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CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Join us on our forthcoming Alumni Cruise of the Nile specially arranged by SWAN HELLENIC Educational Tours since 1955 March 2 - 19, 1991 Only the Nile can claim to have shaped life to such an overwhelming degree. or to have provided such a focus for the birth of a civilization which proved to be one of the greatest the world has ever seen. This cruise will be far more than an exceptionally pleasant and relaxing holiday: it is a way of reaching to the heart of ancient Egypt. Aboard the SWAN HELLENIC 'Nile Star' you will cruise in comfort to the awe-inspiring sites along the banks of the Nile, learning about each from our scholar/escort and local guide. There is so much to see, absorb, learn - and simply enjoy - and the itineraries are carefully planned to provide a welcome balance between cruising, sight- seeing and free time. Following each escorted visit, at most sites there will be time to linger or explore on your own. At other stops there may be a half day or so with nothing planned, leaving you free to relax on board, go shopping, or wander around the local town. To help everyone gain a greater appreciation of this remarkable area, informative but informal talks are given on board by one of the scholar/escorts. They are specially chosen experts with a most important talent, that of being able to blow away the dust of ages and recreate in vivid detail the life and times of those whose tombs, cities, monuments and treasures you will have joined us to see. TOTAL COST $4,955.00 1----------------1 To assure your participation, please mail your deposit I of $500.00 per person to I Director I Alumni Programs I Connecticut College I New London, CT 06320 I NAME _ I I ADDRESS _ I I I I TELEPHONE I L ~ Editorial Staff The Editor: Caroline Crosson '82 Assistant Editor: Elizabeth Coombs Connecticut Class Notes Editor: Mary H. Farrar Designer: William Van Saun Colleae Editorial Board Alumni Helen Haase Johnson '66 Mag::xzine Benjamin O. Sperry '79 Julia van Roden '82 Kristi Vaughan '75 VOLUME 67, No.4, Summer 1990 Caroline Crosson '82, ex officio Alumni in Hollywood page 2 Kristin Stahlschmidt Lambert '69, ex officio Helen Reynolds '68, ex officio From New London to Hollywood The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine (USPS by Katharine Canfield '84 2 129-140). Official publication of the Connecticut College Alumni Association. All publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted only by permission of the editor. Published by the Connecticut College Reunion 1990 7 Alumni Association at Sykes Alumni Center, Con- necticut College, New London, CT, four times a year in winter, spring, summer, fall. Second class postage paid at New London, CT 06320. A Day in the Life of Postmaster: Send address changes to Connecticut a Summer Intern 10 College Alunmi Association, 270 Mohegan A venue, by Graham Burnett Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320, Reunion 1990 page 7 CASE member. Alumni Association Executive Board HelenReynolds '68, President; Laurie Norton Moffatt Round and About/ '78,VicePresident; SoniaCausGleason '85, Secretary; Campus News and Events 12 Leslie Margolin '77, Treasurer; HeleneZimmer-Loew '57, Warren T. Erickson '74, and Elizabeth McLane McKinney '52, Alumni Trustees. David H. Gleason '83, Jane Silverstein Root '60, and Prudence Regan National Newsmakers 14 Hallannan'78,Directors. Committee Chairmen: Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 (Nominating), Virginia Bergquist Landry '70 (Classes and Reunions), Susan CohnDoran '67 (Alumni Giving), Leslie Margolin '77 Class Notes 15 (Finance), Gregg M. Breen '85 (Clubs), David H. Gleason '83(Programs), KevonCopeland '76 (Minor- ity Affairs), Samuel E. Bonum '89 (Under-Graduate/ Young Alumni) and DanieUe Dana Srrickman '66 Summer Internship page 10 In Memoriam 15 (Accessibility). Ex Officio: Caroline Crosson '82, Alumni Publications Editor; Kristin Stahlschmidt Lambert '69; Executive Director; Bridget M. Bernard, Director/Alumni Administration. President's Page 37 Alumni Office Staff Bridget M. Bernard, Director/Alumni Administra- tion; AnneA. Chappell, Administrative Assistant to Director/Alumni Administration; Carol Geluso, Administrative Assistant to Director/Alumni Pro- grams and Headline Writer; Lori Ann Craska, Ad- ministrative Assistant to Executive Director. One ofthe aims of the Connecticut College Alumni Magazine is to publish thought-provoking articles, even though they may be controversial. Ideas ex- Earth Day page 12 pressed in the magazine are those of the authors and r-------------------, do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Alumni Association or the college. Your thoughts and comments are welcomed, as are your unset icired manuscripts, although we cannot guarantee publi- cation and reserve the right to edit all copy. Commu- nications to any of the above may be addressed in care ofthe Alumni Office, Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320. (203) Minority Celebration page 9 447-7525. Production by Laser Graphics, New Haven, CT. '1 Priming by Wm. J. Mack Printing Company, North L --J Front cover illustration Haven, CT. New Alumni Center page 13 by Camille Van Saun Summer 1990 FROM NEW LONDON TO... By KATHARINE CANFIELD '84 There are really only two places in the country where people who are serious about getting ahead in :~-:. the entertainment field can expect to find much work: ..~. New York and Los Angeles. While the Big Apple is the hot spotfor theater people, Los Angeles is where most television,feature films, and music are being produced. Since Connecticut College students, par- ticularly in the past, have come primarily from the East, you don't expect to run into many California Cappy Cagan '66 alumni. The ones who have ventured west, however, are certainly making an impact. While these mod- a degree in philosophy (while raising two ern-day frontierspeople have gone west for all sorts young children) at New York's Hunter College. She moved to Los Angeles in of reasons, perhaps the most prevalent thing that the mid-70s and in 1978 graduated from UCLA with a law degree. She then brings former Camels to LA is the want for work in worked in various aspects of law (real the entertainment industry. The following are short estate, entertainment, private practice), before joining 20th Century Fox in 1987. profiles of some of the alumni who have found fame, Her work there, she says, "is lots offun." fortune, and usually a whole lot more, in Hollywood. * SARAH RY AN BLACK '65 As Senior Vice President for Act HI Productions (Norman Lear's production * CAROL (CAPPY) Although Cagan only spent a year at company), Sarah Ryan Black '65 takes PLATT CAGAN '66 Connecticut College - she left at the end of stories in their early stages and works her freshman year to get married and move with writers to develop workable screen- Cappy Platt Cagan '66 sees a side of Holly- to New York - she says she wished she plays. Black has a vital role in the writ- wood most people don't associate with the could have spent all four years at Conn. ing process - one that has both rewards area's glitz, glamour, and creativity. A law- During her time there, she was particularly and difficulties. "I'm paid to read, paid yer and vice president of business affairs at struck by her (then, all-female) classmates' to think, paid to talk to people 1 really 20th Century Fox Studios, Cagan negotiates motivation, intelligence, and independence. like," she says. "But it's also frustrating. agreements between Fox and its employees: "When I read about what these women The collaborative process of film is both actors, writers, directors, and the like. are doing, I feel so proud to be connected its plus and its minus." Briefly put, "I spend the company's with the place." Black's career in Hollywood began a money," she says. After leaving Connecticut, Cagan got little over a decade ago, when she moved .- .' :.;. 2 Connecticut College Alumni Magazine .;.. D'Onofrio, the story of a love triangle in over 40," Stephens said. Because of that, Little Havana, Miami; and The Butcher's she said she sometimes tells people she Wife, a light romantic comedy with Meg graduated from Conn in '69 or '71. ''I'm Ryan. everybody's classmate," she laughs. Yet After graduating as a history major from even though she sees the limits of Holly- Connecticut, Nicita spent four years teach- wood, Stephens "absolutely" wants to keep ing creative writing to junior high school on acting. students in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of New York. ("The streets were on fire * SHELLEY SMITH '69 then," she says.) Her work at Bed-Sruy was very moving and touching, she says, be- "It seems as though every decade I cause in put her in touch with real suffering change careers," says Shelley Smith '69. and pain. After graduation as an art history major, When Nicita left teaching in 1971, she Smith launched a successful modeling ca- joined the company of New York casting reer - so successful, in fact, that anyone director Marion Dougherty with whom she who came of age in or before the '70s Sarah Ryan Black '65 worked for six years.