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Contents July / August 1993

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Vollime 3 / Number 1 3 Word for Word: More 011 Kimoo Wood '65; the enduriJlg it!fif.lcllce ~rJO(/1/.King

Co-Editors: Lisa H. Brownell, Charles B. Luce Jr. 5 Perception: A "Southerner" reflects 011 life in the land oj COlmecliCl/( Yal/kees Assistant Editor/Class Notes: Campus View: Call good-Illck rituals improve yo HI' grades? record-setting lacrosse Mary Farrar 6 season; /'lew look for Cro; and urcre Art Director: Sharon Butler Photography: Paul Horton 11 Notes from the Field: A potent's gil ide to Russian sightseeing Contributing Writers: Joseph P. Silvestri, Lee White 12 Chapter and Verse: The dgcIISive Chonoue Bronte; doillg business wilh the Assistant: Liz Gallagher [apancse; and sevell other /lelll hooks Advertising Sales: Michellee Yushkevich 203-347-47'15 16 Verbatim: COli/mel/cement speaker ElIgCIIC V. Gallagher all t!tings (!I(If matter Editorial Board Jeff Berman '93 Room to Grow 75th Commencement. Blanche McCrary Boyd Warren Erickson '74 Five Years of Change Claire L. Gaudiani '66 Amy Gross '63 Alumna President Claire Gaudiani has moved Leslie Margolin '77 the college forward, but not without raising Kristi Vaughan '75 questions about her style. Ex qfficio: Lisa H. Brownell Flight School by PellllY P",seklall Charles B. Luce Jr. When getting from one place to another, birds Director of College Relations Christopher T. Cory don't just cast their fate to the winds. Executive Director, Alumni Association Kristin Srahischmidr Lambert '69 Ritual for the '90s 1993 was the college's biggest reunion ever. Alumni Association Executive Board President: Leslie A. Margolin '77; Vice President: Samuel Bonum 28 Portfolio: YOII may 1/01 be able to judge a book by '89; Secretary/Treasurer: Daniel its cover! but YOIl call team a 101 by looking closely at Hirschhorn '79; Alumni Trustees: bookplates Designer labels, page 28 Kevan Copeland '76, Warren Erickson '74 and Elizabeth McLane McKinney '52; Directors: Mamy 33 Class Notes Morris Krause '66, Catherine Young '75. Advisors: Peter M. O'Connor '81 (Legal); Marion L. Nierimz '65 (Personnel); John Sharon '86 (Accessibiliry). Century Council Liaison: Dhuanne Schmitz Tansill '64.

75th Commencement, page 14 ON 11IE COVER: The college reached another mile- stone with its 75th Commencement, May 29. Photo by Paul Horton. SIOry on page 14. Candid Claire, page 18 ConnecticutCollegeJ\Ilagllzine • President's Page

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille Ready for more challenges? Definitely.

ConnecticutCollegeMa.l,'azille is a joint publication of the Connecticut College Alumni Association and Connecticut TIle President's Page is guest-wriltcnjor this College. The mission of the magazine is to issue by John C. Evans, chair if the board cif maintain ties between the college, i15alum- trustees, ni and all other constituents, and to report on issues of importance to these groups. hen Claire Gaudiani was introduced to the trustees Contributions: We welcome letters to the editor, class notes, comments and sugges- W of Connecticut College by tions. ConnecticutCollegeMagazillc will the presidential search committee a little consider but is not responsible for unso- over five years ago, she faced a board licited manuscripts, proposals and pho- that wanted a strategic plan. It did not rographs. Address correspondence to: her long to mount the podium and Editor, ConnecticutCollegeMagl/zinc, take Chair of the college board of trustees John C. Becker House, 270 Mohegan Avenue, encourage the orchestration of such a Evans (right) has given Gaudiani a tough mandate. New London, CT 06320-4196. plan by literally hundreds of members of the college community. For a collegial ConnecticutCollegeJ'I'Iagazillr (USPS 129- institution, the first planning effort is the are one of only three dozen or so true '140) is published six times a year, in july, liberal arts colleges in the United States. September, November, January, March hardest, and this was no exception. But and May, and is mailed free of charge to it got done and done well. What did we expect Claire Gaudiani alumni and friends of the college. Second Now Claire has completed the first to accomplish in her time as president? class poscagc paid at New Loudon, five years, and as we enter the fifth and No less than the preservation and nurtur- Connecticut, and at additional offices. final year of that first plan it is timely for ing of that rare treasure. In view of the economic and cultural pressures that Postmaster: Send address changes to us to take stock. By "us" I mean alum- ConnecticutCollegeMagazillc, 270 ni, students, faculty, trustees, parents and have led many colleges to offer vocation- Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT friends. I hasten to acknowledge that I al and pre-vocational curricula, we knew 06320-4196. have been chair of the board of trustees that the task assigned to Claire would not only one year, but I have been a trustee be easy. ConnecticutColiegeMI~azi"r Copyright We started out by helping her give \993 by the Connecticut College Alumni for six, mostly as chair of academic Association. all rights reserved affairs; so I am emboldened to try to our excellent faculty the underpinnings Reproduction in whole or ill part without summarize where we stood when Claire they needed to persevere in the shrink- written permission is prohibited. Views arrived, what we expected, what has ing world of institutions that are teaching expressed herein arc- those of the author and doing scholarship totally in the liber- and do not necessarily reflect official policy been done and what remains to be of the Alumni Association or the college. done. al arts. We undertook to raise faculty Publishing Office: Becker House, President Francis Oakley of Williams salaries over five years to close a gap that ConnecticUl College, 270 Mohegan College has written that the very history existed vis-a-vis our peers. We reduced Avenue, New London, CT 06320-4196. of education in QUI culture suggests "the teaching loads so as to give faculty mem- Phone: 203-439-2300; FAX: 203-439- openness, resilience, flexibility and bers more time for scholarship and 2303. power of that age-old tradition of edu- academic advising of students. We liber- PRINTED IN U.S.A. on non de-inked cation in the liberal arts that at its best is alized our sabbatical policy as well as our recycled paper using soy-based inks. consciously geared to no less inclusive resources available for faculty travel and an activity than that ofliving itself" research. \."\ ... r*.-o;'.'~ "'=1i INK Connecticut College, in that tradition, While these measures were nor con- Printing by Lane Press, Burlington, Vt. is a fare treasure. The economist David tingent on any quid pro quo, as trustees Breneman, of the Harvard School of we saw clearly that the college could not AlumniOt1iceStaN Education, has found that there remain even hold its own academically without Bridget M. Bernard. Director/Special substantial efforts to meet an increasingly Programs; Anl1e A. Chappell, Adminis- only about 60 free-standing colleges that trative Assistant to Director/Clubs/ offer more than 50 percent of their bac- competitive and changing environment, Educational Programs; Martha Clampitt calaureate degrees in the humanities, economically, culturally and technologi- Merrill '84, Din.'ctor/Aluumi Programs; social and natural sciences and tile arts cally. We therefore supported the Andrew C. Sharp '89, Director/Clubs/ Educational Programs; Carol Geluso, (versus about 200 twenty years ago). president in urging the faculty to devise Administrative Assistant to Director/ Our college offers 100 percent of its means of evaluating teaching and schol- Alumni Programs; Lori Ann Craskn, baccalaureate degrees in these areas. We arship so as to facilitate a fair system of Adminisrrative Assistant to Executive Director.

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reorganizing merit in setting salaries. We Playing chicken And other opinions on T400dand Tho11lases also requested from her and the faculty a thorough, and overdue, review of the general education policies of the college. In reference to "The Wh.ite House for the right reasons, not because it Shortly after her arrival, the president chickens out, and the nation loses," will increase the size of the type instituted three initiatives that have dis- [March/April 1993], beyond [author where New London is written on the tinguished our institution: the Center for Jeff] Greenfield's personal bias, it Connecticut map. International Studies and the Liberal seems to me that the editors are guilty With all due respect to Judge Arts, the summer institutes for economi- of crying sour grapes and not merely Wood, the White House did not cally disadvantaged high school students reprinting a factual, political issue "chicken out." She did. The nation and the summer research internships in analysis. did not lose. Connecticut College did. the sciences. In addition, she has sup- Indeed, Kimha Wood '65's reputa- PauJ V. Mazzarulli '91 ported creation of the Centers for Arts tion indicates that she has had a very South Norwalk, Connecticut and Technology and for Conservation significant impact on the legaJ com- Biology and Environmental Studies. munity. Putting away Michael Milken As the founder of the Alumnae Office Under the president's leadership the surely attests to that. However, her and first secretary, and as the founder college has completed a building pro- confirmation as attorney general could also of the former alumni publication, gram that has culminated in the new have been interpreted as a mistake. the Alul1'l11aeNews, I am naturally College Center complex, new and Connecticut College seems to have interested in why the article on Susan expanded athletic facilities, the Becker supported her confirmation more for Thomases '65 [National Newsmakers, alumni and development house and the school's increased name recogni- January/February 1993] asserts that groundbreaking for the F.W. Olin tion than for the selection of an women with power have to "pay a Science Center. appropriate attorney general. price" with the press. Is It not, per- Throughout the past five years Child care, in this age of double- haps, that Thomases is over assertive Connecticut College has continued to income families, and the need for and perhaps, also overstates her fill its freshmen classes with gifted and more (more, morel), is a serious con- accomplishments and connections? At articulate young men and women. cern. However, the United States any rate, I enclose the Was/n'ngtofl Post These, then, are some of the things attorney general should be someone survey on Tbomases [which was gen- that have been done. What remains? above and beyond all legal reproach. erally critical of her - Eds.], and I We must continue our faculty devel- Any transgression or violation oflaw, feel that the whole connection is any~ opment and student financial aid regardless of size, should rightfully dis- thing but good commentary on programs, and we must maintain the qualify a candidate. Connecticut College. You do have beautiful and effective campus we have For shame, Connecticut College. remarkable alumnae (and alumni per- built. We must strive more effectively Support an attorney general nominee haps) to extol whose quiet for human diversity at every level, from students to trustees. All such programs require the support that can come only Press On Regardless by Man Haggett 'g1

from unrestricted funds. The focus is . So \ looK.t.d.- a.+', 8t'J .... So a.f"kr I'd ord.e:J"«::d simple. We have reached our goals for 1\;0~+ (B<.J+ If it is~cf f";vlt +i(l1\t-,,~ It - I -H.1;s cAN'T EAT T~(S I' .. -+j.1\~.··d (bill" ltt.,il\ lent position to take on this challenge. <_'1 c~[I~ -tt_ Under Claire Gaudiani's leadership, over the coming years we look forward to protecting and enhancing further the treasure that is Connecticut College.

Graduates' tales of cafeteria withdrawal.

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living so far from home to hear from peo- dle schools and the local hospice, and Awards: Two for two ple who care! present workshops to colleagues. And, Pamala Lewis MFA '85 coming full circle to some of the children For the second time since growing out of a Holland whom I worked with at the women's merger between the alumni magazine and shelter, I am currently developing a sum- View two years ago, Connecticut College ( Lewis and her dog survived the blazing crash mer camp to treat sexually abused boys. I Magazine has been named one of the top of a Dutch jet in Portugal- subject if an regret that it was not until reading of her seven college magazines in the U.S. and "Ear to the Ground" in the March IApril CC death that I realized Dean King was the Canada in the annual recognition program Magazine. ~ Eds.) one who helped me find myself Thank of the Council for the Advancement and you Dean King! Support of Education (CASE). Andrew W. Young, The magazine took a bronze medal, for Chester, New Hampshire overall excellence. Also, Paul Horton was awarded a silver medal for the second con- Looking good secutive year, this time for his cover photo I want to congratulate you on the new on the Jan/Feb issue. format of the magazine. It looks great. Also to register my appreciation for the article on school choice, illustrated by effectiveness is a joy to read about. Coos Burrell '87. Better luck next time. Carole Axinn Wilk '50 Dorothy Feltner Davis '30 Highland Park, Illinois Washington, D,C.

I appreciate your sending me a copy of YOU MAY NOTICE A CHANGE as you look the article about our good friend Susan through this issue of Connecticut College Magazine: the introduction of paid advertising. Thomases. I know all of you at Reunited: Pamala lewis and Sikka Connecticut College are very proud of The editorial board has endorsed the selling her many outstanding accomplishments. of advertising, on a limited basis, for several Thank you for your kind words. We Joan King reasons. First and foremost is the need to

will continue (0 need your support as I was greatly saddened to read about the explore a source of revenue that will help us to we face the tremendous challenges death of Dean Joan King. Although 1 maintain the size and quality of this magazine. ahead. attended Connecticut College for only Outside income reduces the impact of produc- Hillary Rodham Clinton one year ('81-'82), Dean King had a pro- tion costs on the college budget, thereby free- Washington, D.C. found impact on my life and career. In all ing funds for scholarships, academic pro- honesty, she is probably the reason I have grams and other needs. Cookin' camels become the person that I am today. Connecticut College Magazine is mailed, r really enjoyed the Alumni Dining page As a confused freshman who did not free of charge, to all alumni and friends of the in the Marchi April edition. I hope that know what he was looking for or what he college. Unlike other colleges and universities, this is not a one-time thing. Has anyone wanted. 1 turned to Dean King. She we do not seek subscription fees or special thought of putting together a booklet was caring, sympathetic and genuine, alumni dues. Rather than diminish the scope with all the alumni eateries? Lots of us traits r am not sure I fully appreciated at of the magazine or the space devoted to Class travel quite a bit, and it would be fun to that time. She listened to me. She helped Notes, we are now exploring other ways to off- stop for a bite at a restaurant owned by a me explore not only who I was at the set the cost of production and mailing. fellow CC alum. time, but where I wanted to go in the We realize that advertising may change the Victoria Posner '65 future. It was Dean King who suggested I appearance of our publication. It is worth not- Rochester, New York volunteer my time in New London. I ing that Ivy League alumni magazines have ended up at the women's center in town. carried paid advertising for 20 years, and it is a We will try to repeat our Alumni Dining Today I definitely know who I am, major source of income for them. We hope feature at least once a year. Alumni restaura- and that is a successful clinical social that our readers will appreciate the need to teurs, let's hearfrom you! - Eds. worker who continues to work with augment the magazine budget so that we can some of the issues I first encountered at continue to serve the communication needs of Crash survivors the women's center. Besides having a pri- the college and its alumni. Your comments are Thank yOll all for your concern about vate practice, I teach at a local junior most welcome. - The Editors my accident. It really makes a difference college, consult to two elementary /rnid-

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Northern exposure A Kentuckian in a ConnecticutYankee'scollege

To some it's the South, to oth- man who was suddenly at our an expected question from the "Great!" Tim exclaimed, ers the Midwest. Wherever you window. "Conn is just up the student sitting next to me on "We're set." locate Louisville, Kentucky, road on your left." We the bus on our way to the Unfortunately we weren't geographically, New England it thanked him, and headed out woods in northwestern exactly set, but we had a fan- isn't. considering the virtues and Connecticut where the COOP tastic year. I put up with their During high school at drawbacks of attending a col- program was held. Aerosmith, and they dealt Kentucky Country Day the lege referred to as "Conn." "Louisville." Isaid. with my Hank Williams Jr. "big decision" loomed over my Needless to say, I fell in love "Louavul? Where's that?" We became great mends. head: What colleges or univer- with the campus. The sun was was my neighbor's reply. They kept me working on the sities should I apply to? This out, and we could see clear "Lou-e-ville. Kentucky." I Southern accent the whole question was qualified by across the Sound to Long answered. time, but we had pretty lousy numerous factors including not Island. My mother was imme- "Oh, you're from the South. results with meeting women. only who would have me, but diately sold, but I still needed What made you decide to come Still, [liked the fact that I other aspects of the application persuasion. The to Connecticut was an outsider and that peo- process over which I had more push came that "We figured that College?" ple asked me questions of control, such as in what region night as Mom and Obviously, he what home was like. It was of the country would I be able I dined in a having a guy with a hadn't gotten used surprising to learn the impres- to spend a happy and (hopeful- restaurant across to referring to our sions they had of Kentucky. ly) productive four years. from the New Southern accent in new school as "It seems to me," a good In the fall of my senior year I London train sta- "Conn" yet either, high school friend who went had my sights set southward - tion. After we our room would 1 thought to myself to Bowdoin once told me, warmer weather, weekend trips finished our meal "I guess J just liked "that a lot of people confuse home to have Mom do laun- we were dis- be a sure way to it, and J wanted to Kentucky with Alabama. I dry, tailgating at big time cussing what we try someplace mean, they seem to think of footbaJJ and basketball games. It had seen that day meet a lot of girls." new," was nlY use- Kentucky as backward." was a region with which I was when all of a sud- less answer to a Looking back, I'm sure comfortable and familiar. den an Amtrak train pulled up question that has been posed to Alabamans in Kentucky feel But as time progressed, four to the station and passengers me a thousand times since. sort of like we Kentuckians years of Mardi Gras at Tulane walked off and piled in. To my COOP was a blase. When we felt in New England - not or living with half my high Midwest/Southern eyes that returned to campus, Imet my unwelcome but just a bit mis- school class at Vanderbilt didn't was the most perfect New roommates, Tim and Travis, understood. seem too appealing. So what do Englandesque scene one could who were both from Now, as a graduate ofCC, you do when the mob is run- ever choreograph - com- Massachusetts. I shook hands r cannot imagine a better place ning one way? Run ilie other. muters getting off a train after a and exchanged pleasantries with for me. When Ifirst arrived I My mother and Iflew to day's work in New York or them while we waited for their had never seen a live ice hock- Hartford, rented a car and Boston. In Louisville the only parents to finish decorating our ey or lacrosse game, not to drove down to New London. trains I ever saw carried either room and making their beds. mention a crew regatta. By After spending a half hour try- pigs, cars or coal. The idea of They finally left and Tim the time I left, not only had I ing to figure out the access being right between Boston turned to me and said, "Travis been a four-year oarsman, but roads that border 1-95, we and New York appealed to and Iwere talking and we fig- 1 managed to comprehend the finally made it onto Route 32. me. Iwas starting to like this ured that having a guy with a rules of hockey. I'm still "Cool," I thought to myself as place. Southern accent in our room working on lacrosse, though. I the large red brick buildings on We returned to Kentucky would be a sure way to meet a can successfully identify the my right grew larger, and we the next afternoon and Iconfi- lot of girls." New England states on a map pulled up to the garehouse. dently decided we should send "I don't really have much of and not mix up Vermont and "Wait a minute, Mom," I said the deposit to Connecticut an accent ... " I admitted. New Hampshire. And I can to my chauffeur, "I think that College. What a relief "That'sall right as long as give a pretty decent answer to sign on the fence said U.S. That fall Iparticipated in the you can fake one," said Travis the question of why I chose Coast Guard Academy. This COOP outdoor orientation hopefully. Connecticut College: "It's isn't Connecticut College." program. ''I'll try my best for y'all," I helped improve my "No. It isn't, son," said the "Where are you from?" was drawled. 'Southern' accent."

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Conjuring good grades Can wearing a lucky shirt help bag a 4.0?

Connecticut research at ~ College students Connecticut. e work hard at Vyse and preparing for exams, but not Wilkinson report always in ways you might that they tallied expect. They not only crack questionnaires the books, they sleep with from 70 students them under their pi.llows so and collected that knowledge can pass, plas- assorted anec- ma-like, into their brains dotes. They during sleep. They also wear learned that charmed clothing, write with before some lucky pens and pray. Connecticut These are the findings of College students Stuart A. Vyse, an assistant take an exam, professor of psychology at they engage in ee, who with two students certain rituals - has been researching exam- like dressing up, related superstitions. dressing down, Such superstitions "do, in skipping a shave, fact, exist at Connecticut saying a prayer, College in fairly significant finding the lucky numbers," says Vyse, who pen or secunng can cite exam superstitions the lucky seat. elsewhere, too. He noted that "A lot of peo- superstitions flourish under ple swear by circumstances of uncertainty, OS111osis,"said where people hope to exer- Wilkinson, citing Crossing your fingers and other good-luck rituals actually can have an effect on exam performance, cise some control and that those who sleep says Assistant Professor of Psychology Stuart Vyse. exams involve a considerable with their books. measure of doubt, even for Also popular. he added, are change one's shirt than to higher level of belief in para- those who study hard. Like pens that know the answers change one's beliefs. normal phenomena like Big gamblers, sailors and others (because they took the notes). "Good example," said Foot.) They also found more who face uncertain condi- Vyse and Wilkinson say that Vyse. exam superstitions among tions, exam-taking students superstitious practices might The researchers wanted to humanities and arts majors, seek good luck. actually help students get better know if personality traits and indications that city "As a psychologist, I've grades. They can improve per- could be used to predict dwellers are more supersti- always been interested in the formance by reducing anxiety, superstitiousness. "We tious than suburbanites. quirks of human behavior, for instance. At other times hypothesized that students What JTlaysurprise marry, the irrational things that we they simply illustrate how peo- who needed more control in they say, is simply this: all do. I'm interested in applying ple maintain consistency of their lives would be more sorts of people, including col- modem scientific psychology belief Wilkinson recalled a superstitious, but we did not lege students, are superstitious. to understand why people student who wore a particular find that. Except for anxiety, "Traditionally it's been engage in superstitions," said sweatshirt, aced an exam and personality variables in gener- thought that superstitiousness Vyse, who is writing a book then made Sure to wear that al were not good predictors," indicates low intelligence. on the psychology of super- shirt to the next exam. said Vyse. This is not true," said Vyse. stitions. When he got "She crashed and burned, so The researchers did find After all, he noted, interested in exam supersti- she never wore it again, but that women were more "Connecticut College stu- tions, he recruited Adair she started looking for some- superstitious than men about dents are very bright Kendrick '92 and Craig thing else Ducky] to wear," he exams. (Other research, Vyse individuals. " Wilkinson '93 to conduct said, noting that it's easier to noted, shows men to have a - Carolyn Battista o Jljly / August 1993 Cough, cough Smoking may be a health hazard, but it's regaining popularity among young people

Despite repeated in cigarette sales in recent problems, do they ignore college's policy of encourag- . , government warn- years. warnings. ing wellness. However, IIings and incense Non-smokers complain it Senior non-smoker Chris students vehemently opposed anti-smoking campaigns by is impossible to leave the stu- Scheller thinks the increase is their proposal to ban cigarette The American Cancer Society dent bar without your clothes somehow related to the type sales on campus, and it was and others during the past two stinking of smoke, and it is of people being admitted to dropped. decades, smoking cigarettes is rare to walk through academ- Connecticut. "The school is a More recently, Alex Barrett considered coo] again on col- ic buildings without seeing a lot more diverse than it used '92 suggested that smoking be lege campuses. student lighting up while to be," he says. prohibited at dorm functions "It's a social thing," claims leaving class. But Brown disagrees. "At of more than 50 people. Melissa Clauss '96. "I smoke Eliza Brown '93 has been Princeton and Tufts, absolute- Despite strong protests by at parties and when I'm hang- smoking consistently for four ly nobody smokes. Here those affected, the idea was ing out with my friends. I like years and adamantly insists everybody does. Connecticut adopted. And in a long and it." Clauss, who says she nev- that its lure will diminish after is not nearly as diverse [as heated debate this past spring, er gets a craving for a cigarette graduation. Although in ret- those places]." Instead, she the Student Government and could quit tomorrow, rospect she wishes she had believes that smoking is a Association voted to make the started smoking infrequently never started, Brown believes "monkey see, monkey do" newly renovated student cen- in high school, but has really cigarettes have relaxed her phenomenon. ter a smoke-free building. taken to it now that she is in and have helped her deal with "It's just a fact," added That is a move a spokesper- college. the stresses of colJege life. Clauss. "When your friends son at the Hartford office of "It's freedom-related," she "Part of me gets bummed smoke, you become tempt- The American Lung added. "It's finally your life about it. When am r going to ed ... if you've already started, Association applauded. Many and you can do whatever you stop?" she wonders. "I'll quit you smoke more." students underestimate the want." eventually. I would never All of which has led to addictive effects of smoking, That attitude apparently is raise my children in a smok- confrontation. Several years she said. It's easy to say you'll catching on. According to ing household. God forbid." ago, faculty members argued quit after you graduate. Doing the American Lung But why, if students are that selling cigarettes on cam- it is something else again. Association, smoking among clearly aware of the health pus was inconsistent with the - Liz Schneider '93 adults (those 25 and older) continues to drop; but it is rising alarmingly among young people. No statistics are available on college stu- dents as a distinct group, but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that in 1985 19.5 percent of teenagers smoked. By 1990 that figure was up to 36 percent.

Hardcore school spirit The Connecticut College Bookshop says it sells between 350 and 400 packages of ciga- rettes a week; sales double during exams. (Interesting side note: More than half the ciga- rettes sold are Camel Lights.) Bookshop personnel say they have noticed a slight increase Nol too long ago, smoking was a routine part of any student gathering, like this one in Blackstone basement in 1948.

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Something to ere about A campus landmark is reborn... and put to immediate use

All winter long, Connection, a light-filled pas- ~ people on campus sageway at the center of the wondered what was building. e The dedication ceremony going on under the huge sheets of flapping plastic that attracted a SRO crowd and fea- covered the Crozier-Williams tured speakers who were Student Center. involved with the project from When the shroud was the start. finally lifted, it was hard to Dean of the College Robert believe that this was the old L. Hampton chaired the "Cro" we knew. No more College Center Planning bowling alley, no more Corm Committee. "I would like to Cave. No alumni wing. No take you back 23 years when cramped WCNI studios. No the trustees approved the first gym. No swimming pool, alterations to Crozier-Williams even. (A new one was built at to provide new locker facilities the Athletic Center.) to accommodate male stu- Instead, airy meeting dents," he said, a reminder to Jane Funkhouser'53 stands above the entrance to a cru few alumni will recognize if they haven't been on campus lately. A stone facade helps the College Center rooms, fresh.ly painted offices the audience of the incredible blend well with its neighbors while the vaguely nautical look of open decks and for student organizations, changes the campus has under- porthole windows seems appropriate for a campus with an ocean view. This dance studios and a new post gone. Dean Hampton lauded design detail was not losl on students, who immediately nicknamed the building office and bookshop are con- Jane Muddle Funkhouser '53, "The love Boat." veniently located at the P'85, chair of the College center of campus. Center Projects Fund. "[She] creating The Connection, two conference rooms to Designed by Lo- Yi Chan forged the vision that we cele- which not only unifies the honor former dean of the col- of the New York architectur- brate here today. She inspired spaces in the building but the lege Alice E. Johnson and al firm of Prentice and Chan, us to keep the dream, and we entire College Center with present dean Bob Hampton Ohlhausen, the renovation are immensely grateful for her the rest of the campus. The for their loyalty and dedicated cost $8.5 million and took untiring efforts on behalf of Connection honors, and is service to the college. more than a year to complete. the College Center." funded by, families in which Mter the dedication every- On dedication day, April more than one member has one adjourned to The 30, instead of a ribbon cut- The pulse of Connecticut College attended the college, often Connection for a reception ting, the offices housed in the Funkhouser described the across several generations. and music by the Connecticut new College Center held College Center as the heart of College Jazz Ensemble. Later open houses to showcase the the college community. "In Bringing il all log ether the CoCo Beaux, Conn work that will go on there. this building one wilJ feel the President of the Student Chords, Shwiffs, Unity This, after all, is a space that is pulse of Connecticut College. Activities Council Gerard Gospel Choir and Williams meant to be used. The heartbeat ... will come Choucroun '93 noted, Street Mix sang in the new An energetic folk dancing from the activity of the faculty, "When we have one space Coffee Ground Care, kicking ensemble convinced enthusi- staff and students. Co-mingled that holds the Office of off the first of many student- astic guests to join in an with those are other heartbeats Volunteers for Community organized performances. To impromptu frolic on the front that will echo in this building Service, the Everywoman's cap the celebration, both the terrace. Other student artistic - those of the people who Center, SGA, ... the health younger and older generations performances, including helped to make it happen." education office, the post stepped the night away to the dance improvisations and Among those people were office and Bert & The Cajun sounds of Hypnotic "Art Attacks," took place at the mother-daughter team of Plechcones playing in the Clambake at the annual various sites around the Frances Freedman Jacobson Coffee Ground Cafe, we are Spring Pormal sponsored by building, and a student art '56, P'82 and Susan Golden enriching our community by SAC. It was a day and night exhibit and archival photo Jacobson '82, co-chairs of The bringing it together." of cross-generational memo- display of the history of the Connection Committee. They President Claire Gaudiani ries, both recalled and made. College Center hung in The emphasized the efforts made in '66 announced the naming of - Meg Ramsden o July / August 1993 -

How brave wi II the new world be? At thefourth A&T symposium virtually everyone got a peek

~: The collaboration too many kinds of expertise, ine, all require cooperation posium, the center was careful ., that began almost a to exclude anyone who has an among programrners, visual to preserve the one-event-at- decade ago with the interest in how the arts can artists, R&D administrators a-time format of previous mutual interests of a few £1C- use emerging technology or and those specialists in human years, despite pressure from a ulty members was formally how technology can use the kioesthecics, dancers. burgeoning number of pro- organized in 1991 into the skills and insights of artists. On the opening day of the posals. When everyone can Center for Arts & Technology The brain-picking is continu- symposium, devoted to VR, a attend everything, the tenden- at Connecticut College. It ous and mutual. panel moderated by Larry cy to fission along disciplinary now includes a score of facul- We think of art and tech- Vogel from the department of lines is curbed. As a result, ty fellows engaged in research nology as separate, even philosophy looked beyond the dancers saw how the work of individually, in pairs and opposed. Yet as one panelist technical challenges to ask computer animators and video groups, and with students, as noted, the "data glove"- a what ethical problems these artists might contribute to new well as associates from busi- high-tech staple of Virtual developments are likely to systems of dance notation; nesses around Connecticut. Reality (VR) installations - create. researchers in medical imaging On March 4-7, the Center was developed under a grant Nightmares of mind-control learned ways for the diagnostic sponsored the Fourth Biennial from the National and electronic addiction com- data to reach the ear as well as Symposium on Arts & Endowment for the Arts. pete with enthusiasm for what the eye, with their different Technology. Cutting-edge developments in may become whole new kinds analytic capabilities; and During four days of presen- computers entail a painter's of human experience. The everyone got to see how brave tations, concerts, pane] and a musician's kinds of consensus answer to the the new world might be. discussions and exhibitions, knowledge of sensory systems; dilemma was a credo for A month later, Simon Dana Hall and the adjacent many developments in the arts democracy: If the open distrib- O'Rourke, a young alumni spaces in Cummings buzzed arise from techniques that spin ution of information keeps trustee living in Cairo, men- with shoptalk, in the way of off from technology devel- outpacing the bureaucratic tioned that on one of the all professional meetings. Most oped for other purposes. habit oflabeling everything international e-mail networks, conventions assemble special- VR systems, much publi- "secret," we will all know frequented by publishers inter- ists within a business or an cized but still in their infancy, what can be done and be on ested in electronic media, the academic discipline, and they are a case in point. The our guard against what could wires hummed for days with tend to slide fast through the Navy's simulators, the com- be. Traditions of academic messages about the sympo- shoptalk chute into an arena puterized city tour sponsored freedom and open publication, sium: something was impenetrable to outsiders, by the Aspen Chamber of and the ethic of semi-anarchy happening at Connecticut however eager the participants Commerce and entertainment pervaSIve among progranuners, College, and it was worth may be to spread the good and data-analysis systems again find common cause. watching. news of their advances. The we're just beginning to imag- In planning this year's sym- - Charles O. Hartman symposium, though, has always brought together peo- ple from too far apart, along I Working through a busi- ness partnership with the normal spectrum of spe- Analysis & Technology cializations, to have a tribal of North Stonington and language. New London, students People from business and involved with the col- lege's Center for Arts academics, and from every and Technology helped academic division within this design this interactive college and many others kiosk that is set up in (including participants from as the visitors center at Mystic Seaport far off as Korea and Italy), find Museum. a common ground in the promise of new tools and new uses for tools. Most of these possibilities are too new, and their development requires

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A championship season Still going ...

Connecticut Collegelacrossecomesof age and 60 miles a day, Andre is combining an opportunity to The women's regrers. "It's been a tremen- break an existing transconti- lacrosse team dous season," said coach nental skate record with a ~ was absolutely Anne Parmenter. "I'm just fund-raising effort for two dif- perfect this year - 11-0 per- sorry the seniors had to go ferent charities: The fect - making them the first out on a loss." Children's Hope Foundation, Camel team in any sport to Watching the women's which helps improve the have an undefeated regular game, members of the men's quality ofhfe for children season. That accomplishment lacrosse team must have felt affected by AIDS and HIV, earned them cop seed in the like they were experiencing Another CC grad greets the president. and FREE, Inc., advocates for ECAC Division III deja vu. Just the day before developmentally-disabled Tournament and the distinc- they, too, had been knocked A mayor with staying power for adults. tion of hosting the event. But out of the tournament semi- Portland, Maine Andre started ice skating at in the tourney semi-finals finals by Middlebury, 17-11. On June 7, Anne Bonniol age 3 on a rink built by his with fourth seed Middlebury, The men had finished Pringle '69 was inaugurated father. The Connecticut Connecticut ran into a defen- their regular season at 10-3 as mayor of Portland, Maine. native began playing hockey sive stone wall. and were ranked as high as A cum laude graduate of CC competitively at age 5 and "Their zone was good," 14th in the nation and first (government major, U.S. his- continued throughout his said Esty Wood '93, who led in New England. The 10 tory rninor), Pringle served as years at Deerfield Academy the team in scoring this sea- victories were the most ever treasurer of the Maine State and Connecticut CoUege. son with 30 goals. "We just by a Connecticut College Housing Authority before Early on, Andre's interest in didn't play our game and do men's lacrosse team. It was beginning a 12-year career in the educational aspects of the what we usually do, which is the Camels' fourth consecu- banking. She left her position sport led him to teach devel- make strong passes and play tive trip to the tournament, as senior vice president for opmental skating during his together." and their first appearance in retail lending at Maine school vacations. He has been The Camels dropped the the semifinals. Savings Bank in 1989 and ran in-line skating for the past match 12-7, but Matt Shea '93 set the a successful door-to-door eight years to stay in shape for there were no school one-season record for campaign for city councilor ice hockey. A psychology points (90; 55 goals, 35 the following year. A self- major at Connecticut, Andre assists) and was named to the professed "Type A-plus" married his classmate Donna U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse personality, Pringle has Ragusa. He will be pursuing Association's (USILA) earned a reputation for being his Ph.D. in clinical psycholo- Division III Honorable methodical, determined and gy this faIL - LHB Mention All-America tireless. squad. Shea's 195 As City Manager Robert career points placed Ganley told the local news- him second behind paper, "She's like the bunny 1991 graduate Tom with the drum - she keeps Gately's 200. going and going. Whatever Coach Fran Shields, in his she gets involved in, she 13th season, set a few gives 100 percent." records, too. In June, the USILA named him Division III Coach of the Year. Highway roller: A trek to bene- fil children wilh AIDS Shields is the first NESCAC coach to receive the honor Andre Bessette '90 is expect- and the first Connecticut ed to finish a 3,200-mile trek College coach to be so rec- this month - rollerblading All-American from New York City to Los Matt Shea '93 ognized by his or her Andre Bessette '90 is 'blading from New national organization. Angeles. Skating between 40 York City to los Angeles for AIDS

G July I AlIglW 1993 Notes From the Field

Passing the baton A parent finds that thefamily gene for survival overseasisn't recessiveafterall ,\'--.~.~~t2~~~ Traveling to foreign shores in was prevalent throughout offered her services as a guide To motherhood! The author (right) and her Russian host's Mom were toasted search ofbeaury, truth and Russia. If you were foreign, for a trip to Pushkin the fol- lowing day, plus a promise that (and toasted and toasted) after it was understanding runs in my you might pay ten dollars discovered that the two shared the blood and coincides with my admission to the Museum at we would dine with her family same birthday. business, which is art and Pushkin. If you were Russian on our last night. All offers antiques. We do not stay at or at least appeared to be (don were accepted with gratitude. would be elected in lieu of five-star international hotels a hat and be discreet with the The hotel Gerta had selected Bush's assassination. where everyone speaks English French footwear'), the was expensive. Many Russians Gena's brother-in-law, a and smells of the same soap. entrance would cost about 30 assume that all Americans are chemical engineer, summed up We go native. cents. My babushka suited me rich, so for three nights and My daughter, Isabelle, perfectly! We paid four dollars four days my daughter and I the attitude of many Russians. learned about this family trait for lunch at Pizza Hut. The smelled like the same soap. We The fanner COl1U11Lmist - or hang-up depending on identicaJ meal cost $30 in the watched CNN in the evenings. regime had provided many your outlook - on a trip to hard currency section of this We had one serious con- perks: free hospitalization, Budapest with us the summer eatery. frontation involving "protocol" transport and low, if any, uni- before she entered Being blessed with a class- when we were surrounded by versity tuition. Th.is intellectual Connecticut College. We cutting guide who loved a swarming band of gypsy chil- elitist's salary was the same arrived at our first destination, Russia, had a sense of direction dren. Summoning two of the now, but all of the extras had a very grand hotel lobby, and and liked to travel cheaply was three words (caviar was the one been eliminated. when she realized that we all a mother could hope for - not selected) which comprise He was bitterly resentful of were there to use the phone if not physically keep up with. my entire Russian vocabulary the street-wise hooligans' banks not the bedrooms, an We left no stone untumed - and using blood-chilling tones, recent rise to power. Many embarrassing bout of public or museum or store for that they were commanded to dis- former KGBs had discovered tears flowed. However, an matter. burse. The urchins flew as did "capitalism." Their version understanding was achieved After seeing the Krernlin all the innocent bystanders! My collects bribes, provides pro- quickly: the rental car keys, complex (less than majestic in daughter was mortified. tection and controls transport passports and travelers checks scale or beauty), we visited The time had come for our and industry by methods one were in my possession. GUM, the famous department last supper with Gerta and her would not describe as gentle- Who would have guessed store filled with individual family. She shares her three- manly, he said that just three years later she'd boutiques. Don't tangle with a room apartment in an attractive The time had come for me be envied by her peers for her determined Russian woman if historic building with her to leave my scholar and this expertise in finding the best you've both selected the same mother, Vera, and son, Sergi. interesting land. Airport check- black market exchange rates. item: You will be bruised, There were seven other rela- in was uneventful. I was not Isabelle spent her junior year We traveled by Metro (fast, tives, spanning three asked to pay duty. (The rules at the Moscow Linguistics clean, efficient), taxi (all fares generations, in attendance. It for this vary daily with the cus- University: I visited in negotiable) and train (first-class was Vera's birthday. When our tom official's mood.) October. We went to see night compartments superb: hosts learned that it was mine DUling the flight back to "Swan Lake" at the Bolshoi day trains are lumpy, bumpy as well, we toasted with vodka J.F.K. I recalled what my one evening. Tickets could be and fiercely independent of to "motherhood" more times daughter had said upon my purchased at Intourist hotels by their posted schedules). than I care to or can arrival: "Mom, yOll look so foreign guests for $40 each. The night train took us to remember. lost!" We chose the native route and St. Petersburg for a four-day We discovered that we I forgot to say upon depar- picked up tickets from scaJpers stay. Upon arrival, minus hotel shared many of the same politi- ture: "Little one, I'm not lost; on a street near the Bolshoi for reservations as was our custom, cal and economic views. Only I'm found! The old order has $7 apiece. My guide informed we found a "taxi" (any moving the younger Russians were sur- changed. March on!" me that had we waited until vehicle whose owner is inter- prised that President Bush had - Isabelle D. Seggerman the third bell we would have ested in picking up a few extra not been shot due to the cur- paid $2 for each seat. dollars). Gena, the driver, not rent discontent in America. We TIle author is OHmerof Bonsaf- This purchasing "system" only found us a hotel but assured them that Clinton Douglas Antiques, Essex, CT.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazine 4D Chapter and Verse

Defensive action Charlotte Bronte may have been tougher than many people thought

ed love - and concentrates, Catholic Counter- Tracey Wilen '83 instead, on the struggles of a Reformation in that area from Doil1g Business With Japanese woman of a certain class and a the late 16th to the early l Brh Men: A WOlI/all'S Handbook, publishing author. "My focus centuries. Using visitation with Christalyn Brannen, throughout is on those reports, Cathedral Chapter 1993, Stone Bridge Press, 174 A engagements in the social minutes and court records, pages, nonfiction. world that illuminate Bronte's Forster examines the impact of ajarlo~ struggles . they reveal a the reforms of the Council of Imagine you're having your Bronte woman more embattled, con- Trent on the relationship first dinner with a Japanese end Dcfinsivc Conduct tentious and resilient, though between the village clergy and businessman and, during the no less passionate, than the their parishioners. course of the meal, he leans janet Gczari familiar trembling soul." Although the subject matter over and asks, "Do you know Margaret Homans of Yale of The Counter-Reformation in why it is that Japanese women University called the book the Villages is higWy special- appear to have one breast that "striking and memorable ized, non-academics will find is bigger than the other?" Janet Geza,i there is intelligence and wide many interesting, little-known Hardly an appropriate ques- professor of English, Charfotte learning on every page." facts about 17th-century tion, particularly if you're a Bronte and Dejensive Conduct: When the book opens up German Catholicism. For woman, but one that was The Allthor and the Body at into larger claims for the con- example, among the rural asked of Tracey Wilen '83, a Risk, University of cept of defensiveness, those priests of the bishopric in the manager at Apple Computer Pennsylvania Press, 201 pages, claims are always carefully late 15th century, concubi- who makes frequent business nonfiction. grounded and persuasive. nage was not uncommon, nor trips to Japan. "I said, 'no' and Gezari, who is acting was public drunkenness and changed the subject. I think During her lifetime, the nov- director of women's studies, gambling. Surprisingly, the that was the correct response." elist and poet Charlotte edited Emily Jane Bronte, The parishioners were accepting of Delicate business negotia- Bronte endured much hard- Complete Poems. their religious leaders - even tions can be complicated when ship and criticism. Professor though their behavior defied Western women confront the Gezari's new book explores Tridentine reform. traditional attitudes of their her responses to these attacks Marc Furstar "Drinking was another Japanese clients. Using person- and the theme of defensive- assistant professor of history, cone em of the ecclesiastical al experience, both their own ness in Bronte's life and work. The Counter-Reformation in the authorities that the villagers and that of more than 250 Gezari suggests that some Villages - Religion and Refonll did not share. 'He does what women, Wilen and Brannen circumstances warrant defen- in tlie Bishopric oj Speyer, other people do, he drinks offer very practical advice for sive conduct. She explores 1560-1720,1992, Cornell himself full of wine.' In a any woman doing business in how Bronte's embodied University Press, 272 pages, wine-growing region, this was Japan. This slim volume con- defensiveness was central to nonfiction - history. accepted, as long as it did not tains chapters on establishing her life and her novels. The interfere with the priests' book is divided into chapters "Forster's new work repre- duties. Even fighting was not a that emphasize a different sents the leading edge of a major offense. A warden in kind of bodily experience in new approach to the culture Harthausen admitted that the each novel: One chapter deals of Germanic-speaking parish priest 'had gotten into with the eye in Jane Eyre, Catholicism in the confes- fights several times in [the another with images of the sional age," says Thomas E. neighboring village of] "menta] stomach" in Shirley. Brady Jr. of the University of Heinhofen, but, he thought Although Defensive Conduct California at Berkeley. with good reason. ", is not a biography, Gezari Located the middle of the Forster, who holds a Ph.D. attempts to turn the reader Rhine Valley, the Bishopric from Harvard, has been on the away from the more common of Speyer was a religiously faculty at Connecticut College perception of Bronte - a diverse, primarily rural for three years. woman who lived a dreary, region. Forster reconstructs tragic life scarred by unrequit- and analyzes the history of the

G jldy / AI/gmf 1993 authority, gift giving, enter- cheek farce about four mid- Todd Rhemgold '88 taining and wardrobe ("not a dle-aged women who are attempts to dispel the myths trivial thing," emphasizes held captive by two bumbling surrounding Elvis' name. He Brannen). bank robbers. The two-act purports that Presley repre- According to former play, all of which takes place sents "America in miniature Apple Computer CEO John in the living room of a subur- ... saddled with guilt, suspi- Sculley, Wilen's book pro- ban home, finds ordinary cion and prejudice on the one vides, "a helpful collection of characters in a very extraordi- hand, and praise bordering on simple lessons and insights nary setting. The action takes deification on the other." designed to give women a a surprising turn when the He paints the picture of a competitive edge in one of women thwart the attempts man influenced by black the world's toughest - and of their captors with the help music, as well as country and most promising - markets." of a Scrabble board. gospel. Rheingold argues per- Carolyn Lane, an award- suasively that Presley had deep winning writer, has been roots in both the white and Nugent Ranice Birch Crosby '37 publishing plays, children's black communities. Max Brodel: The Malt VVlIO books, articles and book Rheingold, a former video- No matter what an PHt Art into Medicine, with reviews since 1963. A resi- tape editor at CNN, wrote author does." John Cody, M.D., 1991, dent of Groton, Conn., she is Dispelling tire Myths as a culmi- There are several occupational Springer-Verlag, 280 pages, currently working on The nation of a life-long interest in hazards for a writer, not the 72 illustrations, biography. Best Short Stories

ConnecticutCollegeMagazi"e • Room to grow

Seniors mark Commencement with tribute to the Earth; insist that speaker be changed

Graduating also leave you dissatisfied - Connecticut College religious signed a letter asking him not to attend the ceremony. In v-- th students ~t dissatisfied about what you still studies professor Eugene V. Connecticut want to learn, dissatisfied Gallagher. "Trissarisfaction, response to the overwhelming , College about the current state of our when it doesn't dissolve into sentiment of the graduating ~9Saturday, nation and the world, and dis- despair, makes people feisty, class, the college agreed that May 29, walked in carrying satisfied, at least inspires commitment and commencement would not be saplings and walked away a little bit, breeds change." (The COI11- an appropriate forum for an with advice to be dissatisfied with your- plete text of Gallagher's address by Sullivan. with their education, no self," said speech appears on page 16.) Sullivan will instead come matter how good it is. Gallagher was chosen by to campus in a day-long visit "A good the senior class to give the October 7 to facilitate a dia- education Commencement address after logue on issues of health care should they objected to the college with students and faculty inviting Louis Sullivan to members. speak. Sullivan, president of Gallagher addressed the col- Morehouse School of lege's 474 graduating seniors Medicine, was secretary of and 30 master's degree recipi- health and human services ents at the 10 a.m. ceremony. under George Bush. DUling the processional Students were outspoken march, each of the students in their objection to carried a potted cotoneaster Sullivan's political sapling decorated with blue views and to not and white (the school colors) • being involved in and green (to symbolize the ~ •• the speaker earth) ribbons. The saplings • selection were a gift from the college process, and and the alumni association as a more than reminder of the students' life- • \ half of long growth and connection • the to the earth and the college, senior and a symbol of a new, inter- class national environmental award .. given by the college. ~ • "These saplings symbolize your own future growth and ~ the future we all must struggle

• • Above len, Connecticut College Medal and honorary degree recipients. From left Provost and Dean of the Faculty Stephen loomis, Thistle McKee Bennet '27, President Gaudiani, Annie Dillard, Peter Dyvig, Elizabeth McGuire Enders '62 and Jack Evans, chair of the board of trustees. to provide for our planet," neered ways to build environ- Janet Cardona received the to Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer said President Claire Gaudiani. mentally-responsive homes Anna Lord Strauss Medal for Prize-winning author, and The new award, called the using such technologies as outstanding service to the Peter Dyvig, Denmark's Connecticut College Inherit solar energy. New London and ambassador to the United the Earth Award, was estab- Students Rich Canavan and Connecticut College commu- States since 1989, who accept- lished by the college to honor Janet Cardona were also hon- nities through her work with ed the honor on behalf of the successful companies that con- ored. Canavan, a botany residents of the Winthop High Danish people for their hero- serve and sustain global major, received the Oakes and Rise in New London. She ism in protecting Jews during resources. This year's award Louise Ames Prize for his majored in urban studies and World War II. went to Solar Design botany honors thesis docu- Hispanic studies. The college bestowed its Associates Inc. of Harvard, menting water quality in 50 Honorary doctor of humane highest alumni honor, the Mass., a finn that has pio- Connecticut lakes and ponds. letters degrees were awarded College Medal, to Thistle McKee Bennet and Elizabeth McGuire Enders. Bennet, a 1927 graduate, was a practic- ing pediatrician for more than 50 years and developed model sexuality education programs. Enders, a retiring college trustee, is a 1962 graduate and accomplished artist. - JFS

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille G Verbatim Eugene V Gallagher

Taking things seriously A popular professor has little advice, but many hopes, for the Class of' 93

just might. There is always The following address was made I remember very little of the registrar tells me it's difficult another side to the stOIY. at Commencement, May 29, details of my own undergradu- to change your major once I hope that you've been able 1993. Eugene Gallagher is a ate education, and not only you've graduated, but, as you to identify a few problems that prcifessor

CD July / AlIgml 1993 begin the rest of your life. I'm very happy to have shared this joyful time with you. Today marks a com- mencement of sorts for me as well. Immediately after this ceremony my wife and I will leave for Poland to meet our adopted daughter for the first time. This summer we, too, will begin a new, exciting and very different phase of our lives. So, we're celebrating too, and we also (ICe the future with a delicious combination of anticipation, nervousness, hope and fear.

feel a very strong bond with

Gallagher (above) and his wife Jennifer Brosius Gallagher '78 announced they would honor the graduates by endowing the the Class of'93. We've Class of '93 prize, which will be presented annually to a freshman for outstanding performance in an introductory religion Ilearned from each other; I course. have fond personal feelings and deep respect for many of you; of human life creates the possi- focused on easy explanations: last four years, as well as your and you got me this neat job. bility that we may learn one was the fault of the own moral courage and vision So I want to offer a simple something valuable from them "Wacko from Waco" and the of a just society. Much of what gesture of thanks. In your hon- as well. That type of learning other of Islamic fundamental- passed for analysis of those or, my wife, Jennifer Brosius doesn't translate immediately ist terrorists, equally wacko in events only underscores the Gallagher of the Class of 1978, to the bottom line, but it does many eyes. need for people who see that and I have established an shape OUf commitments, our In both instances, facile the world is complicated - endowed academic award. It interests, our passions and OUf labeling took the place of people who possess the will commemorate your recog- perceptions. patient analysis. And we were patience to do the work of real nition of the importance of I'm tempted to say that the all the poorer for it. Settling understanding, the courage to teaching at Connecticut basic goal of a liberal arts edu- for easy answers diminishes take a stand, the ability to tol- College and my commitment cation is to train us to read a both the observers, by con- erate informed dissent and the to the study of religion. newspaper. That may not straining the full exercise of grace to change their minds Beginning next April, the sound like such a lofty goal or their intelligence, and those when presented with com- Class of '93 prize will be one worth a considerable being observed, by denying pelling evidence - people awarded annually to a fresh- investment of time and mon- them their complicated who are willing to take others man for outstanding ey, but before you alJ ask for a humanity. seriously. performance in an introductory refund, let me explain. Anyone in your class, I'm religion course. Your serious- To read - and comprehend sure, could do better. Each of ne thing I've learned ness of purpose and affection - what is happen.ing in our those incidents represents only from the study of reli- for the process oflearning own world demands impressive the tip of a very complex ice- O gion is how important it deserve lasting recognition. powers of description, analysis berg. Beneath the surface is a can be to rake other people I'll close by telling all of the and interpretation. complicated and volatile mix seriously and how difficult a members of the Class of '93 Consider two recent of religion, politics, psycholo- task that actually is. what I tell my major and minor events: the destruction of the gy, history and many other If you've discovered a sus- advisees. In my eyes, our rela- Branch Davidian compound factors. taining source of inspiration tionship doesn't stop after four near Waco, Texas, and the A fuller understanding of and found a few issues that years. If you think I can help bombing of the World Trade either event would call on you realJy care about, I think you out, give me a call; if Center in New York City. precisely the kind of skills and your education has been a you're on campus, stop by. I'll Accounts of both incidents knowledge that you have great success. Believe it or not, see you at homecoming and at in the popular press quickly worked to acquire over the you're probably ready to our fifch reunion.

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Five Years Change

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THE COLLEGE'S FIRST ALUMNA PRESIpENT IS ROCKETING

IT TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY. NOT, OF COURSE,

WITHOUT CONTROVERSY.

people "0 compo, about Claire Gaudiani's presi- but still under endowed and, some say, A'k complacent schooL dency and one thing becomes immediately clear: Nobody Most academic observers believe Connecticut College made the difficult lacks an opinion. She has been called an innovator and move to co-education better than any of change agent, a lightning rod, a visionary and, behind her America's former women's colleges. It ended the '80s well-positioned for a back, "The Rocket." She has been described as boundlessly whole set of new survival challenges, the most significant of which, the value of a energetic, frustratingly difficult, committed and confident, private education, threatens the very impatient and, on occasion, impossible. Few deny that she has existence of the liberal arts as an option. David Breneman, an educational taken the college on an exciting ride these past five years, but economist at the Harvard School of Education, says that the rising cost of pri- those who prefer change at a less dizzying pace have not vate colleges like Connecticut is forcing always had a smooth journey. some value-conscious students and par- ents to opt for "career-degree programs" Claire Lynn Gaudiani '66 officially became the eighth president such as engineering, teaching or business and reducing the and first alumni leader of Connecticut College on October 1, number of pure liberal arts institutions (see president's letter, 1988. Succeeding Oakes Ames, who headed the school for 14 page 2). Breneman thinks this "sea change" could create a huge years, Gaudiani has not rested for a moment since she promised loss to the diverse fabric of American higher education. in her inaugural address that the college "will take a leadership Gaudiani couldn't agree more. She ardently defends the role in preparing citizen/leaders for the changes ahead." merits of a liberal education and expounds the need to preserve Ames had faced serious challenges during his presidency. American liberal arts colleges. "I start with the notion of what it Indeed, they were crises of survival. Dealing with the political takes to be a citizen in a democracy, and I move on to the upheaval of the post-Vietnam War era, the perilous transition to demands that a fast-changing environment is going to put on co-education and a vital $30 million dollar fund-raising cam- each of us. Coming from both of those perspectives, a liberal paign, Ames, the soft-spoken scientist, left a sound, respected, arts education is a peerless preparation."

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KEEPING A HIGH PR.OFILE programs of their own. Although she acquired the funds, small For Connecticut College to enter the next century as a strong groups of faculty and students designed or revised courses liberal arts institution, Gaudiani believes it must restructure its together to incorporate previously under-represented minority non-financial assets, internationalize its curriculum and upgrade and international cultures. After eight years of attempts to the sciences, expand minority participation, focus on new com- launch the Center for Arts and Technology, which supports munications and computing technologies, and significantly interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty and provides increase its financial resources. Experts such as Robert Atwell, research opportunities for students, the project got off the president of the American Council on Education and a ground 'with a small seed grant allocated by the new president. Connecticut College trustee, agree with this general strategy. This spring, so did a new Center for Conservation Biology and To accomplish these goals, Gaudiani, along with 300 mem- Environmental Studies. bers of the college co rnmu ni t y - trustees, faculty, The strategic plan helped crystallize other needs. In com- administrators, alumni, staff and students - started by creating a parison to peer institutions, Connecticut College historically five-year strategic plan which has become a model in higher paid its faculty members less and made their teaching load education. greater. During her first months at the college, Gaudiani, who Claire Matthews, vice president for planning and dean of teaches an advanced French course each year, implemented admissions, describes the planning process as a look outward. two major changes to alleviate these disparities: faculty salary "We asked, 'What do the nation and the world need fi-om a "gap closing," which over the course of five years has started to college like ours?' We had answers and needed to develop pro- bring average compensation in line with peer institutions, and a grams to respond to those answers." The plan pinpointed transition from a three-course-per-semester teaching load to a weaknesses to be eliminated and strengths to be maximized; it load commonly found at leading colleges of three courses one provided a blueprint for the arduous task ahead. semester and two the other. This arrangement has allowed pro- Gaudiani's vision was to fessors more time for propel the college into the 21st Major accomplishments of the college scholarship and for super- century. She outlined three new during Gaudiani's administration V1Sl11g students on programs building on traditional independent projects. And strengths and raised seed money it may be responsible for a to establish them: the Center ,. Created one of Ihe first comprehensive five-year strategic 159 percent increase since for International Studies and the plans in higher education. 1988 in grants and contracts Liberal Arts (CISLA), which ,. Established three major inlerdisciplinary leaching and supporting faculty research, integrates inremational perspec- research centers and for a growing number tives, foreign language of definiti ve books pub- s- Created a program lor more Ihan 20 students to pursue proficiency and an internship lished by faculty. Also in advanced scientific research each summer abroad into any major; the the faculty arena, Gaudiani High School Student ,. Improved recruiting and retention of facully members continues to seek funding Advancement Program, which to add to the college's eight o- Encouraged a 68% increase in students gradualing with has enlarged the national pool fully-endowed professorial honors of college-bound minority stu- chairs, seven of them creat- dents; and the Keck summer ,. Increased rank Irom 41 to 29 on U.S. News and World ed since her arrival. science program, which allows Report national ranking of liberal arts colleges The college's computer undergraduates to work with networks and telephone .s- Created a summer program lor minority high school professors on an 18-mol1th system were upgraded students research project. These and oth- rapidly; the student center er academic programs have ,. Doubled the endowment (from $32 to $64 million) and athletic facilities rook blossomed under her leadership. longer. Outdated, they sti- o- Increased planned giving 360%, annual giving 237% and Members of the college fled student life. This gave alumni participation in the annual fund 29% community took Gaudiani's birth to The College lead and developed ideas and Center Projects, an ambi-

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tio us building program. The first stage was construction of kind of balance of academics and athletics that is struck at Becker House, which gave the alumni association, development Connecticut College. and college relations a home under one roof. Major additions to Letters from alumni indicate their pride in seeing the col- the Athletic Center and an extensive renovation of the Crozier- lege's accomplishments in the press. Even so, not everyone Williams Student Center (see page 8) comprised the second and agrees on the need for increasing national visibility. "Too much third stages. Funds for a new experimental theater space were attention is being paid to what works and what doesn't work donated this spring. from a public relations standpoint," says Jeff Berman '93, a Gaudiani also recognized the need for better science facili- member of the college's influential Planning, Priorities and ties. The college soon began the difficult task of applying for Budget Committee, whose call for greater academic rigor at and winning - in record time - a $5.1 million grant from the the college produced a series of meetings between administra- F.W. Olin Foundation for a new science building. tors and students this spring. In addition, Caudiani worked to improve the college's part- nerships with New London, helping the city analyze problems BORN TO RUN and use college resources to enlarge opportunities for its youth. Claire Gaudiani spent her childhood in suburban Englewood, All of these programs helped improve the college's national New Jersey, and graduated from Connecticut College in 1966. profile. "Connecticut College has hidden its light under a After earning a Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Indiana she taught French at Purdue University and then at the University of Pennsylvania. She rapidly broadened her focus, founding Academic Alliances, the nationwide program in which college and high school teachers mentor one another in their subject areas, and the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship program for high school lan- guage teachers. At Penn, she helped found a graduate program, the Joseph H.. Lauder Institute for Management and Two views 01the president: Gaudiani has increased the college's exposure in the national media, though some say the effort invested in public relations distracts from other goals (left). A child 01the '60s (right), the International Studies, and served as a president showed students at Floralia last May she still knows how to rock and roll. consultant for the Dana, Exxon Education and Rockefeller Foundations. bushel, and it is time now to take the bushel off and have the The search for the eighth president of Connecticut College light exposed to the rest of the world. One of the ways to make began in the fall of 1987 with the realization that the college that happen is to have programs that attract attention in the needed re-energizing. "The committee was change-oriented," national media for their quality and innovation," says Matthews. says Professor of Art David Smalley, a member of the search Among the president's greatest assets, Matthews believes, is committee. Gaudiaui's name was submitted by three of the col- her understanding of public relations and its potential to culti- lege's professors, and she rose quickly to the top of a large pool vate every aspect of the college's life from admissions to of applicants because of her emphasis on change within a tradi- development to faculty retention. tional academic setting. TIle New York Times, The Boston Globe, TIle Christian Science "What impressed me was her unshakable commitment to Monitor, "ABC World News Tonight" and CBS's "Sunday academics. That was the right core emphasis," recalls Bridget Morning" all have run news stories on Connecticut College Baird, a professor of mathematics who also was a member of and its innovative programs. In articles and speeches, Gaudiani the committee. has become a spokesperson for ethical values in everyday life; as But change, especially rapid and institution-altering change, a member of the executive committee of the Presidents 1S never easy. No one denies that Caudiani's initiatives were Commission of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, needed and positive. However, on campus the question has she encourages the trend among many colleges to emulate the arisen: Do the ends justify the means?

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GROWING PAINS administration 'has been stabilizing the development office. On a lively liberal arts campus full of independent thinkers and Although annual giving set a record last year, the College skeptics who explore multiple sides to every debate, some facul- Center Projects were completed and the endowment has dou- ty and students have chafed at the changing order. In addition, bled, there have been three development heads (not counting the extremes of a person's strengths can become liabilities, and interims) in five years. "People often give money based on some believe this is the case with Claire Caudiani. Her enthusi- relationships fostered," says Culbertson. "It is difficult to build asm and drive can tum to impatience and frustration. Her desire a relationship with a development director if the average for results can cause her to take shortcuts. tenure is less than one year." [Editor's note: Since this article "She is so far ahead of where the institution is. That makes was prepared, Robert Rasmussen was named vice president it very difficult to implement what she wants done," says for development and college relaticns.] Steven Culbertson, a former vice president for development Nevertheless, there is little doubt that the president has re- and college relations. energized the alumni, a vital part of successful fund raising at "She leans heavily in the direction of vision for the future. an institution like Connecticut where there is no long history She doesn't give enough time to what students need - what of philanthropy. they are concerned about now," comments Jon Pinnimore '94, publisher of the student weekly, The College Voice. EVEN MORE TO CELEBRATE Says Dean of the College Robert Hampton: Yes, change is During the last five years Connecticut College has risen to necessary, but it is not nor should it be the first priority. "You successfully address the challenges it faced at Gaudiani's inau- must understand everyone's perspective. It's not that people are guration. More applicants than ever now make the college resisting change. It's that they can't invest the kind of time and their first choice and choose it over similar colleges to which energy it takes at the expense of other things they have to do they also were admitted. Fund raising is up substantially (see to survive.. If we are doing a report card [on GaudianiJ now, box, page 21). The intellectual vitality of the campus is high, the positives outweigh the negatives, and benefits outweigh the and its liberal arts curriculum is firmly intact, even as it costs, but I don't think we can ignore the costs." evolves. Working with the trustees, Gaudiani has strengthened Others believe her force and alacrity were necessary for the the board, broadening the college's high-level contacts in institution to survive and thrive, considering the sweeping communications and businesses with international needs. "The changes were a big pill to swallow. The other way perspectives. is to nibble, which is a different kind of discomfort," says In a recent interview with the New London Day, Fred Smalley. Hechinger, senior adviser to the Carnegie Corporation and Gaudiani believes that, even when survival is at stake, former education editor at The New York Times, said: "A lot of change scares people because it involves risk-taking. If people people are in favor of good things, but they don't go out and could get beyond their fear, she says, they would realize that raise the money and put their careers on the line to get things change "is an orientation to freeing people to imagine that tak- done. The things [Gaudiani] did weren't necessarily popular, ing a risk could payoff" In short, no guts, no glory. but they went well beyond what college presidents normally Gaudiani also has been criticized for appearing to ignore do." process. Hampton unflinchingly defends the college's need for Now may be the time for the campus community briefly it. "I have to protect process because it is important for people to catch its collective breath to prepare for the steps ahead. to buy into something, to have ownership of it.. And some- After five years of Gaudiani's presidency, the college's alumni, times, if the outcome is great but the procedure is wrong, then, friends and, above all, students have much to celebrate. On in fact, you also have an injustice." Caudiani's next five-year anniversary, it seems likely, they will The true problem, according to Caudiani, is not a lack of have even more .• process but a lack of understanding about decision-making. "There is a struggle between leadership and consensus. It is very Members r:if the collegerelations sttifJ, the editors of this magazine and hard for people to come to terms with the fact that ultimately Alice Maggin '91 contributed to this story. Maggin is a field producer many decisions are not based on popular vote." at WeBS TV News in New York City and a former stringerfor Certainly one of the toughest problems of Gaudiani's The New York Times education section.

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Even a caged indigo bunting will demonstrate "migratory restless- ness," hopping in the direction of migration on a starry night.

record of its activity. Emlen found that indigo buntings, placed in the cages outdoors 011 a clear night, hopped only in the direction of migration, but on a cloudy night, they hopped randomly. He also put caged birds in a plane- tarium under a simulated night sky and rotated the sky 180 degrees. Sure enough, the birds hopped in the direction indicated by the simu- lated sky. When Emlen raised nestlings in the plane- tarium under diffuse light, he found that fledglings hopped in all directions in their ~_ landmarks is minor. German researchers Klaus cages, no nutter how bright the stars. Thus ::= Schmidt-Koenig and Charles Walcott found Baby birds E researchers discovered that baby birds do not ~ that, although pigeons refuse to fly blindfolded, sit idle in the nest waiting for their next feed- i they Illill fly wearing hoods equipped with frost- do not sit idle in ing. Rather, they are enroUed in an intense E ed lenses. The lenses allow the birds to see Light astronomy course for which the final exam .5 but not images beyond a few feet. Nevertheless, the nest waiting ~ will be perhaps a thousand-mile solo flight. o they still are able to navigate. How can this be? Deprived of the starry sky, their textbook as it I Pigeons are diurnal, Askins said, which for their next ~ means they fly during the day using the sun as a were, they do not know which way to go. ~ compass. Experiments by William Keeton at feeding. "What they learn is the axis of rotation," Cornel.l University established that homing Askins noted. "The whole night sky rotates They are actually pigeons can navigate quite well even when the around Polaris. Emlen rotated the night sky sky is overcast. In a critical experiment, Keeton around other stars, like Betelgeuse, and when enrolled in an he did that, the buntings would orient as if attached magnets to the napes of some of his flock and brass bars to others. On a sunny day, Betelgeuse was in the north." intense both groups navigated well, but on a cloudy "Birds need to learn the night sky during day, the pigeons wearing the brass did fine, the sensitive period when they are nestlings," astronomy course while the others flew off in all directions. Askins said. Animals learn particular things at particular times in their development. "In What the experiment showed, Askins said, for which was that the birds use a magnetic compass, some species, songs are learned only during the nestling and fledgling periods." which was disrupted by the magnets worn by the final exam will the test group. The experiment also suggests that Still, no matter how diligently these little birds study, how can they navigate when the the magnetic compass is only a backup system, be perhaps a because the birds wearing magnets flew in the sky is cloudy? Askins explained that birds often are able to fly above the clouds. "On Mount right direction on a sunny day. thousand-mile "This makes sense," Askins said, "because ----- Everest, birds have been seen flying at 27,000 we have places on Earth where there is distor- solo flight. feet," he said. "Most fly at 500 to 1,000 feet, tion in the magnetic field or there can be but they can fly at higher altitudes because sunspot activity that can change the magnetic their respiratory system is much more efficient field. The sun or stars would be much more dependable when than ours. We have relatively primitive lungs that fill like a bag, they are visible." then empty. In birds air is constantly flowing through the lungs To illustrate this point, Askins cites the research of Stephen in one direction." Emlen at Cornell, who rook advantage of a bird behavior called How nestlings acquire their love of star study remains a migratory restlessness to conduct experiments on celestial navi- mystery. Parental guidance, at least, seems to have nothing to gation. Migratory restlessness, Askins explained, occurs during do with it. Askins referred to the research of Peter Berthold of the migration season when a caged bird will hop in the direc- the Max-Planck-Institut in Germany who accomplished the tion of migration all night. difficult feat of raising song birds in captivity, free of any contact Emlen created a funnel-shaped cage out of blotter paper, with adult birds. Berthold's home-grown garden warblers not with an ink pad for a base and a wire mesh lid. As a bird hops only hopped in the direction of migration, but also whirred about in the cage, its inked feet leave prints on the blotter as a their wings.

fa )lIly I AliglISf 1993 Using celestial navigation and magnetic fields, warblers such as these wiJlleave a specific two-acre territory, fly 2,000 miles and make a pinpoinf landing on a one-acre site in Central America.

"They pantomime the migration inside their cages," Askins Earth's poles, Askins explained, so theoretically birds could get said. Berthold had another surprise. The birds replicated the a reading on latitude, and it varies across continents, so they direction of migration in a precise pattern. In the annual migra- also could get information about longitude. tion, garden warblers in the wild in Germany first fly southwest Homing pigeons have a very fine sensitivity co magnetic to Spain, then turn due south across the Straits of Gibraltar to fields, he said. They can detect 1/ 400th of the Earth's mag- their destination in West Africa. Berthold's caged birds hopped netic field, whereas a hand compass does not need to be in a southwesterly direction for the appropriate number of days, nearly this sensitive. and then suddenly shifted their hops to the south and continued As we learn more about the performance of birds, perhaps for an appropriate number of days to simulate a flight to West we humans are justified to feel a twinge of insecurity. After Africa. all, the old global pecking order is at stake. We could comfort "So this is a built-in map of their migratory route," said ourselves with the notion that these skills are genetically pro- Askins, "based on direction and duration - go southwest for so grammed and require little, if any, effort. But Askins pulled a many hours, then tum south for so many hours." Probably only final study out of his kit bag to dispel this notion. in the second southward migration, he said, do the birds target a "Another of Emlen's experiments was to turn off one precise location and learn how to reach it. constellation after another to see when the birds stopped Askins suggested that, in addition to the stars or a magnetic being able to navigate," Askins said. "The conclusion was, compass, the birds may be using a map based on the Earth's they don't use anyone constellation, and different individuals magnetic fields. "Even on sunny days, when they do not need depend on different portions of the night sky. Star patterns are their magnetic compass sense, pigeons released near Iron apparently learned, not genetically derermined." • Mountain in Rhode Island go off in all directions," he said, an indication that they are getting readings from the magnetic field disturbed, in this case, by the iron. Pennv Parsekian is afreelance science and history writer l/,f-IO lives ill The magnetic field gets stronger and stronger toward the Pawcatuck, COIUJ.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazillc fa Robert Askins, an ornithologist whose research ------focuses on neotropical migrants and their habitats in

New England and the Virgin Islands, gives a crash

course in the mysteries of bird migration.

CIENCE, THAT SUBLIME INVENTION OF MAN, is providing enough data about the superior abilities of animals to give us an inferiority complex. Even the most common birds, for example, disappear from our woods and backyards each fall and return to the same spot year after year, locating their landing site as expertly as the human navigator of a jetliner equipped with satellite maps and computerized instruments. "Birds are capable of pinpoint migration across great distances," said Professor Robert Askins, chair of the Connecticut College zoology department. A warbler will leave its specific two-acre ter- ritory here and fly nearly two thousand miles to touch down in a precise acre in Central America, Askins explained. Askins studies neotropical migrants, or birds that winter in the tropics ofthe New World. Most fly at night to take advantage of calm air and darkness, which provides protection from predators. Askins noted that a great lumberyard fire in Philadelphia at the tum of the century lit up the night sky well enough to reveal a massive bird migration. More recently, on a night with heavy avian traf- fie, radar from a ational Weather Service station in South Carolina picked up two million migrants in one image. But how can all those birds find their way so precisely across so many miles? Visual markers apparently help somewhat. Homing pigeons in the Boston area, for example, "correct their orienta- tion when the John Hancock building comes in sight," Askins said. However, birds' dependence on

Portfolio Bookplates from the Charles E. Shain Library

LTHOUGH book-

plates are rarely

used by individual

collectors these

days, their use by

libraries continues.

Library bookplates not

only declare ownership,

but in many instances

tell the reader how a

book has come into the

collection, whether pur-

chased with a named

acquisition fund or given

in someone's honor or

memory. And like the

books they mark, book-

plates convey their

message best through a

creative blend of letter-

forms (typography or

calligraphy) and design,

perhaps enhanced by an

illustration.

Most of the plates

shown here were C0111-

missioned for the

Charles E. Shain Library by former College

Librarian Brian Rogers.

The Ames, Gildersleeve,

Hanson and Kasem-Beg bookplates were designed by Sally

• Jill), / Augf/st 1993 Hargrove Harris '57, and

the Downs (Dorothy

Gardner Downs '41)

plate by Debbie Kuo '82.

The Jordan bookplate

features Charles Cbu's

rendering of the Jordan's

house on Gallows Lane.

The graceful Hazel

Osborn '26 design is by

John O.c. McCrillis

P'73, while the gray

squirrel was adopted by

the Libby family to recall

happy summers on

Squirrel Isl and, Maine.

The memorial to Betty

Rabinowitz Sheffer' 44 is

by her sister Susan

Rabinowitz Malloy P'81.

The 1948 Freeman Fund

plate uses an ornate 1932

design by F. R. Leavens.

The other seven plates -

Chase, Finley,

Huebscher, Johnson,

Kitchen, Kate

Morgenthau

Hammerschlag and Wies

- are recent examples of

the work of Bruce

Campbell, designer of the

Library of America series. - Brian Rogers Special Collections Librarian

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille .. Reunion June 4-6,1993

FOR THE ,

Photos, clockwise from above: Constance Haaten Wells '43 greets classmate Martha Boyle Morrisson; David Kaster '83 with family; Sue Weinberg Mindlin and Jane Graham Pemberton, both '53ers; Alumni from the class of 1988 recall salad days on the green; Charlotte Hosfeld Tarpy '43 poses with the 1939 Ford "Woody" thai carried her to CC as a freshman.

STORY BY LISA BROWNELL PHOTOGRAPHS BY JON CRISPIN "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be

lived forward." Kierkegaard's maxim, quoted by Ginny

Landry '70 in her address to alumni, may be a paradox, but

for those who returned June 4-6 for the largest reunion in

the college's history, a pilgrimage back to campus was one

of the best ways to cope. Many discovered that Reunion at

Connecticut College, steeped in tradition as it may be, is

also moving into the future,

As one member of the Class rose at daybreak for a tour of working by the reunion chairs reunion of 1938 observed over lunch, the Arboretum. Thanks to and their committees, some of "I used to come just for the child care on campus, the whom have been planning for social aspects of Reunion; event sometimes had the look two years, the advance print- now it's really the program that of a family reunion; more ing of class directories and interests me." Alumni packed alumni are bringing the kids holding mini-reunions prior classrooms for seminars on along. to the actual events have all CLinton's first 100 days in "Many things have con- been important. We also give office, international studies, tributed to increased careful consideration to all the environmental problems and attendance at reunion," said evaluations made by alumni women's choices in the '90s. Martha Merrill '84, director of attending reunion in recent They met alumni authors and classes/reunions. "Better net- years so that we can make a full third of the Class of changes to provide services 1983 arrived to celebrate and programs that meet alum- their first decade as alumni. ni needs." And the 20th reunion for the Whether they graduated Class of 1973 was also a five years ago or 70, alumni benchmark for the college's are seeking reconnection, first truly co-educational class. reflections and a little revelry The star of Reunion was as well. Joan Hoge '28, of "Olive Oil," a 1939 Ford Boston, Mass., decided that, "Woody" station wagon after 65 years, it was high owned by Charlotte Hosfeld time to attend a class reunion Tarpy '43 and her husband, - and returned to campus who drove it from their for the first time. Maria Pawtucket, R.I., home. What Mendieta Abortiz '52 made made it an even more the trip from the Philippines. remarkable vehicle for Mrs. Margery Newman Puder '43 Tarpy's 50th reunion was the and Virginia Puder Goldfarb fact that it was the same car, '68, mother and daughter, then brand-new, that Mrs. celebrated their 50th and 25th T arpy drove to the campus reunions respectively. from Texas when she arrived The Class of1943, as a freshman at Connecticut observing their 50th reunion, College in 1939. "We paid broke all records with an $600 for it back then," Mrs. attendance of 57 percent, and Tarpy recalled.

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-' - reunion Vanderkloot extended special On Saturday morning, fol- Kercher, who fund-raising thanks to her "mentor," June lowing the traditional alumni passed away in efforts," said parade with the Whiskey Flats February, had a Ginny Bergquist Macklin, Rosemary Park pro- Dixieland Jazz Band and the 21-year career Landry '70, vice fessor of anthropology. Next costumed camel mascot, the with Conn- president of the semester, Vanderkloot will classes trooped into Palmer ecticut College. alumni associa- teach a course at Connecticut Auditorium for the presenta- As coordinator tion. on "Teamwork Skills for tion of class gifts, special of the Alumni President Multicultural Interaction." honors and the state of the Admissions Claire Gaudiani President Gaudiani intro- college address. From the 15 Representative '66 awarded two duced her State of the reunion classes, a total of program, she worked with Connecticut College Medals, College address by quoting $1,413, 014 was presented to hundreds of alumni volunteers the highest honor the college from an essay by author the college, but the amount across the country. She earned can confer. The first recipient Mary Cantwell '53 on the was increasing steadily, even her degree in English as a was Ellen Hofheimer occasion of taking her as the totals were being Return to College Student. Bettmann '66, who is national daughter to college: reported. The award was accepted by education training director for "I remember when some- The Agnes Berkeley Leahy her husband and children; A World of Difference, a one spoke across centuries, or Award, which recognizes four of her six children are training project that combats an idea caught me, or a for- alumni for "outstanding ser- alumni, two of whom cele- prejudice in the classroom. mula was miraculously made vice to the Connecticut brated their reunions this year. "Y ou have shown all of us that clear, and Iremember that I College Alumni Association," Handley, who was cele- giving to others is not a sacri- felt like a pole vaulter, up in was presented in absentia to brating her 45th reunion with fice but a joy to thrive on," the air and clearing the bar. Sarah "Say Say" Brown her classmates, was a member Gaudiani told Bettmann. This, I would, if I could say Schoen hut '28. Two alumnae of the college's board of Joanne Levitt Vanderkloor to my daughter, is the real received Alumni Tribute trustees for 11 years, serving '62, a consultant who special- luck. This is the luck I had, Awards for "sustained and as chair during a time of dra- izes in issues of race and and that you can have now, extraordinary service" to the matic growth and change. She poverty, also was a recipient. and this is the luck that lasts college: the late Frances "has given unsparingly of her In 1982, after obtaining a mas- forever." Koepfgen Kercher '72 and time in representing the col- ters of social work at New Gaudiani continued, "As Jean M. Handley '48. lege before alumni and York University's School of members of the Connecticut friends, especially in major Social Work, Vanderkloot and College conununity - alumni Myrtle Parnell spouses and family - yOLI founded a part- know this kind of luck." She nership credited the leadership of past specializing in presidents Rosemary Park, institutional sys- Charles Shain and Oakes tems assessment, Ames, faculty and students, policy planning and outlined some of the col- and cross-cultural lege's major advances in the team-building, at past five years, She also the Morrisania appealed for the support of the Neighborhood alumni to ensure the college's Family Care continuing leadership role as a Center in South top-ranked liberal arts school. Bronx. "You Plans are already well have shown oth- underway for Reunion 1994, ers that the most which is scheduled for June 3- difficult problems 5. There also will be a special can be solved if first-time "Ultimate Reunion" they are viewed especially for classes of the fr0111new per- 19705 during Alumni-Parents spectives," said Weekend, October 1-3 this In the College Center's renovated bookshop, more than 100 alumni attended a booksigning for Julie Baumgold '66 (center), author of Creatures of Habit and Mary Cantwell '53 (not pictured) Gaudiani. year .• author of American Girl.

ED JlIly I August 1993 Class Notes Alumni Correspondents

Olive Tuthill Reid lives by herself on the ltVc are seekiug a class correspondent CLASS NOTES South Shore of Lake Erie. "I feel blessed to Ior }'Ollrclass. If vo« are interested, live here. Actually, at 92, I feel blessed co live please covtaa the Aluiuui Office. Table of Contents anywhere." Please sefid news FO: Dorothy Wheeler Pietrallo writes, "I Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, 270 have diabetes, no balance, am con filled to a 26 iHohegau AIJe., New London, CT 06320 Alumni Calendar 38 walker, have a heart condition, but otherwise I'm in the best of health." Marguerite Cerlian writes, "Add another Alumni Travel. ...34 broken femur to the class list - a dubious dis- tinction. " Reunion News: June4-6, 1933 Classifieds .40 We are seekillg a class conespendent Jar YOllr class. if yOIl are interested, Club News 36 please COlUa(/tile Allllllili Office. Cortespondent: Minnie Watchinsky Peck Eclipse Weekend 50 Please scud news ro: 1351 Saratoga Ave., Apt 1 Class Noses, Connecticut College Magazine, San Jose, CA 95129 On the Up & Up .43 270 Mohegan Alle., New La,ldon, CT 06320 27

Olive Holcombe Wheeler moved to Obituaries ...... 60 Reunion News: June 4-6, 1993 Wesley Willows in Rockford, IL, to be closer Correspondent: Peers ...... 41,52,53 to her daughter, Carol Rice. Sarah Brown Schoenhut • RR 1, Box 2'11 • Fairlee, VT 05045 Correspondent: Cotrespondetn: Elizabeth Holmes Baldwin Virginia Rose 57 Millbrook Rd. New London Convalescent Home Medfield, MA 02052 88 Clark Lane 24 Correspmldrnt. Waterford, CT 06385 Verne M. Hall 19 A chat on the phone with Marie Jester Kyle 290 Hamburg Rd. Lyme, CT 06371 Sadie Coit Benjamin shows lip at many is as refreshing as a spring morning - her per- 29 campus functions - spry as a chickadee! sonality must have come in handy when she Joan Cochran West recently had cataracts Ruth Trail McClellan made the front was head of the dining room back in her col- removed bur finds that new glasses haven't page of the Klamath, OR, newspapers when lege days. Marie says she enjoys her retirement made much change in her sight. In Nov., both she celebrated her 100th birthday in Dec. home - manages with a cane, except for the During a gala birthday parry, she was presented longer trips to the dining room when she spins with a Century Clock. Although in a nursing along in a three wheeler. A note from Aura Kepler says she is liv- home and confined to a wheelchair (because of SUBMISSION OF CLASS NOTES a fractured spine), Ruth is alert and cheerful. ing in Cambridge House with her sister, Edith She delights in visits from family and friends Rizzo. Class notes may be submitted to your and is active in various projects in the nursing Elizabeth Merry Miller plans to have a correspondent at any rime. However, if bash for her 90th birthday in July - her apart- home. you would like to have your notes ment is too small, so a friend is making a appear in a specific issue (Conl/eaiwt roomy spOt available. College Magazine publishes in jan., Cotrespondens: March, July, Sept. and Nov.), please Kathryn Hulbert Hall North Hill Health Center Cortespondeut: make sure your class correspondent 865 Central Avenue, Apt. 508 Emily Warner receives your news three months prior Needham, MA 02192 Covenant Village, to the publication date. 20 C-IO Pilgram Manor, Cromwell, CT 06416 Publication Dale Your Deadline WI' are seekillg a class coraspondau 25 Jan. 30 Oct. 15 jor YOllr class. If yOIl are interested, Parks McCombs' lack of ambulatory power please CO/1l0(/the AII/mui Qffu:e. in no way diminishes her interest in classmates March 30 Dec. 15 and campus doings. She enjoys a wonderful Please scud news /0: July 30 April 15 21Class Notes, Connecticut College Magazine, ocean view from her retirement home apart- Sept. 30 June 15 270 Mohegan A ve., New Landau, CT 06320 ment, and has a companion to help her tour the waterfront via a wheelchair. Nov. 30 Aug 15 After a career in publications and as an Please remember, we no longer alter- l¥e are seeking a class com'spondelll administrative executive, with a stint on active nate class years. All classes may con- jor your class. If you ore interested, duty with the Marine Corps Headquarters in please ralllO(/ /he Alunini Office. tribute to each issue. lf you need further DC, Dorothy Kent retired some years ago to information about submitting your Please send news TO: her family home in a farming community. She news for class notes, please contact yOllr Class NOles, Connecticut College Magazine, transferred from Connecticut to Smunons but 22 class correspondent or Mary Farrar, 270 Mohegan Alle., Nelli London, CT 06320 says, "Any item I read about Connecticut and assistant editor, its graduates makes a braggart out of me." Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Ave., New Blance Finley broke her hip last Aug. but Optimistically, she writes, "T'aint easy - the ivlagazifle, London, CT 06320. has made a remarkable recovery. pursuit of happiness when you reach the 90s - but I'm pursuing it."

ConnecticutCollegeMagazilif G Joan and Jack fell getting out of their car. Joan ALUMNI TRAVEL was not critically hurt, but Jack broke his right hip and has been going through a period of SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: intense rehabilitation. Glaciers, Mountains and Ancient Civilizations Nellie Fuller Mattacotti has come to the conclusion that caring for a condo requires ja/wary 3-23, 1994 almost as much energy as maintaining a house. Join Professor of For recreation, she joins friends at the Senior Anthropology June Center and keeps her mind active by playing Macklin and Wesleyan's what she calls "high-powered bridge" with Professor of Geology Jelle dedicated players. de Boer and discover Frances Fenton MacMurtrie moved Santiago; the archeological last fall from a facility for "well elderly" in sites of San Pedro de Keene Valley to a nursing home in Atacam ill northern Chile Guilderland Center, NY. This makes it possi- and Palli-Aike and Fell's ble for her be closer to her brother, Bill, who caves in Patagonia; two of lives in Albany. the most beautiful and pris- Margaret (Migs) Linde Inglessis writes tine national parks in that except for a weak heart, she is "pretty fit" Chilean Patagonia, the and has never been busier in her life. She Claciares National Park and Torres del Paine National Park, a United Nations biosh- paints when she has time - exhibiting and pere reserve; Chilean lakes and lguassa Falls, the world's most impressive falls. selling on and off She is particularly proud of the art gallery she created at her retirement THE LOWER CARIBBEAN ANO ORINOCO RIVER complex, where she puts on 12 shows a year. March 13-23, 1994 Mig's husband died in '79, and her three chil- This exotic cruise is hosted by dren, six grandchildren and five greats are scat- Professor of Biology Robert tered all across the country. Askins, a noted ornithologist. Eunice Mason Blaser has not done as Swim and snorkel in some of much traveling this year as usual, although she the finest marine environments did go to a family reunion in OH with pleas- anywhere and experience the ant stop-offs both going and returning. interesting flora and fauna that Eunice's walking is limited, but she keeps up thrive along the mighty her interest in Garden Club Programs and Orinoco River. Come face to reads a great deal and watches world news on face with the Warao Indians television. who make the rain forest their Esther Stone Wensel enjoys life at The home. Itinerary includes, north- Heights and does some driving but has given ern Venezuela, Curacao, up long trips. Tobago, Trinidad and Guayana. Frances Tillinghast has arrived at the point where she finds a walker a very useful HOLLANO BY BARGE aid in navigating. Apri/20-May 1, 1994 The class extends sympathies to the fami- Associate Professor of Art History Robert Baldwin will host a barge trip throught the lies of Ruth Ackerman, who died on canals of Holland during the tulip season. Trip highlights include Amsterdam, the 9/1/92, and Marjorie Gove Studley, who Kroller Muller Museum noted for its exceptional collection of Van Gogh paintings, died on 8/4/92. KeukenhofGardens, The Hague, Delft and Maastrich.

ALUMNI SEMINAR IN ISRAEL Cotrespondeus: M,y 1994 Louisa M. Kent Discover Israel with Roger Brooks, Elie Wiesel Professor of Judaic Studies. Midland Park Apts., W-l0 30 Norwich, NY 13815 For more itiformatiol1, contact Bridget Bernard in the A/till/IIi Office, 203-439-2304. Mildred Meyer Doran writes enthusiastical- ly about the North Atlantic cruise that she took recently. They toured Barcelona, Lisbon, FOUR ON A QUEEN: Gibraltar, Paris and Amsterdam. She volun- Pictured on board the teers at the local school once a week, helping Royal Viking Queen in Seville are camels: the second grade teacher. "This age group is Nancy Platt Sands '49, Alumni adorable; I have a darling boy who has adopt- Association Executive ed me and calls me grandma." Director Kristin Stahlschmidt Lillian Miller is happy to be able to man- lambert '69, Martha age independently in her own house, in spite Funkhouser Berner '32 and of some health problems, and to be able to June Hopkins Nelson '62. The entertain friends and relatives occasionally for four cruised in June of '93. summer visits. She recently had lunch with two members of the class of '29, Willy Fountain Murphy and Marian Vaine. Constance Smith Langtry writes, "Highlights and lowlights since returning to

.. Jiffy / Alfgmt 1993 Wilmington, NC, in '76. Alec and I celebrat- She and Dave celebrated their 61st wedding apartment with patio, fireplace, pool and spa- ed our 50th anniversary; our next is 59th. We anniversary in Feb. They "feel blessed to still cious landscaped grounds in a 400-apartment complex. Diane has five daughters, one son traveled far to visit his Russian relatives. have each other and to feel safe in our big, old Personal tragedy in '82 with loss of our country house." and six grandchildren, all living in the WA daughter whose schools included the Joan Marshall Hackett '58 wrote that her area. Achsah plans to have cataract surgery on Sorbonne and universities in the Middle East mother, Betty Snowden Marshall, died just the other eye in early '93 and looks forward to and Russia. Our son, a Yale M.D" died in before Thanksgiving after a long illness and reading again. She keeps interested in politics, '65. At present I enjoy volunteer work for the many years in a nursing home. economy, education and current events in local mental health center." Dorothea Simpson has recovered from general. Call or write the Alumni Office for Evelyn Utley Keeler sends these vital two fractured hips and now enjoys her home Achsah's new address. statistics, "Work: getting up in the morning. in Salem, CT, her friends, hobbies and cats. The Christmas letter and note from Ruth Travel: armchair. School: bridge lessons (con- Elizabeth Pyper Bauer and husband, Griswold Louchheim were filled with news tinuing education). Family: Elizabeth Utley Hal, have moved again, they hope for the last of a busy, happy year. Each Jan. and Feb., she Lamb '29. You seem to be doing circles time. They had been living in a retirement and Henry spend six weeks on Grand around me." community in Roswell, GA, missed their Cayman Island. During summers, they stay at Ernestine Vincent Venner is still living family, so lasr fall moved back to Gaithersburg, their beach cottage in Clinton, CT. A special in Endicott, NY, and now has a great-grand- MD. Their son, granddaughter, grandson, and celebration of Henry's 90th birthday was held daughter whose parents are Kerry and one great grandson live within a few miles. at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT, Kathleen Keenan. They all had a lovely Call or write the Alumni Office for their new attended by many relatives, over a four-day Christmas with her daughter, jackie, and £1111- address. July weekend. After their return to FL in ily in jordan, NY. Elinor Wells Smith address was erro- Oct., both worked hard in Fe. Lauderdale for Edith Walter Samuels reports that she is neously listed as Louisville, KY, instead of Republican elections. A highlight of the year living a pretty good life - SLX months in FL Lewisville, TX, (where she lives with her son was the Dec. marriage of one of Ruth's and six months in White Plains. She paints and his wife) in a previous issue of class notes. grandsons, Christopher Ulrich, to Cydney, a abstract paintings, swims, golfs, attends the- Her youngest grandson graduated from the U. minister's daughter he met at Coral Ridge, ater. "I spent three weeks in VT with my of North Texas in Denton last spring. He is GA, Presbyterian Church, where he is study- family and off to St. Thomas to celebrate my postponing law school while living at home ing for the ministry. Rurhie wrote, "It was 85th with son, john, and his wife." and working. Two other grandsons work in the most beautiful wedding I had ever seen." Elizabeth Weed Johnson writes, "I am Dallas. Elinor wrote last year about her severe Catherine Steele Batchelder sold her still in my home, thanks to my devoted sinus infections. She continues to have residu- home in the fall and is living in a retirement daughter's family and my terrific helpers. als, affecting her ears and joints with varying home in Lancaster, PA, not far from friends, During the week, 1 am taken for outings and, amounts of pain and walking difficulties. and her daughter. One grandson is with the on Sundays, to church. My daughter, Carol, Jane Moore Warner keeps busy with U.S. Navy at sea. A granddaughter is with the was in the class of '65 at Cc. Both she and their large house and a few church activities, U.S. Army in Saudi Arabia, and another her husband hold positions in the computer having "bowed out of her last volunteer granddaughter will attend the U. of North field. They have two talented daughters. Dr. board." jane takes special interest and pride in Carolina in the £111. Cathy's son still lives in Roger Ryley, recently deceased, my long- her grandson's career at Connecticut College. the Atlanta, GA, area; his daughter is in upper time family physician, was a brother to our He is a sophomore majoring in music and NY and his son in NYC. With her family own late classmate Bianca Ryley sings with the CoCo Beaux, an a cappella members scattered, Cathy sees them lessoften. Bradbury." group, and plays in a band. "Young Karl H. is For her new address, you may call or write Helen Flinner Smith died on 10/3/92. relishing his time (at cq, and his parents are the Alumni Office. It is with sadness that we send sympathy to impressed with the aura of the college and Mary CUfT of Great Falls, VA, wrote that her family. The class also extends warm sym- with its president." jane took a trip to CA and her mother, Julia Stahle McKenzie, now pathy to the family of Ruth Litch Redlack, the Northwest last fall with her recently wid- lives in a retirement home in Oakton, VA. who died on 2/5/92. owed brother. "Although her nl.emory isn't what it used to Update from your correspondent: accord- Dorothy Rose Griswold continues to be, she looks great, and it pleases her two ing to the Jan. class list, we are now 65 stal- reside in her big CT home with daughter, daughters and all of her grandchildren to have wart souls. It would be good to hear from Sarah; son-in-law and two grandchildren, 2- her closer." For her new address, you may call more of you regarding your activities, even if 1/2 and 5. Four other grandchildren also live or write the Alumni Office. they are non-existent - as mine are. For in Woodbury. The oldest, Matilda, spent four With sorrow and sympathy to family and years, bridge was the most enjoyable, chal- months in the fall of '92 in Nepal in an inter- friends, we list the deaths of: Helen lenging indoor activity; but in recent years, all national learning program, returning to Lewis Chesebro Wilcox on 10/25/92, Constance but one of the enthusiastic players have "shuf- and Clark, OR, after Christmas. Another Ganoe Jones on 11/17/92 and Betty fled off this mortal coil," leaving just two of granddaughter is a jr. at Westover School in Snowden Marshall in Nov. '92. us to seek diversion in spite and malice. This Middlebury, VT, and wants to become an is a fine game, guaranteed to bring out the actress. Dot's SOil has two children: a daughter worst in one. It is known to have been a who is a freshman at Union College and a son favorite pastime of Cary Grant and his wife, as who is a jr. at Tufts. COffeSpOndC!lI' MabelBarnes Knauff well as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Pontanne. Gertrude Smith Cook lives in the 39 Laurel Hill Dr. BufL110area is proud of the Buffalo Bills and Niantic, CT 06357 disappointed in their loss to the Dallas Correspolldcms: Gertrude Smith 32 Cowboys in the '93 Super Bowl. Christmas Cook, 109 Village Park Dr., Reunion News: June 4-6, 1993 Williamsville,NY 14221 and was spent in Atlanta, GA, with Lee. Luncheon Conespovde.u: Beatrice Whitcomb, 8333 with Jerry was a treat for Beatrice Esther White Cornish Seminole Blvd. #554, Whitcomb. 275 Mountain Ave. 31 Seminole, FL 34642 Achsah Roberts Fennell had a lens Gillette, NJ 07933 implant surgery ill her left eye in Feb. '92. She Vivien Noble Wakeman enjoys reading is now living with her daughter, Diane, in and listening to audio books while making Bellevue, WA. They have a large ground floor cookies for their eight great-grandchildren.

ConnecticutColtege1\!Iagazinc CD Club News Connecticut College Alumni Association Like so many of us non-peripatetic souls, Marion E. Black finds that time zips by in retirement days enjoying friends, visitingthose in nursing homes and maintaining a home PROJECT SERVE '93 alone. A good life! With eight club regions and over 100 alumni participating, Project Serve '93 had a wonderful Our provocative classmate, Serena first year Project Serve '93 was designed to engage alumni throughout the nstiot: and the Blodgett Mowry, comments on a friendshe campus community in volunteer activities Connecticut College Clubs committed one day to a met at Harvard, "She has a chair at Oxford, IS community service project to continue the traditions of public service tastered at Connecticut a linguistic expert and is delightfully mad!" College. This spring, Serena was in the Netherlands standing knee-deep in tulips. San Francisco, No Day at the 8each for Alumni. Alumni in the Bay Area love their beaches so A note from Elizabeth Flanders much that a group spent the day cleaning up at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. In addition, all McNellis says, "Life goes on as usual, inter- those participating were encouraged to bring a canned food item or an article of clothing to rupted by a few trips - three weeks last donate to a charitable cause. spring in Brussels, Spain and Portugal, and in Ocr. a tour of DC, then a Christmas reunion Los Angeles, Christmas in April Project Postponed. Due to tears about possible riots tollow- inKY." ing the Los Angeles Police Trial. the national project called Christmas in April, for which our Her sister, Phyllis Larson, reports that Connecticut CollegeAlumni were going to volunteer, was rescheduled for May. The club stili Bernice Griswold Ellis celebrated her 80th had a good group of alumni hitting the streets. birthday with a party at her nursing home. Although confined to a wheelchair and unable Chicago, Alumni doing the Walk in Chicago. A small, but committed group of alumni partici- to move her arms, Bernice is in good spirirs pated Inthe MARCHOFDIMESWALKAMERICAproject.The proceeds of WALKAMERICAgotoward and would love to hear from classmates(ask programs for prenatal care, nutritional education and ensuring that children will have a healthy me for the address). start. Arter 12 miles, the alumni who walked were feeling slightly stiff, but happy to have helped In Dec., Alison Jacobs McBride and out. daughter, Nancy, celebrated 80th and 50th birthdays, respectively. Allie commented, "l Washington, D.C., Alumni Help D.C. GROW. A group at about 15 alumni spent the day on don't mind being 80, but to think of class- Potomac Avenue in D.C.working with Garden Resources of Washington (GROW) to clear a lot mates so old is shocking!" for community residents to plant at a later date. Eleanor Laughlin Bowsher found the following verse painted on a plate at her Bostcn, One Day lor Cily Year Serve-a-thon. Alumni in the Boston area banded together to cousin's home in CA: work with City Year, the inner city peace corps which has been the model for President if I should Nile to a ripe, old agc Clinton's National Service Program. Our Boston alumni spent a day scrubbing walls at the May I possess some bif 4" Somerville housing development and had a wondertul time seeing each other and helping the Indirlidllaliry, dwnu alld Illil. community. Laterthey were treated to pizza by the Somerviile mayor. Tlmt. I /Hay 110/ be diswrded J.-1I1,ell I alii witllered, 1I1()rI! alld lIIeak, New York City, AIDS Walk 1993 One More Time. For the second year, New York City Alumni But. sOllght (!ftcr fl//d chen'shed like a joined together to walk 6.2 miles to help raise $1 ,800 and awareness for the fight against AIDS. fine al/fique. Helen Lavietes Krosnick saysthe win- Tenth Annual Greater Hartlord Walk Against Hunger. Alumni in the capital of Connecticut ter was a bit dull, but a visit from a CA cousin completed a 4.1 mile walk to benefit Foodshare of Greater Harfford. turned into J tourist agenda that left Helen reeling. Southeastern Connecticut, Spring Clean-Up and WALKAMERICA.Alumni in New London, Cait Lewis Witt's husband keeps 111e Groton and surrounding areas joined students at Connecticut College as they worked to posted on Cait, who is no longer able to cleanupWinthrop High Rises and Mamacoke Island as well as Join in the March of Dimes Walk write. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in Southeastern Connecticut. in Oct. Mary Louise Mercer Coburn's com- ment') on the world today, "It has virtuallyno Project Serve will be an annua/effort. If you are interested in helping or participating, please bearing on the one in which we werebrought call your local club reptesentsttve or Andrew C. Sharp '89, director of clubs and educational up! To wit, our youngest granddaughterISa programs, at 203-439-2310. sophomore at Princeton - and most of the time, the technological advances are totally incomprehensible to me." I hope you all received Grace Nichols Rhodes' Christmas letter, toe large to pnnt Jean Berger Whitelaw's letters are newsy. in its entirety here. In capsule form, Jan. to Correspondent: An ardent gardener, she describes the June '92 meant frequent but successful Ann (Andy) Crocker Wheeler Vancouver "fiowerings;" a proud mother and sojourns to the hospital, all sorts of famIly P.O. Box 18l loving grandmother, she writes of visits to the Westpon Pc.,MA 02791 beloved camp-in-the-boondocks and encloses reunions and trips, 80th birthdays celeb~at('d 34 ill MN, births, marriages and graduations. snapshots of family gatherings - Jean looking Her job with a travel agency gives Elizabeth . "weed very.coment and Grandpa Mac, the fix-it man, Both Nickie and Arnold are tryll1g to \ Archer Patterson a chance to see the world. holding the latest grandchild. out stuff' accumulated during 45 years 111 a A year ago, Betty visited her son in China, d i I sable . In 199~, our adventurer, Marjorie big house, three story bam an uiex iau then rook her daughter on a garden tour in BIshop, visited Merida, the Yucatan, with sis- "glory holes" and nooks and cranniesfor stor- southern England, ending with the fabulous ter, Betty. They later explored Puerto Rico, age. Most of us can relate! I Chelsea Flower Show. Her oldest grandchild via Elderbostel , with a friend from NM. Gladys Russell Munroe enjoyed lunc1 is in her first year at Stanford Law School. Recorder classes with Cary Bauer Bresnan with Lilla Linkletter Stuart and DrLlsll.la She seldom writes but when she does, are still on the agenda. Fielding Stemper '32. She spent three daysU1

• Jllly / Augrlst 1993 Key West with a church choir. Dorothy Sisson Tuten, a garden-mind- "Looking in Both Directions" ed classmates, sene me a sprig of cypress, plus a letter full of New England memories. She These remarks were made by Virgil/ia Be'Sqlll'st joined the "81 club" in Feb. She lives alone Lal/dry '70, vice president, Connecuau College and takes care of t'everything." Alllllllli Asscdatiou, a/the opening OJrite Reunion's Jane Trace Spragg and Shirley had a Sarl/rday //JoII/illg progm//J,]Jll/e 5, '1993. Thanksgiving dinner in CA with all the fami- Iy present. s A GIRL, I GREW UP IN A VIRGINIA Mary Tumock Jaeger's Christmas card neighborhood surrounded by boys, and as had a dear photo of John and herself - look- A a consequence, my focus was on throwing ing as though Sanibel Island agrees with them. a tight spiral during the football season and mak- But Tommy wrote, "We are both beginning ing a good pickoff move to first base on the baseball team. So I've always been a great to creak. Golden Years - bunk!" believer in the idea that most oflife's important lessons can be learned on the sports field: Olga Wester Russell's life in wintry lessons about winning graciously, and even more important, about losing with class; about ME was softened by a trip to Carson City at teamwork and sharing; learning to look for someone's strengths and capitalizing on them, Thanksgiving and then to Palo Alto to say hello to daughter, Lauren. On the way back, rather than picking on their weaknesses; empathy for those around you who may have she attended a conference in NYC and visited more or less talent than you do; and working hard to reach your goals. friends in NJ. As I thought about what I hope all of you go home with from this reunion, I read the Ruth Wheeler Cobb made my day with comments ofJim Valvano, the past coach of North Carolina State's famous basketball 3 phone call in response to my request for team. 1 felt a special empathy with Jim this past winter. First, he was an inspired coach that news. She's still is at her TLC volunteer job at I admired, and second, we each fought our own personal battles with cancer over the last Yale-New Haven Hospital - a sometimes six months. While Jim died recently, after a valiant struggle, he set a wonderful example soul-wrenching position. Daughter, Mary, for all of us who fmd ourselves in uphill battles. And in one of his last speeches he talked who worked for a long time to get her RN about what he felt were the necessary elements in a successful, meaningful day - three degree, is on duty at the same hospital. simple ingredients - to laugh, to cry and to think deeply about something. In '94, a few hardy souls plan to celebrate While this may hardly qualify as the most profound definicion of a successful day, for our 60th reunion on campus, but many of us me his answer encompasses what [ hope you experience here at reunion. will be there in spirit only. In the fall, [ plan Seeing some of your outfits this morning, hearing some of the tales of college recol- to send out a questionnaire calling for a lections, I hope you've found many reasons already to share a few hearty chuckles with resume of your 60 years out of college. Our your classmates. class is noted for its "togetherness." I rely on And at the same time, all of us have had our trials with family, illness, career chal- your help to keep up our reputation. lenges, economic troubles - I'm sure there have been a few moist eyes already this week- The class extends sympathy to Dorothy end as you've shared stories of your experiences with your friends. But that's all right- Sisson Tuten, whose brother died in Oct., because so often in our challenges and sadness we find new meaning in our other life and to the family of Marjorie Sorenson MacPherson, who died in Dec. '91. experiences. During trials and tragedy, we are so often surrounded by the incredible love offamily and mends as we face difficulties we think we may not survive. Our tests of faith frequently lead us to calmer waters that we might never have found otherwise. And we also hope you will be challenged mentally this weekend. Already, we heard Correspondent: Jack Matlock, our former ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and later today you'll have the Sabrina(Subby)BUIT Sanders 133 Boulter Rd. opportunity to hear more about life here at Connecticut College as well as be challenged WethersfleId,CT 06109 by a variety of seminars. 35 As Kierkegaard reminded lIS, "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be Married: Marjorie Wolfe Gagnon to Ret lived forward." [ hope this weekend will provide you with the opportunity to enrich your USCG Capt. W.c. Hogan, 10/14/92. lives, looking with friends in both directions."

We are seekillg a class conespondetu Finally, your humble correspondent meets a for yom class. if y011 are illteres{ed, foot grand piano. I can't quit writing articles please contaathe Ab/llllli Office. deadline and has some news to share with long enough to prepare to move. I am in you. good health at age 80." Please send news to: Rokie Brown Hansen sold her home in Like many Northerners, Peg McConnell 36Class Notes, Connecticut CollegeMagazine, South Portland, ME, after her husband's death 270 Mohegau Aile., New umdon, CT 06320 Edwards writes that she and George are off and is now living in a retirement community to FL to see Peg's sister Florence and go to in Kennebunk, ME. Many members of her The Class of '36 sends sympathy to the family Sarasota. Her husband has not been well, so and friends of Elizabeth Ruiter family live in the same town, and they they are looking forward to the change. She Williamson, who died inJuly of '92. enjoyed a merry and active Christmas togeth- heard Judge Patricia Wald '48 speak at the The class also sends sympathy to Gladys er. Rokie is now able to go to concerts, plays Luce School and found her most impressive, Bolton BerIowe, who lost her husband, Dr. and shopping for the first time in ages, now an alum to be proud of. Max Berlowe, on 4/15/92 after 53 years of that she no longer has to care for a big house. Frances Minson Bitgood and Royal, mamage. A cousin, Bill Brown, did the rewrite of "The former residents of East Lyme, CT, now Wiz" which Rokie attended in March, at the reside permanently in Cocoa Beach, FL. The same time visiting her oldest son, Donald, and house in CT still has a "For Sale" sign in front wife. thanks to the poor economy. They have a son Conespondesu: Martha Louise Cook Swan has three and daughter, four grandsons and one grand- Edith BurnhamCarlough daughters, a son, five granddaughters and a daughter. Royal has not been well, but Fran 505 FranklinTurnpike great-grandson and great-granddaughter! She A]end~e, NJ 07401 keeps active in church, the hospital auxiliary 37 says, "I am still in this big house with a seven- and Republican Club. They celebrated their

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• 56th wedding anniversary this spring. their more energetic activities. They contem- AlUMNI CALENDAR Congratulations, Fran and Royal. plated condo living, but decided to extend their 40-year stay in the same house. Their three children and five grandchildren all enjoy Reunion News: June4-6, 1993 interesting jobs and schools in VA, NC and Cooespondesn: OH MaryCaroline Jean Pierce Field and Bob hope to move • (MC)JenksSweet to a retirement condo as soon as they sell their 361WestSt. Needham,MA 02194 house. Thus, no trips in the near future. • Marjoire Mintz Deitz and Ted get together with Gus Staus Goodman and Bob When Selma Silverman Swatsburg takes a ALUMNI TRAVEL trip, she always sends me a postal. I wish in FL during the winter. They took their more.of you would follow suit. Her lastjour- "adult" children to Bermuda to celebrate three DANUBE RIVER ney was to Prague where she had hoped to birthdays, Mintz, Ted and daughter, Jane. Sept. 6-20 see more restoration work completed since They now have five great grandchildren rang- their last visit six years ago. They went back ing in age from 8 years to two months. FALL WEEKEND '93 to London for their annual theater visit. Evelyn Falter Sisk boasts a new great Alumni Weekend, Parents' Before leaving, she attended Alumni grandson. Weekend and the "Ultimate Weekend, as did Winnie Frank Randolph. Annette Service Johnstone recently Reunion" for the classes underwent knee replacement and is doing fine. Liz Fielding said she is "still dancing as of the '70s fast as she can." She is president (again) of the She has two grandsons, one graduating from. Oct. 1-3 Treasure Cove Citizens Association in their Arizona State U., and the other from Suffield area of the Potomac, which still addresses the Academy in CT. She wrote of the death of problems of the environment and taxes. Eleanor Robertson Treat on 8/3/92. ALUMNI SONS & DAUGHTERS Eunice Morse Benedict has a group of Eleanor's husband passed away two years ago, November 14 &15 widowed friends who golf (nine holes now), and they had four children. The class sends bowl and play bridge. Her health is fine sympathy to her family. For iucrc information call tile A/lilli/ii except for some dental implants. The classalso sends sympathy to the family Office, 203-439-2300. Bill and Billie Foster Reynolds join the of Carol Moore Kepler, who died on Schedule subject to change. group who celebrated their 50th wedding 2/6/93. anniversary with a dinner party prepared by their daughters, Kathie and Sue. Previously, Correspondellis: Maryhannah Jean Ellis Blumlein had two back surg- they celebrated by taking a trip to CA to visit Slingerland Barberi, 42 Sue, then sailed on the 1\15 Noordom from LA Thornton St., Hamden,CT eries, one in Oct. and another in Jan. Jean to Fr. Lauderdale via the Panama Canal. 06517andMargaretRobison takes trips with daughter Ann's family. Her Their children have several highlights as Sue Loehr,22C TurtleCreekDr., daughter, Carol, has visited her from HI. She 39 Tequesta.FL 33469 was honored at her 25th high school reunion strives "not to mourn or be pampered." as the school's Distinguished Alumna and was Harriet Ernst Veale writes "sorry Mogs asked to speak at Commencement. She is Margy Abell Powell and John rent a house Robison Loehr could not join me for lunch President of the American Association of in Cuemavaca, Mexico, for the month of Jan. during the time of her family's summer out- Ruthie Hale Buchanan joined them for a Women Emergency Physicians in CA, which ing." Hattie has spent "the winter close to is active in development of a workable and week. In March, Margy and John vacationed in home with snow, ice and sunshine." affordable national health policy. Not to be Little Dix Bay, Virgin Gorda, in the British It is sad to write that Henny Parnurn outdone, Kathie was honored for the com- Virgin Islands, where they enjoyed glorious Gatchell Stewart's oldest son, Creighton E. pletion of 2S years of teaching in the West weather. They returned home to DC right Gatchell Jr., died of a heart attack at age 50, Hartford CT school system. after a snow and sleet weekend. Margy lunched just as his father had at age 59. He was a I received a wonderful Christmas card and had a long chat with Jinny Walton senior vp and chief investment officer at an showing all of Flo McConnell Knudsen's Magee in between trips. investment counseling firm. Henny wrote grandchildren and great grandchildren. Kristi Kay Brown Wilhelm plays tennis three that one of her friends said, "He was every- Knudsen is ajr. at Cc. times a week and lars of golf in the summer. thing a mother would want a son to be." The Win Nies Northcott feels very secure She and Jack visited their granddaughter in classsends our deepest sympathy to Helmy. with condo living. Hal and Heather hosted Puerto Rico where she is teaching English. In Happy Gray Burger and Bob left VT's her 75th birthday party and decked the walls Jan., they cruised through the Panama Canal. frigid weather for Hutchinson Island, FL. En with snapshots of her childhood. Win has Kay writes, "I have been very lucky health- route they spent some time with Ruth weeded out some of her commitments nar- wise." Brodhead Heintz in Venice, FL. When rowing her field to a more carefree sociable MiITl Cooper writes that she stays "put they reached Hutchinson Island, they were world for personal enrichment, i.e. lectures, most of the time, as I have no car now." hit with hurricane winds and tornadoes - Mary Driscoll Devlin and her husband private lip-reading lessons and assignments some vacation! News from VT told them enjoyed two months of golf in FL. She was through the A.G. Bell Foundation. their home was surrounded by 12 feet of sorry to read of Marge Ab raharn s Jetts Rothensies Johns has Bill's snow. They have seen Peggy Kootz Surles Perlman's death, "my dear friend and fellow reunion at Princeton scheduled for the same and Bill in FL. weekend as CC's. If she can't come to ours, science major." Phyl Harding Morton writes "many Elaine DeWolfe Cardillo had colon can- she sends best regards to all. They had the thanks to you gals who came to the rescue of cer surgery in Aug. In Dec., she helped her whole family together for Thanksgivi.ng and out class bank account. We should now be 97-year-old mother move into a nursing home Christmas. able to cover mailings until our 55th, which is i.nFL. Jeddie Dawless Kinney's past year held only 15 months away." Phyl plans to see us At Christmas while staying 111 FL, she saw several milestones - Doug's 75th birthday all in June '94. Nancy Weston Lincoln and John, Barbara followed by their 50th wedding anniversary. Muriel Harrison Castle is looking for- Myers Haldt and Peale, Bea Dodd Foster Both suffer leg problems reducing some of ward to our 55th. She and Irving spend a lot and Bud and Nini Cocks Millard.

• July / AI/gmT 1993 of time in Palm Beach, which is their real wiser and is enjoying independence in her in the early 19005. In May, she entertained home now. They visit children in CT and home in Santa Barbara. She keeps busy on guests for the 500 Mile Race. Was in Newport Dallas and go to grandchildren's college grad- tWO boards and does volunteer work. in July for another American Museum trip. uations. She is still active as a lay reader at her church as Lee Jenks Rafferty has a new "craze," well as serving on several boards. UCOlUl basketball! She and a friend go to the Doris Hassell Janney and husband, Lew, Cortespcndeus: met on Halloween 50 years ago. They cele- women's games in Storrs and to all the men's Elizabeth Thompson Dodge brated this event with daughter, Kim, by run- games at the Hartford Civic Center. Next they 55 Woodland Trail will be going to the Red Sox Triple A baseball East Falmouth, MA 02536 ning in a 5K on that day! 40 Beulah Hoagland Appleton gives us games in New Britain, CT. Lee has the right idea of staying young in spirit. Patricia Alvord French and Bill treated news of her granddaughter, Heather Pollack, Rose Lazarus Shinbach writes that she Elizabeth Thompson Dodge and Doug to who spent her Christmas break from hopes "to hear from any '3gers coming this dinner in Falmouth on 2/5/93 in honor of Princeton with her father, who is stationed in way" - that's Columbus, OH. She misses the Dodges' wedding anniversary. Pat, who Dakar, Senegal. Her mother (B's daughter) is Nantucket and seeing Middy Weitlich Gieg was Lib's roommate, had been matron of hon- Judy Appleton Casler '64. and her '3ger fiiends there. or 49 years ago. Kay Potter Judson was also Jane (Tony) Holcombe Dewey had Jean Lyon Loomis enjoys shelling in a dinner guest. the help of12 of her 14 grandchildren in cele- Captiva, FL. She also has great fun with lots Helen Burnham Ward rejoices in four brating her recent 75th birthday in NH. Polly of golf and lars of company. grandchildren: Virginia, 12-112, and Frank Shank came all the way from White Libby Mulford DeGrOff and Ed have Benjamin, 9-112, children of daughter, Sarah, Bear Lake, WI. just returned from a fascinating three weeks in in PA; and Billy, 3-112, and Bradford, 10 Katherine (Krin) Meili Anderton went Morocco and Spain. They're now home in mos., children of her son, Jay, who live in on the CC/Wesleyan alumni tour last summer Pompano Beach and are busy working on the Northfield, MA, where Jay is director of the to Indonesia (Sumatra, Java and Bali) and also beach plus swimming daily. Her granddaugh- Northfield Mt. Hermon Summer School. had a three-day layover in HI. ter Jessica Schoonmaker '95, the daughter of Helen has had serious illnesses from '90-'92, Elise Haldeman Jacobi says. her sense of Judith DeGroff Schoonmaker '69, has been but is now in good health. In May, she and getting older is emphasized by a granddaugh- awarded a study trip to Germany next sum- Philip had a trip to England to research family ter getting married and a nephew retiring. She mer. genealogy. They are both descended from has signed up to be a teacher's aide, to take Jane Mitchell spent 12 days in FL with Elder John Strong of Northampton. They still watercolor classes and to swim at her local her sister, Peggy Mitchell Boyer '42. live in Amherst, but moved to an apartment community college. Betsy Parcells Arms and Chuck have three years ago. spent a long winter rebuilding after Hurricane Pauline (Polly) Carroll Carter enjoys Andrew. Their Ocean Reef took a direct hit. summer sailing in Harwichporr and still spends Correspondent: Jane Kennedy Newman Betsy's message is, "Write and call your winters in Worcester with occasional visits to 46900 Bermonr, Unit 159 friends and come back together for our 55th AZ and FL. Husband, Joe, is active as a volun- Punta Gorda, FL 33982 in June '94." teer in BioTech and with hospital work. They 41 "Starting to anticipate our reunion a year are very pleased that their three grandchildren We Newmans had a bang up 50th anniversary from June," writes Betty Patton Warner. live close by. here in Punta Gorda with many old and new She sees Kat Ekirch quite often and appreci- Evelyn (Evie) Gilbert Thorner is friends attending, including five of our six ates how hard Kat and Betsy are working to working on her conversational Spanish - children and families. They did us proud. So make this a special event. again! She is also taking a physical therapist many in our class are celebrating the same. Mags Robison Loehr says Phyl course with one of her daughters. Her winter Congratulations to us all. Harding Morton, who lives near Mogs, quarters are in Hollywood, FL, and she sum- Allayne Ernst Wick's husband, Doug, "looks pretty good," but they seldom get a mers at Stratton Mt., VT. Husband, Mike, is wrote that it has been a tough year for chance to chat. Mags exercises three days a recovering well from back surgery in Nov. Allayne. The class hopes she feels better. week. Her lung doctor says she's "doing just In Jan., Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune and Midge Wicoff Cooper is so proud of fine." Edna (Eddi) Headley Offield went to her three generation CC family. Lynne Sadie Sawyer Hutchinson's brother Maine Chance in AZ. In Feb., Claire Gaudiani Cooper Sitton '69, son Jay Sitton '96 and Henry rued on 3/23/93. We are sony to hear visited Liz and asked her to become a trustee. Barbara Cooper Neeb '72. M.idge traveled to of your loss, Sadie. He was a special teacher She did not accept due to her heavy schedule. Israel and Egypt in May '92. She and Mary and athletic coach for over SO years at In March, after an Insiders Dallas/Fort Worth (Holly) Holohan Waldron had dinner Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA. tour by the American Museum in Britain, Liz together when Holly was campaigning for her A four-week trip north at Christmas rook checked into Beaumont to see about redoing son-in-law who is running for Congress. Ginny Taber McCamey to be with daugh- the Gilbert Park - a gift from her grandfather Ethel Moore Wills had a special year ter and family in PA. This included Ginny's 6-mos.-old great-granddaughter. They went as far north as ME visiting friends and relatives on the way. Then in late Jan., Ginny flew to MA where her sister had died. We extend our sympathy to you, Ginny. In March, she drove to FL with a friend for three Atlanta Braves THREE GENERATIONS of the spring training games. Cooper family have chosen Winnie Valentine Frederiksen spent Connecticut College. Pictured Christmas in AK with family. Winnie runs left to right in their CC t-shtrts are: lynne Cooper Sinon '69, monthly trips for the Singles-Together Club Jay Sitton '96 and Midge in Venice, FL. She keeps busy with Park Wicoff Cooper '41. Midge's Affairs, shuffleboard and cards. daughter Barbara Cooper Ruth Wilson Cass writes that she has Neeb '72 was missing from just received her divorce. She is happier and the picture.

ConnecticutCollegeMagazilJf • daughters, Elisabeth and Sky. It was abo the They were happy to he able to spend the sum- occasion of a reunion of 17 family members This notice contains mer in VT. Edythe (Chips) VanRees Conlon is still who came from as far away as OR to St. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION! Augustine to spend a week in a couple of Now you can place your classified ad on the go: NH, Seattle, Cape Cod, hut more importantly to "clean, fascinating and safe rented condos on the beach. Boots didn't in Connecticut Coltege Magazine! Turkey." She was thrilled with Istanbul. make it to reunion because in May she was [,D. Leader Ataturk's motto for his country is, still recovering from a bad She and Dick Starting with this issue, we're running "Peace at home and peace in the world." did make it to New London in Oct., howev- classitied advertising from members of er, for his CGA 50th reunion. the college community. Categories C,,,,,p"Hd,,," Jack and Adele Rosebrock Burr spent include: Jane Worley Peak Nov. at their condo in FL, with a return trip Vinson Hall, Apt. 306 in Feb. • For Sale 6251 Old Dominion Dr. Peggy Ramsay Starr lives In McLean, VA 2210\ • For Rent 42 Jacksonville and sees her twin sister Mal)' in Tampa frequently. They spent Christmas • For Exchange Mary Rita (Sis) Powers took a l Zc.day tour together and got together again in Feb. for • Bed & Breakfast of England in Oct., visiting cathedrals from lunch with Mary Stevenson Stow when • Services London to York. Sis has several volunteer jobs: Stevie was in FL visiting her sister, Sue. • Wanted to Buy she teaches ESL to a Chinese girl who has While watching the "McNeil-Lehrer • Position Available been in the U.S. for six years; she also works Report," I was thrilled to see Dr. Lincoln • Position Wanted for her church and for the Cancer Society. Her best news is that her own cancer checkups Chen, expert on international refugee/nutri- $25 for all one-time listings (maximum tion problems and son-in-law of Barry 40 words.) Payment for all insertions continue to he good. Ward and Eleanor Harris Emigh rook a Beach Alter. Dr. Chen, head of Harvard must accompany request. Deadline for Medical School's Department of International November issue - September 30. Please bus tour from their home in St. Louis to TX. They are getting used to living in a small apart- Medicine, was commenting on the situation make checks payable to Connecticut in Somalia. Barry's daughter, Marty Alter ment in a retirement community. College Magazine. Send a typed copy of Chen '65, holds a Ph.D. from UPenn and your ad, with your name, class, address, Frances Hyde Forde has always hosted her family at Thanksgiving, but now both of recently returned from India where she was and daytime phone to Classifieds, overseeing research on the socia-economic Conneclicuf College Magazine, 270 her children think holiday dinners are getting to be too much for her. Last fall, the family status of widows. The Chens have two chil- Mohegan Ave., New london, CT 06320. dren: Gregory, 23, a graduate student at the No phone orders please. gathered at her son's home in Simsbury, CT. Daughter, Nancy, and son-in-law, Lew, like JFK School of Government, and Alexis, a sr. dance major at Wesleyan. Barry works four For Rent: living in Annapolis. Franny and Nancy took the granddaughters to Disney World in Jan., a evenings a week helping to care for S-month- TRANQUil CHAPPAQUIDDICK Sunny, old tri.plets. contemporary 3 bedroom/2 bath house wonderful surprise for the girls. adjacent to Wasque Reservation. Ray and Ellie King Miller took a trip to Beautiful water and treetop view. Walk to San Diego, celebrated their 50th anniversary Reunion News: June4-6,1~ beach. All amenities. Available weekly, and attended our reunion, all in '92. Her twin, Correspondents: Charlotte Hosfeld May-Oct., $900-$1,400. Call for more Pat King Helfrich, returned from reunion to Tarpy, 50 Pequot Road, find her house in bad shape, a condition which Pawtucket, RI 02861 andJane information. Julie van Roden '82, (310) Storms Wenneis, 27 Pine Ave., 372-2913 can develop in a short period of time in HI. Pat has now moved to a house abour a block Madison, NJ 07940 Services: from the other one. MY CLIENTS GET PUBLISHED Book pro Doris Kaske Renshaw had a trip to Italy Correspondents: Elise Abrahams with 19 years in publishing can help you with her lS-year-old granddaughter and a Josephson, 645 Frontier, Las too. Learn to self-edit, or let me do it for week's visit to Prince Edward Island. Doris Cruces, NM 88001 and Alice you. Aliordable. SASE. Jane Rafal Editing drove down to Homestead to see for herself Carey Weller, 423 Clifton Blvd., East Lansing,MI 48823 and Production, 881 Stockton Rd., Valley the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew. 44 Cottage, NY 10989 (914) 268-3759 "Unbelievable" was the word for it. The homes of a number of Coast Guard friends Caroline Townley Von Mayrhauser "had visits from all four children and seven grand- were either totally destroyed or severely dam- children before and after Christmas." She also aged. with oldest grandson graduating from endured the discovery of a stomach ulcer and Williams and marrying in July '92 and a fami- Marjorie Mitchell Rose sent a newspa- per photograph of herself and Dick taken a a bout with pneumonia - but all's well now. ly celebration for their 50th wedding anniver- Marjorie Alexander Harrison feels for- sary. Sally Kiskadden McClelland visited party given by their children at their favorite restaurant on their 50th wedding anniversary. tunate to be able to travel. She had a fine them on Lake Michigan. (Their wedding had taken place in Harkness Elderhoste1 experience in Williamsburg, VA, Rosalie Harrison Mayer writes, in Nov. Marge sees Lois Webster Ricklin "Having survived earthquakes, a tornado and Chapel on 10/15/42, the day after Dick was commissioned from the Army.) Dick has regularly and Stratton Nicolson McKillop delicate surgery, found the rest of their year whenever she is in DC. "We three and others filled with adventure and happy occasions." retired from his private practice in forestry and land surveying in Rutland, VT. Their children are hoping that our classmates are planning to Their 50th anniversary was in Nov. '92. attend our 50th." Thea Dutcher Coburn enjoyed enter- are Richard Mitchell Rose of Champion, OH, and Kristine Bourassa of Mendon VT Phyllis Smith Gotschall "was pleased to taining Louise Stevenson Andersen and have Pres. Gaudiani as a house guest in Jan. Andy in ME in the summer and visiting Miss Marjorie didn't get to reunion because one of when she was invited to speak to the Naples Catherine Oakes who charmed her with sto- her four grandchildren, Wendy, was giving her salutatory address. (FL) Council of World Affairs on American ries about meeting Robert Frost. Thea had a Education: Transforming for Global hip replacement in Oct. Another 50th wedding anniversary party was given in honor of Dick and Boots Interdependence." The lecture was well Virginia (Ginny) Newberry Leach is received and there were ITlany requests for in treatment for multiple myeloma in May. Hingsburg Young in June '92 by their

G Jllly I Augrlst 1993 -~ An Alumni Profile tapes. Phyllis and George have a close rela- tionship with Claire because of mutual inter- national interests and George's involvement with the college's Center for International Srudies and the Liberal Arts (C1SLA). Miriam "Mims" Brooks Butterworth '40 Susan Balderston Pettengill writes from Naples, FL, that she has visited with Mac Cox Activist for Change Walker and Karla Yepsen Copithom. Sue will be on Cape Cod all summer and hopes that nearby '44ers will call. OME PEOPLE MELLOW WITH AGE. NOT MIMS Elisabeth Shore Birdsell writes of giv- Butterworth. At 74, the state chair of the peace ing up her home of 33 years and moving 10 group SANE/Freeze is an example of someone miles to a retirement center. She is busy mak- S ing new friends, keeping the old ones and whose character and flavor intensifies over the years. She staying abreast of the many activities (and is unabashed (although always polite) about expressing her rapidly getting spoiled). She doesn't even need opinions and living her convictions - in her writing, at Circa1939 to cook if she doesn't want to. marches and demonstrations, and on fact-finding trips overseas. Alice Adams Hilmer and daughter, Nicky Cook '80, attended Alumni Weekend For this interview she was dressed in a sharp-looking black jogging suit, dressed at CC in Sept. when the new athletic facili- up with a scarf and necklace. Such ready-for-action clothing seemed appropriate for a ties, including the rowing tanks, were official- woman who's made a career out of activism, both inside and outside the government. ly opened. Nicky was a member of the crew She's been in the halls of power, as a West Hartford city councilwoman and chair of team, so she had a special reason for going. "I certainly hope to make the 50th reunion, and the Public Utilities Control Authority. She's taken her battering ram to the doors of [ do enjoy hearing often how good this school power, as head of the Eugene McCarthy for President effort in Connecticut and is leader of the liberal Caucus of Connecticut, both challenges to the party leadership at the time. With her late husband, Oliver Butterworth, she was lead plaintiff in a suit Correspoudens: that led to court-ordered reapportionment of the Connecticut General Assembly. Jane Oberg Rodgers And she has been a witness to the excesses of power, as a delegate to the 1968 7501 Democracy BoulevardApt. B413 Democratic Convention in Chicago, a member of the "People's Delegation" to the 45 Bethesda,MD 20817 Hanoi Peace Talks in 1971 and an observer of the Nicaraguan elections in 1984. If she Marjorie Lawrence Weidig and David saw looks quite ready to visit grandchildren, she looks equally ready to march through Betty Seissen Dahlgren and Wally at Lake Washington as she has countless times, including last surnmer at the Save Our Cities, George, NY, last summer and enjoyed meet- Save Our Children mobilization. ing their children and grandchildren. There What started her on a life of initiatives for change? For Mims, the life-defining also was a grand reunion of the Weidigs, Ethel Schall Gooch and Warne, Barbara experience came at the age of 20. As a German language major at Connecticut Wadsworth Koenitzer and George and College, the Windsor native had the opportunity to spend the summer of 1938 in Beverly Bonfig Cody on the Cape while Germany on a scholarship. "I was just going to test out and improve my language Bev was house hunting with daughter, skills, but what I experienced really Barbara. The Weidigs caught up with the many ac tiviti es of Helen Savacool changed my life," Mims recalls. Underhill in Chatham, MA, last Oct. The The streets were filled with uni- Wei digs all enjoy grandson Benjamin . forms; the beer halls were filled with Daughter Jane is at home while seeking a pas- songs of domination and hate. Mims torate. Margot Hay Harrison had a great trip was staying with the family of the jani- to the U.S. and Canadian Rockies last Aug. tor at the university, who turned out to She sees Eleanore Strohm Leavitt often be a Nazi. "That meant I could go any- and talks to Ethel Schall Gooch every cou- where, to the theater or to a political ple of months. Margot is busy with golf, bridge and volunteer work. She visits her chil- meeting," MinIS says. "I could see what Mimswith late husband, children's author Oliver dren often: Bruce and Betsy in Houston and was really going on." Butterworth Jodi in Cincinnati. The nine grandchildren That summer had two contradictory effects on the young woman; first, it made range in age from 1 to 19. The oldest is a her a tireless campaigner for nonviolence, and a great believer in the necessity for freshman at Duke. Joe and Betty Anne Anderson community-based knowledge and involvement. But that summer also immunized Wissman keep bumping into each other in Mims against ever becoming a complete pacifist. "I saw what kind of horrors we their continuing care facility in Walpole, ivlA, humans are capable of, and cannot say with certainty that such a regime could never where they moved last year. They love the arise again." Mims says. "Tragically, it is probably necessary to maintain an armed Life,but the smaller quarters take getting used to. Betty Anne is very involved in hospital force. But it must be under a multinational jurisdiction. We should never take unilat- work and uses life-size dolls to teach health to eral milirary action." third graders. The Wissmans visited Carolyn - by Nancy Altman. Printed by permission of the author and NlAX A1agazil"le, Giles Popham and Earle in Naples, FL, in Imprint Newspapers, 1993. March. ln '92, Marcia 00) Faust McNees rrav-

ConnecticutCollegei'v[agazillC G Dorothy Fiske Winnette toured south- ern Africa in the spring of '92. Their itinerary included the Etosha Salt Pan in Namibia, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, Chobe River game viewing in Botswana, followed by a week in beautiful Cape Town. Winn has been updating and adding to the house, while Dorothy volunteers with Network INC Community Ministries and the Richardson • Women's Club. Their seventh grandchild, Christopher Curtis Wilmette, was born on 7/19/92. Marion Stephenson Walker and Steve have been enjoying their five grandchildren, umm ages 12 years to 3 mos., who live near them in Seattle, WA. They do a lot of child-sitting. Connecticut College Alumni Association is sponsoring a design Steve is active in the Master Gardener pro- gram, and they both enjoy many bridge-play- contest to create a new alumni decal for display on car windows. ing friends. What better way to let the world know that you're proud of being a After their trip to AK, Janet Cruikshank Connecticut College alum? Send the world a big, bold, graphic McCawley and Ted created a joint slide and lecture show similar to their shows on message by entering our design contest. Norway and Portugal. Jan is still involved in Land Bank (preserving Vineyard open spaces). She started a reading group and is a member RULES: Submit your design (maximum size 4 x 6 inches) to Alumni Sticker of a writing group. Grandchildren, tennis and Contest, Connecticut College Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., New London, biking keep the muscles in tone. CT 06320-4196. The words "Connecticut College" and "alumni" must be As changes occur at the Botanical Gardens incorporated into the design. Use of the college seal is optional. Entries must be and Museum in Nashville, TN, Phebie Gardner Rockholz, president of the Friends black-and-white, camera-ready. Actual sticker will be college blue. Electronic of Cheekwood Volunteers group of 400 design submitted on Macintosh format disk or traditional artwork eligible. members, smootbes "ruffled feathers" as she DEADLINE:Your design entry must arrive no later than Nov. 1, 1993 keeps her flock of volunteers happy and con- tent. PRIZES: Gift certificates from the Connecticut College Bookstore will be award- Eliose (Lindy) Vail Pierce writes that ed to the winner and runner-up. she and Janet McDonough Mullen and Louis Andrews Yearick are looking for- Winner will be announced in the November, Honor Roll of Giving issue. ward to our 50th reunion. Lindy and Charles have been participating in Nature Conservancy boat trips on the Maine Coast where they spent several hours in a blind e1ed: first to her Rotary District Conference. on Election Day. For Halloween, Seb was a watching puffins. During the winter they have Then, in June, she spent three weeks in clown along with George and granddaughter enjoyed swimming at Ft. Myers Beach, grow- Kenya with her sister and family. Her broth- Elizabeth. ing vegetables and flowers, and are planning er-in-law's brother and family joined them Ruth Eliasberg Van RaaJte and Tom spring house painting. for two weeks. On three safaris, they saw celebrated his new aorta valve with a fascinating Ten days before Ann Muir Strickland many rare animals and birds. Returning, the trip to Indonesia in the fall. Their daughter, died ill a boating accident in Brazil, Jane group spent a week in Amsterdam. In Oct., Peggy (CC '76) had her third child, a boy, Montague Wilson had lunch with her in with her sister and sister's husband, she spent which brings the total of grandchildren to seven Vero Beach, FL. jane suggested that anyone two weeks in VA in the Shenandoah Valley - all living near Ruthie and Tom. Ruthie is who was friendly with Ann might want to and Virginia Beach. The Kenya group plans still playing tennis, volunteering and making give a gift to the memorial fund for her at to meet again in TX for Christmas. and exhibiting paper collages. Connecticut College. Jane has been enjoying Lois Becker Odence, busy with the her winter in Vera Beach and wants anyone Florida Orchestra and other volunteer work, traveling there to give her a call. Correspondent: Marilyn (Skip) is enjoying life in Clearwater, FL. She talked Sally Duffield Wilder finds that because Coughlin Rudolph with several classmates while working on the 539 Ford Ave. TX is close to Central America, she has Annual Fund. Kingston, PA 18704 become a "Mayan-phile." A journey to Lois Fenton Tuttle writes that the Copan, the ruined Mayan city in West Tuttles spent the winter in Naples, FL, 46 Honduras, was a splendid experience. among many CC alums. Lois continues with Thanks so much for your cards and letters. In March '93, Jean Mount Bussard and volunteer work, primarily in town affairs. Without them, we wouldn't have a clue about her husband moved to Ridgefield, CT, from Our august president, Sarah the lives and loves of the Closs of '46. Sarasota (which they loved). They wanted to Bauemschmidt Murray, has had a much Deane Austin Smigrod and her husband be nearer to their family. better year this year. She and Stu spent a great visited their son, Andy, and his family in Mary Margaret Topping DeYoe and deal of time in Cincinnati and Annapolis vis- Brisbane, Australia, during the fall of '92. In her husband are volunteer naturalists at an iting son George and her Dad. Their son, Peb., they celebrated their 45th anniversary outdoor education center in NY. Mary has John, is still a reporter/photographer for the with family members in Thomasville, GA. been training as a Native American storyteller Torrington Citizen Register. His photos of Then they attended "golf school" in Tampa and specializes in Native American lore. Bush, Clinton and Perot made the front page and visited New Orleans. During the winter, the De Yoes went to

CD Jul), / Al~1IS1 1993 On the Up and Up Alumni Career News Mustang Island near Corpus Christi, TX. Their youngest son and his family live there. They attended three Elderhostels - most of Roberta Bitgood '28 of Quaker Hill, Conn. was honored May 1-2 by the American Guild of them 011 birds. Organists at a "Roberta Bitgood Jubilee." Acknowledging her life-long contributions as a music A card from Bea Littell Lipp contained educator and composer of sacred music, and marking her 85th birthday, the event combined an the sad news of the sudden death of their old- organ recital at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Norwich and a concert of Bitgood compositions at est daughter, Laurie, in March '92. Easing the Harkness Chapel, Connecticut College. The performance included the premiere of a choral work sorrow left by this void, was the birth of their commissioned for the Jubilee. first grandchild in April. Bea has been volun- teering at a hospital and International Nancy Bowen '71 of Annandale, VA received the highest award presented to staff in the Federal Executive Service Corporation. In Sept., she Information and her husband took a trip by land to AK. Reserve Board. Bowen, Manager in the Division of Resources Management, was Lucy Block Heumann had a lovely visit recognized for her role in fulfilling the board's duties under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act to Santa Fe at Thanksgiving. She is enjoying to provide access to home lending data for metropolitan areas across the nation. the class news and hopes anyone in her area will give her a call. Lucy has heard from Mary R. Barnett '78, choreographer, and her group In Cood Company, recently presented three Dana Davies Magee and Jeanne Lowe sold-out dance concerts at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. Artists from New Nixon, who lost her house in Hurricane York and Connecticut collaborated all the eclectic series of dance performances. Andrew, but is doing well. Mary Ellen O'Brien Purkrabek, who is Alice Aisbree Eckerson '82, a landscape architect, won the second place award in a design com- battling rheumatoid arthritis, stays pretty much petition for the National Garden at the United States Botanic Garden. Eckerson's three-member close to home. She says she manages to visit design team submitted a proposal for a rose garden within the proposed complex. The National their six children and 11 grandchildren Carden, featuring an environmenral Ieaming center, water garden and rose garden, will be built throughout the year. The nearest ones live in on three acres of the Mall in Washington, D.C. Norfolk, VA, and the farthest in Chicago. Mary Gates spent several months at the beginning of this year in London. John C. Faulkner '82joined D'Accord Financial Services, an investment bank, as a vice president. Muriel Evans Shaw vacationed in Faulkner, whose primary responsibility will be lessee marketing to Fortune 500 companies, was Tortola with 15 of her family members. most recently employed as West Coast regionalmanager for the Bank ofToyko. Muriel also enjoyed a holiday luncheon with Jane Seaver Coddington, Sarah Nichols Jonathan Clymer '86, an actuarial analyst with Security-Connecticut Life Insurance Co. in Avon, Herrick, Dana Davies Magee and Conn., has been named an associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA). Clymer majored in math- Margery Watson Fulham in Wellesley, ematics and economics at Connecticut and now lives in Avon. MA Eleanor Tobias Gardner is still Derron Wood '88, directed ;I series of 50 performances in Connecticut schools for the Eugene involved with the decorating business with a O'Neill Theater Center's Creative Arts in Education program. With a cast of young profes- few interruptions. In '92, she and her husband sional actors (including Michael Lerner '89 and Sam Scudder '92), the programs present realistic spent 10 days in Maui; then following some scenarios on drug and alcohol abuse. slligery, she spent three weeks in Oct. recu- perating at an apartment in an old stone mill in the Provence area of France. Priscilla (Polly) Garland Westberg Barbara Caplan Somers has been vol- Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Their daughter, retired four years ago and relocated to New unteering at an inner city school, leading Betsy, moved from MA to Roswell, NM, Bern, NC, which is less than an hour from a groups for sixth through eighth grades in sci- where she is an assistant professor of English walk on the beach, quiet, old (c. 1710) and a ence studies. She writes, "I'm learning a great at the New Mexico Military Institute. change from the "big city" of Raleigh. Her deal." Natalie Needham Ellis and Tow have 90-year-old parents are still living indepen- Marie Ann Bloomer Patterson and enjoyed the proximity of three of their four dently in a retirement complex. Life is a busy Dave had a visit with Ellie St. John Arnold children, who also live in Houston. Sherry is round of volunteer activities, bridge, three and her husband at Dartmouth last fall. During in Atlanta, but was able to join them for children and six grandchildren scattered from Thanksgiving, the Patterson family gathered Christmas. Natalie enjoys accompanying Boulder, CO, to Lynchburg, VA, and to surprise Dave on his birthday. Their Tow, now retired and playing tennis rourna- Raleigh, NC. Polly's health is good after a youngest daughter is a fellow in Geriatric ments all over the country. throat operation seven years ago. Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Marie Ann and Mary-Nairn Hayssen Hartman and Gloria Frost Hecker is delighted about Dave attended a wedding in England in May Jack braved the winter storms to drive to CO having her three daughters residing in FL. and then visited Greece and the Aegean with for Christmas with their children, all of whom Leslie and her family moved to Largo in Aug. friends. live there. Mary-Nairn celebrated her 20th Gloria and her husband went to the PGA in Thirsa Sands Fuiks and Bob spend the year ill a very successful quilting business this Aug. in St. Louis. A visit with friends at winter months in their condo in Venice, FL. year. Treasure Cay in the Bahamas followed During the rest of the year, they are in Darien, The vacation in Sitka, AK, for Barbeur Christmas. Cia is very active in the church CT. They have five grandchildren: two men (Ditto) Grimes Wise was a working one. and plays golf and tennis often. in college, twin 12-year-olds and a t-year-old. With a Presbyterian Church group, she helped After 42 years in her house on Ciocca Bob retired from Time, Inc. in '90 after 37 rehabilitate the dorms for Sheldon Jackson Mara Lane, Mimi Steinberg Edlin has years. He is working part-time 011 a new mag- College. The trip included a weekend in moved to a condo in St. Louis. Mimi's "resi- azine. Juneau and Glacier Bay. Ditto is on the dent companion," Alfred, and she dividetheir In Feb. and March of '92, Betty Barchet Executive Board of the Peninsula Seniors (900 time between St. Louis and Longboat Key, Schabacker and Bob went on a wildlife trip members). She is a new member of the FL. They are involved in community and to India. They saw five tigers, four from the Soroptimists International and does publicity recreational activities in both locations and backs of elephants. Last summer, Betty was for St. Peters Women's Retreats and enjoy these "golden years." signed on to a group of artists at the Ligbrside Stewardship Committee. Always athletic,

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille • Ditto uses weight training and gym machines along with walking and tennis twice a week. ALUMNI SONS AND DAUGHTERS ADMISSIONS PROGRAM She is working full time as property manager l\:"vcIIlbcr /4-15, 1993 in South Bay, CA. The children are doing well in their various careers of banking, teaching, city planning and production accounting. HE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Janet Kennedy Murdock, our presi- to dent, continues to arouse our interest and is pleased again offer its pro- enthusiasm for our 50th reunion with her T gram for alumni sons and great letters and class news. daughters who are college-bound The Class of '46 sends sympathy to juniors in high school this year. Shirley (Chips) Wilson Keller who lost Sponsored as a service to alumni, this her husband, Chandler, on 4/9/93, and to program offers group discussions with Barbara Orr Salter. who lost her husband, Connecticut College admissions staff Herbert, in Nov. '92. as well as mock interviews and a sim- The class also extends sympathy to the ulated admissions committee meet- family of Lorna (Leh) Henry Church. ing. Our goal is to provide insights to who died of 5/22/92. the selective college admissions process in order to help participants make the best possible college match. The Alumni Association wiJl be sending information to Correspondellt· alumni whose children were bam between June 1976 and December 1977. If Ann W ethera ld Graff your son or daughter is interested in participating in this program, but was not Rabbit Trail Rd., RD 3 Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 born in those years, or if you believe the Alumni Association does not have a 47 record of your high school junior, please fill out this form and return to: Mibby Batt Taylor recently attended her son Ken's wedding in San Francisco. He is Martha C. Merrill '84, Director of Classes/Reunions about to begin his career as an elementary Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan A venue school teacher. Last Oct., Mibby was in San New London, CT 06320 Antonio where she visited with Joan (Pooh) or contact Martha at 203-439-2309. Jensen Johnstone and joan's daughter, Katie, and infant granddaughter, Hannah. This past year also included a two-week trip .._ . to Israel. Name of alumnus/a Kitty Oplatek Branton writes that she tries to get together with Janice Cohen Maidell/Middle Last Zonn in FL once a year. Kitty hopes to First come to our 50th. Class Year _ So does Peggy Hart Lewis who cele- Address _ brated her 46th anniversary with Sid last july. Since retiring from elementary school teach- ing 10 years ago, Peg has spent time learning Phone _ to play the viola in addition to the piano. She has also been a Home Hospice volunteer for Name of Child(ren) Date of birth the last eight years. Margot Grace Hartmann writes from Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. that she is involved with the l1luseUlll.S in jacksonville. After a major heart attack last August, her husband Frank had bypass surgery and is now looking My son/daughter is not a high school junior this year. forward to playing golf again. Daughter Margot, an internist, has joined a large group Please include us in the 19__ program. practice in Dedham, MA. Daughter Sondra has received certification in physical therapy hobby. Shirl takes watercolor classes and does CA's drought, washing out roads and creating and has started her own practice. mud slides. A little grandson enlivens their Susan Hunt Haward reports the death volunteers for LWV. They both keep in shape days. of Priscilla Gardner Rhodes last Oct. The walking and playing tennis. Their daughter, Christine, is with Citibank Corporation. Son Marge Reichgott Sosnik spent a glori- class extends sympathy to her family. Curt continues as an AAA corporate travel ous election night in Hartford with son, agent in DC. Son Eric works as an applications Doug, who is chief aide and campaign manag- Reunion News: June 4-6, 1993 programmer. er for CT State Senator Dodd. CorrespondenT: Speaking of class officers, thank Dodie A telephone chat with Donna Williams Margaret Reynolds Rist, Quinlan McDonald for the handsome and Klopfer revealed that she and husband, Ed, 43Balsa Rd. interesting Class of 1948 Directory. Please call are running an Audalusian horse farm in Santa Santa Fe, NM 87505 or write the Alumni Office for the addresses of Fe. Donna and Ed loved Costa Rica, where they attended the international meeting of A Christmas letter from Class President Polly Amrein in CA and Donna Williams Andalusia» horse trainers. Donna is an active Shirley Reese Olson said husband Merritt's Klopfer in NM. volunteer for Santa Fe's Wheelwright research supports the Arms Control and Semi-retired Amy Yale Yarrow in Museum of Indian Arts. Disarmament Agency. Ham radio is still a Malibu, CA, reports that Dec.zjan. rains broke

• Jilly! Allgust ·/993 Our favorite litterateur Nancy Morrow Joan Andrew White and Henry spent a birthday (with three Scyear-olds and two 3- Nee writes from San Francisco that she has fun weekend last Oct. with Joey Dings year-olds in attendance). "We had a blast." joined the local jane Austen Society. Haeckel and Gerry and Roldah Northrup Cynthia Fenning Rehm and jack visit- Joan Dimmitt Whittington and her Cameron in Rehobeth, DE. Joan reports ed Betty Sager Burlem and Bill in La husband enjoyed a lengthy stay in London, that Henry retired on 9/18/92. Costa, CA, in Nov. '92. The Sagers have where Dr. Whittington was engaged in med- Highlights of Ronnie Williams been traveling in the west. Family business ical business. Watlington's year included visits from her calls Betty back to Cali, Colombia, once a Frances Sharp Barkmann described the children Clare and Nea. Ronnie and Hal also year - not the kind of environment she marriage of her daughter Lee to Jim Stevens visited Boston to baby-sit for 10 days for remembers as home anymore. Their daughter, in Bozeman, MT. All those in attendance Nea's daughter, Christiana. The Bermuda Sandy lives in the Denver area. In june '92, found skis appropriate to the occasion! The Garden Club Open Houses kept them both they were in England and Scotland and visited Barkmanns enjoyed celebrating Christmas busy as did renovating "Windward," Ronnie's with a 91-year-old aunt and younger cousin. with the Stevens and their baby. family home, which is now rented due to the When home, Betty keeps busy with the Some time ago Carol Paradise Decker necessity of moving her mother to a care facil- Episcopal church's Altar Guild and volunteer led a group of veonos (neighbors) to Pojoaque ity. They vacationed in MA, VT and Ontario work at the Children's Home Society. Betty Pueblo to watch some youthful Indian and attended the Tanglewood Music Festival writes of seeing B.J. Kent Hench and Kahler dancers. At that time, Peggy Reynolds Rist and the charming, outdoor wedding of the in Dec. '92. enjoyed the company of a woman named daughter of a Bermuda friend. Daughter Clare Annette Studzinski Mead lives in San Shirley Maher. Recently she learned she is has left England and is with Arthur Anderson Pedro, CA, where she is a mentor teacher. In Shirley Strangward Maher '45! working with the Bulgarian government on a '89-'90, she took a sabbatical and traveled to project to privatize the tourism industry. 20 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Lastly, should any of you pass through Sou the Pacific. She plans to retire after her Correspondent: Indianapolis, give me a call and visit with us. son, Tarioa, graduates from UC/Sanra Cruz Sylvia Joffe Garfinkle We'd to have you. -11;S in '94. Annette inherited a place in 14 Whitewood Dr. love Roslyn, NY 11576 Westbrook, CT, and plans to spend some time there. 49 Cotvespondent: Leila Anderson Freund and Gene are Catherine Kirch Dietrich centered in Cincinnati but have a vacation 4224 91st Ave. NE house on Norris Lake, TN. Gene is retired Correspondent: Bellevue, WA 98004 52 and Leila still teaches at a Montessori school. Anne Russillo Griffin 1010 Langley Rd. They have three grandchildren, bom June '90, Norfolk, VA 23507 Sept. '92 and Dec. '92. All were visiting them 50 Reunion News: June 4-6, 1993 "for a busy and baby-proof Thanksgiving." Cotrespondetu: Cathy Pappas McNamara is still enjoy- Judith Morse Littlefield Coerespeudaus: Iris Bnin ing Houston after five years. Cathy is a Hutchinson, 7853 Clearwater 3 Whittier Terrace, Box 187 Ronald McDonald House volunteer and is on Cove Dr., Indianapolis, IN West Boxford, MA 01885 46240 and Susan Askin the board of the Symphony League. She and Wolman, 2512 Stone Mill Rd., Bill traveled to Sydney, Australia, in June '92; 51 Baltimore, MD 21208 to MD's eastern shore, and to CT for the hol- idays to visit daughter, Liz, and her husband, Thanks to those who sent along their Conespondeut : Larry, and son, Bill, and his wife, Nancy. Lois Keating Learned Christmas letters. Carol Connor Ferris fell off her horse in 10 Lawrence St. Barbara Seelbach Van Curen contin- Greenlawn, NY 11740 Aug., breaking her left arm badly and elimi- ues to enjoy foxhunting and tennis and had a 54 nating riding, golf and tennis. This winter, great 10-day Hawaiian vacation in '92. Sue Shinbach Kaynes lives in Columbus, they visited St. Croix, VI, their home away Lois (Sugar) Sessions Spratley and OH, where her SOI1S, Bob and Tom, also from Wayzata, Ml. Tom is busy as a full-time Tred are also new grandparents. Son and reside. She has two grandchildren: jessica, 8, professor and chair of the Medical daughter-in-law presented them with a and Stacy, 4. Department at the U. of Michigan. grandson last spring, less than a week after Jan Gross Jones saw Ann Heagney Patricia Moore Brooks and Bob, mar- Lois and Tred returned from a 40-day, 40th Weimer on Cape Cod in Aug. '92 and saw ried 41 years, still love their landscape design anniversary trip to Europe. With Tred retired, Carolyn Chapple Reed there in Sept. '92. business. They now have two smaller homes, they spend a lot of time in their Pianka tank The class joins me in expressing our condo- "hoping to simplify life!" Daughter, Kip, mar- River home. They'd love to hear from class- lences to jan on the loss of her husband jim in ried Ryland Gardner in May '92 in the garden mates. '91. of their farm. In April of '92, Jo Appleyard Schelpert Judy Yankauer Astrove moved to Evans Flickinger Modarai and Martha andjohn,Jane Keltie, Nancy Clapp Miller Honeoye Falls, NY, in 12/92. Her daughter, Flickinger Schroeder celebrated and Walt, Marge Erickson Albertson and Deborah, and three of her eight grandchildren Thanksgiving at Martha and Ted's home in Murray spent the weekend with Sugar and live in nearby Rochester. judy now has four Maplewood, Nj. Martha is working 011 her Tred following the wedding of Joey Dings grandchildren of each sex. The latest is a girl optician's license in CT. Evans and [raj visited Haeckel and jerry's SOil in Charlottesville. born to her son, David, in WA on 11/19/92. Corpus Christi, TX, where their son, Helen (Johnie) Johnston Haberstroh Recently, judy saw Joan Herman Nabaroff Gordon, is in the Navy JAG Corps and his continues to watch her Homes by Helen and joan's three grandchildren. "Never did I wife, Barclay, is assistant manager at The Gap. business grow. Each year, she renders a ever think that I would be talking about The kids are proud owners of a house and Cincinnati scene or two for a sidewalk art grandchildren so much and still feel like a kid two dogs, a Corgi and a Brittany. show. Last year, she was invited to collaborate myself" Kitty White Skinner writes, "Since '89, with another small businesses to produce a '93 My spies tell me Jan Smith Post, whose I have been teaching social work at calendar. Eighteen of her copyrighted draw- home base is CT, traveled to the Basin Harbor Marywood College, Scranton, PA. My first ings were used, most of them depicting vari- Club in VT with husband, Don for golf and grandchild was born in Sept. '90 to my eldest ous Cincinnati scenes. to celebrate her 40th anniversary and her son. In '91, I was divorced and received my

ConnecticutCollegeMagazille CD Elizabeth (Betsy) Kassel Brown has Oppenheimers went white water rafting on Ph.D. in social welfare from SUNY/Albany. the Great Whale River at Hudson Bay, 800 My 93-year-old parents are living in a retire- been very active in library affairs for about 30 years in Kenosha, WI. Because her husband is miles above Montreal. This summer they plan ment home near me. I had to close their to do some trekking in Tibet with their four house that's been in the family since 1836. It's the publisher of a newspaper, they are aware of grown children. Suzi won a fifth term in a been quite a decade." community needs. In addition to having been on the board of the library and president of the newly devised Senate district expanded from Fiveyears after her divorce in '81,Jeanne Long Island Sound to the Hudson River. Knisel Walker moved to Panama City Friends of the Library, she has been president Daughter, Marcy, left private practice to work Beach, FL, to be near her brother and other of the Kenosha Historical Society. She and her on the Clinton/Gore campaign and now is family members. She plays tennis and volun- husband have three daughters and one grand- counsel to Governor Cuomo's Task Force on teers at the library. Her son, Alan, works at son. They have traveled a lot over the years Life and the Law, which proposes legislation the Museum of Natural History in NYC and and enjoy it very much. She visited CC only on bio-eth ical issues. Suzi noted, "The sells a painting or two through the Revel once since graduation, when one of her daugh- younger three are all studying hard, we hope. Gallery. ters was thinking of applying. The boys are both in film school getting Margaret MacVean Finn's husband, Martha Warner Olson and her husband, MFAs - Evan at NYU and Josh at USC/Los Torn, has retired and they enjoy gardening, Dan, are busy, healthy and happy - learning Angeles. Ali is a Sf. at Washington and golf and travel. Winters are spent in Siesta to live with retirement. It has become a time of Jefferson College." Key, FL, where they usually see Nella both obligation to others and increased person- Nancy Sutenneister Heubach is "still Cunningham Dahling and Bill. The Finns al freedom. Mart is treasurer of Aquatic alive and healthy." Sutie would love to "do have seven grandchildren: Mary Ellen has five Wellness Center (an organization that provides lunch" with any 'S6er in the San Francisco boys under the age of8, Mary Anne has a son water aerobics for pleasure and therapeutics). and daughter, Tom's newly married and Dan spends hours as a volunteer at the Small Bay Area. Katie's single. None of their children live Business Development Center and with the The class extends sympathy to the family of Verna Kelly Barke, who died on near Pittsburgh. Margie continues to volun- Service Corps of Retired Executives. They teer at the Children's Hospital and enjoys traveled a lot in '92: to FL to see friends and 12/8/92. bridge and cooking. Disney World; to Baja California, Mexico, to see whales and to AK to see more whales and Com:spOl1dellls: AnneDerarando Thanks for the postcards, and keep the Hartman, 108 Alhemarle Road, news corning. other flora and fauna. Newton,MA 02160 and The classsends its condolences to the fami- Libby Kirch Seaton, 57 Fair ly of Virginia Fox McClindc, who died on Oaks, St. Louis,MO 63124 4/29/92. 57 Cottespondetu: Lynn Post Northrup and Doug had a mini- Jocelyn Andrews Mitchell reunion in Ripon, WI, last Aug. with Bunny 16701 Cutlass Dr. Rockville, MD 20853 Curtis Millan and Tito(who live in 55 Correspolldem: Simsbury, CT). Bunny and Lynn had not Ellie EricksonFord Dorothy Hinsch Stutzenberger is about 315 Grist Mill Dr. seen each other in 33 years (they were room- half finished with a certificate program in Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 mates freshman and sophomore years) and had marriage and family counseling and with a 56 a wonderful time catching up with each oth- degree program in theology from Eastern Anne Browning sent greetings and encour- er's lives. Doug is VP, dean of faculty and an BaptistSeminary. She would like to be on the ages everyone to plan for our Reunion '96. English professor at Ripon. Lynn jogs about staffof a large church as a counselor. She has Prudy Murphy Parris has joined a new two rniles each day and is still playing bridge. been in family counseling for 12 yearsand still firm, Mabel Lamb Real Estate of New Canaan, Their home is 100 years old, and they have works part time as part of her certificate pro- a Coldwell-Banker affiliate. restored a lot of it themselves. Daughter gram and to "keep her hand in." Although Suzi Rosenhirsch Oppenheimer and Jennifer is married and in Seattle in the field of this keeps her very busy, she and her husband family had a great Christmas and New Year's biochemistry. Two younger sons are in the manage to enjoy music and theater in and celebrated their 20th year at their ski house east: Tim is in DC, and Greg is studying act- Bethlehem, PA. in the northern Berkshires. Last summer, the ing at Rutgers. Bunny and Tito spent three weeks vacationing out west, including visits to see daughter Melissa and her husband, Bill, in OR. In CO, son Mark and his wife, Karen, and kids (who live in Cheyenne, WY) joined them for a mountain vacation. Kate Crehan Bowman and Phil's son, Jeffrey, received an M.S. in industrial adminis- tration from Carnegie-Mellon U. In Pittsburgh in May '92. He is a manufacturing consultant for Deloitte- Touche based in Boston. Son Steven received an M.S. in March en route to a Ph.D. in medical engi- neering and medical physics at Harvard. He is doing research at Beth Israel in Boston in orthopedic biomechanics. Nancy Keith LeFevre and Ned spent time last fall on a study trip that found them in Oxford, England, and Italy. They have been doing lots of traveling since Ned retired from teaching. ROCKY MOUNTAIN "HI." The above alumnae met by chance while skiing at Alta lodge in Utah where they had Flo Bianchi Ahern writes that she and a great time exchanging CC memories. From left to right: Anne McClain Johnston '62, Sally Kelly '43, Polly Red have two more grandchildren since our Deming ledyard '62, Molly Fluty Rorabach '58 and Doris Ward Lawson '62. class reunion last May. Their oldest son, Bill,

CD Jill}' / Aligus; 1993 life and is exploring her personal, spiritual and and his wife had a baby girl in Sept. Their She still works with groups, supervises interns, energetic side. Call me or the college if you'd youngest, Dennis, and his wife had their sec- works actively on the Stanford U. Institute for like her address for more conversation. ond son in Oct. All their kids (daughter Jane Women Board and increasingly loves her CA Dotty Ohlson Dabney is also in San has a girl), spouses and four grandchildren life. Francisco (Sausalito to be exact), and also on spent the holidays with Flo and Red. Get ready for Reunion '94. Send me your her own after a divorce. She's a paralegal Jean Sangdahl is living in West news. If not, all I have is myself! - Ginger working for a legal services company in Maxin Windsor, VT, with four dogs, three horses County. She volunteers at St. Anthony's in and three cats. She's an avid bird watcher and San Francisco, providing food for the home- has missed reunions because she's usually run- Correspolldel1l: less. She's an avid golfer and enjoyed a trip to ning a dressage show (horses) around reunion Nancy Waddell Europe this spring. time. She enjoys being self-employed as a 502 First St. Lenore Fiskio, who lives in Hamden, bookkeeper, primarily for the Green Langley, WA 98260 CT, took early retirement this year after a 31- Mountain Horse Association. 60 As I make calls to find news for this column, year career with Blue Cross-Blue Shield. After Reunion News: June4-6, 1933 I've noticed some common threads in my she takes some good time off, she'll decide Conespovdau: conversations with classmates. Maybe it's our what to do next, which may include visiting Margaret Morss Stokes age or the type of women who are/were classmates. Drop her a note! • 528 Prospect St. attracted to Connecticut College, but many of Sally Glanville Train sent a card with a Westfield, NJ 07090 us are exploring our personal growth and our handsome family portrait and the news that • connections with the larger community, in their daughter Judy was married in March '93. service or spiriruabty. It's exciting to find that Son Jay has been practicing law for a year. Correspondents: Virginia Reed out, because it's personally important to me Sally worked all the Inaugural celebration in Levick, 10 Sargent Ln., and also because I believe it's crucial to the January. She and John spent time at their place Atherton, CA 94027 and Jane survival of our humanity and our planet. in France last summer. Starrett Swotes, 920 Rye Valley I talked to Patricia Wertheim Abrams Curious about the classmate who lives in Dr., Meadowbrook, PA 19046 59 who (with her husband) left NYC to live in nearby Seattle, J called Noreen Raymond Frink who was in our class for two years and Peggy Brown Gunness lives in rural CT, a move she finds nourishing after a then returned to Seattle to graduate fi·0111 the Ridgewood, N], where she found her first period of adjustment. She and her husband University of Washington. She and Fritz have year as a rector challenging and fulfilling. She own an educational publishing company been married 33 years, and have three grown encourages Seers visiting NY to contact her. aimed at grades K-6, helping prepare young children (one of whom has been working at Leslie Crutchfield Tom.pkins contin- people to respond to each other. She's also Microsoft since age 13!). She does freelance ues writing poetry and teaching writing at interested in a new genre, spiritual fiction. She photography, works with several volunteer Piedmont Community College. volunteers with a hospice group and is proud organizations and stays in touch with Ellen Lyn Graves Mitchell's life has picked up of her three children, now grown. Daughter, Purdy Webster. (How about some news of some adventure with her new son-in-law, a Karen, is in Israel for a year, studying and pilot. He put her in a F-18 jet simulator and working with Rabbis for Peace. Douglas is in you, Ellen?) Please don't forget to respond to Jean Lynn "took off, flew and landed on a carrier." San Francisco working for University of Chappell's call for dues to heip pay expenses She has also been tutoring Ginger Reed California Press, and Joe is in NYC working and get us ready for our 35th reunion. Now Levick in Ira Progoff Intensive journaling in computer science. Joan Wertheim Carris, the other half of that we're learning about each other, it should (not diary). They took a four-day workshop be fun! Remember, if you don't call or write together - a fun and fascinating process. "the Wertheim twins," is still in New York Glenna Holleran Ottley still lives following a "happy divorce" which she's will- me, I'll call you. So do it now! between FL and ID. She has a married daugh- ing to discuss with anyone interested in how to do it. She has her own public relations firm ter, who is about to receive her MBA from CorrespoJldeJlt· specializing in the international food and bev- the U. of VA, and another daughter, who has Joan Sumner Oster, 255 worked in DC and graduated from college in erage field. With clients like the German Hillcrest Rd., Fairfield, CT Agricultural Marketing Board, DARE foods June. 06430 and Eileen Rem Olga Lehovich knows we are gaining and soup from Scotland, she's able to travel a Chalfoun, RFD #4, Box 923, lot! Her three children all graduated from the 61 West Brattleboro, VT 05301 wisdom because she is now teaching children of her fanner students! u. of Michigan. One daughter is in the Muffy Hallowell Huntington finished Dominican Republic, one's a photographer A Jetter from Colleen Dougherty Lund her MSW at Columbia and works in foster with Newsweek and exhibiting in galleries. Her a tells of the activities of her three children: care agency full time. son helped receive national publicity for Jennifer is in Honduras volunteering at Fran Kerrigan Starkweather visited founding Tent City for the homeless of Ann Nuesrra Pequenos Hermanos. Jim finished Jan Bremer Sturgis in St. Louis, Ginger Arbor. Having reassessed her ideas of what's flight school and now lives in Corpus Christi, Reed Levick in CA and Lolly Espy important in life, she's interested in exploring and Jeff works and lives in CA. Colleen and Barton in Fran had her grandchild that with others. in fact, she'd like to see a NJ. firsr her husband have spent the last year renovat- and began courses at Gallauder U. in DC for column in this magazine about what has ing their home, with the exception of a sign language as she becomes increasingly shaped people's lives, and what they recom- three-week vacation in England, and now deaf She is gearing up to become an advocate mend to others. have a guest room for any and all traveling for the deaf while taking Economics 101 to Betty Moss Burr came back to through the Moraga, CA, area. help her decide her political persuasion. She's California in '75 after four years in New Your correspondents, Eileen Rem planning a trip to Paris with daughter, Sandy. London working for Xerox Publishing Co. Chalfoun and Joan Sum.ner Oster, talk Ginger Reed Levick, having rut a cre- She settled in San Francisco, first as director of periodically to catch up on our news, but we ative assortment of alternative medical paths, training for a corporation, then on her own as need your notes to put in the magazine. went in for hip replacement in March '93. a management and sales training consultant, She'll be in the starting block for Reunion specializing in training support staff. She and '94. lf anyone wants almost any kind of alter- Ralph were divorced in '77 following a long native medicine information, give her a call. separation. She's full of enthusiasm about her

ConnecticulCollegeMagazine CD her job as a VP at Lipper & Company, invest- Lincoln Lab as an electrical engineer. Their ment advisors. son, Aaron, 25, is a Radio Shack manager. Judith M. Hoberman and her husband, Correspondenr: Daughter, Lauren, is a high school jr. The Louise Brickley Phippen Jim, coordinated the Jerry Brown campaign in family is hosting an exch:ll1ge student from 300 Highridge Rd. the Bronx. During the summer, they went to Centreville, DE 19807 Brazil. They have three cats, a dog and two the Democratic Convention as Brown dele- 62 horses. gates. They now work with the neighborhood Marlene Cohen Bourke reports that '92 taxpayers and police precinct councils after a Reunion News: June4-6, 1993 was an eventful year - her divorce became disappointing campaign for Liz Holtzman for Correspondent: final and her youngest son, Andy, was married. Senate. They are setting up a new statewide Sue Bernstein Mercy jaron started work as executive director for 1111 Park Ave. group called Take Back America, whose CUB for NY State. Marlene continues to New York, NY 10128 members are mostly former Brown campaign- work for the FDA and loves it. Katie Colson Durso has been in medical ers. Barbara Johnston Adams' daughter, practice in a large specialty group for a year Hilary, is a sophomore at Drew U. She spent CorrcspmJdew: and a half but would like to cut back her hours last semester at NYU's Tisch School of the Sandra Bannister Dolan to have more time to spend with her 3-112- 301 Cliff Ave. Arts studying Elm production. Husband, year-old son. She has taken on building an Pelham, NY 10803 Larry, still travels overseas on satellite business Amway distributorship network to generate 64 for MCl. Barbara's fifth children's book, The enough extra income to do that. Co-Around Dollar, was published this year by Elaine DeSantis Benvenuto left Avon at CorrcspolldclIlS: Macmillan. She continues to give talks on Leslie Setterholrn Fox, 26 the end of Oct. '92 after seven years as director writing and volunteers helping students with Conestoga Way, Glastonbury, of corporate public relations. She is exploring CT 06033 and Ann Brauer writing. For fun, she sometimes goes on cruis- starting her own magazine aimed at financial Gigounas, 840 Stony Hill Rd., es and has a house in East Hampton, Long 65 Tiburon, CA 94920 professionals. She spent Christmas in London and northern Italy with her daughter and Island, for summers. Brenda Keenan Tremoulet continues Rose Abel Deutsch and her husband, Jay, friends. her work with senior citizens. She passed her opened the FDR Gallery in Greenwich Abigail Fowler Hawkins is keeping busy certification in gerontological nursing (ANA) Village specializing in coIltemporary art. This, with her children: Sam, 13, and Vanessa, 9, as in the summer of '92. A family reunion in in addition to their real estate management well as her private social work practice in Glen France last Sept. included husband, Paul; business, keeps them busier than ever. Their Cove, NY. daughter, Polly, who is back at Bell Labs after younger daughter, Karen, graduated from Katie Garcia Wolff report.,>that she's still completing an MSE at Stanford; and son, Smith in '92 and is planning on graduate married to Dick (Yale '65). Their son, Adrian, Torn, Harvard '91, who's half through the school in English. Older daughter, Ellen, is a sophomore at Yale and daughter, Allison, Peace Corps stint in Mali, West Africa. graduated from Smith in '91 and is living and was just accepted at Yale. Katie's niece, julia Brenda is co-authoring a book on Quality of working in Troy, NY" Lodge, is a sophomore at CC, and Katie Life issues for seniors. Jill Andrist Miller continues to run enjoyed visiting the campus to see her. Katie Miller Microcomputer services with her hus- has moved after \3 years of being in Nancy Kempton Ellis works as a net- band, Dick. Her volunteer work with Shorewood, WI, to a country home just out- working liaison for spouses of heads at inde- pendent schools, both national and regional. Massachusetts Audubon and the U.S. Fish & side of Rockford, IL. Wildlife Services Great Meadows Wildlife Pamela Gwynn Herrup is in her second She is coordinator for special programs at Refuge has reaped a large increase in the year teaching in the NYC public schools - Nenyland Academy, Beaver Dam, WI, and is bluebird population of eastern Massachusetts. third grade this year. It's a challenge for her, also working on getting a Denver Wildlife As an official host for TEjO, the Esperanto but the hours allow her time with her three Research (Center) license. Youth Organization, they hosted young peo- children: Sarah, 13; Katherine, 10, and Lois Ann Larkey's daughters are Amanda, a Sf. at Pingrv, who is applying to ple from Czechoslovakia, Germany and the Elizabeth, 8. Netherlands this year. Hilary Harrington Mandel is very busy college; and Diana, a jr. at Pingry, "who is Anne Backus, DDS, is living in with her two young children, jake, 5-1/2, watching the whole agonizing process with Durango, CO, as a single parent, teaching who's in kindergarten, and Clare, 9 mos. She horror and dismay." sixth grade and offering at-home dental ser- continues to work part-time as a psychologist Christine Metcalfe reports that after 24 years as director of children's progranmung at vices for the disabled and elderly. She spent 111 private practice. Husband, David, is a VP time at Harvard last summer as an ESTEEM for a computer software company in Silicon KRON- TV in San Francisco, she received a participant (Earth Science Teachers Exploring Valley. layoff notice - "a sad response to the Exemplary Materials). She has two daughters Joan Havens reports that it's been a very Children's Television Act of '90 requiring sta- ages 9 and 14 and would love to hear from full year. She spent six weeks working at an tions to inform. and educate their young audi- anyone in the Durango area. Etruscan site near Siena, Italy, during the sum- ence." She hopes the new administration will Pam Byecroft Wetherill continues to mer on an excavation directed by a professor tum around this country's conmutment CO its work at the Hackley School, Tarrytown, NY, from Cornell. Daughter, Kavla, is a sophomore youngest citizens. as assistant head and direcror of admissions. at Rhodes in Memphis, combining a major in Cyndi Morse retired from the Both of her sons are out of the nest, and she English with japanese studies and sociology. Connecticut Department of Corrections in and husband, Dave, are enjoying time togeth- She was chosen to represent Rhodes at a '90 and spent '90-'91 as a chaplain resident at er. David is a partner in a venrure capital firm japanese university near Kyoto. Son, Kip, is in Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT. She's now a on Wall Street. Son Doug, 22, is building his final year at the Landing School in ME. full-time student at Episcopal Divinity School, houses on Nantucket. Son Dan, 20, is a Stephanie Heyman Reekier says that Cambridge, IvlA, and expects to complete the sophomore at Princeton. she and Ian are moving toward an empty nest. M.Div. degree in May '94. She serves tWO Marian Cleveland Harman lives in Gilly, 19, is a sophomore at Stanford, and days a week as chaplain on a hospital prison Westford, MA, and holds rwo jobs, one with Caroline, 17, was just accepted early decision unit and an AIDS unit. Her life parmer is the Massachusetts Audubon and one with a to Duke, leaving only, William, 16, at home. Carolyn Stevenson, who directs a multi- private science education company. She takes With fewer class plays and teacher conferences faceted service delivery program for female science and nature programs into local ele- to go to, Stephanie now devotes her time to prisoners with HIV infection. Their Holy mental)' schools. Her husband, Bill, works at

• July I Aligiisl 1993 - Un.ion ceremony was performed in April '88. while she waited in an airport to catch a plane. Atlanta area. Guest of honor will be Stewart Ann Scully Elliott works for the San Marian Silber had a chance to catch up Saltonstall '83, Director of Development, for Diego Fire Department, starting in '82 as a with Claire Gaudiani at a Connecticut the college. fire fighter and now is a fire inspector. Both College dinner prior to a visit ro the Matisse children arc grown. Anna, who graduated exhibition in NYc. Marian keeps in rouch with honors from UC/Santa Cruz, is teaching with Eleanor Abdella Doumato who is liv- Cottespoudesu: ESL in Milan, Italy. Matthew is living in Salt ing in Providence, Rl. SusanLeahyElden Lake City and attending the U. of Utah. He Eleanor Abdella Doumato is teaching P.O. Box 788 works on the ski patrol at Snowbird. at URI and is a specialist in Middle East histo- 67 Wallingford,CT 06492 Susan Rowland Williams reports that ry and gender. She has published a book, her husband, J ohn, was transferred to the Britta Schein McNemar was honored by Ambiall WOlIJeII, and also publishes a newslet- home office in April '92, so after 15 years of Phillips Andover Academy when her husband, ter for The Association for Middle East living in Summit, NJ, they moved south. His Donald, retired after serving as headmaster of office is in Charlotte, NC, where they main- Women's Studies. Eleanor participated in a the school for 12 years. The president of tain an apartment. They also bought a historic conference at CC rhis past semester and it Andover's Board of Trustees stated, "We of home in Charleston, SC, built in 1740 by a wasn't until she spoke anecdotally about her the Andover community have many reasons to sea captain. Son, Jonathan, is a sr. at years at Connecticut that anyone knew she be grateful to both Don and Britta McNemar. Princeton, and daughter, Christine, is a fresh- had been a graduate! The first test of any action on their part has man at Lafayette College after graduating Susan Abbe Yates was preparing to go always been to ask what is right, just and prop- from the Peddie School. on a 22-mile, cross country, one-day ski trip er. This has led naturally to the growth of Carolyn Rubin Musicant says "it's when she was contacted. She has been enjoy- Andover as a multicultural community repre- exciting and a bit strange (deja vu and yet not) ing hiking and backpacking with her children senting the many facesof America, adhering to to have child at Connecticut College." Judy, as well as extended cruises in a small boat the highest academic standards and maintaining our position of leadership in American sec- classof '95, is living in her mother's freshman around the San Juan Islands in Washington room in Blackstone - a tiny single on the ondary education." State. She and her daughter also went on a third floor - and loves college. Carolyn is archeological dig with her freshman room- gearing up to do the college search with David, a high school jr., then Susan, now a mate, Susan Freiberg. Susan Yates contin- Reunion News: June 4-6, 1993 sophomore, and finally, Joshua, who is now ues to be active in her community and has Certespondent: enjoyed being a single parent for almost 10 GailWeintraubStern Cooney in seventh grade. P.O. Box 1804 Frances Sienkowski Della Penna went years. Ross, CA 94957 back to teaching high school full-time in '90. DanieUe Dana Strickman has become She won a King Juan Carlos Fellowship an active member of her new AR communi- which allowed her to participate in a five- ty, sitting on the Arkansas Governor's Linda Dannenberg Sarle; her husband, week program in Spain, four weeks in Madrid Commission on Persons With Disabilities. She Steve; and SOil, Benjamin, have left Manhattan and moved to Katonah, NY. Linda continues and an additional week traveling in the south was also selected for a federal training program to work frequently in Paris and has just com- and west. "It was a wonderful summer camp on the ADA (Americans With Disabilities for Mom - and I got nine graduate credits to pleted her seventh book which is a follow-up Act). In this capacity, she has traveled to Sr. go with it!" to Paris Bistro Cooking (published last year). Louis, MO, where she could squeeze in some Mary Strayer McGowan writes, "In While I envy the opportunity to sample all of Aug. of '90, my husband, Duncan, suffered a time with Nanci Anton Bobrow. When the "goodies," I'm sure the challenge of her massive brain hemorrhage. We all fought for contacted, Danielle and Len were preparing to projects must mean she has to taste every his recovery, but he died in March of '92. I travel to DC for the inauguration of Pres. baguette, baba au rhum and eclair that comes am presently rebuilding my life and enjoying Clinton. her way! my work and family." Diane Weinstock Meltzer spent a week After major surgery this summer, Susan That's all the news I've received as of Feb. baby-sitting for her sister's children in the DC Feigl O'Donnell is back to her volunteer 4. By the'·time you read this column, it will area. This provided an opportunity for her and work including a fund-raiser for the Historical be only two more years ro our 30th reunion Betsy Greenberg Feinberg to catch up Society. She and husband, Larry, took a great - can you believe it? Plan ahead ro attend - with each other, in person, for a few hours. l Gcday trip with Bob and Lauren Brahms Resnick. Her Phi Beta Kappa daughter it really is great to reCONNect. Keep your Diane's daughter, Jocelyn, is now living in worked for a year as a waitress in Santa Fe and news coming. NYC where she publishes children's litera- is now living in St. Bart's to "use her French." ture. Diane continues to teach school groups Graduate school seems still to be in her future, Correspondents: BetsyGreenberg about the wonders of nature and adult groups however. Son Trevor is a jr. at Gettysburg Feinberg,8014 GreentreeRd., about the history, art and architecture of the College and their youngest child is now 8- Bethesda,MD 20817 and former Guggenheim estate on Long Island PamelaMendelsohn,P.O. Box years-old and attends Montgomery School. 4597, Arcata,CA 95521 where she works. She and her husband, Bob, Amy Greenberg Poster is curator of 66 travel to their VT house whenever possible Asian Art at The Brooklyn Museum. She Claire Gaudiani reports that her sabbatical and are planning a three-week trip to Israel, recently transported a Koryo Celado» (ancient was wonderful. However, rather than talk Egypt and Greece. Last year, they celebrated Korean pottery) to Tokyo for a special exhibi- about herself, she wanted to share her excite- their 25th wedding anniversary on the slopes tion. Amy has taught a course at NYU, ment about the rest of her family. Her son, of Zerman. Over the holidays, Diane heard Perspectives in Museums, for three years. She Graham, has won a Marshall Scholarship and from her former roommates, Diana Neale and husband, Bob, will celebrate their 25th will go ro Trinity College, Cambridge, in the anniversary this year. Craig and Anne (Bennett) White fall. Her daughter, Maria, has won the Patricia Jeanne Hitchens-Bonow's Swingle. National Fine Arts Achievement Award, and husband has taken a new job as Chief of her husband, David, has won a Pfizer Bonnie Burke Himmelman is well and Cardiology at Northwestern U. Medical Achievement award. Claire's life continues to living in DC, and Mary Ann Garvin Siegel School. She teaches a Great Books program in be so busy that her communication took place will be hosting a lunch for CC alumni in the elementary classes but hopes to complete a

ConnecticutCollegeMagaz;l1e G half-finished masters in journalism that she started at the U. of Maryland last year. They ECLIPSE WEEKEND XVIII live in Glencoe, IL. Brooke Johnson Suiter still teaches at "Breaking the Chains and Linking the Channels" The Bishop's School for grades 7 through 12 April 2-4, 1993 affiliated with the Episcopal Church. She loves her job. Daughter Katherine is a fresh- man at Duke. Daughter, Elizabeth, 15, is A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN busy with drama and basketball. Tom, 12, heritage, Eclipse Weekend is an annual event sponsored by Umcja, Conn- plays every known sport and sings and dances ecticut's African/Africa-American student organization, and Genesis, the U.S. as well. Brooke keeps in touch with Ann Coast Guard Academy's minority student organization. This year's festivities Fertig Tiemann and Kathleen Guenther included a fashion/talent show, an alumni reception, The Unity Alumni Tiews. Leslie Levin Dangel's work has taken Council meeting, sports activities and a dancing lesson fr0111 The National her to Germany, France, San Francisco and Dance Troupe from Sierra Leone, Kebalia. NYC this past year. Her son, Justin, is looking at colleges and is president of his school (fol- lowing his mom's interest in government). Ellen McCreery lives in DC and is an auditor for non profit organizations. She keeps in touch with Anna Bush who lives in Boston and who gets to DC frequently for business. Ellen's husband, Mike Rood, is a Modeling the reporter; son, Fred, is 8. latest styles are Silvia Powell Cooper's son Daryl grad- Sandra care '95, uated from the Air Force Academy last May Andre Pinard '94 and is stationed at Vandenberg Air Force and Base. Son Emilio is a jr. at Rutgers U. and June Yun '95. daughter, Narasia, is 11 and in the sixth grade. Sylvia's husband is a real estate broker. Molly Walker Jackson has lived in Columbia, SC, for 18 years. Although she misses her sons who no longer live at home, she has kept busy with teaching and auditing. Paula Zammataro Messina finally received a sixth year degree in administration and supervision from Southern Connecticut State U. She continues to manage the Student Leaming Center, a school for leam- Frank Tunt '87, Phyllis ing disabled students. She has greatly enjoyed Cummings-Texeira '78 working with CC student interns during and Marcella Monk Flake their winter break. Her oldest child is a jr. in '78 share a laugh at the pre-med at Vassar, and her twins are now Unity Alumni Reception in involved in the "college search." Daughter Becker House. Laurie is seriously considering Cc. As this will be my last column, I want to say how much of a pleasure it has been corre- sponding with all of you over the last five years. I've tried to decipher handwriting and shorthand notes as best as I could. I've done these class notes between a reg- ular job as executive director of Cranrmakers of Western Pennsylvania, two large charity fund-raisers, serving on boards and the At Ihe opening cere- Steering Commictee for a capital campaign mony at the U.S. for our local Ronald McDonald House. I've Coast Guard Academy also managed to squeeze in lots of time for O"icer's Club, from left to right: Deirdre travel and my newly inherited large family. It Joyner '91, Nichelle all keeps life fresh and exciting. My best Joyner '90, Professor wishes to all. of Economics Tyrone Ferdnance and custo- dian Grace McKenzie Allen. Cotrespondent: Mary Barlow Mueller 5 WaterWay 69 Barrington, RI 02806

CD July / August 1993 Diego and is active with the Connecticut College Club there. He recently went on a Career Services Begins Job Notification and Resume long-range fishing trip to Baja, Mexico, catch- Referral Service for Alumni ing a total 0£200 pounds of Yellow fin tuna. Sheila Saunders is enjoying her promo- tion to program manager of the national john HE OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICES HAS INITIATED A JOB Bradshaw Center for the treatment of shame- Notification and Resume Referral Service to aid alumni looking for work based syndromes. She also recently became a Tand to provide alumni with job openings a means to hire other Connecticut licensed marriage, family and child counselor College graduates. (MfCC). Individuals looking for work are asked to notify Career Services concerning the type and location of jobs they seek and forward copies of their resume to be Reunion News: June4-6, 1993 filed according to each occupational category. (you may obtain a list of cate- Correspol1dmrs: gories from Career Services.) Tom Kobak,2 Dewal Ct., Norwalk, CT 06851 and Susan When Career Services receives a job announcement pertaining to alumni, the CalefTobiason,70 Park Terrace office will notify alumni in that category. who should then forward a resume and East,Apt. 41,New York, NY cover letter to the employer if they are interested in the position. (Employers 10034 have told us they prefer that individuals send a personalized cover letter along Married: Adrienne Clark to Rajender with the resume when responding to a job announcement') The employer will Kumar Chandhok, 12/5/92 in Los Angeles screen the resumes and directly contact specific individuals for more information and 12120/92 in New Delhi; Joanne Guth or to schedule interviews. to Ruben Mara, 1/16/93. Occasionally Career Services receives a request from an employer to simply Born: to Margery Lisbon Ordog and forward resumes. In this case, the office will copy and send alumni resumes Sid, David Alexander, 2/15/92. (without cover letters) directly to that organization. Once again, the employer Joanne Guth recently married Ruben, her long-time beau. She works for the lTC in will screen the resumes and contact specific individuals. DC and travels around the globe, much of For entry-level positions, Career Services operates a Job Notification and which she combines with pleasure touring. Resume Referral Service for Seniors. This functions in the same manner as the Susan Greenberg Gold reports from service for alumni. The service for seniors has proved quite successful and lead Flushing, NY, that jacob, 6, and Matthew, 3, the office to include alumni job seekers as well. keep her very busy with school, gym, swim- Connecticut College alumni with job openings will now have a bank of ming and piano lessons. Sue works at home alumni, as well as current seniors, from which to draw when seeking to fill their helping the elderly with their medical bills and reimbursement matters. Husband, Steven, was position. The service is offered free of charge to job seekers and employers. just appointed as federal magistrate in the Please remember Connecticut College when job openings arise at your place of Eastern District Courthouse in Brooklyn employment. Heights. For more information, contact jack Tinker, Director of Career Services, John Moore is married and lives with his Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320,203- daughters, Sarah and Phebe, in Marblehead, 439-2770 (phone), 203-439-2806 (fax). MA. He works for State Street Bank.

Correspondent: Correspolldel1ts: Doris King Judith A. Newman Correspondent: Mathieson,64 Vernon Pkwy., 83 MontclairAve. PatriciaAllenSheilard Mt. Vernon, NY 10552and Montclair,NJ 07042 25 BirchwoodRd. MarionMillerVokey, 9710 48th 79 70 Glen Rock, NJ 07452 74 Ave.NE, Seattle,WA 98115 I had a wonderful Valentine's dinner at the home of my freshman roommate, Margaret Phinney Campbell-Harris. The only hitch Cotrespeudews: Charlotte Parker Cosrespondents: Miriam in the otherwise perfect evening came when Vincent, 5347Gainsborough JosephsonWhitehouse, P.O. Dr., Fairfax,VA 22032and Box 68, Cape Porpoise,ME my 3-year-old son, John, bit Margaret's 7- Francievander Hoeven Camp, 04014and Nancy Gruver,2127 year-old son, Jamie. 827 WoodleighDr., Baton ColumbusAve.,Duluth, MN Alice English Johansson, husband Erik 71 Rouge, LA 70810 75 55803 Johansson, and their three children spent a weekend with us. I spotted Jordan Trachtenberg in NYC Cortespondens: (which he hates) on New Year's Day. Deborah GarberKing, Correspondent: 548 MarrakeesertSt. LaureneGiovannelli Palmer And, every time I hear about the movie, Pembroke, MA 02359 23 ParishHill Rd. "A Few Good Men," r think of Noah 72 76 North Windham, CT 06256 Sorkin, whose brother wrote the screenplay. Only myoid friend and fellow govern- Reunion News: JUIll4-6, 1993 ment major, Jerry Carrington, sent in news Correspondents: MaryBrady Coneepondenu. Wendy Crandall, for this issue. jerry is founding general partner 24 LandingLn., North Cornell, 11305AlmsHouse of an LBO/Buyout Group focusing on the Ct., FairfaxStation,VA 22039 Kingstown,RJ 02852and Mary Ann SillSircely,P. O. SheilaSaunders,386 Avenidade acquisition of privately held middle market Box 207, Wycombe,PA 77 la Vereda,Ojai, CA 93023 companies. jerry's partners, two women, have 18980 a great deal of experience in venture capital. R. Tracy Masters is enjoying life in S,n This is the first LBO firm with two women

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Peers An Alumni Profile and an African-American as its partners. "Hopefully," Jerry writes, "our uniqueness will increase our deal Row. We will raiseS75 millio n from investors starting in Feb." Congratulations and good luck, Jerry. I've recently worked on a project with David Fiderer through his very successful p romo tion and premium company, Customline. I managed to coax the following information out of him at a business lunch. David and his wife, Terez, are enjoying their new home in Katonah, NY. Its rural feelsuits David after many years in NYc. In Oct., the Fiderers went to DC to visit Brad Rost and his wife, Cathy, and baby, Amanda, and Steven Shaffer, his wife, Rory, and baby, Daniel. Brad is a partner in his own lawfirm, Deso Thomas and Rost. Steve is completing his MBA at Fordham. Dispelling rumors that he was in Eastern Europe, Tommy Usdin called David to say he is alive and well. Tommy recently pur- chased a house and is practicing law in his hometown of New Orleans. Michael Brettler, who works for amusic publisher, Shapiro Bernstein, helped a George David Robinson '76 MAT '86 Lamond song, "Where Does That Leave Love," get into the Billboard Hot 100. Teacheroffifth grade geography and social studies, Can we pick up the pace of information, please? This is the last year of my term asclass South Middle School, Hariford, Conn. correspondent and I'm not above makingup stories or reporting all kinds of gossipif [ don't VEN BEFORE THE STUDENTS STREAM INTO IT, DAVID get some real cards and letters soon. Robinson's classroom in Hartford's South Middle School seerns alive. Maps, students' work and posters from around the world cover evel)' inch of the E CorrespolldclIlS: Ellen Harris wall. Draperies that are pulled closed over the windows provide even rnore surface Knoblock, 11 Sherman Sr., for student work. Computers - four of them - sit on long tables along two walls, Belmont, MA 02178 andPaul along with a large-screen television, a laser disc player and several VCRs. A floor-to- A. (Tony) Littlefield,122 Emery Sr. Portland, ME 04102 ceiling movie screen covers one entire wall. 80 When the first class arrives, students sit at desks arranged in small groups of four Salutations, Class of 1980. J received a good or five, talking quietly. David begins the day's work by handing each group a bell bit of news as a result of Scott's State of the that can be rung with a tap to the button on top. The first table to ring the bell gets College letter, and here it is: to answer. Questions are fired out, bells go off, students huddle to make sure of Born: to Susan Durfee Thulin andEd, their answer, guesses are made and cheers are heard when a score is made. This his- Madeline Vilas 2/24/9'\; to Christine Mugge Ladd and Jim, Caroline Olivia tory class is a little like a fast-paced basketball game. 11/30/92; to Edward Greenberg and Laura Later, the class works in pairs on other projects. Pros at using the computers, Miller Greenberg '81, Michael Gordon students take trips to Oregon on their screens, making life or death decisions all the 11/1/92. way, or work on other projects using the many pieces of equipment in the roorn. Kevin Shushtari writes, "Life hasbeen David was recruited to teach at South Middle, a former parochial school that good. I am married to an amazing woman, was recently acquired by the Hartford public school system to become a science and Julie Clarke (Princeton '83), and we havetwo technology magnet school. Eventually, all middle schools in the city will be magnet beautiful children, Katherine and Sam.I final- schools. Limited funding has slowed the process of purchasing required equipment; ly ended up at Dartmouth Medical School then did my medical residency in Boston.I David has personally bought almost all the equipment in his room. He spends long now live and practice in Amherst, MA.GIVen hours reviewing new materials and computer software so that he can give his stu- the fact that I majored in French, the roadto dents an interactive learning experience. Recently, his class participated in the medical school was long. J went to Bryn Breadnet Project from Washington, D.C., a computer network that links students Mawr College to complete their post-bac- from schools across the country in environmental problem-solving. "Prodigy" is calaureate pre-medical program. Through It another computer network available in his classroom. all, my broad, liberal arts background has The children David teaches come from neighborhoods where there is a predis- served me well. My wife is also a physician, position to violence and drugs and where children face hard choices. In David's She has temporarily put her career on holdto care for the kids." Kevin ran into former classroom, however, students can experience the thrill of successfully meeting chal- cross-country runners, paul Nerz '82 and lenges. His stu.dents a~so know that he cares enough about them and their learning Dave Litoff '83 at the '91 Manchester Road to buy expensive equipment for them. David says that Connecticut College made Race. him feel special when he was a student - now he passes that gift along to others. Annie-B Parson and husb:lnd, Paul _ Judith Kirmmse, executive assistant to the president, affirmative action officer Lazar, have started their own dance/theater

• Jld), / AllgllSI 1993 Peers An Alumni Profile company, Annie-B Parson/Big Dance Theater Company, whose most recent performance, "The Gag," premiered in NYC all 3/17/93. Annie-B also teaches choreography at Michael J. Farrar '73 Marymount Manhattan College and has toured as a dancer with SinCha Hong's com- Exploration Director pany to Europe, China, japan, Korea and Arco intemational Oil and Gas Co. Seville. Annie-B has also choreographed rock videos for Laurie Anderson and Salt 'n Pepa. Wendyll Brown divulges that she and OR MICHAEL FARRAR, Elizabeth Child went on vacation together who majored in government at in NM and discovered that they are as good FConnecticut College. gertmg into roommates now as they were in jA 15 years the field of geology was the result of ago! Wendyll is the director of product devel- what he calls a "fluke." Because of rhis opment for Fortunoff in NYC, and she con- fluke, however, he now leads a team of tinues to paint. Elizabeth is a PR and market- ing consultant in Minneapolis and also writes 10 geologists as they search for oil and poetry. natural gas in China, India and arctic Donna Reid Holdman teaches third regions of the Commonwealth of grade in Burlington, MA, and lives in Independent States (the fermer Soviet Arlington. When not teaching, she skis and Union). runs a home-based sewing business. Ironically, it was the New London Bates Childress offered profuse compli- native's love of the sea - particularly ments to Scott Hafner and the Alumni Association for "producing the most personal- scuba diving - that introduced him to ized form letter I've ever seen in the 12 years the earth sciences. While diving near ! have been writing direct mail both profes- Essex, Conn., Farrar visited Wesleyan's sionally and as a volunteer consultant." Bates marine lab, operated by the school's Farrar in the Russian Arctic is assistant VP for the Daniel and Henry department of earth and environmental Company, a privately held insurance broker- science. He later earned an M.A. in geology from Wesleyan in 1977 and, soon age in the u.s. He continues to spend a lot of time volunteering with two children's agen- after, a law degree from the University of Connecticut. cies. According to the geologist, who has worked for Arco since 1981, the most Laura Tate Emerson is a graphic exciting part of his work is bringing in an exploration project and seeing it designer for a management consulting firm in drilled, but nothing can top the thrill of making a discovery. "In the last three Stamford, CT, where she lives with her hus- years, Arco International has shifted its emphasis from oil to natural gas, mainly band, David, and their daughter. because it's a much cleaner fuel," says Farrar. A natural gas field in the South Susan Durfee Thulin and husband, Ed, China Sea is one of his current priorities. have been living in jackson Hole, WY, for four years. Ed is involved in property man- "I'd love to say that fa discovery] is all science, but the truth is, it's really 75 agement, and Susan is director of a non-profit percent science and 25 percent luck. You can have the best project all laid out organization. and hit a dry hole. Then again, you can go in with a wing and a prayer and make Cathy Welker continues to split her time a good discovery." between two professions: law and dancing. Undoubtedly, one of Farrar's most important discoveries was made in She is a commercial litigator in a midtown Wright House on the Connecticut College campus. Here he met ills classmate (NYC) firm which allows her the flexibility Claudia Pikula; they married in 1976. A vice president of the First National Bank to dance. She is currently on the European Tour of "West Side Story" and is auditioning of Houston, Claudia left her post in 1990 to give full attention to their sons, now for another Broadway show in Oct. She lives 5 and 7. The family lives outside of Dallas, Texas. in NYC with her boyfriend, also a lawyer. Farrar's "significant others" include the Yamaha 650 CC motorcycle he Christine Mugge Ladd and husband, posed with for his 1973 Kaine photo. He even shipped it to London (in a crate jim, live in Windsor, CT, with 3-year-old marked "lamp") when Arco sent the jonathan and baby Caroline. Chris is on leave Farrars to live overseas in the early '80s from Renbrook School, where she has been .~~.! teaching math for 12 years. She'll return this -~~ - "I toured allover Europe on that summer as assistant director of Renbrook bike," he recalls. Unfortunately, the Summer Adventure day camp. Chris and jim bike didn't make the trip when the oil (who is head of Renbrook's English company transferred Farrar to Department) received the '92 yearbook dedi- Indonesia a few years later. Now he is cation from their students. jim also received a adamant about keeping it in running travel grant. Chris had her biography pub- lished in the '92 edition of Who's Who order for his rare free time on week- Amollg Amen"can Teachers. In April '92, Chris ends. "I won't palt with it for was matron of honor for her sister Denise anything." Mugge '87, who married Albert Todd In between travels, and during the six years he served on the executive board Chabot at Harkness Chapel. of the Alumni Association, Farrar visited the campus frequently. A pioneer in the Tony Littlefield is working two jobs at earliest days of coeducation, he now feels that the college came through its tran- L.L. Bean and at AAA as a customer service sition period successfully. "I can appreciate seeing a more natural balance 011 representative. He's enjoying ME and spend- campus now," he says. - LHB

ConnecticutCollegeMagazine CD Matthews. Jonathan keeps in touch with Correspoudents: ing time with alums in the area. Randall Klitz '82 who was just in Boston per- Elizabeth A. Kolber, 790 Other Mainers heard from are Connie Boylston St., Apt. 5G, Boston, forming in "Evira." jonathan also sees Vance Smith Gemmer and Fred Gemmer, who MA 02199 and Bart Hoskins, Gilbert '79, Jonathan Goldtnan, Heather live in Portland with their three girls: Cary, 7; 22 Larchmont Rd., Salem,MA Cusack-Tetrault '83 and Kim Tetrault '83 and 84 01970 Annie, 4, and Louisa, 18 mos. Fred works at their son, Max, and Tick Shrier and wife, L.L. Bean in product development of men's Deb, and their baby, Carly. Jonathan encour- Married: Tony Catlin to Amy Campbell shirts and pants. Connie is a managing partner ages alums to visit the Levinson/Kane Art '86,9/12/92; Chris Harford to Lichi Ponce, of a 13-person management consulting firm gallery on Newbury Street in Boston, run by whose work involves primarily public policy, 8123/92. Jill Miller Levinson '83 and Rob Levinson '84. Born: to Jill Whitney and Bill Brink, public relations and marketing. Connie says That's all for now. I love reading about they welcome visitors, particularly in warm Kirsten Nicol 6/29/92. what you're doing, but have to be able to Many alums attended the wedding of weather. READ it. If you suspect your news is missing Tony Catlin and Amy Campbell '86 in Jane Banash Sagennan lives in NYc. from this issue because J could not make out Cohasset, MA, including: Joanne Her daughter, Lia, is 1-112. Jane still works at your handwriting, please send it along to me Knowlton. Charlie Griffiths, Anne the investment banking firm of Commercial again and please remember to PRINT your Union Capital. She'd love to hear from other Rasmussen '85, Jen Watral '85, Greg Donovan '85 and GaIT Talanian '86. Connecticut grads in the area. name. Thanks! Beth Michelman Gross lives in Cathy Leeming is still working for IBM after eight years. She plays tennis and plans to Oakton, V A, outside of DC with husband, Correspondents: Kenneth M. start a "mid-western, kiwi snack chain" with Gary, and son, Paul, 3. She works part-time Goldstein, 94 Dudley St. #1., at the PR finn Ogilvy, Adams and Rinehart. Brookline, MA 02146 and Leslie Leeming, Rachel Perry Welty and Patti Stern-Winkel lives in Los Angeles Christine SaxeEaston, 712 Wall Susan Gilman Nelson. with husband, Daniel, and son, Benjamin. Rd., Spring Lake, NJ 07762 Suzanne Vuillet-Sm.ith lives with her 81 husband in Haines, AK, where they run a bed She writes, "motherhood is great, even if it is Born: to Laura Miller Greenberg and Ted often difficult juggling a full-time job and and breakfast at Fort William H. Seward, the Greenberg '80, Michael Gordon 11/1/92; to family life l'm still working for first army post built in AK. The bed and Rusty Spears and Tonya, Jefferson Grant Kalish/Davidson Marketing, a film market- breakfast is also a prospering art gallery for ing/advertising consultant as a senior VP and 5/3/93. Suzanne's drawings. She also works year-round Rusty Spears had an exciting spring. He run the Los Angeles office." as full-time director of marketing and sales for delivered his second child, Grant, at home. John Muller also lives in Los Angeles an Alaska Airlines commuter service. If any "Labor was very fast, only one hour from first working as a producer and is trying to sell his college friends would like to visit, please con- signs to deliver and there was no way we first science fiction series. John received his tact the Alumni Office for Suzanne's address could drive the 20 miles to the hospital in MBA last year. and phone. Rich Semiatin is an assistant professor of time. Called 911, who stayed on the line Neil Helman is still hanging out in NYC offering advice until the paramedics arrived - political science in the American U.'s working at Kaufman Realty. Washington Semester Program and School of some four minutes after Grant was born. All Chris Harford debuted his first album, went well and there were no complications." Public Affairs. "Be Headed," in Oct. '92. He is a singer-gui- Jonathan Etkin works for MetLife in Way to go, Rusty! Daughter, Emily, is 3. tarist with his own band, The First Rays of the Treasury Operations Department, was the New Rising Sun. He played at the recently promoted and received a divisional Bottom Line, a NYC club in Sept. Hub Moore '82 is also in the band. Chris married recognition award. Jonathan enjoys attending Correspondent: museum openings in NYc. Grace SweetBitter Lichi Ponce, a NY actress, in her family's Andy Ferguson writes, "The end of 2 Oakwood Way home in Ecuador. Besides Hub, other CC another typical season. Successful halibut and West Windsor, NJ 08691 alums present were: julie (Perl) Perlman '84 82 and Jacques Hoffinan. Chris and Lichi live salmon fishing finances building our cabin up the Taku River, two miles shy of British Born: to Caroline Crosson Gilpin and Ted, in Manhattan. Columbia. Went to Seattle to sell fish and got Katharine (Katie) Kellar 3/12/93; to Julie van Jill Whitney and Bill Brink's daughter, another visit with Burch Baylor, a very suc- Roden and Andrew Lerman, Macauley Kirsten, joins 3-year-old son, Jordan. jill cessful sales representative of Pella Windows, McKay Lerman 5/13/92; to Vic Salitennan works part time as a senior editor for the rack climber and husband of two years to and Megan Vosburgh Saliterman '83, Bureau of Business Practice, a division of Tracie. In the winter, I play fiddle and man- Benjamin Victor 4/22/93. Simon and Schuster. The family lives in Old dolin, classicalsitar and rablas for dances, festi- Craig Lissner spent last Oct. trekking Lyme, CT. vals, bars, benefits and schools. Come visit." through Nepal and is now back in Geneva Kim Bowden Peckham and husband working for the World Health Organization. CorrespoHdents: Bob, live on the coast of ME running an inn. Kathleen A. Goodwin-Boyd, She finds life very full with a four-year-old Reunion News: June4-6, 1003 54 A LandyAve., Florence, MA and recent addition, Will. Correspondents: ClaudiaGould, 01060 and Anne-Marie Parsons, Lois Mendez lives in Philadelphia PA 1612 North FillmoreSt., 185 Hubbard Sc., Apt. 1, Arlington,VA 22201and Greta 85 Glastonbury, CT 06033 and is working on her dissertati;n a~ Columbia in higher and adult education. Her Davenport Rutstein, 1723 son, Sean, 2, keeps her "exasperated," but she Windmere Ave.,Baltimore,MD 21218 thoroughly enjoys motherhood. Married: Christine Breck to Jan Birger Jonathan Golden lives in Newton MA Petrersson, 9/6/92; Frances Kelley to Bruce Born: to Megan Vosburgh Salitennan and A. Prescott, 10/6/90. and is in his fourth year on his ow~ as ; Vic Salirennan '82, Benjamin Victor 4/22/93. sound designer for the music, film, video, Born: to Jennifer Doyle Bortnick and Paige Cornwall is a lawyer working in Robert Bortnick '84, Michael Ryan 7/16/92; corporate and museum exhibit industries. He DC at the Joint Center for Political and rec~ntly made a digital master compilation of to Wendy Lynne Hushak and Dana Economic Studies as director of its U.S.lJapan Stephen Charles 9/3/92; to Suzanne Whit~ African d~m tracks recorded at his studio by Project. She lived in Japan from '88-'89. Connecticut composer-in-residence, Wall Buchele and Steve, Grace Elizabeth 7/28/92.

CD July I August 1993 L Jane Rowan Blough lives with her hus- Lisey Good was married to Brinton Fenniman and Ray are playing club hockey band, Bill, and 4-year-old son, Jonathan, on Brosius '88 in Philadelphia on 1/4/92. There together in NY. the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in MI. were six alums in the wedding party: Shaun Brooke Kennington is in her third year Jane organizes a neighborhood play group, Pederson '88, Jason Kamm '88, Tom Price of medical school and is living in Westbury, reads at the base story hour, makes and sells '88, Molly Goodyear '85, Kasia Wandycz Long Island. She ran into Spensor Knight '88 miniature quilts and teaches quilting classes. and Diana Zimmerman. Lisey wrote that and Nick Roosevelt '88 at the Head of the While attending Alumni Council in Sept., both she and Brinton are hard at work in Charles in Boston. Jane saw Karen Norton, Gary Bliss, Eric Ph illy where they recently bought a house Anne Valenti lives in Sacramento and Kaplan, Steve Geiser and Dave Thomas. that they are fixing up. She is a television mar- works in state politics as a consultant. Lolly Jelks enjoys life in Lynchburg, VA, keting director for National Media Michael Schadick is in his fourth year of where she counsels children and adolescents Corporation, an "infomercial" marketing rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College in for a public mental health center. Last fall, company. Cincinnati. As part of his training he is the Lolly spent a wild weekend in NYC where Lisey wrote that she keeps in touch regu- student rabbi in Fort Walton Beach, FL. The she was entertained by Kary Danos Bunker larly with Kasia and Diana. She reponed that congregation flies Mike down every other '84, Ben Robinson '82 and Julie Martin. Kasia Wandycz is still living in Paris work- weekend to conduct services, teach and coun- Lolly is convinced that she set a record when ing for Paris-Match. Because of her language sel. He also teaches Hebrew in Cincinnati. she was recently a bridesmaid for the eighth skills, the magazine often assigns her ro do Caroline Johnson continues to work as time since graduation! celebrity interviews. In the past year, she's an information systems security analyst for the Frances Kelley Prescott received her interviewed Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Department of Defense in MD. She only lives MAT from cc. She still lives on Fishers Island Andie MacDowell and Eric Clapton among five blocks from Jennifer Croke and Eddie where she teaches fifth and sixth grade. others. She's thinking of going back to school Castell. Caroline teaches a course at the Sarah Whisenand received her J.D. to study art, maybe in Poland. Anned Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA. from Georgetown Law in June '92. She Priscilla Geigis and Beth Honan She is a graduate of their Joint Command, works in the Public Defender's office in recently moved to Watertown, MA, and are Control and Communications Staff and Portland, OR. After studying for the bar last anxiously awaiting visitors. Congratulations to Operations Program. In her spare time, she is summer, Sarah and a couple of friends went Priscilla who just passed the bar exam and is an adjunct faculty member of the National wilderness camping in AK. They were in now working for the Environmental Cryptologic School where she is taking class- Anchorage just after the volcano erupted. Protection Agency as an assistant general es. She volunteers at the International Just a quick note from Kathy Goodwin- counsel. She was sworn in with Marcel Children's Camp, Camp Horizons, just north Boyd. We moved last fall and are discovering Dardati in Boston. Beth recently finished of Harrisonburg, VA. as we unpack (still!) that we have made some graduate school and is working at Lowell Jennifer Marshall is working on her sacrifices to the "moving gods." I think I was General Hospital as director of managed care. masters in city planning at MIT in Boston. able to locate all the news that I was sent this She recently met up with William Rieders She lives in Cambridge with Margaret Hug. summer and fall, but if you don't see it here, in Santa Fe. LastSlimmer, she spent eight weeks in Beijing, please resubmit it. I've vowed not to move What a year Jennifer McLean Kaiser China, studying city planning. for another 1 0 years, so this won't happen had. In Jan. '92, she received a degree in ele- Jill Perlman is president of the CC Club again anytime soon. If you haven't sent any- mentary education. In May, she and her hus- of Hartford. She worked in the thing to class notes in a while, please do. Our band moved to the village in Mattapoisett, and Unemployment Office in Hartford. Last sum- notes are looking a little scanty. Last, but not on 7/9/92, they welcomed their first child, mer she spent a weekend on Cape Cod at the least, please remember the Annual Fund. Ned Arthur, into the world. home of Wheaton exchange student Cheryl John Whiting joined the Peace Corps Delacono. after working as a reporter in Old Lyme, CT. Robin St. Germain-McIlheney still He served in Tunisia for two and a half years lives in Northern Ireland. She has changed and was evacuated before the Gulf War. John Correspondent: SuzanneMUD careers and now works in sales in the phanna- 200 Church s., Apt. 1 moved to Portland, M.E, and is now working ceutical industry for a Danish company called Newton, MA 02158 with the Refugee Resettlement Project at a Novo Nordisk. She still keeps in couch with 86 local bank. Ellen Bailey Pippenger, Kim Bailey-Dell, Vicky McGarry continues to work at Mary Reading Brown and Toki Strong. Correspondents: Michele M. Rolling Stolle magazine. This year she helped Rena Whitehouse moved to Atlanta Austin, 36 High St.,Jamestown, RI 02835 and Martha Denial launch the new Men's Journal. She does a from NYC and is working for an architectural Kendler, 137Westwood Ln., good deal of traveling and photography for firm, Thompson, Ventu1ett, Stainback & Middletown, CT 06457 the magazine. Associates, as a marketing and public relations 87 Geoff Buckley, and wife, Alexandria coordinator. Married: Michelle Chalpin to Steven MacColl Buckley '89, are moving to Chevy Nanci Barker worked at a San Shore, 11/1/92; Lisey Good to Brinton Chase, MD, after the holidays. Geoff is start- Francisco-based company as their French liai- Brosius '88, 1/4/92; Thomas Reiling to ing his Ph.D. at U. of Maryland this Sept. son person for the Winter Olympics. She Jennifer Warren, 9/5/92; Mark Sutton to While living in OR., they spent lots of time spent six months in france coordinating oper- Kimberly Niles '86. with Janet Schoenfie1d Johnson '88 and Anne ations and hospitality for the corporate spon- Born: to Milbrey Southerland Mara Seaton '89. sor clients. She then went to Barcelona for the and Philip, Philip James III 2/18/91; to Steve Compton has kept up with his Summer Olympics. She's now back in Virginia Cochran Wilkins and Jerry, Emily Connecticut friends. He lives in Milwaukee Cambridge trying to relax. Louise 10/16/92. with his wife and works as an attorney-clerk Julia Moran Morton began her first year Brooke Kennington was a bridesmaid at to the Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of at Columbia studying urban planning with a Michelle Chalpirr's Nov. '92 wedding to Appeals. He has seen Pat Gibbons and Ray concentration in housing. She moved from Steven Shore. A bachelorette party was held O'Keefe recently. When Pat returns from DC where she renovated 75 apartments for in NYC, where Michele, Brooke and friends teaching English in Japan, he will begin work low income families and spent last summer as a ended up dancing at the Psychic Club, where on his master's at the American Graduate social worker at a camp for homeless and dis- they ran into Tom Saadie '86, Chris School of International Management in advantaged girls in the Catskills. Livingston '86 and Nick Nolan '86. Glendale, AZ. Rumor has it that Doug Kathy Terdiman Spindel has left San

connecticutCollegeMagaziw G Francisco and moved to London. Alison Cornyn returned to NY after traveling for seven months in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. Lisa Menegon works at Carol Management in Rye, NY, as the selection coordinator for interior design. She's finally able to apply what she learned in design school. Hayley Altman Gans and Hilary Gans are still living in Palo Alto, CA. Hilary con- tinues his job in solid waste management, and Hayley is in her second year of pediatric residency. They spend lots of time outdoors and welcome visitors. Karen Frey received her MSW from Columbia. She lives in NYc. Jenny Hume Shively lives in Brooklyn Heights and teaches second grade at a Quaker School. Lastsummer, she completed her mas- ter's in education at Bank Street College. She Alumni pictured at the July '92 wedding of Karen Michalski '88 and Andy Wang '89 are, front row, left to right keeps in touch with many Connecticut Ben Balkind '89, Elizabeth Peterson '89, the bride and groom, James Donahower '89, Jamie Lenfesley '89, alums. Laurie King '88 and Dave Guerrera '90. Middle row, left to right: Beth Rowen (wife 01Chris Rowen '89), Dana Ben Russell continues to work as a free- Safran '88, Eric Grossman '88, Greg Trimble '91 and Mari Saegusa '89. Back row, left to right: Chris Rowen '89, Billy Dwyer '88, Jim Borah '88, Jesse tasman '89, Mike Richard (husband of Reggi Eisenson Richard '88), lance photographer in NYC. He sees Reggi Eisenson Richard '88, Gabrielle Antoniadis '89, Debbie Jaffe '88' and Kelly McCann '90. Richard Brukner, Liza McLaughlin, Maggie Simonelli and Caarin Stephanie Schacher received a master's Francisco, CA, and is working for Great Fleischmann and Eric Davies. You can degree from Columbia U. in organizational Western Bank in their environmental man- see him and his band, Bad Blood and the psychology. She has been working for the past agement department. He is taking classes to Rats, playing at some of NYC's more notable year for Republic National Bank in human prepare for an MBA. night spots. resources. She lives six blocks from Jen Martha Denial Kendler completed her Chris Bucca and Scott Lowell are still Kolber in Manhattan. MBA at Boston College this Dec. She and her in Chicago. Chris received her master's in Frank Tuitt is still at Wesleyan and was husband, John, just moved into their new early childhood education from Bank Street promoted to director of residential life and home with their Dalmatian, Barkely. She is College in NY in '89. In Chicago, she directs housing. He works with Marji Lipshez Simon working in marketing and sales at CIGNA in a Head Start program for a social service '67 as a trainer for the World of Differences Bloomfield, CT. agency called Christopher House. Scott has Program. In addition, he serves as chair person Steve Barriere is employed at Waltham been acting in a number of Chicago theaters of the Unity Alumni Council; Eddy Castell is Lime and Cement as manager/controller and including: Remains, Steppenwolf Goodman, also on the Council. enjoys working with John Derderian '86, and working as an understudy for the show Bill Warren completed his MBA at NYU Sean Fagan and Jim Brown '89. He still lives "Wild Men!" at the Body Politic Theater. in '92 and joined Kyocera International as a in West Newton with Dave Gross '88 and Bo Dana Belcher is still hiding out in NYC marketing manager. He lives on the upper east the Yellow Lab. making a living as a fashion photographer. side of Manhattan and sees a lot of Hal Berry Adam Mintz lives in Seattle and works as Chris Philippi still lives in Stoneham, '88, Jen Taylor '89, Phil Dolan '88 and Tiggy a caseworker for Big Brothers Organization. MA, and works for Van Waters & Rogers. Howard '88 and Mara Barker '87. He still keeps in touch with Peter von Au He is the New England area food and phar- Kate McDonough Cornment and her home in Boston. maceutical specialist. He saw Michelle husband, Noel (MAT '87) are living in Michelle Chalpin Shore was married on Austin in Newport last summer. Chris plays Guilford, CT. She teaches in Groton. Noel 11/1/92. Brooke Kennington was a brides- a lot of basketball and plans on adding skiing works in Cheshire as a legal claims representa- maid. She has graduated from Albany Law to the agenda this winter. tive for All-State Insurance Company. She sees School of Union U. last May and recently Lisa Cliggett finished her requirements Renee Darby and keeps in touch with Gina passed the New York State Bar. and exams toward a Ph.D. in cultural anthro- Sykes Elowe in Chicago. Steven Howard worked as an export pology at Indiana U. She spent the summer Tracy Hassan is teaching English at Nishi analyst for the California Energy Commission in Zambia doing preliminary research on sup- joyo Sr. High School in Kyoto, japan. in Sacramento, CA. In july '93, he began port systems for the elderly and will go back Tino Sonora lives in Columbus, OH, and studying in Tokyo and Fukuoka,japan, for 21 for her dissertation research next year. is working on his Ph.D. in Economics. He is months as a Rotary Scholar. Susan Bryant recently moved to doing quite a bit of CAT 2 bike racing. Karen Frigerio completed a master's in Alexandria, VA, to take a job at ZPG pro- Andrea Didisheim is getting her master's special education at Boston College, where moting reaching activities that deal with pop- degree from NYU in dance performance and she now works part time. She plans on living ulation and human ecology issues. and working in Boston. Kristin Matthews is in San Francisco choreography. Diana Zirnrnerrnan works as the art and is working for Hal Riney and Partners director for a sportswear company in (advertising) as a media supervisor on the Needham, MA, and living in North Shore. Reunion News: June 4-6, 1993 Saturn automobile account. She rook a trip to Beth Curran is at the Episcopal Divinity Corre5pOUdCII(S: Alison Edwards, NYC and had a great time visiting Andrea 2218 AshbyAve., #4, Berkeley, School in Cambridge, MA, pursuing a master's Didisheim, Page Preston Growney '85, Lisa CA 94705 and LisaPelosa,226 in divinity with a concentration in feminist lib- Menegon, Caroline Sarnsen, Chris Byrne Athol Ave., # 210, Oakland, CA eration theology. This summer, she hopes to '86 and Holly Darr Byrne '88, jenny Krane be in Boston doing socialjustice work. '88 and Margie Nightengale '88. William Rieders is living in San Married: Lisa McConnell and Stephen

CD July I August 1993 M.B.A. at Appalachian State U. in Boone, NC. Barnes, 10/3/92; Sara Metzger to Jon University Housing at Boston College. Deveaux, 8/22/92; Karen Michalski and Brynna Levin Sibilla married in July Dan Ruff works at a patent law finn in Andrew Wang '89, 7/92. and went to Indonesia for her honeymoon. DC and vacationed at the Grand Canyon and Stephen Barnes and Lisa McConnell She and her husband live in Portland, OR, the Rockies last spring. were married on Martha's Vineyard last Oct. where she is pursuing an MSW, and her hus- Peter Scotch is at NYU pursuing a mas- Alums in the wedding party included maid- band is studying to be a chiropractor. ter's in English with a teaching certificate so of-honor, Sonia Stetkiewych; Maria Jessica Levinson lives in MI and works he can teach high school English. Carras Livanos and Deena Christelis '87. at a company that provides training to major Anne Seaton continues her work toward Other alums who attended were Tommy corporations. She has seen a lot of Mary a double master's in architecture and historic Reiling '87 and his wife, jennifer: Mark Haffenberg and Sam Bottum in Chicago preservation at the U. of Oregon. She plans to Sutton '87 and Kim Niles Sutton '86; and and attended a mini-reunion on July 4th in become a restoration architect. Stacy Resler Tobin '87 and her husband, Chicago with Mary Haffenberg, Dodic Geoff Wagg is completing a master's in David. Sutro, Sam Bottum and Tracy Smith. education in history and doing educational Sara Metzger was married to Jon Jessica, Mary and Sam saw Tommy Aoki research at Teachers College, Columbia U. Deveaux last Aug. with Dawn DeMeola during a short layover he had while on a busi- He sees Larry Miller, Lee Davis '88 and serving as bridesmaid. Sara resides in ness trip. Terri Bright '88 in NYC frequently. Simsbury, CT, and teaches French at Larry Miller lives at home and teaches Westminster School. people how to fly planes at the local airport. He looks forward to some "better" job in the The July '92 wedding of Karen COm:Sp{lIIdC/lfS: jennifer Harvey. Michalski and Andrew Wang '89 was future. He ponders why so many of our class- 1320 Lombard Se., Apt. 201, SJn attended by numerous Connecticut alumni mates are unwilling to send in their info. card, Francisco, CA 94109 and DJIla (see photo this issue). Karen and Andy live in seemingly uninterested, yet devour the class McAlister, 3 Hitchcock Rd., Boston, and Karen is a teacher at the Chestnut notes when it is printed. 90 Westport, CT 06880 Hill School. Heather Morgan received her M.A. at Kirsten Ward is working as a personal train- Jill Offenberg received a master's in UCLA in June and worked in Hollywood at a er for an osteopath in NYC, helping people physical therapy frOI11Boston U. and works as creative artists agency which represents almost with sports injuries. She also works for a per- a physical therapist in White Plains, NY. ali the major talent in the film and television sonal training company teaching body Marianna Gage Perrier, a graphic artist, industries. She's attending law school and vol- alignment and cardiovascular/weight training. lives in NYC with her husband, Pierre unteers with Women Against Violence, man- ln Sept. '93, Kirsten will be returning to Perrier, a captain and sommelier at Lafayette rung a crisis line and helping with child abuse school to study physical therapy. In her free Restaurant. They previously lived in Orleans, and incest presentations. time, she sees Shelley Stoehr '89 and Sue France. Kiernan Murphy Iives in San Francisco and spent a month traveling in Europe. He Bloch. met up with Renner Johnston, who is now Rich Powell is working towards his Catrespoudents: Deborah pursuing a master's in architecture at the U. of Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern. Dorman, 220 Century Place Andre Bessette and Donna Ragusa Oregon/Eugene. #3205, Alexandria, VA were married on 9/12/92 in Harkness Chapel 22304 and Alexandra MacColl Robert Roddy has almost completed an by Father Larry. CC alums in attendance Buckley, 4826 Bradley Blvd., 89 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Married: Hannah Treitel to Mark Cosdon, 6/14/92. Classmates at the wedding of Hannah Treitel and Mark Cosdon included: Stephanie Muller. Caren Fishman, Kim Fletcher, Kathleen Fogarty, Michelle He idenrich , Alison Mitchell, Sarah Monsrna-Bif li ngs , Randy Billings '87, Elisabeth Peter and Andrea Malone Von Wunnb (transfer student). Hannah and Mark now live in Medford, MA, after spending two years in Seattle. Gusty-Lee Boulware is pursuing a mas- ter's in education at the U. of Washington. She loves the Pacific Northwest. David Ewing graduated from Vanderbilt School of Law. Willie there, he coached both the men's and women's crew teams to their first victories. Jennifer Fulcher finished course work for her M.S. and C.A.G.S. in psychology Alums celebrate the wedding vows of Holly Darr '88 and Chris Byrne '86. Back row, left to right: Tanya Shah willie still working on her thesis. She contin- '88, Thomas Franco '84, Bill Winstead '88, Craig Slarble '84, Dave Talanian '88, GaarTalanian '86, Greg ues to work at the Williston Northhampton Bertschmann '86, Don Pasquarello '86, Dan Collins '86, Sasha Lazor '88 and Phil Mara '87. Middle row, left to School teaching psychology and coaching right: Penny McKean Lazor '88, Benfe Jones Starble '86, Dave Torrey '88, Steve LaMarche '86, John Simpson boy's basketball and varsity softball. This faU, '88, P.J. O'Sullivan '86, Ted Anastos '87, Rich Wolff '84, Bill Veronese '86 and Greg Donovan '86. Seated, left she coached women's soccer at Elms College. to right: Jack Remondi '84, Kevin DerBedrosian '84, Mibbs Mason Mara '87, Anne Harris Wilcox '88, Allison Jamie Beth Glanton received her mas- Farley Brennan '88, Jennifer Keller '88, the bride and groom, Mark Munro '85, lisa Pierce Collins '86, Melanie ter's in higher education from Teachers Davis '86, Gary Andrews '86 and Todd Taplin '89. Kneeling, left to right: Gerda Gomez Pasquarello '86. Amy Walther LaMarche '87, lisa Menegon '87, Andrea Didisheim '87, Jeanne Martin '88 and Susan Langer '88. College, Columbia U., and started work last fall as a residence hall director in the Office of

ConnecticutCollegeMagazirle G Adams '92. Both are doing graduate work at included: Charlie Forbes, Jon Paulding, Corrcspolldeut: Case Western Reserve U. Brooke Hejduk Denise Crump-Moody, Wendy Osgood, Tom Seery is working on risk manage- Heather Meeker, Debbie Chasin, 18 South Russell #5 ment for Unisys in the Philadelphia area while Boston, MA 02114 Elizabeth Kraft, Atny Brown, Kris Gray, taking graduate courses in environmental sci- 92 David Buffum '92, Scott Murphy '91 and Laura Stone Burden is pursuing her Watson Michael Scheman '89. The reception was ence. Chris Koehler has moved to Manhattan Fellowship on women clergy and circumvent- held at the Castle Inn in Old Saybrook, CT. and was looking for work at the time this was ing the globe. She is spending four months in Andre and Donna live in Port Washington, Australia and will soon be in Asia and Europe. Long Island. Andre is working as a behavior written. Coralie Clement spent last year in DC Laura keeps in touch with Bert Herrlinger, specialist in a day treatment program for men- working with the World Wildlife Fund doing Jeff Alexander, Kim Timby, Varsha tally retarded adults and continues to fill out lneramre research on health effects of exposure Ghosh, Lisa Phillips '93, Justin Harris, applications for doctoral programs in clinical to pesticides. She lived with Peter LeSar and Anadri Chisolm, Dan Stern, Eli Yirn, psychology. Donna received a master's degree James Piccolini '88. For the last three months Joel Howe, Nej Wilson, Martha Bory and in music therapy from NYU and is now of '92, she and Peter drove across country and working as a creative arts therapist in the child Annik Hirshen. down through central America to Panama. She Jessica Berrnan is a research assistant in psychiatric department of the Me. Sinai invites any brave souls to visit if they can make Pittsburgh and is spending much of her time Hospital. She also works one day a week as a it down there (Connecticut's Botany music therapist at North Shore Hospital in applying to graduate schools. She had a big Department knows how to find her). bash in Dec. with Fil Grinan, Jim Carino, the pediatric and adolescent unit. Peter LeSar spent his year in DC work- Tracy Cambron Ballard was married Melinda Kerwin, Alissa Balotri, Paul ing for the International Trade Practice Group on 9/25/92. Husband, Anthony, is from Anderson, Kim Senior '95, Brad Lohr, Jon of a corporate law firm working primarily on Cambridge England. Tracy is work.ing with Burt, Kate Bishop, Andy Damour, NAFTA and foreign trade-related issues. He is Darren List, Mark Ockert , Chris Andersen Consulting of Cincinnati. in Panama now working with a small Kevin Cuddihy is living and working in Hochman and Nicene Pascal '93. If anyone import/export investment firm that takes NYc. He is the dean of students at Xavier is passing through Pittsburgh, Jessica would advantage of Panama's free trade zone. High School and is installing a sense of com- love visitors. Carrnen Canales lives in Princeton, NJ, mitment, pride and integrity in all his young Corinna Dan writes, "I'm hanging out in and works as an analytical chemist for Bristol- Tokyo doing a little part-time work, looking proteges. Mycrs Squibb, a major pharmaceutical compa- Sally Northrop lives in NH and is pur- for a semi-real job in this wacky city because ny. She keeps in close contact with Deirdre suing a career in journalism in Boston. the only way to improve your language skills Joyner, who received her MPH in May from Reyna Mastrosimone, working in the is to live through them." public relations department of an international Yale U. School of Medicine. Jennifer Hall recently drove from Bar Scott Murphy works for Andersen music television network, is busy with promo- Harbor, ME, to San Diego. Along the way, Consulting in Hartford, but is never home tional events in DC, Los Angeles and NY. she visited Kris Rizzo, Mike Markert, because they keep him constantly on the road Thyra Briggs, Amy Mass and Meg Bums seeing clients. '91. She is now settling in San Diego and Correspo"dents: John Kogan, 4 Cary Dyer is at veterinary school at Tufts prepanng to start her internship and graduate Monroe St., Apt. 1307, finding out what studying is all about. She is work at the U. of San Diego in their lawyers Rockville, MD 20850 and taking dressage lessons and playing racquetball Jonathan Zobel,79 Pine Brook assistant program. Dr., Larchmont, NY 10538 to stay sane. Good luck, Cary. Sarah Homer lives in Williamsburg, VA, 91 Elissa Farrow Savos was married on and is at the College of William and Mary 5/27/91 and has been living in Boston with John Kogan, your faithful correspondent, IS working on her master's in secondary educa- going to be spending his next two years at her husband, Chris. Since graduation, she has tion with special emphasis in Museum Duke U.'s Fuqua School of Business getting been doing presentation graphics for Bain and Education. Sarah also works at the school's Co., a consulting firm. Elissa and Chris are his MBA. "I sure wish I had paid better center for gifted education. attention in calculus class." thinking about moving to OC. Rick (joel) Miller is busily applying for Amy Lebowitz is living in Iowa and Jon Zobel is still down in Venezuela master's programs in architecture. risking life and limb between coup attempts working at Grinnell College. She got the job Simon O'Rourke works in Cairo, to work for the local branch of the account- after getnng a master's at Columbia. Egypt, in the editorial department of The Debra Michelson is in her second year of ing finn, Deloitre- Touche. American University in Cairo Press, Egypt's law s~hoo] at Cornell Law. She will likely be Evan Lewis and Sarah Hurst are teach- largest English language publisher. He also working at a law firm in San Francisco this ing at Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ. takes Arabic classes, drinks a lot of terrific summer. Beth Filippone works as a research assis- thick coffee and loves life i.n the city. Simon Shannon Range is back in the U.S. after a tant for a public relations finn in Sacramento, would love visitors and has given his current CA. Apparently, the west coast is treating her year of te~ching. in South Africa for the peace address and bitnet number to the Alumni well. corps and IS looking for a job in DC. Todd Barringer is back in the San Jamie Pisfis is a second-year law student Office. Shelley Pannill works for Bantam Francisco area after extended travel with at Notre Dame U. Last summer, jamie was a ~oubleday Oell in Dell's foreign and domestic Jonathan Manzo around the world. law clerk at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. rights department in NY. She sees Rich Kimberly Foster is dancing with New He has kept in touch with Kevin Dodge Zeitlin '91, Varsha Ghosh and Joanne Urban Dance company and is preparing to Tina Wyman and Steven Montjane. If Guerrero. Shelley says that Kim Timby is apply to master's programs in physical therapy. ~nyone would like to reach jamie, he is living living in Paris. Nathaniel Cabot lives and works in San I~ Mishawaka, IN, and the Alumni Office has Russ Yankwitt lives in Japan where he Francisco at The Mission. He also works at his current address. teaches English. He writes that it is stressfree the Hearing Society. John Fischer and Anne Connolly are and a perfect way to recover from his hectic living in Silver Spring, MD. senior year. Chris Eckman works hard on scientific Glenn Jacobs survived the six_month research in Cleveland - as does his wife, Liz training program and has been hired as a staff production assistant at ESPN TV, based in

CD JIlly / AligIlst 1993 Bristol, CT. Adair also does research at Mass. General Ilene Marcus lives and works in Boulder, Sarah James is at UMassl Amherst pur- Hospital in the Neuropsych/OCD clinic. CO. suing a master's in art history. She has seen a Kathleen Kerr completed a summer Michael Markett works for Morrow and lot of alums in NY and in Boston. internship at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., a shareholder services finn in NYC as a Peter Jennings lives in Claremont, CA, Pharmaceutical Research institute and moved junior account executive. If anyone is moving and works as an admission's officer at Pomona to Waltham, MA. She is now pursuing her to NYC, he is looking for a roommate. College. He saw Jeff Alexander at an admis- Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Brandeis U. Amy Mass is at Ohio State U. College of sion's conference in Los Angeles, and they Kathleen attended the weddings of Lauren Law. Jen Hall came to visit on her way across had dinner in Beverly Hills. He finds that CA Ford and Liz Adams last summer! country, and Jeff Alexander passed through is a big change from. New London! Dan Kessler, Cristo Garcia and Ed while on official Connecticut admission's Brooke Hejduk lives in Boston (as yOll Freiburg live together in NYC. business. all know) and works in international mutual Evelyn Lafave lives in Cleveland, OH, Heidi Mills McCotter lives in Antigua, funds. She has seen and heard from a lot of and works for Wolfs Fine Art Auctioneers. Guatemala, and is doing an internship and alums. You've done a great job keeping me Suzanne Larson takes classes at Mount teaching first grade at the American School of informed of your current endeavors. Thanks, Holyoke and UMassl Amherst to prepare for a Guatemala in Guatemala City. and keep it up! physician assistant program next fall. She lives Craig Meeker works in the financial Dave Hymes works in Framingham, in Northampton, MA. division at Connecticut Mutual, in Hartford. MA, at integrated generics as a research assis- Liza Livingston is at Tulane U. getting a Lars Merk runs the Mayflower Diner off tant. He keeps in touch with Dug Stowe master's in classics. She loves New Orlea.ns, exit 40 on 1-95. He invites anyone passing by who is working in Holland. although the weather is hot. She hopes to earn to join him for some carrot cake (especially Melissa Kahn and Stacey Strangfeld her Ph.D. after Tulane. Carole Laprade '93 and Suzanne Walker '93). live together in Providence. Melissa is the Michael Leibert, J.T. Straub, Todd He had the pleasure of meeting Bill and program coordinator of the Venture Wens and Tom Kessler live together and Hillary Clinton last summer. Consortium at Brown, and Stacey is in a work in DC. Stephen Montjane lives in NYC. training program at Fleet Bank. Marty Amy Livingston is an advocate for Julie Mueller and her family have moved Anderson lives down the street. They get patients at the Vermont Women's Health to rural MN. She has been hunting regularly together often for dinner and drinks. Center in Burlington, VT. with her younger brother, and they have Sheri Kaufmann and jennifer Hartley Wayne Lutters has been accepted into a killed two trees, eight tin cans, and have live together in Boston. Sheri works for doctoral "j)rogram in computer science at wounded one family member. Advest, and Jen is an assistant buyer for Jordan UC/lrvine. However, he has deferred for a George Newcomb moved to Jackson Marsh. They see Marc Freiberger, Brooke year to work, take classes and travel! City, WY, and works for a drug wholesaler Hejduk, and Jennifer Amerling regularly! Rohn MacNulty lives in Boston doing that controls 25 percent of the national inde- Adair Kendrick works in Newton with publishing work, but hopes to get a paralegal pendent share of the market. chronically mentally ill adults. She loves her job. He is looking into going back to school Tyra Norbeck lives in Chicago and is job, although it is emotionally taxing at times. for architecture. He would love visitors! involved in a program called the Lutheran Volunteer Corps. She works for a non-profit organization, The Campaign for Better Health Robert Lee Rhyne, 1929·1993 Care, which is trying to pass a universal, sin- Former Professor of Psychology, College Marshal and gle-payer national health care plan. She lives with four other volunteers on the southwest Registrar Emeritus side of Chicago.Tyra has seen David Israel who is studying at the Art Institute. ROBERT LEE RHYNE, FORMER PROFESSOR Robert Oshinsky works for the of psychology, college marshal and registrar emeritus, Resolution Trust Corporation Office of died on May 28, 1993. He was 63 years old. Rhyne Research and Statistics in DC. He recently purchased a house in MD. came to Connecticut College as an instructor in the Joanna Pinsker lives in DC and takes department of psychology in 1960. He was appointed American politics classes at American U. She registrar and college marshal by President Charles Shain would love visitors! in 1971 and was promoted to the rank of professor in Jen Quigley and Nat Harris toured the 1972. As the college's fifth registrar, he was active in the National and New United States, driving from the East coast to England Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and was CA and back. Jennifer is moving to CA and instrumental in the formation of the college's exchange program with hopes to meet up with other alums. Nat and Jen are often in touch with George Westminster College in Oxford, England. Brewster, who is on his way to Breckenride, Professor Rhyne retired as registrar and until past academic In 1988, this CO, and Lee Jimenez, who is saving up to year, continued to teach part-time in the department of psychology. move to Califronia (from Madrid). During the past year, Dr. Rhyne was appointed as research scholar and was Michael Reiter works at Evander Childs busy writing an analytical history of Connecticut College. High School in the Bronx. He teaches English A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received his undergraduate degree from to ninth and tenth graders. Geoffrey Maynard is in Florence, Italy, the University of Georgia and his doctoral degree from the University of painting. Virginia. Andrea Pandolfini is in the Peace Corps There will be a service of remembrancefor Robert Lee Rhyne in Harkness Chapel on in the Dominican Republic. Sept. 12, 1993 at 2 p.m. Former students, [nends and colleagues are welcome. if anyone Nick Dumitriu is in San Pransisco work- is unable to attend, but would like to send a written statement if remembrance to begiven ing as a bicycle messenger. to thefamily, please Sefid the statement to: Chaplain Stephen Schmidt, Connecticut Virginia Rivero lives in NYC and works College, Box 5556, New London, Conn. 06320. for an interior decorator. Laurie Sachs lives ill Newton, MA and is

ConnecticulColiegeMagazille • winter of '93 which had more snow than he FRIENDS ARE "SEW" SPECIAL. upon her has ever seen. He continues to paint and has graduation, Elizabeth Cairns RTC '93 was had several small shows but is still looking for presented with a Connecticut College Quilt by her friends in me Saybrook a job in the social services. _ . . Sewing Club. Cairns, a member of the Patricia T. Brand '84 will renre this club, received the Ruby Jo Reeves. year from her position as nurse manager of Kennedy Memorial Award to a semur pediatrics and neonatal intensive care at sociology student lor outstanding records Lawrence and Memorial Hospital. Patricia will in the major. continue her association with the Board of Directors at the School for Children with Special Needs at Holmes Hall, Connecticut College. She will now split her time between NYC, East Lyme, CT, and Nantucket. Bonnie Clement '82 completed graduate work at Antioch New England Graduate Jeff Finn and Michael Borowski frequently. School in Portsmouth, NH, and received a the assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at For those of you passing through NY, she Master's of Science (MSM) in organizational Wellesley College. She takes sports manage- management. She is working as the coordinator would love visitors! ment classes at Northeastern U. Abbey If you need an address for any of your class- of case management for the Dartmouth- Tyson, Diane Stratton '91 and, Jen mates, call or write the Alumni Office, Hitchcock Medical Center. She has been living Schumacher '91 live nearby. in NH for 10 years and loves it. Eric Schumacher lives in San Pransisco 203-439-2300. Geneva de Labry '71, one of the early and works as an assistant photographer for R TC people, was originally in the class of '56 Brs-Hokin Studios. and still keeps up with those classmates. Emily Siegel works for a professor at C,""!,,,,d,,,,, Linda Demas '78 recently accepted a Emory U. in Atlanta, who is studying mater- Marilyn Dunphy RTC '86 8 Nottingham ltd. position as clinical nurse specialist in the nal substance abuse. Old Lyme, CT 06371 Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at Cameron Smyser lives in DC, and does RTC Lawrence & Memorial Hospital. research at the National Institute of Mental Peg Van Patten '87 completed her master's Since graduation, Nancy Downie '92 Health, studies world music at the U. of degree in oceanography at UConn, studying has become a grandmother and taken up golf Maryland and reads Jung. the reproduction and ecology of kelp in Long as a hobby. She also volunteers at the Shain Drew Snyder, after being a sophomore Island Sound. She won an award in New Library in the Archive Department. for three years, is happy to announce that he Haven for the best presentation at a confer- Louise W. Fabrykiewicz '81 says hi to is a jr. at Carnegie Mellon U., and will gradu- ence. Her seaweed research was also presented everyone and asks if anyone has heard from ate in '94 with a major in industrial design. at meetings in Woods Hole and the Janet Foster Louise often thinks of the Stephanie Tacelli spent the summer '80. International Seaweed Symposium in Brest, after graduation working as a vegetarian cook happiness of her college days. France. Peg traveled to Ireland with her Denise Schenk Grosskopf is at a camp and conference center in the '81 daughter, Anne (CC '91), to give talks on her Berkshire Mountains. This fall, she traveled enrolled in a graduate program in history at research at University College, Galway, and the UConn and was inducted into Phi Alpha across country. Trinity College, She saw herbarium Julie Taraska is in London on a Watson Dublin. Theta (the history honor society). Fellowship. The Chelsea police are wonderful sheets with seaweed collected by Charles Katharine Hill '76 is a sr. technical edi- Darwin and nn a eu s ' original and have taught her how to lace up her Doc Li Species tor at the Vitro Corporation in New London. Piantarum manuscript. Peg also works full-time boots, and have taken her out in their cruiser Her daughter Jena Brownhill is completing to watch them combat crime. She attended as comm unica ti ons coordinator for the her sophomore year at St. Bernard's High her first proper punk festival and is glad to Connecticut Sea Grant program and teaches School. Katherine learned how to sail this year report that no violence occurred. She has dis- marine science part-time at Mohegan and is looking forward to racing a dinghy. covered that loud music, Newcastle brown Comrnuniry College. She loves science writing Maureen Howley-Brigham '89 had her ale, and a little leather make almost anything and misses the Botany Department. Peg often fifth child (1) this year and is living in New visits with her 111.0111., Dorothy Kellogg Stewart tolerable. London. She says that she hasn't had time to Kim Timby Lives in Paris. She is hoping '33. use her degree yet. Children are Dylan, '10; to find a job so that she can stay and learn to Marion Hubbell Bingham '91 had a Hannah, 4; Hope, 3; Casey, 2, and Jack, 6 solo show of her paintings last fall and plans speak French 1 mos. Leslie Tr-aba is at the U. of Florida earn- another one in '93. She is halfway through a Julia Merkt '75 opened a law practice ing her master's in journalism. She has trav- master's program at Wesleyan. She would love doing primarily law for the elderly in El Paso, eled to England twice since graduation, to to hear from her classmates. Please contact the TX. She loves TX but tries to get back to the visit her boyfriend, Scott. Alumni Office at 203-439-2300 for Marion's East Coast regularly for her salt water fix. Maria Vallucci Lives at home and works address and phone. Pam McKinney '73 is an elementary at Thaquanies in Boston. She has been travel- Diane Birmingham '92 is working for school principal and her doctoral dissertation is ing the East Coast a lot with her boyfriend Connecticut College in the Office of Career almost complete. Pam's son, Frank, graduated and is trying to payoff Connecticut bills! Services. Her daughter, Amber, just completed from college in '92 and is working as a stock- Jeffrey Williams spent last summer her firsc year at Salve Regina U. in Newport. broker. Daughter, Pamela, is a ninth grader working for a public relations company in While her son, Ryan, is very wrapped up in and is perfecting her field hockey skills. NYc. In August, he moved to Orlando, FL, Little League in Pawcatuck, CT, where he is a Husband, Frank, was recently promoted to to teach american history and world geogra- star pitcher. commander in the U.S. Navy. phy at a private secondary school. Jeffrey also George Blahun '82 is enjoying winters in Marion Tillinghast '84 is now Marion coached the cross country team. Jupiter, FL, but returns to New London for Tillinghast Viau. She married Bruce Viall on Cristina Wyman works at spring and summer. her birthday, 12/17/91. They had a wonder- Bloomingdales with Meg Sheehan. They Alex Bottinelli '92 says he is living the ful 1S-day wedding trip to Mexico City. Her are learning the ins and outs of buying and good and hard life in northern VT. He keeps mailing address remains the same. selling in retail. Cristina sees Jen Davidson, chickens and sheep and has lived through the

• July / Augus! 1993 Susan Meyers Santora '71 is an educa- tional therapist and director of Learning House in Guilford, CT. She has seven grand- A lUlIll/PHIEniS children. Texas Swanjord '70 is living in rural southwest Minnesota after a decade of teach- ing abroad. She received her PhD. at South CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Dakota Scare U. and still drives the 50 miles to do research and attend classes there. In '91, AND THE ULTIMATE REUNION FOR THE CLASSES OF THE 1970S when Texas was teaching English in Bangkok, Thailand, she delivered a paper, "Using Poetry in Teaching English as a "Making Choices: Foreign Language" at Chulalongkom U. Sarah S. Thompson 'S3 is thankful for Traditional values Jor TOmorrow's Problems» her music degree from Connecticut. She is OCTOBER1-3, 1993 living with a symphony violist and working for an elderly violinist. Her thesis for an MS in geography is almost finished. She enjoys living in the Amherst, MA, area. RETURNTO CAMPUSFORTHREEDAYS OF: - Panel discussions: Ethics in Government, Business and Sports - Speakers Obituaries -live Bands and Entertainment including New England's renowned blues band May Buckley Sadowski '19, Longmeadow, Mass., died on Feb. 7, 1993.* "Roomful of Blues" and rockers"The Reducers" Alice Horrax Schell '20, Sarasota, Fla., - Sporting Activities died on Feb. 11, 1993. After graduating from Connecticut College, Mrs. Schell attended - Faculty Receplion -Harvesnest the University of Pennsylvania Museum School of Fine Arts, the Toledo Museum - Picnic on Ihe Green - Childcare available School and the Chicago Art Institute. She was a member of the Children's Hospital Board in Akron, Ohio, the Chicago Society of Artists CARLOS FUENTES, keynote speaker for Fall and the Herb Society of America. Survivors include her husband, Frederick Schell Jr., two Weekend, is one of Latin America's most distinguished nephews and a niece. novelists and a one-man international cultural and politi- Katherine Schaefer Parsons '20, West cal force. The author of TIle and Suffield, Conn., died on March 4, '1993. The Old Crillgo The Death of widow of Nelson Parsons, Mrs. Parsons is sur- Artcmio Cmr, Fuentes has served as the Mexican ambas- vived by a son, three grandchildren and seven sador to France and is a member of Mexico's National great-grandchildren. Elinor Hunken Torpey '24, Rye, Commission on Human Rights. He holds honorary N.Y., died on Apri19, 1993.* degrees from the world's most prestigious universities, Orpha Brown Robinson '25, Salisbury, including Dartmouth, Harvard and Cambridge. Fuentes Conn., died on Feb. 8, 1993.* Ann Doody Greasley '25, Lincroft, inaugurated The Robert F. Kennedy Chair in Latin N.J., died on March 17, 1993.* American Studies at Harvard and was the Simon Bolivar Professor at Cambridge. October Dorothy Kilbourn '25, Hartford, Conn., died on April 27, 1993. In 1928, after 1,5 p.III., Palmer Auditorium. teaching in New Haven for several years, Miss Kilbourn moved to Hartford to work at Author and illustrator ART SPIEGELMAN will speak during Fall Weekend on his Aetna Life & Casualty. She retired from the company as supervisor in the department of book, MalIS, the stOIY of his ["lther's experience as aJew in Europe during World War II. policy loans after more than 30 years. Spiegelman is co-founder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed Following her retirement, she was active as a magazine of avanr-garde comics and graphics. His work volunteer for Meals on Wheels, the Salvation Army, the Literacy Volunteers of Greater has been published in TIle New York Times, the Village Hartford, the Friends of the Hartford Public Voice and many other periodicals, and his drawings have Library and the Connecticut Braille been exhibited in museums and galleries here and Association. She served as class correspondent for the Class of 1925 and was active in the abroad. Honors he has received for MrIllS include a Connecticut College Club of Hartford. She Guggenheim fellowship and a nomination for the leaves three cousins, all of Connecticut. National Book Critics Circle Award. October 2,3:30 Constance Parker '25, Boston, Mass., p.III., Dalla Hall died on Oct. 3, 1992. Miss Parker was the art director of the textbook publishing finn of Allyn and Bacon Inc. for 37 years, retiring in WATCH YOUR MAIL FOR FULL DETAILS 1962. President of the Class of 1925 in the early 80s, she leaves a niece, a nephew, eight

ConnecticutCollegeMagaziJlc _ active supporter of the Cummer Art Gallery, Ohio, died on Feb. 14, 1993. A leader of a jacksonville Symphony Association and grandnieces and nephews, and two great- wide variety of civic organizations, Mrs. Wick Theatre Jacksonville. Survivors include her grandnieces. was treasurer and president of Planned husband, Dr. Bernard Kaye; her mother, Ruth Mothersill Joy '27, Bella Vista, Parenthood of Greater Cleveland Inc. and Lilyan Bailey, one son and one daughter. Ariz., died on Dec. 16, 1992. Mrs. Joy president of the Hathaway Brown School Georgina Kane Schrader '50, Shelter moved to Arizona from Guadalajara,Mexico, Alumnae Association. She was also an hon- Island Heights, N.Y., died on March 9, 1993. in 1982. Survivors include her husband, orary member of the Cleveland Zoological A member of the American Association of Philip Joy; one son; three daughters; seven Society, a member of the Junior Board of St. University Women and the Shelter Island grandchildrenand five great_grandchildren. Luke's Hospital and the Women's Conunittee Garden Club, Mrs. Schrader is survived by her Lois Watkins Markley '27, Manchester, of the Cleveland Museum of Art. She received husband, Walter Schrader; her father, jasper Maine, died on Dec. 23, 1992. Mrs. Markley Planned Parenthood's Elizabeth Chisholm Kane; three sons and six grandchildren. taught at Skidmore College and in elementary Chandler Award for outstanding service. Carolyn Chapple Reed '54, Paoli, schools in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She was a Survivors include her husband, Douglas Wick; Penn., died on Feb. 15, 1993. Mrs. Reed member of the Nauset Weavers Guild of two daughters and six grandchildren. conducted career development courses for the Orleans, Mass.; the Baptist Ladies Aid of Virginia Newberry Leach '41, junior League of Philadelphia from 1969 to Brewster, Mass.; the Brewster LadiesLibrary; Attleboro, Mass., died on April 29, 1993. As the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History 1985, then for other organizations until 1992. chairman of the Attleboro Park Commission, An avid reader, she was employed at the and the Cecelia Music Club. Survivors Mrs. Leach spearheaded a recent renovation of include a son, two daughters, four grandchil- Country Book Shop in Bryn Mawr for more the Capron Park Zoo. She worked for the than a decade. Survivors include her husband, dren and severalniecesand nephews. pr eservanon of open land in both Margretta (Peg) Briggs Noble '28, David Reed; her father, Bennett Chapple jr.; Massachusettsand in Vermont, where she was two sons, one daughter and three grandchil- Roseville, Calif., died on Feb. 20, 1993.* a supporter of local land conservation efforts Betty Snowden Marshall '31, dren. and a longtime member of the Lake Morey Virginia Fox McClintic '55, Los Hampton, N.H., died on Nov. 21, 1992.* Protective Association. She was active with the Betty Linscott '32, Woburn, Mass., Alamitos, Calif., died on April 29, 1992.* Connecticut College Alumni Association, Hortense Bryant Nelson '62, Groton, died on Jan. 23, 1993. Survivors include a serving as president of the Class of 1941 until Conn., died on March 29, 1993.* niece and a nephew. her death. She also volunteered for the United Lillian Greer Glascock '35, Brookfield, Annette McBride Belton '68, Groton, Way, American Cancer Society and the Heart Conn., died on March 23, 1993. Ms. Belton Conn., died on Jan. 4, 1993. The widow of Fund. Survivors include her husband, Philip F. Terrell Glascock, she is survived by one son; was employed at Pfizer Inc. for the past 25 Leach; five children and 11 grandchildren. years as a scientist in animal research, last one daughter, Ellen Glascock '67, of Kearny, Sylvia Mary Martin Utke-Ramsing working in July 1992. She is survived by her NJ.; and a granddaughter. '42, Alexandria, Va., died on Feb. 21, 1993. Jeannette Brewer Goodrich '36, mother, Cora Hardiman McBride; one son; Mrs. Utke-Ramsing is survived by her hus- Hickory, N.C., died on Jan. 14, 1993. one daughter and one grandchild. band, Ret. Cmdr. USN Verner Utke- Preceded in death by her husband, Schuyler Ramsing: two sons, one daughter and four Family members, classmates, fellow alrlUmi arId Goodrich Jr., she issurvived by two sons. friends may make a memorial gift through the Emily Lewis Wieland '38, grandchildren. Marjorie Meyer Riviere '42, Pittsburgh, Connecticut College AlIlwal Fund. AllY individ- Charlottesville, v«; died on April 10, 1993. Penn., died on March 2,1993. A f0011erboard flal(s) deJigllated by the donor will receive Miss Wieland worked for the U.S. member of the Children's Home in Pittsburgh, Ilotificatioll cif the gifi. TI,e flame of the memorial- Government, holding several overseas assign- she was a volunteer at the Harmarville ized person and the donor will be listed it! tile ments. She was a member of the Leesburg Rehabilitation Center and a member of the college's Honor Roll if Giving. Please send checks Garden Club for several years and wrote a Fox Chapel Episcopal Church. She is survived payable to CotmectiCHt College, clearly indicatillg social column for the Lolld01H1 Times-Minor- by her husband, Nicholas Riviere jr., four the /lame and address of the pers0l1(s) to be 1I0tified, She issurvived by three first cousins. to: Conneaicut Col/ege Deveiopmou Office, 270 Carol Moore Kepler '38, Forest, Va., daughters and nine: grandchildren. Jane Bakken Beetz '43, Newburyport, Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320. died 011 Feb. 6, 1993. A poet, Mrs. Kepler Mass., died on Feb. 6, 1993. Mrs. Beetz taught was a member of the Piedmont Literary *Full obituary unavailable at time of publication. art in the Watertown, Conn., schools before Society.She alsoserved as a classagent for the becoming a full-time teacher in Waterbury, Class of '38. Survivors include three sons, a Hymnals lor Harkness Chapel Conn. She was active in Girl Scouts and with daughter, eight grandchildren and a sister, Alumni and other members of the col- the Waterbury Area Council of Churches. Ethel Moore Wills '41, of Northport, Mich. lege community are invited to make a Survivors include her husband, Paul Beetz; one Barbara Brasher Johnston '40, donation to help purchase 200 new hym- Savannah, Ga., died on Aug. 22, 1992. daughter, one son and a granddaughter. Betty Crouch Hargrave '43, Rochester, nals for the chapel. Owner of the Johnston Beach Apartments in A bookplate will be placed in each N.Y., died on April 9, 1993.* Cocoa Beach, Fla., Mrs. Johnston sold real hymnal to indicate by whom it was Ruth Remsen Roberts '43, Gainesville, estate, owned and operated the Cocoa Beach donated or in whose honor or memory Pla., died on April 9, 1993. Mrs. Roberts is Nevvs Center and briefly held public office. the gift was made. The new hymnals will survived by her husband, Dan Roberts, of She retired to Savannahin 1982. Widowed in replace those from Yale UniversairyPress Gainesville; her stepmother, Edna Remsen; 1953, she is survived by one son and one that have served the chapel since 1956. A one daughter and two SOilS. daughter. revised 1992 edition, A NelVHymlwlfor Mary (Meemie) Flagg Chappell '46, Evelyn McGill Aldrich '40, Littleton, Colleges and Schools, designed to meet the Dallas, Texas, died on May 1, 1993. The Mass.,died on March 13, 1992.* inter-faith and ecumenical needs for wor- granddaughter of noted artist, Charles Noel Janice Thralls Hayn '40, Las Cruces, ship services in academic communities, is Flagg, Mrs. Chappell is survived by one N.M., died on Feb. 20, 1993. Mrs. Hayn and now forthcoming. The cost for each her husband of 52 years, Lloyd Hayn, spent daughter, two grandsons and two stepsons. Her husband, William Chappell, died in 1983. hymnal is $25 most of their married life in Keene N H Thank you for helping to procure this Joyce Bailey Kaye '50, Jacksonville, Fla., before retiring to LasCruces in '79. S~mTi~o~ new resource for worship at Connecticut died on jan. 8, 1993. Mrs. Kaye was the exec- include her husband, three sons, four grand- College. For more information, contact utt.v~ administrator of the Plastic Surgery children and one great granddaughter. StepheH R. Schmidt, Chaptain qf the College. Allayne Ernst Wick '41, Gates Mills, Clinic of jacksonville. She was a member and

CD July / AllgUJI 1993 By the fall of 1993,

Connecticut College antici-

pates having at least eight fully "We gave a endowed chairs and eight that are partially endowed.

However, we lag behind

almost all of our peer institu- ""'-'...... thatwon't tions in endowing chairs, and • • this discrepancy can affect our " ability to draw the best and stop gIvmg. brightest faculty, as well as to recognize and honor our cur-

rent teacher-scholars.

Building the endowment is

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way to support outstanding

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ment is used for financial aid,

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maintenance. "WHEN IT WAS TIME for the Class of 1943 to choose a 50th For more information Reunion gift, President Gaudiani and the development staff about endowing a Connecticut College professorship or other explained how endowed professorships, or 'chairs,' support endowment opportunities, the growth and strength of Connecticut College in two ways: please contact Stewart

they help us attract and retain top teacher-scholars and they Saltonstall '82, Director of create new positions the college could not otherwise afford. We Development, Becker House, elected to fund an associate professorship, so that the college Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, could promote or hire a 'rising star.' We can't have a great New London, school without continuing to attract the best faculty rr CT 06320 o'' .: - Phyllis Schiff Imber' 43 203-439-2403,· • .' Last Look Lawn patrol

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