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- - - . - .. ...:-.:.- .· :;:- . ... . z· > - ' . they be regarded with an appropriate dignity, and The President's Page taken seriously, during the years of residence. The president of a prominent college in another part of the country wrote an article during some of the more difficult years on the campuses entitled "How to Sur­ vive Though Surrounded by Students," or something like that. His first and most important word of advice was "Listen to them."

It did not take two Constitutional Conventions to convince most of us on the faculty and in the admin­ istration that students ought to be listened to. Let me enumerate some of the ways in which students are listened to at Colby, and let me emphasize that what they have to say is taken seriously. Each year two students are elected by their fellows to be representatives to the board of trustees. They do not vote, but neither do the two faculty representa­ tives. They do, however, have the full privilege of the floor, and they receive all the written materials and hear all the discussions that full voting trustees have FEW OBSERVATIONS ARE IN ORDER WITH REGARD TO access to. A the degree of student participation in institu­ Several of the major board committees (Planning, tional g·overnance now customary at Colby. I have Educational Policy, Buildings and Grounds, Student occasionally had inquiries from alumni as to why it is Affairs) have two student members each, appointed by that students, who pay tuition (or their parents do) the chairman,. they are full voting mem hers and gen­ or who are on financial aid, or both, and who pre­ erally active participants. Efforts are made to schedule sumably have read the catalogue before enrolling and meetings when the student members can be present, who therefore have some idea of the objectives and and if meetings are held away from Waterville (quite procedures of the college before arriving, are en­ a few must be held in Boston, for example) the college couraged to take part in the constant process of assists the students with expenses of travel and some­ change that any healthy institution continually under­ times travel arrangements. goes. Isn't change the responsibility of the adminis­ Seven students are chosen by the Student Associa­ tration, the faculty, and the board of trustees? tion to attend faculty meetings. They may regard this ·well, yes, ultimately this responsibility does belong as a dubious privilege, for some faculty meetings are to those in authority. But we have known for a long tedious and prolonged. But the chair always recog­ time at Colby that students, who have a certain per­ nizes them when they wish to speak, and I can think spective that no one else can share, are likely to view of a good number of occasions when student repre­ the college scene with special insight. Who else is so sentatives have brought helpful ideas to the attention keenly aware of the effect of living conditions on the of their professors. atmosphere that we hope is conducive to learning? Who else is likely first to discern growing obsolescence Varying numbers of students are chosen by the in areas of the curriculum? Who but a student knows Student Association to serve as voting members on whether it is easy or difficult to find what he needs in all major college committees. The Educational Policy the library or the bookstore? Committee has three students selected by the .Student Once in a while I read in educational journals or Association and two appointed by the president. The the press an allusion to students as "consumers" or, Rights & Rules Committee has a student majority. much worse, "products." I prefer to think of them as Whenever there are special ad hoc committees (study colleagues and participants in a complex and extreme­ committees, search committees for important appoint­ ly rewarding process. When students graduate from ments, committees to make preliminary recommenda­ Colby they are greeted at Commencement as "non tions on new building or renovation programs), it is iam discipuli sed £rates et socii." 1£ they are to be our practice to involve student members. regarded in this light when the undergraduate pro­ The Student Association itself has a number of cedures have been completed, it is only proper that significant responsibilities, one of the heaviest of 1,1 ...

New Approaches

n1, to Career Counseling

"There is mounting evidence of an intense new self­ interest on the part of students entering college today. That interest manifests itself in their anxiousness to get started immediately on professional careers, to en­ gage in the practical, to know more clearly what the returns will be for academic performance." Willard G. Wyman, Dean of Students

N MANY WAYS THIS NEW FOCUS SEEMS A PLEASING Schools and Colleges (see center section): "All educa· I change from the turmoil of the sixties. But educa­ tion, including training for specific vocations or acqui­ tors are nevertheless concerned about its implications. sitions of certain skills, should be liberal education for Dean \Vyman has warned that a reshaping of our it is by extending our dimemions and our perspectives - goals in order Lo accommodate the new professional­ that we do liberate the spirit and enrich our lives." ism may indeed pose a threat to the liberal arts Therefore Colby today, as in the past, continues to equal in magnitude - though not intensity - to that maintain that the best preparation for life is a broad of the sixties. "Four years of grade-hustling," he points acquaintance with human knowledge. But it is in­ - out, "staying close to a special - and comfortable - creasingly responsive to the pragmatic needs of today' field of interest, ref using to stretch and test oneself for students. On any given

N AN ERA OF DEPRESSED JOB MARKETS AND INFLATION­ plam; a program which will help them acquire fact­ I ary spirals, today's college student faces a situation finding and decision-making skills which will serve almost as frustrating as that faced by students in the them

3. Make post-Colby plans. through one or two semesters. With the new Flexible 4. Attain these post-Colby goals. Fifteen option, some students are finding it possible to "The emphasis," stresses Sid Farr, director of finan­ earn credits for off-campus employment, subject to cial aid and career counseling, "is on individual coun­ faculty approval. seling." It begins during a freshman's first week at Colby when the Strong Vocational Interest Blank is How Alumni Can Help administered. About 85 3 of the freshman class takes It is anticipated that graduating seniors placed in the SVlB, given on a voluntary basis. satisfying jobs through the efforts of alumni, career When the results are received, students arrange con­ counseling staff and other friends of,the college will, ferences with a member of the staff. "This measure­ in turn, help graduating seniors following them. "A ment device," says Mr. Farr, "is helpful in providing self-feeding alumni referral system is evolving from a launching point for the student who wants to learn this process," comments Sid Farr. "Unquestionably, it more about himself and his interests. It's extremely will be a prominent feature of the program in the valuable now, in helping him make the right academic rl years to come." choices, and later, when he's choosing a career." The Career Counseling Office has plans for a series of "mini-courses" or seminars to assist in the proce!>s Vocational Interest Seminars of application, interview, and job selection, to be of­ fered beginning in the fall of 1975. The staff hopes to A series of Vocational Interest Seminars is arranged enlist the aid of many Colby alumni who will be will­ each year by Gary vVeaver, assistant to the director of ing to assist, either in these seminars, or in a referral career counseling. These informal meetings with re­ system through which students can talk in depth with cent Colby graduates and friends of the college provide alumni from particular professions. students an opportunity to discuss on a personal basis Any alumnus willing· to assist Colby students is en­ what it's really like to be a member of a particular couraged to forward his name, address, class, title, and occupational area. Recent seminars have brought occupational description to the Career Counseling members of the legal, medical, business and journalism Office. professions to the campus. Later in the academic year when job hunting begins in earnest, the office brings What do Colby Graduates Do."? representatives of major retailing, banking, and insur­ ance firms to Colby to interview prospective appli­ The Career Counseling Office obtains statistics, largely cants. through annual surveys and questionnaires sent to gTaduating seniors. The unfortunate aspect of this Opportunities Off-Campus type of questioning is the low rate of return. Histori­ cally, approximately 303 of our graduates immediate­ Work experience gained prior to graduation can be in­ ly enter graduate school with another 20 to 303 going valuable in selecting a vocation. In the past, off-cam­ into graduate programs within the first 10 years after pus opportunities for employment were limited to the graduation. Among those entering the job market di­ January program and to summer jobs. Now there is rectly, business, education and social work in that another option - the College Venture Program - order attract the greatest number of students. established by Northeastern University, which gives The Career Counseling Office is continually de­ students off-campus placement possibilities in a wide veloping new approaches to counseling and placement. range of activities which relate to their academic fields. Individualized counseling, offered over four years, pro­ A student usually enters the Off-Campus Experience vides greater assistance to a greater number of stu­ Program in February or June, and works on the job dents. ITH THE NATIONWIDE GROWTH OF ETHNIC AND W minority studies within the past half-decade, Colby College has emerged as a frontrunner in the field of black studies. A Bouque The progTam was born at Colby in 1969 with the occurrence of two significant events: A black studies subcommittee of the Educational Policy Committee was formed and Jack Foner joined the faculty. Based on the principle that the primary concern of black studies is to provide all students with "the recognition of the black experience in America," the work of the subcommittee has resulted in such aca­ demic endeavors as the encouragement of curriculum development, scholarly exchanges through visiting lecturers, student exchanges, and faculty visits to other colleges to examine new programs. The subcommittee also adhered to the belief that black studies draw from numerous disciplines and, while history remains the bulwark of the progTam, re­ lated courses are currently offered in English, sociolog·y and philosophy. An acknowledged expert in the field of Afro-Ameri­ can history, Professor Foner's four black history courses, which begin with African origins and con­ tinue to the present, give Colby the distinction of having the most extensive black history progTam of any undergraduate college in the country. Enrollment in Foner's courses, which annually is close to 100, attests to their popularity. Acknowledging that his courses are taken by many students who are not history majors, he says that the study of the black experience in this country "appeals not only with those concerned with history, but to stu­ dents of American studies, art, music, literature, sociol­ ogy and even economics." Professor Fon "One cannot have a fundamental understanding of United States history," Foner maintains, "without having a fundamental understanding of the black condition."

4 ERHAPS THE GREATEST TRIBUTE TO A TEACHER IS TO BE P o Jack honored by students. The Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU) recently prepared and Foner hosted a banquet in honor of professor of history Jack Foner. A widely-recognized scholar and the key figure in the growth of Colby's Black Studies Program, Prof. Foner will be on sabbatical leave next semester. Among those invited to honor him was Andrea Benton Rushing, professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, who said: "This evening is a welcome celebration, a needed celebration. Too often, in the course of black struggle, we, busily pressing on, ignore our victories and pause only at our defeats. Tonight we pay tribute to a serious, long-time student of black history whose mighty scholarship ante-dates opportunist attempts to make it a chic intellectual fact. We respect him for his self-knowledge: a Euro-American who, unasked, say� without boring defensiveness, that of course racism has left its imprint on him. We honor him for his quiet sincerity and integrity. Mostly, we single him out for, in the trying and troubled aftermath of the collapse of the liberal-black alliance, being able to serve and guide black students without insisting that they like him first. I have seen black students change during their sojourn at Colby, and I know that Prof. Foner's person and courses provided a bulwark of support for them during strange struggles on alien ground. 'Give me,' the gospel song says, 'my flowers while I yet live, !>O that I may see the beauty that they bring.' This dinner is SOBU's bouquet to Jack Foner."

r- .drea Rushing

... 5 Senior Scholars Each year a specially selected group of seniors pursue projects in their major fields outside the limits of the classroom. There are twelve Senior Scholars this year. In addition to the six pictured here are Carol Houde (psychology), Richard Norwood (German), Richard Perkins (administra­ tive science), Laurie White (art), Russell Sehnert (English), and Scott Shagin (history).

Snowshoe hare on Mayflower Hill won't have many secrets left when Deborah Seel completes her Senior Scholar project. Using the Perkins Arboretum as her campus laboratory, the Somers, Conn., biology major is studying population density and behavior of local Snowshoe hare. She estimates a herd of about eighteen in the arboretum and by clipping toenails before releasing them, she is able to track the hare in most snow conditions. Supervising her work is assistant professor of biology William Gilbert.

6 Thorough research of the public policy of Maine in the area of men­ tal illness is the subject of William Muller's project. The Boonton, N. ]. , psychology major is tracing the evolution of laws and attitudes having to do with confinement and treatment of the mentally ill in Maine. He is working under the direction of Professor Paul Perez, a clinical psychologist.

"Back in the days of slavery, reli­ gion was the only emotional. polit­ ical, and social outlet the black man had, " says Curtis Johnson, a philosophy major from the Bronx, N. Y., who is working on a history of black theology in America. Cur­ tis and his advisor, Professor Thomas Longstaff of the philoso­ phy and religion department, spent the first semester tracing the theo­ logical roots of black religion from its African origins through slavery and emancipation. Curtis is spend­ ing January and the second semes­ ter on a less-documented area, the Twentieth Century. ''There's not much written about blacks in the '40s and '50s," says Curtis, who has hopes of eventually publishing the work.

7 To write a novel, you compose a beginning, a middle and an end, right? Not according to Terry Reilly, an English major from East Lyme, Conn. "The ending is all written," grins Terry, who works construction sum­ mers and vacations to finance his Colby educ�tion. "And the beginning, and parts of the middle." The conflict in Terry's novel, which he hopes will total around 200 pages, is centered around placing charac­ ters from different backgrounds into similar situations and seeing how they react. Faculty advisor �harles Bassett of the English department says of Terry's un­ linear approach to novelmaking: "/ can't tell anyone how to write his book. It's a good novel. I think he'll go places."

Few aspiring Toscaninis have the opportunity to study Symphony orchestras. Tom, who has his finger in conducting with a conductor of not one but two sym­ virtually every musical pie on campus, is applying phony orchestras. Tom Iacono, a music major from what he has learned about choral conducting this Cranston, R.I., is learning the principles of conducting January as director of a group researching and per­ and score-reading from Professor Peter Re, who leads forming negro spirituals. both the Bangor Symphony and the Colby Community In Robert Culff's The World of Toys he says: "Play has always been a very important part of childhood; it is the means through which the world is explored and basic manipulative skills are developed." The theme of "play" is intrinsic to the sculpture of Nanon Weidmann of Belleville, Ill., whose Senior Scholar tutor is assistant professor of art Harriett Matthews. "Many of my ideas come from images of children at play, " Nan says. "They embody humor through the images they catalyze, the diminution of size and the slight abstraction of elements."

9 Balmy Days in Gilead

And other Recollections of President Arthur J. Roberts

by Libby Pulsifer '21

N 1918, 1920, 1921, AND 1922, I miles away to obtain ice from his the second floor were four or five I spent splendid summers with ice house and wood from his wood bedrooms and a small room over Arthur Jeremiah Roberts at his pile. my bedroom. This was the presi­ summer home in Gilead, Maine. Heat was obtained from a kit­ dent's office. Under the building The Peabody Inn was the birth­ chen stove and a Franklin Stove in was a partial cold cellar. Across the place and childhood home of his the living room. Both burned front was a vine-covered five- or wife. After finishing high school, wood. Registers in the ceiling six-foot-wide porch, furnished with Mr. Roberts scaled lumber in the allowed a minimum amount of comfortable chairs. nearby forest. While there, he met heat to rise to the bedrooms in the In previous years the president Mrs. Roberts-to-be, and her second story. The furnishings were had em ployed a secretary. My mother's influence was an impor­ antiques in good repair. On the uncle, Herbert Libby, acted as his tant one that contributed to his main floor there was a spacious liv­ secretary for several summers. Dur­ decision to go to Colby College. ing room, across the hall from ing my time at Gilead, the presi­ A quiet, dusty road passed in which was a parlor which was sel­ dent carried on all of his corres­ front of their summer home. It led dom used. Off the parlor was my pondence by himself, in long hand. from Bethel to Gorham, New small bedroom. There was also a He often wrote fifty letters a day. Hampshire. The house was about good-sized dining room, butler's The house was occupied by three miles from the Gilead rail­ pantry, and an ample kitchen. On President and Mrs. Roberts, her road station and its country store. Since that time the road has been paved and is much used by auto­ mobiles. In my time, you could al­ most count the number of auto­ mobiles that went by in a day. The house was kept much as it always had been. Water was obtained by pump and heated on a wood stove. There was the usual woodshed, which at one end contained the one-holer used by all of the family. Bathing was accomplished by the use of a wash cloth, pitcher of water, and a big wash bowl. Every day or two, I would supplement this by a brief soapy bath in a near­ by icy-cold mountain stream in the woods, a few hundred yards from the house. We usually had a Dodge sedan. For hauling purposes, it possessed

a trailer. With this I would go to From left: Miss Peabody (Mrs. Roberts' sister), Libby Pulsifer '21, Mrs. Roberts, a farmer's house three or four President Roberts, circa 1918.

10 sister, usually some of their rela­ the paper, at once look up the casu­ downstream. I was a little upstream tives, and a kitchen maid. The alty lists. As he quickly glanced from him at the time and watching family always functioned without down the list his eyes would stop a this dignified gentleman struggle to any apparent disagreement and moment here and there and he retrieve his hat, get out of the with much thought and courtesy would appear extremely sober. On water and onto the shore and shake to Mrs. Roberts. such occasions he would soon say to himself dry, was too funny for me me, "Pulsifer, you drive on by your­ to see without audible laughter. He DID MOST OF THE MASCULINE �elf, and I'll walk home." So, he took one look at me and grunted,

I chores about the house and would trudge the three miles back "Wouldn't you like to have some grounds, while the president to the house along the dusty road, of your gang here to enjoy this spectacle." With that he strode off worked in his extensive vegetable arriving in time for the usual noon­ gardens. One of these was in front day dinner. On such a day his mood down the path through the woods to home. of the house across the road, and was one of quiet. He did not in­ I was paid by the summer. As I the other was in beautiful inter­ dulge in the usual jocular conver­ recall, a check of about $17 to vale land along the Androscoggin sation. After dinner he would retire 5 S200 was given me at the end of the River. The intervale land was to his office and write letters for job. During the summer, if I some six to ten feet lower than the two or three hours. As I recall such needed any spending money I had ground upon which the house occasions, which were numerous in the fall of 1 18, I get a lump in my to justify it, and he begrudgingly and the Grand Trunk Railroad 9 throat and my own dictation falters. gave it to me. For instance, if I tracks behind the house were built. wanted a haircut, I'd have to keep On two or three days a week the He had many letters from boys asking for the money until my hair president, Mrs. Roberts, her sister overseas in the Army. Several such was as shaggy as most boys wear it and I would take a drive up into former students he had separated from the college because of their now. Almost every day, when we the mountains to the west and not having abided by the rules or went to the country store, he would have a picnic supper as the sun kept up in their courses. News give me twenty cents to buy cigars went down. These were precious from them was as eagerly received with. There would be two five-cent occasions and the views of the and replies to their letters were as cigars for him and one ten-cent mountains were splendid. We thouglllfully sent as to the many cigar for me. The president said he would go to Jefferson Highlands, others. did not want to cheapen my taste. Pinkham Notch, Colebrook, or Often we would sit in the evening the Rangeley Lake area. on the porch, as the sun went The Grand Trunk Railroa

II out on the athletic field when the president wandered out onto the field. He watched me take a couple of vaults and then scornfully said, "Pulsifer, I'll give you a dollar for every point you make at the State meet." As it happened, I made one point by getting third place in the vault. A couple of days later I had a letter from the president's office containing one dollar with the com­ ment, "I enclose a check for your pole vault point at the price agreed upon."

REN VALE, ART SULLIVAN AND

G several others of us formed a hockey team in the winter of 1919 The Roberts' summer home in Gilead: ''You could almost count the number of or 1920. It wasn't very successful. automobiles that went by in a day." This group of players would play whomever we could get for oppon­ ents, usually in an improvised rink dent never once mentioned this to stand it," he strode out of the on the south side of the river just me again. He must have surmised room. below the Waterville-Winslow what happened and decided that One time we students got into an Bridge. After one such game, the he had said to me all that should awful lot of trouble with a profes­ sports section of the Waterville be said and that perhaps I was as sor of English named Haney. The Morning Sentinel published an arti­ unhappy as he was with what had result was that a considerable num­ cle about a "Colby College Hockey taken place. ber of students were dropped from Team" playing a game on the pre­ his course. We were called before ceding Sunday. Early that morning CLASSMATE NAMED HOIS (FRANK the president, who reprimanded us the president appeared at my abode A J. Hois '21], who had lived at severely and then said, "What are and yelled "Pulsifer!" in a loud the Phi Delta Theta House next you going to do to graduate if you voice. I soon appeared. He said door to President Roberts' home, can't have this English course?" I emphatically that he had, on the was a key man in a band. On one volunteered, "WE will just have to previous Sunday, preached a ser­ occasion this band played in its take your special English course, mon in an Augusta church. front yard well into the night. The President." He made no comment In his opinion it was not appro­ president's window was seen to go but allowed us to do just that. priate that a Colby College athletic up and he was seen to be at the Prexy Roberts, although he was team should have engaged in a window in the night, but the band, a humble and sensitive man, com­ newspaper-reported game at the especially Hois, played louder and manded respect and consideration same time. After this declaration, louder so the president's voice of for himself as a person and for all he stomped out. I told some of my remonstrance could not be heard. human beings. He was a very solid fellows of his disapproval and a Finally the blaring died a natural citizen with ideals of responsibility newspaper reporter came to inter­ death in the early morning hours. and he conducted himself in such a view me about it. I carefully ex­ While the boys were eating next way as to be a splendid example plained to the reporter that I morning's breakfast, Prexy burst for young people of any generation. wanted nothing reported about into the Phi Delta Theta House Those of us who were fortunate what the president had said to me, and addressed them with "What on enough to know him well have but I did quote the president. To earth were you fellows trying to do been beneficially stamped for life. my chagrin the reporter had print­ last night?" I think it was Hois After his death, in October 1927, ed in the next day's newspaper the who spoke up and said, "President, found among his papers on his desk president's words and my com­ that was the Phi Delts' annual con­ was this quotation: "I have done ments. The reason for telling the cert." Muttering "If it only hap­ what Thou hast given me to do." story is to emphasize that the presi- pens once a year, I think I can How fitting!

12 the integrity of individual accom­ plishment and reputation." Following the announcement of the court decision, President Strider issued the following state­ ment: "I am of course pleased with this decision by the First Circuit Court because it recognizes and protects the importance of a unique identity for educational institu­ tions like Colby College. I am sure that the former Colby Junior College for Women, an institution of higher learning for which I have great respect, will be able to accomplish its objective of elimi­ nating the junior college image and at the same time findinga name which does not impinge upon the identity of Colby College."

James Reston is Lovejoy Fellow Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner James Reston of The New York Times has been named Colby's 23rd recipient of the Elijah Parish Love­ joy Award. He will be honored at the college's annual Lovejoy Con­ vocation on Monday evening, March i7. Except for a i5-month period as executive editor of The Times, he has reported regularly from Wash­ The College ington for the paper for the past 29 years. He became associate editor in i964; executive editor in ig68, and a vice president of The New York Times in ig6g. In i973 he Court Decision Ends the was named to The Times' board of directors. ''Which Colby?" Confusion A recipient of some of journal­ ism's most prestigious awards, Mr. After a long court battle, Colby Women. The New London, N.H., Reston has won the Overseas Press College has won the lawsuit to pro­ college had taken the new name in A ward three times and the George tect its name. May of i973. Polk Memorial Award twice. He The United States Court of In his decision, Senior Circuit has received i8 honorary degrees Appeals for the First Circuit has Judge Bailey Aldrich held that the from colleges and universities overturned a Federal District Court name Colby College-New Hamp­ throughout the country. decision and has permanently en­ shire "is an intrusion on the in­ Mr. Reston is the author of joined the use of the name Colby ter"!st of the plaintiffin its own three books. Sketches in the Sand, College-New Hampshire by the identity and good will, and the published in i967, is his most re­ former Colby Junior College for interest of the public in preserving cent.

13 as natural as learning and it is hoped that through efforts like the CCS Workshop list, the communal exchange of skills and knowledge can become a spontaneous and fundamental process in education.

Student Representation Martha Nist '76 of Kenmore, N.Y., has been elected to serve as a stu­ dent representative to the Colby board of trustees. Elected by vote of the student body to filla vacant seat, she will serve during the cur­ rent academic year along with a second student representative, Gerard Connolly of Portland. Martha is a junior dean's list student majoring in biology and College Historian Ernest C. Marriner and Nellie Pottle Hankins '25 plan for Colby's bicentennial exhibition. sociology.

"Idiot Inventions" and terrarium building, rock climbing, Ping Pong star gazing and a variety of other imaginative subjects. Everybody can teach something, One CCS student declares his and, somewhere, there is someone expertise in the "Construction of who wants to learn about it. That's Domes and other Idiot Inven­ the assumption behind the list of tions," and while they may not Center Workshops compiled by find their workshops filledwith students in Colby College's Center students, three others claim to for Coordinated Studies (CCS). specialize in "Bad Study Habits Offering some 50 topics ranging and Procrastination." from "Antique Auto Restoration" According to Debbie Kraus, a to "Rudimentary Italic Handwrit­ sophomore from New York City ing," the list includes only the and the CCS member who orga­ subject offered and the student nized the workshops, the list is far "teacher." The rest is up to the from complete. It is sometimes Books person wishing to learn who must difficult to convince people that contact the instructor and create their peculiar talents might in­ ] ohn Butler Yeats the "workshop." terest others. Ms. Kraus says, "The DOUGLAS N. ARCHIBALD Crafts such as pottery, macrame, people on this list range from be­ Bucknell University Press: 1974 embroidery, candlemaking and ing terribly interested in teaching $4·50 weaving are well represented, some their craft to wishing we hadn't being offered by several individ­ asked them what they could do!" The persistent troubles in North­ uals. Instruction offered for vari­ In effect, the Center has utilized ern Ireland, which so of ten seem ous musical instruments includes the talent potential of its members tragically senseless to even the banjo, dulcimer, guitar, harmon­ to form an "education co-op." most objective observer, have rath­ ica, piano, mandolin, recorder and Though the subject may be only as er tarnished the Irish image these trumpet. There are students will­ academic as "The Art of Massage" days. Thus it is not only a refresh­ ing to teach aerodynamics, basket­ or "Ping Pong," the workshops ing experience but also a valuable ball, icefishing, chess, quilting, represent the idea that teaching is corrective to read about an Irish-

14 man of whom the great American ticularly good at discerning the 17 photographs, and eight draw­ artist John Sloan could write (to order in J.B.'s ideas where a less ings. Yeats's daughter), "A few score men acute critic would find only chaos. Professor Hogendorn, a graduate such as your father in the world at J.B.'s ties with such seemingly of Wesleyan University with mas­ any one time would cure its sick­ diverse forces as the Anglo- ter's and doctoral degrees from the ness." The reference to the paren­ Irish tradition, English Romanti­ London School of Economics, is an tal role is significant, for the elder cism, and the Utilitarianism of associate professor of economics Yeats has been known primarily John Stuart Mill are convincingly and has been chairman of the de­ as the father of geniuses. Son Wil­ demonstrated and connected. partment since 1972. He has been liam Butler became the greatest Finally, the book is eloquently a Fulbright Scholar to Great Bri­ modern poet; sonJack, the fore­ and often movingly written, as in tain; a Danforth (Kent) Fellow; a most Irish painter. There were also the closing description of Jack Ford Foundation visiting professor two daughters who, in more liber­ Yeats's painting "Glory:" "It is at Robert College, Istanbul, Tur­ ated times, might have achieved powerful and triumphant and key; an Arthur Cole Fellow of the considerable fame, and who did vivid, and it depicts three figures­ Council for Research on Economic manage to play a major role in the son, father, grandfather - meet­ History; and a Penrose Fellow of crafts movement in Ireland. It is ing together and greeting the glory the American Philosophical Soci­ particularly appropriate, therefore, of a western Irish landscape and of ety. For the coming six months he that ProfessorArchibald should their own existence. The painting will be a Fulbright-Hays senior focus here not on the "father" but celebrates generational continuity lecturer at Ahmadu Bello Univer­ on the man himself. and expansive life. The old man - sity, Zaria, Nigeria. J.B. Yeats was a writer, a bril­ thin, athletic, one hand exuberant­ Professor Hogendorn teaches de­ liant conversationalist, and an in­ ly waving his cap, the other hold­ velopment economics and interna­ teresting, if sometimes confusing, ing aloft the golden-haired, shout­ tional trade. His research specialty thinker. He was a splendid human ing boy - recalls the indestruct­ is West African economic history. being, a man of such large sympa­ able Bowsie of Jack's novel, The In Nigeria he will be writing a thies that at the age of 81 he was Charmed Life. It also bears a fam­ new book on agricultural develop­ able to appreciate (and perceptive­ ily resemblance to the grand ment in that country's northern ly analyze) the then highly con­ progenitor of the astonishing region. troversial Ulysses. He was alsoa Yeatses." painter - erratic and quirky but The book's ultimate virtue is capable of doing first-rate work, as precisely that it establishes the anyone who has seen his magnifi­ "progenitor's" own right to a cen­ cent portraits in the Abbey Thea­ tral place in that brilliant com­ tre and the Dublin galleries will pany. attest. Phillip L. Marcus Professor Archibald summarizes Cornell University The Psychologists the strengths of J.B. Yeat's work Editor's Note: Professor Archibald, T. S. KRAWIEC '35, Editor with charcoal and brush: "His a graduate of Dartmouth and the Oxford University Press: 1972 best sketches are marvelous in their University of Michigan, is chair­ (Volume I); 1974 (Volume II) verisimilitude and vitality, their man of the English department. $12.90 sense of movement and character. His portraits are informed by a This two-volume set is a collection sure instinct, a respect for and ModemEconomics of autobiographical essays by con­ JAN S. HOGENDORN understanding of his sitter, and by temporary psychologists, each dis­ broad sympathy and human in­ Cambridge: Winthrop; 1974 tinguished in his or her own field terest. He is an unusually thought­ of academic specialty. Some have ful portrait painter - both con­ Modern Economics represents an excelled in teaching; others in re­ siderate and reflective." This is a effort to present economic theory search or writing. just appraisal of the elder Yeats; in a shorter and more readable Each contributor to The Psy­ it also describes perfectly Professor format than the standard text­ chologists presents the major Archiba d's own sympathetic and books in the field. The book is themes lending coherence to his penetrating approach. He is par- illustrated with over 200 diagrams, work and the influences - per-

15 sonal and situational - which he to Addis Ababa, to a distant moun­ Needlepoint: DesignYour Own perceives as having shaped his tain village to visit a mission, to MURIEL LEWIS BAKER '28 career. Each relates both the sub­ the ancient city of Gondar; moun­ BARBARA EYRE stance and method of his involve­ tain hikes taken just for the pleas­ MAGGIE WALL ment in all the aspects of academic ure of viewing the beauty of the CHARLOTTE WESTERFIELD life: research and writing, teach­ surrounding countryside. New York: Charles Scribner's; ing, administrative and organiza­ Perhaps the most interesting 1974 tional activities. aspect of the book is its description $12.50 All convey, often quite vividly, of Brad and Sue's daily agricultural the excitement they have felt at pursuits, first in their own back­ If you are appalled by the high uncovering some new phenomenon yard project, then in the Shofite cost of commercial and custom­ or in clarifying a conceptual prob­ Agricultural Project which they made needlepoint patterns and lem, and equally germane, the conceived and developed as a would like the excitement and frustration and disappointment means of demonstrating to the pleasure of working on your own experienced when things were not local people what could be done to original designs, Needlepoint: De­ going well. As they reflect on their improve their lot through the ap­ sign Your Own can help. Written successes and failures, many offer lication of intelligence, hard work, by four experts, it explains the advice to the neophyte on how and resourcefulness. principles of needlepoint design. best to optimize the productivity "You don't have to be a Picasso of his career. This is particularly or a Matisse, or to have had formal evident in the account given by God Save the Child art training to turn your own ideas each of how he came to choose ROBERT B. PARKER '54 into needlepoint," write the au­ psychology as a career and then Boston: Houghton Miffiin: 1974 thors. With patience, a feeling for the particular area of his unique $5·95 color, some drawing or tracing contribution. The reasons are as ability and practice, you can learn varied as the psychologists them­ Spenser, the detective who made to translate your own ideas into selves. his debut in Parker's first suspense needlepoint designs. The authors T. S. Krawiec is professor of novel, The Godwulf Manuscript, provide complete information on psychology at Skidmore College. is back, as canny, resilient, and tools and materials; discuss the wryly funny as he was in his first fundamentals of unity, proportion, adventure. But the stakes are contrast, rhythm, balance and Three Years in Gemu Gofa higher this time - he is searching color; and tell how the design is IRMA GRIGG B. for a child. Fifteen-year old Kevin applied to the canvas. They also OL uE (GRIGG As T D BY S '67) AND Bartlett is missing from his home tell how to design for specific BRAD COADY '67 in a comfortable Boston suburb. stitches and for special occasions New York: Vantage Press; 1974 His parents believe him kidnapped or places; how to work initials, $4·95 ... Spenser's not so sure. borders, and boxing; and how to Pressed between the frantic mount and block the finished The Peace Corps adventures of a parents demanding action and the piece. young, newly married couple, first irate police chief warning him to Muriel Lewis Baker is a designer as teachers, then as rural develop­ keep off the grass, Spenser goes his and nationally known teacher and ment workers in the Gemu Gofa independent way. By biding his author of several books on needle­ province of Ethiopia, are related time and tracking down some point and crewel. in the form of letters from Brad rather eerie clues, he solves the and Sue Coady to their families in mystery, but not before there has the States. Many of these letters been a death and a fight with describe typical days in their lives Goliath himself. New England as schoolteachers in Felege Newey readers will enjoy the Boston - bartering for food in the scenario and the wry commentary Ethiopian markets; carrying jugs on North Shore suburbia. of water for their household needs; Robert B. Parker is a professor playing on the teachers' soccer of English at Northeastern Univer­ team. Others deal with special days sity, specializing in American liter­ - a visit from Haile Selassie; trips ature.

16 record 4, 114 yards rushing, and the sixth or seventh game) he will was chosen for several All-New become Colby's all-time basketball England teams. scoring and rebounding leader. Senior David Bright heads a It is the freshmen who are pro­ swim team that looks to be one of viding the punch on the varsity Colby's strongest squads in quite a hockey squad. Chris Morrisey while. Bright, an all-purpose swim­ (West Hartford, Conn.) and Jim mer from Southport, Conn., will Tribble (Plymouth, Mass.) share be aided by Eel Cronick (Herndon, Peter Gorniewicz, record-setting the team lead in scoring with 13 Va.) and prep school All-American running back, has been named (of 26) goals scored. The Mules Blair Hawley (Winchester, lass.). winner of the 1974 "Swede" Nel­ split in the Merrimack Invitational The women's hockey team won son National Award for Sports­ Tournament over the Christmas its opener against archrival Brown manship, one of the most presti­ holidays with an 11-4 victory over 3- 1. Veteran defensemen Val Jones gious of all football honors. Bridgewater State and a 12-0 loss (Needham, Mass.) and Janet l\fc­ The award, sponsored by the to St. Anselm's. Manama (Belmont, lass) received Boston Gridiron Club, will be pre­ All eyes will be on Brad Moore excellent back-up from freshman sented to Peter at Boston's Sher­ (Hallowell) this year as, at some goalie Joann Barry (\1\Testford, aton Plaza Hotel on February 8. point early in the season (about Mass.). Dan Rapaport '74 The second Colby player to win the coveted award (George Roden '60 captured the honor in 1959), Gorniewicz was cited by the selec­ Winter Sports Schedule * tion committee for displaying ex­ VARSITY BASKETBALL VARSITY HOCKEY traordinary character and spirit as Feb. Norwich H 3:00 Feb. Norwich H 7 :00 well as ability on the football field. 5 Bowdoin A 7 :30 5 Salem St. A. 8:30 Despite an injury-filled year, the Springfield H 7:00 8 Northeastern A 3:00 11 Maine A : 35 14 U. Mass. H 7 :00 talented senior from Ipswich, 7 12 Babson H 7 :00 15 Amherst H 3:00 Mass., finished his career with a 14 Trinity H 9:00 19 Bowdoin H 7:00 17 Bates H 7:00 22 Norwich A 2:00 22 Williams H 3:00 26 U. Vermont H 7:00 24 Lowell Tech. A 7:00 Mar. Bowdoin A 7 : 30 27 Maine H 7:00 l\Iar. Bowdoin H 3:00 VARSITY SKIING Feb. Div. II Meet at

VARSITY TRACK Keene St. 7-8 Div. II Meet at Feb. Colby Norwich Invitational H 1:00 14-15 Div. II Champ. 8 Maine at Sugarloaf Invitational A 1:00 21-22 Div. I Meet at 15 Easterns Middlebury 22 Lowell Tech_ H 1:00 28 Div. II Meet at 26 Bowdoin A 7:00 Franklin Pierce 28 New Englands Mar. Div. II Meet at at U. Conn. Franklin Pierce Mar. New Englands ' at U. Conn. WOMEN S BASKETBALL 7-8 ICAAAA Feb. 3 Husson A 5 :45 15 UMPI A 12:00 VARSITY SQUASH 18 Bowdoin H 3:00 Feb. Round Robin 24 UMF H 3:30 Janet McManama '76 was the winner at Trinity A 12:30 27 Westbrook A 3:30 of the Maine State Intercollegiate Ten­ 8 MIT A 2:00 Mar. 4 UMPG A 3:00 nis Singles competition. Jn cold weath­ 21 Bowdoin and 10 Husson H 7 : 00 er Janet trades in her racket for a Harvard A 2:00 13-15 State Tourney hocke)• stick; she is a key player in the •as of February 1 defensive line of the women's ice hock­ ey tea m.

17 Class News

Peter Pennypacker '69

Mrs. Edward P. Tucker to the rehearsals of the Brattleboro Music New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Last summer (Marian Drisko) Center Chorus. They are working on she kept busy with entertaining house­ 2 Peach Tree Road Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Their enjoy­ guests, refinishing old furniture and can­ Glastonbury, Conn. 06033 ment of these trips is further enhanced ,by ing chairs • Paul Gates' address, I be­ 24 the overnight hospitality of one of Brad's lieve, is the same with one exception, use Middlebury College friends. Marion is McGraw Hall instead of West Sibley. News is a bit scarce for this issue but I chairman of the Human Resource Com­ The Gateses still teach at Syracuse and expect our 50th reunion is responsible for mittee of the New London Area League Paul has written a book on Public Land this! I hope to send off a class letter in of Women Voters (whose membership in­ Disposal in California. As a result of this the spring, providing you send me news. cludes two males!). She is also chairman writing, Paul has traveled extensively in Write me anytime and I'll stash the items of the Christian Education Committee in California. His leisure hours are spent away in safekeeping for the spring letter. the local Baptist Church • George on his son's dairy farm or cutting fire­ In July, the V. Ben Toomeys were hon­ Nickerson was elected president of the place wood on his own ten-acre woodlot. ored on their 50th wedding anniversary Mansfield Clinic Advisory Board. This His 13-year old grandson starred in the by their friends and relatives at a recep­ 12-member group of laymen and women final football game of the season. Paul tion-luncheon for about 100 guests. Fol­ is responsible for organizing and promot­ comments, "That I could produce a son lowing this happy affair, the Toomeys left ing public health education programs of who is a farmer and a grandson who is for a tour of Ireland. As many of you Thayer Hospital through the schools, and a football hound passeth all understand­ know, Ben has been a sports writer for planning radio forums and news articles ing!" • Therese Hall Carroll writes the Waterville Morning Sentinel and • John Berry, M.D., our inimitable M.C. that she is presently engaged in jury duty other newspapers for years. He is editor at our 50th reunion banquet, is semi-re­ but normally works as a volunteer on the of the Wyandotte Yarn, a mill paper pub­ tired. John is trying to adjust to this Stafford County lunch program for senior lished quarterly. For serving as a football extra leisme by golfing, hunting, lec­ citizens. She finds it difficult to believe official for nearly 40 years and as presi­ turing and traveling. The Berrys recently .that her younger son is old enough to dent of the Maine Football Officials traveled through Germany, Austria and have retired from the army earlier this Assoc., Ben was the recipient of a Colby Switzerland • Sue Sipprelle Daye re­ year • Joe and Ervena Goodale Smith Gavel • Marion Brown Newcomb has tired in June from teaching in the high enjoyed a three-week trip that took them joined the rest of us retirees. However, school in St. Moriches, N.Y. She plans to the national convention of the Photo­ she leads a very active life. She and her to spend summers at her home at 2 Cliff graphic Society of America in Chicago. husband Brad drive to Brattleboro, Vt., St., Plymouth, Mass., and the winter Following this, they visited their son's from New London, N.H., every Sunday months near relatives at 313 Cedar St., "new" family in California. George lost

18 Restoring Confidence : The Role of Education

by ROBERT E. L. STRIDER

On December 12, 1974, President Strider was irst of all, what about our confidence? Does it invited to address the Annual Meeting of the Fneed restoring? I think it clearly does. We have New England Association of Schools and Colleges . been through all sorts of traumas lately, and there We are pleased to share his comments with the have been a good many public expressions of readers of the Colby Alumnus. despair. But as Norman Cousins observes in this week's Saturday Review, "The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling . People who fear t is an honor to be invited to speak before the the worst tend to invite it." I agree with Mr. I annual meeting of the New England Associa­ Cousins, and I think it is time we sat up straight tion of Schools and Colleges, an organization and decided what to do. wi th which I have had a continuing association over the past fifteen years or so, and the member­ Not long ago a Louis Harris poll revealed that ship of which includes quite a number of personal since 1966 there has been a noticeable drop in

friends. The educational community is a worthy · public confidence in quite a number of respected assembly, and I think we can all agree that with­ American institutions : the executive branch of the out such a community the future of our society Federal Government, Congress, the Supreme would be parlous indeed. It may be parlous any­ Court, the press, organized labor, organized way, but if there is any hope at all for the future religion, the purveyors of news on television, (and I certainly think there is) part of that hope business and industry, the military, and institu­ arises from the continuing vigor of the system of tions of higher education. These are all enterprises education that has grown up in the past century in which a measure of public trust is to be ex­ in this land of ours . pected, and the steady diminution of that trust, with occasional seasonal variations or modifica­ Your officers and Executive Committee have sug­ tions in response to particular events, is ominous. gested that on this occasion I address myself to What has accounted for the widespread attrition the role of education in the task of restoring our of one of our most significant national reservoirs confidence, and I am grateful for the enforced of strength, the faith of society in society's most opportunity of putting a few thoughts on that durable institutions? subject in order. I will anticipate my conclusion by letting you in on my conviction that confi­ Well, we have endured a number of serious dence can be restored, and my further conviction shocks. The war in Vietnam was a dreadful that the educational system must play a central episode in our history. Even though we have role in that process. gotten somewhat accustomed to the constant RESTORING CONFIDENCE: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION

threat of oblivion in the last thirty years, the fact There are those of us who have had faith in the that the Vietnam war took place under the United Nations, ever since the launching of that nuclear shadow added to the potential terrors. fragile but essential organization nearly thirty The fact that it took place at all, as it now seems years ago. Yet still today the peace of the world clear, in an atmosphere of deception and mis­ remains uneasy, and the recent expulsion of an placed priorities served to heighten our uneasiness important nation from UNESCO, the least politi­ and eventual disillusion. cized entity created through efforts to achieve world cooperation, is, to say the very least, dis­ piriting . And after a recent exhibition in the As we approach the national bicentennial in General Assembly we must ask, can it really be L"\.. 1976 we want to find ways to reaffirm our that in the world of today a show of force in the faith in the wisdom of the founding fathers and parliament of nations is more persuasive than the architects of the Constitution. But think of the reasonable discourse? disillusion in our democratic processes that the events of the past two years or so have brought. To be sure, the political world is made up of e take justifiable pride in our technological human beings, and there has never been a time Wadvances in this century that has out­ when political processes were flawless, any more stripped the seventeenth, the one that Whitehead than human beings have ever been flawless. But called the "century of genius." But some of our the recent revelations leave us aghast. The tran­ most spectacular inventions are robbing us of our scripts of conversations in the Oval Office, first in humanity and endangering our survival. The late an edited form and later in all their embarrassing Rachel Carson warned us, fortunately, about the vulgarity, sound not like statesmen at the highest effects of pesticides, we trust before it was too late levels of our government discussing matters of for the ultimate protection of our ecology ; but crucial moment to the world, but rather like lately we have learned of the menace of the super­ counterfeiters in a basement rel;l.dezvous, wearing tankers to the stability of the seas themselves, green eyeshades, bargaining with the Mafia. We comparable to the menace of the SST to the skies, are less disturbed at the crudity than at the utter and these dangers remain thus far unchecked. We lack of concern displayed for the Constitution or have an enviable system of highways across the the integrity of government, at the crass oppor­ land, but we have not solved the problems they tunism, the confusion of the means of staying in have created : wholesale death, waste of energy, power with the proper end of honest and loyal pollution of the air. management of the nation's business. We have witnessed the resignation, in disgrace, of the two Television is perhaps the most remarkable inven­ highest elected officials in our government, and tion of the century. It has brought the world to we have not recovered from the shock of realizing everyone's doorstep, it has heightened awareness that the high ideals of the founders of our political of that world and all its achievements and its system were subverted, and that we, as respon­ problems, it has made culture available in remote sible citizens, participated either actively or fastnesses, and it is without question the most passively in that subversion. phenomenal educational medium that has been devised in the history of man. It has been calcu­ lated that most young people who enter college have spent more hours in front of the television sets than in classrooms. What a chance we have had, and continue to have, to make known to RESTORING CONFIDENCE : THE ROLE Of EDUCATION

people everywhere the meaning and the nature It all comes down, I think, to reaffirmation of and the beauty of the world we inhabit. what it means to be a human being. In spite of the senselessness of the Vietnam War, the deni­ But what have we done with this resource? It has gration of our governmental processes to ignoble been estimated that those same young people who ends, the uncertainties of international coopera­ are entering college have seen something over half tion, the dangerous and even degrading side a million television commercials. One of the most effects of technological advance, the cheapening prestigious and informative morning news pro­ of daily life encouraged by our means of commu­ grams demeans its audience and its commentators nication, there are sound and lasting values to be by parading before us, as some sort of adjunct to reaffirmed. Humanity manifests its glories as well the news, incessant and irrelevant testimonials to as its weaknesses, a principle as true today as it the efficacy of all kinds of trivia. The literacy always has been in the lengthening history of the level of all too many television programs, human race. It can still be said, even on the eve of whether news or entertainment, except for the 1984, that ours is continually a self-renewing breaths of fresh air supplied by public broadcast­ brave new world. How can we remind ourselves ing, is scarcely elevated. Countless numbers of that this is true? How can we restore our waning intelligent young people have learned neither how confidence? to read, how to write, nor how to speak. The tawdry tastelessness of commercials can almost ruin Christmas itself. Our schools have done their hatever we do, we must begin at the begin­ best to counteract these tendencies, but against Wning. Education starts on the first day of a formidable odds. Considering the daily fare that human life, and the early influences of parents has been offered to young people, it is no wonder and relatives and friends have permanent effects. that so often they exhibit verbal paucity in expres­ By the time formal education is underway a great sing themselves, narrow materialism in their deal has happened to the young consciousness. objectives, or focus so readily upon short-term The educational process becomes more complex satisfaction of transitory pleasures rather than and sophisticated as the young person advances upon long-term goals of lasting achievement. through the grades. But we must remember that those who influence these young people, from infancy onward, have in tum been influenced ut anyone in any century could have delivered themselves, and ideals and habits acquired in B this kind of Jeremiad : Sophocles and Cicero, their own upbringing and educational progress George Herbert who lamented loss of faith, are reflected in the kinds of examples they repre­ Wordsworth who lamented that the world was sent to the growing minds of those young people. too much with us, Arnold who saw civilization If those examples suggest to the young that the upon a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash world is one, as Adlai Stevenson once described by night. There are always things wrong with the a world he objected to, characterized by "smash times, and it is not enough just to deplore them, and grab," we can only expect the young to even if there will always be good reasons to do assume that this is the kind of world they have so. Each age can try to effect a few remedies been born into. So even though education begins against those outrages that seem particularly long before formal schooling, the individuals who offensive. I have dwelt long enough upon what do most of the influencing are products of a long some of our own outrages are. What about the remedies, and what role can the educational com­ munity play in effecting them? RESTORING CONFIDENCE : THE ROLE OF EDUCATION

educational system, including formal schooling, areas of the school curriculum in which one of their own. The effects of an educational sys­ learns impractical things like the geography of tem , therefore, are both direct and indirect. And Brazil. How wrong he was ! How do we know an educational system includes influences be­ but what a description of the upper Amazon, or yond the classroom, television a notable example. an account of the dramatic construction of So we are really talking about education in its Brasilia as the new capital in the middle of the broadest sense when we inquire as to what role wilderness of a huge country, might have fired the education can play as we try to restore our con­ imagination of that young student and suggested fidence. So much for definition. to him a vista that would stretch his horizon far beyond the realities of his every-day life, a vista that would encourage him to discover other vistas e might begin with imagination. A speaker long after he had forgotten the names of the Won one of the panels at the fall meeting of principal cities and rivers and the major commer­ the American Council on Education observed that cial products of Brazil or any other country. certain things a young person learns are not for­ gotten, like how to walk, talk, or read. But some The question for educators that lies behind this things are easily forgotten, like (to use his example of a misplaced priority is central. What example) the geography of Brazil. One might well can we do to see to it that the process of learning have learned a great deal about the geography of continually widens horizons and lights the fires of Brazil in, let us say, the fourth grade, but unless imagination? Education surely is not merely a one were later to visit Latin America or to make process of acquiring skills. It takes skills to build some sort of specialty of studies in which this supertankers or television sets. But it takes imag­ knowledge would be particularly germane, one ination before we know what to do with the would not remember much of anything about the achievements our skills make possible. I believe geography of Brazil by the time one had reached it was Sir Richard Livingstone who observed that middle age, or even college, or the eighth grade, the Greeks could not broadcast the Aeschylean or probably even the fifth grade. It is always a trilogy, but they could write it. sobering experience to find in an old desk drawer an exam that one passed in some subject or other a year earlier and realize how hopelessly one magination alone, however, is only a begin­ would get along if required to take it again, a I ning. It must work its influence in the broad year, or maybe even a month, or even two days, context of the total human being. And here it is or possibly an hour later. But to return to the time to say something about "values." For a time speaker to whom I have referred, he then went on all of us were trying so hard to be analytical and to a totally erroneous conclusion, namely, that objective in our pursuit of truth, so wedded to since we do not forget how to walk or talk or statistics and quantities and measurements, that read, but do forget all about the geography of "values" came to be an unfashionable word. Edu­ Brazil, maybe educators should concentrate on cators may have been so nervous about the sep­ permanent skills and, when budget-cutting time aration of church and state that a discussion of comes, eliminate from the program those useless "values" might have seemed to verge on religion. Or perhaps there was simply a reluctance to try to teach anything that could not be precisely measured. Values surely cannot. There appears to be a tendency now, I am glad to say, toward a recognition that if we do not somehow take RESTORING CONFIDENCE: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION

account of values we will emerge as a generation The restoration of a concept of value in our total of automatons. If such a generation should have educational system, informal and formal, will the final say in such matters as pollution of the help to forestall the ascendancy to power of any seas or the air, the scope of nuclear testing, or the more of those morally insensitive, mean-spirited decision to make war, there might not be another technicians in the green eyeshades in the basement generation. room. It is time we tried to put a stop to the triumph of technique over substance : the medio­ I commend to you a splendid article by the former cre musical artist decked out with trappings to United States Commissioner of Education, Dr. delude the audience into thinking music is taking Earl McGrath, in the fall issue of "Liberal Educa­ place, the so-called religious leader whose ad­ tion." Not only does he uphold with discernment vance men or sports cars keep the public from and eloquence the ideal of values in contemporary realizing that nothing profound is being trans­ education, but he reminds us of some of the testi­ mitted in his pronouncements, the sub-standard mony of towering intellectual figures for whose product portrayed in commercials as the ultimate opinions we have respect. We all remember John panacea. Stuart Mill :

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable e have been telling ourselves for years that and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and Wone of the functions of education is to sensible lawyers or physicians. enable students, of all ages and at all levels of Dr. McGrath calls as witnesses Ortega y Gasset, schooling, to distinguish the genuine from the Walter Lippmann, Albert Einstein, and that great meretricious, the permanent from the transitory . twentieth-century psychological theorist, We can blame the advertising world or the Abraham Maslow: illiteracy of our culture or whatever, but the fact

The development of physics, astronomy, mechanics, and remains that if one of our principal objectives has chemistry was impossible until they had become value-free, been the development of the discriminating mind, value-neutral, so that pure descriptiveness was possible. The our educational processes have not always been great mistake that we are now learning about is that this a conspicuous success . Educators must accept model. developed from the study of objects and of things, some of the responsibility for the gradual de­ has been illegitimately used for the study of human beings. It is a terrible technique. It has not worked. humanization of humanity, and part of the reason for our failure has been our reluctance to mix This article brought to mind an observation by ourselves up in the transmission of values. An David Halberstam in The Best and the Brightest, eighth-grader who responds to the familiar ques­ a devastating account of the forces and personal­ tion as to what he wants to be when he grows up ities that worked together to enmesh us in Viet­ by saying, "Boy, I thought The Godfather was nam . One of the major figures in the mid-sixties, just great, and I want to be a leader in the Mafia," a public servant of undoubted devotion and ought to have someone around to say "Nonsense" impressive intellect, was described as being a and set him straight. If parents or churches or devotee of "neat, cold, antiseptic statistics, devoid family friends or schools do not set him straight, of blood and heart." For too many years we who will? It is hardly an exaggeration to imagine formulated our policy in Southeast Asia on the that in the sphere of higher education if a student bloodless assumption that the statistics could not requested a chance to study the Mafia with an eye be wrong. They were. to organizing a chapter on the campus, he would be referred to some committee on Self-Directed RESTORING CONFIDENCE : THE ROLE OF EDUCATION

Study with the suggestion that he apply for a and I will not suggest any more items to add to it. research grant. Rather, I will point toward my conclusion, if a discussion like this one can be said to have a So I think it is about time for us to start talking conclusion at all. unashamedly about values again . That most certainly does not imply that we should impose a particular value system upon anyone. In our art of our trouble is that we have grown society we set too great a store upon our freedom Pcynical and world-weary. What has happened to do that. A few years ago in a report to our to our idealism? And without idealism, what will Board I argued that a college should be a re­ happen to our humanity? I would urge that in pository for all sorts of things that should be order for us to recover our shaken confidence we transmitted to students, including taste. One of must encourage in every way a return to idealism, our former trustees took me to task on the matter and accordingly we must reaffirm our humanity. of taste. "Whose taste?" he asked. I did not mean Imagination and a sense of value are latent in anyone's taste. But I was expressing my depres­ every human being, and it is up to us to stir them sion at the prospect of a world that is tasteless. up . You may recall the great "Stir up" collect in So much of it already is. I am not only depressed the Book of Common Prayer for what used to be but absolutely appalled at the prospect of a world called, before the latest revision, the Sunday Next that is valueless. It is not the kind of world any of Before Advent : us wants to live in, or bequeath to our children Stir up, we beseech thee, 0 Lord, the wills of thy faithful and grandchildren. people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may by thee be plenteously rewarded.

There is no handbook telling us how to return to have begun, somewhat arbitrarily, by urging idealism or how to reaffirm humanity . During the I the cultivation of imagination and a sense of turbulent year of 1970 John Gardner published a value in the young people whom it is our respon­ book of unusual penetration and lasting signifi­ sibility to prepare for constructive and rewarding cance entitled The Recovery of Confidence, and living. These two qualities subsume a good many instead of giving this address I might well have others that I could spend time talking about, got up, suggested you read it, and then sat down. under such headings as : patterns of behavior or It is exactly to the point. I alluded earlier to the conduct in general ; avoidance of violence ; the latest issue of the Sa turday Review, the first of limitations of either conformity or revolution ; two to be devoted to the theme, 'The Restoration the negative potentialities of drugs, alcohol, un­ of Confidence." But not even John Gardner nor restrained sexual freedom, or pornography ; the Norman Cousins, no more than any of us, can danger of mechanization in a society that already provide handbooks for this complex and continu­ is too dependent on the mechanical ; the peril of ing task. Both humbled and encouraged by the allowing human beings to become animals ; knowledge that no one can do more than shore a indeed, the injustice of what Hamlet called few fragments, as Eliot said, against our ruins, the whips and scorns of time, may I make a few suggestions. The ruins are not The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, inevitable if our attempts to forestall them are The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, invested with hope. The insolence of office ...

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e must remember that our students, of lenges is to discipline the minds of students, at Wwhatever age and at whatever educational whatever age and at whatever educational level, level, come to new subjects of inquiry with a in such a way that it doesn't matter whether the freshness and an innocence that their instructors world changes or whether one remembers or for­ have probably lost. There is drudgery in learning gets the facts, but rather in such a way that those to read or to multiply, but there is also excite­ minds become and remain adaptable to change. ment. There are always some who can be bored President Kemeny of Dartmouth has observed by anything, even the excitement. There was no that in a relatively short time an appreciable doubt some dullwitted courtier in the theatre number of people will be engaged full-time in bored to torpor during the first performance of professions that have not yet been invented. King Lear. Teachers cannot afford to let their Twenty years ago who but a few academicians students be bored by a new inquiry. The excite­ were familiar with the word "ecology?" Does it ment is there, and we must capture it. In another matter when we forget the bare facts that we have suggestive book, Self-Renewal, John Gardner, painfully memorized in order to get a grade and once again, talks of the values of travel. When we eventually receive a diploma? It does not matter travel, struggling with an unfamiliar language and so long as there is a significant residue. That is currency, adapting ourselves to a host of strange what education is working toward : when all the cultural habits, we recover something of the facts are forgotten and the world to which they freshness of childhood and youth, for everything were applicable has changed there is the residue is new, and we must work to absorb it. In the jet that enables the mind to make valid distinctions age, to be sure, when the airports at Bangkok and and arrive at sound judgments. Insuring that Athens might as well be in Kansas City, for all there is such a residue calls upon our imagination that we can tell as we toil through them, it is and our sense of value, and it develops in the easier to be bored by travel than perhaps it once human being a quality far beyond technical pro­ was. "Where did you go for your vacation?" ficiency. It encourages a perspective over time someone asked an affluent city-dweller. "How and space that a limited technician, no matter should I know? We flew." A child in the third how proficient he is, cannot achieve. grade could be asked, "What did you learn today in school?" He might reply, "Nothing much . A lot There are other attributes of the well-furnished of words and numbers." But he might also have mind that we could give attention to. A genuine learned something about the geography of Brazil perspective implies humility, the kind one senses and scarcely have noticed it. So a burden of when one looks into a clear winter sky at Orion responsibility is constantly on the teaching pro­ and the Pleiades and contemplates the vastness of fession, to generate excitement and encourage the the universe and the insignificance of man. A true refreshment that learning can bring. humility encourages a sense of humor. One of the reasons why the turbulence on campuses in the late sixties was so dispiriting was that students ne of the criticisms of the educational were so grim about everything, and consequently O process is that so often what is learned everyone else became grim too. One can be becomes quickly obsolete. Why learn to add serious about almost anything without being when it is so easy to learn to operate a desk grim. It is sometimes inappropriate to laugh, but calculator, or why learn the capitals of the we can laugh more often than we do, and we can nations in Africa when the map changes every year, or for that matter, when we know that after the test we will forget them? One of our chal- RESTORING CONFIDENCE : THE ROLE OF EDUCATION

surely laugh at ourselves. Irrational creatures Professor Brand Blanshard has observed that "the cannot, we presume, but human beings can . A end of a liberal education is richness of spirit." I sense of humor can help us achieve serenity in a suppose that is all I have been saying. All educa­ world that is far from serene, and it is a measure tion, including training for specific vocations or of our humanity . acquisition of certain skills, should be liberal education, for it is by extending our dimensions and our perspectives that we do liberate the spirit ne must find some way to bring oneself into and enrich our lives. If we achieve this end, the O harmony with the indefinable rhythms of future need not be bleak, and we do have reason life, the mystical, the holy, the irrational . Not to hope, to restore our confidence, even in dark everything we do is susceptible of rational times blighted by poverty and suffering, inequal­ analysis. There are mysteries in the emotions, ity of opportunity and international tension, and such as in love, and in the beauty that is part of the wasteful despoliation of our environment. The our lives, whether it becomes part of us through more the human race can achieve this perspective music or flowers or sunsets, church services or and a richness of spirit, the more likely it is that ' October leaves, poetry or meadows or the surf on we can work together to avoid wars and political the sea, natural wonders like redwoods or chicanery and cheap tawdriness. William Butler forsythia or canyons, man-made wonders like Yeats once wrote in a letter to a friend, "Keep in soaring bridges or towering skyscrapers or college your souls images of magnificence." If, as educa­ campuses or gem-like creations like the Parthenon tors and human beings, we can follow that and the Taj Mahal. advice, and if we can transmit some vision of magnificence to the young people whom we are trying to prepare for the decades and centuries ahead, there is good reason not for despair but for confident anticipation .

Additional copies of this address may be obtained by writing to the Publications Office, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901. his first wife and last summer married ects to drug and alcohol and mental one vice president of a New York bank. Teruko Una who has three little girls • health committees, not to mention the Bill has six grandchildren by his two Mildred Todd Weir keeps busy caring for Bicentennial. Ever since Colby days, he's daughters • Mabel Root Holmes is re­ her home, garden and lawn, and doing been trying to get a copy of Leadbetter's tired after 26 years of teaching and 12 of church work • In November, Ruth Luck by Holman Day. Can anyone help "subbing." She does not travel much Allen Peabody and Herschel stopped over him? • Paul Edmunds and wife Peg now, as she takes care of home and hus­ with us on their way to their winter home combined Homecoming Weekend in Oc­ band. She has done plenty of traveling in in Fort Myers, Fla. They reported a tober with a family gathering. Daughter the U.S. and Canada in the past, how­ summer of golfing, fishing and bird bunt­ Eleanor '56 and Don Grout '54 and their ever • Dot (Daggett '28) 1 ohnston ing in Maine, and a trip to Newfound­ two daughters joined the "old folks" at wrote about Doug (she said he wouldn't land for superb trout fishing. Colby for what used to be Colby Night blow his own horn). He was appointed in our college days • I was especially chairman of a study commission for the pleased to hear from Don Armstrong this creating of a So. Dennis Historic Dis­ Mrs. Lawrence A. Putnam fall. Don teaches at San Jacinto College trict. They are to study the merits of (Doris Tozier) 5 in Pasadena, Texas, so doesn't get back setting aside the village of So. Dennis, 5 1 Meadowview Rd. to Colby very often. Last summer he and Mass., to protect and preserve the old Holyoke, Mass. 01040 2 his six brothers and sisters, with their homes and woods and fields. Dot wrote spouses and their children and grandchil­ Just a word from your class correspon­ that they were happy to be living in that dren, returned to their native Waterville dent. A late note came from Neme Pottle area • Greely (Tick) Pierce is still tak­ for a family reunion. From New Hamp­ Hankins who has retired to the old farm ing care of 40 acres of white spruce shire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, home in Oxford. By now I expect she Christmas trees. He has seen Alice Wood Colorado, and Texas they came, to join has completed her book for her doc­ Bartlett, who lives nearby. The Pierces those still living in Maine. Besides Don, torate. She has a daughter living in Hol­ have a grandson who entered the Univ. four of the seven are Colby graduates - land and bas made numerous trips to of Virginia this past faJI. They spend Louise '30, Ruth '33, Gerald '39, and Europe to visit her • Clayton Johnson their summers at their cottage on Lake of West Hartford, Conn., was recently Arthur '40. Quite a Colby family! Now, Wesserunsett • U. Cleal Cowing is an­ Don, how about planning to come for honored for 25 years of service to the other traveler - Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, our 50th in 1976? • Irma Davis Mc­ So. America, Haiti and around the U.S. American Legion baseball program • Kecbnie recently wrote from Fort Myers • Ardelle Chase wrote during the energy I had a fine time attending Lawrence's of having dinner with Mary Watson Flan­ fiftieth reunion. They had a good turnout crisis and said her new car had not been ders '24, and Jean Watson '29, and of of their class and I hope our class can do used enough to be broken in (hope she playing golf with Ruth '24 and Herschel as well. Plan to come and enjoy a fun has had better luck lately). She has 25 Peabody. Irma enjoys her weekly stint grandnieces and nephews at last count • weekend. as a Pink Lady in the hospital auxiliary. I received a grand newsy letter from She also makes stuffed animals and cooks Tom O'Donnell; he should be very proud Dr. Hilda M. Fife for the bazaar (which nets $20,000 - of the compliments paid him on his re­ 6 Sherwood Drive $30,000 each year) • Gabriel Guedj tirement - namely, the board of select­ Eliot, Maine 03903 sent cards last summer from the Holy men proclaimed a Thomas F. O'Donnell Land and other fascinating places that he Day. Four other testimonial dinners It2 was6 good to have notes from several and Mirth visited. He preached and sang made him feel "he had done something of you this fall, with news to share with at several of the churches. He writes now right." A Tom O'Donnell trophy was the rest of the class. Saddest, of course, of looking forward to our 50th. established for an outstanding basketball was the telephone call from Paul Ed­ player and a portrait of Tom was placed munds telling of the death of our class­ Mrs. Fred Turner in the Dedham High School library. In mate Emily Heath Hall. She had been (Lura Norcross) addition, his two children have very suc­ in and out of the hospital for some time 7 Route #4 cessful careers. An editorial sent me men­ for treatment of cancer, but was active Augusta, Maine 04330 tioned that Tom and his wife "spend in her many interests up to a few days 2 their leisure time walking on the beach before she died. We all knew Emily in Mildred MacCarn Marden wrote from at Osterville - when he and Mary Jo college, some intimately, some not so Seattle that there are quite a few Maine are walking on the beach, be has mem­ well. Gay and full of life and action, and Colby people in their vicinity. They ories that last a lifetime and then some." she was always fun to be with. I came to frequently visit their son in southern Cal­ know her better after college days, as we ifornia and daughter in Salem, Oregon, met at Colby gatherings and committees and are grandparents five times • James McCroary or at our favorite restaurant on my way Helen Smith Fawcett visits her daughter, (Pat Towle) a bi-lingual secretary for the Singer Co. to or from Bangor. And those who at­ Mrs.Stanley Road tended our 40th reunion will always re­ in Paris. Last spring she saw Peg Ma­ Winthrop, Maine 04364 member the most delightful gathering in comber in San Francisco where Peg was 2 8 the beautiful garden in back of her home visiting with son Bill and family. Peg's Many thanks to all of you who responded on Mayflower Hill Drive. The class of oldest granddaughter is an honor student to my letter of appeal. I was amazed '26 has lost a loyal alumna, a good friend and was considering Colby (haven't beard when the answers began to come in. of us all • Pauline Chamberlin, our what her final decision was). Peg heard There have been thirty-one so far, some former class agent, also wrote me about through Lenore and Alan Hilton that said that they had never written before. Emily. Formerly of Waterville, Pauline Gwyeth Smith was hospitalized in June. To the rest of you, if you have lost or and husband Paul now live in East Booth­ Hope all turned out well for you, Gwyeth mislaid your letter, just write me a note. bay and in Zephyrhills, Fla. She some­ • Fayalene Decker Goodman has spent Any news is appreciated by us all and times runs across Abbott Smith and wife, time traveling in Spain and Morocco and will be relayed to the class over the year. who live in West Boothbay Harbor • took a three week trip to Europe in Sep­ Great news about Roland Andrews! In Don Freeman writes of bis very full and tember with her daughter • Bill Pierce October, Andrews Hall was dedicated at busy "life of unquiet desperation" as he is another traveler to England. He has N.M.V.T.I. in Presque Isle. Roland has tries to do justice to all his activities, two successful sons; one an ass't. dean of been in education all his adult life and from various historical groups and proj- the Univ. of Tennessee Law School and was superintendent of schools in Presque

19 Isle and S.A.D. 1 for 25 years before re­ I seem to be "holding the fort." She still in a number of places, opening at Mor­ tiring. It was mainly through his efforts lives in Waterville, sees a lot of Connie gan State College in Baltimore • Mar· that the first regional technical vocational Adair Cole and keeps busy with the usual tin Keats lives in Mount Vernon, N.Y., program in Aroostook County was estab­ club work. Her son Ted is in nuclear and says that this was the busiest summer lished. He was particularly active in work and has moved from Virginia to he ever had. He is apparently another ad apting agriculture programs to the New Jersey. She has two granddaughters one interested in art as he writes that his needs of the students and the community • Cecil Rose, though retired, still does hobbies are Japanese wood block prints and was instrumental in the establishing some supply pulpit work and is a hospital as well as ballet posters and prints. His of N.M.V.T.I. This must be an honor chaplain in Wareham, Mass. Last sum­ more recent travels have taken him to well deserved! • Reunions can be doubly mer he served as an interim minister in Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Rus­ enjoyable when husband and wife were Marion. He is teaching Introduction to sia. He had seen Nat Gallin who also both members of the same class. I'm sure Philosophy at the Mass. Maritime Acad­ had answered my letter. The latter is busy that 1928 was rather unique in that I emy this year • Last summer, even with travel to the Dutch West Indies know of at least six couples who married though I knew that I would not be teach­ and South Africa. His wife died recently within the class. Inna and Roland were ing, I attended a week's workshop at but he enjoys his three grandchildren. one of these and are still going strong Augberg's College in Minneapolis titled His son David '62 is on the faculty of and enjoying life. They travel between "Children are People." It was mostly on N.Y.U. Dental School. Another son John Florida and Presque Isle in their trailer, the open classroom with three consultants is an M.D. working with infectious dis­ taking a month on the way. They have from England where the idea originated. eases. Nat is living in New York City. four grandchildren, one a sophomore at There were people there from all parts of Trinity College in Hartford • Jack and the U.S. and I found it most enjoyable. Mona Herron Erickson is another couple The trip out by way of Canada showed Mrs. Ellsworth W. Millett very faithful at all reunions • Betty me some new country and three states I (Mary Rollins) 3 0 16 Dalton St. and Charlie Nelson we did not see as had not been in before, Wisconsin being often but we all followed Charlie's the most beautiful • Gus D'Amico was Waterville, Maine 0490 1 career in Washington • Bob and Helen re-elected chairman of the board of trus­ Greetings of the season, classmates. Win­ Merrick Chandler were also a 1928 tees of the Haystack Mountain School of ter has come to Maine with a vengeance, couple. I know from experience that it Crafts. The 197 5 summer session will but it is not too early to be thinking and took a lot of courage for Bob to come sponsor a six-week session of crafts train­ planning ahead for our June reunion. back to the 45th without Helen. They ing led by teachers from the Netherlands. When you hang up that 1975 calendar, always kept up their Colby ties. Now Last year the emphasis was on Africa be sure to reserve the weekend of June we shall miss them both • Emma and was led by African teachers as well 5-6-7 and plan to join your classmates (Tozier) and Eddie Harlow, and Jim and as by Black Americans. Exhibitions of for a couple of days of fun and nostalgia. I were the other two couples. Emma and the 197 4 work will be shown this winter Start thinking now and be ready with suggestions for new class officers to be elected at the time of the banquet dinner. Fran Thayer, Phil Bitber and I are al­ ways at the Homecoming Dinner and look in vain for other classmates. This Letters year we were pleased to see Ray and Sunny Pape there plus the chairman of the board, our own Al Palmer. To the Editor: After a year of abiding by the gas and travel rationing, I was more than ready I recently received this thoughtful letter from Albion Farnham '35, which I to take off for London in early Novem­ would like to share with readers of the Alumnus. ber. Although it was too late for travel­ Sincerely, ing around the countryside, I did enjoy Robert Lee the chance to see several plays and con­ Chairman, Alumni Fund certs. And, I always like getting back to some of my favorite haunts. After the Brownville Junction, Maine holiday with my family, I've been getting Dear Bob: in a few months in Florida. As usual, I I appreciate receiving the excellent Colby Engagement Calendar. These spent the summer at my camp on China are challenging times, Bob, but I am sure Colby will find that support from Lake and had the pleasant company of the alumni will be substantial. Looking over the Annual Fund Report for my 18-year old granddaughter. Enough 1973-74 is assurance enough to know that friends and alumni of Colby have about me - but voluntary news about a genuine attachment to the college. you has run out. How about letting me My Touchdown contribution for 1975 will be in memory of Bill Millett know how you are spending your time, and Eddie Roundy who, through the quality of their Jives, added so much where you have been or are going and enrichment to my four years at the college. Bill was instrumental in en­ what classmate you've talked into joining couraging me to attend Colby and I am still grateful for his interest and us at reunion? encouragement. He had that quality of sincerity and humaneness that gave my life many dimensions. Ed Roundy was a dedicated coach, a true sportsman and a gentleman. I Mrs. Wayne E. Roberts also hold in high regard the associations I had with Professors Chapman, (Alice Linscott) 31 Box 188, R.R. 2 Breckinridge, Wilkinson, Mike Loebs and Dean Marriner. It is a great satisfaction to me to be a part of Colby and I value that Portland, Maine 04 107 affi liation as well as the opportunityto share in its progress and growth. Rod Farnham was re-elected to the Sincerely, Maine State Legislature by an over­ Albion L. Farnham '35 whelming vote. Rod's performance in Au­ gusta may reaffirm our faith in politicians

20 • Fran Page Taylor and Jean Littlefield They met with ecologists and environ­ For 25 years he had been president of Powers had their annual get together this mentalists in New Orleans, and now Roclay Mt. Mercantile Co., institutional summer. Jean and her pretty 87-year favor a refinery in Maine • Gertrude food distributors, of which he and his old mother called on Wayne and me in Sykes Elwell who has waited for years wife were co-owners, and which she will August. Jean's career with migrants for grandchildren now has three • continue to operate with their son. We is most interesting • Tom Langley has Flora Tru�ell Larrivee has had an inter­ will miss this classmate and friend, and retired from his high school principal­ esting year which included the wedding we all extend heartfelt sympathy to hi!> ship. He recently traveled 26,000 miles of her daughter, a visit to her sister in wife, son and daughter in their loss • by car, crossing the U.S. four times • California and adjusting to a comfortable George Mann writes that he has been Pauline Gay Ryder, retired from work as routine of reading and enjoying life • giving Moe Krinsky ·35 ideas for his 40th mechanical draftsman, is a busy person. Richard Williamson is now a consultant which comes up next year. It was great A few of her hobbies are: woodworking, of Fideler Co. • At a retirement party to read in George's letter that his son Jay golf, fishing, gardening, crewel work, Thelma Bamford Tracy received many has been awarded one of the coveted travel, bird watching, and water skiing. gifts including a substantial check. She Teluride House Scholarships at Cornell. Whew! • Richard Noyes, in retirement, has traveled extensively and plans to win­ This will provide his room and board for directs two choirs in the Baptist Church ter in Florida • Faith Rollins David­ every year he attends Cornell, even in­ at Blue Hill. His wife is an accomplished son travels with John, and is busy with cluding graduate study. Congratulations! accompanist while their son Richard is a church work and a painting class. She • Frances Palmer sent us a card from tenor soloist. Quite a team! • Carroll enjoyed fishing for salmon in Canada. Bermuda where she spent the last week McLeary golfs and fishes in his retire­ John has a federal migratory bird permit. of September at the White Sands Hotel ment • Norman Glover has a son He raised 40 mallard ducks and has five with the Massachusetts Audubon group who recently passed his boards in psychi­ Canadian geese on a private pond. John • Portia Pendleton Rideout has a new atry • We are sorry to hear that is a trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of job with a company which designs and El·elyn Bell Rowe is in the Hillcrest Bethlehem, Penn., was chairman of the fabricates equipment for the process in­ Manor Nursing Home in Sanford • Every Member Church Canvas and is a dustries. She is a typist for eight chem­ Adrian Cloutier winters at Palm Beach trustee of the Univ. of Scranton. ical engineers, and says it is all like being Shores, Fla. • Elliott Hatch, retired in a new world. That won't be difficult from Dun and Bradstreet, is now living Mrs. Donald Matheson for Portia who is at home in so many at Pemaquid near the ocean. His wife (Peg Salmond) worlds, and whose talents are unlimited! misses the city but Elliott is happy fish­ 3 4 Lakeview Drive • Annie Tuck Russell now lives in Or­ ing, golfing and clearing his land • I China, Maine 04926 lando, Fla. She retired in June after 20 saw Thelma (Budge) Cha<>e Bevin for all years of teaching. She keeps busy with too short a time at the Alumni Dinner in Frank Allen writes that he recently trav­ Pink Lady (hospital volunteer) duty, golf, June. Her daughter Laura is studying for eled to England, Wales, Scotland, The and volunteer work at the Senior Citizens her master's in philosophy so Budge Netherlands, and Luxembourg via the retail store, and loves it all. reads right along with her • Hugh northern air route, Icelandic Air, which Tufts, who is president of Tufts Machine he says is "not bad" and certainly an in­ Mrs.William M. Clark Co. in Westborough, Mass., has no plans expensive way to cross the Atlantic. He (Betty Thompson) to retire • Vivian Russell is engaged and his family are very happy with their 3 6 Caratunk, Maine 04925 in church solo and choir work during the Finnish daughter who is an exchange stu­ winter months in Florida. As curator and dent in the Youth for Understanding Many thanks to Kay CaswelJ Abbott, historian of the Neal Dow House in Port­ program, and who attends the 12th grade who is retiring from her good class re­ land she planned its dedication as a Na­ with the Allens' two youngest children • porting of these past years, from all of tional Historic Landmark in November Muriel Walker Dubuc and husband Al us! • Jim Stinneford, still in Baltimore • Henry Bubar and Mrs. Bubar were are spending another winter in El Paso and now retired from Sears, Roebuck, is co - chairmen of the Northampton and Mexico City. Deluged as they are sales manager of a real estate company Comm. Against Fluoridation, winning with summer guests from the many • John Roderick, considered an author­ 2- 1. They enjoy seeing Prof. Colgan in places where they have lived, Mim says ity on Chinese affairs, heads the Tokyo Ware, Mass. • Eunice Foye Hutchi.os' that when any friends ask why anyone Bureau of the Associated Press • Beu­ husband has retired as director of trans­ would ever retire in Maine, she always lah Fenderson Smith's new collection of portation economics of the Penn. Central answers, "Someone has to - where poems "East from Tatnic Hill" was re­ R.R. • Dorothy Shippee Friend is a re­ would the rest of you go in the summer?" cently published. Beulah is a campground tired math teacher, interested in church • It was great to hear again from Wil­ owner at Wells • Anita Thibault activities, club work, and travel • Best lard Flynt even if he didn't bring his Borque enjoys her new career in real wishes to Marion W. Von Strien, former­ well-remembered sax to our reunion. Bill estate while living in Hampton, N.H. • ly Marion White Thurlow, who was mar­ is vice-president for student affairs at the Ray Farnham has resigned as executive ried this fall. Her husband is a retired state univ. in Plattsburg, N.Y. He has secretary of the State Principals' Assoc. clergyman, but now preaching at the So. announced his retirement for June, 1975, after seven years. He is now National China Community Fellowship Church • although for him leaving this college will Assoc. of Secondary Schools coordinator Howard Ferguson and Charlie Heddericg really be like leaving home, for he has for Maine and plans Florida or Arizona visited Andy Karkos this fall. They were watched it grow from three buildings to retirement • Eleanor Tolan Hooker roommates at Colby for three years. 36, and from 1,000 students to 5,000. and husband Wayne are living in an They hadn't been together in 43 years. The best part will be that when Bill gets apartment in Weymouth, Mass. • Ruth "What fun," said Howard. The highlight "out of harness" he plans to revisit his Millett Maker has moved from the Cape of the past year for Howard was "spend­ camp and his many friends in Maine. We to Euclid, Ohio, where her husband is a ing more time with my Mrs." A nice way look forward to that. consultant. They've vacationed in the to feel • Winona Berrie Peters, with her You will be saddened to learn that Virgin Islands • Omar Canders recent­ husband, visited a refinery in the Gulf of Ralph Fowler passed away Oct. 28th in ly feted in Presque Isle on his retirement Mexico. The local citizens were high in Denver, Colo., from bone cancer. His from 27 years with Metropolitan Life, is their praise of the refinery. No odors, no wife very kindly answered our class letter raising his own oranges in Sebring, Fla. oil, taxes on a $30,000 home were $20. to fill us in on the facts of "Gabby's" life. • John Rideout, professor of romantic

21 poetry at Lakehead Univ., Thunder Bay, ever, but we hope we can interest him in • Larry Dwyer and his wife have two Ont., writes of European travels with his our 40th reunion • Bill Littlefield re­ sons who graduated from Dartmouth and wife • Ruth Fuller Frost's husband tired from active work in 1970 and Harvard. He is superintendent of schools Bud was recently appointed executive travel is now the highlight of the Little­ in Berlin, N.H., and still likes sports and vice president of the American Diabetes fields' life. Bill was vice president and drama • Joseph Ciechon is married Assoc. They've traveled to Europe, treasurer of Littlefield General Contrac­ with three children and three grandchil­ Hawaii and in this country on business tors and Littlejohn Co., Inc., Developers. dren. He teaches math in Bedford Junior and vacations • Eleanor (Billy) Mac­ He has four children and had six grand­ High School in Westport, Conn., and Carey Whitmore and husband Al drove children when last heard from • Edith teaches at the evening division of Western to Corpus Christi, Texas, this fall from (Billie) Falt Favour stopped teaching Conn. State College. Joe and his wife Ellsworth to visit son Jeff, a recent Ph.D. English when her husband Paul retired are faithful participants at our reunions from Baylor Univ. • George Crantoo, from the National Park Service. He still • Carleton Savage lives in Moscow, at home in Boca Raton, Fla., topped off does consultant work and Billie often Idaho, and is senior geologist, State of a European trip with a New England travels around with him. The first year Idaho and associate professor of the Col­ visit • Johnny Dolan in Des Moines of their retirement they took a I 0,000 lege of Mines, Univ. of Idaho, and is try­ plans a skiing holiday in Colorado • mile trip around the country. Usually ing to keep people from coming to Idaho Cleo Tuttle Henderson in Milo has re­ they spend winters in Florida. Billie's where "they still have Jiving room." ("If tired after 30 years in education, the last daughter and family live nearby in Maine you visit, make it a short one!") He and eight in Bangor • Agnes (Terri) Carlyle and Billie sees a lot of her grandchildren his wife have four children and two Hadden is another traveler, visiting Rus­ "whom she adores." Her son is finishing grandchildren • Dot (Trainor) and A. sia during a trip around the world with a pharmacy course at the Univ. of Rhode Wendell (Andy) Anderson have five chil­ husband Fred, who is a gynecologist • Island. Billie enjoyed her 35th reunion dren ranging in age from 20 to 33, three Bradford Ketchum has retired to Nor­ with the rest of us • Ed Leach wrote girls and two boys. The two oldest grad­ ridgewock after 25 years as Rector of St. that he was soon to retire from duty as uated from Colby and the youngest is John's Episcopal Church in Pleasantville, an M.D. at the Naval Regional Medical now a junior there. In 1976 they all will N.Y. • Elizabeth Miller, also in Nor­ Center in Yorktown, Va. He is married have graduated from college, at long last! ridgewock, has retired after 38 years of and has four children. He has made an Andy is a partner in a general insurance teaching, the last 25 years in Lewiston • annual pilgrimage back to Maine each agency in Brunswick and our older son is Wallace McLaughlin, now in Duxbury summer, and hopes that, in retirement, he also associated with the agency. We've from Wilbraham, sails, is interested in old will be back at more Colby functions • kept busy taking our turn with various sailing craft and recently traveled to Lon­ If things went as planned, Leroy Young community responsibilities. We are en­ don • Joseph Chandonnet and his wife and wife should now be living at Sab­ joying the expansion of our clan which commute daily to jobs in N .H. from their bathday Lake in Maine after retirement includes four grandchildren • Alfred home in Chelmsford, Mass. • Millard from teaching math at the Univ. of New Beerbaum is chief of the evaluation di­ Emanuelson has been appointed to the York at Farmingdale. The Youngs have vision of the Dept. of the Army's Defense Maine District Court. He will be resident three children and two grandchildren • Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. judge in the 4th District (Washington Edith Barron is a teacher in Waterville County) • Natalie Gilley Reeves, liv­ and enjoys occasional travel and study Mrs. Peter G. Veracka ing in Montclair, N.J., has been working trips. She is a faithful participant at (Arline Bamber) at Montclair State College for eight years, many Colby functions • Fred Oleson 3 9 363 Walpole St. with an August trip to Bermuda • and wife Betty have a summer home near Norwood, Mass. 02062 Laura May Tolman Brown will retire in Brunswick so the Andersons see them June from her job as library media spe­ now and then. Fred is a physicist engi­ I'm sure we all enjoy the class notes in cialist in Schenectady schools. Hopes to neer with the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the Alumnus and it does seem too bad "travel America" • Arthur Spear, in Betty is regional head of a Welcome to have so little news. How about send­ Scituate, Mass., is senior project buyer Wagon program. They have three chil­ ing in some? • Sally Aldrich Adams for a Boston engineering firm. He was dren and three grandchildren • Ken and her husband Dwight flew to London awarded a medal for distinguished service Bickford teaches U.S. history at Morse with friends on a special theatre tour - by the Grand Lodge of Mass. Masons • High School in Bath. His hobbies are did all their Christmas shopping, too! Tom Van Slyke is still on the Boston raising Boston terriers, and working for Dwight and Sally live in Medfield, Mass., Univ. faculty and has retired as a colonel the Baptist church and the Republican with Peggy, their Cardigan Welsh corgi in the Army Reserve after 36 years • party • Garnold (Lefty) Cole and who was featured in a delightful story Ellie Manter LeMaistre does some real Helen (DeRochemont '36) have two Sally wrote which was published by East­ e tate business and traveled with friends daughters, a son and two grandsons. They ern Airlines in its nationally distributed to the Greek Isles and with husband Joe, live in Millbrook, N.Y., but are frequent magazine. Sally has also had articles in recently retired, to Copenhagen • Bill visitors to the campus. Lefty works for Down East and is currently working on a Clark writes and manages his woodlands l.B.M. and lists deer hunting as his book for the Medfield Historical Society and we live in his remodeled schoolhouse hobby • Ralph Brown lives in Chelms­ • Jane Mulkern, although she transferred in Caratunk. More news coming in a ford, Mass. He's married and has three from Colby to B.U., keeps her Colby ties class Jetter. married daughters and eight grandchil­ and each year we know summer is upon dren. He is a retired superintendent of us when Jane returns to her hometown of Dedham, Mass. She teaches English in Mrs. A. Wendell Anderson schools and is presently the administrator (Dorothy Trainor) of the school building assistance bureau Honolulu and sees many Colby people 3 8 30 Longfellow Ave. of the Mass. State Dept. of Education, who vacation in that popular place. One Brunswick, Maine 0401 l but had plans to move to Florida when Colby person she recently missed was last we heard from him • Harry Hollis lppie Solie Howard. While Dick Howard Curt Layton retired from civil service in is married and has two sons. He is a was attending some botanical meetings, 1972 and lives in Kailua, Hawaii, with special agent for the Abbington Mutual Ippie tried in vain to reach Jane at her swimming and golf as his hobbies. He is Fire Ins. Co. of Maine, N .H ., and north­ apartment in Waikiki. It turned out that married and has a son, a daughter, and a eastern Massachusetts. We hope Harry Jane was at the same hotel as Ippie, twin son and daughter, all married. Curt enjoyed the 30th and 35th reunions as showing stateside friends the sights of a says he is content to stay in Hawaii for- much as others enjoyed having him there neighboring island during school vaca-

22 tion • Awhile back we heard from Scholastic Magazine for a project her CURTIS L. HEMEN­ Evelyne Short Merrill that she had writ­ class did in connection with the Heart WAY '42, a profes­ ten a book, The Power of the Word. The Fund. The class helped bake and bag sor of astronomy book is a reading and language text pub­ cookies for a school-wide cookie sale and space science lished by Winthrop Publishers of Cam­ which yielded a fantastic donation to the at tire State Univ. bridge. Evelyne is very interested in lin­ fund. The Workmans spend summers in of N.Y. at Albany, guistics and has taught in numerous dif­ their log cabin on the Pemaquid Trail has had a remark­ ferent situations, including a summer in Maine and visited sons John in Cali­ able career in phys­ institute for Japanese bankers. Evelyne fornia and Phil in Toledo, Ohio, during ics. From 1949 to and Buell '40 live in Whittier, Calif. • vacation. • Sid Brick, who lives in 1964 he taught An article in the Kennebec Journal told Meriden, Conn., is an attending dental physics at Union of Nat Guptill's return to the Riverside surgeon at Meriden-Wallingford and College, after earn­ Congregational Church to preach at Memorial Hospitals. He founded the ing his M.S. and Ph .D. degrees in physics Homecoming last August. Nat served as city's public school dental health pro­ at Rutgers. He has served as a consultant a student pastor there during his senior gram, is a member of the American and to the Atomic Energy Commission (teach­ year at Colby • Gardiner Gregory, di­ Connecticut Dental Associations and has ing nuclear physics to nuclear submarine rector oi curriculum materials for the served as president of the Meriden-Wall­ crews), and has been director of the Dud­ Hicksville, N.Y., public schools, is also ingford Dental Society. He is listed in ley Observatory in Albany since 1956. director of the Gregory Museum, Long the 1974-75 edition of "Who's Who in Dr. Hemenway, a fellow of the American Island Earth Science Center. The build­ the East." He and his wife Charlotte Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, ing in which the museum is located, the have a son and a daughter • Elmer is author or co-author of over 40 articles Heitz Place Courthouse, has recently and I were back for Homecoming this in scientific journals, as well as a classic been designated a National Historic Site fall and especially enjoyed the social hour text, Physical Electronics. • This is the time of year I hear stu­ at Millett House. It was good to feel an dents discussing plans for further educa­ arm around me and tum to find Barbara tion. Although few of the students I work Partridge Dyer and Cappy saying, "We with would be expected to enroll in lib­ heard you were here!" They have a tall e1 al arts programs, many of them are im­ friendly Colby son who is a sophomore Maine and particularly Colby in Septem­ pressed with Colby. They know the name already! Jane and Henry Abbott came ber • Naomi Paganelli is now adver­ and the reputation and sometimes they're along about then and among us we tising and promotional manager, college amazed their teacher is a graduate of knew a little about a lot of you. It would dept., for Harper & Row who have that institution. I haven't decided whether be fun to see more of you at the alumni moved to 10 E. 53rd St., N.Y.C., 10022 I'm flattered or chagrined! affairs. Then we would not be the only (phone 212-593-7001). However, Naomi older alums around. It is sort of an awe­ says she'd rather be president, Under­ Mrs. Elmer Baxter some feeling, you know, to go to a foot­ water Marine Construction, Repair and (Elizabeth Sweetser) ball game or local club picnic and find Salvage (Wiswell '50) which does sound 41 745 Main St. that the rest of the crowd went to school rather intriguing • Ronald Roy, who Newington, Conn. 061 11 with your kids. I shouldn't say we are is an attorney in Winslow, has been always alone - other classes are often elected president and clerk of the Ken­ If some of the rest of you would get the represented. But where are the '4 1 'ers at nebec Water District and is presently a message I'd be delighted to send news these good get togethers? We know you member of the advisory board of De­ about you to the Alumnus. Norris Dibble are out there somewhere! positors Trust Co. Ronald was formerly has noted the total lack in this column chief trial attorney for the Maine State in recent issues and mercifully rescued us Mi� Barbara R. Holden Dept. of Transportation and is currently from oblivion. The Class of '41 lives! 1 15 Lynnfield St. chief counsel and clerk for the Maine Norris is busier than ever and "happier 42 Peabody, Mass. 01960 State Land Damage Board • Hazel than ever at the practice of law," but Brewer Warren of Melrose, Mass., has finds time for golf, paddle tennis and ski­ Charles A. Lord is a judge in the Phila­ been awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree ing. Among other outside activities he delphia Court of Common Pleas, having from Hamilton State Univ. in recognition says, "I am the lawyer for and on the been elected to that position in Novem­ of personal achievement and academic board of trustees and executive commit­ ber, 1973. He was formerly with the law success. Hazel has done graduate study tee of the Basketball Hall of Fame which firm of Richter, Lord, Toll, McCarthy in library sciences at Boston Univ. anti is located in Springfield, Mass., where the and Raynes • Donald Legassey is dis­ has been head librarian at Wakefield, game of basketball was invented ..." trict sales manager for Dow Chemical Mass., High School since 1967. Her son Among other talents, Helen is an expert Co., and lives in Seattle, Wash. • Lin­ John is a sophomore at the Univ. of R.l. needlepointer and can be found guiding wood Palmer, Jr., State representative in and son Paul is a senior at Williston­ sewing-minded shoppers at "Thimble on the Maine legislature, has been elected a Northampton. the Green" in Longmeadow. Their director of the First Federal Savings and daughter Dee lives on Central Park West Loan Assoc. of Bath. Lin spent sev­ Mrs. Harman Hawkins in New York City with her publisher hus­ eral years as an executive in a steel com­ (Janet Gay) band and sons aged 7 and 5. Son Ned is pany in Massachusetts before returning to 4 8 22 Heights Rd. on Martha's Vineyard where he works his home state where he runs a Christmas Plandome N.Y. I 1030 for a lumber company and plays great tree farm in Nobleboro. He and Zelpha golf. Son Bobby is a sophomore at the have three children. At last! Some news to fill my column. Univ. of Vermont and is a skiier, of Thank you and keep it coming • Dave Choate, who is living in Colorado, has course. Daughter Anne has finished high Mr. Douglas N. Smith been made director of the Lakewood school and a year of Cambridge School J 72 W. Main St. Housing Authority and in his spare time in Weston. Norris still remembers Colby 4 5 Ell worth, Maine 04605 when it was "that great, old, poor man's has taken to mountain climbing • Jack college down by the dirty old Kennebec Beverly Booth, when he wrote after re­ Kimpel has been made district manager and the railroad tracks" • Joanna Mac­ turning from Montgomery, Ala., in Au­ of the Social Security Admin. in the La­ Murtry Workman was mentioned in gust, was looking forward to a trip to fayette, Ind., region. He is also president

23 of a four-state management association Mrs. John W. Taussig, Jr. really busy with teaching handicapped • Margaret Clark Atkins, silent for a (Ann Jennings) children in Portland and working at the long time, writes from Middleboro, 49 Pinnacle Rd. Inn weekends with her children. Fay has Mass., that she's been well occupied with Amherst, N.H. 0303 1 five children and the youngest are twins women's clubs, school work and is on the • Connie Drake Cousins missed reunion board of directors of the Middleboro I'll go right to the reunion questionnaires because her husband, who is a marine en­ Youth Building and a library trustee • in alphabetical order • Bev Barnett gineer, was at sea. Connie has three chil­ Carolyn Brown Bolles visited the college Ammann lives in Cranford, NJ. with dren and two grandchildren • Janet her husband and three children. Her for the first time in 20 years this summer Pride Davis was at reunion and "Peanut" and was very impressed. Remember all daughters are in college and her son is hasn't changed one bit despite four chil­ still at home. Bev works for United Cere­ those trees we planted? • William dren, including twins, and a part-time job bral Palsy of Union as a social worker Maurice, vice president of a large men's • Jean Bonnell Day and her husband apparel firm, has a daughter Wendy who and is still playing "Bessie," her cello, in attended the graduation of their daughter string quartet, trio and local symphony • is a freshman at Colby this year • Vir­ last June - at Colby, of course!! Jean It took reunion to discover that Alice ginia Brewer Folino is going into her is living in Belgium now, I think • Ray Crooks Austin is practically a neighbor eighth year of teaching art in the elemen­ Deitz has been appointed manager, site of mine living in Manchester. She has tary school in Essex Junction, Vt. In education for I.B.M. • Dwight Erlick two sons and a daughter • Bob and May she traveled to the Scandinavian writes that he is in private practice as a countries and gave a lecture series on art Phyllis Bedig have four children and clinical psychologist in Scottsdale, Ariz. their Laurie was Colby '74 • Alice education at the Univ. of Oulu in Fin­ He is the father of two little ones four Covell Bender writes from Hawaii that land • Elaine Browning Townsley notes and two years of age • Anne Hager she is the mother of three and the grand­ that her son, a Colby graduate and more Eustis is on the Princeton, Mass., School recently a second lieutenant in the Army, mother of one. She is a children's spe­ Committee and is a member of the cialist for Hawaii State Library system. was married in June to another lieutenant Princeton Fire Dept. ambulance crew as "Covie" enjoyed visiting with the Bixlers named Rueva Alvi Dunn. Elaine is now a registered emergency medical tech­ and the Striders last winter during their the toy buyer and manager of the hobby nician. She is one of Massachusetts' first visits to Honolulu • Walter Borucki and crafts department of the Laconia, certified E.M.T. instructor coordinators • and his wife Kay have two daughters, N.H., Hardware Co. • Athalene Nile Georgie Hooker Firth is another '49er both graduates of the Univ. of Maine • McCaslin is teaching junior high lan­ who has changed very little since you­ Joan Barnard Brady is living in NJ. after guage arts in Boothbay Harbor. Spare know-when. It was great fun to see her 17 years in Minnesota. She and Phil have time is spent being a travel counselor for at reunion. We hope that the plans for three daughters. There was a mini-re­ the Boothbay Region Chamber of Com­ her houseparty are shaping up! ! ! • union at Jean Beauchamp Johnsrud's to merce • Barbara Harrington Keith, Charles A. Pearce, president of the welcome "Barnie" back and I am so sorry now living in Wilbraham, Mass., has just Quincy Savings Bank, has been elected a not to have been there. We have enjoyed received a substantial promotion from director of the American Assoc., of In­ "Barnie's" Christmas letters for many Mass. Mutual which she joined in 1966 dustrial Management of N.E., Inc. years and hope now to see more of her • Aaron Sandler, vice president of Wol­ Charlie lives in Hingham with his wife • Jack and Vivian Brown came back verine Knitting Mills in Bay City, Mich., Ginny and their three children • Last for reunion. He is the director of indus­ was recently elected Sovereign Prince of October Robert Sage cut the ribbon to trial relations for the National Sugar Re­ the Council Princes of Jerusalem. Besides officially open the new addition to the fining Co. • Fay Klafstad Carpenter moving into a larger plant which means Parker Hill Medical Center in Boston of and her husband bought the Rangeley Inn more work, Sandy keeps busy with ex­ which he is president • Richard Fisch and Motel two years ago so her life is tensive travel and tennis • Betty Damon writes that he is married, has three chil­ Marsh, another long unheard-from class­ dren, is a practicing psychiatrist and does mate, is living on the Cape where she and research part-time. He has recently co­ her real estate broker husband are busy authored a book titled Change-Principles building houses and developing land in COLBY TIBBETTS of Problem Formation and Problem the Chatham area • Audrey Cox Pet­ '48 has been ap­ Resolution • Kenneth J. Vigue, an in­ rovic, also Jong unaccounted for, has pointed vice-presi­ ternational executive with ITT, has recov­ moved to Seminole, Fla., getting a jump dent in charge of ered from cardio-vascular heart failure on that yearned-for move south that most the personnel dept. and has been recuperating at his pre-re­ of us talk about but never do anything of the Metropoli­ tirement home in the White Mountains in about • Evelyn Helfant Malkin grad­ tan Li/ e Insurance Franconia, N.H. • This is all I have uated from Simmons School of Social Co. Colby joined room for at this time. I'll continue writ­ Work in May • Paul Smith, still law­ Metropolitan Life ing from the questionnaires but if you yering in Connecticut, recently returned as a management have anything new or exciting, please from an extensive trip to Manila, Singa­ trainee in 1949. contact me before March 1. pore, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo • He was appointed Sanford Kroll, located in Providence, is an officer of the company with the title Mrs. William B. Maley the executive vice president of the Lin­ of assistant vice president, management (Elisabeth Jennings) coln Controls Co. and Sanford LeVine, services, in 1964. Three years later he 5 0 479 Ridge View Rd. in DeWitt, N.Y., is the executive sales trans/erred to the coordinate dept. as a Orange, Conn. 06477 manager of the northeastern region for third vice president, and in 1970, he as­ the Gilman Paper Co. • Dave Marson, sumed the position of vice president - The response to my questionnaire was cruising on his new ketch, bumped into coordination. He returned to manage­ terrific! I have news for five columns and Marvin Joslow on the dock at Menemsha ment services as vice president - man­ am allowed only two. Please forgive the last summer - small world! We'll keep agement services in 1971, and in Oc­ abbreviations, deletions and editing. I do an eye out next summer - that stop is tober, joined the personnel dept. hope all of you who wrote and those who on our list. Dave's wife Dorothy is work­ Colby received his M.A . degree from didn't are planning to attend our 25th re­ ing for the Diet Workshop teaching Columbia Univ. in 1949. He and his union in June. First I would like to ex­ weight control - wish she'd pass on a wife Nancy have two daughters and two tend our sympathy to Joan Seekins few tips! sons, and reside in Manhasset, N.Y. Golden on Paul's death. He died sudden-

24 ly from a heart attack last August and • Doc Titus is director of marketing, a junior at Syracuse and Marjorie is a Joan writes how glad she was that they advertising and tourism for the Las Vegas freshman at Brandeis. Son Jim is at all were at his 25th reunion last June be­ Convention and Visitors Authority. He home and Sybil is back in school hoping cause they had such a great time. She is and his wife Helen, who is office manager to complete her master"s in 1975 . planning on our 25th with some if not all for an electrical contractor, have four of her five children, one of whom is in children. Included in their recent travels Mr. Charles S. Mcintyre college. Joan received her M.Ed. in 1973 was Sapporo, Japan, for the winter Olym­ 27 Elm St. and is an instructor in science at a voca­ pics • Doris Knight Leete is a volun­ 51 Marblehead, Mass. 01945 tional school. In addition to her teaching teer aide at an elementary school. Her she also works with young people, husband William is a professor of art at Bill Bailey '52 gave me a newspaper clip­ teaches a religious class and is active with the Univ. of R.I. They have two children ping: a picture showing Jim Keefe, com­ the local Hot Line • Jim Doughty is and recently went on the S.S. France to missioner of the Maine Dept. of Com­ living in Scarborough where he is an in­ England, Scotland, Belgium and France merce and Industry, the governor of surance agent and president of the Maine • Mary (Skip) Jordan Megargee and her Maine, and the president and chairman Insurance Council. He and his wife Flor­ husband Richard live in Rhode Island of the board of the Lincoln Pulp and ence have a married daughter and two where Richard is professor of strategy at Paper Co. discussing the company's multi­ sons • David Armstrong and his wife the Naval War College. Their two daugh­ million dollar expansion program. The Alice live in Montana where David is ters are in college and son Mike is in mill will now produce 500 tons of bleach­ veterans affairs administrator and Alice is high school • Judge Jack Alex recent­ ed kraft pulp a day • Lee R. Prescott, school nurse. They and their three sons ly received the honor of being named top who received an M.S. in 1962 from Trin­ seem to enjoy all,. that Montana has to judge in drug prevention. His wife Betty ity College, has been appointed director offer- sled dog racing, camping, fishing is a part-time college teacher. Beth is a in the commercial lines systems depart­ and hunting • Bill Niehoff is a lawyer sophomore at Cal. Poly. College. Becky ment at the Travelers Insurance Com­ in Waterville. He and his wife Barbara and Jack are in high school, and Judith panies in Hartford, Conn. Lee bas I 0 have a son and daughter and they keep is in fifth grade. They are tennis players children and lives in Lebanon, Conn. • busy camping, fishing and sailing • and mountain climbers • Kevin Hill The governor of Maine has reappointed Arthur "Red" O'Halloran is vice presi­ is an eye surgeon. He and his wife Ann Philip M. Savage to serve another term as dent of Boothby & Bartlett Ins. Co. and and their four children went West last state planning director • Ian L. Robert­ also v.p. of the Maine Assoc. of Ind. Ins. summer by train across Canada to Van­ son bas moved to Fairhope, Ala. He has Agents • Russ and Joyce (Edwards '5 l) couver, Expo, Wyoming and San Fran­ recently started his own business of Washburn have three children, two of cisco. Kevin was awarded a Colby Brick graphic design and editing & production whom are in college - U. of Maine and • Janet Snow Gigante is, as she says, a of publications • Philip C. Heywood St. Anselm's. Russ is a teacher and Joyce non-working R.N. Husband George is an has been named senior vice president ot an insurance adjuster • Susan McPher­ engineer. They have three daughters • development for Loyal Protective Life son Tompkins and her husband Robert John Harriman is regional mgr. of Pacific Insurance Co. of Boston • I was very have two daughters, one in college and Mutual Life. His wife Terry is a part­ pleased to receive a Colby Brick last June one a high school senior. They live in time college professor. The family, in­ 7. It is a wonderful reward for doing the New York where Robert is exec. math cluding Eileen, John and Martha, ski, class news and participating in different editor with Holt, Rinehart & Winston fish and explore Baja, Calif., and Mexico fund drives and telethons. Publishers. Susan is going into her 13th • Barbie Wyman Anderson is living at year as a volunteer for the Rockland the Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif., Mrs. Alton Lamont County Girl Scout Council • Aaron where her husband Robert is a U.S. Navy (Joan Martin) Kaye is a dentist and his wife Shirley captain. Brian is at the U.S. Naval 5 2 7 Clubhouse La. Academy; Beth, Oklahoma Univ.; and Harriet is a teacher. They have three Wayland, Mass. 01778 children, one of whom spent seven weeks Beverly, a high school senior. They will last summer on a scholarship tour of be in California for two years where Robert Kaake, living in So. Easton, Israel • George Johnston is a high Robert is in command of repair ship Mass., and employed by the New Eng­ school social studies teacher, and is prin­ USS Hector • Sybil Green Reichek is land Telephone Co. on their management cipal of the evening and summer schools. a high school English/Latin teacher in staff, took a Caribbean cruise last Jan­ His wife Bernadette is a nurse. They have Verona, N.J. Her husband Morton is uary. His son Bob is a Colby sophomore two sons in college, a son and daughter assoc. editor of Business Week. Amy is • Betty Brown Holmes, wife of a profes­ in high school and a daughter in fifth sor of biology at the Univ. of Cal ifornia, grade • Newt Bates is a store man­ attended a biology conference held at ager for King's Dept. Stores. He and Tsavo, a game park near Nairobi, Kenya. Shirley have six sons and a daughter She visited Brazil and Peru on the way Brenda, who was married last June • HARRY s. MEIN­ home • Donald Hailer bas a new job Charlie Garland is a research chemist HOLD '56, formerly as manager/account supervisor of Gillette with E.I. duPont and his wife Marilyn is president of Food Design Services • Richard Tupper is nursing supervisor with the Wilmington Packaging, Inc., living in New York City and working as Medical Center. They have a daughter, has been elected a a stockbroker. He spent an interesting Nancy • Don Jacobs is an administra­ vice president of summer in France visiting his 16th cen­ tor in the education field. His wife Mar­ lriquois Brands, tury house • David Edwards became principal of the Pittsford, N.Y., High jorie is a nurse. Two of their children Ltd. He will work in the corporate School in July • Mortimer Guiney, have been graduated from college (Duke operations group professor at the Univ. of Connecticut and and Champlain) and one is at the U. of and actively assist chairman of the comparative literature Vermont. Don is a trustee of St. Johns-_ in the management program, lives in Storrs. He spent the bury Academy • Pat Bain Mills is pro­ of subsidiary companies. Jn addition, he summer in France, working on a book gram administrator, Institute of Interna­ will explore and evaluate acquisition op­ and vacationing with bis family. He bas tional Education. Her husband Robert is portunities for the company. Harry lives published, in French, several books in a literary agent. Their travels include San in Harrison, N. Y., with his wife and two France, and is working on a book on the Francisco, Munich, Bermuda and London children. avant-garde and its relationship to society

25 • John Ratoff, one of the three men on completed a 27-month tour with the High School and Patsy is an elementary the New Hampshire State Liquor Com­ Project HOPE land base in Tunisia. Her school librarian. Their oldest daughter mission, was appointed to that job by for­ experiences there were reported in the Gail is in her sophomore year at Trinity mer Gov. Walter Peterson in 1960. He August issue of Physical Therapy. College, Hartford • Shirley Harrington is a pharmacist and owner of Tobey's Furdon recently went back to work as a sales correspondent for a manufacturer's Drug Store in Hampton. John served Mrs. Peter Van Alstyne two terms in the New Hampshire House (Carol Carlson) representative. The Furdons' son Jim is of Representatives, first as vice chairman 5 3 33 Gray Rocks Rd. in his second year at Bryant College, of the Committee on Executive Depart­ Wilton, Conn. 05897 Providence, R.I. • The Richard Tylers ments and Administration and as chair­ have moved from Philadelphia back to man of the important House Ways and Judy Mayer Schneider is studying for a Salt Lake City, where Dick is a sales Means Committee in his second term • master's degree in guidance and counsel­ manager for A.H. Penbroke Co., and his Anne Plowman Stevens is living in ing while working as a paraprofessional wife Ann sells platform tennis courts. Doylestown, Pa., and substitute teaches counselor. The Schneiders spent the sum­ Dick writes that they miss Maine in the and is a volunteer aide in local schools. mer months designing and helping to summer, but are glad to be back in the She spent the past summer traveling to build their new cottage in Canada, al­ West where Utah skiing is "the best in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince though they did manage a "fast, over­ the world and only thirty minutes from Edward Island by trailer • The Rev. whelming" trip to Washington, D.C., with home" • Joyce Maguire Demers lives Graham Pierce will be in charge of the their two children, Jason and Martha • in Methuen, Mass., and is an accountant combined Bridgton and Naples Episcopal Nancy Twaddle Meserve recently moved for S & M Marketing, Inc. Joyce has church services to be held at the Naples to 57 Goff St., Auburn, Maine. She is an four children. Her oldest, Kevin, is a Union Church. Rev. Pierce entered Bex­ elementary school teacher, and her hus­ freshman at Merrimack College in North ley Hall, an Episcopal theological sem­ band Bob is business administrator for Andover. She writes how much she en­ inary in Gambier, Ohio, in 1965, and was the Auburn schools • Bettsy (Mary joyed a visit from Nan Pratley Wathen ordained an Episcopal priest in Christ Ellen Betts) Harrison is working part­ and her two youngest children last sum­ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Mass. time for the Connecticut Conference of mer • Priscilla Eaton Billington teaches He came to Portland from the Diocese of the United Church of Christ in youth school in Somerset, Mass. The Billing­ western Mass. with a five-year contract ministry in Wethersfield, Conn., where tons have two children at Colby this as ,business manager for the Diocese of her husband is minister of education, year: Dianne, a senior and Greg, a fresh­ Maine. After that he spent two years First Church of Christ. In 1972 the Har­ man. Last summer Pris and Ray traveled starting St. Ann's Mission in Windham • risons took a trip with their family to London, and on New Year's Day '73, Lois-Marie Cook is a physical therapist and 18 teenagers to work on the Standing to the Orange Bowl • Joey (Leader) with the Visiting Nurse Assoc. in Los Rock Indian Reservation in South Da­ and Dick '52 Creedon are living in Stam­ Angeles. She received a certificate in kota and then camping in the Rocky ford, Conn., where Joey works part-time physical therapy from the Mayo Clinic Mountains • The Malcolm Andrews for Congressman Stewart McKinney, and a master's from Stanford. She was a (Patrice Mcintire, '55) are living in does volunteer work at the Stamford Hos­ member of the American Red Cross Woonsocket. R.I. Mal is head of the pital teaching physical fitness to the re­ Team in Morocco in 1960 and recently math department at North Smithfield tarded and is a choir soloist in Old Greenwich. The Creedons spend much of the summer at their house in Chatham, Mass., and often see Jan Leslie Douglas '52, who has a home nearby • A Letter from Arthur Goldschmidt '59 Nelson Beveridge is a sales manager for Owens-Corning Fiberglass in Boston and Excerpts from a recent letter from Arthur Goldschmidt, lives in Scituate, Mass., where he spends Jr. '59 to Dr. Bixler: as much time as possible sailing • Don "Louise, Steve, Paul and I weathered our ...year White and his wife Peggy raise Arabian in Haifa, where I was a visiting associate professor of horses on their ranch in Coeur d'Alene, history at the new Univ. of Haifa, now being built atop Idaho. Don writes, "Our Arabian ranch one of the bluffs of Mt. Carmel, where we had a splen­ is now the largest purebred Arabian did view of northern Israel and some of Syria and breeding operation in the state - we Lebanon. Louise has gone back to graduate school have horses located throughout the here at Penn. State . . . as an M.A. candidate in art United States, Canada and Australia. We history. imported our bead stallion from Cairo, "My work in Haifa consisted of teaching two inter­ Egypt, last year. Visitors are always wel­ mediate level courses (in English, but with frequent come!" Don is also associate extension lapses into Hebrew or Arabic) to mixed classes of Arab and Jewish univer­ professor for the Univ. of Idaho. As wel l sity students. One course, intended for first-year B.A. candidates in Middle as working on the ranch and teaching, Eastern history, was called 'Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1875-1956' ... My the Whites, including daughter Kimberly, other course, intended for third year students, was called 'Nationalist Move­ are taking flyinglessons and hope to have ments in the Middle East. .. . ' their own plane soon • Harriet (Sart) "We managed, in spite of the war and its prolonged and tense aftermath, and David Rudd spent the summer show­ to get in a lot of traveling, especially to Jerusalem. We even made it to ing registered Arabians (they have five Easter sunrise services at the Garden Tomb, probably the only time during horses -- could one have come from the year when we saw large numbers of people who were neither Jewish nor Coeur d'Alene?) on the New England Arab. show circuit with their daughters Rebecca "I am now an associate professor [at Penn State] and teach nothing but and Rachel. Rebecca is Arabian park Middle East history courses. . . I have become chairman of Penn State's champion and Rachel is reserve pet pony Committee on Middle Eastern Studies and am trying to devise ways to en­ champion in New Hampshire. Dave is a courage students to take a vocationally-oriented major that they combine senior staff engineer, Western Electric, with candidacy for the certificate in Middle Eastern Studies." and recently received the Sawyer Award for growing crystals.

26 Mrs. John Y. Keifer DR. CHARLES c. gon, 97034, wants to know if there are (Katherine White) LEIGHTON '60 has any classmates in the Portland area. The 237 Wyckoff St. been named execu­ best answer I can produce at the moment 6 0 Brooklyn, .Y. 11217 ti1·e director of is that Hans Veeder and family are new regulatory affairs state of Washington residents. Hans is Our cla seems to have all sorts of good for the medical af­ director of marketing for an Oregon news this fall. John Wilson has received fairs area of Merck based firm with 15 plants on the We t Connecticut General's highest honor for Sharp and Dahme Coast Back in London after a year its field sales representatives. John is first Research Labora­ in France are Judy Dunnington Vollmer vice president of the Hartford Life Un­ tories, a pharma­ and her family. Husband Donald '56 is derwriters Assoc. and lives in Simsbury ceutical firm in senior vice president of the ational • In the same area of Conn., Carol An· West Point, Penn. Bank of Commerce of Seattle • This derson Panciera is president of the trus­ In his new post Dr. Leighton will con­ was just a sampling; I'll try to get a cla�s tees of the Granby Library. Carol and tinue his responsibility for regulatory letter together after the holidays. In the her husband Fred '59 and their two affairs and will also be responsible for meantime, read the A l11m11us Marriages daughters pent a week in Washington, the company's Medical/ Legal Review and Births section . . . '61 has been D.C. this fall • For the second con­ Board. Charles took his M.D. degree at busy! secutive year, Gail Harden Schade has Han·ard Medical School and interned at been named one of the Outstanding Edu­ the Univ. of Minnesota. He and his wife Mrs. Roland Russell cators of America. Gail teaches at Pamela ha1·e three children. (Patricia Farnham) Thomas College in Waterville and is a 184 Highland Ave. director of the Theater at Monmouth. Millinocket, Maine 04462 Through her encouragement Thomas Col­ 62 lege has given support for the theater, in­ In order to keep within the Al11m11u� cluding sponsorship of a theater appren­ limits I'll forego any lengthy chatter and tice • Jim Ferriman has been elected vice orthopedic surgeon, spent his days off get down to actual news. Thanks for the president of LFE Corp., and will be re­ haying and farming in Norwich, Vt., this great response to the questionnaire. sponsible for industrial and public rela­ ummer • Talk to Bob North if you're About 60 out of 250, not bad. Would tions and facility management. Jim and contemplating living abroad. He's na­ you other 200 take time to jot off a pos­ his family live in Sherborn, Mass. • tional merchandising manager for Gen­ tal to me? I promise more news if you Steve Finner spoke at a symposium in eral Motors, Venezuela. While regular will only keep me informed. Judy Hoag­ May at Colby on '"Some Structural Cor­ gas is about 12¢ per gallon, an air-con­ land Bristol writes from Texas that she relates of Outcomes of Collective Bar­ ditioned four-door Chevelle is $9,000 received her M.Ed. from Texas Southern gaining Elections of Higher Education." there! • Jack PaJlotta is Syracuse re­ in administration and Chicano studies. He is chairman of the methods committee gional group manager for the Guardian She has been a social studies consultant in the dept. of sociology at the Univ. of Life Insurance Co. of America • Judy in the Houston schools working at an Delaware • Jeremy Guiles was featured Chase Rearick spent her summer as an "alternative school" teaching potential in the Sunday ew York Times as one Outward Bound instructor in the Colo­ drop-outs, after four years in an all-black of the craftsmen who exemplifie the rado mountains; her letter came from ghetto school. For this academic year New England crafts tradition. Living in India! • One of the two partners in Judy has received a federal grant and is South Windham, he hand fashions wood­ Strategy House, a games company, is a consultant for 33 junior and senior high en jigsaw puzzles which become "heir­ Steve Richardson. Their successes range schools with a staff of six coordinators looms" since they will never wear out or from personalized jigsaw puzzles ($7 5- under her. Congratulations, Judy. Hope rip • Start making plans to come back 500) to Xaviera's Game (which you'll the year is going well • Brenda Wrob­ to our 15th reunion! have to buy to find out about!) Wife eski Elwell and her husband spent a week skiing in Switzerland last February. Mrs. Roy T. Denniston Martha (Hooven) is working part-time Brenda helped to open and is now man­ (Deborah Berry) as an engineering aide for Creare, Inc. • aging a new travel agency in Bel Air. R.F. D. I Mary Snowman spent her summer estab­ Md. She is also teaching an adult evening Nassau, N.Y. 12123 lishing a riding school for deprived and 61 physically handicapped kids. She also course on "The Art of Travel" • Gail helped set up a factory for rebuilding Smith Gerrish and her husband have re­ Jeanette Benn Anderson became presi­ cars in Wales • Ellen McCue Taylor located in Boulder, Colo. This spring dent of the Houlton Regional Hospital is a volunteer kindergarten teacher in they backpacked 46 miles in three days Auxiliary in January • Bob Burke has Birmingham, Ala., where they "really do in the Paria Canyon in Utah and been promoted to vice president, person­ eat grits" • Frank Wallace is dean at Arizona. That sounds like a lot of fun nel department, at Goldman Sachs & Co. Colorado Academy in Englewood; never­ • Anne Cross Howe is the bookkeeper • Another promotion: this one to Kent theless, he spent the summer at his log for her husband's flight school on Cape Davidson who is manager, product plan­ cabin in Chesuncook • Our man in the Cod. She finds time to tutor French and ning, food preparation, Housewares Busi­ Pentagon is LCDR Bruce Young who is care for two lively youngsters. They ness Division of General Electric Co. presently in the office of the director of travel often in one of their small planes. Kent, about my ailing toaster. . . • The Naval telecommunications. Bruce grad­ Dee mentions that they have had a family outstanding suggestion for our 15th came uated from the Naval War College in of five from Japan visiting with them for from Frank D'Ercole: "Figure out some July, 1973 • A '6l'er with an exciting a couple of months. Quite an experience way to make it our 10th." Frank became and worthwhile "hobby" is Howie Blatt • Mary Symonds Leavitt and Boyd are partner in the law firm of Robinson, a who is an active member of the Engle­ very proud to announce the arrival of Robinson, and Cole on January 1, 1974 wood Cliffs, N.J., Volunteer Ambulance Bradley on April 8. Muff is just getting • Cynthia Spaniack Elsey is a provision­ Corps • Bill Swormstedt is treasurer started when the rest of us are hope­ al member of the Colorado Concert Bal­ of the Colby Alumni of N.H. and a new fully finishing our families. The Leavitts let Company • Ted Lockhart and fam­ father. Charles Pettee and bis wife Ria are still in Porterville, Cal. • Barbie ily are now living in Middletown, R.I., visited the Swormstedts in July • Carol Davenport Slack is a psychologist for a where he is a student at the Naval War Trigg Friedly, whose new address is 39 prison project in Medford, Mass. Barb College in Newport • Dr. David Moore, DaYinci, Mt. Park, Lake Oswego, Ore- is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston College.

27 The summer of '73 she presented a paper live in Darien, Conn. in the winter and with the Masterworks Chorale in Lexing­ on Childbirth Pain at an International summer in Castine • Other class news ton • Bill '62 and Barby Haines Chase Psychosomatic and Hypnosis Convention should have reached you all via a news­ recently returned from two and a half in Sweden. She has also had two pub­ letter prior to this going to print. Please years in Fairbanks, Alaska, and after lications this year in that field • Judy drop me a line. nine weeks of travel in an J 8-foot Dupras Stanford has been named to the trailer, finally settled in Keene, N.H., language and literature division with where Bill Mrs. Peter E. French is a surgeon at the Keene teaching responsibilities in English at Clinic. (Gl (Jo-Ann Wincze) enshaw is near Pittsburgh, Bar­ Cape Cod Community College. Judy is by ). 6 3 2507 Rose Dr. Barby is pursuing her creative in­ also co-editor of Jam-To-Day, a poetry �tincts while caring Glenshaw, Penn. 15 I I 6 for two pre-schoolers magazine • Bill Chase has finally started • Nancy Reynolds Zellhoefer and hu - earning an honest living as general sur­ Dr. Byron Petrakis is ass't. prof. of Eng­ band John are building a new home while geon associated with the Keene, N.H., lish at the Univ. of North Carolina at Nancy is taking classes in interior design Clinic, after spending two and a half years Charlotte Judy Thompson Chandler and decorating • Ruth Pratley Madell in Alaska with Uncle Sam. Bill and Bar­ keeps busy doing program planning for keeps busy at home with two youngster� bie (Haines '63) spent five weeks return­ the local Colby Alumni group and and still finds time for the Woman's Club ing from Alaska, camping the A I Can worked on the Erwin-for-governor cam­ and AAUW • Diane Buckley Garthright Highway in an 18-foot trailer and ex­ paign with Bangor campaign chairman. ha just begun working part time towards periencing temperatures down to 15° be­ hu band Garth '62 • Charis Storms an R.N. degree, and is also helping to low zero. Bill says they have had enough Davis i� teaching a kindergarten class of e�tablish a mission church. camping for awhile - they intend to deaf children while keeping busy at home Midge Walton Holmes has three chil­ climb and canoe instead. By the looks of with Sara (7) and wild red-headed 2- dren to keep her busy and is a librarian the latest picture Bill is sporting a beard. year old Scott • Speaking of red heads in Fairfax County Ya. Midge reports she Was that grown to chase away the Alas­ Dee Wilson Perry and husband Steve saw Silvia Callet-Bois in London in I 97 1. kan chil ls, Bill? • Henderson Colley have started a mail order fishing tackle Silvia married Juan Bonta, an architect. has an exciting job as the international business in their spare time; and science They have four children and live in Mun­ sales manager of Head Ski Co. in Bould­ teacher Linda Orr does theater work with cie, Ind. Planning a trip to Vienna er, Colo. He spends a good deal of time the high school and community • Tony in the spring is Cynthia Peters Mciver traveling - recently to Japan, Australia and Ruth Schafer Sarrica are happily and husband Roderick. Vienna has spe­ and New Zealand. In between he spends busy in Westerville, Ohio, where Tony is cial memories for the Mclvers - that is as much time as possible at his ski and systems analyst/programmer for Univer­ where they met and married. Cynthia tennis condominium in Vail. Hendy at­ sity Hospitals, Columbus • Dave teaches German language and literature tended the open tennis tournament in Johnson is an airline pilot for Delta and and does free-lance editing in language Forest Hills, N.Y., this summer. Here is nies out of Atlanta • Social worker textbooks • Also teaching high school a single guy still left for some of you turned housewife is Arlene Jenkins Gra­ is Connie Miller Manter who works with single gals • Dave Hughes teaches at ber. Arlene reports that she recently saw Jon Choate '64 on an inter-school pro­ the Fenn School in Concord, Mass., and Diane Lerner Blum and her adorable ject in Groton. Mass. • Rod Pierce is at Camp Pasquaney in E. Hebron, twin girls. Keeping up with at least half was recently promoted to vice president N.H., during the summer. Dave and our class and fixing up an older home of Peoples Bank, Providence. Wife Sheila Lynn welcomed their first child in June. and tending a large garden is John Wil­ (Webster '65) is the program director Dave says he's trying to keep his drive­ son, who also teaches French and sings for United Cerebral Palsy of R.I. way from washing out again just so old Charlie Stokes is a cabinet maker an

28 Colby Alumni Assoc. Last summer she Day Care Center. They packed their two Univ. of Cal. He and bis wife have three was busy on a cross country camping boys off for five weeks to their place at children • Jason Berger is an attorney trip • Judith Allen Austin likes New Mooselookmeguntic in Rangeley this past and lives in Lexington, Mass. • Betsey Mexico and the wide open spaces. Judy summer • After being in Miami, Dale (Fraser) and Charlie Eck are in Rich­ is involved in ROTC Angel Flight while Jewell and his wife Rubye and daughter mond, B.C., where Charlie is doing husband Noel is a major in the USAF • have returned to Winslow. Dale is mer­ post-doctoral teaching and is a chem­ Look for lots more to come next time. chandise mgr. for C.F. Hathaway and istry research assistant and Betsey is do­ Your response has been tremendous. Rubye teaches at Winslow High School. ing substitute teaching. Although they en­ Thank you to a great class. In the summer, they all live at the lake joy the beautiful B.C. country, they hope • Susie Walker Ostrem's husband is to come back to New England or eastern Mrs. Benjamin C. Potter, Jr. mayor-elect of Great Falls, Mont. • Canada. Betsey and Charlie have two (CeCe Sewall) John O'Connor and Gretchen (Wollom sons • Jann (Buffinton) Browning is a 6 4 42 Middle St. '66) and their two sons spent the summer school adjustment counselor for the Chel­ Lexington, Mass. 02 173 of '73 in Belgium where John was doing sea Public Schools in Chelsea, Mass. She research for a Ph.D. thesis. They are now has four step-children and takes trips Some news of recent appointments: Jim in Concord, Mass., where John is a his­ every 3-4 months to Canada to visit Valbouli has been named chairman of tory teacher and Gretchen is a registrar friends from Waterloo Lutheran Univ. the English dept. of Bradford College in at Concord Academy • Chris Brown where she got her M.S.W. • Lesley For­ Bradford, Mass. Jim received his mas­ and Sue and their two sons spent the man Fishelman and her husband are both ter s degree and doctorate in English summer in the Waterville area directing physician psychiatrists and are stationed from the Univ. of Wisconsin and was the the Hinckley School of Crafts • Linda in Colorado Springs while Stephen does recipient of a fellowship for a study of Stearns Corey is editor of the "People" "time" in the Army Medical Corps. They the contemporary American short story section of the Bangor Daily News. She have one son • Jill Long has just built from the National Endowment for the lives in Hampden with her two daugh­ a house in Williston, Vt., where she is co­ Humanities • Charles "Skip" Thayer, ters and spent her third year tenting in ordinator of Irons Rehabilitation Center who was head trainer for the Chicago Maine with them this summer • After at the Vt. State Hospital • Linda Black Hawks of the National Hockey spending 10 months in New England Goodine Johnson and her husband have League for the past five years, has been while Andy was in Thailand, Marcia just finished building their own house in appointed assistant trainer at the Univ. of Harding Anderson and Andy have moved Bennington, Vt., where she is a music Maine in Orono • Lois Lyman Smith to Sumter, S.C., where Andy is stationed teacher and be is a machinist • Tom was named college librarian for the New at Shaw AFB. Marcia keeps busy with Korst is manager of Administrative Data Hampshire Vocational-Technical College a son and daughter and makes dolls, Systems for U.N.H. and over the past in Nashua, N.H. She received her mas­ clothes, etc. to sell on consignment. She four years has restored three houses • ter's degree in library science from Sim­ just finished a batch of 32(!) dolls to be Susan McGinley finished her M.F.A. in mons College and was previously librar­ sold in North Andover, Mass. • Randy directing at Boston Univ. this past June. ian at White Pines College in Chester, and Nancy (DeWitt '66) Antik are living During the summer, she acted in four N.H., for four years • Donald Nevin in New Canaan, Conn., with their young productions at the Cape Ann Playhouse joined the faculty of Vermont Technical son. Randy is vice-president of market­ in Gloucester, Mass., and has acted in College in Randolph Center, Vt., as as­ ing for Dansk Designs, Ltd. They skied and directed many plays in the Boston­ sistant professor of mathematics. He was in Banff last spring with Al Post and Cambridge area. Sue lives in Roxbury, formerly assistant professor of mathe­ Billy Post '66 and their wives and saw Mass. • Cary and Jan Wood Parsons matics at Norwich Univ. • And, in Eliot Terborgb and his wife on a trip are back in Boston where Cary is a geol­ case you missed the article, Doris Kearns to San Francisco • Marnie Hale ogist for J.P. Collins and Jan is a nursery continues to be newsworthy in the Oc­ Fowler and her husband are team school assistant. They live in Natick with tober issue of Time magazine on her teachers (grades 5-6) in Millinocket their two sons • Ken and Sally Thomp­ forthcoming book on LBJ and in the De­ where they live with their two girls. They son Bryan are still in McLean, Va., cember issue of Boston magazine • are both active in the program to teach where Ken is an attorney and partner in Richard A. Zipser, assistant professor of adult illiterates • Al Grayson (former­ Swayze, Tydings and Bryan. They have German at Oberlin College, is the author ly Grzelecki) has left the position of as­ two daughters and live in an old farm of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Germany, sistant director of Duke Univ. Hospital house • Macy Harrison Curd is an in­ Vol. XVI of the "German Studies in to become assistant administrator at St. structor of English at Drake Univ. where America" series. Richard received his Margaret Hospital in Hammond, Ind. (40 her husband is a law student. They have M.A. from Middlebury in 1965 and miles SW of Chicago). Al and his wife a year-old son • David S. Fearon has Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1972. live in Munster, Ind., with their two been named to the newly-created position daughters • Patty Charlton Jacob and of dean of the Division of Public Service her husband and their two sons (one at the Univ. of Maine/Farmington. His Miss Alison A. Coady newly arrived in June) live in Clarendon responsibilities will include the Continu­ 25 Spring Lane Hills, Ill. Patty's husband is corporate ing Education and summer session pro­ 6 5 Canton, Mass. 0202 1 controller of Chemetron • Carol grams. David was formerly director of Norm and Joss (Coyle) Bierman spent the Christy Rickauer and her husband who is community services and assistant to the last two years in England and have come an engineer for Mountain Bell live in Ft. president at Mohegan Jr. College, Nor­ to Boston where Norm is manager of the Collins, Colo., with their daughter and wich, Conn. He and bis wife Connie have local branch of BBD&O. Before return­ three sons. They are both Four-H pro­ two children and have bought a home ing to the U.S., they took a trip through ject leaders and are active in the Ft. Col­ in Farmington • After having my the Greek Isles to recover from the prob­ lins Track Club where they recently ran brother Brad '67 and his wife Sue (Grigg) lems of current British life. They are liv­ 20 miles in a "Run Down Cancer" joga­ '68 and son stay with me this summer be­ ing in Wellesley with their two sons • thon • Ronald Saad is an attorney in fore their departure on a three-year Geoffrey and Louise MacCubrey Robbins Brockton, Mass., where be and bis wife teaching period in Nigeria, I took a live in Penn Yan, N.Y., where Geoff is live with their three sons • John Tew­ three-week vacation to Seattle and saw rector of St. Mark's Church. Louise is hey bas finished at Brown and is now in Linda Field Mattox '64; continued to active in the local AAUW and is on the Livermore, Cal., as a geologist with the B.C., . Canada and then drove from board of directors of the Yates County Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the Washington stopping in Milwaukee to

29 see Stoney (Wilson) Wilson on the way man in N.Y. who is married, has one Mr. Stephen D. Ford home. Hope you are all beginning to child and is attending law school. He Apt. D-24 make plans to come to reunion this June. adds that Steve Breese is at the Univ. of 275 Glen Riddle Rd. Wisconsin getting a Ph.D. in English • Glen Riddle, Pa. 19037 Jeff and Sharon Browning and two chil­ 6 8 Natalie Graceffa Steve King has joined the faculty at the 18 Deer Run dren are in Concord, Calif. Jeff is in Kingwood Regional High School in New 7 Augusta, Maine 04330 pharmaceutical sales in San Francisco • David Chait is continuing his ear, nose Hampshire. Steve is in the Spanish dept. Noreen6 Snydermao Davis and John and and throat residency at the Univ. of After Colby, be received further training Barbara (I) are in Hollywood, Fla., Nebraska. Laura is a social worker. They, in Spanish while in the military and at where she is a program analyst for social too, are expecting their first child in Feb­ the Univ. of the Americas in Pueblo, services for the elderly, and John is an ruary • John and Sarah Cooper wel­ Mexico • Claudia Bourcier Fregosi has accountant and graduate student. Noreen comed Jennifer on April 2 lst: "Lamaze written to update us on her writing and received a B.A. in political science from method is the only way." John is a sales illustrating activities. Her second chil­ Northeastern and an M.A. from Fla. representative in Bethpage, N.Y., for dren's book, The Mammoth, the Owl, Atlantic Univ. • Larry Bernstein is a Scott Paper • Peter Gurley ,became a and the Crab, will be published by Mac­ physician working for National Health father last fall • Joyce Demkowicz's Millan in the early spring. MacMillan Service Corps in Rochester, N.Y., where new job is assistant director in the office used a page from her first book, Sun he and his wife Sue, a social worker, live of career planning and placement at the Grumble, as its 1974 Christmas card. • Nancy Wilcox Clarke and Stephen are Univ. of Maine Orono. This year she is Claudia and husband Bill are especially in Guilderland, N.Y., where Nancy cares teaching a special seminar in career ex­ enjoying their little Korean daughter, for Cathy (3) and Stephen (I); is a part­ ploration and is vice president of the Stephania Palmyra Anna Fregosi, who time organist; leads the junior choir; and Maine College Personnel Assoc. • Jim arrived in July at age six months. They advises the church youth group. She also Eisenberg was appointed an official Colby report that she is "happy, healthy, and started making quilts and won "best-of­ representative in Cleveland • Jean lovely." Bill is extensively engaged in de­ fair" at their local three-county fair. Howard Bleyle and John and two chil­ signing work for theatrical, operatic and Stephen is a wildlife biologist. Nancy re­ dren moved to Darien, Conn., for a year television programs in the greater Boston ceived an M.S. in zoology from U. Mass. or so after which they may return to area • Dick Colby has been appointed in 1969 • Barclay and Nancianne Ar· Hartford. Jean would like news of Laila an assistant principal in the Dennis-Yar­ nold Below and Jennifer Jane (21/2) are Walji Alidina. "John and I have signed mouth (Mass.) School District • We in Buffalo, N.Y., where Bare is a clergy­ up for a marriage encounter weekend. were happy to see in the fall A /umnus man and Nanci is operations analyst for Wonder if anyone else has been to one" that Gary Weaver has joined the Colby a bank. Bare received a master's of di­ • John Demer is living in Concord, staff as assistant to the director of finan· vinity from Colgate Rochester Divinity Mass., with his wife Becky, Sarah (7) and cial aid and career counseling • Joo School and is currently enrolled in the James (5) where he is director of the and Polly Billings Smith and their daugh­ Univ. of Buffalo School of Architecture Concord Museum. He completed mu­ ter are now in Cologne, Germany, where and Environmental Design master's de­ seum training at the Henry Francis du Jon is teaching and doing research at the gree program. Bare and Nanci are co­ Pont Winterthur Museum • Carol Beers Univ. of Cologne's Institute for Genetics. founders of "The Futures Constructing left Massachusetts in June, spent a month Jon received his Ph.D. in virology from Co.," a group attempting to make people in the Sierras cooking on Sierra Club the Univ. of Texas at Austin • Deborah aware of real potentials for the future • trips, hiking and climbing. She settled in Nutter Miner was appointed an instructor Ellie (Eichmann) and Peter '66 Deosen Seattle, and is looking for a job • Barry in government at Bowdoin College for and Gregory have completed U.S.A.F. and Lena Botelho for three years have the current academic year. She received and moved from Texas to Baltimore been in London where Barry was pro­ her M. Phil. degree from Columbia and where Peter is finishing specialty training moted to manager of long range planning is currently a doctoral candidate at the at Johns Hopkins • In Westfield, N.J., for Rank Xerox's 23 operating countries. same institution • Pete Swett, not want­ Bob and Fran Richter Comstock and Jen­ They went on a safari in Kenya last year ing to write too soon after graduation, nifer (4) welcomed Virginia (Ginger) Wil­ that was so successful that they are going has updated us on his activities since lard on August 28. Fran taught art his­ this year to South Africa • Barry and then. Pete was "invited to play Army" tory at Middlesex College last year. They Betsy Littlejohn Blatz and two girls and during his tour served as a crew are skiing and playing indoor tennis • moved in September to an old farmhouse chief on a helicopter in Vietnam. Then Susan Finlay, R.N. has moved to Tellu­ in Shaftsbury, Vt., where they keep a he joined up with his father in the con­ ride, Colo., from Denver hoping to be a horse for riding and carting. Barry is an struction and installation of grandstands nurse for the ski patrol. In a month be­ inventory control supervisor • Harold and gym seats and, while working in In­ tween jobs last summer she went back­ Hagopian, official court reporter for Ply­ dianapolis, met bis wife Mary Jean. Pete packing for a week in the San Juan Mts. mouth County Superior Court, has re­ is now selling Linda) Cedar Homes in the and visited all the Colorado ski resorts to quested a one-year leave of absence to North Berwick area but finds time to do some white-water canoeing, camping, decide where to move • Stephen Car­ take a similar temporary position in trail riding and hockey-playing • Pat penter and Janice and two children are Maine. He plans to live in Belfast • Thompson Soller recently received her now in Anneslie, Md. He is in a Ph.D. Brett Halvorson has taken an elementary M.A. from Farmington State College • program at Johns Hopkins dept. of art teaching position in Berlin, N.H., after Dan Libby bas joined the chemistry dept. teaching three years in Thorndike • history. The Carpenters ran out of gas at Oberlin College. He received his near Berwick. "After 7 years, while go­ Dick Heend is employed as residential Ph.D. from Penn. State Univ. this past ing 60 mph, Herbie Swartz recognized marketing manager by Dow Chemical year where be concentrated on organic us and stopped. He said he is a photo­ Co. • Air Force Captain (Dr.) Richard chemistry, enzyme mechanisms and mod­ journalist in N.H. and has a little girl" • Lemieux and Nancy have arrived at Bit­ el systems. Dan's wife Carol is also on In W. Lebanon, N.H., Fred and Leslie burg A.B. Germany, for active duty as the staff of the Oberlin chemistry dept. • Beyer are expecting their first child in an oral surgeon • After having taught Bob Bonner has taken on additional February. Fred is in his second year of six years, Richard Luboy obtained his duties with the First Federal Savings and a two-year M.B.A. program at Amos M.A. from the Univ. of Maine at Orono, Loan of East Hartford. Bo,b was ap­ Tuck, and reports that he saw Bill Fine- and is now teaching in Plymouth, N.H. pointed an assistant secretary of the in-

30 stitution in 1972 and is now slated to be branch manager at a new office • Charlie and Sue Volpe Hely report that "Russian Seemed So Impractical" Charlie's tour of duty with the Marine Corps is now over and they are living in A freshman year Jan. Plan in intensive Russian led to Needham, Mass. During his three years a career as a government linguist for Judith Kenoyer of military duty Charlie was a lawyer in Stoy '71. But in the beginning, she fought it all the Washington, D.C., primarily engaged in way. 'When you're a freshman, the advisors sort of representing criminal defendants in ap­ guide you," she commented in an interview with the peals from court martial, while Sue was Maine Sunday Telegram. "And well, they guided sev­ engaged in social work in Alexandria, Va. eral of us right into that [Russian) seminar. We argued. Charlie is now practicing law with the We talked to the teacher, oh we really tried to get out Boston firm of Parker, Coulter, Daley of that course. I was an English major ...and Rus­ and White • Richard and Glenna White sian seemed so impractical." Crawforth are the parents of a daughter Judi ruefully admits that once the course began she Brandi Dawn, born October 15. They really enjoyed it. By her junior year, she was enamored also clai n two sons, Jason (41/i ) and Russ enough of the language to change her major. She cites the tutelage she re­ (2) • That's all for this time. I hope ceived under professors John Kempers and Tatiana Mursina. "She was the more of you will write so that the spring one who got me into a language session at Norwich Univ. That really column will be longer. helped. You speak Russian 24 hours a day. You eat, sleep, and drink Russian." She took the exam for the National Security Agency at Colby, and was Miss Cherrie Dubois eventually called to Washington for an interview and more language aptitude 9 Tennyson Rd. tests. "By the time you got to the psychiatric exams, you were so exhausted 6 9 Reading, Mass. 01867 you were ready to answer with the first thing that popped into your head." After all the tests are passed there is still a security check to run. In Judi's Winter is upon us, and, lo and behold, we case, the check was probably relatively easy - her parents are not foreign­ have heard from some of the shyer mem­ born; she had lived all her life in Scarborough and attended college in the bers of the class. Jay Mann and his wife same state. The security check took six months. Sandi are running a half-way house for In reference to her job, Judi hedged. "I really can't tell you what I do. adolescents in connection with McLean Sometimes that gets quite awkward." Fortunately, her husband Bill also Hospital in Belmont, Mass. As of J anu­ works on a secret job, so they both understand why they can't explain when ary the Manns are in Madagascar, where one has to work late. At least Judi and Bill Stoy don't bring their work Jay is doing research for his dissertation home with them! on the rapid rise of Christianity among the Merina (an island group) during the first 60 years of the 19th Century. As if all this weren't enough, they are trying to secure a publisher for the memoirs of Mason Sears, a permanent representative in Waterbury • Dick Frantz is assist­ sane and calm with me, except for the on the U.N. Trusteeship Council during ant curator of the New Hampshire His­ dozen or more activities that I seem to be the Eisenhower administration. And, the torical Society. Part of his responsibility in • For those of you who are still kind crowning touch, they have become par­ includes preparing exhibits of various per­ of shy, try breaking the ice with a letter ents! • Also in the greater Boston area sons and events • Gary Lynch, who is or postcard telling of your doings. The is Bill Burges, who is a coordinator for still defending us, recently graduated whole world's waiting! A happy and Community Service Program, an experi­ from a 16-week aviation maintenance healthy New Year to all of you. mental learning project for 500 seniors school. Gary is stationed in Jacksonville, at Brockton High. In addition, Bill is N .C. • Doris Downing has been named also a part-time research director of Mrs. Paul M. Edmunds, Jr. a corporate member of the American the Massachusetts Community Schools (Jane Hight) Association of University Women, and 71 244 Walnut St. League. He received a master's in Urban will serve as a liaison between Colby and affairs at Boston Univ. and starts a sab­ Westfield,NJ. 07090 the association • Busy as ever is Ginny batical leave in January to complete a Coates Denton, who is still teaching Many bits of news for this column. Rieb doctorate in systems development and French at Manlius Pebble Hill School in Abramson is teaching vocational educa­ adaption at B.U. His wife Nancy teaches Syracuse, N.Y., as well as being a girls' tion for the handicapped, a federally crafts at the Brockton Community School field hockey coach. This summer she and funded program, in Richmond. Rich has and does patchwork design and chair her husband Tom took a group of stu­ worked with similar programs since re­ "rehabilitation" professionally • Bart dents to Scotland and Scandinavia ceiving his master's in special education Menitove is a successful lawyer in Wash­ through the American Institute for For­ from the Univ. of Maine • Joe Green­ ington, D.C. He won his first case in a eign Study • Gerry McGrath, who is man graduated from Syracuse Univ. Law trial before the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the Foreign Service, is an attache in School and is now employed by Hill and and hopes to buy a house or brownstone the administrative section of the Ameri­ Cook, Attorneys at Law, in Syracuse. In soon • Also in the Washington area is can Embassy in Paris. His son Sean is June, he was married to Fran Levy, and Warren Turner, who is an attorney ad­ enrolled in the embassy nursery school, they are presently living in Syracuse • visor for the Environmental Protection where his wife Donna teaches • Mike Bill Gleunon is attending Babson Univ. Agency • If you're short on fuel, call Mooney, a doctoral student in English at in an M.B.A. program. Bill planned to Dick Chabot, an operations analyst at the Univ. of So. California, has been be married in November • Dave Rea Eastern Gas and Fuel Assoc. in Boston awarded the Madingly Hall Fellowship to is teaching English in Newport, N.H., • Pete Brown is now a commercial loan Cambridge Univ. to aid in the completion where he is also playing hockey for sev­ officer at the National Bank in Lebanon, of his dissertation. Mike, a specialist in eral local teams • Charles Jones N.H. Prior to this, he was an administra­ Renaissance drama, received his M.A. teaches 6th grade in Augusta • Debbie tive assistant at Vermont State Hospital from U.S.C. in 1972 • All remains White writes that she is working on a

31 master's degree in marine botany at the and teaches nursery school at the Jewish Ross is in Washington working as a legis­ Univ. of Texas. She took some time off Community Center. She writes: Andrine lative as5istant for Congressman Peter last year to study coral reef ecology with (Smitty) Smith is working as a stewardess Kyros. Thank you Larry, Donna, Debbie · the National Park Service in the Dry in Oakland, Calif. Smitty left Colby and Ellen for providing more than 3/4 Tortugas, to climb volcanoes in the Mex­ after her sophomore year • David of the news for this column. l love re- ican rain forest collecting micro-orga­ (Blinky) Melpignano when last heard 5ponse! nisms, and this past summer, to partici­ from was going to graduate school in pate in an Arctic research cruise studying Bridgeport, Conn., studying some aspect Miss Gail Andrews productivity at the ice edge and attaching of media • Mary Wolff Bowles left I 24 No. Columbus St. radio transmitters to walruses to study Vermont and is traveling around the Arlington, Ya. 22203 their behavior. Sounds like a busy year! country with her husband and child • • Michael Pastushok, presently a Ph.D. Pat DeBerry lives in West Lafayette, Ind., Anne73 Badminton is teaching English at candidate in genetics at Rutgers Univ., and is teaching junior high math • Kearsarge Regional High School in New­ has been traveling in Europe, Greece and Kathy Lowe is in Hartford, Conn., work­ port, N.H. • Curtis Sears is back at Turkey • It was good to see so many ing with a family service agency as part Colby; this time as assistant to the dean people return for Homecoming. Jay of the social work graduate program at of admissions • Lynn Breckinridge has Economy is recovering from a broken Smith • Debbie Christensen is studying been appointed to the school consultation collar bone received in the Zete alumni journalism at the Univ. of Syracuse grad­ team by the Bath-Brunswick Area 'Mental football game. Jay gave his all, and the uate school • Cathie Joslyn is at In­ Health Assoc. Brian Cone is also alumni won • Mary Ellen Kelley, after diana Univ. studying for her M.F.A. in back at our alma mater; he is an adjunct living in Au tralia for over a year, has textiles • Tom Economos (Deacon) wa� inst ructor in physical education, and a�­ returned to Connecticut where she is last seen cooking in an East Boston re�­ sistant football and basketball coach teaching elementary school in Mystic • taurant Tom Johnson is living and Linda Howard Lupton i� teaching in the Carol Fall Leslie, complete with medical working at the Treadway Wellesley Inn seventh grade at Bridge Academy in supplies and clean water, has left for in Wellesley, Mass. • Polly Pattison - Dresden • Pete Rinaldi is teaching Eng­ Korea where Rick is stationed with the we assume - is living in Boston since Ii h and language arts at the Walpole Air Force for a year • Amy Brewer �he was last seen in a Boston muvie Mass., High School. He is also advisor and Gary Fitts will soon be proud par­ theater. Are Donna and Debbie right. to the radio ciub • Merrilee Bonney, ents. Their baby is due in March • Polly? • John Crabtree works in man­ back from a trip through Europe which That's all the news for now. Please write agement for St. Johnsbury Trucking in included working on a marketing re- so everyone can be included in this col­ Rochester, N.Y. • Paul Hecht is doing 5earch project for Tobler Chocolate in umn. Have a good winter' graduate work in woodworking at the Bern, Switzerland, and harvesting pota­ Rhode Island School of Design • Gary toes in Oulu, Finland, is now an admin­ Newton thought he was going to Africa Mrs. Richard Pike istrative assistant in the Office of Energy with the Peace Corps when he was last (Robertine Gervais) Resource in Portland • Beth McGrath seen • Amy Sylvester spent the sum­ 2 Rockledge Rd. is working as a sales assistant for Paine, mer working as a nurse on the Cape Rye, N.Y. 10580 Webber, Jackson and Curtis in Winches­ 7 • George Roundy has been hired as an ter, Mass. • Joel Ossoff has been ap­ Hope everyone enjoyed the summer and administrative aide at Camden-Rockport pointed by the Waterville Conservation fall months. I, for one, have been look­ High School. George is also working to­ Cammi sion to the post of professional ing forward to winter and the change of wards an M.A. in English at U. of M. • consultant to assist with the development pace it brings. The luckier souls will Bob Pike and Christine (Hanley) are liv­ of the Oxbow Nature Preserve and na­ surely be reading the following news col­ ing in Amesbury, Mass. Bob was recently ture trail • Susie Jane Rogers Belton umn from a comfortable chair in front appointed assistant varsity football coach is the pre-school coordinator for Cam­ of the fireplace. Enjoy! • Ellen Muzzy at Lawrence Central Catholic High bridge, Mass. She is abo taking night Farnham and her husband John have School. He also coaches the North An­ courses at the School of the Museum of moved into a new house in San Diego, dover Country Club swim team • Con­ Fine Arts • Ron Majdalany is working Calif. Ellen's lieutenant husband is the gratulations are in order for Anne 0'­ for a veterinarian in Norwal k, Conn. • planning officer at the Naval Regional Hanian Szostak. She has been voted an Laura Leonard. a former classmate, is Medical Center and is involved with con­ alumni representative to the board of office manager for PTR Optics in struction. His first project, a dispensary, trustees of Colby • Teaching are Mary­ Waltham, Mass. She is also going to Bos­ is to be followed by a new multi-million anna Buck Abreo and Barbara Senges. ton Univ. for her degree in bus. admin. dollar hospital complex in J 976. Ellen Maryanna teaches fourth grade at Henry • Margaret McPartland took a break enjoys the warm southern California cli­ B. Buckland School in Middleboro, Mass. from teaching Engl i�h to spend the sum­ mate • Larry Bigelow and Janet com­ She received her M.A. in elementary edu­ mer as a truck checker on Route 95 in mute from Glastonbury to Hartford cation from Suffolk Univ. Barbara Bowdoinham • Stephanie Law, another where Janet works as a claim representa­ teaches French at Bennet Junior High in former classmate, is working for a vet in tive at the Travelers and Larry graces Manchester, Mass. She received her M.A. Augusta. Last summer she traveled to Hartford National Bank as assistant to from Rutgers Univ. and lives in Storrs, Ketchikan, Ala�ka, . and through the the executive vice president of the na­ Conn. • Bill Stanton is chairman of Yukon • Robert J. O'Neil i working tional loan division. According to a letter the International Meditation Society and part-time as a security guard; the rest of from Bob Juliano: he is a pharmacy stu­ director of the local Transcendental his time is spent as a �tudent at the New dent at Mass. College of Pharmacy; Meditation Center in Portland Ken­ England School of Law • Sue Pinciaro Johna Sencabaugh is the regional man­ neth and Gail Glidden Roberts live in is a graduate �tudent in statistics at Cor­ ager of the Hodge stores in Connecticut Fairfield, Maine. Ken is computer pro­ nell. She spent her summer in Washing­ and Massachusetts; Dick MacKay has re­ grammer at Colby and Gig is manager ton, D.C., working as an intern for the ceived his master's in education from of Mr. Paperback bookstore in Skow­ U.S. Dept. of Agriculture • Carole Brown Univ.; Andy Campbell and his hegan • Richard C. Leslie, now second LaRose Celli is a Spanish teacher and wife Chris spent the fall working with the lieutenant. completed pilot training at abo an M.A. candidate at N.Y.U. • group which sponsored the Co11raI;cous at Luke AFB, Arizona in F-4 Phantom Chris Hall is a VISTA volunteer in The America's Cup Race • Donna fighter-bomber. He is now going to Kun­ Nebraska • Patience Stoddard is a Power Reiter lives in Rochester, N.Y., san AB, Republ ic of Korea • Elizabeth houseparent at the Dover Children's

32 Home in New Hampshire • Jackee Craig Weston has started medical school John Hancock in Boston • Karen Heck Taylor, another former classmate, expects at Georgetown in Washington, D. C. • is working for Congressman Jack Kemp to return from teaching in Bra silia, Robin Hamill is attending graduate in Washington, D.C., and I am Record� Brazil, to be gin graduate work this school in rehabilitation counseling and is Coordinator at Loomis, Sayles and Co., pring • Peter Card is a lieutenant in seeking a master's degree at George an investment counseling firm • As of the U.S.A.F. He and Sue Beth (Demers) Wa hington Univ. By keeping in touch September, LibbJ Corydon was planning expected to go to Thailand in December with Prudence Hoeter she has found out to work in Denmark, while Ed Hatch is • Cynthia Lovitz has moved to Vermont that Prudie now has a job with Congress­ in the marketing department of the Bell where her husband Jeff '70 is a medic:.il man Gene Taylor from Missouri and is Steel Co. in Boston • Andrea Hjcks is student at the Univ. of Vermont living in Alexandria, Va. • Rodger working for Avon Books, a publishing Holly Armitage Belmosto is a foreign Silverstein has been accepted to medical company in New York, and Chris Car­ language teacher in Braintree, Mass. • school as has Kenneth Hardigan, who is lisle is a geologist for Wing and Schneid­ Greg Page has the opportunity to play a presently at the Univ. of Rochester. erhan Geologists Inc. • Martha Hamil­ great deal of golf while working as as­ Joseph Mattia is studying chemistry at ton Benson., wife of Joe '72, is a recep­ sistant front desk ma nager at the Hilton the Univ. of Massachusetts, and Nancy tionist at a wholesale religious products Head Inn for Sea Pine Plantation in Greer is at the Univ. of Kentucky as a company; Kathe M.isch Tuttman is an ad­ S.C. • Sue Cook is teaching ninth member of the classics department • ministrative assistant to the director of grade m ath again at Quabbin Regional Then there are those of us who began the RoseArt Museum at Brandeis, and High School in Barre. Mas . • John working in the "big, bad world" after Bruce Carmichael is also an administra­ Kvernland is assistant sales analyst graduation. Eric Boonstra is a research tive assistant, working for the Interna­ trainee in group pensions for the Metro­ as istant in endocrinology at ·Massachu­ tional Paper Co. Debbie Ikehara is politan Life Ins. Co. He and Richard setts General Hospital, Ann Bicknell is working as a research assistant at Roy Wein are rooming together in New York working as a secretary for Boston Univ."s Mann Associates. landscape architects City • Margaret Litchenberg is a grad­ School of the Public Communications Di­ and environmental plan ners in Cam­ uate student in math at U. Mass. She vision of Public Relations, and Peter bridge, Mass. • And, finally, there are mentioned that Geoff and Janet Shea Prime is across the ocean working in those who followed a religious calling. Legg are the proud parents of a son Germany James Pierson is work ing Jane Sutherland is presently a deaconess Charles • Pat Hkkson and I have now at Pitman-Moore Co. as a lab technician , in a protestant order called the Fellow­ moved into a house in Arlington, Va., while Mary-Ann Sartucci is a manage­ ship Deaconry; Steve Hake is attending which we are just delighted with • Sue ment trainee at the Travelers Insurance Westminster Theological Seminary; and Crowley is a case worker specializing in Co. in Hartford. Conn. • Carol Wood Steve Kelsey is working as a parish as­ custody studies for the Dept. of Health i training to become an Eastern Airlines sistant in a mission church in Hardwick, and Welfare in Augusta • David stewardess, and Elizabeth Allan is study­ developing a "social action·· based minis­ Swardlick teaches in the Media Center of ing and working in Japan • Diana try. Well, that's it for this issue. Thanks Waterville High • Hope everyone is Dougherty is teaching English to helicop­ again for all of your great news. I hope having a great winter. Keep in touch. ter pilots in Tehran, while both Marcia to hear from y.ou again real soon. Take Cook and Ginny Day are working at care! Miss Debbie Marden 30 Chiswick Rd. 7 4 Apartment #2 Brookline, Mass. 02 146

Hi again! Well, this time I do have news from people all over who were good enough to reply to the questionnaire. Thanks to everyone who wrote! Our class is doing remarkably well after leaving Colby. Many are graduate students throughout the country. Dave Finger is attending the Univ. of Miami School of Law, Julia McNagny is at Indiana Univ. of Law, Jeff Werner is studying biology at Northeastern, Diana Waterous is in law at Boston College, and Carol Smart i doing graduate work in Chinese studies at the Univ. of Chicago • Peter Schultz is working for his master's degree in music performance and reports that Brian Rothberg married Marilyn Lebo­ witz in mid-November • Arthur Bell is studying for his M.B.A. at Wharton Graduate School in Pennsylvania • Tony Fontrier is at Albany Medical Col­ lege • After attending a 51/2-week pro­ gram at the Katy Gibbs Entree Program,

Blair Fox is presently at Powers School Peace Corps volunteer Bos MCGURN '73 oversees construction of a family latrine in a • Cynthia Vietor is at Washington Mon­ 1·i//age in northern Senegal. A rural development worker, Bob is part of a govern­ tessori Institute • Cathy Downes has ment efjort to increase agricultural production and impro1·e health and sanitation in started work on a master's degree in com­ Senegal's Fle111·e region, an area hard hit by six years of drought. His well-digging puter science at the Moore School of the projects have enabled many farmers to switch from subsistence farming to raising cash Univ. of Pennsylvania and tells me that crops like onions and cabbage.

33 Thomas L. Gallant '74 to Susan L. Bertha Damon Teague, 1908, June 13 in Ouellette, August 10, Brunswick. Rockland, age 90. Born in Warren, Miss Peter J. Plasse '74 to Malinda L. Selby Teague attended Rockland Commercial '74, September 12, Whittier, Calif. College and was employed as a house­ Milestones keeper. Survivors include two nephews and several cousins.

Leona Achorn Gillis, 1910, September 7 in Bangor, age 87. Born in Morrill, Mrs. Births Gillis was a graduate of Belfast High School and attended the Univ. of Maine A daughter, Sophia Mary Noble, to for post-graduate work. For 36 years Marriages Yvonne (Noble '56) and J. Hugh Davies, Mrs. Gillis was a high school teacher, November 20. serving 20 of those years at Milo High Janice Klem Hansen '58 to Miloslav A son, Christopher Michael, to Anne School. She was the wife of Allan P. Benicek, August 17. (Larkin '6 1) and John Connolly, August Gillis, who died in 1963. A member of Anne Lovell '61 to Edward Swenson, 22. Delta Delta Delta sorority, she was state June 1. A son, David, to Carolyn (Evans '61) president of Garden Clubs Federation of Donna L. Sample '61 to Raymond and Joseph T. Consolino '58, May. Maine, and international chairperson of Sparks, October 12. A daughter, Amy Bradford, to Virginia Maine Women's Clubs. Mrs. Gillis leaves Judith Ann Jones '66 to William P. (Murphy '61) and Ed Cragin, May 24. two daughters, one brother, a nephew Hooper, March 30, Fort George G. A son, Michael, to Virginia (Wriggins and several cousins. Meade, Md. '61) and Norman Hochella, June 7. Charlene H. Resan '66 to Bryan J. Ross, A son, Daniel, to Bertha "Bebe" (Clark Albert Edwin Calvin Carpenter, 1912, October 19, Sausalito, Calif. '61) and Moffett Mutz, July 11. October 5 in Reading, Mass., age 86. A Daniel Woloshen '66 to Donna MacPhee, A daughter, Anne, to Mr. and Mrs. Melrose, Mass., native, he was a graduate August 11, Brookline, Mass. Quimby Robinson '61, August 17. of Brewster Academy. Mr. Carpenter Ruth E. Chatterton '67 to C. Eston A son, Erik, to Mr. and Mrs. Bill was a salesman with Chase, Parker and Singletary, October 12, Edgartown, Mass. Swormstedt '6 1, June 29. Co., a Chelsea mill supply firm, since Jacqueline B. Aulson '68 to Thomas J. A son, Alan Henry, to Janet (MacColl 1925. He retired last July. A member of Dee, August I 0, Topsfield, Mass. '63) and Tom Krakauer, August 20. Phi Delta Theta, he is survived by his G. Linwood Cross '69 to Gail Bolduc, A daughter, Amanda Lee, to Anita wife, the former Vera Bennett, and two August 17, Lewiston, Maine (Nourse '63) and Wayne Largent, July 31. daughters. Warren M. Turner '69 to Anne L. Bart­ A daughter, Elisabeth, to Elspeth hold, October 12, Bethlehem, Penn. (Stewart '63) and George McLaughlin Lucy Isabel Clough, 1913, April 27 in Martha I. Alden '70 to David H. Ellis, '63, September 13. Kennebunkport, age 82. Born in New August 25, Stockton Springs. A son, Matthew Joseph, to Barbara (Mc­ York City, she attended Kennebunkport Maureen Ano Vaughan '70 to Neal Ule­ Gillicuddy '65) and Francis Bolton, High School and Miss Kimball's School vich, September 25, Saigon, South July 25. in Worcester, Mass. Miss Clough was a Vietnam. A son, Jonathan Samuel, to Mr. and schoolteacher for 40 years, serving 30 Jan Dale Farnum '71 to Fred M. Web­ Mrs. Charles R. Levin '67, October 9. years in the schools of Dedham, Mass. ber, August 25, Mt. Vernon. A daughter, Brandi Dawn, to Glenna She retired as head of the math depart­ William J. Glennon '71 to Nancy L. (White '68) and Richard Crawforth, ment in 1954, and made her home in Aeschbach, November 9, Sudbury, Mass. November 15. Kennebunkport with her sister Madeline Kathy Anne Parmelee '71 to Richard G. A son, Jonathan Edward, to Jane (Peter­ 'J 4, who survives. Fairbanks, August 17, Greenwich, Conn. son '68) and Jonathan F. Moody '65, Pamela R. Wolf '71 to William I. Sparkes September 27. Ivan Othma Harlow, 1913, November 6 '69, September 14, Woodfords. A daughter, Malaika, to Gail (Wright in Barrington, R.I., age 85. Born in Phil­ Maryana Buck '72 to Peter J. Abren, '69) and Burt Danovitz, September 30. lips, he was a graduate uf Coburn Classi­ July 28, Middleboro, Mass. A son, Brian Barry, to Martha (Peverly cal Institute and Lowell Textile School. Donald B. Borman '72 to Terry L. Elliot, '69) and Barry Lewis, September 12. Mr. Harlow was the vice president and November 23, Lorimer Chapel, Water­ A son, Aaron Brewer, to Laura (Struck­ general manager of Bellman Brook ville. hoff '70) and Steven Cline '70, August 1. Bleachery in Fairview, N .J., for 25 years Linda J. Chmielinski '72 to Frank J. A son, Jonathan Daniel, to Kathryn (Hill until his retirement in I 956, when he Gould, May, Boston, Mass. '70) and William R. Revett '69, June 7. moved to Barrington. He was a member Gail A. Glidden '72 to Kenneth W. Rob­ of Phi Delta Theta. Besides his wife erts '72, May 26, 1973, Framingham, Beulah, he leaves two sons, six grandchil­ Mass. dren, and a great-grandchild. Linda L. Howard '72 to Ronald W. Lup­ ton '71, September 1, Methuen, Mass. Sophie Pratt Bostelmann, 1914, June 29 Patricia P. Johnstone '72 to Robert B. Deaths in Auburn, N.Y., age 81. Born in Corn­ Nelson '72, Lincoln, Mass. ing, N.Y., she had lived in Auburn since David B. Baird '73 to Terry A. Roy, Ella E. Maxcy, 1906, April 14 in Attle­ I 946. Mrs. Bostelmann was a graduate July 20, Waterville. boro, Mass., age 91. Born in Wrentham, of Smith College and taught on the David A. Graves '73 to Amanda Corray, Mass., she was a lifelong resident of No. faculties of the Diller-Quaile Scb,ool of August 3 , Seremban, Malaysia. Attleboro and a graduate of its high Music, Ohio State Univ., Smith College, Chrisanne Hall '73 to Jose Manuel school. She did graduate work in French and Syracuse Univ. Her music teaching Salazar, August 17, Scotts Bluff, Neb. at Middlebury and Brown. Miss Maxcy career spanned six decades. In Auburn, Carol Ann Reynolds '73 to William was a high school teacher until her retire­ she maintained a private piano studio. Mucica, October 18, Stoneham, Mass. ment from Taunton High School in 1949. Surviving are three daughters, a sister, a Sandra Jean Clark '74 to Lars E. A member of Chi Omega, she leaves a brother Norman Pratt '2 I, and nine Jonassen. April 27, Albion. niece. grandchildren.

34 Aldine Clark Gilman, 1915, May 23 in and the grandfather of Paul J. '73. In Frederick '47 and Margo Beach '65 (Mrs. her native Harmony, age 84. Miss Gil­ addition to his wife, son, and grandson, Walfrid G. Bjorn). In addition to the man was a graduate of Dexter High Dr. Ilsley leaves a daughter, a sister, five above, he is survived by his wife, Grace, School. An educator for 37 years, she grandchildren, and four great-grandchil­ to whom he had been married for 48 taught English at Camden High School dren. years, another sister, and four grand­ for seven years, and at Malden, Mass. children. High School for 30 years, retiring to Dex­ Dorothy Isabel Roberts, 1918, August 11 in New Haven, Conn., age 77. Miss Rob­ ter in 1952. For many years Miss Gil­ William Lowell Steams, 1922, July 25. erts, born in Caribou, was a graduate of man served as correspondent for the class Mr. Stearns, who attended Colby from its high school. She was employed in the of 1915, and as women's class agent. She 1919 to 1920, was a 1923 graduate of field of mental health for 37 years, serv­ is survived by one sister, a nephew, and Springfield College. At Colby his experi­ ing as a psychiatric social worker in Dor­ grandnephews and grandnieces. ence on the football, track, and baseball chester, Mass., Pawtucket, R.I., and Prov­ teams convinced him that he wished to idence, R.I., retiring from her position as Marion Whipple Tuscan, 1915, March 16 major in phy�ical education. He was a a mental health consultant to the Visiting in Skowhegan, age 81. A lifelong resident member of Springfield's famous gymnas­ Nurse Assoc. in New Haven in 1958. She of Solon, she was the widow of Willey R. tics team as well as playing football and was the author of several articles on the Tuscan. Mrs. Tuscan leaves a son, three tennis. Mr. Stearns was a physical edu­ mental health aspects of public health daughters, 21 grandchildren, and 12 cation instructor in Scranton. Pa., and nursing in various nursing journals. great-grandchildren. physical education director of the Dalton Miss Roberts, a member of Sigma (Mass.) Y.M.C.A. from 1926-34. He was Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa, was the sis­ Franklin Mayo Dyer, 1916, Septem­ recreation director for the town of Dal­ ter of John '04 (deceased) and Melvin ber 11 in Lexington, Mass., age 81. ton until 1942. when he became the Born in Bangor, Mr. Dyer was a grad­ ·13. U.S.C. director in Jamestown, Mass. Fol­ uate of Cony High School in Augusta. Harry Earle Lewin, 1920, August 24 in lowing World War II, Mr. Stearns was He was a radio operator with the Marine Portland, age 77. Born in Houlton, he employed in the fields of recreation and Corps in Haiti in 1918-1919, and was em­ was a graduate of Ricker Classical In- vocational training in Mansfield, Conn., ployed as an engineer by the New Eng­ titute and did graduate work at Harvard retiring in 1967. A member of Lambda land Telephone Co. for 42 years, retiring and the Univ. of Maine. Mr. Lewin was Chi Alpha, he leaves his wife Alice, a son in 1958. He is survived by his wife Beth, principal in various Maine high schools and a daughter. a daughter, a sister and three grandchil­ before serving 25 years as superintendent dren. of schools in Island Falls, Farmington, Swaby Alton Ward, 1923, August 25 in and Berwick for 17 years. In 1949 he his native Woburn, Mass., age 73. Mr. Morrill Leonard Ilsley, 1917, October 21 opened a real estate business in Portland, Ward, educated in local schools, was em­ while on a trip to the Ozarks, in Eureka which he operated for 25 years. He was ployed by the Monsanto Chemical Co. Springs, Ark., age 79. Born in Waterville, a member of Phi Delta Theta. for 34 years. Prior to his retirement in Dr. Ilsley was a graduate of Central High Mr. Lewin leaves his wife, the former 1966, he was a safety engineer in the School in Washington, D.C. He received Doris Allen, a daughter Ruthada '43 company's research department. Mr. the M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1921, (Mrs. Joseph Emerson), a son Robert '47, Ward was a member of Lambda Chi and a Dr. P.H. from the Johns Hopkins a· brother, three grandchildren and one Alpha. His wife Marion preceded him in School of Hygiene and Public Health in great-grandson. death by two months. A son, a daughter, 1922. Dr. Ilsley went to work for the a sister and seven grandchildren survive. North Carolina State Board of Health, Clark Drummond, 1921, October 9 in where he established public health pro­ Pensacola, Fla., age 74. A Waterville na­ Elliot Frank Chase, 1923, October 7 in grams in 20 mountain counties. He then tive, Mr. Drummond was a graduate of his native Skowhegan, age 75. Mr. Chase headed the department of health at Col­ Coburn Classical Institute. He was a was educated in local schools. He sold gate Univ. for four years, before being Navy veteran of World Wars I and II. life insurance in Boston and Florida be­ appointed director of health at Clare­ For 34 years Mr. Drummond was em­ fore becoming co-owner of Blunt Hard­ mont College in California, where he ployed by the Skinner Silk Co. of New ware Co. in Skowhegan in 1928, a busi­ supervised the building of the college in­ York, retiring as sales manager in 1955. ness which has been in the Chase family firmary. He left the college in 1932 to He was a former resident of New Jersey, for 50 years. He retired in 1965. Mr. enter private practice in Claremont as an Massachusetts, and Sidney. Chase, a member of Delta Kappa Ep­ internist. Dr. Ilsley was instrumental in Mr. Drummond was the son of Albert silon, was one of five Chase brothers passing Claremont's pasteurized milk Foster Drummond, 1888, a trustee of the and sisters to attend Colby. Erroll C. law - the first in the state. He was sec­ college from 1918 to 1929; the brother '18 Eunice Wyman '18, Gladys Nixon retary of the staff of Pomona Valley of Prince '15, E. Richard '28 (also a for­ '20, and Fred '24 are all deceased. Be­ Community Hospital from 1945 to 1960. mer trustee) and Louise '14 (Mrs. George sides his wife Rachael, he leaves a step­ Dr. Ilsley and his wife Mary (Brackett) L. Beach); the father of Audrie '49 (Mrs. son, a granddaughter and two great traveled extensively, visiting over 120 H. Allen Owsley, Jr.); and the uncle of grandchildren. countries in the past 20 years, as well as covering most of the 50 states. A mem­ ber of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Ilsley was a member of a family which includes six generations of A Matter of Will Power Colby graduates. He was the grandson The college has received a bequest of $1,000 from the estate of Virginia of George Boardman Ilsley, 1863, the son Mary Bean '22, designated for the Alumni Fund. Miss Bean, who died in of Mary Saphronia (Morrill) and Reuben October, 1974, was the owner and operator of a small nursing home in Bris­ Lowell Ilsley, both 1891; and the nephew tol, Conn. Her bequest to the Alumni Fund has been placed in the fund's of Lucia Haskell Morrill, 1893, Clara endowment, the income from which will perpetuate her gift to the annual Prescott Morrill, Frances Horton 'Morrill Alumni Fund. and Graef> C. Ilsley Padelford, all 1894, and Gertrude Lois Ilsley Padelford, 1896. Dr. Ilsley was the father of John L. '46

35 Lawton Henry Feeney, 1924, October 8 was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. dealt in real estate. A member of Zeta in Florida. Born in Jonesboro, he was Survivors include his wife, the former Psi, he leaves four brothers, among them educated locally and attended Washing­ Imogene Dow, two daughters, one sister, Augustine A. ("Gus") '28 and a sister. ton State Normal School. He taught in and four grandchildren. Maine and Connecticut and was em­ Peter Charles Paxton, 1965, October 23 ployed by the State of Maine for many Priscilla Jones Hauter, 1939, September in Augusta, age 30. A Waltham, Mass., years before his retirement. Mr. Feeney 10 in Westwood, N.J., age 58. Mrs. native and graduate of Lexington, Mass., was a semi-pro baseball pitcher and Hauter was a Waterville native and a High School, Mr. Paxton was a biology traveled with the Maine and Canadian graduate of the local high school. She teacher at Hall-Dale High School in Hal­ leagues. He leaves his wife Gertrude was president of her class and a mem­ lowell. He was faculty advisor to the (Floyd), a daughter, two brothers, and ber of Chi Omega. Mrs. Hauter was National Honor Society and sophomore three grandchildren. employed as a social worker for the class advisor and director of the science W.P.A. for a year after graduation. She fair. Mr. Paxton had done post-graduate Edward Travis Baxter, 1925, October 23 was active in church and civic groups. study at Columbia Univ., Boston Univ., in Southampton, N.Y., age 74. A Water­ Her husband J. Allan, a son, a daughter, and the Univ. of Maine. ville native and graduate of local schools, a brother and two grandchildren survive. He leaves a brother, a sister-in-law Mr. Baxter received his M.A. from Sal ly Patterson '66 (Mrs. William Pax­ ton), an uncle, a niece, two nephews and Columbia Univ. He was a science teacher William Horace Martin, 1941, October in the Southampton, N.Y., public schools 16 in Wakefield, Mass., age 55. A Lynn, several cousins. for 37 years, retiring in 1962. A member Mass., native, he was a graduate of Clas­ of Phi Delta Theta, he is survived by his sical High School. Since 1941 he had wife Ethel (Alley '23), a niece and two been employed as an actuary with the nephews. John Hancock Life Insurance Co. in Bos­ ton. Mr. Martin served in the Army from Honorary Emily Redington Heath HaJJ, 1926, Oc­ 1945 to 1946. A member of Lambda Chi tober 2 in her native Waterville, age 69. Alpha, he had been a resident of Wake­ A graduate of Coburn Classical Institute, field for 21 years. He was married to his U Thant, LL.D. 1965, former secretary­ Mrs. Hall did graduate work in art at classmate Dorothy Emerson in 1941; she general of the United Nations, November Radcliffe College. She was a partner in survives him. Also surviving are two 25 of cancer in New York, age 65. Born an antiques business in Oakland from daughters, a son, and two grandchildren. in Pantanaw, Burma, U Thant was edu­ 1941 to 1947 and an instructor in art at cated at the National High School in Pantanaw and at University College in Thomas College from 1956 until 1970. Virginia Hall Calahan, 1944, October 14, Rangoo11. Prior to his diplomatic career, A member of the board of the Maine age 52. Born in Englewood, N.J., Mrs. he served as headmaster of the National Children's Home, she was a member of Calahan was a graduate of Tenafly, N.J., High School. He was appointed press the executive committee of the Waterville High School. She was the wife of John director for the government of Burma in Historical Society, a trustee of the Water­ C. Calahan '44, who survives. ville Public Library, and a trustee of 194 7, and the next year became director Thomas College. She had been appointed of broadcasting. In 19 59 he became sec­ Paul Aloysius Golden, 1949, August 12 to the Waterville Bicentennial Commis­ retary for projects in the office of the in Norwood, Mass., age 55. Born in sion the week of her death. Mrs. Hall, Prime Minister. Peckville, Pa., he was a graduate of St. whose family was prominent in Maine After serving a year as acting secre­ Patrick's High School in Olyphant, Pa. timber operations, served as president and tary-general, filling out the unexpired Mr. Golden served in the Army and clerk of the Bingham Land Co. term of Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant Army Air Force from 1941 to 1945. He Mrs. Hall, a member of Sigma Kappa, was unanimously appointed secretary­ received, among others, the European was the granddaughter of Col . Francis general by the U.N. General Assembly African Middle Eastern Ribbon with Heath, 1858, and the sister of Arthur '19, in J 962. At the time of his appointment, three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart and Walter '17 and Francis '17 (all deceased). U Thant was Burma's permanent U.N. the Presidential Citation. He was missing She leaves a son, Richard Dana Hall, Jr. ambassador. in action from May to August, 1945. He '58, a granddaughter and several nieces During his leadership of the U.N. he ended his military career as a captain in and nephews. grappled with wars in Indochina, the the Air Force Reserve. Congo, and the Middle East. He listed Mr. Golden attended Northeastern among his successes the appearance of Eino Eric Hill, 1933, May 23 in Rock­ Univ. for graduate studies and became a Pope Paul VI at the U.N. in 1965. He land, age 63. Mr. Hill, born in Milford, registered professional engineer. He had helped end the Soviet-American missile N.H., was a graduate of St. George been employed as an industrial engineer crisis in 1962 and pushed for the seating (Maine) High School. He received his by the Raytheon Co. of Norwood, Mass., of Mainland China, which was approved master's degree in physics from Brown since 1952. Mr. Golden leaves his wife in 1971. Univ. in 1934. He had been employed Joan Carol (Seekins '50), five children U Thant's appearance at Colby as by the State of Maine Health and Wel­ and two brothers. Commencement speaker in 1965 recalled fare Dept. in Rockland since 1938, and historic ties between the college and was income maintenance supervisor at Arthur M. D'Amico, 1950, January 2, Thant's southeast Asian homeland. In the time of his death. Besides his wifr. 1973, in Lawrence, Mass., age 57. Mr. 1822, Colby's first graduate, George Dana the fom1er Myrtle Hall, he leaves a D'Amico, who attended Colby from Boardman, was sent to Burma as a mis­ daughter, a son, a sister, and four grand­ 1946 to 1947, was born in Lawrence, sionary. Colby has since graduated over children. Mass., and was a graduate of its high 90 missionaries, 18 of them going to school. He joined the Army during Burma. At the presentation of his hon­ Hugh Francis Travers, 1936, last May in World War II and served as commander orary degree, Thant was cited for his Waterville, age 60. Born in Fabians, of an infantry division in Guadalcanal. "service to a grateful world which ad­ N.H., he was a graduate of Waterville A warded two bronze stars and a Presi­ mires your skill and your devotion to the High School, Coburn Classical Institute, dential citation Mr. D'Arnico retired after cause of peace." He is survived by his and Boston Univ. Law School. Mr. Trav­ 20 years in the military. Since his retire­ wife, his daughter, and four grand­ ers practiced law for several years. He ment, he had lived in Florida where he children.

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