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It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. c 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 Teachers of 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 sports and 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.