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Colby Magazine Volume 88 Issue 2 Spring 1999 Article 16 April 1999 Alumni at Large Kevin Cool Colby College Robert Gillespie Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation Cool, Kevin and Gillespie, Robert (1999) "Alumni at Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 88 : Iss. 2 , Article 16. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol88/iss2/16 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. alumni at large I� Building Blocks Upcoming Alumni Events • Uber Mules fan and long-time chair of the College's athletics advisory committee Sandy Maisel (government) will receive the C Club's "Man of the Year" award April 29. The C Club dinner is on campus, and the deadline for reservations is April 20. • Reunion Weekend is June 4-6. Class years ending in "4" and "9" are the main celebrants. Look for mailings during April. • This year's Alumni College topic is "The Civil War in Modern Perspective," July 25-29. Participating faculty are Charles Bassett and David Lubin (American studies), Tony Corrado and Cal Mackenzie (government) and Richard "Pete" Moss and Eliza beth Leonard (history). The Colby alumni chapter ofChicago organized a Habitat for Humanity project led by chapter president Laura Pavlenko For information or reservations for any of these events: Lutton '94. John Lutton '94 (left) and Michael Van Huystee e-mail [email protected] or (Bowdoin '92) prepare to saw off a clay drainage pipe for the call 207-872-3 190. Habitat home's future patio. course for grandparents titled "Teddy Bears and who suffers from Parkinson's disease ....Leila Fletcher Eaton '39 Rocking Chairs." Wade and Eleanor visit family Ross Hyman '39 put tile floors in her condo 42 Perry Drive in New York, Washington, Williamsburg, Geor because she'd rather cook than clean carpets. As Needham, MA 021 92 gia and Texas ....Gardiner Gregory '39 writes to what she is doing with her time, Leila says she 61 7-449-1 614 articles for newspapers and magazines but re will travel until she drops. Israel, Paris, Spain ports the following changes since we last heard and Portugal are recent destinations ....Hoover EARLY YEARS Goffin '4 1 writes, simply: "My wife Barrett Hurwitz '70 sent a eulogy of passed away. Without my dearest his father, Harold Hurwitz '37, who EARLY YEARS MILESTONES possession, my world has changed. died on October 4, 1997. The testa Thank heaven for a good support Lucy Taylor Pratt ' February 12, 1999, in Farmington, ment was written by Barrett for the Deaths: 17, ing fa mily." The family includes Conn., at 105 ....Ruth Fairbanks Burke '24, September 12, New Bedford Bar Association. (I try Peter, 53, Bruce, 50, Wendy, 43, 1998, in Brunswick, Maine, at96 .... George T. Nickerson to keep my personal views to myself '24, Jill, 24, Brett, 21, and Sabra, 20. December 29, 1998, in Waterville, Maine, at 96 .... Eleatha in this column, but I must say that Hoover is going through a cruel time Beane Littlefield '25, December 20, 1998, in Portsmouth, N.H., the obituary written by Barrett is and has the deepest sympathies of at 94.. Hazel Berry Pettengill '25, December 25, 1998.... one of the finest documents I have the class .... Claire Tilley Hen Flora Harriman Small '25, October 28, 1998, in Winslow, Maine, ever read.) Among his comments, derson '41 wonders if anyone could at 95.... Kenneth L. Wentworth '25, March 20, 1998, in New Barrett said, "Harold Hurwitz was a possibly be interested in her news. port Beach, Calif., at 94 ....Albert W. Wassell '26, November gentleman who extended respect to (Claire, you'd be amazed. It may 29, 1998, in Ormand Beach, Fla., at95 ... Arthur B. Levine '28, all those colleagues with whom he seem dull to you, but the rest of us January 21, 1999, in Palm Beach, Fla., at 92 .... Verna Green dealt decade after decade, whose want to hear about you.) Claire and Taylor '30, October 17, 1998, in Saco, Maine, at 90 ....Helen humility and humanity were second her husband, Edward, have turned Brigham Trefethen '30, October I, 1998, in Freedom, Maine, at to none, and whose intellect, integ over the operation of their Aroo 88 ... Barbara Valentine Dyer '32, December 5, 1998, in Carlisle, rity and wisdom will be sorely stook farm to a younger generation. Pa., at 87 .... Edith Hoskin Bolster '33, January 19, 1999, in missed." ...Charles Jacoby '3 7 and Their daughter Anne is the fourth Auburn, Maine, at86.... Norman R. Brown '35, September 30, his wife, Barbara, celebrated their of the fa mily in 100 years to take 1998, in Rye, N.H., at 86 ....Edward L. Poland '36, December 60th wedding anniversary on July over. She and her husband are en I, 1998, in Arlington, Va., at 87 ....Marion E. Dugdale '38; 16, 1998. They live in an assisted joying their responsibilities just as December 11, 1998, in Daytona Beach, Fla., at 81. ...Irene living fac ility in Falmouth, Mass. Claire and her husband did 25 year Rockwood Johnson '38, January 18, 1999, in Petersham, Mass., at Mr. Jacoby spends most of his time ago.... Jane Russell Abbott '41 82 ....Arno N. Day '39, November 5, 1998, in Sedgwick, in therapy for a bad back, hoping to writes beautifully of anexpedition Maine, at 81. get back on his feet.... My old made by the Waterville Scuba Club fr iend Larry Dwyer '38 has writ- for a weekend at Harbor Island ten, much too briefly, that the two most memo from him: he no longer has a vegetable garden, (which the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer reveals is rable events in his life were World War II and no longer sprays his fruit trees, no longer takes within shouting distance of Frenchboro, just his marriage .... Classmate and fraternity photos and no longer has a dog. However, he south of Acadia National Park). After gather brother Wade Hooker '39 writes that he and works on his flower garden, continues writing ing a bountiful supply of the large, handsome, his wife, Eleanor (Tolan '36), are taking a articles and takes care of his dear wife, Anne, delicious scallops fo r which Maine is well known, 33 SPRING 1999 C 0 L BY ALUMNI AT LARGE Card and Ralph MacBurnie the group then retired to a cabin on the island to matters in New York City .... Bill Pinansky Council. Charles eat them. Subsequent scuba diving produced has three sons-a dentist in Massachusetts, a are in the President's Associates. John Chase, and Louise Holt McGee are spectacular displays of bioluminescence .... lawyer in the District of Columbia and another Donald Gardner Marjorie Abar Gray '43 manages to keep as lawyer in Korea ....Edna Slater Pullen, wife of in the President's Club. These generous donors busy as she wants to be by reading lots of books, Judge John Pullen '38, kept her three children in add luster to our class. reading to a kindergarten class once a week and Maine-a rare feat these days. Lynne is a teacher -Ernest C. Marriner ]r. researching the history ofher family farm (182 - and also a restauranteur in Brewer, Barbara 1984) and her own family history ( 1924 through works at Hinckley Boats in Southwest Harbor as 41 Ginny "Jiggs" Mosher is "still kick her years at Colby). She lives in a two-bedroom a secretary, and Donald is a master carpenter in ing"--doing fine. She's been retired for several apartment with her antiques, which came with Trenton and Ellsworth. A granddaughter is a years and moved back to Waterville, Maine, her from a larger house. ...Howard R. Johnson flight attendant for American Airlines ....Are this year. Having no children of her own, she '43 wants to trackdown Sana Tahmizian '43 "if you coming back for Alumni Weekend in June, enjoys her 13 nieces and nephews. To keep fit, possible." o address is available for she is still bowling. In April 1997 Ms. Tahmizian so locating her will she went back to S. Carolina and, be a matter of word of mouth and N EWS MAKERS with friends from that area, went to luck. (One lead: telephone infor Reno, Nev., to bowl in the national Charlotte Noyes Oleson '40's 10,320 Welcome Wagon visits in a mation in Belmont, Mass.) In May tournament. However, they didn't 43-year career as a Massachusetts Welcome Wagon hostess made and June of 1996 Mr. Johnson spent do much bowling, but they did have headlines at her retirement last December. In 1978 she received three weeks in China visiting ar a great time. She misses them, for national recognition from the Memphis-based company when she chaeological sites and Beijing: she lived in Reno for 31 years and represented more businesses to newcomers than any other em "Places important for the Chinese still keeps in touch with those ployee ...: After a lifetime of writing and editing newsletters for religions l taught about for years. friends ....Rev. Lin Potter retired nonprofit groups, Richard Billings '48 started Day Mountain The trip really opened my eyes to as a major from the U.S. Army. He Publications in his Augusta, Maine, home. He plans to produce the serious problems China faces still lives in Sanbornville, N.H., everything from business cards to books.... Hotelier Robert Sage and the naivete of Americans who and is an amateur radio operator, '49 was honored last fall by the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center fo r think they should prescribe solu both national and international.Lin the Aged, a 725-bed nonprofit facility in Roslindale, Mass.