Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Summer 1983
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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives Summer 1983 Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Summer 1983 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Summer 1983" (1983). Alumni News. 225. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/225 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Alum i MqJ=rzire -:..\.\~\() Editorial Board: Vivian Segall '73, Editor (13 New London, CT, four times a year in Winter, Faigle '63, and Sally Duffield Wilder '46, Main Street, Noank, CT 06340) I Katherine Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage Directors / Committee Chairmen: Jeanne Gould '81 I Sarah Hargrove Harris '57 I paid at New London, CT 06320. Send form Caldwell Raudenbush '69 (Nominating) / Wayne Swanson Marilyn Ellman Frankel '64 I 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut Mary Ann Garvin Seigel '66 (Alumni .Giving) / I Roberta Finley '71, Class Notes Editor I College, New London, CT 06320. CASE Carole A. Filice '74 (Clubs) / Lee White Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26, Assistant member. Graham '61 (Finance and Programs) / George Editor I Warren T. Erickson '74 and Louise Alumni Association Executive Board: F. Hulme'77 (Classes) I Louise Stevenso.n. Stevenson Andersen '41, ex officio. Warren T. Erickson '74, President I Mary Ann Andersen '41 (Executive Director) and vivian The Connecncur College Alumni Magazine Garvin Siegel '66, Vice President I Heather Segall '73 (Alumni Magazine Editor), ex (USPS 129-140). Official publication of the Turner Frazer '62, Secretary I Lee White officio. .' Connecticut College Alumni Association, All Graham '61, Treasurer I Joann Walton Above, The Class of '33 with President publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted Leavenworth '56, Jane Muddle Funkhouser '53 Oakes Ames and Librarian Brian Rogers. only by permission of the editor. Published by and Edith Gaberman Sudarsky '43, Alumni Communications to any of the above may be the Connecticut College Alumni Association at Trustees. addressed in care of the Alumni Office, Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, George F. Hulme '77, Susan Bohman Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320, The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine Volume 60, No.4, Summer 1983 Page 2 Page 11 The Closs of 1973: Parent, Attorney and Ten Years Later Environmentalist Eleven alumni write about By Josephine Porter '73 themselves, their careers, their recollections of Conn. Page 12 Teachers, Parents Page 3 and Antique Expert Surgeon By Tim & Bobbie Jean By Carol Williams Chappell Dahlgren '73 Hannenberg '73 Page 13 According to Our Rlthers' Wishes By Cassandra Sturman Bright '58 Page 16 Reunion Notebook Page 20 Round & About Page 8 Search & Rescue Pilot, Page 22 U.S.Coast Guard Class Notes By Terk Williams '73 Page 4 Associate Counsel Page 9 to the President Exhibit Planner & Entrepreneur By H.P. Goldfield '73 By Nancy Mann '73 PageS Assistant Secretary and Page 10 Assistant Treasurer, SNET Radiologist By Jean Mayshar La Vecchia '73 By Brian Puglisi '73 Page 10 Page 7 Credits. Cover & drawings: Katherine Gould '81. Illustrator Pastor Photos: Ann Logan, 5; Ellen Bodin '80, opposite. 15- 19; Ken .Laffal, above, 26; Vivian Segall '73. 19 By Allen Carroll '73 By Debra McGuirk Johnson '73 (bolt om nght). THE CLASS OF 1973 TEN YEARS LATER There's a tenth reunion class each year, of course, but '73 is a bit different. Among the T-shirted, long-haired, blue-jeaned stu- dents who arrived in New London in the Fall of 1969 were 27 men-the first to be admitted as freshmen at Connecticut. Waves afCoast Guard cadets still made the trek up to OUf campus, but clearly, things would never be the same. The Class of'73 trooped into Cro's main gym for a mass "T-group" during orienta: ..'. _ .... tion, took physical fitness tests, and sat on the lawn for a free rock concert. Times ~,::::-"-'-"'S"-:i: being what they were, students talked and m~t:;5);~1;:~i:;'··'·:.'- argued about the war in Viet Nam, pon- dered their new found freedom, and, within a few months, were part of a national stu- dent strike. Ten years after graduation, Conn's male "pioneers" work in fields as disparate and demanding as sedimentology and social work. The Alumni Office has received sur- veys from 22 of the men in '73; among them, the men have earned 21 advanced degrees. For this issue on reunion, we asked a handful of'73 alumni-ranging from a pas- tor to a surgeon to a helicopter pilot-to WI LL SPEAk IN P write about themselves, their jobs, and A\J\)\TVR.I their recollections of Connecticut. Obvi- ously, there is room for only a tiny sample of the achievements of this talented group. What else do '73 alumni do? Well, Karen Winer Friedman is vice president for corporate finance at Salomon Brothers in New York. Nancy Marks is an assistant prosecuting attorney in St. Louis. Aries Arditi, Ph.D., is a researcher at the New York Association for the Blind. Hes- ter Kinnicut Jacobs is a navy lieutenant in Norfolk. Mary Cerreto, Ph.D. is associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas. Joelle Schon is a film editor in New York. Deborah Myers Kucharik manages the minicomputer support group at Pacific Telephone in North Hollywood. And Arturo (Guzzy) Guzman teaches sixth grade in the Bronx. Connecticut, it seems chose well. 2 • CAROL WILLIAMS HANNENBERG '73 SURGEON SURGERY RESIDENCY DEMANDS STRONG BACKS, STRONG MINDS AND THICK SKINS What do you do when the editor of the Connecticut College Alumni Magazine calls and asks you to write a short article about what you've been doing since college? Panic. PANIC! Besides, doctors are ex-literates, as a rule; they grunt, play golf, charge high fees, and only talk to other doctors. But write? In a nonscientific publication? About work? No, no, no! In 1977, after graduating from the Uni- versity of Connecticut School of Medicine, I moved to Boston and entered general surgery residency, a special purgatory re- served for those with strong backs, strong minds, and thick skins. I had enjoyed ment. There is an immense sense of gratifi- surgery in medical school; I liked the surgi- What kept me going? The cation knowing that a sick patient is well cal problems, the technical challenges, the patients did; my fellow resi- because of your intervention. problem-solving, and thought the patients dents did; some of the senior People occasionally ask if surgical train- were great. ing was harder for me than for a man. I Nothing, however, had prepared me for surgeons did; and my hus- encountered little overt discrimination. No the rigors of the next five years, not four band did, all with their doubt there were cases I didn't do because years at Conn, not four years of medical patience, hard work, humor the private doctor thought I was "only a school, not ten years at hard labor. Surgery girl," and there were patients who disliked residency isn't a job; it's a way of life, all- and understanding. And the or distrusted me simply because I was a absorbing, demanding, and jealous oftime, work itself has enormous woman, but there weren't too many. Was I energy, love, devotion. It takes all that one rewards. teased about being a woman in a man's has. specialty? Endlessly. Did my education In my last year as chief resident, I was in near the end of my internship), by now an suffer? I doubt it. the hospital every morning (Saturdays and excellent cook, would fix dinner, and then There remains one other great source of Sundays included) at six. Our team would tuck me into bed, the everpresent beeper satisfaction for me. Many patients have see 15 to 30 patients before starting in the lurking on the nightstand. never been exposed to or been cared for by operating room at eight, and would usually There were days, and weeks, when I women physicians. Every once in a while, a operate until two in the afternoon. New gladly would have chucked it all without a patient will confide, "You know, Dr. Wil- admissions, conferences, disasters, emer- backward glance. liams, when I first got here, I didn't want a gencies, and evening rounds would con- What kept me going? The patients did; woman doctor. But I've changed my mind. sume us until eight or nine, when, some- my fellow residents did; some of the senior Will you be here when I come back?" what fatigued, I'd leave for home. My surgeons did.and my husband did, all with If I've helped change the attitudes of only husband (I'd met him in an operating room their patience, hard work, humor, and understanding. And the work itself has a handful of patients-s-and other doctors- I've succeeded. Dr. Williams (above) is a graduate of the enormous rewards. Most operations go At Conn, I learned the value of hard Harvard Fifth Surgical Service, New Eng- well, but some go absolutely flawlessly- work, perseverance, integrity, and the land Deaconess Hospital. Boston, and at and are they great! It's very gratifying to enthusiastic pursuit of knowledge. These present is associated with Dr. Kenneth W. know that a difficult, technically demand- values will be with me even after my hands Warren, at the New England Baptist Hos- ing procedure has gone well, or that you've made a difficult but sound surgical judg- and my scalpel retire.