Colby Magazine

Volume 88 Issue 2 Spring 1999 Article 16

April 1999

Alumni at Large

Kevin Cool Colby College

Robert Gillespie Colby College

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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,

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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. In his tions." ... Ressa Flewelling Ed­ is active in patriotic parades, Ma­ 20 years of volunteer work for the center, Sage has filled roles as munds '43 has children living in sons, VFW and Couples Club. He chairman ofoperations, treasurer and vice chairman on the center's New Jer ey, Montana and Hawaii, attended Colby his third and fourth board of trustees. all of whom she visits regularly. For year of college, after acquiring credit three weeks in the summer, she and fo r graduation from Bangor Theo­ her husband, John, live at their MILESTONES logical Seminary, and says that lakeside cottage in Maine. On mov­ Deaths: Glenyes Smith Stone '40, February 18, 1999, in Alfred, Colby was a "broadening" experi­ ing ornetime ago, she says she "got Maine, at 80 ....Mary Anacki '41, December 17, 1998, in ence what with friends and profes­ rid of a lot of junk." Wareham, Mass., at 79 ....George L. Beach Jr. '41, November sors, especially "Bugsy" Chester, -Fletcher Eaton is temporarily 10, 1998, in Waterville, Maine, at 78 ....Claire F. Emerson '41, "Pop" Newman and Lougee for ge­ unable to continue his column , but you December 18, 1998, in Biddeford, Maine, at 79.... Janet H. ology. Lin lost his wife in '94 but may send your news directly to the says his many friends have "sur­ Pfleger '42, October 19, 1998, in Philadelphia, Pa., at 79 .... Jo­ Alumni Office , Colby College , seph D. Slattery '42, November 17, 1998, in Marshfield, Mass., at rounded" him with friendship. Lin Waterville , ME 04901 . We hope to left for Florida in late October for 77 ... . Robert C. Cornell '43, November 26, 1998, in Alpine, hear from you. Texas, at 80 .... Millicent Bolling Smith '43, December 25,1998, the winter. . . . Beatrice Kenney in Washington, D.C., at 77 ....George E. Whittier '43, February Maltais enjoys her five children and 40 Last October in his col­ 19,1999, in Farmingdale, Maine, at 77 ....Barbara White Haddad enjoyed the wedding of a grand­ umn, " cratchpad," fo r the Benson, '44, November 25, 1998, in Providence, R.I., at 76 ....Annabell child in Washington, D.C. For the N.C., new paper, Ralph Delano told Morrison Wolfertz '44, October 31, 1998, in Owls Head, Maine, wedding of another grandson, the tory of a 19th-century Colby at 74 ....Ernest J. Williams '45, December 5, 1998, in Holden, James, Bea made a bridesmaid dress. student who tried to u e his hope­ Mass., at 75 ....William L. Bryan '48, December 24, 1998, in Bea and "Maxie" also went to Cali­ le ne s under the Calvmist doc­ Holden, Maine, at 78 ....Ethelyn Fletcher Ferguson '48,January fo rnia to visit a daughter, and they tnne of prede tmation as a reason to 2, 1999, in Bangor, Maine, at 72 ....Eileen Lanouette Hughes all went to Mexico. Bea commented be permanently excused from chap­ '48, October 8, 1998, in East Hampton, N.Y., at 73 ....Joan A. that this trip made her appreciate el attendance. How times have Donnelly '49, August 20, 1998, at 71. ... Allen I. Dublin '49, even more our relatively clean en­ changed! ... Carl McGraw' Oth ovember 6, 1998, in Laconia, N.H., at 71. ...Richard G. vironment and so many of our ev­ b1rthday celebration mcluded ski­ Michelsen '49, October 3, 1998, in Lewiston, Maine, at eryday amenities. Bea manages to mg at Alta and Park Clty, Utah, 74 .... Frances Terry Power '49, January 15, 1999, in Fayette, keep fit by walking, gardening and, w1th family member . . . . ow that Mame, at 72. "ofcour e,"shopping ....Your cor- he has clo ed Levme' , Howard respondent, Bonnie Ruth Roberts Miller ha made h1 fir r-ever re- Hathaway, and husband Hank still ponse to an appeal for alumm new . Daughter or are you waitmg for a big blow-out at our 60th live in the New Hampshire woods (New ara d1rects a pre-,chool m ew York; daughter m 20001 ...On a personal note, one of my Ipswich). As I write this, I am admiring the Wend 1 an art therapl t m Maryland; and grand on wa cap tam of the football team at his colorful fo liage. Always a joy, for we are sur­ daughter Julie 1 a teacher m Cahforn1a.Howard h1gh ch ol m Cahforn1a, and another grandson rounded with color! Oh my! We both keep went to pam and Portugal last year. ...Ellen got marned m Tennes ee last summer. L1fe goes relatively busy and enjoy good health at 80. Fitch Peter on, a renred libranan, report.

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grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. on the Cape. Hannah and Mike are proud new That keeps us busy over birthdays and Chri t­ grandparents of Maya, adopted from Siberia by 1940s Correspondents mas. Do let me hear from you for the next class daughter Ellen and her husband, Henri. Their column. Gratefully ... grandchildren now range in age from 2 to 23. 1940 -Bonnie Roberts Hathaway Ellen is vice chair of the National Intelligence Ernest C. Marriner Jr. Council after a stint as Middle East advisor to RR #1 , Box 1815-P 45 Three classmates highlight Colby in re­ Madeleine Albright at the United Nations. North Monmouth, ME 04265 cent communications. Joan Gay Kent, presi­ Hannah is serving her second term as president 207-933-2401 dent of the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical of the Worcester Institute for Senior Education Society (which includes Long Island communi­ (WISE) and, though retired as a professor of 1941 ties such a Port Washington, where Joan lives), English, teaches a course at Assumption Col­ Bonnie Roberts Hathaway is writing a history of the area that is being lege each year. She's still active in Mass. Com­ 142 Turnpike Road serialized in the Port Washington News. Joan says mon Cause, fighting the battle for campaign New Ipswich, NH 0307 1 -9635 it was at Colby that she found that the pursuit of finance reform .... Ardath and Locky 603-878-454 7 history gave her a reason to learn-almost ev­ MacKinnon recently returned from a trip to erything.... Arnold Grossman, having en­ Iceland and to his ancestral home on the Isle of 1943 tirely positive feelings about his Colby education, Skye in Scotland, which he pronounced "Won­ Ruby Lott Tucker is not unexpectedly proud that his son Tom '77 derful." They also continue to travel around the 15 Crest Road is also a Colby graduate. Arnold also found an country in their trailer. Locky keeps busy with Old Saybrook, CT 06475 educational exchange in Russia and China very Kiwanis and Ventnor City civic committees. rewarding ....Doris Blanchard Hutcheson and His advice to all of us gerontology experts is, 1944 Bill '44 have two Colby daughters, Sandra '71 "Don't be a couch potato." He follows his own Vivian Maxwell Brown and Laurian '78 (plu three other daughters) advice, does his own gardening and walks the 174 E Second Street and a Colby grandson, Christopher Buck '00. boardwalk. He and Ardath were happy to con­ Corning, NY 14830 Doris has recently been in touch with Doris tribute a much-appreciated scholarship for a 607-962-9907 Taylor Huber and Millie Steenland Ellison deserving student. ... Heard from Larry '44 ....Grace Keefer Parker writes that both Lowenstein that Marie Kraeler Lowenstein has 1945 Dr. Bixler's philosophy and "Pop" Newman and cut back to three days a week in the develop­ Naomi Collett Paganelli the New England Student Christian Movement ment office at the Fieldston School. Larry has 2 Horatio Street #5J had a significant effect on her life. She is cur­ retired from the same work for Horace Mann. New York, NY 1001 4-1 608 rently a consultant at the Parish Resource Cen­ He received the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary 212-929-5277 ter in Valley Stream, N.Y.... In an article on Alumni Award from Cornell University last Maurice Whitten's book, Gunpowder Mills of year. ... Received Communal Letter #l from 1946 Maine, the Sanford, Maine, News raised intrigu­ Jean O'Brien Perkins, who was in Samokov, Anne Lawrence Bondy ing questions that are answered in the book. Bulgaria, where she was training for her Peace 771 Soundview Drive Examples: "What was one of Maine's most haz­ Corps work in that country. Her host family Mamaroneck. NY 10543 ardous industries? What mill in Maine produced included Magdalena, a single mother with two 914-698-1 238 the largest amount of gunpowder used by Union children, John, 17, and Ericka, a college student troops during the Civil War?" Another article in Sofia. Magdalena has a graduate degree in 1947 notes that Maurice's inspiration to teach chem­ chemistry and tends her large garden outside of Mary "Liz" Hall Fitch istry came from a couple of his teachers. "They town. Jean had a lovely view of the Rila Moun­ 4 Canal Park #712 were excellent teachers and very human people," tains and got a kick out of seeing the many goats Cambridge, MA 02141 reports Maurice. He also recalls being tested at come down from the hills in the evening to go 61 7-494-4882 Colby for color blindness because that condi­ to their various homes. She's part of a Peace fax: 617-494-4882 tion would have precluded his being a chemistry Corps group of 53 representing all ages, about e-mail: [email protected] major. ...Dee Sanford McCunn and Ian had a half over 50. The latest news on her activities is month-long tour of the Maritimes last fall. that Jean is now in Sevlievo, Bulgaria, teaching 1948 Among their experiences was meeting up with English as a second language at a technical David and Dorothy Marson a mother moose and child walking directly to­ school. Her advice. "Don't give up your dreams. 41 Woods End Road ward them. "We reversed our direction" is Dee's Life still has a lot to offer." No argument Dedham, MA 02026 understated end-of-story. Colby, says Dee, "was there.... Gene and I are back from Central 781 -329-3970 a great college to go to ....Studying and working Europe, where we traveled through Poland, fax: 61 7-329-6518 hard went hand in hand with the good times." Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic and ... In November, Helen Strauss and I arranged made a return visit to Vienna. There are many 1949 a tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Mu­ beautiful cities, much lovely countryside, im­ Robert M. Tonge Sr. seum, plus lunch, for Colbyites (classes 1955 pressive museums, nice people and fine musical 5 Greylock Road and earlier) in the N.Y.C. metropolitan area. experiences. But I have to say the most affecting Waterville, ME 04901 More tours to come, and we'll welcome any of experience was a visit to Birkenau and 207-873-271 7 you living here or visiting. So far we've also gone Auschwitz. While all that horror was going on to T. Roosevelt's House, the Abigail Adams we were sitting up there on Mayflower Hill Colby again is looking for a member House, the old Merchant's House and Gracie blissfully unaware, worrying about friends over­ of the Class of 1942 to serve as class Mansion, where New York's mayors live. seas but innocently ignorant of concentration correspondent. If you are interested -Naomi Collett Paganelli camps and their attendant terrors. Will we ever please contact the Colby Alumni truly understand how it could have hap­ Relations Office at 207-872-3190. 46 A welcome note from Hannah Karp pened? ...Charlene Blance Ray fa ithfully sends Laipson back in Worcester after a good summer Waterville and other Maine newspaper clip-

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pings about Colby, and l am continually im­ children, started teaching ar age 40 and contin­ note. David has received a lot of compliments pressed by the amount and qualiry of lecture ued for 25 years. ln the summer of 1998 she and on his wonderful address at our 50th reunion. and lecturers, music, art and athletic events her husband, a Navy man and a graduate of Ohio The only problem is that it was Marvin Joslow offered at the College. I'm particularly impressed State, traveled through Germany, Poland and who spoke to the class at the chapel, not David, with the invitations to members of the Estonia and toured the coast of orway. After and it is Marvin who deserves the accolades. Noth­ Waterville community as well as the College 4 years they visited with Nancy Ardiff Boulter ing has changed since we were at Colby-people community, "free of charge." Kudos to Colby fo r '50 at Dick and ancy's summer house in always mixed us up. All we can say is it is comfort­ dramatically increasing its community ervice Rockport, Mass. Joan wrote that our 50th re­ ing to be in such distinguished company. both by these programs and by student volun­ union was marvelous-she wrote to many class­ -David and Dorothy Marson teer activities. Charlene also wrote that she and mates, sending photos, and had a wonderful Wendell visited the campus on December 7 and response ....Evie Helfant Malkin moved back 49 Carl E. Porter (181 Washington St., reflected on the changes that 57 years have to Wayland, Mass. She has five children, and Topsfield, MA 01983-1632) retired 13 years brought ince Pearl Harbor: "The Spartan life they had a family reunion on the Fourth of July ago-and had a four-way bypass three years during our year at Colby in the '40s contra ts in Martha's Vineyard. All the family were to­ ago-but reports that he is "busier than ever." sharply with the plenry of today. o Jan Plan gether as Evie turned 70 and her son Jim turned He and his wife, Dottie, traveled to Rangeley then but a six-week Christmas 'vacation' saved 50.... Arthur A. Pa;sons wrote from Burnt Lake, Maine, last fall to present a valuable set of fuel fo r the war effort." She al o referred to the Hills, N.Y., that he and his wife, Phyllis, are fishing flies to the local historical society and acrifice and patriotism of the armed forces and both retired-Arthur from GE for 14 years and museum . ... Alice Jewell Smith (20 High View citizenry during the war that have had such a from the ministry for six years. He had a dual Terrace, Winsted, CT 06098) is a retired math profound effecton the generation that came of occupation working at GE and serving as minis­ and middle school teacher. Alice lived in Dunn age in the Depression and World War II (us!)­ ter to several Methodist churches in the Al­ House and remembers the excitement of mov­ according to Tom Brokaw, "The Greatest Gen­ bany-Schenectady area. Last] uly they celebrated ing to Mayflower Hill, the great dinners in Mary eration any ociery ever produced." (That's why 53 years of marriage and have a son, Wendell, Low Hall, watching the new TV in the women's the world' in uch great shape today, Tom?) and a daughter, Alice, and two grandchildren. union and the long, cold walk from the dorm to -Anne Lawrence Bondy Arthur says that an important part of his life at the library. She attended the '48 reunion as a Colby was that as a World War II veteran he guest and writes, "I knew Colby has grown but 4 7 Harriet ourse Robinson wrote that realized the importance of a good education to 'wow."' She says it's a lovely campus, of which she and Dana were spending a week with her enhance his life and that of his family .... Betty he is very proud. ...Leonard Warshaver ( 1336 si ter, Fran ourse Johnston '49, and her hus­ Coombs Corke Myers writes that her family Provence Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410) band at their time share at Hilton Head, S.C. unit is still42 and holding. She laments the fact and his wife, Elaine, have two children and fo ur Harriet say Dana plays a lot of golf and works a that more of the class did not respond to the grandchildren. Leonard, who retired in 1992 as day and a half on weekends at a golf shop .... questionnaire fo r the 50th reunion since it was president and owner of Serta Mattress Co. of Jane Rollins fo und a barge trip in France very such a nice opportunity to be in touch again. the ortheast, remembers arriving at Colby in interestmg, with visits to old village churches Compliments from Betty on a great job done by February 1944 on the train from Boston, look­ and cathedral . Unfortunately, she was dismayed Dick Billings and his committee. She treasures ing across the fo ur or five feet of snow banks at by three weeks of almost steady rain, the worst the friendships she made at Colby and is proud the Colby library, checking in to Hedman Hall­ weather she has experienced in her many trips of the fine rating Colby receives in the national which was sparsely furnished and hardly to Europe ....Tom Burke ha shared the sad magazines. She recently had a lovely visit with heated-and wanting to return to Boston. In­ new that Eileen "Lani" Lanouette Hughes Ali-Rie March Miller at her cottage in Mary­ stead of asking classmates a question, he sug­

recently pa sed away ... . Louise Kelley Roch­ land fo llowed by a spectacular two week trip to gested "more participation" from the Class of ester has JU r returned from .Y.C., where he Alaska ....We did a great deal of sailing this '49 ....For the Ia t 32 years Ed Schlick has v1 1ted a daughter and on-in-law who are mov­ year. Unfortunately, we never got to Shelter been running ECS Associates ([email protected]), mg to Mad1 on, Wi ., to continue their careers Island to respond to the kind invitation from a business in Bath, Maine, that deals with com­ m molecular b1ology. On rhe way, Loui e v1 ired Janet Gay Hawkins to visit. Perhaps next year. munications consulting, publication and Web another daughter m Waterbury, Conn., who is The Alumni Office sent us an article from the sites. He recently completed a two-year project \'ICe pre 1dent of the Waterbury Republican news­ June 1 Shelter Island Reporter that chronicled as the admini trator of The Dirigo Project, paper. Her on, Paul Pape '75, 1s a physiologist, Janet's Colby and volunteer career and described working to help build more volunteer support rudymg muscle . Mo r of her 10 grandchildren the Colby Brick Award thar Janet received .... for the Maine courts, and last spring he set up and her hu band' five pent part of rhe summer The Alumni Office also sent us a clipping from two statewide conferences for the Maine court w1th rhem-some for as long a a month. Lou1 e the February 25, 199 , edition of the Rocky system. He and Carl Chellqui t '48 recently appear' to rhn,·eon crowd , de p1re rhe fact that Mountain ews. The article describes Jean exchanged some e-mail on old times at Colby; her hu band 1 very Ill " 1th Al:he1mer' d1 ea e. Gasser MacDonald's own ver ion of the famous he says one of hi strongest memories is missing About a ,., 1t from Carol Carpenter B1 bee '4 , tollhou e cookie. It traces her early years in the last Blue Beetle bus from Mary Low and Lou1 e sa1d, "lr 1 alway ;o much fun bemg w1rh Brockton, Ma ., and recounts how she worked having to walk back to Hedman Hall on the old her, and we relate as 1f we were m touch e'·eryday as a wamess at the famou nearby Toll House campus by the river. . . . Lorenzo C. Rastelli ,mce June '4 7." ...John and I had another Hall restaurant. It was at the re taurant that she (636 Leather Lane, Orange City, FL 32763) reumon m l\11 'oun m October and left alma r learned how to bake. he ha unproved her continues to enjoy his memory of the Phi Delts Immediately afterward for rwo and a half weeks m cook1e ever smce, and everyone at the Rocky and his view of the sports field from North Rome and 1cdy. In early December we ,., 1ted a Moun tam e\A.'Sloved them ....After returning College. A retired educator, he has continued n m Long Beach, Calif., and rook m several from a tru tee/over eer/tru tee emeriti week­ to volunteer and spends his vacation teaching mu,eum' m rhe area, mcludmg the new Gerry. end, we can report that the campus was beautiful elementary grades. He went to Washington, -MaT) "L1z" Hall F�tch and the refurb1 hmg of Dana Hall spectacular. D.C., as a member of Close Up, a fo undation for A we wnte the e note m late October, Dor­ retired educator whose purpose i to determine 48 Joan Crawley Pollock and her hu - othy 1 prepanng to go to I rae! v1a 0 lo, and where and how retired educators can be of the band, Joe, who mo,·edto allforn1a m 195 7, are rhen m March we are both off toI rae! for a few most assistance in local school y terns.... both remed and ll\·e m Pasadena. he had five weeks. Then It IS back to sadmg ....One la t Lucile Farnham Sturtevant (286 North St.,

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Medfield, MA 02052, celiesturt [email protected]) and Donna have eight children, who visit ington as an administrative assistant to Gov. recalls "all those really strong women who looked frequently ....Colby magazine mentioned that Kenneth Curtisof Maine, then worked in Maine over us"-Dean Runnal , Mrs. Maynard in Foss Robert Burkhart-' 57-was founder of lmagi­ state government as director of state planning Hall and "Dunney," who "ran the infirmary native Initiatives, a sculpture studio in North and other state agencies. Vi was a teacher, then with an iron hand. And it was wise to stayon the Carolina. Of course he was in our class. Bob, a became active in the Maine Democratic Party good side of Mrs. Irish in her kitchen." She retired professor of art education at SUNY in and was the first woman named as chairman. remembers Professor Weber saying, "When you Buffalo, N.Y., designs sculptures of people in The Peases travel a good deal and highly get to England you'll ..." but never dreamed various poses and sells them through a catalogue recommend visiting Copper Canyon in she'd see Stratford, the Lake District and Lon­ or at his studio to individuals as well as to Mexico... . George A. Paine Jr. of Mission don. Now she's looking forward to Viejo, Calif., hopes to attend the her sixth trip-she and her hus- 50th. He worked as a special agent band of 48 years, Juss, have one son, N EWS MAKERS for the FBI and had some interest- who recently took a job in the U.K. ing cases, making hundreds of ar­ She says her son "is perfect except Sports enthusiast and philanthropist Harold Alfond L.H.D. '80 rests, including two Top Ten he didn't give us any grandchildren was the special presenter when Ted Shiro '51 was honored last fall fugitives. He has seven children and by Maine Sports Legends and the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame . . . . but I'm still saying we are too seven grandchildren ....Herbert A. Shiro, a Waterville native, was a standout Colby athlete ....Philip young to be grandparents." ... Mary Perkins of Mason Neck, Va., also W. Hussey Jr. was named outstanding philanthropist of the Helen "Mike" Wilson Miller ( 1467 '53 worked for the U.S. Government, year by the New England chapter of the National Society of Fund Branston Street, St. Paul, MN in the General Services Adminis­ 55108) and her husband, Roland, Raising Executives. Hussey, a Colby trustee emeritus, is a trustee of tration. Now he keeps busy with both the Portland Symphony and York Hospital and has chaired have five children and seven grand­ yard work, volunteering and boat the York County Technical College's capital campaign. children and one great-grandchild. trips with wife Nancy on the A retired social worker, she looks Potomac, Chesapeake and other riv­ forward to the summer every two MILESTONES ers. They plan to attend the years with close friends from the 50th .... Gerald Baker writes that Deaths: Warren J. Finegan '51, January 9, 1999, in Boston, Mass., Colby years, the Dutton House the Tau Delta Phi reunion he or­ at 75 ....Harvey M. Kirstein '51, November 25, 1998, in Bo ton, '49ers: Jean Maloof Namaan, Jinny ganized in November was a big Mass., at 68 ....Robert V. Reid '51, January 1, 1999, in Salem, Young Ellis, Lou Roberts Friberg success. Nearly 50 people attended Mass., at 69 ....Patricia E. Moss '52, October 7, 1998, in Glen and Barbara Fransen Briggs and the Colby-Tufts game, and about Ridge, N.J., at67.... Arthur W. Wyman Jr. '52, in Phoenix, Ariz., assorted husbands. She says that the 90 came to the cocktail party, din­ at 69 ....William C. Clark '53, October 16, 1998, in Lowell, most delightful aspect "is rediscov­ ner and festivities at the Fra­ Mass., at 74 ....Jean Pratt Moody '56, February 25, 1999, in ering how much we still enjoy each mingham, Mass., Sheraton. Nearly Sarasota, Fla ....Robert S. Bates '58, January 22, 1999, in other's company!" ... A class letter Waterville, Maine, at 64. all classes from '48 to '86 were from Alumni Council representa­ represented, but Jerry was espe­ tive Nell MacDougall Parks ech- cially pleased to see classmates he oes that sentiment. "I find classmates great businesses ....Charmian Herd, of Ft. Pierce, had not seen since graduation. company," she wrote, "not just because we spent Fla., still has her TV show, The Lively Arts of the -Virginia Davis Pearce a few brief years at Colby together but because Treasure Coast, and appreciates meeting the they are interesting people." She reminded us of stimulating artists, actors, dancers, etc. that she 51 Ardes Lockhart Burnes, Framingham, the letter from reunion committee head Don interviews. Acting is still a favorite, and Mass., has been found! In May 1997 she was Nicoll about our "golden anniversary" in June, Charmian wrote: "Every theatre company open­ awarded an M.S.W. degree from Southern Con­ saying, "If we want a good time together, we ing night is a big one. I'm just as excited when I necticut State University and is now a social must help Don's committee plan what we would step out on stage now as I ever was. It's always an worker in a skilled care facility. She has been the enjoy." Nell and her husband, Warren, enjoyed event." . . ..Robert Merriman, of Rye, N.H., director of public relations at Fleming H. Revelle visits last summer with Lon and Anne Hagar since retiring from the insurance research field Co. book publishers ....Class agent Ernie Eustis and G.l. Smith and says both plan to has been involved with volunteer work. He is a Fortin, Sarasota, Fla., sends to all of his '51 attend the reunion. docent for the UNH Marine Program, a trustee classmates his "thanks and a bow" for bringing -Robert M. Tonge Sr. of the Portsmouth Music Hall and a member of the class Alumni Fund to 84 percent participa­ his church council. He keeps fit by playing tion. He also writes that plans are being formu­ 50 An interesting article from Gorham, tennis, walking and gardening. He and ancy lated for our 50th class reunion. I also received Maine, came to me aboutRev. Philip Shearman. are planning trips to Costa Rica and the Panama from Ernie a flyer invitation to a "special get­ An ordained minister since 1953, Phil served as Canal this year and to Australia and New Zealand together" to honor Ted Shiro, "All-New En­ a Baptist minister at several parishes in Massa­ next year. ...Charlotte Stern R ybkowski lives gland/All-Maine four-sport star," who has been chusetts and, for 18 years, in Toledo, Ohio. In in Westminster, Colo., where she still works full inducted into both the Maine Sports Hall of 1979 he andhis wife, Donna, settled in Gorham. time for the U.S. DOT/NHTSA Enforcement Fame and the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. Phil, having left the Baptist ministry, began in Denver. She spent 1980 to 1983 in Saudi And from Ted Shiro himself: he now splits the working at the T ri-County Mental Health Cen­ Arabia, where her husband, Walter, worked on seasons between Wayne, Maine, and Naples, ter, and Donna taught school. Before long they one of the international teams involved in de­ Fla. He has been in the restaurant business and became involved with the First Parish Congre­ signing and building a new industrial city. Char­ now works part time in public relations. He has gational Church, and he ended up as associate lotte worked as a writer and editor of a jobsite been appointed and elected to: Maine Recre­ and then as the minister before retiring in 1996. publication and also conducted tours of the ation Authority, Maine Guarantee Authority, Obviously, the Shearmans are popular in the project. The Rybkowskis visit Poland frequently Maine Athletic Commission and Governors town. A Gorham resident is quoted as remark­ as their daughter and son-in-law live there and Commission on Sports and Physical Fitness and ing that Phil has an exceptional gift at comfort­ are expecting this winter. That will be their fifth served as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Com­ ing others in stressful times ... that he is the grandchild ..... Violet and Allen G. Pease live mittee for Maine. In answer to the question of embodiment of a contemporary Samaritan. Phil in Hollis Center, Maine. Allen started in Wash- what happens at Colby now that could not have

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happened when you were there, he wrote, "boys and !3-year-old grandsons ro visit relatives in and girls living in the same dorm." ...Bump Paisley, Scotland, where their grandfather grew 53 All the notes l received fo llowing our Bean, Concord, Mass., now retired from Arthur up ....Dessa and Jake Jagel, Harvard, Mass., 45th reunion ay it was the best and looked D. Little, Inc., was the only responder ro the are senior associates at Systems Education Asso­ fo rward ro the year 2003. The Play was great. new questionnaire. (Don't be bashful when you ciates. Jake i also direcror of Camp Holz, and We will have ro think of something like that get yours, it is intended ro be fun.) Bump's Dessa is on the faculty at Leslie College. Previ­ again, although l don't think we can top response: On my first day at Colby l ..." met my ously, Jake has been an Outward Bound instruc­ it.... Bob Gordon, who said that he has been Paris, Maine, roommate, who first unpacked his ror and direcror, classroom teacher and principal, back only once, the 20th, would see many quart bottle of "Father John's Medicine"---cod ironworker, carpenter, management consultant changes if he makes the 50th. He became a liver oil. On my last day at Colby l ..."cried and in the steel business. Community activities docror after Navy duty and medical school in when l hugged so many of my classmates and include a special interest in environmental and France. He and his wife have three girls and one friend ro say goodbye for who knows how many groundwater problems ....Louise Ginsberg cat.... Leone Knowles writes that most of her years." His most risky harmless prank was ... Hirshberg operates a bed-and-breakfast in post-Colby life has been spent serving on vari­ "participating with the 194 7 freshmen 'gang' ro Marblehead, Mass. She is a Red Cross mental ous commirrees-and serving with much satis­ repaint the Bowdoin Polar Bear from white ro health volunteer and has special interest in faction lately as a member of a school board that blue." Bump, whose Colby diploma is on the issues concerningabuse/neglect and single moth­ brought rofruition a much-needed middle school mantel of his study fireplace, say he would not erhood. Louise was in California working on in Rockland, Maine, earning her the title of want his kids/grandkids ro know that he was flood relief during the 1998 floods, and in J anu­ "Leone, the miracle worker." ... l had a short involved in such a prank but would be proud ro ary she traveled ro India ro visit her daugh­ note from Joan Erskine Green, who lost her have them know that he received track letters ter ....Howie Gaskill reports that he has retired husband of 45 years this past summer. Hope the three years, wa one of the original Colby Eight, twice and that he and Ruth are in the process of next notes from Joan will have some happier served as president of the Glee Club and presi­ selling their New Hampshire home, in which news ....Durin g Mary-Jane Fitzpatrick dent of the tudent Government Association they have lived for 30 years. (By the time you Cashman's trip ro an Elderhostel in Virginia she and received the Condon medal. ...And from read this, a yard sale undoubtedly will have learned that the famous Union Army major Bill Heubisch, Anaheim, Calif., came a great relieved them of "all kinds of good stuff.") They general, "Bea t" Buder, was a Colby gradu­ photo and invitation ro arrend his Halloween will be living in Destin, Fla., fo r five months ate ....Carolyn English Caci is trying ro retire parry and ro say a prayer for the Alumni Fund each year and in New Hampshire for the as much as l am but is still putting in parr-time and Mule football ream ....Having already remainder. ...Janet Perrigo Brown-Wolff, work at the University of Lowell as an assistant been ro the Antarctic, l have now been ro the South Burlingron, Yr., married John L. Wolff Jr. in the Center for Diversity and Pluralism. Arctic-as high as Resolute. No pranksters up in May of 1997 with 26 members of their com­ Carolyn has been recovering from a shoulder on that ice-none of the polar bears was painted bined families spanning four generations taking injury incurred last March. She said the worst blue. The excitement on Baffin Island was see­ part in the ceremony. Jan sang! Both Jan and parr was not being allowed ro drive, but she was ing the results of the fir t hunt for a bow head John are retired, Jan as a profes or at the Univer­ able ro get down ro Cape Cod ro spend some whale allowed in 70 years. lr was not a pretty sity ofVermont pecializing in professional nurs­ time at the home of Sandy (Pearson '52) and sight but extremely significant ro the few re­ ing and gerontology and John as an electrical Chuck Anderson ....Priscilla Eaton Billington maining Inuit.... The 50th reunion coming up engineer in nuclear power and propulsion. Jan and I arrended her first Alumni Council meet­ soonw1ll be significant ro the Colby Class of 'S!. has also retired from a part-time job as wellness ing in Ocrober, driving up ro the campus in a -Barbara ]efferson Walker coordinaror for three retirement communi­ rorrential rainsrorm much like the one we drove ties.... Pamela Cash Fisher, Clearwater, Fla., in two years before (same weekend). ! wanted ro 52 In Ocrober Barbara Scott, Calgary, is a parr-rime sales associate and works with the accompany Priscilla just ro go and observe be­ Alberta, gave M1mi and me a week-long guided church in community services. She continues ro cause I was ro "sit-in" for her in January in rour of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Lake collect dolls and Royal Doulron character mugs. Bosron while she was in Florida, her winter Lout e, Ja per and all the walking trail in (Is no one doing Beanie Babies?) ...Ray and home. I, as usual, look fo rward ro your news. between. We helped celebrate her latest honor, Merry Crane Evans live in Aguanga, Calif., -Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey appomrment a a judge of the Canadian Citi­ where Ray has been reappointed ro a two-year zenship Court. ...Manlyn and Fred lves live term on the River ide CountyGrandJury. Merry 54 Jean Cressy Barker and her husband, m 1m bury, Conn. Fred, m ht questionnaire is on the board of the High Country Republican Elliott, have left Amherst, Mass., after 35 years re ponse, remmded me that the last time he Women Federated Group. They continue their and moved into an 1859 house in Southport, answered one of my class lerrer was m 1956. He interest in a square dance club, citizen patrol Maine, "ro be near Elliott's boat." They are the was ranoned m Roswell, .M., with the U AF and disa ter preparedness ....Sheila and Don parents of two married daughters and have two and had told me he would be looking for a JOb Hailer have declared they are "almost, maybe, grandchildren .... Sue Johnson writes from m Insurance upon dt charge. l was w1rh Aetna just about retired." Don i taking not one but Annandale, Va., where she retired as a meeting L1fe and Ca ualry, ent h1m an employment two watercolor courses and say that so far it has planner and executive direcror for a trade asso­ appltcanon, and the re t 1 , well, h1srory. Fred 1 been more water than color. And plans are under ciation. She is doing volunteer work for the now remed from the Aetna after a 36-year way for a daughter's wedding in May ....Kathy International Sacred Dance Guild as direcror of career. He ha everal volunteer acnv1nes, m­ Markham Habberley, Chigwell, Essex, England, Festival '97 and is a member of the board of cludmg work at the ew England A1r Mu eum has been ellmg her husband's carnival glass direcrors, program direcror and chapter officer m Wmd,or Lock , Conn., "where l du t an­ collecnon whtle addmg ro her own assortment of for the Poromac chapter. In addition, she is one plane and poltsh propeller . "He also cla1m ro carn1valglas toothptckholder . he is active in of 23 core members of the Seekers Church in play golf five day a week ....Betsy Fisher the U.K.'s arn1valGlass ociery as membership Washingron, D.C., "an exciting model of the Kearney, Btrmmgham, Ala., nll collect teddy orgamzer. Kathy has been entertaining her U. . church as mall community." Sue has seen Minot bear and count over 260 on her Chn rma fa m1ly m the U.K. and m 199 spent three weeks Greene '55, her financial advisor, Judy Jenkins rree, "1rh many more urroundmg 1t. he has m the U .., mcludmg a week wtth her on and his Totman, Vic Scalise and Dave Wallingford at g1ven up h1kmg fo r b1kmg and pent parr of fa mtly m WLSconsm.... And M1m1 and l wi h the reunion gift comminee meeting last March. 1997 and 199 pedaling around Holland and you a great ummer. She is helping ro plan our 45th reunion in Denmark. In July of la t year he took her 12- -Paul M. Aldrich June ....Georgia Roy Eustis spends six months

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in Windham, Maine, and six months in Florida. 1950s Correspondents Georgia is an R.N. and is now taking law courses 55 PhilKilmister lives in Augusta, Maine, to become a legal nur e consultant. In Florida with wife Madeline. Phil plays a fair amount of she volunteers at the Broward County Outreach golf and generally enjoys retirement. He had 1950 Virginia Davis Pearce Center and at local soup kitchens through her been a prosecutor in the Maine Attorney P.O. Box 984 church and works for the Women's League of General's Office .... Elizabeth Weymouth Grantham, NH 03753 Israel. In response to the question "What aren't Hayden says she is finally connected to the 603-863-6675 you doing but wish you were," Georgia said, outside world via the Web (Grendile@WEB­ e-mail: [email protected] "wish I had had the gut to try out for Broadway TV.NET). She and John have a mail order over the past 43 years and wish I could finish the business selling oboe reeds and accessories. Their 1951 Barbara Jefferson Walker novel begun eight years ago." ...Winnie latest travels have taken them to Toronto to 3915 Cabot Place #1 6 Robertson Miller retired at the endof June after visit daughter Suzanne .... It was good to hear Richmond, VA 23233 18-1/2 years with her company. She and Nate from George Haskell, who still keeps busy with 804-527-0726 '55 spent the summer at their cottage in North­ a family of six daughters, seven grandchildren, e-mail: colby51 @c4.net east Harbor, Maine. In October they planned to two dogs and three cats! He and wife Karen rent a place in Sarasota, Fla. If they like it there, (Lawrence '67) have many interests-he as CEO 1952 Paul M. Aldrich they will buy and make it their winter home. of Organizational Dynamics, Inc., and she as co­ P.O. Box 217 They enjoyed their visit in Sarasota last year­ owner of Rialto, a restaurant in Cambridge, Bristol, ME 04539 lots of golf for Nate, cultural activities and a Mass. Junie has just finished his second term as 207-563-8744 women's resource center. In June they enjoyed a Colby trustee. In response to the nostalgia e-mail: [email protected] a five-day white-water rafting trip on the Yampa question, he mentions his freshman-year room­ and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah ....Tom mate, the late Don Lake, and that he sees Don 1953 Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey Hunt writes from Sherborn, Mass., where he Vollmer '56 often ....Don Hoagland has been 80 Lincoln Avenue has retired from a full-time hospital chaplaincy a part of the Loomis International Jazz Festival South Hamilton, MA 01 982 career to part-time teaching of clinical inter­ and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. Now he is 978-465-51 1 0 view skills and medical ethics to first-year medi­ looking for a valve trombone to master. Don 978-777-5630 x331 0 cal students. He is also teaching seminarians ([email protected]) is a freelance writer pastoral theology within a hospital clinical set­ and owner of Impact Communication, a public 1954 ting. He has various church involvements both relations firm representing people in the arts. Bill and Penny Thresher Edson in the suburbs and inner city. Tom hopes to "get His children are in Sacramento, London and 3253 Erinlea Avenue Newbury Park, CA 91320 going on climbing 'serious' mountains and walk­ N.Y.C. . .. Lee Culver Johnson and husband 805-498-9656 ing and kayaking out west." . . . Beverly Don have moved to Stratham, N.H., near Ports­ Ambrose Peterson and her husband are both mouth. After three years of commuting between 1955 retired in Hingham, Mass. They have two mar­ Cincinnati, N.H. and Singapore for Dan's work Jane Millett Dornish ried children, a daughter who has a Ph.D. and a as pres idem of a joint vemure between GE and 9 Warren Terrace son who is a banker. Beverly taught school and Teleflex, Lee says she is relieved to settle into Winslow, ME 04901 207-873-3616 is a full-time poet who has been published in a their condo. Her memories of our first year are of e-mail: [email protected] number of journals. They spend most summers racing the evening train to get back to Dunn on the water in New England and six weeks House before curfew. And she still wonders how 1956 during the winter on St. Martin. Beverly helps she passed her 8 a.m. economics class with only Kathleen McConaughy Zambello with their church's consignment center, and one eye open-she still is a confirmed night 135 Iduna Lane her husband works for Habitat for Human­ person. She and Don have four children and Amherst, MA 01 002 e-mail: [email protected] ity ....Mel Phillips writes from Orlando, Fla., four grandchildren. Lee has seen Betty where he and his wife are both realtors following Cuthbertson Crossen several times and talked 1957 his retirement from Lucent Technologies. Ac­ with Sis tie Res tall Horne. Karl '54 and I were in Eleanor Shorey Harris cording to Mel, he wishes he was living in Carlsbad, Calif., recently and I too talked with 13 Bow Road

Maine, "but Orlando's not bad." . . . Larry Sistie-and with Berry Wellersdieck Piper. Wayland MA 01778 Walker Powley retired from teaching elemen­ We were unable to be together, but it seems that 508-460-2359 fax: 508-4850-0937 tary grades in Lyme, Conn., and volunteers at all is well in the Horne and Piper housholds. e-mail: [email protected] the Lyme Food Pantry and is a member of the Berry and Eric welcomed a new grandchild; Sistie and Bob took a trip to Spain and did come First Congregational Church choir. Her hus­ Sally Dixon Hartin band, Mark '57, is owner and president of east when Bob was inducted into the Norwich 20 Dacey Drive Psymark Communications in Old Saybrook, Hall of Fame ....We are beginning to organize Centerville, MA 02632 and they have three children and five grand­ for our 45th reunion in the year 2000, if the Y2K 508-862-2454 children. Larry and Mark have the freedom to problem allows us to schedule it! Jean Hahlbohm l-Europe, the British Virgin , Cuba. They Hampton welcomes any volunteers to work 1958 trave Margaret Smith Henry with her and a committee to make plans for a say their trip to Cuba this past April on a friend's 1304 Lake Shore Drive boat was a fascinating experience-they found gala celebration of our four years at our beloved Massapequa Park, NY 11762 the people fr iendly and the island beautiful, College. My best wishes to you all. 51 6-541-0790 although the presence of the socialist govern­ -J ane Millett Domish ment was evident throughout the country, with 1959 Ann Segrave Lieber almost no free-enterprise. Larry also had a won­ 56 Spending a great part of our summer in 7 Kingsland Court ne with Carolyn En­ Maine allowed us to attend the dedication on derful two-day visit in Ju South Orange, NJ 07079 September 1998, of the E. Donaldson Koons glish Caci '53 and Ginnie Falkenbury Aronson 1, 973-763-6717 '53 ....See you all at our 45th reunion, June 4-6. Hall at Unity College, Unity, Maine. I never e-mail: [email protected] -Bill and Penny Thresher Edson had a geology class, but I remember Dr. Koons

39 SPRING 1999 COLBY r Art from the Heart At 65, Barbara Kleinman Lainere '55 has the heart of a 30- 1960s, knowing she could never afford to own the art she loved, year-old man. A professional artist in Beechhurst, N.Y., Lainere she began painting in the style of the Impressionists. "I paint says she isn't one of the high achievers usually chronicled in because I am creating something beautiful," she said. "I put my

Lifestyles, the Toronto-based magazine that recently told the hands where my heart is." Today a gallery in Roslyn, Long Island, story of her heart-and her heart transplant. But, she says, "I did exhibits her paintings, and many are in private collections and have so many miracles." museums, including one at Colby.

In January 1993, Lainere was in intensive care at Massachu­ Lainere, a Swampscott, Mass., native, says that even as a setts General Hospital in Boston. With only a week or two to live, child at camp in Maine she experienced heart palpitations and she was fourth on the list of heart recipients in New England. occasional pain but told no one. At Colby she remembers

When a young man's heart became available after a traffic struggling up hills. She couldn't talk-because she was out of accident, the medical condition of two recipients moved her up breath and because she was ashamed. "I didn't stop to think I had on the list, and a blizzard kept a helicopter from flying to another. anything wrong. I just thought I wasn't as good or as capable as

At 2 a.m on Superbowl Sunday she was awakened for surgery. everybody else," she said. She was in her early 30s before tests

"I said, 'God, I'm in your hands. I don't want to die, but if I have found she had a rare heart ailment. to, I'm ready.' Then I remember this incredible feeling of peace. "I felt like I was a phony all my life," Lainere said.

Whatever was going to be was going to be all right," Lainere said. "Now I feel like an honest person, with myself and

It wasn't all right. During the operation her lungs kept filling with everybody else. I live a productive life." fluid. The heart wasn't taking ...and didn't for Give yourself the top medical

12 hours. Three months later Lainere was team, she advised six years after the back 1n the hospital because the anti­ heart transplant-and be a positive rejection medications weren't work­ thinker. "It isn't what happens to a ing She lost hair, she lost weight; she person in life," she observed, "it's says she felt like a zombie. Just when how you handle what happens." Then the doctors told her they were looking she headed off to Florida, where her for another heart for her-the only son, David, owner of a Wall Street t1me she ever gave up, Lainere trading firm, and his wife are about to says-an experimental treatment, make her a grandmother.

the last m1racle." took all the blood -Robert Gillespie out of her body, punf1ed f1rst the wh1te and then the red blood cells, then pumped the blood back.

Desp1te sensitive skin and other s1de effects of so many potent drugs

La1nere continues work1ng In the early

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well. Prior to that we took a mail boat to Isle au legheny Printing and Design. Cindy and three years with the Sierra Club and its hiking and Haut, part of Acadia National Park, with sev­ generations of her family attended the wedding skiing activities . ...Helen Payson Seager is a eral of Lou's 1955 classmates and spent the day of Robin Hunter Clutz's daughter in Park City, convener for Friends of the African Meeting hiking .... We saw Don Rice and Sherry in Utah .... Stanley Moger is a television execu­ House on Nantucket. She and her husband, York, Maine, at a Lee Williams Scholarship tive and president and CEO of SFM Entertain­ Bradley, have three grown children and four Fund meeting hosted byDick "Soupy" Campbell ment in New York. His company recently grandchildren .... Last June, Wilma Lyman '58 ....We hosted Tom '54 and Susan Miller finished packaging the AFI's "100 Years ... 100 Sherman retired after 23 years as an English Hunt at the lake. Susan, a loyal responder to the Movies" television event on CBS and TNT, teacher at Hollis/Brookline High School. For class news request letter, is a serious choral which is among the many TV activities with 20 of those years Willie served as the drama singer and member of the Wellesley Chorale which they are involved. Stan and his wife, coach, which somewhat fulfilled her dream of and has developed a great interest in classical Marcia, a graphic designer, have two daughters; becoming an actress. Last July Willie moved to music. Susan and Tom and David and Rose­ one is a TV director who won an Em my in 1995 Goleta, Calif., near Santa Barbara, where she mary Crouthamel Sortor entertained Sheila for "All My Children," and the other is a loca­ and her husband, David, own a condo. She McLaughlin Freckmann in the fa ll. Sheila came tion/hospitality/event photographer for various hopes to get involved in a project for English as East from Presque Isle, Wis., for a long overdue events such as the Good Will Games and the a second language for Latino adults, and she has visit and was also able to rendezvous with U.S. Open ... . William ("Ding") and Betty volunteered at the birthing center at the hospi­ Ruthann Simmonds MacKinnon and Jan Cooper Cochran have two addresses now; from tal in Santa Barbara ....I received a clipping Stebbins Walsh. We send our condolences to October through May they are in St. Louis, Mo., that contained a letter from Valerie Rough of Sheila on the death of her husband in June. near children and grandchildren, and June Tenants Harbor, Maine. The sister of our late We'll be thinking of her as she adjusts to a new through September they are in Skaneateles, classmate, Bond Wheelwright, she wrote that lifestyle and are happy to hear she plans to N.Y. The importantparts of their lives started at the station herbrother and somefr iends founded continue the travel that she and Jim loved so Colby: they met each other! ...From the wilds in 1956, WMHB, located on the ground floor of much. Sheila would like to hear from Pat of Kongiganak, Alaska, we hear from Judy the Roberts Building, has a plaque that reads: McCormick Hultgren and Nancy McLeod Brown Dickson, who is the English language "WMHB Made its First Broadcast in the Fall of O'Brien ....We had lunch in Spencer, Mass., leader and ESL teacher for grades 1-4. Judy 1956. The First Station President was Bond at Jan Nordgren Meryweather's summer cot­ joined the ranks of grandparenthood last sum­ Edward Wheelwright, 1936- 1957, For tage along with Mary Ann Papalia Laccabue mer with the birth of her granddaughter. ... Whom These Studios are Named." ... Please and Jean Hawes Anderson '55. Mary Ann has Janice Klem Benicek is the program director for keep those letters coming! gone back to part-time teaching at a private Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester. Janice -Margaret Smith Henry school. Jan Meryweather had a surprise while on is a traveler; in May 1988 she spent two weeks in a trip to Norway in the spring. Leaning against the Czech Republic visiting relatives by mar­ 59 Florida Philharmonic concerts attract the aft deck of the Lofoten, she and Steen struck riage, and in July 1998 she spent two weeks in Bob Keltie, when he isn't refereeing ice hockey up a conversation with the gentleman next to Scandinavia as a tourist. Her two daughters are games (350 last year!). Bob considers the lasting them, and it was Professor Dick Gilman, who married and there are three grandchildren .... friendships he began at Colby to be an impor­ taught philosophy. He left Colby in 1957 and Thomas Drummond spends the summer in tant partofhis life ....AI Wilbur, still in Wash­ eventually became president of Occidental Holden, Maine, and winter in Cocoa Beach, ington, D.C., and teaching public relations at College in Pasadena, where he still lives .... Fla., having retired in January of 1998 .... Also The American University, has authored a case Shirley Needham Eaton writes from Palo Alto, maintaining two addresses is our esteemedfo rmer study in aPR textbook. AI still runs for exercise where she has lived for 31 years. She has been a class agent, Gail Crosby Davis. She and Dick, and even participated in a marathon! ...When teacher and community volunteer and keeps who is semi-retired, spend May to November in Arthur Goldschmidt isn't teaching, writing active on her bicycle and at her local swimming Beverly Farms, Mass., and the rest of the year in books or giving after-dinner speeches, he enjoys pool. Shirley's husband,)im, is a trouble-shooter Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Their children are choral singing, writing memoirs and poetry, and for Hewlett-Packard. She likes keeping in touch also in California; their son, a technical director carpentry. Art wonders if a liberal arts educa­ via this column but has never returned for a for Channel One, was married last October, and tion has benefited our classmates or whether a reunion. Shirley, doyou remember running into their married daughter is a scientist for Amgen. more vocationally oriented college experience me years ago? Was it at the North Shore Music Gail would like me to remind you to make a would have been better. ...Carol Holt Case is Tent? ...Franklin Huntress is retired from habit of contributing each year to the Alumni mourning the death of her husband, Dick, in fu ll-time ministry, but I'm sure he will be kept Fund. At our past 40th reunion our class set January 1998. Dick ran a small advertising and busy and will keep bu y with his many volunteer records for both the dollars raised and participa­ marketing business after having been involved activities. He's ready for any "midterm" re­ tion ....Burt Angrist, M.D., is a professor of in educational publishing. Our condolences to unions and is still hoping to hear from Chugger psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. Daugh­ Carol and theirfa mily ....Dan Van Heeckeren and Red Newman. ter Laurel is now a freshman at NYU. Burt and is a cardiac urgeon in Cleveland. Volunteer -Kathy McConaughy Zambello his wife, Anka, are looking forward to retire­ activities (such as membership in the governing ment and indulging in their outdoor interests of board of the state medical association and in the 58 Kay (German '59) and AI Dean have rock climbing, canoe camping and backpack­ House of Delegates of the AMA) help Dan to now retired to their old home in Leominster, ing ....Dick Campbell and his wife, Carolyne, "give back" the gratification he derives from his Mass. However, they remain active commuting enjoyed our 40th and hope to see everyone practice. He also spends as much time as pos­ back and forth to Maine, working on experi­ again at the 45th. One daughter is a psychiatrist sible with hi children and grandchildren-and mental aircraft at Central Maine Technical in Canada, another is a marketing executive for racing sailboats, a true family activity .... College and building a barn to house their Upjohn, and the third is in the Class of '01 at Negotiating with new Minnesota governorJesse plane, as well as traveling to England last fa ll. Colby; their son is a consultant fo r Price "The Body" Ventura is on Carol Sandquist Meeting Kay and finding friends he still sees Waterhouse in New York.... Carolyn O'Brian Banister's agenda. Sanka asks if there is a Min­ after 40 years are important parts of Al's life that Cooper has retired from teaching in California. nesota (or Midwest) Colby alumni group; if started at Colby ....Cynthia Gardner Bevin, She credits being a member of the Katahdin such a thing exists, plea e let me know and I'll of Johnstown, Pa., is till teaching, and her Council with helping her to establish lifelong pass the info along. . ..Phil Henderson has husband, Douglas, is president/owner of AI- caring for the environment and spending 25 recovered from an April 1998 heart attack and

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is keeping physically fit all year, including a 12- talk that Steve gave to the senior class at Den­ cultures and other ways with himwhen he came mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. ... Nancy nis-Yarmouth Regional High School. Two points to Colby. He planned to begin his retirement elson Hellquist is planning to retire from her jumped out at me concerningcommitment and from practicing and teaching physical therapy, career as an elementary school teacher. ancy personal accountability: "To be committed is to scheduled for last December, with a three-month and George travel a lot, but they particularly exhaust your energy to do the right thing. Most walk-about in southern India .... Bill enjoy pending time at their lake house .... people give up too easily." ...In Seneca, S.C., Bainbridge, a physician in a fa mily practice in Received a nice article about the retirement of Nancy Shoemaker Dargle is still working as a Pennsylvania, did a "sail-about" last summer award-winning high chool principal Frank busine s management officer. She and Eugene when he brought a boat from the British West Sebode. Frank is referred to as a "people princi­ have seven children and had just married off the lndie to Oxford, Md., on ChesapeakeBay. The pal, a great listener who is available at any last of six daughters when she wrote. They also experience, which he described as "2,500 miles time." ... Kari and Gary Hagerman have moved have five grandchildren. Nancy and Gene, who of ecstacy," has him planning to sell off his to a new home in Hawaii and are hard at work is retired, bought a condo in Forest, Va., in possessions, fix up the boat and travel. ... Like on the five-plus acres around it. They plan to anticipation of ancy's retirement next year, so Bill and several others, Jane Bowman is work­ grow kava, an increasingly popular natural tran­ she says they are getting rid of everything .... ing to prepare for a change in her future. She is quili:er. Gary asks what country/area/region our Charlie '61 and Ann Dudley DeWitt are in a freelance marketing communications special­ classmateshave enjoyed most in their travels .... Sidney, Maine. Ann continues as director of ist in Melrose, Mass., where she enjoys the Keep the news coming; I love receiving it and disability determination services for the state of freedom of working on her own. When she fo rwarding it to you 1 Maine. She and Charlie have three grown chil­ retires, Jane plans to open her own art studio, -Ann Segrave Lieber dren and are now trying to simplifytheir lives as where she will be free to paint and study the they look forward to a move to Friendship in Great Masters.... According to an August 24, 60 Apologies to Liz Boccasile Mavis, who 2000. Ann commented, "As we approach retire­ 1998, article in People magazine, Steve and ent me an e-mail months ago--the printed ment age, we look back and wonder at the huge Martha Hooven Richardson found a unique ver ion recently surfaced. At the time she wrote, changes that have taken place in life styles, way to respond to Steve's losing his job in she and her hu band, Ted, were anticipating environments, politics and attitudes. I think a computers in 1969. Steve developed a child­ retirement in June '99. They plan to split their sense of community is lost in many places, and hood interest into a highly successful business time between the Connecticut shore and their families are more fragile than before. High tech creating custom-made jigsaw puzzles for upscale condo in Venice, Fla. Liz continues to work as a is not used as I had hoped." ...• Patricia Sturges purchasers such as Barbara Bush and Bill Gates. guidance counselor at her local high school. She Aufdenberg is retired in Cleveland Heights, Martha is the treasurer of Stave Puzzles, head­ had recently seen Wendy McWilliam Denneen Ohio. Pat says she is "trying to sort out those quartered near their Norwich, Vt., home .... at Debbie Wilson Albee's B&B, Goddard House, things that really are important to me. I still Another successful Vermonter is Mike Flynn, in Claremont, .H. Liz at o reported that Char­ travel a lot and am till trying to learn French­ who was selected last fa ll to be the state's repre­ lotte Wood MacPhetres is pursuing a master's Or. Strong, where are you now?" She also is sentative to the board of directors of the U.S. degree in special education, a field she contin­ volunteering now with the local Animal Pro­ Chamber of Commerce. Mike is a C.P.A. and ues to enjoy. Liz and Ted have 24-year-old tective League instead of working with abused managing director of a firm in Burlington .... sons.... An article from the Lincoln County and neglected children. Pat loves to hear news Anne Lehman Lysaght in Wellesley, Mass., Weekly ay that Jim Acheson has spent about of classmate but wishes that those who are not called her profession "Nanny!" but didn't ex­ 25 years teachmg and researching the lobster "regulars" would respond to questionnaires. (Are plain the exclamation mark. Since her fo ndest mdustry and was the featured speaker at a his­ you all paying attention? Let us hear from memory of Colby was singing with the toncal oe�ery meeting ....Katherine "Scotty" you!} .... Some recurring themes are emerg­ Colbyettes, she was delighted when her young­ Lin cott Barrett LS still major accounts execu­ ing-retirement, downsizing and simplifying life. est son married Kim Morrison '90, who was also tive With MPG ewspapers m Plymouth, Mass., As I write this, Ted '61 is no longer commuting a Colbyette ....Amy Eisentrager Birky is a and lives m Pembroke. Kathie, a widow with to D.C. In November he accepted a position in retired media specialist living in Lincoln, Neb. three children and one grandchild, ays that he ewport, R.I., still defense-related. I am still After having to make 32 overnight trips be­ seems to collect hou es w1th lots of junk1 ... working at ew London Hospital and juggling tween her April 1996 marriage to Richard June Chacran Chatterjee wrote from Berkeley, time with my relocation consulting and coordi­ Britton and when she retired, she is delighted ali f.,where he i cha1r of the fo re1gn language nation business ... but stay tuned! to fi nally be doing what she wants when he department at Conrra o ta College. June' -Carolyn Webster Lockhart wants ....Peter Cavari, another retiree, com­ hu !:>and, horu, tsan archttect, and thetrdaugh­ mented, a did many others, on how well his ter 1 an elementary chool teacher. June loves 61 When I sort out material for a new et Colby experience prepared him for all that life to tra,·el and ay she 1 gemng nd of as much as of class notes, I look for a theme to help me had to offer. He lives in Plantation, Fla .... Ed P<1' tble all the nme1 he ha een Charlotte decide how to pre ent the variou items. Thi '62 and Ginny Murphy Cragin also have very Purnell Haven and Roberta Jeromin el­ time I wa e pecially truck by what diverse lives positive memories of Colby and are really happy on ... Lucky Christov and ht wtfe, Laune, we have lived since leaving Colby ....Helen with the education that their daughter, Susan ll\·e m Topanga, Calif. Lucky L emt-remed Johnson Mcfarlane Knox recently married Ron '99, i receiving there. In the past few years, wtth a econd fa mily- tefan, 4-1/2, of whom Knox, a Gardiner, Maine, native. After their Family Weekendshave been addedas reasons to he L' 'ery proud. He satd that he doe n't collect weddmg on the Enchantment of the Seas crui e visit the campus, which they believe is more and that he L gemng nd of sutts1 He went back sh1p, they took along IS family members and beautiful than ever. ...As always, I am struck to Colby fo rReun1on Weekend m 1993 and satd fnend on the1r honeymoon cruise! Her career by the strength with which Jeanette Benn rh,t the place lookedfa miltar, but he m1 es the wtth the Defen e Department ha taken her to Anderson deals with M.S., which has been a way he rememl:>ered Lt. ... A camp dtrector, Pakt tan, aud1 Arab1a, Tums1a, Egypt and many part of her life for many years. Although frus­ teve urley L> m Hollt ton, Ma ., where he European counrne . Before that he lived m the trated by the difficulty of travel, she travels ll\e' w 1th ht, w1fe, Bryna. reve alway >top by Far Ea t and Panama. Was Helen avmg up a anyway, accepting the challenge rather than o]by when tra,·elmg m the area and wa> lcok­ hfetime of expenences for her fir r-ever contn­ using it as an excuse to stay home and brood. mg forward to 'eemg >orneold Colby grads at h1> huuon to the cia note ? ... Gordon The family's pring trip to Marco Island wa 'on\weddmg. Colby ;enr me an amcle from the Cummings, on the other hand, grew up m the upplemented by a 1998 New Year's jaunt from Yarmouth Port, Mas ., paper on a monvanonal Far East and brought h1 expenence of other their home in Houlton, Maine, to Las Vegas.

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Jeanette also commented on today's Colby cam­ (after being an electrical engineer for a couple of pus, specifically the trees. "The spindly trees of years). Son Dan and his wife live in Vail, Colo. 1960s Correspondents the '60s are presently majestic," she writes. Isn't Jan recently heard from Sue Welch Bishop. Sue this a good metaphor for us? Haven't we all and Jim enjoy good health and lots of golf and 1960 grown since our Colby days, I wonder, and in have three sons and four grandchildren. Sue Carolyn Webster Lockhart 170 County Road part because of Colby? (And I don't mean just reported that Pat Wilson lost her battle with New London, NH 03257 physically, although I myself am becoming less breast cancer in June (Jan is a breast cancer 603-526-9632 "spindly" every year.) Thanks for sharing your survivor herself) .... Linda Nicholson fax: 603-526-8021 news and especially your insights. Goodman continues to work as a school psy­ e-mail: [email protected] -j udith Hoffman Hakala chologist in New London, Conn. Hubby Dave is president of Beaudreau Electronics, son Jay is an 1961 Judith Hoffman Hakala Mary Ballantyne Gentle, writing from economics prof at Southern Colorado, son Jim 62 8 Charles Place Edgartown, Mass., ha retired after 32 years of is a lawyer in Connecticut, and Bill '91 in San Orono, ME 04473 teaching elementary school and is now busy Francisco works as a consultant for TOYGUYL. 207-866-4091 with travel and volunteer work. She took a trip All are married to wonderful young women (Bill e-mail: [email protected] to Russia, which included a boat trip down the married a Colby '91 classmate, Hilary Robbins) Volga last June. And Mary became a grand­ but no grandchildren yet! The Goodmans' travel 1962 Patricia Farnham Russell mother in August for the first time! She gets involves visiting their sons in Colorado or Cali­ 181 Maine Avenue together twice a year with Nancy Rowe Adams fornia .... Anthony Kramer writes from Burr Millinocket, ME 04462 and Patty Downs Berger and sails with Brenda Ridge, Ill., where he is chief administrative 207-723-5472 Phillipps Gibbons and spouses in the summer. officer with Draper & Kramer. He and Linda e-mail: [email protected] Mary and Steve celebrated 35 years of marriage have two young children in fourth and fifth 1963 at the end of June ....Dave Jacobson writes grades. Tony just completed eight years as a Karen Forslund Falb from Newton, Mass., where he is an anthropol­ Colby overseer and eight years on his district's 245 Brattle Street ogy professor at Brandeis. His wife, Lois, is a school board. The family vacationed at a Club Cambridge, MA 02138 marketing director. Between them they have Med at Punta Cano in the Dominican Repub­ 61 7-864-4291 e-mail: [email protected] five grown children scattered around the United lic-a great time ....Ed Kyle, a civil engineer States. The downside is that they don't see for the New Hampshire department of transpor­ 1964 much of them; the upside-they get to travel tation, and Penny, a fourth grade teacher, hiked Sara Shaw Rhoades and sightsee frequently when they visit. A re­ the Escalante canyons in Utah in the summer of 76 Norton Road Kittery, ME 03904-5413 cent milestone for the Jacobsons is the celebra­ '97 for a week ....Pete Jaffe writes that if he 207-439-2620 tion of 15 years of marriage, which included can sell enough "boxes" he'll be able to retire in e-mail: [email protected] co-resident step-siblings successfully. Dave con­ 10 years. I assume Pete is still living in Massa­ tinues to research and write and has introduced chusetts, but travels to Florida and California to 1965 new courses on cyberspace. He gives papers at visit friends and play golf keep him circulating Richard W. Bankart 20 Valley Avenue Apt. D2 intemationalconferences, which also gives them as he is still looking for a wife. Pete recommends Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 a venue for travel. ...Brenda Wrobleski Elwell the book Snow Falling on Cedars. Good luck on 201-664-7672 writes from Cherry Hill, N.J., where she is a the wife searching, Pete. national account manager. She and her two -Patricia Farnham Russell 1966 girls recently hiked the Mayan ruins of Tikal Natalie Bowerman Zaremba 11 Linder Terrace National Park and also hiked in Canyonlands, Barbara Haines Chase loyally sent in 63 Newton Corner, MA 02458 Arches and Capital Reef national parks. When her que tionnaire, wishing me "good luck" in 61 7-969-6925 she wrote they were heading to Bolivia and Peru my new position. Thank you, Barb! Still fu ll of 617-266-9219 x107 in August. Brenda has no intention of retiring, energy, she loves living out in the "country" and e-mail: [email protected] till has one in college ....Brenda Phillipps has recently joined the Westmoreland, N.H., Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad! 1967 Gibbons lives in Marion, Mass., where she and Robert Gracia her husband, Robert, have started their own She still walks three miles a day at 5:45 a.m. and 295 Burgess Avenue company, T ructor Inc. They have developed a enjoys being a grandmother of two boys and a Westwood, MA 02090 combination tractor-truck, which is being mar­ girl. She keeps up with Mary Michelman 781 -329-2101 keted to farmers, grounds keepers and construc­ Ackerman-Hayes, who is now living in Barb's e-mail: [email protected] tion and municipalities markets. They enjoy former neighborhood. She says that Nan Judy Gerrie Heine sailing on the Cape and often visit Steve and McCune Wagner is in law school. ...Ann 21 Hillcrest Rd. Mary Ballantyne Gentle. Brenda's two children Bruno Hocking, our new class reunion chair­ Medfield, MA 02052 are grown: Susan, an actress (like her mother?) man taking over from Ralph Kimball, writes 508-359-2886 e-mail: [email protected] in N.Y.C., and Douglas in sports TV in Califor­ that she had a wonderful time at the reunion after having been away for the 35 years since nia. I can still see Brenda in-was it Guys and 1968 Dolls ? ...Kathy Hertzberg writes from graduation. She and her husband, David, were Nancy Dodge Bryan Contoocook, N.H., where she is still a professor impressed with the campus and the continuing 7 Weir Street Extension of math at New Hampshire Technical lnstitute. pride of alumni in Colby. For the past three Hingham, MA 02043 781 -740-453 Kathy is active in a chorale and plans to retire in years they have lived in Durham, Conn., where e-mail: [email protected] ok three years. And she has taken up flatwater Ann is a realtor and loves the "country" life . kayaking! ... Received a long newsy letter from Recently Ann and David had a lot of fun catch­ 1969 Jan Cole Courant, who lives in Greene, Maine. ing up with Robin and Peter Ketchum by Diane E. Kindler She and John celebrated their 35th anniversary attending an art show of his work in Connect­ 117 Alba Street Portland, ME 04103 icut ....Karen Beganny Bryan writes that she in August. Son Jay just received his second 207-774-7454 degree from UVM-this time in physical therapy is, again, a "first-year teacher." In her 36th year

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of teaching, she has just taken on a special education class of multiply-handicapped junior high students who have speech and language deficits and are "great kids." Thi September she enjoyed getting together with Dee Dee Wilson Perry, Jo-Ann Wincze French and Poochie (Laurice) Puglia Haines at Pooch's ....A note from Warren Balgooyen speaks of his busy life as a naturalist and environmental educator on many boards, including the Maine Audubon Society, the Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance, Norcross Wildlife Foundation and Land for Maine's Future. His wife, Helen, is the head nurse of Colby's Garrison-Foster Health Center, so he keeps up with the current activi­ ties at the College. One reminiscence he shares is of a snowshoe trek with Bob Emmet: in the middle of a trackless wildernes lake at 7 a.m. they fo und two fresh donuts-they had fa llen out of an airplane like manna from heaven! ... Janet MacColl Krakauer's Christmas letter in­ cluded the welcome news that after a difficult year of surgery, chemo and radiation therapy in 1997, this past year was one of renewed good health. She continues to teach fifth grade at the Duke Middle School in Bahama, N.C., and enjoys many trips with her husband, Tom, who is the CEO of the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. Last summer they were on a Colby's Heritage Club: Smithsonian tour of Newfo undland observing whales, moose and puffins and other North Atlantic sea birds. In October they were in A Matter Of Will Power Edmonton, Alberta, at a conference, and later were on the Outer Banks for a pelagic birding trip. Janet keeps up with Sandy McWilliams The beautiful Mayfl ower Hill campus and the endowment Lloyd, who lives in Kittery, Maine, where she teaches a special education class .... I'm in the that underpins Colby's academic excellence were built sandwich generation. My mother, who al o re­ largely by thoughtful bequests from alumni and friends. ceived a degree from Colby at our graduation, is And the need continues. in a nearby nursing home, and our two teenage girl are in lOth and eighth grades. Much of my obody but you needs to know exactly what you've put in your time is pent keeping the home fires burning and chauffeuring. In fact two springs ago, I ran will, tru tor other life income arrangement. But wearing the into Whit Bond at a Wellesley soccer field, Heritage Club pin says you've made a permanent commitment where he too was a parent at a girls' youth soccer game. My volunteering time is with the am­ to the fi nancial support of the College. bridge Historical ociety, where I am a vice president trying to move the ociety into the There are many ways to structure your bequest. Yo u can specify 21st century. Also look for the Falb girls' a dollar amount, a fixed percentage, or particular items of real minigarden at thi year's New England Flower Show-our fo urth year out of five. The Donn or tangible property. Yo u may provide income to a loved one Springers fo und us there two years ago. And this before benefiting the College, and you may even derive extra past ummer we enjoyed a visit here in Cam­ benefit during your lifetime by making a "planned gift" now. bridge with Fred and Jeannette Fannin Regetz and their two grown-up kids, who were in Ma - sachusett for a fa mily reunion. Jeannette con­ If you' e already put Colby in your will or a special trust tinues to thrive with her teaching in the arrangement, please tell us owe can officially welcome you Arlington, Va., school system ....All the fo rms into the Heritage Club. For more information on how to make that I have received expre s interest in getting news of lost fr iend , and o l hope to get more of a beque t. write te e Greaves, director of capital giving, or you to respond--especially you men! ue ook, a ociate director of planned giving, Colby College, -Karen Forslund Falb ater ille. Maine 0490 1. Or call (207) 72-32 10. Or e-mail u 64 The College is very kind in sending me at [email protected] news cl1ppmgs about our classmates. Jon Fredrik on is quoted in an article about falling

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wine prices due to last year's bumper crop of with architectural significance." ...Jack all of you see the AP list of the "Century's 100 California grapes, which are used in 90 percent Mechem would write on emerging markets' dy­ Best Novels," which was published last summer? of U ..wines. Jon is an analyst at industry namics-political, social, financial contradic­ I wonder how many of them you have read and consultants Gomberg, Fredrikson and Associ­ tions-and would choose an ambassadorship to whether you think the choices were good ones? ates in San Francisco ....Of course there are a the U.K. With billions: education, arts, inner (And what did you think of Professor Bassett's fair number of clippings about Bob Gelbard's city fa mily care and the environment ....Jon list in the last issue of Colby ?) activities in Serbia. Stories about meetings with Pitman would write about raising children, not -Sara Shaw Rhoades the Alliance for Change, with Milan Panic, about boats. He doesn't think hi personality former prime minister of Yugoslavia, and would be suitable for an ambassadorship-a 65 Gordon Corey sings ... to his horses at Slobodan Milosevic give tantalizing insights into Yankee who tells it like it is. Having met Mother the Cumberland Maine Fairgrounds, where he his life in a fascinating and compli- trains harness racing horsesin the cated arena that is critical to peace summer. "It gives them something in Europe.... Barney Hallowell N EWS MAKERS to focus on, it keeps their attention, continues his struggles as principal and it lets them know that every­ and full-time teacher at the North The man behind the music in such thing is OK," says Gordon. An eco­ Haven Community School here in films as A Room with a View, Howard's nomics major, he began hanging Maine. The tiny island community End and Remains of the Day, Richard around tracks, met some horse train­ has been split into bitter factions Robbins '62 wrote the score for re­ ers and dropped out of school in over the curriculum at the school. spected independent filmmaker Mer­ 1965. "Somebody should have told The issue is traditional schooling chant I vary's recent A Soldier's me it was a four-year college. I only versus experiential schooling: field Daughter Never Cries .... Pen Wil­ had a year left," he says. He spends trips to witness clear-cutting and liamson '63 was master of ceremonies the winters in North Carolina, wood harvesting, live theater in New at a Portland, Maine, dinner and si­ where he has a training facility, and York City, etc. Money is not the lent auction last fa ll to benefit the says, "I like the whole lifestyle work­ problem as the students raise the Hurricane Island Outward Bound ing outdoors, working with anim­ '65 money themselves or receive grants; E. Thomas Boulette School's scholarship program. The als." ... "Success comes from differing philosophies are the prob­ program and audience included world-renowned mountaineers.... commitment and focus, not neces­ lem .... On to the questionnaires. Professor E. Thomas Boulette '65, director of Worcester Poly­ sarily from a [college) degree," says Jean Martin Fowler hasn't jumped technic Institute's nuclear reactor facility, has been appointed to Dr. Ken Gray. This is part of the out of an airplane (emphatically) the Department of Energy's Nuclear Advisory Panel to advise the message in his book Other Ways to but her hu band (formerly Royal Air nuclear energy division on its new nuclear research initiative .... Win, co-authored with Edwin L. Force) is now a small plane pilot, The Boston Sunday Globe's "Around the Town" column featured Herr. Ken posits that "college is not and they both love flying. Let's hope Alison "Sunny" Coady '65, who was elected board chair of the answer for all-the academic her answer remains the same! She Massachusetts Easter Seals, one of the country's pre-eminent middle needs more options." He is a says, "the world still seems pretty organizations serving the disabled. Coady, who was born with professor of vocational and indus­ wonderful except for a new bunch of spina bifida, was human resources director for management infor­ trial education at Penn State in tyrants since the decline of the mation services when she retired two years ago after 33 years at University Park, Pa .... After 28 U.S.S.R." She feels our generation's New England Telephone Co. and NYNEX ....Natalie Bowerman years with Manpower Inc. of N.H./ impact has been in technology, com­ Zaremba '66 has been appointed executive director of Health Vt., our class president, Bud Marvin, munication, health care and educa­ and Addictions Research, Inc., a Boston-based private, nonprofit is unemployed! He says "retired." tion and that our children will "take organization that enhances the quality of programs and policies He sold his franchise back to Man­ advantage of technology in new and in the fields of substance abuse, mental health, criminal justice power Inc. last September. Bud was amazing ways that we never imag­ and public health. chosen Small Business Person ofthe ined. Our grandsons already amaze MILESTONES Year (he looks much bigger!) in us." . . Lois Lyman says she would Manchester, N.H., by Sam's Club, . Deaths: Patricia E. Wilson '62, May 18, 1998, in Cullowhee, N.C., write about her great-grandmother's and he was involved, through the at 57 .... Margaret A. Cook '67, December 21, 1998, in East life if she could write a book-and Chamber of Commerce, in a project Longmeadow, Mass., at 53. she just might! She hasa greatbundle to build a civic center in Manches­ of her letters and a book of her po- ter. Bud reports playing golflast sum­ etry and reports "she really got around!" Lois Teresa in 1995, however, he thinks maybe he mer with fe llow Zeta Psi Dick Dunnell '66. Ever would like to be appointed ambassador to Scot­ could be ambassador to her Calcutta home and the diplomat, he omitted the score.... Eliot land (do they have a separate ambassador?). If spend all our fo reign aid there. But if he had Terborgh is president and CEO of SmarTrunk she had billions of dollars to distribute, she says, billions, he says he would give it to multiple Systems Inc. (nee Selectone Corp.) in Califor­ "I thought Ted Turner had the right idea with college endowments to fund scholarships: "with­ nia. The Alumni Office sent a copy of his article the U.N." Otherwise she'd put it"towardselimi­ out that help I never could have gone to Colby." on SmarTrunk II, "a digital trunking system at nating poverty through job training and elimi­ He's been to Brazil and India since last frequencies below 800 MHz." ... Susan nating illiteracy through reading programs. writing .... Gloria Shepherd has retired and is McGinley is a "theater teacher and dog sitter" Ignorance is this country's greatest enemy. Be­ increasing her painting activity from one day a living in E. Holden, Maine. She just fini hed sides political self-interest, of course." . .. week to six-on Saturdays she paints in Central being "background" in The Love Letter, a movie Martha Farrington Mayo says she would com­ Park as long as the weather is good. She does produced by Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks pile oral histories if she could write a book and portraits, landscapes and still lifes in oils in a L.L.C. The movie stars Geraldine Page, Kate doesn't want to leave Maine to be ambassador realistic style .... In response to my question Capshaw, Tom Selleck and Ellen DeGeneris anywhere. If she had billions, "I think first of about what book you would like all our class­ (and introducing Sue McGinley?). Susan, who areas with which I am most familiar through mates to read before the next reunion, the says, "I'm now a union gal/maid-Screen Ac­ boards on which I serve: community mental fo llowing have been nominated so far: A Civil tors Guild," is hoping to be "background" in The health, respite care and preservation ofbuildings Action, No Ordinary Time and A Man in FulL Did Cider House Rules. Look for both films in 1999.

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Travel surely is broadening. When Rodney E. Gould '65, an attorney in Framingham, Mass., headed to Gaza to depose leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the case of the hijacked cruise ship Achille Lauro, he says he expected "a guy in travel. When he was assistant regional director of the Federal a headdress and handgrenades." Instead, he said, "a little, meek Trade Commission in Boston in the 1970s, he says he welcomed guy showed up with a cigarette in a cigarette holder, like in the antitrust cases that came his way because they involved Casablanca." The PLO official had a son at UCLA and feared that globe-trotting. "You fall into things," he said. the youngster would stay in the U.S. rather than return home to run Despite those frequent flier miles to East Africa, Central and the family banking business. "Who doesn't have the same senti­ South America, Asia and Europe, Gould has found time to serve ments?" Gould said. on the College's regional campaign committee and on his class's Following the PLO's 1985 hijacking of Achille Lauro and reunion committee. His ties to the College also remain strong murder of one of the passengers, the surviving passengers filed through his daughters, Jody '94 and Amy '01 . a lawsuit against the tour operator. Gould, who defended the

operator, brought a third-party complaint against the PLO seek­ And despite some frivolous lawsuits, Gould says he still enjoys new places and gets a kick out of swapping yarns about ing indemnification and lost profit and years later came out with being stuck at remote airports in the middle of Africa. Of course, a win-and another altered perception. The PLO paid to settle the

case, he thinks, because settling "helped their public position, eye-opening experiences teach forbearance, humor and differ­ ent ways of doing things. "But for every good trip," he said, wh1ch is that they're interested in peace."

Over the last 15 years, travel-related defenses have become "there're always six to Newark."

a maJor part of Gould's practice at the 10-attorney firm of Rubin, -Robert Gillespie

Hay & Gould, but few suits have as much at stake as the Achille

Lauro case. Gould says travelers sue when they stub a toe; when

the a1r conditioning doesn't work; when they're served the same

cafetena food three times in one week; when they find a sandy

beach covered with seaweed. Even though these culture-bound,

often nd1culous lawsuits "are just garbage" and do not usually

1nvolve a great deal of money, Gould says, such suits "represent

a shortcoming 1n the American jurisprudential system."

"Everybody thinks, 'Maybe I'll hit the lottery, too,"' he said,

refernngto the $3 m1ll1on awarded a woman who sued McDonald's

because their coffee was too hot. A lawyer takes a case on a

cont1ngent ee bas1s. so cases get litigated. "If the courts more often

awarded attorney"s fees to the w1nn1ng s1de, we'd have less lit1ga­

t1on sa1d Gould a Columbia University Law School graduate.

Occasionally one of his clients is guilty of plac1ng tounsts in

a dangerous Sltualion-

"The thatched roof 1sn t on and you have a wonderful v1ew of the

stars • Gould deadpanned adm1tllng that he always liked to

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She also recounts luncheons and pleasant din­ motorcycle to ride regularly with a few happiness in Seattle. They went with their 13- ners with Jill Long, director of rehabilitation at "buds." ...Meg Fallon Wheeler writes that year-old twins, Sam and Alex, to Denmark and Bangor Mental Health Institute, and Marian Whizzer has recently retired and that both chil­ England for a three-week soccer tournament Hale Fowler, a teacher in Millinocket. She says, dren are happily married and live within an tour, and Rick and Matt, 10, went fishing in "Mamie leads an extremely exotic life traveling hour and a half of them. Their grandson, Gage British Columbia. Rick is busy with work, gar­ just about everywhere in the world!" Sue, Jill Wheeler, was born last year, and their daughter dening, fishing, water sports and kids. Their trip and Mamie are "aiming to do the Kenduskeag was married in their gardens in August-two to the reunion last year was truly a family memory Canoe Race in 1999 in a war canoe fu ll of wonderful "big events." She continues to make builder. ... In Yarmouth, Maine, Chalmers women. Any of you gals Class of '65 want to many trips to Massachusetts to continue her "Chop" Hardenbergh works fu ll time on his paddle along, contact one of us soon!" ...Hail, work at Walnut Hill School and to visit her twice-monthly trade newsletter, Atlantic Colby, Hail! Dad .... Allen and Janet Meyer Throop spent RailWatch. It covers the operating railroads, -Richard W. Bankart a weekend in Arlee, Mont., at Lynne Egbert ports, and intermodal terminals in the Atlantic Eggart's sheep ranch. They were joined by Northeast (the area east of the Hudson and St. 66 Claudia Fugere Finkelstein recently Martha Decou Dick and her husband, Don, and Lawrence rivers). Mike Picher subscribes be­ released her first CD of jazz tunes. Claudia has by Jerri Hamilton Bost '65. (There must be more cause he does arbitration between Canadian been a professional jazz vocalist for several years to the story than Allen wrote, since he referred railroads and labor unions (Chop says he's well (remember her singing with the Horrendos at to the fact that he would do it all over again even respected by both sides). Chalmers's family in­ Colby?) and also works full time as a psychologi­ if he knew the cost would again be numerous cludes his wife, Margaret, and children Cyrus, 9, cal examiner in the Portland, Maine, school stitches in both hands.) Allen wrote that they and Chloe, 5. He says his life revolves around system.... John Tara sounds content and happy had a marvelous time, including a long tele­ work, children, wife, house and church ....Jan married to Laura Holmquist and challenged by phone conversation the three geology majors and lrv Faunce are adopting three children, having six kids between them, ranging from 15 shared with Dr. Koons .... Mary Sue Hilton ages 8-10, two girls and a boy who have been in to 27 years of age. His '97-'98 travel included Weeks has been named administrative director the custody of Maine Department of Human Christmas in the Keys and skiing in Utah in of Round Top Center for the Arts. She is cur­ Services for the past six years. lrv and Jan have March with his daughter. ...Karen Riendeau rently a trustee and chair of the development renovated and expanded their home in Cape Remine is living on Staten Island and is a committee at Lincoln Academy, class agent at Porpoise and report that the children have consultant to Bell Atlantic, after having been Colby, on the development committee of the brought them a new sense of adventure ....Ruth "voluntarily" retired from NYNEX in 1994. Penobscot School in Rockland and active in Elliott Holmes's daughter, Sarah '97, joined her Karen, who has found the change to be to her productions of the Lincoln County Community handwriting analysis business. While Ruth con­ benefit, enjoyed canoeing on the Nissequogue Theater. Mary Sue reports that she is now an tinues to run Pentic Inc., from Bloomfield Hills, River in Long Island last summer with friends. empty nester, with son Michael in New Orleans Mich., Sarah will open an office in Cambridge, Karen found the intellectual atmosphere at and daughters Karen and Stephanie in Boston Mass. Ruth's business concentrates on trial con­ Colby to be the catalyst to keep on learning and and pringfield, Mass. Mary Sue recently gath­ sultation, in which she assists lawyers in select­ questioning. Her courses at Colby launched her ered Doug and Beth Adams Keene, Ruth ing jury members, business applications, in which

lifelong interest in Africa .... Rick Zimmerman Kelleher Hertz, Paula Me Namara and husband she uses her skills to assist in personnel deci­ has recently done some work professionally for Jack McConnell, and Kathy and Ralph Record sions, and investigations, in which handwriting ACLU on student underground newspapers and for a BBQ. It was great to renew old friendships. is examined to determine forgeries and fraud .... privately continues to work on his I 00-year-old She visited Eddie Phillips in Illinois twice last Ken and Sandy Miller Keohane are adding a house. His recent travels include Colorado and spring and summer and reports that it was fun line of clothing to their home furnishings stores Utah in March and sailing in Puget Sound in while it lasted. in Milton and Hingham, Mass. Sandy also is August, the Vineyard in September and the -Natalie Bowerman Zaremba designing a sheet collection for Spring Indus­ Gulf coast of Florida in November. ...Linda tries. She reports that she works out regularly­ Johnson Vandine wrote from her home in 67 Richard and Leeanne Davidson and promises to keep us posted on her Manchester, Conn., that her family consists of Kaslow have been living for three years in progress ....Several years ago, Harry "Bud" husband Les, son Adam, 18 and at UConn, two Birmingham, where they have repaired, restored Graff started a consulting company, A.]. Mayfair, cats and an ornery cockatiel. Linda reports that and added to their "historic register" I tal ian Inc., and is glad he did. While Bud tends to his they visited M. Lea Kouba and Bill and Ruth country house, one of several that were ex­ enterprise, Debbie works in marketing for a Loker Ingham in the Seattle area, spending a ecuted as copies of homes seen abroad by the continuing care facility. Their older daughter wonderful day on Whidbey Island, where Lea is iron and steel barons. Leeanne is happily busy will be married soon, and their younger daugh­ building a hay-bale home! ...Dr. Vincent De not working (in a paid position) for the first time ter will graduate from college this June Rosa was the guest speaker at the Political since Colby. She plays tennis and does yoga on ....Dorcas (Thompson '69) and Donald Jepson Study Club in Jamestown, N.Y., last spring. a regular basis, with a little weight training. She live in Northampton, Mass., where Donald is a Vinnie earned his medical degree from the New reads for the visually impaired at the university sales manager for an Easthampton company Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry and and assists with fund raising for a new music that supplies material for the furniture industry served residencies in BuffaloGeneral Hospital, center. Their daughter, Jessica, 24, has pursued and Dorcas teaches at an elementary school. ... Buffa lo Children's Hospital and the Buffa lo her environmental interests in the San Juan At one point last year, Bob Elder, an environ­ Veteran'sAdmini tration Hospital. lnjuly 1976 Islands, Nepal, India and Thailand and with the mental biologist who works for Atlantic he began his Jamestown practice .... Peter Stone Environmental Schools in New Hamp­ Richfield in lndone ia, was evacuated suddenly Winstanley reports that son Matt, 21, is a junior shire, US PIRG, the Sierra Club in D.C. and the to escape a political riot. Previously Bob worked at Oberlin College and that daughter Jessica is New York City Parks Conservation Corps. Their for the state of Wyoming and on the Alaskan a senior at Deerfield Academy. He says he is son, Daniel, 22, completed his final semester North Slope. When not in some exotic spot, accepting that he won't be able to retire at 55 with Colorado College in New Zealand ....On Bob lives with his wife, Jenine, in Plano, and that Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" takes September 5 Dick Lemieux married Nancy Texas ....Betsey Littlejohn DeLoache has on more appropriate meaning. He ha recently Smith. After the wedding they were off to been appointed director of resident services at enjoyed frequent trips to London, Amsterdam Cozumel, Mexico, for a little scuba diving .... The Willows at Meadow Branch in Virginia. and Paris. A recent big event was purchasing a Maggi and Rick Lubov are enjoying health and Betsey will be responsible for developing clien-

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tele and presenting eminars as well as coordi­ attends the University of Maine ....Joan new son, Ajay, born in February 1997... . I see nating en•ices for the residence ....Doug Kidman is a case management officer for a new former campu radical Anne Pomroy '70 on Howe now live in orth Andover, Mas .... family court division. She represents the Maine occasion. Anne, now an attorney based in Old When you get your questionnaire, please re­ counties of Cumberland and Y ork and will guide Orchard, Maine, asks that Henry Thompson spond electronically or in the old-fashioned paternitysuit cases and divorce cases involving phone home ....Sharon Timberlake has been way. We look forward to hearing from you. children through the court until completion. doing some substitute teaching and recently -Roberr Gracia and Judy Genie Heine he received her law degree from the University taught auto mechanics, which I do not believe of Maine and from 1991 to 1993 was chair of the she studied at Colby. As I write this, Sharon is 68 Frank Dunton writes that he is direc­ family law section of the Maine State Bar about to travel to Africa for a month. She'll tor of fi cal operations and controller at the Association ....Last March the Maine spend most of her time in Ghana and will meet Univer ity of Ma sachusetts; his wife, T rish, Legislature's judiciary committee unanimously up with Alison MacDonald, daughter of Janet own a travel agency. In the last two years they endorsed the reappointment of Art Brennan to Rathbun '70 and her husband, Peter. I got to­ have been to Italy/ icily twice, to Scotland, a new seven-year term as superior court judge. gether with Janet and Sandra Haimila '70 this Iceland and Germany and sailed all over the He was first appointed to the Superior Court in pastsumrner, and we laughedourselves illy... . You Canbbean. And what's even better, they're aim­ 19 4 by a Democratic governor. Seven years roo can laugh yourself silly, eat Belley's dogs and ing for Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Austria in later he was reappointed by a Republican Whipper's subs and pizzas-but only if you attend the next two year .... Betty Savicki Carve lias governer and now has been reappointed by an our 30th reunion. The plans are great, and the list is sorry she missed our 30th reunion-she heard independent governor. ...Ken Young lives in of attendees is growing. Sign up now! we had a good time. (We did1) She and her Hallowell, Maine, with his family and has re­ -Diane E. Kindler husband, John '66, and her dog, Sadie, live in cently joined TechKnowledge, a company that Colche ter, Vr., where John is a professor of provides information technology support ser­ 70 My quest for the longest Colby mar­ economics and Betty teaches biology. She vices, as director of operations.... I received riage in our class brought some interesting re­ changed schools after 23 years in one place and only three questionnaires for this column­ sponses. OK, OK, I'll share them with you. say change at our age is great! She's had fun makes fo r pretty slim pickins'! Brenda Handleman Sidman writes from working m a new place with new program , -Nancy Dodge Bryan Vancouver, Wash., that she and husband Steven colleague , etc. he, too, has been traveling got married in May of 1970, a few weeks before extenS1\'ely. In the ummer of '97 she wa in 69 Cathy Cyr Latvis's two children, Pe­ our graduation. They've lived on the left coast Chma and in 199 went to Costa Rica and then ter and Andrea, graduated from college for the past 20 years. All three of their daughters to Mexico to a biology resen•e. he also spends (Hamilton and Amherst) on the same day in are in college at the same time! Je sica, 23, is a lots of time on business trips to D.C., Colorado 1997. Cathy writes that her children "energize, graduate student at the University of Michigan; and a sorted other spots since she's on a variety motivate and inspire" her. She is director of Angela, 21, is a senior at Macalaster College in of adv1sory boards.... Hal Childs lives in guidance at orth Yarmouth Academy, and Sr. Paul, Minn., and Hillary, 18, is a freshman at ValleJO, Caltf., with hi wife, Kathleen, and sons husband Bill '66 owns Jokers family entertain­ the University of California at Santa Cruz .... Gregory, 7, and teven, 5. He i a psychothera­ ment centers in Portland, Maine, and Ports­ Rod Buck and wife Sandra (Hutcheson '71) p1 t and executive co-director with the Califor­ mouth, N.H .... Alice "Buff" Huse Tanner have been married only since June of 1971. nia Coun elmg In titute in San Francisco and lives in West Kingston, R.I., with her husband, They live on their 70-acre farm in Calais, Vt. Berkeley, Calif., and reports that last May he Richard, and two of their fo ur children. Her Rod has been with National Life insurance finally completed hi Ph.D. m depth psychology eldest son, Andy, works in a sound tudio and Company since 1972 and currently heads their and ewTe tament mterpretationat the Gradu­ plays in a band in Los Angeles. Her elder daugh­ investment operations. Sandra did not write ate Theolog1cal Umon m Berkeley. He says it ter, Sara, is a recent Harvard graduate. Alice about herself, but she tells us that their kid are "only" rook 10 years and now he's trying to notes that she cruised through Waterville a few doing well. Brennan, 23, a Cornell graduate, is enJOY domg nothmg! ... Had a Chri tma card years ago and introduced her family to Bailey's a landscape architect in the "other" Portland from Betsy Clark Bungeroth, who report that hotdog ....AI o on a culinary voyage, Dan (Oregon), and Chri , 20, is a junior majoring in >he changed JOb . he had previously been a Woloshen rook a 1996 trip to intere rhisdaugh­ internationalstudies at Colby ....Karen Knapp gu1dance coun elor but now 1s the Mr. Wash­ ter,Judy, in Colby. She enjoyed a Whipper's sub Lyons writes that she and Bill '69 have been mgron ( .H.) Valley chool career coordma­ while he mi ed Tony's subs. (Despite the great married for almost 29 years. Karen notes that tor. he works for two AU's and the local food, his daughter chose to attend Michigan.) she is aware of 11 AD Pi/Pi Lam Colby marriages econom1 councrl. Her daughter Becky spent Dan, a lawyer, and his wife, Donna, live in and that all 11 are till intact. That just blows her fa ll "emester on the coa t of Kenya, and Fairfield, Conn. His recent mile tones include me away. Who says that no good came out of the Bet was eagerly awamng her rerum. Her other "buying low and elling high," convincing The fr aternity/sorority system! ... In writing these dauf.lhter, He1d1, 1> a emor m h1gh school and ew York Times Magazine to use larger type and columns, I'm truck that a lot of our classmate

"a' accepted to Colby early dec1>10n. Yeah 1 ••• coming m econd during his appearance on have sent one or more of their children to study Joe Jabar, who ltves m Watervdle and 1 an jeopardy ' ...Sally Rogers i a psychologist and on Mayflower Hill. That really makes a positive attorney w1th Dav1au, Jabar and Batten, was college professor in Denver, olo. She is the tatement about the old alma mater (and shows elected to the }.1ame Hou e on a platform of rec1p1ent of a grant to study autism. Sally and that we produce some bright kids, roo!). I know 'trarghrenmg out the mequme> m the 'chool her hu band, John R. Brown, have two daugh­ that teve '69 and Debbie Williams Anderson tundmg fo rmula, gl\ mg �1ame court more ar­ ters, Amy and ara, who they ay are great kid have had both of their children graduate from rennon Jue w mcrea,ed re pom1bdme> cau ed and great mng players. ally would love to hear olby. Is there anyone in our class with more h bmdy courr matter,, anJ mcrea mg benef1t from Annie Montgomery and Charlene than two Colby offspring graduates? Plea e let tor :>..1ame worker .... Kenneth Borchers be­ Horan .... Alden Wilson, director ofthe Maine me know ....Lyn Schwarz Promisloff dropped came ra wr of the Lanca,ter ( .H.) A sembly An Comm1 ron, ltves m Wrsca set with his me a line from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Lyn l.f God m Augu t. He recer,·ed h1 master of partner, Don ha e. Denny ha two grown chil­ i a homemaker, and her hu band, Bob, is a rheulog\/dr,·m1t\ at the Bo,ton Unl\·er 1ty dren, ean and hannon .... Vicky Stewart pulmonary/critical care physician. Their son, �c h, 1! ofTheologv. He and h1, w1fe, Elt:aberh, Talbert has a new addre s (9205 Lakeshore David, is a freshman at Emory University, and ha\ e rwo daughter,: Koren, 24, 1' a graduate of Dnve, Plea ant Prame, WI 5315 ) .... Stuart their daughter, arah, is a high school Gordon ollege and '" a rea her; Rachel, 19, Ro enfeld and h1 w1fe, Maltm Bhushan, have a ophomore ....Carl Baer got married last sum-

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mer. He i chairman of the chemistry depart­ son and a daughter and live in Wayland, Mass. students ....Gary Lawless published his eighth ment at Providence College. Carl has an M.S. She says, "''m seeing the end of my 'Mommy' volume of poetry, Caribouddhism. Gary and part­ degree from URI and his Ph.D. from Brown. years and am planning for the next stage-a new ner Beth Leonard operate Blackberry Books in ...Y2K (the year 2000 for those of you in the job, taking up golf." ...Small world-Linda Brunswick, Maine. Gary splits his time among know) is right around the corner, and with it our Chmielinski Gould taught geometry to Hugo writing, performing readings (in Italy and 30th class reunion. It's never too early to start and Christine Legere Wallgren's daughter Slovenia this year), operating his book store and planning, as you know how fast our schedulesfill Stephanie. And for another coincidence, she publishing house and teaching English at Bates up. Our reunions are fun and a great chance to happened to run into Donna Power, her fresh­ College ....Elizabeth Krupnick was elected renew friendships. I hope you'll all make it up to man roommate, on Nantucket a couple sum­ senior vice president in charge of corporate Waterville. In the meantime, please keep send­ mers ago.... And in Lincolnville, Maine, Paul communications at New York Life Insurance ing me information about what's going on with McGurren discovered Jay Philoon living only Company. She is responsible for media and you.... Ann Arbor, please phone home! two miles away. Paul and his wife, Carol, are public relations, advertising, employee com­ -Steven Cline immensely enjoying their year-old baby, Emma munications and editorial services, the Rose ....From down the coast a bit, Ellen Muzzy company's television production studio and 72 Jennifer Schmid writes of her 25 cats, Farnham writes that she and husband John the New York Life Foundation. In addition to eight dogs and a lot of foster pets. She is founder celebrated their 25th anniversary and marvel at extensive experience in the insurance indus­ and president of the Humane Society of North­ their two "young men." Their oldest son will try, Elizabeth has won various awards in public ern Georgia. She started that Humane Society graduate from St. Lawrence University in May; relations and advertising and has worked as a in 1996 and ince then has adopted out more their younger son is a remarkable glassblower newspaper correspondent and college journal­ than 1,600 pets ....Gary Newton is with the with a studio/workshop on the family property ism instructor at several institutions. She cur­ foreign service (USAID), residing in Cairo, and will graduate from high school this spring. rently resides in New York City.... Please take helping manage the U.S.'s assistance to Egypt Ellen has taken a leave of absence from her job a moment to share some news about yourself. If for health, family planning, education and de­ at the local junior high school until the fall. you prefer, you can e-mail your responses to me mocracy/governance. He has been overseas for When she wrote, she was undergoing an aggres­ ([email protected]). 12years in post that include Bangladesh, Malawi sive six-week course of radiation therapy for her -Jacquelyn Nienaber Appeldom and Kenya. Gary's wife, Joan, and son, Cullen, brain tumor, which has returned. She welcomes 16, sound incredibly spirited and adaptable­ mail (6 Spruce Lane, Brunswick, Maine 0401 1 ). 74 Carol Smart Buxton is enjoying life at his story of settling in upon arrival in Cairo was Ellen, may your news next year tell us of success­ home, with teenage boys and a home-based fantastic ....With 23 years of banking experi­ ful treatment and a restful leave of absence. business. Husband Dick is a project manage­ ence, Peter Crosby was promoted to executive Very very best wishes to Ellen and to all. ment consultant. Eben, 16, is a strong swimmer, vice president of Passumpsic Savings Bank in -Janet Holm Gerber and Will, 14, excels in art .... Marjorie and St. Johnsbury, Vt. He lives in St. Johnsbury with David French, Westport, Conn., also enjoy life his wife, Paige, and their son and daughter. ... 73 Margaret McPartland Bean is director with their kids-Scott, 13, and Katherine, 7. Jack Taylor lives in Lyme, N.H., with his wife, of management for the Maine State Housing David is president of American lnt'l Marine; Christine, son and daughter (and black Lab Authority, which oversees 17,000 low-income Marjorie is an ex-banker, now a full-time mom. Scuppers-! was looking for at least one refer­ rental units in Maine. To keep a healthy per­ David remembers Colby for giving him appre­ ence to sailing in Jack's news!) ....Susan Hoy spective, she vacations in Prince Edward Island ciation of European culture, which led to his Terrio is in the Washington, D.C., area with with her husband, Chris, and their children, global travels, something he never anticipated her husband, Stephen '71, and two daughters. Christopher, 16, and Julia, 13. This year she while in school. ... Kent and Cynthia Vietor Susan is an assistant professor at Georgetown read two books by Colby English professor Su­ Kahle have three kids, Carter, Walker and Page. University. After receiving a Ph.D. in cultural san Kenney-Sailing and In Another Country­ Kent is an investment banker, and Cynthia lists anthropology and French studies from NYU, and recommends both . . ..Cindy Canoll her occupation as "mom" (wow, three in a she current!y teaches courses in the French Bakanas resides in Redding, Conn., where she row!).... Robert and Catherine Morris department and in the School of Foreign Ser­ is mother to Phoebe, 10, and twin sons Ted and Killoran moved to Alabama in 1996. Catherine vice at Georgetown. And are we really old Tyler, 7. This year she and husband Michael is education coordinator, North Alabama Sci­ enough for Susan to have a daughter who has took their kids to Schoodic Peninsula and ence Center, and has three step-grandchildren completed veterinary school and is in practice Acadia. She writes that being in Maine brought (!). Catherine says many strong relationships (in Alexandria, Va.)? ...Does anyone have back lots of fond memories of her time at Colby started at Colby, but she never anticipated liv­ news of Julie Pfrangle? A friend of hers from both as a student and admi sions officer. ... ing in Alabama, leaving teaching, owning a years ago contacted me to help reach her. I Steve Woerner became finance director for the sailboat or using computers daily. (Neither did don't have her address, and Colby doesn't know city of Cranston, R.I. A C.P.A., Steve earned I!) ...Nina Gigante lives in Brentwood, Ca­ her whereabouts. Let me know if you can his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.... lif., with her 6-year old daughter, Eden. Nina is help ....Melanie Geisler Hodgdon is enjoying Rhode Island seems to be getting its share of amicably divorced, teaches yoga and paints. She her expanding business, which is now about five Colby talent. Phil Ricci was selected athletic is active as a macrobiotic chef for people with years old and provides organizational/computer/ director at East Providence High School. After terminal diseases. Her interests in camping and accounting services to businesses. She lives in graduating from Colby, Phil earned his master's music began at Colby, and she continues to Bristol, Maine, with her husband, Edward, and degree in guidance and counseling as well as his share these with Eden.... Deborah and Tom cat Schroedinger (physicists will appreciate, principal certification from Providence Col­ Gill are also in California, where Tom is a self­ she says.) ....Rick Jones is in Waterville with lege. Initially a social studies teacher, Phil has employed C.P.A. and Deb is a certified massage his wife, Maralyn, two sons and daughter. He been working as a guidance counselor. ...Ster­ therapist. They have three kids, Brian, 25, Kevin, teaches seventh grade and coaches varsity soc­ ling Williams was elected vice president and 24, and Ryan, 12. They expressed themselves artis­ cer in the Waterville school system .... A mom senior commerciallending officerof the Gorham tically by painting the house last summer! ...Jeff to two teenage sons, Catherine Kelley lives and Savings Bank in Gorham, Maine. Sterling has Megargel reports that he currently lives at 64 teaches English in Belfast, Maine ....Nancy more than 20 years' banking experience in Maine Sagamore Road, Apt. C6, Bronxville, NY 10708 Brunnckow Marion is still skating "now and and lives in Gorham with hi wife, Guin, and (914-337-7487) and is permanently disabled then." She and her husband, Michael, have a son Greg and daughter Jody, both high school with multiple sclerosis .... Benjamin and

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Harriet Hults King are both attorney in Pitts­ senior planner. Using his recently earned law moments, you can find Ted kicking the soccer burgh. They have rwo ons, 12 and 5, and a degree and license, Marty helps guide land use ball around with his wife, Kim, and their three daughter, 3. Harriet's arti tic goal is to publish a policy for most of the orth Woods. After some kids, Alison, 10, Jeff, 8, and Kevin, 5 ....Janet children's story. he credits Colby with strength­ life-changing events since turning 40--a seri­ Hansen, AlA, has been appointed to Maine ening her interest in other cultures and lan­ ous head-on auto collision and the amiable Board of Architects, Landscape Architects and guages and with giving her an appreciation of parting with his wife of over 20 years, Karin­ Interior Designers .... The Salem (N.H.) Ob­ interior Maine. he never anticipated having Marty is looking forward to settling back into server reports that Randi Mershon Leonard and three children and living away from the East his home in Rockport and the wilderness hiking her sister, Barb, have opened Paper Dolls, a full­ Coast ....Lots ofnews from Kerry and Ed Hatch. experiences that come with his job ....Carol service paperhanging and co metic home im­ Ed continues to flourish a an analyst in the Majdalany Williams writes that she and her provement business. Randi contributes her media and entertainment industry, something husband, Jim, are discussing the need for moni­ business acumen from Colby and BU ....After he never anticipated doing when he left Colby. toring devices-to tell if they're headed fo rward starting his business career with Merrill Lynch, The Wall Street Journalnamed him the *I ana­ or backward. Their two kids, Carla, 12, and Edson Mitchell now heads global capital mar­ lyst in his field last summer. Kerry is a senior VP Peter, 10, are the focus of their attention. No kets at Deutsche Bank .... Also in banking is at American Express. They have two boys, 3 doubt, the analytical thinking and goal-setting Thomas Nangle, who has been named KeySales and 4, who are already golfing! Ed's Leader for Key Bank's Camden, Maine, main form of artistic expression is KeyCenter. ... Dr. Paul Hatton has hitting hooks and slices, which "arc NEWS MAKERS been named chief surgeon of the car- gracefully into the wood ." ...Rec­ Hebrew Home and Hospital in West diac surgery program at the Mohawk ommended reading fromyour class­ Hartford, Conn., has appointed Bonnie Valley Heart In titute of the St. Eliza­ mares ...David French: beth Medical Center in central New The Perfecc Belanger Gauthier '71 president and Srorm (Colby and vocational con­ CEO. She came to the post last fall York. nections); Catherine Morris Kil­ with 25 years of experience in long­ -Nan Weidman Anderson loran: A Woman's Book of Life, by term care and 20 in senior manage­ Joan Borysenko (and not just for In Cordova, Alaska, Riki ment ....Reginald G. Blaxton '74 76 Dr. women!); and ina Gigante: The was recently named vice president for Ott is the executive director of the Once and Future King (because it is programs of the Greater Washington Copper River Watershed Project, a about love). Ed Hatch says he is an Urban League, a 60-year-old nonprofit nonprofit pilot project working to avid magazine reader because his community service and civil rights or­ move the Alaskan environmental attention span wanes after I 0 pages. ganization in the District of Colum­ movement towards certified sustain­ -Shelley Bieringer Rau bia. He becomes senior manager for able fo restry and a full cost account­ Reginald Blaxton '70 the league's more than 25 programs in ing of natural resources. Riki said that 7 5 It should come as no sur­ education, employment training and placement, aging services, Liz (Barrett '80) and Martin Hubbe prise that Jim Schmidt is still ski­ and housing and community development .... Janet S. McMahon and their family visited Alaska dur­ mg---coachmgthe local racing ream, '79 was awarded the Natural Re ources Council of Maine's Envi­ ing the summer of'97 and had a grand m fact, in Incline Village, Nev. He ronmental Activist Award for 1998. For the last decade, she has time hiking, canoeing and camping­ and wife Kim have two kids, Jenni­ worked toward establishing an ecological reserve system for Maine. with bears! Riki also penned her first fer, 13, and Dave, 11. When not on book, Alaska's Copper River Delca; sale the lope or pur uing his career as a MILESTONES proceeds benefit the CRWP! ... ofrware engmeer, Jim can be found Lydia McAnerney e-mailed from sadmg, backpackmg, htking or as- Deachs: Jean Blatt Flores '70, August 17, 1998, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Minnesota. Lydia works at the Tapes­ ststmg hts on 's courmasrer with a at 49 .... Eleanor Eddy Meldahl '75, December 9, 1998, in Truro, try Folkdance Center and volunteered very acttve troop. mce leaving Mass., at 46. to construct a garden where children Colby, Jtm ha also mer a st ter he Marriages: Carl D. Baer '70 to Kathleen A. Massone in Andrew (second grade) and Rebecca never knew he had. ound like an aunder town, R.I. (K) are enrolled ....Received sev- mrere t1ng tory. ray tuned .... eral news clippings on Susan David­ Also fo llowmg his muse, Doug Schwarz checked practices that Carol developed at Colby help son's new job as a physical therapist at Franklin m from Penacook, .H. If you're up that way her in her aim to "raise world-conscious kids." Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Maine. PT is and read a play btl! mled I Go Pogo, that would The little rime Carol does make for herself she Susan's second career; she left her prior life as a be Doug' . It' a mu teal comedy that he' la­ spends at a local con ervation center or reading graphic artist to return to school (UVM) and bored over fo r three years! And tf you hould booksfo r her monthly book club .... Will Tuttle then worked in a PT clinic in St. Albans, Vt. drop m to greet the playwnghr, he'll be the continues to make music with his wife, Susan's husband is teaching at Carrabassett thnlled and ternfted guy mmgm the dtrecror's Madeleme, whom he met in 1990 in her native Valley Academy, where they are living ....Also chatr. o doubt, good fnend Dave Peck, Scott wirzerland. The two have been touring full in the news i Tim O'Brien, the featured per­ and Patti Cas mith and Carol Fo wdl be time for over a year, giving concerts and emi­ fo rmer for the 26th annual Fiddler's Conven­ there to en ure that Doug' love labour are nor nar m Cttle throughout the U ..Madeleine tion in East Benton, Maine, this past summer. lo t. On an adder note, Doug reported that ht al o exhtblt her watercolor , and the rwo are Tim, a songwriter, singer and instrumentalist boa consmctor, Tmy, pa ed peacefully after 34 very acttve m the antmal nght and human living in Tenne ee, has written ongs for coun­ year of plea on the Mame Land U e Regulation Com­ program whtle mamtammg an acttve career a from bemg a French and Spanish reacher, the mt ton (LURC), where Marty Womer 1 now a a teacher and scholar." In ht more playful JOb she has held since 1983! ...Peter Ashton

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recently ran for board of selectmen in Acton job), visiting Peter Metcalf and family (Peter Mass. The father of three girls, Peter is presiden� spent two years at Colby, then transferred) in 1970s Correspondents of Innovation and Information Consultants, a Bergamo, Italy. This past summer they vaca­ firm he co-founded in West Concord, Mass., tioned with John Lake '78 and his wife, Sandy 1970 that specializes in applied microeconomic and ('78 but transferred), and their kids, Jack and Steven Cline financial analysi . Did you win the election, Sarah. They also enjoyed a mini 20th reunion in 6602 Loch Hill Road Peter? ... David '75 and Harriett Buxbaum Maine with Chuck and Judy Que Lukasik and Baltimore, MD 21239-1 644 Pinansky recently sent their first-born, Sam, off Woodson and Louise Butenas Bercaw, all '78s. e-mail: [email protected] to college at Carnegie-Mellon. Harriet, a church ...Tom Whittier is living in Scottsdale, Ariz., secretary, and David, an attorneywith the FDIC, with his wife, Robin, and three children-Bryan, 1971 James Hawkins also have a daughter, Sarah, 14 ....Ned Lipes 18, Brittney, 13, and Kelsey, 8. Tom is a real 485 Locust Street wrote from Mahway, N.H. Ned commented estate agent and Robin is a teacher. . ..Bob Attleboro, MA 02703 that since his company, Osteonics Corp., just Southwick owns Olde Village Builders, a small 508-226-1436 purchased another to become the largest com­ home building and renovation business in S. petitor in the orthopaedic device (hips and Orleans, Mass. He is married to Debra, who 1972 knees) market, he just can't seem to play as owns a house cleaning business, and they have Janet Holm Gerber much golf as he would like (although he some­ a 6-year-old daughter, Amanda, three cats and 409 Reading Avenue Rockville, MD 20850 how found the time to play Pine Valley and a dog. Bob says that his Colby education allowed 301 -424-9160 Cypress Point last spring). He stays busy helping him to advance in the building business much e-mail: [email protected] wife Paula with the brood (Ashley, 15, Ned Jr., more quickly ....Mike Yeagerwritesfromsunny 13, and Lauren, 11) .... Harry Nelson, VP Walnut Creek, Calif., that he and his wife, 1973 withJotul North America, the Norwegian stove Phebe Enfield, both work as digital producers in Jacquelyn Nienaber Appeldorn manufacturer, loves living in North Yarmouth, addition to caring for their four cats, Toothless, 1437 Old Ford Road Maine, and has three sons, Sam, Peter and Kitty, Shinny and Fat Tail. Mike is the founder/ New Paltz, NY 12561 Alex ....Banker Doug McMurrey penned owner of the Digital Institute of Video Arts 914-255-4875 e-mail: [email protected] comments from Singapore, where he is man­ (http://www.dv arts.com) ....Peter Cohn and aging director, global project finance for Asia/ his wife, Joanne, live in Huntington, N.Y. Peter Pacific. Doug and wife Sarah are busy with sent me a copy of"Knothole," the newsletter of 1974 Shelley Bieringer Rau Jay, 14, Leigh, 11, a macaw and a horse! ... the Christopher Morley Knothole Association 123 Hotel Road Keep writing! for which Peter serves as president. In this issue Auburn, ME 04210 -Valerie ] ones Roy a new scholarship and reading contest for area 207-783-0829 high school students was announced.... I've e-mail: [email protected] 77 Jan Staples lives in Phoenix, Md., where been hearing about a fabulous new restaurant in she is a stock trader and managingdirectorat BT Bar Harbor-124 Cottage Street Restaurant­ 1975 Nan Weidman Anderson Alex Brown. She is married to Richard owned by none other than Ed Ciampa and his 806 Partridge Circle Wunderlich and has two "absolutely terrific wife, Penelope. Ed and Penelope have a son Golden, CO 80403 Anthony, 4, a 5-year-old dog, Wilky, a horse, a stepchildren," Meredith, 24, andJarrod, 26, and 303-278-4378 a daughter Abigail, 4. Jan writes that her "big­ pony, and two cats ....Marcel Dionne wrote e-mail: [email protected] gest and best change in recent years was the from St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he is chief finan­ adoption of Abby-she's an amazing kid and cial officer for Simpson Development. Next 1976 has certainly put a lot more balance in my year he hopes to finish the master's degree in Valerie Jones Roy life." ...Jeff Sanderson, our class president, is international management from Thunderbird 38 Hunts Point Road an international health consultant, and his wife, University in Glendale, Ariz. Marcel loves be­ Cape Elizabeth, ME 04 107 Andrea, i a mental health counselor. They live ing a dad and spending time with his "beautiful 207-767-0663 e-mail: sroy1 @maine.rr.com in Alexandria, Va., with their "crazy Wheaten 7 -year-old daughter, Laura." They drove to Terrier named Bay leigh." Jeff reports a busy year Prince Edward Island last summer and on the 1977 since our 20th, including 10 trips to Belize as way home stopped to see the old alma mater. Ellen D. O'Brien project manager for a health reform project Laura was suitably impressed ....Jane Williams 205 Fernwood Avenue there and a scuba diving trip to Honduras in Blumberg writes that she and husband Bruce Davenport, lA 52803-3606 January '98. He says he is "looking for a career live in Pepperell, Mass., with their two children, 319-359-4665 change after 15+ years in health management/ Phillip, 12, and Gwen, 9, and many animals. e-mail: [email protected] consulting, hoping for less travel, more job flex­ Bruce is a professor at MIT's media lab, and Jane ibility and possibly a move back to New says she's "still teaching grades 2 and 3 and 1978 Robert S. Woodbury England." . . . Bob Clarke is the New England loving it and raising kids and loving it!" ...Keep 484 Bridge Street those letters and e-mails coming! It is wonderful territory manager for W.H. Brady Co. His wife, South Hamilton, MA 01982 Kathy, is a dental hygienist. They live in Port­ hearing from you. 978-468-3805 land, Maine, with their daughter, Hannah, 8, a -Ellen D. 0' Brien 617-357-1 173

graceful, budding gymnast.. . . Susan Woods [email protected] and Peter Breu and their two children, Martin, 78 Many classmates are demonstrating a 10, and Anna, 7, live in Manchester, N.H. high level of resilience in their lives. Bill and 1979 Susan is vice president of development at P.C. Kathy Colello Guerin have full lives in Robert Kinney 291 1 Edgehill Drive Connections; Peter is a custom furniture builder Bowdoinham, Maine, that apparently got a lot Alexandria, VA 22302-2521 and fuller sometime around Thanksgiving. Kathy "house husband." They went to Europe for 703-836-4227 has the very provocative title of creative vice three weeks in the fall of'97 to celebrate Susan's e-mail: [email protected] temporary unemployment (when CJGNA ac­ president for AD Media, an advertising com­ quired her fo rmer company and eliminated her pany in Augusta, and Bill works as a designer/

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draftsman. This would seem to be a busy enough degree water for the ocean swim in Kennebunk produces TV commercials. She recently wel­ existence, e pecially since they claim to have kept them moving. Colby continues to figure comed Emma Madaket Patterson to her life, spent the summer working, bur they were ex­ prominently in her life, as her dog is so named. which she now describes as narrow and deep pecting twins, their first children, sometime See you at the 25th, Mary! ...Please keep the rather than broad and shallow.... Dave around Thanksgiving.... Jeanne Greiter Fine letters and e-mails coming-and let's see if we Ashcraft and wife T eri live in the Chicago and her husband, Howard, have been in the kid can hear from some of the male members of the suburbs, although Dave still commutes to Chi­ business for 13years with four of their own. Both class next time. cago as national account manager for the Hart­ are techies of sorts: Jeanne works as an educa­ -Robert S. Woodbury ford. He recently participated in a duathlon (a tion consultant for Healthcare Information Ser­ triathlon minus the swimming) and has kept up vices, and Howard is a manager of software sales. 79 Some may have wondered what hap­ his interest in music, particularly "obscure but We should all move to Tampa because they pened to your news from month past. Well, I brilliant progressive bands" from around the claim to be able to pick money from a tree in the fo und it. Biggest apology to Andrea James, world. This pastime includes writing reviews for backyard for their kids' "multitudinous" needs whose letter from a year ago got lost in the black several print and one on-line newsletter. Son and a recent Club Med vacation that included hole of my home office. Andrea is a middle Eric is in kindergarten! ...Dwight Allison the kids. I wonder who watered and pruned the school Spanish teacher in Northampton, Mass., writes from New Hampshire, where he is CEO tree while they were away ....Things are no who by now has likely finished course work for of Micro Med Inc. In the summer of '97 Dwight, le s hectic for Neil and Donna Dee Genzlinger her M.Ed. She and her husband, Eric Span­ Jane (Sullivan '80) and sons Dewey, 14, and and their two girls in South Plainsboro, .J. genthal, a Merrill Lynch executive, have two Matt, 11-ish, moved to a new home in North Neil is an editor and columnist for TheNew York girls, Alissa and Rebecca. Andrea is also a vol­ Hampton, N.H., close to the ocean, skiing and Times while Donna tries to keep up with the unteer interviewer fo r prospective Colby stu­ the boys' school. ... Rhonda Htoo is director of activities of Emily, 12, and Abigail, 1-1/2. Three dents ....Barry Horwitz, in his third year as a information systems for the Goldhirsh Group, generation of the family recently enjoyed a principal in his management consulting firm, Inc., publisher of Inc. magazine. Her husband, vacation at a dude ranch in ew York. Donna Horwitz & Company in Newton, Mass., was John O'Connell, an architect, has redesigned highly recommends it fo r anyone looking for recently elected a certified management con­ their kitchen and work has begun. Rhonda also family fun but cautions against it following back sultant by the Institute of Management Con­ looks forward to graduating in August 1999 surgery. Her ensuing back pain after three days sultants. He and wife Elizabeth (Yanagihara from Northeastern's high tech M.B.A. program. on a horse was one of the reasons she passed on '80) have two children, Michael, 13, and Ali, ...Ross Moldoff, planning director for the the 10-hour car ride to Colby for our 20th. 10, as well as a menagerie of wildlife ....Craig town of Salem, N.H., presented a paper on Donna, plan the next trip after our 25th! .... Garson is a senior partner in the Nova Scotia controlling strip development to the National )ana Kendall Harrison's letter indicates she law firm of Garson, Knox & MacDonald, prac­ Conference of the American Planning Associa­ ha at least fo ur jobs. While her husband, Bob, ticing criminal and civil litigation. He is al o tion in Boston. Wife Amy teaches music, and is an elementary teacher, Jana recently began a president of the Nova Scotia Criminal Lawyers' they have two girls, Emily, 7, and Allison, job as a part-time school librarian/media spe­ Association and in 2000 will assume the presi­ 4 ....Carl Lovejoy was named assistant head­ cialist. She also writes and designs a newsletter dency of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. master for admissions and development at Car­ for her town's school sy tern, recently began a Wife Catherine and daughters Ellen, 10, Rose, digan Mountain School in N.H. Carl will master's degree program in communications and 5, and Marybeth, 4, round out a fu ll life ....Dr. continue to act as the school's chieffund raiser. for ix weeks during the summer taught fourth David Phillips resides in South Portland, Maine, He and wife Cari have three boys, Ben, Matt graders who were attending summer school for where he practices holistic medicine as well as and Nick .... Greg Pfitzer is professor of Ameri­ remedial instruction. Oh yeah, with Bob she occupational and environmental medicine. can studies at Skidmore College in N.Y. and at also is rai mg two daughters and one son be­ David has two children, David III, 15, and work on his second book. He and Mia have two tween the ages of7 and 14.... Cathy Kindquist Lauren Ashlyne, 11.... Jane Prairie, husband children-Michael, 11, and Sally, 10 ....Meg LS psyched to be back in Colorado-in Gunnison, Keith and son Everett, 2, live in Westbrook, Matheson is reviser of statutes for the Maine With a new JOb as an as i rant professor of geog­ Maine, where Jane is a licensed clinical social legislature and still active in local theater. She raphy. he explains that she hasn't been in worker. In 1998 they bought a two-family home was recently Kate in Taming of the Shrew ....I rouch, and m1 sed our 20th, because she's been and enjoy fixing the place up ....Lisa Pacun have changed jobs (chief counsel for environ­ bu ymovmgbacktoColorado at last! ... ailing moved back to England after three years in ment for the National Association of Attorneys and educanon eem to be the main points of Singapore with ortel Ltd. and is now market­ General), so please note my new e-mail address foc u for Tom and Francie Palmer Hale. Francie ing director of carrier programmes. She recently ([email protected]). And please support our 1 a teacher, and Tom IS a vice president and took a two-week trip to India, where she rode 20th reunion Alumni Fund! techmcal d1rector for the American Boat and the "Palace on Wheels," a train that travels -Robert Kinney Yacht Counc1l. They have three k1d , the oldest through Rajahstan ....Julie Ramsdell Pro­ of whom, arah, 1 a fre hman at Brown. (Francie jansky teaches fo urth, fifth and sixth grades at 80 Michael Carter has gone from farmer wonder , "Wa n't I just a fre hman at Colby?") T umer Elementary School in Turner. Maine. to business tycoon, according to a Boston Globe 'he pent the ummer workmg in ad ales for a he and hu band Dave '78 have a 14-year-old story sent to me by Lynn Collins Francis. The admg magazme, admg her BYTE at regatta daughter, Aly sa, a freshman in high school. ... article quotes Douglas Levin, his brother-in-law on the Che apeake and dnvmg her k1ds to Felicity Myers, an L.C.S.W. mediator/co­ and business partner in making the "hot" new admg regatta . Franc1e m1 ed our 20th be­ parentmg rherapi t m Walpole, Maine, and fr uit and veggie juices known as Fresh Samantha. cau e he wa m Mex1co as a Fulbnght exchange hu band Bill Creighton also are kept busy rais­ The juices, named after Levin's daughter, now reacher with her 10-year-old on, Teddy .... mg two daughters, Je ica, 17, and Emma, 14, as number 20 and run the gamut from orange to Mar Roler on Hebert 1 al o a reacher--of well a a orred cntter that walk and carrot-orange to "Desperately eeking C" (for language arts-In Kennebunk, Mame. Her hu - fly. . . . arah ( ally) Morton recently moved flu season) and "Get mart" (apple, strawberry, band, Don, 1 a CFO, and her rwo on have too ro Cohas et, Ma . he IS VP and director of banana, Ginko and Gota Kola-to improve many acnvme to hst, but the !aero e coach for consultant marketmg for the Bo ron Company­ circulation to the brain, I'm told). From the one of her boy 1 Charl1e Burch '79. Mary and and ha three bas et hound , two champions article' picture and text, commercial success her hu band compete m 5K road race and, and one With a champ's hearuf not ped1gree .... eem not to have changed Michael much- recently, entered rhe1r first marhalon. The 59 Miriam Patterson lives m .Y.C., where she although when pressed by the interviewer (and

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apparently his brother-in-law), he did admit to more Tibetan than tin drum. You can use your two children, Lillian and Hugh. Skip, who is national ambitions ....Kitty Weyl Dove is a running to relax and feel better, Alice suggests, CEO and pre idem of Print Mount Co., Inc., mom of two (Caroline, 4, and William, 2) in by focusing on your surroundings and not on says he enjoys sailing on Narragansett Bay in San Francisco, where husband Robert is a Bechtel whatever stressful matters would otherwise oc­ R.I. and skiing at Waterville Valley in executive. Kitty is glad to be finally settled in cupy your attention. The point, of course, is not N.H.... Michael Federle has been named as­ their home after an eight-month renovation but to run away from your problems but just to let sociate publisher at Fortune magazine after be­ notes that they do a lot of traveling with the your mind go somewhere better for a while.... ing eastern advertising director for two years. kids. She also reports that Lisa McDonough The Ann Albee Hoefle '80 Fund, an endowed Michael has worked for Time, Inc., for 12 years O'Neill is moving to New Jersey ....By the financial fund, has been established in memory and joined the company as a sales development time this appears, Ted Bolduc will have been of our classmate, who died of cancer in January manager for People in 1985. He was an associate ordained a Charismatic Episcopal priest at the 1998. Friends of Ann who wish to contribute to advertising director at Life in 1992 and returned Trinity Church in Plaistow, N.H., where he had the fund can send their gifts to the Develop­ to People in 1993 before joining Fortune in 1995. been a deacon. Ted was a Pentacostal minister ment Office at Colby. He lives in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., with his wife before joining the Charismatic Episcopal Church -John Veilleux and two daughters ....Joel Harris, a portfolio and traces his religious awakening back to his manager for HM Payson in Portland, has moved sophomore year at Colby. Married and the fa­ 81 Congratulations to Darlene Howland to Cumberland, Maine, from North Yarmouth ther of three, Ted also works part time as a lab and Steve Pfaff on the birth of their son, with his wife, Natalie, and their three chil­ technican at Dytex, Inc ....Karen Caine Bab­ Stephen, born in July 1998 and the joy of his dren, Morgan, Phoebe and Madeline. They bitt teaches fourth grade at the Gidley School in parent . Stephen gets to go to work with his are building their second new house in four

Dartmouth, Mass., and has two children, Emily, mom every day: Darlene is the director of the years ... . Saranna (Sara) Robinson Thornton 11, and Ike, 9-both avid soccer players and Children's Center on the campus of Wellesley is living in Hampden-Sydney, Va., where she is successful Opti sailors. Karen sounds pretty avid College in Wellesley, Mass ....Carol Sanders­ an assistant professor at Hampden-Sydney Col­ and succes ful too, co-chairing the sailing school Reed is living in Cedar Crest, N.M., where she lege, an all-male liberal arts college of about program at the New Bedford Yacht Club and is a population biologist. Her husband, Jack 1,000 students, and coaching the men's rugby coaching an Odyssey of the Mind team. Thanks­ Sanders-Reed, is a physicist, and they have a team. She won the college's prize for excel­ giving saw all 21 of her family at Kiawah Island, daughter, Akilah. Carol traveled to Scotland lence in research, awarded in part for a book S.C., and spring will take them on their second last year to work for 10 months on a population she co-authored with Professor Cal Mackenzie boat charter to the British Virgin Islands. She model for a population of blue-nose dolphins in of Colby. She and her husband, Mike, have notes that they also got the chance to visit with the Moray Firth ....Barbara Cooper Comunale two sons, Paul and Eddie ....Please keep those Cornelia Armbrecht Brefka and her two boys, is living in Georgetown, Mass., and is a labora­ letters and e-mails coming in. You can reach Paul and Henry, last summer and saw Jeannie tory management consultant. She and her hus­ me at beth. [email protected]. Minkel the previous Christmas. Karen's hus­ band, Mark, have two sons, Mark and John. -Beth Pniewski Wilson band, Jib, is general manager, Standard Fasten­ Barb volunteers at both boys' schools as a reader ings, and treasurer and VP of Babbitt Steam and sometimes brings in animals such as squid or 82 Deborah Nader Hartshorn sends in Specialty Co. in New Bedford ....Jack McBride octopus for the children to explore. Barb has news from Vermont. Her husband, Tom, is a is president of Commons Development Group, climbed Ayers Rock and gone scuba diving at financial advisor and painting contractor. Deb­ Inc. of Westford, a real estate development and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. She ran into orah and Tom have a daughter, Dane, born in construction firm specializing in residential de­ Bruce and Ellen Reinhalter Shain at the Pingree April '97 and the joyoftheir lives. Deborah is on velopment. Current and past positions include School's family skating/holiday party in a two-year leave from her kindergarten teaching chairman of the Concord Affordable Housing Hamilton, Mass., last year. ... John Yates took position-and is painting houses part time .... Committee, director of the Builders Associa­ a year's leave of absence from programming to Sheila Kineke is a college instructor and tion of Greater Boston, member of the National research a multimedia biography of his grandfa­ freelance writer. Her husband, Gary Bernstein, Association of Home Builders and chairman of ther, a World War II general in North Africa is an astronomy professor. They have twin boys, its local multifamily housing and legislative against Rommel. He was equipped with laptop, Andrew and Lewis, born in February '97. Sheila committees. Jack and Melissa have two boys, GPS, pager and cell phone to follow his tracks to would love to hear news of Catie Hobson, John, 8, and Will, 6, and a girl, Louisa, 1. ... various Army posts throughout the south .... Kathleen Shea and Carolyn Treat.... News Linda Alter embarked on a new career in real Alison Jones Webb is living in Waterville with from Bruce Fields comes from Westport, Conn. estate two years ago and seems to have hit her her husband, Jim, and their two children, Eliza­ He and his wife, Suzanne, have two girls, Jessica, stride quickly-rolling up $3 million in sales in beth and Isaac. Alison is president of Webb 2, and Julie, 5. Bruce runs an emerging markets the first year and $5.5 million last year. She Management Services, and Jim is a history pro­ trading desk in New York City and says that he graciously offers her e-mail address (alterhomes fessor at Colby. In 1998 they went to Kandy, Sri spends too much time at the officeand traveling @aol.com) and offers to give out free real estate Lanka, where Jim is directing the Intercolle­ to South America and Africa. He plans a trip to advice by e-mail. ...Marjorie Smith Bose made giate Sri Lanka Education Program. They plan Maine with his family this spring and is looking a big move from New Hampshire to Texas last on living there for two years and would welcome forward to seeing all the changes on campus .... year when husband Ron took a position as any Colby visitors ... . Stephanie Vrattos is Susan Reese Krevat is living in Massachusetts director at Technology Consulting, which is living in Waltham, Mass., and teaching English with husband Matthew and their three chil­ based in Irving. The warm weather and commu­ at the Watertown Middle School. She also dren, Bethany, 9, Derek, 7, and Andrew, 5. nity recreation facilities suit them all perfectly, teaches SAT, GRE and TOEFL classes for Kaplan Matthew is a lawyer, and Susan is a world including "wild child" daughter Kendall, 2, and Educational Centers in Newton, Mass. In Janu­ language teacher. She is currently working part 13-year-old dog, Seymour. ... Crossing an im­ ary 1998, Stephanie, Lee Johnson '79 and Carol time teaching French and Spanish at the ele­ age of a lone runner fo llowing a narrow path Doherty '79 were honored along with their mentary level. She is also finishing her master's that snakes its way through high grass, the story teammates at a banquet given by the Mas port in education at Salem State College. Susan is headline in the August 1998 Runner's World Jets Women's Ice Hockey Team of East Boston, happy to report that he passed the infamous magazine tells its readers, "Don't Worry, Be who were the first U.S. Champions in Massachusetts Teachers Test on the first try, Mindful." Although the headline recalls Bobby 1975 ....Hugh "Skip" Neville is living in which she attributes in large part to her excel­ McFerrin, author Alice Domar's psychology is Barrington, R.I., with his wife, Donna, and their lent liberal arts education at Colby. Susan has

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heard from Kelda Caldwell Simpson. Kelda and They've kept me up ro date on stories they're Volunteer Fire Company; Patricia is an EMT and husband Rick and daughter Molly bought a working on and on how to win a year's supply of captain. Chris is an adjunct instructor in devel­ home in Washington, D.C., where Kelda has a Ben and Jerry's ice cream. For info, check out opmental biology and genetics. Thomas started great job with the World Bank ....Marc Gor­ their Web page (www.madriver.com/users/ kindergarten this year, and Robert's in pre-K. don has relocated to Minnesota, where he has granschl/index.htm) .... Here on the island, -Sally Lovegren Merchant taken the job of senior vice president, CIO at Claire, Allie, Jack and Mike Sasner have moved Best Buy Inc. Marc is married to Carolyn Porter, into a house in Seal Cove, near Southwest 84 Heather Nicol was married in Scot­ and their son Joshua is 4 .... Lisa Smith Fry Harbor/Tremont. Mike is working at the Jack­ land on September 5 to Jim Rutherford. Lots of and her family have relocated to Sarasota, Fla. son Laboratory in Bar Harbor; Claire is involved family and friends made the trek ro Scotland, Her husband, Greg, is the associate rector at St. at the nursery school level, where Allie attends but one who was missing was Heather's sister Boniface Episcopal Church, and Lisa is tour school. Jack is 3 ...Rick Gilbert, of Lexington, Jane Nicol Manuel '87, at home in Beverly, manager at Florida Studio Theatre. Zoe is 7 and Mass., was elected to the law firm of Goldstein Mass., with week-old son William. (Jane and is participating in the Write A Play program & Manella. Rick is a graduate of Northeastern David Manuel are now the proud parents of offered through Florida Studio Theatre ....Marc University School of Law ....Mary Kennedy three boys!) Heather and Jim, who went on a Jeton and his family moved back to Massachu­ Harris has been extremely busy professionally fantastic two-week honeymoon to Tanzania, setts in July '97 after his wife, Kate, starred a new in music and education, says the York County met in N.Y.C. and in April moved to London, job at Dana Hall as the director of Dana Hall (Maine) Coast Scar. She travels from Saco to where Heather has been working at Goldman Riding Center. Previously, Marc had been com­ Biddeford to teach music at Willard and Emerson Sachs, selling European equity research to Lon­ muting three days a week from their home in elementary schools and at Sanford High School. don-based institutions. She lived in London 10 Acton, Maine, to his job in Cambridge at She has degrees in music and social work and is years ago fo r five years and enjoys being Forrester Research, where he is an international working on more, including her master's in back! ...Kevin Morin has been an attorney channels manager. Marc works with Jon education. Her flute, harp and guitar trio, with Gordon, Muir & Foley in Hanford since he Schwartz and also stays in regular contact with Windstrum, is a popular ensemble playing at graduated from \Vake Forest University Law Paul Maier and Harvey Coco '81. ...Michael many weddings and other events. She also plays School in 1989. He became a partner with the Koonce is the senior vice president and assis­ in Sax Works, in the Tim Janis Ensemble and in firm in 1996. Kevin and his wife, Melissa, have tant general counsel at First Union Corpora­ duets with piani ts and other accompanists. three children-Michael, 9, Mitchell, 6, and tion. He and his wife, Lee, live in Hingham, Finding bookings for her students is her real Tessa, 3. Kevin serves on the board of directors Mass., with their two children, Sam, 7, and love, and the Mary Kennedy Flute Ensemble, for the New England Dollars fo r Scholars orga­ Molly, 3, and Tucker the dog and Cassie the composed of students, performs locally with nization, which is part of the nation's oldest and cat. ...Karen Enegess recently moved to Ja­ Mary's help ....Barbara Leonard was the key­ largest private sector nonproftt student ftnan­ maica Plain, Mass., with her partner, Steve note speaker for June 1998's opening of Women cial assistance fo undation. He and Greg "Tull" Hurl, a local singer-songwriter and guitar teacher. at the Center, an organizational network and Tulloch meet up frequently at Patriots' games­ Karen i in her last year at Lesley College, arts and community activity space in the former which soon may be closer to Kevin's home in working on a rna ter's in counseling psychology. Stem's building in Waterville, Maine. Barb is West Hartford, Conn .... Scott Morrill recently he is interning at Arbour-HRI Counseling the president of Maine Women's Fund, whose joined with three other lawyers to form Advo­ ervices in Brookline and working pan time at mission i ro promote the well-being of women cates Law Center, L.L.C., in Tualatin, Ore. Bread and Circus in Wellesley. Last year she and girls in Maine ....Natalie Ann joined They are a suburban legal center providing worked at a battered women's shelter ....Matt Andrea, Jonathan, Allan and Diane Therrien services in business, family, personal injury, Figel and his wife, Linda, are both investment Lamper in May 1998, which is why Diane could juvenile, bankruptcy, criminal defense, real es­ bankers in California.They have three children, not attend reunion. Congrats, Diane! ...Karin tate, immigration and estate planning. Recent ara, 6, Erin, 4, and on David, born last June. and Wayne Foote sent news from Bangor, Maine, fa mily reunions took Scott and his wife, Jane -Mimi H. Rasmussen where Wayne is an attorney with Foote & (MacKenzie '83 ), to B.C., Canada, in July and Temple. Karin is a psychological therapist. The tO Maine in August (they actually went through 83 Pete ''Ruggs" Ruggles, his wife and couple just celebrated the wedding of Wayne's Waterville without stOpping in on Colby' ). Scott son alan welcomed identical twin Keith and daughter Leigh as well as the kindergarten mile­ writes an occasional rongue-in-cheek column ed m February 199 . Pete works in Billerica as stOne of daughter Betsy. Wayne ays having for the local weekly paper, mostly poking fun at planmng manager fo r Clark & Reid Executive children 21 years apart gives him an unusual himself and the misadventures with his Mover (who pecialtze m executive level cor­ perspective on life .... From Alexandria, Va., family ....Still happily married after 14 years porate tran fe r ) . Pete ee Pat Fortin ' 2 and came a short but weer note from Nancy Goers as of August 25, Sally Lee is working at MIT in Bnan Coakley ' 2 and bumps mto the Mike and Hubbell with a recent pic of on Jack, the coolest of cool places (my adjectives, not Mark chafer fa mtlte ....Jennifer Thayer e­ 5 ....Katherine "Katie" Lyons Kittredge left hers)-the Media Lab, a hotbed for computer maded me her new addre (Jthayer®optonlme. Colby, worked in publishing, got married (Fletcher science and innovation. She recently took three net) ....Gretchen and Jake Filoon moved to ' 4 ), became a devoted runner, had three kids weeks off just to paint and won an illustration We t Lmn, Ore., from Bosron recently when (now 11, 9, 5), moved back ro Maine ( o. commission for a how-tO-wallpaper book. A Jake rook a new JOb wtth Columbta Manage­ Berwick), went to grad chool (school of educa­ recent trip to Bermuda provided the inspiration ment Company, a ub tdtary of Fleet Fmanctal uon, Harvard), rook up yoga and is now at the for some of her late t paintings of landscapes Group. Jake 1 VP, development and operauon . UmverSLty of outhern Maine tudying school and architecture, and she has also created props Colby, agolden rernever-thetrweddmg pre ent psych. Kaue, keep writmg us .... In Dallas, Texas, and costumes for a new opera performed in from college cla mate -love Oregon a Andy Kaye IS semor vtce prestdent and regional Bo ton. al swims several miles a week and ha well. ... Becky Crook Roger ' fa mdy have managmg partner at JPI, one of the nation's started biking again. he stays in rouch with ertled m alt Lake Ctty, Utah. Hubby Jes e largest mulu-famdydevelopers ....Emily Baker: Amy Carlson and Sara Hill. ...David Hill wor for pectahzed Btkes. Hopefully he' please end more news. I have your envelope and his wife, ancy, are living in Rockville, Md. added her e-mad addre es ro her Blue Ltght from England but have lo t your letter. I apolo­ They have a son, Zachary, 2, and dogs Tundra Colb� :.tte... . I al:.oget weekly e-mad from the gtze. Hope tt's the last nme that happens.... From and Katie, whom they re cued as puppie . David, folk m Gram·tlle, Vt., who are m Peter Ithaca, .Y., Parncta and Chris Easton wrote a senior sy ternsanalyst, was appointed to a city Flaherty' Gram·dle dlage choolfo urth grade. that Chn 1 now the ftre chtef of the Varna government post a commissioner, board of ap-

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peals in Rockville. Healso serves as the overseer Ryan, 3 .... State Representative Paul Doyle of the Appalachian Trail for the Potomac AT sponsored the Nuisance Abatement Act, which 1980s Correspondents Club and is an officer for a nonprofit that sends enables the state of Connecticut to close down city youths to Colorado for summer employ­ drug houses. The bill was part of his plan to 1980 ment in the National ForestService. He stays in improve and clean up cities such as Hartford John Veilleux touch with Dieter Weber and Joan Ray '85, Bill and New Britain.... Newsman John Collins 7104 Sonnett Court Buies '86, Mike Day, Paula Thomson, Lynn continues to amuse us with "Read My Quips," Derwood, MD 20855 MacLean, Eric Broadbent and Anne Thayer published in the "1590 Broadcaster," the weekly [email protected] '83 ....Ken and Nancy Silverman Levinsky of radio station AM 1590, where John's news­ are living in Portland, Maine. Nancy is a full­ casts can be heard weekday mornings. John 1981 Beth Pniewski Wilson time mom(t o Andrea, 6, and Gregory, born Ia t writes, "More college kids in trouble: A survey P 0 Box 602 May), Hebrew Schoolteacher and United Syna­ says the average student graduates with a finan­ Harvard, MA 01451 gogue Youth advisor. Nancy has also been hon­ cial debt of 18 thousand dollars. And a blood 978-456-8801 ored with the Distinguished Service Awardfrom alcohol content of point 2." ...Marion Stouffer e-mail: [email protected] Temple Beth El in Portland ....Lynne and TJ and Mark Howard were married �nd, after a Palmer are living at Brewster Academy in wedding trip to the Greek Islands, set up house 1982 Wolfeboro, N.H., where Lynne is director of in Greenwich Village, N.Y. Mark has worked Mimi H. Rasmussen admission and TJ , who received his master's for Lehman Brothers Inc. for 13 years and is 63 Reservoir Street Cambridge, MA 02 138 degree from Dartmouth, is on the history faculty currently a managing director in fixed income 617-492-1002 and serves as the head coachfor men's hockey. research and a corporate bond global strate­ e-mail: [email protected] TJ writes that after two back surgeries he is off gist .... Christine Petersen and Robert Craig the ice and behind the bench! He recently went Wells also were married. Both work in San 1983 to assist former roommate Greg Cronin '86 at Francisco, Calif. Christine is a vice president for Sally Lovegren Merchant his hockey camp in N.J. (Greg recently became retail marketing at Charles Schwab & Com­ 24 Easy Street assistant coach for the NY Islanders.) JT and pany, the discount securities brokerage Mt. Desert, ME 04660 Lynne have three children-TJ Jr., 8, Jessica, 7, concern .... I'm still looking for some help in 207-244-0441 fax: 207-244-9445 and Brady, 4-and not long ago celebrated their setting up a Web page for our class. I'm also lOth wedding anniversary .... I hope you all looking for someone to replace me in the year 1984 have plans to return to Waterville for the big 2000 as our class secretary. I've had a great time Maura Cassidy 15th reunion! writing the column and encourage anybody 38 Irwin St #3 -Maura Cassidy who's interested to give me a call and we can Winthrop, MA 021 52-1 213 chat about what's involved. It's a great way to 61 7-539-0176 85 Sarah (Stevens ) and Scott Clark moved keep in touch with old friends. 61 7-563-4147 from Connecticut to the Boston area and are -Barbara Knox Autran e-mail: [email protected] both enjoying their new jobs as, respectively, kindergarten teacher at The Tower School in The Class of '86 is definitely movin' on 1985 86 Barbara Knox Autran up to a deluxe apartment in the social sky, folks! Marblehead and director of information technol­ 573 7th Avenue ogy at the Roxbury Latin School. .. . John A member of our class, Jeanne Choquette San Francisco, CA 941 18 Kramer has been promoted to senior vice presi­ Radvany, had her wedding announcement 41 5-379-3519 dent, general counsel and corporate secretary (complete with photo) in The New York Times. for ABN ANRO Incorporated, a global, Jeanne was married to David Radvany in June, 1986 full-service investment banking, brokerage and and both are employed by Anderson Consult­ Wendy Lapham Russ securities firm ....Elizabeth Banwell was a ing. Congratulations and Maze! Tov! ... Our 206 Cheltenham Road member of the host committee for the Maine class is not only climbing the social ladder, we Newark, DE 1971 1 302-738-6261 Women's Lobby, celebrating "20 yearsof persis­ are achieving fa me and recognition in other e-mail: [email protected] tence and progress." . . . Lynn Brunelle moved ways, roo. Jay Prefontaine now has an agent and is working on a book of short stories. He is to Seattle a year ago from New York, where she 1987 was senior editor of children's books for Work­ also an English instructor at Eastern Illinois Jane Nicol Manuel man Publishing. She was the head writer for Bill University. He writes, "I teach freshman comp 8 Wentworth Drive Nye the cience Guy, a kids' science show. to people bornin 1979; I live in the country with Beverly, MA 01 91 5 Lynn won an Emmy for writing. Congrats! Now the coyotes and the tree frogs. My ankles crack 978-927-6084 she's freelancing-writing documentaries for in the morning." Jay sent me a picture of the e-mail: jmanuel1 @aol PBS, brewing up a show of her own, doing a 300-acre farm he lives on, with lots of scrawled commentary on the back of the photo about 1988 screenplay for Disney and still writing kids' Lauren Frazza how he hauls water from town and burns his books. By the time you read this column, Soak­ 200 East 78th Street, Apt. 19A ing Science, coming from Somerville House trash in barrels.... News from another Cla s of New York, NY 10021 Books, should be in print.... Michael Montem­ '86 celebrity (to us, anyway). Gretchen Bean 212-71 7-7020 beau has taken the position of senior project Lurie checked in with me via e-mail to report, e-mail: lfrazza@41 mad.com manager at Corporate Environmental Advisors, "My kids have caught the Hollywood bug and Inc ....Strongest Link AIDS Services Inc. hired recently did their first film." The Lurie family 1989 Deborah A. Greene Elizabeth Johnson as their new executive direc­ lives in Pasadena, Calif., where Gretchen is 62 Locust Avenue #2 tor. Elizabeth holds a master's in psychology and juggling volunteer work, parenting and work at Worcester, MA 01604 a fi lm production company ....David Landau human development from Harvard Univer­ 508-755-8804 is also in the movie biz, sort of. He is a filmmaker sity... . Mariette Castillo Morrissey and her e-mail: [email protected] husband, Tom, had their third child, Maria and film production instructor and is also finish­ Catharine. She has two brothers, Danny, 6, and ing the master's in film production that he

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started "an unspeakably long time Case is getting married this spring ago." He and his wife, Melissa Ehn, to Nancy Lawrence. They both live live in Alameda, Calif., where they N EWS MAKERS in Raleigh, N.C., where Ned is a are busy restoring their 1908 bunga­ mortgage banking officer at First Helen Dooley Jursek '82 was the low and traveling around the West Union Bank. Congrats, Ned! ... subject of a Boston Globe story last and Mexico in search of hot springs Julie Ann Fitzgerald is marrying December. J ursek, an attorney, is co­ and tacos al pastor ....Patricia Paul Botticello. They both live in chairwoman of the Needham, Mass., McClellan Miller and her husband, Cambridge, where Nancy is getting Community Center Study Commit­ Jeff, have a tip to share with new her master's degree in psychology tee and with a half-dozen friends is baby owners-buy a boat! They have counseling at Lesley College .... creating a community fo undation, fo und that cruising around the lakes And John Pratt was married last The Fund for Needham, to raise near their home in Madison, Wis., May to Juliet Lambert, whom he money for projects that benefit the puts 9-month-old Baird to sleep fast. met while on the ferry to Block town ....James Verrilli '83's North Patricia is a placement manager fo r Island. John is a vice president at Star Academy, a school he founded in an employment agency and is finally Salomon Smith Barney in N.Y.C., Helen D. Jursek '82 Newark, N.J., has been praised by beginning to appreciate Big 10 foot­ and Juliet plays the role of Fantine New Jersey Governor Whitman and promoted as a model school ball and accept the fact that Green in the Broadway production of Les by the state's Department of Education. Last fall, Verrilli was Bay fans must run around with huge Miserables .... Eric Zolov has honored as the 1998 Distinguished Educator by the Delbarton pieces of cheese on their head .... joined the history department at School. ...Monserrat College of Art has elected Julia Farwell­ Far from the land of cheeseheads is Franklin & Marshall as an assistant Clay '85 to its board of trustees .... Lars S. Smith '86 was the first the state of Maine, where three class­ professor. ...Kathi Harnett Lin­ recipient of Franklin Pierce Law Center's Yacos Prize, awarded fo r mates have recently returned to put ger recently left Day, Berry & exceptional merit in an area of commercial legal studies. Smith, who down roots. Jeff O'Brien and his Howards' commercial litigation de­ is with a ew Hampshire firm, practices corporate law with a wife, Amy, relocated to Jeffs home­ partment, where she was an associ- specialization in intellectual property. town of Pownal, where they are both ate, to take some time off. Kathi teachers. Their family includes Sam, MILESTONES and husband John live in Fairfield, 9, Lily, 6, and Tyler, 5 ....Arthur Conn ....News from e-mail: Poulos lives in Rockport, where he Marriages: Mark W. Howard '85 to Marion 0. Stouffer, in Judith Fishel is getting out of the is a consultant in hospital software. Fairfield, Conn.... Christine E. Petersen '85 to Robert C. Wells, Army (but will stay in the reserves) He writes, "Life in Maine is great. in Boston, Mass.... Scott P. Humphrey '86 to Shirley A. Smith, to work as a civilian labor coun­ Everyone should try it again!" . .. in Readfield, Maine ....Michael W. Ashley '87 to Deborah L. selor for the Staff Judge Advocate Lila Hopson Monahan, husband Jim Marine, in Hockessin, Del. ...Giordano M. Caponigro '87 to in D.C. ...Tom Hubbard has and daughter Cassandra, 4, moved Whitney E. Hable, in Millcreek Canyon, Utah ....Anthony P. changed jobs again in San Fran­ to Wilton this pa t summer, where HoagJr. '87 to Leslie). Morison, in Ipswich, Mass.... Richard E. cisco and now is a regional sales Lila joined Pine Tree Pediatrics. Lila Strock '87 to Janice DeGroot. ... Heidi M. Senkler '88 to manager at Standard & Poor, which wrote in eptember that they were Stephen ). Godbout, in Carlisle, Mass ... . Edward B. Warren '88 he's enjoying ....News from ques­ expecting their econd child in Oc­ to Carla C. Castillo, in Blooming Grove, N.Y.... Jodie A. Caruolo tionnaires: George Padula took a tober, so life is urely bu y there .... '89 to Robert J. Chesney, in Providence, R.I. ...Christina E. new job as equity investment ana­ Far, far from Vacationland is the Clifford '89 to Christopher P. Comparato, in Andover, Mass. lyst with Danforth Associates in island of Maui, where Patrick Mar­ Wellesley. His wife, Margie, has tin married Margaret Danisewich in Births: A son, Samuel John Luther, to Mark and Katie Critchlow changed jobs to become a stay-at­ a sunset ceremony in June ....Re­ Luther '81. ...A son, David Figel, to Linda and Matt L. Figel home mom with Elley, 2, who's member when I reported that Colette '82 ....A son, Ryan David Fisher, to Paul and Rebecca Badger "full of energy and loads offun." ... Cote had gotten married and was Fisher '82 .... A daughter, atalie Ann Lamper, to Allan and Irene Izquierdo Patterson has gone ltvmg m France? Well, she e-mailed Diane Therrien Lam per '83 .... A son, James Austin O'Brien, to back to school to get a biotechnol­ me to venfy tht and al o to correct Kevin and Pam Kovaly O'Brien '83 ... . A daughter, Sar�h ogy certificate and is involved in my mcorrectspellmgofher husband's Meltzer, to Paul Meltzer and Ann C. Brachman-Meltzer '84 .... volunteering at her daughter's name, 1colas Mayerhoeffer. Colette A son, Gregory Levinsky, to Kenneth and Nancy Silverman school. Irene and her husband, 1 based out of Grenoble for Cop­ Levinsky '84 ....A daughter, Rebecca Marie Wickman, to Karen Tom, a CBS broadcast engineer, lthome & Bellow Publtc Relation and Jeffrey Wickman '84 .... A son, Sam Horner, to Marge and have a daughter, Anne, 5. Their but nght now IS takmg advantage of Christopher Horner '85. . . A daughter, Maria Catharine son, Daniel, died in '98 when he the '\•ery generou " French mater­ Morrissey, to Tom and Mariette Castillo Morrissey '85 ....A was almost 3. . . . usan and Peter nity leave, as he and 1cola ex­ daughter, Sarah Catherine Gill, to John and Catherine Wood­ Marshall live in Sleepy Hollow, pected the1r fir t chtld tn December. ward Gill '86 .. ..A daughter, Dayna Marjorie McCue, to N.Y., where Peter is a senior man­ ...Fmally, Peter Taubkin checked Stephen ' 6 and Cheryl Lindenberg McCue '87 .... A daughter, ager at Ernst & Young in N.Y.C. m w1th news that he IS now an attor­ Molly Hope Carter, to tephen and Deidre Boothby Carter '87. and Susan is a stay-at-home-mom ney w1th T1me Warner Cable tn Al­ ...A daughter, Johanna Glover, to Dagny and Jeff Glover '88. with Matthew, 3, and another baby bany, . Y., w1th the "longobnox10us born Ia t October. Peter reports that ntle" of v1ce pre 1denr, government relation mg one of tho e "how d1d I get here moments'" Karen and Jamie Ray had a baby, Caroline, last and publtc affa1r . La t nme I wa tn avannah I ran into Robin Augu t. They live in Portland, Maine, where -\Vend) Lapham Russ Blanchard Laughinghouse With her husband, Jamie is doing his residency at Maine Medical cott, and rwo chtldren at a "Learn to Fish" enter. ...Stephen '86 and Cheryl Lindenberg 87 I'm wntmg thLS whtle dnvmg ;,outh to thmg fo r the ktd . We were all v1s1tmg grandpar­ McCue announce the birth of their second a1·annah fo r Chn tmas tn our mm1van-\\'1th ent and had qu1te a laugh about what we were daughter, Dayna, who was born in March m1• hu band and three ktds, Ben, 5, Andre\\ , 3, domg. They have two ktd -a g1rl, 5, and a boy, '98 .... Blake and Lori Otten Miraglia were and Wtlltam, who wa hom Ia t Augu t-hav- 3. orry Robm, I fo rgot the1r name ! . . . ed expecting their third child in March. They

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have two boys, Lex, 2, and Brett, 1. They have rian home. Brooks works as a management ment Corporation in Indianapolis ....Eric Lilja been in Walnut Creek, Calif., for five years, but con ultant for a high-tech consulting firm.... received his M.B.A. from Harvard last June and Lori's husband just sold his business and they Life is full in Connecticut for Pamela and accepted a position in the consumer markets will move back to Atlanta, where Lori's family Taylor Henderson with daughter Kiernan, 2, division at AT&T, where he is managing new resides . . ..Matt and Amy Rosen Moran have dog Keynes and cat Georgie. Taylor, a finan­ IP telephone products and services, a big change two kids, Harry, 4, and Rixa, 1. Matt a ks, cial analyst, is busy "creating my own Ameri­ from his former work in nonprofit fund raising! "Whatever happened to Stew Maclehose can dream, learning what Kiernan is all about He is currently living in N.Y.C. ...Michelle '86?" ...Congrat to Rob and Tina Zabriski and fixing up a 1927 colonial structure we call Leinbach Travis graduated from Northeastern Constable on the birth of Spencer, born last home." He recently spent a Maine weekend University School of Law, passed the Mas­ August ....Keith O'Leary reports from with Todd Nicholson and Toby Emerson and sachusetts bar ( congrats!) and is currently prac­ Gloucester, Mass., that he has left the ups and caught up with Todd Molloy '86, George Sa­ ticing at Gilman, Hanrahan and McLaughlin in downs of self-employment to the predictability maras '86 and Greg Cunningham. Greg prac­ Boston. Her husband, Rob '88, is studying for of a salary as a mortgage banker. ...Keep the tices administrative land use and municipal his M.B.A. at Babson College. They are cur­ news coming. law and environmental and civil litigation rently living in Wellesley and would love to -Jane Nicol Manuel with Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, one of hear from friends in the area! ...Andrew Ayers Maine's largest law firms ....Gil Falcone, a graduated from Georgetown Medical School in 88 Stefanie Rocknak, who received a diving safety officer at the Monterey Bay June 1998 and is now a resident in orthopaedic Ph.D. in philosophy from BU, is furthering her Aquarium in California, has completed more surgery at Georgetown. He also got married to philosophy studies in Osnabrueck, Germany, than 2,000 dives over the last 10 years, dove his classmate Kate Dawson last April. Best of and also pursuing her wood-sculpting career. ... with Jean Michel Cousteau and owns a diving/ luck to both M.D.'s! ... Laura Thornton Brian Smith received his Ph.D. in justice stud­ tour business ( www.ocean exp.com). He's en­ Pelligrino and her husband, David, became ies from ArizonaState University ....Christo­ joying spending time with girlfriend Jennifer proud parents to Elizabeth Thornton Pelligrino pher Patterson, a manager in Arthur Andersen's and dog Manta Ray. Gil shares a house with on February 3, 1998 ....Dave and Cindy Cohen business consulting practice for over nine years, Scott Stratton and keeps in touch with Lael Fernandez have been married for more than was one of the highlighted speakers at the '98 and Todd Jepson of Portland, Maine, who five years and have a daughter named Sarah, 2. Conference for Manufacturers & Software were married last September. Todd is a copy­ (Yes, Dave that is a long way from rugby parties Expo ....Ann and Rob Young, who live in writer at L.L. Bean for the active sports cata­ and Beer Die!) They are living in Londonderry, Framingham, Mass., and work in financial ser­ logues.... Upcoming nuptial plans fo r Rick N.H., where Dave has been working as a claims vices, announce the birth of their son, Jesse Landeis and Kristin Sween, a social worker for manager for Progressive Insurance. Cindy has Freeman. . . . Meredith Carter Magie wishes the Wyoming State Hospital. ...All ison been a fu ll-time mom since Sarah's arrival and she had "studied Spanish instead of Japanese at Atkins and Jon Jorgensen, who recently hon­ says the only downside is that reading Dr. Seuss Colby." Meredith and husband Kevin live on a eymooned in Paris and London, are self-em­ 20 times a day can get a little old. N.C. major golf resort, where Meredith teaches ployed atJorgensen's Cafe ofWaterville, Maine, -Deborah A. Greene English to Mexican immigrants, who "add di­ and reside in China ....Nancy Knapp and versity and humor to my classroom." She spent Jennifer "Niffer" Allen live in Watertown, 90 Kate Carswell, who is living in the a weekend visiting English professor Emily Isaacs Mass., where they trained with Lisa Tomasetti Boston area, received her M.B.A. from Boston in Montclair, N.J.,where Em is "spicing the Holmes to run the Marine Corps Marathon University and is working in human resources campus with her progressive ideas!" . ..Joann last October. Nancy also sees Hope Worden, at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Koletsky Graizzaro is a middle school Spanish who has nearly completed her doctorate in teaching tennis in her spare time ....Candace teacher in Hingham, Mass., where she lives sociology/social work and is implementing do­ Bye Correa is a senior market planner in with her husband, Bruno, and stepdaughter, mestic violence prevention/treatment programs international marketing at Disneyland and Oreana ....Heidi and Steve Goldman of at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Melissa travel the world selling the "happiest place on Burlington, Vt., are adopting twin boys, Henry Paul, who recently moved back toBoston from earth." She and her husband, Adrian, live in and Nathaniel, bornin Florida last April! Steve, N.J. to work at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary; California, and Candace says she doesn't miss a tech project manager at a high-tech consult­ Kerry Griffin Freemanof D.C.; Hilary Seward; "the cold Colby winters ... [I] could never go ing firm, writes that Ted Pappadopoulos '87 and and Lisa Kerney and Chris Brown, who are back to the East Coast because I'm too 'soft' wife Jessica Morris '90 also live in Burlington. Ted busy chasing their two kids, Nat and Sydney. now from living in sunny California." ...Lisa designs Web pages and Jessica writes for the Ameri­ ... All for now! Finkelman and Alex Wu '87 are living in can Morgan Horse Association journal. ... Karen -Lauren Frazza Seattle with their cat, Emily. Lisa is eagerly Heilman ( www.conk.com/world/grappa), a stu­ anticipating the completion of her master's in dio sound engineer and black-belt karate teacher 89 Gerald Hadden reports that he has education at Antioch University (she finished in Pittsburgh, Pa., produced and released her been living in Seattle for the past five years the student teaching last fall and really loves band's first contemporary folk/acoustic CD. working as a reporter for National Public Radio. it) ....Robin Doughty is in Allston, Mass., Karen sings lead vocals .... Beth Kellogg Getto He has also written a couple of books on teenage and managing the Web site for a small automo­ "loves being an at-home mom" with Hannah, 3, refugees in America and co-wrote a book on tive information company. After graduation and infant son Caleb.... Michelle and Jonathon treehouses called Home Tree Home. He has also she taught English in the Czech Republic and Foote announce the birth of their son, Hayden; studied Afro-Cuban music in Cuba and plays landed a job at MIT when she returned to the Jonathon's "still enjoying building houses and congas and percussion for a group called States ....Peter Bryant completed his master's the Southwestern Colorado high country." ... Badukan, which recently recorded their first in environmental policy at Yale School of Bob Casey '86 (a child psychologist) and Anna CD. He also reports that Dan Sullivan has Forestry and Environmental Studie and is McCaw (an elementary school teacher) write become a "bachelor homemaker on Cape Cod now working for the Nature Conservancy. He that they "love being parents of an almost tod­ and is as much of a mutant as ever" and that is the manager ofcorporate programs and cause­ dler," Robby, in Connecticut. ... After five "Lawrence Collins remains demented and un­ related marketing. Peter plans a July 1999 years in Atlanta, Amy and Brooks Patterson repentant about beingFrench." ...Jim Klimek wedding to Cosima Lux, a classmate of his at moved to Newburyport, Mass., to start a family left his job with the state of Indiana to take an Yale. The couple are living in Arlington, Va., (baby due May '99) and renovate an old Victo- in-house counsel job with Standard Manage- with their three dogs ....David Coleman re-

57 SPRING 1 999 C 0 L BY players rookie contracts. Lavergne became one of the Jackalopes'

top scorers, finishing the season with 39 goals and 41 assists.

Lamia has since left to play hockey in Denmark, but Lavergne

returned for a second season in Odessa, solidifying his status as

a Jackalope star and a fan favorite.

Despite his recent success, Lavergne says, his prospects in

pro hockey are not good. His skills are first ave Sticking with It rate, but he is too small to play in the National Hockey League or the Interna­

tional Hockey League, one level

In Odessa, Texas, oil wells and church steeples above the WPHL, he says. "I punctuate an otherwise featureless landscape, would have given up [playing chain restaurants and strip malls are proxy for professionally] already if I wasn't entertainment, and kids stand six deep to get having so much fun," he said. autographs from local celebrities like "I'll finish this season in

Dan Lavergne '96. Odessa and that probably will be

Lavergne is a hockey player it," Lavergne said. "I plan to go to for the Jackalopes, Odessa's Europe and play there for a year franchise in the fledgling or two and then use my degree

Western Professional Hock­ to get into business-market­ ey League, and a house­ ing or finance." hold name among children The WPHL may be rife with

1n the town. Hockey had never adoring fans-some venues in been played 1n this dusty west the 17 -team league have 10,000

Texas city before the Jackalopes fans a night-but the work is not were established three years ago; always glamorous. Most of the travel is by bus, now, crowds average 5,000 per game including a 14-hour trip to Tupelo, Miss., the far­ and Lavergne can't leave the house with­ thest outpost in the league, and the schedule is brutal-four to out being recognized five games a week. "Your body starts to deteriorate after a while,"

"I go food shopp1ng, I sign autographs; I go to the mall, I sign Lavergne said. "It's pretty punishing." As he talked, Lavergne autographs, I go to get a hair cut, I sign autographs," Lavergne was nursing a fresh wound from a recent sticking in the face that said The people here are crazy about hockey." required six stitches.

Lavergne was f1n1sh1ng h1s sen1or season at Colby in 1996 He has no regrets about delaying his business career to when the Jackalopes' coach, Joe Clark, a fnend of the Mules' play for the Jackalopes. "It's been a great experience and I've men s hockey coach Jim Tortorella watched a tape of Lavergne met so many people," he said. "I'm young, with no responsibili­ and teammate Nick Lamia '96 and subsequently offered both ties. I might as well enjoy these years while I can."

-Kevin Cool

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cently moved from Washington, D.C., to Cali­ you again for all the news. I look fo rward to graphic design at RISD in Providence, R.I. She fornia and is now working at a start-up com­ hearing more from all of you in 1999! writes, "5.5 years later I have just about gotten pany in the Silicon Valley. He drove across -Laura Senier over the disappointing choice of ourgraduation country last summer and visited Jeannette speaker." At least she can remember who it was! Riley in Ohio. He al o sees Nancy Spellman 92 Elizabeth Welch Gustafson married She also sends news of Rich Taylor, who started '89 and her husband, Paul Brunell. ...Elaine husband Darrell on June 7, 1997. That explains his first year of medical chool at UVM in the Kaufman Goldman, who recently had a baby why she and some other folks missed our re­ fall of '98, and of Kate Mazuy, who recently girl, let me know that she, Louisa Claire, and union. Beth and Darrell enjoyed a two-week trekked for seven weeks across the Colorado husband Michael are all doing very well. They honeymoon to Italy and France; en route they Trail from Denver to Durango ....Speaking of live inSt. Louis, where Elaine teaches govern­ ran into Helen Hopkins in Heathrow Airport. Vermont and medical school, Tasha Worster ment to eighth graders on a part-time basis. Beth and Darryl have now settled in N.Y.C., graduated from the Vermont School of Medi­ Elaine went to a mini-reunion this ummer in where Darrell is a vice president at Bankers cine last spring! ...Mike Eckel is working as a Needham, Mass., and saw Gretchen Schwarze, Trust .... Ashley Weld has finished the master journalist in Russia, and Chris Kueter is in D.C. Leslie Couture Mourmoura and her daugh­ of science program in natural resources plan­ with the Chronicle of Higher Education and still

ter, Mallory, Andrea Ciampa McEachern and ning at UVM. She's now living in Vermont, cycling competitively .... Brian O'Halloran is her two daughters, Alison, 2, and Madelyn, 3 researching and writing a book on rural commu­ working in Moscow as the director of develop­ months, Erica Hoffmeister Supple and nity development ....Becky Sawyer and Dan ment for GeoLogistics Corp. Brian says he is Suzanne Quill Feldman. Erica also sent a note Starr are living in Ithaca, N.Y. Becky completed weathering the financial crisis well enough and to say that she and her husband, Dave, are her master of science in nutritional sciences at still manages to watch the Patriots from the living in Brunswick, Maine, where she teaches Cornell and is now a research support specialist U.S. Embassy now and again (he named an­ first grade at a Catholic school and Dave works at Cornell's national data archive. In her spare other team but I took the liberty of correcting at the Naval Air Station. Erica has been able time she enjoys pottery and participates in him) ....Billy James Michels graduated from to travel with Dave occasionally on his de­ triathlons. Dan is currently a Ph.D. student in Columbia last spring with an M.B.A. and is ployments and has been to Sigonella, Sicily, genetics at Cornell .... Speaking of Ph.D.'s, working in N.Y.C. at SBC Warburg Dillon and Puerto Rico.... Anna Brookes is still Melissa Small has finished her course work at Reed as an equity analyst.... Also in posses­ working as a state trooper in Massachusetts UConn and plans to spend the next year writing sion of an M.B.A. is Hallie Hastert. Hallie and lives with her husband, Glenn Barker, in her dissertation. As if that's not enough to do, graduated from Darden in the spring of '98 and Norton, Mass. She recently visited Maureen she'll also be a full-time mom: her and husband is working for Deloitte and Touche ....John McGlynn Chakraborty in Dallas. Maureen is Stephen's first child was due last August. Mel­ Mechem is working for Senator Mitch working at Coopers & Lybrand in their litiga­ issa and Stephen, who met while they were both McConnell (R-Ky) as a press assistant and defi­ tion department and lives with her husband, teaching in Michigan, are now living just out­ nitely doesn't forget who our graduatton speaker Dave, in Coppell, Texas, with their two dogs side Augusta at Kents Hill School, where was ....Sue Kairnes Baker, fo rmerly editor of and two cats ....Some time ago I heard from Stephen is a teacher and coach. I was able to the Narragansett Times, is now assistant to the Debra Brown, who lives in Boston and recently catch up with both of them and with Tricia mayor of Warwick, R.I. ... Daphne Foran took a marketing job with the Art Technology Baldridge and Karen Wu at Melissa's baby Lessard joined Sulloway and Hollis, New

Group. She's trying to finish up her master's shower. Tricia is living in Portsmouth, N.H., Hampshire's oldest law firm ... . Lorenzo thesis, and in her free time volunteers for the and was getting ready to teach third grade last Montezemolo is a network analyst in Palo Alto, AIDS Action Committee ....Megan Wahl September. Karen is living in Connecticut and Calif., where he lives with his wife, Felicia married David Hegenbarth inJuly. The couple was busy training for a marathon last fall (either (Gefvert-Montezemolo '92) ....Brittany Ray live in Wilmington, Del., where Megan is a N.Y.C. or the Marine Corps in D.C.). Triciaand is an English teacher for grades 9-12. This past teacher and dean at a middle school and David Melissa have both been in touch with Farah July she and her husband and child (Bayley) is a network engineer. Megan is working on a Paradise, who was back in Maine for the sum­ traveled to Dijon, France, where they visited master's degree in school psychology and ap­ mer after spending a few months visiting her her host family from her junior semester plied for a sabbatical so she can travel around sister in Bulgaria. abroad .... Katherine Rogers Roberts was a the U.S. and study different middle schools -Michelle Fortier Biscotti financial analyst in Dallas, Texas, where she and how they teach and deal with gender lives with her husband, William, and her son, issues. She's also starting a business called 93 Meredith Leclaire-Bradt is a market­ Henry, until quitting to be a full-time Earth Women, which will run wilderness trips ing manager living and working in Belgium with mom ....Heather Perry-Weafer is an under­ and backpacking expeditions for mothers and her husband, John ....Dr. Karen Laidley is a water photographer and lives in Brunswick, daughters ....Andrew Doolittle lives in veterinarian in Vienna, Va., and hopes to prac­ Maine, with her husband, Richard Weafer. Weston, Mass., with his wife, Tore, and their tice large animal medicine in the Pacific North­ Heather says, "Danae Clohan, give me a daughter, Kierst Kaitlin ....Michael Grant west eventually ....Sia Moody, also a doctor, ­ call!" ...Also in Brunswick, Patrick Robbins, and hi wife, Heidi (Meehan '91 ), recently has put her medical career on hold for a while as a book buyer at the Bowdoin bookstore, writes moved to Darien, Conn., where Mike is an she pur ues a new career in acting! Sia has been that he got the job by swearing that he never account executive for Katz Media Group; Heidi in several commercials and is appearing on the threw a single orange at a Colby/Bowdoin hockey teaches eighth grade English in Katonah, N.Y. CBS shows Turks and (possibly) Cupid this game (he didn't mentioncows' heads) ....Also They were expecting their first child in Au­ season ....Anny Mahoney recently moved to in Maine, Toby Slaven is head women's basket­ gust. Mike sees Jim Reduto and Mark Smith Portland, Ore., where she is an intern architect. ball coach at UMaine Machias .... In wedding frequently. Jim is an attorney in Mt. Kisco, She begs to know: "Where is Colleen Kane?" I news, Jill Moran wed Tom Baxter in October '98, N.Y., and Mark works as a researcher for Bristol­ believe she is in Colorado, Anny, but she needs Jeff Zlot married Connie Huffine'94 in May '98, Myers Squibb. Mike also hears from Dan Erving to call me too! ...Across the purple mountain and Patricia Marshall married Sean Holland. in Kalamazoo, Mich. (where he's a new fa­ majesty and amber waves of grain in the other Tim Von Jess is engaged to Jodi Gold tein and ther!), and from Marc Duchette, who is flying Portland is Libby Repass, who is a microbiolo­ planning an August '99 wedding. Tricia Leyne medivac helicopters for the Army out of Fort gist with Tom's of Maine. Libby was married to married Jonathan Eggert, also in October. After Hood, Texas. Marc and his wife, Janet, had a Dave Dumas in September 1998 .... Emily receiving her master's from Boston College in baby girl, Catherine, last summer. ...Thank Muldoon, my favorite ex-roommate, is studying higher education administration, she took a job at

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Compaq Computer Corporation in Blau a lot. Jon now has two stores their engineering training division. N EWS MAKERS open on Martha's Vineyard .... -Beth Curran Congratulations to Laura Miller A ew York Times story characterized David C. Leavy '92 as one and Chuck Thompson, who were political face" of Washing­ 94 It has been funhearing from of"a group of people who changed the married at Hilton Head Island, classmates from all over the coun­ ton when he came to the ciry with the Clinton administration. S.C., last May. Included in the try. teven and Cicely Finley Tay­ Leavy has beena spokesman for the White House andthe National wedding party were Megan Camp­ lor, married in April '97, live in Security Council since 1993 .... In January, former editor of the bell, Anika Smith, Sean Hayes, Louisiana, and Cicely loves staying arragansett Times Sue Kairnes Baker '93 became the administra­ Dan Katz and Kent Bonham .... at home with her on, teven tive as istant to the mayor of Warwick, R.I. ...Brian Sidoti '96 I am looking forward to seeing Adolphu Taylor II. ... Melissa was featured in his hometown Minnesota newspaper for his work many of you at our fifth reunion in Wilcox returnedfrom Tanzania and rebuilding icaraguan homes and lives fo llowing the devastating June. It should prove to be a great began a master's in diviniry program hurricane last year. Sidoti has been with the Peace Corps for more weekend. As of November, almost at Virginia Theological Seminary in than two years. 100 people had already responded Alexandria. he would like to hear that they are coming. from anyone in the D.C. area .... MILESTONES -Alicia Hilda/go Those in Californiainclude Kamin Marriages: Jeffrey R.Borhek '90 to Heather M. Arey, inWareham, McClelland, who was transferred 95 Sarah Bohlinger (axelady Mass ....Emilie L. Davis '90 to Samuel H. Kosoff, in Camp Hill, fromConn ecticut to an Francisco @hotmail.com) finished culinary Pa ....Michael B. Eisenstadt '90 to Sheila M. Vaughan, in to help start and run the West Coast school in December 1998 and Chatham, Mass ....Kimberly I. Morrison '90 to Timothy G. office. She is an interactive adver­ planned a move to Boston. Prior to Lysaght, in Needham, Mass ....Charlotte E. Reece '91 to David tising media manager for Modem becoming a chef, Sarah ran an ice P. Moore Jr., in Annapolis, MD.... Kyle M. Barnard '92 to Laura Media. After teaching in Honduras skating rink and a sailing ma­ D. Swan, in Southport Island, Maine ....Keith Fortier '92 to for a year and working for his father rina.... Rebecca Apollon (RB9 Annelise Bunger '93, in Great Barrington, Mass ....Kristin A. for two, John Terborgh works in [email protected]) i a first-year medi­ Nixon '92 to Thomas D. Donahue, in Harwich, Mass.... Chris­ oftware sales for a start-up com- cal student at the Universiry ofPitts­ topher E. Benecchi '93 to Margaret W. Heinze, in Redlands, Calif. pany. Jennifer Morrow is working burgh. While working in admissions ...Michael Eash '93 to Donna Kubilius, in Nashua, N.H.... T ricia on a teaching credential and master's at Colby since graduation, she Leyne '93 to Jonathan Eggert, in ewton, Mas .... Michelle in education at tanford U ....Still started mountain biking, running Parady '93 to John Malach, in Newark, N.Y. . ..Elizabeth C. living in .Y.C. with Jenn Davis, and roller blading. Rebecca has spo­ Repass '93 to David R. Dumas, in South Portland, Maine. Rebecca Shaw work for Young & ken to Kelly Spooner, a physical ...Kristin L. Spiller '94 to Alexander G. Moody '94, in Sudbury, Rubicam, doing the advertising for therapist in Michigan, Steph Mass .... Stephanie J. Brewster '95 to Jason R. Haen, in Cranston, even Kraft brands, including Jell- Tyrrell, now in business school at R.I. ...Tiffany M. Williams '95 to Derke J.G. Snodgrass, in 0 ....Other ew Yorkers include Duke, and Courtney Stabnick, a Seattle, Wash ....Kathryn J. Alexander '96 to Jason D. Romeo, Jared Morgan, working in real es­ recent law school grad living in the in Marshfield, Mass ....Amy R. Ostermueller '96 to Colby A. tate investment banking at BT Alex. Boston area ....Matt Bourgault Wyatt '96, in Weston, Mass ....Michael M. Choate '97 to Julie Brown, and Tiffany Hoyt Tinson, ([email protected]) is getting his A. Bradstreet, in Lorimer Chapel. an event planner fo r a nonprofit, master's in outdoor education at and her husband, Jim, an archi­ UNH. He and his wife, Marsi Fos­ Birchs: A son, Henry David Feldman, to Lee and Suzanne Quill tect. ...After lifeguarding last sum­ ter, a high school science teacher, Feldman '90. mer, Man Spitzer, the proud parent live in Jonesville, Vt ....Vicki of a German hepherd name Picasso, Ferrini ([email protected]. returnedto Adelphi U for the econd year of hi Michelle Severance Isham, a marketing com­ edu) received an M.S. in geological oceanogra- rnater' degree m ocial work ....Frances van munications managerforthe Sandy River Health phy from SUNY-Stony Brook in May 1998. Huy tee earned her M.A. m education from ystem, and Rob Underwood, a project man­ After graduation she traveled in Italy for five UConn, worked for E PN's X-Games and went ager with the interactive media group of weeks and China for three weeks and spent two to Europe for a famtly reunion. he recently TechKnowledge, Inc. After graduation Rob month working in the Gulf of Mexico before began a new JOb as an Engltsh teacher in Lake taught English at two high schools in Japan's heading back to tony Brook to pursue a Ph.D. Plactd, .Y .... J. Lar White, a management Nara Prefecture, managed a Japanese restaurant in coastal oceanography .... Alice Amstutz a soctate for Penob cot, and his wtfe, iccole in Honolulu and opened his own Web design McDonald (am tutz-a®tchn.harvard.edu) mar­ Graham Whtte, ltve m ew Jersey .... Two company ....Matthew Van Ledtje earned a ried Greg McDonald '94 lastJuly 4 in Hancock, new attorney are Kate Czernicki, who will rna ter of education from UNH and teache Maine. They honeymooned in San Francisco graduate from UConn chool of Law thts spnng fourth grade for the Oyster River District in and Napa before returning to Boston, where and work for Robm on & Cole, a large law firm New Hampshire ....Classmates living in the Alice works as a research technician .... m Hartford, Conn., and Alyssa chwenk, who Bo ton area mclude Amy Colligan, who work Stephanie Brew ter Haen ([email protected]) graduated from ermont Law chool and for Brown Brothers, Jennifer Wolff, a history married Lt. Jason Haen on October 9 in Rhode planned to work a an attorney for Army teacher at hrewsbury H tgh chool, and Heather Island. They are now living in Virginia Beach, J.A.G ....Cla mate ltvmg m Mame mclude Post, who dtd graduate work at Lesley College where Jason is stationed. Present at the wedding Eliz.abeth Wallman, who completed an M.Ed. and teache fo urth grade m Littleton ....Chris were Liz Kawazoe, Meredith Brent, Kristen m >Ctence educatwn and taught arr at an all­ and Andrea Bowman Rogers moved to a new Fowler, JD go, CJ Just and Jen Adams '96. boy ummer camp m ebago. he hoped to hou e m lmton, Ma ., last ovember and Amy Tillman Van Leu van, who was with us at begm teachmg ctence m the fa ll. In Brun wtck were expectmg thetr fir t chtld m February .... Colby for fre shman year, gave a reading. Steph are Ben Mor e, a sy tern engmeer at Bath Iron Eric Tracy, an attorney wtth Rope & Gray, and Jason will be honeymooning to Australia, Works, and ht wtfe, Kn nna Record Mor e, a wrote that he aw Jennifer Chasin, who wa New Zealand and the SouthPacific when Ja on market re earch analy t for trategtc Marketmg vt mng from L.A ....Josh Eckel fint hed ht ts done with hi M.B.A. in May '99 ....Chris­ ervtce m Portland. AI o m Portland are M.B.A. and works for Teradyne. He see Jon tian Citarella is coaching cross-country and

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teaching math at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Swan is living in Maine, working at a radio Day School in Rockville, Md. Christian is also station in Portland. Her production of Wagon's 1990s Correspondents finishing an M.A.T. from Johns Hopkin , where radio coverage of the Election Day Special won he also completed his M.A. in math ....Faisel an AP award for Best Election Coverage. Con­ 1990 Zaman ( [email protected]) has passed his medi­ gratulations! ... Kylie Taphorn is in her final Laura Senier cal boards, cut offhis hair, become a motorcycle year of law school at McGeorge in Sacramento, 1 Parkman Street enthusiast and made a lot of musical record­ Calif. Unfortunately, she lost her grandmother, Natick, MA 01760 ings.... Brendan Cavanaugh ( [email protected]) Marlee Bragdon Monroe '42, this summer. She 508-653-7927 is in his third year at Rush Medical College in says that her grandmother always held Colby e-mail: [email protected] Chicago.... Nathan Cook is a log/timber frame near and dear to her heart. Kylie sends news of builder in Bozeman, Mont ....Jenni fer Rock is several classmates. Linnea Basu is a substitute 1991 in school to become a massage therapist and is teacher in the Boston area. Stephanie Paul Jennifer Wood Jencks studying traditional Chinese medicine. She's started an M.B.A program at Georgetown Uni­ 80 Walnut Street also an apprentice guide dog trainer. She had versity. Nozomi Kishimoto is still in Tokyo Seekonk, MA 02771 been working with an airline, which let her working for UNUM insurance company. Over 508-336-7049 travel all around, including Europe, Hawaii, Labor Day, Kylie also saw Whitney Glockner, e-mail: [email protected]

Fiji, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico .... who is doing well in California ... . Nancy Lindsay Bennigson ([email protected]) is Zierman is employed at Bear Sterns in New 1992 an M.A. student in counseling psychology and York. Also in N.Y. is lnes Velasco.... Cindy Michelle Fortier Biscotti plans to graduate in May '99. She's been doing Starchman earned her M.A. from Ohio State 232 Park Avenue #5 her clinical internship counseling Tufts University and began teaching ninth and 11th Hoboken, NJ 07030 students ....Heather Beusse (hbeusse@ grades at a high school in Fostoria, Ohio. This is 201-798-5662 aol.com) is teaching English in Venezuela but her second year there and she absolutely loves e-mail: [email protected] was hoping to move toChile at the beginning of it. ...Colby and Amy Ostermueller Wyatt 1999.... Meredith Brent ( [email protected]) live in Grantham, N.H. Amy is teaching high 1993 ran the San Francisco Marathon in July, and school English, and Colby is an M.D./Ph.D. Beth Curran Erika Troseth ([email protected]) fin­ graduate student at Dartmouth. They both en­ 64 Dane Street #1 Somerville, MA 02 143 ished the Portland Marathon ....Karen Floyd joyed attending Kathy Alexander and Jason ([email protected]) recently returned from Romero's wedding in the fall. ... Also united in e-mail: [email protected] three years with the Peace Corps in Guinea, marriage were Anne Robinson and Woodrow West Africa. She is now in Baltimore working Pollack '97. They are currently living in Fre­ 1994 for JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins mont, Calif., while Anne attends law school in Alicia S. Hidalgo 5 Albemarle Street #4 University, coordinating a program in Malawi San Francisco.. . . Chris Wnek and Cate Kneece in the area of international reproductive were married in July on the coast of Maine and Boston, MA 02 1 15 61 7-266-7934 health ....Al ison Lutz Walton (Alison. enjoyed a fabulous honeymoon in Bermuda.... 61 7-351-5182 [email protected]), who attended Colby for Rima Lathrop Carlson lives in Waterville and e-mail: [email protected] two years before transferring to Penn State, organizes health education workshops in rural married in September 1997 and is living outside health centers as an Americorps and VISTA 1995 Philadelphia and working for a consulting volunteer. ...Jennifer Popeju st returned from Alyssa Falwell firm.... Lane Schuck([email protected]) is a her Peace Corps stint in Mali, West Africa, after 279 Fellsway West #2 nursing student at Johns Hopkins and playing traveling around North Africa and Europe. Tina Medford, MA 02 155 intramural soccer on the neuroscience Ph.D. Garand also finishedher Peace Corps service, in 61 7-520-7239 team ....Jen "Hank" Ancker (jla@atal Guinea, West Africa, and )en reports that Tina [email protected] antasosnoff.com) has lived in N.Y.C. for the is engaged to someone she met during her past two years, working as a financial analyst for service ....Brett Wilfrid will returnfr om Nepal 1996 Atalanta/Sosnoff Capital Corp., a money man­ this winter after teaching English there for the Amie Sicchitano agement firm. She spent the summer of '98 Peace Corps. He plans on hiking in the Everest 25 Hundreds Circle learning how to sail as crew on a friend's J -120 region with Zoe Kaplan '97. Meanwhile, Jen Wellesley Hills, MA 02181 racing boat, which won the J -120 North Ameri­ Hellman is in her second year of a Spanish 61 7-235-0666 can Championships in Newport, R.I., last master's program at the University ofW isconsin summer. ...Mark Griffin at Madison. This summer Brett and )en plan on ([email protected]) 1997 is in San Francisco .... I finished my M.A. in spending the summer together working at a Kimberly N. Parker communication, culture and technology at friend's hotel in Norway. Brett also writes that 101 Curl Drive #248 Georgetown and returned to the Boston area, Soren Petersis climbing peaks in Tibet ....Kate Columbus, OH 432 1 0 where I work in public relations at The Weber Swenson is an application developer in the 61 4-688-0549 Group with Nicole Keating.... Everyone start Boston area .... Tammy Smith is working in fax: 614-292-8547 getting psyched for our reunion next year! London forsix months ....Conrad Saam started e-mail: parker.321 @osu.edu -Alyssa Falwell an M.B.A. program at the University of Michigan ....Kim Schock writes that she just 1998 96 JJ Lovett writes that he shut down his got a new kitten that gives her plentyof oppor­ Carolyn H. Miner Web development company to do extended tunities to take study breaks from medical school. Sotheby's Contemporary Dept. training with the Marine Corps. He plans to She recently spent a weekend with Nell Prause 1334 York Avenue return to the civilian work force this winter at a and Jen Felmly ....Dori Morrison,Tatum New York, NY 10021 212-922-1 340 health system in Brooklyn . . .. Tamela Calder and Kim Allen live together in e-mail: [email protected] Spaulding is an educational technician and Somerville, Mass . ...Patty Benson is working adult education instructor in Maine. ...Casey in Tacoma, Wash., for a few months ....Alex

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Kean and Sheila Grant graduated this winter ing for the adoption of foster children. After the associate oftware engineer for Liberty Mutual. from their master's programs at Wheelock year is done, she plans on pursuing a master's in ...Emma Record and Erika Ayers are living in College. . . . iki Shinneman moved back ro social work at Columbia ....Jerrod DeShaw and working in Boston. The fo rmer field hockey the eattle area from Boston. She is an activi­ was promoted ro a contracts manager for Aerotek players recoil at the thought of exercise and ties a sistant at a rehab nursing care facility in Colorado ....Erin Duggan is a city reporter report that they "eat up" most of their spare time and also is singing with the orthwest Cham­ for the Syracuse newspapers in Syracuse, N.Y., hanging out on their couch and eating cheez­ ber Choir. .. . Aaron Sigman works at and is also back in school for a master's at the its.... Devin Colman, one of our most artisti­ BankBosron, where Stu Wales also works. Aaron ewhouse School of Public Communica­ cally talented classmates, had a sculpture selected ays he is enjoying it so far. ...K. Liisi Linask tions... . Steve Drunsic threw in the rowel at fo r a group show at the Plains Art Museum in is a research specialist and student at UPenn, Swissbank as an economic research analyst Fargo, N.D. He is working as an art gallery where he is currently studying for a master's in and is now pursuing a modeling career (he was curator and visual resources curator for the biotechnology.... Carolyn Sheppard is a di­ in Cosmopolitan's "All About Men" issue for the Maca lester College Art Department ....On the rector of education and volunteers at the New hot new face from Vermont). He'll be in either Delta shuttle between ew York and Boston, I Canaan, Conn., historical society. She lives Milan or Japan for a few months and plans on ran inro both Abby Lambert and Justin with DarrellOakley '94.... Brian Stenger works making enough money while modeling ro be Ackerman. Abby is living in Hoboken, N.J., as an analy t with Anderson Consulting . ... able ro tour the world making snowboarding with Allison Brown and commuting into the Gretchen Rice drove across the country in movies. While in New York, Steve lives with City. Justin is based in Boston but apparently hi June. he still produces multimedia content for Kerry Propper in an East Village apartment job requires frequent flights ro N.Y.C. ...Some the Ranger Rick magazine for an on-line service and has seen Eugene Buono and Erin Brenner. of our class, instead of using the skills we learned for kid ... . Russell White says he still has a big He has also seen one of his old Colby room­ in the classroom (and wearing suits ro work), cactus and works as an implementation consult­ mates, Paul Hennigan, who is an insurance chose ro use what we learned from the Alfond ant in Portland, Maine ....Qi Wang passed his analyst for UNUM in Portland, Maine. He Center, the Outing Club, and trips ro first C.F.A. exam and say he moved ro Brook­ reports that Megan Flynn has made the move to Sugarloaf. . ..Becky Allen spent the summer lyn Heights after being a prisoner of Manhat­ Beanrown, where she works in public rela­ driving across country with Wil Chamberlain tan ....Please keep the news coming! tions, and that Katie Nevin has returned from and Mignon Winger. Wil and Becky lived in -ArnieSicchitano El Salvador following her 12-month residency Sun Valley for a while, but Becky resides in and is now back in school in New Orleans Massachusetts and works as a ski instructor and 97 Congrats ro Nicole Labrecque, Kate doing something medically related ....Tom substitute teacher.... Sarah Boehm, Mary Charbonnier, Josh Oeltjen, Katy Bakeman Beedy is a financial planner for the Cooper Pierce and Emily Reith started a through-hike and Todd McGovern on their engagements and Management Service in Lexington, Ky. He on the Appalachian trail on Mount Katahdin, ro Michael Choate on his marriage .... notes that while he may be 25, he could never Maine, on May 26, 1998, and fini hed on Stephanie Blackman started a new job doing be quite as old as Hobie Antik and Seth Springer Mountain, Georgia, on December 11, research for the Corporation fo r ational Ser­ Blumenthal. ...Galen Carr is a sales associ­ 1998. Incredible! ...I ran into Andrew Porter, vice. he moved ro Portland, Ore., from the ate for Salomon Smith Barney in Boston .... Courtney Cataldi and many more '98 grads this coast and love being back in a city. Also out After her wedding in August, Christine Brown past summer on Nantucket. Andrew was busy there in Oregon is Treb Becher, who walked Irish honeymooned in St. Lucia. She is still in sailing, finishing off bloody marys and holding away from his corporate job as a commodities medical school. ...Matthew Burgener is an his girlfriend back from fights with locals at trader out ide of New York. He is now an analyst for Anderson Consulting and is work­ Captain Toby's ....Nathan Curtis and his dog, AmenCorp VI TA volunteer in a rural public ing on a project about deregulation of the Floabee, are living in Atlanta, Ga. Nathan is an health department working on a women, chil­ utilitie market in Holyoke, Mass . . ..EJ Ander­ environmental consultant and staff scien­ dren and infant health program ... . Sarah son is in graduate chool at the Albany Medical tist .... Matt King and Raja Bala are living it DiMare till teaches fifth and sixth grade Span­ School. . . . Chris Sullivan has taken a job as up in Boston. If anyone is looking for the best LSh and sLXth and seventh grade science at Mother the director of alumni relations and programs at wine spritzer ever, be ure ro look Matt up at the Carolme m Dorchester, Mass. he taught sail­ t. John's Prep.... David Barr is in law school bar he tends in Fanueil Hall. ...Unbelievable mg over the ummer at Ca de I land in outh in Cleveland at Case We tern ....Line Farr is but true, members of our class are returning ro Bo ron and planned on applying ro Mass. Gen­ living in Walpole, .H., working for documen­ school after the arduous fo ur years we spent eral Hospttal's Insmute of Health Professions tary filmmaker Ken Burns on a new project fo r studying at Colby.... Shannon Baker, our former nur e practitioner cernfication program in the PBS, a 1 0-part hi tory of jazz. He also writes president who is now engaged, has been accepted fa ll. ...Rebecca Durham 1 planning on mov­ promotional material for the alumni office of ro medical schooland will start in August... . Mike mg out to an Otego and taking her time to do the Vermont Academy ....In D.C., Tony Corr is finishing his engineering degree at 1t as he dnve cro country after concludmg an Moulton is leaving his mark on the social scene Dartmouth allege . ...Julia Kovacs began post­ mremshtp m Dartmouth, Mas . ... Andrea (none of us are surprised, are we?), while Drea graduate work at Bowdoin College .... Con­ Dehaan 1 now ltvmg m Boston, workmg at a Barbalunga isstdl living and working for a trade gratulations are in order for Steve Higgs and law firm With Dave Javier and Drew Heffner. association. he reports that Hillary Ro s has Amy Lyons, who were married last August .... Additionally, he 1 enrolled m a master' pro­ moved to Phoenix to live with her mother, ell Tory Archibald is making frequent trips back to gram at Boston mver tty m creanve wnnng. frutt and rudy for the L AT before leaving the Mayflower Hill to visit her on-campus boyfriend he ll\·e near ummer Laplante, Mike country for a couple of year . he' also heard when she gets a break from her job as a public Lawrence and Dave Hanauer, and Molly from Dee Dresser, who IS doing well in her affairs a i tant for Burson-Maisteller, a PR McLellan, Mike oyle and Amanda Bligh have econd year of law chool at U C. firm ....Kate Dunlop is living in Boston and alsobeen tghred m the area. . . . indy Bissoon -K1mberly N. Parker planning ro marry Michael Seamens on May 29, enJoyed a"htrlwmd va anon m rhe Mediterra­ 1999 ....Al though Karin Sachs supposedly nean rounng the Greek I les, and another tnp to 9 8 Four hundred and fo rty-one of us re­ graduated in 199 he is rumored to have been the anbbean la..>tJanuary. he 1 workmg for a cetved bachelor of art degrees m May, and some potted on the Colby campus on numerous atholtc fo. ter care agenq m ew York tty of u are m fact u mg them ....Ryan Costello occasion .... Best of luck ro everyone this year, and 1 the octal worker re pon tble fo r arrang- 1 lt'·mg m Port m1th, .H., workmg a an and I look fo rward ro hearing from you. -Carolyn Miner

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Ruth Fairbanks Burke '24, September 12, 1998, She is survived by a brother, Stanley Glidden, Jean L. Bridges '40, September 9, 1998, in in Brunswick, Maine, at 96. A homemaker, she and by nieces, nephew and cousins. Baltimore, Md., at 78. She was a second lieuten­ was predeceased by her husband, John H. Burke ant in the Army and also a Red Cross nurse '26. She is survived by a son and daughter, John Edgar B. McKay '30, September 6, 1998, in during World War II. Later she was a nurse at H. Burke Jr. and Ruth Marshall, seven grand­ Wolfville, N.S., at 95. He taught at Winslow Children's Hospital in Boston and concluded children and 12 great-grandchildren. (Maine) High School, where he was principal her career as a high school guidance counselor from 1941 to 1946. From 194 7 to 1972 he taught in Worcester, Mass. Predeceased by her sisters, Hiram H. Crie '25, July 18, 1998, in Winter modern society at the University of Maine at Barbara Bridges Stinneford '34 and Eleanor Haven, Fla., at 95. After service in the Army Air Orono, where he became the first director of the Bridges '34, she is survived by a nephew, three Corps in World War li he was an accountant for Canadian-American Center. He was a member nieces anJ several great-nephews and -nieces. a furniturestore. He is survived by two daugh­ of several environmental councils in Maine and ters, Lorraine Heilman and June Samson, his Nova Scotia. He is survived by his daughter, George L. Beach Jr. '4 1, November 10, 1998, brother, nieces, nephews, grandchildren and Jean Timpa, and by four grandchildren. in Waterville, Maine, at 78. Member of a six­ great-grandchildren. generation Colby family, he earned letters in Barbara Gurney Cassidy '31, July 8, 1998, in basketball and football. After serving in World Claire A. Crosby '25,June 27, 1998, in Wayne, Northbrook, Ill., at 89. She worked as an ac­ War ll in counter intelligence, he was the direc­ Maine, at 95. She taught school for 32 years in countant at the Glenview Naval Air Station in tor of customer services with the Keyes Fibre Maine and nine in Ohio. Survivors include a Illinois. She was a generous contributor to the Company in Fairfield, Maine, until his retire­ niece, Mary Correll, a nephew, Nathaniel Cotter Union room named for her father, Charles ment in 1984. Predeceased by two brothers, Crosby, and 10 grandnieces and grandnephews. E. Gurney, Class of 1898 and a long-time trustee Hugh D. Beach '36 and Prince D. Beach '40, he of the College. is survived by his wife, Martha Rogers Beach Kenneth L. Wentworth '25, March 20, 1998, '42, five children, including Margo Beach Long in Newport Beach, Calif., at 94. He was a Frances E. Libby '31, August 8, 1998, in '65, seven grandchildren, including Megan teacher and principal before becoming a per­ Greenfield, Mass., at 88. She earned a master's MacDonald '94, six great-grandchildren and sonnel executive in Los Angeles schools. Later in library science at Columbia University and several nieces and nephews. he worked for the Department of Health, Edu­ was employed by New York City from 1932 to cation and Welfare in Los Angeles. Survivors 1968 as librarian at the Children's Library. Sev­ Victor A. Lebednik '42, June 20, !998, in include his grandson, Kenneth Smith. eral cousins survive her. Orangeburg, S.C., at 81. He was an Air Force flight instructor in World War II. After the war Beatrice Ham Dickerman '26, September 20, Ina Hussey Weymouth '31,August 6, 1998, in he was the founder and president of Dixie Wood­ 1998, in Livermore Falls, Maine, at 94. She was Waterville, Maine, at 87. She worked in her craft Co. in Orangeburg and the father of four a school teacher in New Hampshire for many father's fu neral business for many years before children. Survivors include his wife, Anne. years and tutored students in Livermore Falls. becoming safety director for American Woolen Predeceased by her husband, Robert, she is Companies. She also was a marketing services J. Preston Barry '43, October 1, 1998, in survived by several cousins, including Gary director at C.F. Hathaway Co. in Waterville. Bedford, Mass., at 77. He was in the first infantry Knight '66. She is survived by many cousins. carrier to land on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in World War II. He was a Frank J. Twadelle '29, July 5, 1998, in Donald M. Christie '32, September 27, 1998, teacher and coached football and baseball at Brunswick, Ga., at 90. He was decorated for in Norway, Maine, at 90. For 35 years he was a Hingham (Mass.) High School, was principal of service in the Army in World War II. After a principal, teacher and school superintendent in Concord (N.H.) High School and was school surgical practice at Newton-Wellesley Hospital several Maine schools. He was an avid sports­ administrator for the Media, Pa., di trict until his in Massachusetts, he established a practice in man, gardener and genealogist. Survivors in­ retirement in 1977. He is survived by his wife, Gardiner and Augusta, Maine. He is survived by clude his wife of 62 years, Dorothy, his son, two Marilyn, a son, Matthew Barry '85, two daugh­ his wife, Helen, three sons, two daughters, 13 sisters, two grandchildren and his nephews ters, including Noel Barry Stella '76, a brother, grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Lindon Christie Jr. '54 and Paul Christie '56. five grandchildren and nieces and a nephew.

William T. Cowing '30, July 28, 1998, in Evelyn L. Johnson '32, July 19, 1998, in Natalie Cousens Dyer '43, July 9, 1998, in Charlton, Mass., at 89. He earned a master's Camden, Maine, at 87. A Phi Beta Kappa gradu­ Warwick, R.I., at 77. After teaching highschool degree from the University of Massachusetts at ate, she taught for eight years before joining English and Latin, she was a homemaker and Amherst and was a science teacher and head of Maine's Division of Child Welfare in 1942. She also served on several local boards. She i sur­ the science departmentat Belmont High School earned an M.S.W. from Columbia University vived by her husband of 53 years, Richard R. for more than 20 years. He was predeceased by and in 1962 was appointed child welfare super­ Dyer '42, four daughters, including Pamela Oyer his brothers Cleal '27 and Charles '29. Survivors visor of Maine's Department of Human Ser­ Turton '70, five grandchildren, including Jef­ include his wife, Madeline, a brother, a sister vices. A generous spirit who was active in many frey Turton '95, and a great-granddaughter. and nieces and nephews, including Nancy Cow­ coastal Maine community programs, she is sur­ ing McGinley '55, GeoffreyLittle '69 and Charles vived by five nieces. Eleanor Eddy Meldahl '7 5, December 9, 1998, Cowing '76. in Truro, Mass., at 46, ofbreastcancer. Born and Harriett Felch Liu, July 29, 1998, in Lakeland, raised in Kyoto, Japan, she operated Far East Alma W. Glidden '30, September 27, 1998, in Fla., at 81. She retired from the Social Security Conservation in Truro, restoring and repairing Winslow, Maine, at 90. She received a master's Administration in Presque Isle, Maine, after 37 Chinese and Japanese paintings for museums degree from Bread Loaf School of English at years ofservice. Previously she taught English in and private clients. Survivors include her hus­ Middlebury College and for 40 years taught Washburn, Maine. She is survived by her hus­ band, Malcolm, twin sons, her mother, two school in Waldoboro, Maine, and Quincy, Mass. band, Sicheng Liu, a daughter and a grandson. brothers, a sister, nieces and nephews.

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