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The Colby Alumnus Volume 65, Number 2 Winter 1976

Published quarterly fall, winter, spring, summer by Colby College

Editorial board Mark Shankland Earl H. Smith

Design and production Donald E. Sanborn, Jr. Martha Freese

Photography Mark Shankland

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Postmaster send form 3579 to The Colby Alumnus Colby College Waterville, Maine 04901 appraisal of the future of professions, or just in our President's Page personal arrangements for the security and well-being of ourselves and our families, we must take these changes into account and must assume that there will President Robert E. L. Strider gave the keynote address be continuing acceleration of change for all the span of to a conference of the Northeastern Industrial Devel­ years that most of us can foresee. opers Association recently in Portland. The conference I am surely not suggesting that this state of affairs is theme was "Survival Demands Sensitivity to Change." bad. We just have to get used to making some com­ Although President Strider's remarks were directed to­ promises and dealing with dilemmas we have not ward the changes facing industry, the following always had to face. In a political system where those excerpts from his conclusion entail a considerably who are governed want both freedom and security, broader range of social implications. certain compromises have to be made at both ends OHN STUART MILL OBSERVED, TO PARAPHRASE HIM, in order to insure an appropriate measure of each.. J that a man is a man before he is an engineer or a It may be consoling to contemplate the fact that lawyer or a doctor, and if he becomes a good man he some things are not going to change. A good will be a good engineer or good lawyer or good doctor . number of our customs and social mores have been This kind of broad acquaintance with the range of modified, but I cannot believe that our essential values human learning in the perspective of the sweep of have changed all that much. We are still motivated by history will show our students, we trust, something humanitarian concerns, we respect and want to pre­ of what it means to be a human being. It is our con­ serve human dignity, we wish to reduce and even viction that knowing what it means to be a human eliminate poverty. There is no reason why our stan­ being tends to give broader dimension to those human dard of living in this country has to remain so dis­ beings, to make them good men and good women and proportionately high in relation to the standard that potentially useful citizens. And, if indeed they do exists in the vast majority of the rest of the world, but emerge from this educational regimen with the dis­ even when that imbalance has gone a good way to­ ciplined minds we hope they will have developed, we ward being rectified it is still possible for us to have the expect them to have a capacity for adaptability to acceptable standard of living that we would want. change. . .. I sense no disagreement that we are genuinely com­ There is certainly utility in learning how to do cer­ mitted to equal opportunity, and to freedom of ex­ tain things in certain contexts and to do them well. All pression and enterprise, with such limitations as are of us have to do that. But if that is all one knows, one needed to insure the maximum possible exercise of as is likely to be thrown off if the circumstances of the much freedom as we can manage for the maximum contexts change.And they do change, sometimes very number of people. We need not have luxury, but we rapidly.. .. wish to have economic stability. We want an edu­ Every week something new turns up that has to be cational system that will insure an informed and con­ learned, for which no possible preparation could have structive citizenry, and we hope that education will taken place in school because the technique had not yet prepare people for rewarding and useful employment been developed. Untold numbers of individuals are of the leisure that we will probably have in greater working in computer technology who had all their abundance. schooling before the computer came into being. As None of what I have just been saying is new. It President Kemeny of Dartmouth observed not long represents no dramatic change. The changes that we ago, in a very short time a large proportion of the must address ourselves to in such areas as industry, working force will be engaged full-time in occupations business, transportation, construction of houses, build­ that have not yet been invented .... ing of roads, and so on, are real, and their effects are Circumstances do indeed change, and unless we are consequential. But they are taking place against the sensitive to the implications of those changes, survival backdrop of the familiar values that have characterized of any number of institutions we are accustomed to mankind in one way or another for a good many gen­ taking for granted is indeed called into question. erations. Our adaptability to change need not be limit­ ... All of us can catalogue our appraisal of the less. But it clearly must be vigorous, and a high degree changes that have been taking place and all of us can of steadfastness and sturdy resolve and willingness to project the changes that we must anticipate between accept Less rather than an insistence on More will be now and the end of this century. The important con­ called for. Human beings are resilient and ingenious, sideration is that we do live in an atmosphere of rapid and for the most part they are altogether decent and change, and in all our planning, whether it is in constructive, and I have no doubt that the challenges business and industry, in institutional projections, in of the next quarter century will be met.

1 Academic Tenure

But, tenure's opponents chorus, no one gets a con­ For It tract to play left field for the Red Sox until age 65. I submit that, given continuing competence, there is no CHARLES W. BASSETT reason why such a contract is undesirable. Competence is the key word here; Ted Williamses come only rare­ No ONE, not even those whose experience with ly, but when the job gets done, no one has reason to academe consists of an occasional insomniac glimpse complain. of "Sunrise Semester" or a night-school class in The sports analogy is unfair, however. College macrame, seems to have neutral feelings about tenure professors are learned individuals, honored by popes for faculty members. One could believe, according to and kings while surgeons were still doubling as the assertions of tenure's vocal critics, that most college barbers. An obscure Kansas judge, way back in 1878, courses are taught by old Prof. Drone, a senile bum­ put the case as well as anyone: "No man of spirit or bler whose yellowed lecture notes defenestrate the first self-respect or capability would want to hold office two rows with the odor of mildew. Drone, of course, is a tenured professor . Bosh! Academic tenure is simply a system according to which a faculty member, after a seven-year probation­ ary period, is granted a continuous appointment until retirement for age or physical disability. Tenured professors may be dismissed for adequate cause, or their appointments may be terminated because of financial exigency. But tenure per se never caused a professor to go stale, nor was it ever intended to pro­ tect an incompetent one. Like any other human institution, tenure has been abused, but it is by no means clear that "doing some­ thing" about old Prof. Drone's mouldy lectures necessi­ tates dismantling a structure that has repeatedly proven itself to be the professoriate's most valuable safeguard against administrative capriciousness, politi­ cal witchhunting, and philistine "efficiency. " Critics of tenure love to mix their metaphors : ten­ ure, they claim, fills up the faculty with "dead wood"; abolishing tenure would, ipso facto, inject "new blood" into a moribund guild. My colleagues and l welcome the intellectual stimulation of new faculty associates, but I have yet to meet a professor who has doddered off into inanimate complacency or stupefac­ tion simply because he/she has achieved tenured status. This is not to say that I have never encountered a mediocre tenured colleague (some say I myself lack the necessary requisites), but at the same time, I daily meet less-than-talented businessmen, attorneys, physicians, television personalities, and professional athletes. Tenure plays no part in their failures to measure up; they drop that fly ball according to their own lack of merit.

2 unless he felt that he was reasonably certain to hold the same for a reasonable period of time. The shorter and Against It more precarious the tenure of office, the less attractive, important, and valuable it would be." ROBERT P. McARTHUR Anti-tenure advocates find this argument somehow un-American. Insecurity as a goad to achievement is a THERE IS a clear need to guarantee the academic free­ powerful shibboleth in American culture, even in the dom of all faculty members. The AAUP tenure system face of the demonstrably superior accomplishments of is one mechanism for accomplishing this goal. But it is American higher education under a tenure system. not the only mechanism, and it is by no means the Bored insensate by old Prof. Drone, these critics con­ most satisfactory in the present climate of higher veniently forget the Nobel prize winner, the brilliant education. Marxist economist, and the controversial biologist, After a "probationary" period of seven years, whose tenured status allowed them the freedom and AAUP guidelines require a decision either to place a security to teach and write as well and as truly as they faculty member on continuous tenure or to terminate have. his service to the institution. Once tenured, the guide­ And one cannot depend upon the courts to protect lines specify, an individual can only be separated from academic freedom, an alternative frequently proposed his position for reasons of incompetence or bona fide by the anti-tenure faction. The law is conveniently financial exigency. The burden of proof is placed fuzzy on a number of academic freedom issues, and squarely on the institution in each case. both excessive litigiousness and extra-academic intru­ To establish incompetency, formal charges are sions into the affairs of the college are not conducive brought by the chief academic officer and are heard to the continuing autonomy of higher education. I for and adjudicated by a faculty committee. The proceed­ one would fear teaching in my native South Dakota, ings are designed to be elaborate - counsel is retained where a unanimous state supreme court found tenure by both parties, witnesses are called, evidence is taken, "vaporous" and approved the dismissal of a professor a transcript is retained. All of this, again according to of "controversial character." AAUP guidelines, insures that the academic freedom No, it is not tenure that causes generations of under­ of faculty members will not be abrogated by harass­ graduates to revile the Drones of academe. College ment or threats of dismissal. In theory these regula­ faculties can improve themselves by counseling inade­ tions seem reasonable. But in practice they have quate colleagues (and by finding for dismissal if, after created, perhaps unwittingly, a situation in which a due process, incompetence is demonstrated). Further­ faculty member once on tenure cannot be dislodged. more, brilliant teacher-scholars can be fairly compen­ Charges must be brought by the administration, but sated for outstanding achievements without destroying the case is decided by members of the faculty. Given tenure in favor of some sort of laissez-faire contract the adversary presuppositions of the system itself - model borrowed from Xerox or Desilu Productions. that faculty need protection - it is highly unlikely One last point : tenure was not intended to exclude that faculty members will convict one of their brethren talented young teachers from membership in the guild of charges brought down from the administration. of professors. The Committee to Study the Future of Faculty personnel committees tend not to develop Colby said it well : "Who is tenured is more significant guidelines for competent performance and tend to to the welfare of the college than how many are resent being asked to do so. Hence, except in the most tenured." If the faculty carefully screens its proba­ flagrant cases of abuse, decisions are certain to go tioners, then tenure will continue to assure Colby's against the administration. This fact, coupled with the best academic freedom and reasonable job security. realization of the divisiveness and rancor such proceed­ Who could ask more of such a system, except that it ings involve make administrations extremely wary of place old Prof. Drone among his intellectual peers, using the dismissal machinery contained in the AAUP perhaps on the South Dakota state supreme court? tenure system. It is almost as though the machinery doesn't exist. Financial exigency is an easier matter to establish, Charles W. Bassett is an associate professor of English but the AAUP has created elaborate safeguards here as who has been tenured since 1971. He is an active well. Once again a faculty hearing committee is re­ member of the American Association of University quired to insure that the situation indeed calls for the Professors, a former officer of the Colby chapter and extraordinary measure of termination of tenured ap­ state conference of the AAUP, and a strong advocate pointments. The net result of the AAUP guidelines in of faculty tenure. this area is to cripple seriously the educational policy

3 of colleges facing hard times. For example, suppose a the American Council of Education. Of these, thirty­ college must hold its faculty at or below its present nine reported having some form of the contract size. In such a situation, which is becoming common­ system. But none were universities or four-year pu blic place in both public and private colleges, the college is institutions, and only fourteen were four-year colleges. forced to impose a "tenure quota" to have sufficient In the spring of 1971 four out of five contracts were flexibility to maintain the quality of its academic pro­ renewed in more than 95 percent of these thirty-nine gram. Without quotas entire departments easily can schools. No figures are given within the categories of become completely tenured. If enrollment should drop two-year and four-year institutions . Clearly this off significantly in such a department and there is a sample is far too small to provide a basis for an argu­ concommitant rise in other departments, the college ment against the contract system. Such systems are could not reallocate faculty positions according to new and, for the most part, untried. How they will ul­ AAUP guidelines. There is a clear assertion in the 1974 timately function is now a matter for conjecture. But I Statement on Termination of Faculty Appointments find the claim that they must degenerate into a de facto that enrollment variations cannot be cited as a reason tenure system unpersuasive. to discontinue a department or academic program . By A second argument one hears is that a contract implication, such variations are equally inadmissable system is ultimately incapable of protecting academic to justify the reduction of a department or program . freedom. This has long been the position of the AAUP So quotas are inevitable . and is a significant charge. Indeed, since there is no With tenure quotas a college is scarcely better off. question that the tenure system, with all its other Its younger faculty members live with the sort of un­ failings, does provide a guarantee of academic free­ certainty a tenure system is supposed to eliminate . No dom, the burden of proof rests with the defender of matter how promising, no matter how hard working, the contract system . Tenure, according to the AAUP tenure positions just might not exist for them. Instead position, protects the academic freedom of all members of making personnel decisions based on academic of a faculty even though fifty percent or more may not qualifications, the college is forced to use arithmetical be on tenured appointments. The tenure system does considerations. The faculty becomes divided into the this by treating a contract of an untenured individual "regulars" - those who by good fortune managed to like a tenured appointment for the duration of the con­ achieve tenure - and the "transient" - those who tract. In its various pronouncements on dismissal and won't. Retirements, especially if unscheduled, are met termination, the AAUP guidelines are intended to with glee at institutions with tenure quotas. Grim as it cover both tenured faculty members and those not on may be, news of a faculty death prompts as an initial tenure but under a contract which has not expired. So response: "Was he tenured?" procedures for dismissing a person in the second year A better alternative is a contract system, perhaps of, say, a three year contract are the same as those for using variable-length terms of appointment. As his dismissing a faculty member on tenure. With this contract expires a review of the individual's perfor­ device of "tenure for the term of the appointment" the mance and the future of his position can be conducted. AAUP guidelines protect even untenured faculty Such reviews would not have the witch-hunt quality members from violations of their academic freedom. A they have under tenure systems. There is no reason to contract system can use this same device. Surely it will believe that such reviews - which would be the joint work as efficaciously during the terms of appointment responsibility of the faculty and the administration - as in the tenure system. The claim, therefore, that need be anything but fair, above board, and in the best academic freedom cannot be upheld in a contract interests of the institution. Safeguards of academic system must focus on the renewal procedures. Again, freedom are easily built into such a contract system. by insisting on due process and written reasons for Against such a proposal one often hears two argu­ non-reappointment, together with the vigilance of the ments. First, institutions with contract systems tend to rest of the faculty, the AAUP claims to protect the "automatically" renew all contracts, it is alleged, thus academic freedom of untenured faculty members reinstating a kind of de facto tenure system. The net during renewal of their contracts. I see no reason why result of moving to contracts in place of tenure, the this too cannot be incorporated into the contract sys­ argument goes on to say, is to create elaborate machin­ tem. The twin safeguards of tough procedures for dis­ ery for reviews which tend to become pro forma after missing a faculty member during the term of a con­ the second contract. So why tamper with the present tract and guarantees of due process and a fair hearing system if there are such slight gains? The data on during renewal should act to preserve academic free­ which this argument is based stem from a 1971 survey dom under a contract system to the same extent as of 511 institutions of higher education conducted by presently enjoyed by non-tenured faculty in a properly

4 nctioning tenure system. Whatever force this second Prof. McArthur speaks of the reluctance of faculty gument has is as much a criticism of the tenure to face this task. He is right; no one wants to sit in stem as the contract alternative. judgment of a colleague. I am fully convinced, how­ ever, that this attitude must change. The question in my mind is not whether this kind of action is required >bert P. McA rthur is an assistant professor of philos- but rather who will be responsible for it. If the faculty, 1hy w ho was tenured in 1975. He is serving this year with a supporting role played by the administration, Colby as an American Council on Education fellow does not develop just procedures which can lead to a academic administration. dismissal decision where one is demanded then others will do this for us. Boards of trustees and students can force the issue in concert or by taking separate paths. Both have legal and ethical stands from which they A Middle View speak with authority. If boards of trustees were to become directly involved in these matters, the delicate PAUL G. JENSON but generally successful relationship which has existed between trustees and colleges during the history of HERE MUST be a moderate position regarding higher education in this country would change, I be­ 'nure. The situation isn't as rosy and easy to deal with lieve, in a detrimental way. s Prof. Bassett implies nor is the alternative which For many reasons, students are becoming much rof. McArthur suggests, a contract system, likely to more aggressive in evaluating faculty. Not only are �pair the ills of the tenure system. Mistakes have been some alleging they aren't getting what they paid for but 1ade in the past and the issue is how to reduce them in a student at another institution brought suit against the ie future. university. Thf student charged she didn't learn any­ In my judgment, errors both in awarding tenure or thing in a course and she wanted her money back.She 1 issuing contracts are less likely to happen now than lost the case. , the past. Larger applicant pools will result in better The contract system has been proposed as an alter­ election of qualified faculty in the first place. More native to tenure. To be sure, a contract system pro­ :iculty members, therefore, will meet the tests and vides for periodic review, but is there not real danger to resumably more will be tenurable. And second, the academic freedom of one whose contract is in the :olby now proceeds with great care in reaching tenure process of being reviewed? Certainly the person who ecisions. The stakes are high and screening of the takes unpopular stands is likely to fear repercussions iost meticulous nature is required. (Remember, a at that time no matter how responsibly he represents 1irty-year-old faculty member tenured in the fall of his views. The power of other faculty also on contract 976 could conceivably be with the college until 2010, and, therefore, also subject to review does not strike 1hen he must retire at 65.) me as an impressive defense of academic freedom when When tenure has been granted or a long term con­ the chips really are down. Fortunately, academic free­ ·act awarded, the continued intellectual development dom is not now at stake in most institutions; it is so f the individual is the real challenge. It is a major obli­ important to the health of any institution of learning, ation of the administration to see that faculty however, that to diminish it is to threaten the vitality 1embers are assisted and encouraged to continue of the institution. tudies of their disciplines and of their teaching. Colby So, there does seem to be a moderate position on Hers support, but more could certainly be done in this tenure which includes provisions for correcting errors rea. in judgment. A next step is needed to develop proce­ The decision to terminate tenured faculty members dures insuring that tenure does not unfairly protect :lr cause is difficult, but procedures must be developed those who do not remain competent. We must have the :l determine fairly but firmly whether individuals have strength to remove from our ranks those who are no iiled in their obligations to the college. The AAUP has longer worthy of being colleagues without jeopardizing lways stated this should be possible, however, rheto­ the important safeguards to academic freedom provid­ tc far exceeds practice. Dismissal proceedings demand ed by the tenure system. olleagues' judgments to an even greater degree than is �ue in decisions which lead to tenure. These judgments Paul G. Jenson was appointed in 1971 as Dean of re an inescapable responsibility of our profession; we Faculty. He is also Vice-President for Academic Affairs annot shirk from this obligation no matter how un­ and a professor of psychology. As an administrator, leasant it might be. he is ineligible for tenure.

5 8,000 Bushels and Independence

of the orchard, the possibility of I J securing a loan, and the feasibility of the whole idea. Needless to say, the deal was closed, the four bought the farm in March, 1974, and moved in during April, just in time to begin pruning the trees for the new season. The farm and orchard, which belonged to the Wentworth family for many years, consists of 125 acres. There are 25 acres of apple trees, 30 acres of fields, and the remainder is woods. A house and large barn are located on the prop­ erty. The barn houses the store, where the apples are sold, and three huge coolers, where apples are kept cool from August until April. The two couples share the Apple growers: from left, Steven Meyerhans, Susan (Harding '71) Preston, Nicholas house, but plan eventually to con­ Preston '71, and Marilyn (McDougal '72) Meyerhans. struct an additional house on the property. OR TWO YOUNG COUPLES LIVING ported himself working at odd The first year, said Susan, "we F 12 miles from Colby on the jobs, one of which was harvesting fell all over our own feet. " There Back Road to Skowhegan, apples apples at the Royal Wentworth was almost no end to the new have become a way of life. Or­ orchard. Steve enjoyed working things which gave them problems, chardists they are, proud owners of for Wentworth, enjoyed the work including the tractor, the sprayer, the Apple Farm (formerly the itself, and eventually introduced the chain saw, advertising, mar­ Royal Wentworth orchard) for his three friends to Royal and to keting and pest control. However, almost two years. apple picking. the operation has improved mark­ The transformation from stu­ In 1973, Wentworth decided at edly in a year and a half, and con­ dents to entrepreneurs has not been age 76 that the time had come to fidence has replaced confusion. an easy one for the group, three of retire, and the two couples found Speaking of pest control, they whom are alumni, but it has been out the orchard was for sale. They are doing a great deal of research well worth the effort. For Susan gathered one night at the top of into integrated control, which is (Harding '71) and Nicholas Preston Rangeley Mountain, where Nick the use of natural predators, such '71, and Marilyn (McDougal '72) and Susan were working for the as beetles and wasps, in conjunction and Steven Meyerhans, the Apple forest service, and talked about the with poisons to eliminate bugs. Farm is not only an orchard, but a possibility of buying the orchard. Though they don't think it will be homestead, where they live, work, All four had previously wiled possible to completely do away and come very close to supporting away many evenings talking about with the use of sprays, they hope themselves. owning and operating the orchard, to cut their use to a minimum. While Nick, Susan and Marilyn but only on a "wouldn't it be nice" The house is completely heated attended Colby, Steve, who had basis. That fall night, however, the with wood, and all the cooking is left Johns Hopkins, moved to talk turned serious. After much done on a wood stove. All the Waterville. He and Nick, boyhood deliberation, Steve was selected to wood, incidentally, comes from friends from Connecticut, shared serve as an emissary. He came to their own property. Last summer, an apartment in town. Steve sup- town to determine the exact price the four vegetarians planted a huge

6 vegetable garden which met most mowed. The fall is busiest of all, of their food needs. There was when 15 people work steadily for such an abundance that there was two months picking about 8,000 even a surplus to sell. bushels of apples. Now is a quiet The rising cost of gasoline, com­ time of the year at the orchard. bined with the fact that the or­ one of the biggest Spy orchards in Nick and Susan are working as ski chard is located 12 miles from the state), Russets, Nodheads, instructors at Squaw Mountain, as town, has caused them concern. Baldwins, Duchess, St. Lawrence, they have for the past several The answer, in Nick's words, is "to Gray Pear Main and Sweet Reds, years, and Steve and Marilyn are make it worth people's while to none of which is readily found on minding the store, which will have drive out here." To best do that, supermarket shelves. apples for sale until April. they are increasing the variety of Though the four want to con­ All of them feel they have made products for sale, which now in­ tinue to expand their offerings, excellent progress in learning to cludes cider, plums, pears, pump­ they intend to keep the business run the orchard. Perhaps soon, kins, produce, honey and maple mainly on a local, retail level. they will even have enough time to sugar. They inherited a number of steady own a dog, which they have all Their true raison d'etre, how­ customers from Wentworth, have wanted, but have been too busy to ever, is the apples. They grow and gained some new customers on take care of. They enjoy living in sell 24 varieties, but they particu­ their own, and were much excited the country, but often come in to larly take pride in offering a when they landed the contract to visit friends and former profes­ number of the older varieties supply Colby's food service with sors. To top things off, Royal which have been driven off the apples last year. "Our triumph Wentworth now comes to the or­ market because of the care needed over big business!" they laughed. chard every fall and works for his to grow them. Examples are the Most of the year, the orchard is former employees. Doing what? Northern Spys (they claim to have very busy and there is much work Picking apples, of course! to be done. In spring, there is pruning to do. In summer, the garden must be tended to, the trees must be sprayed, and the hay, used for mulch in the garden, must be

7 An Interview with Donaldson Koons

would be useful to the colleges if they could encourage more active involvement on the part of faculty members in state and local government operations. Sometimes this would be an inconvenience, but it might be useful to have a couple of faculty members who actually were members of the legislature.

Q: ls Colby's science program realistic? Koons: I've had a feeling for quite a long time that the colleges had a responsibility which went beyond what we like to call "pure science," and that the col­ leges in fact had a responsibility in the direct, day-to­ day operation of the world as well. I think we tend to­ wards the view, rather widely held, that there is some­ thing somehow impure about doing anything but pure research, and I don't think that this is a defensible view. The college should be doing more than it is doing in terms of its responsibilties in the state.

Donaldson Koons, nationally-known environmentalist Q: Do you think students, particularly non-science and chairman of the geology department, returned to majors, find Colby's science courses useful after Colby in the fall after serving full-time for two years as graduation? Maine's first Comm issioner of Conservation. He served Koons: Perhaps some of them do not find them previously as a member of the Maine Board of particularly useful or pertinent. How useful should Environmental Protection and as chairman of the they be? You should at least be able to vote more intel­ Maine Environmental Improvement Commission. ligently on some issues and read more intelligently be­ Koons has played an important role in the fight cause of what you have learned here, and I think many against air and water pollution and for effective land of the students can. use in Maine. In 1971 he received the Natural Resources Council's Environment Award as "a scientist Q: In terms of the environment, what do you see for who has combined teaching and citizenship of high the future? order." He received an Honorary Doctor of Science Koons: Many people have finally become aware that degree from the College of Wooster in 1974. In there are limits to growth, but there is a good deal of November, Koons was named a Charles A. Dana disagreement as to how we approach those limits. If we Professor. burn up all our capital, it will be gone in not much In this interview with the Alumnus, he discusses his more than a lifetime. On the other hand, we can hus­ return to teaching and his views on the future of the band it rather carefully and have it last for a long time. environment. I think we are wise enough (to do that) but the demand for energy is enormous, and only recently have a Q: Are you happy to be back in the classroom? number of people begun to recognize this. Maybe we Koons: Oh yes, there is no doubt about that at all. won't use as much energy in the future, but if so, we It's back in the real world. will live a different way.

Q: Are colleges "ivory towers?" Q: Is the nation better prepared for another Arab oil Koons: Colleges are detached from the world, yes. It embargo than it was for the first one?

8 Koons: No. Too many people felt that this was most costly wood you can get, because you have to just some kind of nightmare that would go away. pick it up by hand right now. This doesn't mean that There are ways in which we can prepare ourselves, and we can't devise new systems, though. one of the ways is to accept the fact that we live in a world in which our demand may be controlled by Q: Can Maine attract industry, as it seems to be somebody else, and we had better adjust to it. One of trying to do, which will not despoil the state? the ways is not to burn up everything as fast as we Koons: Yes, there is no doubt about that, though I can. think it is somewhat unrealistic to think that very many major industries are going to move to Maine. Q: Did the federal government miss a good chance They have problems. They are a distance from their for action during the embargo? markets, they have a very small local population, and Koons: Yes. They had an excellent opportunity to many of the resources that they want to get would forcefully support the conservation of energy re­ have to be imported. On the other hand, there is no sources. Instead, the government took the view that all reason why executive offices, relying on telephone lines we had to do was drill more holes and we would be for communication, should not move out of the cities out of it, and that simply is not true. Well hell, there is and into rural areas. The few that have done this, I only so much oil. The answer is not to burn it up think, have found it a very successful move. faster, it is to burn it up more carefully. Q: Does Maine face any unique environmental Q: Would New England be particularly hard-hit in problems? another embargo? Koons: Yes. The unique situation in Maine is that Koons: Yes. New England in general depends on im­ approximately half the state is in semi-wilderness, but ported oil to a very large extent - about 90 percent of that half of the state is almost exclusively in private its oil consumption. ownership rather than public ownership. In all other states, the wild lands are, to a large extent, publicly Q: Is nuclear energy the answer? owned. One of the environmental problems is related Koons: Nuclear energy is not as simple as people to this. We are surrounded by areas of fairly heavy think, and there are serious problems with it. It is population density and consequently there is a good expensive, it is inherently inefficient, and the disposal deal of interest in some parts of the wild land. Since of the radioactive waste is orders of magnitude differ­ the land is privately held, the response to that interest ent from the disposal of ash from a coal fire, for in­ may not always be in the best interest of the state. stance. I don't believe it offers the ready answer that many people thought. Q: Has any attempt been made, and should any attempt be made, to limit the ownership of land in Q: Do any alternative energy sources hold much Maine by non-residents? promise? Koons: There are various ways of trying to control Koons: If we are going to maintain a high energy this. One is to put a capital gains tax arrangement on consumption economy, and we are, we are going to land sales. Another is to put in so-called homestead have to develop solar energy sources. It is not going to taxes. This is a very difficult problem. Right now, be easy, and it may mean we are going to have to there are situations in which the local owners are in a spend a lot of money and time on it, but there is no sense being forced off their land because the non-resi­ way away from development of and reliance on solar dent is able to afford taxes that the local resident is not energy. able to afford. I think that a revision of the tax struc­ ture, which would protect the resident owner, is very Q: Can New England heat with wood? desirable. Koons: There is no question that we can get a lot of heat out of wood. We can burn it directly, we can Q: Can individuals do much on their own to im­ burn it in chips, we can burn it in large furnaces, we prove the environment, or does the burden all fall can process it and extract gas and alcohol as a fuel upon the government? from wood. Remember, this does require that you Koons: I think the great bulk of it falls back upon the handle a large volume of wood in order to do this, individual. That is where it starts, that is where it ends, which means the processing is going to be expensive. sooner or later. There aren't enough policemen to en­ There is a lot of talk now about using waste wood for force laws that individuals themselves don't want to methanol production. Well, that waste wood is the enforce.

9 Lawsuit Charges Sex Discrimination at Colby

Government Policies Contradictory

N OCTOBER, THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY monthly payments because statistically they live I Commission (EEOC) filed a suit against Colby in longer. U.S. District Court, charging discrimination based on However, the policy of the Office of Federal Con­ sex, with particular reference to the payment of re­ tract Compliance, Department of Labor, is unac­ tirement benefits. The Teachers Insurance Annuity ceptable to the EEOC. Its policy requires that both Association (TIAA) and the College Retirement contributions and payments be equal for men and Equities Fund (CREF), both national agencies, were women. Therefore, it is not Colby's practices in this also implicated in the suit. area which are in question, but rather the basic prin­ Some time ago, the EEOC received a complaint from ciples of insurance and pension payments and benefits. a Colby faculty member alleging discrimination by the The problem is further confused by the Federal govern­ college on the basis of sex. A number of specific ment's contradictory policies in this area. grounds were cited, and Colby was visited by an In an effort to develop a unified policy, President EEOC representative who investigated the charges. Ford established the Equal Employment Opportunity The college was later notified by the EEOC that none Coordinating Council, on which are represented the of the charges had any substance except the alleged EEOC, the OFCC, and the Office of the Attorney inequity in the payment of retirement benefits. General. He ordered the council to develop a unified In its payment of benefits, Colby has followed the approach to the problem of retirement benefits by TIAA and CREF system, as most colleges do. Owing Oct. 15. to the use by TIAA and CREF of actuarial tables based The council was unable to agree upon a unified on life expectancy statistics (which is the usual practice policy by the Oct. 15 deadline, so it asked President in the insurance industry) the monthly payments of Ford for an extension, which he granted. The new retirement benefits are higher for men than for women. deadline is April 15, 1976, and no action will be pos­ In paying retirement benefits, Colby has followed sible until the council reports its findings. As President the guidelines of the Office of Federal Contract Com­ Strider wrote to the EEOC lawyers in June, "Colby is pliance, Department of Labor. Those guidelines require prepared, as we have always tried to do, to comply that the monthly pension fund contributions of men with the law of the land, but first it would be help- and women be equal, but do not require that monthly ful to know what the law of the land is. " payments, once a person has retired, be equal for per­ After the EEOC investigation, Colby was invited to sons with similar status. Women have received smaller enter into conciliation with the EEOC on the matter of the equitability of its system of monthly retirement benefits. With the advice of representatives of the ------, I American Council on Education and the Association of American Colleges, and with the concurrence of CHANGE OF ADDRESS I Print new address and mail to the I Colby's legal counsel, Colby declined to enter into Alumni Office, Colby College, I this kind of conciliation unilaterally. Waterville, Maine 04901. I According to President Strider, the issue is a national I one, affecting not only Colby but all of American NAME ______CLASS._ ___ I higher education and the insurance industry also. It STREET ------�I must ultimately be settled on a national basis. Colby CITY I was chosen for what may become a test case because a I complaint happened to be filed against the college. STATE ZIP______I The case, which very likely will take several years to

· ------� be resolved, could go as far as the Supreme Court.

10 and creativity, a fascinating variety News of the College of proposals is the usual result. This year is no exception. Here is but a sampling of projects now being undertaken by students. Twenty-five Years Ago college historian.Though he retired Donna Pendleton '79 (Isleboro) ... The Board of Trustees, trou­ from teaching in 1960, Marriner is studying the green crab popula­ bled by spiraling costs, found it continued as college historian, a job tion on the island of Islesboro. Her necessary to announce an increase he still holds today at age 84. survey will be used by the Maine in student rates for the 1952-53 When Marriner left the dean's Dept. of Marine Resources and in­ year. Tuition was raised from $250 post, Robert E. L. Strider was hired corporated into a state survey of to $275 a semester, extra course dean of faculty. He came to Colby the green crab, a major clam pred­ fees jumped from $50 to $55, and from the English department of ator. dormitory rental went from $90 to Connecticut College and was dean Martin Connolly '78 (Wood $100 a semester.The Board was of faculty until 1960, when he be­ Ridge, N.J.) is completing a port­ pleased that there was no need to came Colby's 17th president. folio of pen and ink sketches of the raise meal prices for Colby's 1,000 E. Parker Johnson, professor of campus to capture the flavor of students. psychology, was then appointed Colby's architecture. ... The basketball team wrap­ dean. With the exception of the Carl Lovejoy '79 (Bristol, N.H.), ped up the state championship with 1967-68 academic year, when John­ is preparing a paper on the life of a 101-63 victory over Maine, fol­ son was on sabbatical leave, he Elijah Parish Lovejoy and his in­ lowing a 22-9 season. Twelve indi­ continued as dean until 1970. He fluence on the college. vidual player records were broken then returned to full-time teaching Martin Hubbe '76 (Millinocket) during the season by senior Teddy as chairman of the psychology is working as an apprentice to a Shiro and sophomore Ted Lallier. department. harpsichord maker. ... The U.S. Air Force was con­ While Johnson was on leave, Arthur Gerrier '77 (Mexico) is sidering Colby as a possible loca­ Evans B. Reid, now chemistry de­ researching the activities, motives tion for a Reserve Officer Training partment chairman, was appointed and practices of the Ku Klux Klan Corps unit. A poll of male students acting dean. When Johnson gave in the Rumford-Mexico area of showed 85 percent in favor of up the post in 1970, R. Mark Ben­ establishing the unit on at least a bow was appointed acting dean of temporary basis, and 60 percent in faculty.Benbow, a Shakespearian favor of having it permanently scholar, served out the 1970-71 established on campus. academic year as dean, then re­ ... The new outdoor hockey turned to the chairmanship of the rink next to the Mayflower Hill English department. fieldhouse was equipped with The current dean, Paul G. Jen­ floodlights for night hockey. son, was appointed in 1971. He came here from Temple Buell Col­ lege in Denver, where he was vice­ Faculty Deans president for academic affairs. Be­ Remain to Be Seen sides being dean of faculty, Jenson When Colby first established the is a psychology professor and office of dean of faculty in 1947, Colby's vice-president for academic Ernest Cummings Marriner was, affairs. not surprisingly, the first appoint­ Mark Shankland has been appointed ment to the position. What is un­ Jan Plan Projects as the new assistant college editor in usual is that Marriner and the five charge of the Alumnus, replacing Leslie succeeding deans of the faculty are To students, January's arrival Anderson '71. Shankland is a 1971 all still associated with Colby. means the time has come to turn graduate of Ohio Wesleyan. He re­ ceived a master's degree in journalism Jan Plan proposals into projects. Marriner served concurrently as from Kent State University in August, dean of faculty and professor of Because the program encourages and worked previously as a report­ English until 1957, when he gave students to pursue their own inter­ er! photographer for a Cleveland-area up the job of dean and became ests with independence, originality chain of weekly newspapers.

11 Maine during the post-WWI She is writing a paper, in Dutch, on Alfred King Chapman, professor period. the problems that exist between emeritus of English. Remodeling of Rebecca Guild '76 (Brimfield, two Belgian ethnic groups, the the room, located in Miller Library, Mass.) is doing a study of tradi­ Dutch-speaking Flemish and the was made possible by a gift from tional and modern New England French-speaking Walloons. Bernard H. Lipman '31, of Au­ folklore. gusta. The board of trustees ap­ Carol Haffenreffer '77 (Welles­ proved Lipman's request that the Math Careers ley, Mass.) is working backstage room be named for Prof. Chapman for the Boston Opera Company. A question often asked by prospec­ at its fall meeting. Dedication of the Everett Briggs '79 (Topsfield) is tive students, admissions officers Chapman Room will be held during doing field work with the Peace and Colby undergraduates is "What Alumni Weekend in June. Corps in Paraguay. careers are open to a mathematics The Colbiana Collection contains James Thrall '78 (Huntington, major from a liberal arts college?" thousands of documents, manu­ N.Y.) is in Japan, where he is Seeking the answer, Lucille Zukow­ scripts and published works per­ studying the role of the foreign ski, chairman of the mathematics taining to the college, its alumni press. department, sent questionnaires to and faculty. Official college records Robert Kellogg '78 (Concord, all math majors in the classes from occupy about 100 linear feet of Mass.) is producing a full set of 1962 through 1974. space and there are about 3,000 working plans for a 39-foot sailing The responses indicated that individual manuscript collections yacht, including line drawings, sail careers in teaching ran second to relating to individuals, living and plans, specifications and detailed those in computer-oriented activi­ dead, with ties to the college or the construction plans. ties, and that 63 percent of the area. Scott Johnson '78 (Orono), Mark respondents had completed ad­ Prof. Chapman retired in 1969 Murphy '78 (Cromwell, Conn.) and vanced degrees. Areas of concen­ after 41 years with the English de­ Robert Johnston '78 (Lincoln) are tration beside pure mathematics in­ partment. He was a 1925 Phi Beta designing and building a suspension cluded business, computer science, Kappa graduate of Colby, and was bridge over Slugundy Falls on the statistics, law, education, medicine, chairman of the English department Appalachian Trail near Monson. psychology, engineering, meteoro­ and Roberts Professor of English They will be living in a lean-to and logy, economics, ocean engineer­ Literature at the time of his retire­ keeping a journal of their exper­ ing, library science and systems ment. In 1968, he received an hon­ ience. management. orary doctorate from Colby. Ron Davids '78 (Natick, Mass.) When President Robert E. L. is composing and writing the music Strider made the announcement, he New Home for Colbiana and lyrics for an original chil­ said "Nothing could give us greater dren's fable. The Colbiana Collection of college pleasure than the prospect of being Philip Redo '79 (New York, archives will soon be housed in a able to pay tribute to such a good N.Y.) is working at ABC Radio newly-renovated room named for friend and respected colleague as while studying the history and pro­ Prof. Chapman. He has for years duction of radio dramas. had a keen interest in the Colby William Clarke '79 (Riverside, historical collections, as befits one R.I.) is writing a research paper on whose relationship with this college the fundamentals of aerodynamics spans more than half a century. It and the construction of a hang is appropriate that this room glider. He is also building a glider should be named for him. " by himself. Willard Wyman, former dean of Robert Cumler '77 (Manchester) students, fondly recalled his student is studying the political aspects of days under the tutelage of Prof. a 200-mile fishing limit by conduct­ Chapman. ing interviews with fishermen, state "For me, ... there was the im­ legislators and, he hopes, U.S. portant sense of being someone in Congressmen from Maine. the eyes of the man I have come to Sarah Pollard '78 (Bucksport) is call Chappie and in the eyes of the visiting a Belgian family she once rest of the college as well. Chappie lived with as an exchange student. exemplifies Colby for me, but he is

12 really just a part of what Colby teries. Impressed by her presenta­ does best for most of its students tion, they encouraged her to and what may finally separate it develop a newsletter about the from the Amhersts and the Wes­ historic cemeteries of 1aine. leyans we like to compare ourselves She persuaded the university s with. J think it can best be de­ public relations department to help scribed as providing an atmosphere her begin what turned out to be the for learning that is wann , unpre­ first newsletter of the .\1aine Old tentious and personal." Cemeteries Association. She mailed the bulletin to historical societies. McKay Fife members of the D.A.R.. libraries and educators throughout the state. year of each other, retired from and before she knew it. she had that university four years apart, created an association. Her 1069 and were each able to begin an retirement from the English depart­ organization dedicated to their ment at U.M.O. did not slow her respective interests. down at all. \I ith more than 1 000 McKay's interest in Canadian members today, the , 1aine Old studies was displayed throughout Cemeteries Association is still his teaching career, particularly growing, and under , 1iss Fife's after joining the faculty at U.M.O. direction, it is still thri\•ing. The university, active in teaching President's Weathervane about Canada since 1925, had Globe Publisher There recently have been a number never coordinated its efforts or Is Lo ejoy Recipient of inquiries as to the significance of attempted to develop a full-fledged the weathervane atop the cupola at Canadian studies program. McKay Davis Taylor, publisher of the the President's House, and an ex­ took on the job, and during the Boston Globe, was honored in planation is in order. 1950's and 1960's worked tirelessly 1 ovember as the 23rd Elijah Parish The weathervane represents the to persuade the faculty and admin­ Lovejoy award recipient. He was opening bars of the "Mayflower istration that a major effort to cited by President Robert E. L. HilJ Concerto" by Ermanno Com­ study Canada was very appropriate Strider for "his courageous adher­ paretti. It was made by the late for the University of Maine. ance to principles," dramatically Charles F. Wescott, Jr., a Blue Hill McKay's efforts culminated in demonstrated in the turbulent craftsman, and given by the Wes­ 1968, when the board of trustees 1960's and in the Globe's role cotts (Belle Smith '13) in memoryof approved the creation of the New in informing the public about the their son, Robert Herrick Wescott England-Atlantic Province-Quebec current school integration issue in 45, lost in World War II. A replica Center (now the Canadian-Ameri­ Boston. The Globe has won three of the weathervane, made for Dr. can Center) as an institution to Pulitzer Prizes under Taylor's Julius Seelye Bixler at the time of coordinate the university's Canad­ direction. his retirement, is on a pole in his ian programs. McKay was the cen­ Taylor said at the convocation yard in Jaffrey, .H. ter's first director, and has been an that the nation, its citizenry, and active consultant to the center its newspapers are in a time of since his retirement in 1973. social and economic crisis. He said Disparate Interests, For his achievements in the field, the country, which has seen the Similar Lives McKay was awarded the William press respond in recent times in the Throughout much of their lives, H. Donner Foundation Medal by name of integrity in government, the paths of Edgar B. McKay '30 the Association for Canadian will see it respond again in the and Hilda M. Fife '26 have paral­ Studies in the United States. name of economic solvency. Taylor leled one another. They graduated Miss Fife's organizational start alluded to threats to pres freedom from Colby four years apart, each came in 1965, when executives of before predicting that the media taught after graduation, then at­ the Maine League of Historical will be "even stronger, more excit­ tended graduate school. They Societies and Museums asked the ing, more professional, more pro­ joined the faculty of the Univer­ professor of English to address their ductive and more influential in the sity of Maine at Orono within a group on the subject of old ceme- decade ahead."

13 American newspapers respond particularly well in times of trial and crisis, meeting challenge under Sports deadline, he said. "In this case, the deadline is unknown, but the chal­ Kelley Returns to "It is no secret to the Colby lenge is very real indeed. Our dem­ family and all of the many friends ocratic system is in trouble and is Coach Icemen Ginny and I have in the greater crying for help - from its strongest Jack Kelley, the Colby hockey Waterville area that this has always ally - the nation's free and con­ coach whose teams earned national been considered our home," Kelley cerned press." prominence in the early 1960s, will said. return to the college as varsity "To have the opportunity to hockey coach next season. He has again return and work and live resigned as general manager and Colby Books among all of our friends is most head coach of the professional exciting and heartwarming to us Water on Rock New England Whalers of the World both. Coral Crosman '63 Hockey Association, but will "I am well aware that the college Porphyrion Press, 1975 continue with the organization is quite different from the one I left This book of poems, written through June 30. in 1962. The strides - no pun between 1972 and 1975, forms Ken Mukai, Colby's hockey intended - that this college has the sixth volume of a series. Ms. coach since 1972, will continue as made under Dr. Strider's leadership Crosman is now at work on her head coach for the rest of the are truly outstanding. I am also fourth novel. season. well aware of the new league of Kelley will return to the Colby The Mammoth, The Owl, which Colby is a member and I faculty as adjunct assistant pro­ And The Crab know fully of the regulations fessor of physical education and Claudia Bourcier Fregosi '68 within which a coach in this league athletics. His first college coaching MacMillan, 1975 must work. Fully understanding job began here in 1955, and in the Publisher's Weekly described Ms. these rules, I feel totally confident next seven years the Mules com­ Fregosi's second book for children that I can bring Colby back to the piled a 93-48-5 record. In 1961-62, as "a simple but funny story, .. . forefront of Division Two Hockey his last season at Colby, the team but it is the ornately detailed and - and give this great school the had a 19-6-2 record and reached the imaginative pictures that make this excellence in the game of hockey semi-finals of the ECAC tourna­ book outstanding." She is currently that it expects and enjoys in all its ment. Two of his players, Frank writing and illustrating another other fields of endeavor." Stephenson and Ron Ryan, were children's book which will be pub­ named All Americans, and Kelley lished this year. Nelson is Winter was selected as the U.S. Coach of Olympics Trainer Love North and South the Year by the American Hockey Susan Nichols Pulsifer Coaches Association. The U.S. Olympic Committee Exposition Press, Inc., 1975 He was a teacher-coach at Tils­ appointed Carl E. Nelson, Colby's Friends of Mrs. Pulsifer will be bury and later at Weston high athletic trainer and director of pleased to note the publication of schools in Massachusetts before health services, as head trainer for her most recent novel, a bittersweet coming to Colby. He returned to the 1976 Winter Olympics in Inns­ tale of contrasting loves, lives and his alma mater, Boston University, bruck, Austria, February 2-15. cultures in New Orleans and New as head coach in 1963. Kelley led Nelson was also head trainer at the England. Two fine collections, the the team to two national titles and Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer six Bean Pot championships and Japan, in 1972. Memorial Collection of Winslow was four times named New England Nelson and his staff will be Homer Paintings and Drawings and Coach of the Year. In 1972, his first responsible for some 125 American the Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer year as coach of the New England athletes competing in such events Poetry Room, have come to Colby Whalers, the team won the World as skiing, hockey, bobsled racing as a result of Mrs. Pulsifer's gen­ Cup and the World Hockey Asso­ and figure skating. Nelson has been erosity. Both honor her late hus­ ciation championship. He was a faculty member since 1959 and band, a nationally-known Maine named the WHA Coach of the director of health services since poet. Year. 1966.

14 the event which included a 91 1-inch list of Masonic offices and responsibilities he has News of the Classes held • Stanley Brown '27 was a member of our class until a serious illness in his senior year forced him to stay out a while and graduate with a later class. He lives in Reading. Mass., and sings with the Handel Mrs. Lawrence A. Putnam Everingham Edgerly has taken a course in and Haydn Society chorus in Boston. He has (Doris Tozier) tailoring at Victor Valley College which been working on a bicentennial hymn for 51 Meadowview Rd. completed four semesters of work. They Colby, in memory of President Roberts, for Holyoke, Mass. 01040 plan to tour the British Isles next spring. the SOth reunion of '26. He has done one 25 They took a 9,300-mile trip which included stanza as a sample and adapted music for it The class would like to thank the college for our reunion, Williamsburg, Va ., New York from a Welsh tune. He did the words chiefly the pictures of our SOth reunion class and City, Niagara Falls, Toronto and Lake as a trial run, he told me by phone. and for the generous hospitality offered many of Muskoka, Roosevelt National Park, Custer's hopes that someone in the class may be our members • The first response to my Memorial and Yellowstone National Park interested in developing a song of several letter was from Nellie Pottle Hankins. She plus Salt Lake City • We regret the pass­ stanzas. (See, for instance, Longfellow's ode sometimes is last! Thank you all for writing ing of our classmate Louise Cates Clark of for his SOth reunion at Bowdoin in 1826. l I and 1 may not be able to use all the information Vassalboro • You might be interested that have copies of the present words and the in this issue but will have some for the next your correspondent is now a trim size 16. music and will be glad to xerox the two time. The Hankins have a daughter living in pages of it to send anyone interested • Holland and the three oldest grandchildren Dr. Hilda M. Fife Esther Lord Bennett, who was in our class there are attending college in Holland. One 6 Sherwood Dr. for her senior year, sent me such a good son is a professor at the University of Wash­ Eliot, Maine 03903 letter last spring that I want to share some ington in Seattle, one at the U. of Conn. of it with you. She wrote of having heard Nellie is a trustee and secretary of the board 26By the time you read this in the Alumnus, Esther Wood speak delightfully at a gather­ of Bridgton Academy. She is on the Otis­ you probably will have heard some details ing at the Jed Prouty Inn at Bucksport. She field bicentennial committee and working on of the great weekend being planned for us enclosed a couple of Esther's weekly columns the early records. On a recent trip south by the Alumni Office. Mark June 3, 4, 5. in the Ellsworth American, which I always they visited Elsie Bishop Nichols, Grace and 6 on your calendar now. Paul Edmunds appreciate seeing. She (Esther B.) is a senior McDonald Jones and Alice McDonald Mills. has been appointed chairman of the '26 citizen driver and takes "elderly folks to She also visited Marion Cummings Mann, reunion. He will welcome ideas and com­ their doctors or grocery shopping. As I Colby '24. They also had a houseparty at ments from you all, especially as to the pro­ drive, I hear in detail about the aches and the farm after our reunion • Earl Lyon gram at the Saturday night banquet. Our pains of each one I carry. I lend a sympathe­ lives not far from us in Milford, Conn. He SOth year as alumni! It doesn't seem tic ear!" She also writes a column for the and his wife have been on a TWA cruise possible, does it? Four years at Colby - and town paper once a week - "a non-paying visiting France, Germany (with a tour of the fifty years as Colby alumni. A few weeks job but it's fun." She concluded : "Sorry 1 Rhine River), Holland, and London. He's a ago Pauline Chamberlin sent me a copy of a have no news for your alumni column." o Yale swimming official of 25 years • Ethel class letter she had written in 1951, and I am news? Only her activities, her reactions to Littlefield Whittier enjoys playing bridge going to quote a few sentences from it : "I them, and her appreciative comments about with three Sigma Kappas who were grad­ never attend any function at Colby without a classmate she'd met - just the sort of uated from Florida State. She gardens, does coming away with a deep feeling of grati­ thing I like to get for this column. Thank needlepoint and reads. She hears from Ethel tude. I am grateful that we could have such you, Esther • I don't really expect startling Mason Goetz, who is fine but her husband is a successful 35th reunion. I am grateful [as I news from anyone - such as having a baby an invalid • Keith Weymouth's wife has remember] my favorite professor[s]. I am or participating in the Olympics. But your retired from teaching after 46 years and has grateful for the fine record that our class has activities, the other Colby people you see a school named for her in Waldo • I was made year after year in the Alumni Fund. I and hear from, and your thoughts and pleased to have a personal letter included in hope that you are grateful too just to be a comments are real grist for this column - a Elsie Adams Blakeley's letter. She lives in 26-er." So am I, Pauline, grateful for my column that will soon end as we of '26 Mt. Dora, Fla., on the lake. I've visited in four years at Colby and for my 50 years as merge with the SO-plus group. So now is the Mt. Dora and know it's beautiful there. She one of the Colby alumni • Among those time to share your life as a '26-er with the is a widow and has spent a summer in who have already written or spoken to me rest of us. Hawaii and Canada and toured Europe. She of looking forward to our SOth are George intends to spend her summers in Maine at Barnes, Stanley Brown '27, Oara Collins, their cottage in Smithfield and would be Paul Edmunds, Gabriel Guedj, Evelyn Mrs. Fred Turner glad to have company. She enjoys boating, Kellett, Carl MacPherson, Elsie Frost Rapp, (Lura Norcross) fishing, and banqueting with a group of Mollie Seltzer Yett, and Hilda Fife. In the 7 Route #4 retired teachers once a month • Robert next issue I'll add to this list. Someday take Augusta, Maine 04330 Fransen enjoys dancing, cards, chess, and a look at your 1926 Oracle - if you can lay 2 sports on TV. He enjoys the Colby sports your hands on it. It will help you "place" I'm going to try not to get caught as I did circulars • Alice McDonald Mills enjoyed class members you haven't seen for half a last time trying to write all your news in one her first visit to Colby in 50 years and her century. Maybe you'll surprise them in June evening! My resolution is to write items as I first visit to Maine in 35 years. When the by recognizing them even without that quick receive them, so here goes • Can you Hankins visited her he gave her a book he look at the name tags; nothing like being believe it - Gwyeth Smith reminds us that had co-authored, Lincoln the Writer, which prepared • Several of you have written the SOth reunion is less than two years away was very good reading • Grace McDonald me since the last issue of the Alumnus. Al­ and it is not too early to start planning to Jones has two stepchildren and five grand­ though retired, George Barnes still goes to attend! Gwyeth is chairman of the planning children. She enjoys raising camellias and the office, where son Forrest '56 is now head committee for the reunion. He and Mary are azalias, has many different varieties. She of the firm • Carl MacPherson writes of both retired and went to Oregon last May to does women's club and church work, and receiving the 33rd Degree in September, visit their daughter and family and to Long plans to go to Hawaii soon to visit her step­ "one of the great thrills of my life." He sent Island for their youngest granddaughter's daughter and grandchildren • Marjorie a picture and accompanying news item of first birthday. Smitty enjoys bridge, fishing

15 and fly-tying in his retirement • It is inter­ and deer hunting - says he got one Nov. handwork. She has recently seen or heard esting to note how many of our retired class­ 23. Congratulations! He saw Alice Wood from her sister, Grace Allen '29, the Mittels­ mates help in senior citizen projects and Bartlett and Peg Macomber this past dorfs, Helen '27. George '27, and Janet '57, Helen Pollard Hodgkins does just that as summer • Muriel Robinson Ragsdale Charlie Sansone, Janet Chase Melanson and well as knitting and visiting grandchildren. teaches drawing and painting to adults at Ava Dodge Barton. I know that she was She has two children, nine grandchildren, the local YMCA in Waterville, arranges art connected with teaching for a long time, had and two great grandchildren! She and her exhibitions for the hospitals and Kennebec her master's degree and guidance certificate husband go to Florida winters • Elizabeth Mental Health Center. Besides her trip to • August Belott, M.D., who was a member Watson Gerry is a retired public health Spain, Muriel traveled to Mexico and has of our class for two years, retired in 1974 nurse, has a Colby grad daughter, a U. of time to dress-make and crochet. after working for 171/z years with the M. grad daughter, and four grandchildren. division of health in Florida. He lives in She and her husband were going to Fort Mrs. James McCreary Tampa and enjoys horse racing and yard Myers, Fla., in December where they "golf, • (Pat Towle) work Augie Stiegler is still "going bridge, eat, and have fun ." She sews, Stanley Rd. strong" in New Hampshire. He became knits, gardens, cooks, and in summer they Winthrop, Maine 04364 president of the Woodsville National Bank have season tickets for Lakewood Theater 28 in 1974, is treasurer of an historical society and in winter season tickets to Royals base­ Friends of Al Thiel will be saddened to hear and a hospital expansion fund (trust Augie ball in Florida. This past summer they went of his death on Oct . 25, 1975. Our sincere to look after the money!) and had eight on the YWCA trip to the Canadian Rockies, sympathy goes out to his family. He was grandchildren at the last report. He gets Vancouver, Victoria, and Washington state president of the paper division of the back to Colby for alumni meetings when he - sounds just marvelous! • Bob Waugh Ludlow Corp. and made his home in sees some of the classmates • Ava Dodge reports retirement and the birth of his first Cataumet on Cape Cod and in Clearwater, Barton still travels between Rhode Island • grandson in Feb., 1975 Evelyn Estey re­ Fla., for many years • This fall l saw Lela and Maine. Her son has moved back to tired this year because of ill health which Glidden at Squaw Mountain at Moosehead Maine so she probably sees those three also limits her activities. She was appointed when the D.A.R. met there. She told me grandchildren more frequently. Knitting oc­ grand representative of the province of that she had recently taken a trip to Switzer­ cupies a great deal of her time • Edna Quebec near Connecticut in '72 for three land that she had enjoyed very much • In Turkington has also been seeing the U.S., years. She attended the grand session of the answer to my last letter, Connie Cole wrote especially some of the national parks. She Eastern Star in Montreal. Whenever she is that Marge Dunstan '27 had visited her on belongs to a "Jaunters' " Club in Malden, able, she sings in the Methodist Church her way home to Honolulu after a month's Mass., and takes trips to points of interest in choir, the Housatonic Chorus (in winter) visit to Scandinavia, and that she. Marge, New England with them. Zonta, church and the Litchfield County Choral Union (in and Emma Harlow had had a good reunion. groups, needlepoint, birds, wild flowers, summer). She is also a member of Delta I tried to call Marge when l was in Hawaii and theatre take care of the rest of her time. Kappa Gamma • Ralph DeOrsay expects but she must have been traveling at the Edna had heard from Amy Dearborn recent­ to retire in '76 and will spend part of his time. Jean Watson '29 and Claire ly • We are a busy group in our retire­ time in Camden and the winter months in MacDougal saw her when they were there. ment and everyone says that they enjoy Drexel Hill, Pa. He enjoys fishing, boating Mary Millett '30 and Connie do quite a bit each day of it. A letter will go out to you and loafing in Maine. He has five grandsons of traveling together, Spain and London before long and I hope everyone will make (no gals). He expects to take a Mediter­ being among the trips • This last an effort to answer it; we all like to hear ranean and Aegean cruise later • Mort November l spent a memorable 16 days in what you are doing. Havey is in partial retirement; he is consul­ Africa, most of it being spent on safari in tant to Associated Industries of Maine. He is Kenya and Tanzania. We drove nearly 1,400 Miss Jean M. Watson still "trying to dent the short story field and miles in the game preserves over rough and 6744 Winkler Rd., F-5 follows the Red Sox in spring training." dusty roads and saw thousands of animals, Fort Myers, Fla. 33901 Mort was appointed by the governor as a enough elephants to last a lifetime. Two member of the state's committee on aging. days were spent at Mombasa, an old Portu­ 29Well-deserved recognition was accorded The Haveys go to Treasure Island, Fla., in guese port on the Indian Ocean where the Chester Merrow when the selectmen of Ossi­ February and March and would welcome water was delightfully warm for swimming, pee, N.H., dedicated this year's Ossipee any Colby callers - tel. 362-1491. He writes and four days in the surprisingly modern town report to him. Chester served his that he has eight grandchildren and one city of Nairobi. It is a trip to recommend, town, state, and nation with distinction for great-grandchild! • C. Evan Johnson has especially to anyone who enjoys natural his­ many years. He was elected to the N.H. four children (all married) and 10 grand­ tory • Dot Johnston wrote that she had legislature in 1938 and served as chairman of children. He keeps busy in fraternal and attended a Sigma Kappa convention at the House Ways and Means Committee. In church activities, plays a little golf and is on Wentworth-by-the-Sea in 1974 and had seen 1942 he was elected to Congress and served call from friends and neighbors who need several Colby Sigmas. She and Doug are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for help. He received the Joseph Warren Medal still doing a lot of historical research and 18 years. He was a delegate to the United presented by the Grand Lodge of Masons in have succeeded in having South Dennis de­ Nations International Conference on Educa­ Massachusetts. The Johnsons are another clared an historic village. Her family of tion and Cultural Relations. He also served Florida-bound family in January • Ardelle nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grand­ as congressional advisor to the State Depart­ Chase is busy in church work, being a Gray nephews keep her busy in the summer. l ment and Treasury Department, about Lady, a member of the historical society, don't wonder at that because Cape Cod is which he wrote in his book My Twenty secretary of community center and chauf­ such a nice place to visit. Dot also told me Years in Congress. He was also a trustee of feur for the elderly. She visited Ruth Dow that Jean Cadwallader Hickox '27, who lost Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro and a this past summer, also saw Eva Alley '25 and her husband last year, has moved to the member of numerous fraternal and social Clara Collins '26. She is anticipating the new Cape from Southboro, Conn., to be near organizations, and active in the affairs of the • directory • Caroline Heald Wallace now her brother, Preston • I was happy to get Moultonville church Horace Maxcy was lives in an apartment in Holden after selling word from Myra Stone Pruitt. She retired in appointed recently by the Maine State De­ the farm to her oldest grandson. Caroline 1974 and is enjoying it. She has been trav­ partment of Education as temporary super­ made a visit to southern California last eling m the United States and has, by now, intendent of the Islesboro School Depart­ spring; besides travel she enjoys reading and probably expanded her field. Once the urge ment. He visits the island two or three times TV • Greely (Tick) Pierce is still growing to travel hits it is hard to stop. She is doing each week, "picking up odds and ends and Christmas trees, playing tournament bridge, painting which she always did enjoy, and keeping books," he says. After graduation

16 from Colby he spent 40 years as chief Palm Beach, Fla., and Worcester, Mass., ton, Arthur L. Stebbins, Wendell A. Tufts, administrator in Lisbon Falls, Windham, where he is president-treasurer of the Alan George Hansen, Bertram Harding, Otto and Bethel, during which time he earned a Corp. He has three children and six grand­ Havu, H. Lincoln Heath, James R. McCon­ master's degree from U.M.O. Since his re­ children • Pauline Smith Mayhew kept nell, Reginald Bragdon, Kenneth E. Robin­ tirement from his duties as superintendent, busy the past summer as a backyard gar­ son, Edward Sturhahn, William H. Watson, he has been working as a consultant for the dener at her Union, N.J., home which has Jr., Mrs. Philip Jordan (S. Louise Thomas\, Department of Education on matters dealing been designated an historical landmark. She Miss Alice H. Bagley, Mrs. Howard Farwell with federal programs, Title I and Title II. is chairman arboretum for the Elizabeth (Frances Preble), Miss Marian Gordon, Mrs. He has also been working for the special in­ Garden Club. With husband Ted she has L.B. Page (Evelyn Hale), and Mrs. Ronald terests of a retired teachers' organization and done much traveling, and a trip to England Williams (Vesta York). We would appreciate he plays golf occasionally. and Scotland was scheduled last September. receiving word of the whereabouts of these Pauline says that she talked to Barbara 1930 members. Taylor Cahill earlier in the year • Albert Mr. Charles W. Weaver, Jr. C. Palmer, chairman of Colby's Board of Trustees, although retired from business, 76 E. Stark St. Mrs. Wayne E. Roberts keeps active as director and board chairman Nashua, N.H. 03060 (Alice Linscott) of Massachusetts Blue Cross and is on the P.O. Box 188, R.R. #2 3Thanks0 to Helen Chase Pardey we have the Governor's Advisory Council for Compre­ Portland, Maine 04 107 names of several classmates who attended hensive Health Planning. Al and his wife 31 the 45th reunion and who were inadvertent­ live in Stoneham, Mass., and have two Jean Littlefield Powers retired last spring but ly left out of the account which appeared in children and two grandchildren • Wallace has taken part-time work in the Community the recent class letter. Helen reminds us W. Meyer lives in Brimfield, Mass., and re­ Church of Douglaston, N. Y. After Christ­ that she sat at the table of the incoming ports he has made several camping trips the mas Jean is planning a southern cruise. I president G. Gilbert Henry and his wife Lil­ past summer in his travel trailer. Wally said hope you who travel will write and tell us of lian (Morse '29). At the same table were a highlight of the past year was attendance your experiences • Our sympathy goes to Helen Paul Clement and her husband Stan. at our 45th and the opportunity to see many Marnie McGann Merrill whose husband Ed Ethel Rose Adams was present and shared of his classmates • Earle T. McNaughton passed away recently . Marnie wrote that her with us the news of her upcoming marriage of White Plains, N.Y., retired after 38 years friends have been a big help and are keeping on June 15, 1975, to Robert Salerno • with Ginn & Co. (now Xerox). He has four her busy • Keep in mind our 45th reunion Marjorie Maclaughlin Deering told of her sons and six grandchildren. His main in June. You will be hearing more about this promising children during the pleasurable interests the past year were in tennis, golf, event. Rod Farnham wrote that the Alden "get-acquainted" portion of the reunion pro­ and home decorating. He may do some Camps have been reserved. Why not plan gram • The class letter and questionnaire tennis teaching and hopes "eventually" to do your vacation to coincide? stimulated a number of replies which we some traveling • Beatrice Mullen Camp­ will share with you in the order received, bell of Post Falls, Idaho, reports that her saving for later columns the material which husband's sister, Edvia Campbell, visited Mrs. Donald Matheson was squeezed out by space limitations. We them in July and August. Together they (Peg Salmond) aim for another "extra", a class letter in the visited British Columbia and Glacier Nation­ Lakeview Dr. spring, and would appreciate it if those who al Park. In October, 1974, Beatrice went China, Maine 04926 shy from answering questionnaires (and I'm back to Corinna to visit her mother who 34 one of them) would drop me a note, which was 93 • Norman D. Palmer of Berwyn, I am writing these class notes Thanksgiving certainly doesn't have to be structured! The Pa., our outgoing president, said the recent morning. Yesterday our fourth Maine [ndian object is to hear something - anything - class letter stirred up a lot of memories. Summer flew away, and today winter is blow­ from all on 1930's rolls and to relay that Although he couldn't attend the reunion, he ing in from the north country. Thanksgiving word to classmates scattered by time and sent along to be read at the gathering some is a very good time to be thankful for the distance • W. Thornton Cowing had his excerpts from a letter he received from Prof. happy Colby days we knew, and for friend­ 50th reunion with West Springfield, Mass., Eddie Joe Colgan, an honorary member of ships that have weathered so many years • High School classmates, many of whom he the class of '30, whose 90th birthday oc­ Frank Allen sent just a note to say that he hadn't seen for half a century. A resident of curred just before the reunion. Norman is a had no important news from Kalamazoo Lexington, Mass., he is retired and spends professor at the U. of Pa. He expects to this quarter. He is swamped with mathe­ every summer on Nantucket Island • retire in four years. He is the author of matic conferences and putting children Verna Green Taylor is an assistant librarian numerous books, travels widely (ten visits through colleges and universities. Thanks at Thornton Academy, Saco. She is very to South Asia). A member of the advisory for writing, Frank. Your life sounds impor­ active in church affairs and has served as commission coordinating plans in Philadel­ tant to me • Lots of times it is the little president of the Council of Churches of phia for the Bicentennial, he extends a vignettes of news that bring classmates Saco-Biddeford • John A. Chadwick, a special invitation to members of '30 to close, such as the fact that Anne (Macomber retired educator, lives in Worcester, Mass., "come anytime to the year-long party" • '31) and John Holden were Christmas shop­ keeps busy exploring Swedish literature and Millan L. Egert, who lives in Bethesda, ping in Waterville last week, hunting hard writers and is compiling a slide essay, 'The Md., says that he is "really retired," and is for a special doll for a beloved grandchild • Worcester I Have Known." John has sent "no work ethic nut." He does a lot of read­ Muriel Dubuc and her husband celebrated along some stories which could be entitled, ing, plays bridge and travels. He and his their 30th wedding anniversary Nov. 3, "The Old Colby I Have Known." We will wife, Lillian Hanscom, a Bates grad, went thankful to be finished with many years of use them at a later date when the personal on a seven-week cruise in the Pacific early in moving about under service regulations. items start to run thin • Helen Chase the past year. Joe was enchanted with the Nov. 26 they left Skowhegan to spend the Pardey and her retired banker-husband live tropical islands, and, as the trip was also a next five months in Winter Park, Fla., in an in Middleboro, Mass. Helen is retired from Goren cruise, he picked up some master apartment in Golfside Villas. Some of you the high school guidance office and is on the points and a couple of cups • These golfers may run into them there • Frances administrative board of the United Metho­ members of the class are considered "lost" Palmer remains busy with church work, dist Church, active in the Dollars for due to incorrect addresses in the Alumni AARP, reading clubs, the Audubon Society, Scholars program, and in charge of volun­ Office files : Roland Delaware, Donald G. crocheting afghans, doing crewel embroi­ teers for the Mental Health Thrift Shop • Grondin, Murray Meyers, Chandler B. dery, and especially writing letters to family F.dwin Robbins spends his year between Mosher, John I. Pagan, W. Paul Quarring- and friends. I am glad to be on your list,

17 Frannie! It was also fun to read that Ward ; and Charles Houghton and wife real estate business in favor of traveling and occasionally you run into Portia Pendleton Winnifred '36. a more leisurely life in Hampton, N.H. • Rideout at the laundrarnat • George Mann Martin O'Donnell did not make the From Kitty Rollins Brown and Bob Brown I continues to live the good life. Georgia and reunion dinner, but was up for the Alumni learned news of their family of three sons - Jay keep him young! In November George Weekend, looking hale and hearty, and two are engineers and one is farming his and about 50 others chartered a city bus and upon his return home wrote me an appreci­ grandfather's farm - and ten grandchildren, went to Rice Stadium to see the Rice-Texas ated letter. Moe Cohen had planned to be at All are living in Maine. Bob is still with A. & M. football game. He is really enthu­ the reunion, but his father's untimely death Keyes Fibre. They are building a small siastic about Texas teams, and the caliber of intervened. house, also in Fairfield, in preparation for ball they play. The most interesting part of Paul Feldman '34 and his attractive wife retirement and more relaxed living. Kitty George's letter told how he had been corres­ were welcome dinner guests. George '34 and keeps in touch with Helen Kelly O'Connor, ponding for the past six or seven years with Vesta Alden '33 Putnam provided gracious who is on her way to California with her a man in Italy who belongs to several of the and friendly services to all in attendance. husband for a visit with their daughter. same Masonic orders. From this man he Thanks and applause for their efforts were Their son's work in Italy in the banking field learned of a mother and her four-year-old accorded to Joe Bishop, Ann and David gives them a good reason for European son who were to be flown to St. Luke's Hilton, plus Betty Wellington Piper, who travel • Floyd Haskell in Houlton, who Hospital in Houston so that the boy could comprised the Reunion Committee in charge has been a state senator and also on the undergo serious heart surgery. The Manns of arrangements. They did a great job! board of trustees of Ricker College, has re­ visited the hospital every day. Of several Selected as class officers for the ensuing cently been named by Gov. James Longley Italian children operated on for the same five years were Ellen Dignarn Downing, as a member of the state board of education condition at the same time only little Marco president; Dana Jaquith, who has served • We, Bill and Betty Clark, have happily lived. Upon his release from the hospital faithfully as my job's predecessor, vice­ survived a large garden and visits from six mother and son stayed with the Manns for president ; Betty Wellington Piper, Alumni of our combined nine grandchildren and about ten days before returning to Italy. Council representative; Maurice Krinsky, their families. We also visited London in the George said the language barrier was some­ class correspondent and secretary-treasurer, spring and liked best observing the scene in what of a problem at this time, but I doubt with John English assisting. pubs, on canal boats and from the top of a if it was important at all, with all that You will soon be hearing from me with a bus. Even elevators were an adventure after loving care • I know that you were sorry class letter, with subsequent ones on a the quiet of upriver Caratunk. Keep in to read in the last issue of the Alumnus of regular basis. All of you are asked to send touch . the death of Professor John Franklin me news and reports of events in your life McCoy. Just four months later his wife died that will be of interest to the class and our also. The McCoys were very pleased to be alma mater. �� s:i�� � ��wan honored guests at our 40th reunion celebra­ v tion, and we all have many grateful and Mrs. William M. Clark 7 Portland, Maine 04103 happy memories of them. (Betty Thompson) 3Edmund Barnard, in his fourth year of re­ Caratunk, Maine 04925 tirement from teaching, is enjoying life year­ 3When we were graduated from Colby 40 round at his cottage and 30 acres at North­ Mr. Maurice Krinsky 6 years ago, our country was 160 years old. port on Penobscot Bay. Summer brings P.O. Box 630 This is our reunion year to be celebrated boating, swimming, fishing, clamming, and Houston, Texas 77001 along with the country's bicentennial. I hope running a blueberry farm - so there is 3As the5 newly-designated 1935 class corres­ we will have a large gathering of the class of plenty to eat. Winter brings cutting AND pondent I assume my duties with great plea­ '36 to share laughter and memories with burning wood. Working around the prop­ sure, but apologize for the lateness in report­ each other • We had a visit from Eleanor erty, church choir, and just plain loafing ing on our 40th class reunion held June 7 at (Billy) MacCarey Whitmore and her hus­ leave no time or need for travel. Three years Alden Camps. It was a wonderful event, band Al. They infrequently leave their beau­ ago, however, he did drive to Key West and packed full with embraces, handshakes, tiful Ellsworth area but did make an visited with Mary and Kermit Lafleur at back-slapping, unsurpassed friendliness, and October cross-country trip to visit their son Clemson on the way home • Frederick topped with drink and food that made the Jeff in Tucson via Colorado. They are busy Demers has retired and moved to Poland event memorable. with gardening, community interests, and (Maine) after living in Puerto Rico and On hand to enjoy festivities were retiring making an addition to their house. Their Hawaii. Our Maine outdoors is for him a class president, Joe Warren Bishop, who two grandsons are old enough for Christmas great source of pleasure as it is for John served as the evening's master of ceremo­ sleeping bag presents • Betty Mulkern MacDonald, a retired teacher, living in nies, and his wife; Mary Small Copithorne; Wescott's son John is making his mark as a Ogunquit and doing some part-time work in Dick Noyes, with his frau ; Ralph and Bar­ sophomore on the swimming team at the U. the post office • Norman "Nim" Dow bara Howard Williams; my wife, Bunny of M. at Orono. Bets still lives in Portland retired after 31 years of government service Krinsky, who always enjoys '35 events; • Talked recently with Bob Blake in in 1973. He is a racetrack judge and spent Virginia Swallow Seepe and husband Villanova, Pa., who says he's slowing down last summer as presiding judge at Sackville Arthur; Clarence Morrill; Bob Estes and his after last year's coronary but continues to be Downs, Halifax, N.S. • Emery Worthen wife; Briley Thomas Grant and husband busy with his medical practice et al. One of sees our Colby friends from the Waterville Ford '34, who did lots of picture-taking his sons is a lawyer and the other has just area as he pursues his chosen field (insur­ during the affair; Laurence Dow; Joe been graduated from the U. of Vt., where he ance) in central Maine • Phyllis Jones Stevens, accompanied by his charming wife, received honors as most outstanding senior. Oechslie became a grandmother Nov. 22, read an interesting letter from Monk Russell, He mentioned having seen Norman Palmer, 1975, and her youngest son Ed is getting who lives in Paris, France; Betty Wellington who was a favorite faculty member during married in January. Gardening and short Piper with husband Albert '36; Pat Thorne our Colby days, and his wife Mary (Ewen). trips have been a source of enjoyment this Chaplin; David and Ann Trimble Hilton; Norman is a professor at the U. of Penn. • year. Being an out-patient at the Eastern Ruth Wheeler Wood; Hilda Wood Jude; Elizabeth (Betty) Miller, now retired (from Maine Medical Center's tumor clinic has put John Burgoon; Hope Bunker; Dana Jaquith teaching, anyhow), was given an award in up some restrictions for Phyllis this past and lovely wife Mary; Dorothy Washburn Norridgewock for her fine work in organiz­ year. We all pray that the good progress Polley; Walter Worthing; John English and ing bicentennial events there • Anita being made will continue and that another his frau ; Gordon Patch Thompson; John Thibault Bourque has decided to leave the Florida vacation will be corning up

18 Wayne Sanders got to the Colby-Coast can fish and hunt and work at whatever Mrs. Fred L. True, Jr. Guard game and saw Colbyites there as well he finds pleasure in doing • Also in (Hilda 1 iehoff) as at the Springfield area Colby meeting. Connecticut is Phillips B. Henderson, minis­ 81 Elm St. Wayne never plans to retire from his small ter at Memorial Baptist Church, Hartford. 43 Georgetown. Mass. 01833 business but does hope to slow the pace a His wife is secretary, dean of students, Mass. is bit. He vacationed in Maine this year • Tunxis Community College. A trip to Israel Carolyn Nutting Martin, Pittsfield, recovering from a stroke suffered m Louise Tracey, a retired teacher, is state was enjoyed last spring • Mitchell E. Phil­ historian for Delta Kappa Gamma, a lips, a self-employed insurance broker in September. She looks forward to doing her teachers' society, and has just become state Chestnut Hill, Mass .. says he's lost contact own housework again and already is able to treasurer of Maine Baptist Women. She the past few years, time passes by so fast, prepare some of the family meals; she has entertained friends from all over at her and his wish is to travel to a deserted Carib­ been active in church work and League of China Lake camps last summer, plays bridge bean island "far from the maddening Women Voters. Carolyn and husband with Millie Colwell Stevens '39, and is learn­ crowd". He vacationed at St. Maarteen the Robert have three sons. Our best wishes, Carolyn, for a good recovery • Kaye ing Braille • Jane Tarbell Brown, Cropse­ past year. He has seen Judy (Quint '39) and Monaghan Corey says she has really slowed ville, N.Y., enjoyed a day at the Museum of Stan Schreider '39 • Hammond I. Bender, down now that she is 52. Imagine that, Fine Arts in Boston with Barbara Hutcheon a podiatrist in Fall River, Mass .. comments classmates! However, she continues to Winkler this last summer. Jane hopes to that the very interesting spring 1975 "chase husband and her boys m their athle­ meet Coral Crosman '63 soon. Coral's Alumnus brought back many happy memo­ tics :" she also works for a child and family volume of poetry, Water on Rock. has been ries. Hammond has been elected secretary of services agency • Hiida iehoff True con­ published recently. The Browns' younger the Mass. State Board of Podiatrists, and he tinues serving on the Georgetown Conserva­ son Frank seems to be following in his par­ was honored as Man of the Year by the tion Commission. Someone recently said it ents' footsteps (Win is an English prof. at Jewish War Veterans of America, Mass. looked as if she had been on that board for­ Rensselaer Polytech) while Steve has a con­ division • Maynard C. Waltz, a fortunate ever - a real brutal remark! She was recent­ tracting business in Maryland • As for multi-hobbyist, with many interesting activi­ ly appointed chairman of the Tree Plant '76 me, Sara Cowan ! For retirement gifts I ties to keep him busy in years to come, committee for the Bicentennial (George­ wanted two smoke bushes and a Greek dic­ reports that a rail cruise to the Canadian town). Big plans are in progress for beauti­ tionary. The small trees were duly planted Rockies in '75 was a great trip. He's a de­ fying the center of town. Many of you must and forty years after beginning ancient partment head, Bell Telephone Labs, in New also be involved in various ways for 1976. Greek at Colby I am studying it again at the Jersey • Charles A. Macgregor, a physi­ When the Bicentennial is over, perhaps we Portland campus of U. of M. Now that cian in group practice, is chief of surgery, should start thinking 35th reunion? Best of winter is upon us and my outside work will Franklin County Hospital, Greenfield, Mass. good things to each of you in 1976. be restricted to some pruning, I'll review He's been named governor, American Col­ some Latin, too - Virgil's poetic essay on lege of Surgeons (six years) and president of pruning trees and vines. Life is good! the Mass. chapter (one year). and, current­ ly. he's on the executive council, N.E. Surgi­ Mrs. Louis E. Boldi cal Society, and a member of the Boston (Helen Watson) Surgical Society. Impressively, he has a 62 Prospect St. Mrs. Willetta Herrick Hall daughter and son in medical school, a E. Hartford, Conn. 06108 37 Cottage St. daughter in nursing, and a son in the Ph.D. 44 Amherst, Mass. 01002 program of animal science. Charles calls Fortunately two letters arrived a bit tardily 3Grateful8 thanks to the very many of you himself a neophyte gardener, at his Stone­ for the fall issue, since they remain our latest who responded so promptly to the question­ house Farm, Andover, where he raises a news although dated in late summer. Nancy naire, and it was a personal pleasure hearing good crop of popcorn and does tree farm­ Curtis Lawrence wrote Aug. 31 from 30 W. from you. News of you has been entered ing. He's seen John Reynolds '36 and Nancy 457 Arbor La., West Chicago, Ill.: " ... I pretty much in order of receipt, and not­ Nivison Hamilton '33 • Barbara Hurd love to hear news of '44, and miss it when recently-heard-from status, and there's more Worthen, of St. Louis, was in N.E. last May the Alumnus chooses to include only news to come. I know, too, that Dot Trainor for the first time in ten years, when she of the reunion classes - worst mistake they Anderson would appreciate your helping me visited her daughter Judy and family in Fal­ ever made! Here in the midwest I do not see, to carry on. We shall miss her • Robert S. mouth. She also has a son, Donald. She says hear or even think Colby (except when Winslow's office, where he is president of she guesses old friends feel that Missouri is Alumni News comes in). Wonder why John C. Paige Company, Portland, is in the the end of the world, but it really isn't! • Chicago does not have an alum group? The same building as Sigrid E. Tompkins' office. I, Willetta Herrick Hall, have been a legal nearest I get is hearing Rudy Vallee singing Bob is also a director of Fred S. James & secretary in Amherst the past thirteen years, the Stein song when he makes an appear­ Co ., Inc., Chicago. He and his wife enjoy a and am a charter member of the Hampshire ance at the local theater-in-the-round. "free time" home on Moosehead, where he County Legal Secretaries Association, in "The score for me at present is one son hopes to retire on July 1, 1980, with winters which I've held a couple of offices. How­ with two grandchildren, and one daughter V2 . in Florida • One who is retired already is ever, true "home" is my camp, at Quimby aged 11 Spent a week baby-sitting the Cecil M. Daggett, formerly with U.S. Steel, Pond, Rangeley, where I expect to semi­ grandchildren this summer and am glad I and now he has the enviable position of retire sometime. A son and two grandchil­ did, yet also glad we're not close enough to watching six and one-half grandchildren dren in Bar Harbor, two daughters and three repeat the performance too frequently! growing up. We'll await announcement of grandchildren in Alabama, and other scat­ "Am really enjoying my work at the Bell the other one-half! • Kenneth R. Bickford tered family and friends, keep me traveling, Telephone Laboratories - and comparing teaches U.S. history at Morse High, Bath, most distantly to Germany and Switzer­ the treatment of women between today and and his activities include working for the land, Puerto Rico, and a revisit to Alaska, 25 years ago - the difference is unbeliev­ church, the Republican Party, and raising having lived there 25 years earlier • But able! But my real enthusiasm is swimming. Since joining a masters' swim team four Boston terriers • Joseph Ciechon teaches as regards traveling, I concur with Louise at Bedford Jr. High, Westport, Conn., and Weeks Wright's most enjoyable experience years ago and working out regularly I am in evenings at Western Conn. College. He of the year, "the beauty of Maine"! • far better mental as well as physical health enjoys traveling, and annually attends the Time and space have run out. Please do than I have been for ages! I feel absolutely national corlerence of math teachers, 1975 keep my address with you, for sending clip­ great after a swim and recommend it to in Denver, and 1976 in Atlanta, but some­ pings, letters, post cards on your travels, everyone. It chases away aches and pains, time he wants to settle in Maine, where he news when it happens. tensions and anxieties, cures arthritis and

19 stiff joints, staves off potential heart Naomi Collett Paganelli closets and algae out of the swimming attacks. . I could go on, but believe me, it 2 Horatio St. pool ." She also worked in a climb to the top does. New York, N.Y. 10014 of a New Hampshire mountain where the "Incidentally, I was named again in '74 wedding of nephew Christopher (son of Results of the fall survey include interesting among the 'top ten' women in the country in 45 Janet Gay Hawkins '48) took place • my age group (age groups in groups of five news from - in alpha order - Laura Tapia Roslyn Kramer, research chemist and dili­ from 25 up) in two events. I also established Aitken, Georgia Brown, Lois Loudon gent collector ("You name it and I collect a record for my age group in the masters Cutler, Charles Dudley, Betty Lohnes Gru­ it"), lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She is in maximum mile-and-a-half lake swim in Wis­ din, Robert Holcomb, Joan Gay Kent, fact an avid hobbyist, including opera, bal­ consin and beat my record of last year for Roslyn Kramer, Jerome Lewis, Dorothy let, and crocheting among her many inter­ the Huntington Mile in Wisconsin. It makes Sanford McCunn, Ruth Rosenberg Medalia, ests. Roslyn is an involved member of the it fun to have a goal to work toward, and it Madeline Ippolito Oliveri, Grace Keefer American Chemical Society, and in is fun to meet swimming friends from all Parker, Ernest Rotenberg, Ronald Roy, November she planned to attend in Mexico parts of the country. It's something my Helen Gould Sullivan, and Francis Ward. City the first chemical congress of the North husband and I can do together. We also Hoping to hear from still others, we are American Continent. It was also interesting team up as starter-referee and stroke judge sending out another questionnaire. As a to learn that Roslyn was the successful at our local age group swim meets, as well reader of this column you know how eager plaintiff in two recent EEO cases • Jerry as serve on the Illinois officials committee to people are for news about their classmates, Lewis is associate director of the Cambridge run clinics to train AAU swim officials. It so please do let us hear from all of you • (Mass.) Public Library. Jerry is chairperson keeps us busy, and I've never been happier Now for some news. Georgia Brown, of the Cambridge Black Cultural Associa­ or healthier in my life! teacher and antipoverty worker, lives in tion. Asked about his hobbies and activities, "Please keep on sending news of '44. It's Wappingers Falls, N.Y., where she enjoys Jerry replied, "S tamp and bottle collecting; incredible how scattered and varied are our "living in the country, owning and taking tailgating at all Harvard football games in lives, but precious is the tie that pulls our care of my own home and land and getting front of the boat house on Charles - all thoughts back to Colby occasionally" • a kick out of everything still" • Tappie classmates are cordially invited to join us in Having been in Boston in November I know Aitken (Paramus, N.J.) teaches early child­ food and drink." Jerry and his sailboat the John Hancock building has all its win­ hood education at William Paterson College spend all summers at Martha's Vineyard (let's dows at last, a matter we were teasing Jim of New Jersey, where her husband teaches go) • Dee McCunn, who teaches kinder­ Moriarty '43 about at the 1974 reunion. A music (he is, as well, a composer). ln addi­ garten, lives in Floral Park, N.Y. Her two letter from Evelyn Gates (Mrs. James W.) tion to career and family (she has a son and children are "grown and working." Dee Moriarty was dated Sept. 9 at 73 Ledge­ a daughter), Tappie's interests encompass writes that she has "no news of great inter­ ways, Wellesley, Mass. " ...We are living in music and mycology (that's mushroom iden­ est," that she is "always busy just keeping Wellesley Hills; the four children are every­ tification, I found out) • Lois Cutler re­ things going." (And that's the name of the where. Richard and his wife - Jacksonville, ports that her husband is a dentist and that game, I guess) • Space limitations neces­ Fla. He's a pediatrician in the Navy. Cheryl they have five children. Lois breeds English sitate holding over all other news for the and Bud (Higgins) - he's a doctor, too - springer spaniels, which she shows in the next Alumnus. I'll just add that I'm looking are expecting their second. David graduated U.S . and Canada. Last summer she also forward to a trip to Hawaii (business) in from New England College in June. Kathy traveled to Texas, where her daughter was December, with stops (pleasure) in San and her husband live in Milford, Mass. married in El Paso • Chuck Dudley is Francisco and Los Angeles. Kathy works in an insurance office, is taking employed in Pratt & Whitney's cost reduc­ courses and doing very well. tion department (three cheers for him!). His Mrs. Charles A. Dudley "Jim is still working like a dog. We did wife is a substitute teacher; they have five (Shirley Martin) not go anywhere this year - the economy, children ; they live in Windsor, Conn. He 1003 Windsor Ave. as one knows - but did enjoy a few trips wrote that he was looking forward to a trip 4 Windsor, Conn. 06095 around during the summer, and, boy, was it to Paraguay, where his son serves in the 6 hot! Haven't seen any Colby folks, but did Peace Corps • Betty Grudin, mother of Philip J. Boyne, dean of the U. of Texas talk with John Geagan '42 as he was passing two sons, is a kindergarten teacher in Gran­ Dental School at San Antonio, recently re­ through Boston. He's in California now. We ville, Ohio. Betty's activities range from ceived the American Society of Oral Sur­ sure do miss going to Colby on parents' sports to serving as a board member of her geons Research Recognition Award for his weekends now since we don't have anyone county League of Women Voters and of the research efforts in bone physiology and its effect upon oral surgery • Bette Scalise Ten there" • Even though I am a Colby Lima Township Neighborhood Center. mother at last, we haven't yet returned for a Classmates whom Betty has recently seen Broeck, known professionally as "Bette parents' weekend. Freshman orientation are Emily Stocking Matsoukis (living in Day," is hostess on Day By Day, a three­ coincided with our 24th wedding anniver­ Hyannis, Mass.) and Roslyn Kramer (see and-a-half-hour daily radio show on WHET, sary, so a five-day weekend spent between below), as well as Claudia Wilson Kren '44 Waltham, in the greater Boston area. The Waterville and Vinalhaven Island broke the (chairperson of the history department, U. music and chatter are all from the 40's, and purse strings for the fall semester. My of Missouri) • Robert Holcomb, who lives Bette said she feels she is conducting a Colby London roommate from the Colby trip to in Springfield, Mass., has four children and reunion on the air, as former classmates and England three years ago (Violet French Col­ eight grandchildren. A Methodist pastor, he Air Force cadets of that time have called to lins '18) was able to come in from Wayne is also Protestant chaplain at the Western recall the days of the Blue Beetle. The show for a birthday luncheon (hers) at The Silent Mass. State Hospital, where significant is heavy with Goodman, Miller, Artie Woman, and though life's tide has flung us work is being done with detoxification of Shaw, and lots of Colby memories. all wide, the hearts still meet on Mayflower alcoholics. Robert plans one day to retire to Madrid (Maine) to the home where he and Hill, and sometimes the physical embodi­ Mrs. Charles B. Wills his wife Betty now enjoy summers • Joan ments, too. Anyway, I'm proud, and can't (Arline Kiessling) Kent, editor-writer of magazine articles and wait to see the annual photograph of the 7 7 Smith Farm Trail advertising copy, is a trustee of the Port Colby Sons and Daughters. So far, I know Lynnfield, Mass. 01940 that Sarah Frolio and Tenley Joseph, Washington (N.Y.) Public Library and of 4 daughters of Stan '47 and Hal, respectively, the Cow Neck (N.Y.) Historical Society. She While most of us are still washing dishes or are among Corinna's classmates in that good served for several years on the board of the pushing pencils, Beverly Benner Cassara group headed towards commencement in New York Colby Alumni Club. Joan spent sends word that she has been granted a Ful­ 1979. last summer "keeping mildew out of the bright Research Fellowship for the 1975-76

20 academic year. She is attached to the adult - Gerard Connolly. John and I were in in aples. Italy, due to her husband's education department of the Pedagogische Hanover for one of the first hockey games transfer to Madrid, Spam, where he as­ Hochschule in Berlin, studying particularly and Alice Crooks Austin appeared. She had sumed command of a fighter squadron last the role of women in higher education. Bev a son playing in the next game after our July • Bob Merriman 1s employed as is also the dean of the graduate school of Tim's game • Our sympathy goes in two executive director for the atwnal Assn of Federal City College in Washington, D.C., directions with this issue : to the family of Insurance Agents located in Stamford. which Congress this year is changing into a Sim Kelloway whose obituary appeared in Conn. His daughter graduated from Buck­ university, a difficult time for her to be the last issue of the Alumnus and to Janet nell in June and he expected to complete his away. Viel Gluck, Bev! • Perry Harding, Pride Davis whose husband Dick passed MBA at Pace U. in 1975 • Jean Chickering assistant manager of manufacturing for the • away last spring I wish I had been back Nardozzi is teaching in Chappaqua, Y • northern division of International Paper for that January weekend but we have four Dale Avery Benson and her husband are on Co. in Glens Falls, N.Y., is studying Russian more years of following hockey. At least the the west coast on a sabbatical from the U. of at the Berlitz School in New York City. The trip to Dartmouth is not as long as some we Conn. • Lillian Meyer Haning lives in course includes nine hours of language have made! • How about hearing from Palo Alto, Calif., and keeps in touch with classes a week. If l knew any Russian, I'd Bev Hallberg Greenlaw, Terna Kaplan Colby at the West Coast Alumni dinners • say good luck to you, too, Perry • l can Cushner, Mary Bauman Gates, and Betty Allie Jennings Castelli reports that she got usually count on Harriet Nourse Robinson "Beamo" Jolley for the next issue? together with Bob and Barbie Hill MiJJett, to provide me with Colby news, some Kerm and Susie Goldey Morrison at Rich public and some private. I hate to tell you and Mary (Skip) Jordan Megargee's home in that Harriet is slipping. It's hard to believe Mrs. William B. Maley Rhode Island in the fall • We are saddened that she attended the first meeting of the (Elisabeth Jennings) to learn of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, newly-formed Southeast Massachusetts 479 Ridge View Rd. mother of Kevin Hill, on Dec. 9. Colby Alumni organization at the home of Orange, Conn. 06477 Adelaide Jack McGorrill '46 and had no so news to report! However, the next meeting Betty (Jake) Jacobs Christopoulos reports Mr. Charles 5. Mcintyre is to be a luncheon at Harriet's, and things that she has resigned her job as school nurse 27 Elm St. may improve. She did say that Clif and Dot Marblehead, Mass. 01945 Cleaves Rodgers stopped by for a visit re­ cently, and that husband Dana is active in 5Maurice1 Ronayne, "Maury," has been the business of the International Center of promoted to chief of the documentation and New England. This is a trade center to help procedures division, office of facilitation, New England businessmen in export dealings of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, with China. He's currently spending about Washington, D.C. More recently, Maury three days a week in Washington to work was with the Defense Communications out trade licensing and was the chairman of Agency in the Pentagon and prior to a seminar on the subject in Boston in that, served with NATO in Brussels, Bel­ December. Their son Steve is a Naval gium. He also lectures in management sub­ lieutenant in the Philippines. jects for Central Michigan U. and Northern Virginia Community College • Shirley Mrs. John W. Taussig, Jr. Kydd Bastien, coordinator of in-service (Ann Jennings) nursing education at the Mid-Maine Medical Pinnacle Rd. Center, Thayer Unit, has been awarded a Amherst, N.H. 03031 Master's degree in adult education by the U. 49 of M., Orono • Harland Eastman has There was a terrible blank between the '48 been promoted to consul general at Tan­ and '50 columns in the last Alumnus but giers, Morocco • Robert S. Lee, "Fear­ there was not much news to report. Now less," has been elected by the Colby College that the holidays are over, how about drop­ Alumni Council to fill an unexpired term as ping me a postal card with some news of alumni representative to the college board of you and your family? • In the meantime, trustees ending in 1977 • Richard H. Gass our congratulations to Marion "Casey" has been appointed to the town planning LaCasce who is the new school psychologist board in Hubbardston, Mass. • Do any of in Wiscasset. "Casey" founded the Pine you know the addresses of these "lost" Ridge School for emotionally disturbed chil­ classmates? lf so, send the info. to Edward J. dren in Vermont and has also taught at Burke, Alumni Secretary, Colby College Middlebury and the U. of Vermont • Waterville, Maine 04901. Eugene R. Char­ Congratulations go to Burt Silberstein, too. ALAN RIEFE '50, writer and novelist, re­ tier, Byron J. Clark, Francis E. Dyer, He has been appointed N.H. state chairman ceived the 1975 Stanley Drama Award for Charles M. Fisher, Cynthia Cook Gair, Pris­ for the U.S. Olympic Committee • Elaine his musical "Jonathan." Riefe, who wrote cilla Day Garrison, Jere L. Hughes, Michael Erskine Dow is the curator of the Topsfield both the book and lyrics for "Jonathan," has Kesler, Norma A. Kinsherf, Melvin E. Historical Society. She and her husband written 27 network television productions LevensaiJor, Caroline Miller Magley, Robert participated in the Camden-Rockport and 15 books. His dramatic credits include Dolores T. Malley, Wanda Marcinies, Irene Historical Society's salute to the Bicenten­ "The Web. " "Studio One, " "Pulitzer Prize E. Merchant, William H. Ryan, Kenneth N. nial earlier this year • I haven't seen too Playhouse, " and the "Armstrong Circle Sawyer, May Rieker Stone, K. Paul Sulli­ many Colby people since my last column. Theatre, " among others. "Jo nathan" is a van, Raymond C. Tarbox, Loreto Tem­ Last fall there was a mini-reunion of some musical based loosely on Henry Fielding's pesta, Gay Tomlins Niehoff, and Jean Titus Winchester High School grads and among novel Jonathan Wild . The Stanley Drama Wall • Remember June 3-6, our 2.Sth them were Muriel Howard Deacon '48 and Award competition is conducted annually reunion • Geof Lyford reports that he has Pat Root Wheeler '50. It was fun to see them by Wagner College in Staten Island, N. Y. resigned his job at the U. of Calgary and en­ even if they weren't '49ers. Our daughter Riefe. who lives in Greenwich, Conn., rolled in the graduate faculty of environ­ Ellen has a '75 grad teaching her Latin II at shares the award with the musical composer mental design. Ren has her Master's in social the Derryfield School in Manchester, N.H. of "Jonathan. · welfare.

21 Mrs. Alton Lamont job as well as four children at home keep Mrs. Leland 0. Ludwig III (Joan Martin) her busy ! • Kitty Webster Smith writes (Margaret Grant) 7 Clubhouse La . from Merrick, Long Island, where her hus­ 3 Rogers St. Wayland, Mass. 01778 band is minister of the First Baptist Church, Houlton, Maine 04730 52 of last summer's trip with their four children 55 William Hennig is vice-president of the to visit missions in the Philippines, Taiwan, Ronald Francis, who joined the faculty of & Boston Safe Deposit Trust Co., Boston, Hong Kong and Japan. The Smiths' oldest Rochester Institute of Technology after ten Mass. He joined the company in May, 1973 son is in his last year at the U.S. Naval years of industrial experience in the Boston as vice-president and division manager • Academy where he is playing on Navy's area, is now professor and chairman of the Sylvia Rice Carman has moved permanently football team. Their second son is a sopho­ lnstitute's photographic science and instru­ to the ocean on the Monterey Peninsula near more at Wheaton College, Wheaton, lll. • mentation division. In December, he was Carmel, Calif. His husband works with Max Singer, managing director, World Insti­ once again guest and lecturer at the Photo­ Singer Business Machines and is national tute, Jerusalem, would welcome calls from graphisches lnstitut of the Eidgenossische sales manager with South America-Canada classmates visiting Jerusalem. To make it Technische Hochscule in Zurich. Ron is the also • Robert Kaake is in the management easy, the telephone number is 65648 • author of the text, The Chemical Basis of the department with New England Telephone Robert Dow, a minister and psychologist, is Photographic Sciences, and is currently at and Telegraph. They spend time in the chief of training, Thomas Jefferson U., de­ work on a second, to be entitled, Non­ summer in Maine and recently went on a partment of psychiatry and human behavior Silver Imaging Systems • Another pub­ cruise to the Caribbean - Nassau, Haiti, and a professor of pastoral psychology at lished author, who received coveted awards and Jamaica. They have one son attending Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in for her poetry while still an undergraduate, Colby • Beverly Forgey Hamrah is living Pennsylvania. Bob has also been much in­ is Erika Lind Hillsman, now living with her in Durham, Conn., where she is working volved in the development of the Pennsyl­ three children in San Jose, Calif. Erika has part-time with her husband, who owns vania Foundation of Pastoral Counseling, been a social worker for nine years, and re­ carpet stores - Custom Carpets - in Inc., and writes that he will be moving from cently served as coordinator for 21 com­ Middletown and Groton, Conn. • Dale Thomas Jefferson to be the executive direc­ munity crisis hot lines. She still writes Dacier Meagher is living in Vernal, Utah, tor of the foundation in January. "The poetry, creates hip jewelry, and is working with her husband and son Nick. They love Centers (5) have grown tremendously. The on her autobiography, which she describes living in Utah but enjoy the contrast of a pastoral training program has multiplied to as, "a child's-eye view of my growing up large city in Newport Beach, Calif., where 22 students who serve on the staff, and we amidst the strife in Palestine." Erika was a they enjoy the pleasures of a speed boat. have seven invitations to establish new charter member of the West Coast Alumni Often they make trips back to Plymouth, centers." The Dows have a daughter at the group, and says that she frequently en­ • Mass., to visit Dale's mother Howard U. of Maine and a son at Mansfield State • counters people with Colby connections, or Sacks is living in Auburn and is employed in Pete Perry, a real estate broker in Rumford, who have been favorably influenced by past shopping center development . Their was recently elected to Rumford's board of or present members of the Colby faculty. A daughter is a senior at Colby now • Rev. assessors. He also serves on the board of charter member, too, of the San Jose Demo­ Raymond Grant was recently a guest directors for the Chamber of Commerce and cratic Club, Erika is increasingly active in speaker at the United Church of Christ in Rotary Club and weekends operates a real the women's rights movement and looks for­ Acton, Kans. Rev. Grant is interim district estate branch office in Rangeley. Pete and ward to seeing old friends when she brings superintendent of the Kansas City district of his wife Jean golf-vacationed last winter at the children to Maine next summer • Judy the Kansas east conference of the United Myrtle Beach, S.C., and he writes that he Lawson Florence writes from Bedford, N.Y., Methodist Church • Dr. Richard Cham­ "happily scored a hole-in-one in August at where she serves as a volunteer teacher of berlin of Waterville has been named chair­ the Oakdale Country Club, Mexico, science classes in the elementary school, and man of a new committee to improve medical Maine!" • Barbara Forrest Young is an is active in Junior League and church work. manpower, education, and health services in assistant guidance counselor in Silver Judy holds a masters degree from Radcliffe, Maine. The committee is being formed to Spring, Md. The Youngs spent the summer at and was working toward her doctorate at keep the commitment Gov. Longley made their new summer cottage in Ocean City • Syracuse when she met husband Bill, who when he vetoed a bill to establish a U. of M. Elaine Zervas Stamas was in Aspen, was then a law school student. They are the medical school. He promised then to work Colorado, last summer with her husband parents of Susan, who hopes to enter Colby for improved health care, especially in rural Stephen, vice-president of Exxon Corp., to in the fall of '76, and Bill (III) who will be areas. The committee will also look into the attend an Aspen Institute Seminar. In heading for boarding school at the same need for a medical school and the possibility September they traveled to Iran to attend time. Judy frequently visits with Betsy Burns that a private college in Maine rr.ight start the Aspen Institute Persepolis Symposium Bomann and Vanda Mikoloski Solomon • one. sponsored by the Iranian government. Their From West Paris, Joe Perham reports that a daughter Heidi is a freshman at Wellesley • car accident kept him from attending our Mrs. Peter Van Alstyne Barbara Best Vincens and Dave Merrill's 20th reunion. Joe has been teaching for (Carol Carlson) oldest son Dave is a student at Harvard this twenty years and is chairman of the English 33 Grey Rocks Rd. year. Barbara writes that she joined Ameri­ dept . at Oxford Hills High School. Joe and Wilton, Conn. 06897 can National Bank & Trust, Morristown, his wife Peg now own the old family 53 N .J., as a trust officer (personal trusts and 200-acre farm, where they have built a new It was wonderful to hear from so many of estates administration) in November '74 • 10-room cape overlooking the valley of the you this fall. Please, keep sending me the Captain George Pirie, a dentist in the U.S. Little Androscoggin. Son Joseph is with the news! • Joan and Bob Wulfing are living Navy, was recently transferred from Mary­ Navy in Japan, Catherine is a chemical in Rockville Centre, N.Y. Bob is an invest­ land and spent much of his summer reset­ engineer in New Jersey, David is a high ment banker, manager of the syndicate de­ tling his family - Colette and six children school senior, and Chip, in eighth grade. partment, Alex Brown & Sons. The Wulf­ - in Athens, Ga. • I had a particularly When not teaching, Joe says he has been free ings have three children, Steve at Hobart fine surprise a night ago when I answered to pursue an avocation of professional College, Holly, spending her junior year at the phone to hear Terri Terrill Petersen's public speaking as a lay minister (Unitarian) the Sorbonne in Paris and Amy, a high school voice. Terri had been on a business trip to and as an after-dinner and convention sophomore • Nancy Twaddle Meserve is Washington, D.C., for the Girl Scouts, and speaker and entertainer. A recent publica­ teaching third and fourth grades in Auburn, had gone on to New Hampshire to visit her tion describes him as "a Maine folk humorist where her husband Bob is business admin­ mother before returning to Oregon. - A and storyteller . . . does character sketches istrator for the Auburn schools. A full-time marvelous, long conversation to catch up. and dialogue in 18th-century dialect. His

22 tories include tales from Maine Indian and summer - the children saw their mother's rench-Canadian lore" • "Pinkie" (Louise) homeland • Will Laverdiere is a biology all Achor writes from Clifton, Va., where teacher in Skowhegan • Dorothy Clapp he serves as town clerk and is owner and Macklin and John, an internist, are in 1anager of a bookstore. Her part-time jobs Waterville where John is associated with ,elude secretarial work and teaching music Mid-Maine Medical Center and where nd games at the kindergarten level. She is Dottie recently had an art exhibit • Jeanne n active member of the John Birch Society, Arnold Jeffries, M.D., is married to a physi­ nd has a daughter, Jenny, who has entered cian who practices in Peterborough .H. 1urses training • Lt. Col. John Dutton and They are parents of five children · Jeanne 1is family recently moved to Durham, N. C., has a nephew, Peter Jeffries. currently at fter completing a four-year tour at the Pen­ Colby, class of '78 • ancy Miller Reale is agon, where he served as a U.S .A.F. staff in Ticonderoga, .Y., a busy new mother of ifficer. He is now professor and chairman of Scott Mtller Reale (15 months oldl and an he dept. of aerospace studies at Duke and ex-teacher • Mac Harring is a dentist. •.Jorth Carolina Central U., and is also com­ living in Acton, Mass., and doing a bit of nander of the Air Force ROTC detachment. teaching at Harvard School of Dental Medi­ ie finds his new jobs challenging and ful­ cine • Tony D'Amico is in Orrington • illing. John and his wife Jane have two sons Virginia Ashworth Regan is living and ind a daughter, and are busily engaged in teaching remedial reading in Windsor. !earing the two-acre wooded lot around Conn. • Michaline Chomicz Manno is a • heir country home From the Victor LAWRENCE R. PUGH '56 was promoted to doctoral candidate, working in ewark, :omptometer Corp. in Chicago comes word president and general manager of the lug­ N.J. • Arthur Smith is an attorney with hat K. Dino Sirak.ides has been elected gage division of Samsonite Corp. . with Owens-Illinois, Inc., living in Ohio • Judy orporate vice-president, and president of responsibility for all domestic operations. Lowrey Ingram is living in Williamsville, he company's business products group. N.Y .. enjoying golf and bridge • Judy )ino is responsible for directing the inter- Corkey Devine is running from one field or 1ational operations for all business machine court to another with their three teen-aged Jroducts, which includes Digita-Victor in boys • Lee Mathieu of Waterville recently v1exico, Victor (Canada) Ltd .. and all other and I have enjoyed hearing from so many of joined the Boston environmental engineering nternational marketing Royal Bruce our classmates. Thanks for your responses firm of Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., as -larde (whom we knew as Bruce Wein) to the questionnaire; I'll do my best to keep director of industrial business development Nrites from Warwick, N.Y., where he serves us aware of one another • First, some in­ • Carol-Ann Cobb Christ is in orwell, 1s town planner. He is also a part-time teresting facts : We've had 56 responses - Mass., another tennis player who also >upply pastor at the First Presbyterian would welcome more. From these, I can works part-time for Liberty Mutual Insur­ :hurch in Milford, Pa. After Bruce left us in report that we have produced 137 children ance Co. • Peter Hussey is exec. vice­ 53, he earned his B.A. at Wesleyan, M.Div. and one dog. Our children range from 20 president of Hussey Manufacturing Co., 3t Yale, and an M.U.P. at N.Y.U.'s years down to 2 months • Marilyn Per­ Inc., and living in Kennebunkport • Dick �aduate school of public administration. kins Canton is our classmate with the dog, Phillips is in the securities business, recently Bruce and his wife June live in Sussex, N.J., "Lucky", listed with her 101/z -year-old twins having opened an office for Rothschild & with their three daughters, Heather and and a boy of eight years. Perky and Dick Co. Dick and his family are in ewton, (twins) Deirdre and Xandra • Barbara have recently moved from Marblehead, Mass. • Joan Siranosian Shaw is a real \.1.iller Kolade writes from Ibadan, Nigeria, Mass., to McLean, Va. They would like to estate broker in Mansfield, Mass. • which she reminds us is the second largest hear from Colby folks in their new area • Eleanor Roberts Littlefield is in Salisbury, :ity in Africa. (Did you guess that the lar­ Ellie Gray Gatenby is one of 32 million Vt., where her husband is the bursar of gest was Cairo?) They (husband, L. Obe, tennis buffs and is busy being a mother, as I Middlebury College. She's happily active and two children) wanted to attend our find most of us gals are. Being happy, living with four children and an old home which reunion, but their school year does not end and loving in this day and age is an accom­ they are remodeling • This brings Bob until July. Says they are fortunate to be able plishment • Tom Brackin is in New Jersey Pettegrew's note to mind. Bob and Hope are to live outside all year round and to live in and saw Malcolm Blanchard, Dick Shew restoring an old colonial home. Bob is corp. an area of open space • Keep those letters '56, Roy Shorey '54, and Jane (Hight '71) dir. of advertising, Yankee, Inc. He travels coming. The increase in first class mail is and Paul Edmunds '71 at a Colby picnic at all over the country and, yes, Bob, when exhilarating, and I promise to report your Mt. Lakes • John Koehler is a psychiatric you are in orth Conway we'll get together. news democratically - in the order in social worker • Bill Bois is a training con­ Our door is always open to any of our which letters are received! sultant for the Kennebec Valley Mental Colby friends who are in the Mt. Washing­ Health Center in Waterville • Bill Slade is ton Valley • Kathy Sferes Eraklis lives in in California. The last time I saw Bill was at Mrs. Warren Kinsman Belmont, Mass., and saw Larry and Diane our No. Conway Hospital with a friend who (Barbara Failings) Schnauffer Zullinger when they took their had just joined the "broken bone" club • Glenwood Rd. daughter to Simmons College. Kathy also Malcolm Blanchard is in real estate in New­ Hampton Falls, N.H. 03844 sees Ellie Shorey Harris where they all ski at castle. He reports having seen Ed Burke '60 Waterville Valley, N.H. • Ben Philbrick, David N. Van Allen has been appointed atop Mt. Katahdin • Allan Van GesteJ, his Jr., writes us of their first-born, Ben Phil­ general manager of the housewares division wife Alison and two sons are second home brick III. "Jamie" is our youngest, as of this of Corning Glass Works in Coming, N.Y. owners here in No. Conway. Allan is an writing. Ben visits Colby four times a year attorney in Boston. We see each other at as a college traveler for Harper & Row, pub­ odd hours as we are driving to and from the lishers. Ben sees many schools and feels Mrs. Donald L. George Cranmore Racing Shack, transporting our Colby is one of the best and most beautiful. (Elizabeth Hardy) racers in the wee hours • Charlie and Lia Don, the four children and I have been over • 5 7 80 Acom La., Birch Hill Twigg are in Wellesley, Mass. Charlie for the last three Homecomings and must North Conway, N.H. 03860 coaches a girls' soccer league and has started agree. I hate to stop - I've really loads To keep within the Alumnus limits, I'll Twigg Associates, Inc. The Twigg family more but will get started on the next forego any lengthy chatter about how Don traveled to Holland and England last column. Keep well and keep in touch.

23 research biologist for the past ten years at U. • Jean K. Noel, a member of the class of Col. Med. Center. In August she spent 30 during our freshman year, is now Mrs. Alumni Directory days in Greece and the Greek Islands • Al Donald F. Harley. She received an AB in Dean, our neighbor four miles down the sociology from B.U. in 1969. In the food ser­ Alumni Secretary Edward Burke road, sold his VW business and traveled to vice profession for ten years, she 1s now wishes to announce that the 1976 Calif. for six weeks with Kay and children, assistant commissary manager in the dining Alumni Directory, now in prepara­ seeing many old friends along the way - services at the U. of N.H. • Roger Wil­ tion, will be mailed sometime in mid­ Archie Twitchell, Dave and Sheila Campbell liams addressed the Randolph (Mass.) June. Rhoades, Bob '56 and Fran Wren Raymond. Kiwanis Club on the subject, "Are Ad Men Al is now seeking a new vocation, hopefully Selling What You Don't Want?" last August. in aviat10:l • Carol Conway Denney and Assistant director of advertising for John Bob have restored a home and very old car­ Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Wil­ riage house - and opened them to the liams discussed the role advertising Mrs. John D. Ludwig plays in maintaining the American economic (Marian Woodsome) public - naming them Barrou's Barn, system selling Bob's custom-made upholstered furni­ • A new address for Betsy 38 Francis Ave. Harper Hopler; ture. Carol has also gone back to her social she and Dave and the four youngsters Lunenburg, Mass. 01462 are 58 work profession, and has seen Susan Sher­ now residing at 15 Willow Brook Drive, Hi all, It's very exciting to receive so many man White, Sally Howes Hansen and Carol Bethlehem, Pa . 18015. They moved last replies! In total we are well represented all Hathaway deLemos • Judy Brown Dick­ July. over the world geographically, and our son and George and three children live in Anchorage, Alaska, where Judy is president activities and achievements are extremely Mrs. Roland Russell • of the Anchorage Weavers Guild and is wide-ranged David Adams practices car­ (Patricia Farnham) Alaska's representative to the Handweavers diology in Portland. He and his wife Pam 184 Highland Ave. Guild of America. She has just won a and four children enjoy small sailboat over­ Millinocket, Maine 04462 night cruises in Casco Bay. They saw Bill competition and her 6' by 14' winning 62 Rocknak at the Newport Boat Show during tapestry will hang in the new state court Dear Classmates, How fast these magic a mini-hurricane • Marcia Griggs Atsaves building in Juneau. She and George were deadlines come around. My latest Alumnus works for her husband in Alpha Enterprises planning to spend ten days in Miami, Fla., arrived yesterday. Don't be alarmed by the and Technobusiness Corp., both exporting after Thanksgiving • Ray Dow and Gail "no news" for our class. We seem to average corporations. In January she will be travel­ and daughter moved to Lewiston in June twice a year unless you want to hear all ing to the Pyramids, to Cairo and to other 1974, where he is medical field co-ordinator. about our doings in the frozen north. The cities in that area. She and Marios have two He is also active in the U.B. Church, Alumni Office reports the following class­ children in their teens • Janice Klem Androscoggin Home Health Services, and mates are lost. If any of you can be of assis­ Benicek and her husband Miloslav moved to the American Public Welfare Assoc. • Dr. tance please drop a card to the Alumni Westboro in June. With four children, Janice Peter C. Doran has been re-appointed as Office or to myself. S. Bruce Brown, Nelson finds time to do some early American paint­ acting chairman of the dept. of health Bruce, Charlene Crimmins, Alice Evans, ing and stencilling, as well as take reading science • John Edes and Sandra still reside Jean Gaffney Furuyama, William Garde!, classes at Wors. State for reading certifica­ in R.l. with their three children. He has been Robert Haskell, Dorcas Hebb, Carol tion. Have recently seen Barbara and Bob involved helping his son restore historical Thompson Johnson, Alexander Kunzer, Brown '59 • Cynthia Gardner Bevin spent cemeteries - an Eagle Scout project his son Mary Rutter Laurenson, Donald E. Legro, three weeks in France this summer with hus­ is working on. He also is involved in youth Jr., Wayne Manty, Suzanne Martin, Joyce band and children . She also drove from basketball and baseball as well as watching McQuilkin, Frederick Merrill, Jr., Carol Conn. to Omaha with her sister and five the girls' dancing recitals • Jim Bishop and Pospisil Morton, Cynthia Nasif, Alan children. She taught economics to the senior Caroline and three children live in Chevy Neigher, Ione Lowrance Schumer, Katherine class last year, and has seen Robin Clutz and Chase, Md., where Jim is still Newsweek's Smith, Janice Thompson Smith, David family and Ginny Angney Bushee • Bruce chief energy and environment correspon­ Starr, Martha Fromm Zash. We would hate C. Blanchard and Coleen went to Italy in dent. He has written a science fiction novel to have the above not be receiving the 1974 and to Russia last year where they about the energy crisis in 1985 which has Alumnus, and future newsletters, or miss toured Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. He is been published and is selling now in book­ our forthcoming 15th reunion • Ann involved with United Way, as a board stores etc. Jim was recently nominated to the Gleason Arnold is a data processing analyst member and V.P., on the vestry of St. council on foreign relations. at the U. of Ill. Chicago campus • Sana Matthews, manager of a little league team Cohen is a partner in a CPA firm, Cohen, and is a V.P. of Thunder Bay Corp. They Cohen, Havian, and Shaller, but says he is Mrs. Roy T. Denniston have seen Billy '59 and Dottie Reynolds Gay not related to the other Cohens. He has two (Deborah Berry) '59 and recently celebrated Billy's fortieth children, Jeff 4'12 and Lori, 3 • Peter Fox, R.F.D. #1 birthday!! • Mary Lou Gigante Bracciotti wife Karen, and their two children live in Nassau, N.Y. 12123 writes that she and her husband John and 61 Poughkeepsie where Peter is a systems pro­ two children live in Stoneham where she is a Kent W. Davidson has been appointed prod­ grammer at IBM • Pat Doucette light home instructor • Mary Ellen Chase uct manager of garment care and inter­ visited the Colby campus in April after an Bridge received her M.A.T. from the U. of national products for General Electric's absence of 13 years (too long). Pat is teach· Vt. in May • Pam Jones Christie and Paul housewares and audio business division. His ing mathematics in a junior high school in and children expect to be moving soon to responsibilities include marketing the full Wyoming, Mich. • The above notes must the Blue Ridge Mts. in No. Carolina for line of GE self-cleaning irons, surge of have come from Mrs. Zukowski who recent­ Paul's new job as vice-pres. of sales for steam, spray, steam and dry irons as well as ly surveyed all of the math majors. The re­ Gardiner Mirror Co. • Kay Litchfield travel irons. He will also be responsible for sults were rather interesting. About half of Cross and Justin and three children are busy all exported GE housewares products • the Colby math majors are teaching and the with children's various activities and spend Richard H. Gibbs has been elected a trustee others are in computer-related fields. Then time sailboat cruising in the summer and of Graham Junior College. The college, cur­ there are some like myself who use their skiing in Jackson, N.H., in the winter. Kay rently celebrating its 25th anniversary, en­ math to balance a deficit checkbook once a does volunteer teaching in a local school for rolls 900 students from 20 states and 29 month and to double all recipes as the the retarded • Sheila May Tunnock Cox countries and offers the associate degree of family grows • Paul Hickey has recently has one daughter, Katrina. She has been a business, liberal arts, and communications taken an executive position with Blooming-

24 ale's in New York City as a senior interior chairman of the department of foreign Italy. Barbara, a professor of English at the �signer • Peter Brown is an instructor languages at the U. of Maine in Orono, the U. of Pisa, is currently on sabbatical leave in ,d lecturer at the Wadsworth Athenaeum first woman to head a dept . at UMO in the U.S. completing her doctorate on Shake­ 1 Hartford. Recently he demonstrated the more than four decades. Besides serving on speare at the U. of Wisconsin . She and her atercolor technique to the Manchester Art countless committees and belonging to many husband will be living in Italy • Sally ssociation in Connecticut • Richard professional organizations, Polly also pur­ Page Carville is starting work on an M.B.A. oland was presented a cup award for being sues her hobbies of sailing and photography. at the U. of Maine in Portland. Sally and Al member of the team that carried out the Your classmates are all proud of you, Polly ('63) and their children live in Cape Eliza­ .pollo-Soyuz project. His work as a pro­ • Mark Sanderson has announced the for­ beth • Dr. Jon Pitman is a radiologist and rammer was in the area of measuring the mation of a law firm with offices in radiation therapist at St. Mary's General loppler effect as the two space crafts ap­ Coventry and Storrs, Conn. Before entering Hospital in Lewiston • Joan Thiel San­ roached each other and then again as they private practice, Mark served as assistant ford, mother of 5-year-old twin boys. works >parated. Dick lives in the Boston area with clerk of the Tolland County Court of part-time as a computer programmer on a is wife and two daughters • Brenda Common Pleas. Mark is a part-time lecturer federally-funded computerized career guid­ ewison Wooldredge sent along a nice long at the U.Conn. school of business and is a ance system which will (hopefully, Joan •tter about their doings. In April she and member of the American and Conn. Bar writes) be used in high schools and colleges ill were in New York. They spent the even- Associations • Tim Flint is doing just what across the country. Joan and her husband 1g with John and Cindy Barber Wong at he always wanted to do - teaching mathe­ Bob live in Glen Ellyn, Ill. • Anita teve and Sandy Keef Hunter's apartment. matics. Tim is at Brookline (Mass.) High Hegmann McCray is currently a senior ,iJl is now treasurer of B.F. Goodrich and School where he is implementing computer analyst at Honeywell working on the 'ley live in Hudson, Ohio • Gerry Tays instruction into math classes • Dee-Dee development of Honeywell's new computer onored me with a long newsy letter. I wish Wilson Perry combines volunteer work in line • Suzanne Noyes Mague and husband had room to quote the whole letter. Gerry the math program in the middle school in Joel, a chemistry professor at Tulane. live as had a busy interesting life. After gradu­ Cohasset, Mass., with her career as the with their two children, Bill (7) and Kathy ting from Colby, Gerry spent two years at mother of Stephen, 9, and Beth, 7. Dee-Dee (5), in New Orleans. Suzy is a fellow at the J.M.O. where he received his Master's in and her husband Stephen run a mail order Institute of Politics in New Orleans and eology. After teaching in the biology de­ fishing tackle business. (Are results guaran­ president of the League of Women Voters • •artment at Colby for a year he went to teed, Dee-Dee?) • Diane Lerner Blum has B.J. Campbell Witherell is attending evening ;witzerland to teach for a year. From there twin girls, aged 2. She is a mathematics classes at the U. of Virginia to become certi­ t was to the National Park Service where he teacher in grades 6-8 in the Rye Neck Middle fied to teach elementary school. eventually 1as remained for the past seven or so years. School in Mamaroneck, N.Y. • Laurice in the area of learning disabilities or reading ;is first assignment was as a ranger at Glen Puglia Haines has time for substitute teach­ problems. She is presently doing some sub­ :anyon National Recreation Area, Utah­ ing as well as keeping busy with a lively stitute teaching while keeping up with their <\riz. Four years and two cars (a Mercedes two-and-a-half-year-old • Judy Thompson active boys, David (8) and Steven (6). B.J. ind a Chevy) later, Gerry headed for Yel­ Chandler, Garth, and their girls, ages 5 and and Bill ('63) live in Vienna, Va., where she owstone and the zoo (people-wise) at Old 2, have moved to Bangor after living in also does volunteer work, some silk screen =aithful. After finally landing the assign- Waterville for several years. Garth has a printing, and lots of sewing • Dawne 1'lent he had envisioned four years earlier, private law practice in Bangor. Judy, with Wiswell Unruh and her husband Richard :::;erry was transferred to Washington after her extensive background in computer have four children : David (7), Catherine :mly five months to be the special assistant work, is taking a breather and is doing (4), Sylvia (3), and Richard III (1). They live o the director. In his new job, Gerry will be volunteer work at the YWCA. in Houlton where Richard is an elementary working on a variety of special projects. supervisor. Dawne is busy with family and ::::;erry has worked about two and a half Mrs. Benjamin C. Potter, Jr. volunteer work and also enjoys gardening years in the division of legislation for the • Dick Pious is currently teaching political (Hannah Sewall) N.P.S. and this will be his specialty during science at Barnard College in N.Y.C. He 42 Middle St. his sojourn in Washington. His office is in Lexington, Mass. 02173 also does lecturing at the Academy of Politi­ the Interior Bldg. in Washington. All are in­ 64 cal Science on sources of domestic policy vited to visit, especially eligible single Since much of the following news is from initiatives. He is writing a textbook on the females I . . Thanks, Gerry, for a most in­ replies to last spring's questionnaire, it may presidency for publication in 1976 • Dick formative and amusing letter • I do hope not all be current, but I'm sure is still of in­ Geltman wrote from Washington, D.C., all of you will take the time to fill out and terest • Chad Mitchell has been named where he is now working as general counsel return the questionnaire that you have by trust officer at the First New Haven Nation­ for a public interest group called the Nation­ now received. I am keeping track of those al Bank. Chad and his wife Gayle (Lenz '65) al Conference of State Criminal Justice Plan­ I've heard from in the past two years. Please and their two children live in Guilford, ning Administrators • Al Smith has done keep me posted. 1977 and our 15th is fast Conn. • Herman Hip.son was recently ap­ some impressive work after leaving Colby. approaching. pointed president of Multibank Computer He received his Ph.D. from McGill in 1969 ; Corp., a subsidiary of the Boston-based then he spent three years in Marseilles, Multibank Financial Corp. Herm was form­ France, at the Institute for Neurophysiology Mrs. Peter E. French erly director of Teleprocessing Business Sys­ and three years in Zurich at the Brain Oo-Ann Wincze) tems, Inc., a subsidiary of The Banking Research Institute. He returned to Montreal 864 S. Parkview Center in Waterbury, Conn. • Donald this past summer where he has received a Aurora, Ohio 44202 63 Morgan has been promoted to project con­ five-year research scholarship from the As you can see by the change of address, the sultant in the data processing division of the Medical Research Council of Canada to Frenches are on the move again. Peter has Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. of establish a laboratory and research program accepted a new position as market analyst in Hartford. He and his wife Darlene live in in the Neural Science Research Group at the the corporate headquarters of Alcan in Coventry where Don is president of the Oak U. of Montreal Medical School • Dr. Cleveland. We invite all Colby people who Grove Homeowners Assn. • Tony Good­ Dennis Hammer has completed a three-year . may pass by on their way to Sea World to child has joined John P. Chase, Inc., as vice oral surgery residency at the Naval Regional stop in for some New England hospitality in president, fixed income manager. Tony was Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif. Dennis Ohio • Bu to get on to the news of a formerly with Eaton & Howard, Inc., of also does some free lance photography for more famous French person . . . Polly Boston • Barbara Kreps was married last model aviation publications • Do�othy French has done it again! Polly is the new June to Dr. Gianfranco Delisio of Pisa, Thompson Irving lives in Grand Island,

25 N.Y., with her husband Henry, a mechani­ Farmington Hills, Mich. Chuck is a sales­ Ph .D. this year from Brown. He and wife cal engineer at DuPont Co .. and their chil­ man and corporate pilot for Beech Aircraft Gloria are the parents of three daughters • dren, Lee (6) and Lynn (4). Dotty has her • Bill Ferretti is a hospital administrator, Jim Foxman received his J.D. from U. of Master's degree in reading but is at home living in Flemington, N .J. He earned his Miami in 1968 and after a stint in the Air now and finally is finding time to take piano Master's in public health at Yale school of Force is now an attorney in the firm Fox­ lessons, sew, and do volunteer work • In medicine in 1971 • Bob Beechinor received man, Woener and Davis in Daytona, Fla. • June, 1975, Bruce Lippincott received his his Ph .D. at Syracuse this year and is a Adora (Clark) and Tim Hill live in Fal­ Ph.D. in biology from Lehigh U. where he is counseling psychologist. Bob is also the mouth. Tim is a teacher and Adora is busy also an adjunct assistant professor of bi­ father of a daughter and two sons • Stan with their two sons. Bruce and Christopher ology, a research position with no formal Dubitsky is a financial analyst and lives in • Capt. John Workman is a communica­ teaching responsibilities. Bruce has had Troy, Mich. • Jean Ferguson Cole, hus­ tions chief of operations in the U.S.A.F. He several articles published by the Pa . Acad­ band Jim and Meredith and Benjamin live in is currently working on an M.S . in systems emy of Science. He is also a council a log cabin a half mile from the Canadian management at U.S.C. • Bob Young is an member in the borough of Riegelsville and border. Jean reports that they are "country ass't prof. of mathematics at Oberlin Col­ chairman of the air and noise pollution folk" at heart and she enjoys both indoor lege. He received his Ph.D. at the U. of advisory board in Bucks County • Jim and outdoor gardening • Ronald Lewis is Mich. in 1971 • Joan Copithome Bowen Harris has moved to Edmonds, Wash .. from a dentist practicing in Waterville and living received her M.A. in international affairs at Newton, N .J., where he was president of the in Vassalboro on an old farm (1834). His Columbia in 1967. Now she is part-time chamber of commerce and chairman of the wife Linda is a teacher and is also busy with treas. for Boston Assoc. for Childbirth Edu­ bicentennial committee. Jim is northwest their children, Anne and Mark • Paul cation, Inc .. and the mother of a son and regional representative for Crown Pub­ Ross is an orthopedic surgeon currently in daughter. No more space ...lots more next lishers. He and his wife Maddy see Kristie fellowship of pediatric orthopedic surgery. issue. Thanks again for all your informa­ and Dick York who also live in Edmonds. He plans to begin practice in July, 1976. He tion! They would like to hear from any Colby resides in Wilmington, Del ., and he and his people who are in the area. wife Elaine have three children • Another orthopedic surgeon is Andy Weiland '64, Mrs. Randall L. Holden, Jr. husband of Nancy Greer. Nancy received (Pamela Harris) her M.S. in 1967 at Bowman Gray school of Mrs. Norman E. Anderson, Jr. 1121 E. Watson Dr. medicine and is a research associate when (Marcia Harding) Tempe, Ariz. 85283 174 Curtis Wood Ave. not occupied at home. The Weilands live in 66 Sumter, S.C. 29150 Louisville, Ky .. and are the parents of a It was very pleasing to have more than a 65 son and daughter • Bryan Harrison Curd third of the class respond to the 1975 Response to the questionnaire was quite is also a resident of Louisville, where she is questionnaire. Of the respondents, four good and together with your in-puts from self-employed - a new firm called Editing, classmates have married in the past year: the 1973 and 1974 forms, the class letter Inc. She received her M.A. in English at Francis Finizio, Geoffrey Quadland, Carl should be informative. It will probably Arizona State U. in 1971 . Her husband is a Tighe, and Dag Williamson. Twenty class reach you before this issue of the Alumnus. lawyer and they have one son • Charlie couples had 23 children in the past 12 Thank you all • Patti Raymond Thomas, Bonsall is an electronics engineer at F.A.A. months, with new sons outnumbering husband Tom '63, their son and two Salt Lake Center. Charlie got his B.S . in daughters by a three to one margin. daughters reside in Doylestown, Pa . Patti is engineering at Healds College of Engineer­ Especially noteworthy are the class's second active in their area's League of Women ing, San Francisco • Sharon Lord Stack­ set of twins, born to Chip and Ellen Birlem, Voters and AAUW • Bob Lewis is a proj­ pole is a "domestic engineer" and proud and its first set of triplets, all boys, born to ect manager with the state of Wash. He re­ mother of three sons, 12, 10, and 6. Sharon Jeff and Rowan Morse. Congratulations to ceived his M.B.A. at Columbia in 1973. His and her family live in Norwich, Conn. • all! • News of other classmates : Joy wife Genevieve is a registered nurse • Pat Shep Kantor is a psychiatrist living in New Reinelt Adams manages the home scene in McClay Gauer teaches Spanish at Waterville York City. He received his M.D. from Johns Bloomfield, Conn .. while Duane teaches jr. Jr. High in addition to being the mother of a Hopkins med. school in 1969. Presently he is high school • Bob and Janice Adams son and daughter • Dan Durgin is a busi­ attending psychiatrist at Columbia Pres­ reside in Hinesville, Ga., where Bob is an ness administrator for School Union #16 in byterian Medical Center • Judy Eyges Assistant G-1 for the 24th Infantry Division Exeter, N .H. He lives in Kittery and has two Wruble is also a resident of N.Y.C. Her hus­ at Fort Stewart • Pete and Elena Anderson sons and two daughters. Dan and his wife band Berhardt is a lawyer and Judy has two have traveled to Buenos Aires and San Fran­ Judith are active in many local organizations daughters, Justine and Vanessa • Martin cisco this past year visiting family. Pete and including the Little League program where Dodge is an ass't. prof. of conservation at Elena are both school teachers • Beth Peo he manages a boys' team and she a girls' Community College of the Finger Lakes. His Armstrong and family enjoy the benefits of team • Jon Moody is a community college wife Margaret (Mattraw '64) is busy with living in the state of Washington. They instructor and student living in Corona, their two daughters • Robert Tripp is an clam, backpack, fish, etc. Sam is an oncolo­ Calif. Jon is presently a candidate for a assistant claim manager for Mass. Indemnity gist in private practice • Janice Holt Arsan Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School • and Life Ins. Co. He lives in Barnstable, is administrative secretary for the Ford Callie Holmes Marsh and husband Larry re­ Mass. • Bruce Hertz is a newspaper re­ Tractor operations in Turkey • Wes Bar­ cently purchased 23 acres, a house and porter and bureau chief in Somerset County, bour runs a commercial photography studio barns in Solon, Ia. Callie loves the privacy Maine. Wife Susan (Dudley '67) is at home in Wells • Jane Hunter Bates is president and quiet after seven years at Scattergood with their two daughters • Gayle Lenz of the newly formed Montville Junior School (a Quaker boarding high school on Mitchell lives in Guilford, Conn., and is a Women's Club in Conn. • Doris Chalmers an Iowa farm). She has two daughters • mother, homemaker, and substitute teacher. Bedinger lives happily in Virginia Beach, Margo Wesley is a senior personnel analyst Husband Chad '64 is a trust investments of­ Va .. with Lisa, 9, and Andy, 5Vz • Chip at the U. of Calif. at Berkeley and lives in ficer. They summer in Ogunquit and have Birlem is director of finance for the Fleet­ Albany, Calif. • Pauline Belanger Beau­ two daughters • Nancy Gay Zimmer lives wood Corp. in Montreal • Jim Sither sells doin is a full-time wife and mother to Bri­ in Westbrook, Conn. She and husband Rod government bonds for Aubrey G. Lanston, gette and Benjamin after being a French are busy redoing and restoring their home, & Co., Inc., in Boston • Stephen Bleyer teacher for several years. She lives in which is part of historical Westbrook • has recently been relocated from the Burlington, Conn. • Chuck McDowell, John Tewhey is a geologist with the U.Cal. Syracuse office to the Philadelphia office of wife Louise (Reburn '66) and son Chip are in Lawrence Radiation Lab. He received his Coopers and Lybrand, for whom he is a

26 C.P.A. • Tom Boghosian lives and family last march. Congratulations! • Bob teaches in Mays Landing, N .J. • While and Fran Richter Comstock and Jennifer and working on a second master's degree at Donning Caps and Ginger have bought an estate in Westfield, Georgia State, Ed Burrell is also a credit .J .. and have been doing formal landscap­ analyst for the Union Carbide Corp. in Gowns for Colby ing. Jennifer (5) has begun a junior racing Atlanta, Ga. • Craig and Elaine Little program in skiing at Killington, Vt. "She Colby periodically is invited to send a and their daughter, Heather. 31/2 , live in out-skiis Mommie and Daddy now'" representative to academic events at Cortland, N.Y., where Craig is a professor Brad and Sue Grigg '68 Coady and Mat­ colleges and universities. The follow­ at S.U.N.Y. Elaine is a learning disabilities thew, 3, are working for the igerian • ing alumni have represented the col­ specialist in Ithaca George Cain is prod­ government for three years as teachers in a lege in past months : uct manager for the Colgate-Palmolive Co. government secondary school. They pos­ • Alice Paul Allen '29, inauguration in N.Y.C. Debbie Chase Canavan has sibly will return to Maine as they own 25 of Harold L. Fickett, Jr. as president returned to school on a part-time basis in acres in Wayne • Sue Daggett Cullen and • of Barrington College. Denver, Col. Kay Tower Carter is a Christine and Katie are still in Thiensville, Edwin H. Shuman '38, inaugura­ planner for the Penobscot Valley Regional Wisc., where Sue is working in customer re­ • tion of T. Edward Temple as presi­ Planning Commission in Bangor John lations at a local bank. She is calling on dent of Virginia Commonwealth Carvellas teaches economics at St. Michael's businessmen trying to attract new commer­ • University. College in Colchester, Vt. Judy Kelley cial accounts. She is also taking courses in Nancy Pattison McCarthy '44, Casey and Joe have three children and live this field. Sue hopes to get to the 10th re­ inauguration of Samuel Alston Banks in Rochester, N.Y. Judy has some poetry union • Congratulations to Ledyard • as president of Dickinson College. submitted for publication Katey Fitz­ Baxter and Nancy and Joshua, 4, on the Frederick M. Drummond '47, in­ gerald Christiano and her family live in birth of Jonathan (born in June). They are in auguration of Bill J. Lillard as presi­ Westfield, Mass. Joe is a clinical chemist for Scottdale, Pa. • Susan Finlay is working dent of Central State University. Kane Laboratories in Worcester Kay as an R.N. in Colorado Springs now and is Joan Muir Hocking '58, inaugura­ McGee Christie, Walt and the two children, selling her macrame wall hangings and tion of Margaret Waggoner as presi­ Robert, 5Y2, and Margaret, 4Y2, live in Free­ planters. She plans to ski at Snowbird, dent of Wilson College. port. Walt is a psychiatrist at Maine Medi­ Utah, in March • Joanne Dauphinee will cal Center • Paul Colcher lives in N. Y.C. close the American Airlines Phoenix office and is presently doing a residency in obste­ and will be transferred to Los Angeles • trics and gynecology at the Lenox Hill In the spring Jean Howard Bleyle, John, and Hospital • The John Cooksons have ney Robert Goldstein has been elected presi­ Joanne, 6, and Susan, 4, will be moving to moved to Keene, N.H., where John is dent of the Watertown, Mass., Lions Club. Columbus, Ohio, where General Reinsur­ corporate comptroller for Kingsbury He is also vice-president and director of the ance will open a new office. John is assistant Machine Tool Company • Jean Craig is Belmont, Waltham, Watertown Mental secretary, facultative dept. for the corp. Jean an original cataloger for the Van Pelt Health Assoc., Inc., a non-profit corpora­ volunteers one morning a week at a day care Library at the U. of Pennsylvania • Colby tion which operates the Beaverbrook Mental center where she is working with two chil­ Currier is a mathematician at the Depart­ Health Clinic • Judith Greer DeForest, Vic dren in a language arts program called "Pro­ ment of Defense in Fort Meade, Md. Pat and Kerri (7) are in Bedford, Mass., where gram one-to-one Inc." • Mike Cullen has Berg Currier is at home with Kristin, 2Y2, in Vic is a teacher. They camped in Newfound­ moved to 8320 Park Lane, Apt. 110, Dallas, Columbia, Md. • Dana Danforth teaches land for three weeks last summer. Judith is Tex., where he is in life insurance sales • French at Mt. Greylock Regional High involved in church work, crewel, and horse­ Joe Connolly and Marsha have moved into • School in Williamstown, Mass. Martha back riding • Roberta "Sookie" Stockwell a new house in Acton, Mass. Joe is a com­ DeCou works for the educational system in Danielson and Ken and Todd (3) welcomed mercial insurance salesman and Marsha is Jefferson County in Littleton, Col. • In Heather, born last March. They are in Cam­ an electronics parts specialist. Joe received Col. for one year while on sabbatical from den, where Ken is an accountant and Sookie his M.B.A. from U.Mass. in '72. Last teaching duties in Wilmington, Mass., are is "organizing a group to learn to cook and summer they traveled through Europe for Gerry Davies and Larry DeGeorge. Larry is use natural foods from garden and co-op ." three weeks. Joe plays tennis and handball studying at the U. of Colorado in Boulder • She occasionally sees Diane Roesing O'Brien • Ron Plotkin has deserted the Boston area Adele Pardee Cunningham lives in Win­ '66 who has two boys and in the summers for the warmer climate of Washington, chester, Mass. • Connie Midworth Dell­ demonstrates weaving at the Conway House D.C. Ron has an M.B.A. from Babson Col­ muth and her husband have adopted a black in Camden • Betty Sue Nelson Easton and lege and is presently a communications soft­ child, Jason, now 2. Connie works part-time Thomas '66 are in Evanston, Ill., where she ware analyst with Auerbach Corp., working with families who are adopting Vietnamese is a psychiatric social worker and he is an in a contract support environment at the orphans in the Harrisburg, Pa ., area • editor and free-lance writer. They spent Energy Research and Development Adminis­ Pete and Ellie (Eichmann '67) Densen have their summer vacation in Maine and are tration. Hopefully, Ron will help those of us moved into their first home in Charlottes­ interested in any jobs in publishing and/or who stayed in N.E. to keep warm • Joel ville, Va. Pete is beginning a three-year fel­ social work in New England, preferably Irish has a Ph.D. in mathematics from lowship in infectious disease at the U. of Maine. Betty Sue swims several times a U.N.H. and with Janet and daughters Jen­ Virginia medical school. week, plays the guitar and has become nifer, 6, and Joanna, 4, lives in Gorham. "addicted to science fiction" • Congratula­ Joel is an assistant professor of mathematics tions to John Desmond, executive, and at U. of Maine at Portland-Gorham • Cynthia Paquet is in Williston, Vt., and is a Natalie Furlong Graceffa Thomasin Berry, psychiatric social worker, senior associate programmer in the APL 18 Deer Run who were married last May. They are living • systems support of IBM in Burlington • 6 7 Augusta, Maine 04330 in Brookline, Mass. John Cooper and Sarah and Jennifer, 19 mo., have bought a Donna Lumpkin has a sabbatical leave from Jim Katz stopped by to visit Dick Dyer last house in Meriden, Conn. John is a sales her teaching duties at the Nauset Regional August. Jim is teaching in the dept. of psy­ representative • Peter '66 and Ellie Eich­ School District, Orleans, Mass. She will chology at John Abbott College in Mon­ mann Densen are now in Charlottesville, spend the year at Bridgewater State College treal. On the side he operates an antique Va., where Peter is doing a three-year fel­ working on an M.Ed. in elementary educa­ business - specializing in old musical in­ lowship at U.Va. in infectious diseases, tion • A little insight into life at the struments, music boxes, and the like - mainly white cell deficiency and cancer re­ Graceffa's: in the past week Chuckie has called "The Floating Crap Game" • Attor- search. Gregory is 3 and Bradley joined the pressed down permanently the alarm shut-

27 off on Al's clock radio, shut off the refriger­ chance to have a speaker, contact Steve at Gordon and husband Doug live in Tyngs­ ator and freezer, a situation not discovered Project Bread, 5 Park St.. Boston 02108. boro. Mass. Judy teaches math at Chelms­ until the next day, coated the kitchen The office phone is (617) 742-4461 • The ford High School • Martha Alden Ellis has floor with an entire half gallon of milk and wide open spaces of Utah are the home of received an M.Ed. in counseling from topped it off with a can of Hershey's choc­ Judy Lee Richter. She is a dorm parent and Li . Mass. We hear that in addition to her olate syrup. All of which proves again that husband Rick '66 teaches at Wasatch Acad­ teaching math at the jr. high level in the hand is quicker than the eye. Peace. emy in Mount Pleasant, Utah. The school Amherst, she has enrolled along with her has 125 students and the town's population husband in a course in beekeeping at Miss Cherrie Dubois is 1500 . So far Judy likes seeing sheep walk­ Li .Mass. Now that's something to do with 9 Tennyson Rd. ing across highways and past the campus. your honey ... Reading, Mass. 01867 Mrs. Kenneth L. Jordan, Jr. Miss Gail Andrews With winter almost over (! hope) and spring 69 (Brenda Hess) 124 N. Columbus St. not far behind, it's time to take a look to see 25 Norfolk St. Arlington, Va. 22203 what our classmates are doing • Irving Bangor, Maine 04401 Faunce ran for city council in Gardiner. In 70 7Thanks3 to your tremendous response to my addition to that, he is a member of the city's Barbara Hamaluk dropped in to see us in last questionnaire I have enough news to fill parks and recreation and community better­ November. She is now living in Bangor and many more columns • There seem to be a ment committees and is involved in little heads the CETA program for Penobscot great number of people who are teaching league and church work • Carol Feldman County • Steve McNulty has been elected school. Stuart Wolf teaches in the sixth Roberts recently was promoted by Massa­ a Fellow of the Massachusetts Society of grade in Manchester, Conn. • Joel Ossoff chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to a sys­ Certified Public Accountants. He is a senior and his wife Ellen (Jones '72) are both teach­ tems analyst. Carol has been with the com­ accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in ing. Joel is at Colby as an assistant in bi­ • pany since 1972 People in the class seem Boston. He and his wife Roberta and two ology • Ann Huff is teaching jr. high busy in teaching careers. Jeff Sandler, who children live in Stoneham • Earle Shettle­ French in Reading, Mass. She spent part of received an M.B.A. from Northeastern in worth has been extremely busy and effec­ the summer in N.H. attending a B.U. work­ • June, is a teacher in Malden, Mass. In tive as architectural historian of the Maine shop entitled "adventure curriculum" • Schenectady, N.Y., Kate Batten Oppedisano Historic Preservation Commission. He lives Richard Page has been made chairman of is a math teacher and is working on a Mas­ in Portland and is currently working on his the English department at the Oak Grove­ ter's degree in advanced classroom teaching doctorate at B.U. • Molly Carroll Ray is Coburn School • John Krasnavage is • Another math teacher is Jim Barys, who teaching art on the jr. high level in Bridgton working at Madison H.S. as history teacher is in Holden, Mass. He has done some • Anne Pomroy, who earned her master's and head football coach • Mark Serdjen­ additional course work at Worcester State degree in community development from the ian and Tina (Murphy '72) just bought a College • The economics department at U. of Maine, has been busy for the past year home in Waterville where they are both the U.S. Naval Academy has recruited the as executive director of the Governor's teachers in elementary schools • Graduate services of Rae Jean Braunmuller Goodman. Advisory Council on the Status of Women. school has been another popular choice. R.J. expects to receive her Ph .D. from Among her many duties is presenting lec­ Norma Burrows Gordon just began working Washington U. in St. Louis by the end of tures to various civic groups throughout the on a Ph.D. in meteorology at M.I.T. • this year. With Rae Jean there now and state • Leslie Brown Hunter has taken a Sue Pinciaro has been working on a Master's women coming in the fall, the old male bas­ two-year leave of absence from her position degree in statistics at Cornell. How's this for tion will never be the same! • Sue Magde­ as a math teacher in Chatham, Mass., to a thesis title : "An Investigation of the frau Werkhoven is busy taking care of her care for her one-year-old . . son or Properties of Kendall's tau Under a Specific two children, Scott, 4, and Karen, 1. In her daughter, Les? • Rusty MacPherson is Alternative Hypothesis"? • Mark Whit­ spare time she does mathematics tutoring • manager of environmental sciences at the worth recently received an M.S. in com­ John Collins is working on a Ph.D. program Yankee Atomic Energy Company in West­ puter science from the U. of Oregon. He is in math (would you believe differential boro, Mass. He attended Tufts Engineering currently a software consultant at the dynamics?) at Tufts. John received an M.A. School after graduating from Colby and General Services Corp. in Watertown, from the same school in 1974 • Joyanne then received an M.S. degree in ocean Mass. • Margaret Lichtenberg has com­ Nelb Ericson has completed an M.B.A. pro­ engineering from Li .Mass., sailing through pleted her M.S. in mathematics at the U. of gram at the U. of Conn. after three years of with a 4.0! • Carol Lewis Jennings has Mass. As a graduation present she treated night classes, which she attended with her been awarded an M.A. in teaching, with herself to a six-week trip in England, Scot­ husband. As of the moment, Joy keeps busy specialization in math, from Tufts. She is land, and Ireland • Ida Dionne Burroughs caring for her year-old daughter, Becky, but now a research assistant with the Federal is attending the Case Western Reserve U. would like to do some programming in her Reserve Bank in Boston • Judy Mcleish School of Music Ed. She has also been home • Tom Wright is a computer data working with the Cleveland Orchestra base consultant for John Hancock Insurance Chorus recording all of Porgy and Bess for Co. Tom has taken several courses at both London Records • Lucy Allen is working John Hancock and IBM • After receiving at M.I.T. while attending Northeastern U. an M.S . in civil engineering from M.I.T. in Weekend Dates Set where she is enrolled in the Master's of 1971, Steve Blumsack is now manager of public administration program • Wayne operating systems development at Medical The dates of the three major week­ Brown writes that he LOVES Paris and his Informational Technology in Cambridge, ends next fall are : Homecoming, life there as a student and teacher. He has Mass. • Steve Fisher is the director of Proj­ October 16; Upperclass Parents' attended the Sorbonne, the Universite de ect Bread, "a grassroots, ecumenical, educa­ Weekend, October 30; Freshman Vincennes, and the Alliance Francaise. He tion/action program on world hunger. We Parents' Weekend, November 6. To also has been working with an American are attempting to respond to the hunger prevent any confusion, we must point drama group and in his "spare time" writing crisis through educational events in churches out that the dates of the three week­ English catalogues for Galerie Marguerite ends as shown on the Colby Engage­ and schools, legislative advocacy. and fund­ Lamy • Beth McGrath has just entered the mer.t Calendar are erroneous; the raising activities." During last year's 'Walk M.B.A. program at Boston College • Tim for Hunger," the project received $110,000. above dates are correct. Landry is at the U. of Rochester in the If any group which you may be affiliated toxicology division • Morrie Herman is with would like more information or a attending Sir George Williams U. in Mon-

28 treal. He spent the summer working for the bridge, Mass. • Jackie Olivet has trans­ district trainer for Zayre Corp. • Donald investment department of Sun Life Insurance ferred from DePaul U. to Catholic U. Law Toussaint worked as assistant to the presi­ Co. of Canada • Malcolm Perkins has School located in Washington. D.C. dent of Scnpps College in Claremont, Cali!., been doing a computer simulation of the Margaret Pinette is seeking her Master's of last summer. new outpatient clinic at the Sidney Farber art history at B. U. • Eric Boonstra has re­ Cancer Center in Boston. He also writes that turned to the academic world after trying Miss Dianne Billington Bill Mayaka was married on Aug. 23 to out the business world for a year, and can 217 Pratt Ave. Alice K. Mokogi • Dick Valone received be found at the U. of Rochester on a full Somerset, Mass. 02726 an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School. He departmental scholarship, studying biomedi­ was honored as a Tuck Scholar. He is now cal engineering • Bill Narwold is enrolled 75I am so glad that so many of you took the working in Boston for Coopers-Lybrand • at New England Law School • And Bob time to fill in the questionnaire that was sent Vincent Guess was married on April 12. He Tommasino is studying at the U. of Maine out last fall. Unfortunately, I can't include is working in Baltimore, Md., as a field School of Law, as well as working for the all the information in this article, but I'll try representative for Traveler's Insurance Co. state department of mental health doing to include more next time. In the meantime, • Jim and Sheila King Daly are the proud legal research • Dave Northrop, who if any news is out-of-date. or you have any parents of a daughter, Christin Leigh. Jim is many may remember left Colby before his more news, please let me know • It ap­ working as a systems analyst for Aetna Life full four years, writes that he is presently pears that a lot of '75 graduates are contin­ and Casualty and Sheila is staying at home finishing his undergraduate work at Barring­ uing their education this year . John Abra­ in their new house in Torrington, Conn. • ton College in Rhode Island and is majoring ham is a medical student at Albany Medical Dave Ross is a computer programmer at in music education • Following Susan College in New York • Also studying Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. in Boston • Betty Illingworth's summer spent as a rehabilita­ medicine are Pat Wood at the U. of Roches­ Naylor is a systems programmer at the Fox­ tion aide at Crotched Mountain Center in ter and Moira Shea at the New York Medi­ boro Co. in Foxboro, Mass. Betty writes New Hampshire working with handicapped cal School • George Neuberger is studying that because of the diversity of customer children, she is now obtaining her R.N. at law at William and Mary in Virginia • needs, no two projects are alike and thus her Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts Cal Crouch is also there working for an work is very challenging and rewarding • • Ricardo Lujan writes that he is presently M.A. in political science • Joe Doherty, Beth Michaud has been extremely busy a graduate student on a Laspau Fellowship Debbie Marson, and Frank Evans are at Suf­ since she left Colby. She taught chemistry at the U. of Fla. He and his wife Maria Del folk Law School. Frank informs me that for one year at Waterville H.S. She then Carmen hope to return to Guatemala after­ Doug Endreson is also studying law at the went on to the U. of Virginia where she has wards, so that he can teach at his hometown U. of Wisconsin • Debbie Seel is at been doing research in osteoarthritis with university • John Holland is seeking his U.M.O. for graduate studies in Wildlife the dept. of orthopedics. She plans to be M.A. in plant ecology at the U. of Calif., Management and has an assistantship in re­ married in April, 1976, to Nick Cole, an Santa Barbara campus. He is a member of search • Larry Fleischman, Mike Hanf, ophthalmologist she met while he was attend­ the 1975 U.S .A. champion whitewater and Larry Habin are at Cornell U. School of ing the Lancaster Course at Colby. As a slalom team • Ellen Suchow is a student at Business and Public Administration • Bob final highlight Beth writes that she and Nick the U. of South Carolina, as well as a re­ Evans is at Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth took third place in the Housatonic white­ search assistant in the school's electron studying for an M.B.A. • Bill Walthall is water championships in Conn. in the open­ microscope lab. She's working towards a also in an M.B.A. program at M.l.T. Sloan boat tandem class • Chris Hall Salazar 1s Master's in marine science and is supported School of Management • Debbie Field has now teaching in Scottsbluff, Neb. In Aug. by the EPA grant • Jeff Hancock is taking a teaching assistantship at Vanderbilt while '73 she joined VISTA and was a volunteer his graduate courses at John Hopkins Even­ she is working towards an M.B.A. • Ted with the Our Lady of Guadalupe Project in ing College and is teaching chemistry and Snyder is studying law and economics at the Scottsbluff. Last year she worked as a head environmental studies at an all-black. all­ U. of Chicago • Carol Foss and Scott start teacher with Mexican-American and female public high school in Baltimore • Smith were married June 1, right after Sioux Indian children • Norman and Pat If you were in London recently you may graduation, and both have teaching assis­ Flanagan Olsen are now living in Portland, have seen an article in that city's newspaper tantships at the U. of Connecticut. Carol is where Pat is a psychiatric social worker and written by Brian MacQuarrie, who is a continuing her studies in biology and Scott Norman has just started a new weekly news­ graduate student in journalism at the U. of in computer science • Guy Hayes is also paper, the Portland Times, of which he is Missouri and concluding his M.A. by doing at U. Conn. studying physics after spending part-owner and editor. free-lance writing in London until December the summer traveling in Europe • Larry • Sarah Dailey received her M.Ed. degree Potter is at Western New England Law from the U. of Vermont in May • Nancy School • And Doug Schwarz is at Har­ Miss Debbie Marden Snow is taking two graduate courses in vard Divinity School in Unitarian ministry 109 Warren St., #4 library science at the U. of Rhode Island's • I started a new job December 1 in the Watertown, Mass. 02172 extension in Durham, N.H. • Harriet computer programming department at 7It's that4 time of year again - time to pull Hultz is in a village outside of Niamey, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in Boston and out the long underwear, put on the snow Niger, W. Africa, as a Peace Corps volun­ I have discovered there are many 1975 tires, spend well-earned money on relatives, teer teaching English to jr. high pupils. She graduates that have found jobs in the Boston and time for another column about the Class said that Anita Baldwin traveled part-time area • Barbie Carroll is systems support of 1974. I'll continue where I left off last with her in England and Ireland last summer analyst for New England Mutual Life Insur­ time • Some more school buffs in our • Mary Ann Sartucci was promoted to per­ ance Co. • Mary Liz Moynihan is a floor class are - Mark Pestana, who is attending sonnel executive for Travelers Insurance Co. supervisor in the housewares department at the U. of Ky. as a student as well as a teach­ in Hartford • Shelley Weiner is an assis­ Filene's and hopes to travel to Bermuda in ing assistant in ph ilosophy • Lynn tant editor of "Backstage" in Brooklyn, the spring • After finishing at Katy Gibbs, D'Orlando, who is studying for her M.S. in N.Y., while Pam Brownstein is a reporter Ann Carlaw started work as a secretary­ physical therapy at B.U.'s Sargent College for the "Daily Advance" in New Jersey • assistant to an associate partner at the • Ann Copley, who is doing her B.S. in This past summer Lynnette Cilley worked Bingham, Dana, and Gould law firm in nursing at Cornell in New York City • Ed for the Chase Manhattan Bank in N.Y.C. in Boston • Linda Evans is living in Water­ Cavazuti is attending N.Y.U. • Rachel the international planning and development town and is working as a receptionist-secre­ Hyman can be found at the U. of Penn. • department • Phil Deford is teaching a tary for an architectural firm in Boston • Anita Dillon is receiving her Master's in credit training course at the same bank • Katy Seabrook is also living in Watertown special education at Lesley College in Cam- Robin Sweeney Peabody was promoted to and she is associate editor at Rust Craft

29 Greeting Cards in Dedham Andrea Bernardi Longo graduated from U. Mass.­ Births Deaths Amherst with a B.S . in retailing after leav­ ing Colby. She and her husband Chuck have just built a home in Milford, Mass., and A son, Andrew Royce, to Sarah (Phelan '59) Mary Berry Manter '04, September 25 in Andrea is assistant manager of Foxmoor and James R. Mcintosh '59, July 12. North Vassalboro, age 92. Born in Saco, Casuals in Auburn • Linda Watts is a A daughter, Laurie Jennifer, to Mr. and Mrs. Manter graduated from Kents Hill computer programmer with John Hancock Mrs. Stephen Schoeman '64, October 1. High School, Pratt Institute of New York Insurance Co. in Boston • Jane Keary A daughter. Sandra, to Susan (Brown '65) and the New England Conservatory of Connor left Colby at the end of her sopho­ and Frank Musche '66, February, 1975. Music. She was a member of Sigma Kappa more year and married John in August of Twins, Margaret and Peter, to Mr. and Mrs. at Colby. She taught music at various that year. She is presently a store manager Chip Birlem '66, February 11. schools, including the Coburn Classical for Merribee Needlecraft Co. in Medway, A son. Robert, to Judy (Kelley '66) and Institute and Maine Central Institute. She Mass. • Beverly O'Brient took two and a Joe Casey, March, 1975. was a member of the First Baptist Church of half months off this fall to travel across A son, Craig, to Mr. and Mrs. John Waterville, where she conducted the choir country to San Francisco; when she re­ Cookson '66, April 16. since 1926. She and her late husband oper­ turned at Christmas time she hoped to live A son, James Hardy, to Lynne (Egbert ated an apple orchard in North Vassalboro and work in Boston • Scott Goeller also '66) and Jim Eggart. September 10. for many years. Survivors include a planned to take some time to travel around A daughter, Leah Jill, to Claudia (Fugere daughter, Eleanor Manter LeMaistre '36, a the country this year • Living in Ireland, '66) and Martin Finkelstein. June 22. son, and nine grandchildren. John Sklepowicz plans to spend the year A son, John Douglas. to Mr. and Mrs. George traveling throughout Europe • Leon Jonathan Hill '66, February 26, 1974 . William Snow '13, June 23 in Fishlyn, after leaving Colby in the middle of A son, David Zachary. to Diane (Fioto '66) Marietta, Ga .. age 83. Born in Rockport, sophomore year, is now attending Mass. and Peter Lardieri '66, May 28. Capt. Snow joined Pan American World College of Optometry • Evan Sugden has A son. David Tian, to Laura (Peirce '66) and Airways in 1928, continuing to fly for that been studying at the U. of Utah since leaving Lloyd Lehn, January 10, 1975. airline until his retirement. He was a pilot in Colby freshman year, and he hopes to go to A son, Michael, to Barbara (Wise '66) and WWI, attaining the rank of major. Two graduate school in the fall, 1976 • Karen John Lynch, December 5, 1974. daughters survive him. Santic is a Peace Corps volunteer and was A daughter, Amanda, to Mr. and Mrs. Sal Paul Miller '19, October 18, age 77. Born in scheduled to arrive in Africa by the end of Manforte '66, June, 1975. Calais, Miller attended Lisbon Falls High November. A son, Russell, Ill. to Mr. and Mrs. Russ School. He left Colby in 1916 to enter the Monbleau '66, May 31 . Naval Academy at Annapolis, and was a Triplet sons, Justin, Matthew and Ehren, to midshipman in World War I. He retired Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Morse '66, July 12. from the Navy in 1935, but was recalled to A son, Eddie. to Diane (Roesing '66) and active duty in 1940. He was a commander in Walter O'Brien, January, 1975. World War II. After the war, he taught A daughter, Jill, to Mr. and Mrs. Keith mathematics and navigation at the Naval Milestones Robbins '66, January, 1975. Academy. From 1946 to 1963, Miller was A daughter, Karen Elizabeth, to Mary Sue executive vice president of Weems System of (Hilton '66) and Eugene Weeks, July 7. Marriages Navigation, Inc., in Annapolis. He pre­ A son, Ethan, to Christie (Higginbottom '66) viously received a master's degree from and Olney White '66. August, 1975. Duke, and also attended the U.S.N. Post­ Geoffrey Quadland '66 to Corrie Crutcher, A son, Jonathan Richard, to Mr. and Mrs. graduate School, the Univ. of North Caro­ August 16. Ledyard S. Baxter '67, June 10. lina and West Virginia Univ. He is survived Linda J. Brewer '67 to Michael K. Simpson, A daughter. Virginia Willard, to Frances by his wife, Mary Jo. and a son. September 20, Lewis Point, Damariscotta . (Richter '67) and Robert Comstock, Jr. '67, August 28, 1974. John Desmond '67 to Thomasin Berry, Gerald S. Porter '19, February 8, 1975 in A daughter, Heather Joy, to Roberta May 17. Vineland, N .J. He is survived by a sister. Susan Wakeman '69 to Timothy C. Davis, (Stockwell '67) and Ken Danielson, l. September 20. March Herbert Armand Perkins '22, August 21 in Aroline F. Stone '70 to James R.L. A son, Bradley Reed, to Ellie (Eichmann '67) Hampton, Va., age 74 . A native of Brook­ Gallagher, October 26, Steamboat Springs, and Peter Densen '66, March, 1975. field, Mass.. he was Phi Beta Kappa at Col. A son, Steven Evans, to Dorothy (Evans '68) Colby, earning an M.A. at Wisconsin in Deborah R. Messer '71 to Douglas I. Zlatlin, and Pedro Guillen, April 16. 1932. He did advanced graduate work al October 18, Saco. A son, Colin Brady, to Cecily (Smith '68) Harvard, Boston Univ., M.l.T. and the Margaret F. Wiehl '71 to Peter G. Gilfoy '70, and Kent Johnson '65, October 8. Univ. of Chicago. He joined the mathema­ November 1, Fairfield, Conn. A son, Daniel Brooks, to Linda (Brooks '68) tics department of Hampton Institute in Norma J. Ouellet '72 to Thomas P. O'Reilly, and John Perkins '66, February 16. 1922, later becoming head of the depart­ November 15, Wellesley Hills, Mass. A son, Christopher, to Jane ment. In 1942, Perkins joined the Navy, Elizabeth J. Ross '72 to David D. Withnell and Peter Redmond '66, September 20. continuing in the Naval Reserves until 1963, '72, October 12, Kennebunkport. A daughter, Kimberly Margaret to Judith when he retired as a lieutenant commander. Susan Cook '73 to A. Blair Janes '73, June (Whipling '68) and Stephen Walton, He retired from Northeastern Univ. in 1965 28, Melrose, Mass. November 28. after 18 years as a professor of mathematics. Laurie Anne Williams '73 to Stephen John A daughter, Kristen Ann, to Susan He was a member of R.0.A. and the Woodfin, October 11, U.S. Coast Guard (Mathews '69) and Thaddeus R. Szydlowski, National Retired Teachers Association. Academy, New London, Conn. August 19. Survivors include his wife, Sadie, a son, Priscilla Hope Allen '74 to Isutomu Ishiguri, A daughter, Jessica Piper, to Wandy Herbert '50, a daughter, two sisters includ­ October 25, Plymouth, Mass. (Adams '70) and Gus Browne '69, ing Mrs. Margaret Perkins Seller '18, a Catherine A. McGerigle '75 to William August 13. brother and four grandchildren. Taylor, September 28, Waterville. A daughter, Justine, to Jacqueline (Getchell Deborah E. Wittenauer '75 to Lawrence J. '71 ) and Kenneth E. Qualmann, October Florence Smith Hutchins '25, July 3, age 75. Allen, August 30, Waltham, Mass. 22, 1974. Born in New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Hutchins

30 .,,as a resident of Cornish. She is survived this town has ever seen ." He was a virtual )y her husband, Carl . sculptor with words when writing about people he found interesting or about animals \rthur Wesley Littlefield '28, September 4, at the National Zoo. Much of his early 973 in Ridgewood, N .J. Born in Middle­ reputation stemmed from his stories about )Oro, Mass., he attended Abington, Mass. the exotic species at the zoo and the circuses -!igh School and later attended Columbia that came to town. He was known especially ind N.Y.U. From 1928 to 1949, Littlefield for his tales of Mohini, the zoo's famed Nas with Barns and Noble, Inc., of New white tiger. In all, he wrote more than 1,600 r'ork City, publishers of handbooks and col­ bylined pieces about almost everything. ege textbooks. In 1949, he became president Casey was born in Portland, the son of a 1f Littlefield, Adams and Company of deaf-mute father and a deaf mother. In .,aterson, N .J., publishers of Littlefield Col­ World War II, he was schooled by the Army ege Outlines and the Student Outline Series. in the Italian language, then sent to Hawaii He was a trustee of the Ridgewood Baptist to work in a supply depot. He began his :::'.hurch, a member of the Union League journalism career on the Daily Kennebec Club, the Masons and the Elks. His wife sur­ Journal in Augusta . Nearly 10 years later, vived him. after a succession of jobs at other papers, he was hired by the Post. He is survived by his million dollars to Colby. He made major Albert John Thiel '28, October 25 in Boston, mother, a son and two grandchildren. gifts toward the construction of Dana Hall age 71. Born in Cambridge, he was educated and the Physical Education and Athletic at Tabor Academy and Boston Univ. Thiel Complex, and established the Dana Scholar­ was the head of the paper division of the ships and the Dana Professorships. The son Ludlow Cor p., and made his home in Honorary of a wealthy banker, he turned a manufac­ Cataumet on Cape Cod and in Clearwater, H. Bacon Collamore, M.A. '39, September turing company into the large Dana Corpor­ Fla., for many years. Survivors include his 28 in Hartford, Conn., age 84. Born in ation. He retired from active management in wife, Priscilla, a daughter, Joan Thiel San­ Middletown, Conn., he was president and 1968, but remained honorary chairman of ford '64, and a son. chairman of the board of the former Nation­ the board until his death. He created the al Fire Insurance Co. until 1956, when he Charles A. Dana Foundation, which assisted Philip Bartlett Foster '34, July 8 in Spring­ became chairman of the board and chief a wide range of educational and health care field, Mass.. age 63 . Born in Bridgton, executive officer of the Pittsburgh Steel Co. institutions. He was a graduate of Colum­ Foster retired three years ago from the He was a Colby trustee from 1946 to 1958, bia, and a cousin of the late newspaper Wilbraham-Monson Academy where he was was president of the Library Association of editor-owner Charles Dana. He was a a mathematics instructor for 28 years. He Trinity College and the Watkinson Library, lawyer, was elected to the New York state was a member of the Wilbraham United a director of the Rosenbach Foundation, legislature, and managed one of Theodore Church and a past deacon. He is survived Philadelphia, and a member of the Grolier Roosevelt's presidential campaigns. He is by his wife, Norma, his mother, a daughter, Club of New York. survived by his wife, Eleanor, two sons, two two brothers and two sisters. Well-known for his interest in rare books, daughters and eight grandchildren. Clark H. he gave numerous gifts of rare books and Carter '40 represented Colby at the funeral. AJbert Elliot Robinson '36, March 12. manuscripts to the college. Richard Cary, Robinson left Colby and graduated from professor emeritus and curator of rare books Brown Univ. He was a member of Alpha and manuscripts, remembers him as a rare Fairfield Porter, D.F.A. '69, September 18 in Tau Omega. A resident of Newton High­ book collector of wide repute, who "knew Southampton, N.Y., age 68. He was edu­ lands, Mass .. he worked as a high school intimately the direction and range of our cated in the Winnetka, ill., public schools, teacher and athletic coach at several schools special collections and frequently contri­ and after graduating from Harvard studied in Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, buted items of outstanding significance to at the Art Students League of New York Anne. them. His strongest focus was on American under Thomas Hart Benton and Boardman poets, particularly Edwin Arlington Robin­ Robinson, and spent a year studying in Italy. For many years, he wrote for Philip Tyler Casey '43, November 4 in son with whom he became friendly during Art and Washington, D.C., age 54. A newspaper­ the poet's last years. Colby has the largest News, Art in America, The Nation other publications. He taught or was a visit­ man at the Washington Post since 1957, he accumulation of Robinsoniana in existence, ing artist at Yale, Amherst, the Maryland was described by one of his colleagues as much of it due to Mr. Collamore's zeal and "one of the two or three best feature writers generosity .... Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago and "To specify only one other area of Mr. the Skowhegan School of Painting and Collamore's kindness to the college : the Sculpture. His work is represented in Henry James collection for which Colby is hundreds of private and public collections, justly famed." He presented more than 100 including the Museum of Modern Art, the first editions on one occasion. Whitney Museum of American Art, the "The arc of Mr. Collamore's literary Wadsworth Atheneum, the Cleveland enthusiasms was vast and so was his liber­ Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Collec­ ality. He could always be counted on to help tion. He is survived by his wife, Anne, three us secure a crucial item beyond our reach. sons, two daughters, two grandchildren, a 'Bae' 's special mark is permanently im­ sister and three brothers, including Eliot, pressed on Colby's notable collection of rare D.F.A. '69. books and manuscripts." He is survived by his wile, Dorothy, two sons, two brothers and five grandchildren. Elizabeth Lyons McCoy, November 20 in Waterville, age 74. She was the widow of Charles Anderson Dana, LL.D. '68, the late Professor John F. McCoy, who died December 4 in Wilton, Conn., age 94. August 3. Mrs. McCoy was a Boston native Dana, one of the nation's most generous and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Sur­ benefactors of education, gave in excess of a viving are a son and four grandchildren.

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