C LBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE ▶ The New Global Beginnings Program CSC’s Real Life CSI Takes Off! Kim Rumrill ’84 ▶ Prof. Pat Anderson’s Amazing Sabbatical ▶ A Special Groundbreaking for the New Windy Hill School ▶ You Are There… Mountain Day and Fall Festival Photo Essays W INTER 2010 EDITOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES David R. Morcom Anne Winton Black ’73, ’75 CLASS NOTES EDITORS Chairman Tracey Austin Mike Gregory Richard Dulude Vice Chair CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Peter Noonan ’95 Suzanne Simons Hammond ’66 Derek Veilleux ’12 Executive Secretary CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Pamela Stanley Bright '61 Patrick D. Anderson Alice W. Brown Tracey Austin William P. Clough III Amber Cronin ’11 Thomas C. Csatari Ryan Emerson Karen Craffey Eldred '86 Meghan K. Fligg ’10 Joan Campbell Eliot '67 Jessica K. McLavey ’10 Christine Biggs Ferraro '65 Kate Dunlop Seamans Thomas C. Galligan Jr., ex officio Kimberly Swick Slover Harry Gazelle William E. Gundy STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Susan Carroll Hassett '79 Ed Germar G. William Helm Jr. George Jamieson VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Erik Edward Joh Elizabeth A. Cahill Joyce Juskalian Kolligian '55 Robin L. Mead '72 DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Sara Hammond Misiano '01 Kimberly Swick Slover A. John Pappalardo P'10 David B. Payne DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Mark A. Peterson P'08 Lisa Swanson William S. Reed Second Story Design Erik C. Rocheford '01 Manchester, N.H. Jean M. Wheeler Daniel H. Wolf PRINTING Penmor Lithographers HONORARY LIFE TRUSTEES Lewiston, Maine David L. Coffin P'76 Peter D. Danforth P'83, '84, GP'02 William H. Dunlap P'98 ADDRESS LETTERS AND SUBMIT ARTICLE IDEAS TO: LIFE TRUSTEE EMERITA David R. Morcom, Editor Mary Trafton Simonds ’38, P’64 Publications Office Colby-Sawyer College 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 Phone: (603) 526-3730 E-mail: [email protected] © Copyright 2010 Colby-Sawyer College C LBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE FEATURES Bad Guys Better Beware! 17 Kimberly Fish Rumrill ’84 is a criminalist who likes to solve forensic puzzles. Mountain Day 22 Colby-Sawyer’s oldest and most popular tradition in photos. Cherish the Child, Celebrate the Teacher 25 The college receives lots of help On the Cover: Kimberly Fish Rumrill breaking ground for the new ’84 is a wife, a mother of two teen- Windy Hill School. agers, and a crime scene investigator for the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Science Laboratory. Her expertise is serology, the science that From the Heart 28 deals with serums, especially blood. The winners of the 2009 Her fascinating story starts on art and essay contest, “My page 17. Colby-Sawyer Experience.” 2009 Alumni Fall Festival 30 A photo essay of our inaugural fall alumni reunion. Unimagined Opportunities 35 Professor Pat Anderson’s 2009 sabbatical allowed him to explore ancient and contemporary cultures. DEPARTMENTS Colby-Sawyer Matters 3 Learning to See 38 Global Beginnings shows first- Sports Round-Up 44 year students a whole new world when they study in Europe. Class Notes 48 WINTER 2010 1 Dear Friends, hat do we believe in here at Colby-Sawyer College? We believe in committing ourselves to our students and in making every decision by focusing on how it Wwill benefit their educational experience, both in and outside the classroom. One of the ways in which we hope our students will learn and grow is by teaching them to understand and employ multiple perspectives. This means we expect them to learn and understand how different academic disciplines approach, explain, analyze and solve problems. We want our students to know that as they face the world they must be able to see it through many intellectual and practical prisms. We also want our students to experience different people who are part of, and beliefs that are shaped by, different national and global cultures that differ from their own. The Global Beginnings story in this issue is about those aspects of learning and employing multiple perspectives. The story is also about what we call diversity, and we use that word in its broadest sense. There are many ways in which Colby-Sawyer has always celebrated and experienced diversity in an inclusive, welcoming manner. As a junior college we devoted ourselves mainly to educating women and preparing them for a world in which their participation as equals with men would grow and grow. In 1990, we extended our campus diversity by opening our doors broadly to men. For many years we have benefited from political diversity, religious diversity, a community with diverse and varied sexual orientations, and socioeconomic diversity. Indeed, today more than 360 of our approximately 1,100 students are first-generation college students and over 90 percent of our students receive some form of financial aid through the college. Today, while we celebrate all the ways in which we are diverse, we are still striving to diversify our community in an inclusive and welcoming manner. We are committed to increasing our global, racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity. Specifically, we are focused on recruiting more students from urban areas and from geographic areas outside New England. At the same time, after many years of limited study away by Colby-Sawyer students, we are striving to increase the number of students who spend some time away from our beautiful campus and who then return to teach and inspire us with the bug to study away. Through these new student populations and study-away initiatives, we believe that our campus will become an even better, more vibrant, and more exciting place where the wide world, and all it has to offer, will improve our learning environment. Through globalization the world truly is an increasingly smaller place, and that fact raises both opportunities and challenges. Our students must be prepared to negotiate that world successfully, and we must prepare them to do so. Moreover, by about 2035 there will be no majority race in America—our graduates must be excited, eager players in that wonderful, new world. The Global Beginnings Program is just one of the exciting programs underway to expand our students’ knowledge and use of multiple perspectives in their lives. We plan to feature articles in the future issues of the magazine which may include the Progressive Scholars Program, our expanding international student population and more. I know you will find them as interesting and invigorating as I do. I could not be more proud to showcase these fantastic programs that are all about improving the education and lives of Colby-Sawyer students, which is the reason we are here. Sincerely, Francamente, ƌƨƪƨƩƯƨƬн, Sincèrement, 근실하게, Herzlichst, Sinceramente, ǜȔȘȧȬșȖȡȢ, 誠意をこめて, Oprecht, Thomas C. Galligan, Jr. President and Professor of Humanities 2 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE WINTER 2009 by Kate Dunlop Seamans, Kimberly Swick Slover and David R. Morcom IN MEMORIAM The Honorable Judge Martha Ware ’37 Alumna, Trustee, Benefactor The Honorable Judge Martha Ware, hospital bed when she was suddenly a member of the Colby Junior College stricken with polio. She was elected Class of 1937 and former trustee, and served for three terms (1950– passed away on Aug. 4, 2009, at the 1956), one of just two women in the age of 91. She had a long and distin- legislature at the time. guished career, with pioneering posi- In 1956, Martha was appointed tions as a jurist and in local and state as the first female judge in Plymouth government. She performed equally County, where she served until her important volunteer leadership and retirement in 1979. She was particu- service for the protection of children, larly proud of her service to children educational and charitable organiza- in the state’s juvenile courts, and she tions, and her beloved alma mater, often said she was drawn to the law by Colby-Sawyer College. her interest in fair play and equity for Born in Weymouth, Mass., in 1917, all people. $1 million or more during their life- Martha graduated from high school Following her retirement, Martha times to Colby-Sawyer. She recalled in Abington, Mass., her lifelong place focused on her philanthropic and char- Sept. 4, 1990—when the college dedi- of residence. She earned an associ- itable interests. She gave generously cated its Library-Commons building ate’s degree in secretarial science in to the college’s Annual Fund, and, in and Fernald Library as the new Ware 1937 and went on to study at Boston 1983, founded the Samuel L. and May Campus Center in honor of her and University and Portia Law School (now Davis Ware Memorial Scholarship to her beloved parents, Samuel and May New England School of Law), where assist students in receiving a college Ware—as one of the greatest days of she graduated with an LL.B. cum laude education. She then joined the Board her life. in 1941. of Trustees, which she served with Over the years, Martha’s connec- After passing the state bar in 1942, distinction from 1988 to 1997. The tion to Colby-Sawyer continued, Martha became Abington’s first female college recognized her service to the often through visits with old and selectman, a position she sought in institution and to society with the new friends, including President order to address what she viewed Susan Colgate Cleveland Medal for Tom Galligan. “Judge Ware was an as the inadequate size of the local Distinguished Service in 1989 and an incredibly special person. Not only police department and its lack of legal honorary doctorate in 1994. was she a fantastic lawyer, public training. Once elected, she helped to Martha was previously recognized servant and alumna, but she was a enlarge the police department and by the college with the Distinguished ground-breaker as a woman in her arranged for its officers to take courses Alumni Award in 1985 and the Alumni profession and her community,” he in criminal justice.