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FALL 1969, ONE SMAll STEP FOR MAN: Pioneering male student Stephen Delmard'72 signs up for first-semester classes as skeptical women look on. tD State of the Union

Twenty-five years after the first male undergraduates stepped onto a campus formerly populated only by women, CC Magazine revisits issues of gender and learning,

ON THE COVER: and asks: "Is coeducation working?" Seniors Suzanne A special report. Blezard and Joe Lucas. Photo by Paul Horton. President's Page

Of heart and mind The trend toward integrating learning and service

n steamy summer nights in New service learning (a new term denoting a London's Bates Woods housing wide range of connections between acad- complex last summer, Connecticut ernie disciplines and community service) O and to enhance and develop practical pro- College sophomore Allyson Clarke worked ConnecticutCollegeMagazi>te with six 10-year-olds to develop reading grams that address challenges in the skills. Tins in itself is not unusual, of course. community. The center is planned as an asset to faculty interest in integrating ser- VolulIle 4 / Number 2 Hundreds of Connecticut College students volunteer to work with underprivileged vice learning into existing course work Co-Editors: youth in the city. What made Allyson's rela- and new service learning courses, promot- Lisa H. Brownell tionship with her young friends different is ing reflective activity for students engaged Chuck Luce that she lived right in the same building with in service, providing training for volun- Assislant Editor/Class Noles: them. She and six other CC students chose teer leaders, and helping orchestrate Mary Farrar to be residents of Bates Woods, a situation community and college responses to com- An Director: Kati Roessner '81 that gave them instant credibility in the munity needs. Photography:Paul Horton, unless The center's plans also call for a semes- credited otherwise community and spoke volumes about their ter-long interdisciplinary seminar to Contributing Writers: commitment. explore citizenship, community and social Leslie A. Gifford, Patricia Logan, Allison and 500 others on campus this Tim Cheney '94 year are bringing renewed passion to an old justice from philosophical, historical, eco- tradition of community service that began in nomic, political and artistic vantage Editorial Board 1915 when Connecticut College undergrad- points. Warren Erickson '74 (Chair) uates first began volunteering at the B.P. In this issue of Connecticut Colfege Allen Carroll '73 Learned House in New London. Magazine you will read more about LEAP, Lawrence Friedman'89 the program for in-residence mentors Claire L Gaudiani '66 Over the generations, our students have Dirk t.D. Held come to know a lesson stated clearly this fall (page 8) and Campus Compact, of which Ellen Harris Knoblock '80 by j-Board chair Dan Shedd '96: r am honored to be the new national Robert B. Rasmussen "Community service breaks the cycle of chair. The Campus Compact organization Ex Officio· and "Literature, Service and Social Lisa H. Brownell cynicism." Service engages people in active Chuck Luce citizenship. Students here see themselves as Reflection," a course I am teaching this change agents, making a difference but also semester as part of our effort to increase Direclor of College Relations understanding and reflecting on challenges in the ways of integrating service learning Christopher T. Cory modern society. Their academic strength into the college curriculum, are detailed and their commitment to serve makes them on page 7 by Kim Conniff '95, a student Executive Director, Alumni Association stronger contributors to whatever profes- in the course. Kristin Stahlschmidt Lambert '69 sional or personal lives they choose. Students Understandably, citizens today are con- pass this culture from class to class, just as cerned about the disintegration of our Alumni Association Executive Board they do with the Honor Code and the cities, violence, drug abuse and an under- President: Marny Morris Krause '66; responsibility for shared governance. prepared work force. By integrating Vice President: Mark Warren '75; community service into academic endeav- Secretary/Treasurer: Marcia Morris Today, that tradition is helping show the '70; Alumni Trustees: Kevon way for others. More than 475 colleges and ors, we are committing ourselves to fresh Copeland '76 and Elizabeth McLane universities, including Connecticut College, ways of learning about these problems, of McKinney '52; Nominating Chair: belong to Campus Compact, the national working with service providers and gov- Samuel Bonum '89; Directors: Joan ernment officials and of applying our Jossen Biven '49 and Janet Foster coalition that is leading the movement for '80. Advisers: Catherine Young '75 campus-based community service. traditional strengths in teaching and (Human Resources); John Sharon To raise our commitment another notch, research to the improvement of the soci- '86 (Accessibility). Century Council this year members of our facuiry and staff in ety of which we are all a part. Liaison: Dhuanne Schmitz Tansill '64. Ex Officio: Kristin Srahlschmidr partnership with New London community- Lambert '69 based organizations, are developing a Center for Community Challenges. The center will . . have two sites, one on campus and the other e in New London. Its dual focus will be to ~-9 build on existing community service initia- Claire L. Gaudiani '66 tives to sustain a campuswide culture of President of the College _forVVord

Reed-ing, writing and wrestling with the facts

In her article, "Racing the Tide," one-half acre of salt marsh from the Advancing by ideas, not pouring coffee [Summer 1994] PelU1Y Parsekian accu- invasive phragmites and am sending you I am honored to have been featured in rately assays the damage being done to a short paper I wrote summarizing my the May/June issue of Connecticut College our New England's natural coastline by efforts. Magazirle. The interview was well done, phragmites. My husband and I the parents of two but I should like to note two very minor Recently, I read an article (name of Connecticut College graduates and corrections. I was not fluent in French publication forgotten) which stated that would welcome students and professors before English (I became fluent in French the emergence of phragmites is a tell-tale who would like to visit our salt marsh by the seventh grade.) Also, I did fetch sign of an ecology under stress, damaged and see the results for themselves. coffee because it helped put my colby pollutants. Just another consequence Nona Bloomer leagues at ease. However, it is not correct that man has brought upon himself and Guilford, Connecticut to say that I "used the opportunity to the environment by means of draw attention to myself." I hoped that "civilization. " Ms. Bloomer's approach uses a biodegradable my ideas, not my coffee-pouring, would One experience I've had with this difoliant. You can reach her at 203-453- get attention. phenomena occurred in Groton, Conn., 8282. - Eds. Kimba M. Wood '65 in the Bluff Point Coastal New York, New York Reserve. Some years back I In the summer '94 issue, Debbie came across some beautiful Slasiowski Downes '81 bemoans Truth in numbers specimens of swamp rose CC A1agazine because it is not mallow (hibiscus poiustrisv at "down-to-earth and action No sooner had I finished reading the the shore line. Nearby, inspiring. " trustee's report on the success of the first phragmites were established. Quite the contrary, I was five-year plan at Connecticut College A year or two later I inspired when you reported on than the summer issue of Connecticut arrived at my door. As I returned to the area to check efforts to sustain biological College Magazil/e on the mallow, and there it diversity ["Racing the Tide," thumbed through looking for the most was, being choked out by Summer 1994]. What can be intriguing article first, my eye fell on the the swamp grass, spindly and struggling to more down-to-earth, more relevant, blurb detailing the notable achievements survtve. than a true understanding of the inter- of the expected Class of 1998. However, What a disappointment! This was, I connectedness of life? What can be more believe, one of the last stands of swamp action inspiring, after gaining that wis- In box rose mallow in New England. A small dom, than being challenged to preserve Other ofFcampus messages stand of this southern species in Enfield, ecosystems? Conn., vanished years ago, presumably I am proud of my college for institut- Each year, since my daughter enrolled at picked or dug up by some thoughtless ing this research, and only regret that I Connecticut College, I have enjoyed par- gardener. Now, the only stand of this can't start all over again. ticipating in the summer reading pro- species that I know if in New England is Ajax Waterman Eastman '55 gram. The book selections this year were on Cape Cod in the town of Brewster. Baltimore, Maryland particularly exceptional. Eva Hoffman's That was, in fact, three years ago and I book reminded me of growing up in haven't been back since to confirm that it Cleveland when Hungarian immigrants or is still extant. However, I would be Racist graffiti displaced persons became part of our delighted to know of other stands of neighborhood. I was in the sixth grade I was very disturbed to read of the fires swamp rose mallow in southern and viewed the immigrants with awe and racist graffiti that occurred on cam- Connecticut or elsewhere in the state. because of their cultural differences. pus last spring. While it is not realistic to George Stanley Cornel West's book on race was positive Longmeadow, Massachusetts think that CC students are or should be and introduced me to a new author. John protected from the atrocities of the "real "Racing the Tide" addressed a topic in world," it is a shame that the real world McPhee's book was purchased, read and which I have a great deal of interest. I has to be seen in such a hateful, violent became part of my library when it was live next to a beautiful estuary in way. I hope that there will not be a first published. I enjoyed reading it a sec- Guilford, Connecticut, facing westward repeat occurrence. ond time. toward the Thimble Islands. I eventually Laurie Fleishman Walowitz '85 - Gary Mandalfino, Phoenix, Arizona succeeded in rescuing approximately Owings Mills, Maryland

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ConnecticutCollegeMagazi"e I had trouble assimilating the information "America's Best Colleges" issue '?iUS News reported there with the comprehensive and World Report, which was releasedill ConnecticutCollegeMagazille is a joint publi- trustee report I had just finished reading, September '?i 1993. vVhefl we were asked to cation of the Connecticut College Alumni specifically the SAT scores. report ollr SA T scoresto external organiza- Association and Connecticut College. The tions, we report the range '?iscoresin the middle mission of the magazine is to maintain ties How is it that the class of '98 can be a between the college, its alumni and all other "watershed in the history of the college" 50 percent of the students who are admitted as constituents, and to report on issues of impor- with a median SAT score of 1190 [as freshmen. TI,e "midpoint" '?i 1217 is a num- tance to these groups. reported in CC Mag], when the trustee's ber derived by the publishers '?iUS News and World Report from the rangeof SA T Contributions: We welcome letters to the edi- report indicated Connecticut College tor, class notes, comments and suggestions. was strongly ensconced amongst our peer scores we reportedfOr thefreshmen entering in ConnecticutColiegeMagazille will consider institutions with a "midpoint" SAT of the fall of 1992 and is not an actual median. but is not responsible for unsolicited manu- 1217? (Please also note that there is a one-year delay scripts, proposals and photographs. Address Despite the fact that "midpoint" is not in the reportiflg.) correspondence to: Editor, ConnecticutCollegeMagazille, Becker House, a technically correct term to use when We, along with most of ollrpeer institu- 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT ranking SAT scores with peer institutions, tions, prifer to report the range if'SA Ts for 06320-4196. the college was attempting to demon- admitted students since this better reflects the strate a certain level of competence qualfty if'the applicantpool in which prospec- ConnecticutCollegeMagazine (USPS 129- tive students will competefor admission. We 140) is published six times a year, in July, among Connecticut College students September, November,January, March and symbolized by that numerical value. agree that IIsing a measure of central tendency May, and is mailed free of charge to alumni There are three mathematical terms for SA T scoresis inappropriatefor comparative and friends of the college. Second class postage which satisfy that purpose: mean, mode purposes. However, external orgatlizations have paid at New London, Connecticut, and at or median. "Midpoint," (which I assume the freedom if'interpreting data in ways that are additional offices. was the median) is not one of them. If not nfcessan'ly consistent with our intentions. Postmaster: Send address changes to we want to be consistent and compare Second, as noted above, 1217 also riflects ConnecticutCollegeMagazille, 270 Mohegan ourselves with our U.S. News and World the admitted students, not the actllal matricu- Avenue, New London, CT 06320-4196. Report peers, let's use consistent terminol- lants for the Class if'1996. f,Vhen we report to ogy; then, perhaps, numerical consistency the CC community on thefreshman class, we ConnecticutCollegeMagazille Copyright 1994 by the Connecticut College AJumni will follow. Otherwise, informed readers gmerally provide the actual median SA T for Association, all rights reserved. Reproduction are left to wonder how the Class of '98, those who matn'wlated. \ in whole or in part without written permis- with a median SAT score of 1190 that Consequently, the scoreof 1190 is an actu- sian is prohibited. Views expressed herein are projects to be 30 points higher than the al median, flat a midpoint, for the matriculants those of the author and do not necessarily (nat admits) to the Class of 1998, not 1996. reflect official policy of the Alumni Class of '97, still falls 27 points below the Association or the college. Publish-ing Office: median published in the trustee's report Becker House, Connecticut College, 270 as representative of where Connecticut Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320- College stood in relation to its peer insti- Deserving student 4196. Phone: 203-439-2300; FAJ<: 203-439- tutions. In the May/June article "Leading by 2303. I am just as eager as any other alum or Example" you praised Megan Beth student to see Connecticut College Littlefield '94 for her outstanding service achieve national prominence. However, to the college. Iwould like to point out keeping in mind that statistics don't lie, that Megan was the second recipient of PRINTED IN U.S.A. on non de-inked statisticians do, I hope we are not manip- the Class of 1938 scholarshipfund and a recycled paper using soy-based inks by The Lane Press, So. Burlington, VT. ulating statistics to attain that goal and very interesting student. sacrificing other pursuits. If Connecticut Mary Caroline Sweet '38 Alumni OfficeStall College continues to strive be the school Needham, Massachusetts Bridget M. Bernard, Director/Special it envisions itself as, the rest will follow. Programs; Jacqulyn Williams, Administrative Assistant to Director/Alumni Programs; Lori Michael W. Sandner '91 Ann Craska, Administrative Assistant to Centerville, Ohio More ink, please Executive Director; Carol Geluso, Ienjoy Connecticut College Magazil/e very Administrative Assistant to Senior Director/ much, Ijust wish the printer could be Alumni Programs; Debra Johns, Mark Putnam, college institutional researcher Director/ AJumni Programs; Martha Clampitt responds: There are two reasonsfor the appar- encouraged to be more generous with his Merrill '84, Senior Director/ Alumni ent discrepancy. ink. I can barely make out the type. Programs; First, the "midpoint" if 1217 iefieas the Louisa M. Kent '30 Norwich, New York format ifthe SA T scores reported ill the 1994 o Fall 1994 We are aware of this a problem. It is cal/sed by been counted by Hayes in 1853-55 as for having a glass of wine. So what we did was flee on the weekends to schools for the recycled paper we print Oil, which is quite 124, and by him again in 1860-61 as "no absorbent. To correct it we are experimenting more than 100." But then Hall's Captain men, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, where with increasing the size if our type slightly. Buddington left behind the wreck of the there were no niles, where boys our exact age were allowed to do everything we We are also always on the 100kOlJt for a paper Polaris and its material treasures. This that is just as Earth-friendly as the one we use enabled the Eskimos to rediscover the use weren't. It was humiliating. now (we are deeply committed to enuironmen- of the kayak to hunt sea mammals, the Diana Altman '63 tally sound printing techniques as part of the bow and arrow to hunt Caribou and the Newton, Massachusetts college's pledge to be an environmental model) pronged Leister spear to fish lakes in but that doesn't absorb our soy-based inks summer. When Robert E. Peary next ~ee coeducationstories, page 21. - Eds. quite so much. - Eds. counted the community in 1891-92, they numbered 246. This, too, is part of New The benefits of GenEd London's maritime history. Polar postscript Donald M. Taub, USCGA '56 I was happy to see that there will be a re-emphasis on general education at There is an interesting postscript to Huntington Beach, California Milton Moore's version of the ill-fated Connecticut College. I graduated in 1970, and I still feel that I received a Polaris arctic expedition ["Treachery on the Ice," March/April 1994]. The top of The young and the restless well-rounded liberal arts education. Today, when I recruit employees, I look the world had been populated for more I was delighted to see "The Confines of for people who are independent and have than 4,000 years, but the so-called "Little '63," a story I wrote 10 years ago, men- Ice Age" (1200~1800 AD) erased the tioned in the May/June issue of CC the ability to think, rather than people who have been narrowly educated in a most northern peoples; the Norwegian i\![agazille. Viking colonies that populated southwest The story of my romance with a technical field. Dianne Zwicker '70 Greenland from 990 to 1450 AD also dis- Coastie, actually about how sneaking was Valrico, Florida appeared. The polar Eskimo tribe was the built into the lives of the young women last remnant of humanity still surviving in of my era, caused such an uproar that the high Arctic when Charles Francis every letter in the two issues of the maga- More recovered memories Hall's expedition [the subject of the arti- zine that followed was about that story. I I remember Jane MacKenzie and was sad- cle] arrived in 1871. Their population had thought I was the only one who noticed. It made me happy dened to learn of her passing. That she left that you, too, an scrap book recording 1928-1930 First year out by Chris Burrell '87 noticed. I think ["Treasures Found, Fall 1994] indicates you mentioned it the affection she had for C.C. In many because today it is ways, the album also serves as an indica- taken for granted tion of how important going to college that young men was to her and to so many of us in her and women in col- generation. lege need privacy It was an opportunity, a special privi- and have appetites lege and an advantage appreciated and that have nothing treasured. Girls (as we were called then, to do with books. not "women" as today) were supposed to Today it seems work a bit, teach or be at home and even- quaint that women tually to get married. Witness to that, of my generation senior year we were invited to a Silver had to sign out Tea hosted by Gorham Silver Co. at the when they left the Lighthouse Inn. Each of us was presented dorm at night, that with a silver spoon monogrammed with men were not our initial. (I still have one.) This was to allowed upstairs in be the silver pattern for our trousseau! the dorms, that we I remember: had a curfew at Freshman classes: I was privileged to I'm looking for my own place - big green lawn, a view of the ocean night, that we have Miss Oakes for English and a fireplace in the living room. could be expelled Composition, Miss McKee for chemistry,

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French with Serchanose. I did not have Dr, Lawrence, but he was a special histo- ThaI crazy Molohome ry teacher. Phys. ed. with Miss Brett,Miss You never know what's going to Burdick and Miss Stanwood. Tunics with white shirts and black bloomers. Exercise turn people on. In our May/June required, no cuts before or after vaca- issue we innocently announced tions. Don't forget the posture screening. the carnpus opening of Ihe Sophomore classes: German with Dr. reborn Winslow Ames house, Kep, Zoology with Miss Dederer, one of the only surviving exam- Shakespeare with Dr. Wells and Chem- istry with Miss Buck and Miss McKee. ples 01 Depression-era architect It was not easy to find the $1050 cost Robert W. McLaughlin's experi- of a school year. That made us deter- ment in low-cost, prefabricated mined to study hard and do well, dwellings, the Motohome. In For more than 100 people, this building set hearts a-racing. knowing it was a sacrifice for our parents. Ihe story we laid how 1994 graduate Liz Verney had crafted a cardboard model of the boxy little And then, October 1929 - The house and that lolks could get one of their very own just by writing to the Center for Arts & Crash. D r. Doyle and Dr. Cobbledick did their best to explain what happened. Technology, which is now based in the Winslow Ames house. We figured halt-a-dozen or so Theories aside, money was hard to come people might ask. Boy, were we wrong. by and we sought work opportunities at According to Arts & Tech Center assistant director Candy Held, the number 01 requests the college, which was helpful. I worked now stands at about 100 and is stili clirnbing. She's got letters lrom architects, pre-lab housing at the P.O. for 25 cents an hour; then, fans and model fanciers on three continents. One even came on Canadian Ministry of Defense senior year, I was paid $150 to be post letterhead. What could account lor this Mota-mania? mistress with student helpers. I answered doorbells ($75 off room rent), tutored and Held says the main reason is that the editors of Progressive Architecture somehow got worked the switchboard in New London their hands on a copy of CC MagaZine, noted the model offer and Ihought it was a nice touch. Hall. Many others were given work in They included it in a srnall article they did on the Winslow Ames restoration project That other capacities, waiting on tables in the opened the Iloodgates. Now Held is faced with honoring all the requests, a job that required her dining halls, managing the bookshop and 10 corn mission 150 new kits and purchase of a lot at mailing tubes. - CBL ushering at the Concert Series. Yes, we were women who were privileged to attend college in 1928, and we Kimba Wood echoed my thoughts and Connecticut College Magazine uJe!collles were truly grateful to have had the aspirations as a student of Marjorie Dilley reader correspondence. We call be contacted at opportunity to attend Connecticut in 1936-38. The article by Fred Paxton 0111' special Letters to the Editor Voice College. on ritual of passage speaks to the concerns Mailbox, 203-439-5135; via the Leah Savitsky Rubin '32 of so many today The technology of the ~ r Internet at cbllle@Coll- Bloomfield, Connecticut process ofdymg IS now seen as inadequate ,;1/ '~ IlCO!! edn; byjax at and the need for comfort and tranquility /t.. '-' 203-439-2303) or the old- Kind words through mUSIC IS a compelling Idea WIth " [ashioned /llay by lIJr1t1l1gto great possibilities Thank you for an issue / (iEdltOl' Connecticut My wife and my sister-in-law are both that was stimulating and informative, / Colfege Magazme, Conn alums. After a look at the most opening my mind to new-old ideas. J),' A~t) Becker HOl/se) 270 recent issue, I wanted to drop you a note Helen Swan Stanley '38 V ~ f, Mohegan Avenue, and tell yOll that r think it's terrific! I've always had a lot of respect for Vienna Virginia C' Connecticut College, and its emphasis on i:[i)",;;;;:;;; quality really shows in its magazine. Correction (r~~l~I7,MKll 41~,~at~:howi Congratulations! yOIl choose Alexander Barrett, 92 ..... -..... --l- ...... / I Michael Stoner 5 (Word for Word, Summer~ ~. _ ~ to reacnus ) New York, New York '94)IS .a stu d em at tea h Y 1 e ~ please indude YOllr hi Sc h00 I 0 fA re itecture, not [ullname and a daytime tele- The May/June issue of CC Magazine is Harvar d U· nrversrty . as tee h di rtona . I note phone number.. Submissions may be edited one to be proud of The profile of Judge that accompanied his letter stated. jor clarity or space.

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Practicing what you teach Service learning movement gives a human face to the abstract

Ten of us sit more than 539,000 under- around a table, graduates gave an estimated pencils poised as we 23 million hours of service, await the professor's instruc- and the number of volun- tions. "So, why are you teers on campuses rose 11 here?" She launches the percent, according to words through suspended Campus Compact literature. silence. "How does what you This year, as she became just read relate to what you're chair of the coalition, doing in the community? President Gaudiani devel- Our eyes dart a bit uneasily oped CS 215 to incorporate from face to face. Relate? the ideals of service learning, Connect what's in books to drawing on a model con- what we experienced as vol- ceived by Harvard social unteers? This is going to be a psychologist Robert Coles. 1 CAN RElATE: uaaefent's service learning course. whole new kind of class. The students read contempo- The course, "Community rary novels dealing with a The service-learning ven- pline to research the effect Service 215, Literature, wide range of social issues, ture, says Gaudiani, is an service learning could have Service and Social and they attempt to build educational breakthrough. in a broad range of courses. Reflection," is part of a relationships with both the "Education has been framed For example, students in a national effort to link real-life characters in the novels and around self-actualization," political science course with experiences with the learning the people in the community she says. "This generation is a service-learning compo- that traditionally takes place with whom they're working. doing it with a different nent at the University of in the classroom. Piloted by But is there really a need emphasis than the generation Michigan scored higher on Campus Compact, a coalition for "rethinking tradition," as ahead of them. It's the gen- moral reasoning tests and of over 475 colleges and uni- Campus Compact often eration of idealism, not received higher grades than versities, institutions refers to this fundamental Generation X, and it's in a students who took exactly nationwide are redesigning change? Is something lacking position to form an alliance the same course without courses in every discipline to in the textbook-oriented with our generation." the service-leaming com- include a community service approach to teaching? Yens As part of the strategic ponent. According to component. Here, the profes- Hilke '96, a CC sociology plan of the 25-member articles published in the sor is none other than Claire major in President Gaudiani's Campus Compact executive Journal of Moral Education Gaudiani, president of the course, thinks so. Hilke says committee, Gaudiani is and American Educational college and chair of Campus that the problems he's been working with the American Research Association, other Compact, acting to strength- studying in many of his Association of Arts and experiments yielded similar en what she calls "the courses are expressed in statistics and generalizations, Sciences to identify a set of results. relationship between abstract It's clear that connections obscuring the human side. major scholars in every disci- learning and personal human with the community do engagement. " matter, according to In addition to our regular EAR TO THE GROUNO Oaudiani. Many people feel reading and writing, CS 215 they should do something, students are involved in com- "The information highway [installs] thousands of new signposts she observes, but there isn't munity affairs several hours a always a crossover between every day. The biggest challenge is not accessing information but week, ranging from tutoring sentiment and action. "It's properly judging the information, building knowledge from intorma- at-risk children to working not enough to just have a with AIDS patients to tion and directing action based on knowledge." feeling," Gaudiani insists. researching environmental _ College Librarian Connie Dowell in a presentatlon to the Board at "You can have a feeling causes. Trustees, October 7,1994. and then still have lunch." Last year, among Campus - Kim ConnifI'95 Compact member schools,

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LEAP A wholenew meaningfor the old saw, "live and learn"

This past summer The program continues ~ about 60 young peo- into the school year, although

• ple 111 New London by then the college students got a lift for their school work are no longer living on-site. and a live-in pal, as well. Since they must return to LEAP (Leadership, campus for their own studies, Education and Athletics in the students meet with their Partnership) is a structured proteges three times a week. community service program "There are usually four or that pairs underprivileged five counselors in one house," youngsters with high school says Esther Massey, the site and college students who live coordinator for New London. right in the same building as "This way, kids know that the kids they are counseling. this is the LEAP house .... It Sophomore Allyson Clarke (left) is one of nine CC students who "have made a yearlong commitment 10 LEAP. This kind of visibility earns isn't like summer camp. You the counselors instant credibil- can see the results right kids don't have to come to Yale graduates and area ity in the community. there." Conn to learn how to help teachers and social workers, Same-sex groups of no Nine Connecticut ColJege others." it is part of President more than eight 8-12 year- students currently are LEAP Clarke says that the Clinton's Youth Initiative olds and two counselors - senior counselors. Sophomore biggest benefit LEAP pro- Program. Funding is provid- one college student and one- Allyson Clarke participated in vides to the youth of New ed by the State of Connect- high school student - the program last summer and London is broadening their icut and AmeriCorps, whose experience an intense, eight- has remained active in LEAP experience. "We're letting grant will allow LEAP to week summer session that during the school year. them know that there are function for at least three features tutoring, field and "We're trying to get [the other things out there; that it more years. overnight trips and recreation. kids] into community aware- doesn't begin and end in CC provides administra- Because the counselors live ness and activism," she said. New London," she said. tive and support services right in the community, "We are training them. to be Originally, LEAP was through its Office of LEAP's most profound influ- the next generation of [LEAP] operated solely out of New Volunteers for Community ence is felt in the informal, counselors and junior coun- Haven, Conn. Founded in Service. "after-hours" contact. selors," she said, "so that the 1992 by a collaboration of - Sean Hanlon '95

CC pulls a long oar at World Rowing Championships

On September international levels. His latest at the college, Tim is now years and has been a member 18, Claus Wolter assignment was coaching the enrolled in a pre-health pro- of the U.S. team for four of ~ coached the CC Canadian Olympic Men's gram at The University of those years. She is now work- women's lightweight four Four at the summer Olympics Pennsylvania. ing as an occupational without coxswain to a victo- in Seoul, Korea. • Alison Shaw '88, who therapist after finishing gradu- ry in the World Rowing Other CC people at the was participating for the ate courses at Tufts Championships in Worlds were: United States squad as an University. Indianapolis. • Tim Young '92, in his alternate on the Women's • Anita DeFrantz '74, who Wolter, head rowing second year of international Lightweight Sweep boat. is vice president of the coach at Connecticut competition. He was rowing Sha w has been International Governing College for 15 years, has for the United States in the rowing inter- Body of Rowing (FISA), and been coaching off campus Men's Quadruple Sculls nationally • Julie Flagg '74, who was for 22 years on the intercol- squad, which placed 7th. A for five working as a volunteer legiate, club, national and religious studies major while throughout the week. - TC o Fall 1994 American studies goes global Is the US. engaging in cultural imperialism?

Critics of programs between the decline of A librarian's lund lor American studies books ~ set lip to study U.S. American economic suprema- • culture have long cy and the triumph of claimed that such courses lack American cultural power. an international perspective. The course, and others now True, they say, the U.S. ini- under development, was made tially was a place where possible by a $105,000 U.S. people brought ideas with Department of Education them from other countries, grant to strengthen interna- but now the reverse is true. tional studies at CC. Americans are exporting their "The Globalization of ideals, sometimes with a American Culture" will be heavy hand, and American supplemented by six public studies courses need a more lectures. Speakers will include global context. Alexander Sanger, the CEO of Assistant Professor of Planned Parenthood of New History Catherine Stock is York, who will discuss the working to fill that void politics of population control; through the creation of a an executive from course with a distinctly inter- ArneriCares, who will talk national perspective. about the politics of philan- To be taught in the spring thropic relief; and Faye of 1995, "The Globalization Vincent, former commissioner American studies book collection benefactor the late Hazel Johnson, here in of American Culture" com- of Major League Baseball and 1978 with her successor as college librarian. Brian Rogers. prises ethical, foreign policy former president of Columbia idway through her quarter-century tenure as college librarian, and economic dimensions. It Pictures. will, for example, examine The lectures will provide an Mtram 1943 to 1968, Hazel Johnson anonymously established political questions that arise experiential element to a pro- an acquisitions endowment for books on American art, history and gram that considers culture as a for relief agencies abroad. literature. Though a person 01 wide-ranging interests, these subjects whole, fusing the liberal arts Should humanitarian organi- were closest to her heart. Miss Johnson died in September, 1993 zations pick sides, give help perspectives of literature, lan- (CC Mag Sept/Oct. 1993). and Ihe generous terms of her will have only to Rwandan refugees, or guage, art history, sociology, raised the principal of the endowment to a current market value of should they give food to the anthropology and history into condensed political or ideolog- soldiers, too? $114,500. With permission she gave before her death, the endow- Students also will study the ical thought. ment has been renamed The Hazel A. Johnson Fund for American - Sean Hanlon '95 apparent contradiction Studies. A new bookplate featuring Early American printers' orna- ments (shown here) has been designed by Sally H. Harris '57. The plate and the books it marks will be The Hazel A. Johnson lasting reminders of the remarkable woman who. wilh the help at faculty and librarians, did so much to locate Palmer Library and its suc- Fund for AmericanStudies cessor, the Charles E. Shain Library, in the upper ranks at the nation's liberal arts college book OmnecticutCollege Library collections. - Brian Rogers

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille 8 So long, Dean Hampton TIME SURFER

10 Years Ago Former Dean citation which read, in part, In the Fall 1984 issue ot The Connecticut Robert Hampton "Robert Hampton, in your IIreturned to campus 20 years of dedicated service College Atumni Magazine, ran a story on Vicki on Homecoming Weekend to Connecticut College you Rogosin Lansky '63 and her then-new book to be honored for his 20 years helped to build the college Practical Parenting Tips. Among Lansky's sug- of service to the college. we celebrate today." gestions: When burping your baby, tie the bib In a mid-day ceremony on Hampton was also presented around your neck. Record the sound of a run- Knowlton green, Hampton, with a Connecticut College ning dishwasher or water filling the tub and play it back to lull your who left CC this SUI1U11er to chair which will be delivered become associate dean for to his Maryland office. child to sleep. Remove gum from hair with peanut butter. academic affairs and dean for "We congratulate Bob on undergradu- the evo- 30 Years Ago ate studies lution In a speech on Father's Weekend reprinted in at the and The Connecticut College Alumnae News, Lester University develop- of ment of J. Reiss, a popular professor of philosophy Maryland, IUs who was then just wrapping up his Ph.D., was called a career, warned the assembled parents that their "family knowing daughters may return from their first semester 111an," a fulJ well of college spouting such heretical notions as: "Perhaps labor unions "model for that he aren't so bad after all," or "The best kind of government is no govern- the rest of takes us us," and with him ment at all." "one of the along the finest men way," 60 Years Ago I CONKECTICUT to set foot said On October 12, 1934, a roundup of the usual Hampton gets a farewell hug from Doriel COLl,EGE on this Gaudiani. Inez tarrier '90 on Homecoming Weekend. ALUMNAE committee suspects - faculty, students, campus Francis :"£ws administrators and trustees - met to consider Speakers in the emotional Boudreau, associate professor half-hour tribute included of sociology, said when she changing the name of the college. The members ofSGA, the Unity began teaching at the college Connecticut College Aiumnae News reported: Alumni Council, the Hampton was teaching the ~..."._.•".- "The unanimous opinion of the committee was Sociology department, the classes she wanted to teach: that it would be a serious mistake to change the name of the college faculty and President "Ethnic and Race until another name, much more significant than any which had been Gaudiani. Relations" and "Family suggested, is presented .... Another motion was made and also unan- SGA president Marinell Analysis and Lifestyles." Yoders '95 announced that Now that he is gone, imously passed that it be recommended to the trustees that the SGA had established the Boudreau is teaching those general custom of using only the name 'Connecticut College' on publi- Robert L. Hampton award to classes, but she said, "I cations of the college, and in speaking of the college be continued, be given annually to a senior would give it up in the blink and that no effort be made to ask the Legislature to drop the words student who has displayed of an eye if it meant that he 'for Women' from the title." outstanding leadership and would return." service to the college. Hampton spoke last and The Unity Alumni talked of his ties to extend the boundaries and Hampton ended by saying: Council presented Hampton Connecticut College. "It move the walls out a little bit "Let's celebrate our greatness, with a certificate of apprecia- was hard to leave and in further. But, we're always let's celebrate our communi- tion for his "dedication to the some respects I will never connected to each other in ty, let's celebrate learning, and ideals of Unity House." leave, in the same respects very important ways, so in if we do so we'D continue to President Gaudiani pre- that you never really leave that respect I have never left be the family that I know we sented Hampton with a people you love, you just and I ain't gain' no place." are." - Austin Jenkins '95

G Fall 1994 Verbatim Cornel West

On race, "Everyday People" and audacious hope

Cornel West was raised in. a seg- decency and dignity, and for Carmichael and a regated workillg class neighbor- freedom and democracy. I whole host of other hood. As a boy of eight, he bor- decided a long time ago that I freedom fighters in rowed a biography if President wanted (Q leave the world just the 1960s. Theodore Roosevelt from the a little better than Ifound it. I For me, this neighborhood bookmobile and wanted (Q take seriously what tradition first meta- read how Roosevelt had overcollle my Sunday school teacher morphosed in my asrl-lIl1a, attended Harvard, used to say, that the Kingdom own attempt to beeollle a great speaker and made of God is within you, and come to terms with a dramatic impact Oil the fives of the absurd. And I others. He decided that he, too, everywhere you go you ought would overcome his asthma, to leave a little heaven. didn't need to read attwd Harvard alld strive to It's a tradition that has (Q Jean-Paul Sartre or make great contributions to soci- do with combative spirituality Albert Camus, to ety. West graduated .from -looking life's abyss in the know what the

Harvard, magna cum laude, in face and still keeping 011 with absurd was. It's Mil}' three years. He received his a dogged determination. One coming to terms M.A. and Ph.D. [rom Ptincetan thinks of a Sojourner Truth or with the irrational, University where he later worked Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou arbitrary and capri- for six years as professor if reli- Hamer, A. Philip Randolph, cious attempt to West: The speaking style of a Baptist preacher. gioll and director of the Marcus Garvey, Ella Baker or define one's Afto-AlIlericaH studies depart- invoke a Negro spiritual, many of those who will con- humanity by the color of ment. He /lOW serves as proftssor one's skin. I'm talking about "Nobody knows the trouble of Afro-American studies and the vene here, at Connecticut I've seen, nobody knows but philosophy oj religion at Harvard College [for the Civil Rights the vicious and pernicious Jesus. Glory Hallelujah." and is an intemationallv recog- symposium] in November. I ideology and practice of white Where that last line comes from nized authority 011 issues if race, think of my mother, my supremacy. is a separate lecture for another Ajricall-Americallijewish rela- grandfather and late father; I It's no accident that the afternoon. But he's talking tions, and the urban lIt/derciass. cannot help but be humbled great W.E.B. Du Bois begins His recent work, Race Matters, by the standards that they set, his classic, The Souls oj Black about guttural cries and wrenching moans, levels of was a Slimmer Reading selection standards of vision, courage Folk, with that poem by Jar the Connecticut College COI/J- black sadness and sorrow, black and sacrifice and service. I Arthur Symons, published in mtmity. He was presented with think of Lydia Maria Child, 1902, "The Crying of grief and pain serving not as an honorary doctorate durillg the white sister who spent so Water." Symons, symbolist conclusion but as starting point, Homecoming all October 8, critic and mediocre poet, the very context in which one 1994, and delivered thefoJ[ollJlllg much of her life keeping the would go mad two months would have to make of one's remarks. best of this tradition alive, self, invent oneself as a people Often compared to a Baptist who published that wonderful after he published this poem. preacherfor his animated speaking text in 1833, appealing in Du Bois evokes the voices of in the midst of the whirlwinds style, dun'l/g his campus talk, favor of that class of those Africans who either of modernity, and in the midst West dropped his voice to a whis- Americans called Africans. jumped off or fell off slave of a nation that was embarking per Jor parts oj his speech, One thinks of a Myles ships that would transport upon a grand experiment, an thundered and gestured poweiflllly Horton, considered by so over 70 million African peo~ experiment in democracy. in others. - Eds, many fellow citizens white pie to the New World. To be How precious that word, trash, but considered by so a person of African descendant that ideal, actually is - then hank you so very, many of us as one of the great in the New World meant, in and now. That is why, for me, very much. r am prophetic figures of this ghast- part, trying to muster the struggle against white deeply humbled by T ly century. Way down in resources to ward off madness, supremacy is part and parcel of this honor. I come here this Tennessee, creating a center the hope that wanders not the attempt to keep alive the afternoon (Q say that I am but that would train a Rosa Parks near the wind of the wing of best of the democratic tradition. a small part of a grand tradi- and Robert Moses and a madness, to use the language One could begin characteriz- tion. It's a joy (Q be a part of Diane Nash, and a Stokely of Baudelaire. He goes on to ing the democratic tradition in such a tradition of struggle for

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille .. Verbatim Cornel West

The lives of everyday people are shot through with a sense of the majestic, and the tragic, andl raw material to be exploited and oppressed to sustain the refined lifestyles of the few. Their Pn

the words of that one soul about race in America is to talk decline and undeniable cultur- turing, with devastating impact who played the organ in the about poverty and paranoia. al decay, and a peculiar sense on children and young people. It's not simply a family crisis, Shiloh Baptist Church in Too many black poor people, of political lethargy. The eco- or a crisis in family values. The Sacramento, California. His too many poor people in gen- nomic decline has had much to do, of course, with the de- family is, indeed, in deep trou- name is Sly Stone, and he eral. Thick walls of industrialization and ble. But it's more than that; wrote a wonderful song called demarcation between black de-regulation as a result of the even when the nuclear family "Everyday People." Echoing and white worlds, and black and red worlds, and black and levels of unemployment and was in place, it took more than Abe Lincoln, ("Y ou gotta love yellow worlds, and black and underemployment, with the two people to raise children. them common folk, God brown worlds. silent and slow-motion You needed aunts and uncles made so many of them") Sly John J. Chapman put it so depression ravaging chocolate and grandmothers and grandfa- Stone is getting at something well when he said white cities but affecting vanilla sub- thers and rabbis and pastors and very deep here. He is saying, supremacy was like a serpent urbs, too. The fear of Little League coaches and in fact, that the lives of every- wrapped around the legs of the downward mobility and social dance teachers - you needed a day people are shot through table upon which the slippage brings out the worst thick web of relationships, civic with a sense of the majestic, Declaration of in each and associations and civic culture. and the tragic, and the prob- Independence was every one of All have been emptied out, lematic. They have lives of When democracies signed by the lIS, as we feel hollowed out, and replaced by depth, of complexity. They founding fathers. begin to unravel, as if things are what? Market culture - buy- are not to be viewed as simply Then - in 1776 out of con- ing and selling and promoting it usually has something raw material to be exploited - 21 percent of trol. And any and advertising - with its and oppressed to sustain the the inhabitants of to do with increasing time human market morality, the concept of refined lifestyles of the few. those 13 colonies poverty that produces beings feel the good life thoroughly hedo- Their Promethean energy, if were people of that things are nistic, narcissistic, egoistic. unleashed, produces possibili- African descent, escalating levels of out of con- Market mentality: I'm going ties heretofore down played most of them despair; an increasing trol, we to gain access to power, plea- and overlooked. enslaved. The accent our sure and property now, paranoia that produces It's what Abe Lincoln also ambiguous legacy proclivity sometimes by any means. A had in mind when he said of the precious, distrust. towards market culture that results in "Self government is better precanous, expen- scapegoating forms of mean-spiritedness and than good government." Take ment in and looking coldheartedness and makes it a risk. Make a Pascalian leap of democracy, with its blindnesses for conspiratorial theories. difficult for nonmarket values faith in the capacities and abil- and silences, was losing track of The redistribution of wealth to gain a foothold. Nonmarket ities of everyday people to the humanity of other people. upward, and the redistribution values like love and care, con- govern themselves. And keep In this case, it was in the name of tax burdens downward, are cern, service to others. in mind, for most of human of white supremacy. squeezing the majority of Nonmarket values like com- history, everyday people have Two hundred and eighteen American people. This rein- munity, fidelity, commitment, been forced to defer to some years after embarking on this forces polarization and trust. set of unaccountable elites- grand endeavor, or as Lincoln segregation, de facto segrega- Even the dominant kings, and queens, princes, put it "this last, best hope of tion - not just of race, but metaphor of capital society and prelates, magistrates and earth," can we nobly save it, or also of class. The relative eco- itself, contract, has very little potentates, and earls and lords. meanly lose it? What I see, nomic decline is inseparable, meaning without nonmarket Democracies are very rare across this nation, is terrifying. but in no way identical, with values like truth-telling and in human history. They tend Centrifugal forces are at work, the undeniable cultural decay. promise-keeping. On the inti- to be short-lived. And when shattering the body politic, and The distinctive feature of the mate level, nonmarket values democracies begin to unravel, making it more and more diffi- decline of every civilization like kindness and sweetness and it usually has something to do cult for public life of ethical we know, going back to the gentleness. In fact, when I was with increasing poverty that substance and moral content. Sumerians of Mesopotamia, or growing up, we used to listen produces escalating levels of Why? I think it has much to the Egyptians of northern to this wonderful song by Otis despair; an increasing paranoia do with an unprecedented Africa, has been the erosion of Redding called "Try a Little that produces distrust. To talk. linkage of relative economic the systems of caring and nur- Tenderness." I like that song.

• Fall 1994 problematic. They have lives of depth, of complexity. They are not to be viewed as simply thean energy, if unleashed, produces possibilities heretofore downplayed and overlooked.-- we need more than anything Something about qualitative lerns that affect each and every either Twain or Melville, but else a sense of audacious hope. relations between human one of us. And the assumption for the '50s not bad. (I'm just By hope, I don't mean opti- beings ought to be more than is, that we are all on the same being facetious.) Kerouac's on mism; I am not optimistic. 1 just bodies bumping up ship, on the same turbulent the road, running, and histo- don't believe that prevailing against one another and asking sea. And that ship has a huge ry's right behind him. evidence allows us to infer that the performance level from leak in it, and in the end, we And even jazz itself, staying things are going to get better. zero to 10 afterwards. go up together or we go down on and off the beat, on the But I am a prisoner of hope But let's be honest. So together. There's nowhere to groove, but knowing that the that something else will look much of our market culture run, nowhere to hide for those history is reflected in those the evidence in the [lee and revolves around sexual fore- embarked on a democratic guttural cries, and those make a leap of faith beyond. play and orgiastic intensities. project. wrenching moments with in order to try to energize and Its conception of the good life Martin King used to say that those African polyrhythrns, galvanize fellow citizens in is simply hooking up to a we're all part of one using those European instru- such a way that they conclude pleasure machine to be forev- inescapable network of mutu- ments playing in a way that no that the world is incomplete, er and perennially titillated ality, part of one garment of Europeans will play them. The that history is unfinished. The and stimulated. How spiritual- destiny. I think that's what he cross-cultural fertilization of future is open-ended. What we ly impoverished this is had in mind ... Democracy is Europeans, and Africans and do and what we think, individ- which makes it even more an approximate solution to Ameri-Indians generating that ually and collectively, can in difficult to take public life insoluble problems, which democratic art form called jazz fact make a difference. Every seriously. means there's ~o that john generation ... has to meet the John Dewey is absolutely overnight Even when the nuclear Coltrane would panacea, no take to its, new wave of challenges to right in his great classic of family was in place. it 1927, The Public and its quick fix as it height. keeping the democratic project, not simply alive, but to Problems. Once a society is no were. If we're to took more than two peo- I say this refine it, to broaden it, and to longer able to keep a vital confront the especially for ple to raise children. deepen it. And usually, when public life alive, that's a sign multilayered and young people we hit the issue of race head- that democracy is in decline, multidimension- here at on we see reverberations and and one of the roles of institu- al crisis of our day, we must Connecticut College. The repercussions across the board tions of higher learning is to acknowledge that the legacy of sense of history is a pre-condi- for fellow citizens whoever keep alive high quality public white supremacy is one crucial tion for regenerating and conversation. And public con- factor. rejuvenating the public con- they may be. So I say to you this after- versation is more than But to take that factor seri- versation that is requisite to noon, thank you so very much name-calling and finger- ously takes us to the very heart make public life attractive and for this grand honor, and I pray pointing, it is more than of the crisis of democracy and appealing if we are to confront that, as Earth, Wind and Fire simply being a bearer of an all of its various forms. We public problems. The sense of used to sing in the 1970s," just identity of a constituency or need, first and foremost, some- history gives us the ambiguous Keep Your Heads to the Sky." representing a client. We're thing profoundly uri-American legacies. We could look at a As Mahalia Jackson used to talking about what it means to - namely, a sense of history. Thomas jefferson and recog- sing, you keep your hands on be a citizen, an everyday per- A deep, tragic, refined sense of nize the tremendous the plow even when you are son capable of ruling or being history. And Faulkner says his- contributions to democracy, involved in unadvertised ser- ruled in turn, to revise a bit tory is bunk; he's wrong .. but also at Thomas jefferson vice. And keep your eyes, not Aristotle's definition of that You can't escape a sense of the slave holder and try to out- so much on each other, but on precious notion of citizen: to history, even as you hold soci- ]effersonize jefferson. And that the prize, something bigger, keep track of public interests ety at ann's length. Ahab on sense of history, one would grander, better than you. Then and common good. the ship, and Melville, the hope, would promote the Public conversation is dia- powerful figure that he was, expansion of the scope of maybe we can pass on to the next generation a tradition that logue between citizens, knew that the ship was a empathy. has played such a fundamental mediated by mutual respect microcosm of the larger soci- More than even a sense of role in making each and every and civility, but acknowledg- ety. A sense of history is there, history and expansion of the one of us who we are. Thank ing the tensions and the on the ship. Or Jack Kerouac's scope of empathy and courage you so very much. God Bless. struggling with public prob- On the Road, not as deep as in the form of self-criticism,

ConnecticutCollegeMagazine CD Notes From the Field

Blessed are the peace-keepers Croats take little solace in the presence if the UN

III thejan./Feb. 1993 issue UN command want to read the resumed, UNPROFOR was arrangement, a further 230,000 Marijan Despalatovic, lecturer in riot act to the Croats, that will busy elsewhere, Bosnia was in Croats were driven into exile in Russian studies and philosophy, be done by the chief of the center of attention for the the past year and a half gave a heart-rending account of the UNCIVPOL (UN Civilian moment. "Instances of UN PROF OR's rifugees ill Split, Croatia. This Police) for "former" Then, this April, NATO collaboration with 'endangered' report,filed last summer, shows Yugoslavia. He will explain to fighters shot down four Serb Serbs and their dislike of 'fascist' that, while newsjrotn thejonner the unreasonable Croats that fighter-bombers, which had Croats are known and docu- Yugoslavia is 110 IOl1germaking UNPROFOR is meant to pro- taken off from their base near mented," said a Croatian headlines, tlte situation there has tect both the Croats, of whom Gospic, in UNPA, to bomb tar- ministry official as we stood and hardly improved. - Eds. there are very few left in gets in Bosnia. There was no watched the quiet and orderly UNPAs, and the Serbs, but that comment from the UN vigil of refugees in front of UN ZAGREB, Croatia - Press the Serbs cannot be blamed for spokesman. What could he headquarters. "But Boutros- conferences at the United taking the law into their hands have said? Finally, he mumbled Ghali and the New York lot Nations Protection Forces because they "feel endangered." something about the Serbs behave as if there was nothing (UNPROFOR) Headquarters Their fears, one supposes, can being a "warlike people" who wrong with that attitude. When are strange affairs. only be assuaged when they are would rather die than surrender we complain we are told to The appearance of the perruicted to their weapons. count our blessings." briefing officer immediately plunder and kill A new definition of a rural "Fighter- "What are they, these bless- gives away the nature of the non-Serbs in a bombers and ings?" I ask. culture: a howitzer in "explanation" of events offered modern version of tanks?" asked a "I do not know. But you by the peace-keepers. If the tribal exorcism. every orchard and a Croatian journal- remember that several months announcement has co do with Last September, tank in every barn. ist. "The UN has ago Boutros-Gbali, wearing an UNPROFOR's inability to pro- for instance, the just given us a oversized helmet and a flak jack- tect Croats in the United Croatian army attacked several new definition of a rural cul- et, lost his patience with the Nations Protected Areas, now "Serb" villages in Croatia, ture: a howitzer in every inhabitants of Sarajevo, who, by (UNPAs), a disarmingly witty in UNPA, from which Serbs orchard and a tank in every the way, face Serb snipers and spokeswoman will give a factu- had been shelling Gospic, out- barn! And to think that it took grenades without the protective al account of the particular side of that particular UNPA, the combined wisdom and gear, and told them off 'You "unfortunate incident" and jus- ever since the "end" ofhostili- moral authority of the UN to have no right to complain', said tifY UNPROFOR's role by ties in 1992. For a year and a teach us that! How backward he to them. 'There are ten claiming that the UN troops half the Croatian govemmcnr we must seem to these apostles places on this earth where the actually saved the Croats' lives had been trying to get UNPRO- of the new world order!" situation is worse than here ... by "escorting" them from their FOR to do their job, disarm the The UN peace-keeping mis- Death is a serious matter in ancestral homes into refugee Serbs and introduce some kind sion in Croatia has not been those countries. Here we face a camps. of order. UNPROFOR was very very successful. Its objectives few problems at the level of The spokeswoman is no sorry, but it was going to take were reasonably clear: roughly communication!' So, our bless- doubt light. Had the Croats time. The preceding year and a one third of Croatian territory ings must have to do with the not been "evacuated" they half simply had not been long was to be placed under UN fact that 'our' Serbs do not com- would have been killed by the enough. The Croats routed the supervision and demilitarized. municate with us too often. Serbs, who under the protec- Serb "irregulars" and captured The Serbs were to disband You know, they can corrununi- tion afUN troops continue to several tanks and APCs, a bat- their "paramilitary" thugs and cate your head off, or your carry out their program of cre- tery of howitzers, heavy turn their heavy weapons over house to bits." ating ethnically pure Serb mortars, and several tons of to the peace-keepers. The "But UNPROFOR has no territories in Croatia. They are ammunition. Yugoslav Army was to with- trouble communicating with calmly convinced that Greater The UN immediately sprang draw into Bosnia (1) with its these little darlings, do they?" Serbia is still a viable project. into action: Croatian troops heavy weapons. Croatian amry "No difficulty at all, my dear After all, the EU and the UN were ordered to withdraw from troops were withdrawn, and feUow. They communicate to are unambiguously in favor of the UN "protected" area and the inhabitants were left in care the Serbs everything from flour, Serbian President Milosevic's chastised for interfering with of UN troops and their Serb sugar, oil, soap, sanitary napkins scheme. the "peace process." The neighbors. As the result of this (I am not joking) to fuel oil and If, on the other hand, the shelling of Gospic by the Serbs peculiar peace-keeping spare parts for their machinery e Fall 1994 •

Community had failed to per- (that on occasion included Montenegro, and establish the "I think you've got it, in the suade the Serbs and their anny to spare parts for the Serbs' can- rule oflaw. We see that in the immortal words of Professor withdraw. With the arrival of non and armored vehicles). cold world of Realpolitik the Higgins." UNPROFOR the level of vio- Perhaps a box of ammunition UN mission is not to integrate "But not all UN troops lence was reduced, but the or two, just to make dungs UNP As into the constitutional behave so shamefully." Vance plan essentially recognized neat. Communicative peace- and legal system of the "Any multinational force is and legitimized the Serbian war keepers can get very rich very Republic of Croatia, but to bound to exhibit differences in of conquest. UN troops are now quickly. In fact, the finance prepare the ground for their training and discipline. Take protecting Serb-conquered terri- minister of Yugoslavia (now pemunent separation fr0111the the European contingent. The tories in Croatia and consisting of Serbia and mother country and inclusion Belgians, the Danes and the Bosnia-Herzegovina. " Montenegro) said recently that in the Greater Serbia project." Norwegians are at the top of "What now?" the UN embargo imposed "You can't be serious." the scale. The Russians and the "I think - another war. The upon his country had had rela- "Ob, but I am serious. Ukrainians are, without a Belgrade Serbs continue to sup- tively little effect. Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi, the impecca- doubt, at the bottom. You ply their Croatian and Bosnian he said, could always rely on ble chief of the UN effort in have talked to the people. proxies with weapons and fresh her friends (Greece and in par- former Yugoslavia, said so Have they not told you that 'volunteers.' All attacks on ticular Russia) and plainly: the job of UN PRO- the Scandinavians have been Croatian territories are delivered UNPROFOR." FOR in UNPAs is to make the disciplined, brave? But that you from UNPAs, where UNPRO- "So the poor and 'endan- Serbs 'less dependent (on are in trouble if you fall into FOR are 'powerless' to enforce gered' Serbs must be very Croatia), to encourage their the hands of our Slavic broth- their mandate. No refugees have appreciative of the peace-keep- economic indepen- ers and have no Deutsch Marks returned to their homes, because ers' skills at communicating dence', and l take What now? the UN magicians think it still their concern?" that to mean that to pay for their I think - another war. 'too early' to make the Serbs toe "Ah. yes. There was the case parts of Croatia, services? (They the line." of the Russian batallion com- under the 'protec- also like pomo "Another war?" mander who had tion' of the UN and cleansed videos!) You must also have "Yes. The Slovenes are safely communicated so well with his of Croats, should be ready to found that the French and the out of the box. Croatia, on the Serb brethren that he was sent enter into a new Yugoslav Brits are near the bottom of other hand, with her magnificent home in disgrace. Well, the union, whatever the name the the scale? The French because coast, her industrial base and her Serbs in the UNPA threw a pundits may chose for it when they are the Serbs' 'traditional' highly literate and skilled popula- huge party in his honor and the right moment arrives. Can friends; that means that they tion used to provide more than gave the departing hero a you put any other reading on think all Serbs are heroes and one fourth of Yugoslavia's white Mercedes Benz as a Akashi's words?" all Croats are 'fascists.' The income. Do you think the Serbs token of their Jove and appre- "No, I cannot. If that is the Brits? Who knows. They work are ready to let go of the goose? ciation. Everybody was tearful case, then it is easier to under- very closely with the French. Especially since it is obvious that and sad, the Russian said that stand the conduct of The whole operation has been he felt as if he were leaving his UNPROFOR in the field and tainted by nightmares of the the Big Five have another Yugoslavia in mind? I doubt it. family, or was it clan, I cannot their marked reluctance to last war." Russia must be coddled and she recall. At any rate it was a pro- cross the Serbs in UNPA. For "You mean the emergence is the protector of her doughty foundly affecting occasion for instance, the Serbs have been of Germany as the dominant little Serbs. The Yanks are not all concerned." denying water to Biograd, a power in Europe?" "That must have enhanced city of about 60,000 on the "Yes. You do remember coming this time, they have no stomach for this sort of thing. the reputation of UNPROFOR coast, in the height of summer that just a few months ago Haiti, yes. The Balkans? Good and the whole UN effort." drought. The pumping station Warren Christopher said that "We now know what we for the city's water supply is in the bloodshed in the Balkans God, no!" "So, God is still on the side of can expect from our protec- UNPA. The UN troops keep was due to Germany's insis- tors, yes. Gone are the heady saying that the Serbs get very tence on "premature" the big batallions?" "Yes, God, or the UN, is on days of 1992, when we upset when the UN command recognition of Croatia and the side of the big batallions." thought UNPROFOR was tell them that the water system Slovenia. He then added, gen- coming in to stop the carnage should be turned on, so citi- erously: 'Of course, we do not Refugees in front of the UN and compel the Serbs to give zens ofBiograd suffer in the blame Germany for taking that headquarters were lighting can- up the territory they have con- heat while the UN strokes the position.' " dles. A bell tolled nearby. One quered and "settled" with feelings of those poor 'endan- "Was Gennany wrong?" stroke for each dead Croat. Serbs from Serbia and gered' Serbs. What a world!": "No. The European Business as usual.

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Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd was "ajountain of misery" for him but a boon to the nation

Michael Burlingame, similar circumstances, or to standpoint. " yet from it flowed incalculable professor of history, TIle Inner find a Lincoln quotation that The Inner World ifAbraham good for the nation." World ifAbraham Lincoln, allegedly supports their present Lincoln begins with an In the end, readers of The 1994, University of Illinois view on almost any issue under overview of the author's thesis. biller World ifAbraham Lincoln Press, 380 pages, nonfiction. the sun." He asserts that Lincoln's lead- may not agree with all of Lincoln the icon is well- ership during the Civil War Burlingame's interpretations Few historical figures known, the real resulted from his and conclusions. Still, after so occupy the man less so. "strength of charac- reviewing this new wealth of American con- In an ter and lack of information about Lincoln, one sciousness as egotism." would be hard-pressed to dis- Abraham Lincoln's pute not only the contention Lincoln. He strength, in that Abraham Lincoln was a appears at turn, derived great leader, but also that his once wise, from his greatness was derived in a large humble, successfully part from his profoundly and larger negotiating human character and disposi- than life, . the prover- tion. and bial mid-life - Lawrence Friedman '89 modern crisis, as the politicians Republican Bliflitlgmne's book made headlines rarely fail to effort party hack in /I10fethan 160 newspapers and claim a spiritual to expand became trans- was mentioned on CNN, CBS allegiance with the our understand- formed into the This Morning and in. David sixteenth president. Indeed, as ing, Professor of History statesman whom the nation Letterntan's lIIonologue. - Eds. James M. McPherson has Michael Burlingame has writ- elected president. Burlingame observed, American public ten a psychobiography. also documents the origins of figures feel compelled "to Burlingame believes that we Lincoln's treatment of slavery, Alexandra Dundas Todd P '92 square their own position will never fully appreciate and provides a glimpse of Double Vision: An East- West with what they suppose Lincoln until we explore his Lincoln's ambition and capaci- Cotiaboration jor Copino with Lincoln would have done in life from a "psychological ty for anger, two facers of his Cancer, 1994, Wesleyan personality with which mod- University Press, 200 pages, ern audiences may be nonfiction. EXCERPTED unfamiliar. The book's largest section is When Connecticut College From The Inner World 01Abraham Lincoln devoted to Lincoln's tumul- parent Alexandra Todd learned How Lincoln reacted when his wife "went on a rampage," which she tuous marriage to Mary Todd. of her son Drew's (Class of '92) periodicaffy did during the marriage: Unlike many other accounts, rare, aggressive brain cancer, At such times [Lincoln] might also seek refuge in other lawyers' Burlingame's book portrays a she was devastated. "I turned marriage beset with difficulties; into a textbook case study of a offices. An attorney Visiting a colleague in Springfield one morning he suggests that in psychologi- traumatized patient as he (the noticed a tall gentleman enter and quietly proceed to the back room. cal terms, the two were a poor doctor) droned on - optic After lunch, the host observed his visitor munching cheese and crack- match for one another. He nerve, aggressive, fast-growing, ers and said, "Why, Mr. Lincoln, ! had forgotten your coming in here. concludes, however, that very large, sixth nerve, need to didn't remember that you were in the back room, or I would have through the marriage, Lincoln move quickly - I caught asked you to go home to dinner with me. Folks away?" Lincoln looked learned patience and forbear- words, but a buzz in my head ance: "The Lincolns' maniage kept me from connecting very serious. "No, folks are not away, I'm away." was ... a fountain of misery, them." As a medical sociolo-

• Fall 1994 - gist, Todd knew she could not fighting cancer. And she was let her terror overshadow her right. Drew Todd '92 came son's need for treatment. through the often debilitating Drawing from her professional radiation treatments in rela- experience and knowledge, tively good health and she researched and evaluated survived what could have traditional and nontraditional been a fatal brain tumor. cancer treatments and, com- Although Todd writes about bining the best of Western other Eastern treatments, technology and Eastern medi- including acupuncture and cines, helped her son through meditation, she gives the most a challenging year. emphasis to macrobiotics, Todd knew what the even including recipes at the "gleaming technology of the end of the book. West" had to offer. She also However, Double Vision, as Alexandra Todd and son Drew '92 teamed up to fight cancer. knew from her own journey one book reviewer quips, is guage and the need for multi- toward health that Eastern "no half-baked, New Age Chinese word for crisis consists non-allopatric healing modali- ideological rant." The book is of two characters: danger and cultural curricula, Susan Gaylord's handbook for ties sometimes produce meticulously researched, opportunity," Todd writes. miraculous results. Plagued humanly written and com- The Todds faced the danger teachers is very timely. with multiple allergies, Todd pelling to read. This is not and seized the opportunity. Multicultural Books to Make and searched extensively for a cure just a story of combating can- "Today in the wake of Share gives instructions on before discovering macrobi- cer. It's the story of a Drew's crisis, the world does how to make 16 different otics. She was convinced that mother's love and a family's seem a more dangerous place, books from four areas of the the foods that helped her courage in the face of a Jife- where anything can happen, a world: Africa, The Americas, would give her son an edge in changing event. "The place where bad things happen Asia and Europe. Clear, read- to good people. Bur learning able instructions and to live with that danger has illustrations are coupled with EXCERPTED sharpened our awareness, informative historical infor- honed our senses to the oppor- mation. A Viking rune stone, From Double Vision: An East-West Collaboration lor Coping tunities to be grasped now in a Chinese math slat book, a with Cancer case the moment passes and the Dakota winter count and an Ethiopian wish scroll are just Because I contemplated death when I did, after 21 years at easy liv- gold ring is forever missed." Alexandra Dundas Todd is a some of the diverse projects ing, endangered at most by the occasional breakout of poison oak, professor sociology at Suffolk included in Muuicultural my slant on life was shaken. But the challenge came not so much in University in Boston and the Books. preparing for death - after all, you have little choice in the matter- author of intimate Adversaries: Book artist Susan Gaylord as in surviving the ordeal and having to forge a new life. Cancer's Cultural Coriflict Between Doctors gives workshops on book- presence in my life raised the dust, so to speak, bringing to the sur- and Wornell Patients. Drew making in schools throughout Todd '92, now recovered, has New England. tace deeply buried elements of my character. The lenses through just began work on his master's which I had always viewed life were changing dramatically. It was up degree in film studies at Boston to me to get them into a new focus. University. - MHF Daniel DiPrima '92 Most apparent and demanding was my need to reconstruct how I The Extra Nose, 1994, Zino thought about relationships. The central theme of my postsurgery Press, 32 pages, children's Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord '73 psychotherapy was not cancer but cancer's effects on my social book, ages 4-8. Mllftiwltural Books to Make and interactions. Aided by these sessions, my experience with cancer Share, 1994, Scholastic, 136 A boy finds an extra nose provided the necessary tools to clarify what I needed from, and pages, teacher handbook, lying on the ground and offered to, friends, parents, lovers and people who were yet to enter grades 1-6. begins an olfactory escapade. my iife. Cancer became a catalyst, facilitating the adjustment from Written in rhyme by Daniel patient to tull-time college student and beyond. - Drew Todd '92 With increased attention on DiPrima '92, a music supervi- children's writing, whole Jan- sor at MTV.

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(//s he talksabout the creation of a poem, Michael Collier chooses his words carefully."It usee ~ to be that a poem started with a bit of language, but I've internalized that kind of music. Now a poem starts with an image. I see something, and it crosses with something else in Iny mind creating a spark." A writer since the age of 15, Collier never needed to search for a purpose in life. "My education was easy in a sense, because I knew what I wanted." Collier transferred from the University of Santa Clara to study with the poet William Meredith at Connecticut College. "The first rime I met William, I trapped him on the narrow back stairs of Thames Hall. He was carrying a heavy typewriter up to his office. William turned my awkward initiative into a precise encounter that went from prospective student meeting prospective teacher to the meeting of two individuals. This kind of encounter was typical of William. He taught many of us not only how to read poems, but how to read each other." Meredith's influence runs through Collier's journey as a writer, and Collier's most recent book of poetry, The Neighbor, is dedicated to Meredith. "He constantly made literature relate tc your life. He made you work hard. Not in the sense of piles and piles of work. William didn't elicit frivolous responses. He taught out of his character." The author of three books of poetry and editor of The Ulesleyan Tradition: Four Decades oj American Poetry, Collier, is himself a teacher. "Teaching writing is teaching what 1 love most. It's teaching out of my passions," says Collier of his experience as associate professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of Maryland. The recipient of a 1991 Pushcart Prize and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Collier is an important voice in American poetry. He was recently named director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the oldest writers' gathering in the United States. Collier, who holds an M.F.A. from the University

Michael Collier '76 of Arizona, will succeed Middlebury poet Robert Pack, who has been director of the conference for 22 years. But it is prose now, not poetry that is occupying Collier's attention. He is completing a book The new director of on his experience as part of an oceanographic expedition 2S0 miles off the coast of Washington state. Deep under the ocean's surface in a small submarine, watching 1S-foot worms and "clams the Bread Loaf the size of Frisbees," Collier was inspired. The working title for his book is A Dream of VJ.1ater. A native of Phoenix, Ariz., Collier was the only son in a family of four daughters. "I hated Writers' Conference living in Phoenix and longed for a home with grass and trees." But the experience ofliving in a house full of women gave him a perspective from which to write. His poems often center speaks on writing, around women and portray them with sensitivity and insight. "The Daughters of Degas," published in his first book, The Clasp, tells the story of the lone brother watching his sisters ready William Meredith, themselves for schooL "I know/how one stands on toes toliron a shirr; another tilts/her head to unroll maroon/and pink curlers. But itlis grace or light or love/that smoothes cloth or shapes and clams the hair. That's what Degas/might say." Collier's sisterJeannie won a silver medal for diving in the 1964 Olympic Games, and Collier size of Frisbees. credits her for his achievements. "In her there was a role model for success." Collier also admits that Jeannie's athleticism let him off (he hook somewhat. "There was no pressure for me to be an athlete." Collier's father, a world-class sprinter in the 1930s, focused his attention on Collier's sister, allowing Collier the freedom to read and write. Michael Collier's poems, "The Diver," and "The Cave" are both about Jeannie. A contributor to The New Yorker, TIleAtlantic and Poetry, Collier lives in Catonsville, Md., with his wife Katherine Branch, a library director, and their two sons, Robert, 9, and David, 7. When asked what qualities are necessary to be a successful poet, Collier replies, "Only to love language passionately, to be ravished by language and to hear it in all its different cones." By his own definition, Michael Collier is indeed a successful poet.

o Fall 1994 The JiVclterDream

Courage from my oldest son who wore the tanks and mask whose feet were purple webs, whose eyes, blue behind the oval lens, shone bold. His hair a yeUow sponge wrapped around the regulator gauge. Outside the world of dream he would have drowned, and so I wondered at the graceful flutter of his kick and how he bore the apparatus, wore the leaded belt and where he learned his skill, or how he knew to circle there But in the dream I never rose, where sand shelved off to rocks, and all at once r found myself and where the rocks shimmered beneath black water, made blacker in bottom light - an orange murk by the hull that bobbed above me. of shape and bulk to which he pointed The boat that held my family - with a gig, short-handled, meant father, mother, sisters - stuck for frogs. And then he surfaced, at anchor, and the anchor lodged and turning on his back so he could lift in dark. What son would not the mask, he said, Mother is near. acquiesce to the danger and carry

Then he dove and disappeared, with him the anger that neutralized and in his absence something cold rose: his fear, pocket his blame, rhe feeling of an empty place like air, against his father where fear intrudes, where death becomes for having been sent down to do a job the dreamer's death or where an animal ills father should have done long-tame, transforms into a beast. and finding it impossible to do,

But where I swam, I heard the turbines come up a gasping failure? of the dam whine and hum along the bottom And what little company of the lake - a sound, like pressure I would have needed to give me in the ears, a sound of crushing weight, courage. What shadow presence a thing almost too literal to dream, came last and late and with impatience: an exit song where light answered light, a knife handed down to me, a sharp and where [ rose to the conscious shore, blade and raw-hide handle to cut feet down, dry above the edge of the reservoir, the line and watch the boat turn and where I heard a voice inside me say, its stern to me, while the brass prop

Go out, go out and walk on the water unwound slowly in the drift, as if on the meniscus of this dream. Shadow and the hand above reached down the shadow movement of your son. to take the knife.

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(JWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THIS FALL, J c~nnecticut College led the charge toward coeducation as one of the first all-women's colleges to admit male undergraduates. For the most part, the transition got strong support from college constituents - in fact, the college is often held up as "the place that did it right" - but there was one notable exception. A member of the Class of 1966 was so outraged that she didn't give a single cent to the college's annual fund for 10 years. "1 was wrong," she tells alumni today. That convert is Connecticut College President Claire Gaudiani. The story of CC's shift to coeducation has often been told in college publications, most recently in the 75th anniversary edition of The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, and we won't rehash it here. But lately, the debate over the merits of coed vs. single-sex education has resurfaced. On one hand, applications for enrollment at the nation's 80 women's colleges have risen by as much as 30 percent, even though only 4 percent of college women now graduate from these institutions. On the other hand is the well-publicized case of The Citadel's battle to exclude a young woman, Shannon Faulkner, from the all-male military college. ("Wake up and smell the '90s," Faulkner told her opponents.) This special report marks Connecticut College's anniversary with several viewpoints on the issues of gender and learning in higher education. Two snapshots of campus life -_. one in 1958 and the other in 1994 - dramatically reveal the differences in attitudes and life styles that 40 years can make; two essays explore new territory in the ongoing debate over gender equity.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazil1c -. Below: The Conn Chords in 1958. Connecticut College Archives. That was then last mays ofthe Genteel World In 1958, the world was more or less at peace, jobs were plentiful, and the United States was at the peak of its rise to world dominance.

ACKTHEN, NO STUDENT HAD A KEY to her dormitory occasion, a group of modern dancers from New York who room. It was considered unnecessary since there was were preparing for a performance locked themselves in a rec Ban Honor System in place. room in which students were allowed to bake cookies or To guard against outside intrusion, the campus was prepare fudge for some important event or birthday party. patrolled by a corps of elderly gentlemen the students called When a handful of students arrived there prepared to use "Toothless Wonders." The dorrns were locked early each the cooking facilities, they discovered they had been locked evening, and when a student came back after hours she our. Security was immediately called. reported to the Security Office in order to be driven to her The noble officer who answered the summons bustled house where a Toothless Wonder would let her in make sure in, a huge collection of keys rattling in his wake. After much she was safely "signed in." trial and error, he finally located the right key. When he These old men zealously protected the reputations of opened the door and looked in, he suddenly turned a bright "the young ladies" as they always described their charges. In red from the neck up: It was a hot afternoon, and the New the spring, they kept busy flushing the bushes or trees of York dancers, two female and one male, had removed all of eager young lads, who were given a serious warning about their clothing for the rehearsal. the ravages of sin and ordered never to trespass on the sacred The door was quickly slammed and relocked. With campus again. arms that formed a cross against the door, the old man At times, of course, the intoned, "Young ladies, zeal of these ancient officers please, this is not a sight for became excessive. On one By Alice Johnson Continued all page 24

fa Fal/1994 .. • This IS now

In 1994, the world is in turmoil, jobs are scarce and AIDS is rampant. For many students, falling into friendships may reduce the risk of deeper connections.

By Yvonne Abraham

TUDENTS START TO SHUFFLEIN at The Coffee Ground after nine. Some bring work with them. Some come to escape it. Lit by Christmas Slights and several faces reflecting the glow from portable computer screens, this place is the hub of campus social life, rivaled only by the bar downstairs. By 10 p.m., animated conversations make it hard to hear the folky music, a state of affairs that must please the student who at 9:15 implored the waitresses to put on something else - anything else. At a table in the center of the cafe, two students cram for a gender studies exam. Descartes gives them pause.

"We can only think in OUf own language," says one woman. "Therefore our am-ness is only what we can think. Which is a pretty intense idea." The other woman nods her agreement, and they move on to other issues - the way the medical profession lets women down with unreliable tests for cervical cancer, how women's susceptibility to AIDSgets overlooked sometimes. They take a break now and then to talk to other students, then repeat the drill. Each gap in their knowledge ("Teleological. What does that mean?") sends them searching frantically through their notes. At the next table, two students discuss their summers. "I loved Barcelona. Where'd you stay in Barcelona?" They also discuss their love lives. Continued on page 25

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Continued from page 22 ress to ask if she could learn from the housekeeper if smok- your innocent eyes. Go away. Come back later when these ing would be permissible at this time. The student reported ... these ... naked nudists have put their clothes back on back that the word was, "If the dean approves." Reassured, I and gone over to the auditorium ... or back to New York asked the waitress to distribute ash trays to the various City where they belong." tables. Along with this heroic band of defenders was another No sooner had everyone happily lit their cigarettes than equally dedicated group intent on preserving student virtue the housekeeper charged out from behind the kitchen door. whatever the cost. These were the intrepid housekeepers Looking as though she had just been cast for the role of who made certain that all established rules, like command- Medea, she strode directly to the head table. She glared ments handed down from Moses, were strictly obeyed. down at me, disgust etched across her starkly tragic face. Their vigilance also included a need to keep an eye on the "I said," she spat out, in venomous tones that hissed house fellows - whether faculty or staff members - who throughout every corner of the room, "I said, THE DEAN. were nominally in charge of the dormitories. Theoretically, did not say a dean." the students ran their own houses and had elaborate systems Since The Dean of the College was presiding three of government, but everyone knew that the housekeepers, buildings away, there was obviously no way to procure the not the housefellows or the student officers, were really in required permission. The housekeeper strode triumphantly charge. back to the kitchen, having reminded every last student On one occasion, shortly after I had arrived on the who was really in charge when it came to such weighty campus, a Junior Class dinner was held. Because no dining matters as proper decorum where "the young ladies," not to room at that time was mention upstart deans, were concerned. large enough to seat an Obviously, the housekeeper had struck a blow that did entire class, the students little to enhance my image among the students, most of were divided up among whom had not yet even been introduced to me. three dormitory dining Fortunately, there was one long-established tradition main- rooms. A dean, who tained in all dining halls. At a "sit-down" dinner no student presided at a head table, could depart until the housefellow, the dean or the faculty was assigned to host each guests had taken their leave. It seemed appropriate that I group. When my group remain seated for as long as possible until the dragon-lady was about to be served had to take some action. After all neither she nor her staff dessert, an enterprising could leave until the tables had all been cleared and the student asked if smoking dishes and silverware washed and put away. a cigarette might be per- The housekeeper began frantically waving to me from mitted on this special the kitchen door, but I refused to acknowledge her efforts occasion. At that time, to force me to rise. Gradually, the room grew silent as the smoking was becoming more popular each year. While it students kept glancing at the housekeeper and then back at was not yet permitted on a daily basis in the dining halls, me. Finally, when she could tolerate it no longer, she for special events it was sometimes allowed. Freedom to advanced toward where I sat, her eyes sparkling with mal- smoke everywhere and anywhere was, in fact, one of the ice, and said, in a loud voice, "I have given you the signal to major student issues on campus in the late '50s and early leave several times, already." I rose, and in as loud a voice as '60s. I could muster, 1 said, "I am so sorry I was waiting for THE Not certain of the rules, I beckoned to a student wait- Continued on page 26

fa Fall1994 First male graduates:

Matthew Griswold '71, Andrew Ketterer '71, John Walters '71 and George Gager '71

Continued from page 23 "I need direction in my life," she tells her friend, who has just ended a relationship. "He's like, 'I need to know what you're doing with your life,' whereas before 1 would have been content to work it out at my own pace ... " Close by, two women and three men talk literature. "1 love Toni Morrison. And I've just started TIle Brothers Karamazov. Do you like Oostoyevsky?" one of the women asks one of the men. "I've heard of him," he replies. Their conversation covers considerable ground, from books to schools to mutual friends and the foibles of family members. Early Men "My sister had such a crush on my friend's brother," says the Morrison fan, "I gave her all my photos of him." Five men comment on gender pioneering The Coffee Ground fills up, new arrivals join groups, affected their education and their thinking blur boundaries between them and make table-hoppers IT OPENED THEIR EYES AND SHAPED THEIR THINKING. That's what these work for their mingle mileage. Men join women, women five men say about their experience as some of the first male students at join men, and they seem relaxed, familiar, friendly with Conn, amidst hundreds of women. each other. Dr. John Walters, '71, says he came "from a household with a very After the waitresses turn out the lights on their still- strong father, and from a male-dominated junior college." He saw that arriving clientele, after the night's ping-pong champion is "women are as capable and as competitive as men - yes!" Now a senior asso- crowned, after they've said their goodbyes and compared ciate with the Connecticut Department of Higher Education, he's "sensitive to their workloads and planned their days, the men and affirmative-action issues." women of Connecticut College go home. The women "opened up their school to us," says Warren Erickson, '74. "I Together. felt encouraged to participate; I left more confident as a person." He remem- Twenty-five years after Conn College went coed, the bers learning to respect differences. "I've carried that with me," says Erickson, verdict on sharing classes, dorms and even bathrooms is: an assistant vice president at Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. No Big Deal. Mark Warren, '75, notes that since Conn is small, "You mix with every- Ask these men and women if it's hard living and one; you tend to learn about people. I'd like to think that I was shaped with a studying with each other and mostly they'll look at you as better understanding and appreciation of women." Warren is president of if you're some relic from an ancient civilization. Electronic Sales of New England. "We get on fine. We're friends. 1 don't really think "Working as a minority, learning what that means, is a good experience - about it much," says Ellen, a sophomore. "There's more especially for white, Anglo Saxon males," says David Clark, '73, a senior buyer important stuff to worry about." at L.L. Bean. He adds, "To be first, to do something different, gives you selt- Try pushing them a little further by talking about co- reliance - and an appreciation for others who are pioneers." ed bathrooms and they can make you feel pretty H.P. Goldfield, '73, a partner in the law firm of Swidler & Berlin, says his sophomoric. Conn experience showed him, early on, "that there should never be room for "People don't hang out in the bathrooms," saysJames, discrimination," and fhat everybody benefits when people can "think indepen- a senior. "You go in. You use them. You leave." dently and not stereotype anybody." No big deal. They just live together. - Carolyn Battista Continued on page 27

ConnecticutCollegeMagazine • Continued from page 24 there. I never met another DEAN to give me permission." On that moment of brief person who had such a clearly triumph I led the students out of the dining halls. defined sense of who he was Another stalwart guardian of this little Eden was Allen and where he belonged in the Lambdin the business manager who handled all financial universe. affairs of the college, kept an eye on the physical plant, and The early Board of Trustees provided another source of was most particularly concerned with beautification of the keepers of the flame. Some of them had suffragette experi- campus. He was a gentleman from the South who had ence and in many instances had achieved remarkable careers flown in World War I with Eddy Rickenbacker. Upon sep- in volunteer services as well as in the public arena. They aration from the service, "The General," as he was always were driven by the same desire that motivated faculty and called, brought with him an entourage of young men who administrators. Their admonition to the college was: had served on his ground crew in the Air Corps. Some of Become the best as soon as possible. their descendants are still employed at the college today. Mrs. Mary Morrisson, who had participated in the The General was a music lover par movement to secure the vote for women, excellence. He created the College took an active role in American politics. The early Board of Trustees Concert Series whereby small institu- In 1924, she had been invited to make a tions across the United States were able was driven by the seconding speech on behalf of a presiden- to import top-notch musical prograols. same desire that tial candidate at the Republican National As a horticulturist, he had no peer. Convention. motivated faculty The plantings around the dormitory Anna Lord Strauss, Janet Payne and buildings were all personally selected by and administrators. Helen Buttenwieser were all stalwart, ded-

The General. Workmen had to be care- Their admonition to icated supporters of the college. Once, at ful to follow his orders as to their place- a freshman banquet, Mrs. Buttenwieser the college was: ment, unless they didn't mind having to outlined the course of her life. Following uproot and plant them again. When I Become the best a somewhat unhappy stint as an under- was installed as housefellow in Larrabee as soon as possible. graduate student, she had been taken on a Dormitory (completed in 1958), the stu- cruise around the world. Returning to the dents invited The United States, she earned a law degree General for Christmas dinner that and persuaded a big-city firm to take her on. She made a year. His presence had been particu- place for herself by taking up the cause of women and chil- larly noted that autumn, for he fre- dren, who often needed an advocate back in those days quently monitored how the new before divorce had become commonplace. Her personal building was shaking down. So thesis registered loud and clear at the banquet: "Don't just pleased was he by the invitation that sit there, waiting for someone to tell you what to do. Look two days before the dinner, a huge around. See what needs to be done. That, young ladies, is evergreen tree was delivered to be your mandate - a mandate you cannot afford to ignore. planted right next to the dormitory. For it is given that women are endowed with a natural Of course, bright Christmas lights humanitarian instinct. Nurture it. Develop it. As privileged were also hung among the boughs. young women, it is your responsibility to find the place That tree still stands today - a living where you can make your best contribution."

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• Fal/1994 Continued jrom page 25 And the nature of those friendships may be as responsible as "There's no Greek system, no football team, no cheer- AIDS for keeping things that way. leaders, no marching band here. The dorms are the "I often worry that going too far in a friendship would lifeblood of this campus," saysJames [footnote: names have spoil it," says Lucy, a sophomore who dates someone from been changed], a senior. Students' loyalties, he says, are to the Coast Guard Academy. the people they live with. "Men and women are friends "There's a lot of sexual tension on campus," saysJames. here." "But you don't act on it, because they're your friends, or Not that Conn is unaffected by the problems which your friends' friends." beset all universities: date rape causes concern here, as else- Figure alcohol into the equation and their resolution where; two gender studies courses this semester have slips a little - some students avoid keg parties altogether attracted a total of three male students; and alleged homo- because they are not exactly conducive to platonic relation- phobia makes some students' lives harder than they should ships - but most students will tell you it's pretty bad form be. But students here also place a high premium on friend- to "hook up" with fi-iends. ships which cut across gender boundaries. And Connecticut College is a small place. "College is not just about education "If it doesn't work out," laments James, and grades. You have to learn to relate to "you're gonna see them all the time." your peers," says Scott, a sophomore who "If you want to get to know someone went to an all-male high school. "In a better, it's hard," says Kelly, a sophomore. single-sex school, you lose being able to "And everyone knows who's hooked up deal with other sexes. You might get bet- with who." ter grades, but at a high price. College is Consequently, students claim, there are supposed to prepare you for life." very few couples on campus and very few And life, these days, is complicated. students who feel able to choose anything AIDS casts a long shadow. A genera- other than short-term encounters or buddy tion after campus went coed, students are relationships. Very few students who even hardly basking in the afterglow of the date each other. For some, this may just be sexual revolution. AIDS is a prominent the down side to the ease with which then part of curricular and extracurricular and women live together here. education. Students are reminded regular- "Relations between the sexes here are ly that HIV tests and condoms are available from the incredibly relaxed. They have a comfortableness I didn't infirmary. Students' own conversations touch on the topic have when I was their age," says Professor Murstein, who so often that it is almost mundane. Like the weather. worked to introduce coeducation at Conn. "Then, you dat- Psychology Professor Bernard Murstein, who has stud- ed someone. But while there was a stiffness about it, at least ied Conn students' relationships, says AIDS has changed the you had a structure to lean on." way students think about their sexuality, if not the way they "Students are trying to dilute the risk of connecting," express it (his 1991 study of 440 students here found that says Health Education coordinator David Brailey. "They're only 35 percent practiced safe sex consistently): they're missing out on a very positive risk, the risk of dialing on the increasingly reluctant to form romantic attachments. phone and saying, 'Do you want to go out?'" Mter the first months of freshman life, students say, the Rather than engage in such archaic rituals, Conn stu- novelty of living alongside potential partners wears off, and dents still inclined to risk friendships - and student life as they're more inclined to fall into friendships than into bed. Continued on page 29

ConnecticutCollegeMagazine .. Continued from page 26 for selection involved having a "good figure, beautiful pos- Percy Maxim Lee, ture, clean, shining, well-kept hair, imagination in manag- who had served as National ing a clothes budget, and good grooming ..." to name a few. President of the League of Of the 10 imperatives issued by Glamour not one word rec- Women Voters, was a ommended as desirable dedication to learning. strong advocate of volun- Katherine Gibbs was still eager to find "senior girls" teer service. She expected who wished to develop "marketable skills" so that they the young to be vitally might aspire to become assistants to the male presidents of concerned with politics. prestigious firms usually located in New York City or some One aspect of the so-called other equally glamorous locale. At the same time, the Royal Dalton China Company appeared on "silent generation" of the '50s caused campus to display a 100-piece dinner- her much despair, for the young women All seemed serene ware set and to take orders from the of that period struck her as not much Future Homemakers of America, who interested in anything beyond them- in this little Eden. were busy picking out their sterling silver selves. She frequently proposed bringing Under the banner heading: patterns with service for dinner parties of in women speakers of note who might 12 to 24. fire up these apathetic college students "She's lovely: She's By the mid '60s, though, colleges and was the motivating force behind the were caught up in a maelstrom of politi- visit of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt engaged," the editors of the cal and social activity. Assassinations in the fall of 1958. school newspaper still These remarkable women gave tone loomed large across the American land- scape. Vietnam became an evil word. to the college and served as lively exam- reported on all who were ples that to be a female did not mean Integration at times lost out to you were second class, and accepting fortunate enough to get Separation. Alienation came into vogue. such a demeaning status was uncon- Parents no longer understood their chil- engaged before scionable. These stalwart women had dren; The children no longer understood great faith in themselves. They knew commencement. their parents. Great liberalizing actions where they stood on all major issues of eliminated age-old rules of conduct, and the day. Their backs were straight and they held their heads in an oddly, paradoxical fashion, college administrators high. All in all, it was frequently said of them, "They don't found themselves in the business of being "in loco parentis" make them like that any more." for all the young who could not go home again. But even these sturdy characters could not predict the It was a time in which hope and despair, hate and love, winds of change that would soon to blow across the cam- violence and death, would inform college students, opening puses of America. In 1958, all seemed serene in this little their eyes to a gritty, very real world with no hope of Eden. Under the banner heading: "She's lovely: She's returning to the Eden of the previous decade. But perhaps Engaged," the editors of the school newspaper still reported it also was a time as Wordsworth said, "twas glorious to be on all the seniors who were deemed fortunate enough to alive, but to be young was very heaven." get engaged before commencement. Students nominated the most "beautiful girl" to represent the college in New York City for two weeks as the Alice Johnson, fondly remembered as D]. by many alumni, is guest of Glamour magazine, from whence would be chosen dean emeritus oj the college and proJessor emeritus oj English. the 10 "Best Dressed College Girls in America." Criteria This article is an excerpt from her book-in-progress .

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d Continued front page 27 them, many Conn college coeds seem to look to each other they know it-have become expert in the art of communi- for protection. Much of what concerns them - career cating without actually speaking to each other. Honing skills choices, AIDS, racism - cuts across gender boundaries. which will prove invaluable in their professional lives, they Consequently, for many of them, so do the allegiances they are expert in voice-mail phone-tag. value. "You can call anyone here if you know their last name," It is Tuesday night at 10 p.m., and Mary Harkness resi- saysJames. And when you do call them, you can lessen the dents are on study break in the lounge. The two huge subs risk of rejection by leaving a message rather than electing to the house fellow ordered in vanish within minutes. So, too, speak to them live. do many of the students who almost inhale them. Those If the voice-mail system insufficiently dilutes connec- who remain, about 30 students, watch a videotape of come- tion, there's always e-mail. Students log on to the Internet dian Robin Williams performing live at the Met. Williams and, using a command called 'finger', they can find, meet begins a merciless routine on men's libidos, then another on and talk with anyone else who happens to be using the sys- women and childbirth. The students, men and women in tem. But e-mail can be risky, too. equal proportions, are glued to the screen and helpless with "You can get to know people better on the internet," laughter. Not one of them betrays a hint of discomfort. says Kelly. "But you never know what's true." Only the young woman who appears at the door with Crush Parties, which began five or six years ago, would an earth-shattering hiccup shifts their attention. be a way around that. A dorm hosts a Crush Party and gives "Ummrn, does each of its residents two tickets, which he or she sends anyone know a cure?" anonymously to potential objects of his or her affections. At They laugh at her, the party, senders are supposed to make themselves known to try to scare her, take sendees and, ideally, things develop from there. turns advising her, But the Crush Party system hasn't worked that way for a make her swallow 10 couple of years. times. She is cured. "People don't tell any more," saysJames. "It leaves them They return to open for rejection. And now, people just give their tickets to Williams, who tells of their friends." the joys of parenthood Students seem far more willing to work out aggression in excruciatingly scato- than sexual tension. The original vision of Crush Parties may logical detail, joys have been lost, but Dorm Assassins is still going strong. which Harkness resi- Students who sign up to play Dorm Assassins become dents may themselves part of a vast circle of killers who are also potential victims. behold before too long. The aim of the game is to liquidate your prey (using an Before the first titles roll the length of the TV screen, ambush and a water pistol) before you, yourself, are "killed." the students are gone, leaving a young man - either A successful assassin inherits his or her victim's victim, and responsible or just too slow - to reconstruct the room, the last person left alive wins. Beloved equally by men and which he does, with good humor. women, the game is meant to relieve mid-term pressures and A little over a generation ago, this would not have been unite dorm residents. It seems to work. possible here. Universities are no longer the last chance for a slice of Eden before adulthood and the real world ruin everything. Unable to rely on old structures, and unfree to rebel against Yvonne Abraham is a Boston-based freelance writer.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille • Gender Wars: Is coeducation the magic bullet?

By Barbara T. Roessner

for women is a general frustra- HE WOMEN'S movement goal, then, of this encore out at the gate, were trium- tion with the elusiveness of has taken some abrupt debate are precisely what they phantly scaling the ramparts. T gender equity in the culture. turns during its long history. were when the male Ivy Rivkin, who was in the Although the argument But 25 years ago, when League and its smaller male second class of women ostensibly is focused on America's most prestigious and female counterparts, admitted to Yale and has inequalities within the coedu- colJeges and universities including Connecticut been a professor of English at cational classroom, it's also marched en masse into the College, went coed: equality Connecticut since 1980, says about inequalities outside, par- exhilarating frontier of coedu- of the sexes. coeducation set in motion a ticularly in the workplace. cation, could anyone have Implicit in the newly con- different dynamic at formerly Many young women leave predicted it might someday figured argument, however, is women's colleges than at col- Connecticut and other presti- lead us back - or forward - the notion that coeducation, leges that had been gious colleges and universities to another vigorous debate far from being a direct route exclusively male. At full of confidence and expecta- over gender segregation in the to equality, has actually set Connecticut, for example, tion, only to hit a professional classroom? women back. Forced to com- she says coeducation spurred world of glass ceilings. When That, amazing as it may pete with men who bring to a strengthening of academic they have children, they collide seem to those of us who par- the classroom an innate sense departments traditionally head-on with nonexistent ticipated in the great of entitlement and authority, "coded male," such as math migration of the late '60s and some young women have and the sciences. Athletic maternity leave policies and early '70s, is precisely where recoiled or been eclipsed, the facilities and opportunities inadequate child care options. we now find ourselves. argument goes, getting little also-were expanded to At Connecticut, as at other Coeducation, often seen as a help from biased teachers ana accommodate men. women's colleges that went forerunner of sexual equality institutional attitudes. "A male institution was, in coed, there was a prevailing in society at large, is being Proponents of single-sex a sense, performing an act of sense that women needn't be assailed as a barrier to it. And education point to a variety of condescension in admitting segregated to succeed. The women's colleges, once widely recent studies showing that women," Rivkin says. "But I conviction remains firm that dismissed as the tired sentinels adolescent girls perform bet- think that because there is a reality is a better preparation of an outmoded femininity, ter, particularly in.math a~n",d_..s!genderhierarchy in society, than artificial sheltering. are suddenly on the cutting science, without boys in the for women's colleges to As it turns out, neither coed- edge of feminism. classroom. Overlooked girlS include men they've had to ucation nor single-sex Women's colleges, in fact, gradually recede from center convince men that it's not education is the magic bullet. are not only experiencing a stage, feeling shunned and emasculating for them to be Twenty-five years after the surge in applications and intimidated. there." great shift in higher education, admissions after a precipitous The idea is that in all- Rivkin says formerly male women still face enormous and sustained drop. They are female classrooms, young institutions have not done the obstacles once they leave the reinventing both their image women have the freedom and same for women. "I don't halls of the academy - regard- and their mission. support to flourish. Leaders think there's been an analo- less of whether those halls are Instead of downplaying emerge and ascend, honing gous change in areas coded coed. their all-female environment, skills and developing instincts feminine, such as arts and "This is a generation later," they're emphasizing it. Their that might otherwise be humanities and art history," says Rivkin of the young message: If girls are to succeed squashed. she said. "Women's institu- women leading the revival of in a man's world, they're better One of the simple but star- tions have made enormous single-sex colleges. "These are off being educated without tling lessons of this current efforts to convince prospec- the children who have inherited them. debate is that history moves at tive male students and their the lessons of their mothers." "The upsurge of interest in a breathtaking pace. Virtually parents that this is going to be women's institutions is con- lost in the present dialogue is a strong preparation for Barbara T. Roessner, a 1975 grad- nected to women's desires to the context in which coedu- careers. I don't sense the same uate of Wesleyoll University, writes have equal power in society," cation was so recently kind of anxiety at the Ivy o coill/lI/1 for TIle Hartford Courant saysJulie Rivkin, director of embraced. Remember: A League." that is distributed nationally by The gender and women's studies at mere 25 years ago, the Ivy Rivkin also points out that L.A. Times/ Washingtoll Post Connecticut College. League was a fortress of white underlying the contemporary News Service. Two cif her sisters are The inspiration and the male power; women, locked push for single-sex education COHneetiwt College alulIlnae.

ED Fal/1994 The Girls Movement: nBeing Anything They Wantll

By Nancy Gruver '75

HERE IS A VIBRANT boys than girls. Tired of the 8-to-14-year-old girls. With T and growing grassroots stereotype that suggests all virtually no marketing bud- movement for recognition black girls will get pregnant get, circulation exploded of the power of girls in this and go on welfare, the girls to more than 20,000 country - one that strives formed their own support within a year - as media to bring girls to their right- group called "Girl Talk." around the world picked ful place in society, The They set their own agenda, up the story of a maga- movement is built upon the and within months, other zine for girls who substantial gains in opportu- girls around the city had want their voices nities and recognition of joined them. When heard and their women in the 20th century, Governor Lawton Chiles dreams taken seri- a social revolution in which came to congratulate them, ously. "It's like the Connecticut College they challenged him to water on parched community has played an improve state support for earth," a mother active role. Now the Girls' education and housing. wrote. A father called to say, Movement is extending • In Boston, girls took "I was watching my daugh- those gains and recognition years of Harvard and ter's voice being silenced, but she draws such strength New Moon magazine, brainchild to the very roots of women's Wellesley research and put it of an alumna, is written by and for lives: girlhood. into action. At the Center from the magazine-- she young girls, and has won kudos from The topic of girls' self- for Ventures in Girls' devours it when it comes!" Ms. magazine and others. esteem has entered the Education, girls and women Hundreds of girls wrote, mainstream of social and created a program called each with a message like this have in the hands of chil- media conversation - if not "Circles of Courage." They one: "I'm so glad there's a dren. And yet, it is absolutely the political dialogue. There traveled to the wilderness, place just for girls, where I essential to make that shift. has been unprecedented challenged themselves physi- don't feel alone, where I can To really attend to girls coverage of girls, their lives, cally, took risks with a group talk about the problems and means to upset the fabric of concerns and roles in U.S. and practiced ways to trust feel good about who I am." society." The Girls' society. Studies on gender what they already know. As publisher, I believe Movement has the potential bias and sexual harassment in • Across the country, hun- New Moon is one of the best to upset the fabric of society schools, conducted by the dreds of thousands of girls examples of the potential of by removing the threads of American Association of took the opportunity to go the Girls' Movement. It pro- sexism which restrict both University Women, sparked to work with parents, rela- vides a forum for the voices our daughters and our sons. intense discussion that tives and friends. "Take Our and the power of girls. We With Connecticut helped girls' issues break Daughters to Work" day is a start from strength and let College's historic commit- into the social consciousness. chance for girls to learn girls know they can carry ment to women's education Harvard, Wellesley and about potential careers and that strength into the rest of and women's issues, those UCLA have all initiated for both girls and boys to their lives. None of it is easy. who are connected to the research on girls develop- discuss gender bias together. It requires resistance and college have a special ment; and American But, even more important, rebellion (with boys and responsibility to participate University on gender bias. TODTW is a giant social adults as allies) against a soci- in the Girls' Movement. We The most important partici- intervention - proclaiming ety where devaluation of can create places for girls to pants in the discussion, to girls and to the world that females is deeply ingrained. speak their voice, exercise however, are girls them- girls are valued and will be It requires truly listening to their power and be agents selves. Some recent listened to, at least for one girls and living with the for positive change. In our examples speak for them- day of the year. consequences of that. As adult world, we can break selves: • In Duluth, Minnesota, Harvard researcher Dr. down the barriers that nar- • In St. Petersburg, 25 girls started New Moon.' Annie Rogers puts it, "To row girls' horizons. Then we Florida, a group of inner The Magazine for Girls and really listen to girls means to can someday honestly tell city girls became fed up Their Dreams, an ad-free, give them an incredible our daughters (and our sons) with their housing project international, feminist authority that ordinarily we that they truly can be any- offering more programs for bimonthly, edited entirely by would find uncomfortable to thing they want to be.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazifle CD PorUolio "Another Perspective" Keoki Flagg' 87

oon after his college graduation, Keoki Flagg '87 picked up his grandfather's boxy 1956 twin lens reflex camera and Sbegan a nomadic journey through five continents. "Another Perspective," a portfolio of26 black-and-white images, emerged at the journey's end - nearly six years later. Defying the "CARE poster" image that he says clouds many Americans' view of Third World peoples, Flagg sought to convey his subjects' sense afjoy and "their acceptance of the way life is." With his curly, long blond hair, the photographer was often a curiosity himself as he peered into his camera, which is held at waist level, and focused on a moment in time. Whether meeting pygmies, camel herders or business executives, Flagg tried to learn from each encounter. "My photos not only capture the faces of other worlds, they look at the world through my subjects' eyes." Born in Hawaii, where he acquired his distinctive first name, he now lives in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, where he exhibits and sells his work. His photographs will be on exhibit at Connecticut College's Cummings Arts Center in January and February, 1995. - LHE

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Self Portrait with Pygmy Chief

"At 28 years old! (and the tallest mall in his village) my friend the Pygmy chiif' was a lIlall of stature and respect among the tribe. "

Youth Marriage

"Lamu, a Kenyan island near the border of SOli/alia! has an ancient Muslim culture dating back to the Dhow traders ... while wandering the ~zarrow streets olle IllOmil/g! l carne across a young couple at their horne. The mall was a proud clIld COfifident husband of 14 with a wife of 11. tu, was tilefirst of a series of photographs that I shot of them and later

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"The eyes are the gateway to the soul. So much call be said with a simple stare. Here high ill the mountains if Lesotho J !/las once again face fa face with that look, that something that shows an inherent knowingJar beyond the years !.if experience."

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"Five other travelers and I embarked from Jaisalmer in India for a five-day camel safan' in the Rajasthani dunes along the Pakistan border Omar was oilly a boy, and yet he owned three camels, and therefore, was considered a wealthy man to be respected.}}

ConnecticutCollegeMagazifle CD Sherpa Yak Herder

({My beautifuljriclld Didi (NepaliJor older sister) had that warmillg slIlile that startsfrolll within .. Like almost all the Tibetans I have met, her whole allra was olle if happiness and contentment. We met outside her brother's lodge 011 Goyko Lake in the Everest Basin. It was Didi's destiny ill fife to shepnerd the family's yaks .from one high Himalayall paswre to the next."

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"Perspective and scale are everything in Illy work.. One smaii man and a dead treefioatil1g in a liglJt~valued sea wittl a nudear sky. Even in blade-and-white the sand dunes if Snsesviei carry afeeling if the absurd. "

connecticutCollegeMagaziuc G Class Notes Alumni Correspondents

Our beloved Sadie Coit Benjamin, a stately lady of 98 celebrating her 75th reunion, was YJ(ouinc; 10 rxyG.P CLASS NOTES the star of the Sykes Society luncheon at Reunion '94. Table of Contents Once again the class celebrated a reunion If you need a home with 100 percent participation in Annual in Manhattan or any Giving. information on city Alumni Calendar .43 Marilyn Morris Lee '42, daughter of the living or prices, I'm late Mary Chipman Morris and Professor here to help you. Alumni Travel.. .. 39 Frank Morris sent a letter to the class (with generous check). She wrote "the 75th reunion (212) 836-1061 K~yO'Connor! Classifieds .40 is very special! I have always been so proud co Mjlcs Ladjo '90 know the class and co be a small part of it." - Club News. . 41 Andy Crocker Wheeler '34 I THE CORCORAN GROUP I Rcal Estate On the Up & Up. ....47 Cotrespandent: Reunion News: June3-5, 1994 Kathryn Hulbert Hall Obituaries .. 59 We are seeking a class correspondent North Hill Health Center for YOllr class. if yOIl me interested, 865 Central Avenue, Apt. 508 Peers 49, 51, 47 please contact the AIIl/1/ni Qlfice. 20 Needham, MA 02192 Please send news to: Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, We are seeking a class correspondent 270 lVlohegall Ave., New Laudon, CT 06320 for your class. If yOIl are interested, Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 please contort tile AllIl1/11i Office. Conespondeut: Miss Virginia Rose Please send news to: The class marked its 70th reunion by reaching New London Convalescent Home 21Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, the 100 percent participation goal in Annual 88 Clark Lane 270 Mohegall Ave., New London, CT 06320 Giving. Waterford, CT 06320 Sadly, three members who planned to enjoy the festivities were unable to be on We are seeki"IJga class correspondent campus. Sarah Gordon Hahn was ill; SUBMISSION OF CLASS NOTES for YOllrclass. if y011are interested, please contact the Aluwlli Office. Elizabeth Merry Miller's transportation. Class notes may be submitted to your plans went aWIY;and Marion Sanford spent correspondent at any time. However, if Please send news to: the week in the hospital having a fractured hip you would like to have your notes 22Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, pinned. appear in a specific issue ~ Connecticut 270 Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320 Katherine Hamblet lives with her 100- College Magazine publishes six issues year-old sister in the family home. Olive Tuthill Reid says her hand is so shaky yearly: Winter (Feb.), Spring (Apnl), Marie Jester Kyle is velY content with she can hardly sign her name - however, her Commencement (june), Summer life at Duncaster, a retirement home offering (Aug.), Fall (Oct.) and Honor Roll of letters are typed and clear. She lives on the activities galore. She sent a photo of herself banks of Lake Erie - so cold last winter she Giving (Dec.) - please make sure your (looking very fit) and visiting great-grand class correspondent receives your news was house-bound for a ruonch. Three cats niece, Katie. by the deaclline listed below. keep her occupied and a companion comes in Aura Kepler and her sister (who went to during the day. - Andy Crocker Wheeler '34 CC for two years and transferred to Radcliffe) Issue Your Deadline have moved from their apartment to a nursing home. Aura sounds very cheerful on the Spring Dec. 15 We are seeking a class correspondent for YOllr class. If yOIl are interested, phone despite being confined to a wheel Commencement Feb. 15 please colllaCl the Aluunti Office. chair. - Andy Crocker Wheeler '34

Summer April 15 Please send news 10: 23Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, Fall June 15 Cotrespondeut: 270 Mohegal1 Ave., New LolldolJ, CT 06320 Emily Warner Honor Roll Aug. 15 Covenant Village Winter Oct. 15 Ethel Adams is in a health care center. C-lO Pilgrim Manor Although confined to a wheelchair, she enjoys Cromwell, CT 06416 watching the birds and weather changes from 25 All classes may contribute to each issue. her bedroom window. We are seeking a class conespaudcsu If you need further infonnarion about Culver Marsh doesn't walk as far as Khe for YOllrclass. if yaH are interested, submitting your news for classnotes, she used to and is comforted that her lively please COIlMet the Ahml1li Office. please contact your class correspondent golden retriever, Sage, can run safely in the or Mary Farrar, assistant editor, yard protected by an invisible electric fence. Please send news to: Connecucut Colfege Magazine, 270 26Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, 270 Khe enjoys visits from farnily and friends. Mohegan Ave., New London, CT A fall from bed landed Helene Wulf Molwgml Ave., Nelli London, CT 06320 06320-4196. Knup in a nursing home. Her cheerful note A friend of Katharine Bailey Mann turned says she hopes the stay is temporary. - Andy Crocker Wheeler '34 her 9'1 st birthday into a gourmet surprise- "my favorite cake with fudgy frosting, home

CD Fall 1994 made beach plum jelly and a pretty spring ALUMNI TRAVEL plant. 1 felt like a queen." In June, Dorothy Bidwell Clark went EXPLORING BAJA CALIFORNIA: FROM THE WHALE to her Lt. Cmdr. Coast Guard grandson's LAGOONS TO THE SEA OF CORTEZ graduation from the War College in Marcil 17-27, 1995 Newport. He will teach there for a year. Her ConU11Une with gentle gray whales, admire gorgeous daughter and family live nearby, and a son is desert Rowers, snorkel with sea lions and watch the sun set in MD. She has nine grandchildren and six behind a spectacular mountain range - all in the same day. Baja California is one of the most exciting, natural and grea t -grandchildren. relatively untraveled parts of our world. With Professor of Marguerite Cerlian wrote from Zoology Paul Fell. Cbarlotre Amalie, Virgin Islands, "we are blessed down here with no worries of snow ARCHEOLOGICAL SEMINAR IN JERUSALEM and ice, but we do have to face a season of May 28-]f/lle 9, 1995 hurricanes. One of them blew off our roof." Three millenia of Jerusalem's history in archeological digs and seminars; touring and Laura Dunham Stemschuss lives in a investigating the country from the Temple Mount to the Mona Lisa of Galilee! See Jewish, Christian and Muslim Jerusalem; Masuda, the oasis at Ein Gedi and the Dead sr. housing project. She is recovering nicely Sea. With Professor Roger Brooks and Eugene Gallagher from the Department of from a slight stroke and enjoys playing bridge. Religous Studies. Edythe Hildreth Shepherd says she enjoys writing letters, but severe arthritis HARBORS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN keeps the output down to a few notes per July 10-25, 1995 week. Join President of the College Claire L. Gaudiani and her husband, Or. David Harriet Stone Warner has good rea- Burnett, on the Quem Odyssey for a 14-day cruise through the Mediterranean. Visit Barcelona, St. Tropez, Monte Carlo and ports in Italy, Greece and Turkey. sons to sign her self "Proud Grandma." One grandson and his wife graduated from CHINA: Look for details in upcoming magazines concerning a trip to China in Harvard Medical School in June; another October 1995 with Professor Emeritus of Chinese Charles Cbu. plans to attend medical school; one teaches computer science in a college; another is ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE: Linda Stallman Gibson '60 shares her experience on the with a large brokerage firm in NYc. One Crossroads of Continents Alaskan trip, July 21-Aug. 1, 1994: granddaughter is a lawyer in CA; one is a "The days on board the MS World Discoverer are filled with adventures that can only nurse; one plans to go to Veterinary School be experienced at this 'top of the world' location. Landscapes alternate between (she just spent a year at the Fossil Rim stretches of tundra at certain points and stone cliffs rising out of the waters at others. Wildlife Center and raised a cheetah in her Birds are everywhere and the birders on board are esractic as one species after anoth- apartment!); one works at Caldo r's er presents itself. On St. Lawrence Island we visit the Yupik Eskimos. Their village is Headquarters; and still another teaches small and the wooden houses are one or two rooms. Smoke comes from the chim- school. At two recent weddings, Harriet neys. The people are friendly and their dancing - by young and old and men and joined the dancers. - Andy Crocker women - to their singing is very beautiful. Our guide is Wheeler '34 soft spoken and patiently answers our questions. This is our visit to an Eskimo ltI/e are seeking II class correspolldenr first village and the experience for YOllr class. if y011 are intaessed, please COlUllct rile Allwmi Office. will be repeated at different points on both sides of the Please send lIews to: Bering Sea. The Russian 2Class Notes,7Connecticut College Magazine, 270 Eskimos are the Chukchi. iV/allegan AlJe., New London, CT 06320 We learn from both the Alaskan and Russian natives Frances Andrews Leete is happy to have that they are related and that friends "who are great at doing things - so I families were separated by the follow right along with them!" Iron Curtain. They tell us stories of how they are Lucy Barker Keddie is living alone and beconung reunited. We hike "liking it." Up at 6 a.111.,she takes care of the the tundra, visit a walrus house and yard. There's just one problem: she Alumnae Elizabeth Puque King '59, Linda Slallman Gibson haulout and whale watch. '60 and Jeanne Loomis MAT '91 during the Crossroads of needs "Clutter Cutter" to get rid of the accu- The ship enters waters that Continents Alaska trip in July. mulation of several generations! Her sister, are beyond the land masses. Marie Barker Williams '25, daughter and We go out in the Zodiacs granddaughter all married "coasties." and ride the ice floes that move into the Arctic Sea during the sununer months. Alice Cook lives in a retirement home "At day's end we meet in the lounge for a briefing of the next round of activities. with her sister, Ethel '29, next door to a sister We head for the dining room at the appointed hour. I sit with Professor of Zoology who went to UCOIm. Alice is learning to use and Provost of the College Steve Loomis and his wife, Jeanne MAT '91, and we are a walker after a bout with leg ulcers. joined by Liz Pughe King '59 and her husband, Bill. Kindred spirits, we eat (and Marjorie Halsted Heffron is in a drink) and eat some more and sit on the deck to watch the sunset. Though it dips retirement home with her husband, who is below the horizon around midnight, it is light through the night. At the end of the in the nursing facility. She writes "as in all trip, Steve, Jeanne and I fly out of Nome on the same flight. As we reminisce, I real- ize how wonderful it has been for me to share this trip with them, and that I will our lives, there have been low spots, but miss our daily talks." together, Ray and I have tried to 'keep that

merry heart within.'" For more iliforlllatioll 011 Alwlllli Travel, co/ltaet Kris Lambert ill the Alumni Q[fice, Frances Jones Stremlau and husband 203-439-2300. are pleased to have CC neighbors. Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whitman '29 and Burt living

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille e next door. Bibbo has been having problems This notice contains ever since she fractured a hip. Burt is a help. CorrC5pOlldclIl: Louisa M. Kent CLASSIFIED INFORMATION! MidlandParkAprs.,W-l0 Now you can place your classified ad 30 Norwich, NY 13815 in Connecticut College Magazine! Corrrspundcl't: Sarah Drown Schoenhut E.dith Allen MacDiarmid recently had a Kendal 417, 80 Lyme Rd. tnp up the Amazon, then on by air to other We will print classified advertising from Hanover, NH 03755 members of the college community. 28 areas. Plans are underway for Vietnam and Categories include: Cambodia. At home, she is busy with volun- Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 teer work and out-of-door activities. E.1izabeth Bahney Mills had a touching • For Sale Corresponde!'/: • For Rent Miss Verne Hall surpnse at the Navy retirement ceremonyfor • For Exchange 290 Hamburg Road her nephew, Peter Wylie, aboard a warshipin Lyme, CT 0637'1 • Bed & Breakfast DC. Th~ ceremony was all spit and polish, • Services dress whites, color guard, band etc. with the major address by his sister, Capt. Elizabeth • Wanted to Buy There couldn't have been a more beautiful Wylie, USN ret. At the close, Peter thanked • Position Available weekend for our 65th college reunion. The some who had been helpful in his career,and • Position Wanted Class of '29, however, didn't make it back to Betty was presented with a huge bouquetfor campus. Esther Stone Wenzel was the only $25 for all one-time listings (maximum 40 having been kind to his mother, her sister '2ger able to attend the college festivities. She words.) Payment for all insertions must Harriette Behney Wylie '31, and his father was fortunate to have a ride to CC with her accompany request. Deadline tor the next during their fiunl illnesses. niece, Anne Warner Webb '59, who was issue - November 30. Please make Katharine Bailey Hoyt's husbandwrote returning for her 35th reunion. checks payable to Connecticut College that she is in a nursing home in Milton MA Esther reports that she attended the Sykes Magazine. Send a typed copy of your ad, after her fourth stroke a year ago. She sdcing Society luncheon at which the class of '19 cel- with your name, class, address, and day- well. He and their daughter are continuing ebrated ce's first 75th reunion! time phone to Classifieds, Connecticut Kay's contributions to the college. Later, Esther attended an interesting student College Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., Helen Benson Mann is moving penna- panel discussion on the subject "CC in the '90s New London, CT 06320. No phone orders nencly to a life care community in Venice,FL - A Student Perspective" and took the bus please. She says it is hard to leave her familyin VI, to.ur of the campus. She was very impressed but the winters are toO harsh, and she has WIth the newly expanded Athletic Center. Services: 011 Friday evening she enjoyed the New already had one fall the ice. ALASKA CRUISE TOUR, July 6, 1995, Mary Clauss Gescheider lives in England Clambake on Harris Green that fol- escorted by Dick and Betty Burger Jones Concord, MA, not far from her daughterand lowed the reception with faculty, President '61. 3-day land tour and 7-day cruise on family. She sees Marie Gescheider Stark Gaudiani and her husband, Dr. David Burnett. the M.S. Rotterdam. Cruise/tour from Saturday monung, Esther participated in and her husband who live in Walpole,MA. Elizabeth Edwards Spencer and hus- $2,263 until 2/17/95. Air and taxes addi- the Alumni Parade to Palmer Auditorium for band, Frank, had some horrendous health tional. 1-800-552-8999 or 1-800 629- the Annual Alumni Meeting where class gifts 1812, home. and honors were presented and Pres. Gaudiani problems to cope with during the winter in gave the State of the College Address. Esther, FL, but cope they did and rerumed to their To rent: representlng our class, presented our 65th home in Manis, CT, for the summer. Betty GOLFVACATION. INVERNESS, Flo teu.Ilion gift of $3,320 to the Annual Fund. writes that the bears 3re doing considerable Private 9-hole golf course in secluded ~hls represented 36 percent class participa- damage to her son's beehives. (Shades of 1,ODD-acrefamily compound. 8 houses, 3 con. Three hundred dollars of our gift was Winnie the Pooh?) tennis courts, pool and bass-fishing lake. taken from our class treasulY as a contribution Mary Kidde Morgan sendsnews from Disney attractions 1-1/2 hrs. away. for the purchase of chapel hymnals. Cape Cod, "Well, the time has come, and I have moved out of my home that Walterand Individual houses $1 ,OOO/wkand up. V ~me Hall had to Iniss reunion because Entire compound also available for family of a Circulation problem in her foot, but had I built for retirement. I'm stillin Orleansand reunions and corporate retreats. 203-868- se~eral telephone conversations with very busy - will be having 31189thsummer 1068 Ehzabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whitman and at my home on Long Islandwhere I am now Esther Stone_ WI' enze concenung plans for in the guest cottage, and my family has the For Sale: our 65th reunion. main house for vacationing. Ain't I lucky?" Helene Somers Smith is still living in TRADITIONAL GUERNSEV SWEATERS Elizabethhi (Zeke ) S' pens, alterc. a severe Garden City, driving her C3r,playingbridgeat from the British Channel Islands. The ulti- strok e t IS spring, h as given . up her apartment mate sailing and outdoor sweater in wool t Avery. a:l.~become a resident of the nursing the country dub and occasionallyseeingRuth r Harrison Street. She is also very friendly or cotton. For details call 203-449-1640. ~om~ d~v1slOn of Avery Church Homes in with Sally Tate Richard '55, and is activeon Varn samples and color brochure avail- d ar~ or . Letters would be appreciated but able up on request. all. t expect replies. ' the board of AAUW. Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whit I Edith Walter Samuels says she still not' 1 I man tas enjoys life to a limited extent: swims daily, NEW ENGLAND VIDEO. Beautifully filmed tO~ll'p ete y recovered from her falls that paints abstract pictures, drives the car, but not collage of New England's hallmark char- ~::~l~ero~:~l~e~~r\~I~.roken bones. Her husband too far, had to give up golf. She spends six acteristics. Lighthouses, covered bridges months in Palm Beach, is in White Plainsin in four seasons, lobstering, autumn of ;be class ext.ell?S sympathy to the family ranees T'Hl in h the summer with long visits to family in foliage, maple sugaring and much more. 8/29/93. g as t, who died on Burlington, VT. By Dolphin's Eye. Music by New England Lillian Miller put her large duplex house musicians. 84 mins. $19.95. An unforget- up for sale, after 75 years of occupancy and table gift. 1-800-353-6393. hopes to find all apartment in one of the local

• Fall ·/994 Club News Connecticut College Alumni Association

UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS Book Award Volunteers and Sponsors Needed. Last year 37 Book Awards were given to exceptional high school students across the United States. This year, the Alumni Association would like to JFK LIBRARY EVENT double that number by asking 74 alumni to sponsor an award in their area.

Boston Book Award packets are given to sponsors by the Alumni Office early in the year. The packer With Prof. Michael Burlingame contains everything the sponsor will need, including a list of possible books, certificate, book Contact: Paige Margules Tobin '89 plate and guidelines for choosing books and recipients. The next step for the sponsor is to contact November 9 an area high school guidance office and ask if they would like to include a Connecticut College Book Award as parr of their awards ceremony. The guidance office and the volunteer decide PRESIlJENTIAL RECEPTIlJN how often the award should be given (every year to every third year). The award should be given to a student who has exemplified the ideals of multiculturalism through academics or co-curricu- Westchester County lar activities. The guidance office chooses the award recipient, and the sponsor presents the Contact: Suzie Waxenburg '58 award. The benefit is obvious- spreading the name of November 10 Connecticut College helps recruit students. To find out more about the Connecticut College Book Award, contact CONN CHORDS CONCERT Deb Johns in the alumni office at 203-439-2310. Maine A Tradition Continues in Westport, MA. Twenty-five alumni Contact: Connie Russell '91 gathered at the home of Mal)' Dawes Annknecht '60 on November 12 July 27 to hear Andy Crocker Wheeler '34 share her love of "Heaths and Heathers" and to view the heath and YOUNG ALUMNI EVENT heather bed that Andy planned for the Annknecrs. The alumni then lunched at the Acoaxet Club with Jane Washington, D.C. Neumann, director of major gifts, and Deb Johns, director Contact: Jennifer Lapan '94 of alumni programs, who both shared news from campus. November 15 Special thanks to Mary and Patty Hancock Blackall '45 for their hard work in organizing the event. Saul Ricklin SP '44, lois Webster DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Ricklin '44 and Andy Crocker Wheeler Chicago Welcomes Pres. Gaudiani. Chicago alumni heard '34 at a recent gathering in Westport, SPEAKER Pres. Gaudiani speak on the new strategic plan, "A Time to Mass. Washington, D.C. Lead II" on September 20. The president also plans to speak Contact: Jennifer Meyers '88 with clubs in the New York City, Atlanta, Westchester N.Y., January 17, 1995. County, Maine, Conn., Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis areas. Look for your invitation. Special thanks and recognition go to Joshua Meyer '90 for all his work in organizing the Chicago event. Thanks also to Peter Falconer '89 for his efforts as Chicago club president. housing projects. Meanwhile, she is still Connecticut College and Wheaton Alumni Gather at Polo Match. Members of the Connecticut College entertaining out-of-town cousins as house Club of Philadelphia and alumni of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. joined together all guests. September 11 for the annual Brandywine Polo Match. This is the second year that both colleges One classmate answered promptly report- have enjoyed the match between the British Combined Service Team and the Brandywine Polo ing that she is living with her daughter and team. Special thanks to Jim Jones '84 for his help. son-in-law during the summer in Jordan, NY. She went to Raliegh with Bob, for Jr. DC Club Has Call for Volunteers. Fifteen members of the Connecticut College Club of the winter and she has a Z'l-year-old great Washington, D.C., met at the home of Ken Crerar'77 on September 13 to discuss potential granddaughter in Atlanta. No name on the alumni events in the DC area. Led by Jennifer Meyers '88, club president, and Lydia Morris '88, card. After pondering this problem briefly, club vice president, the group discussed a young alumni happening on Nov. 15; a distinguished your correspondent sent off a postcard alumni speaker in Jan. 1995; and a campaign to increase the number of alumni in the D.C. area addressed to "Member of the Class of 1930 who sponsor summer internships. To find out how you can get involved, call Jennifer Meyers - Connecticut College." The next evening '88 at 703-836-2295. my telephone rang and a cheerful voice announced that she was the nameless writer: The House Banner Contest is Huge Success. The Connecticut College Club of Hartford annually Ernestine Vincent Venner. She said her sponsors the House Banner Contest during Homecoming weekend. This year's contest on Oct. 8 son-in-law was getting a kick out the situa- boasted 17 participants, more than double the highest number entered in past years. The theme tion. She also gave her permission to relate was CONNmercials and all the entries were very creative. First prize, a VCR, went to this incident - and we had a good laugh. Blackstone's "Get a Piece of the Rock The class sends sympathy to the families Blackstone Insurance." Second prize, $50, of Evelyn Clarke, who died 12/6/93; went to Burdick for "Burrrrdick Air Margaret Jackman Gesen , who died Conditioners, We'll Blow You Away," and 12/15/93; and Ruth Langley, who died a third prize of$30, went to Wright. 5110/94. Thanks to all dorms who participated and to the Connecticut College Club of Hartford's executive board for sponsoring this fine tra- Correspondents: Gertrude Smith Cook, 109 Village Park Dr., dition. WilliamsviUe, NY 14221 and if YOJl arc interested iu starling a dllb ill yorlr Beatrice Whitcomb. 8333 arca or would likc //lore ilifonllatioll concerning Seminole Blvd. #554, dl/b activities, please contact the AllIIHlli Office at 31 Seminole, FL 34642 Members of the Connecticut College Club 01 Los Angeles have some "Iun in the sun" with Trinity alumni. 203-439-2300.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazillc .. lead a very sedentary life. Lately my time has ------been spent with a dermatologist for treatment of skin cancer and my dentist for replacement of teeth - and so it goes as I approach my DISTINGUISHED 85th birthday. I spend my time reading and hope my eyes will hold out. I still do limited driving. My best wishes to all." Margaret Hazlewood writes, "Oh, my ALUMhil yes! What a snow-plowing winter. Even my two raccoons hibernated. But perfect weather 1994-95 Series for reading Henry James' Tile Art oj SPEAI

if it has snowed every day since Christmas, so I Reunion '94. For three days the sky was blue, am looking forward to a Norwegian cruise in the sun shone and a gentle breeze caressed CorrcspOlldcllr: May. I talked to Ruth Caswell Clapp a short alumni old and young as they cavorted across a Mabel Barnes Knauff time ago to keep in touch." campus colorfn1 wirh Dowering shrubs and 39 Laurel Hill Dr. Marion Kendrick Daggett writes, ''I'll trees. For three days nary a wisp of fog nor Niantic, CT 06357 be 83 this April and still going strong! Since 32 smidgen of mist! New London? my husband's death in '85, I have lived alone Adelaide Thompson Hicks writes, "1 have You can read about and see pictures of all in my own house, gardening, working on a grandson, Robert]' Hicks, attending the many reunion events in the Summer issue genealogy and enjoying lots of friends. Some Connecticut College, Class of '96. He is a of the college magazine - the parade, with rheumatoid arthritis slowed me down this past transfer from Franklin & Marshall." '34 decked out in red and white and the leis Elizabeth Root Johnson's latest news year. Medication seems to be taking care of it, resurrected from our 50th reunion (still color- although not a cure. I have a regular yard man, is her first great-grandson was bom on New ful after 10 years in the Wheeler attic). Some but do all else myself. I drive my car and go Years Eve. She has a three-room apartment of us staggered under the weight of our ban- pretty much as I please. I'm not the condo- in her daughter and son-in-law's home just ner - some rode in electric carts because minium. type, but maybe 10 years from now. outside of Fort Worth, TX. She keeps busy creaky joints and "replaced parts" do hamper My independence is worth a lot to me. I am with church, AARP, and Newcomer's Club us. The annual meeting with all the honors looking forward to news of the Class of'32." meetings plus bridge groups. She sends her and awards; exciting reports from Annual Dorothy Stevens writes, "1 still work at best ro all her classmates. Giving; Pres. Gaudiani's State of the College the hospital when I can get there. I'm lucky in Frances Buck Taylor writes, "My life address - about dreams coming true through having lots of nieces and nephews who pop in is the same - Vera Beach in the winter and strategic planning. The highlight of the Sykes and out. One of them gave me a poster which Kenilworth, IL, in the summer. 1 have added Society luncheon was our beloved Sadie Coir reads 'When you are over the hill, you pick up three great-grands - a boy, 3 years old, and Benjamin '19 - a stately, white-haired, speed.' My speed isn't great, but I can still get his twin sisters, age 1. Our second grandchild twinkley-eyed lady of 98 celebrating her 75th was married in June '93. Had a 17-day cruise around and enjoy life. I would love to see anyone who gets to this part of the world. All reunion. on the Royal Viteing Sun in Dec.' good Nineteen of us celebrated our 60th. the best wishes." weather for a Caribbean cruise. All is well." Amazingly, 60 years have made few changes Margaret Rathbone writes "It seems as Margaret Cornehlsen Kern writes, "I

CD F,I/ 1994 7 in our faces since our photographs appeared bloomers, hockey games and those humbling in our '34 Koine. Wrinkles have blurred a few posture pictures, Emma guided us through a ALUMNI CAlENDAR cheeks; changes in hair styles - some ele- very informal class meeting. What? No min- gantly silver - are obvious; but nothing utes from the 1989 meeting? Mislaid some- hides the smiles and sparkles of youth! Our where in the ever-mounting piles of memora- gatherings in Larrabee were relaxed and fre- bilia in rhe Wheeler attic! Helen reported a quent - filled with laughter over tales of stu- substantial balance in our treasury ~ a fact dent days, sometimes tinged with sadness as that elicited a vote later in the meeting can- we caught up with news of "life after Cc." celing class dues until we need the money. Attending were Emily Benedict Grey Through '89 dues were a total of $10 to be with her charming escort from Mars - but paid at each reunion. now her address is down to earth, sadly Lilla plied us with statistics gleaned from ALUMNI SONS & DAUGHTERS changed to Cranberry Township. Marjorie the questionnaires - figures skewed because Admissions Program Bishop - our diminutive Marge has not not everyone responded. Most of us are fairly Feb. 19 & 20, 1995 changed one iota! Edith Canestrari jacques healthy, in spite of arthritis, knee and hip jobs, looking fit as a fiddJe after a month in Europe bypasses, strokes. As. one commented "health and in spite of all her worries about co-chair- quite normal for this time of year and this year ALUMNI TRAVEL ing reunion. Bob joined us for our class din- of time." Another reported that 011 a scale of Exploring Baja California: From ner. Emily Daggy Vogel as charming as one to 10 her husband rates an eight. Still Whale Lagoons to the Sea of ever, accompanied by "Handsome Henry." another "takes so much preventative medicine Cortez Elizabeth Flanders McNellis came all the she doesn't have time to be sick." March 17-27, 1995 way from Evanston, escorted by a channing Our activities ranged from aerobics to relative. Beth's smile is as enchanting as ever. crochet, from taking courses to taking trips; INSIGHTS '95 Eleanor Hine Kranz - without her there is much volunteer work; and we are all Volunteer Training chauffeuring, I would not have been at "domestic engineers." Many are widowed, March 31-ApriI1, 1995 Reun.ion. Our super-special president Emma several have remarried. A number of us are Howe Waddington with equally super-spe- caring for ailing or handicapped husbands. cial Les, without a doubt the most organized We have been a prolific bunch - even REUNION '95 and creative couple in our class! Harriet without the missing figures, we can brag [une 2-4, 1995 Isherwood Power arrived from Richmond about more than 125 children; recount the with the help of one of her darling daughters antics of over 260 grandchildren; and cuddJe For urcre il'ifomratioll call the Alumni and a granddaughter. Phyllis johnson more than 40 great-grandchildren. Office, 203-439-2300. Doolittle and Howard spend summers in There were loving messages from absent Schedule subject to change. Old Lyme so had no trouble popping over to classmates. For some the distance was just roo New London. Helen Lavietes Krosnick, far; some could not leave their husbands; some who should be crowned with a laurel wreath had really planned to attend but illness pre~ We are seekil1g a class correspolldcw for her long and competent control of our vented. And, of course, early June is the time for YOllr class. If 1'011are interested, treasury. Gerry was at our dinner. for graduations, weddings and summer travel. please wlltarl the Akunni QUire. Co-chair Lilla Linkletter Stuart, who Emma reported that the recipient of our Please send news 10: coped with the questionnaires while sick in scholarship fund ellis year is a young man, a 36Class NOles, Connecticut CollegeMagazine, bed. Dorothy Merrill Dorman - our class music major. He was invited co sing at our 270 MoheganAl'e.} New London, CT 06320 colors are so becom.ing - you look vibrant. dinner, but a summer job canceled plans. We Grace Nichols Rhodes who is so happy to approved nominations for the '94-'99 slate of The class extends its sympathy to Miriam be bird walkillg these days, instead of bird officers: President jane Trace Spragg, Vice (Mim) Everett Macurda on the loss of her wheelchain'l1g. We were happy to include sister President and Nominating Chairman husband, Bill, in Aug. They were both living Marion Nichols Arnold '32 in our gatherings. Dorothy Merrill Dorman, Treasurer at Kendall in Hanover, NH. Edith Richman Stolzenberg is still Helen Lavietes Krosnick, Class Agent engaged in counseling, and enjoys a bit of Chairman Olga Wester Russell and travel. Gladys Russell Munroe with Lamar Secretary-Correspondent Andy Wheeler. in row - probably the most peripatetic cou- We spent a few moments in silent prayer, Cetrespondent: EdithBurnham Carlough ple in the class! Frances Way Weir - Gib remembering those classmates who have 505 FranklinTurnpike, #5 is busy with church, library and garden - "shuffled off this mortal coil." Allendale,NJ 07401 Ending the meeting with hilarity, we 37 and "helping those less fortunate." Our dedicated class agent chairman flew down from watched once again the fantastic video pro- At last r have a wonderful response from you Mf even though not feel.ingtopnotch. duced for our 50th reunion by our geniuses loyal '37ers! Some of the cards arrived too late Olga Wester Russell claimed she would Emma and Les. Emma thinks it's headed for for the last issue, but we'll combine the whole not have slept a wink if it hadn't been for the the college archives. bunch. First of all, we had a marvelous time at warm blanket I brought for her! Ruth And, so long and farewell - on Sunday, our mini-reunion. "We" consisted of Ginny \Vheeler Cobb, still a dedicated volunteer at we went our various ways, after hugs and Deuel, Emroy Carlough Roehrs, Betty Yale-New Haven hospital, looks exactly like optimistic promises. See you at our 65th! Corrigan Daniels, Margie Aymar Clark her smiling Koine photograph. Because our (and husband, Charlie), Dorothy Baldwin, dear daughter flew up from TN to take care Bunny Wheeler and your humble corre- of her Dad, and because Elly gave me a ride, I spondent. We did the whole schmeer - Correspondent: was able to enjoy a whole weekend with my Sabrina(Subby)Burr Sanders clambake, parade, picnic in front of Know Iron beloved classmates. 133 Boulter Rd. and our own private Sykes Dinner, private We went to Tavern-on-the-Green at the Wethersfield,CT 06109 because we weren't a bona fide reunion class. Submarine Base for our class dinner. After a 35 We just hope there will be many more of you merry meal with Frances Brett, our guest of at our 60th in '97. honor, regaling us with memories of baggy Beulah Bearse Bush writes that she and

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travel both at home and in Europe and are Al have been married for two and a half Reunion News: June3-5, 1994 graced with good health and mobility. She is years, and both are satisfying a love for travel. Cctrespcndent: active as a Board member of the Tulsa Last June 1st, they left for a visit to New Doris Houghton Ott England, back to Darien, and a visit at ee, Museum and several others. Gardening and 172 Marlyn Rd. hopefully. Previously, they had taken a sailing other activities occupy her leisure hours. Lansdowne,PA 19050 trip up the coast of Norway and later a bus Madeline Shepard Howard says" 1993 trip through the Canadian Rockies. No grass was a year to remember! In Jan., I had a knee growing under their feet! replacement, and in Nov., my husband had a Helen Bendix Mackintosh repons that heart attack." Glad that all goes well now. Correspondent: Elizabeth Thompson Dodge her son has three boys and lives with his psy- They both are in fairly good health and play quite a bit of bridge. They do their exercising 55 Woodland Trail chiatrist wife in Fairfax, VA. Her daughter East Falmouth, MA 02536 has rwo girls and lives in NYC where she and in the pool. This year, instead of their usual 40 her husband work. Helen has retired from three months in MA, they have decided to her charitable and church activities, but con- stay in FL. A wedding! MariUyn Maxted was married tinues to garden, went to an Elderhostel last to William on 4/30/94. Our wannest con- Oct. and hopes to go again this year. gratulations! A note from Perky reflects her In March, Emroy Carlough Roehrs Conespondeut: Mary Caroline happiness. She met Bill through classmate took her ninth (and best, she says) trip to (Me) Jenks Sweet Helen Stott Waugh. He is a Dartmouth '38 Costa del Sol, Spain. Economy is poor there 361 West St. graduate. She also had news of Helen who and they do everything to please the tourists. Needham, MA 02194 lives in CA and lived through the recent She is a busy gal, I can tell you all. 38 earthquake. Her home is badly damaged, but The mail was not kind to Ellen Fran Henretta Whiting knows of the they plan to rebuild it. Cronbach Zucker in FL where she and Hollis, NH, doctor whose daughter was kid- Catherine (Billie) Klink McGibbon Hank spent the winter. So she never got the napped last May. Fortunately the girl was spends the winter season in Tucson where her letter about the mini-reunion. But she also returned unharmed after a ransom was paid children and grandchildren live. She still never got all our lovely snow, ice and cold. and the kidnappers were caught and money spends summers in Barrington, IL. Her son is She does say that even sun, sun, sun can returned by FBI agents. now in the legislature in Phoenix, andpolitics bring on the blahs. She had gone to a CC Anne Oppenheim Freed is happy to has a new look for her. Her activities include luncheon at which Pres. Gaudiani spoke and report that her book, TIle Changing Worlds if Tucson Botanical Gardens and the Chicago was very impressed. Older Women ill japan, is selling well. She has Botanical Garden. Along with church work, had speaking and book-signing engagements Ginny Deuel had written before the she also does some traveling to Canada and reunion - back in April as a matter of fact. in the Boston area. Retirement from the Mexico. She visited Jean Keith Shahan last Family Service of Greater Boston hasn't She had just returned from FL where she summer just after Jean's husband died. Jean is slowed her down: she supervises independent played golf and some bridge. Back in Buff.110, a successful portrait artist. study students at Boston College Graduate she survived the winter, which apparently Hallie Fairbanks Sether has been School. In her immediate family, Anne has wasn't as awesome as it was on the East slowed down by a serious eye problem that four graduations: one grandson graduates from Coast. She managed to drive into the city for necessitated a corneal transplant. Otherwise, Brandeis U. with honors; another grandson luncheon and play bridge or do her various she enjoys an "easy and busy life in graduates from high school and will go to volunteer projects, to keep her out of mis- Larchmont. " Haverford; a granddaughter is headed for chief. Betsy Pfeiffer Wilburn and her Bill cel- The winter was not so kind to Barbara Cornell; and her daughter, a social worker, ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Fawcett Schreiber. She was stranded for returned to school and graduated from New March 30 with a family gathering at Virginia three days at the DC National Airport, trying England School of Art with a BFA. Beach. Her family includes three children and to get home after a National School Boards My son, Charles Dolan, has been made a eight grandchildren ranging in age from 18 Assoe. legislative session on the Hill. Changes full professor of engineering at the U. of mos. to 18 years. Betsy and Bill live in Fort in education are coming from all sides, and as Wyoming/Laramie. Previously, he was one of Worth, TX. They have made return trips to president of the Canton (OH) City Board, the designers of the monorail at Disney World Paris in the past three years. It is like going she finds her time well-spent in dealing with and a "people mover" at Dallas-Ft. Worth air- home to them since they lived there from them. Barbara has one granddaughter gradu- port. To further toot my hom, the Exchange '63-'66 while Bill was in the Navy. They still ating from Norrhwestem, a grandson gradu- Club of Needham presented Bill with the have many French friends to visit. ating from Washington U. and three other Book of Golden Deeds Award, given each Your correspondent, Lib Thornpson younger grandsons. year to a resident who has done "quiet service Dodge and husband, Douglas, also reached From Dot Fuller Higgins, comes word for the public good of the town." our 50th year of marriage on 2/5/94. We had that she, toO, lives in the snow and ice belt, in If anyone has heard from the following a small dinner celebration and gathered our Norwalk, CT. Her daughter also now lives classmates, kindly let me know as I have not whole clan in July for a trip to the favorite with her. She did have a nice three-week trip heard from Bernice Stein Newberger, Dodge wilderness on Lake Superior - The to CA to visit another daughter, before the Margaret Sixx Kingsbury, Dot Sherlock Huron Mountain Club. earthquake, but returned in time for the Baker, Marie Schwenk Trimble, Joan Our classmate Irene Johnstone Van hideous winter. She says the idea of driving Roberts Robertson. Helen Pearson Name died on 11/10/93. I extend our sym- on 1-95 to get back to college scares her to Fowler, Sara Noonan Foss or Beth pathy to her family from the Class of'40. death, and J belong to the same "chicken" Mcllraith Henoch. club. But, she said she would love to stand on Marcel1a Brown wrote to tell me the sad the hill again and look out at the river and the news that Dorothea Bartlett died on sound. 6/3/94. Dot had rented her house in Correspondent: Margery Mayo Bird writes that she was Non:ich, VT, and was living with her cousin, Jane Kennedy Newman married to James M. Bird Sr. on 4/22/92. but smce Christmas, she had been in and out 46900 Bermont, Unit 159 The two of them had just returned from his of the hospital. Dot had not been well for sev- 41 Punta Gorda, FL 33982 55th reunion at Yale and a trip along the eral years, but seemed quite happy with the New England coast. She and Jim love to move to her cousin's home.

• Fall 1994 asking the other what they should do for us Brookfield, CT. Phebie's middle son, Peter, is Correspondent: on our 60th anniversary, and the second one the proud father. Jane Worley Peak Cynthia Terry White started off '94 by Vinson Hall, Apt. 306 said, "Send them a check!' 6251 Old Dominion Dr I am sorry to report the death of Mary going on a safari in the Masai Mara Preserve McLean, VA 22101 Anna Lemon Meyer, of Glen Cove, NY, in Kenya, Africa. From there she took a cruise 42 to the Seychelles Islands, a thousand miles off on 7/10/94. The sympathy of the class has been expressed to her husband, Richard. the East Coast of Africa. "Great funl," she Justine Clark has attended 36 Elderhosrels! says. The most recent one was in the Catskill Ellie Kempsmith Nocentini writes, Mountains on butterflies, birds and flowers. Correspondeu!s: Charlotte Hosfeld "Long time no head" Get those letters and Other trips she has made recently were to Tarpy, 50 Pequot Road, cards off to Ellie and urge her to make it to Pawtucket. RI 02861 and jane ME to ski lasc jan.; to Reelfoot Lake, TN, to OUt 50th. She is proud of her two grandchil- Storms Wenneis, 27 Pine Ave., see bald eagles; to the Land Between the Madison, NJ 07940 dren. Her important volunteer work with Lakes in KY to play golf; and to GA to see 43 autistic and handicapped young children con- the Master's Golf Tournament. Whenever tinues. In addition, she also runs a thrift shop she can, Justine combines an Elderhostel with Reunion News: June3-5, 1994 in the American Church in Florence, Italy. camping or a golf session. Correspolldeu!s: Elise Abrahams Jody Ferry Gates announced the birth of Peggy Keagy Whittemore is in the Josephson, 25 Antigua Rd., her seventh grandchild and second grand- Santa Fe, NM 87505 and Alice "throes of sorting, chucking, saving and dis- daughter, Elizabeth, born in Wellesley, MA, tributing chattels" in preparation for moving Anne Carey Weller, 423 Clifton Blvd., E. Lansing, MI 48823 to jody's youngest daughter, Becky, and to a retirement residence in South Yarmouth, George. Pam, the eldest of jody's four daugh- MA. Thirwood Place is close enough to ters, has a six-foot son, 19, who is now in col- Brewster, where she has lived for 12 years, lege. The Gates escaped to Marco Island for that she will be able to continue her activities Coaespondent: six weeks after Hartford's second blizzard and with church and friends on the Cape. Her Jane Oberg Rodgers Elizabeth's birth. While Dick takes care of his daughter, janice, and grandson, Christopher, 7501 Democracy Blvd. Apt. 0413 two small businesses, Jody continues as <1 8, visited from England this Slimmer, where Bethesda, MD 20817 trustee of the U. of Hartford and president of janice's husband, Steve, is a micro-physicist. 45 the Foundation. She has become more Janice brings Christopher to the States to involved at CC Forum and the Counseling attend a church camp all Lake Correspondent: Marilyn (Skip) Center and Hartford Seminary. Winnipesaukee, NH, and to meet American Coughlin Rudolph Ginger Niles Delong recently became youngsters, as well as to visit Peggy. Peggy 539 Ford Ave. affiliated with the Orleans office of Compass has DNa other children: Emily, who works at Kingston, PA 18704 Real Estate in Orleans, MA, on the Cape. A the Jewish Museum. ill Brooklyn, NY, and is 46 fellow CCet, Mary Allen Bradley '52, is also a finishing her master's in fine arts; and Scott, realtor in Ginger's office. Ginger originally who teaches retarded children, also in Janet Cruikshank McCawley and Ted established Hunneman and Co., a real estate appeased their persistent wanderlust with an Brooklyn. office in Hingham, MA. She also marketed Elderhostel trip to Santa Fe in Jan. and a Your correspondent, Woodie Worley real estate in the Virgin Islands, Venice, Peak, and Paul had a fantastic three-week Burgundy, France, barge tri p this spring. Florida and Waterford, VT. A graduate of the celebration of our 50th wedding anniversary Their twin daughters will be moving to Realtor's Institute, Ginger is now studying in June. It began with a week at Nags Head, Albuquerque. Jan is still playing tennis and computers at Cape Cod Community College. NC, with our three children, their spouses paddle and has started a group. Her first cook- The class extends deepest sympathy to and our three grandchildren. Then home to book on soups has been republished. She Betty Finn Perman, whose SOil Matthew, McLean, V A, where we had a house party called attention to an article about the 100- 41, died of a brain tumor after 18 months of with 12 relatives and friends filling our year-old Island Want to Know Club in the illness. Betty also lost her sister, Carolyn Finn Vinson Hall guest apartments. A bus load of March issue of Yankee magazine, p. 77. jan Saeks '51, to lung cancer. Our thoughts are us went to the histone Manne Barracks to see hopes to publish the papers, memoirs and arti- with you, Betty! the dramatic Evening Parade. cles she is writing for the club. Even those of us who used to walk. down Marie Ann Bloomer Patterson will be Mohegan Ave. regularly to watch the Coast taking notes this June when she attends Dave's Guard Academy cadets' evening retreat found SOth Reunion at Dartmouth. Keep in touch Correspondent: the Marine Corps parade spectacular. Then with Arm, our reunion chairman! Ann Wetherald GratT Rabbit Trail Rd., RD 3 came our champagne buffet party. Classmates Deanne Austin Smigrod saw Mimi Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 were there to help us celebrate were Adele Steinberg Edlin in Longboat Key in March 47 Rosebrock Burr. Eleanor King Miller. and also managed to catch up with Joan Mary Stevenson Stow and Beth Tobias Weissman Burness. Deanne's son, Donjust Williams. Our daughter-in-law, Leandra, became engaged, and son, Andy, and Lajla Correspondent: had a wonderful surprise for us: she had orga- and Emily are still living in Brisbane, Australia. Peggy Reynolds Rist, nized a memory quilt. Fifty-eight different Smig, Deanne's husband, following retire- 43 Balsa Rd. friends or relatives made squares, commemo- ment, became a master gardener. He gives 48 Santa Fe, NM 87505 rating an event or era shared with us through classes and lectures to garden clubs and is a Enid Williford Waldron had a super 24-day the years,. Quilt squares were contributed by volunteer for Shepherds Senior Service adventure in Southeast Asia. Ginny Keifer Audrey Nordquist Curtis, Marjorie Center. Deanne is chairperson of the ladies Johnson visited her last summer in ME. Mitchell Rose and Peggy Ramsay Starr, golf group and works for the Federation Pauline Sununers LePore and Vince had as well as four classmates already mentioned Sisterhood. fun at Disney World with children and grand- - so Connecticut College is well represented Getting back to normal after being presi- children. in the quilt. The day after our party, 10 rela- dent of the volunteer groups at the Botanical Nancy Head Bryant, who is back and rives joined Paul and me on two 40-foot sail- Gardens and Museum in Nashville, Phebie forth between HI and NH, often talks to the boats for a week of sailing on Chesapeake Gardner Rockholz has time to welcome her Yeagers. Nancy helps Kauai students to get Bay. One of our daughters was overheard sixth grandchild, Wesley, born 2/13/94 in

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille CD the new College Center at Crozier Willi Wilton, Shirley Reese Roos, Alice (A V) - lams their H.S. equivalency diplomas. Estelle Pars~ns, having previously solicited Smith Barrett, Janet Wagner Morse and Fran Sharp Barkmann and Herman our n~el11or~es: fashioned them into an will be taking a Kenyan safari in the future. Jean Ritti Miller. Eleanor Barber MaIrnfeldt, busy library llpro:a~o~s, hilarious, nostalgic presentationin Donna Williams Klopfer just returned her inimitable style (early evidence of which reacher/coordinator for schools, has bought a from Berlin and Prague. was noted 45 years ago). Her performance small condo in WA and has "only begun to Big News from Margie Reichgott provided the high point of a spectacular consider retiring." Sosnik: son Doug is working in the White weekend. Sallie Ward Lutz and Mim Ward House as Deputy Director of Public So crawl, limp, stagger, walk or to Ferkes travel together a great deal, both in nm Legislation. Marg and Bob traveled to our 50th. Get inIine for '991 Bermuda. the U.S. and abroad. Although plagued with domestic disasters, "Norma GabianelIi Lefebvre and I Eleanor (Penny) Penfield Spencer Prudy Tallman Wood works hard on her planned to attend reunion, but my grand- relished her 50th high school reunion and a two manuscripts, one titled VVlly Be Kind to dallg~ter graduates 3nd"her daughter is getting trip to her ME blueberry farol. Elepliants? (Because they'll remember your married that weekend, writes Janice Braley Bobbie Kite Yeager thanks all class- Maynard. mates once again for their kindness to her kindnessi') Bay Area mini-reunion found hostess Barbara Cowgill Perrins has settled and Bill. into CT with sailboat and condo, plus four Fran Norton Swift and Jack enjoyed Frannie Farnsworth Armstrong welcom- months in the winter at Big Pille Key, FL. living in green Islamabad, Pakistan, for nearly ing Phyllis Barnhill Thelen, Nancy She has five grandchildren to visit. five years, despite the occasional frustrations Morrow Nee, Ginny Giesen Richardson, Alice Fletcher Freymann and Jarvis -like alphabetizing by first names! Marty Wardwell Berryman, Gaby cruised in the Caribbean. Most travel has Mary Louise Thompson Pech con- Nosworrhy Morris '50, Sue Little Adamson been visiting family with the highlight beinga tinues with her art despite a slow market. '51 and Polly Amrein to her Villa Marin visit to NYC to get acquainted with their Five grandchildren bring happiness. condo complex. new grandson. Alex Austin James' son Robert gradu- Your correspondent Peggy Reynolds ated from CC in '93. She and Nat "stay Rist , enjoyed lunch al fresco with Peggy Received a dynamite professional postcard peaceful" on their beautiful ME island farm, Flint Nugent in Tucson, AZ. From her from j osanne Giuzberg Farkas advertising where they occupy themselves with growing reading or travels, Peggy Nugent always has her new career. It shows Jo photographedin things, including the families of their six something interesting to say. four character poses, costumed and madeup children! The class extends its sympathy to Rita to represent varied characters. "Televisionand Pat Hemphill Lepingwell loved learn- Large Gerzanick, whose husband, John movies pay a. lot better than acting 011 th~ ing about 16th century Dutch art on an Gerzanick, died on 5/11/93. stage. My son patched up Ann Grayson in Alumni Association-sponsored tour of the emergency room of Framingham Hospjal Holland. Pat's daughter Mary was her room- and renewed my interest in CC - whichhad mate, and they both had a terrific time. Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 waned!" Correspondents: Phyllis Hammer Shirley Nicholson Roos reports hap- Anne (Dallas) Grayson writes, "A busy Duin, 827 179th Court NE pily that Bobbie Kite Yeager and Bill are Bellevue, W A 98008 a;ld ' year - Greece and Turkey in March, France driving again. Shirley talks often to Alice Marilyn Boylan, P.O. Box 316 in May, lung cancer in Oct. Cured and raring (A V) Smith Barrett, who is busy and Snug Harbor, Duxbury, J\IlA to go in Nov." As class president, she com- happy. Casper Roos is playing John 02322 ments, "What a wonderful classwe are!" Hancock in "1776." Shirley is a docent, an Rona Glassman Finklestcin's major artist and a musician. occupation (volunteer) is teaching Englishto ?ur 4~th Reunion ... the campus was Jean Mueller Card and Nat Shattack b100111- Russian immigrants. More rewarding thanshe mg WIth pink laurel, purple rhododendron Harper reunited ill Tombstone, AZ, and at could have imagined - they arc like an and 91 '4gers. What a turnout! Forty-st." per- the Grand Canyon. extended family. With their help, and cas- cent of our class returned, making it the From Marie Booth Fowler, an invita- settes, she is trying to learn Russian. "It is a tion to all '48ers on the East-West route to largest percentage to return for a 45th reunion humbling experience." ever! The credit for the overwhelming success stop in newly-famous Fayetteville, AR. After Betsy Hom Baker retired to Savannah, go:s to Irrna Klein Schachter and Barbara an exciting Alaskan trip, Boothie and Herb but is busy in community art and movie pro- made their regular sununer visit in ME. Miller Smachetti, reunion co-chairs. The jeers, historical society, golf, travel and a sum- Cindy Beardsley Nickelsen notes, weekend w~s ~erfeet - weather, picnic, pro- mer home on Cape Cod. Her husband is sill "After returning from HI, actually Kauai, I gram, hospitality suite and ncconunodanom involved in the medical world. Children and had a postcard from Shirl Reese Olson _ for all at Grace Smith. three grandchildren are in Annapolis and from Kauai, no less. We'd been there at the A~ice Fletcher Freyrnarmrs son Jeff compiled a tap f . 1 " Boston. same time without knowing it!" . . e 0 I11USlCa memories includ- Janet Johnston Strang writes, "We .Nancy Be~m Ha:r:nett and Joe recently mg. Shwiffs, the CC choir and our class com- moved our Down's syndrome son to a super cruised the British Virgin Islands with two of pen.Dve song ("Ships on the Sea"). A contri- group home - after 40 years of home care.It their sons and daughters-in-law on a large button of$10 to CC can still get you one was hard, but everyone is happy, espw:illy chartered schooner. P~g~ Walzer Charren, joined by 'Pres John. Our new freedom lets LIS spend the Helene Sulzer Guamaccia finds her- Gaudlal1l and a student, Claire I . d a panel on . winter in Ft _ golf and friends there, andso self in the antique and collectibles business. COl11put~rs and learning, giving insights into Yearly trips to London are It;quired! changes in general and at CC . . 1 warm! Our new thing ... hooked on fly fish- 111 particu ar "I have no degree, but'I've been a reader Tlre Alumni A .., . ing - joined a club in North Carolina, a l~tcle M. SSOClatlon S Annual ed piece of heaven. Other three 50115 marn , and library activist all my life," writes Olivia eetmg was a proud moment for '49 TI k Ramsey Brown. She and Duncan have a to Helen (HJ) . lan s children and working in their respectivesmall h . = Wettach and her team for "lovely life" in VT. erOiC euorts result1l1g in 8') .. businesses." tl tion and h - percent partlC1pa- Polly Lishon Cowell is still running le Religiolls Books for Childreu is Pat Dole's er announcement of . A most recent. book. She reviews children's Fund gift of $142 545 OUt nnual Learning Disabilities Network. The annual Fund gift fr' 'I ~ the largest Annual spring conference drew \ ,400 participaI~!S. books and gJves workshops in children's lit- om any c ass 111 history! erature. She has seen Shirley MacKenzie Saturday ni h . Lots of work, but satisfying and fun. FIve g t at Our class dinner held in grandchildren.

CD Fall 1994 Marion Luce Butler and Herb moved On the Up and Up Alumni Career News to Wintergreen, VA. They are getting accus- tomed to the slower pace of country living. They love the mountains and opportunity for nature study and historic excursions, as well as year round sports, Judge Patricia McGowan Wald '48 of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District Sue Dankeruis Clippert and John spent Christmas with youngest son, Geoffrey, who of Columbia Circuit was one of the five recipients of the 1994 Margaret Brent is working in Guam. The three then jour- Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association. (The neyed to Saipan, Thailand, Vietnam and award is named for the first woman lawyer in America.) Hong Kong where Lynette Tan Hu enter- tained them at dinner. Helene Zimmer-Loew '57 received the Order of Merit First Class of the Federal "Only spent two years at ce, but have many happy memories! Keeping busy in Russ' Republic of Germany for her work in fostering the study of the Gennan culture and retirement with six grandchildren, traveling language in the United States. The German Consul in New York presented the award and friends," writes Frances O'Neil Kerr. to Zimmer-Loew last fall. Georgia Risk Burlen spent an oh-so- welcome seven weeks down south. Snow Andrea Hricko '67 has been named the new deputy assistant secretary for mine safety piled to the eves of the garage when they left. They saw relatives on the way down, the and health by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. A public health Civil War battlefields on the way up. The expert, Hricko has worked as a policy analyst, a labor safety and health educator and a Burlens also spent five weeks with son, Bruce, journalist. Her duties will include overseeing MSHA's miner health program. who relocated to Miami Beach after four years in Hong Kong. They sawJim and Kitty Lou Lesley Dearden Boughton '71 has been appointed to the state of Wyoming's new Wilder Pope who visited on the way to the Telecommunications Council by Wyoming governor Mike Sullivan. Boughton is Keys, Peggy Walzer Charren writes, "I spent director of the Natrona County Library. a wonderful day on campus in March meeting with professors from various departments, Gale Slepchuk Fitzgerald '72 has been appointed president and discovering the research opportunities in the chief operating officer of the Computer Task Group Inc., an library and marveling at the extraordinary international information technology services company in resources and talents in CC's school for children under six with special needs. And best of Buffalo, N.Y. Prior to joining CTG, Fitzgerald was a vice pres- all, I enjoyed a lovely lunch with our fascinat- ident of professional services for IBM. ing president. Kid television still keeps me busy. I'm trying to make sure we save a por- John W. Moore '76 has been hired by Vinfen Corporation, a tion of the National Information human services organization based in Cambridge, Mass. A reg- Infrastructure for PBS and other public uses of media," istered architect, he is also a Massachusetts real estate broker. In Milt and I are living in the "la la'' land of Fitzgerald '72 his new position he will coordinate efforts tofind real estate for retirement, holed up in our idyllic cabin-on- Vinfen programs and provide architectural services. the-pond spring and summer and circling the globe the rest of the time. Am afraid to stop moving - at our age rigor mortis will set in, Lawrence B. Kaplan '80 has joined John W. Rafal and Associates, an investment and won't it? planning service in Essex, Conn. A great response to our last postcard blitz, so I am saving some of the news for our new Lynn Labrecque Crider '83 received a Pfizer Central Research and Development Award team, Phyllis Hamrner Duin and Marilyn for "convincing demonstration of the correctness of unconventional testing methods Boylan. It's been fun keeping in touch with you all. for the Difiucan oral suspension NDA." Crider, of It is with sadnessthat we note the follow- Norwich, Conn., works in Analytical Research and ing deaths: Jan Coakley Robinson on Development at Pfizer, Inc., Groton. 1/19/94, Edith Manasevit Kivell, Bernice Neumann Booth on 11/30/94 and Natalie Mello Acuna '84 was appointed program manager Margaret Whittemore Paine on 7/13/93.- SylviaJoffe Garfinkle of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's REALIZATION consortium, a $3.75 million project to enhance the future of U.S. manufacturing. The National Science Correspondent: Foundation funds the project. Anne Russillo Griffin 1010 Langley Rd. Norfolk, VA 23507 Jeff Idelson '86 is the new director of public relations for Acuna '84 50 The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He most recently served as senior press officer for the World Cup USA 1994 and Correspondents: Iris Bain Hutchinson, 7853 Clearwater was director of press relations for the New York Yankees for three years prior to that. Cove Dr., fndianapolis, IN 46240 and Susan Askin Wolman, 2512 Stone Mill Rd., 51 Baltimore,MD 21208

ConnecticutCollegeMagllzillf CD Ministry in Clinical Studies this year. An Correspondent. ordained United Methodist minister, Joan has Correspondent: Margaret Morss Stokes been involved in various forms of educational Catherine Kirch Dietrich 528 Prospect St. and counseling ministry since '76. She is a cer- 4224 915t Ave. NE Westfield, NJ 07090 tified pastoral counselor and supervisor in clin- Bellevue, W A 98004 58 52 ical pastoral education. She currently works as a pastoral counselor in the Hartford, CT area. Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 Back in academia, Katie Young Correspondents: Virginia Reed Cotrespondcns: Levick, 10 Sargent Ln., Atherton, Downes is assistant to the Headmaster of an Judith Morse Littlefield CA 94027 and Jane Starrett independent school in Englewood, NJ, of 3 Whittier Terrace, Box 187 Swores, 920 Rye ValleyDr., about 900 kids, pre-school through grade 12. 53 West Boxford, MA 01885 Meadowbrook, PA 19046 A hectic pace, she says! She also serves on the boards of a local nature center and Community Chest, participates in other local Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 Correspondents: Lois Keating Correspondent: organizations, and studies photography. Leamed, 10 Lawrence Sr., Nancy Waddell Recently divorced, Katie has a 25-year-old Greenlawn, NY 11740 and P.O. Box 889 daughter who is going to veterinary school. M'Lee Catledge Sampson, 62 Langley,WA 98260 It seems every other postcard I get men- Phillips St., Stratford, CT 06497 60 tions Polly Kurtz Baynum, so I was glad to Here's more news from the postcards you sent get news directly from her! She and Jack have back - still getting some first-timers for chis moved quite a bit in the last 10 years (after 24 column! years in one place) and are now living in Elaine Heydenreich Hamed writes that Conespondeut: Charlotte, NC. Anyone else in that area? she and David are living in Baton Rouge, LA, Jocelyn Andrews Mitchell She'd like to hear from you. All three children where he teaches at LSU. Before that, they 16701 Cutlass Dr. have graduated from college and are out of the Rockville, MD 20853 were at Allegheny College in PA where she 55 nest, so Polly and Jack are in a new phase of was the very busy "wife of the college presi- their lives. She continues to do volunteer Julia Evans Doering writes that she and dent." They had a semester in London recent- work at the local art museum (wherever she's Ricky Geisel Littlefield went on the Iy, and spend several weeks each summer in living) - a great way to meet interesting peo- Connecticut/Wesleyan Alumni Seminar to MA. Through it all, Elaine continues to teach ple and keep on learning. Aggie Gund says Chile, Argentina and Brazil in Jan. They dyslexic children and also has been invol~ed. in "amen" to that. signed up independently, so they were sur- programs for the aging and an award-winning Please remember to send in your classdues, prised to see each other. The trip went _from Friends of the Library group. Both her sons are Annual Fund pledge, and to mark 612-4/95 on northern Chilean deserts to the Straits of In the financial world. your calendars for our reunion. Imagine - it Magellan, including Bariloche, Argentina; Much of Betsy Thompson Bartholet's was 35 years ago that we left Cc. Doesn't seem Buenos Aires and the lguassu Falls in Brazil. volunteer work is aviation related, since she's that long, does it? Or does it? The highlight for her was the Torres Del an experienced pilot. She serves as treasurer of Paine National Park. The countryside was aviation clubs in Westchester and Westerly, varied: stark, lush, wild, vast, beautiful and RI, and when she says she flew to NH to see Correspoudeuts: Joan Sumner interesting by turns. The people were gra- Bayla Solomon Weisbart, she means she Oster, 255 HillcrestRd., cious and friendly. flew the plane! She and Chauncey do a lot of Fairfield,CT 06430 and Eileen Marilyn Smith Marsh writes that after traveling to visit their half-French grandchil- Rem Chalfoun, RFD #4, Box' three years of attending classes at night, she dren in Paris and an aging parent in Sc. They 923, West Brattleboro, VT 61 05301 fmally received her MFA in creative writing also summer in Stonington, CT, where they'll from American U. She continues (in her 20th eventually live year round. As an environmental activist and an organic year) to work with the Education and Labor Jean Crawford Fishburne does her Committee of the U.S. House of farmer in ME, Nancy Allen believes that share of traveling from home base in international corporations, combined with. a Representatives, but hopes to retire in about Oklahoma City, OK. She has two sons in FL two years. She and husband, Byron, recently global "mafia," have made the institutions m (a tax attorney and an opthalmology resident) the U.S. impotent. The only 'hope for a future built a home in Front Royal, VA, near the and a daughter who just finished college in Skyline Drive, with a beautiful view of the is co get angry enough to take these institu- NC and plans to attend medical school. tions back. She writes that "we should start mountains. Byron has been struggling with Husband, John, gets lots of travel opportuni- multiple myeloma (a form of eye cancer) for with Electric Boat in Groton which may b~ ties through his work as chairman of the Dept. continuing to poison Connecticut CoJl~ge several years, but remains in good spirits. of Ob-Gyn at the U. of Oklahoma. Jean says They take one day at a time. students and which has caused CC alumni to she stays busy with community activities such die early deaths from cancer (particularly as the Philharmonic and golf, tennis, skiing breast cancer) because of low-level radiation Correspondents: Ellie Erickson and bridge. Whew! emissions." Nancy is the press secretary to the Ford, 78 SagamoreTerr. West, Genie Tracy added Kirchner to her Green Party's gubernatorial campaign in ME ". Westbrook, CT 06498 andJan name when she married George Kirchner in After four wonderful years at ec, Naonu Ahlborn Roberts, 39 N. Main '90. She still lives in Newport Beach, CA, and Silver Neft's son, Michael, graduated in May s-, Pennington, NJ 08534 56 works for the Presbytery of Los Ranchos. She and is now finishing his first year at NYU Law staffs the "social concerns" area, so is involved School. Her daughter, Debbie, is a sophomore in refugee resettlement, women's advocacy, at Brown. Correspondent: homeless issues, etc. Her three children have EUin Taylor Black is working for Anne Detarando Hartman graduated from college and she has three Siemens out of IBM where she makes all the 108 AlbemarleRoad, grandsons. Genie and George's annual bicycle travel arrangements for the company's 95 Ne\vton,~ 02160 57 trip took them to Spain and Portugal this year. German employees. She can use her German Look for Genie at the June '95 reunion! all the time! Her 25-year-old daughter, Linda, Also in the field of religion is Joan lives in San Francisco and studies part-time at Hemenway, who received her Doctor of

• Fal11994 San Francisco State U. Twenty-year-old Peers An Alumni Profile daughrer, Karen, is a jr. at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, majoring in biology. Jennifer Andrews '67

Correspolldl'll/.' LouiseBrickley Phippen Executive Director, Comprehensive AIDS Resource Education 300 Highridge Rd. St. Mary's Medical Center, Long Beach, Calif 62 Centreville, DE 19807 "l]I wasn't there, maybe no one would be there.. JJ

Coetespondeut: FTER HEARING JENNIFER ANDREWS Sue Bernstein Mercy 1111 Park Ave. describe her life's work, you might suspect she 63 New York, NY 10128 A could be one of those winged individuals Los Angeles is named for. What comes as the greatest Reunion News: June3-5, 1994 surprise, however, is that someone who deals with Cortespoudesn: trauma and death on a daily basis can be so - well Sandra Bannister Dolan 1 Canberra Ct. - so unmistakably happy. No wonder she can help Mystic.CT 06355 change people's minds. One mind she changed was that of a would-be Forty-eight members of the Class '64 gathered suicide on a bridge late one Easter Sunday. Depressed over a separation from his for their 30th Reunion - which turned out wife and son, a young man had crossed pedestrian barriers and was leaning over the to be fabulous. As we arrived on a perfect edge into the wind and darkness. The police called Andrews, an emergency trauma Friday in June, we could not help but be awed worker, to coax the man to safety. ''I'm afraid of heights, but I couldn't say no. I by the beautiful campus: the greens were man- was terrified," the social worker recalls. After listening to Andrews' reassurances and icured, and laurel, rhododendron and azaleas were in full bloom. Freeman House was our offers of assistance for about 15 minutes, the man reached out for help. Andrews lat- headquarters, and the rooms were clean - er received a special commendation from the Long Beach fire department. although spartan. A newly-upholstered sofa, As director of CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resource Education), Andrews dozens of bright potted geraniums (provided serves a community with the second highest concentration of HI VIA IDS-infected by Dhuanne Schmitz Tansill) and two large individuals in the country. Funded largely by the Ryan White Care Act, CARE pro- intriguing/mysterious/compelling paintings by Tiz Saalfield Ives made the living room look vides more than a dozen different services to a current caseload of about 420 clients cheerful and welcoming. Hospitality Chair ("We call them clients not patients, because it's more empowering," she explains.) Marilyn Ellman Buel had set up a delightful Her staff, volunteers and subcontractors provide home attendants, a food bank, per- table full of goodies - including snacks that sonal necessities, psychiatric help, family support, a buddy program for children, and were actually good for you. (There was also other innovative services. "You often have to treat the whole family's problems, not liquid refreshment of all sorts ...) Thus, the scene was set for the Class' just an individual's," says Andrews, who notes that AIDS is growing fastest now weekend theme, "Women of the '60s: Then among poor and minority populations. and Now." The afternoon and evening were An Ohio native, Andrews earned her B.A. in psychology. "The psychology spent catching up on the "Now" part - with department was excellent at Conn," says the social worker. "They put you on cocktails at Freeman and a clambake under a notice that no matter how smart you were you were going to have to work." As an huge tent on the green near the Plex. (We undergrad, Andrews also did volunteer work with mentally retarded adults and chil- used to call this area "The New Dorms.") After dinner, several of us watched "The dren at the nearby Seaside Regional Center formerly operated by the state of Group" a movie about college women in the Connecticut. "That planted the seed of wanting to work with special populations," '60s starring a young Candace Bergrn and she recalls. After earning an M.S.W. from Boston University School of Social Work, fumed at Cc. (The best part of the movie was Andrews headed west and began working in public health and substance abuse in the opening three minutes which had shoes of Freeman, Harkness, the Green and Hale Lab.) southern California; she later took a job as a social worker in an emergency trauma Saturday was near-perfect weather-wise. center. It was in the early 1980s that she and her colleagues began to see cases of At the class meeting, the slate of officers for what was then known as "gay cancer." "We saw the beginnings of the psycho-social the next five years was unanimously elected: devastation at that time," she says of the first AIDS cases and the reluctance of people President Judy Wisbach Curtis, Vice to treat them. In 1981 Andrews joined the staff of Sr. Mary's Medical Center, and President and Nominating Chair Marge Tobin Davidson, Treasurer Jeanette her role evolved from emergency trauma worker to director of clinical social work Gross, Class Agent Jean Klingenstein, to executive director of CARE. Reunion Chair Ellen Corroon Peterson "People always ask me if my work is depressing. I tell them, no it isn't. It's and Class Correspondent Sandy Bannister rewarding if I can help just one person. If I wasn't there, maybe no one would be Dolan. Bright blue sunglasses with the CC there. They would have to go alone into death. logo were distributed for the Alumni Parade. (These snappy pnzes were much admired by "Because of the time you share with them, it's like having many lifetimes in other classesand Pres. Caudiani as we marched one. Their lives are compressed into a very short time. You place greater value on from Crozier to Palmer.) the sanctity of life, and the emotional rewards are enormous ... It's more like a mis- At the long meeting which followed, the sion than ajob." - LHE

ConnecticutCollegeM(~azil1e .. class gifts were presented. Thanks to outstand_ ing fundraising efforts by Gail Rosenberg Ludvigson, Judy Krieger Gardner and Dhuanne Schmitz Tansill, the Classof'64 gave more than $130,000 with well over 50- percent participation. The money will go to endow two assistant professorships for two years. Incidentally, the importance of class HE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION p3rticipation was dramatically underlined as is pleased to again offer its Pres. Gaudiani informed us that Connecticut's high giving percentage was instrumental in program for alumni sons and T helping the Olin Foundation approve a quick daughters who are college bound (and very generous) grant award for the new juniors in high school this year. science building! Translated, this means that Sponsored as a service to alumni, individual gifts, no matter how small, make a this program offers grOllp discus- BIG impact. sions with Connecticut College After a picnic 011 the lawn, our class met with June Macklin, Rosemary Park professor admissions staff as well as mock of anthropology, and MaryAnne Borelli, assis- interviews and a simulated admis- tant professor of government and women's sions conunittee meeting. OUf goal studies instructor, to discuss Women of the is to provide insights to the selec- '60s: Then and Now. After a few introducto- tive college admissions process in ry words by these erudite women, class mem- order to help participants make the bers were each asked to briefly tell about their lives. And this they did - compellingly, best possible college match. The openly and honestly. This exercise took more Alumni Association will be sending than an hour, and the two professors took information to alumni whose chil- copious notes that will surely constitute the dren were born between June basis for a scholarly article or even a book 1977 and December 1978. If your about well-educated women who are a half son or daughter is interested in century old! Themes that emerged from our participating in this program, but was not born in those years, or if you believe discussion were: 1) Most of us appear to be more content with our lives (and past accom- the Alumni Association does not have a record of your high school junior, please plishments) than ever before. 2) Many of us fill out this form and return to: desire to slow down and enjoy the "fabulous fifties." 3) The liberal arts education we Deb Johns, Director of Alumni Programs received at CC has held us in good stead. Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue Next, the mystery of classmate Tiz New London, CT 06320 Saalfield Ives' art works hanging in Freeman living room was unlocked. Tiz presented a or contact Deb at 203-439-2309. fascinating slide show and discussion of her growth as an artist. Keep your eyes out in fine galleries for "The Marathoner." After a cocktail reception on the J.A, patio, classmates were amazed to find the Name of alumnus/a Freeman House cafeteria transformed into a channing dining establishment. Crisp linens, gleaming silverware and crystal, cheery flow- First Maiden/Middle Last ers and soft candlelight set the mood for a Class Year _ beautifully prepared and served dinner. The food was given a four-star rating by 1110Stof Address _ us. Joining the class at cocktails and dinner were Professors Macklin and Borelli, professor George Willauer (as channing and dapper as ever) and Chaplain Steve Schmidt and hIS Phone _ wife, Joyce. Sunday morning breakfast in the donn Name of Child(ren) Date of birth was great fun. Cameras clicked, hugs andd promises to stay in touch were exchange. Our 30th was over. Many thanks to everyone who helped nuke this event a smashing suC- cess. A few random notes. Twa student helpers were assigned to our class, Marinell yoders, president-elect of the CC Student My son/daughter is not a high school junior ths year. ·· d B,..,d Dolan. a G overnrnentA ssocrauon, an ,n ·d ked bar , Please include us in the 19__ program. sophomore and my SOI1. Both war d were delightful and helped make the weeken Ii rrav- run smoothly. Laura Hopper }{nus

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eled the farthest to attend (from Srafa, Peers An Alumni Profile Switzerland). Eva Foldes Travers has the youngest children. The three women at reunion who had married their Coasties - Platt Townend Arnold, Kirk Palmer Senske and Pat Edwards Anderson - are Kimberly-Toy Reynolds Huh '77 still married to them! We spoke to several people who really wanted to attend, but Attomey and Chicago Police Training Academy instructor couldn't. They had very good excuses: Barbara Brachman Fried was in Japan; Kathy Cover Eichin was filming a movie in Bridging the culture gap New Orleans; Judy Krieger Gardner was at her son's high school graduation in OUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO, KIMBERLY- Concord; Derry Healy Henderson Toy Huh made up her mind to go to law couldn't get a flight out of Costa Rica (where Fschool. A seven-year veteran of the Chicago she resides) in time for the festivities; Janet Police Force, the widowed mother of two boys Grant (who lives in London) was in Malaysia enrolled in night school at the Chicago-Kent on yet another business trip; Noel Anderson Redford was in Naples; and Ellen College of Law; this past spring she was admitted to Greenspan Cardwell had previous commit- the Illinois Bar on her first try. ments in DC, where she is still working on Whether in her native Chicago or in the coun- our 25th reunion book. tryside of China, Huh is someone who follows her The Class of '64 Directory was a big hit, hunches. She's the first to admit that a few of the but I know of at least one address that's big decisions in her life were based on somewhat wrong - mine! Ten days before reunion, I whimsical criteria. Her life-long interest in Eastern moved to a townhouse in Mystic, CT. Do write me with your news at the address listed cultures started with a teenage fascination with Bruce Lee's martial arts films. And her at the top of this column. choice of Connecticut College, although endorsed by her high school English teacher, was also motivated by another factor - "it was close enough to New York City to get a good haircut." Correspondents: LeslieSetterholmFox, 26 At Conn, where she was one of only 25 African-American students enrolled in Conestoga Way,Glastonbury, the mid-Xis, Huh majored in Asian studies with a minor in Mandarin Chinese. "I CT 06033 and Ann Brauer will always love Connecticut College. It was the first time living on my own, and 1 Gigounas,840 Stony Hill Rd., 65 Tiburon, CA 94920 always had to work," she says. Fluent in Mandarin (she also speaks Spanish and German) Huh spent five years living and working in China after graduation as both a translator for a British compa- Sue Peck Repass writes, "Semi-retired life is wonderful in Manchester, VT, with my sig- ny and an English teacher at the Taipei Dorninican School. For two years, she lived nificant other, Paul Robinson. r work (rarely) in the countryside of China. "There was no hot water. That was an experience that per diem as an lCU nurse in Bennington, VT. changed my life." Other changes started to occur. "During my time in China I A sad note in June was the death of my dad, began to adopt the language, culture and traditions, particularly in terms of family "Big George," as many of my Connecticut structure. Families are very close, hardworking and loyal." Her own inunediate fami- classmates knew him. Son, Randy, 26, just left ly also reflects these values, she believes. She has tried to instill the quality of for points east, Ireland being the first stop, for politeness in her two boys, Ming Tai (14) and Marcus Edward (9). however long it takes to find what he's looking fer.Graduate school and glass blowing are Her bilingual status has always opened doors for her, including those of the on hold. Daughter, Elizabeth, 29, an interior Chicago police academy. For six years she worked in Senior Services and was architect, is making a career move from San involved in crime prevention programs for the elderly in Chinatown, often inter- Francisco to Telluride, CO! Hope to see viewing crime victims. One of the highlights of her career was a trip to China as part everyone in]une." of a city delegation with former mayor Harold Washington. Since 1989 she has been Jane Anderson Morse, a parishioner and an academy instructor and has taught law courses in criminal law and procedures. priest associate at St. Arm's Episcopal Church in Old Lyme, CT, has been selected to serve Recently, Huh has started her own law practice, specializing in immigration and as an assistant professor of the Old Testament naturalization issues. "My practice is truly global, in every sense of the word," she says. at the Virginia Thelogical Seminary in Reflecting on the challenges she has faced, including the tragic deaths of two Alexandria, VA, where she received her mas- husbands, she says that she has been able to cope by focusing on the lessons learned ter's degree in 1986. Morse has been working from those experiences. Above all, she has been motivated to keep striving. Aside on a doctorate degree in the Old Testament from her mother, she is the only one in her family to go to college; she is the first through the Department of Religious Studies police officer and the first lawyer in her family as well. at Yale. She expects to complete her disserta- tion next spring. Envisioning her sons' future, her first choice for them would be to become doctors. Because of the risks of police work, she is happy that neither one is planning, as yet, to follow in her footsteps in crime enforcement. Correspondents: BetsyGreenberg In 1993 her feIJow students from the Chicago-Kent College of Law presented Feinberg,8014Greentree Rd., Bethesda,MD 20817 and her with the Bar and Gavel Award for her community service work in both the PamelaMendelsohn,P.O. Box Asian American Society and the Black American Society. On her ability to bridge 4597, Arcata, CA 95521 66 the gap between the rwo cultures, she notes, "being a member of both is important." -DE]

ConnecticutColiegeMagazille CD Johnson where she is director of special pro- jeers, having business oversight responsibilities for their research relationship with the Scripps A Message To The Connecticut College Community Institute. She also coordinates women's health within the company and sirs on its corporate contributions committee (no letters please'). OMECOMING WEEKEND WAS A FUN AND INSPIRJNG TIME FOR US Her older son, Andrew, is entering his sopho- to be on campus to connect with our CC family of students, parents, facul- more year at Hamilton College where he was ty, staff and alumni brothers and sisters. However, we also felt anger, sad- just reelected president of his class. Her Hness and disappointment resulting from the recent news that racial hate grafftti younger son, Ari, will begin Yale in the fall where her husband, Rick, is chairrnan of the appeared on the stairwell wall of Lambdin House. Some students asked us for Department of Derrnatology. support and guidance. To that request, we offer the following: Your class correspondent Gail Weintraub Stern Cooney is recovering • The Alumni Association does not condone racial hatred and related acts. from "the year from hell." My house was burglarized the very same day I was asked to • Connecticut College does not tolerate racial harassment. Per the College's racial take on this labor of love. How could I say harassment policy, the College will take appropriate disciplinary action against no? Since then, 1 have been traversing the country from my home in Marin County, those found to have committed racial harassment that may encompass using racial CA, to FL, caring for my mother who died of epithets and vandalism. This policy applies to all members of the on-campus cancer on March 25. I now frequently fly, College community, faculty, staff, and students. tending my 85-year-old father. If tills weren't enough, my husband of 15 years exited in • Vandalism is a social infraction of the College's Honor Code. Therefore, the Nov. Ain't life grand! So what's been good? 1 responsible person, if she or he is a student, should report herself or himself to the continue working as a coronary critical care Chair of the Judiciary Board. If a fellow student knows him or her, that student nurse at Marin General Hospital and as a clinical instructor of nursing at my other alma should remind him or her to do so. mater, College of Marin. I sit on the board of my temple and Agape Foundation. I saw my Keep in mind that this is not an isolated incident. Many alumni experienced the son Gabriel Stem graduate from Wesleyan U. pain and anger of racial hate acts while CC students. A similar incident occurred in May. (Rick and Ruth Cheris Edelson last year on campus, and similar writing and actions are perpetrated daily in the were present.) He's now en route to Buenos surrounding communities of New London, Connecticut, the United States and Aires where he'll teach English. Guess I'll visit him over New Year's. the globe. While in New England in May, I happened upon the Connecticut College gradua- Celebration of diversity is the order of the day for Connecticut College to sur- tion. A glorious sunny day filled with high vive. Therefore, we should work together to comfort our own when we are vio- spirits and great expectations. The campus lated in this manner. We also must discuss and implement ways to prevent future looks even better than it did in '68, with the actions. These should include actively voicing our opposition and conducting exception of the dorms. The days of our educational programs to heal the wounds from and redirect a systemic history of women's college are certainly gone. I keep in close contact with Ruth Cheris bigotry. Edelson and Helen Bpps . I'd love to receive news from many more of you. Please The Alumni Association strongly supports the continued maintenance and new jot me a note; I'll give you good press. My establishment of such efforts at Connecticut College. Furthermore, we support best to you all! - Gail the College's strategic plan to "intensify its commitment to both community and diversity recognizing that here these goals are inseparable." Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 Corrcspotldclll. Signed on behalf of the Alumni Association Executive Board and Staff, Mary Barlow Mueller 5 WaterWay Barrington, Rl 02806 Marny Krause '66 President Connecticut College Alumni Association

Corrcspolldcllt: PatriciaAllen Shellard 25 Birchwood Rd. Glen Rock, NJ 07452 Joanne Intrator and Ruth Cheris Edelson recently celebrated their fifth annual birthday 70 Correspondent: Myma Chandler Goldstein is with Harte- SusanLeahyEldert bash. Joan is assistant chief of psychiatry at the Hanks Community Newspapers as a P.O. Box 788 Bronx VA and assistant professor of psychiatry correspondent, feature writer and columnist. Wallingford,CT 06492 at Mount Sinai. For the past three years, she She hopes to continue branching out into 67 has been studying how psychopaths process magazine writing. Her husband, Mark, is emotional words. Her husband, Gregory chief of Pediatric and Student Services at Correspolldcllt: ~ombardo, is a psychiatrist in private practice MIT. Son, Brett, is a government major at Gail Weintraub Stem Cooney 111 Cornwall, NY, and her son, Ben, is enter- CC, Class of '96. Daughter, Samantha, is at P.O. Box 1804 ing third grade at the Ri ppowan Cisqut the Groton School, also Class of '96, and coo- 68 Ross, CA 94957 School in Me. Kisco. Ruth is at Johnson &

CD Fall 1994 s sidering a career in medicine. Peers An Alumni Profile Alana Flamer Fodeman is receiving rhe Peace and Hope Award in recognition of 25 years of volunreer community service to the Women's Division of State of Israel Jonathan F. Katz '78 Bonds - Connecticut Region of Hadassah. Son, Morris, graduated from Lafayette Sports Psychologist, College and plans ro attend law school. Assistant Professorof Clinical Psychology, Daughrer, Cydney, is at Clark U. On 8/4/94, Columbia University College oj Physicians & Surgeons Alana and husband, Alan, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. "Wow!" Maintaining a Mental Edge: Susan Lee still works for Northern Trust and is excited about switching from managing s A SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST, JONATHAN retail banking to managing personal trust operations. She sees Barbara Hermann F. Katz has had much success counseling ama- teur, collegiate and professional athletes since often and is looking forward to our 25th A reunion. (please send in your classdues if you graduating from Connecticut College in 1978 - but haven't already done so ...) ironically, it was his failure to make the Conn tennis Sally Liebig enjoys living in the moun- team that helped lead him to his choice of careers. tains of AZ and miming her own marketing "I had been a good high school player, but when consulting business in Flagstaff with govern- 1 went out as a freshman for the tennis team, I got a mild case ofmono(nucleosis)," ment, hospitality and service industry clients. Katz recalled. Consequently, his plans were delayed until the following spring, when She is founder and director of the Flagstaff he had to win six straight round-robin matches to be selected. Winrerfesr, an 18-day festival in Feb. that "I won five in a row and was up 5-1 in the last set, when I started playing too attracts about 20,000 people and celebrates snow and cultural attractions. Feb. 3-20, 1995 tentatively," he said. A muffed shot here, a double-fault there, and before long it was will be the ninth festival. "See you at game, set, match - and Katz's collegiate tennis career was over before it started. "It reunion!" was your classic choke," he said. Pamela Pollak and Gerry Gmiski spent The experience taught him an important lesson about the influence of mental their honeymoon in Warsaw, Poland, where conditioning on athletic performance. Gerry, an investment banker, is heading a These days, Katz - who graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi USATD project for one of the large, formerly Beta Kappa before going on the earn a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the state-owned, commercial banks. Pam works University of Missouri - works with athletes ranging from National Basketball for a project jointly sponsored by the U. of Association stars to weekend golfers. A licensed psychologist in private practice in Maryland and Warsaw U. Law School. The New York City and Westchester County, he has served as a consultant for the project's objective is the modernization of the laws on secured transactions in Eastern Chicago White Sox baseball team, has co-led The Mental Edge sports psychology European countries. Pam continues to study seminar for golf club professionals and is a frequent guest on national radio and tele- the cello, Gerry the violin. vision sports programs. He also is working with the Columbia University men's Lisa Richter is Sf. vp, director of basketball team. research at Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., an Katz said his advice to athletes varies depending on if the sport is reactive, such international communications consulting finn as basketball, on non-reactive, such as golf; if it is a team sport, such as baseball or an headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Her two individual sport such as marathon running; and of course, whether it is on the ama- daughters are Ellen, 15, and Vanessa, 12. Lisa teur level or in the pros. enjoys travel, cats, aerobic exercise, house- Often personal problems affect sports performance, as was the case with an work. N.B.A. player who was having trouble sinking shots. The player, a power forward, Carolyn Rotter Davis and husband, Howard, are both in the computer field in was so spooked about going to the line that he avoided driving to the hoop so he Houston, TX. Her two sons, Jason and Ted, wouldn't draw a foul, Katz recalled. and Howard's children, Blaire and Bill, are all During consultation, Katz learned that the player and his wife were having diffi- teenagers. They are remodeling an older culty conceiving a child, and the man's feeling of inadequacy reflected on the court. home in between busing children around, Katz referred the player to a specialist who helped him with his physical problem golfing, fishing and the annual l Su-mile bicy- while Katz was able to restore his confidence. cle ride for Multiple Sclerosis. They traveled For another college hoop star in a horrendous scoring slump, Katz told him, through Eastern Europe in '92 for three "Look, you and 1 know you're a great shooter. My hunch is you're thinking about delightful weeks. shooting too much. Just go out and play and concentrate on defense, passing and set- Pauline Schwede Assenza is director of management development and training at St. ting a screen - everything but shooting." Sure enough, the player scored 23 points Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, CT. She lives by half-time in his next game. in Woodbury, CT, with her cat, dog, eight Katz credits his undergraduate studies in psychology with preparing him for his birds and her 87-year-old father. Enrolled in a career and cites professors John MacKinnon and the late Philip Goldberg for their PhD. program in educational psychology at inspiration. UConn, Pauline is also past president of the Katz, who lives in Westchester County, N.Y, with his wife and two children, CT Chapter of the American Society for tries to practice what he preaches in his own life. An avid tennis player and distance Training and Development. "Single, but no runner, he incorporates mental exercises into his physical training. His formula for time to socialize." running the last few miles of a marathon could be adapted to just about any pursuit Tena Williams Achen and family in life: "I focus on my breathing, my stride, maintaining good form - and just con- moved to Ann Arbor, MI, in '90. Tena is director of development for the U. of centrate on one mile at a time." - Steve Fagin

ConnecticutCollegeMagazine e highlighted by our classdinner on Knowlton Green. A hip DJ played songs from our youth (and early childhood) and we danced all night (well, until 10:30 p.m. when many of us picked up our kids from childcare). Let's try for a bigger turnout for our 25th. Come see what a fabulous campus CC has now. Come see your old friends - or meet new ones. Hope to see you in '99 or in the 21st century! Thanks for all the info you've sent these last five years. For the next five, please send cards and letters to Janice Curran or Paula Marcus-Platz, your new class correspondents. Please remember to put your name on your news; it will simplify their job. Born: to Elissa Goldweitz Baly and Michael, Marissa Anne 2/24/94. Donna Cartwright celebrated 10 happy years of marriage to Steven Douglas Smith on 5/19/94. Their daughter, Kristyn, is 5. NEW FACES IN BECKER HOUSE. Knute Gregg '94 (left) is working as an intern with the Alumni Association. A double major in government and Hispanic studies, Gregg is responsible for the Human Endowment Program, Donna received a Ph.D. in business adminis- young alumni programs and alumni athletic programs. Tim Cheney '93, an economics and American history tration from St. Louis U. in '93 and is district major, is working on an internship for the Athletic Department and College Relations as sports information manager of consumer market analysis and director. He is also assistant coach for men's soccer. planning for Southwestern Bell. Beth Fisher High works full time as a Michigan's Botanical Gardens; her husband, Cotrcspondeuts: Mary Brady television producer in Chapel Hill, NC, plus Chris is professor of political science. Cornell, 11305AlmsHouse she is the mother of Georgia, 5, and Evan, 2. Daughter, Monica, 12, enjoys acting; Sasha, Cc., Fairfax Station, VA 22039 Husband, Tom, has just completed their 11, enjoys field hockey and 1112th. and Mary Ann Sill Sircely, PO. house. In her spare time (ha!), Beth teaches Box 207, Wycombe, PA aerobics and preaches about media literacy. 73 18980 She saw Brian Puglisi '73 and his wife, Sylvia, Covrespondan: in Phoenix last year. Charlotte Parker Vincent Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994 Lon Sulkowski has his own special 5347 Gainsborough Dr. Conespondents: Janice Curran, events/catering firm in NY. He is still a Fairfax, VA 22032 28 MyrtleSt., EastNorwalk, CT bachelor and loves deep sea fishing off the 71 06855 and Paula Marcus-Plata, Florida Keys. 100Evergreen Rd., Auburn,ME Roma Taddei Mott lives in Kalamazoo, Conespoudent: MI, with scientist husband, John, and chil- Deborah Garber King, 548MattakeesettSt. dren, Jonathan, 12, and Juliette, 11. She is an Our 20th reunion was terrific fun, blessed Pembroke, MA 02359 instructor of educational psychology at 72 with unusually perfect weather (in New Western Michigan U. She graduated in April London?!) and a small but congenial group. with a master's degree in teaching elementary Forty-seven attractive, youthful alums gath- school and is halfway through a second mas- ered for a varied program of activities ter's degree in early childhood education. Roma will soon be looking for a teaching position. Fern Zabriskie is sorry to have missed our reunion. She just received a wonderful promotion to vice president of Colonial Pacific Leasing Co., a subsidiary of Pitney- Bowes Inc. in Portland, OR. Sherry Alpert attended the Bennington Writing Workshops this summer and is looking for an agent for her first novel. Hello? Is anybody listening? In the meantime, she still works as vice president of Public Affairs in Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Boston. An article of Sherry's will appear in Hadassah Magazine this fall. Sharon Bell has been accepted into the '94-'95 classfor Leadership Oklahoma, a state- wide leadership development organization. Chris Dunkel-Schetter has two sons, Alex, 8, and James, 3. She and husband, Charlie, are building a rustic Italian home in Pacific Palisades, CA. Chris continues as asso- HAil TD THE CAMEl? The C.C. Alumni Association hosted a picnic for the college's new freshman class ciation professor of psychology at UCLA and on Aug. 30. The camel mascot dispensed blue frisbees with the imprint of the association and danced to a is director of the Health Psychology program. D.J. with the future alums. Her current research is on stress and birth to Framingham State to get her certification to teach French. She says it only took her 20 Cotrespondeuts: Tom Kobak, 2 outcomes. Dewal Ct., Norwalk, CT 06851 Ellen Feldman Thorp reports that she years to decide what to do, and she plans to and SusanCalefTobiason, 70 had a wonderful time at the reunion. She take up Spanish next year. The Congdons life Park TerraceEast,Apt. 41, New is busy in Hopkinton, MA. Lindsay is 14, and NY sends her thanks to its organizers and hopes 78 York, 10034 to see more people in '99. Ellen is spending Stephen is 12. Husband, Dan, has JUStstarted the summer riding her horses and planning a new window business in Franklin, M.A. Pam Raffone D' Agostino reports that Reunion News: June 3-5, 1994- trips with them, like retracing Butch Correspcudeut: Cassidy's route. She will also spend time in she has been busy producing and reproducing! Judith A. Newman her log home on Crawfish Lake in WA. Her fourth child, Dara Marie, was born on 83 MontclairAve. Kathleen Hanagan Fimmel is now 4/15/94. Pam's writing career has shown Montclair,NJ 07042 busy with a full-time psychotherapy practice some encouraging signs. She took third place in Falls Church, VA. She also directs psy- at the NEPA (New England Press Association) contest in Jan. and a first place in chodrama groups in psychiatric hospitals. Coaespondeus: EllenHarris the Massachusetts Press Contest in MA. Both Kathleen is recently separated from her hus- Knoblock,t 1 Sherman St., band, but still co-parenting Antje, 16; were humorous columns. Belmont,MA 02178 and Paul Katrina, 14 and Jonathan, 13. She loves to Ron Robins is building his practice as a A. (Tony)Littlefield,122Emery St., Portland,ME 04102 cook, hike, work out and meditate to keep financial advisor to business owners and high 80 her sanity. She is interested in dreams and net worth individuals. He advises in the areas facilitates dream workshops for various of business succession planning and estate and Geoffrey Day is happily living and working in Cambridge, MA, where for eight years he groups. retirement planning. Ron and wife, Lora, Deidre Kaylor Richardson has com- continue to enjoy life in Chappaqua, NY, has been president of the Consulting with sonsJamie and William. Exchange. pleted a job as a planner for a school-based Andy Ferguson is living in Juneau, AK, health center with the Danbury, CT, Health Christine Smalley Sanders sends us and writes he "just returned from three Department. She and husband, David, have notes from the Heartland. Her second son, weeks in the lower 48 states taking music lived in Ridgefield, CT, for the past three Philip, was born 5/28/91 in Springfield, IL. years. Melissa, 13, and Sarah, 8, have visited The Sanders have since moved to a town near lessons and seeing concerts." Andy plays folk the CC campus as part of the Johns Hopkins Columbus, IN, where Christine's husband, fests and dances in Juneau, Gustavus and U. CTY (Connecticut Talented Youth) Tim, works as a design engineer. She is busy Sitka, in addition to completing his first full Program. Dave is sr. vice president of the with her two boys: Lucas, 6, and Philip, now season fishing his own trolling rig for salmon. Wirthlin Group, a NYC-based marketing 3; her garden, and her attempts to keep up He also fmished working on a cabin up the research finn. with the outside world. In their free time, Taku River. "No big climb this spring. l'm Caroline Kent writes that she missed they enjoy traveling and hiking. The children taking a break from that particular brand of speak some Spanish, and Christine now plans our 20th reunion because she and husband, mIsery to work on their Russian. David Homsey, were in Waco, TX, finaliz- Nan Vaughan Curtis sent her first cor- After 15 years in Northern CA, Ann ing the adoption of their son, John David respondence ever and is catching us up on James Humsey (jack). Jack was born on Swallow Gillis finally lives only 10 blocks 15 years of news. She and Harry Curtis live 8/18/93 and arrived in MA on 9/19/93. He from the beach and can see the Pacific Ocean in Denver with two daughters, Preston, 7, has already been given his first CC sweatshirt. from her mailbox. Ann now lives in Pacific Nan Mezzatesta and family are return- Grove, CA, with husband, Chris, and chil- and Emma, 4. Harry is an investment analyst ing to the East Coast (East Setauket, NY) dren, Marcella and Nicholas, 10 and 9. She at Hanifen Imhoft - a regional investment after eight years in Shaker Heights, OH. left her position as chaplain at a local hospital firm. He is responsible for following the Nan's husband, Brian, has finished his anes- drug and alcohol rehabilitation program last "gaming" industry - i.e. casinos and related thesia residency at the Cleveland Clinic Nov. and has pastoral counseling office that manufacturing companies. Harry works long Foundation and has accepted a position with focuses on spiritual direction and grief work. hours and travels quite a bit, but loves the an anesthesia group in Port Jefferson, NY. She also does chaplaincy work with home- job. Nan retired from practicing law for 10 Nan worked for six years as a marketing bound hospice patients for a nursing agency. years to devote herself full time to mother Ann officiates at lots of weddings. She regrets manager at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. and wife responsibilities, including oversee- missing the reunion and hopes to make one She left two years ago to start her own health ing a massive remodeling of their house and care marketing consulting business. Their soon. trying to improve her tennis game. Nan two sons, Ian and Brian, are 10 and 7, respec- reports Julie Schapiro was in Denver last tively. The family enjoyed the reunion and CorrcspOlldetJlS: Miriam winter, and highlighted their daughter hope more classmates will attend the 25th. JosephsonWhitehouse, P.O. Preston in a production she was filming for Doug Milne lives in Darien, CT, with Box 68, Cape Porpoise,ME wife, Sharon; Jason, 21, and Ashley, 11. He 04014and Nancy Gruver, 2127 the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. (Preston continues to work in real estate investment ColumbusAve., Duluth, MN does not have M.S., but her very remarkable 75 55803 and is the chairman of the Hometown Bank teacher does.) Corporation, the parent company of the Adam Martinez graduated from the U. Bank of Darien. Doug struggles at golf and of Virginia's Darden School with an MBA suffers along with all other Red Sox fans Correspondent: and will be living in Poland for the next watching 40 years of incompetence. Doug is LaureneGiovannelli Palmer year. sorry they missed reunion and will try to 23 ParishHill Rd. North Windham, CT 06256 Jonathan Etkin continues to have attend in '99. 76 interns with him in Methfes Treasury Janice Mu.rphy Congdon had fun at Department. Jonathan is taking courses Reunion '94, but wishes more grads had Correspondents: Wendy Crandall, towards his CFP exam and is involved with come. She sends special thanks to Katie 24 LandingLn., Nonh Methfe's investing. Paine and others who worked so hard to Kingstown,RI 02852 and make it a nice weekend. Janice reports that SheilaSaunders,t 634 San she finally "bit the bullet" last year and went 77 Gabriel,Glendale,CA 91208

ConnecticutCollegeMagazi'le e Correspondents: Claudia Gould, 1612 North Fillmore Sc., Arlington, VA 22201 and Greta Davenport Rutstein, 1723 Windmere Ave., Baltimore, MD 83 21218

Reunion News: June3-5, 19944 Correspondents: Lucy Marshall Sandor, 253 Katydid Lane, Wilton, CT 06897; Sheryl Edwards Rajpolt, 24 Bugg Hill Rd., Monroe, CT 06468 and Elizabeth Kolber, 400 East 71st St., 5L, New York, N.Y. 10021

Married: Cathy Altman to Russell Silver, 3/21/92; Michael Miller to Kristin Neuner, 5/2/92; Ned Taylor to Emily Pope, 6/91; Charlene Toal to Bill Best, 10/93. Born: to Cathy Altrnan and Russell Silver, Jarrod, 9/21/93; to Cynthia Poulos Alumni celebrate the marriage of lisa Hodge '88 and Ed Hewson '89. Front row, left to right: Tanya Shah Anderson and Mike, son Skyler 9/93; to '88, Jeanne Martin '88, the bride and groom, Heather Hewson Gribble '84, Melissa Hewson S~ho~er '86and Holly Carr Byrne '88. Back row, left to right: Marni Kaufman Cornick '90, Stephen Cornick 89, Caroline Shepard Bolick and Paul, Jamie Gardner '89, Carina Capps Evens '89, Doug Buck '89, Brad Evens '89, Lee Adourian '88, Sasha Kimberly 4/93; to Lisa DeCesare Curry Lazor '88, Sarah Hewson Seiler '63, Penny McKean Lazor '88 and Chris Byrne '86. and David, Daniel John 4/12/94; to Michele Rosano Fitzgerald and Brian, Stephen Correspondents: Kenneth Connor 9/1/92; to Torn Franco and Elissa, Correspondent: Goldstein, 94 Dudley Sr., Unit I, Alison 6/5/93; to Michelle Poulin Kiley Grace Sweet Bitter Brookline, MA 02146 and and Robert Kiley, Meghan 8/6/89 and Christine Saxe Easton, 712 Wall 2 Oakwood Way Bridget 11/11/91; Michael Miller and Ro~d, Spring Lake, NJ 07762 West Windsor, NJ 08691 81 82 Kristin, Kaitlin Ryan 3/20/94; Sally Everett Newlywed Katherine Gould Maglieri, Born: to Julie van Roden and Andrew Williamson and Scott Williamson '81, Reid (whose penmanship remains excellent!) lives Lerman, Elizabeth Beatrice Lerman 4/10/94; Everett 3/125/94; Robin Snowberger with her husband in New Canaan, CT. Both to Lisa Johnson Contino and Giovanni, Swenarton and John, James Bradway work at General Reinsurance Corporation in Sofia Chiara Skye 4/17/91 and Lucas 5/6/93. Stamford. Katherine is a technical writer Benjamin River 5/5/93. Michelle Poulin Kiley and Robert (which explains the great penmanship). She Lisa Johnson Contino and family live Kiley have a long list of previously unreport- stays in touch with Luette Spitzer Keegan, in the hills outside Bologna, Italy, surrounded ed events including the births of their two Mary Lynn Edwards '78, and, of course the by apricot, cherry, plum and fig trees and daughters, Meghan and Bridget. Michelle has members of her "true" Connecticut College acres of vineyards. They spend lots of time "retired" from Andersen Consulting to stay at family: her sisters, Claudia Gould '83 and outdoors! Since Lucas arrived, she has put her home with the girls. Bob is a partner with the Christine Gould Reardon '79, and Christine's translation business on the back burner but is law firm of O'Brian Tansh i Tanzer and husband, Michael Reardon '79. thinking of hiring her daughter, since both Young in Hartford. (P.S. Many thanks to Peter (Spice) Simpson recently went her Italian and English are amazing. She has Michelle for our beautiful new Class of '84 for a ride over the Pennsylvania Dutch coun- no accent in either language. Husband, banner that was debuted at Reunion '94.) tryside in the FujiColor Blimp. He found the Giovanni, enjoys his work as manager of Nancy Rugo was named Conservation experience exhilarating. quality assurance for a small manufacturing Teacher of the Year by the Massachusetts Your occasionally faithful correspondent, company. Audubon Society for environmental educa- Kenny Goldstein and my lovely wife, I have heard recently from Liza Helman tion. Congrats, Nancy! Demee, live in Brookline, MA. My growing Quigley, who has moved to a new house Cathy Altman is a physical therapist in general law practice, Goldstein & Goldstein, (still in Ft. Lauderdale) with her husband and private practice in Manhattan, where she spe- is also in Brookline (a five-rninute conunure). three girls. cializes in orthopedics and sports rehabilita- Demee is advertising manager at Natural Torn Proulx and his wife, Jennifer have tion. Healsu Magazine. In the fall, I teach a course at also just moved into a wonderful new crafts- Caroline (Liney) Shepard Bolick is Mount Ida College, Research and Writing man-style home in Berkeley. enjoying life with husband, Paul, and 14- for Paralegals. My hobbies include collecting I spent a day visiting Linda Courtiss month-old daughter, Kimberly. Liney also still little metal replicas of monuments of the Rheingold '81 and her two children, Curtis, enjoys playing with Jane McKee Douglas, world (seriously), skiing, golf and potato 3, and Mariel, 1, this past March at their Paula Trearchis McGeady, Ebit Speers sculpture (not seriously). Last book I read: V lovely home on the Cape. On the drive (when she's on the East Coast) and Shelly by Thomas Pynchon. Scotch: Dewars, of home, I stopped for pizza with my two kids Warrnan Santaniello. She had a fantastic course. You too can disclose to your class- at Ocean Pizza. Nothing has changed there- time with everyone at the wedding of mates fascinating details of your accicn- even the waitresses look the same. We passed Charlene Toal and Bill Best. packed lives simply by writing to the class Michael's Towing - now that did not bring Charlene Toal Best and Bill also had a correspondent of your choice. Don't put it back pleasant memories! great time at their wedding in Oct. '93. They off Together, we can make '95 the best year Keep those cards and letters canting. moved to a new home in Fairfield, CT, in for Connecticut College's Class of'81 notes! love hearing how you all are doing! Jan. Laurie Garesche and her new husband traveled from MO to catch up with her

CD Fall 1994 Cetrespondents: Michele M. Austin,24 LincolnSt., Jamestown, RI 02835 and Martha DenialKendler, 137 Westwood Ln., Middletown, 87 CT 06457

Karen Mourikas moved from Boston to Los Angeles to attend the U. of Southern California for a master's in applied math. This past summer, she traveled to Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Toronto and Nova Scotia. Maggie Hug continues to live in Cambridge, MA, and works as a project advisor at LASPAU (The Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities), affiliated with Harvard. Her job keeps her busy with travels to U.S. universities and to Central and South America in connection with her work with Fulbright-sponsored undergraduate and Karla Boeddinghaus '93 and husband, John Umland, pose with C.C. alumni at their June 18 wedding. Front graduate students from Latin America and row, len to right: Eric Evers '95, Maria Garriga '93 and Christopher Delvaille '93. Back row, len to right: the Caribbean. Maggie has a M.A.T. in Donna Napalitano '95, Anastasia MacDonald '94, Amy Anderson '94, the bride and groom, Kim Cope English as a Second Language that she plans Persons '85, Laura Hughes '96 and Nancy Northrop '91. to use teaching adults and high school students in the Boston area.

friends at Reunion '94. Correspondents: KathleenA. Ned Taylor finished the Babson MBA Goodwin-Boyd, 54 A Landy program in June '93 and is now working at Ave., Florence, MA 01060 and Correspolldellts: LisaPelosa. 32 TIle Boston Globe. Ned married Emily Pope Anne-Marie Parsons,185 PixleySt.,SanFrancisco,CA from Portland, OR, inJune '91. Hubbard St., Apt. 1,Gbstonbury, 94123andAlisonEdwards2119 85 CT 06033 llth Ave.West, Seattle,WA New correspondents, Sheryl Edwards 98119 Rajpolt and Lucy Marshall Sandor, as 88 well as veteran correspondent, Liz Kolber, The New York folks are doing well. Tiggy are anxious to hear your news. Please keep in Howard completed Brooklyn Law School touch. Co-respondent: SuzanneMuri in the spring of '93 and is working in NYC 172Summer Ave. and finishing a degree in urban design at Reading, MA 01867 86 Pratt. Nancy Beaney and Jen Taylor are roommates in NY. Nancy is a pro bono coordinator at the Brooklyn Bar Association, where she's worked for three years. Jen works for a video production company. Hal Berry lives in NJ, but sees lots of CC alums in NY. He continues to work for Schering-Plough. Phil Dolan also lives in the Big Apple and is product manager for Palmolive dish washing liquid with Colgate-Palmolive. Andrea Neiditz finished business school at Columbia and is working for American Express. Anita Nadelson moved to Manhattan after working and traveling in Europe for several years. Victoria Johnson received her MSW from Columbia and moved to Seattle where she works at Harborview Trauma Center. In Seattle, Victoria joined another group of '88 alums. Peter Mohr was there until this fall when he began law school on the East Many members of the college community turned out for the 1993 wedding of Heather Pierce and Steve Coast. Dan Collin is in Seattle and works Stigall (both Class of '91). Bottom row, left to right: Liam Russell '89, Connie Bischoff Russell '91, Matt for Cole and Weber as an account executive. Zanger '91, Carolyn Tan '91, Stephanie Syrop '91, Kirsten Cather '91, the bride, Debbie Garrett '91, Natalie Rubel '91, Maggie D'Antonio '91 and Jen Qazilbash '91. Next row, left to righ: Mike Freeman '91, Sieve Alison Edwards works for the Highline Taylor '91, Kristen Martin '91, Brian Sawin '91, Anne Lott '91, Sid Evans '91. Back row, left to right: Tom School District as an elementary teacher. Seery '91, Anne Connolly '91, John Fischer '91, Tracie Molinaro '91, Evan Lewis '91, the groom, Chaplain During the summer she worked for the of the College Steve Schmidt and the bride's mother. Missing from photo: Meg Burns '91, Drew Student Conversation Association where she Sanzenbacher '90, Rich Hannah '91, Jamie Poff '94, Sharon LePage '93 and Men's Track Coach William supervised a group of eight teenagers at Wuyke. Craters of the Moon National Monument.

ConnecticutCollegeMllgazitle CD and preparing for graduate school in public First sorne old news .. Martha Bnson lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound. policy. Susan Buckey is teaching fourth grade. She works with a small group of performers COMING NEXT YEAR: She attended a wedding last Labor Day at who create their own work and tour both The 1995 Connecticut Connecticut and says that the campus looks nationally and internationally. great. T couldn't agree more! College Alumni Directory Wendy Hi ne graduated from the Sibel Gozubuyuk has returned to her Columbia U. School of Social Work in May homeland, Turkey, after three years in NYc. '93. She works at Bronx Memorial Hospital. She works for a company involved in Watch your mail for a survey Jessica Horrigan is in her fourth year of import/export production and distribution. seeking your input for the 1995 medical school at Ohio State. She is planning Her job is fast-paced and keeps her interna- Connecticut College A/umni to start a family practice residency in July. She Direc/ory, the definitive reler- is enjoying interviewing and the laid-back atti- tionally active. ence for locating the 18,000 tude of her last year. Mark Howes works as an accountant at CorrespOlidelllS: Jennifer Harvey, alumni of Connecticut College. the Prudential Center in Boston. He is actively 1522 Chestnut Hill St., #1, San In addition to names and cur- involved with the Boston Alumni Club. Francisco, CA 94123 and Dana McAlister, 78 Myrtle Ave., rent addresses, the directory Jeff Rosenthal has been on the road as Westport, CT 06880 also includes career informa- the game show host for "The Real Live Game 90 Show" that opens for "The Real Live Brady tion and work addresses, mak- Josh Meyer wrote in to let us know that Bunch." When not on the road he lives in Los ing it the perfect networking classmate Ed Reker and wife, Liza, are the Angeles and performs with the Second City proud parents of a 9-lb., 14-oz.-baby boy, tool. Updated every five years, alumni improv group. Andrew, born on 5/1l/94. the directory will keep you in News from Reunion it was a blast! Beth Salamone is attending graduate Mach Arom and Do d ie Sutro did a touch with your classmates and school at the U. of Rochester's Simon School tremendous job - not that anyone expected give you up-to-date informa- of Business. Congratulations are in order for any less from them! We broke a record for tion on the college and the Beth; she was awarded a John M. Olin percentage of people in attendance, but we still Fellowship. Previously, Beth worked in DC Alumni Association, including had time to miss those of you who couldn't for three years. regional clubs. Don't miss the make it. Mach and Sibel Gozubuyuk tied for chance to be listed in this traveling the farthest - Mach came from "Who's Who" of CC alumni! Thailand, Sibel from Turkey. Correspondents: John Kogan, 907 Mail in your reply promptly. The slide show was filled with old memo- Birch Ave., Durham, NC 27701 ries and new scenes - weddings, reunions, and Jonathan Zobel, 79 Pine travels. For those of us who missed Ed's gradu- Brook Dr., Larchmont, NY 10538 The group extended a cattle fence for two ation speech, we even got to hear a clip from 91 that! Thanks to Larry Miller and GeoffWaff miles to protect a drainage basin. Heather Pierce Stigall and Steve Stigall for bringing back so many memories! Cristina Mormorunni also lives in were married on 5/22/93 with many Much to the surprise of all, Conn. Ave. is Seattle and is an oceanology campaign manag- Connecticut College alumni in attendance. er for Greenpeace. She covers the areas of now an American Legion post. Between-party Married life has not slowed them down. refreshments were mostly supplied by the old WA, OR and AK. Heather is in her last year of an MSW at Bryn San Francisco boasts quite a few '88ers. In stand-by, Campus Spirits, who also handed out Mawr, and Steve is in his second year at Jan., Alison caught up with Dudley free posters of scantily clad women that could Temple U. Law Schoo They have kept in Kenefick de Saint PhaUe, John Barnett, be found hanging on many a door in Burdick. touch with many alums and report the follow- Lisa Peloso and Peter Kris. Dudley is hap- The Saturday night party was held on the mg: pily married to Eusrache and last Jan., she Admissions Office lawn (the building is now Jen Quazilbash is working at a bank in began work on her business degree at painted gray). Kid Finesse kept the party Boston and living with Beth Fillipone. UC/Berkeley. rolling during the steel drum band's breaks and Matt Zanger is finishing his second year Janet Schoenfeld Johnson graduated long into the night. And what party would be of medical school in Chicago. from the U. of Oregon Law School and complete without a complaint from Campus Connie Bischoff Russell and Liam writes that, "I have a job beginning Aug. 1 Safety? After being forced to turn the music Russell '89 have moved into a house. (after the much dreaded bar exam) at the down, the kegs and crowd moved back to Carolyn Tan is still in Japan and is tenta- Public Defenders Office in jacksonville, FL. Burdick. Our apologies to the custodial staff tively planning to move to the U.S. in Dec. I've been married since '90 to Ed Johnson who cleaned up after us. They truly deserved Amy Lebowitz wrote Heather from whom I met when we both worked for gold stars. Grinnell, lA, and is thinking of ruovmg to Rolling Stone magazine - about a lifetime Hal Pratt also provided entertainment for ago! In terms of CC Alumni, we saw Alex the weekend in the f01111of a puppy. She'll be TN MacColl Buckley '89 and Geoff Buckley '87 sleeping for the next year after all the walks in Feb. on Sanibel Island here in FL, and we and play time she had! see Elizabeth Kates when she comes to FL All in all, many things had changed, but Correspondents: Liz Lynch, 61 to visit her parents." much remained the same. No one was unrec- Broad St., Apt. #3, Norwich, CT It was great to hear from so many of you. ognizable, yet everyone was different in some 06360 and Jennifer Cahalane, . 1070 Franklin Sr., Duxbury, MA Keep on Writing! - Alison way - weight, hair, number of dependents. 92 02332 Spouses were in attendance, but no children at this one. We'll see what the l Grh brings. Reunion News: June3-5, 1994 Holly Barkley is sorry she missed the Conespendents: Deb Dorman, 220 Century Place #3205, reunion, but had already committed herself to Correspondent: • Alexandria, VA 22304 and the Virginia State Convention. She is busy Carrie Stevens Alexandra MacColl Buckley, working as the Membership Director of the 1220 East West I-lwy. #822 Silver Spring, MD 20910 • 4826 Bradley Blvd., Chevy National Federation of Republican Women Chase, MD 20815 93 Married: Karla Boeddinghaus to John of home economics at the U. of Alaska/ J Kent, two daughters, one son and a niece, lJnuand,6/18/94. Fairbanks. She moved to Klamath Falls in Nancy Stephens '67. Rick Guthke and Mike Newkirk are 1927. Survivors include a daughter, a son, 14 Sally Church Payntar '44, of living together in Boulder, CO., loving life grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. She Lakewood, NJ., died on Sept. 22. A retired skiing, hiking, and camping. Rick is waiting was preceded in death by one son and her economist with the E....rxon Corporation, Mrs. tables in a Mexican restaurant, and Mike is husband, Clifford McClellan. Paynter also worked with the Federal Reserve working construction. Mildred Beardsley Stiles '27, of Bank of Washington, D.C., and the Life Missy Ivers has left San Francisco and is Potsdam, N.Y., died on March 16.* Insurance Association ofN.Y.C. She founded now attending law school at Catholic U. in Eleanor Vernon '27, of Upper the Morris County Stroke Club, a support group for stroke victims and their caregivers, DC. Montclair, N.J., died onJuly 21.* Michelle Pereyo teaches first grade in Marion Allen Hershal '30, of Oakland, after suffering a stroke in 1974. She is survived L. CT. She keeps in touch with Nell Forgacs, Calif., died on July 28.* by her husband, Howard Paynter and one who is teaching second grade in Los Angeles. Marjorie Disbro Fichthorn '31, of brother. Sarah Robson and Joshua Visitacion Darien, Conn., died on jan. 23.* Monica Lennox WilIiam.s '52, of are living in Burlington, VT. Sarah works at a Eleanor Jones Heilman '33, of Bryn Indianapolis, died in July '94. Mrs. Williams home for pregnant teenagers and volunteers at Mawr, Penn., died on Sept. 8. A former was a member of the board of directors of the Planned Parenthood. Joshua recently com- teacher, Mrs. Heilman was past president of Indianapolis Junior League. Survivors include pleted a Mountain instructor's course with the Alumni Association and a former trustee of her husband, Marshall; two sons, one daughter the National Outdoor Leadership School m the college. She was predeceased by her hus- and four grandchildren. Sybil Barbara Weir '56, of San Jose, WY. band, H. Richard Heilman. Survivors include Karla Boeddinghaus Umland is a daughter, a son and three grandchildren. Calif., died on Aug. 12 of cancer. Ms. Weir extremely happy to be married and using her Barbara Mundy Groves '33, of Van was a professor and administrator at San Jose English degree as the editorial assistant for a Couver Island, British Columbia, died on State lJniversity for almost a quarter of a cen- newspaper in Old Saybrook, CT. She and her June 15 after suffering a stroke. She is survived tury where she founded the school's women's husband, John, live in New London. John by her husband, Russell; one daughter, one studies program. She earned a master's from grew up in Groton and is a lab technician at grandchild and a grandniece, Meg Mundy Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Pfizer Research, working on asthma drugs. Cowe '84. California/ Berkeley. Survivors include her husband, Dr. John Calm, a daughter and a son. Eventually they would like to do Christian Jill Albree Child '35, of Waterbury, ministry work full-time. For now they are Conn., died on July 31. A former medical Ann Frank Potts '58, of Toronto, very involved in their church in Uncasville, technologist, Mrs. Child is survived by three Canada, died on May 19 of ALS, amyotrophic and would love it if alums in the area would sons a daughter and eight grandchildren. She lateral sclerosis. She trained as a physical thera- look them up! was the widow of Samuel Bradford Child. pist at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Please don't send false information to me Mary Mackay Gallagher '36, of San Center after her graduation from C.C. about classmates or yourself. J verify anything Diego, died on Aug. 8. A former librarian, Throughout her illness, she trained other outlandish and would really appreciate not Mrs. Gallagher was a founding member of the physical therapists, even making a video for having to take the time to do so. Thank you Institute for Continued Learning at the the ALS Society three weeks before her death. for your cooperation! (Eds. /lote: Ditto!) University of California/ San Diego. She is She is survived by her husband, Gordon Potts, survived by one brother, seven children, 14 two sons, a daughter and one grandchild. grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Barbara Carney Staines '59, of Austin, Corrcspol1dcnts: Lee Rawles,1550 Gretchen Schwan Barber '36, of Texas, died on Oct. 10. Ms. Staines worked MassachusettsAve., #243, NW, Colorado Springs, died on June 9. She served for McKinsey and Co. in Washington, D.C. Washington, DC 20005 andJ. and the N.Y. Department of Mental Manning Weir, 4293 Hathaway in the American Red Cross as an assistant field Lane, Memphis,TN 38117 director during World War II. She was prede- Retardation before becoming a technical 94 ceased by her husband, Cornelius (Bud), in writer. Surviving are a sister, twO daughters 1982. Survivors include one daughter, two and four nephews. sons and three grandchildren. Darcie Holton Smith '71, of Los Correspondetu: Bethy Anderson Verduin '38, of Angeles, died 011 Nov. 12, 1993.* Hilary EvansKTC '93 Daniel Cramer '92, of New Salem, P.O. Box 494 Carbondale, Ill., died on June 1. Survivors Ivoryton, CT 06442 include her husband, Jacob Verduin, three Mass., died on Sept. 1 from cardiac arrest RTC daughters, one son, five grandchildren and caused by a rare lung disease. Cramer was a After working as a teacher, magazine colum- two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in lobbyist for the World Population Institute in nist and a marketing director, Connie death by one daughter. Washington, D.C. While at Connecticut, he Thurston RTC '73, has settled down at the Muriel Harrison Castle '39, of Palm founded the organization Students Against age of 64 to work on her doctorate in educa- Beach, Ha., died on Sept. 24.* Violence to the Environment (SAVE). tion leadership as well as a certification in Ruth Kellog Kent '39, of Doylestown, Survivors include his parents, Henry and gerontology at the lJ. of Florida. She works Penn., died on July 18. A fine arts major, Mrs. Donna Cramer, a brother and his paternal with the Elder Education Advisory Council in Kent worked at the Chicago Art Institute, the grandmother. FL, a group she started that aims to become a Museum of Modem Art and the Park-Berner *Fill! obituary ullavailable at time of publication. clearinghouse for information on educational Auction House that is now part of Sorheby's. Family members, dossnsates, fellow all//llI1i alld activities for sen.iors. During W.W. II, she served for two years in [dends lIlay malee a memorial gift tllrollgh the the Red Cross at Gander, Newfoundland. She Conneaicut College AlIIl1wl FUI/d. AllY indwid- was president of the Bethlehem Council of 1/(1/(5) designated by the donor will receive notifica- PTA's in 1962 and in 1970, co-chaired the tion oj the gift. TIle I/ame oj the nmnoriatired per- Obituaries White House Conference for Children and SOl/ and the donor will be listed ill ti,e college's Youth. Mrs. Kent was an active volunteer HOIlOr Roll oj Giving. Please send cnedes payable with her alma mater serving as a president and to Conneaicut College, clearly indicating the name Ruth Trail McClellan '19, of Klamath vice president of the Class of 1939, as an and address of the perscnis} to be 1I0tified, to: Falls, Ore., died on Aug. 18 at the age of 101. alumni admissions representative and as a class Connecticut College Development Office, 270 She taught in West Virginia and Kansasbefore agent. Survivors include her husband, Richard Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320. moving to Alaska, where she was a professor

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The case of the nervous chauffeur

Morton Plant (third from left) inspecting the future site of Connecticut College in 1911. Plant helped purchase the land and gave $1 million "just for running expenses."

jovial millionaire who made all his ing young man who was Plant's chauf- grew as he realized they had no protec- A transactions in cash, Morton F. feur. One cold autumn morning in tion of any kind for the return. An even Plant and his famous $1 million gift 1911, William J. Farnan set out from longer trip through Middletown and 100111 large in the legend of Connecticut Groton with his wealthy employer on a Saybrook followed. Plant decided to College's origins. Although Plant ran drive to Hartford. The 50-mile trip was stop and eat at the Saybrook Inn, leav- his financial empire, (the Plam Railroad entirely on dirt roads in those days, and ing Farnan, who was too nervous to eat, Systems and the Plant Steamship Lines) the journey in an open Fiat was agoniz- in the open car with the black bag. "All from New York City, he returned fre- ingly long due to another factor- r did was sit there and worry as the quently to his native Connecticut shore, Farnan had to drive very slowly on the shadows started to creep around," he erecting the Gothic mansion he named ruts and bumps of the road so as not to said later. Branford House at A very Point in aggravate Plant's severe gout. Late at night, when they finally Groton. A lover of yachts and baseball, Eventually they reached the Conn- reached the bank in New London he was a Ted Turner of his day. ecticut Trust Company where Plant (which was kept open for their deposit), Just as important, however, for the withdrew one million in securities in a there was a small crowd of people future of the college, was an unaSSUlTI- black bag. The chauffeur's apprehension cheering on the sidewalk. - LHB

CD Fall1994 Camel Caravan: Where and when to catch CC sports this winter.

MEN'S BASKETBALL WOMEN'S SQUASH Sat. 11/19 Bowdoin 11:00 am 6:00 pm Fri. 11/18-19 at Haverford Tournament Wed. 11/30 at Amherst 7:00 pm vs. Swarthmore Sat. 12/3-4 at Wesleyan Toum. TBA Roger Williams 7:00 pm Tue.11/29 Fri. 1/20-21 at Williams Taurn. TBA Fri. 12/2-3 Whaling City Ford Tourn. 6:00 pm Tue. 1/24 at Wesleyan 7:30 pm VS. Hobart Fri. 1/27 at Mount Holyoke 4:00 pm Tue.12/6 at Salve Regina 8:00 pm Wed. 2/1 at Brown 4:00 pm Sal. 12/10 Williams 1:00 pm Sal. 2/4 Wellesley 1:00 pm Wed. 1111 at Albertus Magnus 7:30 pm at Smith 1:00 pm Sat. 1/14 at Suffolk 4:00 pm Sal. 2/11 Tufts @ Wesleyan 5:00 pm Tue.1/17 Amherst 8:00 pm Tue.2/14 TBA Sal. 1/21 Middlebury 3:00 pm Fri. 2/17-18 Howe Cup @ Yale Alumni Game Tue.1/24 at Coast Guard 8:00 pm Thu. 1/26 lehman College 7:00 pm Sat. 1/28 alTrinity 3:00 pm MEN'S SQUASH 7:00 pm Tue.1/31 Wheaton Sat. 11/19 @ Williams Tournament TBA at MIT 8:00 pm Thu.2/2 Wed. 11/30 Wesleyan 7:30 at Manhattanville 8:00 pm Sat. 2/4 Sat. 12/3 Vassar 1:00 pm Tue.2J7 Nichols 7:00 pm Sal. 12/8 Amherst 6:00 pm Fri. 2/10 at Bowdoin 6:00 pm Fri.-Sat. U.S Military Academy Tourn. TBA Sat. 2/11 at Colby 1:00 pm 1/20-1121 Tue.2/14 Wesleyan 7:30 pm Tue. 1/24 Wesleyan 7:30 pm Thu.2/16 Colby-Sawyer 6:00 pm Sal. 2/4 Tufts 4:00 pm Tom Sampogna '96 Sat. 2/18 Bates 1:00 pm MIT 2:00 pm Sal. 2/25 Tufts 3:00 pm Sat. 2/11 Sat. 2/18 @ Bowdoin 1:00 pm Sat-Sun. Nationals @ Princeton TBA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL 2/25-2/26

Fri.1/18-19 @ Wheaton Tournament 6:00 pm vs. Wheaton MEN'S I WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK Tue.11/29 at Clark 7:00 pm rnu 12/1 at Wesleyan 7:30 pm Sat. 1213 Westfield State 7:00 pm Sat. 12/3 at Wesleyan Invitational 11:00 am Tue.12/6 at Salve Regina 6:00 pm Tue. 12/6 at eGA Relays 3:00 pm Thu, 12/8 at Nichols 7:00 pm Sat. 12/10 at Wesleyan Invitational 11:00 am 3:00 pm Sat. 12/10 Williams Sat. 1/21 Quad Cup @ Williams (W) TBA Wellesley 7:00 pm Wed,1/11 Sal. 1/21 at Brandeis Quad 12:00 pm Sal. 1/14 at Mt. Holyoke 2:00 pm Sal. 1/28 at Bowdoin Quad Cup (W) TBA Tue.1/17 Amherst 6:00 pm Sat. 1/28 Quad Cup @ Coast Guard (W) TBA Sat. 1/21 at Babson 4:00 pm TBA Tue. 1/24 at Coast Guard 6:00 pm Sat. 2/4 Quad Cup @ Bowdoin(W) Thu.1/26 Eastern Connecticut State 6:00 pm Sat. 2/11 at Wesleyan 11:00 am Sat. 1/28 alTrinity 1:00 pm Sat. 2/11 Smith Invitational (W) 1:00 pm rnu 212 Albertus Magnus 7:00 pm Sat. 2/18 NE Div. III at Bates (W) Sal. 214 at Manhattanville 6:00 pm Fri. 2/10 at Bowdoin 8:00 pm Sal. 2111 at Colby 3:00 pm rue. 2/14 Coast Guard 5:30 pm MEN'S ICE HOCKEY Thu. 2116 Colby-Sawyer 8:00 pm Sat. 2/18 Bates 3:00 pm Wed. 11/9 Quinnipiac 7:30 pm Thu.2123 at Elms 7:00 prn Fri. 11/18 at American International 7:30 pm 1:00 pm Bern Macca '95 Sal. 2125 Tufts Sal. 11/19 at UConn 6:00 pm MEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING Fri. 11/25- Thanksgiving Tournament 5:00 pm Sat. 11/26 at Elmira vs. Wisconsin Eau-Claire 7:30 pm Wed. 11/30 at Bridgewater Slate 6:00 pm Fri. 12/2 Middlebury Sat. 12/3 WPI 1:00 pm Sat. 12/3 Norwich 4:00 pm 1:00 pm Sat. 1211Q at Amherst Wed. 12/7 Trinity 7:30 pm Clark 1:00 pm Sat. 1/14 Sal. 12/10 at Tufts 7:00 pm Wed. 1/25 eGA 7:00 pm Sal. 1/14 Buffalo State 4:00 pm Sal. 1/28 at Brandeis 3:00 pm 7:00 pm Wed. 211 at Wesleyan 6:30 pm Fri. 1/20 at 51. Anselm's 1:00 pm Sal. 2/4 Trinity Sal. 1/21 at New England College 3:00 pm 1:00 pm Sal. 2/11 at Salem State Fri. 1/27 Holy Cross 7:30 pm at New England's Fri. 2/24-25 Sal. 1/28 Babson 4:00 pm Fri. 2/3 at Bowdoin 7:00 pm WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING Sal. 2/4 at Colby 4:00 pm Fri. 2/10 UMass-Boston 7:30 pm 6:00 pm 4:00 pm Wed. 11/30 at Bridgewater Slate Sat. 2/11 Salem State 1:00 pm Sal. 12/3 WPI Tue.2/14 at Wesleyan 7:30 prn 1:00 pm Sat. 12/10 at Amherst 7:30 pm 1:00 pm Fri. 2/17 Williams Sal. 1/14 Clark w/ Wellesley 7:00 pm Sat. 2/18 Hamilton 4:00 pm Tue. 1/24 at Mount Holyoke 3:00 pm Tue.2/21 at West Point 7:00 pm Sat. 1/28 at Brandeis 6:30 pm 7:00 pm Wed. 2/1 at Wesleyan Fri. 2/24 at Amherst Trinity 1:00 pm Sal. 2/25 at North Adams Stale 4:30 prn Sat. 214 1:00 pm Sat. 2/11 at Salem State - , Fri. 2/17-18 at New England's Dave Roberts '95 FOUR YEARS AGO, THE SOON-TO-BE

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1995 WERE FACED WITH AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

WHETHER THEY KNEW IT OR NOT, they were making a choice that would affect not only the coming four years bur, indeed, the rest of their lives. Th ir experience at

Connecticut College has prepared them to become strong leader and citizen 111 a global community. Among their priorities in choosing the colleg w re the di nncnve programs, the caliber and compassion of the faculty, and rh inviting campu . They chose Connecticut College because they, like the institution itself, are committed

to excellence.

Alison Mitchell '95

HOMETOWN: Wayland, MA MAJOR: overnrnent FUTURE: Women's Issues Austin Jenkins '95 VOLUNTEERISM: Southeastern onnecricur Women1s Center; New London Probate curt HOMETOWN: Seattle, WA LEADERSHIP: Student Activities ouncil MAJOR: Government OFF THE CLOCK: Flute FUTURE:Television Journalism INTERNSHIPS:Seattle Weekly, KPNX-TV, "The sense of community here is unique. " Potomac Television News, "When I chose Connecticut College, J expected tojind Jack Anderson (syndicated columnist), direction, to build snpport systems here and ftr thejitture. " Office of College Relarions LEADERSHIP:Housefellow 'TIl definitely stay connected to this place after graduatioll. OFF THE CLOCK: Crew, Mountain Biking IIWl'e already thinking about the jifth reunion. "

"Freshman FocusfOr me epitomized the Conn experience. It was interdisciplinary, it was learning to think, The Annual Fund it was exciting. " supports excellence. '1 now feel I have the skills to continue my education both ftrmally and, especially, inftrmally. " "In the past year I've realized that coming to Connecticut Please participate College is a privilege. I'd like to think I'll be able to give by making your gift someone else this opportunity in the future. " before June 30, 1995.