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COLBY'S LEADERSHIP

President Overseers Alumni Council Executive Committee

William R. Cotter Richard L. Abedon '56 David M. Marson '48, chair Harold Alfond Jerome F. Goldberg '60, vice chair Frank 0. Apantaku '71 John R. Cornell '65 Trustees Leigh B. Bangs '58 Susan Comeau '63 Charles P. Barnes I I '54 R. Dennis Dionne '61 J. Robert Alpert '54 Clifford A. Bean '51 Laurie B. Fitts '75 Robert N. Anthony '38 Patricia Downs Berger '52 Susan Smith Huebsch '54 Anne Lawrence Bondy '46 William L. Bryan '48 Germaine Michaud Orloff '55 H. Ridgely Bullock '55 Ralph J. Bunche, Jr. '65 Robert W. Burke '61 Christine M. Celata '70 Alida Millik

12 Julius Seelye Bixler. 1894-1985 t Colby pays tribute to its beloved 16th president and Fea ures his distinguished career as a philosopher, teacher, and educational leader.

16 \\'omen of the Cloth Four alumnae among the growing number of women in the clergy discuss the issues and rewards they have experienced in their work.

21 Augusta's Aesthetes Those who help to preserve and extend Maine's cultural heritage include three Colby alumni.

25 Passages Historian Clifford J. Berschneider and psychologist Paul P. Perez look back over their careers as they look forward to retirement.

28 Mike Ryan: A Gentleman's Coach A nostalgic look at a champion who coached champions shows that his priorities were much broader than winning races.

2 Eustis Mailroom t 3 News from tlie Hill Depart01en s 30 Class Correspondence 46 Milestones Alumni Club News (inside back cover)

Volume 74, umber 3, May I 985

Assistant: Martha Freese Editor: Lane Fisher; Editorial Assistant: Regina Gilmartin Knox; Design and Production: Bonnie Bishop; Production and Mathew Lebowiu, or Shattuck; Editorial Interns: John Beaudoin '87 and Thomas A. Hageny '88; Photography: Lynn Mosher Bushnell as credited; Printing: The Knowlton and McLeary Company, Farmington, Maine.

The Colby Alumnus is published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address corresponclence to: Editor, The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799.

the Skowhegan School of Painting and On the cover: The portrait of J. Seelye Bixler was painted by Willard H. Cummings, founder of Colby's permanent collection. Sculpture, in I 959, the year before Dr. Bixler retired from Colby's presidency. The oil painting is part of

THE COLBY r\LUM�t..: EUSTIS MAILROOM

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Marking the Old Grounds was raised through the reading of dimension such letters add to com­ Jonathan Schell's provocative and munication within this community. It's wonderful that there are hand­ terrifying The Fate of the Earth. One alumnus told me that, how­ some new markers at Colby's ma­ The program committee brought a ever much he may disagree with jor entrances on the hill (see the number of speakers on the subject some letters, he knows that "Colby December 1984 Alumnus). But of nuclear war to campus, but is alive and well" when he sees a why has no marker of any sort their attempts to get "more dialogue emerging among them. ever been placed on the old Colby representation by conservatives" He's so right. campus? This question was asked was frustrated by refusals or by We'd love to hear from more at our 25th reunion, and the ad­ conservative speakers asking who, like Mrs. True and Professor ministration said that negotiations "more for their appearance than Weeks, find themselves reacting to with the City of Waterville would the program was prepared to what they read or hear about Col­ be necessary. pay." The implication is just one by. Whether such letters contain It would be a credit to Colby more bit of evidence that, under squalls of protest or simple thanks, and "the powers that be" if this the Reagan administration and the whether they are whimsical or project were undertaken. History flood of current conservatism, the point to unseen relationships in would be made for history! fear of John Kenneth Galbraith Colby's history and future, writing and many others that the United one can only heighten others' Hilda Niehoff True '43 States is fast becoming a nation awareness. Georgetown, Mass. tragically divided into two classes, In this issue are news and the very rich and the very poor, is features that are provocative in College officials repeatedly have coming to pass. different ways. Certainly the death broached the possibility of placing As for the "simply shocking," it of President Emeritus J. Seelye a marker on the old campus, was indeed shocking to find, Bixler evokes many feelings and which is now private property. through the "Mailroom," that recollections, and it would be a Most recently the idea has been there had been a number of objec­ tribute to him if those were shared. presented to the property's new tions by graduates of a liberal arts In quite a different vein, "Women owner, Clifford Morissette of college to freedom of speech and of the Cloth'' may tap into certain Wa terville. No agreement has yet to hearing varied views on current values and beliefs, and it may beg been reached. (Ed.) controversies. Thanks to Jonathan additional insights from clergy of Maslow '77 and George Shur '64 both sexes. Those who enjoy for censuring the would-be censors Maine's art and architecture, who In Response and defending the presentation of worked with professors Clifford Angela Davis at Colby. Berschneider or Paul Perez, or It was interesting to note a couple who were driven by former track of ironies in the March 1985 Lewis E. Weeks, Jr. '42 Coach Mike Ryan also will react to Alumnus, one rather subtle and Potsdam, N. Y. articles herein. mildly amusing and the other quite Consider making the communi­ shocking. From the Editor cation go two ways. We all look In "The First of Many Books," forward to hearing from you. an account of the admirable All who turned to this page hoping freshman book program, it was to read more than two letters from Lane Fisher noted that the issue of nuclear war alumni are well aware of the Editor

2 THE COLBY /\LL'MNUS NEWS FROM THE HILL

Alumni to Receive A wards she served on the Alumni Council, dustry at Colby and has also where she headed the student rela­ worked as a consultant in both the tions committee for several years government and private sectors. In Six Colby alumni will be honored and sat on the executive committee 1965, he was appointed assistam at the awards banquet on Satur­ of the council. An alumni inter­ secretary of defense (comptroller) day, June 7, during Reunion viewer and organizer of area col­ under the Johnson administration, Weekend. John R. Cornell '65, lege nights, Eugenie Hampton is a position he held for three years. Eugenie Hahlbohm Hampton '55, the mother of Peter '80 and Anthony received a Colby Brick in Germaine Michaud Orloff '55, and Lauren '81. 1968 and an honorary L.H.D. Gordon Patch Thompson '35 have A resident of Waterville, Ger­ from Colby in 1963. A member of been chosen to receive Colby maine Michaud Orloff has been the Board of Trustees since 1959, Bricks by the Alumni Council active in several alumni organiza­ he chaired the board from 1978 to awards committee, based on their tions, including the Waterville 1983. He has headed numerous service and loyalty to the College Alumni Club, which she formerly trustee committees, including the since their graduation. Also to be served as secretary. She is a mem­ budget and finance committee, the honored at the dinner are Robert ber of the Alumni Council, chair equal opportunity committee, and N. Anthony '38, who will receive of the alumni house committee, the 1978 presidential search com­ the Marriner Distinguished Service and outgoing president of the mittee. He was also a member of Award, and Robert J. Bruce '59, Class of 1955. She has chaired the steering and major gifts com­ who will receive the Distinguished both her 25th and this year's 30th mittees for the Colby 2000 Cam­ Alumnus Award. reunion and, with her husband, paign. John R. Cornell, an attorney, Paul, co-chaired the Parents Asso­ Robert J. Bruce '59 will receive has helped organize and maintain ciation from 198 1 to 1982. They the Distinguished Alumnus Award, alumni clubs in both Portland, are the parents of Karen '8 1 and which annually recognizes one Maine, and Cleveland, Ohio. Vice Glenn '84. Colby graduate for outstanding chair of the Alumni Council from Gordon Patch Thompson, re­ professional achievement. After 1976 to 1979, he chaired the coun­ turning for his 50th reunion this graduating from Colby, Bruce cil from 1979 to 1980. A former June, has been extremely active in taught at Kents Hill and at member of the planned giving the St. Petersburg Alumni Club Brookline High School, earning his committee, he also served as an since organizing it in the 1970s. master's degree at Boston State Alumni Fund agent for two years. Recognized as one of Colby's most College in 1964. As a Fulbright He co-chaired the Symposium of loyal and supportive alumni, scholar, he studied at the Universi­ the State of the College held on Thompson has served the Class of ty of Manchester in 1964. From Reunion Weekend and Homecom­ 1935 as class correspondent and 1965 to 1969, he was development ing Weekend in 1978, and Reunion has participated in the Colby 2000 officer at Colby. Associated with Weekend in 1979. Campaign as a volunteer agent. both Clark and Bard colleges, he Eugenie Hahlbohm Hampton, The Marriner Distinguished served in various positions at those an elementary school teacher, has Service Award, given to alumni or schools before accepting a position served the College in a variety of friends of Colby who have demon­ as vice president for development leadership positions since her strated exceptional commitment to at Widener University in 1975. In graduation. An alumni trustee the College, will be presented to 1981 he became president of the from 1972 to 1978, she had previ­ Robert N. Anthony '38. While 7 ,800-student university, which is ously served as vice chair of the teaching at Harvard Business located on two cam puses in Chester, Colby Alumni Association from School for 40 years, he helped to Pa., and Wilmington, Del. He is 1972 to 1978. From 1966 to 1972, develop the Institute for Maine In- married to Judy Garland Bruce '58.

THE COLBY ALL':\1;\:L'S 3 Federal Aid Threatened

Proposed budget cuts in federally { funded financial aid, if enacted, will hurt more than 700 Colby stu­ dents, according to Robert McAr­ thur, dean of admissions and financial aid. Of the 550 students who currently receive financial aid from Colby, 483 students would lose an average of $1,835 in sup­ plementary federal assistance if cuts proposed by the Reagan ad­ ministration in February are real­ ized. In addition, 275 students who receive Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs) from the federal govern­ ment, but no assistance directly from Colby, would be denied such Construction Prevails over Winter Work Conditions loans. McArthur estimated the to­ tal federal assistance that would be Not rain nor snow nor darkened days deterred those working on Colby's lost by Colby students to be new $3.5 million Student Center this winter. After finishing the founda­ $1,449,600 per year. tion, parts of which had to be sheltered by plastic tents so that the con­ One of the two ''most worri­ crete could set, construction workers began placing the structure's some" components of the pro­ I-beams. By late March, the frame displayed much of the character the posed federal aid cuts, said McAr­ building will have when it is completed next fall. thur, is a $4,000 cap on the total federal assistance that any college student can receive per year from Trustees Name New for the Alumni Fund. She is mar­ any combination of federal pro­ Overseers ried to Harman Hawkins and has grams. This cap would affect 208 two children. current Colby aid recipients. The The Colby Board of Trustees has Huebsch majored in history and other potentially great problem is named three new overseers: Janet government as a student. A mem­ the proposed restriction of GSL Gay Hawkins '48, of Plandome, ber of the Alumni Council, she is to students from families whose in­ N.Y., Susan Smith Huebsch '54, the chair of its nominating com­ come is no greater than $32,500, of South Dartmouth, Mass. , and mittee and also serves on the which would eliminate loans to 531 Anne O'Hanian Szostak '72, of nominating committee of the of the 740 Colby families that bor­ Warwick, R.l. The Board of Over­ Board of Trustees. Both she and row through the GSL program. seers acts as an advisory council to her husband, Roger M. Huebsch The average family receiving finan­ the president and sends visiting '53, were awarded Colby Bricks in cial aid through Colby in 1984-85 committees to appraise the efforts 1979 for fund-raising efforts and has an income of $36,252 and has of all Colby departments every five for identifying and encouraging two children in college, creating an years. students to attend Colby. Among average of $8,348 in total aid need­ Hawkins, a history major while those students have been their ed for them to be able to send one attending Colby, has long been ac­ three daughters, Karen '77, Gret­ of their children to Colby. Colby's tive in community affairs. She is chen '80, and Ellen '82. tuition and fees are $12,400 in president of the Gladys Brooks Anne O'Hanian Szostak '72, is a 1984-85. Foundation in New York City and former trustee and was, at 24, the Colby's ability to offset the of the Manhasset Visiting Nurse youngest named to that post in the federal aid cuts would be limited, Service, vice president of the history of the College. A sociology ultimately meaning that Colby Visiting Home Health Services of major while at Colby, she is now a would have fewer students from Nassau County, a board member senior vice president in the opera­ low and middle income families, of the Family Services Association tions department of Fieet National and more from wealthy families. of Nassau, and is active with the Bank in Providence. She is married McArthur indicated that some of Manhasset United Fund. For many to Michael J. Szostak '72 and has the lost GSLs could be made up years she served as a class agent two daughters. through parent loan programs of-

4 THE COLBY J\LUMNU fered by Colby and the federal ing from the total of $26,000 that their campaign gifts be ear­ government, but that those would received in January, Annual Fund marked for special funds started be out of the financial reach of contributions of $45,000 during by other alumni. The goals for many families. Whereas GSLs are February broke all records. those funds are to endow an East repaid on a deferred basis at 8 per­ At the same time, the national Asian studies professorship, an art cent interest, repayment of Colby telethon to raise one-time capital museum exhibition fund, a schol­ parent loans must begin when the gifts, payable over five years, to arship in the name of the Class of loan is issued and is at 9 or 11 per­ the Colby 2000 Campaign pro­ 1971, and a scholarship in memory cent interest. Federal parent loans gressed well. Begun in November of the late Joe and Kay Peters, currently charge 12 percent inter­ with plans to reach 10,000 alumni, whose Little Big Store became an est. To offset the entire $1,449,600 the telethon had completed calls to institution for Colby students on in lost aid, Colby would need to 7,650 alumni by late February. Of the nearby downtown campus, as increase its aid budget by 30 per­ those who had been reached, well as for the townspeople today. cent, said McArthur, which is an 2,700, or 35 percent, had made Another drive is underway to make unlikely possibility. contributions or pledges totaling a capital gift for the Student Cen­ $725,590 toward the campaign's ter in the name of the late Jess Alumni Help Colby Make capital goals. An additional Marchese '63, a campus musician $75,000 generated in corporation known to many alumni. the Grade matching gifts brought the total to The involvement and special in­ terests of so many alumni are Thi has been a test year in terms just over $800,000. Campaign Di­ of how well alumni understand the rector Charles P. "Pen" William­ reflected in the growing amount dual financial support that Colby son indicated that the support pledged to the Colby 2000 Cam­ shown by young alumni reached paign. By mid-March, gifts and needs to maintain its standards of pledges to the campaign had excellence. Because of the Colby through this general gifts drive was particularly striking. reached a total of $19,332,000, 2000 Campaign's "double ask" nearing the $20 million mark along policy, in 1985 most alumni have As the telephone solicitations the way to its $28.5 million goal. been asked to consider a one-time took place, many alumni requested capital pledge to Colby while con­ ti nuing their annual support of the Alumni Fund. It is similar to put­ ting money in savings while also Moving? repleni hing the funds in one's Please let the College know your new whereabouts. Otherwise, your Alum­ checking account; whereas the nusprobably will not reach you-and you won't hear about Colby gatherings capital gift fortifies Colby's en­ in your area. dowment and improves its facili­ ties, the Alumni Fund gift provides Name ------revenues for current operations. Class ______Date effective ______The "double" generosity of many Former Address (as on label) alumni shows that they understand the double need clearly.

As donors and solicitors, record New address ______numbers of alumni have involved themselves in Colby fund raising Home phone ______this year. To boost their classes' support to the Alumni Fund, Do you have news we should share with your class secretary? ______which is part of the Annual Fund, members of the classes of '40, '65, '70, '75, and '80 have conducted reunion-year phonathons for the first time in Colby's history. The support of their classmates, other alumni, and parents had contribut­ ed $534,000 toward the Annual Fund's third consecutive million­ dollar goal by mid-March. Early indicators boded well for the Please send to: Address Change, Alumni Office, Colby College, Waterville, fund' final total on June 30; ris- Maine 04901. Thank you!

THE COLBY ALLJM 'L' 5 Sorority Leaders Honored current year. According to Martin Russian Dissident Carries Asher, director of Quality Paper­ Torch for Human Rights The contributions of Frances Mann back Book Club, which grants the Hall, Class of 1887, and Mary New Voice Award, it is given to an Looking older than his 49 years, Rollins Millett, Class of 1930, to author who "has not yet received nine years of which were spent in their sororities and to the College the audience he or she deserves." Soviet labor camps, exiled Russian are acknowledged in the names A cash prize of $5 ,000 is attached dissident Alexander Ginzburg Colby's Board of Trustees has ap­ to the award. spoke in Lorimer Chapel on Feb­ proved for the two former sorority When she received the award, ruary 11. The recounting of his rooms in Runnals Union. Kenney said, "I think the 'New dissident activities, subsequent ar­ The Sigma Kappa room has Voice' feature is a wonderful idea. rests, and exile brought to life the been renamed to honor Frances There are good books and good ravages endured by a fear-ridden Mann Hall, who, with Mary Low, writers out there who are just society denied basic freedoms. De­ Louise Coburn, Elizabeth Hoeg, starting to be heard. I also note spite the use of an interpreter to and Ida Miller, was one of Sigma with interest that the average age help him tell that story, Ginzburg Kappa's founding members. Al­ of this set of 'new voices' is in the was able to convey his convictions, though Hall did not graduate with mid-40s, along with the recent suc­ warmth of spirit, and humor to the her class, she was given an honor­ cesses of writers like William Ken­ many students and others who ary master's degree by Colby in nedy, Harriet Doerr, and Helen came to hear him. 1891. She was principal of the Santmyer. This has to be good All terror, Ginzburg said, gener­ Hall-Noyes School in Washington, news for all the writers who are ally has the "same goals and the D. C., and was active in education still slugging it out and feeling same methods-wherever it is." circles in that area. Upon the death crummy because they didn't make Absolute fear is instilled into the of her husband, George Washing­ it before they were 30. Hey, don't hearts of the people, and the ton Hall, Class of 1875, a photog­ give it up." historical memory of a population rapher known for his lectures, she This is not the first recognition is destroyed. To achieve these donated all his materials to Colby. of Kenney's work. In 1982 she goals a certain part of the popula­ By the renaming of the Chi received the 0. Henry Award for tion must die. Because churches Omega room for Mary Rollins her short story "Facing Front" work to "sustain the soul of a peo­ Millett '30, she is honored for her and last year received a creative ple,'' they are the first against outstanding support as chapter ad­ writing fellowship by the National whom the perpetrators of terror viser. A resident of Waterville, she Endowment for the Arts. In strike, according to Ginzburg. is the widow of the late Ellsworth Another Country is Kenney's sec­ Next is the intelligentsia, and then Millett '25, former coach, pro­ ond novel. Her first novel, Garden the more conservative element of fessor, and alumni secretary of the of Malice, was published in 1983 the population, the peasantry. He College. After graduating from and is in the tradition of the Eng­ gave as an example the artificial Colby, she taught for two years at lish mystery story (see the Decem­ hunger that was created in the Mattanawcook Academy. She has ber 1984 Alumnus). Another Ukraine in the 1930s when farmers been on the board of directors of mystery, in which several of the were deprived of their crops and the Hinckley Home School in Garden of Malice characters will could not escape. Six million peo­ Hinckley, Maine, and of the Good­ reappear, is scheduled for publica­ ple died from the famine. This will Association, which she has tion later this year. kind of terror, having achieved its also served as president. She is the goals, ended with the death of mother of Jane Millett Dornish '55. Stalin in 1953, said Ginzburg. Although the human rights move­ ment was not in evidence at this Associate Professor Wins time, he continued, there were Distinction for Novel those who had "learned some truth and could not go on as they Susan Kenney, associate professor were." of English at Colby, has been Ginzburg was to become one of awarded the New Voice Award for those. After having worked as an her latest novel, Jn Another Coun­ actor and theater director, he try. The award, in its first year, is decided to become a journalist. given to the author judged to show "In the beginning all went well," the most promise and distinction he said, "but I didn't like not through a work published in the Susan Kenney recognizing in the morning paper

6 THE COLBY ALUMN S Runner Saluted as Records Stand Fast

Among the pleasures of Family Winter Weekend was a ceremony honoring Sebsibe Mamo '70 during the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association indoor track cham­ pionships at Colby. The Ethiopian runner had represented his country in the 1964 Olympics in Mexico City before he came to Mayflower Hill in 1966. In 1968, in the midst of his Colby education, he again competed for Ethiopia in the Olympics, earning international recognition for his 1:49.9 perfor­ mance in the 800-meter run. It was in that same semifinal competition that he tore his Achilles tendon, an injury that closed his running career. Alexander Ginzburg When Mamo, now a field repre­ sentative for the Greater New York what I had written the night be­ number of such groups that had Blood Program, visited Colby for fore." His thwarted journalistic in­ emerged in response to the Helsin­ the February 9 ceremony in his tegrity spurred him to publish, on ki Accords of 1975. honor, he found three of his Colby his own authority, an uncensored Asked after the lecture about the records still standing: the 1:49.9 poetry journal entitled Syntax. arms race, he expressed the opin­ time in the 800-meter run, 4:07.8 Before Ginzburg was arrested in ion that the Soviet system is in the one-mile run, and 8:43.6 in 1960, he had published four issues. dangerous for the world, that it the two-mile run. The visit was, That people called for his release, never attacks strong forces, and perhaps, inspirational; two weeks instead of calling for his death, as that to be secure one must be afterward, at the New England in­ they would have done in earlier strong. In response to another door championships on February periods, indicated that fear was question on sister cities in the 23, Tom Pickering '85 beat diminishing, said Ginzburg. When United States and Russia, Ginz­ Mamo's 17-year-old mile-run he was released after serving a burg noted that it is often a "one­ record with a new Maine record of two-year prison sentence, he found sided deceit," as is the exchange of 4:06.52. that other journals, more serious scholars and students. But, he than his own, were being pub­ said, "If you go to the Soviet lished-and by editors who were Union, choose a town, meet com­ free. mon people, demand to bring them Ginzburg remained actively com­ here, and have a real human ex­ mitted to the principles of human change, if in that you are suc­ rights. When Soviet writers Andrei cessful, monuments would be Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were erected to you in both cities." tried and convicted for publishing Ginzburg currently lives in Paris works that undermined the Soviet with his wife, mother, and two way of life, Ginzburg compiled children. One son, still in Russia as and published the proceedings of a member of the Red Army, has the trial and consequently was sen­ been refused emigration papers by tenced again. His third prison sen­ the Soviet authorities. Ginzburg is tence, from which he was exiled, a field representative in Europe for stemmed from his work with a the human rights division of the charitable organization that aided AFL-CIO. the families of political prisoners. This organization was one of a RGK Sebsibe Mamo '70

THE COLBY LUMNUS 7 Campaign Pledges Pay Library Bond Issue

Campaign pledges have succeeded in meeting the dollar amount need­ ed to pay the library bond issue of $6,335,000 that was due April 1, 1985. To help pay the bond issue, challenge grants, which require matching donations from alumni and friends, were offered by Pew Memorial Trust, the National En­ dowment for the Humanities, and the Kresge Foundation. Alumni and friends of Colby met those challenges. The bond issue was taken out in March 1981, at the time the Miller Library renovation and expansion was started. The project, which spanned a two-year period ending in 1983, resulted in greater office and shelf capacity within the li­ brary, and in an interior that can take its place in distinctive contem­ porary design.

College Physician Appointed

On January 25, right in the middle of the traditional flu season, Colby bid good-bye to its interim physi­ cian, William Taggart, and greeted its new full-time college physician, Robert Goodell, Jr. A graduate of Brown University and of Harvard Medical School, Goodell is a board certified pediatrician. He comes to Colby from Williams College, where he was the head of health services from 1967 to 1981 and col­ lege physician since 1982.

Walk, Don't Run!

If indeed a brisk walk is one of the best forms of exercise, Colby has gained the appreciation of some very healthy Wa terville residents. During the inclement months of the year, the College opens its track each morn­ ing to area residents who enjoy recreational walking. In Fe bruary, more than 150 of those who enjoyed such use of the fieldhouse signed their Robert Goodell, Jr., M.D. names to a card thanking President William R. Cotter.

8 THE COLBY AL MNUS Hersh Calls Foreign Policy In the case of President Nixon could have been taken hostage Immoral, Illogical and his secretary of state, Henry then in their places. Hersh con­ Kissinger, whose foreign policy is cluded that voters should judge the subject of Hersh's fifth book presidential candidates' integrity "I think we grew up thinking that ' the special thing about the United The Price of Power, Hersh was on the basis of their social policies. States is that we are a moral coun­ sharply critical of their failure to "Forget the foreign policy. It's all try," award-winning journalist assess the human implications of going to be the same.'' Seymour Hersh told Colby stu­ their decisions. In the 20,000 pages Hersh has won more than a dents and faculty on March 11. of classified documents that he dozen major journalism awards, The facts that he reviewed reviewed in preparation of that including a Pulitzer prize for his throughout his speech, sponsored book, he said he found absolutely coverage of the My Lai massacre by the cultural life committee of no indication that estimated casu­ in Vietnam, which he published in the Student Association, strongly alties were ever weighed into the 1969. That and his coverage of the suggested that our government is Nixon administration's military secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia, not. decisions. "Is it too much to ask the CIA's involvement in the over­ Since the Eisenhower administra­ that a policy could be accompanied throw of Chile's Salvador Allende, tion, "We have been locked into by some paper that would explain the CIA's domestic spying, and il­ this business of having to show the cost of the policy in human legal weapons sales to Libya ac­ that we can be as illogical and im­ terms?" Hersh inquired. count for his receiving the Polk moral as the Russians," said Although he focused mostly on Award four times, the Howard Hersh. Although we embrace an Republican administrations, Hersh Public Service Award, the Drew ideal of honesty and integrity in also pointed to follies in the for­ Pearson Award, the Zenger Free­ our primary personal relationships, eign policies of Democrats John dom of the Press Award, and the he said that we do not apply com­ Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Sigma Delta Chi Award twice. parable standards to our govern­ Even Jimmie Carter, probably to From 1972 to 1979, Hersh wrote ment. "We don't expect much in­ save himself in the 1980 election, for The New York Times, and he tegrity, and we don't get very risked American lives with his at­ had previously worked for The much." As a result, Hersh ques­ tempt to rescue the American hos­ New Yorker. tioned what moral force this coun­ tages in Iran-when any of 3,000 try can apply in negotiations with other Americans in that country LF other countries that have violated human or sovereign rights. The United States consistently tries to justify its military presence and CIA interventions throughout the world in terms of a Communist threat and often finds itself in places where that kind of reason­ ing bears no application, according to Hersh. The basis for sending U.S. forces to Beirut, for example, was to protect Lebanon from "Russian dominated" Syria, but it later became clear that Syria suf­ fered no such domination. He also argued that a Communist threat in Central America has not been proven, although he maintained that President Reagan sincerely believes it when he says that the threat is there. Predicting that there would be 10-12 nuclear powers by 1990, some of them Third World countries, Hersh pleaded the necessity of broaden­ ing the focus of U.S. foreign policy. Seymour Hersh

THE COLBY ALUM 'US 9 claimed that the government's cur­ rent involvement in El Salvador is the "single greatest threat to [that country's] democracy. " He also questioned CIA actions that have "turned the Honduras into an air­ craft base.'' Bleakley's presentation ap­ proached the crisis in Central America from an economic stand­ point, using the serious financial crisis that the Nicaraguan govern­ ment has caused its people as justification for U.S. intervention. "We're talking of some 25 million people whose per capita income is, on the average, $1,000 a year." Allowing that records of U.S. in­ volvement in Central America's political system are "not entirely clean," Bleakley contended that the strength of the Sandinista army comes from a distorted democratic process that the United States can­ not be asked to support. TH

On Finding the Ocean in a Grain of Sand Kenneth Bleakley, left, and Robert E. White "The aesthetic principles of Japa­ nese gardens are applicable to any Should the U.S. Be in administration's rejection of the landscape in any locale," Japanese Central America? proposed peace treaty a violation garden designer David Slawson of traditional democratic process. told members of the Colby com­ On February 22, Lorimer Chapel He insisted that "something is ter­ munity on March 13. In a slide was the site of involved discussion ribly wrong when the United States show of Japanese gardens inter­ concerning United States policy in will walk away from the World mingled with works of art and Central America. In a debate that Court and say, 'We refuse to scenes from the Japanese and concluded a day-long educational debate.' " Maine coasts, Slawson showed conference on Central America, Bleakley felt that the treaty how the Japanese use indigenous Robert E. White, ambassador to should be viewed as the latest materials to recreate the scenic El Salvador during the Carter ad­ unacceptable product of Central qualities of a natural landscape. ministration, presented Kenneth America's "warped" democracies. He advised would-be garden Bleakley, a representative of the He maintained that the Contadora designers to seek inspiration from U.S. State Department, with ar­ treaty is unverifiable and said that nature's configurations before try­ ticulate opposition. the United States will not negotiate ing to imitate them in smaller The Contadora draft treaty was a treaty biased towards the Cubans scale. an issue of the debate. Proposed and one that is unrealistic in its at­ In the tightly contained depic­ by many Latin and South Ameri­ tentions to social and economic tion of the natural landscape, a can countries, the treaty calls for problems in Nicaragua. Japanese garden designer is "tak­ the withdrawal of all foreign mili­ White, who spoke from his 25 ing the two-dimensional landscape tary powers from those regions. years of experience in El Salvador, painting and putting it back into White supported the treaty and Paraguay, Honduras, and Nicara­ three dimensions," said Slawson. said he was appalled by the Rea­ gua, insisted that every American In their techniques, both the gar­ gan administration's rejection of it should be concerned with U.S. dener and the painter must be last fall. White found the Reagan policy in Central America. He aware of how the senses are struc-

10 THE COLBY ALUMNUS tured to make the best possible use of sensory limitations. Slawson cited the examples of a large and sometimes intricate foreground ele­ ment, which gives the viewer a sense of comfort in relating to the rest of the scene, and the creation of foreground, middle ground, and background to give depth cues. The triangular combination of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal thrusts is a stable form that is the most important element in J apa­ nese gardens, said Slawson. The dominant configuration of three rocks, which relate to one another in their placement, shapes, and composition, is often anchored by two smaller rocks, but Slawson warned that a successful garden rarely uses a great many rocks. In the maintenance of a Japa­ nese garden, certain effects are contrived to imitate nature's forces. In some gardens, for in­ stance, gravel is raked to create a �ense of movement. The trees in most gardens are also manipulated, being pruned to recreate the im­ pression of weatherbeaten trees along a coastline. Slawson, who earned his Ph. D. in Japanese aesthetics at Indiana University, has designed several public and private Japanese gar­ dens in this country, including one at Carleton College and the award­ winning garden at The Garden Center of Greater Cleveland. He is the translator of a 15th-century Japanese garden manual and has studied in Kyoto, Japan, with the internationally known garden mas­ ter Kinsaku Nakane, who has been asked to design the Carter Memo­ rial Library garden in Atlanta.

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Fund Report Addendum The staff of the Office of Annual Families Frolic on Frosty Campus Giving regrets and apologizes for the omission of John B. and About 250 alumni, parents, and family members were on campus Muriel Carrell Philson '42 from February 8-10 to participate in Fa mily Winter Weekend. Nature obliged the list of President's Club mem­ by providing the record crowd with ideal conditions for outdoor recrea­ bers that was recently published in tion, while faculty presentations and sports events created a busy the Alumni Fund Report, 1983-84. schedule of indoor activities.

THE COLBY ALUM 1US 11 Julius Seelye Bixler 1894-1985

Julius Seelye Bixler-Colby's minders of his strength, his accom­ stature, and gained for him the beloved president from 1942 to plishments, and his devotion that respect and affection of the 1960, distinguished philosopher are all around us,'' said Cotter. students and his faculty colleagues. and theologian, and recognized "The emergence of Colby as a He lived a long and remarkable leader in higher education-died in liberal arts college of national life, and our world is diminished Weston, Mass., on March 28, just distinction is in large part the without him." a week before his 91 st birthday. heritage of Seelye Bixler," af­ J. Seelye Bixler was born in New "Dr. Bixler was one of the great firmed President Emeritus Robert London, Conn., on April 4, 1894. figures in American higher educa­ E. L. Strider II. "A pragmatic He was the son of the Reverend tion," reflected President William idealist in the tradition of his James Wilson Bixler-a prominent R. Cotter. "He was a scholar, philosophical mentor, William Congregational clergyman who author, and philosopher who was James, he was a delightful racon­ later served in both houses of the the personal friend of such giants teur ... and a warm and respon­ New Hampshire legislature-and as Albert Schweitzer and who, at sive human being, kind and of the former Elizabeth James the same time, cared enough to get generous. He knew the difference, Seelye.He was named for her to know the name of the newest in an age increasingly dominated father, long-time Amherst College freshman and to make that student by technique, between image and President Julius Seelye, whose welcome. substance. His career was evidence brother was the first president of "In many ways, the Colby of to­ that one could be an educational Smith College. day is his permanent legacy .... leader, administrator, and fund When Seelye Bixler graduated While we are deeply saddened by raiser without relinquishing one's Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst in the loss of this exceptional human soul, an achievement that set him 1916, he began to alternate be­ being, we are consoled by the re- apart, mirrored his towering tween studying and teaching in this

12 THE COLBY ALUMNUS country and abroad. He taught for wrote Clayton La Verdiere in the from 1960 to 1965, observed after a year at American College in Waterville Sentinel at the close of Bixler's retirement, "The real Madura, India, before he enrolled Bixler's Colby career. He was Col­ secret of his success ... was his in Union Theological Seminary. by's first president to achieve own personality. Wherever he rose However, he chose not to enter the scholastic fame before entering the to speak, people were charmed by clergy because, as he later said, he presidential office, but his first his unaffected sincerity, pleased by wanted to study all theologies major challenges drew on his rela­ his delightful humor, impressed rather than to bind himself to one tively undeveloped administrative by his intellect, and inspired by his creed. After service in the U. S. skills. Without the fanfare of an enthusiasm. The best measure of Army during World War I, he be­ inauguration, he became Colby's the public's opinion of him is in came the director of religious ac­ 16th president just months after what they have done for him." In tivities at Amherst, from which he the attack on Pearl Harbor, short, they built a new campus of earned his M.A. in 1920. There presiding over aged facilities on the 30 buildings with him, they chan­ followed two more years of teach­ downtown campus, five unfinished neled immense energies into the ing abroad, as a lecturer at Ameri­ shells and three completed build­ College's academic substance and can University in Beirut, and then ings that housed women students verve, and they returned his own graduate work at Yale and Har­ on Mayflower Hill, and an Army great affection all the while. vard. After he received his Ph.D. Air Force training installation. The statistics of the 18-year Bix­ from Yale in 1924, he spent nine Even after war's turmoil ended, ler presidency tell their own tale. years on the faculty of Smith Col­ formidable fund-raising challenges The values of the endowment and lege and studied at the University blocked the path from the old of Colby's tangible property both of Freiburg in Germany during his campus to the new. Years later, nearly tripled, the annual operating 1928-29 sabbatical leave. In 1933 Dr. Bixler openly acknowledged budget increased by more than five he left Smith to become Bussey his dislike of "traveling with the times, and faculty salaries doubled. Professor of Theology at Harvard. begging bowl," but in the interim In 1942 the enrollment was 650 During his nine years there, he he persevered. His great faith in and dropping because of the war; twice served as acting dean of Har­ small liberal arts colleges, his high in 1960 it was 1, 180 and rising, by vard Divinity School and once hopes for Colby, and his esteem Dr. Bixler's design. In the same again took his research abroad, to for those who had committed Col­ years, the faculty increased from the University of Zurich, Switzer­ by to the construction of the new 53 toll 3. land. campus carried him. He was a suc­ Yet Seelye Bixler' s greatest ''Fresh from a teaching chair at cessful fund raiser because he achievement at Colby, that of Harvard he came, a lanky, bespec­ articulated Colby's needs with con­ leading it to the forefront of tacled man with the erudite look of viction and grace. American liberal arts colleges, can­ a distinguished professor and the As the late Reginald H. Sturte­ not be measured. He was of the winning grin of a schoolboy," vant '21, chairman of the board opinion, "If the faculty is com-

THE COLBY ALUM US 13 posed of an able and ambitious taught, both at Colby and in four tain undergraduate women with a group, eager to have Colby excel, summers at the Saltzburg Seminar rousing rendition of "There Is a and proud of their place in it, on American Studies. Philosophy Tavern in the Town" when Dean nothing can stop the college from Professor Robert Reuman recalled Nina Runnals invited him to din­ going forward." In fact, at least being "enthralled and amazed" ner, and turn a spade to plant trees one long-time associate considers when he saw Dr. Bixler turn a dis­ or dig walkways on Johnson Day. Dr. Bixler personally responsible cussion over to a class of 200-250 His huge repertoire of jokes and for selecting and inspiring such a students, encouraging their lively anecdotes accommodated every oc­ group: "He was the calibre of per­ participation but, at the same time, casion. son who attracted top-quality peo­ managing the discussion so that it Even while he strengthened the ple who wanted to work hard, for built steadily toward a thesis. "In bonds within the Colby com­ whatever salaries, just to work in that sense, he was a master teacher munity-"the Colby family," he the atmosphere he created.'' himself," said Reuman. often called it-he eschewed the Dr. Bixler's intellectual excite­ Dr. Bixler also was a model of ivory tower concept and repeatedly ment was contagious, whether the stature for students. "We loved emphasized that ''the intellectual event was a social gathering, a and respected him because he was search for truth cannot be isolated convocation, or a concert. His one of the world's prominent phi­ from the moral ambition to serve leadership wrought a book-of-the­ losophers," said Sidney W. Farr society. " If students are educated year program, the Senior Scholars '55. "He had gained the respect of in an atmosphere of love, he main­ program, cooperative and inter­ people all over the world for his tained, ''they wilt not let an idea disciplinary team teaching, a vast brilliance. We knew it was a col­ go until its implications for society array of visiting luminaries, and lege destined for great things that are revealed.'' Maine's first college courses taught could attract such a man as presi­ His own contributions to society by way of television. He started dent." included service as a lifetime the art and music departments and Yet he did not hold himself trustee of Colby and Amherst and began building Colby's permanent above students or anyone else. Dr. a trustee of Radcliffe, 1949-61, collection of art. When the Colby Bixler was legendary for his ability and of Smith, 1963-70. He was co­ Community Symphony made its to recall the name of every student founder of the Albert Schweitzer debut under the baton of Ermanno and every colleague. His associates Fellowship and its first president. Comparetti in 1943, Seelye Bixler remember that when he fastened Dr. Bixler also served as president was there, playing cello, and his his alert, sympathetic attention on of both the American Theological remarkable wife, the former Mary a person, that person felt like the Society and the National Council Harrison Thayer, played viola. Dr. center of the universe for a mo­ on Religion in Higher Education. Bixler encouraged his fell ow ad­ ment. For all of his sophistication, In the 25 years after his retire­ ministrators to teach in addition to he was known to spontaneously ment at age 65, Dr. Bixler con­ their primary duties, and he join a game of tag football, enter- tinued his search for truth and

14 THE COLBY ALUM 'US helped others in that quest. He logical and philosophical tradi­ sented to him in 1982. Then Alum­ taught at Thammasart University tions, to produce what Dr. Bixler ni Association President John Cor­ in Bangkok, the universities of considered "the last will and testa­ nell '65 told him on that occasion, Canterbury and Aukland in New ment of a nonagenarian to his "More than any one of us can Zealand, the University of Hawaii, former students ...." realize is what you, as a warm and Carleton and Bowdoin colleges, Those students made substantial thoughtful human being, mean co and the University of Maine at claim to his heart during retire­ the graduates of this college." Orono. For a year and a half he ment, as he followed the develop­ "He was never the pedant, never was a visiting fellow at Wesleyan ment of their careers and families, the opener of file cabinets, but he University's Center for Advanced attended their reunions, and met was a person who moved with the Studies. with alumni throughout the coun­ grand step," Bob Reuman said He also continued to write, add­ try and the world. In turn, the recently. At the same time, as ing to his more than 100 scholarly Colby community paid him every Allan Scott, Dana Professor of articles, hundreds of reviews, and possible tribute. In 1955 he re­ Biology, Emeritus, said simply, six books-Religion in the Philoso­ ceived a Colby Brick, and in 1959 "He really was a friend of all phy of William James (1926), Im­ the Bixler Art and Music Center mankind. " mortality and the Present Mood was dedicated. On his retirement in Dr. Bixler is survived by his (1931), Religion for Free Minds 1960, both he and Mary Bixler wife, Mary; four daughters, Mary (1939), Conversations with an received honorary doctorates; it Harriet Naughton, Elizabeth Unrepentant Liberal (1946), A speaks to his overall academic Berck, Martha Sacksteder, and Faith that Fulfills (1951), and leadership that he was similarly Nancy Isaacs; eight grandchildren, Education for Adversity (1952). honored by 12 other colleges and including Emily Isaacs '88, and a Even when his energies were taxed universities-Amherst, Acadia, brother. The family has requested by his final illness, he worked in­ American International, Bates, that any memorial gifts be made to tensely on his new monograph, Bowdoin, Brown, Carleton, Har­ the Hospice at Home program in German Recollections: Some of vard, Maine, Union, Wesleyan, Wayland, Mass. A memorial serv­ My Best Friends Were Philoso­ and Worcester Polytechnic In­ ice for Dr. Bixler will be held on phers, which Colby will publish stitute. In 1960 the Colby Parents campus on June 9, during Reunion this year. It discusses the tenets of Association, which had grown out Weekend. such men as Edmund Husserl, of the parents weekends that began Martin Heidegger, Karl Barth, and 12 years earlier, established the Schweitzer, as well as his ex­ Bixler Scholars program. Colby periences with them. These he Night during the 1970 Homecom­ The August issue of the Alumnus weaves together with his own ing Weekend was dedicated to will carry letters of tribute to Dr. philosophy, which has been called him, and the Marriner Distin­ Bixler, which the editor invites an original synthesis of the theo- guished Service Award was pre- from the alumni at large.

THE COLBY AL MN S 15 Women of the Cloth

by Lynn Mosher Bushnell

e first student organization at These ministers were in the first That separation, caused in part by theh Maine Literary and Theological trickle of what is now a ground the perception that the minister Institution was the Philathean swell of women entering the minis­ shares a special communion with a Society, devoted to the discussion try. The number of women in sem­ greater Being, is not necessarily a of religious and literary topics. Its inaries today has tripled since negative force, yet it does create an president was George Dana Board­ 1970; they now constitute about unusual work environment. That man, the College's first graduate, half of the entering classes. As is environment and the attending joys remembered now for his mission­ true of clergywomen in general, and difficulties are brought into ary work in Burma. Of the these alumnae represent a range of sharper relief as these women con­ society's nine founding members, ages, belief systems, and denomi­ front them for the first time. five of them went on to become nations, yet they share many com­ The joys-the satisfaction of ministers or missionaries. Today, mon experiences. helping someone renew faith-and four alumnae who became minis­ Those who enter the ministry are the difficulties-the loneliness in­ ters continue in the Colby tradition choosing an occupation that simul­ herent in such a singular calling­ of religious service that began with taneously ties them to and sepa­ are not peculiar to women, but are those early graduates. rates them from the community. shared by their male counterparts.

16 THE COLBY ALUM US As women, however, these alum­ their humanity," she said. "They ministry, only to find out she was nae are pioneers in this vocation, want to touch something within going through the same process in without a tradition to rely upon and beyond themselves. I'm awed Texas! [Later] we participated in for support and solace. While find­ that they come to me for that." each other's ordinations. Coming ing new ways to answer their per­ She attributed her ability to help from truly opposite directions to sonal and religious needs, women others to her own experiences, in­ the same calling, I can only say it are bringing special gifts to the cluding a divorce and the normal must have been the water!" ministry that are changing both the frustrations of raising three chil­ Smith is chaplain at Riverside face and the form of established dren. Her family life, which she Hospital, an acute-care general religious traditions. said once suffered from lack of hospital in Toledo, Ohio. She attention, is now "reasonably nor­ joined the Episcopal Church after mal," but only by virtue of enor­ An Enabling Figure graduating from Colby and mov­ Polly Laughland Guild '45, origi­ mous forethought and planning ing to Ohio. As she reached age 30 nally known at Colby as Mary with her second husband, Theo­ she felt she had a calling to the "Polly" Callard, is the senior dore. She calls stress and the con­ ministry but had no idea how to minister at the Fallen Community stant demands placed upon her act on it. She did know that the Church, Unitarian Universalist, in time the culprits that invade her traditionally female role of Chris­ family life, yet she thinks they are Lexington, Mass. A minister now tian educator was not her forte, for 20 years, she graduated from not unique to women so much as because seven years teaching to her profession. Colby intending to become a re­ French had drained her desire to search scientist. Instead, she mar­ In spite of the incessant de­ work solely with children. After mands, Guild cherishes the warm ried and raised three children. Her extensive discussions with her relationship that has developed involvement in the church began pastor and her bishop, she entered between herself and her congrega­ with volunteer work and increased Winebrenner Theological Seminary tion. She said that a mutual affec­ gradually over the years until she in Findlay, Ohio. She was or­ tion and respect for one another recognized her calling to the minis­ dained as a priest in January 1981. has resulted in what she calls a try. With her children all in The mother of four sees her role satisfying and shared ministry. She school, she attended Andover as chaplain as a natural one for a recalled a time when she broke her Newton Theological School and woman, given that women, more leg. During her convalescence the graduated in 1964. than men, have been socialized to parish provided her with food, at­ Her length of service provides a set their own egos aside in order to tention, and an almost constant perspective not shared by the more attend to other people's needs. "It caretaker and companion. Similar­ recently ordained alumnae. She [the chaplaincy] calls for establish­ ly, when she recently lost her remembers an "old boy" network ing a quick intimacy with people. mother, the members were suppor­ during her earlier years as a minis­ You have to enter the other per­ tive and sympathetic to her grief. ter that made her uncomfortable. son's world rather quickly, and, in As more women entered the field, general, I think women are more however, that discomfort lessened. A Natural Role naturally inclined toward that kind Guild believes the reason for much Linda Corcoran Smith and Bar­ of care." of the earlier awkwardness between bara Field West were roommates Smith has used her ability to women and men was that men felt in Mary Low Hall at Colby 27 work well with others in spheres competition from women, especial­ years ago. Today they both are involving more than the patients ly in respect to church assign­ Episcopal priests, but in 1958 themselves. As part of the ad­ ments. She concluded that those neither had an inkling of that ministrative team at the hospital, growing pains were useful, as they eventuality. As Smith told their she is consulted on ethical matters permitted both men and women to story, "Barbara and I roomed and issues, enabling her to help get in touch with their "dual together our senior year. We never shape hospital policies and prac­ natures. " discussed religion because there tices. She also has made herself Guild sees herself as a person was nothing to discuss. [Then a available to those of the hospital's who has a special ability to reach Roman Catholic,] I went to con­ 1,200 employees who seek her others. "I think of myself as an fession on Saturday and Mass on counsel. enabling figure, " she reflected. Sunday, and Barbara was a lapsed Her influence has carried over to Her congregation, composed pri­ Congregationalist. After college we the Episcopal Church as well, marily of college professors and kept in touch over the years where she serves on three major their families, is a hard one to through Christmas cards. Then in diocesan committees and has serve. "I have the ability to reach 1976 I wrote Barbara telling her I represented her diocese at national through the superficial to touch was thinking about going into the church conventions. Smith is estab-

THE COLBY L MN S 17 lishing at the hospital a pastoral calling to the priesthood before Beyond self-isolation, some education program for current women were permitted to be or­ loneliness occurs because others ministers and those preparing for dained in the Episcopal Church. put priests on a pedestal. Further­ the ministry. The program will The state of flux that the church more, if friendships within the par­ provide clinical experience in a was in created agonizing uncertain­ ish create an appearance of an in­ specialized ministry such as her ty for West, who entered Southern ner circle, they are antithetical to own. The program is especially im­ Methodist University's Perkins the church's image as a place for portant to Smith, who seeks to im­ School of Theology in 1972, five counsel and solace. Therefore, out­ prove awareness of ministries that years before official sanction was side interests and friends are are outside the ''main line. '' given to women's ordinations. essential, West noted, because they While Smith has enjoyed strong Upon her graduation in 1975, she provide diversion from the stress support from the administration was ordained to the diaconate, one and tension inherent within the and the church in her role at the level short of the priesthood. Al­ position. hospital, she acknowledged that though some dioceses were ordain­ West, like Smith, has seen an not all aspects of her priesthood ing women to the priesthood unof­ evolution in her image of God. As have been without obstacles. When ficially, such support was not forth­ a child she envisioned God as a first ordained, she participated for coming for West in her Texas male figure, an image that was three years in a team ministry. She diocese. "Call it luck or coin­ consistently reinforced as she grew described her experience at that cidence or the leading of God, '' older. Today, her vision of God parish as "hurtful, '' because she West said, that her husband's includes a feminine image, the never gained the congregation's ac­ business transferred them to Con­ Mother. She concluded that to per­ ceptance at the level for which she necticut, where she was ordained sonify God is important because it had hoped. Yet those years led her to the priesthood in December helps people relate to their reli­ to a better sense of self: "I wanted 1980. gion. "To neuterize God would be to be accepted by everyone and Today West is assistant to the wrong. You must have the person had to learn to live through that. rector at St. James Episcopal to fill out that image. The person You need to find affirmation in a Church in Glastonbury, Conn. She at the altar helps do that, especial­ reasonable way. " recalled the difficult times when ly for kids. " Smith has found it helpful that she was a deacon in Texas; she West has provided that kind of she explored many women's issues spent most of her energy then try­ imagery for at least one child. A before she entered the priesthood. ing to introduce the concept of friend of West's observed her "I'm glad I did because it would women as ordained ministers in the daughter, a four-year-old, playing be overwhelming now, a real hand­ Episcopal Church. That issue is with a white basket and a napkin icap, '' she said. "Self-understand­ less pressing to her now, as she en­ while pretending to be a priest. "It ing is essential to ministering to joys acceptance by her colleagues was just unbelievable [to hear other people. " and her parishioners. Of the latter that]," said West. "That never Among the issues Smith, as a she said, "They've welcomed me, would have happened when I was woman, had to resolve was her especially at first because it was a a kid. There just weren't any role concept of God. When asked how unique situation. Now we've got­ models then. '' she thought of God, she confirmed ten past some of the uniqueness, that her spontaneous image was and I'm able to minister there fully Expressions from the Heart male, but beyond that first image without those barriers [of being The process of becoming a minis­ she now thinks of a more inclusive new and being female]." ter began for Diane Lockwood Being. She explained that she con­ Similarly, she finds a sharing Wendorf '76 in high school, when tinues to personify God rather and a mutual respect among her she argued about her faith with than arriving at an image better colleagues that is gratifying. That friends. She came to Colby know­ described as a power. That per­ was not always the case; in the ing that she wanted to enter the sonification reflects her belief that past West saw a tendency for each ministry, but wanting in the God is involved in people's daily priest to tend to his or her own necessary confidence and self­ lives and decisions, yet allows us calling and never to show their respect. College helped to change room for free will. Concluded vulnerability. The loneliness that that. Although she learned how to Smith, "I truly believe we are co­ priests feel as a result of that un­ socialize better with her peers, that creators. " willingness to share is eased today confused all the structures she had through small clergy groups that used to shape her view of herself. Potent Imagery meet and provide an outlet for She described it as a crisis stage in Smith's former roommate, the discussing common problems, said her life. After graduation she en­ Reverend West, recognized her West. tered Andover Newton Theological

18 THE COLBY AL MNUS Polly Cal/ard Laugh/and Guild Linda Corcoran Smith '58: Early in her Barbara Field West '58: Ha ving developed an '45: Members of her congrega­ ministry, she wanted to be accepted by image of God that encompasses a fem inine tion "want to touch something everyone and had to work through that aspect, the Mother, she believes that it is im­ within and beyond themselves, " impossibility. "You need to find affi rma­ portant to personify God because it helps and she is awed that they come tion in a reasonable way. " people to relate to religion. to her for that.

Diane Lockwood Wendorf '76: Her gifts in drama and the arts allow her to affe ct people in ways that she believes impossible through traditional methods of ministry.

THE COLBY AL M S 19 School but left within 24 hours of from both parishes came-but it explained that her church doctrine arriving. "I needed more time for was also like having 800 parents!" today combines religion with the self-examination, " explained Wen­ Those ties became evident again naturalistic bent of science. dorf, "and it was the best thing I when she announced her resigna­ Smith, a French major, remem­ ever did." She returned to An­ tion in order to accompany her bers college as a time of great dover Newton the following semes­ husband to Cincinnati, where a intellectual growth and fondly re­ ter, at ease with herself and with new call awaited him. She remem­ called the steady stream of guest her decision to become a minister. bered that many parishioners, lecturers and speakers that visited For the past four years, Wen­ some of whom she barely knew, the campus. "All those people dorf served as the associate minis­ were markedly distressed at her really rriade an impression on me; ter at the United Church of Christ departure. Although she regretted they opened up my world, " she in Wooster, Ohio, where she scru­ leaving, she believed she had ac­ said. tinized her reasons for becoming a complished her original goal, the West, a biology major whose in­ minister, what it means to be empowering of others. terest in religion was at an ebb female and a minister, and how She continues to work on that during her Colby years, was she can influence the church. Her goal in new settings in Cincinnati, amazed when she reviewed her un­ initial emphasis was on preaching, where she is the interim co-pastor dergraduate record as she applied but today she sees far more to her at St. John's United Church of for entrance to the seminary. "My calling. Her gifts in the arts and Christ and the program coor­ transcript really is beautifully bal­ drama have added a new dimen­ dinator for an intergenerational anced. It was the perfect prepara­ sion to her ministry, allowing her worship experience at the Washing­ tion for the seminary, although I to affect people in ways that she ton United Church of Christ. didn't know it then. Whether out believes impossible through tradi­ Wendorf, like the other alumnae of intervention or supernatural at­ tional methods. For example, interviewed, spoke of the loneliness traction, I had taken all the right "Last Easter [ 1984] I prepared a implicit in the minister's role. To courses 15 years before. It's very sacred dance. People had always help offset that isolation with a fascinating when you think about seen me in traditional garb, and so formal network of support, the it. " here I came out Easter morning in United Church of Christ sponsors Wendorf expressed the most a leotard and a crepe dress. I a Coordinating Center for Women gratitude for her College ex­ thought I'd be terrified but once I for clergy and laity. The group perience. The English and art ma­ got up there, it was so right, so meets at every General Synod and jor remembered professors R. worshipful. Those are expressions sponsors informal meetings such as Mark Benbow, whose compassion that come from the heart. " retreats. Although Wendorf is and willingness to help were all­ While Wendorf was comfortable thankful for the support she important to her; Thomas R. W. using dance and drama to bring receives from other women Longstaff, who sought her out and forth her message to the parish, through the organization, she offered her the opportunity to give she was less confident in examin­ struggles with her own reactions to sermons while on campus; and ing, let alone using, feminist or her female colleagues. Mentioning Donald B. Small, who welcomed liberation theology. "I was afraid the competition and the newness of her into his church in the commu­ of it at first because I didn't want the stage they are on, she said, nity. "I loved Colby, " she effused. to become an 'angry feminist.' I "People are judging us. I think "I felt it was the beginning of my wanted to be compassionate. Over I'm more critical of women minis­ life. The faculty were teachers, but the years I have become more in­ ters because of the generalities that they were also pastors. " formed, but it's taken me a long still occur by those judging us, yet For a College whose existence is time to get there. I work very hard I feel almost guilty if I'm critical grounded in students pursuing to use language in inclusive terms because I should be supportive. In theological as well as literary in­ now; I try to work up as many im­ theory, everybody ought to be do­ sights, that combination seems fit­ ages for God, both masculine and ing their best for the glory of God ting. feminine, as possible. " regardless of their sex, but in reali­ Wendorf, who married another ty that just doesn't happen." UTION minister, Mark, in 1982, used their Colby's influence on these wom­ COh STIT 5 1:..iATE wedding as an example of con­ en and their eventual vocation was gregational support that is not varied but always positive. Guild, PAX·DEI without some drawbacks: "Getting who has been away from the Col­ married while at Trinity was a lege the longest, favored the broad CON�fECliCUl mJ wonderful experience. We had 800 liberal education she gained. A people at our wedding-everyone biology and chemistry major, she

20 THE COLBY ALUM US Augusta's Aesthetes

In Maine's capital three Colby graduates strive to preserve the state's unique heritage and to nurture the arts

remarkable and impressive students at Colby, and have spent delphia, in the letterpress printing ColbyA showing exists in the admin­ most, if not all, of their profes­ division that was "archaic even at istration of the arts in Maine's sional careers working for the that time." As production manag­ capital city of Augusta. The con­ State of Maine. They share a deep er of this division of fine crafts­ servator of the Maine State Muse­ commitment to preserving and cel­ men, Brooke learned the printing um is Stephen W. Brooke '67; the ebrating those things, as Brooke trade "from the ground up" and director of the Maine Historic put it, "that belong to the people was responsible for the quality Preservation Commission is Earle of the State of Maine,'' be they control of the engravings and G. Shettleworth, Jr. '70; and the paintings, architecturally and reproductions done for the Na­ executive director of the Maine historically significant houses, or tional Gallery. Four years later he State Commission on the Arts and the works of contemporary Maine entered the master's program in Humanities is Alden C. Wilson artists. But similarities end there; conservation of historic and artistic '69. Many likely covet their of­ the ways in which these alumni works, in the Cooperstown Gradu­ fices, and one can probably count contribute to that commitment are ate Program of the State Universi­ the number of similar positions in quite different. ty of New York at Oneonta. the arts available in Maine on Brooke spent the last year of that one's fingers. By what roads did Conservation three-year program as a graduate these Colby alumni travel from Stephen Brooke, after graduating fellow at the Smithsonian Institu­ Waterville to Augusta? from Colby, went to work with tion. From the Smithsonian he All three were art majors while Beck Engraving Company in Phila- came to the state museum and has

THE COLB AL Mi S 21 here for care are the Norman Rockwell prints returned last year to the governor's mansion in the same mysterious way in which they had disappeared. Brooke's training and primary responsibility at the museum is in conservation, but his work is not restricted to the laboratory. He devotes much effort to work pre­ ventive in nature, as, for example, in the truly monumental amount of care that must be given to the creation and design of every ex­ hibit, no matter how small. Light, for instance, can be very damag­ ing, especially to textiles, and humidity and other environmental factors can also exert deleterious effects. To minimize possible damage to items of historical im­ portance, Brooke works closely with the designer and does a fair amount of exhibit construction as well. An exhibit to open this fall, entitled "Made in Maine," will focus on the manufacture of items unique to Maine, such as the bam­ boo rod-making of Bangor and the gunsmithing of Portland's John Hall, who took his guns, the first made with interchangeable parts, to Harper's Ferry. The construc­ tion of this exhibit has been in the works for three years-and much still has to be done.

Preservation Conservation is also the major W. Stephen Brooke '67: His efforts in the laboratory and with exhibits impede concern of Earle Shettleworth, the aging process and extend the life of Maine art and artifacts. whose interest in preservation was piqued even before he attended been there ever since. That was 12 dating from about 1880 and Colby. A native of Portland, years ago. bought from an antique dealer, to Maine, Shettleworth was involved The office in which he works, a knitting machine made in Bath, in the budding preservation move­ along with two technicians, one Maine. When the machine made its ment of the 1960s. As an art histo­ full-time and one part-time, in way to the museum, via a swap ry major at Colby, his interests many ways resembles a medical with a Vermont museum (a com­ were strengthened. After a brief laboratory. Brooke said this ac­ mon way of acquisition), it was stint of active training in the Army tually is not surprising, since con­ not even recognizable. Now, after Reserve, he returned to his well servation is essentially "interfering having been cleaned and conserved defined path by matriculating in a in the aging process and extending by Brooke and his staff, it even Boston University graduate pro­ life," in this instance, of artifacts works.Brooke noted that they try gram in American art and architec­ and works of art that tell stories of to select artifacts that are intact ture. Even while attending BU, he the lives led by Maine people. This enough so that conservation and was well on his way to his present laboratory-like room is full of trea­ preservation, and not reconstruc­ authority. He was appointed to the sures that range from a sleigh, tion, are in order. Also waiting state's historical commission as ar-

22 THE COLBY ALUMNUS chitectural historian while still a graduate student. Then, upon receiving his master's degree in 1973, he was asked to join the staff, which he did. In 1976 he was made director. Maine, said Shettleworth, has a fairly intact 19th and early 20th century environment, the period of Maine's greatest prosperity. To a certain degree, this is because of a lack of economic wherewithal in many areas of Maine. The preser­ vation and maintenance of that en­ vironment nonetheless is an awe­ some task and one that, for at least the past 20 years, has been heavily supported by the federal government. According to Shet­ tleworth, the National Preservation Act of 1966 was passed in response to the extensive urban renewal that was then taking place, often with­ out regard for important buildings and landmarks. By 1972 federal matching funds were available to states to ensure the preservation of ignificant historical and architec­ tural sites. The historic preservation office consists of Shettleworth and five professionals whose task it is to manage the complex workings be­ hind the gains of preservationists that the public now enjoys. For ex­ ample, the designation of one's house or a town's main street as being historically important enough to be listed on the National Register gives not only special Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. '70: The fe deral government has joined with the state status but protection from any to help preserve Maine's exemplary 19th and early 20th century architecture. development funded by the federal government. Another incentive for Celebration when he saw an advertisement for preservation is the tax advantage Right next door to Shettleworth's a one-year management internship that can be obtained for restora­ office is the office of Alden C. at the Commission on the Arts and tion work done on a historically Wilson. Unlike Brooke and Shet­ Humanities. Nine months into his certified building that is converted tleworth, his job is not in preserv­ internship, he was selected to fill to commercial use. The growing ing Maine's aesthetic assets but in an associate position that had number of stately old homes being supporting its artists. He, too, pur­ opened. In 1974 he was made act­ turned into bed and breakfast inns, sued graduate studies-thinking he ing director and then director. instead of slowly decaying, likely is would end up in academia, like the Wilson said that he enjoys the due to this tax credit. This is two generations before him, but he challenge of "involving govern­ known as "adaptive use" and, un­ found that his heart wasn't in it. ment in a sensitive way with the fortunately, was not thought of Off he went, leaving Cornell, to arts." The commission, which is soon enough to rescue most of the teach in the Gray, Maine, school primarily a grant administering old College campus buildings from system. His excursion into arts ad­ agency, strives to strengthen and their demise. ministration began a year later, build quality in the arts by sup-

THE COLBY ALUMNt.;S 23 porting and promoting successful sors exist in the state. Wilson said someone in Augusta cares about artists. Its business is not with that after ten years as director he them. "Sunday painters" or amateurs; is beginning to see the progress Wilson works with Shettleworth standards set by the state are high. that he had expected after five. on an informal basis, sometimes Staffing of the arts and humani­ Progress is the success of the Han­ on historical sites that have the ties commission illustrates Maine's cock County Auditorium in bring­ potential to be turned into per­ commitment to the arts. In addi­ ing performing arts to Down East forming arts centers. An example tion to Wilson, eight professionals Maine. And progress is supporting of this is the Chocolate Church in coordinate and direct programs the efforts of two Acadians in Bath. He works with Brooke, too, such as the Maine Touring Artists Lille, a small town in the St. John on his museum advisory panel, Program. Funded by the Maine Valley, who bring the arts to a since the commission receives eight State Legislature, this program decommissioned Catholic church in to ten grant applications each year brings the arts to people through­ this northernmost section of involving the conservation of art. out the state by providing financial Maine. It is important, said When asked what his Colby edu­ assistance to nonprofit sponsors. Wilson, that these people in the cation had given him, Wilson said And some 85 such nonprofit spon- outlying parts of Maine know that that he had been provided with a solid and comprehensive art histo­

Alden C. Wilson '69: Bringing artists to the outlying areas of Ma ine in volves the ry program and the flexibility to government "in a sensitive way " in the arts. pursue special interests. He also credits his development to the Sen­ ior Scholars Program and to being able to work with someone like Jette Professor of Art, Emeritus, James Carpenter, his adviser. According to Shettleworth, when he was looking at colleges in Maine in the mid 1960s Colby was the "forerunner in the study of Maine art and architecture." Thus he came to Colby to gain and par­ ticipate in this orientation, which he clearly did. Brooke strongly supports the lib­ eral arts education given to him. Although at graduation he was un­ sure of what direction to take, he said that his Colby education made him employable. It was that first position that led him to his current work. When he went on to gradu­ ate school, he would have been one or two semesters behind with­ out what he called the "breadth of background" gained at Colby. All three of these alumni have, in turn, contributed to more recent Colby students during the January Program of Independent Study and other projects. Exemplifying Colby's tradition of imbuing its students with an outstanding liber­ al arts education, these alumni bring credit to their College. Through their continuing work with students, they help to ensure that Colby's standards of excel­ lence will live on.

24 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Passages

As two professors take their final leave of Colby, they remark on their careers and concurrent changes within the College community

bove all else, it is his own "Students have, at certain times, ty's activities, one of them being educationA at Colby that history not only encouraged me but pro­ the current pressure to reduce the Professor Clifford 1. Berschneider voked me to go beyond my narrow course load for students and, con­ values when he reflects upon his little specialty." The result, he sequently, faculty. He acknowl­ career here. This period in his own continued, is "something of a sym­ edged the increased pressure on history began in 1949, when biotic relationship between them faculty to publish, but, at an in­ Berschneider became one of four and me that has been a joy. My stitution where teaching has always persons teaching all of Colby's one enduring memory [of Colby] come first, Berschneider contends history and government classes, will be of the rare few who stimu­ that pressure to publish should not and it closes this spring, when he lated me to keep thinking.'' Some preempt teaching. Of the shifting retires to other pursuits. such dialogues with former stu­ priorities, the historian said, Although Berschneider prefers dents, as well as with some Colby "This, too, will change. It requires the areas of modern diplomatic, colleagues, will continue by cor­ a certain Stoic patience." cultural, and intellectual history, respondence when Berschneider re­ As his own quest for under­ he is better known at Colby for his locates to his native Pittsburgh. standing through teaching draws to teaching of medieval events and It will be easier for Berschneider an end, Berschneider plans to figures. "I became a medievalist to leave behind some sources of devote himself to research and malgre moi, despite myself," he dismay. He finds, for example, writing. He said he will complete a said. As a result of having been that it is harder to teach now than historical novel, which will be a pressed to teach courses outside of it used to be. "There seems to be "psychological biography" of his chosen specialties, Berschneider an encephalectomy, a cutting off Richard the Lion-Hearted, and em­ feels that he has become a better of the minds, of the present from bark on a major study of federal­ teacher and scholar. "Because I the past," he said, explaining that ism. In the latter, Berschneider will was challenged to teach things I although today's students are bet­ examine factors i'l. the failure of wasn't [initially] prepared to teach, ter informed in some ways than the federated principle in European I can see infinitely more connec­ those of earlier eras, their prepara­ diplomacy, in the Americas, and tions throughout history,'' he ex­ tion lacks the range that he con­ worldwide. He also plans to write plained, his speech sprinkled with siders basic to the liberal arts. poetry. "There is a certain poetry French phrases and peppered with "It's more and more difficult to in history, after all!" the cadence of Italian. "I can see bridge disciplines. You draw a A 1938 graduate of Duquesne the unity more than the differ­ comparison by citing from mythol­ University, Berschneider received ences. I can appreciate the posi­ ogy or biblical history, and then his M.A. from the University of tions of the ancients, yes, as well you have to stop and explain that Pittsburgh. He was a recipient of a as the modernists." before you can go on to your Mellon grant in 1948 as he con­ But the education Berschneider point." tinued his graduate studies at the treasures has not been the product Similarly, he sees signs of grow­ University of Pennsylvania. While of mere institutional imperatives. ing fragmentation within the facul- a Fulbright Fellow in 1953-54, he

THE COLBY ALLJ:'\I 'L'S 25 Cliffo rd J. Berschneider

spent the academic year in research !antic waters out of Georgetown, sion." Among students who seek at the University of Turin in Italy. Maine, where he owns a camp, therapy at the Garrison-Foster At Colby, he was appointed in­ and to venture to the Florida Keys Health Center, he said, "Anxiety structor in 1949, assistant pro­ and the Bahamas during winters. used to be the more common rea­ fessor in 1953, associate professor If Perez's retirement plans sound son for people to come in. Now in 1966, and full professor in 1978. idyllic, they certainly are in keep­ it's depression, often caused by His service to Colby has included ing with his advice to students on feel in gs of not living up to some three years as College marshal, plotting the courses of their lives. set of expectations." Whereas anx­ 1976-79, and two terms on the "I like to tell students, 'Ask iety involves some drive toward ac­ Educational Policy Committee. yourself what you'd do if suddenly tivity, depression involves a more your rich aunt in Australia left you helpless or passive stance. a large fortune. Figure out what Perez believes that increased " I don't believe in not retir- your priorities would be.' " After passivity bears a relationship to the ing," Paul P. Perez, professor of exciting their fantasies, Perez nationwide increase in alcohol psychology and Colby's clinical reminds students that many dreams abuse among college students. psychologist, commented recently. can be realized without the assets "It's always been a problem at col­ "I've enjoyed my work here, but of wealthy aunts and that theirs is leges, but it's gotten much worse I'm ready for a change." the choice to pursue them. over the years. The kids, I think, What a change it will be. After a Such advice has become more would attribute it to stress and quarter of a century of helping necessary as students generally academic pressure. I don't think students deal with their personal have become "more passive and people at Colby work that hard, problems, Perez will take to the more conformist in their atti­ but for a student who isn't intellec­ sea. A veteran sailor, he intends to tudes," in Perez's assessment. tually excited, it's depressing. spend summers exploring the At- "Possibly that's because of televi- Primarily, I think, students drink

26 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Paul P. Perez

out of boredom; they can't think from England, where he had lived clinical work. He tested those of anything better to do." "off and on" as a youth. The sail­ waters by taking psychology Even though his clinical work ing voyage took three years. "Go­ courses at Columbia University tends to focus on problems, Perez ing around the world was much before he committed himself to a has greatly enjoyed teaching and more educational than going to graduate program at New York working individually with Colby high school would have been. I University, from which he received students. "They're young, bright, was a poor student in high his Ph.D. in 1955. verbal, prescreened .... They're a school,'' he said. Perez was a staff psychologist at lot like new golf balls; they bounce When he returned to more pe­ the Veterans' Administration well," he explained. Although he destrian pursuits, Perez attended hospital in Togus, Maine, before estimated that 100-125 students Los Angeles City College with the he, his wife (now deceased), and have seen him professionally each goal of gaining admission to the their three daughters joined the year, he makes no bold claims Coast Guard Academy. He was Colby community in 1960. He was about his influence in their lives. successful. The engineering pro­ promoted to full professor in 1973. "Many come in asking what to do, gram in which he was enrolled at His work here included a study of but they don't really want to be the academy was, in his words, "a student attitudes conducted with told. Very often what you provide tremendously competitive situa­ Professor Lewis Lester in the early is simply an occasion for people to tion," but it was also his ticket to 1970s, in which they found a shift help themselves." more travel-including time in the from the Protestant work ethic to In the psychologist's own educa­ New Guineas, the Philippines, more hedonistic values. Perez is a tion, his sense of purpose was Alaska, and France. It was on a past president of the Maine Psy­ heightened by an unusual sequence Coast Guard patrol that Perez bor­ chological Association and former of endeavors. At age 16, Perez rowed books from a psychologist chair of the Maine State Board of began circumnavigating the world on board and began contemplating Examiners of Psychologists.

THE COLBY AL MN S 27 Mike Ryan: l A Gent eman's Coach

In a coaching tradition still present at Colby today, a great runner imbued his '20s and '30s teams with drive, sense of proportion, and friendship

"rr l he athletic department is big-time intercollegiate athletics, 1910 and 1912, Ryan won virtually one of the most important depart­ with high pressure recruiting, exor­ every major Jong-distance race in ments of a college and is to a bitant coaches' salaries, and a the world, setting three world college what the advertising depart­ variety of game-fixing scandals. records in the process. When he ment is to a large corporation. A What is significant is that those arrived at Colby in 1919, people business cannot survive on poor lines were written more than 65 expected great things from a team advertising; neither can a college. years ago, by legendary Colby coached by an able mentor. It should be the aim of Colby to track coach Michael J. Ryan. And What the College got was a get as much advertising of the although his sales pitch might have great deal more than a track coach proper kind as possible through its sounded tough then, alumni who during Ryan's 15-year tenure. A athletic department. Our teams in remember the days of Ryan do so 1935 Alumnus article written by all of the major sports should be with the fondest memories. the late Harland Ratcliffe '23, who on a par with the best and our It was Ryan's reputation as a was then editor of the magazine, schedule should be such that we runner that earned him his coach­ recalled one such bonus. Reflecting can realize a good percentage of ing assignment at Colby. His most back on the fatal Lambda Chi the victories and a big return notable achievements include a vic­ Alpha fraternity fire in 1922, he financially." tory in the 1912 Boston Marathon wrote, "Certainly there are many Such a statement pales in signifi­ and appearances in both the 1908 who do not know that for weeks cance against today's backdrop of and the 1912 Olympics. Between after that major catastrophe Mike

28 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Ryan patrolled the downtown Col­ during the winter months. Rather replied to a congratulatory letter by campus, night after night, and than complain about the crude from the Class of '27 on a coach­ all night, watching over and safe­ facilities, Ryan would make do ing appointment, rather than ex­ guarding the lives of the students. with what he had at the time­ pound on his past accomplish­ Acting as night campus watchman which made winter track uncom­ ments he wrote, "I am happy to was not mentioned in Mike Ryan's fortable, to say the least, for his know that I planted some inspira­ contract, nor could it, by the runners. Ernest E. Miller '29 tion and determination in your wildest stretch of the imagination, recently remembered one of those hearts and minds to help you over properly be considered to be a part more unseasonable practices. "The life's rough roads." He was always of the orthodox duties of a coach College in my years was located ready and eager to help Colby's of track and field, yet Mike was opposite the Maine Central Rail­ students in any way he could, from the man the President (Arthur road station on College Avenue. encouraging their dreams to land­ Roberts) relied upon during a time The station had two long plat­ ing them their first jobs. of intense mental stress." forms located on either side of the Ryan's greatest successes in On the field, Ryan's philosophy building to accommodate trains on coaching track did not occur until placed the athlete first and athlet­ both the Augusta and Lewiston after he had left Waterville in ics second. One anecdote goes rail service. In winter, with no in­ 1935. Going to the University of back to the year that Ryan worked door track, Mike used to train his Idaho that year, Mike coached as team trainer for the Boston track men on one of the platforms. several great runners such as Vic Redskins, then owned by fiery ... l had the occasion to go Dyrgall, who was a member of two George Preston Marshall. When across to the station to mail a let­ Olympic teams and twice finished one of his star players was carried ter at one of these times when the second in the Boston Marathon. off the field, Marshall stormed in­ snow banks were piled high on the His next coaching assignment took to the locker room and ordered the east side of the tracks and hid any him to the University of Wyoming, trainer to get that man back on the platform activities. As I ap­ where in two years his teams were field. Rather than chance greater proached I heard loud shouting. undefeated in dual meets. Attesting injury to the athlete, Ryan replied, 'Go! Go! Go like the hammer of to his success, Wyoming's athletic "If you want him to play, you're hell! ' It was Mike coaching [the director said of Ryan, "In one going to need another trainer . . . late George] 'Gus' Mittelsdorf '27 year Mike brought the University a because I quit." On the other in the 100 yard dash. Mike had a national reputation in track ... to band, if an athlete did not give his voice that could well compete with a position of prominence never best, Mike would feel no pity. At a locomotive." before seen at Wyoming. " From there Ryan went on to coach the the Boston Athletic Association Extremely serious about track Guatemalan international track track meet one year in the early and physical fitness, Ryan was team and, in 1952, had the pleas­ 1920s, Ryan's star two-miler, forever advocating a four-year ure of seeing three of his runners, Roland "Rollo" Payne '24, was physical education requirement. He two from the Guatemalan team leading the pack and ready to did not approve of intramural sandwiched around Dyrgall, take make his move. Harland Ratcliffe athletics, which in his opinion the top three places in the Boston again remembered, "Mike stood "robbed the track team, which is a Marathon. up in his seat, swept off his hat, varsity sport, of good physical In the memories of his former clenched his fist and flung it aloft, specimens." Outside of his Colby students, Mike Ryan will always he opened wide his throat and hol­ life, Ryan worked hard to develop remembered as the epitome of a lered, 'Come on, Rollo! ' I shall those "good physical specimens" true sportsman. Competition and never forget that moment if I live as Maine state supervisor and athletics were important to him, to be a thousand. You could hear recreation director at transient yet he never lost sight of the things Mike half the length of the build­ camps during the Depression. He that really mattered in life. Good ing." When Payne eventually lost wrote numerous articles prior to friends, congenial company, and the race, Ratcliffe continued, and during World War II on the what he saw as the basic American "... Mike disappeared for a few poor physical state of inductees values forever took precedence moments and eventually came and the need for a nationwide pro­ over the enjoyment of "winning." back, with a rather disgusted look gram of physical education for In most books, the spirit Mike on his face. 'Well? ' I asked. 'Can youths. brought to Colby, and later left you beat it, ' he exploded. 'He's Although he did not leave Colby behind him, is far more valuable hardly puffing!' " an immediately tremendous track than any laurels his track teams An inadequate gymnasium and heritage, in the tradition of a good gathered under his tutelage. cold Maine weather were not prop­ coach, Ryan left a great deal of er excuses to discontinue training himself at the College. When he JB

THE COLBY AL M S 29 ______Class CorrespondenceCopy for the class columns in this issue was submitted to the College in early February. Oscar M. Chute '29, Evanston, Ill., 5 0 + was presented with the American Silence Howard Hayden Chapter of the DAR in the Caribbean islands during the winter • G. Association of School Administra­ Waterville • Walter and Helen Kyle Swan '26 Cecil Goddard '29, China, Maine, has been tors' Distinguished Service Award at its "Educa­ of Sandwich, Mass., celebrated their 58th wed­ elected secretary of the Muskie Center {Cen­ tion's Stars of the Year" dinner in March at ding anniversary last October. Helen has the tral Maine Area Agency on Aging) in Water­ Dallas, Tex. Chute is a retired school super­ distinction of being the first woman to serve ville • Nelson W. Bailey '28, also of China, is visor in the Evanston system. An avid fisher­ on a jury in Norfolk County • John T. Nasse an active member of the center • In one of man, he annually fishes in Lake Michigan, in '29, Saco, Maine, was guest of honor last fall at his "Thoughts for Today," Clifton E. Lord '23, the Mississippi River, in Maine, and in the a parish banquet of the St. Nicholas Albanian Penobscot, Maine, wrote, "The contributions Florida Keys • Helen Stone Mittelsdorf '27, Church in Southbridge, Mass., at which he was of Colby College are well known the world Dallas, Tex., wrote that the Colby group in the presented with an award authorized by the around. Its influence at home and abroad can Dallas area, which includes Donald H, Fraser Archbishop of Washington and the Primate of be considered profound" • Floyd Mason '29, '29, Denton, and Charles J, Sansone '28, the Orthodox Church of America. John was a Bethel, Maine, finished 1984 with a surgical Dallas, meets for lunch once a month. Helen long-time resident of Southbridge and a bout in the hospital but said he would be has been saddened by the loss of her hus­ founder of the church there • The late Eva M. ready for spring planting on the farm • Edwin band, George L Mittelsdorf'27, and her sister, Bean '1 7, was honored recently with memorial D, Merry '29, North Edgecomb, Maine, Grace Stone Allen '29 of Columbia Falls, ceremonies at the Bartlet cemetery and at the teacher, poet, and short-story writer, has had Maine • The Central Maine Morning Sentinel East Bethel, Maine, church for her work in several stories appear in Yankee magazine. His included the following alumni in its "Tip of the historic preservation • 50+ Club represen­ most recent story is "Flight from Back Old Hat" column, noting their work in the tatives to the Alumni Council have been River'' • Another Class of '29 member, your 1984 United Way Fund Raiser-Arthur Austin named for the following classes: Lewis Levine correspondent, and his wife, Gladys, were '33, Philip Bither '30, Bertrand Hayward '33, '21 , Waterville; Joseph B. Campbell '29, Augus­ guests in November at a reception celebrating and Malcolm Wilson '33, all of the Waterville ta, Maine; Franklin Norvish '34, Needham, their SOth wedding anniversary at the Masonic area • Bernice "Bunny" Collins Maclean '29, Mass. • Leonard Helie '33, Wiscasset, Maine, Temple • Thomas B. Langley '31, Mineola, Norwood, Mass., complained that the 55th re­ retired clergyman and poet, was recently N.Y., reported that he is enjoying his retire­ union of her class did not provide enough time awarded two prizes for poems submitted in a ment. How is your game of bridge? • In his to renew old friendships. Sorry, Bunny • British poetry contest. His sonnet, "Old New Year's letter Wayne W. McNally '21, Ashton F. Richardson '21, Waterville, was a Pemberton," was considered "an incisive por­ Ludlow, Vt., reviewed his 1984 excursion to featured speaker at a meeting of the Fairfield trait of an old couple and their Yankee thrift." the Holy Land, the Greek islands, and Egypt, {Maine) Historical Society last winter that He was the only contestant, British or Ameri­ which was climaxed by attendance at the con­ focused on local history • Flora Harriman can, to win two prizes • David F. Kronquist vention of Rotary International in Birmingham, Small '25, Winslow, Maine, helped on the ap­ '29, Ft Myers, Fla., retired insurance executive, England. Both McNally and his wife are Ken­ plication papers in genealogic research for the reported that he enjoyed trips to Hawaii and tucky Colonels, a title conferred on them

The Society of Silurians, an organization of veteran New York newspapermen, honored Dwight E. Sargent '39 with its 25-Year News Achievement Award last fa ll. "I was amazed. I really couldn't tell you why I got the award," he said, with sincere modesty. "I've been lucky. I learned from reading good writers. It's a lifetime enterprise." Now the national editorial writer for Hearst Newspapers, Sargent formerly presided over the National Conference of Editorial Writers as well as the Silurians. The latest award is just one exam­ ple of the profession's recognition of his exceptional work. Both the Colby Echo and the White Mule, the College's humor magazine at the time, benefitted from Sargent's early journalistic efforts. Upon graduating, he remained in Maine and began working for the Biddeford Journal as a telegraph editor and cub reporter. Sargent covered the courts, police matters, and other loca l news. "I remember interviewing Booth Tarkington and Thomas Dewey. I also discovered that some of Ted­ dy Roosevelt's old cronies from the Dakota badlands lived in the area. That was a lot for a beginning reporter," he recalled. After stints at the New Bedford, Mass., Standard Times and the Portland Press Herald, where he was named chief editorial writer in 1949, he became the first Maine newspaperman to win a Nieman Foundation Fellowship, gain­ ing entrance to a Harvard University graduate program for experienced journalists. After five years with the New York Herald Tribune, Sargent became curator of the Nieman Foundation and also assumed responsibility for the Boston Herald American's editorial page in 1964. In 1978, he returned to New York and the employ of the Hearst Newspaper chain. Reflecting on an editorial writer's responsibilities, Sargent said, "My job is to provoke thought, not to try to change minds." Sargent's service to Colby-on the Alumni Council, as a trustee for 16 years, and in a myriad of less formal ways-was recognized with a Colby Brick in 1965. His loyalty to his college and to journalistic ideals came together in his suggestion that Colby establish the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Fellowship, which annually honors an outstanding American jour­ nalist. Yet it was Sargent's own professional excellence that led the Alumni Council to bestow its Distinguished Alumnus Award upon him in 1982, and rightly so. In Dwight Sargent, Colby's stature as the alma mater of some of our nation's great newspapermen continues to grow. Dwight E. Sargent '39

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30 THE COLBY AL M 'US through their many years of association with Calif., Jeanette tutors, is a member of the her truly great ability have been nationals of University of Kentucky • Colby's history the Juvenile Hall Outreach Committee, and takes Japan, China, Korea, the Cameroons, and ·the professor, G. Calvin Mackenzie, now on sab­ art lessons. She enters local art shows and this Central African Republic. She has attended a batical, is working on a "Handbook for past year received an award for one of her Florida reunion and an encampment 1n the Presidential Appointees" as a follow-up to his paintings • Oliver C. Mullen, along with Bar­ Virgin Islands • Felix Gondela has broken a America's Unelected earlier work, Covem­ bara Leonard '83 and the other choir members long silence (let others observe) and wrote menl • In Memoriam: Charles H. Eaton, Jr. of the Wethersfield. Conn., First Church of that he is now divorced and en1oys doing his '27 died in Linden, N.j., in September 1984. Christ Congregational Church, were on na­ thing. He has been to Europe and recently George Edward Roach '26, Houlton, Maine, tional television Christmas eve in a broadcast "let'' Wayne Sanders and Betty Herd Sanders died in Bangor, Maine, in September 1984. He of the church's midnight service. 1984 was '38 surpass him at golf. He plans to be at Colby was a former executive vice president of the Wethersfield's 350th anniversary and 1985 the 1n 1987-don't we all! • Charles Jacoby 1s First National Bank of Houlton. Ruth E. Wil­ church's 350th • If you want to be heard on semiretired but still somewhat actt�e in liams '28, Waterville, died there in January. matters of importance, you should contact our brokerage and appra1s1ng. He and his wife of She was a long-time dean of women at the class representative to the Alumni Council. He 46 happy years spent the winter in the Baha­ University of Maine at Farmington. will speak for you at the council meetings. Our mas. One son 1s with the Peace Corps in the Correspondent: ERNEST E. MILLER '29, 218 representative is Thomas van Slyke, 37 Old Caribbean • Jane Tarbell Brown·s son, Ste­ Pickett District Rd.. New Milford, Conn. 06776. Post Rd., East Walpole, Mass. 02032 • The vens, has returned to school for building de­ Christmas mail (my favorite part of theseason) sign and systems engineering. Her younger SOth reunion: June 6-9, 1985 • brought news from travelers. Anita Thibault son, Frank, 1s pursuing his Ph.D at Brown and 3 5 Paul Robert Jenkins, Ellsworth, Bourque went to Germany to see the Passion has announced his engagement to the valedic­ Maine, retired and "relaxing in Play, and then made the rounds of her daugh­ torian of the Bowdoin Class of 1984 (yes, Bow· general," is active in Masons. His grand­ ters' homes in Connecticut and Virginia • doin is now coed, fellow travelers). Dear Jane daughter, Melissa, is in the Class of '87, and he Eleanor "Billie" MacCarey Whitmore and hus­ said that she, too, is adjusting to forgetfulness has sons in Kingfield and Augusta and 11 band, Alvin, spent a month in Florida • I (aren't we all) and fallen arches (whatever they grandchildren • Elizabeth Mann Dresser, guess she didn't mention travel, but Kay are) • Peg Libbey Darlow has welcomed a Calais, Maine, hopes to attend our SOth. She Laughton Briggs wrote of seeing several Col­ new grandson, making it a trio of both sexes. and her husband are active in an amateur byites from other classes and of her own in­ She and her husband enjoyed Portugal recent­ radio club (can anyone raise them?) and travel terest in genealogy and her membership in the ly • AHred Wheeler keeps active running his frequently. They have a daughter, Mrs. Paul DAR. We extend to her our sympathy on the housekeeping camps, acting as treasurer of his Kelley, in Needham, Mass. • Raymond L. loss of her sister last fall • Don '33 and Dot church, and singing with the Waterville Area Small, Ashland, N.H., is retired but active with Gould Rhoades traveled around New England Community Chorus • Luke "Rod" Pelletier tennis and golf. He winters in Venice, Fla., (they live in California) to visit relatives. They went to England in December to see some where Don Robitaille lives • Donald F. Larkin, stayed in Newton, Mass., for an extended visit shows and to observe art. He spends a great M.D., Waterville, misses the "old campus"­ with Dot's mother. Dot, we were really sorry deal of time painting, and surely the viewings who doesn't? He has a son and a daughter and to hear that your mother died at the end of broadened his horizons. Normally he spends will be at our SOth. We know who will take January. Please accept our condolences • Dot his time in Orland, Maine, and New Smyrna care of the Class of '35 • Marie Duerr Henry, added a note to the letter to say that she tried Beach, Fla. • Sara Cowan reported that she Worcester, Mass., has two sons and six grand­ several times to phone me, but that I must now heads the Southern Maine District of children and is managing her husband's busi­ have been away. Well, I was, in a way. I was in Methodist Women. She has been visited by ness since she retired from teaching • Norman a Boston hospital having my left hip replaced­ many whom you remember in the last few Brown, Rye, N.H., is a retired hospital ad­ a three-month interlude that has given me a months: Peg Darlow, Louise Tracy, Portia ministrator and has two sons and two daugh­ new lease on life. So soon I shall be off and Pendelton Rideout '34, Lucille "Kye" Pinette ters. He plans to attend our SOth • Arthur B. away, joining all the other travelers • When Zukowski's daughter, Mary '79, and Nat '39 Wein, Bethesda, Md., is an orthopedic sur­ you travel this summer, how about sending and Helen Carter Guptill '39 • Kye Zukowski geon, and his wife is an anesthesiologist. They me a postcard? It would make this job a lot gave five lectures at Sugarloaf during a recent have two children • John E. English, Brock­ easier! And I love to get mail. Please? Elderhostel program. She says it was a chal­ ton, Mass., lives the good life-six months in Class secretary: AGNES CARLYLE HADDEN lenge to give such a series to a largely non­ Brockton, five months on Cape Cod, and one (Mrs. Frederick C). 15 Pequot Rd., Wayland, mathematical group. She and Walter recently month in West Palm Beach. He belongs to a Mass. 01778. visited Cuernavaca, Taxco de Alarcon, Acapul­ skating club and takes one good trip annually. co, and Mexico City • Your correspondent He expects to attend our SOth • Betty frank­ As I sit here ruminating on this will shortly revisit Central America and later lin Call, Portland, Maine, is a retired proof­ 3 7 resume, the thought occurs to me this year will be a "live-in guest'' at Birker�d. reader. Her husband, Fred '36, is retired from that we are just about at the mid­ Denmark, and Klavestadhaugen, Norway. real estate and sales. Come on, Fred, several point between the 4Sth and SOth years of "Fog creeps in on little cats' feet,"and it is time KDRs are coming to the SOth, so join us • I matriculation of our class. If we were to be­ to escape it! Keep fit,hale, and hearty until our have received 40 replies, plus 13 duplicates, lieve the amount of information coming in is a next. which means that 81 persons have not an­ true arbiter of our collective activity during Class secretary: FREDERICK G. DEMERS, P.O. swered. I will use the additional answers for a these well-nigh 50 years, we would say: "Not Box 26, Owls Head, Maine 04854. class letter before our SOth. much!" We know such is not the case for the Class secretary: GORDON PATCH THOMP­ 60 percent who do not apprise us (and their You have already received an in­ SON, 2458 Florentine Way #2, Clearwater, Fla. classmates) of their accomplishments and ac­ 3 8 vitation to be part of the Colby 33575. tivities; surely they have done much, and it is 2000 Campaign. Recent develop­ unfortunate they do not share • Old friend, ments at Colby may not have pleased all of us, The recent class letter prompted Edith Emery, has crisscrossed the United States but some developm2nts must take place if 3 6 a couple of welcome letters. Cleo from Florida to Oregon, then to Alberta's Colby is to retain its purpose in the future and Tuttle Henderson, writing from Rockies and back to Florida, and ultimately its respect for the past • Not a lot of news Bangor, Maine, told of being retired from home to Haverhill, Mass. • Bob and Mary has come from members of the Class of '38-at teaching, and of enjoying a quiet life playing Haskell bought the Eastern Airlines senior least recently that is. A big reason for this bridge, reading, and watching sports on TV citizens tou r program and made 10 flights in situation is that there was such a large and in­ • Jeanette Benn Beebe enjoyed a trip to New 1984 to locations in the continental United teresting showing in the past. Send along any England last fall to view the foliage. While in States, Canada, and Puerto Rico • Betty Wil­ new developments about you and your fami­ Maine she visited Alice Bocquel Hartwell at kinson Ryan maintains a quasi-employee rela­ lies. Most of us are retired, but we have found Ocean Point and Ruth Yeaton McKee in East tionship with the Grolier Corporation, leaving varying ways to cope with that situation. Let Boothbay. Jeanette and her husband, Al, trav­ time available for taking on that occasional ad­ your classmates know what life is like now • el a good deal and even spent two months in vantaged foreigner who wishes to enhance his Please remember that the representative to Hawaii recently. At home in San Lorenzo, o; her English proficiency. Recent recipients of the Alumni Council for our class is Joe Cie-

THE COLBY LUM US 31 chon, who now lives at 4 Old Danbury Road in Charles E. Mclean, Hope Harlowe (Mrs. Au­ 061 11 • Congratulations are due to Jane Ridgefield, Conn. 06877. He will represent us gustus D.) Moody, Robert E. Smith, Michael A. Russell Abbott. Did you know that she was well • My note from Al Beerbaum of Califor­ Spina, or Kenneth G. Stanley? one of two Maine winners of the 1984 Pres1- nia spoke of a meeting we had in 1950 at my Class secretary: SALLY ALDRICH ADAMS, 22 dent1al Awards for Excellence in soence and home in Maine. As with many of us, he retired Miller St., Medfield, Mass. 02052. math teaching? Three cheers for you, Jane! • It in 1980 but finds that free time is not easy to was great to get a response from a couple of find • Betty Mcleod Thompson has written classmates from whom I hadn't yet heard. For from her home in North Berwick, Maine. She one, Willetta "Billie" McGrath Snow in Cari­ 45th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 • wrote of an aunt whom she had v1s1ted in bou, Maine-she and her husband have two It was great to read your notes to Berlin. Betty and Stan have four children. Stan daughters, and, as Billie wrote, "two wonder­ find that so many of you will be at is doing fund-raising work for the Waynefleet 0 ful" sons-in-law and four grandsons, ages 5 to our4 45th! No measles, graduations, or mar­ School, where their granddaughter Heidi is a 9. Besides serving as a library trustee, Billie has riages are to conflict with June 8! Bill Taylor, student. Betty serves on the Republican town a part-time job as a test administrator for the president of our class, with the help of Ernie committee. She recalled that when she was a O.P.M. of the federal government for all of Marriner, Art Thompson, Doris Rose Hopen­ Democrat at Colby Jane Montgomery Johnson northern Maine. She and her husband are in­ garten, and others, has a top team organizing tried to take her Roosevelt button from her in volved 1n Rotary International, which involves a memorable reunion. Howie Miller will host Professor Colgan's class. (The mention of that rather extensive traveling. They own a cabin the 45th cocktail party at his WaterV1lle home man should raise interesting memories for on the St. John River, where in time they may before the reunion dinner on June 8-no, not many of us.) Betty belongs to the historical retire • I also received news from Diana 45 parties, but we can try! • Ellen Fitch Peter­ society in their town. Last summer they enter­ Wiesenthal Friedman, who has lived in New son, on her way to Siesta Key, stopped for a tained the North Berwick, Scotland, Bagpipers Haven, Conn., since 1946 and was widowed 1n visit with Ruth "Ronny" Rowell Higgins in Con­ and Dancers. This was a real treat for the Scot­ 1977. She has a son who is an artist in Ray­ way, S.C. Their husbands, of course, took part tish (read Betty). mond, Maine, and a second son who is a rabbi • Yes, all our spouses better accept Colby Class secretary: LA WRENCE W. DWYER, 286 in Oklahoma City. She thoroughly enjoys her classmates, as has mine, enjoying Norns Dib­ Church St., Berlin, N.H. 03570. three little grandchildren, ages 1 through 4, for ble '41 and Charley D1gnam '39 at summer whom she knits continuously. Diana works as Tanglewood weekends and autumn football a research assistant in the School of Public games over the years. This year it was at the Dwight Sargent continues to Health at Yale University. She sings in the Con­ Bowl for the Yale-Columbia contest • A Sun­ necticut Hebrew Chorale and is learning Scot­ 3 9 receive honors for his journalistic day edition of The Washingwn Pos t, last fall, achievements, this time from The tish country dancing • Although we are good featured writers in Maine, saying, "they were Society of the Silurians (see the profile of him friends, lately I have not seen much of Mary everywhere, and what is more, they always in this section). He addressed the more than Hitchcock Baxter, Ware, Mass., because she is have been." It paid special attention to 250 writers and executives on "The Ingredients quite busy caring for a woman who had a Thomas and Elizabeth Fitzgerald Savage, who of Greatness," as applied to the free press in stroke • Walter Sherys sent us some updated write fiction year 'round in Georgetown • America. "A free press is the noblest of our news. He and his wife have bought a 300-year­ Judge Joe Chernauskas will retire in October at founding fathers' promises to posterity," he old house, in need of a lot of repair, in the compulsory point of age 70,after over 20 said, "but in accepting that challenge we Rochester, N.H. They hope to movein come years on the bench of the Connecticut Superi­ should enlarge the term and say that if this spring. They returned to Burlington, Vt., for a or Court. Remember 45 years ago this month heritage is to survive, we must have a free-and visit recently but found they were glad to be when Coach Ed Roundy had Joe come off the responsible-press" • Freda Abel has left New living in the land of good seafood • Last, but Seaverns Field bench to beat B.U., the #1 team York City for the pleasure of having her own by no means least, there was more news from in the East at that time? The B.U. players broke house in Bar Harbor and welcomes calls from our active president, Norris Dibble. He is still their backs trying to hit Joe's round-house classmates • Clayton Young is no longer practicing law, just slowing down a little. You curve over Shannon Hall. And in the past 20 postmaster at Matinicus, but is busy with may recall that he and Helen enjoy traveling. years, New Haven lawyers have foolishly tried lobster fishing, gardening, and traveling-Aus­ For a new adventure, they plan to go in June to throw curves at Joe. After October Judge tralia, New Zealand, Africa-and spends win­ to Yorkshire, England, for several days. Follow­ Chernauskas will be a referee in complicated ters on the West Coast • Betty Doran is ing that, they expect to rent a car and drive to cases before the Superior Cou rt • The Valley retired from teaching and lives with her sister Scotland, then across to Shannon and the west News in West Lebanon, N.H., reported that and 104-year-old father in Methuen, Mass. • coast of Ireland. Bon voyage, Dibbles! • Class· Dorothy Bake Kesaris will teach social studies Constance Knickerbocker Harley lives in Mary­ mates, let's conscientiously consider the A­ at their Hartford High • Edna Slater Pullen 1s land in the winter and at Crystal Lake, Mich., lumni Fund drive for 1985. Our percentage of our class representative on the Alumni Coun­ the other seven months of the year • Ralph contributions was 65 percent last year, making cil, so if you want to be heard, write Edna, Box Wilde, Randolph, Mass., is still in business, but our class number 4 in participation. We actual­ 47, Surry, Maine 04684 • Come back-you'll finds time for skiing and traveling. He would ly surpassed our goal in dollars. Let's improve see that the world has changed! And the cam­ like to hear from old friends • Evelyne Short on that this year. We need everyone's sup­ pus, too, but not you nor I. When you send Merrill has retired from teaching. She and Buell port. Let's go for Number 1. your contribution to the Alumni Fund, do as '40 live in Whittier, Calif., and are coming East Class secretary: RUTH "BONNIE" ROBERTS others do, say you'll be back. The College for Buel l's 45th reunion. Evelyne is chairman of HATHAWAY (Mrs. Henry), 25 Graham St. needs the support, and we need you for the an AAUW group that is giving a "1940s radio Fitchburg, Mass. 01420. reunion. show" at the California State Convention this Class secretary: E. ROBERT BRUCE, 58 Long­ year. She portrays Fred Allen and Mrs. Upping­ view Ave., Watertown, Conn. 06795. ton in a "Fibber McGee and Molly" sketch. By This column is being written in exchanging houses with English families, the 2 January to appear in May. I am ex­ Merrills have vacationed in England four times, acerbating the time warp implicit and have also toured the south of France • We were all deeply saddened to in4 a February deadline by escaping to the Sun Do you have some concern about the College learn of the death of Elmer C. Belt for six weeks or so. Nevertheless, you you would like the Alumni Council to take up? 1 Warren last October. He was reg­ should have a class newsletterin hand even as Our representative is Elizabeth Solie Howard, istrar4 during our years at Colby, and many of you read, so bear with the repetition. A bit of 50 Conant Rd., Weston, Mass. • And remem­ us took statistics under his tutelage. I also had business first: our class representative to the ber that the Alumnus welcomes letters to the the good fortune to live in the Warren home Alumni Council is Ann Jones Gilmore. If you editor • Lost and Found Department: The for two years and have visited there often wish to communicate with Ann, her address is alumni office had lost Willard Smyth's address since graduation. I have countless cherished 3 Misty Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 •I for no less than 45 years. Fortunately, he got in memories • Many of you will be glad to received the usual warm Christmas 1984 letter touch with the College last year, and we were know that Elmer Baxter is our class represen­ from Barbara Holden, our favorite Franco­ happy to see him at reunion. Can we "find" tative to the Alumni Council. You can reach phile. Her travel highlight for the year was a anyone else? Who knows an address for him at 745 Main St., Newington, Conn. visit to Dean and Betsey Libbey Williams in

32 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Orem, Utah. Barbara visited the genealogy INAUGURAT IONS ___ library in Salt Lake City and discovered ______"another ancestor who was a victim of the Salem witch trials. Susanna North Martin was Periodically, Colby is invited to send representatives to special academic events at col­ hanged the same day as Rebecca Towne leges and universities. The following persons have represented the College at inaugura­ Nurse" • We congratulate Lin Palmer on his tions in. the past months. smashing success as chairman of the Rea­ gan/Bush campaign in Maine. I hope his duties Lawrence E. Blanchard 77, at the inauguration of Richard P. Traina as president of Clark included some time spent at the Bush estate in University. Kennebunkport, one of Maine's most hand­ some showplaces, as I can attest from a sum­ John C. Conkling '57, at the inauguration of Gordon A. Haaland as president of the mer sojourn • One must accord even greater University of New Hampshire. kudos to Oren Shiro, chairman of Maine Democrats for Reagan. I suspect that this work L. Martha Friedlaender '53, at the inauguration of P. Michael Timpane as president of took some time from his golf, a noble sacri­ Columbia University Teachers College. fice • Be quiet and hear this nostalgic note: "Parks Diner, Football championship, Morning Carol Rodgers Goud '66, at the inauguration of John B. Stephenson as president of Berea coffee and chocolate doughnuts at the College. railroad station, The Deke House fire, Vic Lebednik's double talking to Professor Martha Bennett Headley '49, at the inauguration of William J. Farrell as president of Newman, The smell of sulfur." Who is the Plymouth State College. poet? • And who else remembers that great photograph of Beauty in Black-her, flanked by G. Paul Keddy '61 , at the inauguration of Arthur L. Peterson as president of Lebanon four men? {Barbara Skehan '41) It did nor con­ Valley College. form to the serious image favored by the flinty little she-dragon • To be continued, faithful Paul W. Lycette '56, at the inauguration of James A. Hefner as president of Jackson State readers. Class secretary: CHRISTINE BRUCE SHEA University. {Mrs. Charles), 1 Springdale Ave., Wellesley, Stuart H. Rakoff '65, at the inauguration of Jerry C. Lee as president of Gallaudet College. Mass. 021 81.

Laurence D. Sears '67, at the inaugu ration of James Edmund Halligan as president of New My thanks to all of you who re­ Mexico State University. 4 3 sponded so generously to my Christmas plea. I shall have to save some for later columns, but in this one the International Reading Association • John and Johnson) and is pursuing a new career 1n you will have news of classmates from whom Lomac, who retired from the Marine Corps real estate at the Jersey shore. If you are in the you haven't heard for some time • Ethel after 26 years of service, has been working at vicinity of Stone Harbor, N.J., Frank would Paradis Emerson is retired and owns the Falls Grossmont College in El Cajon, Calif., for 17 welcome a call at {609) 368-1728 • A won­ Book Barn in Farmington Falls, Maine. Hus­ years. Heis supervisor of equipment and facili­ derful newsy letter arrived from Kay Howes band Merritt is postmaster there, and they ties. Travels have included Puerto Vallarta, Brooks, whose address is now Cliff Island, have two grandchildren. Last summer they at­ Mexico, and Las Vegas • Errol Taylor said that Maine 04019. Her life since Colby seems to tended the Maine Antiquarian Book Sellers he may retire "soon" but until then he will be have been an odyssey. She and Wendall meeting at Colby • Leonard Caust wrote to at Pullen Ford in Waterville. He had visited Brooks '42 lived in Portland, Maine, for five the alumni secretary a most interesting ac­ with William G. Brown and his wife in Ashville, years after graduation. Then Wendall entered count of the inauguration, at which he repre­ N.C. • And, finally, I must mention James the Foreign Service, whereupon Kay found sented Colby, of the Reverend Joseph A. Moriarty, who is our very able representative herself living for two-year stints in Hong Kong, O'Hare as the 31st president of Fordham to the Alumni Council. Jim and his wife, Evie Las Vegas, Korea, Washington, and Thailand. University. More than 200colleges and univer­ Gates Moriarty '44, are great workers for Col­ They settled for years in Waltham, Mass., sities were represented, and the academic by. Jim has retired as executive vice president where Wendall was director of security at procession started with the oldest, Harvard, of john Hancock and remains chairman of the Brandeis University until his retirement in founded in 1636, and ended with the young­ board of the ewton/Wellesley (Mass.) Hospi­ March of this year. Kay and Wendall have two est. Thomas A. Edison State College, founded tal. They have traveled to Australia, New children, Kathie and Wendy, and two grand­ in 1972. Len, for Colby, was number 22 • Zealand, and around the United States. and children. In Thailand they ran into Ernie When I read Harry Hildebrandt's note and ad­ for this year have planned trips to Europe Weidul '43, who is now retired and living in mired the photo he had enclosed, I im­ and the West Coast and to "somewhere nice Kennebunkport, Maine. In Korea they met mediately phoned my son, who is an old car and warm this winter." In case you might want Owen "Chick" Bailey. It looks like the sun buff. Harry has spent the last two years restor­ to write Jim about some class matter or about never sets on Colby grads • Our class repre­ ing a 1931 Ford Model A Victoria. He noted any aspect of Colby, his address is 1 Old Farm sentative to the Alumni Council is William that "all 5,257 parts have been taken apart and Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181. Hutcheson, 15 Tolman St., Needham, Mass. either reconditioned or replaced," including Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART BRAUN­ 02192. Write to him about any concerns you "new upholstery to match the old"-an au­ MUUER (Mrs. Albert R.), 115 Lake Rd., Basking may have about Colby. and he can present thentic restoration. Harry is semiretired and Ridge, N.J. 07920. your views to the council • I received a nice manages his motel in Nobleboro, Maine, dur­ letter from Marcia Wade Priscu in Edison, .J. ing the summer • Frank Miselis has retired She plans to travel to England and Vienna this and owns homes in Lake Tahoe, Nev., and A gap in communications left two spring and summer now that she has left her • Phoenix, Ariz. He wrote that his new address is 44 names omitted from those at­ hospital nursing career Priscilla Tallman P.O. Box 3159, Stateline, Nev. 89449 • Perley tending our fortieth reunion. john Miller is living in Rhode Island. She has one HBill" Leighton retired on disability in 1980. W. McCallum reported that he retired from daughter and is retired. Aren't we all! • I left After pursuing genealogical research as a hob­ the Army as a major after 26 years of service. Ma Bell in February. We gave away our snow by for 30 years, he is now into it full time • He now is claim manager for Commercial shovels and left Illinois for Mississippi • Please Sidney Rauch has been a most faithful cor­ Union Association Company. John is active in do write me with your news! Let me know, respondent during my time as class secretary, civic and church organizations and is an avid also, if you wish your address published. It is and I'm sure you were as pleased as I was to golfer. His son, John W., Jr., graduated from wonderful to hear again from all of you. read the item, highlighted with Sid's picture, in Colby in 1971. There are five McCallum chil­ Class secretary: NANCY CURTIS LAWRENCE the December Alumnus. His Handbook for che dren • Frank Strup enjoyed seeing old friends (Mrs. Watson A.), 185 Wildwood Terrace, Volunteer Tutor was published in January by at reunion. He too has retired {from Johnson Jackson, Miss. 3921 2.

THE COLBY ALVMNLJS 33 40th reunion: June 7-9, 1985. from you • Did you know that upon his re· a three-year term beginning last October Class secretary: MR. BEVERLY f. tirement last June as principal of the Granville, • Sanford Kroll has resumed his education 45 BOOTH, 234 Jackson St., Newton Mass .. elementary school, Everett 0. Rockwell studies 1n Brown University's department of re­ Center, Mass. 021 59. Day was proclaimed in Granville by the Gover· l1g1ous studies • As of this date I have had nor of Massachusetts to honor Ev's very spe­ many responses to my recent letter and pro­ cial dedication to young people? A parade was vocative questionnaire. I have learned that It's a boyl Sean Edward is our very held and a surprise potluck supper was attend· classmates are very interested in today's Colby first grandchild. Other grandpar· ed by most of the town's population. Con· and that some have concerns about the direc­ 6 ents out there know what an ex­ gratulations, Everett! We're so proud of tions that the school has taken. Our Alumni oting4 and busy week this has been for us • you! • Hazel Huckins Merrill lives in East Council representative is Carol Silverstein Stoll I've had only one letter this winter but that Hebron, N.H., and works at Plymouth State Baker, 129 Edgewater Drive, Needham, Mass. one was most welcome. Bob Daggettstarted College. She and her husband, John, still 02192. Carol speaks for our class to the Alum­ with our freshman class, but the war inter­ manage their summer cottages on Newfound ni Council on serious matters. You might want vened. He came back to finish at Colby in Lake • Hazel wrote that Elaine Browning to contact her • I still have family in Water­ 1951. A graduate of Hartford Seminary, he is Townsley's husband, Fred, died from Hun­ ville and friends in the area, so I go back now pastor of the First Congregational Church tington's disease tn January. Elaine lives in periodically. I will watch with interest the pro· in Hopkinton, N.H., which he said he enjoys. Laconia, N.H. • Richard W. Billings has been gress of the new Student Center • Please He has three grown sons, plays a terrific game elected president of the Kennebec Valley Life keep up the good work of writing to me. I like of golf. and 1s looking for a publisher for his Underwriters Association. A John Hancock sharing your news. We have had four baby first book. His note was "a voice from the agent, Dick has been designated an Under­ lambs born this week. Life in the islands goes past," as our friendship dates back to grammar writers Training Council Fellow by the Na­ on. school days in Waterville. I hope more of you tional Association of Life Underwriters. He Class secretary: VIRGINIA BREWER FOLINO, will take the time to drop me a few lines. lives 1n Augusta and ma1nta1ns a home 1n Seal RR 1, Box 61 3, Grand Isle, Vt. 05458. Without you there would be no column. Harbor • Gordon Miller, Shrewsbury, Mass.. Class secretary: NORMA TWIST MURRAY a retired executive, iust returned from a six· (Mrs. Paul F.). 28 Birdsall St.. Winsted, Conn. week trip to the South Pacific-Tahiti, New John Choate, who retired after 34 06098. Zealand, and Australia • Charles and Helen 9 years of teaching, the last 24 of Knox Elliott recently vacationed in Madrid and which were in Lexington, Mass., Toledo and traveled by boat across the Straits looks4 forward to summers in Maine and win­ Class secretary: ELIZABETH WADE of Gibraltar to Africa, where they visited ters in Florida. That doesn't sound too hard to DRUM (Mrs. John J.), 44 Country Morocco's Casablanca, Marrakech, and Tan· take • Jean Sheppard Silva, our represen­ Village Lane, Sudbury, Mass. gier • Bette Day Bugler lives in Bath, Maine. tative to the Alumni Council, speaks for the 47 01 776. She was assistant to the director of the Maine class on matters of importance. Why not let Maritime Museum for nine years and now her know your concerns? Her address is 33 works part-time at Bath Iron Works. Her hus· Marla Lane, Reading, Mass. 01867 • Jeanne The fringe benefits that go with band, Derek, is an Episcopal clergyman. They Littlefield Hammond, Maine's state president the position of class correspon­ have two grown sons and a granddaughter from the Waterville organization of the Na· dent greatly outweigh the madness • Burt Krumholz has been elected the tional Federation of Business and Professional of4 trying 8 to compile the news in time for Queens, N.Y., section chairman of the Ameri­ Women's Clubs, keeps very busy. Through deadlines. Buddy and I really enjoy hearing can College of Obstetrics and Gynecology for various workshops she has been active in

FREEMAN MARKS 30TH YEAR OF PRACTICE ______

Ruth Endicott Freeman '49 had a favorite saying during her three years as a student at Colby College. "If you don't try for something, you'll never get it." It was this type of at· titude that prompted her to apply for and win a scholarship to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Freeman's sense of adventure and determination developed well before her Colby years. After graduating from Belgrade High School in 1933, she attended Temple Univer­ sity for a year before returning to the Augusta area. In the following years, she worked, attended night school, and then decided to earn a private pilot's license as well. "Flying just got in my blood," she recalled. "I never did get to use it though, because the Second World War shut us down." During the war, Freeman was a typist in the Office of Special Services, which developed recreational programs, art contests, and projects to raise funds for the troops. She later served overseas as a court reporter, covering cases trying Cls for anything from going AWOL to murder. She resumed her undergraduate studies at Colby in 1946 and graduated Phi Beta Kap· pa as a pre-med major in three years. After medical school, she interned at Cambridge (Mass.) City Hospital and augmented her training with a year of residency at Maine General in Portland. While there, the doctor was a member of the violin section of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and also met her husband-to-be, Miles Freeman. This summer marks Freeman's 30th year of service to her Ogunquit, Maine, communi· ty. During that time, she also raised two daughters, Nella and Lynne. "I was very involved with raising my family. That's why my office is in my home. I really needed to blend the two," she explained. For Freeman, the blending of a traditional life with an adventurous spirit has been just what the doctor ordered.

/8 Ruth Endicott Freeman '49

34 THE COLBY 1\LUMN S ,trategic long-range planning, 1n formulating sources at GTE Corporation. Bruce and his PhtlosophPrs, will be published by Colby this ives that include a plan of action for Jbject wife, Cathy, reside 1n Scarsdale, N.Y. • Jim year • Since ne\\ s 1s sparse this time. you will cation of the equal rights amendment on ·atifi Tabor wrote that he had two heart attacks in once more be sub1ected to ne\\S oi a personal ;tate and local levels, and in discussing the 198-1 and had six coronary bypasses on nature. After years of thinking that I '"anted to nanagement of other important issues • December 14, 1984. Jim's letter is dated get out of the library field. I realized that its whose interest in Puritan Elaine Erskine Dow, December 21, 1984. so he must be OK. where I want to be after all and have accepted '\merican history led her to do research on Class secretary: CHARLES S. MclNTYRE, 27 a position as assistant director oi the J \' 17th century herbs, has presented programs Elm St., Marblehead, Mass. 01945. Fletcher Public Library in Westford, \\a�s Ii o various civic organizations about "Roadside any of you live in the area. please drop by and Weeds and How to Dry Them." Elaine was in say hello • And please. send me some ne\\ S _harge of the plans for the Puritan garden on With spring in full swing, we are or next time you·11 have to hear all about the the grounds of the Topsfield Historical Soci- 5 2 pleased to announce that Mary latest escapades of my -I-year-old grand­ ty's 17th Century Parson Capen House. As Sargent Swift is our r.ew represen­ daughter! Be forewarned and write! the historical society curator, she also organ­ tative to the Alumni Council. She can be Class secretary: CAROLYN ENGLISH BEANE, zed the Priscilla Capen Herb Society and reached at 1401 Main St.. Glastonbury. Conn. 8 Arizona Terrace, Arlington, Mass. 02r4 taught nature courses to children • If you've 06033 • Arnold "Jesse" James wrote a newsy read this far, delighted to catch up on news of letter saying that he retired from his U.S. old friends, yet disappointed because you'd Weather Service position to build a pool in the After 23 years with Rockwell In­ also like to read about your long lost chem backyard, but basically to be both mother and ternational, William Edson has partner or study buddy, please sit down right 5 4 father to his youngest daughter Julie, age 13. taken a JOb with Lockheed Space now and tell us about you and your retirement He is getting plenty of advice from his older Operations; as director of launch processing plans. Count on it. Someone out there wants girls on just how to do it • Thanks again to all operations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, he 1s to hear from you. of you who have written over the years, but I now in charge of all activities necessary to Class secretary: MARY HATHAWAY CHERRY, must say that I have run out of news about prepare the space shuttle for launch from the 63 Indian Pond Rd., Kingston. Mass. 02364. you. Thus, I will tell you about me and mine. West Coast, with the first manned launch from Don, Jr., is a sophomore at the University of that location scheduled for late 1985. He and Dallas as an English drama major. He is spend­ his wife, Penny Thresher Edson, who has "r� 35th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 • ing this semester at the college's Rome cam­ tired" from teaching, now live in Solvang, near This will be the last column that pus. Cathie is a freshman at Temple Universi­ Santa Barbara, Calif. The Edsons acquired both 50 will appear in the Alumnus before ty"s Tyler School of Art. She is into punk rock. a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law 1n 1984 our 35th reunion; thus, I would like to take a Please tell me that it will pass. Jamie is a senior • Lois McCarty Carlson is now our class moment to encourage as many of you as pos­ at Glen Rock High, where he socializes, plays representative to the Alumni Council. Ji you sible to return to Waterville in June. For the baseball, and studies (in that order). With col· have anything you want to discuss with her, many of you who have never returned, you lege 1ust ahead of him, it is no wonder that write to her at the following address: 96 are in for a tremendous surprise when you see Sheila has gone back to work full time as a Amherst Road, RFD :2, Pelham, Mass. 01002 v.hat has been done to what we used to call relocation coordinator for Sclott Realtors. My • Alan and Yvonne Lindsay and their daugh­ the "new campus." Those of you who have at­ days are spent selling commercial art, packag­ ter, Jill, took a six-week, 25-state trip 1n their tended prior reunions, I am sure, will all want ing design, and sales promotion programs VW Vanagon camper last summer. The 1our­ to see how the new Student Center is coming throughout the metropolitan New York area. ney took them north of the border briefly, into along • The alumni office has suggested that We see and hear from various Colby friends Vancouver, B.C. • From Colorado, Janice I mention to you that our class representative on a regular basis and were hosts to a pleasant Stevenson Squier wrote that she has begun to the Alumni Council is Nelson T. Everts of New Jersey Colby Club meeting at our home composing and that "the music is just pouring 121 Richardson Dr., eedham, Mass. 02192. If in January. Susan Conant 75 from the alumni out." My son and I en1oyed a brief visit with Jan ror any reason one has business to present office and Fred Geib of the sociology depart­ and her family on a cross-country drive last before the Alumni Council, elson is the one ment attended as guests from the College April • Nancy Moyer Conover has been get­ to contact. Incidentally, Nelson·s term runs to • Please let me know what you are doing. We ting around quite a bit! She wrote of cross­ June of this year, when a new representative will tell the world. country skiing in Massachusetts, of traveling to will be elected • I spent the Christmas Class secretary: DONALD G. HAILER, 28 England 1n the spring, and then of visiting holidays in Florida and drove up on Christ­ Forest Rd., Glen Rock, N.J. 07452. Canada, Silver Bay, N.Y.. Boston, and an­ mas eve to visit Roy Tibbetts. Roy is semi­ tucket! • Art and I renewed acquaintances retired now, but seems to keep himself busy with some old Colby friends at Gordon and • Since I have no other news I will sign off If you ever need legal advice, boy, Mary Belden Williams's 25th anniversary sur· with the hope that I see you in Waterville in 5 3 do I have a tip for youl Call Her­ prise party last summer. Joan and William June. shel and Barbara "Bobbie" Weiss Ames, Frank ·53 and Barbara Burg King '55, Class secretary: ALAN E. SILBERMAN, 769 Alpert who have not one, but three lawyers in and Mary's sister, Martha Belden Kleinerman Rockrimmon Rd., Stamford, Conn. 06903. the family. Three of their four children are at­ 70, were all there • We also got to exchange torneys while number 4 child decided to break news with Elliott and Jean Cressy Barker when the mold and has opted for an art major at we returned in October for the wedding of the Bob Cannell suggested that I keep Brown University • Alice M. Colby-Hall con­ Williams's oldest son • A Christmas note our class news coming for the tinues to make a name for herself in academic brought the news that J. Seelye and Mary Bix­ 51 next year or so, so here goes. I circles. As I noted in my last column, Alice is in ler, entering their "nonagenarian days," were don't have much news so please write and France doing research on the cycle of old living with their eldest daughter in Old Say­ send me some • I received a letter from poems that deal with the legendary William of brook, Conn. They have since moved to the William T. Burgess, Jr. Bill wrote that he retired Orange. Studying in libraries and archives in home of another da<.Jghter in Weston, Mass. from 32 years of teaching high school drama the lower Rhone valley, Alice has spoken b� • Richard Whiting ran unopposed last fall for and English in Tucson, Ariz. • As you may fore the Societe des Amis d'Orange, has been his fourth term as judge of probate for Oxford know I retired from the accounting depart­ awarded its annual medal for contribution to County, Maine. He has practiced law in Rum­ ment of Salem Hospital six years ago on ac­ the knowledge and understanding of Oran­ ford for 26 years • Watch for two movies count of my three free heart attacks and my geois history and culture, and has been based on Robert "Ace" Parker's mystery multiple sclerosis (MS) • Joan Cammann Mc­ elected to membership in the Academie de novels-Wilderness and Early Autumn are Intyre, my better half, is the swimming coach Vaucluse, which is the major scholarly associa­ reportedly in the works. His 12th book about at St. John's Prep. Her team just won a meet tion of the Avignon region • J. Seelye Bixler private detective Spenser is due out in Au­ with Danvers {Mass.) High School • I saw has done it again. Always an inspiration, he gust • Diane Chamberlin Starcher reported Jane Perry Lindquist last Friday at our church's continues at age 90 to show us how to live life that she and George have invested in 15- folk song concert • Bruce Carswell has been to the fullest. His latest monograph, German speed bikes for rides through the Savoie sec­ elected senior vice president of human r� R.ecollect1ons: Some of My Best Friends Were tion of France, where they live. Diane gets

THE COLBY /\LlJ'.'vl:":L'S 35 PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE WEARS MANY HA TS-AND COLLARS ______

Publisher Herbert R. Adams '54 used to keep a quote of St. Jerome on his desk which read, "Avoid as you would the plague a clergyman who is also a man of business." Lucki­ ly for Adams, his clients evidently failed to follow that piece of advice. Ordained a Methodist minister while sti ll at Colby, today he holds the position of president and chief executive officer at Laidlaw Brothers, a publisher based in Chicago, 111. Although he has an extensive background in publishing, ha ving been employed by Science Research Associates, Ginn and Company, and Allyn and Bacon, his first jobs were related to the ministry. "While I was at Colby, I co mmuted to Scarborough, where I was a minister at Pine Point," said Adams. "After I graduated, I joined the church full time, until I decided to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard." While in Cambridge, the divinity student married, left his studies uncompleted, and began teaching English in both Ohio and Pennsylvania. Moving back to the Boston area one year later, he took a job with Allyn and Bacon as its English textbook editor. "I didn't even know there was such a job, never mind what it entailed," he said. In 1968 he returned to teaching in Lexington, Mass. By then an active Unitarian minister as well, Adams found no conflicts in his dual positions. "In fact, I thought it was a real asset to do the two in the same town. I've always believed that preaching is simply an extension of teac hing." Earlier, however, his ministry had come into conflict with the corporate world. "At the time, I was very much involved with the civil rights movement and with the Viet Nam war. The corporation I worked for wasn't overly happy to see a senior editor taking a stand on such volatile issues, even though I gave my opinions as a minister." Because he devotes most of his energies to publishing, Adams has retired from the ministry, although he sti ll spends some time as a guest lecturer and preacher. That doesn't mean that he now wears only one hat, however. In 1983, he published his third book, Listening Your Way to Managerial Success. "Listening is the aspect of communica­ tion most ignored today," asserted Adams, who wrote his dissertation on the same sub­ ject when earning his doctorate in education from Harvard in 1972. As both author and publishing president, Adams definitely is in a position to make himself heard.

Herbert R. Adams '5 4 JB

back to the United States several times each sons married, two sons in college, and only Bob and Judy Merrill Erb '58, after year and, in recent months, has traveled to Stephen, 13, home most of the school year, 5 6 20 years of New Jersey surburbia England, Switzerland, and Israel as well. She is we finally have a guest room! Keep us in mind, and commuting to New York an adviser and consultant for Baha'i com­ John, on one of your trips. John doubts that he City, decided a few years ago to head for New munities in eastern and southern France and can make it to reunion, because of his school Hampshire, where they lived in their second Corsica • How about some news from the requirements in June. We hope that will home in Waterville Valley until 1981. Then rest of you out there? change • Ann Seguin Horne, who lives in they bought a 32-acre farm, circa 1798, in Class secretary: BARBARA GUERNSEY EDDY Torrington, Conn., wrote an interesting note. Center Sandwich. Aside from working on the (Mrs. C. Arthur), Box 198, RFD 1, Lincoln City Ann . saw lee Culver Johnson, Dottie Dunn 10-, or is it a 20-, year plan for the homestead Rd., Salisbury, Conn. 06068. Northcott, Jo Frieheit Broker, and Susie Capen renovation, Bob is building condominiums Stutts this past summer. Sounds like a great while Judy tends multiple dogs and cats and mini-reunion! Ann says "travel is my thing," works on the renovation. While their daughter and I hope that means Colby is on the agenda Susan '80 was attending Colby, they enjoyed 30th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 • for June • Ross Bear, who lives in Mechanics­ visits to Mayflower Hill and challenging John 5 5 Many thanks to all of you who re­ burg, Pa., has one son working with him in the Joseph to a few rounds on the golf course. sponded to the questionnaire that family business and another son living in Susan has her master's degree in museum ad­ was sent out recently. Good news! Many of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. A good excuse for ministration and has worked as a fund raiser you answered that you plan to attend our you to come to Colby in June, Ross • Jane for the Boston Ballet and is now in a similar 30th reunion. I hope that many more of you Whipple Coddington and Chan are living in position at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. will make plans to be at Colby that week­ Murray Hill, N.j. They have a new 18-foot Son Bud has started his own construction com­ end • Sel and I are looking forward to the trip sailboat and seemed to have spent much time pany in New Hampshire and even helps out to Maine. Now we have an extra bonus for our on the water recently • Ruth Kesner Osborn Dad every so often. Bob is working his way up trips north. Our son, Spencer, who graduated lives in Flagstaff, Ariz., and would like any Col­ to becoming an "old timer'' in Center Sand­ from Colby in 1981, and his wife, Julie, have by people out her way to call. Her unlisted wich by getting involved in the town budget recently moved to Portland • Tony Leone number is (602) 526-1823. Ruth is now a grand­ process this year, but as he said, you have to wrote from Newtonville, Mass., that he plans mother of two and is also involved in a new live there at least 10 years before you become to come to reunion. Tony is a social worker, business enterprise • Among others who an­ a good old boy • Warren '57 and Babs divorced, and grandfather of five. Tony's swered the questionnaire were Ann Eilertson Faltings Kinsman are lucky to have their oldest son lives in New Jersey and works in York, Don Hoagland, Bob Slotnick, and Kathy daughter, Terri, her husband, and their grand­ Morristown, not far from us • John Dutton, Flynn Corrigan • Again, we hope to see son, as well as their son, David, living in still in Durham, N.C., is a full-time accounting many of you at our reunion in June. Maine, making it easy to visit when they head student these days. Sel and I are disappointed Class secretary: SUE BIVEN STAPLES (Mrs. north from Portsmouth to their camp at Green that he and Jane have not stopped by on one Seldon C), 430 Lyons Rd., Liberty Corner, N.J. Lake near Ellsworth. The Kinsmans continue to of their trips north. Now that we have two 07938. enjoy their annual summer sailing trip to

36 THE COLBY ALUMNUS \flaunt Desert Island. Babs is working as an tacts within our class, in person as well as by is living in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and is executive 3lcohol and drug therapist in the local school mail, is astounding. Helen Payson Seager had a vice president of Fred S. James and Company. ;ystem-not an easy job! She also serves as a marvelous "catch-up" with her in Connecticut He enjoys tennis, skiing, and sailing. He and Jnited Way board member in Portsmouth • last summer, Debbie Robson Cobb saw Beryl Bette have a daughter. Wendy • Pete Hen­ l\t some point Barbara Nardozzi Saxon and I in Massachusetts in September, while Jon '55 nessy 1s in Scottsdale, Ariz. He is a senior riope to journey together to Greensboro, and Jane Daib Reisman had breakfast with marketing executive with Motorola's govern­ \J.C.,where her daughter, Amy, is finishing her Beryl and Bob in November • Mentioning Deb­ ment electronics group. He was recently di­ freshman year at Guilford College and my bie Cobb reminds me to compliment her on vorced after 19 years of marriage and has a daughter, Kristin, is a senior • Jane Collins is the super job she is doing with her class agent daughter, Sarah, 15, and a son, Matthew, 13. off on a 10-month sabbatical at the Foreign post-did all of you note her original poem? He enioys hunting, fishing, camping, photogra­ Service Institute, where she will be attending Just the poetic push to convince those who phy, and traveling, and feels that Colby has the executive seminar in national and interna­ didn't contribute last year to help us pass that become far too liberal since the 1960s • Dick tional affairs. She is enjoying the chance to fine amount of $1 6,166 • When Steve Patch­ reported that Paul Kramer passed away last study this country for a change as well as the ell was asked if he'd had any career changes winter from a heart attack in Cambridge and traveling it entails • Harry Wey is winding up he replied that he didn't have to-they that he 1s missed by many classmates and two years of intensive responsibilities in New changed the telecommunications industry for fraternity brothers • Bob Hartman is 1n the Zealand and Australia. Lyn Brookes Wey has him, and "It's never been better." After all the Great Midwest, living in Glen Ellyn, Ill., and spent a lot of time "baching it" since Harry was negative sounds about Ma Bell, that's a after almost 20 years with Sears is now vice away a total of eight months during these two positive for the AT and T divestiture! • president of customer service with Hart, years. She did spend a month there herself Another classmate who is still involved in her Schaffner, and Marx. He is also a member of during his first stint, but was needed at home life's work is Ludmila Winter Hoffman. Ludmila his local elementary school board. He and his most of the time to tend to her decorating commented, however, that she and her hus­ wife, Sue, have two sons, Mike, seventh grade, business and to do the college tour with their band (Herb is in the same field, and they work and Scott, fifth grade • Henry G. "Hank" youngest daughter, Alison. Daughter Margie, a together) have considered leaving psychology Lapham wrote from Manchester, Mass. He is student at Colby-Sawyer College, represented and becoming farmers • Helen Payson an investment officer in the trust division of the United States for the U.S. Yacht Racing Seager ended her questionnaire with the Shawmut Bank in Boston. He enjoys golf, ten­ Union, along with four young men, and taught following: "I am really delighted that the nis, boating, and skiing. He and his wife, Pen­ sailing in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, friendships we started at Colby are so well ny, have three children-Calla, 21, a senior at and England last summer. Another daughter, rooted that we can almost pick up where we the University of Vermont, Becca, 19, a sophcr Beth, is married, living in Cohasset in a house left off. That bespeaks a high amount of trust." more at Ithaca, and Henry, Jr., at Governor she and Michael renovated, and working in How true • A special summer to you all. Dummer • Steve Curley lives in Holliston, direct mail marketing at the North East Aquari­ Class secretary: LOIS MUNSON MEGA THLIN, Mass., and is the sales manager for Eastern um • Remember that Arline Berry Julia is our 20 Ledgewood Lane, Cape Elizabeth, Maine Sports Sales in Concord, Mass. He has been representative to the Alumni Council. Any 04107. married to Bryna for 24 years. She heads the comments or concerns you have about Colby advertising section of MetrcrWest Business should be directed to her at Ridge Rd., Box Review in Framingham. His son, Brad, 17, is an CSOO, Fairfield, Maine 04937, so that she can Class secretary: KAY GERMAN athletic trainer, and his daughter, Joy, plays more easily represent us on the council DEAN, 295 Pierce St., Leominster, field hockey and tennis. He said that he still • Remember, too, that I cannot produce Mass. 01 453. wishes he was a graduate, instead of a "write­ news out of no news at all. Please respond to 59 in candidate" as an alumnus, and that he still my questionnaires. Many thanks to those of loves Pete "Emmett'' Cavari '61! (Don't we all?) you who do! Thanks for recognizing the Terre Haute con­ 25th reunion: June 6-9, 1985 • Class secretary: JUDITH PENNOCK LILLEY nection with Larry Bird, Steve • Hope to see Judy Ingram Hatfield is currently (Mrs. Albert F.), 180 Lincoln Ave., Ridgewood, serving as our class representative you all in June. Where did 25 years go? N.J. 07450. 6 Class secretary: MARGARET BARNES DYER, to the0 Alumni Council. Her term expires this RR 51, Box 615, Terre Haute, Ind. 47805. year, but if any of you wish to have input, Class secretary: MARILYN PER­ remember to contact her Oudy's address is KINS CANTON (Mrs. Richard), P.O. Box 358, Hillsboro, N.H. 03244) • Results 2731 Sherbrook, Shaker Heights, of the limited survey of our class on the deci­ Karen Lindholm Ring has been 5 sion to eliminate fraternities at Colby are as 7 Ohio 441 22. busy. Two years ago, she was follows: Of the 35 persons who responded, 21 6 asked to organize a new travel (60 percent) were in favor of the decision (7 school1 and to assume the position of director. I hope you enjoyed the class men and 14 women) and 8 (23 percent) were She developed the curriculum, directed the 8 newsletter. Thank you to those opposed (6 men and 2 women). Four gave no marketing, hired the staff, and did everything 5 who returned the questionnaire. answer and two were ambiguous. One hopes else required to get the school running. The It was good to hear from you. There are others that this was a representative sample. The first class began in June 1983 and had an ex­ (you know who you are!) whose turn it is to decision came as a complete surprise to me, ceptionally high success rate, much to Karen's send along a postcard and provide for the next as I had no idea the situation had deteriorated credit. Things were going well, and then came column's inspiration. Your classmates care to the degree that such a drastic solution was the fall of 1983, Karen was hospitalized with about you • Peggy Putnam Dorr wrote from necessary. On to the news • John Wilson was breast cancer. The cancer had spread. When Marshfield, Mass., that she often runs into elected to the board of trustees of the she began chemotherapy, she was told the Karen Breen Krasnigor in the supermarket • In Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, prognosis was bad; she was given two years to nearby Duxbury Don Kennedy has been Conn. He is the owner of Business Planning live. Karen has been out of chemotherapy for named superintendent of its public schools. Associates of Bloomfield, a company he six months now, and her doctor is ecstatic Don was formerly assistant superintendent in founded in 1966. He and his wife, Penny, have with her recovery; it appears to be total, and Weston. Since graduating, Don has earned a two children, Tierney, at Skidmore College, he does not anticipate any recurrences. She 1s master's in teaching from Wesleyan University and Tom, a junior at Hotchkiss • Ralph Galan­ still directing the travel school, its success and a doctorate in education from Harvard te wrote from New Durham, N.H., where he is keeps growing, and Karen plans to be its direc­ • In his position as regional manager for the building his retirement home at Lake Merry tor for a long time to come. This experience Northeast with Subaru of America, Al Dean Meeting. He lives in Sparta, N.J., and is a cap­ has taught Karen a great deal, and she has of­ travels a lot. However, when Al and Kay Ger­ tain with American Airlines. He has three fered to share her experiences. If you, your man Dean '59 find a home, they stay put-can children-Michael, 23, working in a hotel in spouse, or anyone close to you has breast anyone beat their 23 years in the same house? New Orleans, Mark, 22, starting his own con­ cancer and would like to talk to someone, call • Those of you who know Beryl Scott Glover struction company in Sparta, and Lauren, 20, Karen. Her number is (602)994-3830, her ad­ will realize that she has to be one of the best majoring in sports nutrition at the University of dress is 6625 E. Granana Lane, Scottsdale, Ariz. correspondents in the East. Her range of con- New Hampshire • C. Richard "Dick" Peterson 85257, and she would like to try to help. In-

THE COLBY ALUM1 US 37 LOCKHART TO ASSUME COMMAND OF VALLEY FORGE ______

"In Massawa, Ethiopia, I happened to run into Pete Leofanti '62, who was, I think, in the Peace Corps at the ti me. From there we drove down to Asosa where we met [Stewart] "Sandy" Arens '61, who was in the service." If not the typical Colby reunion, it was just one of a multitude of "interesting situations" that Captain Ted Lockhart '61 has run into during 23 years of service in the Navy. He is about to enter a new one; Lockhart is preparing to assume the command of the Valley Forge, a Ticonderoga class, guided missile cruiser. The Navy calls it one of the most complex ships ever constructed, with a new computer-driven Aegis weapons system that Lockhart himself described as "very sophisticated." As for the "interesting situations" Lockhart mentioned, he remembered finding himself in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. More recently, his wife, Carolyn Webster Lockhart '60, alluded to the Iranian hostage crisis, when Lockhart's ship was called to the Indian Ocean, expanding a routine six-month tour of duty to nine months. "In the last 23 years I've been in some exciting storms," said Lockhart. "We've also found ourselves in interesting proximities to Soviet ships in the Black Sea from time to time, but that's the extent of any danger." Lockhart's Navy yarns began shortly after his graduation from Colby, where he ma­ jored in psychology. "I had a low draft number, so when my student deferment ran out, I joi ned the Navy." He listed both the travel and the challenges implicit in Navy life as in­ ducements for making the sea his career. As his wife attested, "He was only supposed to be in for his three-year commitment, but he's still in today. I can't imagine any other way of life." Stationed at one time or another on both U.S. coasts and in Cuba, Italy, and Asia, the Lockharts have put the disadvantages of their semi-nomadic life in perspective. "We have tried to emphasize to the children the opportunity of seeing the world, and we try , •...... to get back in touch with the friends we've made," explained the captain. As they cur­ rently preside over the Washington, D.C., Colby alumni club, the Lockharts have an ex­ Theodore C. Lockhart '6 1 tra reason for staying in touch with their Colby friends.

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cidentally, Karen is a certified travel consultant from you • From businessman to politician we will be comfortably enjoying yet another and 1s listed in the 1985 (14th ed .) of Who's and back is our own John C. Chapman of Bath, spring. Goodbye and God bless! Who of American Women. Her son, Tim, is a Maine. John is an insurance agent who has Class secretary: PATRICIA "PATCH" JACK senior at Arizona State and her daughter, Mar­ held a seat in the Maine legislature. Recently MOSHER (Mrs. Arthur L.), 226 Pleasant St., cie, is at St. Cloud State University in Min­ he was appointed the president of the In­ Pembroke, Mass. 02359. nesota. Karen keeps the house fu ll by renting dependent Insurance Agents Association of rooms to out-of-state students at the univer­ Maine • Congratulations to Paul Hickey, who sity • Karen reported that Diane Scrafton was awarded an Emmy at the 11th annual Cohen met John Ferreira while running and is awards ceremony of the National Academy of Greetings classmates! The wind now Mrs. Ferreira, and that Marty Fromm is Television Arts and Sciences. The Emmy was 6 3 chill today in East Holden, Maine, happily divorced and running a very successful for "outstanding achievement in design ex­ is -30 degrees, three cars skidded answering service in Eau Claire, Wis. Marty's cellence in a daytime drama series." For the off the road in front of the farm this morning, former husband, Tony Zash, is running a past seven years, Paul has been set designer several sheep are about to give birth, and private consulting firm in Mexico City • for the CBS soap opera, "Guiding Light" • when you read this column the heat of sum­ Congratulations to Richard Gibbs. He has been Wow, what a "banquet" of jobs Frank Mainero mer will be nearly upon us! Perhaps you'll find appointed to the board of trustees of the has had: BBDO in New York as assistant ac­ it convenient to stop and say hello on your Tower School • I have been asked to remind count executive on Campbell Soups and summer trip to Bar Harbor. I hope so • Jane you that Claire Lyons is our class represen­ Schaefer Beer; Hill and Knowlton, the public Melanson Dahmen is our class representative tative to the Alumni Council. If you have relations firm; Prel Corporation, a major on the Alumni Council until 1988. So that she anything to communicate to that body let homebuilder and owner of home improve­ can better represent us, she is interested 1n Claire know. Her address is 380 Cabot Street, ment centers; J. Walter Thompson's corporate hearing any of your suggestions or concerns. Beverly, Mass. 01915 • Remember that 1986 communication division, Washington office, Her address is 19 Nashawtuc Rd., Concord, is our 25th reunion year. Now is the time to then San Francisco office as general manager; Mass. 01742. The Arts Exclusive Gallery in plan to be in Waterville in the late spring of Activision; and now McCann-Erickson as man­ Simsbury, Conn., had a fund raiser for the Col­ '86. Also, don't forget to give to the Alumni ager of that agency's Los Angeles office. Frank, by Art Museum, and Jane's works were hung Fund this year. Cathy, and the kids are settling down to yet there among those of some renowned Ameri­ Class secretary: SUSAN DETWILER GOOD­ another "course" • Al Weller is our represen­ can impressionist painters. Congratulations, ALL (Mrs. William L.), 88 Heald Rd., Carlisle, tative to the Alumni Council and he speaks on Jane! • In other news clippings from Colby, I Mass. 01741. matters of importance to the council. He see that Bruce Swerling has been elected vice welcomes hearing your comments and con­ president of the National Association of Public cerns. Please write to him at 19 Greenbriar Insurance Adjusters. He is also president of the Lane, Amherst, N.H. 03031 • As I gaze out Massachusetts Association of Public Insurance My cupboard of information is my window looking at the beautiful blanket of Adjusters. Bruce is currently treasurer of the 6 bare and needs to be restocked, snow that Mother Nature presented to us Boston-based firm of Swerling Milton and so won't you take a break and yesterday, I am reminded of how fast the Ginsberg • Pauline Ryder Kezer has been dash 2off a few words to me? I'd love to hear months roll around. By the time you read this elected to a three-year term to the national

38 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Joard of directors of the Girl Scouts. She has enough news from the quest1onna1res to fi ll and serves as a trustee of the Millinocket 1lso been reelected to her fourth term as a another column, but after that I'll need to hear Regional Hospital. Mike and his wife, Carol ln­ .tate representative in Connecticut. Py is a from those of you who didn't have time earli­ german Robinson, live 1n Sherman Station, Joard member of the New England Caucus of er. Do wnte! I love to get your notes. Maine • During the June 1984 Reunion Nomen Legislators • Peter Vogt worked Class secretary: KAREN BEGANNY BRYAN Weekend, the Alumni Council presented its .v1th Johns Hopkins University to prepare a (Mrs. William L.), RFD 2, Box 662, East Holden, Distinguished Alumna Award to Doris Kearns 22-minute color film documentary about the Maine 04429. Goodwin. The award recognizes a Colby -ollege. The film has already received two graduate "who has achieved unusual d1st1nc iwards-the Blue Ribbon Award from the tion in his or her profession." Dons 1s the '\merican Film Festival and first prize for film author of the biography, Lyndon Johnson and rom the International Association of Business the Amencan Dream. She 1s currently v. nting a :::ommunicators. It's great to see our class­ For the next few years, until the political biography of the Kennedy family nates doing so well! • From the question- time of our 25th re:.m1on, I shall Doris taught at Harvard for 10 years and I 4 1aires returned to me share the following 6 be writing this column. A ques­ served as assistant director of the Institute of 1ews. Marvin Ostrovsky wrote from South­ tionnaire will be sent to you in the near future. Politics of the Kennedy School of Government. :>oro, Mass., that for the past four years he has Please return 1t. I'm looking forward to re­ She was also a Colby trustee and the 1978 Col­ ::ieen on the board of directors of a new, fast­ sponding with much news. While not wishing by commencement speaker • Jim Henderson growing, health maintenance organization, to notice too strongly the number of years it's was recently named sales manager of the per­ The Multi Group Health Plan. Marv·s wife was been since graduation, it is interesting news sonal financial services department 111 the trust elected to the Southboro School Committee. that J. Seelye Bixler, at 90, will soon publish a and personal banking division of the Bank of Or. Marv and family would be glad to hear new monograph. It is entitled German Recol­ New England. He and his wife, Joan, reside 1n from you if you're nearby • Byron Petrakis, lections. Some of my Besc Friends Were Philos­ Hamilton, Mass. • Steve Schoeman is now a his wife, and two children (ages 12 and 4) have ophers. He has been heard to state that this is Colby author! An attorney in New York and moved to Kingston, N.H., aher 15 years in Ken­ the last work he will write! And how have you Florida, his new work is entitled Bendef5 tucky and North Carolina. Byron and wife, all been feeling about you r ages and cor­ Forms for the Consolidated Laws of the Seate Gayle, have a family restaurant business called responding act1v1ty levels? • Ken Stone has of New York Annotated for the Mental Hr­ The Kingston 1686 House. The building fea­ been "taming the whitewater," according to g1ene Law • Happy spring! At this writing, the tures original beams and floorboards in two of the Maine Sunday Telegram. He is presently temperature is 14 degrees below zero. its six dining rooms. Byron manages the taking a sabbatical from the Westminister Class secretary: BARBARA WALTON DAR­ restaurant while Gayle coordinates functions School to devote himself full time to fund LING, Clover Ledge, R.R. "1, Box 326, and does the advertising. It's a big change raising and to the training and selection of the Hinesburg, Vt. 05461. from being "a mild-mannered English pro­ U.S. Whitewater Canoeing Team. The team fessor at the University of Kentucky and the will compete next summer in the Worlds in University of North Carolina at Charlotte," said Germany. A coach for the team since 1982, Byron • David Pulver wrote that he was Ken has a daughter, Wendy, 21, on the team. elected to the Colby Board of Trustees. That is He and his wife, Penney, have two other 20th reunion: June 7-9, 1965. good news for our class, because it is impor­ daughters, Jennifer, 20, and Sherri, 18 • Mike Class secretary: JOAN COPI· tant to have representation on decision­ Robinson has been elected to the board of 6 THORNE BOWEN (Mrs. Richard making bodies. David's address is 3 Isolde directors of the Merrill Trust Company. He is 5 H.), 11 Fox Rd., Bedford, Mass. Court, Pine Brook, N.J. 07058 • I still have president of the Sherman Power Company 01730.

GOOD HEALTH MATIERS TO MEDSTAR CHAIRMAN ______

Thanks to independent filmmaker William P. Ferretti '65, the world was able to witness one of the miracles of modern science-the artificial heart transplant of William Shroeder. Within 60 minutes after the day-long operation, Medstar Communications, which had been editing film in a room next to the operating room, had 17 minutes of highlights to release to the world press. According to Ferretti, Medsta(s chairman, clips of the film where shown as far away as Italy. Ferretti's company, based in Allentown, Pa., has become a prominent health-care communications company. Currently, Medsta(s biggest project is a syndicated televi­ sion series called "Health Matters," which appears in 16 cities from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. "We've been at it for three years now," Ferretti said. "We started out with four employees and grossed $6000 our first year. Today, we employ 18 people, and Medstar will take in about $2.8 million." Ferretti, who spent his early post-Colby years as a hospital administrator, earned his maste(s degree in public health from Yale in 1971 . What provoked the subsequent ca­ reer change? "Some things in life are not rational," he responded, explaining that he was asked to manage a $25 million trust fund established to improve the quality of health in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. "One of the first projects we undertook was a televised education program for health services." In addition to Shroede(s operation, Medstar shot seven related "news packages" that dealt with the heart itself, Shroede(s family, and the like. "We worked in secret for a month," said Ferretti, who indicated that another confidential project is in the works for March 1986, on a subject he declined to disclose. Until then, "Health Matters" will con­ tinue revealing other physiological "secrets" to a fascinated television audience.

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THE COLBY AL MNUS 39 Class secretary: JAN AT HERTON his term of office as president of the Big are living in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area, where 66 COX, 115 Woodville Rd., Fal­ Brothers/Big Sisters of El Paso board of direc­ Stephen is president of Umbach National Con­ mouth, Maine 04105. tors. During a recent vacation he returned to struction Company. Their 8-year-old daughter, the East and spent time visiting with Phil Lisa, has performed the role of Mollie in civic Stearns and Dick Ammann '66 • When the theatre productions of Annie • Jeffrey Coady forthcoming questionnaire is ready, I will put and his wife, Donna Larson Coady, live in in a request for more current news. Please Mansfield, Mass. Jeff is the director of com­ write directly to me if you have some spare puter facilities in the computer science depart­ Among my New Yea(s resolutions time. And whoever you are, Ken Heckel '78, ment at Brown University. He has two chil­ 6 7 this year was the determination thanks again for the good advice! dren Jason 10 and Kristen, 8, and enjoys sail­ to continue writing this column Class secretary: SALLY RAY BENNETT (Mrs. ing, �hotogra�hy, and woodworking • Tom for the Alumnus. Because of my strong per­ Charles K.), 47 West St., East Greenwich, R.I. McBrierty received his M.B.A. in January 1984 sonal feelings concerning the abolition of 02818. and works for New England Telephone. He fraternities and sororities, and, in particular, and Linda live in Boxford, Mass., and have two the manner in which it was done, I opted to sit children, Jennifer, 14, and Christian, 12. Tom back and let a few months go by while I decid­ does some running and plays softball and also ed whether to continue in this position. Upon coaches basketball and baseball. (I bet you receiving my December issue of the Alumnus, know my old friend Jeff Rossman, Tom!) • I turned to the "Eustis Mailroom" section, and Nancy Money lives in South Burlington, Vt., Mud month has passed here in there I read the letter from Ken Heckel '78 and is the site manager of the Windjammer New England and the roads and commenting on the fact that it is time to ac­ 6 Restaurant/Econo Lodge there. She and her woods trails are sound for out­ cept the decision and devote ourselves to husband, Paul Thabault, love to travel, but are door 8running and jogging. Our classmates rebuilding. Good advice! Here we go: • really enjoying life in Vermont. Nancy has have taken to this with all the zeal they used Cecelia Ronis touched base with the alumni three stepchildren and rides horseback • to put into Saturday night parties. Carl Glick­ office in November 1984, noting that she has Douglas Joseph spent two weeks this past man, John Bubar, Steve Ward, Cecily Smith moved to San Francisco. After a few years in year in Alaska, fishing, camping, and photo­ Johnson, and Pat Andrea Zlotin (quite a Israel working for the Sheraton in Tel Aviv, she graphing bears. He is account manager for motley crew) are all among the joggers. Other returned to New York City, where she worked Cullinet Software. He and his wife, Pamela, an road runners include Riel< Sabbag, Ted Allison, for the Israeli kibbutz movement. She spent attorney, Jive in Westwood, Mass. • Linda Rick Mansfield, Ted Fucillo, Cathie Smith Brad­ most of last year traveling and backpacking in Patton lives in Alaska. She is a biological aide lee, Barry Panepento, Jeff Goodwin, Clarke Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific for the U.S. Forestry Service and is working on Keenan, and Dan Libby • Now if you're like • As you may have gleaned from the prof le a private pilot's license. Fairbanks is her home, � Paul and Judy Dionne Scoville, you mean to . on him in the December issue, Larry Bernstein, and she enjoys dog mushing and canoeing • start some fitness routine soon • Linda levy M.D., a member of the UConn Health Center, Lise Ferner wrote from Oslo, Norway, where Fagenholz and Carol Glickman like their exer­ received a national award for excellence in pa­ . she is a dancer and choreographer. She loves cise in liquid form-swimming that 1s • Mike tient education. Along with his partner in her work (which often takes her to England), Metcalf, selectman, geography teacher, and private practice, Larry was praised for projects walking, and bicycling. Lise has an 11-year-o�d trashman up in Greensboro, Vt., gets all the including support for new parents; communi­ daughter, Tora • Richard Frantz is a graphi_c exercise he needs in his work • Biking, golf, ty, adult, and office education; and for being designer and lives in Derry, N.H. He and his and nautilus help keep Steve Freyer sane . . an adviser to both school boards and legisla­ wife, Susan, have two children, Christian, 14, • Hope Jahn Wetzel is a faithful follower of tors • Paul Cronin is now serving as head and Lindsay, 12. They are repairing their house aerobics • Rose Buyniski Eriksson gets her ex­ hockey coach at his alma mater, Revere (Mass.) and enjoyed the Colby Reunion Weekend de­ ercise over in Sweden, not cross-country ski­ (I High School. Paul spent last summer acting as spite Bob Anthony's absence. relayed your ing, but by giving intensive courses in English . the coordinator at Gary Doak's (former assis­ . sentiments to Bob-he was appropriately to Swedish experts on their way to developing tant coach for the Boston Bruins) hockey hang-dog!) • My column was too long last countries • Jeff Lathrop is a board sailing en­ school, and then he returned to a new teach­ time so I'd best quit while I can. Please keep thusiast: "If you can't ski at Attitash, it must be ing assignment at Revere High School • Dave news coming. I promise it will be included time to board sail" • Joe D'Elia, who finally Wilson and two colleagues have formed eventually. I hope you all have a nice summer. learned to ski, at Attitash with Jeff's en­ a new partnership, Hodgdon, Wilson, and Class secretary: DONNA MASSEY SYKES, 228 couragement, might agree with th part about Tober which is located in Portsmouth, N.H. � . Spring St., Shrewsbury, Mass. 01545. skiing being good exercise • I. Victor Pman­ Their eneral accounting firm provides profes­ � sky is still into Rock 'N' Roll • Nelson De�ny, sional services to individuals as well as to . when asked about his fitness kick, said, Life small- and medium-sized businesses. Dave begins at 40." I wonder what he is up to? Jives with his wife, Marcia, and their two • Max Allison Anderson wrote that although children in Dover • Tom Saliba of Freeport is horseback riding with Betty Savicki Carvellas president of Saco Valley Cold Storage Com­ . did help her to lose two inches in her "dern­ pany there. He is our representative to the • ere," she does not recommend it to anyone 15th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 Colby College Alumni Council and is also on except masochists • I think I feel my exercise 70 John P. Marriner, Ph.D., University the board of trustees of the Maine Medical pattern has the most in common with that of of California, Berkeley, 1977, 1s a Center in Portland • Caroline Kresky com­ physicist working at Fermi National Accelera­ Barb Bixby Abrams. She strolls, sun bathe�, 111. . pleted Emory Law School in Atlanta in 1983 and plays mild-mannered tennis • Chns tor Laboratory in Batavia, He, his wife, Ann, and joined a California law firm with an Atlan­ and two daughters live in North Aurora, Ill. Austin Barbour might agree with us, too, but I • Jon Weems, ta office (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker) think I could even skip the tennis • Enjoy the Morgantown, W.Va., 1s ar­ later that year. Caroline and her 12-year-old summer. Think fitness! boretum supervisor at the Core Arboretum of daughter, Deborah, moved to a new con­ Class secretary: JANN SEMONIAN, Box 109, West Virginia University. Married in June 1984, dominium in the northwestern part of the city, Sandwich, Mass. 02563. he and his wife own a 34-acre "Ponderosa," where they spend a lot of time biking and run­ and he has been working in a maste(s pro­ ning. She would love to hear from Colby gram in recreation and parks management • classmates who happen to find themselves in A project analyst in data processing for Pratt the �rea • Rob Hauck is now a resident of and Whitney Aircraft, Libby Brown Strough, Kensington, Md. After several years at Vander­ her husband, Robert, and son, Jonat�an, li�e bilt, he moved to the D.C. area in 1982 to in Glastonbury, Conn. Robert is actively in­ become the assistant director of the American Another deadline is upon me volved in the U.S. Power Squadron and is com­ Political Science Association • Larry Sears has 69 and, with it, the difficulty of mander of the local Hartford Power Squadron just started his 17th year at the University of choosing from all the interesting • Donna Webber Burkart, Franklin, Maine, is a Texas at El Paso. He has also just completed news • Stephen Wurzel and his wife, Linda, professional assistant in research at the Jack-

40 THE COLBY AL MNUS CLINE'S WAY TO THE TOP ______

Steven Cline 70 was recently promoted to vice president of account services by J.D. Mathis and Company. Now the "number two" man in the agency, he is responsible for client relations and is in charge of the media department for the Baltimore, Md., based advertising firm. "I'm the one who hears about it when things go wrong," joked Cline, who has been with the firm since 1983. Cline's career ladder has more closely resembled a circular stairway. After graduating from Colby as a psychology major, Cline went to American University for training as a 1ournalist. "But I decided I didn't want that," he said. "I really wanted to be the next Curt Gowdy!" Enrolling at the University of North Carolina for a graduate program in mass communications, Cline began working for a Durham, N.C., television station. In January 1974, Cline became operations manager for "a little UHF station up in the mountains of New Hampshire," before accepting a job as an account executive for WMUR-TV in Man­ chester, N.H. During that time he was also co-host of a radio talk show, "Sports Hotline." After five years in Manchester, Cline left television. "I was bored to death, and I didn't like it." From there, "I got into advertising in a strange way. I was thumbing through the 'help wanted' ads, and there was an opening for a field account executive position. I had ab­ solutely none of the qualifications, but I got the job." Now in his second year at J.D. Mathis, Cline's only goal is a partnership in the company. "A lot of people in advertising want to go to Washington, D.C., New York, or Chicago, but I don't need that. Baltimore's a heck of a nice city." Cline has kept in touch with Colby as an alumni interviewer and as current president of the Class of 1970, and he would like to start a Baltimore Colby alumni club. Also a re­ union organizer, he appreciates the continued association: "The College has a very good story to tell. I loved it when I was there." For what better advertising could Colby ask? Steven 0. Cline 70 JB

son Laboratory in Bar Harbor • Donna wrote Kathy Otterson Cintavey and her teachers in Rabat. She also went to Maine last that Anne Pomroy was an assistant attorney 7 2 family are living in Amherst, Ohio. summer and visited Alice Osmer Olson and general working out of Bangor on child protec­ Kathy has been teaching at a pri­ Warren Turner '69. She is still living in Salt Lake tion cases and lived in Ellsworth, Maine. The vate school one block from Lake Erie, and in City, where she is a teacher, and has a grant to latest news about Anne is that she has just the summer she takes graduate school develop videotaped lessons and computer opened an office for the practice of law in Old courses. Last summer the Cintaveys took a va­ programs to use in the classroom • John Orchard Beach, Maine • Walter Effron, Pough­ cation trip to New England • Kathy reported Koons continues to have a successful dental keepsie, N.Y., is in retail business at the Three that Diane Malpass Gloriant and her husband, practice in Waterville. He is building a house Arts bookstore • A psychiatric social worker Jim, had recently taken a trip to Greece • near Colby and planning a "round the world in a local mental health clinic, Nancy Sarlin Doug McMillan was married to Ann Harris in trip" to visit family and friends • John wrote Tenbrink lives in Los Alamos, N.M., with her September 1983. I hope that everyone saw that Bill Holland is a consulting geologist. Bill, son, daughter, and husband, Steve, who the excellent photo that Doug sent me and with his wife and daughter, lives in Portland works with computers at Los Alamos National which appeared in the December Alumnus. • Michael Havey is creatJve director and part­ Laboratory • Kit Wells Poland has retired Doug was so pleased at the number of Colby ner in Graphic Design Associates in Keene, from the resource room, which she ran for 11 friends who traveled to St. Paul for the wed­ N.H. Last spring he traveled to England and years, to be at home with her two sons and ding. His electric motor company, The Wales as a musician for Pinewoods Traditional husband, Mike. Kit has done most of the in­ McMillan Electric Company, was started in Morris Men, an ancient ritual dance team • terior work (construction and decorating) on 1976 and continues to grow • In October He also wrote that Sheila Marks, with her hus­ their house, and she and Mike are becoming 1984, Swift Tarbell, in his capacity as adviser to band and family, had been in Colombia, South experts on small woodlot management • Mary the Reagan/Bush campaign in Portland, spoke America, for nine months • Debbie Hobbs Langevin Hepler is a principal at Arthur Young at Colby, primarily about the Republican stand Pienkos and Walt have moved to Saratoga, and Company, and lives in Farmington Hills, on the military buildup • Marie Griswold Calif., for Walt's new assignment with Hew­ Mich. • Living in West Palm Beach, Fla., with Fincher was recently appointed an assistant lett-Packard in Cupertino. Debbie, who re­ his wife, Lynne, and new child, Brian Cooke is professor of medicine at the Medical College ceived her M.B.A. from Boston University in practicing law in Palm Beach as a partner in his of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. Before entering pri­ 1981, is currently on leave from Hewlett­ own firm under the name of Jetter, Hopkinson, vate practice, she worked for two years in the Packard, but hopes to resume her work there Vogel and Cooke. Public Health Service in Ludowici, Ga. • Patrick as a software engineer once they are settled in Class secretary: DONNA MASON WILLIAMS Duddy is a career foreign service officer with their house. They have one child, Ryan • The (Mrs. Edward F.), 50 North St., Grafton, Mass. the U.S. Information Agency. He has been ap­ alumni office has suggested that I include the 01 519. pointed press attache at the U.S. Embassy in address of our class representative to the Santo Domingo and previously was assistant Alumni Council, Chris Pinkham, here. Chris's cultural attache at the American embassy in function is to speak for our class on matters of Santiago, Chile. He and his wife, Mary Rose, importance to the Alumni Council. His address have one daughter, Sarah • Kate Muhlhausen is S. Freeport Rd., RR 2, Box 145, Freeport, Class secretary: LESLIE j. ANDER­ has also worked with the U.S. Information Maine 04032. SON, 30 Hall Ave., Sommerville, Agency. She spent last summer in Morocco Class secretary: ANN BONNER VIDOR (Mrs. 71 Mass. 02144. training Moroccan secondary school English David), 1981 lnnwood Rd., Atlanta, Ga. 30329.

THE COLBY LUMNUS -4-1 I will open our column with a re­ "Air Force wife" and 1s busy raising two say that they were not lost, just temporarily 7 3 minder that Gary Fitts is our class "active" sons. Chris is also a Red Cross missing • Andrea Hicks Sato wrote from representative to the Alumni Coun­ volunteer and 1s active 1n officers' wives club Stamford, Conn., where she had recently cil. Feel free to contact Gary at 18 Highland functions as well as the AMIGO program, moved after having been married in October. Avenue, Pittsfield, Maine 04967, to let him which hosts foreign officers' families at Keesler She works as an associate marketing manager know your feelings on issues that affect the Air Force Base • While on a trip to Boston for Pepsi in New York. She's held this position College. Now, cont1nu1ng from our most re­ last summer, Chris v1s1ted with Anne HuffJor­ since earning her M.B.A. at New York Universi­ cent questionnaire, here's the news! • Wayne dan, who was also visiting the Boston area ty in 1983 • Andrea also had news of Amy Brown de Ponton d'Amecourt 1s an English from San Francisco • Terri Ashburn-Higgins Caponetto Galloway, who currently resides in professor and foreign student adviser at the was married last September and, after 10 years Mount Kisco, N.Y. Amy had her first child last American College in Paris • Ida Dionne Bur­ of living in New York City, has moved to the summer, a son, Sam • Carol Smart Buxton roughs leads an active life d1v1ded among her suburbs. Terri is a supervisor of the import sec­ also had a son last summer, Will, her second family, mountaineering and hiking, and music. tion at Mitsui and Company • Joane Rylander child. Carol lives outside Washington, D.C., in Last August Ida went on a mountaineering trip Henderson 1s one of two classmates writing Reston, Va. • Kathe Misch Tuttman took a to the Swiss and French alps, which included from Texas. Joane 1s a computer program­ moment from her busy schedule to write from ascents of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa. She 1s mer/analyst with the Texas Electric Coopera­ Medford, Mass., where she and Alan 71 live scheduled to climb Mount McKinley in Alaska. tive, and in her spare time she enjoys singing with their two daughters, Jessica and Andrea. She also belongs to the Handel Society of Dart­ with the Austin Choral Union • Susie Yovic After working full time as a mother for five mouth • Alice Hanson Freeman 1s a science Hoeller is an attorney living in Dallas. Her hus­ years, Kathe is pursuing her law degree at Suf­ teacher at the Pennington School in New band, Ted, 1s a cattle breeder and real estate folk Law School in Boston. Sounds hectid • Jersey. She asked, "I'm wondering whatever developer, and they are both very involved in We hear from Dean Junior College in Franklin, happened to the old Outing Club crowd-are the activities of their church • I promise to Mass., that Edward Kemp was appointed as­ they out there?" • Margaret McPartland Bean finish up with the questionnaires in the next sistant professor of communication arts last welcomed a new daughter, Julia Kathleen, last column. In the meantime, please keep me in­ fa ll. Prior to this appointment, he was a writing September. Margaret is serving on the Maine formed of newsworthy events so that our col­ instructor at Principia College. Edward re­ governor's advisory group on juvenile justice umn can be up-to-date. ceived his master's degree in English from the • Ron Majdalany has opened his own veteri­ Class secretary: JANET PERETHIAN BIGELOW University of New Hampshire, where he also nary practice for large and small animals in (Mrs. Lawrence C.). 144 Washington Ave., taught freshman English • Brookstone Com­ Great Barrington, Mass. He spent last summer Needham, Mass. 02192. pany announced last fall that Herbert Lands­ converting an old dairy barn into a veterinary man was appointed vice president of mer­ hospital • Steve and Barb Plummer Jasinski chandising. Herb, his wife, Cindy, and their '76 live in Reading, Mass. Steve 1s manager of son, Sam, were relocating to the Peter­ financial planning for Codex Corporation • Thanks to those of you who borough, N.H., area to join the firm. Prior to John Halpin wrote from Birmingham, Mich., 74 dropped me a line since the last this appointment, Herb was divisional mer­ that he works as a manager in international edition of the Alumnus. The op­ chandise manager at Shillito Rikes, a $360 employee relations and has recently finished portunity to preview the news is definitely a million division of Federated Department his first marathon in Detroit • Chris Hall benefit of this job! To fill the rest of you in on Stores that is based in Cincinnati • For those Salazar wrote from Biloxi, Miss., that she is an what has happened-several people wrote to of you who wish to have a more direct line to

MUSICIAN SEEKS TO GAIN COMPOSER ______

"I'll always be a musician," declared Arthur C. Levering II 76 recently. A music major at Colby, he earned a master's degree from Yale in 1979 and has been performing ever since. The coming year, however, will chart a new direction for the Boston-based classical guitarist. He explained, 'Tm now concentrating much more on composing than I have before. The type of music I'm writing now is termed 'minimist.' I'm trying to do something new and innovative with it." Currently taking courses at Boston University, Levering expects to go back to school as a full-time student of music composition in the fall. Levering, who plays the lute as well as the guitar, has gained extensive experience as a performer in the last 10 years. He spent three summers studying under such instructors as Eliot Fisk and Robert Guthrie at the Aspen Music Festival, where he has given solo recitals and taken part in the festival's chorus. In 1 980 Levering formed the Opharion Duo with guitarist Deborah Fox, a collaboration he described as moderately successful. Musical America gave it a stronger appraisal in 1983, naming them that year's "Best Young Artists." Levering and Fox have performed throughout New England and have recorded as well. Although it is notoriously difficult for young musicians to make ends meet, Levering has managed well. Publishing arrangements for classical guitar has provided him with a steady income, and teaching has been another source. He now has reduced his teaching to concentrate on composing, but he warned that most aspiring musicians will find teaching fi nancially essential. "The wages are good, so if you're teaching enough, you could even make a good living," he advised.

Arthur C. Levering II '76 /8

42 THE COLBY ALUMNUS :he Alumni Council, note that Daniel Rapa­ the Indiana University School of Optometry. 1s looking for...,ard to v1s1t1ng China in 1987 • Jort, as our class representative to the council, Paul's new wife, Carol Alexander, 1s a Heidi Neumann our Alumni Council represen­ s the person to contact. He can be reached at counselor for adolescent clinics and utri­ tative is alwavs ready to hear from us. For 2 Hermit Thrush Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Maine System in Indianapolis • Val Jones Roy con­ those who \\ 1sh to contact her. her address 1s )4107. I look forwardto hearing from more of tinues her climb up the ladder. Her most 3 May Street Portland ..\.\a1ne 04 102 • Gnt1I yOU. recent promotion was to assistant vice presi­ next t1me1 Class secretary: CAROL D. WYNNE, P.O. Box dent in charge of commercial credit at Fleet Class secretary: LINDA LaCHAPELLE. 320 East 36, Winthrop, Maine 04364. National Bank in Providence. R.I. I th ink I 42nd St., Apt. 2012 e\" York "Y 10or. receive more news clippings on Val than I do on anyone else! • Scott McDermott. Boston 10th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 • lawyer, was married last summer to Kelly In Portland, Maine, John Mosley Hynes, a public relations professional • Bob 7 5 News reaching me recently \\ as is sti ll in the insurance business and Joan Sennett Compagna are living in 78 but a trickle. leaving a column as and has opened his own office with help from Wethersfield, Conn., and have a two-yea r-old, short as the day on '' h1ch 1t \\as • Brandon • For those of you who have his wife, Carol Laurie Fitts is also in the Alum­ >rntten. I'll share what I have • Alix Land has ni Council ma�ers to air, I have been Portland area, working on the development asked to returned from the West Coast to \.\a1ne, staff at Maine Audubon • remind you that our rep is Dale-Marie Boyd "Bird" Allen Crooks. where she acts as account executive for Ar­ Greene, 632 Garrett Place, Evanston, completed his master's degree requirements Ill. nold and Company. an advert1s1ng agency at the University of ew Hampshire. He spent 60201 • Until next time! located in Portland • Donna Long has been Class secretary: MELISSA DAY VOKEY (Mrs. some time in Antarctica last year in his course named assistant cashier at Martha's Vineyard Mark), 16 Fox Run, Topsfield, Mass. 01983. of study-and swears the temperature went National Bank, ""here she has worked for six above freezing during his stay. Still an avid years • Ricky P. Jacques has begun working photographer, Bird took a lot of pictures at toward his M.B.A. degree at Lake Forest midnight, capturing the dawn-like light of the School of Management in Illinois. He 1s • midnight sun Joseph L. Doherty published Here's a bit of news from our d1stribut1on analyst for American Hosp1�al Sup­ an article in the March 1984 issue of Massa­ 7 7 classmates-eight years after grad­ ply Corporation • Dan Hoefle 101ned the law chusetts Law Review on medical malpractice uation! • Lowell Libby has never firm of Shames, Madrigan and McEachern in laws in that state • There will be more news left Maine! He was recently appointed a social Portsmouth, .H. Dan, who grew up 1n the to share, in person, at our reunion, so do plan studies instructor at the Dirigo High School in Portsmouth area. was recently employed as to come June 7-9 • Paul Hatton has a chal­ Dixfield. For the past several years, Lowell an assistant district attorney 1n the Bronx lenge for those of us living relatively near worked in the Upward Bound Program at the County District Attorney's Office 1n e"" Waterville-as was noted in the last column, University of Maine at Farmi ngton, where he York • Also 1n New Hampshire 1s Leslie War.' he plans to come to our reunion from the was involved with curriculum and budget, ren, who 1s employed in Londonderry as a fifth Philippines and to win the prize for coming the development, staff training, and counseling. grade teacher • Congratulations are due to furthest. Let's see a good turnout from those Before that, he studied for his master's in Cathy and Bob Woodbury, who are proud living between the Philippines and Waterville! secondary school counseling on the Orono parents of Amy Sarah. They bought a house in • Class president and reunion chairperson, campus • A new faculty member of the eco­ Hamilton, Mass., where Bob 1s employed by Debbie Marson McNulty, reported a good nomics department of the University of Maine Parker Brothers and is a member of the Hamil­ response from the initial questionnaire and an at Machias is assistant professor Jonathan ton Zoning Board of Appeals • During the exciting schedule of activities on tap for the Reisman. He has been teaching on other New Christmas holiday, I met the parents of Sally weekend. If you haven't made your Alumni England college campuses-Bryant, Wheaton, Pierce and learned that she is another of our Fund contribution yet, please do so before and Radcliffe-since he received his master's classmates to have moved to Denver. She may reunion, so we can show the other classes that degree from Brown University • A former encounter, among others, Ed Smith and Tom 75 is alive in '85. substitute schoolteacher and clam digger 1n Suddath, who recently io1ned a law firm in that Class secretary: PAMELA J. BRADLEY, 25 the Rockland, Maine, area, Robert Cumler city • During the 1984 fund year, our class Crosstown Ave., West Roxbury, Mass. 02132. recently announced the opening of his own achieved 62 percent of its goal of 55,500 with law practice in the office of Attorney Davidson 22 percent of the members contributing • In in the village of Waldoboro. Robert received other class news, our representative to the Brandon Kulik has been in touch his law degree last year from the Franklin Alumni Council, should you have any con­ 7 6 to say that he has moved to Bed­ Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H. • Ina-Lee cerns or suggestions, 1s Dana Bernard. He lives ford, N.H., where he is working in Toll Block, a recent graduate of Harvard at 2045 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 36, Brigh­ research with the environmental firm of Nor­ Business School, began work as an internal ton, Mass. 021 35 • Finally, a mini Colby re­ mandeau Associates. He says Mike North is consultant with the Harvard Community Health union may be on my social calendar for the working, coincidentally, with the same firm Plan • Andrea Jensen is a corporate tax summer. I'm planning to marry Sue Conant 75 • Peter Shaw was recently appointed a vice specialist with the Cabot Corporation in in August and expect that at least a few president of Irving Trust Company in New downtown Boston as well as a student of taxa­ members of the Colby family will join us. York City. He is responsible for the bank's rela­ tion at Bentley College • Congratulations are Class secretary: JAMES S. COOK, JR., RFD =1, tionships with banks in Brazil • Maureen Kel­ in order for Kimberlee Ayer McVeigh. The Box 3470, Albion, Maine 04910. liher has been named financial account American Institute for Property and Liability manager of Amoskeag Savings Bank in New Underwriters awarded her the professional in· Hampshire. She had previously worked as an surance designation of chartered property over-the-counter stock trader with Burgess casualty underwriter. Kim is a bond supervisor Before launching into the news. and Leith in Boston • Paul Bishop is now for the Hanover Insurance Company in How­ 7 9 let me remind you that by contact­ heading the alumni affairs office at New ell, Mich. • There are a couple of former ing Kim Rossi Nichols, class repre­ England School of Law. He continues to han· classmates that are on the look-out for other sentative to the Alumni Council, your concerns die cases for the Commonwealth of Massa­ Colby people in their area. Mark Brefka and may be heard. She speaks for our class on chusetts as a special assistant attorney general his wife have moved to London for a year and issues of importance and can be reached at and maintains a private practice in Braintree would welcome any of us who visit there. Box 455, Castine, Maine 04421 • Connie • Lesley Fowler is coordinator and teacher of Mark is working as an investment banker with Breeseis now in private practiceas a vetennar­ a new program for gifted children in Water­ Prudential-Bache Securities • Linda Malcolm's ian on Martha's Vineyard Island after com­ ville elementary schools • Doug Rooks has new home is Seattle, Wash. She left the ski pleting her training at Tufts University School left quiet Moultonboro, N.H., for the bright country of Sun Valley, Idaho, behind her. She of Veterinary Medicine last May • Joseph lights of Augusta, Maine, a move he discussed loves the change and hopes that other alumni "Jody" Hotchkiss wrote that after doing two in his first column as the editorial page editor in the area will look her up. Linda is a profes· and a half years of volunteer work 1n French­ of the Kennebec Journal • Paul Sither is an sional massage therapist and is currently train· speaking central Africa, he has returned to the assistant professor and clinical instructor for ing in acupuncture and Oriental medicine. She United States and is now working as assistant

THE COLBY LL:l\.INL'S -1-3 Attorney Beth A. Pniewski '81 has joined the legal department of the American Mutual Insurance Companies in Wakefield, Mass. A 1984 graduate of Suffolk University Law School, Pniewski's new responsibilities include personnel matters, miscellaneous con­ tracts, and company and agents' licenses. One of her recent specific tasks was implementing Massachusetts' new "Right to Know" law within American Mut ual. "The Massachusetts law is similar to ones which have been passed in about 20 other states," noted Pniewski. "Basically, it's meant to pro­ tect workers from toxic substances. Management is now responsible for training workers who may be exposed to toxic substances; they must label these substances and provide employees with information." She added that this law would apply to employees such as those who work in American Mutual's printing department. Although she is the first female attorney in the century-old company, Pniewski doesn't feel any pressures as a woman to prove herself. "I've had no problems. Even though I'm young, I've been treated with respect." Looking forward, she anticipated many profes­ sional challenges. "I doubt I'll ever become bored here. I've only started to learn the company ropes, never mind the insurance industry as a whole."

JB Beth A. Pniewski '8 1

to the East Coast story editor for MGM Film arts in expository writing while working to­ brought together amidst the Washington Company and United Artists. He also wrote ward her doctorate in English there • Julie D.C., political jungle by a Colby sweatshirt or that in September he was married to his Borden wrote from the Big Apple asking, a softball field, are engaged and contemplat Danish fiancee in Copenhagen • Those of "Where is Lauren Wincig?" Julie, by the way, is ing a move back to New England • Liz Nel� you who are daydreaming about summer get­ a medical researcher and writer and a soccer lives in Acton, Mass., and is engaged to b1 aways might want to give John Eginton a call. player for the Budweiser Eagles Women's Soc­ married to Michael Gearan, an engineer witl Working for Out O' Mystic Schooner Cruises cer Team in New York City • And, Susie Levin, Wang, in December 1985 • Diana Bass< as captain of the Mystic Whaler, he takes vaca­ now in Denver, Colo., working for a cable works for the Theological Education Pro tioners on cruises varying in length from short company wants to know, "Whatever hap· gramme of the World Council of Churches 11 dinner cruises to five-day sneak-aways • pened to C. D. 'David' Williams?" Anyone Geneva, Switzerland • Jane Dibden is at Ora David Ashcraft wrote from Connecticut that knowing the whereabouts of these two class· Roberts University School of Theology ir he is still a disc jockey on a college station mates is invited to contact Julie, Susie, or Tulsa, working on her master of divinity. She'! when he is not enjoying food, wine, and me • Happy spring! a certified candidate for ministry with thi friends, working as an insurance underwriter, Class secretary: JANE VENMAN LEDEBUHR Maine Annual Conference of the Unitec or renovating his 180-year-old house • Kyle (Mrs. David), 1551 5 Boulder Oaks, Houston, Methodist Church • Barbara Neal is a free Harrow, another home improver, splits her Tex. 77804. lance writer and editor of educationa time between fixing up a new house that she materials. In addition, she's starting a land bought with her boyfriend and working as scaping business with Sarah Davis '79 ir associate buyer for Grossman's in Massachu­ Washington, D.C. • Daniel Berger is in Singa setts • Landscape designer and contractor 5th reunion: June 7-9, 1985 • pore as area sales manager for Prime Com Sarah Holbrook Davis will no doubt put her Erin Ireton has been providing fi­ puter. His territory also includes Malaysia, In knowledge to personal use as she and friends, nancial services to wealthy inves· donesia, Thailand, Philippines, Brunei, India including Barb Neal '80, build a house in West tors80 at Fidelity Investments for three years. In and New Zealand • Liz Martin lives in Rec Virginia on land they purchased in 1984 • her spare time, she's putting together an a cap­ Bank, N.)., and works as a chef in a smal From Maine, Felicity Myers Loekle wrote that pella singing group in Boston (if former Eights Spring Lake gourmet restaurant • Scot Lehigh she and her husband, Kit, are busy tending and Colbyettes are interested, Erin's in the works for the Phoenix newspaper • Pete1 some sheep, doing some gardening, making book) • Lisa Turner, a Montessori preschool Asher is a client service representative fo1 slow improvements on their old house, and teacher, loves living in Minneapolis • Tom Ey­ Automatic Data Processing's services divi· spending as much time as possible on the man, formerly with Xerox in Stamford, Conn., sion • Ellen Gordon is an assistant controlle1 water in whatever is possible! Perhaps the lat­ is pursuing his master's in international affairs for Raymond Merchandise in Corry, Pa. • Lin· ter has something to do with the fact that at George Washington University's School of da Lloyd is a rural public health promoter fo1 Felicity is circulation manager for a commer­ Public and International Affairs • Barbery the Peace Corps in Macara and Loja in Ecua· cial fishing newspaper • From the Midwest, I Byfield's been busy. After a six-month interim dor. She previously spent three years research· heard from two writers, Laurel Johnson Black managing a New York City cafe, she was edu­ ing human cancer viruses at the National and Jocelyn Bartkevicius. Laurel works for the cation editor of the Population Institute, Cancer Institute • Lori Batcheller is working admissions office at Grand Valley State Col­ Washington, D.C., and is now working on her toward a master's degree in physical therapy lege in Allendale, Mich., doing some recruiting master's in public health, specializing in at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia and writing college brochures. Her preference, population/planning and health education at • Tom Myette is manager of Fleet National though, is poetry, which she continues to the University of Michigan • Johanna Rich Bank's center for personal financial manage­ write. One of her poems was published in a married Barry Tes man '81 on December 29, ment. He previously served as trust operations private edition of Poems not long after she 1984, at her parents' home in Grosse Point, manager at Mechanics Bank, Worcester, received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Univer­ Mich. Lynda Philipo was a bridesmaid. Others Mass. • Scott '78 and Grace Koppelman sity of Iowa in 1983. Her husband, Bill, is a attending included Wende Whiting '79, Linda Drown are using the knowledge they gained graduate student in library science at the Clifford '81, and Ellen Mercer. The couple now from graduate studies in animal behavior and University of Kentucky at Lexington. Jocelyn is resides in New Jersey. Jo is pursuing her Ph.D. environmental science at Rutgers and the a free-lance writer as well as teaching assistant in developmental psychology at The New University of Maryland at the Maine Conserva· and co-leader of teaching assistant training School for Social Research in New York City tion School, Bryant Pond, Gray, Maine. programs at the University of Iowa. She is cur­ and Barry is working on his Ph.D. in math at Class secretary: DIANA P. HERRMANN, 6 rently completing her thesis for the master of Rutgers • Patty Valavanis and Mark Smith, Whaling Rd., Darien, Conn. 06820.

44 THE COLBY ALUM US Special congratulations go out band, David, are living in Barrington, R.I., band, Bruno, are living 1n Austin, Texas. Maur­ to our newlyweds, Kathy Gallop 81 where Beth is a designer/C.A.D. operator and een is a real estate agent for Century 21, Texas and Peter Chase, Daniel P. Sheehy David is a radio announcer on WPRO-FM Prov­ Towne and Country • Jennifer Ellery 1s a and Anne Chase, and Joel Harris and Natalie ' idence • Lesley DeYulio is working as a respi­ microbiologist for Morton Thiokol/Veutron Ward. Kathy Gallop is teaching language arts ratory therapist. She was living in Syracuse Division • Barbara Leonard and Oliver C. in the Southern Aroostook Community when she wrote, but was planning to move to Mullen '36, as members of the Wethersfield, Schools; Dan Sheehy is the manager of the Maryland • Kim Smith and Doug McCartney Conn., First Church of Christ Congregational group trainers for Metropolitan Life Insurance will be married in June. Kim is at UMass Church Choir, were on national telev1s1on Company of New York; and Joel Harris is a Medical Schoo! in Worcester, while Doug is an Christmas eve. The year of 1984 was Wethers­ municipal bond trader for Tucker Anthony and information systems analyst with Wright Line field's 350th anniversary and 1985 the church's R L Day • A wedding is being planned by in Worcester • Nancy Briggs is living in 350th • That's all for now. Please keep 1n Dani Nemec. She became engaged to a for­ Lewiston and working for WCBB-TV, where touch. I'm running low on news! eign service officer on Halloween and may she is public information managP.r. She has fre­ Class secretary: DELISA A. LATERZO, 2550 have to leave her position as a governmental quent on-air spots raising money for the Ninth St., rr6, Boulder, Colo. 80302. analyst to travel around the world with her station. She has also become a registered pro­ husband • A few of our classmates have fessional ski instructor and teaches skiing, taken new positions since our last column ap­ nights, at Lost Valley • That's it for now. Members of the Class of '84 can peared. Tony Peduto has been named general Please drop me a line and let me know what's be best described as "interesting manager of Arlington Cablesystems • Joe new in your life. 84 people doing interesting things." Daley is assistant director of admissions at Class secretary: JULANNE M. CULLY, 425 Two daring alumnae, Pam Littlefield and Bridgton Academy. His wife, Nancy '82, also Front St., Weymouth, Mass. 02188. Elizabeth "Liz" Arlen, are in Taiwan teaching teaches English at the academy • Richard English to Taiwanese businessmen and Chi­ Forster recently entered the University of Mas­ nese "yuppies'" while attempting to become sachusetts Medical School in Worcester. He I've quite a bit of news to pass on fluent in Chinese • They have planned a has been involved in diabetes mellitus this time • Emily von Scheven is rendezvous in Japan with Glenn Orloff and Joy resea rch since leaving Colby in 1981 • Kathy 8 3 busy working as a research assis­ Valvano. Joy is in Japan teaching English to Marciarille earned a master's degree in library tant at the University of Pennsylvania's School Japanese businessmen • Cheryl Snyder is science from the University of Rhode Island of Medicine. She is also a volunteer for the employed as a bilingual secretary 1n Stamford, and has just been named librarian at Ayer Hunger Project-a nonprofit international or­ Conn. • Kirsten Fogh Wallace is living in Public Library • Debbie Rowe is enrolled at ganization seeking to end world hunger by the Waterville and is serving as an intern at the George Washington University Law School year 2000 • Daniel Kennedy made headlines writing center at Colby • Leslie Perkins is an • Charlie Gordy is in his third year there as the campaign manager for Republican ophthalmic technology student at the Boston • Bob Ryan is in his third year at Pepperdine Marion Boch, a candidate in the Massachu­ University School of Medicine • Libby and has accepted a position with a law firm in setts State Senate race • Congratulations are Wheatly is a grad student in physical educa­ Los Angeles • Beth Pniewski, an attorney in order for James Reynolds, who was award­ tion at Arizona State University • Paula .vith American Mutual Insurance Companies ed the Kent Fellowship by Yale University. The Thomson hiked the Appalachian Trail this past in Wakefield, Mass., is engaged to be married fellowship is for four years of study toward the summer with Mike Day. She plans to enter the in October to Philip D. Wilson of Weston, doctoral degree in the department of chemis­ Peace Corps • John Tawa is at the University Mass. • That's all for now, hope to hear from try • Jennifer Knoll and Jan McDonnell are liv­ of Virginia Law School • Derek Tarson is em­ some new people in time for the next column! ing in Framingham. Jen is employed as a ployed as a math teacher at Adelphi Academy Class secretary: PAULA HINCKLEY BUR­ revenue analyst for Digital Equipment and is in Brooklyn, N.Y. • Bill Sheehan is living in ROUGHS (Mrs. Jack), 55 North Reading St., studying part-time for her M.B.A. at Babson Warwick, R.I. He went to Europe, the Greek nchester, N.H. 03104. Ma College. Jan is an actuarial student with Liberty Isles, Israel, and Egypt with Warren Burroughs Mutual • Charles Ciovacco, Erin Healy, and and Dave Rosenberg this past year • Mia Steven Nicholas are also living in the Boston Rosner is in Medford, Mass., and works for area. Charlie is working in the commercial Lotus Development Corporation while taking Here's what's new with the Class loan department of Patriot Bank. Erin is em­ courses toward her master's • Carl Raymond 8 of '82. . . . • Sharon Dulude is the ployed as a paralegal for Coulston and Storrs. is working at Jordan Marsh in Maine and also general manager of the Colonial Steve is pursuing a master's degree in public works in a bookstore, hoping someday to Inn Resort2 in Ogunquit, Maine. She is also an policy at Harvard's KennedySchool of Govern­ enter publishing • Mo Pine is a master's can­ active member of the Berwick Academy Alum­ ment • Also at Harvard is Valerie Spencer didate in exercise and sports sciences at Smith ni Association • Ellen Smith wrote to say that Poulos. She is working as a laboratory assistant College • Wedding bells will ring for Mary she's working as a research assistant at Brig­ in the medical school • David Glass wrote Lou McCulloch and Stephen Repka in July ham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She has that he is studying chemical engineering at 1985. Mary Lou is an underwriting represen­ also "decided to be decadent and go on a McGill University in Montreal • Amy Fisher tative for Amica Mutual Insurance Company in cruise." It sounds great to me! • Wendell and Mark Tolette are working in New York Providence, R.I. Steve is employed with Shaffer is teaching Spanish and coaching field City. Amy is a scientific photographer at the Traveler's Insurance in Hartford, Conn. He's a hockey, swimming, and lacrosse at Cushing Rockefeller Institute. Mark is employed by marketing associate in the life, health, and Academy in Massachusetts. She also made it Goldman Sachs and Company as a precious financial services division • Help! The alumni to Los Angeles for the Olympics to see some metals trader • Eleanor "Nora" Putnam wrote office has lost track of the following class friends compete in the swimming • Matt that she is in her second year of law school at members. If you know where they are living or Lewis is in the middle of the M.B.A. program at Washington and Lee University. She was a what they are doing, please tell me! They are NYU. Previous to his return to academia, he finalist of the first year moot court competition Vanessa Alonso, Robert Graham, Dianne was working as a credit representative in a and is now the captain of the National Moot Grundstrom, and J. GregoryTulloch • And a Florida bank • Terry Smith Brobst is working Court Team. Congratulations to her! • Julie final note. Fund raising is in full swing. Think for Maine Savings Bank in Portland. She and Bruce is also a second year law student at Suf­ twice this year when you receive requests for her husband, Steven, were married in May folk Law School • At George Washington the Colby 2000 Campaign and the Alumni 1984 • John Najarian is living in Bloomfield, University, Robert Eber is in his first year at the Fund. Every dollar and every contributor I , Conn., working as a life insurance underwriter National Law Center • Edward Davies, a cer­ counts! Let's set an example for other recent for CIGNA Corporation. He plans to return to tified professional through Vander Meers Ten­ grads and give what we can. It is sincerely school for his M.B.A., eventually • Don Vafi­ nis University, is currently employed by First needed. Thanks! • Keep me and your class­ des is living in D.C., attending Georgetown Investors Corporation as a registered repre­ mates current on your activities! Dental School • Mike Marlitt is currently sentative • Margaret Gardiner is working in Class secretary: KATHRYN SODERBERG, enrolled in Columbia's School of International Auburn, Maine, as an administrative services Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, 352 Affairs. He hopes to receive his master's in manager for M.D.A., an importer of French Burrows North, Pennsylvania State University, May • Beth Damon Simpson and her hus- '.;hoes • Maureen Young Kissack and her hus- University Park, Pa. 16802.

THE COLBY AL M S 45 Milestones ��- Jennifer Claire Dorr '84 to David Dolbashian Libby Pulsifer '21, D.Sc. '73, December 1 5, ____ Marriages '82, September 8, 1984, Old Sturbridge Vil­ 1984, in Rochester, N.Y., at age 85. He was lage, Mass. born in Waterville and lived in Skowhegan, Jeffrey Winfield Savastano '62 to Pamela Sue Maine, where he attended high school. Fol­ Burow, October 20, 1984, Brunswick, Maine. lowing his graduation from Colby, a member Jeffrey Lawrence '72 to Lynne Desjardins, Oc­ of Delta Kappa Epsilon and captain of the foot­ tober 1984, Kittery Point, N.H. Births ------� ball team, he earned his medical degree from Sharon Anne White '74 to Steven Rex Lester' Rush Medical College of the University of Chi­ October 6, 1984, Middlebury, Conn. A daughter, Alexandra Cristine, to Rosalind cago. He began his lifelong practice of medi­ Michelle lone Ziff '74 to Donald Alan Hanson. and Richard ). Larschan '64, December 12, cine in Rochester, N.Y., in 1926 and became October 28. 1984, Agawam, Mass 1984. A daughter, Meryl Elizabeth, to Lawrence and an expert in the field of gastroenterology, Paul Bither '76 to Carol Louise Alexander' . which remained his specialty until his retire­ September 22, 1984. Indianapolis, Ind. Judith Stanley Horn '65, September 9, 1984. ' ment in 1979. He was a major in the Army's Peter Alerdas Saras '76 to Barbara Jean Parrott, A son, Darnel Edward, to Howard and Brenda ·19th General Hospital Unit from 1942 to 1945 October 6, 1984, Cambridge, Mass. Lincoln Lake '75, October 4, 1984. and was its chief of medicine in France and Kimberlee Ayer '77 to Raymond C. McVe1gh. A daughter, Jessica Marson, to James and Great Britain. He was also chief of medicine at July 28. 1984, Keene, N.H Deborah Marson McNulty '75, December 28, Rochester General Hospital from 1951 to Linda Cottrell Clark '80 to Earl Spencer Ham­ 1984. 1956. He helped organize the gastroenterolo­ mons, September 1, 1984, Newport, R.I. A daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Philip J., Jr. and gy clinic at the University of Rochester's Strong Jeffrey Dropo '80 to Susan Derby Fan111ng, Janet Deering Bruen '79, January 20, 1985. Memorial Hospital, at which he was clinical September 4, 1984. Danvers, Mass. A son, Benjamin Nickerson, to Cari and Carl assistant professor of medicine emeritus. He Stephanie Jean Mathurin '80 to John Hamilton Lovejoy '79, February 20, 1984. was past chairman of the board of governors Hadden, September 22. 1984. Conway, N.H of the American College of Gastroenterology Robert Hamlen Motley '80 to Victoria Bowen and past vice president of the Monroe County Field, Weston, Mass. ------� Deaths Medical Society. In 1971, he received the Kathy Anne Gallop '81 to Peter Douglas Chase, Albert David Kaiser Medal, the Rochester September 22, 1984, Houlton, Maine. Marie Stanley Barnes '1 7, November 16, 1984, Academy of Medicine's highest award, and in Daphne Harrison Geary '81 to William Mor­ 1n Vernon, Conn., at age 89. She was born 1n 1973 was granted an honorary doctor of sci­ rison Waggaman, October 27, 1984, New Bar Harbor, Maine. After attending Colby she ence degree by Colby for his years of having York, N.Y. did graduate studies 1n the liberal arts at Bos­ "served mankind with devotion." He is sur­ Pamela SherwoodHelyar '81 to Timothy Gard­ ton University and later taught high school vived by his wife, Mildred, three children, and ner Loring, September 15, 1984, Falmouth, English. She enjoyed organizing lecture and 12 grandchildren. Mass. concert events and traveling around the world Ruth Morrison '81 to Steven C. Nawn, Con­ with her husband, the late Harold F. Barnes. cord, Mass. She was a member of the Second Congregational Mary Brier '22, November 28, 1984, in Mid­ Daniel P. Sheehy, Jr. '81 to Anne L. Chase, Church of Cohasset, Mass., and attended the dleborough, Mass., at age 86. She was born in Cohasset, Mass. U111on Congregational Church in Vernon. She is Lawrence, Mass., and attended Coburn Classi­ Laurie Ann Avery '82 to Robert Lansing Caley, survived by her son, Stanley C. '60, and three cal Institute. She graduated from Colby a September 15, 1984, Derry, N.H. grandchildren. member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. She taught languages in the school systems of Nor­ ridgewock and Oakland, Maine, and in Massa­ chusetts, at Uxbridge and Middleborough. Her involvement in teaching languages was the focus of postgraduate studies at Middlebury, Boston University, and Bridgewater State Col­ lege in Massachusetts. She retired from the Middleborough school system in 1958. She was a member of the Middleboro Historical Society, the Cabot Club, St. Luke's Hospital Club, the Brockton Art Center, the Nemasket Chapter of the American Association of Re­ tired People, and the Central Baptist Church. She taught kindergarten at the church as she did at the Christian School in Fall River, Mass. She died after a brief illness and is survived by a nephew, George Brier, and a sister-in-law, Miriam Brier.

Margaret Abbott Paul '23, November 20, 1984, in Portland, Maine, at age 83. She was born in Bridgton, Maine, and attended Bridgton High School. At Colby she earned a bachelor's degree in English and was a member of Phi Mu. She later earned her master's degree from the University of New Hampshire and attend­ The wedding of Marcha Driscoll '83 and Raymond "Chip" Kelley '83 on August 4, 1984, ed postgraduate courses at Bates and the . brought lOgether a 1oyful contingent of Colby alumni. They are pictured, from left to University of Maine. Dedicated to education, nght: (front row) Mike Schafer '83, Mark Schafer '83, Roy Hirsh/and '8 5, Mark Cote '83, she taught at Deering High School, Traip Academy, and Westbrook High School, and Don Cronin '8 5, and best man Jamie O'Neil '8 3; (second row) Lesley Melcher '8 5, Dick held memberships in the Portland College Muther '8 1, Alioa Curlin '84, Diane Peterec '8 3, Martha Driscoll Kelley, Chip Kelley, Club and the Woman's Literary Union, also in '8 4, '8 3, '82; Joyce Hartwig Dorothy "Betsey" Santry and Pa t Fortin (third row) Jim Portland. She and her sister, Pauline Abbott McColdrick '82, Margo Hurlbut '83, Mike Sasner '83, George Kalz '8 3, Nancy Pratt '83, '21, were cited as "two pillars of the South­ Kalhenne "Karen" Cowles '82, and Nancy McNamara '83; and (fourth row) Peter Rug­ western Maine Colby Alumnae Association" gles '83, John Northrop Ill '8 3, and Elliot Prall JV '8 0. when they were awarded Colby Bricks in

�6 Tl IE COLBY ALUMNU 1980. She was also a member of the West­ She also taught grade school 1n Plains, Colby's first golf team. He worked for various brook Woman's Club and the Westbrook Paradise, and Thompson Falls, and was a firms, 1nclud1ng the American Brass Company, Warren Congregational Church. She is sur­ librarian for the Plains Public Library. Mrs. Edgecomb-Milford, and the Bridgeport Brass vived by her sister, Pauline. Cone studied special education at Columbia Company, of which he was vice president of University 1n 1966. Before her retirement in sales at the time of his retirement. His work 1n Harland R. Ratcliffe '23, February 18, 1985, in 1974, she taught in the special education pro­ these companies took him across the country. Greenwood, Mass., at age 84. He was born 1n gram 1n Thompson Falls, which she started. He was a member of Rotary International, the Somerville, Mass.. and attended Melrose High She was a member and past president of the American Ordinance Association, the Copper School. His long and successful career in iour­ Pla1ns-Parad1se Senior C1t1zens Club the Club, the Union League Club of Chicago. the nalism began at Colby, where he worked for Women's Society of Christian Service, a�d the Brooklawn Country Club 1n Fairfield, Conn., the Echo, the Oracle, and for the Waterville Plains P.T.A.; a member and past secretary of the Riverside Golf Club in Riverside, Ill , the Sentinel as night editor. After his graduation as the Plains Women's Club; and a member of Copper and Brass Research Association. the a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, the Business and Professional Women's Club, Algonquin Club of Bridgeport, Conn., and the he worked for the Boston Transcnpt as school the Methodist Youth Fellowship, the United 10,000 Mile Club of United Airlines. In Florida and college editor, makeup editor, and even­ Methodist Women's clubs of both Thompson he was active in preserving the environment. tually as city editor. In 1941 he went to the Falls and Plains, the Ideal Chapter 40 Order of Survivors include his son, Craig B. '62, a daugh­ Boston Traveler, where he worked for 26 the Eastern Star, and the Rebekah Lodge 50 in ter, and two grandchildren. years as makeup editor. He ended his eventful Plains. She was also involved 1n the Montana newspaper career in 1967. He taught jour­ Legacy Legislature. She 1s survived by two Everett H. Cole '36, October 13, 1984, 1n Sims­ nalism at Simmons College from 1934 to 1936 sons, a daughter, and 10 grandchildren. bury, Conn., at age 73. He was born 1n At­ and from 1943 to 1947 he was the first Dean tleboro, Mass., and attended Tilton Academy of the College of Journalism at Suffolk Univer­ Arlene Woodman Evans '31, November 5, in New Hampshire. While at Colby he was sity, where he had established a bachelor's 1984, in Malden, Mass., at age 74. She was president of Delta Upsilon. He worked as a degree program in journalism. He was a syn­ born in Calais, Maine, and attended Calais restaurant manager before enlisting 1n the U.S. dicated columnist, a pioneer of "on the spot" Academy. A member of Chi Omega when she Army in 1942, where he rose to the rank of broadcasting, and a distinguished writer about graduated from Colby, she went on to teach sergeant. Later he worked as a supervisor for colleges and universities. Among other hon­ for a time at the Greely Institute 1n Maine. She Aetna Life Insurance Company in Hartford, ors, he was awarded a medal for his coverage belonged to the Bear Hill Golf Club and repre­ Conn., and prior to his retirement, he was an of the Harvard Tercentenary. The editor of the sented it in tournaments during the 1950s. She administrator of the Farmington Convalescent Alumnus for two years, he had also served as was a member of the Florence Crittenden Hospital in Farmington, Conn. He 1s survived a class correspondent, president of the Boston League, the League of Women Voters, and the by his wife, Jean. four children, two siblings, Colby Club, and was instrumental in the estab­ Lynnfield Republican Town Committee. Her and six grandchildren. lishment of the Alumni Fund. He was a political activities also involved her as a Herbert W. DeVeber '36, November 5, 1984, member of the Wakefield Tercentenary, the charter member 1n the Republican Presidential in Thomaston, Conn., at age 71. He was born Herald-Traveler Quarter Century Club, and Task Force and as a member of the American in Newburyport, Mass., and attended New­ the American Newspaper Guild. He died unex­ Security Council National Advisory Board and buryport High School and the Sandborn Semi­ pectedly at his home. Survivors include his the National Republican Congressional Com­ nary. While at Colby he was president of the wife, Ella, two sons, four siblings, and six mittee. She died after a lengthy illness. She is senior class and of the Men's Student Govern­ grandchildren. survived by her husband, Harvey B. '32, three daughters, including Carolyn Evans Consolino ment. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha '61, and seven siblings. and a member and treasurer of Kappa Phi Kap­ George L. Mittelsdorf '27, August 19, 1984, in pa. He earned his master's degree from Har­ Dallas, Tex., at age 81. He was born in Leon A. Bradbury '33, December 6, 1984, in vard University and also did postgraduate Weehauken, N.J., and attended West Orange Portland, Maine, at age 73. He was born in studies at the University of Maine, North­ High School in New Jersey and the Coburn Bridgewater, Maine, and attended Bridgewa­ eastern University, and the University of Con­ Classical Institute. After graduating from Colby ter Classical Institute and Ricker Junior Col­ necticut. His life was devoted to education. He as a member of Phi Delta Theta, he began a lege. He graduated from Colby a member of taught and coached at two Maine schools, long working relationship with F. Schumacher Alpha Tau Omega and received law and busi­ Washburn High School and Rockland High and Company. His work was interrupted once ness degrees from Harvard. In his lifelong prac­ School, and was principal of five others, War· by enlistment in the Navy, from 1942 to 1945, tice of law, he gained national notice for his ren High School, Corinna Union Academy, from which he was honorably discharged at defense cases with companies such as Con­ Gorham Senior High, Milo High School, and the rank of lieutenant. He is survived by his necticut Mutual Life and Warner Brothers. He Houlton High School. In Massachusetts he was wife, Helen Stone Mittelsdorf '27, two served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Air Force assistant president of Dean Academy and daughters, six grandchildren, and five great­ branch, during World War II and remained in Junior College and principal of Bridgewater grandchildren. the inactive reserve until his retirement in and Abington high schools. When he retired in 1971 at the rank of captain. He was a member 1981, he was principal of Thomaston High Charles E. Callaghan '28, December 8, 1984, in of the Hartford and Connecticut bar associa­ School in Connecticut. He was a member of Norway, Maine, at age 80. He was born in tions, the American Trial Lawyers Association, numerous educational organizations, includ­ South Brewer, Maine, and graduated from and also belonged to numerous masonic and ing the National Association of Secondary Brewer High School. His interest 1n athletics civic organizations, such as the York Rite, the School Principals in New England and Con­ followed him after he graduated from Colby, a Shrine, the Philosophic Lodge of Research, the necticut. He was a member of the Masons and member of the "C" Club and Alpha Tau Royal Order of Scotland, the Royal Order of of the First Congregational Church. He died at Omega, and he pursued the study of athletic Jesters, the Red Cross of Constantine, the his home after a long illness. He is survived by medicine and training. He taught and coached Order of the Eastern Star, the Rotary Club, his wife, Pauline, a son, a brother, Leverett H. at Caribou High School for many years. He is the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, the '39, and two grandc:iildren. survived by four sisters and two brothers, in­ Founders and Patriots of America, the Sons of cluding Thomas A. '23. the American Revolution, the American Le­ Charlotte Howland Fencer '36, November 5, gion, and the Connecticut Historical Society. 1984, in Dorchester, Mass., at age 69. She was Frances June Bragdon Cone '28, December 10, He died of heart failure. He is survived by his born in Boston and attended Girls' Latin 1984, in Plains, Mont., at age 77. She was born wife, Ann, and two children, including Lynn School. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of in Ashland, Maine, and attended Ashland High Bradbury Wyman 72. Colby and belonged to Delta Delta Delta. She School. Aft r her graduation from Colby, she taught for several years in Maine, New Hamp­ taught in Ashland. She married in 1930 and Irving M. Malsch '33, December 3, 1984, in shire, and Massachusetts high schools, and moved to Plains, Mont., in 1933. She worked Stuart, Fla., at age 75. Born in Waterbury, was employed by the Thomas Crane Public for Montana States Telephone and Telegraph Conn., he attended Crosby High School. He Library in Quincy, Mass., until her retirement. as a telephone operator. Later, she taught graduated from Colby as a member of Kappa Wife of the late Leo E. Fencer '34, she is sur­ English and journalism at Plains High School. Delta Rho and with a varsity letter from vived by two daughters and three grandsons.

THE COLBY AL MNUS -H lewis A. Nightingale '36, November 11, 1984, Fellows, and a charter member of the Ply­ was a member of the department of interna­ in Presque Isle, Maine, at age 70. He was born mouth Elks Club and former director of the tional relations of the National Council of 1n Fort Fairfield, Maine, and attended local New Hampshire Automobile Dealers Associa­ Churches. A four-time delegate to meetings of schools before matriculating at Colby. He tion. He died after a long illness. He is survived the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Dr. graduated from the University of Maine in by his wife, Jean, two sons, his father, three Gezork received honorary degrees from Buck­ 1938, a member of Delta Upsilon. For many siblings, and three grandchildren. nell University, Colgate University, Emerson years he was the owner and operator of College, and Brown University in addition to Nightingale Implement Company 1n Fort Fair­ Colby. He died suddenly and is survived by his field. He was a past member of Anah Temple Pamelia Jones Christie '58, November 5, 1984, wife, Ellen, two sons, one daughter, and two Shrine of Bangor, Maine; a member, deputy 1n Richmond, Va., at age 48. She was born in grandchildren. governor, and past president of Lions Interna­ Malden, Mass., and after attending Colby, she tional of Bangor; and a charter and honorary graduated from Syracuse University with a Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr., D.D. member of the Fort Fairfield Fish and Game bachelor of science degree. She also received '53, December Club. He was also a member of Fort Fairfield's a graduate certificate from the Clarke School 15, 1984, in Waterville at age 87. He was born United Parish Church. He died after a brief ill­ for the Deaf in Northampton, Mass. She taught in Enfield, Maine, graduated from the Bangor ness. Survivors include his wife, Martha, a son, 1n the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oral School and Theological Seminary in 1924, and was an Ar· a daughter, his mother, a brother, and six later developed a pre-school program for the my veteran of World War I. For more than 30 grandchildren. deaf in Richmond, Va., in cooperation with St. years he served the First Congregational Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond and the Church of Bingham, Maine, and surrounding Medical College of Virginia. In 1971 the city Kennebec Valley localities as pastor and Elizabeth Mulkern Wescott '36, December 24, adopted this program, the first of its kind in spiritual leader. He was also a nationally 1984, in Portland, Maine, at age 70. She was the state, and Mrs. Christie remained as an ad­ known lecturer and writer of stories of the born in Portland and went to Portland High ministrator and teacher in Richmond schools wilderness. In 1953 he became an honorary School. After graduating from Colby as a until 1976. After that she taught mainly at Doctor of Divinity of Colby College. He died member of Delta Delta Delta, she went on to Robious Middle School, and most recently at after a long illness. He is survived by one son, work for L. C. Andrews Company 1n South the Salem Church Middle School, both in Rich­ three daughters, including Nellie Macdougall Windham, Maine. She died after a bnet illness. mond. She was a member of the Wilkesboro Parks '49, 12 grandchildren, and six great­ Survivors include a son, John, and a brother. Presbyterian Church, the Alexander Graham grandchildren. Bell Association, and HEAR, a group for par­ ents of hearing-impaired children. She died of Barbara Hutcheon Winkler '37, December 12, cancer. Survivors include her husband, Paul 1984, in Reading, Mass., at age 69. She was W. '56, two children, her parents, and a born in Fairfield, Maine, and later moved to brother. FRIENDS Presque Isle, Maine, where she attended local schools. She graduated from Colby a member James S. Davie, November 16, 1984, in North of Delta Delta Delta and editor-in-chief of the Edson 8. Hadlock, Jr. '65, December 25, 1984, Haven, Conn., at age 59. He was born in New yearbook, and went on to teach at Anson in Portland, Maine, at age 61. He was born in Haven, Conn. He graduated from Yale Univer­ Academy in North Anson, Maine. Later she Parsonfield, Maine, and attended local schools sity in 1945, after World War II duty in the moved to Massachusetts, where she was ac­ before graduating from Gorham State Teach­ Army Infantry. He also received his master's tive in both education and politics. Serving for ers College. He received a master of science degree in sociology and a doctorate from more than 12 years on the Reading School degree in teaching from Colby and a master's Yale. He often combined teaching and prac­ Board, she was also a member of the Reading degree in education from Fitchburg State tice, and taught and worked at different times Public Library Committee, the Reading College Teachers College in Massachusetts. A Navy for both Princeton and Yale. He served on the Club, and the League of Women Voters. She veteran of World War II, he taught physics for Accreditation Committee for Colby College as died after a long illness. She is survived by her the past 36 years at Portland High School. He well as for Harvard University, Connecticut husband, E. Donald, four children, including was a prominent figure in Maine baseball and College, and Rice University. He was chairman Edward '64, two brothers, one sister, and was also a member of the South Portland of the New Haven Committee on Education of seven grandchildren. Lions Club. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, Talented Students in 1963, a charter member a son, two daughters, his father, two sisters, and chairman of the North Haven Mental and two grandchildren. Mary Gonya Hatfield '43, December 1, 1984, Health Association, president of the Yale Club in Millinocket, Maine, at age 62. She was born of New Haven, and member of the executive in Millinocket. After attending Colby, where committee of the Yale Class of 1945. He died she joined Delta Delta Delta, she graduated after a brief illness. Survivors include his wife, from Gorham Normal School in Gorham, Helen, a son, two daughters, a sister, and a brother. Maine. She taught in the Millinocket school HONORARY system for 26 years and died after a lingering illness. Survivors include her husband, Cecil, Herbert Gezork, D.D. '42, October 21, 1984, in Ruth Rich Hutchins, in one daughter, her mother, Gertrude Donnelly December 11, 1984, Gonya '17, two brothers, and two grand­ Vero Beach, Fla., at age 84. Born and educated New York, N.Y., at age 75. She was born and children. in Germany, he was a graduate of the Universi­ grew up in Wellesley Hills, Mass. She ty of Berlin and the Baptist Divinity School in graduated from Smith College in 1930 and was Hamburg. In 1936, after two of his books were married to Curtis Hutchins the following year. Halston 0. lenentine '45, September 9, 1984, banned and the organization of which he was They moved to Maine, where Mrs. Hutchins 1n Plymouth, N.H., at age 61 . Born in Mon­ secretary, the German Baptist Student Move­ became involved in the Bangor community. In ticello, Maine, he attended Higgins Classical ment, was dissolved by the Nazi government, 1955 she was selected as a trustee of the Col­ Institute. After attending Colby he served in he fled Germany. He became a United States lege, a position she held until 1970. She was a the Army during World War II with the 55th citizen in 1943. He held professorships at past vice president of the Bangor Children's General Hospital. When the war ended he at­ Andover-Newton Theological School and Home, director of the Bangor Maternal Health tended a business school in Portland, Maine, Wellesley College, both in Massachusetts, and League, director of the Bangor Anti-Tuberculo­ and later managed various car dealerships. At was president of Andover-Newton from 1950 sis Association, and served on the board of the time of his retirement in 1979, he was pro­ to 1965. He had been visiting professor at Har­ directors of the Bangor YWCA. An avid golfer prietor of Deming Chevrolet and Olds-Pontiac vard Divinity School, Assumption College in and traveler, she had a deep interest in the in Plymouth, N.H. He was a member of the Worcester, Mass., and Kanto Gakuin Universi­ preservation of endangered species, and was Masonic Lodge in Pittsfield, Maine, the Omega ty in Japan. In 1973 he was made acting also a member of the Shakespeare Club. She Council R and SM in Plymouth, N.H., the Win­ chaplain at Middlebury College in Vermont. died after suffering a stroke. Survivors include nipesaukee Shrine Club, N.H., the Plymouth He became president of his denomination, her husband, Curtis, a son, two daughters, and Lions Club, the Plymouth Lodge 66 of Odd then called the American Baptist Church, and six grandchildren.

48 THE COLBY ALUMNUS ______ALUMNI CLUB NEW _ ___,

Harlem Globetrotters, beware, because Colby alumni are hop­ ping all over the world. In February alone, alumni gathered in London, Paris, New York, Boston, Hartford, Manchester, N.H., Waterville, and three cities in Florida. During the New York club's theater weekend trip to London, organized under the creative leadership of club president Libby Corydon 7 4, 29 Colbyites met at a reception at the Strand Palace Hotel. The group, which included the U.S. contingent, alumni living in the London area, ten juniors studying in England this year, and Joseph Washington '27, Sc.D. 78, who traveled six hours by train from Scotland, enjoyed a slide show of the cam­ Northern New Jersey alumni rally 'round a Colby flag during an evening pus and talk by Alumni Secretary Sid Farr '55. when they and others enjoyed delighlful conversauon and delicious Sid Farr also made a quick trip to the continent to meet with polfuck fare. Piclured are (front) club president Don Hailer '52, Rulh alumni in Paris at a dinner organized by Jacques Hermant 71. Sanderson Rudisell '42, Fran Richter Comstock '67, Barbara Newhall '5B, Reports indicate that over 50 percent of all the alumni 1n the Armeli sociology Proiessor Fred Geib, who was the club's speoal guesl that evening, (back) Bob Comslock '67, Steve Schoeman '64, and Paris area attended this meeting! Dick Bankart '65. The Boston Luncheon Group holds monthly meetings with speakers from Colby. Recent luncheon speakers have been President Bill Cotter, Associate Dean of Admissions Allie Love, mathematics Professor Pete Hayslett, and government Professor Chip Hauss, who talked about the theme of the freshman book, The Fate of the Earth, and the progress of the theme program on campus. Hockey fans abound throughout New England. Alumni in Hart­ ford, Manchester, N.H., and Watervillejoi ned together to cheer the White Mules. The Waterville get-together incorporated the annual senior reception, at which the soon-to-be graduates are welcomed to the Alumni Association. Hartford alumni also enjoyed a concert of the Colby Chorale, under direction of Professor Paul Machlin. Many alumni invited student chorale members to be their overnight guests for the Overseas and staleside alumni, together wilh juniors abroad, give a weekend, accommodating 60 people in their homes. Colby cheer in London. Piclured are (front) Yvonne Noble Davies '56, Government Professor Cal Mackenzie and Assistant Director Canterbury, England; Charlie Hogan 73, London; Libby Corydon 74, of Career Services Nancy Mackenzie traveled to Florida to meet the New York dynamo responsible for the London tour; Jean Hillsen with alumni in Miami, Ft. Myers, and St. Petersburg. John Crout '49, Morristown, N./.; Linda Ba roncelli '86, Brockton, Mass.; (sec­ '86, McHale '62 was host at a poolside reception in Miami. Jean Wat­ ond row) Kathleen Pinard Bedford, N.H.; Jean Hoffmann Clipsham '65, Surrey, England; Neil Clipsham, Surrey; (third row) Arlene Kasarjian son '29 and Gordon Patch Thompson '35 organized luncheons '86, Belmont, Mass.; Karen True '86, Bath, Maine; Hawley Russell '35, in Fort Myers and St. Petersburg respectively. Cal's topic of Paris, France; Joe Washington '27, Dunfermline, Scotland; Marty presidential appointments encouraged lively discussions. Friedlaender '53, New York; Mary Twiss Kopchains '59, Somerset, N./.; '53, '86, Upcoming club events include a jazzboat cruise in Boston and Bob Grindle New York; John McCrail Branford, Conn., Jack Deering '55, Falmouth, Maine; Ann Burnham Deering '55, Falmouth; the Southwestern Maine Alumnae Club annual picnic. For more (fourth row) Elizabeth Libby '86, West Buxton, Maine; Norma Delaney information on events in your area, write the Alumni Office, '86, North Scituate, Mass.; Debby Morse '86, Hingham, Mass.; Jon Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901 . Eiseman 79, Hackensack, N.J.; Sid Farr '55, Wa1erv1//e; Brigid Hoffman '86, Ridgewood, N./.; Karl Ruping '86, Burlington, Mass.; Rich Deering '86, Falmouth, Maine; Sharon Matusik '86, Indian Head Park, //I.; Jeremy Beale '80, Sussex, England; Bob Kopchains '59, Somerset, N./.; and Jim King 73, Surrey, England.

Ft. Myers, Fla., area alumni, including Jean Watson '29 and Lina Cole Fisher '45, shown here, turned out in force to meet with government Marie Seminary Willey '85 chats with a classmate at the senior cocktail Professor Cal Mackenzie and Assistant Director of Career Services Nan­ party given by the Waterville alumni club. She is the wife of Paul '42 and cy Mackenzie in February. the mother of Paula Willey Vestermark '67. It is a commonplace of contemporary thought that man has developed his technical abilities at the expense of his moral powers, that he has learned facts without achieving a comparable insight into values, and that he has won control over nature without being able to master himself. The present emergency in world affairs merely points up a conviction shared by all thoughtful men and women over the years that knowledge without wisdom may be not merely useless but an actual menace. To help Colby to provide what may truly be called wisdom is our greatest ambition.

J. SEELYE BIXLER (1947)