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Volume 79 Issue 1 Winter 1990 Article 1
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Colby Magazine Vol. 79, No. 1: Winter 1990
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Getting to Know You thinking about a hair wash and the shower back in Johnson Hall where they share a room. Granted that these arc not the hard I've just spent a pleasant October Sunday afternoonat my house ships of life in a village in Paraguay, but on the lakes even these with a group of my COOTers, and I feel great. I felt good on the difficulties-or the hailstorm we had or the wind and rough first of September, too, after our five-day COOT canoe trip water-can make a group rea lly pull together. We won't forget around the Belgrade Lakes, and I feltgood the day before classes how we all tu rned to help one afternoon when Heather's canoe started in September when I met with six of the students from went broadside to the whitecaps and she toppled out in the the trip who are my advisees. I'd asked for that arrangement, middle of Great Pond. It was fu nny later. and I was eager to see them not just because they were excited Andrew Stanley later wrote in the Echo that the five-day and anxious about college courses and classes. They were my COOT trip and three days of campus orientation draw out the friends, these new kids on the block. orientation process for new students too long. Some argue that You get to knovv people quickly in a canoe. We changed COOTcomesata bad time of the year for faculty. Others say that partners each day, so I spent hours with Joe McKenna, David COOT leaders should be compen�ated for the time the trips take Smith, Heather Perry, Jen Knapp, and Stephanie Pulver. Canoe (not to mention the wet feet and the hard ground). Right now I chat still tickles me or impresses me: Ellie North has a sister think of all of us sitting by the campfire one night when Heather named Shelley orth, David Smith and Lisa Prenaveau were wondered, "Does Bob get paid for this?" I felt as though I were class valedictorians. Matt Wiacek reminds me of one of my best one of them and they didn't expect me lo know the answer any buddies in high school. more than they did. The answer is that I get paid for it in the I'm impressed with these new Colby students all over ways I'm trying to get at now. again today. David O'Shea sang in a church choir for 11 years "That's my COOT leader," David O'Shea said, pointing out and in numerous hometown musicals. Already a member of the '92 Kelly Evans to a friend I realized that Kelly will always be Colby Chorale and a bass in the Colby Eights, David performed his COOT leader. And l realize that as they begin their Colby the same Gilbert and Sullivan song for both auditions that he lives with this enthusiasm and trust, these kids-they will charmed us with one night by a campfire. A big influence on always be my COOTers-recharge me with the ongoing pur David's coming to Coiby was his cousin, Bill Derry '88. pose and life of the College. Stephanie Pulver spent the summer of 1988 in a small Maybe I'm just feeling sentimental becau�e on the Friday village in Paraguay with Amigos de los Americas, immunizing we came back I became a step-grandfather, on Su nday I became people who'd never seen a needle before. The constant wind a father-in-law for the second time, and on Monday I started my and red dust made even taking a bath in a bucket a luxury. She'd second half century. Maybe it's just the nostalgia you feel when like to be a doctor in Appalachia. Stephanie told me this after something good ends even though you're sure it's prologue to noon how her father, David Pulver '63, came to the Colby Sons something better. Maybe it's the promise of perfection that the and Daughters Banquet a couple of weeks earlier sporting his beginning of another school year brings. These are the feelings Colby tie. you have at a marriage or a birth, events that make new family That reminded me that on the first Belgrade Lakes COOT bonds and often reassert the old. in 1976, we started at Alden Camps on East Pond, at the same Of course these new students have already made other place where George '34 and Vesta Alden Putnam '33 still Colby friends. The junior year abroad will take some of them graciously invite us COOT canoers to put in. And that made me away as they grow and leave home again. Bu t right now my think of the afternoon last July when my wife and I stood in the COOTers are off to a good start. The whole bunch made it to middle of Great Meadow Stream for 20 minutes in a torrential Lisa's room for her birthday party a couple of evenings before downpour before we could lift our gear over one of the trees classes started, even Andy Ritch, who didn't let late football fa llen across the five-mile flow between North Pond and Great practice keep him away. The whole group went downtown for Pond. I worried about getting eight COOT canoes around a dinner the next night. Talk about orientation and bonding and dozen blowdowns a month later. When the time came, we new studen ts feeling comfortable at the start of their College glided right through. Phil Tabor '90, one of our two student lives ... leaders, took it upon himself to canoe Great Meadow Stream a I know you have to leave home to come home. I it too couple of weeks before with his father, Paul '70, to clear the way cryptic to say that my best reason for going on the COOT is so with a chain saw. Phil wa born at Thayer Hospital just down that I can be where I am? the hill from the College. His mother is Sarah Owen Tabor '70. Carolyn MacDonald and Poppyann Mastrovita dragged Robert Gillespie themselves out of their tent the last morning of the trip only by Associate Professor of English and College Editor CONTENT S
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FEATURES DEPARTMENTS
Asgard, Brown, Etc. Commentary (inside front cover) Diverse backgrounds and similar ambitions lead to a Colby marriage of minds and careers. The blend is "going better than our wildest imagination." 2 Eustis Mailroom
:1 The Eclectic Company A tentury after the first sociology course was taught at 4 News from the Hill Colby in 1889, the Department of Sociology and Anthro pology spans the academic disciplines. 7 Ex Libris First Look at a Cook Book L6 Colby highlights Food n11d Faces from Fnrnz(lay Places, children's recipes collected in 17 countries by recent 25 Class Correspondence Watson scholar Deanna Cook '88.
Oakes's Long March Milestones LS 43 Following years of language study and an undergradu ate year abroad, Tim Oakes '87 returned to China on a I I Watson Fellowship. Colby selects excerpts from his forthcoming book.
?1 Donald Stone Walker Colby and Bowdoin share this eccentric alumnus of the Class of 1904.
Volume Number Winter 1 79, 1, 1990
Colby is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to the editor, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799. Colby,
Editor: Robert Gillespie; Assistant to the Editor: ancy Fortuine We tervelt '54; Director of Publications: Bonnie Bishop; Production Editor: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: Jill C. Cote '90, Julie Marks '90, Graham A. Powis '90; Photography: Alan J. La Vallee (front and back covers), Welliver
• Family Collection (p. 5), the Robert Feitler family (p. 6), Matt Spaulding Photography (pp. 9, 10), Catherine Anderson (pp. 11, 39), Mary Ellen Matava (pp. 12, 13, 15), Colby archives (pp. 15, 22, 23, 27, 45, 46, 47), Deanna Cook '88 (pp. 16, 17), Scott Davis (p. 18), Tim Oakes '87 (p. 20). 14,
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On the covers: Familiar winter scenes on Mayflower Hill-a quiet view across Johnson Pond, an afternoon of sledding in front of the president's house.
COLBY 1 AILROOM
Warm Thanks out a mistake in the write-up on one of you Perceptions of Precepts 1 seven All-American athletes in the summe Attending 50th reunion at Colby made me In my catching-up-on-the-mail project, I read 1989 issue. Concerning Megan Patrick yot state: "From Patrick's sophomore year realize that I was in the right place at the right Currents from Colby and was struck by the on 1 time and erased any momentary apprehen new "10 Objectives of a Colby Education" she was actively recruited by Harvard at ful , sions I might have had a few days earlier. developed by the Educational Policy Com scholarship, by Dartmouth, by Cornell.' Every activity provided a perfect set mittee in May. Of course, that's what a lib Harvard does offer academic scholarships , ting for renewing friendships and enjoying eral education is all about, but it's been that but not athletic scholarships as you imply ir easygoing camaraderie. Being with such a your article. Financial assistance is baset way at Colby ever since I've known it. l wonderfully diverse group of cohorts who I remember clearly one basic reason I solely on need, not athletic ability. Harvarc has a tremendous sports program because are yet of similar and fa miliar origins is a rare went to Colby was that the candlesticks in a 1 and we !come occurrence which helps to close the dedication and hard work of many stu 1 Lorimer Chapel were a memorial tom y child gaps created by time. hood friend Lyman Thayer, who had gone to dent/athletes, coaches, and friends of Har Warm thanks to the reunion committee Colby, then to war, never to return. That an vard athletics, not because of "free ride' and to the College for this well-planned, granted to the athletically talented. Colb) institution could care so much for an indi l outstanding event. And my thanks go to all Harvard, and many other colleges share ir vidual who represented them just by be c '39ers whose very presence at the reunion longing-both to the College and to the the belief that "athletic competition be kep contributed to the making of a generous slice pursuitofpeacehalfwayaround theworld in harmony with educational purposes of life in which I feel privileged to have par (Colby, summer 1989, p. 11); we can was very impressive to a young girl who was onh 1 ticipated. just leaving home for the first time with the hope for the day when other universitie strong belief that one should care and share also realize this goal. Lucile M. Naples Weston '39 with all the world. So you see, my first expe Wellesley, Mass. riences away from home were first class' I Timothy]. Urquhart went to a caring Colby' Now I would like to Harvard '89 thank Colby for introducing me to the world Radio Personalities in such a way that I could begin to live my life at large with these 10 objectives close by in Cover Story In the summer issue in the Eustis Mailroom, body, mind, and in spirit. a letter from Carl Scovel, minister of King's Cheers to Colby' We are a great institu Oh, please stop using staged photograph\ Chapel, Boston, recalls the memorial service tion and I am glad to see that we are commit on the cover [summer 1989] of the alumn accorded Marjorie Mills in 1979. ted to keep it that way! magazine. I believe the spelling of Carl de Souze's It's bad enough that the women on th1 5 name should not be like the band master's; Virginia Fa/kenbun; Aronson '53 recent cover don't look ready to run, but it'. Carl was something else. entirely unforgivable that they're all set Skillman, N.]. u a He was a traveler, lecturer, raconteur, heading the wrong way on the track. Incred 1 who had his own program on WBZ radio, ible. All the progress and success in women'. the loudest broadcast voice in New England. athletics at Colby and this is how it is repr (WBZ had a repeater transmitter as WBZA, Dumb Duke sented to your alumni readers. Springfield, the first transmitter of that na I guess I should have written when thi! ture in the early days of broadcasting.) I Your latest magazine went in the trash! If all started. I had hoped that the photo of th1 i would never call him a "disk jockey," and I you would like Dukakis, we would be glad skaters on Johnson Pond would be recog c don't believe that he thought of himself as to send him to you-express! He is stupid nized for what it was and be replaced witl such. His frequent talks at all kinds of or and has made a mess of Massachusetts. some honesty and reality. When was the las s ganizations in New England were some time five racially diverse coeds were ou times very erudite. He lived for a long time Norma Page precariously balancing on skates in color in Paris, France, and, I believe, married a Wenham, Mass. coordinated outfits? French lady of fine taste. I want to believe great things are ha Like Carl de Souze, Marjorie Mills was pening at Colby. And that great people an an outstanding broadcaster and became Scholarship Goals doing them. I'd hope the majority of th! widely known for her work on the air and alumni would also prefer a little "truth ir before groups throughout the area. They My brother [Todd Urquhart '91 ] attends advertising" to this schlock you're sendinf each represented a type of radio personality Colby, and I have enjoyed reading Colby our way. Real track meets. Real skaters. Rea' i that is hard to equal today in New England magazine in the past. Your magazine pro people. If Colby's still a great place, th! radio. vides a good forum for graduates to keep in photos will tell the story. touch and for undergraduates, parents, and Ellis Motl '39 friends to read about others in the Colby Carol Sly '80 Ashland, Oreg. community. I would, however, like to point Boston, Mass.
COLBY 2 l Commentary Comment has given wise and sensitive guidance to initial Colby semester at Dijon. Kevin thus T students, family, and friends, who will re became the 19th member of the Dignam
• The summer 1989 issue opens with a com- spect him always. He is above all an excep family to attend Colby, carrying on the Dig mentary by Robert Levine concerning illiter tional father, father-in-law, husband, and nam tradition that extends back more than . acv in the United States and associated atti grandfather to my family. 62 years' Both Joyce [Dignam Flynn '62] and '. tu de problems in the present educational I are very proud of Kevin and extremely 1> systems. This same issue has a sport scene on Leigh Nickerson Beatty pleased that he's chosen to continue the t e cover and story about Colby All-Ameri 1 h Lamoine, J\1a111e family tradition at Colby. ' can athletes inside. This would not be so I noted in the latest issue of Currents that
· troubling were it not for the fact that there is Significant Omission 24 members of the Class of '93 are Colby sons no other coverage of undergraduate achieve or daughters. Has any family ever sent 19 of '� ments (::.ave a theater promotion photo) in I was pleased to see that Dr. Walter Faun troy its members to Colby? i the entire issue. received such a warm reception in his ap Mr. Levine's article suggests, among !, pearance at Colby last January. Everyone Michael D. Flynn '61 other things, that recognition and reward was equally enthusiastic about him when he Charlotte, Vt. I can help improve people's desire to learn. t: lectured at Colby over a decade ago. '' Perhaps Colby magazine should review itself There was, however, a significant omis
't to determine whether there has been a fail- sion in the article in Colby. Dr. Fauntroy Want to win a Colby sweat shirt? A Colby 11 ure, unintentional or not, to promote the received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree mug? Colby magazine a11no1111ces the Colby who may rt academicachievementsofstudents (LLD.) from Colby in 1976. Family Award, to be give11 in two categories: the or may not be outstanding in various extra fa mily that boasts the most Colbyalwnni wlware curricular arenas. Robert E.L. Strider TI related by marriage and the fa mily with the most Mackinaw City, Mich. generations ofColby a/1111111i. Yo11 'II be in compe Carl W1ttlwft '77 tition with the likes of the Sawyers, whose alli Acton, Mass. The Colby Family ance with the Drummonds may put them nhend of the 1111mberof Levines. Or perhaps you can top Last Thursday I put my son, Kevin, on the six generntio11s? Send your fa mily to Colby. Filial Tribute plane for France, where he will spend his Please write to the editor by June I, 1990. F rr Thank you for the tremendous tribute to my father, Dean George T. Nickerson, in the Colby t spring 1989 issue of the magazine. I'. He is most definitely deserving of the accolade and also of many more honors · · NewAlumni Directory Will Be Out Directly 'f. which could be given to him. He cared deeply �r for each Colby student he knew, and he The 1990 Colby College Alumni Directory is nearing completion and shipment will Jr remembers hundreds of them well. begin soon. The new directory, a compilation of the most current data available on If ever a person on this earth nears per over 17,200 Colby alumni, is an excellent way to get reacquainted with Colby tr. fection, it is my father. He is the most genu classmates and catch up on other alumni. tl' inely and earnestly good person I know. He continually is looking for ways to assist Those who reserved copies of the directory should receive the book around •'Itpeopie. Cou ntless times I have heard him January 9, 1990. If you have a question about your order or wish to place an order, la- say, "I think I'll see if they can use some contact the publisher directly at the following address:
L help." In addition to his desire to be of use to k people, because of his intelligence and great Customer Service Department in ight he has made valuable contributions Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co., Inc. .a: to many causes. 3 Barker A venue Among his accomplishments, adding to White Plains, N.Y. 10601 L COLBY 3 FR0 M THE Canton, Ohio, currently serves as chair Some Class that have been donated by members of the c 5, Colby faculty. For instance, Professor of Akron Children's Medical Center, directc of both the Trans-Ohio Savings Bankand The 485 first-year students who entered Sociology Jo Rosenthal has contributed a th \ Colby this fall make up a class that has a shelf of books about how students learn, Freeway Corporation, and member of th \'l "statistical quality higher than that of its how education affects them, what roles Financial Executive's In titute. 11 predecessors," according to Dean of Admis education fills in society, and other broadly The Carleton Group is a private invesl lh ment banking firm begun in July 1989. sions and Financial Aid Parker Beverage. interesting educational issues. Rosenthal's I c,1 TheClass of'93, whose students represent34 annotated bibliography is available on the specializes in venture capital, mergers an re acquisitions, and management buyouts. states and 11 foreign countries, also includes shelf with the books. he 44 minority students-up from 18 in the According to Jean Sanborn, associate th previous year and only eight in the fall of professor of English, the idea for the Center th 1979. for Teaching developed out of informal dis Storm Survivors er Members of the Class of '93 bring with cussions among the faculty members of ec them a variety of interests and talents. Writing Across the Curriculum, a group Three members of the Class of 1991-Vick ar Vanessa Lloyd, from Westfield, N.J., is a whose members believe that the discipline Baldwin,JeffFort, and Luis "Rick" Cordon- lh vocalist who has played the piano for 12 of writing should be integrated into all stationed in St. Croix, V.I., for a semesteru 'u years and the flute for six years and has courses offered by the College. "Whenever marine biology, got more exposure to the as participated in All-State and All-Eastern they talked about writing across the curricu than they wanted when Hurricane Hugi choruses. Kristin Ostrom, from Peabody, lum,'' she said, "they always ended up dis swooped over the island last September 1 (1 Mass., was salutatorian of her high-school cussing teaching. People want an informal 17. As the storm's 160 m.p.h. winds torea c1 class and a member of the Color Guard, the network where they can talk about who's their roof, destroying the laboratory alon s1 Model United Nations, and the National doing different things and what works for with most of the other buildings on St. Cron F< Honor Society. Dave McCarthy of Rock them. The Center for Teaching is really a the students spent a long night huddled in. w land, Mass., exhibits great talent on the place to talk." shelter under a mattress. "Things were crash Bi pitcher's mound as well as in the classroom, Several faculty have been successful ing into the building constantly," said Cor fe bringing with him a high-school batting with a variety of teaching methods and are don, "but there wasn't much else to d� ar average of .440 and the experience of taking willing to talk with others about them. David considering what I saw the next morning 01 his team to the Division II baseball tourna Mills '57, visiting instructor of English and Things looked worse than we expected." w ment in 1989. Lisa Newman, from professional speech coach, has offered solid When they emerged Monday morning te. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is a premed student support to the program by making his exper they became construction workers, rebuild er who received a $16,000 scholarship from an tise in the area of public speaking and class ing roofs and cleaning up debris. The lat m anonymous donor to the Poughkeepsie presentation available to all Colby profes was equipped with portable generators,, ce Education Foundation-a welcome encour sors. Mills, who has been a dialogue coach refrigerator, and plenty of water, so the stu p< agement to her dream of becoming an obste for television productions and who has also dents were self-sufficient. "It wasn't plush, 2( trician. worked with Italian film makers, is available Fort said, "but after the storm was over, 1 se Other studentsadding flair to the Colby for private or group discussion of any pro was scary to think you might be attacked am di campus this year include Mirriam Chona, fessor's concern about his or her classroom looted." By midweek MPs and the FBI C Often taba, and Thokozani Kadzamira, the delivery. cured the island. Troops drove American II lo first participants in the new Colby exchange Colby professors are not the only ones the airport, and the three flew out on Frida) p· program with Chancellor College in Malawi, who benefit from Mills's help. Students this afternoon and Saturday. d1 Africa; Andrei Plashchevsky and Mart year will also be able to make use of the Associate ProfessorofBiology Russ Colt et Repnau from the Soviet Union; Sibel Akbay Colby Speech Council, a small group of said that even though the program, in coop 1r from Istanbul, Turkey; Siddhartha Chou sympathetic listeners who offer a forum for eration with Fairleigh Dickinson University dhury from Calcutta, India; and Dilan Siri practice, discussion, and peer review of all was cancelled last fall, the Colby studenh tunga from Colombo, Sri Lanka. types of speech events for both faculty and would receive credit for the work they hac s1 students. completed after a month at the research sta tion. Baldwin elected to finish the semeste· i1 Teacher Talk at Fairleigh Dickinson, which offered classe a Banking on Wooldredge similar to those in St. Croix. Fort and Cordor c Colby's professors returned to campus this returned to Mayflower Hill and three-cour fall to a welcome surprise. Their very own Congratulations to Colby Board of Trustees loads for the first semester. support group has taken shape as the Colby member William D. Wooldredge '61, who "I'd rather be there," Cordon said, "bul Center for Teaching. Located in the Writing has just been named managing director of I'm glad to be alive." Center in Miller Library/ the Center forTeach the Carleton Group in Cleveland. ing houses a collection of recommended Wooldredge, who was formerly executive books on college teaching and a gathering of vice president and chief financial officer of samples of assignments, syllabi, and exams Belden and Blake Corporation of North COLBY 4 ScienceFest All is Welliver IT '90 from the popular and picturesque coastline. Alexandra Anderson, chair of the Colby !• umerous studies during the past several During the late summer the Colby Art Mu Museum of Art Advi ory Council and a years have pointed to the low level of scien seum was host to the Neil Welliver Maine noted Americanartcritic,states: "The�esmall tific literacy among people of all ages Landscape Exhibit, a major showing of 63 studies, done with a speed and lyncism that ·�throughout the United States. In addition to paintings of the state's wilderness. Covering come from capturing certain condition of I calling for improved science training, many the past 20 years, the exhibit is unique be light and color raw, could never be anything a· reports on the status of the nation's schools cause it includes Welliver's smaller paint but American. No European painting con have emphasized the need for tearing down ings, which are from a private family collec tains the same kind of vigor, the freshness of the artificial boundaries in school curricula tion and are seldom shown. These studies perception over academicized thought. ... that the traditional academic disciplines have were painted in the field and used as a basis These small paintings-as well as Welliver's erected. A recently developing model of for larger studio works. Through the Jere larger works-stubbornly remind us to look education holds that children will learn about Abbott Acquisitions Fund, the College has more closely at whatever wilderness re i� and understand their world more readily if recently purchased West Slope, 1978, oil on mains." ir they are shown the relationships among canvas, 96" x 120". This impressive work was The Maine Landscape Exhibit was also traditionally have been taught �r subjeds that highlighted during the exhibit. shown at the Montgomery (Alabama) Mu �-as distinct entities. The Maine landscape has been a contin seum of Fine Arts during ovember and is at ·L In light of this new way of thinking, the ual inspiration to Welliver since he moved to the Butler Institu te of American Art in r College is sponsoring ScienceFest '90, a Lincolnville in 1969, and his powerful can Youngstown, Ohio, from mid-December to re contest for children in grades four through vases often reveal a wilderness that is far late January. o· six in Waterville, Winslow, Oakland, and ·o. Fairfield public schools. In the contest, which 11 will be piloted by Associate Professor of a- Biology Jay Labov, Adjunct Associate Pro :r fessor of Performing Arts Richard Sewell, d and Vice President for Academic Affairs and ir Dean of Faculty Robert McArthur, students " will undertake research about a scientist or in team of scientists, some past or present sci- 1il entific event, or a scientific process (e.g., I: nuclear energy, the function of red blood -s. cells). In collaboration with their teachers, st participants will then write and perform a sh 20- to 30-minute play based on their re r search. ln late March the best play from each ar district will be performed for the public in . Colby's Strider Theater. At a reception fol- 1s! lowing the performances, the College will da present certificates of recognition to the stu- dent participants, and their schools will re :ol ceive, prize that can be used by all students '°fin that class or school. ;it By sponsoring ScienceFest '90, the Col lege hope to provide children from local ?nl school districts with the opportunity to inte ha s� grate their studies of science, reading, writ stt ing, social studies, and the performing arts ;St as well as to expand their imaginations and k creativity. 1r.· bl Storm's End and Sunlight was one of63 Neil Welliver paintings exhibited last year at tile College. The 1990 Colby calendar features other Welliver Mai11e landscapes. COLBY 5 Baskets on Show From October 1 to November 22 the Colby Museum of Art was host to an exhibition of the art and craft of basketmaking. Presented by the Maine Crafts Association with major support from the Maine Humanities Coun cil and the Maine Arts Commission, "Maine Basketry: Past to Present" displayed both ancient and modern works by Maine's Na tive American artisans as well as contempo rary pieces by Maine's premier non-Indian practitioners of this traditional craft. Supporting documentary materials, by former Colby Assistant Professor of Anthro pology Harald Prins and other scholars, guided visitors through the development of Maine basketry from its utilitarian prehis toric origins to the abstract expressionism of today's avant-garde basketmakers. Baskets have long played an important role in the economy and aesthetics of Maine Memorial for Dana Feitler life. Prior to the arrival of white settlers, '87 baskets were primarily functional tools for The family and friends of Dana Feitler '87 have established a memorial scholarship living, although the graceful shapes and in her name. It will be awarded annually to a Colby woman who possesses a highly subtle decorations of the few surviving pre developed social conscience as well as a strong academic record. contact baskets suggest that a pleasing ap In addition to her family's contributions, the College has received numerous pearance was a strong consideration. Water donations from Feitler's friends, classmates, and professors. She died July 9, 1989, proof containers fashioned from birch bark as a result of a wound inflicted during a robbery. were used for drinking, cooking, and storing Feitler, 24, was a native of Whitefish Bay, Wis., and the daughter of Robert fluids. Woven baskets were made from Feitler, president of a Milwaukee shoe manufacturing company, and Joan Feitler, an rushes, sweet grass, hemp, and spruce roots. independent educational consultant. She had recently resigned from a position with The technique of weaving baskets from thin the Continental Bank in Chicago to begin graduate work in the University of strips of ash did not appear in Maine until Chicago's M.B.A. program. Said Becky Harrison '87, who roomed with Feitler the late 1700s. Research indicates that the during their first two years at Colby, "She was working 40 hours a week at the bank method was introduced about 1700 to Dela but still did volunteer work at a hospital." Close friend Josh Shapiro '87 said, "Any ware Valley Indians by Swedish colonists. thing she did she enjoyed. She really enjoyed the academic life and was just itching As the whites arrived in increasing to get back to school." numbers, baskets assumed an additional Feitler's academic record was one of sustained excellence. Having spent the importance in the tribal economy because summer of 1982 in Washington, D.C., as a page to Wisconsin Senator William they could be traded for desirable European Proxmire, she returned to the University School in River Hills, Wis., and graduated commodities. By the mid 1800s native bas with honors in 1983. At Colby, where she was a member of the soccer and squash ketmakers had diversified their output to teams, she majored in sociology and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, receiving her appeal to the growing tourist trade. Their degree cum laude. "fancy goods" included brightly decorated But it is Dana Feitler's outstanding human qualities that people remember first pie baskets, comb cases, and hat boxes. and foremost. Professor of Sociology Thomas Morrione '65 believes that her A second segment of the basket market unassuming friendliness and willingness to help others created a lasting impression developed with the state's potato industry. on all whose lives she touched. Harrison concurs. "When I arrived at Colby," she In 1950, with a record 200,000 acres under remembered, "the first thing she did was to offer to help me with my luggage. We cultivation and prior to the introduction of hit it off right away. She was very attractive, athletic, and intelligent and did mechanical harvesters, it took 40,000 pickers interesting things. She had been to the Outward Bound school, and she spent the to harvest the crop, and every picker needed summer of her freshman-sophomore year on an archaeological dig." a potato basket, most of which were woven "Dana was very accepting of different people and ideas," agreed Liz Sedor '87, from ash splints by Maine Indians. Feitler's former roommate in Chicago. "She was curious about life--adventurous." In recent years, the demand for utilitar The two first met in England, where both were spending a junior-year semester at ian baskets has all but given way to contain the London School of Economics. "We had a lot in common," Sedor said. "We ers made of plastic, cardboard, and metal, so traveled through Europe together that summer." many of today's basketmakers focus their "She was very easy to get along with and enjoyed talking to people," said efforts on the aesthetic appeal of their work. Shapiro. "Everyone was struck by how unpretentious she was. When she asked a Indeed, the beauty of the baskets exhibited at question, she cared about what people had to say in answer. She was never afraid the Museum of Art indicates that some con of new ideas. I guess another way to describe Dana would be to say that she was a temporary artists are already creating fanci free spirit." ful woven sculptures. COLBY 6 13 ZIBRIS n,e Specinl Collections stnff of Miller Librnry changes in antitrust activity in key policy The Mormon Murders ntnlog11esnnd keepsmiy books written bya/1111111i areas: mergers, vertical restraints, monop Steven aifeh and Gregory White Smith '73 111d fnrnlty of which they are awnre. For this oly, and strategic behavior. Weidenfeld and icolson, 1988, $19.95 rcnso11, nnd for the p11rpose of this book rePiew Robert Larner is an economist and vice ew American Library, 1989, $-t .95 ..;ffllo11,nil Colby n11thors are e11co11rngedto send president of Charles River Associates, Inc., a l100L totheCollege editor, Colby College, Wnter Boston-based research and consulting firm, "From the standpoint of local TV news, the i•1//e, Mnine 04901. and James Meehan is professor of economics story had everything: murder, mystery, big at the College. The articles they have solic money, local characters-everything but ited examine in particular the impact of the sex." That passage may explain why The Economics and Antitrust Policy change in antitrust enforcement and policy Mormon Murders is selling even better in Robert J. Larner and James W. Meehan, Jr., on social welfare. They point out where mass-market paperback than in hardcover. eds. changes have been beneficial, evaluate It only begins to explain that Steven aifeh Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989, whether further changes in policy or law are and Gregory White Smith have painstak $45.00 desirable, and probe unresolved issues, such ingly reconstructed and brought to life the as whether current policy pays too little at sequence of events that Utah law enforce As the economists and lawyers contributing tention to the possible strategic or anticom ment officials call "the case of the century." to this volume demonstrate, an important petitive aspects of some forms of business The book is investigative reporting of the element of the Reagan Revolution has been a conduct. first order. fundamental shift in antitrust policy and Taken together, these essays offer a Papers purportedly written by Prophet enforcement. The focus has moved away multifaceted explanation of the ways in Joseph Smith and other early leaders of the from market structure during the 1960s and which economics has contributed tochanges Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints early 1970s toward greater emphasis on the in antitrust policy and law. By providing a are turned up by Mark Hofmann, a young effects of business conduct on economic effi more thorough understanding of develop dealer in rare Mormon documents. These ciency and consumer welfare. This shift, ments in industrial economics during the papers cast doubt on the founding revela caused by a marked change in the political last 30 years, the authors also provide law tions of Smith and the Mormon Church and climate and by change in the thinking and yers, economists, business executives, and perhaps lead to the murders of two people research output of economists, has had an students of business administration with new and the wounding of Hofmann himself. What enormous impact on the volume and sub insights into possible future trends in anti is the connection between these events? Were stance of antitrust activity during the 1980 . trust policy and law-and their impact on the documents forged? If so, by whom and The articles collected here-each written the structure of American business and why? If they were forged, is a conspiracy especially for this volume-assess these markets. afoot to cover up the forgery? Is a cover-up COLBY 7 the motive behind the murders and the at Life on the Rim plete thoughts or lead the reader to expec tempt on Hofmann? As the authors pick at Ronald Moran '58 something different ("When Vickie faintec knot after knot in the bizarre skein of the Lacrosse, Wis.: Juniper Press, 1989, $9.00 on the cereal/ and paper-goods aisle ...") o case, they deliver more than the expected puns and fruitful ambiguities (Angelo leasec elements of a good mystery story. Dogged Life on the Rim might have been called "Life his land "sight/unseen" and "went ur cops plug away despite footdragging local on Route 123." Several of the poems in Ronald against the expensive dough of Pizza Hut") politics. The redoubtable hierarchy of the Moran's book a re set in the shopping mall or Moran never overtly satirizes his protagl} Mormon Church obstructs the investigation. in nearby businesses along Route 123 in the nists' illusions, bu t he is never taken in b1 A trial involving sharp and flamboyant at fictional town of Camelot, N.C. Slices of life them either. He has a vision of small-to torneys packs dramatic surprises. that Moran refers to in one poem as "the mall virtues as well as an eye for small-to�i The authors interviewed scores of prin culture" -the tanning salon, the bank branch foibles. cipal and peripheral figures in the case. They office, the pizza parlor-provide social For people who don't ordinarily carefo authenticate each conversation, amass de comment on the values of America on the poetry or who have forgotten how it car tail, examine various theories that connect move. Many people are left behind in a compress and clarify and make enjoyable the explosive documents with the murders, capitalist economy like refuse on the bank this should be refreshing stuff. Moran teache< and probe the psychology of historical and after a flood. American literature and poetry writing a' current leadership of the Mormon Church. Angelo, whose "wife ran off with a sili Clemson University, where he serves a• The early Church is a fascinating story in con chip whiz/and !whose] only son mar assistant dean for liberal arts, and he know• itself. Joseph Smith "held frequent dialogues ried a chic terrorist," is one of the many how to make poems that are unpretentiou• with Biblical figures," for instance. The of colorful characters in these poems. Angelo and clear, poems that are clearly about "th, fence of revealing Mormon secrets to ou tsid leaves the Northeast and leases "sight/un ordinary." We see again what was righ ers marked a person for execution. "Blood seen, 1200 square feet in the Sunbelt Plaza/ under our noses, right in our backyards atonement" meant killing a man to save him. and went up/against the expensive right in our own malls and Route 123s, righ1 According to a Mormon in the county dough of Pizza Hut." His business is a in our own heads and hearts. Less conse attorney's office, the Church's dilemma in moderate success "until the town lifted the quential poetry than this appears in volume the affair of the documents was clear: "It was ban on bingo,/leaving Angelo alone at the by well-known poets. damaging enough to think that the docu counter I cupping his hands beneath his chin/ Small presses like Juniper Press, pub ments were genuine and that the first leader and watching the flow southbound." lisher of Life 011 the Rim, continue to turn ou\ of the Church might have been nothing more Moran's protagonists are victims of their good books of poetry-really good poetry than a con man who duped the faithful. But own economic illusions. In "The Mazda Ef attractively printed and well bound-thal it would be even more damaging if the docu fect," Camelot gets its collective hopes up few people ever know about. An irony ap ments turned out to be forgeries, and the when the Japanese "took out an option on propriate to the collection is that this smal current the Farrell land/for an assembly plant." The leaders of the Church had been duped Wisconsin press is run by John Judson '� by a con man." Attempts to lock away those expectation of jobs and other economic and his wife, Joanne. Colby classmates Morar documents and to suppress the story land windfalls causes townspeople to behave in and Judson never knew each other at th the Mormon Church dead center in the bizarre fashion, such as sending "laminated College and never had a chance to speak murder investigation. local flowers and newly turned haikus" to with one another until Life on the Rim wa1 From the opening page Naifeh and Hiroshima by Federal Express and bullying actually in print. Smith, Harvard-trained lawyers who have a World War!! veteran whose bumper sticker collaborated on nine other books, maintain reads "Remember Pearl Harbor." As in many Robert Gillespie strict authorial neutrality. They recognize of Moran's poems, such behavior not only Associate Professor of English that "the Church" may mean Mormon doc fails to bring about the expected result, it and College Editor trine, both current and as held at the time of guarantees the opposite. Reversal of expec Joseph Smith, it may mean the Mormon tation is a staple of comedy as much as of leadership, and it may mean the community tragedy, and Moran often works both genres Other Noteworthy Books by Alumni and of Mormons and the shared values that bind in a single poem. Faculty them together. Even though The Mormon The simplicity and lucidity of these Murders offers an unsparing profile of Church poems belie the author's mastery of charac Kindquist, Cathy E. '78. Stony Pass: Tlri officials, readers will feel sympathy and terization and plot and other techniques, Tumbling and Impetuous Trail. San Juan respect for the greater Mormon community. such as line breaks that appear to be com- County Book Company, 1987. Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel '82. The Condemnation of Heroism in the Tragedy of Beowulf: A Studyi11 the Characterization of the Epic. Lewiston N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press. COLBY 8 Asgard, Brown, Etc. by Julie Marks '90 f by chance you find yourself in Portland, Professor Colin Mackay added to excellent Telegrn1111111d Ga:ette, and UPI correspondent Maine,I surrounded by three Macintosh SE SAT and high-school equivalency scores, in Vietnam, Israel, and London. "Colby gave · computer , two large-screen display termi Asgard entered Colby as a college sopho me access to the front door of a world I could ' nals, two copy scanners, several modems, a more--with only a ninth-grade education. only get into through a back door before," he fax machine, and an industrial-size copying In the beginning Asgard found it diffi says. Hedid graduate work at universities in machine, you may think that you've cult to be surrounded by the relative afflu Frankfurt and Jerusalem, and he taught at ,. stumbled into a computer hardware store. ence of his classmates without coveting their ottingham University and Mansfield Col- Actually, the four-story Victorian lege, both in England, the Univer ) 1 house of David Asgard '63 and sity of New Hampshire and St. 3 i Grace Serizawa Brown '86 is only Anselm's College in New Hamp secondarily the home of Etc. & shire, and a college in Colombia, , Company, the couple's publish- South America. He also taught for ing and design business. Wander five years at a junior-high school in ; 1, around a bit more, and you are New Hampshire. It was around n just as likely to be welcomed by this time that he met Grace Brown " pieces of primitive Middle East at a car-wash party. She was a ' em and aborigine sculpture, an senior at another New Hampshire , enviable election of classical high school, and their conversa r music cass tte tapes and compact tion naturally turned to college, discs, woodblock prints, a sim- specificallyColby. One ofheraunts 01 ,, 1 mering pot of Japanese rice, and was the late Miriam Brown New · most notably, Bud 0. Brown, the comb '24. ri house's 19-pound, three-feet-Jong Like Asgard, Brown had "guard cat." Colby couples are sketchy but impressive experience r I) not rare, but there arefew with the with education. Bornin Tokyo to a ) �i ,; , diversity of backgrounds and Japanese mother and an American tastes that characterize this duo. teacher in a university there, she Asgard, a native of Water remembers that Japanese was her ville, has early memories of the first language. Although she and College. His family moved to a her twin brother did not attend farm i.n Albion when he was 2 school in Japan, their parents years old, and he often accompa strongly encouraged them to read. nied his fatheron egg deliveries to Their schooling was postponed the Colby Spa a.ndto married-student apart- nice stereos, their slick sports cars, and most further when the family moved to Saipan 1 n ments. He transferred from Albion to Water of all, their preparatory school experience. when the twinswere 8. Itwasn'tuntil Brown ville Junior High School to take ad vantage of "At first I thought everyone was smarter was 13 years old and began living with a the larger school's art program, hitchhiking than me," he recalls, but he soon realized Japanese aunt in Texas that she finally started and sometimes walking the 20-mile round that, although other students had more for school. Although she was not yet fluent in J trip each day. Because of family arguments, mal education, he had read more books than English, she flourished in the classroom. She however, he quit school and joined the most. Asgard majored in English literature now looks at her lack of early schooling as an Marine Corps a few days before his 17th and social sciences, and as his confidence "advantage"-unlike many of her class 1 1, ; / birthday. grew, he participated in various extracur mates, she was starved for knowledge and After three years in the service, he went ricular activities, including the Echo and the intellectual challenge. to work for Fuller Brush Company in Water Oracle. He learned to enjoy challenge more Brown's education extended far beyond ville, the only job he could get at the time. than ever. "[English Professor] Mark Ben the classroom; by the time she met Asgard Asgard remembers one particularly tough bow was the first to tell me that if you found she had lived in 17 different foster homes customer: Colby Professor of English Alfred learning easy you weren't learning any and had supported herself since the age of K. "Chappie" Chapman '25. "I never was thing." 17. Her fear that she might not be accepted at able to sell him a brush," Asgard says, laugh Asgard completed his work at Colby in a college turned out to be unfounded, as ing; however, Chapman eventually man three years, after which he held a number of Colby's admissions staff was impressed by aged to sell Asgard on Colby. With jobs, including photographer, editor of the her maturity and her spunk. In 1982 she Chapman's backing and the help of English Chelsea Record, reporter for the Worcester became the first Asian to receive a Ralph J. COLBY 9 Bunche scholarship from Colby, and A soci Asgard to use the computer to teach and for "I'd take all the classes I'd sneered at the fir, ate Dean of Admissions Walter Brooks made Brown to use it as a study aid, Asgard found time around." Brown stresses the impor certain that she had a fu ll scholarship and the machine useful in laying out and print tance of a liberal arts background in ther spending money besides. Asgard moved to ing a mostly student-written newsletter for personal lives and in making theirenterpri Waterville that year and began teaching his humanities class at Lawrence High a success, saying that it teaches one "ho w ti adva nced-placement English at nearby School. When the couple moved to pick up different things and connect therr Lawrence High School. Westbrook after Brown graduated, among and make them work for you ....Having th• Brown entered the College with the same their new fu rnishings were two new Macin diversity of thinking skills you learn atColb1 fear and insecurities with which Asgard toshes and a LaserWriter. In 1987 they took helps in dealing with people." Asgard agre had enrolled 20 years earlier, but again the on their first publishing job, a six-page ques that "the only real knowledge is connectec fears were replaced with growing self-confi tionnaire, for the advertising agency at which knowledge." dence and the joy of learning. "I had a lot Brown was working at the time. The ques They both are concerned that more rt more experience in terms of just surviving," tionnaire took seven or eight days to finish cent students see a liberal arts degree only a she says. "I had led the kind of life that my and earned them $120; they estimate that a key to the corporate world. Asgard woulc t professors had only read about in their text with the experience they now have the same like them to understand that a Colby educa l books. Being at Colby was like a hiatus for job could be accomplished in two hours. Etc. tion "doesn't prepare anyone to do anythin1 me." Freed from the urgency of day-to-day Company's next job was student literary when they get out of college-except to go & a ti survival, Brown was able to lead a more magazine for the Windham school system. graduate school. ... But it does prepare therr stable life. She married David for a long-term future. It tak : Asgard during the Christmas peopleawhileto really appreciah ':I vacation of her first year at Colby, the skills they've learned at Colby t sc , ilt and she participated in a number Brown worries that "students ar, of student government activities: afraid to go out of their disciplin1 t a she served on the board of gover and try new things." "Student' nors, on the College administra want to play it safe," Asgar tive committee, and on the Board agrees. "Colby should develor of Trustees funding board, and 'renaissance people' who thin! she was the student chair of the about things besides their GPA policy board. "I'm staggered by Testaments to his continuing how much Colby invested in me" commitment to education are five in scholarships and personal en of Asgard's former Lawrence Hig� couragement, she marvels, but she School students in the Colby Clas. believes that by successfully strik of 1990 alone, two of them major ing a balance between hard work ing in East Asian studies and tht in and out of the classroom and others in biology and English, the responsibilities of married life, Spanish, and businessadministra · , 1 "I proved to them that they ought tion. All are at the College at leas! to take chances on more people partly as a result of his and Brown'< 1 1 , t like me." encouragement. Love of learning is one of the With the move to their ne11 many things that thecoupleshare. home, Asgard and Brown are set· Lately they have been incorporat tling into their lives with relish ing that shared interest-in-every Rephrasing his remark that "ii t i thing into Etc. and Company. takes people a while to realh 1 t For a longtime the business was consid Brown and Asgard continued to accept appreciate the skills they've learned al ered a weekend-and-spare-time endeavor to work, hoping only for enough money to pay Colby," Asgard quips, "if there's anything be squeezed in between full-time jobs-with for the computer equipment, but a "snow Colby prepares you for, it's middle age.' Asgard teaching advanced-placement Eng ball effect" took over, and today their only Even though computers are his business, he lish classes at Windham High School and advertising is done by word of mouth. The considers computers his main hobby, too Brown working as advertising services and couple's biggest account is a 16- to 20-page, The Macintosh "serves as a vehicle for gi1 production manager for Custom Builder, a four-color catalogue for the Sebago, Inc. shoe ing ideas shape and reality,'' he says. "Inci· national trade magazine. Asgard recently company. They also publish five newspa dentally, giving ideas shape and reality h left teaching to run the business full time, pers, one for each of five local school dis really what Colby is all about. Of course, tht and profits from Etc. & Company financed tricts, which circulate to about35,000 homes. next step you have to take on your own the couple's move from a rented apartment, Currently on the back burner is a team effort learning what is aesthetically and intellectu· wedged between the eighth and ninth holes written by Asgard and illustrated by Brown, ally valuable." Brown volunteers at the Port· of a golf course in We tbrook, to the first a self-help series for high schoolers who land Family Crisis Shelter, recently began house that they can call their own. agonize over science projects and writing competing in horse shows, and on a trip to 1 The seeds of the business were planted history papers and term papers. Japan in 1988 met her mother for the first in the spring of 1984 when the couple pur Oddly enough, Asgard reveals that time in 17 years. She could hardly sum up chased a basic Macintosh 128 computer after "Grace and I were always antibusiness. We their life in business and at home more sue· it had been on the market only three months. never took an administrative sciences or an cinctly than by saying, "it's going better than Although their original intention was for economics class,'' bu t he admits that now our wildest imagination." COLBY 10 The Eclectic Company by Chris Finlayson he first sociology course in the United Associate Professor Sonya Rose has been at Colby in 1889 by Albion lrtl\ StatesT was offered teaching at Colby since 1977 and was chairof Woodbury Small, Class of 1876, president of the department from 1985 to 1989. A slight, the College from 1889 to 1892 and generally red-haired woman of strong opinions ex regarded as "the father of American sociol pressed with vigor and precision, she says, ogy." Small left Colby to accept the first chair "One of the problems that sociology has is ! of the University of Chicago's department of that it speak of the obvious. 'It's all just -,ociology, cowrote the first sociology text common sense.' Well, in a way that's true bu t book in 1894, and was the founding editor of it's a misapprehension to think of sociology the A111cricn11 jo11mal of Sociology, which re just co11cems a:t1 as common sense. It itself with l mains the most prestigious publication in common sense-how common sense is cre the field. The nature and role of the embry ated." ,� onic social science were but dimly under "What 'everybody knows' is our most stood by the academic community of Small's critical context of sociological discovery," day, a state of affairs that has, to a large agrees Associate Professor Cheryl extent, withstood the passage of time. Townsend-Gilkes, a woman of powerful Modern sociologists must still contend personality and flashing intellect who is the with misunderstanding and controversy director of Colby's African-American stud regard ing what it is that they actually do. ies program. "When my father read my ar And nowhere does the debate rage more ticle '"Together and in Harness": Women's fiercely than among the practitioners them Traditions in the Sanctified Church,' he noted ia c;elves. Stated simply, sociologists are di that much of what I had said about women in nq ' ided into two basic factions: those who seek the article had been right in front of his eyes b legitimacy for their discipline as a true "sci growing up-even within his own family " ...we look at the whole com ence" through rigorously quantitative stud- bu t that he had never really noticed or at n 1 ies of human behavior ("27 percent of males tached any importance to it." plex that is human social life-we ilJ said yes, 49 percent of females said yes") and "We get critiqued by the natural sci provide tools for understanding E those who believe that the complexity f ences," says Rose, "which would like to see social reality can only be expressed and a highly quantified (and to my mind that how human beings create social understood in qualitative terms (rich de means a highly simplified) portrayal of the worlds and how the social worlds scriptions of divorce, poverty, illness, being world in which humans are encapsulated by black, being famous, etc., as seen through the numbers. There are some sociologists who that they create have real conse ie eyes of those who live the experience). are very quantitative. I do some quantitative quences for people's lives." h Colby's Department of Sociology and An work myself sometimes. But I don't think thropology does not suffer from this schism you can understand the world with num ttt -Sonya Rose due, in part, to a broad philosophical agree bers. ment among the faculty and to the legacy of "We should become more like the fl] its founder. humanities," Rose adds. "That's been a theme n "I agree with Albion Woodbury Small," of this department for many years. We like to .nf says the department chair, Professor Tho- think of sociology as a holistic discipline. By mas Morrione '65, a tall, bespectacled man that I mean that we look at the whole com 'b) with the look of both intellectual and athletic plex that is human social life-we provide f achievement about him. "He wrote a won tools for understanding how human beings derful piece on the place of sociology in the create social worlds and how the social liberal arts and the essential point was that it worlds that they create have real conse quences for people's lives." is the most relevant d isci pline-beca use it in corporates within it psychology, philoso This overall perspective has taken sturdy phy, and social policy. It has an ongoing root in the work of David Fearon, Jr. '89, a commitment to questions of moral concern. sociology major and the son of David Fea It has a commitment to planned change ron, Sr. '65, a professor of business manage within a society. It has a commitment to ment at Central Connecticut State Univer understanaing history. It has a commitment sity. After graduating last spring, Fearon to helping people understand and come to stayed on at the College as a research assis grips with the forces that shape their lives. I tant to Morrione while he evaluates possible can't think of anything more fundamental Ph.D. programs. "My roommate likes to rile than that!" me up by saying that the social sciences are COLBY 11 totally useless. But I think that if the intro 'Okay, I'll take it.' That's the God's hon� ductory courses are well taught, they would truth ...almo st." be a good experience for everybody. It gives "My introduction to sociology was ve people a better understanding of their place old fashioned," Geib continues. "We're talk· in the world-that their reality is not the ing 1949. The fellow who was head of th1 result of fate or the natural world-that they department lat UNH] was what they call have the power to reorganize their own situ 'Lundbergian,' very interested in statisti ations and surroundings. People can becoIT1e He used to read population manuals fat better managers of their own lives and oth relaxation. I got through there in three yeaJ'I ers if they have done some sociology." . graduated summn cum /nude ... prizes, al Nevertheless, within the Colby sociolo that crap. l still had some time left on the G gists' general agreement lies a diversity of Bill and I'm ru nning this boy's camp which experience, ethnicity, gender, and, of course, is just getting started so l can't get a jo� opinion on almost every subject. The differ because I need my summers free. My wilt ent paths that led them to sociology are a said, 'Why don't you go to graduate school: good case in point. I went to Brown because it gave me the moJ Growing up as a black woman in a money with the most prestige. "I wanted to explore the kind of , e family with a tradition of scholarship, Gilkes "When l went into sociology-of cour sociology that people read that came very naturally to the discipline. "Al this was right after the war-I felt that !ht though the intellectual origins of my research tower of society had been weakened,'' gave them the assumptions they Ge1r go much deeper into several ideological and says, "so we needed people to take wrench. operated with when they had theoretical debates," she says, "the very real and tighten the nuts to make things strong origins rest with my father, who agreed with again. But at Brown I got a dose of high power over other people's lives." W.E.B. DuBois that sociological research was powered theoretical sociology and it dawn -Cheryl Tow11se11d-Gilkes especially useful for an understanding of the on me that it is just as important that peoplE black experience. As an undergraduate I did design better wrenches as it is to use them. a social work internshipin a housing project. In contrast to Geib's more or less acci "In introductory courses we In the process of doing the work, I saw just dental drift into sociology, Professor Jona how much damage people could do to other Rosenthal was inevitably drawn to the diso· tackle the idea of a socially con people's Ii ves based upon erroneous assump pline. A man of courtly manners and an structed reality in about ten tions about poor people, who they are and elegant turn of phrase, Rosenthal has been a what they are about. I wanted to explore the member of the Colby academic communi� different ways until the students kind of sociology that people read that gave for 31 years. them the assumptions they operated with grew up in North Carolina in a total]\ can see themselves carrying "I when they had power over other people's segregated environment. My mother wasa around in their own heads a lives." racist and my father was not," Rosenthal Professor Fred Geib is the most senior says. "My interest in sociology was pro socially constructed reality." member of the department, having come to voked by a deep desire to prove my mother -Thomns Morrione Colby as an instructor in 1955. His solid wrong and reform the South. Later, whil build, close-cropped white hair, and rather still in graduate school, I was married and forbidding features would seem more ap had two children and became very inter· propriate for a career sergeant or an ex ested in intrafamily relationships, which was football player. Until one catches the twinkle also academically represented by sociology. in the eye and the iconoclastic humor in his Whereas most academics can name om rough voice and blunt speech, one would or more teachers who were influential i never suspect that Geib did his doctoral their careers, Rosenthal is an exception. "I dissertation on the American nudist move can't name a teacher who inspired me. Nol 1 ment, is fascinated by tattoos, thinks that only didn't I have a mentor," Rosenthal watching autopsies in the New York City declares, "but I am probably the only full morgue is a terrific way to spend a few professor at Colby who does not have a weeks, and is committed to radical experi Ph.D. The man who was to be my adviser at ments in classroom teaching. the University of Pennsylvania was not inter· "My first degree was in engineering but ested in being my mentor. He died short!) I didn't want to be an engineer. So after the after approving my dissertation proposal, war [WWII] I decided to go back to college. and data which he'd mined and I was to 'What' II I take?' I asked my wife. 'Why don't reanalyze was no longer available." you take sociology?' 'What's that?' I said . Rose's experience was more conven· She said, 'You know, when the blacks move tional She says, " As an undergraduate I was in to an area, the whites move out.' I said, very interested in history but the group ot COLBY 12 teachers that I liked left. I went into sociology The minute something is gone, Geib because of one teacher who made the disci maintains, it gets put into this intellech1al pline an exciting intellectual enterprise." graveyard called "The Past" where every Whether, like Rose, the facu lty mem thing becomes a simultaneous event. "The bers had an inspiring exam pie or, like Rosen Age of the Pyramids and the Spanish Ar thal, lament its absence, all agree on the mada were simultaneous events! They hap 1mportanceofprovidingColbystudentsv,1ith pened in 'The Past' ! Yet in the sweep of all �timulating, broadening classroom experi eternity,they are just millisecondsaway from ence. They vary, however, sometimes the experiences of our students and have sharply, in methods and phnosophy. great effect on our lives," Geib argues. 'Tm still a student of the sixties," says "Students, and even some of our colleagues, fornone,"in the sense that I want my own have a woefully inadequate grasp of history. students to develop a critical awareness. I I want to create a historical awareness and want them to be able to form their own perspective so that when one of my students opimons. There's a consensus within the is in another class and somebody is talking department that what v,retry to do is to help about 'The Crash,' at least they'll know what students develop a perspective. We do not century it took place in." feed them lists of facts about per-capita in Geib experin1ents with alternative ways come or migration statistics. In introductory of transferring information. The lecture is courses we tackle the idea of a socially con not the only format. He has taught introduc structed reality in about ten different ways tory sociology three times when students until the sh1dents can see themselves carry were not allowed to read anything. They ing around in their own heads a socially kept classroom journals that they passed in constructed reality." once a week, anonymously, for his com While agreeing with that basic goal, Geib ments. " All they do for the first two months," employs some novel, even startling meth Geib says, "is look at four eight-by-ten pho ods: "Anyone who teaches finds that there tographs of groups of people. The first day I "I have 23,000 slides and give are certain things in a course that you'd love come in, put the pictures on the wall, and tell short courses on the decades of to spend ... at least two weeks talking a out. the students, 'I am only here to push you. Not one just hour. So when I was department Otherwise I have nothing to do with this the twentieth century. It's all chair in the early seventies I created a m.w, class whatsoever.' I tell them three things. semester-long course called Short Courses 'State the obvious. Go slow. Don't be afraid audio-visual. The students hear in Sociology. In effect, we can give any to repeat.' We meet twice a week and for the Roosevelt speak. They hear number of courses of lengths designed to fit first couple of weeks it's horrible. the material. This is heresy of course, be "But after a while somebody says, 'Wait Churchill speak. They hear cause we know that God has ordained that a minute! There's a group of people sitting at Kennedy speak. Not Geib." tmth comes in eighteen one-half-week pack a table and they're eating, so it must be a ages. family. And there's a group of people at the -Fred Geib "For instance, I give a one-month course beach. There's a difference. What is it?' At on the Depression because I think that it was theend of two months I'm walking four feet a much more important event in the history off the floor. I just get so turned on by what of America than the time allotted to it in our they are doing1 They are discovering! I don't introductory course," Geib says. "I like to tell them what a 'folkway' is. They coin the experiment. I had this fantastic recording of term when they need it. I don't tell them the Jaye P. Morgan singing 'Brother Can You difference between a primary and secon Spare A Dime?' Very soulful. Wouldn't that dary group. They invent it! I've done this be effective! The kids come into class, the three times but I'm afraid to do it anymore room is dark, and just this singing. Powerful! because one day it's not going to work." I said, 'Cripes, they come into a dark room, Rose has a more detached, historical trip, break a leg, the College gets sued ... view of her role as a teacher. "Sociology was can't do that. But why not have a little light born and grew up as a consequence of the in the corner? Why not show a picture of the changes brought about by the industrial Depression on the creen?' That's the way I revolution," she maintains. "It had its hey day in the sixties and early seventies when started the course. J had thirty slides. ow I there was tremendous upheaval and people have 23,(JuJslides and give short courses on the decades of the twentieth century. It's all were very aware that their social worlds audio-visual. The students hear Roosevelt were profoundly changing. It's not surpris speak. They hear Churchill speak. They hear ing that sociology would become very popu Kennedy peak. Not Geib." lar with students as a way to grasp the COLBY 13 meaning of these changes. Now, not that we essential features of social reality. I al way1 fill are changing any less as a society, a lot of get kidded about it at academic meeting1 ie1 people would like to slow down the rate of 'What are you working on?' 'Reality.' 'Yeah h change, get a handle on it, control it. Stu right!"' ;g dents gravitate more towards economics Down the hall, Rosenthal takes a differ· de because it seems to have answers. But I'm ent view of the social world. "As a teacher,! not sure that there are any answers. Just try to be as eclectic as possible," he says. "ldt appropriate questions." not see my role as persuading students toa As a teacher, Rose wants to impart to particular perspective in sociology. But in students a way of seeing, a way of looking at my own research, which has been quit the world in perspective, taking nothing for limited, I would describe myself as a func· granted, not assuming that there is a reality tionalist. We look at the way that people "out there that is 'true.'" "People can make interact and groups interact and people in choices, have values, make commitments groups interact and the way they create without making the mistake of thinking that organization and continuing processes 01 these are right for everybody. But I'm not interaction in terms of their meeting sornt sure that it's a message that people want to combination of individual and group needs. hear right now. I think they want 'The An- "I've been influenced by a variety ol swer."' theorists," Rose says, "but I don't have a Turning to her own research for ex label for it. Marxian sociology has been amples of the mutable nature of social real important to me but I'm very critical of somt ity, Rose says, "My work is on gender and Marxist theory so I can't call myself a 'Marx· the creation of class in nineteenth-century ist.' I think there are some real problems with I Britain. Looking back through history, I can symbolic interactionism. consider myself a actually see social realities like class struc feminist but there are so many varieties ol tures being created. I can see them emerging feminism. There's a group of people in Brit· and developing. For instance, I can see how ain called 'cultural Marxists' doing work a rationalization constructed to support a that I am very interested in. But my OWTI piece of legislation took on a life of its own. theoretical perspective keeps changing The language and underlying assumptions it's hard to label myself." In his last year before retirement after3 "We look at the way that people of public policy can have consequences that go far beyond the intended effects." years at Colby, Geib has a unique, almosl interact and groups interact and A vital and often distinctive component radical perspective. "I must confess that for of every academic's research and writing is a the last ten years or so I haven't really consid· people in groups interact and the perceptual framework through which to ered myself a sociologist. I prefer to think al way they create organization and observe, review, and analyze data; a theo myself as a teacher. And I don't teach socio!· retical base of operations. While they are in ogy," he says. "I teach students. I'm nrn continuing processes of interac- broad agreement as to the nature and goals playing with words. There's a pedagogical of sociology, the department's faculty difference. My training gives me insights tion in terms of their meeting members diverge in their methods of work that you don't get in other disciplines and some combination of individual ing toward those goals. I've used that to be a more effective teacher. Morrione, for instance, was a student But I'm not teaching sociology per se." and group needs." and protege of Herbert Blumer, the au th or of The discipline that started at Colby in -Jonas Rosenthal the theoretical perspective known as sym 1889 as a one-man, one-course fledgling bolic interactionism. "One of the premises is sheltering in the lee of the Economics De that the meaning of objects in the world is partment began to assume its modern form socially created through the interactions that with the arrival of Kingsley Birge in 1946 we have with other people," says Morrione. Until his death in 1980, Birge was the driving I "That means that in order to understand force behind the department's growth and human action, you have to understand how the author of its present philosophical foun· people define whatever it is that they are dations. He created the positions that brought acting in regard to, whether it is a chair, an Geib to the department in 1955 and, two automobile, a mother, or a flag. Nothing has years later, Rosenthal. Morrione, remember· any intrinsic meaning. Meaning is created ing his own days as a Colby undergraduate socially for purposes of action. There are during the early sixties, says, "By far the absolute physical properties like size and most prominent intellectual force in the mass, but meanings are what people act on. department and one of the most respected "In my research I'm analyzing the work intellects on campus was Kingsley Birge. He of Blumer and the people who influenced was trained at Yale in sociology and anthro him, predominantly George Herbert Mead pology. He had an eclectic, broad-based view and John Dewey. I'm trying to identify the of what sociology should be and was a sig- COLBY 14 , nificant influence on the entire faculty and Pohnpei urging her to bring her own stu student body." dents-a third generation-to their island. In 1981 the department added anthro And Falgout has taken them up on it, pology to its sphere with the hiring of Judith even leading a Colby Jan Plan group to search committee represented a ,. Model!. The Pohnpei for a month. "l know a lot of profes variety of disciplines. There was no sionals out there," she savs, "and the stu wide ' assumption that the anthropologist would dents heard several lectures in context, espe be placed in the Sociology Department. Had cially at archeological sites, which had work the committee selected someone who was a in progress. The students also had individ psychological anthropologist, that person ual research projects. I pushed participant might have gone to the psychology depart observation." ment or, if the person'smajor focus had been As additional slots for anthropologists " comparati\'e religion, to the philosophy and have opened up at Colby, search committees religion department. It happened that Judith have selected other cultural anthropologi ts t , Modell was clearly a socio-cultural anthro who also have tended to integrate smoothly pologist and so she joined the Department of with their sociologist colleagues. For instance, l , Sociology. sociologist Gilkes's approach to the subject Some eight years later, Assistant Profes of race, ethnicity, and gender in America is ' sor of Anthropology Suzanne Falgout says, very "anthropological," whereas new arri Kingsley Birge: "He had an eclec "What's going to make our department work val David Nugent is an anthropologist who ( is overlap." Falgout, who began at the Col approaches his research in Latin America tic, broad-based view of what lege in 1987, explains that sociology histori from a "sociological" political-economic sociology should be and was a cally ha been the study of industrializing, perspective. t modernizing Western nations, whereas an In addition to ugent, the department significant influence on the entire ' thropology has focused on cross-cultural welcomed three other new members last fall. faculty and student body." B itH'estigation of non-Western countries. And JaneGray, whose major focus is on the issues · Kingsley Birge .j while sociologists generally have relied on surrounding public policy and economic -Morrio11e 011 statistical analysis and questionnaires, an development in Ireland, recently received 11 thropologists traditionally haveused a quali her doctoral degree in sociology from the "I wanted the most liberal educa tative methodology of "participant observa Johns Hopkins University. Adam Weis tion could get-languages, folk 'r tion"-that is, they have been participants in berger, whose area of concentration is politi I a natural setting, interviewing, learning the cal sociology, reads, writes, and speaks fluent n lore, religion, geology, biology, language, living in people's homes. "This is Yiddish and is exploring the socio-historic , changing today, however," Falgout says. aspects of the European Jewish culture and art, primatology, history, and so "Some anthropologists even work in the U.S. tradition. And Phyllis Rogers, who earned using qualitative methodology. The sociolo her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979 and has on. Anthropology is truly a J gists at Colby are more qualitative than most taught at the University of California at Santa r liberal arts discipline-it spans Cruz, is a visual and linguistic anthropolo 1 sociology departments. Although we're dis tinct, we're not totally opposed in interests gist who has done in-depth work on the the disciplines." U ;t �· and methodology. We have common inter- American plains Indians and on the circus -Suzanne Falgo11t A ests." clown. She came to Colby after two years as hi As an undergraduate at the University a visual media consultant to the Yamaha of New Orlean , Falgout remembers, echo Corporation of America. l 1 e h: ing what Morrione says about sociology, she It is clear that in this and coming aca n pursued the study of anthropology because demic years, the Colby Department of Soci "I wanted the most liberal education I could ology and Anthropology will continue its 11 tradition of wide-ranging scholarship and a 1 get-languages, folklore, religion, geology, I biology, art, primatology, history, and so on. deep commitment to offering diverse, chal T Anthropology is truly a liberal arts disci lenging courses to the College's undergradu a· pline-it spans the disciplines. That's our ates. "The liberal arts experience," says iu 1� goal, to study human beings in the widest Morrione, "is about integrating many points possible scope we can attain." of view, about helping the students to de Over the last 10 years, Falgout has stud- velop the broadest possible perspective on ied the world around them." The Department of 1 Pohnpei, a 129-square mile island in the Sociology and Anthropology-the most in 1 v South Pacific. "I fell in love with the South tegrative discipline of all, Morrione claims 1 Pacific," she says, noting that her love of the area was "handed down" from her own is central to that goal. professors, first at the University of New Orlean and later at the University of Ore 11 gon where she attended graduate school. !t She s ,1 mile as she remembers the people of COLBY 15 First Look at a Cook Book II did three independents with [Professor ofEnglishJ Susan Kenneywritingchildren's stories.I I also worked three summers as a chef, so it seemed like a natural way to combine the two," said Deanna Cook '88 at the Thomas ]. Watson Foundation Conference for Returning Fellows held on the Colby campus last August. One of over 50 young alumni from colleges all across the country who spent a recent year pursuing individual projects-Tim Oakes '87 was the other Colby Watson Fellow at the conference--Cook traveled on a round-the-world plane ticket to many different countries in search of children's recipes for a children's cookbook. "I'd ask them what they liked to eat and get the recipe. Sometimes I went to schools, sometimes I stayed with families. Sometimes in parks or even on the street I met kids," said Cook, who joined Servas, a worldwide peace organization begun in Europe after World War II. "Servas people volunteer to take in travelers. You talk about your countries. It's a great way to travel. You meet real people," Cook said. The number of children in a family-the more the better-usually determined which fa milies she chose to stay with. Cook's cookbook lists recipes from Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Ger many, Indonesia, India, Italy, Ireland, Kashmir, Nepal, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzer land, Tahiti, and Thailand-but how often did she come across a family of kids saying they all loved hot dogs or macaroni and cheese? "Igot a lot of doubles," she said. "Or kids will tell you that they like pizza. Probably about a hundred told me that." Cook had participated in Outward Bound-where "you have to take risks and just be gutsy"-but she claims that Colby programs in Cuernavaca and in London, especially the experience of living with families, helped her to undertake the cookbook project. "In Geoffry Jacobs plays cricket before Cub Sco11!1 Cuernavaca I lived with a family and learned the language, too-I didn't know any Spanish," she said. To communicate on the Watson trip she sometimes resorted to charades, although coming across translators wasn't difficult. "When they found I was writing a book, they wanted to be included . They set me up with people. Tourist offices were excited that Dogs Eating Pineapple in Bed somebody was really interested in their cultures." by Geoffry from Australia A look at some of the kids' recipes shows that they're varied and tasty. At least two publishers were looking at them last fall, too, a long with photos and biographies of the chefs. What You Need: I piece of toast 1 cooked sausage A few pieces of pineapple 1 slice of cheese What You Can Add: 1. A hot dog instead of sausage 2. A different kind of fruit What You Do: 1. Cut sausage in half the long way. 2. Place sausage on toast, flat side down. 3. Put pineapple on the toast, beside the sausage. 4. Cover with the cheese like a blanket. 5. Let the tips of the sausages stick out like heads. 6. Melt the cheese--microwave for 1 minult or broil in toaster oven. Geoffry Jacobs said, "I've seen kanga roos, emus, and koalas in the wild. Snak and lizards too." Geoffry sees them when he camps in th! bush (woods) with his dad. After camping "it's a real treat" to eat Dogs Eating Pine apple in Bed, he said. On the cover of Deanna Cook 's book, Food and Faces from Faraway Places: three girls put on Geoffry loves to play cricket and "head an Australian summer party. and hands." He is also a Cub Scout. COLBY 16 Deng Min Yi's Steamed Fish Wasim's Pisang Goreng from China from Indonesia What You eed: What You eed : 1 piece of fish 1 grown-up chopped scallions 1 cup flour soy sauce cup water 1 /2 113 cup oil What You Do: 2 tablespoons sugar 1. Place fish in the top half of a steamer. 2 bananas 2. Steam for 15 minutes or until it flakes PO\vdered sugar when touched with fork. 3. Sprinkle with soy sauce and scallions. What You Do: 1. Put flour and sugar in a mall bO\d. What You Can Do: 2. Slowly add water and stir with a fork until 1 Add veggies like pea pods to steamer. it is smooth. 2. Eat with chopsticks. 3. Ask your grown-up to help you hea t oil in a wok or fry pan. Deng Min Yi takes organ lessons once a Dip bananas in batter, then place in the hot -1. week. She loves to paint with watercolors, oil. too. Like many children in China, Deng Min Georgi11n n11d Heiu enti11g Onty Bnrs. 5. Flip when the underside is brown. Yi has no brothers or sisters. "Everyday, I go 6. When both sides are brown, remove from ·, to the park and meet my friends," she said. wok. Deng Min Yi's favorite thing to eat is Georgina's Oaty Bars 7. Sprinkle with sugar and eat' Steamed Fish. "I like it because it's soft," she from New Zealand aid. She usually has her mother help her Wasim finished school last year ·when cook her fish. And she always eats it with lots What You eed: he was 12. Now he works with his brothers of rice. 1 stick butter and sisters and cousins at his family's hotel. 1I4 cup of sugar "Somedays I help cook but most days I 2 cups oats clean," he said. Wasim's fayorite thing to eat for break What You Can Add: fast is Pisang Goreng. When he makes it, he 1/4 cup coconut usually shares it with his relatives. 1 tablespoon peanut butter Wasim likes to play street soccer and 1I4 cup raisins listen to Indonesian music when he's not 1/4 cup banana chips working. 1I4 cup dried apricots or apples 1I4 cup chocolate chips What You Do: 1. Put butter in microwave bowl. 2. Microwave for 1 minute. 3. Mix in all other things as well as your choice from "What You Can Add." 4. Pat the mix in a flat microwave pan. 5. Microwave for 3 1 /2 minutes. 6. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. 7. Cut up Oaty Bars and eat. Georgina is 11years old and she loves to make Oaty Bars. She said, "I make them as soon as the tin runs out." Georgina's hobbies are spinning and knitting her sheep's wool. She also makes pillows for presents out of scraps of wool. On weekends she rides with her pony Deng Min Yi waits at the park for her friends. club. She said, 'When Hew, my pony, de Wasim makes Pisang Goreng. lei serves a treat, I feed him Oaty Bars." COLBY 17 Oakes's Long March hen Tim Oakes '87 came to Colby conducted a vendetta against them ever since fromW Boise, Idaho, in 1983, he intended to the Chinese were mercilessly harassed and major in English. At registration he couldn't nearly starved as they passed through this get into English 22 1, and the only course still region during the Long March. During the open at that time was Chinese with Assistant Tibetan rebellion in 1959, six years after the Professor of Modern Languages Chung So. Chinese army's "peaceful liberation of Ti "I fell in love with the language," said Oakes, bet," the Chinese themselves were merci who was so smitten with its imagery and less, completely destroying many lamaser poetry that he set off for Teacher's College in ies, including the Songlin Lamasery in Beijing during his sophomore year. Zhongdian in what is now Yunnan Prov Two more years of studying Chinese at ince-"just to teach the Tibetans a lesson," Colby with Assistant Professor of East Asian according to a local man who guided Oakes Studies David Keenan and researching the through the mountains. Red Army's 1934-36 Long March led Oakes "You could be deported for entering to hi Watson project. From September 1987 closed areas," Oakes remarked last August, to ovember 1988, he took his own long "though that was only a slim possibility. march. Busing, hitchhiking, and walking, he Closed means, officially, that it's inconven observed and recorded modernization in ient, that is, too difficult to travel in, unsafe. China and Chinese perceptions of the out While this isn't to be discounted-the Chi side wo:-ld as he retraced the route of Mao nese expect foreigners to expect comfort, Zedong's Red Army's strategic retreat from good transportation, and interpreters--one the Nationalist Army. reason they didn't want us in Yunnan Prov Oakes also was interested in the Red ince was that it's a place of entry into Tibet. Army's march as a cultural myth. The Long Another was that they didn't want people March is "such an ongoing legacy for the sneaking in to see the lamasery that wa Chinese," he said during last August's Wat shelled by the army. They'd ee totally un son Conference at Colby. "It invokes some necessary destruction." kind of spirit of struggle. They use it for any Oakes observed much frustration and kind of campaign, in fact. The current Chi discontent in China and was not surprised nese campaign is modernization, and they by the student-led Tiananmen Square upris use the spirit of the Long March, although ing last spring. "China surprising in that is so the goals of the modernization project have many people can galvanize so quickly," he nothing to do with the goal of the Long said. "A million people marching-it's not March, revolution, or Mao. They are in fact the sort of thing you'd see in the U.S. In opposed to Mao's goals. Still, current leader China they have a greater tendency for people ship invokes it as the spirit of struggle, deter to do things together, get together and work mination, and sacrifice." together toward a common goal. And be "The major obstacle in such a journey," cause students in China have a more re Oakes says in the introduction to a book he is spected status than students have in this writing about his 14 months in China, "is the country, they're more capable of generating fact that much of China remains out of a mass movement." bounds. The majority of the Long March The 1983 journey from Idaho to Maine passes through regions which are today still was a long march of a preliminary sort, closed to foreigners ....These areas were Oakes added. He was so far removed from closed fora reason [usually military sensitiv the environment he was used to at home that ity and outright poverty]. The route passes he felt on his own. If he'd stayed closer to through some of the most isolated and back Idaho, he wouldn't have emerged with the ward regions of China." self-confidence and independence that even Oakes stresses that he was not doing a tually found him feeling at home in the Chi historical study but was curious as to what nese language and saw him through his people's attitudes toward the Long March 27,000-kilometer trek across the continent. and the legacy of the revolution in those "I felt very tested in China," he said, "in areas would be. "It's still an active history," my ability to make do and do what I'd set out he said during the Watson convention, point Following his 14-month, 27,000-kilometer to do." ing out that his book deals in part with the journey through China, Tim Oakes '87 strolled In the following selections from the in harassment of the Red Army by Tibetans. on Mayflower Hill last August during the troduction to Oakes's book, some names are Many Tibetans believe that the Chinese Thomas f. Watson Conference. aliases. COLBY 18 The Long March of Mao Zedong's Red tion] emerged from those years with an en "In China," I my friend I Wang !>aid, "the \rmy from 1934 through 1936 was a feat of tirely fresh vision of China, a China not ideal is to be taken care of." One must ha,·e legendary proportions; it was both a tragic bound by its revolutionary heritage, but a a dnmuci, or "unit," to belong to, parenb to retreat in the face of annihilation and an progressive and modern China, where new provide for you, and children to look after t!timate victory for the Chinese Communist ideas could coexist freely. In ho rt, [it was] a =1 1 you when you're old. The Party does its part, of the march, which )f l'arty. The culmination China unafraid of existing equally among its too, telling people where to work, what to one year covered roughly six thousand world neighbors; a China which no longer 1 111 earn, and where to live. "Americans want in mountain ranges, 1� miles, cro sed numerous saw itself as The Middle Kingdom. dependence from all that, l think," said Wang. 1nd forded countless rivers, confirmed Mao's But a severe generation gap still exist "Especially the young people; they don't l hold on the leadership of the CCP and quickly Despite the Cultural Revolution, and the want their parents' money." became a cultural symbol of the bold deter questioning minds it generated, the Party's ..When I asked him about the Long ) minalion, extreme self-sacrifice, and ideo- answer to this new vision of China remains March, Wang just shook his head. "We are logical faith of the Red Army and the CCP. unsatisfactory to most of China's intellectu tired of it. From the \'ery beginning our Indeed, the symbol implied that with such als. The history of the Long March and the education has been full of re\·olutionary feat� qualities, no obstacle could halt China's ensuing years of revolution it gave rise to is and Long March spirit. It's all we tudied . J revolution and its eventual transformation generally seen as Chinese communism's Everyone of my generation wants to forget finest hour. Why, then, the young people of 1 to socialism. This austere ideological spirit, about it. I mean, the Long March is still a today are asking, is the party which once 1 however, was carried to its most absurd great thing, and without it we wouldn't have extremes during the Decade of the Cultural gave China new hope, now so reluctant to our society today. But now the door is open -ii Revolution, Mao's final attempt to eradicate uphold the democratic ideals with which it ing. We want to study Western things, ..., the remnants of his country's ideological was born? Why is it so reluctant to loose its modernthings. Forget the revolution. We're and cultural "decadence." [A new genera ideological grip on society? tired of it." fl Oakes pauses with his guide, Wa ng Renjing, and Wa ng 's trusty white horse011 the mountain trailto the Song/in L.11111asen; in Z/10ngdian. COLBY 19 All the tall buildings in Beijing are ho Beijing, for foreigners at least, was at risk of take, how having more money and material tels. Sleek and shiny, they clash with the rest actually becoming decadent. things won't solve the problem." of the city like an invading army, like conces- ions. By looks alone, places like the Great I was realizing that China's drive to China must change from within. Itisno1 Wall Sheraton, the Shangri-la, the Holiday ward modernization, after all, seems to the rest of the world which will bring China Inn Lido, the International,all serve to pry emulate the brashness of American culture into the 21st century, but the Chinese them Beijing open. They mark the skyline with the more than anything. In his ability to make selves. Mao's Long March was successful in same odd inaptness as Stalin's wedding me very aware of my position as a product of that instead of directly challenging the op cake gothic towers piercing the skies over the "land of opportunity," Zhou was only pression of the Nationalists, the revolution Moscow. One of the things that had changed expressing a desire to see such opportunity aries fled deep into the nation's interior, into most in everyday life for foreigners at the spread throughout the world. Americans the heart of the people's miseries. Commu Teacher's College was the presence of the see China's new policies as an opening of the nism went to the root of China's problem new Shangri-la hotel just half a mile down Middle Kingdom's doors, but some Chinese and emerged defiant and victorious. Now the road. In 1984, we used to get excited themselves often look at it in the opposite the New Long March, as China's drive t about biking down to the Friendship Hotel way. They see China as leader in an effort to modernize is being touted, must do the same for a cold beer, and perhaps a swim in the pry open America's door, to bring the people thing. The Chinese must look inward to th pool. Now one could just walk down the of that rich and isolated nation out to see heart of their culture, to all the backward road to the Shangri-la and buy Swiss choco how their wealth and ideals could be shared ness of the countryside, to find what will be late, good cheese and dark bread, and a for everyone's benefit. needed to fu ndamentally change the nation bottle of fine Danish lager. In the restaurant The economic reforms have represented [Liangmeisaid], "People wantmoderni one could eat lasagne, and on Sunday morn merely a ripple on the surface of the sea, a ings it was coffee and pastries as a string zation to solve everything. They want to be calm sea in which lurks deep unrest and ensemble played tunes like "Home on the like America, they want Americans to help. desire for change. Range" in the lobby. Thanks to hotels, life in But they don't understand how long it will Young lamas at Song/in Lamasery in what is now Yunnan Province. COLBY 20 Donald Stone Walker by Chris Finlayson and Christy Cross ,�, s the leaves began to turn in Septem- Walker never succeeded in being ordi sumably, Walker later made satisfactory ber 1881, a child was born in the prosperous nary. His gifts were unpredictable, his mo arrang ments with the college, since in 1906 1 A e" illage of Liberty, Maine. He was a child of tives often obscure. While the people of Bowdoin awarded him an A.B. as a member I \ ri privilege, the only son of Liberty's leading Liberty remember Don Walker with warmth, of the class of 1904. farruly. Through inheritance and through even reverence, their memories are also Another item of interest in Walker's file 1 many years of enterprise, he amassed a stag tinged with resentment. in the Bowdoin archives is a 1962 letter from :t gering personal fortune. Yet some 75 years Walker's ambivalent relationship with Robert M. Cross, secretary of the alumni after that September day, in the dark chill of the town began much earlier than anyone fund and editor of the Bow oin Al111111111s and it d February 1957, the man died a lone in a shabby living can remember. In 1838 William R. now secretary of the college. In response to 51 room in the Brooklyn, N.Y., hotel where he Hunt, a tanner from Charleston, Mass., ar an enquiry, Cross could offer but a few tid . stayed when he was in the city. His corpse rived in Liberty. He was drawn to the area by bits of information. Walker, he said, was "a sl was held in the city morgue for nearly a week the abundant supplies of hemlock bark, a by member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, lived in the before being identified. In death as in life, product of the booming lumber trade but the Deke house ...During WWI Walker served Donald Stone Walker '04 passed at a will key ingredient in the leather-tanning proc as a private in the Army and was stationed at fully singular distance. ess of those times. On ovember 21, 1872, Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Ken Walker's body was shipped home to Annie Hunt, granddaughter of William R. tucky [about 100 miles from his ancestral Liberty and lay in the small, Spartan house Hunt, married Joel Jones Walker, scion of home]. ...And that's about it ...except that where he had stayed on his frequent visits. Old South plantation owners in Virginia and [in his will] Bowdoin got nothing." Bernice Cram, at95 Liberty's oldest resident, Kentucky. Where and how the couple met is Colby's archives, however, contain ex recall the day: ''They had the funeral at the uncertain, but their first child, Madge, was tensivecorrespondence between Walker and [Walker-owned] Hunt place. Donneverwent born nine months later in KenhJCky. Kathar a succession of the College's presidents and to church. There wasn't too many people ine, their second child, was born in January development officers. He was a regular donor there and the heat wasn't on so it was awful 1877, in Texas, where the Hunts and the of small sums to the Alumni Fund and made cold." Walkers had mutual interests in railroads. several other substantial gifts to Colby, in A millionaire 20 times over, Don Walker The Joel Walker family came to Liberty in cluding a particularly important $5,000 to had never installed central heating, running 1881, and Joel joined his father-in-law in the the building fund during the depths of the water, or electricity in his house in Liberty. tannery business. Anne delivered her third Depression. Yet over his lifetime his considerable contri and last child, Donald Stone Walker, on A 1958 letter from E. Allan Lightner, for butions to others ranged from winter boots September 10, 1881. many years the sparkplug of the College's and coats for youngsters whose families were Walker was 12 years old when Bernice fund-raising program, to Dick Dyer, former poor to substantial trust funds for the educa Cram was born. Recalling his two sisters, she editor of The Colby Alumnus, reviews Light tion and health care of the residents of Lib says, "One of them was very, very smart. The ner' long acquaintance with Walker and his erty and surrounding towns. other one, well ...she had fits. That was gifts to the College. Walker once told him, The terms of Walker's will are a succinct Madge. She could play the piano very, very Lightner said, that "Colby rather than Bow repri e of the man's impulsive generosity nice but she'd get up from it and throw doin was h is college ....His father suggested mixed with an obsessive, sometimes irra things and like that. They didn't mingle with a change of scene from Waterville to Bruns tional sense of responsibility to his wealth the townspeople, oh no' They used to go to wick might be in order ....He was a bache and his name. The Sloan-Kettering Cancer church, that's all." lor, lone wolf with an office on top [sic] floor Research Institute, which he had visited Young Don started school in Liberty, of 165 Broadway NYC. ...As a private briefly just months before his death, received but for high school in 1 897 he was dispatched investor he was prudent and successful." a wholly unexpected $15 million. And he to the prominent regional "fitting" school In 1938 the College asked Walker to be a ordered the destruction of the grandest house Coburn Classical Institute in Waterville. He candidate for alumni trustee, an office that in Liberty, including its lavish furnishings entered Colby as a freshman the following he regretfully declined due to the press of and contents, willing in its place an endowed autumn with the Class of 1904, but after two business, although he felt that it "would be a bird sanctuary. years, at his parents' insistence, he trans most pleasant contact and desirable work." Alger Parmenter, a businessman in ferred to Bowdoin College. A long, handwritten letter from Walker to Liberty for many years, says, "He didn't Walker's two years at Bowdoin left on! y President Johnson in 1944 recounts "a hard spend on himself, that's for damn sure. All a faint mark on the official record. Minutes of summer & fall of constant litigation and you had to do was look at him, see his ways. a faculty meeting reveal that he was offi complications" and assures Johnson of He tried t0 look as if he didn't have any cially warned and reprimanded "on account Walker's continuing good will toward the money, didn't put on any airs a' tall. All you of failure to attend chapel" and that, in March College and resumption of financial support had to do was see the old car he drove 1904, the faculty voted "to permit Walker, "when the War loans and 'Liberty Loans' get around in. He wanted to be an ordinary 1904, to leave examinations of the present in cooperation with Federal and State lev man." term earlier than the scheduled dates." Pre- ies." A note from alumni secretary Ellsworth COLBY 21 W. "Bill" Millet '25, dated June 27, 1951 , in sa wmills, cooper mills, gristmills, and even a modern conveniences and hea ting with �n answer to Walker's query, tells of President hat factory drew their power from the rush wood. II• Bixler's schedule in New York City prior to ing outlet of Lake St. George. By the early Luther Sherman, a Liberty native, and the Bixler fa mily's sailing for Europe. years of the 20th century, however, the wheels his wife, Peggy, kept a general store at Sher- ' Walker's early departure from Bowdoin of industry were powered not by water but man's Corner at the west end of Lake St was precipitated by another family direc by the internal combustion engine. Factory George 25 years. Sherman says, for "He tive: join a Huntuncle in the commercial real owners found it more profitable to leave the dressed all raggedy-bag ...and that old hat 1 estate business in New York City. The part small river towns and move to the larger he'd have on and twoof three pairsof gloves, e t nership proved tremendously profitable, and cities. And the residents of these towns no one right over another. He had a soft but d upon the uncle's death, Walker came into longer, of necessity, did all their shopping at kind of hoarse voice. Talked kind of side- I t possession of whole blocks of Manhattan home. The automobile carried them to the ways out of his mouth." at real estate, commercial waterfront, a lumber retail wonders of Augusta, Belfast, and even "He had a face you would never forget, li1 export business, a seat on the New York Bangor. All along the watersheds of Maine's says Peggy Sherman. "Kind of a long face." l Stock Exchange, and an estate in Northport, great rivers, small towns like Liberty were Walker's only recreation was huntin Long Island. This inheritance was clearly the dying. Don Walker's return from New York with a small group of local men, most of Ill source of the bulk of Don Walker's fortune. City in the mid 1920s, with an unknown but them childhood acquaintances. And hisonlv Shortly after the death of his father in 1924 obviously large sum of money at his com personal indulgence was the care and trai� (his mother died in 1917), Walker began to mand, was a blessing. ing of his pack of Walker hounds, a breed 1 return regularly to Liberty, where he took an Although Walker owned and main developed jointly by John W. Walker and active interest in the life of the community tained the Walker House, the Southern-style General George Washington Maupin, both and surrounding towns. mansion built by his parents and occupied of Kentucky. This type of dog continues to ICI In step with the general preCivil War summers by his sisters, he never again lived have a great following among 'coon hunters, period of prosperity, the village of Liberty there after his departure for college, prefer who call it the Treeing Walker. IT had rapidly evolved from a rustic, frontier ring instead the small house across the street "When his hounds were up here they settlement to a thriving industrial and com once owned by his mother's family. There he were kept up to Cleave Oliver's. He used to Ill mercial center for the region. The tannery, lived in a facsimile of poverty, shunning send them back every fall [by train] down to COLBY 22 T or omewhere for training 1 en nessee ," re 'How much is that?' and Phil told him and So he looks in the bag. Don says, 'C'mon caUs Raymond Banks, shooting the breeze in Don said, That's about \\·hat I had in mind.' Wales, let's go.' And Wales went. He'd Henry Peavy' garage. Raymond Banks is A brand new car just to haul the dogs in. bought her off. ow Don told me that him the on of a businessman who once owned "Aside from his hunting,'' Banks says, self." the garage, a general store, and an automo "he was mostly business when he was up In his many acts of charity, both large bile dealership in the village. Says Henry here. He didn't socialize except with his and small, Walker was equally determined Peav [ know one time Eldon Rowell told y," hunting buddies. He'd tell you what he to exercise his influence and get what he me that Don had him make some boots for wanted done and if he was satisfied you wanted. And he had the means to en�ure his dogs so they wouldn't cut their feet. He were happy and if he wasn't you wouldn't that this was so. Those who used his money d put them on and went out hunting once and see him again." in way that he specified or approved of that was the end of them. Don, he couldn't By all accounts Walker's favorite hunt could reasonably expect further donations. understand why them hounds didn't want ing buddy was Luther Sherman's father, The Walker School in Liberty, for instance, boot on their feet." Wales. Alger Parmenter tells the story about was built and furnishedentirely by Walker h1 "He had thedogsone timein the Buick," Walker and Wales Sherman "going out in 1936 after the old school was destroyed b) continues Banks. "Went somewhere and left hunting quite few davs and there was 111 d fire. It features a soaring, neoclassical porti 11 them in the back seat. When he come out things around there [the Sherman farm] that co upported by four white pillars, an archi t� they'd torn the inside of that car all to pieces. was needing to be done and of course Cad, tectural style that was common among the I le went down to PhilCrosby' s and he asked Wale 's wife, was pretty upset because Don grand homes of the Old Sou th's plantation k( Phil if he had someold thing he could buy to was taking him away too much. So when owners. Another such case \Yas the Waldo iQ haul thedog around in.SoPhil took him out Don drove in in the morning he listened to County General Hospital, completed in 1958. 1� back and he had a bunch of old Model A's her talk and complain for a while. Finally he Walker's donation of 51 million was the out there and some old Chevys and one goes out and over to the storeand he buys ten prime mover in bringing the long-range thmgand another butnotl1ing that took Don's pound of sugar, a package of baking soda, a project into being. eye at all. So when they come back to the package of tea, a couple bars of soap, you "You notice that both the entrances to showroom, there was a new Dodge, or wasit know. Her brings it back and says, There the school and the Waldo Country General a Plymouth? Plymouth, I think. Don said, you a re, Cad. I hope that will keep you quiet.' Hospital are the same?"says Raymond Banks, COLBY 23 back in Henry Peavy's garage. "I was in the never refused anybody whether they had "His ideas would make them look Jik, bank one day and Claude Clements was any money or not. He'd give me money to nothing," Sherman adds. "He knew mart president of the bank then, the First National spend on whoever I thought needed it. I about anything than they did but they jus' wanted him to shovel money right to Bank of Belfast, and he was also president of bought a lot of kids shoes and rubbers and therr the building committee. Claude said, 'Want things like that around here. .. they didn't know enough to build a do to see the plans for the new hospital?' And I "Whenever my wife was away, he'd house, actually. If they'd asked him what1 said, 'Sure,' so he got them all out, the blue invite me down to have supper with him. should be, he would have been tickled ti prints and so forth, and I said, 'I'll bet you a That's all the entertaining he did that l know death. But they went ahead to work ana dollar that before you're done you're going of. He lived in that little house down there didn't say a word to him. Tried to go overhb to have to change something.' He said, and atein the kitchen. And this [Dr. Collins's) head and do stuff. Well, Don, when they cu· 'What's that?' The entrance,' I said. 'No,' he is the only house in town that I knew he'd in on him like that, it hurt his feelings. He'c said, 'Don's looked at them and everything's come to eat. We'd just talk pleasantries, no do anything he could but hedidn'twant yoL fine with him.' So we bet a dollar. And it business of any kind. He was closed to belittle him. If he wanted to give you ten wasn't more than a month later I went into mou thed. He just made up his mind what he dollars or a thousand dollars he would bu· the bank one day and Claude come over and wanted to do and he did it. He wasn't a man don't go to him and say, 'I've got to have t passed me a dollar bill. He said, 'Do you that confided in anybody." dollars.' That's the wrong thing to do. Ht , want to see the new plans?' They'd changed The most controversial episode in disliked that." the front. Don had got to thinking after he'd Walker's career as Liberty's self-appointed "He had so much money. That's wh1 first looked at them and called up or wrote guardian involved an abortive attempt in they looked up to him like a king," conduct and said to change the front and do it like the 1953 to build a gymnasium for the school. To Mrs. Sherman. school. Said he'd pay for it. So they did." this day the residents of Liberty remain Public opinion is considerably mort Walker's best side showed in his small divided on the issue, and grudges are still united on Walker's final plans to control tht 1 est acts of kindness. The Cram family, Ber carried. Raymond Banks, a member of the events and environment of Liberty from nice and her son, Keith, have good reason to PTA at the time, tells one side of the story. beyond the grave. Most people reacted with remember Walker fondly. "I know when my "We decided that we'd like to build a shock and a sense of shame at the wash: husband died," says Mrs. Cram, "he come gym. We had enough money to do the first when the bizarre terms of his will for the up to the house with some money and well, floor. So we hired a mason, and all the guys disposition of the big house were revealed I appreciated it very much. I had seven chil that had trucks would go over to Leeds and "Everything was supposed to have been dren and he bought me two pigs." haul a load of blocks back for us. They do torn down and burned," says Keith Cram. "Another thing to show how he was," nated their time. 'Course wesent Don a letter "But a lot of the people tearing it down did says Keith Cram. "I was a carpenter and just just like we sent all the alumni. Not asking take ome of the things that were in it, which before World War II he hired me to shingle for a specific amount of money or anything, made sense as far as I could see rather thaJ\ the big house. He was living across the road just explaining the PTA's project. All of a burning perfectly good materials. And the11 at the time and come around nine o'clock or sudden there began to come a lot of opposi they made it into a bird sanctuary. You stop nine-thirty he'd come over and holler, 'C'mon tion to the whole thing. The selectmen were to think. There you are living in the countrv boys. Time for coffee.' His housekeeper telling us that what we were doing was and he wants to make it a bird sanctuary would be there but he was the one who made illegal. The PTA was building on property Where is there any place better for birds than the coffee and served the doughnuts to us. that was owned by the town without getting in the country? And yet he wanted it that And there he was, worth millions of dol permission and so forth. way." lars." "So then it was a matter of having a Walker's will established a trust fund Luther Sherman remembers that when special town meeting. There was some turn for the creation and maintenance of a park he was a boy, Walker "used to buy us a pair out, I'll tell you. Walter Minton, who was the like sanctuary, much like the grounds of thi of boots or something like that at Christmas contractor that built the school, came and family estate. To this date, the only evidenc time. No extravagant stuff. If he thought you said the foundation wasn't built properly of the bird sanctuary as Walker envisioned it needed some wood for your stove, he'd go and wouldn't last and was unsafe. Other is an old millstone set in the ground to which out and get somebody to haul you in a load. people said that the kids would have to cross is affixed a small, tarnished bronze plaque.It Or he'd go and get two or three twenty-five the street to get to it and that was unsafe. reads: pound bags of flourand bring it to you, or 'Course as it was they walked all the way some Jard or some sugar. He'd do things on down into the village to use the community THIS BIRD SANCTUARY his own. You didn't have to ask him." hall. Everybody figured that Don was upset ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE In 1946 Liberty had been without a resi that he wasn't asked to build the building dent doctor for seven years. Dr. Melden and that he brought some pressure to bear on WITH THE WILL Collins had been practicing in the nearby some people to vote against it. They voted it OF town of Freedom but was thinking of relo down. You can never prove the thing but it DONALD S. WALKER cating to Liberty. After an interview with just seemed that all of a sudden ... " Walker in his New York office, they agreed Luther Sherman and his wife speak for SEPT. FEB that Dr. Collins would move into the old the opposition. "The gymnasium was a 10, 1881 2, 1957 Johnson house, also owned by Walker, next wrong thing," says Sherman. "Don come up to "the big house." "He said he'd charge me there and seen it and he didn't like it. I think The once splendid estate is now grow11 twenty dollars a month for rent," says Dr. it hurt Don's prestige [that the PTA had gone over with the kind of tangled, unruly vegeta tion that soon infiltrates the nooks and cran· Collins, now 86. "When T made my first ahead without consulting him]. monthly payment, he said, 'You don't have "There was a lot of people out doing nies of the world, left, for the moment, fret: to pay me any more rent.' He knew that I spite work against him," says Mrs. Sherman. from the attention and control of mankind COLBY 24 U R RE s p 0 NDEN c E "Ippy" Solie Howard '39 and her husband, Did . Ha,·en, Fla., h1� wife hnpe to attend ht' . ilmi r>:;th formerly of Acton, Mass., have gone back to "·or!-. reu111on th1� commg June • CJa,,milte Marjorie because Dick was asked to be \'ice president for Everingham Edgerly '25. Wnghtwnt)d C�lif j, ow that they ha\•e had a chance to try us on for botanical sciences at the 'e,\· Yori-. Botanical pleased to ha\'e a new granddaughter !,ht q burn ite, I'd like to welcome the Class of '39 officially Gardens. They now live in Fleetwood, and January She hopes to contmue tt> !in' lwr pwn I N.Y., 1n oour club. No doubt they have been di covering, lppy is as i ting. Dick retired from teaching at home in the San Gabriel :V1ountain'>,it n lOll ll'l't. 1s we have, that most of us are ready to travel, Harvard one year ago • Bemerd "Bernie" '39 When she attended the commencement e'\eTCl'l'' {i olunteer, philo ophize, lecture, st dy, paint, and Hannah Putnam Burbank '41, Bronxville, at the Claremont School of Theulog\ la�t > Dean Runnals's dismay), so they have already a local hospital. He hopes to make his 75th reun her • Friends will be glad to learn that Helen celebrated their SOth wedding anniversary in the ion at Colbv! • Pauline Abbott '21, Portland, Smith Fawcett '27, Berkeley, Calif., is in good ?. summer of 1988 • Tagging right behind must Maine, is nci'w living in a retirement home, where health, even though her eyes are a problem • have been Gardner and Althea Webber Brown she reads a great deal and enjoys the varied Elizabeth Watson Gerry '27, Brewer, Maine, was '39, Homosas a, Fla., who celebrated their 50th programs offered. She keeps abreast of Colby pleased to have her two sisters, Mary Watson this past September • However, Fletcher Eaton news in Colby magazine and appreciates having Flanders '24 and Jean Watson '29, both from Fort '1¥ '39, Needham, Ma s., is the only one who can visits from Peter "Paddy" Doran '58, Farmington, Myers, Fla., visit her this past summer. Elizabeth ' boa t the acquisition of two bachelor's degrees, Maine, with whom she once taught at Westbrook is looking forward to playing golf again as soon as one from Colby and one from MIT. He is of the High • Geraldine Baker Hannay '21, Bingham, her hip is healed from a fall last March Con �· • opinion that today's college students would be Maine, is ]i\·ing in her old home and feels fortu gratulations to M. Norton Rhoades '27, Stamford, better off if they attended for six year instead of nate to have very good neighbor and friends • Conn., who was recently elected to the Cross four! • From the green reply cards, I have learned Thanks to Malvena Masse Robbins '21, East word Puzzle Hall of Fa n'1e because of hi. manv Vassalboro, Maine, and to Catherine A. Tuttle crossword puzzles published in that journalist Ellis Mott '39 and his wife have The New Ya r'k '21, Limerick, Maine, for returning the green cards. and other publications! Wendell R. :l recently moved from White Water, Oreg.-a 40- Times • acre ranch and vineyard-to Ashland, Oreg., Maybe next time we'll learn a favorite Colby Grant '28, Houlton, Maine, does not get Yery far away from home, although he enjoys life, but was where there is a Shakespeare festival from May to memory or some advice for us all • Special con October • Hope Harlowe Moody '39, Cumber gratulations to Leonard '22 and Lena Cooley saddened to learn of the demise of his old class land Center, Maine, has finally retired from her Mayo '24, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, who just cele mate and roomrr.ate, Joseph Theriault '28, Atkin brated their 65th wedding anniversary! In regard son, N.H. Adventuresome Rene J. Marcou '28, work as a registered nurse • And to Alice • Skinner Evans '39, Glen Cove, .Y., thanks for to the world situation, they "rejoice at the cracks ewton Centre, Mass., went on a Seven Sea your appreciation and good wishes! • Gardiner in the Iron Curtain and believe that the U.S. will cruise last year in October and then in the pring Gregory '39, Orland, Maine, makes retirement have a new era of decency, integrity, and religious took a bus trip to Ottawa and Toronto, Canada • Optimistic Ruth M. McEvoy '28, Batavia, sound rea lly exciting: he has an orchard contain- awakening-long overdue" • Gertrude Weller .Y., . ing 36 fruit trees, a vegetable garden, strawber Harrington '23, Alexandria, Va., wrily hopes "to says that she is looking forward to four more good ries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and keep one step ahead of the undertaker" • Pearl yea rs • The practice of using SAT score for grapes. "During the summer I raise five species of Thompson Stetson '24, Kenduskeag, Maine, selecting students for admission concerns Char moths from egg to cocoon. Anne and I wrote, "It is an accomplishment to be able to live lotte Clary Nevin '28, Shaker Heights, Ohio. She snt1m1idae havetwoearth sciencemu eums,onein H icksville, alone at age 87, drive my car, and visit relatives wonders if more attention shouldn't be given to and one in Castine. These activities keep us and friends, including Gladys Bunker Bridges the student as a per on • George Fletcher '29, .Y., bu But some can't stay retired: Elizabeth '28, Bangor, Maine" • Hiram H. Crie '25, Winter Strong, Maine, appreciated the efforts of his reun- y" • COLBY 25 Belcher Pittsford, Vt. "Jane has the same Thayer '37, Orr's Jc;land, Maine, recovered ion committee. "! did attend our 1929 60th reun '32, from ion, along with the Fifty-Plus Club meeting, and engaging laugh, sparkling eyes, and red cheeks." their two back-to-back SO th reunion , one of which did they treat u royally' My wife, Claudia, and Dorsa plans to go to Australia to attend the wed Marble supervised last year. With two daught 1 er1 had a fabulous time at both meetings and cannot ding of her grandnephew to an "Aussie" girl. in California,they have good excuses to cross the 1 thank the various committees enough. We met Internationalmarriages are not new to her fa mily, country often • George N. Burt '37, Providence many old Colby friends and classmates. Can I say for one of her grandsons married a Chinese girl R.I., wrote, "Hearing about other 'old grads' brin& and another married an English girl • Genevieve more than that we should feel fortunate to be back many memories." He hopes to attend the there?" • Phil Higgins Springfield, Mass., Carran Waterhouse '3 , Mattapoisett, Mass., is next reunion English majors during the '29, 2 • 1930! was equally enthusiastic. Also, he's proud of being helping adults learn to read under the Adult and 1940s will be interested to learn that Martha • Eleanor Butler Hutchins • Bessom Gorman '38, 811 '29, Niantic, Literacy Program Seeing all of his grandchil Marblehead, Mass., and Conn., tells of a recent trip to Club Med at Cancun, dren through college is the dream of John H. Janet Lowell Farley'38, Westbrook, Maine, visited Martha Wakefield Falcone'38, Mexico, where she found a lively young crowd. Wibby '32, Hancock Point, Maine; with nine of Bloomfield, Conn She would like to hear from any Colby people in them, it will take some time. He enjoys golf and at her summer home in East Randolph, Vt., and the New London-Lyme area • Thanks for the his ham radio. Also, he was glad to hear from his they all drove over to Strafford to have tea with kind words from Gordon '30 and Isa Putnam frat brother, Bill Hucke '34, Sun City, Ariz. former Colby Professor Mary Marshall, • ''who Johnson '30, Portland, Maine. Hope to hear more Several members of the Clas� of '33 had a mini looks marvelous. She still gives lectures on Eng· from them • Energetic Beatrice Mullen Campbell reunion in June, when Becky Chester Wyman, lish literature to a du lteducation classes atSyracuSt '30, Post Falls, Idaho, wrote about great fishing Sandypoint, Maine, Barbara Johnson Alden, University and attends the theater in London Andover, Mass., Louise Smith Velten, New York, every January" Congratulations to James trips in Montana. She till corresponds with • Fm classmates Edvia Campbell '30, St. Petersburg, .Y., Vesta Alden Putnam, Oakland, Maine, Ruth '38, North Dartmouth, Mass., who has been Fla., Polly Morin Miller '30, Clearwater, Fla., and Leighton Thomas, Pittsfield, Maine, and Gladys admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supremt Helen Hobbs Lyon '30, • John Averill Heubach, West Newton, Mass., all gath Court' • Archie Follett '38, Lakeland, Fla., Rochester, Vt. ha, Chadwick '30, Cromwell, Conn., hopes to com ered for dinner at the home of Kay Holmes Snell discovered the delights of elderhostels in Arizona plete his study of the form and function of the in Hallowell, Maine Perry G. Wortman '33, and New Mexico Now, my humble thanks • • to English novel. Last summer he was booked for Greenville, Maine, has contributed to a trust fund all of you who have replied with the green card� eight lecture on world events and problems. He for scholarships for Greenville High School gradu or letters. If l haven't mentioned you in this col ates in memory of his wife, Ruby. He al o enter umn, just be patient; you may appear in the notes that the Colby publications bring warm next memories as he reads the names of classmates tained her 60th high-school reunion at his camp column' Meanwhile, what are your thoughts on who have fooled the Grim Reaper so far1 • Lucy on Moosehead Lake. Perry has held many offices the future of higher education? Parker Clements '30, Searsport, Maine, enjoys in Kiwanis and is active in his church. Last June he Correspondent: MARJORIE GOULD her Retired Teachers Honorary Society, her church attended hi 56th reunion at Colby Charles M. MURPHY '37, P.O. Box 102, West Oneonta, • .Y and Bible classes, and her country home, with the Tyson '33, Clinton, .C., recalls climbing be 13861 . good company of her son. She is proud that her tween freight cars to get to the old campus from children and grandchildren are also working in town. The freights would circle the campus education at Hofstra and Newark universities • what time for a fire that would have been' a • Norman Palmer '30, Friday Harbor, Wash., has Some members of the Cla s of '3'1 met for lunch in returned from his trips to London for an interna July at the Manor Restaurant in Waterville: Peg tional conference and to Seoul as vi iting profes Salmond Matheson, China, Maine; Portia Pendle ____ sor of the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies. He ton Rideout, Augusta, Maine; Angela and George 1-fQ50th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 • Ifyou received wrote, "It was an exciting time to be there- Hunt, Hallowell, Maine; and Helen and Art Stet a certified letter in the mail from Alire Patt� sometimes too exciting." Now he is hard at work son, Silver Spring, Md. The Stetsons were vaca Comparetti, would you remember who she is? on completing his book, The New Rcgio11alis111 i11 tioning at Webber Pond for three weeks Meet Well, I did, but I was certainly curious about • whi Asia and the Pacific, ing prospective Colby students is one of the ways she was writing to me. She arrived at Colby as plus other writing commit an that Hamilton B. Grant '34, Wiscasset, Maine, English instructor the same year we entered ments. Of course, he takes time out to enjoy the a • Harriet beautiful San Juan Islands! • Belonging to a keeps in contact Congratulations to freshmen, so she identified closely with our class church with a history means a lot to Henry '31 and Pease Patrick '34, Saco, Maine, whose 40-year I was saddened by the news her letter contained. Evelyn Maxwell Bubar '30, Northampton, Mass., history of the York County Branch of AAUW was Betty Fitzgerald Savage has passed away, and I because the famed 18th-century theologian, Jon accepted by the Maine Women Writers Collection assume that it was unexpected. Alice had visited athan Edwards, once preached there. A Colby and hailed as "an excellent example of women's Tom and Betty in their new Langley, Wash., homr graduate, Peter B. Ive '65, has been called to be activities of the period." Although her time is during the past year and had talked to her a short their minister • Combining his talents in golf and limited because of her husband's illness, Harriet time before her death. As you may know, Bettv Robert G. "Bob" Stirling '31, has given slide shows and lectures at women's was a uccessful author starting at age 15, music, Gay when clubs and nursing homes Correction and she sold a play, her first literary effort. Among t e lordsville, Conn., plays golf four times a week • h fo 11r apologies to Richmond Noyes '35, Oak Hill, novels she wrote were Su111111er Pride, 1961, (he's achieved aces, one in a hole-in-one tour 10 Bui W.Va., who spends summers at "Pigeon Hill," Not for Love, 1971, Happy E11di11g, 1972, The nament at Wykagyl Country Club), and inde La_! Milbridge, Maine, not Bangor • Daniel P. Ayotte Night at the Ritz, 1973, Wildwood, 1978, and pendent of playing the piano, he plays the organ To on WGSK five days a week • The other side of the '35, Tampa, Fla., has the right spirit: he hopes to wards the End. (One of her novels was dedicated coin is expressed by Gertrude Snowden Giles live until he is 1001 • Emmart LaCrosse '35, to our classmate Margery Smith Cavanagh.) Ad '31, Marblehead, Mass.: "I think it's great that we Louisville, Ky., and his wife recently observed ditionally, she had stories published in the Snt11r· have peers who are zipping around the golf course their SOth wedding anniversary with their two day Evening Post, the Paris Review, and several 1 and the world. Perhaps the other survivors who daughters and their families plus guests from women's magazines. Tom said he had lost not do not find old age that exciting will be cheered to Alaska and Florida. He hopes to get back to Colby only his wife but also his best friend. relate to t a I h t I once more--maybe by 1999 • Helen DeRoche and understand how deep the pain goes. T e) know others share this sentiment. I'm lucky to h have a wonderful son to share my later years." mont Cole '36, Millbrook, N.Y., swims several were Colby's first student marriage and have two \ times a week and has completed nearly 600 miles sons and one daughter • I have a Colby sticker Gertrude ha been on oxygen for three years, so on of swimming so far. When she is in Sebring, Fla., my car, and you would be surprised how often she feels her accompli hment is survival and I observation. "I've lived long enough to see an during the winter, she does volunteer work in a receive comments about it. It pays to advertise, incompetent president receive honorary knight nursing home. Maybe she will look up Phyllis they say, and l have recently heard that there will hood'" She still hears from her high-school Latin Carroll Sandquist '36, Naples, Fla., who would be eight first-year students from Houston thi> teacher, Esther Wood '26, Blue Hill, Maine, and like to hear from her classmates, since she is year. Do you suppose my sticker helped in an� confined to a nursing home at 1000 Lely Palms • from Carol Hill Craven '30, Medfield, Mass. • way? ls it necessary to remind you that our SOth Drive, Naples, Fla. 33962. The telephone number reunion is upon us?-and in order for it to be Louise Dyer Hall '32, Portland, Maine, will be a happy to find a book for you if you step into the is (813) 793-1 349 • Edmund N. Ervin '36, Water success, you will have to be there. As I make my Portland Public Library • Editor-writer Dorsa ville, Maine, told of his retirement in July from his plans, I'm hoping my 17-year-old grandson will Rattenbury O'Dell '32, Juliann, Oreg., edits practice in pediatrics, which others report was a be my companion. manuscripts for the /11/ia1111 Nr:ws. She recently distinguished career. Now he has "no end of Class secretary: ELEANOR THOMAS CUR· vi ited Washington, D.C., where she saw Jane things to do" • Marble '38 and Hazel Wepfer TIS, 4607 W. Alabama, Houston, Tex. 77027. 26 COLBY _____ L/:It J,..-delight to heilr from ;,omeof you . There 1\'il� ii fore, there is news to shilre. Diana W iesenthal Opton has been adjusting to life in a condo com munity in Stratford, Conn., since she milrried Edwa�d Opton bhe used to '"illkto do most of her e nds bu t now has to dril'e). They traveled to r rra February and studied Spani�h �le-...ico during cit local community college. She must ha1·e five thl' grandchildren by now, for when she wrote she had four and a half • Good to hear again from Hoover Coffin. but I was sorry to leilrn that his had milstectomy, which hil ,, 1fe, Ida, recently ii n:�tncted them for a while • And Mary Hitch a bout with ;.hingles, -o cock Baxter 1� ha1 ing ;he h,1� been quite uncomfortable. Throughout last e ped a friend with w111t r <1nd spnng she hel 2- from Koreil. lt'ar-11ld adopted twin girls M<1rv i excited ilbout havmg her old fa mily home-where lives-painted in preparation for her daugh she Mane lien to buy • There is also news Th e Fa bric Ma n Can ter, 7.i, frum our pre ident, Norris Dibble. 01·er a year to Paris and Nor ago he and Helen took a trip A year ago Bertrand Hayward '33 and his wife, E\·elyn, along with some 50 other mandy, where they were both impre sed with music lm·ers, accompanied the Friends of Surry Opera as they toured in 'v1oscm'" Omaha Beach and the vast American cemeterv and World War II mu eum at Caen. The Eiffel Leningrad, and Tbilisi. " It was extraordinary," said Hay\\'ard. "Leningrad is like Tower and the Louvre were other highlight . Venice, one of the most bea utiful citie in the world. We \\'ent to ballets, concerts, the spent la t July at Brewster on Cape Cod and They Moscmv Circus-everywhere we went the people were friendly, eager to speak ll'ith , beautiful weather, Norris wrote, except for had us." Many of the Sm·iets they met spoke some English, e pecially young people. two se\'ere ;torms. It is not all 1·aca ti on for :\orris, When words weren't understood, _ miles and sign language filled in. Hay\\'ard, who for he still practices law, but at a some- though, wrote a poem abou t his experiences when he returned , summed up: "Maybe music 1 ·hat slower pace • Speaking of interesting trips, la correspondent, "Bonnie" Roberts vour c . s i better than missiles." Hathaway, and her husband, Hank, had a "·on- Music and theater and poetry ha,·e always played a part in Hayward's life. He .. derful two-week trip last :'vl ay through the Briti h met his first wife, Martha Johnston '32, in Profe sor Cecil Rollins's drama class, and ble;. Bonllll was particularly intere:ted in Wales ;111ce her paternal grandfather came from Wales he was an active member of Powder and Wig. at age9 For those who don't know yet, Virginia Hayward became principal of Wa hington, Maine, High School when he was 22. 1 • Mosher has moved back to Maine-to Water The former English major doubled a a teacher of first- and econd-year algebra, " l'ille. Before he left South Carolina, she was chemistry, physics, business subjects, and civics, earning a yearly salary of 5720. He elected member emeritus to the South Carolina 1• continued as principal, teacher, and often basketball coach at Maine schools in Women' Bowling A ociation. "Jigg " till plans to bowl. but at a more leisurely rate • We hope Brooks, Brownville Junction, Milo, Millinocket, and Sanford, and in Fitchburg, Ma s. "' you are already saving early June of 1991 for our At the same time he lectured at the University of Connecticut and the Harvard 50th reu nion. Your officers hope to see most of 11. Graduate School and earned a master's degree at Columbia University Teacher's vou there! - College. During the 19-Ws he pursued a doctorate at Han·ard . ,.. Class secretary: "BO RUTH IE" ROBERTS HATHAWAY (Mrs. R#l, Box At Sanford he had come to the notice of a textile magnate at the Sanford-Goodall Henrvl,.. 213, ew Ipswich, H. 03071 . Mills, vvho recommended him to the trustees at Philadephia College of Textiles and Science. The college, then the Philadelphia Textile In titu te, was looking for an able admini trator and hired him in 1947. During his 28-year tenure at the oldest textile 'I------� college in the country, he mm·ed the school to a new campus in Germantmn1 (,,·here Thl' weddmg la t ummer of Helen Henry Mer the main clas room building is Harvard Hall), improved the curriculum, adding ri daughter, Deborah, gave your corre�pon many liberal arts courses, and established an M.B.A. program of graduate study. Jl ll's pouse, Philip B. Wysor, Jane Soule � dent, hPr Hayward traveled extensively in Europe and Asia, conferring with textile educa tors Engert, 11nd Helen the opportunity for a mini 1/ and manufacturers. He also acquired four honorary degrees, LLD. from Colby, the ' Cla of 1942 reunion. We also had the pleasure of s Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, and Drexell Institute of Technology and an rnl'eting Jane and Roderick's son, J11mes Engert LH.D. from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. l '82, the latest in an impressive line of the Sou le graduate from Colby, including Jane's When he retired in 1975 he "came home" to Waterville, where he remain acti\·e n. family to grandfather, Jonathan Soule, Class of 1 57, and I in civic and community affairs, especially the Rotary Club, the Osteopathic Hospital her father, William Soule, M.A. 1 90. Helen and ·r Board, and Colby acti\·itie . He ha been a clas agent, clas corre pendent, con t< Jane are both planning to attend our SOth Paul • cerned counselor of hi fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, and a trustee. The College A. Willey, now retired, lives in Punta Gorda, Fla. He milrned to Marie Seminary Willey '85. They awarded him a Colby Brick at his 50th reunion. � I' ha\·e three children and six grandchildren. Their Still, there has b�en time for travel and music. Com·erts to Ji,·e opera in coa tal daughter, Paula, was Colby Class of 1967. He d Maine, he and Evelyn returned to Surry last summer to hear Aida. An extraordinary reports thM in his spare time he acts as moderator concert version without costumes, scenery, or action, the opera wa lovingly ren daims court and in the 20th Circuit Court bi 1 11 small a well as mediator in a citizen ' di pule ystem. dered-by a cast that included nearly 70 \'isiting Sm·iet singers. r plav; doubles tenni four or five times a week, I It> he and Marie take an occasional cruise. He and NFW al says that he had a great visit with Hal Sea L1 o man orth Carolina about a year ago. i>aul m COLBY 27 would like to askcla smates this question: "Would that to the list of new phrases") to her 6-year-old field of fa mily law. Now, add another one, Rota you do itdi fferently if you had the opportunity to grandson. Both of her children are in the Wash lnternational's Paul Harris Fellowship Award do it again, and if so, how?" He also said he is ington, D.C., area now. In June of 1987 she spent the highest award that Rotary gives. More con· always disappointed when he finds no news of a week near Sebago Lake with Catherine Fussell gratulations to Ernest • Joan Gay Kent, alread1 the Class of 1942. So ...let's try not to disappoint '41 and visited lsabel Abbott '40. She is active in heavily involved in PR/ advertising work and a member of the board of the Port Washing him. Keep your news flowing! • Esther Gold the Friends Meeting of Washington and "some ton field Shafer, now retired, lives in Delray Beach, what engaged" in local civic affairs saw Public Library (considered one of the best publi( • 1 Fla. She writes that she attPnded Colby for one Elizabeth Beale Clancy, Thelma Proctor, and libraries in the country), is also chair of the Sand, year and still regrets not graduating. She has two Del Matheson at the SOth reunion of the Class of Point (Long Island) Village Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission. She enriched my grandchildren and loves to walk, swim, read, and 1939 at Waterville High School. Two of our teach re play bridge and says she is "very good at relax ers, Mary Warren '23 and lsabel Clark '31, at cent visit to Sands Point by pointing out some ot ing." Come back for our SOth, Esther; you will see tended the dinner. It was an interesting and en the valued landmarks. Joan's another one hoping to attend next year's reunion (me, too). Made fa miliar faces from the year you were with us • joyable evening. Do �end news of your where yo11r William R. Conley wrote that he is a semi-retired abouts and activities-there's always another plans yet? • Eloise Knowlton Handy is retired ta x practitioner and has his own consulting busi column due. and living in Tucson with her husband, Elmer ness. He has three grandchildren and another is Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART after a 40-year teaching career. Presently, Eloi expected. He keeps fi t by walking, swimming, BRAUNMULLER (Mrs. Albert R.), 115 Lake Rd., teaches English as a second language in the and playing volleyball. Hope to see you at our Basking Ridge, NJ 07920. Laubach Literacy Group. This fall, she and Elmer SOth, Bill John '40 and Ann Jones Gilmore are plan to go on a cruise to Alaska A story in the • • ! also well on their way to having a "family tree" of Ma111e S1111day Telegra111 (4/23/89) reporting on a Colby grads, with son Richard graduating in 1966, sa lute to National Library Week held at the ' daughter Susanne in 1968, and now Susanne's ____ Abplana lp Library of Westbrook College told youngest son, William Cory Snow, entering his tfqClass_ secretary: LOUIS M. DERANEY, 57 about a reception attended mainly by "reade11 junior year in the fall of 1989. He is spending it at Whitford St., Roslindale, Mass. 021 31. and writers." Maurice Whitten, author of 711, G1111powder Mills of Gorhan1, Maine, was there, University College Cork in Ireland. Last year Ann and his book was on display. Both a writer and and John spent the month of April in Siesta Key, a Fla., and planned a trip to the Southwest in Sep historian, Maurice notes that "25 percent of all tember. Ann is an active member of the South powder used by the Union in the Civil War came western Maine Colby Alumnae Association J. 45th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 So very sorry- to from Gorham-Windham." • 'f_._S:--- • Franklin Pineo wrote from Odessa, N.Y., that he have to report that Barbara Kelly Morell lost her Class secretary: NAOMI COLLETT PA· June. Our sympathies go GANELLI, 2 Horatio Street #SJ, New York, is happily retired from teaching special educa husband, Charles, last N.Y tion. He i now married to Caroline Cole. They out to Barbara at this very difficult time • I've 10014. enjoy backpacking and make about five gallons of heard from several classmates in recent weeks, maple �yrup a year. Hope to see you in 1992 for including Dorothy Chellman Bonneau, who our SOth, Frank. dazzled me with her list of activities. They in Class secretary: MARIE "CHRIS" MERRILL clude quilting, dollhouse construction, aerobics, WYSOR, R.R.#2, Box 190-B, South Harpswell, biking, and cross-crountry skiing, not to mention '16----Another year has passed, and one of our Maine 04079. serving as parish visitor at her church and her pre classmates, Philip J. Boyne, has been honored by occupations with her grandchildren • Connie Colby with the 1988 Distinguished Alumnu1 Stanley Shane reports a variety ofnew items. She Award. Chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery al is a volunteer at the local hospital and she also Loma Linda University, Philip served in the Navy does church work. She has JO grandchildren, and and was director of the dental research depart· am sure many of you wonder at the amount of one of her seven children just became a designer ment at the Naval Medicine Research Institute 'I��----1 time that elapses between the date you send news with the Oneida Silver Company in New York. He also saw two tours of duty in Vietnam. He left and the date on which it appears in the column. In Connie, who visited the campus five years ago the Navy in 1968 and served as chair of the oral the summer 1989 issue of Colby this was explained ("how beautiful the buildings and landscape are"), surgery department at the University of Califor· wishes her Colby friends would go out to Michi nia, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry and later in the editor's reply to a letter on the Eustis a Mailroom page. At the moment we are sweltering gan (Watervliet) to visit her • Connie Daviau dean of the Dental School at the University of on the hottest day of the summer so far, and you Bollinger has a brand-new grandson, another Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The will be reading this in the winter issue While in grandson just out of high school this year, and still author of more than 100 scientific papers, • he Waterville in May I was sorry to read of the death another one just out of college. She lives in Port erved as president of the American Board of Oral of Edward "Ted" Greaves, who attended Colby land, Maine, where she works at the Racket and and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1982. Congratula· for two years before entering the Marine Corps. Fitness Center and where, she tells us, she collects tions, Phil! Carolyn Armitage Bouton, • whose angels and butterflies. With all but one child husband, James, an electrical engineer, ret red He served in the South Pacific and received a in Purple Heart and a Bronze Star on lwo Jima. He living in Ohio, Connie saysthe heat's on to get her 1986, wrote that they are enjoying retirementi worked for the Postal Service in Waterville for 28 to move backthere. Meanwhile, she's hoping her They are busy traveling, golfing, volunteering, Colby friends will attend our 45th reunion next working for their church, and enjoying their six years • After the summer issue of Colby ap peared, I had a letter from Barbara Holden '42 June, so it sounds as if we can count on her to be grandchildren • Laura "Cricket" Higgins Shaw asking for Ruth MacDougal Sullivan's address there Ed Smith lives in Portland, too, where he Field has retired as an R.N., but she serves as • an 1 in Germany. Barbara had visited Ruth in Dussel and Mary ore happily retired. Retired? He's a EMT-CC ("! raceaboutin an ambulance!"). Cricket dorf in 1953 I had a note from Kaye Monaghan free-lance writer, a selectman, assessor, deputy says she's bought a "small bit" of Ontario as • a ! Corey, who, with Nels, is enjoying the summer at sheriff, acting postmaster, and Old Orchard retreat. She was planning to head for England I the lake. She wrote that we had a class Alumni Beach's police and fire commissioner. He also when I heard from her and is looking forward to Fund goal of $7,500, and we received $8,000. Now collects coins, postage stamps, and maritime a freighter trip to Australia in spring 1990. She' all we have to do is raise the percentage of people books! • Received a warm and friendly letter proud of her six children, three stepchildren, and from Bobbe Holt Sachs, who would like all her 13 step- and nonstepgrandchildren, and men· who give • I ran into Ross Muir recently. He has retired and reported that son Lyle '89 (who Colby friends to know how much she thinks of tioned that one granddaughter, Judy, who is a I graduated laride) is going to aha, Okinawa, them, and she would love to see them. She and doctor, just spent a year setting up Liberia's first rnm as an English teacher. Son Ian is a senior at Bates Donald Jive in Seattle. He gives lectures on the B- pathology lab. Cricket's oldest son, Robert Shaw, 17 plane of WWll fame, and they both enjoy the has been given a five-year John D. MacDonald • Elizabeth Tobey Choate wrote some time ago complaining that the present Colby students (from travel involved. In just one month he spoke in grant. Widowed since 1978, Cricket obviously is her area, anyway) don't know the good old Colby Dallas, Albuquerque, and China Lake, Calif. not retired, nor does she sound as though she 50th songs-to which Betty remembers all the words. Bobbe says maybe she'll make our reunion, plans to be in the near future • Francis Heppner so that's looking ahead As previously reported, is an archivist with the National Archives Hope she can make it to our SOth and test all our • m Ernest Rotenberg has received awards as out Washington, D.C., and he and his wife, Jeanne, memories • Barbara Grant Nnoka was another standing judge in the nation among special court were planning to attend the Florida wedding who responded to my plea for news. She has of become "secondary caregiver" (she remarks, "Add judges and for outstanding contributions in the their daughter, Karen, when he wrote • Ben· 28 COLBY jamin Bubar, P.O. Box 91, China, Maine 04926, is sity of Iowa inbusiness, but right now he is selling you got there, Fran (but it seems to me \·nu just presently recuperating at home after serious sur vachts m_ Mann_ a del Rev, Calif. Nancv saw Chuck ' missed Ev Helfant Malkin). Fran claims her nme gery . Our best wishes to you, B�n • Mike and I ;-!6and Shirley Martin Dudley '-!6 in Clearwater grandchildren are smarter and more be ____ Tins month'� news is really sad-at least part of it. st 'l-7..._ ju�t after sent my last column in l got news that Bless you, Colby Alumni Office, for sending out Class secretary: ANNE HAGAR EUSTIS, P.O 1 '18---- 'fCJ.1------Ray Greene had died on April 3. We ha\·e not my emergency memo, and a "blessing on your Box 59-!, E. Princeton, Mass. 01 517. ie only lost a great friend but Colby has lost one of its head" to each of vou '-!Ser who answered the 0 M best workers. Ray had received many awards questionnaire • ary A. Conley Nelson has the i1 COLBY 29 member�hip in a computer dating service. Maybe I'll get lucky. Class secretary: WARREN J. FINEGAN, 8 White Pine Knoll Rd., Wayland, Mass. 01778. Hello to all, and here's some news of our cla mates Kathleen Markham Habberley • wrote from Chigwell, England. She was a reading pe cialist with the Boston School Department before her marriage to her husband, Harry, in London She has devoted herself to homemaking and to gardening, and she and her husband work to make local housing available to low-income families. She says that they get to visit the U.5 every couple of years • From Ontario, Calif.,Jeilll Blumenthal Young says that she is a licen psychotherapist and has opened her own prac· tice. She enjoys being her own boss and providinE therapy to individuals and families. No plans lo retire are in her future, because, as Jean tells us, we Ma n of Great Imp ort get better as we get older. No argument there! She does serve on boards of community ervice or· ganizations and is especially interested in James Plunkett '59 is an enterprising individual. Since 1987 Plunkett has directed the a homeless outreach program. Jean has four chil International Executive Service Corps in Peru. Patterned on the Peace Corps and now dren • Frank Weatherby of Boxford, Mass., isa in its 25th year, it is a U.S. nonprofit group that brings retired executives to advise retired bank official who has been active as a town companies in underdeveloped countries. Last fall Plunkett took a brief leave from clerk. For two years he was president of the North that post to evaluate a grant of $2 million to CONFIEP, an association of Peru's private Shore Clerks Association and dealt with a num· ber of political issues. He and his wife, Rosalee sector institutions and the country's chambers of commerce. The Agency for Inter have traveled to many Caribbean islands, k national Development, formerly the Alliance for Progress, made the grant and Hawaii, and to Venezuela Bob Keyes, who • has appointed Plunkett, who has been a business man in Peru during the past 25 years. sold his computer company and is semi-retired,� Plunkett met his Peruvian wife, Gisele, through his Colby roommate Carlos now involved in building custom homes in goU course developments in the Pa lm Beach area Davila '58, also from Peru. The Plunketts returned there in 1964 after his stint in the of Florida. He and his wife, Mary, have three chit· U.S. Marine Corps. For four years Plunkett "roamed the Andes in a Volkswagen. dren and four grandchildren. They spent four as a traveling salesman," which sparked his admiration of native arts in the villages. weeks last year in Austria, Switzerland, and On his first expedition to the U.S., he supplied to Filene's in Boston 200 pairs of alpaca Germany. They hope to make these travels an every-other-year event From Aurora, O io slippers; they were instantly sold out. He became crafts supplier to Macy's, Altman, • h , Sarah Hollister Belden wrote that she has been Marshall Field, and Pier I Imports, "our stalwart," before he set up his own export employed for 17 years in research for Standard business in 1968. Exports are "on the back burner" just now as the political climate Oil of Ohio. Her husband, Edward, is heavih of the last three years has brought on a horrific 10,000-percent inflation. The whole involved in church work. She sits on the board of nation is currently riding out these rough seas and hoping for better governmentafter elders and is church treasurer. She and her hus band have been making lots of trips to the Carn· last fall's elections. linas, hunting for the perfect retirement spot • Ten years ago the Plunketts acquired a hosta/, or small inn, of 30 beds or so, run Dr. Richard T. Chamberlain is vice president and in a European tradition with tea served every afternoon. They also successfully chief medical officer for Blue Cross and Blue introduced the donut in Lima after Plunkett went to Miami for a week to learnthe Shield in Maine. His wife, Shirley, is an EEG business, then brought 100 dozen samples to a U.S. embassy Fourth of July picnic. technologist. They have six children and recent!) went to Florida to celebrate their only daughter': The Donut House was launched. Now there are 10 franchises in Lima-but Plunkett wedding. Richard has worked hard to help im· no longer rises at 4 a.m. to do the cutting and frying. prove access to medical care. He has also been part of a parent support group for the local i h The Plunketts have four children: James, Sean, Gisele, and Christopher. A year h g · ago Parker Beverage, Colby dean of admissions and financial aid, made a recruiting school ski team. The group is "fostering a plea · ure in knowledge" and gives the students oppor· trip through Latin America, contacting many alumni. Over dinner in Lima one night tunities to be involved. It sounds like a wonderful he and Plunkett discussed sending son Chris, then 15, to Waterville for his "summer" [ experience for everyone • Al and Joan Martin I vacation during January and February. Joan Sanzenbacher, associate director of Lamont keep very busy.Joan isa part-time banker l special programs at the College, and her four sons turned out to be the perfect host and Al has sold his private practice, Optometnc family. An exchange visit was set up for 16-year-old Peter Sanzenbacher. Chris loved Associates of Newton. He still works part time there and also does consultant work for Cam· cross-country skiing and snow storms, Peter found the city market places and the bridge Eye Doctors. Their son, Gary, lives in Cah· Incan ruins of Machu Picchu fascinating. Both boys hope to be "exchanged" again for fornia, so they make many trips to the West Coast I Al and Joan have a condo in Stuart, Fla., and try a longer, more serious visit. to Jim Plunkett left Colby before his senior year, but as a member of Delta Upsilon, spend as much of the winter there as possible They often visit with Bob Keyes • I am staym� the Glee Club, and the Colby Eight, he remembers Colby as "one of the finer with Caroline Wilkins McDonough for a few experiences of my life." From a 30-year perspective and a continent away, he says, days, and we had a delightful lunch with Jan "I hold Colby responsible for a good part of my success." Pearson Anderson. Jan and Chuck have sold '53 their lovely home in Fairfield, Conn., and are moving to Harwich, Mass. They will not be too far NFW away from George and Betty Winkler Laffey '53 in Chatham. Caroline reports that our class ha 30 COLBY gone over its goal this year in our contributions to and are now hooked. Life is good" • Retired announcement of the engagement of Susan Colby. That is great! C lonel John Lee wrote that he "met George ? . Roberts '86 and Evan Dangel '86. We also enjoyed Class secretary: BARBARA BO E LEAV- Pme on the Metro subway. George was on his a visit with Judy and Aubrev Keef and Betty Trail, Scituate, Mass. '5-l 1 ITI, 21 Indian 02066. way to a business conference. I am still working and Bob Thur t�n '5-l. The Thurstons may soon be for the Army as a civilian, and I would be glad to on their way to a Peace Corps assignment. What give all visiting classmates a tour of the Pentagon will that do to your golf, Bob7 A Colby reunion Paul Appelbaum, as a start" • Said "After a meeting was held at the Roberts's house on career on Wall Street we moved to California 16 Damariscotta Lake. Among those attending were Here it is mid-August, it's hot and humid, and it's years ago. Currently living in the San Fernando our class president, Lou Zarnbelloand \\'ifc Ka thy really tough to writea newsletter that is going to Valley with my wife of 32 years. Have three McConaughey Zambello '56, Jane Millett ,ippear in the winter issue of Colby. I appreciate all children and two grandchildren. Have a sales rep Dornish, Ann Burbank Palmer, Judy Orne t items that have been sent to my atten business in partnership with my son. Our daugh n he news Shorey, Sid Farr, the Robertses, and Selden and sorry to tion Keep them coming! • I am report ter starts University of Ca lifornia in September. Sue Biven Staples. We know that many of you that Ken Reichert died on March 7, 1989, leaving Have spoken with Joe Bryant and Bob Wulfing. will be contacted to help with the upcoming reun � wife and daughter. I have no other details at Robert B. Parker '54 is my favorite author and I 1 hi ion, and we hope you will accept. Ruth Roberts Richard Hobart, this time • our class president, have read all of his books. Ace, if you are reading and I had lunch with Mary Dundas Runser m that his business is reported that all is well and this, send me a copy of your latest" • Good hea Ith Waterville. It was good to see Mary and hear l! keeping him very active in the Chesapeake Bay and wealth to all. Keep me posted on all class about her job a a Title I teacher in the Waterville Apparently his golf game has improved information. area. School District • While cleaning out paper work 11 enough to take on the class at the next reunion • Class secretary: NELSON BEVERIDGE, 134 here at home, came upon an unopened letter l Bob Gordon, M.D., said he is "just chugging Border St., Cohasset, Mas . 02025. from Barbara Kleinman Lainere. do apologize r l along." I like his style--"I just had my third for not acknowledging Barbara's letter and for daughter (age three months), and the others are 6 not mentioning that her paintings are part of .ind 8 years. Still practicing medicine. Will try to Colby' permanent art collection. Another rea�on _ ___ make next reunion" • Barbara Studley Barnette for visiting Colby in june1 • Many thanks to John t� wrote from St. Helena, Calif., "Three children, all AfterStj.,__ a few years' reprieve I'm back at the helm Philbrook for his letter and "resume." john \\'rote married, two grandchildren-president of Bar again as class correspondent. I want to thank all of me a terrific letter, which I enjoyed immensely, nette Indu tries-husband (Dean) retired com you who said no so that I could do it again! Well, updating me on his life from 1955 to the present. mercial airline pilot-spend the five summer seeing that I just took over, you'll have to bear john spent 1955 to 1965 in the Air Force, then months on Cape Cod-see Joan Leader Creedon with me until I can get a que tionnaire out before joined American Airlines, where he i now a on the Cape-married 30 years and still going" the next issue First of all, Tony and have the captain of the A300/600. know DC- lOs and 727 , l • • l l � Ken Castonguay "got bored with retirement and best situation possible. We jog at Colby in the john, but nothing more than that about airplanes. went back to work representing Ballantyne of autumn; we cros -country ski in the winter; and a john seems to be enjoying what he does, includ Scotland (cashmere, not scotch). Spent a week we play tennis on Wales Courts in the spring. I 1 ing raising a "second family" by the name of with Frank Piacentini in June playing golf in also wa on the search committee that hired the Amy, his 11 year old. We hope to ee the Phil Atlanta and Florida. Became a grandfather for the new chair of the Education Department. On brooks at Colby in june1 You may have a future August 18 the group of us who meets annually first time Ia t December." Maybe we can all order Colbyette there • Thanks also to Sandra Sivert 0weaters from Ken for our reunion? • Bob convened at our camp in Belgrade for cocktails McRoy, who lives in Rocky Mount, N.C., and has Southwick said, "married to Polly for 36 year , and then went to the Village Inn for dinner. In recently retired after 15 years of teaching third 1� twoson , Robert and Peter. Robert is a builder in cluded in this prestigious group are Paul and grade. She lists "grandchildren" as one of the ancy Eustis Huprich, •! Orleans, Ma ., and graduated from Colby in who are looking for a thing that ha given her great satisfaction in life. ter is a landscape architect. Polly and I year-round home on one of our beautiful lakes in l know that many of u can empathize with Sandy r_� 1977. Pe tm el a lot and just came back from Switzerland the Waterville area. Alfred and Ruth Joseph At our "reunion committee meeting," the fol � • always show up, except when Al is on a jaunt to Dave Nancy i and Lake Tahoe. Avid golfer and just won the lowing "tidbits" surfaced: and some exotic place as "trouble shooter" for CF. Salem C.C. invitation fourball" • Gail "Penny" Robinson Rollins vacationed at Camden, Maine, Pendleton Schultz ent a nice, long letter and Hathaway (he was off to Costa Rica the following this summer. Judy Orne Shorey lives in Rockland, � reports that the "kids have left home and are on Monday). Arlyne Rosenthal Sacks was there to Maine, and is director of volunteers at a medical their own. Doing a lot of community activities recuperate after taking care of grandchildren group Again, please start planning for the 35th h • and am on many boards and commissions. Going becau e her 7-year-old grandson had broken his reunion of the Class of '55. Keep June 8-10, 1990, t leg. Sherman Saperstein and his lovely wife, d to Seattle end of August and plan to meet Mary in mind! 1rf 'Mike' Pike Collegeman. Last August met with Linda, were their charming selves, and Sherman Class secretary: SUE BIVEN STAPLES (Mrs. Mimi Price Patten and Joanne Terrill Petersen in looks great! Robbie and Janet Fraser Mitchell Selden C.), 430 Lyons Rd., Liberty Corner, .). Tacoma. Would love to hear from anyone explor were able to make it just after "marrying off" 07938. daughter Mary and returning from one of their ing the Pacific orthwest (Portland, Oreg.)" • Mary Scott Jahn i now living in Palm Coast, Fla. junkets to Washington, D.C., to help Robbie's brother, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, "Retirement is till great, even after five years. do some entertaining. Tony and I had just said Frank and I play golf at least four days a week. Two sons live and work nearby, the third still goodbye to children (Jody '80) and grandchildren "America-Love Her or Saddle Up," the original lives in ew Jersey. just completed a mini vaca who came for a week and stayed six weeks • So cowboy homily, is lovingly inscribed in tiny steel tion on the • Malcolm An as a new school year begins, we wish you well nails on the weathered wood frame of the fir t of M1 sissippi Queen!" drews just moved from Greenville, R.I., to Hold from Colby and Waterville and hope that your Cowboy (Presidential) Mirror that now hangs in d " erness, .H. In September will start teaching lives are as free and rewarding as ours. the tack room of former President Reagan's Cali Class secretary: MARLENE HURD JABAR, fornia ranch. L. David Burke realized about two math at Plymouth State College. We are grand parents of two living in Rhode Island and Ohio" 11 Pleasantdale Ave., Waterville, Maine 04901. years ago that there was an enormous gap in furniture making-that no one wa paying atten • Paul Dionne wrote, "have been practicing law in Fort Stockton, Tex., for 30 years. Have been tion to the cowboy experience. David, the self single for several years. I am a grandfather five proclaimed "father of cowboy furniture," came to . times, travel a lot, and enjoy the good life! Get furniture making from a 25-year career in design, to ew 35th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Classmates: it is which encompassed graphics, interiors, and archi back England occasionally and have seen • time to plan for the 35th reunion of the Class of tecture. Now, from his workshop and showrooms ick Sarris '54. Also saw Frank Piacentini in I know that seems impossible for such a in Santa Fe, .M., he focuses his energies on Atlanta" • "After 35 years in Connecticut," said '55! Charles Anderson, "we have moved to Harwich, youthful, vigorous group of "youngsters," but on functional and decorative furniture that reflects Mass., on Cape Cod and got lots of help from the weekend of June 8-10, 1990, we hope to see the lifestyle and aspirations of the American Ceorge '52and Betty Winkler Laffey, who Jive in many of the Class of '55 at Colby • Sel and I just cowboy. Each of his pieces is planed, "adzed," or Chatham, Mas . All Anderson kids are married returned from a beautiful week in Maine with intricately carved and painted by hand (receiving two in Vermont and two in Connecticut-two David and Ruth McDonald Roberts. Among the from five to 25 coats of color), making David's grandchildren. Jan and I have discovered golf exciting occurrences during our visit was the furniture well beyond the means of most working COLBY 31 cowhands. David has won 175 national and inter communications. Mary Ellen is currently a vestry teaches a course in supervisory training for me- 1v1 national design ,w,:ards and is proud to claim member and chairs the social concerns commit chanics at Camden County College. He says thal n President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail tees at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Cathedral, which he and his wife almost made it to our 20th reun. , Gorbachev owners of his work. "Ride tall, il� involves her in work with the poor, homeless, and ion, but when they got there, the "football game David; WE'RE all watching'" • Word from Pat Vietnam refugees. She also has assorted work for was over and everybody had left." Hey, Joe, that Bateman Cope tells us that having lived 20 years Vermont Public Radio, UVM's Shakespeare Fes must have been Homecoming-they don't play 1 in Belle Mead, N.j., she and her husband have ti\'al, St. Michael's College <;ummer theater, and football in June • Ruth Lord Prifty works part recently moved to Quechee, Vt., "the land of real the Vermont Repertory Theater. Peter says he time in her husband's dental office. With three weather," where she finds the surrounding beauty tags along at all of the above when his Dixieland daughters, two of whom are doctors, Ruthie is 111 Kathy Mcconaughy Zambello, "stunnmg" • jazz and teaching permit • Larry Cudmore is the middle of a medically oriented family. Never. after living m Oregon for two years, is enjoying president and chief executive officer of CED/ theless, she finds time to decorate a new houSf many new experiences such as hil-.ingand kiing Sears Canada, Inc. He and his wife, Jane, have and participate in a group that reads and revie111 nr in the beautiful Cascade Mountains and Colum four children and enjoy their three grandchil quality magazine articles. And that's not all: a bia River Gorge. Kathy see. Julie Brush Wheeler dren. They travel from their residence in Ontario, couple of years ago she and her husband pen! and Liz Russell Collins, who live in the area, and Canada, to Cape Cod, Mass., where they still three weeks in China and Japan! If l had • ani John Joan Williams ha enjoyed visits from and maintain a home • Bruce Blanchard listed his sense, I would have started writing these note1 Marshall and Carol Moore Hutchins. Carol and occupation as: retired entrepreneur grandfa earlier and submitted them to Carol Holt Case I I for 1 husband Bruce were in Arizona this past winter, ther /novice golfer. He should challenge Bones fixing up. She has her own business, called Copy· where he continued development on the Saturn and Larry, who golf in their spare time. Brnce writing Plus, which deals in advertising, freelance rocket • Susan Miller Hunt, a proud new listed se\'eral recent changes, including retire writing, and other kinds of creative work, includ· grandmother, has returned to the field of portrait ment, becoming a grandfather for the first time, ing travel writing. Carol is also taking a course111 painting. Sue works in pastels and her recent and developing a new company. He wrote, "You the writing of children's literature and says she wmmission.:; have been primarily of children. would be proud of how I adjusted to retirement; loves it. Parts of the world the Cases have visited She wrote that Sheila McLaughlin Freckman is however, you would be disgraced at my behavior include Alaska and England • Mabelle "Melly' back in the states-the Washington, D.C. area as a grandfather-described best as slobbering McKevett Grolljan of The Simonds Realtor • is Also, many sources have reported on "the lovely idiot.... There are some who would agree that my probably one of the most successful real e tate 1 inn in Sherborn,Mass., that Dave and Rosemary description of being a grandfather could apply as agents in New Hampshire. She lives in an antique Crouthamel Sortor have recently opened-we'd well to my 'entrepreneurial image'' " Time will house; has a big barn, several animals, and s one love to hear about it from the owners' • Patricia tell' In an interview, Duxbury, Mass., child still at home. By the time you read this sht Robinson Tucker lives in Cambridge with Bos Superintendent Donald Kennedy said planning will have gone off to golf school in Florida. ShP ton architect husband Stephen and a "wonderful for the future and fostering trust and cooperation keep in touch with Katherine "Kiki" Kies Mad 4-year-old son." Pat leads a happy, busy life as throughout a school system are the keys to educa den. l hope to bring you news of the Madden director of the awards management office at tional excellence. Don says he is most proud of a fa mily in the next issue • Lee Oberparleiter, after Harvard • Remember, sharing your experiences program he initiated to discourage drunk driv teaching high-school Engli h for 18 years, hai helps us all to stay connected. I am grateful to each ing. The program involves the combined efforts taken a new assignment teaching fifth grade of you for your willingness to be part of that of many local groups, the schools, and the police. That's real dedication to the profession, Lee, al process' He is also interested in starting partnerships with least if fifth grade is what it used to be' Lee also Class secretary: HOPE PALMER local businesses to better prepare students for does educational consulting in the Philadelplua BRAMHALL (Mrs. Peter T.C.), One Meadow careers in the rapidly changing fields of science area, working specifically on teacher training with Creek Lane, Fa lmouth Foreside, Maine 04105. and technology • Dr. Clement A. Smith died respect to self-concept and disciplinary matter Christmas Eve 1988. He received an honorary Lee and his wife have a 10-year-old son and a6- Sc.D. with our Class of '58. A professor emeritus year-old daughter • Congratulations to Betty of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Lou Nyman Wright, who was ordained in Febru· past president of the American Pediatric Society, ary 1988 by the Episcopal Church. While we were Class secretary: BRIAN F. OLSEN, 46 Washing he was 87 Over the past year I've heard from at the reunion, Betty Lou left husband Peter al )-,_�---- • ton Drive, Acton, Mass. 01720. approximately one third of our class. I'm looking home to go on a tour of Israel with the bishop of forward to the other two thirds! Rhode Island and some 40 other participants Class secretary: ANDRIA PEACOCK KIME, Betty Lou has been to England, gone swimming 737 Turnpike St., Stoughton, Mass. 02072. in the Sea of Galilee, worked on an archaelogical dig, gone camel riding in the desert ...unbeliev· Four times a year I have the honor of writing able! She is also the executive director of a shelter about you-the Class of '58. It seems to take away for homeless women and children Bob • and the wearines , and l actually feel younger' Well, I Marcia Eck Brolli '62 live in a Federal-style brick can pretend, can't I? Glen Goffin, a retired Air ____ colored house known as the "Iron Master's House" • )Cf Force lieutenant colonel, said he's been attacked It is a_ real pleasure to sit down and write this first in Richmond, Mass. They have lovingly restored by the "Fats and Age GOBS," and he lost the installment in a new series of class notes. It was a this house and others. Bob owns and runs battle. What a struggle-I know' He's received a great delight to see so many classmates at Colby Bullwinkel's Department Store in Great Barring· national poetry award, had several stories pub in June for our 30th reunion. I understand that ton. He continues his active interest in the theater lished, and received honorable mention from the many who were there had never before attended having to his credit 26 shows at the Williamstown Florida Department of Consumer Affairs. Jn his a reunion. We all had a wonderful time, even if the (Summer) Theater, roles in Peter Nichols's Pa(· spare time Glen reads, writes, and is involved in weather wasn't the best part of the weekend. Bertold Brecht's sion, The Resistable Rise of Art1m1 discussion group , discovering "how little I know has already reported the activities of the and a movie for HBO. He is active in a proje.. C11rre11ts Ui, and how much l would love to know." He re reunion classes and printed them in great num to save and restore the Mahawi, a local peri<'(i minds us to "enjoy every minute of health, love, ber, so except for apologizing publicly to Liz Hay theater • Janet Forgey is an administrator in the Henderson and happiness and to attempt to find the beauty for not having recognized her-and legislation and regulatory services department of in every minute of illness, anger, and misery, to she has hardly changed-I shall devote this col the Aetna Insurance Co. in Middletown, Conn revel in the gift of life." That's a real challenge, umn to news of classmates who were not in She works in what she calls "new product devel Glen! • AttorneyAubrey "Bones" Jones says the Waterville in June • Joe Grimm has done a opment" and "experimental" areas of the insur· recurrence of a 1986 heart attack dictates a more variety of interesting thingssincegraduating from ance industry, which involve such things as long· relaxed lifestyle with less stress. It's "hard to Colby: taught at the Hotchkiss School, studied at term health care and group automobile insur· accept." He's delighted with the resurgence of the Stanford, been in the Merchant Marine , and ance. Janet has been to Bermuda and Antigua and Colby football team. Bones said, "Greg Thomajan written and edited articles in English for a news enjoys the companionship of an affectionate .. . took me to lunch-totally liquid. Lunch cost him paper in Mexico. He now owns his own manage Abyssinian cat • I had great fun gathering the $10, while my parking fee was $12. Thanks a ment consulting firm, the principal concern of foregoing news by telephone, and I intend to bunch, Greg" • Peter and Mary Ellen Chase which is employee recognition-he facilitates the continue making surprise calls. But don't wait to Bridge are both college professors in Burlington, process whereby those who have done a good job be called-write. Please write now, and please Vt. Mary Ellen teache English, Peter teaches are duly identified and rewarded. In addition, he write "Colby" in the lower left-hand corner of the 32 COLBY !nvelopeso that the person taking care of my mail :an forward it to me in Japan, where I expect to be :Jetween January and June 1990. Class secretary: SUSA FETHERSTON FRAZER, 6 Bellevue Place, Middletown, Conn. 16457. reunion: June 8-10, 1990 As write this, 60----30th • 1 Janet Grout Williams and her family are heading west to board a ship for a Semester at Sea. She and her hu band, Tim, will teach, while their sonswill lake cla ses. Going around the world, the ship returns to Miami, Fla.,at Christmastime • Our may be short on news, but we rated two • las local Maine newspapers. Jock Knowles pictures m was shown fishing in the Sebasticook River while Waterville for the graduation last May of his 111 daughter, Callie '89. Pat Walker Knowles must Th e LiberalAr ts : Bryan's Fu lle r View have preferred drier pursuits • Eunice Bucholz Spooner was running for re-election to the Oakland board of education, where she was chair "The very best preparation for a top-level career in business is a good liberal arts ofthecurriculum committee. She won • Remem education," says David W. Bryan '68, president since 1987 of the Fuller Brush ber our reunion next pring-June 8 to 10, 1990. Class secretary: BEYERLY JACKSO Company, a division of the Sara Lee Corporation based in Winston-Salem, .C. "I GLOCKLER (Mr . Anthony S.), 39 Whippoorwill was at Colby from '63 to '68. I wasn't a very good student in my first and second Way, Belle Mead, .J. 08502. years," he says. "It took me four and a half years to get my degree. But my last two years, I made the dean's list." An economics major, Bryan gives the credit for his turnaround to the supportive ,______atmosphere at Colby and particularly to Professor of Economics Jan Hogendornand Memories6 of now/ice sculptures on Winter Dean of Men George Nickerson. "We had some, shall we say, interesting conversa Carnival weekends refresh my mind a I tions," says Bryan of his early relationship with the dean. "But he stuck with me and "word process" this column in the sweltering heat helped me learn to develop goals and work hard to reach them." August. My fingers still are overly sensitive to o1 the cold from exposure long ago while icing a The job of being president of a major corporation is "fun and challenging," says "pinkelephant." Recall that year'scarnival theme? Bryan. 'Tm responsible for a lot of people. How well the company does depends It was "Flight of Fancy." OK, back to class notes entirely on how well they do their jobs. As president, instead of being involved with Wilham and Sarah Thompson Solari li\'e in • developing business plans and marketing strategies, my job is mostly to help people Briarcliff Manor, .Y., and escape to the north west hills of Connecticut-Lakeville-when develop themselves into better managers, better people. In that respect, my Colby possible. Sarah works in paralegal. Now that she education has been more valuable than the technical skills that I was taught at comes up often to a neighboring town, I'm hope Columbia," where Bryan earned an M.B.A. ful that we can chat before the next column's Since graduating with wife-to-be Nancy Lee Dodge '68, Bryan has returned to deadline. Her note said she speaks at times with the College on several occasions, most recently for his son David's interview for the Nancy Schneider Schoonover (Fairfield, Conn.) and Carla Possinger Short (Georgetown, Del.) • Class of'94. "David is very interested in Colby," says Bryan, "and we hope that Colby William Swormstedt commutes 100 miles a day is interested in him. I've been very impressed with the new buildings and the way to and from work in Needham, Mass., and his that Colby has also built up its academic standing as a top-rank college." The Bryans home in Merrimack, .H. Obviously, Bill loves are pleased that their other child, 20-year old Lisa, also selected a small liberal arts his work for GTE as senior buyer, facilities con college for her undergraduate studies, Connecticut College, where she majors in struction and renovation services, or he wouldn't !:ipend that much time on the road. Don't know physics. how he does it-six days a week almost year ancy Bryan's career ha been as accomplished as her husband's. "I met her on round. He has found that CB radio chatter with the steps of Miller Library," remembers Bryan. "She's from Lubec [Maine]. We got other drivers also frustrated with the commuting married in ew York where we were both working on our master's degrees. She has experience helps to pass the time more quickly. Bill enjoys re ting and being a "couch potato" an M.A. in college administration and is registrar at Salem College [in Winston when his and Frauke's two teenagers don't have Salem, N.C.], one of the few all-women colleges left." them climbing mountains, skiing, swimming, An important part of Bryan's life is his regular gig on bass guitar in a rock and fishing, etc. David Tourangeau (Falmouth, • roll band with other Sara Lee executives. "We get together to play once a week and Maine) wrote that he traveled to Hawaii and New play for the public three or four times a year. We keep getting better and we have a Zealand on vacation in 1988. Dave enjoys travel, sailing, skimg, tennis, and reading. Several class lot of fun. We play all the songs I learned at Colby," he says. "The Rolling Stones, mates and their wive have sampled his sailing. the Who, Beatles, Cream, the music of our youth." Peter and Judy Stevenson joined him for a week Recalling his college days, Bryan concludes, "Even though I'm in business, it end of sailing the coast of Maine. Peter and Judy bothers me that undergraduate students are handicapping themselves by going to probably found their way around the confines of specialized business schools. It's too early in their lives to get serious about business. the boat far easier than their large, old house in Haverford, Pa. John Hooper (Cape Elizabeth, They miss the intellectual challenge of a liberal arts education. It's the best kind of Maine) and l11s new wife, Barbara, raced with education you can get." David in a Multiple Sclerosis Sailboat Race. David • Gene Rainville didn't s;iy how they placed and Chris Fi11/ayso11 wife Margaret also stopped in for a visit on the way up to Colby. They are living in Wichita, Kan . COLBY 33 • Bruce and Linda Turner and their two kids with my apologies include Roey Carbino's re Lot� of reunion honors are mentionable: . I • Tra1 (ages 21 and 16) have settled in Montpelier, Vt. sponses, which somehow had been wedged in the eled the Farthest to Reunion: lee Scrafton Bujold Bruce enjoys tennis, reading, and gardening. He back of one of my file drawers. Roey, a clinical from Singapore, followed closely by Jack Mechem entered the personnel/industrial relations field associate professor at the University of Wiscon and family from Hong Kong. Changed the Least after two vears in the service and worked for sin, went to China during 1987 as part of a delega in Appearance: Candy (now Cate) Camp ' Lund everal co�panies, first in Wellesley, Mass., then tion on child and fa mily mental health and deliv and Bob Drewes. Most Impossible to Recogniz; Baltimore, Md., and, finally, Montpelier. When ered a paper and chair�d a workshop at an inter Reunion Book Photo: Charlie Angell. Most the last company filed for Chapter XI, Bruce de national conference in England designed to Mystical Reunion Book Page: Larry Dyhrbe : Grandparents1!: Roger and Joyce Arnold Isbiste1 cided to open his own business rather than relo strengthen connections between colleagues in 1 cate. He has operated a seafood business for the other nations. After becoming a homeowner in and J an Martin Fowler. Li'! Ole Class Wino: � _ Jon 1, Fredrickson. Best Self-mterv1ew: Nancy Rankin last eight years (restaurant, fish market, and October, Roey now has room for any classmates 1, who pass through Madison, Wis.1 • Ron Ryan Griffin. Most Succinct Reunion Book Page: wholesale), which he has found to be the bigge t Cindi ,, challenge of his life • This finishes replies to our has been named executive vice president of the Carroll Smith. Most Charming Spou e: George Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. He will be in Shur's Martha. A+ for Reunion Page second questionnaire; hope I didn't miss anyone Engh f • 0111al1a World-Herald Composition: Al Smith. (Don't get a swelled A hot news item in the tells charge of all administrative and business aspects hearl , us that a superb Lincoln High School teacher, of the Flyers organization. Way to go, Ron1 over this, Al. I'm just a math major and I may n01 Patience Oliver Fi h Class secretary: LINDA NICHOLSON know art, but know what I like') Best Reuni It s er, was chosen-from a group 1 or GOODMAN, Organizer: Judy Fassett Aydelott. Many, of outstanding teachers from each of the 14 states Fernwold Heights Farm, Lynch man1 in which U.S. West Inc. does business-to receive Hill Rd., Oakdale, Conn. 06370. thanks for a superb party1 I hear some of , you 1, a year's pa id sabbatical to work on techniques to muttering, "If I'd known you were going to giit " help students overcome their fear of math and awards, I'd have worked harder on my page' their boredom with the subject. Patience has taught Hah' The only reason most of us scribbled a fev, � lines was that we were browbeaten by Fassett at Lincoln High for 17 years (math and computer and science in the tenth through twelfth grades). at least one other classmate! But how grateful"' Husband Jame teaches English at the University 6��---Marilyn Fowler Seidler is another success story are for every scribble, every line, every sketch and every paste-up that we have devoured lov 11 of Nebraska, Lincoln. Patience also will teach a of a Colby graduate who went into teaching. 3 mathematics course at UNL designed for pro Marilyn, a junior-high English teacher in ingly in this, our 25th year. To paraphrase Walt 11 spective elementary teachers • Let us also hear Montgomery County, Md., recently was the Kelly's Pogo, "We have met the giants of bU5J something from those of you who have not yet county's 1989 recipient of the prestigious Agnes ness, literature, politics, medicine, and science .l and they is us!" We have also met the written. Your classmates want to read about you Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award, sponsored samt , Washi11gto11 Post . genuine, entertaining, enlightened folks we this year. I hope you had a great holiday season by the The praises from admin went and will have a happy, healthy new yearl istrators, fellow teachers, parents, and students to school with, and the only difference is that t hei \ Class secretary: EDWIN "NED" GOW, RFD were numerous. Marilyn has resisted efforts to be have all now achieved self-confidence. Box 395, Canaan, Conn. 06018. promoted into administration because she loves Class secretary: SARA SHAW RHOADES, ei teaching o much. And her Westland Intermedi RR l, Box 530B, Kittery, Maine 03904. ate School tudents are glad. I'd say they were also very lucky to have a teacher like Marilyn who really cares about them and after 20 years in teaching has affected the lives of so many young 6i�----In my June column several end-of-the-alphabet people • Going back all those years reminds me people were omitted due to space restrictions. that we all have 30-year high-school reunions this 25th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Lew Krinsky 6��---1• re Although President Strider reviewed and year, and I'm looking forward to mine in October. cently joined the Houston, Tex., firm of Le recommended Ann Tracy's history of Higgins hope to see some of my Colby classmates there, Mason Howard Weil as vice president l • Bob Classical Institute, Higher Gro1111d, in the summer David Pulver, Howie Lamson, Gloria Rogers has recently been appointed associat Li since and G Colby, I will add our belated congratulations and Bowers Pinsch all went to high school with me. professor of economics and business administra · c Ann's remarks concerning her new publication: Looking forward to your letters. tion at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Ill. Bob pl "Without a doubt the most exciting occurrence Class secretary: JO-ANN WINCZE had served as an economist in the Division ol bi for me lately has been the publication of my FRENCH, 864 S. Parkview Drive, Aurora, Ohio Regulatory Analysis, Bureau of Economics (FfC b; second book, Higher Gro1111d." Ann's cryptic humor 44202 in Washington, D.C., since 1983 • Myles De nny· K is still intact, and she wrote that she collects "bats Brown is an international economist with the U.S 1, and coffin-like things" • Jeanne Banks Vacco Department of Commerce in Washington. H< wrote a reply that I could publish as an entire and his wife, Nese, have two young sons. Myle1 column, so I will distill it to the following: Hus travels extensively to Europe, where he 01 was sla _ is band Dick was honored by Suffolk University for .__ _ tioned from 1977 to 1984 • Joan Stressenger 20 years of teaching law, and we add our con 6If you missed it, you missed a dandy. The Class Chesley recently moved to Darien, Conn., after l( a1 gratulation to those of President Perlman and of '64 spent a great weekend under gray, cool living 17 years in New Jersey. Joan was a real e; the Suffolk faculty.Jeanneisaffiliated with Spring skies, and occasional torrential rain. However, estate broker prior to her move (which require11 field College and their School of Human Services clever Fassett had provided souvenir "Colby '64" two moving vans to transport everything!) and il o but teaches at the campus located in Manchester, umbrellas, which made us the envy of the other now juggling the activities of her three teenage I N.H. Son Jeffrey is a junior and a football player at classes. We occupied all of Foss and Woodman, children • Betsy Lyman Rachal is the motherol Curry College, while daughter Kristin is a sopho with our class banquet in the scenic Foss dining five children (three daughters and two sons) and i more at Plymouth State College • Continuing in hall thilt we remember so well, sa11s American lives in Winnetka, Ill. She and her husband, Paul ( the dramatic arts field: Alice Webb Webb's son, primitives peering from the walls. It was startling are very much involved with the launching of I Michael, is planning to attend a college with a to see men in "our" halls, and never in my wildest their new investment banking business, e good drama program. Alice mentioned that she moments did I dream of sharing a bathroom with Enterprises, Inc. Paul serves as president a11d found the 25th reunion stimulating but had for Jack Mechem on first floor Foss! • James "Lemon" Betsy as vice president • Bill Ferretti is theRacha1 chau gotten how little level ground there was on the Morang was there, having as much fun as he was and CEO of Medstar Communications, Inc. and I campus • Pat Wilson has a new career after having when he left • Doris Kearns Goodwin lives in Allentown, Pa. His wife, Terri, is a com going through a divorce and deciding to go to was there between speaking engagements and munity volunteer. Their daughter, Laura, i a graduate school. She became a reference librarian honorary degrees, sneaking out of the class pic student at Smith College and spent her junior ture in order to get her boys to the movies on time year in Florence, Italy. Daughter Andrea at Frostburg State University in Maryland in b a October of 1988 after completing her M.L.S. at • Dave Sveden told us he gave up coaching boys' student at Moravian Academy. Bill's compan1 Louisiana State University in December 1986. Pat hockey when one of his players said, "! can't play deals with TV production and associated syndt· says she is also a professional clown, but her today because I'm having my hair done." The cation. He is also involved in real estate develop juggling of children (Kathryn, 22, and Karyn, 14), Two-Penny Bridge is still there, but free now. The ment and venture capital • Richard W. Davis becoming single, and finding a new direction for Chez is still there, and Rummel's has a new taster president of The Edward L. Davis Insurance herself deserve the biggest applause • Along size cone for those who want just a bit of dessert Agency, in Needham, Mass., was recently elected 34 COLBY d tem1 as state national director of the living San Francisco is Gary McKinstry, who to a secon m · and is domg very well. He also wrote that of Massachusetts, .c., Independent Insurance Agents keeps busy with two jobs and much tra\·el, in Skip Fucillo '68 is an attornev and the owner of Bob Gordon state's leading agents' group • cluding a wonderful trip to the U.K. last year in several Boston the . restauranL · Patricia Jenks French teacher at Columbus conjunction with his corporate work for Prints is a Spani h and . "finally made it back to Maine'" She i an arti t Ohio. For several years he Plus In addition to his new responsibilities as t Academv in Delaware, • and a eacher now, li\·ing in Topsham. She asked � curriculum development and director of human resources operations at was inv lved with LL. for Susan Mersky, Noreen Snyderman Davis, teacher education at Ohio State Univer ity, and Bean, Bill Snow serves as chair of the Advisorv and Francie Calmes Da\·is Joyce Demkowicz � • he has now returned to the classroom. He is the Committee on Youth at Risk and as corporat Henckler hopes that somedav her ons, Adam Marty Dodge . father of two sons and a daughter • secretary of the board of directors of Junior and Aaron, will be on the same Little Leagt11.· team as well as being a 1s a professor of conservation Achievement in his homestateof Mame • Another so he and her husband, Don, don't ha\ e II\ e forestry consultant. He lives in aples, N.Y. His human resources director is Jeff Wright of Mari game a week. Don works for �tetropohtan Jn,ur '64, is a French teacher. etta, Ga.Jeff's company i Kimberly Clark Ellie wife, Margaret (Mattraw) • ance in sales. Joyce's job of o\·er:.eemg adm1 - daughter Rebecca attends Hamilton Col Caito Thompson teaches art at Scituate Junior sions, financial 1 Their aid, the career center, and nt'W lege, and daughter Andrea attend Hotchkiss Senior High School in Rhode Island and contin student programs at the l_; ni\ er�1t\' ot \1a11ll' hool ancy Winslow Harwood i studying ues to help Colby bv ser\'ing as an alumni admis sounds challenging Dr. Wand� High 1� Sc • • a to bea gemologist. Rick Harwood is a financial sions interviewer. Ellie is one of 39 \·olunteer pathologi t and research scienti�t �peci.ili11ng 1n analyst with Electric Boat Company in Connecti workers for Colby from the Class of 1966. Hat off keletal di eases. Wanda poke of the �atJ�fact1on ter, Darcy, TI1ey liveinEast Lyme. Their daugh to you all1 • Ph l Smith of Edwards\'ille, lll., is a he has had in raising her cut i beautiful childrt'n • a student at Franklin and Marshall College, and professor at Southern Illinois University and the Barbara Fitzsimmons Hughes works at the is demy in An � son Marcus attends Phillips Aca father of three children • Staten Island i home to American embassy in Paris along with her hus wrote me a long Karen Riendeau Remine, dover, Mass. • Kent Johnson who enjoys her work band, Rusty. Both are foreign sen-ice officerswith time ago. l'm ashamed that I didn't include hi as a technical aide for Yi EX in mid-town the State Department. She hopes that her children joined news ooner. He left Colby after two years, Manhattan • Sue Turner de\'otes much of her master French before thev leave Pans john • the Air Force, spent time in Alaska, where he time and energies to 5-year-old Alissa and also Cooper wrote from Saco,M aine, very a thought finished hisjunioryearat the University of Alaska, teaches Spanish part time to elementary school ful letter full of memories and interestmg obser and even tually returned to Colby and graduated children. Husband Karl Karnaky is a scientist. vations about Colby life. Did you know that Jl'hn into W with theCla sof '68. Kent subsequently went Thev live in Charleston, S.C. • ith three chil was the Colbv hockev announcer in 1966 and with the Hartford Group and through dre1; (ages and 7) in three different schools, Sandy Miller Keohane insurance 17, 1-l, 1967? • contmue� her a serie of moves is now working for Deer and Barbara Wise Lynch spends much of her time busv life, saying that "with all my teenagers, I Co., where he continues to deal with insurance. volunteering in each of their schools. She and make terrible decisions dailv." (Welcome to the He in Eldridge, Iowa. He has completed an Sandy Raynor Eastman keep in touch and vow to club, Sandy!) Caroline re y wrote tha t her lives • K sk M.B.A. and a master's in computer ystems honor their pact of returning to Colby together to most humbling experience was entering the prac management. When he wrote, he was about to attend our 25th reunion • Another busy mother tice of law at 38. Her daughter Deborah started at embark on a Ph.D.1 He and his wife, Sandra, have of three is Kathy Beebe Lundberg of Butte, Mont. Dartmouth last fall. Caroline's pride in her daugh to three sons and a daughter • I was saddened Kathy i active in her children's scouting pro ter is wonderful! • Lou Richardson McGinity hear oftherecent death of Ronald Saad. Ron lived grams and is a librarian and a sales rep for educa wrote that her most humbling experience \\·a� her in Avon, Mass., and was an attorney practicing in tional products • Most of you probably don't first year of teaching. However, she also Cites Quincy ast April, plans began in earnest for have a 1991 calendar yet, so just imprint the teaching as her most gratifying experience. Lou is • I • our 25th reunion. A group of lucky 13 met in following date on your brains: CLASS OF 1966 now controller with Xerox Corporation. Her Cambridge-Bud Marvin, Rick Davi , Dick 25TH REU ION: JUNE 7-9, 1991 . You won't husband runs his own company, which he started Bankart, Jan Wood Parsons, Tim Hill Joan want to mi s it! Many thanks for all vour news. two years ago Diana Walsh Lockwood li\·e in J M . • � Copithome Bowen, Amie Repetto, Nick Locsin, Class secretary: EG FALLON WHEELER, Kailua, Hawaii. She has a new business called ew Krinsky, Ginger Goddard Barnes, Rod Box 493, West Boxford, Mass. 01885. Pacific Islands Institute. She takes senior citizens & L Gould, Stu Rakoff, and I. It was a terrific time. to Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, Tahiti, lewGuinea, c ' Committee were formed, chairs e tabIi hed, and etc., on educational programs and elderhostel planning begun. As I write, it is mid-August, but cour es. Her husband is John Lockwood '64. When i ...... ___ _ � by the time you read this column, you will have she wrote, they had just returned from john's 25th been contacted for initial input for the "event." Hooray6z for Chalmers Hardenbergh and his wife, reunion at Colby • Please send news or call. r Kent Johnson's letter reminded me that there Margaret Kimball! Doing their part to keep us all Thanks for all your help! ru were many of our class who started with us but young, they have welcomed the arrival of a son, Class secretary: SUSA DAGGETT DEAN l didn't end up graduating at the same time and are Cyrus Coolidge Morgan Hardenbergh. Since (Mrs. Ross A.), 29301 114th St., Scottsdale, 11 on other das mailing list . If anyone reading thi Chalmers works at home, he can enjoy Cyrus Ariz. 85255. ;, i in that category, do not hesitate to contact me to even more • Penny Fertel Altman is discharge get included. Please note my recent change of planner and community liaison at Jewish Memo 11t address and send any and all news! Hope to see rial Hospital. Living in Randolph, Mass., she is a: ' each and all the weekend of June 8-10, 1990! also a vice president of the Striar Jewish Commu Rose Buyniski Eriksson flew in from Sweden for u: Class secretary: MARCIA HARDING AN nity Center in Stoughton • Lucien Champagne 10 Walker Road #7, o. Andover, was awarded the Searle' CEO Incentive Award a visit. I met her at JFK and brought her back here r.; DERSON, Ma s. 01845. for his outstanding sales performance in 1988. to Long Island. All the years and all the miles r. s " Searle is a pharmaceutical company. Lou lives in mean nothing when these personal homemade reunions occur At last I have cornered Ralph Kennebunk, Maine • Philip and Valarie Robin • son Astwood live in Rock Hill, S.C. I had a won Carli le Lewi , brother of Richard Scudder Le v----__ _ derful phone call with Valarie during the sum wis. Ralph lives across the street from me, and we ICi 66By the time you read thi , I expect to be flooded mer. It's amazing that, even though we were only were all together at the annual chicken barbecue 1 with return on the most recent class question acquaintances at Colby, we had much to share at the Village Methodist Church (not unlike a :! na1re. In the meantime, here is more news from with each other. Growing up definitely has a lot of Down East "bean suppah"), of which Ralph was last year's record- etting advantages Don and Dee Thompson Jepson chair. Rich resides comfortably in Manhattan, 82 responses • Maxine • Etscovitz where he presides over his business Dick :� Skuba of Yellow Spring , Ohio, is a '69 took their family on a tour of Greece in June. I • therapist at a mental health clinic, a self-employed hope they enjoyed showing their son , Matt, 13, Goldberg enjoys a career as a musician, playmg careercou piano in a jazz band, singing in a choir, teaching m nselor,and an artist. The Yellow Springs and David, 11, the sights • Jed '68 and Francia Banner esti al Colmes Davis piano, and, oh, yes, playing squash. Dick's home F v and Maxine, its creator, were were planning a long-awaited trip ece n ly is in Somerville, Mass. Lucien C. Johnson, Jr., :i. r t written up in magazine to Hawaii in September. Francie wondered how • FiberArts who winters with his wife in Washington and ·� Deborah ilson Van Atta, a speech pathologist, Allison Burns-Ferro, Scottie Brewer Brower, � works with brain-injured adults at the Greenery Mary Beth Lawton, and Kenny May '69 are doing summers in Alaska, is proud that his four chil Rehabilitation dren are all grown up and independent. Lucien is aTI Center in Pacifica, Calif. Husband • Paul Cronin describes himself as "the world's Gerald ar Van Atta owns and manages Micro Age oldest father." He asked about Walter Procko. He the retired president of orthwest Community Com puter, Inc. Theylive related that Mickey Self 70 is living in Charlotte, College, University of Alaska • Always a Colby in San Francisco • Also COLBY 35 Phi Beta Kappa, Mike Caulfield has added to h1 long list of distinctions the recent honor of bein' named a partner at Greenwich A sociates, whid provide!> strategic consulting and research for fi nancial service organizations worldwide • l am impressed to read that George Lingel is the ass1; tant uperintendent of a large school district rr lllinoi�. George and Marion have two equalh accomplished sons, both in their 20s Jud) • Lopez Sikora, who earned her Ph.D. in educa tional psychology at the University of Texas, is dedicated social worker, wife, and mother three teens Vermont Senator Mike Metca • ll (who, as we know, had been one of 10 finalist, from throughout the U.S.A. chosen for NASA• Teacher in Space Program in 1985) succeedsrn political and academic rea lms. Mike teaches 50 cial studies at the Hazen Union School, which h11 sons, Chase and Keyes, attend. Class secretary: BARBARA BIXBY, 12 Eight� St., Bayville, N.Y. 11709. Strong Med icine _____ , "They were looking for somebody who wasn't afraid. And I'm not afraid," says Dr. 6CJSeveral of us gracefully survived our 20th reun· ion and are looking forward to the big 25! Our Ronda Luce Sessions '74, referring to her position as goaltender on the College's first class ha weathered well and continues to be laid ever women's hockey team. She might be expressing her philosophy of life. back and fun-loving. Especially Bob Anthony, tr whom we must give special thanks for his During her year atColby, Sessions tended goal on the women's ice hockey, field pa1· hockey, and lacrosse teams. "Right up until the first game we didn't know if we'd years as president of our class. His farewell speech far surpassed any political farewell address have uniforms," she says, recalling the first women's ice hockey season. When the we\ heard and added levity to the proceedings • V.1 men's JV squad heard that a Waterville team was going to lend the women jerseys, welcome Laurie Killoch Wiggins to the helm a, "they didn't want to be upstaged ....We wore the JV sweaters that first game." As president. She will do a very able job for sure.Sh, asks for everyone's help with plans for our the season progressed, the women gained support, particularly from the men's 25th teams. "We had a tremendous time. They loved us and they'd come and cheer us. reunion, so if you have any ideas or suggestion• please pass them on to her. Our other new office11 It was a shriek. Hockey was a big thing." are David Noonan, vice president, myself, secre Yet Sessions's time on the fields and in the arenas didn't detract from her success tary /treasurer (there is no money, I'm told), and in the classroom. A biology major with a chemistry minor, she was elected to Phi Beta Steve Anderson, Alumni Council representati\, Donna Massey Sykes reports the birth of a Kappa in her junior year and graduated She attended Harvard • son 111ng11a cum Laude. on June 16. It appears that baby John Mas Medical School on a Navy scholarship the following September. At the same time she Sykes has definitely entered his mother into top ' enlisted in the Navy, a decision that has had a lasting influence on her life. billing for the Most Recent Mother Award. b ' As a lieutenant, Sessions interned in the Naval Regional Medical Center in San there anyone out there from '69 willing to chal· ' Diego. Although she was "rotated through everything," surgery became her lenge that title7 1 will pass on that one! • Rae Jean Braunmuller Goodman is the first woman predominant interest. Later she attended the Naval Undersea Medical Institute in pro fessor at the a val Academy in Annapolis, Groton, Conn., where she trained and qualified in all the Navy's diving equipment, Md where she has been teaching economics inCt' r including the deep sea diving helium-oxygen suit. She graduated in June 1980, only 1973. Rae Jean is on the Colby Board of Trust the second female medical officer ever to complete training at the Navy Yard. and often visits her grandparents in Waterville • 1 In 1982 she went to work at the new Trident submarine complex in Bangor, Anita Matson LaCour reports a new residence n Kennebunkport, Maine. She has been a freelanct Wash. Sessions-she is known as Dr. Luce on the job-completed her residency in writer for Colo11ia/ Ho111es, New jersey Mo11thly,and 1984 in family practice and returned to Bangor to be a diving medical officer and Ho111e magazines. She has two boys, Nicholas,8 family practice doctor. Following her discharge from the Navy, she became head of and Brett, 5 Jim and Faye Kolhonen Kurnid • and their family will spend the next year medical services at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where she continues to work with m divers. Sometimes she faces emergencies when divers get in trouble or pass out in Amsterdam, where they will be soaking up theu Dutch ancestry "up close and personal." We deep water. "But," she says casually, "it's usually pretty calm." will be anxious to hear of their adventures acros t h<' Sessions and her husband, Nat, a retired naval lieutenant commander, have big pond This fa ll I am moving into the • homt I settled permanently in Washington. Speaking of her love for both her native state of where grew up in Washburn, Maine. It looks I like Maine and her new-found home, she says, "Washington and Maine are similar. Both I have gone nowhere since graduating from Colby1 1 teach sixth grade in Washburn and had are very wild, but Washington doesn't get as hot in the summer, nor as cold in the tht privilege of teaching my daughter, Sarah, la ' I winter. Out here it's very moderate." year. It seems she preferred being with her moth Sessions volunteers with the Boy Scouts, and of her volunteer firefighter job, she for the year rather than suffer being in the sam classroom with her twin brother, Sam. All says, "I just love that." Evidently she thrives in tough conditions. The couple spends of U' much of their leisure time canoeing, fishing, hunting, and hiking. "You have to do survived and are looking forward to a new sch(1111 year. My other two sons, James, 16, and John, those things or you lose your sanity," says Sessions, a challenge-seeker who dives 1; are in high school and keep us all involved in a into life with vigor. variety of fun activities Please drop me a • note It is good to hear from past friends. GAP Class secretary: ANNA THOMPSON CM· DERS, 61 S. Main St., Washburn, Maine 04786· 0267. 36 COLBY swered lately should consider taking a few min Id a law degree from Georgetown Universitv and utes to fi ll in the next one • Karen Christinat took �r has since opened and expanded many busines e_ . 70:..------the time to let us know that after receiving her He is primarily president of Winstar Corp., "a union: June8-10, 1990 Mark your calen- master's degree from Georgian Court College she >e�20th re • combination investment ba nk/holding com now, fellow classmates, for our 20th reunion lives in Howell, NJ, and teaches Spanish in an pany." He owns 1d dars a chain of ix discount 5tores that the weekend of June 8-10, 1990. By now you area high school • Bill Buckner wrote from he hopes to expand. Perhaps ;c nn of greatest interest, have received announcements and forms Menlo Park, Calif. (where he lives with wife Lisa he and a friend have d ,.,hould a company that offers fi 1 I to fill out from the reunion committee. urge you and their two children, Colin and Cecily) that as nance, distribution, and talent management to ·o t gather your families and join in the festivities. CEO he is "working hard to keep a ski company the entertainment world, i.e. Hollywood' He and • Lo The 15th was great fun, and this one promises to (Any Mt. Ski Retail Specialty Stores) going with Claudia Caruso Rouhana '71 have a cllld a � .,on h even better Wayne Blanchard, a classmate out much help from the weather-California daughter Barb ra Martinek T e • • Zotz and her ,,f mine both at Colby and in high school, sends drought!" Since he also enjoys bicycling 100 to 200 husband, John, live in Los Alto.,, m a Calif , wherl' word of hi accomplishments from Bellows Falls, miles a week and was looking forward to a few Barbara is a vice president for Wadsworth, In :e c., a t. He remarried and is the proud father of weeks this past summerof "campingin the middle college textbook publisher for whom �he ha., 10 I Zachary, 8, works as a school counselor, and not of nowhere," he may have mixed feelings about worked for over 11 years. She 1r and John are scuba nnly learned to use a computer but even had an perfect weather conditions Ruth Moore divers and travel a lot with their sport Abo in JC • in a magazine for Barningham checked in from New Hampshire, ea uticle on LOGO published the publishing field, Betsy Sherer lives in \Jew Pam Warner Champagne where she takes time from her duties as assistant .111 \pple II computer • York City, working as vice president of marketing wrote to the College of her trip to airobi, Kenya, to the president of Colby-Sawyer College to enjoy for Doubleday Book and Music Club (and enjoy met Dr. Charle Angwenyi '64, who riding her new horse (any equine medical matters .12 where she ing the international travel that is part of her job). received an honorary degree from Colby in 1988. can easily be resolved by her husband, Stephen, Thanks, Betsy, for the good story of the "luck and is a professorof economics at the University of who is a veterinarian) along "the beautiful trails hard work" needed to go from your initial Colby I le Kenya and, according to Pam, is a very hospitable in New Hampshire" Dennis Cameron, who is music major to the world of marketing Another • • man who lovesmeeting Colby people. She urges an attorney in Maryland, where he and wife Vir busy female executive, April Nelson McKay, 1s a - to look him up Peter ginia reside in Laurel, was very proud that his ,1nyone going to Kenya • senior consultant for Arthur D. Little in Lo� more adventures and experiences daughter Carole has served as president of both 1 Mackinlay had Angeles. She seems to maintain a balann• be to report, including travels to Southeast Asia. He the freshman and senior classes at Southern tween successful career and healthy, happy per teaching a course on Truman Capote at the Seminary Junior College in Lexington, Va. Ann sonal life (her vacations, which include a biking 1� • Newberry Library and as a member of the Illinois Lake Bryant found it hard to summarize "about trip through Italy, sound exceptional) Clifford n • Awards Council introduced authors Scott Tu row 15 years worth" of information but wanted to and Ellen Jones-Walker continue as language Jr (Presumed l1111oce11t) and Claudia Allen, a former share the news that she is living in Washington, teachers in Alaska. Summering on a lake \·vithin l'e student of his, whose play, TileLong Awaited, was D.C., with her husband, economist Roy view of Mt. McKinley, they are nourished by a presented at Chicago's Victory Garden Theatre. Wyscarver, and 3-year-old son Taylor. Ann is a large garden (I doubt any of us can beat that for m He thought perhaps some alumni might be famil lawyer specializiJ1g in immigration matters tranquility) From another heavenly spot in our he! • • iar with the book We've been in Baltimore for William Johnson recently merged his medical alma mater state, Jennifer Curren Paine writes • 1r eight years now and are still enjoying all its chann. practice in Connecticut "with three fellow M.D.s from Rockport, Maine. She is now the mother of Steve has given up the commute to Bethesda and and built a new office building-lots of work!" three And in Oakland, Maine, Chris Sample • i� now working at an ad agency called Freed and He and wife Patricia are currently living in teaches math, science, and French at one of the Associates here in town. We much prefer thi way Hampton, Conn., with their children, Todd and state's largest Christian schools. He especially -se life, which enables him to be around for coach Lvnne Since I tarted this column with news of enjoys teaching science from a nonevolutionary of • tol ing, PTA, dinner! I edit our community newslet old Colby friends reuniting, it seems appropriate ("creationist") viewpoint. Recently, he was li ter addition to writing this column, and Steve to let Charles "Chip" Altholz close with his news. censed as an arborist and does summer tree work. in is president of the neighborhood organization. I Chip wrote from Highland Park, Ill. (where he ts His wife, the former Judy Mandeville, who was a m act as social director, chauffeur, travel agent, and a record producer, personal manager, and im Colby dance instructor, is a librarian and an art cri i management specialist to our three chil porter), "I saw Jim Peterson and Dave Nelson. teacher • Don J. Snyder reports three babies dren, Aaron, 15, Peter, 12, and Whitney, 7. Our They're still great buddies'" born (Erin, Nell, Jack) and three books published Colby Club had its annual Red Sox/Orioles out Class secretary: LINDA A. CHESTER, 46 in three years. Don and Colleen are settling in ing as well as a crab feast, a Baltimore tradition Lincoln St., Hudson, Mass. 01749. Hamilton, N.Y., but will be back to their mooring • Forgive my personal digression. ow please send in Maine for the summers Sheila Marks • more news about continues to work for the corrections system and me you! Class secretary: LAURA STRUCKHOFF lives in Westhampton, Mass., with her husband and three children With a new master's degree, CLINE, 6602 Loch Hill Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21239. • 7 Kathleen Otterson Cintavey was off on a re I'm2 writing from the shore of Lake Champlain in search trip to the U.S.S.R. when she wrote. The ew York's Adirondack Mountains, having a hockey team of her son, Christopher, became fifth nice, long three-week family vacation. Since I in the U.S. in national Pee Wee competition • ii- 7,______resigned from Cuisinarts, Inc. two years ago (to Rhee Griswold Fincher is justly proud of her No news clippings about members of the Class of work much harder at home with my two boys!), I promotion to associate professor of medicine at '71,so I'm going to take a few lines to let you know have the flexibility to get away for a little longer in the Medical College ofGeorgia. And for the fourth the new my old roommate, Roz Wasserman the summer • Cathie Joslyn is an associate year in a row she has received the Educator of the Cooper, brought with her on a surprise visit to professor of art and lives with her husband, Tim, Year award from the graduating class • More New England in August. Roz and her husband, in Clarion, Pa . Tim, an architectural designer, is news- real newspaper news-from Maine. Last Ivan (they are currently residing in Charlotte, planning a new home for them. For two years, May Jane Ford Doak accompanied one of her where Ivan's position as regional vice presi Cathie directed a university honors program and writing students from Belfast Area High School to .C, dent the New England Young Writers Conference for The Avendt Group led them from Colo is now teaching and exhibiting her quilts. Jn her m rado), were able to halt in Madison, Conn., for a job, she's proud to have impact on the illiteracy Vermont. The sti.;dent'sacceptance is a great trib visit ute to him and to Jane And "hurray" for Lynda iarl with Grace Cappannari Elliott and her problem of rural western Pennsylvania • Also • husband, Paul, and their two daughters, Melissa quilting, Nancy Capers Mellen makes braided Ellis Flood, who was honored in April as Social and Laura. Their next stop in Massachusetts al rugs, samplers, and floor cloths as well. They Worker of the Year by the ational Foster Parent lowed for a mini reunion with myself, Nancy must look wonderful in the historical home Association at its annual conference. A caseworker ,e, Neckes, Bruce Dumart '72, Judy White Brennan, (approximately 300 years old) that she, Frank '73, in Somerset County, Maine, Lynda works to and Karen Mahanke. Roz has promised to return and their two boys moved into in Hingham, Mass. reunite foster children with their birth parents. next year for teacher in Plymouth, and Lynda was nominated for the award because of m a visit to the Colby campus with ancy's an English daughter Alana. We did get to see photos of Frank is vice president of Boston Financial Data her "deep concern for kids and families." We're A lana, Micah, and Shira on this visit I still have Services, Inc. Ellie Fisher Thomp on '73, Nancy very proud, Lynda. 0 • enough new from the questionnaires to fill an- says, has a gourmet shop, "As You Like It," in Class secretary: JANET HOLM GERBER, e i oiher column, but those of you who haven't an- North Conway,N.H. • Bill Rouhana's received 11112 Broad Green Drive, Potomac, Md. 20854. COLBY 37 animals in Maine. She, like Pat Skillings Sills, sewing, landscaping, and volunteer workatschnc loves Maine without all the implants' Ellen, too, • Jn South Duxbury, Vt., Alan Berry headsupt ____ misses the sheltered microcosm of learningand math department at Union High School. He anc , 7"5-Colby.,,,_ editor Bob Gillespie asked me to apologize free thought at Colby, plus the beauty of May wife Sara (Dailey) '74 have Hannah, 12, a for him for his misprinting of L. (Lois Ann) Le flower Hill. A former student of Professor Ken Mathew, 9, to boast about. Alan isanelderintheu , onard Stock's name in the summer 1989 issue. ney, Ellen suggests Susan Kenney's Saili11g for local church and has found that "true leadersh1 , The "L." was left out • Bill Levine is married and powerful reading • Alice Hanson Freeman of can be exerci ed through example and servant lives in Belmont, Mass. He is a senior systems Titusville, N.J ., is married to Glenn, and they have hood" • Mike Hanf, more commonly remem- , bered as "Moose," wrote from Atherton, Calif analyst and proud publisher of humorous articles three children, Heidi Lynn, 8, Kira Anne, 6, and 1· on computers. Our other Levine, Bob, had his Andrew Adam, 3. Their colonial home on the that he has a new job as vice president and ch1a , financial officer of the Sigmaform Corporatior commentary on illiteracy published in the sum banks of the Delaware may have been slept in by L mer 1989 Colby. According to a sampling of the George Washington! Alice i proud of her Ph.D. His big desire is to get back into sailing • Co11- latest questionnaire, other crucial national and and their children. She belongs to a Peacemaking gratulations to Lisa Turtz, who was recent!• international problems heading the top of the list group • Eric and Rebecca Snyder Rolfson '88 married to Jesse Birnbaum. Last June she com. 1 are: environmental degradation and lack of wil were appointed to the Comprehensive Planning pleted her residency program in psychiatry and , • Gary Fitts worked in a psychiatric emergency room for th. dernesspreser vation, overpopulation, homeless Board of Albion, Maine, in April 1989 11 ness, AIDS, the national debt, and the general of Waterville is executive vice president of First summer. Lisa's free time is now spent paintin, r• decay of American society due to crime, drugs, mark Corporation, a public company with over and getting ready for the impending arrival 01 11 and the breakdown of family units. One female 500 shareholders. Jim Vigue '72 is president. Gary their first child • Drawings and sculpture In attorney suggests that the decline is also due to and Amy Brewer Fitts '71, who passed her CPA Chris Duncan were featured at the Universityo• Maine at Farmington art gallery last fall • abortion on demand, euthanasia, and child mo exam last summer, have three children, Laura, a On1 lestation. No one mentioned education. Many first-year student in high school, Hilary, a com personal note, I am headed back to the work for classmates felt that our generation is becoming petitive swimmer, and Gavin, a hockey defense after a three-year abbatical largely spent in bm· 'I Greg Board ing around my kids, Greg, 9, and Mindy, and more selfish by focusing on materialism, careers, man and avid sports nut. Gary sa w 7, and status instead of family, future generations, man's picture in the newspaper after the Benton attempting to maintain domestic harmony! J'rr and responsibility to those less fortunate. Fiddler's Convention. Greg played at Colby staff looking forward to my new job as a bu ines, However, Jon Miller of Boulder, Colo., says that events last summer, too. Gary also reports that systems/tech writing consultant at the Vanga he sees people who are not only becoming suc Greg Smith's new book, The Mannon Murders, is Corporation, which hould be child's play aftei managing the home front! • Congratulations cessful but also becoming ocially responsible. very successful and is now in paperback. Gary It •.t He encourages us to support values we feel are recommends the movie Stea/i11g Home • I really Robin Umer Kaplan, who was recently prornote.l important to the quality of life on earth. While I'm loved the movie Clara's Heart. For reading, try Dr. to manager of a systems programming depari· on the subject ofJon, he is outdoor oriented-a ski M. Scott Peck's The Oiffere11t Om111, Co111mu11ity ment. She and husband Dave live in West Hurlei in tructor, mountain biker, horseback rider, and Maki11g a11d Peace. Dan and I continue to be busy N.Y., but spend a lot of time traveling-Rio d, soon-to-be flight instructor. He and his wife, with Kerry, 11, and Alexander, 9. They are both Janeiro, San Diego, Salt Lake City, and the Caril' Arleen, have a baby, Jonah Maxwell Miller, born great students, musicians, and athletes. Since bean, to name a few places • Finally, for thoseol June 4, 1989. He has his own computer software moving back to New England five years ago, we you who have yet to see your name in the ';· company and is a volunteer with the U.S. Forest all enjoy the specialness of the winter season. column headlines, do not despair. I have a loto• • Service (back country host). He is studying ecol questionnaires left to report on, and you will After all, how could any one of you leave Colby nol ogy and recommends Quant11111 Healing by Deepak without a true appreciation of cold, snow, and be forgotten. And: have you sent your photo to Chopsa • Joane Rylander of Austin, Tex., is a ice? Laurie Fitts Loosigian for the reunion video? Class secretary: ANNE HUFF JORDAN, 36 Class secretary: BARBARA CARROLL computer consultant. She reports having seen PE· Chris Lyman at their 20th high-school reunion in Hillcre t Rd., Medfield, Mass. 02052. TERSON, 921 Dolphin Drive, Malvern, Pa. 1935i m Greenwich, Conn. Joane enjoys international folk dancing and singing. She likes Austin's parks and lakes but complains of the summer heat and year round allergies. She recommends the movie When ____ Harry Met Sally • Pat Skillings Sills of East Class7'-t.,,__ secretaries: STEVEN COLLINS, RFD 3, 76.ur------Thanks to the additional letter from Colby ind: Wilton, Maine, is a speech and hearing specialist Box 3010, Oakland, Maine 04963 and THOMAS eating my correct address, I received almostdoubk in the Wilton schools. (T'm nearby in Industry, LIZOTTE, RFD 1, Box 4970, Oakland, Maine the usual number of responses to our latest qu Maine, most of the summer, Pat!) She and her 04963. tionnaire. Here's what I now know about ever husband, Ronald '71, have two children, Dennis, more of you. Jan Ferguson wrote from Meridith 6, and Dana, 2. Although Pat had many of the N.H., where she's a mom and a Mary Kay Beauh 1 same global concerns as her classmates, she's also consultant. She and her husband, Keith, with worried about "outa statuhs" taking over Maine. 7S their two children, Matthew, 6, and Abby, 3, arem She says Wilton is idyllic, but the urban rEfugees 15th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 • Newsflash to the process of renovating a historic Greek Revival are causing negative changes. If you're visiting '75ers: Our 15th reunion is right around the cor Cape, which they moved from Laconia, .H.,h> Maine, she recommends the elegant Silver Street ner. Start planning to make tracks to Colby next save it from demolition. Each year they take 1 Tavern in Waterville and One Stanley Avenue in June! • Attorney Eric Parker recently joined the group of high-school students to the Third Wor� Kingfield. May I add Fiddlehead's in Farming Barre, Vt., Jaw firm of Abare, Nicholls Belcher, on a short-term missions outreach. Most recentl1 & ton? • Dr. Neal Shadoff of Albuquerque, N.M., P.C. Among other things, he previously prose they took students to the Dominican Republic on r is married to Susan, and they have two children, cuted fraud cases with the office of the Vermont the Haitian border and, assisted by Food for th1 I Adam, 11, and Rachel Beth, 8. eal's a cardiolo attorney general • From the sunny reaches of Hungry, a development organization, they du. I gist at the ew Mexico Heart Clinic. Feeling a Southern California, Bill Miniutti has returned the foundation for a school • Gerry McDowell ' little isolated in the Southwest, he says he misses to his hometown, Biddeford, Maine, for a seven has just returned to Mayflower Hill as assistanr Maine's proximity to the ocean and the less month stint of visiting family and friends. His basketball coach and director of intramural andl complicated life of college. He gets tired of contin major source of pride is the fact that he is a club sports. Gerry spent 12 years teaching at ual warm weather and sunshine. Neal would love published poet • Cathy McGerigle Taylor wrote Barnstable High School. Last year, he was as;i to see classmates who are visiting the area or from Waterville, Maine, that she is a hospital op tant basketball coach and sports information di skiing at Taos; his office telephone is 1-800-888- erating-room secretary at the Mid-Maine Medical rector at Clark University, which prepared · him 6642, and his home phone is (505) 344-9237 • Center, where she helps to coordinate the 0.R. for his new post at Colby. Gerry also reported on Ellen Kometsky of Portland, Maine, is public Cathy and husband Bill have been renovating a some classmates, including Robert Anderson affairs manager of AAA Maine. She enjoyed seeing "total wreck" of a house they bought several who is living in Oakham, Mass., with his w1fo Carol Chalker McDowell at their 20th high-school years ago • It was great hearing from Susie Trish, and their pets • Dave Scudder Jives in reunion in the summer of 1989. Ellen's interested Gearhart Wuest, who is a totally busy domestic Hyannis with wife Sheila. They are both involved in folk music (especially Irish), reading, and ani engineer. In between coordinating her kids' busy in the management of Hyline Cruises in Hyanru mals. She would Jove to devise a way to tie her PR athletic schedules (Karin is a third grader, Eric a • More reports from the Cape-from Osterville and writing skills into helping/working with first grader), she finds time to enjoy gardening, Robert Kahelin is living there and is involved in 38 COLBY puter-related equipment. Also there selling com _ Lowe Band, with his is Jeff Lowe 7 of the Jeff 7 Ian and Zach Sarah wife, Ginny, and two sons, • Vetault is doing graduate work at the U111vers1ty of of Arizona in the department ecology and evolutionary biology. She received an academic -,cholarship for 1989-90, which she said wa somewhat of a surprise, considering her "!es - than-spectacular record from Colby." Sarah re Lently returned fr�m doing volunteer work for Cabeza Priets at1onal Wildlife Refuge, where .,hespent a week in a blind at a waterhole in the 11 a desert surveying bighorn sheep and the use of the waterhole by other wildlife. She described the e as "hot and fun" Mike Harperis a cxpenenc .• . neurologist at the Mayo ClmJC, where he was recently promoted to consultant at the start of his tourth year on staff. He and wife Mary (Ba tron) have two children, ick, 7, who, following in 75 his father'� skates, is a hockey player, and Sarah, who is also a little athlete. The family recently 'i, bought a "mountain bike" and has been enjoying home riding the woodland trails near their • Norman Marsilius completed only the top por- know he 1a1lll tion of the questionnaire, so we now Jives in Fairfield, Conn., and is an architect • � a lan McKersie wrote from ewark, Del., where th A he is a veterinarian and just recently opened his own hospital. Alan is interested in learning news from Alan Andres, Joe Shaker, and Steve Lachance. If anyone has any information, ju t let aU the space I have for now. me know • That's Until next time, have a great winter. Class secretary: PAMELA M. CAME, 374 Central St., ewton, Mass. 02166. ne • AMa nne r of Giv ing When Mary E. Warren '23 graduated from Coburn Classical Institute in 1919, he o I� 7i.�------I'm on the West Coast now, teaching Spanish at received a $100 scholarship to attend Colby, where she was active in sports, dramat mn < Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Please send la11de. ics, and the YMCA and graduated rn111 After studying at Columbia University \RR me news at the new address below! :m, Teacher's College in 1926 and 1928, she received her master's degree from Colby in Class secretary: DEB COHE , 522 North 1929. Town, Apt. 5, Claremont, Calif. 9171 1. During her 42-year tenure as a Latin teacher at Waterville High School, she founded the Cum Laude Chapter, ational Honor Society, for which she was an adviser for 20 years. She founded and advised the recently formed Waterville High 1( ____ _ 1lm 7?1..>-- School Alumni Association, established the Waterville Chapter of the Junior Classi Summero- is coming to a close, and I have only 1rlal heard from a handful of people. Please feel free to cal League, and was honored by that chapter with the establishment of the Mary E. drop me a line so I can keep everyone abreast of Warren Latin Award. your situations • Congratulations are in order for Mary Warren is an honorary lifetime member of the Watervile Chapter of the our director of alumni relations, Susan Conant American Association of University Women, which she helped to found and which Cook and her husband, Jim. They are the '75, she served as the first scholarship committee chair and secretaryI treasurer. She was proud new parents of their fir t child, Emily listed in Who's Who ofAmerican Women in 1986. Currentlyshe ishistorianand former Farwell Cook, born August 17 • TheannaPoulo s Hinman wrote a long letter and informs me that chair of the DAR Good Citizenship Committee, Silence Howard Hayden Chapter, she and her husband, Tom, have also had their and she is the historian for the Waterville Women's Club and active in that organi first child, Sarah Poulos Hinman. Theanna hap zation's fund-raising efforts for the children's room at the Waterville Public Library. pily "dropped her journalism career like a hot She is also a member of the Maine Teachers' Association, the ational Educational potato" to start her most important career as mom. Best of luck, and keep in touch Craig Association, the Maine Retired Teachers' Association, Maine Association of Retirees, Jn. I • Snider wrote that he and his wife, Elizabeth, are the Kennebec Retired Teachers' Association, Friends of Fort Halifax, and the Martha happily Living in Worcester, Mass., after having Washington Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star. five years in Los Angeles spent in the film and In 1980 Mary Warren received a Colby Brick. She is a Colby planned giving agent television industry. He is presently the director of marketing and sales at the Worcester Centrum, who sets the example in giving not only by her career accomplishments and wluch has replaced the Boston Garden as the contributions but through her investment in four gift annuities with the College. leading location for many varieties of entertain Three annuities-in 1984, 1985, and 1986-named the Warren Suite in the Student ment and sporting events. Craig also would like Center as a memorial to her sisters, Ann and Marion. Her August 1989 annuity will to if anyone knows the whereabouts of t Al know add to the Mary E. Warren Financial Aid Fund to assist Waterville-area needy ;th Mark Parrish. Craig's office phone is (508) 755- Leslie King married Keith students. del 6800 • Sadko this past J May here in t3oston. Congratulations And, We salute Miss Mary Warren for her accomplishments and for her efforts on b • ack to the baby department, Tom and Sarah behalf of her College. Pollard Cowan write that they, too, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Seth Traynor Cowan, born COLBY 39 October 23, 1988 • Once again, please feel free to Speilkingof hearing from people, the College is Page is a veterinarian. They hope to travel 11 drop me a note. Take care. currently missing addresses on a number of our Europe in 1990 • Abby King is a lawyer here in Class secretary: JAMES E. SCOTT, 674 Tre classmates. If you know the whereabouts of ilny Maine and keeps fit running, biking, and skiing mont St., Boston, Mass. 021 18. of the following people, please notify the Alumni She reminds us of Wendy Wittels's marriagem Office at (207) 872-3190: Phyllis Adams, Monica September 1989 inStowe, Vt. Wendy isver ybu;1 Bailey, Ken Campbell, Bill Clarke, Bob "project coo rd ina tor rea estate developmen I 1 t for Crawford, Deborah Dulac, Nancy Fillebrown, Chart House restaurants and publicist /Hand. _ _ Patricia Foster, Lois Gallant, Scott Hamilton, crafts and Fine Arts Center." She claims __ three job. Class secretary: EMILY GROUT SPRAGUE, leave her little free time • Maureen ' 7q_.,._ 758 Ramesh Harihan, Nancye Hass, Michael Henry, Youno Cotham St., Watertown, N.Y. 13601 . Jeff Hickson, Heidi Misslbeck, Paul Novak, Bob Kissack '80, a bank adjustor, is in Pittsfield, Mass' with husband Bruno. Bruno and Moe spend Schulze, Edwin Townsley, and Tracy Williams. lot, , Class secretary: DIANA P. HERRMANN, of time with Alexandra Louise, who is now ]\ months old . Maureen is interested to read 360 E. 65th St. #3H, New York, N.Y. 10021 wha1 ____ our class is up to, so let's keep writing in and llt 10th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Peter Golden is will all know! • Working as a planning 8Q • board head of casting for GTG Entertainment, Los secretary in the town of Hudson, N.H., is __ Diane Angeles, which is headed by Grant Tinker • ,___ _ Therrien Lamper, who with husband Allan (ar Barry '81 and Johanna Rich Tesman are moving 8A wedding was coming up for Richard Carlton architect) enjoys life with S-year-old Andrea Colb1 l to Carlyle, Pa ., where Barry is teaching at Dickin Muther and Lucinda Janse Goff. Richard is em Lamper • Delisa Laterzo Stark is in New Yor son College (he received his Ph.D. in math at ployed as a teacher and coach for Tabor Acad City as manager of national accounts marketing Rutgers); Johanna was finishing up her Ph.D. in emy, Marion, Mass. • it's nice to see that Tom for Standard Motor Products. Husband Doug i1 psychology at the ew School for Social Research Zito is still playing basketball. His team, the an M.B.A. candidate at Columbia Universi� in New York City • Bruce Anacleto received his "Capuano Brothers," had an undefeated season Delisa is an avid runner and aerobics instructor master's in biomedical engineering at Worcester as they won the Cranston, R.I., YMCA adult league and she sounds as busy and successful as all th, Polytechnic Institute. He is employed as principal championship. Tom received the league MVP '83ers I hear from • ear the bay" in M in " a e components engineer with Digital Equipment honors • received a letter from Margaret Scott Stein wrote me a letter. He didn't tell l me Corp. and lives in Holden, Mass. • Peter Forman, "Peggy" Chamblin, who is working for Colorado which bay, but he was relaxing, so that was im· a Plymouth, Mass., Republican now in his fifth portant. Scott was away from his job as Outward Bound School. Peggy left Colby after a TV term with the Massachusetts House of Represen her sophomore year and received her degree video producer at CC-M Productions in Wash· tatives, was named the new assistant minority from the University of Denver. I'm sure that she ington, D.C. Before that position he sailed extffi· whip in January 1989. Peter has served on the would be glad to hear from any Colbyites in the sively and earned his captain's license. He pla� committees on insurance and health care and was area • Ted and Lisa Gale Taylor are living in to travel in the future to Southeast Asia, Thailand a member of the Special Committee on Reappor Portl 40 COLBY 11orking on Beacon Hill for the law firm of Finne Sciences in Houston. They were wed on October newlyweds over the next year! • Priscilla Phin t a and Stanzler • Alicia Curtin graduated from 7, 1989. Congratulations o all the recent newly ney wrote that she · e n has mo\ ed to Boston, where General in iie Massachusetts School of Nursing weds! • Bill Docherty has been with the Helicop she is working for the Conservation Law Founda une • Congratulations to Jill Lord Bowden! She ter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light-·P, Naval tion as a de\·elopment assistant. It is 1l a nonprofit, parents of a baby nd husband Greg are proud Air Station North Island in San Diego since last public-interest legal foundation that works to irl, Emily • I was fortunate to attend the spring and undoubtedly enjoys living the "high protect New England's environment. She is en the raduation of two Colbyites from University life" • Unfortunately, that's all the news I have joying working for them and is considering grad School of Medicine, Rebecca Rugg left from your la t fetters, but I expect to be , f Vennont school in the field of environmental advocacy or currently talcour and Sheila Ryan. Becki is in� hearing from you again soon. Best wishes to the policy. Lisa Moncevicz and Nilev Shrestha � 1s 111 '88 ·ming in Houston, Tex., and Sheila Hawa11 Class of '86 for continued happiness and success! are living with Priscilla • Glenn Cummings in rd 1s Please drop me a note and let me know what Class secretary: GRETCHEN BEAN LURIE, the M.A./Ph.D. program in English at the Uni up to and how you are doing. Thank you! N. Atlantic Blvd., Apt. 103, Alhambra, Calif. versity of Virginia • Dan � llU're 334 Webster has been Class secretary: AMY CARLSON, 58 Gran 91801. named assistant branch manager at Rockland tlle Rd Cambridge, Mass. 02138. Trust Company's Hanover �1 #2, office. He will serve as loan officer and assist in overseeing branch op erations. Dan lives in Hanson with his \�·ife • __ __ Navy Ensign David Philbrick completed Officer 8].Before,,_ l get started I'd like to apologize for the Candidate School in ewport, R.I. David joined g th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 • The weddin and absence of information in the Class of 1987 space. the Navy in June 1988, and in August ���f-----i 1989 he � ngagement announcements keep flooding in. I've heard from many of you about how disap married Elaine Mullen • Rob Brunelli is teach ohn Collins married Maureen Burke in March. pointing it is to turn to our section and find it ing English and literature at the Hill ide School in leisalaw studentatWashburnUniversity School blank. I will do mv best to make sure that doesn't Massachusetts. He's keeping busy with dorm ruj A Law and is residing in Topeka, Kans. • Mark happen again! • s usual, would like to start off duty and coaching as well • P h il ip Parry is in f 1 'hillips was married in March to Tia Boaz. He is by congratulating the following classmates on Massachusetts working as a a paralegal, primarily � deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles their marriages over the past year: Paul Johnston in real estate law. He is presently applying to law )istrict Attorney's office • In August, Janet and Jehane Zakher '86 were married in July 1988. schools • These and other happy events high i t t arnoreaumarried ThomasCyrinPortland, Maine Paul is a financial analyst for Digital Equipment, light the continued success of our t class. Unfortu Cynthia Jeck married Jeffrey Davis in May. and Jehane is a research assistant at the ew nately, there are times when we must face sad ynthia is a doctoral candidate in pharmacology England Deaconess Hospital • Jim Canfield ness:too. Many in our class have already felt the 1 t Columbia University • Keith Turley and married Karen Bonander of Troy, Mich., in Sep loss of fellow graduate Dana Feitler. We shall all lolly O'Neil planned a wedding for September tember 1988. Jim is working for Digital and is mi s her in our own way. The Class of 1987 . � 989. He is employed by Turley Publications in enrolled in an M.S. program at Boston College • extends its sympathy to her family and friends I/are, Mass. • Steven Lawson also planned a Mary Griffith also wed in September 1988. She and wants them to know she will always be 0 , eptember wedding. He is engaged to Suzanne and her husband, Capt. Oscar Sanchez Bayton, remembered. 'D�"' . '.ibeiro. Steven is employed as a senior systems live in Zaragoza, Spain, where he is a pilot in the Class secretary: LUCY T. LENNON, 9 Well ,0� naly tforHanover in Worcester, Mass. • Wayne Spanish Air Force • Tom Reed married Kathleen stone Drive, Portland, Maine 04103. ej 'ddy has a.imounced his engagement to Sandra Pinard '86 in ovember 1988. They reside in Days nship Wayne i the assistant controller and Ferry, Maine, where Tom is employed by Reed ilal v· '84. -easurer of a textile brokerage company. He is and Reed, Inc. as a bridge builder supervisor 1� lso pursuing his M.B.A. at Babson College • On foreman Robin Blanchard married Scott 1" 1e business front, Mike Vail has been named Laughinghouse in July 1989. Robin is also work It's August 10: I would surely be exploding from 1anager of the Shop 'n Save Supermarket in ing for Digital, but as a materials analyst. Scott the heat were it not for my efficient sweat glands, JorthConway, .H. • Rod McGillis has formed was a Colby assistant professor of physical educa which produce as much water as the snow that m sports photography business specializing in tion and a football and baseball coach • Deidre just might be falling in January 1990 when you uality individual action shots. His busines is Boothby' s engagement to Stephen Carter of Vine receive this issue' An extraordinary thought! • ased in Ontario • Carol Eisenberg spent much yard Haven, Mass., was announced in March Kristen Foss wrote, "I feel slightly guilty for not f the last year developing a curbside recycling 1989. Deidre is a teacher associate for the Spauld having responded to any of your newsletters, but � •rogram for Peak's Island, Maine. This pilot ing Youth Center in Tilton, N.H. A June wedding I suppose the fewer the number of people who m rogram for Portland has been working well so is planned • Merridith Belden and Todd Molloy write, the less work for you." Thanks, Kristen, but Incidentally, Carol's husband, David Simpson '86 were married on a beautiful day in July 1989. have no fear; with the legendary Gap Band play u. - �6, own a construction-carpentry business on It was the first Colby wedding for a few of us, and ing "Party Train" in the background, a drink, and eak's Island. He has nearly completed the con we all had a lot of fun! Connie Gallagher, who a pack of cigarettes I am quite happy to bang away of a new home there • Leslie Robinson was the maid of honor, told me she would be the news of the Class of '88 on my obliging Mac. s truction eceived her master's in nonfiction writing from teaching biology at a private school in La Jolla, For instance, I have recently learned that Joseph tt id e University of ew Hampshire • Colby seems Calif., starting in September 1989. Gretchen Bisson i playing professional hockey with Club ave lo t track of the addresses for Hannah Weiser, another who attended the wedding, is in Dijon in Dijon, France. Uoe is also married-to Y J h ke, Cathy Fasolino, and Sydney Masondo • the process of planning her own for next summer! Debra Dabrowski on June 1989.) But back to A :Ja 24, 'lease write; your class would like to • I was asked if I print information on hearsay, Kristen; he is in her second year of graduate m hear from ' ou. My most recent contribution to the world and I'd like you all to know that I write my chool at the University of Rhode Island, where " ml as on April 23, 1989, when my son, Alexander column from news clippings and from first-hand she is pursuing her master's in school psychol ' Veller Mayan, was born. information. You won't find me starting any ogy. Kristen admits: "I am one of those people Class secretary: MARY ALICE WELLER- rumors in this column-too many of you know who actually miss the wilds of Maine .. . I am not f Box 149, Camden, 19934. where I live! • Rebecca Sears wrote of her particularly crazy about R.I. The people are a real 5 MYAN, R.D. 2, Del. " engagement to Charlie Leary '86. They plan to be trip." (Mike Paquin, long-time resident of Rhode married in the spring of 1990. Rebecca is teaching Island, who has recently been working on the Spanish to middle-school students in Brookline, beautification of his state, is encouraged to re Mass., and Charlie will graduate from BU Law spond.) Finally, Kristen wrote that she and Karen :��6------d .ilore wedding news to announce! Stephen Poir- School shortly after they are married • I also Reilly were in Susan Amendolare's wedding; unfortunately, I don't know the name of the lucky 1n er andBrenda L. Ward were married at Lorimer heard from Allyson Goodwin, who is getting -11apel June 1989. Stephen is at married in June 1990 to Mark Short. She and Mark groom-he is referred to by Kristen only as "her ll on 17, employed he Shawmut Bank in Boston • Joey Marcoux knew each other vaguely in high school. They hometown honey in Quincy" • On September 9 ontinues to teach and coach in School District 49 have become reacquainted over the past two years, Amy Lumbard married Guy Holbrook '86 with 1r 1ear his home in Burnham Maine which he now as they have both gone back to work at their alma many Colbyites in attendance. Amy is working hares with wife Andrea P�sco, whom he married mater. Allyson now holds the position of associ for an architectural firrn • Deedra Beal Dapice, 1989 • Linda Michaud Zografos and ate director in the annual fund office Congratu who celebrated her first anniversary on August 6 •nJuly29, • er husband, James, are both working for ASA, lations to all of you, and from what I've heard it with her husband, Geoff, wrote that they are enjoying their jobs and married life and have ->h..'lSon Space Center, Division of Space and Life seems there will be a lot more to add to the list of COLBY 41 answered: "Driving Rick Angeli around Boston" Portla11d Mont/1/y as a journalist, so be sure t pL moved to Portland, Maine Kristin Sween is • • o lP"" Joanne LaMarre, now rooming with Michael u a copy if ou're in town • Zeke ing, living in Malden, Mass., and commuting to Lowell • � � . � Gil; Cantara '89 in Medford, told me that "presently Kingsley, Will Spiess, and Lane Wtlkinson to her job as a licensed insurance broker. Besides I a am working at Prudential, where I'm a pebble, all living and working in Portland, although seeing several '89ers, Kristin also ees Ayme yi may catch Will moonlighting with Bill Thay Allison running along the Fellsway West' Hats but I've still got a piece of the rock." er a safety tester for Honda motor scooters off to you, Ayme; most of the graduates l know Class secretary: EMILY ISAACS, 294 Bridge . Lir makes his film debut in Lobsteroids, so if you likr limit their running to to and from the kitchen. St., Northampton, Mass. 01060. Attack of the Killer To111atoes, don't miss this Kristin is also in touch with Lorin Haughs, who one' , Gary D' Angelo and the rest of Marked Deck enjoys her job in NYC and is playing (surprise) ha1 � been playing up here and keeping us entertaillt tons of tennis • Hope Worden wrote that she is _ ___ Still more of us ventured further, such as an account manager for an advertising agency, • . Mir 5 a 8SinceCJ.,__ most of you don't know where to write, I'm Enger, who 1s puttmg those Stu-A skill to °'' , Saatch1 and Saatchi in NYC and is currently g , relying on what I've heard through various use managing his friend's rock band in workmg on the Burger King account. Hope tells Bosio· - sources. First, though, I've been wondering if but only Rob Rogers can say that the me that Melissa Paul is at AT Tin Buffalo, N.Y., RoIWi & anyone has seen Tom Sollas. ls he still in Water Stones partied at his house this summer TheB: A Melissa Ruff is director of residential life and • 1 ville? Or are the rumors true that he has a prom Apple lured many more grads, such as student activities at Thomas College, Kerry Grif Law. ising career as an alarm clock repairman? • And Thornton, who was spotted wearing a suit Ila fin is off to law school, and Colleen Doyle is an, � is Jim Connolly pursuing those lately acquired running shoes at the same time, and Valerie working for a publishing company in Boston • Spiei sculpting talents? I hear Tuffy Kriegel is ling, who is working in an art gallery and recenti Just received a letter from Jeff Dym, return ad • C ia putting her education to good use as a master acquired a cat, appropriately named Sotheb) dress, Japan! He tells me that "late August 1988 ' Jeff England and Bill Thayer are both at C ig, Eric Piesner and I came over. .. Eric 'woosed' out bartender, though. If any of you do need to return Maq to Colby to visit that oft-neglected Career Services though Jeff insists that he is the best-dressed and returned to the U.S.A. to apply for law school m.r [' �s Office or get that resume in order, here's whom to there • Joining them is Cathy Andrew, wh ... [maybe] University of Hawaii." Jeff will also go o let 1 stay with: Anita Terry is living in Waterville and me and Portland after the summer to seek fam, to grad school in fa ll 1990 at the University of working in the Admissions Office, while Steve fortune, a good pint of cider, and a real job Michigan program in Asian studies; until then, he do"� CI E Rand is at Bath Iron Works in their management there • Tim Burton and Lisa Perrotti came d · will continue to teach English and support him o" � , training program • John Mullen and Britt from Cloud headed out to L.A., "lookin self while he struggles with the Japanese lan 9, g 1 Moore spent the summer working at Colby an become stars." Tim's now back at Col guage Linda Roberts, in her second year at by • 1 [ 11 swering phones and looking for lost AV equip Admissions • lfyou didn't see Dave Longcope Georgetown, tells me that "I rather enjoy study B !Ill ment before they headed off to New Zealand and name in the Tour de France results, it's becauseh ing law ... the cases concern real people with then Colorado I've seen Aimee Momenee and was racing out West before he headed off to problems that are quite common ....Classes are • UVI 5 I Kim Murphy powerwalking through Freeport med school • I'm out of room, but have � more akin to kindergarten than Colby: you have 1 lt' I on their way to work, but they are getting set to go extend best wishes to Cathy McMichael and assignments every day which you must do for the H.l to England on an exchange program • Many Devore, who were married September 16, 1989,rr next day .... I have found that Colby prepared me L more migrated to Portland, such as Erica Eysen New York. Of course, you don't have t very well-those geeks from Yale, Harvard, etc., o gt � bach, who is working at an art store and living married or even have a real job to appear herr are not so impressive as they think they are. To in with Rachel Bernstein, who gave up a lucrative so let me know what all of you are doing, even make everyone feel better about good old Colby: F Bi paper route to work as a production assistant on you're fleeing those Senior Pledge bills! I am ...doing research for a professor who went � the Channel 8 evening news and who would like Class secretary: DEBORAH GREENE, down to the Georgetown admissions office when l' to make it clear to everyone that Channel 8 is not Sorrel Rd., Concord, Mass. 01 742. he learned what my Colby C.P.A. was. Much to r , a restaurant Liz Schwartz landed a job with the his surprise, the director informed him that with • I the exception of the military academies, Colby has the toughest grading scale in the country. INAU G URATI ONS eedless to say, when he realized that meant that a 2.9 at Colby equaled top half of the class and a 3.5 Periodically, Colby is invited to send representatives to special academic events at equals bottom half, he was quite impressed." colleges and universities. The following people have represented the College at Rt' Linda sees classmates Sue Jacobson, Mary Fed inaugurations in the past months. I erle, who is now back at Colby working in the Alumni Office, and Beth Murphy, who is cur Richard L. Abedon '56, at the inauguration of William Trueheart as president of rently at the University of Rochester going for a Bryant College. doctorate in physics. Finally, she adds that she is still seeing Mark Pagnano '87, who is in his third year at med school at Georgetown. Almost inci Bertha Graves Bagby '48, at the inauguration of Rex Edwin Lee as president of dentally, Linda mentioned a car accident that she Brigham Young University. and Mark were in (they were walking-the car hit them while they were crossing a crosswalk with a "walk" sign), which left them okay, but put Linda Beryl Scott Glover '58, at the inauguration of Humphrey Tonkin as president of on crutches for six weeks and tore ligaments in the University of Hartford. her knee. Deciding against surgery, our track star has had to give up running. for one am quite l William H. Goldfarb '68, at the inauguration of William M. Chace as president of impres ed with Linda's cheerful attitude. She Wesleyan University. says that she "is thankful to be alive" • Recently I journeyed through Suzie Welch's and Stacey Mendelsohn's Boston apartment, annoying the Peter D. Hart '64, at the inauguration of Leo O'Donovan as president of George many Colby people who had gathered to celebrate town University. Mary Shepard's engagement to Michael DiSan dro (the couple made it official on November 25. Suzie, Stacey, and Nancy Donahue were among Robert E. Kulp, Jr. '68, at the inauguration of Michael F. Adams as president of those involved in the ceremony). Mary and Mike Centre College. are in Rhode Island, where Mary is teaching nursery school and taking graduate classes. l Peter Lund er '56, at the inauguration of William F. Glavin as president of Babson learned that Nancy is working for Callagher and College. Gallagher in Charlestown. Recently she enjoyed an all-expense-paid trip to West Palm Beach, where I she was even paid overtime for her time spent Joan M. St. James '45, at the inauguration of Michele Tolela Myers as president of �· traveling. If that's not life on the top, what is? Denison University. When asked what else she's been doing, Nancy 42 COLBY -- -= J � � \ l •'i '" ' ILEST ONES al B 15 ' MARRIAGES '70 to Richard J. Moxley, May Suzanne Krumm' 85 to Ted Yerdon, October Susan Kalenderian 4, Mlungisi Kwini '86 to Miranda Mamabolo, June 5051j 21, 1989, Bayville, N.Y. 1986, Wyckoff, N.]. 1989, Isla Vista, Calif. J 24, Ann Lee Mc Ewen '70 to David Seabury, July 29, Janet Lamoreau '85 to Thomas Cyr, August 19, John W. Bookis '87 to Deborah Seferiadi�. \1a\' 7, 989, Plainfield, Mass. 1989, Portland, Maine. · J 1989, Pawtucket, R.I. Alan Blanker '73 to Joyce Plugge, Hadley, Mass. Gretchen L. Miller '85 to Thomas D. Crowley, Deidre Ann Boothby '87 to Stephen T Carter, �l 1 April 30, 1989, Marion, Mass. June 17, 1989, Watertown, Mass. Y� ! Claudia Bassis '75 to Peter B. Hill, June 3, 1989, Cushing, Maine. Virginia A. Prigge '85 to Thomas A. Turner, Elaine C. Mullen '87 to David E. Philbrick '87. Jt ' \I March 18, 1989, Keene, N.H. May 1989, Newport, R.I. �� Douglas A. Giron '78 to Carol M. Rieger, Boston, lrll' � Christine M. Rona '85 to James F. Alban, June 10, Charles O'Donnell '88 to Elizabeth L. Erickson, 1 Ma�s. 1989, Boston, Mass. August 26, 1989, Pro\·idence, R.J. , David B. Anderson '79 to Helen M. Lathrop, �I Mass. Gretchen A. Bean '86 to Rod Lurie, June 24, 1989, Sharon L. Bejian '89 to John F. Cassidy '89. : April 8, 1989, Westerly, IV " l West Point, .Y. August 19, 1989. David P. Linsky '79 to Lois N. Cooperstein, Belmont, Mass. Lynn Bellavance '86 to Thomas Wehner, Kristin E. Hoitt '89 to Scott T. Nason, August 12, g( J' eedham, Mass. 1989, Saco, Maine. Steven R. Singer '79 to Kimberly Ellen Borman, 0 July 2, 1989, Long Lake, Minn. Stephen C. Brennan '86 to Sylvia M. Kuzia, Bruce Whiting '89 to Michelle T. Bis onnette, July le' n Manchester, N.H. 1989, Milford, .H. Lou-Ann P. Takacs '79 to Thomas E. Brown, Je I , an , :r � l �ald F. Rodenkirk, May :�bi 1� ;�:20, 1989, :: Falmouth;'.� : Foreside,::: Maine. G .\1 Harvey S. Coco '81 to Deborah Stokes, June 10, 1989, Bo ton, Mass. -Timothy S. Rice '81 to Elise A. Arel, May 27, 1 189, South Deerfield, Mass. e s" Richard Muther '81 to Lucinda J. Goff, June 17, 0 0, C. 1989, Providence, ·, ' R.L Victoria Sneff '81 to David B. Schulte, May 20, e 1 1989. Robert J. Wallace '81 to Pamela L. Bushey, June 10, 1989, China, Maine. Lmda Churchill '82 to Christopher oil, June 17, 1989, Exeter, .H. Robert J. Leary, Jr. '82 to Patricia V. Brennan, Dedham, Mas. . d; ol Robert ]. Giallombardo '83 to Susan R. Langlai , April 8, 1989. � Carolyn Boynton '84 to Kevin Bruen '85, June 10, 1989. Swampscott, Mass. David D. Rocco '84 to Susan Fierro, July 1, 1989, orth Adams, n Mass. Donna Ann Boyler '85 to Anthony W. DiScipio, At the reception fo llowing the wedding of Faith Woodley Bramhall '81 to Donald Frank Augus t 1989, South River, N.J. Rodenkirk at Falmouth Foreside, Maine, on May 20, 1989. Front row (/-r): Hope Palmer Bi �n Bramhall Kathy Dornish'81 ,Holly Mackin Anzini '81 . Standing: Kimberly Wadkins '81, Christopher A. Feiss '85 to Hadley Anne Hub '56, bard '86, June Faith Bramhall Rodenkirk, Emily Lindemann St11art '81, Charlotte Wood Swlly Mari 17, 1989, Cape May, .]. '56, Samaras White '81, Alison Thomas '81, Sarah S. Bramhall '92. d ot Cynthia D. Jeck '85 to Jeffrey B. Davis, May 27, 1989, ew Vernon, .J. _ - COLBY 43 BIRTHS DEATHS Robin general superintendent at Harris Baking C . A son, Adam James Cote, to Robert and Marion Campbell Newton '19, July 4, 1989, in o of Armitage Cote 2 1989. Waterville, retiring in 1959 after 40 years of '70, April 4, Cherryfield, Maine, at age 94. She was born in sen" 1' a Cherryfield and attended schools there. At Colby ice. Later, he owned and operated Jack Frost A daughter, Abigail Elizabeth Tarbell, to Kathy Donuts. He was a member and past master she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. ot and Swift Tarbell III '72, October 1 8, 1988. Following graduation she taught at Columbia Waterville Lodge 33, a member of the Rotan• Falls, Maine, High School for a year and then Club, and a past most wise master of the Emeth Chapter of Rose Croix, Scottish Rites. For A son, Alexander Pierson Vidor, to David and enrolled in the Roosevelt Hospital School of over SO Ann Bonner Vidor '72, July 13, 1989. ursing, where she received an R.N. in 1922. She years he was a member of the Waterville chapter of the Royal Arch of Masons. Survivors includ worked as a private nurse in New York and New e l ,,. his wife, Marjorie, a son, Harold D. Frost, Jr. A daughter, Kailyn Elizabeth Vigue, to James Jersey until she moved to the Far West with her '4-, , Vigue '72, April 5, 1989. fa mily. She returned to Cherryfield when her a daughter, Norma Sawyer, who was a special student at the College for one and one half y a husband retired. She was a member of the Ameri e r1, I I\'. A daughter, Fiona Alyse Smith, to Gregory '74 can Association of University Womenand Daugh eight grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren and Jo-Ellen Bois Smith '77. ters of the American Revolution. Survivors in clude her husband, Richard, one daughter, Mary Frederick Davis Blanchard '23, March 1, 1989,al A son, Christopher Michael Drake, to Mary-Jo Ann Watson, a niece, Mary Alice "Tossie" age 91. He was born in Westboro, Mass., and and Herrick A. Drake, Jr. '75, June 20, 1989. Campbell Kozen '47, and a cousin, James Brace attended Sawin Academy in Sherborn. At Colb1 he was class treasurer, an editor, a member '74. Echo , �I Cht A daughter, Susannah Jane Dingman, to Charles of Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of Lambda I i and Jane Souza Dingman '76, November 3, 1989. Ralph King Harley '20, June 26, 1989, in Brock Alpha fraternity. He served in the U.S. Army ton, Mass., at age 94. Born in Plympton, Mass., he during World War I. He re-entered the Army A son, Aaron Corey Cohn, to Joanne and Peter attended Higgins Classical Institute. He served in during World War II and served throughoul the Cohn '77, May 16, 1989 the U.S. Army during World War I and at Colby Korean Conflict, retiring as a lieutenant colonel was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. In 1959 he From 1923 to 1942 he was the master of St. Louis Twins, Hannah Marie Crossley and Cleb Pa ul retired after40 years as a salesman for the Uniroyal Country Day School, St. Louis, Mo. In 1941 � he Crossley, to Alan and Karen G stafson Crossley Company in Boston. A life member of theCorner received a master of science degree in mathemal· • '77, July 10, 1989. stone Lodge AF AM in Duxbury, Mass., he was ics from Washington University in St. Louis. & He also a member of the American Legion and a was a retired military analyst. He is survived by A daughter, Emily Farwell Cook, to James '78 and charter member of Wampatuck Lodge in Hanson. his brother, Joseph K. Blanchard. Susan Conant Cook '75, August 17, 1989. He served on the building committee of Indian Head School and was a trustee of Memorial Field Arthur W. Cole '23, June 28, 1988, in Ellsworth. A daughter, Joy Jana Harrison, to Robert and Jana in Hanson for 50 years and a trustee and member Maine, at age 87. He was born in Milbridge, Kendall Harrison '78, June 1 2, 1989. of the Fern Hill Cemetery Association. He is sur Maine, and attended Edward Little and Winter vived by his wife, Beatrice Tower Harley, a son, Harbor high schools. At Colby he was a member A daughter, Hannah Marion Lodi, to Ruston F., Ralph K. Harley, Jr. '44, and three grandchildren, of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. From 1927to 1933 he worked as a teller at Ticonic National Bank Jr. '78 and Elizabeth Gruber Lodi '78, July 7, 1989. including Jeffrey Ralph Harley '71. rn Waterville, Maine. In later years he was a tea e ch r Alice Clark Anderson '21, of mathematics at high schools in Maine. He A son, Stephen Marcus Ngai, to Howard and December 13, 1988, in wa;. predeceased by his cousin, Ernest Cole '12.He Annette Lum Ngai '78, January 22, 1989. Hartford, Conn., at age 90. Born in Caratunk, 1; Maine, she was a member of Sigma Kappa soror survived by his wife, Alda Winslow Cole, a AA rnr RV at Camden Public Library for 40 years Clair E. Wood '28, ibranan May 10, 1989, in Orono, Maine, year he wa inducted into the Maine Sports Hall in 1942, she was a member of the Maine at age 89. Born -ieginning in Monticello, Maine, he attended of Fame and named Kents Hill Alumnus of the Association. She was also a 70-year Ricker Classical Institute ibrary in Houlton. At Colbv he Year. He sang until the time of hi death in church f the Seaside Chapter of the Order of the was a membe of nembero � Delta Upsilon fraternity and the choirs and at public gatherings. He is ur\'ived bv Star. Her father was Jesse H. Ogier, Class varsity debating �astern team. He served 43 years in his wife, Lillian, two sons, one daughter, two She is survived by her son, Lawrence public education 1f 1893. in Maine as principal at Winter grandchildren, and one brother. her daughter, Evelyn M. Richards, her Harbor High School, 'itcher, . Foxcroft Academy, and ,rather, five grandchildren, and three great Waterville High School and as president of Unity , randchildren. College from 1966 to 1970. At Waterville he rein troduced cross-country as a varsity sport and J. Richard Pike '24, June 26, 1989, in Concord, coached four state championship teams and one \/lass., at age 88. Born in Winthrop, Mass., he ew England championship team. He served on 1ttended local schools and Boston College before the Waterville City Council and was president of �raduating from Colby. He was a purchasing both the Maine Principals A sociation and the 1gent for the Army and other federal agencies for Maine Teachers Association. In 1 958 he was named years, retiring in 1963. He spent summers in rn Colby College Man of the Year and in 1970 he rast Stoneham, Maine, and was a member of the received an honorary doctor of pedagogy degree I'night of Columbus of Winthrop. He is survived from Ricker College. Unity College bestowed on his wife, Idolize, a son, a daughter, two broth ·o hy him an honorary doctorate of education in 1987. • :ro rs, and four grandchildren. Predeceased by his wife, Doris Keay Wood '26, he as is survived by two brothers. Paul ate '26, January 26, 1989. Born Paul eh4 W. K s Katz, he was resident of New York City and nd a prepared for Colby at Colcord Preparatory School. h 1 He worked in the textile business for French by his wife. M4 rabrics Corp. He is survived 11• 4• M. h an '27, ovember 26, 1986, in ew Alan Lo m Jersey, at age A native of Orange, .] ., he was 84. resident of Yarmouth, Mass. He owned and ,\ operated "The Pine Cone," a general store and motor court in Bass River, Mass. He is survived by his wife, Edna. Gordon K. Fuller Gordon Fuller '31, June 16, 1989, in Waterville, K. Maine, at age 80. He was born in Waterville and attended Coburn Classical Institute. At Colbv he ' was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the ma:iager of the track team. From 1931 until 1963 he was employed by the former Emory Brown Company Department Store. His work was interrupted when he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, but he returned to the company to rise from manager to president and treasurer. A member of the Waterville Rotary Club for 30 years, he also served as president of the Waterville Country Club and director of the John Henry Lee state and local chambers of commerce. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Waterville for over 70 years. His sister, orma Fuller Hurst John Henry "Red" Lee '30, July 14, 1989, in Scar '33, predeceased him. Surviving are his wife, borough, Maine, at age 83. He was born in Port Allison, three daughters, including Joyce Fuller land, Maine, and attended Portland High School Brophy '57, seven grandchildren, and two great and Kents Hill School. At Colby he erved as grandchildren. president of his senior class, the student council, and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. A a guard on Hugh K. Tufts '31, April 25, 1989, in Worcester, the footbalJ team he Jed the Mules to three cham Mass., at age 79. He was born in Amherst, ova pionships and was twice named All-Maine guard. Scotia. The former vice president of Westboro, An accomplished singer, he and his vocal group, Mass., Savings Bank, he was a past master of the the Lee Songsters, were often featured on Boston Siloam Lodge AF AM. He a !so was a member of & radio stations in the 1930s, and he performed with Alleppo Temple, a charter member and Paul the avy Symphony during World War II. After Harris Fellow of the Westboro Rotary Club, and Philip MacCubrey Kenton '28, May 29, 1989, in the war he earned his M.Ed. in guidance at Boston the vice president and former co-owner of the Canton, Ma s., at age 84. A native of Caribou, University and taught in Fairfield and Winslow Tufts Machine Corp. He is survived by his wife, Maine, he was employed in sales management at schools. He served for 40 years as a teacher and a Ruth, a son, two daughters, three brothers, in various Connecticut offices of Southern ew guidance counselor at Portland High School while cluding Wendell A. Tufts '30, 13 grandchildren, En�land Telephone Company from 1929 until his teaching business and mathematics at the Univer and four great-grandchildren. retirement m 1969. He was a member of the sity of Southern Maine. In 1972 and 1974 he ran as Audubon Society, a former member of the Com a Democrat for the state legislature, losing by a Ada Bates Wyman '31, June 12, 1989, in Dover munity Che t Council of New Britain, Conn., a close margin both times. He retired in 1977 as a Foxcroft, Maine, at age 80. She wa born and fonner president and representative to the Colby commander in the avy Reserve but continued to educated in Abbot, Maine. A mathematics major Alu'.11111 Council, and a past memberof the board be active in education, serving for two years as at Colby, she was a member of Phi Mu orority ofduect�r of the Greater Hartford Colby Alumni president of the Portland Teachers Association and of Kappa Alpha. She taught in several Maine Ass �c1ahon. Surviving are three daughters, Jean and coaching and refereeing baseball and foot schools from 1931 to 1941, after which she became Zad1 , L � �nne Khambaty, and Louise MacCubrey ball. In 1982 he was named Lion of the Year for his a homemaker. She was a member of alley Grange 65, a 1 Robbms brother, and six grandchildren. commitment to public service, and the following in Guilford Center, Maine, and a charter member COLBY 45 of the Tisbury Manor Chapter of the Daughters of the board and for three years was president of the attended Oak Grove Seminary and was a membt the American Revolution. She was predeceased Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Portland, of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at the College. � Colby she attended Burdett College for one by her sister, Thalia Bates Savage '29. Survivors and he was a member of the boards of several year include her husband, Merle B. Wyman, a daugh She worked as a stenographer with several fuit other community organizations. He was prede ' ter, a son, a granddaughter, and three step-grand ceased by his sister, Elizabeth Emmanuelson Davis during World War JI and was payroll clerk children. '44. Survivors include his wife, Josephine, a son, Charlotte Memorial Hospital until her retiremem in 1981. A Colby class agent, she also a daughter, a grandson, a cousin, Roger Olson '53, was ta Paul Robert Jenkins '34,June 8, 1989, in Portland, and his wife, Dorothy Foster Olson '54, and a former director of the Puritan Beach CivicGro� Maine, at age 76. Born in Littleton, Maine, he cousin, Clifford Olson a member of the League of Women vote!\ '64. attended Ricker Classical Institute and Ricker Swampscott, Mass., and a member of the Assoa. Junior College. At Colby he was a member of James R. Stinneford '36, July 17, 1989, at age 75. tion of American University Women. A collllllt Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He worked for the Born in Brownville, Maine, he graduated from nicant of Myers Park Baptist Church, she taus'! State of Maine Department of Transportation for Brownville Junction High School. He was a in the church's children's department. She survived by her husband, Edward Hooper 45 years as superintendent of equipment for member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Colby. '38, Hancock and Washington counties. He was a From to 1944 he managed Mountain View son, a daughter, and two sisters, including 1936 Elsi member of Monument Masonic Lodge of Houl Farm in Brownville Junction, and he served six Lewis Everest '29. She was predeceased by � ton and of Anah Temple Shrine in Bangor. He was years on Brownville's board of selectmen. He other sister, Bertha Lewis Timson '33. predeceased by his brother, Halsted H. Jenkins later became division manager for Sears Roebuck '31, and two cousins, Elfrieda Whitney '21, and and Co. in Portland, Maine, retiring in 1968. He R. Keith Thomas '38, February 12, 1973, in Sar Hazel Whitney Snow '18. He is urvived by his was active in community organizations, serving Gabriel, Calif., at age 61. He was born in Caribou! wife, Dorothy, two sons, a daughter, a brother, 11 on the Brownville school board, chairing the board Maine, and graduated from Higgins Classim grandchildren, including Melissa Ann Jenkins of directors of the Brownville Junction YMCA, Institute. At Colby he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. He was a claims officer '87, and two great-grandchildren. and serving as president of the Brownville Junc and tion Men's Club. Healsosang inMethodistChurch supervisor at Liberty Mutual Insurance Com George R. Berry '36, May 5, 1989, in Kew Gar choirs in Brownville Junction and Portland. Pre pany. He was predeceased by his sisters, S. Loul!I dens, N.Y., at age 76. He was born in Eustis, deceased by his brother, William Stinneford, Jr. Thomas McQuillan '30and Muriel Thomas Squirl Maine, and at Colby was a member of Kappa '30, he is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, '27. Survivors include his wife, Anne. Delta Rho fraternity. During his career in banking Barbara Bridges Stinneford '34, three daughters, > Edward "Ted" Greaves '43, May 27, he rose to the position of credit analyst with Carol Reichnach, Nancy Brandt, and Sally Ste 1989, m Waterville, Maine, at age 69. Born in Buffalo, Citibank of New York. He is survived by his wife, vens, one son, Leroy Stinneford, and a brother, 1.Y he was educated in Maine and graduated Ann, and a daughter, Jane Ann Berry Phillips. Claude Stinneford '26. from Coburn Classical Institute. He left Colby at lhe Omar E. Canders '36, May 1899, in Plainville, Norman W. Beals '37, end of his sophomore year and entered the 26, May 26, 1989, at age 76. Ma· Mass., at age 74. He was born and educated in Born in Turner, Maine, he was a graduate of rine Corps. He saw service in the South Pacific Greenville, Maine, and was a member of Lambda Waterville High School. A member of Kappa and was twice decorated for valor during action Chi Alpha fraternity at Colby. From 1945 until his Delta Rho at Colby, he was a store manager for on lwo Jima. He graduated from Thomas Colleg1 and became a mail carrier for the Postal Service, retirement in 1973 he was an insurance agent at Montgomery Ward in Chicago from 1937 until a Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in the Presque 1952. He served in the U.S. Navy during World job he held for 28 years. He was past presidentol Isle, Maine, area. He held memberships and many War II. From 1953 until his retirement in 1980 he the National Association of Mail CarriersofMain1 offices in local and country insurance societies, owned and operated Berry's Stationers of Water and a life member of the American Legion and thi and he was a member of the Masons, Trinity Veterans of Foreign War . He is survived ville. In the early 1980s he served as an alumni by h6 , Lodge 130, and the Kiwanis Club. Predeceased by representative. He was an active proponent of wife, Lorette, a son, and three daughters. his cousin, Robert V. Canders, Jr. '39, he is sur urban renewal and a member of the Waterville Ila Frank E. Hancock '45, December 26, 1988, vived by his wife, Ruby, a daughter, a sister, and Rotary Club. Predeceased by his brother, Robert m York, Maine,atage65. Born in York, he was a two grandsons. Beals '32, he is survived by his daughter, Martha 19 graduate of York High School and a 1941 gr du· Beals, and a nephew, John Bragg '65. a , c Millard E. Emanuelson '36, May 8, 1989, in Togus, ate of Fryeburg Academy. He served three year1 Maine, at age 74. Born in Monson, Maine, he was in the U.S. Army during World War II before a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternityat the returning to Colby, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. A graduate of Bo College. After Colby he became a teacher and ton University Law School, he was admitted to head baseball coach at Deering High School in the Maine Bar in and opened a private practice Portland, Maine, and later taught and coached at 1950 Coburn Classical Institute, Thornton Academy, in Ogunquit, which he later moved to Yorl and Swampscott High School. He served in the Beginning in 1954 he served two terms a th1 U.S. Navy in World War II as a gunnery and representative from York to the state legislaturi, communications officer, participating in the in after which he served six years as Maine state vasion of numerous islands of the Philippines. attorney general. He was the first attorney gen· era! from Maine to be elected president of Later he served as an induction officer for the the Navy and Marines at New Haven, Conn. In National Association of Attorney Generals. 1951 Ile he graduated from Boston University Law School was a partner in the Strater, Hancock, and Irwin and the following year became a partner in the law firm of York and a member of the York [ Emanuelson, Barris and Michal law firm. At the County Bar Association. He was a former , mod· t same time he was also an instructor and associate era tor at York town meetings, a member of th 46 COLBY Helen Conroy Berry '51, June29, 1989, in Newrv, H O O R A R Maine, at age 59. Born in Arlington, Mass., anct'a N y graduate of Lexington High School, she trans ferred to Colby from Newton Junior College. Following graduation from the College she en tered the teaching profession, spending most of her years at Telstar Regional High School before retiring in 1988. In 1970 she and her husband, Francis R. Berry, opened Lone Pine Camping Area in Newry. Survivors include her husband, four children, six grandchildren, and her father. Robert ]. Gula '63, April 1, 1989, in Groton, Mass., at age 47. A native of Middletown, Conn., he was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. At Colby he was a Bixler Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Blue Key as well as feature editor of the Echo and a varsity track star. A classics major, he was awarded the John B. Foster Memorial Prize in Classics when he graduated 111ag11a rn111 /a11de. He won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study at Harvard, where he received an M.A. in 1964. He taught at St. Mark's School in Southboro, Mass., until 1970, when he joined the faculty at the Groton School in Groton, Mass. He was director of studies at the time of his death and was a popular master of Lloyd Goodrich English, mathematics, Latin, Greek, and logic. He was the author of 17 books, of which Precision: A Maine, he attended Coburn Classical lnstitute Refere11ce Ha11dbook for Writers, Nonsense: How to Lloyd Goodrich, D.F.A. '64, March 27, 19 7, in and was his class president and a member of Delta Overco111e It, and Mythology: Greek and Ro111a11 were ew York, .Y., atage 89. Born in utley, NJ, he Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the College. He served • among the best known. He wrote essays on clas studied at the Art Students League and at the the U.S. Air Force from 1943 to 1945 and was in sical music and performed frequent piano recitals ational Academy of Design in ew York City. awarded the Distinguished Flying Cro sand the � at Groton, where he is especially well remem He spent five years in the steel business, then Oak Leaf Cluster for missions he flew in India and P bered as an interpreter of composer Franz Liszt. began writing art criticism for The Arts and The � China. In 1986 he retired from hi position of title He is survived by his parents, John and Anto Nt'W York Times. In 1930 he joined the Whitney administrator for the Motor Vehicle Division of n " inette, and one brother, Richard. Museum of American Art in ew York, where he the tate of Oklahoma. He was a member of the n was instrumental in starting the American Art Waterville Country Club, the Waterville Area 0 Ronald Joseph Saad '65, April21, 1989, in Orlando, Research Council. In 1933 he was in charge of the 11 YMCA Retired Persons Club, and the Fir t Con Fla., at age 45. Bornin Brockton, Mass., he gradu ew York regional office of the Public Works of gregational Church of Waterville. He was prede ated from Brockton High School. An administra Art Project, the Works Project Administration ceased by his father, Prince Drummond '15, his tive science major at Colby, he was also a member program that hired thousands of artists to create grandfather, Albert Foster Drummond, Class of of Zeta Psi fraternity. ln 1968 he graduated from murals and sculptures for public buildings. In 1888, two uncles, Clark E.R. Drummond '21 and Suffolk University Law School. He maintained a 1958 he became the director of the Whitney Everett Rid1ard Drummond '28,and cousins Hugh private practice in Brockton and was a lawyer Museum, resigning the post in 1968 to become an ' Beach '36 and Audrie Drummond Owsley '49. with Shannon Associate of Quincy. A member advisory director. He did extensive research on Survivor include his wife, Mary Weeks Drum- and past president of the Quincy, Mass., Bar Winslow Homer and wrote biographies and mond two daughters, two stepsons, includ monographs on the works of John Sloan, Thomas � '44, Association and a member of the NorfolkCounty ing John Sawyer one granddaughter, two E. '77, Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Asso Eakins, Albert P. Ryder, Edward Hopper, Geor step-granddaughter , and two cousins, Foster gia O'Keeffe, and others. Flora Miller Biddle, the ·r ciation, he also served on the financial committee Drummond '52 and Everett Richard Drummond chair of the Whitney Museum, said after his death, & for the town of Avon and chaired the Boy Scout Ill "For many years, American art was considered I '60. Troop 16 Committee in Brockton. He is survived by his wife, Christine, four sons, his mother, and the stepchild of the art world, just not considered Claire Finkelkdey Waterous '47, April 9, 1989, in his brother. seriou ly. Through what he did at the Whitney, Essex, Vt., at age Born in Palmerton, Pa., she and as a scholar of American art, he did a lot to 64. attended Hastings High School. She was a mem change that." When he received his honorary ,! Carol Bentley '79, July 10, 1989, in Arlington ber ofChi Omega sorority at Colby, and she later degree from the College in 1964, he was cited for lt Heights, Ill. She transferred from Colby to Xavier rece1vedacertification inbusinessfrom the Kathar- "bringing to reality our Sesquicentennial Exhibi ei University, where she earned dual degrees in ine Gibb chool. For 15 years she and her hus finance and management. A marketing specialist tion of the art of the state of Maine." A Friend of band, Art at Colby, he had numerous art-world affili ·ab Donald, operated the Home Workshop in at IBM for nine years, she was a member of the Hasting ations and sat on the editorial boardsof art maga d -on-Hudson, .Y. She served two terms American Institute of Certified Public Account ie as president of the Village Chamber of Com ants, the American Women's Society of CPAs, zines and on advisory panels for the ew York :r merce, and she was a former chair of the Mid and the Illinois CPA Society. She is survived by State Council on the Arts and the Fine Arts Advi Hudson sory Committee to the White House. He is sur r. United Way and American Red Cross her mother, Mrs. Dorcas Bentley, her brother, b.' Fund Drive. She also served as president of the Lester, and her sister, Sandra. vived by his son, David Goodrich, his daughter, Hasting Family Service Council and first Madeline oble, his sister, three grandsons, and t was the l1' woman elected to serve on the vestry of the Grace Dana Feitler '87, July 9,1989, in Chicago, Ill., at a step-granddaughter. Episcopal f\IJ Church and the first woman warden age 24. She attended the University Schoolof Mil Omission r elected her m county for the Episcopal Church. In waukee in River Hills, Wis., before coming to 1983, the year she and her husband moved to Colby. She had recently resigned from the Conti Omitted from the winter 19 9 obituary for Robert :� E sexJunction, Vt., she was elected Hastings nental Bank in Chicago to enter graduate school M. Slotnick '55 was the information that he was , Citizen of the Year. She served on the board of at the University of Chicago. She is survived by vice president of Rowe Furniture Corp. at the ,\ director of the Vermont Ronald McDonald her parents, Robert and JoanFeitler, two brothers, "' House. She i survived by her husband, two a sister, and her grandparents. A memorial article time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Kathie, and three children, Karen, Robin, and daughters, a son, a sister, a brother, William appears on page 6. Steven. Finkeldey '43, and five grandchildren. COLBY 47 ALUMN I TRUS TEES NOMINATE D The Nominating Committee of the Alumni Council has nominated three alumni for Alumni Trustee, for three-year terms to begin on Commence ment Day 1990. Robert Sage '49 is president of Sage Hotel Corp. and is a resident of Newton Centre, Mass. Susan Comeau ' 63 is senior vice president of State Street Bank and Trust Co. in Boston, Mass. Frank 0. Apantaku '71, of Wilmette, Ill., is president of Apantaku Clinics and associate professor of surgery at Chicago Medical School. Additional nominations by petition must be received by the executive secretary of the Alumni Council, Office of Alumni Relations, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901, on or before March 1, 1990, with signatures of one percent of the members of the Alumni Association. In the absence of such petitions, the above nominees will be declared elected by the Alumni Council Executive Committee. 48 COLBY LE ADERSHIP William R. Cotter, president Peyton R. Helm, vice president for de\'elopment and alumni relations Board of Trustees H. Ridgely Bullock '55, chair Richard L. Abedon '56 Howard D. Adams Robert . Anthony ' 38 Frank 0. Apantaku '71 Alida Milliken Camp (Mrs. Frederic E.) Le,·in H. Campbell John G. Christy Susan Comeau '63 Robert A Friedman Jerome F. Goldberg '60 William H. Goldfarb '68 Peter D. Hart '64 Nancy Spokes Haydu '69 Gerald J. Holtz '52 Robert S. Lee '51 Beverly Nalbandian Madden '80 Robert A. Marden 'SO DaYid M. Marson '48 Paul D. Paganucci Wilson C. Piper '39 Lawrence R. Pugh '56 Da\'id Pulver '63 Robert Sage '-19 Richard R. Schmaltz '62 Robert E.L. Strider II Barbara Howard Traister '65 Edward Hill Turner Mary Elizabeth Brown Turner '63 William D. Wooldredge '61 Alumni Council Executive Committee Victor F. Scalise, Jr. '54, chair Deborah Marson Mc ulty '75, vice chair Susan Conant Cook'7 5 Libby J. Corydon '74 John B. Devine, Jr. '78 R. Dennis Dionne '61 Douglas S. Hatfield '58 Cory L. Humphreys '85 Jonathan L. LeVeen '73 John D. Ludwig '58 Scott F. McDermott '76 Germaine Michaud Orloff '55 Donald J. Short '64 Donna Curran Stock '82 az Nonprofit Organization U.S. 7 oll g Postage Paid/Permit 04101 n. Ile, Mame 04901-4799 Portland, Maine