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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1985 Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 3: May 1985 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 74, No. 3: May 1985" (1985). Colby Alumnus. 126. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/126 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. COLBY'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<!n Camp, L.H.D. '79 James R. Cochrane '40 Parents Association Levin H. Campbell, LL.D. '82 Edward R. Cony '44 Clark H. Carter '40 Richard and Susan Armstrong, co-chairs H. King Cummings John Gilray Christy James and Carlene Webster, vice co-chairs Augustine A. D' Amico '28 John S. Dulaney '56 Edith E. Emery '37 Warren J. Finegan '51 John W. Field, Sr. Rae Jean Braunmuller Goodman '69 Student Association William H. Goldfarb '68 William E. Haggett '56 Ray B. Greene, Jr. '47 Thomas Claytor '85, president Gerald J. Holtz '52 Nissie Grossman '32 Cory Humphreys '85, vice presidenr Philip W. Hussey, Jr. '53 James J. Harris '27 Ellerton M. Jette, LL.D. '55 Wallace M. Haselton Robert S. Lee '51 Janet Gay Hawkins '48 Additional information about any of these David M. Marson '48 Nancy Spokes Haydu '69 groups is available from the Office of Lawrence C. McQuade Bertrand W. Hayward '33 Alumni Relations. C. David O'Brien '58 Susan Smith Huebsch '54 Paul D. Paganucci Sol Hurwitz Wilson C. Piper '39 Edith Kemper Jette Frederick A. Pottle '17 Kenneth A. Johnson '37 Kershaw E. Powell '51 Allan J. Landau '55 Lawrence R. Pugh '56 Robert A. Lindgren David Pulver '63 Peter H. Lunder '56 Patricia Rachal '74 William T. Mason, Jr. '47 Robert Sage '49 John H. McGowan, Sr. Richard R. Schmaltz '62 Peter B. Oram '55 Robert E. L. Strider II, Litt.D. '79 Roberta Peters Sigrid E. Tompkins '38 John F. Reynolds '36 Edward H. Turner, L.H.D. '73 Sarah Janney Rose '76 Frederick A. Schreiber '34 Mark R. Shedd George I. Smith '49 Elaine Zervas Stamas '53 Sylvia Caron Sullivan '53 M. Anne O'Hanian Szostak '72 Judith Prophett Timken '57 Barbara Howard Traister '65 Peter A. Vlachos '58 Thomas J. Watson III '67 Esther Weitman Robert S. William '36 William D. Wooldredge '61 Carl R. Wright '47 LUMNU'-L---------l 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 .11 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.