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Volume 97 Issue 1 Spring 2008 Article 10

April 2008

Alumni @ Large

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Alumni Trustee Nominations James E. Cowie ’77 and M. Jane Powers therapeutic day school for emotionally ’86 have each been nominated to serve a troubled children and adolescents. A second three-year term as alumni trustees. Presidential Scholar and member of Phi Cowie, of Kenilworth, Ill., is a managing Beta Kappa at Colby, she served as an director with Frontenac Company, a private admissions volunteer, Alumni Council equity investment fi rm based in Chicago. member, and overseer before becoming He serves on the boards of four companies a trustee in 2005. She earned her M.S.W. and is a trustee of the Illinois Institute of from Simmons in 1990 and has served Technology. He earned his M.B.A. from on the executive board of the nonprofi t Stanford in 1982 and served as a member Dignity/Boston. Jane and her spouse, Peggy of the Alumni Council and as an overseer Hayes, live in Medford, Mass. James E. Cowie ’77 Jane Powers ’86 before becoming a trustee in 2005. He is According to Alumni Association bylaws, married to Kathleen M. Keegan ’77, and other nominations may be made by petition they have three sons. to the executive secretary of the Alumni are no nominations before May 1, Cowie Powers is a clinical social worker, Council with signatures of one percent of and Powers will be declared elected by the child/family therapist, and director of a the members of the association. If there chair of the Alumni Council.

30s milestones and her youngest grandson became and baseball at Colby before they went a freshman at Emory. She finds into the service. They hadn’t been in Deaths: Myron M. Hilton ’32, December 24, 2007, in Cumberland relationships with the grandchildren contact since the war and had a great Center, Maine, at 99. ❖ Richard H. Packert ’32, December 11, 2007, rewarding, fun, and a great joy in time talking about those early days at in Machiasport, Maine, at 96. ❖ Ruth Pullen ’33, December 4, 2007, her life. ✹ Mary and Gene Hunter Colby when they were Zetes. ✹ We in Camden, Maine, at 98. ❖ Robert E. Rosenberg ’33, April 26, 2007, fi nished their 10th year living in their are back in Florida for the winter. in El Paso, Texas, at 95. ❖ Cedric G. Porter ’35, December 29, 2007, in condo in Scarborough, Maine. They Dorothy went on a trip in January Newburyport, Mass., at 94. ❖ Muriel Scribner Gould ’37, January 12, now hold Thanksgiving dinner at to Australia and New Zealand. She is 2008, in Hershey, Pa., at 91. ❖ Elliott H. Drisko ’39, January 8, 2008, their son’s home in Brunswick. The joining David’s brother and his wife. in Yonkers, N.Y., at 90. last count shows they had 44 Hunters David passed up the trip, preferring attending. They have seven children to avoid the 21 days of travel. We (ages 37 to 58), 20 g ra ndch ildren, a nd recently saw Bob Sage ’49 and his wife, 40 Last summer only three of us, 47 Allie and Dick Sampson, six great-grandchildren. Among their Phyllis. We have stayed in contact Doris Rose Hopengarten, Alleen from Appleton, Wis., celebrated children, Mark is retired from a pulp with Betty Joslow. Marvin Joslow Thompson, and I, represented their 51st wedding anniversary last and paper company and now acts as a passed away around Thanksgiving our class in the Saturday parade Aug u st w it h a scen ic t r ip to A lask a up consultant to a couple of paper mills last year. We miss him and think of at Reunion Weekend. Come and the Inside Passage. In June, besides in Maine; Allen is a superior court him often, especially when we sail help carry our sign this June! ✹ greatly enjoying Dick’s 60th reunion, judge in Maine; Marcia is a doctor to Martha’s Vineyard. ✹ Our 60th Joanna (MacMurtry ’41) and Lin they traveled to Wisconsin through of psychology in Portland; George reunion occurs this spring. We are Workman sent their regrets for Ontario. Currently Dick is resting in is a vice president of the Mid Coast planning to attend! Our ranks may being unable to leave their Georgia a nursing home after suffering a mild Hospital in the Bath-Brunswick have thinned but we still anticipate home last year and come to Maine stroke, but he’s ready to go home. area; Paul is in charge of sales for a having a good time. We hope many for the summer. ✹ Ruth Gould food company covering the eastern of you will participate. —David and Stebbins has added the role of expert 48 We heard from Aaron Sandler, region of the U.S.; Stephanie owns Dorothy Marson caregiver to her many other skills who was looking forward to a visit and operates a business called Hunter and accomplishments. Thanks to her from us in Sarasota and hoped that a Promotions near Orlando, Fla.; and 49 Earlier this fall, Sid McKeen ministrations, her principal patient, mini-reunion of the classes of ’48 and Mary and Gene’s youngest daughter, wrote: “In August my wife, in Roger, has recovered nicely from ’49 could be arranged this winter on Dawn, teaches in the Cape Elizabeth collusion with my two children, threw very serious surgery for colon cancer. Florida’s east coast. ✹ David receives school system. They all graduated me a surprise 80th birthday roast in Their grandchildren are, respectively, e-mail on various subjects from his from the University of Maine. The B e l f a s t .” Mo r e t h a n 9 0 p e o ple s howe d a fashion designer in New York, 1944 roommate Howell Clement, grandchildren have attended many up, 10 percent of whom were Colby a songwriter and entertainer who who lives in Kalispell, Mont. ✹ Carol different colleges in the United States, alumni, including Sid’s wife, Anne recently toured West Coast cities Stoll Baker lives in a high-rise in Canada, and England. So far they have Fraser McKeen ’48, Frankie and Bud from Vancouver to San Diego, and a Newton, Mass. After 38 years in three lawyers and a dentist. Others Nannig, Sid’s senior roomie who bride in her second year of marriage. Needham, living in a cozy apartment are in grad school, high school, and made it up from Rhode Island, Fred ✹ One of my grandchildren, a nurse leaves time for painting (she’s trying elementary school. Mary and Gene ’48 and Charlotte Cowan Sutherland practitioner in Idaho, expects her fi rst portraiture), the BSO, the MFA, and work at a golf course near where ’50, Carol Carpenter Bisbee ’49, child, my third great-grandchild, this d i n ne r w it h f r ie nd s . R e c e nt l y Frances they live and Gene is coaching a Nancy Foreman Slaughter ’71, Sid’s year. In case you wonder, she lives with Hyde Stephan and Carol enjoyed seventh grade boy’s basketball team son Jeff McKeen ’76, and Eric Rolfson her loving, supportive husband. My an afternoon of bridge. Carol’s at Scarborough Middle School. Gene ’73. Entertainment was provided by family is traditional and that is fi ne eldest grandson recently married called Frank Strup ’44 and they Jeff and Eric, half of the musical group with me! —Ernie Marriner a young woman from England, reminisced about playing basketball Old Grey Goose International, who

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returned a few weeks earlier from a tour of Mauritania under auspices of No Excuses | Beth Pendleton Clark ’35 the State Department. In September, Sid and Anne enjoyed a great visit from old friends Betty Parker Forman Beth Pendleton Clark ’35 had every excuse not ’48 and Diane Palmer Clare. ✹ I bet to succeed. quite a few of us could report similar Family tragedies and prejudices shadowed her events. I had a small family weekend life, presenting her with challenges that could have celebration in Bass Harbor, Maine, left her bitter and defeated. in September. We had a great time Two months after she married, she learned her revisiting old haunts, enjoying a new husband had a terminal disease. Years later Friendship sloop cruise, and just being cancer claimed her son. all together. It was a doubleheader, Despite these painful losses, Clark pursued too, as we also celebrated my sister- a career in ministry, healing others while she in-law’s 80th! ✹ On Nov. 10 Hope healed herself. In the decades following her Colby (Toby) Harvey Graf attended a education, Clark earned three degrees from delightful, nostalgic 60th reunion seminaries in Boston and Pennsylvania. Along the of the Colby Eight. Clifford “Bump” way she also broke a few gender barriers. Bean ’51 and President Bro Adams She was the fi rst woman to receive her introduced the program and gave a doctoral degree in ministry from Lancaster brief history of the Colby Eight(s). Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, and while Bump founded the group, which working as interim minister she often found herself fi rst sang at the 1947 homecoming. preaching to parishes that had never listened to a About 60 alumni took part in their woman in the pulpit. different decades of then-popular “Some people objected strenuously,” Clark said. music. Lorimer Chapel’s capacity crowd cheered enthusiastically after “But most were very nice, and it certainly helped PHOTO BY TOM BOLLIER ’11 that I had the training and support to succeed.” enjoying the traditional Mood Indigo Beth Pendleton Clark ’35 and her roommate Honey. closing. Don’t you wish you’d been Clark’s spiritual and leadership training began there, too? ✹ On a less happy note, I when she was growing up in Waterville. Her father, received an e-mail informing me of John Pendleton, worked as executive director of the woman as a professor,” Clark said. “It was unusual the passing of Miriam Dickinson Baptist Association of Maine. He traveled the state, for a woman to get a doctoral degree then.” Hammond. Mim died Nov. 2, 2007, delivering sermons and working with individual In one church, a man stalked out after learning in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., at 81. Our Baptist churches. Clark often accompanied her that a woman minister would be speaking. This heartfelt sympathies to Mim’s family. father, marveling at his talent to unite people of all sort of reaction didn’t bother Clark. “My father and ✹ Keep the news coming and I’ll pass faiths and make them laugh. husband always supported me, and if someone it on. —Anne Eustis Her father believed that all three of his children, rejected me, I always thought they were the ones including his two daughters, should receive a with the problem,” she said. 50 Charles Lord writes: “It’s college education. Clark and her siblings enrolled In between preaching Clark worked other jobs a small world. Last September my at Colby. to help support her children and pay for their wife, Colette, and I, with two other “Minister’s children got half off their tuition, college educations. “It wasn’t easy, but you just couples, took a trip to France. The but it was still a hard time to be paying for school have to rely on your strength and faith,” she said highlight of our trip was a week during the Great Depression,” Clark said. “I can still Years later Clark had to fall back on her faith on a barge from Dijon on the old remember my father sitting in his chair, counting once again. She lost her son to lung cancer, and Bourgogne canal through 50 locks his pennies when he got home from work.” her daughter was diagnosed with the same kidney to many small villages. The fi rst day Clark majored in sociology at Colby because disease that claimed Clark’s husband. At age 81 out we stopped, waiting to get to the she wanted to help people. After she graduated Clark didn’t think twice about what she needed to lock, and I started a conversation with she enrolled in the Andover Newton Theological do: she donated a kidney to her daughter, Beverly a woman (Mrs. Weiss) who was from School intending to study religious education. Daggett. Colby with her husband in charge of a After she met her future husband, John Clark, she Her mother’s gift allowed Daggett to transcend group of students for a semester. She decided to join him and become a minister. She her own gender barriers while serving in the Maine was most surprised when I told her received a bachelor’s degree in 1938. Two months Legislature. In 2002 Daggett’s colleagues elected that I went to Colby many years ago. after they married, Clark learned that her new her as the fi rst woman president of the Maine The fall issue of Colby magazine on husband had a terminal kidney disease. State Senate. “When you have a mother with a Dijon was just wonderful and captured “For fi fteen years I knew he was going to die,” strong personality, it helps you to persevere the the ambiance of the city, where we Clark said, “and during that time I was trying to bumps in the road,” Daggett said. enjoyed the walking tour and sites. get myself into a position where I could raise my Now 93, Beth Clark doesn’t dwell on “bumps We spent four days in Paris and three children and face life without my husband.” in the road.” And she isn’t ready to “give up living” in Lyon, and I must say the French In the years after her husband’s death, Clark yet. She reads passionately, laughs often, and people we encountered were friendly, continued to study ministry, earning her master’s talks about the importance of peace “to anyone helpful, and willing to assist us with at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in who will listen.” directions, shopping, restaurants, etc. Philadelphia (now Palmer Theological Seminary) in “Doggone it,” she said. “I’m not going to quit I did some homework before the trip 1968 and her doctorate from Lancaster in 1981. doing things.” with language lessons, as my French “At the time, men didn’t even want to have a —Barbara Walsh was quite rusty.” Charles is retired. He and Colette have seven children, two boys and fi ve girls. They have a

42 COLBY / SPRING 2008 ho me o n L o n g Po nd , B e l g r a d e L a k e s , 40s milestones 1920s-30s-40s Correspondents and spend August there each year. ✹ Alan Silberman had very sad news to Deaths: Frank L. Jewell ’40, January 11, 2008, in Laconia, N.H., at 88. 1920s-30s report. His son, Bobby, Class of 2003, ❖ Constance L. Tilley ’40, January 10, 2008, in Gaithersburg. Md., 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947 died Sept. 26 after an 18-month battle at 89. ❖ Daniel F. Daley ’41, July 23, 2007, in Fairfax, Va. ❖ Robert W. c/o Meg Bernier Boyd with Ewing’s Sarcoma. Bobby’s sister, Pullen ’41, October 24, 2007, in Waterville, Maine, at 88. ❖ Romeo J. Colby College Alison, also went to Colby, Class of Roy ’41, May 17, 2006, in Waterville, Maine ❖ Jane Leighton Carr Offi ce of Alumni Relations 2000. We send our deepest sympathy ’42, May 4, 2007, in Reading, Mass., at 88. ❖ Emanuel K. Fruman Waterville, ME 04901 to Alan, Mary, and Bobby’s sisters. ’42, October 25, 2006, in Jessup, Pa., at 85. ❖ Milton W. Hamilt ’42, 207-859-4312 ✹ Harriet (Sargent ’48) and George January 11, 2007, in Kennett Square, Pa., at 84. ❖ Eleanor Cornish [email protected] Wiswell enjoyed an extended trip to Martin ’42, October 17, 2007, in Woonsocket, R.I., at 86. ❖ Charles [email protected] Spain, visiting Madrid and Seville. To Fred Pearce Jr. ’43, January 29, 2008, in Gloucester, Mass., at 87. ❖ [email protected] return stateside, they boarded the Sea Jane Lodge Stradley ’43, October 10, 2007, in Keblesville, Pa., at 87. ❖ [email protected] Cloud II, a square-rigged sailing ship Donald M. Johnson ’44, September 25, 2007, in Windham, Maine, at with wonderful accommodations, 1940 meals, and lectures. At one point 86. ❖ Roslyn E. Kramer ’45, October 7, 2007, in Newton, Mass., at 83. Ernest C. Marriner Jr. when they were short of wind, ❖ Edward H. Smith ’45, August 26, 2007, in Portland, Maine, at 86. 10 Walnut Drive the captain put over a safety boat, ❖ Priscilla Weeks Currier ’47, October 28, 2007, in Exeter, N.H., at Augusta, ME 04330-6032 lowered the gangway, and they went 81. ❖ Paul A. Choate ’48, August 16, 2007, in Auburn, Maine, at 79. ❖ 207-623-0543 swimming 1,200 miles from shore in Richard W. Billings ’48, November 15, 2007, in Montville, Maine, at [email protected] 80-degree water. Next spring Harriet 83. ❖ Mildred Schnebbe Riordan ’48, December 20, 2007, in Somers, and George will travel on the Colby N.Y., at 82. ❖ Alice Crooks Austin ’49, September 18, 2007, in Eliot, 1941 alumni trip on a canal barge through Maine, at 79. ❖ Charlene Bickford Bartlett ’49, November 20, 2007, in Bonnie Roberts Hathaway Holland and Belgium. —Betsy (Dudie) Auburn, Maine, at 80. ❖ Miriam Dickinson Hammond ’49, November 8366 Trillium Road Jennings Maley 2, 2007, in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., at 81. ❖ Samuel T. Horne Jr. ’49, Ft. Myers, FL 33912 239-936-2732 November 3, 2007, in Waterville, Maine, at 83. ❖ Anne Whitehouse Kate and John “Crif” [email protected] 51 Miller ’49, November 26, 2007, in Tenants Harbor, Maine, at 80. ❖ Ivan Crawford are in the midst of A. Yeaton Jr., ’49, July 31, 2007, in Concord, Mass., at 86. moving to a retirement community 1944 in Boulder, Colo. ✹ After spending Josephine Pitts McAlary the summer getting work done on watercolor lessons and teaches bridge Their four sons live locally—one 131 Russell Avenue his house, William Burgess planned at her local senior center. ✹ Ann and daughter teaches in D.C. and the Rockport, ME 04856 another cruise to the Mexican Riviera Rick Tyler traveled to Africa during other lives in Massachusetts. Eight of [email protected] for seven days at the end of December. the month of November. ✹ Loretta their 11 grandkids live nearby. Anne 1946 ✹ Chet Harrington enjoyed a sunny “Rex” Mearns Setter had to evacuate is involved in their small live theater Shirley Martin Dudley vacation in Montego Bay, Jamaica, her home during the fi res in her as a supporter, usher, fundraiser, etc. 639-C Fairmont Avenue before Thanksgiving and looked community in California; fortunately In her church she participates in a Safety Harbor, FL 34695 forward to a family reunion upon she and her cat were able to stay with variety of active ministries and started 727-726-4116 his return. He keeps in touch with a relative for four days. —Barbara a grief ministry several years ago. She Ted Shiro, George Wales, and Don Easterbrooks Mailey remains a volunteer for hospice as an [email protected] Hailer ’52, who pass on news of other “11th hour” volunteer and is called to 1948 classmates. ✹ D ow n i n F lo r id a , Ernie 54 Diane Chamberlin Starcher sit with patients in their fi nal hours. David and Dorothy Marson Fortin keeps busy fi ve, sometimes spent time last summer in Wisconsin, She enjoys reading about Colby 164 Commodore Drive six, days a week as president of the a great week in September in Sardinia, and all the progress. Come see for Jupiter, FL 33477 Meadows Community Association, four days in Haifa, Israel, in early yourself, Anne. It’s quite spectacular! 561-575-2967 where he oversees 8,000 residents, a November, and the remainder ✹ The Ed Ducharmes returned [email protected] small paid staff, and a great number of of the year in the United States this fall from Budapest, where their volunteers. He loves the job and will visiting children and her sister Sue son, Paul, is principal of the middle 1949 m i s s it w he n h i s t er m i s up t h i s s pr i n g. Chamberlin Trauger ’60. ✹ Sue school of the American School. They Anne Hagar Eustis Through his sister-in-law Marjorie Johnson and Dick Leerburger and had a wonderful time but picked up 24 Sewall Lane he keeps in touch with Duane Hurd, his wife took The Blue Voyage trip a nasty bug they hope to cure as Topsham, ME 04086 who married Marjorie in 2005. They to Turkey in October. Another trip they winter in St. Pete, Fla. ✹ Peter 207-729-0395 have a lovely cottage on Embden Pond to the Ukraine/Romania/Black Sea Dostie reminisces about how lucky he [email protected] in Maine and a home in Florida. area is planned for 2008 and Sue would was to spend the fi rst 22 years of his love to fi nd a roommate. Sue spent life in Maine. He still has many friends Academy and hopes to enter the 53 Professor Alice Colby-Hall Thanksgiving day in Richmond, and family, including his 93-year-old naval air program at Pensacola and retired from Cornell University after Va., with Freeman Sleeper, his four mother, living in our great state. Pete fl y F-15s following graduation. Wife 43 years of teaching medieval French children, and several grandchildren. enjoys racquetball and bridge, doing Karen (Lawrence ’67) just opened a literature. She still reads material in ✹ Does anyone else out there have Meals on Wheels, and ushering at new Italian restaurant called Rocca a variety of languages for personal “memory fl ashes” when you see a church. He and his wife, Shirley, in Boston’s South End. George keeps enrichment. ✹ Carolyn English Caci Colby sticker on a car? —Art Eddy travel extensively and manage to see working. ✹ Lee Culver Johnson was visited Ginnie Falkenbury Aronson their grandchildren four or fi ve times the only ’55 attendee at the annual in Virginia then spent time with 55 Greetings classmates. Thanks a year. ✹ George Haskell’s daughter, February luncheon in Sarasota. Lee Tommi Thompson Staples, which to all who sent news. ✹ Frank and Alex, is a sophomore at Colby and is visited with Bob and Sistie Restall included a bus trip for them to New Anne Mc Gowan Kubic lead a “quiet doing well. She is the youngest of his Horne at Sistie’s older brother’s Yo r k C it y t o s e e Martha Friedlaender. life” in West Virginia. They no longer six daughters. Number fi ve daughter, funeral service. Harriet Sears Fraser ✹ Electra Paskalides Coumou takes raise sheep but have cats and a dog. Kate, is a senior at the U.S. Naval w a s a l s o t he r e . I ’m g l a d t o h a v e H a r r ie t

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50s milestones and generous, wining and dining us, concert. The Eight sang by decades, giving the royal tour of the island and the late ’50s group (era, not age) Deaths: Donald E. Wentworth ’50, January 6, 2008, in Kennebunk, and their lovely home overlooking was excellent. Bo looked forward to Maine, at 80. ❖ Barbara French Brandt ’51, December 30, 2007, in Waikiki and Diamond Head. Jube the Magic of Christmas concerts and Westford, Mass., at 79. ❖ Richard P. Yeager ’51, June 17, 2007, in even found the house I lived in as a singing with the Choral Art Society Waynesville, N.C., at 77. ❖ Donald Silverman Cameron ’52, September kid during the war.” ✹ From Donald and Portland Symphony in March. ✹ 9, 2007, in Snyder, N.Y., at 78. ❖ Diane Sargent Larsen ’52, November Dunbar comes news that Penguin Since returning from his bike trip in 27, 2007, in Jacksonville, Fla., at 76. ❖ Sandra Thompson Cyr ’53, published his book What You Don’t Austria this past summer, Laurent December 29, 2007, in Bangor, Maine, at 75. ❖ William J. Yskamp ’53, Know Can Keep You Out of College, Roy started a new workshop, the November 18, 2007, in Oakland, Calif., at 77. ❖ Sophia Hadgigeorgiou reviewed both by Amazon with a Family Effectiveness Workshop, Krallis ’54, November 14, 2007, in Koropi, Greece, at 74. ❖ Ernest W. four-star rating and by Publishers intended for parents trying to Weekly. “It came out July 5 and is develop communication skills. It’s Flick ’55, December 15, 2007, in Newburyport, Mass., at 73. ❖ Peter B. selling well as it is the fi rst book a fascinating process under way for Oram ’55, April 18, 2006, in Jupiter, Fla., at 74. ❖ Mark F. Sawyer ’55, written about the importance of his research and eventual book—I January 23, 2008, in Gothenburg, Neb., at 75. ❖ Donald D. Gerry ’56, character in the admissions process.” wish I had the space for a complete November 19, 2007, in Bourne, Mass., at 73. ❖ Russell A. Nahigian ’56, ✹ Dave Sortor invites us all to visit explanation of the process. ✹ Ed January 31, 2008, in Arlington, Mass., at 73. ❖ Jean Haurand Furman his avocation, the Sherborn Inn. White and his wife are very much ’57, December 14, 2007, in Bridgewater, N.J., at 71. ❖ Ralph D. Weston “Rosemary (Crouthamel) and I are enjoying their fi rst grandchild. Ed Jr. ’58, November 16, 2007, in Sarasota, Fla., at 72. ❖ Marjorie Anderson celebrating the Inn’s 20th birthday helped set up a community justice Ferguson ’59, May 9, 2007, in New York, N.Y., at 69. in 2008. We’re looking for someone committee at his church in Phoenix, to continue the inn but would still hoping to keep young people out like to remain active in some way.” of the overloaded court system. An about a mile away from Jack and me that Barbara Nardozzi Saxon is an Dave also noted that in President enjoyable trip for Ed was surfcasting in Falmouth. Lee keeps in touch elegant lady and was an incredible Adams’s address to the Class of 2011, at Rocky Point in Mexico and actually with roommate Johanne Freiheit hostess when he visited her in Dover/Sherborn High School, along catching some fi sh to put on the Broker and had lunch recently with Maine from California last August. with Milton Academy, had the most grill. ✹ Colette “Kyp” Piqueres Dottie Dunn. Lee divides her time “Miraculously, she arranged wall-to- acceptances. “Both schools are close Greenwood traveled to Chicago between Stratham, N.H., and Osprey, wall Colby events: boating with the by and were attended by our children where she and her husband were Fla. “Best of both worlds,” she says, Frasers, sailing with the Sortors, and grandchildren. Both are excellent treated to a Cubs game at Wrigley sending her best to all. ✹ Joy and Peter dining with the Zambellos, Rosens, academically.” David, you sound Field. Then it was on to California Parsons cruised around the Black Sea and Henry Taron ’55,” Bill recalls. like a realtor! ✹ Thus far, nobody and Utah to visit her two sons; a from Athens to Istanbul and Cairo. “Barbara also magically turned into has solved the Charlene Roberts road trip took them to Colorado in They spent fi ve days in Greece with a publicist for my book, arranging a Riordan-Russian connection. We’re late August before heading home to friends who took them to the coast of reading at that great little Southport still hopeful. Until then, John and I Las Vegas. ✹ Charlie Smith spent a the Ionian Sea. Pete says “beautiful Library and introducing me, with send greetings and bid you to keep in late fall weekend at Hope and Bob mountains dropped right into the sea no noticeable embarrassment, to touch. — Joan Williams Marshall Pettegrew’s ho me i n H a nc o c k , N. H . next to white beaches reaching out everyone in sight.” Great story, Bill. Dot and Mac Blanchard were on t he i nt o t he d e e p blu e w at e r.” ✹ Jane (Daib ✹ A recent highlight for Susan Miller 57 The year is winding down after scene as well. They did some hiking ’58) and John Reisman enjoyed their Hunt and Ruthann Simmonds a glor iou s aut u m n here i n M a i ne, a nd and touring of Peterborough and yearly trip to Maine’s Linekin Bay. Mac Kinnon was having lunch it hardly seems possible that another Hancock, a beautiful area of New They caught up with the Zambellos with Baird Whitlock, whom many column is due. A big thank you to England. ✹ Our adventurous “two and entertained Jane’s ’58 Tri-Deltas: fondly remember as the humanities everyone who sends their news in to old hippies” (that’s a direct quote), Fran Wren Raymond ’58, Willie Mc instructor who introduced us to us—your responses are great! ✹ Jim Nancy and John Conkling, set off Donald Sawyer ’58, Cindy Allerton music and art appreciation. Professor and Nancy Hansen Marchbank after our reunion in their 1989 VW Rocknak ’58, and their husbands. Whitlock, now 84, had a brilliant traveled to Russia in late August. camper to drive around Labrador, John and Jane plan a Danube cruise career after leaving Colby and now Their adventures began in Moscow Newfoundland, and Quebec for three this fall and look forward to a 50th lives with his wife, Joan, in Belfast. then continued on a riverboat to St. weeks. Irrepressible! ✹ Dick and wedding anniversary in 2008. ✹ What The Hunts, by the way, recently Petersburg and an exploration of that Marilyn “Perk” Perkins Canton a difference this year from last! The moved back to Mass., delighting fascinating city. While Jim held the were off to Egypt in January with high Red Sox are World Champions, the their friends in the Sherborn area. f o r t b a c k ho me i n L au r e l , Md ., Na nc y hopes that Perk does not end up on too Boston Patriots were undefeated, ✹ Janet Nordgren Meryweather (not wanting to lose her momentum) frisky a camel as she crosses the desert and, as I write this during the holiday visited with Peter and Betty Ré at set off in early November on a bus or her current Achilles heel problem season, I’m grateful for all of our the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. trip to Spain and Portugal. ✹ Cedric will be the least of her worries! ✹ Janet blessings including our wonderful “Dr. Ré conducted the BSO when Harring enjoyed a Colby alumni trip Kimball Clymer will remain in the class! More news in 2008 if you keep I lived in Bangor and was active to Italy in July, which included the same nursing home probably for the it coming. —Ann Burnham Deering in the Symphony Women’s Club,” lakes district, Cuomo, and Milan. duration of the winter. She is making Janet writes. “The very fi rst class I The opera house La Scala was terrifi c. limited physical progress with therapy 56 Greetings classmates. Thanks had at Colby was with Peter in the Mac has four weeks of Elderhostel but no progress with her speech. She for sharing your news and views. women’s union. What a great entreé skiing planned in Colorado and loves and appreciates cards and notes. The names and places you mention to college life!” ✹ Peter and Hope Utah for the winter months. Perish Her current address is Langdon Place, evoke beautiful memories. It’s great Palmer Bramhall celebrated their the thought that 72-year-olds sit at 136 A Arch St., Keene, N.H. 03431. ✹ to hear how close so many of you 50th anniversary with their entire home in their rocking chairs! ✹ In Keep the good news coming! —Guy still are. ✹ Kudos to Lucy Blainey family in Kauai. This memorable early November Bo Olsen attended and Eleanor Ewing Vigue Groening and Katie Coon Dunlop event continued into a second week, the 60th-anniversary reunion concert for being fi rst responders to the when they connected with Tess of the Colby Eight; about 60 alumni 58 Harry and Joan Shaw Jeopardy! challenge! Your prizes and John Jubinsky on Oahu. Hope returned to Colby for two days, Whitaker recently went on a special are waiting. ✹ Bill Wyman admits writes, “They were so welcoming culminating in the Saturday night Colby reunion cruise from Boston

44 COLBY / SPRING 2008 ✹ to Bermuda with members of Sigma a town get permission to enroll Saudi Arabia in the distance. Bob 1950s Correspondents Theta Psi. Their high point came the children of battered women in Keltie had a father-son refereeing one evening with a rousing rendition a shelter, and helping a N.H. high opportunity this past summer in 1950 of Hail, Colby, Hail on the top deck school win an award by substantially Pompano Beach, Fla., when his son, a Betsy Jennings Maley of the cruise ship. They’ll be at our reducing its dropout rate.” Don lawyer in Denver, visited. Last spring 479 Ridgeview Road 50th and hope all classmates plan to and Jean frequently visit friends in his son was selected to offi ciate the Orange, CT 06477 attend. ✹ Kay (German ’59) and Al London and cousins in Inverness, Frozen Four, the NCAA Division [email protected] Dean attended George Denneen’s Scotland. “Our time in Maine is I hockey championships, and thus funeral in June. Al read from the Bible divided between our cottage on Peaks has progressed as far as he can as 1951 at the request of Wendy (Mc William Island (where I grew up) and visiting a nonprofessional hockey offi cial. Chet Harrington Denneen ’60). Lois and Peter Doran friends up the coast.” He also writes Father and son were momentary Outpost Hill were also present and Bob Saltz local history and helps bring racial and celebrities in the Ft. Lauderdale 757 Newtown Rd. attended the wake the day before. ethnic groups together. ✹ Yours truly sports pages due to Bob’s 32-plus Villanova PA, 19085 Al, Kay, George, and Wendy traveled has just returned from three weeks in years on ice as a referee and his son’s 610-688-6374 together in recent years on cruises to Africa, where the many, many faces of success. Bob still referees 25 to 30 [email protected] Alaska, the Panama Canal, around that great land are simply stunning. games monthly. ✹ Denny Kellner 1952 South America, and, George’s last, June is coming up fast, dear friends. Palmer and her daughter Elizabeth Janice Pearson Anderson to Mexico last February. ✹ The Tau Make your plane reservations now went to Guatemala on a program 237 North Main Street, Apt. 221 Delts recently lost another classmate, ’cause we’re planning a great program called Safe Passage. The program, South Yarmouth, MA 02664 Aaron Schless, who passed away and of course aiming for a record founded by Hanley Denning, a 508-760-4221 from cancer in New York City in attendance! —Beryl Scott Glover native of Yarmouth, Maine, and [email protected] September. Our sincere condolences a Bowdoin graduate, is meant to to his family. ✹ Dave Adams attended 59 Since last summer the oldest rescue the thousands of children 1953 the 60th anniversary Colby Eight granddaughter of Elaine (Healey who spend their days rummaging Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey reunion in November. He said this ’62) and Paul Reichert has been in through the huge garbage dump in 80 Lincoln Avenue event “was really a high point in my Iraq with the U.S. Army. In August Guatemala City. The Palmers spent South Hamilton, MA 01982 life. There were 60 in attendance Elaine and Paul went to Winnipeg, eight days with a group of seven 978-468-5110 [email protected] spanning from the early ’50s when Canada, and St. Paul, Minn. St. Paul seeing how these people live and the the group was formed. To reclaim had just had a windstorm and looked various educational facilities that 1954 the ‘old songs’ and to struggle with like Florida after a hurricane—trees have been built by this miraculous Arthur Eddy the more complex newer ones was down and blue tarps on the houses. program to help break this chain of 12 Red Bird Lane magical because of the memories Paul reports no Florida hurricanes poverty. Hanley was a great part of Lakeville, CT 06039-2216 and friendships. Peter Bridge and again this year. In January Paul the week. Her spirit of giving was so 860-435-9778 I sang the ‘bari’ and sometimes the and Elaine expected visitors from inspirational and so productive that [email protected] ‘lower weirdly’ parts.” Note: The Costa Rica, and in February they’ll Denny and her daughter returned 1955 “Eight” will sing on Saturday night visit friends in Bogota, Colombia. to Maine with a new lease on life. Ann Burnham Deering at our 50th reunion. How’s that They had a 225-pound wild boar Sadly, Hanley was killed at age 38 27 Hedgerow Drive for an incentive to come! ✹ Linda in the neighborhood, which is now in a Guatemalan bus crash. The Falmouth, ME 04105 Corcoran Smith-Criddle and Kay providing spare ribs and pork chops. ✹ program continues, however, and 207-781-3041 Stanwood Honsberger met for After 30 years of providing animals for Denny keeps in touch with the [email protected] lunch recently and made a pact to the movie industry in New England, program by sponsoring an 18-year- develop a list of classmates whom Carlene Price White has started old (who is in the fourth grade). 1956 they hope to see at our 50th and to a service-dog project—a charity She also volunteers for the Maine Joan Williams Marshall contact them as an encouragement to that trains dogs that are donated to Handicapped Golf Program and is 4495 S Highway A1a, Apt. 201 attend. Maybe others would like to people with disabilities. The primary on the auction committee to benefi t Melbourne Beach, FL 32951 follow suit. E-mail ideas and names purpose is to provide Great Danes the Opportunity Farm for Boys and 321-951-7403 to Linda at [email protected]. for veterans returning with mobility Girls in New Gloucester, Maine. She [email protected] ✹ Dick Campbell fi nally retired in problems. The 40 Danes on her farm visited Donald and Penny Burns 1957 March and writes that he will now i n I p s w ic h , M a s s ., k e e p t he v olu nt e e r s Winship in Bremen, Maine, where Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue ✹ have time “to enjoy some leisure busy. Last summer Eileen and Al they are working hard improving 238 Sea Meadow Lane years in York, Maine, and for Jeanne Wilbur spent nearly a month in their house and their beautiful Yarmouth, ME 04096 and me to visit our son and three Egypt touring all of the usual sites land, having moved from Indiana. 207-846-4941 daughters’ families in New Jersey and from Alexandria to Cairo and to Abel Denny keeps busy with family and [email protected] Ontario. Eight grandkids will keep Simbel just north of the Sudan border. seven grandchildren in Maine and things active! Through the Alumni Perhaps the greatest adventure was San Francisco. ✹ The planning has 1958 Council I get back [to campus] a few crossing over into Sinai. At 2 a.m. started for the 50th Reunion, which Beryl Scott Glover times each year and am continually they, along with their Bedouin guide, will be here all too soon. Please plan 4953 Wythe Place impressed by the giant steps the climbed Sinai, approximately 6,500 to attend. —Joanne K. Woods Wilmington, NC 28409-2081 College has made over the years.” feet, on a switchback trail used by [email protected] Dick and Jeanne will be at our 50th. people, camels, and donkeys. After 60 Peter “Mac” McFarlane had 1959 ✹ Glad to hear that Don Kennedy’s three and a half hours of climbing a scare in 2005 when he suffered a Joanne K. Woods been retired for seven years after using fl ashlights, the reward was long bout with atrial fi brillation. 27 Haven Way being school superintendent in three the fi nal climb on 750 steps hewn Fortunately he now has a pacemaker Ashland, MA 01721-4404 Massachusetts districts. Don has led out of rock and very uneven. At the a nd i s b a c k t o h i s no r m a l a c t i v it ie s a nd [email protected] over 100 studies in all six states for the summit was the monastery that has no longer feels constantly tired. In New England School Development been there more than 1,000 years and May the McFarlanes went on a cruise Council. “My favorites were helping the spectacular sunrise looking off to from New York to Southampton,

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60s newsmakers above average in percent of giving to camp this year, Tom and Dorothy the College and we want to do even Boynton Kirkendall traveled to Gene Bullis ’67 was appointed executive better for this eventful reunion. The Paris on a business trip, spending vice president and chief fi nancial offi cer at key is not in the amount of the gift but two weeks in France, two weeks The Hanover Insurance Group. He brings in the fact that we all contribute to cruising the Mediterranean, and one “an exceptional record of success working the best of our ability. All gifts given week in Greece. Tom testifi ed at the with large public companies, both inside from now until reunion count toward International Chamber of Commerce and outside the insurance business,” said the big check that represents our class hearing on satellite failures; he’s The Hanover’s CEO. As CFO Bullis is gift. Remember—the 50th reunion been consulting on failure analysis, responsible for fi nancial operations and is FREE. If anyone has suggestions materials, and reliability of satellites investments. ❖ Stephen Schoeman ’64 was as to what you might like or want since he “retired” from COMSAT in named director of the Environmental Law to do, please let us know. —Jane 1993. While at camp in October, they Gene Bullis ’67 Section of the New Jersey Bar Association. Holden Huerta attended three concerts and three physics lectures at Colby’s Family With a Ph.D. in political science from NYU and a J.D. from 61 Anne Lehman Lysaght sadly Homecoming Weekend. Their plans UPenn, Schoeman heads a section that promotes improvement and reports that her husband, Hank, for 2008 include a February bareboat professionalism in the practice of environmental law. He also lectures died Nov. 10 of a massive cerebral sail in the Caribbean with two sons widely on national and international affairs. ❖ Alden Wilson ’69, hemorrhage. They were married 44 and families (three generations of nine the longest-serving state arts director in the nation, recently stepped years. Diane continues, “I am happy sailors on a 52 footer) and another down as director of the Maine Arts Commission. Wilson’s leadership to announce that my son, Mark, Holland America cruise through the placed the arts community of Maine in a strong position, and he left and his wife, Heather Lounsbury Panama Canal to Vancouver with a the agency at a time “when it can support the arts for the arts sake,” ’94, gave birth to a boy, Zachary, in Canadian Mountaineer Rockies train he said, on Maine.gov. August.” ✹ Paul and Penny Dietz tour afterward. “Our children have Sullivan are happily settled in New told us to spend their inheritance, milestones Bern, N.C., where they moved in so we’re trying to comply!” ✹ Sandy December from their rental to a Nolet Quinlan sends an intriguing Deaths: Dana F. Danforth ’66, December 21, 2007, in Belfast, Maine, newly-built house. They still work invitation: “Dean and I have had a at 63. from home at their software business, busy but delightful summer and fall, GURU NETworks. They traveled highlighted by our twice-yearly visit U.K., with stops in Boston, Halifax, retiring—though not just yet. ✹ to Phoenix for Thanksgiving and to Labastide Esparbairenque, France, La Horta and Ponta Delgada, Azores, Carole and Donald Williamson got reunited with their daughter and where my daughter, husband, and twin Cork and Waterford, Ireland, and to see Don’s roomie Ed Marchetti three grandchildren at their son’s three-year-old boys live. Amazingly, Plymouth, England. It was so much and Patti at their place in Newport, house. Penny saw Carla Possinger my son and his wife bought a little fun that they made the crossing the R.I., in October. They played golf, Short (who is doing fi ne!) at their ‘pied de terre’ right next to the La other way in early October, departing toured Newport, and watched the 50th high school reunion. ✹ Wendy Muse Writers’ and Artists’ Retreat Rome to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., with Red Sox in a playoff game—can’t Ihlstrom Nielsen writes, “Bob and (www.LaMuseInn.com), which is stops in Livorno, Italy, Monte Carlo, beat a visit like that! ✹ Judith I welcomed our fourth grandchild the business/home that they have Barcelona, Valencia, and Almeria, Allen Ferretti and her husband in October, Robert James Nielsen, created. When I tell my friends I did Spain, Ponta Delgada, Azores, enjoyed three back-to-back trips in born in Arizona to our son and some painting, they think ‘artist!,’ and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. In October. The fi rst was fi v e d a y s i n S a n his wife, Amy.” Wendy and Bob while I really mean ‘paint,’ as in Colorado they were waiting for the Antonio, the second was three days traveled to Scottsdale to greet the seven doors! Gardening, ‘painting,’ snow to begin, with skis waxed and at the International Hot Air Balloon new addition; they enjoy visiting and babysitting in a tiny French ready to go. Pete fi nds it hard to Fiesta in Albuquerque, and the third two other grandchildren in Virginia, mountain village are treasured believe that he’s in his 70th year and was four days in San Francisco, where where they travel frequently. Wendy experiences I could never have that it’s only three years to our 50th Judy had a Scholarship America continues, “We are now retired to envisioned while at Colby. How reunion. Pete attended his high school board meeting. She had her fi rst hot N i a nt ic , C o n n ., a p a r t of E a s t Ly me o n I wish I’d pursued those French 50th and resumed old friendships as air balloon ride, amidst 400 plus the shore. I’m volunteering with the courses! We fi nished this European though there had been no intervening balloons in Albuquerque, and she Florence Griswold Museum in Old visit by driving from pousada to years. ✹ Arthur Calfee has news highly recommends it. She’s busy Lyme and the East Lyme Auxiliary pousada in the northeastern part of of a good thing happening because this year as chair of the board of of Child and Family.” ✹ From Denny Portugal. These national historic, of Hurricane Katrina. Their son trustees at Mount Ida College in Dionne: “Mary and I are currently government-owned hotels are so Davidson was working in the sales Newton, Mass., which just fi nished wintering in Sarasota, Fla., where special. One feels privileged to be department of the Isle of Capri a 10-year accreditation visit by the we get together with Norm ’58 and sampling Portuguese history in such Casino in Biloxi when the winds hit. New England Association of Schools Charlotte Clifton Lee, Penny a unique way. Returning to Kittery, Dave lost his rented house, most of and Colleges. ✹ In September Hilary and John Wilson ’60, Sandy and Maine, we are once again ensconced his belongings that didn’t fi t in the and Dick Lucier rented a country Jack Sinton ’60, and Joan and Rush in the Portsmouth, N.H./southern trunk, his job, and any reason to house in rural Burgundy, toured the Oster. This past July, Mary and I Maine area life. We are literally three stay around. He drove back home wine country during the fall harvest, attended the Alumni College and minutes from exit 2, immediately to Cape Cod and decided to learn and concluded their trip by attending thoroughly enjoyed being on campus after crossing the bridge into Maine, the insurance business to join Art’s the opening night of the opera in during the summer. From Colby, and hope that Colby classmates call agency. “After 28 years in the business, Paris. ✹ Jonathan “Jock” Knowles we fl ew to Alaska and stayed in a and drop in for a glass of French I can fi nally say that one of our kids reminds us that we’re gearing up for wilderness lodge 200 miles northwest wine!” ✹ Aloha. —Diane Scrafton has returned home,” Art says. Dave our 50th reunion. Carolyn Webster of A nc ho r a g e . O u r e i g ht h g r a nd c h i ld Cohen Ferreira bought a house in Sandwich, Mass., Lockhart is chair of the fundraising recently arrived and we enjoy time which makes Art think he’ll stick committee, which met twice this fall; spent with all of them!” ✹ In addition 62 Ron Ryan retired as president around and, he hopes, take over the m a n y c l a s s m at e s h a v e b e e n r e c r u it e d to spending their customary three of the Flyers after 18 years but will agency. Then Art can think about for this effort. Our class has been far months at their Belgrade Lakes remain as a consultant. ✹ Patty

46 COLBY / SPRING 2008 Downs Berger, who retired in 2003 a Baltic cruise and couldn’t get over from her fi rst career, as a physician, how beautiful St. Petersburg was. has had her paintings exhibited in Jean plays tennis and golf. ✹ Harmon “If I have seen further than others, various locations in Boothbay Harbor Withee retired from his second career and Southport Island (Maine). Patty in May. He and his wife returned to it is because I was standing on has summered on Southport Island both Colby and Bates for brief visits all her life and her paintings depict in the summer of 2006. ✹ John the shoulders of giants.” her experiences there. ✹ University Chapman says his wife, Allison, “is of Maine Anthropology and Marine working hard as I am hardly working.” — Sir Isaac Newton Sciences Professor James Acheson They have grandchildren all over the was named the 2004 winner of country, hence need to do a better the American Anthropological job building a travel budget. ✹ Ellie Association’s Kimball Award for Tom linson enjoyed her experience effecting change in public policy. as our alumni class president for ✹ Gerry Tays had bypass surgery the past fi ve years. Now retired, she this past February. He’s now in the spends her time painting, gardening, best shape in his life having dropped biking, kayaking, reading, playing excess weight, is exercising, and squash, attempting golf, and seeing watching his diet. The wakeup call friends. ✹ Cy Theobald coached has worked for him and he highly football for 30 years at Kent School. recommends a healthy lifestyle for In June 2006 he was honored by all. ✹ Dennis Connolly has become being inducted into the athletic a grandfather for the fi rst (and by this hall of fame at Kent. In September reading) a second time. His youngest 2006 Kent further honored him by just graduated from high school. dedicating the football fi eld to him. Dennis continues working, enough His greatest achievement, however, to keep his brain cells active, as a was characterized by a former player: litigation consultant and testifying “He didn’t make us good football expert witness. ✹ Pat Doucette players, he made us good men.” Cy’s Light reported that her roomie coaching philosophy was greatly Perhaps you didn’t know it at the time, Joan Phillips Boes passed away in infl uenced by his playing days at but your experiences at Colby were made possible October 2006 from leukemia. Pat Colby under great coaches Bob is retired and enjoying her teenage Clifford and John Simpson. ✹ Alice by those who came before you–alumni grandchildren’s sports activities as Shest Loffredo wrote and published who believed in the value and importance well as travel with her husband. ✹ Perfect Together: Astrology, Karma, and Peter Duggan rented a beach house You this past summer. You can fi nd of the Colby experience and who provided for in Florida last winter. He and Mary more at AstrologyKarmaAndYou. Colby’s future by building the endowment. enjoyed it so much t hey plan to spend com. Alice is remarried and lives near a month in Florida each year. Pete got the ocean in New Jersey. She has two himself in shape with beach exercise grown daughters and still loves all Your gift can make a difference. classes. He is chairman of the board things French and is now convinced Let us show you how. of a small prep school, the Storm there’s a past-life connection involved. King School in New York. Pete’s —Patricia Farnham Russell grandson has been diagnosed with We would love the opportunity autism. He would like to hear from 64 Well, my recent request for any of you who can share knowledge news didn’t elicit much response, so to talk with you about your fi nancial about autism. ✹ Joanne Herbold this is short and sweet. I did, however, and philanthropic goals. Clarey t r a v e le d a r ou nd Ne w E n g l a nd get the following “tricks” for telling this past summer promoting her the difference between stalactites new thriller, Skinned, the sequel to and stalagmites: Stalac-tites have to Twisted Truth. Joanne writes not only hold on tight, so they hang down. Susan Conant Cook ’75 or to engage and entertain but also to Stalactites sound like attic so they are educate the reader about issues that above you. C is for ceiling and g is for Kate O’Halloran deserve their attention and action. A ground. T is for top, so stalactites are Gift Planning at Colby portion of the profi ts from the sale of on top. ✹ My sp or t s que st ion brought 800-809-0103 Skinned w i l l b e d o n at e d t o he lp v ic t i m s news from Skip Thayer: “Winning of human traffi cking in the U.S. ✹ any championship, amateur or [email protected] Sandra Rollins Kilgore has really professional, is an emotional high enjoyed the summer get-togethers that is pretty much beyond the with her Tri Delta classmates who spoken or written word. I was in have rendezvoused in Mass., Maine, professional hockey for 28 years and N.H., and N.C. They always have a was fortunate to be with a team that fantastic time reminiscing, laughing, won two consecutive Stanley Cups. Please join us for our Creative Gift Planning storytelling, and eating! ✹ Jean I was able to share those moments Gaffney Furuyama still practices with my sons, one of whom actually seminar on June 6, 2008, during Reunion Weekend. dentistry full time and is active in wo rk e d w it h me a s a n a s s i s t a nt t r a i ne r dental circles. She and Toshi took for both cup years. Unfortunately we

COLBY / SPRING 2008 47 alumni at large lost him this past February, suddenly, February 2008 with President Bro skills vanished immediately, but no August—over 250 miles with sunny to cancer. It was devastating, to say the Adams. The Krinsky herd of 11 problem, as her fi rst plan was to have skies and good winds. Ruth visited least, but the memories we shared, the enjoyed a family cruise on the Disney no plan—at least for awhile. She is her mother in Rockland, Maine, then great times we had, go toward helping Wonder i n November 20 07. W it h fi ve savoring more new-grandson time, she and Bill visited their daughter us get by his passing. I have stayed in grandchildren ages 3 to 9, it was a not having to commute in snow, in Raleigh, N.C., and were able to touch with Al Smith, one of my fi rst fun time in Nassau. Lew is currently staying awake to watch movies, see their son-in-law’s climbing gym friends on campus back in the fall of senior VP branch manager, private enjoying rather than dreading b u s i ne s s j u s t b e f o r e it o p e ne d . Bi l l h a d 1960. Enjoy the euphoria of the Red wealth management at Baird & Co. evening orchestra rehearsals, reading, fun playing in the Colby President’s Sox Nation. You deserve it. It is a in Houston. ✹ John ’63 and Nancy and she may even do volunteer work Golf Tournament in June 2006, even special time for the players, coaches, Godley Wilson spent fi ve weeks at Forgotten Felines, source of her though he didn’t win anything! ✹ trainers, and management, AND last summer with their son and a three furry companions. ✹ Natalie Economics professor John “Daisy” the fans.” ✹ Bruce Snow has retired forester clearing land on Deer Isle, Bowerman Zaremba also retired in Carvellas now teaches only fall from his careers in geology and data Maine. The Wilsons are building 2007. Anne, the younger daughter of semesters at St. Michael’s College in management and is now tutoring in a a year-round house that should be Frank ’64 and Natalie, was married Ver mont . He hop e d t o g o s ome w here program called Volunteer Instructors ready for summer 2008. “The physical in Portsmouth, N.H., on a gorgeous warm for part of the winter. Of being Teaching Adults, in Lafayette, La., labor was a change from my 30-plus September day and the newlyweds a volunteer football coach at a local where he assists in the computer lab years of teaching French but it was a joined the whole family for a week’s high school, he writes, “Fun, but and works with ESL students. He has wonderful way to start retirement,” vacation in Kauai. ✹ Florida realtor seven days a week was a lot for this had students from Peru, Spain, Cuba, Nancy writes. ✹ Your correspondent Gary Mc Kinstry surprised his old body.” Wife Betty (Savicki ’68) and China and says it is like traveling ran into Jay Gronlund at my 40th prep school drama teacher on her has retired after 39 years of teaching without leaving home. ✹ L ot s of ne w s reunion at the Amos Tuck School of 80th birthday in Santa Fe last fall. and works part time for the National from Susan Woodward this year. Business at Dartmouth last October. She received cards from 90 of her Academies of Science. ✹ Gary Knight She has retired, bought an RV, and Jay and his son Peter climbed Mount students and still performs. Gary, a sat in the stands for game four of the begun an odyssey across the country Kilimanjaro last August. ✹ Your realtor, expects his business to do well World Series, witnessing the Red Sox with her cat. After a rally in Marion, correspondent is aware that the late during the winter season in Sarasota, sweep of the Rockies and turning N.C., to meet people and gain some Caesar Seferian was a graduate of Fla. Gary says, “I can best describe his class correspondent green with tips, she set off for New England on Colby, not Hogwarts. The reference our current market by mimicking a envy. ✹ Russ Monbleau has a new a trial run. Then in November she to his “racing porches” was a victim Dickens line: ‘It was the best of times grandchild. “Another boy—that headed west, towing her car. Lots of Lord Voldemort’s jinx and should and the worst of times.’ The good news makes eight grandsons and two of adventure, including the part have referenced “Porsches.” ✹ for buyers is that prices are lower and granddaughters. And now Joyce and where the engine wouldn’t start and Gordon Corey succinctly reported the inventory selection is extensive. I are ‘raising’ my parents.” —Meg the nearest mechanic was 75 miles “Not in jail. Not in hospital. Bills The bad news for sellers is that the Fallon Wheeler back the way she came. Then a cold paid. Life is good. Summer at prices are lower and the competition rainy weekend spent in the wrecker’s Cumberland, Maine, fairgrounds, is greater.” ✹ Liz (Drinkwine ’68) 67 A mini-reunion of ’67 ladies parking lot. But it’s been pretty much currently training 35 yearlings at and Ted Houghton spent the had Vic ’68 and Judi Greer deForest all sunshine since then, covering Pinehurst, N.C. Be happy, be well.” winter in their RV in Florida again, as hosts, and a great time was shared Texas in a couple of days seeing lots Good advice! Hail, Colby, Hail! volunteering at a state park in Flagler by Betty Coffey Gross, Charlotte of cattle, horses, and oil rigs. At last —Dick Bankart Beach. They frequently check in from Killam, Kathy Denehy Lewis, she arrived in New Mexico, settling in “somewhere on the road.” Track them Donna Lumpkin, Cindy Paquet, just before a rip-roaring storm rocked 66 Debbie Anglim Higgins, at http://map.datastormusers.com/ and Kathy Haskell Whittier. The the RV and kept up for 24 hours. Lydia “Barry” Clark Hews, Doug user1.cfm?user+6079. Last summer, laughter was just as loud as 40 years Then she began to enjoy the beauty and Beth Adams Keene, Karen Ted scanned his slides from the ago in the dorms. ✹ Charlotte Killam of the desert Southwest. She says she Riendeau Remine and friend Joe ’60s and has posted some Outing and her brother Steven worked off can’t believe she’s actually doing this! Pacheco, Mandy and Fran Finizio, Club photos at www.toad.fobria. and on for fi ve years, with many —Sara Shaw Rhoades Mary and Stan Marchut, Donna com. A history buff and avid reader, laughs, before fi nishing their book (Kievit ’68) and Bob Thompson, Ted read Ron Chernow’s Titan, a Empty Nest. Steven, a graphic artist, 65 “Here come the judges.” Jim Linda O’Connor McDonough, biography of John D. Rockefeller supplied the illustrations while Foxman is called “the elder judge” Lynn (Longfellow ’65) and Gary Sr. ✹ Karen Riendeau Remine Charlotte, a retired English teacher in an article from the News-Journal Knight, Mary Sue Hilton Weeks, traveled to Colby last October to from Greenwich, N.Y., supplied the of Daytona Beach, Fla. In the photo, and Meg Fallon Wheeler met hear Madeleine Albright speak. Ms. raucously funny rhymes about a the proud circuit judge S. James in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in Albright mentioned having to pose in family of geese who have ‘fl own away’ Foxman is shown with his son David, September 2007 for dinner and an her underwear for a posture picture and found success in careers ranging newly appointed county court judge in overnight. Those with good sea her freshman year at Wellesley. Sound f rom arch itect , to mar i ne, to Playboy Volusia, Fla., and son Matt, assistant legs ferried to Monhegan Island familiar, ladies? Karen wonders what centerfold, and sumo wrestler! ✹ Ann state attorney. The “elder” Foxman on Saturday while the landlubbers became of OUR pictures. ✹ Bill and “Wendy” Christensen participated hears family court cases in Smyrna shopped. Dinner Saturday night and Ruth Loker Ingham’s 2007 highlight in the 21st Annual Open Studios in Beach, Fla. After Colby Jim went to a Sunday brunch at Mary Sue’s home was a three-week trip to Italy and the Alston Arts District in Boston law school at the University of Miami. completed a wonderful weekend. ✹ France. The trip included a cruise in November. Her color-splashed He was a military judge for the U.S. Sue Turner saw Linda Hall Lord, down the Croatian coast around the landscapes may remind you of a Air Force and moved into private Kay Tower Carter, Anne Ladd horn of Italy to see Sicily and Corsica place you’ve been, or would like to practice before becoming a judge in Carlson, Ted Houghton, and Geoff plus Sorrento and Pompeii. They visit. Check out her work at www. 1979. Jim is one of six local lawyers Quadland and their families on her took the night train from Rome to annchristensen.com. ✹ Sookie in the Foxman family. ✹ Ellen and 20 07 t r avel s . She’l l ret i re a s profe s sor Nice and visited Bill’s cousin’s son- Stockwell Weymouth is planning Lew Krinsky attended the wedding of Spanish at College of Charleston in-law, a young Frenchman starting to retire after 18 years as a VA nurse. of Michael Gilman’s daughter Rachel this May. ✹ Betty Ann Hernberg a winery in Provence and turning That’s hard to believe knowing she in Bristol, R.I., in August 2007. Lew Went retired last November after out some wonderful wine! Bill sailed participated in a marathon with her worked with the Colby development 38 years with Catholic Charities. She a friend’s boat from Germany to daughter, Heather, in Rochester, N.Y. offi ce to plan a campaign event in says her impressive time management northern Denmark in eight days in ✹ David Chait has lived in Omaha

48 COLBY / SPRING 2008 for the last 25 years and practices week, my father broke his hip en route Borchers, Walt Young, and Bill 1960s Correspondents medicine and does research in voice to the airport to go to Florida for the Palombo, as well as Sebs Mamo ’70 problems at the Boys Town National winter, so my parents were sent from and Steve Magyar ’71, attended a 1960 Research Hospital. Dave will retire Dulles airport to the nearest hospital, memorial service Oct. 21 for Colby Jane Holden Huerta 3461 Tallywood Lane in the foreseeable future and plans to where they remained for a hip track teammate Tom Maynard ’69 Sarasota, FL 34237 live in southern Mexico. ✹ For Gene replacement. Suddenly we become the in East Hartford, Conn. Both Ken 941-586-7333 Bullis there is no retirement talk. parents to our parents and, ironically, and Sebs spoke at a gathering of over [email protected] Gene recently was named executive my daughter was ‘my parent’ the 100 friends and family. Tom passed 1961 vice president and chief fi nancial two days we fl ew to Maryland for away Aug. 25 in Durango, Colo. Bob Diane Scrafton Ferreira offi cer for The Hanover Insurance my sister’s funeral.” ✹ “He was the Field ’67 and John McClain ’69, who Pihanakalani Ranch Group. ✹ Dave Aronson has no high school teacher we all wished played with Tom in the Colby jazz PO Box 249 immediate plans to retire either as he for, someone inspiring, challenging ensemble, were also there.” ✹ Walt Pa’auilo, HI 96776 plans on working and playing for some and caring. To thousands of former Young writes: “I notice that there is a [email protected] time to come. The playing refers to students at Manchester High School, d e f e n s e m a n n a me d M i k e S e l f pl a y i n g 1962 Dave’s pitching and playing fi rst base [Phil Stearns] was such a teacher, one for the Fresno Falcons in the ECHL. Patricia Farnham Russell in the Yawkey League in Boston. In never to be forgotten.” These are the C ou ld he b e r e l at e d t o M i k e S e l f ’ 70?” 181 Maine Avenue fact, last summer Dave was inducted opening lines of moving obituary for —Peter Jost Millinocket, ME 04462 207-723-5472 into the Yawkey League Hall of Phil Stearns, who died this past fall [email protected] Fame—an accomplishment that can in Connecticut. For Phil’s students, 69 I hope everyone is looking make all of us feel a bit younger. ✹ colleagues, and friends the night sky forward to a warm, cheerful, happy Nancy MacKenzie Keating Patty Jenks accepted the position has lost another star. ✹ Write when spring season. It’s hard to believe our 2292 Ferndale Drive of gallery curator at Western New you can. —Robert Gracia 40th reunion is only a year away! As Decatur, GA 30030 England College in Springfield, the time approaches for us to revisit 1963 Mass., and is having a great time 68 Jane Finkeldey Stephenson Mayfl ower Hill, I hope that many of Karen Forslund Falb meeting new artists. She gets to visited with Gregg Crawford, Dana you will write and let me know what is 245 Brattle Street continue her own art work, mostly Heikes, and Donna Massey ’69 for an happening with you so I can share your Cambridge, MA 02138 abstract painting, and has access to a October weekend. Dana still practices news in the next few editions of Colby. 617-864-4291 larger st ud io space. I n add it ion to her as a plastic surgeon in Charleston, ✹ Susan Johnston Morse writes that [email protected] new job, Patty and her partner, Joan, S.C. Gregg is retired and living in her son Canaan ’07 returned to China 1964 have a new grandson, born last May. ✹ Greenfi eld, Mass., and is the father of and is now at Qinghua University in Sara Shaw Rhoades Jim Katz got birthday tickets to two two recent Colby grads. Jane thinks Beijing for the year preparing for the 76 Norton Road events on the same day in Ottawa—a she’s persuaded Gregg to come to his National Chinese Language Exam. Kittery, ME 03904-5413 talk by the Dalai Lama and Arlo fi rst Colby reunion. ✹ Ted Brom fi eld Susan and her husband ended the fall 207-439-2620 [email protected] Guthrie’s Solo Reunion—Together at sends greetings from “a fi nally sunny pressing cider (they grow heritage Last concert. He managed to attend San Diego, where we had quite the apples such as Cox Orange Pippins, 1965 both! They were not as different as fi restorm: 500,000 people evacuated which Thomas Jefferson grew) and Richard W. Bankart one might imagine, says Jim, “Both and approximately 1,500 homes lost. over the winter will be preparing to 20 Valley Avenue, Apt. D2 Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 are good-humored storytellers. Arlo A l l i s we l l at C ap s t o ne w it h t he d u s t i n g expand their maple sugar operation. 201-664-7672 plays better guitar, though.” ✹ The of ash now completely dissolved and ✹ Linda Gray Martin has lived in [email protected] Massachusetts College of Liberal the air back to its autumn splendor.” Hampden, Maine, for the past 27 1966 Arts in North Adams, Mass., recently Ted chairs the 40th (gulp!) reunion years and has no immediate plans Meg Fallon Wheeler named Christine McCarty Lozano committee and encourages everyone for retirement. She works as the 19 Rice Road assistant professor. Christine earned to join in. Ted says, “We really offi ce manager and tax preparer in PO Box 102 her doctorate from the University have gathered a great ensemble of her husband Dewey’s CPA practice. Waterford, ME 04088 of Texas and taught at Southern talent (modestly excepting myself) Although the practice is successful, 207-583-2509 Connecticut State University before consisting of Skip Fucillo, Steve Linda and Dewey claim their greatest [email protected] joining the faculty at MCLA. ✹ Ford, Elise Gregory Hood, Bruce success to be their children. Their 1967 Charlie and Sally Ray Bennett Kueffner, John Leopold, Brad oldest son, Tyler, earned his Ph.D. in Robert Gracia are off to Peru and will send more Merritt, Judy Mosedale, Thom spring 2007 in chemical engineering 2 Sherman Street information when they return to Rippon, Mike and Olive Niles Shu, at MIT and is working for Orono Roslindale, MA 02131

Rhode Island. After a stop at home, and Steve Ward. Each of us has been Spectral Solutions, a chemical Sally and Charlie will travel to busy individually contacting our engineering consulting company Judy Gerrie Heine 21 Hillcrest Road Florida and then the whole family will class members and enlisting them in Orono, Maine. Their second Medfi eld, MA 02052 congregate in Virginia to celebrate an in celebrating our ‘Fun Fortieth’ by son, Daniel ’01, a summa cum laude 508-359-2886 anniversar y. If that were not enough, contributing at least $200,000 to the performing arts major, lives in [email protected] they leave for Finland in June. ✹ Colby Fund and reaching the lofty Hollywood, Calif., and is currently 1968 After reunion last June, I had the g o a l of 6 8% p a r t ic ip at io n , e q u at i n g t o in his third season as a producer Peter Jost pleasure of dining with Eric Rosen our hallowed year of graduation! To with Dancing With the Stars. Their 65 West Main Street and Jim “Yukon” Thomas while Jim meet these goals, we really need the daughter, Laura, is in her second PO Box 5389 visited the Boston area. The dinner support of our far-fl ung classmates, year of graduate work in clinical Clinton, NJ 08809 conversation mirrored some of the so whether you can join us at the 40th psychology at Boston University’s [email protected] recent news in the class column: reunion or not, please validate your School of Medicine. ✹ Susan 1969 travel, retirement, and retirement membership in the 1968 link of the Mansfi eld Pogue enjoys retirement Ray Gerbi plans. ✹ Sandy Miller writes, “My Colby chain of classes with a generous and has more time to volunteer. 26 Columbus Avenue news is mostly sad. My sister fi nally contribution. Celebration of the 40th She co-chairs her local hospital Concord, NH 03301-3119 passed away at 58 after a valiant fi ve- will begin early and go late!” ✹ Rich foundation community fund-raising 603-224-3642 [email protected] year battle with cancer. The same Lewis writes: “Chris Balsley, Ken drive and volunteers at the hospital

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as well. In January she began serving as membership chair of the Friends A Homo Sapien’s Homo Sapien | Rick Horton ’77 of the Library, a group that supports and raises funds for the public library. ✹ Early in 2008 Alden Wilson, the Rick Horton ’77 is nation’s longest-serving director of defi nitely an animal a state arts agency, expected to leave guy. His qualifi cations his position as director of the Maine include studying tree Arts Commission after 33 years. He snails on Britain’s will move from Wiscasset, Maine, to ✹ Isle of Jersey, helping California. It would be wonderful to hear from many of you for the next establish a wildlife edition. You don’t need to wait to center in his home state receive a notice to send information of Massachusetts, and in, just sent it along anytime! —Ray working for the reptile Gerbi gardens in South Dakota. And does he have 70 Congratulations to Wayne the scars to prove it? Blanchard, Vermont’s outstanding Defi nitely. school counselor of the year! This While strolling down a award recognizes “distinguished path marked with signs contributions to school counseling” for the sea lions ahead, and honors “outstanding innovations” Horton fl ipped over his in counseling Vermont youths. Wayne right palm and traced a is “excited and honored” to be among fi ssure of scar tissue like Rick Horton ’77 is the grants manager at The Oregon Zoo Foundation. He works counselors he admires who have with a variety of organizations to raise private and charitable funds for the zoo. a stout lifeline. “This is received this recognition. ✹ Mary from a woodchuck that Merrill Metcalf is interim librarian we used for Groundhog Day in Connecticut. Then Foundation was invited to participate in 2001, for the Greensboro (Vermont) somewhere around here a big boa implanted his and in two years Horton helped raise $2 million to Free Library. Mary has a master’s tooth into my skin. I carried that around with me ready for the arrival of condors. from the University of Arkansas for years until my body fi nally rejected it, and it In 2003 the zoo acquired 12 of these enormous in international relations, as well popped out,” he explained, pinching the web of and highly endangered birds of prey. Isolated in a as extensive administrative and skin between his thumb and his index fi nger. center 20 miles east of the zoo, the birds, a rare computer experience at Vermont Horton no longer handles animals; instead, he species of vulture, are cared for with minimal Mutual Insurance and Copley lives vicariously through the staff at Portland’s human contact. Working toward a population Hospital. She is completing her Oregon Zoo. As the grants manager for The Oregon goal of 150 (two captive and one non-captive library certification through the Zoo Foundation, Horton is still actively involved in population of 150, among other criteria, are Vermont Department of Libraries. animal rehabilitation, conservation, and education, required to move from endangered status), the In an interview with the Hardwick but his hands do not get dirty in the process. center has hatched nine condor eggs since its Gazette, Mary described her focus “Now my job entails a little of everything,” he said, creation and released two adults. as librarian: helping people get standing before a large seawater tank that is home Horton explained that the team also teaches access to resources, both in print to two eight-foot sea lions. “My job is like a logic the birds basic survival lessons for a modern world. and on the Internet. Greensboro is puzzle,” Horton said. “There are two interested Previously, condors died after landing on power Mary’s hometown. Her husband, parties, the zoo and the funder, and I need to make poles in the wild. “We subject them to a mild shock Mike Metcalf ’68, teaches at Hazen sure they intersect.” [atop a mock power pole] at the recovery center, Union School. Their two sons serve He primarily deals in private and charitable and they will never make the same mistake again.” in the military. ✹ Bill ’69 and Karen funds, which do not simply entail raising funds for And what is it like to see a condor released into Knapp Lyons were in Ireland new exhibits or entertainment venues for the zoo’s the wild? Horton’s eyes glisten. “It’s a remarkable last summer. Bill was teaching in visitors. Many of the services that Horton and the sight,” he said. Limerick when Karen visited; she was Oregon Zoo orchestrate occur far from the heavy Zoos have an important education and scholar-in-residence at the Centre for plated glass or knobby wooden railings. “We work conservation mission—and can serve as a respite Medieval and Renaissance Studies with all sorts of groups. For example, I just focused from a stressful world. After 9/11, Horton said, at Oxford University. Back home, Karen is still associate director of the on a deal with a forest organization about helping admissions at the zoo steadily increased, despite honors program at the University of us prepare for a potential forest fi re,” Horton said, the inverse effect on the economy. “People Nebraska-Lincoln. Bill teaches law gesturing toward the tree-covered hills. “The zoo like to see animals. They are interesting and at the same university. Their Maine is surrounded by a park forest, so it’s important to entertaining, and they make people feel good in a coast retirement home is almost take the right precautionary measures to protect very pure manner.” fi nished. ✹ Gary and Leslie Seaman the zoo’s well-being.” “Here, people can take a break from the news Zema visited Kit Wells Poland in One project focuses on the well being of headlines or the crises at home,” he said. “Spending Madison, Maine, just after a “tornado” a remarkable species. The Oregon Zoo is time at the zoo is just refreshing and relaxing.” (actually a microburst) hit the lakeside participating in the California Condor Recovery —Robin Respaut ’07 where they were to stay. Kit and Program, a federally led project aimed at Leslie watched “heavy equipment reclassifying the status of the birds from moving huge pine trees like pick-up endangered to threatened. The Oregon Zoo sticks.” Despite “pushing 60,” both enjoyed some lake kayaking. ✹ Chris

50 COLBY / SPRING 2008 Crandall loves singing again—in Newport area, give them a call. ✹ I open her own law fi rm in Bentonville. together with Larry Kominz, who the Seattle Women’s Chorus (www. encourage all of you to send me news She will become the president of the is a Japanese professor at Portland fl yinghouse.org/swc/). “We do some whenever the spirit moves you. I will American Center for International State University in Portland, Ore. really complicated music,” writes always save what news you have for Policy Studies and will continue as Larry helped Phyllis write the Chris, “which makes my brain fi zz the next issue of the magazine. — Ann an AMCIPS director. She is also Japanese character for “Beiju,” which a bit, but it’s good for me.” Chris, E. Miller on the board of the N.W. Arkansas is the celebration for one’s 88th who retired from Microsoft in chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research birthday—for Phyllis’s dad. Larry 1995, has been doing some editing 73 Gail Andrews McCarthy Foundation. Susie visited Janice and Phyllis met at Festival Japan, (mostly fi ction) and volunteering. left her job in June and enjoys Johnson Peterson in Wilmette, Ill., where Larry performed a traditional She loves Seattle and has a great life. doing church volunteer work and in July. ✹ After 10 years as Arizona Japanese dance. Phyllis also sees Sally ✹ Debbie (Stephenson ’68) and Phil traveling. On a trip to China, Gail State University’s vice president for Hall ’02 as they both belong to the Wysor celebrated their 38th wedding rode a zip wire off the Great Wall! research, Jon Fink is now ASU’s Aurora Chorus. ✹ Havard Jones, anniversary. When their daughter, Her son was scheduled to deploy to chief sustainability officer and who resides in Washington, D.C., Jess ’03, marries Nat Chamberlin ’03, Iraq in February. ✹ Norm and Pat director of their Global Institute is proud of his new grandson, Seth they will become a third-generation Flanagan Olsen h a v e r e t u r ne d t o t he of Sustainability. The Institute has Christian Jones, born Oct. 12, the Colby couple. Phil’s Colby couple U.S. after spending 22 of the past 25 an overall focus on studies of rapid same day Havard’s mother was born. parents were members of the Class years overseas with the U.S. Foreign urbanization, and the job change ✹ Ed Hatch is recovering well from a of 1942. Phil, Debbie, and their Service, most recently in Tel Aviv, means that Jon can professionally st roke he suf fered in 20 05. H is w ife is sons (and grandchildren) live in where Norm was political counselor justify wearing sandals to work, a division president at Readers’ Digest Marblehead. Phil sends his best to and Pat was a teacher and principal of driving a Prius, and having solar and his two sons, Kevin and Connor, fellow ’70 classmates. ✹ Kathy Hill the American International School’s panels on his roof. Jon is also enjoying are in eighth and sixth grades. ✹ Wade, who lives in Amarillo, wonders middle school. They left Tel Aviv on being the parent of teenagers, Laurel, Mick Chapuk is currently teaching which classmates are living in her area. their sailboat in June, cruised across 15, and Andy, 11. ✹ After graduating painting and drawing at Northampton Let’s hear from you! ✹ Regardless of the eastern Mediterranean and along from Colby, Malcolm Tucker taught Community College in Bethlehem, where you live, please let us know the coast of Turkey for two weeks, high school math for 25 years in N.Y. Pa. He recently juried a show of local what you are up to, especially if we and then spent a month at their home He now works for GEICO managing artists at the Allentown Art Museum. haven’t heard from you lately. —Deb in Cherryfi eld, Maine, along with their national college recruiting He also got together with Brian Fitton Mansfi eld son and daughter-in-law Patrick ’02 program and enjoys being on college MacQuarrie for brunch. Brian is and Teresa Hawko Olsen ’01 and campuses. He has three daughters writing a nonfi ction book about a 71 As autumn unfolds into winter new grandson Colin. Norm is now and a granddaughter, is remarried, murder in Massachusetts. Mick also once again, it’s time for me to let based in Washington as an associate and lives in Maryland. —Roberta saw Norm Rattey, an attorney in you know the happenings of some coordinator in the State Department’s Rollins Wallace Portland, Maine, and Doc Zeller, of our classmates. Not too many of Offi ce of Counterterrorism. ✹ Several who does research for an investment you responded to my request for classmates returned to campus this 74 Deborah Wathen Finn’s fi rm in Century City in Los Angeles. news this time and thus, there isn’t fall to celebrate the 35th anniversary daughter, Stephanie, graduated cum Mick visits Tom Sullivan once a a plethora of information for you to of the 1972 football season. That laude from Colby in June 2007 with year in Centreville, Va., where Tom peruse. ✹ Fred Copithorn writes team was Colby’s fi rst to fi nish with an international studies major. Deb manages a palliative care facility. ✹ that, although he hasn’t “changed seven wins and only one loss, and and Libby Corydon-Apicella are The Rev. Jean L. Wahlstrom was the world” as he thought he might in no team has done better since then! both College Overseers and sat on the recently named the new pastor of May 1971, he’s preparing for retirement. Those returning were Peter Card dais as the class graduated. Libby had a Memorial Unitarian Universalist He h a s ret u r ne d t o t h row i n g p ot t er y, (all the way from Biloxi, Miss.), Brian “surrogate” daughter graduating that Society in Syracuse, N.Y. ✹ Linda he just took an oil painting class, and Cone, John Krasnavage, David day as well. Other Colby classmates Krohn’s daughter Lindsey Vonn, he has his eye out on eBay for a French Lane, Duncan Leith, Joe Mattos, in attendance included Vicki Parker an Olympic skier, was married Sept. horn. In addition, he says, “Now I and Alex Wilson. The late Luke Kozak, Jill Gilpatric Richard, Janet 29. Linda said it was the best day of just have to fi nish remodeling the Kimball was remembered in a toast (Hansen ’75) and Bruce Drouin, as her life—her two triplet sons walked house.” His message ends with, “So at the anniversary dinner. ✹ After well as Barbara Gregory Lyons ’73. her down the aisle, and her other two really, I have no news.” Go, Fred. ✹ working as director of development Deb’s aunt Ruth Pratley Madell ’63 daughters were co-maids of honor. Bobby and Judy White Brennan for the Audubon Society of Rhode also attended graduation, making ✹ I am now entering my 26th year still live in Middletown, R.I., near Island and then in the same position three generations in the family who of consulting in the areas of audio, Newport. Judy is still in nursing and for Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, are Colby grads! While in Denver, web, and video conferencing, and my is now concentrating on psych and Wells Pile became a part-time Deb saw Robin Sweeney Peabody, practice has had a surge in business gerontological nursing. She earned freelance fund raiser in 2004. And, who is host, along with Linda with the resurgence of “telepresence,” her master’s from Salve Regina recently, he became a student again! Krohn, for a gathering of the “Dirty thanks to John Chambers, CEO of University and hoped to become He i s e n r ol le d at T he L a nd i n g S c ho ol Dozen” (Colby graduates). ✹ Jeff Cisco. —S. Ann Earon certifi ed in gerontological nursing in Kennebunkport studying marine Barske returned to Mayfl ower Hill early in 2008. She’s also done work systems and is looking forward to to celebrate 60 years of the Colby 75 After graduation, Ellie Betz with hospice and rehabilitation. Much work on and around boats and ships. Eight. With more than 70 voices in Hess moved 20 miles away from of her winter is spent going to her son’s His son Craine is working on satellite all, each group rehearsed on Saturday campus to Freedom, Maine, where basketball games. He’s now the coach! communication systems and his other and sang to a standing-room-only she and her husband raised three Judy often sees Karen Mahanke, who son, Austin, is a senior at Colorado crowd in the chapel Saturday night. daughters. With an empty nest, they lives in Newport with her husband, State. Austin has also spent several Jeff was in a group spanning ’69 to moved to the Marshall Islands. She Tim Brown, and their three children. years playing and traveling with ’86 and enjoyed catching up with is the chair of the developmental They see Nancy Neckes Dumart the U.S. Men’s Field Hockey team. Paul Boghossian ’76, with whom education department at the only and Linda Chester about once a ✹ Susie Yovic Hoeller resigned Jeff sang in the Colby Eight while in college in the country. Ellie teaches year. They all take advantage of the in August 2007 from the legal college. He also had a nice chat with math and science and is learning summer events in Newport and love department at Wal-Mart Stores in Sue Conant Cook ’75. ✹ After 33 a language spoken by only 60,000 having company. If you’re ever in the Bentonville, Ark. Susie is going to years, Phyllis Hasegawa Auger got people. ✹ Quite a distance from

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70s newsmakers home in South Carolina. Gary daughters—Mackensie, 13, Lindsey, writes that Scott is a principal 10, and Cameryn, 4. The Browns Wayne Blanchard ’70 won the 2007 Jim partner with an accounting fi rm in volunteer with a local soup kitchen Cawley Outstanding Counselor of the Year Portland, Maine. The Belangers are and Meals on Wheels. Mitch would Award for distinguished contributions to now grandparents. Gary’s daughter, love news about Ambrose Cheung school counseling and for outstanding Lauren, was expecting last October. and Bill Silverman. (Let’s hear from innovations in counseling Vermont youth. She teaches inner-city fi fth grade in you guys!) ✹ A well-traveled David A counselor at Springfi eld High School, Chicago and lives near Gary’s son, Systrom did his once-a-decade Blanchard is “a change agent... always Josh, a chef who runs the Chicago check in. David is a pulmonary researching new ideas, programs, and ways of restaurant Spring. ✹ David ’75 and critical care physician at Mass doing things that support students’ growth,” and Harriet Buxbaum Pinansky General Hospital and directs the said the school’s newsletter. ❖ Maine State are proud that both their children Harvard Medical School Fellowship Wayne Blanchard ’70 have now graduated college. Sarah Training Program. He teaches, sees Archivist David Cheever ’72 is working to completed her degree in art from patients, and does clinical research on bring a 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence home to Maine. Northeastern. Sam earned his Ph.D. mechanisms for exercise intolerance. The copy, from Pownalborough (now Wiscasset) is in private hands in theoretical physics from UC-Santa He volunteered in Banda Aceh after in Virginia after a series of private sales. Cheever told the Morning Barbara and was headed to Japan the tsunami and traveled to Iran last Sentinel, “Some things are not for sale, and this is one of them.” ❖ Jon for postdoctoral work. Harriet and year as part of an effort to defuse Fink ’73 was named Julie A. Wrigley Director of the Global Institute of David are counting the years until tensions through scientifi c exchange. Sustainability and chief sustainability offi cer at Arizona State University. retirement, when they can spend AND he was just in Melbourne, Long committed to sustaining environmental qualit y, Fink will oversee all summer at their farmhouse in Australia, as a visiting professor. and coordinate components of ASU’s sustainability efforts, including Sebago, Maine. ✹ Karen Smith Daughter Hannah and son Conor research at the institute and educational programs at the School of Clark has enjoyed reconnecting to both play ice hockey. ✹ Lisa Wolman Sustainability. ❖ In March Karen Heck ’74 was inducted into the Maine Colby through her older daughter, Haber is closing her travel company Women’s Hall of Fame for nearly 30 years of work on behalf of women now a Colby senior. Karen moved and joining Reid Travel in Boca and girls. Best known as one of three founders of Hardy Girls Healthy to the Berkshires recently and is Raton, where she handles exclusive Women, a Waterville-based nonprofi t, Heck has had leadership roles director for maternal and child health cruise and land travel packages. at a local hospital. She and her family She remains active with Small Paws in many local, state, and regional organizations dedicated to gender visited Ireland last summer. Among Rescue, a nationwide Bichon Frise dog equality and social justice, the Morning Sentinel reported. ❖ Sam work, family time, and renovating a rescue group. ✹ That wraps up this Koch ’79 is the 2007 NSCAA/Adidas Regional Coach of the Year for Victorian house, she writes “Life is column. Craig, Val, and Paul—I’ll men’s intercollegiate soccer in New England after leading UMass to 12 good!” ✹ While David Christie is catch up with you next column. Lastly, winning seasons, averaging more than 10 wins per season, and going watching others discuss the trials and if you just read this column you must to the NCAA Final Four this year. The Daily Hampshire Gazette quoted t r ib u l at io n s of b e i n g “e mp t y ne s t e r s ,” care about Colby. So please help out him saying, “There are a lot of people who have made this team what it he and his wife are busy raising an with a donation to the Colby Fund. is. I’m proud of all them.” 8-year-old. David works at Atkins Help keep the Class of ’76 among the Printing Service in Waterville but leaders! Thanks, everyone! —Robert milestones lives on the coast in Lincolnville, Weinstein where he leads contemporary worship Deaths: Frederick H. Burr III ’71, January 13, 2008, in Manhattan at his church. He occasionally runs 77 Greetings classmates. Kent Beach, Calif., at 58. ❖ Richard J. Gleason ’75, February 13, 2008, in into Joe ’75 and Joanne Defi lipp Womack, our very own hall-of-fame Mansfi eld, Mass., at 53. ❖ Ellen C. Ross ’78, July 3, 2007, in Basking Alex at UMaine hockey games. ✹ environmentalist, informs us that Ridge, N.J., at 50. ❖ John A. Lancaster ’79, December 2, 2007, in Ann Beadle writes that the last two his family is back in Maine after Caribou, Maine, at 51. years have been diffi cult, since her two wonderful years in Brisbane, husband, Gary Millen ’74, passed Australia, where he was on expatriate away unexpectedly. She has helped assignment establishing The Nature Marriages: Arthur W. Radcliffe Jr. ’79 to Peggy Burdick in Old a local foundation in Conway, Conservancy’s first office Down Saybrook, Conn. N.H., raise funds to build the Gary Under. Since his entire family is back Millen Stadium, scheduled to open in the States we can assume that no in September 2008. Meanwhile she dingoes stole his children. Kent is the empty nest is Curt Brown. He Karen reports seeing classmate Will returned to work full time at Echo now running TNC’s program in married Carol in 1998 and they Tut t le in concert and enjoying his computer consulting. And, on a bright Canada. The telecommute must be have an 8-year-old daughter, Anna, breathtaking piano pieces. Will and note, she’s met “a wonderful guy rough. His biggest project involves and a son, Ben, 5. Curt is coaching his wife, Madeleine, are still on the (although a Middlebury graduate).” an effort to protect the entire British soccer, watching SpongeBob, and road presenting lectures, concerts, They plan to marry this fall. All Columbia coastline from Vancouver enjoying the childhood adventures. a nd s e m i n a r s o n d e v e lo p i n g i nt u it io n . best to you, Ann, and to your work Island to Alaska. And I have enough He has been a corporate pilot for His book The World Peace Diet is in on the stadium! ✹ Mitch Brown trouble simply keeping the beer cans 25 years (12,000 safe fl ight hours), its third printing and he has released checks in from historic Guilford, off my lawn. Best of luck Kent, and the last nine as manager of fl ight a seventh album. ✹ I’m running out Conn., where he’s EVP of operations the check to TNC is in the mail. operations. ✹ Karen Chadbourne of news. Please send me an e-mail for an employee health management ✹ Bob Southwick writes that he Miller, in Glastonbury, Conn., and let me know what you are doing. company. Mitch travels all over the is still living in Orleans on Cape is a prayer chaplain for the Unity —Dianne Billington Stronach country working with employers Cod and is in the building business. Church. She also has a business in interested in improving employee Bob hopefully has no plans to do a “inspirational doll making,” leading 76 Let’s jump right in! Mary health and productivity. His wife, project on the B.C. coast. Bob had workshops and working with children Lynn and Gary Jones visited Scott Lisa, is fi nishing her coursework to a midlife crisis later than most of in hospitals to make dolls that carry and Debbie Philbrook Belanger become a certifi ed integrated manual us and bought a Harley Davidson messages to people they care about. last spring at the Belangers’ second therapist. Mitch and Lisa have three instead of a mistress. He says he

52 COLBY / SPRING 2008 loves to ride his bike and also play a attorney, is in his 29th year of federal many of you can make it! Keep your 1970s Correspondents ✹ lot of golf at the Captain’s Course in service. Karen Keithline Diop has news coming! —Janet Santry Houser 1970 Brewster, presumably not at the same been working in Egypt the last few and Lea Jackson Morrissey Deborah Fitton Mansfi eld time. ✹ Jerry and Ligia Campana months. She’s always wanted to travel 1612 Middle Road Chadwick were very disappointed there and is having a great time, but 79 Congratulations to Eric Warren, ME 04864 they couldn’t make our 30th reunion is not fi tting in enough tourism. ✹ Rosengren on becoming president 207-273-2139 last spring. Jerry was apparently Alicia Rodriguez has published a and chief executive offi cer of the [email protected] doing something unimportant book EveryDay Epiphanies: Insights Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Prior like fi nishing the fi nal class in his for Living with Purpose, which has t o a s s u m i n g t h at p o s it io n , E r ic s e r v e d 1971 doctor of management program a Web site. She is hoping to make as executive vice president and head Ann Miller 100 Belknap Road at the University of Maryland. our 30th reunion in June. ✹ Jana of supervision, regulation, and credit Framingham, MA 01701 Congratulations Jerry! He thanks Kendall Harrison sends a “hey” to at the Boston Fed. Eric joined the 508-877-7544 ✹ all of us for our contributions to the all our classmates and regrets that Boston Fed in 1985. Robin (Louise [email protected] Colby Fund and says we exceeded our she will miss our reunion because F.) Reid says she should have been class reunion goal of $100,000. Ligia of her second daughter’s graduation. in the Class of ’78—but “failed” her 1972 and daughter Elizabeth traveled to Her oldest daughter, who is teaching junior year abroad. In addition to her Nancy Round Haley Peru and Bolivia last summer, and the Spanish to seventh and eighth graders Rural Route Today newspaper, Robin 6 Knowles Lane highlight of their trip was climbing in North Reading, Mass., graduated is co-producing at a coffeehouse in West Kingston, RI 02892 Machu Picchu. I assume that is a last spring, summa cum laude and Charlotte, Vt., and performing. ✹ I 401-364-6773 mountain. ✹ I had no writer’s cramp Phi Beta Kappa, from Brandeis can always count on an e-mail from [email protected] this month as I received very little University. Jana regularly meets for Sam Koch, whose #3 son, Ben, made it 1973 news. Let’s exceed our class goal dinner with Lucinda Kearns Hepp, to the fi nals of the Massachusetts State Roberta Rollins Wallace of four classmates sending e-mails Annette Lum Ngai, and Jodie Baseball Tournament, where he made 119 Eastern Drive ✹ to your intrepid (and long-serving) Hewey Murphy ’81. Theanna a great catch in the quarterfi nals and Wethersfi eld, CT 06109-2609 correspondent for the next column. Poulos Pateropoulos is attending then dropped one in the semifi nals. [email protected] And I am still waiting for someone to grad school in San Francisco for a Chris, #1 son, made the dean’s list in replace me. Please. —Mark Lyons master’s in somatic psychology. Her eighth grade and was rewarded with 1974 daughter, Sarah, is a sophomore at a trip with Sam’s UMass soccer team S. Ann Earon 78 Doug Maffucci, founder and UMO, also majoring in psychology. to Philadelphia in early November. 124 Thomas Lane CEO of Atlantic Brewing Company, Theanna hopes to return to Maine Sam picked a good trip as the team Manahawkin, NJ 08050 started the business with fellow to attend our 30th. ✹ Also writing won against St. Joseph’s University 609-597-6334 Colby grad Jon Hubbard ’77 in 1991 from California is Lise Greenfi eld and qualifi ed UMass for the A-10 [email protected] on Mount Desert. “This all started Shanahan. She and Bill have lived in tournament championships. It was 1975 as a hobby that got out of control” San Diego and Houston but are now a good year for Sam and UMass as Dianne Billington Stronach says Doug. Their bestseller, Bar back in San Diego. Lise survived the they made it to the semi-fi nals of the 308 Commonwealth Avenue Harbor Blueberry Ale, the nation’s fall fi restorm—they experienced a lot NCAA Soccer College Cup where Concord, MA 01742 fi rst ale of this type, is made with of smoke and nearby houses burned. they lost to Ohio State, 1-0. If you 978-371-1495 real blueberries. ✹ Maria and John Lise ponders why she lives in a house get a chance, check out the Dec. 14, [email protected] Gray reside in the house in which he perched on the edge of the canyon in 2007, boston.com article about Sam. 1976 grew up. John is thinking of starting an area prone to earthquakes and fi re. Sam has enjoyed 18 years as head coach Robert Weinstein a new business. Their son works in Must be the near-perfect weather, of the men’s soccer team after taking 1106 Wellington Place NYC for CNN and their daughter wonderful lifestyle, and lack of the position in 1991 knowing that it Matawan, NJ 07747 works for the N.H. Veterans Home mosquitoes. Lise left work when her was supposed to be the fi nal season 732-290-1106 while Maria continues to teach the daughter was born in 1990 but fi nds for men’s soccer at UMass. ✹ Sarah [email protected] youth of the world. ✹ Betsy Williams herself busy with soccer, gymnastics, Russell MacColl sent her fi rstborn, Stivers was host to a long overdue school volunteering, and fund raising. Tike, to Kenyon this past fall. Her 1977 reunion this summer in Maine She visits her family on the Cape every daughter, Katy, 16, is a dancer and Mark Lyons 66 Edgewood Drive with Chris Carey Daniels, Diane year and last summer had a great Nordic skier. Sarah still works as Hampton, NH 03842-3923 Whitehead Gates, Patsy Leake, visit with Susan Chilton Jamback. a personal trainer in the Portland, 603-929-7378 and Hronn Rikhardsdottir who She also keeps in touch with Donna Maine, area and is putting together [email protected] traveled from N.Y., Vt., Edmonton, Long Cummens. Lise’s daughter is a beginner-intermediate women’s Alberta, and Akranes, Iceland. They applying to colleges and Colby is not triathlon training group for the 1978 had not been together as a group on her list, as she too loves southern winter-spring season. ✹ Robin Towle Janet Santry Houser since spring of 1975. They enjoyed California. Her son is a sophomore, Glynn reminded me that it has been 17 Doaks Lane the Maine coast and Maine lobster, and Lise hopes to visit campus with a few years since we frequented the Marblehead, MA 01945 they shared decades of missed him. ✹ Jim Crook has been appointed “New Dorms”—are they still called 781-639-8114 time and current issues, and they to the board of directors of Welch that? Robin started her seventh year [email protected] revived many forgotten memories. Allyn, a manufacturer of medical teaching French and Spanish to Lea Jackson Morrissey ✹ Nick Levintow and his senior- diagnostic and therapeutic devices. seventh and eighth graders in Chester, 1 Shorewood Road ✹ year housemates Jenny Barber, Ann On a very sad note, our thoughts N.H. Daughter Kelly has her license Marblehead, MA 01945-1225 McCreary, Jeff Potter, and Stephen are with the family of Susan Gernert and is ranked number one in her class [email protected] Jacobs enjoyed a summer reunion Adams, who lost her valiant fi ght with of 891 in high school. Robin’s son in Boston. Nick’s oldest daughter, colon cancer in August. Susan leaves Dennis is almost 11 and loves biking, 1979 Sara, headed off to Davidson this fall. her partner, Brock Pope, and their four-wheeling, and snowmobiling at Cheri Bailey Powers This left his two sons at home, one twin daughters, Hannah and Molly. the family weekend home near the 6027 Scout Drive of whom is a senior. Nick, a veterans’ ✹ I think we all fi nd it hard to believe Canadian border. Husband Dennis Colorado Springs, CO 80918 employment and international labor that our 30th is approaching. Hope started a new business earlier this 719-532-9285 [email protected]

COLBY / SPRING 2008 53 alumni at large year and still works in the world nurse in labor and delivery at Boston her time in Chicago and Miami. ✹ ranking at the Olympic rinks in Lake of microwave engineering. ✹ Nick Medical. ✹ Sarah “Sally” Morton Carol Mordecai Myers recently ran Placid this spring. ✹ Bob McCurdy Mencher’s son Peter was accepted at still splits time between Cohasset, into Dwight ’79 and Jane Sullivan had a blast performing in the Colby Colby for the Class of 2011 but elected Mass., and Key Largo, where she Allison while seeing her daughter Eight’s 60th anniversary celebration to go UNC Asheville. Nick played lives in the winter, and she works off on the University of Virginia’s concert in Lorimer Chapel in bass in the band “After Midnight” for an institutional money manager Semester at Sea program, where the November. ✹ Dani Nemec Miscan’s with Peter on drums and his friend on in Boston repping their investment Allisons head the parent’s association. husband, Jim, is in Afghanistan, so guitar from their eighth grade until strategies to consulting fi rms, largely Carol fi nished her M.F.A. in visual she is very busy managing a house their senior year. They played a gig multinational in nature. She loves her arts in July 2007 and was surprised and three teenagers—one daughter or two a month for the last couple job, spends a lot of time traveling, and by Louise “Weezie” Swift Price, at Virginia Tech, the other a high of years and enjoyed the chance fi nds it rewarding. Sally gets together who fl ew in for Carol’s graduate school senior, and a 13-year-old son to play live on stage. Nick feels he yearly with Debbie Lieberman show. ✹ Lori Batcheller had her fi rst in middle school. ✹ Jay Donegan took taught Peter a few things—how to Moore. ✹ Ten ley Joseph Ba x ter children’s book published earlier this his daughter, Claire, to visit Colby recover from tough goofs onstage and resides in Atherton, Calif., working year. Rosa Blooms is the inspiring story last fall and enjoyed visits with Janice keeping your head up and watching as a realtor for Keller Williams. She of a wild rose bush in the foothills Kassman, Sandy Maisel, coach Dick the other players. He shared all of and husband Kris have two children, of Boulder (which Lori still calls Whitmore, and Chappy Nelson. ✹ In this with Dave Ashcraft i n a n e - m a i l , daughter Hali, a freshman at UCLA, home). Lori’s nonfi ction book Real October Kelley Kash started work encouraging him to share music with and son Nick, who will graduate from Yoga for Real People, 10 Principles to as CEO of the Maine Veterans’ his 12-year-old daughter and connect San Jose State this year. Now that the Make Any Practice Your Own will be Homes, a system of six long-term with her on a plane beyond words. kids are in college, Tenley and Kris available in 2008. Lori is currently care and nursing homes throughout ✹ Greg ’78 and Kathy Quimby plan to travel. Tenley and Becky busy freelancing for diaboom.com, the state for veterans and eligible Johnson are empty nesters now that Alex, who resides in California, a new Web site devoted to people family members. ✹ Finally, fellow daughter Lydia started at Hartwick spent time together in August at with disabilities, and for Fit Yoga freshman Fort Weird resident Susan College this fall. Being a couple again, Becky’s beach home in the town of magazine. ✹ Pete Lee sent me a Haywood sent in her very fi rst note they were able to combine business Aptos. ✹ Jan. 3, 2008, marked the quick note to say that he’s now had ever! She taught special education for with pleasure on a short trip to San third solo exhibition in one year for seven stories accepted for publication. seven years in New Mexico on the Francisco in October. Greg attended Catherine Courtenaye. This show, ✹ Mimi Brodsky Kress was voted Navajo reservation before moving a professional seminar and Kathy got at the Bentley Gallery in Scottsdale, “Bethesda’s Best Builder” by a local to Fredericksburg, Va., where she has in some sightseeing. ✹ First-time Ariz., featured Catherine’s abstract monthly magazine. She ran into Roni been teaching for the past seven years. submitters Deb (Perkins ’77) and paintings. ✹ I spent a November Wechsler Ford and Sonia Turcotte ✹ Thanks, and keep those nuggets Sean Smith write from Denver. Sean a f t e r no o n w it h m y d au g ht e r K a y le i g h Fois at Roni’s son’s bar mitzvah last coming! —Steph Vrattos shared photos of him and Bob Lizza and Kathy Bleakney Pawley touring spring. ✹ It’s a cold and wet December on the Bighorn River (which can be Fenway Park and getting a quick city here in Portland, Ore., though by 82 Greetings from Maine! I was seen on our class page on the Colby tour. Kathy lives in Bedford, N.H., the time you all read these words we pleased to hear from Chris Cameron, Web site), where lots of fi sh, great but was willing to drive into the city should be well on our way to summer. a long-lost Colby friend. He sent a bird life, and good talk abounded. to meet us. I truly appreciated the So instead of wishing you all happy brief message saying hello, but when Sean spent spring break hiking in chance to see her and show off my holidays, I’ll instead send best wishes I responded and asked for his news, he the Canyonlands of Utah with Brad oldest, now a junior studying athletic for a warm and adventurous summer! did not respond again. Oh well, what’s Warner and Lisa Turner ’80 and training at Mesa State College in And don’t forget to keep in touch. a few more months waiting when it’s their family. Earlier this fall Sean Grand Junction, Colo., whom Kathy —Tom Marlitt been almost 20 years since we had a visited with Bishop Savas Zembillas, has known since she was a year old. conversation! ✹ Closer to home, I’ve making sure he was keeping the Greek ✹ Please keep the e-mails coming! 81 Dave ’80 and Sally Fernsten enjoyed working with Sandy Maisel O r t ho dox C hu rc h i n g o o d order. ( He —Cheri Bailey Powers Buffum are counting down to an and the Goldfarb Center at Colby to was!) They had a terrifi c dinner in empty nest, as their eldest started line up some of my clients to speak NYC with Gordie and Kathy Wall 80 Congratulations and thanks college last fall. Their youngest is at their lecture series. Sandy hasn’t Hunziker. Last month Sean fl ew out to the Class of 1980 Alumni Fund a high school sophomore. ✹ Glenn changed one bit, which is refreshing. to Minneapolis for a wee break with committee: Bob Bower, Kevin Fahey, Currier lives in Pittsford, N.Y., a ✹ Last summer Jim Haddow, his wife, Charlie ’78 and Jacie Cordes Hurd. Suze Connolly Levere, Barb Neal, suburb of Rochester, where his two Michelle, and sons Hamish and Max Last fall Sean was immersed in the Jack McBride, Leslie Mitchell, Deb new neighbors are Bowdoin and Bates spent 10 days in Scotland with their administrative life of school along Clark Nelson, Dan O’Halloran, alums. All three have a son in the same extended family. Among others, his with lots of son Malcolm’s games. and Elliott Pratt. Thanks to their sixth grade class. Glenn (gcurrier563@ brother Jon ’83 was there with his wife, Behind all of this has been Sean’s hard work we achieved an impressive yahoo.com) and his pals invite CBB Gert, and their older son, Andrew. brain cancer, diagnosed in 2005. The 53-percent participation rate. That, grads to share a beer with them at They had two farmhouses on the good news is that he’s coming to the unfortunately, is a much higher the Pittsford Pub. ✹ Beth Pniewski Isle of Arran, then spent a few days in end of the medication course with response rate than I received for my Wilson visited Mayflower Hill Dalavich, farther north. One glorious good results from the surgery and last request for news! Many thanks, with friends’ daughters and enjoyed day on Arran, Michelle, Hamish, and the drugs. His MRIs have shown however, to those of you who did write bistro-style cuisine—“paninis on Jim climbed Goat Fell, the highest dramatic improvement. He says it in. ✹ Tamara Hannah has become square plates!”—next to a fi replace in peak on the island, at about 2,800 won’t go away, but it is a lot smaller a registered representative with the what used to be Disco Bobs. ✹ Pam feet. The views from the summit were and stable. ✹ Dec. 1 was the release broker dealer Welton Street, which Heleen Spear and her husband are spectacular. Jim and Max managed to date for David Surette’s second specializes in providing investment raising two great kids, Kaitlin, 13, and get in some fl y fi shing on Arran and book, Easy To Keep, Hard To Keep In, grade commercial real estate to Alex, 11, in the Finger Lakes region in Dalavich. They were introduced to published by Koenisha Publications. investors. She also continues to of New York. Pam is training for the some new (to them at least) fl y patterns It contains 51 new poems, including practice law specializing in real U.S. National Adult Figure Skating and even caught a few trout. At home, one about playing in the Colby estate, small business, corporate, and Championships. In 2006 she was a Jim, an attorney with the fi rm of alumni hockey game in 2005. Wife entertainment law. Tamara has two bronze medalist in Division IV free Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, LLP Kathy Small Surette works as a dogs, Ginger and Greta, and spends skating and hopes to improve her in Portland, Maine, began a term as

54 COLBY / SPRING 2008 80s newsmakers Division I fi nal four with a home Murren run by a relative of Anne win for UMass. A bunch of people Edwards Westerman. ✹ Jenifer Mimi Brodsky Kress ’80 co-owns Sandy showed up—even Mark Serdjenian Ambler recently returned from her Spring Builders, voted Bethesda’s Best ’73 came down from Colby. Mike 12th trip to El Salvador and a week Builder by Bethesda Magazine. Over the last spends a ton of time raising money for of medical clinics serving the poor. 25 years Kress and her partners have built his school, Kimball Union Academy. She saw about 80 patients a day for homes ranging from less than 4,000 square He says, “All is well in beautiful and eye exams. Jenifer took her seventh- feet to more than 22,000. The company snowy N.H. Check out our Web grade daughter, Kate, who had a blast prides itself on individual attention and site if you get a minute, it’s a bit like and made friends everywhere. Jenifer on making homebuilding a fun, creative a mini-Colby—www.kua.org.” ✹ highly recommends El Salvador for Jake Filoon was appointed market anyone interested in volunteer work or process. ❖ Tina Zabriskie Constable ’87 trust executive by Bank of America educational/political/environmental was named publisher at Crown Publishers, Mimi Brodsky Kress ’80 in Providence, R.I., where he will tourism. She is willing to answer Crown Business, and Crown Forum, a lead the bank’s efforts to attract questions at [email protected] ✹ division of Random House, Inc. She has worked with bestselling authors the region’s wealthiest depositors. Emily Batchelder is general manager Suze Orman, Dave Barry, Martha Stewart, and Jorge Cruise during Jake lives in Needham, Mass., but of CB Richard Ellis/New England 20 years at Crown. Before her promotion Constable was the executive is based in Providence. Before this Asset Services of Boston. ✹ Our 25th director of publicity. ❖ Brad Fay ’87 won the 2007 Advertising Research appointment he worked for the is going to be fantastic! You should Foundation Grand Innovation Award for the most innovative research bank’s Global Wealth and Investment have received a lot of stuff already. idea of the year. The foundation cited Fay’s role in the development of Management Products Group. Jake No one has an excuse not to respond, TalkTrack, the fi rst measurement program that examines marketing- began his career at Fleet Bank in 1990 not to write, not to holler a hello to relevant conversations of thousands of Americans. TalkTrack was and has served in “various leadership the class through me this year. It’s developed by The Keller Fay Group. roles across Bank of America and its really important. I just wanna hear predecessor organizations for more that you are all there somewhere. milestones than 17 years.” ✹ Dan Weeks took Personally, I went through divorce a trip nearly every month in 2007, in 2007 and am busy as the vacation Deaths: W. Jeff Dropo ’80, January 17, 2008, in Sandwich, Mass., at 50. including trips to Kolkata, India, rental queen with Mount Desert Los Angeles, Washington state, Island Real Estate in Southwest Marriages: Rebecca A. Bruce ’88 to Dr. Steven B. Dobberfuhl in Paris, France, Cambridge, England, Harbor (formerly Hinckley Real Lost Pines, Texas Cape May, N.J., San Francisco, and Estate) and love this business. Am San Diego. Fortunately his wife, looking forward to knowing what’s Births: A daughter, Naomi Ilana Wilker Jeske, to Laura and Andrew Mary Jo, was able to go on most of up with more of you. Best wishes to Jeske ’87 these trips, and his son, Patrick, 15, all! —Sally Lovegren Merchant went on a few trips too. You can see some of the kite aerial photographs 84 Hi everyone. I hope you all president of the board of directors grade taking honors French, a class he he took on these trips at www.fl ickr. enjoyed winter. As I write this, I’m for Maine Boys to Men, a nonprofi t struggles with. Enter French-Major com/photos/dweeks. When at home attempting to return to skiing after s o c i a l s e r v ic e s o r g a n i z at io n d e d ic at e d Mom, and voila—she can still help in Pittsburgh, he enjoys his cabin in performing a spectacular fall last to supporting the healthy, nonviolent with homework. She teaches third the woods and his three wonderful March ending in a spiral break of my development of adolescent boys. Boys grade at the Goodyear School in step-grandchildren, who are 4, 6, and tibia and fi bula, for which I received to Men has worked in partnership Woburn, Mass., and absolutely loves 8. ✹ Rick Hauser works on a project a titanium rod and six screws. Wish with Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, and her job. Her daughter is a freshman with BNP Paribas, and his group just me luck, and if you see me spring the George Mitchell Institute to put at the New England Institute of Art. moved from midtown Manhattan skiing on the slopes of Okemo in on two conferences addressing the Both of her sons are in high school to Jersey City. Since he lives in Vermont give a shout. ✹ I got an emerging disparity in educational marching band and having a blast. Hoboken, the commute is about one “hola” from Greg Walsh, who had achievement between male and female Her husband, Matt ’80, is still an and a half miles. He also brought the some big news to share. He’s moved students at the high school and college attorney in Salem, Mass. ✹ Like family up to New found Lake in New to Costa Rica and started working levels. The same partners will hold a Susan, I was a French major and I’ve Hampshire to spend some time with in college counseling and admissions third conference in the fall of 2008. enjoyed being able to help my son with Sean Duffy and his extended family at the new United World College/ ✹ John Munsey ’83 reported that his French. He was able to skip from at their summer home. Bill Fredette Colegio del Mundo Unido Costa his wife, Patty, is a skier and he was Fr e nc h I t o Fr e nc h I I I at C a r r ab a s s e t t also stopped by. ✹ Jenny Stringham Rica. His students come from more requ ired to lear n how to keep up w it h Valley Academy by having some Ward is in the great Midwest working than 80 countries and most are poor, her on the slopes. They started both tutoring sessions with his mom last in higher education development, smart, hardworking, multitalented, their kids skiing at an early age and summer. ✹ I was delighted to see Lori especially in healthcare. Her family and committed to service and their daughter, Kara, races for Smith Douglas Clark at a conference for all runs and have completed several international understanding. The College as a sophomore this year. librarians where I gave a workshop marathons and half marathons. UWCCR operates as a bilingual Last year she helped her team get to about publicity. She is working at the They’ll be running in Indianapolis community that is challenging, nationals, and this year she hopes to Lithgow Library in Augusta and at the in May. A trip to Normandy found especially for Greg, as he doesn’t speak get back to the USCSA Nationals at Readfi eld Library. A librarian from them visiting with Ghislaine Rohee, Spanish—yet. He sends thanks to the Sunday River. John and Patty already Colby, Bob Heath, was also in the who lived across the hall from Jenny generosity of Andrew Davis ’85 and have reservations at Sunday River group. —Nancy Briggs Marshall during Colby in Caen. Ghislaine was his family. Because of them, UWC Inn. Their son is fi nishing up his practically an honorary member of grads are eligible for scholarships senior year in college and is waiting to that group. Ghislaine’s kids took at Colby. A few weeks ago Dory see what graduate schools accept 83 Mike Schafer had a great Jenny’s kids to school and made Streett from the Colby Admissions him. John reports that, overall, life soccer reunion with old friend Sam them taste tripe normande, cidre, Offi ce interviewed about 20 potential is good in Burnt Hills, N.Y. ✹ Susan Koch ’79, who played at Colby and crepes. The family also went to applicants. Greg said it has been a real Reese Krevat’s son Derek is in 11th and whose team made the NCAA Switzerland and stayed in a hotel in pleasure to help connect these great

COLBY / SPRING 2008 55 alumni at large young people with our alma mater. choir at the Festival of Carols and place that is truly a second home. It working as a “biostitute” and a rock Anyone can fi nd out more or send Lights. ✹ Anna Sandstrom lives in was great seeing everyone at the 20th cl i mbi ng g u ide. Shou ld you ever fi nd prospective students to www.uwc.org. Dover, N.H., and teaches French at reunion. Can’t wait to start planning yourself in that neck of the woods, —Cynthia Mulliken Lazzara the University of New Hampshire. the 25th!” Whatever. Now please, get look her up. Check out pictures She has been a lecturer at UNH over me, Tina. It’s not happening. of life in Moab at www.lisajustice. 85 Well, I didn’t get much response since 1998, when she arrived out of a Especially since you’re happily smugmug.com. ✹ Kathy Trudeau to my request for song lyrics, although partially completed Ph.D. program at married and all. ✹ Chris Fay teaches Osborne announces the birth of her at least Leslie Robinson wrote to UMass Amherst. Anna says the Ph.D. high school and is actively involved daughter, Anya, born Aug. 20. She say she thought it was a funny idea. in French ended up falling by the in union agitation. The best kind of joins brother Max, 4. Kathy recently (Thank you, Leslie!) I thought for wayside under the pressures of the job, teacher. ✹ Ter i Sca l ly K i nsel la is visited Colby to hear a lecture by one sure I’d get something out of John but she loves teaching. Anna is still in in Scottsdale, Ariz., trying to sell of her good friends, Ed Kennelly “the Gin Pup” Collins, Susan touch with Scott and Sarah Stevens her house so her family can move ’87. ✹ Andrew McIntosh writes, Perry Jones, or Lynn Brunelle, but Clark, Jen Armstrong (who teaches to the D.C. area. “My husband has “I haven’t been able to convince my I was wrong, so here’s the real news! philosophy at UNH), Charlene been working there since March. I 17-year-old son, a high school senior, ✹ Linda Jean Flora Blair made Crocker ’86 (in Minn. now), Dede have put my work on hold until we that Colby is as wonderful as I thought partner at her law fi rm in St Croix, Galvin (Pa.), and Hannah Blake get settled, but I’m getting itchy to it was.” They were hoping to visit USVI, on Jan. 1, 2007. Her specialty is (N.Y.). Charlene, Dede, Hannah, and use my brain for something other this past fall but his son changed his employment litigation defense. Linda Anna have had a few “Caen 83-84” than ‘What’s for dinner?’” (She never mind. ✹ Zach Abrams lives in San and her husband, Scott Blair, are both reunions over the last six to eight years actually mentioned what’s for dinner). Francisco with his two children and still enjoying island life on sunny in various towns in the Northeast. ✹ Brad Fay became a member of the raises private equity funds with his St. Croix. In addition, Scott, Linda, —Gretchen Bean Bergill Montgomery Township Committee. fi rm, Strathim Capital. In February Laurence Yorra, and another friend He was chosen unanimously (that’s 2008, Zach’s daughter, Caroline, took a two-week trip to Rajastan, 87 Some class news has a silver almost everyone) after fi nishing as was poised to turn four and will India. Their group has also traveled lining. I’ll explain in a minute. First, fi rst runner-up in the 2006 election. have been cancer-free for three full to Vietnam, Cambodia, Peru, and is the hard part. Our classmate Paul Brad is co-founder of the Keller Fay years, typically the time required currently planning a wine-tasting Mooney is waiting for a double lung G r ou p , a n i n no v at i v e wo r d - of- mout h to be called “cured.” Caroline went trip to Chile. ✹ Carol Eisenberg transplant in Pittsburgh. (Like a single market research company. He and through surgery and chemotherapy and her family hit a milestone when transplant wouldn’t be hard enough.) his wife, Diane, have been restoring at six months of age for stage-three they celebrated daughter Maxine’s He has cystic fi brosis. “No one really their 1835 farmhouse, with children neuroblastoma and has had a full bat mitzvah this year, making them knew about it back in college,” says Brendan and Allison. ✹ Jeffrey recovery. We are thrilled to hear she parents of a teenager. Their other Paul. “But there it is, kinda hard to DiSandro, an executive recruiter is doing so well. ✹ Melissa Brown daughter, Charlotte, 10, a Harry hide with all the oxygen tanks and who refuses to make me chairman Bride w r it e s t h at he r f a m i l y r e t u r ne d Potter fanatic, was thrilled to win a all. Ha! I was teaching English in of anything, was promoted to senior f r o m Ho nd u r a s i n 20 05 a nd s e t t le d i n recent contest to meet J.K. Rowling in Chicago but have been waiting for a principal and managing director at Barrington, R.I. She teaches middle person at Carnegie Hall. Son Elias, 3, donor here since June. Waiting, which Howard Fischer Associates. He also school at the Gordon School and leads concentrates on developing his skills is really just being, only it’s not.” built a cottage in Maine on the ocean, service volunteer trips to Honduras as a pretend fi refi ghter. Carol is still Paul continues, “Before I’m addled has two beautiful kids, and still loves through an organization called enjoying practicing law part-time in by meds again, I want to thank all of his wife. (There’s clearly a crass joke Sustainable Harvest International a litigation fi rm, and her husband, you for the concern and especially the here, but I’ll let you make your own.) (www.sustainableharvest.org). ✹ David Simpson ’86, teaches middle thoughtful notes you left here and in ✹ Charmaine Twigg Hartnett is Bob and Carrie O’Brien Thomas school science. The whole family the Web site guestbook. When I was happily living in Wellesley, Mass., live in Cohasset, Mass., with their commutes daily by ferry from Peaks fresh out of ICU, confused and in with her hubby (a Bowdoin grad) three kids, Nonie, 9, and Nate and Island to Portland, Maine. ✹ Lori discomfort, an amazing friend read and raising four kids. “My youngest Henry, 6. Bob runs a real estate Gustafson Adams says her winter my messages to me, and I can tell you just started kindergarten—and I development company focused on plans are all about skiing. With her it was the perfect medicine.” Now for have signed up to run the Boston green design and Carrie teaches 16-year-old son on two ski-racing that silver lining. It’s us. Paul needs Marathon. I am training with the preschool. Their kids are good teams and her 13-year-old daughter cash, my friends. Okay, I guess we all Children’s Hospital marathon team. friends with Doug and Deanna in a ski club, Lori and her family do, but he needs lungs, which gives If anyone sees me on the course Cook McDonald’s kids, Ella and spend a lot of time in the mountains; him top billing. I donated $100, which in April, give a shout!” ✹ Kris Maisie. ✹ Susie Allison and husband they had planned for a week of skiing ain’t much, but I’m cheap. Most of us Davidson’s twin daughters—Alex Dan Remer are proud to announce in Montana in February 2008. Lori don’t have CF. That alone is reason and Libby—are seniors at Vinalhaven the birth of their daughter, Caitlin laments, “Too bad I can still barely get to visit www.clamshellmuni.org, a High School. She is “excited for them Elizabeth, born Aug. 1! ✹ Meg down the mountain without falling!” darned good site where you can read and relieved 13-year-old son Matthew Galloway Pearce is psyched for ✹ Dawn Gale LaCasce agreed that about his fascinating, challenging, is still home to ease the pains of those the 20th reunion this year. “There’s 19 85 d o e s s e e m l i k e y e s t e r d a y ! She a nd crazy life and actually help. Log leaving the nest.” She is seriously nothing like going back to Waterville her family—husband Brent (Bowdoin on now, then come back. I won’t pondering the idea of starting her for a Dairy Cone ice cream sundae, ’82) and two teenagers, son Jared and mind. ✹ After 20 years in PR at the own real estate business. Do I hear a sandwich from Big Gs, and a run daughter Devin—live in Fryeburg, same company, Tina Zabriskie discount? Because I could swear I do. along the three-mile loop,” Meg Maine, where the children attend Constable, (who used to have a huge —Scott Lainer says, hoping it will all be possible Fryeburg Academy. Dawn continues crush on me although she doesn’t in 2008. Meg keeps in close touch to work with her dad in a family ski know it), was named publisher of 88 Classmates—Great to hear with Matt ’87 and Bevin Dockray wholesale business, and Brent is in Crown Publishers, Crown Business, from a few of you with news but we Gove and their three kids. Bevin is his 19th year as music director at and Crown Forum, a Division of want more! Jennifer Massengill is happily running PR for Jose Cuervo Fryeburg Academy. Dawn was glad Random House, Inc. Key word here proud to announce the birth of Kate and Matt is enjoying success with to visit Colby last December and is “Crown.” Because she’s wearing Rebecca on April 5, 2007. Congrats! his venture capital business. ✹ Jill plans to go again this year because one. Says Tina, “It’s been exciting ✹ It was awesome to hear from Lisa Heslam loves her work as a French her daughter performs in the fl ute to learn and face new challenges at a Hathaway, who lives in Moab, Utah, teacher in Connecticut, and her two

56 COLBY / SPRING 2008 boys are thriving. ✹ I also enjoy Church, where he has been pastor are negotiating the belief systems 1980s Correspondents hearing from Suzanne MacLachlan for eight years. As he said, “If you’re that defi ne motherhood in America. from time to time. She’s busy with thinking, ‘No way!’ imagine how Check out www.stanford.edu/group/ 1980 her three beautiful children. ✹ I’ve I feel!” ✹ Shaun Dakin’s national gender/Art/CurrentExhibit.html. ✹ Thomas Marlitt also recently caught up with Chris political do-not-call list is getting Karen Crebase and Steve Dimitriou 1835 SW Elizabeth Street Fay ’87 and enjoyed visiting him in some good press. Check it out on held a beautiful memorial dinner for Portland, OR 97201 Newburyport, Mass. ✹ As for me, www.StopPoliticalCalls.org. ✹ Peter Indovino O c t . 13. M a n y C olb y 503-248-4310 this spring I left MCI/Verizon after Finally realizing his musical ability, alumni attended, including Stacy [email protected] 16 y e a r s . M a k i n g t he mo s t of m y t i me Doug St. Lawrence sings with O’Brien, Maryann Hutchinson 1981 off, my husband, Marc, and I took the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus and Grimm, Shaun Crowley, and Steph Vrattos our three kids—Marina, 10, Liam, occasionally performs in local music Gretchen McCarey Burkitt. ✹ 11 Pond Street, Apt. 23 8, and Annabelle, 6—to Europe for theater. Where were you when we Becca Brackett Price moved from Waltham, MA 02451 a month this summer. We spent needed you for BMR, Doug? ✹ As Dallas to northwest Arkansas a year [email protected] about three weeks touring France. for me, Kevin and the kids and I are ago. Taking a break from a second It was an amazing trip and I enjoyed settling back into life in St. Paul complete home renovation and 1982 showing my kids the same cool sites after our three-year dream life in helping her husband run his business, Nancy Briggs Marshall I visited during my junior year in Switzerland. As I write this, snow is she came up to New England to PO Box 317 the Colby in Caen program. I’m falling outside my offi ce window and enjoy the fall foliage and spent some Augusta, ME 04332 now consulting for a private equity temps are hovering around 10. I got time with Judd Braverman ’92 and 207-237-5550 fi rm and I’m enjoying the fl exibility a phone call last night from Tracy Karen Crebase’s two precious kids. [email protected] and new experiences. ✹ Betsy Gionfriddo’s little girl, Emma Jo, ✹ Matt Cohen writes from Denver Lockhart Casey has a beautiful inviting me to their Chinese New to report a career change. He left 1983 new boy, Ryan Michael, who joined Year celebration in February at the practice of law after 10 years to Sally Lovegren Merchant siblings Peter and Emma Aug. 7. their home in Wethersfi eld, Conn. become a legal recruiter at Gibson PO Box 12 Betsy and husband Pat call Wisconsin Meg Christie and her twins, Max Arnold and Associates. It’s a busy Mt. Desert, ME 04660 home. Congrats Betsy! ✹ Keep the and Zoe, will be there, so I hope to and challenging new opportunity 207-244-0441 news coming and make sure to put make it. ✹ Beth Bitoff Odom and but gives him more time with his fax: 207-244-9445 our reunion dates on your calendar! her family had a tough year in 2007. family, including his 2 1/2-year-old [email protected] —Heidi Irving Naughton Writing from Fort Richardson, little girl. He sees Kent Thompson 1984 Alaska, where she deals with military and Pete Weinberg, who also live Cynthia M. Mulliken Lazzara 89 It’s been a slow couple of spouses, Beth said she has “witnessed in Denver. Matt looked forward to 15 Waverly Road months for the Class of ’89, at least tragedy more times than I thought ski season. ✹ Kaylyn Hipps is now Darien, CT 06820 judging by the dearth of e-mails I possible in 15 months, as wives lost Kaylyn Groves since her April 21 [email protected] received in response to the latest husbands and children lost their marriage to Richard Groves in Austin, request for news. Don’t be shy—I fathers, and mothers and fathers Texas. ✹ Fred Ramstedt’s company, 1985 write about everyone who writes to lost their sons.” Her husband, Lt. Halden Consulting Services, has Gretchen Bean Bergill me, although Colby doesn’t always Col. Mark Odom, was deployed signed a second client, Economatica Phillips Exeter Academy have space to print it all. Be sure to Iraq in October 2006 and was USA, an international software 20 Main Street to check out the Web site for the wounded in August when his vehicle company. Fred and Jeanine (Caunt Exeter, NH 03833 complete column. And please let me hit an IED. Beth learned of Mark’s ’92) celebrated their sixth anniversary [email protected] know how you are and what you’re up injuries while she was visiting Jen and planned quite a trip, to London, to—the good, the bad, the exciting, Cooke Rotman in Massachusetts Dover, and on to Calais. Jeanine 1986 the boring. ✹ One of the few hardy and is grateful for the support and headed home after a week but Fred Henrietta “Hank” Yelle souls who wrote was Diane Pearce friendship she and her kids received was off to Geneva, Lyon, Beaune, 15 Sutherland Road Kew. Diane and Dave ’90 live in during that diffi cult time. Mark’s and Paris before heading back to Lexington, MA 02421 Brunswick, Maine, with their two platoon was featured in the New York London and ultimately the States. 781-863-1986 boys. Diane works as an ESL tutor Times Magazine, including photos ✹ Dickinson State University hired [email protected] for kids in sixth to eighth grades. of the aftermath of the bombs that Michael Shaughnessy as an assistant 1987 Diane writes that turning 40 “wasn’t injured Mark and killed three of professor of biology. Michael earned Scott Lainer as bad as it could have been” and that his fellow soldiers. Read the article his master’s from Shippensburg 138 Fuller Street, Apt. 3 Karin Killmer Kurry ’90 was there to at www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/ University and his doctorate at the Brookline, MA 02446 help her celebrate. ✹ Ed ’88 and Jen magazine/02iraq-t.html. Mark is University of Oklahoma. He worked [email protected] Pierce Barr had a little girl, Fiona home now and will recover from his as an adjunct professor of biology at Pierce Barr, in December 2006. injuries. ✹ May 2008 bring peace to the University of Central Oklahoma 1988 Catherine Andrew Rogers and all of us. Keep that news coming! before being hired by DSU. ✹ Believe Heidi Irving Naughton husband are baby Fee’s godparents. —Anita Terry it or not, it’s been 20 years since we 26 Outlook Drive Ed, Jen, and their three kids live in all graduated high school and that Darien, CT 06820 Westchester. Jen reports that they 91 News from the Class of 1991 has means reunion time! In September 203-656-8141 ran into Tom Cahill and his family been a bit slow, but we did hear from I attended my 20th high school [email protected] on Shelter Island last summer. Jen a few classmates. Kristin Herbster reunion at the East Bay Grille on is back on the squash court hoping announces a solo photography the waterfront in Plymouth, Mass., 1989 to drag along Laura Thornton e x h ib it io n A p r i l 3 - Ju ne 13 at St a n f o r d with many high school classmates Anita L. Terry Pellegrino’s sister, who lives just University, with an opening reception and Colby classmates Fred and 501 Warwick Street up the street from Jen and Ed. ✹ April 3. She invites anyone in the area Debbie MacWalter Bright and Saint Paul, MN 55116 Congratulations to Mark Wilson to stop by and say hello. The project, Alison Dunphy Shearer. We hoped [email protected] who was ordained Nov. 4 at the Re:producing Motherhood, is a text and to see Scott Osborne and David Phippsburg (Maine) Congregational image exploration of how women Mumford, but they were unable to

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attend and were missed. ✹ I hope to hear from many more of you in 2008. Twin Passions | Sean Skaling ’91 —David Shumway 92 Kelly Wenger and her husband, During a chat in his offi ce in downtown Eric Miller, had their fi rst child, Anchorage, two facts emerge about Sean Skaling a son named Finnegan, Jan. 5. ’91: he knows only one speed—full, and he thrives Congratulations and welcome to on two passions—skiing and environmental motherhood. She got parenting advice education/protection. His Alaska license plate is from Anne Maddocks Michels, “WE SKI,” and he is executive director of Green Kristen Wallace Livezey, Molly Star, an award-winning environmental nonprofi t Beale Constable, Elaine Bueschen that helps businesses go green. O’Grady, and Sarah Block Wallace. Passion number one began at Colby, where Kelly says it pays to be the last one Skaling competed on the Nordic ski team, usually to the party! ✹ David and Tricia fi nishing just behind Marc Gilbertson ’91, who later Baldridge Wickliffe recently had a competed in the 30K cross-country ski race at the son named Andrew. He joins his big 1998 Olympics. brother, Charlie. Congratulations Skaling studied psychology at Colby. After to all of you! ✹ Kimberly Kennedy graduation he coached the Colby ski team for two was featured in the Sarasota (Fla.) years and then went to the University of Colorado, Herald-Tribune in an article about where he earned a master’s in sports psychology. Therafi t, a new physical therapy clinic In 1996 he and his wife, Jennifer Dorsey Skaling and sports training center that she ’93, whom he met while roller skiing at Colby, and business partner Greg Benson moved to Alaska. Jenny had grown up in Alaska developed. It’s touted as being not and, an equal lure, Alaska presented great cross- only a top notch therapy clinic but a country skiing opportunities. They nicknamed their healing sanctuary on par with a high- fi rst condo in Anchorage “the ski chalet.” end spa. ✹ Meredith Johnson just Skaling, who has become a superior biathlete, organized the women’s squash team

waxes (pun intended) poetic about cross-country PHOTO BY BRIAN M. GUZZETTI / FROMTHEFARCORNERS.COM nationals in Boston. It was the largest skiing in Alaska. “There are hundreds of kilometers turnout to date with over 200 players Sean Skaling ’91 works for Green Star and recognizes of groomed cross-country trails, a plethora of participating in singles and doubles environmentally responsible companies. wilderness trails, and great wilderness crust skiing matches. She looks forward to playing in the spring,” he said. Crust skiing entails skate- In addition to running the awards program, next year when it is at the Fairmount skiing across the crust of snow in remote valleys in conducting energy audits, and sponsoring Athletic Club outside of Philadelphia morning hours during what New Englanders think educational events, Green Star has piloted several and hopes to see more Colby alums. of as maple sugaring weather—freeze at night, innovative environmental efforts. She works in sports medicine at thaw during the day. “People were constantly asking me, ‘What Lahey Clinic and consults on IT Passion number two: Skaling’s life is driven should we do with old computers?’ so we implementation programs at Mass by his desire to create a greener world, especially established an electronics recycling program,” General Hospital. ❖ Zach Shapiro a greener business world. Happily, he’s found a Skaling said. At its height, the three-day program may be moving into politics, as his position and a place to feed that need. involved 325 volunteers and the use of 35 40-foot partner, Ron Galperin, is running When he moved to Alaska in 1996 he landed a trailers (all donated), which hauled away the used for Los Angeles City Council. Zach job as the membership director of the Anchorage electronic material for shipment to a private fi rm in loves his service as rabbi of Temple Chamber of Commerce, a position he terms, Seattle. Impressed with the size and scope of that Akiba in Culver City. ✹ Cecily von “a great entrée to city life.” One minor program effort, the Seattle fi rm decided to set up another Ziegesar is getting lots of press since within the chamber was Green Star, which, Skaling operation right in Anchorage, so Green Star was her book series, Gossip Girl, was turned explained, “gave merit badges to businesses that able to hand off the program. into a prime-time TV show on the ran ‘green.’” “It was a huge coordination effort,” Skaling CW11. She and her family, husband In 1996, a month before Skaling began work said, “but I was thrilled at the success.” Richard, 6-year-old daughter Agnes, at the chamber, Green Star became a separate Skaling has been recognized as one of Alaska’s and 3-year-old son Oscar, moved from nonprofi t organization, and in 1999 Skaling was 40 top leaders under 40 by the Alaska Journal Westchester to the Cobble Hill area named its executive director. Today Green Star is of Commerce, but he’s more at ease discussing of Brooklyn. She hopes to visit Colby a full-fl edged environmental organization with a pollution prevention than personal citations. soon because she is working on a new staff of four professionals with advanced degrees. “Alaska is often hit hardest by environmental novel inspired by her experience at Green Star recognizes businesses and organizations issues, and it’s meaningful to be working on a Colby! ✹ Nancy Putnam Bentley still that voluntarily meet and exceed Green Star’s high mission, helping businesses and organizations lives in Florida where it is HOT HOT standards of environmental responsibility. When become better stewards of the environment,” he HOT and longs for those nice cool fall these standards have been met and peer-reviewed said. “How we address energy issues now will days! She has three children—8, 5, to the satisfaction of the Green Star Standards make all the difference in the future.” and 2. Her 8-year-old is a gymnastics Committee, the organization receives the Green Star —David Treadwell fanatic with the Olympics as a goal. Award, which focuses on waste reduction, or the Air Nancy is quite involved at their school Quality Award, which targets outdoor air quality. and has a wonderful time at home with her 2-year-old. She still teaches a 6 a.m. exercise class. Over the summer she got together with Jennifer Greenleaf,

58 COLBY / SPRING 2008 Jenn Pelson Hopkins, Deb Brown, leading cause of the length of our class Nikolai, a few hours after Christmas 1990s Correspondents Becky Graham Hudson, Jen Kosek columns and encourage me to keep 2006 as big sister Ingrid looked on! Walker, and Sarah Hamilton it short. I’ve never been a big fan of ✹ Heather Vincola had a second 1990 Barringer in Maine. Their kids ran rules, so apologies if we run long. ✹ baby girl, Sadie, on 7/7/07. She joins Barbara Clark Bullock around and had a great time, as did the Our fi rst-ever green update, from sister Sasha, 2. ✹ Cate Czernicki Berkshire School adults (seven adults and 12 kids—what John Utley. He and wife Jennifer Reynolds made partner at Robinson 245 N. Undermountain Road a blast)! ✹ David Roderick started and daughters Lana and Maliah live & Cole, LLP in Conn. ✹ Lisa Conley Sheffi eld, MA 01257 a tenure-track position teaching on Greenwood Lake in N.J. and just McPhee is a middle school language 413-229-1130 creative writing in the M.F.A. program installed a 10,000-watt photovoltaic arts teacher in Bangor. She and [email protected] at the University of North Carolina system on their home. I’m praying husband Shawn had a big bouncing at Greensboro. He got married last for sun for you, John! He still works baby boy, Conner Jaxon, Sept. 10. 1991 summer to a wonderfully talented poet for the family business, Utleys Inc., ✹ Rob Underwood ran his third David Shumway named Rachel Richardson. He was in Queens. ✹ Cecily Totten is on NYC marathon. ✹ Greg and Erin 33 Mallard Road awarded the Amy Lowell Traveling the road! She’s taking a year away Crossland Christopher attended Needham, MA 02492 Scholarship, a prize for a poet to travel from teaching to do surf camp in the wedding of Chris Lohman ’95 781-444-1241 and write for a year. He and Rachel Costa Rica, work on a cattle station in Long Beach with Josh Eckel. The [email protected] w i l l t r a v e l a nd l i v e i n It a l y, I r e l a nd , a nd in Queensland, and do an internship Eckels and Christophers share a 1992 Scotland for all of 2008! ✹ That’s all for a newspaper in Wellington, Tahoe ski house. They love seeing Karen Wu the news for now. Thank you all for N.Z. 2008 includes a trip to South (uncle) John Grady since they’ve 1528 Terrace Road SW contributing to this column. Keep the Africa, back to Costa Rica for more moved to California and keep in Roanoke, VA 24015 great news coming. —Karen Wu surfi ng, and Spanish lessons. Rock on touch with Jen Zwick Somer, who sister! ✹ Paul Matthews wrote from recently moved from San Francisco 540-345-3060 93 Heather Vultee Shilaleis Disney World, where his wife, Shyla, to Florida. ✹ Bobby ’93 and Kerry [email protected] expected her second set of twins son Quinn, and daughter Catrina Sheehy Ward welcomed the arrival 1993 in December. ✹ Ingrid Bernhard were vacationing. They bought a of Samantha K insey Ward in August c/o Meg Bernier Boyd new house in Worcester, Mass., and moved back to the Boston area. Gordon reports that she is happy Colby College spending time with her husband and and Paul is running an economic ✹ Ryan Joseph Artmann was born Offi ce of Alumni Relations three kids, ages 6, 9, and 11. In her development and advocacy nonprofi t to Amy Alderson Artmann April Waterville, ME 04901 spare time she continues to work in Westborough, Mass. He writes 12. In April Alyssa Schwenk and 207-859-4312 with her coauthor on their newest that: Jeff Cohen lives outside Philly I visited little Ryan. ✹ Rob and book and volunteers for Katrina with his wife, Joan, son Timmy, and Danielle Jamison Benedetto and [email protected] relief efforts in Biloxi, Miss. ✹ In new twin daughters; Erik Hassing their three kids—Karen, Amy, and 1994 Sudbury, Mass., Oct. 6, 2007, in is a lawyer and lives in New Jersey Mark—came from Amherst, Mass., to Jessie Newman ✹ the presence of fellow Colby alums with his wife, Heide (Girardin ’97), visit Colorado in October. Kamin 3323 Clay Street and their dogs; Matt Salah and his McClelland Macomber welcomed James Kelley and Amanda White, Denver, CO 80211 Rob Isaacson married Pamela Sue wife, Shannon, now have three kids her third daughter Nov. 7. Eleanor [email protected] Gifford. ✹ Danae Clohan teaches and moved into a house they built “Ellie” Grace is getting lots of love and middle school Spanish in Palo Alto, on Boston’s South Shore; Mike attention from her big sisters, twins 1995 Calif., where she also works as the McCabe is in Buffalo working as an K ate a nd M addy, 4. ✹ Bruce and Sue Yuhgo Yamaguchi school’s English Language Learner assistant attorney general and recently Benson Panilaitis had their fi fth boy, 92 Magazine Street, Apt. 2 Program Coordinator. In 2000 she engaged; Scott Kadish and Paul’s Benjamin Harold, Aug. 23. All the Cambridge, MA 02139 and her lifetime partner, Julianne sons play tee ball in the same league. kids are doing well. Bruce has a t-shirt [email protected] Bonnet, had a commitment ceremony, Scott lives in Worcester with his wife that says, “Who are all these kids and and in 2005 they were legally married and family and works at Fidelity. Great why do they call me Dad?” ✹ Paul 1996 in Canada. They live with their two updates on folks we haven’t heard and Jennifer Chasin Davis bought Mark Mortensen kids, Gwendolyn, 5, and Kaherdin, 2, from in awhile—thanks Paul! ✹ After their fi rst home, in Calabasas, Calif., 16 Pickett Street as well as an extensive assortment of a much-needed two-month summer just outside of Los Angeles. They Marblehead, MA 01945 animals. ✹ Sven and Janine Deforge vacation, Ross Nussbaum joined love living in the suburbs with their [email protected] Olson welcomed their fourth child Merrill Lynch as a managing director son, Ethan. ✹ Neil and Jenn Wolff and third son, Tait, Sept. 12. Their in the Global Commercial Real Estate DiFrancesca live in Millbury, Mass., 1997 whole family enjoyed attending Investment Banking Division. He with their two dogs, Casy and Joad. Leah Tortola Walton Family Homecoming Weekend. ✹ was moving the family for the fourth They plan to start an addition to 2 Pine Hill Road On Sept. 6, Nancy and Rob Hostler time in six years, back to Greenwich, their house. They have traveled to Bedford, MA 01730 had their fi rst child, Abigail Kennedy. Conn. ✹ Michelle Mathai still loves Lake George, the Cape, Mystic, 781-275-8115 ✹ Mike Murphy has been living in Napa Valley and headed to India in Providence, and N.J. Jenn had lunch [email protected] Alaska since 1996 and will complete mid-December. She just adopted a recently with Emily Chapman. ✹ Jon 1998 a master’s in counseling this spring. lab/golden retriever. I vote for our Mitchell is a middle school science Brian M. Gill During the summer he lives in 15-year reunion in Napa—who’s in? teacher in Stonington, Conn. He 293 Central Street Wr a n g e l l- St . E l i a s Nat io n a l Pa rk a nd ✹ Michelle Satterlee and her very often hears former teachers (including he encourages friends to visit. ✹ Ari hip boyfriend, Joe, were in Boston those from Colby) laughing as they Weymouth, MA 02190 Druker has built a house in central for Christmas. ✹ Jonathan Kaplan fi nally see revenge for the troubles he 617-230-2254 Tokyo, in a place called Ebisu near is the Portland Press Herald’s new caused as a student. ✹ Andie Sulak [email protected] Washington correspondent. ✹ Also got a Bernese mountain dog named the Westin Hotel, and he invites any 1999 in the “where-is-he-now?” category, Chedi, with whom she is madly in visitors that happen to be nearby! Lindsay Hayes Erik Belenky made partner at Paul, love. She is at UC Berkeley working 71 Rowayton Woods Drive 94 So the bosses of Colby remind Hastings in Atlanta. ✹ Erik Cole- on wildfi re issues in the Sierras and Norwalk, CT 06854 me that my witty banter might be the Johnson and his wife had a baby, living in the Lake Tahoe area. She had [email protected]

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90s newsmakers time. Regina is still with Mary Kay busy attending the four wedding and plans to become a sales director receptions (two in South Korea and Kendra King ’94 was honored by Big Sisters of Rhode Island at its this spring. ✹ Darragh Fitzsimons two in D.C.) of Peter Sheren and his 40th anniversary. A former Little Sister, Young, Lisa Kenerson Weber, Lisa wife, Victoria Lim, who live in Hong King shared her story of going from a Zorn Smeglin, and Rachel Lapkin Kong. As for Andrew and Katy, they Providence housing project to associate recently spent a fun weekend at Cara are having a wonderful time living professor of politics and director of the O’Flynn’s apartment in Brooklyn, in London and traveling all they can. Rich Foundation Urban Leadership N.Y. Darragh moved in December ✹ Adrienne Clay married Russell Program at Oglethorpe University to Athens, Greece, with her husband, Rickford Sept. 15 in the Santa Cruz in Atlanta. In April she will receive a Jake, and their two children, Bryce, mountains; Sarah Muzzy and Jessica ✹ Classical High School distinguished 4, and Tripp, 18 months. Franchot Wolk ’96 helped celebrate. Adrienne Tone owns and operates Crash Test and Russell live in NYC while they alumna award. ❖ Jonathan Kaplan ’94 Studios, a commercial recording complete graduate degrees. Adrienne is the new Washington correspondent for studio in Los Angeles. He produced recently saw Natalie Collins, who the Portland Press Herald. He will cover Dos for the band Culver City Dub was planning a move to Jamaica to Kendra King ’94 the 2008 national political campaigns and Collective. He also composed the work on a children’s museum project conventions. At The Hill, the Washington- fi lm score for an independent feature she designed. ✹ Mike and Julie Lovell based newspaper where he previously worked, he traveled to Iraq fi lm titled Prey For Me. Franchot lives Dunlap and son Aiden moved to twice and covered the 2004 recall election of Venezuela’s Hugo with his wife, Kristin, and daughter Chestertown, Md., this winter. Julie Chavez. ❖ Erin Duggan ’97 joined the New York City Press Offi ce Whitney in Topanga Canyon, Calif. works part time as a nurse in the ICU, as a press offi cer. As a reporter she has written for the New York ✹ Matt ’96 and Anne McManus ER, and post-anesthesia care unit. She Times, Albany Times Union, and Syracuse Post-Standard. She covered Hurlbut w e lc o m e d t h e i r s e c o n d c h i ld , shares that Kelly Moses was married the state capitol for three years and was president of the Legislative a daughter named Lila Louise, May 31, last March and expected a son this Correspondents Association. She also worked in public relations at 2007. Big brother William Dawson, winter. Julie would like to get back Weber Shandwick Worldwide. 3, is smitten. Anne has been on a in touch with Marnie Eckelman fellowship from Tabor Academy this Steffe but is having trouble fi nding year working on a M.F.A. in creative a correct e-mail address. “Marnie, if milestones writing and Matt is teaching history you’re out there, give me a shout!” ✹ Marriages: Brigid R. Jordan ’93 to Michael E. O’Connor in at Duxbury Middle School. The Sarah and Jerrod DeShaw welcomed New Castle, N.H. ❖ Sandy Bugbee ’95 to Eric Larson in Ocean Hurlbuts live on campus at Tabor in their second child, a son, Fields, Oct. Marion, Mass.—Yuhgo Yamaguchi 19. They split time between their Point, Maine ❖ Neal G. Dessouky ’96 to Elizabeth W. Greer new Vermont home and Boston. ✹ in Sonoma, Calif. ❖ Nathan R. Pierce ’97 to Jody L. Keeler in 97 Karin Kidder married Marco Pat Doyle recently became chief ❖ Hallowell, Maine Steven W. Suomi ’97 to Joanna Hedstrom in Manuello in May 2006 in Santa announcer at WHUS (91.7 FM ❖ Concord, N.H. Amy J. Cote ’98 to Michael Boles in Ellsworth, Barbara. Classmates in attendance in Conn.), where he is host of a Maine ❖ Kristen Haley ’99 to Will Chamberlain ’98 in Waterville, included Kerry Shaw Noble, Ashoke blues program every Wednesday Maine ❖ Jenna H. Hannibal ’99 to Frank Schildgen in Litchfi eld, Ghosh ’95, Josh Burker ’95, Meghan from 8 to 10 p.m. under his old DJ Conn. ❖ Lynn Powers ’99 to Jeffrey Harder in Yarmouth, Scheck, and Marah Smith Atwell. name ‘Washboard Pat’. Listen online Maine ❖ Michael S. Salerno ’99 to Erin K. Yates in Manchester, Vt. Karin and Marco reside in London, at www.whus.org. ✹ Mika Hadani where she is pursuing her M.B.A. at Melamed now works for Robert Half Births: A daughter, Samantha Gilbert Holsten, to Jennifer Holsten the London Business School. ✹ Kara International in New Jersey, where ’90 and Jessica Gilbert ’99 ❖ A daughter, Lila Louise, to Matt ’96 Marchant Hooper spent an August she recently bought a home. She loves and Anne McManus Hurlbut ’95 ❖ A daughter, Teaghan Mae, to weekend in San Francisco with Ellie her job in their creative group division Amy and Chris Sullivan ’97 Peters Bergquist and Austen Briggs staffi ng creative freelancers. ✹ Monica for Austen’s bachelorette party. Torres ’0 0, Ted Wei l, and daughter Austen was in the midst of planning a Aurora welcomed new brother Tobias ski plans with the Christophers and at the end of September to Eric January wedding to Michael Crossley in September. They live in Pawtucket, with Stacey Warner. In October she Larsen. They live in Boothbay as well as a September move to Dallas. R.I., where Ted works in audio and visited Michelle Tadros Eidson in Harbor, Maine, where Sandy owns ✹ John and Erika Moore Coombs music production and composition Denver. ✹ Sara Ferry Gyan’s always The Custom House, a gift shop, have two daughters, Abigail and for a digital marketing company. excellent updates include her return and Eric is a fi nancial advisor. Lisa Haley. They enjoy getting together He’s also trying to get his own studio, from maternity leave to a new position DeHahn Jade and Jonathan Bardzik with Betsy Eisen Porada, her Eyeboxx Studios, off the ground. at American Express as a senior HR ’96 were attendants at Sandy and daughter, Carolyn, and newborn son, He coaches soccer in town, where generalist. She attended game 2 of Eric’s wedding. ✹ It has been an James, born Oct. 29. This summer his under-10 girls’ team recently the World Series in Boston with incredibly challenging year for they also saw Emily Guerette Read placed second overall. ✹ Hristina Heather Lounsbury Lysaght and Regina Wlodarski Kruger and ’96, her husband, and son, John, as Dantcheva works in London as an her husband. ✹ Carolyn Hart was her family. They have an autistic well as Matt ’96 and Rachel Moritz economic consultant after fi nishing promoted to senior staffi ng manager daughter, Megan, 5 1/2, who has O’Connell ’96 with their son, Brian. her master’s at Oxford. ✹ Zahid at Springboard in Portland, Maine. ✹ had a diffi cult time for most of the ✹ Josh and Kate Charbonnier Chaudhary is an English professor After more than two years of waiting, year. They’ve worked hard to get Oeltjen welcomed their second at Princeton, having fi nished graduate Dave and Marile Haylon Borden her the help she needs in school. daughter, Emma, late last spring. ✹ J.J. school at Cornell and having taught will travel to China to bring home Their other daughter, Anika, 3 1/2, Eklund McGawn, Sue Hesselbach at University of Washington (Seattle) their daughter, Lia Hui-Ying Baker started preschool and is doing great. Pierce, Megan Jeans, and Jen Mason for two years. ✹ Neema and Ryan Borden. Their son, Jack, is excited to Regina’s family bought a small Drolet spent Memorial Day together Mayhugh welcomed son Connor be a big brother. —Jessie Newman vacation house in Chester, Vt., and in Aspen. J.J. and her husband have Oct. 11. Ryan wrote, “He attended Regina enjoys teaching Megan to ski a two-year-old son, Brady. ✹ Katy his fi rst Cleveland Browns tailgate a 95 Sandy Bugbee got married and getting Anika on skis for the fi rst and Andrew Weber have kept couple weeks later, and we’ll get him

60 COLBY / SPRING 2008 Shelley Wollert, Mimi Sotiriou well. ✹ Karen Lee married Gautam Phot o s of we dd i n g s o r c o m m it me nt c e r e mo n ie s i n v ol v i n g C olb y a lu m n i Raygorodetsky, and Mary Ellen Baski at the Bayonet & Blackhorse may be submitted for “The Blue Light,” Colby’s alumni Web site. Visit Shuttleworth. ✹ Alex Sobel moved Golf Club in Seaside, Calif., Oct. www.colby.edu/alumni/photos to view photos of weddings and other to Seattle, married Melinda Murray, 13. The beautiful outdoor sunset alumni gatherings. Please identify all alumni pictured, including class an emergency medicine physician, ceremony featured Sandi Mattfeldt y e a r s . S e nd p r i nt s t o A lu m n i R e l at io n s , 4310 M a y fl ower Hill, Waterville, and is completing a general aesthetic and Paige Morrison as bridesmaids; ME 04901-8843, or e-mail digital images to [email protected]. surgery fellowship. He plans to open Andy and Carrie Keeling Miller or join a practice in July 2008. ✹ and Erin Darling also attended. fi tted for his fi r s t p a i r of ho c k e y s k at e s fi rm, earned her master’s in integrated Jared Fine has been promoted from ✹ Morgan McDevitt is cruising by Christmas. After all, everyone marketing communication in June post-doc to associate researcher at through his second year of Cornell says they grow up really fast.” ✹ 2007 from Emerson College, serves the Alzheimer’s Research Center Law and looks forward to spending Congratulations to Amy and Chris on the board of directors for the in St. Paul, Minn. ✹ Kate Conklin summer 2008 at Morgan, Lewis & Sullivan, who welcomed daughter Boston chapter of the American got engaged to Mark Ciriello, a Bockius in Philadelphia. He and Teaghan Mae Sept. 11. ✹ Danielle Marketing Association, celebrated classmate from her Babson M.B.A. his wife, Suzanne, recently caught Herget was promoted to chair of her fi fth wedding anniversary, and program. They’re planning a July up with Tacy Conard Quinn and the College of Arts and Sciences bought a house in Bedford, Mass. ✹ 2008 wedding in Connecticut. Kate Amanda Carucci Boggs. ✹ Patrick at Fisher College, where she’s been Sandra Hughes Goff moved back to works in the executive development Burlingame, still on exchange in assistant professor for fi ve years. She Maine from California in June with program at MassMutual Financial Hungary, accepted a position with recently presented a paper at the her husband, Marc, and two-year-old Group in Springfi eld, Mass., and GE Money’s Executive Commercial Fantasy Matters literary conference in son Calvin. They bought a home in lives in Bloomfi eld, Conn. ✹ Thanks Leadership Program and plans to Minneapolis. —Leah Tortola Walton Portland’s Back Cove neighborhood for sending the interesting news and begin an international marketing and gave birth to their second son, I look forward to seeing you all at career in consumer banking upon 98 Jay Scott-Harris was recently Sawyer, Nov. 8, 2007. Sarah plans to reunion! —Brian M. Gill graduating from the Kelley School engaged and is in process of studying fi nish a community planning master’s of Business with his M.B.A. and an for C.F.A. exams. ✹ Jessie Anderson degree. ✹ Cindy Lohmann married 00 Caitlin Nelson married M.A. in East European studies. ✹ Wixon had a baby girl, Drew Ransom Andy Million in October 2007 in Joshua Merrill by the seaside in From Portland, Ore., Mary Larios Wixon, born October 2007. She and Alexandria, Va. Mila Dickson Rossi, South Portland, Maine, Aug. 18 in Gatlin writes that her husband, husband Miles live in NYC and are Rachel Gitelson ’00, Ashley Mandry a ceremony attended by her uncle Jason Gatlin, fi nished his Ph.D. adjusting to being new parents in the ’00, and Doug Nilson ’99 were there. Fred Beyer ’67. A honeymoon to and looks forward to having nights big city. ✹ Mary Ellen Shuttleworth Cindy and Andy live and work in the Prince Edward Island followed. The and weekends free again. ✹ Susan works as a lawyer in NYC doing Washington, D.C., area. ✹ David couple is moving from Maine to and James Mason celebrated the commercial real estate litigation and Dodwell is currently enrolled in Boston, where Caitlin has a job as birth of their son, Nolan James, just ret u r ned f rom Bol iv ia, where she Cornell’s hotel management program a nurse practitioner in the pediatric Sept. 28. James continues his work volunteered for Operation Smile, a and placed third in Bermuda’s annual unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation as an environmental biologist at medical mission for children with cleft sand castle contest. ✹ Steve and Hospital. ✹ Jen Kassakian works the North Carolina Department of lip and cleft palate. ✹ Kristin Mott Amy Lyon Higgs enjoy their new in Washington, D.C., for the House Transportation. The family will soon left New England for Denver, Colo., to home in Portland, Ore., with their of Representatives’ Committee move to their new house in Apex, work for Everon Technology Services, new baby boy, Tasman, who loves on Natural Resources, where she N.C. ✹ Chrissie Marzano relocated a managed IT services company. She his Colby bib, and their three-year- provides legislative support to to Breckenridge, Colo., with her lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood old daughter. They look forward to Congress on fisheries and ocean boyfriend, Nat, and accepted a job of Denver and loves it! Before she left reconnecting with others from Colby policy issues. ✹ Michael Siegel as sales representative for a ski and she saw Summer LaPlante Marsh in the Northwest. ✹ Raj ’99 and Jen reconnected with Skip Newberry travel tour operator called Mountain ’97, Rachel LaFollette Jones, Spiess Gupta are in Concord, N.H. on Facebook and encourages anyone Reservations. During the World Molly McLellan Roberts ’97, and She fi nished her master’s in political who hasn’t already to join the online Series they made a trip to Denver Laura DeMarco Connolly, and all science from UNH and works for community. ✹ Following a recent to see Lara Bonn, Pete O’Neil ’98, are doing well. ✹ Chris and Sally Stonyfi eld Farm as a demand planner. move back to the Boston area, Sarah and Julie Alosi ’98, who were in town Heath Kilbride had a son, Declan They had their second son, Parker Murphy is expecting her second child for the game. They also met up with Heath Kilbride, Feb. 2, 2007. He’s Davis Gupta, Sept. 28, 2007, and big in April. ✹ On June 2 at Sebago Lake John Baptiste ’97, who lives in the keeping them on their toes. ✹ Tyler brother Owen, 4, thinks he’s pretty in Maine, Reed Bundy married Kelly city with his wife, Jen, and their and Sandra Swanson Hill welcomed cool. ✹ Jennifer Stephens married Fanning. In attendance were Jon ’98 baby, Connor. a daughter, Ashley McCord, July 16, Charlie Coniglio in Stoughton, and Melanie Guryansky Olinto, 2007. They’re enjoying every minute Mass., Oct. 20, 2007. Emily Taxson Steph Zegras, Pierce Cole ’01, Chris 01 Jon and I are back from London of parenthood. ✹ Andrew Littell Meadows was matron of honor, and Greenfi eld ’96, Brian DiBello ’99, and living in New York City again. and Margo Orlando were married also in attendance were new parents Sean Foley ’99, Dan Zipin ’99, Dylan We’re anxiously waiting our fi rst cat in Pennsylvania in November 2007. Ben ’00 and Elizabeth Magyar Commeret ’99, Jeremy Donovan, skiing trip of the season to Canada Groomsmen included Jon Foster, Stockwell. Jennifer and Charlie Doug Nilson ’99, Liz (Magyar ’98) that I booked through www.liftopia. Dave Dodwell, Peter Felmly, Brian currently reside in West New York, and Ben Stockwell, Tammie Sebelius com, Evan Reece’s company. ✹ Gill, and Chris Fox. The bridal N.J. ✹ Roger and Kristen Paratore ’02, Greg Hanson, Rachel Gitelson, Melinda Mraz is doing well (and party included Andrew’s twin sister, Bock and son Oliver just moved to and Alexis Fine. ✹ From downtown having a great time) at Tuck Business Katherine Littell. Other alums a new house in Arlington, Mass. Boston, Jonah “J.R.” Rudman sends School at Dartmouth. ✹ Michelle in attendance included Kristelle Kristen really enjoys being a mom and news that he is engaged and will be Chandler Oettmeier just returned Aherne Gill, Dave Gustafson ’99, continues to work towards a doctorate married Columbus Day weekend from an amazing trip to India. ✹ Rachel Westgate, Sarah Eno Felmly, in curriculum and instruction from 2008. At the moment, he works as Peter Oppenheim and his wife, Katie Andrea Bassi, Megan Hauptli, and Boston College. ✹ Laurel Hart ran a software consultant. ✹ On Oct. Downs, are in Chevy Chase, Md. Pete Raja and Liz Hooper Bala. ✹ Sara her fi rst marathon, the New York City 11 Tim ’99 and Amanda Carucci works as a lobbyist in the international Scarborough Graham works at a Marathon, in November 2007. Colby Boggs had a baby girl, Sophia Page. practice at the Carmen Group in D.C. commercial real estate development friends cheering along the course were They’re sleep deprived but happy and ✹ Stephanie Greenleaf Fyfe lives

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in Phoenix with her husband, Jared, and their daughter, Riley. Stephanie The Long Way Home | Annika Svore ’04 started teaching at K12, an online high school, and is working on her master’s in education. ✹ Emily Mahlman was Imagine this scenario. You’re running alone on associate producing a documentary a country road at a brisk eight-minute-per-mile for Frontline on PBS. The fi lm is on pace. It’s 3 a.m., a pitch black summer night; only a marine company serving in Iraq your head lantern lights the path ahead. You’re and it was to air Feb. 19. ✹ Caroline tired because you completed a fi ve-mile run the Blair fi nished law school in Boston afternoon before, and you’ve had only two hours in May 2006 and then clerked with of sleep on a hard gym fl oor. You’ll have to do yet Justice Suttell of the Rhode Island a third run later in the day after a short break. You Supreme Court. Caroline is now an have every reason to feel miserable but, in truth, estate planning associate at Berluti & you’ve never felt better in your life. McLaughlin in Boston and getting Annika Svore ’04 has a gleam in her eye as she married in July! She said that Darcy sits at a Starbucks in Seattle, recounting stories Lynch is now a career advisor at about her participation in the Ragnar Northwest Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., Passage run, a 12-person relay race that begins and is getting married in June to in Blaine, Washington, on the Canadian border, Sam Clark. ✹ Lindsay Prichard is and ends 189 miles later on the southern tip of a social worker with the Guidance Whidbey Island. Like her teammates, Svore had to Center of Cambridge. * Melissa run three different legs, but she alone experienced Alioto Murfey had her fi rst child, the joy of running the last leg. Carl Hutchings Murfey, last June. ✹ Svore’s team, composed of friends, friends-of- Julie Langsdorf is getting married friends, and a last minute fi ll-in from Craig’s List, next May in St. Louis. She lives with her fi ancé in Chicago and is a school had a distinct Colby fl avor. Chris Castle ’02 was social work counselor. ✹ JJ Abodeely, a fellow runner, as were the husband, sister, and Christian Brunet, Pierce Cole, brother-in-law of Natalie Keilholz ’02, who served Trent Cunningham, Jake Civiello, as a volunteer for the race. Jeff Guerette, Matt Huber, and “Running is an individual sport,” Svore said, Mike Kleinman helped celebrate “and a relay race offers a whole new experience. Annika Svore ’04 participated in a 12-person, Devin Beliveau’s passage into We were traveling along in two vans, six people 189-mile relay race. Her team completed the race in manhood (bachelor party) in Maine. huddled in each van—eating [Power Bars, fruit, 26 hours, 41 minutes, and 27 seconds. They nearly sank a 23-foot pontoon nuts], listening to music, laughing, and waiting for boat. Devin’s wedding was Dec. 29 our next turn to run. It was like a slumber party elite clients, such as the Saudi royal family and in Palo Alto. ✹ Jemison Foster without sleep.” other heads of state, sports teams, and successful has taught IB English literature in Her team, the Muffi n Tops, fi nished 23rd out of business leaders. “Because I knew nothing about New Zealand for the past two years, 58 teams, with a time of 26 hours, 41 minutes, 27 airplanes before coming to Greenpoint,” she said, spending breaks in Thailand and seconds, slightly under an average nine minute- “I’m able to think outside the box.” Vietnam. He was selected to the per-mile pace. Creative problem solving is a must for this New Zealand national lacrosse team This native Washingtonian thrives on challenge. job because, with this clientele, no request is last year and led the team in points “Before I came to Colby, I deliberately chose the considered unusual: a garage to hold a Mercedes, in an international tournament toughest COOT option: a three-day, twelve-mile say, or a medical room equipped for surgical against Australia, Japan, Korea, and trek over the Mahoosic Notch on the Maine-New procedures, or several tubs equipped with Hong Kong. He’s also head coach for Hampshire border, one of the most challenging water jets. the women’s national team. ✹ Ann stretches along the entire Appalachian Trail.” Besides meeting a range of requests and dealing Farley just fi nished a marathon in A lifelong outdoorswomen, Svore loved the with clients used to getting what they want, Svore Richmond. ✹ Mark Paustenbach chance to go hiking and skiing in college, as well and other designers must address signifi cant was in Wilmington, Del., working as as developing close friendships with other runners aircraft safety certifi cation challenges. “All materials Joe Biden’s campaign press secretary. on the cross-country team. must be treated and burn tested,” she noted, “and ✹ Ray Mazza designed a card game On the academic front, she began as a pre- the furniture must be structurally secured.” called The Perfect Present, which was med major, but switched to math sciences (from In addition to meeting the demands of her job recently published and is available at the frying pan into the frying pan) her sophomore and her clients, Svore stays sharp by running three Amazon. ✹ Paul Dante is working year. For good measure, she added an art major. or four days a week and practicing “hot yoga” (in on a master’s in geology at Colorado “I wanted to balance the problem solving of math 105 degrees). State University in Fort Collins. ✹ with the creative freedom of art.” Will she experience another slumber-party- Melanie Morin got married July 14 After Colby, Svore took a summer career without-sleep in the future? Well, her faraway to Robert Small in Lorimer Chapel discovery course in architecture at the Harvard expression when she mentions the popular relay at Colby. Melanie is still practicing Graduate School of Design. From there, she race from the top of Mt. Hood to the Oregon as a third-year psychiatry resident at returned to the northwest to take a job as a design seaside gives a pretty good indication. Walter Reed Army Medical Center in manager for Greenpoint Technologies in Seattle. —David Treadwell Washington, D.C., and enjoying their She now works with fi ve other designers, designing new puppy, Gracie. ✹ Kristin Moresi the interiors of top-of-the-line private planes for recently moved to Washington, D.C., and works as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice. ✹ Pam Foxley is engaged to Greg Arifi an. They

62 COLBY / SPRING 2008 live in Pasadena, Calif., and Pam is Eric Strome, Jill Bluso, and Claudia Business at Dartmouth in June 2008. University in London. She also writes an environmental consultant with Laverde. ✹ Andrea Graffeo married ✹ Suzanne Skinner will fi nish her for an online chocolate magazine back a focus on sustainable development. Chris Plant in September on Cape law degree from Penn in May 2008. in New York. ✹ Lauren Henderson ✹ Bobby Fleiss has been busy Cod. Andrea is a physical therapist at After graduation, she’ll move to NYC moved to Berkeley, Calif., to open running his business, www.iwp360. Children’s Hospital in Boston. ✹ Jen and work at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, an offi ce in the Ecology Center for com. ✹ Shanna Brownstein lives Symth is attending nursing school Wharton & Garrison in the litigation the League to Save Lake Tahoe. * in New York and will graduate from in Pittsburgh. ✹ Kirsten Ness has a department. ✹ Kate Swayne fi nished Amanda Sullivan lives in Beacon Columbia in May with a master’s in new job working as a water resources her master’s in environmental policy Hill and works at an advertising public administration. She spent the specialist with the Portland (Maine) and management at the University agency on Boylston Street. She summer traveling out West and saw Water District and she just bought of Denver last spring and moved to attended Laura Barrow and Phil Tim Grayson and Jon Natkin at a her fi rst house in Portland. ✹ Ali D.C. to work for Marsh on climate Geiger’s wedding in Chicago in bluegrass festival in Wyoming. * Stan Culpen is attending NYU for a change issues. ✹ Karli Jaffe will November. Other attendees included O’Loughlin just graduated from law master’s program in urban planning fi nish her M.S.W. from USM in May Derek Taff, Matthew Harrington, school and is clerking for a judge on the with an environmental focus. ✹ Jess 2008. She attended Leah Robertson Jessie Zerendow, Matthew Ritter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Bennett i s i n her se cond ye a r at Tu f t s and Zack Brown’s wedding Oct. 20, Josh Zweig, Caitlin Cassis, Sarah Circuit in Pittsburgh. He recently Medical School. ✹ Rob Belcher is 2007, on Cape Cod. There were many Gagnon, Joshua Hunnewell, Jen visited Colby for the 60th anniversary in Boston working on clean energy Colby alums in attendance, including Mojo, Orlena Scoville, Ter r i of the Colby Eight. ✹ Coji and Yuki projects and spending a lot of time at Chelsea Hoffmann, Sam Shaw, Cunningham, Josh German, Vince Kodera Watanabe moved to their the climbing gym. ✹ Dave Hauser is Emily Allen, and Pete Loverso. ✹ Domestico, Anne Christman, new home in Lenexa, Kan. Yuki “organic” in San Francisco. ✹ Brian Carrie Morin will graduate from Danny Donovan, and Sam Poland. works as international students’ Wezowicz is now an editor at the Fox dental school at Dalhousie University ✹ Vicki Hayes is engaged to Ryan advisor at the University of Kansas, Business Network. ✹ Helena Tubis in Halifax, N.S., in May 2008 and Wepler ’02. She works as the and Coji continues to work in lives and works for a nonprofi t in plans to move back to central or assistant sales manager at Johnson fi nancial consulting with Bank of Brooklyn, N.Y. ✹ Mairead Carney southern Maine to practice. ✹ Ellen String Instrument in Newton, America. —Dana Fowler Charette has relocated to San Francisco. ✹ Whitesides still lives in South Mass. ✹ Andrew Will works at the Patrick Swillinger also lives in San Africa, working on community and Bose Corporation as a tech support 02 We had good success with Francisco and is growing a mustache school projects. Some of her current specialist and spends his nights as Colby’s Welcome to the City event to raise money for the Breakthrough projects include setting up school sound designer/audio engineer for in September in our own Portland, Collaborative, a nonprofit that libraries with donated books and the SpeakEasy Stage Company at Ore. I encourage you all to reach out creates educational opportunities organizing health awareness days. the Boston Center for the Arts. to your Colby community wherever for disadvantaged students. ✹ Chris ✹ Hal Hallstein wrote in for the ✹ Kristan Jiggetts fi n i s h e d h e r you are. You never know who is Leach continues to live and work in first time since graduation with master’s at LMU in May and is living next door. To my surprise one NYC and is always planning his next lots of news. After three years at a working at The Dr. Phil Show in of my COOTers showed up—wow! ski trip out West. ✹ Pete Morelli Boston-based Buddhist publishing Hollywood on the news team. She ✹ Congrats to Lucas Cummings just returned from a trip to Torino, house, Hal left his job and joined attended Kim Francetich and and Kelley Jessopp on their recent Italy, where he raced in the Silver Jake Beren on a two-month rafting Brian Kittler’s wedding along with engagement. They’re planning a Skiff endurance regatta. He’s also expedition in Utah. Hal also reports Ryan Glennon, Cara Dionisi, 2008 wedding in Rye, N.H. ✹ Marcia helping Colby rowers stay connected that Eric Crabtree is teaching third James Bradford, Greg Dupuy, Ingraham and Alexander Tatum through alumni. ✹ Catherine grade on the north shore of Oahu and Molly Given, Samantha Saeger, recently got engaged and are planning Benson graduated in May 2007 with shaping a surf board by hand in the Emily Quann, Jeremy Jamieson, a June 2008 wedding, also in Rye. ✹ a master’s of environmental science bathroom of his rented apartment and Marshall White. ✹ Camille Whitney Alford and Spencer Malozzi from the Yale School of Forestry and that Mike Lee works as a vintage Dugan Campanile and her husband were engaged this fall and plan a and Environmental Studies. She photography dealer and spends his are expecting their third baby in September 2008 wedding. ✹ Meg started a Ph.D. program this fall at time collecting art books for his June. ✹ Chris Roberts is getting Cassella i s e n g a g e d t o T ho m a s H a nd the University of Michigan, Ann work. ✹ In December Jake Beren his M.B.A. at Cornell. ✹ Celeste and will get married in September Arbor. ✹ Bliss Woolmington Bernal was in Ecuador and soloed Cotopaxi, Miliard lives in Cambridge and 2008. ✹ Erika Thoreson is engaged traveled to Beijing in October and a volcano south of Quito. He climbed works as a development offi cer for to Daniel Tristan. They’ll wed in started a new job at a hedge fund the 19,347-foot mountain, hut to hut, the Appalachian Mountain Club. ✹ May 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. ✹ in NYC. ✹ Matt Koontz attends i n f ou r hou r s a nd 20 m i nut e s . “ Now i f Kristin Saucier started her M.A. in Nik and Jenn Coughlin Gaubinger business school at the University of that ain’t news,” Jake wrote, “I don’t international development studies at headed to Switzerland in January Michigan and is not sleeping much know what is.” ✹ That’s all for now! the Elliott School of International for their honeymoon, praying for these days. ✹ Edward Jastrem —Lauren Tiberio Affairs at George Washington snow. ✹ In October, Sam Heck and started a new job as a fi nancial planner University. ✹ Meredith Collins Katherine Worthing (Bowdoin ’01) with Heritage Financial Services in 04 Leigh E. Cummings III and is fi nishing her fourth year of med were married in Brunswick, Maine. Norwood, Mass. ✹ Mike Bergan Kristine Ann Povilaitis were married school and interviewing for plastic In attendance were Chad Weiss, married Maeve Mullally (Colgate ’02) at Nuptial Mass at the Cathedral surgery residencies. ✹ Kate Russo Phil Tyler, Zac Hansen, and Bill in Thompson, Conn., last summer. Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul Aug. married Tom Butler in November and Katie St. Germaine Simpson. Mike is in Cambridge, Mass., in a new 25, 2007, in Philadelphia. Alex in London. She fi nished her M.F.A. ✹ David Friedman married Mia job as a managing partner at Capitol Kronauer ’05 was a groomsman and last June at the Slade School of Art, Baron in September in Ipswich, Mass. Consulting Group, LLC. ✹ Anne the wedding was attended by Kyle where she met her husband. Liz They’re both attorneys and reside in Paruti began working as an assistant and Kristine Pelletier Lieberman, Bomze, Kate Chuprevich, and Kate Cambridge, Mass. ✹ Megan Laird district attorney in Middlesex County Brian Foley, Chris Blomberg, and Hurd ’05 attended the wedding. ✹ married Phil Hodgkins in September; (Mass.) in September. —Sally Hall Erica Joseffy. Leigh and Krisy are Kirsten Zarnetske is working as a they’re attorneys, too, working in both fi rst-year associates in Boston, rep for the Roxy Mountain Project NYC. ✹ Lauren Eisenberg married 03 Sara Schwartz is engaged to where they live with their puppy, and plans to attend a doctorate David Gimpel in Chicago this past b e m a r r ie d t o Je f f Moh a n t h i s c o m i n g Ralphie. ✹ Cristina Jaleru is program for physical therapy next October. Joining the fun were Jenna summer. CONGRATS Sara! She’ll getting her master’s in international fall. ✹ Ande Nicoletti lives in NYC Bishop, Tara Sweeney, Tara Lantz, also graduate from Tuck School of journalism, broadcast, at City with Steen Sehnert ’06. She teaches

COLBY / SPRING 2008 63 alumni at large yoga and works as a waitress. She Bogden fi nished in 2:59:28, most 00s newsmakers is getting ready to apply to grad likely due to the encouragement of school for her master’s in fi ne art. Jackie Dao, Pat Semmens, Kevin Sara Lovitz ’01 is outreach coordinator for the Energy and Global ✹ Cynthia Davies is ski patrolling Yardi, and Jeff Alden ’07. ✹ Nora Warming Project for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, a nonprofi t at Sunday River. ✹ After returning Gouge is completing her master’s organization protecting, restoring, and from Honduras, Francie McGowan in psychology at NYU, still working conserving Maine’s environment. She works lives in Chicago and works at a youth i n prevent ive med ic i ne resea rch, a nd to educate the public about global warming and agency. She recently joined the coaching after-school sports in New energy issues. “It was really my time at Colby board of directors of the Chicago York City, where she recently ran where I became interested in environmental Freedom School. ✹ Janine Elliott into Katie Ghelli. Nora informed ❖ works in environmental education me that Todd Moore is in his fi rst work,” she told The Town Line. Evan Reece in the San Francisco area. She is year at Fordham Law School. ✹ ’01 is the founder of liftopia.com, a growing starting a massage therapy practice as Alan Ashbaugh took a three-week We b b u s i ne s s t h at of f e r s d i s c ou nt e d l i f t t ic k e t s well. ✹ Kaitlin McCafferty lives in cross-country road trip this fall, for 50 mountains nationwide. Reece says that Beacon Hill and works in advertising ending in Alta, Utah, where he’s the Northeast is ripe for success because, at Arnold Worldwide as an account working as a waiter at the Alta “New Englanders recognize value. We don’t manager on the Jack Daniels account. Peruvian Lodge for the ski season. Sara Lovitz ’01 with like to waste money,” according to the Boston friend Osito ✹ Thank you to everyone for sending ✹ Since September Josh Gray has Globe. ❖ Lee Emmons ’07 is the community- in news! —Kate Weiler been attending The Landing School based program manager for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine, in Kennebunkport, Maine, where matching eligible children to adult volunteers who serve as mentors and 05 Nick Miller is in his third year he’s completing a one-year program friends. Emmons joined the organization because he was looking for teaching English at the Landmark in yacht design. Josh, along with ways “to give back,” he said. School on the North Shore in Matt Guy-Hamilton and Lauren Massachusetts. He coaches golf and Simmons ’06, recently ran into milestones baseball and is also fi nishing his fi nal Nicole Wessen and Jared Cushman y e a r of a m a s t e r ’s i n s p e c i a l e d u c at io n at the Portland Brewers Fest on Nov. Marriages: Abigail B. Campbell ’00 to Brewer B. Rowe in Newport, through Simmons College. ✹ Carrie 3. Nicole, Jake Colognesi, Charlie R.I. ❖ Carolyn H. Campbell ’00 to Jonas K. Jeswald in Charlevoix, Fredland works as an AmeriCorps Reed ’06, and Ryan Praski ’07 are Mich. ❖ Richard M. Cohen ’00 to Lisa Lalezarian in New York, volunteer at a nonprofi t organization skiing as part of a night league team N.Y. ❖ Zecharia S. Kahn ’01 to Sarah E. Bainton in Newport, called Environmental Concern in St. at Wachusett this winter. The team R.I. ❖ Kristin R. Elder ’02 to Stephen F. Greene in Boston, Michaels, Md. The organization is is sponsored by Shred Optics, a Mass. ❖ Cassandra M. Cote ’04 to A ndrew P. Grantham in Falmouth, dedicated entirely to restoring and company owned by Charlie’s friend, Maine building wetlands and educating the Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety. ✹ public. She is also fi nishing an M.A. Jon Eisenberg lives in LA and works Births: A son, Declan Thomas, to Michael Bergan ’02 and Maeve in English in a part-time program. for Film 44 i n t e le v i s io n d e v e lo p me nt . Mullally ✹ Former hockey player Jared He has run into Vanessa Ambatielos Gordon and his wife, Crystal, were and James Oh ’06 around the city. ✹ married last August in Lincolnville, Elizabeth Riley started her second Memorial Fund. The money raised to kids and adults. She is trying to Maine. In attendance were Ken season working in the front offi ce will provide camperships to boys and simultaneously learn Spanish and Pitter, Meghan Barringer, Chris for the Portland Sea Dogs and girls so that they can attend nonprofi t Catalan. And as of a few weeks ago, Ries, Barry Brown, Pat Slipp, enrolled in the M.B.A. program at camps during the summer. Please Caroline Cotter is living just down Joel Morash, Nick Bayley, Eric the University of Southern Maine. visit www.franklinfreestyle.com to the road in Barcelona, where she’s Molander, Cory Ernst, and Patrick She visited Amanda Walsh and Kara learn more or to make a donation doing a similar thing. ✹ Heather Walsh, along with Colby grads McCabe ’06 last fall in Washington, in Chris’s memory. ✹ Have a great Lersch is a ski instructor in beautiful from other classes. ✹ Matt Gangl D.C., and planned a January trip to spring! —Katie Gagne Truckee, Calif., (North Lake Tahoe). moved back east after spending visit Kim Jones, who lives in Dublin, She enjoys hanging out in San two years in Missoula, Mont., and Ireland. ✹ Hannah Emery is still 06 Barbara Hough still teaches Francisco with former Colby swim is now employed at the Harvard plugging away in the sociology Ph.D. in the Haverhill school district but is team buddy Blake Crowley ’02 during School of Public Health in Boston program at UC Berkeley. She had a now a full-time music teacher, grades the off season! ✹ Kaitlin Herlihy as a research assistant. ✹ Rachel memorable weekend on Mayfl ower one to fi ve. She is also faculty at New is the public policy coordinator at Luskin has been pursuing her fi lm Hill in October reminiscing with England Conservatory in Boston, Cesar Chavez Public Charter School career by producing an independent Melissa Hernandez, Matthew where she teaches a fl ute student as for Public Policy in D.C. She also feature fi lm, The Aristocrat, (www. Ruby, Ryan Phelan, Jonathan Lees, well as co-instructs a fl ute studio teaches a 12th grade public policy TheAristocratMovie.com) in the and Hande Barutcuoglu. ✹ Melisse class. ✹ Kim Devine recently moved thesis seminar. She’s enjoying her greater Boston area and Cape Hinkle finished her master’s in to Portland, Maine, and works for an second season as the varsity women’s Cod. ✹ Ellen Weaver recently got journalism at Northwestern Dec. 7. advertising agency downtown called soccer coach and writes that her engaged to her boyfriend, Derek She’s in the process of searching for Kemp Goldberg. She works in client team recently won their fi rst game Berg. They’re tentatively planning j ob s a nd ho p i n g t o fi nd the perfect fi t. services and runs into many Colby ever! ✹ Jess Seymour is really an October 2008 wedding. ✹ Melissa ✹ Wendy Bonner is engaged to her folks. ✹ Noah Balazs teaches fi rst enjoying her second year teaching Hernandez is in a master of library boyfriend of two years, Ryan Spicer, grade in Beverly, Mass., after leading middle school Spanish at Savannah science program at Long Island whom she met through an adult ice a teen community-service trip last Country Day School in Georgia. University’s CW Post campus, hockey league in Washington, D.C. summer in Hawaii. He hopes to lead She also coaches soccer and teaches with guidance and encouragement They are tentatively planning a a similar trip again this summer and an after-school yoga class for the from Marilyn Pukkila of Miller summer 2008 wedding. ✹ A benefi t is also busy working on his M.Ed. faculty. ✹ Meris Esterly and her Library’s reference staff. ✹ Steve Wakeboard Tournament will be in elementary education. ✹ Melina parents, Diana and Harry, are the Bogden ran the D.C. Marine Corp held in August 2008 in Wisconsin in Markos lives in Girona, Spain, new owners of Geronimo Trail Marathon with Eric Reinauer ’04. honor of the Chris Starz Leadership teaching English in a language school Guest Ranch in Winston, N.M.

64 COLBY / SPRING 2008 Guests come to ride horses and “Pops” Poplaski, Jamie Tang, and Texas vs. Oklahoma football game 2000s Correspondents have a western-style vacation. The Emily Wilbert graduated from in Dallas. ✹ In D.C., Diana Cole is ranch is in Apache Indian country Colby in January 2008 and are attending law school at the Catholic 2000 (on the Geronimo Trail Scenic already doing amazing things. In University of America, Columbus c/o Meg Bernier Boyd Byway) in the Black Mountains in January Julia Hutchinson began School of Law. John McCormack Colby College the Gila National Forest in southwest her seven-month journey around works with Tammy Lewin at Project Offi ce of Alumni Relations N.M., two hours from the nearest the world, including three months Performance Corporation. ✹ In Waterville, ME town, Truth or Consequences. ✹ at WWOOF (Willing Workers on Baltimore Steve Plocher and Megan 207-859-4312 Brandon Smithwood is also out in Organic Farms) in New Zealand, Bovill are engaged to be married this [email protected] New Mexico teaching fi fth graders. followed by other stops, mainly summer. Megan teaches with TFA He has been running and mountain in Asia and Europe. ✹ Amanda and Steve works in publishing. ✹ In 2001 b i k i n g w he n he c a n . He lo o k s f o r w a r d Hilton is in Italy on a Fulbright, NYC Lee Kozakiewicz is pursuing Dana Fowler Charette to moving back to Boston this working as a teaching assistant and her Ph.D. in molecular genetics at 401 E 80th Street, Apt. 6F summer. ✹ Taka ( James) Bennett doing her own anthropological A lbert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY 10075 has been pretty busy applying to research. ✹ Elisa Chiniara lives and focusing her research on the 646-744-5043 medical school and should be hearing in Copenhagen and works for the pathogenesis of multi-drug-resistant [email protected] back in a couple of months. In the Danish Institute for Study Abroad tuberculosis. ✹ Lucy Hitz attended 2002 meantime he moved out to Jackson doing institutional relations, and the Columbia Publishing Course Sally Hall Hole, Wyo., to enjoy the snow. He she offers up her futon to any alums. last summer and now works for 6824 SE Knight Street is going to coach alpine ski racing at ✹ Rob Rosenbaum lives in South People magazine. ✹ Laura Keeler Portland, OR 97206 the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Africa and works for CHOSA works at an art gallery in Chelsea. 503-929-3700 ✹ Club and will probably pick up some (Children of South Africa) and runs Kaitlin Gangl works for Marina [email protected] other part-time job working at a ski the Philani Family Fund, an NGO he Maher Communications, a PR fi rm, shop or waiting tables. ✹ Antonio co-founded. He also helped establish and lives on the Upper West Side 2003 Mendez is working at the Posse a baseball development program in with Erica Annon. ✹ Jen McAleer Lauren Tiberio Foundation, a nonprofi t scholarship the black townships surrounding has been teaching and expects to 96 Waters View Drive organization in downtown New Cape Town. ✹ Liza Benson spent fi ve have her master’s in education with Wethersfi eld, CT 06109 York, and is also starting his second and a half months in a 36-foot wooden a certifi cation in special education- 860-874-1118 fi lm project, a seven-minute short sailboat banking 10,000 nautical moderate disabilities by September [email protected] documenting the three different miles, including sailing across the 2008. ✹ Nicole Lavery works with 2004 Chinatowns in New York City. ✹ Atlantic Ocean in 27 days. ✹ Out in AmeriCorps in the Massachusetts Kate Weiler Kristine Fucillo lives in Freeport San Francisco, Katie Himmelmann Promise Fellowship and takes 4204 Colonial Court with Trevor Hanly ’07. She’s in her works for UCSF at the AIDS Health graduate classes at Northeastern second year at Maine Law and is Project and volunteers as an HIV working toward a certificate in Norristown, PA 19403 [email protected] enjoying an internship with the U.S. test counselor. ✹ Liz Boeheim and community justice. ✹ In Boston Mike attorney’s offi ce, District of Maine. Kathryn Bartholomew are having Piacentini works as the development 2005 This summer she’ll start a job with an awesome time living together in and marketing assistant for From the Katie Gagne t he C u m b e rl a nd C ou nt y DA’s of fi ce. Bozeman, Mont. ✹ Alexis Heimann Top, a nonprofi t that encourages and 17 Summit Avenue, Apt. 2 ✹ Charlie Hale is still out in San is an offi ce manager at an eating celebrates t he com m it ment of you ng Brookline, MA 02446 Francisco working for Google. He disorders clinic and also a mental people to music and the arts. ✹ Beth 617-823-1463 has changed teams and just got back health counselor at the Children’s Hirschhorn lives in Somerville, [email protected] from India doing some training Hospital in Boulder and is roommates Mass., working as a clinical research in the Google offi ce over there. with Katie Price. ✹ Emily Wilbert associate. ✹ Becca Goldstein is at 2006 Emilie Coulson was in California is the French teaching apprentice Boston College starting her Ph.D. in Jennifer Colifl ores for the summer, and other Colby at the High Mountain Institute in chemical biology, while Ta-Chung 565 Madison Street grads Katie Himmelmann ’07, Leadville, Colo., with Kate Braemer, Ong is pursuing his in chemistry Wrentham MA 02093 Adam Atkinson-Lewis, Jayadev the Spanish apprentice. They’ll at MIT. ✹ Mary Warlaumont and [email protected] Vadakkanmarveettil ’07, Matt be hanging out with high school Liz Coogan are clinical research 2007 Morrison, and Meredith M. students, helping with backcountry assistants at Children’s Hospital Karli Gasteazoro Blascovich are also out there. expeditions, and living in the highest and are housemates with Meg 743 Laurel Avenue Steen Sehnert, Jon Bastian, and city in the U.S. (10,400 feet). ✹ Krissy Davis and Alisa Perry, who both Saint Paul, MN 55104 Tim Stenovec c a me t o v i s it C h a rl ie Thatcher en rolled i n t he Un iversit y work at Dana-Farber. ✹ Blakemore 651-210-4291 and ran around the Google campus of Minnesota biomedical engineering Foster is a research analyst for a [email protected] trying to avoid security. —Jen Ph.D. program and currently works in hedge fund marketing company Colifl ores the cardiac tissue engineering lab. She and lives with Pat Lizotte ’06, with also plays on the university’s Ultimate frequent visits from Mike Gravelle is writing for a community newspaper 07 Let’s start off with a huge Frisbee team. ✹ Mark Biggar is and Christine O’Brien. ✹ Adrian in New Hampshire and covered CONGRATULATIONS to the attending law school at Northwestern Gilmore manages a psychology lab the N.H. presidential primaries. ✹ most recent additions to the Class in Chicago. ✹ Lindsay Kohlhoff at Harvard with a focus on aging and Mindy Favreau works in Portland of 2007: Huseyin Akturk, Chris is at Duke University working cognition. ✹ Lindsay Carlson works as the editorial assistant at Mainebiz, Appel, Anita Buragohain, Duncan towards a master’s in environmental as a clinical research assistant in the a statewide business newspaper, Carvey, Juan Colon, Brad Curtis, management and resource economics. psychiatric neuroscience department and has been freelance writing for Vivek Freitas, Chafic George, ✹ Natalie Ginsburg i s t e a c h i n g t h i r d at Massachusetts General Hospital. Port City Life magazine. ✹ Felicia Stefanie Glasser, Julia Hutchinson, graders in the Mississippi Delta In January she attended the Sundance Teach moved to Portland and now Phoebe Larkin, Bayley Lawrence, with TFA and met up with Tammy Film Festival with Kyle Haskett, works as an office manager for Hengtian Lin, Ryan Maher, Shapel Lewin, Katie Maland, and Karli Tony Gill, and her sister, Kristin Adam Cote ’95 for Congress. Go Mallard, Amy Pendoley, Mike Gasteazoro for the big Univ. of Carlson ’04. ✹ Robin Respaut Mules! —Karli Gasteazoro

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Myron M. Hilton ’32, December 24, Cedric G. Porter ’35, December A policewoman for 30 years for the career working in a U.S. Army lab 2007, in Cumberland Center, Maine, 29, 2007, in Newburyport, Mass., Metropolitan Police Department in researching and developing food and at 99. He was one of the fi rst executives at 94. He worked for 42 years as a Washington, D.C., she was assigned clothing. A devoted volunteer to the of Union Mutual Insurance Company produce inspector for the U.S. and the to the women’s bureau and worked College, she was awarded a Colby (now Unum) and worked there Maine departments of agriculture. with battered and neglected children. Brick in 1995. She was active with until 1971. He became a real estate He served on the Caribou, Maine, She retired in 1973 as a lieutenant. various organizations, including the appraiser and was on Maine’s board of Library Board, was a Mason, and She was predeceased by her mother, League of Women Voters. She was appeals for real estate appraisals. He loved to sail and fish. Survivors Rose Carver Tilley ’11, a brother, predeceased by a brother, Charles golfed and bowled into his nineties, include his son, Daniel C. Porter Roger B. Tilley ’37, and an aunt, Kramer ’48. lived independently, and exhibited ’72, his daughter, Faith C.P. Prior, Louise Tilley ’23. Several cousins great patience. He was predeceased and two grandchildren. survive her, including Claire Tilley Richard W. Billings ’48, November by a son, Richard L. Hilton ’60. Henderson ’41. 15, 2007, in Montville, Maine, at 83. Survivors include his children, Muriel Scribner Gould ’37, January B e f o r e C olb y he s e r v e d a s a n a v i g at o r David, Brad, and Brian Hilton, Anne 12, 2008, in Hershey, Pa., at 91. She Milton W. Hamilt ’42, January 11, in t he A rmy A ir Corps, rising to t he Hilton-Sawyer, and Linda Deetjen, taught school for awhile and later 2007, in Kennett Square, Pa., at 84. rank of fi rst lieutenant. He earned a sister, nine grandchildren, five held civil service jobs with the federal He served as an Army staff sergeant a master’s from Springfi eld College great-grandchildren, and nieces government. She was a devoted wife during World War II, then earned a and a Ph.D. from LaSalle University, and nephews including Warren R. and mother who enjoyed traveling master’s in public health from Yale. then worked for 20 years as an Kinsman ’57. and reading. Survivors include her He wo rk e d a s a ho s p it a l a d m i n i s t r at o r executive for the YMCA in New children, Lewis, Lawrence, and until 1968, when he started teaching at York state. Returning to Maine, he Richard H. Packert ’32, December Burton Gould and Margaret Daily, Temple University. Survivors include worked in insurance, created the 11, 2007, in Machiasport, Maine, six grandchildren, and 11 great- his wife of 59 years, Beulah. Informed Notaries of Maine, and at 96. He earned an M.B.A. from grandchildren. She was predeceased started his own publishing company. Harvard in 1934 and worked in various by her mother, Josephine Clark Eleanor Cornish Martin ’42, Survivors include his wife of 60 businesses throughout his life. He was Scribner 1908. October 17, 2007, in Woonsocket, years, Norma Taraldsen Billings an avid fi sherman who loved the state R.I., at 86. She was a social worker for ’46, three daughters and a son, two of Maine. Survivors include his son, Elliott H. Drisko ’39, January 8, the state of Maine for 12 years before brothers, six grandchildren, and two Richard Jr., three grandchildren, and 2008, in Yonkers, N.Y., at 90. He was becoming a mother and homemaker. great-grandchildren. fi ve great-grandchildren. a technical sergeant during World She was active in her church, belonged War II and earned an M.S.W. from to the Pemaquid, Maine, Historical Mildred Schnebbe Riordan ’48, Ruth Pullen ’33, December 4, 2007, Boston University and a doctorate Association, and was a member of December 20, 2007, in Somers, N.Y., in Camden, Maine, at 98. Devoted from Columbia. As executive director the Pemaquid Chapter of the DAR. at 82. A self-employed bookkeeper, to improving the lives of women for 33 years at Family Service Society Predeceased by her cousin Nathaniel she worked for Riordan Business and children, she taught school of Yonkers, he became nationally E. Wheeler 1909, she is survived by Services in Somers. Generous and and was a child welfare worker. An known for his expertise in family her children, Susan Martin, George independent, she loved to cook, play administrator for 20 years at the life education programs. Active in L. Martin Jr. ’79, and Anna Sprague, bridge, and be with her grandchildren. Maine State Women’s Reformatory civic affairs, he was awarded the and six grandchildren. Survivors include her children, in Skowhegan, she retired in 1961 Jenkins Memorial Award from the Lawrence Riordan, Linda Riordan, as superintendent. She earned a J.D. Yonkers Council of PTAs. He was Charles Fred Pearce Jr. ’43, January and Gail Ashley, two grandchildren, in 1964 and became the fi rst woman an avid photographer, active with 29, 2008, in Gloucester, Mass., at and a sister. to practice law in Franklin County, the Boy Scouts, and had a passion 87. He served in the Army during Maine, retiring in 1979. Through her for genealogy. Survivors include World War II, fi rst in the infantry Charlene Bickford Bartlett ’49, involvement with AAUW and BPW his sons, Elliott Jr. and James, and then as sailing master in Italy. November 20, 2007, in Auburn, she helped Margaret Chase Smith four grandchildren, and his cousin He was a management consultant for Maine, at 80. She left Colby, get elected to the U.S. Senate. In Jeanette Drisko Rideout ’39. IBM until he retired in 1975. Active married, and raised fi ve children. 1961 Colby awarded her an honorary in his community, he was president She later earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree. She was predeceased Frank L. Jewell ’40, January 11, 2008, of the Village Hall Association and her master’s from the University by a sister, Hope Pullen Gillmor ’31, in Laconia, N.H., at 88. He served in an incorporator of the Cape Ann of Maine and taught fi rst grade and a brother, John J. Pullen ’35. the U.S. Air Force during World War Savings Bank. An avid sailor, he for 21 years in Topsham, Maine. Survivors include her sister Olive II. He then worked as an accountant, belonged to the Annisquam (Mass.) Passionate about genealogy and Pullen Palmer ’40 and several nieces fi rst for Central Maine Power then Yacht Club. Survivors include his history, she cofounded the Bowdoin and nephews including John P. for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, wife of 64 years, Carolyn, two [Maine] Historical Society and Gillmor ’65. retiring in 1971 as head accountant. sons, four grandchildren, including wrote a book about the town of He was active in his church, serving Whitney Pearce Fitts ’02, and a Bowdoin’s cemeteries. An avid Robert E. Rosenberg ’33, April 26, as treasurer and deacon and singing great-granddaughter. reader, she followed politics and 2007, in El Paso, Texas, at 95. He in the choir. He is survived by his current issues. Predeceased by her earned a law degree from Harvard wife, Lois, two stepsons, a brother, Roslyn E. Kramer ’45, October 7, brother Kenneth R. Bickford ’38, she and in his practice specialized in and a niece. 2007, in Newton, Mass., at 83. She i s s u r v i v e d b y he r hu s b a nd , C h a rle s , family law. He served as a captain in served with the U.S. Navy WAVES as four children, two grandchildren, the Army during the 1950s. He and Constance L. Tilley ’40, January an aerographer. A chemist, she worked and one great-grandchild. his wife raised two children. 10, 2008, in Gaithersburg. Md., at 89. for hospitals and then established a

66 COLBY / SPRING 2008 Miriam Dickinson Hammond ’49, Donald Silverman Cameron ’52, Donald D. Gerry ’56, November was co-owner of the Coral Grille November 2, 2007, in Lake Havasu September 9, 2007, in Snyder, N.Y., 19, 2007, in Bourne, Mass., at 73. He Seafood Restaurant. In California, City, Ariz., at 81. She worked for a at 78. He received a master’s and a served in the Navy for nine years, he owned the Action Smog Center. few years as a medical technologist doctorate from New York University spending time on the salvage vessel Sports, the outdoors, skiing, and in California, then devoted herself to while building a career in banking. USS Preserver and the destroyer USS coaching his sons’ teams were his her children and home. She is survived He became senior vice president for Davis. I n 19 6 8 he b e c a me p r o p r ie t o r of passions. Survivors include his wife, by her husband, Dick, a son and a Chase Manhattan Bank, working for the Little Fan Gift Shop in Mashpee, Lynn, two sons, and a sister. daughter, and a granddaughter. several years in London. Survivors Mass., which he ran until he became include his wife of 55 years, Sally Shaw ill. Survivors include his wife, Rita, Richard J. Gleason ’75, February Anne Whitehouse Miller ’49, Cameron ’52, four children, and eight a son and two daughters, and seven 13, 2008, in Mansfi eld, Mass., at November 26, 2007, in Tenants grandchildren. grandchildren. 53. He earned a master’s in geology Harbor, Maine, at 80. She taught for from Dartmouth and established a 14 years at Kennebunkport (Maine) Diane Sargent Larsen ’52, November Russell A. Nahigian ’56, January 31, career in environmental restoration Consolidated School while raising 27, 2007, in Jacksonville, Fla., at 76. 2008, in Arlington, Mass., at 73. He and hazardous waste remediation. her nine children. She earned a She was a housewife and raised the served in the U.S. Air Force before Survivors include his wife, Ellen, a master’s in education in 1967. After four children who survive her: Ric earning a master’s in engineering son and a daughter, a grandson, a moving to Tenants Harbor, she and Scott Larsen, Donna Evenson, management at Northeastern. He brother, and his parents. owned and operated the Cod End and Kathi Simmons. was a computer specialist and worked Fish Market for 33 years. Hard- for 15 years as a mathematician for Ellen C. Ross ’78, July 3, 2007, in working and independent, she loved Sandra Thompson Cyr ’53, the Department of Transportation. Basking Ridge, N.J., at 50. She earned her pets, the outdoors, knitting, December 29, 2007, in Bangor, Maine, Survivors include his wife, Carol, a doctorate in physical therapy from and reading. Survivors include her at 75. A schoolteacher for 20 years in three children, three grandchildren, New York University. She taught husband of 60 years, Carlton D. northern Maine, she retired in 1983 and a sister. at Columbia University and at the Miller ’50, nine children including after suffering injuries from a car Un i v e r s it y of Me d ic i ne a nd D e nt i s t r y, Susan Miller ’76, 14 grandchildren, accident. She played the organ at the Jean Haurand Furman ’57, New Jersey. An avid gardener, she 12 great-grandchildren, and four Limestone (Maine) United Methodist December 14, 2007, in Bridgewater, also enjoyed the ocean, hiking, and step-grandchildren. Church, was a reader, and loved to N.J., at 71. She was a chemist bicycling. Survivors include her travel. Survivors include her husband and earned a master’s in library husband, Bob, two children, her Donald E. Wentworth ’50, January of 51 years, Thomas, three sons and information science from Pratt parents, and two sisters. 6, 20 08, in Ken nebu n k , Maine, at 80. a daughter, two grandchildren, a Institute. She worked as a technical He e a r ne d a m a s t e r ’s i n e d u c at io n a nd sister, and several cousins including information specialist for several John A. Lancaster ’79, December an advanced diploma in secondary John H. Irwin III ’76 and Carla M. companies including American 2, 2007, in Caribou, Maine, at 51. school education. He was a teacher Thompson ’85. Cyanamid and Exxon Biomedical He graduated from the New England and principal of the Dolan Middle Sciences and was honored by Sigma Institute of Mortuary Science and School in Stamford, Conn., and a William J. Yskamp ’53, November Xi, the scientifi c research society. An became a funeral director and consultant to the Stamford Board of 18, 2007, in Oakland, Calif., at 77. He accomplished nature photographer co-owner of Lancaster-Morgan Education. A founding member of was an editor for science textbooks and avid alpine gardener, she had Funeral Home in Caribou. He was the Middlesex Genealogical Society, and raised three children with his her photographs published and a competitive chess player, worked he also founded two men’s clubs in wife, Claire. gave lectures on gardening and on and rode motorcycles, and played Stamford. The nephew of Colby Jack photography. Survivors include her bass guitar. Survivors include his sons, Coombs 1906, he was an avid baseball Ernest W. Flick ’55, December 15, husband, Frank, two sons, a brother, Tyler and Casey, and his mother. fan and enjoyed other sports as well. 2007, in Newburyport, Mass., at 73. and three grandchildren. Survivors include his wife of 55 years, He served in the Army National W. Jeff Dropo ’80, January 17, Theresa, and two brothers. Guard until 1960. He put his passion Dana F. Danforth ’66, December 2008, in Sandwich, Mass., at 50. for chemistry to use as a literature 21, 2007, in Belfast, Maine, at 63. He He was a business executive for Barbara French Brandt ’51, scientist and technical writer for earned an M.A.T. in French from the TNT Fireworks, headquartered in December 30, 2007, in Westford, chemical companies and later as a University of Maine and taught French Alabama, but made time for lobster Mass., at 79. She was a housewife and freelance writer. He wrote formula for 36 years at Mt. Greylock Regional fi shing off Cape Cod. A triathlete dedicated mother who also parented information for more than 600 High School in Williamstown, Mass. and avid swimmer, he was a volunteer troubled foster children. She traveled products, edited operating manuals, From 1981 to 2004 he and his wife swim coach at the YMCA-Cape Cod, in Europe, New Zealand, and Asia and wrote technical books. He is served as resident directors of the and had as his motto “Never Give In.” and summered in the Adirondacks. survived by his stepdaughter, Suzanne Williamstown chapter of A Better Survivors include his wife, Susan, Survivors include her husband, Leasenfeld, cousins, and friends. Chance, helping underrepresented three children, and two sisters. Roger, three children, and four youth. He was predeceased by his grandchildren. Mark F. Sawyer ’55, January 23, great-aunt, Ninetta M. Runnals 1908. A n d r e w M . P e f f ’11, January 19, 2008, 2008, in Gothenburg, Neb., at 75. Survivors include his wife, Judith, in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, at 19. Richard P. Yeager ’51, June 17, 2007, He worked for the meatpacking two sons, two brothers including He died in a snowboarding accident in Waynesville, N.C., at 77. He served company IBP, Inc., in Nebraska doing Stephen C. Danforth ’63, two sisters, at Sugarloaf. A fi rst-year student, he in the U.S. Naval Reserves from 1951 construction and special projects two granddaughters, and two great- had arrived on campus two weeks to 1953. He worked in retail, selling within the plant. Survivors include grandchildren. earlier, following a semester at the men’s apparel, was a Chicago Cubs his children, Toni Finn, Mona Price, Colby in Dijon program. Originally fan, and enjoyed fi shing. Survivors Ruth White, and Steve Sawyer, a Frederick H. Burr III ’71, January from Jenkintown, Pa., he is survived include his wife of 50 years, Lois, stepdaughter, two grandchildren, a 13, 2008, in Manhattan Beach, by his parents, Thomas and Ann, and two daughters, fi ve granddaughters, brother, and two sisters, including Calif., at 58. He lived in Steamboat three siblings. and a brother. Mary Sawyer Bartlett ’61. Springs, Colo., for many years and

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