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Volume 92 Issue 3 Summer 2003 Article 9

April 2003

Alumni @ Large

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20s/30s to escape the Maryland winters. They 1940s Correspondents were sorry to leave their daughter, Karen, Deaths: Caroline Rogers Hawkes ’27, March 17, 2003, in Windham, Maine, and three grandchildren back in Mary- 1940 at 101  Leemont R. Kelley ’28, February 13, 2003, in Machias, Maine, at land, but they’re now near their other Ernest C. Marriner Jr. 96  Ruth M. McEvoy ’28, January 10, 2003, in Batavia, N.Y., at 96  Joyce daughter, Ellen, and grandchild. Frank 10 Walnut Drive Gordon Steady ’28, September 5, 2002, in New Hampshire, at 98  Virginia says they bought a house in a six-year-old Augusta, ME 04330-6032 Dudley Eveland ’29, October 12, 2002, in Bar Harbor, Maine, at 93  Lucy community and feel as though they’re 207-623-0543 Chapin Gibson ’29, April 16, 2003, in Warwick, R.I., at 96  Earle A. starting married life all over again. . . . [email protected] McKeen ’29, April 19, 2003, in Port Charlotte, Fla., at 95  Charles H. Neal- Nice message from Dorothy Dunham 1941 Hobbs and Nancy Grahn Christensen ley ’29, December 20, 1998, in Belfast, Maine, at 95  Raymond E. Stickney Bonnie Roberts Hathaway ’44, who live and play at John Knox Vil- ’29, March 21, 2003, in Concord, N.H., at 96  Kathleen Bailey Andrews 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C lage in Pompano Beach, Fla. They say, ’30, March 4, 2003, in Dallas, Texas, at 95  Maxine Hoyt Richmond ’30, Leominster, MA 01453 “We live on a 66-acre campus beauti- April 11, 2003, in Farmington, Maine, at 93  Mary Petke Summers ’30, 978-343-4259 fully landscaped with lots of amenities February 28, 2003, in Southbury, Conn., at 95  Leo F. Ross ’32, January 19, [email protected] and activities to make life enjoyable in 2002, in Mission, Texas, at 92  Alma Fones Eshenfelder ’33, January 15, our golden years. Nan is into outdoor 1942 2003, in New London, Conn., at 90  Rebecca Chester Wyman ’33, April activities and I am an avid bridge player. 1943 29, 2003, in Laguna Woods, Calif., at 91  John J. Pullen ’35, February 25, We both exercise regularly in the pool. c/o Meg Bernier 2003, in Brunswick, Maine, at 89  Anita Thibault Bourque ’36, March Do the rest of the 50-plussers feel as Colby College  15, 2003, in Safety Harbor, Fla. Margaret Schryver Bostelmann ’38, young as we do?” (Speaking for myself, Office of Alumni Relations February 13, 2003, at 88  Stephen I. Greenwald ’39, March 11, 2003, it all depends on the day.) Dottie and Waterville, ME 04901 in Massachusetts, at 84. Nan included a photo of themselves in 207-872-3185 bathing suits at the pool—a real testa- [email protected] 41 Last summer Elmer and Eliza- Chesapeake Bay. The Parkers have three ment to good living and water aerobics [email protected] beth Sweetser Baxter traveled on children, an African son (Petero Sabune, and probably some good genes, too. 1944 English canals with one of their sons an Episcopal priest at St. James, Manhat- Hey, folks, send me news, either e-mail Josephine Pitts McAlary and his family. During their journey on tan) and two grandchildren. . . . Dee is or the other kind. 131 Russell Avenue the Shropshire Canal, Elizabeth brought heavy into volunteer work and organi- —Anne Lawrence Bondy Rockport, ME 04856 forth her copy of Carl J. Weber’s edition zation activities (e.g., historical society [email protected] of A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad to and a camera club). By the time you read 47 Louise Kelley Rochester had read to their granddaughters. Elizabeth this, Dee and Ian will have completed a lunch with me in Cambridge twice in the 1945 and Elmer could not only breathe the air two-month jaunt around the country by last few months. Both visits included a Naomi Collett Paganelli of the English countryside, but Elizabeth car, if all goes forward as planned. . . . walk to the Science Museum to go to the 2 Horatio Street #5J says she could smell the chalk dust of These words of great contentment from Omni Theater, the first to seeKilimanjaro New York, NY 10014-1608 Carl J.’s English classroom! The group Louise Groves Holtan: “We all live in in preparation for the trip she made in 212-929-5277 had their own canal boat, which Elmer wonderful Maine.” A retired long-time November to Kenya and Tanzania on a [email protected] helped run. He worked at other tasks, schoolteacher and principal, Louise says three-week safari. It has been a great joy 1946 too, and in 10 days opened and closed 100 she’s now “just enjoying life with my six to see her. After her visit to Africa, she Anne Lawrence Bondy locks. Canal adventures, though popular kids, 15 grandkids and one great-grand- reported that in many different national 771 Soundview Drive among the British, haven’t caught on child.” Once in a great while, she writes, parks set aside for the protection of Afri- Mamaroneck, NY 10543 among Americans, so they saw few of she meets some Colby friends. can animals in the wild, her group saw 914-698-1238 their countrymen. The Baxters continue —Naomi Collett Paganelli elephants, zebras, wildebeests, lions, [email protected] to enjoy numerous Colby contacts, how- giraffes and more. They drove from ever. The minister and the moderator of 46 Cloyd Aarseth writes from one park to the next over very rugged, 1947 their church in Newington, Conn., are Sterling, Va., that he and Joan recently mostly dirt roads and saw much of the Mary “Liz” Hall Fitch both Colby graduates, and during the celebrated their golden wedding anni- countryside and the poverty in which 4 Canal Park #712 summer when Elmer and Elizabeth are versary at a dinner hosted by their the people lived. Often they saw Masai Cambridge, MA 02141 in Maine they see Cappy ’40 and Barbara children—Joanne, associate regional in their red robes, walking with staffs 617-494-4882 Partridge Dyer in Yarmouth. counsel for the Federal Home Loan along the roadside with their herds of fax: 617-494-4882 —Bonnie Roberts Hathaway Mortgage Corp.; Keith, a treasury goats and cattle. They had splendid views [email protected] bond trader on the Chicago Board of of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Lake Victoria, Lake 1948 45 Dee Sanford McCunn had a Trade; and Carol, a wife and home- Manyara with millions of flamingos and David and Dorothy Marson phone visit in March with Grace Keefer maker. Family members came from white pelicans, the Ngorongora Crater 41 Woods End Road Parker. Dee plans to work with me—for Texas, Florida, Illinois and Ohio for the and the Olduvai Gorge, where the Dedham, MA 02026 which I’m very grateful—in an effort to festive weekend. Cloyd also writes that anthropologist Leaky had found early 781-329-3970 reach more (all?) classmates to find out he still enjoys watching the educational human bones. Louise said, “I surely won’t fax: 617-329-6518 what’s doing. So, Dee reports, “Grace documentaries on A&E’s Classroom that go back again—but this had been the top [email protected] and her husband are both retired. How- he wrote, directed and produced years of my wish list of places to see forever.” ever, I think Grace will never sit still.” ago for Hearst and the U.S. Information . . . Tom Burke and his wife celebrated 1949 Sounds about right. For example, Grace Agency. He and Joan, after some years their 50th anniversary last August with Anne Hagar Eustis is very active in church work. Also, she of attending graduations of grandchil- 27 relatives on their daughter’s farm in 24 Sewall Lane was just elected Literary Volunteer Tutor dren, plan to make the 50-plus reunion Indiana. This summer they plan to take Topsham, ME 04086 of the Year. Summers, the Parkers sail at Colby. We remember the impressive a river cruise in Portugal and Spain. . . . 207-729-0395 in Great South Bay (N.Y.) in their 32- documentary that Cloyd did for our 50th. As of this writing, John and I expect to fax: 978-464-2038 foot Bristol sailboat. Last summer they . . . Frank Heppner reports that he and take a cruise on the Mississippi from [email protected] went with a group on a three-week sail to Jeanne have moved to Orange Park, Fla., New Orleans, eventually reaching

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Chicago sometime in May. . . . See newsmakers her husband and our classmate, Edgar Beverly Benner Cassara’s great news Landry, on December 22, 2002, at the in the “Newsmakers” note nearby. Cur- Beverly Benner Cassara ’47 was inducted age of 87. Our heartfelt condolences to rently she is co-founder and co-chair of into the International Adult and Continuing Mary and her family. . . . I look forward the Cambridge (Mass.) Senior Volunteer Education Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the to hearing from more of you in the not Clearinghouse, which matches seniors University of Oklahoma in March. Professor too distant future. with opportunities to volunteer among of adult education and dean of graduate studies —Anne Hagar Eustis its 100 agencies. . . . Please, please, send for 15 years at the University of the District of me more news of yourselves. Columbia, she was concerned with women’s 50 I received a lovely letter from —Mary “Liz” Hall Fitch education as well as with the development of Charlotte Stern Rybkowski last adult education in other countries  The day winter and enjoyed reading it so much 48 Peg Clark Atkins announced the war in Iraq started, News of Delaware County that I decided to share it with all of the arrival of her 10th grandchild. She (Pa.) ran a story on Richard G. Wattles ’49, you. She wrote, “The early start of the reminisced about how she enjoyed our who signed up for Citizens’ Military Training Colorado winter has provided vistas of 50th reunion and concluded with a Beverly Benner Cassara ’47 Camp in 1936 and joined the Army on Oct. snowy mountain peaks as well as recol- statement that she would see us at our 4, 1941. He was in the lead platoon when the Army landed on Guadalcanal lections of our glorious family adventures 55th. . . . Phil Shulman sent us a post in Alaska last May. The highlight was in the South Pacific in August 1943, and he also served on the island of New card from London telling us that he driving a rental mini-van north along Georgia. In 1945, offered the opportunity to stay in the service, he declined fulfilled a long-time fantasy by visiting the dirt and gravel roads of the 414-mile in favor of attending Colby. Khartoum, Sudan, along with his friend, Dalton Highway that serves the oil fields Ruth Knotek. As a fellow of the Royal at Prudhoe Bay. Crossing the Arctic Geographical Society, Phil likes to take Milestones Circle at Mile Post 115, we spent time advantage of their facilities and lectures. in the lively construction camp at Cold- Deaths: John T. Foster ’40, February 7, 2003, in Keene, N.H., at 83  Richard . . . Kay Weisman Jaffe wrote to us foot before progressing along the bumpy E. de Nazario ’43, August 17, 2002, in Sandwich, Mass., at 81  George detailing her suggestions for making the route and up the winding grades of the H. Jahn ’43, March 15, 2003, in Sanbornville, N.H., at 82  Ross L. Muir 55th reunion an event that would have magnificent Brooks Range, crossing the  good attendance. We forwarded her ’43, February 14, 2003, in Hallowell, Maine, at 81 William N. Skidds Continental Divide at Atigun Pass and letter to the Alumni Office for consid- ’43, March 5, 2003, in New York, at 87  Alton L. Stevens ’43, February descending to the desolate, wide-open eration of some of Kay’s excellent sug- 6, 2003, in Raymond, Maine, at 82  Hilda Niehoff True ’43, February terrain of the Arctic tundra. We pitched gestions. We correspond, via e-mail, 23, 2003, in Medway, Mass., at 82  Donald C. Whitten ’43, September our tent on the permafrost (this time had with Norma and Howell Clement, who 23, 2002, in Folsom, Calif., at 81  Eleanor Carter Curtice ’45, March to anchor it down with boulders) at the agree that being a guest of the College 17, 2003, in Lexington, Ky., at 81  Richard E. Parsons ’45, March 4, glacially formed Galbraith Lake. What for classes 50 and over is quite attractive. 2003, in Brunswick, Maine, at 81  Gloria Fine Polan ’46, February 17, a feeling of exhilaration! We were com- They pointed out, however, that flying 1999, in Massachusetts, at 73  Perry A. Harding ’47, February 7, 2003, pletely alone in a tremendous expanse in from Montana is quite costly. . . . The in Waterville, Maine, at 78  F. Shirley Parks ’48, February 12, 2003, in of wilderness, buffeted by strong winds Alumni Office forwarded us a detailed Medford, Mass., at 76. and surrounded by lofty, snow-clad letter from Betty Dyer Brewster dated mountains. Thankfully there were no December 2002 and sent from Naples, the U.S. Navy, so she graduated one June the Gentoos, who are playful, attentive encounters with curious bears, but we Fla. It was a Happy Holiday letter to all before I did. We went our separate ways, parents and monogamous. She reports saw grizzlies along the roadway from the of her friends and provided details of her and each of us ultimately married and that “Going through the ice pack was safety of our vehicle while adding musk travels, her reunions with friends and became parents of one boy and one girl. exciting—watching the Adelies tobog- oxen, caribou and Dall sheep to a grow- her presidency of Naples­Ears SHHH We lost complete track of each other over gan on the ice floes, dive in the frigid ing list of animal sightings. And what a (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People). the years, except for occasional items water and porpoise behind our Zodiac. comfort to have the prolonged daylight Betty described in great detail her trav- in the class notes. In September last, We even had a Gentoo jump into our of the Midnight Sun when you have els, tennis, golf, swimming, boating and a widower for three years, I decided it Zodiac, look around, decide we weren’t ambitious travel plans!” What a great hiking. . . . We just received e-mail from was time to find out what life had been the ‘right sort’ and dive out. Crossing the adventure! Charlotte’s description of Marvin Joslow, who reports that winter like for her. I did a ‘people search’ on Drake ‘Lake’ because it was so calm, we Alaska makes me want to take that trip on Martha’s Vineyard was “horrific” this the Internet, using her name and the had an early wakeup as orcas were spotted myself. . . . How about you? year. Marvin and Betty thought they state (Florida) in which I was told she a mile away. There must have been a pod —Alice Jennings Castelli might attend the 55th reunion in June. might be living. Yahoo returned phone of 18 or so, and did they ever perform . . . We had a great winter in Florida and numbers for several Anne Baers there, for us. Came right up to the bow and 51 Harry Wiley and his wife, returned north in early April. At this and I began dialing. “Speaking,” said the presented their ‘babies.’ Quite a show, Mary Lou, are involved in many activi- time we expect to return to Jupiter in third woman who answered, and we held with two separate pods of humpbacks in ties, including visiting with patients in May for a few weeks to close the house a mini-reunion by phone, during which the background! Best show I have ever hospitals and nursing homes. Harry is and play some golf. she informed me that her husband had seen, including Sea World!” . . . Richard training to be a Hospice volunteer and —David and Dorothy Marson suffered a fatal heart attack 14 months G. Wattles and his wife, Elinor, live in will continue his good works with ill earlier. Many letters and phone calls later a retirement home, Dunwoody Village, people. Harry is newly appointed VP 49 This is the issue when we hear we met for the first time in 53 years. Apt. B211, Newtown Square, Pa. Two of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame, and from our classmates in Belfast, Maine! On Jan. 11, we were married in Belfast, sons live nearby, and one son lives in he was proud to attend the final football Sidney B. McKeen sent me the fol- Maine. We plan to spend our summers Nantucket, Mass. They have “three game at Bristol-Eastern in Connecticut, lowing, which I quote verbatim. “Anne there and our winters in Punta Gorda, beautiful daughters-in-law” and seven where his grandson received the MVP Fraser Baer ’48 and I entered Colby Fla. Hail, Colby!” Congratulations, grandchildren. They also have fond award. . . . Patti and Ernie Fortin together as freshmen in the fall of Sid and Anne! . . . Carol Carpenter memories of “three wonderful years at continue to travel. They are planning 1944, and we dated throughout our years Bisbee writes after her recent trip to Colby.” Their first son was born Rick’s a Caribbean cruise, which will take there, first on the old campus and then Antarctica that she is “still a very happy senior year. . . . A note from Mary them through the Panama Canal, and on Mayflower Hill. I lost a year-plus to penguin!” Her favorite penguins are Landry informed us of the death of are also hoping to get to California.

40 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 Ernie remains active in Colby affairs as cruise. It was the perfect tonic, and the brain testing department at a local 1950s Correspondents chair of the Leadership Alumni Com- were we lucky—we missed the huge hospital, and her husband recently 1950 East Coast blizzard and the three inches adopted a Vietnamese boy and are in mittee and annual host of the Sarasota Alice Jennings Castelli gathering with Colby’s president, “Bro” of rain that followed it five days later! the process of adopting a girl. Beverly 6 Salem Road Adams, as guest speaker. Due in large How’s that for “planning”? . . . Well, my and Roy’s son has a baby boy. They are Madison, CT 06443 part to Ernie’s tireless efforts, a new friends, if you want to hear about some- finally discovering the joys of being 203-245-7725 Alumni Center is in the works as part thing other than the Andersons, please grandparents! . . . Please send more [email protected] of Colby’s long-range plans. Ernie lost get those e-mails and notes coming. news. It can be e-mailed to Colby or his mother and his older brother this You can reach me directly on e-mail at mailed directly to me (but not in North 1951 past year, but he still plans to come up to [email protected] or via Colby, who Syracuse since we don’t live there any Nancy Nilson Archibald Maine in the summer, where he attends will forward it to me. In the meantime, I more). My new address is listed in this 15 Linden Avenue Scituate, MA 02066 the Colby Alumni College annually. . . . hope you’re enjoying your spring. issue of Colby. 781-545-4987 Eugene Pelletier’s widow, Stacia, wrote —Janice Pearson Anderson —Helen Cross Stabler [email protected] that Gene’s family, together with friends, have endowed the Eugene J. Pelletier 53 What a cold and snowy winter we 55 Hi all! Some things apparently 1952 Jr. ’51 Memorial Scholarship Fund in had in New England; however, I took don’t change—a dearth of news, for Janice Pearson Anderson his memory. Their son was Class of ’84, advantage of the great snow cover to instance. However, when news does 23 Fernwood Circle and he was able to visit them when they do some skiing in New Hampshire. . . . come in, it’s definitely interesting. For Harwich, MA 02645-2819 came up for our 50th reunion. . . . Joan My mailbox had only one message, this instance, Andre “Andy” Boissevain, 508-432-4049 Cammann McIntyre writes that her one from Dana Andersen in Colorado. retired family practice physician who [email protected] oldest granddaughter, Caitlin Peale, was He is still skiing as much as possible. spent the second half of his career in 1953 a freshman at Colby this year. Caitlin’s Dana’s life milestones include service in the U.S. Army, together with his wife, Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey parents are Carol McIntyre-Peale ’75 the U.S. Navy, captaining the Colby ski Judy, a retired R.N. (he says “naturally”), 80 Lincoln Avenue and Jim Peale ’77. . . . Dan Hall and his team, being Scott Paper Company Sales- has finally moved into a much smaller South Hamilton, MA 01982 wife had a wonderful trip to Wales. They man of the Decade, getting the Master house (no lawn) right on the beach on the 978-468-5110 visited many Welsh castles and enjoyed Award Top CBS Salesman, being com- beautiful Straits of Ivan de Fuca, 90 miles 978-777-5630 ext. 3310 the country, but their primary reason for mando of U.S. Power Squadron, being west of Seattle, with 360 degree views, [email protected] going was to research the family ances- elected elder-trustee of his church and, 50 feet from launching their kayaks. I 1954 tors. His great-great-grandmother, last but not the least, the arrival of his must have passed this spot when Jane Helen Cross Stabler Margaret Lewis, married Gordon Hall, four children and six grandchildren. He and I visited Victoria, B.C., a few years 5387 Anvil Drive back. Sequim, Wash., is a bit of a stretch left Wales and came to Northampton, gave a little history of how he ended Camillus, NY 13031 Mass., where her son became minister of up at Colby, saying that Middlebury from Waterville, Maine, but we hope 315-672-8430 a church. She is buried in Northampton. wanted him, but he chose Colby because they are planning on attending our 50th [email protected] Dan and his wife also visited with Eng- of its size and intimacy. He went on reunion in early June 2005. Don’t know, lish friends over there and renewed the to say that Colby appeared to be what or can’t remember, if we give an award 1955 friendship that was made when they were a college should be. If I read his note for coming the longest distance, but if Ken Van Praag teaching colleagues in Zambia 32 years correctly, he felt that his Colby degree so, perhaps he can give Sistie Restall P.O. Box 87 (May–early Nov) ago! . . . Maurice “Maury” Ronayne and his role as captain of the ski team Horne or Beryl Wellersdieck Piper a Grafton, NY 12082 has returned to his condo in Alexandria, led to his great position with CBS run for their money. Andy notes they 22 Golf Drive (Early Nov–May 6) Port St. Lucie, FL 34952 Va., after having knee-implant surgery Sports. . . . Next news will be full of have kids everywhere—Conn., Calif., [email protected] and receiving a pacemaker. . . . I’ll be 50th revelations. Wash.; only the dog is left at home. Andy waiting to hear from you all for our —Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey celebrated his 70th birthday recently—as 1956 next column! have many of us, another milestone we Kathleen McConaughy Zambello —Nancy Nilson Archibald 54 Beverly Ambrose Peterson gave little thought to 50+/- years ago. 135 Iduna Lane writes that after teaching for almost Last year they did a medical missionary Amherst, MA 01002 52 From last June through the fall, 30 years she retired early (10 years trip to a primitive island (Honduras area) [email protected] and claimed it was like going back 200 you supplied me with lots of news, but ago) and has been writing poetry as 1957 apparently the long, cold, snowy winter a full-time career ever since. She has years in time—no electricity, phones, Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue got you all down, and almost nothing six chapbooks, self-published, and has TV, roads, cards; also zero diagnostic 238 Sea Meadow Lane has been forthcoming. I did receive had more than 100 poems published in capabilities. Luckily no critical problems. Yarmouth, ME 04096 one sad notice: our classmate, William reviews and magazines, most recently In short, a great experience. He and Judy 207-846-4941 Bird of Portland, Maine, passed away on in JAMA, Pine Island Journal, Aurorean returned from a two-month trip, includ- [email protected] January 2. Our condolences go out to and Poets’ Forum magazine. She also ing a 33-day cruise from L.A. to Sydney, his family. . . . Around our house, my volunteers at her church’s consignment Australia, visiting many Pacific islands 1958 husband, Chuck ’53, has been looking center. She and her husband, Roy, who along the way. Sounds good to me! . . . Beryl Scott Glover forward to his 50th reunion. We hope to is also retired and works regularly now And then I heard from Nate Miller, for- 4953 Wythe Place Wilmington, NC 28409-2081 see some ’52ers there also. Do you think for a Habitat for Humanity group, have merly of Caribou, Maine, now living in [email protected] they can possibly have as great a reunion a place on St. Martin, where they spend Sarasota, Fla. George Haskell warned [email protected] as we did last year? Even the weather about six weeks a year. They have always me I would be hearing from Nate and cooperated then! . . . For lack of news been active in boating. Their most recent tried to distract him from his appointed 1959 from you, I guess I must tell you that in boat is a small trawler. They are looking mission, but Nate never wavered from Ann Segrave Lieber mid-February, with the temperature at forward to cruising Cape Cod and the the purpose of his call. At least I got some 7 Kingsland Court 4 degrees and the remains of two small islands this summer as well as making a information for the column in return for South Orange, NJ 07079 snowstorms still on the ground here on possible trip to Maine. Their son, Earl, my 50th anniversary commitment. Nate 973-763-6717 Cape Cod, Chuck and I took off from is head of State Street Bank’s Web site, and his wife, Winnie (Robertson ’54), [email protected] Logan Airport to go on a Caribbean and their daughter, Nancy, who heads have two children and five grandchil-

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dren, two living in the Pittsfield, Mass., activity that I enjoy! Aims/Challenged trustee for eight years. With relocation Marnie MacLean, and you can see them area, and three in New Orleans. They America has a rehabilitation sailing pro- to greater Miami, Fran regrets that she every weekend on Channel 8 in Maine. were to head for Spain with their daugh- gram, so I go sailing in San Diego Bay, did not pay better attention in Spanish Al and Kay’s oldest son, Gary, is a traf- ter-in-law, an M.D. with the U.S. Navy. in modified 16-foot sailboats with two class. . . . We chose to stay home this fic engineer, and he and his wife, Gail, Following graduate school, Nate worked sails.” He is also writing a non-fiction winter and brave the Maine elements have produced the first granddaughter, for General Mills in the Minneapolis and book but is really motivated the most by . . . you know, the proverbial tons of Emma, 4. Youngest son, Phil, has been Toledo metropolitan areas in account- his 10-year-old daughter. . . . Charlie ice and snow, frigid winds, etc. It was a promoted to a full producer at ESPN ing and comptroller capacities, retiring Smith writes from Cambridge, Mass., great decision, albeit there was a little and is responsible for all the NBA games in ’94. Nate plans on attending our 50th. that he is very much alive and well and of the aforementioned. We thoroughly that the channel televises. After almost . . . Nothing else to report, except that the fortunate to have many good friends and enjoyed the company of our little grand- six years of labor, Al fulfilled a dream fund-raising efforts in connection with to enjoy golf and tennis. He is still very children and just being at home in these of 30 years by completing an airplane our 50th, under the direction and leader- active as a real estate broker and also in uncertain times. . . . Don’t forget to keep in the spring of 2002. He did all the ship of George Haskell, is, as promised, residential preservation and restoration sending your news along to us. flight testing in Lewiston in May a year underway. Everyone is encouraged to of smaller Greek Revival and Victorian —Guy and Eleanor Ewing Vigue ago, and the plane is now in Fitchburg, help him and his committee attain their homes; his most recent project has been Mass. Future plans call for regular visits objective. to restore an 1812 Federal home in Har- 58 It’s a mystery to me, but I came to their oldest son in New Jersey and —Ken Van Praag vard, Mass. His real estate ventures also upon some e-mails that should have been perhaps a trip to California if Al gets his have taken him to property overlook- included in previous columns. These instrument rating. Last year Al and Kay 56 Our class has another published ing the harbor in Wiscasset, Maine, and go back to September 2002, but I can’t went on a cruise to Alaska with Wendy author: Willard Wyman is finishing (McWilliam ’60) and George Denneen work on a novel, High Country. “Fenton’s newsmakers for 10 days. For the past two and a half Cutoff,” a chapter from the novel, has Gerald S. Lazarus ’59 has been named chief of dermatology at Johns Hop- years Al has been a volunteer DJ on been published in magazine (vol. WICN 90.5 FM in Worcester. This is Epoch kins Bayview Medical Center. A professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins 51, no. 3) at Cornell University. This an NPR station featuring 20 hours of University School of Medicine and author of seven books and more than story of a young boy, alone, bringing out jazz daily. This has caused Al to dig out 150 scientific papers, he previously was a visiting professor at the Peking a mule pack during a big snowstorm, has all his old vinyl records and have a good whetted my appetite for the rest of the Union Medical College in China and served as an advisor to the country’s time every Sunday playing them as well book. Bill says none of the characters minister of health. He has received many teaching awards for research and as new artists. The Deans were looking in his book are fashioned after himself, medical education. forward to Al’s 45th reunion. . . . Clark but he did make the ride out alone in a Jones is currently living on Cape Cod snowstorm long ago—in fact, the fall of Milestones and is a sales rep in the mobile electronic ’56. If Bill will promise to come east for business. Clark’s wife, Donna, is a branch June 2006, we will most certainly try to Deaths: George A. Paine Jr. ’50, February 3, 2003, in Mission Viejo, Calif., manager with Rockland Trust Company. put together a book review/discussion at 78  Robert F. Conard ’51, January 26, 2003, in Canton, Mass., at Clark and Donna have three children: panel of classmates. . . . As this is my 77  Richard L. Smith ’51, September 13, 2002, in Woodbury, Conn., at Chris, a Navy commander and a car- only news for this report, I will give you 72  Anne Fairbanks Iarrobino ’52, March 26, 2003, in Natick, Mass., at rier pilot now working for Gen. Tommy a heads-up about our reunion. Next fall 73  Susan Smith Huebsch ’54, March 10, 2003, in New Bedford, Mass., Franks; Jonathan, who is in the securities we will begin the three-year countdown, at 70  Lot Phillips ’54, May 9, 2000, in New Hampshire, at 68  Randi business; and Meredith, who has decided and committees will be formed. At the Miner Black ’55, October 5, 2000, in Los Altos, Calif., at 65  John M. to become a stay-at-home mom with her 50th we are guests of the College, but Swinnerton ’59, February 4, 2000, in Bradford, N.H., at 63. two children. . . . After 10 years, this is my we do hope to start the weekend with a last column. Over the years I have been pre-reunion get-together. And since our undoubtedly to a rendezvous with Mac explain where they have been. I apologize in touch with many of my old friends reunion will start at the College on a Blanchard in nearby Damariscotta. . . . to these classmates; I did not intend to and with other classmates whom I did Thursday night, we have an extra evening Recently retired from teaching, Betty overlook you, and I am certainly grateful not know that well. I enjoyed hearing and day to plan our own special events. Strong Miller tells us that she is still for your input. . . . Myron Gantt notified from all of you. As you are aware, in Those still hitting the golf ball can finally contributing to the education and us in September 2002 that his wife, Ilse, the last year or so the number of replies play in the Colby Tournament. I promise interpretation of the National Park died in August 2002. They had 14 years has dwindled. Please help out the new to lead my annual nature walk, but this System out of Valley Forge Park. Her of peaceful living on the south shores of class correspondent by filling out and time to the arboretum, which we funded volunteer work also extends to Maine, Lake Murray near Columbia, S.C. Now sending in the questionnaire you find for our graduation gift—and which has where she is active in the Maine Lakes Myron has decided to leave that area in the magazine or by using the quick gone unexplored by me for 50 years. . . . Environmental Association. Betty splits and see the rest of the country by motor and easy e-mail method of contacting I need your news. her residency between Malvern, Pa., and home. He joined a Livingston, Texas, the Alumni Office. Thank you for your —Kathy McConaughy Zambello South Waterford, Maine (the beautiful organization called Escapees, which is input over the years and all the best to lakes area). She is now widowed but made up of others who travel by motor you, especially good health. 57 Our world situation seems to enjoys the company of her three mar- home. Myron’s three sons are looking —Margaret Smith Henry change from day to day, so it hardly ried daughters and five grandchildren, forward to seeing their dad as he travels seems appropriate to comment on it. I all living nearby. . . . We are hearing about the country. . . . Al Dean also 59 Your reunion committee is hard would rather jump right in with good from many long-lost classmates! Fran wrote in September that after 10 years at work, making wondrous plans for our news. Our class has definitely come to Rambach Gaynes tells us that she and in Maine he and his wife, Kay (German 45th reunion, so please save the weekend life, so to speak, and we thank everyone her husband are moving to Key Biscayne, ’59), are back in Leominster, Mass., at of June 4-6, 2004. Mark your calendars for sending in any and all contributions. Fla., after living 45 years in Roslyn, Long the same house they have owned for 41 and plan to be there to share the great . . . It was wonderful to hear from Ron Island, N.Y. Despite having many friends years. While in Maine, Al owned and activities and some nice surprises! . . . Rasmussen. As many of you know, Ron in Florida, Fran says the hardest part operated eight Midas Service Shops. Mabelle “Melly” McKevett Grolljahn woke up paralyzed in July 1997 as the of pulling up roots will be leaving their Al is now retired, and his son Tom and is still peddling real estate, painting and result of a staph infection of the spinal son’s family in Rye, N.Y., and the Bryant his partner’s son are running the stores. generally enjoying la dolce vita. Long cord. Ron writes, “I’ve finally found an Library in Roslyn, where she has been a Tom lives in Windham with his wife, weekends on Martha’s Vineyard offer

42 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 plenty of good painting subjects. . . . physical therapy to get back to playing Newfoundland. Eunie is planning to go 1960s Correspondents Louise (Robb ’60) and Art Goldschmidt without the necessity of surgery. Her on a seven-day Alaskan cruise with five 1960 took a cruise to some exotic points in three children all live out west so she other people in July and August. She Jane Holden Huerta both of our larger oceans. Art has written makes frequent trips to Colorado, Wash- said that Ralph Nelson should have lots 2955 Whitehead Street a revision of his Historical Dictionary of ington and Utah. . . . Molly “Mary” of news since he and his wife recently Miami, FL 33133 305-446-5082 Egypt and taught Islam and Nationalism Lynn Watt continues to offer programs returned from Antarctica. . . . Bette and [email protected] in the Middle East at Penn State; lots of of songs and letters of the Spanish Civil Dick Peterson still live in Bryn Mawr, activity for a retiree! . . . Barbara Hunter War with her husband, Dan Lynn Watt. Pa., and spend summers on Cape Cod. 1961 Diane Scrafton Ferreira Pallotta earned her master of arts in The program is made up of excerpts Daughter Wendy graduated from the Pihanakalani Ranch liberal studies from Ramapo College in from letters her husband’s mother, University of Michigan Graduate School P.O. Box 249 New Jersey at about the same time that Ruth Rosenthal Watt, exchanged with of Public Policy and is living and working Pa’Auilo, HI 96776 her husband, Jack, retired after 30 years his dad, George Watt, while he was in in Cambridge, Mass. Dick, who recently [email protected] with Guardian Life Insurance Co. The the Lincoln Battalion of the Interna- started an insurance company with two 1962 Pallottas, like so many other classmates, tional Brigade. The program for the others, is also finishing up an M.S. pro- Patricia Farnham Russell are doing quite a bit of traveling. . . . My Folk Song Society of Greater Boston gram in philosophy at the University of 16 Sunset Avenue loyal correspondent Bob Keltie enjoyed on November 16 and the one at the Pennsylvania and is writing a thesis on Hampden, ME 04444 207-942-6953 a college hockey game in Boston with Center for Arts in Natick on February the Irish peace process. Dick is still active Dick Morrison and shared a late-night 28 both sold out and received standing as trustee of Eisenhower Fellowships and Nancy MacKenzie Keating bottle of wine with Al Wilbur. Bob was a ovations. . . . June Chacran Chatterjee of two corporate boards. He talks with 49 Sycamore Station goal judge at the NHL All-Star Game in ([email protected]) will lead a group to Dick Schmaltz ’62 and Steve Bartow Decatur, GA 30030-2757 South Florida and says that life is good in Cuba June 20-28. The trip, sponsored from time to time and with Phil Behr, 404-370-0422 [email protected] 2003. . . . Liz Hay Henderson’s life has by Contra Costa College in San Pablo, who started at Colby and transferred to settled into a peaceful retirement. She Calif., offers an opportunity for people Dennison after freshman year. Dick just 1963 sews, quilts and makes mohair, jointed to come to their own conclusions about returned from a visit and safari in South Karen Forslund Falb teddy bears. Liz and Richard have 14 the current situation in Cuba. The group Africa. . . . Andy Sheldon finished his 245 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 grandchildren, so she never lacks for travels legally with an educational license lame duck semester at the University 617-864-4291 needlework projects. . . . Topsfield, from the U.S. government and is open to of Montana, where he’s taught biology, [email protected] Mass., resident Greg Mac Arthur anyone interested in learning more about especially aquatic ecology, since 1969 1964 was chosen as Massachusetts 2003 Cuba. Contact June for further informa- (previous jobs were in California and Sara Shaw Rhoades Businessman of the Year by the Busi- tion. . . . Peter Henderson and Jane, his Washington, D.C.). Along the way he’s 76 Norton Road ness Advisory Council of the National roommate of 43 years, have retired, she had four off-campus sabbatical years, Kittery, ME 03904-5413 Republican Congressional Committee. as school librarian, he as college profes- including one in tropical Australia. A 207-439-2620 The award was presented to Greg at a sor (after his first retirement from the couple of administrative hitches broke [email protected] ceremony in March. Congrats! . . . On USAF). Jane is working part time as a the rhythm, but he’s kept on with research 1965 a personal note, I have had another secretary for their church’s college stu- and publication in stream ecology. Andy Richard W. Bankart healthy mammogram; since each of dent development program, and Pete is and Linda have been married 12 years, 20 Valley Avenue Apt. D2 Westwood, NJ 07675-3607 these small successes feels like another an adjunct in the business department but their collective four offspring have 201-664-7672 chance at life, they seem more like of a Christian college in Montgomery, none of their own. For the last two years, [email protected] birthdays than anniversaries. In that Ala. They still live in Auburn, Ala. In Linda has been program manager of a 1966 vein, I’m now seven years old! Lady between their part-time activity they are new Big Brothers Big Sisters office in Meg Fallon Wheeler classmates/spouses/significant others: either on their sailboat in the Gulf out of the Bitterroot Valley where they live. 19 Rice Road is it time for your mammogram? Apalachicola, Fla., or they are in Nash- They are building for retirement in a P.O. Box 102 —Ann Segrave Lieber ville or Orlando spoiling their grandkids. tiny Old Florida-ish hamlet due south Waterford, ME 04088 Every other summer they make it up to of Tallahassee. They’ve both got profes- 207-583-2509 60 Thanks to all who sent me news. the Maine coast for some serious charter sional options but are not locking in to [email protected] It would help if all of you would send sailing. . . . Steve Curley says his great anything until they get used to being 1967 me ([email protected]) your cor- friend, Pete Cavari ’61, is responding free agents, though tropical travel and Robert Gracia rect e-mail addresses and the e-mail positively after a little setback he had last research look promising. . . . Frederick 295 Burgess Avenue Westwood, MA 02090 addresses of any of our classmates with fall and is working hard to get back to C. Moffatt, a professor of art history 781-329-2101 whom you correspond. It would also be 100 percent. Pete is motivated to return who specializes in the art of the United Judy Gerrie Heine great if you could add or correct your to the Northeast from his Ft. Lauderdale States at the University of Tennessee- 21 Hillcrest Road e-mail addresses in the alumni direc- retreat for his 11th season at the Red Knoxville, has been awarded a Lindsay Medfield, MA 02052 tory. . . . Jane Wiggin Sullivan is still Auerbach Basketball School, where he Young Distinguished Professorship. 508-359-2886 teaching part time at Georgia Perimeter and Steve share a dorm room for the —Jane Holden Huerta [email protected] College, helping young writers make it week of working with kids and arguing 1968 through their first year of college. She with each other. Steve says that if Pete 61 In response to the question Peter Jost is also a certified massage therapist (for is as big a pain this summer, he knows “What is the best thing for you about 65 W. Main Street chiropractors as well as for herself) and a that Pete is all the way back. . . . Eunice retirement?” your class correspondent P.O. Box 5389 Clinton, NJ 08809 naturopath. Her children—Paul Wilbur, Bucholz Spooner helped to organize a received two responses, both of which [email protected] teaching Spanish in N.Y.C., and Allan successful write-in campaign to get an indicate that retirement is more a change Jr. in the food business in northern Vir- excellent school board member elected of venue than work stoppage. With the 1969 Sari Abul-Jubein ginia—both are doing fine. Her old cat, for Sidney, Maine. Her youngest son realization that many classmates remain 257 Lake View Avenue Winston Churchill, guards her well. . . . just became engaged to be married this gainfully employed and are, in fact, Cambridge, MA 02138 Maren Stoll Fischer lives in Boothbay summer at their camp on Messalonskee pre-retirement, I hope the following 617-868-8271 Harbor, Maine. She injured her right Lake and will have an outdoor reception comments illustrate our continuing [email protected] shoulder playing tennis and was to have at Eunie’s house. His bride-to-be is from diverse choices. Regina Foley Havi-

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newsmakers news. I am in the last stretch of papers together this week. He’s enjoying retire- and presentations for earning a certifi- ment in small-town New England. . . . What’s the most expensive wooden jigsaw cate in history of landscape design in Bob Drewes writes: “Robbie (Gilson puzzle of all time? The Guinness Book of the landscape studies program of the ’65) and I moved in 2001 to the Dallas, World Records lists it at $15,000, says Ver- Arnold Arboretum of Harvard Univer- Texas, area, where I am president of a mont Business Magazine’s feature on the sity. One project is a cultural landscape company that modifies almost any kind puzzle maker, Stephen K. ’61 and Martha report on the grounds of the oldest house of airplane to do almost anything. About Hooven Richardson ’61’s Stave Puzzles, in Cambridge, which has some interest- 75 percent of the business is in the U.S. Inc., in Norwich, Vt. Steve Richardson, ing landscape preservation history. All Currently my largest customer overseas founder and chief puzzle creator of the pri- will be over, I hope, by the time of our is in Australia, where I have a production vately owned company, engages passionate reunion. . . . Some good and lengthy news facility. Robbie and I just returned from customers all over the world  Call it the from Dan Traister. He enjoyed being a there. Our children are married, and we “Silicon Valley of biotechnology”: the new short-term fellow at the Centre for the have seven grandchildren. This year our Fairfield, Maine, International Northeast Bio- History of the Book at the University son, a physician, is relocating to Dallas Paul L. Tessier ’64 technology Corridor, an organization linking of Edinburgh last mid-May and June, to undergo three years of training in a researchers, hospitals, universities, economic development professionals and studying the reception of the 19th-cen- surgical subspecialty. He will live near us with his wife and four children. We biotechnology companies in 11 northeastern states and Canadian provinces, tury Scottish writer John Galt (friend and contemporary of Sir Walter Scott). As a look forward to that greatly.” is headed by former state representative Paul L. Tessier ’64  Anthony librarian and teacher of English litera- —Sara Shaw Rhoades P. Carnevale ’68, co-author of an article in the Journal of the New England ture at the University of Pennsylvania Board of Higher Education, foresees an end to “American education’s isolation and a visiting lecturer at the University 65 Tomas returns to the range! As from the community and the workplace” as a result of “the growing interest of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, he has you read this, our own cowboy, Tom in community service and the willingness of American employers to work with since been lecturing on Galt. Dan and Donahue, packed it in at Harvard colleges and universities.” Carnivale is vice president for assessment, equity Barbara (Howard ’65) enjoyed their stay Westlake School in Los Angeles and and careers with the Educational Testing Service. in Edinburgh, doing research partly at moseyed off into the sunset in Den- the University of Edinburgh library and nison, Texas. Tom and Judy found a Milestones largely at the National Library of Scot- home on the Texas-Oklahoma border land. They took long weekend trips to a a few minutes from Lake Texoma. While Deaths: Stephanie L. Burton ’67, February 20, 2003, in Iowa City, Iowa, number of places in the Scottish Borders Tom finished teaching the spring ’03 at 57  Barbara Botwinick Knapp ’69, December 8, 2002, in Florida, as well as to Stratford-upon-Avon and to semester in California, newly retired at 55. Kendal and the Lake District in England. Judy was at work on the garden. A Back in Scotland they visited Aberdeen, horse barn and workout pen were con- land (“Reggie” to many of us) wrote an University, plans to attend law school Inverness, Plocton, Fort Augustus and structed along with an additional room e-mail during the President’s Day bliz- after graduation. His youngest son will the western and northern Highlands for the growing descendancy. Tom’s zard to say she retired from 25 years attend Purdue in the fall. And he adds, (traveling with Barbara’s sister when Christmas note bears repeating, since of teaching public school French three “My wife, Elise, and I are celebrating she was a visiting lecturer at the Uni- it reflects contentment and strength years ago, thinking that was “it” for her our soon-to-be empty nest by putting versity of Aberdeen). All this and a trip of character and commitment perhaps academic career. She and Carole Pope our house on the market and a down to Florence and Siena in early May was nurtured on Mayflower Hill. Says Tom, subsequently took a celebratory trip to payment on a town house.” They see Bob a wonderful birthday present to Dan “a good number of years ago I told [my France, after which she secured a part- Hartman ’60 and his wife, Sue, regularly “for managing to reach 60.” This year headmaster] that what I most wanted time position at Avon Old Farms School. as neighbors in Glen Ellyn, Ill. . . . Your has continued to be good as Dan has was to be remembered as a scholar and Regina now teaches honors French to class correspondent continues to teach been a fellow of the Penn Humanities a stand-up teacher that students learned junior and senior boys at this private English classes at the University of Forum, its members this year chosen something from and remembered. Since school near her home in Connecticut. Hawaii (filling in for faculty on leave) for mutual interest in and projects on that decision I had bent all my efforts An added bonus for the location: seeing and is currently lead trainer for Weight the general area of the history of books in that direction and had lived hap- her grandchildren, because her daughter Watchers East Side of Hawaii Island, and printing. Their son Aaron married pily ever after.” . . . A member of the and son-in-law live at Avon Old Farms with three weekly classes, including an Karel McComas of Texas and UT-Austin ancient press corps at Alfond arena with School as faculty/staff. Regina added that “at work” group at North Hawaii Com- on July 13, and they are living near the a moniker of MULE887 reports that he she and her husband, Gerry, now have munity Hospital, a vanguard wellness Traisters in Philadelphia. and Ann enjoyed their first winter in a four grandchildren living close to them center. In early March I began work —Karen Forslund Falb seasonal retirement home in Nokomis, and two adult children in the Boston and on a prison project (titled “Poetry Can Fla. Bud Marvin assures us he watches Pittsburgh areas, with two more close by Free Our Souls”) at Kulani Correctional 64 Apologies for the short column. the weather reports from N.H.—yeah, in Connecticut. Also, Regina and Gerry Facility with six faculty and community I broke my elbow and am challenged, sure! He further reports attending the were in Bonita Springs, Fla., in January leaders. This isn’t retirement, just alter- particularly typing. . . . Nancy Saylor February meeting of the Sarasota Alumni when she had the pleasure of meeting nate job activity! Add animal care on Kimball called. She’s involved in the Club, where Prez Bro Adams spoke. Bud author Horace Landry ’49. During the the ranch and I’d have to say I left the International Center in Worcester, received a prize for being the most recent snowstorm, she was reading one of his condo to go to acreage! . . . Now, what Mass. Groups of 10 foreigners come graduate in attendance! And you thought autographed mysteries set in Maine. are you doing? Please keep those cards, for a month to study small U.S. busi- we were all in geezerland. . . . Just down . . . Henry “Hank” Sheldon is in his letters and e-mails coming. . . . Here’s ness methods—free markets, quality Rt. 41 in Fort Myers is the newly retired third year of retirement from United a question for our next issue: What is control, that sort of thing—which she Dave Hatch, who writes, “After 38 years Airlines and says he’s “not sure how my your favorite place in the world/travel finds very interesting. They currently have had enough. Will probably seek pension will fare if United doesn’t make destination? Aloha! have two Russians living with them part-time employment at the junior col- it out of bankruptcy, so retirement may —Diane Scrafton Ferreira who find Americans’ penchant for lege level for a few years. Am looking be a short but sweet interlude between sharing and cooperating refreshing. forward to snowless winters, good fishing careers.” His oldest daughter, who this 63 Can’t wait till next year when . . . Bob Mangion moved to my town and the Red Sox spring training.” Dave, year completed her junior year at DePaul I have more time for digging up class about five years ago, and we finally got they still need lots and lots and lots of

44 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 training! . . . Last spring the Waterville Japan, where he has been on leave the time you read this, and we will be her daughters in Connecticut, moved Morning Sentinel reported that the Board from his job as a sociology professor at complaining about the heat. No matter to Missouri, then moved back to New of Environmental Protection approved a Miami University in Ohio. Brad makes what the weather, classmates from 1967 Hampshire. Although we’ve exchanged 4-million cubic yard expansion of Cross- his home in Miyazaki Prefecture with have been on the move. Jeanne Philson holiday cards for the last 34 years, we roads Landfill in Norridgewock by a 5-1 his wife, Like, whom he met and mar- Sommers e-mailed that she recently hadn’t seen each other. We recently vote. Chairman John Tewhey and his ried in Japan in 1986. Like teaches at an purchased a new 2002 Coachman San- met for lunch at a restaurant midway board negotiated 16 conditions ensuring international college there. Brad writes, tara 31.5-foot motor home. She’s get- between Boston and Manchester, N.H. that Waste Management Inc. would live “Five kids are grown and scattered from ting used to driving and looks forward Kathy brought her daughter’s wedding up to their commitments. The BEP is Germany to Grenada. We get back to to summer vacation from her job at a album, and we spent three hours talking a citizen board (suspect that means no Maine once a year to the Farmington area law firm in Radnor, Pa., when she can about where our lives had taken us since money), and John and his board spent and stay in touch with Peter Grabosky really try it out. Jeanne says, “I’m still Colby. It was great fun and we plan to do well over a year on this. . . . Sunny Coady in Australia.” . . . Belated congratula- trying to figure out where I want to go it again soon. (She was excited that she’s update. She continues to donate her time tions to John Carvellas, professor of first!” If you see her on the open road in soon to become a grandmother!) In case to the Massachusetts Easter Seals, now economics at St. Michael’s College her RV, give her a honk. . . . Tom Saliba some of you Alpha Delta Pi’s had burning serving as governance chair and on the in Vermont, who was selected by the sends word that the last of their four ears, we shared info on where you were Boston-area fund-raising committee. graduating class of 2002 for a students’ kids, son Jake, was a freshman at Colby and what you were doing. But we both She reports a 10-day winter holiday with choice award last May. He was cited by in 2002-03. Tom has enjoyed the fact agreed that we haven’t heard much lately Rick and Nancy Winslow Harwood the seniors as being a wonderful teacher, that the College is only 50 minutes from from Pam Wheeler Atwood, Linda on St. John, V.I. Last fall she visited committed to student athletics (he has his home in South Freeport, Maine, and Jones Blair, Nancy Wilcox Clarke, Genoa and the west coast of Italy with coached women’s lacrosse and men’s he and his wife have been going up to Nancy Heilmann Powers, Patty Bucky and Anna Owens Smith. . . . club football) and, as described by the watch athletic contests again and enjoy Jenks, Ginny Mc Clintock Maloney Her mention of fund raising reminds class president, “a teacher, cheerleader, something of “campus life.” Tom says, and Cindy Paquet. If you are out there me to remind you to respond to Harold advisor, and friend.” John has earned “It sure is different now, with ‘normal’ reading this, get in touch! . . . Bob and Kowal’s request to support the Colby numerous awards in his 28 years at St. being many things for which we would I look forward to hearing from more of Alumni Fund. We all benefited from the Michael’s, including at least five teach- have gotten thrown out of school! Jake you so that we can keep the column fresh generosity of an earlier generation and ing awards, has chaired the economics lives in Piper, the old DU house, which and interesting. We can’t do it unless we now that we are that older generation, department for eight years, served as still smells like spilled beer and other hear from you, so go to your computer except in Sarasota, it’s our turn. . . . Hail, assistant academic dean for three years aromas on Sunday morning, but the and e-mail us today. Colby, Hail! and worked closely with international food in the dining rooms is fabulous. —Robert Gracia and Judy Gerrie Heine —Richard W. Bankart students, acting as their unofficial “foster Best food in Waterville.” He has a parent.” Way to go, Daisy! I should add daughter living in London working for 68 For the last six years Steve Ford 66 The February 6, 2003, issue of that he’s too modest to have sent me Goldman Sachs, another daughter living has been senior vice president and Business World magazine contains an this news himself. I learned it thanks and studying in Italy and a third daughter general counsel at Coty Inc., a global article about Robert Sears. I learned to Colby’s clipping service. . . . David who graduated from college in North supplier of fragrances and cosmetics. a lot about Rob and his international Reeves has left the world of advertising Carolina this May. “I just did a quick Coty’s headquarters are in New York background in the article and will try to become the pastor of Verona United calculation,” he says, “and realize that City. Before that, and since graduating to relate some of it here in short form. Methodist Church in New Jersey. The we have paid/‘invested’ more than $1M from Villanova Law School, he held vari- Rob completed high school in Lugano, local Verona paper reports that this in tuitions so far between prep schools ous positions with Scott Paper Company Switzerland, before coming to Colby. former Colby philosophy major has been and colleges, but I can see the light in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Mary, He served four years in the U.S. Air married to Sara since 1966 and has three at the end of the tunnel.” After many now live in north Jersey, and he com- Force, including one in Vietnam, after sons, Bard, Matthew and Adam, ranging years of intense and hard work running mutes to Manhattan. The oldest (twin graduating from Colby, then put his in age from 26 to 19. . . . Fran Finizio, a number of companies, he is enjoying a daughters) of their five children gradu- Italian to work by accepting a job with class president and chief-in-charge of slower pace in the investment business. ated from Brown University last May Merrill Lynch in Milano, Italy. Merrill our 40th reunion in June of 2006 (hey, “I don’t know how many more of these after having majored in biomedical engi- Lynch moved him back to Lugano, then that’s not so far away), asks me to tell cold, Maine winters I can take,” he adds, neering; one planned to go to law school to Teheran, Iran, for three years. The you that discussions about the 40th have “and as soon as Jake finishes Colby it and one planned on a doctorate. Their next ML assignment was a short one begun among the class officers, and a will be ‘arrivederci.’” Tom spends a sig- older son, now a junior at Colby, in Rotterdam, The Hague, before Rob reunion committee will be formed this nificant part of his time in Italy, where majors in French and international was needed in another Islamic country, fall. Anyone who would like to be on the they keep a 56-foot sailboat and enjoy studies. Their younger son and youngest Dubai. After three years there, Rob committee, or anyone with thoughts or exploring the Mediterranean. Home daughter are in high school. Steve writes, was assigned to Manila, where Mer- ideas about the reunion, should either port is Gaeta, Italy, which is between “Having a Colby student has allowed us rill Lynch left him alone through nine e-mail Fran ([email protected]) or call Rome and Napoli. He says, “We plan to see Colby friends at Homecoming volatile years in the Philippines. But him at home (978-369-3626). Fran is to winter in Malta, with Greece and or other events. We have seen Bill and Rob liked living there and endeared enjoying his new job as a vice president the Olympics for 2004 and wherever Nancy Meyer Tsiaras, Gary Weaver, himself to the Philippine people, so at Fidelity, with just a 35-minute com- the America’s Cup ends up in the Med Art Brennan, Bob Hughes and Ken he declined Merrill Lynch’s offer to mute from his home in Carlisle, Mass., (I hope) for 2005 . . . if I live that long in Young,” among others. The Fords, who move back to New York in 1990 and to his office in Merrimack, N.H. . . . this crazy world!” Tom looks forward to planned to attend reunion in June and instead became executive director of Hmmm, all the news in this column is seeing Paul Cronin and other classmates hoped to see many others there, also the American Chamber of Commerce about men. I write what I’m sent. Come who have kids at Colby on campus or at have seen Ed ’67 and Cherie Ander- of The Philippines, a position he still on, women, illustrious or otherwise, send his house on their way to Waterville. . son Scherer ’70, Lou Champagne ’67, holds today. The very complimentary me some news! . . Now that I’ve retired from teaching, Fred Hopengarten and Jeff Lathrop. article ends with “Here is one guy who —Meg Fallon Wheeler I’ve enjoyed renewing friendships with Jeff wrote that he has “enjoyed re- is doing a lot to foster real, honest-to- classmates I haven’t seen for ages. After acquainting with Colby this year, as I goodness Philippine-American relations.” 67 After New England’s coldest graduation, Kathy Denehy Lewis and have twin daughters, Abbi and Jenny, . . . Another international classmate is and snowiest winter in a very long I were roommates in Hartford, Conn., who are freshmen at Colby. Attended Brad Simcock, who e-mailed me from time, the weather will have changed by for a year. 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delighted to bump into Bill and Nancy have any experience? I could sure use Meyer Tsiaras, Peter and Ann Wilson some help.” If you have suggestions for Hobart, Jay Sandak, Steve Ford, Jann, e-mail her at [email protected]. Striking out with Debbie Stephenson Wysor and Arthur She goes on to say that Cathie Smith Brennan, among others, all with children Keenan invited her to a gathering of at various stages at Colby. My wife, Susie, her writers’ group to celebrate the pub- your dividends? and I live in North Conway, N.H., where lication of a member’s book, A Singular I have been active in the life, health and Hostage, a wonderful novel by Thalassa long-term care insurance business for the Ali about life in India. Cathie and Clarke last 10 years.” . . . Peter Jost writes, “I am and Jann and her husband, Gerry, were Hit a home run with a happy to advise that I am still alive and planning to ski together in Park City, practicing law in Clinton, N.J., with no Utah, in February, and this summer the Charitable Gift Annuity actual fatal diseases that I know of yet. I four of them hope to make an Italian presently represent three townships, two journey. Any tips anyone has for them at Colby! boroughs, one board of adjustment and would be greatly appreciated. Jann is numerous ungrateful private clients, so I also in constant touch via phone with guess I have finally become a workaholic Jane Morrison, who is busy with her With a Charitable Gift Annuity, you can in my old age (certainly wasn’t one in col- beautiful grandson, Duncan, and whose enjoy a guaranteed life income lege). I live with my 16-year-old son and parents, Josh and Beth, are both Colby sail with a bunch of over-the-hill sunfish ’93 grads. Jann also stays in touch with at attractive annuity rates. sailors in the summer on Barnegat Bay Otto Wielan ’69, who is staying active for comic relief. Would be glad to hear in N.Y. . . . David and I plan to attend ([email protected]) from any our 35th reunion. By the time you read Colby alum persons in the area.” . . . this, reunion will be behind us; how Nancy Short Hall is still the technol- could such a cool bunch of people be ogy specialist at Colchester, Vt., Middle this old? School. Now that both of her children —Nancy Dodge Bryan have master’s degrees, she is considering retiring and doing some traveling. She 69 As I write this column after a long and her husband, Wayne, spent a week and cold Massachusetts winter that was in Arizona last winter. They also tried reminiscent of our wonderful days at white-water rafting for the first time Colby, I wonder if any of you remember last summer. They also went on their our first blizzard in Waterville during annual canoe trip with friends and spent the early days of our freshman year? a week on the St. Croix River (the border It was either Homecoming Weekend between Maine and N.B., Canada). They or Winter Carnival. Many cars were had lots of fast water and rapids and very stuck on Mayflower Hill Drive, and few portages and had such a good time many of us, and our dates, hiked back that they are planning to combine part to campus after our dinners at the Jeff of that trip with the Moose River Bow or The Majestic. . . . We hear that Bill trip (Jackman, Maine) in July. Their Burges is the president of Burges and winter passion is square dancing in Burges, a Democratic consulting firm in Vermont, but they try to get away to Cleveland, Ohio. A newsclip reports that Guaranteed Fixed Rates: larger festivals several times a year. . . . Bill “has been navigating Ohio’s vicious One-life Annuity Two-life Annuity Ric Rawson wrote, “Last February, at undertow for schools, higher education age 55, I retired from the U.S. Postal and other community institutions for 25 65 6.0% 65/62 5.6% Service, where I had worked on their years.” He is happily married and has one 70 6.5 70/67 5.8 computers. I’ve found retirement to be grown son. . . . Mary L. Cupp exhib- absolutely delightful. Since retirement ited some of her artwork, a collection of 75 7.1 75/72 6.2 I have taken up water aerobics (think of paintings and prints titled “Farms Folk seniors bouncing in the water to the tune & Flowers,” at the Denmark, Maine, 80 8.0 80/77 6.7 of “Jailhouse Rock”), volunteering at the Arts Center last summer. A number of 85 9.5 85/82 7.5 Smithsonian American History Museum the exhibits in the show focused on the once a week, watching those 10-to-11 colorful flowers and vegetables, vendors p.m. TV shows and napping from 2 to and other activities at the farmers mar- For more information about how to make a gift 4 p.m. daily.” . . . Also heard from Jann kets in Congress Square and Deering Semonian Czarnetzki, who wrote that Oaks Park in Portland, Maine. . . . Ray to Colby using a Charitable Gift Annuity, teaching, after 29 years, is still fun for Gerbi completed 20 years of hospital contact the Office of Planned Giving: her, although she is now looking forward administration at the Concord Hospital to retiring in a couple of years. She also in Concord, N.H., where he was over- Director Steve Greaves or Associate Director said, “Life is very stressful and anxious seeing the planning and construction Sue Cook ’75, Colby College, 4372 Mayflower with responsibilities for my mother, who of a large and comprehensive cancer is recovering in a nursing home from a center. He and his wife have joined Hill, Waterville, ME 04901; phone 207-872- stroke. She is very unhappy and wants to the ever-expanding numbers of our 3210; or e-mail [email protected]. go home. Now I need to look into hiring classmates who have become proud home health care aids for her. Anyone and thrilled grandparents. . . . Roger

46 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 Hopkins lives in Palm Springs, Calif., articles in local newspapers. Last fall, Saudi Arabia and China. Cape Canav- 1970s Correspondents and devotes his energies to his sculpture Alan Blanker joined Greenfield Sav- eral is home when he’s in the U.S. Jeff 1970 and stone import business. Eight years ings Bank as a senior vice president married a year ago and has a 17-year-old Brenda Hess Jordan ago Roger met “a wonderful Egyptian and general counsel. After graduating from a previous marriage. . . . Harriet 141 Tanglewood Drive ballerina” and has been happily married from Colby, Alan obtained his J.D. from Hults King has been working at the Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 since. Living in the desert, he doesn’t Georgetown University Law Center. He State Attorney’s Office in Vermont 630-858-1514 seem to miss the New England weather. and his wife, Joyce, reside in Green- as the domestic violence prosecutor. [email protected] Roger was involved in some TV docu- field, Mass., and have two children. . . . Harriet’s husband is also an attorney, 1971 mentaries, and his work was featured on Known as a “Down East fiddler,” Greg and the two try hard to balance their Nancy Neckes Dumart The Sopranos. . . . Bruce McLean has Boardman has earned a reputation as an busy work schedules with their children’s 19 Deergrass Road lived in Boston for the past 20 years and accomplished fiddler in Maine and has activities and skiing and snowshoeing. Shrewsbury, MA 01545 works in real estate on Beacon Hill. Since participated in numerous events dedi- . . . Tom Bolmer responded to my 508-842-1083 1980 he has been a member of the Trinity cated to the promotion and preserva- request for stories of 50th celebrations [email protected] choir at Trinity Church, and he toured tion of regional fiddle styles. His résumé by saying that he and his wife, Ellyn England and did several recordings with includes performances with the Maine Montgomery ’81, decided to take the 1972 Janet Holm Gerber the choir. Bruce also is involved with the Country Dance Orchestra, The North- day off for a hike. Ellyn surprised Tom 409 Reading Avenue Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, ern Valley Boys, the Kennebec Valley with champagne (in real flutes) and hors Rockville, MD 20850 N.Y., where he recently purchased an Boys, The Moosetones—the list goes on d’oeuvres (on real plates) at the top of 301-424-9160 old farmhouse nearby. . . . Bill Lyons and on. He has won every major fiddle Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire [email protected] was elected regent to the American contest in Maine. A part-time music despite a blanket of late May snow. College of Tax Counsel. He and his teacher in the Lewiston schools, Greg Dinner was a large ice cream sundae at 1973 wife, Karen Knapp ’70, are building a also teaches fiddle as a private instructor a big stand in the next town. Tom says he Roberta Rollins Wallace 119 Eastern Drive vacation/retirement home in Castine, and organized the Maine Fiddle Camp. finally got a set of meals that were a real Wethersfield, CT 06109-2609 Maine. . . . Plans are already underway He recently released the CD celebration! . . . Tim Glidden, director Century [email protected] for our 35th reunion next year, so get Reel, a collection of 15 New England of Maine’s Future Program, was written ready. In the meantime keep your excit- pieces representing several generations up in several Maine newspapers for his 1974 ing news coming. of Down East musicians. The CD, put determination to protect special places, Robin Sweeney Peabody —Sari Abul-Jubein out by Outer Green Records, is available such as working farms and forests, from 46 Elk Lane through Bow & String Enterprises of urban sprawl. . . . The Waterville Business Littleton, CO 80127 Macy Delong was recognized Auburn, Maine. . . . Don’t wait for me to & Professional Women’s Association 303-978-1129 71 fax: 303-904-0941 in People magazine in the fall of 2002 read about you in the newspaper. You can named Karen Heck Woman of the Year. [email protected] and was celebrated as an unsung hero e-mail or snail-mail information to me She is a founder of a Maine conference at a Knicks-Celtics game in December about what’s going on in your lives: vaca- focused on helping girls understand what 1975 2002 for her relentless efforts to enhance tions, celebrations, jobs, family, Colby it is to be female in today’s world. . . . Bruce Young the quality of life for homeless individu- classmates you have heard from. It’s all Joanne Tankard Smith was one of seven 20 Applewood Avenue als. Her nonprofit agency, Solutions at interesting reading to the rest of us. finalists for Massachusetts Teacher of the Billerica, MA 01821 Work, in Cambridge, Mass., provides —Jackie Nienaber Appeldorn Year. She teaches at Norfolk Agricultural 978-443-6417 [email protected] a variety of forms of aid to homeless School, where she has been for three people, including a clothing exchange 74 My ornery computer refused to years. . . . A newsclip describes Ken- 1976 and a moving service. Macy provides open several e-mails, citing a virus as neth Melvin, who is in his 17th year as Jane Souza Dingman lodging to a number of people in her its excuse. Therefore, if your news is a delegate in the Virginia Assembly, as 805 River Road own home to help them get on their not included here, please resend it, and able to “make an analogy like no one in Leeds, ME 04263-3115 feet again. . . . Robert Ewell is a career please accept my apologies. . . . Bruce this room.” After Colby, Kenny went [email protected] support specialist at the Huot Techni- Carmichael is living in Park City, Utah, to Georgetown for a law degree, set up 1977 cal Center, Elm Street School, Concord, with his wife, Jennifer, and two children, practice and helped others run for office Mark Lyons N.H. . . . Joe Greenman was named Gavin, 10, and Erin, 8. Bruce works in before running himself in 1985. . . . Keep 66 Edgewood Drive a member of the Bond, Schoeneck & Salt Lake City as director of Air Force those e-mails flying! Hampton, NH 03842-3923 King law firm. . . . Bill Simons, an C31SR systems. The family enjoyed all —Robin Sweeney Peabody 603-929-7378 American historian who teaches at the activities and excitement surrounding [email protected] SUNY-Oneonta, has studied and writ- the Winter Olympics. . . . Mike McNa- 75 Greetings to all my classmates. 1978 ten about most sports, but his favorite mara writes that after a 19-year hiatus This year most of us will be turning Janet Santry Hauser is baseball. Bill is a long-time member he returned to teaching at the Marine 50. In fact, by the time you read this, 9 White Rock Drive of SABR, the Society of American Academy of Technology and Environ- a lot of us will have already hit the big Falmouth, ME 04105-1437 Baseball Research. . . . I was delighted ment in Toms River, N.J. He continues number. So I think it’s high time that [email protected] to see Cheryl Booker Gorman ’74 of his law practice part time, having given we put down the jellybeans and go out Brookline Bancorp featured in the Boston up litigation entirely and restricting his and get a meaningful job. Good luck Lea Jackson Morrissey Globe in December 2002. Cheryl, one of practice to real estate and estate plan- finding one. . . . Some news of a few 1 Shorewood Road a number of successful businesswomen ning. His older son just completed his people who seem to already have good Marblehead, MA 01945-1225 whose careers have been influenced freshman year at Loyola College, and jobs. They are excused from the final. [email protected] by the teamwork they experienced as his younger son finished his first year Bob Duchesne writes that he recently 1979 student athletes, played field hockey at Monsignor Donovan High School. was named Broadcaster of the Year by Cheri Bailey Powers at Colby. . . . Jeff Seip writes from Mexico City, the Maine Association of Broadcasters. 6027 Scout Drive —Nancy Neckes Dumart where he spent the last year directing Along with the award came admittance Colorado Springs, CO 80918 power plant project finance/accounting to the MAB Hall of Fame. Bob also 719-532-9285 73 This quarter’s mail is lighter than for Siemens Westinghouse. His career received an M.B.A. from the Univer- [email protected] last time, so my information comes from has taken him to Peru, Puerto Rico, sity of Maine. Despite all of this career

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success, Bob says that he is now taking recently moved from their Bartlett ski performing liver transplants and general cabin without electricity (and that means it easy, living in a log cabin on Pushaw chalet to a farm in Chocorua, N.H., to surgery. He also saw a lot of growth in without running water) surrounded by Lake north of Bangor, writing a bird make room for their two new pet alpacas. his personal life. Pat recently remarried his wife, three daughters and a few stu- guide to Maine and planning to travel Susan says that alpacas are smaller than and added wife Sherri’s three children dents doing research. . . . We also heard more. . . . Curt Gowdy celebrated his llamas, easy to care for and provide to his family, which already included his from Hank Osborne, communications 25th year with ABC Sports by receiving great fiber for spinning. She also has own teenage son. director at Sabine, Inc., in Florida. He his 16th Emmy Award for Wide World been quality assurance analyst with the —Bruce Young and his wife have two young sons. He of Sports 40th Anniversary Special. He Echo Group in Conway for the past says life is great and invites guests to visit reports spending time in Maine with four years. . . . Vinnie Cassone and 76 Lots of news this time, including him in Gainesville. . . . We also received classmates, including Peter Clark, his wife, Lynne, recently welcomed their word from some long-lost friends. David word from Erik Peterson ’79, senior vice John O’Meara, Alan MacEwan and new son, Gabriel King, into the world. Wilson, who would have graduated in president and director of studies at the Mike ’74 and Jen Goff Currie. Curt Vinnie also was appointed head of the 1976 but heard other callings in 1974, Center for Strategic and International resides in New Canaan, Conn., with his Texas A&M biology department, which wrote to say that he frequently writes Studies (CSIS). He spoke to the students wife, Karen, and their three girls, Katie, counts nearly 1,300 undergraduates and for alumni magazines, such as those in the Colby International Studies Pro- Taylor and Grace. . . . Ed Walczak is the almost 100 graduate students. So now published by Duke University, Fordham gram several months ago and enjoyed his fund manager for Vontobel Asset Man- he has two more reasons not to sleep, University and Williams College, among visit to the campus. He sends greetings agement. He was interviewed recently by he reports. However, he does encour- others. He wrote the article on Vinnie to Ann Dunlap LeBourdais. . . . Barry Deborah Marchini on CNN’s Halftime age Colby grads to send him graduate Martucci ’77, you may have noticed. Rabin wrote that he has completed a Report. Ed talked about the success he applications. . . . Pat Wood checked in . . . Another “long lost” is Craig Spen- year-long program of leadership and has had and provided some insight into with an update on his last few years in cer, chair of the biology department at networking for Greater Syracuse. On a the investment strategies that he follows. Texas. He has left the academic world and Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. family note, their daughter is a freshman . . . Richard and Susan Staples Smith opened a private practice surgical group He spends summers in Montana in a at Cornell, so they feel lucky to have her

romanMedical w. Mission dashawetz ’70 How does a Colby English major from Boston go on to earn the 15 different hospitals, trying to help as many people Michajlo Hrushevskij Medal for humanitarian aid, a prestigious award as possible. But Ukrainian children suffer 40,000 named for the first president of the Ukrainian National Republic? Ask burn cases every year, and it was impossible to help Roman W. Dashawetz ’70, who spends four weeks each year in Ukraine them all. “We literally had hundreds of children bringing medical care to those who need it most. waiting in line from all areas of Ukraine to be looked After Colby, Dashawetz found that he had a love for science and for at. After the first week was over, we sat down and teaching. He graduated from the Boston University School of Nursing cried,” he said. and began practicing and, eventually, teaching anesthesia. “I think that EMAU started to take a much more personal part of what I used to do in teaching has also helped me in Ukraine, approach, focusing on a smaller number of hospi- because that’s what we do—teach. We want to leave them with some- tals, developing close working relationships with the staff and creating thing,” he said. Having spent most of his life in the Boston area, settled programs that eventually became centers of excellence. In the last 12 with a growing family and a prosperous career in anesthesia, years, EMAU has started and supported 13 projects, such as Dashawetz needed something more. In 1990 he found it. the Pediatric Dialysis Center, considered the best in Ukraine, “A friend of mine asked me whether I would go to the Pediatric Burn Center and the Adult Rehabilitation Ukraine with him to do anesthesia for his orthopedic Center. Many of these projects are the first of their surgery,” he said. “When we got there, I was just kind in Ukraine. “Even though we left politics,” he so floored by the horrible medical system.” said, “I think in the back of our minds we still Dashawetz had been active for many years feel that this is part of country building.” in Ukranian politics, heading up and These days, Dashawetz spends the attending human-rights demonstrations other 48 weeks of the year back in Maine, in Boston and Washington, but when he enjoying the peaceful area of Machias- saw how much Ukraine was suffering port in Down East Maine. “When I left medically, he decided to change focus. Colby in 1970, I always told myself that Emergency Medical Aid for Ukraine (EMAU) I would come back,” he said. He’s found was born. that medical care in a small town can be Every year Dashawetz and his volunteers fly to much more personal. Now his patients bring him Ukraine and work closely with four hospitals, bringing deer and lobsters and invite him to their houses for technology, teaching new surgical techniques, creating dinner. “These people need access to medical care, state of the art medical centers and forming lifelong you know, kind of like in Ukraine,” he said. It’s a big friendships. “If you don’t have a healthy popula- change from the bustling Boston atmosphere in tion, you can’t build a healthy country,” Dashawetz which Dashawetz was raised, but he doesn’t miss said. the city. “People go to Cancun and they think This philosophy has kept Dashawetz and his that’s exotic,” he said. “There’s nothing more group going for 12 years now, but it wasn’t easy exotic than Machiasport.” at first. They started bringing medical supplies to —Anne Marie Sears ’03

48 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 newsmakers and glorious tradition of providing Hospice as director of supportive care. your trusted and conscientious class A licensed social worker, he previously Gov. John Baldacci tapped York County Dis- correspondent with absolutely no news worked as consumer services manager at trict Attorney Michael P. Cantara ’75 to head for our alumni magazine. Please do not Elder Independence of Maine. . . . Keep Maine’s Department of Public Safety, citing continue this time-honored practice. You those post cards and e-mails coming! Cantara’s exemplary initiatives in developing are encouraged (and I implore you) to —Robert S. Woodbury services for victims of crime, establishing a send me numerous e-mail messages and domestic violence task force and working other forms of communication so that 79 Barry Horwitz e-mailed to with a shelter for domestic violence victims. I can update the class on your accom- say that despite being responsible for Cantara oversees nine bureaus, including the plishments. Please don’t make me beg. gathering and editing alumni news for State Police, the Fire Marshal’s Office and Thank you. his business school, he has been lax in the Drug Enforcement Agency  Maine’s —Mark Lyons keeping his Colby classmates up to date. 2003 High School Principal of the Year award In the past year, Barry and Liz (Yanagi- went to South Portland High School’s Jeanne 78 Greetings, classmates! We’re very hara ’80) have traveled to Iceland with Jeanne O’Brien Crocker ’76 O’Brien Crocker ’76. The first woman ever light on news this quarter. Everyone their children, Michael, 18, and Ali, 14, to receive the honor, Crocker has been the principal at the school, one of the must be resting up for our 25th reunion as part of a music exchange that the kids celebration on June 5-8. By the time this participated in. Just before the Febru- largest in the state, for five years. “School leadership is about change and column appears, it’ll all have happened, ary blizzard they managed to duck out reform in education,” she said. “I’ve spent the last couple of years working but at this writing Sandy Buck is pulling of Boston on their way to Cancun for to make things better”  Rep. David P. Linsky ’79 of Natick was named out all the stops for an event on May- a week’s vacation. Michael was in the a 2002 Legislator of the Year by the Massachusetts Municipal Association, a flower Hill unmatched in the annals of waiting part of the college application nonprofit association of Massachusetts cities and towns. Currently in his third Colby College. As we all know by now, process, and Ali was enjoying freshman term, Linsky “has consistently made education a top priority.” the Class of 1978 will be regaled by none year in high school. Barry says that Liz other than Jerry Jeff Walker (it almost remains active in a flute group called Milestones seems like he was in our class and I should Willow Flute Ensemble, a flute choir. be bolding his name) on June 7. He will The rest of her time is spent making Deaths: David J. Soper ’70, September 27, 2000, in Florida, at 52  Kimberly take us all back to the ’70s with his hit jewelry for an artist’s studio, doing Wathen Welch ’79, February 16, 2002, in New Jersey, at 44. tunes “Goodbye Easy Street,” “Jaded volunteer work with the local middle Lover” and “Mississippi You’re On school’s music department and shut- nearby. Their son is a freshman in high three years by saying that in 1999 he My Mind,” along with many others, as tling the kids. Barry and Liz remain in school so he is nearby, too! The family left the International School of Prague we dance the night away. Roebuck has Newton, Mass., where they have lived enjoyed a visit with the family of Mark (Czech Republic again!) and became many other treats in store—a ride on the for the past eight years or so. . . . Joe Fishbon ’77 at Cape Cod. . . . . David ’75 the founding headmaster of a private Blue Goose on Thursday, golf, tennis, a Meyer, Rob Stevenson ’78, Ken Curtis and Harriet Buxbaum Pinansky have Catholic school for boys in Princeton, chance to hear from Charlie Bassett and ’76 and their families got together last fall one son, who graduated from Carnegie N.J. He and his wife have two sons and Sandy Maisel again, the always popular at the Yokohama Country and Athletic Mellon University with four degrees, and a daughter. . . . But William Silverman Maine lobster bake, presentations by Club. Since Colby, the three of them one daughter, who graduated from high has beaten Olen at summarizing. He sent accomplished classmates and, most have logged 55 years living and working school this spring. With all these gradu- a one-liner: “Was elected to the Board important, the opportunity to rekindle in northeast Asia. Joe is currently CFO ations, they missed the last reunion but of Governors of the American College friendships that were forged from 1974 in Tokyo for a cable industry multiple hope to be there next time. . . . Family of Gastroenterology.” Wonderful, Bill! to 1978 and have endured, survived and system operator, Mediatti Communica- news from Jack and Susan Reed Parker . . . Gail and Richard Oparowski are thrived ever since! The next issue will tions. Rob is the managing director of catches us up on the lives of their four building a house in Amherst, Mass., and have all the details, and I’m sure our BEA Systems Japan. Ken is a private children. Their eldest daughter gradu- hope to keep in closer touch with Joe and 25th will stir up a lot of news for several equity professional with Eastpoint ated from Colby in 2001 and now lives Noël Barry Stella, who live in West- quarters to come. . . . Marty Reader has Capital Management. . . . Sam Koch is and works in the U.S. Virgin Islands. field, Mass. Both Oparowski children joined eBenX in the newly created role still coaching soccer at the University Their next daughter finished up this attend Wake Forest in N.C. While the of senior vice president of marketing of Massachusetts and has been happily spring at Boston University; last year she house is under construction, the parents and client management. In this posi- married to Suzanne Brydie Patterson for attended the Colby in London program. will be in Delaware, which feels much tion based in Minneapolis, Marty will almost 10 years now. He met Suzanne Their older son is a freshman Mule on closer to N.C. than did their home in be accountable for supporting sales and on a job interview; didn’t take the job the football team, and their younger son Danbury, Conn. Opie is hoping to put new business development with product but found a wife! Sam and Suzanne have is also in football, hockey and lacrosse at his 21 years of financial experience and pricing strategy and marketing program four children: Christopher, 8, loves to Governor Dummer Academy. Jack and three CFO positions within Citigroup to development across the company. He play baseball (what, no soccer!), Jeffrey, Susan are dealing with their “empty nest” beneficial use in Amherst classrooms. . . . will manage a team of professionals with 5, loves to draw, Ben, 4, loves balls and by keeping busy. . . . Michael Boyson Also changing jobs and in the news are the mission of ensuring continued and trucks of any kind, and the princess, feels “empty nest” creeping up on him. Lindsay Huntington Hancock, who strong strategic client relationships. He Katie, loves to play in the mud. Sam His son is away at Northwestern, and joined the Maine College of Art as spe- has more than 20 years of business-to- talks often to Dave Laliberty, who is his daughter did her junior year of cial events coordinator, and Douglas business marketing and general man- still coaching out in Wisconsin. Once high school in Argentina. His coping Rooks, who left journalism to become agement experience across a range of in a while he sees Doug Lewing, who mechanism has been preparation for communications director for Maine industries. eBenX has developed more is involved with the Delaware Olympic the Chicago Marathon. (I have a true House Speaker Patrick Colwell. than 200 client relationships with Global Development Program (soccer). He also appreciation of the feelings involved —Jane Souza Dingman 2000 companies and is committed to hears a lot from Elliott Pratt ’81, the #1 in sending a 16-year-old away for a being the global leader and most pre- UMass soccer fan. Other Colby alumni year. My daughter that age was in 77 Greetings, classmates. As you ferred provider in health and welfare who support the UMass Minutemen are the Czech Republic this year.) Mike can see, there is no news for the Class administration. . . . Meanwhile, back in Dr. Chip Childs ’78, Dick Muther ’81, sends greetings to Dave Bengtson. of 1977 in this issue. That is because the Pine Tree state, Rick Jacques has Pat Fortin ’82 (new father of twins) and . . . Olen Kalkus summarized his last the Class of ’77 has continued its long joined Androscoggin Home Care and Councilor Doug Giron ’78. Sam says it’s

COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 | 49 Alumni at Large 1970s-1980s a small world—he bumped into Bruce newsmakers commercial real estate business for 12 Henderson and his family on the Tokyo years. He is director with Cushman and subway. Sam, in answer to your question, Nancy Briggs Marshall ’82, quoted in an article in Down East magazine, said Wakefield in Hartford, Conn. Bob and I still type papers; my fee is higher, but the it’s the “VIP phenomenon” when the famous and near-famous show up at the his wife, Durrin, keep busy with Isabelle, drink is still the same—White Russians. . . . condos and on the slopes of Sugarloaf/USA. Nancy Marshall Communica- 9, and Robert, 7, and with renovating the Elizabeth Armstrong dropped a line to tions also recently contracted to perform public relations services for Dunkin’ farm they purchased several years ago. say that she has finally come back to the Donuts’ educational outreach to Maine residents  “No one knew what [the . . . Darcy MacKinnon Sledge’s beagle, States after years of roaming the planet Internet] was going to look like,” said Fletcher E. Kittredge ’84, “and my Nimbus, was noticed by a talent scout for and living in Japan. She has been mar- idea was you could have a service provider that would just serve the town.” dogs and now has an agent in N.Y.C. He ried for 14 years to Erik Lofgren, who is Today, said the Biddeford, Maine, Journal Tribune, Kittredge’s nine-year-old was recently in Manhattan for a photo also involved in Japanese studies. They Great Works Internet Inc. offers Internet services to 55,000 homes, businesses shoot for Ralph Lauren and is Mr. are both now on the faculty of Bucknell and schools across Maine  When Joseph Rivero Baker ’85 took over as October in Friskies 2003 Mighty Dog University, where she teaches three levels head of the Meriden-Wallingford (Conn.) United Way last January, he told calendar. . . . Linda Alter has returned to of Japanese language and Erik teaches the Record-Journal that he looked forward to opening doors with the city’s her Midwest roots by settling in St. Paul, Japanese literature and language. They Latino population. Baker, who is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent and Minn. Linda sells real estate and manages have two daughters, 7 and 4, who keep fluent in Spanish, hoped to help people “express their caring for each other by rental properties and recently traveled to them happy and engaged when they’re St. Maarten, Disneyland near L.A., Anna giving, volunteering and working together”  At the swearing-in last Janu- not at work. Elizabeth and her daughters Maria Island, Fla., and Costa Rica. She ary of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Daniel K. Webster ’87 are working on their equestrian skills in sends regards to former Colby basket- was a member of the minority. The attorney and former commercial banker her “spare” time. She is occasionally in ball teammates: “those were memorable who represents the sixth Plymouth district was one of 23 Republicans in the touch with Tim ’80 and Anne Luede- times! Dig Deep!” . . . Jay Moody lives mann Hunt and says she hopes more 159-member House. in Falmouth, Maine. He hopes to make will contribute to my column—it’s her a full recovery from prostate cancer sur- way of keeping in touch with classmates. Milestones gery. Jay has been spending quality time . . . John Crispin, M.D., is an anesthesi- with family and friends and recently had Marriages: Ann M. Fillback ’88 to John R. Riley Jr. in Peabody, Mass.  Todd ologist with the Central Maine Medical an “awesome” trip to Jamaica. . . . Cathy Wallingford ’88 to Jennifer Joy Pupa in Northborough, Mass.  Andrew Center’s surgical services department. Palmer Smith and her husband, Dan, John did his residency at Portsmouth I. Dodge ’89 to Sasha Castel in Harpswell, Maine. are experiencing the joys and challenges Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., and of renovating an old house in the country. a fellowship in thoracic and vascular Births: Twins, Zoe Christie Cheever and Max Thompson Cheever, to Mary- They are very involved in their church anesthesia at Massachusetts General Margaret Christie ’89 and Wilbur D. Cheever ’85. and spend time with family and friends. Hospital in Boston. . . . Capt. Kevin Cathy works with Scott Vandersall ’81 Frank, U.S.N., was awarded the Bronze Deaths: Reyne J. Cuccuro ’83, December 27, 2002, in Florida, at 41. at Citizens Bank. They had to compare Star medal on January 2, 2003, by their senior photos in Colby yearbooks Admiral James O. Ellis Jr., commander, (or at [email protected]) or use Beach, Maine. She is vice president of to recognize each other. . . . Amy Page U.S. Strategic Command. The citation the traditional mail. her family business, Downeast Energy Oberg ([email protected]) is a stated that Capt. Frank distinguished —Cheri Bailey Powers and Building Supply, and was recently member of the Barrington, R.I., school himself by meritorious achievement as appointed to a position on the board of committee and was recently elected to the Combined Forces Air Component 80 Steve Bosley, his wife, Tricia directors of Coastal Maine Botanical Gar- serve another term. She is on the board Command deputy director of intelli- Kenney, and their children Rachel, 8, dens in Boothbay. . . . Michael Fanger of directors of the Bayside YMCA and a gence and director of intelligence while and Eli, 6, live in Earlyville, Va., near reports in from N.Y.C. that his com- member of their golf tournament com- engaged in ground combat against an Charlottesville. Steve works in Internet pany, Eastern Funding L.L.C., founded mittee. Her youngest child is in ninth enemy of the United States from 13 marketing for Plow and Hearth Cata- in 1997, continues to prosper with 14 grade; her other five have graduated. October 2001 to 21 January 2002. log Company. They visit his parents in employees and nationwide business. Amy is practicing law in Providence, During this period, Capt. Frank’s Orleans on Cape Cod every June. He His wife, Linda, has done well after her doing general business, corporate and leadership and keen analysis were keeps in touch with Chris Morrill ’81, cancer treatment. The children, Rachel, tax work. Last fall she and Karen critical to the success of the combat who lives in Hartford, Conn. . . . Mar- 11, and Jon, 8, keep him busy in Mor- Harvey Leese met Pam Poindexter air campaign against the international jorie Smith Bose lives in Texas with ristown, N.J. . . . Jane Dibden Schwab, Peacock, Elaine Regan Driscoll, Peter terrorist group Al Qaida and the Tal- her husband and daughters, Kendall, a recently divorced, continues to preach at Forman and their spouses for dinner in iban government of Afghanistan. While first grader, and Lindsay, 3. With both Covenant Chapel in Vassalboro, Maine. the North End in Boston. . . . Martha supporting more than 20,000 sorties of her children in school this year, Marj She reports she is in a happier place rais- McCluskey has received tenure as a law and strikes on more than 5,600 aim is taking art classes, doing yoga and has ing her five children after going through professor at the State University of New points, he directed the intelligence taken up running (she says anyone who this life transition. She recently met with York at Buffalo. She teaches and writes support to combat operations and the knows her will find the running part Diana Small Snow and toured the Colby about constitutional law, feminist legal time-sensitive targeting process. Kevin, hard to believe!). Marj is researching campus, reliving old memories. Diana, a theory and economic inequality. Martha if you are back in the Gulf supporting home-based businesses and asks that cancer survivor, lives with her husband recently married Carl Nightingale, a our troops, God bless you and thank anyone with any ideas contact her. . . . in Belmont, Mass. . . . Richard “Dick” history professor at the University of you for your duty to our country. As Bill and Lou Eckland Jackson live in Sinapi is a partner with the Cranston, Massachusetts and the University of the spouse of a retired U.S. Air Force Norfolk, Mass., with their three children, R.I., law firm of Sinapi, Formisano, and Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Their life Gulf War veteran, I end with thanks Ben, Josh and Sarah. In May ’02 Lou Coleman, Ltd., and is the lawyer for the includes plenty of travel while living in to all the soldiers, sailors and airmen graduated from Boston College with a Harrisville Fire District in Burrillville, three states, visiting Maine and traveling who are bravely defending our country Ph.D. Joanne Shannon O’Donnell and R.I. He ran for Congress as a Democrat to South Africa, where they adopted their as I write this column. I know that the Joanne Lynch Thorndike attended a in 1984, losing to an incumbent, and was daughter, Ella Mbali, in fall ’02. In late sacrifice of their families is great. God reception at which Lou received a presti- recently the youngest candidate to seek a 2002 they visited family and friends in 10 speed your safe return. . . . Please take gious award from the doctoral program. justice appointment to the R.I. Supreme states and on three continents. . . . During a few minutes to e-mail me at Colby . . . Betsey Morrell lives in Lincolnville Court. . . . Bob Motley has been in the the February ’03 school vacation week I

50 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 saw Scott Butterfield and family while this, but right now we have just started ’81 and ’83. They may not know it, but 1980s Correspondents skiing at Bretton Woods in N.H. Some our battle with Iraq. Two classmates who Cathy Smith Badmington, Sarah Fox 1980 of us continue to guide our children in have contacted me and may be directly Whalen and I are going to work on a Lynn Collins Francis learning how to ski, ever hoping to return involved are Bob Benjamin and Paul Colby/Sugarloaf reunion for the winter 16 Oakridge Road to Sugarloaf/USA! . . . As hard as it is to Veilleux. Bob wrote to me on March of 2004. . . . Ed Paterson wrote that he Sudbury, MA 01776 believe, the countdown is on for our 25th 1, saying, “The big news from here is was sorry he missed our 20th reunion [email protected] reunion in 2005. We would like to be in that my unit has been mobilized for a but plans to make the next one. He is touch with everyone, so please write or year in support of operation Enduring still living in Rumford, Maine, with his 1981 e-mail me your news now! Freedom. I was at Ft. Bragg for three wife, Diane, and their three daughters, Elizabeth Stiller Fahey —Lynn Collins Francis weeks in January and February helping Chelsea, 15, McKenzie, 10, and Delaney, 4740 Connecticut Avenue, NW #610 Washington, DC 20008 to push a task force of the 82nd Abn. 8. He is in his 20th year in the financial 202-363-8535 Dawn Brydon Sweeney has Division to Kuwait. I travel to Ft. Eustis, service business and works as a registered 81 [email protected] been named president of AARP Services, Va., on March 2 and expect to receive financial rep for New England Financial. Inc., a subsidiary of AARP. Dawn, who further orders. School has hired a long- Ed keeps busy as president of the local 1982 has been with AARP since 1999, previ- term substitute to cover my classes while Rotary Club, as commissioner of the Janice McKeown ously served in lobbying and market- I’m away. I have regular access to e-mail Mountain Valley Rec. Basketball League 73 Elm Road #8 ing positions in several organizations, ([email protected]) and would and as coach of his girls’ youth baseball Newtonville, MA 02460 including the International Dairy Foods love to hear from folks.” I hope everyone and basketball teams. As a member of 617-244-7013 Association, where as vice president of will send him a note, and I hope you the Rotary Club, Ed started the annual [email protected] [email protected] marketing she was instrumental in return home safely and soon, Bob. . . . Matt Gaudet Alumni Basketball Day for launching the “milk mustache” ad Paul’s status may be different now, but alumni of the local high schools. Matt 1983 campaign. Dawn, her husband, Tim, in November he wrote, “I am presently is a former Mountain Valley and Colby Sally Lovegren Merchant and their two children live in Oakton, serving as the professor of military sci- star player (Class of ’95), who was perma- 24 Easy Street Va. . . . Joe Ciota has received plenty ence and ROTC battalion commander nently disabled from the chest down in Mt. Desert, ME 04660 of positive press for Ciao America, a fea- at the University of Connecticut and a diving accident. Coach Richard Whit- 207-244-0441 ture film about Italy’s American football am responsible for Army ROTC for more honored them by speaking at the fax: 207-244-9445 league. Joe wrote the screenplay, and his the entire state of Connecticut. I love event. They raised $15,000 in one day. [email protected] brother Frank directed. The film, which teaching again and helping these young In addition to coaching, Ed still plays 1984 includes Paul Sorvino and Giancarlo men and women learn and mature.” basketball and baseball but now in the Cynthia M. Mulliken-Lazzara Giannini in the cast, is based on Joe’s Paul and his family (wife Andi, Chris, “senior” leagues. He and his wife visit 107 Diablo Drive experience coaching the Ferrara Aquile 16, and Ryan, 13) returned from a tour Colby every summer when they ride Kentfield, CA 94904-2605 (Eagles) after Colby. . . . Todd Marble in Heidelberg, Germany, the summer of in the Trek Across Maine, a 180-mile, [email protected] was profiled inThe Hartford Courant in 2001. While stationed in Germany he three-day biking fund raiser to benefit 1985 October 2002 as his Kent School (Kent, had the phenomenal experience of being the American Lung Association. Colby Sue James Geremia Conn.) football team’s winning streak deployed to the Balkans for six months provides the accommodations for the 2 Saddle Ridge Road reached 11. Todd also serves as Kent’s to work in the Headquarters of KFOR second night. . . . Jeffra Becknell sent Dover, MA 02030 athletic director and director of summer REAR in Skopje, Macedonia (a NATO me an exciting e-mail from her home 508-785-8366 programs, including the summer writ- headquarters with personnel from 19 in San Diego County: “I know the rest [email protected] ers camp. . . . Diane Young has joined different countries). Shortly after leav- of you have kids that are in college 1986 Axiom Capital, a commercial real estate ing the Balkans, Paul was awarded the (practically), but I’m expecting my first Andrea V. Sarris financing firm in Albany, N.Y., as senior Defense Meritorious Service Medal for biological child in early June. She will [email protected] director. . . . Jamie and Laura Little- the job he did there. And then he was be joining her big sister, Remy, 2. Being field Bourne had a whirlwind year in promoted to lieutenant colonel, which pregnant has been smooth so far, but I 1987 2002. Jamie made business trips to Salt was made even more special because really miss hockey, beer and pockets in Kathleen Harnett Linger Lake City (twice) and Puerto Rico, and his dad was able to be there for his my pants!” Congratulations, Jeffra! You 1415 Catamount Road Laura traveled to Montana on business, promotion. . . . I received a beautiful will have your pockets back by the time Fairfield, CT 06430-1607 and they still got in some fly-fishing. note from Denise Glennon. She and this is printed. . . . Please keep the e-mails 203-319-0861 The whole family, including Kelsey, 8, her husband, Gary Haubold, adopted and letters coming. Best wishes. [email protected] and Jonny, 5, trekked to Oregon, Block all four of their daughters. Their two —Janice McKeown 1988 Island, North Carolina and Florida, older daughters, Lucy, 6, and Clara, 4, Dean A. Schwartz visiting Walt Disney World and Sea are from China and have been helpful 83 News from our classmates came 94 Upland Road World, a tour of the Space Center and big sisters to Cecilia, 2, also from China, in sparsely but enthusiastically this past Concord, MA 01742 a launch of the space shuttle. . . . After and Sophie, 2, from Cambodia. Denise winter. Just send me some blurbs of info. [email protected] a year as a working student at Tamarack says, “Life is hectic but lots of fun. The Things really do change and you’d be 1989 Hill Farm, Sue Perry moved to Upton, girls are wonderful and have been the surprised how long in between commu- Anita L. Terry Mass., and started a business in equine answers to our prayers.” . . . Walter nications it can often become. Humor 501 Warwick Street sports massage therapy, Muscle Magic. Judge wrote from Vermont, where me. . . . I am so sorry to tell you that St. Paul, MN 55116 She has retired her horse, Magic, and he lives with his wife, Jean C. O’Neill, Kelly Dodge informed me that Reyne 651-698-9382 is now training a young quarter horse/ and daughters, Phoebe, 8, and Sophie, Cuccuro passed away in late December fax: 651-848-1182 thoroughbred named Secret Code 6. He says he is finally learning how to 2002. We will remember Reyne with joy [email protected] (“Cody”). ski because Phoebe is teaching him. This and prayer at the Boardman Memorial —Elizabeth Stiller Fahey certainly was the winter for it, Walter! Service at Lorimer Chapel during our N.C., her family moved almost three . . . I had a fabulous weekend at Sug- 20th reunion. This service is in memory years ago to Steamboat Springs, Colo. 82 It’s a tricky time—mid March—as arloaf this year. It brought back happy of alumni who have passed away during There, on a mountain overlooking I write this. I hope our international memories of skiing there with many of the previous year. . . . Delisa Laterzo a “gorgeous valley,” Bill, Delisa and picture is brighter by the time you read my Colby friends from our class and from wrote that after 12 years in Charlotte, their son, Austin, 10, love living in a

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small-town atmosphere, skiing, hiking, Barb and Sean McNamara and older in Meriden, N.H., announcing its new political will to change. Ed compared biking, spending time with family. brother Riley. The entire family is well. headmaster, Mike Schafer. The picture the “birth of democracy” there to most Delisa owns a promotional marketing . . . I regularly receive newspaper clips on the front is of smiling Mike, Gayle, babies—something requiring lots of business that is doing well. She is one about our classmates from Colby staff- Hannah, Jonathan and Joanna. . . . parenting. He also notes that the Bali of five approved suppliers for American ers. Many of my Colby clips pertain to My next column will give you the full bombing wasn’t helpful for a region that Express so she travels to New York City, our own Linda Greenlaw. Seemingly picture of what happened at reunion. I relies on tourism. . . . Todd Halloran Minneapolis and Salt Lake City a lot. . . . every magazine, newspaper and edu- wish you all well and very much look e-mailed from Darien, Conn. In addition Alan Paperny is director of law at Retail cational institution has written about forward to hearing from each and every to working and chasing four children Brand Alliance, Inc. (headquartered in her exploits as well as the times she has one of you. under the age of 6 around the house, Enfield, Conn.), which owns many of addressed a graduation or graced a book —Sally Lovegren Merchant he’s continued to stay involved with the retail brands we see in malls and signing. Columnist Charles W. Turner Colby as the chair of the Alumni Fund, shopping centers, including Brooks of the Haverhill Gazette in Haverhill, 84 As I write, we are having fun and recently he was named an overseer. Brothers, Adrienne Vittadini, Casual Mass., was thrilled to meet Linda at a planning the 20th, so I hope every- He continues to be impressed by the Corner, Petite Sophisticate, August book signing in Newburyport, Mass., one reading this column attends. . . . generosity of Colby alumni in terms of Max Woman, Carolee Jewelry, Lens- and to find out that she wasn’t just a Edward McCartin e-mailed from Indo- their time and gifts to the College. . . . crafters and Sunglass Hut. Alan lives “middle-aged native of a small island nesia, where he’s finished the complete Heather Nicol e-mailed from England. in Glastonbury, Conn., with his wife, off the coast of Maine.” He had been restructuring of a power project in East She feels that her five years there have Suzi, and with Sara, Madison and Carly. intrigued by both of Linda’s books and Java—the largest and first one under flown. She has two “gorgeous” little ones Among Colby alumni he sees are Kevin also seemed glad that she had gone to the privatization initiative of 1991. His (Alexander, 3, and Sylvia, 18 months), Morin ’84, Greg Tulloch ’84 and Drew Colby and majored in English before debt restructure was awarded the Asia- and they were expecting a third child in Fitch ’84. Alan ran into Fred “Taager” heading to sea. . . . Another recent Pacific Deal of the Year. Unfortunately, June. Heather is still working at Gold- Nicholas in December. . . . Last October, newsclip was a photocopy of a glossy the area has been dealing with multiple man Sachs. . . . Shelley Lent Gillwald Georgia Shelby McNamara was born to brochure from Kimball Union Academy crises since 1997, and there is very little e-mailed from Park City, Utah, where

deanna f. Cookingcook the Books ’88 “I made Jell-O eyeballs, hot-dog worms, devilish delicacies, rotten a real garden in front of the Plaza Hotel. And the first apple punch right in front of the camera,” said Deanna Cook ’88, recall- time she went on Live With Regis & Kelly, “They built ing the goodies she whipped up for her Halloween TV special on the a pool right on the set,” she said. “I talked about Food Network. As host of the show, which was filmed in the kitchens pool games. In my bathing suit. I jumped in the pool at Walt Disney World, kitchenwitch Cook got to hang out in front of the with the kids.” Haunted House with Mickey Mouse. For her second Regis and Kelly gig, a feature on Halloween cos- Nothing Mickey Mouse about this. Popping up on the tube is only tumes, they told her to be somebody trendy, so she came dressed as one part of Cook’s job as director of creative development at FamilyFun Harry Potter. “It was an easy call between Ozzie Osbourne and Doctor magazine, a Walt Disney publication (circulation 1.7 million) based in Evil,” she said. Northampton, Mass. Any time the name “FamilyFun” is involved, Cook’s Colby theater classes in improv acting helped out in her TV appear- in on it. She has high hopes for the brand: a book series, a Travel Chan- ances, Cook says. An English major, she wrote children’s stories and did nel show, a Food Network production offering family recipes, a Home a Jan Plan editorial internship at the Children’s Television Workshop in and Garden TV project showcasing a family-friendly home. “ESPN is for New York City. A semester in Cuernavaca, Mexico, bolstered her confi- sports,” she said. “I want FamilyFun to be for moms.” dence to travel the world collecting kids’ favorite recipes on her 1988-89 FamilyFun’s “spokesmom,” Cook is much on the go from North- Watson Fellowship. The project, published in 1995 by the Williamson hampton, where she lives with her husband, Doug McDonald ’88, Publishing Company as The Kids’ Multicultural Cookbook: Food & Fun and their children, Ella, 6, and Maisie, 2. Most of her travel is to New Around the World, sold 75,000 copies and is still in print. York. On one jaunt she joined Diane For three summers during her Colby years the aptly named Cook Sawyer for an ABC three-part series worked as a chef, a yeasty background for her previous position as about family traditions on FamilyFun’s food editor. She also edited the eight titles in the FamilyFun Halloween, Thanksgiv- book series, compiling “boredom busters” from issues of the magazine. ing, Christmas and More to the point, the cover of Tricks and Treats, 100 Wickedly Easy Chanukah. Costumes, Crafts, Games & Foods (snake sandwiches, ghost cookie For CBS’s The pops) declares the book was edited “by Deanna F. Cook and the Experts Early Show at FamilyFun Magazine.” “The experts,” a throng of 30 or so in a laid- segment about back office, are variously a dog, kids and people in jeans testing recipes. gardening with “If you need a special cake, say for a dog’s birthday, take the wet dog children, Cook food, put it in a bowl and line the outside with biscuits. It’s like a theme says she was party for kids,” she said. agog when the And like a career of serious fun for Cook. producers “I took my love of writing, recipes and children and put it together,” constructed she said. FamilyFun recently saluted her 10 years at the magazine with a plaque—specially mounted with a figure of Mickey Mouse. —Robert Gillespie

52 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 she and her husband, Pete, a landscape and London. . . . Colette Cote May- dominate their trip memory. So much basketball coach at Lunenburg before architect specializing in resort design, erhoeffer migrated in early December for Econ! Planning to teach in Europe retiring last season after winning 426 have been living. She mentioned her to Melbourne Beach, Fla., where she with my wife, Maria, and family of three games in his long tenure. A superb athlete son, Karsten, 9, her daughter, Anika, is serving as WW director, marketing children (Matthew, Kate and Andy) in in his own right, Rick graduated from 8, and their spoiled golden retriever, communications for AuthenTec, an school year ’05-’06—preferably in Lunenburg in 1983 and later played at Shredd’r, now 1. Shelley is executive advanced biometrics leader in finger- Rome, Italy. The Colby workload taught Colby. In his spare time, Rick is a real director of the Youth WinterSports print sensors—an exciting new indus- me to juggle much more than I thought estate lawyer who practices in Hudson, Alliance, a nonprofit legacy to the try and opportunity for her. . . . Laurie possible. The long-term positive effects Mass. . . . Paul and Leslie Chin Burke, Winter Olympics. The goal of the Clark Cornwall e-mailed, “I am a Sweet of this kind of preparation have paid tre- who live in North Andover, Mass., organization is to encourage more kids Adeline in the Royal River Chorus of mendous dividends. I am grateful for report that their second son, Owen to become involved in winter sports by Yarmouth, Maine. We are the current having had the opportunity to attend such Padraig Burke, was born Feb. 12 and helping to fund, support and promote international champions of the mid-size a dynamic college.” . . . Katrinka and Tom joins his older brother, Liam Thomas, the various competitive programs in division and will be competing for the McCallum sent a birth announcement 3 1/2. Owen’s godmother will be Leslie’s the Park City community. She is still first time in the overall international for Lachlan Ellsworth McCallum, born college roommate from our Colby actively involved in ski racing, both competition in Phoenix this September October 2002 in San Francisco. Tom days—Paula Williams Friedrich. as an Alpine official and as the mom with 30 other choruses from all over the said, “Life is good. I am working at Levi’s. Paula will fly back east from Grosse Ile, of an up-and-coming racer. I also had globe. Singing has helped keep me sane Cary Hills came by for a visit. He is a Mich., located just outside Detroit, for the incredible opportunity of working being a substitute teacher and at-home vet in Oregon and doing quite well.” the christening some time this spring. for the Salt Lake Olympic Committee, mom with our kids, Caitlin, 11, and Alex, . . . The Islip Bulletin, a Bayshore weekly, . . . Louisa Bell Paushter e-mailed the serving as alpine/snowboard volunteer 9. Husband Brian is currently working in reports that Dan Guluzio is Brookhaven following update: “My husband, Rob, coordinator. There was a mini-reunion Portland integrating accounting systems town’s new planning, environment and my 4-year-old son, Jackson, and I had a of sorts in Philadelphia when Shelley and for CMP. We took the kids to Home- development department commissioner. once-in-a-lifetime trip to South Korea Wendy Glen ’85 attended Dr. Lauren coming this past fall, and they decided A resident of Huntington, Dan worked in November to bring our daughter Ball ’85’s wedding. Shelley closed her they wanted to go to Colby too!” . . . his way up the ranks in Islip’s planning home. Annabelle Sun Paushter was e-mail with an open invitation to all Gretchen Bean Lurie e-mailed, “Like department from intern to commissioner born on June 6, 2002, and she joined long-lost friends—she’s less than 10 most moms with active kids (Hunter is since 1986. . . . The Lincoln County Weekly our family on November 6, 2002. We minutes from three of the country’s 12 and Paige is 10), my Mobil bill is reports that Ken Jackman of Damar- are now a happy family of four, living in best ski resorts. Maybe we should have outrageous! With the glorious sunshine iscotta will teach sixth grade at the Bristol Concord, Mass. I am enjoying staying at scheduled the 20th reunion there! here in Southern California, I manage Consolidated School in Bristol, Maine. home to take care of the kids.” —Cynthia M. Mulliken-Lazzara to run, bike, swim and play tennis year- . . . In 2004 I am planning to relocate —Kathleen Harnett Linger round. I am dabbling in some business to Greece, where Athens will host the 86 My travels took me north to opportunities this year but still traveling Olympics. Really, this is an adventure 88 Ann Fillback was married to Cape E. Peter Ingraham ’84’s wife, a bit to visit my husband on his movie of a lifetime! . . . Peace Out and Happy John Riley on October 12, 2002. Colby Annie, hosted what seems to be an locations.” . . . Genevieve Hammond 40th, early or late! ’88s in attendance were Sara Dickison annual girly-girl weekend in February. ([email protected]) wrote, “is it —Andrea V. Sarris Taylor, Joyce Joseph Mundt, Kristin While Pete was way north with the Colby mid-life crisis a.k.a. 40th birthday just Shea King, Demetra Giatas and male contingent checking their ice fish- past, or radical career change, or just 87 As I sit here typing this update Donna Perrine. Ann works in N.Y.C. ing holes at 35 below, the girls kicked deep need to procrastinate grading a (please keep them coming!), my family at AXA Financial as a market research back with some Cosmos and fireside chats. mountain of essays, as career shift was and I are packing to move to Shelburne, director and just bought a house in Cos Jen Imhoff Foley entertained us with into teaching, trying humbly to follow Vt. I have lived most of the time since Cob, Conn. Sara Dickison Taylor and Mrs. Foley stories at the Bowdoinham in footsteps of superlative Colby teach- graduation in New York City and Con- her husband’s first girl, Emily Parsons middle school lunch table while Norma ers—Bassett, Jane Moss, etc. Eleven necticut and am excited about starting a Taylor, was born December 9, 2002. J. Delaney strategized her next market- years in HR at MIT was enough. Love new chapter in life. Please look us up if The family ditched city life in Boston ing mogul move. Dicky Deering arrived kids, their energy and (relative) lack of you find yourself in our new neck of the and now live in Hingham, Mass. Sara just in time to feed the fire. “Tiera Tour cynicism, love colleagues at sensational woods. I am lucky enough to count RB is still recruiting in Boston and will 2004” is on the next agenda! . . . “Life Acton-Boxborough (Mass.) Regional Klinkenberg and his wife, Annie, as my be doing that part time to allow for is good!” e-mailed Lisa Poulin Marr. H.S., especially fellow Colbyites Susan new neighbors! . . . James Canfield has some great family balance. . . . Kristin She finished her M.S.W. at Columbia Serino ’89, Kim Olson ’98 and Erika been named a partner and executive vice Sween Landeis and her husband, along a few years ago and is a clinical social Blauch ’99 of my very own English president of McCall & Almy, a Boston with two dogs and many horses, live in worker. Her son, Matt, 12, is seri- department. I’m living in a Newton real estate advisory firm that he’s worked Lovell, Wyo. (near Yellowstone Park). ous about his hockey. She says, “I’ve apartment, which I enjoy pretending with for 13 years. He is involved in insti- Kristin is a licensed clinical social worker convinced him, however, that he has a is an airy Paris garret. I think often and tutional and tenant advisory real estate at the local community mental health better chance of getting into Colby or fondly of Tracy Weiner ’84. Wonder services in connection with commercial center. She runs a juvenile drug court Bowdoin if he puts more emphasis on what Burr Johnson ’83 might be up to.” lease and sale transactions. James is a treatment program and also provides schoolwork than on his slap shot.” Meg, . . . In his 17th year of teaching high member of the executive committee of mental health counseling through the 10, is a serious student, piano player and school history, Michael Marra is the the Real Estate Finance Association of center. Kristin’s husband, Rick, has soccer player. Anna is 8, and Olivia is history department chair at Portsmouth the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, been laid up most of the past year due 4. Lisa sees Andrew Davis ’85, who is High School in Portsmouth, R.I. He and he is the treasurer of the Business to a back injury. We wish him a quick often in N.Y.C. Lisa says that he and wrote, “AP United States history and Associates Club. . . . After 15 years as recovery. . . . Sean Collins moved to her husband, Billy, have become very economics are my most enjoyable a junior varsity basketball coach, Rick N.Y.C. four years ago to be a partner at close friends. . . . Scott “HB” Baxter teaching duties. Every May I run an Hastings has stepped to the front of the Ogilvy & Mather and now oversees all is in Derry, N.H., with wife Beth and overnight trip to New York City so my bench as head coach of the Lunenburg IT and telecommunications content for son Griffin and manages to juggle his economics students get a firsthand look High Blue Knights. To say Rick has a the City of New York, including N.Y.C. American Express duties out of N.Y.C. at the New York Stock Exchange and tough act to follow is a classic understate- government, all agency Intranets, the with aplomb. . . . Jonathan Greene Federal Reserve Bank. Our front row ment. He’s 37, which equals the number city cable channel (Crosswalks) and a made a three-week family trip to Israel tickets to the Blue Man Group usually of years Dick Stachowicz was the head new 311 call center. . . . Megan Davis

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Collins and her husband, Jeffrey T. wrote all about her life, only I called need volunteers to help plan the reunion. back to the States in April 2003, to settle Collins, welcomed son Henry Thomas her Dana Boston. Sorry! . . . Got a card If you’re interested, let me know and in Chicago with her husband and two Collins, who was born on July 9, 2002. today from Meg Christie. She and her I’ll pass the word along. Finally, please daughters, Sophie and Claire. . . . Matt He joined sister Olivia Mair, 4. Megan husband, Will Cheever ’85, welcomed be patient if you send in news and it Frymier and his wife, Cathy, recently has been dividing her time working as twins, Max and Zoe, on Christmas Day. doesn’t appear in the next magazine you moved to Tiburon, Calif. (just north of director of social services for nursing Everyone is healthy and happy, if a bit receive. There is a three-month delay the Golden Gate Bridge), after living in homes and taking care of her children sleep-deprived. . . . Jeff Hall reports between my submission of a column and the city for five years. They and their while Jeff recently accepted a position that he and daughter Laina had a happy its publication. Your news will make it new puppy, Flash (a yellow Lab), love at the Office of the Attorney General holiday in North Carolina with his par- in! And if it doesn’t, please write and it there. Matt has been promoted to as director of intergovernmental affairs. ents and that Laina was a doll for her remind me. Keep those e-mails and alliance director for strategic investing Megan’s cousin is Abbey McGuire ’05. first plane trip. My mention of Jeff in a cards coming, and I hope to see you all for Bank of America Securities. Matt . . . Patty Cirigliano Kohn and her recent column sparked Krisan Evenson in June 2004. has been with the firm, which focuses husband proudly announce the arrival to write. She is at Syracuse U’s Maxwell — Anita L. Terry on making private equity investments of Mary Alice Kohn, born last June 21 School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in companies that help drive revenue (Patty’s birthday, coincidentally). Mary managing internship programs on every 90 There is sad news for Colby to their business lines, since 1994. joins sister Patty, who is 5. The elder continent. She has her Ph.D. in political 1990ers. For those of you who have Matt hooked up with Doug Hall, Chris Patty is teaching theater at Greenwich science and teaches Canadian politics in not heard, Jay Olson was killed in a Haddad and Kevin Oates ’88 for some High School, where she’s been for 11 English, in French, in person and online. motor vehicle crash on Saturday, Feb- skiing at Whistler this winter. . . . The years. . . . My old sophomore roommate, Krisan keeps in touch with Carol Lock- ruary 15. Jay had been visiting Colby Bangor Daily News ran a lengthy feature John Morgan Whitacre, has resurfaced wood ’90 and Franc-Eric Wiedmer ’90. friends in Kennebunk that day. There piece on Jeff Wheeler, who has made with an update. He just got married to . . . Mark Cosdon is also ensconced in is a guest book at www.boston.com (go a name for himself in central Maine by Caitlin Slockbower, who is a deputy academia. He last e-mailed from the to the obituaries for February 17 and recycling castoff computer equipment in director of the A.G. Bell Foundation middle of putting together a theater locate his name in the list) where you local area schools so that students can in Georgetown (they raise money for production at Allegheny University in can read messages left by friends and log on to the Internet. . . . Thanks to all deaf awareness and education). They Pa., where he is a tenure-track professor family, and leave a message to pay your of you for writing, and keep those cards were married on February 15 in La in the drama department. . . . In the last respects as well. . . . Congratulations to and letters coming! Jolla, Calif. (Andy Schmidt ’89 was at column I mentioned that John Reyn- Kristin Sullivan, who married Kevin —Laura Senier the wedding), and honeymooned on the olds would soon be appearing in ESPN Stone last September in West Dennis, beach in Mexico. Morgan is a director at ads. If you watch any college basketball, Mass. They live in Boston, where Kristin 91 Thanks to all for your updates! Fannie Mae, where he’s been employed you’ve seen him a million times, tossing works for Charles Schwab and is working Any news not included below will appear for the past six years. . . . Sue and Greg a ball onto a shelf and wearing a stylish on an M.B.A. at Boston University and in the next column. Emily Gallagher Lawless were joined by son Brendan short-sleeved dress shirt. John also has where Kevin is a computer programmer. Byrne and her husband, Rick, had Clarke Lawless on January 6, 2003. . . . filmed several other national ads (I acci- . . . Gretchen Granger Hartley and her their first child, Abigail, in April 2002 Greg Cunningham recently was named dentally deleted the e-mail where you husband, John, are happy to announce in Nyack, N.Y. Emily and her family are a shareholder at the Portland, Maine, told me the companies, Johnny P) and the birth of daughter Lucy in January. currently living in N.Y.C. She recently law firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & recently teamed up to put out what he Gretchen and John are living in South bumped into Emily Metzendorf Samu- Nelson. Greg is a member of the firm’s calls a “naughty” comic book. If you’re Portland, Maine. . . . Matt Ovios els in the neighborhood on the Upper municipal and governmental services interested, let me know and I’ll tell you received his master’s in national security West Side. . . . Todd Urquhart and his department and its environmental prac- where you can purchase it. . . . Maria and strategic studies from the Naval War wife, Karen, had a baby girl, Meaghan tice group. . . . John Radtke is putting Douglass is back in the U.S. after almost College and this spring reported to the Audrey, on January 16. . . . Dakota (Glenn his Harvard master’s degree to good use 10 years in Russia. She is an independent by teaching social studies at Falmouth consultant in the area of biotechnology Staff Sergeant J.J. Lovett ’96 (Mass.) High School. . . . Todd Jepson and biological weapons technology non- Sergeant Eric Anderson ’98 is the executive director of Pineland proliferation. She got her master’s at Farm. . . . Last I read, David Brooks Texas last year and says she looks for- What they’re doing Serving in An Nasiriyah, Iraq. has left Miramax and joined Focus ward to connecting with Colby friends Who’s with them? The rest of the 2nd Battalion 25th U.S. Marines. Features as president of marketing. stateside whom she hasn’t seen in years. How long they’ve been at it This is their second year of activation. While at Miramax, David was on the . . . Steve Wilson lives in Virginia with Other stops on their world tour Camp LeJeune, Portugal and Hollywood Reporter’s list of “35 Promising his wife, Kristin, a producer for Fox Kosovo, all last year. Executives on the Rise.” At Miramax he News, and daughter, Faith, who is 3. Where they get their energy MREs, a.k.a. ready to eat military meals co-directed marketing of various films, They are expecting another child in Other uses for MREs Making post cards from pieces of the card- including Bridget Jones’s Diary, The July. Steve works in D.C. as director of board MRE carton. Shipping News, 40 Days and 40 Nights, finance for a conservative nonprofit that Gangs of New York and Chocolat. His big investigates government corruption and How long it took for one of those cards to get to Colby from An break was when an ad he did for Strictly abuse of power. . . . Chris Tompkins Nasiriyah Six days. Ballroom caught Harvey Weinstein’s eye. reported from snowy Pa., where he says That is just so cool. that life in admissions at Mercersburg U.S.S. Decatur as the executive officer. ’92) and Greg Smith are living in Venice —Dean A. Schwartz Academy is great. He’s teaching AP U.S. The Decatur, a guided missile destroyer, Beach, Calif., and had their first baby, Government and Comparative Politics was built at Bath Iron Works and calls Elijah Dov, in November. . . . Charles 89 As I write this in mid-March, I and was soon to jet off to Costa Rica San Diego her home port. . . . Mel Bal- Leach joined Banknorth Massachusetts just heard Gerry Hadden on NPR on for board meetings of the Cloud Forest boni finished her pediatrics residency at as vice president and portfolio manager. my way to work—a good reminder that Foundation, which supports the Cloud Children’s Hospital of Orange County . . . Cathy Breen Gorodentsev is busy the column was due. Gerry was report- Forest School in Monteverde, a group in June 2002, then became a first- working at the John F. Kennedy School at ing from Havana and doing a great job. dedicated to sustainable development year pediatric rheumatology fellow at Harvard and lives in Needham with her . . . I owe an apology to Dana Hol- and reforestation. Chris reminded me Stanford University. . . . Tanja Gross husband, Zhenya, and their three beauti- linshead. A couple of columns ago, I that our 15th is coming up and that we Chevalier wrote that she was moving ful children, Anya, 6, Gregory, 5, and

54 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 Max, 1. Cathy told me that everyone had at Procter & Gamble as global brand logg had their first baby, Carl, in August. 1990s Correspondents a blast at the June ’02 wedding of Patty manager for Vicks cough medicine. He . . . Greg ’91 and Dakota Glenn Smith Masters to Kevin Correa in Lake Placid. and his wife, Melanie, just welcomed had their first baby, Elijah, in Novem- 1990 Attendees included Caroline O’Malley their second child, Bennett Hugo. . . . ber. . . . Lisa Black is living in Seattle Franc-Eric Wiedmer Maynard, Julie Daniele, Andrea Solo- Pete Antall and wife Ingrid live north and works as a yoga instructor. . . . Phil 70 Hopkins Place mita ’92, Jessica Butler, John ’92 and of L.A. and had their third daughter, Aberbach married Michelle Kopinski Longmeadow, MA 01106 [email protected] Tree Sullivan Brockelman and Ashley Sabine, this winter. . . . Alan Yuodsnukis last September. . . . Jen Robicheau Cornell Pratt. Patty and her husband are works at L.L. Bean and is quite busy with Yagnesak wrote that she is living in 1991 moving to a new home in Georgetown, his two daughters, Alesa and Emily. He Maryland with her husband, Scott: Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier Mass. Caroline, who according to Cathy also sits on the Brunswick school board “We were married on the beach (Block 26 Swallow Drive apparently missed her calling as a backup and capital planning committee while Island, R.I.) in September 2001. We’ve Hollis, NH 03049 singer, joined the band at Patty’s wed- he’s enrolled at USM to pursue the been together for about seven years now. Jen Flynn ding. Caroline also just bought a house goal of teaching high school history. So far, our only ‘kid’ is our yellow Lab, 16 Lakeville Road #12A in her hometown of Needham with Alan wishes to send greetings to Julie Madeline. I am now VP of the computer Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 her husband and two dogs. Julie Dan- Walker, Jan Fortin Bancroft, Jamie division of Johns Hopkins University.” [email protected] iele recently ran the Disney Marathon Gruener and Heather McLeman Fata. . . . Sherri Bossie Garvey checked in and is in a perpetual training mode for . . . Liz Helft Darby, her husband, Don for the first time in 10 years. She worked 1992 some sporting event or another. She is ’89, and daughter, Hannah, recently wel- as a compensation and benefits special- William Higgins a lawyer with the Department of Cor- comed the arrival of their new baby boy, ist for an insurance company and then 31 Colonial Road rections in Massachusetts. Ashley Pratt Alexander (Zander). . . . Matt and Becky for Fidelity Investments, then enrolled Hingham, MA 02043-3638 is working as a pharmaceutical rep, has Streett Melander live in St. Louis, Mo., in and graduated from BU’s full-time 781-749-4746 two children and still teaches aerobics! where Matt is working as a resident in M.B.A. program with a concentration [email protected] Andrea Solomita is back in Boston (from orthopedic surgery. Becky continues to in marketing. Since then she has been 1993 Minneapolis) in the midst of a career work as a copywriter for EF Education working for Infogames Interactive, a Krista Stein change, having left her position in in Boston. They hope for some visitors as computer and video game publisher, as 8 Milford Street #4 sports management to pursue her M.A. she claims there’s more to St. Louis than a brand manager with responsibility for Boston, MA 02118 in elementary education. . . . Jenn Scott the Arch. They recently got together the company’s preschool computer game [email protected] Anderson and her husband had their with Kim Merriman, who has been line. She lives in Rowley, Mass., with first child, a boy named Samuel Wyatt living in London for the past few years. her husband, Brian ’91, and daughter, 1994 Anderson (“Sam”) last fall. . . . Leaf I recently had dinner with Becky and Gillian, who was 2 in May. . . . Molly Tracy K. Larsen Ives recently visited with Abigail Cook Matt, Dan Bouvier and Jessica Butler Beale and Laurence Constable got 1747 Curtis Avenue Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Russell, the mom of Alton and Sydney. in Cambridge and got the scoop on some engaged last July and planned a June [email protected] She works for Loomis Sayles and lives other classmates. . . . Caitlin Sullivan 7 wedding in N.H. Elaine Bueschen in Hingham, Mass., with her husband, and her husband, Drew, had their first O’Grady (living in Burlington, Vt.), Jen 1995 Rick. . . . Susan Cummings Wiseman child, Lily, in May 2002. They split Nehro Patriacca (proud puppy owner) Yuhgo Yamaguchi e-mailed that “the fall of 2002 was a wild their time between Portland, Ore., and and Sarah Block Wallace (living it up in 5 Newton Street, Apt. 2 ride for us. In one week, we made an the Oregon coast. . . . Edie and Keith Denver) are to be in her wedding. She Cambridge, MA 02139 offer on a new house (in Winchester), Thomajan also live in Portland and have also said that Anne Maddocks Michels [email protected] sold our old house (in Winchester) a 1-year-old son, Harlan John Thoma- was soon to be a new mother. . . . Amy 1996 and found out we were expecting our jan. . . . Carol Cumming has relocated Moody married Michael McGrath in c/o Meg Bernier third child.” Sue also says that her son, to Greenwich, Conn., and is working the fall of 2001. The McGraths live in Colby College Jack, is attending preschool with Dean in marketing for Synapse in N.Y.C. . . . South Boston and are expecting their Office of Alumni Relations Zioze’s daughter, Alexis. . . . Andrew Liz Morse lives in Boston, Mass., and first child in August. Her work as an Waterville, ME 04901 Williams completed an internal med­ works for the Partners Organization. . . . attorney at Goulston & Storrs con- 207-872-3185 icine residency at the Brigham and I recently had coffee with Jason Maz- tinues to be rewarding. “In my spare [email protected] Women’s Hospital in Boston. He, his zola, who is doing great working for the time I have gone back to my childhood wife, Sharon, and his son, Levi, moved TJX Companies in Framingham, Mass. love, horses,” she wrote—“two thor- 1997 to the Navajo Indian Reservation in He and Lizzie (Frado ’92) live in Natick oughbreds, one of which I competed Kimberly N. Parker New Mexico, where he is completing a with their twins, Jessica and Jason. Our with this past summer.” She keeps in 85 Melville Avenue National Health Service Corps Scholar- Jason still picks up the lax stick each week touch with Lisa Miller O’Connor, Boston, MA 02124 ship. He was recently appointed to be playing in a local league. who has two kids and works as a 617-288-5935 [email protected] chief of staff of Northern Navajo Medical —Lesley Eydenberg Bouvier nurse practitioner at Mass General, Center. . . . Tim Chistensen-Kirby and and Sherri Beals, who is teaching and 1998 his wife, Theresa, are working on their 92 At a recent open house at a local living in Maine. . . . Patricia Baldridge Brian M. Gill house, built in the early 1800s. “Every Hingham, Mass., nursery school, my Wickliffe enjoys living in Nottingham, 24 Concord Avenue, Apt. 213 time we take off a board or take down wife and I bumped into Erika Saywich N.H. (where she teaches the third grade), Cambridge, MA 02138-2370 a ceiling, there is a new surprise, but it Buell and Chris and Whitney Adams with her husband, David (he went to 617-230-2254 is a well-built house,” she wrote, “and Ward. Chris and Whitney have two chil- UNH), and their two dogs. . . . Chris [email protected] I think no amount of tinkering on my dren, Lily and Sam. Whitney is work- Flint sent an e-mail: “Karen (Larson) 1999 part will be its end. We are still making ing for Talbot’s as a catalogue specialist, and I live in Barrington, R.I., with sons Lindsay Hayes pottery and sculpture under the name and Chris is an information architect Andrew, 4, and Tucker, 2. In December I 130 Long Neck Point Road Muddy Bird Pottery and are selling in in Boston. They informed me that Art was promoted to assistant AD at Bryant Darien, CT 06820 shops all over New England. Anyone Steinert is back in Boston and working College, where I also coach women’s 203-655-4664 in Milton, N.H., should stop by for a at EDU Ventures, that Hal Paul and his soccer. Karen still works for Textron in [email protected] visit.” . . . Matthew Dumas continues wife, Jennifer, moved from N.J. to Colo. Providence and occasionally sees Erica to live in Versoix, Switzerland, working and that Terry and Helen Hopkins Kel- Gregg Tamburini, who is a lawyer in

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the city. Bob Gramling and his family medal in the 4x50 relay, where our team the program. They recently celebrated was expecting her first child last Decem- recently moved to Providence, but due set a Gay Games record.” . . . Kent and the birth of a son, Matthew. Chris has ber. . . . Shawn Campbell and April to hectic schedules we haven’t been able Kimberley Kennedy White, married been teaching high school English and Armstrong ’97 were married in Mystic, to get together.” . . . Laura (Fogarty in November 2001, live in Tampa, Fla., coaching in Newport and says he is up Conn., on July 20, 2002, and had their ’93) and Matt Nerney expected their with their dog, Scout. She received her for Teacher of the Year after winning reception at the Mystic Aquarium, with first child. . . . Kelly Harris Kenny has master’s in physical therapy from Nova it in the last school district at which he lots of Colby folk in attendance. Shawn been living in N.Y.C. for 11 years. She Southeastern University and practices taught. He’s been Coach of the Year for is still working for WorldWinner.com as worked in children’s publishing and then in Tampa. She is still competing in road the state of Rhode Island in boy’s track a software engineer/game programmer. in interior design before retiring to be a races and was headed up to Boston in for the years 1999-2001, and he coached . . . Jamie Perlman finished his first year “stay home” mom to 1-year-old Owen. April to run the Boston Marathon. . . . the 1999 state football champions. “I’m at the Marshall School of Business at She married Gene Kenny, a Holy Cross Aaron Davis was promoted to vice living my dream,” he said. USC in Los Angeles. . . . . John Veilleux grad, in June 2000. . . . Marah Silverberg president of syndication at Aon Risk —William Higgins is an attorney in Portland, Maine. . . . Derzon lives in Columbus, Ohio, and Services in N.Y. . . . Chris Malcomb is Brandy Shafter Chapman attended the received her M.S.W. from Ohio State a sixth grade teacher in Berkeley, Calif. 93 Sarah Lee is engaged to HK wedding of Claudia Tejada and Michael University. She is currently staying He received his master’s in education Park, who “kidnapped” her from Somer- Riley in November ’02 at the Woodend home with Sidney, 2, and Matthew, 6 from the Lesley College/Shady Hill set, Pa., where she was covering the story Audubon Society in Chevy Chase, Md. months. . . . John Cook is a busy man. He School in 1997. . . . Chris Richards of the trapped coalminers for MSNBC. The happy couple live in Alexandria, wrote, “My partner, Gabriel Speyer, and checked in from Newport, R.I. “I am Sarah will be married in October in Palm Va. . . . Corbett Bishop runs his own I recently moved from San Francisco to married to an incredible woman, Kelly,” Beach, Fla. Last fall she completed her safari outfit (Corbett Bishop Safaris) in Corona del Mar. We will be getting mar- he wrote. She was captain of the Wil- sixth and seventh marathons (in D.C. Tanzania, offering guided tours in both ried in 2004. Last November we trav- liam and Mary lacrosse team, earned her and Philadelphia), and she just began Kenya and Tanzania. Recently Corbett eled to Australia, where I competed with master’s at Harvard and is working on an evening master’s program at George- organized porters, food and camps for my San Francisco Tsunami teammates her second master’s through Northeast- town in international studies. She keeps the Mt. Kilimanjaro IMAX film crew. at Gay Games VI. The result? A gold ern, where Chris is soon to join her in in touch with Amy Dzija Driscoll, who Corbett and his wife, Camilla, have two

peter l. sekulowBallpark ’90 Figure

Peter Sekulow ’90 isn’t the first office-bound professional to dream of He went on to spend nearly 10 years as a con- chucking it all for a job at the ballpark. But Sekulow, a political consul- sultant to candidates running for positions in local tant who worked for the Republican National Committee and George W. government, Congress, state legislatures and the Bush Bush’s presidential campaign, did more than dream. campaign in 2000. In his various campaigns, Sekulow did everything from In the fall of 2001 at the age of 34, he quit his job to work in group dealing with the press to speech writing and event planning. sales for the Bowie Baysox, a AA minor-league baseball team located in Eventually he tired of waking up in hotel rooms and sleeping less Bowie, Md. For Sekulow, a lifelong baseball and New York Yankees fan, than a Colby senior on the last night of senior week. After moving on it was the right move. “I had to do it now, because I didn’t know when I from political consulting to stints at an Internet marketing firm and the would do it,” he said. “I was not going to live my life saying, if only . . . ” Republican National Committee, Sekulow decided to drop out of politics Working out of his office at the Baysox stadium, he is surrounded altogether—something easier said than done. “In D.C., you get every day by the sights and smells of his lifelong passion. He caught in a whirlpool,” he said. “It’s very difficult to get out; specializes in selling a variety of packages to groups such as you really have to just quit.” political organizations, the military and labor And he’s glad he did. Sekulow relishes the intimate, unions based 30 minutes away in his old family-oriented world of minor-league baseball, in his case stamping ground of Washington, D.C. the AA minor-league affiliate of the Balti- Sekulow says that at the time of his first more Orioles. In addition to selling group interview with the Baysox the organization packages such as executive suites and was looking for someone to fill a sales position group box seats to clients inside the Belt- who had the contacts and political know-how to way, he also promotes special concerts, car penetrate the ironclad social circles of Washington. shows and job fairs at the stadium. The facility “When you talk with people in D.C., you have to speak is host to events that Major League fans would never the language,” Sekulow explained. “You have to know the see, such as “dog days”— baseball games to which fans can proper buzzwords and know the way to get to people. I know bring their canine companions. how to do that because I know how D.C. operates.” Sekulow’s new job seamlessly combines his passions Sekulow was originally turned on to the intrigue of politics for baseball and politics, providing a fit as custom-made as a government major at Colby under the tutelage of profes- as that between a catcher and his mitt. And he has found sors Cal Mackenzie and Tony Corrado. “With both of that politics is just as exciting to watch from the sidelines those professors, I do remember campaign politics as baseball. “I’m still involved in politics, but only to the was part of the subject matter—not just the three point that I am a spectator. But being a spectator is branches of government,” Sekulow recalled. “I think much more fun that being involved in it,” he said. those professors had a lot to do with giving me a direc- —Braxton Williams tion in the campaign world.”

56 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 children. . . . Reena Chandra Rajpal Photos of weddings or commitment ceremonies involving Colby alumni may a first place and two second-place awards and her husband, Keshav, welcomed a be submitted for use on “The Blue Light,” Colby’s alumni Web site. Visit in the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press baby girl, Noor Saara, on November 18, www.colby.edu/alumni/alumgatherings.html to view photos of weddings Association’s 2002 Editorial Contest. . . . 2002. (“Noor” means “light of my eye,” and other alumni gatherings. Please identify all alumni pictured, including Jonathan Thomas moved to California and “Saara” means “precious” in Urdu.) class years. Send prints to Alumni Relations, 4310 Mayflower Hill, Water- in 1996 and worked as a senior software They live in Madison, Wis., where Reena ville, ME 04901-8843 or e-mail digital images to [email protected]. engineer for Hewlett-Packard. In ’99 he is preparing to go back to work—doing moved to Exodus Communications as fund raising, she hopes, for the University The Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School After completing a two-year tour of architect and later manager. Now he’s a of Wisconsin. . . . Ben Merowitz is a in Waltham, Mass. They spend their duty in Juneau, Alaska, as an associate senior software architect at ActiveRea- senior copywriter at Lowe Grob Health summers in Maine. . . . Also in Maine attorney for Earthjustice, Chris Wilde soning. He is also the co-founder of a & Science, where he collaborates with are John Southall and his wife, Krisy moved to N.Y.C. to start a staff attor- new digital media company RonJon account services and executive teams in Nordgren ’94. John is an attending phy- ney position with Riverkeeper, another Inc. (www.ronjon.net), which special- building brands, launching products sician at Maine Medical Center in Port- “green group.” . . . Chris Rogers is a izes in digitizing videos (e.g., VHS to and developing client marketing and land and recently was honored with the systems engineer with Fiberlink Com- DVD conversion for special events). advertising materials. Previously a national award for academic excellence munications in Norwood, Mass. His On December 31, 2000, he married senior copy writer at TMP Worldwide by the Emergency Medicine Resident’s wife, Andrea (Bowman), works with Ayodele. He was ordained to deacon- and JWG Associates, Ben earned nine Association. . . . Another Maine-iac, Creative Memories, a part-time, direct ate ministry a year ago at Jerusalem national creative awards. . . . Dana Scott Shawn Lambert, is the principal of sales organization offering materials to Baptist Church in Palo Alto, Calif. . . . Blum finished his M.A. in econ at the Telstar high and middle schools. . . . preserve photos and stories in photo- Elizabeth Wallman finished her fifth University of Colorado and got mar- Robbie Robbins teaches sixth grade safe scrapbooks. Tyler, their son, is 4, year of teaching high school in Natick, ried in August 2000 to Mary Margaret social studies in Concord, Mass. . . . and Abby is 2. They still live in Clinton, Mass. She and Roger Davis got engaged McCroskey, from Memphis, Tenn. They Michelle Parady Malach completed an Mass. . . . Stephen Doherty and Emily on February 17 in St. Martin during a live in Boulder with two dogs and spend M.S. in biology at the start of the year. Webster plan an August wedding. Ste- Caribbean cruise. This summer they all the time they can hiking and skiing the She and her husband had their second phen is a senior scientist for Cambridge plan a move south. . . . Brian Seid- Rockies. Dana’s a senior research analyst child, John Michael, in April. She and Scientific Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. . . man lives in Portland, Ore., with his with PRIMEN, an energy consulting her husband became the co-directors of . Wendy and Eric Tracy moved from girlfriend, their year-old Visla puppy, company. He specializes in “market Blue Mountain Cross-Country Camp, Cambridge, Mass., to Freeport, Maine. Samson, and 3-year-old cat, Mookie. research on distributed energy: fuel cells, an annual week-long running camp for He works at UNUMProvident in Port- Brian still works from his home office microturbines, sterling engines etc.” . . . high school runners. They planned land. Wendy (Middlebury ’95) is a crisis for Excelergy, a software company in Ginny Fowles works at Bowdoin Col- to celebrate their fifth wedding anni- counselor at Ingraham in Portland. They Boston. He travels a lot for his job and lege in their Upward Bound program. versary in Jamaica in March. She sees bought a home in Falmouth. . . . Scott recently made a trip to Japan. Brian saw She is also president-elect on the board Beth Tilton Lake regularly and was Kadish and family moved to West Long Conrad Saam ’96, who is playing rugby of directors of the Maine Educational looking forward to a week with her and Branch, N.J., where he is the youth ser- for a men’s club in Seattle and had a game Opportunity Association, whose mission her family this June. . . . Betsy Arden vices director for the Jewish community in Portland, Ore. Brian will be the best is to increase access to higher education Rickards and I recently visited Nick and center. His daughter, Cassie, turned 1 last man for Patrick Smith (Oman) and in Maine. . . . Meredith Leclaire-Bradt Louisa Merianos Anastasopoulos and November. . . . Bruce and Sue Benson Stacy Huggins ’96, who are getting mar- lives in The Netherlands, where she is their son, Will, born in December ’02. Panilaitis had a boy, Jack, on January ried in September in Chicago. Patrick a marcom manager for Esaote-Pie . . . Jeremy Samuels raises funds at the 6, 2003. . . . Sadie June Curtis was born lives in Chicago doing tax consulting for Medical, a company manufacturing United Way in Houston and is father January 7, 2003, to Todd and Jessica PWC. . . . Ami and Jeff Cotter expected and marketing ultrasound systems for to Nathaniel, born in June ’02. . . . Haskell Curtis of Marlborough, Mass. their first child in April. They live in obstetrics and gynecology. . . . Lesley Louise Jalbert Brogan’s son, Jeremy . . . Ally and Chris Sharpe welcomed Newton, Mass., and Jeff is a product Frymier lives in Annapolis, Md., and Paul, arrived in June 2002. Louise a boy, Parker, in November 2001 and manager at New Balance. . . . Matt is an environmental policy analyst for and family live in upstate New York, expect their second child in July. . . . Gaines lives in Brooklyn and works the Maryland General Assembly. She where she works as a lead biochemist David Gabriel and Wendy Whitehead as a physical therapist at the New York recently got engaged to Bill Cook, a at the General Electric Global Research married in January 2003. David runs Presbyterian Hospital. . . . In July 2002 naval architect, and is gearing up to sail Center. . . . I now hand the torch to a his family construction company, R.J. Jac Coyne married Kimberly Stimmel in the ROLEX International Women’s new correspondent! It’s been great hear- Gabriel Construction, Inc., and Wendy in Iowa City, Iowa. Kimberly, a fourth- Keelboat Championship in September. ing from you all, but it’s time for a fresh is a project manager in the Centre for year medical student at the University . . . Ellie North wrote that Joe McK- perspective. Leadership at Deloitte & Touche. . . . of Iowa, heads off to her residency in enna and family are doing well on Cape —Beth Curran Skye Stewart planned a wedding to San Francisco in June. Jac, who was Cod. . . . Dave O’Shea and Carolyn Stephen Sanzon in March 2003. Skye to graduate in May with a master’s in Hart ’94 are still living in Michigan. 94 Last August in Gloucester, Mass., works at the Harvard Common Press in journalism, worked for the UI depart- . . . Flint Hobart is in D.C. and, last Elizabeth Labovitz wed Noah D. Smith. Boston. Stephen is with Creative Start ment of sports marketing. . . . Carolyn I heard, consulting and keeping busy. They live in Providence, R.I. . . . in Waltham. . . . Lori DuBois is a refer- Read lives in Chicago and works as a . . . Corey and Andrea Fravert live in Lauren and Erik Cole-Johnson had a ence instructor and librarian at Williams health education coordinator for Cook Portland, Maine. “I am trying to move girl, Ingrid Alana Cole-Johnson, in June College. Previously she was a professor County Department of Public Health back to Maine—you know, the way life 2002. . . . Amy Wrentmore and Jan in library instruction and administration in a school-based health center. She will should be,” she says. A nurse practitioner Dutton also had a girl, Sydney Elaine, at the University of Illinois at Urbana- marry Rob Anthony, a coordinator of working at Saint Elizabeth’s in Brighton, in June 2002. They’re still in Charlot- Champaign. . . . Sandy Benson moved homeless services for Lake County, Ill., Mass., she travels as much as possible tesville, Va. . . . Ethan and Milly Noyes back from the Dominican Republic on Sept. 28, 2003, in New Hampshire. and was to go to Japan in March. Andrea Stephenson expected their first child and is a nurse anesthetist currently —Tracy K. Larsen sent congratulations to Beth Cronin and in March. . . . Last November Tre- doing locum tenums around the U.S. as husband Josh Bubar, who recently had zlen Drake became a staff attorney a way to see some of the country. She also 95 Anne McManus and Matthew their first child, Duncan. Beth teaches with the Catholic Social Services was training to run the Alaska marathon Hurlbut ’96 got engaged in February English at Newton North, and Josh is Immigration and Refugee Services in June. . . . Larry Rulison, a reporter 2003. Ann received a master’s degree the chair of the English department at Program in Anchorage, Alaska. . . . for the Baltimore Business Journal, won from the Bread Loaf School of English

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at Middlebury College and is teaching in 1885. “So much of the original items design. . . . Jason Kidwell is living in Courtney Marum and Kristen Drake and coaching at Milton Academy in are still here, and that’s quite unique,” Newton, Mass., after moving back from at a bachelorette weekend for Corey in Massachusetts. Matthew is teaching Frank said in a local newspaper article the SF Bay Area last August. He mar- Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Courtney, and coaching at Chapel Hill Chauncy about him. “When I heard about this ried Jennifer Branas on August 24, 2002, Kristen and Kirstin were bridesmaids Hall, in Waltham, Mass. They plan a place I thought [volunteering] would outside Harrisburg, Pa. Justin Van Til ’95 at Corey’s wedding last September. . . . June wedding in Marion. . . . Tachou be a great idea.” . . . Matthew Tang- was best man, and JC Panio and Jesse Michael Levine is an ensign in the com- Dubuisson e-mailed news and a correc- ney received his master’s in education Wilcox were two of the groomsmen. missioned officer corps of the National tion. Other than the announcement of from the University of Massachusetts Mike Keller ’95, Alex Chin and Mary Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- her engagement—she’s now announcing at Boston. After teaching at Arlington Thach ’98, Adam Norman, Ben Russell tion. Stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., that their ways have parted—she says High School he is now a Spanish teacher ’97 and Matt Morse ’98 were all in atten- on a 224-foot government fisheries that “things have been going really well at Milton High School. He also coaches dance. JC is still working for Labatt USA research vessel that takes scientists for me. I am still a self-employed model freshman girls’ lacrosse and freshman and currently lives in Buffalo. Jesse got all over the Gulf of Mexico and the and have been traveling all over Europe boys’ soccer at Milton High. . . . The engaged to Tomira Wasielak in March Atlantic Ocean, he operates the ship for the past 18 months. If all goes well, I September 2002 issue of Vogue magazine and recently bought a house in West- to complete various scientific missions will be doing a TV show starting in the published an article by Kate Bolick on port, Conn. Adam Norman is living in for NOAA. . . . Kylie Taphorn mar- fall. I just signed a year contract with writer Tess Slesinger. . . . Sean McBride’s Newton and getting his M.B.A. at BC. ried Chris Thoma on May 26, 2002, Reebok to do print and runway advertise- advertising campaign for Friends of Bos- . . . Christian ’95 and Gwen Nicol Cita- in Mendocino, Calif. Kylie and Chris ments for them. I’m having a blast!” . . . ton’s Homeless was recently featured in rella and daughter Mattea Rose, born in live in Sacramento, Calif., where she is Lindsay Bennig­son Jernigan reported Communication Arts magazine’s advertis- April ’01, moved to Stratham, N.H., and a lawyer practicing juvenile law. Folks that she and her husband expected their at the wedding: Linnea Basu, Carey first child, a girl, due to arrive April 14. newsmakers Page, Nozomi Kishimoto Reichow, . . . Alice Tilson graduated from the One in three wives today outearns her Kate Lawn ’97, Chris’s father, Michael University of North Carolina’s Kenan- Thoma ’67, and Stephanie Paul, who husband. According to a BusinessWeek Flagler Business School in May and was married in Florence, Italy, to Kyle article featuring Betsy L. Morgan ’90, moved to Madison, Wis., to work for Lynch last July. They moved into their “a CBS executive who makes fat cash,” Kraft in marketing. . . . In the fall of new home in Alexandria, Va., in May 2001 Kara Toms and her husband, Dan and her archaeologist husband, Chad 2002. Nozomi started a new job at Barnett, moved to Vermont after living Gifford, breadwinner wives are helping to Deutsche Bank in June 2002 and still in Luxembourg. They bought a house in restructure marriage by creating mergers of lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her husband, Georgia, Vt., and had a baby girl, Celia complementary strengths—as well as giving Brent. . . . Danielle Beaudin and Iain Marie Barnett, on June 5, 2002. . . . Con- new meaning to “purse strings.” Morgan is Bamford, both of Hoboken, N.J., were gratulations to Jennifer Benwood and vice president and head of business develop- married April 20, 2002. Danielle earned Conrad Saam ’96, who got engaged in ment and new media for CBS News. her M.L.S. from the University of North Hawaii in February. They plan to wed Carolina-Chapel Hill and is employed this fall in Seattle. . . . Regina Wlodarski Betsy L. Morgan ’90 by Guy Carpenter, Manhattan, N.Y. Kruger left her job at MasterCard to Milestones Iain graduated from Durham Univer- stay home with her daughter, Megan, sity, England, earned his M.B.A. from who turned a year old in March 2003. Marriages: Jonathan K. Yormak ’93 to Jill Bernie  Megan K. MacDon- Fuqua School of Business in Durham, “It has been great,” reports Regina. ald ’94 to Scott F. Davis in Chatham, Mass.  Amie B. Sicchitano ’96 to N.C., and is employed by Management They planned a trip to northern Maine Michael C. Taylor in Wellesley, Mass.  Patrick J. McBride ’97 to Lori Consultant in Manhattan. . . . Ken in May for Susan Hale’s wedding. . . . A. Gear in Lennoxville, Que.  Allison R. Clougher ’98 to Kristopher Wilson is living in Greensboro, N.C. After practicing law in San Francisco for J. Keelty ’99 in Montpelier, Vt.  Robert L. Holloway ’98 to Maura M. . . . Casey McCullough recently got two years, Stephanie Pennix Berntsen Maglione in West Newbury, Mass.  Graham S. Nelson ’98 to Kirsten S. engaged to Andrea Hlobik (Muhlenberg got married in June 2002 at Meeks Bay, Staaterman ’98 in Truro, Mass. ’99) at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Lake Tahoe, then moved to Seattle. She Va. He’s a urology resident, and Andrea and Seth “had a beautiful wedding and Births: A daughter, Claire Madeleine, to Debby and Fran-Eric Wiedmer graduates from medical school this June. were joined by Michael Kaplan, Fred ’90  A daughter, Noor Saara Rajpal, to Keshav and Reena Chandra Rajpal . . . Rachel Moritz and Matt O’Connell and Heather Johnson Webster and ’93  A son, Colin, to Joe and Alyssa Falwell Ross ’95. got engaged last August and planned the newest Webster, Gwyneth.” Steph their wedding for April on Cape Cod. reports that Fred and Heather are doing Deaths: Jeffrey N. Olson Jr. ’90, February 15, 2003, in Kennebunk, Maine, The wedding party was to include Beth well and hosted a fabulous Christmas Dunn Allen, Dr. Maura McLaughlin at 34. party last December. Steph is also in and Ben O’Connell ’99. Matt teaches touch with Stefanie Trepper Feldman. seventh grade math and science in Cam- “She’s having a great time in New York ing annual. Out of more than 10,000 are thrilled to be back in New England. bridge, Mass., and Rachel is a market with husband Matt and their beautiful entries worldwide, his was one of only Gwen had been working as a nurse in research analyst for a network security daughter, Dakota,” writes Steph. . . . 300 accepted. The campaign also won a pediatrics practice in Montgomery company. . . . Chris Greenfield lives Scott Koles is working in Lincoln, gold at the 2002 Hatch Awards, honor- County, Md., before they moved. Now near Davis Square in Somerville, Mass., Mass., for Cybase, a software company. ing creative excellence in advertising in she’s staying at home with Mattea while and works at Investors Bank and Trust as . . . Kelly Spooner is a physical therapist New England. Sean got engaged earlier Christian teaches math at Exeter High a senior project manager. He sees a lot living in Eagle, a town outside of Vail, this year to Britte Pettazzoni. School. . . . Kirstin Rohrer McPolin of Rebecca Trufant White. His girl- Colo. She skis more than 50 days a year. —Yuhgo Yamaguchi and her husband moved to Red Bank, friend, Renee Hillier, rooms with Jessica . . . Frank Schroeter is a site interpreter N.J., after three years in Washington, Boyles, and they both teach at the Car- at Grant Cottage atop Mount McGregor 96 Kit and Erica Casano Spater D.C. She is the water policy analyst for roll School in Lexington. Chris, Ethan in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The 18th U.S. both attend graduate school at the Pratt Clean Ocean Action, a local nonprofit Platt, Chris Johnson, Andy Meeks and President, Ulysses S. Grant worked on Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Erica’s environmental group. In August she Jake Churchill ’97 get together regularly his memoirs at the cottage until his death studying for her master’s in interior spent time with Corey Burnham, to rip it up. . . . Brian Emme is flying

58 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 F-18s for the Navy out of Virginia were married last August on a beauti- Colby lists marriages and same-sex commitment ceremonies as “Milestones” Beach. . . . Martha Previte graduated ful day at Brooksby Farm in Peabody, in the Alumni at Large section of the magazine. To have a wedding or com- from the University of New Mexico Mass. Ellen Bruce, Elena Kavanagh mitment included, please submit the names of both partners along with the School of Law a year ago in May and and Courtney Cataldi, who is engaged class year(s), the date and the location of the ceremony to the appropriate then married Jason Botten, a research and is getting married in Nantucket on class correspondent (listed in the Alumni at Large section). For notices of scientist originally from Minnesota, in Sept. 19, were all bridesmaids; Kim births and adoptions, the parents’ and child’s names, date and location of Boston in August. The Bottens are living Olson and Christina Jacobson were the birth should be submitted to the appropriate correspondent. in San Diego, Calif. . . . Brent Felker also in attendance. Tessa and Nathan married his grad school sweetheart in are living in Arlington and love it. . . . Holmes. . . . Alex Wall reports strug- living in Galway, Ireland, with his wife, Huntington Beach, Calif., last summer Emily Record writes from the windward gling through his first year of UMaine Linda Evans Spollen. Larry recently and took a trip around the world for the side of Oahu that she was married April Law. . . . Ali Mian is the head physics published poems in Stepping Stones, an honeymoon. For the past three years they 4, 2003, to a Marine Corps pilot, Capt. teacher at Barrie School in Silver Spring, Irish magazine. He’s now at the Univer- lived in London, England, where they Carroll Lane, on Maui. She enjoys the Md., and recently submitted an introduc- sity of Vienna in medieval studies and ran a performance company. They now hiking, swimming, pretending she’s tory high school physics textbook for plans on a Ph.D. in monastic orders and live in Massachusetts. Brent, a marketing kama’aina (local) and keeping in touch publication. . . . Anna Tesmenitsky their ideas and influence on territorial associate for Jacob’s Pillow Dance, also with the barnyard back home (her mules passed the Massachusetts bar exam and occupation of foreign lands. . . . Abby dabbles in filmmaking and completed and his Williams purple cows). She says, is living in Portland, Maine. . . . Matt Manock lives in Boston and is doing a his first short. . . . Susannah Kowal is “We are hoping to be able to move back Paquette moved to Sacramento, Calif., post-baccalaureate program at the School living in the Boston area and working as a to New England later this year so I can after a lengthy road trip through the of the Museum of Fine Arts. . . . Nate Jue physical therapist in outpatient orthope- return to a career. Mahalo and aloha!” western national parks. Matt is a scientist and Pete Shapiro worked at a French- dics and pediatrics. She attended a baby . . . Victoria (Tory) Archibald writes at Framatome ANP, an environmental language study abroad program in Nice, shower for Kim Woodman Coronati’s that she has returned to the Bay Area consulting firm. He spends most of his France, and traveled around Corsica over baby boy in late December. from Capitol Hill. She is working at time on rivers throughout the Sierra the summer of ’02. Nate then moved Edelman Public Relations’ Silicon, the Nevada Range doing wildlife, fluvial to Tallahassee, Fla., and grad school at 98 Julie Gwin lives in Los Angeles, world’s sixth largest PR firm. Last spring and recreational fieldwork as part of Florida State University in the ecology Calif., and is the director of education at she traveled to Sayulita, Mexico, to go the federal hydropower relicensing pro- and evolutionary biology program. North Hills Prep School, a school serv- surfing for a couple of weeks and ran cess. . . . Kris Murphy transferred from Nate plans to focus on fisheries-related ing students with exceptional needs. She into Christie Beveridge ’00 and Jennifer a microbiology lab at the University of research. . . . Dave Wilkens left San is currently working on her credential Kassakian ’00 and then took a separate Wisconsin Veterinary School to the stem Francisco and last summer led a group and master’s in special education. . . . Chip trip to New Zealand for a couple of weeks cell research lab at UW’s Primate Center. of 15- and 16-year-old kids for 300 miles and Sara Scarborough Graham were in the fall. Catherine McDonough ’99 Kris will work on the research needed to on the Appalachian Trail for Overland. married on September 28, 2002, on also came to visit her in San Francisco someday provide neural and pancreatic Dave then took an outdoor educator’s Martha’s Vineyard in what was supposed last summer. . . . Kirk Schuler is still tissues for transplant. Kris and his wife course with NOLS. . . . Leanna Hush to be a horrible hurricane of a weekend. living in San Francisco and is teaching also moved into their first home, in Mt. moved to North Carolina for a master’s Instead it was sunny and beautiful! Sarah junior high school. . . . Vlad Dorjets Horeb, Wis. . . . Katie Lovett lives in degree in city and regional planning at Kramers and Lis Pimentel were brides- received his M.A. in international rela- Chicago in the Wicker Park neighbor- UNC-Chapel Hill. . . . Katie White maids. Other Colby folks who made the tions from Johns Hopkins University and hood. She is the advertising client service is working on her master’s in public trip included Rachel Westgate, Jon Blau is now working for the emerging markets specialist at Orbitz, an online travel site. administration at the Indiana Univer- ’94 and Jon Zack ’93. Honorary Colby group at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Katie works with all of the advertisers sity School of Public and Environmental kids (they went before they graduated) Washington, D.C. . . . Shannon Baker and manages their campaigns. . . . Affairs. . . . Lisa Berry deferred gradu- included Jason Delong and Heather graduated with her M.D. from the Uni- Carrie Dube is planning her October ate school in North Carolina for a year Milano Bisset. Chip and Sara are living versity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill wedding. She moved from Arizona to and moved to Watertown, Mass., to live in Belmont. . . . I’m doing marketing and School of Medicine and moved to Salt Chicago and works at a pharmaceutical with Courtney Smith, who was enter- PR for Berkshire Mortgage Finance, a Lake City, Utah, to complete a residency manufacturing company in the northern ing her second year teaching English at privately held commercial mortgage in family practice. . . . It was great to see suburbs. . . . Waterville city councilor Woburn High School. Lisa is an envi- lender. I’ve been here for just over a everyone at reunion. I hope to run into Antone “T.J.” Tavares, D-Ward 6, is ronmental planner in Southborough, year and it’s great. I handle all of the you again soon! making headlines all over the place in Mass. . . . Kristen Haley works at the firm’s press and media relations and do —Brian M. Gill the Morning Sentinel. . . . Jesse Dole Department of Environmental Protec- some graphic design and event planning, graduated from Suffolk Law School in tion in Portland, Maine, and lives in too. . . . Paul Caruso dipped back into 99 Mark your calendar now for ’02. . . . Teal Axt teaches biology and Farmingdale. . . . Meredith Couslon ornithology for an afternoon as he took June 4-6, 2004. We want everyone at physical science in the Weston (Mass.) did her second year at Tufts veterinary part in Maine’s Christmas Bird Count our five-year reunion! No excuses!—it public school system. . . . Andy Wnek school and lives in Grafton, Mass. . . . trying to pin a number on the incredible will be a blast! Scott Whitlow, Wilson finished his Air Force flight training Jessica Banos finished her master’s at amount of native black-capped chicka- Owens, Delphine Burke, Heather and is now based in Bangor, Maine, Tufts and is a school psychologist in the dees. . . . Abby Lambert writes that she Hunter, Kate Lowe, John Doyle and where he will fly jumbo jet refuelers on Boston area. . . . Kari Pearson, a profes- is still living in the Bay Area and just I are on the reunion committee, and missions for the Air National Guard. sional sales representative in the CNS started a new job at the UC-Berkeley you’ll be receiving information about . . . Ben Waterhouse is a full-time division of Janssen Pharmaceutica, will Institute of International Studies. She the reunion before long. . . . Shana Portland, Maine, firefighter. . . Matt. relocate to the Raleigh, N.C., area with also got engaged last September and was Dumont received a master’s degree in Sawatzky passed his second level of his her dog, Jasmine. . . . Carrie Peterson planning a July wedding in California. art history from Boston University in C.F.A. and is still a bond trader for John lives in Thetford, Vt., and works at the . . . Jessica Rice reports that she has ’01, then interned at the Smithsonian Hancock. . . . Mike Salerno is still an Global Health Council in Norwich. changed jobs and is now working in Institution office of architectural history. analyst at Cambridge Associates. . . . Ross . . . Steve Kajdasz completed his first special events for an environmental Shana is now the manager of Hurst Gal- McEwan moved back to Denver, Colo., year of medical school at Dartmouth. group in D.C. She also had a great time lery in Harvard Square, Cambridge. She where he joined up with his dad to work . . . Dubek Kim and Sarah Richards running her first marathon last fall. . . . ran the 2002 marathon in Washington, in sales at his father’s company. He also ’01 are getting married in August. . . . I Nathan and Tessa Gurley McKinley D.C., with Anne Nettles and Christina coaches hockey. . . . Larry Spollen was spent a January weekend with Karena

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Bullock, Lelia Evans, Kristy Gould, in recent issues of the Abercrombie & Supreme Judicial Court Justice Susan a third-year medical student at Albany Katie Lawrence and Katie Rowen ’01 Fitch catalogue and Men’s Journal. . . . Calkin’s chambers in Portland, Maine. Medical College, has been engaged since in New Hampshire—we had the best Kristi Jacobi still works at Exploration —Lindsay Hayes July of 2000 to Derrick Aley, with plans time catching up. . . . For many of our and loves it. During the summer she is to wed in May 2004. . . . Rebecca Solo- classmates, April 12 was a very special the director of programming; during 00 Dave Ferguson worked on Third mon is working at Arnold and Porter in day, as Kristina Stahl’s lacrosse jersey the year she is the assistant to the head Watch until the end of the season. He Washington, D.C., and biking a lot. She was retired at Colby. Many friends and and gets to travel for recruiting and to reports that Erik Bowie has moved sees Cipperly Good, Katie Reber and loved ones gathered for the emotional plan trips and classes. Kristi works with to Williamsburg, Ian Smith is back Janet Bordelon ’01 from time to time. and beautiful dedication in honor of Jess Alex and Ben Liston. Recently in China teaching history, and Pete . . . Jessica Porter is in a biophysics Kristina’s life and impact on the Colby Kristi flew to Chicago, picked up Laura Hirschfeld is still in Vermont. . . . Ph.D. program at UC-Berkeley. . . . athletic community. . . . Allison Bird- Houston and flew to Los Angeles, where Kamini Bhargava is in her second Jason Gatlin and Mary Larios were song is moving this summer to Lake they saw Doug Lyons and Sean Foley. year at the University of Denver, engaged in December and are buying a Placid, N.Y., where she will be teach- . . . Katie Gordon teaches English at Lamont School of Music, where she house in Eugene, Ore., where they are ing ninth and 10th grade Spanish at the Newton (Conn.) High School. . . . Emily is pursuing a master’s degree in violin both in graduate school. . . . Whitney Northwood School. Allison also will be Ellis is the program director at Camp performance and Suzuki pedagogy. . . . Lawton is living in Mboyo, Senegal, a the head lacrosse coach and assistant ice Beech Cliff and will supervise numer- Nick LaRusso is also in Denver, work- village of 1,800, doing rural preventive hockey coach and will lead wilderness ous outdoor educational programs. . . . ing at ECollege. . . . Wilder Doucette health education with the Peace Corps. activities in the fall. . . . Greg Pope is Greg Domareki graduated magna cum is working on his M.D./Ph. D. at the She has one more year in her service and in business school at Tuck. . . . Dylan laude from Maine School of Law and University of Colorado Health Science then plans to head to Japan and teach Commeret is looking hot as a model was admitted to the practice of law in Center. . . . Krissy Lahtinen, currently English for a year. . . . Karen Lee is

carolyn c. szumAir Cleaner ’01 Most people measure the distance between Szum said she and her co-workers received overwhelmingly positive countries in miles or kilometers. Carolyn Szum ’01 feedback; at no point did she feel her suggestions were unsolicited measures it in degrees of environmental peril. advice. For example, the vice chairman of the Association of Shanghai When she recently traveled to Shanghai, China, Property Managers said in a closing statement to eeBuildings staff the smog-choked skyscrapers of the metropolis were and 60 Association members that he’d just been told by the municipal a far cry from the crystalline vistas of Mayflower Hill. government that the city was facing an energy shortage of 800,000 “At Colby, and living in New Hampshire, it’s pristine,” she said. kilowatt hours. It was time, he told his members, to take action to “It’s gorgeous. The air is not filthy. Then being in Shanghai, it was like, reduce energy consumption. 'Wow. This is a big deal.’ The sky is always gray, and it’s hard to see Szum would rather talk about environmental problems than per- the sun.” sonal triumphs. But according to co-workers, she was the most junior The Amherst, N.H., native was in Shanghai as part of an effort to ICF employee sent to China (by more than 10 years), selected from a prevent an already bad air pollution problem from getting even worse. horde of young staffers who were eager to be sent abroad. And she was Szum’s employer, the environmental consulting firm ICF Consult- assigned to the trip after being at ICF for only about a year. “It was much ing, based in Fairfax, Va., sent her to Shanghai last January as part of a sooner than I ever expected,” she said. “I think an academic back- four-person team charged with informing property owners and busi- ground in international studies helped. [The project] is like the definition ness heads about energy-saving and eco-friendly building management of a liberal arts education. . . . The more open you can be and the more methods. Her efforts were part of the Environmental Protection Agency- perspectives you can bring to your work, the better you can be.” funded program eeBuildings (Energy Efficient Buildings), whose mission She credits two Colby courses formative in paving the road for her is to protect the global atmosphere by giving developing countries tools auspicious start in environmental consulting: Beth DeSombre’s inter- to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. national environmental law course and Tom Tietenberg’s course on ”It’s a very simple yet effective thing that we’re doing,” Szum said. environmental economics. Szum learned in the course of her studies at “If Shanghai commercial buildings saved ten percent of energy, it would Colby that the environment is an issue that knows no borders. As such, be equivalent to taking about thirty-seven thousand it is the ultimate starting point for cooperation between countries. “We cars off the road each year.” share one atmosphere, we share oceans,” she said. “That necessitates, As a research assistant, Szum was in charge on every level, cooperation in order to preserve these resources.” of making sure everything went smoothly Szum’s work at Colby, combined with as her group made PowerPoint presenta- her efforts with ICF, have solidified a pow- tions on useful energy-saving methods. erful ideology for this young professional A translator simultaneously conveyed that extends beyond the environment. that information in Chinese. Rather Her main concern, she said, is that than hyping flashy new technology, “people on the fifth floor talk to people the eeBuildings team’s suggestions on the fourth floor.” included ideas as simple as heating “It begins with a small hand- and cooling systems that stop and shake—you know, sharing a little bit start at preset times and motion- of expertise. Then the relationship activated lights that turn off when grows from there.” you leave the room. —Braxton Williams

60 | COLBY • S U M M E R 2 0 0 3 Milestones Dupill, Emily Mahlman and Laura 2000s Correspondents Montgomery were among other alums Marriages: Reba A. Frederics ’00 to Jeffrey S. Libby ’00 in Waterville, in attendance for opening night. . . . 2000 Maine  Sarah L. Church ’00 to Philip B.V. Murphy in Nelson, N.H. Michelle Chandler was recently asked c/o Meg Bernier Colby College out by Justin Timberlake at a GQ photo Office of Alumni Relations a paralegal at Perkins Coie L.L.P., an Kathryn Johnson is touring the world shoot but declined because she has a rule Waterville, ME 04901 asbestos-litigation firm in San Francisco. with Lara Bonn and Chrissie Marzano. about not dating boy band members. . . . I 207-872-3185 . . . J.R. Rudman is working at Lois Paul They’ve visited Hawaii, Fiji, New Zea- welcomed Lelia Porteous ’02 to my office [email protected] & Partners, a high-tech public relations land, Australia and Southeast Asia. . . . at Lachapelle Representation, owned by agency out of Woburn, Mass. He is living Jay Zarnetske and Phoebe Lehmann Linda Lachapelle ’77. The three Colby 2001 in Allston, Mass., with Brian Hiester ’01 live together in Logan, Utah, women here are taking the photography Dana D. Fowler and Alex Moskos. . . . Emily Young where they’ll begin graduate school world by storm. 353 East 78th Street, 11B started a one-year journalism program at Utah State University. Jay will study —Dana D. Fowler New York, NY 10022 at Northwestern in January. . . . Alex river geomorphology and restoration. [email protected] Bahn is in law school at Tulane in New Phoebe will be in wildlife conservation 02 Hillary Lavely is living in 2002 Orleans and will spend the summer at and ecological modeling. Atlanta working for the Turner Com- Lydia Terry Arent Fox in D.C. before finishing up next —Hilary Smyth pany. . . . Jed McGraw is working for 819 Marquette Street year. . . . Skip Newberry is at UConn a law firm in Washington, D.C. The Dallas, TX 75225 law and plans to live and work in New 01 Liz Hubbard and Jared Fine case he’s currently on is a trial in Austin, [email protected] Haven this summer. . . . This summer Jon ’98 got married in Rhode Island last Texas, so the firm sent him down south 2003 Allen will be sailing from the Caribbean September and honeymooned in New for the next few months. . . . Chris Lauren Tiberio to Newport, R.I., and then to Italy after Hampshire. Her roommates Cindy Collopy, Jimmy Garrett and Aaron 131 Valley View Drive working for Disney on the filming of Rosenbaum, Becky Schechter and Bond are also living in Washington, Wethersfield, CT 06109-2621 Pirates of the Caribbean, starring Johnny John Logan took part in the wed- D.C. . . . Scott Tucker, who is living [email protected] Depp. . . . Alanna Mingay lived in a rural ding. Elizabeth Hoorneman, Sarah in Boston, is engaged to Kate Gardiner town in the south of Honduras for two Goodrich, Mike Alto ’00 and Matt ’00. . . . Also in Boston are Trevor the New York Public Library. . . . Anna years, then returned to her hometown, Apuzzo ’00 were also there. Jared even MacDonald, Jenna Wasson, Bliss L’Hommedieu is still in Spain work- Marquette, Mich., in June 2002. She is sang at the reception! They’re back in Woolmington and Andrea Graffeo. ing on her Watson. She will return to working at the local hospital and also St. Paul, Minn., and Liz is working full Trevor recently started a new job with the States in August. . . . Jess Bennett coaching the NMU Wildcats women’s time at the biomedical library at the Uni- city planners on the Big Dig. Jenna and Max Sadler moved to Portland, club ice hockey team. . . . Jason Ri is versity of Minnesota while getting her also started a new job, and Andrea is Ore. . . . Kevin Bracken and Cam- currently in Japan, Shiga Prefecture, on master’s degree in library and information in graduate school. . . . Billy Spencer eron Gammill are traveling in New the JET Program. His position is “pre- science. . . . Yuki Kodera lives in Somer- was offered a job in Boston and will Zealand. . . . Cory Gammill is teaching fectural advisor” and counselor to other ville, Mass., and started grad school at move there soon. . . . Piper Elliott lives at the Avon School and plans to take a foreign (to Japan) English teachers on the cross-country fishing trip this summer. same program. . . . Jeff Daniels is still in thomas curran ’02 . . . Gabe Duncan-Roitman is living in Australia, where he hopes to complete an Denver, as is Eddie Watters. . . . Paul independent documentary project based Where his record appears The Maine Antler and Skull Trophy Basmajian is coaching skiing in Park in western China. . . . Kristy Swanson Book 2002. City, Utah. . . . Pete Kraft is teaching traveled around China, Hong Kong and What for? Shooting the second-largest buck during deer hunting and living on a farm in Boulder, Colo. Thailand for a little over a month and season 2001. . . . Bobby Nagle is playing hockey in is now back in Portland, Ore. She went How big was it? 201-pounds, 14-point antlers. Czechoslavakia. . . . A surprisingly large back to Colby last September for the What started him hunting? A Colby friend’s family took him out on Class of ’02 contingent lives in Idaho. alumni soccer game and spent some time an expedition during sophomore year. Mike Ames is in Sun Valley working as with Jen Goodman. . . . Brenda Yun and What Curran says about hunting with Colby buddies “I was the butt an investigative journalist. Chatham Baker worked for the ski school in Sun Diane Carr are living together in Hono- of all hunting jokes and constantly teased about my Massachu- lulu, where Brenda teaches English and Valley in the winter and recently was setts lineage.” Diane teaches French. They recently hired by the Forest Service to hunt hiked five days on the Na Pali Coast in But now? “This trophy will keep them from busting my chops, at the cougar population in the Wood Kauai. . . . Chris LaPointe is working least until next hunting season.” River Valley. Megan Thomas, Molly for the Trust for Public Land in Boston Currie, Katie Rauch and I are in Sun Project and is living in Salem, Mass. He Lesley University in Cambridge for a in Seattle and is engaged to marry J. Valley as well. Megan works alongside graduated in May from the University master’s in intercultural relations with J. Abodeely ’01 in August. . . . Also in Mike at the newspaper while pursu- of Vermont with a master’s degree in a concentration in international student Seattle is Vanessa Willson. Vanessa’s ing a professional skiing career. Molly natural resource planning and will be advising and education exchange. . . . clothing line is flourishing. . . . Katie works for the Tourism Board and getting married this July 12 to Dalene Evan Reece, Justin Amirault and Matt Harris, Jen Smyth, Brooke Bris- helps to research and promote the Varney of Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . Amanda Cohen still live in San Francisco. Evan son, Lizzy Rice and Abby Kussell local après-ski venues. Katie works Rutherford got a master’s in social work commutes to Napa during the week as all live together in Aspen. Katie and for the Sun Valley Magazine, and I at the University of New Hampshire. She a crop duster and also works nights as Jen are teaching elementary school, work at a preschool and kindergar- is working as a child and family therapist a wine taster (he loves anything with a and Lizzy is teaching at a ski school. ten. We have recently signed up for at a community mental health center and chestnut flavor). Justin is still writing . . . Blake Hamill started a new job “Your Life as a Sitcom” but are still also attending Antioch New England poetry and hoped to be published soon. in New York City. She was to move in the interview process. Graduate School in Keene, N.H., for Matt spends his weekdays volunteering in with Fraser Ross, who is also —Lydia Terry a clinical psychology doctorate. She for the tollbooth for the Golden Gate moving to the city. Leila Porteous, also bought her own house and spent Bridge. . . . Stu Luth made his N.Y.C. also in New York, recently started the fall completely remodeling. . . . acting debut in Dangerous Liaisons. 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Caroline Rogers Hawkes ’27, Maxine Hoyt Richmond ’30, April Augusta, Maine, before joining Baker the airport in Berlin and director of March 17, 2003, in Windham, 11, 2003, in Farmington, Maine, at Advertising in Hartford, Conn. After operations for West Africa in Lagos, Maine, at 101. She taught for 10 93. She was a sixth grade teacher in serving as a captain in the Army during Nigeria. Survivors include his wife, years in Massachusetts and in Wind- Phillips, Maine, for 33 years. After World War II he was affiliated with Ursula, and two daughters. ham, New Gloucester and Augusta retirement she continued her life-long the N.W. Ayer Advertising firm in schools before serving as head librar- interest in local history as secretary of Philadelphia. His many scholarly John T. Foster ’40, February 7, 2003, ian for the Augusta Mental Health the Phillips Historical Society. Sur- books included The Twentieth Maine, in Keene, N.H., at 83. He spent his Institute for 18 years. Surviving are vivors include her daughter, Yvonne which sparked interest in Joshua early years in China. During World her daughter, Ann Hawkes Paquin Richmond Rowe ’55, a grandson and Chamberlain’s volunteer regiment War II service with the 14th Air Force ’52, two granddaughters and several several nieces and nephews at Gettysburg. He is survived by his he was rescued from behind Japanese nieces and nephews. wife, Margaret, three stepchildren, lines, and in 1994 he published a per- Mary Petke Summers ’30, February five step-grandchildren, four step- sonal history of the bomber group. He Ruth M. McEvoy ’28, January 10, 28, 2003, in Southbury, Conn., at 95. great-grandchildren and two sisters, promoted the development of the Civil 2003, in Batavia, N.Y., at 96. She earned She held teaching positions at Som- including Ruth Pullen ’33. Air Patrol, edited a weekly newspaper a master’s from Columbia University merville (N.J.) High School and later in and was a chief executive in health care and taught English before working at schools in Detroit, Mich., and Hyatts- Anita Thibault Bourque ’36, March and hospital management. Survivors Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library, where ville, Md. She worked as a librarian at 15, 2003, in Safety Harbor, Fla. She include two sons, including John P. she was appointed director in 1963. the Catawba County (N.C.) Library worked as a secretary in Boston, then Foster ’67, two granddaughters and his Later, while working for the Richmond for a number of years before retiring raised three daughters. From 1968 to companion, Lenice Hirschberger. Memorial Library in New York, she to Connecticut. Survivors include 1975 she was a real estate broker in wrote The History of Batavia. Survivors two brothers, Walter G. and Daniel Portsmouth, N.H. Survivors include George H. Jahn ’43, March 15, 2003, include nieces and nephews and grand- R. Petke, a stepdaughter, nieces and her daughter Suzanne Girves. in Sanbornville, N.H., at 82. He served nieces and –nephews. nephews and grand- and great-nieces in World War II with the Marine Corps and -nephews. Margaret Schryver Bostelmann ’38, in the battles of Saipan and Iwo Jima. Joyce Gordon Steady ’28, September February 13, 2003, at 88. After study- After the war he earned a master’s from 5, 2002, in New Hampshire, at 98. Rebecca Chester Wyman ’33, April ing interior decoration at Pratt Insti- Boston University and taught social She was a homemaker who raised 29, 2003, in Laguna Woods, Calif., at tute she conducted a professional career studies at North Quincy (Mass.) High three children. Survivors include her 91. A member of Phi Beta Kappa at in interior design. Survivors include her School from 1949 to 1963 and at Sci- daughter, Jane Steady Hood ’51. Colby, she earned a master’s at Case husband, William Bostelmann. tuate (Mass.) High School from 1963 Western Reserve. She worked for the to 1978. Survivors include his wife of Virginia Dudley Eveland ’29, Octo- YWCA in Bangor, Maine, before serv- Frances Coombs Murdock ’38, 60 years, Hope Mansfield Jahn ’44, ber 12, 2002, in Bar Harbor, Maine, ing the College as an administrator January 4, 2003, in Vineyard Haven, a daughter, Hope Jahn Wetzel ’68, a at 93. Wife of a career Army officer, from 1950 to 1963. Later she was the Mass., at 85. One of the original granddaughter and several nephews she was a life-long social worker and assistant dean of women at Florida employees of the fledling Massachu- and nieces. volunteer in Maine, Pennsylvania, State University and registrar at the setts Blue Cross company, she worked Alaska, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., University of Maine at Portland. in public relations and was editor of Ross L. Muir ’43, February 14, 2003, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Carmel, She retired in 1977 after six years the company’s magazine until her in Hallowell, Maine, at 81 of cardiac Calif. She was a founding member of as the librarian at Thayer Hospital retirement in 1972. She is survived by arrest. During World War II he served International Neighbors at the Uni- in Waterville. Predeceased by her her cousins, Ruth Cogswell, Homer with the Royal Canadian Armoured versity of Michigan and worked with parents, Edith Watkins Chester ’07 Coombs and Vera Knight, and a niece Corps in England and western Europe. the Carmel Foundation assisting the and Webster Chester of the Biology and nephew. He worked for Time and Encyclopedia retired population of the Carmel area. Department, she is survived by her son, Americana in New York City after earn- She is survived by her son, J.D. Eve- David Larsen ’63, her daughter, Mary Ruth Reed Kingman ’39, November ing a master’s in English at Columbia land, her daughter, Ruth Ann Eveland, Larsen Rubery, five grandchildren and 3, 2002, in Brighton, Mass., at 87. She University. Later he rose to associate a granddaughter, two grandsons and two great-grandchildren. was a medical technologist at several managing editor at Forbes magazine several nieces and nephews. New England hospitals and clerk in and concluded his career as a busi- Dorothy Hawkes Reynolds ’34, the histology/cytology laboratory at ness and corporate communications Earle A. McKeen ’29, April 19, 2003, January 25, 2003, in Windham St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston, executive with Lazard Freres & Co., in Port Charlotte, Fla., at 95. He was Center, Maine, at 90. A homemaker, Mass. Survivors include her son, Peter an investment bank. In 1959 he joined a principal in Winterport, Ashland she also worked as a teller at Casco B. Kingman, and a grandson. Union Service Corp., then worked for and Oakland, Maine, high schools Bank in Windham until 1974. She was a group serving Lehman Brothers. He and principal of Waterville Jr. High active in several local organizations Richard E. de Nazario ’43, August is survived by his wife, Carolyn, three School before working one year with and clubs. Surviving are three daugh- 17, 2002, in Sandwich, Mass., at 81. sons, including Ross Lyle Muir Jr. ’89, the Maine Department of Education. ters, Ann R. Gagnon, Betty L. Roberts During World War II he served with a grandson, a brother and a sister. From 1956 to 1971 he was Colby’s and Carol R. Riley, a son, William H. the Army Air Corps in England and director of placement and director of Reynolds, seven grandchildren and with the infantry in Germany. Over Alton L. Stevens ’43, February 6, financial aid. Survivors include his wife two great-grandsons. a 36-year career with Pan Ameri- 2003, in Raymond, Maine, at 82. He of 72 years, Florence, a brother, three can World Airways he was a service served with combat engineers in the grandsons, two great-grandsons and a John J. Pullen ’35, February 25, 2003, manager in Chicago, Beirut, Leba- North African and Italian campaigns nephew, Sidney McKeen ’49. in Brunswick, Maine, at 89. He was a non, New York City and Frankfurt, during World War II. He was general reporter for the Kennebec Journal in Germany. Later he was director of manager for Ralston Purina Company

62 | COLBY • SUMMER 2003 in Maine and Maryland and in Europe F. Shirley Parks ’48, February 12, in 1992. Survivors include his wife, Ohio before joining Electrospec Inc. and South America. Survivors include 2003, in Medford, Mass., at 76. She Louise Hodge Smith ’52, two sons, two in Dover, N.H. Survivors include her his wife of 59 years, Mary, a daughter, did graduate work in elementary daughters and nine grandchildren. mother, Nancy Pratley Wathen ’53, a son, Leslie Stevens ’69, two grand- education at Boston University and and three sisters, including Deborah daughters, a grandson and two great- taught English and history at Gorham Susan Smith Huebsch ’54, March Wathan Finn ’74. grandchildren. (Maine) High School before moving 10, 2003, in New Bedford, Mass., at to Medford, Mass., where she taught 70. She was a real estate broker in Reyne J. Cuccuro ’83, December 27, Hilda Niehoff True ’43, February kindergarten and grade one for 30 eastern Massachusetts and a hospital 2002, in Clearwater, Fla., at 41. After 23, 2003, in Medway, Mass., at 82. years. She leaves three nephews. volunteer. She served the College as a graduating from law school in New After teaching at Fryeburg academy member of the Alumni Council Execu- York in 1986, she pursued medical in Fryeburg, Maine, from 1943 to Gloria Shine Seidenberg ’48, Janu- tive Committee and as an overseer. studies in New York and, later, an M.D. 1946, she was active in child and ary 4, 2003, in Rockville Centre, N.Y., Predeceased by her husband, Roger in natural medicine at the University of family services as a social worker at at 75. She was a children’s librarian Huebsch ’53, she is survived by her Toronto. Survivors include her father, the New England Home for Little at the Boston Public Library before three daughters, Karen Huebsch Ralph A. Cuccuro ’55. Wanderers in Waterville, Maine, and beginning a long career as a kindergar- O’Brien ’77, Gretchen Huebsch Daly later in Boston. In 1990 she received an ten teacher in Rockville Centre public ’80 and Ellen Huebsch Anderson ’82, Jeffrey N. Olson Jr. ’90, February award from the Massachusetts Associa- schools. Predeceased by her husband, and seven grandchildren. 15, 2003, in Kennebunk, Maine, at tion of Conservation Commissions for Jerry, she is survived by her daughters, 34. A Lynn, Mass., resident, he was a community service. She is survived by Jane Seidenberg and Susan Adler, a Lot Phillips ’54, May 9, 2000, in psychology major who excelled in both her daughter, Jane Norris, her brother, sister and a brother. New Hampshire, at 68. Following football and baseball at the College. William Niehoff ’50, and several nieces service with the Army Signal Corps He lost his life in an automobile acci- and nephews. George A. Paine Jr. ’50, February he was employed by an electronic dent. Survivors include his mother and 3, 2003, in Mission Viejo, Calif., research firm. He also attended father, Judith and Jeffrey N. Olson Sr., Donald C. Whitten ’43, September at 78. He was a Navy pilot in the Syracuse University. a daughter and five sisters and brothers, 23, 2002, in Folsom, Calif., at 81. He South Pacific during World War II. including John R. Olson ’83. served with the Army’s 10th Mountain After teaching math and physics and Randi Miner Black ’55, October 5, Division in Italy during World War II. coaching football and baseball in the 2000, in Los Altos, Calif., at 65. She Marjorie Bither Smith, April 5, After earning a master’s and teaching early 1950s, he specialized in bank was a registered nurse at American 2003, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. physics at the University of Connecti- robbery and kidnapping cases during (Baptist) Homes of the West. She She coached Colby teams from 1957 cut he was a development engineer and his 29-year career with the FBI and is survived by her husband, Harold to 1979, winning five state women’s product safety coordinator with Bristol captured two on the FBI’s most- Thomas Black, a son, a daughter and tennis championships. In 1967 she Instrument Company in Waterbury, wanted list. He is survived by sons a brother. founded the Maine Association of Conn. He was an avid bicyclist and Bruce, Kevin, Timothy, William and Intercollegiate Athletics for Women cross-country skier. Survivors include Robert, daughters Beth Aldecoa and John M. Swinnerton ’59, February and served as its first president. A his wife, Dorothy, two daughters and Nancy Williford, a brother and sister 4, 2000, in Bradford, N.H., at 63. He physical education professor who two grandsons. and eight grandchildren. served in the Marine Corps and later championed lifetime health, fitness earned degrees in geography and for- and sports, she concluded her career at Richard E. Parsons ’45, March 4, Paul K. Titus ’50, November 8, estry at Morehead State University. the College as director of the physical 2003, in Brunswick, Maine, at 81. He 2002, in Las Vegas, Nev., at 77. A He taught at Colby-Sawyer College education programs for both men and served in the Marine Corps in China U.S. Marine in World War II, he was in New Hampshire. women. She was honored as Person during World War II. For 20 years he the director of marketing, advertis- of the Year by the C Club, which cre- was a sales manager for the American ing and tourism for the Las Vegas Stephanie L. Burton ’67, Febru- ated The Marjorie Bither Award for Automobile Association, retiring in Convention and Visitors Authority. ary 20, 2003, in Iowa City, Iowa, at “academic ability, athletic ability, and 1983. Predeceased by his brothers, Previously he owned an advertising 57. She was a program manager for leadership in athletics and on campus.” Donald A. Parsons ’42 and Arthur A. firm and worked for Time Life in international business development Survivors include her two sons, Stewart Parsons ’48, he is survived by his wife, promotions. He is survived by his at National Computer Systems, Inc., and Richard Bither. Loretta, a son, two daughters, three wife, Patricia, two daughters, three where she began work as a science grandchildren, four step-grandchil- stepchildren, 23 grandchildren and test scorer in 1974. She established William A. Bayle Jr., June 2, 2003, in dren and two great-grandchildren. one great-granddaughter. a medical student scholarship fund at Castine, Maine. A Sodexho employee, the University of Iowa and served on he was associate director of Colby Perry A. Harding ’47, February 7, Robert F. Conard ’51, January 26. the board of directors of Iowa City dining services for nine years before 2003, in Waterville, Maine, at 78. 2003, in Canton, Mass., at 77. An Hospice, Inc. She is survived by two being promoted to general manager at During World War II he was a ser- Army Air Forces veteran of World sons, Brendan and Seth Zimmermann, Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. geant with the 4th Infantry Division War II, he received a master’s from and a sister. Survivors include his wife, Holly. in France, Belgium and Germany. Boston University and was a guid- He worked for International Paper ance counselor in Canton schools for Barbara Botwinick Knapp ’69, Lynn Chadwick, April 25, 2003, in Co. in Chisholm and Jay, Maine, 29 years before retiring in 1992. He December 8, 2002, in Florida, at 55. A Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, at and in Ticonderoga, Glens Falls and is survived by his wife, Patricia, two lawyer practicing in family, mediation 88. His expressionistic figurative works New York, N.Y. In 1985 he joined daughters, four sons, a brother, a sister and mental health, she suffered fatal in welded iron and bronze earned Champion International Paper Co., and seven grandchildren. injuries in a Florida Turnpike accident. him international acclaim. Stranger working in their Texas and North Survivors include her husband, Rich- III stands between the Bixler Art and Carolina mills. Survivors include his Richard L. Smith ’51, September ard Knapp, a daughter and a son. Music Center and the Keyes Science wife, Jean, three sons, a daughter, a 13, 2002, in Woodbury, Conn., at 72. Building on Colby’s campus. stepson and stepdaughters, a grandson He was employed by Reidville Tool Kimberly Wathen Welch ’79, and four granddaughters and several Manufacturing Company in Water- February 16, 2002, in New Jersey, at step-grandsons and -grandaughters. bury, Conn., until his retirement 44. She held an executive position in

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