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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1985 Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 1: December 1984 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 1: December 1984" (1985). Colby Alumnus. 128. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/128 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. 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 '<l Sally Lovegren Representatives '83 Western Massachusetts Richard Craig '83 Paul E. Feldman Joseph B. Campbell Steven W. Barbour '34 '29 '84 Lewis "Ludy" Levine Mary E. White Worcester, Mass. '21 Honorary Members Franklin Norvish '84 Lawrence E. Blanchard '34 '71 J. Seelye Bixler, LL.D. Manchester, N.H. '60 Robert E. L. Strider II, Litt.D. Esther McDonough Smith ' Class Representatives Faculty Representative '79 New Jersey Theophile S. Krawiec Daniel H. Cohen Frances Richter Comstock· '3S '7S Thomas G. van Slyke '36 New York, N. Y. Norman W. Beals '37 Elizabeth J. Corydon Joseph Ciechon '74 '38 Elizabeth Solie Howard Cleveland, Ohio '39 Alumni Club Representatives President of the College Edna Slater Pullen MaryLouise Lippschutz '40 Elmer L. Baxter San Francisco, Calif. Silliman William R. Cotter '41 '64 Ann Jones Gilmore Stephen B. Levine '42 'S9 Philadelphia, Pa. James W. Moriarty '43 Hart/ord, Conn. Thomas McK. Thomas William Hutcheson '63 '44 Anthony M. Maramarco Roslyn E. Kramer '71 Providence, '4S R.I. Benjamin C. Bubar District of Columbia Beverly F. Nalbandian '46 '80 Doris Meyer Hawkes Carolyn Webster Lockhart '47 '60 Houston, Tex. Carol Silverstein Stoll Baker Ft. Myers, Fla. Alumni Trustees '48 Lewis Krinsky Jean Sheppard Silva Jean M. Watson '65 '49 Anne Lawrence Bondy Nelson T. Everts '29 Burlington, Vt. '46 'SO Miami/Fl. Lauderdale, Fla. Robert W. Burke representative to be appointed Michael and Joyce Di '61 '61 'SI John W. McHale Flynn Warren J. Finegan Mary Sargent Swift '62 'Sl 'S2 '62 Rae Jean Braunmuller Goodman Carleton D. Reed St. Petersburg, Fla. Seattle, Wash. 'S3 Lois McCarty Carlson Gordon Patch Thompson Anne Ruggles Gere '69 'S4 '3S '66 LUM NU.__.____ -----l 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.