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Change and potential change were the dominant features of spring at Colby. There was ap­ proval of limited coeducational housing by the board of trustees and a faculty vote on new grad­ uation requirements ensuring academic vigor and maintaining curricular flexibility. The sec­ ond Constitutional Convention April 7-9 recommended changes to the board which, if adopted, could lead to a more highly-de­ veloped sharing of responsibil­ ity among students, faculty, ad­ ministrators and trustees. HAVEY SENIOR SCHOLARS 6

The intensive personal research uf the Senior Scholars Program is becoming an enriching way SPORTS THE COLBY ALUMNUS station between the January Pro­ 5 Volume 61, Number 3 gram of Independent Study and CLASS NEWS 16 the careers of a select group of Spring i972 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES students. 34 Published quarterly DEATHS 35 ZEN: A DA y IN THE LIFE 12 (fall, winter, spring, summer) by Col by College Chaplain Roland W. Thorwald­ Photographers: sen wanted more than a tour­ Michael Amster '72, Michael De­ Editor: ist's impressions when he spent Sisto, Irving Faunce '69, Robert David C. Langzettel January in Japan visiting mon­ Grant '73, Susan Griffin '72, Rus­ asteries and shrines. He ac­ sell Harris '72, Michael Havey Design and production: tually entered the rigorous '72, and Peter Pennypacker '69 Milton Christianson and monastic life for two weeks to (front cover). David Langzettel gain insight for his courses.

Letters and inquiries PORTRAIT OF A PHILOSOPHER 14 should be sent to the editor;

President-emeritus]. Seelye Bix­ change of address notification ler first encountered John Clark to the alumni office as a boy in India "wrestling en­ thusiastically on the floor with Entered as second-class mail his brother." Professor Clark, at Waterville, Maine chairman of the philosophy de­ partment, will retire in June. Postmaster His long-time friend, colleague send form 3579 to and fellow philosopher assesses The Colby Alumnus the impact on the college of this Col by College gentle scholar and teacher. John Clark Waterville, Maine 04901 Coed Housing conducted a study and in an at­ Ca01pus tempt to provide a structure which The board of trustees has author­ would permit additional flexibility ized an experiment with limited and innovation, reduced the re­ coeducational living: women and Nevvs quirement to 105 credit hours. men on separate corridors or floors The hope was that the 105 hours i one or more dormitories begin­ The office of the dean of students � would be treated as a minimum ning next fall. will implement the experiment goal and that most students would The board acted on the unani­ within physical and budget limi­ choose to exceed the requirement. mous recommendation of its com­ tations. The Hexibility was intended to mittee on student affairs. The pro­ permit a student who wanted to do posal was presented to the board's Graduation Requirements so to concentrate on tewer courses. winter meeting by President Strider At the same time, the grade point and Trustee Robert A. Marden '50. The faculty has adopted new grad­ a\'erage required for graduation The recommendation was based on uation requirements affecting stu­ was raised. Although students a study requested by students after dents who enter the college next were required to take fewer hours, the committee recommended last fall and subsequent classes. the college c.lcmanded higher year against coed housing. A minimum of 120 credit hours quality. will be required, at least 105 of The committee's new recom­ After a trial period the Educa­ which must be earned in conven­ mendation is based in part on an tional Policy Committee decided tionally graded courses. The re­ open hearing, a poll of the student that the goals had not been maining 15 credits may be earned body and coed housing experience achieved and recommended to the in (a) con\'entionally graded at 28 colleges about the same size faculty a return to 120 hours. The courses, (b) in courses graded on a as Colby. Among them are Bates, faculty agreed. In doing so, how­ pass/tail basis, or (c) independent Bowdoin, Brown, Clark, Middle­ ever, the faculty sought both to (not regularly scheduled) pro- bury, Wesleyan, Williams, and the maintain flexibility and to ensure grams. universities of New Hampshire and academic rigor. The faculty decision brought to Vermont. a close wide-ranging discussion Chaired by Mr. Marden, the which had spread over more than committee is composed 0£ eight Memorial Endowment two years as faculty and students other trustees, an alumna, the dean An endowment fund has been debated and studied proposals. of students, two faculty members A bit of history is in order. For established in the name 0£ Kath­ and three students. many years, degree requirements erine R. Murphy '75, who died Among the conditions attached included earning credit for 40 tragically last Nov. 2. The income to the recommendation as approved courses. Each student took five will provide financial aid annually are that: courses per semester for eight to a Colby son or daughter. Kathy • The option of separate dorms semesters, plus (after 1962) the was the daughter of Marjorie for each sex be available to all who .January Program. In 1965 the Gould Murphy '37 and grand­ desire it. faculty voted to replace the 40 daughter of Florence King Gould • Individual privacy be pro­ tected for all students. courses and adopted a require­ '08. ment of 120 credit hours. During Contributions to the college in • Coed housing be enhanced where possible by academic, social the firstyear the system was in Kathy's memory may be sent to the or artisl�C interests. effect, 1968-69, the faculty again director of annual giving. 1 Students in the News analyze colonialism and racial at­ and do not apply. The grant pro­ titudes, and the feasibility of mul­ vides up to $s,ooo for expenses of William Mayaka '73 of Kisii, ti-racial societies. Rouhana, a pre­ President and Mrs. Strider during Kenya, is the new president oi stu­ law student, will study the legal the leave. dent government. An administra­ systems and politics of England, The St. Louis foundation, cre­ tive science major, he was treas­ France and Egypt. They are among ated in 1927 by the late Mr.and urer of student government last 70 seniors chosen from 140 candi­ Mrs. William H. Danforth, de­ year. He hopes to go on to grad­ dates nominated by 35 institutions. scribes itself as "a philanthropy uate studies in this country. His This is the second successive year concerned primarily with people cousin is Charles Angwenyi '64. that two Co lby students have re­ and values ." Its major areas of ' ceived awards from the Providence, activity currently are education 0 William Earnshaw 72 of Glen­ R.I., foundation. and problems of the cities. dale, Mass., has been awarded $3,600 a year for three years by the 0 The president was one of 60 National Science Foundation to President Receives Danforth Grant pursue a Ph.D. degree in microbi­ college presidents and senior ad­ ology at M.I.T. The dean's list President Strider has been selected ministrators who participated in biology major plans a career in re­ to receive a Danforth Foundation the second Management and Plan­ search. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa grant which wi ll allow him to take ning Institute for Higher Educa­ last year, Earnshaw is an accom­ a leave of absence for part of the tion in March at the Columbia plished photographer. His one­ second semester next year. University Graduate School of man show will be on view in He is the sole New England re­ Business. Roberts Union through commence­ cipient among 20 college-and uni­ He has accepted an invitation to ment. versity presidents and chancellors senie on the Advisory Council of "who hold promise for continued Presidents of the Association of significant leadership for higher 0 Senior government majors Governing Boards (Washington, education." Purpose of the grant Michael Strotz of Evanston, Ill., D.C.). The association is the only is to allow these educators "to en­ and William Rouhana 0£ Brook­ organization in higher education large their perspectives of current lyn, N.Y., have received Thomas J. concerned primarily with the prob­ Watson Foundation grants for a and future educational issues and lems and responsibilities of trust­ year of independent post-graduate to reinforce the administrator's eeship, and with the relationships study abroad. Strotz will visit leadership capabilities in higher of trustees and regents to the presi­ Portuguese Angola and Brazil to education." Recipients are selected dent, the faculty and students.

Architect E. Verner Johnson points to final design of the Bixler Art and Music Center wing, for which ground was brohen this spring. With him, from left, are Professor James Armstrong (music), Museum Curator Hugh Gourley and Professor James Carpenter (art). Visiting lecturer Michael Yeats, son of William Butler Yeats, perused The James Augustine Healy Collection of Modern Irish Litera­ ture in March with Professor Richard Cary, right, curator of rare boohs and manuscripts. The collection includes some of the poet's manuscripts, inscribed copies and auto­ graphed letters.

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2 Convention delegates: top, from left, Professor Lucille Zukowski '37, Trustee JVilson Piper '39, and alumni representatives George Nickerson '2-1 and Bettina Wellington Piper '35 (Mrs. Albert) with students; below, Dean of Students Willard JVyman '56 and HAVEY Associate Dean Earl Smith, and Board Chairman Albert Palmer '30 and Dean of the Faculty Paul Jensen.

Convention Recommendations specific resolution calls on the President Strider, inYited by the committee, if established, to work Echo to comment on the conven­ A major recommendation of the out a "philosophy of shared re- tion, stressed the positive recom­ second Constitutional Con\'ention, ponsibility ...between the stu­ mendations made and said: "I which took place April 7-9, dent , faculty, administration and have always been optimistic about is formation of a new committee board of trustees." Colby and I continue to be, even with broad powers, including es­ Among other recommendations though this ... convention was tablishment ol a college senate and are full voting rights lor faculty less than a fully satisfactory ex­ propo ing modifications of govern­ and student representatiYes (two pression of opinion .... ·what we ance from time to time. each) to the board, student partici­ obviously seek is community. It All recommendations made by pation in departmental planning, must be sought in good will and the propo ed Cammittee on Com­ · access to the budget by all consti tu- good humor. . . . 'fy optimism mittees and Governance must be encies, and re,·ision of the bylaws about Colby ...is unabated." voted on by the facull) and student to presen·e the Academic Council The newspaper had its own body before being pre ented no as a purely ac.hi ory body to the comment in an editorial April 14: later than next January to Presi­ pre ident. "Many decided that without their dent Strider and the board of The most dramatic aspect of the central proposal, 'the override,' tru tee . The board will then con­ convention wa a walk-out by more Con Con II would become a face­ sider appropriate action. than 20 of the 48 student delegates. lift and a farce, " so they left. The Both the proposed Committee It followed a negati\'e \'Ote on a newspaper congratulated these on Commiuee and Governance student propo al for a "corporate delegates along with those who and the Colby College Senate override " allowing the entire col­ stayed because "they felt that wo uld be compo ed of students, lege constituency to overturn de­ though the convention was a farce, faculty and administrators. A cisions of the board by referendum. they had an obligation ...."

3 10- In Briel raise $3,ooo tor an antenna and watl transmitter that would project Thane Pratt '73 has been com­ an FM signal 10-15 miles from mended by Hawaii's Commission Mayflower Hill. They want to on Natural Area Reserves for supplement the AM carrier-current making a sur\'ey of forest areas of program with identical day-time l'vlaui and Molokai for the com­ FM programming; and to use a mission as part of his January Pro­ smaller, better-trained staff to offer gram of Independent Study. something special in the evening­ Hiking alone into rugged and in­ q uality music, special interest pro­ accessible rain torests, he found grams, "talk shows" and news of both large undisturbed areas and area interest. sections which have "really taken a beating" lrom roving li\·estock, D Harold Pestana, assistant pro­ said his hometown Honolulu Star fessor of geology, has produced a Bulletin. Bibliography of Congressional ·Geology published by Hafner Pub­ ::J Author is Commencement Speaker Colby is host tor the State lishing Co., Riverside, N. J. DemocraLic ConYention May 19-20. . Author and sociologist Nathan Glazer, professor ot education and D An assistant professor of En­ D Profe&sor Donakhon Koons, social structure at Harvard, will glish, Charles Bassett, served as a chairman of the department of deliver the commencement address consultant to Sangamon State Uni­ geology, repre&enLed l\faine at a on June 4. versity (Springfield, 111.) this spring l\Iarch meeLing ot the Council of His professorship is one of five in establishing an interdisciplinary State Governments in \ Vashington, in the country tunded by the Ford major in mid-west studies. His ancl was a panelist during the FoundaLion to st imulaLe university specialty is American studies. Fourth l\Iaine Environmental Con­ research and teaching on problems gress Lhe same month at Bowdoin of the cities. But he is perhaps D The Consortium of Northern College. best known as co-author of The New England (Colby, Bates, Bow­ Lonely Crowd (1950), required doin) is offering students of mem­ reading in many undergraduate D "Is anyboy out there?" \i\TMHB ber colleges and the University of sociology programs. Professor disc jockeys are tired ot asking. J\.laine the opportunity to spend Glazer recei \'eel Lhe 1963 Anisfield­ They th ink their "low fidelity" three weeks this summer in inten- \ Volf Award as co-author of carrier-currenL hookup with Colby i \'e field study of the geology of Beyond t/1e Melling Pol for the dormitories is waging a losing l\faine. Each week will be spent in best book on race relations that batLle with stereos. So station a different geological area of the year. management is campaigning to state.

,·1 hig,ltliglit of Family ll'inter Weekend, which allracted more than 500 to the campus, was a fast and phy.iical hockey ga1ne with alumni tahing on the varsity, who won 7-4. On hand to roach were (le/�) Guy Vigue '57 and Bill Bryan '48. Taking a breather (center): jock Knowles '60, foreground, Bernie Laliberte '53 ( 11) and Brad Coady '67. On the ice, though the alumni got within a goal three times, lite well-organized varsity pressure told the story. 4 whose play "exemplifies the dedica­ tion ... of Matty Zweig." Sports A native of the Bronx, N.Y., he has been principal Yiolist with the by IRVING FAUNCE '69 Colby Community Symphony Or­ chestra for three years. He is a Senior Scholar and psychology major. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa last year, Zweig has been offered admission to the Han-ard and Tufts dental schools. he baseball team marched out Tto a 6-4 mark before presstime despite a lot of indoor practice due Winter Wrapup to the worst fieldconditions in sev- eral years. Thanks to Bowdoin's ECA C Division II hockey coaches have BASKETBALL (14-10) dryer field, "home games" were in voted senior co-captain Steve Self the Scranton Im·itational, 65, Scran­ Bru nswick until April 29 when the division's most valuable player. The ton 72; 52, U. Delaware 82; Bryant Mules beat powertul Springfield forward from Peterborough, Ont., had Im-itational, 64, �Iid

Colby 6, Boston State 3; \Vil­ D Colby's defending state tennis liams Invitational, 11, \Villiams 2; champions opened State Series play 1, U. Mass. 6; 5, Oswego 3; 8, April 27 with a 9-0 win O\•er Bow­ Conn. 2; 6, Vermont 8; 2, Bowdoin doin. The team launched the sea­ 6; 4, Salem State 4; 7, Hamilton 1; son with a 6-3 win over Tufts, then 7, Lowell Tech 4; 2, Boston State sufferedsucc essive losses to M.I.T. 6; 6, A.LC. 8; 2, Vermont 6; 3, and Brandeis. Norwich 4; 12, Holy Cross 1; 4, l\Iiddlebury5; 4, \\'illiams 2; 1, Recognition for a Leader 0 The track squad, rebounding l\Iass.7; 5, Amherst 3; 8, Torth­ from an 87-67 loss to Amherst, Senior Mauhew Zweig, an out­ eastern 7; 9, Norwich 1; 2, �Ierri­ swamped the University of Maine standing scholar, athlete and musi­ mack 4; 3, Bowdoin 5. (Portland-Gorham) and Southern cian, has receiYed a $1,000 NCAA SWC'vlMING (7-3) Maine Vocational Technical Insti­ post-graduate scholarship. He was tute 138-38-8. The team gathered one of four New England students Colby 74, Keene State 43; 51, 58 points to fini h between host chosen and among 15 in the Bowdoin 62; 75, Husson 37; 68, W.P.I. (103) and Norwich (19). nation. Maine 46; 29, Vermont 82; 65, Zweig, basketball co-captain and Nichols 32; 53, Bridgewater State :J The golf team defeated Babson All-MlAA the last rwo winters, 60; 69, Husson 39; 58, Babson 55; and Bentley on opening day. In provided what Coach Dick\\ hit­ 68, Lowell Tech 35. the first State Series match, Colby more called "inspirational leader­ TRACK and Bowdoin, with 16 points each, ship " and "total giving of self." were defeated by Maine (Orono) He was second leading scorer dur­ Colby 17, J\laine 92; 30, Bates with 20. The lacrosse team, which ing the past 14-10 season. The ath­ 74; third place at Bates meet; beat Bab�on 7-2 April 29, had four letic department establi hed a bas­ second place against Bowdoin and more games to play under Coach ketball award in his name recently. Lowell Tech; fourth place in Mike Hodges. It will be given to the student MIAA meet. 5 he Senior Scholars Program, established al Colby T in 1954, attracts more of the college's venturesome and highly-motivated st udenls each year. Its object is lo further an atmosphere of scholarship and partirnlarly, to provide a stimul11'i and an outlet Senior for the creative scholarship and energy of the select group chosen to participate. Applicants, with the ap­ proval of department heads, are selected on the basis of academic records, faculty recommendations, per­ sonal interviews, and on thf' projects chosen. Scholars The 1912 scholars have illustrated the program'5 diversity by writing for the Alumnus descriptions of their projects and why they undertook them.

An art ma]or from New Rochelle, N.Y., Paul Hecht Gail Reilly, who attended Westbrook College (Port­ plans to continue designing and building furniture land) for two years, plans to work until she can afford after graduation while working in the field of archi­ to do graduate work in Eastern philosophy. Raised in tecture and environmental design. Sculpture and Wakefield, Mass., she hopes to study in India or japan photography have been his principal modes of expres­ for a doctorate. TVith her is Chaplain Thorwaldsen. sion. For three years, Paul was design editor for The Colby Echo. Professor Harriett Matthews of the art A CRITIQUE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF department, a sculptress, has been Paul's tutor in the SARVEPALI RADHAKRISHNAN Scholars' Program.

My introduction to philosophy was during my second AN APPLIED STUDY IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF SCULPTURE year in college. It was as though I had been acquaint­ AND FURNITURE DESIGN ed with it before. I am not saying that I had a real knowledge of the field, but simply that I had a feel I suppose I've been interested in furniture design for for the material. Possibly this is what "discovering a long time. I can remember doing a "report" on one's field" really means. In any case, this is how it Scandinavian design in the eighth grade, but until happened with me. I was in awe of the content of this special project I have never really done anything philosophy as well as my reaction to it. about it. I entered Colby, a junior year transfer student, as a The Senior Scholars Program has given me the philosophy-religion major and took an introductory opportunity to experiment with some of my ideas course in Hinduism. The feeling of having known and learn something of the craft of furniture making. or experienced the content before was even more in­ Designing the piece and working the wood are points tense. The philosophical justification of this vague of interest in the project. But a great deal of satis­ feeling, which I deemed necessary, presupposed in­ faction comes from the knowledge that the work and tense study of the subject. The Senior Scholars Pro­ the thoughts are my ow n. gram has enabled me to do this.

6 Sarvepali Radhakrishnan, the Indian author whose raining no interfering substances. \Ve are now work­ works I have read, is a man of diversity and ge nius. ing to de\'ise a method suitable for testing foodstuffs His life has been a brilliant example of the integration and other biological samples which do contain inter­ of theoretical philosophy and the practical, which is fering substances. In this case the rate kinetics of the central lo his writings. Philosophy ultimately repre­ decay would be correlated with Vitamin B1 content. sents man's attempt to cope reasonably with himself Perfected, this method would probably replace the and his environment. Professor Radhakrishnan, in established assay procedure, which is tedious and re­ addition to having a feel for philosophy, is ingeniously quires expensive equipment. I ha\'e encountered com­ capable of unfolding the meaning and implications of plications, and as the May deadline for my project such a feeling as it relates to practical life. True approaches I am pursuing means of eliminating these philosophy must be integrated into the world of ex­ difficulties. If I am unsuccessful by the time my perience. I hope to achieve in my writings on his project is to be evaluated, I plan to continue working works an adequate expression of this integration. to perfect the assay.

A chemistry major from Beverly, Mass., Mark Pecevich Walter Stursberg will begin working toward a Ph.D. was waiting for word of acceptance to medical school degree next year in 13th and 14th century literature, at presstime. His tutor, Professor George Maier, is "with an emphasis on Chaucer's predecessors and con­ the chairman of the Senior Scholars Committee for temporaries." An English major. from Roslyn Harbor, this year. N.Y., he also is interested in the publishing field. He worked with Professor Colin MacKay on this project.

A SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ASSAY FOR VITAMIN B1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE NARRATOR IN THE Six MAJOR WORKS oF GEOFFREY CHAUCER I became interested in methods of determining vitamin content during my junior year Jan Plan with Professor After nearly two semesters of study, I am convinced Maier, who has done much work with Vitamin Bi. that Chaucer's narrator is the key to an understanding As a Senior Scholar I have been trying to develop a of his major poetry. This persona, quite different method of assaying Vitamin B1, based on the unusual from Chaucer the poet, undergoes a remarkable acid-base chemistry of the vitamin. In alkaline solu­ metamorphosis from the early Book of the Duchess tion, B1 is converted to a yellow compound which (c. 1369) to his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, possesses a unique ultraviolet absorption spectrum. written after 1385. This yellow compound undergoes a further conversion My research entailed careful consideration of and its decay can be followed by use of a spectro­ Chaucer's source material, which he borrowed from photometer. In water this decay is immediate and the Italian, Latin and Old French prototypes. If rapid, while in methyl alcohol the decay begins only Chaucer's themes are not original, his art is refresh­ after several minutes and at a slower rate. We have ingly his own. A scrutiny of Chaucer's poetry enables found a convenient assay procedure based on a quan- us to appreciate the Middle Ages. Chaucer skillfully ' titative measurement of the yellow compound before conveys a contemporary scene of propriety as well as decay. But this method is limited to samples con- the common bawdry for which he is renowned.

7 Patrick Duddy, editor of the literary magazine Pequod for two years, is going on to graduate study of con­ temporary poetry. A native of Bangor, he has given public readings of his own poems in connection with his project. Professor Robert Gillespie of the English department is his tutor.

Ruth-Marie "Rhee" Griswold, a pre-medical biology major and dean's list student, has contributed to dor­ mitory life as student adviser, student assistant, and this year, head resident of Mary Low. She has been campus girls' squash champion and stage manager for the Powder and Wig dramatic society. Rhee spent recent summers as a camp counselor in Massachusetts and Wyoming, and this summer will direct an inter­ national conference in Mexico of the World Associa­ tion of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

Vicky Slagle, an American Studies major, is from Johnstown, Pa. Her project adviser is Professor David Bridgman (history and government). Among her extra­ curricular activities is basketball; she captained the team for two years. Vicky has applied to law schools in hopes of helping minorities through a federally­ funded legal aid program.

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8 A STUDY OF THE CRAFT AND \'\'RITING OF POETRY died with Yeats, despite the brilliant work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens and others. The second is that recent My work over the past year has had double emphasis. poetry (dating from the mid-5os with the belated First, and most importantly, I have tried to re fine my discm·ery of \\'. C.\\'illiam5 and the emergence of skills as a poet, and compile a selection of poems the Beat poetry), although popular, has not been as that would reflect my development. The second, and broad in scope, nor has any major direction in the more academic part of my project, has been a study of de,·elopment ot the craft been apparent. Thus I ha\ e poetic theory since the 19th century. studied contemporary poetry with an eye towards I have attempted to correlate the radical changes seeking out what may be the major schools of thought in the theories of the nature and function of poetry or simply who of the great many young poets will in since the late years of the preceding century with the the future be significant. The purpose of this duel early 20th century demise of poetry as a popular art, program with regards to my own writing has been on and the more recent revival of interest in contempo­ the one hand to familiarize myself more sub tantiall) rary poetry. I have proceeded on the basis of two with modern poets and their literary roots; and on assumptions. The first is that poetry, as a popular the other hand to simply examine what has been art form in the first half of the 20th century, nearly done, thus giving some direction to my own work.

mass of cells of uncertain origin. Phase two, inves­ AN INVESTIGATION OF BARBEL REGENERATION IN THE tigating the origin of the blastema, involved forced CATFISH, Ameiurus nebulosus rege neration under abnormal conditions. For exam­ Although it has been known for years that appendages ple, the vital dye trypan blue was used to trace the des­ of many animals regenerate after amputation, little tiny of phagocytic cells (those engulfing and consum­ is known about the actual mechanism of regeneration. ing bodies) colored by the dye; and epidermis was re­ This project involves a laboratory investigation of mo,·ed from barbels to allow observation of the origin barbel (whisker) regeneration in the catfish. of new epidermal cells. Removal of the cartilaginous My tutor, Professor Thomas Easton, who has done rod prior to amputation of a barbel inhibited regen­ research in the field, first interested me in the phenom­ eration by preventing blastema formation. Thus it enon. Investigators have demonstrated that barbels appears that the blastema is derived (at least in part) regenerate after amputation, eventually regaining from perichondrium, the group of cells surrounding their original structure and dimensions; that innerva­ the cartilage. Further experiments clearly demonstrate tion (presence of nerves) is necessary not only to that regeneration slows and eventually stops in cold initiate regeneration but to prevent atrophy; and that temperatures and that several antibiotics also inhibit the entire process depends on a central cartilaginous regeneration. rod. Experimenting with this mechanism has been fasci­ I began with an historical st udy of the ce llular nating for me, and I plan to pursue the problem at a structure of normal and regenerating barbels. Re­ later time. My Senior Scholar project has added not generation, which takes place in about six weeks, only to my knowledge of regeneration, but provided derives largely from a blastema, an undifferentiated me with practical insight into scientific research.

and irony are interwoven with appearance and reality "FOLLOW YOUR LEADER": A STUDY I ' RACE RELATIONS to pose a moral question for each of us. To an Amer­ ican captain who boards the San Dominick, the slave I have attempted to approach the study of pre-Civil ship appears to be under white control. Actually, one War race relations from an interdisciplinary point of slaveholder is a mute prisoner of black rebels. Another view. The result is not merely an historical and liter­ slaver has been murdered; his shrouded skeleton ary study of the black image in the white mind, but serves as the ship's figurehead. Below the figurehead a reflection of white culture as it bent beneath Samba is written the ambiguous command, "Follow your stereotypes to justify racial proscription. To gain in­ leader." ·when the real situation is revealed and sight into the moral and psychological complexities of eventually resolved, the blacks are tried and executed. what whites thought they believed, I needed a wide Their heads are placed on stakes in the plaza as a selection of books: popular novels, diaries and travel­ reminder to discontented slaves. These staring black ogues written between 1830 and 1860, as well as his­ faces mock a white society which is as barbaric as its torical and literary analyses of the period. image of black Africans. "Follow Your Leader," taken from Herman Mel­ How "right " were the black insurrectionists? How ville's Benito Cereno, is significant and vital to this "right" were the white slaverholders? To discern the study, for the conclusion remains indefinite. In Mel­ nature of ultimate justice, one must go - as did slave ville's dramatization of a racial dilemma, ambiguity and sla,·er - beyond man's scope, to death itself.

9 Matthew Zweig, a psychology major from New York City, will attend Tufts Dental School in Boston and An English major in the honors program, Dennis hopes to return to the Waterville area to practice - Gilbert grew up in Sangerville in rural Piscataquis good news for members of the Colby Community County, the source of his story. His tutor is Professor Symphony Orchestra, for which he has been principal Charles Bassett, whose field is the contemporary novel. violist. Matt was captain of this year's basketball team. UNTITLED NOVEL

THE EFFECT OF CoNSUMATORY STIMULI oN BRAIN I began this project in January of 1970. I wanted to STIMULATION REINFORCEMENT write a novel about rural life and I had ideas but very little experience. I started under the January The goal of my project was to demonstrate that there Program and worked on it through the second semes­ is a clear distinction between the mechanism which ter and the summer as a special topic. I had little controls feeding beha\'ior in the rat and that which more than a first draft, though, and by the end of the control killing behavior. In other words, I tried to summer l was convinced that l was taking the wrong show that killing, to the rat, is rewarding in itself approach. I stopped writing and started planning. and not simply a means to acquire food. The story evolved into something quite different from My interest in this field of psychology grew out of the original, and the narrative technique changed the courses I have taken at Colby and from the Jan­ from first person to omniscient. But the underlying uary Program in my junior year involving brain stimu­ ideas remained very nearly the same. Time and lation. The technique used in the experiment is energy for the project were still problems, however. electrical stimulation of the brain. An electrode is But at the end of my junior year when I learned implanted in an area of the hypothalamus, in which about the Senior Scholars Program, I found my solu­ the stimulation is rewarding. From this area stimula­ tion. The program offered credit for four semester tion will elicit feeding or killing behavior. With this courses and a Jan Plan, and it is the best thing that technique it was possible for me to show that a dis­ Colby College has offered me. More seniors should get tinction does exi t. My tutor, Professor Michael involved. I am working on the second draft of the new DeSisto, is doing related work with the reactions of form. I expect to finish by the end of the semester rats. and eventually complete a publishable manuscript.

IO Fle"!ing Fallon majored in psychology and mathe­ matic!. He hopes to attend medical school next )'ear. Fleming, a percussionist, is president of the Colby band. Home is Salem, Ill. He worked with Professor Dorin Zahner (psychology) on his project.

PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHA ISMS IN LEARNING MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS

Jean Piaget, the Swi�s psychologist, did theoretical and experimental work based on the idea that there is an invariant heirarchy of responses by which every­ one acquires mathematical concepts. Basically we tried to use the geometric symmetry concept as a vehi­ Richard Kaynor of Wilbraham, Mass., worked on The cle for studying this process of concept acquisition us­ Colby Echo and served as coeditor during the fall ing subjects ranging in age from three to 25. They semester of 1971. An East Asian studies major, he is were asked to reproduce a series of stimulus "pic­ eager to visit China now that restrictions are being tures," simple geometric patterns, which could be used eased. wi thout major alteration for each age group. Sym­ metric responses were divided into four types which SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS I, VERNACULAR were set up into a heirarchy of transformations in­ CHINESE LITERATURE \'Olved in making the response. This method proved to be a good indicator of the subjects' capabilities. My interest in China began freshman year when I Typical tests made with children involved the no­ first encountered Mr. Yun-Tong Pan, formerly of the tions of equivalence and conservation of matter. The government department. An exacting professor, his child might be asked which of the two numbers was brilliance and concern gradually paid off as my own greater, for example; or whether under a change of interest in China intensified. The opportunity of the shape a volume remains constant when it might ap­ Senior Scholars Program, plus the new availabili ty of pear to change. \Ve found that subjects' use of the Chinese language instruction induced me to change symmetry notion was largely unconscious and some my major from English to East Asian studies this fall. regressed in response to a more complex task without My project covers work ranging from classic Chinese realizing it. Instead of using length and width to ge t novels to contemporary revolutionary Peking operas. the area of a rectangle, for example, a child might The material is outstanding, particularly the short line out and count the smaller squares within, a mode stories from the i92os written by Lu Xun, China's that had proved successful earlier-perceiving no re­ greatest 20th century wri ter. gression and assuming he was doing it the "right" way. I hope to visit China after spending a year studying Every inferential replication we did proved Piaget transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh to be correct, and the concept of heirarchy was perhaps Yogi. Journalism may be a means of meeting the the major idea that came through most clearly. There expense of getting there. As my world shrinks and is an invariant sequence of events - stages of opera­ my horizons expand, I look forward to a true meeting tions or levels of sophistication - through which any­ of East and West. one must progress in order to learn mathematics.

11 A Day in the Life of a Zen Monastery

by Roland W Thorwaldsen

The Rev. Mr. Thorwald.sen spent clanging handbell of the monk and the kneeling during service. Ja nuary visiting two dozen monas­ running through the corridors lO Breakfast followed by a lecture teries and shrines in japan. Stu­ awaken the community for another Crom Godo Roshi. No lolling and dent interest in Easlern sects, par­ day of meditation , study and lounging about Colby-fashion dur­ ticularly Zen BuddhiJm, ij high. \\'Ork. Those of us \\'ho are Yisitors ing these discourses. We kneel in The chapla in fell new insights pl11s in the temple ha\'e been up for an line, formal posture, and the slides and {t /111s would greatly hour already and are finishing the instruction and its translation last enhance his courses. first zazen (meditation) sitting of for better than an hour. "Don't On two occasions Chaplain the

12 The audience has gone past the where we wash and rinse the bowls Dhnmmapada. Now as a rationale time appointed, and returning to in scalding water. \Ve sweep the for the stick we're gi\'en a verse visitors' quarters we're secretly mats in the sleeping quarters, the from th i text : "£\'en as a rock is pleased that we've missed the sec­ dining room and the Zendo, and unshaken by the ·wind, so are the ond morning session in the Zendo finish off the job with buckets of wise unmoved by praise or blame." (meditation hall). We're no soon­ water and scrubbing rags. \Vhile The e\'ening session is better. I er in our room, huddled under our group is busy with these begin by hearing the bark of the katatsu when the guest master chores other work parties are mop­ e,·ery dog in the neighborhood, the opens the sliding screen and in­ ping the wooden walkways, raking rattle of every train that rolls into forms us that we'll make up the up twigs and litter in the garden, T urumi station, and the soft foot­ sitting this afternoon. Two sittings and cleaning the toilets. \V hen fall of e,·ery step of the attendant in one afternoon ! That was the monk in charge of our de­ monk. I think of "mu," but here supposed to be our rest period! tachment gives his approval to our we're not supposed to use koan, At lunch there are the same housecleaning efforts we return and to distract myself from that three vegetarian dishes served at brooms, pails, cloths and dusters distraction begin the breathing every meal: rice, soup and pickles. to their appointed hooks in the count. Somewhere I lose track of It sounds like a monotonous diet, janitor's closet. the count, the gong vibrates, and but isn't because of the variations The first afternoon sitting is the sitting is ended. \V hen we go in the soups and pickles . The terrible. My posture is all wrong, back to quarters I ask my sitting soups prepared in Zen kitchens and I wiggle. The Jikido, "The companion why the session was are works of art, and the pickles Stick," comes along, puts the edge shortened. He looks at me curi­ of daikon, eggplant and ginger of his weapon against my back, ously and tells me it was a full are delicious. The servings are straightens up my head and spine period. generous and one may eat as much and that helps for a time. But There are only two heated spots as one wishes, but every morsel things go awry again, and he re­ in the monastery and this is the accepted must be consumed. Pick­ turns. The warning tap, I tip my middle of January. One of the ing up that slippery, elusive last head to the left, and get a solid spots is the tub in the communal grain of rice is an excellent way to crack on the shoulder blade. bath house, and the other is the learn to use the chopsticks. That's only my second for today­ katatsu. Blessed katatsu! It's a A Zen monastery is scrupulously we all got one for good measure square coffee table sort of object clean, meticulously well ordered, this morning-and so there's no with a heating bulb underneath and a part of each day's activity is cause for complaint. Not like the and a quilt thrown over it. We sit given to keeping it in that condi­ first day when the beadle nearly around it with feet and legs, hands tion. As soon as a meal has been whacked us off our cushions. A and arms thrust beneath the quilt, eaten we say a thanksgiving and slight irony. In graduate school soaking up its precious warmth take our dishes to the kitchen thought it was painful to translate while we discuss the events of the day. At exactly nine o'clock, the sig­ nal to retire: drum beats; the sono­ rous sound of the ogane, the great bell of the temple; and the clatter of the wooden gong. We open the cupboards, take down our beds and spread them on the floor. Bed consists of a thin pallet, a small pillow, and two futones or blan­ kets. Through the paper screen we see the glow of the candle lamp as the watchman goes through our corridor beginning his rounds. In the garden a night bird whistles and then a.11 returns again to The Great Ceremonial Hall silence. 13 True to His Authentic Self Portrait of a Philosopher

Professor john A. Clark will retire in June after at the Clark home on Morrill Avenue as much as in nearly 26 years at the college, 22 of them as chairman the classroom on Mayflower Hill. I have never of the department of philosophy and religion. known a teacher more sensitively aware of under­ His fellow philosopher, President-emeritus ]. Seelye graduate needs. Night and day students claimed Bixler, whose warm personal tribute follows, is his attention, and never in vain. What is sometimes uniquely equipped to assess the impact of this gifted cynically called the "teaching load" he accepted teacher upon the college. gladly as an opportunity for creative action. "At the pleasure of the instructor" was the phrase used in The first time I saw John Clark he and his brother the old Harvard catalogue for hours of teaching as small boys were wrestling enthusiastically on the beyond the required minimum. It was a pleasure floor of their home in India. Their parents, Dr. and John indulged in more than many teachers I have Mrs. Alden Clark, missionaries as hospitable as they known. were distinguished, had invited me for part of the It soon became evident also that he and his loyal Christmas vacation to their Ahmednagar home from helpmeet, Mary, were just as much concerned with my teaching duties in Madura. The vitality and the needs of the faculty. A college is a place where energy of the youngsters rolling at our feet was ideas are not merely exchanged, but are helped to indescribable - it was all we grown-ups could do to grow in an atmosphere of trust and confidence. One keep out of their way. In later years John continued of the devices most helpful for this is the association to be a wrestler but, like the apostle Paul, his of faculty members in groups with a common interest. wrestling was less with flesh and blood than with John and Mary Clark formed such a group, bringing spiritual wickedness in high places and, like Paul's it to it not only ph ilosophers but representatives of had its effect. literature, the arts, and the sciences - physical and From India John came to school at Deerfield, then social. Wives were also invited and it will not surprise Amherst, but I didn't see him again until his days as advocates of Women's Lib to learn that some of the a graduate student at Harvard. His oral examination best insights came from the distaff side. I remember for the Ph.D.I remember very well. This time it especially the year when the discussion centered in was the persuasiveness of his ideas that made an the baroque style with its various manifestations in impression. So, when in 1946 after the war we were art, music, literature and philosophy. It was a most looking for someone to bring both vigor and clarity stimulating time. to the teaching of philosophy at Colby what more natural than that the choice should fall upon him? I " John Clark made sure that our Colby department remember that he was especially highly recommended kept its balance. He insisted also that it maintain by Raphael Demos, conspicuous at Harvard then for its emphasis on the importance of good teaching." his knowledge not only of philosophy but of men, and for his conviction that the teaching process is a With the thought that religion is the commitment warmly personal enterprise where more than of the heart to what in philosophy the head finds intellectual values are at stake. to be true the departments of religion and philosophy were made one. John made sure that it did not come '' I have never knowna teacher more sensitively under the spell of any narrowly specialized interest. aware of the undergraduate needs. Night and This was the period when many departments were day students claimed his attention, and never in prone to interpret philosophy as nothing else than vain." linguistic analysis. But while honing our positivistic axes we must remember that, important as are these When John appeared at Colby it was noticeable logical interests they are not equipped to deal on their that philosophy began to be discussed and experienced own with the giant redwoods of human concern.

14 Philosophy has to do with words, but not words alone. is the equally well-known John Maurice Clark, John Clark made sure that our Colby department professor of economics at both Columbia and Chicago. kept its balance. He insisted also that it maintain its Our John Clark brings to the name his special emphasis on the importance of good teaching. The contribution. It is interesting to note that his men he has brough t to Colby have without exception research reaches out to the fields where his been excellent teachers as well as scholars, and for grandfa ther and uncle made their mark, dealing years the department has been regarded one of our with the possible synthesis of philosophy, political strongest, to which the college migh t with reason science and economics as a single discipline - further point with pride. evidence of the breadth of his mind. Diogenes Laertius tells us that when asked what he '' In his writing, his teaching, his friendship ... to gained from philosophy Aristotle replied : "To do his fellow men he has been true to his authentic without being commanded what others do from fear self." of the laws." John Clark has done what he has done because he is what he is. In his wri ting, his teaching, his friendship and his responsiveness to his fellow John Alden Clark comes from a distinguished men he has been true to his authentic self. Because academic family. His grandfather was the well-known of this he has helped the college he served to develop John Bates Clark, a pioneer in the field of political a self of its own. science, long-time professor at Columbia and, by a . coincidence, once a teacher at Carleton College where his grandson followed him briefly. His uncle J. S. Bixler

15 better forms of volunteer work. Helen letter from Mary Warren. She expressed was in Florida for two weeks, spent the appreciation of Melva's work for the holidays in the Panama Canal Zone class. She mentioned her civic activi­ and visited Colombia and Equador. She ties, which include serving as a delegate had a wonderful time but says it is good to the Women's Legislative Council for to be home. Helen saw Margaret Ab­ the Maine Retired Teachers Association. bott Paul recently. I believe I neglected to report on the Leonette Warburton Wishard tutors Lavertys for the last issue: Mable and reading in the public schools, calls on I celebrated our 55th anniversary last the elderly for the church and is a mem­ August with a family gathering at our ber of various civic groups. She travels China Lake cottage. a good deal. Leonette visited Colby last August and planned to go to Spain this spring by freighter. She saw Elizabeth 1924 Kellett Craven and Ida Jones Smith last Class Anne Brownstown Prilutsky summer and entertained a Scottish lady (Mrs. Nathan) for a week at her cottage in Epping, 419 Cumberland Avenue, Apt. 32 N. H., under the American Host Pro­ Portland, Maine 04101 Ne\1\!S gram. She says retirement is great. . . . Anson Lowitz, a retired advertis­ Ruth Fairbanks Burke, who moved last ing executive, continues to work as a con­ fall to Bath from Morristown, N. J., sultant and lives at 23 Cat Rock Road, writes of her volunteer hospital work. Cos Cob, Conn. (06807). He is promi­ She has three children and seven grand­ 1923 nent in area historical-museum circles, children. . . . Joe and Ervena Goodale has rebuilt eight early homes and de­ Smith have returned to their South Port­ Merton E. Laverty veloped 34 residential acres in Cos Cob. land home after four months in Menlo West Scarborough, Maine 04074 Anson was an advisor to the State De­ Park, Calif., with their grandchildren I am substituting for Melva Mann Farn­ partment in Austria, Brazil, Peru, Mex­ while their son, George '49, was on a um. Several who had no news wrote ico, Israel and Portugal, and his books U. S. Aid Mission to Afghanistan for to say they are sorry to hear that Mel­ have sold more than a million copies. the State Department. . . . The follow­ va wasn't able to carry on this time. . . . Fred Blanchard, retired, is helping ing information about members of our She has been very faithful to her duties the Southside Virginia Tuberculosis class has been gleaned from notes sent and her efforts have been appreciated. and Re�piratory Disease Association. in by Ervena. I am happy that I could be of service His only recent traveling was to New Vivian Hubbard Pillsbury and her and hope the results are acceptable. We England for his grandniece's wedding husband keep busy with hobbies includ­ wish Melva a speedy recovery. and to visit his family ....Another vol­ ing bridge. . . . Therese Hall Carroll Lucy Osgood Dean reports her hus­ unteer worker is F. G. Fassett Jr., re­ visited her son, Robert, stationed at the band, Arthur, had a slight coronary last tired, who does literary editing and arch­ U. S. Air Force Base in Colorado May but has recovered sufficiently to ival work for the Damariscotta Library. Springs and went into Cheyenne Moun­ keep their small dairy. They went to He makes family visits to the West tain to view the NORAD Warning Sys­ the November Colby luncheon in Pitts­ Coast every year or two. . . . I had a tem. . . . Cathryn Cole Miles retired ford, N. Y., and met Dr. and Mrs. Lib­ by Pulsifer '2 1 and Ransom Pratt '2 1. The Deans plan to be at our reunion. They're semiretired on the family farm in Marion, N. Y., and hope to have their missionary family home on a year's furlough from Sarawak, Malaysia. They also are hoping their grandchildren can live with them and go to school in Mari­ on ....Louise Tilley writes from West Long Branch, N. J., that Leonette War­ burton Wishard spent Christmas week with her. . . . Lillian Cyr LaVerdiere is living a busy life: homemaker, volun­ teer worker at hospitals, reading teacher and secretary to the Liturgical Com­ mission of the Catholic Diocese of Port­ land. She received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal from Pope Paul VI, the highest honor conferred on the lay apostolate. Among the two sons and three daughters who established a schol­ arship fund to celebrate their parents' 50th anniversary are Paul '59 and Mrs. The library at the new 70-acre Thomas College academic complex on the West River Marcella O"Halloran '53. Lillian re­ Road is named for Ernest C. Marriner 'I 3, Colbv's dean-emeritus and historian. The ported seeing Mary Warren recently. dean has been a trustee of the fast-growing coll�ge since 1958 and chairman of the . . . Helen Dresser McDonald says she board since 1961. Designer of the decor for the complex, including the library, was is retired and has two "girls," aged 84 Mrs. Emily Heath Hall '26, a trustee and former Thomas art instructor. Another and 94, to check on regularly. She Colby alumnus assisting President John L. Thomas Jr. '42 in development of the col­ takes them shopping and on other er­ lege is Treasurer Ford A. Grant '34. Enrollment is expected to exceed 500 next fall. rands. I would consider this one of the (Central Maine Morning Sentinel photo by Edward Cragin '34.) 16 ers Retirement Board for six years prior to his own retirement. . . . Harold Clark, a retired banker, is a sheep farm­ er and represented six Lincoln County communities in the Maine Legislature. . . . Robert Fransen's retirement activ­ ities are sightseeing, sports and chess. His son and wife have master's degrees from Columbia. She taught three years at Patchogue, N. Y. His son is in his seventh year of teaching at Huntington (N. Y.) High School. ... Edward Bax­ ter is a retired teacher and enjoys be­ ing lazy and traveling. . . . Alfred K. Chapman has retired as ombudsman at the college. He felt that there was no need this year for such an office. He is an avid gardener. . . . Lloyd Dearborn, a pulpwood broker, has retirement plans but they're still nebulous. . . . John Laughton retired in 1966. His wife has retired from teaching. He is town tax collector and plans to develop lake shore property and restore two old President a d Mrs. Strider were among head table guests for a dinner Jan. 25 in Hart­ � houses. . . . Herbert Colby retired ford honoring Clayton W. Johnson '25 (with Mrs. Johnson at right) upon his retire­ after 44 years with Edison Electric in m nt from the Sa v1_ gs & L an League of Connecricut as executive vice president. � � c: Boston. . . . Russell Squire of Water­ Friends recogmzed_ l11s work zn behalf of Colby and as coach and former president of ville has no desire to retire. He just the American Legion Baseball League. A member of the board of trustees from 1965 wants to keep on the job, play golf and through last June, Mr. Johnson is a Colby Fellow and continues ro work wirh rhe col­ enjoy his grandchildren. . . . Capt. lege b dget a d finance committee. A former president of rhe Connecricur Colby � � . Marshall Gurney, U.S.N. (Ret.) is pres­ � lumm Assoc1at1on and member of the A lum11i Council, he received a Colby Brick ident of the Beverly Hills Council of m 1962. He also served as an alumni inten·iewer in Hartford. Robert 0. Harvey, dean the U. S. Navy League. . . . Clayton of the niversity of Connecticut School of Business Administration, was master of CJ_ Johnson, who retired in December, still ceremonies. Among head table guests were the staff vice president of the U. S. Sav­ retains the office of secretary to two ings & Loan League and a past commander of the American Legion. corporations. He's been on the board of trustees at Colby for six years and is now a member of the Budget and Fi­ last June as librarian in North Ben­ 1925 nance Committee. He's president of the nington, Vt. She moved into a 200- West Hartford Junior Baseball League year-old house in Wilmington, three Doris Tozier Putnam (Mrs. Lawrence) and a member of the board of directors miles from the village, and is renovat­ Box 128 of the National Football Foundation. ing it. . . . Cranston Jordan and his Orr's Island, Maine 04066 So much for the men, who responded wife attend the monthly Colby alumni better than the women. Ethel Littlefield It's fine fun to receive so many answers meetings in St. Petersburg, Fla. . . . Sue Whittier lives in Florida, enjoys garden­ to our letter. Lawrence also enjoys Daye spent August in Lagos, Portugal, ing, playing bridge and going to Min­ keeping up with the class. where there was "no smog, no fog, no nesota Twins baseball games. Ethel We seem to have quite a few mem­ humidity, no rain." . . . Percy Beatty Rose Adams '30 spent a night with her. bers living in Florida. Bill Hale, treas­ is a semiretired associate pastor of the Ethel and her husband were on their urer of the Maine Club, sees "Sally" Broadway Baptist Church in Patterson, way to Homestead. She visits with Cath­ and John "Oby" O'Brien '28, who live N. J. . . . Mary Watson Flanders and erine '22 and Elizabeth Larrabee '23 at in Deerfield. Bill is president of the her sister, Jean Watson '29, spent the Anna Maria Key. . . . Ethel Childs board of directors of Virginia Coopera­ winter in Florida near the beach and Storer is interested in church work and tive. . . . Charles Shoemaker, father of golf course, hoping to keep "slim and the Portsmouth Visiting Nurses Associ­ five and grandfather of 13, just bought trim." . . . Ralph McLeary, retired, is ation. . . . Mildred Otto Ashcroft, who two Hondas and graduated from a pop­ home from the hospital. We hope that broke a hip last March, is selling her up tent to a 22-foot motor home. He by this time you are completely well, guest house and moving into a small has been traveling for six years and Ralph. . . . Ethel Reed Day and her apartment. She does volunteer work at plans a lot more. What energy! . . . husband spent the winter in Florida. the hospital, knits and reads. . . . Mil­ Charles Thompson goes to Scotland I bad the opportunity to read a long dred Briggs sews, is interested in a craft each year and is in European real es­ article in the field of urology written by workers' guild, church groups and the tate. His son is at the University of Ne­ John L. Berry, M.D., professor-emeri­ women's club .... Ellen Smith Weib­ braska. . . . Carleton Bennett is plan­ tus of surgery at the Albany (N. Y.) len had a knee operation in Hartford ning his second trip to Europe. His son, Veterans Administration Hospital. Even last year. She uses a golf cart to get Paul, is vice president of National In­ a layman like me can see that it is a around the few acres of their two places surance Co., Indianapolis, Ind...... Elea­ learned and comprehensive work, and and to do a bit of gardening. Joh n Monroe has one great-grandchild. can understand why the "Berry Pro­ tha Beane Littlefield is happy as a li­ Mrs. Monroe served two years in the cedure" is nationally acclaimed. It must brarian at Wells Junior-Senior High be very gratifying, Jack, to know that Maine Legislature. . . . Howard Tug­ School. She bas I 0 grandchildren and you have made such a substantive con­ gey, trustee and chairman of Covenant an alert 92-year-old mother who lives tribution to the well-being of your fel­ Church, New Rochelle, N. Y., was a with her. . . . Our student, Nellie Pot­ low man. member of the New York State Teach- tle Hankins, is teaching along with her 17 husband at the University of Maine in The Lady Ca res istration made the rules and she saw to Auburn. They Jive on the family farm. it we obeyed them. When I was a fresh­ John has had a book on Spenser pub­ man, she called me to her office and told Esther E. Wood '26 (Hon. L.H.D., '71) lished. They have a son teaching at me that my slip was too short. It was a cares about her students at the Universi­ the University of Washington, and had humiliating experience. When I was a ty of Maine (Portland-Gorham). One a fine trip to Seattle by train through senior, she called me to her office and reason she does is Colby in the 1920s, the Canadian Rockies. said, "While l'm away for a few days, 1 movingly recalled in a column she wrote shall depend on you to lock up at Ellsworth American. for the weekly It eleven o'clock and to check to see if 1926 is reprinted with the newspaper's permis­ every<:me is in." That was a gratifying sion. experience.. Hilda M. Fife Miss Patrick, the dietitian, cared for 21 Wentworth Street Most college students today register at institutions where there are thousands of us. There were cakes for birthdays and Kittery, Maine 03904 students. They are given a number and surprises for the holidays. Rather against Wilbur McAllister was honored by they mingle with the multitude. Many her better judgment and after much teas­ friends and associates at Montpelier last of them look unhappy. Perhaps they ing born us, she contributed items from fall upon his retirement as an engineer are unhappy because they wonder if any­ the dinner menu to our picnics. with the Vermont Department of High­ one cares about them. Various professors made it evident ways. After graduate work at M I.T., In the l 920's when I went to Colby that they cared for us as individuals. he served in his native New Hampshire. College, then a small institution of some Judy Taylor cared enough about me to and since 1948 in Vermont. He retired 600 students, there was no doubt that inquire who gave me my training in Latin grammar. The old German pro­ after World War Il service as a lieu­ someone cared for each student. fessor shamed me before the class when tenant colonel from the Army Corps of No less a person than the president he chided me for eating sundaes at Engineers. Now that you are retired, cared. He cared enough to know the name of each student, his home town, Verzoni's. Professor Weber cared Wilbur, come to Alumni Weekend some enough about his students to be down­ June and get reacquainted with Colby and the occupation of his or her father. Prexy Roberts' procedure was to halt a right nasty about split infinitives and and your classmates. . . . Doris Dewar student and to querry him. When I was dangling participles. I'm sure that Her­ Hunt and husband, Bob, manage a large bert Carlyle Libby was devoted to me. bookstore-gift shop in Huntington, N. Y. a freshman, I was taken aback by his battery of questions: "Young woman, In public speaking class he concentrated We would like to see you, too, what is your name?" "What is you fa­ his sarcasm on my bad posture. The Doris. . . . Jennie Nutter Peacock and ther's name?" "Did your father or following semester in a journalism class, husband, Deane, are making their head­ mother go to Colby?" "What is your he shouted at me when I used too many quarters this winter in Portugal. With home town?" "Do you have younger adjectives and adverbs. a new Volkswagon they "get around." brothers and sisters?" When I was an I can't contact all the 3 ,500 students . . . Truly, 1971 was the year of cele­ upperclassman, I found it very pleasant at the University of Maine, Portland­ brations for Carl MacPherson, what to have the president greet me with the Gorham. But I can show the 150 in my with a testimonial dinner for him by �alutation, "How do you do, Miss Wood? classes that I am interested in them. I 200 Masons, another by 300 friends and I hope the Stevens Academy will be shall check their class attendance, give associates upon his retirement, and of sending us some students in the fall. Is them difficult assignments, and be criti­ course our reunion in June! One of his your father home from Stonington?" cal of their performance. Perhaps I shall colleagues remarked that Carl would Dean Runnals made it clear that she shout at them now and then to show say, "Someone has to do it, and I'll see cared for every girl student. The admin- them that I really care. what I can do." My bet is that you are still doing things that have to be done, Carl. And what are the rest of you doing? art academy ....Emily Candage El­ I know that some of you were in Flori­ 1927 lis, retired from teaching Latin at her da or other warm spots this winter; and Miriam Rice Schulze (Mrs. Christian) late husband's school, Jives with her others are getting a glimpse of Europe 4 West Street 90-year-old mother, and helps with from time to time. Some are still on Newtown, Conn. 06470 church work and D.A.R ....Leola the job, full time or part time. Surely Clement spent a month in Europe and many of us are doing civic, church or Thank you for the reunion reacquaint­ two weeks in Hawaii. . ..Marion other volunteer work. ance news. Enjoyed in full but con­ Sprowl Williamson summers in Sear - We regret that because of a typo­ densed here, it will be sent to Fred and port and winters in Arizona. . . . Ar­ Lura Norcross Turner with your snap­ graphical error, Duckie's new name was delle Chase would like to attend reunion misspelled. She and Peter are Admiral shots for use at reunion. Please, every­ but says the drive back to teach seems and Mrs. Money (not Money). one else send them a snapshot and note. quite a bit for one of her tender years. Fifty years ago last fall (I 92 I) as a Admittedly, most of our retirement . . . Ruth Dow still delves into Hebrew recent high school graduate, I started activities are a bit monochromatic. But Latin and French. Her church work in� my teaching career in a one-room high I know a simple phrase like "church eludes a class of sixth grade boys . . .. school about four miles from my home work" can mean building, with eager Dorothy Hannaford works for the Bos­ assistants from four to 40, a golden here. Last fall I gave a course in Maine ton Home, Inc., for those who are well literature for the University of Maine eight-foot cock or a life-sized "Jongleur but handicapped. Her other hobbies and right here in Kittery in a large, new de Notre Dame"; and "keeping up with activities are almost too numerous to school. Most of my students were local the French" can mean sponsoring adult teachers. It was a great convenience for education adventures in the literature of mention. . . . Frances Nason Knight al! of us not to have to drive to the three centuries.... We all echo Mar­ sends her best. She would like to attend Portland campus once a week for the jorie Dunstan, who writes from Hon­ reunion but is quite restricted by arthri­ course. This seems to be a proper place olulu: "Truly, retirement leaves almost tis. She and her husband and daughter to stop - both this letter and my form­ no time for beachcombing." Marge finds have sold the Scarborough Beach House. al teaching career! How about some there are many calls for volunteer work Her son, State Rep. Harry R. Knight, news, folks? but concentrates on a shop for the local ran it until his death in a cottage fire.

18 . . . Mabel Root Holmes finds read­ in time to enjoy our next renunion. ing time limited. She is busy with sew­ 1928 ow in Clinton is Claude Bouchard, ing, knitting and renovating her home - Ruth E. Williams who retired as teacher and foreign even papering and painting. . . . Faye University of Maine language supervisor in the ew Britain, Decker Goodman is president of the Farmington, Maine 04938 Conn., secondary schools. He travels Westport, Conn., Republican Women·s Clyde Mann's younger son, William, and is organist for a Skowhegan church. Club ....Alice Wood Bartlett is re­ has followed the family teaching tradi­ . . . Roland and Irma Sawyer Andrews tiring from "payroll Red Cross'' but is tion. Clyde is retired .... James Laugh­ are building a retirement home in a volunteer consultant in the Service to ton retired, sold his Ripley home and Presque Isle. They enjoy Florida win­ Military Families program in central lives at 3 Summer Street, Newport. ... ters and the mob ility of their travel New York. It has 26 chapters spread Conrad Hines retired in March as vice trailer. Son, Malcolm '53, and his wife, over 37,500 square miles. "It's great president of the First National Bank of Pat (Mcintire '55), provide another in­ fun" but hard not to overdo, she writes. Boston. He traveled rec -::ntly to Swit­ terest in the form of four grandchildren. She has many other interests, but we zerland, Germany and Austria...... Charlotte Clary Nevin and her suspect her biggest kick is having her Kenton MacCubrey spent the winter in husband have a Cape Elizabeth home as grandchildren on the ski slopes near Arizona. Retired, he hopes to visit the well as the Shaker Heights, Ohio, apart­ their "New England town" of Hamilton, British Isles this fall. . . . Bryant Col­ ment where they have Jived for many N.Y .... Caroline Rogers Hawkes and lege, Providence, R. I., conferred an years. . . . Ruth Hutchins Stinchfield her husband, back near Westbrook honorary M.A. degree upon Lela Glid· has visited many countries with her where she once taught, delight in the den at a convocation preceding a retire­ husband for medical meetings. A re­ company of their daughter and grand­ ment party. Lela, who spent the last cent trip included fascinating tours in daughter ... . Betty Alden Wassell is 28 years of her 41-year teaching career South America. Husband, Allan, has torn between reunion and an internation­ at Bryant, also received a citation from directed the Maine Orthopedic Seminar al conference of music educators in Car­ the college's alumni. . . . A. W. Lar­ for 11 years. Daughter, Jane '70, is thage. She explored Africa last year sen sold his Waterville business to re­ married to Daniel Willett. . . . Rose with her husband from Cape Town to tire last July. He still plays tennis al­ Black has been to Great Britain. Re­ Addis Ababba and sent a snapshot taken most daily and won his 28th doubles tired, she is living in Tuscon, Ariz. . . . . in London, where they were thrilled to trophy in 1970. He has organized tour­ Venton Jones bas retired from the meet President Bixler again at the Lon­ naments every year since Colby moved Braintree (Mass.) schools, where he was don Symphony. . . . Helen Pollard to the hill. . . . John O'Brien sent best director of guidance. He was reelected Hodgkins sends a snap of four attrac­ wishes to the class from Deerfield vice president of the Braintree Coopera­ tive grandchidren and herself (white­ Beach, Fla. He is retired and looking tive Bank and works in real estate .... haired and also attractive). . . . Betty forward to our 45th. . ..Myra Stone Rene Marcou retired from teaching to Watson Gerry likes golf, watercolors Pruitt teaches and does volunteer re­ take a post as research professor of and bridge; but we know her heart is in medial reading and testing work. . . . mathematics and director of the Space those family reunions at summer camp Charles Sansone, retired in Dallas, en­ Data Research Analysis Laboratory at and at Christmas. . . . Priscilla Russell joyed a trip to Maine last summer. . .. Boston College. Last year he toured the Richards, who hopes to repeat the fun August Belott, M.D., directs the pre­ parks of many western states. . . . of our 40th in 1972, is enjoying retire­ ventive disease department for Hills­ Clair Wood, who retired in 1970, has ment with her husband: travel, courses, borough (Fla.) County. . . . Mona (Her­ been elected to the Waterville City the historical association, socializing, ron) and John Erickson live in North Council. . . . Edna Cohen Rapaport sailing, art, museums and visitor , in­ Dartmouth, Mass., where she teaches in went south for the winter and planned cluding Louise Chapman Dibble. an elementary school. Jack, retired to be in Rome in April. She is retired Among the men hoping to return is high school principal, was honored with and living in the Bangor area. Our Greely Pierce, who sent snaps of his his brother, Edward, as Native Sons at sympathy at the loss of her husband, Christmas tree farm. . . . Clem Tay­ the annual Newburyport (Mass.) Home­ Jack. . . . George West, deputy attorney lor's picture included two towering sons coming in recognition of their 83 years general for Maine, went to Florida in while Kenneth Copp sported a beard in of combined service to education. . .. March .... Our condolences to Grace his. . . . William Pierce, who built on Ruth McEvoy took a theater trip to Sylvester Ober, who lost her husband in the Florida coast, enjoys its typical London, Moscow and Leningrad fol­ 1970. She lives in Woodland and en­ pleasures and visiting his children. . . . lowing her retirement from full-time li­ joys her grandchildren. Robert Waugh reminds us all three of brary work. his daughters are Colby grads. . . . Ava Dodge Barton, retired from her Norton Rhoades' hobby is constructing Civil Service position, lives in Belfast. 1929 . . Dorothy Sylvester Carman crossword puzzles for the New York . is exec­ Jean M. Watson utive secretary of the Deer Isle-Ston­ Times and others. He and bis wife 67 Hawthorne Drive North travel extensively and ington Historical Society and has charge have been to Aus­ New London, Conn. 06320 tralia to see a geologist son and his fam­ of its museum. . . . Cornelia Adair Cole ily ....Joe Anderson, retired from traveled in Europe last year. . . . Augie Grace Stone AHeo received her mas­ financial management, is deep in Little Stiegler, still with a Woodsville. N. H., ter's in education before retiring from League, hockey and the like with four bank, is trustee and treasurer of an ex­ teaching in Columbia Falls. She and grandchildren ....Art Whelpley, who pansion fund for a hospital in Haver­ Harold visit Alice (Paul) and Dick Al­ completed his degree at Michigan, plans hill, N. H .... Marion Daye O'Don­ len in Rhode Island on their way to see on reunion as a prelude to visiting the nell plans to retire and maintain her a son in Annandale, Va. . . . Muriel Gaspe. 'I will gladly put on a half-hour home in Simsbury, Conn., where she is Sanborn Armstrong spent last fall in of magic for reunion," he says. It' a English department chairman at the Europe, including six weeks in Italy with full-time thing now that he's retired and Henry James Memorial Junior High. her son, Jim, now an associate profes­ president of the Society of Detroit She'll winter in Florida and spend July sor with Colby's Music Department. Magicians. He was chief of that city's with her daughter ;md grandchildren at Her plans included Florida in April and Henry Ford Hospital Dental Laborator­ Nantucket. . . . It was sad to learn that California in the fall. . . . Everett Bell ies, where activities include facial res­ Cecil Foote suffered a stroke, but enjoys retirement in Rockville, Conn. toration!> and brain surgery. heartening to know he hopes to recover . . . Neal Bousfield planned to retire 19 from the Maine Sea Coast Missionary and of the hospital board, he has two three married daughters and five grand­ Society and settle in Bar Harbor in May. sons. Terry '63 is a branch bank man­ children. Jean is saving the Colby-Bow­ His work will be missed in the coastal ager in Albany, N. Y., and Lyn teaches doin game football presented Al in 1928 communities. . . . Oscar Chute enjoys high school industrial arts in Danbury, for their grandson. . . . The farthest fishing with Mark Shibles in Maine. Conn. . . . Barbara Weston Noyes and point heard from was Tujunga, Calif., Oscar is dean of academic affairs at the her husband moved from New Jersey to (Bea Mullen Campbell). Her husband National College of Education, Evans­ remodel her great grandfather's house will retire in a year. They plan to build ton, Ill. . . . William Daye of New ( 1820) in Madison. She has become a on an island in northern Idaho, and to Smyrna Beach, Fla., a golfer and fisher­ competent electrician, carpenter and visit Maine in June. . . . Margaret man in his retirement, vacations in New excellent gardener. She recommends the Mooers Batch's husband is city mana­ England. . . . Beatrice Palmer Fred­ camper as a great way to see the coun­ ger of Caribou. Filling her time are erick, a retired librarian active in St. try .... Rosalie Mosher Reynolds, who bridge, church work, their camp and Cloud, Fla., community affairs, lost her has a program for brain injured children traveling with her husband. . . . Leroy husband last May. We extend our sym­ in Groton, Conn., visited her daughter Ford, M.D., writes from Keene, N. H., pathy. She saw Nella Bucknam Ham­ in Scotland last fall. . . . John Rich­ that he was sorry to miss reunion be­ ilton and her husband, who spent the ardson, retired, lives at 936 Sea Grape cause of an American Medical Associa­ winter in St. Cloud. . . . Optician Har­ Lane, Vero Beach, Fla. . . . Thalia tion convention. "Hank" was a dele­ old Grand of Brooklyn, N. Y., is presi­ Bates Savage and her husband of Mari­ gate. He sent news of Tom Record dent of the state Optical Retailers As­ etta, Ga., spent their last vacation at (four daughters, all married) and Lin­ sociation. . . . Philip Higgins has re­ their Monson cottage and visiting their wood Crandall in Cumberland Center, ceived an Administrative Management son in Asheville, N. C. . . . Mark Shib­ who has retired after 41 years of teach­ Society award. An accounting super­ les, now at Westfield (Mass.) State Col­ ing. . . . Polly Morin Miller of Spring visor, he does volunteer work at the lege, will return to teach this summer Hill, Fla., returns to Maine in the sum­ Shriners' Hospital in Springfield, Mass. in the University of Maine's Shibles mer. She and her husband have taken . . . Eleanor Butler Hutchins and her Hall. He and Alice vacationed in Or­ cruises to the Caribbean, Mexico and husband spent two weeks in California lando, Fla. . . . William Springer would this year, to the Mediterranean. Edvia this winter. She does volunteer work like friends to call on him in Pittsfield. Campbell visited her last year .... for her church, a hospital and the Maine He has retired as superintendent of Nice to hear from Pauline Smith May­ Children's Home in Waterville .... schools and sold his Orono cabins. . . . hew. Retired from teaching, she has Dick Kronquist and Maria grow deli­ Fred Sterns, a Skowhegan merchant, charge of the garden club arboretum in cious mangoes and avacadoes in their has traveled to Israel. His son, Harvey, Union, N. J., and test-raises roses pro­ yard in Fort Myers, Fla. I recognized with a Ph.D., teaches psychology at the fessionally. She travels with her hus­ Dave, an investment broker, as he was University of Ohio. . . . Irene Hersey band to conventions and on summer about to tee off at the city golf course. Tuttle retired from the Boston Public jaunts to Europe. They plan to visit . . . Gilman Hooper "retired" last De­ Library and is librarian at Andover In­ Greece next year. . . . Helen Chase cember from Deering-Milliken in Spar­ stitute of Business in Portland. She Pardey and her husband are retired but tenburg, S. C., to become director of a does volunteer work and planned to see don't seem to be living the quiet life. new center for handicapped children. Portugal this spring. . . . Frank Twad­ She is busy with church and health cen­ Its two schools serve 200 day students, elle, M.D., of Gardiner has been named ter programs, had a trip to Britain in and two clinics help 90 more each week. a Fellow of the American College of 1970 and last summer, visited the west­ ... Mary Vose McGillicuddy is en­ Surgeons. . . . Charles Cowling is "Mr. ern National Parks .... Wallace Meyer thusiastic about her new teaching job in Fixit" for neighbors in Pascagoula, plans to "trudge the highways looking Houlton. Both her son and daughter Miss. He repairs boats and small appli­ for something to write about," now that were married recently. . . . Chester ances - when he's not fishing. . . . El­ he has retired from business office and Merrow says he is retired but plans to len Hoyt Gillard and her husband visit­ Civil Defense work in Mas achusetts. run for Congress again next fall on the ed England last fall and Arizona in Verna Green Taylor is an assistant in Democratic ticket. The former educa­ February. A Willimantic, Conn., house­ the Thornton Academy library in Saco, tor served New Hampshire's First Dis­ wife, Ellen has run a girls' camp in works with a local children's home and trict from 1943 until 1963 as a Repub­ East Madison, N. H., for 37 years .... enjoys gardening. She saw Evelyn Rol­ lican. Percy Williams is editor of Cape Cod's lins Knapp recently in Kingfield... . Dorothy Morton, a Boston social oldest weekly paper, The Barnstable Pa­ Virginia Christie Sirois loves her part­ worker, is a gardener. Her other hob­ triot. He does volunteer work in Cum­ time work in the New York State li­ bies are bird watching and photography. maquid, Mass. . . . During a recent trip brary system. Grandmother of five with . . . Ernest Miller, who retired in Feb­ to France, the Vinal Goods were joined a host of hobbies, she went to Japan ruary as senior vice president of a New by their daughter, Jeannette, who is last fall via California and Honolulu. Milford, Conn., bank, was honored at studying at the University of Aix. Phil Allen wrote in February that he a reception attended by 500 friends. A was off again to Australia. A regular member of the local finance, building 1930 commuter to that continent as a metal­ and industrial development committees lurgical consultant, he plans to join the Mary Rollins Millett (Mrs. Ellsworth) class for our next reunion. . . . Filling 16 Dalton Street a vacant church on the Fort Berthold Waterville, Maine 0490 1 Indian Reservation in North Dakota G. Cecil Goddard '29 received the I didn't exactly get an avalanche of an­ was an exciting experience for Wm. Waterville Area Chamber of Commerce swers to my plea for news but am most Bertrand Downey. He enjoyed the win­ Distinguished Community Service A ward grateful to those who did respond. My ter view of Rainy Lake on the border at the April annual dinner. The first reply was from Al and Jean Mac­ at International Falls, Minn.... Andy chamber said his unique combination of donald Turner, who .chose to stay on Klusick is in his 35th year in the public business and civic contributions to the in Manchester, Conn., when he retired schools of Dover, N. J. He loves the community led to rhe choice. Last yea1 's in 1968. They enjoy golf about seven challenge and hopes to continue three recipient was Harold C. Marden '2 1, re­ months a year and manage a March more years. . . . Ralph Pape always tired associate justice of the Maine Su­ vacation in the South to get ready for comes through with lots of informa­ preme Judicial Court. the New England season. They have tion: he says he hears from Bernie Shaw,

20 "Chink" Weed and Frank Giuffra as (Macomber) and John ('34) Holden. He was promoted to a full professor­ well as several Phi Delts of other class­ "Breck" had spent the last 32 Christmas ship in 194 7. In addition to his teach­ �. He lives in York Village - ,the en­ holidays with them. The Holdens va­ ing and administrative duties he served trance to Maine - and offers hospital­ cationed in Florida accompanied by as State Geologist from 1941-1955. He ity to classmates passing through. An their daughter, Jane Huerta '60, and a is the author of several scholarly articles engineer and sales manager with North­ grandson. John had treated his grand­ and is a member of many professional en Ut ilities, Inc., since he left Water­ son to his first train ride. Ann didn't and honor associations. ville in 1956, he plans to retire next year. know which one was more thrilled. The Wayne is studying the seed cata­ He and Sunny were in Del Ray Beach, Holdens have adopted a seven-year-old logues. Those of you who are golfers Fla., in February and Paris in March. Mexican boy through the Christian are welcome to try his driving range. . . . "Buck" Weaver, publisher of the Children's Fund. He was named Juan It's 90 yards from the back of the barn Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph for the last in memory of their Johnny, who gave to the juniper bush. The non-golfers 10 years, retired in December after 42 his life in Vietnam. Ann said that they are welcome, too. We are only a half­ years with New England newspapers. would be coming to Maine over Memo­ mile from the South Portland High . . . William Cowing was honored on rial Day. They have a home in South­ School. Don't let our Portland address his retirement as head of the science port where they plan to retire before fool you. That is for Uncle Sam's con­ department at Belmont (M ass.) High too many years. venience. School. . . . Ernie Theberge works with The Lipman Poultry Co. was written Title I federal aid programs in the Law­ up in the Maine Sunday Telegram. Bar­ rence, Mass., schools. . . . Al Palmer, ney Lipman and two brothers have built 1932 chairman of the Colby board, is vice up the largest broiler integrator in Martha Johnston Hayward president for administrative planning for Maine. "Processing 10,000 broilers an (Mrs. Bertrand) New England Telephone and Telegraph hour up to 80,000 per day, this facility 3220 West Schoolhouse Lane Co. commands a premium for quality on Philadelphia, Pa. 19144 To all who answered my pleas, many the New York market. ... At the Lip­ thanks. I was able to make the dead­ man processing plant 200 employees All roads lead to Maine this June. The line in time to get off for a few weeks stand before equipment that seems part 40th reunion means the class of '92 in Florida. I'll have more news next of a James Bond mov ie." . . . Jennie came back when we graduated! Don time. (Dunn) and Don ('28) Millett spent a Christie is coming. Gwen Mardio few weeks at Cocoa Beach, Fla. . . . Haynes will sandwich the journey be­ 1931 The General Neal Dow Mansion on tween trips to Africa and Russia. (She's studying Russian and finds "Cassie" Alice Linscott Roberts (Mrs. Wayne) Congress Street in Portland, state head­ White's class in Greek very helpful.) Box 188-R. R. 2 quarters for the W.C.T.U. and a memo­ Has grandchildren, will travel! . . . John Portland, Maine 04 107 rial, has been restored and dedicated. Vivian Russell directed restoration or Wibby plans to come. His is the best of Barbara Gurney Cassidy wrote a de­ replacement of interior decor and sug­ all possible worlds, retirement: six lightful letter; wish I could give it in full. gested renovations of the house. It is a months in Florida, six in Maine and a After working in accounting for the landmark in Portland and interesting to namesake grandson. . . . Nissie Gross­ Navy for 20 years, she has retired. "I visit. Vivian was in Tavares, Fla., as man, who is coming, sat at the table never would have guessed when I was are Fran Page Taylor and husband, next to Bert '33 and Martha Hayward in school that accounting work was for Earl. Fran says that Disney World is at the Newcomen Dinner in Philadel­ me," she wrote. "I fell into it accident­ well worth the time and price. She is phia; but neither realized it until they ally during World War Two doing vol­ busy making fair articles for her church read the guest list later! He is married unteer work, computing oil rations, etc. groups in Massachusetts and Maine. to Ethel Levenson Emerson '38 and From there I worked in a bank and lat­ They return to York County in May. thereby acquired two married daughters er went to work for the Navy. I found . . . Marion White Thurlow is still busy and three grandchildren. If Bern Por­ accounting to be very interesting and at the Augusta Court House. She seems ter can take time from his numerous loved it. But as everyone will tell you, to be indispensible and has promised publications, he will attend. Harold the Navy is something else." Barbara's to stay on until they can find a replace­ Townes is coming. He was elected husband, Frank, retired in March. ment. (As if they could!) Marion did treasurer of the United Baptist Conven­ They plan to remain in Northbrook, Ill. find time to journey south to visit Vivi­ tion of Maine, and is chief accountant Traveling seems to be the plan: to Flor­ an, Fran, and her son and family in for the Maine Public Utilities Commis­ ida in April to visit Barbara's mother, Fort Lauderdale. . . . Doris Spencer sion. Reunion fits into Dorcas Paul then to Hartford, Conn., and California. Wallis has twin granddaughters. "Do" '34 Frost's plans: she comes to York Beach They enjoy golf and have played on and "Budge" Bevin can now compare for weekends and holidays. many of the country's famous courses. notes about their twins. Budge made a John DeMiceli teaches and heads the . . . Gertrude Sykes Elwell and George flying trip to Maine last fall. She is as mathematics department in the New­ wintered in Bradenton, Fla., sightseeing unpredictable as ever. . . . Richard Wil­ burgh. N. Y., school system, where he every day. . . . PhylJis Fisher Gulliver liamson is retiring after 17 years as has worked for 30 years. He was also had a fascinating trip to Tokyo, Kyo­ principal of Torrinton, Conn., High reelected to his fifth four-year term as to, Taiwan, Bangkok, Manila and Hong­ School. . . . Jo Connors Vickery has town justice in Cornwall, N. Y .... kong .... Eunice Foye Hutchins and retired. She is very proud of her young Barbara Works Dyer came to the Sigma Linwood are moving into a new home grandson. . . . George Sprague has re­ Kappa Alumnae meeting at Martha in Sagamore Village, Mass., (Hill Top tired after 38 years in the publishing Johnston Hayward's house in January Drive just off 6A beyond the Saga­ business, the last 25 with Reader's Di­ with 20 alumnae from all over the more Bridge). She hopes to have visi­ gest in Pleasantville, N. Y. George's ad­ country. They toured the Philadelphia tors. They have been touring the West, dress is Owl's Head, Maine. It's fine to College of Textiles and Science with visiting children and grandchildren. have so many of our class retiring to Bert (president) as guide. After 40 years in Ossining, they were the state. . . . Joseph Trefethen is re­ The class will come to the reunion if being wined and dined by many friends tiring from the faculty of the Univer­ one foot can be placed before another; before their move.... Professor Breck­ sity of Maine in Portland. "Jo" became or if members don't have to be flying enridg has been sadly missed by Ann affiliated with the university in 1938. off to other parts of the country - as 21 your correspondent, who must go to the Houghton and Co. of Philadelphia, Rotary International Convention with which markets a wide line of speciality her husband. He is president of the oils, lubricants and chemicals. Bill and Philadelphia club this year. Georgia have three daughters. Bill, do come as promised to our 40th! Frances Palmer made Homecoming 1933 and the Alumnae Council meeting. Vesta Alden Putnam (Mrs. George) Last summer she was at the University Alden Camps of Copenhagen, Denmark, attending the Oakland, Maine 04963 International Association of Dentistry for Children. She also visited Stock­ The Rev. John Murchie has been serv­ holm, Oslo and Bergen. Last fall Fran­ ing as interim minister at the First Con­ nie attended the American Dental Con­ gregational Church in Stoneham, Mass. vention in Atlantic City. . . . A display John received his divinity degree from of original paintings by Harold Plotkin Andover-Newton Theological Seminary was featured at the new Sack 57 Cine­ and his master's from the University of mas on Stuart Street in Boston. A man New Hampshire. He did additional of many talents, Hal is vice president George Crosby '36, regisrrar at rhe Uni­ graduate work at Harvard. While serv­ for marketing of Sweetheart Plastics, versity of Maine i11 Orono since 1955, ing churches in Maine, he organized the Wilmington, Del., and is author of a was honored with a distinguished service Bangor-Brewer School of Religion and book of poetry, Shore Road to Ogun­ award during mid-rerm commencement was instrumental in forming the first quit. . . . Mary Ellen Hodgdon wrote exercises in January. Long noted for his Maine Council of Churches. For 20 on her Christmas card that she would humor in imparting directions for grad­ years, John was minister of the First take another Caribbean cruise over the uation, Mr. Crosby received a plaque Baptist Church in Woburn, Mass. Since holidays. . . . Sherman Russell sent · a his retirement he has served the North from the class president which noted note that he is on his way to County Congregational Church in Woburn rhat his wit has "cut through the com­ Galway for his third season as joint plexiries and seeming impersonality of and the First Baptist Church in Arling­ master of the Birmingham and North this large institurion ro bring us all ... ton. He is on the Woburn Council for Galway Hounds. He is retired but a grateful awareness of his persona/ and the Aging and is a life trustee of the keeps busy with community involve­ sensitive inrerest in our problems." Be­ Woburn Public Library.. ..Bob Finch ment and horses. . . . The Rev. Martin fore joining the UM staff he held a simi­ and his wife went to Mexico for a Janu­ Storms retired in December as pastor lar post at the medical branch of the ary vacation. . . . Put and I headed for of the Yarmouth Baptist Church. All University of Texas in Galveston. Hawaii for our third successive winter. but one 0f his more than 40 years in One of our daughters, who is an M. D. During a varied career that has taken the ministry have been in Maine - at in Honolulu, is the main reason for our him al/ over the world, Mr. Crosby spent Parkman, Burnham, Houlton, Gardiner frequent trips to the islands. We also a summer with a Bowdoin-MacMillan and Yarmouth. The Storms have four enjoyed a stay in Boulder, Colo., with arctic expedition, studied in Switzerland, children, and are proud of the fact that another daughter and her family, and and as Army and Navy YMCA business all hold master's degrees. In addition stops in California both coming and secretary in the Phi/lippines, was cap­ to the work in his pastorates, Martin going. While on the West Coast, we tured with his family by the Japanese in has been active in the Baptist State Con­ 1942 . His wife and twin sons did not visited Roz Barker who entertained us vention. He plans to continue to be ac­ survive 37 months of captivity. Mr. for lunch at the new International tive in his church. He already has taken Crosby has held a private pilot's license Building at Stanford Research Institute. on the job of building his retirement and has been a leader wirh the Civil Air . . . During March, Kay Holmes Snell, home. We wish him luck . Patrol. who has done so much for the Hallo­ well Library, enjoyed a Florida vacation with her husband. . . . Louise Soiith 1937 Valten has been to Puerto Rico again. Michael G. Ryan . . . Lib Swanton Allan mans the re­ mittees of his county community action 430 S. 20th Street search desk at the North Andover program. He also is writing a series of Omaha, Neb. 68100 (Mass.) Library, and she is chairman of reviews of standard works on book­ the scholarship fund for the community. plates for Bookplates in the News. With this item, my pen goes down in The Putnams visit the Allans as fre­ These reviews are for the benefit of favor of progress - to open up this quently as possible. newcomers to the field. Frank hopes to section to regular and more extensive I hope you all read in the winter issue be in Denmark this summer for the coverage from the correspondent who of this magazine the articles entitled 14th International Conference of Book­ will be elected by all of us. "Generations Marked with His Magic" plate Collectors and Designers. . . . An­ It has been enjoyable as interim cor­ about Professor Chester and "An Abid­ drew Daigle writes that he finally has respondent to recall and write of old ing Faith," an interview with Miss Run­ had enough of cops and robbers and friends during the last half dozen years. nals. They revive poignant memories of Presidential campaigns: he retired from I have warm recollections of the many our undergraduate days! the Secret Service in November. He names, faces and events involving class­ doesn't intend to work except to pro­ mates and Colby worked into the items mote his patented Heister pistol sup­ and stories I once contributed daily to a 1934 porting device. Andy and Marion plan­ string of New England newspapers as Margaret Salmond Matheson ned to go to North Haven early in college correspondent during our four May. Eventually they will make this (Mrs. Donald) great years together on the old campus beautiful island their home. . . . After along the Kennebec. (There were two Lake View Drive 28 years with Union Carbide Corp., China, Maine 04926 each in Lewiston, Portland and Boston; William Millett took early retirement in one in New Bedford, another in Spring­ Frank Allen of Kalamazoo, Mich., is on 1969. Since, he has been employed as field as well as occasional sports assign­ the board of directors and three com- general product manager of E. F. ments for The New York Times. ) This

22 on in English, and working for our mas­ Just Mail the Shirts ! ter's degrees. Next year we hope to Newspaper columnist Bill Clark '36 has moved from Kennebunkport in south­ teach somewhere together at the college ern Maine to Caratunk, nearer Colby. A recent trip to Waterville, with its urban level. We're both the oldest ones in our renewal and new traffic patterns, produced a memorable column for readers classes. We can't imagine a better way familiar with the city and college. Short of money after an overnight stay, he to get in touch with the young people planned to cash a check in Waterville. of today." The Hutchinsons have three "We blithe innocents always discount difficulties.... But in Waterville now children and four grandchildren. Their you have to be a native to find anything. Natives get directions from their souls news reached us too late for the last is­ or something. Waterville traffic problems have been solved so efficiently that sue. Their excuse - exams. No other they confuse the innards out of strangers. All the streets are either one-way or excuses accepted. Please let's hear they flow around in ever-increasing concentric circles until they bung you off from you, too. into an alley that leads to Fairfield Center over a logging road. "l went to college in Waterville. l used to be able to find the stores and the 1941 lunchrooms and the happy little establishments where you could buy a bottle of garbage alcohol which was flavored while you waited and thus turned into Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter (Mrs. Elmer) aged Scotch or Cuban rum or British gin. Now I can't even find the campus. 7 45 Main Street l see it from the superhighway but l can't find the road that leads to it. I tried Newington, Conn. 06 111 to find Ludy-Pacy Levine's store one day to buy some shirts and { kept ending up in Winslow at a lumber yard so I bought some 2 x 4s instead. I'm going to Mary Hitchcock Baxter surely has our write Ludy and Pacy and have them mail the shirts ...." sympathy at the loss of her husband, J. Ande '40. Most 4lers don't look like grand­ parents; but a surprising number, in­ work was rewarding enough to keep one hind their oft-repeated chant of the past cluding the Elmer Baxters, happily ad­ "at it" in a less affluent era. Recompense year about the nonpareil football team : mit it. A few have found the fountain of was based on space. No pay scale was "We're number one ." I felt a parallel youth, coping zestfully with the Cub applied to the hours invested in putting glow of pride as I watched John Roder­ Scouts and Brownies; most indicate together articles and features on our ick verbally etch his incisive television households with large teen-agers.... small college, removed from metropoli­ documentary on China in February. Henry and Jane Russell Abbott spent tan readership to the south; these items Though I wound up Navy service in Christmas in Europe. She presented a might be afforded space when copy was China from late summer of 1945 to paper on the audiotutorial instruction readable and made a connection between early winter, 1946 (returning stateside method as representative of the National a Colby person or event and interest in on the cruiser St. Paul from the Wbang­ Science Teachers Association at the As­ the newspaper's zone. The written prod­ poo River at Shanghai), it was nearly a sociation of Science annual meeting in uct had to make the Boston and Maine decade earlier that I had last heard Stirling, Scotland. Their daughter, Che­ train that pulled out for the station John's favorite greeting, "Hello, Irish." ryl, met them in Amsterdam and shared across from the old campus at about I had stopped by his office for a few Christmas on the Seine and New Year's 10:30 each night for Boston. Sports re­ moments en route west when he was Eve in a pub on the Thames. They have sults were wired. Others who covered with the Associated Pl"ess in Portland. a thing about rivers: they made a Sierra Colby for the daily press included the Club Allagash trip last summer. Now late Jim Ross '36, Pete Mills '34, John that they've been, they think Colby's Roderick '36, Irv Gammon and Dwight 1939 Family Winter Weekend is a must .... Sargent '39, and the late Eddie Seay '38. Judith Quint Schreider (Mrs. Stanley) Lt. Col. Heber Brill (Ret.) rejoices in It was my good fortune during the the quiet life in Camden where be acts 24 Ballard Street war to run into both Irv and Pete : with the civic theater, writes reviews for Newton Center, Mass. 02 159 Gammon at the Yuma (Ariz. ) Air Base the newspaper, gardens, remodels his and Mills among that sprawling Navy Allan Brown of Fairfax, Va., went to house and enjoys the social life while amphibious base and mass of nautical Europe in 1970 and toured Germany managing the hospital. . . . Sidney humanity, Camp Bradford outside Nor­ with a pen pal of 36 years. The cor­ Brick chairs the draft board in Meriden, folk, Va. I served in the Gene Tunney respondence began when Allan was a Conn., where he has practiced dentistry Physical Fitness Program in my year of freshman at Colby. He is a manage­ for 25 years. He and his wife enjoy golf enlisted service. ment analyst with the postal service. He and tennis. They have a son and daugh­ It is appropriate, then, that the last has one daughter (who is married to the ter graduating from law school and col­ specific item of my interim legend vice president of The Johns Hopkins lege, respectively ....Jean Pearson should be the early winter speech to the University), one son (married to a pro­ Burr is in purchasing with the Roches­ Bangor Rotary Club by our world travel­ pulsion engineer with the Navy) and ter, N.Y., schools and likes music and er and interviewer of leaders and states­ three grandchildren. hiking. Her oldest son is a minister in men, Roland Gammon. Now heading Marion (Crawford) and Gilbert Higganum, Conn ... . John and Nat bis own public relations firm, Gammon Hutchinson wrote from State College, (Mooe�s '42) Daggett, with a grandson added more yeast to the campus ferment Pa.: "We decided we would like to ful­ in California and granddaughters in of our years than anyone. As editor­ fill a dream and both try teaching. So, Portland, wonder how 30 years of mar­ in-chief of the Echo, he gave me my as a start, in 1969, Marion went to riage could have passed so quickly. writing assignments during our last year Geneva College, through arrangements John, a regular tennis player, sings and on the staff. His influence with a pro­ with Colby, and earned her diploma is a lay reader with his church .... FDR Echo editorial policy was a sur­ from Colby in 1970 (as of '39). Last Bernard Daniels, who golfs "19 holes prise in a college atmosphere burgeoning June, Gil retired (early) from his job at a time," is active with B'nai B'rith as with Kansas sunflower buttons reading, of 30 years in industry. We sold our Needham lodge president and district "Elect Alf Landon." home, stored our furniture and moved deputy. He is general sales manager As a new Nebraskan in a state mod­ here to State College. We are in the with five New England linen rental erate in population and "life style," I Graduate School of Pennsylvania State firms. . . . Hazel Judkins Daughaday was able to understand the feeling be- University, Gil in engineering and Mari- teaches in a nonprofit school in Kirk-

23 wood, Mo., goes backpacking and "floating" (a regional variety of canoe­ ing) with husband, Bill. They wish there Rev iew were three more hours in each day . . .. Book Fran Decormier's job as staff chemist with IBM in Denver means traveling abroad and "always hitting Istanbul," The Centennial History of Newington where daughter, Karen '66, lives with Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter '4 1 her husband and granddaughter, Jessica. Lucy Robbins Wells Library, Inc., and Fran invites those interested in the '76 Centennial Celebration Commission, 1971 Winter Olympics to look her up.... Norris Dibble finds time for skiing, golf, The number of Colby alumni interested in local and regional history con­ tennis and reunions. . . . Alta Gray tinues to grow. Latest into print with an account of a New England town is Feddeman has a profitable hobby in Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter. Her story of the 100 years' development of New­ Lexington, Va.: smocking peasant blous­ ington, Conn., since its incorporation in 1871, is one of the best of many such es sold from Massachusetts to Florida. town histories. . ..Joe Freme, principal of West It is no small achievement for an outsider to win such acceptance in the Springfield (Mass.) High School, is chair­ ancient settlements along the Connecticut River that she is asked to compile man of the state Junior High Athletic and edit the town history. Though Newington's corporate existence has Commission, and finds time for fun covered only the past l 00 years, it is a very much older community and was with golf and trips to Bermuda.. long a part of the town of Westerfield. lt is an area of New England where Catherine Fussell teaches biology at residents are seldom considered ''nutmeggers" unless they have been there Penn State's McKeesport campus .... since colonial days. So it is a fine tribute that State Sen. Roger Eddy pays to Bonnie _Roberts Hathaway, grandmother Mrs. Baxter in this book's introduction: "In taking on this job of preserving and kindergarten teacher, flew with her our past and our present within the covers of a book, Elizabeth Baxter de­ husband and son in the family plane to serves the gratitude of everyone in town." Georgia and back to Fitchburg, Mass., Even harder than to write by oneself all of a local history is the task of last summer. . . . Paul Kierstead of making unified sense out of the contributions of many collaborators. Valuable Springvale is president of Maine's Unit­ chapters of this book were contributed by others, and Mrs. Baxter gratefully ed Baptist Convention. . . . Allen acknowledges their devoted labors; but it is Betty herself who has given the Knight, North Branford, Conn., designs book its distinct flavor. Not only has she carefully edited and strung together temperature control systems for Hon­ those contributions, but she has herself written the chapters that tell the chron­ eywell, and has built a 26-foot Seabird ological story of this town. To those chapters she gives the intriguing titles "In yawl which the family enjoys on Long Their Majesties Colonie, 1671-1771;" "Community of Concern, 1771-1871;" Island Sound. . . . Mort Lenk moved and "Growth and Progress, 1871-1971." to China near Colby where son, David Besides the usual sections on churches, schools, industries, railroads, organ­ will be a sophomore next fall. ...Hiram izations and government, there is a very informative chapter on the town's Macintosh in Philadelphia shares out­ architecture, another on the postal service and one on "Worldwide Shortwave." door sports with his teenage daughter. In the mid 19th century, when many of our Maine town histories came from . . . Marjorie Smith MacLeod says her the press (such books as Sibley's Union, Eaton's Warren and Allen's Norridge­ six offspring are spread from Maine to wock ), their pages were enlivened by local myths and legends. That is a phase Guam with the four grandchildren. She of history too often neglected in more recent works. Especially delightful, teaches corrective reading in East Mil­ therefore, is Mrs. Baxter's chapter on "Legends and Stories." Like several linocket. . . . Beatrice Kennedy Mal­ Maine towns, Newington had its own peculiar ghost; the town housed a woman tais, with a new granddaughter, teaches convicted in England of perjury; it was a station on the underground railroad Latin and French at Winslow High in slavery days; and it had its own counterpart of Arsenic and Old Lace. School and enjoys the hockey games her No local history is worth printing unless it has pictures and maps. Mrs. husband referees. . . . Prudence Piper Baxter's has both in abundance. TheY. include an airplane view of the village, Marriner is on the hot line at the Coun­ a house built before 1700, a horse and buggy doctor, a street car of 1896, a ty Suicide Prevention Center in Lafay­ rural mail carrier's horse-drawn rig and its replacement by a two-cylinder ette, Calif. She and Ernie enjoy ex­ ploring the state. . . . Virginia Mosher, Buick. The picture of an attic smokehole for curing meats is so vivid the· reader can almost smell it. president of a bowling association in Spartansburg, N .C., vacations in Maine Betty Baxter comes naturally by her interest in local history. Her mother, winter and summer. . . . Linwood Pot­ Mrs. Phyllis (Sturdivant) Sweetser '19, is herself at work on a history of the ter retired as an Army chaplain and has Maine town of Cumberland. Both mother and daughter know how to write, a church in Center Ossippee, N.H. He is and we like to think that both developed that talent at Colby. As an example enthusiastic about camping, mountain of Betty's style, note the closing words of her History of Newington : "On a climbing, cameras and Boy Scouting. summer day in 1971 anyone can see the early morning sun slant across the top . . . Virginia Ryan is a state welfare of Cedar Mountain and hear traffic humming along the pavement with swish case supervisor in Hartford, Conn .... of tires. A dog tethered by the back door barks at children on bicycles; Robert Talbot runs his own book store builders' hammer beat a cadence; a power saw whines as it removes a dead in Halifax, N.S., and competes in car elm. Lawnmowers growl and swimming pools resound with laughter. At dusk rallies for fun. . . . Mary Robinson there is the quack and flash of ducks settling on brooks and ponds. And under­ Taylor reports that her oldest son has neath it all is the throb of traffic, the sounds of distant machinery making two fine sons, and that she and Bill en­ bearings, making something; and at last, the tick of a clock in a quiet house." joy having a grownup daughter. It's a challenge keeping up with Bill and her Ernest C. Marriner '13 sports-minded younger son. . . . Lubov College Historian Leonovitch Waltz has two grandsons, teaches piano and is a church organist in Basking Ridge, N. J. She and May-

24 student at the University of Vermont; a daughter enters the University of New Hampshire in the fall . . . . Bill Frazier of Orlando, Fla., is an assistant mana­ ger of A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., stock brokers. He welcomes classmates to call him if they are visiting the new Disney World. Betty Wood Reed and husband, Ron­ nie, are confirmed Vermonters (Mont­ pelier). Betty is a part-time medical as­ sistant to an internist. They have wed­ dings in the offing: their three children have completed or are in the last stages of their education. . . . Ralph Braudy retired from the retail clothing busi­ ness and is living on the Cape in Hyan­ nis. He is still a bachelor. . . . Polly Johnson & Johnson has named Frank Maine Go1'. Kenneth M. Curtis has Seekins Blair lives in Farmington, Strup Jr. '44 marketing controller for its named Theodore Shiro '51 to the Maine N. H., where she and husband, Bill, are surgical specialty division. Promoted Recreation Authority. Mr. Shiro, whose renovating an old farmhouse. Their from financial projects director of the in­ family operates the Jefferson, owns a three children are in high school, col­ formation and control division, Mr. chain of fast food restaurants in Maine lege and graduate school. . . . Hal Jo­ Strup joined the firm in 1953 as a cost and lives in Augusta. The Recreation seph owns and operates a clothing and accountant. He and his wife, Janet, live Authority is responsible for guaranteed sporting goods store in Fairfield. ... with their son and daughter in Law­ Ivans to recreation areas and other proj­ Mildred Steenland Ellison expects to renceville, N. ects in Maine. ]. move from Waverley, Pa., to New Jer­ sey this summer. Mildred substitutes as a high school English teacher. . . . Phil Nutting wonders if classmates in nard '38 recently made a trip to Europe. the Boston area would be interested in of the Newton (Mass.) Savings Bank. ...Bob Wheelock, in Minneapolis, has an evening get-together. They can con­ He is a resident of Weston and is also a grandson. . . . Alta Estabrook Yelle tact him at his business (1 127 Statler vice president of the bank. . . . Joseph describes her seven-year-old daughter as Building, Boston). He heads bis own Bubar is pastor of Calvary Church, a delight. She manages community advertising sales firm. Phil has a sum­ Muskego, Wis. Joseph served for 15 projects and part-time work at the mer home in Hartland. . . . Richard years as executive director of the Chris­ Wheaton College library in Norton, Jones has been elected mortgage officer tian Service Brigade, a National Chris­ Mass. tian youth movement serving Evangel­ ical churches throughout the U. S. and Canada. In 1970, he was named Gor­ 1944 The C. F. Hathaway Co. annual sales don Divinity School alumnus of the year. Louise Callahan Johnson (Mrs. Robert) meeting at Waterville headquarters can 168 Mt. Vernon Road East give the appearance of a Colby reunion. Weymouth, Mass. 02189 Among a number of graduates employed 1946 by the clothing manufacturer across the Shirley Martin Dudley (Mrs. Charles) Marine Col. Frederick Wood of Quan­ country are nine executives who attended 1003 Windsor Avenue tico, Va., will soon complete 30 years the conference in February to review Windsor, Conn. 06095 of service and plans to live in the mid­ new designs and plan sales programs. Atlantic states with his wife and six­ Coordinator and presiding officer was So sorry to hear Betty Scalise Kilham's year-old son. . . . Dr. James Springer is Arthur G. Eustis '52, vice president and news: her dear husband, Bob, died last teaching at Tufts Dental School and director of sales. Eustis lives in Larch­ September in diabetic coma. He had Forsyth Dental Center. His private mont, N. Y. His mother's Mayflower lived with the disease for 27 years. We practice of oral surgery is in Boston. Hill residence is "home" during his extend our sympathy to Betty and hope Jimmy spent one month in Israel last Waterville sojourns, and his family sum­ for better days to come. She is director summer and hopes for peace in the near mers at Great Pond. Other Waterville of community service for Shopper's future. He asks, "Remember the Colby natives heading key operations are Rob­ World in Framingham, Mass., planning White Mule Orchestra?" . . . Alden ert Joly '50 , vice president and director promotions and advertising and doing Wagner, his wife and three children of merchandising, and Alton Laliberte radio shows. Son, Chris, a sophomore welcome classmates to visit them in Dal­ '42, vice president in charge of manufac­ at the University of Massachusetts, is in las. He is in investments, building turing. the honors program. . . . Emily Hol­ houses, shopping centers, apartments, Among top personnel at the sales brook Pelissier and husband, Bruce, live motels and land development. . . . War­ meeting were Kenneth Castonguay '53, with their two sons in Whitman, Mass. ren McDougal of Weston, Conn., writes vice president in charge of sales in the Em has taught school for 18 years and "No news is good news." His daugh­ Los Angeles region; Frank Piacentini has nearly enough credit for her M.A. ter, Marilyn, will graduate from Colby '53 of Atlanta, regional manager for the . . . Gerry Fliege Edwards and Bob live this year. . . . Dr. Arnold Grossman southwest and southeast; Dale Jewell on Mercer Island, Wash. Their daugh­ received a fellowship award from the '65, a vice president merchandising under ter is an airline stewardess and their Academy of General Dentistry last Oc­ Joly; and area sales representatives Or­ son a water safety instructor. They've tober. His son has applied to Colby. monde Brown '51 (Cle1•eland), Howard lived for two years each in Spain and . . . Evelyn Gates Moriarty writes that Clarke '58 (St. Louis) and John Vollmer Hawaii and last summer bad a junket husband, Jim, travels to Europe as well '60 (San Francisco). Joly, Laliberte and to Tahiti. Their 34-foot cruiser fills as in t 1e U. S. Their son is a medical Jewell live in the Waterville area. much of their leisure time. Gerry asks:

25 "Doesn't anyone ever come to the great Pacific Northwest? Be sure to let us Come Dressed for Dirty" know!" . . . Phil Boyne, M.D., has a "Let's have some fun learning about something [ecology] we all should darned heavy research and teaching schedule at well know about." That's Professor Thomas Easton's idea of what should hap­ U.C.L.A., where he is professor of oral pen at Colby's first Alumni College July 26-28, which will be devoted to en­ surgery at the School of Dentistry. Phil vironmental studies. (Note the registration card opposite.) retired from the Navy in 1948. His son Professors Easton and William Gilbert, who will head the faculty for the is a University of Maine graduate; his program, want to work with small groups for maximum education and enjoy­ daughter is a senior at the University of ment; so enrollment is limited to 80, including children six to 12.. The faculty Maryland. . . . Virginia Blair Sensi· must know the number and ages by June I to complete the planning; the Alumni baugh lives in Stanfield, Ariz., with hus­ Office needs your address to forward additional information. If there are band, Jim, and their two high school enough children, a parallel program will be geared to them. aged daughters. Ginny, an elementary The only cost is room and board-$45 for adults and $30 for those under school teacher with an M.A. received 12. A $5 registration fee is refundable prior to July 1. last summer, is president of the women's The program will consist of extensive outdoor study combined with recrea­ club and active with a Pan-Hellenic tion. The faculty also will make use of on-campus teaching facilities. The group. . . . Connie Choate Trahan has field trip itinerary includes the Perkins Arboretum and other areas of the cam­ four children in college, two in high pus; the Adult Recreation Center on Great Pond, where there will be boating school and two more in elementary and an outdoor lobster bake; and the Colby-Marston Preserve, a 21-acre kettle­ school. That means Girl Scouts and hole bog rich in vegetation and post-glacial deposits. PT A as well as church activities. Most "Come dressed for dirty," is Easton's admonition. "That means boots as important, she has kept her cheery na­ well as old clothes. Be ready to get some mud on them and maybe pretty wet." ture and sense of humor. Her husband, Knowing about wetlands is essential to understanding natural succession. "We Bob, is a biochemist with the Army. want this to be a real learning experience as well as fun-not just a series of . . . Ruth Lewin Emerson and her hus­ nature walks," Gilbert stressed. Participants will be equipped with pollution band, Joe, Jive in Augusta where Ruthie detection kits capable of measuring it. The material will be described in terms is a high school English teacher. They that are easy to understand. keep busy with golf, bridge, camping, Representatives of the Maine Environmental Education Project will be on friends and family. A son and daugh­ hand for the opening and closing sessions to talk about env)ronmental educa­ ter are at the University of Maine and tion in local schools and how it can be implemented. their oldest son has a degree from U.M. The faculty has worked out a tentative schedule. First day: morning on Nancy Loveland Denner '47 and her campus-films and discussions on what is "natural," where we find it and Vinnie run two large gift shops near what good it does; afternoon--observation of natural areas at the pond and Hewitt, N. J. They have three children preserve, and dinner at the recreation center. Second day: morning discussions - in elementary school, high school and descriptions of areas on Mayflower Hill; afternoon field trips on campus. and college. . . . Thelma Giberson Third day: seminars all day; films and discussions on what constitutes pollu­ Moore '45 and family have enjoyed tion, how it hurts and what we can do to help. Denver these past 20 years. She is a To plan, the faculty needs to know how many of you will there be and high school librarian. Thelma and Bob of what ages. Check the boxes on the tear-out card and register early. have two daughters, one at the Univer­ sity of New Mexico and another in high school. They have traveled a great deal.

farm with a 150-year-old house. . . . freshman at Colby in the fall.. . . Ed 1948 Howell Clement left California in Au­ Schlick is doing interesting things as Janet Gay Hawkins (Mrs. Herman) gust and settled in Wayne, N. J. He is president of New England Leaming and 22 Heights Road manager of the eastern regional ware­ Research, a subsidiary of ARCO, multi­ Plandome, N. Y. I 1030 house for General Electric tube depart­ media service. Last spring they com­ ment products. pleted a 45-minute color film, "Dawn­ We seem to be in the doldrums. I have ing America," on the history of Maine. very little to report. (Where, oh, where, It is being distributed widely in Maine are all of you?) 1949 and is available to groups outside the Marianne Schoeffel Nelson writes state. The firm is making other educa­ Jean Sheppard Silva (Mrs. Bernard) that she is back in Washington, D. C .. tional films and doing research. Sounds 33 Marla Lane for about the 10th time in her life. Her great, Ed. . . . Thanks to Ann Jen· Reading, Mass. 0 J 867 husband is working for the Navy De­ nings Taussig for a long, newsy letter. partment and Marianne is deeply in­ So good to hear from some of you! Jenx and John spend a lot of time trav­ volved with the National League of Perhaps you didn't know that Nellie eling to their three sons' football and Families of American Prisoners and MacDougal Parks was married at Col­ hockey games. Last summer they all Missing in Southeast Asia. . . . Natalie by in May of J 969. She and her hus­ visited Marty Bennett Headly at the Pretat Arnold checked in from the Ca­ band, Warren, Jive north of Philadel­ Headly summer resort and development nal Zone where she has been living for phia but head for Maine whenever they in Barnstead, N. H. three years. Nat and her husband, an can. Nellie is enjoying "no school" af­ At reunion last summer were Mari· Air Force officer, were based in France, ter 16 years at Gould Academy in Beth­ am Dickinson Hammond, and Jack and Germany, many parts of the U. S., and el. . . . Sid McKeen was reelected sec­ Frau Benner Kimpel. Mim and her in Panama during the coup. A favor;te retary of the New England Society of husband Jive in a beautiful spot on Bal­ pastime of the Arnold family (four Newspaper Editors last fall. In addi­ boa Island, Calif. . . . Jim Wing was children included) is exploring and lead­ tion to his newspaper editing and col­ promoted last summer to director of ing groups on trips into the jungle .. umn writing ("Wry & Ginger"), he is bleached board and converting research On the move is Avis Yatto Godbout. director of the Worcester Youth Guid­ and development for Continental Can She and her family have left Hartsdale, ance Center and a library trustee in Co. in Augusta, Ga. He is on the Augus­ N. Y., for Skaneateles, N. Y., and a West Boylston. Son, Jeff, will be a ta-Richmond County Human Relations 26 Commission and fighting for equal Eye Foundation. Al and Joan (Martin) schooling for all. Stay on your soapbox, and family live in Wayland, Mass. Jim! Marge Plaisted is in her 20th year An extra piece of news came from in the Ellsworth school system teaching the latest reunion survey. Joseph Den­ physical education in the fifth through is and his wife, Katie, who live in Skow­ 11th grades. She is on two committees hegan, are going to be operating the of the Maine Association for Health, theater at Lakewood now .... Donald Physical Education and Recreation. . . . Livingstone '5 1 has been appointed sen­ Al Schwartz has earned his living as an ior vice president and loan officer of the author for the past nine years. He Lexington (Mass.) Federal Savings and writes mostly of school sciences and art Loan Association. The announcement for young people. He has been working was made by Donald Keay, president. lately in folklore. We have your book Don Livingstone lives with his wife and on public opinion in our library at Read­ five children in Cohasset, Mass. ing High School, Al. It's excellent! Al Latest information about our reunion! says that to divert attention from a re­ The banquet will be on June I 0 at the ceding hairline, he now wears a beard Fenway-Maine. President Tim Terry a problem and an appendage he didn't received responses from 72 alumni. have in Colby days! Forty indicated they will attend, along Connecticut General Life lnsura11ce Co. More letters for the next issue, please. with 27 spouses, for a total of 67. has appoi111ed Robert Hale '55 assistant secretary in the reinsurance department, which he joined in 1960. Mr. Hale, a sen­ 1952 1953 ior underwriter since 1966, lives in Windsor with his wife and three chil­ Norma Bergquist Garnett (Mrs. Norval) Loretta Thompson Staples (Mrs. Robert) dre11. 39 Bear Hill Road 138 Glenside Road Cumberland, R. I. 02864 Murray Hill, N. J. 07974

Richard Baldwin, bis wife, Barbara, Dana Anderson, western manager of ces department of Northwestern Con­ and their two children moved from Skiing magazine, planned to cover the necticut Community College and is in North Andover, Mass., to Portland this Winter Olympics in Sapporo. . . . Phil the National Guard. He is a Ph.D. can­ winter following his appointment as Hussey was elected to the Berwick didate in Chinese history at New York assistant to the president of the Federal Academy board of trustees. . . . Bob University . . .. Gail Pendleton Schultz Loan and Building Association. Dick Dow, a consultant in education and writes from Portland, Ore., that she is was vice president of supervision for training at Jefferson Community Men­ a first grade room mother ("the only the Federal Home Loan Bank of Bos­ tal Health Center in Philadelphia, has one in the country eligible for Medi­ ton. . . . Peter and "Chris" (Elin Chris­ published his first book, Leaming care"). She is interested in many politi­ tenson) Honsberger also moved their Through Encounter .... Barbette Black­ cal and environmental activities and af­ family in the opposite direction - Pjtts­ ington Pacbt is taking a leave of ab­ ter 15 years, has become a confirmed ford, Vt., to Decatur, Ala. Anyone sence from the sociology department at Northwesterner. . . . Marty Friedlaen­ want to buy some skis? . . . Dr. Alton American University to serve for a year der is administrator of the mental Lamont was elected by his alumni asso­ as director of the new International In­ health service of the Health Insurance ciation at the Massachusetts College of stitute of Women's Studies in Washing­ Plan of Greater New York and makes Optometry as its representative on the ton. . . . Dave Harvey has received a annual pilgrimages to Europe. She sees board of trustees. He is also chairman Ph.D. from the University of Connec­ Bob Grindle and Jeannette Mill Bren­ of the Commandary Knights Templar ticut. His dissertation was entitled, The Validity of Holland's Vocatio11al Pref­ nan, and saw Paul White at an Ameri­ ere11ce for Adult Women. He is counse­ can Public Health Association confer­ lor and assistant to the director of con­ enee. Paul was moderator and Marty, tinuing education for women at the uni­ in the back of the room! . . . Ruth Stanley Holmes completed her degree versity. . . . Mary Devan writes that she is a supervising teacher of the middle work at the University of Maine in school at Clarke School for the Deaf. Farmington and has done graduate work at New York State University. . . . Art Tiernan has been appointed assistant district attorney of Norfolk She is teaching biology in Salem (Maine). . . . Dick Tyler, a field mana­ (Mass.) County. . . . Barbara Johnson Moodey writes of her volunteer involve­ ger with 3M in Wayne, Pa., hopes to return to the West and its great powder ment in the Mothers' Milk Bank in skiing. Wilmington, Del., one of two in the Great to hear from so many. A long country. This milk is collected, pro­ news letter will follow to bring you up cessed, freeze-dried and flown anywhere to date. Plan to go to reunion! in the country. Some babies need it be­ cause of severe medical complications. . . . Phyllis Whitcomb Laurin is living 1955 in North Muskegon, Mich., and rarely sees Colby people. Are there any in Ann Burham Deering (Mrs. J obn) Alfred C. Clapp Jr. '56 has been ap­ the area? 27 Hedgrow Drive poi11ted treasurer of Bartell Media Corp. Falmouth, Maine 04106 Gordon Marquis of Hopkinton, Mass. The firm publishes books and magazines, and operates radio stations and cable is trying to find Alden Sprague's ad­ Barbara Kearns Horinchi is executive television. A former financial analyst dress. Can anyone help? Gordon is a secretary to the vice president for stu­ for Schieffelin & Co. and IBM, he Iii-es systems analyst with the New England dent affairs at Vassar College. She also with his wife and two sons in Chappa­ Electric System. . . . John Lee is chair­ sings in the community chorus . .., Bet­ qua, N. Y. man of the social and behavioral scien- ty Harris Smith, who plays a lot of ten- 27 and brush recreation is more relaxing and less conducive to swearing. . . . Bob Hesse continues with Proctor and Gam­ ble although he has earned his master's in education (guidance). . . . Since her marriage, Margot Barrett McLellao has retired from Time, Inc., and after l 0 years in New York City, lives in Ka­ tonah, N. Y. . . . In Oakland, Calif., Jane Gibbons Huang is chairman of the education committee of the League of Women Voters and serves the public schools on the master plan committee. She is a member of the steering com­ mittee of the desegregation task force and the task force on school building earthquake safety. Jane teaches as a volunteer two mornings a week in a school for children who don't speak fluent English. . . . Frank Cowperth­ waite is assigned to the American Em­ bassy in Rome as assistant Naval at­ tache. This year the family will visit Northern Europe, England and the south of Ireland. . . . Sally Howes Hansen is a personnel representative at MIT and is involved with the upgrad­ ing and promotions of women at the institute. . . . Joan Muir Hocking re­ The Waterville Jaycees' Outstanding Young Man of the Year is Irving Tolette '59 ceived a Ph.D. last June from the Uni­ (center), with his wife, the former Joan Crowell '60. Jaycees President Leonard Dow versity of Rochester. She is doing some made the presentation during a banquet in January. "Skip," manager of salaried per­ part-time teaching at Kent State in sonnel administration for the Keyes Fibre Co., has been promoted to new duties in Ohio while her husband is finishing his New Jersey. studies there. Flint Moger was promoted to chair­ man of the business department at Ken­ nis, welcomed a new son, Craig, born board of trustees of Ricker College for nedy High School in Bellmore, N. Y., in December. . . . Professor Dave a second three-year term. She is board last fall. He attends three accounting Ward, again on sabbatical to continue secretary and chairman of the student and computer classes a week for credit his study of penal institutions, has been life committee. She had a two-year beyond his master's. Helen is secretary in Stockholm and Copenhagen during term as president of the Houlton branch of a national campers and hikers group the past year. He has a Fulbright Fel­ of the A.A.U.W. . . . Barbara Restall and the Mogers hope to attend the na­ lowship. . . . Betsy Burns Bomaoo va­ Horne takes advantage of the trips that tional rally in Indiana, then travel cationed recently with her husband and she and her husband, Bob, can take. through Michigan, upper Canada and two children in St. Lucia and Dominica. He is assistant vice president and zone on to Maine. . . . Pam Jones Christie They liked the water so much they manager for Hertz Truck Rental in the and Paul '56 were back at Colby last bought a summer cottage in New Har­ Southwest. Sistie says their last trip to June for reunion and to show their chil­ bor. That water is not the same, Betsy. Tahiti and French Polynesia was the dren the advantages of a small New . . . Joan Chandler Harvey's husband, "most" ever. She was president of Tri England college. Pam continues as a Dave '53, has earned his doctorate in Delt Alumnae, Whittier, Calif., chap­ teacher of deaf children. . . . Helen education. . . . Ano Dillingham In­ ter. . . . George Dinnerman and fam­ Payson Seager is trying to improve the graham is the editorial assistant on the ily live in Atlanta, Ga. He is vice presi­ Pittsburgh Board of Education, pro­ weekly Piscataquis Observer. She will dent of sales and marketing for Scrip­ mote repeal of Pennsylvania's restric­ challenge anyone passing through Dov­ to, Inc. He invites all alumni in that tive abortion law and enhance the po­ er-Foxcroft to a tennis match. Watch area to drop by and enjoy some "good sition of women in the Episcopal Dio­ out, Dilly! . . . Sylvia Jennison Dulany ol' southern hospitality." cese. For these causes, in part, Helen is going to school along with her four Love hearing from you all, and hope has appeared on local television. Her children .... I have deciphered all the married names husband will be on sabbatical next year. Berry Wellersdieck Piper is still in properly. Please type from now on, or From next November on, the family California. She is a public school vol­ dictate to your children who are prac­ will be living at their home on Nantuck­ unteer tutor, assists in the kindergarten ticing cursive writing. et Island. . . . Joe Consolioo is the and teaches Sunday school. Berry and new general manager at Little, Brown family have really been bitten by the and Co. He is responsible for all activ­ tennis hug. . . . John Reisman is the 1958 ities in the adult and children's publish­ buyer of the four men's departments Lynne D'Amico McKee (Mrs. Robert) ing divisions. . . . Ed Larschan earned at the Lazarus Co. of Columbus, Ohio. 30 Grafton Drive his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1961, He also coached a football team and Morris Plains, N. J. 07950 served three years a·s an Army psychol­ was chairman of the Franklin Unitar­ Ann Harding Jamison and Jim '56 are ogist and since 1966 has been practicing ian Fellowship. . . . Margaret Gr:mt assigned to Honolulu, which is "spoiling clinical psychology in New York City. Ludwig manages capably with a hus­ our blood for any other climate." Ann . . . Doug Hatfield has been appointed band, three children and a Christmas launched a counterattack on the golf associate justice of Hillsborough (N. H.) tree farm. She was reelected to the widow routine but has decided canvas District Court.

28 1959 cal Mates barbershop quartet and has a 32-foot fiberglass sloop. They invite Barbara Hunter Palotta (Mrs. John) anyone down their way to drop by .... 4828 Westfield Drive Carolyn and Ted '6 1 Lockhart moved to Manlius, N. Y. 13104 Annapolis, Md., shortly after the birth Congratulations to Bill Foehl, recently of a daughter. Ted has a new assign­ appointed a vice president of the Rich­ ment with the Commandant of the Na­ ard L. Abedon Co., an employee bene­ val �cademy. . . . Steve Schiller, who fits consulting firm. Bill is a member marned Jo Anne Jolicour last December of the Massachusetts Drug Advisory in Chicago, is a lawyer and teaches Committee, a director of the Boston criminal law at the University of Illinois. Children Theatre and on the faculty of Jo Anne is working on two master's de­ the summer Maine Estate Planning and grees business administration at Northwestern and education nights at Tax Institute at Colby .... Also in line Loyola. . . . Dick Walton teaches five for congratulations is Keet Arnett, new courses for library technician assistants vice president and director of Minute at Norwalk (Conn.) Community College. Man Data Services, Inc., of Concord He prefers it to life in the city .... Mass. He was one of the founders of � Leon Holmes '60 has bee11 11amed an Ron Gerber is vice president and part firm (1969) recently sold to Minute Man. officer of the Federal Reserve Ba11k i11 ow�er of a real estate firm in San Diego, ... Paul LaVerdiere has been appointed New York City and assigned to manage Calif., which is building a 140-unit con­ general manager of LaVerdiere's Super the collection a11d cash custody depart­ dominium. "We've designed it to blend Drug Stores (20) in Central Maine .... me11ts. He joi11ed the bank after gradua­ in with the natural environment rather Sue Whittlesley Thorne is North Shore tion as an admi11istratil·e trainee and was than destroy it." . . . . Todd Marchant area chairman of Boston's Channel 2 chief of a divisio11 of the collecth•e de­ has been promoted to full vice president auction. She's in charge of soliciting do­ partment. Mr. Holmes lives i11 Somer­ o Valley Bank and Trust. Working nations of services and products for the � set, N. J., with his wife a11d five childre11. with the Jaycees and the Small Business television affair. . . . Fred Panciera has Administration, he established a school been promoted to assistant secretary in for small businessmen, especially those the casualty-property division of Trav­ from minority groups. He and Marilyn eler's Insurance Co.... John Johnson, vacationed in Florida last year and plan a teacher in Boston, has been appointed each of you who took time to fill us in. to go to Colorado this year. If they get director of the Brockton Housing Au­ Sherry (Gardner) and Leo Beaulieu are living in Merced, Calif. He is sta­ to Denver they could see Corky and thority. . . . Julia Spear Payne lives in Kathy Fitzpatrick. Corky is teaching at Camden. Her husband is associate min­ tioned at Castle Air Force Base in the the Community College of Denver and ister of the First Congregational Church examining branch of a tactical wing and despite flying and his regular work, has working on a Ph.D. in comparative his­ there... . Rick Seavey has moved with tory .... Dick Peterson is a director of his wife and three sons to Williston nearly completed a master's degree in Franklin Management, one of the na­ Vt. He is an account executive with business. Sherry is substitute teaching, � . tion's oldest investment counseling firms. Burlington insurance agency. takmg care of their three sons and hopes Charles Leighton has a new job as A few items were gleaned from to have a permanent teaching job in the fall. . . . Rosemary Athearn Smith is senior director of regulatory affairs for Christmas cards. Bob and Mary Twiss much involved with her children Karen a research concern. He's working with Kopchains have adopted three-year-old (2) and Stephen (3\li). She and her hus­ such agencies as the Food and Drug Ad­ Tommy, who joins Nancy and Bobby. ministration on regulation of new drugs. They had to evacuate their home tem­ band vacationed in the Caribbean last spring and hope to get to Maine this Charlie, who has a new son, has been porarily during the California earth­ year. In the fall she'll participate in a interviewing prospective Colby students. quake. . . . Sally Phelan Mcintosh tells cooperative nursery school and musical ...Leon Nelson is a special assistant in me that Jim is writing a book on devi­ activities.... Janet Grout Williams gets banking and public affairs for the Fed­ ant behavior for publ ication next year. to travel in connection with Jim's work eral Reserve Bank in Boston. He is ac­ They often visit Al '58 and Kay German as assistant professor of biology at the tive with the N.A.A.C.P. and in several Dean. . . .Al and Nancy Thompson State University of New York (Buffalo): community action programs. . ..Judy Fearing hope to move back to New Woods Hole, Mass., last summer to Miller Heekin is involved in glass re­ England from Alaska this summer. ... study the herring gull and radio · tele­ cycling, fund raising for the March of Robbi '56 and Mike Riordan find their metry; Wallops Island, Ya., in the fall Dimes and working with elementary four-year-old twins keep them busy. to study bird migration with tracking ra­ school children on reading in Ann Ar­ They saw Dick and Sue Moulton Russ­ dar; and to Maryland and Michigan to bor, Mich. Her other activities include ell at a New York Jets football game. give talks. Their two sons go along .... planned parenthood, a vasectomy clinic . . . Dottie (Reynolds) and Bill Gay have Tony '57 and Bev Jackson Glockler, and referendum initiative for a change three lovely children with blond, curly who live near Princeton, N. J., report in the state's abortion laws .... Don '6 1 hair. they had a great camping trip last sum­ and Linda Levinson Clark were plan­ We had rather a mild winter in up­ mer in Colorado, Wyoming and South ning to set off on an around-the-world state New York but with enough snow Dakota with their two girls. Tony is jaunt which includes Hong Kong and a to keep busy with outdoor activities. still with Educational Testing Service visit to his parents in Yugoslavia. Linda, Please send along the latest news. working primarily with law school ad­ Don and their daughter have lived in missions. Bev is treasurer instead of seven states in l 0-plus years, which must 1960 president of the nursery school board be some kind of record. Don is with the and has a little more time for her sew­ Department of Labor in Washington. Katherine White Keffer (Mrs. John) ing and gardening. . . . Courtney and . . . Gail Carter Ferguson and family 237 Wyckoff Street Margy (Chamberlain '6 1) Davis have an live in 'Nancy, France, and have logged Brooklyn, N. Y. 11217 infant daughter and are building a new l 0,000 miles of travel since they moved There : plenty of variety in the interests house. He's a guidance counselor in last summer. They'll start back home in and doing of our class. Many thanks to Danielson, Conn., sings with the Musi- May, perhaps to settle down for a spell.

29 ... Don Freedman called to fill me in A frequent v1s1tor to the Folgers lins College in Virginia is Janet MaccoU on some news. It was good to have the (Scotty MacLeod) in Orono is Bill Bry­ Krakauer, an instructor in biology .... personal contact with Don, who lives in an '48. Scotty is reading supervisor for Cy Ludwig of Veazie is musical director Freehold, N. J. He has bought an old the junior and senior high schools .... of the Society for the Preservation and chicken farm and remodeled it for a John Hooper is general manager of Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet home and stable for six horses. Don Spectator Newspapers (suburban week­ Singing in America. . . . Teaching social and his wife train horses and Rhodesian lies in Columbus, Ohio). John and Jill studies in Groton (Mass.) High School Ridgebacks, dogs used originally to hunt (Williams) Hooper have four children. is Constance Miller Manter. Connie's lions. He still plays with the Manhattan . . . John Kelly is with the Portland master's thesis on African studies was Rugby Club and has started on his law firm of Bennett & Schwarz. ... published in 1967 following her stud:es master's in guidance counseling. Ted Lockhart is 30th Company Officer at the Maxwell School of Citizenship We compared notes on renovation. at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapo­ and Public Affairs at Syracuse Univer­ I'm still doing over our brownstone we lis, a job he describes as "sort of den sity. She has taught in both junior and bought when we moved here in June. mother to 120 middies." . ..Norm senior high schools, and chaired a com­ Before John started work with the First Macartney is teaching algebra, science mittee which drew up an interdisciplin­ National City Bank we took a long vaca­ and seventh grade math at Rippowam ary social studies curriculum for an tion, which included a return to our School in Bedford, N.Y. . ..Patsy eight-town region in New Hampshire. Peace Corps site in Panama. We had a Houghton Marr teaches programming wonderful visit after we convinced at the Computer Processing Institute in everyone we weren't back for two more East Hartford. Dave is with the law 1964 firm of Day, Berry, and Howard in years. We went on to Colombia and Karen Knudsen overland from Bogota to Caracas, Ven­ Hartford, where he occasionally sees 11906 Gorham A venue ezuela. Great vacation. Frank D'Ercole. . . . David Moore is Los Angeles, Calif. 90049 So good to hear from everyone. Please finishing his last year of orthopedic write more! residency at the Newington Children's Colby can claim at least two specta­ Hospital in Connecticut. He starts prac­ tors at the XI (winter) Olympics in Sap­ tice in July in Framingham, Mass .... poro, Japan: Carl Nelson, U.S. team 1961 President of Strategy House, a new trainer. looked dashing in our red, white games company, is Steve Richardson. and blue colors; I "attended" - to ul­ Deborah Berry Denniston (Mrs. Roy) He worked out ways for from two to timately proclaim that there has never Wells Hill Road eight people to play with a crossword been a more exciting week of pageant­ Lakeville, Conn. 06039 puzzle at the same time. "Crosswalk," ry, sports, Japanese hospitality and lit­ Your response was so good another "Crossblock" and "Crosstalk" are the tle people's politics on a delightful lev­ news Jetter is fourthcoming. (Many of results ....Grayce Hall Studley and el. Discovered more information from you whose only mention in the current Jack are both working for Heuristics, the Russians (while exchanging our re­ Alumnus appears on the "Milestones" Inc., a firm which evaluates school sys­ spective national flags) by writing in page will receive fuller treatment in the tems receiving federal aid. Home is numericaJ language in the snow! I was class letter. Believe it or not, the mag­ again Massachusetts ....Hank Win­ lucky enough to see three of the U.S. azine has space limitations.) gate is teaching at a new middle school gold medals won and even had the priv­ President of the A.A.U.W. in Houl­ in Ardsley, N.Y., as well as coaching ilege of skiing down the women's giant basketball at the high school. slalom course. On to Denver and 1976! ton is Jeanette Benn Anderson. She is tutoring, substitute teaching, and taking Doris Kearns' appointment as a mem­ ber of the Wesleyan University board of care of her home and family. Daugh­ 1963 ters, Kris and Kathy, are nine and eight. trustees is very exciting. Congratula­ tions to Doris, who is the third woman . . . Information on Bill Byers in a re­ Susan Ferries Vogt (Mrs. Peter) member. She will serve a five-year term. cent issue was apparently incorrect. 6509 76th Street She also is busy with her duties on the Bill was ordained to the Episcopal min­ Cabin John, Md. 2073 1 istry in 1966 and served as an assistant faculty committee on the status of wom­ en at Harvard and the study commit­ rector at All Saints Church in Worces­ If anyone still has a questionnaire in tee reviewing the Nieman Fellowship ter, Mass., until I 970. Since last Sep­ some back desk drawer, don't throw it Program. The latter committee seeks tember, he has been an instructor of away just because the newsletter has al­ new perspectives on the needs and op­ media at Worcester State College, ready come out. Send it in, and I'll in­ portunities of the dozen American news­ teaching basic film making and pho­ clude it in another column. However papermen every year who spend the tography. . . . Diane Scrafton Cohen you do it, keep me posted! academic year at Harvard in studies of was associate chairman for the First Hermon E. "Bink" Smith is the new their choice. . . . Jonathan Allen re­ Hawaii Innovations Institute Program public high school athletic director in ceived his master's in physics at the Feb. 15-19 in Honolulu. Diane is teach­ Manchester, N. H .... A new store in S:>utheastern Massachusetts University ing in the language arts division of Lee­ Minneapolis, Pa-Lo Imports, was opened and worked for a research and develop­ ward Community College, one of the recently by Donna Cobb Lawrence and ment company. Waiting for an upswing sponsors of the institute. . . . Debbie her husband, Howard. They are bring­ in that industry, be is employed as a Berry Denniston finally had a poem ing goods from India, Mexico, Thailand, health inspector in New Bedford, published. The masterpiece appeared in Spain, Germany and the Scandinavian Mass. . . . The new associate-in-ministry Vol. XVIII, No. 4, of The Westerners. countries. Howard is also manager of at the Trinity Baptist Church in Arling­ . . . Class President Mike Flynn is vice Solid State Electronics, a division of ton, Mass., is Lawrence Schulze. He re­ president for marketing for SNO-JET Honeywell. They have three children­ ceived his B.D. from Andover-Newton Snowmobiles in Winooski, Vt. The five Jan (4\/2), Jeanne (2) and Jim (six and taught physics at Natick High Flynns are living in Essex Junction. . . . months) . ... W. Bruce Fenn has joined School. . . . Herman Hipson, formerly Bob Foley is a 727 co-pilot for Contin­ the Catamount National Bank in Brat­ an operations officer for the Worcester ental Airlines out of Los Angeles. He tleboro, Vt., as assistant vice president (Mass.) County National Bank, bas been wrote that Fred Bonner has been pro­ and manager of the office. Bruce, Susan elected assistant vice president of tele­ moted to assistant vice president at Han­ (Stein) and their two children formerly processing business systems for the over Trust in New York. lived in New Haven, Conn .... At Hol- Waterbury (Conn.) Savings Bank. 30 Whalers Pick Two Winners doings since graduation: 1965, research assistant in the department of nuclear engineering at Iowa State University; M.S. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1968; since, employed as a senior research scientist for the WODCO Corp.'s liquid metal fast breeder reactor program; married four years ago; son and twin daughters; lives in Richland, Wash ....Dave Fearon has a fellowship to train edu­ cators to better understand community influences which handicap disadvantaged children. . . . Al DiMaio received a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last June and is an assistant professor of government at John Jay College, City University of New York. Al was married Jack Kelley Ron Ryan in 1969 to Elizabeth Markovitch of Far­ mington, Conn ....At Harvard Busi­ ness School, Betsy Lyman has been When a third big league, the World moved the program forward," Kelley awarded one of the fellowships for Hockey Association, finds a home for its said when he left Colby to coach at his women. She is working toward a mas­ New England Whalers, the team will alma mater. '"I now reach another cross­ ter's. Pursuing a similar degree there is reunite two men who made hockey his­ roads," he said after signing a seven-year Bill Oates. Bill was awarded first-year tory at Colby : Jack Kelley, head coach contract with the Whalers. '"I face enor­ honors in his program. . . . Bucky and general manager, and his selection mous challenge, but I am getting in on Smith has joined with three other Pitts­ as assistant general manager, Ron Ryan the ground floor and I intend to be suc­ field, Mass., area architects in forming '62. Kelley made Colby a hockey power cessful." He always bas been : All Bradley Architects, Inc. . . . Bob and in seven years - from completion of America and All East as a defenseman Kay Parker Gordon wrote. He finished Alfond Arena in 1955 to a 19-6-2 record with a B.U. team that went to the na­ his Ph.D. in Spanish at the University and an ECAC tournament appearance tional championships, representati\e of of Colorado and is in his fourth year in 1962, the year Ryan led national col­ the U. S. in the world championships, of teaching at Monmouth College in lege scoring with 104 points. Jack was and winner at Colby and B.U. (180-77-5 lllinois. Kay is involved with the League U. S. Coach of the Year. Ryan and at the start of bis I 0th season there ). of Women Voters and their three chil­ classmate Frank Stephenson were named As a member of the nation's highest dren - Ken (3\/2), Kim (10 months) to the All America team. scoring college line in 1962, Ryan was adopted last spring, and Jeffrey born The WHA appointed Kelley in Jan­ voted All New England and All East, in January. uary and began negotiating for arenas in and received the Walter Brown Trophy The following items are old news I three New England cities for the Whal­ as New England's most valuable player. missed last summer. I hope if they are ers while he and Ryan completed their He coached a hockey club while earning no longer accurate, they can be cor­ hockey seasons at Boston and Colgate a master's in education at the University rected. Last May, John O'Connor, a doc­ universities. of Pennsylvania, and was assistant ath­ toral candidate at Harvard was appoint­ "It was Colby that gave me my start letic director and coach at Merrimac ed coordinator of educational programs as a hockey coach and it has been the (Mass. ) College before taking the Col­ for the Merrimack Valley Textile Mu­ continued confidence and cooperation gate post in I 965. Ron is married to the seum, the North Andover Historical of the college authorities that have former Brenda Phillipps '62. Society and the Stevens-Coolidge Place in North Andover, Mass ... . Donna Brown Salisbury was involved last April 1965 with her two daughters and works for the in a cooperative school for pre-school Bangor Daily News. Joss is expecting children in Cherryfield. The school is Alison A. Coady again in May .... I learned from unregimented and has a four-to-one 25 Spring Lane Chris Brown's card that she and Sue student-teacher ratio. Tuition is based Canton, Mass. 02021 and their son, Eric, are now in Hingham, on ability to pay. The school seems Mass., where Chris teaches art in high successful because even parents volun­ Christmas seems to be the best time school. After graduation, she taught teer their time to further the learning for catching up with people. This year's for several years at the Hinckley School, process. cards brought lots of news. Ned and then went to the University of Wiscon­ Thanks for keeping the letters com­ Lynne Urner Baxter are in Pacific sin to get his master's degree in arts and ing. Beach, Wash. Ned was promoted to crafts. After spending last year work­ lieutenant in September and has ex­ ing for an architect in Portland, Chris tended for two more years in the Navy. decided on teaching again and came 1966 Lynne is working as a first grade teach­ to Hingham. It's nice to have them Pam Harris Holden (Mrs. Randall) er's aide. . . . Rick and Nancy Win­ close enough to visit again... . Dave 504-A East Huntington Drive slow Harwood are at last back in the Cutler, after serving as a Marine cap­ Tempe,Ar iz. 85282 east. Rick is a financial analyst at Elec­ tain in Vietnam is the State House report­ tric Boat, a division of General Dy­ er for the Quincy (Mass. ) Patriot Ledg­ Bob Adams and his wife, Janice, and namics. They have settled in East Lyme, er. In addition, Dave bas written a 10- year-old son, Michael, are living in Conn. Their daughter, Darcy, was lesson correspondence course in prac­ Karlsruhe, Germany. Bob is a com­ joined in January by a brother, Marcus. tical politics for the average taxpayer, munications system engineer in the . . . Joss Coyle Bierman wrote that offered hy the Bureau of Adult Services, Army Signal Corps.... Neil '65 and she had seen Linda Stearns Corey in Massachusetts Department of Educa­ Jean Hoffmann Clipsbam spend most of New York. Linda is living in Bangor tion. . . . Tom Boulette wrote of his their spare time remodeling their new 31 home in Tustin, Calif.... Paul Col­ has time for pottery and organic garden­ was to be published in March. Phew! cher continues his medical education ing. . . . The William Inghams (Ruth . . . Donna Massey Steffey is at the at the University of Brussels, Belgium. Loker) live in Seattle with their two University of Massachusetts School of ... Ed Downs completed two years sons. . . Linda Johnson is a second­ Education and practice teaching in Am­ with the Public Health Service on the year graduate student at Smith College herst after a 12-week tour of Europe. Zuni Indian Reservation in New Mex­ for Social Work ....Steve Johnson is Donna gives special thanks to "all of ico. Ed, Linda and Kristen (six months) a medical social worker at Thayer Hos­ the Colby friends who were so kind have moved to Breckenridge, Colo., pital in Waterville. He and Leigh have and supportive last year and also all where Ed will practice dentistry .... bought a house on Johnson Heights .... of those who were so generous in mak­ Jo (Manegold) and Sheridan Dukes re­ Judy Jones is a mathematician at Fort ing contributions to Bole's memorial." located to Prescott, Ariz., last fall. He Meade, Md., for the Department of De­ At home at Colby is Associate is a sociology and psychology instructor fense ... . Janna Vaughan Kasarjian Dean of Students Doris Downing, who at Yavapai Junior College .... The and husband, Ken, took a trip to Aruba went to a dean's convention in St. Lou­ Terry Eagles (Sally Vaughan) live in last March as a reward for his making is. . . . Stephen Fisher planned to re­ Concord. Mass., where one of them (I'm Xerox Corp.'s "Par Club." . . . The ceive a master of divinity degree from not sure which) is director of admissions Doug Keenes (Beth Adams) are stationed Andover-Newton this spring. He has at Concord Academy. . . . Sandy Ray­ in Warsaw, Poland. Doug is a foreign worked at the Hancock United Church nor Eastman and her husband bought service officer with the State Depart­ of Christ in Lexington, Mass. . . . Lar­ a 16-foot day sailer and are avid racers ment ....The commercial banking of­ ry Nelson, a photographer, spent a year on the northern California coast. . . . ficer at The Manchester (N .H.) Bank in Europe taking pictures and writing. Tom Easton is completing theoretical is Bayard Kennett. . . . Bill Kittredge . . . In his second year at Boston Col­ biology studies at the University of Chi­ is a minister in social work with the lege Law School is Tom Watson. ... cago, and has written two novels. . . . Maine Conference of the United Church Another law student is Ed Beard, who is Bob and Merri Aldrich Egbert reside in of Christ in Lewiston. He officiated at at Suffolk. Brunswick. Bob is with the Canal Bank the wedding of Steve Rand and Lynn Sue Magdefrau Workhoven combines in Portland. Merri tends daughter, Kim, Williams last May in Poultney, Vt. ... the joys and work of motherhood with and is tutoring. . . .Lynne Eggart (for­ Barry Kligerman is a dentist in Revere, advising a church youth group. Her merly Egbert) and her husband and two Mass ....Gary Knight is with the husband also is involved in the program. sons have a ranch in Big Horn, Mont. Livermore Falls Trust Co. and active . . . Kerry Heyes takes courses at the . . . Frank Fay is the personnel mana­ in civic affairs.... Conrad Krack has New School, drives a cab in New York ger of the Dollar Savings Bank in Pi tts­ returned to Maine as a stock broker with City, dabbles in photography and does burgh. . . . Jay Fell is a graduate stu­ a firm in Portland. His comment: "I some traveling around the country .... dent at the University of Colorado .... think many who went to Colby didn't Bill and Cathy Cyr Latvis traveled in Pete Fellows is in public relations at St. realize what a great state this is to live France and Germany last summer. She John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y. in." ... Bill and Cathy (Cyr '69) Latvis is teaching at North Yarmouth Acad­ ...John Field is a banker with the also returned to Maine. Bill received his emy ....Tom Burrage was a lab co­ Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in New M.B.A. from the University of New ordinator for Boston University's baby York City. . . . Finnie Finjzio works Hampshire and is an assistant account­ biology courses at Metropolitan Col­ in corporate finance for Sanders Asso­ ant with a Portland concern. They live lege. Wife, Beth, will receive her mas­ ciates of Nashua, N. H .... Claudia in Yarmouth. Cathy is teaching French ter's in English from B.U ....After Fugere Finkelstein and family are living at North Yarmouth Academy. studying at the University of Edin­ in Chapel Hill, N.C., while husband, burgh, Scotland, Bruce McLean will re­ Martin, completes his predoctoral in­ 1969 ceive his master of divinity from An­ ternship in clinical psychology. They dover-Newton and be ordained in June. look forward to returning to Maine ..... Cherrie Dubois . ..Another potential Perry Mason (or Jean-Jacques Flint teaches geology at 9 Tennyson Road maybe Ralph Nader), Bob Hark, will Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. Reading, Mass. 01867 graduated from B. U. Law School in ...Carl Floyd, a physicist with the June. Around Christmas Bob worked Navy Underwater Systems Center in Hear ye, Hear ye, class of 1969: Larry for the Consumer Protection Bureau and Niantic, Conn., has traveled to London, Greenberg is working on his Ph.D. in has been active with the Environmental Athens, San Francisco, New York and economics at Columbia while Sue Law Society ....Tennis pro Wick Washington, D.C ... . Lynn Seiden­ (Doten) teaches elementary science in a Phillips spends his summers on Cape stuecker Gall and Ed took a trip to Den­ nongraded school. . . . In the sun of Cod and winters in Palm Beach. . . . mark and Sweden last fall. They set­ Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is Ben Mague, Cathy Nelson is a library technical as­ tled for the winter in Augusta . ... a Navy yeoman who also plays the or­ sistant at the University of Vermont. Anne Ruggles Gere is working on her gan for military religious services...... Wendy Gillingham Enright is sub­ Ph.D. at the University of Michigan .... For all New York Mets fans, good news stituting and tutoring at Bath Junior Dick Gilmore practices law in Man­ - Bob Anthony is with their group High and planned to visit the West chester, Mass ....Pete Grabosky is a sales department. Looks like another doctoral candidate in political science at World Series for the Mets! . . . Gor­ Northwestern University. . . . Bonnie die MacNab is in his last year at the Zimmermann Henricksen is a busy moth­ University of New Brunswick Law When a New Hampshire prison escapee er of three. Husband, Cliff, has a rock School. . : . Jeff Clunie is in Vietnam pulled a gun on Jim Lambert '69 on group, "Marbleheart," which recently with the Signal Corps. Another service­ the fro11t steps of his Bridgton home he signed with Scepter Records. Their first man, Lt. John Bailey, is in Pearl Har­ "apparently picked the wrong banker to single, "Faith Healing Remedy," was bor after six months in the Pacific. . . . assault," as the Portland Press Herald released in the fall. . . . Roger Hiss is After a year in Turkey teaching English, put it i11 December. As the man shoved a research chemist in automotive finish­ Moses Silverman is in his second year the gun i11to his stomach, the former es at E. I. DuPont in Flint, Mich. . . . at New York University Law School. Colby football player grabbed it and Classmates in the Utica, N.Y., area, look He received a prize for being among wrestled the man to the ground. Lam­ for meteorologist-newsman Ted Hough­ the top 15 in his class. He is on the staff bert said it happened so fast he didn't ton on WUTR-TV ....Besides taking of the school's Law Review and has know what the man planned to do but care of a family, Gayle Jobson Hughes written an article on broadcasting that assumed he was bent on robbery. 32 journalist for the Massachusetts Division a publishing firm ....Hanria Halpern of Fisheries and Game.... Martha Al­ has returned from Germany where she den teaches math in the Amherst, Mass., was studying music ....Peggy Wiehl high school. ...Anoe Peterson is do­ live� and works in Boston ....Tony ing graduate work in sociology at Cor­ Maramarco wrote: after a rather dis­ nell; Peter Bogle is at the law school couraging fall and winter working as a there .... Andrea Vujan is enrolled in janitor in a school, life definitely is the Graduate School of Counselor Edu­ looking up; this spring he's headed for cation at the University of Pittsburgh. the University of Chicago to study for ...Robin Armitage manages a cloth­ his ma ter's in English. Tony says Dal'e ing department at Jordan Marsh in Pea­ Rea completed six month s with the body, Mass ....Steve '69 and Deb­ National Guard, teaches school in New bie Williams Anderson are living in Hampshire and plays on the faculty Newport News, Ya., where Steve is sta­ team, the Otter Pond Otters. . After tioned in the Air Force. They are the graduation, Sandy Parsons earned a proud parents of Christopher Steven, large promotion - from sale�man to born last November. ...Ar t and general manager of Parson� Buick Co .. Pamela Dyer Turton live in Cincinnati. Plainville, Conn., and editor of the Alden Wilson '69 one of three arts man­ Pam, with her master's, is teaching spe­ monthly Parsons New. . . Al Acklev agement i11terns appointed by the Na­ ' cial education. . . . Walter Brower also lives in Connecticut and works tional E11dowme11t for the Arts in Waslz­ teaches English in Princeton, N .1. in his father·s package store in Groton. i11gto11, has been assig11ed to work for a Norma Rivero writes that she is teach­ ... Dave Williams returned, complete year with the execwive director of the ing modern dance at a high school in with tan, from a winter trip to the Vir­ Maine State Commissio11 011 the Arts Caracas, Venezuela ....Pam Ohnysty gin Islands.... Dennis Pruneau, Dave and Humanities, Richard D. Collins. is a part-time art teacher in Milford. Nelson and Rick Blackburn all work for Mass. . . . Peggy Baxter instructs all construction companies in Maine � elementary vocal classes in Oakland, Dennis in Lewiston and Dave and Rick Coast in May when her husband gets Sidney and Bel grade ....Donna Fow­ in Portland. out of the Navy.... Linda Grey is ler is teaching math in Milton, Mass .... Marion Agnew writes from Rich­ doing economic research for the Feder­ Bob Falsani, now in his second year mond, Va., that she is working in an ac­ al Reserve Bank of Boston, and meets at the Georgetown University Law Cen­ counting office and taking night courses a number of Colby grads.... Rick ter, has been invited to join the staff of at Virginia Commonwealth Universitv. Franz is still in the Air Force in Texas Law and Policy of lntema1ional Busi- . . . Sherry Phipps Dworkan is e�­ while Nan (Carter) teaches at a school 11ess, a law center journal. ...John ployed by a laboratory in New Jersey for the retarded ....Bill Lyons is at and Judy Smith Lucarelli taught and which tests contraceptives ...Janis Le­ Boston College Law School while Kar­ traveled in Alaska last year. Their stu­ vine succesfuly completed the National en (Knapp '70) works at John Han­ dents are proud of their Eskimo culture Association of Security Dealers exam cock.... With two years in the Army and often speak in Upik, the Eskimo and is associated with Pierce, White behind him, Rick Emer y is at Cornell language . ...Al ice Ryen has received and Drummond in Bangor. Between her Law School. . . . Ines Ruelius Brcwn an M.A. in international administration job and graduate studies at tbe Univer­ is a trainee at the University of Roches­ from the School for International Train­ sity of Maine she keeps quite busy . ... ter in the department of pharmacology. ing in Br attleboro. Vt ....Second Lt. Cindy Stiles, Ruth Moore and Pam This summer she and Buz will lead an Jack D. Wood has been assigned to re­ Wolfe toured Europe for two months in American Youth Hostel bike trip connaissance aircraft at Hill Air Force the fall, and arrived in Germany in time through the Canadian Rockies and Van­ Base. Utah, with a unit of the logistics to celebrate tbe Oktoberfest - good couver .... Dan Woloshen will grad­ command. . . . Eric M. Hanson, an­ timing.... Dave Eddy, Steve Fleish­ uate from Boston College Law School other second lieutenant, has been as­ man and Scott Lawhorne worked in in June. He spent three months on an signed to Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. for North Conway, N.H., this winter. ... Israeli kibbutz and was a staff assistant flying duty with a unit of the Pacific Greg Barry got home for some leave be­ at the National Consumer Law Center Air Forces, headquarters for air opera­ fore being shipped for a tour in Oki­ in Boston. . . . Roger Stiles is a social tions in Southeast Asia, the Far East nawa.... I saw Bill Glennon at Col­ worker in Lewiston for the Maine De­ and Pacific area. by this winter. He bad just returned partment of Health and Welfare . ... I'm really glad that you all continue from six months active duty with the Geoff Little and his wife are Pea�e to send me news. Please keep it up! National Guard. He was looking for Corps volunteers in India ....Down work in Boston ... . John Ray, also back in Washington you'll find Ray Gerbi from the Guard, is teaching in Bridgton. working for the Department of Defense, 1971 . . . Paul Edmunds started working with New Jersey Bell in January. He's but he's looking forward to returning to Jane Hight enrolled in an "in-deptb management Maine. . . . Paula Calahan earned her 1194 W. Middle Turnpike. Apt. B-2 program" in construction. He says it's M.A. in math from the Pennsy lvania Manchester, Conn. 06040 State University. totally different than anything he pre­ It's time once again for a bit more news pared for at Colby but that he really from our classmates. likes it. ...Paula Drozdel writes that 1970 I talked to Terry Boyle. She's work­ she is living in Alexandria. Ya., and that ing in Washington, D. C., for the Army due to her "great ability in mathemat­ Laura Schmidt Times in the advertising department. ics'' is working for an insurance com­ Woodville Road She really enjoys her work and the city. pany in D.C .... Both Amy Brewer Shoreham, N.Y. 11786 She mentioned casually that she and and Elaine Kruckas are in Waterville. Janet Beals Donna Mason Wil liams writes that she Bob Falsani '70 are getting married in Amy said she and had a is the personnel assistant for an insur­ June. . . . Sally Cole has moved back great time in Europe. Janet is looking ance company in Worcester, Mass .... to the Los Angeles "warm country" for a job in the Boston area. Her husband, Ted '69, is the wildlife and works as an editorial assistant for Please write. 33 Milestones 1957 A daughter, Tanya Beth, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krasnigor (Karen Breen '58), Feb. 19, 1971.

1958 A son, Dwain Christopher, to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Currier (Anita Falter), June 22. A son, Scott John, to Mr. and Mrs. Owen Haley Jr., Nov. 27, 1970. A son, Jonathan Kurt, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hesse, Aug. 24. A daughter, Caroline Bradley, to Dr. and Mrs. Richard Clutz (Robin Hunter), Nov. 17. A son, Bradford David, adopted by Mr. 1967 and Mrs. Norman P. Lee (Charlotte Marriages Theresa Jean Carreira to Richard D. Clifton '61), Nov. 9. Garland, April 17, 1971. 1940 A daughter, Sarah Roxanne, to Mr. and Capt. Richard S. Mather to Phyllis Mrs. Gerald Gehrke (Suzanne Julia Wheeler O'Sullivan to John R. LaVigna, Jan. 8, Old Wethersfield, Conn. MacDonald), Dec. 20. Morton, Aug. 19, Waterville. A son, John McAllister, to Mr. and 1968 Mrs. John Laverty (Sheila McAllister), 1957 Nancy Jean Abbott to Joseph A. Lebda Sept. 28. Margaret A. Center to Andrew Ohot­ Jr., Aug. 21, Dover, N. H. nicky, June 25, 1966, West Medford, Kenneth C. Young Jr. to Anne N. 1961 Mass. Clarke, Jan. 15, Warwick, R.I. A daughter, Nicole, to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Dionne, August. 1958 1969 A son, Ryan Patrick, to Mr. and Mrs. Margot L. Barrett to J. Wesley McLellan, Robert Borteck to Lynn Stier, June, Michael Flynn (Joyce Dignam '62), June 26, East Orange, N. J. Massachusetts. Sept. 27. Sally B. Howes to Theodore L. Hansen Susan J. Evans to Stuart MacDougall, A daughter, Anne Elisabeth, to Mr. and Jr., Jan. 8, Portland. March 11. Mrs. Theodore Lockhart (Carolyn Michael C. Stankus to Gayle L. Webster '60), Aug. 26. 1960 Daddona, Jan. 7, Waterbury, Conn. A daughter, Lisa Kimberly, to Mr. and Jo Anne Jolicoeur to Stephen Schiller, Mrs. Norman Macartney, Oct. 23. 1970 Dec. 12, Chicago, Ill. A son, Kristopher, adopted by Dr. and Harold S. Faust to Marya Sienkiewicz Mrs. John A. Eielson (Sandy Nolet), 1961 '69, Dec. 31. June, 1970; and a daughter, Kerry, born Robert A. Foley to Zavella Ruth Cale, Carol Lewis to Dean Jennings, Aug. 14, in February, 197 l. Dec. 2. Rockport, Mass. A daughter, Sarah Parmalee, to Mr. and Carla A. Possinger to Robert A. Short, Jane K. Stinchfield to Daniel G. Willett, Mrs. David Daney (Sue Parmalee), Sept. 24, Bailey Island. July 3, Augusta. Sept. l. Robert L. Stromberg to Nancy Dover, A son, Ulrich Thornton, to Mr. and 1962 Sept. 3, Wilmette, Ill. Mrs. Ulrich J. Luth (Diane Sherman), Craig B. Malsch to Susan Boyer, Feb. Sept. 27, 1970. 19, New York City. 1971 A daughter, Laura Vail, to Mr. and Charles K. Altholz to Jane A. Kannell Mrs. Ernest Trowbridge, Nov. 28. 1963 '72, Aug. 28, New Hampshire. Patricia Ann Ey to John E. Ingraham, Lee F. Fawcett to Katherine R. Woods 1962 Dec. 18, Boston, Mass. '7 1, Aug. 21. A son, Douglas Fraser, to Mr. and Mrs. Susan P. Morrissey to Michael D. Malcolm Fraser MacLean DI, Jan 13. 1965 Collins, Dec. 12, Tallahassee, Fla. Ralph J. Bunche Jr. to Patricia E. Richard Pinansky to Nancy Ann Berk, 1963 Hittinger, Jan. 22, New York City. Dec. 26, Boston, Mass. A daughter, Laura Louise, to Mr. and Lora Kreeger to Thomas Sanberg, Nov. Mrs. Theodore Kellogg (Martha Hincks 20. 1972 '64), Aug. 31, 1970. Barbara McGillicuddy to Francis Kathleen A. Wonsor to Larry E. A daughter, Cassandra Irene, to Mr. and Bolton, Dec. 29. Edwards, Sept. 25, Bath. Mrs. Byron Petrakis, Jan. 10. A son, Peter Henry, to Mr. and Mrs. 1966 Philip H. Madel! (Ruth Pratley), Nov. 5. William E. Burrell to Tina Lynn A son, Douglas Alan, to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, July, Dallas, Tex. Births John Sheldon (Marcia Phillips '64), Jan. John F. Harrington to Maureen C. 24, 197 l. Keeley, January, Clarksburg, W. Va. 1955 A son, Andrew Abbot, to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Booth Hill to Jill McKelvie, A son, Erik John, to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thompson (Joan Phillipps '64), Jan. 8, Washington, D. C. Donald L. Hoagland, Sept. 21. Dec. 6.

34 1964 Deaths 1925 daughter, Suzanne Gaye, to Mr. and A Leota Schoff Wadleigh, 68, died Jan. 9 Mrs. Jack Bober (Sarah McCobb),, May in Holden, Mass. She taught English at 25, 1970. the former Holden High School for 28 A daughter, Amy Elizabeth, to Mr. and 1910 years and headed the department. Prior Mrs. Paul K. Palmer Jr. (Betsy Stevens Word of the death Oct. 11, 1964, of to her retirement in 1968, Mrs. Wadleigh '65), Jan. 15. Mildred Steele-Brook Ellis bas reached was librarian for 12 years at Wachusett A daughter, Elizabeth Jane, to Mr. and the college. She was the wife of Thomas Regional High School in Holden. Born Mrs. Murdock Ross, Jan. 27, 1971. Ellis and bad lived for many years in in Colebrook, N. H., she attended Par; Toronto, Ont. Born in Clifton Heights, (Maine) High School and was graduated A daughter, Christina Lynne, to Mr. and Pa., Mrs. Ellis was a graduate of Fair­ from Kents Hill Seminary. rs. Wad­ Mrs. Jerome E. Huling (Shirley Tozier), M leigh taught Dec. 20, 1970. field High School. She attended Colby for three years at Spelman in 1906-07 and received her B.A. degree College in Atlanta before moving to A son, Jason Arthur, to Mr. and Mrs. from Syracuse University in 1910. Mrs. Holden. She earned an M.A. degree at Alton Heath Jr. (JanetYoung), Dec. 29, Ellis was a teacher prior to the birth of Middlebury College. A writer, she bad 1970. her daughter. a one-act play and several poems pub­ lished. Mrs. Wadleigh was a member of 1965 1912 Phi Mu. Surviving are her husband, Jo­ son, Gavin Wingate, to Mr. and Mrs. seph; one stepson and several cousins. A Elmer Dow Gibbs died Jan. 20 in Man­ Gordon Bowie (Mary Stimson '64), Jan. chester, N. H., at the age of 82. He bad Michael Francis Woodlock, 69, died 23, 1971. been in the shoe manufacturing business Dec. 28 in bis native Dalton, Mass. He A son, Jeffrey Russell, to Mr. and Mrs. prior to retirement in 1961. Born in served the community as a policeman for Robert A. Gordon (Katharine Parker), Boston. Mr. Gibbs came to Maine as a 27 years prior to bis retirement in 1952. Jan. 18. child and was a graduate of Livermore He was a graduate of Dalton High A son, Marcus, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Falls High School. He bad lived in School, where he was an outstanding 8. Harwood (Nancy Winslow), January. Manchester for more than 50 years. A athlete. Mr. Woodlock attended Colby member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, he in 1921-22. Surviving are bis son and a 1966 was the nephew of Emery Gibbs '88, a sister. college trustee from 1909 until 1923. A son, Christopher Adam, to Mr. and Mr. Gibbs leaves his wife, the former 1929 Mrs. David Wilbur (Diane Leach), Dec. Edith Morganstern; one sister; and a 17. William Rodney Wyman, 66, principal cousin. Hazel Gibbs '17. of secondary schools in Maine for 41 A daughter, Allison Louise, to Dr. and Freda Allene Snow died Feb. I 6 in Bar years, died Feb. J 3 in Waterville. He Mrs. Frank Musche Jr. (Susan Brown retired in J 969 after 13 years as princi­ '65), Jan. 1. Harbor at the age of 81. A retired teacher, she was born in Rockport and pal at Lawrence High School in his na­ A daughter, Dana Brownell, to Mr. and graduated from Old Town High School. tive Fairfield. He was a graduate of Oak Mrs. Peter Wagner (Linda Bucheim), Miss Snow attended Colby from 1908 Grove Sem inary and received his mas­ Jan. 10. through 1910 and completed her degree ter's degree in education from the Uni­ in theology at Gordon College. She re­ versity of Maine in 1950. Mr. Wyman 1967 ceived a master's degree in English at was principal in tbe towns of Belgrade, A son, Joshua Steven, to the Rev. and Columbia Un iversity. After teaching in Newport, Madison and Fort Fairfield. Mrs. Ledyard S. Baxter, Sept. 23. a number of Maine schools, she spent He was a former president of the State Principals Association and a member of A daughter, Kristin, to Mr. and Mrs. several years on the faculties of two col­ leges for blacks, Shaw University in Lambda Chi Alpha. Survivors are his David G. Watterson Jr., Feb. 20. Raleigh, N. C., and Bishop College, wife, the former Alice Getchell; a son, Robert 58; two grandchildren; a sister 1968 Marshall, Tex. Before retirement, Miss Snow was associated with the Maine and three nieces. A son, David, to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Seacoast Mission and taught on Matini­ Balsley (Jean Peterson '69), September. cus Island 20 miles off the coast. She 1937 was a member of Chi Omega. She leaves James Edward Glover, administrative 1969 a sister; two brothers, including George assistant to U. S. Rep. William Mills of A son, Christopher Stephen, to Mr. and '13; and a niece, Sheila Jellison Ten­ Maryland, was killed Feb. 3 in an auto nant '40, daughter of her late sister, Mrs. Stephen Anderson (Debbie accident near Tracy's Landing, Md. A Sarah '12. Their father was the Rev. Williams), Nov. 3. former law partner in Waterville of Fred A. Snow '85. A daughter, Melissa, to Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, Mr. John H. Bailey, May 19, 1971. Glover was 56. He was born in Mon­ 1920 A son, Christian, to Mr. and Mrs. treal and &raduated from Waterville Gladys Chase Nixon, 74, died Dec. 28 High School. He received his law de­ Richard C. Frantz (Nancy Carter), Sept. 24. in Auburndale, Mass. She was born in gree from Boston University in 1940 Skowhegan and was graduated from its and while practicing in Waterville, A son, Scott David, to Mr. and Mrs. high school. Mrs. Nixon did graduate served as city treasurer-tax collector and David Werkhoven (Susan Magdefrau), work in education at Columbia before municipal court recorder. Mr. Glover April 29, 1971. her marriage. Her husband, Theodore, was president of Ocean Spray Cranber­ A daughter. Karin Elizabeth, to Mr. and died in 1966. A member of Delta Delta ry Corp. (1951-57) and of the Coastal Mrs. David Rohrbach (Jane Master), Delta, she Jived for many years in Skow­ Food Co. division of Consolidated Nov. 30. hegan. Surviving are a son, and a Food Corp. ( J 957-59). Before joining A son, Sean Gerald, to Mr. and Mrs. brother, Elliot '23. Her deceased rela­ the Congres man·s staff, he was national Gerald McGrath, Oct. 2. tives include a sister, Mrs. Eunice Wy­ manager for whole ale operations of P. Ballantine & Sons Co. A member of A son, Cary, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. man '18; and two brothers, Erroll '18 Shearston, Jan. 7. and Fred '24. Lambda Chi Alpha he served with the 35 Maritime Service during the second Churches and had been active with the world war and received several combat Colby Alumni Club of Washington, D.C. ribbons. Mr. Glover was elected to the He was a member of Lambda Chi Al­ Alumni Council in 1957. He was a des­ pha. Surviving are his wife, the former cendent of Willard Glover, 1825, and Martha Howard; two daughters and one great-great-grandson of Gen. Alexander son. Glover, aide-de-camp to George Wash­ Nelson Luther Page, 52, died Dec. 22 in ington. He leaves his wife, the former Neenah, Wis. He was general manager Lucille Shoemaker; three chiidren; two of Menasha Corp. container plants in grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Neenah, Milwaukee and Lakeville. Mr. Oldham '45. Page, who attended Colby in 1939-40, 1940 was born in Lewiston. He was a grad­ uate of Edward Little High School, Au­ John Ande Baxter, 55, died Jan. 29 in Woodbourne, N. Y. The Rev. Mr. Bax­ burn, and of Hebron Academy. He ter was employed by the New York served in the Navy during World War State Narcotics Control Commission at II. Surviving are his wife, the former the Woodbourne Rehabilitation Center Jane Garrick, two daughters and a as teacher, librarian and assistant chap­ grandson. lain. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., he pre­ pared for college at Williston Academy 1955 and Waterville High School. He studied Word has been received of the death of aircraft and engine mechanics after Claire Bellmer Archer on Jan. 29, 1969, HONORARY graduation and was an aeronautical and in Schuylerville, N. Y. She was 36. Ralph Johnson Bunche (LLD., '52) died physics instructor at Colby during the Born in Charleston, W. Ya., she was a Dec. 9 in New York City at the age of war. After serving as high school princi­ graduate of the Oxford School in Hart­ 67. Dr. Bunche, winner of the 1950 pal in two Maine towns and four years in ford, Conn. Mrs. Archer attended Nobel Peace Prize, had been the chief Naval aviation he studied at the Bangor Colby from 1951 until 1953 and was diplomatic trouble-shooter for the United and Trinity Hall theological seminaries. graduated from the Katherine Gibbs Nations Secretariat since its foundation. The Rev. Mr. Baxter held two Maine School in New York City. She leaves At the time of his retirement last June pastorates and taught aeronautics at Bos­ her husband, Edward; and a son and he was U. N. under secretary general for ton University before taking the Wood­ daughter. special political affairs. U Thant, U. N. bourne position in 1959. At the time of secretary general when Dr. Bunche died, his death, he had nearly completed de­ 1962 described him as an "international insti­ gree work in correctional administra­ Lawrence Walker Collins died Dec. tution in his own right, transcending tion and was enrolled in a library sci­ III 31 in Littleton, N. H., at the age of 31. both nationality and race in a way that ence degree program. He was a deputy Born in New Britain, Conn., Mr. Col­ is achieved by very few." Said President sheriff for Sullivan (N. Y.) County and lins was a graduate of Plainville (N.Y.) Nixon: "Dr. Bunche never relented in regional field secretary of the American High School. He attended Colby from his persistence to advance the cause of Ministerial Association. He is the son 1958 until 1960 and received his B. S. brotherhood and cooperation among of the late Louise Baxter Colgan, who degree from Windham College, Poult­ men and nations. America is deeply worked with Colby glee clubs, and step­ ney, Vt. He earned his master's degree proud of his distinguished son and pro­ son of Edward J. Colgan, professor­ in biology as a teaching fellow at Dart­ foundly saddened by his death." emeritus of psychology and education. mouth, where he specialized in aquatic Born in Detroit, he was orphaned at The Rev. Mr. Baxter leaves his wife, the ecology. He was enrolled in a Ph.D. 13 and self-supporting from age 15 earn­ former Mary Hitchcock '4 1; two daugh­ program at the University of Colorado. ing an A.B. with highest honors from ters, Margaret '71 and Mariellen '74; He was president of the National Ski the University of California, and M.A. two sons, including John Edward '65; Patrol Association and assisted as coach and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. He and his stepfather. of the Colorado ski team. At the time taught and did research at Howard Uni­ versity beginning in 1928. Dr. Bunche 1942 of his death, members of the cross­ country and Alpine teams were at his joined the State Department in 1944 and Albert Hill Haynes, 52, died Feb. 15 in home to take part in New England attended the Dunbarton Oaks Confer­ Arlington, Ya. He was born in Eliza­ races. Mr. Collins is survived by his ence that year. He was a delegate to the beth, N. J., and graduated from New­ San Francisco U.N. Conference and the mother; his father; a stepfather; one ton (Mass.) High School. Mr. Haynes first General Assembly in 1946 and ac­ sister and a brother. earned a master's degree from the cepted a permanent post with the Secre­ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy tariat in 1947. He won international re­ at Tufts University. At the time of his 1964 nown and the peace prize for his work death, he was division chief for north Judith Burgess Rulon, 28, died Dec. 27 as mediator in Palestine following the and west coast affairs in the State De­ in Overbrook, Pa., where she was at­ first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. It partment's Bureau of Intelligence. He tending St. Joseph's College. Born in prompted an Arab leader to describe joined the department in 1944 and was Omaha, Neb., she attended Radnor him as "one of the greatest men in the assigned to the Bureau of Inter-Ameri­ (Pa.) High School and was graduated world" and a high Israeli official to term can Affairs. He served in the Bureau of from the Friends' Central School in his mediation efforts "superhuman." Latin American Affairs and in 1965 was Overbrook. Miss Rulon left Colby in However, Dr. Bunche said he took more promoted to national intelligence survey 1963 because of illness, in spite of which satisfaction from later peace-keeping director for the department. A qualified she worked among underprivileged chil­ operations - the Congo, the Middle lay minister of the United Methodist dren. A memorial has been established East, Kashmir, the Suez problem after Church, he conducted services near his in her name at Horizon House in Phila­ the 1956 war, and Cyprus in 1964 - be­ summer home on Bakers Island, Mass. delphia. She was a member of Sigma cause "for the first time we have a way Mr. Haynes was a former president Kappa. Miss Rulon is survived by her to use [U.N.) military men for peace of the South Potomac Association of mother and one brother. instead of war." More recently he was

36 called on to work with such projects as graduate of the U.S. Military Aca.demy the laboratory since his retirement in peearch of can­ casions, including the commencement religions and economic backgrounds. cer. and of diabetes. rapid aging and address when he received his honorary Mr. Kemper addressed the Recogni­ other genetic fields. From 1928 until degree, the Gabrielson Lecture in 1960 tion Assembly before receiving his hon­ 1945 he was president of the American and the Gannett Lecture in 1965. orary degree. The citation read, in part; Cancer Society. In 1954 he astounded Dr. Bunche leaves his widow, the "Colby salutes you as a vigorous and many colleagues by joining the tobacco former Ruth Harris; one daughter and a constructive force in the field of educa­ indu>try organization as cience director. son, Ralph Jr. '65; and three grandchil­ tion and an ornament to the teaching contending that no firm evidence sup­ dren. A second daughter died in 1966. profession so aptly called the nobles� ported the widely accepted theory link­ Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Sc.D., ·5 1 ), real there is." He leaves his wife. the fo rmer ing smoking with lung and heart disease. life mother of the family in the novel Abby Castle; and three daughters. His None doubted his integrity. He is sur­ Cheaper by the Dozen, died Jan. 2 in first wife, Sylvia (Pratt ). died in 1961. vived by his wife, the former Beatrice Johnson; two daughters; two sons and Phoenix, Ariz., at the age of 93. She Warren Edglie Kershner, M.D.. (M.S., nine grandchildren. was active as an engineering con ultant '42) died Dec. 30 in Bath, where he prac­ and lecturer until three years ago. Born ticed for nearly 40 years. He was 91. FACULTY in Oakland, Calif., she earned bachelor's Dr. Kershner received a Colby Brick in and master's degrees from the University 1957 in recognition of his interest in the Michael J. Ryan, former Colby coach of California. Mrs. Gilbreth and her college and his faithful support. which and an outstanding figure in American husband, Frank, were authors of several includes the Ethel B. and Warren E. track and field. died Dec. 27 in San Jose, classics in management. They also pi­ Kershner Loan Fund (in memory of his Calif. The U.S. Olympian was 82. oneered in time and motion studies, ap­ first wife) for Colby graduates attending "Mike" was at Colby for 15 years be­ plying the principles to the operation of medical schools who are residents of ginning in 1919 and was the first athletic their household. A son and daughter Maine. and the Florence Carleton Kersh­ coach to gain faculty status. Dean collaborated to write of the often hilar­ ner Scholarship Fund for deserving Ernest C. Marriner '13 notes in his ious results in Cheaper and a sequel, young people from Bath-Woolwich and History of Colby College: ''Colby's best Belles on their Toes. She received her Sagadahoc County. His brick citation record in track and field was made in doctorate in philosophy at Brown Uni­ said in part: " ... Many a boy and girl the period between 1910 and 1930. and versity while expecting her sixth child. have been enabled to obtain an educa­ during most of those years Mike Ryan After her husband's death in 1924, she tion because of your help. Your wise was coach." Each year the Mike Ryan maintained his highly successful consult­ planning has been, and will be for years Award is given to the " ...outsta nding ing firm and made it one of the most to come, of material assistance to our performer in the field events.... " prestigious in the field. Between 1928 graduates seeking to follow your pro­ He was born in New York City. and 1952, Mrs. Gilbreth earned 13 mas­ fession ...." Though he left school early to work in ter's or doctoral degrees in engineer­ Dr. Kershner was born at Bigelow the post office, he competed in many ing, psychology and the sciences. She re­ Plantation, and was a graduate of King­ meets and made the 1908 and 1912 ceived many honorary degree and in field High School and Coburn Classical Olympic teams. During that period he 1948, was named "Woman of the Year." Institute. He earned his degree at Mary­ won many prestigious world di5tance In her 80s, Mrs. Gilbreth was develop­ land Medical College and practiced in races, including the 1912 Boston Mara­ ing devices to aid the disabled . At age Pembroke before studying his specialties, thon. Mr. Ryan was selected as a coach 90, her speaking schedule often called ophthalmology and otolaryngology. He for three consecutive Olympic teams be­ for five lectures a week and took her all served the Army Medical Corps for five ginning in 1920. He enhanced his na­ over the world. Four daughters and all years, in the Philippines and during tional reputation as track coach at the six sons survive. Mrs. Gilbreth was also World War I. The doctor had been University of Idaho for 12 years be­ proud of her 30 grandchildren and 22 president of the Maine Medical Associa­ ginning in 1934. He also coached at the great-grandchildren. ''I've been lucky tion and the Medical Association of University of Wyoming, directed an ath­ enough to inherit a good con titution New England, Ophthalmological Society. letic program for the Republic of Guate­ and to have the motivation of knowing He had served a a consultant on the mala, then opened a sporting goods busi­ what I want to do," she remarked a few staff of Waterville's Thayer Hospital. ness with his sons in San Jose where he years ago. "Best of all I grew up in a His wife, Florence, survives. became associated with the Youth Vil­ happy home and now I have many hap­ lage program. In 1964, Mr. Ryan wa py homes." Clarence Cook Little (LLD., '35), a pi­ co-coach of the U.S. men's team which oneer in cancer research, died Dec. 22 in John Mason Kemper (Litt.D., '58) died defeated the Russians in a dual meet at Ellsworth. He founded the renowned Dec. 4 at Phillips Academy (Andover, Stanford. Two year later he was elected Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory Mass.). He had been headmaster since to the Helms Track and Field Hall of 1948 and directed the nation's oldest at Bar Harbor in 1929 after serving as Fame. Surviving are a daughter and five preparatory school through its greatest president of the universities of Maine sons, includ ing Michael ("Jerry") '37; a period of growth. Born into an Army (1922-1925) and Michigan (1925-1 929). sister and a brother; 25 grandchildren family at Fort Russell (Wyo.), he was a Dr. Little had been director-emeritus of and nine great-grandchildren.