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EDITORIAL BOARn Allen T. Carroll '73 Editor (R.F.D. 3, EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Colchester, Ct. 06415), Marion Vilbert Clark'24 Cassandra Goss Simonds '55 President / Mariana Parcells Class Notes Editor, Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware'26 Wagoner '44 Vice-President / Britta [o Schein McNemar '67 Assistant Editor, Cassandra Cess Simonds '55, Louise Secretary / Platt Townend Arnold '64 Treasurer Stevenson Andersen '41 ex officio Directors-at-Large, Helen Haase Johnson '66, Ann Godsey Official publication of the Connecticut College Alumni Stinnett '56, Sara Rowe Heckscher '69, Michael Farrar Association. All publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted 73/ Alumni Trustees, Virginia Golden Kent '35, Jane Smith. only by permission of the editor. Published by-the Connecticut Moody '49, Joan Jacobson Kronick '46 / Chairman of Alumm College Alunmi Association at Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut Giving, Richard F. Cohn '75 / Chairman of Nominating College, New London, Conn, four times a year in Winter, Committee, Joann Walton Leavenworth'56 / Chairman of Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage paid at Finance Committee, Peter Paris 74 / Chairman of Clubs New London, Ct. 06320. Application to mail at additional entry Committee, Sue Weinberg Mindlin '53 / Chairman of Classes Post Office pending. Send form 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Committee, Anne Godsey Stinnett'56 / Chairman of Programs Connecticut College, New London, Ct. 06320. AAC member Committee, Katharine Powell '74 / Executive Director, Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 / Young Alumni Representatives, Laud Hollister '76, Andrew Hemingway 76. Communications to any of the above may be addressed in care of the Alumni Office, Connecticut College, New London Ct. 06320 The Connecticut ColI~ Alumni Magazine

VOLUME 54 NUMBER 3 SPRING 1977

The renovation of Union Station Born again 3 Claire Dale

The fight for preservation 5 Lisa Dyess '76

The College All-campus blow-out 8 Seth Greenland '77

The Arboretum 10

Research opportunities/William A. Niering 11 12 )-~ Breeding bird studies/Gregory Butcher '77 / Vegetation changes/Harold Hemond 13

Painted turtle/Alma Bolland 14

Spotted salamander/Bruce Hunter 15

Tidal marsh dynamics/Charles T. Roman 17

Looking at the Past/Harold D. [uli 18

The shaping of the Land/Richard H. Goodwin 20

Growth of the green belt/R.H. Goodwin 22

24 Grandma's house Mark Spina '79 26 Ms. identification Richard Birdsall 28 Letters 29 Class notes

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Born again

After decades of neglect, H.H. Richardson's massive Union Station in New London has undergone a thorough and sensitive renovation-but only after a 13-year struggle against demolition

After acquainting myself with pertinent facts to the total By Claire Dale situation, I determined to try to bring together those who knew the station as an architectural landmark, and those Thirteen years after Union Station had been slated for who insisted it had to be able to pay for itself. demolition as part of the Winthrop Urban Renewal project, I had informed myself about the purposes and policies of Ada Louise Huxtable, well-known architecture critic for the Redevelopment Project from its beginning in 1962. It The New York Times, announced the forthcoming Open was obvious that an alternative plan which was compre- House celebrating the building's renovation with the state- hensive-adaptive re-use design, practical of execution, and ment, "in New London the battle was not uphill, but per- economically sound-was required. If I was limited in back- pendiculari" ground, I had the humility to go to the best professionals I Mrs. Claire Dale, whose husband is Chairman of the could find when I needed information or guidance, and Music Department at Connecticut College, had acted as a which they invariably gave in good measure. catalyst to save the station for the last five years of the High points included forming the non-profit organization, battle. Her impression was more like being on a roller- Union Railroad Station Trust, in 1973 with eleven well- coaster. • • known local professional men. They quickly contracted • with Anderson Notter Associates of Boston for an economic No one was more surprised than myself when I became the feasibility study and potential adaptive re-use design. This champion of Union Station. I am a pianist, without any architectural firm had established an enviable reputation education or experience in architecture, art history, or city on similar rehabilitation projects. planning, let alone as a private developer. But in my own When Anderson Notter determined to become the de- mind, I could equate saving this building to performing a veloper and later the owner of the station, [ was greatly en- musical manuscript which would otherwise never be heard. couraged about the fate of the building. The main thing I reacted to in 1971 was the contempt and The lowest point came a full year later when the Boston arrogance which the Redevelopment Agency was showing firm was unexpectedly dismissed by the Redevelopment to eminent art historians. It didn't seem right for profes- Agency. AMTRAK had agreed to a 20-year lease for sionals in any field to be treated with such scorn.

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$900,000, and mortgage financing had been procured to Charles Shain, former President of Conn. College, served meet the total $750,000 cost of renovating the building. on the Board of Advisors for Union Railroad Station Trust. Upon further review of their financial statement the agency This prestigious group of professionals, for the most part reversed its position and agreed to sell the building for re- from outside New London, demonstrated widespread sup- habilitation. port for the effort. Other high points were the signing of the deed of sale Mrs. Ruby Turner Morris, Professor Emeritus of Eco- and the Open House held a year later, in July 1976. The nomics, vigorously championed the station's virtues as a station was packed with local and area people, visitors from City Councillor, and later as Mayor. In the latter role she Boston, New York, and Washington, and hundreds of bal- was able to happily proclaim "Union Station Day" on July loons saying "Union Station Lives!" 29, 1976, for the Open Hoose, The inevitable comment by persons entering the refur- At this moment Margi Cohen '77, an Art History major, bished station today is "I never thought it could look like is compiling a chronological scrapbook of clippings demon- this!" It is colorful, light, airy, spacious and there are people strating the ups and downs of the preservation battle, waiting in attractive lounges on two levels. AMTRAK re- which will become part of the archives of local history at ports a 25% increase in passengers using the station since the Connecticut College library. last fall due to the comeback of the trains, the improved In 1976 the Union Railroad Station Trust merged with station, and the severe winter weather. another like-minded preservation organization, New Lon- The ceiling beams, window frames, and original wain- don Landmarks, to gain strength through unity. Promoting scoting have all been stripped to their natural wood color historic preservation in many ways throughout the town, adding a handsome texture and highlighting a feature from the combined group is currently focusing on Bank Street the past. and Fort Trumbull as development projects. Public pro- The exterior has been restored as nearly as possible to its grams and newsletters are essentially educational in nature. original appearance. Surprisingly enough, little more than The trust will soon complete a 2O·minute color motion cleaning of the bricks was required because the structure picture film chronicling the preservation fight and docu- was so sound. The variety in the brick patterning is endlessly menting the "before and after" of the station. Our hope is fascinating. that the film will encourage others to take on "perpendicu- There are two prime tenants at the present time. AM- lar" preservation challenges as a consequence. TRAK has ticket and baggage facilities on the first floor Again to quote Ada Louise Huxtable, "The way to lose a with a main waiting room in the basement area created by a heritage completely is one building at a time." large cut in the first floor and an attractive new stairway. The South half of the second floor is occupied by Morri- son-Knudsen in office space ingenuously designed for their use. New London is Morrison-Knudsen's regional office for their international construction business. Their home office is in Boise, Idaho. Negotiations are currently proceeding for a first-class restaurant which will occupy the remainder of the first floor space, including a newly-created balcony. Four kiosks in the main waiting room remain to be ten- anted, as well as the remainder of the second floor. Tourist- related shops are sought, such as car rental facilities tourist information services, travel agents, gift shops, and newspaper stands. My greatest personal satisfaction came on the occasion of th~. Open House in July 1976. The cross section of our city which .was there to celebrate the occasion represented a dram~tIc reversal of sentiment for almost everyone, most conspicuously members of the Redevelopment Agency and The New London Day newspaper. For many at the College it was only a belated recognition ~f ~hat ~h~y h.ad kno~vn all along-the station is an excep- tional building III the history of architecture. Altho~gh the College preferred not to take a public stand on the Issue for fear of being counterproductive, individual members of the College community were helpful in many ways. In the spring of 1971, Art History professor Charles Price wr~te an" article at "white heat" for Art Gallery Magazine entItle~ Landm~rk in J eapar.dy". This slick, elegant art magazme has an international CIrculation. The entire Art Department signed a letter to th C neeti ICUt H' istorica 'I C 0:umission in 1971 strongly supportinge on- ~fforts to. save the station. That meeting was a turning point In gathermg advocates. Development director John Detmold and Richard A ' t t ' Ar H' rrns, InS rue or In t istory, were founding members of U ' R 'I d S ' T ' mon at roa ta~lOn rust. As members of the Board of Direc- tors they guided the policies and actions which eventually led to success. The New London Railroad Station in 1898, 1971 (lower lei::'

4 missioned in 1885 by the New London Northern and the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Companies and completed in ISSS-is in keeping with this spirit. The fight.for One might question the value of preserving a public building whose function has been so greatly diminished in recent years. A book entitled Reusing Railroad Stations, resulting preservation from a study conducted by the Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Association, suggests that there are several reasonable arguments favoring preservation of old railroad stations. By Lisa Dyess '76 Historically, railroads were instrumental in the nation's America is a nation in which "planned obsolescence" has transformation from an agricultural to an industrial econ- become a slogan. When something begins to show signs of omy. It seems fitting that the significance of railways becoming old and worn, the inclination is to replace it with should be commemorated in some way. In ecological terms, a newer, fresher model Items are being built with less care, a building such as this can be viewed as a man-made re- thus assuring that replacements will be needed in the not- source which has significant economic potential. so-distant future. With respect to architecture, Americans The New London Union Station is of special importance seem at times to be obsessed with the notion that newer is because it was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson of synonomous with better. Old buildings and historic places Boston, one of the prime movers in the development of an are in many cases being razed in the name of progress. Only architectural style with a distinct American flavor. New recently has this country undergone a consciousness-raising, London's station is, according to Henry Russell Hitchcock's brought about in part by the attention focused on the bi- biography of Richardson, "the best of its type he had built." centenniaL Americans are becoming increasingly aware of Apparently, local residents for years expressed great ani- their heritage and history, and a greater appreciation of mosity toward this building, describing it as "a disgusting historical places and 'buildings has resulted. The movement wreck of an old monster." Threats of demolition had been to preserve one of New London's more historic, yet con- issued since 1964; since the beginning of the controversy in troversial buildings-Union Station, a railroad terminal com- 1962, the townspeople had been nearly unanimous in favoring its destruction. City fathers condemned it as an "eye- sore on New London's downtown"; even the mayor took Lisa Dyess '76 wrote this article in 1975 as a paper for action against it in 1971 by opposing its listing in the Na- Edgar Mayhew's course in American Art.

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and in 1976 after completion of exterior renovation. Landscaping links station to new pedestrian concourse.

5 Before: Waiting room dominated by grime, peeling paint and uncomfortable wooden benches. tional Register of Historic Places-fortunately to no avail. before penetrating the roof. The highlights of the exterior If the New London Redevelopment Agency had suc- are to be found in the elaborate brickwork, in which delicate ceeded in its efforts, the building would have been de- patterns are created through the meticulous arrangement stroyed and a smaller "transportation center" would have of bricks of varying sizes and shapes, and in the slate r~of been erected nearby. Incredible as it may seem, urban re- which is supported by the double chimneys. The low hlp- developers favored "a view of the river" over the preserva- roof, according to Charles Price, accounts for its appear- tion of this building. The view that would have resulted-the ance as a "long, low horizontal bulk." Groton Sewer System and the docks of Electric Boat-is far Mariana Griswold Van Henssalaer's analysis of Richard- from picturesque. Appeals for support from New London's son's work shows that the architect conceived of railroad historical society were met by unsympathetic listeners. The stations as shelters endowed with "a sturdy air of perma- organization completely washed its hands of the matter, nence." Roofs were intended to be massive and broad in maintaining that the building was not its responsibility. The order to emerge as the stations' chief exterior feature. These group even denied the building's architectural authenticity. concepts are certainly evident in New London's station. The building was viewed as a financial burden that was too Two of the primary objectives in railroad station design ugly to be saved. Credit for the successful preservation of were to provide a well-covered platform (unfortunately, New London Station is due the few individuals who had the nothing remains of the original canopy) and to admit a foresight to realize that New London was attempting to de- maximum amount of daylight to the waiting rooms through stroy a building of considerable historical value. In Novem- "the highly inventive use of the window." Omamentanon ber of 1973, these people formally organized the Union was kept to a minimum; usually the features were quite Railroad Station Trust, Inc., a non-profit organization simple. The use of "load-bearing" masonry was charac- determined to save the building. Their persistence and teristic of Richardson's work. According to Mariana Van diligence was at last rewarded with last year's completion Rensselaer, some "necessary" fixtures were "artistically of the station's renovation. treated," such as "fireplaces (commonly of brick), drinking What are the features of the building that contribute to fountains, gas fixtures, settees on the exterior and long its significance? This Romanesque revival station, accord- benches inside, ticket-offices projecting upon the platform ing to Preservation News, represents one of the first at- as well-designed bays." His apparent aim was to create an tempts to forsake the popular Victorian style of the time. edifice that was convenient and compact, and each statio? Richardson employed many innovative techniques in the was .designed with the prospective site kept in mind. "Thl;, building. The second floor is suspended from huge wooden relationship between building and major urban space, trusses located in the attic; since no support is required according to a Columbia architecture student, "is a prime from below, the first floor is large and spacious-ideal for example of Richardson's genius as an urban designer." waiting areas. Richardson cleverly designed the pairs of Richardson's chief contribution, in the opinion of Jam~s chimneys in an arch configuration so that they would unite Fitch, was "in the field of plan rather than structure." In hIS

6 After: New coat of paint, relocated ticket counter, and split-level waiting area with upholstered seating.

office space for architects, lawyers, real estate agencies, work one can see his adherence to the axiom, "form fol- and insurance companies. lows function." Local sentiment concerning the station's restoration has This example of functionalist architecture has not lost its become more positive, but only after a long, hard struggle vitality. Results of the original feasibility study conducted on the part of its advocates. In a letter to Mrs. Claire Dale, in 1971 by the office of Richard Sharpe (FA1A), an archi- chairman of the Union Railroad Station Trust, Joseph Rich- tectural firm from Norwich, Connecticut, indicate that the ardson, grandson of the architect, had this to say with re- building has three essential ingredients required of a busi- spect to the unpopularity of the building: ness location-V'visibility, accessibility, and aesthetics." The Irrespective of its appeal to popular taste, the station is building, surprisingly enough (considering the neglect it probably the only structure in New London to approach has suffered), is in good structural condition. some degree of international recognition... . Another Subsequent to the formation of Union Railroad Station almost contemporary structure whose ugliness was ac- Trust, Inc., another firm was engaged to conduct a second cepted from its very birth, has not only been tolerated feasibility study in terms of renovation costs and design because of its prophetic nature, but also been acclaimed potential. The firm of Anderson Notter Associates of Boston as the very symbol of the city itself, whose meanest not only developed plans for Union Station's rehabilitation edifice far surpasses it in beauty: the Eiffel Tower. but also ultimately established a profit-making corporation In making this seemingly outlandish analogy between with another large construction company in Boston. Union Station and the Etffel Tower, Richardson made some Through this action, the "Union Station Associates" pur- cogent points. Both of these structures were built just prior chased the building for redevelopment. to the appearance of a new technology which neither archi- The chief tenant of the station will continue to be AM· tect was able to adopt; yet its subsequent introduction was TRAK; it will share the building with a top-quality restaurant greatly influenced by both men. Apparently Parisians dis- seating 150 people, as well as with offices, shops, and asso- liked "the 'naked' statement of exposed girders and cross- ciated businesses. bracing" just as much if not more than New Londoners New London is not alone in its efforts to revitalize an old detested the 'blocky' New London Station. station. This idea has been popular throughout the country. Surely, the Union Station is not as grandiose as the According to an article in Preservation News, uses for re- Eiffel Tower. But it is certainly worthy of praise. In the cycled railroad station include: a senior citizens center in words of James F. O'Gorman, "Massive and simple-what Mt. Vernon, Ohio; an arts center in Yuma, Arizona; a"com- more succinct description of Richardson's mature work is mercial project in Woonsocket, Rhode Island; a civic center possible?" Union Station has been rescued from the in Montgomery, Alabama; and restaurants in Ann Arbor, wrecker's ball by those who understand the value of early Michigan, Beverly, Massachusetts and Ithaca, New York. American architecture and recognize Henry Hobson Rich- Other uses have included shops for books, dresses, gifts, ardson as one of America's foremost architects. antiques, and toys. Several stations have been utilized as

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!All-campus blow-out

By Seth Greenland '77 "I dunno. Good a night as any to tie one on, right?" There exists a phenomenon at Connecticut College "You going?" that occurs on a once-weekly basis and will continue "What else am 1 donna do? Go to a coffeehouse?" to do so unless the newly vigorous Campus Safety And so they go in droves every Saturday night- Patrol and the always vigorous State Liquor Commis- some to hustle, some to drink, and some to watch the sion put their collective foot down. It is something hustling and drinking. that many of us disdain, many of us attend-and most of us, at one time or another, do both. I am, of course, referring to the proverbial all- campus parties, those ·orgiastic blowouts that occur with a regularity you could set your watch by. These parties, because of some archaic Connecticut law pro- hibiting the serving of anything stronger than milk at gatherings such as these, are illegal. However, in the permissive times in which we live, legality is not a terribly important issue. The issue is, rather, whether ~(' something will be fun. These parties seem to provide ~ a sufficient amount of fun for the student body of this college, and thus I feel that it is safe to say they will continue. All-campus parties have been an extremely The Hustler popular form of mass entertainment ever since I was a wide-eyed freshman way back in 1973. 1 am now a You can see the hustler standing around, beer in worldly senior and they are still going strong. hand, looking for the one he's been checking o~t all Why do these parties occur, you ask? They occur week. A cigarette is usually dangling from ~1S lip at for a number of reasons. The academic pressures at what he considers a seductive angle and he s trymg Connecticut College are, for the most part, intense. his hardest to feign disinterest. Conspicuously incon- For the English major who has been studying all week spicuous, he is Woody Allen trying to be Bogart, only and has Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queen and William he seems to think he's pulling it off. Butler Yeats coming out of his ears, these parties are Suddenly, like a vision, she emerges through the a chance to blow off pent-up energy. For the history sweaty, undulating masses. That Venus from hIS major who has been writing a thesis on American Anthro class. The one that makes his eyes fairly bulge intervention in Russia following World War 1 and two inches beyond his supremely cool nose. What to can't bear the sight of another word on the subject, do? Suave. Always suave. So cool it hurts. He slowly these parties provide a chance to socialize, drink and sidles over to make the connection, The Saturday be C entertained by the goings-on. All-campus parties night mating ritual begins. provide, in short, a casual, inexpensive good time. "Wanna dance?" Even the most impoverished students can usually "Sure.,. come up with the one dollar required to get into one The music is a disco tune with an obscene refrain of these affairs. that suggests all sorts of delicious perversions. The hustler smiles. This will work to his advantage. The "Hey, what's goin' on tonight?" song touches an atavistic impulse within him and his

8 The song has now ended. "Want some beer?" the hustler asks. "Sure," The operation is now entering Phase II. Get subject drunk. The hustler knows that if he can pour enough alcohol mto the subject Phase III will be that much easier. About two hours and twenty beers later the happy, and by now completely inebriated, couple disappears into the night, holding each other in a manner that would lead a casual observer to believe they were probably engaged. The mating dance that began hours ago is entering it's final stage. The Drinker pelvis begins to gyrate. He runs his hand through his hair, executes a few deft steps and fancies himself Beer is the refreshment invariably served at these another Elvis Presley. The relentless disco trash parties and it is supplied in vast quantities. Although drones on and the dancers' bodies are bumping on the amount of consumption varies widely from in- every other beat. "Boogie fever," the singer sings. dividual to individual, virtually everyone indulges to "Shake yo' bootie." The music at these parties is some extent. As one might expect, there is a group of clearly intended to be an aural aphrodesiac. (But only people, almost exclusively male, for whom these for those who want it to serve as such, of course.) parties are a one dollar drunk. Why go to the bar and A friend of mine with a theatrical bent once re- fork over all that money when you can go to an all- marked to me that although these parties were campus party and get bombed for the price of one entertaining to observe, the plot was always too Heineken, they ask. Like the voyeurs, these gentle- drawn out. "Why don't they just show them all in men usually hang together. But unlike their voyeur- bed:' she asked. I was nonplussed. istic counterparts, they're more interested in what's in their hand than what's walking around in front of them. As the party progresses toward its end this group is progressing toward oblivion. Why do they do this week after week, you ask? Are they trying to forget something? Is it a substitute for sex? Are they afraid to interact? "Hell no!" they reply. "We just love getting plastered." You have to respect their honesty.

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Watching all of this occur with the rapt fascination of a kid in a candy store is that denizen of the dark corners, that cynical non-participant, the one who'd much rather look than do-the voyeur. The voyeur comes in all shapes and forms, and the cast of voyeurs is continually changing. Someone who is hustling one week might drink too much too fast the following TheCoastie week and relegate himself to the status of voyeur by Attempting to mix in with all of this Fellini-like his sheer inability to pry himself off the wall. madness are representatives of that bastion of cour- Another type of voyeur is the type who simply lacks age and virtue located across Mohegan Avenue-the the confidence that is necessary if one is to play the United States Coast Guard Academy. (These are the mating game, He slinks around the perimeter of the Coasties, to use the vernacular.] To say they "mix" is dance floor examining all of the females who come to use the word loosely. They mix about as well as a within range of his lecherous, and often bloodshot, rock in a milkshake blender. But they do try. The eyes. Even if he's wearing a hat, the horns rising out Coasties walk around, one hand on a beer and the of the back of his head are unmistakable. Occasionally other in their pocket, and look at the Conn students. this type will group together, One can often see them When it becomes apparent (as it always does) that hovering over a joint in a corner, saying things like, there won't be much interacting going on, they mill "I can't deal with these parties unless I'm toasted," around together and get extraordinarily drunk. ~r, "This beer is really the pits, y'know?" or, Continued on page 35 Whaddya mean there's only one keg left?"

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10 Research and recrenion

ver the last few decades the '67 inventoried the Avery Cove marsh; search Fellowship. In 1974 Mark Arboretum has provided unlim- Pamela Warga Salaam '69 studied the McDonnell 75 contributed to our understanding of why huckleberry shrub ited opportunities for ecological vegetation development in our old O thickets are so resistant to tree inva- research for undergraduates, graduate fields; Priscilla Christman Newbury sion. Later Jane Minarik '76 added to students and faculty. After the 1938 '70 and Helen Crispe '72 analyzed the our knowledge of salt marsh grass hurricane, Dr. George S. Avery, the effects of burning on microorganisms. anatomy. This past year Gregory Arboretum's first director, collaborated Several zoological projects have Butcher analyzed over two decades of with Dr. Julia Bower, professor emeri- been concerned with the aquatic envi- breeding bird population data in order tus of Mathematics, and Dr. Harriet ronment. Susan Heller '65 studied the to correlate bird dynamics with vege- Creighton in analyzing the tree rings fauna of the Arboretum and Alma tation change. of the Bolleswood hemlocks that were Rolland analyzed its turtle population dynamics. Robert Ballek '73 and Diane Thus one can conclude that the Ar- blown down by this severe storm. boretum has provided and continues to One of my first students, now Dr. Hitchcock '75 gave us some new in- sights into the homing instincts of the provide challenging ecological re- Nellie Beetham Stark '56, discovered search experiences for our students. It that the wetland along Gallows Lane spotted salamander as it returns to the wetlands each spring for breeding. has also become an invaluable open was actually a bog with peat deposits space asset to the College community. over 20 feet in depth, and did an inde- More recently Wendy Coleman 75 studied lichen dynamics on our rocky The 400-acre green belt around the pendent study on palynology. She un- campus not only provides an ideal ravelled the forest history of southern ledges by resurveying permanent plots established in the late 60's. Harold recreation area for students, but it is New England over the last 13,000 also an integral part of our teaching years using the fossil tree pollen grains Hemond (M.A. '74) has analyzed the two decades of Bolleswood vegetation program in general biology, botany, preserved in the underlying peat. This plant and animal ecology and orni- work was published in the American data accumulated by undergraduates at ten-year intervals. This work is cur- thology. Journal of Science. Nellie is now a for- William A. Niering est ecologist at the University of rently being readied for publication. During the last three years the Director of the Arboretum and Montana. Professor of Botany Other interesting ecological studies Arboretum has offered a Summer Re- have also been completed. Barbara Rice Kashanski '54 studied the vegetation development on the rocky outcrops of Bolleswood and started the breeding bird population studies that have continued for over 20 years. Mary Elsbree Hoffman '59 correlated soils and vegetation along the permanent vegetation transects; Dr. Elizabeth Haines Nash '62 analyzed the bioecol- ogy of Mamacoke Island; Elizabeth Deane Loutrel '67 determined that mountain laurel shrubs can be 100 years old; Sara Manwell Bradford '63 was co-author of the Arboretum Flora; Barbara Platz '62 compiled a flora of -the State 'Wildlife Sanctuary adjacent to the Arboretum; Betsy Veitch Dodge

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when a surprising 23 species were found The "suburbanization" of a bird population nesting. The forested area supports a population ranging from 2.5 pairs per acre in 1964 to 1.6 pairs per acre in 1976. This Breedinll bird decline may be correlated with a decline in the density of the shrub layer as documented in Harold Hemond's research. auelies The number of species nesting in the forested area has ranged from 32 in 1964 to 22 in 1953. In 1976, the uumher By Gregory Butcher '77 the map during the breeding season is was 27. A total of 59 different hird interpreted to represent a breeding pair. species have bred in the natural area Where have the pheasants and the field Most surveys have begun soon after during at least one of the censuses; only sparrows gone? What has happened to final exams (near May 25) and have 14 species have bred during every all the warblers? These are the first continued until July 1. This corresponds census. questions one begins to ask as one sur- to the height of the breeding season in Finally, we are ready to answer the veys the results of the 11 breeding bird southern New England. first question: where have the pheasants censuses that have been performed in The Arboretum census has been per- and the field sparrows gone? Both the Bolleswood Natural Area of the formed on the 73-acre southern portion formerly nested in the old-field portion Connecticut Arboretum since 1953. of the Bolleswood Natural Area. This of the Natural Area, and both prefer to Dr. Richard Goodwin and Dr. wil- area consists of 57 acres of forested nest in thickets (for protection) near Ham N iering began the breeding bird land dominated by oaks and hemlocks open fields (for foraging). As the fields surveys in 1953, one year after the and 16 acres of old fields. In 1953 the have grown up into forest, their pre- establishment of the Natural Area. old-field portion was one-third open ferred habitat has been crowded out, They published an Arboretum Bulletin field and two-thirds thicket. Now open and they have been eliminated from (number 10) on the results of the first fields and thickets combined cover the Natural Area. Three other species two surveys (1953 and 1955) in 1958, only one quarter of the area; the rest is have been eliminated for the same which is still available. now "transition forest" (a young oak reason, and two others have shown A breeding bird survey is conducted forest with a greenbriar understory). serious declines. To balance these by using the Williams' Spot-Map tech- The gray catbird and white-eyed vireo, losses, six species characteristic of the nique. The observer arrives in the field both thicket nesters, remained common young forest habitat have been added at sunrise (I) with a detailed map of the in the olf-field area throughout the 23 to this area as the forest has developed. area to be censused. All bird observa- years of the censuses. Six species re- Thus, species turnover is a natural re- tions are recorded at their proper loca- mained common in the forest through- sult of vegetation development. tion on the map. Special attention is out the studies: the catbird and rufous- The question about the warblers is accorded singing males, fighting males, sided towhee nest in the shrub layer of more difficult to answer. Wood war- active nests and newly-Hedged juve- the young forest; the black-capped blers are small, insect-feeding neo- niles. A minimum of 10 thorough trips chickadee nests in trunk cavities; the tropical migrants that display many must be made to the site. All trips must scarlet tanager nests high in the tree ecological adaptations. Of the 34 spe- be completed by four hours after sun- canopy; and the wood thrush and veery cies found in New England, 14 have rise (preferably earlier) because bird nest on or near the ground in the dark, nested in the Natural Area (many nest singing decreases rapidly in intensity forested areas. only far to the north). Ten of these are, after the early morning hours. Some Populations in the old-field area have or were, common in the Natural Area. evening trips should be made to catch ranged from a high of 3.9 breeding The prairie warbler, chestnut-sided the twilight chorus of the thrushes- pairs per acre in 1961 to a low of 1.8 warbler and common yellowthroat are probably the most musical of all avian pairs per acre in 1973. In 1976 the den- all open-field and thicket birds. Their events-and the crepuscular activities sity was 2.5 per acre. The number of decline is a result of vegetation de- of whip-poor-wills and owls. species breeding in the old-field has re- velopment. The blue-winged warbler A cluster of observations recorded on mained rather steady at 16 until 1976 and the American redstart are forest-

12 Nature reclaims abandoned farmland Yes_acion edge species; the former has held its own, while the latter returned last year chanses after an absence of nine years. How- ever, the hooded warbler, Canada warbler and black-throated green warbler by Harold Hemond methods of vegetation study and pre- are forest-dwelling species that have diction, and even encourages us to disappeared from the Natural Area in The establishment of the Bolleswood make a few cautious judgments about recent years. (One pair of hoodeds Natural Area of the Connecticut Arbo- mechanisms operating in the complex remains.] retum and the initiation of a long-term system of the forest. Vegetation development in the progr~m of documenting the vegetation The story of vegetation change over forested portion of the Natural Area in detail, have created a unique op- the last 20 years is remarkable. While (see article by Harold Hemond) is not portunity to gain a greater understand- most tree species declined significantly sufficient to account for the decline of ing of the vegetation of southeastern in numbers, black birch, the most the last three species; however, one Connecticut. numerous tree species in 1952, declined other factor is-urbanization. Just south First in 1952, and once every decade by over 60 percent. This spectacular of the Natural Area in the last ten years, since then, faculty and students from decrease was accompanied by a definite millions of dollars were spent to create the Botany department have identified, decline in the number of oaks and by an elaborate melange of ramps and counted, measured, and recorded every the nearly total elimination of gray approaches to the new twin bridges tree, shrub, and herb on each of several birch during the same period. By con- over the Thames River. In the process, hundred ten-foot-square plots, or quad- trast, hemlock, one of the two most a great deal of natural habitat adjacent rats as they are called. The entire for- shade-tolerant species present, in- to the Arboretum was eliminated. Dur- est 'is thus sampled and approximately creased in number by 14 percent. Simi- ing the same period, visitor usage of described by several tens of thousands lar observations have previously been the Arboretum has increased tre- of numbers representing soil character- made in other forests, and have mendously, and vandalism. has in- istics, topography, plant species, and prompted some people to suggest that creased. While the warblers (and the plant abundance or size on each of a forest is governed by simple com- red-eyed vireo) have been decreasing, these quadrats. Ultimately, these da~a petition for light, with the more shade- the so-called "suburban birds" have are stored as millions of magnetic tolerant members predictably gaining been increasing. These include the blue "bits" on a computer memory disk. ground at the expense of the less- jay, tufted titmouse, house wren, and This data base is impressive in both tolerant species as the forest matures northern (Baltimore) oriole. size and scientific potential. It makes it and the leaf canopy becomes more Thus, our breeding bird survey has possible to describe with a~curacy closed. A logical conclusion is to as- an important lesson to teach: even a what happened as the v~getatlO~ resume that the area will become all natural area set aside in perpetuity to sponded to a catastrophic h.urncane hemlock in time. preserve wildlife will see its wildlife and decades of grazing, plowmg, and However, upon closer examination change (deteriorate?) as its surround- burning. Equally important, thi~ d~ta of the statistics of change, a few facts ings are developed. Implicit in this base permits evaluation of quantitatIve emerge that do not quite fit the picture. lesson are twin pleas: for more (and In terms of basal areas (the total cross- Harold Hemond received a master's largerl] natural areas like this one at sectional area of the tree stems), black degree in Botany at Conne~ticut Col- Connecticut College, and for more re~ birch is still fading fast, while hemlock lege in 1974. He is now studying toward search like the work being done here to is growing rapidly. But the oaks, too, a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of study our natural resources and the are gaining basal area and hardly ap- effects of human populations on them. Technology.

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pear to be on the way out. It is not en- setback for prediction, this information study continues to increase, it will be- tirely certain that oak is completely should be useful for those who are con- come ever more valuable to serious losing in its competition with the highly cerned with the management of vege- students of Connecticut's forests, and shade-tolerant hemlock. tation, for management based on mis- vegetation in general. In seeking to Furthermore, tree reproduction data information is likely to be worse in all understand the processes which are show that the number of places in the respects than no management at all1 occurring, one can only be impressed forest where hemlock reproduction is Other studies are currently in pro- by the order and complexity of nature. occurring is dropping off rapidly. Of gress. One project is to apply methods Statistics and reams of data cards are those quadrats which supported hem- of factor analysis to the study of vege- just one part of modern-day vegetation lock seedlings in 1952, only a handful tational patterns. One of a family of study. The other part is direct contact have hemlock seedlings in 1972. Here mathematical techniques developed with the forest and firsthand observa- is clear evidence of a second influence; largely by behavioral scientists, factor tion of its plants, animals, soils, and namely, the sometimes underempha- analysis may prove useful in providing weather. The Bolleswood Natural Area sized fact that the ability or inability of the field ecologist with statistical sup- makes it possible to see the workings of species to carry out their entire life port in the description of vegetation. It a forest largely unaltered by man for cycle on land occupied by another may, in some cases, suggest a dominant almost three decades now. A thought- species is critical in the course of com- influence on the vegetation, and per- ful, observant walk through the forest petition. Detailed, long-term observa- haps assist in someday understanding will reveal much that is not and cannot tions from the real world are, as this vegetation on more of a "cause and be shown by statistics, and is crucial to simple example shows, critical to the effect" basis. understanding and appreciating the evaluation of any ecological theory. As the data base for the long-term natural world. There is much more, of course, to the story of plant competition in the Natural Area. By no means is our understanding, or even identification, of Shy sunbather of the Arboretum pond the important interactions complete. One problem presently under study by foresters and ecologists is the question of prediction. Several years ago, workers at an agricultural station in New England pro- posed a method for predicting future forest composition. Based on transition probabilities, the method involves the classification of plots of vegetation according, typically, to the dominant tree By Alma Rolland major. I thought it would be interesting species. The hypothesis is that a fixed to try to determine just what the turtle probability describes the likelihood of On any given spring or summer day, population in the pond was like. The any given plot changing from one to many shiny, oval, black turtles silently idea was presented to the Zoology de- another given category of vegetation climb onto rocks scattered throughout partment, accepted, and the study was over a fixed period of time. This method the main pond in the Arboretum to sun conducted during the summer of 1975. has not been given a thorough evalua- themselves. Suddenly, at the slightest The turtles so conspicuous on the tion, due largely to the paucity of long- disturbance, they are gone, dropping rocks were eastern painted turtles term quantitative vegetation data. back into the water. (Chrysemys picta pieta). Being in- Here, the Arboretum data has enabled While walking around the pond on veterate sunbathers, they search out a good test to be made. Using transi- just such a spring day, I counted 20 of any object onto which they can climb. tion probabilities, it was found that these sunbathers. I had been away They are a relatively easy animal to predictions of the 1972 vegetation from Connecticut for 15 years, and study in a natural situation because based on 1952 and 1962 data would now, as a Return to College student, I they can be easily captured, sexed, and have been quite inaccurate. Perhaps a was rediscovering the life of a zoology marked without injury by notching

14 , .~ moored at the pond's edge. Thanks to time ~ four-foot snake appeared beside the shell. me and the two times I stepped in a The eastern painted turtle, which is vandalism, however, it became neces- hole and my waders filled up. found throughout New England and sary to store the boat in the basement The results of the study were inter- eastern North America, is recognized of Buck Lodge, about 100 feet from the esting and comparable to those of by the straight rows of large scutes on pond. This made work considerably studies done in other parts of the coun- the carapace; in other subspecies the more difficult as the boat and gear had to be carried daily to the pond. I try. I trapped and marked 30 painted scutes alternate. Scutes are the horny turtles throughout the entire study-13 coverings of the bones of the shell needed help and so wore out most of males, 13 females and 4 juveniles. I which are shed annually as the shell my family-two sons, husband, mother and uncle. also trapped one red-eared turtle grows. In addition, there is a yellow (Chrusemus scripta elegans) which border along the seam between the During the first part of the study (June), rowing out to check traps was must have been a fugitive from a pet scutes which distinguishes it from store as it is not native to our area. other painted turtles. easy and enjoyable. As summer pro- gressed, the water level in the pond The standard method used to estimate The turtles are most active from the size of a population is the Lincoln March through October-depending on dropped and vegetation increased; the pond became nearly impassible. The Index. Briefly, this consists of first cap- locality-and remain in hibernation turing a number of individuals (pre- during the colder months; Active feed- oars would not go through the masses of water lilies or pond weed. Several census period), marking them, releas- ing generally does not begin until the ing them, and then after a short water temperature nears 20°C. It is a times I would get out, take the bow line and pull the boat to its destination. interval, retrapping (census period) the forager, rooting among the aquatic Continued on page 28 plants and along the bottom, eating This worked fairly well-except for the both plant and animal material. During 1975 the first sign of activity in the Arboretum was observed on April 17. Sunning, feeding and courtship activity Able but mysterious nocturnal navigator were the most frequent behaviors observed. Using plans and a little imagination, I constructed two types of traps. The SpoUeci basking trap, designed to capture a sunning turtle, is a wire basket with two planks fastened on the ends and salamander suspended in the water on poles driven into the pond bottom. The basket was positioned so that the planks dipped Assisted by four of his dorm mates into the water. Thus, the turtle climbs By Bruce Hunter and armed with a supply of beer and a up the plank, suns, then drops back into Assistant professor of Zoology 15-pound turkey which had been do- the water and the basket. Four such nated by a supportive zoology profes- As the first warm breath of spring ar- traps were placed in the pond, three of sor, Bob directed the fencing operations rives in southern New England in late them near rocks that had previously around the pond in the Arboretum's February and early March, one does not been observed to be popular sunning Goodwin Tract. The 24-inch fence, have to ponder long to find an excuse spots. As the traps did not provide at- which was buried six inches in the to put down the books for a while and tractive alternatives to the rocks, ground, enclosed the entire two-acre to get outside to enjoy a beautiful day. chicken-wire collars were put around pond and was to intercept the spotted Few students, however, would choose the rocks to discourage the turtles. The salamander in its migration to its . to spend their time building a fence other trap was a baited funnel trap, selected breeding site. Upon encounter- around a pond in the Arboretum. How- partly submerged in shallow water. ing the fence, the migrating sala- Two of these were used. ever, this is exactly what zoology student Bob Ballek '73 did during his last mander, being unable to burrow under To check the traps, I used an alumi- or climb over the fence, would have to num jon boat which was originally semester at Conn.

15 - of the mating activity. Upon entering the pond, selection of a mate is made and, after a rather All of these animals had to cross both elaborate nuptial dance, mating occurs. wooded areas and open fields, and all Several days later, egg masses of 25· were forced to encounter one or, in 200 eggs are deposited on twigs and some cases, as many as four stone walls weeds in the pond where they remain on the return trip to the pond. Since until the larvae hatch out in two to three none of the animals could see the pond weeks, depending upon the water tem- from their point of relocation, which perature. The larvae resemble tadpoles ranged from 70-170 yards from the in size and shape, and remain in the pond, and all were transported in 3. pond until late summer before emerg- closed container which was constantly ing as small salamanders. After two to spun to confuse their sense of direction, turn right or left and proceed until it three years in a terrestrial habitat, they it is clear that salamanders are capable fell into one of the buried one-gallon attain sexual maturity and begin the of piloting or homing. This type of can traps which had been placed every annual or biannual migration to the orientation involves the use of familiar 20 feet along the entire 400-foot perim- pond. landmarks to reach a predetermined eter of the fence. The cans were placed By fencing the entire pond with a destination. In the case of the breeding in pairs on either side of the fence so system of drop cans one can determine pond, it is thought that salamanders use that the animals would be captured how many salamanders enter and leave certain olfactory cues to locate it. This moving into the pond and out of the the breeding pond, how long they re- is supported by other studies which pond after breeding was complete. main, and the direction by which they have shown that salamanders become The spotted salamander (Ambystoma enter and exit the pond region. To in- disoriented by blocking their sense of maculatum) is one of the largest sala- dividually mark the animals, Bob used smell while blinded salamanders can manders in Connecticut, ranging from a system of clipping the toes on the readily find a pond. 51~to 8}~inches in length. The animal front and hind feet, an operation which While it is generally recognized by characteristically has a bluish black is painless to the animals. Up to 9,999 scientists that salamanders use some color which is broken up by two irregu- individuals could be marked in this method of piloting to reach their breed- lar rows of 30 large yellow spots along manner. During his study period in the ing ponds, Bob discovered in his study the hack. The males tend to be slightly spring of 1973, Bob caught a total of 55 one bit of information heretofore not smaller than the females and sexes are individual salamanders. reported in the literature. He found readily distinguishable to the trained Once captured, the salamander was that when individuals captured while eye. marked and released on the opposite leaving the pond were displaced at ran- As is the case with the majority of side of the fence or, in some cases, dis- dom back in the pond area, they gen- salamanders in this region, larvae of placed to other locations in the study erally exited in the initially preferred the spotted salamander must develop area. From an analysis of the data, it direction. In general, the animals in an aquatic environment. This re- was clear that the majority of the ani- would not simply exit the pond by the quires an annual migration from the mals left the pond in the same direction closest, most direct route from the re- wooded habitat which the adults occupy that they entered. That is to say, the lease point if this was not in the pre- for most of the year to a breeding pond salamander arriving from the north of ferred direction. during the early spring. In southern the pond would exit toward the north. As a logical extension of this finding, New England these migrations begin These observations suggest that sala- a number of animals were displaced 20 during the first half of March and may manders have some mechanism which to 100 yards outside the pond after their continue through April. As Bob's data enables them to determine a particular attempted departure in directions op- show, the migration into the pond oc- direction. To verify this hypothesis, Bob posite from and at right angles to the curred only on those nights when there displaced by 90° or 1800 animals preferred direction of departure. De- was measurable precipitation and the which had been captured entering the spite the fact that mating had been temperature remained above freezing. pond. Ten of the twelve individuals completed .by this time and the natural The adults stay in the pond for two to relocated in this manner were recap. drive was to leave the pond, five of the three weeks and depart upon completion tured in the traps within 9 to 42 days. eleven animals displaced outside the

• pond at 1800 from their preferred direc- Ever-changing cradle of marine life tion re-entered the pond, crossed through it, and exited in the preferred direction. In contrast, of the eight individuals which were displaced outside ,.idal marsh the pond at right angles to their preferred direction, none were recaptured. These findings suggest that upon leaving the pond the salamanders are dynamics responding to a preferred compass direction. The exact nature of the Unfortunately, many of our remaining mechanism used by these salamanders By Charles T. Roman coastal marshes do not paint this picture in determining compass direction is not Consider the lush green belt of grass- of a serene landscape supporting pro- clear at this time although several pos- ductive plant and animal populations. sibilities exist. Bees and ants have been lands that stretches along the east coast from Maine to Georgia. For thousands In Colonial times, marshes were used at shown to use the sun as a point of refer- a level of subsistence for grazing ani- ence for determining a compass direc- of years this extremely productive salt marsh-estuarine ecosystem has pro- mals and farming salt hay. Today, many tion to locate a food source, then re- of these coastal nursery grounds have versing 1800 to locate home again. They vided man with enormous benefits. With each tidal ebb and flow large quantities been devastated for private and indus- are able to compensate for the move- trial development. In Connecticut, 50 ment of the sun, changing their direc- of decaying nutrient-rich marshgrass are carried into the estuaries. These percent of the tidal marshes have been tion approximately 15° every hour. destroyed. This may well be a victory for While salamanders generally migrate nutrients provide nourishment for micro- scopic algae, the basic organisms of the progress, but for the fish that spawn in at night and thus could not use the sun, the marsh community and for the or- the moon or stars are possible candi- food chain which ultimately supports large populations of fish and shellfish. ganisms of the adjacent estuary that are dates as cues, as demonstrated by dependent upon nutrients from the spiders and indigo buntings which use The tidal marsh also provides a home or habitat for fish and wildlife. More than marsh, this development means the them for direction finding. Pigeons, destruction of an essential aspect of na- which normally employ the sun to find 75 different species of fish, including the economically important menhaden ture. In the past, it was a standard prac- a compass direction, have been shown tice to locate town dumps away from and striped bass, are nurtured by the to use the earth's magnetic field for public view. As a result, it is a common marsh at some time during their life directional findings on cloudy days. It sight to see trash, plastic containers or cycles. Also, many waterfowl-herons, thus becomes readily apparent that an occasional rusty automobile en- rails, egrets, ducks and more-are at- there are a large number of possible croaching upon the wide open grassy tracted to the marsh habitat where they cues which might be employed in the plains of a tidal marsh. process of compassing. nest and feed. Fortunately, many states, including Aesthetically, the undisturbed tidal After a busy spring of fencing ponds, Connecticut, have recognized the value marsh flourishes with a beauty all its checking drop cans every morning of salt marshes and have enacted legis- own. Along with the predominant marsh before 8:30 classes, and compiling and lation to protect these coastal resources. grasses that gracefully sway in the analyzing reams of data, Bob could feel However, more action must be taken to wind, there is a wealth of beautiful a real sense of accomplishment as he preserve the unique salt marsh-estuarine wildflowers encountered on the marsh, turned in his final report. Findings of ecosystem. In Connecticut, various state such as marsh aster, seaside goldenrod, other studies had been confirmed, a agencies, the Nature Conservancy and purple gerardia, marsh mallow and the new hypothesis had been presented, many private and individual land own- delicate sea lavender. The sounds of the but the most striking impact that the ers have worked toward securing these marsh provide one with a subtle sym- study had on Bob was the number of valuable communities from the perils of phony of music. The mellow song of the questions that remained to be an- progress. These natural preserves will red-winged blackbird and the call of the swered. Bob Ballek is in search of some not only enable students of nature to ob- clapper rail seem to blend with the of these answers as he pursues his serve a complex ecosystem, but they will Ph.D. at the University of Rhode Island. tenuous trickle of the incoming tide.

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. --tum Bulletin Number 12 provides an cent years there has been a rapid coastal "elaborate description of this vegetation submergence. One would therefore ex- study. Resurveys of this marsh would pect the marsh to tend toward a more enable botanists to follow any changes moist condition. Another common trend which may occur in the mosaic pattern observed at the Mamacoke marsh, as "and also to determine how much the well as along the Connecticut coast, has marsh is eroding or increasing in size. been the disappearance of the black- Such a study was conducted in 1975, 18 grass zones. At this point, only scientific years after the initial vegetation survey. speculation can answer the question of Substantial changes were observed. why these changes are occurring. More .,~ ..~ In many areas of the marsh the cord- natural areas must be preserved so that """""- grass is being overcome by saltmeadow we can monitor these changes more ~ , --...... ~.:~~. grass. Cordgrass characteristically pre- closely, enabling us to secure a greater also serve as control areas used to evalu- vails on wet areas of the marsh, while understanding of this complex eco- ate the effects that man's impacts are saltmeadow grass usually predominates system. having on these communities. on the drier portions. However, the re- Although the Mamacoke Marsh is a In 1955 the Connecticut Arboretum verse trend would be expected as in re- Continued on page 36 was a pioneer in protecting natural marsh areas. The Mamacoke Island Na- tural Area was established through gifts from supporters of the Arboretum. Indian villages and Colonial homesteads About five acres of the 41-acre natural area along the Thames River constitute salt marsh. These marshes are unusual in that they have never been mosquito Lookins_ ditched, whereas a majority of our marshes have fallen prey to ditching in an attempt to rid coastal communities _hepaSC of these pesty insects. Although these marshes are small, they represent an entity which is becoming extinct: the natural tidal marsh virtually untouched By Harold D. Juli years, we have surely been the most by man's impacts. These marshes, es- Instructor in Anthropology successful and systematic of all species pecially the larger four-acre community, in altering the natural landscape. Of have provided the faculty and students As an extensive nature preserve the course man is able to act in ways that of Connecticut College with a useful Connecticut Arboretum offers the stu- are different from other species due to outdoor laboratory in which to study the dent of Botany, Ecology and other en- his ability to conceptualize and to de- many aspects of salt marsh ecology. vironmental sciences a natural labora- velop survival patterns which are cul- In 1957, shortly after the acquisition tory within which to study adaptation turally based. Culture, that uniquely of the Mamacoke Island Natural Area, and change among indigenous biotic human, extra-somatic behavioral sys- Connecticut College students, under the communities. With the recent addition tern, is man's major ecological adapta- direction of Dr. William Niering, devel- of an archaeology program at the Col- tion. Cultural adaptations differ in time, oped a vegetation map of the larger lege, other benefits of the Arboretum's space and form, but wherever they marsh. The dominant grasses of the protected status are beginning to be occur, they are the product of man. marsh-cordgrass, saltmeadow grass, exploited. Archaeologists, particularly those blackgrass and spikegrass-c-were found We need only look around us to real- coming from the intellectual tradition to be arranged in distinctive zones, giv- ize that man's imprint on the earth has of American Anthropology, are scien- ing the marsh a mosaic effect, this being been extensive. Although North tists who study extinct human adapta- characteristic of a majority of our America has been occupied by H orno tions. Archaeologists are interested in coastal marshes. Connecticut Arbore- sapiens for perhaps only the last 25,000 the reconstruction of ancient cultural

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eastern section of the Arboretum ap- systems, with particular emphasis on proximity in southern New England, we are extremely fortunate that they pears to begin in the Woodland period. understanding processes of culture The major economic adaptation in- change. Methodologically, this is ac- are located in a protected reserve. The sites have not been altered by construc- cluded hunting and intensive use of complished through analyses of surviv- riverine and coastal, animal and plant ing material remains contained in tion of any kind, nor are they threat- ened. In a very real sense we have in species. In addition to several shell largely in situ or stratigraphic geologi- midden sites yielding cultural and cal contexts. the Arboretum a preserved time cap- sule of human behavior, when viewed faunal remains, there seems to be But how are we to study, for example, strong evidence suggesting the presence ancient land use, changes through time through surviving artifactual, settlement and ecological information. To of a prehistoric settlement, perhaps a in patterns of technology and sub- small village. The occupation continues sistence, or trade and communication date we have learned that the occupation begins with Indian remains of the until historic times in the seventeenth networks in antiquity, if technologically century. This section of the Arboretum sophisticated twentieth century man is pre-contact period, ca. 1400 A.D., and continues through the colonial occupa- was ideally suited for the exploitation constantly altering the surface and sub- of a broad spectrum of locally available. surface of the earth? Phrased another tion of New London, until the last site was abandoned in 1942; a period of resources. The area exhibits an un- way we might ask whether we can ever usually dense concentration of prehis- be optimistic about the possibility of some five hundred years! I would now like to briefly discuss the nature of the toric Indian remains and we have sug- systematically exploiting the knowledge gested that future research be limited Arboretum's cultural remains. stored in the archaeological record, if to problem-oriented multi-disciplinary our society is so efficient at changing Prehistoric sites investigation. the landscape where earlier cultural remains were deposited? The answer is In 1974, students in the Archaeologi- Historic period sites complex and it must include legislation cal Methods course continued working at a small site started several years In September 1975 we switched our at the state and federal levels to protect emphasis from prehistory to historic earlier by Professor B. June Macklin. archaeologically significant areas. times, in an effort to expand our knowl- With the aid of Mr. Frank Malloy, a Among many other things, we must edge of the Arboretum's cultural re- long time College employee and ama- infuse a new consciousness about the mains. Professor Richard Goodwin teur archaeologist, Professor Macklin value of our past into the minds of informed us that several historic period had uncovered the upper levels of a pre- people directly involved in the plan- domestic sites could be found within historic shell midden or refuse mound, ning and construction of public and the western sections of the preserve. composed of the remains of countless private projects. These ideas are im- One of these areas, the site of a historic meals of local varieties of clam, oyster portant when considering the special farm, became the object of a pre- and scallop. I decided to continue the qualities of the Connecticut Arboretum liminary archaeological study. The site stripping operation. When our work and its potential for archaeological re- consists of field systems, stone walls, yielded artifactual material in the form search. Let me turn to those now. animal pens and most important, archi- of stone projectile points and bone While the major answer to the prob- tectural remains of domestic and farm needles, we decided to expand the lem of cultural preservation rests with related structures. The building remains excavations in several areas which government and industry, the people are suitable for excavation. In addition, appeared promising. Subsequently, a responsible for acquiring the Arbore- stratigraphic testing and recovered second and much larger prehistoric site tum's land are to be commended for artifacts have revealed the presence of was located, which yielded more di- preserving a large tract which has what are probably three sealed living versified cultural remains including proven to be a superb outdoor labora- surfaces, produced by the 18th, 19th Indian ceramic vessel fragments. tory for the study of culture change in and 20th century inhabitants. These Archaeological sampling procedures southern New England. Since 1974, as data confirm the historically docu- were initiated. at this site, while we a result of two archaeological testing mented occupation, and they furnish continued to work at the shell midden. programs, we have learned that the an independent non-documentary After two semesters of testing we can Arboretum is a very rich zone, including source, useful in comparing and testing report the following preliminary prehistoric American Indian and his- propositions about the site's history. toric period remains. While it is cer- results. About 1760 the elder Bolles, a The prehistoric occupation of the tainly not rare to find such sites in close

g Rogerine Quaker, built a house and set aside a tract of land for his son Samuel. A brief history of Quaker Hill The Bolles Farm seems to have been continuously occupied thereafter until 1942 when the house burned after it was struck by lightning. Therefore, .,he shapins almost two hundred years of rural New England life is represented at this site in the ...archaeological record of human of_he land activity. We hope to use the Bolles Farm site to investigate this record and as a resource for teaching archaeologi- By Richard H. Goodwin water that deposited quantities of sand cal field methods. When combined with and gravel at the edges of the lake. the perspectives of documentary analy- Professor emeritus of Botany These terraces are found today along sis and oral history, archaeological and former Arboretum the estuary on the College's "river studies of our recent past can signifi- property" and the Matthies Tract on cantly increase our understanding of director Benham Avenue. the cultural dynamics of peoples and As land began to appear, pioneer periods usually studied only through In the past thirty-three years, during herbs and shrubs similar to those now the methods of traditional history. We which Dr. Goodwin has served first as found in the Arctic occupied the sites. have begun the early stages of this re- director of the Connecticut Arboretum About 13,000 years ago, spruce and fir search and we hope to report our de- and inter as technical advisor to his tailed findings at a later time. invaded the tundra. These plants must successor, the Arboretum has been re- have survived the glacial period on 1 would like to mention one other ceiving increasing use as a resource for Long Island, just south of the terminal cultural resource within the Arboretum ecological research, both by the faculty moraine. Three thousand years late.f, which should eventually be investi- and by students. It became evident that gated. Professor Goodwin has discov- pines became abundant and these, III a detailed history of climatic and turn were more or less replaced about ered that the remains of several 19th human impacts on the land would be • century Free Black farm sites are lo- 8,000 years ago by the oak-hemlock- most helpful in the interpretation of hardwoods forest we find III southern cated within the Arboretum. An the data being accumulated, This article archaeological and historical study of Connecticut today. attempts to present the changing scene These events have been documented these sites might be fascinating. Ques- in the environs of the Connecticut Col- tions relating to the pattern of pre- and by the presence of pollens preserved lege Campus. It is a preview of a history post-Civil War Black settlement from sequentially in the peat of the Red which will eventually appear in the both a techno-economic and docu- Maple Swamp just south of Gallows Bulletins of the Connecticut Arboretum. mentary perspective could be investi- Lane in the Arboretum. The story \;as gated. Several archaeologists have worked out by Nellie Beetham Stark 56 Over fifteen thousand years ago a thick excavated slave cabins, but the for a senior honors project. This swamp sheet of ice blanketed southern New archaeology of 19th century northern now occupies the site of a small lake England and filled Long Island Sound. Black farms and settlements remains that filled a post-glacial pocket be- The ground had been scraped, the rocky largely terra incognita. I believe it could tween rock ledges. It gradually became outcrops polished and grooved by the be an exciting research project. choked with organic material. advancing glacier. At last an ameliorat- Based on two preliminary studies it What did the area look like just being climate robbed the ice sheet of its seems that the Arboretum has much to fore white man established his settle- power. It stopped moving, gradually offer the student of archaeology in both ments? Archeological evidence tells thinned and finally disappeared, drop- prehistoric and historic contexts. In the us that Indians were present in New ping in place its load of boulders future we hope to increase our under- England at least 9,000 years ago. In- gravel, sand and clay. For a time the standing of local settlement and culture deed, their wildfires may have h~d mouth of the Thames River was choked change through investigations in this something to do with the sudden s~lft with. ice which dammed the valley, valuable natural area. from pine to hardwood forests Just forming a lake fed by gushing melt- mentioned. 20 Alumni Association Slate of officers 1977

The Nominating Committee presents the 1977 slate of candidates for offices in the Alumni Association. These nominees have been carefully chosen from suggestions made by alumni from the entire lohegan Path, country. Suggestions are welcome at all times. w London to the The biographical sketches are provided to help ampment, heading you choose your representative. to the west bank of Election results will be announced at the Annual hus the first leg of Meeting of the Association to be held on campus inthrop's Cove to Saturday mom,ing;, ~~y 28, 1977. ed the line present- lliarns Street. One Joann Wahon Leavenworth '56, Chairman in Indian times it chestnut forests as Winifred Nies Northcott '38 of what is now the son John, whose Followers were later Charlotte Greenfield Dietz' 47 he ledgy, broken known as the Hogerenes. They were Aletta Engelbert Pierce '53 e west, somewhat persecuted by the conforming mem- Barbara Whitman Dahl '64 res by wetlands, bers of the colony, who referred to Julia Morrison Palmer 70 rted a growth of them as Quakers. Thus the hill on Virginia Bock Webster '57 sensitive species. which the College is now located be- ecame a country came known as Quaker Hill. The Roger- rms that sprang up ene sect, which worshipped on Satur- d to as the North day instead of Sunday, survives today olorual occupation. as the Seventh Day Baptists. e early settlers in Thomas Bolles came to New London t an ordinance was in 1665 at the age of 21. Three years een years after the later he bought a cabin on the east side ny, forbidding the of Mohegan Path not far from where in four miles of the the Deshon House of the Lyman-Allyn e early Fanus were Museum stands today. A few years ------e of the lane, some after his marriage, ...vhtle he was away running clear to the from home, a young delinquent entered e walls remain as his house and slew his wife and two the diligence of older children. The youngest child, 1977 Ballot who cleared the John, who was still an infant, survived they then used to the massacre and lived to populate the tack and establish hill with fourteen offspring. Father and For President e houses were all son between them acquired title to Britta Schein McNemar 'm o e road, which by most of the land on both sides of Mo- For Secretary ed as Mohegan hegan Path as far north as Callows Lane and, in addition, many lots still Sally Lane Braman '54 rating toll road in o further north. These holdings were For D~rector-at-Iarge (Vote for two) was known as the n turnpike. divided among John's various sons. Cynthia Caravalt Holden '74 o ed a dominant role The farm just south of Gallows Lane N. Terry Munger'50 o the North Parish. remained in the family for six genera- Gwendolyn Rendall Cross '62 o by Thomas Bolles; tions and was purchased by Connecti- Rogers. Their de- cut College at the time of its founding ~:~:dd~t~ch t~is ballot and mail it in an envelope tightly knit com- in 1911 from Mary L. Bolles Branch, C .Ballot to reach the Alumni Office (Box 1624 er by ties of rnatri- John's great-great-granddaughter. It b °tnectIcut College, New Loudon, Conn. 06320) , ment to a religious was still under cultivation in that year. ~ 07 Milay 1, 1977. Validate your vote by signing by James Rogers' Continued on page 28 Y UT u name on envelope. 21 ---- t ftlEARIIORE'I'UIII • For President 1977-80

Britta Schein McNemar '67 Hanover, New Hampshire

Rogerine Quaker, built a house and set Secretary of the Connecticut College Alumni Association aside a tract of land for his son Samuel. A brief hist Former regional class agent for the Class of 1967. The Bolles Farm seems to have been Former nominating committee chairman, newsletter continuously occupied thereafter until editor and secretary of the Connecticut College Club of 1942 when the house burned after it .,he New Hampshire. Coordinator, Career and Employment was struck by lightning. Therefore, Services, Dartmouth College. Former Assistant Dean of almost two hundred years of rural New Freshmen, Assistant Dean of the College and Dean England life is represented at this site in Choate Residence, Dartmouth College. Former in the »archaeclogical record of human ofi: lecturer in education and administrative assistant to the activity. We hope to use the Bolles Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Dartmouth. Farm site to investigate this record and Former high school history teacher. M.S.Ed., University as a resource for teaching archaeologi- By Richard H. of Pennsylvania, 1968. Member of the' National cal field methods. When combined with the perspectives of documentary analy- Professor emerit Association of Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors of American Personnel and Guidance sis and oral history, archaeological and former Arb Association, and Dartmouth Caucus. Former member studies of our recent past can signifi- director cantly increase our understanding of of Board of Directors, Dresden A Better Chance the cultural dynamics of peoples and program and of board of overseers, WDCR AM/FM. periods usually studied only through In the post thirty-th the methods of traditional hisfory. We which Dr. Goodwin have begun the early stages of this re- director of the Conn search and we hope to report our de- and later as techni~ tailed findings at a later time. successor, the Arbor I would like to mention one other ceiving increasing us For Secretary 1977-80 cultural resource within the Arboretum ecological research, b which should eventually be investi- and by students. It b gated. Professor Goodwin has discov- a detailed history Sally Lane Braman '54 ered that the remains of several 19th human impacts on t century Free Black farm sites are lo- most helpful in the West Norwalk cated within the Arboretum. An the data being accum Connecticut archaeological and historical study of attempts to present t these sites might be fascinating. Ques- in the environs of th tions relating to the pattern of pre- and lege Campus. It is a p post-Civil War Black settlement from which will eventual both a techno-economic and docu- Bulletins of the Conn mentary perspective could be investigated. Several archaeologists have Over fifteen thousan excavated slave cabins, but the sheet of ice blanke archaeology of 19th century northern England and filled L Black farms and settlements remains The ground had been largely terra incognita. I believe it could outcrops polished an be an exciting research project. advancing glacier. A Based on two preliminary studies it ing climate robbed seems that the Arboretum has much to power. It stopped Class correspondent for Class of 1954. Admissions Aide offer the student of archaeology in both thinned and finally chairman and board member of the Connecticut prehistoric and historic contexts. In the ping in place its College Club of Fairfield. Board member and chairman future we hope to increase our under- gravel, sand and cl of Lectures and Courses of Darien Community Associa- standing of local settlement and culture mouth of the Thame tion. Former instructor in history and Director of change through investigations in this with ice which da Alumnae and Development at Rosemary Hall. M.A. valuable natural area. forming a lake fed in history, Connecticut College, 1974.

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Gwendolyn (Wendy) Rendall Cross '62 Winnetka, Illinois

Admissions Aide Chairman, former president, treasurer and recording secretary of Connecticut College Club of Chicago. Former corresponding secretary of Connecticut College Club of Philadelphia. President and treasurer of No Name Investment Club, Docent for Art Form II in Chicago schools, former docent at Chicago Historical Society, former member of the Board of Arden Shore Home for Boys. Mohegan Path, led ew London to the ampment, heading Cynthia Caravatt Holden '74 to the west bank of Cincinnati, Ohio hus the first leg of Winthrop's Cove to ed the line present- illiams Street. One in Indian times it chestnut forests as of what is now the son John, whose followers were later 'he ledgy, broken known as the Hogerenes. They were he west, somewhat persecuted by the conforming mem- res by wetlands, bers of the colony, who referred to rted a growth of them as Quakers. Thus the hill on sensitive species. which the College is now located be- President of the Connecticut College Club of Cincinnati ecame a country came known as Quaker Hill. The Hoger- Admissions Aide. President of the Women's Club at the' rms that sprang up ene sect, which worshipped on Satur- University of Cincinnati Medical School, Girl Scout ed to as the North day instead of Sunday, survives today leader, management advisor for Junior Achievement olonial occupation. as the Seventh Day Baptists. of Greater Cincinnati. Teacher and member of Church e early settlers in Thomas Bolles came to New London ~hristian Education Committee. Portfolio manager t an ordinance was in 1665 at the age of 21. Three years m the Trust Investment Department of Fifth Third teen years after the later he bought a cabin on the east side Bank of Cincinnati. any, forbidding the of Mohegan Path not far from where in four miles of the the Deshon House of the Lyman-Allyn N. Terry Munger '50 e early farms were Museum stands today. A few years New York, New York e of the lane, some after his marriage, while he was away running clear to the from home, a young delinquent entered e walls remain as his house and slew his wife and two the diligence of older children. The youngest child, who cleared the John, who was still an infant, survived h they then used to the massacre and lived to populate the tack and establish hill with fourteen offspring. Father and he houses were all son between them acquired title to e road, which by most of the land on both sides of Mo- hed as Mohegan hegan Path as far north as Gallows rating toll road in Lane and, in addition, many lots still t was known as the further north. These holdings were Fo~er treasurer and vice-president and reunion on turnpike. divided among John's various sons. ~harr~an of the Class of 1950. Former president of the ed a dominant role The farm just south of Gallows Lane , ew .o.rk chapter and former chairman of the f the North Parish. remained in the family for six genera- ~ber~~mg and .m~rketing division of the Special by Thomas Bolles; tions and was purchased by Connecti- Th ranan Association. A vice-president of J. Walter Rogers. Their de- cut College at the time of its founding S 0r,npson Company; manager of the Information l tightly knit com- in 1911 from Mary L. Bolles Branch, Thrvlces. Fonner reference librarian at J. Walter er by ties of matri- John's great-great-granddaughter. It . dompson, head librarian at Compton Advertising Inc. tment to a religious was still under cultivation in that year. an school teacher. MLS from V.C.L.A. " Continued on page 28 Sister, Barbara Munger '55 by James Rogers'

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1976-77 I: President 10 'Cassandra Goss Simonds '55, Darien, Connecticut Rogerine Quaker, built a house and set Vice-President aside a tract of land for his son Samuel. A brief histo Mariana Parcells Wagoner '44 The Bolles Farm seems to have been West Hartford, Connecticut continuously occupied thereafter until Secretary 1942 when the house burned after it 'Britta Schein McNemar '67 was struck by lightning. Therefore, "he~1 Hanover, New Hampshire almost two hundred years of rural New Treasurer England life is represented at this site in the -archaeological record of human 01_11 Platt Townend Arnold '64 activity. We hope to use the Bolles Quaker Hill, Connecticut Farm site to investigate this record and Chairman of the Nominating Committee as a resource for teaching archaeologi- By Richard H. G Joann Walton Leavenworth '56 cal field methods. When combined with Professor emerit Wayzata, Minnesota the perspectives of documentary analy- Chairman of the Clubs Committee sis and oral history, archaeological and former Arbc Sue Weinberg Mindlin '53 studies of our recent past can signifi- director Shawnee Mission, Kansas cantly increase our understanding of Directors-at-Large the cultural dynamics of peoples and periods usually studied only through In the past thirty·thl 'Helen Haase Johnson '66 the methods of traditional history. We which Dr. Goodwin 1 Norwich, Connecticut have begun the early stages of this re- director of the conn~ Michael J. Farrar 73 search and we hope to report our de- and later as technic Deep River-Connecticut tailed findings at a later time. successor, the Arbor~ 'Sara Rowe Heckscher '69 I would like to mention one other ceiving increasing us Cincinnati, Ohio cultural resource within the Arboretum ecological research, b Anne Godsey Stinnett '56 which should eventually be mvesti- and by students. It b' Sarasota, Florida gated. Professor Goodwin has discov- a detailed history Alumni Trustees ered that the remains of several 19th human impacts on t Virginia Golden Kent '35 century Free Black farm sites are lo- most helpful in the cated within the Arboretum. An the data being accum Chatham, New Jersey archaeological and historical study of attempts to present tf Jane Smith Moody '49 these sites might be fascinating. Ques- in the environs of th Falmouth, Maine tions relating to the pattern of pre- and lege Campus. It is a p3 Joan Jacobson Kronick '46 post-Civil War Black settlement from which will eventual Brooklyn, New York both a techno-economic and docu- Bulletins of the Conn 'Term expires June 30, 1977 mentary perspective could be investigated. Several archaeologists have Over fifteen thousand excavated slave cabins, but the sheet of ice blanket archaeology of 19th century northern England and filled L Black farms and settlements remains The ground had been largely terra incognita. I believe it could outcrops polished an be an exciting research project. advancing glacier. At Based on two preliminary studies it ing climate robbed t seems that the Arboretum has much to power. It stopped offer the student of archaeology in both thinned and finally prehistoric and historic contexts. In the ping in place its future we hope to increase our under- gravel, sand and cla standing of local settlement and culture mouth of the Thame change through investigations in this with ice which da valuable natural area. forming a lake fed

20 A report dated 1638 reveals that four small Indian villages of eight to twenty wigwams were scattered along the banks of the Thames River down- earliest settlers as Mohegan Path, stream from the big Mohegan encamp- northward from New London to the ment near the present site of Fort large Mohegan encampment, heading Shantok. It was no accident that these the coves that cut into the west bank of villages were located along the shore. the Thames River. Thus the first leg of Here the natives found an abundance this journey, from Winthrop's Cove to of shellfish, attested by the presence of Smith's Cove, followed the line present- shell heaps. And Nameaug, the earliest ly occupied by Williams Street. One name for New London, was the Indian can imagine that in Indian times it word for fishing place. The mouths of threaded open oak-chestnut forests as .-- streams or springs were surely favored it passed to the west of what is now the son John, whose followers were later spots. One of these was ,probably at the College campus. The ledgy, broken known as the Hogerenes. They were head of Winthrop's Cove in New Lon- ground further to the west, somewhat persecuted by the conforming mem- don; another may have been near the protected from fires by wetlands, bers of the colony, who referred to spring on the Matthies Tract south of would have supported a growth of them as Quakers. Thus the hill on which the College is now located be- Mamacoke Island. In the papers of hemlock, a very fire-sensitive species. came known as Quaker Hill. The Roger- John Winthrop there is a description of Mohegan Path became a country ene sect, which worshipped on Satur- a landing at "Pequot Harbor" in 1636. lane servicing the farms that sprang up day instead of Sunday, survives today A party disembarked on the west side in what was referred to as the North as the Seventh Day Baptists. of the river, burned wigwams, destroyed Parish soon after Colonial occupation. Thomas Bolles came to New London canoes and left the corn standing in the So active were the early settlers in in 1665 at the age of 21. Three years fields. This confirms the agricultural clearing the land that an ordinance was later he bought a cabin on the east side activities of the Mohegans, who also passed in 1659, thirteen years after the of Mohegan Path not far from where grew beans and squash. Extensive founding of the colony, forbidding the the Deshon House of the Lyman-Allyn clearings were therefore present along' cutting of trees within four miles of the Museum stands today. A few years the shore at places that were suitable meeting house. These early farms were after his marriage, while he was away for cultivation. laid out on either side of the lane, some from home, a young delinquent entered The hinterland provided the hunting of those to the east running clear to the his house and slew his wife and two grounds. Indians annually set fire to river. The old stone walls remain as older children. The youngest child, the woods to clear the underbrush and mute testimony to the diligence of John, who was still an infant, survived encourage forage for deer, a practice these farming folk who cleared the the massacre and lived to populate the that favored the development on the fields of rocks which they then used to fence in their livestock and establish hill with fourteen offspring. Father and uplands of open stands of oak, hickory son between them acquired title to and chestnut-the sprout hardwoods their boundaries. The houses were all most of the land on both sides of Mo- that could survive these fires-----.,.while located close to the road, which by hegan Path as far north as Gallows some of the drier, sandy sites were 1792 was established as Mohegan Road, the first operating toll road in Lane and, in addition, many lots still converted to grasslands. There may further north. These holdings were have been some of these prairie-like the country. Later it was known as the divided among John's various sons. spots on the gravel terraces along the Norwich-New London turnpike. The farm just south of Gallows Lane nver. There were also small salt Two families played a dominant role remained in the family for six genera- meadows such as the one connecting in the settlement of the North Parish. tions and was purchased by Connecti- Mamacoke Island to the mainland. John One was founded by Thomas Bolles; the other by James Rogers. Their de- cut College at the time of its founding Winthrop mentions mowing this hay the in 1911 from Mary L. Bolles Branch, very first year of settlement. scendents formed a tightly knit com- John's great-great-granddaughter. It Indian trails followed lines of least munity bound together by ties of matri- was still under cultivation in that year. resistance through the countryside. mony and a commitment to a religious Continued on page 28 One of these trails, referred to by the movement founded by James Rogers'

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Gro1lRh 0'_he sreen beM By Richard H. Goodwin House (on tract 15)-which were part of embedded in urban surroundings. This two of these transactions. intent has been specifically written Since the founding of the College in The purpose motivating these gifts into some of the deeds in the form of 1911, Connecticut College's real estate was to assure for the College a beauti- legal restrictions. The donors were also holdings have grown through gifts and ful environment with open space mindful of the great contribution the purchases to a total of more than a around the campus for recreational Arboretum can make to the state and to square mile. The initial purchases in- and educational facilities so frequently the local community. cluded the main campus, the "river denied older institutions that become In 1956 the College administration property" and tract 1 (see map). In addition, the Bolleswood (tract 2) was received as a gift from Mr. Bolles' Date at No. of granddaughter and named in his honor. No. Name of tract acquisition acres Method 01 acquisition Its use is legally restricted to "park" 1. John R. Bolles Farm 1911 22 Purchase; designated Arboretum in 1931 purposes. In 1926-27 tract 3 was pur- 2. Bolleswood 1911 16 Gift for a park; designated Arboretum in 1931 chased. 3, Comstock Farm 1926-27 26 Purchase; designated Arboretum in 1931 The Connecticut Arboretum at the 4 Ravine Tract 1937 16 Gift to Arboretum by 40 donors time of its establishment in 1931 was 5, Benham Road extension 1942 10 Gift to Arboretum by 33 donors comprised of tracts 1, 2 and 3, totalling 6. George S, Avery Tract 1944 33 Purchase; 65% of cost gift of over 100 friends about 64 acres. Within this area the of Dr. Avery original plantings, the Laurel Walk, the 7. Katherine Matthies Tract 1946 26 Purchase; gift to Arboretum by Miss Matthies Outdoor Theater, Buck Lodge and the 8. Gallows Lane extension 1946 19 Purchase; 25% of cost gill to Arboretum by 4 donors Edgerton Wildflower Garden have 9. Frances S Williams Tract 1950 19 Purchase: cost of land a gift from 24 donors; barn purchased by College been developed. At that time the Col- 10. Monroe Tract 1950 16 Gift to Arboretum by 31 donors lege was situated in a rural setting of 11 Ribaudo Tract 1951 29 Purchase; 90% of cost gift to Arboretum from open countryside. It is fortunate that the 39 donors first director of the Arboretum had the 12 Hempstead Tract 1952 5 Gill to Arboretum from 16 donors foresight to assure that this setting 13. Marnacoke Island 1955 41 Gift to Arboretum from 286 donors would be preserved. 14, Richard H. Goodwin Tract 1956 8 Gill to Arboretum on its 24th anniversary from Between 1937 and 1956 twelve tracts 17 friends ot Dr. Goodwin (tracts 4 to 15) totalling 224 acres and 15. Monroe House and Lot 1956 2 Purchase; 35% of cost gilt from Arboretum two buildings were added to the Ar- Advisory Committee boretum holdings. In every case the 16, Kip House and Lot 1958 1 Purchase 17, Brailsford Tract initiative came from the directors of 1958 28 Purchase 18. Burdick Lot the Arboretum or members of the 1959 2 Purchase; designated Arboretum 19. Hirschfeld Tract Botany department staff, generously 1959 24 Purchase; designated Arboretum 20. Colley Farm 1959 50 Purchase; 5 acres in southwestern corner designated supported by the Connecticut Arbore- Arboretum tum Advisory Committee. Practically 21 Hirschfeld Farm 1959 50 Purchase; 42% of cost gift to Arboretum from 6 donors all the real estate negotiations during 22. Espinosa House and Lot 1963 2 Purchase; 15% of cost gilt to Arboretum from 5 donors this period were at least initiated by 23. Lloyd B. Benham Tract 1964 Gilt the directors, and the fund-raising 24. Thames Science Center gilt 1968 4 Gift to Arboretum from Thames Science Center activities were carried on by them. 25. Goodwin Tract 1969 20 Gilt to Arboretum from Richard H. Goodwin Over $52,000 was raised for these ac- 26. Carola Ernst House 1969 Purchase quisitions, while the College spent an 27. Locus Realty Tract 1970 32 Purchase additional $10,000 to acquire the two 28, Wuerdemann Tra,ct 1975 24 Gilt to Arboretum from 44 donors buildings-the present College Riding 29. Worcester Lot 1976 Purchase; 50% of cost gilt to College Stable (on tract 9) and the Monroe

22 initiated and expanded its land acquisition program. It purchased the Kip House (tract 16) and authorized the Arboretum Director to contact the owners of the four major land holdings to the north of the Arboretum. The negotiations which followed happily resulted in the purchase of five tracts (17 to 21) totalling about 154 acres and including an old colonial house, at a cost of $91,600, of which $2,500 was contributed by friends of the Arbore- tum. The subsequent exchange of a 1.3 acre piece of the Hirschfeld farm with the City of New London for the reser- voirs formerly in the center of the campus made available the site now occupied by the new library. In 1968 an additional 80 acres to the north have been acquired. Forty-eight of these (tracts 24, 25 and 28) were given to the College and are legally restricted to Arboretum purposes, while 32 acres (tract 27) were purchased by the College. Also bought was a house on Williams Street (tract 26) built by Miss Carole Ernst on a lot sold to her by the College in 1933. This now serves as the president's residence. Another small lot on Williams Street (tract 29) was acquired, half the purchase price being a gift from an Ar- boretum friend. The nine- acre State Wildlife Sanctu- ary, located south of the Arboretum, was acquired by the State in 1956 from the Federal Housing Authority. The state's deed provides that the land shall forever remain in the hands of the public. The Sanctuary is administered by the Department of Environmental Pro- tection which, in turn, has placed the property under the supervision of the Arboretum. In 1975 the West Farms Land Trust purchased a 4.6 acre easement from Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Ammirati that extends protection to an additional strip of open space north all the way to Hunts Brook.

23 . Grandmas house A short story by Mark Spina '79

Over the river and through the woods, to Grand- That's why we're walking over the trestle and mother's house we go ... through the underpass along interstate 80 at three ... except that it's over the trestle and through the o'clock in tbe morning, underpass walking along interstate 80 at three 0' clock in the morniug and my feet hurt and it's cold. It's also I'm sitting with Glen and Greta under a big neon twenty miles to Grandma's house and when is Mom sign that says, "Paul's All Night Diner". Paul's All going to realize that we just can't make it? Night Diner is closed, but Mom is in the gas stat~on Mom has just had her Friday Night Fight with Ron- next door trying to think of somebody to call.Weve nie, her second husband. The five of us-me, my walked five miles so far. It's after four o'clock. brother Glen, our dog Greta, Mom and Ronnie will be The bighway makes a hollow sound at night-~he sitting in the livingroom, watching television, getting whine of a faraway truck. It would be scary,but weve along pretty well considering that me, Glen and Greta been living in that apartment on the highwayfor thre; don't like Ronnie. I'm not really sure how my mother years now, and I'm used to it. On nights when Icant feels about him. I only know that she likes him better sleep, I just sit in bed listening to that empty sound, than being over thirty, unmarried, and living with and the sizzle of the electrical wires and street lights. Grandma. She also thinks that, me being twelve and The Paul's All Night Diner sign is making that noise Glen being nine, we're at an age where we need a now. At first I used to wonder if I was the only one father-figure to look up to. Anyway, around nine- who heard it. But one night I got up to go to the bath- thirty, Ronnie will say, "I'm going out to get cigar- room, and as I passed my mother's door, I saw her ettes-do you want anything, Kathy?" Mom just looks lying on her bed, alone, staring at the ceiling. She at him. "I'll be right back. Promise." "Okay." For the heard it, too. next two hours, Mom sits in the same chair, staring A police car pulls up. The man in the car looksat at the television set. She doesn't notice when I change us. Two kids, a German shepherd and an overmght channels. At eleven-thirty, Ronnie comes home bag. We look like we're running away. But our mother drunk. Mom will say, "Bobby-Glen-go to bed." W~ is funning away with us. 11 leave the room right away, something we only do The policeman, a big, friendly looking person,ro s wh~n we have company or at times like this. But we down his window and says, "Where are you boys don t bother to get undressed. We lie on our beds heading?" I decide to save him a lot of time, and say,: staring at the ceiling, listening to Mom and Honnie "My mother is in the gas station making a phone call. yell at each other. Half an hour later Mom comes in He pulls his car over to the gas station, gets out, an d and says, "Boys-get dressed. We're ~oing to Grand- goes inside. A few minutes later, he and Mom com~ ~a's house." So we jump out of bed and Glen takes out together. He says, "Hop in, kids." Glen, me,an hIS favorite GI Joe doll and I pick out a couple of Greta get in the back, Mom and the policeman SItup books and we put Greta on a leash and we walk out of front. We drive out on to the highway. the apartment. Ronnie lets us leave, but he won't let Mom is telling the man about the fight, about our us use the phone or give us the keys to the car. He's walk along the highway, and the history of her mar- never violent, Just nasty. riage. Included in this is her home-made psycho- Now, usuallq, usually what we do is, we walk across analysis of the whole thing, patched together fro: the empty lot to the phone booth at the gas station Psychology Today. It's because Grandma ~as a d k and we call Grandpa (collect). Grandpa hops into his structive personality, always giving then takmg b~cs car, drives for half an hour, picks us up on the high- love, that Mom looks for destructive relatIOnshIP,' way, and takes us back to his house. and don't you find it significant that both of Moms But this week, there's a twist: Grandpa and Grand- husbands resemble her brother Larry, who she never ma are five hours away in Baltimore, visiting Mom's liked? bro;her Larry (who Mom never liked), so Grandpa any more to know what can t come and rescue us. I don't have to listen Mom's saying. She's been saying the same th mgs· for

24 25 three years now. When she first started reading psychology, I used to listen to, her wh~n she said, "Bobby, Bobby, listen to this-I ve got It all figured out!" I thought it meant that smce she had It all figured out, we weren't going to keep running up and down the highway. But she keeps figurmg It out and we keep doing the same things over and over agam. Every once in a while, the policeman will look away from the highway over to my mother. He's thinking, she's young, she's pretty, intelligent in a flighty kind of way-she could do better than an alcoholic. Yeah, well. We arrive at the police station. The car stops. "Do you want to sign a complaint?" "Well, I mean, should I? Maybe .... could I think about it? Well, what do you think? "Uh-huh." My mother is part of a syndrome of wives of alcoholics who never take a firm stand about their husband's drinking problem. NBC did a docu- meutary on it. Mom made all of us watch it. "Well, what do you want do do?" "My U.S. History survey is per- "I'd like to get to my mother's house in Fairfield, but there's no one there to pick us up, and I haven't haps an off-beat course," got enough money for a 'cab:" notes professor Richard Bird- "Hrnm ... alright, I'll see what I can do." He goes sall, "but I think it makes into the station. Glen and I pretend to be asleep. Mom sense to start with the pre- lights a cigarette. The policeman is back before she can finish it. sent." Thus Mr. Birdsall's "All set. We've arranged a shuttle-I'll take you down syllabus for American History the highway to the city limits, then Stan Levinson will 105 includes some unorthodox pick you up in his squad car and take you to the end of his beat, then somebody else will pick you up ... may reading assignments, among take a while, but you'll get there." them Baldwin's Notes of a Na- Glen and I stop pretending to be asleep. He looks at tive Son, Berthofl's Amer- me. I look at him. Greta just puts her head in my lap and and closes her eyes. ican Social Order Life's special report, Remarkable So we go from police car to police car to police car. American Women. Sometimes we'll be in one car for fifteen minutes, "The thought," says Mr. other times we'll only go for a mile down the highway before we switch cars. Greta hasn't bitten anybody Birdsall, "is that three of ) yet. Some of the friendlier policemen make jokes the most obvious points of our about having this monster German shepherd in their present compass are women's back seat. Others ignore us. I don't care if they don't talk to us. I'm trying to think. liberation, the move for I'm thinking that I'm kind of glad that Grandma black's rights and the evidence isn't home this weekend. Grandma plays a big part in of alienation and social dis- the Friday Night Fight. It seems like she's the reason integration in our life to- we always end up back with Ronnie. Maybe it'll be different this time. day. Then we go back to the Usually, what happens is this: After Grandma American Revolution." rescues us, we all sit around the kitchen table making T est scores ranged from 32 sandwiches, while Mom tells Grandma and Grandpa correct (A+) to 7 correct (F). about the fight, and Grandma says, "Isn't that awful?" and Grandpa says, "Kathleen, you'd better stay here. Only question 35 was answered Get a good job and start earning social security." correctly by all 18 students Mom's eyes start to glaze over at this point. Then in Mr. Birdsall's class. everybody goes to bed-the rooms we lived in all those years between Mom's marriages to Dad and her mar- Answers appear on page 39. riage to Ronnie are always ready for us-and every- thing's fine. Glen, me and Greta go to sleep thinking that we don't have to go back to Ronnie. At least We Continued on page 35

26 Givename of woman described

1. Created a Washington scandal in time of Andrew Jackson

2. Killed her father with 40 whacks

3. Architect of Hearst's San Simeon

4. Little MissPoker Face of tennis

5. Married Wild Bill Hickok

6. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

7. Founder of National Organization for Women

8. Ecologist who wrote Silent Spring

9. Said "A rose is a rose is a rose"

10.Became a painter at age 78

11.Won two gold medals in Olympic skiing

12.The two most famous first ladies in the White House

13.Main creator of modem dance

14.Smashed liquor kegs and fought sin.

15.Bluessinger-"Nobody knows you when you're down and out"

16.Leading prophet of birth control

17.Founder of Opera Company of Boston

18.Publisher whose newspaper investigated Watergate

19.Killedby scarf in sports car wheel

20.Founder of Christian Science

21.Wrote Little Women

22.Student of industrial disease; namesake of C.C. dormitory

23.Founder of Hull House

24.Columnist who married Sinclair Lewis

25.Two great black women in opera

26.A leading American photographer at age 93

27. Founder of Mt. Holyoke College

28.Poet-"Smalllike the wren, with sherry colored eyes"

29.Editor of Ms. Magazine i 30.Wrote Coming of Age in Samoa

31. Radical who was departed to Russia in 1919

32.Piano teacher to Van Cliburn

33. Actresswho won three oscars

34.Radical activist who was fired from UCLA faculty

35. Sang "Over the Rainbow" ------"We Americans love to be, analysed" program. LetBIS fittingly to the tenor of your article to Unfortunately, three sports, all of "We Americans love to be looked which happen in the spring, were at ... " We have forgotten how to omitted from the magazine. Men's and participate in our environment. We women's crew, men's tennis and golf To the Editor: have retreated from it into don't-touch- are the three sports we left out. As an alum of Connecticut College it, scent-free, sound-free, freeless home Two years ago our men's crew won and as a literate professional woman, I environments. And as Orwell, Huxley, the silver medal at the Dad Vail and found your recent "Open House" issue Wells might have predicted, we are several years ago our women's crew absolutely abhorrent in scope and pur- actually beginning to hang ourselves was one of the best in the country. pose. Your treatment of the "Ameri- like gadgets in our own sparkling Optimism is the key word for both can home" is neither poetic nor soulful, kitchens. men's and women's crew this spring. concentrating as it does upon vintage Dedicate an issue to people without Last spring one of our golfers, Ford desks, indoor swimming pools, guest pools and colonnades, but to people Gardner, won the Hartford Invitational wings and Chinese screens. I don't who-for better or for worse-s-have Golf Tournament. Our team plays at want my "eye grabbed" or my "soul faces of their own. Black Hall Country Club and is very analysed" in such terms. You concen- Anita Perry '74 representative. trate on materialism because, topically, Cambridge, Mass. Men's tennis plays against most of it is more comfortable and enviable the good small colleges in New Eng- than discussing poets, artists, novelists, To the Editor: land and is looking forward to the best actors, professions and people who use I thought the article on athletics at season ever. their hands to shape themselves ... not Connecticut College in the winter issue Charles Luce their possessions. was timely and told it like it is. I am Chairman You should rephrase your statement: sure it will help gain support for our Physical Education Department

HISTORY Continued from page 21 tion and environment would have The Louise W. Holbom The ledges, interspersed with small been very different. Memorial Fund wetlands on the western edge of the farm, were too rough for cultivation Friends of the late Professor Louise W. and remained woodland. This area, TURTLE Continued from page 15 Holborn will be pleased to know that known as Bolleswood in honor of Mrs. area. Theoretically, the ratio of marked the Memorial Fund established after Branch's father, John R. Bolles, is now animals trapped in the census period to her death in October 1975 in her name part of the Bolleswood Natural Area of the total animals trapped in the census received sufficient contributions to be the Arboretum. A fine stand of hem- period is the same as the ratio of the converted into a permanent fund. The lock, most of which was destroyed by number marked in the pre-census annual income from this fund will be the great hurricane of 1938, had trees period to the total population. Thus, used to purchase books for the Con- which were seedlings in 1768. A wood- the number of painted turtles was necticut College Library in the fields of lot north of Gallows Lane and now estimated to be 42 (with a range of comparative politics and international known as the Monroe Tract belonged 20-64). This figures to be 12 turtles! relations. to another one of the original Bolles acre, as the pond is about three-and-a- Professor Holborn taught Govern- farms located further south. half acres in area. The density is low ment at Connecticut College from 1946 In 1659 J ames Rogers acquired the compared to other studies, but the pos- until her retirement in 1963. She was a Mamacock Farm, which eventually sible causes may be low pond produc- distinguished scholar whose many con- comprised at least 425 acres, about tivity, lack of suitable nesting sites and tributions to the study of international two-thirds of it-e-including Mamacoke greater human disturbance. work for refugees were widely ac- Island-lying east of the road and the An effort was made to determine the claimed both in this country and balance to the west of it. Portions of ages of the turtles by counting yearly abroad. this property remained in the hands of growth rings or annuli appearing in the The Department of Governme~t the family for seven generations. plastron (the bottom part of the shell), wishes to thank Professor Holborn s Early photographs of the College but this was difficult in the Arboretum many friends whose generous contribu- show the buildings standing bleakly population because the plastrons were tions made it possible to maintain the alone on a bare hilltop. Farming was worn smooth. I will always remember Louise W. Holborn Memorial Fund as a beginning to be phased out by the turn my five-year-old son picking turtles out continuing memorial. of the century and during the past of the traps and announcing, "Nope- seventy years the abandoned fields no discernible annuli here." After have been reverting to forest. One in- determining a growth rate of 1.5mm cipient development, known as the per year for the turtles and making a Thames Improvement Company, had few assumptions, the bulk of the turtles Official Notice platted the entire hillside facing the were determined to be at least 35 The annual meeting of the Connecti- river with a large number of lots, a few years old. cut College Alumni Association will of which along Mohegan Avenue were The end of the study came with already built upon. These included be held at the College on Saturday, mixed emotions. The goals of the May 28th, 1977 at 9,00 a.m. The what is now known as College House- project had been achieved, but I would formerly the president's residence-and agenda will include reports from the miss the hours spent working in the officers of the association, an alumna the North Cottages. This property was field. To be sure, more work was in- bought out at the founding of the Col- trustee and chairpersons of standing volved than first estimated, but the and special committees. lege. Had Connecticut College been summer of '75 will remain the high established a few years later, its loca- point of my return to college.

28 a , 1

Class Notes

letters to forebears from Daniel Webster, Henry W. Dorothy Wulf Weatherhead, last summer Julia (Judy) Warner enjoys life on Cape Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mrs. Herman traveled extensively in South America, out Cod more than ever, even though in '76 21 23 Melville. Sharing some of what these famous fig- of the way places such as the Inca ruins, Easter Is- "wall to wall people" came to celebrate our 200th. ures had to say imposes a pleasant obligation. To land and the famous Nazca ruins. She will be off Her latest hobby is recording on tape stories of her pass along bits of the past to historians and scholars on another explorer's trip in '77. family's early days. is an endless delight; if they add any small dimen- Louise Avery Favorite spent last summer at Olive Holcombe Wheeler and Rufus exhibited sion, that is reward in itself." Groton Long Point and saw a lot of Matilda Allyn. their music at the N.Y. State Music Annual Con- Betsy Allen edits THE JACKSON JOURNAL Louise's grandson is a freshman at Dartmouth. vention in Dec. A trip to Sanibel, Fla. in Mar. is on in Newton, Mass., reporting significant activities Dorothy Gregson Slocum went to Calif. for the their agenda. of The Jackson Homestead, Historic Museum. Christmas holidays to be with her family and to Claire "Calnen Kinney served on the Mansfield, Catherine Calhoun carries administrative re- meet her new great grandchild. Conn. Bicentennial Commission. She is working sponsibility at The Torrington, Conn. Historical Helen Rich Baldwin's granddaughter, Caroline on the family genealogy and has taken a course in Society. C'C. '79 continues to be enthusiastic about Conn. that subject at U. Conn. Gertrude Noyes representcd the class at Alumni Grandson Truxton has applied for admission to Lavinnia (Vin) Hull Smith left Nassau in Jan. for a 97 day Pacific and Far East cruise which took Council and the library dedication. Yale, class of 1981, continuing the span of Baldwins Constance Parker with her sister had a summer at Yale, which began with Henry Baldwin '26. her to Tahiti, Fiji, Bali, New Zealand, Manila and Australia. In Canberra she accompanied Sir Alan tour to four of the Hawaiian Islands. Charlotte Hall Holton had a telephone conversa- Eleanor Harriman Kohl and Emily Warner and Lady Turner to a session of their Parliament. tion with Dorothy Gregson Slocum when they were She was interested in noting the similarity of their visited Newport Harbor by boat in July to view the visiting their children in nearby towns. Since re- Tall Ships, a treat shared by many on the eastern procedures to those in the Bahamas where her turning from their anniversary trip last July, their husband had been in the House of Assembly. She seaboard. lives have been the usual round of church and club The class extends deep sympathy to Frank also revisited Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo and work, golf and bridge. They expect to leave on an- McGrath, brother of EIIen McGrath, who died in Hong Kong. other Caribbean trip in early spring. Mary Louise Weikert Tuttle and Laurence spent. Sept. after a long illness. Margaret Jacobson Cusick attended a confer- Correspondent: Emily Warner, /4 Arden Way, last summer at Stony Brook, L.I., a Federalist ence of university administrators and the Institute Restoration Village. Earlier they vacationed at South Yarmouth, Mass. 02664 for Retired Professionals last autumn, held at the Anna Maria Island, Fla. Mary often sees Ella New School in which Peg is very active. This was a McCollum Vahlteich '21 and keeps in touch with pioneer demonstration of how continued education Lyda Chatfield Sudduth: "The class officers Jean Pegram's sister. and their committees are busily engaged, for the elderly can work. Peg was chairman of a Mary Birch Timberman enjoyed a trip to British 27 group which read samples of original non-fiction together with assistance of the Alumni Office, in Columbia and Alberta last Aug. She was particu- preparing a BANG UP REUNION for the Class of pieces. larly fascinated by the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper Laura Dickinson Swirt spent some time last sum- '27, May 27, 28 and 29. Remember we will never Nat'! Park and the scenery in Glacier Nat'I Park. be fifty again! I hope that as many of you as can mer in North Amherst on the occasion of her 60th Mary's grandson David, having been selected as are really planning to return, with your husbands if high school reunion. She expects to be in Calif. an exchange student in Hong Kong, is busy study- this spring. you're lucky enough to have them. Meantime, I ing the Chinese language. hope you are submitting your biographies and sup- Harriette Johnson Lynn entered some of her Katherine (Tony) Stone Leavenworth was hen- porting your class and AAGP for our class gift. If paintings in the Spanish Lakes exhibit in Fla. and ored last June by the congregation of her church you decide to attend, please alert our reunion sold a rather large one. She thinks this will encour- where she had been organist for 50 plus years. One chairman, Gretchen Snyder Francis. Your decision age her 10 be more serious about her work. She of her prized retirement gifts was the old footstool, just might persuade someone else. See you soon." spent some time in Long Island last summer with adorned with a brass plate, which she had used 10 her son and in Conn. with her sister. While there Gretchen Snyder Francis: "Most "of all we want reach music on the highest shelf. a 100% attendance. It's your one and only "Golden she visited Marion Adams Taylor who was recover- Co-correspondents: Mrs. Carleton A. Leaven- Opportunity'. But now we want from '27ers and ing from a broken hip. worth (Katherine SlOne), 527 D Heritage Village, ex-'27ers a small picture of yourself taken then. .ElIa McCollum Vahlteich has made progress, Southbury, Conn. 06488; Miss Anna K. Buell, 750 Send it to me or to Marjorie (Midge) Halsted Hef- still uses a cane, but her knee and hip are about Whitney Ave., New Haven, Conn. 06511 100%. Her back is still undergoing therapy. She fron who is helping with the place cards." and her husband spent last summer at their home Sally Plthouse Becker's '77 schedule includes a Flower Show celebrating the 150th anniversary of in vt. Dorothy Roberts McNeilly submitted a col- the Pa. Horticultural Society; she is on the com- .Olive Littlehales Corbin and husband ale busy lection of sketches by Charles Lanman, an mittee. Last fall she attended the dedication of our with the local American Ass'n of Retired Persons. early25 relative, to the Lyman Allyn Museum. The new library at and met Lyda, Frances Joseph, Olive is sec'y of the New Britain chapter of DAR. show was in Nov.-Dec. 1976. Dorothy busy re- c.c. Mary Crofoot DeGange and Gretchen to discuss She has not had time to do any acting for some searching her family history, writes, "Among im- time. Their son Albert is performing at the Folger portant finds in a quantity of family papers, are plans for our Big 50th. LIbrary Theatre in Washington and she and Em Barbara Tracy Coogan wintered in the sun in have been down to see his play and will go again in Houston where Peter was a visiting prof. again. Jan. On these visits they also see their daughter Bob and Peggy Battles Barber are editing the Class Reunion Book. Peggy reports, "A wide variety of Susan who lives in Md. Em is better after his illness of last year. In Memoriam activities is represented in our 'life stories'; we have been anything but idle for 50 years." She and Roberta Newton Blanchard and Marston Stevens Hi enjoy winters in N.M., summers in Vt. They get .Balch were married on Sept. 7 in Boston. It was an Margery Rowe Head '19 to see their son and daughter and grands at least mtl.mate affair with only the grandchildren and Dorothy Hover Drummond '20 their parents attending. The next morning they left twice a year. Ann Scroggie Robinson '22 Sally Carslake has been at Brearley 48 years out for ~u~ope with a month in France by car. They Delphine Litt '26 of the 50 since College. "I taught physical educa- are living partly in his home, partly in Bobbie's. tion for J 7 years and the rest of the time I've been Mr. Balch, until his retirement, was head of the Helen Smith Guy '27 doing admissions." She looks forward to our 50th, Dept. of the Drama at Tuft's and was a long time Margaret Brewer Bunyan '30 her retirement and staying in N.Y. to do all the friend of the Blanchards. Virginia Wilcox Downing '32 things there's no time to do when you're working. Your correspondent and Al spent the holidays in Helen Whiting Miller '37 Ruth Battey Silver is still on Ihe farm. "Bill and Conn, with the family from vt. and Mass. joining Betsey Barker McKenna '41 I entertained Midge and Ray Heffron here after the Conn. family. We had a great reunion but look Phyllis Sheriffs Harrington '41 their European trip. Spent a week at Hilton Head forward to Fla. and warmer climate. Living in a where Elizabeth (Lib) Fowler Coxe and George more temperate climate has made New England Barbara MacPherson Smith '42 have a home. We made a date to meet at c.c. weather no longer pleasant. Judith Schwarz Scharff '57 May 27th" Correspondent: Mrs. Alfred 1. Chalmers (Anna James O'Loughlin, III '76 Margaret Rich Raley and Winifred Maynard M. Brazos), Box 3/3, Rte 4, Hendersonville, N.C, Wright watched the Christmas boat parade from 28739 29 golf at Myrtle Beach, more sightseeing, Williams- Peg's patio in Fla., discussed their respective trips about the reunion round-up. burg, and a revisit with their son in Md. He is now to Austria and the Orient and the exciting pros- Esther Chandler Taylor is on the Count-Me-In list. She saw Gwendolyn (Gwen) Lewis Hottt last transferred to an Air Force Base in Neb. as a It. pect of traveling together north to Conn. col. in the Intelligence sector. Betty and Neil rev- Miriam (Mig) Addis Wooding will be there. "It'll Thanksgiving Day and Gwen told her how much eled in a White Christmas with their daughter and be such fun to see our classmates once more." she wanted to see everybody in her class. Elizabeth (Betty) Cede Simons writes, "I've Frances Andrews Leete is spending spring in Fla. grands. They expect to drive to New London for the Big 50th. joined the historical society here, also 2 Spanish as usual. "At our mini-reunion here the main topic groups. I go bowling and bridging. I'm on ambu- is our MAXI." Frances Joseph is featured in the c.c. News, lance duty 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. two days .. I'm an E.M.T. Elizabeth (BeUy) Tremaine Pierce sent a travel- with a photo close-up of her at the Alumni book -Emergency Medical Technician." ogue of her fun with Neil visiting family and sale in Palmer. Fran writes, "Don't forget to send Margaret Graham Reichenbach is coming back friends along East Coast, USA ... In Clearwater class dues and gifts to c.c. via AAGP. Someone with Clayt. She talked with Betty who had phoned for a week of golf, they had luncheon with Florence suggested a gift of $50, $1 for each year. Of course Meg and decided to drive to Gretchen's to hear (Bony) Hopper Levick. On the return trip, more some gifts have been more, others less, but all '76-'77 gifts are credited toward our class reunion gift." Her autobiography of the Bicentennial Year reads like an exciting chapter in a book. Alice Cronbach Uchitelle reports, "I've been searching through Time to compile my resume of New alumni-related students 50 years. What a huge hunk of life! Where did it go? Well, Abe and I are going hack to the starting CLASS 01 1980 place; hope to see you there." Eleanor (Nubs) Vernon won honorable mention Betsy Bravman Daughter Marilyn Berk Bravman '57 for her photo-essay in the Federation of Camera Gail Compton Daughter Jean Hurlbut Compton '49 Clubs competition with slides of the caves and an Sister Susan Hurlbut Compton '74 Indian shelter at Muckshaw Swamp, N.J. where the Tory, Lt. James Moody, hid away during his Stephanie Cooper Daughter Marthe Baratte Cooper '39 exploits in the war. Harry Curtis Son Cynthia Bassett Brown '53 Henrietta Kanehl Kohms has taken up Arabic Katherine Davis Granddaughter Lillian Dauby Gries '27 Dancing. "It's great. Try it some time." She walks Judson Dayton Son Julia Winton Dayton '49 five miles every day. "All this is supposed to be good for my figure but to date I haven't noticed James Duys Son Joan Blackburn'Duys '51 any improvement. Maybe by the end of May. ~ Ann Elliott Daughter Barbara Miller Elliott '49 Dorothy (Red) Harris Clark took Gretcben on a Deborah Elstein Daughter Sandra Horn Elstein '57 personal tour of the Indian Country in N.M. whose Karla Evans Daughter Jan King Evans '54 land and lore she knows so well. Red was invited to Granddaughter Karla Heurich Harrison '28 stay with her in Mass. for the two weeks following our big weekend. In Feb. Gretchen made an Audu- Donald Goldberg Son Sylvia Lewis Goldberg '55 bon trip to East Africa. Susan Gorvine Daughter Enid Sivigny Gorvine '54 Correspondent: Mrs. J.e. Sewall Jr. (Constance Alison Graff Daughter Ann Wetherald Graff '47 Noble). 6 TJu> Fairway, Upper Montc/air, NJ Elizabeth Hantzes Sister Sophia Hantzes Maass '74 07043 Ellen Harris Daughter Marie Waterman Harris '56 Pamela Hartman Daughter Mary-Nairn Hayssen Hartman '46 Barbara Bent Bailey's younger daughter. Walter Hauser, Jr. Son Sarah Dawes Hauser '56 29 Janet, an Ed.D from U. Mass., IS tn the Karen Hilmer Daughter Alice Adams Hilmer '44 practice of psychotherapy with two psychologists. Andrea Johnson Daughter Marion Mershon Johnson '49 She teaches graduate students one day a week.at a John junda Brother branch of Antioch College, at Keene, N.H. Other Laurence Junda '75 daughter, Linda, c.c. '62 is a biochemist in charge Celestine Knizeski Sister Justine Knizeski '76 of the blood lab at the Palo Alto, Calif. Vets Hos- Judith Krones Daughter Rose Goodstein Krones '49 pital. Paul Littlefield Son Georgia Geisel Littlefield '55 Margaret (Migs) Linde Inglessis writes, "Per- Paula Marks Sister Nancy Marks Rhames '73 haps we shall all still make it to the 1979 reunion. Richard Millard Who knows? 50 years would be something special." Brother Elizabeth Millard '70 Migs and husband travel to Greece and London at Jeffrey Miller Son Mary Condon Miller '50 intervals and have occasional visits with six grand- Susan Pike Granddaughter Margaret Bristol Carleton '29 children and their parents. . Mary Porter Daughter Frances Hubbard keeps busy tutoring middle julia Spencer Porter '50 school students in math, working in Medicare, Priscilla Pratt Daughter Priscilla Wright Pratt '46 Elizabeth Rosoff doing volunteer receptio-n desk work at MiddleseX Granddaughter Hattie Goldman Rosoff '21 Memorial Hospital in Middletown, Conn. and act- (deceased) ing as co-chairman of the lntemat'l Relaucns Michael Roth Brother Regina D. Roth '72 Committee of the local LWV. Edith Porter Rodgers writes from Pelham Pamela Sands Daughter Nancy Platt Sands '46 Campbell Seamans Manor, N.Y., "It was so good to hear from yOU Brother Peter Seamans '72 even though I have no news for the Alum Mag." Constance Smith Daughter Headley Mills Smith '53 Julia Johnston Parrish, after 7 years as hbrary Lindsey Sutman Daughter Dorothy Dismukes Sutman '47 aide in jr..sr. high school, retired in June. "llov.ed Laura Tudisco it but enough was enough." Daughter Joanne wllh Daughter Helen McCrossin Tudisco '48 Kim Whitestone husband and children came from Bethesda, Md. Daughter Patricia Feldman Whitestone '45 for their summer vacation, Julie returning with Sister Jeffrey Whitestone 74 them for six weeks. The Parrishes have 9 "grands" Amy Wilson Daughter Elizabeth DeCamp Wilson '49 ranging from 7 to 21 in three families-"all very Lucinda Wilson active and great fun." Last year Julie vis~ted h~r Daughter Nancy Vail Wilson '51 Sister c.c. roommate, Flora (Pat) Early Edwlrds In Cahf. Deborah Wilson '75 "Much reminiscing after 38 years." .' Catharine (Speedie) Greer's summer hlgh~lg~t TRANSFERS was the wedding of Eleanor (Chili) Fahey Rellly s Alexander Thomson '78 daughter Peggy Ann. Because of arthritis and an Brother Lucy L. Thomson '70 "uncooperative heart" Speedie leads a sedentary John D. Thomson '75 life, though there ar~ frequent visits with Chili Madeleine Platner Reilly in Washington, D.C., Fla. and Roch~ster, Sister Joan Platner '70 Howenstine '79 N. Y. On a recent visit she and Chili had dmner Sharon Platner '73 with Mary Scattergood Norris and Bob. There was also a lunch with Flora (Pat) Hine Myers and Glenn in West Hartford. Speedie is a prodigious reader

30 and is thankful "for my good eyes. I can't wait for Winnie spent Thanksgiving with son John and Guida hopes to join father in practice of oph- thalmology. our 50th!" family in Chevy Chase, Md. John is a staff director Gertrude Reaske Bliss and Charlie returned to in the energy field under the Joint Economic Com- Alta (Jimmie) Colburn Steege recently moved Hawaii last summer where Charlie taught an admission in Sen. Ted Kennedy's office. Winnie to condo. in Stratford, Ct. They celebrated their vanced management course at the U. of Hawaii for keeps happily involved in community activities in 45th wed. anni. with a trip thru western Nat. Parks 7 weeks. "Since we have many friends there now the small hamlet of Orient, L.1. "I have plenty of & a cruise to Alaska. Bethel Dean Lemmerman enjoys living on Lake and had an apt. on the ocean near Diamond Head, room here; so a warm welcome to my e.e. friends." Erie in Willoughby O. Has 4 children, 4 grands. Is we had a wonderful time." They planned to spend Frances Wells Vroom, while in Boston for a retired from administrative duties of County the Christmas holidays with their doctor son and checkup at the Joslin Clinic, spent a nostalgic eve- School for the Retarded. Is now dealing in antiques. family (two sons 5 and 13) in Cohasset, Mass. ning with Lillian (LiI) Ottenheimer Spencer. Fran Katherine (Kitty) Dunlaf Marsh finds genealogy Marjorie (Smudge) Gave Studley and Victor continues to be deeply involved in the diabetic "fascinating". Had plans for trip to New Orleans keep busy with guests from abroad: old friends cause, Camp Nejeda for diabetic children heading and up the Miss. R. by steamer to 51. Louis. from Bath, England, came in Sept. and, as it was the list. In honor of being a 50-year "user" of Giovanna (Jennie) Fusco-Ripka and her hus- their first visit to the U.S.A., "it was great fun insulin therapy, Fran was presented an engraved band, both retired, have travelled thru U.S., Cana- showing them the area, including the Eisenhower sterling medal and chain at the camp's annual da, Mex. Europe & Orient. Son, Joseph, is Asso. Memorial in Abilene, Kansas." A family from dinner by an Eli Lilly co. representative. She also Dean of Temple Law School in Phila., also Prof. Scotland where the Studleys once lived also came received a 50-year bronze medal from the Joslin for a visit. Smudge does volunteer work at the Foundation, all of which "has been compensation of Criminal Law. Constance (Connie) Ganoe Jones after visiting Nelson Art Gallery and in a Jr. League group. Vic for being a human pincushion for 50 years." children in D.e. and N. Orleans is back in Sarasota has two companies to run and "is as busy as Daughter Barbara spent Thanksgiving with her enjoying the "tough life of Fla." She's Pres. of e.c. always." parents. Fran had lunch with Margaret (Peg) Club of Fla. W. Coast. Would love to hear from Margaret (Peg) Bristol Carleton and Russell Burroughs Kohr before the Kohrs left for Calif. to anybody coming to area (tel. 756-2358). divide the year between their home in Chatham spend the Xmas holidays with their daughters and Grace Gardiner Manning after teaching for 44 on the Cape and Sarasota, Fla. In the summer 3 granddaughters. Of the e.e. library dedication, yrs. has retired and now hopes to be able to visit youngest son was married. "We corralled all chil- Fran writes, "It was a delightful outdoor occasion friends & travel. One dau. isa B.S.R.N, in Concord, dren and 13 grandchildren for the celebration." in spite of questionable weather. The library is Mass. & the other a Ph.D. candidate at U. of Conn. Oldest son is chief of cardiology at Pawtucket wonderful if still nameless." Frances Tillinghast visited England again with a Dorothy (Dot) Gould is enjoying retirement in Memorial Hospital in R.I. Youngest son, a strug- her apartment on the Thames in New London: She gling director and teacher of drama, lives in friend, this time to the Came/ol country, They saw the Round Table at Winchester, Salisbury, Stone- is active with interests at College and the Art Mu- Seattle, Wash. One daughter and her minister seum. Also teaching English to a newly arrived husband are in Calif. working in the Farm Workers henge. Florence Moxon Tomlinson spent Christ- mas with Frances and her family in Danielson, Russian woman engineer. Ministry. Other daughter, with 2 of her 5 children Alice Hangen enjoys giving concerts for Senior in college-one in c.c., is doing well and in the Conn. Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whitman describes an Citizens in local housing projects. In so doing is business world. amusing visit she and Burt had with Elizabeth getting her sheet music library gone over. A Verne Hall reports a full schedule of church and nephew is conductor of Portland Me. Symphony civic activities. Many festivities accompanied the (Betty) Seward Tarvin and husband who were in Me. attending meetings of the Jocelyn Botanical & Asso. Dir. of Denver Colo. Symphony. 250th anniversary of her church in Hamburg, Mary-Louise (Toot) Holley Spangler's son grad- Conn. As a beicentennial project Verne is index- Society at the U. in Orono. The two couples took THE BOLERO from Portland to Yarmouth, Nova uated from Law School & married last summer, ing the Lyme Vital Records through 1850 for a now an attorney with local firm. In mid-Julie start- Scotia. Their ship ran aground in the harbor but "it book soon to be published. "Don't ask what re- ing a trip in England she was in a serious accident. didn't bother us as it gave us another hour to talk." tired teachers do with their spare time!" Her bus overturned and she was thrown out a rear The Tarvins continued on their way touring Nova Grace (Beth) Houston Murch and Alanson are window. Her injuries were severe, but battered Scotia while the Whitmans had an II-hour sail on the road again! A spring bus trip to Washington, and bandaged she continued the trip. home in a fog so bad "it was more like being in a D.C, Williamsburg and Monticello; another to the Aurelia Hunt Robinson with her Masters in ReI. Tenn. Smoky Mt. area; and an 18 day tour of our plane than on a boat." Mary Matthews Shuffs husband died on June Ed. from Union Theo. is now "free from church 49th state, "a challenging frontier but spectacularly 19, '73 of acute leukemia. They had just returned job & can enjoy weekends at their old schoolhouse beautiful area. Saw and learned much about the in Pa." One son is in New London with Naval from taking their son and his family to Disney pipeline, a truly great engineering accomplish- Undersea Research, one in N.J. with l.B.M. other ment. Rode a dog sled on wheels over a dirt road." World. Mary spent last summer at Atlantic Beach, Fla. In Sept. her eldest grandson went to Cumber- at home in Chappaqua, N,Y. ~n the winter the Murches helped their daughter Alice (AI) Rindler hopes soon to be able to play land College, having won a tennis scholarship. Her I~ Kansas City through lung surgery and recupera- golf again after a shoulder injury. granddaughter 13 won the championship in horse- lion. Beth is active in church work and the St. Jane King Buss and Dwight love the desert in manship at the Horse Show. Mary plans to be in Louis Hunger Relief program. She saw Roberta Ariz. and their vacation home there. Recent visit Ft. Lauderdale until April. She is a member of a Bitgood '28 twice last year. with Josephine (Jo) Lincoln Morris and Howard hospital auxiliary and a church circle, the DAR Phyllis Heintz Malone leads a quiet life but has and Elizabeth (Iz) Riely Armington & Ray. All many interesting hobbies. She sews, knits, does and Colonial Dames. She has "slowed down since an angina attack and a cataract operation ... but children married, six grands. needlepotm and crewel, is a member of an AAUW Jeannette LaMarche DeWolfe does a lot of vol- music group, participates in a Topics group, and life is still fun." unteer work, plays golf & bridge. Six grands. Your correspondent is a volunteer "short order often attends the theatre at Long Wharf, Yale and Spent last winter in Fla. cook and soda jerker" in the coffee shop of the th: O'Neill Experimental Theatre nearby. Phyl Jo Lincoln Morris has 4 married children, nine Newton-Wellesley Hospital. She took time off to enJ?Ystravel-to Europe, the Caribbean and various grands. She & Howard live six months in Cleveland spend the winter in Calif. and Mexico, touring the cruises, but says, "In summer it is as pleasant here apt. and six in house on Exuma l. in Bahamas. as anywhere." Her daughter is often with her. latter country with a group. "Enjoy watching a brand new nation working to It is with deep sorrow that we report the death build -a proud & prosperous country." Jane Kinney Smith writes, "Glad Rocky and I of our classmate Muriel Kendrick on July 22 in Virginia Louis Parker keeps busy with hospital travelled when we did, as we have been grounded Concord, N.H. The sympathy of all of us is ex- volunteer work and 3 grands, her "pride & joy." for 2 years and 4 months from the auto accident in tended to her sister, Marian Kendrick Daggett, '74. We are itching to return to the Orient but even Saw Louise Buenzle Moyer Fla. last winter. Ex- e.e. '32, of Eugene, Ore. pect to spend a week this fall in Maine together. though my leg is completely healed, the muscles START PLANNING NOW FOR OUR 50TH Catherine Lynch Gannett & husband have re- must get much stronger in order to navigate." Re- IN JUNE 1979. WE WANT 100% TURNOUT. tired to Falls Church, va. where her daughter was c:ntly the Smiths enjoyed visits from their Conn. Correspondent: Mrs. Lillian 0. Spencer (Lillian married 3 yrs. ago. They are very interested in local niece and Identical twin nephews. Jane continues Ottenheimer), 3/ Agawam Rd., Waban, Mass. on the board of trustees for Children's Services in politics, gardening & travel. Cleveland and is treas. of Jones Home for Chil- 02168 Jane Moore Warner, our busy Class Pres., whose dren, "not because of my ability but because no letter we have all recently enjoyed, had a fun trip last summer across Canada by train, ferry Victoria one else wants the job." Helen Chesebro Wilcox retired from teach- to Seattle, & on to San Fran. to visit her sister and Elizabeth (Zeke) Speirs frequently visits her ing in '74. She keeps busy in Carlsbad. mother and brother on Long Island and sees 31 other relatives en route. N.M. with hospital aux. board and church gUild. Vivien (Vh) Noble Wakeman has 4 married Frances (Fran) Wells Vroom and Bob who have a Was inducted into Hall of Fame of Nat, Ed. Asso. summer place nearby. Zeke breakfasted with the children, 12 grands. She and Dave are living in a of N.M. Congratulations. Vrooms in New London where all attended the new house in the country where all the family Anna Cofrances Guida still living in large home dedi~a~ion of the new c.c. library. "with babes & dogs return for happy holidays." is on Board of New Haven Opera Theatre, member h WllIlfred Li~~ Ste~art, another L.I. neighbor, They have enjoyed many trips Nepal to New Guinea. Alliance Francaise, Circolo Italiano, N.H. Chorale, das summer VISits With Zeke and Fran. Winnie's Margaret (Peggy) Osborn Shelby and Henry re- & has worked for 30 yrs. with the choir of Spnng aughter Anne Carol and son Julian 8 spent most cently retired from teaching "3 grades at once" in Glen Cong. Church. Dau., Martha Young '61 lives Wardsboro Vt. where they moved in '65 "to fulfill ?f t~e summer with her. Anne Carol is now study- in Alexandria, Va. 3 grands. Son, Dr. Paul C. mg III the dental assistance program at Loyola U. 31 a dream of rural life, closer to nature." They run a whose husband died suddenly in July '75. Her two ter Patty, her husband and 2 sons are now only a greenhouse business, enjoy local community life teenage children keep her busy. couple of hours away from Betty Lou, Son Jack, ten miles n. of Mt. Snow. Would welcome c.c. Our sympathy goes to Gretchen Shidle Martin our "class baby" is a major at Ft. Bragg, suffering friends. whose husband died 6-6~'76 in Miami, Fla. Her from "being old"-he's 401 Elizabeth (Betty) Pyper Bauer and Harold keep two sons and their families are nearby. She enjoys Sabrina (Subby) Burr Sanders retired from busy, happy, & well in Atlanta, Ga. Son & family, playing golf and "keeps records for 300 men in tutoring in June and proceeded directly to a suc- 2 grands, live in Md. "too far for frequent visits." golf asso." cessful season on the golf course. With the de- Virginia (Ginnie) Reitzell is now a busy volun- We extend sympathy to the family of Dorothy mands of golf, her family and church, she wonders teer, retired '73 from Library, on boards of Cluthe Schoof who passed away 8-24-76 of a rare how she ever had time to work, Y.W.c.A., Presby. Lodge, & Erie Co. Hist. Soc. blood disease in a N.Y. hospital. Elizabeth (Betty) Farnum Guibord has a "small Enjoys her garden, cocker spaniel, & bridge also Your Class Correspondents are grateful for your sabbatical" in her last year of teaching at the nine nieces & newphes. cooperation enabling us to share "your news" with Masters School. She'll study the biological energy ~C.B." Rice in addition to all her efforts for our all. Keep it coming. Let us hear from others. flows on a private island off the Ga. coast. Betty class, with her brother, from their lovely home in Co-Correspondents: Mrs. Elizabeth H. Matlack plans to live on Shelter Island from spring through Wilton, 0., have been very active for 4 yrs. fight- (Elizabeth R. Hendrickson), 443 Crescent Ave., fall '77 and spend the cold months at Anna Marie, ing Super Highway 7 rhru all of W. N. Eng. She Moorestown, N.J. 08057; Mrs. Ernest A.N. Sey- Fla. There she looks forward to seeing Katherine enjoys bicycling & visiting her many c.c. friends. fried (Wilhelmina C. Brown), 37 South Main St., (Kay) Woodward Curtiss and Ruth Fordyce Dorothy (Dot) Rose Griswold recently welcomed Nazareth, Pa. 18064 McKeown who winter nearby. Daughter Barbara, a grandson in Wales and a g. dau. in Ohio. Last c.c. '73, is now a lawyer in NYC. winter they spent Dec. & Jan. in Cairo with a son, Virginia Golden Kent enjoys her work as Vice-Pres. of Lehman Bros, who is now living in Sheila (Shy) Hartwell Moses and Moe are Alumnae Trustee and finds it's "exciting to be so London. Harlan retired this year but is very busy 33 just as busy now as before Moe retired. close to the coI1ege again." She regrets missing the with the State Hist. Com. and local things in Wood- Winter sees them in Bequia, West Indies; spring new library dedication but she and husband Don bury, Conn. and fall in Warren, R.I.; and summer at Martha's were on a "wonderful trip to Egypt." Dorothea Simpson is enjoying life "in Salem, a Vineyard, Trips to London and N.Y. occur fre- Barbara (Bobbie) Hervey Reussow and Charlie rural community n of New London." Uses new quently as do visits from sons Tim and Pete and like the Southwest more and more, the longer they c.c. Library with joy. grandchildren Pamela and Olivia. live in Santa Fe. In July, they had a "fabulous" Catherine (Cathie) Steel Batchelder's big thrill Abbie Usher Aurell's husband continues to trip to Alaska, visiting the major cities, taking a was spending Christmas '75 with dau. & family in teach a limited schedule which allows them to get railway ride' from Whitehorse to Skagway, and Norway and experiencing days with only 3 hrs. of to the West Indies in Jan. and to Me. summers. sailing down the Inland Passage to Ketchikan and light, howling snowstorms, etc. This family came They are happy that their daughter and family Vancouver. In Sept. they drove East, with a visit 10 U.S. for July 4th visit and her five grands. were moved close by. Last summer they enjoyed a brief in Syracuse and a week with second son Brad in able to be together. Son lives in N.J. visit from Elizabeth (Betty) Overton Bryan. Acton, Mass. The wind-up was Bobbie's 45th re- Anna (Dolly) Swanson Varnum living in Cal., Grace Stephens sends word of Barbara Elliott union at Needham, Mass., H,S. Returning home, enjoyed a visit this summer back to her native R.t Tevepaugh, gleaned from the alumna quarterly of she discovered that Adreon Finnegan Partington Evelyn Watt Roberts has travelled to Europe & Abbot Academy where they were classmates. '36 and husband Chuck now live in Phoenix. As Mexico. In March she welcomed her first two Barbara lives in Richmond and keeps busy with Bobbie and Adreon have been friends since camp grands. her retired husband, traveling and being involved in pre-C.c. days, a mini-reunion, husbands in- Beatrice (Bea) Whitcomb (Lt. Col. U.S.A. Ret.) with library, art and church interests. cluded, was a great success, continues to enjoy retirement in Clearwater, Fla. Nancy Smedley retired, at least temporarily, Audrey LaCourse Parsons spent last winter in a Meets regularly with the c.c. Club there. Does from gainful and volunteer activities. She's given neck collar following a torn ligament, "a big pam volunteer work in a hospital. up her apartment, stored her furniture and taken in the neck." She and John had a trip to London Evelyn Whittemore Woods in Bethlehem, Ct., off on a year's trip around the world. A Dec. visit and plan to go to Lynyard in the Bahamas to see has retired from local and state Visiting Nurse with Mary Mead Siegenthaler and Pat in Sanibel what work has to be done on their collage, "if'n it Boards after many years of service. They have Island, Fla., started her on the way toward the hasn't already fallen down." Catherine (Kay) given "their mares to U. of VI. Morgan Horse west coast and a freighter. Cartwright Backus and Gene came to see them Farm:' are now free to travel. Spend Christmas Jane (Jerry) Wertheimer Morgenthau and from Old Greenwich. with dau. & 2 grands. in Houston. Charlie are very enthusiastic about a c.c. tour of Irene Larson Gearing's son John graduated Melicent (Billie) Wilcox Buckingham & Clyde Sicily they took last spring. In June '76, she be- from Bates last June. Daughter Ann, married and expect to be on the Royal Viking Sea when she came manager of the McBurney School's bookstore living in Calif., came East for her brother's gradu- departs Jan. 7th for a three-month world cruise. and reports it's fun, hard work and not for late ation and a 3-week visit. Husband Les retired in 6 grands: eldest entered Ohio Wesleyan-youngest sleepers, as she has to be at work at 8 a.m. July. Irene continues to teach kindergarten morn- started kindergarten in Sept. Virginia Vail Lavino and George took a museum ings despite. a collapsed hip bone. . Jane Williams Howell enjoys Sarasota, Fla. 8 trip to the Orient in Nov. Virginia Latham Pearce says, "Aloha!", having mos. of the year. Will be summering in Chelsea, Jessie Wachenheim Burack has a new address just returned from a visit to the Hawaiian Islands VI. after many years at Watch Hill, R.I. Had de- in Putnam Valley, N.Y. where she fell in love with "the whole place." lightful rafting trip in S.c. last Aug. Margaret Mills Breen is in Sun City, Ariz. They spent 2 nights in L.A. where they were joined Muriel Williams enjoyed a Nantucket vacation START THINKING AND PLANNING NOW by daughter Susan from San Diego. While there last summer. She cares for her mentally alert FOR OUR 45th REUNION. they enjoyed a Dinah Shore taping, with Bob Hope IOI-year-old father. Correspondent: Mrs. W. Bowman CUller II and Gen. Westmoreland as guests. Last winter Olive Auer Figgatl's gr. dau. attended "CiC." (Helen Smiley), Box 165, Waterford, Va. 22190 included a trip to Miami. She was depressed by th.e summer dance program before entering Smith. crowds and the realization that it's not what It Her L.A. dau., mother of 4 sons, has her M.D. used to be. Virginia still works part-tim~ in .the Yvonne Carns Wogan teaches Creole cooking Mary Jane Barton Shurts continues her Extension Dept. She added another part-time Job, in New Orleans under auspices of Tulane U. and genealogical pursuits. In the New London working with blind home-makers, and finds It most has received local & national recognition. 35 library, She encountered Lois Pond, similarly en- rewarding. Virginia David Morrison is enjoying retirement gaged. Mary Jane finds that her scientific back- Marjory (Marge) Loeser Koblitz has a new after 30 yrs. as a social worker. Her husband died ground IS a great help. She's "learned more history grandchild, her 5th-3 in Atlanta and 2 in Indianap- in '65. Three children, "all emancipated from and geography than ever before" and has met olis. She and Dick both retired in June '76. They mama." many interesting people through her correspon- love retirement the new friends in their new Marjorie Disbro Fichthorn living in Darien, Ct., dence. condo area and' the old ones from Cleveland and enjoyed a trip to England and the Continent this Shaker Heights. They do volunteer work together- summer. The Jo~n Van Ettens (Mary Blatchford) took the Auto Tram to Fla. last spring to see friends sail on closed circuit radio reading to the blind and work Ruth C, Johnson recently retired after an active the Gulf and visit bird sanctuaries. In Bermuda in with delinquents under a new juvenile court pro- life in nursing, teaching & administration. She is June, they saw. the Tall Ships sail for Newp~rt. gram. They enjoy it all. very interested in Women's Political Caucus. Summer at their Me. camp was spent with the Marjorie Platz Murphy is a resident of Palm Rebecca (Becky) Nims Troland, now retired, usua.l a~d welcome wall-to-wall guests. Back to Beach, Fla. Lawyer son is there. 3 daughters, 7 spends much of her time at home. Even limited by routine In Wellesley Hills, they enjoy symphony, grands. poor health: she continues her church volunteer church and volunteer work. Elinor Wells Smith recently moved from Ct. to work and her membership in several organizatlOns. Betty Lou Bozell Forrest, having lost her father Lewisville, Texas to live with son and family. Husband John, also retired, still works with stu- ~othe~, and husban? in the last 4 years, finds he; . Grace Wood Bregenzer is a widow, has 2 mar- dents in the Mitchell College language lab . life a tangle of Wills, custodian accounts trusts TIed daughters, both with Ph.D.'s, 4 grands. "Caz" Priscilla Sawtelle Erlich moved 2 years ago from and taxes." When she's asked her occupation she's recently visited "c.c.", first time since college Cambridge to a school in Conn. She is still dancing tempte~ to reply, "Permanent executrix:; Son days, Very impressed. and doing some music. Last spring she received ~ona.ld s 2 boys are at school in the States. Don, Our sympathy goes to Dorothy Johnson Imes another M.A.. this one is psychology, She and 2 his Wife and daughter I Y.i are still in Chile. Daugh- men from Pace U. have been doing seminars for

32 managementgroups all over the U.S. Her con- Bozell Forrest on the loss of her husband Johnnie, love it. .Jean Ellis Blumlein is slacking up on her do- tributionwas human relations. The job ended in who died in his sleep in July, and on the loss of her good life; so she can devote more time to things Dec. and she has "joined the exclusive Unem- mother who died the previous Feb. the night she wants to do, including tennis. Daughter Ann ploymentClub until the hundreds of resumes I'm before her 88th birthday. 27 is on the mayor's staff and works in City Hall in sending out bring some results in the bleak Co-correspondents: Elizabeth W. Sawyer, 1I S.F., Calif. Carol 24 still sings in a small night market."She's done a lot of traveling, made new Scar land Rd .. Norwichtown, Conn. 06360; Mrs. A. club in Waikiki. Joe is retired from the corporate friends,becomea grandmother again and explored Harry Sanders (Sabrina Burr), 133 Boulter Rd., Wethersfield. Conn. 06109 life but still active on the civic scene. Joe and Jean new-to-herlifestyles. Conn. refreshes old memories were East last summer and saw Mildred (Middy) and she sends greetings to the people in those Weitlich Gieg on the Cape and Elizabeth (Betty) recollections. Our class ~~mpathy is belatedly extended Patton Warner and Phil in N.Y. They expect to be CeilSilverman Gradner and Milton were about in N.Y. again this June after a trip to England. to start for the West Coast as she wrote. Her three 3 7 to the families of the following members: Edith Munroe Russell (Mrs. George W.) who died Barbara (Bobbe) Curtis Rutherford reports son boys are in Albuquerque: Brian, a psychology John married last Aug., is manager of a Friendly's Ph:O",marriedwith 2 sons; Richard, a lawyer with Apr. 8, 1976; Helen Whiting Miller (Mrs. Gordon P.), Aug. 3, 1976; and Jean Ayer Scarpa (Mrs. and lives in Akron, Ohio. Son Jim teaches math at his own firm; and Robert, a dentist. Daughter Fessenden School in W. Newton, Mass. Ma and LaurenSue graduated from Brown in June and is Frank T.), Oct. 13, 1976. I regretfully report toe death of my husband on Nov. 14,1976 after a long Pa are deep in golf and curling. executiveassistantat Jewish Theological Seminary Helena (Lee) Jenks Rafferty is better after a in NYC. Daughter Terri Ellen is a sophomore at illness. bout with pneumonia. Allen is retired and loves it Correspondent: Mrs. H. Bradford Sauer Cornell,majoring in nutrition and dietetics. Ceil though keeping very busy. Lee plans to teach an- (Dorothy Chalker), 84 Hop Brook Road, Simsbury, and Dr. Grodner are still working hard at his other two years, as she really enjoys it. dentalpracticebut are very happy. Conn. 06070 Margaret (Migs) Barrows Griffith and Ted Dora Steinfeld Todd writes, "\0 of us, including recommend Naples, Fla. as an antidote for winter the children and grandchildren, met in Muskoka cold. They hope to become full-time residents for a 2-week holiday last summer. Our license Kathryn (Kat) Ekirch is the first woman to be elected to the Board of Trustees of there. plates read Mass., N.Y., Ohio and Colo." She 3 9 Beatrice (Bea) Dodd Foster and Bud flew last stayedon for 7 more weeks, with husband Arthur Village Savings Bank in Port Chester, N.Y. Kat is now ass't vice pres. for University and Community year to L.A. to visit daughter Sue and son-in-law joiningher for weekend's. Their oldest son is start- Peter in Rancho Palos Verdes in the snow-laden Relations at Pace U. in Pleasantville, N.Y. ingpracticein internal medicine and cardiology in Santa Ana MIS. Then on to Honolulu for 2 weeks Elizabeth (Hetty) Patton Warner's two new the Newton-Wellesley area. Arthur's up-coming with Bud's sister where they had a great time grandchildren made her 9\1-year-old son an uncle speakingengagement in Seattle will give them a socially and sight-seeing. Then two days with Sue 4 times over. Betty and Phil headed the Greenwich, chanceto visit their grandson in Vancouver. Dora and Peter before Bea had to return to J.L. Ham- Conn. membership drive for ETV (NY) channel hasbeendoing pastel portraits\~t Halle's. mett Co. where she is executive secretary to the 13. Betty is Conn. state chairman for the United Marion Warren Rankin's son-in-law Charles pres. Bud, retired, and Sue drove to Grants Pass, Negro College Fund and Phil works hard for the receivedhis law degree from the U. of Mo. last Ore. to pick up daughter Wendy, working there as 3rd St. Music Settlement House (NYC). The spring,passedhis bar exams, and ,is counsel for the a sheriff's deputy. Sue and Peter came for Xmas. Warners spend so much time raising money for Slateof Mo. Daughter Jean is a senior at the U. of Wendy on Middlebury, M.A. program in French others, there is no time left for glamour trips this Mo., majoring in history of art. Son Christopher is living in Paris. 4~ is in nursery school. year. Marion deBarbieri Golarl's father with whom Margaret (M.T.) Watson O'Neill, in lieu of a Betty Ide Cosper bought a house on Chesapeake she lived died recently, age 91, and she moved to card, sent a 1976 article from the Albuquerque Bay opposite Baltimore Light. Waterford, next door to daughter Beuejane, c.c. Tribune entitled: "Peggy O'Neill's life is coming Ruth Wilson Cess and Tom are through com- '71, who teaches at New London High. Daughter up-Orchids." Our M.T. is a personage in the muting from Wilmette and have built a house at Maryanne, c.c. '65, is married to Lt. Com. Rich- OrchidWorld. Her first plant which she bought in Birnam Wood Club in Santa Barbara. They love ard Walton and has a son 6 and daughter 9. 1949"wasthe beginning of the end for me." 1954 being in Calif. where their two older married Daughter Dolly lives in Milford, Conn., and has a saw the first greenhouse. This was followed by daughters live. Other girls are Victoria at U. of son 3 and daughter 2. Daughter Wendy Lynne, another and both have since been enlarged. Even Ariz. and Laura at U. of Cal. at Santa Barbara. c.c. '76 Cum Laude, was recently married, lives in the cellar has been requisitioned. In 1958 MT. Tom is retired but still active on a few boards Boston and teaches physics and math. Son Tommy receivedan M,A. in botany from the U. of N.M. which brings them East often. Ruth is now work- is with the Navy Dept. in D.C.; he and his wife Sheis now an "accredited orchid judge." Husband ing on her golf game. have a daughter 3. Bill,an engineer, shares her enthusiasm and work. Jane Goss Cortes sent a follow-up on the trip Janel (Jan) Jones Diehl has gone back to school Whentheir 3 children were in college, M.T. used mentioned in last c.c. news with the Adriances and is taking two courses in understanding and (Sue McLeod) and watsons (Estelle Taylor), two themoneymade from selling their blooms for travel enjoying the Old Testament. to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji, the weeks on a boat on the Shannon with just the 6 of Grace (Grocky) Hecht Block is in charge of a VirginIslands, Hawaii, Guatemala, Colombia and them to navigate, cook, shop and pilot more than branch library in Thornwood, N.Y. and had just Panama-all orchid-oriented trips. M.T. is now 300 mi. of delicious Irish countryside. They only finished a successful flea market for the benefit servmgas pres. of the 1700 member Southwest ran aground once, had a mi~lion laughs and ca~e of a large addition to their library building. Grace away with a tremendous feeling for Ireland and Its Regionof Orchid Growers and is a e-year trustee and Mike went to Holland last year and this year people and with their friendship with watsons and of the organization. plan a trip to Israel. Her favorite pastime is Adriances unimpaired after two weeks of together- Lynn Weaver Porterfield's husband John's traipsing around antique shows. mother, who lives with them, was about to cele- ness. Jane and Harry have a son, Harry, wi~h Margaret Abell Powell's husband retired in brateher 99th birthday. Irving Trust on Wall St. and a daughter, Sally, tn Aug. and they plan to spend much of their time Marion (Whitie) White Van der Leur retired advertising in Boston. travelling. She sees Carolyn Kenyon Donlon and Rachel Homer Babcock's last girl graduated Noris once or twice a year and will have a reunion from the church office and '" don't miss it one from No. Mich. U. She has 3 grandsons and I with them in the fall in Cannes, France where the bit." In Oct. she and husband Rene flew to S.c. to granddaughter whose mother is. daughter #1. visit Lois Smith MacGiehan and Neal at their Powells have rented a villa in Sept. Daughter #2 is ass't head of pe~tatncs ~t ~ilens Henrietta Farnum Gatchell is busy with family home.sin Greenville and Lake Murray, near Co- Falls, N.Y., Hospital. Rae and Willard, still tn the and community responsibilities interspersed with lumbIa-much more satisfactory than visits via the cattle feeding business, ship beef mostly to ~nad~. tennis and some pleasant social life with good telephone.This year the Van der Leurs hosted the Rae is enjoying retirement from v?lunteenng, IS friends. "It is not too soon to start thinking about 42nd annual c.c. reunion Christmas party. Ex- playing golf in the summer and looktng forward to pected guests were Julius and Merion (Joey) reunion in '79." Elizabeth (Pokey) Hadley porter's Ed is semi- Ferris Ritter, Dick and Catherine (Kay) Jenks winter in Fla. . Marjorie Abrahams Perlman spent the winter retired, still has an office, but can get away when- Morton, Doug and Marion Warren Rankin and months in Fla. and liked gathering shells instead of ever they feel the urge to travel. They have a 26' Harry and Sabrina (Subby) Burr Sanders. Kurt GMC motor home and moved this year-a month in and Dorothea (Dottie) Schaub Schwarzkopf were shovelling snow. ". Doris Houghton Ott is still active. LDRed CroSS Wyo., Ariz. or S. Cal. in winter, plus a trip to Alaska absentas.they were visiting his family in Germany. and AAUW. She and Major had their first taste of in Aug. and Sept. They have children in Palm Katherme (Kay) Woodward Curtiss is back in the S.W. last year when they visited a good part of Desert, Calif. and daughter Jo, C.C. '73 is finishing Fla.after a summer in the North. Son Dan Jr. was the upper half of N.M. and Ariz. They were fas- law school in San Francisco. Son E.H. Porter III, mamed in June and lives in Hampton, N.H. right cinated by it but still prefer sand and ocean waves. ?n the beach. Margaret, his wife, commutes to her is farming in Dela. Elizabeth (E.) Fessenden Kenah and Dick in Catherine (Sis) Ake Bronson writes that it looks job as counselor in the N.H, public schools and he Accokeek Md. entertained all six children for as if she and Wright have been trying to win a to Durham where he is completing his course in Christma;: Chris and Kate from Princeton, Karen prize for the most travel in 1976: Europe in the ~otel management at U.N.H. Kay and Dan Sr. and Steve Anthony from Chicago, and Carla a.nd spring for 3 weeks; Japan, Korea and Taiwan in ave a new grandchild, Ingrid Danielle, born to Matt Harding from Herndon, Va. She and DI~k the fall for four weeks; Olympics in Montreal and daughter Sandra and husband, Jerry Fish. Kay spend their time keeping things glued together ID a vacation in Me. Daughter Cathy lives in Akron plannedto visit them in Nov in Colo Dick's now 30-year*0Id homemade house and We extend our sincere sy~pathy ~o Betty Lou 33 and is ass't research director for a large depart- conflict with our reunion. They also have a daugh- projects. Penny's health makes it necessary for her ment store. Daughter Pat and husband Rob live in ter at Case Western Nursing School and their to spend the cold months in a warm climate and Toledo with only granddaughter, Amy. Daughter youngest in high school at home. Mabel was visiting. Betty has a job as a legal Pam and husband Ben live in Rochester, N.Y. Dorolhy Gardner Downs, our new Class Agent, assistant with a N.Y.C. law firm and visited Patty where she teaches math in junior high school. replaces Thea Dutcher Coburn who became again in October in Wellesley Hills where Natalie Patricia Pope Fairbairn enjoys summers on C.A.C. chairman. Bigelow Barlow, Wilda Peck O'Hanlon and their Cape Cod and winters in the Bahamas snorkelling Allayne Ernst Wick and Doug's second daugh- husbands joined them for Sunday brunch. and sailing. Their children and four grandchildren ter is married. Five outstanding women of Delaware were visit often in both places. Her husband takes lovely Rosalie Harrison Mayer and Oscar entertained honored at a luncheon in October 1975 concluding underwater photographs of coral and fish, while Katherine (Kay) Ord McChesney and Barbara the Festival of International Women's Year in Wil- she enjoys water-color painting. (Bibs) Schnering McFarland and husbands in mington. Among them was Mary Elizabeth Power Elisabeth (Betts) Lyon Bagg and Henry had a Palm Springs. Lubitsh, assistant vice-president and public rela- great time when 8rey and Janie Guilford Newlin Virginia Newberry Leach and Phil are Ihrilled tions officer for the Delaware Trust Company. came to visit in the fall. In spite of some rather with two new grandsons this year. They enjoyed She has been public relations director of United snide notes from Southern classmates, we love VI. a great trip to Portugal, Spain, and the "Bower-of- Fund in Connecticut and Delaware. She is a former -we are hardy souls, I guess. However, come mid- flowers" island, Madeira. Ginny was hostess to 82 TV and radio producer, performer and writer and season, I may be ringing some doorbells down there. members of the Newberry family for a Thanks- newspaper feature writer. Mary Elizabeth is cur- Correspondent; Mrs. Henry S. Bagg {Elisabeth giving reunion. rently serving in the planning division of United Lyon), Box 58, Be/mom, Vt.05730 Estelle Fasolino Ingenito is chief of the Div. of Way of Delaware and has been an officer or board Toxicology Services, Governor's Council on Drug member of 14 community organizations and Alcohol Abuse, in Pa. She established a Ann Simpson Rice and Jack visited Munich, the MARRIED: Ruth Doyle to Edmund W. toxicology lab for the Commonwealth and is busy Rhine River and Brussels last May. Their daughter 41 Zeh; Phyllis Stover to John H. Williams Jr. setting up training seminars for physicians and Kate teaches French in a local school; Mimi is a Ruth Doyle Zeh and husband live in Orange, other medical personnel on Alcohol and Alcohol- sophomore at Wittenberg University in Ohio and N.J. ism, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and AnalOmy. Laura is in high school. Phyllis Walters Stover Williams and her hus- She testified at the Congressional hearing on the Our class extends deep sympathy to Patricia band have 5 children between them and 9 grand- Legionnaire's disease. Son attends Antonelli Turchan Norton whose husband Charles died in children. Her last son was married in Dec. In their School of Photography in Philadelphia and hus- Florida in February; to Barbara Baudouin Brown first year they travelled to Scandinavia and took a band Frank is happily busy 100. whose husband Thomas died in April and to Jean Caribbean cruise. Phyl invites Fla. vacationers to Margarel Kerr Miller and Edgar had an excel- Willard Dellenbaugh whose husband Warren died their SI. Pete home. "Jack's a fantastic fisherman!" lent tour of the British Isles, plus a jaunt to the in July, all in 1976. Jane Whipple Shaw happily announces their son Olympics in Montreal before early retirement and Co-correspondents: Mrs. William M. Crouse, Jr. Michael's marriage in Sept. a move to Jekyll Island, Ga. Daughter is a super- (Elizabeth Brown), 10 Grimes Road, Old Green- Katherine (Kay) Ord McChesney and Mac's visor at Bell Labs, N.J. and son and daughter-in- wich, Conn. 06870; Mrs. Dorsey whitestone, Jr. daughter was married in June. Kay and Mac law live and work at Chalfort, Pa. (Patricia Feldman), 73 Kerry Lane, Chappaqua, cruised to the North Cape on the maiden voyage of The class sends sympathy to Harriet Stricker N. Y. 10514 the Royal Viking Sky. She passed her Calif. real Lazarus on the death of her husband, Simon. They estate sateman's exam. had just returned from a trip through Europe. Mary Ann Smith Schmidt and Carlton's grand- Correspondent: Mrs. John Newman Jr. (Jane child Lollie was born on Christmas Eve. Daughter Kennedy), 41 Old Pascack Road. Woodcliff Lake, This year marks our 30th year out of Col- Susu c.c. '71, a Fulbright Fellow, taught in Ger- N.J. 07675 47 lege, and we're hoping that as many as many, is now transferred to the U. of va. for grad possible of you will be coming back for Reuruon. work in environmental studies. The Reunion Committee (Liz Dutton, Muriel Hart, Jessie Ashley Scofield announces # I grand- Anch Wetherald Graff and myself) are working Bernice Riesner Levene, after moving daughter's arrival. Jess had a serious fire damage hard to make it as interesting and lively as pos- from Bergdorfs, N.Y., to their new White at her dream cabin in upstate N.Y. but she's re- 4 5 sible. The Class Dinner will be at the Lighthouse Plains store, has made another switch to the De- building and enlarging. #4 son is the third to at- Inn, where we have a private room. There will be a signer Salon at Bonwit Teller in Scarsdale. tend Brown U. full program at the dinner plus plenty of time to Remember Inez Horton Gay? Her daughter is Catherine Elias Bullowa Moore and your cor- circulate and see people. When you get your an international law major at Princeton and at- respondent meet at Coin Conventions, usually reservation form, please send it in as quickly as tended a party there with Cornelia Wales Reeder's NYC, where Cathy is considered quite the expert possible as we presently have a ceiling of thirty on son Jack, who is a student at Dartmouth. numismatist. the dinner. If more of you should want to come, Carolyn Arnoldy Butler visited the states last The Newmans (Jane Kennedy) are delighted to then we will have to change to another location. August from her home in the Philippines on busi- add our first granddaughter's name to the family I saw Liz Dulton in Boston for dinner in January ness for the American School in Manila where Bible. Jessica, brother Morgan and mother Marcy and she is in fine form. In 1975 when we were m she is director of Media Services. While here, Con- and our son Jack were home for the holidays from Paris for a few months, I saw Francine Forme nie helped her younger daughter Sue get settled as Alaska. #4 daughter, Cathy, is the last left in the Oren a number of times. She has a charming pent- a freshperson at William and Mary and accom- nest. house apartment in an old section of Paris and panied daughter Lynn to Michigan State where Marjorie (Midge) Wicoff Cooper and Ed report teaches at Vincennes. Prill Baird Hinckley reports she is a premed student. In her travels here Con- two daughters, c.c. grads, married Coast Guard that life continues to be "fascinating" and that she nie visited many classmates including' Betty men; one grandchild so far. is very busy. Anch Wetherald Graffs daughter is a Barnard Berdan, Miriam Braun Teipel, SaUy Claire Haines Fairley and AI say "nothing too freshman at Cc. At Alumni Council in the fall I Weckler Johnson, Patricia Feldman Whitestone exciting" going on in their lives but sound as if roomed with Pat Goldman Corwin, whose son is at they live in a suitcase. Last year's travels took Florence Murphy Gorman and Eleanor Koeni~ Carleton. Cc. Everyone I have mentioned so far, except for them through the U.S., including Hawaii, Alaska Nancy McKewen Curme and George live in Francine, will be coming to Reunion. and Fla.; regularly to Canada; and a trip to the Please send your news to me so [ can really Charlottesville, Virginia, where George sells silos Greek Islands and Istanbul, Turkey. function as your new Class Correspondent. The and farm equipment. The Curmes have recently Frances Garner Dietrich moved to a Stratford, become proud grandparents. Their second son Class of 1947 has been a void too long! Conn. condominium. Daughter Ann, c.c. '74, Correspondent: Corinne Manning Black. 348 works for a bank in New York, third son is in Bos- Magna Cum Laude, is doing grad work in German ton and Caroline is a sophomore at Sweet Briar. Ridgeview Road, Princeton. New Jersey 08540 at the U. of Ill. Son Roy Jr. graduated from Yale. Elea.nor .~oenig Carleton writes that her second Carroll graduated from Pine Manor and now at- son, JIm, JOined an accounting firm in Richmond tends Katherine Gibbs, Boston. Barbara Henderson moved in Evanston, Ill., a~ter graduating from Virginia Polytechnic In- Elizabeth Flint Esler, now in her 4th year suture. Daughter Betty is a senior at Purdue Winifred Tilden Gelinas to No. Marshfield, Mass.; 49 as librarian at Williston~Northampton Natalie Sherman Kleinkauf to Sun City, Ariz. El!z~beth Brown Crouse spent two week·s with School, moved from the U. of wise. where she had Patricia Turchan Norton in Key Biscayne in April. Dr. Mary Han entertained a group including been head of acquisitions in the library, after her Mary (Mac) Cox Walker, '44, and husband Rufus Margaret (Peg) Lafore Wyatt and new husband, divorce. Elizabeth has four children: Margaret, a al~o. spent ~ weekend with Patty while Mac was Bishop Jack Wyatt, on from Spokane, Wash. with graduate of Reed College, and Chip are living mixing. busln~ss with pleasure making calls for outside Portland; John graduated from the U. of Dr. and Mary Lou Sharpless Swift back from Travelling Tnnkets far from the cold winds of Mass. last year; and Charles, a 10th grader at Tanzania; Priscilla Duxbury Wescott and Bob; Massachusetts. Patty and Betty drove to Naples Williston. Bud and Miriam Brooks Butterworth, '40, Susan fo~ a day with Ethel Schall Gooch who enter- Jennifer Judge Howes, Ollie and their family Shaw Speight and Clink; Elizabeth (Brickie) ta.ln~d. them at lunch at the beach club along with gathered in San Francisco for Thanksgiving to Brick Collier and Bill; Elizabeth (Bette) Smith VI~glma Bowman Corkran, Betty Jane Gilpin watch their oldest, Debbie, in her first starring role Twaddell and Dr. Don. ~nf!ith~ and Mabel Cunningham. Ginny and fam- in a major city drama group. It was even more Bette Smith Twaddell had a Bard graduation ily live In Naples and she is active in conservation thrilling since her performance brought good re-

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views. Cindy Howes is a freshman at Colo. College Andrew White, Joann Appleyard Schelpert Sue visit." after a spring term last year in Burgos, Spain, Askin Wolman, Annabel Beam Cusler,' Sara Phyllis McCarthy Crosby and Howard spent an- along with Jessica Treat, as members of the (Sally) Buck Thompson, Joan DeMino Onthank other Christmas in London, where Howard is Northfield-Mount Hermon lnternat'I Studies Pro- Jane Lent Baldau, Phyllis McCarthy Crosby. An~ stationed with NATO. The Crosbys continue their gram. Wendy is a sophomore at Clark and Chris- McCreery Turner, Martha (Mouse) Morse Abbot global travels at every opportunity. Their youngest topher attends Great Neck High School. Barbara Nash Hanson, Janice Schaumann Bell' son Peter attends high school in London while Barbara Himmell Springer and Nat find the Mar~ Martha Suckling Sherts, Barbara Thompso~ their three older children continue their education house rather empty with the family away and are Stabile and Rontca Williams Watlington. in the U.S. Ann McCreery Turner and Bill sent Xmas greet- going to spend two months in NYC for a change. Jo Appleyard Schelpert and John vacationed in ings from Quebec. All four Turner children were Tom is attending Ithaca while Bill is at North- Greece in Nov. Their eldest daughter, Susie, re- home for the holidays, son Bill returning from western and Katy is teaching in Ames, Iowa. turned home from three months in Europe in time Princeton and daughter Julia from the U. of Marion Luce Butler reentered the teaching field to take charge of the household while they were with pre-schoolers and has finished a course on gone. Toronto. Bar Nash Hanson and Herb planned a vacation Teaching English as a Second Language. In be- Sue Askin Wolman is working at a psychiatric in Hawaii in Jan., following a family reunion in tween Marion keeps up with her tennis and skiing. teaching hospital in Baltimore as part of her M.A. As for the Treats (Mary Lou Strassburger), this program in social work. Sue, busier than ever, Calif. at Christmas. Mary Martha (M.M.) Suckling Sherts and Bill seems to be "the year off" for everyone of college writes, "I am getting excellent supervision, but it's in Sept. visited Ireland with 5 other couples. At age. Sharon is working for the Mass. Audubon a tough field." Christmas, the Sherts family vacationed in Puerto Society and enjoying the change from Princeton. Annabel Beam Custer's daughter Sherri was Rico. M.M. works as an Audubon guide in the Roger is living in a tepee he constructed, travelling married in Oct. to James Edwards. The Custers' Bridgeport, Conn. schools. off and on while pursuing his fiddling in a serious busy fall was made even more hectic when their Barbara (Bobby) Thompson Stabile and Ben way as well as his leather work. Jessica, after her house was struck by lightning and they had to celebrated 25 years of marriage with a month's term in Spain, managed to find a job outside Paris make extensive repairs. Sally Buck Thompson and Ted's daughter trip to. Euro~e. Their travels took them to many for an interim year before entering college. Caro- Cities, including London where they visited with lyn, a junior at NMH, Rory in 4th grade and Bob Marcia was married. Their son Hank is a fresh- Phyl McCarthy Crosby and Howard. man at Carnegie Mellon. and I keep close to home and jobs, enjoying vicari- Runica Williams Watlington and Hal, shortly ousty the experiences of the others. Joan DeMino Onthank and Don write from Farmington, Conn., that their daughter Karen is after our 25th class reunion, had a second reunion Correspondent: Mrs. Robert S. Treat (Mary Lou with Joan Andrew White and Henry in Bermuda. Strassburger), Winchester Road, Northfield, enjoying her freshman year at Smith. Jane (Lenny) Lent Baldau and Bill returned The two families enjoyed a fabulous picnic at Mass. 0/360 from a trip to the Hawaiian Islands where two of Ronnie's summer home in Hamilton Harbor. Patricia Roth Squire writes from Weston, Mass. their children live. Their eldest daughter Mary is that she is the first woman president of the Wight- married and living in Hopetown, Abaca. "Miss Your class correspondents received Christ- man Tennis Center, "with all of the pleasures and 51 mas greetings to all of you from Joan them all but at least they live in good places to

PARTY Continued from page 9 lowing weekend at the designated site and perform At ?ne of these parties a few years ago, when the play once again. The actors change, but the plot doesn't. streakmg was in fashion, a dozen Cadets, fueled by a scandalous quantity of beer, disrobed and cavorted across the campus. Only one of the revelers was GRANDMA'S Continued from page 26 caught, however, and we were told that the poor un- used to. But by the middle of the next day, I'll hear fortunate was expelled from the Academy. They don't the rumblings of a fight between Mom and Grandma have much of a sense of humor over there. The coming from the kitchen. Grandma will be saying, Coasties who come to the parties now serve more as "What do you suppose the neighbors think when they props than participants. They are all aware that an see you come running back here every week? Just equally dismal fate awaits them if they misbehave at this morning, I mentioned to Mrs. Hammersmith that a party at that girl's school across the street. you had come down late last night, and she said, 'Rose! Can't that girl keep-e-" . The hustler is about to score, the voyeur is getting "I don't carel I don't carel How dare you talk to the tired of watching and the drinker is about to enter neighbors about this? I don't care!" But Mom does that nether world of alcoholically-induced stupor. care. The Coasties have been quiet all evening and the Usually, Ronnie will make the first phone call Satur- cl~,ckis hovering precipitously near one a.m. day night, and Mom will say it's aU over between us, Sorry, no more beer," the beerman says as a and hang up on him. But by the time he calls back drunken sophomore turns away muttering something Sunday morning, Grandma has driven her so crazy about the value of a dollar these days. that she spends the whole day on the telephone with ~ hustler turns to his target. him, usually sitting in a closet. By Sunday night ,yhh, party in Freeman?" Grandpa is driving us back up to the apartment. At "Sure. Where do you live?" least we got to go away on weekends. Freeman." The clean-up crew appears and regards with dis- It's about five o'clock, and it's beginning to get light :h~Y the thou.sa~ds of cigarette butts and the floor in a fuzzy, early morning kind of way. We're sitting in at looks as If It had been simonized by the Joseph a car, on the side of the highway, six policemen later, Schlitz Brewing Company. The music, continuous for waiting for the next pick-up. Then the officer gets a the past four hours, suddenly stops. The lights come call from headquarters, and he has to leave us there 0hnso the people who have to work can see what on the side of the road, waiting. t ey're doing. Mom looks at us. I look at her. She looks at me. She f Slowly, the five-hundred or so people recede back looks at Glen. Glen looks at her. rom whence they came in widely varying states of "How are you feeling, boys?" rob'tne y and contentment,' only to reappear the fol- 35 headaches." Pat continues to run the English Ann Hamilton MacCormac and Earl enjoyed a up with Constance (Toni) Garland Marsh and her tutorial program at the local j r. high school. She trip to Calif. last summer with daughters Ann and family. They missed seeing Barry Marsh who must and David manage to get away to their condo- Susan, when Earl spent a month at Stanford U. make frequent weekend trips to New London for minium in Martha's Vineyard from time to time. Rachel Adams Lloyd and daughters Becky and his naval duty in the reserves. The LeFevres also Lois (Sugar) Sessions Spratley writes from New- Erica plan to accompany Jim when he leaves Col- enjoy spending a portion of the summer at their port News, va., that daughter Sandy, in graduate gate temporarily to spend Feb.-June '77 at the U. Marco Island, Fla. apartments. school and son Tred are both attending the U. of of Md. Ann Stoddard Saunders moved from Hawaii to Richmond. The Spratleys look forward to boating Lynn Post Northrop found it easier to remain in Portugal during the summer of '75. While in and fishing weekends at their farm on the North Ripon, wise. when Doug took advantage of a Hawaii, Ann earned her master's in library studies River. sabbatical and an N.E.H. grant to spend last year but is currently concentrating on tennis rather than Rhoda Levy Schlein, after spending 13 weeks at at the U. of Chicago. He returned home weekends library. Her husband Wes is working with NATO. the Para-Legal Inst. of Philadelphia, is working for to be with Lynn and their four children who range Alexandra (Alixe) Taylor Coburn, Nancy WiII- an actuarial firm in N.J. Rhoda and her 3 children in age from 9 to 16. manton Reifenstein and Josephine (Jo) Saidla spent 2 weeks in St. Thomas at Christmas. Constance Garland Mar.sh and Barry, Joan Wood Morse will serve on the board of the c.c. Club of Janice Sargoy Rosenberg writes from Bryn Stephenson and Tapley, and Florence Bianchi Boston for '76-'77. Mawr, Penn. that Richard is about to start his 28th Ahern and Bill all have children graduating in Co-correspondents: Mrs. w.e. Kellogg (Nancy year at GE. Son John is a second year law student June '77, and are involved with college applica- Crowell), 104 Minis/erial Dr., Concord, Mass. at the U. of Penn. and Eric a sophomore at Yale. tions and campus trips. 01742; Mrs. E.A. LeFevre (Nancy Keifh). 13 Vin- We appreciated receiving return postcards from Karen Klein Mannes and Paul's oldest son is a ing Lane, Wilmington. Del. 19807 Joan Blackburn Duys, Wilhelmina Brugger, Char- Dartmouth freshman and their second son is ap- lotte Chapple Bennett, Dorothy (Dorie) Cramer plying elsewhere for Sept. '77. When Karen at- Maitland, Pamela Farnsworth French, Jane Keltie, tended her youngest son's school Christmas con- MARRIED: Mary (Molly) Blackall to Mercy Klafter, Norma Kochenour Kniseley, BeUy cert in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, she saw 60 Michael McKay 6/13/76; Susan (Toadie) Ann Orr and Leda Treskunoff Hirsch. With so Sarah Luchars McCarthy. Watch for Karen if you Green Cashman to Richard Lindsay Foote visit the new Nat'l Air and Space Museum. She is a much to report this month, we will begin our next 10/9{76. column with news from the above. docent there. BORN: to Conrad and Deborah Stern Persels a Joint news from your correspondents: the Nelson Sandra Jellinghaus McClellan is well into her second daughter, Dustin Leigh, 7{20{76. family spent Christmas in St. Croix and the second 4-year term on the school board in Rich- Ellen Purdy Webster and family enjoy spending Zenkers stayed home. mond, Mich. The population is growing faster a furlough year in New London. Their return travel Co-correspondents: Mrs. Melvin J. Nelson there than her husband Pat and the few other local from five years in India took them to Nepal, Hong (Paula Meltzer), 35 Aspen Road. Scarsdale. N. Y. doctors can keep up with. Pat is on the faculty of Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Ellen is back at 10583; Mrs. David O. Zenker (Jeanne Tucker). Mich. State U. Osteopathic College and senior Conn. completing her B.A. and finds it exciting to Van Beuren Road. Morristown. N.J. 07960 medical students who frequently train in Pat's see and experience the changes which have taken office often join Michelle II and John 8 for place in 17 years. "What a privilege to be able to McClellan family fun. Sailing is a popular activity; use the new library and attend concerts in Cum- Anita Weisbrod Sverdrup "did" the east- both children share their father's enjoyment of mings Art Center." ern seabord with her three children and stage productions (acting) and have participated 5 7 Mary Dawes Armknecht is working towards an included a reunion with Lynne Twinem Gorman in the local Children's Summer Theater program. MBA at Babson College. Last summer she and her in Madison, N.J. before returning to Colorado Judith Hartt Acker's family likes golf. Judy is children went West by car, camping at several na- Springs. Since their return from England, Lynne keeping very busy this year as PTA pres. in Fair- tional parks, and were joined by Bob in Calif. and Johan had a busy year restoring order to their field, Conn. Judy and her two boys enjoyed meet- Mary (Winnie) Sherwood Johnson hopes !o re- home and hosting many guests from the USA and ing Al in Miami last winter to do Disney World ceive a master's degree in the spring of '77 from abroad. and spend a week in the St. Petersburg area fol- the School of Social Work, U. of N.C. at Chapel Diane Smith Leland caught up with Nancy lowing his business meeting. Hill. Stevens Purdy when she came east to investigate Kathryn Crehan Bowman and Phil travel almost Eleanor McPeck practices landscape architec- boarding schools with her daughter. Diane and exclusively to Hartford to visit her parents and to ture in Boston and teaches a course on the history Sherman recently started a nursery business half Maine where Phil completed work on the interior of American landscape design at the Radcliffe Inst. way between San Francisco and their country of their vacation home last summer. Their boys, Deborah Stern Persets reports, ~Am back to home. Jeffrey and Steven, share their father's enthusiasm modern dance and tennis but 'potting' has lessened Andrea Townson Lashar and Bill have lived in for skiing; so the Bowmans head north from the as it's difficult to throw pots and change diapers San Rafael, Calif. ten years and occasionally enjoy Boston area all of the year. simultaneously." trips with their daughters, Kendra and Inslee, to Nancy Keith LeFevre and Ned's children's en- Margaret Hammalian Harris received her A.B. exotic spots like Singapore and Tahiti as a fringe thusiasm for figure skating will draw them back to from Rosemont in 1974, the first graduate in their benefit from his position as pilot for Pan Am. Rochester, N.Y. for a second session at the RIT women's Return-to-College Program. She is work- Andy frequently sees Loulie Hyde Sutro and her Summer Skating Academy program. While there ing on an M.A. in education (counseling) at Vil- family who live in Kentfield, Calif. this past summer, the LeFevres enjoyed catching lanova. She has four children and works part time in a high school guidance dept. MARSH Continued from page 18 marshes are. The impact that a dump or Harriet Kaufman Breslow received her M.S.W. mere infant among the vast expanses of a tidal gate- a device used to drastically from Catholic U. in '75 and is working as a psychi- green grassland that abound on our atric social worker for a psychiatrist in private reduce natural flow-would have on a practice. She sees Debbie Stern Persels and Paula coastline, this study vividly shows the marsh can be imagined. The delicate Kimerling Epstein occasionally as they're all in the dynamic character that a tidal marsh balance is vastly altered, as there is a Potomac, Md. area. can exhibit in a short period of time. loss of the productive grasses which con- Molly Blackall McKay writes, "Mike just opened Coastal marshes are far from being his own dental office in Uncasville on Rte. 32, Just tribute much-needed nutrients to the 5 miles up the road from Conn. Never dreamed I'd static communities. They are an ever- estuarine waters. The most recent publi- be living on this road." changing and delicate entity of the cation of the Connecticut Arboretum, Carol Reponen Hilley and family returned to the shoreline. Man is playing havoc with the Bulletin Number 22, further illustrated States after [5 years overseas with the Foreign destiny of these unique ecosystems. Service and all are surviving the "culture shock." the dynamic nature of tidal marsh vege- They live in Reston, Va., as George is with the The studies at the Mamacoke Marsh tation and describes a technique that is Dept. of State in D.C. Stephen is 7, Victoria 4. natural area show how dynamic used to document these changes. Joan Murray Webster and family enjoy a charm- Right now there appears to be ade- ing and spacious Victorian home in Calif. where John, a Navy capt., is assisting with nuclear sub- quate legislation protecting tidal marine overhaul programs as commander, Sub- marshes, a once vanishing resource, marine Force Pacific Rep. Joan is an active volun- However, private and public organiza- teer. Their children are Jay, Coralee and Julie. tions must be more active in acquiring Mary Lee Robb Atkinson works full time in addition to being wife, mother and Camp Fire Girls tidal marshes, thereby preserving and leader. Oldest, Douglas, is about to graduate from protecting one of our essential natural high school; Mike is in 8th grade and Sharon in 6th. resources, the cradle of the prolific life Maureen Mehls Kiernan, Jerry and daughters, that prevails in coastal and marine en- Diedre and Sara, moved to Ridgefield, Conn. in vironments. 1975 after 6 years near Philadelphia. Jerry is with General Reinsurance and she is busy with tennis

36 and local organizations. ba.'nd Her-b. They go lobstering, scalloping, clam- Robyn Roessler Hanser is president of her own rmng and sailing and Sue bakes bread. new company in St. Louis which designs restaurant Bring a cookbook Dana Hartman Freyer practices law in Chicago interiors and supplies and maintains plants in Bring an art book and has two children plus husband to keep her restaurants. busy. Susan Twyeffort Spoor and family still live in Bring a travel book Joan Havens Reynolds traveled to the Orient Holland but plan to move in '77. or bring any other type of w~th her husband Lloyd last year. Her children, U. Jane Kempner King has a part-time job as book- book or books Kip and Kyla, plus her volunteer guiding at the keeper as well as being an officer in several volun- of Penn. Museum keep her hopping. teer organizations. Husband Bruce is a regent's to Susan Heller teaches nursing at the U. of British professor of chemistry at the U. of Ga. Robert is in Columbia in Vancouver. Reunion Hollace (Holly) Jackson Tullman and husband 9th grade, David in Sth. The family spent last for Jeff, a lawyer, live on Long Island with their chil- summer in Europe. Mary (Missy) Missimer McQuiston, "When I'm Conn's Second Book Sale dren, Matt and Gullian. .Barbara Johnston Adams lives in Reston, not raising my children, Mary Hope and Lisa, I'm va. October 8th WIth her husband Larry and Hilary. She is a free- guiding at the Museum of Archeology and Anthro- lance editor and writer. pology at the U. of Penn. I'm also active in the Dorothy (Deny) Kraft Frerker teaches English Philadelphia c.c. club." Husband Bob is a lawyer. to German adults in an adult education program in Eleanor (Tommie) Saunders, "Have very much Rin .Barnes Morway lives on Cape Cod where Bruhl, Germany. Her daughters are bilingual. enjoyed my first year as Head at Rosemary Hall she sails, gardens and bikes with husband and Jean Laurence Hesselbein, husband John and but have never been busier." daughter Joanna. Llewellyn live in Aschaffenberg, Germany where Marilyn Skorupski Allen, "After 20 years in the Genny Bartlett Fricks is taking a year off from John is in the Army. They have traveled to France, Navy, the last 6 in the Orient, my husband has re- teaching children with learning disabilities in England and all over Germany. tired and is now a graduate student at Dartmouth's Chattanooga, Tenn. while husband Richard writes Elizabeth (Betsy) Leitner Kovacs lives in NYC Amos Tuck School. It's interesting to be in the col- and makes textile designs at home. with husband lmre, Toby and Kati. lege environment again and we are enjoying Han- Elaine DeSantis Benvenuto moved to NYC to Linda Karman Reeker moved to Tucson, Ariz. over. Hope to get back to the Orient after finishing become director of the Women's News for Carl with husband Larry, an assoc, prof. of computer up here." Byoir Assoc. She often sees Sarah (Sally) Ryan science at the U. of Ariz., and their three kids, She Nancy Waddell Gilliam has had a total change Black, her husband and three children, who live in is earning an M.A. in speech and hearing sciences. of pace as she is no longer working. She volunteers Greenwich Village. Joan Kowal Soltys, husband Jack, John, and Ann Doughty Bunting is collecting data for her at a local zoo, does large typing projects at home A~y live on a "farm" outside Seattle where they and some writing-hoping to do more. doctoral dissertation at the Center for Family Re- ski, garden, play tennis and enjoy the country. Mary Ann Fuller Young moved from va. to search at Geo. Washington U. Medical School. She Karin Kuntsler Goldman graduated from Rut- Al1endale~N.J. where she enjoys being part of a lives in Washington, D.C. with her two sons and gers Law School and works in NYC. Her twins, small, active c.c. alumni group. husband Chuck. Danial and Jessica, are 5; her husband Neal is also Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough serves as con- Correspondem: Mrs. Ralph E. Sloan (Jean Chap- a lawyer in NYC. pell), 10 Brook Trail Road, Concord, Mass. 01742 sultant curator of silver at both the Baltimore Margot Lasher Bruhaker feels her B.A. at Conn. Museum of Art and The Maryland Historical didn't train her for operating an orchard, caring for Society. dogs, cats, ponies, two kids and a lawyer husband- BORN: to Per and Robin Lee Hellman Pamela Gwynn works for the NYC Urban Corps all on a farm in Lancaster, Penn. 63 Anna Rebecka 2/ 19/76; to Dale and Marcia placing 5000 college students per year in intern- Susan Eshleman Bushu and Greg live outside Rygh P~illips Matthew Giles 5j3/76. ships throughout municipal gov't agencies. Philadelphia where they handle incentive travel on Marcia Mueller Foresman lives in Loudonville Patricia Glixon Webbink is a psychologist near a freelance basis, A trip around the world is im- Washington, D.C. where she is active in the N,Y. with husband Charles, daughter Anne and minent. son Jeff. She is still very involved with music, re- feminist movement. Correspondem: Mrs. Randolph K. Repass (Susan cent~ywrote all the music for her Jr. League Bicen- Susan Hardesty Corcoran teaches psychology at Peck), 1028 LaSalle Drive, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94087 tennial puppet show. Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, Conn. Belle-Jane Raphael is articles editor of the new Renny Harrigan is into increased feminization publication, Working Woman The first issue in and politicization as she gets tenure at the U. of MARRIED: Susan Endel to Martin Kerner Wise.; Milwaukee in the German Dept. Nov. had a very funny piece by Bette-Jane. Amy 12/4/76. Cecelia (Sandy) Holland lives in northern Calif. 67 Fross Fraser had an article in the Dec issue BORN: to Dale and Betsey Nodler Pinkert a second with her daughter Bonnie and friend, Bob Rood, Bibiana (Bibi) Besch Mathis can be see~ in a child, first daughter, Clare Melissa, 9/26/75; to released movie entitled, Distance. The movie is set after traveling to Europe for 3 weeks. Steve and Elizabeth Deane Loutrel Laura Deane Heather Hilton Perry moved to St. Louis with all an Army base in Georgia during the mid 1950's. 5/26/76; to Robert and Martha (Mardi) Wagner Cor~espondent: Mrs. Per Hellman, (Robin Lee), Adrienne, Schuyler and husband Roger, who is Newman a third daughter, Ellen Melissa, 11/20/76; Arcadian Shores, Myrtle Beach Hi/Ion Myrtle ass't prof at Washington U. to Rudolph and Brien Mutrux Chelminski a second Marley Hanafin Weinstock lives in Madison, Beach, S.c. 29577 ' child, first daughter, Stephane Aimee 9fl6/76. Conn. with children Elizabeth and Sam and hus- Margaret Alton Weisser writes from Brussels band Peter who is in advertising. Marley is in her that she is a vice pres. of Citibank, N.A. and will 2nd term as Justice of the Peace. MA~RIED: Genevieve (Genny) Bartlett work in Belgium for the next several years. 65 Susan Buckenham works for Federated Dept. to Richard P. Fricks 10/72· Ann Decker Brien Mutrux Chelminski, after two years in Grover to William Johnson 10/76 ' Stores in Cincinnati after 5 years in Fla. Russia and 8 in Paris, is moving with Rudy, 16- Deborah (Debbie) Camp Baldwin, who is getting ~ORN: to Peter and Whitney A~drews Gellinger mo.-old Roman and the baby to a huge old house a master's in school library work at Towson State Meoffrey 5/76; to Don and Laurlnda (Rio) Barnes on the edge of the Foret de Fountainbleau in Bur- College, will travel with husband Doug and her S.orway Joanna 11/75; to Don and Juanita Campo ron-Marlotle, France. Rudy will continue free- daughter to Yucatan and Oaxaco for 4 months t Immo~s Jeffrey 10(74; to Chuck and Ann Dough- lance journalism, and she will give yoga lessons ~ Buntmg a second son, Adam 3/76' to Bruce and this spring. and teach English. She received a certificate from Juanita Campo Simmons lives in NYC with hus- 6 ;n~ Hartman Freyer a seco~d da~ghter, Daria, an Indian yogi with whom she has been studying band Don, where he is in the shipping business. / 6, ~o Ron and Lois Larkey Wiss Amanda 4/75 in Paris. Janice Carey has taught French at Princeton and DIana 8/76. Elizabeth Deane Loutrel has been a full-time ADOPTED·' b Y M artm ' and Jennifer Faulds Golds- H.S, for 7 years. mother since leaving her job in Technical Services Katharine (Katie) Colson moved to L.A. from borough Brice 7/76. at Millipore Corp. the day before her daughter was S.F. where she lived for II years across the street born. Steve left his job as assistant prof. of roJill And'.TlS I M'Imer IS ' a self-employed computer from Elizabeth (Bitsy) Lamb Gimenez. Katie is p Igrammlllg consultant, a Girl Scout leader a mechanical engineering at MIT in July to work for "trying to make it in showbiz as a singer." Navtec, a small company that makes marine rigging volunteer' IIIj afi sh' populatIOn study on Lake Co-' Katherine (Kathy) Cory DeGrace works part and hydraulic systems. In 1975 they cruised on their chJ Ituate .' Mao<~o., 'd'n enjoys salmg'I' to Mame. ' time at a Senior Citizen Center. She, Laura Beth, f udlth (Judie) Abbott Manzari moved to Conn sailboat to northernmost Labrador and last sum- Lisa Marie and"husband Chuck live in an old rom the midwest to rejoin Xerox Learning Sys~ mer sailed to the Bay of Fundy and up the 51. John terns after she earned her master's in communica- Penn. farmhouse near Kutztown. ""':.River. They plan to resume cross-country skiing Ann Decker Johnson attends the U. of S.c. tIOn at the U. of Cincinnati and mountaineering this year. Liz is interested in Graduate College of Social Work while her hus- amateur radio, black and white photography and, E Whitney An d rewsG: ellmger travels often to band Bill is getting his R.N. degree. They have . ur~pe and Calif. with her husband who special- with her botanical training from college, thinks she three daughters: Jennifer 12, Samantha II and has a theoretical edge as a backyard gardener. lles In motion picture work. Andrea 6 from Ann's first marriage. Carolyn Anderson is an associate prof. in the Art Jda~etAlbrecht is an ass't prof. at the U. of Mass M Suzan Dill Custer lives in neo-rustic style on Dept. at Colorado State U. and chairman of the MelcalScholD d· . 0 - ept. 0fCommuOlty ' and Family" Martha's Vineyard with Jennifer, John and hus- e ICllle,While earning an MBA at B.U.

37 drawing area within the dept. She is responsible and Jane Hanser Matthews Courtney Chandler M.A in French at Emory U. and teaching French for the 10 full- and part-time faculty members 12/6/76; to Thomas and Susan Paull Neff David part time. teaching drawing. Carolyn continues to exhibit her Andrew 1/9/76; to Richard and Lorraine Bitner Dorothea Duehlmeier Baker teaches deaf chil- prints and drawings, and within the past year has Gilden Sarah Rebecca 6/25/76; to David and dren and was awarded "Teacher of the Year" had works included in 15 juried nat'I and internat'l Ellen Robinson Epstein Barak l2/9f76; to Andrew from her school system. Husband Paul works at a exhibitions. and Ann Tousley Anderson Kathryn Elizabeth nuclear power plant and builds custom designed Andrea Hricko, after working nearly 7 days a 116/77; to Warren and Catherine Ramsey Seipp cars on the side. week for 4 years with Ralph Nader's Health Re- Adam Ramsey 5/18/76. Anne Hutchinson Myers had Jenefer by the search Group, left Washington for the more leisure- Anne Tenenbaum Toohey's husband Jim, an Lamaze-Leboyer method and came home 14 hrs. ly pace of Calif. Following several months off and attorney, is director of the Kalamazoo County later. She swam a mile a day until Jenefer was six weeks of camping from the Y~catan to Baja, Legal Aid Bureau. Anne and Jim. run a woman's born. She has returned part time to her job as an Calif., she moved to San Francisco and began clothing store, the Junior Miss Shop. oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, working at the U. of Calif. at Berkeley in July 1975. Paula Cisco Verdu is an investment analyst, Husband Roger is drafting and illustrating for a She works on a project dealing with occupational portfolio manager in the Trust Div. of the City geological consulting firm. health problems of working people and went on a Nat'I Bank of Conn. Ann C. Weinberg Duvall spent 6 weeks touring two-week tour of the Soviet Union to observe their Christina Downs Dondero and her family will Italy, France and Switzerland. She is still with the program first-hand. Last summer her book, Work- return to the U.S. this spring after 7 years in Stanford Research Inst. and volunteers at the ing for your Life: a Woman's Guide to Job Health Malaysia. Husband Tim will work with the 'Center Suicide Prevention Center. Hazards, was released. It is a 200-page non-tech- for Disease Control. Linda Main Lane retired temporarily to care for nical handbook to help educate women about the Ann Barber works as staff associate for ac- son Andrew. She renewed her interest in the piano health hazards they might encounter while work- creditation with the Nat'l Accreditation Council and began painting. Husband Bill belongs to a law ing and how to work to eliminate these conditions. for agencies serving the blind and visually handi- firm in Washington, D.C. In her spare time, she bicycles around Calif. and capped in NYC. Ann is a certified social worker Sandra (Sandy) Bodmer- Turner (formerly even ran in the 7.6 mile Bay to Breakers race in and has an MSW from Hunter College. Turner) is doing an M.A. in city and regional plan- San Francisco along with 7,000 other runners-and Su-Ltn White Foster works as a speech patholo- ning at the Grad. School of Design, Harvard U. finished. gist at a residential school for learning-disabied She worked a year for the Nat'l League of Cities, Margaret Carey Meehan is director of the Acton and autistic children and also has a private practice U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Environmental Public Library in Old Saybrook, Conn. She joined with a pediatrician, an educational psychologist Protection Agency. the library staff in Oct. 1975 as children's librarian. and a remedial teacher. Husband Michael is work- Laurie Hershman Dickerson and her husband Her husband Edmund is ass't director of the Conn. ing on his MSW at Geo. Washington U. bought an 1824 farmhouse in Portland, Conn. River Estuary Planning Agency. Catherine (Cathy) Robert, working on her Ph.D. Laurie retired from teaching to care for Molly. Ann Morgenstern Jones loves living in the West at U. of Penn., is an English instructor at Haver- Gail Cunningham Rasmussen is an officer at Indies where husband Laurie advises on telecom- ford College. First City Nar'I Bank in Houston. Husband Nick is munications to governments in the Eastern Carib- Nancy Barry managed an internat'l contempo- ass't pres. of American General Insurance Co. bean. He travels frequently and often Ann accom- rary music festival at the N.E. Conservatory. It was Gail does admissions aide work for Conn. panies him. They have two sons, Leslie and Eric. the first time in the 50-year history of the festival Diana Robinson Nelson and Michael both re- Susan Endel Kerner went to India on her honey- that it was held in the U.S. Nancy will now man- ceived their Ph.D. from the Center for Visual Sci- moon. Martin teaches math at Lafayette. Sue will age music and arts performances at the Queens be job hunting upon her return. She continues to Historical Society, NYC. ence, U. of Rochester; Diana in 10/75, Michael 2{74. She's now at Pets Research Inst. doing a study drama. Jeanne Caldwell Raudenbush runs her own post-doctorate on the development of the cat visual Susan Leahy Eldert, our reunion chairman, now ~usiness, Info~mation Management Specialists, a system. In their spare time they make furniture lives in Colo. where husband John is ass't finance library consulting firm. and Diana does weaving. They've just bought a director for the city of Aspen. Sue is very busy with Mary Ann Phillips Muirhead passed the Ohio 100-year-old house complete with a flock of geese. sons, Tommy and Casey but hopes to see all of you Bar in Nov., '76. She works with the Environ- Kathryn Riley is working at Bristol Community in May at our 10th reunion. mental Protection Agency in Chicago and will Wendy Thompson Britton and Mike visited rela- take the Ill. Bar exam. College in Fall River,' Mass. as curriculum coordinator, ESL specialist of a new adult reading tives in Pittsburgh last summer and tried white Cynthia Osborne is ass't prof. of art at Calif. academy. water rafting down the Yough:ioheny River while State .U., Long Beach, teaching printmaking. She Dagny Hultgreen continues work on her M.A. there. We just missed Margaret (Muffin) Marshall also directs a student printmaking program. Burtt and Steve who did the same thing later in the in community planning at U.R.I. while commuting Jane Holloway Stillabower's husband Mike is summer. On our way to Pittsburgh, we stayed with to a part time job in community development for in his Ist year of residency at Wilmington Medical Elizabeth (Betsy) Veitch Dodge in Philadelphia. the city of Stamford. Center. Jane works part time as a physical therapist. She is busy gardening, canning, bird watching Evelyn Marienberg is an assistant to the produc- (especially during migrations) and refinishing . Harriet Tatman Gaynor and Dan bought a house tion executive on the Merv Griffin show. ID New London. They visited with Laura Daven- furniture. Tom is with Arrow Shirts. They have Evelyn (Lynne) Cooper Sitton works as an art port this past summer. two sons, Kevin and Owen. Later in the summer a director for an advertising agency in Salisbury, Md. Nancy Chockley Seelbach spends her time car- tennis tournament took us to Nova Scotia via the Irene (Rene) Kolanko Shedlosky is active in a ing for son Scott and working toward her MSW at overnight ferry which was quite an adventure with babysitting co-op and has taken up photography Case Western Reserve U. Husband Bill is a public two small children. and bicycling. sector consultant for McKinsey & Co. in Cleveland. Lillian Balboni Prestley joins me in urging you Ann Tousley Anderson works as a school library Marilyn Schuchard Dusenbury moved to Con- to make our 10th the best! media specialist. Husband Andy practices law Correspondent: Mrs. Michael E. Britton (Wendy cord: N.H. where husband Chris is practicing architecture. with the Coast Guard. Thompson), 25 Hilltop Rd., Weston, Mass. 02193 Catherine Schwalm Litwin teaches French, Nancy Payne Alexander moved to Me. where Spanish and English. She rides and plays tennis husband Charlie is practicing as an internist. frequently. Husband Larry is a lawyer who spe- Babette Gabriel Thompson works for RCA cializes in real estate litigation. MARRIED: Sue L. White to Michael Foster Records doing contracts with recording artists. Alice Wellington is a certified Esalen-style 69 2114/75; Jill Monchik to Dr. William E. She a?d John went on a photographic safari to Farrer 10/76; Barbara A, Morson to Wilham L E. Afnca. masseuse and plans to open her own private pracnce. Geider 8/28/76; Serena Sears Barnum to Thomas Virginia (Ginny) Harvey will receive her M.D. Jane Hanser Matthews is on leave from A.T.&T. Butler Eastland 9/26{76; Diana Robinson to from Albany Medical College of Union U. She to care for new daughter, Courtney. Her husband Michael Nelson 4/4{71; Ann C. Weinberg to Wil- spent several months in England studying cancer is v.p. of Chemical Bank. liam S. Duvall 1/22{77. treatment on a fellowship from the American BORN; to Gerald and Janet Bouchard Pietsch Cancer Society. Susan Paull Neff left her job as a systems analyst and programmer to care for son David. She and Paul Michael 12/5/76; to James and Anne Tenen- Ellen Aronoff Kent's husband Don is head of the Jane Hanser Matthews see each other often. baum Toohey Sarah Kathleen 9/30/75; to Michael ~ept. of Otolaryngology at the West Point Hos- and Jeanne Caldwell Raudenbush Alice Elizabeth pital. She enjoys the military life. Carol Hunter Thomas' husband Joe is an intelligence officer in the Navy. They have a little 7/27/76; to Michael and Jane Holloway Stille- Susan Sigal Denison is brand Manager of Vicks girl, Hilary Anne. bower Christopher Daniel 6/28/76; to Charles and VapoRub and a new test product at Vick Chemical Serena Sears Barnum Eastland is teaching Nancy Payne Alexander Eleanor Paul 10/26/76; Co. Husba~d Grant ~s manager of planning at while husband Thomas attends the Southwest U. to Donald and Margaret Kaempfer Harjes Mar- Pfizer. They re r~n.ovatmg an old carriage house in School of Law. garet Mary 9jl5f76; to Roger and Anne Hutchin- Stamford and living off their organic vegetable son Myers Jenefer Hutchinson 10/3/76; to Wil- garden and orchards. Nancy Oskow-Schoenbrod teaches preschool children with special problems at Kings County liam and Linda Main Lane Andrew 9jl0f76; to Gale Rawson Thompson works with Schiffer Hospital, N. Y. Richmond and Laurie Hershman Dickerson Molly Antiques. Her husband is in his 2nd year of Jane Weiskopf Reisman is active in several Rebecca 1/22/76; to Nick and Gail Cunningham pathology residency at U. of Penn. women's organizations. tutors children in etiquette Rasmussen Nicole Roberts 1Of7/76; to L. White Judith (JUdy) Golub Wiener is worki~g on her and does critiques of children's literature in addi-

38 tion to caring for Michael Phillip 2. ence and the other in operations research. The Lesley College, Cambridge, where she now is a Deborah Whitlock Madden has started law Sibres expect to be transferred to Washington, part-time faculty member. Concurrently Arlie school at U. Conn. Husband Pat, Republican, was D.C. next summer. Ellen has been in touch with works with adolescents with learning problems at elected to the Conn. State Senate. Elaine Brannen Vinsavich who is in graduate Weston Jr. High School, but may give that up to Patricia Gumo, a supervisor in the accounting school at Iowa State. go on for her Ph.D. She has published articles in dept. of a civil engineering firm, is studying for Eileen Dorazio Vaughn, husband Jon and her field. Arlie shares a "happy, cooperative house- her MBA at NYU evenings and belongs to a com- daughters Jessica and Rebecca love San Francisco. hold" with 8 other people. munityorchestra and a string quartet. While Eileen is a substitute French teacher, Jon Linda Huth Foster, in Madison, Wise., is the Ruth Kunstadt Culp is on the Board of Directors cares for the girls and works full-time on his mas- administrator of a Montessori pre- and elementary of the Holliston, Mass. LWV. She was very active ter's in public administration. school. Husband David is writing his dissertation in the passage of the state ERA bill. Husband Bill Judith (Judy) Glassman Duffie and husband in comparative literature. Both like life with works at Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. in Jon moved last year to a home in Darnestown, daughter Vanessa. Boston as Lead Licensing Engineer. Md., a house Jon designed and built. Judy has Enid Ellison Paul chose not to teach this past Lynne Hugo de Courcy is clinical director of a been teaching foreign language at Rockville, Md. fall-partly because she and Steve became parents residential treatment center for emotionally dis- High School for 6 years and finds the job "reward- of Benjamin whom they happily took along to turbed adolescents and is also in private practice ing but very trying at times." In Dec. 1976 she Montreal to the Olympics and partly because with two other psychologists. Their son, David earned her M.Ed. in secondary education at the U. Enid has been so involved in many activities, Alan, attends a Montessori nursery school. among them a group she leads for new mothers, Jill Monchik Farrer received her M.A. from B.U. given by the American Society for Psyehoprophy- She taught in the Cambridge Follow Thru Project taxis in Obstetrics. Her latest endeavor is Hors and later worked at Mass. General Hospital. She Answers to IrOeuvres & Things. For hosts and hostesses near was a member of Diana Rabenold's women's film Wheaton, Md., Enid and partner offer baked ap- Ms. identification petizers that you store in the freezer to have on co-op, Filmwomen, and performed in the Zamir quiz, page 27 and Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Chorales. She hand in case guests drop by. While her partner now works at E.P. Dutton & Co., NYC. Husband bakes and freezes the food, Enid handles the ad William graduated from Harvard Medical School 1. Peggy O'Neale work, promotions and record-keeping. in '75. 2. Lizzie Borden Mary Josephs Nee was promoted to Loan Ad- Penelope (Penny) Atkinson Horstman is on 3, Julia Morgan ministration Officer at the United Va. Bank in leave from teaching to care for son Aaron, and Richmond last year. She does loan review and new daughter Lindsay. 4. Helen Wills credit work. Mary simultaneously works toward Sally Rowe Heckscher is doing a lot of personal 5. Calamity Jane her MBA. growth workshops and is busy with the J r. League 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe Melodie Peer entered Yale last fall to work on a master's in public health. Prior to grad school, Mel and her job as a c.c. Alumni Ass'n. director. 7. Betty Friedan I, Janet Bouchard Pietsch, and Gerry spent a did medical social work at the V.A. Hospital in week in Anaheim, Calif. I toured the area while 8. Rachel Carson New Haven and Norwalk Hospital. Fay Bomberg is back in school, studying nursing Gerry attended the annual American Animal Hos- 9. Gertrude Stein at Cornell U. (N.Y.C.) in a program for college pital Ass'n. convention. Lots of fun. Now I'm at 10. Grandma Moses grads. After Conn., Fay spent a lot of time in home enjoying my two sons. 11. Andrea Mead Lawrence Europe, falling in love with Italy where she lived Correspondent: Mrs. Gerald E. Pietsch (Janel 12. Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt for a while and studied the language. L BOl/chard), [4 Longview Dr., Westport, Mass. 02790 13. Martha Graham Betsy Breg Masson is learning French in Paris. ,14. She and Paul moved near the Bois de Boulogne in Carrie Nation Oct. For two years Paul will be an economist with 15. Bessie Smith the Organization for Economic Co-operation and MARRIED: Janis Cassidy to Paul Salerno 16. Margaret Sanger Development and once Betsy feels confident in 71 6/4/71; Judith Borkin to Frazier Scott 17, Sarah Caldwell French, she will job-hunt. They are pleased to 6/6/71; Nancy Elias to Marc Kahn 6/25/71; return to Europe-both did graduate work at Lon- Juditb Glassman to Jonathan Charles Duffie 18. Katherine Graham don School of Economics. Betsy is on leave from 8/11/74; Ann Whitney to Morris Lynn Messick 19. Isadora Duncan her job as administrative assistant in cardiac sur- 1/3/76; Anne Willis to Dr. Edward Arnold Peck 20, Mary Baker Eddy gery at Ottawa (Canada) Civic Hospital and Paul III 8/14/76; Reva Karim to Alan Castaline 21. Louisa May Alcott is on leave from the Bank of Canada where he 8/22/76. works as an economist. BORN: to John and Beverly Edgar Myers Rebecca 22. Alice Hamilton Lynda Brooks Crowley and Tom, after living in Margaret 4/10/75 and Andrew Edgar 11/25/76; 23, Jane Addams San Francisco; Columbus, Ohio; and Denver, to David and Linda Huth Foster Vanessa 2/2/75; 24. Dorothy Thompson moved to South Paris, Me., where Tom is director to Rick and Alisa Lewis Altabef Nomi Lehrer 25. Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price of marketing for a woods product manufacturer. 1013/75; to Marc and Nancy Elias Kahn Elias Although they like their new home, Lynda would Jay 4/14/76; to Richard and Louisa Hammond 26. Imogen Cunningham like to find a job in a veterinary clinic and use the Ga~rison. Daniel Bradford 4/30/76; to Steve and 27, Mary Lyon degree she earned in Denver in animal technology. Emd Ellison Paul Benjamin Alan 6/8/76. 28. Emily Dickinson Susan Fletcher, in Houston, works as a tissue PASSED THE BAR: Susan Beck Blaney summer culture technician at M.D. Anderson Hospital '76, in Fla.; Beverly Edgar Myers summer '76 in 29. Gloria Steinem while considering possible courses for the future. OhIO;Joan Rosenberg summer '76 in Ill. 30. Margaret Mead After college, Sue lived in Boston and worked at ~usan Gettman, in Jan. 1976, became medical 31. Emma Goldman Boston U. Medical Center and later moved to editor at Boston U. Medical Center's Informational 32. Rosina Lhevinne Western Mass. where she was executive director Se:Vices Office, For three years prior to her ap- of the Franklin Co. Hotline ("a big title but low pouumem, Susan worked as general assignment 33. Katharine Hepburn pay and an incredibly frustrating. job"). She likes reporter for the Chelsea, Mass., Record. 34. Angela Davis Houston, noting it has a great Job market. She Lynda Herskowitz joined the Philadelphia In- 35, Judy Garland sees Marcia Newmaker and Nancy Lorish '72 who quirer last June as general assignment reporter. have also escaped from cold New England. S~e has covered a variety of topics from off shore Nancy Elias Kahn and Marc lived in Boston all dnlhng to Andrew Wyeth's art. Lynda continues right after college, both studying at B?ston. U. In to study music and plays piano daily. of Md. Now that grad school is through, the 1973, she with her MSW and he with hIS JD, Duffies will have more time to enjoy their cond?- T Wendy Boyer, who lives in Peru, Vt., opened moved to Douglaston, Queens, N.Y. Marc first he Bookworm in Londonderry, nght near Brom- minium in Ocean City, Md. Last fall Judy was 10 joined a small law firm but later went on his o,",:n ley so you can curl up with a book after skiing touch with Ed and Leslie Dahn Sundberg '70 who and is now a partner in Rosenstein and Kahn 10 all day. live in Chicago. . Manhattan. Nancy was a medical social worker at Frances Howland Arvidson, out in Minn., man- Reva Karim Castaline works in education as a the Community Hospital in Glen Cove where she ages the newest Walden books in that state and school adjustment counselor in Brockton, M~ss. initiated and lead a weekly discussion group for husband Gary manages four stores in the Twin Alan works nearby in Bedford as a transportatIOn people with emphysema. An article sh~ wrote Cl~les. Fran and Gary live "on the shores of Lake systems analyst. . . about the group appeared in the. fall '7? I~SU~of ~mnetonka~ and recommend the area for its great Arlyn Roffman is in Cambridge, Ma~s. Since Social Work in Health Care. Since Elias birth, Winterand water sports college she has spent a year, '73-'74, 10 I~rael Nancy has been home but looks forward to a future Charles and Ellen Goodman Sibre find Mon- teaching special education at Hai.fa U. and 10 a which "combines the best of both worlds of terey, Calif. "beautiful." Charles attends the Naval development town with new immigrants '. She en- motherhood and employment." P~stgraduate School, and in June 1977 will re- joyed the experience "despite the war." S1Oc~ then Ann Huckle Mallek and Leo live in Amherst, ceive two master's degrees-one in computer sci- she has earned a master's in special educanon at

39 Mass. near where Leo has opened a second dental months through Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Burma Patricia (Tricia) Troup received an M.A. in office. Ann left her job at Hampshire College when and Afghanistan. She is now in pre-med school French from Tenn. State U. May 1976. Katie, now 2, was 6 months old and conunues to in Tenn. Kathy Weisfeld received an M.A. in child de- be busy. Last spring Ann was elected to the Am- Nina Davit Hamill and her husband Jim Hamill velopment and family relations from U. Conn. herst town meeting and in the fall appointed to the '74 live in Southington, Conn. Jim sells IBM and now teaches at Oklahoma State U., Stillwater. Zoning Board of Appeals. She is on the Board of systems in the northwestern part of the state .and Karen wtner-Pnedmen works for the brokerage Directors of the Amherst L WV and on the town's Nina is the training director at the Conn. Savings investment banking firm at Paine, Webber, Jack- Democratic Town Committee. On election day she Bank in New Haven. son and Curtis in their Fixed Income Research ran into another civic-minded individual, Jane Wendy Dolliver Wynn and her husband Brian Dept. She is registered with the N.Y. Stock Ex- Difley. Ann and Leo have been raising flower.s and spent two months in Europe last summe.r celebr.at- change and the Nat'I Ass'n of Securities Dealers. vegetables, improving their farm and adding a ing his graduation from law school. She IS working She is also a member of the N. Y. Choral Society greenhouse. The Malleks often see Keith a.nd Barb at the Canada Permanent Trust Cc., Toronto, as a which gives concerts at Lincoln Center and Car- Brinton Chenot '68 and their daughter Emily. trainee manager, but expects to be managing a negie Hall. Louise (Weezie) Hammond Garrison worked branch of the company by spring. She is also con- Correspondent: Wendy Wade, 5 Hammond until one week before Daniel's birth and now is tinuing her MBA courses. She met Jane Erlandson Lane, Chatham, Mass. 02633 taking care of him while doing "major redecorat- Tremblay in Toronto, where Jane works at Man~- ing" at their new home in Framingham, Mas.s. facturers Life Insurance. She also attended-Robin Bink is creative director of a small ad agency m Goldband Willcox's wedding where she saw Susan MARRIED: Ron~ld Gallo to Camilla Cory Boston. Sanderson and Mary Ellen Kenny. 76 '75 in N.Y. Botamcal Gardens 6/76. Alisa lewis Altabef and Rick are happy about Suzanne Estes Lee and her husband Monte live Ron and Camilla Cory Gallo are living in Green- their daughter Nomi. Alisa studies modern dance in a house in Noank, Conn. that they designed wich Village, working as paralegals in large law at the Henry St. Settlement in N.Y. last June she themselves. Monte is an architect and city planner firms. attended a mini-reunion of people from Blackstone and Suzanne teaches Kindergarten at the Mary Stuart (Stu) Cohen and Jason Frank attend at the home of Heidi Schiff Tuby '70. Present were Morrtsson School while taking graduate courses at NYU Law School, working hard and checking out Wendy Winnick Wheat and Joan Byrne, both '72. Conn. the hot spots of the City. Beverly Edgar Myers, while attending Case Ellen Ficklen has legally dropped her husband's Rachel Carley works in the Metropolitan Mu- Western Reserve Law School, had two children, surname. She continues to do free lance writing in seum of Art bookshop and holds a volunteer posi- Rebecca and Andrew. John, Beverly and family the D.C. area, her most recent publications being tion at the Park Bernet Gallery and Auction House, five articles in Washingtonian Magazine's book, live in Ohio where she is licensed to practice law. leading the life of Riley. Barbara Lahr Maire and Gregory moved to Singles Guide 10 Washington. lisa Klinck, Rachel's roommate, has already Barbara Flournoy is teaching in Melbourne, Deerfield. 111. in Oct. where Barb is supervisor of received her first promotion at Bloomingdale's. education for the Lake County Forest Preserve Australia. Last year she was in an elementary Renee Baumblatt is busy with her studies in oc- school in a migrant suburb and this year she is in a District in Libertyville. Greg describes their new cupational therapy at Columbia U. home as set "in the most beautiful part." middle class area. She returns in Jan. Juliet (Julie) Buchwalter is working with emo- H.P. Goldfield, a third year law student at Judith (Judy) Borkin Scott and Frazier have a tionally handicapped children in a training new home in Springfield, va. Frazier completed Georgetown served as law clerk and assistant Y., program at the City U. of N.Y. and is a part-timer law school at St. Louis U. in 1975 and now works to Philip Buchen, counsel to Pres. Ford. He was on the staff at the Alliance Francaise. for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture in Washington, appointed last fall by Ford to the Nat'! Advisory Guy Morris has been seen walking the "Big D.C. Judy, who was an insurance claims adjuster Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency. Apple" streets with a Sassoon coif. in 51. Louis, continues the job with a different H.P. received a master's in urban affairs from Oc- Cheryl Kempler is employed by the Brandeis U. company. cidental College, as a result of a CORa Founda- Development Office in NYC. She's "doing" the Patricia Oglesby graduated last May with a mas- tion Fellowship in public affairs 1974. galleries and museums and applying to Clark Inst. ter of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. Kathryn Herbert Priest received an MAT from for next year. She is a pastoral associate to Lynwood Swanson, Wright State in Dayton, Ohio, in 1976. She teaches Douglas (Doug) .Hinman has his foot in the door director of pastoral care at Wilmington Medical in the primary open classroom at the Pine Point of Arista Records but until things come together Center, conducts non-denominational Sun. ser- School in Stonington, Conn. for him in the music field, he's working for Mutual vices at Pellport, Del. and a Tues. night hymn Barbara Hess DePasquale taught for two years of N.Y., drafting contracts in the group pensions sing there. She became a candidate for ordination in a private school, then "retired" to have a baby dept. in the Episcopal Church this Ocr., "will probably last Aug. She saw Margaret (Maggie) Elbert Paar David Biro is still an aspiring musician looking be given an 18 mo. period of training and service, who is living in Ohio. for his "big break." He cut a demo record in Jan. after which I can be ordained to the diaconate Lynda McCurdy Hotra is an historian at the June-Ann Greeley is at Drew U. in N.J., working with ordination to the priesthood normally fol- Cumming Nature Center, the newest division of lowing in a year." hard for her Ph.D. in theological and religious the Rochester (N.Y.) Museum and Science Center. Finally apologies to Andrew (Drew) Ketterer studies. She is working on a master's degree in history for that garbled entry in last '71 notes. Somewhere John (Jack) Blossom is also at Drew in a Master museum studies from the N.Y. State Historical of Divinity program. He likes the work and has between reunion chatter and the printed word, Ass'n in Cooperstown, N.Y. description of his occupation got messed up. recently been appointed as a youth minister of a Susan Krebs owns and edits a monthly news- Here's the straight dope: Drew has a general law church in Dumont, N.J. paper, The Political Collector, for those who col- John (Jack) Clarkson is at U. Conn. Law School, practice in Boston, specializing in criminal trial lect the paraphernalia distributed during political work. Last spring he joined the faculty at Suffolk deeply involved in and enjoying his work. campaigns. She and her husband have separated. Barbara Green is at U. Conn. School of Social U. of La wand now teaches a course in criminal Nancy Marks Rahmes and her husband Gordon Work and writes part-time for the Trumbull Times. trial practice. Drew also presides over our class, received law degrees from the SI. Louis U. Law occasionally exhorting us to give generously. She likes her field work but isn't finding the School 1976. She works on the appellate div. staff "academic" side of her studies very inspiring. She Correspondent: Anne S. Kennison, 1700 Drift of the R.l. Attorney General in Providence. He is a recommends that everyone take a year off before Rd .. Westport, Mass. 02790 lawyer in private practice. grad school. Gail McMeekin received a master's in psychiatric Kenneth (Ken) Abel and his radio voice are at social work from Boston U. last May. She is the the U. Conn. Business School. MARRIED: Marjorie Bussmann to Frank elementary adjustment counselor with the Andover David Palten, after a fruitless job hunt in the Big L. Gillis 8/76; L Suzanne Estes to Monte 73 Public Schools, where she counsels children, par- Apple, writes from Boston to say things are just as S. Lee 2/75; Robin Goldband to Mr. Willcox ems and teachers. lough there. He may attend Boston U. Business 8/76: Nancy Marks to Gordon R. Rahmes Jr. Dino Michaels owns and operates Mr. D's Deli, School. 9/76; Sara Paine to Robert G. Hirst 8/76; Claudia a N.Y. style delicatessen located in New London. Nancy Bellantone and John Moore are both in Pikula to Michael Farrar '73 11/76; Nancy Wil- Sara Paine Hirst works in cost analysis with Cambridge. She's making a pile as a graphic liams to Alexander ·S. Ward 10/76. Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, Conn. designer. BORN: to Stephen and Barbara Hess DePasquale, Her husband is employed by Pratt and Whitney Leonard (Len) LuPriore was last seen in Cam- a boy 8/76. Aircraft, East Hartford. bridge, happy but unemployed. Katharine (Kitty) Brigham Reardon and her Victoria (Vicky) Sandwick Hastings, having Susan (Sue) Maunders is in San Francisco husband Mike live in Denver, where he does completed an internship at the Rochester Museum where she's held several jobs since last spring. She counseling work and she is the executive director and Science Center, does free lance local history loves the West Coast. of the Colo. Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Founda- research. Her husband Mark Hastings '73 is a com- Richard (Rick) Allen found little time last win- tion. She finds her work for this fatal and incur- mercial credit analyst for Marine-Midland Bank ter to soak up the Miami sunshine because of first- able children's lung and digestive disease most and works on an MBA at Rochester Insl. of Tech- year law school exams but enjoys FIa. complex, challenging and rewarding. nology. She saw Christine (Chris) Clarke, who is a Co-correspondents: Rosemary Kelly, Cheyenne linda Chabot, after completing two years as a teacher in a day care center in VI. Home, Labres Indian School, Ashland, Mont. medical researchist and lab technician as a Peace Joan Schulman Safran received an EdM from 59003; Susan Hazlehurst, 76 W. 851h S,., Apt. 1E, Corps volunteer in Thailand, traveled for six Rutgers in May 1976. N. Y., N. Y. 10024

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