Jessica Boyle ’12 Worked to Make Colby a Leaves a Legacy of Accomplishment and Countless Colby Friends
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Colby Magazine Volume 101 Issue 2 Summer 2012 Article 12 June 2012 Full Issue Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2012) "Full Issue," Colby Magazine: Vol. 101 : Iss. 2 , Article 12. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol101/iss2/12 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. Janice Kassman Rwanda’s Future Adam Howard’s Tweeting for Summed Up Considered Research Team Hillary Summe2 R 012 vol.101 no.2 A F o r c e For chAnge CM_Sum12_cv01-04.indd 3 7/17/12 10:31 AM summer 2012 vol. 101 no. 2 10 16 Mighty impressive Class Action After 38 years, longtime dean Janice Kassman has retired. She Once a homeless teen, Jessica Boyle ’12 worked to make Colby a leaves a legacy of accomplishment and countless Colby friends. place where students like her can thrive. DePARTMentS FrOM the hill ca tChing uP/AluMni PrOFileS 02/Letters 22/Q&A with Jean-Jacques Ndayisenga ’13, 35/Peter DelGreco ’94, Ellen Langford ’90 03/From the Editor who looks back on his home: Rwanda 24/Retiring Professor Paul Machlin (music) Alu Mni At lArge went out with an oratorio COlby newS 36/Class Notes 26/Retiring Professor James Meehan 05/Tony Blair’s Seven Lessons (economics) lauded on Facebook 62/Obituaries 06/Writing, Phase One 27/Rosecrans Baldwin ’99 will always 06/Network Nets Grads Jobs have Paris (in his new memoir) t he Last PAge 07/SPARKing Change 28/Christina Lemieux Oragano ’99 takes 64/“Louisa” by Molly Hodson ’13 08/Named Chairs Announced readers lobstering 08/Valuing Humanities 29/How did national champion sprinter Dom Kone ’13 run so fast? 09/Celebrating 200 Years 30/Victoria Esser ’94 tweets for the State Department 32/Adam Howard’s class about class On the COver Jessica Boyle ’12 at commencement. Boyle never expected she could go to Colby—or college at all. «r adio Docs | Debra Spark turns writers on to the magical sounds of radio documentary. Keyword: Radio g rowth Agents | Alumni help nonprofit Root Capital fuel agricultural businesses in Latin America and Africa. Keyword: Growth CM_Sum12_01-04_Ed.indd 1 7/17/12 10:33 AM w here have All the letters gone? Editor’s note: There was a time when we and the ways we now communicate. And we welcome your Facebook comments. worried that comments left in the online as you can see, we have evolved with the We welcome your online comments. And version of Colby would siphon off actual times—we are now using Facebook com- we very much welcome your letters, by letters to the editor. No more. Now we ments on a page once reserved for letters e-mail or USPS. As always. find that comments in the online maga- to the editor. That said, we are concerned Managing Editor, Colby zine have been replaced by comments on that we aren’t hearing from readers in the 4354 Mayflower Hill Colby’s Facebook page. substantive ways—about stories or your Waterville, ME 04901-8841 Of course this reflects changes in Colby experience—we did five years ago. [email protected] technology, the advent of social media, So this is a long-winded way of saying facebook.com/colbycollege u nsettled by Mike Daisey Thanks for this great article on Mike Daisey [’96]. I first learned about him on NPR’s This American Life, and it really changed my perspective. It is more than a little unsettling when I realize that to enjoy reading your magazine and re- sponding on my iPad or my iPhone means the suicide nets are necessary for those who assembled these devices in China. Chris Mitchell P’11 Lake Barrington, Ill. After Joan of Arc, a Poem After seeing a performance of Saint Joan by George Ber- nard Shaw and reading The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc by Professor Larissa Juliet Taylor [history], I was On the life and Death of the CiA’s moved to write this poem. elizabeth hanson ’02 Liz and I sat on the History Review Board together. I Go Boldly remember she was serious, sassy, and INTENSE. She helped Happy birthday, dear Joan! people around her focus on the key issues. I’m proud to have How old are you now? known her, even just a little. Karen Prager ’04 I am six hundred years old Weslaco, Texas Keeping good company with Galileo and Aquinas After a centuries-long oops between Elizabeth is a true patriot, one of those people who pro- Condemnation and canonization tect our freedom. As Americans we need to remember that freedom is not free. It is paid for dearly and those in the U.S. Crying out to Jesus, Mary and the saints while Armed Services deserve our heartfelt gratitude. Choked to death by smoke before Gary McCarthy ’79 The fire stripped me nude— Darien, Conn. A woman for all to see—then Burnt to cinders, fed to the river, yet I worked with Liz side by side on Colby Emergency Response for four years. She was a ballbuster and I knew she’d go far. Still “going boldly” in stained glass and oils Junko Goda ’01 On stone horseback in Orleans and New Orleans— Los Angeles, Calif. Joanie on a Pony, Creole tour guides call me— Cinematic fabrication of your imagination Colby’s hidden gem Chic voices in your dreams— What a beautiful cover on the Like the arrow that pierced my neck, spring issue. So happy to see the Flying straight through you to God who hidden gem of Colby revealed to the “Helps those who help themselves.” greater audience. Tenzin Dawoe ’07 Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton ’65 Santa Fe, N.M. Brooklyn, N.Y. 2 COLBY / SUMMER 2012 CM_Sum12_01-04_Ed.indd 2 7/17/12 10:33 AM ow many Colbians does it take to walk across the country? h Thirty-five plus, say Nick Tucker ’10 and Sam Rouleau ’10, former Colby roommates who tapped the Colby community as they walked coast to coast, a 3,000-mile trek that ended in Los Angeles in March. volume 101 • number 2 They crossed the country in seven months, stopping along the way to work to “inspire Staff change and do good.” Their community service efforts, and the monumental achievement of Gerry Boyle ’78 walking from Maine to California, were inspiring to many. But Tucker and Rouleau say they managing editor also were inspired by the support they received from Colby alumni and parents. Michael Kiser The Colby theme emerged the second night of the trip, after executive editor a night in a motel in Newburyport, Mass. “I’d ask Sam, ‘What town are we going to make it to tomorrow?’” Tucker said. “I’d Brian Speer art direction and design shoot off some e-mails and cross my fingers.” The first e-mails resulted in an invitation to stay the night at Robert P. Hernandez design the home of Ross Moldoff ’79 in Salem, N.H. The pair had din- ner with the Moldoff family and chatted about economics and Stephen Collins ’74 college editor professors and the trip. “They were very impressive,” Moldoff recalled. “It was for me a connection back to the College.” Ruth Jacobs And for Tucker and Rouleau it was an eye opener. news editor “For all intents and purposes we were complete strangers,” Ben Greeley, Arne Norris Tucker said. “For them to welcome us to into their home, we were just very grateful and online coordinators surprised.” Added Rouleau: “It’s a fascinating phenomenon.” Angela Bellegarde Their hosts, from New Hampshire to Los Angeles, included alumni from as far back as alumni at large coordinator the Class of 1963 and current Colby parents. The hikers met families, family friends, and Matt Brown, Fred Field, Jesse Goldman ’12, were connected to community service projects. The young children of one alumna, Katherine Leanne Italie, Eli Meir Kaplan, Arne Norris, Rynearson Tagtmeier ’92, donated their allowance to Tucker and Rouleau’s mission. The Hieu Phan ’14, Jeff Pouland, Taylor Smith ’98, Brian Speer pair used the money to buy socks for the homeless in L.A.’s Skid Row. contributing photographers “Now I have a stronger idea of the feeling of family and community that the Colby alumni Jeff Pouland network can bring,” Tucker said. cover photo Can and does. And I have to say that 35 years after my own graduation, a dozen years Chandra Bhimull, Mike Cullity, Mike Eckel ’93, since becoming editor of Colby, I’m still amazed at the strength of the bond among Erika Mailman ’91, Taylor Smith ’98, Colbians. What is it about this place? Dash Wasserman ’12 If stories like this are any indication, I guess you know. contributing writers Administration Gerry Boyle ’78, P’06 William D. Adams, president; Sally Baker, vice president; Managing Editor Meg Bernier Boyd ’81, director of alumni relations Alumni Council executive Committee David C. Fernandez ’89, chair and president; Deborah Wathen Finn ’74, vice chair; C OntributOrS Meg Bernier Boyd ’81, executive secretary/treasurer; Arthur Brennan ’68, David S. Epstein ’86, Mike eckel ’93 (“Managing @StateDept,” Alexis grant ’03 (“Fueling the Engine of Noriko Miyakoda Hall ’87, Laura Pavlenko Lutton ’94, P. 30) is a writer and editor Growth,” Colby online) is Mark R. Lyons ’77, Catherine Roosevelt ’89, Jessica D’Ercole Stanton ’92, Arthur L. Young ’72, who has reported through- an entrepreneurial writer Shaquan A.