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Colby Alumni Council 1984-85 Membership ______-'
Officers and William E. Haggett John E. Macklin France 'S6 'SS Executive Committee P. W. Hussey, Jr. Arline Berry Julia Jacques B. Hermant 'S3 'S6 '71 Kershaw E. Powell Eleanor Shorey Harris David Marson '51 '57 Honolulu, Hawaii '48 Lawrence R. Pugh John D. Ludwig chairperson 'S6 '58 John Jubinsky Patricia Rachal Robert W. Kopchains 'S6 '74 '59 Jerome F. Goldberg Judith Ingram Hatfield Chicago, '60 '60 lll. vice chairperson Claire C. Lyons Frank Apantaku '61 0. '71 Allston E. Weller, Jr. John R. Cornell Members Elected by '62 Knox County, Maine '6S Jane Melanson Dahmen past chairperson the Council '63 Frances Quint Lowe Kenneth P. Nye '38 '64 Laurie B. Fitts Sari Abul-Jubein Diane Terry Kowal Millinocket, Maine '7S '70 '6S alumni activities committee Sue Feinberg Adams John S. Cookson Patricia Farnham Russell'• '73 '66 Martha A. Bernard Ruth Seagull Sinton Drawbridge Susan Comeau '74 Penobscot Valley, Maine '63 William Chase Alumni Fund committee Margaret Davis Farnham•· V. '62 '67 Susan Comeau G. Arthur Brennan Germaine Michaud Orloff '63 '68 Portland, Maine Paul A. Cote, Sr. representative to be appointed 'SS 'S2 alumni house committee R. Dennis Dionne '69 Robert S. Clarke Deborah Williams Anderson '77 '61 '70 R. Dennis Dionne Laurie B. Fitts Nancy E. Neckes Southwestern Maine Alumna, '61 '7S '71 awards committee Scott W. Houser Christopher W. Pinkham Ann Jones Gilmore '76 '72 Roger M. Huebsch Gary R. Fitts '42 Susan Smith Huebsch 'S3 '73 Waterville, Maine 'S4 Jonathan R. Knowles Daniel Rapaport nominating committee '60 '74 John D. Koons David Marson Gerard J. P. Connolly '72 '48 '7S C. P. Williamson, Jr. Scott F. McDermott Dale-Marie Crooks-Greene Boston, Mass. '63 '76 '76 secretary Lynne D'Amico McKee Heidi M. Neumann Janice M. McKeown 'S8 '77 '82 Deborah Marson McNulty Dana E. Bernard Susan F. Conant '75 '78 Merrimack Valley '7S Katherine Coffin Mills Kimberly Rossi Nichols assistant secretary '39 '79 Mass., Alumnae Thomas H. Saliba William B. McKechnie '67 '80 E. Evelyn Kellett Douglas E. Reinhardt Raymond L. Williams Faith W. Bramhall '26 '71 '69 '81 treasurer Joel E. Cutler South Central Massachusetts '81 Carol W. Birch Alumnae '82 Jeffery W. Brown Adelaide Jack McGorrill Fifty Plus Club '82 ' es 13 Open Minds Open Doors Colby's Office of Career Services helps students realize the power of a well-planned job search overlaid on an excellent liberal arts education. 21 Order on the Court As the Boston Celtics defend their National Basketball Association title, the champs are under the watchful eye of a new general manager: Jan Volk '68. 'I/ 24 Soccer: A Sport for One and for All Jeffra Becknell '82 discusses insights into the development of women's soccer competition that she gained from her cross e, cultural study of the game. 2 Eustis Mailroom Depart01ents 5 News from the Hill I' 29 Reviews A Garden of Malice UL America's Unelected Government QC 31 Class Correspondence 46 Milestones 7� Alumni Club News (inside back cover) • Volume Number December 'f 74, I, 1984 Editor: Lane Fisher; Design and Production: Bonnie Bishop; Production Assistant: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns: John Beaudoin ,8 Thomas A. Hagerty and Karen Jo Giamrnusso Photography: Lynn Mosher Bushnell, Scott Davis, Earl H. Smith, and Mathew '87, '88, '86; Lebowitz unless otherwise credited; Printing: The Knowlton and McLeary Company, Farmington, Maine. '87, is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, and faculty of Colby College. Address cor- The Colby Alumnus respondence to: Editor, Colby College, Watervi.lle, Maine The Colby Alumnus, 04901. D On the Covers: As if it weren't enough having a photographer watching their every move in several soccer games, shooting photos to accom pany Jeffra Beckaell's article on page members of the Colby women's soccer team cheerfully obliged our request to set up the cover shot. Cheers! (Photo by Lynn Mosher Bushnell)24, THE COLBY ALUM US I EUSTIS MAILROOM A Place for Everything continue providing an open mar inculcated with wisdom for all ketplace for all ideas-even the ages. David S. Robinson, Jr. '52 and "conservatism of the late '40s and Constance Stanley Shane '44, in '50s." Robert Jackman '67 their letters objecting to Angela Marshfield Hills, Mass. Davis's address last winter (Sep Irwin Winer '52 tember 1984 Alumnus), under Natick, Mass. estimate the intelligence of Colby students. They argue that Davis should not have been allowed to speak at Colby because she is a member of the American Commu 4!1111.MMllitm nist Party. Come on! Is not Colby I was enormously disturbed by two a liberal arts college? Aren't Colby letters in the September 1984 students better able to make their As an alumnus who disagrees with Alumnus expressing troglodytic own decisions when confronted many of the actions and views of sentiments that I believed extinct with all sides of an .issue? In the Angela Davis, I was aroused by after the Senate censured Joe Mc "real world," nobody will shelter reading two letters in the Septem Carthy in 1954. But the appear us from those with radical views. ber 1984 Alumnus. Long before at ance of Angela Davis at Colby has How will we be able to form ob tending Colby, I had learned to kindled the old-time zealotry of jective opinions later in life if we listen to the opinions of people graduates like David Robinson and don't learn to do so in college? with whom I disagree. At Colby I Constance Shane, both of whom I chose Colby because I wanted learned the legitimacy of modify are withholding contributions to a liberal arts education, and I ing one's opinions and lifestyle in the College because a Communist don't expect to be protected from response to awakening experiences. spoke here. The very prospect ob that "evil" world out there. I want When listening to the rantings of viously appalls Robinson and to be well-informed, not to men insecure, bigoted products of Shane, who must see Davis as a tion tolerant of others, when I diploma mills, I take great pride in Marxist pied piper, luring legions enter it. the security and tolerance devel of students to pink perdition as the oped during my Colby and Wesley Colby faculty and administration Diane M. Albert '85 an exposures. To read letters from applaud from the curbsides of Colby Colby alumni who live in a Mayflower Hill. straightjacket of prejudice causes Absolute bosh, ranking with the alarm. bosh that typified some of Davis's Let's hope that David S. Robin speech here last winter. I've been son, Jr. '52 and Constance Stanley teaching Colby students for 16 Shane '44 live out their days with years now, four "generations," those who exactly share their views and I've met none who began Fellow class member David Robin of social contract, aesthetic values, throwing bombs (or, more credi son dislikes Angela Davis's right to economic theory, governmental bly, even stopped voting for Re address Colby students. Therefore, roles, international relations, tax publicans) because a Communist he will forego giving further "fi obligations, race relations, genetic spoke on campus. Most of the nancial assistance, be it ever so lit manipulation, business ethics, Colby students I teach really do tle.'' One good turn deserves abortion, child rearing, care for believe in the mission of the Col another. Please accept my contri the elderly, etc: They have been re lege, which demands that its bution to the Alumni Fund and markably privileged to have been enrollees have "a broad acquain- 2 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ranee with human knowledge" and weekend with her, but, on the share in Colby's future exemplifies ;are about "ideas and values as other, we were concerned with the true Colby spirit. :hey are inherited from the past, as keeping her occupied while we I recently visited the Mayflower :hey are perceived in the present, visited with friends. Hill campus as the sunrise, in all rnd as they may be developed in We shouldn't have worried. In its brilliance, cast its glory and :he future." Yet ideas, if they're spite of the very wet weekend, we warmth on Colby. It's such a natu �xpressed by a Communist, are all had a great time. The babysit ral setting for a fine college. rnathema for Robinson and ting program kept Joanna busy Shane. The latter put it most dear and happy from morning to night, Albion L. Farnham '35 y: "Arguments about freedom of allowing us to attend and enjoy Brownville Junction, Maine ;;peech don't impress me." our reunion activities. Perhaps these graduates will She's already asking when the resume their contributions to next reunion will be! Colby when they read who that cG•1 n impressionable bunch of Angela Brian '74 and Marilyn Lebowitz Davis-duped undergrads invited up Rothberg '74 I must say that the photographs in lo weave his spell this year: G. Malvern, Pa. After Colby project a homoge Gordon Liddy. Who knows how neous image of the College, many acolytes the Watergate felon reflecting neither the racial nor the will attract? ethnic diversity that are a part of The bosh quota continues high Visions of Alumni Colby's heritage (the photo on among invited speakers, but those I appreciated receiving the After page 31 notwithstanding). Rather, of us who teach and learn here are Colby resume of the alumni set-up the booklet suggests powerfully trying to deal with it rationally. at a college that has provoked that the "preppy" ethic and Would that a similar rationality much admiration and loyalty since outlook reign supreme on campus characterized the intellectual at I received my education there in and thereafter. I hope the alumni titudes of what I can only pray is a the '30s. The staff members who office will give much greater atten tiny handful of Colby's alumni. produced this publication did an tion to the selection of photo excellent job. With the dedication graphs for future publications. Charles Bassett of so many followers, no wonder Dana Professor of American Colby progresses into the future. Reginald G. Blaxton '74 Studies and English The readiness of those willing to Washington, D. C. Fight Fire with Fire I will withhold all further contribu tions to Colby if you publish any more letters threatening to with hold all further contributions to Colby. John R. Sweney Letters Policy Professor of English The editor invites concise letters for publication on topics that pertain to the content of The Colby Alumnus or the College at large. An ideal length is 150 words. The editor reserves the right to edit letters so that they conform with Alumnus style and to publish excerpts as spatial con straints demand. No unsigned letter will be printed, although signatures Starting Young may be withheld from publication on request. Occasionally, letters sent to other Colby offices are forwarded to the As alumni looking forward to at editor and adapted for publication in part or in whole, but only after the tending our 10th reunion, we were author's explicit permission is given. If a copy of such a letter is sent by faced with the decision of whether its writer directly to the editor of the Alumnus, the author's consent for or not to bring our five-year-old the letter's publication is assumed. daughter, Joanna, with us. On one Letters should be addressed to: Editor, The Colby Alumnus, Colby hand, we wanted to share the College, Waterville, Maine 04901. THE COLBY ALUM US 3 Fork in the Road one Chinese, and three Jewish The "War" is Over brothers. We were suspended. Ev The September 1984 Alumnus con ery brother should take pride in Although I disagree with the tained some bemusing reflections that informed and courageous ini abolishment of fraternities by the by my freshman roommate and Xi tiative. At the time, the Colby stu Colby College Board of Trustees, I brother. His comments merit ex dent body contained only three accept this and will continue to pansion. blacks and there were none on the support Colby financially, as I Attitudes, snobbish or not, are faculty. I assumed my roommate received generous financial aid subjective and can reveal more joined KDR to lend his support to from Colby while I was a student. about the observer than those ob those of us who desired a bylaw Also, I received a modest scholar served. When one gives a vow of change, not because "he" was ship from the Zeta Psi Educational fidelity to a government constitu promised a fraternity house. Foundation and will continue to tion, a marriage, or a fraternal or A building is inert. Only people support it. I was a member and of der, it is done without coercion. give it meaning and purpose. My ficer of Zeta Psi and Jived in the No oath of allegiance is a prerequi debt is to those supporters of Pres fraternity house. site for Colby enrollment. It is the ident Bixler's aims for Colby as a I am aware that one fraternity is responsibility and duty of an or liberal arts institution. I cannot still taking legal action [against the ganization's membership to fight support Colby's current socio-poli College] and do not know what the ignorance, fear, and injustice-not tical aims and actions. They are a outcome might be. However, as an . to surrender or pout. change for the worse. However, I attorney, I believe that Maine's ap Kappa Delta Rho's initiations vowed allegiance to my brothers pellate courts will sustain the Ken were unproductive until enlight and, when due, my criticism. nebec Superior Court's initial deci ened leadership converted them to Therefore, I respectfully disagree sion. self-help and community projects. with brother Huart. Recently I discussed this with an That was a change for the better. alumnus from another fraternity, In 1954, Xi defied the national Glen P. Goffin '58 who remarked, "Since we have bylaws and inducted one black, Fruitland Park, Fla. Jost the war, we must think of the best surrender terms. " I'd like to draw an analogy with Robert E. Lee, who, given the option to en courage guerrilla warfare after the Moving? War Between the States, said, Please Jet the College know your new whereabouts. Otherwise, your Alum "I'm too old to go bushwhack nus probably will not reach you-and you won't hear about Colby gatherings ing." He accepted the decision and in your area. devoted the rest of his career to Name ______rebuilding. We should do the same. Class ______Date effective ______Whatever the opinions of Zeta Former Address (as on label) Psi members might be, they should support both Colby and the Zeta Psi Educational Foundation. I in New address tend to do so, because we will benefit from both. Home phone ______Verne K. "Ken" Heckel III '78 Do you have news we should share with your class secretary? ______Columbia, S. C. Please send to : Address Change, Alumni Office, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901. Thank you! 4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS NEWS FROM THE HILL of. Three Presidents Contribute needed to reach its potential to any is given degree,'' according to the he Colby 2000 Campaign The varied interests and experi committee's statement of purpose. the Leadership Expands ences of Colby's president and The philosophical associations an presidents emeriti have found new and views of President Emeritus J. lp· <\s the Colby 2000 Campaign en applications in recent months. As Seelye Bixler, LLD. '60, will find O· arges its focus to all three levels of many alumni are aware, President a different sort of application ci- :und raising-major gifts of William R. Cotter is heading the when Colby publishes his new 6100,000 and more, special gifts of state Committee for the Study of monograph, German Recollections: an 610,000 and more, and general Court Structure in Relation to Pro Some of My Best Friends Were �ifts-campaign leaders have ex bate and Family Law Matters. The Philosophers. In it, Bixler weaves Janded their ranks. 10-member committee, which will his personal experiences with 13 1e Trustee Lawrence R. Pugh '56 is report to the Maine Judicial Coun prominent philosophers and theo ) 1ow co-chair of the campaign, cil, was charged by Chief Justice logians, including Edmund Hus ;haring responsibilities with H. Vincent L McKusick, LLD. '77, serl, Martin Heidegger, Hermann I· Ridgely Bullock '55. Pugh, an with two responsibilities: to deter Keyser ling, and Albert Schweitzer, he liumni trustee since 1982, was mine whether the existing structure into a discussion that weighs the :hair of the Trustee Commission of 16 county courts and part-time, power of reason against the power Jn Campus Life last year and is elected probate judges should be of feeling and closes with an ap ind 1ow vice chairman of the board. retained and to consider how fami peal to understand better the rela Bullock has led Colby's most am ly matters are handled in different tions between them. Writing with Jitious fund-raising effort since the levels of the Maine court system. his former students in mind as well �roundwork for it was laid in 1980 Former President Robert E. L as his fellow scholars, Bixler makes l rnd enlarged his own investment in Strider II, Litt.D. '79, also leads a comparisons, explications, and uld :olby when he became the board State of Maine committee, this one criticisms that are both serious and :hairman in 1983. examining the state's university delightful. Publication is planned I· Campaign committees will also system. The Visiting Committee to during 1985. Jenefit from the dedication of new the University of Maine was ap eaders. Joining Trustee Robert pointed by Governor Joseph Bren Sage '49 as co-chair of the cam nan to conduct the first compre Marson Named Corporate Jaign's major gift solicitations is hensive review of the university's Trustee Jverseer William H. Goldfarb '68, overall mission, governance, finan rnd David L Roberts '55, director ces, and organization since the David Marson '48, president of Jf planned giving, will provide ad- system was created 15 years ago. The New Can Company in Hol 1itional staff support to that com At the end of more than a year of brook, Mass. , has been chosen to :nittee. The special gifts leadership visits to the seven campuses serve as a corporate trustee of Col )f Trustee Robert S. Lee '51 will statewide, "The result, one would by College. He was elected during e augmented by Overseer Ray B. hope, will be a [clearer] public the October 20 meeting of the 3reene, Jr. '47, and Trustee Rae understanding than now exists of Board of Trustees. Jean Braunmuller Goodman '69 the opportunities and limits of our Marson has been with The New .vill coordinate special gifts solici public university, of its potential to Can Company, manufacturers of :ations in the Philadelphia improve the quality of life in can and metal specialties, since Washington, D.C., region. Maine, and of the investment graduating from Colby as an ad- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 5 ministrative science major. A member of the Alumni Council since 1972, he is serving his second term as its president. Marson was also the chairman of the Alumni Fund between 1980 and 1982 and previously served as an area agent for several fund-raising drives. An active member of the Greater Bos ton Colby Alumni Association, he received a Colby Brick in 1979 in recognition of his many services to the College. He had been an over seer since 1981 and served on the Trustee Commission on Campus Life. Marson and his wife, Doro thy, parents of Deborah Marson McNulty '75, reside in Dedham, Mass. Different Scoops for Different Folks When ground was broken for con struction of the $3.5 million Stu dent Center on September 17, the Colby community saw traditional Turning spades are, from left to right, H. Ridgely Bullock '55, board and modern technology at force, chair and Colby 2000 Campaign co-chair; Alida Milliken Camp, trustee side by side. After most partici and member of the building committee; Ann G. Hill, mayor of Water pants dug spades into the turf, ville and mother of Michael '86; Torgny Andersson '86, committee Student Assodation leaders member; Evan Dangel '86, committee member; Professor Henry Gemery, showed the crowd of about 300 committee co-chair; Professor Calvin Mackenzie, former committee co how to do it right. Climbing up to chair; Cici Bevins, Johnson Commons president; Colleen Balch '87, the controls of a backhoe, Stu-A Mary Low Commons president; Michael Heel '86, Lovejoy Commons Vice President Cory Humphreys president; and President Cotter. Below: Cory Humphreys '85 lets '85 substantially altered the terrain Thomas Claytor '85 take his turn at the controls of a backhoe. before she relinquished the equip ment to Stu-A President Tom Claytor '85. The $3.5 million Student Center was conceived as an integral part of Colby's Residential Commons System to respond to student com plaints that the only social space on campus adequate for large gatherings was in the former fraternity buildings. As multicol ored balloons bobbed below sunny blue skies, the groundbreaking celebration was slightly marred by a fraternity protest. Holding placards with slogans such as "Face the Void! Be Un-Common," some two dozen fraternity members stood by, heckling only for a few moments of the prelimi- 6 THE COLBY ALUMNUS nary speeches. In a subsequent in members of the community who the State Senate, and was Maine's terview with a Morning Sentinel would enjoy and make use of attorney general from 1859 to reporter, one stressed that they them. For a nominal charge of $5 1864. At one time chairman of protested not the Student Center each, copies will be mailed to those Colby's board of trustees, his nor, necessarily, the Residential who request them. Address inquir tenure on the board extended from Commons Program, but th,e loss ies to the Office of the Dean of 1857 to 1902. Dartmouth, Bow of fraternity housing. the College. doin, and Colby conferred Both the design and the site of honorary degrees upon him. the Student Center-just across the The former Tau Delta Phi house street south of the Eustis and is now Grossman Hall, named in Lovejoy buildings and across the recognition of Nissie Grossman green north of Dana Hall-were '32. A loyal TOP alumnus, Gross determined by a campus committee man has served Colby as an alum last spring, in consultation with ni trustee from 1964 to 1970, a students, faculty, administrators, corporate trustee from 1971 to Refurbished Houses Named and trustees. Scheduled for com 1981, and as an overseer since pletion in fall 1985, it will contain 1981. He and his family estab With physical renovations complet a social space that can accommo lished an endowed chair, the ed in the former fraternity houses date 800 persons, a lounge with a Grossman Professorship in Eco on campus, three of the halls now fireplace, a newsstand, a game nomics, in honor of his parents. bear the names of fraternity alum room, an automatic bank teller, The former chief executive officer ni whose service to Colby and their and office space. Terraces will ex of Grossman Brothers Company fraternities is remarkable. College tend the center into the outdoors. and past president of the Boston trustees expect to approve names Principal architect of the new Colby alumni club received a for the remaining five buildings building is Jefferson B. Riley of Colby Brick in 1970 for his excep before second semester begins. Centerbrook, an Essex, Conn., tional service to the College. Goddard-Hodgkins Hall honors firm. H.P. Cummings of Win Alumni of other fraternities were the contributions of two Alpha throp, Maine, is the general polled this fall for suggestions of Tau Omega alumni, G. Cecil God contractor. A perspective drawing names for their former houses. dard '29 and the late Theodore and more detailed descriptions of The fraternity alumni were then Hodgkins '25. Goddard is well the facility appear in the current sent biographies of those whose known to alumni as Colby's first issue of the Colby 2000 Campaign names were suggested. The prefer alumni secretary. The insurance ex Report. ecutive founded the Colby Alumni ences indicated by alumni of each Council, the Fifty Plus Club, the chapter will be the names consid new Colby's Widows program, and ered by the board at its January meeting. Marriner's History: the Colby Brick Awards. A loyal A New Deal fund raiser for the College, he also helped raise money to build the The College holds a substantial ATO house and worked actively surplus of copies of The History of with undergraduate members. Colby College by the late Ernest Hodgkins, a trustee from 1966 to C. Marriner '13. Written with the 1972, was also a dedicated fund warmth and humor so typical of raiser for Colby and ATO. He Aching for Athletic News? Dean Marriner, the 659-page His chaired the Alumni Fund and took tory presents a vivid account of part in every major fund-raising The "C" Club Newsletter, mailed Colby's development from 1813 to drive in the 25 years preceding the to all club members at the begin 1960, when the book was pub current campaign. He was presi ning and end of each season, car lished. It is a resource of inestima dent of the Forster Manufacturing ries schedules of all the varsity ble value to anyone involved in Company of Wilton, Maine. teams, coaches' reports on the Colby affairs and just plain good The alumni corporation of teams, and other news pertaining reading for those who would enjoy Colby's oldest fraternity, Delta to outstanding athletes and sports a deeper knowledge of the Col Kappa Epsilon, chose to honor its at Colby. Membership in the "C" lege's past. founder, Josiah H. Drummond. Club is open to anyone; dues are Rather than continue to allow The 1846 graduate began his career $20 annually for parents, friends, these volumes to lie in storage, as an educator and wrote several and alumni who graduated in 1974 College officials would like to dis mathematics textbooks. He later or earlier and $10 for alumni who tribute them to alumni and other earned his law degree, served in graduated in 1975 or later. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 7 Membership in the "C" Club not only provides for production and mailing of the Newsletter but also supports Colby athletics. Last year, for example, the "C" Club contributed to the purchase of the new soccer scoreboard of Loebs Field. Each year the "C" Club recognizes a person who has made outstanding contributions to Colby athletics, this year honoring Mar jorie Bither, physical education professor emerita. Anyone who wishes to join the "C" Club should send their name, class year, address, and check made payable to Colby "C" Club to the club at Box 207, Waterville, Maine 04901 . "Hello. I'm Sarah, your waitress ... Colby '86." The Joke's on Colby Campaign Telethon to Reach This cartoon by William Canty appeared in the August 6, 1984, issue of The Enterprise in Falmouth, Mass. We hope Sarah identifies as strongly 10,000 Alumni with Colby when her 25th reunion rolls around! Through an effort that began this fall and wiH continue for the next six to eight months, the majority Donors may designate their con tion seemed profoundly unusual. of Colby alumni will be asked to tributions to help fulfill a particu President William R. Cotter warm consider their contributions to the lar campaign goal or may leave the ly greeted the 437 new students Colby 2000 Campaign. As of mid allocation of the gift to the trus and their parents, informing the October, the campaign had secured tees' discretion. A chart showing freshmen that they would be re more than $17 .2 million in gifts the campaign's goals is found on sponsible for the weather during and pledges toward its $28.5 mil page 4 of the September Alumnus. their special class gatherings. "If lion goal, but most alumni had not More detailed information about your performance thus far is any yet been called upon by campaign the goals is contained in two book indication of the future, this is, in volunteers. lets, A Commitment to the Future deed, going to be an outstanding Those not visited personally will and Commemorative Gift Oppor class," he said. Cotter directed receive a letter from H. Ridgely tunities, which may be obtained by their attention to the 1988 banner Bullock '55, board chair and cam writing the Colby 2000 Campaign draped across the front of Lorimer paign co-chair, outlining the goals office at Colby or calling (207) Chapel, telling them that it is to be met by December 31, 1986. 873-1131, ext. 2223. theirs for such special occasions as Bullock is asking alumni to consid graduation and reunions, and then er specific gifts to the campaign, surveyed the Colby heritage and suggested on the basis of one's mission they have joined. The year of graduation and personal fi Hail, Freshmen, Indeed! convocation closed with the singing nancial resources. His letter will be of "Hail, Colby, Hail." followed by a telephone call to 'Twas a grand welcome that Col As the first cups of punch were each Colby graduate, during which lege officials planned for the Class ladled at the president's reception questions will be answered and a of 1988 on September 1, but not following, one lone black cloud pledge, payable over five years, so grand as the one they received. floated across the blue sky and solicited. Not that the Freshman Convoca- proceeded to hail on Colby. As 8 THE COLBY ALUMNUS hundreds of persons rushed into perennial stimulation. Of those Klein Grapples with Deficit every cranny of the president's freshmen already involved in scien house, garage, and gazebo, the tific research, one studied monarch Nobel laureate Lawrence R. Klein comic spectacle turned into a su butterfly migration with the famed lectured on ''The Bad and Good perlative icebreaker. Let no mem zoologist Fred Urquhart, and an Sides of the Federal Deficit" on ber of the Class of '88 take the other has been given citations in October 4, the first in a series of singing of the alma mater lightly! eight marine biology publications. annual lectures made possible by a Colby's l 67th freshman class A musical classmate from Pennsyl grant from the Christian A. John was drawn from 3,100 applicants vania created a medieval band, son Endeavor Foundation. The from 44 states and 43 foreign composing his own music for series is intended to address major countries. According to Robert handmade, authentic instruments. economic policies and to bring McArthur, dean of admissions and Another student was Wyoming prominent American economists to financial aid, the class represents president cf Future Business Lead Mayflower Hill. slightly higher levels of achieve ers of America and participated in Klein began his lecture by ob ment than those of recent classes Boys Nation, where he met two serving the negative connotation and similar geographic diversity, other members of the Class of '88. that most people attach to the term with 32 percent from outside of Among the excellent athletes in "federal deficit. " With the present New England. Of the two thirds of their ranks is an All-American deficit at $170 billion, he pointed the class that completed their sec track star who won the National out that "there is some good in the ondary educations in public Junior Olympics with a triple jump deficit," as shown in the economic schools, 77 percent graduated in that set a Maine record for high recovery that occurred in tandem the first quintile of their classes; of school and college levels. with the past year's deficit. On the the third of the class educated in The class also holds those who other hand, he noted high interest private and parochial schools, 47 are eager to take part in Colby tra rates, an overvalued American dol percent graduated in the first quin ditions and to add to them. Along lar, and a continuing balance-of tile of their classes. Scholastic Ap with the banner that will be fea trade deficit as evidence of "the titude Test scores for the middle 50 tured at 1988 commencement cere lurking time bomb." percent of the class ranged from 520 monies, some class identity-and "The serious problem is the to 590 on the verbal component and humorous recollections-will be growth of the budget deficit. If it 560 to 640 in mathematics. embodied in the hail balls that continues to grow, it will 'crowd The individual accomplishments freshmen gathered from the presi out' private loans, and thus invest of entering students are a source of dent's lawn and froze. ment, because of high interest rates," Klein noted. "It is essential to be able to say how serious the consequences are if we continue to do nothing. It will not do to wait for a stronger economy to bring down the deficit." Klein stressed the need for a "surgical correc tion" of the deficit problem, which would entail new tax reforms, serv ice cuts, or alternate mixtures of both. Klein, who is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, is rec ognized as a leader in economic modeling. The author of 25 books, Klein won a Nobel Prize in Eco nomic Sciences in 1980. He is also a founder of Wharton Economet rics, one of the four major eco nomic forecasting firms in the United States. JB THE COLBY AL US 9 M Alumni Fund Enlists The freestanding Alumni Fund The initial meeting in Cam More Power Committee will represent alumni of bridge, Mass. , was a thorough dis several eras. As of the committee's cussion of Colby's fund-raising "Alumni are contributing well over first meeting on September 13, its activities. Pen Williamson '63, half a million dollars to the Alum membership comprised Carol Stoll Colby's director of development, ni Fund. That's an incredible Baker '48, Victor F. Scalise, Jr. explained the role of the Alumni amount of money, and at that '54, Douglas S. Hatfield '58, and Fund as part of the Annual Fund level we need more direction and William H. Goldfarb '68. "We and, in turn, the place of the An guidance from our alumni. '' need to find at least two more rep nual Fund in the Colby 2000 Cam It was for this reason, expressed resentatives, one from the '70s and paign. "This year, more than any by Alumni Fund Chairperson one from the '80s." Comeau indi other year, the operations of the Susan Comeau '63, that she urged cated. "The committee will then Alumni Fund will have to be clear the College to activate the long represent a good cross section of ly defined, as most alumni will be dormant Alumni Fund Committee. alumni. " asked to support both the cam Comeau has seen the Alumni Fund Along with contributing to long paign and the Alumni Fund,'' Wil grow from $407 ,000 in 1981 to and short-term strategy, the com liamson said. $615,000 in 1984 and is faced with mittee will help identify and recruit a challenging $725,000 fund goal new class agents and help direct in 1985. "It can be done,'' assert their efforts. It also will identify Out of the Maine Woods ed Comeau, "because more alumni and solicit President's Club pros are giving more money to Colby pects and provide a pool of talent The Thoreau Quarterly, an but we want to make sure that we from which future Alumni Fund interdisciplinary journal in its 16th do it right. " chairpersons can be selected. year, now is being produced jointly by faculty and students at Colby and the University of Minnesota. Literary and philosophical studies form the core of the journal, but contributions from scientists, art ists, and historians are also fea tured. The attention of different disciplines is turned not only to the writings of Thoreau but to themes and problems he addressed and to the cultural and intellectual context that he and his contemporaries worked within, transformed, and passed on. Recent contributors have included eminent literary scholars and philosophers as well as excellent authors who are less well-known, including some stu dents. Anyone who would like addi tional information should write to Professor Sandra Menssen in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Colby. Subscriptions to The Thoreau Quarterly are $12 per year. We're Here! When students and parents drove to campus at the opening of the academic year, they were greeted by handsome new markers at Colby's Erratum major entrances. Made of Colby brick, concrete, and polished brass let The September Alumnus carried an ters, the markers were purchased with a fund created by the fiftieth re incorrect figure for the amount union gift of the Class of 1934 and a gift from the Class of 1956. They raised by the 1984 Alumni Fund grace both campus entrances on Mayflower Hill Drive, as well as the drive. The correct amount is Washington Street entrance nearest the Hillside Complex. $615,000. 10 THE COLBY ALUM US Freshman Families Reunite For the seventh consecutive au tumn, Colby parents enjoyed the hospitality of the elemenls and the Colby community when they jour neyed to Mayflower Hill to visit their freshman offspring. More than 200 freshmen welcomed par ents, grandparents, and siblings on the special weekend, September 28-30. Jn addition to a presidential address and reception, faculty pan els, social hours, and athletic events, the weekend allowed un scheduled time for quiet talk and personal tours. "We didn't witness any homesick freshmen retreating with parents," joked Parents Coor dinator Barbara Leonard '83. "Most parents returned home just with long lists of things to send." �.. Colby 2000 Campaign Meets Challenges Amount needed Amount left Amount of to receive to raise grant Purpose grant (October 1984) Pew Memorial Trust $250,000 library addition $ 500,000 -0- National Endowment for the Humanities $750,000 library addition $2,250,000 -0- Kresge Foundation $400,000 library addition $6,300,000 -0- George I. Alden Trust $100,000 scholarships for transfer students $ 200,000 $191,132 Trustee/Overseer Challenge $100,000 Student Center construction $ 400,000 $116,032 Bingham Betterment Fund $ 50,000 endowed art exhibition fund $ 150,000 -0- Since the campaign's beginning, Colby has received many generous grants in support of its goals. Some of these have been challenge grants requiring matching donations from alumni and friends. Two that have yet to be met are the George I. Alden Trust challenge, which will provide scholarships for transfer students to Colby, and the Trustee/Overseer challenge, made by an anonymous donor in support of the new Student Center. While all alumni, friends, and parents may designate their contributions to help meet the former challenge, it is to the trustees and overseers that the latter is addressed. These Colby leaders must increase their own pledges or solicit new alumni support for the Student Center if Colby is to realize the $100, 000 award. THE COLBY ALUM US 11 Students Profit from have of the Olympics? When they ball; going for a swim or a run; Olympic Effort reached Los Angeles, Lapham re and seeing a movie. If Mother Na membered, "It was like being at a ture cooperates, another option Although cynics may suggest that big party. Everybody was so excit will be the fourth annual family today's students have little am ed about the games! The energy of cross-country ski race through the bition or drive, Wendy Lapham the city was beautiful. The real ex woods and fields of Mayflower '86 and Bill Northfield '86 seem to citement was just being a part of Hill. Bring your best cheering refute any such contention. In the this major event. " voice and athletic gear, too. summer of 1983, Lapham and Colby track star Sebsibe Mamo Northfield set a common goal: to JB '70, who competed for his home be in Los Angeles for the 1984 land, Ethiopia, in the 1968 Olym Olympic Games. The only problem pics in Mexico City, will be hon was paying for it. Waterville's ored at a special ceremony on Their solution testifies to the Winter Wonderland Beckons Saturday during the Eastern track creativity and enthusiasm of the and field meet. During his Colby latest generation of Colby stu Varsity athletic contests, individual career, Mamo set records that still dents. In order to raise the money sports, films, seminars, and other stand. necessary to cover traveling costs activities will vie for attention dur The final schedule of activities and ticket prices, the two decided ing the 21st Annual Family Winter will be listed in the weekend bro to sell "Camp Colby" T-shirts, Weekend, February 8-10. The chure, which you should receive which carried a logo that Lapham choices will be extensive: take your soon. The same pamphlet will con had developed. According to pick of rooting at varsity hockey tain reservation information. Northfield, selling them "was real and basketball games; playing ten Join the Colby family for a fun, ly hard at first. After ordering 250 nis, squash, racquetball, or volley- get-away weekend! shirts, we had to set up a separate bank account, develop marketing techniques, advertise, and then do the actual selling. We sat outside the dining halls all year and ended up selling 242 shirts, with only eight smalls left over. In the end, it was a great experience. " Northfield and Lapham also tried selling Colby umbrellas, but they weren't quite so successful with that product. "The simpler a product is and the less expensive it is," said Lapham, "the easier it is to sell." In all, the two grossed $1,400 in shirt and umbrella sales. Their trip lasted 38 days and covered 10,400 miles, all by a 1972 Volkswagen camper. State and rec reational vehicle parks served as stopovers during the voyage. "You can't comprehend how big this country is until you drive across it," exclaimed Lapham. She said another part of the learning experi ence involved cooperation. "Bill and I are really good friends, but when you spend five and a half weeks together, you run into a few minor conflicts. It's really impor Mother Nature did cooperate on the first Family Winter Weekend in tant to have a good sense of 1965, and so did Waterville's Murray Gore, who entertained these humor." youngsters-some of whom may themselves be Colby alumni now-with What impressions did the two rides in his horse-drawn cutter. 12 THE COLBY ALUM US Open Minds Open Doors "Throughout its history the College has maintained that the traditional liberal arts curriculum is the best prepa ration for rewarding careers and personal fulfillment," proclaims Colby admissions literature-and the Office of Career Services helps students realize how true that tenet is poster on a wall in Colby's OfficeA of Career Services shows a Delicious apple sitting amidst rows of oranges stacked on more rows of oranges. "Be yourself," it says. Finding the right job in today's competitive market may not be so simple, but the poster neatly pin points the self-awareness and con fidence that make a job applicant attractive. It also suggests the cen tral functions of the career services office: helping students and alumni to identify their own attributes and interests and then to polish them. Interest in career options is so intense that parents and prospec tive students often inquire in the career services office before pro ceeding to an admissions interview, according to James R. Mcintyre, director of career services since 1982. While Colby has steadfastly maintained that bright, liberally educated adults are qualified to choose among a myriad of possible careers, parents and students who will spend about $50,000 in pursuit of a baccalaureate degree want ad ditional assurance that it is a wise investment. "One of the great con cerns we encounter is that liberal arts graduates are not prepared to do anything," Mcintyre said. The truth is quite the opposite, as President William R. Cotter, among others, repeatedly has pointed out. "Studies of success rates within major corporations confirm the special value of a liberal education," the president wrote in his April 1, 1983, Boston Globe article. "In 1981 the Bell THE COLBY ALUM US 13 "As a generalist, committed to lifelong education, you ca n change with the times." John :w1isLm1 awhor. :-- 1ega1rc1 1cls System found that even in a high Digital Equipment Corporation's dicated that, across the board, technology company, graduates financial development program, companies are interested in ap who had majored in the humani complimented the Colby students plicants' experience with com ties and social sciences had far interviewed by Digital last year. puters. "All the money we've greater potential for management "Generally speaking, they were spent on computers here has been advancement than those who had clearly superior to students we in well worth it," Mcintyre said. majored in business administration terviewed at other colleges and On the other side of the scale, or engineering." When he ad universities in terms of the ques several of each year's graduates dressed the Class of 1984 on Com tions asked, levels of intelligence, choose to travel or take temporary mencement Weekend, Cotter maturity, and probing," he said. jobs rather than launch themselves quoted John Naisbitt, the author ''The [highly selective] admissions directly into graduate studies or of Megatrends: " 'We are moving policies are reflected in the student careers, a decision that Mcintyre from the specialist who is soon ob body.'' Egan added that the grade said can be healthy. "I see more solete to the generalist who can point averages [GPAs] of Colby M. B.A. and law schools asking ap adapt. [We] need to return to the students tended to be . 5 lower than plicants to go off and do some ideal of a generalist education. If those of competing job candidates thing meaningful before entering. you specialize too much, you may from other schools. This leads him They want them to know why find your specialty becoming ob and others to conclude that, al they're there and why they're go solete in the long run. As a gener though grade inflation elsewhere ing after that degree." For anyone alist, committed to lifelong educa may be a widespread phenomenon, wearied by intensive education, a tion, you can change with the good grades from Colby almost corporate training program can be times.' " always represent strong academic a bad gamble, according to Mcin Many of those who have come performance. tyre: "You're throwing yourself into contact with the College not In helping 1984 graduates secure back into the student role in a only believe that liberally educated their first permanent jobs, Mcin more make-or-break situation. You students make potentially good tyre said, ''High tech was our area really need to be ready when you employees, but also that Colby of greatest success. Nine seniors start your search." In the interim, students are especially well pre received offers from Digital alone, he said, "About the only thing you pared. Henry Egan, manager of and the career services director in- shouldn't do is vegetate." 14 THE COLBY ALUM US Avoiding the Straight and Narrow ternship opportunities during the he gained five months before grad Faith in the liberal arts philosophy January Program of Independent uation to revise his plans, rather notwithstanding, Mcintyre is glad Study. "We found that alumni than investing all that time and to meet with students early in their could commit time as sponsors energy in the wrong direction after Colby careers. Usually his advice is more easily in January than for the graduation," Cotter maintained. to sample freely at first while ful whole summer, and it's an easier For still others, January intern filling distribution requirements for time for students to work without ships affirmed the value of their graduation. He also encourages pay," she explained. Colby education. As Cotter said, Colby freshmen to assess their op Alumni and parents of students "Many students overstate the tions through a computer program sponsored 40 internships through 'ivory tower' aspect of Colby. that matches their interests and the career services office last J anu When they get out into other parts values with associated careers. ary, which was the first year that of the world, they find the skills Many students today try to ensure the internship program was in full and knowledge they've acquired future employment by selecting operation. According to Cotter, here are immediately applicable. " double majors, but Mcintyre is "Each placement was really a "If all the kids today are like leery of a choice that limits a stu hand-carry situation. Some stu Tricia Curry ['86], then Colby is in dent's freedom to try different dents were actually living with great shape, " affirmed Ralph fields: "It's the range of courses their sponsors for four weeks, so Delano '40. Delano and his wife, that makes or breaks you, not the we had to make placements in a Muriel Howe Delano '42, spon double credential. " He counsels very careful way.'' sored Curry's internship at the students to select courses, summer Deborah McKay '86 was "trans Benson News and Four Oaks News jobs and Jan Plans that increase formed" by one of those 40 intern in North Carolina. "Tricia was their range of skills. "Especially if ships. McKay had always thought able to do most anything we threw you're going into the humanities, she would like to be a surgeon, but at her," he praised. "She did a it's good to try all four years to her January internship with Chica good job for the company." cover yourself with courses in go surgeon Frank Apantaku '71 The alumni and parents who math, computer science, adminis "gave me a whole new incentive generously open their lives to stu trative science, and economics," just to go for it," she said, her en dent interns have "an opportunity said Mcintyre, who taught German thusiasm adding dimension to her to get to know young people and for six years at Colby. words. She made rounds with to be connected with Colby, not "Exposure to possible careers Apantaku, observed surgery, sat in only as the source of some happy through summer jobs is extremely on clinical sessions for medical memories, but in direct support of important," Mcintyre continued. students, catalogued medical jour the College's educational mission," "Students tend to focus more on nal articles, and wrote a paper dur explained Cotter. While Delano in the dollar signs. If someone ab ing the month. Not only did she dicated that the educational mis solutely must be a waitress or take confirm her ambition through sion was their primary impetus for a construction job for the money, these activities, but she gained per sponsoring Curry's internship, he then volunteer work or a part-time sonally by staying with Apantaku said that the experience also helped job in the student's area of interest and his wife, Lecia, who is also a him understand better what cam can be valuable. " Carolyn Boyn surgeon. "Dr. [Frank] Apantaku pus life is like today. ton '84, whose extended job search understood the problems I was was called "a model" by the ca having as a black at Colby and Reaching Out reer services staff, said summer job gave me good advice. He would In addition to students' use of experience was of acute interest to say, 'Deborah, Colby is an ex summers and Jan Plans, how they those who interviewed her. "Sum cellent place to be.. .. ' I came spend free time during regular mer jobs in something you think back committed to make use of semesters affects their employment you want to get into are very what it has to offer.'' prospects later on. "Direct involve worthwhile," she emphasized, Some students discovered during ment in student activities is really "Even if it means taking a cut in January internships that their am understressed in terms of what's pay. " bitions were not suited to their in read on a resume," Mcintyre con terests or values, said Cotter. For tended, adding, "Companies are With a Little Help instance, one senior, who had al not interested in closet scholars.'' The career services office helps ways planned to move to New Boynton's job-hunting experience students identify meaningful sum York City following graduation, upheld that: "Involvement in stu mer work and to apply for it, but discovered through his January in dent government, sports, and other Alumni Liaison Linda Cotter con ternship there that he disliked the activities is important to potential centrates more on developing in- city. "It really was a luxury that employers. They like titles that THE COLBY AL M US 15 show leadership, like president or captain. " What mattered to Neil Cousins '84 more than having Powder and Wig to complement the English major on his resume was the bene fit of stage experience: he was relaxed during interviews. Because Colby's curriculum contains no public speaking courses, Cousins said it is critical to develop speak ing abilities in other ways. Mcin tyre advises students never to turn down an opportunity to speak be fore groups: "According to one survey, the greatest fear of the American people is not nuclear war, not dying of cancer; it is speaking in public. " He added that informational interviews with alumni and parents can help stu dents gain confidence in discus sions with strangers. Mcintyre cannot overemphasize the importance of talking to others about their jobs and careers; he recommends it for underclassmen, upperclassmen, and alumni who are considering career changes. The career services office main tains a list of alumni, sorted by profession, who may be ap proached for ''career exploration visits." It is a frequently consulted resource. "Networking is a very ef fective approach," Mcintyre said. "You get helpful information, "Many students overstate the ·ivory people know you're available, and tower' aspect of Colby. When they they have an impression of you." get into other parts of the world, they find the skills and knowledge Adults' willingness to share ac they've acquired here are im counts of their career struggles, mediately applicable." triumphs, and mistakes helped Linda Correr Todd Halloran '84 tremendously. career serL•iccs alun1111 liaison Early in his Colby career, he started keeping a list of parents and alumni he met whose interests coincided with his own. "The most important thing is to talk to as many people as possible, older people who can help you through their hindsight," he said. Halloran knew he needed strong summer job experience last year to enhance his prospects for employment in bank ing after graduation, but because he spent his junior year at the London School of Economics, the 16 THE COLBY ALUM US logistics of a summer job search them. "They've understood every said. One of the most surprising were difficult. "I wrote my other step they've taken along the situations Mcintyre encountered friends' fathers for advice: what way," said Nancy Mackenzie, as when he became career services would they do in my situation?" sistant director of career services. director was ''the number of stu said Halloran. His appeal paid off; "This one is so different. There dents who come in and say, 'What he stepped off a plane from Lon are so many unknowns, and the re should I do?' Some people think don and into an excellent summer ward is not guaranteed. " that you shouldn't have to plan the learning experience. Unfortunately, a few students next step, but that it should be "The alumni have been the best and parents expect the career serv lined up for you. My first question people ever,'' said Boynton, who ices staff to be able to guarantee is 'What do you like to do?' " used the career services list to solic the reward. "We are not a place If the career services staff can it advice. She wrote to 60 alumni ment bureau," Mcintyre empha not do the planning and legwork in banking and business, receiving sized. Instead, the office stresses necessary for each job search, it "long, very personal letters" from an understanding of a job-search excels in practical handholding, more than half of them. "If it process that will probably be re free of charge. Linda Cotter ar weren't for the alumni, I'm sure I peated many times before retire ranges informational interviews for wouldn't have had so many inter ment. "Statistics show that the students who want to talk with views. I can't thank them enough, average person changes career someone in their prospective fields. and I really mean that.'' areas seven times in a lifetime and Nancy Mackenzie helps students career fields four times," Mcintyre prepare resumes, and Secretary Becoming Streetwise Experimenting and exploring one's interests are the most productive "Wirhour realizing ir. many studenrs dig rhemselves inro holes during rhe [mock ) inrer ways to spend the first two years view. and rhen rhey can see on videotape how of college, from a career perspec rhey did ii.'" tive, but the junior year is time for ·"-'anq1 .\Iockcnzie students to become streetwise be career scn •iccs assisranr ciirC'nor fore pounding the pavement as seniors. "During the junior year, we really hope people will start using all of our services," Mcin tyre said. "They should develop a resume, even if it will need revision the next year, they should definite ly engage in some informational interviewing, and they should sit in on some recruitment sessions to get an idea of what's available. It real ly helps to know the territory before the job hunt is upon you." The career counselor noted that "the most successful [job-seeking] students in the last couple of years have had their job searches in full swing by November of their senior year because they started as ju niors. " A decision to spend the junior year abroad, which Mcin tyre said can demonstrate a per son's adaptability and breadth of interests to future employers, means a student should become ac quainted with Colby's career serv ices even earlier. Rather than confronting the future, many stall their career planning until the future confronts THE COLBY ALUM US 17 Penny Spear types them, some with my shoelaces and doing all are different ways of being able to times even responding to pleas for kinds of things I shouldn't do in show what you've accomplished "same day service." Jim Mcintyre an interview." -variety of courses, other ac maintains an open-door policy to tivities, faculty references," she counsel students on a flexible The Nitty-gritty continued. basis, and Mackenzie gives them As students bear down in their job "It's a myth that the GPA is the her uninterrupted attention in in searches, the importance of Mcin prime factor in hiring," said Mcin dividually scheduled sessions. She tyre's salesmanship and diplomacy tyre. "We really see the opposite also conducts workshops on res becomes apparent. "Jim lays the on that." In his estimation, the ume writing and interviewing. groundwork with companies," said ability to present oneself orally is Mock interviews are recorded on Mackenzie. "He makes connec the major factor influencing em videotape, so that an individual tions with them, persuades them to ployment. "Overall academic per may immediately view and discuss come to campus, and makes them formance" is usually the second strengths and weaknesses. The feel comfortable while they're consideration for an employer, al career services library contains a here. " Once recruiters are here, ac though it is primary for graduate wealth of materials on various cording to Mcintyre, the students schools. "By that I don't mean fields and information on specific must sell themselves. To their just the GPA, but things like the companies for student use. Twice credit, he said that Colby students student's major, courses taken out monthly, the staff also sends obtain a significantly higher num side the major, and rank within everyone on campus a newsletter ber of second interviews than the the major," the career services that announces internship and job national average. According to director explained. A student's openings, workshop and recruit most recruiters, Mcintyre added, outside activities are the third area ment schedules, and fellowship ap the most difficult part of their job an employer examines. "All stress plication deadlines. The same serv is deciding whom to invite back. that they go through the appli ices are available to alumni, and The number of recruiters who cant's whole file," said Mcintyre. many use them. travel to Mayflower Hill does not Work on oral presentations Resume preparation under eliminate the need for students to should begin long before the actual Mackenzie's tutelage is anything pursue other job opportunities in job search, but even the student but a chore. "I see my major role dependently, particularly those in who is comfortable in front of a as helping students get in touch the natural and social sciences, group can benefit by some extra with what they've done in these fields where campus recruiting is homework. "I went through the four years," she said, explaining rare. Last year, recruiters from 40 standard lists of interview ques that the resume becomes a vehicle corporations and services sched tions," Cousins said, "And a lot for building confidence. Meeting uled interviews on campus, and 14 of those questions do come up. " with students individually, Mac companies interviewed students According to Halloran, self-study kenzie asks them to discuss their from Colby and the nine other col is also important. "In the whole career objectives and their ac leges that belong to the Maine Re interview process, I learned so tivities. "I write, and they talk. I cruiting Consortium. An additional much about myself, more than I have them tell me everything they 30 representatives of graduate and learned in the previous 21 years," can possibly tell me, with no re professional schools interviewed he exclaimed, adding, "If you gard to importance, and then I students at Colby. Campus inter don't know yourself, the inter start putting it in a framework that views clearly could not accom viewer won't get to know you." shows their honest-to-goodness ac modate some 350 seniors seeking The applicant's research on the complishments .... It's really a employment or entrance to gradu company also is meaningful; one process of strength bombard ate school. "Career services told whose questions reflect knowledge ment. " me that I had a better chance to of the company stands a better Many students elect one other find a job on my own," Halloran chance of making a serious impres form of preparation before they said. "It was what I expected to sion. "I was down at the career knock on potential employers' hear, and I was happy they were services library at least twice a doors: the videotaped mock inter honest with me." week, researching the companies view with Mackenzie and Mcin The staff's candor in other areas coming in," said Cousins, who tyre. "Without realizing it, many is outright encouraging. "In turned down corporate job offers students dig themselves into holes truth," said Mackenzie, "prospec when he realized he preferred to during the interview, and then they tive employers are interested in teach. "It takes some time and can can see on tape how they did it," how well you did what you set out be frustrating, especially if you Mackenzie explained. Said Hal to do, which should not be seen have a paper due, but you've really loran: "I saw that I was playing strictly in terms of a GPA. There got to get in there and hunt." 18 THE COLBY ALUMNUS The tedium of hours spent at the word processor and on the phone may also bear rewards. During a job search that led Halloran to turn down several offers in favor of an excellent one from Manufac turers Hanover Trust in New York, he called on his contacts at critical points. "Contacts don't get you a job or even an interview," he contended, "But they get peo ple to look at your name and your resume." Before a trip to New York, for example, Halloran wrote to alumni employed by banks there and to the corresponding personnel offices. "Then I called the alumni and said 'I'll be in town next week, and I'm seeking an interview with your bank; could I get to gether with you?' " After writing the personnel office a second time, Halloran called when he arrived in the city to say, " 'I'm in New York this week and am meeting with this particular alumnus, who I works for you. Is there any chance I could arrange for an interview at the same time?' That way the alumnus knew I wasn't going to waste his time, and the personnel office realized I was serious," ex plained Halloran. Further along in the process, receiving a job offer may cease to be an issue, and choosing among offers may become one. The pri mary factor in Halloran's decision was a comparison of training pro grams: "If people leaving Colby want to go into business, they have was down at the career services library at to go somewhere that has a well "I least twice a week, researching the companies developed training program. We're coming in (for campus interviews) ....You've really got to get in there and hunt." generalists. They take you and turn you into a specialist. " More sub '''eil Cousins '84 teacher. Trinit�J Pawling School jective information on companies is also relevant, in Halloran's opin ion. "You have a feel for it, just like you do when you choose a col lege, " he said. "One alumnus I talked with made his decision by comparing bathrooms, which he thought said something about the difference between the com panies!'' For those experiencing the op posite problem in a job search, THE COLBY ALUM US 19 keeping it in perspective can be difficult. "My advice is 'Don't put everything on the first job, ' " said Boynton, who maintained a strong Second Time Around sense of self-worth throughout a frustrating job search and is now a systems analyst for Computervi "Statistics show that the average person sion Corporation. In the 1984 Bac changes career areas seven times in a lifetime and career fields four times. ·· calaureate, President Cotter ac Jim ,\ /( // lll /W knowledged that "Few college < l'< (It('('/ -;c/L '/('('_._, <111 IOI graduates find that their first jobs are perfect fits for their talents and interests, but the flexibility of a liberal education will help you move easily from that first position to your second and subsequent posts." Cousins said, "My advice is not to lock yourself in, and don't let your parents pressure you. You'll drive yourself crazy if you worry about it. Something's going to come up eventually if you keep plugging away and asking yourself what you want." Reassessing "what you want" can be the key to turning around a disappointing job hunt. "If you don't get something you wanted, it probably wouldn't have worked out anyway," said Halloran, who, before his ideal offer from Manu facturers Hanover, had set his heart on a bank that rejected him. "It's important to fail, because you come out of it stronger. You For alumni contemplating job will always be here, but when they learn so much more than you do changes, Mcintyre recommends es start another job search the pro from your successes. It makes you sentially the same process as for fessor may be on sabbatical or reevaluate yourself." students exploring career possibili may even have died," said the Ideally, that process of self ties. "Assess why you are where career services director. He added evaluation and reevaluation is what you are and what you want to do that even when someone is fired, it both the liberal arts and Colby's next," he said. "Start rethinking is usually possible to get a positive career services are all about. your expectations and lifestyle. recommendation: "It doesn't have "What Jim and I are trying to That's probably the most difficult to be the president of the company do," said Mackenzie, "is simply to thing." who writes the letter. Colleagues strip away the things that hide the Staying in one job while decid can write very strong letters. real person." ing the next step is generally wise, "If it's possible, come into the in Mcintyre's view. "One thing office to talk with us, and hook up LF you can't do is get depressed about with other alumni in your local your situation, and if you're out of area. Informational interviewing a job, it's really easy to get de can be extremely useful when pressed. Stick with it and look." you're trying to figure out the next Anyone leaving a job should al step," Mcintyre continued. The ways take what he or she needs resources of the career services of from that situation, including fice, including permanent reference recommendations. "That's one of files, are available to all alumni, the big mistakes students tend to and the career services newsletter make here. They think a professor may provide helpful leads. 20 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Order on the Court Attorney Jan Volk '68 tests his abilities broadly as the Boston Celtics general manager ust sitting in the Boston Celtics the team's "gopher," running er cupies. When compared to other generalJ manager's office gives one rands for both the players and the general managers in the NBA, a reliable impression of Jan Yolk's man whom he would later replace, Volk realizes that he has little ex life. Everything about the place, Red Auerbach. perience with the game on the from the 1984 National Basketball After graduating from Colby, floor. "I don't know that the Association championship trophy Volk went on to Columbia Law route I traveled was similar to to the plaques, pictures, and cer School. While preparing to take anybody else's," he said, and then tificates that line two of the walls, the bar examination, he learned paused. "I doubt very seriously projects a tradition of confidence that a Celtics ticket sales position that anybody started quite the way and of success. Success has always had opened up. "It was not as I started. But I don't know where been important to Volk, not be though I was going to law school they came from. A number of :ause he shoots for glory, but with a job promised here," he ex them are former players and because he enjoys being effective. plained in August. ''If I had former coaches, sometimes both, In conversation, the 1968 Colby graduated a year earlier or a year and then some are attorneys. " graduate stated and restated this later, I wouldn't have gotten that Although he didn't play basket basic philosophy: "If you're going particular job. " ball at Colby, Volk was a member to do something, it's nice to do it That particular job, director of of the varsity soccer team for four well. " ticket sales, has been described by years and carried away clearly de So far, Volk has done well. Al both Auerbach and Volk as the fined perspectives on Colby athlet though the Boston Celtics press bottom of the organizational lad ics: "It's very important to have a guide would list the 1984-85 season der. "I was selling season tickets; good solid athletic program to as Jan Yolk's 14th year with the that's where everybody in this or complement a solid academic pro club, his experience with the or ganization has worked at one time gram. If you're going to do some ganization stretches back to 1960, or another," recalled Volk, who thing, you might as well do it when the Celtics first held their worked his way through the jobs right. It's great to have a good rookie tryouts at Camp Millbrook of business manager of the club, time [playing varsity sports], but I in Marshfield, Mass. Volk, whose house counsel, and executive vice think that you have a better time if father owned the camp, served as president, a position he still oc- you succeed at it. And I think that THE COLBY ALUM US 21 j - - ...... / " / / " / '\ \ \ I \ \ \ I \ I I \ \ I \I \I I I the whole student body benefits it's about time that the comparison for some reason, the team is no from athletic success. " He also issue is dropped. " longer competitive, everyone is fair stressed the need for a good stu Whether or not Volk remains game. " So far, he has not en dent mix and maintained that ath overshadowed by the colorful countered any such problems. "I letes help enrich the student pool. Auerbach legend depends largely feel genuine support from the A history major at Colby, Jan upon the Boston press, which has press. It's not as though I just Volk credited one c9urse and one distinguished itself as one of the came in here. I've grown up in the economics professor as being the nation's harshest critics of unpro business in Boston and I've gotten primary factors for his interest in ductive sports figures. As Volk to know most of them. " law. "I got my professional train himself put it, "As long as you're Like the press, Boston fans have ing at law school, but the liberal winning, they're on your side. If, a voracious appetite for success. arts program gave me a great op Volk knows that in order to come portunity, a broad base. I didn't Lipofs ky Photography into his own and leave the compar have an inkling that law was what isons behind, the Celtics have to be I wanted to do until I took a busi successful under his management. ness law course, taught by some Because of the team's glorious one whom I considered to be a past, however, success for the Celt very fine teacher, Hank Gemery. I ics means more than just a winning was really motivated by him. That season. "In a way, the Celtics are was the most significant thing I victims of their own success, " said did, course-wise. It fired my imagi their manager. ''They won the nation. '' championship last year, but no Today, Jan Volk faces several team has repeated [the following challenges, the greatest of which year] since the '69 Celtics. To be may be establishing his own repu successful in Boston doesn't just tation as the Celtics' new general mean getting to the play-offs, but manager, rather than remaining winning there. You need luck, an The Man Who Would Replace Red injury-free season, and all the Auerbach. Since being named for pieces have to fall in place." mally to that position last summer, An important but less glamorous Volk constantly has been com challenge is the day-to-day running pared to the "father of modern of the organization. With 35 professional basketball. " He said, employees under him, Volk ad "I am tired of it. I think my an Jan Volk '68: "It's great to have a heres to a simple management swers are getting stale because I'm good time, but I think you have a philosophy: "I'm a general over turning my mind off to it. I think better time if you succeed. " seer. It's very important to have 22 THE COLBY ALUM S - -- - ..._ - - - - - ,,, / / / ' / ' I \ I \ I --- ® \ I \ I \I I :ompetent people working for you. charity banquets, talking with that his family-his wife , Julissa, It's just like coaching-a coach is scouts about prospective players, and their two children-will always :mly as good as his players are. " long-term planning for the team, come first. Aside from his family, He called the business ''instinc and reviewing office supply orders. he pursues many interests. He tual," and characterized himself as All in all, it can add up to long spends a great deal of time in his basically a problem solver, dealing hours in and out of the office. darkroom, printing color photo with issues one at a time. He also After almost a decade and a half graphs he has taken of area sport made it clear that the Celtics face with the Celtics, Jan Volk has ing events. "But not of basket no major problems right now, but climbed as high as possible in the ball!" he insisted. "I've shot a lot have a clearly defined mission. organization. In the future, as he of football-the New England Pa "Every business, no matter how sees it, he needs "a competitive in triots, the Boston Breakers, and smoothly it is running, has to stay terest in a team that could realize the Boston College Eagles. I also running smoothly. We want to success. " But even if the Celtics shot the 1984 Olympic games. " maintain what we have accom maintain their current fortunes, Volk named bicycling as one of his plished in the last year.'' Volk realizes that someday the favorite outdoor activities. Several The Celtics' owners, according challenges may either bore him or years ago, he joined Larry Kass to Volk, are one of the keys to his overwhelm him. Divorcing himself man '69 for the 275-mile final leg own success as well as to the from the sport, however, seems of Kassman's transcontinental bike team's. He said of them, "The very unlikely. "The problem with trip, cycling from Boston up the owners are perfect in this organiza this job is that it desensitizes you, coast to Belfast, Maine. "I've tion. They let the professionals because it's so stimulating and ex done that distance several times," they've hired do their jobs. Of citing. It makes other jobs appear he added. Perhaps his most time ::ourse there are some constraints, to be boring. The nine-to-five consuming hobby is woodworking, but there is always plenty of seems depressing,'' reflected Volk. a craft in which Volk takes con freedom." He added that even if he were em siderable pride. He has made sev While overseeing the daily oper ployed outside of basketball, he eral end tables, clocks, and his ation of the club, Yolk's responsi would never be fully separated own dining room set. "With the bilities range from complex from it, even if it meant only exception of woodworking, " he negotiations with players' agents to watching the games from the pointed out, ''These are mostly scheduling games in Hartford, stands. spring, summer, and fall activities. Conn. On a given day, he might Away from the Celtics' turf, There's just no time to pursue meet with Larry Bird's agent in the Yolk's life takes on dimensions them during the basketball morning and fly to New York for more like the lives of other alumni. season. " a league meeting in the afternoon. Once describing himself as "having One can only imagine. Other tasks include answering re- too many hobbies that all compete quests for team appearances at for available time,'' he emphasized JB l THE COLBY ALUMN S 23 an' 1io du bO' el. h() pla pla ,o� pr1 11D mi rel UC na ba pr th lh m ar Soccer: bl A Sport for One and for All A cross-cultural study of women's soccer reveals onlookers' divergent attitudes toward the sport and players' universal pleasures by Jeffra Beck11ell '82 Soccer, played by more people ly a year's examination of the tions produce notable differences in more places than any other team development of women's sports, in the ways women's soccer is sport, is considered by many to be primarily soccer, in Great Britain, viewed and the extent to which the "World's Game." It is esti West Germany, and Sweden. females have the chance to par mated that more than one fourth Among other things, I was-and ticipate. Yet those differences are, of the world's population watched remain-interested in the ways in in many respects, superficial; the the 1980 World Cup final between which different cultural contexts benefits of playing sports are fairly Italy and West Germany, and the contribute to women's athletic ex constant in spite of the variety of 1986 competition to be held in periences. Attitudes toward wom experiences that are possible. Mexico no doubt will attract even en's sports in general are, of more attention. Like many Ameri course, important in determining Proper Play cans, I was introduced to soccer opportunities for participation and To some extent in every country, relatively recently, but I quickly the quality of such an experience. there exists the idea that sports are joined the ranks of the converted. When considering a particular gender specific. In England, more At Colby I had the opportunity to sport, a look at the way that sport than anywhere else I visited, cer play on the first varsity women's has developed for men also lends tain sports are designated as "girls' soccer team. perspective to the female experi sports." Soccer is not one of them. After graduation, thanks to the ence. As I traveled through Eu Thanks to a national physical ed generosity of the Thomas J. Wat rope, I discovered that divergent ucation syllabus that lists the "ap son Foundation, I completed near- attitudes, institutions, and tradi- proved" activities for either sex 24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS and encourages separate instruc a rigid demarcation: either you're by society have important implica tion for boys and girls, British a sportswoman or you're a lady." tions for women's willingness and children learn at a young age that Based on her experience coaching opportunities to participate. It is boys play soccer, rugby, and crick soccer in Florida, the same athlete fitting that, in Europe and else et, while girls play netball, field observed that American women where, soccer is called "football, " hockey, and lacrosse. Some boys ''seem to be able to go from sports because the aura that surrounds play field hockey, and some girls to other roles easily.'' each game and the status that play cricket, but most athletes are In England, I was not surprised society assigns to it are similar to conditioned to accept the "ap to find a dearth of media coverage those associated with American propriate" sports. of women's sports. Socially ap football. In England and, to a My interviews revealed that a proved athletic activities sometimes lesser extent, Germany, soccer has similar attitude exists in West Ger are reported, but coverage of soc developed as the dominant sport many, where men especially were cer is either absent or negative. with little or no competition from reluctant to condone women's par One newspaper article, for in other sports. In both countries it is ticipation in soccer. Most people stance, dealt with the potential im virtually the only team sport that is named volleyball and team hand pact of women's participation on played professionally, although ball as sports that are more ap soccer fashions and went on to only in England does the Football propriate for females. Nonetheless, speculate that "Irrational feminine League resemble what Americans the combined female registration in behavior could be well suited to know as professional sports. Still, those two sports is less than the the Dionysiac variations of the the powerhouse teams and super number of women and girls who game ...." stars are familiar to everyone. A are members of the German Foot Again, an almost opposite situa variety of soccer magazines offer ball (soccer) Association. tion is found in Sweden. Sporting everything from sophisticated In Sweden, women's soccer is activity there has been called analyses to glossy pin-ups of the second only to men's soccer in "Sweden's biggest popular move stars. terms of popularity among ath ment," and, in a country where Soccer is also Sweden's most letes. Ice hockey is about the only women enjoy rights and privileges popular sport, but it does not sport in which Swedes have reser enough to make American femi dominate the sports environment vations about women playing in nists stampede to the passport of there as it does in England and their country. Looking beyond na fice, women's athletic participation West Germany. One reason for tional boundaries, however, a few is expected. Nearly one third of all this is the tradition of participation commented that "American foot Swedish women over 18 belong to that encourages Swedes to choose ball seems a bit rough" for sports organizations, which means among a multitude of activities. women, and-despite the former they participate regularly in organ The strength of ice hockey as a existence of a women's profes- ized competition. Such mass par spectator sport there is another ional league-most Americans ticipation is encouraged by the factor. would agree that football and government and the media. Even though soccer has been other contact sports are "men's Instead of concentrating only on played in the United States since sports." It is significant that, in professional sports, the Swedish the early part of this century, its both Sweden and the United States, press is loaded with details of growth has been hindered by the the fundamental right of women to amateur sport. Even the standings popularity of our other sports, participate in men's sports is rarely of the fledgling women's ice especially football. It was not until in question. The emergence of hockey league, which has an ad 1959 that the NCAA sponsored a women's ice hockey and rugby mittedly small following, are in the national championship in soccer. competition is evidence of the sup newspaper every Sunday. After the The game's status as a minor sport port that even nontraditional 1983 Stockholm Marathon, one of is unfathomable to many Euro women's sports can receive. the dailies ran a six-page, color peans. A 1976 London Times arti spread that not only included ar cle discussed the recent growth of ticles and photos but listed each of Attagirl ! soccer in this country and ex the several thousand competitors Other attitudes and traditions also pressed surprise that the North who finished the race. If Sweden influence the nature of the female American Soccer League "will en sounds like heaven for the amateur athletic experience. Very tradi courage girls to take up the sport; athlete, it is quite close indeed. tional role expectations in Great and welcome wives and mothers Britain create an environment for and families to its games." In women athletes that is, at best, in Male Dominance general, the proponents of soccer different. A player commented, The development of men's soccer in the United States have been glad "In this country there seems to be and the way the sport is perceived to accept women as allies in the THE COLBY ALUM US 25 struggle to make soccer into a major sport. Because soccer so dominates the European men's sports scene, it is considered something that all men do, a masculine activity. British anthropologist Desmond Morris has compared a soccer game to both a ritual hunt and a stylized battle, both masculine activities. In The Soccer Tribe (London, 1981), he described the game as "a sacred male gathering, a display of prow ess by heroic hunter-warriors that symbolizes the ultimate test of manhood." In many instances, es pecially in Britain, just going to watch a soccer game can be an or deal. Vandalism and hooliganism are so widespread that, before an important game in London, police had to barricade many of the city's statues to protect them from dam age by the crowds. Spectators at soccer games are overwhelmingly male, especially in the terraces, where the diehard supporters stand. Women hesitate to attend the games, and parents are unwill ing to take young children. That the game itself is seen as masculine is not surprising. As one Briton ex pressed his attitude toward wom en's football: "Kicking is essential ly an act of aggression-and, above all, a male act. It is not merely unladylike to kick, it is un womanly." Such censoring attitudes are rare in Sweden, where soccer is consid ered a perfectly natural activity for a girl. In both Sweden and the United States, soccer is one of the sports in which girls are most en couraged to participate, although women's football is considerably more established in Sweden. In Context My investigation of women's soccer in western Europe demonstrated that societal attitudes and tradi tions have had an important im pact-in some places negative and in others positive-on the way the women's competition has devel oped. In Great Britain it is nega- 26 THE COLBY ALUMNUS tive, as is evident above. Accord ing to Sue Lopez, a former player on the English women's national team, "Football has been the na tional game for men for over I 00 years. That is one of our biggest problems: it's ingrained in our cul ture that men play football. And women don't." Consequently, only a handful of Englishwomen play soccer. For those who do play, participation is often an expensive and frustrating proposition, be cause decent playing fields are scarce and because women's soccer is regarded with general disdain. The situation in West Germany is more favorable, especially now that women's football has been fully taken over by the German At far left, Susan Whittum '87 Football Association. Although races a Wheaton player to the soccer there is still considered by ball. Above, Amy Trott '85 runs many to be a men's game, the neck-and-neck with a Wellesley sheer number of participating player. At near left, another women-more than 400,000, com Wellesley player and Lesley Mel pared to 6,000 in Great Britain cher '85 put their heads to will eventually dispel that stereo work. Below, Patrice Galvin '86 type. pours it on in competition For the 75,000 females who play against Wheaton. On page 24, soccer in Sweden, participation is Anne Boatright '85 pits herself practically hassle-free. It is neither against a trio of Wellesley play expensive nor inconvenient. More ers. On page 28, Sarah Pope '88 over, players do not have to fear experiences a rugged moment in that their femininity will be ques the Wheaton game. tioned because they enjoy kicking a ball around. For comparative purposes, I would place the United States be tween Sweden and Germany. Al though the attitudes are quite favorable, the fact that soccer is still a minor sport, with distinct regional strength but only the be ginnings of a broad national ap peal, keeps the game from emerg ing as a major sport for women. Cutting Across Borders In spite of the numerous differ ences in the quality and quantity of women's opportunities to play soccer, I noticed many important similarities in their overall ex periences, regardless of nationality. Generally speaking, the women athletes with whom I met and spoke were not very adept at ex- THE COLBY AL M US 27 plaining just what it is that causes players is an important benefit for men's game but from countries them to play sports. A simple "Be any athlete. Said one Swedish where the general attitudes toward cause it's fun, " however, is reveal player, "I love the challenge, and I women's sports are most pro ing, underscoring the fact that, at love how I feel when we win, even gressive. least in soccer, fun and the satis if we lose the next time." According to International faction of success are about the Comparison of just four coun Olympic Committee rules, a sport only realistic goals for a woman tries may make for questionable must be widely practiced by wom participant; she cannot expect to generalizations, but, based on what en in at least 35 countries and on earn a living playing soccer. On I found among soccer players, three continents to be considered the other hand, the female does women athletes share similar ex for inclusion in the Olympic have the advantage of free choice. periences and goals. They seek the games. Although the Federation of She will not run the risk of being opportunity to express themselves International Football Associations called a "sissy" if she is not an through sports, to identify goals, has not taken enough interest in athlete. and to strive to reach them. They women's football to count the When I asked them to identify pursue victory, but, more impor number of participating countries, the advantages of participation, tant, they wish to attempt to win my reckoning is that socce� is my fellow athletes were somewhat and to risk loss on their own played by women in at least 35 more articulate. A small group behalf. They enjoy the satisfaction countries on every continent except said their primary concern was of pushing their bodies to their Antarctica. With leadership from physical fitness, but most of the outermost limits. Most of all, they the United States and the Scan soccer team players were more want to share their experiences dinavian countries-one of which, likely to stress the "social side" of with other women, as fellow ath Denmark, has already asked its participation. The shared experi letes in pursuit of common aims. Olympic committee to petition for ence of winning and losing is an the inclusion of women's soccer important benefit. As one young More to Come it should not be long before soccer player told me, "If we win, every Because of the benefits of partici is truly the "World's Game. " one celebrates together; if we lose, pation, I suspect that the growth in we all cry together.'' Others noted numbers of women playing soccer Jeffra Becknell is in her second that many of their- friendships have will continue. The leaders in the year of law school at Columbia grown out of athletic associations. development of women's soccer University. She continues to enjoy And, of course, the challenge of will probably emerge not from the playing soccer, competing on a testing one's team against other nations that now dominate the club team in Brooklyn. 28 THE COLBY ALUM US Garden of Malice ln Garden of Malice, Associate is a trained scholar confronted by polemics of feminism are con Professor Susan Kenney invades bibliographical puzzles. Her aca trolled and are used to flesh out the domain of the British country demic training has prepared her to character and situation. If Frances detective novel. For an American be a literary detective who should ca becomes the symbol of the sex this is no small feat; but Kenney's be capable of editing the letters ual conflicts that lie beneath the ear is attuned to the rhythms of and diaries of a deceased literary surface, the enigma of her sexual British speech, and her characters lioness. Although the solution to identity is the crux of the plot; and comfortably inhabit the world of the plot involves the unraveling of feminism is subordinated to the the literate gentry. The English the manuscripts, the crimes that central concerns of the novel. landscape is sharply observed, and confront her are crimes against the What makes this novel ultimate Kenney reflects a genuine apprecia garden by someone who malicious ly more than either a formulaic tion of the formal gardens so as ly destroys its beauty. The varied detective story or a Gothic ro siduously cultivated by the English. list of potential criminals provides mance is Kenney's evocation of the Hers is not a single garden, for it Kenney an opportunity to explore malice which is in the garden. contains gardens within gardens; the entangled family relationships. Giles Montford-Snow, who invited and the novel has the British pas- She then uses those relationships to Roz to edit the manuscripts, is in ion for botanical precision and build her plot to a climactic chase itially the genteel curator of family e oteric herbal lore. sequence, where attention to natu secrets. His subsequent actions re Kenney's American heroine is ral detail only serves to heighten veal a truculence towards his rela thrust into a segment of English the tension. At the end the reader tives, and Roz slowly discovers s ciety puzzling enough to any comes to recognize that landscape that Giles' hubris takes people and American ignorant of the nuances and garden are metaphors for the twists them into what shape fits his of motivations that are not only human actions that lie at the heart fancy. This most English of Eng understated but disguised by Eng of the detective plot. lish gardens contains its serpent. lish reticence. Rosamund Howard Kenney has complicated her de Kenney unobtrusively evokes a vi tective formula by introducing the sion of archetypal evil, which Gothic motif of the lady in dis makes the crimes against the gar tress. Again her use of an Ameri den and those who inhabit it some can permits Kenney to exploit the thing more than the cranky behav alien environment; but the conven ior of a spiteful family. tional Gothic formula is invigorat On whatever level one responds, ed by the feminism of a heroine Garden of Malice provides a good pitted against a male society. The evening's read. R. Mark Benbow Roberts Professor of English Following the publication of Garden of Malice (244 pp. , $13. 95) by Charles Scribner's Sons in Oc tober 1983, Viking Press published Susan Kenney 's second novel, In Another Country (163 pp. , $13. 95) last July. Billed as "a serious novel about serious things, " In Another Country has been broadly and fa vorably reviewed. Copies of both are available from Seaverns Book store at Colby. THE COLBY ALUM US 29 America's Unelected Government The call comes in from the transi this partial inventory of problems by recent chief executives and their tion team's headquarters: "The would persuade many loyal citizens appointees, but most particularly president would like to consider to forego the president's considera in the 22 policy recommendations you as assistant secretary of com tion. set forth in the report's concluding merce. Would you take the job, if The problem of appointments is chapter. These suggest ways to offered?" no less overwhelming from the broaden the talent pool for which A recent report by the National other perspective . A new president presidential appointees are re Academy of Public Administra has the opportunity, but also the cruited, to regularize the appoint tion, based on a thorough study of obligation, to appoint more than ment process and to aid appointees the presidential appointment proc 500 individuals to policy-making in confirmation hearings, to ess headed by Associate Professor positions in the Cabinet depart resolve some thorny problems of Government G: Calvin Macken ments, the independent agencies, related to conflict of interest, and zie, reveals that the answer to such and the regulatory commissions. to ease the transition into govern a question is much less cut-and The president must appoint ap ment service. The book is a most dried than one might expect. Con proximately 150 ambassadors, and significant extension of Macken sider that presidential appointees he has the opportunity to appoint zie's previous research in this area. have to move to Washington, up nearly a thousand judges, U. S. The study directed by Professor rooting their families and changing marshalls, and U. S. attorneys. Mackenzie is essential reading for residences without assistance from Where is he to find so many peo those concerned with appointing the government, often accepting ple willing to serve the country, individuals who will influence substantial cuts in salary at the willing to make the sacrifices government policy-and should same time. Not only must they highlighted above, and willing to also be read by a wider audience, resign their current positions, but spend years in the public spotlight? one concerned with the more gen many are precluded from returning The National Academy report eral problem of how our nation is to them should those positions in takes a serious look at these prob governed. volve government contracts. If ap lems. For the first time, a group of pointees' portfolios contain stocks political scientists has studied the L. Sandy Maisel that could contribute to conflict of problem of recruitment by presi Professor of Government interest, they must divest them dents. Just as Richard Neustadt's selves of those equities even if it Presidential Power found its way means heavy financial losses. They to John Kennedy's night table, so, America's Unelected Government face a difficult confirmation proc too, should America's Unelected (128 pp. , $8. 95) is available at ess before the United States Senate, Government be read and studied local bookstores or from the Bal in which any part of their personal by our nation's next president. linger Publishing Company, 54 history is fair game for question The importance of this report Church St. , Harvard Square, Cam ing. If successful in the hearings, lies not only in its comprehensive bridge, Mass. 02138. The report they find themselves working in a review of the history of presiden was edited by John W. Macy, new environment for which they tial appointments and of their legal Bruce Adams, and J. Jackson may have no training and for status, not only in its careful Walter, and Mackenzie served as which no training is offered. Even description of the problems faced senior consultant. 30 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ______------, lass Correspondence to the College in late July. Copy for the class columns in this issue was submitted Philip W. Hussey '1 3, Kennebunk another doctor in the family. Dr. Mark married Esther E. Wood '26, Blue Hill. Maine, writes • 50 port, Maine, has been made a a pediatrician Thomas A. Callaghan '23, a column for the under + • Ellsworth American member of the Diamond Circle Willimantic, Conn., and Boynton Beach, Fla., the title of "The ative." She is in demand as a of the ATO fraternity in recognition of 75 years writing to Harland Ratcliffe, described life in a book reviewer. She taught at the University of of "membership, service, and devotion" 120-unit cond:::iminium as "a slow pace." He Maine, Gorham. for 40 years Muriel Lewis • • Merrill S. F. Greene '20, Lewiston, Maine, still was an outstanding athlete in his Colby Baker '28 and Marion Lewis '32, both of practices medicine. He has been a medical ex days John Berry '24 has retired to Leisure Heritage Village, Southbury, Conn., toured • l. aminer for 57 years • Bernice "Bunny" Butler World. Mesa, Ariz. He attended his 60th re Europe last spring. Mu riel was assistant McGorrill Partridge '21, Falmouth, Maine, said union Hiram H. Crie '25. Winter Haven, librarian at Colby, 1928-29 M. Edward Nee • • she thinks of Colby as a "big family trying to Fla., said he will attend his 60th reunion in '28, Plymouth, Mass., sent regards to his Colby help the other fellow" Harland R. Ratcliffe 1985 Carl R. MacPherson '26, Abington, friends. He has had a "long and arduous year" • • '23, Greenwood, Mass., attended the wedding Mass .. has received the highest degree of the of sickness but is on the mend Peg Davis • of his grandson, Mark Ratcliffe, in Philadelphia Masonic order, the 33rd degree and the Order Farnham '28 and Roderick E. Farnham '30, of in May. Harland said he not only acquired of the Purple Cross. He retired as housemaster Hampden. Maine. had a tour of Scotland in the another granddaughter-by-marriage but also of the Brockton, Mass., high school in 1971 spring. Rod said he would like to spend much more time there Lemuel Lord '29, Marl • K. borough. Mass., retired Baptist minister, reported recovery from an illness that kept NAME THAT TUNE! him from the Class of 1929's 55th reunion The Reverend Neal Bousfield '29, Ba r Har • bor, Maine. retired Maine seacoast missionary, said "a shorter tether" keeps him near home nowadays The Class of 1929 will be sad • ..Or, better yet, name the players, shown ma rching on the old campus football field dened to learn of the death of Elizabeth Mar during halftime of a game against Bowdoin. Colby Band Director Adrian Lo is compiling shall Lynn in Dade City, Fla. The wander • a band history and requests help from alumni in several forms: identifying persons in ings of Jean M. Watson '29, Ft. Myers, Fla., this year have included the class reunion at Colby, this photo, others to be published in future issues, and those ava ilable on campus in attendance at the Shakespearean Festival in La's office; writing to him with any historical information, from anecdotes about band Ashland, Wash., and visits to relatives in members to lists of band officers; and providing information on career and musical ac Brewer and Houlton in Maine and in Canada John T. Nasse '29, Saco, Maine, made a tivities of band members after graduation. Address such mail to Lo at Colby. • quick recovery from a hospital stay in June in order to attend the class reunion. His two brothers, Chris '32 and Charles '45, accom panied him Proving that you can't keep a • librarian fenced in with book stacks, Irene Hersey Tuttle '29, Scarborough, Maine, traveled to Argentina last winter We finally • found out what has kept Herbert D. Messenger '29, Marblehead, Mass., from at tending class reunions for 25 years: his barber shop quartet harmonizing. His group always had planned a concert on Alumni Week end Fifty-nine members of the Class of • 1929 gave class agent Jean Watson good sup port in her fund-raising efforts, contributing $9,410 to the Alumni Fund last year • Edith M. Woodward '30, Bridgeport, Conn., had high praise for her classmate and class agent, Deane R. Quinton '30, Auburn, Maine. She said he is conscientious and very successful "pulling money in" from her class • Vivian Russell '3 1, Augusta, Maine, and Howey-in the-Hills, Fla., divides her time between each place and welcomes friends from "both north and south" The Very Reverend Harold F. • Lemoine '32, dean emeritus of the Episcopal Cathedral of Garden City, .Y., now a resident of Rosedale, .Y., spent three months in England during the past summer • John l. Skinner '33, Sea Cliff, N.Y., complained that he never sees Thomas B. Langley '31, Mineola, N.Y., although he is "right there in assau County." How about bridge again soon? S. • THE COLBY ALUM US 31 Peter Mills, Jr. '34, Farmington, Maine, was a The next issue will carry news of J. Warren heard from George Burt for many years. He is candidate for the Maine House of Represen Bishop, Carl Reed, Ray Gardner, Emmart retired but running the country club in Prov tatives this fall The Waterville Rotary Club LaCrosse, Sidney Schiffman, J. Hunt, Al Farn idence, R.I. His wife, Elsie, has been ill, which • honored members of 30 years or more, in· ham, and H. "Monk" Russell. Let me tell you altered their summer plans, but they did "do" eluding six Colby alumni: G. Cecil Goddard now, however, that Warren Bishop did a fine Bermuda last winter. They have two daugh '29, China; Lewis "Ludy" Levine '21 , Waterville; job in 1984 Alumni Fund raising. Exactly half of ters, one nearby and one in Chicago Our • John F. Reynolds '36, Waterville; Donald our class contributed $5,552 to the fund. Class of '37 gave outstanding support to the 0. Smith '21, Waterville; Russell M. Squire '25, Class secretary: GORDON PATCH THOMP College through the 1984 Alumni Fund, with Fairfield; and Nelson W. Bailey '28, China. SON, 2458 Florentine Way #2, Clearwater, Fla. 37 members (who are also 37 percent of the Correspondent: ERNEST E. MILLER '29, 218 33575. class) contributing $4,672. This was 133 per Pickett District Road, New Milford, Conn. cent of the class goal! Please send more in • 06776. formation. There is on hand enough for a half column only at this time, and I hope to avoid Class secretary: AGNES CARLYLE sending form letters. Your correspondent 3 HADDEN (Mrs. Frederick C), 15 "struggled" it out in Florida for four years and is 50th reunion: June 6-9, 1985 Pequot Rd ., Wayland, Mass. • 6 now located near General Knox's home (Mont 3 5 Ralph "Roney" and Barbara How 01 778. ard Williams live in Southport, pelier) in Thomaston, Maine. However, please Maine, and winter in the Clearwater, Fla., use my Owls Head address. All good wishes. area. Until recently Roney was on the Board of Class secretary: FREDERICK G. DEMERS, P.O. Trustees and committees at Colby. They enjoy A variety of interesting items Box 26, Owls Head, Maine 04854. annual summer trips to Prince Edward Island, 3 7 come to hand. Hazel Wepfer where Roney does fly-fishing. Their two daugh Thayer was busily engaged in the ters and families live near them T. S. "Phil" most recent 1938 class reunion, chaired by • Krawiec now lives in Bethlehem, Pa., where husband Marble '38. All goes well at Orrs Janet Lowell Farley is a librarian in his son Steven is a fu ll professor at Lehigh Island, whence they occasionally travel to see 3 8 Westbrook, Maine. The Farleys University. Phil is author of many publications two California-based daughters Thanks, Val have three daughters and nine • in the field of psychology and, in 1971, re Duff, for your letter advising us of your retire grandchildren, and Janet is very busy in club ceived the Distinguished Teaching Award ment in Hingham, Mass. You noted a great and community activities. Their travels have from the American Psychological Founda deal of fishing activity and golfing. One can i11cluded a trip to Alaska via the Love Boat tion Richmond "Dick" Noyes, semi-retired denote a touch of wistfulness in your declara Charles "Moose" Dolan, retired college pro • • in Oak Hill, W.Va., said he spends April tion that you have six granddaughters. Why fessor, stays close to the sea. He is living in through October in Maine and February couldn't one have been a boy? He spoke for all Portsmouth, N.H., and is active in the Coast through March in Naples, Fla. He has a men's when he closed with, "What great, great years Guard Auxiliary. He still rides his Suzuki. The and women's clothing store in Oak Hill-how we had at Colby in the '30s," to which we all Dolans have a daughter and two granddaugh do you get so much time off, Dick? He has a say "Amen." Jane Tarbell Brown and hus ters Martha Wakefield Falcone is a kinder • • daughter who graduated from Colby in 1964 band are turning in their first full retirement garten teacher in Hartford, Conn. She has five and a son Robert "Bob" Estes is retired, liv year and "are adjusting." Jane's finest report children and three grandchildren. Martha • ing in Rangeley, Maine, He has made several was relative to her daughter. Sandra is one of works in peace movements within her church. trips to Alaska to visit his daughter and son the film editors for the "Smithsonian World" Also she spends weekends at her home in Ver and to fish. Bob has another son and daughter series on PBS. What a wonderful opportunity mont Bill Meppen is retired from the print • in Maine and nine grandchildren. He said he she has. Congratulations, Jane Winthrop ing trade. His hobbies are photography and • cuts and splits eight cords of wood annual Jackson, vicar of St. Andrews Church in Read amateur radio. His second marriage includes a ly-who can beat that? • Richard Ball, field, was a recent visiting vicar at St. Paul's in six-year-old daughter Mitchell Phillips and • Marlborough, Mass., is retired. He has two Brunswick, Maine Whit Wright, retired U.S. his wife, Sylvia, live 1n Newton Center, Mass., IK • sons and three grandchildren and hopes to Navy captain, is very active in Boothbay Har where he has his ow n business as an insurance J.J. �� make our SOth Kay Herrick McCrodden, bor politics as well as chairman of the Annual broker Charles MacGregor has retired from • • Berkeley, Calif., had not yet retired as an ad Support Fund Drive for the regional YMCA. It Greenfield Surgical Associates and has Iii ministrative assistant in the University of appears that Colonel Stanley Washuk and become a tree farmer in Bernardston, Mass. tl! California library when she wrote last March. Captain Wright are ou r senior military Mar After graduating from Harvard Medical School, �\( • H Kay has two sons and two grandchildren. jorie Gould Murphy is tutoring in the "mys Charlie practiced at Peter Bent Brigham and at loo Over the Christmas holidays she made a teries of English composition" at West Oneon hospitals in Colorado and New Mexico Julie • round trip by bus from California to Maine! She ta, N.Y. The Goulds recently were together for Haskell McNamara bought a home in Myrtle, expects to make it to our 50th Joe Stevens, the first time in years: Roger '40 and Ruth Conn., and does part-time work at the Mystic • Unity, Maine, is retired and travels a lot, and Gould Stebbins '40 from Hawaii, Don '33 and Seaport Museum Peg Schryver Bostelmann • summers on Lake Winnecook Harold Dot Gould Rhodes '36 from California, and and her semiretired husband are living in Carle �! • Brown, Bradenton, Fla., travels to Oakland, Gilbert and Ellie Gould from upstate New Place, N.Y. Archie Follett has reported in Jn • Maine, in the summer to be assistant director York. Their mother, Florence King Gould '08, from Lakeland, Fla. In 1979 he retired from Pa of the New England Music Camps. He planned and assorted grandchildren and great-grand Monsanto, where he had been a research p a trip to Europe this fall. He has three sons. He children were all on hand, too • Gordon chemist. His travels since then have taken him ! sees Francis Maker '36 and Chet Marden '21 "Steve" Young is still practicing dentistry in Bar to Costa Rica, Malawi, England, and Scotland. 1-0 often in Bradenton. We send our condolences Harbor. Both his daughter and son have re Archie and his wife were also in the Republic f' on the death of his brother, Carleton '33 mained stalwart Maine citizens. Steve poses a of South Africa from 1980 to 1982, while he ( • Mary Small Copithorne, Exeter, N.H., has a real "trivia" question: "Who played at our taught in a theological college. They visited private practice in individual, marital, and senior Winter Carnival-and it was a big many Pacific areas on their way home. Last family counseling. She was named Social name?" Your correct answer will be published. summer the vagabonds planned to travel to Worker of the Year for 1984 by the New Do you gals recall those lovely polished floors Alaska. The Folletts have four children and Hampshire chapter of the National Association you trod on each Sunday at Foss Hall? Steve eight grandchildren Archie asked about the • of Social Workers. Mary has four children and stayed up Saturday night to do them! Ray location of Al Beerbaum. Alumni office • seven grandchildren. She spent July 1983 in Pierce disclosed that he has been very busy in records place him in Pacific Grove, Calif. Great Britain with the Elderhostel pro Dexter, Maine. He plays piano for his church, Could we have a word from you, Al? In the • gram • Ruth Wheeler Wood is retired in hooks rugs, is a member of the Grange and most recent Annual Fund drive, 42 percent of Augusta, Maine, and tutors for Literacy the Republican Committee, works on the side our class gave the College 111 percent of our Volunteers. She and her husband spent for the Commerce Clearing House as an in $6,000 goal. That translates into 56 individuals November 1982 through March 1983 in En come adviser, and attends all Baptist contributing a total of $6,662. Well done! tax gland, house sitting for friends. Ruth has one conferences. I believe that is enough of a con Class secretary: LAWRENCE W. DWYER, 286 son, one daughter, and six grandchildren tribution to the community! • We had not Church St., Berlin, N.H. 03570. • 32 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ) First, many thanks to PegWhalen ACTIVIST HATCHES DEFY STEREOTYPES ____ _ 9 (in 1939, we called her Margaret J Ann) for her excellent class news 1lumns these past years. She is a busy per n, among other things a director of the )mmittee for a New England Bibliography, well organized, as I can tell from the 1t aterial she has turned over to me Our • union was a lot of fun and a real ego trip. 'e found that to each other we really aven't changed a bit!" • We're a much weled group; everyone seemed to be just 1ck or just going. Arline Bamber Veracka was st back from Ireland; Leila Ross Hyman was st back from Mexico's Sierra Madre Moun ms; jean Burr Smith was just going to otland and, later in the summer, to a semi- 1r on her specialty, math anxiety • zabeth "lppy• Solie Howard was off to Ger any, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and England r 11 weeks-a working vacation, as she sists her husband, Dick, a Harvard professor botany. lppy visited Edith Hendrickson 'illiams in Arizona some months ago Nat • ld Helen Carter Guptill announced a great andchild-a first for our class? Judy Quint • :hreider had our class-dinner group laughing Cleon H. '40 and Shirley 1er her report that she can't retire from Maddocks Ha tch '40 aching because she has to keep Stan at Har t rd. He is thoroughly enjoying the courses he 'Tm a pessimist-optimist and a radical-liberal-conservative," said Cleon Hatch '40, while taking there Mac Stevens came to our Shirley Maddocks Hatch '40 served a luncheon of tofu (soybean curd) lasagna and carob • union alone, as Millie Colwell Stevens was brownies at their farm in Denmark, Maine. He added, 'Tm not so sure putting people in Thayer Hospital, recovering from surgery. to boxes is the best way to analyze them." >me of us visited her, and we found her look g great and ready to go home to a new The Hatches, both born and raised in Maine, resist pigeonholing for good reason. In )Use they have built in Albion, Maine • Our stead of fitting into the traditional roles of complaisant retired persons, for which they stinguished classmate Elliot H. Drisko retired are eligible, they have built a unique life for themselves as political activists, organic • executive director of the Family Service farmers, and outspoken citizens. )ciety in Yonkers, N.Y., after 38 years as a When Shirley and Cleon graduated in 1940, they weren't very interested in politics, 1arriage and family therapist and adminis ator. Newspaper stories credit him with nor in each other. think literature is what we cared about most then," Shirley said. "I �veloping many new programs, and he has They spent the 10 years following graduation rediscovering one another, marrying, earn •ceived several awards. He and his staff of ing master's degrees at the University of New Hampshire, and beginning careers as sec 30 served over a thousand families a month. ondary school teachers of English and Latin. 1s doctorate is from Columbia Ellis Mott • As for the genesis of their political lives, Shirley said, think the Vietnam War is what ·tired from the New York City Board of Edu- "I 1tion's Office of Public Affairs. He, his wife, changed us. That might be the turning point." Cleon agreed: "We saw the effects of the vo daughters, and their families have estab Vietnam War on the students in the school and the teachers." Veterans of several peace .hed the Evans Valley Vineyard in Port Or- marches, the Hatches think that war is again the most important issue of the day. "Does 1rd, Oreg. His son is in the U.S. Forest Service, �· peace come out of the barrels of guns?" wondered Cleon in a letter to the editor of a 1d daughter Hannah is an artist in San Fran sco More travelers: Estelle Rogers Mac Portland paper. While they are frightened by the ever-increasing world arsenal, they re • onald and her husband celebrated their 40th tain an innocent hope that nuclear annihilation is not inevitable. think we could avoid "I edding anniversary in Bermuda; Dwight and Ill it," Shirley said, "if everyone would try." nad ours in England • Peg Whalen went to :a· The plight of endangered and abused animals is another concern of Shirley's. We must d uis, London, and Dublin, and said, "I almost Jt my pocket picked and so got an interest accept, she claimed, that "animals are not ours; they are Cod's creatures." Deplorable g trip to the famous Bow Street Police Sta laboratory conditions, inhumane cattle fa rming, and the exploitation of whales trouble not the highlight but the most unex her. "Whales are awfully intelligent," she said. "They might be more intelligent than we :>n, ected episode of the trip!" are." Cleon sucked on his pipe and muttered in agreement, "All the signs are pointing in Class secretary: SALLY ALDRICH ADAMS, 22 that direction." liller St., Medfield, Mass. 02052. What else is important to these practitioners of the liberal arts? Actually, they have an opinion on most issues, one that is well researched. The Hatches habitually make notes on everything that they read, and their home is cluttered with stacks of such periodicals as The Progressive and Washington Spectator and with shelves of books. In just a few :� hours of conversation, they touched on a varied collection of topics, including American 45th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 40 My first effort as class secretary intervention in Central America, world hunger, and pesticide spraying. • mentioned 30 of the 34 that The Hatches recognize limitless possibilities for improving the human condition and nswered the questionnaire. I can now relay would rather work toward their realization than sit by idly. "We didn't set out to be radi ie news of the others that were received cals," said Shirley, "but I hate injustice. Once I've made up my mind about something, 1ter, as well as add to the first report. I will do I want to stand up for it." iis in the future, too, as there can be no such i1ng as "what's old news" for our group • .. Bridg,., gu;d,noe 34 THE COLBY ALUM US RAUCH SHOWS WAY WITH WORDS ______� 1" Pl(! ( According to Sidney Rauch '43, improving a student's vocabulary skills is the key to in ti( creasing reading comprehension. "Youngsters are interested in words," said the senior r� author of The World of Vocabulary series, workbooks designed for junior and senior high school students whose reading skills are underdeveloped. ''We use full-page il- Iii! lustrations with a sequence of seven or eight follow-up exercises. We want youngsters to read something of interest to them, so we concentrate on political and athletic J 1 iljj figures, movie stars, and travel," he said. Rauch called the reading series one of the most :iac popular in the country, and well he might-the seven workbooks together have already sold more than one million copies. He is currently working on an eighth. '10 �t' Rauch has taught reading and education at the graduate level at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., for 30 years. He is now on sabbatical, working on his textbook Reading Leadership: A Guide for Administrators. Meanwhile, he also writes quarterly columns for the journal Reading World. His favorite hobby? You guessed it: reading! 11 , '"' Sidney J. Rauch '43 ERT March, and their son lives in Texas. Jeanice dorm, rain, rain, rain. Delicious meals, great tied "A Tribute to Ben," chronicles his career as 1 !I would like to hear from classmates in the fun, warm fellowship-let's do it again, Maine's youngest legislator, at age 21; pastor, area • Betty Tobey Choate wrote, "At last we soon!" • Harold Vigue (Waterville, Maine): "I both in Aroostook and Washington counties are grandparents." She and Dave flew to enjoyed our 40th reunion with '44 classmates. as well as central Maine; publisher of the California to visit son Jon and family and did See you all in five years" • Also at our re "Mars Hill View"; editor of the Record; and some traveling in California and Arizona. Their union were Barbara Baylis Primiano (Barring twice a candidate for U.S. president, first as a tht 11 second son, Edward "Tobey," was to be mar ton, R.1.); Peter H. lgarashi (Waterville, Maine), Prohibitionist then as a National Statesman in ried 1n September. He is head of the computer who is rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church 13 states. As a member of the executive board R� 100 operations at Arthur D. Little • Sid Rauch is there; and Harold Joseph (Fairfield, Maine). of the American Council on Alcohol Problems oJ on special leave from his duties at Hofstra That doesn't add up to 40 attendees, although as well as several other national temperance \hi University during the fall semester so that he it attests to a good time had by all • Your organizations, Ben has helped stir the nation's ;ho can complet work on a new text, Reading latest class correspondent got up enough conscience about the dangers of alcohol. The dai Leadership A Guide for Administrators and energy to take a "first'' for the fourth time at Christian Civic League, under Ben's supervi Supervisors. The revised edition of his Hand- the Master's National two-mile swim in In sion, has become increasingly effective in 111 book for the Volunteer Tutor was to be pub diana • Please, please, please, send news! dealing with moralistic legislative issues. He is lished this fall. Sid and Dorothy hope to do Class secretary: NANCY CURTIS LAWRENCE a very positive kind of person and has re lrl!. some traveling during Sid's leave • A last (Mrs. Watson A.), 502 S. 4th Ave., St. Charles, marked, "I've had a whole lot of fun-the nd note: The figures are out on the 1984 Alumni Ill. 601 74. Lord's been good to me." The goodness that J Fund drive and they show that 37 percent-SO Ben has found in God, others recognize as members-of our class contributed $3,880, 86 shining out through him. This has caused the percent of our 1984 goal. It was interesting to Down East magazine to dub him "Maine's Smil 40th reunion: June 7-9, 1985. lPll note how close the dollar amounts and per ing Crusader," for, ''The creases of a thousand Class secretary: Mr. BEYERLY F. centages of goal are for the classes 1941-1945. smiles surround his eyes." Our best wishes go 4 BOOTH, 234 Jackson St., Newton Wouldn't it be great to hit 100 percent next 5 with you, Ben and Ginny, as you start your re Center, Mass. 021 59. year? • Please keep the news coming. tirement years • Following is a list of class Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART BRAUN members whose locations are unknown. If any MULLER (Mrs. Albert R.), 115 Lake Rd., Basking of you know their present addresses, please Ridge, N.J. 07920. Congratulations to all of you contact either the alumni office or me. Thank faithful members of the class who you. Anita Herdegen Allen, Earl W. Anthony, 46 contributed to the 1984 Alumni Clarence W. Barry, Robert A. Brennan, John E. Fund. We came in at 110 percent of our goal Carman, Paul G. Gaffney, Faye Hafford Greetings! We have celebrated but had only 35 percent participation. Let's set O'Leary, Robert W. Hanes, Elmer H. Jacek, 44 our 40th year since graduation, a higher goal for next year. With more contrib James S. Lott, Janice Mills, R. Weston Pierce, whether we like to admit it or notl uting, we can do it! • Congratulations also Winsor Rippon, Robert Rogers, David L Judging from the comments of those attend are due to Fred Sontag and Ben Bubar. Fred Thomas, Jason P. Toabe, and Joseph G. Von ing, it was a fun time • Louise Callahan was chosen as one of the first recipients of the Handorf. Johnson (Weymouth, Mass.): "Enjoyed the Margot M. Studer Award given for service to Class secretary: NORMA TWIST MURRAY 40th" • Jean Ferrell Howe (Waterville, his community, business, and state. Members (Mrs. Paul F.), 28 Birdsall St., Winsted, Conn. Maine): "We had forty people at our 40th re of the 75th Anniversary Committee of Mont 06098. union" • Shirley Ellice Lord (Philadelphia, Pa.): clair State College of Upper Montclair, N.J., "Charles Lord-my husband, Class of '42-was selected the first recipients of the Studer JUSt re-elected to the Common Pleas Court Awards from among business and community Class secretary: ELIZABETH WADE after ten years on the bench in Philadelphia. leaders, political leaders, union leaders, and DRUM (Mrs. John J.), 44 Country He was elected for life. I finished my eighth ecumenical and religious leaders • Ben re 7 4 Village Lane, Sudbury, Mass. year working with a learning disability class" tired in June after 31 years as the Christian 01 776. • W. Harris Graf (Reading, Mass.): "I enjoyed Civic League superintendent. The late Ernest 40th reunion. I'm still working as a dentist and Marriner '13, former dean of faculty at Colby spend time between Reading and Lake Winni and at one time a league board member, once pesaukee-skiing, painting, boating-enjoying! noted, 'Without Ben, there would be no civic I am glad it is not my responsibili Hope to see more people at 45th!" • Virginia league." An interesting and informative four ty to ask for contributions to the Howard Atherton (Schenectady, N.Y.): "Cold page article in The Civic League Record, enti- 48 Alumni Fund, but I must tell you THE COLBY ALUM S 35 that I was proud to read that our class ranked shared and bared his life story since his Colby us-contributed a hefty $1 3,292. Let's keep up high in terms of participation. Many thanks to days. I wish I had space to share it with you. It our good work! all of you who added to the percentages was exciting, thought-provoking, and humane, Class secretary: MARY HATHAWAY CHERRY, With his retirement !ast June, Gene Hunter and it made me wonder: how do we judge the 63 Indian Pond Road, Kingston, Mass. 02364. • wound down a distinguished sports career quality of our lives? We really must have some that spanned 47 years as player, coach, and "lows" to appreciate the "highs," and taking athletic director. His record was indeed a win chances, no matter the outcome, can add 35th reunion: June 7-9, 1985. ning one. Gene is vice president of the Maine spice to an otherwise bland existence. Keep Class secretary: ALAN E. SILBER Sports Hall of Fame. We wish a happy retire the letters coming-I would welcome argu 50 MAN, 769 Rockrimmon Rd., ment for him and his wife, Mary, residents of ments! Stamford, Conn. 06903. Cape Elizabeth. They have seven children and Class secretary: VIRGINIA BREWER FOLINO eleven grandchildren-it sounds as if they (Mrs. Francis R.), RR 1, Box 61 3, Grand Isle, Vt. could use a rest! Beverly Holmes Center 05458. This is written in the latter part of • and her husband, Dan, live in New Milford, July, and the Cannells have just Conn., where she is a physical therapist and 5 1 spent a lovely weekend at the he is superintendent of schools. Bev wrote Alex Richard, retired secondary Lee's summer home in Harrison, Maine. We 11!1 that they have four grown daughters all in 4 9 school principal from Madison played in a mixed-doubles tennis tournament. volved in vital and interesting work, including (Maine) High School, member of The Cannells were defeated right off, but the one who is in the Peace Corps in Nepal At the Maine House of Representatives, and ad Lees made it to the finals of the consolation • our 40th Waterville High School reunion in Ju mission liaison officer for the Air Force Bob Lee tells me that he recently spoke to • ly, I had the chance to visit with Bev and Academy and Air Force ROTC, considers (Haddon) Fiz Fraser, who has his own in several other members of our Colby Class of legislative work a continuation of what he has surance agency in New York Ed Laverty • '48. They included Ruth Barron Lunder, Leo done all his life-dealing with people. He filed nomination papers as a candidate for Daviau, Virginia Hill Field, and Ann McAlary served on the Aging, Retirement, and Veter House District 36 in Maine. He is married to Hall The son of Charles and Mary Louise ans Committee in his first term and on the the former Justine Murch and has three grown • Coulombe Boddy, Charles, Jr., of Lawrence, Health and Institutional Services Committee children. For the past 32 years he has been Mass., graduated magna cum laude from Col during both the 110th and 111th legislative employed by Liberty Mutual Insurance Com by last June and was elected to Phi Beta Kap sessions, as well as on the Maine Environmen pany in South Portland, Maine. It's hard to im pa. He now attends Boston College Law tal Health Advisory Committee and on the Di agine Ed Laverty in the same legislature as School Natalie Pretat Arnold of Foster, R.I., abetic Control Project Council. In recent years john McSweeney '50, who is a Democrat. It • has been promoted to assistant treasurer at he has been named Citizen of the Year by will be like Public Broadcastings "Crossfire; Citizens Bank. She is a member of Credit both the Kennebec Valley Grange and the with Ed on the right and john on the leh Women International, the National Associa Skowhegan-Madison Elks. He is a charter Another Colby person running for the state • tion of Bank Women, and the American Insti member and a past president of the Madison legislature is Janet Winters. Janet is a Ken tute of Banking David Marson, that shy and Area Health Council, serves as a director of nebunkport native, a self-employed realtor, • introverted member of our illustrious class, the Friends of Lakewood Theatre and the and the mother of three children Ben Pear • has been Colby Alumni Council chairman for Maine Sports Hall of Fame, and is a member of son is the president of Byfield Snuff Company. the past two years. Dave is president of the the Madison-Anson Chamber of Commerce. It is the smallest snuff company in the United New Can Company in Holbrook, Mass. I Hobbies for Alex and his wife, Shirley, include States and the only one with a working water • received the first-place trophy for photogra golf, cross-country skiing, camping, and travel wheel. Ben is the ninth generation of his mill phy in the St. Michael's College Arts Festival 1n ing Allen I. Dublin taught a Hawthorne Col owning family Bill Hale works for Ben's • • the spring and, in June, the Harold Knight lege Extension Division course entitled "Intro company and is developing new packages so Award for technical excellence for a collage duction to Economics," which was an intro that the company can remain competitive in that I submitted to the Northern Vermont Art ductory analysis of the United States' econom today's market I'm starting to run low on • Association's juried show Getting news ic system as it affects the average citizen. It in class news and would appreciate any letters • from so many of you makes this job of class cluded a study of economic resources, market you could send me of your activities I did • secretary easy-a piece of cake-but the icing places, business organization, labor, money, have a nice note from Bart Panzenhagen. Here for the cake is a letter I received from Phil and public finance In the 1984 Alumni Fund are some excerpts from it: "I've taken early • Shulman of Santa Rosa, Calif., in which he drive, 107 members of our class-42 percent of retirement from my job as director of opera- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS: AN INTRIGUING CAREER'S NEW CHAPTER _____ Harland Eastman '51 keeps 6,000 to 8,000 antiquarian and out-of-print books in the barn chamber of his Spri ngvale, Maine, home, and this does not include his private collection. A book dealer who retired as American consul general to Tangier, Morocco, in 1979, Eastman said that collecting books has been his hobby for the last 25 years. In 1980 Eastman became the first president of the Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Association. This organization holds antiquarian book fairs in Portland and publishes an annual direc tory. It is not surprising that Eastman, who received his B.A. in history and his M.A. in interna tional economics and diplomatic history, considers his own favorite volumes to be the Maine town histories. "I have the largest private collection of this set," he said. His inter est in history has led him to restore an 1892-93 guest register of the Springvale House hotel and to supervise an addition to his home that closely follows the original architec ture. Eastman serves on the board of trustees at the American Legation Museum in Moroc co, a national historic monument that he had helped to refurbish. Last summer he re turned to Morocco for the first time since his retirement, accompanied by his adopted Moroccan son. Harland H. Eastman '51 KJG 36 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ons for Stern's Department Store. I had been Philadelphia. Vang1e and Forrest had some bers. Many thanks to those who contributed 1ith them for over 15 years, and I decided I ha1r-ra1s1ng experiences traveling through this year and, at the risk of sounding like a ad enough of corporations. wanted to do Afghanistan, Siberia, and Japan John Ratoff cheerleader, can we please hear from more of I • omething new and exciting." He is now living has been appointed commissioner of the De you next year? 46 School St. in Kennebunk, Maine. He partment of Employment Security for the State Class secretary: CAROLYN ENGLISH BEANE, t ·wns an old historic landmark townhouse in of New Hampshire. He and Arlene Tobey 8 Arizona Terrace, Arlington. Mass. 021 74. Jew York City's West Greenwich Village. He's Ratoff live in Exeter Dave Crockett is a pro • een repainting his own duplex, preparatory fessor of chemistry at Lafayette College and renting it for a few years. After his move to has received recognition for his work in the Dorothy Duda Cecelski, who has J 1aine, he said he would probably try to be study of deep sea clay. His work has been pub 5 4 worked for Common Cause for ome involved in real estate and the refur lished by the U.S. Government Printing Of many years, has been named sec <1shing and renovating of older homes I fice Our class had a good year in Alumni retary of its National Governing Board. She will • • 1as recently checking out of the Holiday Inn in Fund contributions with a part1cipat1on of 37 also continue to serve as director of state com urlington, Vt., and noticed a familiar face in percent. We reached 80 percent of our munications Katherine "Kitsie" Davenport • 1e checkout lane-the Madison Bull Dog, Er $10,000 goal. Congratulations. Lindsay is a claims authorizer for the Social ie Fortin, on his annual tour to the telephone Class secretary: DONALD G. HAILER, 28 Security Administration and 1s working for a ·affic department of which he is manager. Er Forest Road. Glen Rock, N.J. 07452. degree in computer programming After 26 • ie has worked for the New England Tele- years as an engineer with Beckman Instru 1hone Company ever since he graduated ments, Lee Gropper has retired and looks for ·om Colby. He lives in Dover, Mass. Ellie Hay Holway will be using her ward to some traveling. He lives in Los Altos Class secretaries: ROBERT E. CANNEU, 2 5 3 considerable talents for the next Hills, Calif. Lois McCarty Carlson is now • obinhood Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 three years in the town of Acton, associate director of development at Connect nd CHARLES S. MclNTYRE, 27 Elm St., Mass., where she was recently elected to the icut College. She has enjoyed travels to l\arblehead, Mass. 01 945. school committee for the second time. An Austria and Russia in the last couple of elementary teacher in Maynard, Ellie received years Derek Tatlock is now in business for • her M.Ed. from the University of Lowell and is himself; his Tatlock Exploration specializes in Nita Hale Barbour is a professor of a doctoral candidate in educational leadership oil and gas development and management 5 2 elementary education and recent at Boston University Roger Huebsch con Charles Windhorst is executive vice presi • • ly presented a paper to the World tinues to serve Colby, this year as a represen dent of Communispond in New York )rganization in Geneva. She and Chandler tative to the Alumni Council and a member of City Herbert Adams has published his third • 1ave two children: Valerie is a physical the council's nominating committee. Roger, book, Listening Your Way to Management herapist, and Steven graduated from Colby vice president of Duralectra in Natick, Mass., Success. He is vice president and director of ast June Patty Merrill Pratt is a human lives in South Dartmouth with wife Sue Smith publications for Laidlaw Brothers, a division of • esource consultant based in Medfield, Mass. Huebsch '54, also a continuing and enthusias Doubleday and Company Philip K. Reiner • -!erson, Bob, attends college in California. She tic Colby supporter A note from Kitty Deutsch is an Amtrak ticket clerk at Los • Kcasionally visits Carol Sue Smith Done Webster Smith tells of a move from Bloom Angeles Union Station Richard and Ann • an Jerry Holtz, a partner at Arthur Ander ington, Minn., to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An in Burger Noonan '53 have been stationed in • .en and Company, celebrated three 25th an- vitation was extended to "anyone heading Mildenhall, England, with the U.S. Air Force. 1iversaries last year: those of his marriage, Ar west on to stop by for a visit. Kitty's hus They were scheduled to relocate to Fairchild 1-80" hur Andersen, and graduation from Harvard band is senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church Air Force Base in Spokane, Wash., in Au lusiness School. Most important, daughter as of August 1, 1984. It's hard to believe, but gust Our Florida contingent includes Allen • Caren graduated from Colby Dave Robin Kitty and Theoren have four grown children Sandler, who is an importer of rattan and • ;on is with the New York Department of and four granddaughters Chuck Spencer, a wicker baskets and accessories • Anne • rransportation and is a lieutenant colonel in geologist with the U.S. Geologic Survey at the "Susie" Delamater Lovaas is secretary to the he Civil Air Patrol. Son Dave Ill is at college in Denver Federal Center, is president-elect of systems sales manager of Webb-Norfolk Con /ermont near Stowe, where his dad intends to the Rocky Mountain section of the American veyor in Cohasset, Mass. She reports she is etire Bill Taylor is in insurance and financial Association of Petroleum Geologists for now single, has been taking courses in word • )lanning in San Diego. He recently retired as a 1983-84 and will serve as president in 1985. processing and computer, has five grandchil :aptain in the Coast Guard. His wife, Valerie, is The RMS/AAPG represents ten local and re dren, and is a deaconess in her church • )Ursuing her Ph.D. They have three in col gional geological societies in the Rocky Moun David Wallingford is eastern regional sales ege Nancy Hughes Bates wrote that she tain region and adjacent states. Chuck re manager for Emco Wheaton, which means • 1as recently moved to San Jose, Calif. Nor ceived his master's degree from the University "too much traveling" to cover his territory: • na BergquistGarnett and orv '51 lead a busy of Illinois in 1955 and worked for Texaco everything east of the Mississippi, Maine to ife. She deals with four children, two grand before joining the Geological Survey ten years Florida, plus Texas and Arkansas Theodore • :hildren, full-time teaching, involvement in ago. He and his wife, Joyce Witham Spencer Rice is in private practice as a mental health �ducational and civic affairs, Colby admissions '54, live in Lakewood, Colo. And now, a lit consultant, therapist, and educator and is • nterviewing, and travels to Spain and still finds tle bragging on a personal level: This June, I associate professor of business communica ·ime to write a classroom workbook in her witnessed my youngest two of five children tions at the University of Southern Maine Jrofession Rod Howes retired from the Air graduate with honors from college, Lisa from Carol Perron Hennig is a psychiatric social • • =orce and lives in Redlands, Calif. Rod and Becker Junior College and Linda from Dart worker at a community health center. She and vtlry Ann traveled extensively with their three mouth. Lisa received the President's Award, Bill '52 celebrated their 30th anniversary with a :hildren. Son Bob now travels around the the highest honor given to the outstanding all three-week trip to Scandinavia Ruth Brind • ..vorld, servicing ships and oil rigs. Andrew is around senior, while Linda graduated as a ley Cheney is vice president, controller, and in Air Force Academy graduate, and Nancy is member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Tucker the first woman appointed to the corporate :1t college. Rod drives their travel trailer to the Honor Society and recipient of the Dallett board of directors of ew Hampshire Distribu ;ki slopes in less than an hour, to the beach in Spanish prize. Also, if you happen to live in the tors. less than two, and to the desert in between. Bangor area and you watch the Today show, Class secretary: BARBARA GUERNSEY EDDY He would love to hear from Colby take note of the handsome, bearded gentle {Mrs. C. Arthur), Box 198, RFD 1, Lincoln City friends Vangie Sferes Getzen has finished man who gives the local news update. He just Rd., Salisbury, Conn. 06068. • graduate school and is working in health ser happens to be my eldest son, David. Sorry vices for the state of orth Carolina. Her hus folks, proud Mama here One final note: 35 • band, Forrest, teaches chemistry at orth percent of our class donated $6,520 to the 30th reunion: June 7-9, 1985. Carolina State University. Their three children Alumni Fund this year, 72 percent of our class 55 Class secretary: SUE BIVEN have grown: Hart is in film production in goal. The classes of '52 and '54 came up with STAPLES (Mrs. Selden C), 430 Hollywood, Katherine Anna is in financial 84 percent and 97 percent of their goals, Lyons Rd., Liberty Corner, .J. management, and Peter is in commodities in respectively, from 37 percent of their mem- 07938. THE COLBY ALUMN S 37 Don Dunbar has become vice petroleum exploration and production com Class secretary: MARILYN PER (I/ 6 president of Sandoe and Asso panies whose drilling 1s confined to Colorado, KINS CANTON (Mrs. Richard), ciates. an educational consult Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. Working six 2731 Sherbrook, Shaker Heights, ing5 firm in Boston. Having left Phillips Acade 57 days a week, he still awakens in the night to Ohio 44122. my, Andover, for private business, he now study logs on wells they have dug to total helps young adults and teenagers, as well as depth. The excitement of deciding whether to their parents, with the school and college ad complete or plug, or of finding out if it is a well Class secretary: LOIS MUNSON missions process. He is also involved in profes· or a dry hole, is still very much with him. MEGA THLIN, 20 Ledgewood sional work at Trinity Church in Boston on a When not working with stroke victims and the Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine part-time basis. Don's wife, Susan, is a second 58 lonely elderly, Virginia manages to get John off 04 107. year student at Dartmouth Medical School at to Maui, where they will celebrate their 25th ·r the age of 37. Daughter Megan is a sopho wedding anniversary this winter. The Chat more at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. The fields enjoyed seeing Bob and Dodie Aikman I had a wonderful time at our re Dunbars can also be found at their 222-year· Adel and Bob and Fran Wren Raymond '58 all union 1n spite of the rain and the old farmhouse in West Falmouth on Cape looking "great" at the last Colorado Colby lobster lunch and my bed. Being Cod. This past summer Don enjoyed visiting Club meeting It was good to hear from a5 committee 9 member does not guarantee one • with his former roommate, Justin Cross. On Hank Cohen, who lives in White Plains, N.Y., sheets or respect. Al '58 said, "Oh look what the subject of fraternities, Don feels that their and is the rental manager for Warner Brothers someone's done to your bed. My bed is termination was a good decision, as he be Music. Hank's son, Gerald, is a senior at Mercy made!" For the readers from other classes, • lieves they tended to fragment the student College in New York, and his daughter, here are some gleanings from our class book: body and dehumanize the students in Kathleen, a junior at Roger Williams College in Stan Armstrong is racing hydros in Wisconsin volved Colorado claims a few '56ers, Rhode Island. Hank gets to Winnipeg and back • Keet and Bev Johnson Arnett '60 still live in among them John Chatfield, who moved to • to his hometown of Toronto often Pre· Holden, Mass. Robert "Tank" Auriemma is Denver after receiving his master's degree in • • liminary 1984 Alumni Fund totals showed that a grandpa Carol "Sanka" Sandquist Banister • geology at Columbia University. He met and the Class of '56 did well, contributing 93 per is in Minneapolis: fit, feisty, and fortunate married Virginia in Denver, and I have heard cent of our $20,000 goal, but the Class of '59 Brian '58 and Carole Jelinek Barnard are • they have quite an accomplished daughter, met 100 percent of the same goal. I think we busy antiquing and learning and doing things Karen, who is a senior English major at Rice could get there as well if we could increase related to their "new" old house Glady£ University in Houston. She has received the • our participation, which was only at 32 per Frank Bernyk works in California in special "best actress" award twice at Rice and, I am cent, lower than ten classes above or below education Dave Bloom's son, Michael '85, sure, must have inherited her father's good • us. Next year? 1s at Colby john Brooks has completed the looks! A petroleum geologist, John is a hope • 11� Class secretary: JUDITH PENNOCK LILLEY Boston and New York marathons Bob less workaholic, blaming his Colby courses in • (Mrs. Albert F.), 180 Lincoln Ave., Ridgewood, "Brucie" and Judy Garland Bruce '58 married geology for starting this happy affair. He serves N.J 07450. off both of their children in 10 months Bill on the boards and is a principal in two small • Chapin lives 1n Illinois and has a farm in New Hampshire and a condo at Sugarloaf Jay • Church flies a Piper Aztec, sails, windsurfs, A MANNER OF GIVING skis, golfs, plays tennis and is a grandfather Tom Connors is a director of a college, a • bank, a company, a T\' station, and the United Way Jacqueline Bendelius Davidson de • 16 signed and built a house featured in the May II 1983 Home magazine Clare "Bobbin" Burns • fl) Drinkwater works for NYNEX See Al and • Priscilla Ilsley Koelb Nancy Thompson Fearing for Dairy Queens and antiques Susan "Feathers" Fethersten • Frazer is teaching French at Wesleyan See • Priscilla Ilsley Koelb, a former resident of Waterville, died June 19 in Pomona, Calif., at Liz Hay Gauvin for flowers Norman "Gig" • [.< Gigon lives in California, where he directs the age of 80. Her ties with Waterville and with Colby were many. Formerly the owner t human resources (does that mean he pushes of a home on Mayflower Hill, she retained her membership in the First Baptist Church ar people around?) Peggy Bradbury Gigon is here and communicated regularly with Waterville friends. Counted among her Colby • a1 studying for an M.A. at Lehigh University while I relatives are 12 llsleys, Morrills, and Padelfords whose years of graduation span 1834 to directing an outpatient psychiatric clinic I. • n 1973: her great-great-uncle Silas Ilsley, 1834; father, Reuben L. Ilsley, 1891 ; mother, Mary Michael Goodman is a New York City real Morrill Ilsley, 1891; aunt Lucia Haskell Morrill, 1893; aunts Clara Prescott Morrill, Frances estate developer (and still a super smiler) • See Marion Kimball Guth for tax help Aloha Horton Morrill, Crace Ilsley Padelford, all 1894; aunt Gertrude Ilsley Padelford, 1896; • from Gary Hagerman, lawyer Wilbur grandfather George Boardman Ilsley, D.D. 1897; brother Morrill L. Ilsley, 1917; nephew • Hayes, biology professor, spent a month in John L. Ilsley, 1946; and grandnephew Paul J. Ilsley, 1973. South America last summer • Nancy Nelson In 1974, in honor of her Colby lineage, Mrs. Koelb gave her Mayflower Hill home to Hellquist is a teaching grandma jean Smith • Colby in exchange for a gift annuity matching Its value of $38,750. While she received Hummel is active in Connecticut Republican politics Judy Roberts Jenkins plans to move annuity payments for the remainder of her life, the Priscilla Koelb endowment fund ap • to Sunapee, N.H. Nancy Gross Kalin grows • preciated to a value of $63,000. Colby Director of Personnel Nicolaas Kaan is now the orchids when she's not teaching • Howard owner of the former Koelb home, and Dean of Students Janice Seitzinger is a former resi "Pete" Lockwood lives 45 minutes from Ep dent. In a July 1974 letter, Mrs. Koelb commented on those lingering ties: "This gives me cot Don "Skeeter" Megathlin is en • gaged Cyndy Crockett Mendelson opened great joy. The College brings together a sense of heritage for me." Again in May 1975, • a third store (and is tan year 'round) Ruth she expressed satisfaction in the results of her gift to Colby. • Freeman O'Neill and her family run a weekly The Reverend Howard E. Koelb died in advance of his wife. Their daughters, Mary newspaper in northern Michigan jack and • Koelb Willard and Helen Koelb Snow, live in Houston, Calif., and Watertown, Conn., re Barbara Hunter Pallotta will sell you insurance and then do your taxes Richard and spectively. • Suzanne Moulton Russell are "honeymooning" Those at Colby who were privileged to know Priscilla Ilsley Koelb are happy to have in their empty nest Boyd Sands is a school • shared her warmth, caring, infectious smile, and example of Christian living, demon superintendent Frances "Sancy" Buxton • strated in part through her unique manner of giving. Scheele is active in the Cursillo movement • 38 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ___ __ :LAREY ENCOURAGES GREATNESS ______ s director and professor of women's studies at the University of Southern Maine in ortland, Joanne Herbold Clarey '62 is able to promote awareness of an issue that has ::incerned her for years. While teaching at Ithaca College, the University of Maine at trono, and various public school systems, Clarey noticed that there was often "a loss of otential and greatness in girls and women." As the fi rst coordinator of USM's women's udies program, she is now able to put her belief in "preventive education" into prac ce. "I look at the college's curriculum to see how many classes reflect women, and I 1ake recommendations for revision. I also develop the women's studies program, pro- 1de programing, and hire and work with the women's studies faculty," she said. Clarey continues a private counseling practice, is a consultant to a rape crisis center, nd serveson the advisory board for the Portland Resource for Displaced Homemakers. larey believes, however, that females must be educated early in their lives about the 1any opportunities available to them. "Women's studies should begin in kindergarten," 1e proposed. JG Joanne Herbold Clarey '62 ·ank Seebode was host to the Hong Kong was so brief that I was not certain it was the The Pickmans-Claire, Arthur, ephew of Dennis Ting '60 last year • See Elmer Bartels from Colby until this week, when Heidi, and Beth-have been in ob '58 and Joan Hoffman Theve for laughs Penny Dietz Sullivan sent me a copy of an arti 6 2 Florida since 1973. For the past 1d warm fuzzies • See Irving"Skip" and Joan cle about Elmer that appeared in the April is four years, Arthur has been president of Cap rowell Tolette '60 if you want to buy five sue of Guidepos ts. According to the article, Industries, which deals with computer hard :res in Waterville • See Ed Tomey to consult Elmer spent the year after the accident in ware. Oldest daughter Heidi is enrolled at oout anything • June Landry Van Gestel's Boston hospitals, undergoing operations and Tufts to pursue an engineering degree. She Jn graduated from Colby in June • Sing learning to live with his handicap. In late 1961, graduated from high school early, in January long with Jay and Chris Rand Whitman in he went to Howard Rusk Institute at New York 1984, and spent the rest of the academic year {Osset, N.Y. • Al Wilbur is director of public University for evaluation. While he was there, studying at American High School in Israel. Ar �lations at national headquarters in he learned two important things: how to use thur went to a Colby cocktail party at john AAA v'ashington, D.C. • Joanne Woods was hon arm splints to do some things for himself and "Spud" McHale's house when President Cotter red by Harvard for 25 years of service, cur that he could do anything he wanted to. From was visiting in the spring • Last March, ?ntly as administrative assistant to Harvard's then on there was nothing to stop him; he Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis an lumni association • Bob Younes is a director could live with his handicap and make a life for nounced the reappointment of the state's f pediatrics in a Boston Hospital • This himself. In January 1962, he married Mary, his Rehabilitation Commissioner Elmer C. Bartels. 1asn't in the booklet, but if I were looking for former nurse and partner during recovery. Elmer has held this position since 1977. Elmer eople to charm little children at Christmas Next Elmer returned to Colby and obtained his and his wife, Mary, have two children, Joanne, me, I would definitely call Bruce McFarland degree, went on to obtain a master's degree in 21, and James, 11 • A. Marshall "Buck" nd Marilynn Berry Sewall for a laid-back Mr. nuclear physics from Tufts, began his working Lawton has been a teacher/administrator for nd Mrs. Santa Claus impersonation. career at MIT's Laboratory of Nuclear Science, 22 years. He is headmaster and trustee of Class secretary: KAY GERMAN DEAN, 295 changed to computer programing, and be Brookwood School, trustee of Pingree School, ierce St, Leominster, Mass. 01453. came a manager at Honeywell before being and active in Project Genesis. He and his wife, appointed to his present position. Elmer and Natalie Gates Lawton '63, have two children, Mary founded the Massachusetts Association ages 18 and 15. For four years the Lawtons of Paraplegics (MAP), a self-help group that has have lived in Wenham, Mass., where Marshall 25th reunion: June 6-9, 1985. helped improve the quality of life for the recently ran for a five-year seat on the Wen Class secretary: MARGARET disabled in Massachusetts. They have a ham Planning Board • According to Sports Il 60 BARNES DYER (Mrs. Calvin R.), 21-year-old daughter, Joanne, who is a senior lustrated, Dennis Kinne's son Kevin, who was a 139 Woodbine Dr., Terre Haute, at Boston University, and an adopted son, Jim senior at Suffield Academy, helped the Tigers Ind. 47803. my, who is now 11. When I received a copy of to undefeated seasons and the New England the class list in July, Elmer Bartels was not Class B Prep School basketball and soccer listed as a member of the Class of '61 since he championships. Kevin, a halfback on the wasn't able to graduate with us. However, I 15-0-2 soccer team, was also a 9.6-point-a Over the years, I have often think of him as part of the class and thought game guard on the 21-0 basketball team • wondered what had become of you might like to know what he is doing Ninety-five members of our class contributed en Elmer Bartels, who started at Col now • Another class member was in the $7,280 to the 1984 Colby Alumni Fund. Maybe nee with us. As most of you probably remem news this spring, Dennis Dionne. Denny is next year those of us who put the envelope to lu� JY ek� Jer, Elmer sustained a broken neck while play chairman of the awards committee of the Col one side, intending to make a contribution, ng fraternity hockey in December of our by Alumni Council • Penny Dietz Sullivan is will not forget to do so and we will improve an: ;enior year. He became a quadriplegic and, at still "happily divorced" and working as a upon our 37 percent class participation • The f1(f .hat time, his case was considered hopeless. marketing representative for IBM, covering the Alumni Office would appreciate your help in all: in( rhat was the last I heard about Elmer until just Naval Supply Systems. finding out the addresses of the following lost ·ecently. A Boston station had a brief inter- Class secretary: SUSAN DETWILER GOOD· alumni: William and Diane Allen Bassett 72, 1od TV 1iew with a Mr. Bartels, the head of the ALL (Mrs. William L.), 88 Heald Rd., Carlisle, Benjamin Blaney, Joan Phillips Boes, Stanley 10I 111assachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. It Mass. 01741 . Brown, William Christie, Charlene Crimmins, 11 1 THE COLBY LUM 'US 39 BERNSTEIN: PREACHING WHAT HE PRACTICES ______ "Patients are now demanding and expecting information. The physician should be a ma· jor source," said Lawrence Bernstein '67, M.D. As a family physician, Bernstein is this source. The citizens of Storrs, Conn., have long realized his commitment to increasing awareness of personal health issues. The medical journal Patient Care publicly recog· nized Bernstein's contributions with an award for excellence in patient education in a pri· vate practice setting. An example of Bernstein's approach is contained in the services he and his partner pro vide to expectant parents. In addition to discussing parental concerns, the physicians supply reading lists, review basic child care and safety, and offer home visits by a nurse practitioner. Their office contains pamphlets they have written on different topics. First Aid for Baby Sitters is a popular booklet that was formerly distributed just among their patients, but, Bernstein said, "We are now trying to get it published on a national level. Our goal is to sensitize parents and baby sitters to a variety of issues, such as drug aller· gies of the child, escape routes in case of a fire, and how to do the Heimlich maneuver [for choking victims]." Bernstein believes in educating the community in addition to his patients. He and his partner participate in question-and-answer sessions with nursery school parents, act as consultants to public school nurses, and meet for discussions with school children and the elderly. They also sponsor adult education programs concerning cardiovascular dis· ease, stress, and common childhood illnesses. Laurence H. Bernstein '67 KJC Modesto Mario Diaz, Geoffrey Dodge, Edward Class secretary: SALLY RAY BEN· cent of its Alumni Fund goal of $9,500 • I'm Franklin, William Furstenberg, Dorcas Hebb NETI (Mrs. Charles K.), 47 West sure if we knew where everyone in ou r class Gilpatrick, Jeanne Randel Guss, Katherine Hiltz 67 St., East Greenwich, R.I. 0281 8. was we would have reached our goal. If any· Hardwick, Robert Haskell, Linn Spencer Hayes, one knows the whereabouts of the following, Edward Holschuh, Donna Lambson Hum· please contact either the alumni office or me. phreys, Peter Hutchinsqn, Robert lpcar, Edwin Among the missing are Charles Bailey, Ron Jenkins, Carol Thompson Johnson, Alexander Elizabeth Rotch purchased a Boothby, Pete Clough, Gregg Crawford, Dick Kunzer, Mary Rutter Laurenson, Peter Leiser, house recently in Milford, N.H. As Foster, and Dick Goldberg. Jennifer Nesbit Lutz, Wayne Manty, Ronald the summer passed and the grass Class secretary: JANN SEMONIAN, Box 109, Markowitz, Suzanne Martin, Joyce McQuilkin, grew6 8and grew, I'm sure she thought twice Sandwich, Mass. 02563. Suzanne Burleigh Meyer, Carol Pospisil Mor about the joys of owning a home. Lawn mow ton, Cynthia Nasif, Robert Reinstein, Seymour ing is the bane of my existence • Jane Mor Rosenbloom, lone Lowrance Schumer, rison Bubar recently visited me with her two Greetings classmates and friends. Richard '60 and Susan Gardiner Seymour, kids, Josh and Seth. We had a deligritful time 9 As this is my first column attempt, Katherine Smith, Janice Thompson Smith, at the beach and the Barnstable County Fair I will indulge myself with some David Starr, John Stout, Susan Litz Stump, • 6 Clarke Keenan and Cathie Smith Bradlee spent commentary. It is with great amusement that David Thaxter, William Waldeyer, Eldwin Wix time on Martha's Vineyard in one of the most my family learned that the most infamous cor· son, Jr. serene spots I've ever seen. Cathie always respondent they know has been elected class Class secretary: PATRICIA "PATCH" JACK manages to find the most relaxing vacation secretary! I will try to be conscientious, but MOSHER (Mrs. Arthur L.), 226 Pleasant St., places. Clarke has been taking flying lessons please help me by returning the questionnaire Pembroke, Mass. 02359. and recently flew solo. He also took up run· I requested be sent to you. Fill in as much as ning and finished the Boston Marathon last you wish or write a note • In June I attended April. Are any other runners around? I bet we our 15th reunion, and it was very nice to Class secretary: KAREN BEGANNY had several from ou r class in the Marathon • return to the campus and see so many familiar BRYAN (Mrs. William L.), RFD 2, Congratulations once again to Jan Volk, who is faces. I drove to Waterville with Faye Kolho 63 Box 662, East Holden, Maine featured in this issue. He is officially Boston nen Kurnick, who now lives in Winchester, 04429. Celtics general manager. I wonder if Jan can Mass., with her two young children and hus· manage to bring us another series like last band Jim. We stopped for a wonderful lunch year-although I'm not sure my stomach can in Kennebunkport with Susan Gould Hen· Class secretary: to be appointed. survive another one Congratulations also nessey and her husband, Richard. Our re • to James Amirsakis, who was appointed na union dinner was very good, thanks to ·Ray tional sales manager of the specialty chemicals Williams. Ray was recently elected to the 64 unit of the Organic Chemicals Division of W.R. Ellsworth (Maine) City Council and is practicing Grace and Company. What a mouthful! I hope law there • Also attending the dinner was 20th reunion: June 7-9, 1985. there is some way to abbreviate all that. I'd Linda Gray Martin, who lives in Hampden, Class secretary: JOAN COPI· hate to try to print his business cards • Joe Maine, with her three young children, two 65 THORNE BOWEN (Mrs. Richard Boulos was in the news recently with his real boys and a baby girl. In her "spare" time she H.), 11 Fox Rd., Bedford, Mass. estate business, one of Maine's largest bro works with her husband, Dewey, in his CPA 01 730. kerage firms. In nine years Joe has built the firm, and they have a blueberry farm as well. Boulos Company into a multimillion-dollar I'm tired just writing about it! • Some of our business. It makes me wonder what on earth classmates have made the news. Warren Tur· Class secretary: JAN ATHERTON I've been doing for the last nine years • While ner, who is an attorney and member of the COX, 115 Woodville Rd., Fal· we're congratulating everyone, we all deserve Yarmouth (Maine) Town Council, was named 66 mouth, Maine 04105. a pat on the back. Our class reached 97 per- Regional Citizen of the Year by the Greater 40 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ortland Council of Government Eric S. Liv- Class secretary: LESLIE J. ANDER • Greetings to all! Charlie Hogan 1gstone of North Stratford, N.H., is a new 7 SON, 30 Hall Ave., Somerville. 7 3 wrote from London. England. that 1ember of the board of directors of the First 1 Mass. 02144. he is employed by McCormack .olebrook Bank Daniel Barnett is an ex • and Dodge as a regional vice president ior erimental filmmaker in Boston and received Europe and Africa. He often sees Dave Eddy ery favorable reviews last spring for his film 71 and recently saw Roger Sherman in his he Chinese Typewriter The deadline for "palatial" Boston law office The Class of 73 • • i1s column is tomorrow, and I'm writing this was well represented at the June wedding of ·om my summer vacation at Lake Sunapee. Pat Mustakangas works for the St. Anne Badmington and Richard Cass. Jan m here with my two children: Tya, born 7 2 Lawrence ( .Y.) County Depart Hueners, who works for CBS. was in from Jovember 1980 in South Korea, and Christo ment of Social Services. She had California. Also in attendance were Betty •her, born November 1982. I'm a full-time previously worked there as a social welfare ex Naylor (employed by the Foxboro Company 1n 1om now, living in Shrewsbury, Mass., where aminer; she is now a caseworker in protective research and development), Sue Colucci, and 1y husband, Mark, is a diagnostic radiologist. services for adults. She wrote that she loves Mark and Roberta Rollins Wallace. Juan De lease do write to me or call. the challenge of helping the aged, retarded, Lavalle, Mat and Susan McBratney Powell '74, Class secretary: DONNA MASSEY SYKES, 228 disabled, and mentally ill persons who live in and Richard English rounded out the crew • pring St., Shrewsbury, Mass. 01 545. the community. Pat has continued playing her On a recent trip to the local bookstore, I was French horn and is member of the St. Law pleased to see 1n a prominent display a new a rence University orchestra. Last year she at ly published book by Greg Smith ews • 15th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 tended the International Horn Society's annual reached me that two of our classmates are 0 Just to let you know how we as workshop in Illinois HenryOgilby is living in physicians. Neal Shadoff is head of cardiovas 7 • • a class contributed to the 1984 Geneva, Switzerland. He is enthusiastic about cular surgery at Duke Medical Center 1n \lumni Fund, we had 36 percent participation his job, which is in international finance and Raleigh, .C. eal and his wife have two ind reached 88 percent of our $5,000 goal. necessitates traveling to London, Paris, and children-Adam, age 5, and Rachel, age 3. rhe goal part sounds great! Anne Peterson, Milan Henry and Patrick Duddy met for Richard Randazzo 1s presently enrolled in the • • ;outh Hadley, Mass., is a clinical psychologist cocktails in Geneva before Patrick moved back radiology residency program at the Hospital of it the University of Massachusetts Mental to the United States. Patrick had been a pro St. Raphael in ew Haven, Conn. Rich also has -iealth Services in Amherst, where she primari fessor at the American College, and his wife completed a four-year pediatric residency at y provides treatment, supervises interns, and had been the bursar at the college In the University of Connecticut Medical Cen • :oordinates programs for eating disorders. She February, Cathy Joslyn Clarionwas one of the ter While attending Colby ight at the • Jlanned a trip to Europe this summer, includ artists participating in an exhibit at the Colum Pops, Larry 72 and I sat near classmates Susan ng a visit to Cindy Wallace McKee in Paris. bus (Ohio) Cultural Arts Center Bill Alfond Feinberg Adams and Doug and Cheryl Booker • :::indy was married last summer and moved Gorman 74 You should all have recei ed is a vice president for Dexter Shoe Company in • 'rom Washington, D.C., to Paris with her hus Dexter, Maine. He served as a representative our next questionnaire. Please keep in touch oand, Michael, an economist Alice Ryen, to the 1983-84 Colby College Alumni Council in order that we may have up-to-date news for • her husband, Thomas Urgo, and their three and as a member of the council's alumni the column! year-old son are busy renovating and restoring house committee Thomas Cleaves was Class secretary: JANET PERETHIAN BIGELOW • 100-year-old brownstone in Brooklyn, N.Y. recently appointed assistant director of field (Mrs. Lawrence C.), 144 Washington Ave., a As an attorney with the YC Housing Depart operations in the individual financial division eedham, Mass. 02192. ment, Alice attempts to resolve disputes be of the Employee Benefits and Financial Serv tween landlords and tenants Steve Steege ices Group of Cigna Corporation in Bloom • was promoted to his present position of field, Conn. In 1973 he joined the firm as an It was great to see such a good systems engineering manager with IBM last underwriter in the individual financial division. 7 turnout at Reunion Weekend. I August, and he and his wife, Lee Hobbs (who He had several promotions prior to his latest 4 assume everyone survived since attended Colby in 1969 and 1970), moved to position. He is also a fellow of the Life Manage I didn't hear anything to the contrary. I'd like to the Rochester, N.Y., area. The birth of their ment Institute Anne O'Hanian Szostak has spice up this column, so any spicy" news that's • first child is imminent Jeff Silverstein, an at assumed additional responsibilities at Fleet a· fit to print would be welcome. Following is the • torney in Burke, Va., wrote: "We had a Colby tional Bank in Rhode Island. After holding sev news I've received so far. You can be the judg student spend January in our office. She was eral positions in the bank, she was put in es of whether it's spicy or not Andy Bagley • pre-law, at least when she arrived. The ex charge of bank operations in 1981 and was was appointed last spring as campaign finance perience was excellent both for the student elected a senior vice president in 1982. She director for Sam Rotondi, candidate for the and the office. I recommend participating in also chairs the Rhode Island Bankers Associa Democratic nomination for the Seventh Con Jan Plan internships" Susan Maxfield Chris tion Operations Committee. Her interests out gressional District seat in Massachusetts. Andy • topher, her twin boys, and her husband, side of banking are illustrated by her other was formerly economic development assistant Robert, have moved to Tampa, Fla. Robert is activities: trustee emerita of Colby, director of and director of labor relations for Senator Paul an orthopedic surgeon at MacDill Air Force Volunteers in Action, and board member of Tsongas. He and his wife, Lisa, reside in Win Base, and they would be delighted to show Keep Brown Beautiful. Anne and her husband, throp, Mass. Martha Bernard also made a • any classmates the sights of the Tampa Bay Mike, and their two daughters live in War job change in the spring; she was named direc area William E. Brooks is seeing the sights wick Larry Linnell and his wife and three tor of public relations for Associated Industries • • in conjunction with his job of geologist with children will be moving to Dexter, Maine, of Massachusetts. Immediately prior to her ap the U.S. Geologic Survey: Spain, summer of where he will open a general medical practice, pointment, Martha was press secretary to the 1983; the mountains of Switzerland, April with a specialty in obstetrics. After receiving Massachusetts House Republican Leader for 1984; and the volcanos of France and Italy, his medical degree from Tufts University, he four years. She makes her home in Jamaica September 1984 Debora Booth lives in served a three-year internship at the Al Plain Apparently spring was a time for ma • • Oakland, Calif., and is a property manager in legheny Family Physician Association in Al jor changes: William Henry Narwold, an at San Francisco. She manages three office toona, Pa. Larry has a four-year obligation to torney with Cummings and Lockwood in Hart· buildings and 90 residential units Mike Self the ational Health Service Corps and the ford, Conn., was married to Andrea Eginton in • wrote that he is still involved with hockey at State of Maine for assistance provided for his June In May, Peter Prime exchanged vows • the ripe old age of 39. He is player and coach education. He is pleased that his request for with Kathleen Purcell in Darien, Conn. Jill • of a senior hockey team in Charlotte, .C. He, the Dexter location was approved I am Gilpatrictook the big step in September after • his wife, Elaine, and children, Allyson and pleased to report that we boldly exceeded our moving to Waldoboro, Maine. She hopes to David, visit occasionally with Dick and Cathy class goal for 1984 Alumni Fund contribu· open a bed-and-breakfast inn in a year or Delano Moss '71 . tions-an accomplishment not made by many so Here's a hot tip: john Chamberlain in • Class secretary: DONNA MASON WIWAMS classes. vites anyone to call him collect for a quote. (Mrs. Edward F.), 50 orth St., Grafton, Mass. Class secretary: ANN BONNER VIDOR (Mrs. He's been with Dean Witter since 1983 and 01519. David), 1981 lnnwood Rd., Atlanta, Ga. 30329. lives in San Pedro, Calif. Brian and Katy • THE COLBY BERNARD REPRESENTS INDUSTRIAL GROUP ______ Martha Bernard 74 is director of public relations for the Associated Industries of Massa chusetts (AIM). According to Bernard, AIM represents 2,600 companies and primarily "monitors legislation which affects businesses-for instance, bills that enhance the com petitive economic climate." Her responsibilities include handling media relations and writing opinion articles. "The job is a new challenge for me, a logical step forward," she remarked last spring. Formerly press secretary to Massachusetts House Republican Leader Bill Robinson, Ber nard said that politics remains an avocation as she volunteers time for the Republican party. She is the author of the guide Republican Visibility at the Local Level!Ne wsmaking Tips and Techniques and coeditor of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Unionization. She is also a member of the Publicity Club and the National Academy of Television, Arts, and Science. KJC Martha A. Bernard '74 cor (� Seabrook MacQuarrie '75 are now in Provi to West Africa three to four times a year and is It is thanks to a sudden rainy day dence, R.I., where Brian is on the city desk for playing in a good men's hockey league Paul 7 6 that you are reading this edition's • the Providence journal after three years at the Silvia has joined the law offices of Dailey and installment. As I write, I'm at Cape Fort Lauderdale News. Katy is an admissions Townley in West Bridgewater, Mass. • Con Cod, up till now enjoying hot sun and cooling representative for Northeastern Tech • A bit gratulations to Colby women's basketball sea with my kids. But today I'm forced inside; I of news from Massachusetts: Jeffrey Werner Coach Gene Delorenzo, who was selected as am giving up a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit bought a house last July in Randolph and is Northeast Regional Coach of the Year by the for this, though! In June I received a note from now working for Biogen Research Corporation Women's Basketball Coaches Association. The delighted grandmother Alice Michener, whose in Cambridge as a "QC microbiologist" (what 1983-84 team completed the finest season in son Stuart Michener and daughter-in-law Nan ever that is!) • Debbie Marden Hunt is a the history of the sport at Colby with a record cy Groh Michener '77 had just become first· business development officer in the commer of 23 wins and 3 losses, and captured its first time parents of a daughter, Allison Abigail. cial loan division of Shawmut First Bank and ECAC New England Division Ill championship Stuart is a project geologist for AGA T Con Trust Company in Springfield Moving to the title • Jeffrey Frankel lives in Phoenix, Ariz., sultants (Applied Geoscience and Technology) • international scene: Robin Sweeney Peabody and is assistant general counsel for Swenson's in Denver, and Nancy has been employed as a was host to a Colby alumnae get-together last Ice Cream Company Douglas Schwarz, who senior real estate appraiser • Caren Starr was • spring in Brussels. She reported that there are earned his Ph.D. in religious studies, is married in May to William R. Schwartz. The five grads living there! In spite of Robin teaching at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, couple has moved to Scarsdale, N.Y. Caren is • keeping tabs on Colby folk in Belgium, we N.Y. Malcolm Foster works as an appraiser still with IBM, although she has shifted from • seem to have lost some of ou r classmates (or for John W. Kaufmann in Washington, D.C. systems engineer to financial analyst • Robin are they just hiding?). If you know of the The firm deals in rare stamps and postal Sherwood has been named accounting and whereabouts of any of the following people, history. Malcolm, his wife, and their two analysis manager for Branson Sonic Power in please ask them to drop us a line: Mary children are living in Annapolis, Md. He would Danbury, Conn. Since receiving an M.B.A. Barney, Carroll Brower, Robert De Costa, love to hear from other Colby people in the from Wharton, Robin has worked in marketing Mark Garfield, Howard Goldstein, Andrea area Susan Staples Smith and husband, and finance for the Smithline Beckman Cor • Hicks, Claudia Kraehling, Kenneth Melvin, Richard, are living in Gahanna, Ohio. "Staples" poration. She is married to Andrew Ziolkow Arlene Weinrauch, Janice Wilson, and Kenelm is manager of the automation support center ski Paul Boghossian (the Third!) has suc • Winslow Happy holidays! for Acceleration Life Insurance Marguerite ceeded his father as president of Concordia • • Class secretary: CAROL D. WYNNE, P.O. Box "Mugsy" Nelson Sarson is a self-employed ven Manufacturing Company, producers of twist 96, Winthrop, Maine 04364. dor of copier and computer supplies. Husband ed and textured yarn in Coventry, R.I. He is Jay '76 left teaching to join her in the business, also a director of the Quidnick Reservoir Com which gives her more time to spend with their pany, a landholding company that controls four children Mark O'Connor is a book water rights and the flow of the Pawtuxet • 10th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 designer with E.P. Dutton in New York City. He River • Scott Houser has been designated the • 7 5 Thank you for the great response wrote that he is working on integrating art, top account executive at Union Mutual Life In to the recent questionnaire • spirituality, and gay politics Elizabeth surance Company. Extracurricularly, Scott is • Debbie Marson McNulty asked me to start get "Binkie" Cammack Closmore and husband, serving as a representative to Colby's Alumni ting you psyched up for our 10-year reunion Greg, spent an interesting year in the Saudi Council. He lives in Marblehead, Mass. Rob • next June at Colby. Can you believe it? A re Arabian desert, a time which included the Gregory received his law degree in 1980 from union committee is being formed and anyone birth of their first daughter, Elizabeth. They are the University of Maine and has since been in with ideas should send them to Debbie at 5 now trying to adjust to the climate in St. Paul, private practice with Brann and Isaacson in the Salem Street Ave., Charlestown, Mass. 02129 Minn. Sarah Vetault works for the Maine Lewiston, Maine, area The 1984 Alumni • • Joan DeSalvo was promoted to director of Department of Environmental Protection. She Fund figures are in: with only 26 percent par • the alternative program at Reading (Mass.) recently was quoted in the Maine Times re ticipation, our class fulfilled percent of its 90 High School. She planned to spend six weeks garding the building of sea walls • was pro 1984 goal of $11,500. Only 26 percent! If 20 I in Europe during the summer and to meet moted to supervisor of international customer more people had contributed $50 each (or 40 Dianne Billington Ashton in Germany Peter relations at McCormack and Dodge Corpora at $25), we'd have made our goal. Many • Boone received an M.S. in agricultural eco tion and have been traveling frequently to thanks to the 118 who did participate; as for nomics from Cornell University. Peter and his Europe and South America. I'm looking for the other 7 4 percent of you '76ers, please, wife, Jane, reside in Washington, D.C., where ward to hearing from more of you! maybe next year? he works as an economist for the West Africa Class secretary: PAMELA J. BRADLEY, 25 Class secretary: MELISSA DAY VOKEY (Mrs. department of the World Bank. Peter travels Crosstown Ave., West Roxbury, Mass. 02132. Mark), 16 Fox Run, Topsfield, Mass. 01983. 42 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Here is the remainder of news counseling at the University of California at Beland was named assistant branch manager 7 7 that I received from the last batch Berkeley. She sends a great big hello to her of the Belfast office of Bangor Savings Bank • of questionnaires. I'm sure that East Coast friends • Wiley Faselt is back in I will also work in Belfast this year, teaching ere have been lots of changes for many of New York City after spending several years in math to seventh and eighth graders •Jayne in the past year, and I'd love to hear about Los Angeles. He's landed a great job as an London was married during the summer in JU em. Please write so that I can write my next associate producer of on-air promotion at Minneapolis. I can't wait to hear the details of ilumn! • Drew and Susan French Dubuque Showtime/The Movie Channel • Charlie Ja that celebration • John and Sue Raymond e settled in Drew's hometown of Green- cobs '80 has also returned to New York from Geismar 79 are the proud parents of Emily 1ch, Conn., where Drew is head of the Bruns Amarillo, Tex., where he worked as a grain Adele, born May 27 • Colby's Class of 2005 ick Middle School. Sue is completing her merchandiser • Tom Silverman '76, another may also include Kimberly Cleaves Devine, 1.B.A. in finance at New York University New Yorker, now has his own record label, daughter of john and Pam Cleaves Devine. Beth Quimby writes for the fa mily news Tommy Boy. Tom always did know how to Kimberly was born June 8. Congratulations! :!partment of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. pick the hit tunes! • That's all for this one. • And now for the bad news: That's all the ie had previously worked as a Derry, N.H., Please write! news this time around • I would like to track ·porter and business writer. Beth lives with Class secretary:LINDA laCHAPELLE, 320 East down some of our classmates who are "lost." �r husband, Eric, and daughter, Leah, in 42nd St., Apt. 201 2. New York, N.Y. 1001 7. Send a note to Colby or to me if you know the _ading, Mass. • Vicki Johnson is a resident whereabouts of: Hank Rothfeld, Ralph Boyce, ' nearby Medford, Mass., where she works Theodore Bristol, Miguel Browne, Brian But 1r Arthur Andersen and Company as a terick, Marty Connolly, Julie Courant, David tax )nsultant • Another financial expert is I have some good news and some Crane, Kathleen Crawford, David Cross, or Iona Pinette. Mona is a financial analyst with 7 8 bad news. First the good news: Steve Culver. �psi in White Plains, N.Y. • Peter Cohn is in Steve Miller sent a note to say Class secretary: JAMES S. COOK, JR., RFD 1, )mmercial finance with The Municipal Cap that he had been graduated from the Universi Box 3470, Albion, Maine 04910. al Company on Long Island. Peter is still con ty of Hartford with a master's degree in public �rned with environmental issues, and he is accounting and will work in Tampa, Fla., for so president of the Christopher Morley Knot the firm of Deloitte, Haskins, and Selk. His ad It was great to see so many of you ole Association, a literary club that preserves dress is 8522 Standish Bend Drive, Tampa, Fla. 7 9 at our fifth reunion in June, and I 'riters' studios and rare books • Arthur Ger 3361 5 • Steve added that Tony Lopez, a was honored to be elected your er has been a staff researcher for Greater member of the Army Ranger Corps, is now class secretary for the next five years. In pick- ortland Landmarks in Maine for the past two stationed in Korea after a stint in the Middle ing up where outgoing class secretary Angela ears. After Colby, Arthur attended the East • Diane Whitehead Gates, who was Mickalide left off, we find that David Surette is istoric preservation graduate program at specializing in aging services as part of a president of SECO Records and Publishing, ie University of Vermont • Joanna Pease master's degree program at Boston University, which recently released its first album. Kathryn hamberlin said that she'll rejoice when she wants to say hello to Alex, Bonnie, Sandy, Small Surette is a registered nurse at Malden ompletes her internal medicine residency in Chuck, Buzz, Rob, Hank, and Jeff • Pat Hospital. Dave and Kathryn are the proud par Louis, Mo. She has one more year ahead of Hotchkiss wrote from England, where she is ents of Flannery Kathryn • Herman "Nick" t. er • A celebration was shared among some working toward a master of science degree in and Kim Rossi Nichols spent the winter of 1982 f ou r classmates at the wedding of Susan water and waste engineering in developing living in Bermuda, while Nick, a P-3 pilot, was Voods and Peter Breu last spring in Bernards countries • Ken Heckel was graduated from flying for the Navy. They now live in Castine, ille, N.J. Their wedding party included Wood the University of South Carolina School of Law Maine, where ick is teaching naval history Bercaw '78, Tom Hearne, john Lake, and this past spring • john Gray, a state represen and navigation at the Maine Maritime Acad :m eter Metcalf '79. Susan and Peter spent their tative in Massachusetts, was right in the mid emy. He is also director of the ROTC sailing oneymoon canoeing the lakes of Ontario, dle of the political action during this campaign program. Kim is pursuing an M.B.A. at the ·anada. They will make their home in Palo season. He announced that he would not seek University of Maine at Orono • Kirk Paul, an dto, Calif. Peter plans to teach, and Susan will a third term in the state legislature. As of this insurance adjuster, earned a master of liberal ontinue to work for W. R. Grace and Com writing, John had not disclosed his plans, but studies at the University of Pennsylvania In any • Janet Mcleod Rosenfield loves the he left the door open for a bid for a seat in the surance Institute of America in the Associate in :alifornia lifestyle. She and her husband, Ken, U.S. House of Representatives • Pierce Ar Claims Program. He spent two weeks in Clear an be found sailing on the Bay, skiing in cher became engaged to Cynthia R. Hill and water, Fla., adjusting hailstorm damage to ahoe, and backpacking with the Sierra Club. planned an August wedding. Pierce works as a mobile homes. Kirk is a den leader for a cub met received her master's degree in genetic stockbroker in Philadelphia • Sarah Pollard scout pack • Patricia McNally is a naval of- Nhy would somebody want to become town manager of an island? For George Martin, r_ '79, former financial assistant to a treasurer and tax collector in Massachusetts, the an ;wer was two-fold. A native of Bristol, Maine, the new manager of Islesboro welcomed he chance to return to the state and felt that he had a good understanding of the prob ems of a small Maine town. In addition, "I was intrigued by the variety of duties," he ;aid, commenting that his responsibilities include acting as town treasurer, tax collector, iirport manager, and overseer of the poor. "Each day brings something different," he -nentioned. He is also a member of the Maine State Ferry Service Advisory Board. Managing a community with a year-round population of 520 has its advantage: "You ' THE COLBY L MNUS 43 ficer and is working on a bachelor of arts in school Gretchen Hall has returned from in Seattle, where both are graduate students • computer science at the University of Mary abroad and recently began studying at the at the University of Washington. Cathy is land. Hobbies include sailing, running, and New England Conservatory Sue Ellen studying Spanish, and Stuart, math. They were • volunteering with a Washington, D.C., hotline Whalen '79 works for Gardner, Preston, and planning a trip back east this summer and service. Recent travels include a business trip Moss in Boston Gay Shanahan gave up her hoped to get up to Colby Matt '80 and • • to Italy, England, and Scotland for 12 weeks work in a program for juvenile offenders to at Susan Reese Krevat were married this past David Vivian is an F-4 Phantom radar in tend Columbia Business School Kathy March. After honeymooning on St. Maarten, • • tercept officer and legal officer in the Navy. Searles Uziak is at Bank of Boston, pursuing they're living in Melrose, Mass. Susan is a pool Highlights of his past year include a cruise to her M.B.A. at Babson in her spare time loan processor, while attending graduate • the Indian Ocean, Hong Kong, Thailand, Ko Janet Fisher Gronneberg and her husband, school at night. Matt is an attorney in Bos rea, Japan, and Alaska. He's been skiing and Rick, whom she married in October, 1983, live ton • Barbara Fallows is a store manager at sailing in the Philippines Jamie Hansman in Winchester, Mass. Janet works in profes Placewares, a home and office furnishing store • traveled to Europe in May 1983, seeing Ger sional development with Bain and Company, in Concord, Mass. When she wrote, she was many, Austria, Switzerland, and France, and to while Rick is with Participation Systems, a living with jean Appellof-some things don't Greece in September. He is working in the life computer software business Bill and Deb change! Jean is working as a customer service • and financial planning department of his fa bie Pugh Kelton, married May 19, bought a representative for a commercial bank Brian • ther's insurance agency in Hingham, Mass., house in Scarborough, Maine Rachel McPherson is living in Washington, D.C., • and is working towards his certified financial Lavengood supposedly made a "bundle" in where he's an accounts executive with Fideli planner degree. He bought a 30-foot Tartan Alaska and now lives again in Seattle, working ty Jennifer Maire has been in France for the • sailboat last year and has been living on it for the public defender's office Jeff Angley past year, working in export sales. She's had • • a John '78 and Susan Raymond Geismar are the graduated from the University of Maine School job offer from a German company, so if her proud parents of Emily Adele, born May 27 of of Law in May and now practices with a Ply work/residence papers come through, she'll this year. They currently reside in Auburn, mouth, Mass., law firm Ann Morgenstern is be just outside Freiberg Marc Gordon • • Maine Dave Linsky is assistant district at working toward a nursing degree at the Uni graduated from the Sloan School at MIT in • torney for the Boston suburb of Somerville. He versity of Oklahoma, while working full-time May. He's now a staff consultant with Arthur said he loves being on stage in the court as a houseparent and counselor at a shelter for Andersen Ross Brennan has been doing en • room! • Also in Massachusetts, Greg Pfitzer kids that have been abused, neglected, or vironmental research for a consulting firm in married Mary McCrossan of Norwood in June. committed a juvenile offense. For fun, she Washington, D.C. This fall he started work She is a graduate of Northeastern University recently completed her first mini-triathlon toward an M.S. in resource systems and policy and Greg, now at Harvard, is pursuing his • Katy Hall Alioto keeps busy with her design at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engi Ph.D. Having recently completed her mas daughter, Christina Cynthia, born August 26, neering lngri Gundersen Lombardi is an ac • • ter's degree in German at the University of 1984, and with work on their house in North counting supervisor with the International Vermont, Katherine Quimby Johnson was Fairfield, Maine Dick Sinapi would be most Herald Tribune. She married Antonio Lombar • awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Austria happy to accept any contributions to offset his di in May, and they honeymooned in Italy in during this next year At Johns Hopkins campaign costs as Democratic candidate for June Sue French will be back in the United • • University, Angela Mickalide continues to Congress in the Second District of Rhode Is States in December. She joined the Peace work on her doctorate in cognitive develop land (P.O. Box 7765, Warwick, R.I. 02887) Corps in 1982 and has been teaching math in a ment and affect relation_ships. She has already Jay Moody has confirmed the rumors: he high school in Swaziland Anne Sidlo has • • published five articles relating to her studies married Sue Leibensperger, a professional just joined the Peace Corps. She's off to Kenya and hopes to be finished in another six months photographer, on June 23 and honeymooned as a forester. This past year she worked as a You all may be interested to learn that we on a kayak trip in Montana Their best man carpenter on the professional theater cir • • have a hero among us. Almost two years ago was Warren Pratt, who is a ski shop manager cuit • Steve Mansfield and Ray George are in January, Greg Jalbert saved the lives of two in the winter, painter in the summer, and quite both enrolled at Tufts Dental School, where northern Maine residents after their car the "lady's man," I gather, as well as "one of Ray was elected vice president of his class. Ray plunged through the ice of Eagle Lake and the best skiers in Jackson Hole after only four was married in August to Debra Williams, a sank nearly 30 feet That's all for now. years on skis" • john and Ronni-Jo Posner classmate at Tufts I heard recently from • • Class secretary: JANE VENMAN LEDEBUHR Carpenter '78 moved to Cape Elizabeth, Ron Reynier. He's living in Portland, Oreg., (Mrs. David), 1551 5 Boulder Oaks, Houston, Maine, after John's graduation from Washing while finishing law school. He spends most of Tex. 77084. ton and Lee Law School in May. John works his free time skiing and mountaineering. He at Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer, and Nelson in wanted to say "hi" to Liz Mason '83, Myles Portland and plans to do a lot of skiing at Grady, and Paul McGovern Carolyn Berry 1s • Sugarloaf this winter Speaking of skiing, I still with Addison Wesley as a sales represen 5th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 • • Julie Greenwood, clinical su bumped into John, Ronni, and Paul Wade at tative. She wrote to say that the biggest high pervisor of physical therapists at Alta, Utah, in March 1983; it's a small world for light of her past year was the purchase of a 80 us skiers! baby grand piano. Quite an addition to her St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, Ca., married David Kreutz, also a physical therapist, on July Class secretary: DIANA P. HERRMANN, 6 apartment! • That's all for now. Please write if 6. They bought a house in Decatur and are Whaling Rd., Darien, Conn. 06820. there are any changes you want others to renovating it john Monroe is busy: he know about. • graduated from the University of Vermont's Class secretary: JULANNE M. CULLEY, 425 medical school in May, was commissioned as Class secretary: PAULA HINCKLEY Front St., Weymouth, Mass. 02188. a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, BURROUGHS (Mrs. Jack), 666 Pine and is now an intern at the U.S. Naval Hospital 81 St., Manchester, N.H. 03104. in San Diego, Calif. Chris Perrin works in Many thanks to all of you who • Denver as a bond representative in Aetna Ca 3 have kept me current on your sualty and Surety Company's commercial in Thanks to all who have sent in whereabouts, occupations, and surance division. He will be marrying Julie 8 their questionnaires. There have other news. Keep it up! Dan Weeks wrote • Foster in September Having completed a been many changes since gradua that he bicycled across the United States this • 8 2 year of the graduate program in comparative tion • Brian Karas has joined the Army, and summer with Ethan Guiles '82. He is now study literature at the University of Washington, has completed basic training at Fort McClel ing bio-mathematics at UCLA In June, John • Lydia Mason recently took off for a year in lan, Ala. Joe '81 and Nancy Smith Daley #Duke'' Lemoine and Ric Craig also traveled • Paris Linda Davis is a sales manager for were married last fall. They are both working cross country to San Francisco, and, according • Microamerica, a large microcomputer distribu at Bridgton Academy. Nancy is teaching En to Ric, it was quite a trip! Kevin Young is a • tor. In her spare time, she attends Babson's glish and loving it, while Joe has been pro student at New York University Medical School M.B.A. program and is involved in lots of vol moted to the position of assistant director of Don Gallo is also at NYU, in the Ph.D. pro • unteer work, including being a class agent and admissions Stuart '83 and Cathy Jo Leonard gram in industrial psychology • Andrew Han • trustee for Noble and Greenough, her high Swain were also married last fall. They're living son is a second-year law student at Cornell 44 THE COLBY ALUM US riiversity Dawna Eastman is working on her • 1984 Colby Alumni Fund. We raised $1,219, ment information systems in January 1985 i.D. in neuropsychology at City University of • which was 61 percent of our goal. Let's see if we Tom Gratzer 1s planning on entering law ew York-Queens Dave Kerrigan is studying can keep those contributions rolling in! By • • school in 1985 or 1986. He 1s currently a w at Boston University John Munsey is at the time that this column is in print, I will have • paralegal assistant with a ew York law �xas A&/111 working on an M.S. in engineering packed my bags and moved to Colorado. fi rm Summer travel plans were made by �ology Suzy Desrochers recently graduated Please send any news or questionnaires to my • • Colin Cook, Cathy Walsh, Jeff Bistrong, and 1th an M.S. in accounting from Northeastern. new address so that our next column may con Jeff Nottonson. Colin is attending Tulane Uni ie is currently employed by Deloitte, Haskins, tain lots of current news. versity in ew Orleans, and Cathy hopes to id Sells in Boston Dorothy uBetsy" Santry Class secretary: DELISA A. LATERZO, 8179 • find a job in journa lism Ginger Bushell 1s a 1s been promoted to manager of lrresistibles • West Woodard Dr., Denver, Colo. 80227. member of the technical staff at Mitre Corpo 1 Newbury Street Sean Duffy and Terri • ration in the cost-analysis department Jen !Wis • are both employed by Quinn and John ny Cleary is a service representative with Scud an advertising firm in Boston. Sean is a m, der, Stevens, and Clark and plans to go to law >pywriter, and Terri is in the public relations There is "Life after Colby" after all! school in a year Cecil Holstein 1s at the • �partment working as an account coordinator 84 Thanks for responding so prompt Graduate School of Management at orth Jennifer Ambler recently began doctoral ly to this summer's questionnaire western University Art Jackson is working • udies at the New England School of Optome Cathy Altrocchi has gone to Sri Lanka with as an intern with Boston City Councillor • Tammy Reagan is in Boston working in the Peace Corps to teach English Sally Lud Robert Travaglini Fred Canby is at George y • • • 1e corporate communications division of the wig visited relatives in Germany this summer town University Dental School Mary Col • 1hn Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company and was later job hunting in airlines and inter bath is studying for her master's at the Mid Ann Slater and Tina Padur are also in the national corporations Marie Joyce enjoys dlebury College program in Madrid, Spain • • :>ston area. Ann works as an account control doing a radio show on the University of Maine Also abroad 1s Max Ruston. He's at People's r in the mutual funds department of State radio station, WMPG Sam Staley traveled University in Beijing doing a year of post • reet Bank. Tina is the general accountant for on the East Coast upon graduation. He is graduate language study Ted Wallace is in • nalog Devices, a high-tech firm located in Bur- working in Washington as a public affairs assis stalling medical gas systems in Portland, Maine 1gton John uchape" Chapin wrote that he tant for Cato Institute Sue Hahn works in Gordon Brown biked through Scandinavia • • • >ent last fall studying in Moscow and traveling Boston for Union Mutual Insurance. Her room this summer before heading off to grad school -ound the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics mate is Cindy Mulliken, who is doing research in biology Charles Boddy has begun Boston • 1d Europe. He saw Ken Emery, Peter Scheetz, with a professor from Harvard Seth Wol College Law School Debbie Scanlon is a • • id Dave Resnikoff '85 in England. Chape is cur pert was to enter the University of Chicago programer at Union Mutual in Maine • mtly working on an M.A. in Russian studies at Medical School Juan Colon-Collazo will be Sandy Winship has moved to Acton, Mass., • eorge Washington University Jim Garrityis at Chicago studying law Doug Terp was a and is working in the financial development • • so in Washington, D.C., working as a systems field coordinator for the 1984 Easton guber program of Digital Equipment Sarah Rogers • 1gineer for IBM Back at our alma mater, natorial campaign committee Kit Williams married Don McMillan Caroline Sterge, • • • Jsan Sheehan was named assistant director of took an exciting trip to Europe with classmates who now works as a financial consultant, will 1ancial aid Nancy McNamara is employed Mary White and Alicia Curtain. Kit is working marry Carl Gluek '82 next summer Myself? • • y Cullinet Software in their quality and distribu as an assistant director of Myles Standish Hall I'm studying for my master's in romance lan on division. She is living in Dedham with Nan at Boston University, while Mary attends Bos guages (Portuguese and Spanish) at Penn State Pratt, who is a production assistant for Bain ton College Law School • Mike Coval is a law University Keep writing! r • 'ld Company, a management consulting firm student at Emory University Kaye Cross will Class secretary: KATHRYN SODERBERG, 5 • I recently received the class statistics for the begin studying for her master's in manage- Smith Farm Trail, Lynnfield, Mass. 01940. ALUMNI AWA RDS NOMINATION FORM -he Alumni Council awards committee seeks nominations for three awards on a continual basis. The Colby Brick is warded each Reunion Weekend to a few individuals who have served Colby in a variety of roles, and the Marriner Ois tnguished Service Award is given to alumni or friends of Colby who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to the :al lege. The Distinguished Alumnus Award annually recognizes one Colby graduate for outstanding professional 1chievement. ______nominate , Class of 19,__ __ _ or the ------Award. .t\y recommendation is based on the nominee's activities listed below: iignature ------Date ______ )ign and mail to: Alumni Council Awards Committee, c/o Office of Alumni Relations Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 Thank you! THE COLBY ALUM US 45 Milestones --- Caren L. Starr 76 to William Schwartz, May 27, ____ Marriages 1984, New York, N.Y. Elizabeth Austin Wood '76 to Wilfred Francis A son, Seth Peter, to Karen C. and J. Stephen Marlee Bragdon Hill '42 to Robert Lee Monroe, Vallely Ill, March 10, 1984, Roslyn, L.I., N.Y. Weeks '63, April 30, 1983. June 13, 1984, Alden, N.Y. Richard Davis Conant '77 to Catherine Chantal A daughter, Alissa Jill, to Susan Turner '66 and Katharine Lamneck '58 to Philip L. Jones, May Lefebvre, May 12, 1984, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Karl Karnaky, March 20, 1984. 12, 1984, Edina, Minn. Melanie Dorain '77 to Richard E. Green, July A son, Geoffrey Clifford, to Ellen and Kennet A. Barney Hallowell '64 to Christie Baldwin, 16, 1983, Boston, Mass. h C. Brookes '6B, May 5, 1983. June 23, 1984, Weston, Mass. James Douglas Houck '77 to Marilyn Eleanor A son, Nathaniel Edmund, to Susan and Al John Laurence Eckel '66 to Susan McKenzie Robson, June 2, 1984, Hartford, Conn. Richard J. Morey '68, January 15, 1984. Pringle, June 23, 1984, Coral Cables, Fla. William Henderson Welte '77 to Patricia Ann A son, Alexander Elliot, to Gary '6B and Gary M. Austin '69 to Kim Cookbaugh, April 2, Gallucci, June 2, 1984, Glens Falls, N.Y. Elizabeth Damon Weaver 77, August 3, 1984. 1983, Hawaii. Stephen F. Culver '78 to Holly J. Reilly, April A son, Ryan Douglas, to Douglas 70 and Hazel Joyce E. Preece '69 to Myles A. Kelly, April 7, 14, 1984, South Portland, Maine. Anne Parker Smith '70, June 1, 1984. 1984, Scarborough, Maine. Theodore B. Smyth 78 to Melissa Hill Pittman, A daughter, Stephanie Rachel, to Earle and Douglas D. McMillan 72 to Ann Harris' April 28, 1984, Rocky Mount, N.C. Carol Auskelis Myers '74, June 18, 1984. September 24, 1983, St. Pa ul, Minn. Gregory M. Pfitzer 79 to Mary Elizabeth Mc A daughter, Emily Louise, to Anne and David Dudley Townsley 72 to Claire M. Harte, Crossan, June 16, 1984, Norwood, Mass. W. Bright '75, May 24, 1984. June 30, 1984, Sanbornton, N.H. Blair Belden Washburn '79 to Clifford B. Tracy, A son, Matthew Robert, to John A. '75 and Maryann Elizabeth Sartucci '74 to John Leslie Jr., June 2, 1984, West Hartford, Conn. Ann Marie Gage Conant '75, May 30, 1984. Andrews, June 2, 1984, Rocky Hill, Conn. Michael Harry Brinkman '80 to Sharon Ann A son, Ian, to Calvin '75 and Candace Skelly Carol Majdalany 75 to James Williams, June 2, Reineke, June 19, 1984, Champaign, Ill. Crouch '75, May 11, 1984. 1984, Egremont, Mass. James Mdane Moody '80 to Susan Kay A daughter, Martha Ellen, to Mary Elizabeth Kenneth Lloyd Waldman 75 to Cynthia Harriet Leibensperger, June 23, 1984, Moose, Wyo. and Philip Mccahill '75, May 18, 1984. Ferguson, January 11, 1984, Ocho Rios, Deborah J. Pugh '80 to William W. Kelton, May A son, Dale Ernest, to Eric Parker 75 and Anne Jamaica. 19, 1984, Portland, Maine. Marie Hovey, June 5, 1984. William W. Walthall 111 75 to Margaret Hennel Laura Beth Manger 'B1 to Eugene Leneweaver, A daughter, Catherine Anne, to David A. ly, July 8, 1984, North Andover, Mass. Jr., May 5, 1984, Huntington, Conn. White '75 and Sharon Goddard, March 24, Robert A. Anderson '76 to Patricia M. Sawyer, John Joseph Masiz '81 to Kim Regina Daigle 1984. May 5, 1984, Leicester, Mass. '82, Boston, Mass. A daughter, Caitlin Sumner, to Carol Brian F. Kiely '76 to Molly C. Creenhut, June 9, Elwin R. Thibault II 'B1 to Melissa Rihm '84, G. Mcintyre-Peale '76 and James I. Peale '77, June 1984, Pensacola, Fla. May 26, 1984, Lorimer Chapel, Colby College. 8, 1984. Scott Francis McDermott '76 to Kelly Ann Eric M. Mehmert '82 to Cynthia L. Milton '83, A daughter, Allison Abigail, to Stuart R. 76 and Hynes, June 16, 1984, Chatham, Mass. June 30, 1984, Pomfret, Conn. Nancy Groh Michener '77, June 7, 1984. Jeanne E. O'Brien '76 to Thomas P. McCarthy, Valerie Lee Spencer '83 to Arthur F. Poulos '86, A son, Kirby Baxter, to Andrew B. and Cheryl Jr .. April 14, 1984, Gorham, Maine. April 7, 1984, Lorimer Chapel, Colby College. Doughty Sholl 77, February 13, 1983. A daughter, Kimberly, to John B., Jr. '78 and Pamela Cleaves Devine 78, June 8, 1984. A daughter, Elizabeth Paige, to Christopher '78 and Margaret Lea Jackson Morrissey 7 , 8 November 25, 1983. A daughter, Alyssa Rand, to David '78 and Julie Ramsdell Projansky 79, May 9, 1984. A daughter, Emily Adele, to John W. 7B and Susan Raymond Geismar '79, May 27, 1984. FACULTY AND STAFF A daughter, Katharine Tobin, to Donald and Lynn Mosher Bushnell, August 24, 1984. A daughter, Molly Claire, to Elizabeth and David Lubin, July 29, 1984. A daughter, Erica Sterling Machlin, to Susan Sterling and Paul Machlin, September 20, 1983. A daughter, Eliza Jacqueline Hunter Bernard, to Jane Hunter and Joel Bernard, August 31, 1983. Deaths _____ Rachel Felch Linscott '1 1, May 10, 1984, in Ellsworth, Maine, at age 95. Leaving Colby The Colby friends of Doug McMillan 72 gathered 'round to celebrate his marriage to after two years, she received a B.A. from Ann Harris on September 24, 1983, in St. Paul, Minn. Shown from left to right are bot Boston University and later attended the Har vard Summer School, the University of New tom row) Gardner "Chip" Edgarton 72, Mitch Fox 72, Clark Ruff 72, (center) Michael Hampshire Summer School, and the Leland Gibbons 72, Doug McMillan, (top) Dana Fitts 72, Ann Harris McMillan, Charlie Hall Powers School. After her husband's death, she 72, and Joe 72 and Martha Hamilton Benson 74. began a 25-year career teaching English and 46 THE COLBY ALUMNUS 1ma at several high schools. She was dean Revolution and was a member of the Kiwanis daughter, Deborah G. Ray, and seven grand girls at Higgins Classical Institute in Charles- Legion of Honor. He was founder and presi children. Maine, and head of the English depart dent of the Kennebec Valley Council for Re 1, mt at Ellsworth High School. After her retire tarded Citizens, and the Sussman School for Ralph A. Wood '26, June 12, 1984, 1n Farming �nt in June 1960, she worked as a practical the Retarded in Hallowell, Maine, was named ton, Conn., at age 81 . He was employed as a rse. She is survived by her niece, Harriet A. in his honor. He received two Colby Gavels, foreman by New Departure Hyatt D1v1s1on of lch '38. and, in 1978, the College honored him with a General Motors until his retirement 1n 1966. Colby Brick. He is survivedby his wife, Lillian, a An active member of the State Labor Council Louise McCurdy MacKinnon '16, April 18, sister, and several nieces and nephews. for eight years, Mr. Wood was also elected the 84, in Juno Beach, Fla., at age 91 . She was first president of ew Departure Hyatt's Labor �cted to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member Sewell L. Flagg'20, May 7, 1984, in Oklahoma Union and served 1n that pos1t1on for seven Sigma Kappa sorority. After leaving Colby City, Okla., at age 90. Before his retirement, years. He held a life membership in the S.P.R. e studied adult psychology at Wayne Uri he was employed by General Electric Compa Industrial Management Club and was a mem rs1ty in Detroit, Mich. Very active in her ny. He was a veteran of both World Wars. He ber of the Bristol Lodge of Elks 1010, the Order mmunities and in church affairs, she served is survived by his wife, Johnnie. and a son. of the Eastern Star, the Southwest Farmington YWCA throughout her life and in 1938 was e Civic Association, and the Tunxis Senior Citi med Detroit's Volunteer of the Year in rec Harley P. Mairs '::!1 , May 16, 1984, in Oakland, zens Association. He was also a charter mem ,nition of that service. She was a past presi Maine, at age 86. He held the position of sec ber of the American Assoc1at1on of Retired •nt of the Houghton-Keweenaw (Mich.) tion overseer at the original American Woolen Persons of Bristol. He is survived by his wife, >unty Unit of the American Cancer Society, Mill until it discontinued services in 1929. He Alice, one son, two daughters, one brother. e Lake Worth Garden Society, and the Lake then worked as a clerk in the Oakland post of one sister, nine grandchildren, and three orth Audubon Society. She is survived by a fice until his retirement in 1962. An Army great-grandchildren. n, a daughter, five grandchildren, and seven veteran of World War I, he was also a charter eat-grandchildren. member of the Decker-Simmons American Le Charles R. Boakes '27, June 2, 1984, 1n Pitts gion Post, No. 51. Mr. Mairs was a past master field, Mass., at age 82. After leaving Colby he ther French Spaulding '1 6, May 2, 1984, in of the Masonic Lodge and held membership in served with distinction as a Massachusetts ewer, Maine, at age 89. At Colby she was a all bodies of the Scottish and York Rites, the state trooper, retiring in 1949. He served in the ember of Chi Omega. She was a graduate of Maine Society of Mayflower Descendants, St. U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska during World War e Boston School of Domestic Science and Andrew's Society of Maine, the Oakland Area II. A member of the Dalton Congregational ter taught high school in Maine and Massa- Historical Society, and the National Associa Church, he also belonged to the Unity Lodge 1usetts. Active in many organizations, she tion of Retired Federal Employees. He also of Masons and the Scottish Rite Bodies. He is as a member of the Hampden Historical belonged to the Oakland Baptist Church. He is survived by a sister and several nieces and iciety, a charter member of the Hampden survived by two sons, Harley P., Jr., and Don nephews. ealth Committee and Clinic, past president ald F., seven grandchildren, and four great the Bangor chapter of the American Asso grandchildren. Thomas F. O'Donnell '27, April 21, 1984, in ation of University Women, and the Frances Hyannis, Mass., at age 80. A superb athlete at eighton Williams chapter of the Daughters of Grace E. Wilder Philbrick '21, February 26, Colby, he was All- ew England and Small Col American Revolution. She is survived by a 1e 1983, in East Bridgewater, Mass., at age 85. lege All-American, as well as captain of the two daughters, 11 grandchildren, and 18 m, Born in Farmington, Maine, she majored in football team during his junior and senior eat-grandchildren. chemistry at Colby. She was a member of years. He was also president of Alpha Tau Alpha Delta Pi sorority and was elected to Phi Omega. He received his master's degree from lberta Shepherd March '1 8, April 29, 1984, in Beta Kappa and Kappa Alpha. After leaving Boston University in 1932 and joined the facul armouth, Maine, at age 86. A member of Colby she received her M.D. from Johns ty of Dedham (Mass.) Senior High School, lpha Delta Pi sorority, she taught math and Hopkins Medical School in 1928. She was where he taught history and eventually was nguages at several high schools in the Port senior physician at the Essex Sanatorium in made head of the history departm�nt. In 1955 nd area. She attended summer school at the Middleton, Mass., and then successively di he became principal of the Dedham Junior niversity of New Hampshire and received an rected health services at Smith College, North High School, and, in 1962, he returned to the I.Ed. from the University of Maine. Active in ampton, Mass.; the College for Negroes, Dur Dedham Senior High School as principal. He 1e Southwestern Maine Alumnae Club, she ham, N.C.; Hampton Institute, Hampton, V.I.; held that position until his retirement in 1973. !so served as class agent for two decades. Florida State College, Tallahassee, Fla.; North In addition to his contributions as a teacher 'le is survived by a daughter, Miriam Marsh field School for Girls, Northfield, Mass.; Kent and administrator, he coached the Dedham arteaux '47, a son, five grandchildren, and State University, Kent, Ohio; and Wellesley track and basketball teams for nine years. In great-grandchildren. College, Wellesley, Mass. She was a member recognition of his 41 years of service, Dedham NO of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Senior High School dedicated its gymnasium Jlius G. Sussman '1 9, June 8, 1984, in Augusta, American Medical Association. In her spare to him in 1978, and a scholarship fund was 1aine, at age 89. Although he majored in time, she took delight in raising English spring established in his name. He was also active on hemistry and physics at Colby, his participa er spaniels. She is survived by her husband, Colby's behalf, recruiting for the College in the on in the Glee Club, the Music Club, the or Robert. Cape Cod and suburban Boston areas. At the hestra, the string quartet, and the mandolin 7Sth annual Colby ight Banquet in 1979, he lub presaged an enthusiasm for music which Carlton E. Bennett '25, September 3, 1982, in was honored with the "C" Club Man of the ndured all his life. He was founder of the St. Petersburg, Fla., at age 80. Before his retire Year Award for his "exceptional support of the 1ugusta Symphony, and an active member ment in 1964, he was for 39 years an executive College's sports program." He is survived by nd past president of the Maine Federation of with the home office of the John Hancock Mu his wife, Mary Jo, a son, a daughter, a brother, l\usic Clubs. After leaving Colby, where he tual Life Insurance Company. He served as Martin '35, a sister, and two grandsons. ounded the Gamma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he financial adviser on the Warrant Committee of ook a degree from Massachusetts Institute of the town of Belmont, Mass., and as the gener Grace Stone Allen '29, July 3, 1984, in Mil -echnology and taught in Massachusetts and al chairman of the local Red Cross Drive. He is bridge, Maine, at age 76. At Colby she was a l\aine. In 1934 he returned to Augusta, Maine, survived by two sons and five grandchildren. member of Phi Mu sorority and was elected to o found the Augusta News Company. His Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Gamma Theta. After ommitment to others is attested by the Clyde E. Getchell '26, June 13, 1984, in graduating cum laude, she became a teacher 1wards that he received, including Augusta's Oakland, Maine, at age 81. Mr. Getchell, re of English and foreign languages at the Colum :alumet Club Humanitarian Award, the B'nai tired from 30 years of service as postal carrier bia Falls and Jonesboro high schools. She was l'rith State Humanitarian Award, Augusta's in the rural areas of Maine, enjoyed a SO-year also a member of the American Association of )utstanding Citizen Award, and the 1982 Jef long membership to the Masonic Lodge in University Women. In 1967 she received her erson Award. He also received the Medal of Weld. He was also a member of the Wilton master of education degree from the Universi fonor from the Daughters of the American Congregational Church. Survivors include one ty of Maine at Orono. A member of the Col- THE COLBY AL M S 47 umbia Falls United Methodist Church she was was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship that also superintendent and teacher of the church during World War II. He recently founded The allowed him to study regional directing Sunday school. She is survived by a daughter, Computer Institute of New England, located in methods, he founded and directed the Penob a son, and two sisters, Helen Stone Mittelsdorf the old Post Office building in Waterville, in scot Valley Theater Association and the '27 and Myra Stone Pruitt Knofski '28. order to provide basic computer training for Camden Hills Theater. He also founded the school children from kindergarten through Arts Institute of Western Maine and served as grade 12. He is survived by his wife, Frances, of the American Educational Theater William H. Stinneford '30, April 20, 1984, in president one son, one daughter, two brothers, includ Association. His honors included the Arts Olean, N.Y., at age 77. He was a member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. After leaving Col ing Arthur B. Levine '28, and a grandson. Award of the State of Maine Arts Commissron by he went to work for the W.T. Grant Com in 1976, the Unrversity of Maine at Farmington pany at several stores in the midwestern and George H. Anderson '35, May 18, 1984, in Special Service Award in 1977, and the Coe College Alumni Merit Award in 1978. Upon eastern seaboard states. He became manager Portland, Maine, at age 81. He left his job as a of the Grants Store in Olean in 1959 and held bookkeeper in the Portland city auditor's of retiring from UMO as professor emeritus in the position until his retirement in 1969. A fice to attend Colby, where he was a member 1970, he became involved with the theater member of the Olean Kiwanis and Elks clubs, of Theta Kappa Nu fraternity. After graduating program at the University of Maine at Farming he was also a parishioner of St. Mary's of the he attended Harvard Business School. He then ton, organizing an academic curriculum for the theater and serving as a consultant for five Angels Church. At the request of President J. returned to Portland and became assistant city auditor and, in 1957, city financial director. He years. He is survived by his wife, Cecelia, Seelye Bixler, he represented Colby at the in a auguration of Horace A. Hildreth as president retired in 1964. In recognition of his position as son, and a granddaughter. of Bucknell University in 1950. He is survived chairman of the State of Maine Municipal Fi by his wife, Catherine, four daughters, in nance Officers Association, he received a Col cluding Catherine Stinneford Walther '58 and by Gavel in 1959. From 1956 to 1960, he FRIENDS Mary Stinneford Daglio '63, three sons, two servedas class agent. He was a member of the brothers, Claude L. Stinneford '26 and James R. Portland Commandry, as well as a member Lorinda Orne Eustis, July 20, 1984, in Water· Stinneford '36, one sister, and 18 grand and trustee of the First Baptist Church of vi lle, Maine, at age 78. A 1927 graduate of the children. Portland. He is survived by his wife, Hilda, one University of Maine, she was closely associat son, and four granddaughters. ed with Colby during nearly 60 years of resi· dence in Waterville. Her husband, A. Galen Clayton F. Smith '31 , April 24, 1984, in Naples, Bertha Arline Hayes Henson '36, October 21, Eustis, was formerly vice president of Colby, Fla., at age 75. While at Colby he organized 1982, in West Simsbury, Conn., at age 67. She and the Eustis Administration Building was the Chi Gamma Sigma honorary physics socie is survived by her husband, Raymond, two named in his honor. He died in 1959. Mrs. ty, which later became Sigma Pi Sigma. He re daughters, three sisters, two brothers, and Eustis was a member of the Colby Music Asso ceived a B.A. degree from the University of seven grandchildren. ciates and the Friends of Art, yet many of her Pennsylvania and served as a chemist with the contributions to the College community were Allied Chemical Corporation. After his retire Antonietta Fera Romano '49, very personal. She frequently shared her love ment in 1973, he was self-employed as a pat June 7, 1984, in of flowers by bringing bouquets of them to ent agent. Author, amateur historian, and Lawrence, Mass., at age 57. After leaving Col grace special events on campus. A member of genealogist, he was past president of the Mad by she was employed as a technician in the Delta Delta Delta sorority, she also belonged ison, N.J., chapter of the Sons of the American cardio-respiratory laboratory of the Children's to the First Congregational Church in Water Revolution. He was also the founder and presi Hospital in Boston. She received her master's degree in elementary education from Salem ville, the Central Maine Garden Club, and the dent emeritus of the Canal Society of New Jer Waterville Historical Society. She was a past sey. He is survived by his wife, Bertha "Mary State College and then taught for 13 years at director of the United Way and of the YMCA Ann," two sons, a daughter, a sister, and six the North Andover Middle School. She also She is survived by a son, Jon B. '69, a daughter, grandchildren. served as the secretary-treasurer of the Colby College Club of the Merrimack Valley. She is Nancy E. Huprich '54, eight grandchildren, and su rvived by her husband, Ernest, two daugh one great-grandchild. Phyllis Farwell Curtis '32, May 17, 1984, in ters, one son, two sisters, and a grandson. Houston, Tex., at age 72. An active athlete and Dorothea M. Marston, June 21, 1984, in St. a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority at Col Oliver Macleod Lund '50, November 28, 1981, Petersburg, Fla., at age 95. The Hallowell, by, she later received her R.N. degree from the in Rowley, Mass., at age 55. At Colby he was Maine, native graduated from Wellesley Col· Mount Sinai School of Nursing in New York. president of Zeta Psi fraternity. After graduat lege in 1909 and then worked in the Montclair, She was an active member and past president ing he worked in the leather industry in New N.J., school system's guidance department. In of the local chapter of the Delphian Society. York and Pennsylvania, and was later em 1950 she retired and returned to live in Maine. She is survived by her husband, Alanson '31 . ployed by the Danvers Paper Company. A U.S. In 1956 she enlisted the help of author Rachel Navy veteran, he served in both World War II Carson in establishing the Maine chapter of Leo E. Fencer '34, May 18, 1984, in Quincy, and the Korean War. He was a trustee of the The Nature Conservancy, which Miss Marston Mass., at age 71. He was a member of Phi Del Free Public Library in Rowley and served on served as chapter secretary until she moved to ta Theta fraternity at Colby. After serving in St. Petersburg in 1969. She gave Colby the board of Link House of Newburyport, a the Army during World War II, he became a Mass. He is survived by his wife Patricia Ander 20-acre bog in Belgrade, now known as the transmission engineer at New England Tele son Lund '51 (now Patricia Ebinger), one sister, Colby-Marston Preserve and designated a phone Company. He was also active in the Lois Lund Giachardi '36, and several nieces and natural landmark in 1973 by the National Park New England Telephone Pioneers of America. nephews. Service. The Appleton Bog Preserve is likewise He is survived by his wife, Charlotte, two protected because of her efforts. She also gave daughters, and three granddaughters. her support to the Augusta Nature Center's ef forts to acquire land and develop its naturalist Ralph Nash '34, June 8, 1984, in Waterville, HONORARY program, and to the Natural Resources Coun Maine, at age 71. Known to his classmates as cil of Maine. She received the Nature Conser Ralph Nathanson, he was a member of Tau Herschel L. Bricker, D.F.A. '77, May 20, 1984, vancy's national Oak Leaf Award in 1963 and Delta Phi and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, in Farmington, Maine, at age 78. After receiv was named Maine's Conservationist of the Phi Kappa Delta, and Pi Gamma Mu. After re ing his AB. from Coe College in 1928, he be Year by the Natural Resources Council in ceiving his degree from Harvard Law School, gan a 42-year career as professor of theater at 1968. She is survived by two nieces. he established his practice in Waterville. Mr. the University of Maine at Orono. The culmi Nash was a religious man and was well re nation of more than 30 years of affiliation with Omission spected in the Waterville community. He was the university's Masque Theater came when In the obituary for Carleton D. Brown '33 that an active member of the local Democratic par he led the company on government spon appeared in the September issue, his brother ty and served two terms as Waterville city so sored tours to Germany and Italy in 1959 and Harold F. Brown '35 should have been listed as licitor and one as treasurer. His political career to India and Pakistan in 1962. The recipient of one of the surviving family. 48 THE COLBY ALUM US lLUMNI CLUB NEWS From freshman send-off picnics in Portland and Fairfield County to faculty seminars in Waterville and New York, the alumni clubs around the country have had an active fall. Howard 'S8 and Ann Clarke were hosts for alumni and stu dents in Fairfield County, Conn., at a reception at their home in honor of the Class of 1988. Move over, MOMA! Art aficionados in Connecticut spent a pleasant afternoon at Arts Exclusive ga llery, owned by Phil Janes '62. The Hartford club provided hors d'oeuvres and a string quartet for musical enjoyment, and the works of Jane Melanson Dahmen '63 (see May 1984 Alumnus) and selections from the Colby art collection graced the gal lery's walls. Charlie Bassett, professor of English and chairman of the Amer ican Studies Program (see May Alumnus), presented his slide tape show of "The Sights and Sounds of the '30s" to a huge crowd at the Southern Maine club's annual dinner at the Port land Country Club. In the business portion of the same gather ing, Cass Gilbert '76 was elected president, succeeding Bob Clarke 77, who had served as club president since 1982. History Professor Harold Raymond spoke to Waterville area alumni about "Benjamin Butler: Civil War Hero/Villain." Butler graduated from Colby in 1838 and became a brilliant military commander. He antagonized the New Orleans aristocracy with a notorious general order that impugned the reputation of that city's ladies. Welcome back to the club scene, Waterbury, Conn., and Western Massachusetts alumni. Thanks to the energy of Paul "Red" Feldman '34 and Bob Bruce '40, alumni clubs in those areas enjoyed a rejuvenation this fall. Alumni Secretary Sid Farr 'SS was the featured speaker at the Waterbury club's dinner. The kickoff events for Western Massachusetts alumni centered around the Colby-Amherst football game with a pregame tail gate and reception following the game. Southern Maine alumni cheered for the White Mules at the Colby-Bowdoin football ga me after a pregame tailgate picnic and warm-up under the pines on the Brunswick campus. The inaugural event of each year's activities for the New York Alumni Association, a trip to the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, took place in August, blessed by the absence of rain. (Are alum ni becoming accustomed to carrying umbrellas to Colby events?} Later in the season, Van Gogh in Aries was the special exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and art department Chairman David Simon the featured lecturer for the New York club's "Evening of Van Gogh." The Southern Maine club turned out in force to celebrate the local Alumni clubs exist wherever there are Colby alumni to meet. opening of Colby 200 Campaign fund-raising efforts. Shown here, from 0 The get-togethers can be informal or elegant or whatever the top to bottom, are Colby President Bill Cotter in conversation with Ber nice "Bunny" Butler McCorrill Partridge and an unidentified friend, organizers fancy. For more information about clubs in your area '21 Tom Cox Jack Deering and Dean of Students Janice Seitzinger; '66, '55, or if you're interested in helping, please contact the alumni of and Career Services Director Jim Mcintyre, Susan Raymond Ceismar 79, fice. and Chemistry Assistant Jean Mcintyre.