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Contents July / August 1993 ConnecticutCollegeMagazine 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. • July / Au,.eusl '1993 _forT40rd 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.