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A new century, a fresh start

Leo I. Higdon,}c

THE COLLEGE'S CENTENNIAL in the studio and on the athletic gave him the confidence he needed to seemed far off that August day in fields. They have earned recognition succeed in the international equities 2007 when I welcomed the Class of through fellowships from Goldwater, market. 2011 to campus. As all presidents do, Fulbright and the National Science In her Founders Day keynote I advised the new students to take Foundation, among others. They address, historian Linda Eisenmann full advantage of all the opportunities have studied economics in Argentina, '75, parent of twO Connecticut they would find here. I knew rhey cultural identity in Peru and gender- College graduates, summed up the would be shaped and transformed by based violence in Guatemala. They life-changing experience of this this experience. have become activists and advocates education: "It's the place where On May 22, as 1handed diplomas with initiatives that range from my own scholarly inclinations to each member of the Centennial threatened indigenous populations to were nurtured and my intellectual Class, I reflected on how much these education policy to a re-evaluation of perspectives developed." students accomplished in four years the College's venerable Honor Code. The impact of Connecticut - and how they, like each class that Our newest graduates have College is, indeed, important and preceded them, have left their mark impressed me with their intelligence, far-reaching. Our graduates' success on the College. their talent, and their passion for shows the value of this degree, and Connecticut College today offers engaging important issues on campus I look forward to seeing how the an education that reaches students to and in the world. They are privileged Centennial Class of 20 11 will put cross boundaries between different to have completed a Connecticut their liberal arts education imo action areas of study and solve complex College education, and I hope they in the years ahead. problems by using the tools and will use it to help others - wherever Ihope to see our newest graduates perspectives of multiple disciplines. they go and whatever they do next. and many more alumni at our Just as importanr, this education Connecticut College graduates culminating Centennial celebration, takes place within a residential are capable of anything. In this which will take place Oct. 21-23, setting in which students experience Centennial year, dozens of alumni 2011. This Fall Weekend will include firsthand how their personal choices have come to campus to share their a multimedia production featuring and contributions affect the entire varied experiences with students. the stories of inspiring alumni, community. jonathan McBride '92 talked about professors and students along with The members of the Class of how the College prepared him for life a host of other events and activities. 2011 have made the most of this as a White House staffer. Attorney More details can be found on page education: 132 completed the Lauren Burke '06 explained how her 10 and at http://centennial.conncoll. requiremems for more than one study of Mandarin led to helping edu. Please join us for a once-in- major; 62 earned a certificate from youth trafficked from China. And 1Ou-years celebration of Connecticut one of our interdisciplinary centers. financial analyst Carl Prather '04 said College's Great Beginnings - and They have excelled on the stage, his close relationships with faculty your own .•

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EDITOR; LiIiI H. Brownell My mother, Anne, my aunt Beth and I ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Phoebr Hall - all Conn alumnae - made some ART DIRECTOR I ONLINE EDITOR: Benjamin Parmt (deliciousl) Mystery Mocha courtesy of CO~TRIBUTORS: Melissa Bennett, jon Crispin, Elizabeth Esry Wood-Satran '92's recipe in the Hamilton, Mary Howard, Eileen Jenkins. Charles Lrvandoski Winter 2010 issue ("Ask a Camel"). 73, Alexis Levengood '10, Bob MacDonnell, Amy Marrin, Brandon W Mosley, Barbara Nagy, John Narewski, Andrew We love getting our alumni Nathanson '/3, Whit Richardson '02, Franz Riff, A. Vincrnt magazines - keep up the great work! Scarano, Harold Shapiro. Will Tamasian, Geordie Wood CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR: Karen Laskry Lela Butts '06 CLASS NOTES EDITOR: Samberh Fields Stanfordville, N. Y

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I spent my childhood in what Alumni Office educations bur for helping and improving is now called Woodworth House and remem- Connecticut College the lives of others as they do so. ber much you wrote about. 270 Mohegan Avenue Iwas surprised that with the photo of New London, CT 06320 The College truly provides "a student Eleanor Roosevelt on page 32, you did not or e-mail to alumni@Cof/f/coll.edt, experience without equal." Thank you! II identify the student beside her as Jean Wal- lace Douglas '43, daughter of then-vice presi- Posrlllaster: Send address change" TO Bonnie G. Leflore P'll CC: ConneLrlCUl College Magazine, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New Marlborough, Mass. dent of the United States, Henry Wallace, London, cr 06320-4 I96 Nor was he listed as one of the prominent CONNECTICUT COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES James S. Berrien 74, Chair, William P. Barrack '81, Via Chair, I enjoyed the many groups that you covered speakers - he was Commencement speaker Judith Tindal Opmny '72, Viu Chair, LauraJ. Allen '81, David when Jean graduated. At the time "Demo- W Barber '88, Eduardo Caslell '87, Theodore S. Chapin'72 P'07, in your "Century of Song" article (Winter K""on Copeland '76, Raymond J. Debbane P'09, Constance Smi,h 2010), but wanted to remind you that formal crat" was a four-letter word on campus; I Gemmer '80 P'IO. Claire S. Gould '10, Prescott \XI: Hafner '80, Zoe Klein Henriqun '99, Leo 1. Higdon, Jr., l'raident, Estella Johnson '75, choral music also played a role in the musical trust that's no longer true! Da"ld B. Kelso P'09, LlIlda J. Lear '62, Thembumenzi Lukbele '08, Jean was an attractive and bright young Lynda Banet Munro '76 P'08, John F. Niblack P'98, David H. I'alren life of the College. Between 1968 and 1972, 76 P'04 & '09, Maria C. Pellegrini '69, Theodore M. Romanow '76, to person in her own right. Since, she has Harri, R. Rosenheim '09, Thomas A Sargem '82, W Carter Sullivan while the College was still in transition '79, Sally Susman '84, Franklin A. Tuitt '87, Kevin Wade 76, Pamela co-education, I served as accompanist for headed up her family's foundation. D. Zilly'75 the Connecticut College Chorus, first under ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Margaret Woodhouse Becker Constance Smilh Gemmer '80 P'1 0, f'mi,unt, Tammie Clayton Reid the leadership of Professor James Armstrong '01, Via Prnitknt, Knute Gregg '94, Sternary, Andrew Bogle '94, and then under Professor Paul Althouse. In Baltic, Conn. Carol Blake Boyd '72, Christy Burke '93, Ryan Chan '00, Cynthia Linton Flemmg '54, Martha Gifford '73, Lucie HoblirzeUe lannoni addition to singing challenging repertoire '')7, Mark 1ger '75, Ken Kabel '76 P'll, William Kane '84, Chris r enjoyed reading Linda J. Lear's article, McDaniel '94, EHi Nagai-Rothe '03, Brem N""er '99, Christine Gould for women's chorus, the group planned an Reardon '79, Susan Peck Robinson '65, Usman Sheikh '04, Suunne annual concert with a men's college choir to "Those Extraordinary Hamilton Sisters," in Richmond Simmons '95, Frederick S"mon '96, Jean TIerney Taub the Spring 2011 issue. However, the article left ~~i7~~~~~~b~,~n,J;r.'0~~~d?rd Van Deusen '43, Jamie Bridges perform a substantial composition from the literature for mixed choir, and toured with out one piece of Edith and Alice's lives that CC: Connecncuc College Magazine Copyright 2010 by ConneCtiCUI the YaleApollo Glee Club over spring breaks. has a special importance for Connecticut Col- College"l1 ri.ghts reserved. Reproduction in whole Or in part without lege alumni. Alice's namesake and great-niece, wrlttcn permIssion i, prohibited. Views expressed herein are those of My love of choral music was formed and lhe authors and do nOI necessarily reAect official policy of [he College and Edith's granddaughter, is none other than nurtured at Conn, and I now try to pass that our own Alice Reid Abbott '69. J know Alice along to the high school women's choirs I www.connecticutcollege.edu has a rich fund of information regarding the CC: Connecticut College Magazine is printed on paper with direct. (I also recall the calculation of how a minimum post-consumer recycled content of 10 percent. much Cold Duck we would need to buy for continued on page 4 > Printed in U.S.A. by Lane Press, Burlington, Vr.

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lives of these two esteemed ladies. Alice and I were roommates our sophomore year and friends rhroughour our years at Cc. It is of interest ro note that my grandfather was a beneficiary of Jane Addams' Hull House as a small boy in Chicago. Plants The fact that granddaughters of two families, from different ends of the social spectrum, could for peace eventually become college roommates, with no such conditions as Alice and Edith Hamilron faced as women in their college careers, was characteristic of the possibilities provided by this PLANTS PRODUCE nation's policies during the 20'h century, as well food, encourage community as through the contribution of all three of these collaboration, and, according wonderful women. to Meredith Byrne '13, they can promote peace. On June 11 Nancy Oskow-Schoenbrod '69 the Roots of Peace community garden, funded with a $10,000 Somers, N. Y gram that Byrne received from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis 100 Projects for Peace program, will open in Sraren Island's Ivery much enjoyed the article about "Those Parkhill neighborhood. Many of Parkhill's residents are refugees Extraordinary Hamilton Sisters." My grandfa- from Liberia, displaced by years of instability and civil war. ther was hired in the early 1950s ro tend their "Peace for this population lies not only in the absence of conflict coal furnace, which he did until Alice died, in bur in the security of good health, a sense of self-reliance and 1970. My grandfather died less than a year later, the development of a transnational skill set," said Byrne, an at 80. I was born in 1959 and remember as a little girl going with grandpa ro the Hamilrons' international relations major from Brookside, N.]. A scholar in home to tend the furnace or bring them the the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the mail. In exchange for his work he was allowed Liberal Arts, Byrne eventually hopes to establish community to Jive in William Gillette's secretary's home on gardens in vulnerable communities around the world. the Connecticut River, next door to the ladies. Those 20 years of retirement after farming were the best in my grandparents' life and it was fun for the grandchildren to stay with them fat a few days by the river. The article brought back Man of wire many fond memories. COUNTLESS ARTISTS have CALDER'S Gail Manning Hanson '82 PORTRArTS Higganum, Conn. captured Babe Ruth's portrait, but it's likely only one ever rendered The beautiful Centennial calendar's July 2011 his face from wire and hung it photo speaks of science grads going on to from the ceiling. The portraits careers in medicine, biology and chemistry. lois of Alexander Calder - his Webster Ricklin '44's chemistry degree led to wire mobiles and stabiles as her getting a research job in the same lab where well as drawings and paintings I worked as a chemical engineer, which was a - are now on display at the great reward for me since it led to her being my Smithsonian's National Portrait II N,w lMIaUIIGl' wife for 64 years. The phoro must be from back in my wife's time since the student is not wear- Gallery in Washington, D.C., ing protective clothing or eyewear - a no-no in an exhibit guesr-curared by nowadays. Barbara Zabel, professor emeritus of art Saul Riddin history, who retired this spring after 34 years at Connecticut Bristol, R.1. College. She said Calder's wire portraits "come to life" when they're suspended in air, as their facial expressions seem to

CORRECTION: In "100 years, hundreds of reasons" change. "Calder blurred the line between 'fine art' and popular (Spring 201 1), Tammie Clayton Reid 'OJ s name was and commercial art," said Zabel, who also authored the misspelled. CC: Magazine regrets the error. exhibition catalog. The exhibit runs through Aug. 14.

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"NEW LONDON CALLING," a IO-minute film that follows dozens of children playing games throughout the ciry, resonates with film festival audiences around the U.S. and the world. Rob Richter '82, the College's director of arts programming, got to make this observation firsthand at the 4th Gulf Film Festival in Dubai in

April. "There's a universal aspect [Q the film," said Richter, who produced the film and presented it at the festival. "There's no dialogue - it's just kids being kids." Kinodance Co., a Boston-based artist collaborative, made "New London Calling" as parr of the College's 2009-10 Dayton Artist-in-Residence Program and submitted it to fesrivals around the world; it's won awards from Newark, N.j., to Bologna, Italy. The film's message, lamenting the loss of spontaneous, creative play by tcday's kids, is international. In Dubai, Richter said, "Everybody seemed to enjoy the film."

Fantastic faculty

PROFESSORS Joseph Schroeder, Jennifer Fredricks and Candace Howes, left to right, received the College's highest faculty awards for 2011 at a ceremony in April. Schroeder, assistant professor of neuroscience, received the John S. King Memorial Teaching Award; Fredricks, associate professor of human development, received the Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Research Award; and Howes, the Barbara Hogare Ferrin '43 Professor of Economics Education, received the Helen B. Regan Faculty Leadership Award.

Borrow a bike

SPOKESPEOPLE, the campus bicycle cooperative, launched a bike-share program, called CC Cruisers, in April. Anyone with a Connecticut College library card can check our one of the brightly painted bikes, which were donated to Spokespeople and fixed up by its student members, to use for the day. Spokespeople maintains the bikes and even provides helmets.

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Algae with answers

THE COLLEGE'S BOATHOUSE is home to boats, of course - but also the world's most extensive chrysophyre collection. For more than 30 years, Peter Siver, the Charles & Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Borany, has collected and meticulously preserved thousands of algae specimens from water bodies around the world. Chrysophyres, though tiny- one sliver of mud can hold hundreds of species - have been used to solve murders and help us understand climate change. To make Siver's vast collection more accessible CO other scientists, the National Science Foundation awarded him $149,813 to assemble, catalog and archive his samples and data. "Vast chrysophyre collections simply don't exist, primarily because the samples are difficult to preserve," Siver said; with Spreading the a slight change in temperature or pH, the tiny organisms will literally explode. "With these collections, we will be able to compare data and green around answer a lot of remaining questions." WHEN SCIENTIST JAMIE TUTTLE '99 and two colleagues won the Green SCIENCE FOCUS Chemistry Award from Pfizer Inc., they donated the $5,000 monetary portion of the award co Tuttle's former chemistry professor, Timo Ovaska. The trio won A boon for cancer research the award for devising a more efficient, greener and less expensive way CO produce a THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE awarded $419,375 compound they needed for a Pfizer drug. "J to Professor of Biology Martha]. Grossel to support her ovarian have an allegiance to Connecticut College, cancer research. Grossel investigates what causes the unchecked but also we wanted to recognize a smaller cellular division that is associated with cancer. She and her team, program where the money would have a including undergraduate students, will use the grant to study greater impact in terms of funding," Tuttle the interaction of a specific cell cycle regulatory protein and said about why they gave the money to transcription factor. ''An understanding of how these proteins Ovaska. The Hans and Ella McCollum influence differentiation and cell proliferation is crucial to the '21 Vahlteich Professor of Chemistry said biology of cancer stem cells and development and may advance our he would use the award to fund student understanding of ovarian cancer," Grossel said. stipends for research in his lab. Not monkeying around THIS SUMMER CHRIS KRUPENYE '11, a biological sciences major and 2010 Goldwater Scholar, and scientists from Duke University will study the problem-solving abilities of chimpanzees and bonobos at sanctuaries in the Congo Basin. "The intent is to understand divergent evolution in terms of psychology," Krupenye explained. "We want to know, when we shared an ancestor, what was that ancestor's mind like? How did its brain work?" A 2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship will support his research, with a $30,000 stipend each year for up to three years. Krupenye is the College's second consecutive winner of this competitive award. He was accepted to Duke's Ph.D. program in evolutionary anthropology as parr of the Hominoid Psychology Research Group. "(Apes) are such complex animals, and there is something truly enchanting about their exceptional intellect," he said.

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Ready for the world

PABLO TUTILLO '13 IS ONE STEP CLOSER to his dream of becoming a foreign diplomat: The international relations major received a 20] 1 Institute for International Public Policy fellowship. Valued at nearly $100,000, the five-year program helps talented students from underrepresented groups pursue careers in international affairs through financial aid and career development, including summer policy institutes, a study abroad program, an internship, language study and graduate school. A native of Ecuador, Turillo is fluent in Spanish and English and is studying French and Arabic; he shares his love of languages as a volunteer tutor at local elementary schools. With a self-designed minor in Middle Eastern studies, he wants to serve as a diplomat in the Middle East, Asia or Larin America. "This fellowship means the world to me -literally," Turillo said. "1 want to be out there in the world making an effective and lasting difference."

Award-winning Voice Looking forward, THE COLLEGE VOICE, the weekly student newspaper, won first prize for general news reporting from the northeast region of the looki g ack Society of Professional Journalists this spring. The award-winning story, co-auth~red by Ben Gitkind '10 and Lilah Raptopoulos '11, TWO CONFERENCES covered the plagiarism by Peter St. John '09, the student speaker in April examined at his Commencement, who was later found to have copied large race and gender IECll'flUtlCS sections of his talk from a speech by writer Barbara Kingsolver. This through the lens of the is the first such award for The Voice in recent history. College's Centennial. A 100 symposium on the history and future of diversity at the College, sponsored by the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnlciry, From farm to dining hall featured a keynote address by Robert L. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NEW ENGLAND WINTER, Hampton, a former sociology professor and dean of the College. He credited the students still could eat local foods on campus, at Harris Refectory's students who led the Fanning takeover in new local and regional salad bar. Selections change with the 1986 with pushing the College to change. seasons; at its February debut the spread included black currant "We wouldn't be here today celebrating juice from Connecticut; carrots, squash salad and sprouts from this event if it weren't for those courageous Massachusetts; tomatoes from Maine; onions and fresh bread students," he said. Two weeks later, the from New York; and cage-free eggs from New Hampshire. "The gender and women's studies department local salad bar really makes students aware of the efforts of Dining hosted Paula J. Giddings, a professor of Services to meet the demands of students," said Taylor Gould '13. Afro-American studies at Smith College, who spoke about the College's founding in the context of the contemporary women's rights movement. Giddings also joined a panel offaculty who discussed 1911 from the perspective of their disciplines, including Hispanic studies and economics.

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They say it's your birthday

Founders Day celebration marks College'sCentennial

MUSIC, CAKE, TEA AND LAUGHTER the campus made their way to Tempel Green were the key ingredients for a perfect where, accompanied by 100 tolls of the Harkness BEGINNINGS Founders Day celebration on April 5, 2011, Chapel bell, they assembled in the shape of the the loath anniversary of the signing of the number 100. College charter. "It's an exciting day for Connecticut College," Students, faculty, staff, emeriti professors 100 President Leo Higdon, Jr., said at the Founders 'OIJN'HD 10" I. and other friends of the College sang along Day Tea and 100th Birthday Patty that followed. with the Chamber Choir at the premiere of the Centennial "I truly believe that if our founders could be here today Song, watched a humorous take on the College's founding and see all that this college has accomplished in 100 years, story by the student improv group N20, signed a giant and the positive future we have ahead, they would be just copy of the College charter to be used at the bicentennial, as proud as I am right now." and heard a keynote speech by Linda Eisenmann '75 P'03 Connie Smith Gemmer '80 P'lO, trustee and chair of '07 abour the founding of the College. the Alumni Association Board of Directors, also addressed "Women who sought college, especially in the decades the crowd as they sipped tea and munched on sweets. ''As before 1910, were often quite serious scholars who recog- an alumna of the College, I couldn't be more proud of this nized the unusual opportunity they had been given," said institution," she said. Eisenmann, provost and professor of education and history The day concluded with a special dinner in Har- at Wheaton College. "But before 1900, there were few ris and a performance by Shake the Baron, a band respectable options other than teaching for females to earn comprised of alumni and a current student. a living outside their homes." The College will continue ro celebrate the Cen- Eisenmann said that as a historian of education, she has tennial throughout 2011, and Eisenmann explained come to realize just how important the College has been to why the commemoration is important. her own story. "What value is there in examining our history bit "Conn isn't just any other school 1 might by bit over the course of this wonderful year of study; it's the place where my own schol- recognition?" she asked. "I think my son arly inclinations were nurtured and my (Matt '07) said it best in that we must intellectual perspectives developed," use the strength of the past as a base she said. "In fact, I realized much later for constructing the future. that I became a historian of women's "There is much power in this education because Conn, and the history, and I am delighted gift of its scholarship - both intel- that we are focusing lectual and financial, I might add our lens on it." - completely changed my life's - Eileen Jenkins course." and Amy Martin After Eisenmann's lecture, the audience and others from across

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Thank you, I.&A.;A&I ......

ON MARCH 1, 1911, jubilant New Londoners marched lip Stare Street co celebrate rhe condusion of their wildly successful campaign co found a new college for women in the city. Exactly 100 years later, Connecticut College and New London celebrated their century-long connection with a reception mat drew hundreds of city residents, community officials and activists, and

students, faculty and staff to State Street. President Lee Higdon presented New London Mayor Martin T. Olsen Jr. '95 with a proclamation honoring the city. Olsen, in rum, presented Higdon with a proclamation making March 1 "Connecticut College Day" in the ciry

Singing our birthday song

THE COLLEGE HAS A NEW SONG for a new century. Richard Schenk, a musician and composer in the dance department, and Ann Livingston Schenk M'O 1, an instructor at a '.."l1li.... New London magnet school, won the Centennial Song Contest. The couple co-wrote the lyrics for the Centennial Song, and Richard Schenk composed the music. "I've been a lifelong songwriter," he said. "1 really love taking text and setting it to music. When it works, it is just the greatest thing." All students, alumni, and current and former faculty and staff members were invited to write original music and lyrics for a new song, which was performed for the first time by the To hear a performance of the Centennial Chamber Choir at the Founders Day celebration on April 5. song from Founders Day, read the lyrics As winners, the Schenks received a $1,500 grand prize. and download the sheet music, scan the Their song will be performed at celebrations throughout code at teff with your smarf phone, or go to the Centennial year and into the future. WWI< conncotl.edulcentennia// 11719.htm.

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Fall Weekend is coming, and ... 100fOUNOEo n, I

FALLWEEKEND 2011 will be the premier event of the College's Centennial year, and we're planning a celebration of historic proportions. Come to campus Oct. 21-23 to take part in all the traditional Fall Weekend favorites - Harvesrfest, an all-group a cappella concert and a picnic on Tempel Green - as well as special events to mark this significant milestone in the history of the College. Palmer Auditorium is the place to be Saturday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. for the culminating event of the Centennial, a multimedia production modeled on the popular TED conferences. The event will feature short, inspirational talks and performances by alumni, faculty, staff and students combined with video and digital content. Many other special events will pack the weekend schedule: a celebration of the new Science Center at New London Hall, which will be under construction; an alumni post-game parry after the men's soccer team takes on the Coast Guard Academy on Tempel Green; an onStage performance by the Mingus Big Band; and Saturday evening fireworks. On Friday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m., Sara Radlinski, former director of the College's Children's Program, and Margaret Sheridan '67, professor emerita, will speak on the history of the College's human development program, followed by a reception for human development and education alumni. The theater department is planning a special Centennial production, "Foundations, Dreams and Inspirations," with afternoon and evening performances throughout the weekend. So mark your calendar and plan to join alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff for the festivities this fall. For more information, visit http://fallweekend. conncoll.edu or contact the Office of Alumni Relations at [email protected].

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Pool of conten rs Eight qualify for NCAA swim championship

IN NINE SEASONS lOO-yard back, Walsh placed third with a record-setting time as head coach of of 1:47.99. He garnered All-America honors in both events. the men's and "Tim is such a competitor," Benvenuti said. "He will race women's swimming whoever he's in the pool with. From a training standpoint, he and diving team, is meticulous about how he does things. Anything he does in Marc Benvenuti has practice is going to look an awful lot like this in a meet." enjoyed remarkable The Camels turned in an impressive performance at the success. Under his NESCAC Championship as well. The men placed fifth with

watch the team 756 points, while the women set a program record of I J 144 has finished in the points en route to their fourth-place finish. top echelons of A program-best eight Camels qualified for the NCAA the league in the championship: Ryan Dignan '14 joined Walsh on the men's past few years, and team; first-time qualifiers Erika Fernandes '13, Katie Karlson several swimmers have garnered , 13, Caitlin Munns' 11, Jessica Schanzer '13 and Julia Pielock multiple All-America honors. '14 joined Murphy Nonetheless, this year he decided to try something dif- in her third appear- ferent. He got rid of captains, and instead all of the seniors ance. All six women formed a leadership group to take ownership of the program. received All-America The experiment paid off. The women finished 1411, in the recognition. country with 69 points at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Murphy appre- Championship in March, while the men were 25'h with 33 ciates everything points. They amassed 16 All-America swims and shattered 11 Benvenuti has done school records along the way. to push the team "(Benvenuti) recognizes that in order to win and to to a higher level of achieve individual and team goals in swimming, you have to success. be fearless," said Sarah Murphy '11, who garnered All-Amer- "He has taught ica honors in five events at the NCAA championship. "You us not to be afraid of can't be afraid of winning or losing - and so you must be failure by setting the willing to take risks, even if doing so means risking failure." bar high and holding In her most impressive swim, Murphy placed third in the us to an equally high 200-yard butterfly, with a record-setting time of2:01.35. standard," she said. Benvenuti was amazed by what he witnessed. - Will Tomasian "She was just mowing down the field in the last 50 yards," he said. "At the 100-yard mark, she was sixth. She just kept getting stronger. Everything came together and it was awe- some." Tim Walsh '12 accounted for all of the Camel scor- SWIMMING SUCCESS ing in the men's championship. He posted a time of 48.99 STORIES: TIM WALSH seconds to finish as the national runner-up in the lOO-yard '12 (ABOVE LEFT) AND backstroke, just .60 seconds behind the winning pace. In the SARAH MURPHY '11

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Sailing to second place Bouncing back

A LATE RALLY ON THE FINAL DAY of competition WOMEN'S TENNIS won four of landed the women's sailing ream in second place in their last five matches to finish 3-5 the Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA National Championship in league play, their best in recent at Cascade Locks, Ore., in May. Strong performances years. Cassie Smith '13 andJen by Atlantic Brugman '13, Elizabeth Wilsrerman '12 Herbert '13 continued to improve and Lucy Wallace' I3 in the A division and Maggie as key cogs in the starting lineup. Shea' 11 and Sreph Kapinos' 13 in the B division Becca Heupel' 11 and Caroline secured the Camels' second-place finish, our of 18 Barone '11 closed our their careers reams. "Our philosophy was to keep calm and sail with wins in their final match on," Shea said. "It was a really strong effort." against Hamilton, Led by Craig Stanton '11 and Trevor Prophet'l1 (left), the men finished 12-10. ]effWeisbetger '12 had a huge spring at No.2 singles, and George King' 13 is developing CAMELS W///////#/#////////h into one of the top talents in the conference at No.3. SPRING SPORTS ROUNDUP 70 CAMElS named to Clay Hillyer '12 - first team NESCAC Mark Mangano '11, Chuck Czerkawski '12 - second team All-Academic Katelyn Driscoll '12 - second team Team

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WOMEN'S WATER POLO THE CAMELS ROWED to placed sixth at the Division III victory at the New England Rowing Championship. Emily Hunter ' 12 Championship in ApriL The (43 goals) and Kristin Lampley '13 women's varsity four posted the MIKE LEDUC '14 CAPPED OFF A MEMORABLE (59) made a formidable offensive second-fastest time in championship ROOKIE SEASON WITH A SIXTH·PLACE FINISH IN THE 3,OOO-METER STEEPLECHASE AT THE duo for the Camels to build on in history (7:36) to bring home the NCAA DIVISION III OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD the future. Both were named to gold; the women's team also won one CHAMPIONSHIP IN MAY, THE CANTON, CONN., the Division III All-Tournament FRESHMAN MADE THE ALL-NESCAC MEN'S TRACK other gold medal and a bronze. & FIELD TEAM AND GARNERED ALL-NEW ENGLAND second ream; Hunter also made The men won gold in the novice DIVISION III HONORS EARLIER THIS SEASON. LAST All-Conference. four regatta. FALL, HE WAS NAMED THE NESCAC MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY ROOKIE OF THE YEAR.

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,- ...... onnecrions was the theme of the College's 93rd Earlier in the ceremony, Commencement - connections to history. to President Leo 1. Higdon, each other, and, as keynote speaker Cynthia Jr., presented Enloe with Enloe '60 pointed out, to the world at large. an honorary doctorate Enloe, research professor of International of humane letters. During Development, Community and Environment his remarks, Higdon said the '--~ at Clark University, reid the 452 members Cen tennial Class will always have a of the Centennial Class that connections come with special connection to the College's history. responsibility. "You have the unique experience of graduating "There've always been connections when the College is celebrating its 1DOth between labor and education, between ~cc anniversary," Higdon said. "Every gender and class," she said, "bur commencement is an opportunity to actually thinking about the -GP 2011. look back and to look ahead. Your connections ... should make us MAM commencement is special because uneasy, because it brings a sense of the whole college is looking with you." responsibility." Class speaker Charles Lincoln Wesley' II Enloe drew connections between the of Spokane, Wash., spoke about how the College 1911 Triangle Sh irtwaist Factory fire and the prepared him and his classmates to meet the challenges founding of Connecticut College in the same year. The of a quickly changing world. pioneering women and men who chartered the College "We will all have to adapt to new ways of life, new just two weeks after the fire would be thinking about their social norms, new technologies, shifts in the global power shirtwaists and fashionable clothing and wondering who balance and perhaps significant changes in our earth's made them and at what cost, Enloe environment," he said. "The Class of 2011 said. She urged the graduates to look - the Centennial Class - is ready to not at their own clothing labels and think only accept whatever change comes our abour their connections to garment way, bur to manage that change, influence workers allover the world. it and rum it into a positive experience, "May you thrive," she told the JUStlike we have been doing for the past graduates. " ... Bur may you thrive in a four years of our lives. way that enhances the justice and the "Be ambitious," Wesley advised his safety and the dignity of every person classmates. "Don't shy away from the who has made the clothes that you are future .... Never forget that it belongs wearing today." to us.".

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HDNORS & AWARDS Connecticut College Medal Sylvia Pasternack Marx '57 John Niblack P'98

Honorary Degree Cynthia Enloe '60

Oakes and Louise Ames Prize Erin Margaret Wilson '11

- Anna Lord Strauss Medal Celia C Whitehead '11

Davis Projects for Peace Grant Brigid Dewitt D'Gorman '11

Fulbright Grant for Teaching Matea lIic '11 Michael Scharf' 11 Kristen Lee Tamburro '11

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Christopher Nicholas Krupenye '11 Kelsey Patricia Taylor '11

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Christopher Nicholas Krupenye '11

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Graduates 452 Bachelor of Arts degrees 3 Masfer of Arts degrees 30 states represented Students with multiple majors 21 international graduates, 13l double majors from 15 countries 1 triple major 248 students studied abroad Latin honors 323 participated in 51 Summa cum laude community learning and service 74 Magna cum laude 92 Cum laude 98% gave to the College through the senior giving program Departmental honors (a new record) 13 honors study in the major 41 honors study and distinction in the major 166 distinction in the major field

Certificates earned Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology: 3 Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment 11 Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy: 18 Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts: 30 Museum Studies: 4 Connecticut Teacher Certification Program: 11

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INCE THE FOUNDING More recent graduates, particu- of the Peace Corps larly, have been influenced by the 50 years ago, many opportunities for study- more than 200 ing abroad and the College's Connecticut emphasis on public service. College "Conn is such a huge alumni have served in feeder for the Peace its ranks. Both the Corps that it was almost College and the Peace expected that you Corps have changed would do something considerably over like that, because Conn the course of a half really fostered a love century. bur what for being interested in haven't changed are all things internation- the core values shared al," says Manko Wilcox by both organizations. '99, who volunteered in These values - Ghana from 1999-2001. service to others, global "I guess you could say

citizenship and the pursuit Conn encouraged me [Q be of personal growth - have a world citizen." helped make Connecticut Wilcox participated in the College one of the Peace Corps' College's first Study AwayTeach top volumeer-producing schools in Away program in Vietnam and took the country, ranked at No. 13 among advantage of other opportunities. Now small colleges and universities. T head of the reference section of the Eighteen Connecticut College Jefferson County Public Library in alumni are curremly serving in the Colorado, she has visited at least 15 Peace Corps, bringing the total to ~ ~ I GUESS YOU countries since leaving the Corps - a 211 since 1961, according to Vinnie lust for travel she attributes to her Wickes, northeast regional manager COULD SRY CONN time in Africa. for the Corps. Wicks credits the For older graduates, especially College's top-down suppOrt for the ENCOURRGED ME those who attended the College before program, starting with President the 1969 transition to coeducation, Leo 1. Higdon [r., himself a former the impetus more often came from volunteer. Peace Corps recruiters appreci- TO BERWORLO outside the College. President John ate the support provided by the College's F. Kennedy's call to public service career counselors and the "progressive, in- CITIZEN." inspired many, as did the civil rights telligem and enthusiastic student body," movement. Wickes says. -MARIKOWllCDX'99, ''I'd been very active in the civil rights Although each one has a unique background and GHANA movemem. I was down South a lot in the 1960s motivation, volunteers from Connecticut College tend and I think that's what made me want to go to to share some common traits. In interviews about their Africa," says Karin Kunstler Goldman '65, who Peace Corps experience, they often cite curiosity served in Senegal from 1966-68 with her husband, about the world around them, a love of travel and a Neal Goldman. desire to help others. Most also say that their time at Goldman, a daughter of the civil rights lawyer the College - whether they graduated last year or William Kunstler, is a section chief in the charities 40 years ago - honed their instincts for service and division of the New York State Attorney General's learning in a direct, hands-on way. office.

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Deborah Nichols Losse '66 was RRNKS#13 ON Jonarhan McLean '08. who in high school when Kennedy cook recently returned from a two-year office. Like so many other young THE PERCE CORPS' LIST stint in Kenya and is now a software people, she responded to his idea of consultant in Singapore. says op- the Peace Corps and his challenge OFTHETDP portunities at Connecticut College. to serve their country. She and her such as spending pare of his junior husband, John Losse, got married on year studying in Australia, led him CO a Tuesday and joined the Peace Corps VOLUNTEER-PRODUCING the Peace Corps. the following Saturday; they taught "I really atrribure a lor of my per- together at an all-male secondary SMRLL COLLEGES IN sonal growth to my years at Conn," school in Karsina, Nigeria. Mclean says, "There were so many Losse, who recently retired as THE COUNTRY. opportunities to become a bigger dean of humanities in the College of person and extend your thoughts Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona beyond your own personal sphere." State University, remembers the "spirit of activism that McLean joined the Corps at the same time as his was bubbling up at Conn and elsewhere." friend Adrian Stover '08, a French and music major who "It was just in the air," she says. taught English for two years in For Phoebe Goodwin '94, who served in Gambia from the Angkor Chum district of 1994-96, the decision to join the Peace Corps stemmed Cambodia. Stover graduared with in part from a desire co better understand herself. a certificate from the Toor Cum-

"I wanted [0 know what pare of my values were really mings Center for lnremational my true values regardless of what culture I was in, and Studies and the Liberal Arts. He what would change when I was in a different culture," spent his CIS LA summer intern- says Goodwin, who now teaches high school math and ship in Morocco, working for a chemistry in Arizona. "1 discovered that a lot of the values music festival. I have are really core values that don't change." Before applying for the Peace R BONDING EXPERIENCE RfTER THE PERCE CORPS' FOUNDING IN 1961, MRNY YOUNG PEOPLE VOLUNTEEREO RS COUPLES. CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: PRESIOENT lEO I. HIGDON, JR., RNO HIS WIFE, RNN, TRUGHT RT R RURRl SCHOOL IN MRlRWl, WHERE THE FIRST OF THEIR FOUR CHILDREN WRS BORN. DEBORRH NICHOLS LOSSE'66 RNO HER HUSBRND, JOHN, TRUGHT RT RN Rll-BOYS SCHOOL IN KRTSINR, NIGERIR. KRRIN KUNSTlER GOLOMRN '65 RNO HER HUSBRNO, NER~ SERVEO IN MECKHE, SENEGR~ WHERE SHE HElPEO SET UP WEll-BRBY CliNICS.

Corps, Stover consulted a number of people, includ- a remote vil1age in western Ethiopia, the Peace Corps was ing Higdon, who volunteered for the Peace Corps with a logical next step after spending a semester in Vietnam his wife, Ann, in a remore village in Malawi in the late with other Connecticut Col1ege students and faculty. 1960s. Today, Stover works in Washingwo, D.C., for "I wanted to challenge myself," Wantman says. "I had the Asia Society and has been accepted into a master's studied abroad, but living with a host family for three program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Inter- months, being immersed in a completely different culture national Studies. and language, and then navigating a rural town by your- "For a long time, Conn has had a strong study-abroad self as the only white person for two years is a completely program and an international focus," Stover says. "Even different experience. I've grown a lot, having to fend for before I did CISLA, I used to eat in the international din- myself and figure everything am on my own." ing hall, hang our at the Turkish table, and practice my Ethan Budiansky '99, a zoology major, cells a similar French at the French table. It was great." story. He studied abroad his junior year in a Kenyan wild- Mary Devins, associate director of CISLA, says stu- life management program. dents in the certificate program are a "natural fit" for the "That experience really opened my eyes," says Budi- Peace Corps. "(The Peace Corps) is not just a journey of ansky, who served as an agroforescry volunteer in Senegal observing," Devins says. "In most cases it really from 2002-04. "There's no sense trying to is tied into giving back, looking at developing I!J protect the habitat of the cheetah unless you countries and populations less fortunate than ... deal" with the human aspect of the problem. they are. And it always changes their lives, no r Through that, you protect the environment." matter where chey go." International experiences also led Seth For Alissa Wantman '07, now volunteering in IIf!l "~ Stulen '07 and Katlyn Morris '02 to the Peace SCRN TO RERD MORE! OR VISIT [[ONlINE.[ONNCOI.LEDU

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Corps. Srulen, an international relations major, studied "Professor Lizarralde was a big influence," Morris says. in Spain his junior year. With funding from the College's "I also went ro some motivational interviews with some Career Enhancing Life Skills (eELS) program, he interned alumni through career services (eELS) my senior year. A for six weeks in an indigenous community in the Andes. bunch of them said I should try the Peace Corps, and it JUSt Today, he is spending his third year in Panama as regional reminded me that was a dream I'd had." coordinator for the Peace Corps. None of these accounts surprises the eELS career Morris, who served in counselors, who have helped Guatemala from 2003-05, some of the College's best and majored in environmen- brightest undertake the lengthy tal studies and Hispanic Peace Corps application pro- studies and also studied in cess. Spain. She credits Associate "This college leans toward Professor of Erhnobotany service learning," says Lori Manuel Lizarralde with Balanric, an associate director sparking her fascination of eELS. "Students who come with Latin America; she is here typically want to study now at the University of abroad and do internships. Vermont, earning a Ph.D. They have that sense of in agricology and rural live- challenge and adventure.". lihoods in Central America. . .-~

22 CC,CO'lNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 hen he graduated from Con- website was stagnant. It wasn't evolving with the changing necticut College in 1986, Jay media landscape. Lauf dreamed of becoming a writer Lauf already knew how to resuscitate a magazine. He'd at a news magazine like Time, which come to The Atlantic from Wired, where he was hired he respected for its role in the national as advertising director in 2001, right after the dot-com conversation. But, after a year trying to bubble burst. Drew Schutte, Wired's publisher at the make it as a journalist in Washington, D.C., rime, said Lauf was a good fit. "Wired is a magazine about Lauf moved home to Connecticut. There he had a job ideas," says Schutte, now chief revenue officer at Conde interview that would lead him to a corner office above Nast. "(Lauf) is very curious, and that curiosity gives him Manhattan's Madison Avenue and straight to the heart of a genuine interest in new ideas." that national conversation. fu Lauf moved up Wired's ladder - he became Tall and slim, Lauflooks younger than his 46 years, publisher in 2006 - the magazine bounced back from an but deep lines under his eyes hint at the 60- to 70-hour abyss that had already swallowed many other technology weeks he regularly putS in as publisher and vice publications. He rallied a team around the brand and president of The Atlantic. Founded in found himself with "rhe coolest job in publish- 1857 by Ralph Waldo Emerson and a mg." cadre of contemporary New Eng- As a publishing executive, Lauf land intellectuals, the magazine 'Tm often relies on the analytical and is regaining its position in the an English critical thinking skills he acquired intellectual forum. in college. "I have to be able to On the cover of The Atlan- and history major, take what is often an arcane sub- tic's April 20 II issue, a raised ject matter and articulate that to fist grips an iPhone, symbol- AND I'M WORKING NOW FOR A an advertising audience," he says. izing technology's role in "... That's a bir of skill set and revolutions in the Middle East MAGAZINE THAT'S THE ARST PLACE muscle memory that 1 probably and elsewhere. Ir could also flex every day." symbolize what brought Lauf to ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAS Those skills were a moveable where he is today: the power of feast, of course, and he brought them connections. Back in 1987, Lauf in- EVER PUBLISHED." along to The Arlanric. He led the publi- terviewed at Sumner Communications, cation into the 2]51century by emphasizing which publishes trade magazines, for what a "digital first" strategy for news and integrating he thought was a writing job, but the company's his sales team to handle print and digital advertising, owner offered him a job in ad sales instead. something not yet typical in the industry. "I rook the job on the spot," Lauf recalls. "I thought, Lastyear,The Atlantic turned a profit for the first time in 'I'll soil my hands with this dirty ad sales business for six decades.Ninety percent of the content on theatlanric.com months to get back on my feet, and then I'll go back to is original to the site. Irs "unique visitors" grew from my writing.' Twenty-two years later, I never went back." 500,000 in the month of January 2007 to 5.1 million in "I felt fortunate every day that he worked for me," January 2011, while digital ad revenue doubled. owner SCOttSumner says. "He is - to this day - the The magazine's turnaround has not been lost on hardest-working guy I ever had here at Sumner Com- industry insiders. Advertising Age magazine named Lauf munications, and the most dedicated. and as honest as _ along with Justin Smith, president of Atlantic Media anyone else I've ever come across." Co. - Publishing Executives of the Year in 2010. Lauf himself has no regrets about his choice. "I'm an Lauf still works long hours but balances his family life English and history major, and I'm working now for a _ he has a wife and two children - with the demands magazine that's the first place Ernest Hemingway was ever of his job by being "very. very protective of weekends," he published. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Nabokov says. "Because, in the end, my family is more important to have all written for this magazine. That's a pretty linear me than any job would be." path," he says. But Lauf says he's not going anywhere anytime soon: Despite its storied history, by April 2008, when Lauf "There are still challenges ahead for The Atlantic that became publisher, The Atlantic had fallen on hard times. I think will be interesting and intriguing for some time The magazine was losing at least $5 million a year. Irs to come.".

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24 CC,CONNECTICUT COLLEGe MAGAZINE SUMMER 20ll " MY TEACHING AT THE COLLEGE ) has been like a giant collage/assemblage with multiple. changing , parts - newly enrolling students, evolving curriculum, and varied lectures and activities. all of which have informed my art and life," observes Professor Maureen McCabe, who retired this spring. "In fact, if you change the 'e' to an 'a' in college. you have collage!" "Swan Song," on exhibit in Cummings Arts Center this winter, featured a retrospective of McCabe's work from each of the four decades she taught at Connecticut College. Now the Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor Emeritus of Art, McCabe creates her works from disparate materials - including drawn images, toys, prints, coins, tokens, cards and countless found objects - that are woven into complex narratives of ancient mythology, Celtic history and popular American culture. McCabe personally selected a few of these works for this CC: Magazine feature, choosing some of her favorites from each decade. There are other important "works" in McCabe's portfolio, however, that cannot be hung on a wall or exhibited. While creating her own art she has helped to determine the direction her students have taken. as artists and in many other fields. The tributes from her former students, and a selection of their work, formed a major component of the professor's final exhibit on campus. The shared memories from more than 40 alumni and students proved without a doubt that there will never be a "swan song" for the free- spirited McCabe or those she inspires.

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HER DAZZlING PERSONALITY and PROFESSOR MAUREEN MCCABE ageless joie de vivre made it became my art mom. She was my impossible to avoid being drawn evidence I didn't have to "grow info her lessons. Her classes were out of it." With her encouragement. like another world. She noticed I decided to grow into it. meanings and connections in McCabe showed me the way and art that others so often missed. suddenly, everything that I was, To this day I don't know how she collected, lived. made sense. She manages to give some critiques glued together the elements of with a straight face, especially Jenn Collins the way she taught during life drawing when she me how to use the appropriate would circle around the room adhesives, calculating archival making side-splitting comments appropriateness. In her I saw a like "Eric, have you ever drawn reflection, and she supported my a breast before? You've gotta growth creatively. I was given give it some weight!" I remember the gift of self-confidence and going to New York City to see validation that only on amazing a show and Suki Boynton and I were walking arm in arm on teacher and incredible artist the way to the gallery when suddenly a cheeky bird swooped can give to her student. in and dropped a deuce on both of us. Much to our surprise, - Jenn Collins '98 Professor McCabe was thrilled and exclaimed with fervor, "Girls, this will bring yeeears of good luck!" Such was the nature of this feisty woman. - Andrea Packard '07 . ~ ~ . ' READ MORE TRIBUT.ES AT CCONLlNE.CONNCOLL.EDU ..' "'. . - . '.

PROFESSOR MAUREEN MCCABE. who joined the faculty in J 971, earned her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has an extensive record of museum and gallery exhibitions in the Americas and Europe. Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York represents her work and featured her in a major 2009 exhibition and publication, "The Image in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary." She has received many grants and awards inclUding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. For excellence in teaching, Connecticut College gave her the 1997-98 John S. King Memorial Teaching Award.

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WALLS ARE COMING DOWN, old mechanical systems are coming out and the steel beams for the soaring new addition will soon be on their way. Construction of the Science Center at New London Hall moved into high gear after a groundbreaking on May 21, the day before Commencement. Science faculty, alumni and parem leaders, and College officialsdonned hardhars and grabbed shovels to begin the work with some energetic - if ceremonial - shoveling outside the building's east entrance. The state-of-the-art labs and classrooms in the new center are important to the academic program for all students and will help the College continue to attract the best students and faculty, said President Leo I. Higdon, Jr. The project is also important to the College as a community, he added. New London Hall was built in 1914-15 to be the new college's science building, but for many years it provided the only acadeinic space.

"New London Hall connects us (Q our past more tangibly than any other place on campus. This is where our first students met their professors for classes, where they practiced music, where clubs gathered, where convocations were held," Higdon said. Now, he said, "New London Hall doesn't just embody our history. It embodies our furure." The $20 million-plus project will transform the building into a center for the life sciences - biology and botany - and computer science. A 4,600-square-foot addition will expand the amount of space for research and teaching by 28 percent. The center will anchor a "Science Triangle" with the nearby EW Olin Science Center and Hale Laboratory, which house most of the College's other science programs. The work is funded through the Campaign for Connecticut College with a grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and by leadership support from several alumni and parents (see sidebar, next page). Dean of the Faculty Roger Brooks recalled the early planning phases for the building. A visiting team from a foundation had just toured New London Hall. "They commented to me during their exit interview CONTINUED NEXT PAGE

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that the science being pursued by OUf faculty and their students was incredible, absolutely first-rate," Brooks said, Annual Fund pushing for record pausing briefly, "despite the condition of the facilities. FOR TOM SARGENT '82, IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIDE. "One of them said to me, 'Imagine what your faculty and students will do when you build this.' " Brooks smiled Supporting the College shows pride for our alma mater, broadly. "Well, we're building it now." says Sargent, chair of the Annual Fund. "Each and every gift, no matter the size, counts. Truly, all gifts add up to make a The Science Center is scheduled co open in September big difference," he says. This is how:' 2012. While the building is off-line in 2011-12, classes and labs that would have been in New London Hall will instead be held in the Arboretum building that once housed the • 50 gifts of $25 further our "green campus" initiatives, from Science Center of Eastern Connecticut. the student-managed organic garden to our campus-wide energy conservation program. • 30 gifts of $1 00 provide a summer internship for a student to explore professional or academic interests. Internships give students invaluable experiences outside the classroom. • 60 gifts of $500 provide a year of financial aid for a student '. I I ••I to transform New London Hall who might otherwise not be able to enroll. into a state-of-the-art center for the life sciences and computer science is funded through the Campaign for Connecticut The fiscal year closes June 30, and the Annual Fund C1lllegewith a grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation is poised to raise a record $5 million. "If all the people and hy leadership support from these alumni and parents: who gave last year renewed their gift, we would beat 50 percent participation," Sargent says. "It would be such a Judith Ammerman '60 Helen Fricke Mathieson '52 great accomplishment in the Centennial year, but most Marshall and Margaret Judilh Tindal Opatrny '72 importantly it would make a great impact for roday's Bartleff P'93 '97 Mary Lake Polan '65 P'02 'lD students." Elizabelh Castle Halsey '73 P'OO Frances GJilmore Pratt '60 P'89 To give, go to http://giving.conncoll.edu or look for the David and Sara Kelso P'09 Jean Curtin Tempel '65 envelope in this magazine. Linda J. Lear '62 An anonymous alumna

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Tell us about your life today. I'm one of the luckiest people I know. I play golf with birds and alligators during the winter in Florida and in summers I enjoy long walks with Moses, my golden Do you have a favorite memory from your retriever, near our house in New Hampshire. I have three children and nine grandchildren. time on campus? I vividly remember all the time I spent in New London Why did you choose Connecticut College? Hall. My freshman year I took nutrition and health in that building. My connection to that part of the campus I really liked the College; it was my favorite. I loved is one of the reasons why I decided to support the the size of the school and it had the classes that I was Science Center renovation. I know what it once was, interested in. It just felt more like home to me. and I have a unique perspective to see all that it can be. What drew you to study economics? How do you feel about the plans for I actually started out studying home economics. I wanted to own an inn in New Hampshire. Midway transforming New London Hall? through school, I switched my major to economics, Delighted! Thrilled to pieces! which included classes in retail. I was able to intern at G. Fox during my sophomore and junior year. Why do you feel it's important to give back to the College? What did you like most about Connecticut I give back to the College because it makes me feel College? good. My father taught us about social responsibility. I loved the accessibility of the staff and the faculty. Giving back is one of the most rewarding things I've The feeling of family was very strong on campus and I been able to accomplish in my life. I think others would always felt like I was an integral part of everything that benefit from the feeling of well being you gain from supporting such a wonderful institution .• was happening.

CC,CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGHINE SlIldldER 2011 29 BIOGRAPHER WRITING about of the life of Carl Kim- mons '73 would be hard-pressed to select the best beginning for his story. It could begin with the 20-year-old Carl enlisting in the segregated U.S. Navy in 1940, or aboard a Navy tender off Hawaii JUSt hours after the attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. "When we heard the news it was unbelievable," Kimmons says, recall- ing that fateful day. All had been calm aboard his ship, the seaplane tender McFarland. "We'd even had an awning and some deck chairs topside. Bur in a matter of minutes we threw those deck chairs overboard: we were at war. They sent us right to the from lines." Bur there are other turning points in his srory, such as graduating magna cum laude from Connecticut College at the age of 53. Whether deep in the ocean aboard an attack submarine or deep in his studies as a first-rime college student, Kimmons is someone who stays the course. The great-grandson of a Mississippi slave and a slave owner, he is a humble man who during his 91 years has helped to shatter racial barriers by his example and given himself to a life of service to others. Kimmons was raised in a poor family in Hamilton, Ohio, an integrated neighborhood just a shore distance from segregated Kentucky. Having to sit in the rear of the bus and back of the movie the- A QUIET HERO: ater was an experIence CARL KIMMONS '73 he says he will always remember. In 1940, when he enlisted in Now 91 years old, the Navy, his firsr duty this former history teacher made history himself station was in Norfolk, as one of thefirst African-American naval officers and a WWII hero Va., where segregation was commonplace. The

30 CC,CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 only billet open to him as a black also credits professors recruit was that of mess attendant- such as Bill Cibes, officer cook and steward, a position Richard BirdsaJiand in which black men (and some Ruby Turner Mor- Filipinos) served as waiters, butlers ris. Morris earned his and cooks for white officers. respect with her high After the Pearl Harbor attack, standards and notori- following an open request, he was ously difficult five-part able to volunteer for submarine exam questions. "Believe duty and was trained in all the me, she was tough!" he says. operations of a diesel sub. He made That same toughness, seven war patrols, experiencing forged in the decades of disci- multiple depth charges and attacks pline in the Silent Service, carried by the Japanese Navy. His boat, the Kimmons all the way through May USS Parche, conducted a nighttime 1973, when he graduated magna hen Charles Levandoski '73 enrolled surface attack on a Japanese convoy. cum laude with a degree in history. as a first-year student at Connecticut The battle is famous in Navy lore, He went on to earn his master's in College he was a recent veteran of the earning Cmdr. Lawson Ramage history from the University of Con- Vietnam era and 10 years older than a typical the Medal of Honor and his crew necticut and his sixth-year certificate first-year student. Associate Director of Admission members - including Kimmons from Southern Connecticut State Jane Bredeson helped open doors for him and - the Presidential Unit Citation University. He taught at Waterford prepare him for the challenges ahead. for bravery. Junior and Senior High Schools for He found a good friend in classmate Carl After the war, Kimmons was 22 years. Kimmons '73. "Being veterans brought us able to change his rate and become "I was a tough teacher too, I together," says Levandoski, who served as a a yeoman. Ultimately he was pro- guess because of my military back- submariner. At a time when anti-war sentiments moted through every enlisted pay ground," he sayswith a smile. "In ran high on college campuses, the two sometimes grade and finally became a com- srudy halls I told them 'Either study found themselves under ideological attack from missioned officer - one of the very or fake it!' But many of myoid stu- other students, but they took it in stride as part of first black officers in the submarine dents thank me now and say I really the learning experience. service. But his battle with discrimi- taught them how to study." Unlike Kimmons, who found his calling in the nation did not stop. Some white The veteran continues to serve study of history, Levandoski was always changing sailors would cross the street rather his community by volunteering at majors as his interests shifted. He finally settled than have to salute a black officer. Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, on the newly created major of human ecology, Today, when he is on the base, he the AARP and the Retired Activi- one of the first environmental studies programs notes that it's not uncommon to ties Office on the Submarine Base in the country. meet African-Americans who are in Groton. In 1987 the BookerT. One day Kimmons, a private pilot who owned commanders, captains - even an Washington Community Center of his own plane for 20 years, invited the younger occasional admiral. "We've come a Hamilton, Ohio, awarded him the man to come out to an airfield in Waterford, long way," he says. Hall of Fame Award. Conn. "I took him flying, and that was it," says After 30 years' service that For three decades Kimmons and Kimmons. Levandoski took to the skies himself included World War II, the Korean his wife of 68 years, Thelma Jean, and has flown for nearly four decades, serving War and the Vietnam War, Lt. Kim- would vacation in Hawaii, where as a flight instructor in Groton and Westerly, R.1. mons retired from the Navy in 1970 they had honeymooned. On one At a recent meeting in Kimmons' apartment with numerous awards and medals. of their trips they decided to visit in a retirement community in Waterford, the two He immediately enrolled in Con- the World War II museum at Pearl men joke about the years of eating powdered eggs necticut College, which had started Harbor, where, to his surprise, he and the much-despised concoction most service- accepting men only a year before. discovered that he was one of the men refer to simply by the acronym 50S. They "Connecticut College was very sailors depicted in an exhibit. It was laugh thinking about how they banded together good to me," he says, expressing fitting proof that the war hero was to wash cars 10 raise a little cash when they at- gratitude to Jane Bredeson, former now a part of history. - Charles tended Connecticut Col/ege. But most of all they associate director of admission and Levandoski '73 enjoy each other's company, knowing they share later secretary of the College. He a common bond. - Lisa Brownell

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photographs. In her fascinating and worked for the Tuck Business School and denies that she could possibly CO and her daughter lives nearby. moving reminiscences of a long and started the still-going school be 90. She sounded great and She has seven grandchildren and 1935 and active life, we are treated to a news magazine. She is in touch with had good memories of her college two great-grands. Correspondent: Sabrina (Subby) cultural and political history of the Sally Kiskadden McClelland, who days. She has a son and daughter, Kay Ord McChesney reports Burr Sanders, 33 Mill s: Unit 4£, Wethersfield, CT 06109 20th century. Call me for info on is in Great Barrington, MA, close to who live close by, and three good health except for a heart obtaining the book. son Tim. Sally's two granddaughters grandchildren. flutter. No pacemaker so far. Dorothy Rowand Rapp lived in live nearby. Residing in an assisted-living Elizabeth Schwab Fuld lives in 1938 Washington, DC, for many years Last year was not a good one facility, Margaret Robinson a two-story house, which is difficult but moved to Charlottesville, VA, Correspondent: Mary Caroline (M.C.) for Janet Bunyan Kramer, as she Manning reports that she can still for her 94-year-old husband, so Jenks Sweet, 865 Central Ave., Apt. to be near her daughter. She has a lost a daughter who lived close by, walk and talk, though she now she goes to his office and takes 404, Needham, MA 02492 view of mountains and woods from We send our sympathy. Four of her needs help. Her husband comes care of business. Squabie has two her apartment. She still drives six grandchildren are near. Janet is to visit often. Meg has a son and children, six grandchildren and five locally and in good weather enjoys still in the house that she and her three daughters. great-grands 1940 playing tennis and gardening. She husband bought in '76, and she Margaret Lafore Wyatt lives Evelyn Salomon Stern did wrote and published a book called Correspondent: Frances Sears Barafz, walks her dog every day. in CA in an assisted-living facility. not go to FL this year as she 87 Plant St., New London, cr 06320, "Don't Say I Can't," about a friend Wilma Swissler Bartholomay is Three of her four sons live nearby, is recovering from gall bladder [email protected] who conquered many obstacles recuperating from a heart attack. She also has eight grandchildren surgery. Her daughter was with her Martha Young Youngquist still while living with cerebral palsy She lives in an apartment in and six great-grands. when I phoned. lives alone in Dallas but has a Chagrin Falls, OH, still cooks, does Still in St. Louis, Ann Rubinstein Mary Cocken Dillon is fine and daughter nearby. One son lives in not drive, has help and has worked Husch does not go out much in gets phone calls twice a month MD and another in Midland, MI 1941 with a trainer for five years, She the cold winter weather as she is from her husband's 95-year-old She spends her summers near spent Thanksgiving in NYC for a having some heart problems. She Correspondent: Ethel Moore Wills, Yale classmate, although she Lake Superior. Po. Box 443, Northport, Mf 49670, wedding and family reunion. Wilma has daughters on both coasts and hasn't seen him since she met him Betty Vilas Hedblom has lived [email protected] has a son and two daughters, one one nearby. back in college. in the same apartment for many As our 70th Reunion and our of whom lives nearby with four Virginia Chope Richmond Guldane Keshian Mahakian years, with children nearby. It College centennial approached, granddaughters. lives in a great retirement facility has been widowed SIX years. When overlooks Lake Michigan. She I tried to connect with many Claire Haines Fairley moved in downstate MI, less than a mile I called, she was debating a trip to keeps busy with church and book classmates, Please report on your from Pittsburgh to AL after her from her old house. She still drives Oahu, where her sister lives, She is clubs, The 2/11 blizzard kept her experience at this very special event! marriage and, at 93, is living in the and lives independently in good health. up 'til 3 a.m. watching the traffic Lois Altschul Aaron is widowed, house she and her husband bought Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool Janice Heffernan Whiting is in problems on Lake Shore Drive, has three children and lives in 30 years ago. She has no children, is fine, living in the same LA house good health and trying to find an Miriam Brooks Butterworth Cleveland. One daughter lives in but good help; nephews and nieces for 50 years and handling stairs. affordable way to publish her family has published her memoir, 'lust NH. Loie married a Dartmouth man check in on her. She still cooks, plays bridge and history. She has three children. Say Yes," containing more than 300 and they moved to NH, where she Theresa Lynn Siegel is just fine goes to mcves. She has a son in Natalie Sherman Kleinkauf has

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" The great part of volunteering for a place like Connecticut College is that there's something for everyone. , Volunteer spotlight Stuart Sadick '77

WHEN STUART SADICK '77 STEPPED ON campus for the first time during his junior year of high school, he felt immediately at home. He knew this was where he wanted to go to college. "I was very fortunate, because what I found - in the quality of education, in the extraordinarily talented faculty, and the feeling of community among the students -later proved that I had made the right choice," he says. k an alumnus, Sadick has volunteered as a class agent chair, a member of his Reunion Planning Committee and a director of the Alumni Association Board. Sadick, a partner at Heidrick & Struggles, a global leadership consulting firm, also spoke to fellow Connecticut College graduates at a recent Distinguished Alumni Speakers Luncheon in Bosron. Ir all starred when he was an undergraduate and volunteered to lead prospective scudents and parents on campus rours. "I felt it was the least I could do, to return the favor for the positive experience I'd had when touring the school," he says. "This inspired me to continue to find ways that I might support Connecticut College as a volunteer." Sadick says one of the most important things he learned at Connecticut College is that "learning occurs when we least expect it." It's a lesson that directly translates into his volunteer work (in addition to his work at the College, Sadick has been a Big Brother, the president of a domestic violence organization and past president of a child advocacy group in Boston). Connecticut College is that there's something for "1 firmly believe in volunteering," Sadick says. "I everyone." have learned more about myself and leadership from my When asked why he includes the College in his volunteer roles than I have from most jobs." efforts, Sadick talks proudly of the place he once called home. "Our ability to give back gives each of us an Sadick encourages others [Q get involved as well. "There are so many benefits to volunteering; I can't recommend opportunity to be even prouder of the institution," he it highly enough. It's a great way to stay connected to says. "The efforts of the entire Connecticut Col.lege the College, it's a great way to give back and it's also a community - students, faculty, administration and tremendous learning experience. alumni - are what make the College a better school "And the great part of volunteering for a place like each year." - Melissa Bennett

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Rosa, CA 95409, wlhewesjr@aol.com had some medical problems and in July, and flew to TX to greet the drive isn't long for any of us. Good news from Jeanne Jacques is having speech therapy, but we New Year! In the last column, I presented managed to have a chaf I hope to Kleinschmidt: she and Roger have 1945 Joyce Stoddard Aronson told a REAL CHALLENGE: Write about Correspondent: Ann LeLievre Hermann, gel back to her in the future. moved into larger quarters in a of her "quiet year" during which 6809 Turban Court, Ft. Myers, FL either what makes your life today Priscilla Duxbury WescoU- different retirement community, 33908, [email protected] she stayed healthy. All her children so special or how your life has Huber celebrated her 92nd with Roger again in a dementia unit. Greetings, classmates, I write at and grandkids are doing fine. Joyce changed in 87 years. I hope that Halloween birthday. She and Joe Jeanne is busy with P.E.O., Colonial the end of Jan., and many of you enjoys many activities, is doing you have started writing a memoir winter in CA and return to MA Dames and DAR. chapters. northerners really experienced a well, counls her blessings, and to share with your classmates. Your in May. Mary Adelaide Cox Walker cold and snowy winter. We in Fl only regrets being unable to get to family will enjoy your efforts too. Edythe van Rees Conlon admits still lives in Needham, MA, and are not jealous! Reunion. Mariechen Wilder Smith was to being our class president, but reports the arrival of a new great- Mary Watkins Wolpert wrote to Barbara Avery Jubell the first to contribute about how when I talked to her, she said she granddaughter. me, and I have to commend her for experienced many changes this her life has changed. She gave a doesn't know what she is supposed Ellie Abrahams Josephson was being the very first '45 classmate past year, starting with serious detailed account of her activities in to be doing. Which makes two of us recently hospitalized, but fortunately to tell us she is on Facebook! She surgery requiring lots of follow-up a very lively continuing-care facility Cathy Elias Moore is still a for just a brief stay. She's counting said she had to get a new e-mail care and therapy. She was able to in Chapel Hill, NC. Her time is filled numismatist {the study of coins}, on another Reunion in '14! address, all her own, in order to go to IL to be near her daughter and with golf, swimming, lectures, going to her office every day and Mary-Jean Moran Hart spent get on Facebook. She has fun family while getting the help she fine dining at home or out on the attending conventions. Cathy was Thanksgiving at Kana Village in HI, keeping up with her grandchildren. needed. She mended so nicely thai town, and time spent with other CC sad to hear of the death of Jane bringing her family along. "Fortunately they all accepted me she was able to move into her own alums living in her facility and with Kennedy Newman, who passed Barbara Barlow Schaefer spent as a friend!" Mary and Henry were apartment up there. She continued family in nearby Cary, NC. Due to away peacefully 11/21 Jane lived the winter in Ft. Myers, FL about to travel to Tucson for another to improve and recovered enough to space constraints, we can't print with Cathy's family for a time, and Edith Miller Kerrigan had a rough winter, which gets to be more go home during the summer to close Mariechen's whole letter here, but Cathy was an attendant atlane's summer last year, recovering from difficult every year. "One of these up her Chagrin Falls condo and please contact the Alumni Office at wedding. Nan Newman Sanfilippo a fall and pneumonia, resulting years, we'll have to face the snow in make the Vernon Hills, IL, apartment 860-439-2300 if you would like to '77, Jane's daughter, sent the news from "a tainted juice drink," CO," which is their real home since her permanent home! She really read it. Thank you, Mariechen! of her death. Please turn to page courtesy of the airlines. She spent they retired there several years enjoys her new location, activities, In closing, please do address 68 for a full obituary. The Class the winter in Naples, FL. ago, In Aug., Mary had revision friends, and having her daughter the ideas suggested above or of '41 sends sympathy to Jane's Alice Carey Weller and George hip surgery of a replacement and grandchildren and their friends whatever you wish to share with friends and family. continue "getting 10 know CA" from done 17 years ago, which caused as part of her new life. your classmates! Please e-mail or their base at S1. Paul's Tower in postoperative edema and the need Elizabeth (Trim) Trimble snail-mail your contribution Oakland, where George organizes for compression stockings, Mary's Crosman had a good family 1942 the Saturday night movies advice: avoid them if at all possible' Christmas in La Canada, near Correspondent; Jane "Woodie" Worley Bridget Bridgwater Hewes and Thankfully, Mary and Henry were Los Angeles, including wonderful Peak, Vinson Half, Apt. 306, 6251 Old 1946 Dominion Drive, McLean, VA 22101, 8ill had a perfect week in Sept. not involved in the dreadful shooting weather as her daughter and she Correspondent: Class Notes Editor, [email protected] in HI at Hanalei, Kauai. They had that occurred in Tucson, and they drove down and back. This is to be CC: Magazine, 210 Mohegan Ave., New London, 06320, ccmag@ been there 47 years ago, and the appreciated how the community a fabulous travel year for her family cr conncoll,edu beaches and waterfalls are still pulled together, They did not get to members (India, Belize, London, Editor's Note: If you are amazing. They plan to return next Fl this winter, but their son in FL Africa, and her son Peter on location 1943 interested in serving as class year wilh the family. visits CO for family gatherings over to film with Denzel Washington). Correspondent: Class Notes Editor, correspondent, please contact CC: Magazine, 210 Mohegan Ave" We have lost three more the summer. Trim looks forward to traveling to her Class Notes Coordinator Karen New London, cr 06320, ccmag@ classmates and send sympathy Marcie flo) Faust McNees sent summer camp in ME. While there, conncoll.edu Laskey at the address above. to their families: Barbara Jones a wonderful Christmas letter telling Kate Swift, Trim and I get together Editor's Note: If you are Alling died on 10/14. She was of her three trips to CC in '09. First, if we are fortunate enough to be interested in serving as class a teacher for 20 years and she attended her granddaughter's there at the same time, (Last year, correspondent, please contact 1947 also a community volunteer in graduation in May; then she we shared lobster on the wharf in Class Notes Coordinator Karen Correspondent: Ann McBride Tholfsen, many organizations. Frederica described her joys at our 65th Five lslands.) Laskey at the address above. 549 W. 123rd St" Apt. lOG, New York, Giles Reily's son sent notice of Reunion (and even included a red Lois (Tonl) Fenton Tuttle and I NY 10021, [email protected] Frederica's death on 7/24, and nose photo); finally she attended have good intentions. We plan to get Trudy Weinstock sheen's son Parents/Alumni Weekend and Virginia (Ginny) Bowman Corkran 1944 wrote that his mother died early especially enjoyed the fall foliage. and Elsie (Scottie) MacMillan 1948 Correspondent; Jane Bridgwater this year. She also drove with family to their Connell together for lunch, We plan Correspondent: Shirley Anne Nicholson Hewes, 236 Silver Creek Cire/e, Santa camp north of Kingston, Ontario, to meet halfway between, so the Roos, 3 Cozzens Court, Newport, RI

Jay Eno '00 married Lynsey Propeck 7/10/10 in Edgartown, MA. From left Kristian Gratton '01, Secce Hirschman '01 and Betsy Wilson Zanna '67 stands next to a carousel camel at the Skye Gratton, Chuck Halsey '00, Day Halsey, Karen Kirley Roses '00, Dan Saccardi '00, Peter Todd Klarin '00 married in Bonnet House in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Fisher '00, Claudia Gdodrich Bender '00, Amanda Bowles '00, the bride, Matt Maher '00, the San Francisco on 10/10/10. groom, Tom Richardson '00, Alexius Hlebechuk, Amy Lynch '01, Josh Bender and Jon Roses '00.

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02840. [email protected] convivial rehearsal and enjoyed old in-law. He is the household chef. column to share memories of our 888-7549, for her phone number) Our class shared senior year memories, He received a standing They have had exchange students freshman year. Are there others? Frances Brigham Johnson has with the arrival of Robert E. lee ovation. from Vietnam and China, and he Elizabeth Bragg Crane has had an illustrious career in various Strider. He was a young, eager Dear Bob, we are sorry you have accordingly extends his cooking lived in CA for 40 years. She taught governmental, political and civic instructor working on his doctorate, left us at 93, and we bless your range, much to Pat's delight She elementary school for 17 years organizations. She has traveled hired to grade papers for the head memory for your willing gifts to us. still sings tenor in her church choir and now teaches ESl, with mostly abroad extensively, and last year of the English department, Dorothy Pat Dole's grandson, Patrick, will and shovels snow at need. Hispanic and Asian students. she and husband Gordon visited 8ethurum, and was paid the graduate in June from high school, Pat reports that Jeanie Ray Vivien Fauerbach had worlled Elizabeth Anderson Culbert in princely sum of $1,800 per year, and he shared with her that he and Cunningham and husband in the World Trade Center before Maple Valley, WA. less than the janitor. It was a long his friends are very concerned about Ingersoll have a very happy life. 9/11, after which she relocated Ma~ori8 Byck Levy keeps busy time before Sputnik, and thus did their futures. He is interested in They travel a lot, and Joanie, like to Saratoga Springs, NY. She as secretary of a local chapter of the the U.S. regard its teachers. art and photography, and probably Pat Reid, plays a lot of tennis. now divides her time between league of Women Voters, and witfl We girls loved Bob and his wife, many would counsel him that I know the class joins me in apartments in Saratoga and aerobics, tai chi and theater trips Helen, and vied for babysitting his interests are not dependable, sending sympathy to the families Manhattan, enjoying friends in both to NYC. She belongs to three book honors for their little kids, He was However, it has been the experience of three dear classmates who locations. clubs and her local temple. She a decade older than us and quite of the Roos family that those who have died: Jean Handley, Carol Elizabeth Brainard Sandwick is planning an Elderhostel trip to willing to pause in a hallway for a don't follow the predictable "safe" Hulsapple Fernow and Fran is developing quite a CC legacy. Washington, DC, sponsored by the conversation that was more the path (and also have a little luck) Ferris Ackema. Two of her children are Victoria Foreign Service Elderhostel Program. sharing of friends than student and have a better chance than most. If Sandwick Schmitt '73 and William An avid bird watcher, Anne Cobey professor. He was a bridge between you have a talent and love what you Sandwick Jr. '76. Grandchildren Spencer has traveled much of the us English majors and our faculty. do, you're not so easily downsized 1949- Stephanie Schmitt Briggs '06 and world. late Aug. found her in MA, We had enormous respect for those or outsourced, because your gift is Correspondents: Mabel Brennan Fisher, Eleanor Schmitt' 12 have joined the visiting her children, and then on to formidable ladies, Oakes, Noyes and unique. Excelsior, Patrick! 6602 Sulky l..2ne, N. Bethesda, MD ranks, with a third granddaughter Switzerland and Spain. She has also Tuve, but Bob willingly translated Jean Ritti Miller, as in previous 20852, [email protected];Marjorie hoping to be admitted this year, volunteered at a bird sanctuary near their dictums from on high, which years, went to her daughter in AI Stutz Turner, 6696 Club House Lane, Can anyone top this? San Francisco. Christmas found her Apt 104, Warrenton, VA20187, soothed our anxious souls. for the winter. She needs a walker [email protected] Sarah Blaisdell Dorn still lives in Yosemite National Park, where When Lee Pope Miller and I and may stay in warmer climes. Estelle Markovits Schwartz of in Bradford, what she calls the her son is in a singing group that wrote our operetta, it was, of course, Helen Crumrine Ferguson Bondville, VT, received the 2010 "hinterlands" of PA, and enjoys provides the entertainment. created for girls, but we needed celebrated a better New Year's AARP Andrus Award for Community visits with two children and three Jean Carroll Siefke keeps in one man. Bob hesitated when Day in '11 than in '10, when she Service, presented to her by the grandchildren. touch with Marion Luce Butler, we approached him but laughed fell on the ice. She had a painful, VT state president of AARP in Barbara Bohman Pond and Mary lou Strassburger Treat and and consented. He was really our debilitating time, but thanks to Montpelier, who stated: "Estelle husband still live in their farmstead Jennifer Judge Howes. She often anchor through rehearsal period. rehab, family and friends, she can provides an excellent example of home outside Harrisonburg, VA, spends winters in England and The operetta was set in Victorian drive again and do most of her usual the difference that volunteering can thankful for good health and summers at home, times, and a serious conversation activities. "Many of my friends have make in the lives of individuals and enjoying church and other activities. Cynthia Carey Taylor lost her ensued about whether the hero moved on to retirement homes or in the well-being and vitality of a Janice Braley Maynard lost her dear husband, Harrison, in July, should kiss the girl at the end. Our assisted living, but I'm not going community," Estelle instructs and husband last June but still lives in but she is grateful for the 60 years student director was firmly in favor anywhere," Joining her in that serves as district coordinator for her Westport, MA, home, despite they shared. She keeps busy with of a chaste peck on the forehead. sentiment is Edie LeWitt Mead, the AARP Driver Safety Program; having macular degeneration. the Worcester Institute for Senior Some of us viewed the matter who loves her Deacon Grant Farm. helps with Red Cross activities She uses books on tape, does her Education; she also plays bridge. differently. Bob settled it on opening We agree that old age isn't for and the RSVP program; works with own housework and has helpful Suzanne Brenner Geller losl night, giving the heroine a fervent sissies, but "we're still here!" students in a local school; and neighbors. her husband, Jack, after a 64-year embrace. The audience of students, Bebe Bates Stone and Ade are helps with a local food bank. Lois Braun Kennedy and marriage. Jack was an outstanding faculty and parents went mad with pretty well. He had a bout with Mary Benton Gemmell and husband Tom are still enjoying their physician, a devoted husband and enthusiasm. lymphoma, but he responded well to husband live in a retirement move downtown in Manhattan, father, and a true humanitarian. When our class celebrated its treatment. "The rest of our problems community in York Beach, ME. where they have a great view of For 23 years, he held prominent 50th Reunion, Bob returned as are in the nuisance category." She During freshman year in Mary the Hudson and Miss liberty. As positions as a director of training our guest of honor, and at the says that Pat Dinsmore Reid plays Harkness House, Mary remembers an active trustee of the NYC Police programs and as a professor. A 55th, I asked him to be part of tennis three times a week. the housemates enjoying a tea Museum, lois would love to give . daughter and son-in-law and their the entertainment and sing his I spoke with Pat Patterson Law. with Mary Harkness herself! This a private tour to classmates or children live with Sue, and she operetta song again. He deprecated She spent happy holidays in Blue is Mary's answer to Johnnie families visiting the Big Apple. serves as vice president of the his abilities, but we had a Hill, ME, w~h her daughter and son- Jossen Bivin's invitation in the last (Contact the Alumni Office, 800- Watercolor Society.

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The Sizer family visits the Pado family in Tanzania in Dec. From left, Maggie Francis '94 married Daniel E. Gietzen in Mystic, CT, on back row: Heather Pado, David Sizer, Julie Sizer '11, Nick Sizer '12, Ian Bauer '99 with his wife, Candace, and their sons. 10/16/2010. The CoCoBeaux made an appearance at their reception Tom Pede '86, Susan Budd Sizer '84 and Hal Sizer '84. Fronl row: Aidan and Donovan. at Harkness Memorial Stale Park in Waterford. Emeline and Eliane Pede.

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Mabel Brennan Fisher and James. She continues to work with brought news of a trip to CC with Pauline Grisch Sundt. She has husband Frank started the a group restoring hiking trails in one granddaughter Jessica landers traveled almost constantly over the camels year with a family wedding. of the Hartford parks, which were '06. They visited the Writing Center, past several years, She recently IN THE CROWD Stepgrandson Alexander Navia. designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. which the Squires had helped fund returned from a trip to Scotland 2nd Lt., USMC, was married in the Marilyn Malizia Schlegel is the and where Jessica had worked, The and Wales, and every year she chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy proud grandmother of Christina highlight of the day was a short attends the Sundt family reunion, with all the fanfare of which the Schlegel '08, who is a practicing concert in the library's Charles Chu held in various parts of the country. Estelle Markovits Schwartz military is capable. CPA in Boston. Room by a deaf student, who was, She and some of her children '49 received the 2010 AARP The Class sends condolences to Your correspondent, Alice as Pat quotes, "our" student, thus and grandchildren went to the Andrus Community Service the families and friends of three Hess Crowell, visited with Dick a really special treat. family reunion in Philadelphia last Award from the Vermont classmates we have recently lost: and Polly Hedlund Hall at the How great to hear from Helen summer. She is still deciding where chapter of MRP. The award is Louise Brown Johnson, who died Landings in Savannah, where (Pavy) Pavlovich Twomey. She her next trip will take her. named for AARP founder Ethel last July; Betty GottschHng DuPont they volunteer, take courses, play is so happy at her new home in Nancy Day still lives in Acton, Percy Andrus, an educator and who died in Dec.; and Joyce bridge, travel, and keep account of Fellowship Village in Basking Ridge, MA. After college, she worked advocate of community service Benjamin Gloman, who died in Jan. nine grandchildren, six granddogs NJ, where she enjoys music and for a chemical company for 10 and volunleerism. Schwartz and five grandhorses! choral performances on "campus," years. She then switched careers has been an instructor and as well as cultural trips into NYC. and taught chemistry at various district coordinator for the 1950- In the fall, she writes, she was cast schools in eastern MA before AARP Driver Safety Program in a theatrical production as a food retiring 14 years ago. Along the since 1992. She has also Correspondents: Alice Hess Crowell, 1951- 3500 West Chester Pike, Apt. caterer, because "I was the most way, she earned two master's been active with the Red Correspondent: Barbara Wiegand B211, Newtown Square, PA 19073, Pi/tote, 3200 N. Leisure World Blvd., limber and spry!" degrees, For health reasons, her Cross and the RSVP Program, hi [email protected];Mari/yn Apt. 517, Silver Spring MD 20906, In an e-mail, Sue Askin Wolman volunteering days are behind her volunteered for the past 11 Packard Ham, 800 Southerly Road, [email protected] said "nothing exceptional has been Joan Katz Easton taught for years ala local school, and Apt.15l7. Towson, MD21286-8403, Special kudos to the Reunion wether345@yahoo,com going on" in her life, but she had many years before she became works at the local food bank. Committee, co-chaired by Roldah A number of classmates have traveled to Chicago to attend an art director of admissions at Dwight Northup Cameron and Sue Askin happily relocated to retirement seminar and to Deep Creek Lake Englewood, a private school in Wolman, ably assisted by Class communities. Nancy Whitney in western MD, where the family Englewood, Nl Daughter Buffy is President Jus Shepherd Freud, director of Tutorial Leadership, an DeVoe and Court are at Crosslands, owns a home - a great summer Vice President M.M. Suckling a neer.n.n community in Kennett retreat and a wonderful place for organization she founded, Son Tom Sherts and Class Giving Chairman lives in Hong Kong, where he is Square, PA. Josie Frank lelov lives winter skiing. She adds - and I . Jeanne Tucker lenker. Many an editor for The Economist Joan at Beaumont in Bryn Mawr, PA. John am sure we can all relate - her phone calls, e-mails and letters took her son, his wife and their and Dorothy (Dan) Warren White three children, their spouses and went out to gather us all together in 15-year-old son to Morocco over are at Glenaire in Cary, NC. Dan her four grandchildren keep her early June, Joan Andrew White and the holidays. She is still a guide at enjoys playing piano as background busy, not to mention her volunteer Bar Nash Hanson were recruited the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. Marny Morris Krause music in one of the dining areas, activities, bridge games and to serve as hospitality suite Sara Klein Klein and her '66 was appointed to the and two great-grands bring their keeping up with many friends. hostesses, along with Betty Beck husband became great- Southwestern Vermont Health family count to 21. Bob and I traveled south in late Barrett, parade chairman. A full grandparents with the birth of Care board of trustees in Frances (Sis) Lee Osborne Jan. for a month's stay in Naples, report will be in the next issue. Aiden Jacob Klein. October. Krause recently reports that sister-in-law Barbara FL, where we caught up with our News from classmates was many friends who have retired there Last summer I, Beverly Quinn retired from SVHC as vice Mehls Lee is now a year-round a little sparse following the O'Connell, became a great- president for development Floridian living in Vero Beach. Sis and also got in a few rounds of golf! Christmas holidays, but one can be Our sympathies to the family and grandmother twice. In early July, and marketing and is now and husband Bob limit their travels most envious of Mona Gustafson my grandson, Jonathan, and the senior gift officer at to their home state, CA. friends of classmate Jane Keltie, Affinito, who spent two weeks with who died in early March. She will his wife, Lindsay, had Austin Skidmore College in Saratoga, NancyJee Hicks Henrich her family in lovely Williamsburg, Lee Menz. Six weeks later, my N,V. Formerly on the staff be really missed at our reunion, as has added SFO to her name- VA. Now Mona is back in MN she was always there! Also, our granddaughter, Kristen, Jonathan's of Bennington College, she standing for the Secular Franciscan working on her memoirs. sister, gave birth to Aubrey has more than 25 years of sympathies to Joan Andrew White Order, which is composed of Delayed by airport closures, on the death of her husband, Elizabeth Farina. How lucky I am experience in fund raising laypeople who endeavor to live Bev Benenson Gasner spent an Henry, in late Nov., and to Kathy that all of them live nearby! at academic institutions. the Gospel spirit of St. Francis of extra five days over the New Year's In early Nov., several members Krause earned a master's in Parker Stell on the death of her Assisi. She also loves having three weekend in Mexico, returning home husband, Ralph, in late Jan of the Class 01 '52 who live in education from Antioch College grands to visit in AL. to work on the questionnaire you the Washington, DC, area met for in Keene, N.H Best wishes to all. Keep those Margaret (Peggy) MacDermid all received before Reunion. notes coming lunch, Bill O'Neil of the College Davis is thrilled that grandson Claire Goldschmidt Katz brought a group of us together. Janet Yeomans '70 was Andrew will be in the CC Class reported winter as usual, but not Eleanor Souville Levy, Mary honored by the Girl Scouts of'15. in FL. She was looking forward to Harrison Beggs, Kathleen O'Toole of Minnesota and Wisconsin Selby Graham Inman is 1952- lunch with Marilyn Whittum Gehrig Rich, Eleanor Hart Condliffe, River Valleys at their third Correspondents: Mary Ann Allen recovering from two fractured (now Katie) when she returned to Pidge Hoadley O'Connell and I annual Women of Distinction Marcus, 5E.14thSI., Tempe,AZ vertebrae sustained in a bad fall Tucson, fll., in mid-December. attended and had a good time. luncheon in Minneapolis in 8528; Beverly Quinn O'Connell, 907 but manages to keep up with her 12 A Christmas letter from Sally Bobbie Katz Duker is April. Women of Distinction Promenade Lane, Mt. Airy, MD21771, grandchildren and one great-grand, Buck Thompson featured her [email protected] acclimating to life in the retirement celebrates local women whose Betty Jane Ruete Hedden, who children and their families. Bucky Did you notice? The article "A community 10 which she moved determination and leadership studied with us from' 46 to '48, spends Jan. Feb. and March in Century of Song," on page 21 from FL. She is in the Boston area, makes them positive role settled in Randolph, NJ, and raised Sarasota, FL. She is proud of her of the Winter 2010 issue of this where two of her three children models for girls. Yeomans, a large family. She still contributes grandson, who has been accepted magazine, contains a picture of live. She misses the freedom her vice president and treasurer to CC and remains a member of at the School of Engineering at the Class of '52 competing in car gave her but is adjusting to the the Emily Abbey group, West Virginia U. Competitive Sing. If you haven't shopping trips that her community CONTINUED NEXT PAGE> Janel Surgenor Hill remains in A postcard from Pat Roth already seen it, do check it out. provides to its residents, her West Hartford home with son Squire and husband David Life has slowed down a bit for Ruth Stupell Weinflash and

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husband Bernie moved from their was a terrific morale boost and around Turkey; bird watching long-time home in Cresskill, NJ, to defined our class as a very special in Nome, AK; a trip to Agadir, an apartment in Fort lee, NJ. Bernie, group. Annie Becker was our hero. Morocco, where Arab women wear 1956- Correspondent: Jan Ahlborn Roberts, camels a spry gO-year-old, commutes into News of our classmates includes headscarves and pastel robes; P.O.Box 221, East Orleans, MA 0264J, NYC to his job as a stockbroker. Rae Ferguson Reasoner, who and visiting family on the eastern INTHE CROWD jar.][email protected] Ruth and Bernie have two daughters writes that she still takes chemo shores of the U.S. Married to Barry for 54 years, and a son, who have given them periodically for B-ceillymphoma, Nancy Maddi Avallone and Margery Blech Passett worked as seven grandchildren. They have, at but this has not kept her home. Gene continue to keep busy near < FROM PREVIOUS PAGE a legislative specialist for the U.S. times, laken cruises with their entire She visited a daughter in Colorado Annapolis, MD. Nancy is chair Congress for more than 20 years of 3M, was one of the first family. Ruth has curtailed some Springs, where they rode the of the Naval Academy Chapel and later with the Brady Campaign female senior executives at of her activities, but she remains daughter's horses. Rae also spent ladies, active with the local to Prevent Gun Violence. Retired the company. She received active at the Jewish Community a week in VA and look a Caribbean historical society, plays bridge now, Margery volunteers at the her master's degree from the Center near their apartment. Over cruise. and will put her studies of Italian library of Congress and the White Illinois lnstitute of Technology the years, Ruth has stayed in touch PoUy Hume Keck is still living to the test when she visits that House Correspondence Office and her M.B.A. from the with Joan Berson Mendell and on their farm in Andover, VT. They country. Gene volunteers at the and, in particular, she volunteers University of Chicago. Gloria Jones Borden. have sold their livestock (beefalo county visitors' center and at Nessie, their Westie, as a pet Nancy Laidley Krum, a widow and others). As they grew older, they the usa at the Baltimore airport, therapist working with disturbed for five years, has become wanted to reduce the workload, and and he is on various committees children. Margery is also an avid physically active since her right hip they found that rounding up escaped related to being president of his listener when children read to her. was replaced and she had spinal animals was no longer what they academy class. Three of their four "I am well, happy and grateful for surgery. She works out every day wanted to do. Polly has two sons grandchildren are in college. the blessings I have" - so writes at a gym and she continues to living nearby in VT and a married Mary lee Matheson Shanahan Faith Gulick about her part-time volunteer at a Montessori school, daughter living in the Caribbean. is still thrilled to have her two work in an ophthalmologist's as she has done for 11 years. Of Jane Graham Pemberton children living nearby. She and son office, her 1732 house (a historical her three children, two live nearby, is busy at her home in the hills Chris continue to fix up saleable properly with continuing restoration which allows her to be quite outside of Amherst, where she and homes, and Brooke has taken up projects in various stages of exterior Arlyn Roffman '71 received involved with some of her five Jack have serious gardens. Jane painting. improvement), a newly resident the lDA Award, the highest grandchildren. She and daughter is active on several committees, Jeanne Knisel Walker, who lives cat r'a household blessing") and a honor of the learning Kim are planning a cruise along the and Jack is preparing an exhibition nearby in Killingworth, writes of concert series shared with friends. Disabilities Association of Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. and catalog of African art. Their her new pet, a cat given to her by At home in Sandy Hook, C1 we are America, at the organization's Eleanor Souville levy has granddaughter Alice Ivy-Pemberton, son Alan, and of her sadness at the invited to visit her antique shop, an 2011 International Conference no biological children, but she 14, has become an accomplished passing of a dear brother in Fl. ongoing business she shared for in Jacksonville. Fla., in has warm relationships with her violinist, finishing as a semifinalist Dorie Knup Harper lives in February. Roffman is a years with her father. stepchildren. She recently returned at the Yehudi Menuhin International Lafayette Hill, PA, and often travels professor of special education The annual NY holiday lunch was from a three-week trip to various Violin Competition in Oslo, Norway. around the country visiting her far- at lesley University, where held in Dec., with Marge Lewin parts of France, where she visited She played a solo with the Oslo flung family: to Portland, OR, to see she founded the Threshold Ross, Jill long Leinbach, Prudy with the three daughters 01 her late Michael and wife Shanti and RV; to Program, the first college- Symphony Orchestra and she has Murphy Parris, Joyce Bagley husband, Paul. also been a soloist in NYC and Joshua Tree National Park, where based transition program in Rheingold. Suzi Rosenhirsch We end this piece on a sad note. in Amherst. We look forward to she also saw son Rollin and his the U.S. for young adults with Oppenheimer, Laura Elliman Natalie Cornen Rubin died last hearing much more about young wife, Djuna. Their daughter, Daria, learning disabilities. Roffman this Patrick and Marie Garibaldi in summer in Omaha, NE, where she graduated from Ithaca College this is also a licensed psychologist musician in the future. attendance. "Besides enjoying a and her family have lived for many spring with a degree in music with a practice specializing in Let me hear from you! great meal and camaraderie, we did years. Her family has the sympathy Dorie enjoys her summer home at adolescents and adults with discuss Reunion and the future of of our class. the lockhouse in the Poconos and learning disabilities. visits with her brother, John, and our class leadership." Later, Joyce, 1954- Prudy, Jill, Suzi and Marge attended Correspondent: Lois Keating LEarned, his nearby family. a 400-strongCC holiday party at 1953- 132 Pomperaug Woods, Southbury, CT I, Loie Keating learned, enjoy 06844, /[email protected] my life in this continuous-care the Cosmopolitan Club, where an Correspondent: Lydia Richards Boyer, alumna from the Class of '42 spoke. 5701 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE Marcia Bernstein Siegel community. There are lots of nice The class sends sympathy to the 19807-1311,[email protected] continues to give lectures and people - residents as well as family of Anne Mahoney Makin, The Winter 2010 issue of this workshops - at the Ohio Slate staff - along with many interesting who died in early Nov. Anne served magazine has an article about the U. dance department; in NYC at activities and out-trips, plus as president of her local College importance of song at the College. the World Dance Alliance; and in activities to keep body and mind in It is an interesting article, but it the UK at the U. of Chichester. good shape. A couple of CC'ers are Club and also of the New Bedford Day Nursery. We remember her omits one of the great song events At the Institute of Contemporary also here: Bobby Munger '55 and Jeff Idelson '86 received for her reliable warmth and spirit. of the school. Our freshman class Art in Boston, she interviewed Bill Nancy Camp '53. Nancy is not doing the Dick Steinberg Good Guy In our Kaine, her friends applied pulled a real upset victory by T. Jones and did a documentary well and is in the health care wing. Award from the National winning Competitive Sing hands publication about his company's Bobby enjoys her pet cat; she was the term joie de vivre to Anne, Jewish Sports Hall of fame and her funeral service attested to down. We had been advised that the residency there. "I can't believe raised in this area and is still very and Museum in March. thai, according to Gale Anthony only real competition to win would I've been at this game for over 40 active in a local church. Idelson, president of the be between the junior and senior years and I'm not burned out yet!" Do keep me up to date on all Clifford, who attended the service, National Baseball Hall of Fame along with Joan Gaddy Ahrens and classes, but we must be good sports Laska Huse Lilly and Richard your doings. in Cooperstown, N.Y., serves her husband. "It was a beautiful and try anyway. Boy! Did we ever thoroughly enjoy Charleston, SC, on the advisory council of the try! It was fun with Anne Becker where "it's a good town to grow service, with her lovely family in Harlem branch of Reviving Egbert's composition of "Mornin' old and where you can walk most 1955- attendance .. the priest knew Baseball In the Inner City places." They enjoyed seeing their her well and gave such a warm, Mr. Sun." What a happy song, and Correspondent: Carolyn Diefendorf even those of us without a note of children over Christmas. appreciative homily in celebration Smith, 8400 Witez Court, Parker, CO CONTINUED NEXT PAGE> musical ability rose to the occasion. Ann Reagan Weeks continues 80134, caro/yndsmith84DO@gmail. of her life." Our victory over the upperclassmen a life of travel, including a cruise com

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the Year in Eastchester in '06. "I wife is a sales rep for WebMD. Their walk honoring their son and raising 1957- had the most marvelous career," two sons keep them busy. Don and money for the cancer center at the says Irene. She has traveled to Judy attended Den's 55th high- hospital where Jon works. He was camels Correspondent: Elaine Diamond Spain numerous times, She has school reunion in MI and have been IN THE CROWD Berman, 72 Stanton Lane, Pawcatuck, able to walk with them the entire CT 06379, efainedberman@comcast. written a book, "How I Became My spending time in Scottsdale. way and to celebrate at the party net Own Doctor," and is searching for Patty Chambers Moore and K.C, afterwards. a publisher. Irene divides her time celebrated their 50th anniversary < FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Jaynor Johnson Johnston I, Carolyn Keefe Oakes, volunteers with the Girls Group in between an apartment in NYC and last summer. At submission, they volunteer at our University were planning to visit their son John Program and as a board Ann Arbor, a hands-on menloring her family home in New Haven. Hospitals, the Emergency Food and his wife and two children in director of Girls on the Run of organization that helps inner-city Center, church and our theater Cleveland. Son Keith and his wife Central New York. "I'm grateful kids and their mothers. Although complex in Cleveland. I have spent and daughter from Singapore were and humbled and proud that retired from her consulting 1958- lots of time with grandchildren, too. to join them. Patty's son Todd, who my Jewish heritage has helped position, Jaynor continues to work Correspondent: Judith AnkErstran We had a two-month-early baby will become a commander, was to me to be recognized for what with Claudia, her partner of 31 Carson, PO. Box 5028, Edwards, CO granddaughter, who seems to be 81632, [email protected] visit from Omaha with his wife and should truly be a common trait years, in her environmental law progressing well, and I have helped two children. - being a good guy," Idelson practice. Much of their work is with their 4-year-old. Jean Alexander Gilcrest visited said in a press release. involved with the World Justice I look forward to hearing from Forum and info-tech issues 1959- Lexington, KY,this summer when you! Please e-mail me or lynn Jean Sangdahl, who owns and Correspondents: Carolyn Keefe Oakes, her granddaughter rode in the Graves Mitchell. boards horses, rides twice a day. 3333 Warrensville Center Road, Api. National Pony Finals. Jean got to 412, Shaker Heights, OH 44122, She is also an avid birder and had stay in the house where she grew [email protected];4'nnGraves up and had a great visit with her a "fabulous birding trip" to CO Mitchell, Iynnmit@mac,com 1960- family. She also visited Las Vegas last April. She participates in bird Olga lehovich participated in a Correspondents: Joan Murray Webster, twice to see her daughter and counts in VT, where she lives, and lecture series on "Immigration to the 6440 Wild Horse Valley Road, Napa, Chicago twice to see her son. CA, 94558, joanmwebs@sbcglobal. frequently travels throughout the U.S.A,," which was a lot of work and In New Zealand, Anne Earnshaw net; Adele Merrill Welch, 74 Birchwood country on birding excursions, research but was very productive, Roche did the Tongariro Alpine Lane, Lincoln, MA, 01773, I recently had a delightful phone with an enthusiastic adult audience. [email protected] Crossingwilh a group of 24 family Jen Fulcher '89 was named conversation with Judy Allen "It was fun to be back in academic Nancy Waddell and Barbie members in about seven and a half head of the Middle School at Summersby. She still sounds activities and without pesky parents Drake Holland keep in touch hours. They climbed up between Mt. Williston Northampton School full of fun and is busy with so about skating news, They were to who want A's for their kids!" She Tongariro and Mt. Ngauruhoe, which in December. She began her many activities and interests- also visited family in DC, meet up in Sept. at Skate America, are the high North Island mountains. career althe Easthampton, photography, writing poetry, tutoring Connie Snelling McCreery and What an achievement! They spent but Barbie was unable to attend Mass., school in 1989 as a little kids, crafts, She continues to husband went to NYC to visit Meg's time at Palm Cove, Ilueansland, Nancy follows skating and tennis, physical education teacher, be active with political work as well. family from Tokyo and then went where Anne swam in the Coral mostly on TV, but she attends dorm parent and lacrosse Her husband, Ed, is an architect, on to CA to see Gigi's family. They Sea. Friends from Fiji visited, along live events when they are nearby, coach. She also has taught and they have two sons. David, a plan a spring trip to Tokyo with grandchildren, Anne has been such as the World Figure Skating psychology in the Upper School social worker, lives in MA with his Mimsy Matthews Munro playing the piano for a concert and Championships held last year in and history in the Middle wife and two children, and Andrew gathered her children and eight plans trips to Fiji and Australia. L.A. Living in Clinton, WA, Nancy School and worked as director lives in MN. Judy summers there. grandchildren at Sunriver Resort Gail Glidden Goodell is busy still works part time for Whidbey of summer programs and Dottie Egan continues to enjoy in DR, where they rafted down the with numerous clubs, activities and Watershed Stewards, a small director of facility marketing. retirement in NH. She delivers food McKenzie River. She and Mary family. She spent time with Jan environmental nonprofit doing Fulcher received her master's for Meals on Wheels throughout her Elsbree Hoffman took a cruise Bremer Sturgis in Destin, FL, and education and stewardship on degree in education from local area and has made many new along the Dalmatian Coast on a Fran Kerrigan Starkweather in Whidbey Island off of Seattle. Niece Springfield College. friends this way. Dottie's Dalmatian, ship that held only 50 people. Sanibel. Gail and Jan visited, and Gwen, a student, was in Cairo, Lady Alexandra (known as Alex), is Judy Petrequin Rice's husband then joined Fran to celebrate her so Nancy followed all the news of now 16 years old. Dottie sent along Don's hand is recuperating after a birthday. Back in Destin, Gail and Egypt closely. She is in touch with an article about Katie Lindsay, an motorcycle accident. Son Jim is at Jan went for a sunset sail in the Gulf Marion Fitz-Randolph Coste in HI expert horsewoman, who won the U.S. Bancurp, and his wife works of Mexico, from which they had to and with Nancy Bald Ripley, prestigious Wofford Cup, a supreme at a building products company. be rescued after the boat's steering Last Aug., Betty Moss Burr honor in the equestrian community. They keep busy with triathlons mechanism failed. Last summer, traveled from her home in San I am awaiting further information and their three children's sports. Gail was a Census enumerator, Francisco to La Jolla, CA, for from Katie, which you should see in Daughter Debbie is a district and she spent time in WI with her the wedding of her San Diego the next issue. manager overseeing food service sister, Then she and some of her nephew, who was married on a cliff Connie Stein Higgins writes: sales operators in seven states for family camped on Pine Island, ME. overlooking the Pacific Ocean. When "I still work four days a week for Kellogg's, She travels every week, she can, Betty flies to NYC to spend Carla Munroe Moynihan She attended her 55th high-school former President Bok of Harvard. He Her husband is associate director time with her mother, 97, who is still '90, a real estate partner reunion, spent time in NH, and is writing yet another book on higher of communications for St. Luke's mentally alert and living in Betty's with Robinson & Cole LLC in visited IL with her sister to find education. It's fun and keeps me Health Initiatives and is training for childhood apartment in Brooklyn. Boston, joined the adjunct out more about their grandfather's out of mischief. Mel received a new an lronman triathlon. Their children, Betty is starting to think about a faculty of the New Ingland family. They saw the home where knee in Nov, and it's working great. ages 9 and 11, swam with their 100th birthday celebration for her! School of Law in January. She their parents were raised We count our blessings every day." swim team from Alcatraz to San Betty is currently retrofitting her taught contracts drafting in the Marcia Fortin Sherman Irene Pantages recently retired Francisco, and the nen day they 50-year-old San Francisco home. spring semester. Moynihan, and John celebrated their 50th after 48 years of teaching French swam end to end under the Golden In March, Judy Van law Blakey who earned her J.D. from anniversary with a family gathering and Spanish in Eastchester, NY.She Gate Bridge! Judy's son Bailey's and Bud joined his business Boston University School at a house on Lake Michigan. won many teaching prizes, including trade publication was purchased They also visited SI. Augustine, associates for a winter trip to the Outstanding Teacher Award by employees from the parent FL. They have been coping with Sun Valley Lodge, ID, for skiing, CONTINUED NEXT PAGE> from the U, of Chicago, and she was company and he joined them in this their son's cancer, and the whole skating and winter fun. They were named the Outstanding Teacher of entrepreneurial endeavor. Bailey's family participated in a 5K run! then heading for an early April

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trip to Kathmandu, Nepal, where Please send in your news so we field consultant at the U. of UMy main work for the foreseeable they planned to join a group of 12 can appear more often!" Chicago School of Social Service future is to catalyze development people (none of whom they knew!) Administration and, in the warmer of an abandoned gravel mine into camels for two weeks of travel. months, plays goH and tennis. a community two miles from the Millie Price Nygren attended 1963 Amarillo, TX, city limits ... truly a INTHE CROWD the reception for the Higdons in Correspondent: Bonnie CampbeJl fascinating, frustrating, but mostly San Francisco last Nov. Ellen Billings, [email protected] 1964 exhilarating adventure!" She has Purdy Webster, from Richmond, Many thanks to Bonnie Correspondent: Jean Klingenstein, three grown children. Daughter < FROM PREVIOUS PAGE CA, was also in attendance. Joan Campbell Billings, who has 400 W Ontario St., Apt 1103, Chicago, Alicia and family live in NYC, where of Law, has been listed in Murray Webster writes that there generously volunteered her IL 60654-7162, jaklingenstein@ Alicia is finishing medical school; yahoo.com Massachusetts Super Lawyers was an excellent turnout for the time to become the new class one son is also there. Mary's other To start on a sad yet inspiring in the area of real estate law event, which was held at the top correspondent, taking over for son lives in Beijing, working and note, and for the benefit of the since 2009. She received the of San Francisco's Stock Exchange Class President Roberta Slone studying Mandarin. "Iai chi is my many of us who would have liked BU School of Law's Young Tower. The weather was hot, and Smith. Thank you, Roberta, for alter ego. I've been practicing for to but couldn't, I want to Lawyer's Chair Award in 2002. all the windows were open in the filling in for more than a year! attend 15 years, teaching for nine. That share Platt Townend Arnold's historic building! Before and after Bonnie and her husband, Joe keeps me grounded and, so far, observations about the memorial the program, tasty hers d'oeuvres Wauters, spend their summers healthy. Life is good!" service for Sandy Bannister Dolan, were presented on tall bistro-style sailing in Newfoundland and Judy Sheldon Carberg retired in who died 11/22. "Pat Edwards tables, with passed hot appetizers Labrador. This summer will be their '01 from "a very happy and fulfilling and drinks of all kinds available. 11th in the Canadian Maritimes. Anderson and I went together and professional life teaching mostly Of President Higdon's Stale of the They find Newfoundland a saw Dhuanne Schmitz Tansill and first grade in Cambridge, MA." She College address, she writes, "I "cruising nirvana" and now keep Doug, Janet Grant, Dianne Hyde then went to work for Lesley U. but Russell, and Sandy's dear friend, was amazed and impressed with their boat there. Also, the scenery, so missed the interactions with Willa Schuster '68. The church the many facts and numbers he people, music and culture have the kids that by '06 she was back was packed. Sandy's son, Brad Sara Wilkinson McElroy gave us with no teleprompters completely won them over. They working as a part-time Reading Dolan '97, gave the eulogy, bringing '03, a Pharm.O. candidate at in evidence!" The many recent encourage anyone interested in Recovery teacher for the Cambridge the University of Washington graduates in attendance took an exploring this part of the world to the house down with his opening Public Schools, and she is happily School of Pharmacy, became contact them at [email protected]. observation that, as we all knew, his still there. Daughter Becky, following active part in the question-and- president of the American Bonnie and Joe spend their winters mother could be a pain in the ***, answer period following President the family teaching tradition, Pharmacists Association skiing at home in Stowe, VT, and and going on to remind us of the Higdon's remarks. "There were graduated from Bank Street College Academy of Student with their kids in Jackson Hole, WY, many ways Sandy was active in our very good questions about strategic and promptly went to work in India, Pharmacists in March. As and Telluride, CO. In the past year, lives. It was wonderful. Brad and planning for CC's future. As we where she met a wonderful man national president, she Bonnie has enjoyed catching up his wife have a beautiful little boy, socialized before departing, I from Chile. Now Judy is headed leads more than 32,000 with Roberta, Jane levy Yusen and about a year old, named Ray after shared a lively conversation to Santiago to visit the growing student pharmacist members Diana Altman. Sandy's late husband, whose family with Ann Higdon, referencing family. She refers to herself as the representing every pharmacy Patti Keenan Mitchell enjoyed was there, as was Sandy's sister, memories from our well-attended "Grirga Granny"! She sees a lot school in the U.S. and Puerto attending Ihe Boston Pops concert, Laura. Sandy had spent a lot of 50th Reunion last June. She was of Eva Foldes and Jane Bigelow Rico. She's also the only which was a CC event. Over the last time with this beautiful baby. It was excited to tell me of their next Orner (who is taking art classes student member on the 18 years, she has been to China heartening to picture her enjoying stop - a CC reception in the los in Cambridge) and also keeps up APhA board of trustees. being a grandmother." Sandy gave Angeles area, followed by a family six times to visit her son, who was with Jeannie Goldberg Thomases, so much of herself to our class get-together with Higdon children working there. He works in london Nancy Sinkin Kolben and Marie over so many years, and again, we and grandchildren." The guests as an editor for the Financial Times, Birnbaum. "I really value my extend our deepest sympathy to were all given handy, spiral-bound so she now has new places to visit. CC friendships, and when we're Brad and his family. notepads emblazoned with the Debbie Morris Kullby, Carolyn together time just collapses, and we Flora Barth Wolf's life at words "Connecticut College" and Boyan Raymond, lonnie Jones are college freshmen again!" present is indeed full and happy, the College logo - "very effective, Scharer, linda Osborne and Sue Sadly, the Fall 2010 issue She was about to attend her oldest ever-mindful memento, don't you Hall Veccia are planning a mini- of this magazine contained an grandson's bar mitzvah, and she think!? There is no question- reunion for Aug. in Breckinridge, CO. announcement of the death from can't get over how quickly the time West Coast interest in preserving Marcia Rygh Phillips retired last a brain tumor of our classmate Vetri Nathan '03 will join June from The literacy Institute at has flown, a sentiment shared, I'm the academic and athletic prestige Gail Rosenberg Ludvigsen. Her the faculty at the University sure, by everyone reading this. of the College is alive and well!" Virginia Commonwealth U., where daughters, Debbie and laura of Massachusetts Boslon she worked with teacher education Marilyn Ellman Buel is excited Calls also went out to Susan Ludvigson, were her constant this summer as an assistant and program development in adult to report that husband Dick's last Herbst Ehrenhaft in Moraga, CA, caregivers throughout the difficult professor of Italian studies. major book is being published and lady Silverthorne Wardle. education. She will now have more progression of her illness. A funeral A lecturer of Italian at the time for travel to see her children shortly. They were hoping to travel was held in NY, followed by a University of Denver, he in Atlanta and Boston, and she will to Italy in the spring on a trip memorial service in los Angeles. received his master's and begin some kind of volunteer work Marilyn coordinated for the Essex Belatedly, we extend our sincerest Ph.D. in Italian at Stanford 1961 after the summer. Last fall. she Library, but first she had to resolve condolences to Gail's family. University. He taught Italian Correspondents: Marty Guida Young, had her second hip replacement some health issues. As class while he was a student at 2203 Colonia! Woods Drive, Alexandria, and was already back in her Pilates agent, Marilyn is in touch with VA22308, [email protected];Paula Stanford, where he also many of you, and she really keeps Parker Raye, 49 Barcliff Ave., Chatham, class by Dec. 1965 designed and taught a course MA 02633. [email protected] Last year, Cynthianna Hahn us connected. As always, thank Ccrrespondent: Nannette Citron in Italian comedy cinema. traveled to Egypt with an Overseas you, Marilyn! Hopefully you will be Schwartz, 7766 Wildcreek Trail, He's worXing on a book that Adventure Travel group, and also feeling much better by the time this HunfsVlJle, AL 35802, nannette. explores major cinematic [email protected] visited Bolivia and Ghana. "It's column appears in print. innovations in Italy due 10 1962 Sadly, Mary Emeny lost her amazing to see the enormous Correspondent: Seyril Siegel, 17263 immigration from the East husband, Hunter Ingalls, in May Boca Club Blvd., Apt. 2, Boca Raton, FL political changes that are now and South. 33487, [email protected] occurring in Egypt." She still '08, but she gained her first 1966 Seyril Siegel writes, "Hi, Class! works part time as a clinical grandchild a year to the day later. Com:spondents: Patricia Dale and

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Carol Chaykin, [email protected] Translators Without Borders. (The news that Marjorie {Migs) levy Midge Auwerter Shepard volunteers at the local Free Medical This is an e-mail farewell from Deguises would be proud!) died in July '08. Andrea offers still lives in Houston but travels Clinic and golfs. Ellen does volunteer Betsey Staples Harding and Those are some of the happenings 10 relate more details to anyone frequently back to her home in service with the Junior League, lois Maclellan Klee: "We two and recent changes in our lives: interested; contact her at andrea. Darien, CT, where her two sons Clothes for Kids and Hadassah. have enjoyed being '66 class what's happening in yours? The [email protected]. and their wives live and to see her Between these activities and trying correspondents for the past five Class Notes are published Quarterly; three grandchildren (ages 6, 2 and to keep up with her reading and to 10 years, getting to know each deadlines for news items are at the 1). Midge's daughter is in Boston, handicrafts, Ellen feels busier than other a lot better in the process end of Jan., April, July and Oct. We 1968 so she is not too far from CT. when she worked full time! She is and reacquainting ourselves with look fOlWard to hearing from you! Correspondent: Mary Clarkeson Midge's 92-year-old mother is in an still loving the FL sunshine many classmates. As Carol Chaykin It's easy- simply e-mail us at Phillips, 36 The Crossway, Delmar, NY assisted-living home in Cleveland, Nancy Barry Manor is "working comments below, our lives are [email protected]. 12054, mphiI/[email protected] so she also tries to see her as often on building a new life for myself changing, sometimes dramatically; Stephanie Hirsch Meyer's life as possible. The airlines love Midge! without my darling husband. keeping strong connections With old continues to be somewhat devoted Cathy Hull reports that after There are good things and bad friends is helpful, fun and exciting." 1967 to their monthly magazine, Teen 40 years (OMG) of freelancing her things - as in life." Some of And now ... hello, Class of '66 Ink, now in its 22nd year and with a illustrations, she thought it past Correspondent: Jackie King Donnelly, the fun things include wonderful from Carol Chaykin and Pat Dale, 1515 N. Astor St, Apt 12C, Chicago, IL thriving website. She and John have time to reinvent herself and her lunches recently with Ann Barber your new class correspondents. We 60610-5799, [email protected] been enjoying NYC and all it has to career. She is still freelancing, but Smith and Zoi Aponte Diamond. welcome you to submit occasional You all must be very busy since offer for almost half of each month, in her so-called spare time she loi regaled her with the tale of items to be shared in the Class you have not had time to send in even renting an apartment there. has created a new website selling bringing her 6'3" husband to a Notes. Some of our lives are tidbits, Here are the ones I have Their grandsons are, of course, a large inventory of her greeting tiny cottage in Provence, where he changing - sometimes even in received. growing: now almost 8 and 6 and cards for any (or no) occasion. even managed to get stuck in the several ways, all at once, Perhaps Debbie Greenstein has just had more fun than ever. Their son, Rob, "Still pulling all-nighters just like bathtub a few times. Nancy has you would like to share news of a lovely visit from Betsy Wilson married his long-time girlfriend last the good OLD days at CC (plus written a cookbook on Tastebook. some of these changes with your Zanna, who came to spend some year in her home country of Wales. fa change) but having fun in the com. Her book is called "Loving classmates. Here's some from us: time with her in FL and experience "A wedding to remember'!" And process." Check out http://zazzle. Cooking In Memory of Phil" and On 2/20, the extraordinary the joys of being a snowbird. While they continue to be very busy New cathyhull.cnm. features favorite recipes that she organist Christopher Marks it snowed in Canada they had Yorkers, John with his film career I, Mary Clarkeson Phillips, have and Phil enjoyed cooking together. produced the second CD of Pat's beautiful weather, and in between and Stephanie as assistant curator been very busy quilting and building She is still adding to the 200 recipes grandfather's organ music at sightseeing they walked every for the Guggenheim, a new website for Habitat for already stored there. Recently, a concert at Madison Avenue morning and spent time in the pool. Allyson Cook Gall still works Humanity of Schenectady County, Nancy donated to Kenyon College a which was launched in Nov. (www Presbyterian Church, where Pat's On page 58 of this issue, there is as director of the American Jewish sheaf of letters written to her dad schenectadyhabitatorg). I have grandfather, Seth Bingham, was a picture of Betsy at Bonnet House Committee in NJ, which meant by a friend of his from ME named been semiretired since '03 -I now minister of music from 1913-5l. in Fort Lauderdale, FL, where she speaking to a Catholic audience Denham Sutcliffe, who spent most develop software part time for the "Organ Music of Seth Bingham: Vol. spends the winter. Note the picture about Israel in Sept., moderating of his professional life as head of NY State Department of Health; my II, Memories of France" is available of the "two camels"! a panel on immigration reform in the English department at Kenyon. husband, Bruce, retired from the at www.ravencd.comandin music lynn Weichsel Hand still lives cct. and interviewing Irshad Manji, "The letters were written when he department at the end of Sept. stores. It has been Pat's longtime in Concord, NH, teaching at Hesser a progressive Muslim activist, was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in Keep your news coming; we all goal to get her prulitic grandfather's College and keeping busy with her before a big interfaith audience in '38 and describe in detail Germany love to know what is happening in music recorded, and Vol. III will granddaughter and her activities. Nov. Certainly never boring! and its citizens before the war and the lives of our CC friends. come out in the near future. Jackie King Donnelly, your Donna Matthews is not planning in France, as well as life at Oxford. Carol is no longer designing faithful scribe, and her husband to retire anytime soon, She loves I'm proud that these have just been systems for the NYSE (her latest wintered in Mexico, preparing for her work as a school psychologist published as 'letters from Europe, full-time gig). Instead, she's been daughter Martha's wedding in at a management needs program. 1969 1938' and are on Amazon.com." Correspondent: Judi Bamberg Mariggio, "retooling my disused French San Miguel de Allende. They envy She spent most of last summer with Cordalie Benoit recently 1070 Sugar Sands Blvd. #384, Riviera language skills." She found a classmates whose grandchildren are family at her cottage on Lake George Beach, FL 33404, jgmariggio@ completed her Master Gardener wonderful French professor/ close, since they have to commute ... still windsurfing and waterskiing! bel/south.net certification through the U. of mentor; joined an Accueil New York to Singapore to see their son's three And last Sect, she hosted a reunion Donald and Ellen Aronoff Kent Connecticut Cooperative Extension conversation group, as well as a little ones. Jackie teaches English in of CC friends in the mid-Hudson took "an awe-inspiring trip to system and would love to hear from couple of online French-language a little school when not on the golf Valley. The group included Genie Egypt and Jordan last spring and anyone passing through New Haven. forums; earned a certificate in course. They returned to Chicago to Bresnan Seybold, Rosemary vacationed in ME over the summer, When maintaining their house translation at NYU; and lately has their summer condo in April. Jenseth, Margaret (Sue) Ladr and stopping en route to visit five of and yard was no longer fun, Ed been translating for NGOs like Andrea Luria relates the sad Arlene Kirwan Avellanet our seven grandchildren," Don and laura Davenport Petcavage

Bianca Kissel '08 and Andrew Russell '05 married 8/20/10. Standing, from left Coach From left: Emily Wiederkehr '00 with daughter Maya, born July 2010; William Wuyke, Rachel Lamson '05, Jamie Spiller '08, Steven Del Signore '04, Julie Beth Rudenko Rothschild '01 with daughter Adele, born April 2010; Matt McCreedy '98 anc Katie Rosenman '08, the bride and groom, Jessica LaVallee '08, Brendan Curran '08, Corinna and Brooke Kennedy '01 with daughter Maren, born Nov. 2010. Goering '96 married 10/2/10. Beale '05 and Douglas Jackson '05. Front Matthew Barnish '08 and Noah Siegel '05

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moved to "a wonderful retirement the Institute of Museum Ethics at "still performing weddings in odd Linda Huth Foster's husband, settling down, buying a house and community in Hingham, MA." Seton Hall U., helping the institute locations, the oddest being in a pen David, wrote in because Linda getting a dog in NC. In Dec.• she They now enjoy watching the snow make plans for its future. However, of wolves!" could not herself sadly, she visited the College career center, outside their windows. knowing this will almost all be outdated by Vera Gordeev Lowdermilk is was diagnosed with younger- lunched witfl Professor Bob Proctor that they won't have to shovel any the time of publication!" an artist and muralist in the Bay onset Alzheimer's disease in and saw linda Citrano Yohe. They of it! Laura gave up playing the Area. Last year, she completed '03. She lives in a group home shared stories about their kids and viola and has switched to the tenor four large civic murals, three for in Bloomington, MN, where reminisced about freshman year. recorder, joining an Early Music 1970 San Francisco and an 80' -by-18' David visits her daily. linda is Seth Cummins, general counsel Consort there - "great fun." She Correspondenl: Myrna Chandler competition winner for Livermore "to cheerful; she loves listening to for Metro North Railroad, and wife hangs out in the gym and pool Goldstein, 5 Woods End Road, Uncoln, honor firefighters and the amazing music and humming along. David Cathy are not Quite empty-nesters almost every day. "Life is good." MA 01713, [email protected] machines used to fight fires," which included links to a brief video as their 21-year-old twin daughters Donna Hicks de Perez-Mera was painted on the old historic of linda, www.youtube.com/ plod thru academia: Shelby at and husband German continue firehouse on Main Street. She has watch?v =QdQ3dBEPF70, and Franklin & Marshall and Drew at to enjoy a Quiet and peaceful life 1971 completed numerous sculpture and a website with photos of linda Hunter. They enjoy living in the Park in Santo Domingo, Dominican mural commissions for residential, and journal entries detailing her Correspondents: Charlotte Parker Slope section of Brooklyn; their Republic, with their translation Vincent, 5341 Gainsborough Dri~e, designer and civic clients. Visit progress, http://caringbridge.org! neighbors include Carol Adams '72 agency, beloved Rottweilers and Fairfax, VA22032, cp~incent@gmail. www.veralowdermilk.com. visiViindafoster. and her husband, Gary. "Dominican Classic" mixed breeds, com; Usa McDonnell, 134 W Maple Nancy Hughes Robb runs a JoAnne lsenburg Hartel and Joe Srednicki lives in Quincy, and their home in the tranquil city St., Granvi/le, OH 43023, mcdonnell@ high-tech client showcase at Fidelity husband Karsten, a fish biologist MA, in a Victorian house that he is suburbs near the Isabela River. "My denison.edu Investments in Boston. Her 40-year at Harvard, live in Arlington, MA. bringing back to its glory. He now Mary Faith Higgins lives in husband's orchids will be in full career includes CIO positions in For over 30 years, Jo has been has several keyboard instruments: bloom soon, in time for the National England with husband Robert Upton health care, manufacturing and teaching English as a Second a tracker-action pipe organ, a Orchid Show. My fondest regards to and daughters Katherine and Emily. transportation. She lives in Concord, Language in an adult education Bechstein piano, a clavichord, and all our classmates. As I write this Mary Faith is a chief counsel at the MA, with husband George, who program in Cambridge, also serving soon, a two-manual harpsichord. in Jan, I feel almost guilty and wish European Bank for Reconstruction runs his own commercial real variously as program manager, Joe is a manager for Omgeo LLC that they could enjoy the balmy and Development an international estate company, Omniproperties coordinator, counselor, curriculum in Boston. tropical temperatures and sea financial institution owned by 56 Inc. Daughter Kelly, 25, works at developer and teacher trainer. She Karen Hartigan Whiting was breezes that we do." countries and focused on lending! McKinsey Consulting in Chicago has published a beginning reader home with her husband while he "Our grassroots conservation investment in countries formerly in after a very successful junior and for adults who are learning English. battled breast cancer and with her group, Groton (Cn Open Space the Soviet Bloc. She is "studying collegiate golf career. Carole Firestone-Gillis and son's family during his deployment Association, just completed the Russian language without Adele Wolff Bassett and husband Mitch Jive in Healdsburg, to Iraq. Her husband has recovered a major land acquisition and very much success (much harder husband Bill became VT residents CA. They have two children, Ari, 32, and her son is back. She is working fund raising drive," reports Joan grammar than Chinese)." in May '10. Son Graham is a and Danielle, 29, Carole has been on a new book, "Battlefields & Hosmer Smith, "saving the 63- Deborah Johnson continues professional squash player and a psychotherapist for 26 years, and Blessings: Stories of Faith and acre Sheep Farm in Groton from to publish The Groton Herald, a coach based in NYC. When not Mitch has just retired from a career Courage from the Home Front of certain development and beginning weekly newspaper she started working on the house or the as a winemaker. Carole would love American Wars." work on habitat restoration, I would 31 years ago. Youngest daughter properly, Adele does freelance to hear from her "old" friends. (Call Victoria Sandwick Schmitt love to take classmates on tours Allegra is majoring in international writing, weaves, attempts to the Alumni Office at 800-888-7549 lives in Rochester, NY. Her daughter, of this lovely, rugged, intact, 18th- affairs at Northeastern U. and improve her squash game, enjoys for contact information). Stephanie Schmitt '06, married century farm to see the meadows, traveling all over the world as part seasonal sports, and occasionally Lloyd Briggs of Hartford, CT, on waterfalls, stone walls, rocky of her curriculum. Deborah broke runs the circulation desk at her 6/5/10, a joyous occasion for all ledges and forest. Drs. Niering, her femur last May and has not rural library. 1972 the family CC alums to celebrate Goodwin and Taylor planted the fully recovered the ability to walk. Jean Taylor retired from the Correspondent: Sam MacLaughlin together: Victoria's mother, Elizabeth seed of conservation years ago, In spite of the cane, she helped her Library of Virginia, where she Olivier, 3886 Chatham Lane, Brainard Sandwick '49; brother, and that made all the difference." brother and sister renovate their worked as a project consultant for Canadaigua. NY 14421, solivier@ William Sandwick '76; and other rochesterrr.com For Sally Yerkovich, the family homestead in Upton, MA, the Digital Library Program. She daughter, Eleanor Schmitt' 12. challenge of sending a news and it is now home to the seventh now works at the Williamsburg In Virginia Beach, VA, Pamela update "is that so much of what I generation of Johnsons. Regional Library as a children's Shorter McKinney retired in am doing is short term. I continue Gretchen Liddle Abernathy materials cataloger. Her four 1973 Feb. after 31 years in education, to consult on cultural projects in has two adult children and two children, Taylor, Julie, Molly and Correspondent: Nina Da~it, davil_ working variously as a teacher, Central and Eastern Europe and grandchildren, and she loves to Will, and her grandson, Raleigh, all [email protected] principal, director and assistant am also working as director of ski every day in the winter. She is live close by. Nina Davit looks forward to superintendent. "Working in

Christian Schulz '94 married Sharmilla Araya on 10/2/10. From left: Carole Dahl Weidemiller MAT'84. the bride and groom. Tom Sullivan Kristen York vasquez '00 and Jennifer Monroe Scoggin '00 with Elizabeth Anderson Culbert '49, left, and Frances Brigham '95, Jennifer Hawkins-Kirkaldy '95, Michael Weed '95, Cait Gimpel- their daughters, Eiley vasquez and Lily Scoggin, in Florida. Johnson '49 in July. Ryan '95, Kirsten Hall-Brage '96 and Todd Ryan '95,

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education was a dream come true." Meg Gifford is winding down correspondent, please contact the Civil Air Patrol and competes companies since Aug. '08. Who Paul Abramson is a psychology her solo antitrust law practice Class Notes Coordinator Karen weekly in target shooting with his would have guessed that she'd professor at UCLA. His book, "Sex and hopes to spend more time Laskey at the address above. dad, Barb's husband, Skip, owns run into another CC alum through Appeal: Six Ethical Principles for in Bristol, ME. Her father and Reid's Yacht Service at Constitution the International Community the 21st Century," was published her husband's mother passed Marina in Boston Harbor. He is also School, where her daughters, with good reviews. "I also formed away, which has made her 1982 safety officer and board member Leilah, 13, and Olivia, 11, attend? a punk rock band called Crying 4 appreciate every day. "I just had Correspondents: Deborah Salomon at the Cape Ann Sportsman's Club Recently, Cynthia connected with Kafka. We opened for Bad Religion hip replacement surgery; I hope it Smith, 3 Lori Lane, Norwalk, cr 06851, in Gloucester, MA, and competes Stephen Ladas '98, who is her at the House of Blues on Sunset helps me keep up with those who [email protected];ElizaHelman with a team from the Reading Rod daughters' middle-school principal in L.A." You can read more at say that '60 is the new 40!'" Kraft, 592 Colonial Ave., Pelham, NY & Revolver Club in Reading, MA. in Bangkok. It's a small world 10803, [email protected] www.Iaweekly.com/2010-11-04/ With everyone so busy, it's almost after all! Formerly an assistant principal columns/pundits - of-punk. impossible to keep in touch with Susan Budd Sizer, Hal Sizer, at Anglo-American School of Carol Williams Hannenberg folks, so look us up on Facebook! and their children, David, Julie' 11 1974 Moscow, Tatiana Lopukhin recently lives in Wellesley, MA. They have Correspondent: Deborah Hoff, Tina Marshall Roberts enjoyed and Nick '12, visited Tom Pado accepted a position as a principal traveled to South Africa, the U.K. [email protected] walking around the campus this '86, wife Heather, and their kids, at Pechersk School International in and Turkey, They had a difficult summer with her family during a Emeline and Eliane, in Tanzania Kiev, Ukraine. "My daughter and I year in '09 when their daughter visit to Mystic for a wedding. It is in Dec. Tom is secondary school have moved to Kiev and are loving was deployed to Iraq; she is now 1975 still the serene and lovely place she principal of the International this wonderful city and its warm in HI. Their other daughter works in Correspondents: Miriam Josephson remembers it to be. As she poked School of Tanganyika and Heather Philadelphia and coaches women's people." Whitehouse, Po. Box 7068, Cape her head into the dance studio she is a fifth-grade teacher there. basketball. "We love Buzzards Porpoise, ME 04014, casablanca1@ was full of gratitude for the passion gwi.net; Nancy Gruver, 2650 University Bay; I am addicted to my stand-up and the purpose that was distilled paddle board!" Ave. W #101, St. Paul, MN 55114, nancyg@newmoon,org 1983 during those four years, Now as Susan Fifield Cunningham and Correspondent: Claudia Gould Tielking the business owner of a creative 1985 husband Peter have been living in 6533 Mulroy Sf., McLean, VA22101- Correspondents: Deborah Lowry dance program called Nurturing NH for the last 25 years. Susan 5517, [email protected] MacLean, 42 Catbird Court, Pathways in Seattle and the mother Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-2045, deb works at a local college as the Erica Van Brimer Goldfarb and 1976 of two teenagers, she is enjoying [email protected];MegMacrr associate director of services for husband Adam are enjoying their Correspondents: Kenneth Abel, 334 passing that passion on to the [email protected] students with disabilities. They W 19th St., Apt. 2B, New York, NY newfound "empty nestedness." youngest generation of dancers have two sons, Derek, 27, and 10011, [email protected];Susan After dreading their youngest Hazlehurst Milbrath, 5830 S Galena She encourages you to find her on Adam, 23. daughter's departure for many a St., Greenwood Vilfage, CO 80111, Facebook and re-connect' Pam Kalish Edel and husband month, the actual event was not [email protected] Judith Krigman made the move 1986 Martin live in NYC. In the last 18 so bad - in fact very easy to Correspondent: Barbara Malmberg to Pittsburgh, so now she can months their two children have get used to. Daughter Natalie will 560 Silver Sands Road, Unit 1303, actually go to reunions and is not married, and they now have graduate from Bard College in May East Haven, CT 06512, malmberg2@ half a continent away. She works aol.com outstanding grand-dogs and a 1977 with a degree in photography, and Correspondents: Ann Rumage at U. of Pittsburgh as a research fantastic son- and daughter-in- Fritschner, 310 Thomas Road, hopefully enter the real world and assistant for the Department of law. Pam has worked for TV, an Hendersonville, NC 28739, annieme@ be fortunate to gain employment. Pharmacology & Chemical Biology. elementary school and an auction belfsouth.net; Jim McGoldrick, Po. Box Daughter Sarah is a freshman at 1987 She is doing more glassblowing, house and is now painting folk art 665, Watertown, CT 06795, Barnard College and loving every Correspondents: Jenifer Kahn Bakkala, [email protected] paperweights and marbles than 51 Wesson Terrace, Northborough, on found objects. minute of it. Erica has gone back any other artwork, and still jogging MA 01532, }[email protected];Jili Joan Pierce has worked for the to work full time as a marketing when she has the time. Her son Perlman Pienkos, 103 Barn Hill Lane, MA Department of Fish and Game coordinator for U. of Virginia's Newington, CT 06111, jrperlman@ Martin is a junior at Missouri in Buzzards Bay for 12 years 1978 International Studies Office. Job snef.net Western, and Samuel started She lives in an 834-square-foot Correspondent: Susan Calef Tobiason, description involves enticing college Todd Humphrey has been a college at Pittsburgh. bungalow) which includes a porch 70 Park Terrace East, Apt 41, New York, students to study abroad on one of pilot with Continental Airlines (now NY 10034, [email protected] The Class of '83 extends its "art studio." She belongs to the UVA's many programs, One would United) since '05. Previously he sympathy to the family and friends New England Society of Botanical think it would be an easy task, but was with Continental Express. of Calvin Pond, who died 8/19/10. Artists and will attend the Guild not always. Adam continues to Todd is based in Newark, NJ; Calvin loved history, music, of Natural Science Illustrators 1979 pursue great things in the world of however, he and his partner live conference Correspondents: Vicki Chesler, blood diseases at the UVA Health baseball and soccer and completed in Melbourne, FL, southeast of vchesler@earthlinknet;SueAvtges several marathons as an avid Keith Nappi accompanied Center. "Keeping busy has not been Orlando. "Since graduation I have Kayeum, [email protected] his daughter, Deanna, to the CC a problem and we've found some runner. He will be sadly missed by seen the campus more often from family and friends and two dogs, campus for an interview in June. time for travel, enjoying each other's my cockpit 'office' than by carl" She was very impressed and met company again and exploring Fenway and Tika. Steve Plaisted lives in John Anthony, professor of music, 1980 Charlottesville." Gaithersburg, MD, with his wife at the console of the College organ Correspondents: Connie Smith Barbara Lasley Reid is teaching and ll-year-old daughter. He has in Harkness Chapel for an unusual Gemmer, 180 Glenwood Ave., Portland, special education (kindergarten 1984 been practicing law for the last 20 ME 041 03, connie@bartongingold. Correspondents: Lucy Marshall Sandor, interactive presentation. Deanna com; Todd Hudson, piratetodd@ and first-grade developmental- years as a sole practitioner with 251 Katydid Lane, Wilton, CT 06897, has since submitted her application. me.com delayed class) in the Boston an emphasis in the area of family Bobbie Chappell Oahlgren Public Schools. She is also very [email protected];SheryIEdwards law, He also has a certification Rajpolt, 17 Pheasant Lane, Monroe, and Tim Oahlgren are teachers at involved in church activities, as in biblical peacemaking from the cr 06468, srajpolt@us,ibm.com; Durham Academy, an independent 1981 are her sons, Jerry, 17, and Brian, Uz Kolber Wolkoff, 119 Estate Ddve, Institute for Christian Conciliation. day school in NC, Bobbie in the 15. Her boys are busy with music Jericho, NY 11753, [email protected] "My passion is helping to save and Correspondent: Class Notes Editor, restore broken marriages through preschool for 20 years and Tim CC: Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., and sports in high school. Jerry Cynthia Griffin completed a tour in the middle school for 35 years. New London, CT 06320, ccmag@ works outside of school doing in Bangkok, Thailand, this past the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Son Derek, 31, is an attorney in conncoll.edu audio production for local bands summer, where she had served as linda Christensen Wright, Washington, DC, and son Andrew, Editor's Note: If you are and church performances. Brian is the commercial counselor at the husband Bill and their three children 28, is a tarista in nearby Carrboro. interested in serving as class involved with their local chapter of U,S, Embassy, assistingAmerican live in West Hartford, CT. The kids'

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activities, a kitchen renovation and pathologist at KIPP Academy Lynn Benjamin Bing married Alumni in attendance included Tom Linda's catering business have 1993 and Matt is the president of BG Catherine Whitney on 8121 in Richardson, Jon Roses, Matt been keeping the family busy! Their Capital Management, a real estate Correspondent: Michael Carson, P.D. Camden, ME. Ben is a teacher for Maher, Kristian Gratton '01, Peter oldest is a Junior in high school Box 914, fast Orfeans, MA 02643, asset management and investment the Woburn Public Schools and Fisher, Dan Saccardi, Chuck and is considering ee, following carson.michae/@comcast.net firm. They live in Marblehead, MA. Catherine is a finance executive at Halsey, Karen Kir1ey Roses, in the footsteps of her mother, Ernst and Young in Boston. They Claudia Goodrich Bender. Amanda grandmother Rennie Aschaffenburg live in Somerville, MA. Bowles and Amy Lynch '01. Jay is Christensen '51 and great-aunt 1994 1997 a structural engineer for Dive~ifted Correspondent: Tika Martin, 3221 Edith Aschaffenburg Wilhelm '48. Correspondent: Ann Bevan Holfos, Technology Consultants in Hamden, Carler Ave., Unit 116, Marina del Rey, 1443 Beacon st. #105, Brookline, MA CT.and lynsey is a physician's offIce CA, tikamarlin@yahoo,com 2000 02446, [email protected] Correspondent: Katie stephenson, 54 IT program manager at Lawrence & On 1012, Christian Schulz Rope Ferry Road, Unit 138H, Waterford, Memorial Hospital in New london. 1988 married Sharmilla Araya in a small, cr 06385, [email protected] Correspondent: Nancy Beaney, 4059 They live in Essex, CT. backyard ceremony in NYC. McLaughlin Ave., Apt. 8, Los Angeles, 1998 Thea Burgess moved to Silver Sarah Gemba and Daniel Egea Maggie Francis married CA 90066, [email protected] Correspondents: Alec Todd, 1045 Spring, MO, in Aug. '0710 lake Perez announce the arrival of their Daniel Gietzen in Mystic, CT, on Brian Scott Walker married N. Utah Sf., Arlington, VA22201, a job as a reading specialist daughter, Manuela (Ella), on 10122. 10/16, The CoCo Beaux made Anne Davis in Uniontown, PA, on [email protected];AbbyClark, at the Chelsea School and has 8/21. Brian is a communication an appearance at their reception 5326thAve. #3L, Brooklyn, NY 11215, been worl

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hotmail.com Raber were married 11/20 in Winthrop Scholar with a degree as a copywriter for WSTC radio class agent chair, director of the Amy loveless married Patrick Washington, DC. Nathaniel is in chemistry, Leah taught in station. She and her husband, Alumni Board of Directors, planned Imam on 9/18 in Bedford, NH, Amy an independent appraiser of Shelton, Corm, She was a founding Philip Diamant, raised two children giving adviser, member of the is a psychologist with Childhelp wristwatches and clocks in NYC. member of a local Jewish book and, In 1984, moved to Israel, Annual Fund Council, reunion gift in Lignum, VA. Patrick is an Robyn IS the gallery manager club and volunteered al Hartford where they lived until 1999, when chair and Decade liaison, She also economist with the International at Michael Altman Fine Art and Hospital's psychiatric unit. She they moved to Baltimore. Shirley worked at on-campus programs and Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Advisory Services in Manhattan. was predeceased by her daughter will be remembered for her gentle hosted many alumni events at her They live in Fairfax, VA. Alissa Wantman is entering her Carolyn Rubin Musicant '65 and soul, kindness and sense of humor. home, Beyond Ihe College, Phyllis second year as a community health cousins Sophie Litsky Gold '32 She is survived by her daughters, served with the Ladies Auxiliary at volunteer with the Peace Corps in and Libbie Blumenthal jacob '34. six grandchildren and three great- Reading Hospital and sat on the 2004 Gore, Ethiopia. Her main role is She leaves granddaughter Judith grandchildren. boards of the Reading Museum, Correspondent: Kelly McCall, kjmcc@ building capacity of community and Musicant Rosenbaum '95, cousin Ann Rubinstein Husch '41 Reading Area Community College conncolf.edu faith-based health organizations Ellen J. Gold '64, niece Cheryl of St. Louis, Mo., died Feb. 9. and the United Way of Berks County. and initiating arid designing income- Savitsky Izzo '71, her second Ann, who earned a degree in She was predeceased by her sister- generafing activities for people living daughter and grandchildren. English, enjoyed playing the flute, in-law, Miriam Imber Fredman 2005 with HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable Margaret Burgess Hoy '36 died bridge and gardening. She was '46, and leaves two sons, three Correspondents: Ceclly Mandl Macy, groups. She's developing a poultry Feb. 11, Margaret taught French at predeceased by a sister, Peggy grandchildren and niece Regina B. [email protected];Stephanie farming business for a group of 30 Friends Academy in New Bedford, Rubinstein Hellman '44, two sons, Savage Flynn, stephaniesavageflynn@ Kruse '70. gmail.com single mothers. Mass. She and her husband, and her husband, Peter H. Husch. Charlotte Hosfeld Tarpy '43 On 8/20, Bianca Kissel '08 and Franklin, established a scholarship She leaves her sister Louise of Providence, R.I., died March Andrew Russell were married in fund for deserving students at Rubinstein Goldberg '47, two 1. Tottie earned her master's in BMC Durfee High School in Fall San Luis Obispo, CA. The couple 2008 daughters, 13 grandchildren and rehabilitation counseling at Rhode River, Mass. Margaret will be asked their track-and-field coach, Correspondent: Sally Pendergast, nine great-grandchildren. Island College. She worked for remembered for her kindness and William Wuyke, to read a poem by [email protected] Jane Kennedy Newman '41 the Memorial Hospital of Rhode generosity. She was predeceased Pablo Neruda during their wedding Jessica LeClair and Carra P'77 '82 died Nov. 23. jane, who Island and was a member of by her husband and leaves two ceremony. Other Camels who Cheslin '11 attended the United also studied at Thomas A. Edison the Wannamoisett Country Club sons, four grandchildren and two attended the wedding included Nations Framework Convention on College in New Jersey, served as and Daughters of the American great grandchildren. a class correspondent. She was Rachel Lamson, Jamie Spiller Climate Change held in Cancun. Revolution, She served the Elsie Schwenk Taylor '38 of '08, Steven DelSignore '04, Julie Mexico, in Nov, predeceased by her husband, College as a class agent and St. Petersburg, Fla. died March John Newman Jr., and leaves six Rosenman '08, Jessica LaVallee On 8/20, Bianca Kissel and class correspondent. Tottie is 11, Elsie taught German and children, including Nan C. Newman '08, Brendan Curran '08, Corinna Andrew Russell '05 were married survived by her son and daughter, economics at St. Petersburg High Sanfilippo '77 and Catherine R. Beale, Douglas Jackson, Matthew in San Luis Obispo, CA. Please see three grandsons, one great- School until she retired in 1980. Newman Oakley '82, as well as granddaughter, and two great- Bannish '08 and Noah Siegel. the '05 column for more details. She loved sailing, traveling and nine grandchildren and four great- grandsons Jessica Mellen and Graham reading. Elsie was a devoted grandchildren. Gloria Pierce Gould '44 of Enos were married 8/14 in mother, grandmother and teacher. Dorothy Greene '42 of Paxton, Georgetown, ME. Alumni in 2009 Essex, Conn" died Jan. 23. A Correspondent: Caroline Gransee, She was predeceased by her sister Mass., died Jan. 26. Dorothy former class agent, she was attendance included Ellen [email protected] Marie Schwenk Trimble '38 and married Richmond L. Greene married for 67 years to Phil Gould. Richardson (maid of honor), Lizzie In May '10, Hannah Ewing sister-in-law Alice Coy Schwenk and worked for Aetna Insurance Gloria loved animals and was a Fox, Bryan Boucher '01, Bonnie received an M.A. in human rights '31. She leaves her niece Barbara Co. in Hartford and later at the member of the Ocean Reef Club Prokesch '04, Morrigan McCarthy, from Columbia U. She worked as Ashton Carey '72 P'Ol, sister-in- College of Agriculture at Cornell in Key Largo, Fla., and the Essex Liz Hubley '06 and Jenny Hammell a research assistant at the U.S, law Jane Fullerton Messenger '46 University, An active volunteer, Yacht Club. She is survived by her Holocaust Memorial Museum last P'69 '72 GP'Ol, sister-in-law Alice she served as director and first four children, nine grandchildren summer and returned in Dec. from M. Schwenk '31, five children and female vice president of the and six great-grandchildren. 2006 a three-month contract working in 15 grandchildren. Torrington YMCA and on many Elizabeth Elsworth Starbuck Correspondent: Erin Riley, esriley@ Robertsport, Liberia, Margaret Barrows Griffith '39 other local organizations. When '45 of Hawaii died JanI. She met gmail.com of Naples, Fla., died March 27. her children were grown, Dorothy her husband, Ray, a Coast Guard Tara Sousa and Lt. Stephen Hart Margaret completed post-graduate and her girlfriends backpacked the cadet, her freshman year. They were married 8/29 in Newport, RI. 2010 work in psychology at the University entire Appalachian Trail. Dorothy married in 1944 and raised three Tara is a prenatal genetic counselor Correspondent .. Erin Osborn, of Arizona, She and her husband, is survived by her husband, three children, moving from New London with Women & Infants Hospital in [email protected] Charles, raised their three children daughters, four grandchildren, two to Princeton, N.J., where Bettie Providence, The groom, a Coast In Bradford, Pa., and later retired great-grandchildren and a sister. began her career in real estate; Guard officer, attends the Carroll to Naples. Margaret was active Frances Cornell Nielsen '42 of 10 India and then Saudi Arabia, School of Management at Boston 2011 with the Episcopal Church and the Orleans, Mass" died Feb. 25. After where Bettie worked to found the College, They live in Warwick, RI. Correspondent: Class Noles Editor, American Association of University earning a degree in economics, kingdom's first coeducational Taylor Rotondi and Nicolas [email protected] Women. An avid knitter, she knitted Frances worked in retail and kindergarten; and finally to Hawaii, Anderson married 8/14 in Mourlt EDITOR'S NOTE If you ere hundreds of teddy bears for the banking. She was a longtime where she volunteered with the Hermon, MA. Taylor works for interested in serving as class Mother Bear Project, which donated parishioner of Asbury Methodist Honolulu Garden Club and served Robert Allen Group!Beacon Hill in correspondent, please contact them to sick or orphaned children in Church in Crestwood, treasurer of as president of the Hawaii Society NYC. Nicolas works for PrinceRidge Class Notes Coordinator Karen Africa. Margaret is survived by three the UMWand a Lawrence Hospital of the National Society of the Group LLC in NYC. The couple Laskey at the above address. children, seven grandchildren and volunteer for 18 years. In retirement, Colonial Dames of America, She honeymooned in Casablanca, six great-grandchildren, Frances enjoyed visiting family in leaves her husband, daughter, son, Morocco, and live in NYC. Shirley Dichter Diamant '40 California and on Cape Cod, reading, six grandchildren and two great- died Feb. 3. After graduating with and knitting. She leaves her two grandchildren. OBITUARIES a sociology degree, Shirley went to children, five grandchildren and Nathalie Needham Ellis '46 2007 work for the Stamford Advocate. three great-grandsons. of Houston died Feb. 18. Nathalie Correspondent; Chris Reilly, ctrei@ Leah Savitsky Rubin '32 P'65 She then worked as a reporter for Phyllis Schiff Imber '43 of Berks married Louis Towson Ellis and conncoff.edu GP'95 of Bloomfield, Ccnn., died the Palestine Post newspaper after County, Pa. died Jan. 29. Phyllis moved to Baton Rouge, La., and Nathaniel Borgelt and Robyn March 11. After graduating as a Israel was declared a state and was a reunion committee member, later to Texas. She was an active

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member of St. Francis Episcopal of deer, swans and other birds. bmther and niece Eve Plummer education. In the 1980s Jane Charles, daughter, son, mother, two Church and later Holy Spirit In later years, she volunteered at Samuel '85 began preaching, then enrolled in brothers, and one sister. Episcopal Church. She was active Greenwich Hospital. Dorothy was Helen Teckemeyer Allison '54 an independent theology program Eleanor N. Hage MA'83 of for many years with the Junior predeceased by her husband and of Tallahassee, Fla., died March 2l. and was ordained as a minister Boca Raton, Fla., died March 8. League of Baton Rouge and the is survived by her three children After earning a degree in sociology, of religious education in 1993. Eleanor graduated from Our Lady junior League of Houston. Nathalie and four grandchildren. Helen married Walter Allison Jr. She In 2004, she became minister of Cincinnati College in 1955 and will be remembered for her love Lauranne Thomas Freyhof '49 was a child welfare worker for the of pastoral services. Jean also worked for the Girl Scouts, In 1960 and compassion for animals and died Feb, 10. Lauranne served state of Maine until her daughter enjoyed traveling. She will be she married Elias Joseph Hage her dedication to her family. She is the College as a class agent. After was born in 1963. Helen enjoyed remembered for her tireless and moved to New Londan, where survived by her four children and earning a second bachelor's degree church, gardening and animals. devotion to all around her. Jean they raised four children. After five grandchildren. from the University of Cincinnati Sally Lane Braman '54 was predeceased by her brother receiving her master's degree from Phebe Clark Miller '46 P'74 of and a master's from Beaver died Jan. 31. Sally served as and leaves her husband, sisters Conneclicut College, she taught Milton, Mass., died Jan. 18. Phebe College, she taught elementary a class agent chair, admission and three children. history al Mitchell College for earned a degree in mathematics school in Jenkintown, Pa. After representative, class president and Carolyn Young Schaal '62 of 15 years. A devout Catholic, she and remained connected to the retiring, she still dedicated time Reunion chair, and was a member Winter Springs, Fla., died Nov. 2. devoted her life to helping others, College as a reunion volunteer. to tutoring and volunteering at and secretary of the Alumni Board Carolyn graduated with honors including serving as coordinator of She was a member of the Milton the school. Laura nne was a of Directors. She was predeceased and a degree in economics. She the New London Area Food Pantry Hoosic Club, the Milton Garden longtime member of the Abington by her husband, Chester, and married Robert T. Schaal in 1965 for 20 years. Eleanor is survived Club of America and St. Michael's Presbyterian Church choir and leaves three sons, sister and seven and worked as a technical librarian by her husband, children and five Episcopal Parish altar guild. She had many diverse interests, grandchildren. for the Dupont Research Center grandchildren. also volunteered at Milton Hospital including karate and travel. She Mary Varian Leonard '55 before starting a family. She is Calvin H. Pond '83 of and Milton Meals on Wheels. was dedicated to conservation GP'07 died Jan. 22, While studying survived by her husband, her Sebastopol, Calif., died Aug. 19. Phebe enjoyed playing bridge, efforts and ending world hunger. art at the College, Mary met and daughter and two grandsons. Calvin was known for his love of cooking, traveling, duck hunting She leaves three children, seven married John S. Leonard. They Varney Spaulding Greene history and music. He completed and boating. She was predeceased grandchildren and two brothers. moved to Stonington, Conn., and '65 of Buffalo, N.Y., died Jan. 30 several marathons and was an by her husband and a cousin, Marian Fried Roberts '49 of raised three sons. Mary was an Varney earned her master's in avid baseball and soccer player. Phyllis Nininger '50. She leaves Highland Park, III., died March accomplished artist of maritime library science from the University He is survived by his parents, her son; her daughter, Gertrude 25. Marian attended the College scenes arid animals. She worked at at Buffalo and was a librarian at including his mother, Marcia Parker Lavigne '74; and four as an art major and went on to Mystic Seaport and enjoyed racing the Buffalo & Erie County Public Gardiner, former director of grandchildren. graduate from Missouri University. sailboats with her family. After Library for 20 years, She worked financial aid at the College; his Barbeur Grimes Wise '46 of She will be remembered for her moving to Maine she created pen- with the Grosvenor Society and brother, Hartley Pond '80, and his Palos Verdes, Calif., died March 1l. work as an artist, interior designer and-ink postcards and paintings the library's rare books collection wife, Anne; and two nieces. Barbeur served as class secretary and architectural historian. She is of local scenes. She leaves her before becoming a research George Romoser of Eliot, and class agent. She worked as a survived by her husband, daughter, husband, sons, six grandchildren, librarian. Varney loved doing Maine, died Feb. 1. A professor property manager with the Grand son and two grandchildren. including Elissa Hunt Leonard '07, genealogy research on her family emeritus at the University of New House Management Co, in Los Jane Kellie '51 of Boca Raton, and three great-grandchildren. and the rich history of Buffalo. She Hampshire, he was an assistant Angeles and, starting in 2006, Fla., died Feb. 28. Jane volunteered Valerie Marrow Rout '55 P'86 is survived by two sons. protesscr of government at served as deacon for St. Peter's with the College for most of her life. of Lakeville, Ccnn., died Del. 1. Corinna Johnson Shillingford Cannecticut College from 1954 by the Sea Presbyterian Church, She was a planned giving agent, Valerie served as class agent, '65 died Nov, 23. After receiving to 1967. He also taught at The She loved traveling, tennis, theater a reunion committee member class agent chair and member her degree in government, Corinna Ohio State University, the Johns and music. She is survived by since 1968, a class agent and an of her class Reunion Committee. managed two prominent South Hopkins University School for three sons, one daughter, six Alumni Executive Board Committee She was a food and travel writer Shore real estate offices, served as Advanced International Studies in grandchildren, and a cousin, member. In 1986 she received and an avid photographer, president of the Millon Garden Club, Italy, several German universities, Jennifer Griswold Judge Howes' 49. the Agnes Berkeley Leahy Alumni winning first prize in the Trustees and worked as an assistant director Bowdoin College and the University Gladys Hinsley Bridgeman Award. She also participated in of Reservations 2005 Winter at the Aloha Camps in Fairlee, VI., of Pennsylvania. He initiated and Pullen '47 of Portland, Ore., died alumni tours of Ireland and China. Photography Contest. She served where she lived. She loved reading, administered internship programs March 5. After college, Gladys Jane worked for many years in on boards of the Salisbury Health writing and gardening, but most for non-German graduate students moved to California and married New York City in advertising, Nursing Association, Drama League of all being a mother and wife, in the German government and was Bob Pullen in 1948. The couple management, consulting and of New York and Sharon Country She will be remembered for her director of the "Portsmouth at the partnered in business, first on executive search and retired to Club. Valerie loved traveling with vivacious spirit. Crossroads" project in the 1980s a flower farm, then with the Boca Raton in 1995. She is survived her husband around the world, She Marjorie Levy '67 died July 21. while with the New Hampshire Estacada Oil Co. and, finally, with by her brother, sister-in-law, and leaves two sons and a daughter, 2008. t Council on the Humanities. He Pullen's Antiques. In retirement, several nieces and nephews. Romanie Marrow Rout '86. Anne P. Liverant '69 of York, [eaves his wife, two daughters and Gladys loved volunteering with La Joan Abbott '54 died Feb. 4. Carol M. Allin '56 of Captiva, Pa., died Feb. 24. After graduating five grandchildren. Paz Hospital, studying history and After earning a degree in zoology, Fla., died Dec. 18. Shortly after with a degree in child development, t The Colfege only recently literature, and doing crossword Joan was a research assistant at earning a degree in economics Anne was a devoted member of the learned of this death. puzzles. She was predeceased the Universrly of Pennsylvania, Carol moved Florida. She was First Presbyterian Church of York. by her husband and leaves and earned her Ph.D. in anatomy active with the Captiva Civic She will be remembered for her her daughter, brother and two at the university's medical schooL Association and the Sanibel- love of animals and cooking. CC;Magazine requires an official, grandchildren. She was an assistant professor Captiva Conservation Foundafion, Joanna Mockler Hyde '81 of printed obituary for all death Dorothy Rogers Johnson '48 Columbia University, an adjunct of which she was secretary and Gales Ferry, Conn., died Feb. 2D. notices listed in tlle magazine of Cos Cob, Conn., died Jan. 14. professor at Cornell Medical business manager for 20 years. Joanna earned a degree in studio and online. lu view extended Dorothy attended the College for College, and worked at Sloan She is survived by two brothers art and was a teacher's aide at obituaries or submit infarmation two years before returning home Kettering Research Institute. After and several nieces and nephews. Juliet W. Long Elementary Sehoul. to llie College about alumni who to help her widowed mother. She retirement, Joan split her time Rev. Jean Cook Brown '58 She spent many hours volunteering havedied, visit the Class Notes met her husband, William, along between New York City, Maine and died Aug. I? Jean received with extracurricular programs at section of the Alumni Online her favorite childhood beach. Portugal. She was predeceased her master's in education from Ledyard High School and took art Community at www.conncoll. Dorothy loved playing tennis and by her mother, Eleanor Whittier the University of Hartford and classes at the Mystic Arts Center. edu/alumnL golf and was an avid photographer Plummer '26, and leaves her sister, served as a director of religious She leaves her husband, Barry

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Careers for the multi-lingual

Kohn speaks to New York alumni Three alumni with careers that use their foreign language proficiency told students about their professional paths April 17. From left: Professor Barbara Shattuck Kahn '72 was the guest speaker during a Julia Kushigian (moderator); Carl Prather '04, financial analyst with March 22 Distinguished Alumni Event in New York. From left: Emerging Markets Partnership in Washington; Katherine Avgerinos '06, Daniel Anstey '98, Kahn, Erik Brockmeyer '97 and Sara Anstey. assistant account executive for Ketchum PR in New York City; and Lauren Burke '06, attorney with The Door Legal Services Center in New York.

Camel volunteers show their stuff 'Sons & Daughters' draws capacity crowd CAMELS FROM The 20th annual Alumni Sons & coast to coast cleaned Daughters Admission Program drew 39 beaches, sorted food families to campus Feb. 21-22. This popular and clothes, and did program for alumni and their children landscaping - all part provides valuable insights and information of the "Camels Care" to help high-school juniors prepare for the project during April. selective college admission process. If your Alumni in Boston, child will be a junior in the 2011-12 school Rhode Island, New year and you want to learn mote about this York, Los Angeles, progtam, please contact Beth Poole '00 at Above: From left, Michael Colombino '05, Washington and San beth.poolers'connccll.edu. Francisco participated. Tonifaye Chassman P'13, Anita DeFrantz '74, Jaime Arze '88, Nancy Beaney '88, In Boston, interest in the Shannon Smith '94, Laura Rivers '94 and program was so high that a second Alison Lewis '94 team up 10 clean Will project was added to the schedule. Rogers State Beach in Los Angeles. UPCOMING EVENTS Below: Stefanie Weiss '07, Paige Landry At Heading Home, a nonprofit '10 and Katrina Quick 'lD, left to right, June 22 that provides shelter, housing and paint bedrooms at Heading Home in Maine suppon services for the homeless, Medford, Mass. The College will be In Falmouth, Maine, Martha 11 Camel volunteers sorted Merrill '84, dean of admission and financial aid, through donated clothes and is the featured guest speaker. created a mini-boutique. They also organized a pantry that several Aug. 18 programs rely on for food. Cape Cod Save the Date - Connecticut College is coming to "It was wonderful to see the Harwich. Mass. Check your e-mail for details. response of alumni," said Bridget McShane, director of alumni For more Information, contact the relations. "We're already starting to Office of Alumni Relallons at plan next year's events." 1-800-888-7546, ext. 2306. or view tile If you have an idea, please calendar at www.cnnncoll.edu/alurm.. e-mail [email protected].

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White House staffer encourages students to 'take risks' Jon McBride '92 is second speaker in 'Conversations with Alumni' series

ACTION WAS THE THEME OF the evening when White House staffer Jonathan McBride '92 rook the stage in Evans Hall on April 1. He rold an audience of mostly studems that the most important first step ro a successful career is to start moving. The talk, part of the College's Centennial series "Great Beginnings: Conversations with Alumni," focused on Mcbride's journey from an economics major at Connecticut College ro Florida alumnae meet Dean Brooks President Obama's deputy director of personnel. Dean of the Faculty Roger Brooks was in Florida McBride said his route ro the March 23 and 24 for presentations to the Connecticut College Club of Greater Sarasota and White House was circuitous. the Connecticut College Club of Southwest Florida A graduate of the University of in Naples. Each club also enjoyed a lunch. Guests Pennsylvania's Wharton School, to 2009, seems to have found the in Naples got specially decorated and wrapped he worked on Wall Street for three perfect fit in the White House. cupcakes in honor of the College's IOOth birthday. years before co-founding Jungle Throughout his varied career, he Media Group, an award-winning was always drawn ro the human media company, in 2000. When side of business. "Now, I'm Universum, an international spending all of my time working employer-branding firm, bought on the human side for the greatest the company in 2006, McBride boss in the world." stayed on as chief strategy officer. McBride shared several He joined the White House staff anecdotes about working with the in 2009. president and encouraged students "You don't have to stick to one to consider a career in government career path in life," he told the service. At the White House, he Above: Eleni Tsandoulas Gillis '63, Jane Engel audience. "It's OK to take risks." said, "the smartest people are Francouer '63 P'90, Nancy Schoepfer Sanders '63, to dealing with the most difficult Rachel "Jane" Levy Yusen '63, Roberta Levy Belin McBride said he learned do '63 and Joan Snyder Abelson '63 in Naples March just that at Connecticut College. challenges. It's exhilarating." He 24. Below: Guests in Sarasota enjoy lunch before He tried everything, from playing also urged students to engage hearing a talk by Dean Brooks. soccer (he was captain of the alumni when looking for a job or varsity team for two years) to career advice. serving on SGA to working as an When a young woman in (he admission fellow. "Risk-taking audience rook his advice ro heart became a habit, and once I was in and asked McBride if she could the workplace, where the stakes talk to him about her career, he went up, I was comfortable taking gave her, and everyone in [he chances," he said. audience, his e-mail address. "Use McBride, who served as a it with discretion," he said.- trustee of the College from 2000 Mary Howard

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