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J Editorial Board: Vivian Segall '73, Editor (13 New London, CT, four times a year in Winter, Main Street, Noank, CT 06340) / Katherine Faigle '63, Directors / Committee Chai~me~: Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage Gould '8 J/ Sarah Hargrove Harris '57 / Jeanne Caldwell Raudenbush '69 (Nominating) paid at New London, CT 06320. Send form Wayne Swanson Marilyn Ellman Frankel '64 / Mary Ann Garvin Seigel '66 (Alumni Giving) I 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut / Roberta Finley '71, Class Notes Editor / / Carole A. Filice '74 (Clubs) / Lee White College, New London, CT 06320. CASE Graham '61 (Classes and Finance) / Warren Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26, Assistant member. Editor / Helene Zimmer Loew '57 and Louise Erickson '74 (Programs) / David V. Ives '80 Alumni Association Executive Board: Stevenson Andersen '41, ex officio (Undergraduate/Young Alumni Relatio.lls I Helene Zimmer Loew '57, President / Mary Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 (Executive The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine Ann Garvin Siegel '66, Vice President / (USPS 129-140). Official publication of the Director) and Vivian Segall '73 (Alumni Warren Erickson '74, Secretary / Lee White Connecticut College Alumni Association. All Magazine Editor), ex officio. Graham '61, Treasurer / Joann Walton publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted Above, Adrienne Hawkins, MFA '76, Leavenworth '56, Jane Muddle Funkhouser '53 only by permission of the editor. Published by dances in the East Studio. and Edith Gaberman Sudarsky '43, Alumni Communications to any of the above may be the Connecticut College Alumni Association at Trustees. Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, addressed in care of the Alumni Office, George F. Hulme '77 and Susan Bohman Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320. The Connecticut College Alumnl Magazine

Volume 60, No.3, Spring 1983

Page 2 Page 12 Page 18 Morris Carnovsky An Attitude Dance for Joy at Connecticut Toward Life By Vivian Segall '73 By Joanne Furtak '84 By Marilyn J. Comrie '74 Celebrating a decade of dance Studying Advanced Shakespearean The extraordinary accomplish- at Connecticut. Acting with one of the greatest ments of Willa T. Schuster, who Shakespearean actors of our time. believes there's an answer to every Page 20 problem. Round & About Jorge Luis Borges comes to Con- necticut. Scientists from Pfizer teach a seminar. The Web makes theater history. Eclipse weekend, and more.

Page 23 Books Professor Jane Torrey reviews The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing.

Page 8 Page 24 Kevin Wade's Key Exchange Class Notes By Roldah Northup Cameron '51 And more, including a computer- Mr. Wade says, "God Bless Us assisted look at the eighteenth All, it should happen to everyone." century.

Page 15 Preserve and Protect By Mari Smultea '85 Susannah Johnson Convery logged over 10,000 hours as a Deputy District Attorney. There are very few cases she doesn't win.

MORRIS CAR NOVSKY AT CONNECTICUT THE GIFTED ACTOR IS ALSO A GIFTED TEACHER HERE THE MAN WHO PLAYEO LEAR, PROSPERO AND SHYLOCK IS KNOWN AS "MORRIS, BY JOANNE FURTAK '84

Morris Carnovsky, a Shakespearean actor it from there, so impressing him at a post- he speaks as frequently of his students as he of national renown, teaches his craft at performance party that he readily agreed to does of days gone by. Although he has the Connecticut College on Tuesdays and Professor Peter Seng's suggestion that Mr. presence and the poise of a leading man, it Thursdays. On this particular Thursday he Carnovsky come to teach at Connecticut is the tools of the character actor that one has agreed, albeit reluctantly, to an inter- College. Professors from the English and notices-the voice, the hands, even the eye- view before his class in Advanced Shake- the theater departments joined forces to brows are expressive. It's been 20 years spearean Acting. We meet in Palmer 202- secure a Mellon Foundation grant, and in since a New York Times theater critic said a dark room, barren but for a cluster of 1978 Mr. Carnovsky became a visiting pro- "his handling of Lear's last moments as he metal folding chairs, and a far cry from the fessor of theater. kneels over Cordelia's limp body has the customary plush velvet chairs of the theater. No one is more aware of how fortunate other-worldly purity of a man arrived at What is this man, who has acted with Connecticut College is to have him than ultimate, sorrowing self-knowledge." Now stars ranging from Katharine Hepburn to Linda Herr, the chairman of the theater 84 years old, Mr. Carnovsky admits that he Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg, doing at department. She uses words like "gift" and sometimes tires of the task before him. Connecticut College? Why is a recently "treasure" to describe the different facets of "Y ou know, one of the most demanding elected member of the Theatre Hall of Mr. Carnovsky's contribution to Connec- things about it is the repetition of funda- Fame teaching acting at a small liberal arts ticut College. "First of all, because he was a mental principles. You pronounce them college, whose theater department has only member of the Group," she begins, refer- once and you think that's the end of it, two full-time faculty members? Mr. Car- ring to the famous production company of there it is like the Parthenon," Mr. Car- novsky first came to Connecticut College which Mr. Carnovsky was a co-founder novsky explains in his deep, rich voice, in the spring of 1977, when the English and the senior member, "just in terms of his chuckling at the absurdity of the analogy. department sponsored a Shakespeare fes- historical presence, that whole fund of "But it goes on and on, and you repeat and tival in which he starred. The students took knowledge is irreplaceable. He also brings repeat, and at times you're saying the same with him an absolute dedication to acting thing again and again." Scarcely has he Shakespeare and the classics. In addition, articulated this monotony, however, when Joanne Furtak '84, an English major from he brings to our upper-level acting students he launches eagerly into a discourse on Hamden, Connecticut, has been chosen as a richness and complexity of analytical what is clearly the focus and most often an intern with the Alumni Magazinefor the skills. I would say there is a fourth level- repeated part of his acting p.hilosophy. 1983-84 academic year. Her profile of his indomitable spirit, his fondness and "I reduced the whole of Stanislavsky's Morris Carnovsky was originaJJyan assign- appreciation for the students." She pauses approach and method to a simple state- mentfor Journalism 200, a magazine writ- here, but one gets the impression Linda ment of each moment, which consists of ing course taught by Vivian SegaJJ 73, edi- Herr could continue praising Mr. Carnov- three parts: the object, the self, and the tor of the Alumni Magazine. sky indefinitely. action." Mr. Carnovsky considers this his AI left, Morris Carnovsk y as Shylock at Praising himself is not Mr. Carnovsky's personal contribution to Method Acting, a the Strarford Shakespeare Theatre. style. While we sit in the empty classroom, technique developed by the Russian actor

3 and teacher Constantin Stanislavsky. "The Method" takes an internal, realistic ap- MORRIS CARNOVSKY proach to acting, and has spawned such stars as Jane Fonda, Robert DeNiro, and Dustin Hoffman. ON ACTING Though "The Method" is now the most pervasive influence in acting, Mr. Carnov- sky was witness to and a central figure in its How does an actor transform him- "For to play Shakespeare is to be in development in the 19205 and 30s. He self?MorrisCarnovsky's talents as trouble from the start. It isto be remembers vividly his introduction to an actor are legendary, and he is snared in a web of extraordinary Shakespeare, and the completely differ,ent also an eloquent analyst of the complexity, involving not only the approach actors then took to the claSSICS. actors art. Mr. Carnovsky probed toughest and tenderest fibres of "I was asked by John Houseman to do a the mystical amalgam between the play's existence, but our own part in King John. I played Salisbury. Of actor and character in a talk at measure of our Selves,in the course, I was dying to do Shakespeare, but Connecticut College's Summer- degree to which we can and will nobody had ever asked me to." scene several years ago. These allow our being to interpenetrate "I went to the first rehearsal, and I sat excerpts are from his talk, entitled that of the play. out in the lobby listening to what was going Collision. Thisis possibly true of all plovs, on. I was wondering what style, what kind but eminently of Shakespeare's. of a response I would bring to the material, "What I'd like to advocate here isa The reality that pervades his world and I heard them in the room, carrying on different kind of scholarship, the is compounded of all the known in that old-fashioned way I couldn't bear," Actors scholarship, which ismuch elements of life, all its conflicting he raises his voice, mimicking the preten- more difficult to nail down, opposites-foolish and wise, shal- tious, artificial style. "I said, God, that's because, in the last analysis, it is low and profound, indifferent, pas- not for me. Am I going to have to learn that subject to his imaginafion and to sionate, base, grand-one states in order to be a Romantic actor? By the the body which isto express it. I've these obvious things as a first step way, they were damn good actors, but I offen been asked: what isthe pro- to coping with them. There's no rejected their style of expression. Wh.at.1 cess by which fhe authors image end to it. Over it all. like a net. had to do was somehow bring a realistic becomes yours? Some sort of mys- Shakespeare has thrown the final style to a Romantic background, and that's tical amalgam? For,as i offen say enclosing reality of poetry. When been my effort over the years." to my students, after all the words the reader or the actor has lost Mr. Carnovsky is in the midst of an are spoken there yet remains an himself in the sheer wonder of the involved description of his acting philos- area of communication which imageryot ophy, when the clatter of heels interrupts goes beyond speech; like love, it is ... Light thickens, and the crow him As if on cue a student arrives to dem- a desinng beyond words, intensely Makes wing to th' rooky wood. ons;rate what he 'has been trying to verbal- personal. Which isnot unlike the Good things of day begin to ize. While she dutifully recites the Gospel confrontation of the actor with the droop and drowse. According to Carnovsky ("the object, the part he isto play-a collision." Whiles Night's black agents to self, and the action"), the rest of the cl~ss their preys do rouse. arrives, filling the room with chattenng "But also: what one isas a crafts- he issfilileft pondering the means voices. man. Thediscovery that all ele- whereby Shakespeare accom- The student-teacher interaction is re- ments of one's craft are basically plished the unattainabie (for I laxed and informal. He is "Morris" to them personal. Myaction, my objects, believe that to say these words with all, just as they are each addressed individ- mySelf-mywayof responding to their full intention is unattainable )." ually by him-he questions Sharon about these things in terms of rhythm, a her limp, and urges Beth to visit him and kind of inner oscillation peculiarly "To follow where fhe Imagination his wife at their Easton, Connecticut, home my own, radiating from and return- leads. Forthis you need technique. over break. Matt edges toward Mr. Carnov- Ing to Self.Perhaps this isthe most Not a technique that plunges sky, snatching the chance to talk before he important. I am thinking of King headlong into the unplotted loses his nerve. "Morris, I brought you my Lear now. Forperceiving myself morass of feelings and blind play," he says, hesitantly preferring a adrift among the mighty images of instincts. But the technique that this play, what is it that encounters mimeographed and ring-bound copy 0'£ a courageously plans, envisages, play he has written outside of class. Having the eye of my mind wherever I may controls, from beginning to end. turn but symbols and concepts for gone this far, Matt's will falters, and he Technique that knows how to quickly closes the subject muttering, "When- which there are only words of bot- respond to the come and go, the tomless depths and colossal mag- ever you have the time ... " . stop, the silence of the verse, fhe They seem more like solicitous chl1d~en nitude-what the Germans mean rhythm of that thickening of the when they say ungeheuer." than students, scurrying about arranging light in Macbeth's uneasy world." chairs, reminding Mr. Carnovsky that sonnets are the assignment for the day,

4 - "He makes you love the speaking loudly and clearly so he can under- could be a cursory exercise is gone over in stand. As the actual sonnet work begins, painstaking detail, line by line, emphasis by craft and the process-not however, the roles are reversed, and Car- emphasis. Mr. Carnovsky constantly inter- the final product. because novsky the professional actor Hikes charge. rupts with suggestions and comments, and you never get to see the This greying, somewhat frail gentleman with each repetition there is improvement. becomes a firm, demanding teacher. What Another student takes a seat in front of final product."

5 the class, and she runs through her sonnet hurriedly. Mr. Carnovsky speaks at length of possible corrections, his freckled, veined hands in constant motion-illustrating, pointing, punctuating. As she takes a breath to begin, he halts her with another suggestion. Minutes later, his point made, Mr. Carnovskycommands her, "Do it now without my rude interruptions," She pauses, breathes in, but before the words can escape, he has involuntarily broken in with yet another idea, Laughter ripples through the classroom, the indulgent laughter of students secure that the process will pay off. "He makes you love working," says Jane McEneaney '84, a member of the theater department advisory board. "He makes you love the craft and the process-not the final product, because you never get to the final product." Mark Frattaroli, a freshman theater major, agrees that the learning comes largely from watching Mr. Carnov- sky work with others. "He takes a different approach with each person-it's amazing the growth that takes place. There's such a transformation from the first time to the last." Some students are taking his course for the second and even third time. Alyssa Roth '83 credits Mr. Carnovsky with her decision to become an actress. "I didn't realize what acting was until I took his class," she says. Mr. Carnovsky brings to his class a wealth of theatrical experience. He began to gain recognition in 1925, when he joined the Theatre Guild. The New York Times said of the six-year period in which Car- novsky was a member of the Guild, "the organization was at that time one of the most courageous and progressive in the American Theater." In 1931, Morris Car- novsky and Harold Clurman,. a fellow member of the Guild, founded their own production company, called the Group Theater. Looking back, Mr. Carnovsky says, "It was the Group Theater that actually formed me as a realistic actor." After the Group came a succession of Mr. Cornovsky's portrayals of films, including The Life of Emile Zola, Lear, Prospera, and Shylock Edge of Darkness and Cyrano de Bergerac. at the American Shake- But the offers suddenly stopped coming in speare Theater in Stratford, 1952, when Mr. Carnovsky was blacklisted for refusing to give names to the House Un- Connecticut, were both crit- American Activities Committee. Though ically and popularly success- he called it "an inquisition into the inviola- ful. "If I were to do nothing ble areas of one's deepest manhood" at the time, Mr. Carnovsky now prefers to down- more than those three play the incident. "I may have had a rough parts," he now says, "if my time, but I survived," he says. "They were strength gave out, they

6 troublesome, they were annoying. As I look back on it, it was a big annoyance to be wrenched from what you preferred doing, what you were born to do-that is, act-and have to be exposed to a situation which was inartistic, unlovely, and as I say, annoying." It may have been a blessing in disguise, for Mr. Carnovsky turned from films back to the theater. Morris Carnovsky, Shake- spearean actor, became an enormous success again. His portrayals of Lear, Prospera, and Shylock at the American Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut, were both critically and popularly successful. "If I were to do nothing more than those three parts," he now says, "if my strength gave out, they would illustrate better than I could describe it, all the impulses and forces and choices that I made in Shake- speare." Actors' memoirs are in hot demand these days, and Mr. Carnovsky seems to have ample material for one. He has chosen to write of his experiences in a somewhat different format, however, more an acting manual than a memoir. Entitled The Actors Eye, Mr. Carnovksy's first book is scheduled for release in the fall. "This isn't a memoir except glancingly," he quickly points out, "though it's impossible to leave myself out, and many of my experiences are included in the book. It's a little more originaL What 1hope will come through in the book isa comparison of my own adventures in the theater with those of other actors. Surely the actual doing and acting must be fundamentally the same for every type of actor-whether romantic or classi- calor whatever." Although the book may be finished, Mr. Carnovsky has plenty of other projects in progress. His class presents a workshop prod uction of a Shakespearean work in the Chapel basement each Spring, and this semester they're working on excerpts from As You Like It. Mr. Carnovsky is also rehearsing his part in Chekhov's The would illustrate better than I Cherry Orchard at the Long Wharf Thea- could describe it, all the ter in New Haven. His energy and his desire impulses and forces and to act have not flagged and jhey show choices that I made in through clearly in the classroom. "I said before that 1 sometimes tire of the repeti- Shakespeare," Above, Mr. tion, but when they come along and show Carnovsky in class with (from fresh impulses, I become revived." His stu- left) Peter DiMuro, MFA in dents bid "Morris" affectionate good byes as he dons his jaunty black beret, and gath- dance '83, Marleine Hof- ers his briefcase and cane after class. Only mann '85, and Mark Fratta- half joking, he reminds them, "It's up to roll '83. you to keep me alive." And they do. 0

7 KEVIN WADE1S KEY EXCHANGE

HE TRADED THE ROAR OF THE CROWD FOR THE HUM OF HIS OLIVETTI. BUT EVEN WITH A HIT PLAY AND A MOVIE SCRIPT TO HIS CREDIT, KEVIN WADE IS STILLMR. NICE GUY.

BY ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51

8 A long-time Connecticut College volunteer, Roldah Northup Cameron '51 was president of the Alumni Association from 1968 to 1971, and won the Agnes Berkeley Leahy Awardfor outstanding service in 1974. A frequent contributor 10 the Alumni Maga- zine, Roldah Cameron is well-equipped to profile playwright Kevin Wade-in 1966, she profiled five actresses for this magazine. Mrs. Cameron, whose daughter Jac- quelyn is also a Connecticut alumna, plans a career in writing. At left, Richard Cutting 75 and Deborah Rifchin 74 pose with Kevin Wade during his last acting class at Connecticut in 1974. Mr. Wade, right, in a more serious moment at the Harvard Club in New York City in February 1983.

He arrived at the mid-town club, hatless, tweed-jacketed, carrying a small duffel bag containing the clothes he had worn at the gym he frequents four mornings a week. The copper-tinged beard was neatly trimmed and the high forehead unfur- rowed. Kevin Wade appeared confident and unhurried. He looked, on first glance, like an altogether attractive but unremark- able young man. That assessment, it turned out, was only partially correct. How many people have written a hit play on their first attempt and sold an original screenplay to a major studio before celebrating a 29th birthday? Those are remarkable achievements, but it time she has been faithful to him, that he Once the play was completed, Mr. Wade is difficult to begrudge Kevin Wade his has been her exclusive date and bed mate, showed a copy of it to Kyle Renick, the quick start in the dramatic race. He comes his shock and fear are splendid comedy as director of the Workshop of the Players across as Mr. Nice Guy himself. well as sharp comment upon an age in Art (WPA) Theatre in New York, who During the winter of 1981 Kevin Wade which young people fear commitment decided within days to produce it. Barnet set about writing a play that he thought he more than the Surgeon General's warnings Kellman, who has been associated with the and his friends would like to see."I wanted against cancer. The three characters in Key Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center to make it funny, short and to the point," Exchange are not complicated, but the in New London, directed Mark Blum he explained. With that clear sense of pur- truth they speak about the adult confusion Brooke Adams and Ben Masters in the pose he devoted his weekends to crafting of the "me" generation reveals the author's WPA production, which opened inJune to Key Exchange, a play that almost sold keen observation of his peers. Mr. Wade good reviews. New York Times critic itself. It is set in Central Park and concerns was careful to make the humor come out of Frank Rich wrote that Kevin Wade was three weekend bicyclists-Philip and Lisa, the situation or the characters and not to "one fledgling writer who seems to know who start out the playas cooing lovers, and write one-liners. just what he's about." Michael, who has recently wed his long- "Acting gave me the confidence to write At this point Mr. Wade suggested to his time live-in girlfriend. Over the course of dialogue even though I had never written Connecticut College friend, Mark Gero the play the three become pals and share dialogue before," he said in an interview '74, that Gero and his father, Frank, come their thoughts about life, liberated sex, with The New York Times. Acting also to see Key Exchange. Kyle Renick had also friendship and marriage. A romantic com- taught him enough about the technical been pushing Wade's play to the Geros, edy about the Manhattan singles scene was complexities of good theater so that he who reacted enthusiastically upon seeing it. hardly an innovation, but Mr. Wade put his kept the play simple: one set, three charac- Without changing anything Gero Produc- characters through some comic reversals ters, nine scenes and a lot of bright dia- tions moved the play to an Off-Broadway that gave it an appealing freshness. When logue. Bicycles were the perfect device for theater, the Orpheum, where it played for a Lisa confesses to Philip that for quite some getting the characters on and off stage. year. The fact that Kevin Wade and Mark

9 Gero were friends didn't hurt, but business theater world, New York, where he hoped nor a hair shirt. Kevin Wade is not worry- is business and nobody was doing Wade to make a living at it. Many of the students ing about the lack of trauma in his life, any favors. Kevin Wade hung out with at Connecticut believing his fertile imagination and sharp While Key Exchange was on the boards were equally smitten and have subse- powers of observation can serve him as well in New York, the play had a successful quently launched careers as actor, pro- as the personal misery mined by other four-month run in Los Angeles with erst- ducer, writer, stage designer, drama teacher. writers. while Charlie's Angel Kate Jackson as Lisa A less arty classmate recalls Mr. Wade as Since Key Exchange, Mr. Wade has and David Dukes in the role of Philip. being funny, sociable and involved non- written a one-act play commissioned by the American audiences have applauded the stop in theater. Actors Theater of Louisville, and he re- play in three Florida towns, in Dallas, Once in Manhattan Mr. Wade took cently completed an original screenplay for Houston, Cleveland and Boston as well. It assorted non-theatrical jobs to finance his MGM entitled Cover Story. Shades of has been produced in Germany, Israel, acting classes and pay the rent while seek- Raymond Chandler-this time it's murder. Scandinavia and is soon to open at a ing roles. He eventually found them in tele- The story is set in Westchester County "fringe theatre" in London, dispelling any vision, film, Off-Broadway and Off-Off- where the rebellious 21-year-old daughter fears that the play's appeal might be purely Broadway; he even starred in a Mark of a prominent businessman is found in a national. Key Exchange has become as Rappaport movie called Scenic Route, stolen Porsche at the bottom of a reservoir. ubiquitous as "a Carvel franchise," says The dead woman's younger sister is the Mr. Wade, vowing that he could not see it Mr,Wade hadn't antici- only family member who suspects foul even one more time. play, and with the help of a young de tee- The fallout from the success of his first pated things like a chauf- tive, she sets out to prove it. When asked if play has been "pretty amazing" to Mr. fered RollsRoyce on open- he had written the parts with any particular Wade. He hadn't anticipated things like a ing night a feature article in actors in mind, he answered that he could chauffered Rolls Royce on opening night, a see Ben Masters (Philip in Key Exchange) feature article in The New York Times, sale The New York Times, sale of as the handsome detective who becomes of the movie rights to Key Exchange, the movie rights to Key infatuated with the 18-year-old heroine. requests from film studios to write screen- Exchange, requests from film Mr. Wade is hopeful that Cover Story plays, a profile in Showbill, introductions will be made into a movie with or without to celebrities at glittering affairs. He met studios to write screenplays, Ben Masters as the detective, but the course Gregory Peck at a West Coast party given a profile in Showbill, intro- of action Hollywood will take is unpredict- by Liza Minelli, who happens to be mar- ductions to celebrities at able. Studio executives were enthusiastic ried to Mark Gero. To Mr. Wade's aston- glittering affairs, about the screenplay in progress and the ishment, Mr. Peck had seen Key Exchange, finished script has been shown to directors. liked it and insisted upon sitting down with At right Mr.Wade strolls Mr. Wade's feeling is that the longer you him to discuss it, an incident Mr. Wade with Joan Durkee 73 and keep your script away from Hollywood recounts with a kind of "Gee whiz" Richard Cutting 75 in New "egomaniacs," the better. "You always modesty and considerable humor. Critical have some studio executive who doesn't acclaim for Key Exchange also meant York City (1975), know a thing about writing, who says, money in the bank and freedom to write 'Now if the heroine could just be a Viet- more often than weekends. which won a British Film Institute Award namese refugee ... '" he said, rolling his Naturally, the folks back home in Chap- as 1979's best film. But Mr. Wade discov- eyes hea venward with exaggerated dismay. paqua-Kevin's parents and four younger ered that he disliked the business end of He grew enthusiastic as he discussed screen- siblings-were delighted with his sudden acting-the precarious living and being at writing and its development since the 50s, success. They had played a large part in the mercy of casting directors. His decision the decade in which he believes film carne what Mr. Wade described in the Showbill to try his hand at writing instead seems an into its own as an art form. Although interview as a "normal middle-class, Irish- inspired one. David Mamet (The Verdict) speaks of Catholic, suburban upbringing." He first Only five months passed between the screenwriting as "if it were something he appeared on stage, so to speak, as an altar time he began to write Key Exchange and knocked off over coffee," Mr. Wade in- boy, but got more exposure at Horace opening night at the WPA Theatre. Ex- sisted that it is an exacting, extremely Greeley High School. At Connecticut Col- plaining the ease with which this occurred, structured craft whose practitioners de- lege, which he entered in the fall of 1972, he he said in the Times interview: "I didn't serve a great deal more respect and recogni- gravitated to courses in writing, acting, have anything to get out of my system. I tion from the film industry and the general English literature and theater. A role in the wrote the play to be commercial." He is the public than they currently receive. "On Elizabethan drama, The Alchemist, under first to admit that Key Exchange is a mod- Oscar night when the screenwriters get the direction of Fred Grimsey of the Con- est play and that he wrote it in nine scenes their awards, the TVaudience heads forthe necticut faculty, stands out in his memory. because he hadn't enough material to sus. kitchen,"lamented Mr. Wade. He also had a lead role in a student produc- tain two acts lasting two hours. Yet the play If a certain amount of ind ignation creeps tion of Beckett's Endgame. By the end of has enough substance, honestly and h umor- into his voice when he discusses Holly- his sophomore year, Mr. Wade was so ously presented, to succeed in a tough wood, he seems philosophical on the sub- wrapped up in acting that he decided to arena. For audiences it may be a relief to ject of drama critics and their ability to leave college and head for the mecca of the hear from someone who has neither a scar make or break a play. Perhaps this is

10 because he has not yet experienced the For Kevin Wade writing is a business Finishing the screenplay of Cover Story scorn of men like Frank Rich, Mel Gussow requiring discipline as does any other job. after a year of work, he realized "you can't and Walter Kerr of The New York Times, Inspiration plays very little part in the pro- take your Olivetti out for a beer." No, but John Simon of New York magazine and cess; what is necessary is at least four hours you can find a friend who will rejoice in Clive Barnes of the New York Post. The a day at the typewriter. He prefers to write your accomplishments-Mr. Wade plans playwright doesn't earn a penny until open- in the afternoon-pipe at hand, Sinatra rec- to marry a young actress named Polly ing night, and maybe not even then if the ords playing-following a morning work- Draper in August. play receives bad reviews, whereas a screen- out at the athletic club. Bicycling was once Where is the ego, the exaggeration, the writer is paid while he writes. In Mr. a passion that led him to cover as many as emotional intensity that one finds in so Wade's opinion, that kind of arrangement 70 miles on a Sunday afternoon, but his many theater people? If Kevin Wade has is certainly counterprod uctive to the devcl- current apartment is a long way from the those qualities, they aren't showing. In fact, opment of new playwrights. Cuts in Fed- Central Park bike paths traveled by Philip, talking about himself seems to make him eral funding of the arts and inflated pro- Lisa and Michael. He'd rather read than go uncomfortable, and he allows that he duction costs are other factors that limit to see the competition on stage and film, doesn't dare go public with the pipe he the offerings of new works. The risks and and the mysteries of Chandler, the novels enjoys smoking for fear it would look costs of an Off-Broadway show, although of Styron, Roth and Theroux are favorites. affected. With no need to dramatize him- less than those for a Broadway show, are The workshop approach to writing doesn't self, he can save his sturm und drangfor his still considerable, and regional theaters appeal to Mr. Wade, but he does see some dramatic characters. Mr. Nice Guy refuses lean toward repertory and revivals. Tal- disadvantages to his solitary mode of earn- to take himself too seriously, saying, "I ented writers may well find it more profit- ing his living. Openings and closings of realize I've been very, very lucky the first able to write for the big and little screen successful plays are celebrated with cast time out. I mean, God Bless Us All, it than for the stage. parties; the completion of a script is not. should happen to everyone." 0

11 AN AlTITUDE TOWARD LIFE

WILLA T SCHUSTER '68, PARALYZED SINCE AN ATTACK OF POLIO IN 1955, IS AN AWARD-WINNING CIVIC VOLUNTEER AND A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN

BY MARILYN J COMRIE '74

"I guess I'm an eternal optimist because I "I'm so grateful for the help people give so 1 did the visiting during the week." Mr. always think there's an answer to every me that Ijust want to give something back" Anderson recalls being terrified of polio problem," says Willa T. Schuster '68. Tha.t she says of her years of work for the com- and of the iron lung, but Miss Schuster optimism and her enthusiasm for every- munity. In her usual unassuming way, seemed to take everything in stride. "Willa thing she does helped earn her the 1983 Willa Schuster accepted the Chamber's has a knack for putting everyone at ease," Community Service Award from the Mys- annual award in January by sharing it with Mr. Anderson says. "After talking with her tic Chamber of Commerce. all the people who had worked with her, and seeing how she was coping, 1 lost any Of course, a list of civic activities the acknowledging that it belonged to them as fears 1 had." length of an arm also helped. A past presi- much as to her. After several months of therapy in dent of the Junior Women's Club, she has "Because I'm handicapped, I have to be Columbia, Georgia, Miss Schuster was been a board member of the Connecticut on the receiving end and am totally able to return home and graduate from the Trails Council of the Girl Scouts and of the indebted to family and friends," she says. Williams School with her sister Jennifer's State Federation of Women's Clubs; she "It's natural to want to repay that class in 1959. Connecticut College accepted co-chaired the Mystic Bicentennial Com- kindness." her and she began her nine years of study mittee Celebration and served on Groton's The illness caused her to miss two years the following fall. Bicentennial Committee; she is a past of high school. She spent a year in an iron "1 was fortunate that Connecticut Col- member of the Mystic-Noank Library's lung and two more years on respiratory lege was there and would take me," she book selection committee and former pub- assistance. Although Miss Schuster makes says. "Otherwise I would have had to go licity chairman of the Mystic Outdoor Art light of her ordeal, her family and friends out of town and away from my family." Festival. remember the peril of the months following Miss Schuster started out taking two Currently she serves as a Brownie troop the attack of polio. One close friend who is courses a semester, trying to pick classes leader, a member of the Mystic River His- also her family lawyer, Robert P. "Chip" that met consecutively in the same build- torical Society's Board of Directors, pub- Anderson, Jr., visited Miss Schuster every ing. The only two college buildings physi- licity chairman of that group and editor of weekday for the year she spent at Grace- cally accessible to her were New London its newsletter, a member of the Williams New Haven Hospital in an iron lung. and Bill Halls. For her first six years of School Alumni Association's executive "Willa was my brother's girlfriend," Mr. study, she chose her courses according to board, and co-chairman of the historical Anderson explains. "Freddie was at Har- what was meeting on the first floors of society's 1983 Candlelight House and vard and could only get down to New either of those two buildings. Garden Tour, based on the same program Haven on weekends. 1 was a junior at Yale "By the end of the sixth year, it was held annually in Charleston, South -apparent that 1 was working toward a Carolina. degree and that 1 had accrued more credits This is an extraordinary list of accomp- Marilyn Comrie 74, assistant in the Con- in philosophy than any other subject," she lishments for anyone; but for Willa T. necticut College News Office, has been a says. After declaring a philosophy major, Schuster it represents an attitude toward member of Groton's Representative Town she went to the administration and asked life. Meeting since /977. She has known Willa them to accommodate her in working When polio left her paralyzed from the T. Schuster for many years-both women toward the degree. neck down in 1955 with only the use of are active members of the Mystic River "Everyone was wonderful," she recalls. three fingers on her left hand, she found Historical Society-and in fact. their fa- "I let them know a semester ahead what herself totally dependent on everyone thers often took hunting and fishing trips courses I needed and the Registrar's Office around her. together. scheduled the classes for the first floor of

12 1 either New London or Bill." Library study took a little more effort. In order to use Palmer Library, Willa entered through the back door and rode the freight elevator to the main floor. "I hope this doesn't sound as though I'm faulting the college," she says. "Very few places back then were accessible to the handicapped. The college treated me very well and I'm grateful to them." Fellow classmates helped out, too. At the beginning of each semester, Miss Schuster looked around the classroom to see who took notes the same way she would and then asked to borrow the notes over the weekend to type them up for her own use. Miss Schuster did all her own typing using an electric typewriter and a mouth stick, a system she still uses today in all her public relations work for Mystic's civic organizations. Her dentist father made her first mouth stick, shaping it like a dental instrument. "Typing the notes was a great study tool for me," she says. "It reinforced what I'd heard in the lecture." Classmates were so willing to help that many placed carbon paper between their notebook pages to make an additional set of notes. "I've always been intellectually curious," Miss Schuster explains. "It never occurred to me or my family that I wouldn't go to college. We figured we'd find a way." Although she found a B.A. in philosophy terribly impractical for finding employment after graduation, Miss Schuster has never regretted her decision to major in the discipline. "Philosophy gave me a perspective on my life and on the world in general that I wouldn't have had otherwise," she says. "I don't take such an insular view of things after studying the broad questions of philosophy. It taught me the value of approaching things from several angles, that there are no black and white issues." After earning her degree, she applied for Willa T. Schuster '68 many jobs but found that an advanced degree was necessary with a philosophy major. "After nine years of study to get my graduation in 1968, two friends invited her cause of her recent college experience, she undergraduate degree, I just wasn't up to to a meeting of the Mystic Junior Women's was assigned to the literary committee. It more study for a master's." Her hope of Club. As a life-long resident of that small wasn't long before she moved to the his- becoming a social worker or counselor was town, she was astonished when she knew toric homes committee, which required re- precluded by the limitations of her handi- only three of the nearly 100 women in at- searching old homes in the village, tracing cap. "I couldn't do on-site work like going tendance. "I realized that Mystic had them back to their original owner so to the third floor of an apartment building grown by leaps and bounds while I had plaques could be made. The Junior to call on clients," she says. been busy concentrating on my degree," Women's Club appealed to Miss Schuster's Miss Schuster's move into volunteer she says. "Here was a whole world I didn't energetic and enthusiastic nature. The nine work and participation in civic organiza- know anything about." standing committees of the organization tions was easy and natural. Shortly after She wasted little time catching up. Be- were involved in state and local projects.

13 "It was a service organization and you Schuster to her friends and associates. osophy that believed sooner or later things joined to serve," she says. "I loved it." Carol Kimball, a Mystic resident and his- work out." Members soon implored her to take over torian of the Mystic River Historical So- "Everything 1 am lowe to my family- public relations for the group. The experi- ciety, describes her as "very creative, full of my father and mother, my two sisters and ence was new to her, but she accepted it as a enthusiasm, with lots of ideas," my brother," Miss Schuster says today. challenge in the same way she took on "No matter how wild a project the "From the time 1 got sick in 1955, they've every other task that came along. People society proposes, Willa thinks of ways it given me total support to do whatever I were complaining about how dull the news- can be done," Mrs. Kimball says. wanted to do, We always made the adjust- letter was, so she redesigned it, changing The two work closely together on the ments necessary to do what we wanted to the logo, the format, the color of the paper, society's monthly newsletter. "Putting the do." and even the type of seal used to fasten it. newsletter together is an act of God each With the death of her father in 1980 and The result not only pleased the club time," Mrs. Kimball admits, "Willa has to her mother just last year, those adjustments members, but won a state award for the call everyone to remind them of deadlines have become greater. Miss Schuster con- newsletter. and coax them into writing something. Yet, fides that one of her great fears while grow- Miss Schuster's press relations efforts it always gets out on time." A former ele- ing up was losing her parents because she were equally successful and soon the local mentary school teacher, Mrs. Kimball had was so dependent on them. Now that she library, the historical society, and the Willa's younger brother and sister in school has lived through that fear, she sees it as a annual outdoor art festival were asking her and has been acquainted with the Schuster triumph for herself and a tribute to her for the same services. "My baptism into family for many years. parents. civic service really came with the Junior "Their legacy to me was raising me in a Women's Club," she says. As president of loving family, educating me, helping me to the organization from 1972 to 1974, she make decisions and be responsible for organized Thanksgiving dinners for needy myself, and giving me the emotional stabil- families, held health clinics, and worked on ity to make decisions to lead my life. I'm several projects of concern to the local totally responsible for myself, now," she area. says confidently. "I led a merry little life "My presidency in the Junior Women's while my parents were alive because they Club was the most influential experience provided everything for me, Now 1have the I've had to date," she says. "Realizing how responsibility of running this house and rewarding it is to help my town and. serve seeing to my own needs. It's challenging." other people changed me as a person." The Her sister, Sarah, and brother, John, Junior Women's Club impressed her be- and their families live nearby. Each night a cause their projects had an impact on the member of the family comes over for town, "We took on issues that were upper- dinner. Three home aides provide round- most in people's minds," she recalls. "It was the-clock companionship. a challenge to try to make things better." Running the household does cut into her "Challenge" is a word that Willa Schu- volunteer time. She has to say "no" from ster uses again and again in her conversa- time to time to organizations that want her tions. When she sees a need somewhere, she help. Recent health set-backs have also is challenged to help fill it. One of her most MissSchuster did all her own curtailed her activities, recent challenges came from her niece, Eva typing using an electric type- When employment seemed out of reach Jane Peck, 7, whose Brownie troop had no a few years ago, Miss Schuster and her leader. The mothers of the ten girls in the writer and a mouth stick, a sister-in-law Lynda, decided to go into bus- troop decided to take turns leading the system she still uses in all her iness for themselves. Her father gave them meetings. When Miss Schuster heard of public relations work for Mys- the basement of his office building for the this solution, she was appalled. "These girls tic's civic organizations. store. The two women began to research need continuity, not a different leader the feasibility of opening a consignment every week," she said and promptly volun- shop and came up with the idea of a teered to take over the troop. Every Tues- second-hand clothing shop. day afternoon, the girls, ages 6 to 8, show "We wanted a business that wouldn't up at her doorstep for an hour and a half. "Much of Willa's success can be found in require extensive capital outlay for inven- "The first day we met 1 explained why 1 her family and their attitude," she says. "A tory," she explains. "Lots of young moth- was in the wheelchair and told them to feel good deal of Willa revolves around her ers Lynda's age were complaining about free to ask me any questions and not to feel family," the high cost of children's clothing, so we inhibited about approaching me," she says. Chip Anderson concurs. "A big part of decided to try our hand at used clothing." "The first question out of their mouths was, Willa's ability to cope with what happened They sent out announcement cards and 'How do you clean your house?''' to her is a result of the combined effort and within three days the store was full of "What a riot!" she laughs. "I thought the support of her family," he says. "The quiet clothes. Willa takes care of bookkeeping house looked clean," support of her mother and the great opti- and public relations, while Lynda runs the Hersense of humor is what endears Miss mism of her father provided a 'can do' phil- Continued on page 17.

14 PRESERVE AND PROTECT

NOW A VETERAN OF THE COURTROOM, SUSANNAH JOHNSON CONVERY PLUNGED INTO LAW SCHOOL IN 1957 DETERMINED TO PROVIDE FOR HER THREEYOUNG CHILDREN

BY MARl SMULTEA '85

The responsibilities of a full-time law stu- many years of experience in and out of the primary later publicly endorsed her male dent, a divorced mother of three smaJl courtroom, the job of judge appealed to her. opponent. Yet stoic Mrs. Convery said she children, an accountant and a home- Questioned often on her opinions and felt no discrimination. She did, however, maker-all in the late 1950s, when working ideas as a candidate, she was asked if the find running for election a grueling and women and female lawyers were still a fact that she was a woman would have any demanding experience, one she does not rarity-were no deterrents for Susannah effect on her candidacy or her performance plan to undertake again. "It's too expensive Johnson Convery '47. In fact, they were a as a judge. "No," she replied. "The impor- and tiring," she said. "You have to get out marvelous challenge. A model of selfless tant question is who is the best qualified and physically walk to inform people." perseverence, she let nothing stand in the candidate for judge. Mycampaign is aimed Mrs. Convery seems to have chosen two way of her determination to secure a good at providing voters with the information of toda y's busiest fields of law as her spe- life for her children. they need to judge my qualifications and cialities: criminal and divorce law. As a Now a woman of the 1980s, she is a consider my stand on the issues which af- family law specialist, she deals with the successful, happy and prominent lawyer, fect our courts and our communities. The evaluation and division of common marital Judge Pro Tern, and a veteran of the court- fact that I am a woman should not be con- property. Her clients include both men and room. Determination, self-assuredness, and sideration for or against me." women. "I enjoy assisting people and solv- a positive, goal-oriented attitude are what Being a woman did not seem to affect her ing problems for the benefit of my clients," must and do characterize such an in- campaign at first. Susannah Convery won she said. "I get a feeling of satisfaction." credible woman. the primary, beating eight male opponents. One of her strongest assets is the ability to Ms. Convery commutes from her home She was narrowly defeated in the 1982 elec- relate to clients, having undergone a in Alamo, California, to her office in Wal- tion, however, receiving 46 percent of the divorce herself. nut Creek, where she bases her private fam- votes. Mrs. Convery explained noncha- As an arbitrator Mrs. Convery believes ily law practice. The office, although over- lantly that the men she had beaten in the in "tough but fair" jurisdiction. She feels a flowing with books, is organized. Seated sentence must be sufficient to deter the behind the paper-stacked desk is Mrs. repetition of criminal acts, starting at the Convery, a candid and friendly woman of Mari Smultea -'85 writesfor the Connecti- misdemeanor level. Her opinion is based average stature, with short wavy brown cut College Voice, stars on the tennis team, on police statistics which indicate that peo- hair and large oval glasses. attired con- plays hockey, made the varsity basketball ple involved in "petty" crimes later become servatively in a purple dress. An aura of team as a freshman, and is a broadcaster involved in more serious crimes and felo- charismatic strength of mind emanates for WCN/. the college radio station. She nies. "Laws exist to preserve and protect from her calm, rational and deep-toned also plays about half a dozen other intra- our personal freedom and rights," she said. "When laws are not effectively enforced by voice as she speaks. mural sports, majors in human ecology, Concerned about the administration of and plans to spend the summer sailing to the courts, the basic respect for la w isjeop- justice and the vital function the courts Greenland and Newfoundland, following ardized and society becomes the loser." Pressure is the only unpleasant aspect of play in our society, Mrs. Convery recently and studying humpback whales. Miss Mrs. Convery's occupation. "There's so ran for Municipal Court Judge of Contra Smultea, who isfrom Trinidad, California, much research work in thinking and writ- Costa County, California. As a candidate is the daughter of Judith Martin Clark ing that must be done before a trial," she for a public position, she began to discover Smultea '57. She interviewed Susannah confessed. "At the same time of an impor- the hard work and public relations effort Convery during Connecticut s winter vo- tant case, I'm being pulled by other clients. required in a political campaign. After her cation.

15 It's hectic." She also doesn't like losing a entirely untapped opportunity and almost case. "It's depressing when you know unthought of option at that time for a you're right and the judge doesn't go along divorced homemaker. with you," she said. The full credit for accomplishing all As a native of Brooklyn, New York, she these feats at once will not be taken by married a Navy pilot while a seniorat Con- modest Mrs. Convery. "We did it all to- necticut College and graduated with a gether," she said, referring to her three chil- Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. dren. "

16 fathers and establishing paternity. Her right-there are very few cases that Susan- asked to rate the importance of your degree clients were mainly low-income persons nah Convery does not win. in your life's work. "I smiled when I read who qualified for legal aid and the services This determination, combined with ex- it," she says. "What correlation is there ofthe public defender. She also drafted and perience, reputation and competence are between a philosophy degree and running a implemented procedural changes that cut the most important traits of a good lawyer, second-hand clothing shop? departmental costs and made clerical work according to Mrs. Convery. Consequently, "Still," she continues, "someone once more efficient. most of her clients come from pers'onal said that a liberal arts education is like an After 12 years in the district attorney's referrals by other satisfied clients. "It takes amulet. You wear it around your neck and office Mrs. Convery decided in 1974 she a long time to establish credibility," she no one can take it away from you. That's had done everything she wanted in govern- said. "You must never misrepresent. I try to exactly the way I feel about it. It's a jewel ment and resolved to start her own private be as accurate as possible. I would never that influences everything I do." practice. Although she admits working for handle a case where I thought the client Although she doesn't dwell on her handi- the government is tremendous training, she wasn't being truthful." cap, Miss Schuster doesn't deny it either. prefers private practice. "It allows freedom Mrs. Convery's accomplishments in the She served as consultant for a local archi- of choice," she said, "although I don't have law have gained her a place in Who s Who tectural firm hired by the Town of Groton a lot of time for vacations." in American Women. In addition to pursu- to make its public buildings accessible to Her practice is general with an emphasis ing a richly varied career, she is an active the handicapped. A couple of years ago she on criminal and family law matters. Certi- volunteer, serving on the Board of Gov- researched the subject of architectural bar- fied by the State Bar of California as a ernors and the Alumni Association of the riers for a program for the Mystic Rotary Family Law Specialist, she hopes eventu- 1066 Foundation of Hastings College of Club. Her investigation showed that the ally to limit her practice to this area. In the the Law. Committed to promoting and biggest advances for the handicapped town where she now works, Walnut Creek, supporting other professional women, she always come after wars, convincing her which she refers to as "a bedroom com- helped organize the Orinda, California, that the recent push to help the disabled is a munity," she finds there are many more branch of the American Association of direct result of Vietnam. divorce cases than criminal cases, which University Women and is a member of the "Attitudes about handicaps have contributed to her necessary emphasis. League of Women Voters, the Walnut changed a great deal since I first got sick," "You have to be specialized these days, and Creek Professional Business Women and she says. "People today are blase about you have to keep up with changing laws," Zonta(a professional women's club). Fam- them." she said. Although she has an associate she ily rights are a special concern for Mrs. Miss Schuster had her share of discrimi- does as much of her own investigative work Convery, who serves on the Board of Gov- nation, though. In 1970 she wanted to fly to as possible-time-consuming work which ernors of CALL, a non-profit corporation Chicago. Even after assuring the airlines often involves nights until six or seven plus that provides temporary shelter and assis- that members of her family would be trav- weekends. She has also been appointed to tance to abused women and children. Hers eling with her, she couldn't find an airline act as Arbitrator for a number of civil is an impressive, bulging schedule of pro- that would accommodate her. "They re- cases. As Arbitrator, she serves as a judge, fessional and volunteer commitments. But fused me because I couldn't guarantee hears evidence, and makes an order for the Susannah Johnson Convery trained for it them that I wouldn't have to go to the outcome of the litigation. If the defendant 25 years ago, when she managed to juggle bathroom between here and Chicago," she or plaintiff is not content with the Arbi- the responsibilities of la w school, a job, and says. trator's decision, the case may be appealed three small children. D To travel around town, she uses a van to a higher court. She does not receive with a hydraulic lift. "I was self-conscious compensation for this duty. about using the lift at first because I An alert and efficient woman, she finds AN ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE thought everyone would stare at me. Most people don't even notice; and if they do, the courtroom the most satisfying part of Continued/rom page 14. her job. "In the courtroom you have to they just smile." think quickly on your feet, and it's very, Miss Schuster admits she would have very exciting to cross-examine," she said. on-site operation. The Pennywise Con- pursued a career in medicine if polio hadn't "It's very competitive, also, in that nine- signment Shop has been going strong since intervened. She has read all of her father's tenths of it is preparation." Her successful 1975. dental books and devours every medical record is due not only to this preparation "We're choosy about what we take," book she comes across. "Medicine has al- but to her perfectionism. "I'm a careful Miss Schuster says. "The clothes must be ways been my secret ambition and life-long lawyer and always well-prepared. I like to current styles, clean and in good repair." interest. But I believe it's counterproduc- do my work as well as it can be done." A Contributors get 50 percent of the sale and tive to dwell on what might have been." person of self-control and sound, organ- the shop keeps 50 percent. "I'm always sur- Her father had a saying: "You take the ized thinking as a lawyer and a Judge Pro prised at who comes in to buy and sell," she hand you're dealt and you play it to the best Tern, she may be agreeable and easy-going says. "We get professors from the college, of your ability." outside the courtroom but once on a case, professional wives, and just about every- "If it takes some of us a little more energy she fights adamantly. "If someone has a body." and ingenuity to get where we want to go, different opinion than me, so what? I don't Not long ago, Miss Schuster received a so be it," Willa Schuster says. "You have to have to be right unless I'm in the court- questionnaire from the Connecticut Col- work at the things you do. It would never room." And she usually succeeds in being lege placement office. One of the questions occur to me not to." 0

17 DANCE FOR JOY CELEBRATlNG A DECADE OF DANCE

One. two three, and four. Five. six, seven, eight. Rick Rose, sweating, smiling, lunging, whirling, is teaching a jazz class to 40 students in the Crozier-Williams gym. The back of his grey Connecticut College T- shirt, brought from his home in Ohio for the occasion, is damp. He has been at it for an hour.

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18 the power that comes from perfect form. You look front, look front, look front, Institute for the Deaf; or a choreography "If you have no back it's hard to have a I look front, stillloakfront. workshop with Mary Lou Morrissette 'SO, front. If your back is not in operation, you The students understand. As they watch who teaches at Brown. • become two-dimensional," she explains. Mr. Rose (opposite top) and listen to his Besides cancelling regular dance classes "Relax your shoulders. You've only got directions, their bodies follow his. At the so students could take advantage of the two of them. They have to last a lifetime." edge of the gym floor, Andrew Williams program, the department sched uled an Every part of the body has its place, and '77, one of the dance department's highly alumni career panel to inform students skilled musicians, improvises on electric about the highly competitive field of dance. Adrienne Hawkins, whose legs seem to start up at her waist or beyond, is passion- guitar, tapping his foot and nodding. By "The alumni sat down and really talked ate about where they belong and what they the end of the class, the students are soaked straight with the students," said Depart- in sweat, but delighted-they've absorbed ment Chairman Diana Schnitt, organizer do. "The back opens everything up so you can be accountable for your hands," she and mastered an exhilarating jazz routine. of the weekend and herself a 19S0 MFA The three-day Alumni Gala, celebrating graduate. "It was a real treat for them. shouts. "Put your feet on the iloor/rom the hip!" After every command, there's a joke the tenth anniversary of a dance major- Some of their anxieties were at least dance classes, of course, have been part of addressed during the panel." to break the tension, and when the class time runs out, nearly everyone stays on for the curriculum since the earliest days of the But taking classes from Connecticut college-brought Rick Rose and 25 other alumni-people like Adrienne Hawkins, more Adrienne Hawkins. According to Diana Schnitt, introducing alumni to campus in March. Alumni led MFA '76, (below) artistic director of the students to alumni was one of the aims of master classes and workshops, presented Joy of Movement Center in Cambridge films and exhibits, showed works in pro- and of the Impulse Dance Company-was the celebration. "Our students tend to lose sight of what we've done and how they fit gress and put on a full-blown concert in a treat too. Ms. Hawkins, whose Impulse Palmer Auditorium. For example, David Dance Company was voted the most popu- in, she explained. "I wanted them to see Dorfman, MFA 'SI, a dancer with Kei lar jazz group in New England by the Bas- how they fit into the future." The celebra- Takeis Moving Earth, taught a class in Ion Globe Readers Poll, is one of those tion also honored Professor Martha modern dance; Gloria McLean, a member dancers for whom the word "electrifying" is Myers, who has helped bring national of the Eric Hawkins Dance Company, just too tame. recognition to Connecticut since she began taught the Hawkins technique; and Gayle The audience of fellow dancers in the teaching in 1967. Mrs. Myers received red Ziaks '76, who teaches at Yale and dances East Studio began to sway when Adrienne roses and a standing ovation in Palmer with Mel Wong, taught the Wong Hawkins began her improvisational piece. Auditorium, from her students past and present. Looking back at the weekend, technique. "She moves just like a guy!" one woman Among those performing were Ara Fitz- marvelled. "I can't believe it." Ms. Haw- Mrs. Schnitt said, "The quality and the gerald '69, a choreographer for Broadway kins the teacher is much like Ms. Hawkins variety of choreography was very high and and Off-Broadway, who has also per- the performer-explosive, funny, su- really speaks to the individuality of the formed with her own company for nearly a premely confident. program and how we send students out of decade; and Dana Holby, MFA '74, chair- "Down on the floor!" she tells her 45 jazz here. That's a real tribute to Martha. She man of Middlebury College's dance de- students. "I have two speeds," she warns has an uncanny knack for helping a student partment since 1976. Nor was performance them. "Fast, and faster. And I usually go find how they are special, what their pro- the only option. Students could take a class faster." She walks down the rows of danc- fessional strengths are, and for leading in sign language with Sue Galligan, MFA ers, poking waists, adjusting shoulders, lift- them to a match in the professional dance '76, a teacher at the National Technical ing chins, exhorting students to move with world."

19 ROUND & ABOUT

Jorge Luis Borges Dickinson did. Was the sheltered life of Emily Dickinson an uneventful, reclusive at Connecticut one? "Perhaps she lived a very rich life," Jorge Luis Borges proposed. "Perhaps richer than the life of Caesar."

At 83, Jorge Luis Borges is totally blind, exceedingly frail, and a man of great court- liness. One of the world's most acclaimed writers, he spent a rainy March weekend at Pfizer scientists bring Connecticut College this spring, chatting with students in Knowlton Houseand meet- the state of the art ing with faculty and students over tea. And across the river when the Argentine writer entered Palmer Auditorium to deliver the Selden Memo- "The current estimates for putting out a rial Lecture, the audience of 1,300 gave him new drug are somewhere around ten ye~rs a standing ovation. His brief formal and $50 to 70 million," Dr. Beryl Dominy address on "Poetic Expression and Crea- told a group of advanced chemistry stu- tivity" centered on poet Emily Dickinson. dents in Bil140 I. "Anything that can expe- "Poetry is as mysterious as music," Mr. dite that process has to be benefici~L" J?r. Borges said in a soft, quavering voice. "It Dominy, who supervises data coordination goes beyond all political changes. It is Jorge Luis Borges at Pfizer Central Research in Groton, was necessary." After his lecture, Mr. Borges one of 15 scientists from the drug manufac- took questions from the audience, often turer to lecture in a landmark chemistry replying with quick, whimsical quips or so long that the jury in Stockholm must course in medicinal chemistry at Con- with questions of his own. "How many think I've already had it," he told one necticut. . Quixotes can there be?" asked one per- interviewer. Chemistry 300 marked the second time plexed fan. Connecticut was the only college in New Pfizer researchers have taught at the col- ..As many Quixotes as there are readers," England that Mr. Borges visited during his lege; in the fall semester, 17 scientists came was the enigmatic reply. Mr. Borges deftly tour through the United States. According across the river to lecture in a new molecu- deflected questions that probed the mean- to The Day, his decision to accept the invi- lar biology course. The scientists receive ing of his phantasmagoric works. "Did I tation from Connecticut's Department of appointments as adjunct associate profe~~ actually write that?" he said mischievously Hispanic Studies was a bit whimsical. The sors at the college, but are not paid forthelr after a student inquired about a particular writer, whose grandmother was English, is lectures. Originally dreamed up in a co~- passage. an Anglophile and he reportedly was at- ference between Gerald Laubach, who IS But those who were curious about the tracted because he liked the name of our president of Pfizer as well as' chairman ~f business of becoming a writer were re- college town: New London. His lecture, the college's board of trustees, and Presr- warded. Borges, whose first work was a which was free and open to the public, drew dent Oakes Ames, the courses represent a ten-page essay on Greek mythology pro- students and faculty from Columbia, totally new kind of cooperation between duced at age six, passed along his father's Brandeis, Brown, Wesleyan, the University industry and academia. Although larg.e advice about writing. As a child, he was of Connecticut, Amherst, and many other universities often link up with non-proht told to read all he could, to avoid compul- colleges . research facilities, it's extremely unusual -sor y reading, to write, but not to rush into The writer, who obviously enjoyed ban- for a small liberal arts college to team up print. "Read for enjoyment, for pleasure," tering with his audience, said he always with a profit-making corporation. he said, "not from a sense of duty. I repeat knows the beginning and end of his stories, "Yes, this is a first," declared Professor what my father told me-to think of read- but must figure out the middle. "Reality is of Chemistry M. Gertrude McKeon, who ing as an accessible form of happiness." compounded of dreams," he said. "You coordinates the medicinal chemistry course Mr. Borges, whose best known books can't draw a hard and fast line between with Assistant Professor Barbara Harna- include Ficciones and Labyrinths, has been them. History is our dream of the past." naka. "The course gives the students a mentioned repeatedly as a possible Nobel The only way to write for the world, he really unique opportunity to see the state of Prize winner. "It's been promised to me for added, is to write for yourself, as Emily the art from people who are doing it." And

20 in Bill 401, Connecticut students are not Below, Dr. Jasjit Bindra of Pfizer chats fessor of classics at Wheaton College, the only listeners. The course coordinators with a student during an end-of-the- prepared a pamphlet for the Rhode Island sit, notebooks open, in the front row. Dr. semester party for teachers and students at Committee for the Humanities, comparing Jasjit Bindra, the liaison from Pfizer, College House. The Web to a Greek tragedy. "In Martha attends each meeting along with several Boesing's play memory replaces myth," Dr. "regulars"-Pfizer employees interested in Stehle wrote. "Memory provides for her the overview provided by the lectures. "We what myth does for tragedy: vivid concen- have to deal with the chemists but we don't The Web makes history tration on psychologically illuminating have the apport unity to see what they do all Last fall, the Trinity Repertory Theater in moments, the deep structures of terror and the time," said Nancy Beutler, a biologist in Providence chose to open its season in an desire." the drug safety evaluation department. extraordinary way: with the world premier "Central Research is so big." of an unsolicited play. The play was The What the chemists are doing is an expen- Web, the playwright, Martha Gross Boes- sive combination of research, testing, and ing '57. And in another bit of serendipity, In the limelight serendipity. "Pfizer has over 150,000 com- one of the cast members was Thomas Adam Kendon, visiting professor of anthro- pounds in its data bank," Dr. Dominy Deedy'78. pology at Connecticut since 1979, has won pointed out. Computers put the researcher Ms. Boesing is founder, artistic director a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on the in touch with the vast amount of informa- and playwright-in-residence of At the Foot sign language ofthe Warlpiri, an aboriginal tion that must be considered when working of the Mountain Theater, a small non- group in central Australia. Scientists have on a drug. "Like a pool player who plans profit women's theater in Minneapolis. She known about the sign language, which is out several shots in advance," Dr. Dominy was a core member of the Firehouse The- used only by the Warlpiri women, since the said, "a chemist has in mind what steps he's ater in Minneapolis, librettist for the Min- la te 1800s, but the language has never been going to take." nesota Opera Company, and playwright- carefully studied. The Guggenheim fellow- The Pfizer lecture courses grew out of a in-residence for Atlanta's Academy The- ship will enable Dr. Kendon to continue his long-standing relationship between the atre. A native of Providence, she majored study of the Warlpiri, which he began in pharmaceutical company and the college. in English at Connecticut, where she stud- 1978 while a senior research fellow at the A 1979 grant from the Pfizer Foundation ied theater wi th Billie Hazlewood '32, and Australian National University. Dr. Ken- enabled the college to renovate the John E. later earned a master's in theater from the don was one of 292 fellowship winners McKeen Memorial Laboratories in New University of Wisconsin. Her plays have chosen from 3,571 applicants. A portion of London Hall. Connecticut College profes- focused on such issues as rape, prostitu- his De Litteris lecture on gesture was pub- sors have worked in Pfizer labs during sab- tion, addiction, and women in prison. Ms. lished in this magazine in the spring of baticals, and students have interned there. Boesing's production of Junkie! won the 1982. Fozia Hamud '83, a biochemistry major Twin Cities Mayors' Public Art Award for Bruce R. Hoffman '76 is author of The from Somalia, interned in the analytical artistic excellence, community service and Failure of British Military Strategy Within chemistry unit in January, where she did economic outreach. Palestine, 1939-1947, recently published by more than observe the state of the art. The Web, which looks at a woman free- Bar-Han University Press in Israel. After "They showed me how to do it," Miss ing herself from her past, opened to enthu- teaching at Oxford University, Mr. Hoff- Hamud said. "And I did it!" siastic reviews. Eva Stehle, assistant pro- man was appointed to the Rand Corpora- tion's Research Program on Terrorism and Sub-National Conflict. His second book, jointly authored, is entitled Terrorism in Latin America, and will be published by Rand this summer. Mr. Hoffman received a research fellowship from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and is completing his doctoral dissertation at Oxford while on leave from Rand. The newly elected president of the Amer- ican Family Therapy Association is Kitty LaPerriere '52, Ph.D. Dr. La Perriere is a clinical psychologist in New York City. Nancy Kerr '78, artistic director of the Penny Ante Theater of New London, was chosen the Connecticut Young Career Woman by the Connecticut Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Founded by Ms. Kerr during her senior year at Connecticut, the Penny Ante Theater is now a flourishing independent company. The group, which includes Con-

21 necticut alumni, combines children's litera- Service Award, the National Organiza- ture, mime, and a minimum of props, and tions Advisory Council for Children Award, performs for audiences of all ages. and an honorary degree from Regis Col- The John Hancock Mutual Life Insur- lege. Left, Radcliffe President Matina ance Company in Boston, as part of its Horner presents the Gilbert Award to Ms. corporate executive development program, Charren (left). has named Marion Nierintz '65 assistant secretary. Ms. Nierintz serves as personnel advisor to the Alumni Association's Exec- utive Board. She holds a master's in counseling from Boston University, and recently began studying for an M.B.A. there. Also in Boston, Jean C. Tempel, another member of the class of '65, has been appointed senior vice president of the Bos- ton Corporation. The Technical Volunteer Service, established by Donna Pellish Mansfield '77, was one of ten outstanding volunteer achievements honored at a White House luncheon on April 13. Ms. Mansfield organized the Technical Volunteer Service at the Naval Underwater Systems Center based in New London and Newport, Rhode Island. More than 400 active and retired engineers Radcliffe honors and scientists from TVS assist communities, non-profit organizations and ed:uca- Peggy Walzer Charren '49 tional organizations. Some of the projects Peggy Walzer Charren '49, founder and involved solving acoustical problems in president of Action for Children's Televi- schools, helping police and fire depart- sion (ACT) in Newtonville, Massachusetts, ments, and developing a talking computer received the Helen Homans Gilbert Award for a child with cerebral palsy. Ms. Mans- for Distinguished Volunteer Service from field is now program manager for a Radcliffe College on May 5. Ms. Charren, national demonstration project, the New who won the Connecticut College Medal in Julian Bond England Innovation Group, which is seek- 1974, founded ACT in 1968 in an effort to ing to create technical volunteer opportun- upgrade children's television programs. ities for older Americans at the national "While others ignored or simply be- Bond, Dodd, and Federal laboratories. moaned the state of children's television," Grigorenko speak Richard Chafee, instructor in art his- the Radcliffe citation said, "you acted. You tory, has been reelected vice president of focused attention not only on the delete- Civil rights leader Julian Bond preached in the New England chapter of the Society of rious aspects of both programming and Harkness Chapel and gave an address dur- Architectural Historians. advertising, but also on the wide-ranging ing Eclipse, the minority cultural weekend During the spring vacation, Professor of possibilities of this powerful medium for sponsored by students at Connecticut and History Helen Mulvey resumed her travels the good of our children. You created an the Coast Guard Acadcmv. The Eclipse as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. Miss organization whose effectiveness is widely program, which began witha lecture at the Mulvey lectured at Albion College in recognized and gratefully acknowledged." Academy by Alex Haley, author of Roots, Michigan and at the Universities of North Ms. Charren is coauthor of Changing also included a basketball game, an all- Dakota and Oklahoma. Channels: Living (Sensibly) With Televi- campus party and soul food dinner. an Barbara Thompson Lougee '46, who has sion, and has written frequently for maga- alumni luncheon. a variety show, and gos- been judge of probate in East Lyme, Con- zines. She serves on the board of overseers pel singing in the chapel by students and necticut, for over 20 years, was elected pres- of the Boston Cable and Programming Ac- visiting choirs. ident of the Connecticut Probate Assem- cess Foundation; the Carnegie Commis- The day after Mr. Bond spoke, Senator bly. Mrs. Lougee is the first woman and the sion on the Future of Public Broadcasting; Christopher Dodd of Connecticut came to first non-lawyer to preside over the 131- and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts campus to discuss Central America. An- seat assembly. She formerly served as the and Humanities. Peggy Walzer Charren other highlight in a frenetic spring schedule group's first and second vice pres~dent. has received, among others, the American of speakers. concerts, and special events Mrs. Lougee majored in mathematics at Academy of Pediatrics Distinguished Pub- was the appearance of General Petro Grigo- Connecticut and was elected to Phi Beta lic Service Award, a Commonwealth of renko. a much decorated Soviet military Kappa. She has taught at the National Col- Massachusetts Citation, the Massachusetts leader in World War II and now a distin- lege of Probate Judges for two years. Radio and Television Association Public guished Soviet dissident and author.

t would-be equalizers of the English lan- but ignore the equal anomaly of referring guage is disapproval of the change shown to a woman as "he." Nor have they been BOOKS in the word "mistresspiece." They feel that able to impose their bias upon references to "master" is sufficiently gender-neutral, nurses or elementary school teachers, who now that Yale has female house "masters" are nearly always described as "she" despite and Doris Lessing can be described as a the presence of a scattering of men in their A little "current master of the genre" of short sto- numbers. It would certainly never be said mistress piece ries. Although there is sometimes room for of "man" that "he often had difficulties in disagreement with their judgment, they childbirth." All this shows that we persist in never fail to offer good evidence to support understanding "he" as masculine, and it no their view. Nor do they come down on the doubt explains why even after two centu- THE HANDBOOK OF side of traditional usages when the latter ries of injunctions to the contrary, people NONSEXIST WRITING betray a bias that ignores or belittles the still incline with Shakespeare toward the female half of humankind. earlier usage of "they" for a person of BY CASEY MILLER AND They begin by exploring the uses and unknown sex. defenses of the alleged "generic" meanings More important, however, than showing KATE SWIFT '45, of the word "man" and of masculine pro- that language change is both grammati- NEW YORK, BARNES AND nouns. For these they find neither histori- cally justified and stylistically acceptable, cal nor semantic support. "Man," to be the authors demonstrate that many com- NOBLE BOOKS, $3,95 sure, derives from an earlier word that had mon usages are demeaning and discrimina- generic meaning, but that earlier language tory to women. They do not limit them- BY JANE TORREY also had a separate word for the specifically selves to protest, however, but always male person as well as for the female, and include with their examples of sexist lan- PROFESSOR OF the "man" found in modern texts often guage practical suggestions for avoiding PSYCHOLOGY turns out in later paragraphs to have a sexism without getting into silliness like "wife" rather than a husband. As for the "personhole cover" or awkward repetitions use of "he" for persons of unspecified sex, of "she or he." Their advice will help not It is unusual to find a handbook of English they point out that this usage began with a only to eliminate sexist bias, but also to usage that makes for enjoyable light read- textbook rule laid down by members of an avoid unintended limitations of meaning in ing or one that tells much we didn't already all-male scholarly community less than two phrases like "the small boy in all of us" or know about the use of our native tongue. centuries ago, and that Shakespeare had "the best woman novelist." They also point Miller and Swift accomplish both these said, "God send everyone their heart's out stylistic implications of gender words wonders in their little mistresspiece, The desire." Defenders of this grammatical that can be used for both good and bad Handbook of Nonsexist Writing. upstart, the "generic he," argue that it is effects. For example, the word "lady" Among other useful advice they offer to illogical to refer to one person as "they," "suggests a certain eclat" in "My grandmother smokes cigars like a lady" but is trivializing when it is used instead of "woman," as in "A Phoenix lady has been named to the Liquor Commission." They mention not only particular words CONNECTICUT COLLEGE that make up sexist style, but also descrip- tions that reflect stereotypic assumptions. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR "Working mother" is an example, implying as it does, that there are mothers who sit CAREER COUNSELING AND PLACEMENT around all day not working or that it is abnormal for a mother to hold a job outside the home. Gratuitous references to a Connecticut College is seeking a n Asso- istrative. analytical, counseling, and woman's looks where a man's appearance ciate Director of Career Counseling and communication skills; a master's degree would not be mentioned have the effect of Placement. Responsibilities include in counseling, student personnel, or making her appear out of place. References business; and three to five years in counseling students and alumni seeking to marital or parental status of women but careers in such areas as business, mathe- career counseling. Computer expe- not of men imply that women have no iden- matics, science, and computers; super- rience is essential. tity of their own. vising the on-campus corporate recruit- Please send your resume by July 5, By raising the consciousness of both 1983, to: Director of Administrative ing program and job referral service; readers and writers this little book is doing Services and Personnel, Connecticut overseeing the computerization of rec- its bit to alleviate the very real damage that College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New ords; planning career programs; and language can do to women and their inter- London. CT 06320. Connecticut Col- developing an alumni network. ests. 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23 Dorothy (Jo) Perry Weston visited Oahu and Maui in Hawaii last year. She enjoys four grandchildren. families of her two sons. whenever they can gather Janet Goodrich Dresser is well and busy working with her daughter. gathering materials for a dried arrangement business. Catherine Calhoun is active full-time with the Histor- ical Society. does a lot of public speaking and is a member of several boards. She also works with gifted children in the school system. Activities with the Braille office. proof reading and correcting large type textbook copy keep Dorothy Kil- bourn busy. In addition she participates in Meals on Wheels and fundraising for Elderhostel. She sees CLASS NOTES Dorothy Wigmore frequently. Connie Parker visited her nephew in COand became reacquainted with his five young fry whom she had not seen for 13 years. She swims at St. Maancn's and Nantucket yearly. Jessie Josolowitz retired 14 years ago from the State Welfare Dept. and is now volunteering in senior program activities and Salvation Army soup kitchen Ruth Trail McClellan had her 90th birthday Parkie McCombs has not traveled as much this past Betsy Allen lives with Jean Howard '27 near Boston 19 Dec. 19 and her children, grandchildren and year, but is enjoying creating metal enameling and silver and summers on Cape Cod. She hopes that our class grea t-grandchild ren celebrated. Ruth is well and enjoy- jewelry items and lapidary work. She reports seeing will achieve 100 percent annual giving very soon. ing life in Klamath Falls. keeping her home and garden other alumnae at the West Coast FL CC Club Sally Crawford Maschal died at home in Dec, 1982 and interested in family, church and community. She is The class is proud to count as a member the author of after a long illness. The class extends sympathy to her now the oldest living graduate of Cc. We congratulate A History of Connecticut Cottege, Gertrude E, Noyes, husband. Web Maschal. daughter Sara Jane '52 and her and wish we could have included a picture of her She is working on the college archives and volunteering sisters. Janet Crawford How '24, and Susan Crawford surrounded by her great-grandchildren. at the hospital. She concludes "I have another project in Stahrnan '33. florence Lennon Romaine has had a difficult year mind, not yet shaped up." The Zonta Club voted her the Correspondent: Emily Warner, 23 Mennen Lane, with two operations, She is now in a nursing home but State's distinguished woman of the year. Yarmouth Pon. MA 02675 nearby son Steve sees her every day. Grace Demarest Wright jots her doings from FL's Sadie Coif Benjamin had a pleasant visit with grand- east coast, cruising to the Caribbean. to Guatemala and son David who has a fellowship at the Yale School of Mexico with daughter Barbara, and up the east coast to Mildred Beardsley Stiles was recog- Art in the Berkshires. Sadie keeps as busy as ever Canada. the Saguenay and back south to Lauderdale 27 nized as honorary life member by the Potsdam, Marenda Preens is active attending affairs at nearby She plans a trip to New Orleans despite a slight heart NY. AAUW on the occasion of its 55th birthday. Over college and the church in Mystic where niece Roberta is attack. An alumni luncheon in Palm Beach attracted her 50-year membership. Mildred had been president organist and choirmaster. It takes more than a broken Marjorie Field Winch and Grace, to hear President twice and was very active in the drama study group. hip to keep Prent down. Ames. Mildred taught English at the state university since Correspondent: Virginia C. Rose, 20 Avery Lane. Dorothy Roberts McNeilly and Stewart are continu- 1930. Waterford. CT06385 ing their genealogical research. Among many artifacts Sarah Carslake wrote from her ME vacation to and important family historical incidents. Dorothy has praise Lyda's account of our 55th reunion. established that a great grand uncle, Charles Lanman, Lyda Chatfield Sudduth had a busy Thanksgiving Correspondent: Mrs. Emory C. Corbin (Olive organized the While House Library in 1850. Too Day and weekend. what with family reunion of two 21 Lutlehates], 9 Brady Ave., New Britain, CT numerous to include here are other important findings. sons. their wives and 12 grandchildren, Happily, her 06052 Despite severe personal illness. Catherine Meinecke knee met the challenge. Crawford reports one son, retired Navy Capt. in Hon- Susan Chittenden Cuningham almost circled the olulu; the other son is with the Dept. of Defense in globe. She and her husband new in from WA for reun- Grace Bennet Nuveen took a wonderful Music England; all grands arc grown. Cay visits with Mar. ion. then took off for a 34-day vacation in Scandinavia. Festival Cruise in the Caribbean with her 25 garet (Peg) Meredith Littlefield quite often. and added Leningrad for good measure. daughter, Anne Reynolds '54. A few months in FL and Aileen Fowler Dike gives much volunteer time visit- Marjorie (Midge) Halsted Heffron in Sept. moved to her homes in Winnetka and MI, a tour of Scotland and ing regularly at two nursing homes to help with the same retirement home in Clearwater. FL. where Ireland, and a family visit in CA rounded out her year's patients. Florence (Bony) Hopper Levick lives. Their friendship travels. At Thanksgiving, Grace visited daughter Anne Adele Knecht Sullivan is.busy with volunteer work in pre-dates school days. Will there be a c.c. cluster there and family, and attended a World YWCA Council church and other organizations. She sees her two grand- like that in Hamden'! meeting in NY. She now has her first great-grandchild. s?ns in ~lgh school. Most memorable was her e xpe- When Frances (Fran) Joseph helps at the fall college Margaret (Peg) Ewing Haag and Garrett visited their nence WIth a month's jury duty at the County Superior booksale. she does much of the preliminary sorting. I friends on Cape Cod while they were summering on Court. found her doing that during Alumni Council Weeken.d. MA, south shore. Gathered for the occasion: Eleanor She also volunteers at the Community Center Thrift Harriman Kohl, Betsy Allen, Constance (Connie) Shop. sings with a community chorus and in her church Parker, Alice Holcombe '23, Frances Brett, Emily Warner, choir. In Memoriam Cora Lutz lives in Mr. Carmel but spends much time Betsy Allen, Parks (Parkie) McCombs, Gertrude in Rockville where she helps with nursing care fora s.ick Noyes and Emily Warner represented the class at Margaret L. Chase '20 Alumni Council. sister and brother. Her research on Ezra Stiles, thc First Eunice Gates Collier '20 Sallie Dodd Murphy sends happy news about our president of Yale. is a relaxation and may mean more 1925 "Class Baby" from her new home where she's Harriette Bahney Wylie '31 writing. "living the life of a retired lady." With great success, Virginia David Morrison '31 Of the eight WM I 1923 classmates who went to CC, three were at the 55th: Margaret (Peg) Battles Barber, Sally Agee sells silk designs to manufacturers. Her Marjorie Smith Sites '31 artistic talent has carried over to daughter Ann who has Minnie Watchinsky Peck. and Madelyn Clish '\'a~k- been painting in Italy. In [982 son Jon Agee published Anne G, Shewell '34 miller. We missed the others. some of whom live his first book. If Snow Falls, a Christmas story for Barbara Rohrmayer Otis '35 nearby. Mitzi phoned Alice Grane Dunham and children. Eleanor Pearson Lawson '36 reported on t he conversation at our class meeting. Two Mary Auwood Bernard is active with hospital. Phyllis Baum Kraus '37 days later. Alice died suddenly at her home. There are church and riding club volunteer work. With others, no survivors. she created a needlepoint rug, which was auctioned for Greta Anderson Schultz '38 Constance (Connie) Delagrange Raux and Marguer- $3,000 to benefit the hospital. Virginia Davidson Shields '41 ite Olmstead Williams visited Frances Joseph in Ston- Jeannette McCroddan ReId visited family members Cynthia Murray Jack '44 ington last autumn and summer. respectively. in Scotland and in CO. In the spring she traveled to Marjory Bachman Platt '46 Constance Noble Sewall broke hcr right arm. England Sally Pithouse Becker wrote "everyone had a. \.·ery Though having difficulty with Parkinson's disease, Ashley Davidson Roland '48 interesting and enjoyable evening" when CC Vlslled Marie (MulIie) Barker Williams is feeling fine and Elizabeth Osgood Russell '52 Philadelphia. enjoying, with her husband. their happy memories of Caroline Stanford Fernandes '60 Dorothea Redman Smith recognized nothingin New travel and camping days. Catharine L LUdewig '73 London when she drove back to IL from the Cape. Dot spends Jan. through April in Sarasota. "Maybe there

24 might be some '27ers in the vicinity of Siesta Way at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven and continues champagne reception at the New Haven Lawn Club to Pepper Tree in Sarasota. If so. we would love to hear tutoring two Russian immigrants. both engineers. promote the Campaign for cc. from them. especially if they are bridgers." Alia (Jimmie) Colburn Steege had a week's cruise out Dorothy(Dol) Birdsey Manning had her whole fam- Eleanor I. Vernon and Constance Noble Sewall Jr. of Savannah and ran into Virginia (Ginnie) Lavis ily. numbering 3D, for a sit-down Thanksgiving dinner. visited Emil}' Koehler Hammond. They spent time in Pallen. Later, the Sreeges traveled to England, Scot- It took two turkeys and was held in the church vestry. Emily's beautiful garden and made merry over their land and Northern Ireland. The only ones not present were too faraway-one twin afflictions. Grace Gardiner Manning spent several weeks last in Oregon at Reed College and the other family in Minnie watchtnsky Peck and Harold spent most of summer touring our national parks. She crossed Reno the spring in CT attending Peter Krupp's graduation Wyoming and South Dakota and went rafting on the Isabel Colby and a friend traveled to bed and break- from Brown, Susan Krupp's graduation from Man- Snake River at Jackson's Hole fast sites in the North and South Islands of New Zea- chester High, Judy-Arin Peck Krupp '58 and Alan's Dorothy (Dot) Rose Griswold and Harlan are still in land. They met people from all overtbe world-natives, 25th wedding anniversary and their own 55th wedding their beautifully restored house in Woodbury. CT. Har- Maoris. back packers, young and old. anmversarv. lan is retired from banking. At his 50th reunion at Margaret (Mockie) Fitzmaurice Colloty has a Edith Schupner Lester is ill. Letters and cards may be Wesleyan he was given the Distinguished Alumnus daughter who designs and makes jewelry and another in sent c/o The Los Gatos Meadows, 110 Weed Rd.. Los Award. After 15 years in the Middle East and England, real estate in NY. Gatos, CA 95030 Dot's son has returned to U.S Isabel Bishop Arnold and husband spent Thanksgiv- The class expresses its sorrow at the dee th of Frances Elizabeth (Betty) Hendrickson Matlack celebrated ing in CT and NY. then to CA to visit their son and G, Williams (Mrs, Edward S, Wood, Jr.) Oct. 27, 1982 Bob's complete retirement with a trip to Bermuda. They family for Christmas. They have also traveled to the Margaret (Paducah) Wheeler and Sally Pirhouse summer in Camden. ME. and have five grandchildren Canary Islands and southern Spain Becker auended the services. in college. Jane Williams Howell had a fourth grandchild last Co-correspondents: Mrs. Harold Peck (Minnie Waf· Beatrice (Bee) Brooks Carpenter and husband December. She and John are in Sarasota all winter so chinsk:v], 135l Saratoga AI'e .. San Jose, CA 95129: Woody are busy with hospital, church and community they see quite a few CCers. Jane writes that Billie(Coy) Mrs. Madelrn C wonenvtter (Madelyn Clish), 422 projects. They spend Feb. and March in FL Schwenk and Gus are moving from Mountain Lake to Mill 51., WorceSler, MA 01602 Alice Hangen visited at Bailey's Island, ME, last Lakeland, FL. She sees Alia Colburn Steege in summer. While there, she attended an outdoor concert Sarasota of Portland Symphony of which her nephew is conduc- Aurelia Hunt Robinson and husband Robbie will be tor and music director. moving after 39 years in Chappaqua. Their son, David Margaret (Marg) Anderson Hafemeister and Constance (Connie) Ganoe Jones visited her daugh- is branch manager for IBM in Kansas City. Sons Dick 29 Hans have moved, with regret. from Seward. ter in N M last summer. She is active in CC Alumni and Geoff are both with engineering firms, one in New AK to Anchorage, where they are happily settled in a group in Sarasota and is involved in golf. bridge and London and the other in Stamford nice apartment in the Pioneer Home, which has a lovely church work. Lois(Loie) Truesdale Gaspar has nOI been much ofa view of Mr. McKinley from the dining room. Daily Winifred (Winnie) Beach Bearce and husband cele- traveler in recent yea rs. Jim and I do see John and Jane maid and linen service, and the freedom to take any of brated their 50th last summer with a surprise party Howell on a trip south each year. Ourson Jay isa major their own furniture also made the move easier. given by four sons. They now have 12 grandchildren in the Air Force. Son Bill is in the computer business Janel (Jan) Boomer Barnard spent time in the hospi- and three great-grandchildren. and daughter Susan is with the telephone company in tal. asdid her husband, who broke his hip. Recovered, Bethel Dean Lemmerman and husband are both New Haven. they entertained quite a group of zcers and husbands in retired. A son works in the aerospace program. They Olive Auer Figgatt spent the past year traveling to Sept. It was a beautiful day, the company great, the have two daughters in the teaching profession. one in west coast, Hawaii with her grandson. food memorable and everyone did a monumental respiratory therapy and six grandchildren. Lillian Burnstein's Sn-year-old husband came out of amount of talking. Alice (AI) Kindler reports engaging in whatever retirement a second time. Her three grandchildren Marjorie (Smudge) Gave Studley and husband Vic activities are necessary to keep perking, like golf. attend Cambridge College for an MA, work in local have leased a condominium in the Bolton Valley Ski bowling. birding, walking. She runs only when school system in speech pathology and attend School of area, but their mailing address remains the same. necessary. Foreign Services at American U in DC. Flora (Pat) Hine Myers and husband paid a canon Flavia (Fla) Gorlon Williams does financial work for Yvonne Carns Wogan gave up her creole cooking Mary SLayter Solen berger in Ellsworth, ME. as did Jan a local dress shop, golfs and plays bridge. She is plan- school but continues 10 whip up seafood gumbo and and Larry Barnard on another occasion. ning a trip to Marco Island, FL seasoned jambalaya. Eleanor Michel had her lovely poem called .. A Elizabeth (Cliff) Clifton Ray has two married grand- Marjorie Disbro Fichthorn spent a month in Scot" Paean" published in a local CT paper. sons, one to a CC '82. She also has two teenage grand- land and Ireland. Lois Eddy Chidsey is secretary of zoning board Helen Reynolds Smyth still grows a large flower and sons J vegetable garden on the old place in NY suburbs. The Katherine (Kit) Dunlap Marsh occupies herself with where she finds every decision controversial. mansard roof and very old trees would never let you senior citizens groups. AARP, and Qucsters. She takes Harriett Hickok Kenyon's granddaughter is a CC know how close NYC is. One daughter is writing a buses to see friends in Westchester and Long Island freshman and five other grandchildren are her delight. Marjorie Platz Murphy spends six months in Palm book. and the other is still with Fortune Jeannette (Nettie) LaMarche Dewolfe had surgery Eleanor Newmiller Sidman and Gordon enjoyed a last Aug. but is progressing well. although no FL trip Beach and the rest in La Crosse. WI, enjoying eight Ca ribbean cruise at t he end of Nov.-another celebra- this year. grandchildren who range from college to preschool. tion of their 50 years together Both are in fine fettle and Mary Louise (Toot) Holley Spangler went to the Vivien Noble Wakeman's four children gave her a enjoying life. Three of their grandsons are now in col- World's Fair in TN. toured Nova Scotia, PEl and some 50th anniversary party for 130 friends. Viv claims 13 lege at Hamilton. Stanford and Wesleyan. of New Brunswick with a friend. In Aug., she went to grandchildren and three greats. Having circled the Elizabeth (Zeke) Speirs was among the thousands her daughter Holley's in ME. Daughter Rachel's three globe twice, Viv returned to New Guinea and islands who journeyed to the World's Fair and who found the children arc all in college. Son John and wife ran in the not yet explored ride down and back great. but the Fair only fair Philadelphia Marathon. Evelyn Watt Roberts, grandmother of five, had fall Frances (Fran) Wells Vroom reports that her hus- Anna Cofrances Guida is active in the CC Club in color trip through New England. band has not been well since last summer, but is improv- New Haven. The club meers frequently and had a Elizabeth Rieley Arminglon lunched with Josephine (Jo) Lincoln Morris, Kathryn Bowman Thompson, ing. We send our best wishes. Catharine (Speedie) Greer died at the Rochester Fanny Young Sawyer '3D. at Jane King Buss' home. A (NY) Friendly Home in Oct, after a long battle with Sept. cruise took lz from Montreal to NY. heart trouble. We express our sympathy 10 her family. Jane Moore Warner continues to volunteer actively Elizabeth (Betty) Kane Marshall died in July. She and when son moved to Fort Worth, explored this new lived in West Hartford. where she was involved in local. territory for herself state and national garden club affairs, and was listed as Gertrude Smith Cook had a super trip to Greece with a "master judge:' sister, Madelyn Gibson '26. Jane and husband spent a Catharine (Kippy) Ranney Weldon of Hartland, VI. weekend with Jerry at Chautauqua. was the third member of the class 10 die last faiL Catherine (Cathie) Steele Batchelder's daughter, Correspondent: E. Ehrabeih Speirs, 40 An'ry after 12 years in Norway, is with Cathie for a year Heights. Hartford. CT06106 Anna Swanson Varnum joined senior citizens on a trip to Grand Canyon, Bryer Canyon and Las Vegas. A second trip took them to Sacramento and San Fran- Josephine (Jo) Lincoln Morris recently cele- cisco. 31 brated her 50th anniversary with fuss and fan- Class Notes Editor Beatnce Whitcomb writes that the CC Club on FL's fare both in the USA and the Bahamas. west coast keeps growing as CC alumni visit and move Dorcas (Ducky) Freeman Wesson traveled 10 Egypt Roberta Finley '71 there Evelyn Whitlemore Woods took IO-year-old grand- and took a mini-safari in Kenya. She was joined by RFD 3, Lewis Road Elizabeth (Appy) Appenzellar Parsons, son from Houston to climb the White Mountains and Dorothy (Dot) Gould was very active with the sev- Norwich, CT 06360 to meet relatives. enth annual CC Book Sale. She makes monthly trips to We extend sympathy to the families of Alice Burger

25 interest in the Southwest. In Nov .. they were snowed in Cheney, of Imogene Manning and of Marjorie Smith doll houses. So far, she as three and finds the collecting in Durango. CO Sites, and to Margaret (Mackie) Fitzmaurice Colloty. fascinating. Her daughter has moved from MA to VA Dora Steinfeld Todd went to CA in July when hus- who lost her husband Jack in June 1982. where she has a boarding farm in the middle of hunt band Arthur gave a paper at the Western Economic Co-correspondents: Lois Truesdale Gaspar, P.D. country. Conference. She was able 10get in some painting at So. Box 145, Old Saybrook, CTOM75: Wilhelmina Brown Betty Lou Bozell Forrest again finds herself in the Laguna Seaside. Later in the summer, six of the family Seyfried, 37 S. Main St .. Nazareth. PA 180M executri xing business. this time for Johnny's sister's estate. As the residences, lawyer, bank and accountant gathered once again in Muskoka. ant. and she was able are scattered across the state. Betty lou has become to paint some landscapes. familiar with the many two-lane VT highways the hard Ruth Worthington Henderson had a busy year Jim Katharine (Kay) Bonney was elected to the way retired in July and the accompanying parties. testimo- 33 board of directors of the Visiting Nurses Asso- Jane Cox Cosgrove is in good health and spirits. She nials, gifts and letters Ruth and Jim say will "long serve ciation. She attends state conferences for administra- keeps busy with volunteer work. Hcr eoure family of22 to confirm for us the total wisdom of our choice of life wo rk." The first benefit of their retirement was a much tors and enjoys her new contacts. had a great vacation at the shore in Aug. Sarah Buchstane had open heart surgery in Nov., Hazel Depew Holden had wall-to-wall welcome longer than usual stay in their NH home that they've when her mitral valve was replaced. Sarah is now guests from across the country during the spring and been winterizing over several years and to enjoy the recuperating at home and plans to attend our reunion. summer of '82. The highlight was a complete family breathtaking NH fall foliage. Margaret Frazier Clum retired from General Elec- reunion for the month of Aug. where the grown-ups Our class extends sympathy to Marion (Whitie) tric. She lives in Daytona Beach where she is busy with and grandchildren enjoyed all seashore activities. White Vander Leur. Her husband Rene died June 25, family and friends. Volunteer projects for the Women's Cluh and church 1982, following a long illness. Winifred (Winnie) DeForest Coffin still has a mar- keep her busy, along with golf, bridge and gardening. It is with sorrow that we report the death on Jan 27, velous sense of humor and is always optimistic. She has An Oct. visit with Mary Savage Collins was a delightful 1983 of Barbara Rohrmayer Otis in Berrien Springs. been invited 10 record a tape for pulmonary patients on catching-up interlude. A RI Thanksgiving, an Atlanta M I. We extend our sincere sympathy to her family. "How to Live with Oxygen 24 Hours a Day," and Christmas, and another winter in CA rounded out her Co-correspandenrs: Elizabeth W. Sawyer, f f Scot- continue to enjoy life. year. land Rd.. Norwichtown, CT 06360: Mrs. A. Horrv Dorothy Tomkinson Fairbank arranged a luncheon Elizabeth (Betty) Farnum Guibord saw Ruth Sanders tSabrina 8I1rr). 1J3 Banner Rd., Wethersfield. and entertained Elizabeth (Betty) Miller Jacobs and 12 Fordyce McKeown and Ruth Fairfield Day in Chicago. CT06109 of her friends from Cleveland at Hilton Head. In FL she sees Katherine (Kay) Woodward Curtiss and Before getting too involved as co-chairman of our Barbara (Babs) Stott Tolman. Once again, she is on the 50th reunion, Jane Wertheimer Morgenthau and Rene Dubois Environmental Board in NYC. This year. Elizabeth {Bette] Adams Lane and Mack en- Charles traveled to Spain. Portugal. and Morocco. she returns 10 the Caribbean to research uninhabited joyed a In-week trip 10 Australia and New Zea- Judith Epstein Routman joined a tour called "China islands for an energy project on wind and water for the 37 Holiday." She visited Beijing. the Forbidden City, the UN. Each year it seems to get harder. but she loves the land Jan. to March '82. including a safari trip in Aus- Great Wall and Xian where the clock seemed to turn young people and the work. tralia from Darwin to Melbourne. The highlight of the back a hundred years. Her tour also included Shanghai. Virginia Golden Kent's husband Don still works full trip was climbing Ayers Rock at dawn to watch the Hong Kong, and Singapore time. but they find time for great vacations. In the sunrise. Nancy E. Smedley has returned to school. She is a spring of '82, they went 10 Malta. Sicily and Tunis. In Emily Black Grandy and Win took a l7-day trip to senior at CA State College and will receive her B.A. in Sept .. they went on a whale watch on the Bay of Hawaii in Aug .. visiting five islands. They spent history. Funday. Virginia asks that I remind you that class dues Thanksgiving in Hartford with their son, Peter, and Dorothy Wheeler Spaulding and Earle toured of $10 may be sent to her at 280 Fairmount Ave .. family. Their two daughters, Willetta and Donna and France. Germany, Spain. and Portugal where they Chatham. NJ 07928 families spent Christmas with them in Aiken. Sc. visited friends. At present they are entertaining a grand- Barbara (Bobbie) Hervey Reussow and Charlie had a Sara Bowman Sun and Paul visited on Siesta Key. at daughter who is a promising playwright. wonderful cruise to the Caribbean and Bermuda on the Thanksgiving with their Golden Labrador. One of their Paula Reymann Steger's husband has retired from Viking Sea in May '82. The highlight was lunch with daughters teaches at Duke and docs research for a raedical practice. They are busier than ever. Amy Outerbridge Clendenen in Hamilton. a reunion book. Another has bought a National Historical Barbara Elliott Tevepaugh's husband died six years after nearly 50 years. Charlie's art exhibit won best of Society home and is restoring it. ago. Her two daughters and interests in church. school, show in Sept. at the Rogers County Fair. In Ocr.. he Mila E, Rindge is on a two-week trip to Peru at this travel and painting keep her busy. Daughter. Ann, is won the same award at the Tulsa State Fair. selected writing with a planned extended stopover in the Ga- married. has two children and lives in MA. Daughter from 1500 entries. In April, Bobbie took an extended lapagos Islands. Jean has her own home and shop, "The Brass Bed" in trip to Holland with a MA friend. Ellen Cronbach Zimmerman and Jayarrived at their Richmond, VA. Grace Hoffman Comes' son Bruce presented them winter home in Sarasota, after a three-week trip to Martha Johnson Willig and daughter Johanna spent with a grandson, Nathan. in Sept. Christmas was spent Japan and China, They new 10 Japan where they two weeks driving through Holland. She visited friends with daughter Lucille and family in NY. The whole boarded the Pearl of Scandinavia cruise ship for thetrip and saw the villages where she had formerly lived. family enjoys their ME COllage during the summer. to China. They spent three days on the China mainland Alma Skilton Yates and family attended son Jeffrey's Grace is retired. and "Fooling around with some writ- and stopped at Hong Kong. Ellen said it was a mar- graduation exercises from the FBI Academy in Quan- mg-c-mostly for the grandchildren." velous experience but she would like to go back to visit tico. VA. One of Jeffrey's articles has been published in Madlyn Hughes Wasley and Fran had a wonderful the interior of China more thoroughly. the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. In August, Alma Thanksgiving in Farmington. CT, with the whole fam- Correspondem: Winifred Seale Slol/gll/fr. 1410 and Arnold attended a Yates reunion in Regina. Sas- ily. Roller skating. bicycling. paddle tennis. shopping, Siesta Drive. Sarasota, FL 33579 katchewa n. and tra veled by train through the Canadian TV. Whaler hockey,Atari and eating kept all 23 hap- Rockies to Vancouver. pily occupied. tncludmg the 15 grandchildren. aged two Ericka Langhammer Grimmeisen stayed home this to 12. Class President Elizabeth (Belsy) Parcells year because Erwin was not well. I continue to partici- Virginia Johnson Baxter has retired from her job in Arms is well into plans for our 45th Reunion in pate in crafts workshops. On Jan. 4, another grand- 39 the ~erchandlsmg offashion clothes. She and Ed spent June '84, conferring with Ruth Kellogg Kent who mas- daughter, Patricia Ann Lolley, was welcomed into our Jan 10 FL went to Hawaii In mid-Fe h., and returned terminded the 40th. A number of']gers have indicated family. via La. Jolla, where they visited friends. Aug .. they interest and plan to attend. Betsy saw Mildred w-uuen Helen Bush Pitcher died Feb. 14. 1982 Our class spend 10 Bermuda. Gieg twice last summer. once at Nantucket and once extends our sympathy to her family. Audrey LaCourse Parsons announces that they are. when Middy and Rose Lazarus Shinbach organized a Dorothy Hamilton Algire died Oct. I. 1982. We at long last, grandparents. Daughter Noelle has mini-reunion together with Elizabeth Patton Waffler extend our sympathies to her children. ad?pted a baby boy. Patrick. Audrey says "naturally and Phil. Jean Ellis Blumlein and Joe. Ruth Brodhead Correspondent: Mrs. Erwin F. Grtnvnetsen (Ericka h~ s gorgeous. I now carry pictures." After Christmas Langhammer), 1249 Hill Street, Suffield. CT06078 Heintz and Howard. Jane Krepps Wheeler '38 and WIth Noelle and family in Chapel Hill. they went to the Louis regretted they had to miss it. Betsy and Charles Ft, ~eys for the three chilly months, returning to RI in spent about six weeks in Fl before Christmas. Apnl. Elizabeth (Lee) Jordan has traveled extensively the Priscilla (Pudge) Sawtelle Ehrlich is enjoying her Mary Jane Barton Shurts' two daughters are past two years-twice to Caracas and to FL. Greece. second career and lifestyle. In Oct., she saw CC in the Turkey. Italy. Spain and Portugal. She also keeps busy 35 now co-owners of Arthur H. Shurts & Sons. Charl.es Regatta In Cambridge. This made her realize Real Estate Appraisals & Insurance. They are the with concert. thea ter. a nd tra velogue series pius a yearly th~ dIstance between ']5 and ·82. She now uses her two-semester community college course. as well as fourth generation of the fa mily in the firm. esta blished middle name, Ann AAUW. DKG and the Willimantic Woman's Club of in 1902. Daughter Susan is also a CPA. Three grand- Ceil Silverman Grodner celebrat·' Tha-' .. . children are in college and two others are waiting in the N '. "" sglvlng to which she is the new president. In July Ruth Kellogg . M WIth t.helr whole gang. three sons and their fami- Kent stayed with Lee while researching and photo· wings. lies, ~nd fnends. Fall '82 found her back in CT to visit Hden (Teddy) Bear Longo is still going strong in graphing material on the Kellogg prints at the Wads· her sister Selma Swarts.burg '36. As Selma was helping dogs. She's very proud that two of her poodles ha ve the worth Atheneum and the CT Historical Society in run the CC Book Sale. It gave Ceil a chance to visit the distinction of being the first mother and daughter Obe- Hartford. She's looking forward to our 45th. c~lIege. She says her 7th grade geography is coming dience Champions in the country. Her newest hobby is Graee Hecht Block and Mike had a tranquil year alive as she and her husband visit the many spots of Daughter Betsy and Rick arc happy to be quilters. Son

26 Andy is going back to college. Grock y is also anticipat- ing reunion in '84. Barbara Curtis Rutherford and Bud entertained 18 family members over Christmas. They welcomed their seventh grandchild. Laura Lee in May '82 who joined the family Adirondack camping trip and took to it likea duck to water. Bobby and Bud were planning a trip to Tahiti and New Zealand. Doris Houghton Ott and Major enjoyed a superb tour of Montreal. Quebec and the Gaspe In July. In Sept. they went to Ohio and in Oct. to New England and NYC where son Stuart was married. They looked forward to the FL-West coast mini-reunion in March, along with Carol Prince Allen and Lew. Virginia Taber McCame)' and Frank. Barbara Myers Haldt and Peale, Elaine Dewoue Cardillo and Bob. Eunice Cocks Mil- lard, Winifred Valentine Frederiksen, Nancy Weston Lincoln and John. Beatrice Dodd Foster and Bud and others. Henrietta Farnum Stewart and Charles are in Hawaii this winter. Bea Dodd Foster and Bud spent a couple of days in VA Beach with Elaine DeWolfe Cardillo and Bob. They are settled into their new mobile home in Venice, FL. for six months before starting another ..Airstream" trek Barbara Myers Haldt and Eunice Cocks Millard spent six weeks driving from FL to M E with many stops SPAIN! including the Cardillos and Doris Houghton Ott and Major. Over Thanksgiving, Ginnie Taber McCamey and Tired of rain? The Alumni Associa- in Madrid (with continental break- Frank were in FL where they visited the Lincolns and fast) and four nights in Torremolinos saw the Fosters and Haldts. Ginnie is still working and tion invites you to join alumni, rela- Frank is busier than ever in retirement. Their grandson tives and friends October 10-18, 1983, on the Costa del Sol, where the sun is ajunior at UVM and granddaughter Joan a sopho- for a trip to Spain, The price of $719 shines over 300 days a year. more at Penn State. per person ($46 single supplement) in- For details please write the Alumni Our class extends sympathy to Elizabeth McMahon Association at Box 1624, or call (203) Martin on the death of her husband Dr. John E. Mar- cludes air fare, transfers, luggage han- tin. in Norwich on Jan. 8. We also extend sympathy to dling, accommodations for three nights 447-7525. Elizabeth Fessenden Kenah on the death of her husband, Richard. Correspondent: Mrs. Rotert J. Cardillo (Mary Elaine DeWolfe). /325 Bayciiff Dr .. Virginia Beach. VA 23454

Virginia Newberry Leach hosted the 2nd mini- 41 reunion In Attleboro. a pot-luck luncheon. With Phil. Ginny entertained the Newberry Family Assn. of90 relatives for a sit-down Thanksgivingdinner in their beautiful and well-equipped barn. Christmas was spent with 20 family members in Lake Morey, VT Ginny is busy with travel. Park Commission, Library Board, Garden Club, Hospital Trustee as well as "Hoe- ing out the barn of memorabilia." We (John and Jane Kennedy Newman) found they are so hospitable and have one of the best "parking-lots" in NE for our silver baby. Hope to see more of you this summer or if you come to SW FL. We are back in "Paradise" for the winter and have a CC Alumni Club here. We live in a do-it-yourself condo park with lots to be done. I write and edit the paper. tap and aerobic dance as well as sing in the choir. Last summer we spent two months in NJ. and two on Cape Cod. attended Jessie Ashley Scofield's youngest son's weddingin Camden, ME. We celebrated ECUADOR AND THE our 40th in Jan! Katherine (Kay) Ord McChesney of Sea Ranch writes "40th anniversaries were the order of the year:' Rosalie Harrison Mayer and Oscar. and Kayand Mac GALAPAGOS ISLANDS celebrated on the same day. The Maesenjoyed a visiting and golfing trip in NW and escorted tour to Australia. New Zealand and the Orient. An Alumni Seminar Tour Jane Holbrook Jewell announces her first grand- Aboretum, and by a professor from child. a boy. Unfortunately her news is one hospital Connecticut College and Wesleyan admission after another. University will sponsor a joint alumni Wesleyan University. The cost of the Edythe Van Rees Conlon is recently widowed. Her seminar tour to Ecuador and the two-week seminar is estimated at oldest son is a dentist in Trumbull. CT. Daughter. CC Galapagos Islands January 9-26, $3,075 per person. Please inform the grad lives in the oldest house in Nahant, MA with two Alumni Office at Box 1624, Connecti- little ones Dave is working for MBA at BU. 1984. The program-called Evolving Janet Peto McClain says tennis is the big thing in La Life on a Changing Earth-will be led cut College, if you are interested in Jolla with lovely walks on the beach nearby. She volun- by Connecticut's Dr. William Niering, receiving further information when it teers for the Humane Society, Navy League. She sees professor of botany and director of the becomes available. Phoenix resident Virginia (Ginny) Fullerton Connors, Her two grandgirls visited at Easter.

27 Cowherd on the death of her husband Grant in Nov. Allayne Ernst Wick and Doug have a third grand- death of her husband Andy. 1982. child. Allayne plays golf and tennis regularly. Volun- Correspondent: Jane Kennedy Ne .....man (Mrs. John, Co-correspolldenls: Elizabeth Brown Leslie. 10 teer activities are limited to the Zoological Society. Jr.), Paradise Park, Star R/. A. Box 89, Punta Gorda. Grimes Road, Old Greenwich, CT06870; Mrs. Dorsev Carla Eakin White went to New Zealand for a rela- FL 33950 Whitestone (Patricia Feldman), 73 Kerry Lane, Chap- tive's wedding and a motor trip. paqua. NY 10514 Mary Ann Smith Schmidt writes from Chesapeake Bay that son Jeffs an attorney in Richmond, and Susu Correspondent: Mrs. James S. Mac Vickar CC'7! an environmental scientist with her husband in 43 {Kathryn McKee), 10 Partridge Lane. Darien, Beaufort. NC. Welcome mat is always out for golfing. CT06820 crabbing, fishing. sailing. bird-watching and partying. MARRIED: Janet Seaton Humphrey to James Ann Rubinstein Husch is still teaching yoga and Joseph Glover 12/26181; Margaret Camp works in the holistic health center. Her doctor daughter MARRIED: Patricia Turchon Norton to 47 Boes to Dick Schwartz 5/82 and family live in St. Louis; IwO families are in CA and 45 Douglas Peters. Dec. 18. !982. Turch and Doug Margaret Camp Boes Schwartz' first husband. in Boston. She has eight grandchildren. Peter still prac- have six children between them-all pleased at the Oct Warren Boes. died after scuba diving 6180, Their tices law and plays golf and bridge. engagement and Dec. wedding. The Peters live in Wel- daughter. Rachel. graduates from Cornell in '83 and Carol Chappell,after40 years in business, does what lesley. MA. Though Doug is still active in business. he she pleases-some travel. gardening, reading and and Patty spent Feb. and March at the FL Golf resort. son. Richard. is at Michigan Tech, She now has five stepchildren; the youngest are college-age twins. Mar, beaching. Atlantis, returning North by way of the Masters Golf Dorothy Gardner Downs has traveled in the past, but Tournament in Augusta the beginning of April. garet continues to work as a physical therapist in the they have hung up their suitcases for a while. "Either Louise Parker James has been elected to the board of Houghton, M I hospital. Her husband is professor of age orcommon sense has caught up with us." Daughter trustees of North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth. ME. electrical engineering at Michigan Tech. Her new life is Margaret graduated from Evergreen College in Olym- Louise also serves on the boards of overseers of the bar full and happy. pia, WA. and of the Portland Public Library, She is a former Congratulations to two classmates on recent honors Harriet Stricker Lazarus is busy working in the instructor in history at Westbrook College. that have come their way. Mar)' E. Corning received an library of the Cincinnati Art Museum and for other Shirley Armstrong Meneice. who has retired from Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Mt. Holyoke community projects. She has seven grandchildren the CC Board of Trustees, says Sarah Rapelye Cow- May 23. !982. for outstanding work with the National Sally Schley Manegold enjoys her motor home and herd's spirits are good, boosted no doubt by a new (and Library of Medicine as assistant director of interna- spent sill weeks in the Canadian Rockies. She and Bob first) grandchild named Sarah Rapelye Cowherd. The tional programs; and with the National Science traveled to Africa and Sicily. They have five grand- baby is son Andy's, who is a VP with Salomon Brothers Foundation. children and are retired but active in Hartland. WI (Phibro). Kudos also to Dr. Elsie M. Tytla. now Chief of Staff Betsy Bamberger Lesser, a volunteer at UCLA at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Dorothy Boschen Holbein and Powell are still in Extension advisory office for 10 years. traveled to Wichita, KA. and associate dean and asistant professor Manlius, NY but get to FL for a month. They have North Africa last Spring. stopping first in Paris where of pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical three grandchildren. Bosch enjoyed a small C.C meet- daughter Belinda (an American College graduate in ing where the assistant director of development was School in Wichita. international economics) works for the Office of Eco- Marian Petersen Hardee had quite a year nursing guest speaker. nomic Development. Son David. a senior at U. of husband Jim and his broken hip. but managed to visit Mary Louise Cutts cruised on the Royol Viking for over 70 days visiting Tahiti. New Zealand, Australia. Oregon in Eugene. plans to be in DC fall of '83 as an CA to see daughters Ruthie and Mary. a 4th grade Singapore. Hong Kong, Japan and Hawaii. She spends intern for Senator Mark Hatfield. teacher. Son Jimmy lives nearby in Chicago. She sees Barbara Avery Jubell volunteers for the Shaker August in ME. Mary King Urban quite often. Elizabeth (Betty) Burford Graham is in Kennebunk Heights Historical Society and buys books for its gift Susan Hunt Haward and Doug became first-time Beach near Thea Dutcher Coburn. John Graham had shop. She also restores and adds to the Jubens' Century grandparents on New Year's Eve when daughter. Lucy. second lens implant. Home recently given a plaque. The squeaky floors and and her husband, Stephen Sur. had a son, Susan was Nancy Marvin Wheelock is in Cushing, ME. in the sticky windows now have added charm. Barb reports. sorry to have missed reunion. She notes being of the summer. The Jubells spend April-Ocr. weekends aboard thcir "Last Generation of Volunteers" and is active in com' Jeanne Turner Creed lives in Tulsa and reports that cabin cruiser, finding Lake Erie islands in the area great munity and church affairs in Dover. MA. Betty Kohr Gregory still lends her efficient services to for boaters and fishermen. They had two weeks aboard Marie Hickey Wallace keeps current with thecollege rnost of the important organizations in town, "about 20 last summer. going under 321 lift bridges that had to as local club president in Lhchfleld. CT, enjoyed reun- years after most of us have started saying NO." Jeanne open for them. The Jubells also enjoy visiting married ion. and teaches English as a second language to a has spent two years having four total hip operations .daughter Susie in Lake Forest. IL. and son Peter in Laotian student. Ed is still on the Scout Board. Eldest and is lucky to have Micky keep her oiled to be able to Berkeley. son working in NYC, second son teaching at TASIS. move. They have six grandchildren. Interior decoration Florence Murphy Gorman is an occupationalthera- England. Suzy is a sophomore at Amherst and daugh- is her interest. pist in a Richmond, V A, hospital. Son John is in the ter, Jamie, is a high school junior. "Keeps us young, I Claire Haines Fairley writes from Birmingham. They N~vy at Great Lakes; Melissa works for Charles of the think:' says she. are great travelers-a Nile River boat cruise from Cairo Rl.tz and lives in Northern VA. Janie is teaching in a One of the class star travelers is Winona Belik Webb . to Aswan, to the World's Fair in Knoxville and trips to . private prep school for the learning disabled, working She and Dave took a 2-1/2 month trip in their trailer the Highland Games in NC, Boston and Cape Cod in on her master's and livingat home. Larry and Florence from their home in Edmonds, WA to FL. Then took July. They flew the Concorde to London and cruised love their sweet new daughter. Shelley. who married their third trip to India and first to Europe. Had an down the coast of France and Portugal then home on Lance in November 1982 Aug. visit in Atlanta with Shirley Bodie between planes. the QEIL .Eleanor Koenig Carleton and Fred returned to Margaret (Peggy) Hart Lewis bemoans having to Barbara (Bobby) Yohe Williams has retired from her RIchmond for the wedding from their new home in DC miss June college events because her classes never end nursery school with three grandchildren to take their . Lois ~enton Tuttle recently had grandchild number in time. She has been teachingfor20 years In Winnetka, place. She spent Christmas in CO with her daughter. ~IX, notmg "that a~one means busy-ness." Still totally working her way from 2_1{2_year_olds to 2nd grade Susan (Sue) Fleisher has moved to a new house in Inv~l.v~d WIth her gift shop, Toni has added garden club Daughter. Beth, lives in Philadelphia, and has three Brattleboro. Her "adventures" include removal of a ~ctJvltles and sees Jean McCullough Geddes, now pres- girls and a boy-("how can I be a grandmother to a disc and broken hip. Sue recommends that ladies of our ide nt of the U.S. Senior Women's Golf Assn. Toni and 13-year-old boy?"). Her other daughter is a graphICS age group exercise due caution. Do~ entertained Ja.ck and Patricia Wells Caulkins, designer in Seattle. She and Sid saw Julia Cooper Kelso and Joanne Viall Davis. Wilk and Suzanne Por- Frances Garner Dietrich is living in a condo in Gould and Phoebe Blank Goodman in New York last. ter Wilkins and Margaret Sachs White at their FL Darien-no snow to shovel, no leaves to rake. Her summer on their way to Ireland. Peggy reports D." house last yea~: w~ere it was "as though 37 years had oldest graduated from CC in '74 and is a foreign lan- seeing Mary King Urban at the market lookingathletlc docto elapsed, WIlke proved his indispensibitiry as a guage teacher at Harnden Hall Country Day School. and cute as ever. . octor. by helping Don with a surgical problem, plus r One son is a perennial student. another is living in Barbara Bernstein Rosenberg worked in inteno ar.rangmg a few weeks later for a triple bypass for Jack Houston and has two sons. design for 20 years; (still keeps a hand in) but is noll' WIth a Boston cardiologist. Everyone is now fine T . Margaret(Peg) Lafore Wyatt and Jack are still active working with the NJ Symphony from her West Ora~ge. adds .Jo's da ug ht .er, L· rsa Monzani married William. am S in church work although retired. Peg is a vocational home. Hy imports ladicswear from the Orient, ~~leh Clough last year In Fenwick, CT. . counselor in a job support center at Watsonville, CA involves a trip now and then. Their son is a musrcran- G Helen. Farrell O'Mara is still volunteering at Old They still cross-country ski and travel including a six- married and living in San Francisco. A daughter IS~~ reenw~ch, CT. s~ho~1 and Community Answers in week trip to the Continent-doing the bed and break- McGraw-HilI. now working on her second masters. GreenWIch and Ed IS still with Ivey Barnum & O'M fast route. Their family keeps them on the movc-to The O'M h ' ara. and has had many poems published. Tennis and golf Seattle, Spokane, Menlo Park and Germany. John aras ope to s~end more time at their condo in also keep Hy and Barbara busy. Ed' s I.sland, FL. TheIr kIds are finally out of school. Sympathy to Marilyn (Mal) Klein Pratt on the death Elizabeth Dutton Sweet returned ChristmaS Eve of husband, Tracy. She has moved to Williamsburg and rna IS ~lth ?,-c~ox and Mary teaChing and finishing her from three weeks in India, with a stOP in Hong Kong. welcomes any CCer any time. She has three grand- I ~ter s. JIm IS a golf professional, playing the Winter She and her husband could hardly believe the bare children. OW" PBrotour and workIng as assistant pro at Darien's existence of the millions they saw there. She regretted ee urn Club. Sympathy also. to Chips Van Rees Conlon on the missing another reunion because of moving again (her The class extends its sympathy S to arah Rapelye office twice in five years. her household twice in four),

28 Their new house in Brookline. MA is a joy. volunteering for the state Commission for Women and fly fisherman. bought property on the Blackfoot River. Corinne Manning Black, our outgoing Class Presi- is coordinating events to celebrate Women's History What she did not report was what. if anything, she dent and correspondent. was unable to attend reunion Week. And last. but not least. she became a grand- ca ught. Betty spends summers riding and winters cross- at the last moment. Corinne has been made a managing mother in April. Granddaughter. Sarah. lives in the country skiing. She is on the vestry at the church, the director of her firm. Corporate Contributions. Inc .. in same city. boards of Friends to Youth and Hospice and works one Princeton. NJ. CT.!. serves both donors and donees Jean Pierce Tayerle has five grandchildren. Daughter daya week at Community Hospital in Missoula. MT. Your correspondent. Margot Grace Hartmann. and Penny has four children and daughter Karen had her She made a second trip down the Mississippi River on Frank celebrated their 35th anniversary in Aug. by first child in December. Jean is busyas volunteer flower the Della Queen last year bringing their five daughters and two husbands to New lady at Highland Park Hospital on the altar guild in Tom Victory Jr. is with International Management York. thence to Bermuda on a weeks' cruise. All had charge of flowers. board of the Deerfield Garden Club Group managing Bjorn Borg's and other tennis players not been together for a year and a half. In Sept. they and precinct coordinator and election judge. finances from Monaco. His mother. Lois Siller Victory and father, Tim. a senior partner in the law firm Calfre. flew to Peking for a week; on to Hong Kong and Japan Barbara Blickman Seskis and Alan had a special visit Halter and Griswald are already planning a summer where Frank competed with the American Seniors Golf with friends in Holland at tulip time. then went on to International Team: then to Beverly Hills to recoup. In Belgium. Switzerland and France, Their sons. Terry visit Luckyand Tim were in Fl in March. Son Patrick Dec. they attended daughter Margot's (71) Ph. D. and Scott, are following Alan's footsteps down Wall St. is with an advertising company in Cleveland. Daughter degree ceremony. Dr. Hartmann is a bio-chemist who When next you are in Henri Bendel's. check the high Maureen is a nurse anesthctist at Waterbury Hospital in CT and Kathleen is a para-legal at a large DC law runs a sleep research lab in Wimbledon. Another fashion jewelry counter, Barbara has designed a line of firm. Colleen graduated from Duke in May. Gigi, a daughter- Christina. is married. lives in NYC. and is in jewelry using natural materials such as wood and bone junior in high school, is searching for a college. Lucky is institutional sales; lisa lives and works in Houston: Barbara Cowgill Perrins and Al celebrated the start Regina and her husband are new residents of Denver of '83 with all four offspring, spouses. a fiance and a pushing CC Gale Cnigie Chidlaw writes that it is fun to be with a where she is a Montessori teacher; and Sondra is a grandchild in Abaca Bahamas. Barbara is still teaching travel agency. She and husband Ben toured the UK in music major. graduating this summer from Ithaca Col- at the library school and AI engineering. They live '81 and '82. Ben has been teaching law at the U. of CO lege. Frank is in a second career as director of market- year-round on long Island Sound, where they rebuilt for the last four years. Their daughter Margaret is a ing for the Meadowlands Sports Complex here in NJ. their cottage. junior at Case Western Reserve, Son Peter graduated Margot keeps busy with her work at the Metropolitan Julia Kuhn Johnson writes that she is busy with her from CU in May '82 and is living in DC. Son Ben. a Museum Costume Institute. plays paddle tennis and real estate business in Somers. NY. but still has a few graduate of the U. of Utah. lives in Sun Valley, 10. Gale golf. and keeps up with her family. nights a week for her hobby: dancing at Arthur Mur- also reports that Carol Young Pomeroy's son Bob. his Joyce Kappel Sumberg died May 4.1981. after a ray's. This has led to dancing in competition and a wife Terry. and Carol's new grandson Matthew live in three-year battle with cancer. Her husband. Mike. cruise to the Caribbean. Judy plays the organ at the Boulder. Gale is a past president of the CC Club of CO writes that her feelings for the college grew through the Unitarian Church and checks up on her seven grand- and went back 10 the Alumni Council in OCI. '81. years. To him and the family. our class extends its children in SF, Alberquerque and Somers. Mary Bill Brooks Price sent an update on the Price deepest sympathy. Gretchen Van Syckle Whalen has spent most of 1981 family. Son Jamie was married Sept. '82 to Paula. a Our new class officers are: President, Ann Wetherald and 1982 attending dental meetings in New York and fellow Dickinson graduate. They and Mary Bill's oldest Graff; Vice President, Janice Damery Miner; Secre- ADA meetings around the country with her husband, son Cole III and his wife. Merrie lee. live nearby. tary. Barbara M. Otis; Treasurer- Margaret Stirton Ed, who was President of the Dental Society of NY. Morgan, the youngest son. graduated from Hartwick in Miller; and Nominating Chairman June Williams When home. Dutch is a volunteer with the hospital '81 in fine arts. has stayed in Oneonta. NY. Husband Weber. auxiliary and blood bank. Their son Mark is at SUNY. Cole is still serving on the PA Securities and Exchange Correspondent: Mrs, Frank W. Hartmann, (Margot studying hotel management Commission. Grare)6050 Boulevard £aSI, West Nell' York, NJ07093 Barbara Mead Timm and husband Alan can be found at Surgarloaf most any weekend in the winter. Alice Fletcher Freymann and husband Jarvis, are After 22 years in ME they are almost natives. All chil- back after a second tour in London with Exxon, All dren are there too: Doug selling copier machines. he has three children spent Christmas with them in London. Business Equipment Unlimited; Betsey, vice president Son Jeff. a sophomore at Haverford. spent several at Canal Bank, Portland. and Jeffrey. a dentist in Fal- weeks last summer with a group from CT singing in a series of choral workshops and recitals in Belgium. The Katharine Van Sant Spalding had lunch with mouth. having graduated from Tufts Dental School in program ended with the Cantata Festival in Namur Joyce Sithavy Ellis last summer on the Cape. June. 49 (4,000 voices). Son Sax did a summer graduate course Joyce retired as head of the Framingham. MA library Everyfisherman or woman dreams of his own stretch in filmmaking at NYU. He is with a specialty art paper and is enjoying life on Cape Cod. Kay saw Katharine of water. Betty Gottschling duPont. a newly dedicated concern in the city. Daughter louise is at the U. of MI Bartlett Brewster at her 40th six-grade reunion in Bal- working on her MA in American literature. Fletch has timore. She also saw Jane Richard Sedlma)'f in NYC been enjoying london and studying British history. last year. Kay enclosed a note from Mrs. Edythe Shep- She and Jarvis drove through the Cotswalds. Scotland herd. mother of Marilyn Shepherd Prentice. She wrote and the Lake District. Louise Rothe Roberts was in that the Planned Parenthood of Austin has established london fora week in March and Barbara Miller Elliott an annual award in memory of Mantyn-cvTbe Marilyn was with Fletch in Oct. Bobby's son. Dave was studying S. Prentice Outstanding Citizen Award." Marilyn was in london with the Beaver College program at one time president of that organization. The class extends its deepest sympathy to Rhoda This spring America's Best Speciafry Food Shops Meltzer Gilinsky. Her husband Morton (Pat) died in will hit the book stores. listing Joan Underwood Walls' July '82. Rhoda writes she is grateful for her work as a shop. The Country Mouse in Wilmington. DE. one of writer and for her children. who have been wonderfully five percent of the nation's cheese shops to be included. supportive. Joan and husband, wes. enjoy wintering in SI. Croix. Our love and sympathy is also with Parker and Vic- and spend the month of July at their cottage in Stone toria Simes Poole. Their son. Sam. the hero of Vicky's Harbor. NJ. Son Scott is ajuniorat Syracuse's School book. Thursday s Child, died in Dec. 82. of Architecture. All the Walls enjoyed Christmas with Co-correspondents: Mrs. H. Richard Bivin (Joan son Chris in Flo He is with United Parcel there. Jossen], 1659 Crespo Drive. La Jolla, CA 92037: Mrs. Jean Hurlbut Compton's daughter Katie in NYC. is Oliver Howes (Jennifer Judge). 29 Maple Drive. Grear assistant vp of Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corp .. Neck, NY /f021 Daughter Susan is in Atlanta with Wells Fargo Bank Gail lives in NYC with Kate and commutes to NJ where Paris in January she is a department manager for Bloomingdale·s. Polly is living in Orlando and is a secretary. Number five Explore literary, artistic and historical daughter. Robin, graduated from Hollins in Mayand is Paris with Robert Artinianand Nelly Mur- Iris Bain Hutchinson and Jim spent a busy with Piedmont Airlines. Son Geordie was picked as one stein, professors from the French depart- summer involved in weddings. Two sons were of five youngsters to be in a series called "It Figures," an 51 married a week apart. Their three-year-old grand- educational television math program now airing in NJ. ment. The two-credit field trip is an daughter was a flower girl. Their son Jim is an accoun- This is the same young man who, with other hoy scouts, optional sequel to their team-taught fall tant in Chicago. George is assistant prof. of English at got Jean down the Delaware River in a canoe. [think course, Paris in Literature. The trip will the U. of TN, Mindie is a teacher in Chicago and Dave Jean more enjoyed SI. Thomas with husband Bob. run from January 1-22, 1984 and is limited is a metal salesman in Indianapolis, With her "nes- There they met Prince George of Denmark. tf ng," Charlie, now in college. Iris is selling real estate Rona Glassman Finkelstein isdoing whatjio many of to 20 participants. Auditors are welcome, in Indy and loving it us dream. When she retired from directing the Dela- provided they have an understanding of Another classmate busy with a wedding was Rhoda ware Humanities Forum, she started reading on her French. Details may be obtained from Me. Levy Schlein. Her older son Clifford was married in own what she refers to as the history of ideas. Recom- Artinian, Box 1401, Connecticut College, Oct. and works for Schlein Buick. Younger son Jeffry is mendations from faculty friends and courses at the U. a junior at Syracuse and daughter Stacy is a licensed of PA make up her curriculum. Rona has also been New London, CT 06320.

29 analyst. The English title is For Your Own Good: Child- in the area. The Logans' older son is in law school at the broker with Paine Webber. Rhoda is head of the Keogh rearing as Hidden Cruelty and the Roots of Violence. U. of ME while their younger son and their daughter Dept. of Consulting Actuaries, Inc. They are starting to translate Miller's third book. Thou are working and living in Boston. Mary Jo Pelky Shepard's son Charlie also chose Oct Shah Not be Aware. Hildie, currently the sole human Byron and Ann Daniels Hacker are enjoying their for his wedding. He and his new bride work as reporters inhabitant of Baker Island. located a few miles off the home overlooking Lake Belton in TX. Ann is a social for the Charlene. NC Observer. Jo's oldest son Tim. coast of Mr. Desert Island (ME). is having a great lime worker with retarded children and their families. married five years. is a law student at UCLA. Daughter exploring. Daughter Lisa is a senior art history major at Daughter Debi. married to a Naval officer, is mother of Carrie lives in New Haven and works with mentally Berkeley. Hildie spent a weekend with Barbua Painton retarded adults. Jo writes that she has been working in twin girls. Son David is a computer programmer in VA and son SCOIl is a freshman at George Washington U. Doyle. epidemiological research for six years but because of Carol Gerard McCann has two sons. Peter is a senior Judith Adaskin Barry, in her second year of early cuts in federal grants. is now employed only part-time. at Gettysburg College and Tony is a freshman at Many classmates have been traveling. Wilhelmina retirement. is enjoying every minute although she is busy with lay counseling for the Elder Support Pro- Washington and Lee. Daughter Ellen is in 11th grade. Brugger spent three weeks in Nepal. She rode an ele- Joyce Heissenbuttel Neill is kept busy with her three phant and took a mountain night over the Himalayan gram for the local Interchurch Council Agency. adolescent sons. She runs her own business as a beauty Range. She reports that her main interest in life is yoga Retirement has allowed her to pursue work in areas she consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics. Sheenjoys teach- and spiritual growth. An appearance as "The Happy particularly enjoys and she is working harder than if she ing good skin care and the flexible hours. She and Yoga from the Clausland Mrs." in NYC brought down were getting a salary. Her latest interest is work for the husband Clark spent nine days in Scotland as part ofa the house, She has been invited to give a workshop at Center for Jewish Culture, a program sponsored by the curling exchange program. Both are involved in com- the 60th Anniversary of the Appalachian Trail Confer- local university. munity theater. Joyce is vp of the Wellesley Players. ence in New Paltz, NY. Also involved in volunteer work are Carolyn Finn Phyllis Coffin Hodgins says her doctoral studies and As one of the perks of her Job as a tra vel agent in New Saeks and June Jaffe Burgin. Lynn has served on her deadlines have kept her going during two years of per- Canaan, CT, Marjorie Erickson Albertson has done temple board for 13 years. is president of the Jewish sonal problems. She will be taking the comprehensive considerable traveling-Scotland, Italy. Greece, Mex- Family Service and also in charge of a parenting pro- exam and then will begin work on her dissertation. ico, Portugal-but the most fantastic trip which she, gram for individual babies and their parents. She is Murray and their youngest daughter Lisa took. was a fund raising for the fine arts in Cincinnati and making which takes two years. She will spend one year as treasurer of the Nutmeg Reading Council. She spent photo safari this past summer to Kenya calls for the CC Laurels program. Husband Eddie's one week in Chicago at the International Reading Assn. Norma Kcchenour Kniseley has traveled to Italy, surgical practice keeps him busy and they must often conference. Son Peter, having completed his Navy tour Nassau. Canada and Bermuda in the past few years. communicate via notes on the refrigerator. Their son of duty. is attending the CT School of Electronics. Norma and Burt's older daughter Julie earned her Steve is working on his Ph.D. in clinical psychology: Jane Muddle Funkhouser started a new job asdirec- MBA at the U. of Chicago and works in Houston. Their Judy is a psychiatric social worker in CA; Joel is an tor of development for the Judge Baker Guidance Cen- younger daughter Lucy attends law school at U. of VT. aspiring actor in NYC. June recently finished a term of Norma is enjoying her part-time office work, volunteer- office as the first woman president of the Isaac M. Wise ter in Boston. Son Ed. Princeton graduate, is looking forward to his Ph. D. in economics. Tom is a senior at ing. and taking adult education courses. Temple and continues active in Temple affairs. Their Leonard and Peggy Frank Murphy took a trip to oldest son is a lawyer in Cincinnati. Daughter Lynn is in Stanford and Sue is a sophomore at Cc. Jane is also Greece and the Greek Islands last fall. With daughter graduate school at the U. of PA, Cindy a law student at involved with the Campaign for CC and is an Alumni Kathy living in SF and son George in Dallas. they also Case Western and Seth a junior at U. of MI Trustee. have great places to visit in the US. Having bought a Amity Pi~rce Buxton proved once again that it is a Jeanne Garrett Miller reports she visited with Nancy place in Palm Beach. the Murphys havea place of their small world when she came from CA and ran into Clark Anderson. Daughter Gail is spending her junior own to escape the harsh Indiana winters and the flood Joanne Dings Haecker during freshman week at Dart- yea r in Vienna. Li nda is a senior at Tufts. Jim is getting of last spring mouth. Joey was there for her son Steven and Amity his MBA at Columbia. Several classmates have moved. Dick and Susan was there with her daughter Felicity to see the campus Janet Perry Townsend recently moved into a new Bergstrom Campbell moved to Phoenix when their as a possibility for an exchange from the U. of San contemporary ranch designed by her and her daughter, youngest son. Bob left for college. Their oldest. Rick Diego. Amity is still in charge of teachers' staff devel- Sue Ann. Sue Ann, an interior design major from the U. (MBA. U. of Chicago) works for a Chicago bank. Bruce opment in the Oakland Schools. of AL is married and lives in Decatur. AL. Janet's is ar the graduate school of business at UCLA. Since her Roldah Northup Cameron sent the saddest news of husband works for Union Carbide, son Mark for Rapid move. Susie has been working full-time at a bank in her life. Her husband Norman, after a long courageous Repro. Janet attended Joan Foster Williams and hus- Phoenix, enjoying the work challenge and congenia,l battle with lymphoma, died at John Hopkins Hospital band John's 25th wedding anniversary party in Mamar- relations with co-workers. in November. The class extends its sympathy to Roldah oneck. She also talks to Ann Hosmer Butts, Janet Joan Campbell Phillips and "Doc" moved to their and her children. painted a five-foot high portrait of the rector of Christ new life at Casco Bay on the ME coast. Their daily It is also my sad duty to write of the death of Donna and Holy Trinity Church in Westport. which hangs in world now revolves around tides, islands. fishing boats. Schmidt Daley in November. The class extends its the great hall. herons and osprey and the brooks babbling through sympathy to her family. Sally Wing continues her work in the Lutheran their woods forming their own private pond and water- Class Correspondent: Helen Pavlovich Twomev Jj8 Church. She was reelected to the Court of Adjudication Canterbury Lane. Wyckoff. NJ 07481 .. fall. Joan reports that her children are scattered allover and its secretary-the first women to do either. She also the globe, from Boston to DC New Zealand to Alaska, continues as secretary of the Pacific Lutheran Theolog- but Christmas brought them all together except for ical Seminary board. She has planned and amnded Bruce who was in Australia. headed for Indonesia, workshops on ministry of the laity and helped plan Singapore and Bangkok. Bonnie MacGregor Britt. came in second in a programs for both Lutheran Women's Caucus and Mary Cardle Lowe is in her tenth year as a special five-mile over-50 race. She averages 35-40 miles Lutheran/Catholic dialogue. librarian in a computer software firm of which husband 53 a week and says "you don't have to be coordinated for Justus is president, but, as Mary hastened to point out. Elizabeth (Beny)Johnson Drachman writes that "all this Sport." She and Roger, a litigation specialist for a she started working there first. A fire in their home last those years of answering phones, learning to do five large law fi~m. took a dream come true trip to Europe. summer kept the Lowes busy with major renovations. things at once. and cultivating a short amntion span Son. Todd IS ~t Berkeley finishing his education after Of their children, only John, a senior in high school. is have prepared her perfectly for her new career in 'tem- having had his o.wn b~siness and going to school part still home. Justus III and Cynthia both work in the porary' secretarial office work," Son Jordan 15 loves urne. Megan ~aJored In computer science and gradu- computer field while Meredith is at a bank in NYC. The writing computer programs which he hopes to sell and ated from Mills. She is married and works with her Lowes had three visits with Nancy Libby Peterson and make his fortune. Steven 17. a writer who has finished ~us.band for an economic science company. Betsy is in Pete this past year his second unpublished novel. is attending Columbia JUnior college and works for a law firm. Jennifer is at Dick is a physicist at NASA in Greenbelt. MD. Betty Alice Kinberg Green and Art went to Myrtle Beach UC, Santa Barbara. occasionally sees Frederica (Freddie) Hines Vaile who to escape the Jersey cold. Alice is teaching special ed Jean Leister Sullivan recently became president of and enjoying teaching a class of young communication- lives in VA. CT Tra.lls Council of GIrl Scouts to "pay her dues for Katharine (Kit) Gardner Bryant reports that she is handicapped children. The special satisfaction for Alice what Girl Scouts gave her" Husband Robert owns the doing the rounds of colleges with 16_year_old Susan. comes when she is able to return some of them to New London contracting firm, Robert J. Sullivan, Inc. mers regular classes. whose great love is rowing. She sculls singly insum Jean IS ~n the board of the United Way of Southeastern and strokes the Winsor crew during the school year. Chloe Bissell Jones and her partners in the appraisal CT, chairman of the Waterford Conservation Commis- and estate sale business have been the subject of several They often cross paths with Joan Rudberg Lavin an~ sron and owner.a~d president of Shamrock Associates, feature articles in the Grand Rapids papers. Her busi- her husband as they cheer on their rival schools. Kit Inc. general building contractors in New Lond Sh does occupauona I therapy consulting in nursing ho~es ness keeps Chloe busy but she has managed to take has four children. on. e ~ome time out.to visit Northern MI and do some camp- and has recently finished a two-year stint as the flr.st Suzanne Toor Karpas was named a member of the mg as well as riding her ltl-speed bike for up to 30 miles. woman president of the Boston Port and Seaman's A\d .Beth Israel Medi~al Center Board of Trustees. She is Chloe saw Vivian Johnson Harries and Phyllis Hoff- Society. the Mariner's House Involved In esta~hshing the Karpas Health Information mann Driscoll at the wedding of vtv's oldest son, Brad, Dorothy Bomer Fahland and husband Frank vaca- ~enter (NY~ which provides community residents with in May. tioned and visited family twice this past yearin OR. Son ree health information referring them to a . Chris. a senior at Dartmouth. spent last spring in Ann Jones Logan misses the reunion get-together medical facilities and physicians ppropnare ;'10:" because the event is always at the start of the "season" in ence studying art history. Dottie sees Eleanor (NiCki) Hildegarde. Drext Hannum a~d Hunter recerut fin- Boothbay Harbor. She invites one and all to visit if ever Noble Martinez in WA. She helped Nicki and her hus- ished translatmga book by Alice Milter ,S· Y h "", WISSpSyc 0- band John celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary.

30 MA General Hospital. Gretchen Hurxthal Ainley graduated from MA Col- lege of Art with a master's in art education. She is a teacher in an alternate high school program in Ply- mouth, MA, where her husband is a real estate broker. Gretchen and Beau have three sons. Polly Longenecker Slade is a staff assistant 10 a Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist at M IT. She loves the job and is generally involved with international communications. Son Alex is at the U of M I, Ingc is at ALUMN Cornell and Eric goes to Andover next year. Her husband, Milan, is owner of his own publishing company Valerie Marrow Rout is very proud to have a daughter who's a member of the class of '86 at Conn. Shirley Mims Muirhead graduated from the Rad- cliffe Seminars in '78 and is a landscape architect at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Her husband COUNCL Donald is a pediatrician. Son Bill is at Dartmouth Daughter Susan graduated from Weslcyan in '78 and is in the corporate bond department with Dean Witter Reynolds in SF. Daughter Judy is at Simmons. Marilyn Palefsky Stein graduated from Northeast- ern in '77 and is running her own nursery school and kindergarten in the public schools in Newton, MA. She OCTOBER is also teaching tennis and has, over the years, been singing both professionally and semi-professionally in a trio and in chorales. Her daughter Ellen graduated from Franklin Marshall. took an MSW at BU and is a psychiatric social worker. Son Michael is at Tulane. Daughter Marjorie graduated from U. of MA in hotel 7&8/1983 management and is working in the Hyatt headquarters. Janel (Jan) Perdun Peterson is debating whether or not to take a master's in biology. She is an RN part- time, plays golf and rides horses, besides keeping up with the family. Karen is a senior at Ithaca; Chris a senior in high school; Brenda is in high school. Jan's husband Norman runs a publishing company COUNCL S Constance Silverman Ctesser is a psychiatric social worker doing family therapy ingroups at the Brookline Mentai Health Center. Jimmy, the oldest. graduated from Dartmouth and is writing for The Vafley News in Lebanon, NH. Eric graduated from Vassar and John is going to Dartmouth. Both Connie and husband Dick THE KEYTO are active in politics. Anne Talcott Groth is working with the Audubon Society and taught young children there last summer. Her husband Dan is an inventor and salesman. Ann's daughter Barbara is in Hawaii, and her two brothers, Hooker and John, arc working in Wilbraham. SUCCESSFUL Correspondent: Rachel Child Prud'homme, 270 Wigmore Dr., Pasadena, CA 91105

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Patricia Browne Hunter's two oldest children live in written three musicals for children. one of which won MD and Sc. Her youngest daughter is at Pratt in the NJ Little Theatre a ward for the best new play of the Susan Owers Haedrich writes from SI. John's, Brooklyn. Pat is still looking for a way to move back to year. Hereldest, a Yale graduate. is in medical school. 61 Newfound la nd. that she teaches nursery school New England. She has two daughters at Barnard and a son working at and is busy with the activities of children Alexandria Correspondent: Mrs. Waller A. Uutefletd (Judith a French restaurant in NYC Janet gives the Janet and David. Son Tyson is a freshman at McGilL liking Morse), Box 157, Whinier Terrace, Wes{ Boxford, MA Clissold prize annually at CC and says the students are both the school and Montreal. 01885 getting more talented every year. Barbara Thomas Yeomans in DC has left the DOE Elizabeth (Libby) Fiala Trone lives in Petersburg, IL. "ahead of the budgetary meat-axe" and works now for Two daughters are working in CA and IL and another the NRC, focusing on international safeguards to deter Joan Barkon Antell is co-editorof a one-volume is at Iowa State U. Her son is at the U of IL and her prolifera rion of nuclear weapons. She and husband Bill 55 encyclopedia of developing nations published youngest daughter is a senior in high school. galL garden and work on the house in their spare time. by McGraw-Hill. She's been teaching English and Rita Giese Harrah's husband, David is a philosophy Susan (Sue) Troast Winiarski writes, "We're too Western civilization at Norwalk Community College professor at U of CA, Riverside. They have two boys: young to have sons in college." Her son Brian is a and works part-time as a program coordinator in their one, a Stanford graduate, works in product design: the freshman at Lafayette, where he was voted outstanding continuing education division. She spent time this other. a UCLA graduate in theater arts, works at rookie soccer player. Doug 12 and Steve 16 are active in summer at a music camp for adults. Her first-born, Paramount Studios. sports. Andy, is a freshman at Tufts. Jane Grosfeld Smith has her master's in counseling Carol Marty Garlington took daughter Meredith off Janet Clissold Cooper has lived in Boston, Labrador. and is a guidance counselor at Hingham High. Jane is to Davidson College this fall and met two of our class- NJ, and now NY. She has been a music teacher and has married to Dr. Richard Smith, a specialist in hands at mates also bringing freshmen to Davidson. Abigail

31 (Abbie) Clement Le Page was there with son Mark and Nancy Middlebrook Baay with son Peter. Carol says they were all pleased 10 recognize each other and enjoy the coincidence. She says she "hopes their children ha VI' as fond memories of Davidson in the years 10 come as we do of Cc," I, Janice (Jan) Hall McEwan, had the pleasure of a visit this fall from Margaret (Peggy) Moyer Bennett and husband Duncan on their way to see freshman daughter. Heather. at New England College. This fall my son, Jonathan. became a freshman, too-a member of the Class of 1986 at Cc. Co-correspondents: Mrs. George E. Vazakas (Joan E. Swanson), 140 Alfred Drive, Ptnsfield. MA 0/201; Mrs. John L. McEwan (Janice V. Hall), Rose Farm, Center Road, Lyndeboro, NH 03082 Connecticut's family tree Alumni relatives in the class of 1986 Elizabeth Hamilton Coffey '52 Agnes Cochran Underwood, headmistress of Elizabeth M. Coffey daughter 63 Garrison Forest School in Garrison, MD, has Lisa J. Condon daughter Susan Vail Condon '62 been elected to a two-year term as President of the Diane M. Doyle daughter William M.J. Doyle MAT '68 Headmistresses Association of the East. She is chair- Mary K. Edgar '81 man of the Committee on Board_ Schools for the David B. Edgar son National Association of Independent Schools and Pamela C. Eliasoph sister Diane Eliasoph '83 Secretary of the Association of Independent Maryland Wayne H. Elowe brother Brian Colby Elowe '81 Schools, She serves as a trustee for the Independent John L. Evans brother Nancy H. Evans '83 Educational Services and is a member of the council of Edith Chase Fenimore '60 the National Association of Principals of Schools for David A. Fenimore son Girls. Prior to her appointment to Garrison Forest. James Ganz son Sally Lewis Ganz '48 Aggie was head of the Upper School at the Spence Heidi Jane Geiges daughter Myrna Goldberg Geiges '57 School in NYC. Steven D. Gillis brother Sharon Gillis '84 Correspondenr: Mrs. Per Hellman (Robin Lee), 7/ John Arthur Gorman MAT'68 Oakland Beach AI'e .. Rye, NY /0580 Joan L. Gorman daughter Elizabeth H. Hardy granddaughter Harriett Hickok Kenyon '31 Melissa L. Hewson sister Heather Hewson '84 Sarah C. Hutter daughter Martha Corbett Hutter '55 MARRIED: Susan Peck Repass to Frederick Allison Ijams '83 65 Finseth,12/24/82. Katharine P, Ijams sister BORN: to Tom and Frances Sienkowski Dena Steven A. Josephson son Jeri Fluegelman Josephson '57 Penna, David, 3/82. Robert M. Kanabis brother JoAnn Vivirito Francisconi MAT '79 Frances Della Penna lives in Kinnelon. NJ, with Mary Jean Kanabis '84 husband Tom. and two sons. She is retired from her brother foreign language teaching job due to the birth of their Jeffrey A Kazin son Ellen Gottlieb Kazin '62 new baby. The family often visits the CC campus when Brian F. Kennedy brother Patrick Kennedy '83 visiting family in Norwich. Russell H. Kingman brother Lisa R. Kingman '81 Victoria Posner is in the MBA program at Wharton. Russell W. Lane She lives in Philadelphia. brother Gwyneth G. Lane '82 Linda Mellen Zickler. husband Mal. and two boys Jonathan C. Latimer son Diane Dooley Latimer '62 have returned to the USA after living in Europe since Philip E. Marsh son Sylvia Bergeson Marsh '57 1976. Mal. an Air Force officer, was stationed in the Jonathan P. McEwan Janice Hall McEwan '61 Pfalzarca area of Germany for two years. and then in son East Anglia, near the North Sea in England for the last Saskia Mooney daughter Gyneth Harris Mooney '57 five years. The family has returned to the Fort Walton Mark Newman brother Judith Newman '79 Beach area of FL. William Nightingale brother Sara Nightingale '84 Ceeeltla Holland's latest book. The Sea Beggars, was Lisa Pierce daughter Aleeta Engelbert Pierce '53 (dec.l released last spring, and at the time was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review section. Sarah J. Pitt daughter Betsey Colgan Pitt '51 Lynn Allison Clanin has taken a new job with Smith- Charles T. Pratt son Priscilla Wright Pratt '46 Barney in Boston as an institutional salesperson. She is brother P. Catherine Pratt '80 one of two women in the Boston area doing this type of Lucia Reardon Suzanna Martin Reardon '56 business. Her elder son John is at Andover. and daughter Richard is delighted to be number one at horne. Ashley Ridgway sister Elizabeth Ridgway '84 Sybil Pickett Veeder, Peter, and three children still Romanie Rout daughter Valerie Marrow Rout '55 live in Pittsburgh. Sybil works at Forbes Hospice as a Peter Santis brother Wendy Santis '84 volunteer and runs the speakers bureau. Peter is with a Elizabeth Schelpert law firm. Sybil 16 is a junior at Northwood School in daughter Joann Appleyard Schelpert '51 Lake Placid, while Hillary is in the 8th grade this year. sister Susan A. ScheJpert '76 Germ 8 plays soccer. tennis and baseball. Arney Schenck sister Sarah Schenck Crooks '77 Bettina Hesse Depler is busy mothering. car-pooling, Marjorie Shapiro sister Robert Shapiro '83 and taking bridge lessons [vhaven't played since col- John Shea lege"). but she misses working in NYC. brother Eleanor Catherine Shea '81 Your correspondent, Sue Peck Flnseth. was married Tracy Shipman daughter Frances Harvey Shipman '56 at our condominium in Sun Valley. 10. Only our four David Shore son Judith Rosoff Shore '56 children, two 17-year-olds and two 14-year-olds. were Christina Sieminski daughter Regina Joy Rozycki Sieminski '59 with Fred and me for our wedding. Six feet of snow during our stay. cross-country skiing to cut down our Charles Sprague Simonds Jr son Cassandra Goss Simonds '55 Richard M. Snyder ,. Christmas tree, some downhill skiing. teen-agers, and brother Nancy Snyder '84 the Christmas holiday made our wedding very special. Thomas A. Throop son Ann Mitchell Throop '50 A reception in January for our San Francisco friends Caroline Tobias capped off the celebration. Fred is a plastic surgeon, granddaughter Caroline Francke Downer '23 (dec.) Milagros Vargas specializing in hand surgery. In Oct. we were in Hawaii, sister Jacqueline M. Vargas '85 where I had lunch with Constance (Connie) Hasten, '64. Jennifer Wadsworth granddaughter Amy Kugler Wadsworth '19 Correspondent: Susan Peck Finseth, 1028 La Salle Martha Wieler daughter Mary Jane Callahan Kimball '56 Drive. Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Anne C. Wollaeger sister Michael Thomas Wollaeger '77

32 l MARRIED: Francee Rakatansky (Sieher) to dren-Barney 7 and Martha 4. She is leaching French However. she is beginning to look for paid employment 67 Steven Sugar (Oberlin '65). 1977: Terry Tat- at Holland High. and is guest lecturer for Hope College in the areas of public relations, marketing, and promot- finder to Rick Grosvenor. 6/20/81. Theater. commenting on four plays per season. She'll ing Cleveland. Children are now IS, I I and 8 and she BORN: to David and Judith Foldes Dickson. twins soon be doing Waiting for GOdOI, a play she suffered feels the time is appropriate to begin a career. David and Jeffrey. 1981: 10 Joseph and Nancy Ford through at CC but now suspects she'll enjoy discussing Betty Srulowitz Rosenstein moved 10 Rogers, AR, in March. 1982 when her husband became avian veteri- Fennell. twins Katherine and Christine, 10/6/82: (0 Jackie would love to hear from any CC midwesterners, John and Joyce Littell Smith. Henry. 1/6/8]: to Peter as it's lonely out there amid the blue and gold U. of MI narian for Hudson Foods. She is school psychologist in and Patricia (Patl McMurray Clausen. William crowd. the Rogers Public School system. Daughter Naomi McMurray. autumn 1982; to Ernst and Mary Miller Janet Lev}' completed an MAT and an MA at attends nursery school and dance class. Schaefer. Peter, 10/21Si: 10 Rick and Terry' Taffinder Columbia and for the last 12 years has been involved in Lisa Stonberg Karotsky has been busy raising her Crosvenor, Amanda Mason. 4/23/82. real estate in NYC. She was the director of the Rent two children. Jody 15. and David 12, and pursuing a Ruth Berkholtz Ciriacks made her 13th move in 13 Stabilization Assn. for eight years, leaving to become ca reer in interior design. She and her partner ha ve been years. this lime to a northwestern suburb of Chicago. the site manager of the largest renovation in the coun- in business in the Boston area for six years. They've Husband Bill is in restaurant management while Ruth try. With hard hat in hand she left Starrett Housing/ participated in three Junior League Showhouses and has gone back into Ihe work f orce as secretary to a vp at Construction and established her own consulting com- have been published in House Beautiful. Beller Homes Federal life Insur ance Co. She's learning about an nui- pany. advising and managing property for contractors. and Gardens and the Boston Globe. Her background in ties and other investments, training on computers. She is also active in investment sales, both for clients .Art History from CC helped her a great deal. She's seen studying for LOMA exams and doing brochure layouts and her own portfolio. In 1977-78 she was the co- Wendy Thompson Brilton around town, as they both and sales pieces. Daughter and two sons seem to thrive founder and first vp of the Assn. of R.E, Women. For live in Weston, MA on new friends. schools and neighborhoods fun she has turned her great love of cooking into an Terry Taffinder Grosvenor and husband Rick are Elizabeth Brahler Williams is living with her husband occasional catering job. opening their own firm, Avenue Real Estate, in New- J,R. and l z-year-ofd daughter Laura in Charlotte. NC. Joyce Littell Smith, husband John. daughter Lisa 3 port. They are restoring a large Victorian while living in it-the fifth house they've worked on and they're still She is in her 10th year of teaching young children. The and new son Henry live in Easton. CT, after nine years whole family is connected to Charlotte Country Day. in DC. She is a clinical social worker with Family and learning. Wendy Wiener Wolf is teaching foreign language. where J,R. teaches American history and assists the Children's Services in Stamford. and her husband is an They have moved to Rumson. NJ, where sons Adam II headmaster and Laura is in the middle school. J. R, and attorney specializing in communications law. and Jeremy 8 are keeping her busy with piano lessons. Elizabeth won the headmaster's award for outstanding Sharon Klelv Fromm lives in Pittsburgh with her soccer, basketball and skiing. Her family occasionally contributions to the school two years ago-the first husband, Hans. chief of Gastroenterology at Monte- visits Deborah Small Russel and clan. Wendy's boys husband/wife team to do so. Fiore Hospital. University of Pittsburgh Health Center, enjoy being with Debbie's two boys, and the girls get to Margaret (Peg) Carey Meehan has her hands full and her two sons. Chris and Martin. She is an active with sons Brendan 3Yi and Rory 2. She and husband Ed member of AAUW and CC representative for her talk about the old days. went ana whale watch off Provincetown last fall. where school district. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, Your correspondent. Robin Frost Dawson, is still pampering husband Jon, who's formed his own invest- they saw whales close enough to touch. reading and playing tennis. ment management firm in Fairfield. CT. children Alex- Thank you to Susan Cohn Doran. who has accepted Pat MeMurra}' Clausen delights in young son Wil- andra 9 and Tophie 10, and eight animals. Aerobics. the class agent chairmanship of our class. liam. She is back at work at Metromcdia's Washington school activities, a 1770 farmhouse in Deering, NH, and Cynthia Cummings has been living in San Diego and radio station. WAS H-FM. as newscaster and reporter estate problems connected with the deaths of Jon's has had a private physical therapy practice in La Jolla She likes her job and coming home to husband Peter parents and aunt in a Kenyan plane crash have kept the for five years. She's finding the combination of ocean, and the baby and is feeling very lucky. family extremely busy, but they're still managing 10 desert and mountains of CA unbeatable! Christine (Chris) Miller St. Jean, a CC admissions escape to the CO's more reliable snow for March. Susan Endel Kerner moved to Maplewood. NJ with aide for the seacoast area of NH. is chairman of the Correspondent: Mrs. Jonathan T Dawson (Robin husband Marty. a mathematician at Bell Labs, and son social studies dept. at Exeter High School. She is enjoy- Frost). 800 Hoydens Hill Road. Fairfield. CT06430 Andrew 2VJwho is attending Montessori School. Susie, ing Jiving in N H with husband Paul, who shares owner- a free-lance director and acting teacher in NY. NJ and ship in a small imported gift ware firm. and children PA,just directed the world premiere of a new comedy, Nicole 4 and Justin 2. Ready or Not at Penn Stage Co. Last summer she Mary Miller Schaefer moved in September to Welles- MARRIED: Sueenedevogelaere to Bob Flynn directed A Coupfa While Chicks Siuing Around Talk- ley. Her husband has a joint appointment in the Dept. ing at Rutgers Theater Co. She is working with several of Medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center and 69 2/6/82; Martha Harris Soule to David Walton. BORN: to Jim and Kathleen Dilzer Milch, Karen women playwrights in NY developing new scripts. at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Dilzer 1/9/83: to Ronald and linda McGilvray Judith Foldes Dickson is coping with two-year-old Agingat Tufts, Mary is expecting her PhD from CUNY Walker, twins Sarah Cameron and Rebecca Elizabeth twin boys and Amy 5Yl in addition to practicing law in educational psychology in early 1983 and is looking for a part-time job in educational research, in addition 11/17/82; to Gerry and Janet Bouchard Pietsch, Grace part-time and snea king off to downhill ski nearby home Ann 7/30/82; to Peter and Maria Pellegrini Dervan. in Burlington, VT. Husband Don is starting his own to caring for Caroline 10. Christopher 7 and Peter 2. Talma Mokotoff Bernstein is happily married to Andrew 6/18/82; to Larry and Betty Wallman Henry. business developing computer software. Michael and has three daughters: Marne 14, Alexis 10. Tamara Elise 6/2/82; to Richard and Lorraine Bitner Nancy Ford' Fennell's twin girls were born the day and Leah 7. Her activities include business manage- Gilden, Andrew Benjamin 1/10/82 after daughter Beth's 2nd birthday. Life is hectic, as ment of Michael's orthopedic practice and other small Ellen Achin Myers' husband Minor is back leaching twins are identical and very difficult to tell epan, but businesses on a consultant basis. She enjoys many at CC after a sabbatical at Brown. Minor Ill, 5, attends Nancy's having great fun. sports: running daily, squash. sailing, tennis, and in any CC nursery school and Jeffrey, 20 mos. is at home. Nancy Grosselringer received an MA in crirninaljus- time left is gardening, writing and cooking. Janet Bouchard Pietsch's new daughter joins Greg9, rice from Rutgers and passed her doctoral exams in Paul 6, and Kathy4. Husband Gerry is a verterinarian criminology at FL State U. School of Criminology in Kay Morgan Schoeneman is working in her hus- and is building the family a barn in his spare time. Janet June 1982. She has since been awarded an OAS Fellow- band's wholesale beauty supply business as a sales is treas. of the Westport, M A, Historical Society, plays ship to conduct doctoral dissertation research on crim- administrator. They have two daughters-Lori 10 and the guitar, and is producing a students' cookbook on inal sentencing and the judiciary in the Dominican Tara 5. They are able to travel frequently in their busi- behalf of the parents' group at the elementary school. Republic. She is interested in hearing from any alums in ness and spend a month at the NJ shore each summer Lorraine Bitner Gilden and husband Richard moved the Dominican Republic, where she is now living. on Long Beach Island. to their first house in Scarsdale in 6{80. They have two Carol Hermann Smoot, husband Art, son Mike 10 Francee Rakatansky Sugar is a private remedial children. Sarah and Andrew. and daughter Liane 7 have lived in Ridgefield, CT for therapist/educational consultant and research asso- Judith deGroff Schoonmaker and family are plan- 110 years. They've participated in lots of community ciate at Robinson Reading Clinic, Columbia-Pres- ning a trip abroad this summer. Judy is in her final activities over the years; currently she is a part-time byterian Hospital, NYC. where she specializes in semester leading to a diploma in interior design. Hus- computer programmer and Brownie scout leader. Art dyslexic children and does some teacher training. She band Renjust installed a hot tub in their greenhouse in specializes in graphics for IBM. has three children, Mark Sieber 12, Karen Sicher II. Durham, CT. Marcia Hunter Matthews and husband Bill are in and Stefanic Sugar 2. Suaette de Vogelaere Flynn and Bob took a bicycling their 17th year at St. Paul's School, where Bill is direc- Rena Rimsky Wing remains very busy between her honeymoon through Europe. summer '82. They live in tor of college admissions. Marcia has loved teaching career and family. She is still in the psychiatry dept.. U. nursery school for 6Yi years. They have three sons: Billy of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Mill Valley. CA. Kathleen Diller Milch and Jim moved to Rochester, 15 and a student at St. Paul's; Bobby 13 and John 10 Institute and Clinic. Now she also has a joint appoint- Her accomplishments for 1983 are giving up smoking ment in the School of Public Health. She has received a where Jim is in the physics division at Kodak Research grant from NIH to develop a behavioral control pro- Labs. (finally) and joining aerobics. Mary Hyde Munkenbeck and husband George are gram for adults with diabetes mellitus, Her husband Barbara Feigin Milenky is busy with Elissa 10, Jana remodeling their house again to accommodate Alma Edward continues in the area of infectious diseases, 6, and Joe 2. She volunteers at the girls' school, at their Christine 4 and Katharine Ann Clifford I. George will while her boys, Jon and Ken are into football. com- synagogue and in PTA. teaches Hebrew school and tutors. Husband Ed is a foreign affairs analyst with the be promoted to Commander, USCGR shortly and is puters, and Dungeons & Dragons. government and appeared twice in 1982 on the McNeif/ director of Merchant Marine School. part of the Sea- Sharon Sager Freimuth is still involved in volunteer work: junior committee of the Cleveland Orchestra, Lehrer Report as a private scholar and Argentina spe- men's Church Institute in NYC. Junior League of Cleveland, Jewish Family Services. cialist. The Milenkys live in Rockville, MD. Jacqueline (Jackie) King Donnelly has IWO chi 1-

33 tious disease. They have a new Welsh Corgi, Rosie, and MA. Darryl Ferguson Bloom lives in DC where husband enjoy cross country skiing, chamber music. and Anne-Louise Gittleman is video-nutritionist, dis- Barney works at Library of Congress. Darryl mothers pensing nutrition advice on radio and cable TV. and Deborah. 5 and Hannah, 2 and volunteers in Peace- reading. Susan Ninde Tresemer attended Breadloaf Writers lives in Santa Monica, CA. links and Women Against Nuclear War. Shealso cooks Conference last summer and hopes to publish a book of Sharon Welsh Butler is acomputerprogrammerfora meals for DC street people, teaches kindergarten art her poetry. She and her family live in Brattleboro, VT. small heating firm in Denver. Her children are in pre- and is on the executive board of their synagogue. school and first grade. Nancy Payne Alexander's hobby of spinning and Leslie Fisher Steen has retired from teaching in Ever- Fay Bamberg is a psychiatric nurse and lives in green. CO, to take care of their four children, Greg 5, weaving has blossomed into a business. She has a Stu- dio/supply shop in Ellsworth. ME. Charlie is an in- Chicago. Doug and Scott 3, and Elizabeth, 8 mos. Bonnie Shepherd Yecum stays at home with Joshua Cathy Frank Halstead had her first solo exhibition at ternist. They have three children, Abby 7. Ne116. and 7, and Sarah 4. Charlie Jr .. 3. the Virid ian Gallery in NYC and reports it was a won- Anne Kennison Parker works for Dictaphone Corp. Maria Pellegrini Dervan is associate professor of derful experience. and lives in Dobbs Ferry, NY. Babette Gabriel Thompson is still in Philadelphia molecular biology at. USc. She, husband Peter. and Lucy Bethel Sheerr is director of the NH Hospital prosecuting stock fraud cases for the P A Securities new son Andrew will spend a sabbatical summer in Association's library in Concord and lives in rural New Commission. She and husband John are active in Zurich London, NH. She sees Marsha Kartzman. who lives in Sierra Club and she's on board of directors of YWCA. Jane Rafal bought a house in Valley Cottage, NY. Boston and is a painter. Son Gabe will start kindergarten 9/83. Babette saw She's director of production at Hayden Book Co .. Elizabeth (Betsy) G. Collier was divorced in Sept. Ann Perno in ME last summer, sees Anna Marie Booth whose computer books are taking off. She sings with 1981 and is a second vice-president at Chase Bank '68 often and Marlene Kline '70 lives across the street. the Rockland County Choral Society. International. Jane Hanser Matthews and family moved from SI. Margaret Schmidt Brady remarried 7/77. graduated Katharine (Kathy) SwlttGravino finished her B.A. Louis to Greenwich, CT. Husband White was pro- from VConn law School 5/78 and in 4/80 bought a magna cum laude at the U. of M D in the spring of 1982 moted to vp and treasurer of the Union Pacific Corp. home in Stamford, CT. and started a job with the city of and has begun graduate studies in military sociology They have two children, Courtney 5 and Brian 2. Stamford rezoning a town undergoing extraordinary Her son, Tim, is in junior high school: daughter. Kelly. Diane Harper was living in Somerville, MA, when office growth. is in fifth grade and husband. Bob, is assigned to Coast she wrote. Claire Sekulski Bronson received her PhD in eco- Martha Harris Soule Walton and daughter Alethca 7 Guard Headquarters in DC. nomics from UConn 12/82 and accepted an assistant moved to Marblehead. MA. when she married David Lois Olcott Price received a masters in art conserva- professor position at Western New England College in He has three super sons, David 18. Kenny 16, and tion at the U. of DE. Springfield. MA. Husband George is assistant warden Debora Chesler Hoffman teaches preschool in Michael 14 at CT State Prison in Somers. They have twin sons Constance Hassell says aloha from Honolulu She Mandeville, LA, where she lives with husband. Mark. Christopher and Kevin 10, and daughter Meredith 8. graduates from law school in 5/83. Her post-school an attorney. and son, Michael 4. Diana Seton Adams is moving to Surrey. UK 3/83. plans are not yet firm Patricia (Pat) Morin got her MBA at BU. Ellen Steinberg Mann and family live in Silver Donna Hicks Perez-Meta works in the Houston Caroline Knight Ross got a doctorate in science in Spring, MD. where Ellen does adoption home studies office of the Venezuelan state oil and gas industry. She's 1980 at BU and is assistant director of the Center for for a Korean adoption agency part-time and husband a judge of Paso Fino horses in this country and is Health Services and policy research at Northwestern U. Mark is assistant principal at Richard Montgomery working on a book detailing the history of the breed in and lives in Chicago with her husband. High School in Rockville. They have two daughters. 10 Latin America. Julie Sgarzi worked on the unsuccessful guberna- Joan Hosmer Smith has come full circle with a move and 7. and a son. 4 torial campaign of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley Wendy Swanson Avirgan and Steve are with Pan Am back 10 New London after four years in Juneau, AK. and is still senior associate with the l.A. public affairs in SF. On a recent London layover she ran into Ellen She works in the emergency room at Lawrence and consulting firm. David Abel & Associates. Lougee Simmons on the street They exchanged CC Memorial Hospitals. Husband Doug is a legal officer at Terry Swayne Brooks is married to Bryon Brooks. and Northfield news. the CG Academy. brother of Lynda Brooks Crowley, her four-year Betty Wallman Henry is coordinator of the School Dagny Hultgreen Griswold has been a consultant to roommate at Conn. Terry lives in Nashua, NH with her Psychology Program at Berkeley and husband Larry is the Hartford Housing Authority, docs real estate. and son. David. 7 and is a full-time RN at the local hospital account executive for Pacific Telephone. Leah is in has a private business with husband Harry and a Rosemary Bonser Johnson quit as a part-time kindergarten. partner. Harry's work as an aerospace engineer with instructor of English for the U. of New Haven to stay at Correspondent: Mrs. Thomas J. Ne!!(Susan Pal/II). Hamilton Standard involved him in scuba diving with home with newborn Emily and Matthew, 3. 96 Round Hill Rd .. Greenwich. CT 06830 the astronauts testing equipment he designed in simu- Nancy Filbin Humphries lives in Bozeman, MT, with lated weightlessness. They are active in theater groups husband. Jim and daughter, Jill 2. She teaches cross- Jane Leary Schnitzer is involved in historical restora- count ry skiing a nd substitutes at the junior high school MARRIED: Cathy Spitz to Alan Jensen tion projects. Husband Bruce was named president and Daryl Davies-Davis is product manager with Feder- CEO of Marsh & McLennan, Inc., the chief subsidiary 71 11/2/80; Anne Kennison to Randall Parker' 9/12/81: Barbara Kahn to Burr Stewart. 10/81. ' ated Department Store Corp. and lives in NYC. of Marsh and McLennan Cos .. a major insurance Heidi Crosier-Sypitkowski is a social worker for .BORN: to leo and Ann Huckle Mallek, Laura Kar- broker. emotionally disturbed adolescents in Auburn, ME. Evelyn Marienberg abandoned her TV writing career oune. 10/9/82; to Alan and Rna Korim Casta line Beverly Ann Edgar Myers divorced in June '81 and and moved from Hollywood 10 Northport, NY, where Daniel Mark. II! 30/ 81: to Drew Ketterer and Susann~ she takes pre-med courses at Stony Brook. She's apply- Powell Ketterer. Andrew Powell. 7/9/82: to Michael opened a new law firm in Dec. '82 in Fort Myers. FL ing to medical school and Dia~e Seidel Macris, Laura Elisabeth, 1/28/82; to Susan W, Greeley is an account executive at Grey Linda McGilvray Walker lives in Alameda, CA, and Frank VIncent and Charlotte Parker. Emily Katherine. Advertising, working on cosmetics and fragrances of is temporarily retired from her job with Frank B. Hall 4/13/82: to Paul and Elizabeth (Betsy) Breg Masson Revlon. to take care of their new twins. The Walkers had a visit Robert Daniel Paul. 8/2/8!; to Charles and Sail; Cathy Spilz Jensen earned a doctorate in manage- from Rebecca Brown Foley and family last summer. Walker Helwig, Lindsay Walker, lit 18/81; to Dale mcnt in May '82 and is a management consultant living Jill Monchik Farrer is children's librarian at Roselle and Susan Pool Moses. Evan Woodhull 417/82' to in Richmond. VA Free Public library in NJ. Husband Bill works in infec- Jack Mullen and Barbara Jo Lahr , Thom~s Frank'lin, Linda Herskowitz is a medical writer at the Phila- 8/3/8.2; to John and Daisy Park McDonald, Daisy delphia Inquirer. Caroline '.9/25/82: to Paul and Lynn Harris Lindgren, Patricia (Pat) Zincke practices law in New York. Gwen Dlann~, 9/28{82: to Richard and Elizabeth Pamela Stirling Weems moved with husband and (Beth} Woodmg Kontur. Eric Daniel. 9/18/81: to two children to DC to serve in a United Methodist ~;;~n and Daryl Davies-Davis, Adrienne Davies. Church. /82, to Ken and Rosemary Bonser Johnson. Jeanne Christie Mithen lives in Manhattan. KA.and Credits Emily Bonser. 6/1(82: to Keith and Maurrie Brown returned working part-time as librarian of the Riley Salenger. Seth Alexander. 9/27{82: to Jer d County Historical Museum after the birth of son. Jeanne Ch isti M' h' ryan Cover: Katherine R. Gould '8 L TIS re It en. Brian Christopher. 6(1(81 Brian. Peter and PIS'arne a lJrlmg-Weems. . Matthew Straff . to Merrill Meltzer 8ettridge lives in Riverton. New Zea- Photographs: Ellen Wildermann Bodin 1/81: to Jonathan and Judy Glassman Duffie. JUs;~~ land. teaching high school English and social studies '80, pages 5,6,18, 19,20,21; Roger Far- Cha~les. 8/29/81 and Jon Colin, 10{9/79. Barbara Kahn does public relations at Sca-Tac Elizabeth (Betsy) Dreg Masson works part-time as International Airport in Seattle. rington '75, pages 8, 10; Ross Cameron, research admlOlstrator. Dept. of Surgery U of OUa Amy Nolan is a foreign service officer based in A~i~' Faculty of Medicine ,. wa page 9; The Westerly Sun, page 13; Mari jan. Ivory Coast. Africa. working as the American liai- Smultea '85, page 16; The Day, page 22 Drew Ketterer practices law in ME. son bet ween local housing officials and American agen- (Bond); Martha Stewart, page 22 (Char- M~~ ...a Korim Casta line is a social worker in Brockton, cies, arranging loans for housing and community development. ren). Lisa McDonnell' . . IS assistant professor of English at The class extends its sympathy to the family of Gloria Deruscn. Bigelow Eilts, on her death . . Joan Loewenberg is vice-president. account su er Correspondent: Linda S. Hersko,<'itz, 2/ W. MI. visor of an advertIsing agency and lives in cambri~ge~ Pleasant Ave .. Philadelphia. PA 19!O3

34 Co-correspondents: Mrs. Gorv W. Yohe(Linda 73 Citrano). 107 William 51 .. PO~lland. CT06480: Susan D. Krebs. 444 Lincoln SI .. York. PA 17404

MAR R lED: Michael Franchot to Marty Pax- 75 ton. 6/19/82. BORN: to Tom and Darcy Gazza Love. Thomas Wetherill. 3/3/82; 10 Paul Lantz and Kathy. David Zachary. 12/25/82; to Joseph and Marjorie Rosen- baum Kasimer, Susan Elizabeth. 4/82. Doug Renfield-Miller has entered the graduate business program at Stanford. Jean Renrield-Miller has taken an unofficial deferral from Harvard to be with Doug in California. Constance Avery-Clark is working as a clinical psychologist in Missouri, directing the treatment program for sexual offenders. William Thomson has been made an assistant vice president at the investment banking firm of Warburg Pari bas Becker. Bill continues as a position trader while working as a manager of retail marketing. He and his wifc, Kim. have purchased a house in Rye. NY. Jerold Ehrlich is vp at the Rhode Island firm Mall Land Co .. where he is responsible for the design work on the Siegal Building owned by the firm. Carol Connolly graduated from business school at Tulane in May '78. As of June '82, Carol was working at the Wachovia Bank as an assistant vp in commercial lending with responsibilities in South America Marjorie (Margie) Rosenbaum Kasimer is kept busy by her second daughter. Susan. and by her sixth season with the Fairfax Symphony. where she plays the viola. Gerold O. Maranda was named vp and retail man- A computer-assisted look at the eighteenth century ager of a savings bank in Boston. Gerald is active in the community of Foxborough. where he and his wife. What does a Government major do after And so it came to pass that an IBM Janice, live with their l j-year-old son. Todd. graduation from Connecticut College if she 370/168 in the Computing Laboratory of Heather Pattison was awarded a Fulbright grant to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne stud y art history in France for the 1982 academic year. doesn't go to law school or find a job Paul Lantz is vp-finance at the A. Rifkin Co., a somewhere between the grass roots and the manipulated the mass of bibliographic specialty manufacturer of bags. His wife Kathy is a pinnacles of power? Eleanor Kucinski data entered thereinto. Those data had self-employed marketing consultant Thompson, (above) '73, went to graduate been assembled by the compilers, who read Lincoln A. Baxter has completed his doctorate at the 339 volumes of the General Catalogue Temple U. and has accepted an appointment as assis- school in Scotland and worked at several tant professor of music at Haverford jobs in Britain (one of which provides the of Printed Books, identified and abridged Our class dues pay for mailings requesting news for subject for this short piece) and married a the 18th century items, and recorded them the Alumni Magazine.The treasury is empty. No dues. Lancashireman along the way. She now on coded forms which were later punched no news. Please send dues-$ JO for five years-to Ben- onto cards. One needs only to examine our jamin L. Polan, 3 Little o-, Danvers, MA 01923. holds an administrative position at the Co-correspondents: William B. Thomson. 45 Mea- headquarters of the Open University, Mil- set of the General Catalogue, shelved in the dow Place, Rye. NY 10580: Mrs. Richard C. Yeskoo ton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Bibliography Area, to grasp the enormity (Dena L. Woif), 76 Beekman Road. Summit, NJ While working at the University of New- of the task. Eleanor says that many of her 07901 castle upon Tyne (not to be confused with ideas about the eighteenth century were Newcastle under Lyme), Eleanor joined a changed during this process, an under- computer-based project to create a subject statement we have invited her to expand MARRIED: Cynthia Comstock to Bogdan catalogue for the eighteenth century titles upon in an article for publication. 77 Pukszta 6/81; Elizabeth Ahrens to Tug Your- listed in the General Catalogue of Printed Now the four large volumes of Eight- grau 6/12/82; Susan Evento to Gary Wachtelhausen eenth Century Books: A Subject Catalogue 7/10{82; Wendy Sue Chapman to Van Wyck Dusen- Books ofthe British Museum. The Library bury 8/20/82; Michael Bromley to Jody Smith '78 of the British Museum is the national have taken their place in the reference col- 8/82; Karen Fisher to Stuart Johnson 9 ( 18/82; Sharon library of Great Britain and ranks with the lection at Ref Z 2002 B75 1979, handsome L. Mcintire to Ralph Manning Brown. HI. 10/16/82; Library of Congress, the Biblictheque examples of computer-assisted book pro- Lisa Podoloff to Howard S. Boles. 6/13/82; Louise duction which have come as a gift of Elea- Richter to David J. Laurent. 9/ 18/82 Nationale and the Lenin Library as one of BORN: to Norman and Amy Friedlander Gorin. the greatest research collections in the nor Thompson to her alma mater. Less David William 8/12/82: to Arthur and Katherine world. Its catalogue, which has been pub- fortunate libraries must lay down $950 plus (Kathy) Kiely Seifert. Bradford Linscott 9{ 14/82. lished in book form, is "perhaps the pri- shipping in order to acquire them. The Cynthia Comstock Pukszta and her husband. work was published by the Folkestone firm Bogdan. were married in Sanok. Poland. Cynthia mary source of eighteenth-century histori- received an MS in TESL(Teaching English as a Second cal research in the English-speaking world." of William Dawson & Sons, Ltd., a geo- Language) in 1978. She spent four years teaching in The introduction to the new subject cata- graphically distributed process which Poland. Sweden and Spain. They now live in Chicago logue goes on to say that "used in conjunc- began at Newcastle upon Tyne, moved where she teaches English at the National College of through computer typesetting in Birming- Education and Roosevelt U. tion with the original catalogue, (it) will Elizabeth Ahrens Vourgrau is attending Simmons add a new dimension to eighteenth-century ham, printing at Old Woking, Surrey, School of Social Work. She is an intern in psychiatric studies." binding at Chatham, and, in our case, per- social work at the Mystic Valley Health Center. To develop manually a subject arrange- sonal delivery by Eleanor Kucinski Thomp- Susan Evento wachtetnausen and her husband Gary son and her husband Ian last October. are both teachers in Plainville. CT. ment for even one discrete segment of the Michael Bromley and his wife. Jody Smith. both vast collections of the British Museum received MBA's from NYU. Michael is a financial asso- library would require the forces of Pharaoh, -Brian Rogers ciate with GTE and has been assigned to Curacao for were the work to be completed in our era. College Librarian six months. Jody is on a leave of absence from her

35 Jerrold (Jerry) Carrington has graduated from position as financial analyst with Citibank a legal placement counselor at Robert Hadley Asso- UCLA Law School and is now at the firm of Sheppard, Karen and Stuart Johnson have moved from NYC to ciates in NYC Ralph is at Chemical Bank and is work- Mullin, Richter and Hampton in LA. Greensboro. NC ing on his MBA. Alison (Holland) Thompson has moved to L.A.. Mary Richter is working on an MA in dance therapy. Co-correspondents: Mrs. George F. Hulme (Pam where her new husband Harlan will be studyingforan She is involved in a IO-month internship at St. Eliza- Sharp). 16 Auburn SI .. Framingham. MA 01701; and beth's Hospital in MD working with psychiatric Sharon L. Mcintire Brown. 304 e. 20,h 51" Apt. 4-D. MBA. Susan Schulman's work on her MA in art history has patients. New York. NY 10003 Simeon Claser is studying composition at the SF taken her to Florence where she visited Marina Conservatory of Music. Simmanages several musical Moscovici. performing groups, plays Jewish music in the area and MARRIED: Amy Louise Roberts to Mark Larry Eyink is spending the year in Taiwan studying teaches religious education 79 Andrew Frawley, 9/25/82; Suzanne Morrow Chinese for his PhD. Keith Hitler and Susan Quinn Ritter live with their Hand to David Dalton Collins, 9/11/82 in Pride's Dawn Jalet is living in New Londonand is a program English bull dog Chauncy in their new home in West- Crossing director for the Groton Community YMCA. port. CT. Keith is director of marketing and research BORN: to Alice English and Erik Johansson. Isa- Kate Feakes and William Lee '80 have bought a for ABC-TV in NYC. Susan is in retailing and does belle Spotswood. 6/29/82. house in Hamden. CT. Kate is teaching at the Extended volunteer work in pediatrics at Norwalk Hospital In Boston, a semi-reunion of the old JA gang took Day Care Program in New Haven. Louise Richter Laurent and David J. were married in place when Elizabeth (Betsy) Beyer, Grace Anne Halsey Peter L. Craft received his JD from the School of Gales Ferry. Bonnie Conroy Coe '76 and Chris Martin and Ira Todd Cohen visited Cynthia Stone and Janice Law at Western New England College. '79 attended the wedding. Louise, an attorney, is work- Bolton Trebat and Alan Treba t '78. Jan and Alan. after James Weber is in his first year at Catholic U. Law ing for Judge Carol Los Ma nsmann of the U.S. District numerous moves. have bought their own home in Wal- School in DC. Court in Pittsburgh. David is an attorney in Pittsburgh. tham. Cindy is now a regional life insurance tech. with Michael (Micke)') Levine is attending Temple U. Linda R. Sittenfeld lives in NYCand works for Cable E.F. Hutton. Absent members of the group were Dental School. News Network on a news interview program called The remembered and missed. Carol Vaas is a course and lest designer for American Freeman Report. In New York, Caroline Baldwin began a new job as a College's CLU program and is working for her PhD at Jane Whitehead Guenther changed jobs. Jane now research associate with National Econ. Research U Penn. She was maid of honor at Amy L. Roberts' works for Ted Colango Associates, an advertising Associates wedding. agency specializing in creative services for corporate Christine Herman took a European vacation. visiting Anne Goldberg is working for Children's Aide clients in White Plains. Switzerland and Italy, and spending a week on the Society in foster care. Sharon Mcintire Brown and Ralph were married at Amalfi coast Nina Weinstock received her master's in special edu- St. Bartholomew's in NYC. Lois Weinik Siegel '78 and Tara Kent has returned to school for pre-med studies cation from Leslie College and is a permanent sub. for Laurie [ntis Hirschhorn were the attendants. Sharon is at the U. of Baltimore. She works in a local hospital. the school system's research room in Media. PA. Co-corresponderusitra Todd Cohen, 435 E. JOlh St.. New York. NY 100/6; Claire P, Quan. 5/2 Linroln St.. Carlstadt. NJ 07072

Co-correspondents: E/fen R. Levine. 121 Park 81 Place. Brooklyn. NY t nn. Marsha E. Wil- liams. 2580 North More/and. Apt. 15-F, Shaker Heights. OH 44120

MARRIED: Rita Macinnis to Tim Lucc '79 82 11/12/82. Rita Macinnis Luce is employcd in the elementary school system in Cornish NH. James (Jim) Astrove is living with classmate James (Jim) Francese in New London.employed as an English teacher a nd va rsit y basketball coach at Griswold High School. Caroline Crosson is an instructor for Readak Educa- tion Services and since graduation has taught at the Taft School in Watertown. CT, the Bement School III Deerfield. MA, and the St. Andrews School in Middle- town, DE. Jeannine Vetrano leaches French. art and English at the Collegia re Schools in Richmond. VA Patricia (Patty) Green teaches fourth grade in New- ton. MA and shares an apartment with Margarel (Meg) Garvey who is a research assistant at a Harvard laboratory. Catherine Newman lives in the same apartment building and spends her time as a customer service representative for the Bay Bank Harvard Trust Co Nancy Minnicks has lived on Block Island and Martha's Vineyard since graduation, works in graphic arts and freelances. She's kept contact with David The gift that keeps on giving Wallack who is starting an apprenticeship with a professional sculptor in DC. Peter McCarty leaves in March for his Peace Corp Louise Fay Despres '66 is proof that one with Perrier, of Course-to their mentor. assignment. farming and lecturing in Costa Rica. loyal alumna can be remarkably effective Andrew (Andy) Chait spends time nnending orien~al From left, they are: Priscilla Fulford '85 art auctions as an associate at Ralph M. Chait Galleries in inspiring students to attend Connecticut. She~yl Edwards '84, who has been elected in NYC. Andy maintains an interest in bowling and CC Mrs, Despres, a French teacher at New pr~sldent of her class, Paola Stanziale '85, basketball. Canaan High School, wrote to tell us that Elizabeth (Betsy) Scutt '84, Christopher Alice (Allie) Lyons remains local. living in Mystic at least six of her former students are now and working at the Mystic Seaporl Museum. Allie Rempfer '86, and Louise Despres, in her recently had two poems published in the magazine enrolled at the college. c.c. blazer. (Helene Kopal '85 is not pic- Embers. "All these Connecticut College students tured.) Except for Miss Scutt, all the stu- Andrew Porter is a real estate agent in Easton. MD. studied French III or French V with me at dents have continued their study of French and has plans to form a rowing club and bike across England and Scotland. New Canaan," she wrote, "I'm very proud at Co~nectl~ut. We think Louise Despres' and pleased that Ihave this many students Susan Levy and William (Bill) Butterl)' are both story I.San Impressive one. Are there any doing graduate study at Columbia. Sue is in a public on campus at one time." The students alumni who can boast more of their former health and social work degree program and Bill is at the gathered at their high school for a toast- students now at Connecticut? law school. Deborah Dube stops by for occasional VISIts with Sue,

36 tor at the UCONN Medical School in Farmington, CT Frank Kahn '80 is senior zookeeper in the Grasslands section ofthc Audubon Park and Zoological Garden at New Orleans working with hippos, rhinos, giraffes, zebras. etc. Frank is chairman of the Research Grants Committee of the American Association of Zookeepers Alice Duigon '80 is now enrolled in Yale University School of Nursing specializing in cancer nursing Robert Kintz '6] got his PhD at the U. of Rochester in 1969 and has a son. Robert Jr .. at Amherst and a daughter, Missy, who he hopes will come to Conn in a couple of years Penelope Kemp Johnston '67 received her MBA from the U, of New Haven in 1979 and is now employed by the Union Trust Company as a personal financial counseling officer in the Trust Department, She lives in her new home in Old Lyme with her l-l-year-old son, Jonathan Robert Koch '69 is manager of the production department at Hoffman-LaRoche in Nutley, NJ. Gary Johnson '76 received an MS in psychology from Southern CT State College and is currently assistant director of the Foster School. Inc, in Hamden K, Wynne Bohonnon '78 received a JD degree at the U. of Bridgcport in 1980 and married Marlene E. Macauda that same year. He is working for R. William Bohonnon in New Haven. M, Ronald Fishkind '62 is vice president of Paver Development Corporation (real estate development and property management) in Sarasota. Hazek Brown MAT '69 has three sons. Michael, Dartmouth '80; Darrell. Middlebury 'SI; and Stephen, Trinity '81. Sonia Palkes MAT '7] is studying for a 6th year degree at Wesleyan. Charles Cassara MAT'75 is on the faculty at Bcrklee College of Music in Roston and is married to Judith Severini, Conn College '68. They have two children, Christopher and Jessica. Ruth Haberkern Hammell MAT '75 has two children, Thomas Jr. 5, and Darren 3, She has been teaching physical education in the Westerly, RL schools for IS years. Dennis Michael Curran MAT '76 received his 6th year degree in 1981 from UCONN. He married Sharon Mansfield Curran MAT '77 and they have two sons, Scott SY2 and Christopher 3. He is chairman of the social studies department of Fitch High School in Lisa Rosenstein is at Emory for a PhD program in Detroit. Michigan Groton. English literature. Rosemary Burns '66 received her PhD in clinical Katherine (Kay) Ferraro Whritner MAT'76 is work- Alfred (AI) Leach has traveled extensively, working psychology from Catholic University in DC in 1973 and ing in the Waterford Public Schools. in Rome for an American travel firm and now has plans is now in private practice in Reston, VA to visit China in June. Currently he is an investigator Daniel (Dan) Kirschenbaum'72 got his Ph D inclini- Patricia Bianchi Sholgyn MAT '78 has been teaching in the Norwich Public School system for II years. with the Burlington, NJ Probation Dept. cal psychology at the U. of Cincinnati. He taught at the Deborah Caldwell MAT '79 is teaching French part- Benjamin (Ben) Robinson recently appeared on U. of Rochester and is now assistant professor at the U. time at the Williams School in New London. She lives magician Doug Hennings' television special. Ben con- of WI at Madison and happily married to Laura in Lcdyard with her husband Dan and son Andrew 2 tinues to amaze audiences in NY clubs and private Humphrey. Ana daGloria Dikan MAT '79 has two sons, Michael schools with his magical talents. Serge Edward Hadjolian '74 also has his Ph D in Samuel (Sam) Rush and Charles (Charlie) Hornet, clinical psychology and is teaching both at the Karen 2, and Nicholas 6 months Sandra lee Jackson '70 taught ar the U. of Hawaii. the famed Dash Comedy team, are filming their first Horney Psychoanalytic Center and at the New School Westbrook College in Portland, ME. and is now assis- independent feature film in Booth Bay, ME. The film, for Social Reserach as well as having a private practicc tant professor of English at County College of Morris tentatively titled HOI Talk is scheduled to be released in in NYC. in Randolph, NJ. the fall. with Sam and Charlie in the leads, Paul Abramson '74 received his PhD from UConn in Helen Ellen Langfield '70 is a radio interviewer and Paul Weiss enjoys life in SF as an analyst at Crocker 1976 and has been teaching at UCLA as an associate commentator at WNLC, New London and was ap- National Bank, In his spare time Paul builds an elabo- professor. He recently was a visiting professor of psy- pointed to the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in rate model railroad and plots new business ventures. He chology at Kyoto U. in Japan and will bc the keynote February 1983. confesses he still occasionally wakes up with a new idea speaker at an International Convention in Milano, Harold (Harry) Hemond '74 and Carol Thomson for a class party. but realizes -ttrose days have passed," Italy, in May 1983. Hemond '75 are living in Lexington, M A with their two Our class dues pay for mailings requesting news for Amanda Atwood Lindberg '75 is a psychotherapist children Brian I and Michael 4. Harry is associate this column. Please send yourdues-$5 for five years- in private practice while she progresses toward a PhD. professor at MIT, doing research on wetland biogeo- to our class treasurer, Tom Proulx, I I Perry St . New Marcia Gallup MacDonald '75 lives in South Dart- mouth, MA, where her husband is superintendent of chemistry and acid rain. Carol is finishing her doctorate London, CT 06320, in counseling and consulting psychology at Harvard Correspondent: Jifl S. Crossman. 358 Race Brook schools, She has four children of college age, Michele, Brown '82; Elise, Brown '83; Jamie, VMI '8]; and Miriam House Hutson MAT'77 lives in SI. Croix Rd .. Orange. CT06417 Denise, U Mass 'R4. Marcia is working toward her certi- where she and her husband, .lim. manage a seafood fication as a school psychologist. gourmet restaurant. They expect to move 10 Hilton Peggy Haist Capin '78 is working toward her PhD at Head. SC, this spring where Jim will work for Dunes Marketing, a real estate firm Many thanks to the people who the U. of Louisville, while also teaching industrial psy- Your correspondent retired three years ago after responded to our first appeal for chology there and working in personnel psychology GRAD teaching history at the Norwich Free Academy for 20 news from Connecticut College graduate students with Riddick Flynn and Associates. years. I have enjoyed teaching local history at Conn in Interestingly enough, the majority of the replies are Lee Sterling Jaffe '77 expects to get his PhD in clini- the Continuing Education program and have written from psychology majors! Let's hear from the rest of you cal psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology at San Diego in June 1983. He is presently a two local history books, Norwich. Ceruurv of Growth next time! and Mvsrtc Memories. Valerie Klinge Rennick '64 received her Ph D in clini- psychology intern at UCLA. Hilary Fisher Nelson '79 has taught psychology at Correspondent: Eleanor B. Read MAT 72, 604 cal psychology in 1970 and is now the director of the UCONN and the U. of Hartford and is nowan instr uc- Masons Island. Mystic. CT06355 Behavior Therapy Clinic at the Lafayette Clinic in I ,

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