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Features 12 A New Vision of Campus Lift> Reactions to Colby's residential commons plan were predictably varied, but a great many students have committed themselves to making the plan work. 17 Colby's MC'ln of Mystt>ry Robert B. Parker '54 steered clear of the ranks of Phi Beta Kappa at Colby, but his success in years following has been remarkable.

22 A Many-SplendorecJ Thing Professor Charles Bassett contemplates the varied challenges and rewards of teaching at Colby.

26 A New Kind of All-American Kaye Cross '84 is an outstanding student and athlete by anyone's measure. 28 Cards Hold Promise for Dahmen The artwork of Jane Melanson Dahmen '63 has been accorded interna­ tional recognition. 29 An Ambassador of Scholarship The Colby Library Quarterly earns recognition for Colby throughout the academic world.

31 Kevin Hill. 1929-1984 A precious few influence their communities so profoundly as did Kevin Hill '50.

DepartinentsEustis Mailroom 5 News from the Hill 32 Class Correspondence 46 Milestones Alumni Club News (inside back cover)

Volume 73, Number 3, May 1984 The Colby Alumnus is published quarterly On the Covers: (Front) Binney Hare '84 con­ Editor: Lane Fisher Editorial Interns: for the alumni, friends, parents of students, centrates on the final touches she adds to her Karen Jo Giammusso '86 and John Beaudoin seniors, and faculty of Colby College. Con­ January Program sculpture, a project that '87 Design and Production: Bonnie Bishop cise letters to the editor are invited. The was supported by a grant from Colby's stu­ Photography: Lynn Mosher Bushnell and editor reserves the right to edit letters or dent special projects committee. (Back) High Mathew Leibowitz '87, unless otherwise publish excerpts as spatial constraints de­ spirits prevail over early spring slush and credited. mand. snow as Colby harriers Mark Pagnano '87, John Moore '87, Phil Thornton '87, Arthur Feeley '85, Kevin Farley '86, and Andrew Sheehan '86 train for the approaching sea­ son. (Photos by Lynn Mosher Bushnell.) EUSTIS MAILROOM

Pro on Caen for the total educational process by and Hartours come up with in that makes us delighted that our the way of new adventures, but it As the mother of a "Colby in daughter is at Colby. will take great resourcefulness to Caeneuse," I was delighted to re­ match this last African tour. ceive my January Colby Alumnus. Anne C. Bean The interesting and accurate re­ Melrose, Mass. Louise Holt McGee '40 porting of life and events com­ Fort Fairfield, Maine pleted the picture that many Happy Trails photos and letters from Gretchen '85 have given us of her year away. The Colby College Kenya safari Venerable Class Notes The program is to be com­ was beautifully planned with in­ mended as it is and will continue finite attention to detail. Quite I thoroughly enjoyed last fall's to be a highlight of her education. frankly, had this trip not been workshop for class correspondents In the brief conversations we have originally proposed through Colby, and other alumni volunteers. The had with our daughter, we are de­ I doubt very much that I would major frustration of being a cor­ lighted with the quality of her have given it a second thought. It respondent, however, seems to re­ French, as well as the exposure to was the involvement of the College main unsolved: the time lag in culture and civilization that Pro­ that assured me that the safari publishing class news. fessor Greenspan has coordinated would be first class, as it was. My classmates are pretty consci­ for them. He must be an extraor­ Well in advance of our depar­ entious about returning their ques­ dinary person to remain sane and ture date, Steve Kirstein '80 of tionnaires quite promptly. By the unruffled amidst the confusion and Hartours [the photographic safari's time I synthesize their news into a terror that can accompany a year­ coordinating agent] provided a list column and the College gets the abroad program. His courtesy and of suggested readings that I found Alumnus published, much infor­ calmness at the airport in Septem­ quite helpful. It is an advantage to mation is sadly outdated. As a ber made the departure less trau­ have some idea of the customs and good example, a questionnaire matic for the nervous parents who culture of the people who live in a went out to the Class of '66 in gathered together for mutual sup­ different environment, one which August, but news from it did not port. Our task now as parents will added to my enjoyment. appear until nearly six months be to get them back on the The anticipation of traveling and later. "farm," now that they have seen sharing the experience with a Col­ Class columns are important to Paree, not to mention Tignes, Val by group, who at one time or alumni and help generate a fellow­ d'Is'ere, Milan, Athens, London, another had had common interests, ship that encourages support for and other sights. was exciting. Although it had been the College. I am not familiar with Perhaps other parents happily many years since college days for production schedules and snags noted the editor's note at the end some of us, we 10 easily estab­ that might develop in them, but it of the article, which pointed out lished a camaraderie at the begin­ seems that if "manpower" is the that the author not only is em­ ning of the tour. Two weeks later problem in publishing more timely ployed, but also is using the skills we parted with the expectation of class news, Colby could summon she gained at Colby and abroad. reuniting in June 1984 to renew the resources to handle it. That i a wonderful bonus from friendships, compare photos, and the program. revive memories. Jan Atherton Cox '66 Thank you, Colby, once more I'll be watching to see what Col- Falmouth, Maine

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I have read every word of the tions to the College and have set Report of the Trustee Commission examples and followed ideals Greek Dichotomies on Campus Life, and I think it's a worthy of the highest tradition of marvelously well-written and per­ the College. suasively argued document. It is I would like to commend all of I have read with sorrow and ap­ also bold. It changes the course of the members of the commission, preciation the Report of the Colby history. who worked so long, hard, and Trustee Commission on Campus It's unfortunate that in so many honestly to deal with a difficult Life at Colby. Regrettable as some respects the fraternities-mine and controversial issue. I would aspects of the picture were, I feel perhaps most egregiously so-did like, also, to think that I speak for sure that positives can be made of themselves in in a long, drawn-out, all alumni when I say that I will the negatives. Any alumni who hari-kari passion play. But this continue to support Colby to the read the report carefully and fact notwithstanding, the commons best of my ability and that I wish thoughtfully will be impressed by idea will, I believe, stand on its it the very best of luck as it enters the amount of study, consider­ own merits. I know, have worked upon a new, and hopefully better, ation, and reflection that it repre­ with, and respect unquestioningly era. sents. the honesty and sense of fair play To me, the Mayflower Hill cam­ of members of the administration. George J. Markley '67 pus has always seemed like the I have every confidence that they'll Fairfield, Conn. realization and even the glorifica­ make the new system work. PLP tion of a dream. My generation Onward and upward! lived and learned on both sides of George Markley testified in sup­ the railroad tracks and graduated Anthony M. Maramarco '71 port of fraternities before the during the first World War. Yet Simsbury, Conn. Trustee Commission on Campus we .shared warm companionship KDR Life. and inspiring and often challenging teaching. But times are changing, and for I strongly agree with the commis­ No doubt my emotional responses those who listen the hour has sion's conclusions and feel now, struck for Colby to rebuild again to the abolition of fraternities will for the first time, that I can -this time within its own-physical, wane as time goes by, as indeed recommend Colby to prospective psychological, and ideological they were tempered by the compel­ students as a college that is wholly structure. ling logic generally found through­ committed to fostering intellectual I was fortunate enough to share, out the Report of the Trustee curiosity and development. as an alumni trustee, in the "ago­ Commission on Campus Life. ny and ecstasy'' of the abandon­ However, for some time to come, I Patricia Maguire '79 ment of the "Old Bric ks" and the will probably be nagged by the Windsor, Conn. move to Mayflower Hill. I admit feeling, albeit irrational, that the XO that the presently planned reforma­ decision has in some manner been tion also involves me in an emo­ a personal attack on those of us tional readjustment. But mature who were deeply involved in and people and living institutions do committed to the system in days It is quite unclear to me why the "what has to be done." gone by. administration could not resolve its When I was one and twenty (to I would therefore respectfully problems with the fraternities. borrow from A. E. Housman), the suggest that in future publicity Perhaps the commission and ad­ Dekes, the DUs, and the Phi Delts concerning the trustees' decision, ministration could have learned were handsome, noble, strong, and some honest recognition be given from the attitudes of camaraderie wise men. Now that I am six and to the facts that severe antisocial and brotherhood that fraternities eighty I am not so sure! problems on campus have not been foster, instead of resorting to the So vive !es commons, but please, limited to the fraternities, that tactics more frequently found in Mr. President, inspire us to make there are many existing "Greeks" dictatorships. Fraternities teach them into communities of daily liv­ on the campus who have lived up that you must work together to ing and becoming. to the highest traditions of frater­ resolve individual differences nities, and, most importantly, that rather then merely purging the in­ Mira L. Dolley '19 for nearly all of their many years dividual from the organization. Raymond, Maine at Colby, fraternities and sororities I feel purged. I feel that the XO have made outstanding contribu- most valuable part of my Colby

2 THE COLBY ALUM 'U experience has been deemed to be It is hard to accept change - espe­ am sure, a classic example of ex unworthy and detrimental to the cially when your bones begin to post facto thinking. The fraternity existence of Colby. The strongest ache, and you think about all the system has been the scapegoat for bond I have with the school is now good things of the past while try­ what is undesirable at Colby since being cut. I feel terribly sorry for ing to forget the bad. My conclu­ I attended. Yet, I would suggest to the Colby students who have made sions come after remembering 16 you that it was no more related to the commitment to a fraternity, years as an advisor to Phi Delta anti-intellectualism, alcoholism, and the system itself, only to have Theta, during which time I think I and sexism than is diet soda re­ it cut short by your actions. I also tried (with spasmodic success) to lated to obesity; it was guilt by as­ feel sorry for the many individuals instill some decency, some con­ sociation. who will never have the opportuni­ cern, some positive action, some If there is anything positive ty to experience and learn the gracious respectability for all the ·about this decision, it is that some­ many things that a fraternity can members of the group in question, day in the future when fraternities teach which can never be taught in and certainly some controlled and are gone but all the problems re­ a classroom. definite program for financial sta­ main, the faculty, the president, I regret that a school which de­ bility. I admit I could not get and the trustees will have to ad­ picts itself as progressive and open broad alumni support from other dress the real problems at Colby, minded can be so shortsighted and Phi Delts; I could not turn things problems which I would suggest closed-minded. I am embarrassed around; I could not continue when are more towards negativism, if by the attitudes of the administra­ my feelings for a long-remembered not sadism, in the name of aca­ tion and the commission. It is Col­ past in the fraternity clouded my demic standards and the realities by, not my fraternity, that I wish perception of what was changing of the isolation of Waterville, to no longer be associated with. in society-especially in the youn­ Maine. ger generation. I am terribly disappointed. Not David Friedrich '78 The commission, I think, did because they disbanded frater­ Gray, Maine what had to be done. Colby can nities, but because the conclusion DKE certainly be a better College was so naive and the solution so without fraternities. That is, if transparently convenient. The alumni, faculty, trustees, parents, whole affair casts dispersion about and students determine to make it the quality of thinking that exists After reading this week that Colby better. The commons idea could among the College leadership and is abolishing the fraternity system, also become clouded and ingrown thus upon the College itself. I just wanted to take a minute to and destructive without caring, say that I am one alumnus who concern, and leadership. I believe Kenneth Gray '65 fully supports this action. the administration knows this. Simsbury, Conn. It has always been my feeling Colby has my support . Personal­ ATO that aside from an occasional beer ly, I have had to make some tough party-the value of which in a decisions with regard to my own lonely Maine winter should not be children, and I have learned to The plan of establishing four overlooked-the contributions of take a stand, even when it really residential commons is an ex­ the fraternities to Colby and its hurts. I believe in making places in emplary one that has been long in social life were largely negative. It society where those in need of coming. My congratulations to all is also quite possible that this help, education, and support can on the trustee commission for their narrow-minded and narcissistic "make it." But we all need to foresight, concern, and determina­ force was a factor in the inability hang tough on principle. That the tion in bettering residential life at of the College to attract and keep administration and President Cot­ Colby. a more heterogenous student body. ter did. If I were a high school senior Suffice it tosay that while Colby again, I would still consider Colby may lose support from some fra­ Malcolm Wilson '33 my number-one choice. As it is, I ternity alumni, support from the Oakland, Maine had hoped that my daughter would PDT rest of the school's former students apply, but a most unfortunate most likely will increase. I just sent campus tour soured her initial en­ my first check to Colby's Alumni thusiasm effectively, with the result Fund since my graduation five I have read with some sadness the being an emphatic "no!" from her years ago. well-orchestrated but foregone con­ when interview and application clusion of the Trustee Commission time approached. Name withheld by request on Campus Life. It will remain, I We were two who were submit-

THE COLBY ALUM. US 3 ted to an unpleasant walk down I was delighted to learn of the whole will be more supportive than fraternity row in March 1983 . The trustees' vote to terminate the ever of the College's efforts in the macho image of fraternity men, fraternity system at Colby. The future. central location of their houses on bonfire on fraternity row using the small campus, plus a rather mattresses and furniture as fuel is Thomas A. Cox '66 cavalier, "jock" attitude of our the clearest justification that one Falmouth, Maine tour guide served to dampen my could ask for the trustees' deci­ KDR daughter's early interest. She is a sion. strong-minded young woman who As a fraternity alumnus, I have is looking for diversity in the col­ received numerous mailings urging I no longer wish to be affiliated lege she chooses. She left Colby the support to preserve the frater­ with Colby College in any way. To with the feeling that women would nity system. Again, the inarticu­ deny the freedom of association to be considered second-class citizens late, ungrammatical, and illogical those who have already chosen to in a male-dominated college soci­ nature of these communications, belong to international fraternities ety. She endorses the decision to sent by fraternity alumni who ob­ goes against everything American do away with fraternities and sor­ viously did not take advantage of democracy stands for . These orga­ orities; however, she is unwilling to the educational opportunities pre­ nizations have developed many of change her mind about applying. sented to them at Colby, is clear our national leaders and to abolish Perhaps one of my sons will be in­ justification for the decision that these organizations is in complete terested. I hope so! has been made. conflict with the basic philosophies I trust and hope that there will of a liberal arts education. Claudia Lawrence Rogers '60 be no equivocation on the decision Manhasset, N. Y. that has now been made, and I am Henry Goldman '75 certain, contrary to the threats of Weymouth, Mass. fraternity alumni, the alumni as a ZP

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New Trustee and performing arts. She and her hus­ public television station WCBB, Overseer Named band, William R. Timken '57, and Michael Page '84 spent the have three children. month in Martha's Vineyard put­ Gerald Holtz '52 and Judith Pro­ ting a new deck on a sloop. phett Timken '57 have taken new These students were among 40 positions in Colby's leadership. Museum to Mark who experimented with careers or Holtz has been elected a corporate 25th Anniversary interests through internships spon­ trustee, and Timken has joined sored by alumni and parents dur­ Colby's overseers. The Colby Museum of Art will ing the January Program of In­ Holtz is a partner in Arthur observe its 25th anniversary this dependent Study. The career ser­ Andersen and Company in Boston. summer with an exhibit devoted to vices office, after sending out A chemistry major as an under­ the theme, "Portraits of New questionnaires to determine alumni graduate, he is a certified public England Places." The special show support, compiled a directory of accountant and has written exten­ will begin July 18 and run until internships from the positive sively on tax and financial matters. September 30. Selected by Peter responses. Linda Cotter, coor­ He received his certificate from Tillou, a noted art collector and dinator of field experience, said Bentley College in 1953 and an dealer and a member of Colby's that career services then acted as M.B.A. from Harvard in 1958. As museum committee, paintings will "matchmaker" between the in­ a Colby overseer from 1980 to include works by Fitz Hugh Lane terested student and the alumni sponsor. 1984, he served on the admissions of the 18th century, Thomas Both Cotter and the students and financial aid visiting commit­ Chambers of the 19th, and John emphasized how extensive alumni tees. He is a member of the Colby Marin and Rackstraw Downes of support was. "In a number of 2000 Campaign major gifts com­ the 20th. Tillou and Margaret P. cases, the sponsors even provided mittee and of the Boston alumni Watson will cochair the opening club. He and his wife, Jane, are celebration on July 18, and Eller­ housing,'' said Cotter. Halloran residents of Brookline, Mass., and ton and Edith K. Jette will be (Detroit, Mich.) added that during parents of four children, including honorary cochairs. Art historian his internship at the First National Andrew '82 and Karen '83. Nina Fletcher Little will write the Bank of Boston with First Vice Timken has devoted her post­ introduction to the exhibit cata­ President John Mechem '64, the graduate energies to her family and logue. Additional information may alumni bank employees would of­ to the arts. The Lafayette, Calif. , be obtained from Museum Direc­ ten take him out to lunch. resident is currently an art docent tor Hugh Gourley at Colby. Back at his desk, Halloran with the Oakland Museum, which found developing a report on specializes in the art, history, and Brazil an "extremely challenging" natural sciences of California. Alumni Internships application of his economics ma­ Previously she was chair of the Influence Ambitions jor. "l wasn't just filing papers," museum's highlight tours and was he stressed. art editor of the Docent News. In In January, Todd Halloran '84 ex­ McKay (Bronx, N.Y.) confirmed her community she has been active plored industry analysis in a her career choice after assisting as a volunteer in the local hospital Boston bank. Deborah McKay '86 surgeon Frank Apantaku '71 in a medical library and school ac­ accompanied a surgeon on his Chicago hospital. Visiting patients, tivities. A French major while at hospital rounds. Shireen Shahawy attending conferences, and observ­ Colby, she is also interested in the '85 worked behind the scenes at ing surgery strengthened her focus

THE COLB s 5 on academics at Colby. "Now I know I want to go into medicine, and the only way to get there is by working hard," she said. Shahawy (Brooklyn, N.Y.) espe­ cially enjoyed the friendship she developed with sponsor Nancy Briggs '82. Sharing Briggs' apart­ ment and career for a month, Shahawy helped create a fo llow-up to WCCB's "Chemical People" and wrote press releases. Although she had had previous television ex­ perience, she said, "I liked the at­ mosphere of a PBS station." Page (Providence, R.1.) chose to work on a shipyard for personal rather th�n career-oriented rea­ sons. His familiarity both with Martha's Vineyard and with boat restoration attracted him to the in­ Richard Rodriguez ternship with Thomas Hale, hus­ ''There is a particular kind of the heart . . . . One of the funny band of Frances Palmer Hale '78. pride, a particular kind of embar­ things about writing is that you With a double major emphasizing rassment in facing an audience stammer and stutter and say 'I'm the environmental aspects of geol­ that's read your autobiography," going to tell you something you'll ogy and biology, Page said that he said Richard Rodriguez, author of never believe,' and everyone knows plans to attend graduate school Hunger of Memory. "There is a it already. The very special quality eventually. However, he is con­ feeling that you've read too much. of it is what makes it universal." sidering "working on boats" in­ Yet the voice you recognize on the One objective of the freshman itially after graduation. - page is not the voice I use with my book program is to give students Apparently the students are not family, with my friends. It's a true the opportunity to become ac­ the only ones to benefit from an part of me; it's only a part of me. quainted with an author more per­ internship. According to Cotter, "There are some things so per­ sonally than "the voice on the "For many alumni it is an oppor­ sonal that you can only tell them page" allows. Toward this end, tunity to get back in touch with to a stranger. There are some Rodriguez spent two days on cam­ Colby. It is a personalized link things too personal to tell an in­ pus, meeting with classes and tak­ with the College." timate ....You can only write an ing part in a panel discussion of autobiography if you're convinced minority recruitment. In the latter, KJG that your family will never read Barry Beckham, editor of The it." Black Student's Guide to Colleges, Rodriguez's autobiography is the history Professor Richard Moss, story of a child who feels a con­ and government Professor Roger flict between the cultures represent­ Bowen agreed with Rodriguez's Rodriguez: ed by the language of his home, contention that affirmative action Share Advantages Spanish, and the English he is programs have not reached the tru­ taught to speak and read in paro­ ly underprivileged individuals who A man dressed impeccably in a chial American schools. By honor­ most need "affirmative action." navy blue suit, white shirt, and red ing his parents wishes that he per­ Rather than recruiting minority tie stood at the podium, looking form well at school, the boy begins students who have already ex­ out over Given Auditorium with a life long journey away from his perienced educational and financial wide, almost fawn-like eyes. Then, parents and his native culture. advantages, Rodriguez said schools in a manner reminiscent of a poet­ "The autobiography in Ameri­ must look beyond color of skin to ry reading, the author of this can literature belongs more and reach those who have been de­ year's freshman book softly began more to disconnected, discontinued prived of conditions many of us telling the audience how publishing lives," Rodriguez suggested. "In a take for granted. He cautioned the autobiography interplayed with peculiar way, what writers are that such students will experience his sense of privacy. called upon to do is to speak from "severe insecurities" when com-

6 THE COLBY AL MNUS peting academically with relatively tion to accommodate alumni dur­ Faculty Member to Lead advantaged peers, and that "with­ ing the first week of the January Israeli Tour out some very special support Program for Independent Study systems, the 'opportunity' will and to continue through January Religion Professor Thomas R. W. destroy a number of them. for the undergraduates participat­ Longstaff will offer alumni special "I am struck by the beauty of ing. insights and knowledge on a tour Maine and many of its houses, but An enthusiastic response by of Israel planned for September also by the evidence that poverty is alumni to a questionnaire last fall 5-19. The tour, offered exclusively so near," said Rodriguez. "I think spurred the alumni office to plan to Colby alumni, parents, and if Colby College is serious about the program. Intended as an op­ friends, is an outstanding oppor­ recruiting 'minorities,' the job is portunity for alumni to enjoy cam­ tunity to see a fascinating area of self-evident-and it's urgent." pus life again and to expand their the world with the guidance of an knowledge in a variety of areas, expert. Longstaff is currently the program drew positive reac­ associate director of excavation at tions from participants. Those Sepphoris and has spent many Alumni College Session alumni who traveled from as far months traveling and studying in Hailed as Success away as Pittsburgh stayed at a Israel. hotel in Waterville and dined and Hartours, the travel company Over a dozen alumni and spouses enjoyed other activities on May­ that very successfully orgaruzed the returned to campus in January to flower Hill. alumni trip to Kenya last fall, will take part in the inaugural Alumni Susan Conant '75, associate di­ handle arrangements for the tour College sessions. Colby faculty rector of alumni relations, said she of Israel. A representative of the planned courses entitled Fiscal expects the Alumni College to be firm will also accompany the Federalism and Environmental an annual opportunity. She an­ group. Policy, The Sixties, Financial Man­ ticipated that increasing numbers Informational brochures have agement in the Not-for-profit En­ of alumni will participate as they been mailed to all alumni. Addi­ vironment, and Social Stratifica- become aware of the regular event. tional copies and information are available from Hartours, Inc., 20 Park Plaza, Boston, Mass. 02 116. Melody and Melodrama Entertain Campaign Guests

Led by Susan Palmer '84 (New Canaan, Conn.), the Colbyettes croon and sigh at a Colby 2000 Campaign dinner held February 29 at the Newton Marriott outside of Boston. Nearly 300 alumni and spouses gath­ Coalescing for a ered to learn of the campaign's goals, its past successes, and plans to in­ Larger Pie volve hundreds of Colby volunteers in its fund-raising efforts. By early April, the $25 million campaign had secured over $15 million in pledges Over 400 persons packed Given and gifts to Colby. Auditorium to hear Angela Davis, black activist, feminist, and avowed revolutionary, speak on March 1. While not uncritical of Davis, the audience applauded her criticisms of the Reagan adminis­ tration and her direct style. Davis, the author of the book, Women, Race, and Class, called on listeners to organize politically and to challenge racist attitudes. "There has been this theory that only black people win when vic­ tories against racism are won." A

Erratum Williams College abolished frater­ nities in 1968, not in 1970 as re­ ported in the October Alumnus.

THE COLBY AL M US 7 competitive attitude she said is based on the concept of a finite "pie. Each time victories are won in the battle for black freedom, the entire population experiences an extension of their rights and free­ doms," argued Davis. "The whole pie becomes larger. '' One example of such shared benefits is education. Before the Civil War, learning to read and write was a crime punishable by death for blacks in the Deep South, according to Davis. After the abolition of slavery, blacks asked the North to send teachers, and then the Reconstruction Era brought public education. "Until then, poor whites hadn't been able to attend school, either," she said. Angela Y. Davis The women's movement in this is set at three minutes to midnight; Herbert Marcuse, who later said country is strongly related to the they care about profits." For that Davis was the best student he had civil rights movement, both in its reason, she said, "Historically the ever had. After two years she re­ strategic model and in its potential United States has always been the turned to this country to take part for progress, Davis contended. first to escalate the arms race." in the black liberation struggle. Middle-class women "must take While the military budget is in­ She enrolled at the University of into account other experiences of creased, cuts in Health and Human California at San Diego, where she womanhood if [they] want to Services add to hardship. Too received her master's degree. In create the kind of movement that often, said Davis, "Women can't 1968 she joined the Communist can change this country, she said, get jobs that pay enough to cover party. e pointing out that blacks ar unlike­ their child-care costs, so they have Davis became prominent when, ly to join with abortion-rights ad­ to go on welfare. Now Reagan is in 1969, she was dismissed from vocates to reform a system that saying they should have to work the faculty of the University of will continue to impose involuntary for welfare. That is slave labor." California at Los Angeles because sterilization on minority women. In a question-and-answer period of her political beliefs. The court ''Those women who are most following her speech, Davis ir­ ordered her appointment rein­ oppressed must play a central role ritated some listeners by refusing stated, but the following year her in the women's movement," Davis to directly address the issue of contract went unrenewed. continued. "The women at the tip human rights in the Soviet Union. In 1970 she was the third woman of the pyramid can win victories This year's Communist-party can­ ever to be placed on the FBI's and leave the others behind. But didate for vice president would not "Ten Most Wanted" list. "It was look at the women at the bottom be pressed. "I am answering the not me that was the FBI's target," of the pyramid: as they push them­ question the way I wish to answer she said at Colby. "It was an en­ selves up, they cannot help but the question," she said. "I find it tire movement that they were bring others with them." very revealing that many people in afraid of. It was very clear that Davis urged listeners to organize this country assume they know all they intended to use me as an ex­ at a massive scale to defeat the about political repression in the ample." Davis was acquitted of all Reagan administration, which has Soviet Union and that so many charges in 1973. badly eroded legal gains for civil people don't know a damn thing Since then, Davis has spoken and human rights, in the coming about political repression in this almost continuously and has election. "It's not just Ronald country.'' published extensively. She now Reagan we're dealing with," she Davis graduated magna cum teaches ethnic studies at San Fran­ advised. "Behind him is the entire laude from Brandeis and went on cisco State University. Her ap­ military-industrial complex. For to Goethe University in Frankfurt, pearance at Colby was arranged in the military-industrial complex, West Germany, on a German state conjunction with the year's theme what counts is profits. They don't scholarship. She studied under the of "Celebrating Diversity; Con­ care if the Atomic Scientists' clock renowned political philosopher fronting Intolerance."

8 THE COLBY AL M S A Farewell to Foner Foundation Gifts to Colby 2000 Campaign Top Expectations

History Professor Emeritus Jack Foner, a scholar in residence at Total: $2,907,550 Colby during fall semester, gave a farewell lecture on the topic, 7 "Racism in the Context of Ameri­ can History." In it he stressed that racism is not a disease of the past that has been cured, but rather a constant strain on our nation. To­ day's racism is not so much a 12/30/83 Hollis Foundation (total) 2,000 12/23/83 25,000 problem of individual prejudice as Atlantic Richfield Foundation 12/22/83 Exxon Education Foundation (total) 126,500 it is of racism buttressed by laws 11 /8/83 Bingham Foundation 250,000 and institutions, Foner continued. 10/17/83 Grace Foundation 150,000 He said it is not a sectional or 7/ 18/83 The Kresge Foundation 400,000 strictly national problem, but an 6/21/83 Alfred P. Sloan {total) 75,000 6/ 1/83 international phenomenon that Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation (total) 18,000 transcends man-made boundaries. 6/83 Greentree Foundation 50,000 Foner traced the route blacks 4/28/83 Pew Memorial Trust 250,000 have taken from their 1619 arrival 3/ 14/83 The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor in Jamestown, Va., as indentured Foundation 122,550 3/ l /83 National Endowment for the servants, through their actual Humanities 750,000 enslavement, the Reconstruction, 12/2/82 LAW Foundation 10,000 and finally the Civil Rights move­ 91 16/82 Surdna Foundation 50,000 ment in the 1950s and 1960s. He 12/10/8 1 Gladys Brooks Foundation 65,000 12/8/8 1 1,000 noted black contributions in both Swig Foundation 10/2 1/81 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 100,000 the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, 10/21/81 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 100,000 pointing out that the latter could 10/15/81 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur not have been won without their Foundation 300,000 efforts. Foner also praised Martin 5/21/81 Arthur Vining Davis Foundation 50,000 Luther King's struggles for legal 6/23/80 George Alden, Jr., Foundation 10,000 2/ 15/80 Fred Daniels Foundation 2,500 racial equality, although he added that, so far, only the middle class and professionals have been able to benefit from King's work. Professor Foner taught at Colby from 1969 to 1976, playing a key role in the formation and develop­ As of January I, 1984, foundation grants to the Colby 2000 Campaign totaled close to $3 ment of the College's Black Stud­ million, a figure that far exceeds initial expectations for this phase of fund raising. The effort ies Program. An expert in Afro­ is ongoing; some of the finest organizations nationwide have already contributed to the cam­ American history, he earned dis­ paign, and more grants are anticipated before the campaign draws to a close in December 1985. tinction for Colby's program as the most extensive of all under­ graduate colleges at the time. While at Colby, Foner was selected as an Outstanding Educator of America in 1975. This year, he Last Call for 1984 Reunions taught a special freshman seminar based on this year's College theme, Where will you be June 1-3? If your class year ends with 4 or 9, the best "Celebrating Diversity; Confront­ answer is, "At our reunion!" Colby will be decked out in all its finest for ing Intolerance." He has written that special weekend, and you should be, too-with your finest smile, several books and is currently warm remembrances, favorite old photographs, and family and friends. working on another. Final announcements and details on class activities will be mailed soon.

THE COLBY AL M S 9 Sharing insights on terrorism are, from left to right, Yonah Alexander, David Rapoport, Roger Bowen, Martha Cren­ shaw, and Robert Cox.

Colloquium Probes to ignore what was going on was a statement that the United Terrorism around them. "When a society States would not hesitate to use its totally breaks down, as it did in military power if pushed, Cren­ "If you're tortured and you're in­ Argentina under the military re­ shaw said. nocent, you've had it. They just gime, it is a terrifying place to Witnessing such events, "We are torture you to death," said Robert be." As brutal truths began seep­ under the illusion that terrorism Cox, describing the tactics of re­ ing out when the regime ended last became an important instrument of gime terrorists in Argentina. Cox, year, Cox said many Argentine cit­ conflict only in the 1970s, that it former editor of the Buenos Aires izens were incredulous over what has been used more frequently and Herald, was one of four experts had happened in their homeland. effectively in the last two decades who recently took part in a collo­ Concern with "national honor" because of changes in weapons, in quium on terrorism at Colby. lay at the heart of Jimmy Carter's communication and transport, and Relating what it was like to live decision to try a military rescue of in the media," said Professor in Argentina when the country was the American hostages in Iran, David Rapoport of the University terrorized first by the extreme left said Professor Martha Crenshaw of California at Los Angeles. for five years and then by the ex­ of Wesleyan University. In her talk "This is simply not true." In his tremely right-wing military regime on the international consequences talk on terrorist traditions, Rapo­ for a subsequent five years, Cox of terrorism, Crenshaw stated that port described the "holy terror" maintained that the latter condi­ world powers now stand up to ter­ perpetrated by the ancient Thugs, tions were much worse. "The re­ rorists not so much for security Assassins, and Zealots. As these gime terrorists had every type of reasons, but rather to preserve terrorist groups sought to please a power of government in their their reputations abroad. "The deity or to purify their religions, hands. This frightened people even more powerful a state is, the more they killed victims by methods that more than before, because then it has to lose," said Crenshaw. were fully as effective as those they had no one to turn to for pro­ "Terrorism is a threat to interna­ made possible by modern weapon­ tection." Because the regime con­ tional prestige." Just as Carter ry, in Rapoport's assessment. trolled the police and most of the wanted to show the American pub­ Today, "Terrorism is a strategic newspapers, there was a terrible lic and the world that the United tool used by the Soviet Union distortion of information, accord­ States would not be pushed around when eye-to-eye conflict becomes ing to Cox. With all debate and by Third World terrorists, Rea­ too dangerous," said Yonah Alex­ discussion stilled, people were able gan's invasion of Grenada last fall ander of Georgetown University's

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Center for Strategic and Interna­ ethically define terrorism, is guilty losophy of Nonviolence," ques­ tional Studies. Supporting ter­ of perpetrating such inhumane tioned how realistic nonviolence is, rorism around the world serves the violence. "In supporting terrorist both as a personal philosophy and Soviets' ideological and practical regimes in Central America, the as a political strategy. purposes, as they press to expand U.S. does what the Soviet Union "Nonviolence will not automat­ the influence of Leninist Marxism, does: it justifies terrorism for ically triumph," he said, but it Alexander continued. "Indirect in­ strategic purposes." does establish a "moral superiori­ volvement in terrorism is a very Catherine Walsh '84 ty." Praising idealism, he never­ convenient, low-risk way of achiev­ theless suggested that there are ing their goals." On Nonviolence situations in which nonviolence is Alexander's point that there are not a practical measure. double standards for terrorists, as "Nonviolence has to be as dynam­ The reasons for so many mani­ when the British Broadcasting ic, creative, and powerful as festations of violence are varied, Company once referred to Irish violence" to achieve a purpose, de Silva said. "People are excited "terrorists" but Palestinian declared guest speaker M. W. Pad­ by the possibility of sudden "freedom fighters," sparked masiri de Silva, professor and change. Some find confusion in­ debate over the definition of ter­ chairman of the department of teresting, or violence a diversion rorism. Professor Roger Bowen, philosophy and psychology at the from boredom. My own feeling is who organized the colloquium, University of Peradeniya, Sri that violence is a breakdown of contended that the United States Lanka. His February lecture, communication." government, in its refusal to "Ethical Dilemmas and the Phi- KJG

"Gang of Four" Rides the Scales

Tales of damsels, villains, and macabre fascinations suspended the attention of 400 listeners at a recital of "music for two pianos, eight hands" on February 17. The lighthearted concert was, in part, a salute to and from retiring professors Peter Re (front left) and James Gillespie (front right), both veterans of 33 years at Colby. Re is profes­ sor of music, and Gillespie is associate dean of students and professor of psychology. The four hands accompany­ ing them belonged to music Professor Paul Machlin and administrative science professor Miles Boylan. Machlin took liberal creative license in the narrative that enlivened the Gang of Four's program: Franz Schubert's "Marche Militaire," W. A. Mozart's "Overture to Don Giovanni," and Felix Mendelssohn's "Overture to Ruy Blas. "

THE COLBY ALUM US 11 A New Vision of Campus Life

At first only shock registered, pain inherent in loss. Students who after the commons plan was an­ followed immediately by anger, as pulled down a lamp post and added nounced, selected a representative students listened to the rough out­ it to the blaze were fined for dam­ for each living unit on campus, in­ line of a new system of residential ages and suspended from the Col­ cluding fraternities; three off­ life. The fact that the skeletal plan lege, but no other punitive action campus representatives; and ten at­ would be fleshed out by students was taken by the administration. large representatives to serve on themselves fell at first on deaf Then, following meetings be­ the advisory board. About 47 per­ ears. Fraternity members on the tween students, members of the cent of the student population on balcony of Lorimer Chapel hissed commission, and Cotter, the tone campus elected the RCAB mem­ and sang as President William R. of reactions began changing. As bers from 120 candidates. Cotter and Board Chairman H. shock gave way to determination RCAB coordinated recommen­ Ridgely Bullock '55 informed to influence the commons plan, dations generated by 10 subcom­ students of the recommendations more than 160 students volun­ mittees, which were spawned in by the Trustee Commission on teered to serve on committees that response to the trustee commis­ Campus Life, approved by the would shape the new residential sions' campus life proposals. Nine board a day earlier. Others listened life system. "It's a pain you can subcommittees-dealing with plans silently, while some posed ques­ do something about," Galluzzo for a new social facility mandated tions. said, explaining her involvement in by the trustees, food service reor­ "I walked out steaming," said the new commons plan after her ganization that will give students Donna Galluzzo '84, a member of initial anger. Volunteering for an­ more control of menus, summer Chi Omega, who is now leading other type of involvement in the renovation plans for fraternity the student board elected to orga­ new system, almost 200 stu­ houses and dormitories, student nize the new residential life system. dents-the highest number ever­ social life, room draw, student "Everyone's reaction at first was applied for next year's dormitory governance of the commons sys­ that they wanted to transfer." staff. tem, student judicial board reorga­ That night a bonfire, which re­ Galluzzo and Jeffrey Bistrong nization, faculty-student interac­ ceived rather sensational attention '84 were elected co-chairmen of the tion, and class and College iden­ in many of the nation's newspa­ Residential Commons Advisory tification and orientation pro­ pers, was fed by fraternity house Board (RCAB), a group of 39 grams-were conceived by the shutters, furniture, and a piano. students who recommended plans commission. RCAB members saw One faculty member later com­ for implementing the commons need for an additional subcommit­ pared it with a funeral pyre, a ca­ system to President Cotter. A stu­ tee on public affairs, which is thartic expression of the anger and dent election, held about a month charged with publicizing develop-

12 On January 15, 1984 , Colby's trustees unanimously ac­ cepted recommendations that the College abolish fraternities and sororities and adopt a residential com­ mons system that will drastically alter campus life. Surprising!) few students are looking over their shoul­ ders; most seem to be focused straight ahead.

ments so that other students can Galluzzo. There's not so much 'I, with RCAB's recommendations react to them. Each subcommittee I, I ....' '' Bistrong, separately, and, possibly, loose ends is a ques­ was led jointly by a student and a expressed a similar observation: tion that unsettled many students. faculty member and also included ''When you go to a meeting you Dean of the College Earl Smith other faculty and staff members hear, 'Well, I was talking to some said in March that he saw nothing who volunteered to serve on them. students the other day, ... ' not 'I forthcoming that the administra­ "These committees are deciding think ....' " From her own per­ tion would not be able to support. things on their own, things that sonal perspective, Galluzzo said The RCAB co-chairmen met inter­ have never been openly discussed she was learning to temper her ex­ mittently with Cotter throughout before at Colby," said Bistrong. pectations with realism and was spring semester, and the students "It seems quite evident that stu­ gaining leadership and committee proceeded on the basis of good dents are making the decisions." experience that could only benefit faith. "The deans are yielding as Bistrong himself is convinced that her "down the line." But those much as they can to students," ac­ the commons system will serve lessons were not always easy. Just cording to Galluzzo. "They have Colby well, having experienced a before spring break, for example, encouraged our ideas, and I think similar system in his junior year students complained that chaos they're impressed by our drive. abroad at the University of York. and confusion had overtaken an Somebody has to be the 'they'; "The system that's being created RCAB meeting in which the gover­ 'we' just get carried away with that now will give students a lot more nance subcommittee had presented perspective. Between the two power," Bistrong maintained. proposals. there's a fine line, and we're walk­ "We're trying to set up a system RCAB's final meeting was ing it right now.'' where information flows up [to the scheduled for April 25, and major On the fraternity side of cam­ administration] and back down. points from its final recommenda­ pus, attitudes are not so sanguine, The main function of RCAB is to tions will be reported in the next according to Interfraternity Coun­ create a system that works." issue of Currents. At the end of cil advisor Father Paul Cote. There Galluzzo concurred: "This is March, Bistrong indicated that "all are 25 upperclass fraternity mem­ creating a chance for continuous of the subcommittees have done a bers on RCAB subcommittees, in and strong student input at Colby. large amount of the work that addition to seven sorority mem­ It's the best thing that ever hap­ needs to be done. The problem will bers, but Cote said many of them pened here." be tying it all together," he said, are involved simply to protect their The process was a complex adding that he was concerned that own interests. The Lambda Chi learning experience for many of loose ends might be left dangling brothers, for example, are ''bound those involved. "People are start­ at the end of the semester. and determined that they're going ing to think about others," said What the administration will do to find a way to live together," he

THE COLBY ALUM S 13 said. Influencing the room draw was "sort of like the IFC, but mitted, "but there were many committee to allow ''block draw­ larger," he said. It has since joined fraternity men involved in this pro­ ing" for groups of students could with a group of alumni, led by cess who can understand." On the make that possible. As for faith Bertrand Hayward '33, who call commission 11 of the 17 voting that the administration will honest­ themselves The Committee on New members were fraternity or sorori­ ly allow students to mold the new England Campus Life. ''Our ty members, as are 20 of the 24 commons arrangements, many un­ major point is to see the fraternity trustees who are alumni. The dergraduates believe "that the stu­ system continued in some form at board's approval of the commis­ dent vote [supporting fraternities] Colby, preferably returned to the sion's recommendations was unani­ was ignored by the commission status quo," Simpson said, adding, mous. tells them more than any promises "But that isn't realistic." In late Because careful communication could," Cote said. February the committee sent a let­ of the trustees' decision was essen­ From his own point of view, ter, signed by fourteen Colby tial for the Colby family, copies of Cote said he was surprised by the alumni and seven alumni of other the Report of the Trustee Commis­ total abolition of fraternities. In New England schools, requesting sion on Campus Lije were mailed retrospect he examined it from an­ support from all Colby fraternity first-class to all alumni as soon as other perspective: "If I were Bill alumni . the trustees approved it. Only over­ Cotter and I wanted to make "I don't want to dismiss the night delivery, however, could have changes on campus, I would have committee's efforts," said Cotter, borne the news as quickly as it was seen fraternities as the major resis­ "but I have seen no evidence that picked up by national wire ser­ tance on this campus, because they it has interfered with the positive vices. National press coverage of are only loosely under the control momentum on campus or negotia­ Colby's abolition of fraternities of the administration." Asked if tions with the fraternities them­ and sororities aggravated some re­ the new commons system could al­ selves for house settlements. I lated wounds by oversimplifying low for greater control both by the don't understand what relevance reasons for eliminating the system­ administration and by students, the signators from other colleges a notable and lengthy exception Cote said, "That depends on the have, but a lot of Colby names having run in the March 7 Chroni­ administration-whether they can were conspicuous by their ab­ cle of Higher Education. "Most remember what it was like to be sence." news articles cannot do justice to college students.'' Cotter's analysis of his mail the complexity of fraternity issues For those who have grown used showed a 4: 1 ratio supporting the on any campus and especially to the intimacy of a fraternity commission's conclusions, as of here," agreed Cotter. "Even my house, the pending commons seem mid-March. "Even those who dis­ own [January 19] USA Today arti­ distastefully large. "There will be a agree with the decision agree that cle was simplistic; I dashed it off lot of anonymity," predicted Peter the process was thorough," Cotter in an evening to respond to their Simpson '86. "People will just get said. "The unknown is the people editorial. I think the commission's lost in the shuffle.'' Despite the who don't bother to write. We report does do justice to the mosa­ size that he sees as problematic, have no way of reaching out to ic of complexities-yet it doesn't Simpson said the commons will those people." necessarily apply to any other not allow for the leadership oppor­ Although most letters and phone campus." tunities that fraternities have al­ calls received by the alumni office When he met in February with lowed their officers. In fact, he were also positive, it had received members of four Florida alumni said, there may be no leadership a higher proportion of negative groups, Cotter said, "Their at­ anyway: "My gut reaction is that feedback-such as "No frater­ titudes, by and large, had come people will just go with the fl ow. nities, no funds," scribbled on around to being supportive of Col­ Their initial reaction may be dif­ Alumni Fund envelopes. Other by's decision, although not without ferent, but I don't think it will alumni increased gifts to the Alum­ regret. In no way had this inter­ last." Simpson's intense loyalty to ni Fund, but net losses or gains fered with their senses of loyalty to Phi Delta Theta is entirely under­ were impossible to track. Likewise, the College. Only one person standable, in that the house gave the effect on the Colby 2000 Cam­ spoke against the College; he be­ him a base when he returned to paign was unclear, but, by late lieved the decision on fraternities Colby after dropping out for six March, no major donor to the was a foregone conclusion, a years. campaign had revoked a pledge. put-up job." After the trustees' decision was "It is fair to say that a non­ The integrity of the 17 commis­ announced, Simpson and many fraternity person cannot under­ sioners who, led by Lawrence fraternity members formed a coali­ stand the loss that fraternity Pugh '56, studied campus life for tion to defend fraternities, which members are feeling," Cotter ad- eight months is something for

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which Mary E. White '84 will Nicholson. Three new positions administrative vice president con­ vouch. As a student representative and a revised job description for tinued. "I see very little willingness to the Board of Trustees, "I was the director of Roberts Union will to touch the endowment.'' really impressed with the amount allow employment of four com­ In the tentative planning stages, of time people on the commission mons coordinators, who will pro­ the new facility subcommittee was took to get to know this place," vide staff support for the com­ discussing a 27 ,000 square-foot she said. "Earlier I didn't realize mons governance systems. As the building centrally located on cam­ how much they cared about Colby Roberts Union directorship has pus. Consensus was emerging in and the students." She nonetheless been, these will be internships that favor of relocating the Spa and understands fraternity friends who include a $4,000 stipend, room, Roberts post office in the new feel alienated by the commission: and board, said Nicholson. The building, and for enlarging the Spa "They really do feel that they were fourth new position will probably by as much as 30 percent. The blackballed from the start." be an assistant manager to aug­ major feature of the building, Such perspectives may never be ment the current team of three din­ however, will be the multi-purpose reconciled with the College's. Yet ing hall managers. space to accommodate up to 800 some alumni implored Cotter to Nicholson anticipated that the dancing students, 450-500 seated mend the breach. "Make me a additional demands on dining halls dinner guests, large lectures, and believer!'' wrote one grieved as students assume more control of concerts. fraternity alumnus. their menus will be absorbed by in­ That the new facility subcommit­ The ongoing support of those creasing the work-study staff. tee is larger than RCAB itself re­ who have reacted positively will be "This would facilitate a kind of in­ flects the importance the communi­ vital to Colby . College leadership stant feedback from students to ty attaches to it. "This new facility is committed not only to raising management." He said that mem­ is critical to the commons plan,'' over $9 million to complete the $25 bers of the College food service said White. "It will be a real draw­ million Colby 2000 Campaign, but committee are "convinced that the ing card for the College, but next also to financing several kinds of key challenge is to keep students' year social space will be a real expenses precipitated by the resi­ interest and momentum up. I per­ problem." dential commons plan. Commons sonally think it will rise, because Social planning, in the absence program expenses, renovations of there will be very clear indications of fraternities, is another transi­ fraternity houses and dormitories, that students can have noticeable tional problem that concerns stu­ ' and construction of a new social impact on their diet and their din­ dents. "I'm psyched about the facility will demand creative use of ing environment." commons plan," Galluzzo said. "It could turn this College into a budget resources. To create fully separate dining great place to be. But not all of ''There are amounts of money rooms in Roberts, make those in that can be moved around to pro­ Dana and Foss more flexible, the emotion the plan has sparked vide program funds for the com­ create more rooms in fraternity in people is positive; some is ap­ prehension.'' That apprehension of mons," administrative Vice Presi­ houses, and make more equitable the unknown may be precisely why dent Stanley Nicholson said before use of space freed in dormitories, students are taking so much time the board's April budget commit­ Colby will incur considerable ex­ to discuss viewpoints and ideas. tee meeting. He cited funds now pense. "We're not sure exactly "People can complain forever if allocated to the Residential Life how much work needs to be done they like,'' Bistrong commented Council, Office of Student Ac­ this summer," Nicholson admitted wryly. "But unless they do some­ tivities, and dormitory staff as ex­ in March. "We're thinking about thing, next year will be a failure. amples of those that could be con­ doing maybe $1 million worth of Now everybody is saying, 'We've solidated and controlled by com­ renovations this year, drawing that got to do something.' " And so mons councils. "The other ques­ from current funds." The second they are. tion is how social life was run be­ phase of renovations could be fore-basically out of the students' financed initially through a bond LF pockets, as with a cover charge at issue, which also would allow the door of a party," Nicholson funds for the construction of the continued. This could lead to a ra­ new facility, according to Nichol­ tionale for attaching an activities son. "Our options depend on Col­ Anyone who did notreceive a copy fee to student charges, as many by's debt-service capacity and the of the Report of the Trustee Com­ schools do. willingness of the trustees either to mission on Campus Life or who Four additional employees will extend the capital campaign or to would like additional copies should probably be needed to implement give from unrestricted funds now contact the Office of the Dean of the commons plan, according to invested in the endowment," the the College at Colby.

16 THE COLBY ALUM 'US Colby's Man of

Author Robert B. Parker '54 is a contented black sheep in the Colby fa mily

In memory it seems someone else, school in 1962] I needed someone Spenser is no more hke a real a boy in a glen plaid suit and a to help me who had both prestige detective than John Wayne was lime green shirt chewing gum with and goodwill." Bixler did help like a real cowboy, according to a cigarette behind his ear while he Parker, who obtained a Ph.D. Parker. While he contends that danced awkwardly with a girl who from Boston University, became this is true of any detective fiction, made his stomach buzz, and an English professor, "and then he enjoys "stretching the form" in Frankie Laine sang "Black Lace " got time to write my books." other respects. For example, "Ex­ on the record player. But it wasn't Parker is amiably candid about cept in the first book, there are no someone else, it was me, or at least his teaching career: "I wasn't a missing falcons or diamonds, or the beginning of me. good teacher; my commitment great bank robberies. What's at Love and Glory (1983) wasn't to teaching. If I had to issue is either human life or human choose between getting my chap­ happiness. Human happiness­ ters done that day or cheating the that 's what I'm after." kids, I cheated the kids." In the scheme of Parker's own obert B. Parker '54 shared His 14 books include other fic­ happiness, Spenser and writing severalR experiences with Boone tion and nonfiction, but Parker is follow on the heels of Joan Hall Adams, the hero of Parker's Love best known for Spenser, a Boston Parker '54 and their sons, David and Glory. Meeting his ideal private investigator who walks this and Dan. "I always wanted to be a woman at Colby and establishing a literary life using only his surname. husband and a father more than I lackluster academic record are Once described as the "hottest-sell­ wanted to be a writer. That made among them, but Parker managed ing gumshoe in America," Spenser life a lot simpler, because I was a not to flunk out as he allowed his is an ex-boxer who runs, lifts success in what I wanted by the fictional character to do. weights, relishes fine food and time I was 26," said the author. "What Colby gave me, in the spirits, talks tough, and, when he His alter ego enjoys similar sense of where I am now, is Seelye has to, shoots straight. "I'm satisfactions, if not the same prior­ Bixler,'' Ace Parker said when he always asked, 'How much of you ities. Spenser is indisputably accepted the Distinguished Alum­ is Spenser, and how much is not?' macho, but, unlike other heroes of nus Award last June. "Given my That's unanswerable," said Par­ the genre, he enjoys a loving rela­ undergraduate credentials, I would ker. "He knows what I know. He tionship with a fascinating woman. have had some trouble getting ad­ can't know things I don't know . His witty exchanges with Susan mitted into the 24th infantry divi­ You take what you know and Silverman are said to echo the tone sion again, so [to get into graduate imagine the rest.'' of the Parkers' banter, and they

THE COLBY AL M US 17 are central to the dialogue that write the alumnus to inquire if, by has deteriorated, he inches back to hastens the Spenser reader. any chance, he were the Robert B. social respectability with single­ Their repartee entertains even Parker. minded determination. He reclaims better when it is joined by Hawk, Parker and Spenser are receiving the code of honor that is well Spenser's black friend in need. far broader recognition these days, known to Parker readers and ulti­ Powerful and playful, Hawk thanks in part to a People maga­ mately proves himself worthy of thoroughly understands Spenser's zine profile scheduled to coincide the coveted Grayle. code of honor without entirely with the release of Valediction at This type of code, according to sharing it. "Hawk is the dark side the end of April. According to Parker, "seems to be the kind of of Spenser; the racial pun is delib­ Parker's publisher, Delacourte thing people in the post-Christian erate," affirmed Parker. "He's Press/Seymour Lawrence in New age would care about'' because it what Spenser might have been had York, this newest volume of generates an internal sense of di­ he grown up black in a white Spenser exploits is a Mystery Guild rection and consistency. "It seems society, and they are beyond main selection and a Literary to me that there is very little cer­ race." A Catskill Eagle, an epic­ Guild alternate. Meanwhile Warner tainty in contemporary life," he length novel not yet published, will Brothers has begun production of proposed. "There hasn't been center on the relationship between a feature film adapted from Early since at least 1914. So if you know Spenser and Hawk. "It will con­ Autumn, in which Tom Selleck what you'll do and what you won't tain all sorts of allusions to Huck­ will play Spenser. Warner Brothers do-even though you can't explain leberry Finn, Cooper, and all of also has television rights to Par­ particularly why you'll do it or not that American myth of the Cauca­ ker's Looking for Rachel Wallace do it-it keeps you from kicking sian and non-Caucasian companion and Ceremony, which will feature around like a grasshopper on a hot on the run across the face of the Mike Farrell of M* A *S*H fame. afternoon, and that's useful." land, outside of the laws of civili­ As enjoyable and lucrative as Personal codes are also an ele­ zation," the author said. Spenser is for Parker, he does not ment in Three Weeks in Spring, From book to book, Susan and confine his writing to the detective although they are jumbled with Hawk influence our hero, another series. "Occasionally I'll do a non­ real emotional turmoil. Written of Parker's departures in the Spenser book, because there are with Joan Parker, now a staff genre. Rather than starting out things that I want to say that I development specialist for the fresh in each adventure like most can't say in Spenser. When I wrote Massachusetts Department of Edu­ detectives in fiction, "Spenser has Wilderness [for which film rights cation, the book chronicles their a past, like real people do, and it have been purchased by Universal reactions to her 1975 mastectomy. modifies him," Parker said. In Studios], I wanted to write about He insists that the book has be­ Early Autumn they are joined by a guy who's scared. After nine come outdated on points of tech­ Paul Giacomin, who becomes a books or so, Spenser can't sudden­ nology. Nonetheless, its dominat­ "surrogate son" to Spenser. Again ly become a coward. In Wilderness ing theme of a love that simulta­ it is a kind of relationship no other there's this tension between this neously binds and separates them detective writer has tried to ex­ guy's physical strength and his in­ during the trauma seems timeless. plore. "I know all this stuff about terior uncertainty, and the reversal ''While life may be fatal it is not sons and fathers, and I wanted to with his wife, who is small of stat­ always serious," Parker wrote in use it," the author explained, ure but large of spirit." Parker the Alumnus that same spring. It's shrugging. acknowledged, however, that a hypothesis well-tested. In 1976 and 1977, two books in ''people were mad at me because it the Spenser series garnered the wasn't a Spenser book." As we danced at that freshman Edgar Allen Poe Award from the The recent Love and Glory, dance in the early fall of 1950, it Mystery Writers of America-Mor­ which begins at Colby, also ex­ was as if the still serpentless mead­ tal Stakes and Promised Land. cludes Spenser but contains famil­ ows of Eden spread out around us. Parker is quick to find amusement iar Parker themes. "I wanted to We are east of Eden now, full of in any event, but the national ac­ write a love story with [a great] knowledge. We know that lambs claim must have prompted special duration, but Spenser has only and lions will not gambol, if they satisfaction. Back in 1954 Pro­ known Susan for six or seven ever did, in a green eternity. But fessor R. Mark Benbow gave the years," the author explained. In it, we know much more than that, placement bureau a dubious rec­ Boone Adams' love seems to be and some of what we know is ommendation of Parker, sharing the only aspect of his character worth mortality. his clear impression of a bright but that doesn't degenerate in the years Love and Glory indolent youth. After the 1976 Poe after Jennifer Grayle rejects him. award, Benbow was moved to When Adams recognizes how he LF

18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Nobody likes the actual sitting I also unconsciously notice The Trick of down and going clickity-click. One everything. It's not because I'm a Fiction looks forward to getting through writer; I'm a writer because I that just like I look forward to get­ notice everything. Joan [Hall ting through the three-mile run or Parker '54] doesn't. Joan can con­ the Nautilus workout. But when I centrate on something so that When Robert B. Parker '54 don't do it, I miss it-just like I smoke rises from it-she's like a visited campus to accept the I 983 miss the three-mile run or the magnifying glass when the sun Distinguished Alumnus A ward, he Nautilus workout. I don't like it, goes through it-but once she left discussed his creative process and but I also don't like not doing it. this room, she wouldn't know some readers' reactions to his work None of this is too much sweat what color the rug was. There are with English Instructor Robert Gil­ for me. Usually I think of the title simply two kinds of mentalities. I lespie and Editor Lane Fisher. Ex­ before I start writing . It sets the can't concentrate at all like she cerpts from that interview appear tone. I do a synopsis and a chapter can, but I can't not notice. I think below. outline. The outline may say, if you are trying to force yourself "Chapter 1: Spenser drives to to notice what you don't notice in­ Smithfield and visits the chief of tuitively, probably it doesn't work. police." It's just a couple of lines I don't use a notebook, I don't found I was unable to write so I don't have to sit down and use a tape recorder, and I tell peo­ whileI working [in corporate jobs]. think, "My God, what will I write ple who ask not to rely on ''the I wasn't one of those people who today?'' I know, and I know how lifeless mechanics,'' as Faulkner can write for 15 minutes before the story comes out. I write first once called them. There's an art they go to work, or take their drafts; I don't write second drafts; professor at Yale, Vincent Scully, lunch hours and whack it out. I I don't revise, by and large, at all. who forbids his students to take need five hours of time to get in notes in class. I agree with that. I • • • three hours of writing. I need two think note taking gets in the way. hours to look out the window and One of the reasons I don't do It keeps you from listening. stomp around, look in the mail more than one book at a time is The process of creation is a little box, look in the refrigerator, play because the time when I'm not bit like what goes on in therapy. with the dog. The time is irrele­ writing is the time when the book Therapists will tell you to let it vant. What I do is write five pages needs to be plumbed into what come, and that what comes is what a day , and when I'm done, I'm James called the deep well of sub­ is important. If you write it down, done. Until I've written the five, conscious. I'm not consciously you haven't selected what's impor­ I'm not done. thinking . tant; you've put it all down. If you

THE COLBY LUM1 S 19 leave it alone, you'll remember used Colby because I knew some­ it's imagination. In fact, some very what is important; it'll uncon­ thing about Colby. I dealt with the good writers have very little skill sciously select itself. experiences-transmuted through with language. Eugene O'Neill is a (This is the first time I've actual­ the imagination-that I had. And I terrible writer but a great imaginer, ly tried to think about that , and do that with Spenser. He lifts and it works. So does Theodore most of this is inarticulate. Most weights because I lift weights. I Dreiser. And James Fenimore of the recent writers say very dumb run; he runs. I can cook; he can Cooper. Good heavens, you read things, and they do that a l_ot. It's cook. I was in Korea; he was in all of Cooper's Leatherstocking because they're asked to talk about Korea. That's a kind of literary Tales and, when you're through, something they don't know how to economy-there's no point in do­ you find it worked-even though talk about. Me, too.) ing research when I've been re­ you groaned in agony when you • • • searching for 50 years-but that's waded through it. What I try to do is to describe the only the circumstantial data. • • • picture that I see in the back of my That's the nitty-grittiness of eyeballs. In truth, I just imagine realism in which the romance is I don't recall learning anything of the stuff going on, and I just write embedded. That's not the way it merit from writing classes, and I it down. An analogy with cooking: works in my imagination, but I don't think I've taught anyone when I cook supper for the family, don't know how to tell you it does much in the fiction-writing classes I'm trying to get the proper bal­ work in my imagination. I have given. What I can do with a ance of flavors and textures and Henry James said something like kid is give him a chance to write. I color. That's what I'm trying to do "It doesn't matter how much ex­ can take an hour or so and tell in a story-I'm trying to make this perience you've had, it's what you him about the writing business thing work, trying to make a liter­ do with what you've gotten." I -about agents, about publishers, ary construct that functions the think that's true. If you once about all of that stuff-and help way I want it to function. I'm not thought you were going to die, him sort out what kind of stuff he consciously trying to characterize then you can write about fear of might want to write. or dramatize or embody or do any­ death. If you've been in love, you (In truth, I don't think real thing except to get this thing to can write about love, and so on. writers decide what they want to work right, so that it meshes. So I give Spenser all the attributes write. I think they write, and then That's all I can say. I have, and I imagine. I extrapo­ they find out what they've written. Fiction writing is a function of late from my experience and imag­ I didn't decide to be a novelist the imagination. I use places I've ine beyond my experience. after considering poetry and plays. been, for all the obvious reasons. Over and over again I allude to I sat down to write, and the novel When I wrote Love and Glory, I imagination, but it is the trick of came out.) wanted a collegiate setting, so I fiction. It's not skill with language; I also have not learned anything

20 THE OLBY ALUM U that helps me as a writer from be­ my .357 magnum? I got it right member of the white-wine-and­ ing reviewed or criticized. If you here." quiche set. I wrote back and said, get reviewed on a broad scale, and If you make a mistake with a "Wait a minute, about this gener­ I do (in most major languages), gun, you'll get a lot of mail. I alization . . '' you'll find they say everything. avoid calling them ''gun freaks'' • • There is no way to read reviews because I think there is a very and guide yourself, because all the defensible position in favor of One of my sons is a dancer, and possible options that you could guns that is not a red-necked­ one's an actor. I think they're glad achieve are suggested. ''He writes survivalist, John-Birch-Society I'm not a GE executive or an in­ good dialogue and bad plot." "He position, but people who are in­ surance salesman or something, writes good plot and bad terested in guns seem to care about and I think it pleases them to see dialogue." I mean it goes on them more than anyone else seems my picture in Time or my name in forever. to care about anything. If you People. But essentially I'm not the I'm in no way trying to suggest make one slight mistake in a cali­ novelist [to them]; I'm the guy that either reviewers or critics are ber or the cross hatch on a grid, who sits around in his underwear beneath contempt. Some of the lit­ you get letters. It's amazing. drinking beer on a Saturday eve­ erary criticism has enlarged my The guns are the biggest thing, ning. understanding of my own work. It but I get letters on the mistakes the David and Dan are equally com­ hasn't helped me write another copy editors miss-I blame them. mitted to the aesthetics of their book any better, but I look back There's one book in which I had professions rather than popular on what I've written sometimes Spenser drive north, turn left, and success. Dave does not want to be with a larger insight into what I head east, for instance. Try that a Broadway flash dancer, and Dan did. I think that is a legitimate -not on this planet! Now and is not dying to be a movie star. I critical thing to do. then I get a Jetter from people who think Dave particularly has been think I wrote the dirtiest book able to find meaning in what I do. • • they've ever read. God knows what He's a tap dancer, as opposed to a I don't have any special audience. they're reading, because I'm only a ballet dancer; I'm a detective I run the range from [A. Bartlett] little dirtier than Winnie the Pooh. writer, as opposed to Faulkner. Giamatti-who was asked in an in­ Most of the people who take the Whether I'm creating art is a terview when he became president trouble to write just say they like question I've declined to answer, of Yale what he read, and he said, the books and make an occasional because I can't. But if I'm not, it's "the novels of Robert Parker and bitch about my political stance. not because I chose to write in this nothing much else" -and people One guy wrote me a letter com­ form; it's because I'm not an art­ who come up when I give a speech plaining that I generalized about ist. And if I do, it's not despite the and say, "Hey, you want to see conservatives and called me a form, it's because I am an artist.

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 21 A Many-Splendored Thing

The pace of teaching at Colby can be maddening -and exhilarating

by Charles Bassett

e American novelist Thomas could park in Camden, N.J., for however, bluebooks and parking Wolfe,h an English instructor at New $25 a month. I rode the Paoli local rank with black flies and Howard York University for a few years ear­ to work for five years, the only Cosell among significant issues. ly in his career, used to have a passenger reading Mark Twain My colleagues and I may fr et, but recurring nightmare: he could only 'midst a thicket of Wall Street the bluebooks will eventually get struggle helplessly as he drowned in Journals. marked and the car moved. an ocean of freshman themes. Those When I came to Waterville in of us who spend our autumn Sun­ 1969, I knew that the bluebook Vocational Schizophrenia days staring at piles of freshman bugbear would continue. Colby's What more seriously preoccupies essays know about Wolfe's panic. English department prides itself on the Colby faculty is the ubiquitous Since l began teaching in 1954, I the equity of its devotion to vocational schizophrenia that have been regularly terrorized by English composition; everyone everywhere characterizes life as a stacks of uncorrected themes, -graying professors to neophyte teacher I scholar these days. The waiting like vampires for injections instructors-teaches freshman slash in "teacher /scholar" is the of red ink-"dangling modifier" or writing . However, parking spaces, sticking point: given a 24-hour "AWK" or "Learn to spell, even in fender-deep snow, seemed day, where does one draw that Smedly ! " One need not teach_ ample, and enforcement of parking line? English composition, however, to regulations seemed benevolent. Faculty in selective colleges like know these shudders: mathemati­ How, then, to explain a recent Colby are particularly susceptible cians, classicists, and historians note next to my office telephone: to this schizoid uncertainty. palpitate equally as the unmarked "Move your car by noon, or we Trained by scholars in the nation's tests reach their chins. Shakespeare's tow it." Big Brother has arrived renowned graduate schools, most Macbeth dreaded "air-drawn dag­ on Mayflower Hill right on sched­ new Colby instructors are the off­ gers," but college professors are ule. spring of programs in which haunted proportionately, if more In the grand scheme of things, prestige is accrued only through prosaically, by bluebooks. And by other modern terrors that

have begun to assault the ivory Shakespeare·s Macbeth tower. As I was about to leave was haunted by graduate school in the early 1960s, "air-drawn daggers,·· but college professors are my dissertation director asked me to haunted proportionately. stop in for what he called a "profes­ if more prosaically. by bluebooks. sional chat" before my job inter­ views. Anticipating initiation into the Delphic secrets of the profes­ soriate, I could only nod numbly when he whispered, "Make sure, Bassett, that you can get a parking space near your office." Still, I learned the sagacity of my mentor's counsel when I took my first job-an instructorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia-only to find that I

22 THE COLBY AL MN successful research and consequent for a liberal arts college like ours. hoc assignments continue to pro­ publication. Professors in Amer­ Complicating this bipolar con­ liferate. In the end, we are the vic­ ica's universities know that their flict between research and teaching tims of our commitment to faculty principal calling is the generation is the involvement of virtually participation in every phase of the of scholarship; teaching is a sec­ every faculty member in an operation of the College. Only ondary mission , albeit a few increasingly complex administrative occasionally do we recognize the famous scholars are great teachers. system of College governance. absurdity of our overextension: Moreover, this hierarchy of values, Aping our contemporaries in recently I found myself interview­ which reached its zenith in the business or government, we acade­ ing candidates for the directorship 1960s, has continued to permeate micians also sit through endless of physical plant (formerly B. and all phases of American higher edu­ committee meetings, spend hours G.). Casting about for relevance, I cation, even in the 1980s. Faculty composing urgent memos, and lie could only complain that my office members at all kinds of institutions awake at night scheming to acquire has been cold since 1973; each ap­ feel increasing pressure to em­ an extra computer terminal for our plicant said he would see to it if phasize scholarship and publica­ respective programs. Colby has 37 he got the job. tion, usually at the expense of committees on which faculty serve, A conscientious and spirited undergraduate teaching. No longer despite Dean Archibald's best ef­ Colby faculty citizen could easily is it permissible to escape to the forts to cut this number, and ad become a work-oholic simply by woods; now the next glade is fulfilling expectations: teaching equipped with an electron micro­ admirably, publishing that signifi­ scope and a word processor. cant article every six months and a The slash in "teacher/scholar . . On the other hand, Colby has is the sricking point: book every third year, leading the always taken pride in its role as a given a 24-hour day. Advisory Committee on the Use of teaching institution, as a college where does one draw the line? Animal Subjects in Research to that expects inspired and enthusias­ new heights of empathy, shaking tic dedication to the transmission hands on parents weekend, reading of knowledge to our students both inside and outside of the class­ room. At Colby we teach a lot of courses, and a lot of different courses, each term . We sponsor independent study projects for mature students, concoct novel Jan Plans, hold frequent office hours for individual conferences, and serve as academic advisers to freshmen and to upperclass majors in our departments or programs. Many Colby teachers are involved with the residential life program as faculty residents or associates of living units. Threadbare as the phrase has become, ''up close and personal" is still the expectation

THE COLBY ALUM S 23 a paper at a professional meeting, undergraduates by failing to incor­ "groundbreaking" or "seminal." and going over the correct use of porate new ideas and new tech­ Candidates for promotion in rank the Sl!micolon with poor Smedly niques into their presentations. Mr. submit curricula vitae listing -who thought he had it made Chips could turn out to be a lazy enough committee assignments to when he learned to spell. Sen­ hypocrite, a genial mediocrity make a hardened bureaucrat envi­ timentalists advocate a break in whose mind took early retirement ous. Professors ask for additional this cycle for occasional exchanges when he became a fixture at a funds to support travel to San of greetings with the spouse and school like Brookfield. That brand Francisco to read that paper on kiddies, or equivalents. of Chips means intellectual fraud, Hilbert space to fellow scholars. Perhaps, it is argued, most not teaching. Teachers must be The continuing marvel is, given the upper-middle-class Americans scholars, too. dissonance of these demands, that could make identical complaints: so many of my colleagues continue we're all of us strung out in a Miracles and Elation to do an absolutely first-rate job in competitive culture rife with ten­ For all of these contradictory the classroom. sions, anxieties, and consumerist reasons, serving on the faculty at How do I know this? Principally pressures. If, however, Colby is Colby is a problematic experience. because, as director of the Ameri­ not an ivory tower but identical to Probationers closely monitor the can Studies Program, I am Colby's other institutions in contemporary success or failure of their cohorts prime advocate of team teaching. I society, then its faculty must be in obtaining tenure, noting that have observed my comrades in recognized as overworked and published scholarship seems no pedagogical action more often than overspecialized professionals with longer enough; now that scholar­ most. Furthermore, the most suc­ little opportunity for the relaxed ship must be "important" or cessful, indeed joyous, moments and genial half hour spent discuss­ that I have had in a Colby class­ ing truth and beauty with Ms. room have taken place while I Shaw or Mr. Moody. James A genial mediocrity whose shared the podium with one of my Hilton's Mr. Chips may now be mind takes early retirement colleagues. Writing this piece has is an intellectual fraud. considered a sentimental stereo­ allowed me fondly to recall my type, but he could teach and take ho hUtn teaching teammates over the years. pride in his role as teacher. No Just a partial list will stir memories committee demanded to see his in most post-1970 graduates: Tony journal articles on Xenophon, and Hunt, Fred Geib, Sandy Maisel, Chips resigned his administrative Pat Brancaccio, Chip Hauss, Tom appointments as soon as he Longstaff, Joel Bernard, Pete decently could, even though he Moss, Jon Weiss, Hal Raymond. cared enormously for Brookfield, My experiences teaching with these his school. Nevertheless, as a colleagues were intellectually excit­ "pure teacher," Chips was becom­ ing, educationally innovative, and ing anachronistic in the 1930s. personally satisfying-an opinion How much more rare are "pure apparently shared by my partners, teachers" today? most of whom have joined their I must admit I recently heard specialties with mine on more than someone describe a "pure one occasion. Judging by the shooter'' in basketball as one who course evaluations, moreover, our could not play defense. And cer­ students were equally enthusiastic. tainly Colby students do not Good teachers learn from their deserve glib and cynical classroom students; at Colby I learn from my teachers who condescend to mere students and my colleagues.

24 THE COLBY ALUM1 S Even in American studies I guess that's what I really like Plainly I hope that overspecial­ courses of my own, I try to invite about my job at Colby-the intel­ ization, the crown and curse of colleagues like Bob Reuman to lec­ lectual flexibility of my friends on education at America's graduate­ ture on pacifism during World the faculty, their willingness to oriented universities, does not War II, Bill Miller to analyze the share knowledge, to challenge completely engulf colleges like social-protest painters of the 1930s, ideas and to have their ideas Colby-at least not before I have Tom Morrione to criticize the challenged, to cooperate, and to doddered off the boards in Love­ sociology of the 1950s, Hank experiment. Only people who love joy 100 for the thousandth time Gemery to examine the fiscal and to teach are sure enough of and into senility. I hope we never monetary causes of the Great themselves to go that extra step or become so busy digging ever Crash, and chemist Wayne Smith two necessary for solid team deeper into abnormal psychology to detail the revolution in technol­ teaching. Our reward is that rush or aardvark reproduction or ogy since 1945. The conclusion of of elation generated when Rousseau's use of the adverb to Smith's session was particularly respected faculty peers and a join one another in analyzing an spectacular: dazzling my humanis­ roomful of lively students begin to interlocking, complex, and confus­ tically inclined students, he mixed develop and criticize one of our ing world. I hope that our several colorless liquids to produce cherished hypotheses. That is what teacher/scholars of the future will red, white, and blue test tubes. the liberal arts are all about, and be as generous-minded and liberal People learn all sorts of things in that's why I will stay at Colby as the many great figures of American studies. until I retire. Colby's past, such as Chappie, For the past dozen years, I have Breck, King Birge, and Jack also been teaching a course in Foner. modern American fiction, which I Only people who love to reach In any case, despite occasional are sure enough of themselves call English 356. The students call ro go rhar extra step or two personnel blunders that have lost it "Zoo Lit," because dozens of necessary for solid ream reaching. us some good teachers and despite majors in government and bio­ increasing pressure to be all things chemistry and French and to all human beings, there's a economics annually sully the whole lot of teaching going on at homogeneity of the usual English­ Colby. Ask Mark Benbow's Shake­ course crowd. I calculate that I speare classes or Pete Hayslett's have faced the young people in would-be statisticians or Peter Lovejoy 100 on nearly 500 occa­ Westervelt's classics majors. Ask sions over the years, and we've the students of Colby's dedicated had our highs and lows together. part-time faculty. Ask the seniors There was the time I stared, who are breaking in faculty neo­ fascinated, at the first row of phytes fresh from Yale or Wiscon­ seats, where a guy in a Superman sin. They'll tell you that teaching costume wrestled with someone in and learning can still be a sublime a gorilla suit; it was so diverting experience at Colby. that I never noticed the third guy, As a matter of fact, I fully who hit me with a cream pie. Even intend to rededicate myself to so, some American literature has teaching as soon as I get my gotten analyzed, and never better bluebooks corrected and find a than during expert guest lectures parking place near Miller Library. by colleagues like John Sweney on Kerouac, John Mizner on Bellow, Charlie Bassett is Dana Professor and Phyllis Mannocchi on Plath. of American Studies and English.

THE COLBY AL M1 US 25 A New Kind of All-American

Athletes like Kaye Cross '84 just weren't cut out to be cheerleaders

Kaye Cross '84 excels in com­ as familiar to many alumni as it is petition, both academic and ath­ to Cross. "I myself don't under­ letic, but then it's nothing new to stand how I balance the two,'' she her. "I've always been competitive said, but a relationship between with my brothers, each of us doing them lends to her success in both. our own thing and doing it well," Her athletic experience has led her she explained last winter. "We to budget her time well, taught her grew up as equals, and I competed to deal effectively with the gamut as myself." of attitudes people demonstrate to­ At Colby, the sister of players ward her, and generally increased for the University of Maine Black her confidence. "So much of it ap­ Bears and the Buffalo Bills has plies off the court. . . . The only continued competing on her own. thing that I resent is that basket­ The six-foot, five-inch basketball ball takes so much time that it center has appeared on the dean's seems all I do is practice and list every semester but her first and study, but for me it's good. I work was named Academic All-Ameri­ harder and my grades are better can as a sophomore and again as a during the season," Cross elabor­ junior. Having earned Academic ated. "I played basketball in high All-New England and New En­ school basically because I was tall gland Division III Player of the and expected to play. The whole Year honors by the close of this idea of dedication has come from season, she was sure to receive Colby." other accolades before graduation. Although she was initially When Cross was taken out of ambivalent about trying out for her final game on March 3, spec­ Colby's team, Cross did so to find tators saluted her with a standing a release from academic pressures. ovation. She had scored 1,452 "Women play for themselves," she points in her Colby career, break­ contended, rather than for recogni­ ing the previous I,16 5-point record tion and glory. "Freshman year we by Patty Valavanis '80, and had had the worst record in the world, set 11 other Colby records. She but we still went out every week had also reckoned with the future: and played." Despite a number of in July Cross will begin Digital injuries resulting from her poor Equipment Corporation's training mental and physical preparation program for business systems ana­ that season, she found herself com­ lysts. mitted to staying with the team. The inevitable tension between Three years later the team may academic and athletic endeavors is not play before packed houses, but

26 THE OLBY AL MNUS it has earned laurels-including the men] are always academic achiev­ bolstered confidence in themselves. 1984 Eastern Collegiate Athletic ers who care about their ap­ "Everyone improved because of Conference championship. Its top pearance. At some other schools, it," the athlete maintained. "As a scorer was adamant that the team's women athletes want to imitate the team we've played so much better best is yet to come: "It looks like male 'jock' figure. If women have this year. Those games that are I'm breaking all these records, but the ability-and at Colby they won because one player does well I'm not; I'm just going with the do-they can overcome that image are won almost by luck." flow of [Colby] women's basket­ and make a name for themselves." Cross contended that she would ball as the program develops. I As an athlete Cross has enjoyed not receive so much attention for wouldn't be the player I am if I support from many professors her accomplishments if she were didn't have exceptional players to and, of course, from DeLorenzo. not a woman upsetting certain set me up. Therese Langlois ['85] expectations. "I think I've been is hot on my tail on all of these caught up in the growth of the records. We have six outstanding [women's] program" as it has freshmen on the team, and I can come into its own, she explained. see all six of them breaking records "I'll be anxious to see if in ten I've set while they're here at Colby. years someone who does the same That's a tribute to the coaching things I have gets the same atten­ and recruiting" of Gene DeLoren­ tion." zo '75, according to Cross. The administrative science­ Nonetheless, player 24 was mathematics major has long number 1 on the 1983-84 squad. attracted attention because of her ''This is the first time I've made a striking height, which she said is name for myself athletically, and one reason why she feels so it's taught me a lot about people," comfortable on the basketball reflected Cross. Those lessons have court: somehow there it seems been varied and often subtle. She most appropriate. When she was recalled a television reporter who 12, her parents, Justin '56 and Kay interviewed her for a sports broad­ Litchfield Cross '58, sent her to cast: "I had the remnants of a modeling school to help her black eye, and he kept saying, 'I develop confidence with her can't believe you have a black The respect she expressed for height, and she currently does eye !' " She laughed at the time, "Coach" is definitely reciprocated: some high-fashion modeling on the but the repetition rankled. "I "Kaye is remarkably unselfish on side of her other commitments . "I thought if I were a man, he'd be the floor. She's supportive of her have people say, 'Oh, you 're so saying, 'That's great; you're teammates both in practice and in tall-you should be a model,' and tough; good work!' " Cross said the games ....We don't always I just smile. Then other people the interviewer probed every aspect see eye-to-eye, but she's very forth­ say, 'Oh, you're so tall-you must of her activity other than athletics right, and she will challenge me. I play basketball.' " With women until she finally asked him if the have an awful lot of respect and like Kaye Cross on the cakewalk interview were not for a sports admiration for her." and the court, the perceived con­ show. From her teammates Cross flict between many traditionally The concept of excellence in seemed to feel two kinds of pres­ feminine and masculine roles may women's athletics is still startling sure. "A lot of people get frus­ quietly vanish. to some people, according to trated because only five people can Cross. "It seems to me that we're play at a time," she said simply. LF admired for doing well athletically, Even so, her decision to study but we're not respected. Does that abroad during last year's spring make sense? The male athlete semester was made amidst pressure While this issue was in production, seems to be looked up to, but to finish the season with the team. Kaye Cross was one of ten players there's almost a fear of a talented "I really needed a change of pace. nationally to be named to the female athlete." It came down to 'Should I stay at Kodak women's All-American bas­ Colby does offer advantages to Colby because of basketball or ketball team. She was also elected athletic women, however. "At should I go for that change of a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and was Colby don't think people asso­ pace?' " The adventure led to her nominated for induction to the ciate athletes with the 'dumb jock' increased appreciation for Colby Maine Sports Hall of Fame for role. Our players [both women and this year and her teammates' scholar athletes.

THE COLBY ALUM US 27 Cards Hold Promise for Dahmen

S uccess for a fine artist is a children, the flowers in my garden, peculiar concept . It does not the joys of living in the country equate with wealth, power, or that inspire me artistically," popularity, nor is it a condition Dahmen said. Her silk-screen that necessarily endures. If success prints, monotypes, and gouache is closely related to any one quali­ paintings favor simplified, stylistic ty, perhaps that is artistic vitality. images of flowers and landscapes. The artistic potential of Jane Six months ago, a fire in her Melanson Dahmen '63 has recently home studio forced Dahmen to received strong endorsement from move her work to a community the United Nations Children's artists' cooperative that she earlier Fund. Among approximately 50 helped to establish. Paying mini­ designs for greeting cards distribut­ mal rent for an old schoolhouse, ed by UNICEF in Australia, New this group of artists "in all kinds Zealand, Japan, Canada, Europe, of different media" created 40 stu­ and the United States this year is a dios. They sought advice from bus­ reproduction of "Daffodils," a iness people in the community and Jane Me lanson Dahmen '63 silk-screen print by Dahmen. donations of equipment such as "They don't just consider the kilns and pianos. The community, artwork; they consider the artist," in turn, benefits from the group's said Dahmen, explaining that community outreach, art classes UNICEF reproduces works by art­ that involve residents from "senior ists whom the organization expects citizens down to preschoolers," to be significant for sustained and apprentice programs. This en­ periods of time. "They want to ergetic, yet focused, environment is know you're going to be in it for excellent for Dahmen. "By acci­ the long haul. By the time you are dent, I fell into something that is selected, you know they believe in meaningful for my work," she you." cheerfully observed. After Dahmen approached a Dahmen, who majored in art UNICEF representative four years history at Colby, has exhibited her ago, several of her prints were con­ work at City Hall and Symphony sidered for cards. Her work was Hall in Boston and at shows in reviewed by UNICEF committees other Massachusetts communities. from regional through interna­ Her work is included in private, tional levels, and the feedback she business, and corporate collections received from them was extremely "Daffo dils, " a serigraph by Jane throughout New England, includ­ supportive. UNICEF art is always Dahmen, is reproduced in a collection ing First National Bank of Boston donated by the artist, but Dahmen of UNICEF greeting cards being and American Telephone and distributed worldwide this year. It was felt that the recognition and credi­ Telegraph in Boston. In New an edition of 28 prints made in 1979 bility accorded a UNICEF artist and sold throughout New England. York, Dahmen's art is represented are ample reward. Beyond that, "I in the Reader's Digest collection. really believe in what they are signed advertising, sketched note Her commissions include 50 prints doing" to assist children in devel­ cards, and engaged in other forms and a 20-by-1 2-foot wall mural for oping nations, she said. "I will of artistic expression. Since turning the Carlton Willard Complex of submit more work to them." to full-time print making, she has Bedford, Mass. Before Dahmen began working worked primarily in a studio in her intensively on her own art, she de- Concord, Mass., home. "It is the LF

28 THE OLBY AL M S An Ambassador of Scholarship

The "Library Quarterly" carries Colby 's name to distant parts of the world

"Colby? That's where you Associates-a group founded by publish that wonderful Library Frederick A. Pottle '17 to increase Quarterly, isn't it?" a Princeton the resources of his alma mater's editor exclaimed during introduc­ library-and edited by Carl J. tions at a Midwestern conference. Weber, curator of rare books and Those who identify the College manuscripts and a distinguished through the Colby Library Quar­ Hardy scholar. Thus the name of terly form a relatively small but Thomas Hardy appears in both noteworthy group. The publication early and recent issues, as does the claims only about 500 subscribers, name of a distant relative of Presi­ but among them are prominent dent Emeritus J. Seelye Bixler, scholars of literature and some of Henry James. the finest libraries on five con­ Under Professor Richard Cary, tinents. editor from 1959 to 1975, the jour­ "The Quarterly is valuable for nal grew in size and prominence its own sake as a small but real and took on a stronger regional contribution to scholarship in the focus. Maine authors, including arts and humanities," according to Sarah Orne Jewett, Edwin Arling­ Dean of Faculty Douglas Archi­ ton Robinson, and Edna St. Vin­ bald. Similar judgments expressed cent Millay, assumed primary by scholars at other institutions importance in the Quarterly. during a 1981-82 review of the Works by Willa Cather, Ben Ames journal helped convince Colby's Williams, and others represented in trustees to continue support for its Colby's special collections were also publication. One of them, Cornell examined, as they continue to be. English Professor Reeve Parker, Greater variety in content has also wrote of the Quarterly as a been achieved under the editorship symbol of Colby's priorities: of Professor John Sutherland, who "Anyone who knows American has also preserved the journal's colleges well knows that Colby is distinctly Colby character. Articles an institution that takes the life of relevant to the special interests of the mind seriously, that it prides Colby's English faculty appear fre­ itself in a faculty who write as well quently, and interdisciplinary as teach, and that its library has directions have emerged in the seen, over the years, the substan­ Quarterly, as they have in the cur­ tial importance of special as well riculum. Special issues devoted to as general acquisitions." Blake, Yeats, black studies, women The "life of the mind" evident and literature, and relationships in today's Quarterly is much between psychology, history, and broader than in the first issues in literature clearly express this 1943, but the journal's early widened scope. In addition, the emphasis on Colby's special collec­ ongoing regional focus now tions remains quite visible. It was encompasses adjacent states and first published by the Library Canadian provinces.

THE COLBY ALU I S 29 Sutherland calls upon his Colby planet?" Allowing for the lengthy colleagues' expertise as he reviews lead time required for special approximately ten manuscripts for efforts, Sutherland expects the each one the Quarterly publishes. regional issue to appear in March Most are unsolicited. The editor 1985. explained that those chosen for "We have several other special publication must demonstrate issues in mind," the editor said, scholarship by introducing new adding that another on Blake, theories, relationships, or informa­ Sutherland's own specialty, one on tion, preferably "interesting things John B. Yeats, and an issue on that are relevant to the human regional art criticism are among condition , not minor points .... the possibilities. (Art has long held Occasionally we publish articles by a presence in each issue through people within Colby, but it's not a cover illustrations usually from sure place for them to publish," Colby's collection, occasional Sutherland said. "The faculty's interior illustrations, notes by involvement has been more in the Museum Director Hugh Gourley, day-to-day reading of manuscripts and some articles.) and as guest editors." Some of the No one involved with the Quar­ faculty who have provided ready terly expects its new dimensions to assistance to Sutherland were attract a huge list of subscribers. named to the Quarterly editorial "Most learned journals have small board formed last year: English subscription lists. Scholars tend to English Professor John H. professors Archibald, Patrick use these publications in libraries," Sutherland, editor of the "Colby Brancaccio, Dianne Sadoff, and Sutherland said. Yet the subscrip­ Library Quarterly, " looks for ar­ Edwin Kenney, history Professor tion rate, $6 annually, is hardly ticles that convey interesting, new Joel Bernard, and Jette Professor forbidding. Support from the Col­ information "relevant to the hu­ of Art David Simon. lege has enabled Quarterly editors man condition, not minor points. " The board's composition points to increase its contents by about to still wider horizons for the jour­ 500 percent since Weber's day nal, which was apparent in its call while raising the price only 200 for papers to run in a special issue percent. on "redefinitions of regionalism." While the Quarterly will never While welcoming papers on spe­ resemble a popular magazine in cific topics, Sutherland wrote, content or circulation, "The ". . . we are looking particularly editorial board really is committed for engagement with broader to the idea of the intelligent lay issues. The revival of regional reader," according to Archibald. cultural and political movements "We want to reach the non-profes­ around the world seems both sional reader interested in serious promising and threatening. To and well-informed discussion of what extent are regional loyalties issues in the arts and humanities. parochial, even destructive, in their ''The Quarterly should make our influence? To what extent does alumni proud," the Yeats scholar regionalism (like individualism) continued. "It's an expression of enhance our liberties and enrich the character of the College that our culture? What part has region­ Colby has something hardly any alism to play in the cultural and other college of this size has. That political lives of people who should make some alumni as are-willy nilly-citizens of large happy as having a winning football nation-states, and who are devel­ team.'' oping a global sense-a sense of inhabiting a single, fragile LF

30 THE COLBY ALUM US evin Hill '50-W aterville Colby Brick, and his professional ophthalmoloK gist, Colby trustee, prominence was recognized with a and civic leader-died suddenly on Colby Gavel in 1970. In 1977 he January 20. He was 54. became a corporate trustee, and A man whose presence and con­ the list of his trustee committee tributions were felt in numerous Kevin Hill assignments demonstrates his circles, Dr. Hill's death provoked 1929-1984 dedication and the variety of his many to ponder the values that interests: student affairs, educa­ guided his activities. As his son Ophthalmology, a fellow of the tional policy, budget and finance, Luke observed in his eulogy, American College of Surgeons, a presidential search, athletics and " ...he was a man who believed, lecturer for the Lancaster Course physical education, honorary as he so often taught his children, in Ophthalmology, and director of degree, planning, executive, resi­ 'Of those to whom much has been the first annual seminar in dential life, and most recently, the given, much is expected.' " ophthalmology sponsored by campus life commission. President William R. Cotter Colby and Mid-Maine Medical His community service was commented, "Kevin put the needs Center. He had also served as a equally extensive. He served six of others first. He was always trustee of Elizabeth Ann Seton years as Kennebec County commis­ available when Colby asked for Hospital, as chairman of the sioner and was active in the help, and he gave unstintingly of Medicaid Advisory Subcommittee Democratic party in Waterville and his time, creativity, resources, and on Eye Care, and as a leader in Maine. He had been president of love for his college. He would regional medical organizations. the Waterville Area Chamber of shun the limelight, do the work, His professional and personal Commerce, founding director of and give the credit to others. Kevin dignity was, in the Sentinel's the Northern Kennebec County has left us with a colossal void to words, ''tempered by a puckish Community Action Council, direc­ fill but also with everlasting sense of humor" that frequently tor of the Waterville YMCA, of memories of this gentle and coura­ startled and refreshed listeners. In the Waterville Rotary Club, and of geous man of utter integrity." 1978, for instance, he regaled those Kennebec Federal Savings and "Kevin Hill was larger than who attended the faculty-trustee Loan, Waterville police commis­ Waterville, Maine, but Waterville dinner with an account of the first sioner, member of the Kennebec­ was never too small for him," an service he attempted to provide to Somerset Crime Prevention Com­ editorial in the Central Maine Colby after his senior year-drain­ mittee, and a leader in the Greater Morning Sentinel observed. The ing Johnson Pond. But the heart Waterville United Way Campaign. city's largest church, however, was of that address was a point he Kevin Hill is survived by his too small for those who mourned took most seriously: "In my fam­ wife, Ann "Nancy" G., four his death: about 700 filled Sacred ily, to serve Colby in some capac­ children, father, and brother. Heart Church and others were ity is a long-standing tradition. It ''The finest eulogy we can give turned away from his funeral. is our way of attempting to repay him," according to Luke Hill, "is Dr. Hill was a graduate of Colby for what we have received to live our lives as he did, to care Waterville High School and from the College." as he cared, to love as he loved, to Columbia University College of Son of Howard F. Hill '18, work as he worked, for a more Physicians and Surgeons, as well grandson of J. Frederick Hill '82, just and equitable world today and as Colby. He was a private practi­ nephew of Frederick T. Hill '10, for a brighter, more peaceful tioner, a director and a staff and father of Michael Hill '86, future for our children and our member of Mid-Maine Medical Kevin Hill has left a college children's children." Center, and a consulting staff indebted to him. His service to the member at seven other Maine Waterville Area Alumni Associa­ A scholarship established in hospitals. Known nationally in his tion, to the Colby Science Cam­ memory of Kevin Hill '50 will help profession, he had been a diplo­ paign, and on the Alumni Council Maine students to attend Colby mate of the American Board of were acknowledged in 1974 with a College.

THE COLBY AL MNUS 31 lass Correspondenc�------

Carl R. MacPherson '26, Abington, during his career in education and is currently Hear the very latest in class news 0 + Mass., was awarded the Masonic serving as president of the Colby 50+ at our fiftieth reunion, May 31- 5 Order of the Purple Cross recent­ Club • Jean M. Watson '29, Fort Meyers, Fla., 3 June 3! ly in Wheeling, W. Va. Carl is a 33rd degree spearheaded the annual Southwest Florida 4 Mason and one of two so honored in his local Alumni luncheon on February 22 • Joseph B. lodge in 125 years • A. William Lawson '27 Campbell '29, Augusta, Maine, is secretary of Class secretary: GORDON PATCH wrote that he has retired to his eight-acre the Depositors Corporation, the $1 billion THOMPSON, ranch in Wickenburg, Ariz., where he enjoys Augusta bank holding company • Virginia 2458 Florentine his three horses and the 7,000-foot elevation. Dudley Eveland '29, Ann Arbor, Mich., and her 3 5 Way #2, Clearwater, Fla. 33575. Wickenburg is famous for its annual "Shoot husband, Warren, are involved in community Out" • Lewis "Ludy" Levine '21, a Waterville theater in that city. "Gidge" said that midnight merchant, was presented with a Colby letter­ cast parties leave them with the illusion that Class secretary: AGNES CARLYLE sweater and greetings by President William R. "we are not so old after all" • District Court HADDEN (Mrs. Frederick c.), 15 Cotter in honor of Ludy's eighty-fifth birthday Judge Roland J. Poulin '31, Waterville, was 3 Pequot Rd., Wayland, Mass. on November 30, 1983. As the January Alum­ sworn in for an unprecedented second term as 6 01778. nus feature on Ludy and Percy "Pacy" Levine active retired judge for Kennebec County by '27 indicated, they are enthusiastic patrons of Maine Governor Joseph Brennan last Septem­ Colby athletic activities • Charles N. Pinkham ber. The term is for seven years • Leonard C. '32 and wife, Anne, Unity, Maine, enjoyed a Cabana '33 and his wife, Carmen, Waterville, Class secretary: FREDERICK G. trip through England, Scotland, and Wales last celebrated thei r fiftieth wedding anniversary DEMERS, P.O. Box 4641, Clear­ fall in company with 60 senior citizens. Frank last November by traveling to Egypt, Israel, 3 7 water, Fla. 33575. E. Fuller '33, Providence, R.I., was also a and Greece • Perry G. Wortman '33, Green­ member of the group • Cecil H. Rose '28, ville, Maine, described the fiftieth reunion of Gloucester, Mass., is now Minister of Visitation his class as "one of the nicest three to four The response to the question­ at the Trinity Congregational Church. He is days in 50 years." He added, "I came to know 8 naires has been so great that not asking his classmates for items to be included class members better and differently than I 3 all the information can be used in in this column • Carleton D. Brown '33 and had known them in undergraduate days" • this issue • Kay Watson Addington reported Louise Williams Brown '34, Southport, Maine, William M. "Bill" Clark '36, Caratunk, Maine, a from Carson, Calif., that she is retired and have presented the Colby music department Gannett newspaper columnist, took issue with looks forward to some traveling. A hand injury with two rare recordings of Arturo Toscanini Anthony Lewis, 1983 Elijah Parish Lovejoy kept her from attending our reunion. Kay has conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra dur­ Fellow, in his allegations of judicial bias on the two children • Bill Wright is now in Sterling, ing Act II of Verdi's "Otello." One is of a part of contemporary courts in libel suits Colo., and retired, but he is active in Kiwanis rehearsal and the other of the actual perfor­ against newspapers. The full text of Lewis's and Masonic work. He has a book in print mance • Edwin D. Merry '29, North Edge­ speech and Clark's commentary appeared in about his experience as a minister in Mt. Ver­ comb, Maine, was saddened by the death of the November 26, 1983, issue of the Central non, Maine, while he was at Colby. I have read his brother, who was killed by a honter during Maine Morning Sentinel • Correspondent's and enjoyed Nip and Tuck • Marie Tibbetts Maine's deer season • Norman C. "Cy" Plea: Send me your notes if you like to read Slovak of Portland, Maine, has three daughters Perkins '32, Bangor, Maine, was celebrated as about your classmates. and seven grandchildren • Maynard Waltz, a the Colby "C' Club Man of the Year at the Col­ Correspondent: ERNEST E. MILLER '29, 218 retired physicist and engineer, is now living in by Night banquet last fa ll. He has been the Pickett District Road, New Milford, Conn. New Jersey. He and his wife, who is a music recipient of many civic and athletic honors 06776. teacher and organist, enjoy New York City's

Alumni Awards Nomination Form

The Alumni Council awards committee seeks nominations for three awards on a continual basis. The Colby Brick is awarded each Reunion Weekend to a few individuals who have served Colby in a variety of roles, and the Marriner Dis­ tinguished Service Award is given to alumni or friends of Colby who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to the College. The Distinguished Alumnus Award annually recognizes one Colby graduate for outstanding professional achievement.

___ I nominate ______, Class of 19__ , for th e ______

______Award. My rec ommendation is based on the nominee's activities listed below:

Signature Date______Sign and mail to : Alumni Council Awards Committee, c/o Office of Alumni Relations, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 . Thank you!

32 THE COLBY AL M S FORD GRANT: WA TERVILLE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

Ford Grant '34 watches Waterville from a unique angle. A photographer for 50 years, the Waterville resident often shoots pictures of the downtown area, the people, and the local landscape. Although Grant joked that he would "take anything that looks good-engines, snow scenes, mechanical objects," or whatever catches his eye, he said that he particularly notices "something outstanding in the way someone smiles." In addition to combing his surroundings for subjects, Grant stretches his imagination by looking through magazines and by reading about photography. Each year at Christmas he treats relatives and friends to a sample of his work. Many of his photographs were used in "Waterville: A Photo Sketchbook," a publication prepared as a reflection of the city in 1976 and in honor of the U.S. bicentennial. Grant, who is the director of the art ga lleryat Thomas College, exhibits his work there annually. He is also a trustee of Thomas and its chairman of planned giving.

KJG

Ford Grant '34

cultural opportunities. He has installed a solar have a son, a daughter, and three grandsons. busy serving on boards of directors including heating system in his house • Fred and Mary Bob has written several books and has three in those for the Bangor Seminary, Boston Sea­ Herd Emery are in Bangor, Maine. He has re­ progress. My son used many of his texts at man's Friend Society, and Congregational tired from his medical practice in Bangor and Tuck School, Dartmouth • Anna Stobie Rog­ Christian History Society. Helen continues subsequent medical work at the University of erson and Norm '37 have spent some of their volunteer work for the Red Cross and church. Maine. Fred does watercolors and stained winter months in Mexico. Their home is in They were in Sarasota, Fla., for the winter, glass windows. With five children and two Portland, Maine • Edith "Billie" Falt Favour is where at served as interim pastor of theoCon­ grandchildren, Mary is not retired • Ernest a retired English teacher living in ortheast gregational Church. Last summer he was in­ "Bud" Frost and his wife are now retired. Their Harbor, Maine, where her husband, Paul, was terim pastor of South Parish Congregational daughter, ikki Jane '66, attended Colby, and with the ational Park Service as a naturalist Church in Augusta, Maine • Dorothy Weeks their son, Penn State. Bud has played in golf until he retired. The Favours enjoy the natural Egan spent several weeks in Maine in October, tournaments in the Southeast and lives in Myr­ riches of Mt. Desert and also spend five winter visiting her brother in Brunswick. I had a grand tle Beach, S.C. • Joe Ciechon, a retired math months in Laguna Beach, Calif. • Roy Luther visit with her, and we toured the Colby cam­ teacher, is still in Connecticut. He and his wife is retired from Exxon Corporation and lives pus. She lives in Los Angeles, Calif., expected have a grandson at the University of Maine with his wife. Helen Jevons Luther '37, in to retire in January 1984, and plans to attend and a granddaughter at Skowhegan (Maine) Beaufort, S.C. They have two daughters and our class reunion in June • Constance Knick­ High School • Edith Barron has retired after two granddaughters. His hobby is rose grow­ erbocker Harley and her husband, Charles, 44 years in the teaching profession. Edith was ing • The saga will continue next issue! live at 5307 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Md. a math teacher who was versatile enough to Class secretary: LAWRENCE W. DWYER, 286 Their children are Charles K., Kay Fohlgren, teach Latin and English, too • Reta Trites Church St., Berlin, .H. 03570. and Peter Campbell. There are three young Cook servesas town treasurer in Avon, Maine, Doctor Harleys, two of them professors. Con­ and works with her husband, Wendell, in the nie is retired, and Chuck is an economist work­ dairy business. Their youngest of four children ing with the United States government and the received All-Maine honors while she was at Brief facts arrived on two class­ International Monetary Fund. She is an elder in the University of Maine • Ethel Bradstreet mates whose names have not ap­ the Presbyterian Church and active in Maney of Amesbury, Mass., is a retired French 3 peared on my 1978-83 checklist women's organizations. Hobbies include golf, teacher and is doing volunteer work in that • A 9news clipping reported that Frances P. gardening, knitting, and crewel. Their summer area. She and her husband, John, have trav­ Loughman Knight retired in June 1983 after home is in Beulah, Mich., where they live from eled to see their children in Iowa, Wisconsin, nearly two decades in the Somerville, Mass., mid-May to mid-October. Recent travels in­ and Florida • Clifford Nelson is retired, and school system. She was honored at a testi­ cluded southern Europe in spring of 1982 • he and his wife, Bunny, have a motorhome monial dinner at the Somerville City Club on Wade S. Hooker, Sr., and wife, Eleanor Tolan and have visited in Idaho, Washington, Califor­ ovember 4. In 1965 she began as switch­ Hooker '36, live at 27 Meadow Lane, #7, nia, and Texas • Ottellie Greely Ward and board operator in the school superintendent's Bridgewater, Mass. They spend winters in the John observed their forty-fifth wedding an­ office and transferred to the elementary South and last winter were in Euless, Tex., near niversary in 1981 . They have a winter home in schools in 1968. She was a charter member of Dallas and close to their daughter and family. St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands • Frank Record the Somerville Association of Educational Wade's hobby is golf. has retired, and he and his wife, Lucille, have Secretaries and is a member of the Massachu­ Class secretary: MARGARET A. WHALEN, 98 toured in California and Oregon. They have setts Association of School Secretaries. She Windsor Ave., Augusta, Maine 04330. two daughters. When the Records wrote, they and her husband, John, live at 177 Powder were living in Carlisle, Mass., and contemplat­ House Road • Melvin Markson and his wife ing a move to New London, .H. • Robert N. visited the Colby campus in July 1983. They Anthony and his wife, Kay, still have their saw many changes after many years of As the year turned and we residence in Waterville Valley, N.H. Bob has absence. He is retired, and they live at 395 40 reached the much-touted 1984, I retired from Harvard Business School and has Porter Lake Drive, Apt. 213, in Springfield, wished I had much more news for given accounting seminars recently in Austra­ Mass. • Helen Carter Guptill wrote also for you. I'm as ever hopeful that you will keep me lia and Mexico and has extensive assignments husband Nat. They are both retired and live in in mind as you live, travel, work, retire or ac­ in Switzerland and Indonesia scheduled. They Yarmouth, Maine, at Box 76, RFD #1 . at is quire grandchildren or spouses. Your class-

THE COLBY ALUM US 33 mates do really want to know • Roger and At last, word from three Water­ union. I hope to see her and Alice before Ruthie Gould Stebbins achieved a dream­ ville classmates! George Beach then • Peter lgarashi is rector of St. Mark's come-true trip of seven months duration. 41 planned to retire in early 1984 Episcopal Church in Waterville. He was They left Hawaii in May and visited friends, and to have time at last for his golf and fishing. formerly professor of New Testament at the relatives, and grandchildren throughout the He and Martha Rogers Beach '42 now hope to University of the South. We should see Peter western states, thence east to visit both see the many people who have been waiting in June • Lowell Barnes is a country doctor in families, and on to Maine where Florence King many years for their visit • It was also great Hiram, Maine. He makes house calls in any Gould '08 had all four of her children together to hear from Paul "Pud" and Marion McArdle kind of weather, day or night. His patients are for the first time in many, many years. In Burnham. Their granddaughter Kimberly his friends and neighbors so he really knows August they left for Europe, where they made (daughter of son Paul, Bowdoin '65, and Nancy them. After medical school in Ohio, he prac­ their headquarters in Milano at the home of Ann Newell Burnham, Colby '65) from Cana­ ticed in that state until 1955, when he re­ son Rob. From there they explored the stota, N.Y., is transferring to Colby as a turned to his native Maine. It's nice to know beauties of the Italian lake country and sophomore from Elmira College in New York there are doctors like Lowell around • I hope trekked into Switzerland, using narrow-gauge • Your correspondent sends you all the best I hear from you out there so I can give one last railroads, funiculars, cable cars, and lake wishes for a glorious spring. newsy column. See you soon! steamers, much of the adventure shared with Class secretary: RUTH (BONNIE) ROBERTS Class secretary: BARBARA BAYLIS PRIMIANO Rob and Kit. Then they traveled eastward to HATHAWAY (Mrs. Henry), 25 Graham St. (Mrs. Wetherell T.), 15 Crossways, Barrington, Rome, Venice, and Athens and homeward via (W.D.), Fitchburg, Mass. 01420. R.I. 02806. Cote d'Azur, Aries, and Paris to London-I've only mentioned a small part of it. Now they're back in the United States, having spent the holidays with both families. I should think they Class secretary: CHRISTINE BRUCE might have grown a little tired of their suit­ SHEA (Mrs. Charles), 1 Springdale Class secretary: Mr. BEVERLY F. cases and that their Honolulu home looked 42 Ave., Wellesley Hills, Mass. BOOTH, 234 Jackson St., Newton good • Isabel Abbott sold her store in Union, 021 81. 45 Center, Mass. 021 59. Maine, and said she doesn't miss it, although she is helping the new owners get started. Time is not heavy on her hands, for she is a Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART trustee of the Union Fair, chairman of the BRAUNMULLER (Mrs. Albert R.), I started the New Year with thank­ Maine Blueberry Festival, and once again 3 115 Lake Rd., Basking Ridge, N.J. 6 fulness that I passed the heart president of the historical society. I bet you 4 07920. tests and wouldn't need the open didn't know that Moxie was invented by a heart4 surgery the doctor thought might be in­ Union man just 100 years ago. If you go to dicated • I am also grateful for the letters Union's raft race, you can have a free Mox­ some of you sent to make ou r column pos­ By the time you read this, another ie • Marjorie Chase Chapman and her hus­ sible • In case you felt you were too busy to winter will be behind us and, one band, looking ahead two or three years, are answer our questionnaire, heed what Jack hopes, you will be making re­ planning their new house for retirement in Ilsley remembers about being busy back in the unio44n plans for our (can you believe it?) for­ Rockport, Maine • Paul '37 and Elizabeth forties: "In four years I finished almost three tieth. I do hope to see many of you in June. "Babs" Walden Palmer are at their winter years of college and one year of medical Let's make an effort for this one • I had a let­ home in Dunedin, Fla., a respite from Waldo­ school, was in the active Army for almost a ter from "Kelly" Louise Callahan Johnson, who boro, Maine • Ruth Hendricks Maren had a year, had six weeks' vacation, crossed the con­ wonderful trip to Greece and the Greek is teaching fifth grade in Weymouth, Mass. She tinent 12 times, and got married-outside of islands this past year. Should she ever disap­ sees Joe '45 and Jackie Nerney Wallace '43 and that not much went on!" Now that all five pear she might be found on the island of Alice Leyh Fisher. She is an avid golfer playing children are on their own, he and Marilyn have Mykonos, living in a windmill. That's the at South Shore Country Club in Hingham, made trips around the globe. Their son Paul sweetest place she's ever seen • I hope this Mass. Her two grandchildren are in Tucson, '73 has just earned his doctorate in education year of 1984 is bringing you much happiness Ariz., so she does not see much of their family. at Northern Illinois University and is teaching and good health. Two of her other sons are in Maryland and adult education at Syracuse University • Class secretary: E. ROBERT BRUCE, 58 Long­ California, and Paul, now back in college, is George Sederquist was with us freshman year view Ave., Watertown, Conn. 06795. nearby. She is definitely coming to our re- until he left for the Navy. Married and living now in southwestern Wisconsin, he describes himself as a work-oholic who does take time out for some occasional trout and salmon fishing. He runs an implement business and is A MANNER OF GIVING ______part owner of a warehouse distributorship that covers all of Wisconsin. He is proud of his five sons and two daughters. George and his wife chaperoned the Purdue Glee Club on a Ma ry Farrell Lacombe memorable three-week jaunt into northern Europe recently. Thank you, George, for not Mary Farrell Lacombe '42, a fo rmer Waterville resident, recently established an en­ forgetting about us • Gil and Hilda Robertson Lyons retired in 1979 to Fountain Hills, Ariz., dowed fund in memory of her husband. The Raymond E. Lacombe Financial Aid Fund, where Hilda is active in the Women's Club, to which she intends to make additional contributions, will assist Waterville area Garden Club, and Herb Society. Their students who have expressed interest in the science of chemistry. daughter Alison is an engineer married to a Now a resident of Webster Groves, Mo., and Fort Pierce, Fla., Mary Lacombe wanted lawyer in Palm Springs, Calif. Daughter Karen to honor her husband and his own wish to repay, in kind, the help that enabled him to and her husband live in Massachusetts and have a son, Christopher. Hilda definitely become a Colby graduate in 1942. Mr. Lacombe had graduated from Waterville High doesn't miss our snow seasons • Audrey School in 1938 and, after Colby, attended St. Louis University and the Washington Dyer Houghton and her husband are also University School of Business Administration. A member of the American Chemical retired but find "for each labor we've been Society, he was associated with the Monsanto Company for 35 years until he retired in retired from, there seem to be two to take its place!" They are living in China, Maine, and en­ 1977. He died in January 1982. joy every moment of activity in church and Colby thanks Mary Farrell Lacombe and will remember Raymond through his named community responsibilities. Their older son scholarship fund, as will the students it assists. and family live nearby. Their daughter is mar-

34 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ried and is in charge of the school reading pro­ (Mrs. john J.), 44 Country Village Lane, Sud­ Elkins in West Virginia. Bev plays the cello in gram in Shroon Lake, N.Y. They manage to bury, Mass. 01776. local symphonies, is a member of the Subur­ visit back and forth quite often. They were ban Symphony and College Club, is chairman planning to fly out to Bismarck, N.D., to see of Union County Child Protection Council, and their fourth grandchild, a girl named is assistant director of Adult School Board. Bev The winter months are easier to Haley • Cloyd Aarseth wrote that on January gets together with jean Bea�champ Johnsrud, take when letters continue to fill 1, 1983, he ended 24 years of producing, 4 8 Tom and Linda Shaw Maguire, and Ann Jen­ my mailbox • Gilbert Taverner directing, and writing The Screen News Digest, nings Taussig. The Ammanns and Taussigs re­ and wife, Bette, live at St. Georges School 1n an educational, current-events film series that cently vacationed in Jamaica • john and Ann Newport, R.I., where Gil is associate chaplain is distributed to 5,000 junior and senior high Jennings Taussig live in Amherst, N.H., and and member of the religious faculty • Anne schools across America. He has established his have four children. Two of their three sons are Harriet Hutchinson Dusty of Wrentham, own audio-visual consulting company called married and have produced three grand­ Mass., does volunteer work in the New Cloyd Aarseth Communications, which pro­ children, with a fourth due in the spring, and England Aquarium Research Laboratory. Her vides treatments, scripts, and productions 1n their daughter just graduated from Bowdoin. husband, George, is a corporate chief engi­ the forms of slide shows, films, and video Last fall, Ann ran a very successful fund raiser neer • Everett Rockwell is an elementary cassettes. He and Joan look forward to travel­ for the Garden Club. A mini-reunion was held school principal in Granville, Mass. He sent me ing and visiting their son Keith, who is a cap­ at Ann's summer place in Wolfeboro, N.H., in a blue ribbon for my efforts-that is called tain in the field artillery at Fort Sill, Okla., and July. Bev Barnett Ammann, Marty Bennett positive reinforcement • Natalie Pretat Ar­ their grandchildren. We hope you will enjoy Headley, Toby Harvey Graf, Jean Shepard nold is a consumer credit manager at Citizens the fruit of your labors, Cloyd. Silva and Jane Pottle Lee '48 attended • Bank and husband, Franklin, is business man­ Class secretary: NORMA TWIST MURRAY Rich�rd Fisch, M.D., is a psychiatrist living in ager at Providence Country Day School • (Mrs. Paul F.), 28 Birdsall St., Winsted, Conn. Woodside, Calif. His wife, Carol, is a horse David Choate wrote from Denver, Colo., that 06098. breeder and trainer. They have two boys and he has formed his own real estate investment two girls. Richard is a member of the Mounted brokerage • Charlie and Libby Hall Cousins Patrol of San Mateo County. Since they do now live year-round on the ocean in Duxbury, To catch you up on past happen­ search and rescue operations for the sheriff's Mass. • Congratulations to Marguerite jack ings you might have missed, the department, he is also a special deputy sheriff. 4 7 Robinson, who sent news of her first story Class of '58 started a Bill and His latest book came out in 1982, and he is publication. "Indian Cellar on the Saco-Hollis" Mardie Bradley Bryan Scholarship Fund at Col­ continuing research and writing on "brief appeared in Bittersweet, a magazine for by last June with a whopping $103,000-the psychotherapy." Richard says he has become a _ southwestern Maine • Aaron "Sandy" Sandler _ largest reunion gift ever. This is a real tribute sort of farmer living in a semi-rural area in the is vice president of Wolverine Knitting Mills, to Bill '48 and to the memory of his wife, a foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains • Bay City, Mich. • Elaine Browning Townsley "joyous and loving person," who lost her bat­ _ Robert McNaught and his wife, Lorraine, are in owns a small craft shop in Laconia, .H. • tle to cancer more than a year ago • Now for Victorville, Calif. Bob retired in 1980 and said Janet Gay Hawkins, living in Plandome, N.Y., is some Christmas notes from Colbyites. Louise they still have only seven children, who have president of Visiting Home Health Services of _ given them nine grandchildren. Their recent Kelley Rochester wrote from Lighthouse Point, assau County and travels with her attorney travels have taken them to Hawaii, Mexico Fla., that "we sailed and motored down the husband, Harman, when he serves on interna­ City, and Alaska. He says they visit Las Vegas 1580+ miles in five and one-half weeks. We tional juries for yachting events • Anne several times a year and plan to travel to the found the inland waterway most spectacular Fraser Baer lives in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, Bahamas soon to see a daughter and son-in­ and unspoiled. Back to Duxbury, Mass., for the where husband "Bugs" Baer is general man­ summer" • Dorie Meyer Hawkes noted that law. Bob plays golf and is a member of the ager of Caltex Oil Tanzania, Limited • Janet she now has a granddaughter as well as three . Kiwanis Club and the California School Ad­ Bowmar Reynolds is a psychotherapist in grandsons, while Carol Carpenter Bisbee '49 ministrators Association • Marjorie Plaisted private practice in Leominster, Mass. • Burt reported that she had five granddaughters and has retired from teaching physical education Krumholz, M.D., Roslyn, N.Y., 1s associate three grandsons and one more due to arrive and social studies and lives in Brewer, Maine. chairman of the department of obstetrics and shortly. Congratulations to you both • Mar­ She enjoys team and individual sports, both as gynecology at Long Island Jewish Hillside Med­ garet "Peg" Horsch Lightbod '48 wrote from a participant and a fan. Marge is a member of � ical Center, New Hyde Park, and teaches at Guilford, Maine, that Harry 1s still. very busy the local recreational volleyball league. She the state university at Stony Brook. Last fall he doctoring but has found an assistant and can devotes most of her "spare" time to caring for Jed a delegation of physicians to t�e People's now begin to think about retirement, as we all . elderly family and friends • Sid McKeen is Republic of China • Harvey Koiz1m_ 1s presi­ are • Roberta Young wrote from Dalton, editorial page editor of the Worcester dent of County Federal Savings and Loan Asso­ Telegra m and Gazette and lives in West Mass., that she planned to spend the holida�s ciation in Westport, Conn., and president of in Florida with her sister Mary. She had a v1s1t Boylston, Mass. He has a weekly radio com­ the Shubert Performing Arts Center • Allan mentary on WTAG, Worcester, in addition to with Nancy Burbank Allured in late _summe�. Sarner of Dallas, Tex., is a manufacturer's Jon has retired, and they were enioying a v1s1t writing a humor column for the Worcester representative. Al wrote that Phil Shulman to the Berkshires • Dot Briggs Aronson sent Sunday Telegram and four other newspapers. recently returned from a trip to Mongolia an? her usual artistic card, catching us up on the His wife, Jackie, was elected to the school Peking • Evelyn Helfant Malkin does psychi­ doings and movings of her family. She noted committee after retiring from teaching. She is atric social work in the oncology unit at Massa­ also coauthor of the book Reading is that she did not have time to move "between chusetts General Hospital • Frances Hyde Everyone's Bag. They have two children, Jeff curating Dedham and Medfield, Mass., Stephan is in the men's clothi g business in � 76 and Lisa, Smith College 79. By now, Jeff historical societies and teaching" • Dana and Framingham, Mass. Congratulations to Frannie and his wife should have produced Sid's first Harriet Nourse Robinson were full of good for a hole-in-one at Bald Peak, N.H. • Keep grandchild. The McKeens are looking for a travel suggestions for my trip last summer, the letters coming; too much news is a prob­ . shorefront vacation and retirement home 1n which included 17 days in Mainland China, a lem I enjoy having to solve. midcoast Maine • Last year Ruth Endicott fantastic adventure. Anyone who visits m� in Class secretary: VIRGINIA BREWER FOLINO Freeman was honored at a testimonial dinner the near future will be treated to a slide (Mrs. Francis R.), R.D. #1, Box 613, Grand Isle, show • The South Central Massachusetts for her dedicated and selfless service to her Vt. 05458. Colby Alumnae Association met at my house community, patients, and friends. Ruth lives in . for a luncheon and Christmas fair to raise Ogunquit, Maine, and is on the staff of York Hospital. She and her husband, Miles, have money for the college. We raised al_most $200 and had fun in the bargain. Anyone 1n the area Beverly Barnett Ammann lives in two daughters. Congratulations, Ruth! • is welcome to join us at any of our four 4 9 Cranford, N.J., where she is a Don't forget that our thirty-fifth reunion is this meetings each year. Classes from '39 to '59 are social worker, and her husband, June! See you all there. strongly represented • Keep notes coming to Chick, is a foreign tax accountant. Th�y have Class secretary: JANET PRIDE DAVIS (Mrs. me so I can keep the column interesting. two children, a married daughter with two Richard W.), 49 Pilgrim Rd., Wellesley, Mass. Class secretary: ELIZABETH WADE DRUM children and a son who is a senior at Davis and 02181.

THE COLBY ALUMNUS 35 Mc INTYRE'S RECREATION COMPETITIVE SWIMMING_ many book fairs, trafficking in old books. Harland is a retired diplomat who served as consul general in Tangier. He lives in Spring­ When Joan Cammann Mc lntyre '51 was vale, Maine • Phil Bies lives in Massapequa at Colby, there was no indoor swimming Park, N.Y., and is the president of New York pool; but if she craved a swim, she would Medical Malpractice Association. He took ear­ take a dip in Johnson Pond. A recre­ ly retirement at age 55 when the executive of­ ational swimmer since age six, Mc l ntyre fices of his former company were transferred to Detroit. He and his wife, Ronnie, have four did not compete in the sport until 10 children and two grandchildren • Ray Reich years ago. Then she became involved in is chief of internal medicine at Holy Cross New England Masters, a swimming group Hospital in Chicago, Ill. He said he is a rotten that, as she described it, "ranges from golfer, a rotten bowler, and an even worse those people who just want some spice tennis player. He and his wife, Carol, have in their exercise to those who take it quite seven children • Bob Reid lives in Salem, seriously." Mass. He is the director of sales financing for Mc lntyre's motivation fa lls somewhere Honeywell. Over the last 30 years, he has • between these two extremes. Describing lived in most parts of the United States herself as a competitive person, she Richard #Heels" Beal lives in Gladwyne, Pa., with his spouse, Peggy. They have four chil­ maintained that competitive swimming dren. Dick is the director and managing part­ gives her a reason to keep exercising: "I ner of the "Marketing Department." He deals get bored with exercise as such, and I with marketing, advertising, public relations, need an incentive to swim. It's also a and corporate and bank newsletters. He has a social thing, and everyone is very sup­ place in Squam Lake, N.H., and he plans to portive." With members 25 and older, have this as his permanent home shortly • the group schedules workouts several We're starting to run low on news. Please ti mes a week and holds small meets once drop a note telling how you are doing, as the rest of your classmates would like to hear. a month. "Once or twice a year there's a Class secretaries: ROBERT E. CANNELL, 2 big meet," she added. Robinhood Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 A mother of four, including Carol C. and CHARLES S. MclNTYRE, 27 Elm St., Marble­ Mc lntyre-Peale '76, the swimmer man­ head, Mass. 01945. aged to juggle a number of responsibili­ ties while her children were growing up. Now that only the youngest remains at Spring is in the air, and I am sure home with Charles '51 and Joan Mc lntyre 2 that most of us are happy that in Marblehead, Mass., she continues to winter has passed. I had a good teach swimming and to work as a life­ response5 to the class questionnaire, but I am guard year-round. She also coaches the always interested in hearing from those of you swim team at St. John's Preparatory who have not gotten around to answering • Louise Ginsberg Hirshberg School in Danvers. yet is on the move again. She lives in Berkeley, Calif., and is attending John F. Kennedy University, pursu­ Joan Ca mmann Mc /ntyre '5 1 KJC ing a degree in holistic counseling. If you are close by, she would love to hear from you • Dave Lynn and Sara have settled in Stamford, Conn., and Dave is in the banking business. Class secretary: ALAN E. SILBER­ Stuart retired last summer from Black and Son Dave is an ensign in the Navy, and Doug is MAN, 769 Rockrimmon Rd., Decker, for which he had worked ever since at Oregon State. Our Dave's job takes him all Stamford, Conn. 06903. college. After traveling around the country for over the world; he logged 100,000 flyingmiles 50 a while, he is going to go into business for last year alone • Anne Plowman Stevens himself on a limited basis • We recently had wrote from Doylestown, Pa., that she is a a downeast hockey tournament here in Port­ member of the board of the Bucks County land. It was nice to see Danny Hall and Ralph Symphony and plays in the orchestra. She and Warren Finegan called the Can­ Bailey '52. They stayed overnight with "Colby husband, Bob, have four children and one nell household the night before I Jack" '55 and Ann Burnham Deering '55 at their grandson • Betsy Fisher Kearney and her hus­ 51 wrote this column to tell me the Falmouth Foreside "Sheraton" • Paul Poulin band, Harry, still live in Birmingham, Ala., after trustees' decision to abolish fraternities and has been elected a trustee of the First Con­ 29 years. They took a recent trip to Australia. sororities. I was not surprised, but saddened. sumer's Savings Bank in Augusta. Paul has Their two children have grown up and flown The fraternity was such an important and fun been Augusta City Manager since 1964 • Or­ the coop • Ev and Faith Devol Gross '54 have part of my life at Colby. I hope they made the monde Brown, 1983 Pendleton Salesman of three daughters, all married, and one grand­ right decision • Overseer Clifford #Bump" the Year, has opened his own Pendleton shop, son. They summer in Searsport, Maine, and Bean recently chaired a committee that stud­ called "Tartans and Plains," in Woodmere, plan to retire there. Ev has been teaching in ied Colby's development structure. This was Ohio. If you live in the Cleveland area, please the same school for 29 years! He even has his second such assignment as an overseer, as drop in • Bob Sloane decided he would children of former students in his classes. Gol­ he helped evaluate the administrative science become a writer when he grew up. He was in ly, that's old • Tony Hall lives in Venice, department three years ago • Mark Mordecai his forties at the time and at the end of a Calif., and has had a big year. He was in spent a weekend at our house in December to teaching career in Hewlett, N.Y. Since then, he England in December and has started his own participate in a senior tennis tournament. has written many books. His first one was A video production company-Chimera Produc­ Naturally, he won it. He is the number-one Nice Place to Live, which he describes as a tions • Pete and Elin "Chris" Christenson amateur tennis player over 50 in New England. mystery, horror chiller. This was followed by a Honsberger live in Decatur, Ala., where Chris Semi-retired, he teaches tennis and skiing and sequel, The Vengeance • A nice article in the teaches second grade and Pete is with Baker dabbles in real estate with his financier, Bob Bangor Daily News concerned Harland Industries, a division of Sonoco. Their three Roth. His lovely wife, Eddie Miller Mordecai Eastman, who is president of Maine Anti­ children are grown and they have one grand­ '52, is studying for her doctor's degree • Ned quarian Book Sellers. He has helped organize son and another expected soon • Hotchkiss

36 THE COLBY ALUM US School gladly hails one of ou r own as head­ highlight of Nancy Moyer Conover's year. Her called me while she was in New Jersey at master. Arthur W. White was acting head­ daughters are all students: one each at the Thanksgiving. I am sorry to have missed seeing master until Hotchkiss trustees unanimously University of Massachusetts, the University of her. She, Barbara Ayers Haslam, and Sue Stutts appointed him permanent headmaster in Bath (England), and Penn State • Jean Cressy did have an opportunity to meet for lunch December • Caroline Wilkins McDonough Barker's husband, Elliott, has a new job as tax with two of their daughters • Sue Stutts also and husband, Dick, have two out of college, assessor for the town of Greenfield, Mass. • heard from lee Culver Johnson, who is still liv­ including Lisa '80. There is still one to go. Joan and William Ames have Joined the ranks ing in Washington State; Dottie Dunn North­ Caroline and Lisa are both active in local of first-time grandparents, courtesy of Emily, cott, who lives in Wilton, Conn., and Barbara theater, and Caroline is very enthusiastic who was one-year-old at Christmas time. Bill Burg King, who is in Northampton, Mass. Bar· about her appointment as head agent for class was elected to his tenth term on the North­ bara and Frank are now proud grandparents giving. You will be hearing from her • That is ampton, Mass., City Council last fall • Diane and also owners of a houseboat, which they it for now, but there will be more in the next Chamberlin Starcher continues her world use on the Connecticut River • In 1983 John edition. travels, having embarked from her home in Dutton and his wife, Jane, and daughter, Julie, Class secretary: DONALD G. HAILER, 28 France on trips to the Virgin Islands, spent a beautiful summer touring the British Forest Rd., Glen Rock, N.J. 07452. Switzerland, and the United States last year. Isles and Germany. In Germany, they visited She teaches neighborhood classes in English their son, John, who is stationed there with and Baha'i classes for children • William and the Air Force. Rumor has it that John, Sr., Rosemary •Penny" Thresher Edson have visited Colby last October. Is it also a rumor Business, or at least businessmen, moved from Florida back to Santa Ana, Calif., that he and Bob Thurston '54 met on the hand­ • 5 3 dominate the scene this time where Penny has returned to teaching. ball court? The Staples had reason to cele­ around. Springfield, Mass., resi­ Another company has taken over the manned brate this Christmas. Our oldest son, Selden, dent Franklin King Ill has been elected a cor- space-launch operations handled for 22 years and Donna Dornbach, of Phoenixville, Pa ., an­ porator of the Springfield Institution for Sav· by Bill's company, Rockwell, so Bill has new nounced their engagement. The wedding 1s ings. Frank is president and treasurer of King responsibilities. The Edsons saw Frank '53 and planned for September 8, and we are looking and Cushman Insurance, holds an M.B.A. from Judy Jenkins Totman, William "Super"Ganem , forward to it • We are also looking forward the Wharton School of Business, University of Chuck '57 and Joyce Frazier Fraser '56, and to June 1985. Yes, it will be our thirtieth re­ Pennsylvania, and is chairman of the board of Robert Fraser in Boston, Mass., last spring, and union! We hope many of you plan to attend. trustees of Look Memorial Park, a trustee of aomi Jennison Noice '51 in Florida • Sophie Class secretary: SUE BIVEN STAPLES (Mrs. the People's Institute, and a member of the Hadjigeorgiou Krallis and family vacationed Selden c.), 430 Lyons Rd., Liberty Corner, .J. orthampton Rotary Club • Philip W. Hus­ last year in Tu rkey and on the island of Samos. 07938. sey, Jr., president of Hussey Manufacturing Her daughters are studying in England, one at Company in orth Berwick, Maine, has been the University of Bath and one at the Universi­ elected chairman of Associated Industries of ty of Sussex • Art and I had a brief, impromp­ Janet Nordgren Meryweather has Maine and vice chairman of the larger and tu visit last fall with Mary Belden Williams and 5 6 been quite busy since graduation. newly formed Maine Chamber of Commerce Gordon on their dairy farm; Mary is still teach­ She has raised three stepchildren and Industry. Phil not only heads the Hussey ing at the Clarke School in Northampton, who are now grown; the oldest boy is a facilities in orth Berwick; Grand Rapids, Mass., and keeping up with four children. And Marine and married, one a avy man on a Mich.; and Toronto, Ont., but he also serves believe it or not, Art and I bumped into John T. nuclear fast-attack sub in Hawaii, and another as president and director of subsidiaries: King and his wife in the midst of the First ight in the women's division of the Marines sta· Hussey Molding of Manchester, .H., and ( ew Year's Eve) festivities in Boston, Mass. tioned at Parris Island, S.C. Her three children Hussey Seating Systems (Europe, Limited), Jack and Helen have moved into the city from are students, one married and at the Universi· Rotherham, England • Alice Colby-Hall re­ Wellesley, Mass. • Joan Hall Parker is staff ty of Maine along with the second. The ported from academia that she had "nothing development specialist for the Massachusetts youngest of the clan 1s at the University of particularly exciting or grandiose to report" Department of Education. Wisconsin's school of physical therapy after a and then went on to mention her busy teach­ Class secretary: BARBARA GUERNSEY EDDY year as an exchange student in France. Janet's ing schedule at Cornell, the book in progress (Mrs. C. Arthur), Box 198, RFD 1, Lincoln City husband, Steen, retired early due to complica· (on Old French and Old Occitan epic litera· Rd., Salisbury, Conn. 06068. t1ons following back surgery. Janet remains ac· ture), and her trips to France, Canada, and ttve with the Bangor Symphony, the Garden various spots in the United States • Better get Club Federation of Maine, and her part-time some news to me, people, or next time I'll tell job at the Mount Desert Island Biological you all about my latest visits with Marty Classmates, I am writing this letter Laboratory • Russ Nahigian, a mathematician Friedlaender, Ginny Falkenbury Murphy, and 5 5 after the 1983 Christmas holidays. with the United States Department of Trans­ Loretta "Tommi" Thompson Staples. What news I have is gleaned from portation and a computer specialist, also runs Class secretary: CAROLYN ENGLISH BEANE, 8 Christmas cards, a conversation with Sue his own business, Personal Potential, at home. Arizona Terrace -#5, Arlington, Mass. 02174. Capen Stutts, who lives nearby, and calls to Those who would like their computerized my roommates, Ruth McDonald Roberts and astrological horoscope done may contact Russ Alice Beale Gleason • Alice was not home in Arlington, Mass., where he and his wife live. the night I called her in West Simsbury, Conn., Two of their three children are now in col­ C. Freeman Sleeper will resign his but I had a pleasant talk with Bob Gleason. He lege • We are envious of Harry and Lyn 5 4 position as vice president and sees Ainsworth Minot Greene often, since Brooks Wey's trip to New Zealand • Ann dean of Roanoke (Ya.) College at they work at the same bank. The Gleasons' Lowery became acting dean of White Plains the end of this school year to return to full­ oldest son, Bob, is now living in California, College near Derry, N.H. Ann had been a time teaching in the college's department of where Bob and Alice spent five days with him school teacher and a director of school library religion and philosophy. Before taking up his in ovember. Their younger son, Tom, is living programs with extensive experience in cur· teaching duties, he will take a six-month sab· at home and is a helicopter pilot • David and riculum development, project writing, and stu­ batical leave to catch up on his reading, do Ruth McDonald Roberts already have one dent services. She is a charter member of an research in university libraries, and finish daughter, Susan '86, at Colby. In September international honorary society for women writing a book that deals with violence from their younger daughter, Linda, will become educators and the National Association of the Christian perspective. He and Sue Johnson the eleventh member of their combined fami· Academic Affairs Administrators • George Sleeper toured Bavaria and Austria last lies to attend Colby. That must be some kind Rudolph is president of Rudolph and Wren year • Mary Hitch Bowles wrote from Wis­ of record! Ruth told me there was a "mini­ Associates in Burlington, Mass. He and Patricia consin that her five children are now scattered reunion" of the Class of 1955 at the Congrega­ have a son at the University of Massachusetts from Tacoma, Wash., to the ortheast. tional Church in Waterville. While she and and two children graduated and working in "Mahay'' herself is still busy with the school David were visiting the church fair, they met sales, one with Hewlett Packard and one with board, 4·H, and farming • A week of cross­ Jean Van Curan Pugh, Anne Burbank Palmer, 128 Electric • Arline Berry Julia wrote of her country skiing in Norway last winter was a and Joanne Bailey Anderson • Jo Anderson refreshingly different life as a farmer in Maine.

THE COLBY AL M 'US 37 TRACY EARNS FULL PROFESSORSHIP

"I so much love the process of teaching that I don't even mind teaching freshman com­ position," said Ann B. Tracy '62. A member of the English faculty at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh since 1970 and now department chairperson, Tracy was re­ cently promoted to full professor. Although Tracy is a Gothic-novel scholar, she teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels and Renaissance prose and poetry. She was especially ex­ cited about her newest class, an introduction to modern drama. "It's a treat, and I'm im­ mersing myself in what I love," she commented. Tracy has published several books: Pat­ terns of Fear in the Gothic Novel, 1790-1830, The Gothic Novel, 1790-1830.· Plot Sum­ maries and Index to Motifs, and Romantic Resolutions, of which she is coauthor. If Tracy receives a sabbatical for next year, she will temporarily leave the realm of isolated female protagonists, haunted settings, and the supernatura l. Using the Colby ar­ chives for her primary research, she said that she will conduct a socio-historical study of Higgins Classical Institute, a Maine preparatory school that she considers noteworthy for the egalitarian values it fostered. The boarding school, of which her father was head­ master from 1917 to 1948, went bankrupt in the 1970s. "No knowledge should disap­ pear. If something existed, then people should know about it," she declared, explaining the impetus for the study. Tracy, who holds a master's degree from Brown University and a doctorate from the University of Toronto, mentioned that it was first at Colby that she "could get away with being eccentric." Still priding herself on being somewhat unusual, the Plattsburgh resi­ dent keeps a printing press in her cellar and makes everything from posters to cards. In addition, she recently finished creating her own Gothic novel, Winter Hunger, a horror story about cannibalism. When interviewed, she was seeking a publisher for it.

Ann B. Tracy '62 KJC

She and John have sold their cows but are Nineteen Eighty-four has finally ar­ is "Drugs for Guns-The Bulgarian Connection" growing corn to sell at their farm market. The 8 rived, and Big Brother just may be • What is this I hear about Judy Hince Squire Julias have raised five children; two have watching you unless you have re­ being given proofreading credit in a New York finished college, one still in, and two are at turned5 the questionnaire recently mailed. If Times publication? It's a great record-keeping home. The oldest is admissions coordinator at our leaky mailbox is full enough, a class letter book for all you grandparents to purchase for Andover Business College in Portland, Maine. will be along soon • Archie Twitchell missed your wee ones • Having recently returned You may have seen him on their TV commer­ our reunion, but I had an interesting conversa­ from a weekend which included encounters cial in the Down East area. What with raising tion with his wife, Dorie. Archie deserves con­ with Norman and Charlotte Clifton Lee '61, cows, children, and now corn, Arline hasn't gratulations on earning his doctorate in public John and AndriaPeacock Kime, Bob and Beryl had much time to get to her painting • management. He's accomplished this with two Scott Glover, Bob and Lynne D'Amico McKee, Carolyn Moore Hutchins is living in Milford, teenagers in the house and while owner of a and a phone call to Bob and Mary Ann "Kuda" Mich., and works as a teacher's aide. Her hus­ consulting firm specializing in the use of com­ Stetson Bates, it is fresh in my mind just how band is an automotive development engineer puters in such places as Kingston, Jamaica. He inimitable the Class of 1958 really is. at General Motors Proving Grounds for Cadil­ must have scheduled those business trips dur­ Class secretary: LOIS MUNSON MEGATHLIN, lac Motor Car. They are raising five children: ing the winter or mud-season! • Joe Con­ 20 Ledgewood Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine one at graduate school, two others in college, solino was also missed at reunion but his wife, 04107. one working, and one in high school. Carolyn Carolyn Evans Consolino '61, says only his be­ would like to get her master's degree in ing in Texas at that time kept him away • It's special education now that her nest is empty­ good to have Kay Litchfield Cross nearby in The infamous 1984 has arrived! ing • Joanna McCurdy Brunso is a senior South Portland, Maine. For you football fans 9 Twenty-five years ago at our grad­ transportation analyst with the New York State out there, please note that son Justin, Jr., plays 5 uation, Dr. Bixler made reference Department of Transportation in Albany, hav­ offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills. He's #63. to the great distinction our class had in that ing received a master's degree in civil engi­ Basketball seems to be the sport for two more our 25th reunion would fall in this year and neering from the University of Washington. of Kays young adults. Jeff, a 6'1 0'' center for that we would attend reunion with Big Brother Her husband, Jorgen, is an engineer with Gen­ the University of Maine at Orono, was player watching us. I'm not sure that Big Brother has eral Electric. Torkild is married and stationed in of the year in the ECAC last season and re­ been invited, but the rest of us are, and I, for Germany with the United States Army Corps ceived All-American honorable mention. Not one, am really looking forward to it • In the of Engineers. Erik is in chemical engineering at to be outdone, daughter Kaye '84 sparks our meantime, news of our class includes Mary the University of Maine, and Corm is finishing own Colby women's team. Kay tells me Ginny Martin Hargraves, an artist whose work was high school. Joanna suggests a party in New Angney Bushee's daughter is employed in the featured at the Deer Isle Artists Association York City for all of us within driving distance. Portland, Maine, area, which makes a great ex­ last summer. She is a lecturer and instructor at the Rowayton Arts Center in Rowayton, Any response? cuse for her to visit • Others in the area are Conn., serving also as a member of the board Class secretary: JUDITH PENNOCK LILLEY Willie McDonald Sawyer and Phil Guiles. and former president of the center. Mary was (Mrs. Albert F.), 180 Lincoln Ave., Ridgewood, Willie has devoted long hours to a committee N.J. 07450. working for proper wastewater disposal in her formerly on the staff of the Museum of town of Falmouth, Maine. Phil lives in Yar­ Modern Art in New York City and was on the mouth and can be seen conserving fuel by us­ faculty of the Northern Conservatory of Music Class secretary: MARILYN PERKINS ing his motorcycle • Nate Adams, a senior in Bangor • Merriwell Tieche Shelton of Far­ CANTON (Mrs. Richard), 2731 editor at Reader's Digest must have had a mingdale, Maine, has been promoted to gen­ Sherbrook, Shaker Heights, Ohio fascinating and dangerous time researching his eral manager of operations at Gove Toyota in 5 7 441 22. article in the November 1983 issue. The topic Augusta. He has worked in automotive sales in

38 THE COLBY AL M S the Augusta area since 1966 and was the first The Dyers have moved from our own boss and the discipline 1t takes to be a executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance 6,000-square-foot elephant to a self-starter, after being a psychiatric social of Maine • Boyd Sands is one of five manageable, modern, ranch-type, worker in the Boston, Mass., area for 15 years. members recently selected to serve on the ex­ about60 half a mile from the old house. Its a She welcomes visitors for purposes of friend­ ecutive committee of the ational Federation pleasant place for two adults and four children ship, business, or both • Pat and Jock of Interscholastic Coaches and Officials. He is who only drop in for a day or two at a time. Knowles (otherwise known as Jonathan R. and currently superintendent of Delsea Regional I'm pleased; Cal has reservations • Ralph Caroline Walker Knowles) are in Rehoboth, High School in Franklin, N.J. He has held the Galante and his wife live in Sparta, N.J. He is a Mass. Jock is a stockbroker, finds it challeng­ position since 1971 and has been with the captain with American Airlines, loves travel­ ing, exciting, and "sometimes" lucrative. He school district in an administrative capacity for ing, and is enthusiastic about his pay and time complains that he doesn't get paid vacations. the past 17 years • Sally Phelan Mcintosh has off. He has two sons, Michael, in international He is retired as a commander in the Naval entered graduate school in computer pro­ business, and Mark, an entrepreneur. His Reserveafter 22 years. Pat works as a salesper­ graming, which she says should help her with daughter, Lauren, is in nutrition. He recently son in a women's dress boutique. Jon, Jr., 22, is her job in circulation at the library of Lehigh saw Ken Nigro while flying a charter flight from a fifth-year architecture student at Rhode University in Bethlehem, Pa. She is also active New York City to Baltimore • Connie Maheu Island School of Design. Amy, 20, was "looking in the Episcopal Church on local and national Armstrong is busy restoring a 301-year-old for work." Callie and Sarah are in high levels, "mostly as a social lobbyist and house in Scituate, Mass. She is also a produc­ school • Many thanks to those who com­ peacenik." Jim Mcintosh is chairman of the tion assistant in a publishing company, five pleted the questionnaire, especially class­ sociology department at Lehigh and is active minutes from home. She enjoys the challenge mates we haven't heard from in a while. I'd in district politics • Gary Dean, son of Al '58 of more responsibilities and new goals. Her love to hear from more of you. Please note and Kay German Dean, is a recent graduate of husband is in sales. Daughter Emily, 14, enjoys the new address below. Lehigh and lived last fall with the Mclntoshes gourmet cooking and sketching. Son Robbie, Class secretary: MARGARET BARNES DYER before settling in the Philadelphia area • Gail 9, likes karate and woodworking • Nancy (Mrs. Calvin R.), 139 Woodbine Dr., Terre Kaplan is an elementary school teacher on the Shoemaker Dargie has managed to fill an Haute, Ind. 47803. Lower East Side of New York City. She is also a 11-room Victorian house in Romulus, .Y .• licensed guidance counselor and, at this with seven children ("all mine"). Nancy works writing, is waiting to be appointed on that as a secretary at Seneca Army Depot. Her Class secretary: SUSAN DETWILER license (secondary and elementary school). oldest, Susan, 18, is a freshman at the Universi­ GOODALL (Mrs. William L.), 88 She enjoys folk dancing and is happy to return ty of Maine. The others are Jennifer, 16; Robin, Heald Rd., Carlisle, Mass. 01741. to that pastime after a year's hiatus resulting 15; Erika, 10; Nancy, 9; Betsy, 7; and Jeffrey, 6, 61 from a back ailment. Gail says she is looking her only boy • Arthur D. Calfee opened his forwardto reunion also • Fantastic plans are own independent insurance agency three Class secretary: PATRICIA being laid for May 31-June 3 by our reunion years ago in Falmouth, Mass. He is married uPATCH" JACK MOSHER (Mrs. Ar­ committee: Ed Tomey, Donald Megathlin, and has five children: Davidson, 5; Michael, 7; thur L.), 226 Pleasant St., Pem­ Jane Spokesfield Ayer, Carol Jelinek Barnard, Jill, 20, who graduated from Lasell in 1983; 62 broke, Mass. 02359. Kay German Dean, Nancy Thompson Fearing, Craig, 21, at Pratt Institute; and Joe, 24, a Bill Foehl, Don Freeman, Ed Goldberg, Jean "working stiff." The Calfees are active in the Smith Hummel, Gregory MacArthur, Katherine community with garden club, church, yacht Greetings to all of you! The alum­ Kies Madden, Cynthia Crockett Mendelson, club, and other commitments_ He ran and ni office is sending questionnaires and myself (in absentia). It promises to be an won an election for town-meeting member 3 to each of you, but they are being unforgettable weekend. See you then! and then learned there was no open­ staggered6 so that the information received is Class secretary: MARY TWISS KOPCHAINS ing • Mary Elizabeth Shesong'59 also has her as current as possible. Thanks to those who (Mrs. Robert W.), 4 Kyle Rd., Somerset, N.J. own real estate agency in orth Sebago, have already responded; its great to hear 08873. Maine. She loves the creativity of being her from you! If you think the questionnaire is too

"POSITIVELY BLACK" FEATURES MARQUEZ ON STRESS ______

Do people in the lower class or the middle class suffer more stress? Camilo Marquez '63, M.D., addressed this and other questions in a special television feature, "Stress in the Black Community," broadcast in ovember on BC's "Positively Black." Conceding that that middle-class Americans are subject to frustration because they tend to operate under high expectations from society, Marquez nonetheless argued that "stress is ex­ perienced disproportionally among the poor." Blacks, he pointed out, are especially prone to tension, not only because they must deal with racism, but because they fre­ quently have low socioeconomic status. "To cope [with stress] many resort to alcohol or drugs," he continued. A patient of psychotherapy himself, Marquez emphasized that stress is a normal prob­ lem and that no one should be embarrassed to seek professional assistance in dealing with it "One does not have to wait for a crisis before going to seek help from a profes­ sional," he said. Currendy chief of inpatient psychiatry at Harlem's orth General Hospital, Marquez supervisesthe detoxification unit. "We regularly see people come back. At times it's a bit like a revolving door," he said in a telephone interview. However, he added, "When people come in, they get a treatment for their whole system, [health] education, and a chance to reorganize their lives. There can be a cumulative effect the sixth or seventh time they come in, they might be ready to stop." The perspectives Marquez brings to psychiatry are influenced by other parts of his for­ mal education, including his government major at Colby and graduate work in economics.

KJC Camilo Marquez '6 3

THE COLBY AL MNUS 39 bizarre, just send me a note • Life at the Mark your cc.lendarsfor our twen­ Buller is vice president of finance and planning Johnson house is busy. I teach in a senior high 4 tieth reunion, June 1-3! • Anthony for Pfaudler Corporation. Following 13 years special education program, after spending 6 Goodchild was appointed to the with General Electric, Claude joined Pfaudler 1982-83 on sabbatical leave, studying at the board of trustees of the Brookwood School in in 1978 as group executive of the Sybron Pro­ University of Minnesota. My children are 16 Manchester, Mass. • Judy Fassett Aydelott cess Equipment group. He lives in Pittsford, and 10. We head for Lisbon Falls and Popham and her husband, Pete, are owners and opera­ N.Y., with his wife, Carolyn, and their three Beach, Maine, each summer for our vaca­ tors of WLTN radio station in Littleton, N.H. children • David Begg is affiliated with Har­ tion • I loved every minute of our reunion They have two children and also have ex­ vard Medical School, where he is doing re­ last June. Pat Ey Ingraham, Al Carville, and I change students from Australia and France. search in cell biology in the laboratory of made the representation from Lisbon High 100 Judy is very active in the American Cancer human reproduction and reproductive biolo­ percent. Pat and Jack Ingraham have a great Society • Alan "Dusty" and Sarah Shaw gy, which is part of the department of summer home in Osterville, Mass., on Cape Rhoades are building the foundation to launch anatomy. After graduation from Colby, he Cod, which we visited • Al and Sally Page two children on to college and beyond. They completed work on his master's and Ph.D. at Carville '64 have a 36-foot sailboat on Casco are still located in Virginia Beach, Va. Dusty is the University of Pennsylvania and then held a Bay. We felt fortunate to take an evening still with the Navy and holds the rank of lieu­ post-doctoral fellowship at the University of cruise with them, renewing old acquaintances. tenant commander • Another member of Virginia • John "Ned" and Lynne Urner Baxter They are great sailors besides! • We also the armed services, L TC Paul Tessier, is have moved to Moorpark, Calif. Ned was visited with everybody's favorite friend, Bill located at Fort Devens, Mass. Pau l and wife, transferred to the Oxnard, Calif., office of Bryan '48. The stories he remembers! • A last Sandra, have four children and enjoy the many SYSCON, where he is involved in developing stop was in Hallowell, Maine, to see the new opportunities to collect antiques and attend computer-based training courses, as well as home that Sam and Cathy McConnell Webber auctions in the New England area • Marcia being the security officer. Lynne is working for were building. It is now complete, and makes Phillips Sheldon and husband, John '63, are liv­ a local law firm. Cathy's drive to her job at Central Maine ing in Plantation, Fla. In addition to raising their Class secretary: JOAN COPITHORNE Power a whole lot easier • Now for news two children, Marcia is worki ng as a special BOWEN (Mrs. Richard H.), 11 Fox Run Rd., that you have sent me: Bruce Swerling is presi­ education teacher. Also, she was a contestant Bedford, Mass. 01730. dent of the Massachusetts Association of in the Orange Bowl Marathon • Nancy Green Public Insurance Adjusters and serves on the King lives in Kensington, Md., with her hus­ board of directors of the National Association band, Casey, and their four children. She is an of Public Insurance Adjusters. Last May, Bruce acquisitions librarian at the Library of Congress Class secretary: JAN ATHERTON was appointed 1983 outing chairman for the National Library Servicefor the Blind. Nancy is COX (Mrs. Thomas A.), 115 Businessmen's Council of the Combined very much involved in folk music in the Wash­ 66 Woodville Rd., Falmouth, Maine Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston • ington area • Jon Michael Vore is a physician 04105. Charlie Carey made the newspapers twice: in full-time practice as an allergist/pediatrician once for a fa mily reunion which he and Pam in Amherst, N.H. Jon and wife, Estelle, have Plumb Carey '65 attended along with 80 three children. They enjoy traveling, skiing, relatives in Swansea, Mass., and the other and mountain climbing as family activi­ Class secretary: SALLY RAY BEN­ when Charlie was named executive vice presi­ • ties Peggy Miller is in Farmington, Conn., NETI (Mrs. Charles K.), 47 West dent of Fleet National Bank in Providence, R.I. 7 where she is a school psychologist working 6 St., East Greenwich, R.I. 02818. He is responsible for all the corporation's with elementary and preschool children. Ten­ secured lending and asset-based financial ac­ nis and raising golden retriever puppies are tivities. He lives in Cumberland, R.I., with his pastimes for Peggy • Rockville, Md., is home • Richard Varney wife and two children has for Tracy Wright, his wife, Marilyn, and their Many thanks again to Betty been named vice president of industrial rela­ three children. Tracy is regional sales manager Savicki Carvellas for her advice tions at Compo Industries of Waltham, Mass. for Becton Dickinson Vacutainer Systems with 6 and for sending along pieces of in­ Compo is the nation's largest supplier of man­ responsibility for the Middle Atlantic area • formation.8 She and John '66 have had a very made leather to the footwear industry and the Jan Stoddard Gagnon lives in Charleston, busy year. I hope when they visit the Cape this second largest shoe equipment manufacturer W.Va., where her husband, John, works for summer we will be able to get together and in the country • Tom Richardson has been Union Carbide Corporation. They have been maybe play a little golf • I bumped into Craig named to the Vermont Academy board of busy raising their own two children and seven Weeden in our library and met his wife and trustees. He manages his own investment ad­ foster children over the years. Jan is presently son for the firs� time. They're doing well here visory firm, T.O. Richardson Company in Far­ a first grade teacher • Jim Harris and his fami­ in Sandwich, Mass. • John Bubar made a trip mington, Conn. • Ernest S. Sagalyn has been ly are still in Issaquah, Wash. Jim works for down from Colby and we got together with elected president of the Massachusetts Associ­ Crown Publishers, a book publishing firm. Jim Cathie Smith Bradlee and Clarke Keenan at a ation of Life Underwriters. He has won reported that he veryoften sees Dick York and little Mexican restaurant in Pembroke, Mass., numerous awards for insurance sales, and has his family, Seattle, Wash., residents • Peter that we all love. John and Clarke enjoyed been a sales representative at Bradford, and Kristen Meyer Gordon live in Mill Valley, catching up with each other after many years. Brownlow and Associates in Pittsfield, Mass., Calif. They have two children. Pete is chairman Cathie and Clarke had recently returned from since 1977. Ernie lives with his wife and of Crystal Geyser Water Company. Kris is an two weeks of skiing and visiting friends in daughter in Pittsfield • Warren Balgooyen artist and involved as a member of the board California • Donna Kievit Thompson was was the subject of a wonderful article in the of directors of Sight and Insight-a foundation elected chief of Central Maine Medical Center, Daily Item of Port Chester, N.Y. Several years for visual perception. Department of Internal Medicine. Donna was ago Warren moved into an abandoned barn Class secretary:JEAN MARTIN FOWLER (Mrs. at last June's reunion and told me to quit which was to become the office of a large Michael), 17 Marvin Ct., Lawrenceville, N.J. smoking. Donna and her college roommate botanical garden in Teatown, N.Y. He built a 08648. Olive Niles Shu were reminiscing during re­ maple sugar house and developed a wild­ union about how Donna played matchmaker flower island in the lake, among other proj­ for Olive and Michael Shu. If Donna ever gets ects. But it seems as if civilization became too tired of medicine, maybe she has a talent for much; Warren, Helen, and their two children another career • Jan Volk has been much in moved last summer to 120 acres about 12 The following news about mem­ the news lately as the indicated successor to miles from Colby • Your questionnaires will 5 bers of the Class of 1965 has been Red Auerbach as general manager of the Celt· provide the entire content of my summer col­ 6 reported to this correspondent. ics. I enjoyed listening to Jan being inter· umn. Keep them coming! If you are in the Min­ Send more! • Dale C. Jewell has been pro­ viewed on the radio and was impressed with neapolis area, I welcome a phone call or visit. moted to executive vice president of Hath­ the excellent job he did • George and Mary Class secretary: KAREN BEGANNY JOHNSON away Group, in charge of Chaps and New Weller Rideout '69 wrote of their successful (Mrs. Keith G.), 4905 14th Ave. So., Min­ Ventures. He lives in Winslow, Maine, with his trip back to Nigeria and of their love for the neapolis, Minn. 55417. wife, Rubye, and daughter, Paula • Claude L. people and students at Kent Academy, where

40 they're teaching • Jane Morrison Bubar and I wrote that she, her husband, and three-year­ Williams, a lumber broker and owner of got together over the recent holidays to party old daughter, Abigail Grace, have recently Champlain Hardwood • When I mentioned and to do some cross-country skiing. You can bought their own home in Higganum. Conn., in my class letter that I would be doing imagine which of the two we didn't get to "out in the boonies." 'Tm busy being a "something completely different" in the fall, I do • For the next column, unless you care to housewife and mother. I get the career itch meant that I was leaving the nonprofit sector hear about the seeds I've selected for my every now and then but really feel it's impor­ for the world of high tech. Thanks, anyway, to garden, drop me a line about your life or your tant to be home with Abby these early years." all those who sent "name the baby'' sugges­ garden. All of the Wheelers went to Hawaii in January tions-I'll keep them handy, just in case. In Class secretary: JANET E. SEMONIAN, Box 1983 to visit Cheryl Dinneen Soon and her September I joined a Cambridge, Mass., start­ 109, Sandwich, Mass. 02563. family. They had a great time. Donna also had up firm called lnterleaf. We market a com­ a reunion in June with Debbie Hawks Kelley, puter system that is similar to a word pro­ Mary"Molly" Carroll Ray and her children, and cessor, but sets text into type and also does Cheryl and her son, at Debbie's house 1n Mas­ sophisticated graphics. It's a perfect marriage Rick Frantz has been appointed sachusetts. of my interest in the printed word, my love for 6 9 assistant art director at Wales De­ Class secretary: DONNA MASON WILLIAMS good graphics, and my need to make money! sign in Amherst, N.H. Since grad­ (Mrs. Edward F.), 50 North St., Grafton, Mass. • Thanks to all who wrote; there's much more uation Rick has made his mark in the art field 01 519. news to come! as model builder, exhibit designer, and graphic Class secretary:LESLIE J. ANDERSON, 30 Hall artist. Rick and his wife, Susan, have two Ave., Somerville, Mass. 02144. children, Lindsay, 9, and Christian, 11 • Steve Fisher has been appointed executive director Bill and Carolyn Additon Anthony of the Greater Lowell Pastoral Counseling are Baltimoreans, where Bill has Center in Lowell, Mass. Steve and his wife, 7 1 found a "nice challenging niche at Susan Colantuono sent an inter­ Caroline, have built a home in Westford, St. Paul's School" teaching all levels of Ger­ 2 esting letter summarizing her ac­ • 7 Mass. Peter Smith has been appointed man. Carolyn is head of information and pro­ tivities since graduation. In 1982 chairman of the Communications Committee graming for the Baltimore County Library she did a great deal of traveling: in addition to for United Way of the Tri-Valley Area of Far­ System and mother of Meg and Lauren. Bill business trips, she made a "roots" journey to mington, Maine. Peter owns and operates Far­ and Carolyn would like to volunteer a parking Italy and went to Bermuda for the third time. mington Travel Service. He and his wife, Delin­ space next summer for "any baseball fans who She and a partner operate the Deltech Con­ da, reside in Kingfield, Maine • Cherrie need to refresh their memories and observe sulting Group, an organization that provides Dubois has taught English at Wakefield High how the game is supposed to be played." I management and individual development School for over 14 years, but planned last fall wish we Bostonians could make the same of­ training and specializes in helping organiza­ to take a half-year sabbatical to write for a fer! • Debbie Wentworth Lansing was ex­ tions improve the process of implementing public relations firm located in Wakefield, pecting child number two in February. She is automated technologies. Susan has also had a Mass. Colby acted as a sponsor for the sab­ still group product analyst with Union Mutual book published, Build Your Career. It is a batical leave. Last year she did some writing in Portland, Maine • Linda Chester has career-planning workbook being used by large for the firm and enjoyed the variety and com­ moved back to Connecticut, where she has corporations in their career development pletely different attitude in that field: "In purchased a condo in a converted soap fac­ workshops. She has also been working on her teaching, kids are forced to come to you; in tory. She teaches Latin at Rham High School in doctorate in applied behavioral science at the public relations, other businesses seek you to Hebron, Conn. • Frank Apantaku squeezes University of Massachusetts, writing articles, do work for them. In that little bit of choice "occasional tennis" in between surgical tasks in and conducting workshops • Fran Koski at­ lies all the difference." In addition to teaching, Chicago, Ill. He became a United States citizen tended Colby for two years and graduated she still contributes to her hometown news­ this past year • Sherry Phipps-Pettyjohn, her from Boston University. She wrote that since paper, writing on the arts and a column, husband, and daughter Kara have moved from then she has been a VISTA volunteer, was ac­ "Roamin' Forum." In the past couple of years, New Hampshire to Tennessee, where the par­ tive in the women's movement, received her she has had a couple of reviews published in ents both teach at the St. Andrews-Sewanee master's degree in social work, was a social English Journal and has also had other writings School. Last year Sherry started a queen-sized services administrator for local government, in American Whee/men and Savings Banker quilt in ''The Drunkard's Path" pattern and graduated from law school, worked as a pub­ • Congratulations to you all! summoned Nancy Hammar Austin and Anne lic defender, and is now deputy city attorney Class secretary: BONNIE R. AUEN ROTEN­ Williamson to help her tack it in preparation for Bloomington, Ind. • Gary Petzold and his BE.RG, 112 ewbury St., Boston, Mass. 02116. for quilting • Marianne Perry is a painter and wife, Susan, are living in Wilbraham, Mass. He instructor at the Rockland Center for the Arts is a high school biology/earth science teacher in ew York. Her first one-woman show took and a geology instructor for Western New place in ovember at the First Street Gallery in England College. Susan is a travel consultant at Judy Smith Lucarelli recently be­ SoHo • Peggy Wiehl Gilfoy added a second Penn Travel in Springfield, Mass. After their 7 came assistant principal at.the Mt. son to the family last year and enjoyed a trip June wedding, they spent a week in Bermuda 0 Ararat School in Topsham, Maine, to Spain won by her husband • Bob Gordon and then spent a month sailing from Mystic, after working on a doctoral degree at the is a partner in a contracting firm in Holbrook, Conn., around Cape Cod and back • Richard University of Rochester in ew York. Previous­ .Y., that builds single-family homes and con­ Fournier had worked at several social service ly, she taught mathematics at the University of dominiums. He and his wife, Carol, a fourth­ jobs before enrolling in the Boston University Maine at Augusta, sister to the Orono campus, year medical student, were expecting their School of Theology. He is now a Congrega­ where she had obtained her master's degree first child in February • Sandra Rau Ferrari tional minister in West Cummington, Mass. in math. Judy taught math in secondary teaches seventh-grade math in Windsor Locks, According to a recent newspaper article, the schools in Maine and Alaska before undertak­ Conn. She, husband Eddie, and son Shaun en­ town's population is pleased with Richard • ing graduate work • Were you aware that joy summers at the Rhode Island shore • Jim Melillo has recently changed jobs and is Tom Whidden was the tactician on Uberty's Meryl LeBoff, an endocrinologist, was married now chief financial officer of a group that crew in the America's Cup races off Newport, to a fellow physician in October. She is on the owns about 100Pizza Hut businesses. He had R.I.? They were stupendous races • Robert staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital here in previously worked in the hi-tech field of Saglio, Glastonbury, Conn., is owner of Boston, Mass. • Larry Boris,an attorney in Lit­ monoclonal antibodies. Jim is living in Pitts­ Grayledge Turkey Farm. Connecticut's largest tleton, Colo., has formed his own law firm, burg, Kans., and manages to have time for turkey grower, he retails 15,000 birds-fresh or Boris and Klueger • Jonathan Ray is a high­ other work activities • Mike Miniutti is an frozen-direct from his farm to consumers. school history teacher and freelance writer in assistant football coach at Austin Preparatory Most of the turkeys and capons and a small North Bridgton, and has had several articles School in Reading, Mass. Mike is living in Bur­ number of pies are sold in Rob's Grayledge published this past year in such publications as lington • Sandy Manoogian Pearce has been mini-market store on the farm, which was built Maine Life and Early American Life. Jon's best living in Seattle, Wash., where three part-time in October 1982 • Donna Sundeen Wheeler man at his wedding last spring was Dave teaching jobs and her son have kept her very

THE COLBY AL M 1 S 41 CONSERVATIONIST CONCERN SPURS PAKISTAN TRIP ______

William T. Glidden, Jr., '74 recently returned from a four-month trip to Pakistan, where he explored problems of deforestation. Accompanied by the director of the Maine Audubon Society and six fellow consultants, Glidden said he was involved in the project because of his great interest in the development of Third World countries. "In Pakistan there is a shortage of wood but an incredible demand for it," Glidden explained. "We were trying to figure out how more trees could be planted." Although he acknowledged that it was difficult to arrive at concrete solutions, the research team quickly realized that "any success would be based on a heavy involvement with the farmers, not just with the gove rnment." Consequently, "We tried to get landowners enthusiastic about planting trees by desi gning programs with economic attractiveness." Glidden is an environmental consultant with his own fi rm, Renewable Resources Associates, based in Norwich, Vt. He is currently working with the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRC) to study the future of Maine's forest policy. A member of the Society of American Foresters, the NRC, and the National Audubon Society, Glidden's professional interest in the environment stems from an intensely per­ sonal one. A resident of Brunswick, Maine, he enjoys windsurfing, backpacking, canoe­ ing, cross-country skiing. His attraction to the state, which began with frequent childhood visits and grew duri ng his Colby years, is now expressed in his goals: "I want to be as useful as I can be to the conservationist movement in Maine, and I want to make sure that I can stay in Maine for a long time," he said. Glidden majored in environmental studies at Colby and received an M.F.S. from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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William T. Glidden, Jr., '74 .

busy. When Sandy wrote, her husband, Tom, for her dissertation • David Delong has Greetings to all from Minnesota! I was a doctoral student at the University of taken the year off from his writing business to 74 hope you all fared better than we Washington in business administration, spe­ do a one-year master's program at Harvard. in the north country with our rec­ cializing in labor relations and personnel. She He is studying the psychological impact of ord-breaking snowfall and cold temperatures expected they would be moving • Sandy computers on people and organizations • this winter. It made one look forward wistfully reported news of Cliff Walker and Ed Morin. Paul Ilsley is an assistant professor of graduate toward ou r big June reunion-lobster-bakes on Cliff has two teaching jobs: one at an elemen­ studies in adult and continuing education at Roberts Union lawn, picnics at Belgrade Lakes, tary school in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Syracuse University. He recently received the the time we will spend comparing how grace­ other at Alaska Pacific University teaching Research of the Year Award at the North fully we have aged in comparison with our Japanese. Ed is working for Exxon in Saudi American Ad ult Education Research Confer­ decrepit classmates and discussions of all of Arabia. ence • Dorothy "Dee" Kelsey is a graduate the good times. By the time this co lumn is Class secretary: ANN BONNER VIDOR (Mrs. student at the School for International Train­ printed, your Waterville travel plans should be David), 1981 l nnwood Rd., Atlanta, Ga. 30329. ing, Brattleboro, Vt. Dee wrote that she sees complete and your enthusiasm unwaning! • Seth Dunn regularly and that she enjoyed the Before the news, I have a message for all of us 73 reunion, "especially the gang that gath­ from our class agent, Ann Bicknell: in terms of ered at the Railroad Cinema, Ken Eisen's ven­ participation, our class ranked second to last Thank you all for you r responses ture" • Jim Putnam is an ophthalmologist. He in the 1983 Annual Fund with 24 percent. On­ 7 3 to the questionnaire. Now, on to and his wife, Michele, welcomed their first ly the most recently graduated class had a the news • Anne Badmington child, Kristin Elizabeth, in October • Robert J. worse record, 21 percent. Come on guys-let's wrote, "Reunions are successful events. Rich O'Neil completed a two-month long officer's do better this year as we pass our ten-year Cass and I are getting married in June!" Con­ basic course last June and plans a trip to the milestone • On with the news. After com­ gratulations to you both • Merrilee Bonney is Grand Canyon this spring • Luke Kimball is a pleting post-graduate studies at California an economist with the environmental division buyer for Hill's Department Store • John State University at Fresno in enology, Patty of a provincial government in the Netherlands. Krasnavage wrote from Madison, Maine, that Fischer Small is a winemaker at the Benmarl Merrilee enjoys quilting and hopes to start a he works as a history teacher, athletic director, Vineyards in Marlboro, N.Y. • Albert Rosellini quilting class soon. She recently spoke with adult education director, and girls' track and wife, Vicki, are living in Seattle, Wash., Fran Gates Demgen • Wendy Knickerbocker coach • Laurie Williams Woodfin is settling where Albert is owner of Shortstop, a property lives in Bar Harbor, Maine, and is a librarian at into life in the country in Mendon, Mass., since development and general contracting firm • the College of the Atlantic • Charles Mac­ her husband's job transfer from Manchester, Katherine Dew Recka is a consultant to small Gregor received a Ph.D. in animal nutrition N.H. • From California, Paulette Archambault businesses, ranging from restaurants to furni­ and works in that field for Agway Feed Ser­ Shur wrote that she is busy with her three chil­ ture manufacturers, in Massachusetts and is vices • Jonathan Glynn is an artist in New dren • Also in California is Anne Huff Jordan, still involved in painting and printmaking • Jeff York City. He spent last summer painting in who welcomes any Colby visitors to the San Hancock, who has been a wilderness ranger Morocco • Robin Barnes teaches history at Francisco area • I'll finish the news from the for the United States Forest Service in Vermont Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. • Judy questionnaire in my next column. Until then, and the California Sierra Nevadas, as well as McDivitt is working on her Ph.D. in com­ happy spring! back-country ranger for the National Park Ser­ munications at the University of Pennsylvania. Class secretary: JANET PERETHIAN BIGELOW vice at Washington Ranier National Park, She spent last summer in Gambia, West Africa, (Mrs. Lawrence C.), 144 Washington Ave., made news with his brother, Jonathan, by studying a mass media project on infant health Needham, Mass. 02192. climbing Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in the

42 THE COLBY AL M US western hemisphere. Having recently received Cargo, and his wife, Susan, book editor for is a student again, too, at Columbia Uni­ his M.B.A. from the University of Washington, Children's Television Workshop, are building versity's business school. He hopes to see Jeff accepted a position with an accounting on to a house in Darien, Conn. The addition's other Colby people in New York. Well, they firm in Seattle, Wash. • Phyllis Hasegawa living room houses a canoe-under-construc­ don't show up at the alumni parties. Where Auger is a graphic designer and illustrator for tion, in which Rob and Martha Bell and Bran­ are all you '77ers? an exhibit firm in Milwaukie, Oreg. Congratu­ don Kulik have assisted • Dana Pope is in real Class secretary: LINDA A. LACHAPEUE, 320 lations are in order to Phyllis and husband, estate management in Boston and was last East 42nd St., Apt. 201 2, New York, .Y. Perry, on the birth of their son, Cody Ryan, in year made a vice president of William H. 10017. April 1983 • James Heald is a planner for the Dolben and Sons • Once again, I want to em­ Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission. He phasize that I truly enjoy hearing from each of was married to Chicago City planner Laura you, especially those of you who write a little Metro in July 1983, aboard the S.S. Clipper more than what's requested. Thank you all for Among my chores this winter has docked at Navy Pier in Chicago, ill. Colby connecting! been the task of bringing into the graduates attending the festivities were Ray Class secretary: MELISSA DAY VOKEY (Mrs. 7 8 house an armload or two of Mazurek, assistant professor of English at Penn Mark), 16 Fox Run, Topsfield, Mass. 01983. State, and David DiCola, a lawyer in Prov­ wood for the evening fire. The job is not unpleasant. I also make a trip to the mailbox idence, R.I. • Prudence Hoerter Parks gradu­ to fetch whatever may have been delivered, a ated from George Washington Law School in task that does not involve armloads. I would 1982 and is a federal lobbyist. She also keeps not be unhappy if it did. I'll share with you the busy with her son, born in March 1983 • Colby 77 alumni can be found all items that did find their way to this outpost • Susan Illingworth Thomasy is a staff nurse at over the globe these days. Jamie Sylvia uMuffy" Bullock, a copywriter for Newton Wellesley Hospital and stays oc­ 7 7 Schwartz works in Hong Kong as a William Esty and Company, a New York adver­ cupied with her daughters, Molly and banker and takes exotic vacations in places tising agency, is engaged to David C. Huffard. Rachel • No more room in this edition. Hope like Malaysia and Bali • Bruce Thomson is They plan a summer wedding • Also plan­ to see everybody in June! also banking in the Orient, where he is on as­ ning a summer wedding are Lauren Smith and Class secretary: EMILY WINGATE RYERSE signment for the National Bank of Detroit in Douglas Louison. Lauren works in Boston, (Mrs. Scott D.), 4201 Grimes Ave. So., Edina, their Tokyo branch • The office manager of Mass., for the eighborhood Development Minn. 55416. the music conservatory in Cuenca, Spain, is and Employment Agency • John Gray grad­ Carolyn Frazier DePalop. She spelunks (ex­ uated from Air Force basic training after six • plores caves) in her spare time Back here in weeks at Lackland Air Force Base in Tex­ the East, more classmates have remained dedi­ as • Walter Olien is the first recipient of the Class secretary: PAMELA J. BRAD­ cated to music since their Colby days. Peggy Slutzky/Goggin Prize for outstanding academic LEY, 2 Phlox Lane, Acton, Mass. is studying for her master's 7 Horstmann Hodes achievement by a first-year law student at 01 720. 5 in vocal pedagogy at the New England Conser­ Franklin Pierce Law Center. Walt had the high­ vatory. She and her husband, Paul, also enjoy est GPA in a class of 113. He and Linda Sullivan • playing with the band Pegasus Peter Olien live in Derry, .H. • Elected a fellow of Masterton plays all over the state of Maine the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public A long-lost friend has given me with the Practical Cats Swing Band. He says Accountants was Henry R. Dunbar. Hank enough information on himself hello to Jeff Schwartz, R. P. Higgins, and Frank 7 6 works for Price Waterhouse in Boston • I and others to almost fill this en­ "Sandy'' Pardee 78 • Start browsing through received a humorous article on John uchip" tire space! • First, here's a brief history on record departments to find pianist Vinnie Mar­ Child, lifeguard/optometrist. Chip, shown in a good ol' he and his wife, Lori, frank Callanan: tucci's first album of original compositions! It is picture wearing trunks and a tan, spent his spent their first five years together in the due out about the same time as this Alumnus. summer lifeguarding at Nauset Light Beach on Boston area, where Frank taught Spanish at Vinnie and his wife, Liz Lawrence 76, live in Cape Cod and moonlighting in orwell,Mass., Xaverian Brothers High School. They've had Woodstock, N.Y. • I have lots of news from where he treated children with learning two sons, Nick and Zeke, who were born at the Boston area. Iris Greenberg Kennedy disabilities related to visual problems. Chip home (Lori is a practicing midwife). Then, wrote that she is happily settled in suburban had supposedly promised everyone that he about a year ago, the Callanans moved to Mt. Milton, Mass. Iris commutes to Beantown, would get serious and grow up come Labor Desert Island in Maine to create and operate a where she works as a personnel specialist • Day, but I'll wait and see, I think. year-round traveling puppet theater called Dave Raymond and his wife, residents of Class secretary: JAMES S. COOK, JR., RFD 1, Preposterous Puppets (Box 154, Mt. Desert, Wrentham, Mass., are new members of the Box 587, Union, Maine 04862. Maine, for interested prospective employers). Dean Junior College faculty. Dave, a former Frank "ratted" on some incommunicado bud­ English major at Colby, was named part-time dies, whom he hopes won't mind: Kevin and English instructor. He has a master of arts Ellen Grant Carley '79 are married, residing degree in creative writing from Antioch Inter­ and working in the Portland, Maine, area. national College and recently completed a Lisa Yemma Percival, her hus­ Kevin is "some sort of financial consultant,'' children's novel • CPA Jonathan Hickok is the 7 9 band, Marvin, and children, Da­ and Ellen is an editor for the Maine Times • financial expert working with E. Denis Walsh mien, 11, and John, 18 months, Also included in Frank's report were Michael and Associates in Boston, a firm that special­ returned to the United States after living three Boyson and his wife, Nancy, who have recent­ izes in design-sensitive historic building reno­ years in Australia and New Zealand. They built ly returned from two years with the Peace vations • Peter Harrington works in the state a house in Andover, Mass., and invite old Col­ Corps in Sierra Leone • Finally, Frank re­ house as the director of corporations for the by friends to visit. Marvin is company director ported that Chris Foster is an advocate for en­ Commonwealth of Massachusetts • The Mas­ of Priority Computing, which provides special­ vironmental issues for the state in Augusta, sachusetts Department of Revenue employs ized computer software to the financial indus­ Maine. Chris and Ted Kirkpatrick 77 have a lit­ Evan Katz as a management analyst. Evan try. Lisa divides her time between assisting in tle girl named Eleanor • Bill Silverman sur­ received his master's degree in city and the marketing of Priority Computing products, faced in Belgium, where he's in his sixth year of regional planning from the Kennedy School of raising two children and instructing post-and a seven-year medical program at the Universi­ Government at Harvard last June • Currently prenatal exercise and aerobic dancing classes ty of Brussels. He's traveled extensively while at Harvard, Janet Josselyn is studying for her • Stacey Cox Slowinski is international prod­ in Europe and recommends the Greek islands master's degreein architecture. She is looking uct manager of Hayden Book Company, pub­ in the summer, Paris in the winter, and north­ forwardto graduation this year • Alan Taylor lisher of microcomputer and technical books. ern Scotland for its friendly people • Ellen researches frontier migration and land markets She attended the Frankfurt, Germany, Book Maren Neubauer and her husband, Ron, are in New England in the aftermath of the Ameri­ Fair and traveled to London on business in Oc­ both attorneys with the United States Navy, can Revolution as part of his doctoral studies tober. Stacey and her husband, Joe, have pur­ currently stationed in the Philippines • Paul in history of American civilization at Brandeis chased a house by the ew Jersey shore and Kueffner, sales representative for Air France University in Waltham, Mass. • Scott Krasner invite Colby friends down for a swim • Rich-

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ard Nadeau married Merredythe Blezard in spring 1983, and is now working on his train together. Karen B. is now a graduate stu­ September 1983 in Rhode Island • Susan Ray­ master's degree at the School of Public and In· dent at University of Mississippi, and Karen P. mond Ceismar works in the development of­ ternational Affairs at George Washington Uni­ is working as a sales manager in the book divi­ fice at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She versity • Sue Mcleod Reisig and her husband sion of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. She handled the $12.5 million alumni campaign bought a house in Reston, Va. She works in also reported that Larry Starke is doing and is currently writing grant proposals to data communications on the technical staff of graduate work in biology at Duke • Kathy foundations and corporations. John 78 Mitre Corporation and is working part-time on Marciarille King wrote to say that she and her graduated from New England School of Law in her master's in applied mathematics at the husband, Alan King '82, are graduate students June 1982. They bought a house in Auburn University of Maryland. Sue had a fascinating at University of Rhode Island and that they where they entertained about 30 members of three weeks in the People's Republic of China keep busy caring for their beautiful baby boy, the Class of 78 after their Colby reunion last this past summer as a computer delegate, Nicholas Marciarille King, born March 18, summer • Rick Sadler is production manager meeting with Chinese computer professionals 1983 • Janet Blau and Sandy Clemens are for Parker Hannifin Corporation and is earning to talk about the United States computer in­ both working for Digital as software engi­ his M.B.A. at Texas Christian University. He dustry and visit Chinese universities, institutes, neers • Ellen Owens works in cash manage­ and his wife, Susan Thompson Sadler'80, have and computer centers • Paula Baril is a staff ment for Stanadyne, Lisa Smith is working for 11 one son, Ryan Thomas, born in December R.N. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los An· Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and Lynn 11 1982 • Denise White received a computer geles and lives in North Hollywood • Daniel Mclaren, Cheryl Carr, and Debbie Bartlett are programing certificate from Northern Essex Salimone passed his karate studio manage· working for Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Concord, Community College in January 1982 and is ment course with Fred Villaris Studios of Self­ N.H. • Jay Otis is enjoying law school in currently employed as a programer/analyst at Defense and received his black belt, first Portland, Maine; Debbie Rowe is working for a AV CO Systems Division in Wilmington, Mass. degree. Assisted by his fiancee, he opened his law firm in Pittsburgh; and Kate Rogers is 11 She works primarily in the areas of personnel own studio in Brattleboro, Vt., in October working as a systems librarian for L. L. Bean in I! and payroll. Recent travels have taken Denise 1983 • Colby is well represented at Union Freeport, Maine • Nancy Welsh is working to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Mutual in Portland, Maine, with Ted Tinson, for her M.B.A. at Duke • Leslie Kaplan is Madrid • Ross Moldott is regional planner for Don and Kathy Reilly Bolduc '81, and Steve working for an advertising agency called N. W. Rockingham Planning Commission in Exeter, Fogg, to name a few. Ted is systems audi­ Ayer in New York City • David Bolger is now N.H. He received his M.A. from the University tor • Dave Perry is working on his M.B.A. at a Peace Corps volunteer in Sabana Larga, of Massachusetts. Ross is on the board of the University of Virginia • Andy Goode Dominican Republic, working as a rural devel­ directors of the New Hampshire Energy Coali· works with Dedham Datsun in Dedham, Mass. opment extentionist • James Hart, who at· tion and is secretary to the Granite State • Ted Reed has returned from Japan • Neil tended Colby from 1979-1981, is a technical Hydropower Association. He is rooming with Kiely is with Proctor and Gamble in Knoxville, sales and chemical engineering consultant for Paul O'Connor '81 in Portsmouth, N.H. • Tenn. • Warren Pratt and Jay Moody are sti ll the Hercules Chemical Company • North Mark Weatherly is earning an M.B.A. at Cor­ in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Jay is rumored Yarmouth Academy is lucky to have Emily nell Graduate School of Business. He worked to have a "serious girlfriend" • Scott Butter­ Lindemann as a biology, ecology, and en· for the New York State Division of the Budget field works for Campbell Soup in Waterbury, vironmental studies teacher, as well as the last summer. He is planning to move back to Conn. • Chris Perrin works for Aetna • jack women's tennis and junior varsity field hockey Virginia after completing his studies at Cornell McBride is still teaching skiing in Japan, where, coach • I received a letter from Dani Nemec, and will work for the state or in public finance. according to rumor, he's engaged • Lawrie who is always full of news. She received a He wrote that Bruce Henderson is also earning Foster is out in San Francisco, Calif. • Kevin master's degree in international affairs from his M.B.A. at Cornell and that Peter Weatherly and Robin Cathany Shea had a baby, Dustin • Columbia University and is now a specialist in and Andy Plante are living in Cnarlottesvi lle, Melinda Richardson Mull also had a baby boy, European East-West Security Affairs. She wrote Va., and playing bluegrass music together by Charles Louis, on December 4, 1983 • Cathy that Diane Young is working for Citi· night. By day Peter works for the county gov­ Talbot is working in college admissions in Bil­ corp • Lisa Denham is working in New York ernment, and Andy is a foreman for a land­ lings, Mont., and house-sitting for a profes· City with Chemical Bank • That's all this time. scaping company • Emily Crout Sprague mar­ sor • Susan Sullivan is engaged to be married Please don't forget to fill out you r question­ ried Philip Sprague, a St. Lawrence graduate, in to Peter Hinrichs in early June 1984 • Joel naires! March 1983 in Gouverneur, N.Y. A Colby con· Solomon is going to medical school in Dublin, Class secretary: PAULA HINCKLEY BUR· tingent spanning four generations was pres­ Ireland • Steve Kirstein is now arranging ROUGHS (Mrs. Jack), 666 Pine St., Manchester, ent, including her parents, grandfather, two tours for Colby through his Boston travel agen­ N.H. 03104. aunts, and an uncle. Stacey Cox Slowinski, cy • Patty Valavanis is working with Joint Ac­ Marie DeVito and Betsy Bucklin were in the tion in Community Service, a nonprofit group wedding party and Jane Venman and that works with the Job Corps in Washington, Stephanie Vrattos '81 also attended. Now liv­ D.C. ing in Watertown, N.Y., Emily is doing free­ Class secretary: DIANA P. HERRMANN, 6 Greetings! I'm sure there have lance design, and Phil is an agent for Whaling Road, Darien, Conn. 06820. 2 been changes in all of your lives, Massachusetts Mutual • I look forward to and we'd love to hear about seeing all of you at our fifth-year reunion! them.8 Here's what some of ou r classmates are Class secretary: ANGELA D. MICKALIDE, up to these days • Sarah LickDyke's days at 3128 Guilford Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21218. Pappagallo are over. She is now working at There is lots of news to report this Radcliffe College. She wrote to say that she'd time; thank you all for the up· recently been promoted to assistant to the 1 dates! • Barbara Bullock is work· director of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Insti­ I ing8 for Dupont as an international marketing tute at Radcliffe. She is sharing a Watertown, coordinator while studying for a Ph.D. in Mass., apartment with Helen Dooley and Peter Forman is still a member of linguistics. She wrote that Amy Parker and Janice McKeown. Sarah also mentioned that the Massachusetts House of Rep­ Doug Cook were married on October 1, 1983 Kim Smith is at University of Massachusetts 0 resentatives and lives with his in Boston, Mass. • Joe Ciota will be a player Medical School in Worcester, Mass. • Jona­ wife,8 the former Dawn David of Cleveland, coach for the Italian Football League. He wili than Baskin is presently in New York City, Ohio, whom he married July 30, 1983, in Plym­ play for a team called the Eagles. Congratula­ working as an account executive in the cor· outh • Chih Chien Hsu is busy with his family tions, Joe! • Amy Boyle and Scott Vandersall porate financial group at Daniel J. Edelman. business in Taiwan, traveling in the Far East, were married in October. Scott is a loan aper· He's living in midtown Manhattan and misses and dating a TV star • Jonathan Greenspan ations manager at Bank Meridian, Exeter, N.H. Maine "just a bit'' • I've also heard recently spent two years as the city hall reporter of The • Karen Pfeiffer just returned from a three­ from Jeff Brown. He's moved from New York News-Tribune, in Newton, Mass., worked as week course on Shakespeare at Cambridge to Los Angeles, Calif., where he is a junior loan an intern for investigative reporter jack Ander· University. She met Karen Baumstark in Ger· officer with Chemical Bank. He's recently back son in fall 1982, traveled in Europe during many and they traveled through Europe by from a vacation on Antigua and will be head·

44 THE COLBY AL MN S ing to Hawaii soon on bank business • Scott student at Northeastern's Graduate School of in Boston and Holt is in New York • John Delcourt and Sherry Kelly are planning an Accounting • Others doing graduate work in­ "Chip" Rooney is also in Boston, working as a August wedding. Both are presently attending clude Ken Emery,who is attending the London tax shelter analyst • JenniferJean Clark is a Penn State. Sherry is working on a Ph.D. in School of Economics; Jack Kleinman, who is at graduate student teaching assistant at the Uni­ biochemistry, while Scott is working on a Oregon State University studying geology; versity of Michigan • John Northrop is Ph.D. in genetics • Shellie Stoddard is work­ Sharon Mahoney, who is enrolled in Tufts teaching science and driver's education in ing in Manhattan for a microcomputer systems Medical School, and Susan Charrette, who is a New Hampshire • John Olson is employed company • Jim Trumm and Mark Ciarallo are student at the University of California • by Columbia Insurance Agency as a sales rep­ both working toward law degrees. Jim is at Congratulations to Chris Chabot, who re­ resentative • James Scully is also employed ortheastern, while Mark is studying at ceived a scholarship at the University of by an insurance company. He is a computer McGill • Nancy Brown is living in Boulder, Oregon to seek a doctoral degree in marine programer for Travelers Insurance Com­ Colo., working as a geochemical analyst • neurobiology • Steve Nicholas is a reporter pany • Jennifer Stringham and Lisa Murray That's all the news I have for now. Please for the Ipswich Chronicle • Phineas Gay is are both teaching. Jennifer is a French teacher write. working as an advertising representative for in Waterville, Maine, and Lisa is a social studies Class secretary: JULANNE M. CUUY, 42S the Holden Landmark • Also employed as an teacher in Barnstable, Mass. • Jim Plumer is Front St., Weymouth, Mass. 02188. advertising representative is Karin Whiting, the manager of Vibrations Lounge and always who works for Suburban World • Both Dari­ welcomes company • Geoff Ballotti, Debbie lynn O'Neill and Kevin Riley work for Union Tabachnick, Beth Coates, and I are also among Mutual in Portland, Maine. Darilynn is an the many working in the Boston area. Geoff is Thanks to all of you who returned underwriter, and Kevin works in the account­ a financial analyst at the Bank of New England. 8 3 the questionnaires, I have more ing department • Tom McGillicuddy also Debbie works for University Hospital as a per­ than enough news for a full col­ works in Maine as a manager at Bath Iron sonnel assistant. Beth is a programer/systems umn • Sonya Thompsen, Reyne Cuccuro, Ed Works • Vicky Cole and Rick Gilbert are both analyst at the Bank of Boston. I am employed Higham, and Andrew Kaye are all in New York in Japan. Vicky is an English teaching consul­ by John Hancock as a customer service repre­ City. Sonya is enrolled in the M.A. program in tant, and Rick is researching political his­ sentative • News of the Class of 1983 will be English at Columbia. Ed and Andrew are also tory • Pam Kovaly and Barrie "Holt" Thrasher continued in the next issue. at Columbia in the School of Business, and are in commercial banking with Brown Class secretary: DELISA A. LATERZO, 41 Reyne is studying law • Suzy Desrochers is a Brothers Harriman and Company, but Pam is Hunting Lane, Sherborn, Mass. 01770.

COLBY PAIR PEDALS AGAINST LEUKEMIA ______

If asked "How did you spend your sum­ mer vacation?" Scott Dow '83 and Ashley Lasbury '83 would offer an unusual answer: bicycling across the country to raise $40,000 for the National Leukemia Association (NLA). They began the trip on August 1 in Vancouver, B.C., and ended it on October 21 in West Hartford, Conn., where they both currently live, having covered 4,500 miles and 15 states. Biking roughly 60 miles a day, the two cyclists relied on the NLA to publicize their ven­ ture, mail pledge sheets to people on their route, and wire them money for food every several days. The impetus for the campaign by "ab­ solute novices," as Dow described them, stemmed from personal crises: Dow's best friend and Lasbury's sister both died of leukemia. "The point [of the trip] was to raise enough money to equal the price of employing a researcher for a year," said Lasbury. Although not all of the pledges had yet been paid, both Dow and Lasbury said they believed that they would see their goal accomplished. In ad­ dition to their anticipated fund-raising success, Dow emphasized the personal benefits of the tour as "learning to live with somebody 24 hours a day." Lasbury added, "We kept each other going. Not only had we made a commitment to our­ selves but the National Leukemia Associa­ tion was counting on us." Dow, who is currently working as a salesman for Radio Shack, would like to become a stockbroker. Lasbury is con­ sidering returning to school for a master's degree in history and wants eventually to Ashley Lasbury '83 teach. Scott Dow '83

THE COLBY AL M 'US 45 HAIL, COLBY!

The Labor Day wedding of Patti A. Stoll '77 and Michael H. Gladstone provided for a happy gathering of Colby friends at the Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass. They are, from left to right: Michael Wolk '75; Judith Bassett Wolk '74; Carol Ford '77; Valerie Uber 77; Susan Whilton Agusti '76; the bride, whose name remains Patti Stoll; her mother, Carol Silverstein Baker '48; Frances Hyde Stephan '48; Howard Freedman '49; Louise Allen Freedman '56; David Silverstein '81 ; and Gerald Silver­ stein '56. The groom, missing from the photo, apparently failed to realize that he had just married into the Colby family!

Steven Joseph Daly '80 to Dona Lisa Valente, A son, Brett Matthew, to Raymond and Anita ____ Marriages Milford, Mass. Matson la Cour '69, November 22, 1983. Thomas P. Hall '80 to Sherry L. Maddison, A daughter, Carrie jean, to Rebecca and August 13, 1983, Lynnfield, Mass. Walter H. Wieners '72, March 31, 1983. Patricia Ann Kinsella '80 to Glenn A. Herdeg A son, Nicholas Chandler, to Catherine and Elizabeth Crockett Tunis '64 to James Mitchell '81 , August 13, 1983, Summerville, N.Y. Kenneth W. Gorman '73, October 23, 1983. Sontag, October 8, 1983, Washington, D.C. Lisa Gale '81 to Theodore W. Taylor '81 , A son, Lee Herbert, to B. J. and Thomas H. Vincent R. Cianciolo '69 to Marcia F. McCabe, December 1983. Ireland '73, September 14, 1983. July 9, 1983, South Glastonbury, Conn. Virginia Rebecca low '81 to Gregory Clarence A daughter, Jamie Lee, to Dwain and Carolyn Peter Tappin Lowell '70 to Susan Crawford Pomeroy '81, August 20, 1983, Bradford, Vt. Clarke Simpson '73, November 22, 1983. Neilly, June 4, 1983, Harrison, Maine. Scott David Vandersall '81 to Amy Elizabeth A daughter, Lauren jean, to Dick '73 and John Douglas Macleod '70 to Amelia Ann Boyle, October 29, 1983, Narragansett, R.I. Kathryn Overhiser Valone '75, October 21, Payson, October 22, 1983, Falmouth, Maine. Beth Damon '82 to David Gordon Simpson, 1983. Lucia Winifred Whittelsey '73 to Winfield Scott September 3, 1983, Gardiner, Maine. A son, Cody Ryan, to Perry and Phyllis Smyth, August 13, 1983, Burkehaven, N.H. Cathy Jo Leonard '82 to Stuart G. Swain '83, Hasegawa Auger '74, April 7, 1983. Christine Ann Bogosian '74 to Norman J. Rat­ Dover, N.H. A son, James Morrison, to Thomas and Debbie tey, Jr. '74, Watertown, Mass. Charles Wesley Martin '82 to Martha Ruth Wathan Finn '74, May 17, 1983. Stephen Bolduc '74 to Katherine Kanalley, Merrifield, Weston, Mass. A daughter, Lindsey Anne, to Laura and W. August 27, 1983, Lorimer Chapel, Colby Col­ Deborah A. Nadar '82 to Colin Dodgson, Peter Lawson '74, October 4, 1983. lege. Seabrook, N.H. A daughter, Adrienne, to Richard and Shelley Carol Jean Todd '74 to Frank F. Sabasteanski, Wendy Whyte Nixon '82 to Bartram Chase Bieringer Rau '74, January 17, 1983. Jr., August 27, 1983, Portland, Maine. Branch, Jr., New Boston, N.H. A daughter, Rachel, to Steven and Susan Illing­ Eric Breckenridge Arnzen 75 to Louise Ann John Campbell Nivison '82 to Wendy Cheryle worth Thomasy '74, April 2, 1983. Peterson, September 4, 1983, Dennisport, Nason, August 20, 1983, Lorimer Chapel, Col­ A daughter, Josie Ann, to Michelle and Robert Mass. by College. Tommasino 74, February 16, 1983. Robert M. Walsh Ill '75 to Linda S. Adsamit, Karen Sue Peterson '82 to Kurt l. Binder '82, A daughter, Annika Ingrid, to Berndt and Judy Ogunquit, Maine. June 18, 1983. Sidell Westerlund '74, February 27, 1983. David A. Bengtson '76 to Elizabeth W. Coleen Plourde '82 to Mark Harvey, Novem­ A daughter, Dietrich Ross, to John and Leonard, May 28, 1983, East Hampton, Conn. ber 1983, Fort Kent, Maine. Louanne Tobias Jaegar '77, October 28, 1983. Kimberly Ann Koza '76 to Michael Thomas Cameron S. Yale '82 to Keith C. Davis '80, A daughter, Emily Holmes, to Gerard '78 and Harris, Claremont, N.H. August 29, 1983, Warwick, R.I. Mary Foley Boyle '78, November 24, 1983. Dennis Roy Lundgren '77 to Elaine Anne Simp­ Matthew Jay Smith '83 to Jennifer Elaine A daughter, Jennifer Grace, to James '80and son, September 17, 1983, Lorimer Chapel, Col­ Lunde, October 15, 1983, Avon, Conn. laurel Munson Lowe '80, November 1, 1983. by College. Amy Thompson '83 to Christopher Edward Peter Matthew Skoler '77 to Sheree Gay Landry '82, August 21, 1983, Lorimer Chapel, Prawer, September 4, 1983, Boston, Mass. Colby College. Deaths ____ _ Patti A. Stoll '77 to Michael Harris Gladstone, Deborah Anne Ward '83 to Jeffrey Howard September 5, 1983, Waltham, Mass. Cryans, June 25, 1983, Littleton, N.H. Emma Berry Delahanty '10, November 15, Theanna Marie Poulos '78 to Thomas Dent 1983, in Brewster, Mass., at age 97. She was Hinman, September 10, 1983, Portland, born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Maine. Births ____ _ Kents Hill Seminary and Female College. After Timothy D. Sopel '78 to Kim M. Dubois, Man­ graduating, she taught in public schools in chester, N.H. A son, Nathan Bruce, to Bruce and Martha Hampden, Maine, and Lexington and Brook­ Russell B. Brewer II 79 to Nancy R. Clarke, Raymond Scherpenisse '61 , May 19, 1983. line, Mass. She and her husband founded both November 26, 1983, Yarmouth, Maine. A daughter, Sarah Elisabeth, to John '66 and a girls and a boys camp in Massachusetts, and, June Anna fifty '79to John A. Clark '82, August Mary Walker Wheeler '69, November 14, in 1971, she was honored for her work by the 27, 1983, Manchester, N.H. 1983. New England Camping Association. At the Benjamin Whitney Thorndike '79 to Joanne A daughter, Katrina Taylor, to Weston and time of her death she was president and direc­ lynch '80, September 11, 1983, Milton, Mass. Penelope Hume Baker '68, October 8, 1983. tor of the Cape Cod Sea Camps. She is sur-

46 THE COLBY ALUM S vived by two daughters, a brother, five grand­ where he was the physical education director taught at Central Junior High and then Tenney children, and two great-grandchildren. at Lincoln High School. He is survived by one Memorial High in Methuen until her retire­ daughter, Jeanne N. Arnett, and several nieces ment in 1968. She was a member of the Re­ William W. Eustis '16, August 19, 1983, in and nephews. tired Teachers Association. She is survived by Rockland, Maine, at age 91. After leaving Col­ several cousins. by, he attended Tufts Medical School and then Edna Chamberlain Nelson '22, August 23, joined the U.S. Marine Corps during World 1983, in South San Gabriel, Calif., at age 82. B. Morton Havey '27, December 10, 1983, in War I, attaining the rank of sergeant. He also After graduating from Colby, she taught at Winthrop, Maine, at age 83. While at Colby, served in World War II as a captain. An Oxford several Maine high schools until 1926. She he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon County deputy sheriff for many years, he was then attended the University of Southern fraternity. For many years, he was chief later employed by Timberlands Incorporated California for a year and continued to teach in spokesman and lobbyist of Associated Indus­ as a lumber grader until 1957. From 1955 to Los Angeles for the next 32 years. She and her tries of Maine. He had also been employed by 1970, Mr. Eustis served as a state represen­ husband then began breeding Arabian horses, several newspapers, and was managing editor tative in the Maine Legislature. He was also a and in 1963 Mrs. Nelson published a book en­ of the Bangor Daily Commercial. Mr. Havey former member of the Dixfield School Board, a titled The Magnificent Percheron. She is sur­ was employed as station manager at WA BI member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and vived by her husband, James. radio in Bangor for four years. He was also a the American Legion, and a past member of secretary to former Maine Governor Tudor the King Hiram Lodge. He is survived by a son, Clyde E. Russell '22, September 16, 1983, in Gardiner and, at that time, organized that William, Jr., a brother, five grandchildren, and Winslow, Maine, at age 82. While a student at state's Civilian Conservation Corps. He is sur­ one great-grandchild. Colby, he was a member of Delta Upsilon and vived by two sons, a brother, eight grand­ president of both the student council and his children, and six great-grandchildren. Lloyd L. Davis '1 7, November 1, 1983, in Tuc­ senior class. After graduating from Colby, he son, Ariz., at age 90. While at Colby, he was a earned a maste(s degree at Harvard Universi­ Elizabeth Marshall Lynn '29, November 7, member of Zeta Psi fraternity. Upon gradu­ ty. He also received an honorary doctorate 1983, in Tampa, Fla., at age 76. At Colby, she ating, he served in the Canadian Army for two from the University of Maine. He taught was president of Delta Delta Delta sorority. years before taking a job at the Drapeau Cor­ English at Winslow High School and later was After graduating, she taught school at Wilton poration of Hopedale, Mass., as a mechanical principal at that school for 17 years. In 1941, Academy and the Maine Central Institute draftsman. He is survived by a daughter, he joined the faculty at Colby, teaching for before becoming a social worker for the State Leslie. four years until he took the position of ex­ of Maine. After 21 years in that field, she ecutive secretary for the Maine Teachers Asso­ retired to Florida. She is survived by her hus­ Lillian Pike Chick '1 9, November 17, 1983, in ciation. Mr. Russell was a past president of the band, Chester, a son, a daughter, a sister, two Portland, Maine, at age 86. She was a member Educational Press Association of America, the grandchildren, a niece, and three nephews. of Sigma Kappa sorority while at Colby. Mrs. Maine Principals Association, and the Maine Chick taught school in Farmington and Kezar Retired Teachers Association. He was active in Lucile Whitcomb Elsemore '30, October 5, Falls, Maine. She belonged to various civic numerous other professional and community 1983, in Chapel Hill, .C., at age 74. She was a organizations, including the Daughters of the organizations. A 1962 Colby Gavel recipient, member of Sigma Kappa sorority. After gradu­ American Revolution and the Founders and he was a class agent and a member of the ating Phi Beta Kappa from Colby, she received Patriots of America. She was also a member of Alumni Council. He and his family owned and an M.A. from Radcliffe College in 1931. She the Order of theEastern Star. Survivors include operated Pine Hill Farms. He is survived by taught at high schools in Petersham, Mass., one son, one daughter, seven grandchildren, two sons, including Theodore '47, a daughter, and Augusta, Maine, for several years before and three great-grandchildren. a brother, a sister, and 15 grandchildren, in­ marrying Dexter A. Elsemore '30. At one time cluding Bonnie 71. a Colby class agent, she also worked exten­ Edward C. Dunbar '1 9, August 7, 1983, in sively in the Maine Council of the Girl Scouts Flemington, .J., at age 89. Before leaving Col­ Marlin D. Farnum '23, D.D. '56, October 21, of America and was active in the Dixfield by, he was a member of Pi Delta Phi fraternity. 1983, in Portland, Maine, at age 83. A native of school system. In addition to her husband, she In 1922, he received his bachelor of divinity Medford, Mass., he attended the Andover­ is survived by two daughters, a brother, and degree from the Andover-Newton Theological Newton Theological School after Colby, earn­ five grandchildren. School and later attended Rutgers University, ing a bachelor of divinity degree. After Drew University, and the Princeton Seminary. teaching at a boys school in New Hampshire From 1917 to 1919, he served in the U.S. Ar­ for two years, he moved to Japan as a mis­ my. He was the pastor of Flemington Baptist sionary with the American Baptist Foreign Mis­ Church for 38 years before retiring in 1966 and sion Society from 1927 to 1940. When he was active in many community organizations. returned, he served in the administration of He belonged to the Flemington Rotary Club, the Mission Society for 26 years. Keuka Col­ where he served as former president and lege in New York joined Colby in recognizing treasurer. He was a former trustee of Hunter­ his work with an honorary doctorate of divini­ don Medical Center, a past commander of the ty. He served as class agent for several years. Flemington American Legion Post, treasurer of Survivors include his wife, Melva (Mann) '23, the Hunterdon Council of Churches, and presi­ three daughters, including Hilda F. Nicoll '49, dent of the Mental Health Association. He was eleven grandchildren, and three great­ also the former director of welfare for Raritan grandchildren. ( .J.) Township and founder of the Fleming­ ton-Raritan Rescue Squad. He is survived by Winona Knowlton Huckins '25, September 3, his wife, Evelyn, a son, a daughter, and five 1983, in Winthrop, Maine, at age 79. After grandchildren. leaving Colby, she graduated from Boston University and taught school at Bryant Pond, Edward C. Niles '21, November 3, 1983, in Boothbay Harbor, and Winthrop, Maine. She Detroit, Mich., at age 87. He was a member of was also employed for a time by the Camden Omega Psi Phi and, upon graduating, began Herald and by Down East magazine. Survivors Burrill D. uRed" Snell '32, September 23, 1983, teaching and coaching at St. Paul Normal and include one son, William, one brother, and in Hallowell, Maine, at age 73. He was a well­ Industrial School in Virginia. He attended sum­ three grandchildren. known businessman and civic leader in the mer programs at Boston University, Harvard, Augusta, Maine, area, belonging to many Indiana St.ate Teachers College, and Indiana Evelyn L. Rushton '26, December 18, 1983, in organizations such as the Rotary Club and the University. From 1923 to 1926, he was em­ Methuen, Mass., at age 79. After graduating Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce. Mr. ployed by General Electric in West Lynn, Mass. from Colby, she earned a maste(s degree in Snell worked for the American Oil Company In 1927, Mr. Niles moved to Evansville, Ind., education from Calvin Coolidge College. She in Portland and the Forster Manufacturing

THE COLBY 47 Company in Strong before moving to Augusta years. She was a former member of the Alum­ of the lntown Portland Exchange. He is sur­ and opening up his own business, Snell Tire ni Council and organized several events for vived by his wife, Judith, a son, two daughters, Company. In 1966, he sold the business to the College and the Class of 1940. She is sur­ and a sister. Noyes Tire and stayed with the company for vived by her husband, her stepmother, and 10 years as a marketing manager and assistant her brother. Mark S. Buotte '79, October 30, 1983, in Brat­ to the president. He was past president of the tleboro, Vt., at age 26. At Colby, the West­ Maine Tire Dealers Association, the Augusta Oliver N. Millett, Jr. '43, October 23, 1983, in brook, Maine, resident was a member of Zeta General Hospital board of directors, and the Brockton, Mass., at age 62. The nephew of Psi fraternity, and he attended the University Augusta Country Club. At the time of his Colby's beloved Ellsworth W. Millett, he went of Salamanca in Spain. A self-taught pianist, he death, Mr. Snell was chairman of the board of on from Colby to earn his master of education was often found entertaining fellow students. trustees of Kennebec Savings Bank. He also degree from Bridgewater State College. He He was in his second year at the Vermont Law served on the boards of the Kennebec Valley was a veteran of World War II, serving as chief School when he died of injuries suffered in an YMCA, the Kennebec Valley Community of the Criminal Investigation Corps in Panama automobile accident. He is survived by his Chest, and Depositor's Trust Company. he is and retiring after 25 years in the Army Re­ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Buotte, a sister, a survived by his wife, Katherine (Holmes) '33, serve. Mr. Millett taught in Chatham, West brother, and a grandmother. two sons, including Jere R. '61 , a daughter, a Bridgewater, and Franklin, Mass. He was a step-daughter, and five grandchildren. principal at Hubbardston Elementary School Honorary and elementary supervisor in the Raynham Geraldine Foster Chase '33, December 23, and West Bridgewater school districts. He is Francis T. P. Plimpton, LLD. '60, July 30, 1983, 1983, in Portsmouth, N.H., at age 72. While at survived by his wife, June, one brother, Robert New York, N.Y., at age 82. He received his Colby, she was a member of Delta DeltaDelta 'SO, a cousin, and two nieces. honorary degree from Colby in 1960, after sorority. After graduating, she was employed visiting Mayflower Hill in 1959 to lecture on as a caseworker by the federal government for Christine W. Winkin '49, November 7, 1983, in education in the Soviet Union. It was the first a year before teaching in Buxton, Maine. In Waterville, Maine, at age SS. After graduating of many that the Amherst and Harvard alum­ 1937, she began teaching in the Kittery school from Westbrook Junior College in 1947, she nus was granted. Mr. Plimpton was a trustee at system, where she remained for more than 30 attended Colby. She later served the College Amherst from 1939 to 1973 and trustee years. She is survived by her husband, Lester, for 30 years, working in the dean of men's of­ emeritus for the following ten years. One of two daughters, including Sara C. Hufnagle '72, fice, the treasurer's office, and the personnel New York's leading lawyers, he was a former one son, two brothers, including Jaspar Foster office. In 1948 she married Colby baseball member of the House of Delegates of both the '31, and seven grandchildren. coach John Winkin, now coach at the Universi­ American Bar Association and the New York ty of Maine at Orono. She was former presi­ State Bar Association, and he presided over Dorothy Wall Goodman '37, November 19, dent of the Maine Home For Little Wanderers the New York City Ba r Association from 1968 1983, in Waterville, Maine, at age 68. A and served as vice president of its board. She to 1970. During the Kennedy and Johnson ad­ member of Chi Omega and Phi Beta Kappa, was also a member and secretary of the Mans­ ministrations, he was deputy U.S. represen­ she spent much of her life as secretary of the field Clinic Advisory Board and belonged to tative to the United Nations. During the Viet­ First Baptist Church of Waterville, She also the countrywide Child Abuse Cou ncil. In addi­ nam conflict, he led a lobbying effort by a con­ tutored students in mathematics and lan­ tion to her husband, she is survived by her tingent of Wall Street lawyers against the war. guage. She was a member of the Kennebec mother and father, one son, and one daugh­ Mr. Plimpton was recognized as a Chevalier of Rock and Mineral Club, the Water-Oak Gem ter. the Legion of Honor of France and a Com­ Society and the Colby Alumni Association. She mander of the Order of Merit in Italy. Survivors is survived by several cousins. - Richard Reny '51 , October 7, 1983, in Framing­ include his son, George, who spoke at the ham, Mass., at age SS. The Waterville native 1983 Colby Institute for Management. Paul J. Harold '37, November 9, 1983, in joined Delta Kappa Epsilon at Colby. After Togus, Maine, at age 71. He played football at graduating, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a Faculty Colby for three years, serving as captain for navigator during the Korean War, achieving the 1936 team, and was a member of Delta the rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Reny was a Marion McVea, December 20, 1983, in Water­ Kappa Epsilon. After graduating, Mr. Harold marketing manager for Hollingsworth and ville, Maine. She attended Kent Place School, began work for the Internal Revenue Servicein Vose Company of Walpole, Mass. Previously, in Summit, N.J., the Mannes College of Music Boston. In 1941, he entered the U.S. Army and he had been employed by Keyes Fibre Com­ in New York, Smith College, and also took served as a staff sergeant in World War II. He pany for twelve years and by radio stations in courses at the University of Maine and New owned and operated Paul's Restaurant in Ash­ Waterville, Rockland, and Poland Springs. He York University. Miss McVea studied piano land for several years and was later employed is survived by three daughters, a son, and a under Madame Varetta Stepanoff and Victor for 10 years as a purchasing agent by the sister, Mary R. Buck '42. Wittgenstein of New York City. She also Maine State Department of Labor. He is sur­ studied theory and composition with Rubin vived by one son, James, a granddaughter, Judith Stetson '55, September 26, 1983, in Goldmark of the Julliard Graduate School of and two sisters. Southwest Harbor, Maine, at age 50. After she Music, and with Mark Brunswick of the City graduated from Colby, she worked for the College of New York. She was a piano instruc­ Eino Armas Kivi '37, November 2, 1983, in Animal Rescue League in Boston and later as tor at both Colby and Bowdoin, and main­ Zephyrhills, Fla., al age 69. After leaving Col­ the animal control officer in Truro and Well­ tained studios in Augusta and Fairfield, Maine. by, Mr. Kivi was an independent building con­ fleet, Mass. In Wellfleet, where she lived for She was a member of various musical and or­ tractor and developer in Walpole, Mass. He over 20 years, she was actively involved with ganists' associations, including the National served as that town's assessor for 19 years. local politics. She moved to Southwest Harbor Council for Inter-Faith Music. No survivors are Survivors include his wife, two sons, one in 1979, as owner and operator of the White known. brother, and two grandchildren. Birches Campground. Survivors include a brother, an aunt, and two nieces. Friend Raye Winslow Carter '40, January 1, 1984, in Greenwich, Conn., at age 65. She was a mem­ John E. Stevens '65, October 24, 1983, in Nathan L. Westervelt, December 19, 1983, in ber of Delta Delta Delta sorority. After Portland, Maine, at age 40. While at Colby, he Bangor, Maine, at age 21. He graduated from graduating, she was employed as a committee played varsity basketball and was a member Waterville High School and Washington Coun­ clerk in the Maine State Legislature and then in of Lambda Chi Alpha. After graduating, Mr. ty Vocational and Technical Institute, and was the Harvard College library for two years. In Stevens received a master's degree in business employed by Atlantic Builders as a journey­ 1943 she married Clark H. Carter '40. She was administration from the University of Southern man electrician. He died of injuries from a con­ a resident of Chappaqua, N.Y., for 10 years Maine. He was employed as a controller by struction site accident. He is survived by his before moving to Greenwich. An avid golfer, the Loring, Short, and Harmon Company. He parents, Peter and Nancy Fortuine Westervelt Mrs. Carter was captain of the women's golf was a former board member of the Greater '54, three brothers, three sisters, and his pater­ team at Whippoorwill Country Club for many Portland Transit Authority and also a member nal grandmother.

48 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Steve Kirstein 80 Special Activities

An unusually large group of New York City alumni attended a club-sponsored night of theater at La Cage aux Fol/es. An effec­ tive antidote to mid-winter ennui, the evening contained a few surprises. Not only did the show's chorus shout out "Colby Col­ lege" at one point, but alumni had the unexpected opportunity to meet La Cage star George Hearn. In Waterville numerous alumni and friends enjoyed two an­ nual events, meeting soon-to-be alumni at the senior reception and hearing English Professor Colin Mackay as the featured speaker at a potluck supper. Bill and Linda Cotter were guests of Florida groups at lun­ cheons in St. Petersburg, Ft. Myers, and Orlando and at a poolside reception at the home of John McHale '62 in the Miami area.

Health Services Director Carl Nelson and physical therapist May We Take fl Home? The only giraffe . lions, ostriches. and other Barb Croft '79 were panelists for a seminar on sports medicine, spectacular wildlife carried awav by alumni on lasl fall's Kenya safan sponsored by the Greater Boston Alumni Club. Area alumni also were on film, bul the photographs inspire awe. Focusing on very dil­ toured the Museum of Fine Arts' Millet exhibit with Colby pro­ lerenl subjects, alumni participating tn thi fall's lour will visit Israel. fessors David and Sonia Simon leading the tour. Religion Professor Tom Longstaff, an archeolog1st experienced tn that Successful phonathons were held in Providence, New York, country, will gwde the group For further information, write lo the and Boston, thanks to the efforts of club organizers and many alumni office al Colby or call (207) 873-1131. enthusiastic callers. Alumni have inaugurated Colby 2000 Campaign efforts in A Colby Home in NYC? several cities, including New York City last fall and Boston, Portland, and Hartford in the winter. Plans are underway for din­ If you travel to New York frequently, or even occasionally, you ners marking similar drives in other cities-watch for details. might have wished that you had a place there to call your own. Maine hockey fans cheered in vain at the Down East Hockey Many alumni have just that, through the New York City alumni Classic as Colby lost to Brown University, 5-4, in the second club's affi liation with the Brown Club in midtown Manhattan. overtime period. Their vocal chords had been greatly warmed Membership in the Brown Club entitles individual Colby alumni up at the pregame reception held by the Southern Maine Alum­ to use of the club's overnight accommodations, dining facilities, ni Club. banquet room, or meeting rooms at a convenient location. The New York City club's walking tour of Tribeca, followed by Please address inquiries to Ms. Libby Corydon '74, 170 East 94th brunch, provided an excellent opportunity for area alumni to Street, Apt. 4, New York, N.Y. 101 28, or call her at (212) become well acquainted with the area of lower Manhattan in 876-2896. Information is also available from the alumni office at the TRlangle BEiow CAnal Street. Colby. The Colby Alumnus Nonprofit Organization U.S. 39 Colby College Postage Paid/Permit 04901 Waterville, Maine 04901 Waterville, Maine