my own been a very long time since I've elusive, challenging and lucra­ lessons and is in a band ....Jen handwriting. What school she's had a woo-woo!) ... It was tive job in D.C.' She expressed Lally stopped by BU over Christ­ in will have to remain a my tery wonderful to finally hear from hope that the new year would be mas and says she is enjoying her until I can decipher the scrap of Mark Taylor '90 (to whom I took 'smoother in terms of combining responsibilities as a teacher and paper I cribbled my notes an equally lengthy time getting interests and talents in the real coach at the Hyde School in Bath, on.... Squeezing all the infor­ back-sorry, Mark!), who wrote world,' which, l trulybelieve, sums Maine ....Maeve Costin is now mation out of Manure that I pos­ me while 'painfully hung over' up what so many of our class­ in Boston working with a phy i­ sibly could, I learned that Bobby from a YC roof party with mates are trying to accomplish, cal therapist and is thoroughly Gallagher i back in Burlington, various Colby folks: Cath An­ whether in business, the art or enjoying her work ....Ja son Vt., working for a Swiss company drew, Catharine Long '90, Jeff outdoors.. ..1 hope this letter Shulman is in New York City on the 'importer side of it all.' England, Kristin Hock '90, John finds everyone well. There are so working as the new bu ines di­ When pressed for details, how­ Davie '88, Chris Gaillard '90, Jen many of you from whom I haven't rector at the advertising agency ever, Manure could only surmise Pierceand Ed Barr '8 . Mark run heard and from whom I would of Sussman, Ziccardi ....Ni ck that Bobby G. wa perhaps into Colby grads all the time in very much like to hear. I am still Childs is also in NYC. The la t 'making omething Swis . 'What his travels, which are exten ive. here in Japan but am currenrly time l spoke with him he was he lacked in details Manure made Aftergraduating and pending a making summer, post-Japan working with a movie company, up for in volume, though .... month out We t mountain bik­ plan , perhaps a returnto Alaska, calling differentmanufacturers for Brian Rigney i reportedly hik­ ing, climbing and rafting, he re­ where I will no doubt still be cold, permission to use their products ing, canoeing, ice-climbing and turnedto New York and Cicena, except in the novelty of a new in movies ... . Chris White is the doing ju t about every other the marketing firm he'd worked location. My goal i to be in close graduate football assi cant at outdoor activity as an in tructor for previou ly. 'Big mi take,' he proximity to good pizza (and Syracuse and will remain there for Outward Bound in Bethel, wrote. 'l ju t quit ye terday and cheaper cantaloupes, of course). next sea on while he finishes work Maine. And to think he gets paid am going to Paris on Monday for It's those little things in life I miss for his degree .... l have heard to do it, too! ...Tina Clifford some relaxation before I tart the most. Ki o ts'kere,every one!" through the grapevine that Cindy em me not one but two letters, looking for ajob.' ounds good to Demskie wa married in the fall although he admitted he can't me. By now I expect he ha found (congratulations, 'C'!) ...And claim authorship of the one ask­ the fi lm or televi on-related job speaking of weddings, Matt ing me formy 1991 pledge. (Funny he wa looking for. Ob iously, Deb Adams sends her Hancock and Clare DeAngelis how the Alumni Fund notice Mark ha fondmemorie of tho e greetings and apologizes for her were engaged over Christmas. arrive coincidentally with my pay long night in the crowded AV delayed9 0 debut in the magazine. They are planning a December packets.) 'Pay your pledge,' Tina room editing videotape for our "It eems that as every deadline wedding and are going to reside write , 'or they'll be a king me to Art and Oppre ion project. At approache I am on the road re­ in Ca co, Maine. Matt i cur­ haunt you with another note any rate, the re t of hi letter ran cruiting, scouting or coaching for rently living in Casco and work­ oon!' Well, Tina, I must confe s like the ociery pagein the Post, so BU. Mo t of the information I ing up the company ladder at that although I fully intend to I know there are many more '89ers have on everyone's whereabouts Hancock Lumber. He pends hi hand over some yen to Colby, the in .Y. Plea e let me know what comes from rumors, and I can free time renovating his new prospect of more mail is enough you are up to! . . . o doubt you hardly wait for more of you to get hou e ....When l went to the to make me want to delay a bit. all read in the January i sue of in touch with me to confirm them! Colby-Bate games in January Tina's year with Up With People Cori Brackett' success as a resi­ But here is what I know about the (both our women' and men's ended recently, and she wrote dent acrre with the Penobscot people I am in touch with .... team prevailed in Lewiston in that she is 'heartbroken' to ee Theatre Company. Al o up in Brian Clement is doing ex­ front of yet another obnoxious the year over so oon. 'However,' Bangor at the same theater but tremely well forhimself as a bro­ Bate crowd), I ran into Rob she added, 'it's nice to be in one working quite literally 'behind the ker at Hibbard, Brown and Com­ Hyland, who has remained in place formore than two nights.' cenes' was classmate Michelle pany. He is working long, hard Waterville and is working for he i planning to return to Kuchta, who was costume de­ hour and agree with me that a Hannaford Bros ....I realize your Tue on, Ariz., for six week to signer during the 1989-90 ea­ ocial life is both overrated and chedules are a crazy as mine, but help train a new cast and perhap son. Afterwards, he completed a hard to find. He is living with if you get the chance, end me a look forwork through her former fourth successful ummer at the Mike Smith, who is at Simmon postcard telling me what you are ho t mother, 'who doe conven­ Theater at Monmouth and went College studying phy ical up to and where everyone can get tion planning and special events­ on to become wardrobe upervi- therapy, and Steve Chmielewski. in touch with you. Also, if you type work' out there. lf not, look or for the yracuse Srage in 'Chem' is working at MVP Sports know what any of our other class­ for her ack in the Bo ton area, yracuse, N.Y. Break a leg! ... in Newton ....Ed McCabe sent mate are doing, please let me where he will, 1 hope, be for Melissa Early wrote me during a me a Christmas card (sorry I know o I can include them too." more than two nights. (And to 're pite from the stressful life of haven't returned your letter yet) an wer your question, Tina, it' temping and the search for the and told me he is giving music

Colby, May 1991 77 OBITUARIES

D. George Godfrey'44 , Sports Company Executive

and attended schools there.At the College Journalist, Educator she studied English and history. From 1921 Frederick G. Fassett, Jr. '23, a jour­ to 1924 she taught in Lisbon Falls, and after nalist, editor and professor, died January 7, one year of teaching in Kennebunk moved in Damariscotta, Maine, at age 89. Born in to Westbrook High School, where she be­ Portland, he graduated from CoburnClassi­ came head of the social studie department cal Institute. While majoring in Latin at anVoit Rubber Corp., died April 9, 1990, in Peterborough, N.H., at age 91. He was born 1966, he served as president of theboard of Laguna Beach, Calif., at age 68. Born in New in South Eliot, Maine, and attended R. W. trustees of Skidompha Library in Damaris­ Rochelle, N.Y., he attended West Spring­ Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine. At Colby cotta and was instrumental in expanding the field High in Massachusetts. He held a fac­ he majored in English, was president and library building and library services forchil­ tory job while at the College and played on treasurer of hi class and served on the Stu­ dren. He was also secretary of the Arnold the tennis and football teams. He served in dent Council and on the boards of the Echo Expedition Historical Society and was a the Navy during World War II and received and the Oracle. He was an ROTC sergeant at member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Cosmos the Bronze Star for heroic achievement. the College in 1918. After two years as an Club in Washington and the St. Botolph After the war he operated his own war sur­ instructor in English at Dartmouth, he at­ Club in Boston. His wife, Grace "Julie" plus business in West Springfield, Mass. ln tended graduate school in English at Yale. ln Pattangall Fassett '27, died in 1966. He is 1950 he took a job asa dollar-an-hour la­ 1924 he joined Lee, Higginson & Co. in survived by three daughters, 10 grandchil­ borer at Voit and was elected president in Boston as a salesman and bond trader. He dren and 16 great-grandchildren. 1960. In 1973 he joined with two former then became head of U.S. investments for Voit associates tc form Sports and Leisure Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. in International{l ater named Mikasa Sports). Boston and, later, manager of theMi ddlesex Colby Booster The company was the United States' top County National Bank (Bay Bank). He was Clarence E. Hale '26, salesman and importer in 1980. He was involved in several a member of the Colby Alumni Council and loyal Colbian, died January 12, in San sports businesses, including ski companies served as class agent and chair of the Alumni Marcos, Calif., at age 88. He was born in and Sports Marketing Services, and was an Fund. He was president of the Boston Colby Wade, Maine, and graduated from Washburn avid sportsman. He is survived by his wife, Alumni Association and secretary of the High School. He majored in economics at Betty, fourchildren and fourgrandchildren. Boston Colby Club. He was also a member of the College and participated in footballand the Yale Club of Boston and forover 30 year dramatics. During World War II, he was a was secretary of the Union Boat Club of sergeant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Brick Recipient Boston. He was a former president of the serving in the Middle East and Europe. In Pauline Abbott '2 1, a long-time his­ Barrington Library and the Barrington His­ letters to the College, he described the events tory teacher, died February 8, in Portland, torical Society. He is survived by his wife, ofD-Day, the effusivereactions of theFrench Maine, at age 92. She was born in Bridgton Helen. to the appearance of the American forces

78 Colby, May 1991 and hi visit to London and Cairo. Tributes period 1946-49, when he taught at the Uni­ level. he was a member of the Fir t Baptist from cla mate and Colby friends over the ver ity of New Hampshire, he served as the Church in Waterbury, Conn., and was ac­ years atte t to his devotion to his class and chair of the Progre sive Party in ew Hamp­ ti,·e in the Daughter of the American hi College. He was a faithful and generous shire and in 1948 was the party's candidate Revolution, the local women' club and the financial supporter of Colby, and he helped for the U.S. Senate. During the m id- 1950s, literacy program. Her hu band died in 1974. arrange the Class of l 926's 60th reunion. He while atAllen Univer ity in Columbia, S.C., Her more than 20 Colby relatives include i survived by his wife, Mirla. he and hi wife, Miriam, were involved in her great-grandfather,John B. Foster, Clas integration activitie in the rate. In 1964 he of l 43 and professorofGreek atthe College wa named chair of the English department from 1 5 to 1893, her grandfather , John Teach er, Coach at newly formed Lakehead University in M. Fo ter, Class of 1877, and Arthur M. Lindon E. Christie, Sr. '30, a high Thunder Bay. Following his retirement in Thomas, Class of l 0, her parents, John H. chool teacher, administrator and coach, 19 0, he lectured for several years in the Foster '12 and Helen Thomas Foster '14, and died January 24, in Portland, Maine, at age university' off-campus programs in various her uncle, Frank C. Fo ter '16. Survivor 3. He was born in Orneville, Maine, and Canadian towns. In articles in The Coih)• include a son, four daughter , her brother, wa educated in local schools. A hi tory Alumnus, he was a thoughtful ob erver of John T. Foster '40, her aunt, Grace R. Foster major and member of the footballand track politics and of cultural contrasts between '21, a cousin, Walter . Fo ter '56 and six team at Colby, he taught and coached in the United rate and Canada. He held grandchildren. everal Maine towns and in Ea t Bridgewater, member hips in the Association of Ameri­ Mass. In 1940 he earneda ma ter's degree in can Rhodes Scholars, the Canadian A o­ education at the University of Maine. A ciation of Rhodes cholars, the As ociation Noted Legislator lifetime member of the ational Education of Canadian Universiry TeachersofEngli h, Donald V. Carter '57, a respected A ociation, he was a member of the Maine London House, The Oxford ociery and the Maine state legislator, died December 29, in Teacher Association and served on com­ Council of Ontario Universitie . In 1985 he Vas alboro, at age 63. He attended schools mittees of the State Principal 'A ociatton. wa included in the Canadian Who's Who. in Winslow and graduated from Winslow He wa al o a member of local Rotary and urvivor include his wife, a daughter, a son, High chool. Following Army sen·ice in Kiwani club . He i survived by hi wife, his brother, Walter B. Rideout '3 , hi i ter­ World War II, he worked with the U. S. Ethelyn, three sons, includlng Lindon E. in-law, Jean Ori ko Rideout '39, and grand­ Civil Service in Germany, then returnedto Christie, Jr. '54 and Paul W. Christie '56, ix children. Other Colby relative include his tudy history and government at the Uni­ grandchildren, including Da id P. Christie parents, Walter J. Rideout '12 and Ruth versity of Maine and at Colby. In 1965 he '76, one great-granddaughter, a brother, Brickett Rideout '15, and hi aunt and uncle, began his long service in the Maine legisla­ Donald M. Christie '32, rwosister , nephew Clare Rideout Trickey '04 and Fred W. ture. He was chair of the House Appropria­ and nieces, including Dawne Chri tie hi ler Rideout '07. tions and Financial Affair Committee and '62. Other Colby relative include hi cous­ also sat on numerous other committees, in Roderick E. Farnham '31, Albion L. commi sions and ta k forces. He was a Farnham '35 andRaymond W. Farnham'36, Therapist Winslow town councilor and sen ed as a a brother-in-law, Emery S. Dunfee '33, Anne Foster Murphy '44, a promi­ selectman in that city. Owner of the Donald Patricia FarnhamRu ell '62, Jane Farnham nent occupational therapist, died February V. Carter In urance Agency in Winslow, he Rabeni '66, Raymond W. Farnham,Jr . '67, I, in Lewisburg, Pa., at age 68. he was born wa a past pre idem and charter member of Jeffrey Rus ell ' 7, Timothy Farnham '91 in Chang ha, China, to mi sionary parent the Winslow Lions Club and held member­ and Margaret Russell '92. and graduated from St. Margaret' School in ships in the eterans of Foreign War , the Connecticut. At the College he studied Disabled American Veterans, the Industrial English Professor social psychology, participated in the dra­ Development Council of Maine and the John G. Rideout '36, an accomplished matic society and wa elected to Cap and Independent Insurance Agent of Maine. cholar, writer and political activist, died Gown. She trained in occupational therapy As president of the Friend of Fort Halifax, January 26, in Thunder Bay, Ont., at age 75. at Columbia Univer ity. After servicewith he was instrumental in helping to reconstruct He wa bornin Danville, Vt., and graduated the Wave during World War II, she went the historical fort. He was beginning his from Foxcroft Academy. At Colby he ma­ on to direct occupational therapy at a num­ 13th term in the House when he died in an jored in English and was a member of Phi ber of naval ho pitals. She rudied rehabili­ automobile accident. His colleague re­ Beta Kappa and pre idem of Zeta Psi frater­ tation counseling at San Franci co State membered him as a man who "truly believed nity. Awarded a Rhodes cholar hip at College and received a master's degree in in the political process" and a "gentleman Oxford, he received a econd B.A. in 1938 196 from Pennsylvania State Univer iry. and a tatesman" who provided a stabilizing and an .A. in 1942. He completed hi She was director of occupational therapy at influence for other legislators. He is urvi ed Ph.D. at Brown Univer ity in 1945. He elinsgrove tate chool and Ho pita! in by his wife, Wilma, four children, six broth­ taught at Beloit College, Brown and Wells Penn ylvania from 1965 to 1978 and held er , three sister , even grandchildren and College in the 1930 and 40s. During the variou office in her profession at the tate numerous niece , nephew and cousins.

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Colby welcomes letters from readers. ing is now an available option. It should be. We reserve the right to edit for brevity and A strong argument can be made that off­ clarity. Please send correspondence to: Edi­ campus organizations are neither the legal COLBY tor, Colby , Office of Communications, Colby nor the moral business of the College. If College, Waterville, ME 04901. there is such a strong desire for fraternities, Volume 80 Number 3 why are they not flourishing off campus? More important to me is the lack of Fowl Play Colby is published five times yearly for the interest in the academic course load at Colby. To correct Earl Smith ("Quacked Ice," alumni, friends, parent of students, sen­ I have talked to some administrators and ior , faculry and staff of Colby College. March 1991 ), it began with the creation of faculty about the change from five to four Address correspondenceto the Director of Johnson Lake. (There are twoJohnson Ponds Communication , Colby College, Water­ courses a semester. While lip service is given in Maine, but Johnson Lake is exclusively ville, ME 04901-4799. to the increa ed content of some offerings, Colby.) President Bixler and I were strolling Magazine Staff: Edward Her hey, director the greatest benefit seems to be in reducing of communication.s, executive editor; Sally along the marge. This colloquy ensued: faculty workload. There is, naturally, a cor­ Gould: Yought-a havesomeducksswimmin'. Baker, managing editor; Nora L. Cameron, responding change in student workload. I do associate editor, graphics and design; Mary Bixler: 'Twould have somecosmetic value. wish that some of those who write expressing Ellen Matava, associate editor, photography; Gould: Ducks, I got. How many youwant? Carol Anne Beach '88 , sporeseditor; Robert little more than the wi h to keep Colby the Bixler: Not above a very few. Gillespie, College editor; Bonnie Bishop, way it was "back when" would give at least creative director Gould: Problem comes with cold weather. passing thought to the academic side of Bixler: 1 suppose we could find a place to Contributing Photographers: David things. Wilkin on (front cover, pg. 11, 12, 15), winter them. Hugh R. Naz.or '59 Lynn Bushnell (inside front cover), Rhett Gould: If you can't, I'll come get 'em and Georgetown , Maine Weiland (inside back cover). Sherwood fe tch 'em back next spring. Landers (pg. 46), Gail Walsh (pg. 53) They were Indian Runner ducks, and Contributing Reporters: JeffreyBaron '93, people who keep Indian Runners spend a lot A Suggestion John Cook '93, Jane DeStefano '92, of time wondering what to do with the The position of the administration re­ Rebekah Mitchell '9 1 damned things. A deductible non-cash gift garding fraternities, if secret, is not being Administration: William R. Cotter, presi­ to Colby College resulted, and the next well kept. However, if it is now policy to dent; Peyton Randolph Helm, vice president offend alumni who are members of these for developmentand alumni relation.s; Earl H. Sunday Johnson Lake had ducks. Wintering Smith, dean of the College; Susan Conant them was not a problem. At that time tem­ organizations, then may I suggest you con­ Cook '75, director of alumni relation.s tinue to refer to them as "frats." porary housing for married war veteran stu­ Board of Trustees: H. Ridgely Bullock '55, dents was close by, and the bahstids ate the Richard B. Tupper '52 chair, Gerald). Holu '52,vice chair, Richard ducks. What has happened since then can Brooklyn, N.Y. L. Abedon '56, Howard D. Adams, Robert hardly be blamed on President Bixler, who N. Anthony '38, Frank 0. Apanraku '71. Alida Milliken Camp (Mrs. Frederic E.), was a gentleman and a scholar. Man Trap John G. Christy, Susan Comeau '63, Wil­ John Gould Your March issue states that the word liam R. Coner, Jame B. Crawford '64, Friendship, Maine freshman might be replaced by first-year Robert A. Friedman, Robert M. Furek '64, Jerome F. Goldberg '60, William H. student. Three words for one1 All this to Goldfarb '68, Peter D. Hart '64, Nancy Enough is Enough enhance the status of women? How silly can Spokes Haydu '69, Robert S. Lee '51, It seems like years ago that I last wrote you get? Pretty soon it will be verboten to say Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80, Robert mannequin, mankind, man-of-war or man­ A. Marden '50, David M. Marson '48, about the "fraternity question." It was years Edson V. Mitchell III '75, Paul D. Pa­ ago! And still the letters come. I am dis­ eating tiger! ganucci, Wilson C. Piper '39, Lawrence R. turbed that many have more interest in Catherine Laughton Briggs '36 Pugh '56, David Pulver '63, Robert Sage Somers , Conn. '49, Richard R. Schmalu '62, John M. football scores and fraternity status than Seidl, Robert E. L. Strider 11, Barbara they do in other aspects of College life. Howard Traister '65, Edward H. Turner, Having belonged to a Colby fraternity Colby Kudos Mary Elizabeth Brown Turner '63, Wil­ in the 50s, I have an out-of-date perspective. May I add my congratulations to the liam D. Wooldredge '61 While I understand that fraternitybehavior sheaf of comments and good wishes on the Alumni Council Executive Committee: became very much more objectionable in blockbuster January issue of Colby. I liked Victor F. Scalise, Jr. '54, chair, Forrest W. Barnes'56, Albert F. Carville, Jr. '63, Eliza­ later years, the situation I experienced was particularly your division of the class notes beth J. Corydon '74, John B. Devine, Jr. adequate reason for their demise. College­ into decades. You have put together a maga­ '78, Michael L. Franklin '63, Scott F. sponsored, on-campus fraternities greatly zine that is a landmark in Colby alumni McDermott '76, Germaine Michaud Orloff limited the personal, social and intellectual publications. '55, Donald J. Short '64, Solomon J. Hartman '67 growth of many students. Harold E. Hall ' 17 I do not know whether off-campusliv- Norway , Maine

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