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Volume 79 Issue 2 Spring 1990 Article 1

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AL UMN I , PARENTS F R IEND S C2 ME N TARy

In the spring of 1989, a group of Colby students formed to instill in all students who pass through the curriculum. the Colby Military Affairs Club. This organization came I feel that these charges are untrue. The military about in response to growing interest among Colby stu­ officer who is the product of an ROTC program is charged dents in careers in the United States military. Our current to make decisions, to manage both troops and advanced membership includes over 20 students. In addition to a equipment worth millions of dollars. The military, while Veterans Day ceremony at the memorial flagpole and requiring respect for the chain of command, does not bringing a number of speakers to campus, one of our want robots who are incapable of independent action. goals has been to convince the College to allow Reserve The officer must be able to meet problems head on and Officers Training Corps to be a part of the Colby educa­ solve them quickly. He or she must show initiative and be tion once again. a leader. ROTC left Colby in the early 1970s in the wake of Additionally, an ROTC program at Colby would antiwar protests and lack of student interest. An ROTC help to add to the already diverse offerings on campus. It detachment had been at the College for over 20 years, as is also important to note that ROTC offers full or partial I am sure alumni from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s will recall. scholarships to cadets, which can help ease the financial Now, almost 20 years past the close of the Vietnam burden of attending the College. conflict, the soldier's job is once again being seen as a The potential benefits of ROTC at Colby are obvious. noble and patriotic one. As many of America's youths Officers educated in a liberal arts environment have the discover the benefits of the military, the time has come benefit of a diverse education, which they can apply to when inviting ROTC back to campus must be seriously military command. Furthermore, their fellow students investigated. will be exposed to and learn about the military within an Currently, students who wish to participate in ROTC educational framework. Colby cadets would offer much must travel over an hour north to the University of Maine to the College as students, and upon graduation they at Orono once a week, at their own expense, in order to would offer much to the military as officers. As Dr. Lee attend classes. Registration costs and miscellaneous fees Dryfus, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, said for Colby students add up to over $200, which is in when asked about the relationship between ROTC and addition to Colby tuition. No credit is given for ROTC higher learning, "ROTC is not the presence of the military classes at UMO, and they are not recognized by Colby in the university, but rather the presence of the university until the final transcript. All of these factors taken to­ in the military." gether make ROTC an impossible choice for many inter­ This is an issue of great importance both to the ested students. students and to the College as a whole. The Colby Mili­ A Colby Military Affairs Club poll, which was an­ tary Affairs Club encourages alumni, parents, and friends swered by more than 700 students, showed that over 80 to direct comments or questions either to us, to the Colby percent were in favor of an ROTC program at Colby. administration, or to Colby magazine. President's Council, the all-campus student governing body, voted to recommend that the College allow ROTC David 5. Jorgensen '92 back on campus. Clearly, many students are in favor of this move. On the other hand, some of the faculty have opposed "Commentary" does not necessarily represent the editorial ROTC at Colby on the grounds that it does not fit in with position of Colby nor the opinion of College officers. Readers the liberal arts college philosophy. They charge that the are invited to submit proposals or opinion essays of between 500 military inhibits a student's ability to think critically and and 800 words to the editor, Colby, Waterville, Maine 04901. make independent decisions-attributes that Colby seeks The editor cannot guarantee publication of every submission. CO NTENTS

l\b.FEATURES

22 Cowboy Style ... China Rising Unusual furniturefor the most elegant bunkhouseis crafted One year after the massacre in Tiananrnen Square, Colby by David Burke '56. publishes passages from Professor Lee Feigon's new book ll. on the background and prospects of the democracy move­ utl ment in China. ht k DEPARTMENTS .a:i l2 The Student Democracy Movement and the Chinese Media Commentary (inside front cover) lid Scott Chaplowe '86 reports on the media's reporting of

events in Nanjing in 1988-1989. 2 Eustis Mailroom

l4 Pondering Mediocrity 3 News from the Hill ilie The results of a survey by Sara Shaw Rhoades '64 : Colby Ii];. educators in the Class of 1964speakout about a "rising tide 6 Ex Libris rui of mediocrity" in American education. I� 24 Class Correspondence The Resurrection of the l8 Weatherly Jennifer Jorgensen Hill '83 tells how she and her husband 42 Milestones restored and returned an America's Cup-winning yacht to the sea.With sidebar: Tom Whidden '70, Master Tactician.

�I Volume 79, Number 2, Spring 1990 101. :olb published quarterly for the alumni, friends, parents of students, seniors, faculty, and staff of Colby College. Address correspondence to the editor, ion y is ::olby, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901-4799.

Editor: Robert Gillespie; Assistant to the Editor: David Weinstock; Director of Publications: Bonnie Bishop; Production Editor: Martha Freese Shattuck; Editorial Interns:Jill C. Cote '90, Julie Marks '90, Graham A. Powis '90; Photography: AlanJ. LaVallee (cover); The Colby Echo (p. 3), Dick Maxwell (p. 4), Robyn Glaser '90 (p. 5), Marlene Chapman, Impact Visuals (pp. 8-9, 10-11), Scott Chaplowe '86 (p. 13), Courtesy of Weatherly, Inc. (pp. 19, 20, 21), Courtesy of L.D. Burke '56 (pp. 22, 23), Phillips Studio (p. 29), Courtesy of Michael Farren '59 (p. 32), Courtesy of Lynn Coody 74 (p. 37), Colby College Oracle (p. 40), Courtesy of Lauren Siegel Goldman (p. 42), Colby archives (pp. 43), Courtesy of Ruth and David Casto (p. 77 44).

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�n the cover: Johnson Pond in the morningmist was photographed by Alan J. LaVallee. Unlike many of Maine's thousands of lakes and ponds, Johnson Pond is still relatively pristine and unpolluted. According to Associate Professor of Biology Russell Cole, state fish and wildlife authorities have used the pond as source of fish-breeding stock that is comparatively free of parasites. Cole's students have been studying the impact of agricultural run-off, dear-cutting of c1 forests, and acid rain on the biology, chemistry, ecology, and water quality of lakes in the Waterville area.

COLBY 1 AILROOM

Boot Boot-Camp Colby Baptist Appreciation issue is a case in point: not only a fine choice of topics covered in the President's Report and I am not in the habit of writing letters to I have been too busy to keep in touch but the faculty back-up of the issue and an publications to express my point of view, but want to express appreciation for the 1988 fall amazing compendium of information about I feel the need to do so after reading "Faculty issue of the Colby magazine on the 175th the people and committees of the Colby Convocation Seeks Out Heart of Liberal Arts anniversary-especially the article on the "community" but also a flavor of enthusi­ Education" in the summer 1989 issue of Cur­ significance of the Baptist contribution. asm that comes through in the delightful rents. The article reports on a faculty seminar Working on the Baptist Mission Board, I profiles of f;iscinating alumni. and gives the impression that Colby in the have been well aware of the contribution of Altogether a great job. And it must be a j year2000 should be a placeofacademic learn­ Colby alumni like George Dana Boardman, massive, painstaking one: there's an awful ing and nothing else. It quotes a professor: and I have been closely associated with lot of type in there. "The only way to change 'Camp Colby,"' she Central Philippine University, where Dr. I hope it doesn't taint the objectivity of declared, "is to change it to 'Boot Camp Rose of Colby made a tremendous contribu­ these comments when I say my initial inter­ Colby!'" !would have hoped that a statement tion. est comes from the involvement of mydaugh­ like this would need no response but I see ter and son-in-law, Doug '58 and Judy In­ now that it does. Russell E. Brown '44 gram Hatfield '60. When I arrived at Colby as a freshman Norristown, Pa. for my COOT trip, I was rather nervous. The Osborne F. Ingram friends I made on the trip and the experiences Untainted Objectivity Cohasset, Mass. we shared helped break the ice. They helped mold my first year and therewith my whole Once again I can't resist a note of commenda­ Editor's note. We received a personal letter from College experience. This could not have been tion to the people responsible for Colby Alexander Zakharov, one of the 1988-89 ex­ possible if academics had played a major role magazine ... and other Colby publications as change students from the Soviet Union. Alex on the trip. Nonetheless, the article suggests well. I believe I have written before in this concludes, "I have such fabulous reminiscences a "lack of an academic component in the vein, but I continue to admire the quality of of my year in the U.S. Hope to come back some College's much-heralded COOT orientation content and appearance of the magazine and time! Remember you always with gratitude and trips." can believe that it must serve the institution warmth!" All your friends at Colby say, "We I ask, why are they much heralded? well in encouraging alumni interest. The fall miss you, Alex. Come back soon." Because the originators of the trips realized the importance of teaching incoming stu­ dents early that college is not only academics. The article seeks to refine Colby's liberal arts education but fails. It fails because the author forgets that the student coming to Colbyneeds to grow not only academically but socially as well. This mistake is not new to Colby. I remember it well from my freshman and sophomore years. I do not advocate "Camp Colby." I would rather see that, however, than "Boot Camp Colby." What Colby needs is a good mix. Some of the most important things a student should learn are how to make friends, inter­ act with people, and enjoy life even under high pressure (academic or career). These should be among the goals of a liberal arts education. Shouldn't they be added to the "10 Objectives of a Colby Education"?

Michael T. Dobbs '86 Hamburg, West Germany

"Classnost"-Henrietta Yelle '86 with the bride Karen Zolnay Latham (Bowdoin '89) and bridesmaid Holly Harwood Ellerton (Bates '85).

COLBY 2 _....,M1 s FR 0 M

tan Nicholson Leaves Colby .fter Nine Years' Service �

>ne day Colby's Administrative Vice Presi­ ent Stan Nicholson and his son Bruce '84 1ere watching birds near the campus. Bruce • ·ained the binoculars on a bird that hcholson suspected was a rufous-sided 1whee. (It turned out to be a rosy-breasted 1 ·I rosbeak.) "I think," said Bruce excitedly, it's a mountain puffin!" One bird almost as rare as the nonex- 1. ;tent "mountain puffin" is the scholar- t dministrator-a person who successfully 1 d ridges the gap between a college's faculty nd its management team. Stan Nicholson is ne outstanding example of the breed. Jicholson recently announced that he will tank" positions. Stints in igeria, Colombia, practical decisions about where to place new ?ave the College in July after nine years of Brazil, and Washington led him eventually buildings and parking lots and how to re­ ervice. to the post of director of the U.S. Interna­ plant blighted trees, Nicholson studied the Stan Nicholson introduces himself as tional Communications Agency's Office of history and meaning of Colby's campus t9 The Dean of Stuff." He is responsible for Academic Programs. But in 1981 that post architecture. (His article "The Plan for a New A :olby's entire infrastructure of "stuff," in­ was given to a political appointee, and Colby" appeared in The Colby Alumnus, lvding budgets, buildings, dining service, Nicholson left government service. March 1987.) r:1 ; omputers, communications networks, Nicholson first saw the Colby campus ln his hobbies as in his work, Nicholson ummer programs, and more. "I like to run at Freshman Parents Weekend in 1980 while is drawn to ideas. A dedicated birder, he has i i hings," says Nicholson. visiting son Bruce. He also dropped in on often been seen pausing on his walk to work By all reports, he has run them well. One President Cotter, whom he had known in to scan the skies. And birdwatching led him ong-tirnestaff member described icholson Colombia, where Cotter directed the Ford to an interest in the complexities of taxon­ _ ts an efficient administrator and an amiable Foundation's Colombia/Venezuela office. omy and to the evolutionary theories of Ste­ nan. Another said, "Stan's an absolute pleas- icholson began asking many questions ven Jay Gould. "I pick up a new avocation 1re to work with. He has a strong sense of the about the College. "If you're really inter­ every two years or so," says Nicholson. argermission of the liberal arts. But he's also ested," said Cotter, "why don't you apply "When I first came here, we lived on Pung excellent day-to-day administrator. for a job here?" Hill. My father was a logger-I knew all 1n :om mittees are a fact of life at Colby; Stan icholson joined the Colby administra­ about cutting trees down and sawing them �nows how to listen to people and build a tion a few months later. There was much up. But I didn't know much about the trees ·onsensus, and he has a good sense of where work to be done. A potentially disastrous themselves. I got biology professor Tom le wants to end up. Take the Computer policy of" deferred maintenance" was ended, Easton to walk me around my property to :::enter. He'll tell you that lots of other people and vital upkeep tasks were resumed. Fac­ teach me about my trees." ieserve all the credit, but I wouldn't buy ulty, who had begun to regard administra­ The icholsons' first stop after leaving hat. There has always been a guiding hand tion budgets as obscure, needed to be brought Colby will be the family's newly built rustic, here-Stangave enormous support so they back into full participation in the budgeting hand-hewn log home-too big to be called a .::ould make the big decisions. Stan's leaving process. College dining services needed to cabin-near the Mission Mountains of their a real loss for the College-we'll be hard­ address the opportunities posed by the new native Montana. The family built the home, s :>ressed to replace him." residential program, and student dissatis­ which is perched on a mountainside over­ Nicholson graduated from the Univer­ faction with the service had to be reversed. looking a lake, as a summer project. ·ity of Montana in 1958 and went on to Nicholson, characteristically, jumped in What then? Is Colby's chief administra­ tor ready for a run at the Montana governor­ 5raduate studies at Duke. He earned a Ph.D. with both feet. "It helps ifyou really care," he n economics with a thesis on the develop­ says, "if you really think that education is ship? The Dean of Stuff smiles but denies ment policies of the government of Ghana. important. When you think that what pro­ any political ambition. ''Montana has meant After a year of teaching at William and Mary, fessors do is important for the world, it's a lot to us over the years. We want to contrib­ he entered the world of U.S. foreign aid and easy to do the work to keep the place run­ ute something there before we retire. We'll fhird World economic development policy. ning." go back, take a look around, and see what Like many other development econo­ Nicholson's style has been character­ needs to be done." mists, Nicholson moved back and forth be­ ized by a deep involvement with the ideas - tween government, university, and "think behind the facts. Faced, for example, with ow COLBY 3 Maine Event

Colby was host to its annual "Maine Even�' t Pre last November as high-school students from 1 das Kittery to Madawska, Maine, their parents, Coll and their guidance counselors were invited Art to the College to find out more about the het admissions process. Those attending m et to with Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid i. sr Parker Beverage, toured the campus, visited . ds1 classes, discussed financial aid prospects, ,ICh1 and enjoyed a luncheon in the Student Cen- in 10 ter. Assistant Dean of Admissions Jennifer _ tud Rubin '87 said, "We want to attract as many 11StX' qualified applicants from Maine as we can." pror Some Maine stud en ts assume that Colby �v( is beyond their means academically or eco- Co nomically. In fact, Maine students q l ua ify Ill for financial aid at twice the rate of o t u -of- 1 llli state students, and the amount of aid t e h y nme1 receive is about two thirds of the total cost of ea a year at the College. "The Colby storywe ion· tell during Maine Event can be a real eye gr. opener for students and their families," Rubin •I ei said. Sixty-six students from the Pine Tree state, many of whom participated in last lib\' The Elephant's Child Wentzel and the dancers had begun. year's Maine Event, are now members of the The tour gave the dancers the rare Class of 1993. Said Rubin, "In recent ye rs a lu The Colby Dancers took the chill out of winter opportunity to perform for an audience of we have found the !"fame Event to be a very 1 handy way to fam1hanze as many college- mol during Jan Plan with a heartwarming per­ children between the ages of 5 and 12. Anx­ , .r bound seniors as possible with the unique formance of Rudyard Kipling's "The ious at first, Wentzel and the cast and crew . hi 1 Elephant's Child." Under the artistic direc­ wondered how the children would receive opportunities Colby has to offer them." · tion of Adjurict Associate Professor of Per­ "The Elephant's Child." Would it be clear? forming Arts C.M. Wentzel, eight dancers Would it be engaging? The crowds of chil­ from Colby's Performing Arts Department dren erased all doubt, however, as perform­ toured 26 elementary schools in Central ance after performance they sat mesmerized Maine in only 15 days. The thrust of the by the sight of animals talking and dancing. Scholarship Fund project was to encourage a closer relation­ The children surrendered themselves to the ship between the Colby community and story of the elephant who, "full of insatiable surrounding areas by sharing the fantasy curiosity," goes to the river to find out what More than $16,500 has been that Kipling created in one of his Just So the crocodile has for dinner. The crocodile Stories. catches the elephant's child's short snout contributed to a scholarship The production developed out of between his teeth, "his nose began to fund established by family Wentzel's fall semester course, "Dance Rep­ stretch"-and thereby hangs a, well, a nose. ertory," in which she experimented with the Jessica Maclachlan '92's elephant's child, and friends in memory of dancers and choreographed the show. This Jennifer Barnicle '93's hippo, Sara Regan early preparation made intense touring '93's baboon, Renee Blanchard '91's kola­ Ray B. Greene, Jr. '47. possible soon after Christmas vacation. kola bird, Jill Soper '93' s giraffe, Hillery Hugg The scholarship will support Additional efforts came from Bruce '93's ostrich, Marah Silverberg '92's python, Villineau '93, the business and tour man­ and Lucy Yeager '93's unforgettable croco­ exce llence in education, and ager, who arranged all bookings at the area dile blended into a delightful portrayal of additional contributions to schools, and Aaron Kielhack '93, the cos­ make-believe. tume and prop coordinator, who attended to The successful tour of "The Elephant's the fund are welcome. special handling of the costumes. The keen Child" lifted the Colby Dancers as well as the and clever eye of Adjunct Associate Profes­ Performing Arts Department to special sor of Performing Arts Richard Sewell trans­ heights. Artistic director Wentzel believes Contributions may be sent to: formed everyday objects like a pillow into a that dancers are not merely silent beings­ Ray B. Greene Jr. '47 Fund hippo's head and blue styrofoam egg car­ they have speaking voices as well as the % Annual Giving tons into a believable crocodile. Careful voice of bodily movement. Last January the Colby College sewing, gluing, and stapling by performing Colby Dancers mastered both. Waterville, ME 04901 arts students Sue Gouws '91 and Tara McDonough '92 completed the magic that Karen Cuiffo'90

COLBY 4 Deserving Words

Into Professor Sandy Maisel's Government 111 class they marched-President William R. Cotter, Dean of Faculty Robert P. MacArthur, Associate Dean of Students Joyce McPhetres Maisel, members of the Depart­ ment of Government. Maisel-for once­ was speechless. Were they going to have words? In fact they handed him a plaque, which reads: "For extraordinary contribu­ tions to the lives and careers of undergradu­ atestudentsand to the intellectualwelfare of our ociety, the Council of Administrators in Support of Education salutes Sandy Maisel, Colby College, Maine Professor of the Year." Considering that each college or uni ver- ity in each of the 50 states was invited to nominate one professor on the basis of rec­ ommendations from former students and colleagues, Colby allows as how the compe­ tition was pretty keen-as is the award! Congratulations to Sandy Maisel for words well earned.

Colby Recycles Jennifer A/fond '92 gave the push to paper recycling on campus. The high cost of energy, the increasing prob­ lem of air pollution, and our nation's over­ Colby's recyclable paper to the Augusta Stockford, like Nicholson, recognizes the flowing landfills are three of many reasons Mental Health Institution, where, according need to cut down on the quantity of paper why Colby is recycling in 1990. The main to Alfond, patients separate the white from Colby produces. "I just picked up one ton of cause of this attention to retention is the the colored sheets. After Colby's paper is old Echoes last week," he says. And every initiative and perseverance of Jennifer Al- sorted in Augusta, it is delivered to Scott day, announcements are posted on as many - fond '92. Paper's Recycling facility in Winslow. Lewis as 250 bulletin boards; every day these signs After participating in a summer a­ is excited about Alfond's initiative, and by are tom down and thrown away. Alfond and tional Outdoor Leadership School course in attending presentations made by other icholson also are analyzing the feasibility Alaska, Alfond says that she returned to schools and businesses, he has been pursu­ of limiting the College to two six-sided free­ Colby la st September "more envirorunen­ ing ways to make her system even more standing boards found in the Student Center tally aware." Noticing how much paper is efficient. and in the library's "street." wasted and misdirected on campus, Alfond Alfond approached Administrative Vice Nicholson, Alfond, and a "task-force researched and implemented Colby's cur­ President Stanley Nicholson about recycling of three" also would like to see Colby imple­ rent recycling system. Now, according to early last semester. "Jenny asked if the Col­ ment the electronic transmittal of informa­ Keith Stockford, Colby's supervisor of lege would support a recycling effort, but I tion. Nicholson envisions a large TV screen grounds and moving, the College's weekly think we should attack this problem from located between the post office boxes in the waste disposal has been cut by a ton and a both ends. We have to focus on reduction as Student Center's mail room. Like an infor­ ha lf-all paper that is collected, sorted, and well as recycling. If there are 22 people in the mational TY in an airport, this screen would recycled free of charge. Becauseof Alfond's English department," he says, "duplications display a calendar of the day's events. spark and continued dedication, Colby stu­ should not send them twenty-two copies of More pressing than Colby's desire to do dents, administrators, and employees are everyannouncement." Ifdepartments posted the right thing by its garbage are upcoming being sp urred to come up with more new information rather than passing it out and if laws governing waste disposal and the grow­ ways to conserve and recycle. a "read and return" policy were enacted, ing cost of landfills. According to The Colby Jennifer Alfond has seen to it that every Nicholson believes that our paper waste Echo, "Colby is required by a law passed last dorm and department would be a fraction of what it is today. summer to ecycle fifty percent of its solid on campus saves its 1 paper waste. On Fridays, Alfond and six Most helpful and encouraging, says waste by 1994." Currently, according to others go to each building's pickup spot, Alfond, has been Keith Stockford, who has Nicholson, landfill costs are $20 a ton for the then deliver the paper to a storage garage offered her more than just his advice and his College. The prices are set to rise to $80 a ton. behind the Physical Plant facility. Director of vehicles. An environmentalist for most of his One third of this waste is recyclable paper, so Physical Plant Alan Lewis is Alfond'strans­ life, Stockford is eager to see Alfond's plan if the Alfond project can recycle this amount, fer li aison. "We're the recipients of the paper work to its greatest potential. ''We're all new icholson says, it will be saving the College she picks up, and we give it to the GROW at it," he says. ''We attended a seminar at $20,000 a year. gro up in Augusta when they come to pick it Scott Paper in Winslow with representatives up," explains Lewis. GROW in turn delivers from other schools, and we're learning a lot." Cinda H. Jones '90

COLBY 5 i:. JIBRIS

011 effort to fill this gap. Ranging widely and past 20 e rs. King warned that deep eco- All Colby authors areencournged to send books to . � � I el inclusively from World War II to the Reagan nom1c d1v1s1on was iust as great an evil as . the College editor, Colby College, Waterville, , · 04901. Administration, Mr. Weisbrot's cogent sur­ deep racial division, and no scholar or even Maine After review or listing in Ex Li­ 1111n vey describes the better-known events in the casual observer can fail to note, in any bris, books will be given to the Special Collections major · r� Department of Miller Library. South-the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955- city, that the cost of America's failure to heed 56, the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations­ that warning continues to grow every day. Freedom Bound: while also giving full and fair attention to Mr. Weisbrot correctly observes that "the A History of America's Civil Rights Northern activists and commentators, from roots of racial inequality have proved too Movement Malcolm X to Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi deeply embedded in centuries of American Robert Weisbrot Jones) to the social critic Harold Cruse. In history to be washed away" by the refo nn I many instances, such as his depiction of the statutes of the 1960s. Freedom Bound )I�· W.W. Norton & Company, 1990 more generational tensions that troubled the South­ often than not does a praiseworthy 1·ob of $21.95 ·t11a explaining both the familiar and the unhe r- m� ern movement in the early 1960s and of the . f Robert Weisbrot is professor of history at the political ambivalence that marked the Ken­ aided aspects of this chapter from ourreCEnt iO College. The following article by David J. nedy Administration's dealings with South­ history, a history we all should know, if only �h Garrow is reprinted from The New York Times ern black activists, Mr. Weisbrot's accountis better to appreciate the growing economic j � Book Review of December 17, 1989. interpretively astute and superbly phrased .... and ra cial divisions that mark the United The young organizers of the Student States today. As Mr. Weisbrot concludes, "In A Victory Half Won Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were important respects the society's newfound on the cutting edge of the Southern emphasis on racial harmony has been more w For well over a decade the historiography of movement. ..and Freedom Bound astutely por­ rhetorical than real." the civil rights movement has featured many trays what Mr. Weisbrot terms "SNCC's admirable middle- and small-gauge studies. political jou rney from faith to cynicism." His Some have treated particular groups-the account of how "'Black Power' could mean Congress of Racial Equality, the Student all things to all people" is similarly trench­ Emotional Traffic Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-or ant, and he straightforwardly addresses how Ira Sadoff In single leaders, especially Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration and the civil David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1989 n'I Jr. Others have focused on individual lo­ rights movement failed to mount massive or $9.95 cales-Greensboro, N.C., Tuskegee, Ala.­ sustained assaults on black poverty and economic exclusion. King recognized in DirectorofColby'screativewritingprogram, il't or singular events, such as the 1955 lynching i t of Emmett Till or the 1965 Selma voting­ Chicago in 1966 that poverty would be a far Professor of English Ira Sadoff is the author II rights campaign. more intractable opponent than Southern of four previous books of poetry and a novel, Until now, only several books from the segregation, but only in the last six months Uncoupling. Louise Erdrich has written of early 1980s, including Harvard Sitkoff's of his life did he turn his full attention to this new collection, "Ira Sadoff's quiet and Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980 and economic issues. King's growing realization beautiful work illuminates dark corridors of that questions of class were equally if not ardor and memory. Emotional Traffic is Rhonda L. Blumberg's Civil Rights, have a sought to provide comprehensive, single­ more important than distinctions of race moving and hopeful book in which the ed [ volume surveys of the black freedom struggle foreshadowed many of the conclusions that bewildering stuff of childhood is reclaim the after World War II, and readers have not had analysts such as William J. Wilson have re­ and, in focused and vibrant language, a dependable, scholarly introduction to the cently reached regarding black America's achievement of love is celebrated." Poems civil rights era. economic bifurcation and decline over the from Emotional Trafficare reprinted here. Robert Weisbrot's Freedom Bound is a commendable and often beautifully written My Wife's Upstairs

My wife's upstairs, hard at work. I don't understand what she thinks about in that tiny room looking out at the appie trees, an ordinary field, a thread of stream. She's thinking of something else.

It's a dreary day, though the foliage makes its first appearance on the locust trees, bales of hay

COLBY 6 stacked neatly by the farmer's barn. even though I miss the roller coaster rides 1973. Canberra, Australia: Australian a­ She's thinking of something else. with Wanda, tional University Press, 1977. Su rrounded by books, strands of hair even though I want my old love letters back From penal colony to modern multieth­ I imagine in her eyes, a gaze to admire my handiwork and my sincerity, nic metropolis, Sydney's history is revealed she offers the window, a distance all her in the criminal behavior of its people. A own. I'm ready for the afternoon snow, pioneering tudy of urban history and crimi­ the way it rests on the birches nal justice. Those books are long journeys, like epaulets on the lieutenant's shoulder train rides through the Urals, in the Tolstoi novel I've been reading. Grabosky, Peter . '66 and John Braithwaite. parlors in which lovers meet I'm prepared to consider injustice Of Manner_ Gentle: E11forceme11t Strategies of but ca n't openly speak. In the next room, from the wing chair as well as the picket line, A11stralia11 811 i11ess Reg11latory Agencies. Mel­ parents, the police, a nosy concierge. I can accept your invitation to the present bourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, Several kinds of intrigue. the way the Duke of Windsor 1986. She's so quiet as to be invisible. might accept an invitation to the prom, Has any society made a quicker dash the way Anna Karenina, wakened from the from frontier lawlessness to bureaucratic I put my ear to the door, nightmare control than Australia? A fascinating typol­ every sense alert. So close of love, might rest her head on my shoulder, ogy of Australia's regulatory agencies, from J can almost feel her pulse and breath. stretch her legs, accept this once, my kiss on "benign big guns" to "diagnostic inspec­ But my wife's far away in that room, the neck. torates." out of the ordinary, fills that space with longing, the aroma of fallen apples, Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith the space a single room can't hold. Other Noteworthy Books '73. Jackson Pollock: A11 American Saga. . iew by Alumni and Faculty York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1990. A blockbuster \A.'ith mass-market ap­ Chase, Evelyn Hyman. Feminist Convert: A peal, this controversial new biography of the Now Portrait of Mary Ellen Chase. Santa Barbara, first great American modern-art star chron­ Calif.: John Daniel & Company, 1988. icles Pollock's emotional fragility and ex­ Now that I'm past my prime, Essayist, biographer, teacher, the au­ plosiveness and his attraction to art styles past the time when Byron, Keats, and Poe thor of nearly 40 books, Mary Ellen Chase H. with psychotherapeutic overtones. said their eloquent good-byes, '37 was a strong woman who battled with now that I know I'll never play the cello, Betty Friedan, nurtured Sylvia Plath, and Wood, Esther '26. Deep Roots: A Maine Leg­ that my earnest signature inspired several generations of ew Eng­ acy. Camden, Maine: Yankee Books, 1990. won't save the world from nuclear war, land writers. A collection of essays, biographical now that my middle-aged body sketches, and reminiscences about Blue Hill, lives in the same hotel as the adolescent Grabosky, Peter . '66. Sydney in Ferment: Maine, written by a descendant of six of the who bangs on the radiator to complain about Crime, Dissent and Official Reaction, 1788 to founding families. the heat,

COLBY 7 China Rising by Lee Feigon

On the anniversary of the events in Tiananmen desire to break with authority, they still Square last June 4, Colby selects passages from depended on it. And becausetheir demands Professor of History Lee Feigon 's recent book. were unclear, the government was under­ Excerpted from China Rising: The Meaning of standably fuzzy about what to do for the Tiananmen, copyright© 1990 by Lee Feigon, by students-or so it could claim. permission of Ivan R. Dee, Inc. Feigon spent the 1988-89 academic year at People's University in * Beijing and witnessed many of the events of last These middle-aged intellectuals had spring. He has appeared on television and has little idea of what was going on in the stu­ written articles on Tiananmen Square in the dents' minds. They were still trying to per­ Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. suade them to respect the party's authority and to trust its bureaucratic decision-mak­ ing process. The intellectuals may have had By 1949, when Chinese Communists estab­ a better understanding of political realities lished the People's Republic, the student than the students, and certainly they had a legacy in China was a mixed one. On the one better grasp of the workings of democracy, hand, students had conclusively demon­ but they understood nothing about the psy­ strated that they enjoyed sufficient power chology of therebels. While the students saw and prestige to help overthrow a series of themselves as defying tradition, the intellec­ Chinese governments. But their protests had tuals still spoke about respecting the rules of also demonstrated a hollowness. It was not the party .... just that few students grasped the subtlety of The actions of all these prestigious and democratic ideals they claimed to espouse, influential figures helped to change the event but also that they rarely seemed able to act on the square from a student protest into a without first gaining legitimacy from insti­ mass movement. The students welcomed tutions that were anathema to their ideals .... others into their ranks. There was no more Over the years, the students' reliance on linking arms to prevent workers from join­ existing political power to support an inde­ ing directly with them. Work groups and pendent political movement has not worked. factories throughout Beijing mobilized to Chinese students havetoppled governments show their public support for the students. and created a legendary lore about them­ [On] May 16, more than 150,000 people selves, but. ..each of their protest movements surged onto the square .... has created a new organization just as inimi­ For the first time protesters came not cal to student ideas as the one they helped to just as individuals but as part of work units, destroy. their flags and banners waving in front of them. Schoolteachers came, as did govern­ * ment officials and factory workers. Journal­ [The students] professed to want a dia­ ists paraded under the flag of such papers as logue with the government because they the influential People's Daily or even broad­ believed the party could be reformed. All casting stations such as CCTV. People saw they wanted, they implied, was to sit down the official mediaadvocating freedom of the and reason with party officials. But what press and democracy, screaming for the they were really pushing forwas to separate resignation of Li Peng and Deng Xiaoping. political organizations from thegovernment. They did not say so because they did not * wish to alienate the government and were The demonstration on May 17 turned still uncertain how these organizations would out to be the largest mass rally since the be selected or function, or how they would Cultural Revolution and possibly since the relate to etisting institutions. In spite of their founding of the People's Republicof China.

COLBY 8 Students occupying Tiananmen Square before the government massacre surround the "Goddess of Democracy" statue.

COLBY 9 Soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army link arms in front of East Entrance to the Great Hall of the People on April 20, 1989. Facing Tiananmen Square, they attempt to hold back thousands of demonstrators who demanded action from government officials.

COLBY 10 More than a million people, by some esti­ from the provinces had no place to go in mates more than two million, came to Tian­ Beijing and could not suddenly leave town anmen Square, most of them marching with even if they had wanted to do so .... Those who their work units. Outside the gates of might have had time to hop trains would have People's University, eight miles away, the found themselves cut off from the center of entire wide avenue that passed by the school the protest and perhaps exposed to criticism gates was clogged from early morning until from angry local leaders. They were joined in late at night with marchers heading down­ their decision to stay by the masses who came town. Throughout the city, marchers from to the square to help protect this now holy different directions met at every street cor­ space and those who occupied it. ner. One parade would sometimes have to wait for hours until another passed. * The vast, hundred-acre Tiananmen Yet there were practical reasons for the Square was not large enough to accommo­ students to hesitate. Had they attempted to date all the protesters. One demonstration install a new regime (or, more accurately, had would march in and immediately march they acted to retain the regime which Deng back out as another took its place .... Work­ and his allies were ousting), the government ers at the Foreign Ministry marched. The reaction would probably have been even more propanganda workers marched. Peasants severe than it was. marched in from the countryside. Police­ Still, the student's failure to consider such men in uniform marched. Even a thousand a plan is striking. They were willing to in­ uniformed cadets from the People's Libera­ dulge in individual acts of self-expression, tion Army marched. The list of marching exemplified by the student who stood naked government units alone would take up a on a building, shouting, "I am what I am." But whole page. they did not choose to try to overturn a gov­ As the city of Beijing poured into the ernment which had clearly marked them for square, the culture of the students became arrest and detention. Although they had no the culture of the people. Tens of thousands way of knowing that the government's re­ of people began to wear headbands. Others sponse would eventually be as deadly as it put on the pointed hats that intellectuals was, the fact is that for all their talk about were made to wear during the Cultural being rebels unprecedented in Chinese his­ Revolution. Workers, showing their dis­ tory, in the end they simply waited for the gust with the corruption of the 1980s, car­ elders and their henchmen to act against them. ried Mao and Zhou Enlai posters. Folk sing­ What this demonstrates is the students' ers came to the square. Acrobats came. abiding faith in government authority. Al­ Liuming ["urban toughs") swilled beer. though they were rebels, the students re­ A city with its own government and mained such an intrinsic part of the old soci­ garbage disposal units grew up on the ety that they spent their time trying to prove square. Later, as the occupation continued, that they were not counterrevolutionaries, a couple was married there. Others fell in rather than attempting to figure out how they love. People danced and flew kites. Rock might build a new government. singers, such as Cui Jian, performed. The pickpockets normally busy in any crowd in * China suddenly took a holiday. The West­ Shots first were heard about 11 o'clock on ern press began to refer to the event as the the evening of June 3, near the area of the Chinese Woodstock. Xinhua ews Agency. The violence did not begin everywhere at the same time. Convoys * entered the city around 9 or 10 that evening The announcement that martial law and were once again halted by stone-throw­ was about to be declared galvanized the ing civilians who set up blockades and barri­ city even more than before .... People poured ers which forced the troops to stop. This time, into the square not just to watch and dem­ however, the military determined not to be onstrate but to make preparations to de­ embarrassed as in the past. Stung by resis­ fend the students. They marched in an tance, the units were ordered to open fire. orderly fashion, defying the ban placed on When they suddenly did so it was with unex­ such activity by the martial law authori­ pected ferocity. ties .... In retrospect, student leaders who es­ By midnight armed troops with tanks caped to the West have criticized the deci­ and heavy equipment were moving through sion to concentrate all their "symbolic and the city, firing indiscriminately as they went. physical resources" in defending Tian­ They soon reached the square, having blasted anmen. But at the time they had no choice. anything and anyone in their path. Men, The decision was mostly made in the lurch. women, and children sitting on their balco­ Students who had come into the square nies, and sometimes deep in their apartments,

COLBY 11 were slaughtered by the random and uncon­ trolled gunfire of the soldiers. Old men and women, young girls and boys who tried as they had in the past, to sit down in front of the tanks, were brutally run over. Others who kneeled down in front of individual soldiers, pleading for mercy, were machine­ gunned. What the Chinese government had earlier done to Tibet, it was now doing in The Student DemocracyMovement and heightened fashion to the people of Beijing. the Ch ineseMedia * By moving forces into the center of Bei­ by Scott Chaplowe '86 jing, hard-liners may have sought to influ­ ence the way in which certain members of 1988-89 the party hierarchy voted. With their houses Scott Chap/owe taught English in Nanjing in and is currently teaching at Tunghai Um· ya 1989 surrounded by troops who had already versity in Taichung, Taiwan. Following are excerpts from his August letter to Colby. I ri murdered and maimed innocent civilians de1 and students, these leaders may have thought fie twice before casting votes in party meetings Demonstrations first flared up in Nanjing in December 1988, following a conflict between p against those who controlled this military. African and Chinese students over the admittance of two Chinese dates to an African �ti But it was not the ensuring of votes that Christmas Eve party. But the December demonstrations in Nanjing, more than just an , C concerned the party. Deng Xiaoping had outburst of racial tension, were one of many recent indications that the Chinese are a already shown what he and the other older frustrated with their prolonged democratic reform. leaders thought about the importance of votes ...This frustration is understandably most evident in the schools, where teachers and I •w�g within government bodies. What these party students display low levels of enthusiasm, due to a regimen that too often robs the d leaders could not abide was dissent. They individual of motivation, creativity, and satisfaction by gluing the individual to a set 'n may have welcomed the brutality as a way of future. Add to this an impoverished educational system-the Chinese government irn teaching a lesson to dissident party mem­ spends only 2.6 percent of the gross national product on education-in which professors Jlll bers, many of whom had openly supported get paid less than taxi drivers, libraries lack books, and school buildings often resemble [ the students and were now shuffling their abandoned slums, and the students have a lot to be frustrated about. As Minister of feet instead of supporting party policy .. . Education Li Tieyang said in The China Daily, China's official English language newspa· per, "Our education is backward, people's attainments fall short, and the low level of * education has become a major constraint on our country's modernization and reform." In trying to change this culture, were the Chinese government officials were well aware of studentunrest and its potential to students of 1989 attempting a revolution or a spread throughout the country. Fearing a re-enactment of the widespread 1986 student rebellion? The answer is neither. At first they demonstrations for democracy, authorities were quick to use the media to contain the (. lr were simply trying to reform the party. They December demonstrations to Nanjing. On December 30, 1988, a front page article in Tile 1r China Daily read, "Nanjing Conflict Is Isolated Incident." had experienced sweeping economic and [ technological change. They truly believed At first I was surprised that last spring' s pro-democracy movement took as long a that these advances had so altered the it did to spread from Beijing to the other provincial capitals, especially Nanjing. But the people's consciousness that they were ready government media initially had a "hush" on the incidents in Beijing. They used other to accept sweeping political transformations measures, too, such as preventing Beijing students from buying train tickets, so they as well. In making their good-hearted ef­ could not leave the city and spread their movement. With the people as heated up as they forts, the students were naive. The twenty were, however, it was inevitable that the fire would catch .... years of peace and prosperity in which they Since the martial law went into effect, the authorities announced that it was against had grown up had lulled them into a false the law to report, interview, or film without prior written approval from the government. sense of security. They had a feel for technol­ The result had expectedly been a one-sided picture. Now, in the aftermath of the ogy but not for their own past. They were a Tiananmen "turmoil," the government's media monopoly was coordinating a Beijing generation that knew less about their history media blitz. than any that had come before them. They CCTV showed two friendly soldiers in Tiananmen Square eating cookies and r· ent had gone so far that they could not imagine smiling, as amicable as purring kittens, where several days earlier hundreds of innoc · the difficulties they would have in taking the people were ruthlessly slaughtered by guns and tanks. Meanwhile, TV portrayed the final steps. They seemed truly to believe that student demonstrators as "counter-revolutionary hooligans" throwing rocks, destroy­ even as they attacked, somehow, someone in ing military trucks, and "maliciously" gathering around evening bonfires plotting to do the government would come to their aid. more terrible things. Several minutes of footage showed abandoned and burned army They did not understand how much vehicles, while a narrating voice went on about all the terrible destruction the demonstra· r they resembled the students who had gone tors caused in Beijing. This one-sided media coverage didn't mention any of the atrocities before them, or how similar were their suffered by the student demonstrators and innocent bystanders. Instead, it manipulated demands. Most of all, they did not under­ facts and numbers to manipulate the people's minds. stand that political power in China does not [My friend] Karen, in her German English, called it "headwashing." ... Although yield easily .... most of my Chinese friends confidentially called the Beijing media ploy for what it was, I

COLBY 12 they are educated university students and listen to shortwave broadcasts of Voice of America and the BBC. Most Chinese, however, are not liberal and educated university students. Up to 80 percent of the Chinese don't even live in cities like anjing but rather live in the countryside. Too often they don't have access to anything other than government propaganda. As [my friend] Cheryl said, "There are a lot more televisions in China than shortwave radios." On Wednesday night, June 14, there was a big Jiangsu Province farewell dinner, a formal occasion at one of the nicest hotels, for all the foreign teachers who hadn't already left. We were seated at a long table with the government leaders, school officials, and about 100 foreigners. With an interpreter translating, the governor of Jiangsu Province stood up and read a 15-minute speech. Whereas Beijing and Shanghai had both ordered martial law during the recent problems, this did not occur in anjing, the capital of Jiangsu, and we were curious to hear what the governor of this leading economic province in China had to say about those problems. He admitted that the recent "counter-revolutionary disturbances in Beijing were somewhat felt in anjing." But he assured us that our "work, life, and safety are guaranteed." He emphasized that China would overcome its difficulties and was determined to continue its open policy. He acknowledged that many foreigners had left, but hewas confident that "they will soon return to continue China's progress toward reform." The following day, the farewell dinner was broadcast on CCTV ews, with narration implying that foreigners in Jiangsu Province had not left and were content. The sudden rush of foreign teachers and experts out of China following the Beijing killings had been an embarrassment for Chinese authorities and a strong statement against their policies. It impressed upon the Chinese that, despite the propaganda picture, some­ thing was amiss: for some strange reason all the foreigners were leaving. The authorities had been quick to reverse this opinion. A day before the farewell dinner in Jiangsu Province, a front-page China Daily photograph showed smiling foreigners, PLA soldiers, and a farmer with a caption: "Say 'cheese'-two foreign tourists have a picture taken with two People's Liberation soldiers and old Chinese farmer on the Great Wall at Badaling, north of Beijing last week .... " Too soon I boarded the plane to Hong Kong. After 10 months with students and friends, I was unable to see most of them before leaving. It is not the way I wanted to leave China. or did I want to leave for the reasons I did. Then, just before departing, I received a letter from one of my undergraduate students. A quiet girl, she never failed to attend class, even throughout most of the demonstrations. The letter read:

Hi! How are you getting along these day? I'm Jin Lin, one of your students in Stage Four Oral English class. You know, everything will recover soon. In the following days this semester, the students who are still here will began to have class and take exam. The summer vacation is from July 4 to August 20. The other students will make up their lessons after summer vacation. I wonder if our Oral English will be cancel then. I hear you will go back to the U.S.A. soon. So we have no chance to meet again. I feel sorry about it. We just begin to acquaint each other, but we'll have to say goodbye. I will remember the many hours we spent together, I think my classmates will too. Thank you for all the help you give me with my English. To speak with a foreigner for me is the first time, I feel some shy and tense, but your friendly smile give me co.irage. Though we'll soon be apart in the world, we'll still keep the same friendly feeling in our mind. That would be nice.

COLBY 13 Pondering Mediocrity

by Sara Shaw Rhoades '64 Professional educators in the Class of '64 speak on an issue of national concern

All the parents I know want to talk about een had taught junior high age or above-a their children's education-or lack of it. They good vantage point from which to see the are astounded to find that their children end products of our educational system. can't find geographical points of reference Fourteen have worked in public systems, almost grateful for students to attend classor such as Gibraltar or the Panama Canal. They three in private, and four in both. Together to hand in anything." "Stud en ts cannot think are dismayed to see written work-full of they represent a total of 353 years in educa­ globally or critically," complained a univer­ disjointedness and obvious grammatical er­ tion, including administration and school sity professor. rors-receiving high grades. Time magazine board experience. Ten respondents cited a lack of respect recently described the situation in America's I asked my classmates, "What is the for education and teachers as a major contri­ I schools as " A rising tide of mediocrity." Can source of the rising tide of mediocrity in bution to educational mediocrity, and lack anything be done? America's educational system?" The major­ of respect comes not only from students but At our 25th reunion, I learned that ity of answers pointed to today's society. from parents and governments. One teacher more than a quarter of my class has taught at One university professor said, "We've be­ mentioned "an attitude in American socie�· some point, and I felt that this group of come a smug, selfish, spiritually empty that kids' presence in school is not a priori � 1 experienced and intelligent individuals must society ... and are willing to live high off the by taking them out of school to go to the have a great deal to say about the problems hog by borrowing in a way that ensures our Bahamas or Disney World." Taxpayers and in education and perhaps would have some children's penury." A French-language governments withhold funds from educa­ solutions. As class correspondent, I distrib­ teacher observed, "We are increasingly a tion, de-emphasizing its importance by re­ uted a questionnaire to classmates who had pleasure-oriented society." Another French ducing its priority. been involved in education as teachers, teacher cited "too much emphasis on mate­ Many educators in this survey said that administrators, and school board members. rial things, spending money. Kids would parents and communitiesare no longerdoing · Twenty-one responded, with many thought­ rather earn money by flipping burgers so their parts in the educational process. A New provoking comments I'd like to share. they can buy things (not save) than do extra Hampshire teacher said, "Teachers are ex­ Of the 21, six were from Maine schools, research to write a really good paper." A high­ pected to be teacher, parent, and counselor, two from New York, two fro-m Massachu­ school teacher suggested that "a pleasure­ etc., to too many children." She went on to setts, and two from Illinois. The rest were oriented society doesn't much help a pursuit lament the plight of distressed children from from California, Connecticut, Delaware, of excellence." dysfunctional families who cannot function Georgia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Several educators decried a lack of within regular school structure-and who Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. Eight- concern for excellence in the schools. A col­ disrupt it for the rest of the class. Many single ' lege administrator lamented, "Excellence is parents with full-time jobs cannot give much not required or even encouraged." A former attention to their children's education; the English teacher remarked, "Teachers appear schools are expected to pick up the slack. One grammar-school teacher said, "Educa· tors, prone to be over-responsible by nature, have allowed education to be de-empha·

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- sized by allowing schools to assume other roles such as restaurant, health-care pro­ vider, law enforcement agency, recreation center, vocational trainer, and day-care cen­ tivate their intellects and imaginations at ter. Not only do schools de-emphasize edu­ school, and they reallydon't feel likeit. They cation when they overextend themselves, want to change the channel but they can't." but they often do a rather poor job in carry­ Is television more influentialin shaping mgout the other roles. Controllingthe spread American children's valuesthan parents are? at education beyond a certain point a as of drugs is an example of something we've Television spokesmen claim that they only privilege rather than a compulsory right." done pretty badly." reflect society's values,and two respondents Others cited student apathy, passive Television came in for a share of the made the samepoint about schools. "Schools learning, and multiple distractions compet­ blame for the current mediocrity in educa­ are reflections of the communities they ing for students' attention. One writer, work­ tion. "We need only sit and watch one eve­ serve," said one. Another said, "Those things ing in early education, made the startling ning of television to determine where that are valued by society will be priori ties in statement, "I have heard several kindergar­ America's values lie," said one long-time our schools." If the media and the schools, ten teachers say that children are less ready school administrator. "Happiness, accord­ two of the most important socializing insti­ for learning when they enter school than ing to television, means having lots of mate­ tutions in our society, aren't molding soci­ they used to be." Is the breakdown in the rial things and experiencing lots of nice feel­ ety, who is? Where did these lousy values preschool years? And does it carry all· the ings like great sex, great parties, lots of friends, come from? way through? lotsofleisure time, few sacrifices. Happiness Some of my classmates cited lack of A few respondents touched on a fire­ in our society is equated with self-gratifica­ motivation and intellectual curiosity as a cracker issue: educational goals. If students tion." He continued, "Watching televis1 n is source of educational mediocrity and a real need goals to perform well, the same must be itself a part of the vision it sells-kids don't cause of frustration in teachers. "It's difficult true for schools. Who sets the goals for a have to do anything to have fun watching to get students to take charge of their educa­ school system? Of the 21 educators in this television. They don't even have to activate tion," said one. Some students are "just survey, three reported working in systems their imaginations because the producers marking time between ninth and twelfth with state-mandated educationalgoals. Five have done everything for them, provided a grade and are not particularly receptive or were in locally controlled systems, two had picture to see and jokes to laugh at. And, best teachable," said another. "Students have lost teacher curriculum committees, and two of all,if one station isn't gratifying with the the work ethic," said a third. Still another reported that teachers set their own goals. right pictures or enough laughs or enough commented, "Many seem to have lost or Different opinions were voiced on the best violence, simply change the channel! Then never had a love of reading," and a fifth said, goal-setting procedure. Who should decide the next morning the kids are expected to ac- "Many comfortable middle-class students what will be taught? And how can teachers' have little sense of need in terms of educa­ special interests enhance and not detract tion. Perhaps we should be looking at incen­ from overall goals? Most administrators see tives as students progress to the upper grades, a need for prescribed curricula, yet when the state or nation sets goals, teachers seem dis­ gruntled. One teacher pronounced, "I defi- . nitely don't wish to see any solutions legis­ lated from on high!" it)' a r )Jl1 be no homework to be hassled over, no prac­ tices to be driven to. The family could share its evenings and weekends together. If materialism is the issue, how can we If the main issue is what will be taught convince the public that less is better? Can in the schools, the question opens a Pandora's we give our children role models who es­ box of opinions. Many respondents favored Does society need some uniform stan­ pouse less materialism and more commit­ gearing a curriculum to student needs, not dard of education: that is, an average educa­ ment? Maybe only an economic depression state tests. Standardized tests seem to be tion? Or would that lead to a merely average can put materialism in its place. uniformly unpopular with educators. One student? By definition, 50 percent of any If schools are taking on roles that prop­ writer recommended a "return ...to a more population is below average, and in America erly belong to other parts of society, then the structured system, K-12, especially with more we say we don't want anyone to be below role of other parts of society should be re­ required reading, writing, and discussion." average. stored and bolstered. Schools could begin to This would address the problem of college Most of the educators in tl.is survey communicate better with home, church, and entrants who have what one respondent other institutions. Since America's families called "real deficiencies in the basic skills." perceived their school systems as attempting arr seem to have lost track of what to teach, they Many echoed the deplorable lack of basic to prepare students for life after school (only ll( need guidelines on what issues are their skills. one mentioned a community-oriented fo­ /3 private responsibilities. I asked the educa­ When we decide what is to be taught, cus). Our current systems seem to take per­ UI sonal happiness as their starting point. Guid­ tors what should be taught in the home and we need the best people to teach it. A princi­ ance counselors ask, "What do you want to they listed: homemaking skills, manners, pal said, "The schools must attract and re­ do?" and "Where do you want to be?" and respect, values (religious, personal, commu­ ward truly competent, challenging, vision­ promise "We'll help you get there." Is it any ni ty), morals, structure, communi ca tion, sex, ary educational leaders who will lead, cajole, wonder our students are self-absorbed? love, and the importance of the family. push/pull an educational organization Some respondents expressed hope that A few respondents suggested setting through to excellence. Forget the adminis­ the "tide of mediocrity" is not really rising. up entire! y new social insti tu hons, like teach­ trivia; emphasize teaching and kids." One observed, "There are exceptional schools ing agencies where "kids go after school to As for the television problem, none of in urban, suburban, and rural areas. The get homework help, or to be exposed to my correspondents offered a solution! variables necessary for effective schools are aspects of education which haven't been Somehow, somewhere, someone has to known [although he didn't identify them]; taught in school. These places have to be decide what America's children need in order attractive to kids and staffed with kid-cen­ for America to continue as "the land of the what is lacking is the teacher I parent I ad­ ministrator leadership to implement change." tered people." I personally think we may free." I don't think the answer is total free­ Another said, "I am wary of claims that the need to expand school even more: if parents dom for anybody. Rather, it is or should be work from eight to five every day, their total responsibility in each of us-respons1- world is in a perpetual state of entropy, with a1 education high on the list of things that were children should be supervised for the same bility for our relatives (the young, the aged, ( better in the 'Good Ole Days.' Today's stu­ length of time. Can we expand the school the sick), responsibility for our community dents have different concerns from ours and system to include time for homework, or­ (its educational agencies, its health and appear much more eager to acquire market­ ganized athletics, Olympic-style sports, welfare, and its environment), and responsi- able skills than we were. Are they losing out? music and dance lessons, band and chorus, I think they are-but then again, as an Eng­ yearbook production, etc.? Then when fami­ lies reassemble in the evening, there would I lish professor, I have a vested market interest of my own in saying so!" So there is the problem, stated in several ways. How do we fix it? P.J. Downing Curtis, high-school teacher. Josiah H. Drummond, Jr., M.Ed., his­ tory teacher, development and administra­ should be encouraged to follow their pur­ tion. suits, for from these come the philosophy Lauritz . Dyhrberg, high-school and science that change the world. teacher. bility for our nation (protecting its freedoms To make the system work as it should, Charles D. Fallon, junior-high school and rights). Careers should be looked at all leadership roles should be equally re­ teacher and principal. from the viewpoint of "What needs to be warding financially. Of course, it would be Janet Stoddard Gagnon, M.A. (reading), done?" not "What do I want to do?" impossible to raise clergy and teaching sala­ M.A. (psychology), chapter I teacher, grades One respondent looked at another angle: ries to the level of business salaries; there's one to six. "Our present failure rate is 17 percent. Can a not enough money to go around! Then how A. Barney Hallowell, social studies republican democracy function successfully about reducing business and industry sala­ teacher and assistant principal. with a marginally literate and intellectually ries and applying that money to schools and Barbara Carr Howson, French teacher. inarticulate population that size and grow­ communities? Nancy Saylor Kimball, French and a ing?" What does our republican democracy Colby has trained us to make an impact. English teacher. d need to keep it humming into the 21st cen­ We've now had years of experience to aug­ Richard J. Larschan, Ph.D., English to tury? It doesn't take a Congressional task ment that training. One classmate has sug­ professor. t force to find out. It needs an army of workers gested a Colby symposium on education for Martha Farrington Mayo, M.Ed., Eng­ .., who are capable and willing, an army of representatives of all parts of the commu­ lish teacher, vocational rehabilitation coun­ thinkers to make plans, and an army of lead­ nity, and he volunteers to participate. Now selor. ers who can govern and manage. Each of is the time to step forward and significantly Margaret Miller, M.Ed., teacher and thesehasdifferenteducationalrequirements. shape the future. school psychologist: preschool, elementary, Homogeneity isn't the answer. American and high school. education should be a rich and varied tapes­ The following members of the Class of 1964 Kenneth P. ye, M.A.T., Ph.D., princi­ tryas diverse as the nation itself, not a sheet participated in this survey. Several are quoted pal, junior and senior high school. of denim all striving for the same shade of directly; others contributed to the ideas and Martha Schatt Shim, Ph.D., professor of medium blue. attitudes summarized here. early childhood education. Each community has different needs to Joan McGhee Ames, M.L.S., French George M. Shur, university legal coun- be fulfilled, and none should be bound by teacher. sel. someone's vision of "perfection." If West Isaac D. Balbus, professor of political Paul Strong, M.A., Ph.D., English pro­ fessor, acting associate dean of college of I 'J Virginia needs good miners and grocers and science. teachers, then its schools should turn out Penny Wheeler Bradshaw, M.S., re­ liberal arts. good, safe, responsible miners, alert and source specialist teacher with learning dis­ Dorothy Thompson, M.Ed. (reading), shrewd grocers, and capable and challeng­ M.Ed. (special education), reading teacher, It abled students. ing teachers. If coastal Maine towns need Jean Brennon Call, French teacher, grades one to eight. good fishermen and packing house manag­ ) � department chair. ers, then they should teach seamanship, Gail Koch Cooper, M.Ed., chapter I oceanography, business techniques, and local teacher, junior high. hi tory.The cream of the crop in every sys­ tem hould be trained for leadership roles: teachers, town managers, clergy, business and industry leaders. And true scholars

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COLBY 17 The Resurrection of the We atherly

by Jennifer Jorgensen Hill '83

In 1986, my husband and I spotted a small Finally, Weatherly was donated to the $5,000 deposit and flew back East. We quit classified ad in Wooden Boat magazine. The Boy Scouts of Seattle. Not surprisingly, the our jobs (mine as a paralegal, George's a a ad said that Weatherly-a 12-Meter yacht Scouts didn't have the funds to keep her in boat builder and yacht captain), sold our famous for winning the 1962 America's sailing condition. Very few people-in fact, house, and packed up 19 cartons of boat­ Cup-was for sale at a startlingly low price. very few millionaires-can afford to main­ building tools and supplies. Six weeks after We made plane reservations the same day tain an America's Cup yacht. our first glimpse of Weatherly, we returned to and flew to Seattle to see for ourselves. A boat of the 12-Meter class is much Seattle and began the job. In a Puget Sound marina, Weatherly lay bigger than the name suggests; the actual All her systems needed to be repaired, forlorn. Her paint was faded and chipping. size is determined by a complex formula that and it took weeks to get the diesel engine Rust was everywhere. Her once-magnifi­ involves weight, mast height, sail area, and running again. New parts had to be ordered, cent mahogany hull sprouted eight-foot giant other variables. Weatherly measures 68 feet many of them custom made. Rigging had to kelp. The engine was inoperable. None of from bow to stern and 12 feet across the be replaced; sails needed to be repaired. (An the navigational equipment functioned, and beam. She carries 1,840 square feet of sail and entirely new mainsail for Weatherly would the bilges were filled with water from leaks. a great deal of expensive equipment. In short, have cost over $15,000; we repaired the old The only thing that really worked was the fixing her up was not going to be an inexpen­ one for much less.) In the meantime, toilet. we sive project. began to line up charter reservations for the She was a painful sight. Always a strik­ How could we, nonmillionaires both, following summer; our idea was catching on ingly beautiful boat, Weatherly was designed hope to bring Weatherly back from her dis­ already! by Phillip Rhodes and launched at Stamford, mal disrepair? George took a closer look, In late October we set sail up Puget Conn., in 1958. "Weatherly" is a nautical and this time the news was better. His knowl­ Sound to Victoria, British Columbia, then term, denoting a vessel that can sail close to edge of wooden yachts led him to believe south along the West Coast to the Panama the wind without drifting to leeward. She that Weatherly's structural integrity was Canal and into the Caribbean. Our odyssey was a swift craft. Even today's space-age 12- unimpaired. Her white-oak frames were took us through November gales in the Pacific Meter yachts, with their computer-designed solid, her mahogany double-planked hull Northwest, under the Golden Gate to San hulls and high-tech materials, are actually and mahogany plywood deck were sound. Francisco, into Cabo San Lucas and Acap­ only about one-half knot faster than tradi­ Most of the work would be cosmetic and ulco, Mexico. More gales met us in the infa­ tional designs like Weatherly s. In 1962, skip­ ' mechanical, not structural. We decided to mous Gulf of Tehuanapec in January and in pered by Emil "Bus" Mosbacher, Weatherly repair Weatherly just enough to sail her safely the Caribbean in February. had won a 4-1 victory over the Australian to Florida, where she would undergo a more Hundreds of miles out at sea, however, challenger Gretel. complete overhaul and some much-needed the ocean is often serenely blue and the How did this celebrated thoroughbred cosmetic improvements. sunsets colorful. Dolphins and whales put descend into such a wretched state? We knew But historic preservation is an expen­ on many memorable shows for us. By the part of the story and soon discovered the sive proposition. If we were to restore Weath­ time we reached Florida in mid-February, rest. After Weatherly won the America's Cup erly to her former glory, she would have to we were elated that Weatherly had not suf­ competition, she was used as a "training earn her keep. We decided to sail her to fered a scratch. At the same time, good news partner" or pace horse for other Cup defend­ Newport, R.I., traditional home of the came from Australia: Dennis Conner had ers, including Intrepid, which won in 1967 America's Cup, where we would develop a regained the America's Cup for the U.S., and and 1970. In 1970 she was purchased by a unique charter business that would give the story had increased public interest in Michigan businessman, who raced her suc­ individuals and groups a chance to sail on Weatherly. And we had received more in­ cessfully in International Offshore Racing. this historic vessel. The America's Cup has quiries about chartering her during the Next she was trucked overland to Seattle-­ played an important part in Newport's past, coming summer. Our plans were proceed­ illicitly, it seems, along back roads through yet Weatherly would be the only Cup de­ ing on schedule. Canada, to avoid the 13-foot height restric­ fender harbored in Newport and available to Then disaster struck. We arrived at a tion on most American highways-where visitors. West Palm Beach shipyard on March 4, 1987, two other IOR yacht racers bought her. George and I gave the Boy Scouts a a miserable rainy day. The hoist came to our

COLBY 18 slip and began lifting Wea therly out of the water. George and I jumped offand watched the hoisting operation, admiring our boat and feeling relieved to have made the long passage safely. The operator continued lift­ ing her out of the water and swung her O\'er the pavement. Suddenly we heard a huge cracking noise. The hoist gave way and all 30 tons of Wea therly crashed 10 feet to the con­ crete. The moment seemed to last forever. Speechless and disbelieving, we stared at the wreck. In one instant we had lost e\ erv­ thing-the boat, our plans, our drearr:s. Wea therly looked like she had been hit by a bomb. Mast, boom, rigging, and hoist were a tangle of wreckage. A "coffee grinder" -one of the big winches worked by the crew­ smashed through the deck. The boom crushed the steering wheel. The stem-the backbone of the boat-was snapped. Eighty of the mahogany hull planks were cracked, revealing 15 broken frames. That afternoon a crane came in and lifted Weatherly back into the water. And then something remarkable happened-she floated. We towed her to another yard. After long delay waiting for an insurance settle­ ment and temporary repairs with plywood and fiberglass patches, we motored up the intercoastal waterway to Newport. On Narragansett Bay, Weatherly retraces the course of her 1962 America's Cup victory. What had been a relatively simple pres­ ervation job had now become a major recon­ struction project. This time, repairs took nearly a year, and our summer charter pros­ pects were ciashed. We took out a loan and did as much work as possible ourselves to save scarce money. We replaced 80 broken planks, 16 feet of stem, and all the cracked frames. We installed the spare mast and completely rerigged her. Often we worked from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. With champagne and fanfare on June 17, 1988, we finally relaunched Weatherly at

COLBY 19 Newport, where she had seen her glory days in the America's Cup competitions of the late '50s and early '60s. Our first season ended with a healthy charter and racing record. She has won several of the classic yacht races in New England, including Nantucket's Opera House Race, Newport's Classic Yacht Regatta, and the JFKRegatta . Today Weatherly is beginning to pay us back for our work, the star of a c�arter busi- ( ness that has taken some very interesting turns. Our clients include corporate giants as well as interesting individuals, such as the man from Hong Kong who makes Cabbage Patch dolls. In 1989 we developed a corpo­ rate team-building program designed to improve management, teamwork, commu­ I nication, and leadership skills in corporate executives-using Weatherly and another yacht as classrooms. After basic sailing instruction for a par­ ticular task on board, each team member 1 must learn to integrate his or her particular skill with the rest of the crew. Then the new team is put to the ultimate test, a series of races off Newport-complete with mark , '83 '70 Jennifer Jorgensen Hill and Tom Whidden are all smiles following their victory in last starting guns and flags, a racing committee, year's JFK Regatta in Boston. and awards-allowing executives to experi­ ence the excitement of America's Cup racing firsthand. l Weatherly is a significant piece of mari- time history, and George and I are proud to have preserved her and brought her back to 1 ocean racing off New England. ]. Jackson Walter, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, recently wrote in His­ toric Preservation Magazine, Americans II Ir' across the country are translating their con­ cern for beauty and history into jobs and economic vitality." It is satisfying to have created challenging employment for our­ selves while at the same time preserving something of importance from America's maritime tradition.

Originally containing a stateroom and china and linen sets, Weatherly's spartan interior was renovated in 1970 and accommodates 12 people. The view is forward.

COLBY 20 1 1 I

George Hill and Senator Ted Kennedy go over strategy in between JFK Regatta races.

To m Whidden '70,Ma sterTa ctician

When Senator Ted Kennedy chartered Weatherly for the JFK Regatta and sailed into Boston last May, he was mobbed by the press. But racing folk knew that the real celebrity on board was Colby's Tom Whidden '70, a talented yacht-racing tactician. Whidden was Dennis Conner's right-hand man in the 1986 effort that brought the America's Cup back to the United States. His easy-going nature, boyish good looks, and talent have made him a natural celebrity in the sailing world. As tactician, Whidden uses his knowledge of sailing and racing rules to ensure that his boat is in the best tactical and strategic position. According to Whidden, much of a yacht race is won or lost at the starting line. As Kennedy's tactician during the JFK Regatta, Whidden brought Weatherly to the advantage point-the optimum tactical position-€ach time she crossed the starting line. "Never let the other guy get between you and the next mark," Whidden told Jennifer Jorgensen Hill '83. Whenever Northern Light tacked, Weatherly tacked in front of her. From her position in the cockpit during the series, Hill was reminded of the legendary tacking duels of the 1986 America's Cup, won by Conner with Whidden's tactical advice. Despite the gusting winds, Whidden said that Weatherly and Northern Light "really went after each other." Yachting is a total team effort, and every member of the crew played a part. But Whidden's expertise clearly contributed to the fact that Weatherly beat Northern Light in every race of the entire three-day competition. Crew member Bill Cunningham, a veteran racer, also gave helmsman Ted Kennedy his share of credit, too, adding, "He is better than a lot of Maxi skippers I've sailed with."

COLBY 21 Cowboy Style: "Love It or Saddle Up"

by Nicole Plett

David Burke '56 has been mak­ sioned one as a Christmas ing witty furniture for urban gift for the President. cowboys for three years. In addi­ Thus, the first Cowboy tion to the galleries and cities Mirror was instantaneouslv mentioned in the article, he dis­ transformed into the fir;t plays his work in Frederick, Md., President's Mirror. Likemo t of Burke's cowboy line, that Kansas City, Kans.,Aspen, Colo., Rl, C and Scottsdale, Ariz. This article mirror is one of a limited edi­ is reprinted with permission from tion. On its weathered wood Southwest Profile, July 1988. frame it carries an original cowboy homily, lovingly in­ They say a cowboy's home is scribed in tiny steel nails: any place he hangs his hat. "America-Love Her or Saddle Up." How could the Yet if one of these hard-rid­ TOT President resist? ing, hard-living guys were to stor stop punchingcattle and settle Before long, in the inter­ ich est of glasnost, detente, down for a while, cowboy and mar furniture maker L.D. Burke general international rap· hlu III has a few ideas about how prochement, a friend encour­ his spread might look. aged Burke to make a mirror Not much more than a for Reagan's counterpart­ year ago, Burke began to Soviet leader Mikhail . Gor· dream about the words, bachev. The Gorbachev Mir­ deeds, and thehousehold fur­ ror is inscribed with a Rus­ nishings of these mythic he­ sian folk saying and tongue Kits roes of the American frontier. twister, which, roughly trans­ Ill It was then that the first of his lated, means: "The pound­ tc original "beautiful cowboy ing hoofs raise clouds of dust sayings" popped into his across the plains." When the mind. Now, they justkeep on leaders of the two su perpow­ coming. The most recent: "It's ers met this summer in sum­ Always BrandingTime in the mit conference, some people Big City." were wondering whether L.D. Burke III is tall and they were actually compar­ slender, his hair is graying and ing their Burke Cowboy Mir­ he wears round,wire-rimmed rors. spectacles. Burke's expression Burke came to furniture is one of perpetual surprise, making from a 25-year ca- echoed by an impetuous reer in design, which encom­ manner and infectious enthusiasm. On the maybe all overthe world, really. passed graphics, interiors, and architecture. day we meet he's wearing blue jeans and a "Nobody had done cowboy furniture-­ Now, from his workshop and showrooms at ti yet! People think you have to have a model purple Western shirt, with a turquoise ban­ 1716 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe, his ener· !: danna around his neck. He has the lanky to do furniture. Well, there are almost no gies are focussed on functional and decora­ I look of a 19th century cowboy, yet his energy models for cowboy furniture because cow­ tive furniture that reflects the lifestyle and and humor are those of a modern-day city boys didn't have any! So I design furniture aspirations of the Americancowboy-which, fl that's reminiscent of cowboys. I try to do it slicker. In one short year, Burke has become according to Burke, is that of many Ameri· � the self-annointed father of cowboy furni­ with fun and whimsy, like a happy cowboy cans. Burke's work is shown in several Santa ture. might have done it." Fe galleries (Spider Woman Designs, Dewey "I had been making furniture for five Just months after unveiling his cowboy Galleries, and Sombraje among them) and years," he explains, "when I began to recog­ furniture line, Burke attracted the attention he is represented by others in New York, nize the tremendous value of the cowboy in of people in high places. A friend of America's Philadelphia, Washington, Los Angeles, and the American way of life. So many people ultimate cowboy hero-Ronald Reagan­ San Francisco. think like cowboys. Why, the cowboy is a spotted Burke's first cowboy mirror in a Right now, Burke's Cowboy Statement symbol of freedom in the United States, Washington, D.C., gallery, and commis- Mirrors are keeping him especially busy.

COLBY 22 These range from the di­ tractively stored and di::i­ minutive to the gigantic. All played. These include a line of are designed to enhance in­ 0\\ custom wood\\'orking tools, terior living spaces. One of designed by the \lorth\\'ec;t it'i. Burke's largest mirrors, a . 1e ;1 Indians,such a theelbowadL, If ktrr five-by-seven-foot monu­ \·vhichBurke uses to modulate ment, carries the statement, ne 1 the surface of most of hb ted, "Ride Tall-He's Always cowboy pieces. Aged boards Watching," in inlaid Buffalo and lumber is carefully stacked l d \\\ nickles, lavishly embellished in storage racks. The sil\'er­ Jn� ngh with Mercury dimes and gray pine has the weathered ·1 111.. Indian Head pennies. Then look of a cowboy's phy iog­ 'ler there's that other Cowboy nomy . Mirror, the one Burke says "Old wood has history,'' • 1ula a his stores can't keep in stock, explains Burke, "and it al o which reads: "A good has more resin. This aged 1e 111 ltr. « woman islike a great horse­ wood is harder, with fine sur­ faithful ... but hard to lead." face checks. I select the most al r America truly thinks like a weathered pieces for mirrors enc�. cowboy. and trastero frames." l llllII "What I'm talking about Burke uses no nails, only ·rpa�- 1il C. is the real cowboy," says the ancient mortise and tenon Burke, strongly, "not the construction techniques char­ Hollywood cowboy who acteristic of the antique furni­ ture of both Europe and Asia. tonr shoots people. I'm talking He neither fills nor sands the lytrc: about the peaceful cowboy. wood. The folk look of these pour Most of the cowboys that I've pieces is created by layering ,ofdL met are very laid back, in­ colored paint of many differ­ 'hent credibly self-effacing people. They're really dedicated to a ent hues. After the final paint Jel}'f lifestyle, not because they're coat has dried, a light sanding Q mru: macho, but because they're reveals a subtly variegated � pe.:. surface-this is the only time ,_ ·hett in touch with the land and � sandpaper is used. omr the animals and the peace j The final step is Burke's 10y\t that comes with great spaces." "ultimate wood finish," based Among the larger furni­ on antique English models. � Jrnitc ture pieces that have joined Here he forsakes originality for ;ear tried and true beeswax. "This enc(".' Burke's Cowboy line is the 1t itectur Cowboy Headboard. On its richly finished his boots, and his hat-and maybe where the is the finish that's been used by furniture weathered surface, the words "Sweet next meal was coming from. makers for as long as there's been furniture," ·ooiru "And I think it's an issue of responsibil­ says Burke. brush it on and it sets, then I � Us ellt Dreams" appearinhorseshoesinan arc above '1 ity-cowboys were incredibly responsible. buff it to a lustrous hard finish. One applica­ de

S. Sims '28, Santa Barbara, Calif., and learned that Bush Still ready to travel, Ina Hussey • Wey. Dorothy is comforted in the loss of her husband mouth '31, East Vassalboro, hopes to visit Beatrice (April '89) by the joy of her three great-grandchil­ Mullen Campbell '30 in Idaho and then go to dren From some who couldn't make their 60th Alaska with her again Similarly, Myrtle Paine • • reunion in June, we have learned that Frances Barker '31, Watertown, Conn., likes to fly to the Spring greetings! Writing this on a warm Novem­ Weiss '29, Los Angeles, Calif., cherishes her Colby West frequently to keep in touch with her children ber day, I find it hard to think of the vagaries of the memories, which have helped her to endure her and grandchildren Thanks to Philip C. • Th]. winter ahead before you can read about your long illness; she still hopes to see Colby again bodeau '32, Needham, Mass., for returning • his Colby friends and classmates. Maybe by spring AliceJewettGregoire'29,North Whitefield, saved card Elizabeth Haley Brewster '33, Ashevill • e, President and Mrs. Cotter will have retumed from her energy to make a trip to Newfoundland last N.C., and Evelyn Stapleton Bums '33, Norw ay, their sabbatical in England with renewed enthusi­ summer Beatrice Palmer Frederick '29, St. are already making plans to attend their • 60th asm for leading Colby forward into the new dec­ Cloud, Fla., attended her 64th reunion at Maine reunion. Evelyn writes that she enjoys hearing ade. They were certainly excited about the pros­ Central Institute and then spent the summer with about Colby friends and wishes that she could see pects on the day before they left, when they enter­ her sister, Frances Palmer '34, in Pittsfield them more often Nancy Nivison Hamilton'33 • • tained returning alumni on Homecoming Week­ August 16 was a special day for Cecil Goddard North Brooklin, feels that the reunion last June end, October 14. On that occasion we also were '29. He had lunch in Boothbay Harbor with his was one of the best. She said, "Colby does a fine job pleased to learn of the August arrival of Emily, good friends and fellow ATOs: Judge Harold C. of taking care of the Fifty-Plus group." Although daughter of Director of Alumni Relations Susan Marden '21, Boothbay and Bradenton, Fla., emeri­ her husband is a Dartmouth graduate, he has Conant Cook '7S and her husband, Jim '78. Con­ tus member of the Supreme Judicial Court of always been interested in Colby because his father gratulations to the new parents! From our ranks Maine; Henry W. Rollins '32, China and New was a Colby alumnus and trustee Donald '33 • • we take note of a We well lived and extend sympa­ Smyrna Beach, Fla., trustee emeritus of Colby; and and Dorothy Gould Rhoades '36, Claremont, thy to the family of Ralph K. Harley, Sr. '20, Ludy Levine '21, Waterville, benefactor of Colby. Calif., had the dream of a lifetime fulfilled when Hanson, Mass., age 94 Thanks to the green cards They had a good lunch prepared by the judge's they toured England and Europe this past fall for • that have been so gratifyingly returned, we have housekeeper, had their picture taken, and enjoyed six weeks. They visited Yorkshire and the Lake much to report. Hazel Dyer Town '22, Peaks talking about Colby and fraternity days Verna District as well as London, visited friends in France • Island, keeps in touch with Daphne Fish Plum­ Green Taylor '30, Saco, must have the proverbial and Austria, and toured special places in Switzer· mer '22, South Freeport Grace Johnson Grant green thumb, for her garden is "one continuous land Sometimes it takes a special family event • • '21 and her husband, Wendell F. '23, have chosen delight from early spring to late fall." She has to cause us to cross the country; thus, Ruth Hallin· to return to New England after having lived in the enjoyed frequent visits from Louise Armstrong ger Slaven '33, Westmont, N .J ., went to San Diego, Sunshine State for 26 years, and now that they are Ray '30, Waterville, who comes to Saco often Calif., last May to attend her second great· • in their 90s they enjoy their new home in Whenever Ethel Rose Liberman '30,SilverSpring, granddaughter's christening. She wishes to say Portsmouth, N.H., near their children Her Md., and her husband travel, they hope to meet "Hi!" to her friends and classmates from 1929 to • friends were sorry to say farewell to Hazel A. fellow Colbyites Wallace W. Meyer '30, Palm 1933. Also, she wonders if Colby women still ride • Drew '22, Boston, last May. And we regret also to Harbor, Fla., deserves better luck than he had a horseback and go skijoring in winter. "We did itl" note the loss of Stanley Estes '23, North Cam­ year ago, when he found his permanently located she says When George S. Mann '34, Houston, • bridge, Mass., and Richard J. Pike '24, Winthrop, travel trailer flooded in the storms of September Tex., wrote that he had roomed with Harold Mass., last summer Nellie Pottle Hankins '25 and November 1988. With the help of a commer­ Plotkin '34, Marblehead, Mass., he failed to • say and her husband, John, are still enthusiastic about cial cleaning company and willing friends, he whether or not he helped Hal with news for the their reunion last June, when they were delighted managed to get it cleaned and back to normal as "Plotter's Column"' Leslie R. Rhoda '34, • to see several classmates, such as Class President well as raise it seven inches. He was consoled by Houlton, spends her winters in Pinella Park, Fla., Russell Squire, Fairfield, Doris Hardy Haweeli having an almost completely "shirtsleeve" winter but welcomes Colby friends in either home Ella • '25, Waterville, Marion Merriam Hooper '25, Faithful Helen Chase Pardey '30, Middleboro, C. Gray Dearborn'34, E. Holden, has finally earned • Waterville, Flora Harriman Small '25, Winslow, Mass., spends every afternoon reading to her sister, her retirement after working for the townof Holden and Raymond Mills, husband of the late Alice Ardell Chase '27, in the nursing home in Lake­ for 34 years. Now, what next? As for Hamilton • McDonald Mills '25,Jacksonville, Fla. Flora wishes ville, Mass. Alice Paul Allen '29, Rumford, R.I., B. Grant '34, Wiscasset, he relishes his retirement that she could have seen more of her friends at the and Flora Rideout Philbrook '29, Dighton, Mass., days and was greatly pleased to meet incoming crowded reception before the dinner on October have often joined Helen for lunch Special Colby first-year student Crawford J. Strunk • • 14 Anyone interested in taking a cruise should thanks from your correspondent for the kind words Everyone likes a real surprise party, as did Portia • consult Florence Wolf Siegel '27, Hollywood, sent by Gordon '30 and Isa Putnam Johnson '30, Pendleton Rideout '34, Augusta, who was hon· Fla., who greatly enjoyed her recent cruise to Portland Frances E. Libby '31, Greenfield, ored recently at such a party by her pupils and • Alaska on the Sitmer Line It was a proud Mass., spent a weekend in Maine last summer and fellow teachers at the elementary school where • moment for Mabel Root Holmes '27, Newport, was pleased to catch a glimpse of Colby's campus she has served as an aide for the past few years as N.H., when she received her SO-year membership from the interstate. She enjoys reading our club part of her work for the Kennebec County Volun· pin of the Order of the Eastern Star in April 1989. news Thomas B. Langley '31, Mineola, N.Y., teers Association Frank Norvish'34, Needh m • • a , She first joined when she lived in Massachusetts, moved last summer to 4089 Harbor Hills Drive, Mass., is proud of his son, who is on the editorial but she has belonged to the Aurora Chapter in Largo, Fla. 34640 We extend sympathy to the staff of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel • m Newport ever since Attending their 61st reun­ families of Leroy S. Ford '30, Keene, N.H., Chester Waterville, and consequently has a good excuse to • ion in June pleased Walter '28 and Myra Stone A. Condon '30, Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Hugh K. visit Colby often Beth Pendleton Clark '35, • Knofskie '28, Manchester, Conn., who enjoyed Tufts '31, Worcester, Mass. Special commenda­ Selingsgrove, Pa., reported on a pleasant meeting • seeing classmates Verneand Janet Chase Melan­ tion is due to Howard Ferguson '31, Newtonville, with former Senator Edward Gurney'35, Winter son '28, Damariscotta, Ava Dodge Barton '28, Mass., for his volunteer service at the Newton Park, Fla., when she was attending meetings in the Wiscasset, and A. Frank "Augie" Stiegler '28, Recreation Department Headquarters Other area Besides keeping track of their talented • • orth Haverhill, .H. Frank says that he hopes to faithful volunteers are Lucius V. '31 and Muriel children, John and Miriam Rideout '36, Thunder attend many more Joyce Gordon Steady '28, MacDougall Lobdell '31, Leesburg, Fla., who also Bay, Ontario, are very much absorbed with world • Laconia, N.H., crossed the country to visit her are active in church work and sports. On their way events and admit to enjoying the remarkable grandson in Bend, Oreg., last summer and hoped north to Vermont last spring they visited Mary coverage of CNN (Cable News Network). ThPy to go to Florida in the winter. She would like to see Glenn Lobdell Smith 'SO in Belle Mead, N.J. They hope very much to attend the Colby reunion in more of her Colby friends. Perhaps Charlotte also have discovered that another Colbyite, Lois 1990 Classmates and friends will regret the lo • Crowell '34, Kennebunkport, lives near enough to Clary Nevin '28, Shaker Heights, Ohio, can help, of Dana W. Jaquith '35, Cape Elizabeth, in August since she keeps in touch with classmate Dorothy the summer White House to keep an eye on George It certainly must be worthwhile crossing the •

24 COLBY ocean to see a Colbyclassmateas ancy Libby '36, Fredonia, 1.Y., did a year ago in May when she and her brother's widow went to England and looked up Lois Lund Giachardi '36, Billericav, Essex. Then they all went together to Scotland - • Kay Laughton Bridges '36, Somers, Conn., was delighted to have Colby visitor recently the m persons of Al Beerbaum '38, Pacific Grove, Calif., and Alice Bocquel Hartwell '36, Waterville. Kay is proud of her granddaughter, who is a sopho­ more at B.U., and mentions in passing tha t he now has six great-grandchildren. As for Alice Hartwell, she continues to be almost a transatlan­ tic commuter with her yearly trips to France to visit members of her family. Last ummer she and her daughter, Alice Louise, attended a family wedding in France. Earlier in the year he crossed the Atlantic on a freighter. (Sometime she should recount her adventures for our benefit) Big • things have been happening in the Frost family. Bud '38 and Ruth Fuller Frost '36, Myrtle Beach, S.C., celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary this past year, and as of last summer they were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first grand­ child. Also, they are proud of their daughter, Nikki, Colby '66, who is now an editor for Tht>Wall Street fo11rnal.Bud's sister, Elsie Frost Rapp '26, is "still going strong'" Hearing about Colby • friends and classmates pleases Edward T. Kyle '36, New Milford, Conn., who now lives with his son following the death of his wife. He has been retired for 10 years Thanks for the kind words, • Ruth Millett Maker '36, Marion, Mass.! Living • quietly is the formula for Helen Curtis Lothrop '36, Windham, and her husband Congratula­ • tions to Louis G. Rancourt '36, Waterville, for "shooting his age" in golf, a feat accomplished b) fewer than 300 golfers in the United States! • Thanks to John Dolan '36, Des Moines, Iowa, for COLBY IS PAYING ALUMNI agreeing to serve as secretary-treasurer for Fifty­ 92 Plus. He writes, "Colby means so much more as I reflect on what we captured from the years there and how confused the world is today" Don't let AND FRIENDS AN IN COME • the feminists hear that Val Duff '37, Hingham, Mass., is rejoicing that he now has two ma le grand­ FOR LIFE. children after waiting through the arrival of six female grandchildren. He is sure that his grand­ sons are both center fielders! Thanks to Henry • Wilcox '37, Big Pine, Calif., we have news of Dave Eaton '37, Methuen, Mass., who obligingly fills the pulpit for his minister friends when needed, You may be able to join them-andhelp Colby provide scholarships and of Archie Follett '38, Lakeland, Fla., who travels frequently on Christian missions. Henry to deserving students, sustain our gifted faculty, and build its seems to be enjoying retirement but does like to may be able to reduce your hear from Colby friends Larry Dwyer '38, endowment. At the same time you • Berlin, .H., is involved in volunteer work The estate taxes, eliminate capital gains liability, and increase current • urge to travel still prompts Louise Tracey '37, income. China, to get out her passport. In June she plans to fly to Oberammagau, in Bavaria, to attend the famous Passion Play Clifford R. Nelson '38, • aples, Fla., claims to be "unretired," and in the To find out how easy it is to set up a life income arrangement for the winter he was hoping to have a visit from our benefit of the College and yourself, please write or call: president, Charles "Moose" Dolan '38, Portsmouth, .H., who nowhas a motor home • Our sympathy goes to the families of Millard Emanuelson '36, Portland, Norman Beals '37, Waterville, and Arthur Chavonelle '39, Quincy, David L. Roberts Mass. According to Joseph Ciechon '38, reun­ Director of Planned Giving • ions are great for meeting old friends not seen for Colby College 50 years, so he urges all to come. last summer he Waterville, ME 04901 absorbed a lot of American history by visiting Yorktown, Jamestown, and Williamsburg 207-872-3212 Although Mitchell Phillips '38, aples, Fla., and his wife, Sylvia, were unable to attend the reunion last June, he very much appreciates what Colby does for Fifty-Plus and particularly enjoyed his SOth Elizabeth "Ippy'' Solie Howard '39,Fleet- •

COLBY 25 wood, .Y., is enjoying her new apartment and Do come see for yourself at our 50th reunion in hiking. Recently he has been in England and a1 life near the "Big Apple." She has joined a chorus 1991. How about letting me know if you plan to the time of her letter was planning a Caribbean and has seen Colby friends such as Bemerd attend? Incidentally, Henry and became great­ cruise. She enjoys spending part of her summer 1 "Bernie" 39 and Hannah Putnam Burbank '41, grandparents on October 30. A daughter was born Clearwater Lake near Farmington, Maine, on ' where Bronxville, N.Y., and Betty Wilkinson Ryan '37, to our granddaughter out in Washington state. her sister, Katherine Coffin Mills '39, has a COi ew York City. In December lppy and her hus­ Anyone else reached tha t status? Let me know tage. Hope to see you at our 50th, Dora Jean ,· • band, Dick, planned to go to Saba, that rare jewel Elmer and Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter have wel­ Albert I. Schoenberger, now living in Bo nton y of an island in the Caribbean Thanks to Dwight comed a third grandchild, a girl. Last summer Beach, Fla., with his second wife, Irma, wrote • that Sargent 39, Pelham Manor, N.Y., for his kind they attended an elderhostel in Scotland and he has retired from practicing dentistry for ' 39 words Now, if there are any green cards England. Following that, on their own they ex­ years in the Bronx. However, he says he stiU • is unmailed, you know what to do' If you have news plored their genealogy. Then they went on to the working part time. He has four children and four of classmates, please pass it on. Is a menoce or Esperanto Congress in Brighton, England. The grandchildren. He plays tennis and paddlebaU TV a miracle? And what articles in the last issue of rest of the summer they spent at their cottage in and says he still feels young. Expect to see you at Colby magazine have you enjoyed reading? Cumberland, Maine Dr. Sidney Brick and his our 50th in 1992, Al, still feeling young1 • • Ruth Correspondent: MARJORIE GOULD wife, Charlotte, are enjoying retirement in Delray Sanderson Rudisill is now a retired librarian. Her MURPHY '37, P.O. Box 102, West Oneonta, N.Y. Beach, Fla., via golf, tennis, and walking. They husband, John, is a retired electrical engineer 13861 . volunteer at the Hebrew Home for Aged in Hart­ They have six children, 19 grandchildren, and one ford and work with the Jewish Historical Society great-grandchild. She says she swims and likes of Greater Hartford. They have two children and folk dancing and cross-country skiing (when they five grandchildren. Sidney did comment that he have snow). They enjoy traveling and visiting would brag about his great news: Colby notified their children. Last year they took a trip to the 'fo him that he was being awarded his degree1 He Grand Canyon. Hope to see you at our 50th, Ruth __ went to Colby three years, entered the Army, and Jane Leighton Carr, now retired, was married • to went on to dental school. He never expected after Robert Carr ' 40, who died in 1988. They have three SOth reunion: June 8-10, 1990 A short time after • 48 years to receive this honor, but he will receive sons, one daughter, and five grandchildren. Jane you read this, we will be gathered in Waterville to his degree and graduate with the Class of 1990 says she does a lot of walking and has joined celebrate our 50th anniversary. I hope you will a next May! "God Bless Colby!" exclaimed Sidney. senior citizens' exercise group. In her spare time make every effort to attend. I had a nice note from Indeed! Mary Hitchcock Baxter would brag she finds oil painting, knitting, and helping Maurice Gross, who reminisced about his days at • with about her great family-she's very proud. Mary grandchildren very rewarding. She reports that Roberts Hall (those were the good old days). It says that she should have stayed 69, for the day she will be moving soon. Her new address: 10 surprised him to learn thatshy John Foster would she turned 70 she developed shingles and spent Vista Ave., Reading, Mass. 01867 Must "sign , have been in the company of three young ladies on • many miserable weeks. Next it was a pinched off"; thank you for your news. Do keep it coming, his way to Colby. Anyone else have a tale to report nerve in her neck, which caused her to wear a and I hope to see you all in 1992. about the past while at Colby? None of my other cervical collar, and that meant no driving. Last Class secretary: MARIE "CHRIS" MERRILL mail from former classmates related to any of their October her daughter, Mariellen '74, drove her to WYSOR, R.R.#2, Box 190-B, South Harpswell, activities, but I would like to thank them for their Maine to visit her friends while she came on to Maine 04079. kind words to me the loss of my husband. See m Homecoming We have yet another nonretired you in June. • Class secretary: ELEANOR THOMAS classmate. Audrey Massei Greenwald, living in Warwick, Mass., continues on as financial director CURTIS, 4607 W. Alabama, Houston, Tex. 77027. of a nonprofit housing agency. She has three sons and one daughter, one 18-year-old grandson, and a grandson who is three weeks old as of September '89. And so life goes merrily on for some of us. What's it like for some of the rest of you? We'd love to hear. Class secretary: RUTH "BONNIE" My thanks to all who returned the questionnaires so promptly. You will all be interested to have ROBERTS HATHAWAY, Box 213, New Ipswich, news from some not-often-heard-from classmates �------How about us-our class, that is! Have you read N.H. 03071 . Jan Hudson Hinman and her husband have • the "Report of Contributions" and looked at the retired, she from nursing and he as a naval archi­ Class of '41 accounting? Hats off to Jane Russell tect. She describes life as "ordinary, quiet, un· Abbott and her efforts! We were winners of the eventful, but very pleasant." Jane does craft work, Joseph Coburn Best Overall Performance Award which she sells commercially, and is at present for the class with 100-200 members! It seems our involved in writinganaccountofhow things were class has continually had the best overall perform­ when she was a child before World War Il. She ance numbers of any class in our category: #1 in thinks her two children and four grandchildren percent participation, #1 in the number of donors, A recent article from the Daily Times of Warwick, will find it unbelievably different from their own and #3 in dollars raised! Congratulations, and let's R.I., brings news of Richard Dyer and his daugh­ experiences George Popper retired from his , • job keep it up. As for Jane, she is by no means ready to ter, Candace Dyer, who are both practicing sur­ in January 1989 and is now working as a rental retire. I talked with her over Homecoming Week­ geons in Warwick. They have been in practice agent. He and Stephanie still collect art, and they end last October. She and her husband, Henry together since 1985 and are thought to be the only were in Chile, Israel, and St. Maarten during the Abbott, were in limbo at that point as to their father-daughter surgical team in New England. past year. George commented that he saw Milt future location. Jane was debating whether to After graduation from Colby, Dick went on to Hamilt '42 last fall Jim and Evelyn Gates • accept an administration job in Louisiana or a medical school at Yale and has been practicing for Moriarty '44 are anticipating a trip around the teaching position at a junior college in Virginia. By 40 years. The article goes on to say that after years world. Jim describes Evie as a "home engineer" our next column I should know the outcome and of treating gunshot wounds, abdominal injuries, and himself as "executive v.p. of One Old Farm will pass that on to you. Last summer Jane Jed a and vascular problems, he is thoughtful and re­ Road, Wellesley Hills!" I guess the biggest • group of 78 biology teachers from all over the flective and will talk about anything from social­ surprise was the news from Ernest Weidul­ states on a science trip through China. She de­ ized medicine to his daughter's puppy Dora • remember when we were hunting for him? After clared it a fabulous journey Yes, your Jean Coffin Bates has retired from elementary­ 30 years serving with the OSS and the CIA Ruth "Bonnie" Roberts• Hatha­ in correspondent, school teaching and is now widowed. Her hus­ China, India, Thailand, and Iran, Ernie retired in way, was at Colby last October, particularly for band, George, was a marketing professor at Bryant 1973 and is now active in the Association of For­ the meeting of class correspondents. It's great to College. They have two boys. She says that she mer Intelligence Officers. His travels since retire­ share ideas, successes, and problems, but mostly continues to be active in clubs, church organiza­ ment include Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, just great to be at Colby again. It never ceases to tions, and Meals-on-Wheels. Involved with music the West Indies, and New Zealand, with plans to give me wonderful feelings each time I arrive, to since singing in the Colby Glee Club, she is a visit China, India, and Alaska. If I interpret his see that beautiful, significant campus-which in member of her church choir as well as a handbell comments correctly, he and Penny have three our college days was just a dream-a lively reality. choir. She keeps fit with aerobic exercise and children and three grandsons Barbara Phil- •

26 COLBY wrote that her husband, an ophthal brick Mertz ­ with him this past summer. He was preparing to forced to use English, notwithstanding her ongo­ mologist, is still in practice, and she's too busy leave for his fall quarters in Los Angeles, Calif., n ing study of la lang11e fra111;aise. service, travel with church work, community and and then to go to London, England, for the winter. Class secretary: NAOMI COLLETT PA­ retired. They were in Australia to consider being We talked old times also had a pleasant visit GANELLI, 2 Horatio Street #SJ. ew York, .Y. • 1 and ew Zealand in 1989 and plan to be in Africa with Donald Johnson. "Sparky" is now retired �I 10014. February of 1990 Marjorie Abar Gray has from teaching at Bridgton Academy and is man­ l,. in • lo retired from teaching kindergarten and is now a aging an antique shop in Bridgton, Maine. Should student and course leader at the Athenaeum, a any of you be in the vicinity, the "red carpet" is out 'll program for adults over 50 sponsored by the for you at the Ricker Inn Antique Shop, 22 North 1 Rochester In titute of Technology. Marjorie col­ High Street, on Rte. 302 going toward Fryeburg. 'f6 e md ]ects "music boxes and friends" and spent May "Never thought I'd end up in Dean Marriner's __ 1989 in England, Sweden, and Holland Errol hometown," says Sparky. He also told me he met jcJl • We should all be very proud of our own Jean e raylor retired from the automobile business in George "Bud" Godfrey in Los Angeles back in the O'Brien Perkins, whose strong efforts as class 1987 and loves retirement. He and Evelyn, a re­ 1960s. Bud was president of Voit Rubber Co. at ' I agent resulted in the Class of '46 winning the tired dental technician, have four children and that tirneand had just acquired a nice lot in Newport ian Joseph Coburn Smith Best Overall Performance n fi ve grandchildren. They've spent parts of the last Beach, Calif. Frank Strup is now retired as a • Award for a class of less than 100 members Good twowintersnear SunCity, Fla. Richard '41 and director of finance and is residing in Lawrence­ a • work, Jean! l recently heard from Cloyd Aarseth, Virginia Farrand McDonald have two children ville, N.). Frank asks, "Why don' t more of you • n� who wrote that several documentaries he pro­ ;md four grandchildren. Virginia made no men- come to class reunions?" He further wrote, and I ien duced in the 1960s have been recycled and rerun tion of Hurricane Hugo, so we hope Hilton Head quote: "Dear Lou-On the 40th and 45th you told on the Arts and Entertainment Cable Network. land escaped the worst of it. They go to Sanibel, our class that I stuck you with a bill at the Puritan P I The programs, which Cloyd also wrote and di­ Fla., in February and the Great Smoky Mountains Restaurant way back in 1941. Since I always pay th rected, included "The General-MacArthur the August and October I wish I could include my debts and do not want to hear about it on our b anjivel 111 • Name"; "Knute Rockne-The Man and the Leg­ more, but space is limited, so thanks again, and SOth, I am enclosing a check for $5.00, which end," narrated by host Pat O'Brien; "GI Joe"; and keep the news coming. covers the $.35 bill plus $4.60 interest from 1941 ·e� "The Wizard of Menlo Park-Thomas Alva Class secretary: ELEANOR SMART and your tip for $.05." Thanks, Frank. See you on jo� Edison." The documentaries have been shown in BRAUNMULLER (Mrs. Albert R.), 115 Lake Rd., the SOth The mail got a good response-but it ar� • prime time at 8 p.m. on Sunday evenings in the Basking Ridge, N.J. 07920. takes over six months between writing and publi­ in major television markets. Cloyd added that he's cation. Keep writing and I'll keep responding. lr!J semi-retired but is producing and writing a weekly Class secretary: LOUIS M. DERANY, 57 � radio program, titled "MissioNews," forSlM Jnter­ �t Whitford St., Roslindale, Mass. 02131. national, a global mission agency located in Char­ "1 lotte, N.C. He also completed recently a video _L presentation on Shepherds, Inc., a home for the mentally retarded in UnionGrove, Wis. He's look­ ..,__- ing forward to full retirement next summer and, : '7- after more than 40 years, "no more newspaper, Homecoming 1989-1 made the trip to the campus motion picture, television, or radio deadlines1" again in October 1989. I met and chatted with Cliff Cloyd sayshe and Joan look forward to the Colby Came '42, Jim Moriarty '43, and Stan Frolio '47. updates, although "the anticipation is tinged with The College is far from the College we all knew 45th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 I hope lots of sadness when we read of the passing of class­ • down by thestation and on the banks of the river. '4Sers are looking forward to the 45th reunion. mates, fellow students, or f aculty members that Gone is the odor from the paper mill. As Alex (Honestly, 45 years?) Some of us are not retired we knew and that were a very special part of my Anton stated, enjoyed the old campus so very and are still on a payroll, like Laura "Tappie" life" I hope that many more of you, like Cloyd, "! • much. The new campus is great but sterile." Alex Tapia Aitken, who continues her career as associ­ will send me news of your latest activities. l cer­ o� is now retired from the practice of law and ac­ ate professor at William Patterson College of New tainly enjoy hearing from you, and I know your counting and is living in Port Orange, Fla. I tried to Jersey. During 1989-90 she's chair of an all-college classmates feel the same way. So keep the infor­ t 1sst touch base with him in October, but we just kept planning council (with a midwinter break and a mation coming1 mis ing each other. Better luck next time, Alex­ trip to India in her plans) And Joan Gay Kent Class secretary: HANNAH KARP LATPSON n • ·al l maybe during our SOth. On my Florida trek, two is at least as busy as ever in her own creative (Mrs. Myron R.), 25 Pomona Rd., Worcester, Mass. .Ii� homecomings-Maine one week, Florida the next. services business in Sands Point, Long Island. 01602. litl The Colby Homecoming game was com para lively When I heard from her, Joan was planning a mild; while 700 seemed a lot in the stands of holiday 1989 trip to London, where she would Seavems Field, there were 72,588 in the football visit her son-in-law and grandchildren Every­ • sta dium at Gainesville Almost 50 years have one else I've heard from lately has retired. Sher­ • elapsed since I drove to Waterville on my first wood "Woody" Tarlow, a retired judge, has been encounter with Colby. Attempting to drive on a named Man of the Year by the Greater Boston "Sentimental journey" from Boston to Colby last Association of Retired Citizens. He says he's learn­ l just returned from Maine where I got revitalized fall, I avoided the Maine Turnpike as much as ing how to use new-found time. One activity is for another year. Embry and went to the Volun­ 1 possible in order to reflect and reminisce, but chairing many charitable drives Joe Strup, who teer Leadership Training Weekend at Colby, as rn • � things do not remain the same. Gone are many of has a wonderful definition of success-"peace usual we brought good luck to the football team­ the old landmarks. On Main Street in Waterville, and tranquility''-had the good fortune to visit they beat Wesleyan 39-6-and we got our fill of �' you would not believe the changes. Rip Van Winkle Scandinavia, Russia, and Poland last summer. He lobster for another year. I also visited two girl 1\ t had a long sleep and woke up to a new nation; comments that "the Polish people are poor but friends I hadn't seen in almost 20 years, when waking from my sleep, I discovered a new town. proud-show lots of hope and grit." Joe's an we'd all worked together at the Central Maine Corne on back! 1994 beckons you I have assur­ emeritus Air Force civilian personnel officer liv­ Medical Center in Lewiston l called Helen • • ance from the following that they plan to be at our ing in Hampton, Va. Marjorie Merrill Melvin, Jacobs Eddy while in Maine. She went to England • SOth:JackTumer, Nancy Curtis Lawrence, Jimmy who lives in Bangor, Maine, says she's spent most this year to visit her daughter, who is working for Springer, Donald "Sparky" Johnson, Ralph of her after-Colby life as a "happy homemaker." British Telecommunications. Her son, Dan, lives Braudy, Remo Verrengia, and Alden Wagner. She and Ernest have a son who's a wildlife biolo­ in Portland and has two daughters whom she sees How about you? Jack Turner is now residing in gist and a daughter who has given Marjorie and regularly. She and Harry have a place at Little • Wakefield, Mass., and summers in Falmouth on Ernest "two beautifullittle grandchildren" Here Sebago where they spend the summer Sylvia • • Cape Cod. He remembers being kidnapped (he in Wonderland, I'm enjoying Helen Strauss's Gray Noyes wrote that she has retired from teach­ was the sophomore class president) by Edward J. companionship on one outing or another, ranging ing composition and literature for 20 years at McCormack '45 of the freshman class in 1941. He from art-looking to funny movies (aren't they Husson College in Bangor. She and her husband, also reca lls rooming with Vic Lebednik '42, Mitch what we retired for?). Helen, who has enjoyed a lot George, moved from Brewer to Sullivan, Maine, Jawor '47, and Ben Zecker I not only heard of travel over the years, especially in France, had where they bought a modular home on the ocean. k.i • from Ralph Braudy but took the liberty of visiting a great trip to Alaska last year, where she was This past summer they participated in Sullivan's

COLBY 27 bicentennial celebrations, then flew to Alabama to part time. Their son-in-law (literally) is a full-time this great act, especially for those of you who have visit their daughter, Amy, to St. Louis to visit a partner in Bourassa and Peterson not been in contact with Colby for a long time. in Augusta cousin, and to Denver for a Colby reunion. She Maine. Pris sings in the Colby chorus, Bring us up to date. I will be using your replies for and thei and George met Jim and Carolyn Armitage Boul­ both enjoy puttering around their Moose head as many columns as l can, mostly writing them up Llki ton '46, Dick and Dorie Meyer Hawkes, and Ray camp and househunting for something in the order received but sometimes combining smaller and Jean Rhodenizer Fontaine '46 in Denver. After than their six-bedroom home. They walk, swim. several when respondents are linked by their ac­ the Boutons rented a van and adjusted the Colby and enjoy visits with children tivities. One longer response will be included in and grandchildren. sticker, they all took off for a perfect week in Vail with their dog as pretty steady company each column Dick Rabner is one don't • MoR and Aspen. Sylvia and George have four children: • l news next time. remember hearing about in some time, so I am Mary has a master's degree and works for the Class secretary: KATHARINE WEIS pleased to copy herewith from his note on his MAN bureaucracy in Augusta, Maine, Amy is a CPA JAFFE, P.O. Box 113, Mill River, Mass 01 244. checked memo. "Still active in business ...man­ and works in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Julie is awaiting agement consulting and financial services firm their third grandchild, and Nancy is a senior [aptly named ] Richard H. Rabner and Associates, underwriter with Aetna Insurance in Portland, Inc., Wayne, Pa. Recently saw Chet Harrington '51 Maine M.D. Donald Klein commutes between • and Cal Dolan '47. We heard a Colby government New York, where he is professor of psychiatry at professor, very impressive. Best to all" Carolyn Columbia University and director of research at • Browne Bolles wrote from Brunswick, Maine, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and about Harborgate, the bed and breakfast she runs, Washington, D.C., where he is senior science which includes two bedrooms, one with two twin My heartfelt thanks to all of you who responded advisor to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental to beds and one double. If you rent one or both you my questionnaire. And to those of you who have Health Administration. His work is primarily in may use the guest bath, guest livingroom, and just not gotten around to it, we still want to the field of clinical psychopharmacology, that is, hear patio overlooking the ocean, and may have a from you 1 I have now been to a workshop for trying to discern which medications are best for class continental breakfast including homemade bread correspondents, so with a little teamwork which patients and whether their combination we and muffins. (Sounds great for a family vacation!) should be able to keep the Class of ' 49 column with psychotherapy is advantageous. He is re­ full She also volunteers for the Red Cross, the Cancer of news each issue of Colby magazine. As I readthe married. Of his five children, three are in medical Society, and her church, and she takes daily two­ questionnaires I was struck by how many of school, one is a lawyer, and one is a development our mile walks Mildred Ann "Milly" Schnebbe class have gravitated to Maine either as economist working for the U.N. In July, Donald • perma· Riordan has been involved professionally in nent residents or summer residents or are looking spent five weeks in Japan and Taiwan, where he accounting and taxes with (surprise!) Riordan forward to retiring to Maine. And it was great to gave seven lectures on changing conceptions of Business Services for 20 years. She vacationed in hear from several that we haven't heard from the anxiety disorders. He and a colleague have for Florida last year. Hope you got rid of that Florida a long time. Al Richard claims to be semi-retired, written a book for laymen called Do You Have a flu quickly, Milly. She has three grown, unmar­ but someone entering his 10th year in the Maine Depressive lllness? Recently published by New ried children, as does Carolyn Bolles. Milly doesn't Legislature in January 1990 is not retired by any American Library, the book is an attempt to get note the sex of her offspring, but Carolyn says she mean in my book! Al proudly reports that people to realize when they need professional the has three young men. Could we get them together U.S. flag and flagpole at the "new" Madison High help Dick Sampson wrote from Wisconsin that • and perhaps accomplish a Colby column coup? School athletic complex were dedicated to him he and Allie joined five other Episcopal pilgrims (Although one of Carolyn's is a Bowdoin grad, and that, on September 8, 1989, he was made a in June for two weeks in England and Wales. They life we're tolerant) Three retirees answered our member of the American Legion in honor of 421 took part in the National Pilgrimage at Glas­ • emergency request early, bu t they are spending years of church, community, state, and federal tonbury, and they went to Wales to visit the Shrine their leisure time quite differently. Marianne service. Al suffered a mild stroke in August, wluch of St. David in St. Davids, Pembrokeshire. From Schoeffel Nelson returned in late 1988 on the QE sidelined him temporarily, but the prognosis is Wales they went to the Shrine of our Lady of for from living in Cambridge, England, for two a complete recovery in time. Good luck, Al! Walsingham and then to the Shrine of Our Lady of 1/ • years, then drove to California via Massachusetts, John Stuart is still working as a full-time surgeon Egmanton. Next they journeyed to London to visit New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, at Roger Williams General Hospital, a teac ing several churches, including All Saints Margaret h Washington, D.C., Virginia, North and South hospital of Brown Medical School. Although no Street where they met the Bishop of London. After Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, longer a pilot, John is still active as a senior F.A.A visiting the British Museum of London, a concert Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Nevada. The Nelson medical examiner Mary Bauman Gates and at the Royal Festival Hall, and shopping on Regent • family now lives in Lopac, Calif., on Colbert Drive, Buddy 'SO have seven children and seven-and-a· Street, they had dinner at the Savoy Grill. It was a where neighboring streets recall Cagny, Cooper, half grandchildren. Mary has her own business­ real pilgrimage and an unforgettable experience • Crosby, and Coleman. But that travel was only the Joan Mary of Westchester, Inc.-

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co .... Deering '55, and I watched our football team run time. He and his wife, Bee, summer in Madison, Hawaii, Arizona, and Florida. She has two grand. all over Wesleyan. A few weeks later I joined N.H., and would be glad to hear from anyone children and says, "Their mother, Beth, was deliv­ Robert and Joan Kelby Cannell '52 and saw them vacationing in the White Mountains. Their daugh­ ered by Dr. Dore in 1955. Maybe one or both 11i]I do the same thing to Bowdoin' Our old yet ageless ter, Laurie, is living in Tokyo, and the Crockets choose Colby some day" Dave Harvey, • who mentors were also in attendance-Joe Bishop '35 plan to visit her. Sounds like a great trip' My planned to retire last December after 28 years • a1 and Ralph "Roney" Williams '35. When they had predecessor, Don Hailer, writes that his wife, Mitchell College, is going into career counseling trouble discerning the numbers on the scoreboard, Sheila, works with him at Hailer Associates. Their consulting work Joan Erskine Green says, • "Still Bump reminded them that the debits (Bowdoin) children are Don, who works in the University of remembering with surprised pleasure our 35th were toward the field house and thecredits(Colby) Dallas admissions office, Cathie, who works for reunion and I am girding up for the trip to our nearer Roberts Union While attending a cam­ Vida and Audio Visual Graphics, and Jamie, who 40th. Just returned from Warsaw and Cracow, • r1 pus meeting in a lounge in Colby's sumptuous is at Tulane University. Don has no plans to retire, Poland, where the pleasure of meeting new pe opli Student Center, I happened to glance at a plaque as he is still paying college bills for three children' is tinged with sadness as they cope with the old on the wall. ltattested to the fact that the room was That's the news. Please search around for your problems of an overwhelming past and the ne11 • the resultof a gift from Richard and Evelyn Walker questionnaire or drop me a note and let me know problems of burdensome economics." When he's Mack '52. It gave mea nice feeling, and as l further what you are doing. at home, he substitute teaches early childhood reflected on the loyalty of our classmates I remem­ Class secretary: BARBARA BONE LEAV­ education at Notre Dame College in Baltimore , bered the dedication of Dick Beal and his earnest ITT, 21 Indian Trail, Scituate, Mass. 02066. Warren Johnson has a private pediatrics practice and sincere reminders as class agent of what we in Wilmington, Del. He's also the director ol owe our college. "Heels," this Bud's for you. medical education for the department of pedial· Class secretary: WARREN J. FINEGAN, 8 rics at the Medical Center of Delaware as well as White Pine Knoll Rd., Wayland, Mass. 01778. associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Jeffer· son Medical University in Philadelphia. In 198(). 81 he was child-adolescent psychiatry resident al Maine Medical Center in Portland before return­ ing to private practice. His second granddaughter Here it is one week before Thanksgiving, and I was born in St. Thomas four days after Hurric would like to say thanks to those sending in infor­ ane Hugo went through I hope that everyone mation for thespringissueofCo/by Ed Fraktman • has a • good 1990. Let's all start planning on attending of Waban, Mass., wrote that while representing our 40th. Greetings to all. Recently, my husband, Bob, and Colby at a Belmont High School College Night, he Class secretary: NELSON BEVERIDGE, l enjoyed being part of the wedding festivities of sat next to Kemp Pottle '52, who was representing 13l Border St., Cohasset, Mass. 02025. ; Richard Patten '84, who married a charming girl, Clarkson College and working for their admis­ I Elizabeth Cutts. It was great fun for me, as there sions office. Kemp is a lifelong Mainer and lives were quite a few Colby classmates of Rick's there. near Sebago Lake Lois Simpson Anthony, • I had a great time talking about the College with Hawthorne, N.J., wrote, "am enjoying my grown­ them. We all seem to have pleasant memories of up kids and waiting for grandchild number three our College days Now for some news of our in November. Would like to hear from Fitzy and • classmates. Howard Gaskill, Jr. and his wife, Dot Cecelski Duda '54" Helen Osgood Keeler • Ruth, live in Bow, N.H. Howard was a captain in of Marshfield, Mass., has two sons living nearby the U.S. Marine Corps and was in the movie and a daughter with two children in Berkeley, Thirty-four questionnaires were returned! Th9nks Battle Ground. He retired after 30 years in management Calif. She recently ran into Quint and Ruth Shee­ to all who bothered to do this, because at leastno11 for the Bell System. After retirement he went to han Bersani at the South Shore Natural Science I have enough "info" for a couple of issues • Well, work for the State of New Hampshire in the Center, where she coordinates the volunteer pro­ classmates, only two out of the 34 picked upon the Governor's Office of Emergency Management. gram. She has seen Cathy Ellis Waack, Sarah fact that "Spenser: For Hire" was spelled incor· The Gaskills ski in the winter, play golf in the Packard Rose, and Ruth AveryYesair-"all origi­ rectly-maybe those were the only two who summer, and will always keep their roots in New nal Foster House girls'" Ginnie Falkenbury watched it1 Benjamin and Diane Stowell Duce • • England, although the 80-degree temperatures in Aronson lives in Skillman, N.J. She is back in asked if I was going to be discreet-does the above Florida look inviting Herb Nagle wrote from school doing post-master's work in family and fit the bill? Seriously, though, one of Ben's accom· • Brockton, Mass., that he and his wife, Judy, have church music at Westminster Choir College. Her plishments was to present clinical data at a scien· three children. Herb has been vice president of a oldest daughter just passed the bar and clerks at tific conference in Rome while he was employed local bank, past president of the local community the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C., her sec­ as a manager in pharmaceutical research. He is center, and past chair of the businessmen's divi­ ond daughter lives on a nine-acre farm with her now a sales representative for dental products • sion of the United Fund. He has stayed active and two children, and her third daughter is in the Faith DeVol Gross (Everett F. '52 died in 1984)is plays tennis at least twice a week. "l play only Ph.D. program in experimental psychology at the now living in Yarmouth, Maine, and is obvious!) doubles now," Herb reports Carol Thacker University of Vermont Roland Nagle, back in extremely happy about it. Along with her 10-year· • • Scott has retired from her director and head teacher Monterey, Calif., after two years in Central Flor­ old station wagon, her new home of three and a job at a nursery school after 17 years of service. She ida, welcomes calls from anyone in his area Pete half acres is great for two grandchildren and her • has enjoyed seeing her first "students" graduate Salmon of Watertown, N.Y., is in the trust and daughter, who live with her. Faith also has three from high school and go on to college. She and her investment business for Key Trust Company. His other grandchildren and another due anytime 1 husband, Ronald, have three children and two four children have all graduated from college and Ted Turchon lives in Orlando, Fla., and so does grandchildren. Their daughter lives in Florida, so have two grandchildren. He says, "See you at our Mel Phillips. What is more interesting is that they they hope to visit there occasior.ally. They are also 40th reunion" Since Mary Devan left Massa­ are both in real estate, both married to non-Colbv • hoping to build a permanent residence in Round chusetts in 1983, she's been working at a private women, both still Listeners to music from the;r Pond, Maine, across from their present cottage. school for learning-disabled students in Washing­ College days, and both avid sports fans-love Environmental restrictions make such building ton, D.C. Last May, Kitty Webster Smith those Bucs and Dolphins! Ruth Brindle)' • difficult, so they envision a busy year a head. Good moved from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to San Bernar­ Cheney even watches reruns of "Spenser: For 1 luck! Retirement may come to Ben Sears and dino, where her husband is senior pastor of the Hire" -maybe because she went to a Lambda • Chi wife Nancy Ricker '50 in 1990. Ben has been very Grove Baptist Church and administrator of the Halloween party with Robert "Ace" Parker I active in community positions and also with Colby. Rosa Christian School. Three of their children and won't tell you that she hid in the corn stalks! Do The Searses had a great ski trip to Austria Our six of their 10 grandchildren are in Southern Cali­ you also remember being snowbound at my hou • vice president, Jesse James, writes that his young­ fornia and no doubt helped to celebrate the Smiths' for three days, Ruthie? Fred and Marjorie Hill • est child, Julie, is now ready for college. Jesse has 36th anniversary last January. The couple toured Ashman sound busy. They both teach in Mt. Holly. been doing a bit of traveling and says that he is China for two weeks in the summer of '88 N both hike together (a mountain in New • .]., Mexicc busy and has a nice life! David Scott Crocket is Barbara Easterbrooks Mailey lives in Topsfield, was a killer, though), both love the '76er (ughl, • retired from administration (dean, associate pro­ Mass. She has gone to work for an Allied agent, and both have recently discovered Mozart. I th]) vost) at Lafayette College. Over the years, Dave Wakefield Distribution Systems, where she is in a stable relationship or what! Retire? From what?­ has assisted over 300 students going to medical charge of the billing department. She has traveled their two granddaughters, two granddogs, one school. He is now teaching chemistry again full much in recent years, including vacations in grandhorse, one grandcat, one grandferret, or

30 COLBY eral grandfrog . As Marjorie, or was it Fred, (that other B stands for Bates, for those who may se\' . " " at about • said, they retire every n�ght 11 l have have forgotten) • Dave and Rosie Crouthamel a grand to dose this epic(narrative on seal�) with Sortor were bursting with all "sorts" of news president, Georgia Roy , a little about our new (couldn't resist'). About eight years ago David Eustis. Any eligible man'll have to be a wh1rlwmd bought an old house, vintage 1760, in Sherbome, 58-- to keep up with her. Besides taking careof her own Mass. Together with three partners, David began family, she seems to take care of many others: she the lengthy process of restoring it to its original , As sit writing this for the spring 1990 issue, it is went back to school and became a nurse, and she beauty and charm, beginning with approval of the 1 mid-November and the temperature is above 70 lives in Brunswick in the summ�r a nd does her well and with meeting the many town require­ 1 . degrees! Some wonderful changes ha\"€ ta ken place "tour of duty" (her words) 111 Flonda 111 the w111ter ments to bring it to code. On October 11, 1988, the all over the world, but tragedies ha,·e happened, at a hospital in Boca Raton • ang there, Inn opened its doors for business. Four gracious . � 111 too, the hurricane and the earthquake, to namt� troops. l have lots more com111g up. rooms welcome overnight guests while the Ta,·­ two. Colbv folks in our class are in those area ol Class secretary: MARLENE HURD JABAR, ern, main dining room, keeping room, with its Charlesto�, S.C., and San Francisco, Calif Our Pleasantdale Ave., Waterville, Maine 04901 . huge inviting fireplace, and two other smaller 11 thoughts and prayers are with you: Angela De rooms provide seating and dining capacity for 150 Carlo, Gwen Parker Dhesi, Philippa Blume guests. In Rosie's words, "it wa done beautifully Feldman, Craig Harkins, Jane Gibbons Huang, but at an enormous initial expense." Although the Caroline Hall Hui, Virginia True Masterson, Inn is very busy due to limited seating, it is not as Myron Gantt, Ann Wilcox Loftin, Bill Orne,and lucrative financially as one would like, but Rosie . SS------Carolyn O'Brion Cooper • Our congratulatJ n<; � and Dave expect that as off-premise catering go to Douglas Hatfield, who was electe� �·ICe develops it will be their salvation. Maintaining his 35th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Classmates: As I chair of the Executive Council of the 1.7 m1lhon­ • dental practice at the same time, Dave certainly write thi column, Thanksgiving (and, yes, in member United Church of Christ. He began his has had no time for a midlife crisis! • In Septem­ some stores) even Christmas preparations are in two-vear term last July. in 1985 he was elected to ber, Tess and John "J ube" Jubinsky, whose daugh­ motwn. evertheless, reunion plans for the Class a six�vear term on the Executive Council, which ter is a sophomore at BC, left their Hawaiian of '55 are under.vay. We hope that all of you are coordinates and evaluates the work of national paradise to come east. While in Massachusetts reser\'ing the weekend of June 8-10, 1990, for our bodies of the Church and sets the agenda for each they had a mini-reunion at the Squam Lake home 35th (can it be possible?) reunion. We look for­ General Synod • Last year Tom La Vigne (our of John Conkling '57, where they reminisced with ward to seeing many of you on the Colby campus. class president) and family visited daughter Ann Malcolm '57 and Louise Mullin Remington '58 Many thanks to our class president, Lou Zam­ in ice, France, where Ann completed her junior . and Charlie Macomber '55 • The wedding of bello for starting us off with the recent ma1l111g • vearat the university there. "Upon arrival in Paris," , Harry and Lyn Brooks Wey's daughter in Hing­ ;\ews from the campus: Colby football 1s 4-4 and Tom said, "Robert [their 19 year old] left his ap­ ham, Mass., was the scene of a second celebration the team won their games against Bowdoin and pendix at American Hospital of Paris. Still had a involving Larry and jean Van Curan Pugh '55, . Bates. The following '55ers were present at the great time!" Son Tom,Jr.,graduated from Colby111 Warren "Meatball" '57 and Babs Faltings Colby-Bowdoin game: Sid Farr, John Macklin, 1988. Tom sees a lot of Gerry and Rae West Jones Kinsman, Ronnie Sandborg, and Naome and Germaine Michaud Orloff, Jack and Ann Norm and Charlotte Metcalf Lee '61 are both ex­ Hugh "Andy" Anderson. Following all of these • BurnhamDeering, David and Ruth McDonald tremely talented in art. Cici is attending the Uni­ festivities, Rosie, Dave, Tess, and Jube flew out to Roberts, and Ann Dillingham Ingraham. l hear versity of Hartford Art School and working Vancouver, Wash., where they enjoyed the hospi­ 1 the Deerings had two grandchildren with them. toward a B.A. in fine arts. Last August they took a tality of John Jacobs '55 and wife Therase. Sounds :=ongratulations to Sheila and Sid Farr on the bLrth two-week Alaskan cruise with Lynne D' Amico like fun! Incidentally, Rosie and Dave have re­ :ifthelf new grandchild! • Thank you to Don McKee. On the way from Connecticut, they vis­ . cently become grandparents for the second time • Hoagland for his interesting letter regard111g a ited Jack Sinton '60 to sail in Puget Sound • After 30 years of teaching, Charlotte Wood Scully Bill Cindy Allerton tape he produced for a Dixieland band composed Speaking of sailing, and took early retirement only to find herself equally Rocknak local high-school and junior-college students. are in Jefferson, Maine, where they own of busy in numerous other related activities. Life has Don told me that Lee Fernandez had recently and run Rocknak's Yacht Sales. Their daughter, not always been easy for Charlotte, whoas a single produced a compact disc that will be relea ed Stefanie, graduated from Colby in 1988 and is parent lost her only child, �teven, eight years ago nationally. Don, I am forwarding your letter to our � working in Australia until she goes to graduate She finds substitute teaching, tutonng children . magazine • Again, we hope to see many of ::i school. Cindy and Bill keep busy with hobbies Colby to 18 years of age at the Huntington Leaming you at our reunion in June! Let me know 1f you such as restoring cars and boats, reading, and Center, prepping kids for their verbal SA Ts, and Richard Nelson need addresse or telephone numbers to contact walking • is a professor of doing holistic correcting on the written part of the education at the University of Rhode Island. A Colby '55ers that you hope to see in June. mastery exams for the state of Connecticut re­ fourth grandchild has been suggested a Colby Class secretary: SUE BIVEN STAPL ES (Mrs. � warding as well as time consuming w�1le at the Clas of 2010! Teaching and family keep him busy Seldon C.), 430 Lyons Rd., Liberty Comer, .). . same time allowing freedom and flexibility Char­ : • Joan Tilden Snyder and husband Bob ha\'e 07938. lotte is a lay reader and challis bearer tor the . lived in Hawaii, Rhode Island, ew York, and Episcopal Church and an officer of AAUW, wntes Georgia before a move to Florence, Ky. They hope an annual paper for the augatuckWomen'sStudy . eventually to get ''back down south"-home to Club, and has published numerous articles in the their three boys. They look forward to extended English /011rnal, Waterb11ry American, and York family-daughters-in-law and grandchildren! • Co11nty Coast Star. Last summer she fell in love . . A year ago Al Tarr retired aft�r 21 years in the Air __with the quaint Victorian walk111g community of Force and 10 years in the semiconductor industry. Chautauqua, .Y., where she participated in arts )6Picture someone who exudes warmth and sensi­ He and orene took a big step and moved from and humanities week and has reservations to re­ tivity while virtually exploding with a compelling Californiato Houston, Tex. orene gave him two turn this summer. In the "deep recesses," Char­ message of loyalty to Colby, and you will have months of retirement before he'd climb the walls. lotte toys with moving to Maine sometime • And, focused on Dr. Vic Scalise president of the . Well? How goes it? enjoys gem cutting and '54, speaking of returning, it's time to start planning to Al Colby Alumni Association. This dedicated volun­ woodworking • Bill Orneis another retiree from return for our 35th reunion in 1991. Let's all make teer challenge each of us to help Colby maintain the Air Force. He and Fran have settled in Sumter, a special commitment! its well-ea med position of leadership as we enter Class secretary: HOPE PALMER S.C., where he's a part-time college instructor in the 990 . Having had occasion to visit the College management after completing his M.B.A. Bill vis­ i BRAMHALL (Mrs. Peter T.C.), One Meadow es last fall, I was consistently reinforced ited with Bob Saltz last summer and keeps in threetim Creek Lane, Falmouth Foreside, Maine 04105. in my feeling that Colby has one of the most touch with Kevin Connolly. Bill is hopeful that he's fully recovered from his bout with G ain beautiful campuses in the country. Equally excit­ . � Barre Syndrome • Judy Spall 1s an assistant mg was the di play of support and enthusiasm the students demonstrated for their football team, analyst in data processing for a government which once again won the CBB title. Their 38-20 company in Massachusetts. After a scary bout 57 . with breast cancer three years ago, she now volun­ victory ove1 Dowdoin gave Colby its fourth win ( 4- teers to help others. She decided, at our 30th . to let for the season) and consecutive CBB football Class secretary: BRIAN F. OLSEN, 46 Washing- ' 4 her hair go back to her normal color after seeing so championships for the first time in Colby's history ton Drive, Acton, Mass. 01720.

COLBY 31 many good looking gray-haired folk from our class! She recently returned from Russia, which she found very interesting. However, she was horrified by the state of the economy. We take so much for granted here--even a piece of cheese' Judy is most encouraged by the recent positive happenings in Western Europe We should all • realize how fortunate we are, those not hit by tragedy. I know l and my family have much to be thankful for, and I hope the same for all of you. KeepClass healthy! secretary: Three ANDRIA years until PEACOCK our 35th1 KIME, 737 Turnpike St., Stoughton, Mass. 02072. Sf:/ ____

It isa beautiful Sunday in ovember as I write: the earthquake in California is now a couple of weeks old and the wall in Berlin started coming down on Friday. I have once again been talking to class­ matesLeslie Colittand have received requests for news of in Berlin. What an exciting place that OneRe tirement Leads to An other must be just now! I shall try to have some news of Leslie for the next issue l had a long talk with • June Landry Wiechmann. After working for eight In 1986 Colonel Michael Farren ' 59 came to New Hampshire to command the Tanker years for General Electric and another four years Task Force at Pease Air Force Base. Now, four years later and retired from the Air for Simmons College, June went west to Seattle. Force, he finds himself retiring the base as well. Just three days after completing 30 She met a Northwest Airlines pilot, and one thing years of military service this past summer, Farren assumed the job of coordinating the led to another. They now live in a worked-over Williamsburg house on a 33-acre farm in Ypsi­ redevelopment of the 4,320-acre base, which in 1988 brought $340 million into the local lanti, Mich. June loves the Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor economy. It's a phenomenal and complicated undertaking by anyone's standards, but area because it is accessible to many college cam­ Farren approaches the job with optimism and energy. Enthusiastic about the base's puses and is "more central" than other places she strong points, he says that the airfield will be "a magnet for development." has lived. She and husband Tom have a woods fuli of deer and foxes and a barn full of tractors and Congress's efforts to cut government spending led to the decision to close Pease. race cars-the latter a necessity of Tom's leisure­ In March 1989 New Hampshire responded with a bill to establish the eight-member time preferred activity Another pilot in our • Pease Redevelopment Commission that Farren now coordinates. The commission, number is Doug Merrick. He is still flying the along with its six advisory committees-economic development, environmental "friendly skies of United." Doug and his wife, Sue clean-up, natural resources protection, airport study, government relations, and (Edmond) '60, who live in New Milford, Conn., have three children, two of whom are pilots like facilities-will determine the best reuse for the base and will negotiate with the Air their dad. The Merricks have traveled to Europe Force for its sale at fair market value. and have a home in Hawaii, where they plan to After 25 years away from their native New England, Farren and his wife, Patricia, u . live in partial retirement Another Colby couple • a registered nurse, welcome "retirement" to the area. With their four children, the not heard from in some time is Danny '60 and Kathy "Kiki" Kies Madden. They live in the couple moved 23 times during the course of a military life lived all over the globe. After lovely town of Harvard, Mass. The Maddens are a training as a pilot, he was first stationed at Bangor, Maine, at an airfield now al o thoroughly education-minded family: Danny is a closed. Later days found him at the Pentagon as a financial and military planner; in counselor at Acton-Boxboro Regional High School, Vietnam, where his service earned him a Bronze Star; and in command at various and Kathy is a secretary at Nashobi Region High military bases. School. In addition, the Maddens have four chil­ dren (Claire, Danny, Sarah, and Emily) who are all Pease, which will close officially in January 1991, boasts this country's northern­ in school. That would be enough to make me most airfield with access to Europe. At 11,320 feet, "That long runway can handle any believe that they keep on the move, but for health's plane from anywhere in the world," Farren says. Possibilities for the base's redevel­ sake, Kathy walks and Danny runs Also among • opment--cargo aviation, aircraft refurbishment, and the international carrier mar­ the healthy-minded (and I suspect this is a very large group) are Latimer ("Tim") and Barbara ket-also stem from the fact that it is close to Boston and has access to a deep-water Churchill Eddy of West Springfield, Mass. Tim is port, interstate highway, and the Boston-Maine Railroad. "Pease Air Force Base vice president and treasurer of Stanhome, an properties, its runways, ramps, and proximity to all major modes of transportation," organization probably more familiar by its former Farren says, "present a combination of circumstances that cries out for use. There's no name, Stanley Home Products. Tim is also "into complex like Pease available on the East Coast, nor could you duplicate it." computers" and finding outwherethe money is in the world. Barbara works part time for a podia­ Farren's job with the commission is to make everyone happy-the Air Force, the trist. The Eddys have three children, all of whom federal government, the state, and the residents of the area. While the salaries and are college graduates and professionals. Both Tim taxes generated by Pease will have to be replaced by new ventures, the commission is and Barb are active sports participants, with ten­ mindful of the need to respect the natural environment and the quality of life in the nis, skiing, and sailing high on their list. They have taking summer property in East Edgecomb, Maine, and seacoast area, which Farren says "can't be beat." It sounds like retirement is just they say they would be happy to see any of us at off for Mike Farren-and for the airfield he's piloting. either of their semi-permanent locations Judy • Colbath Drinon and her husband have just sent Regina Knox the last of their five children off to the University of Maine, and their house is quieter now. (Even the

32 COLBY dog died.) The quiet won't last long, though, be­ small marketing and financial consulting firm in cause they have two grandchildren' But they can East Longmeadow, Ma s. Hope to see you at • escape from Holden, Ma s., to their place in Maine, our 30th reunion! which is what they do at vacation time. Judy Class secretary: BEVERLY JACKSON works temporary services and keeps in touch GLOCKLER (Mrs. Anthony S.),39 Whippoorwill in ())...._____ with and Nancy Thompson Fearing. She ad­ Way, Belle Mead, N.J. 08502. Al vises me to get in touch with Carol Sandquist Banister, which I intend to do. Keep tuned! I • A snowstorm has blanketed most of New England also had a chat with Fred Panciera, who is second and provided a beautiful backdrop for Thanksgiv­ \'ice president of the Traveler's Insurance Com­ '' ing. It also means that my class letter is overdue (a pany in the property and claun department. Fred : week spent on the beautiful island of Bermuda and his wife, Carol (Anderson) 60, live Granby, m was my first choice) First, two long-overdue Conn., and have two married children. Fred and • news clippings that once again seemed to have Carol both declare that they are happily married. wedged in the back of my file cabinet. Alan (It strikes me that our class must be way above the Neigher, whose specialized field is media and national average for happy marriages') The Panci­ With nippy ovember breezes blowing all the entertainment law, is a member of the Westport eras have traveled to England, Belgium, France, fallen leaves from my lawn, and with this column's Bar Association in Westport, Conn. Al has lec­ and Mexico and say they have thus far avoided suspense date too close for comfort, I need a time tured extensively on the relationship of the First being arrested by Interpol. Congratulations for machine more than a computer Captain Ernie Amendment to these fields and has presented that, you guys! Sally Dine Factor had been back • • Trowbridge of Eastern Air Lines sent me a note seminars at the Columbia School of journalism, from visiting her son in Zurich only hours when I from Brookfield, Conn. Having satisfied his need Fairfield University, and the University of Bridge­ contacted her. Sally is very busy, being, as she for community involvement in the past as presi­ port Law School, where he is an adjunct professor says, "wound up and totally involved" in the real dent of the Brookfield Jaycees and president of the of law. (Notice how blatant I've been in these estate business in Andover, Mass. She is fortunate Brookfield Trailblazers Square Dance Club, more columns, Al?) The second clipping concerned that she adores this work, for it has been more of • recently he has been charging windmills and doing another legal practitioner, Maine assistant attor­ a necessity for her than anything else for some battle with the likes of Frank Lorenzo (and who ney general Michael Westcott of Damariscotta. years. Sally also has a daughter, who is a lawyer in knows who by the time you read this). He and his Mike was the prosecuting attorney in a highly Washington, and a dog. She hopes soon to be able wife, Kitty, have two teens, Laura, 18, and Chris, publicized Oakland murder case that had to be to go from the category of tourist-she has spent 'an 16 Robert '59 and Wendy Ihlstrom Nielsen live moved because of extensive pretrial coverage A sometime in Majorca-to "investigative traveler." • • and work in New Canaan, Conn. Wendy is office somewhat newer clipping arrived announcing love that phrase! One of many of our class­ ! • manager for Robert's insurance agency, Nielsen that Dennis Kinne has retired from basketball mates who live in California is Sally Webber and Company. Like many of you, they have spent coaching at Suffield Academy after 27 years but "1' Girard of San Luis Obispo, which is near the sea n a great deal of time traveling around to look at will retain his positions as the school's athletic and out of range of the earthquake. Sally teaches elt colleges-several years ago for their son, Jay (who director and golf coach. His teams amassed a French at Cuesta Community College and works j ended up at BU), and recently for their daughter, record of 324-148 during Dennis's coaching ten­ her husband's law office. They have two chil- m Stacey. Wendy commented that she doesn't re­ ure, and the article praised his "strategical prow­ b dren, three resident cats, and one "visiting cat." member it being such a hectic and time-consum­ ess and gentlemanly manner" Culled from Sally says that the feline population is relatively • ing process when she went through it for herself. some of the replies to the "green" questionnaire low at the moment! Sally went to France a couple P� She echoed many classmates' experiences when (at least it will be hard to ignore for those of you Jf years ago and had an article published by the ere she said, "It is exciting, however-when you see who have been shuffling it from pile to pile): Our spon oring organization, Pacific Lutheran Uni­ such changes in your children as they grow" Jon ex-prez, Bill Chase, president of the Keene Clinic is ver ity, on how France has changed over the past • nd Wolfe and his wife, Betty, are in the real estate in Keene, N.H., sends news that daughter Sally is ears I hope by now some mail is on the way 30 y • business in Casper, Wyo. Jon appraises property a sophomore at Tufts and daughter Jenne is a to me, especially from the large California contin­ as partner and owner of an appraisal company; high-school junior with all those college choices he gent, but [ welcome news of any and all othe . Betty is a realtor. He enjoys "watching the wind yet to be made. Bill and Barba.ra (Haines) '63 are Class secretary: SUSAN FETHERSTON blow and occasionally getting out and taking my currently designing a new house Wasn't it an • 6 Bellevue Place, Middletown, Conn. daughter's dog for a run in it." (I can vouch for absolutely gorgeous fall day at Homecoming? ltli FRAZER, 06457. Wyoming wind from my seven-year Air Force And whipping Wesleyan in football didn't dull !11 assignment inCheyenne) William Wooldredge the enjoyment, either' From "up north" in • • sent us an update from Hudson, Ohio. Bill has Bangor, attorney Garth Chandler sends news of a remarried-to Johanna Young (a fashion consult­ move to a new home, carving decoys and router ant), who has four children (one 15 years old at signs as a relaxing hobby, and the sighting of � 60-- home). His two gives them six. Last year Bill Hope Hutchins Blackbum in downtown Bangor. became a Colby trustee, so he gets to return to Garth's wife, Judith (Thompson) '63, is a com­ campus three or four times a year and see many puter lab and algebra teacher, and daughters Julie 30th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 At Homecoming Colby people. He is executive vice president and and Amy helped set the school's present swim tll • last Tony '57 and I sat with Doug'58 and Judy chief finance officer in the difficult oil and gas relay record One response came from an "island U fall, • Ingram Hatfield at dinner. Their daughter, Janet, business. He also is chair of the board of trustees of dweller," Marijane Eaton Fall, who has taken up d had recently been ordained and is a minister at a Akron Children's Medical Center, senior warden residence on Westport Island in Maine and begun church southern California The Maine Craft of Christ Church Episcopal, and on the board of to work on her doctorate at the University of in • Fair again featured Maren L. Stoll Sherman's directors of Transohio Savings Loan and The Maine. Marijane left Colby as a sophomore but & candles. Maren recently married Dr. Bruce Trem­ Freeway Corp. Yours truly, Ned Gow, still completed her education while raising her three �I • bly of Oakland. Her son, David, is on the U.S. hasn't decided what to do for his second career. In children, going through a divorce, and working in Freestyle Development Ski Team and has been the interim, I keep busy as "house spouse," town private practice as a counselor and consultant. Son re tr aining in aerial jumps at Lake Placid Richard fire marshal, member of the boa.rd of tax review, Greg graduated from Bowdoin in 1987and daugh­ • Peterson is the president of the National Associa­ and handyman, working on those never-ending ter Gretchen from Colby last June, and Amy is a tion of Insurance Brokers. He delivered a speech at do-it-yourself projects on my 100-year-old house. junior at Gould Academy. Marijane mentioned NAIB's SSth annual meeting as president-elect I also volunteer weekly at the Geer Memorial living closer to the "extremes of nature," and • Kay White, who was in the Peace Corps in Pan- Health Center, conducting a small woodworking commuting by ferry to make those evening classes ama for two years, received a Returned Volunteer group, and am president of the Auxiliary. My at Orono sounds challenging by my standards 1 • iq of the Year award from the U.S. Peace Corps at a wife, Toby Jo, works as a therapeutic recreation Once again, many of you have responded to the conference held at Kent State University in Ohio. director in this skilled nursing home. Some of you questionnaire, which makes this job easier and tal Her award was based on her continued involve- have asked me if I am still painting. The anwer is renews personal contacts as your news is siphoned ment with many volunteer causes. She is also chair yes, but not as much as I would like to be Fill out through my typewriter. • of the Natio;,aJ Volunteers Week Steering Com­ that questionnaire and keep the news coming! Class secretary: LINDA NICHOLSON mittee After a 25-year banking career, Todd Class secretary: EDWIN "NED" GOW, RFD GOODMAN, Fernwold Heights Fann, LynchHill • Marchant has joined the Momentum Group, a Box 395, Canaan, Conn. 06018. Rd., Oakdale, Conn. 06370.

COLBY 33 National Bank of Kenya, and is a very hospitable if we still lived down the hall. Frankly, at this point host, especially to Colby peoplel Anyone travel­ in life, I am looking forward to a weekend ol ing that way is more than welcome Don Short reliving a time of innocence left behind so longago • pa t seems to be making news everywhere: president and getting caught up on everyone's s 25 yea11 of Fishery Products, Inc., chair of the North Shore on a personal basis. See you all soon! Chamber of Commerce, secretary for the National Class secretary: MARCIA HARDING AN. Fisheries Institute, and member of Colby's Alumni DERSON, 10 Walker Road #7, No. Andover,Mass. Here it is fall and I'm really getting into it ...the Council Executive Committee. Keep it up, Don1 01 845 most beautiful season of all. Yet, as [ write this, I Classmates, keep eating those fish sticks! Now �' know you all will be reading it in the spring. • a word about this column. After 25 years, l think tfl Thanksgiving and Christmas will only be pleasant most of us are fairly well settled career-wise, have ru memories of sharing with the ones we love • finished bearing children (at least we women), 1h Doris "Dee Dee" Wilson Perry has takenan "early and have few changes to report. So I won't ask for 66 1�· retirement" and has become a world traveler. She any. Also, I won't ask what awards and honors -Cl enjoyed a visit to Europe, Italy in particular, where ___ you have won. I'm so sick of replying, "NONE." Cr her daughter, Colby senior Beth, studied for the Instead, I'm going to ask for something you all can TheClassof'66isproud tohavetwoofits rnembers fall semester Jane Melanson Dahmen is a :ir • give: your opinions. Sometimes I'll send question­ Diane Van WyckandJohn Field, servingasColh) famous artist now, and one exhibit I heard about _ _ 0 naires (some short, some long, some trivial, some overseers In add1twn to her JOb as a biol • ogy was held last summer at the Greenhut Galleries in profound), sometimes to all of you and sometimes professor, Karen LaFleur of Greenville, rTI Portland, Maine. Among her other versatile crea­ S.C., i, �' just to those with a common denominator. Some­ working on her doctorate degree and servingona tions, Jane paints views of the Maine coast Carl -II • times I'll solicit you via this column. And I'll number of community boards Brian Stinson, • Shader a,� a Bath attorney, is spending a lot of his report all of it (even if I have to take over the returned to Maine from Texas to serve as women's time at the Maine Maritime Museum as vice chair magazine to do it!). If you do win an award, by all soccer coach at Bates College in the fall of 1989. of the board. The museum recently opened its new H; ru, means, write and tell me about it. I'll publish that, is also an assistant for the women's basketball $3.4 million facility, a remarkable accomplish­ and n too, and your moves and jobs and children and softball teams. Good luck most of the time, Bna J ment in a 25-year period of growth A sad note n • grandchildren. The first questionnaire is already ... It's good to have Doug and Beth 11, Bob • Adams ,rir is the death in April 1989 of our classmate out there, sent to our classed uca tors. Results in the Keene back on home turf after their nine-yearshnt .. Gula. Bob was the director of studies at Groton next issue! in the Middle East. They are in Washington, School and "had achieved a reputation in the D.C., Class secretary: SARA SHAW RHOADES, where Beth is teaching and Doug is participabng ·�'. � academic community for his wide-ranging versa­ Box 530B, Kittery, Maine 03904. in a one-year State Department program called RRl, g tility as a classicist, musician, mathematician, and The Senior Seminar Congratulations to Janet • logician." He also wrote many books, frequently BrooksHupferon her July 1989 marriagetoArthur 'S .ru on such topics as classical music, computer sci­ a Dutch citizen who works for TWA. The ence, and English syntax Wishing you all the Hupre!'l ,1 • are living in Amsterdam And to George Cain best in 1990. • Co Class secretary: JO-ANN WINCZE 6S on his promotion to senior vice president-national O tr sales manager at Capital Cities/ ABC. George FRENCH, ;n 864 S. Parkview Drive, Aurora, Ohio manages the news, sports, and daytime network 44202. LI sales areas Michael Clivner and Sue 25th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Dick Bankart has • Turne • rare dt recently formed his own company, R.W. Bankart witnesses to the destruction caused by Hurrican1 Thomas Jli Associates, located in Westwood, N.J. He offers Hugo, Michael in his home port of St. & in 00 consulting to the general business community in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Sue in her hometown .'r of Charleston, S.C. thoughts have been an area he calls profit decisions and financial • Our with Peter Blumenthal, whose wife, Janet, die lie' analysis in marketing. He left Airwick Industries d of in 1986 to embark on his "entrepreneurial dream." cancer in November 1988. Peter owns a business in the Boston area. One of his two sons, Richard, �a� Dick continues to travel-his excursions in recent aa attends Colby Another Colby parent is North I have touched the blue lightl Yes, the one at the years have included Ireland, Yugoslavia, Iceland, • Barry Blatz, m Ka top of the "libe1" The occasion was Homecoming Greenland, the Faros Islands, Luxembourg, Ger­ Carolinian whose daughter Ki isa first-year student on Mayflower HilJ. Ba �ei Weekend 1989, and Security was giving tower many, and France Rodney Gould is an attorney rry is �s • u ct tours on Saturday afternoon. It was a sparkling practicing in Framingham, Mass., where he has materials manager for Ari tech, Inc., man fa urer of security systems Lynne Egbert Eggartis me day; I climbed up with our son, Andrew '90, and his own firm. As of late, Rod is representing an • a farmer and rancher in Custer, Mont. She also mE Al '63 and Sally Page Carville,and we could see insurance firm in Hartford and is "going after" the sells ml works the Camden Hills, the sea, and all the way to PLO for the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985 real estate part time, is a 4-H leader, and in her garden. She and husband Jim have three s n kl Mount Washington. Absolutely wonderful! And for the ew Jersey travel company that packaged o s jQf n now I know the secret of the blue light. I also the ill-fated cruise. As he is a travel lawyer, this All the Eggarts enjoy camping, hiking, and fishi g we 01 learned that the tower wasn't locked until re­ type of suit is definitely for him! Good luck! Tim From Montana we go to Maine, where • • find l ren wr cently, and many Colby students have climbed all Hill, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Jan Atherton Hoffman enjoying a newly o- vated home in Dresden with her husband, Bill wh those ladders before me. If you were one of them, Yarmouth (Maine) Junior-Senior High School, was 'P' and

34 COLBY Mawr, Pa., where he is the dean of the School of Colby Across the United States." A look at the living in Boulder, Colo., with his wife, ancy. Hotel and Restaurant Management at Widener computer printout of our cla s shows that Colby (That's where our daughter, Katie, chose to go to 0 University. He hopes to build the HRM School to school. Boulder is absolutely beautiful.) Jim is in graduates from the Class of '69 are everywhere' A national prominence. He'd love to see all the Zetes few phone calls and a lot of cooperation ha\·e - electroniccomponen t sales. He asked about David especially Ed Scherer, Eric Meindl, and Herb resulted in an interesting update of some of our Parker '68, Mike Thoma, Marty Gliserman, and C Betsey Littlejohn DeLoache Swartz at our reunion. His most humbling experi­ clas mates Starting in the orthea t, I found . MarkShovan has • • ence was bemg a Red Sox fan Elaine and Kurt Ann Montgomery Mass moved to Manassas, Va. In addition to illustrating • in Arlington, . where he Swenson have bought a house on Ocean Point in has been for eight years. Ann works for. a private historic children's books, Betsey designs counted Boothbay, Maine, which is just north of Boothbay agency as a substance-abuse counselor for men in cross-stitch and is a certified picture framer. Her Harbor. It 1s a big old house on the ocean, built the tate prison. She concentrate on preparing the husband, John, grewup in Camden, S.C., and is a around the turn of the century. When he wrote he men for life outside of prison. Wow-the stories photographer and supervisor for the electric util­ said it "needs a lot of work, since it has no kitchen she could tell' Ann is married and has two chil­ company in Northern Virginia. Betsey is one of � ity no hot water, no heat, and only one indoor work "' everal cla smates who have children attending dren. Ben, 5, her adopted son from Chile, and her ing privy." (I'd say Kurt is a master of understate­ daughter, Amanda, 6, keep her in line Mary Colby. Her oldest daughter, Kimberley Blatz, is a • ment.) Kurt wrote, "It took 22 years, but I'm really Holden Brown lives in West Lebanon, ..H., where first-year student. She said that walking through , looking forward to summers on the Maine coast; she teaches second grade. She avs her life isn't s( thecampu with her daughter last September was Thank you for all the nice letters. I hope some of exciting to write about, but between her second one of the most satisfying things that she's done. • you take a moment during the spring or summer (There certainly is a great feeling of accomplish­ graders and her eighth-grade son and sixth-grade ll to drop me a note. Please let me know if you would daughter, her life is far from dull. She i JUSt ment in seeing your children become kind, like the address of one of our classmates. beginning the chauffeuring stage of her life �ensitive,semi-independentyoung adults.)Betsey • � k d a e l Class secretary: SUSAN DAGGETT DEAN Moving down the coast we come to Barbara Kling­ �: �0�:c������ �e :������r::;0� ;:0� 29301 . 114th St., Scottod,le, Ac;,. erman Morgan, who lives in Princeton Junction, (I his home in Ottawa, Ontario. Brian has two chil­ �8' N.]. Barb is a second-year "nontraditional" law student at Rutgers Law School. "Nontraditional" li dren, Ben, 15, and Sarah, 1 I. who live in Bath, Maine. Brian sees them every few months and for simply means she is over 211 If law school doesn't keep her busy enough, her six-feet-tall son and her longer periods during school vacations. He says ·� two daughters do. Her eighth-grade daughter is it's never enough. They are happy and doing well 5'8" tall, and (surprise!) she plays basketball mschool. Brian and his wife, Margie, were expect- • n, Our sou them representative is Linda Pushee Mer­ ing a baby boy in January. Last August they all John Birkinbine says that daughter Kristen's cer, who has lived in Morehead City, .C., for nine 11 spent a week on StarIsland off Portsmouth, N.H., college, Miami of Ohio, reminds him of "a big years. After leaving Colby, Linda completed her where Brian was featured speaker for a week of Colby with more trees." He and wife Judy spent studying U.S.-Canada relations. Margie is in charge some time last summer at their summer home on Ph.D. at Virginia Institute of Marine Science. She of internal audit for Canada Deposit Insurance Orr's Island, Maine. Now at home, he plans Bears now works as a fisheries biologist for the State j! Corporation, football parties Hal Childs of Oakland, Cali£., Division of Marine Fisheries, where she super­ and she is finishing an M.B.A. at • vises a biological staff who monitor fisheries re­ Ii Ottawa University. Brian serves the First Unitar- has begun a Ph.D. program, combining philoso­ Congregation phy and psychology of religion Frank Dunton, sources in North Carolina. Linda, like our other ian ofOttawa, which includes a bout • ladies, is also kept busy by her son, Matthew, 13, 11t 1,100people. He prepares courses and sermons, a resident of Rockport, Mass., has attained the and her daughter, Emily, 10 In South Padre does counseling, supervises interns, and heads his position of director of fiscal operations and con­ • 11 Island, Tex., Jill Harris Joseph wears three hats. denomination's committee on continuing educa- troller at U. Mass., Boston Pediatrician Dr. tn • She is a director with Mary Kay Cosmetics and has t.on for mini�ter . He also helps run start-up Linda Levy Fagenholz and her family enjoy a 0• consultants all over the United States, so she trav­ seminars for team ministries. He enjoys sailing, beautiful natural life in the lovely environs of Erie, r els a lot. She raises and shows golden retrie\·ers in woodworking, and watercolor painting. Brian Pa. They also went to Yellowstone to experience the South Central U.S. and now owns the #1 figures he's paid his dues by writing about his whitewater rafting. Linda and husband Allen (also .d American-bred golden retriever in the U.S. for this family and would like to hear from some other a pediatrician) have three children, the oldest of !If year. Lastly, she helps part time (when would that classmates. would I.) Leanne Davidson whom is at Phillips Academy John Irish and (So • • be?) in her husband's restaurant. Jill lives on an Kaslow is still living in Chevy Chase, Md., with family moved into their new home, which they island in the Gulf of Mexico that is a tourist area her husband, Dick, and their children. Over the built in Seaside, Oreg., last summer. I am im­ one-half mile from the border. It was 85 degrees last eight years Leanne has created her own 10- pressed by how many of us of '68 were affected when talked with her. I was looking out the � ( i s aesthetically by the singular beauty of Mayflower I window at our first snow ( ovember 12)! On to l r L i a Hill and have based their choice ofa location to call • l� Torrance, Calif., to talk with Vicki Carter Cun­ , infectiou:��:� �:'::� disease epidemiologist�!�\ ��t;f� at�� NIH���� and � his� "home" on the prerequisite of natural beauty A • ningham, who is a senior principal consultant textbook on AIDS was published in the spring of great high-school photo of attorney Joe Jabar • with the Oracle Corporation, which is a computer 1989. Leanne wrote that her most humbling expe­ appeared in the Central Maine MorningSentinel. In software company. Last winter she and her family rience was "finding out how stupid I became the same article was a photo of Sally Connor skied in Banff National Park, and this Augu t she when my daughter turned 15." (I know exactly Parks. Their many reflections on high-school life enjoyed a tripto Ireland. Her oldest son, Torin, is . what you mean!) Leanne's mom still owns and circa 1964 and observations of current life in cen­ a freshman premed student at Pomona College, id operates a private preschool. (Many of us have tral Maine were reported in a large feature article while Gavin is a sophomore in high school. An­ neat torie about our parents. Betsey Littlejohn Now, I must seize the opportunity to tell Sue Y • other busy lady! The circle around the United DeLoache's tepmother enrolled in a pioneer Davidson Lombard that I dined at her fabulously • i-. States is complete with a visit to Vivian Foss in graduate program at the University of Maryland rustic Olde Grist Mill Restaurant and shopped at I� Green Bay, Wis. Vivian has an administrative in nur ing ethics. I always like to hear good step- her nearby Country Store while on vacation in 1• position as assistant director of governmentfoun­ mother stories. That creature in Cinderella gave us Kennebunkport, Maine, totally unaware of the dations and corporate relations at St. orbert all a black eye.) Fred Hopengarten wrote as he significant fact that this amazing property is hers. • College. She also teaches English at the college. was the process of selling Channel One, the Sue and husband David have two children, the in Vivian asked about Kristen Kramer, so check in, satellite services company he cofounded in older of whom is at Babson College Gentle Iii TV • Kristen. 1978. He was selling all his shares to Continental classmates, please to incline thine eyes toward the Classsecretary:ANNATHOMPSONCAN­ Cablevision. When he wrote in August 1989 he next Colby issue, for any news that here is missed, DERS, P.O. Box 267, Washburn, Maine 04786. was looking for a business in Eastern Massachu­ my toils shall strive to mend. Class secretary: BARBARA BIXBY, 1 2 Eighth �etts. Fred was the consultant to Colby when it installed a satellite dish. I did not realize that Fred's TV sister is Associate Professor of Modem �---117_0_ 9_. ------Languages (French) Jane Moss and that his brother­ • 7o in-law is Associate Professor of History Richard "Pete" Moss. Fred had the opportunity to visit - 20th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Have you got �olbywhileronsultingand said it still looks beau­ • He plans to attend our 25th reunion Nick your bags packed? We're hoping to see you on tiful. • 8-10 our Hadgis now lives with his wife, Anna, in Bryn The title of this column should be "Women from campus June to celebrate 20th reunion.

COLBY 35 We' re counting on good weather, good food, good Maine, that "Diane and I continue to teach at Lake in Charleston, S.C., but the clean-up effort compli­ times, and, most of all, a good turnout' The 15th Region High School in Naples. We live in a brick cated life last fall In contrast, things were stam, was a ball, and the kids loved it, too---even dorm • Federalist-style house built in 1840. Two years ago quo for Jon and Alice Osmer Olson and their living' I had a call from Linda Gulbrandsen, my two • we opened an antique shop called Paper Chase boys in Mt. Vernon, Maine. Jon continues to work roommate in what used to be the "new dorms." Antiques. We specialize in paper ephemera or with the Maine Farm Bureau, while Alice main­ Somehow I imagine that is now a misnomer. Linda paper Americana antiques and collectibles. We tains her librarian and nursery-school teaching lives with husband Art, an attorney, and their two have had many enjoyable experiences with our positions Finally, as you huddle wherever children, Megan and Barrett, in Newton, Mass. • business, including dealings with Earle Shettle­ you're keeping warm this winter, think about She has been involved in construction and design worth '70 of the Maine Historic Preservation what's going on in Poland, N.Y., as John in the last few years. Among her recent contacts Crabtree Commission. We also supplied the paper props "whittles" away some spare time with his was Nicki Pach, who has two little boys and new (such as calendars and magazines) for the movie hand-crafted wooden fishing lure business, practices law on Long Island, as does her husband, Whales of August starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gipetto's Surf Plugs. The lures are for catching Steve. Linda also phoned Elaine Treworgy and Gish, which was filmed off the coast of Maine" bluefish, and John relishes them (in contrast to her husband, Dick Jacques '69, who run a restau­ • the And finally, news of two engagements involving plastic ones commonly used) not so much fortheu rant in Maine Colby appeared in the issue of • theClassof'71: Richard McGill, who is an admin­ success in landing the toothy, hardfighting blue- U.S. News and World Report devoted to the best istrative law judge in New Jersey, is engaged to fish but for the summer memories and fishing colleges. Did you see our alma mater under the Joan Hopper. The clipping indicates that a June stories recalled by the toothmarks and scratches category "Small But Superb"? Wallace Tapia • 1990 wedding was in the works Nancy Neckes, on the wooden surfaces. has been named a partner in the accounting firm of • who is employed as a supervisor in the Massachu­ Class secretary: JANET HOLM GERBER, Smith, Batchelder and Rugg in Burlington, Vt. He setts Department of Mental Retardation, also 11112 Broad Green Drive, Potomac, Md. 20854 is a tax specialist James Martin, vice president • announced that wedding bells will be ringing in for academic affairs at Mount Ida College in honor of her marriage to Bruce Du mart '72. Bruce Newton, Mass., has been awarded a Fulbright for can be found at the Worcester, Mass., office of work in England Congratulations are also in • Dean, Witter, Reynolds almost any day except order for Ann McEwen, who married Dr. David July 28-their wedding date. Best wishes to you Thomson last July. As I have mentioned in this all1 column before, Ann has her own ad agency in Class secretary: LINDA CHESTER, 46 Lin­ Spring tever should be settmg m about now- orthampton, Mass. Her husband's specialty is nr coln Street, Hudson, Mass. 01 749. �...,___-hope you enjoy some warm weather and sunshine veterinary medicine. The couple will make their rru c in t e c home in Holyoke, Mass. We will elect new • t o t c e officers for the Class of '70 at our reunion. There­ : : � � � � � �y i; :� nn Memorial).� � � I thoroughlyg 'l�( � enjoyed�!\ � :seeing� him� a�i�n fore, this may be my last column. I've tried to keep gai :arni and had a blast that evening! I hope most of you you abreast of class news for the past five years. ercl didn't skip your 20th To clarify a past issue of l'i. Thanks to those of you who wrote, called, or • Colby, Peggy Horrigan Coleman set up a library answered questionnaires. Please remember to do at It was Indian summer and the fall colors were at her children's preschool; her book business was the same for my successor. I hope to catch up with their peak when I returned to Colby for Home­ run out of her home. She has three children, Pat· you in person at Colby this summer. coming in mid October. The campus was more rick, Daniel, and Erin Richard Snethen of Class secretary: LAURA STRUCKHOFF • er beautiful than ever. Academic and social lifeat the Springville, N.Y., is a member of our class CLINE, 6602 Loch Hill Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21239. b)' e College were clearly superlative-putting Colby virtue of his receiving his master's from Colby He md on par with the country's finest schools. To top it is a married, retired teacher with five grown chil· t off, I talked to lots of students and found they were dren. His ancestors came from my hometown of . 1 upbeat, motivated, and very appreciative of the Medfield to New York in the 1830s! Roberta la • school. If you haven't been back to Mayflower Hill Rollins Wallace is an elementary school media 11er 7J for awhile, do something nice for yourself-go specialist in Wethersfield, Conn., where she a nd p _____ I back and enjoy Colby Armed with a fresh batch Mark live with sons Brian and Greg. She's work· • ln yet another desperate effort to meet the dead­ of your replies and some tips from the class corre­ ing on her master's in library science while simul· e line of this column, I pulled at random the ques­ spondents' session I attended that weekend, here's taneously working full time and running the boys le tionnaires of four people who seemed to have little some news: The wire service tells us that Jon Dyer to all of their sports Susie Yovic Hoeller has • in common except for their Colby connection. of Milton, Mass., is now a principal in the account­ moved from Dallas to Van Alstyne and says living Then I realized that all four have really unique and ing department of Camp Dresser McKee, Inc., ina small country town is a challenge. She and & Ted VO fascinating careers First, from England comes one of the nation's largest environmental consult­ learned to plant a vegetable garden and grew • word of Jackie Getchell Qualmann, who is a part­ ing firms Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, assistant grapes. Susie played a key role in the drafting • and time archaeologist, play-group helper, voluntary professor of teacher education at Lewis Clark passage of the Dallas sexually oriented busines..

36 COLB I would love to hear from Anne Gamer, Doris Ford Mathis, Charlie Macgregor, and Cindy Santillo Gail Andrews McCarthy of Vienna, Va., saw • Pat Hickson Nowlan of Williston, Vt., last Au­ gust. Pat and her husband have three daughters. Gail would love to hear from you, Lucy Allen ! • Dick Cass has gone back to school-in the M.F.A. fiction writing program at U 'H Debbi Manter • Mulcrone of San Antonio, Tex., also has gone back to school for her teacher's certification at the Uni­ versity of Texas. She and Daniel, an Air Force officer, have two daughters, Lori, a soph0more, and Meghan, a 5-year-old pre�chooler. Debbi ha� switched towarm-weather sports, since she ha n't been in cold weather for around nine vears. She has a small home crafts business. Debbi guesse that their next assignment will be overseas, wh1Ch is where Chris Hall Salazar now resides-in Spain-with Joe and sons: PSC Box 291 7, APO 09283 Two other faraway classmates .Y., T.Y. • are Norman and Patricia Flanagan Olsen at the U.S. Embassy, P.O. Box 680, Majuro, the Marshall Islands 96960, where orm is the deputy U.S. Organically Growing representative. They and their three sons love ex­ ploring the Pacific atolls with their 31 -foot sail­ "When people buy produce at a store, they have no idea what they're getting," says boat. Diving and fishing also rate high on their lei­ Lynn Coody '74. "More than ever before, they're seeking out organically grown sure activities. Crystal clear water, home-harvested commodities." Since graduating from Colby with a dual degree in biology and envi­ coconuts, friendly people, and intere ting work are just a few of the amenities Beth Michaud • ronmental studies, this self-described "gardener and biology major since age 7" has Urie of Brookfield, Vt., is married with two young earned a master's degree in biology at the University of Oregon, has taught college­ children, Emily and Matilda. In addition to being level courses in biology, and most recently has been active in the passage of state a professional landscaperI gardener, Beth is a li­ environmental laws in Oregon. With two friends, she also started an organic farming censed day-care operator of The Children's Gar­ den at Ralph Farm. I like her philosophy of "infect­ business of her own. ing" her children with the joy of being healthy and Unlike most farms in the United States, Fresh Start Farm uses no synthetic strong Patience Gruber Stoddard has changed • chemicals or insecticides. To control insect problems-"We have the same needs as all address since the last two issues: RRl, Box 516, other farmers," Coody says-the partners use compost and manure to feed the soil Walpole, .H. 03608. She's primarily a home­ maker now, but preaches part time, gardens or­ and organisms. Sometimes they release insect-eating ladybugs, sometimes they spray ganically, and contra-dances. Patience's timber­ with organic chemical sprays made of soap. They also improve production by crop frame home, designed and built by her husband, rotation, by planting winter cover crops, and by careful record-keeping of experi­ sits on 21 acres in a lovely rural setting. She says ments done and new methods tested. "Usually organic farming is a little more that Gary Curtis earned his Ph.D. in clinical soci­ expensive," Coody says, "but only in terms of initial cost." Polluted water, a long-term ology at U. Maineand iscurrently living inQuincy, Mass. She also reports that Roger Sherman and effect of chemical farming, is a menace to public health, Coody says, "and sooner or his wife have a daughter, Kelsey, in Annapolis, later we have to deal with this cost." Md. Patience would love to have Foss-Woodman people write to me! Dan and saw John '72 and Fresh Start Farm became so successful that the partners initiated a subscription • 1 produce-buying plan. A subscription farming customer places an order before the Janet Shreve Martland '72 at a Milton soccer field in October. Our older children were each playing growing season and makes a commitment to buy at harvest time. This ensures in a different soccer match What I hear from • cu tamers that crops will be available and ensures Coody that she is growing the right those of you writing to me is that you truly miss amounts of the right crops. Fresh Start Farm has been such a success that it recently the time and leisure afforded you at Colby to sit, won second place in a national "Gardener of the Year" competition sponsored by think, read, converse, and in turn, form intense friendships. Some people miss meals being pre­ Orga nic Gardening magazine. To help others benefit from her experience, Coody began pared for them, too! Because of juggling profes­ teaching biology classes with an emphasis on organic gardening at Lane Community sions, carpooling to/from children's activities, College in Oregon. Fresh Start Farm doubled as the course laboratory. school, church, or community involvement, most Coody's expertise has become as prized a commodity as her produce. "I was of us are finding it difficult to set a "balance" in our getting so many calls for advice that answering them took too much time away from busy lives. Good luck to all of us! Enjoy your summer. my farming business," she says. She recently sold Fresh Start Farm to her partners and Class secretary: ANNE HUFF JORDA ,36 now serves as a consultant. "It's the job I've always dreamed of," she claims. Hillcrest Rd., Medfield, Mass. 02052. Coody currently is working with Oregon's government to restrict by law the amount of chemicalsin food grown and sold in the state. She would like to see the banning of certain chemicals, testing of fruits and vegetables for pesticides, and establishment of new labeling requirements for food. As the agricultural policy director of Oregon Tilth, a group whose goal is to educate people about the benefits oforganic farming, Coody also has testified at federal government hearings. She is the Anybody notice how the Class of '74 notes are coauthor of the Senate bill now known as "Oregon's Organic Bill." moving inexorably toward the middle of the book? For Lynn Coody, what started, naturally enough, as a cultivated interest in We just can't seem to shake the habit of looking for them at the end of the list-in with the other recent organic gardening has ripened into a career of national importance. graduates. It sure would be easier to find the '74's if somebody volunteered some information. The '90 Cinda H. /ones next five years will be particularly difficult since the class entrusted its correspondence to a couple

COLBY 37 of losers who don't have many friends Despite • the NYNEX Corporation in White Plains, N.Y. has its "own trucks and everything." Ka rl the fact that she recruited us to take over, we • traveh Bill Tuttle is quite a busy man these days. He is a a lot and has worked a couple seasons should thank Carol Wynne for the job she's done for th. concert pianist who plays original music and has National Outdoor Leadership School doing for the past five years. Since her turn is now over, some two recordings out. He also teaches full time (lib­ mountaineering in Wyoming. Most recently we can report that she's living in Waterville, where he's eral arts) at the Academy of Art College in San been spending summers as a river guide she owns and operates the Children's Book Cel­ and Francisco. His recent milestone was completing "teller of tall tales" for Four Corners ch l lar-a neat shop full of kids' books and toys in The S oo his Ph.D. in education at Berkeley Susie Burke Outdoor Education, Monticello, Utah. He has 01 Concourse. Don't miss it if you're in town Lynn • been • Gibbs (better known as "Esme" in college days) is kayaking in North Carolina and climbing Coody is a horticultural consultant with "Organi­ and a chemical dependency therapist who recently skiing in New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Coll} cally Grown Co-op" in Eugene, Oreg. "The or­ went part time in order to be home with Sean, 5, rado. His travels have brought him in tou h ganic foods industry is enjoying a huge upsurge in c 11ith and Caitlin, 2. In addition, Susie also designs and Colby classmates, including Craig Spen r sales and attention because many consumers are ce Ill sellschildren's sweaters on the side l've runout Montana, who has a great job at a research concerned with the quality of their foods. More • center of space but still have a lot more to report in the is married to Suzy, and has "two sassy daugh· than ever before, they are seeking out organically next issue. Stay tuned ...and don 't fo rget, reunion ters," and Mark "Blackie" Drollinger grown commodities," she reports The Alumni '77, w}u. • is June 8-10. Be there! lives in Milwaukee. Oh, by the way, Karl is Office also passed on a clipping that Chet Hickox, ab Class secretary: BARBARA CARROLL PE­ working part time as a model. Has anyone B.A., J.D., M.S., and C.P.A. and Assistant Profes­ set/. TERSON, 921 Dolphin Drive, Malvern, Pa . 19355. him on the cover of Mad River Canoe Catalogor1J1 sor of Management at URI, ran for the school Nordic Nomad Sweater Catalog? board (as a Republican) in Rhode Island this year. Class secretary: PAMELA M. CAME, o word on whether he was elected That's it. 371 • Central St., Newton, Mass. 02166. Make up something about yourselfor your friends and send it in when you get the questionnaire, or 76-- the next issue will be similarly skimpy. Class secretaries: STEVEN COLLINS, RFD Olen Kalkus has completed his M.A. in education 3, Box 3010, Oakland, Maine 04963, and THO­ at Columbia University's Teacher's College. He is MAS LIZOTTE, RFD 1, Box 4970, Oakland, Maine principal of St. Scholastica Academy, an all-girls 04963. boarding school in Canon, Colo., which is some­ Class secretary: DEB COHEN, 522 North Town thing he never thought he would be doing. In Apt. 5, Claremont, Calif. 91711. addition to coaching and teaching and his admin­ istrative work, Olen also works with the students to organize a successful blood drive. In his free time, he is president of an adult soccer league, the Aquidneck Island Soccer Federation. He and his 78-- 15th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 In case your wife, Kimberly, have one child, Jan Francis Bill • • mathematics has failed you, coming up this June Oldman has had a number of changes this year, Kathy Colello Guerin was featured in one of a 8-10, 1990, is our ...count it . . 15th reunion' Get including a new job with Pratt and Whitney Air­ series of ads for Oakhurst Dairy of Maine. TV The your car revved up or those plane tickets ready. craft as industrial health and safety engineer. He theme of the advertisements is the "Oakhurs! We expect to see you there, ol' loyal Colby '75ers1 and wife Pam have two daughters, Lindsay, 3, and Kid" and depictsadults who grewup on Oakhursl 1 From Laurie Fitts Loosigian's reunion survey Rebecca, 1 Barry Rabin is an ophthalmologist milk. Her Colby graduation photo, shown the • 1n 1 come the following: Linda Guite Hall is living in in Syracuse, .Y. He and wife Susan have two ad, was spotted by an eagle-eyed classmate. Mt. Vernon, Maine, and had her first baby last children, Stephanie, 5, and Michael, 1. It's amaz­ Class secretary: JAMES E. SCOTT,674 Jre. April Nance Heiser, residing in Brunswick, ing where you run into Colby alums; in this case, • mont St., Boston, Mass. 021 18. Maine, is busy with the "same old stuff" -parent­ Barry met Joe Greenman '71, father of Jennifer, a ing (Daniel, 8; Jillian, 5), writing freelance articles, classmate of Stephanie's in nursery school. He and and playing in an occasional tennis tourney Joe Joe went to Colby Homecoming and had a terrific • Alex and wife Joanne (DeFilipp) '76, from Old time meeting each other's friends. In fact, they had Town, Maine, had their third rug rat last summer. such a great time on this solo trip that they are 7Cf Congratulations! Flo Gutowzski Harlor, Den­ planning to return with their families for our 15th • _ ver, Colo., has several kiddoes and has recently and Joe's 20th in 1991 Ken Johnson has just It was wonderful to see so many of the Class • of't joined Digital Equipment Corporation as a com­ completed teaching his first college-level market­ back on campus for reunion. By the time you read puter sales rep. She and hubby Dave are finalizing ingcourseatthe University of Southern Maine. He this, there should be several candidates for the renovations on their 77-year-old house Pat had a great time and wonders if a new career is on Class of 201 1; among the most recent arrival • m "Woody" Wood has been working out of the the horizon. Ken is currently director of deli/ Charles Russell Brewer, born to Russ and Nanr University of Nebraska Medical Center doing liver bakery merchandising at Hannaford Brothers Brewer in August, and our own Julia Anne Spra· I transplants Gordon Cook just celebrated a first Company. When he and his wife, Kathy, are not gue, born not long after her trip to Colby. • Please 1 year anniversary in Durham, N.C., after surviving busy with Korey and Kaitlyn, Ken is fund-raising drop me a card or letter announcing other impor nine years of Silicon Valley (California) insanity. chair for the State of Maine Multiple Sclerosis tant arrivals Members of the Class • of ''fl Working fora semi conductor manufacturer in the Society. He raised over $105,000 in the first year of marched down the aisle in 1989. David Anderson field "offers a much better environment form y hot a walk-a-thon and personally raised over $3,000 married Helen Lathrop (a Bates grad-will the , • dog engineering style1" says Gordon. Also, con­ Caren Starr Schwartz is taking some time off from CBB rivalry continue in this household?) last April gratulations on your now 2 year old, Jasmine' her career with IBM to raise her son, Johnathan David is a marketing rep for the New Hampslure • John Coppinger and wife Katy and kids (Tori, 3, Michael, who is 1. Karen and Bill Schwartz live in Insurance Group; he and Helen live in Arlington. Andrew, 7) have recently transferred to sunny Farmington, Conn., where she's involved in the Mass. April '89 was a busy month. • Lou Ann • Paget, Bermuda. Hope there's room for all of us to Farmington Women's Group and Hadassah Takacs was married to Thomas Brown in AtlanLl, • visit! Jim and Sally Hawk Gibson, hailing from Brad Cohen is a special education department where Lou Ann is working in computer services • Fryeburg, Maine, are busy with their kids, Leslie, head in two Boston middle schools and head for Georgia Pacific David Linsky also married • 7, and David, 4-both of whom love to cross­ baseball coach at Brookline High School. He recently; last spring he walked down theaislew1th country ski and ice skate. Jim is still teaching at married Susan Ginsburg in 1988, which, accord­ Cooperstein in Belmont, Mass. They are Lois liv· Fryeburg Academy while Sally is busy volunteer­ ing to Brad, has changed his life quite a bit Karl ing in Natick, Mass., where, in addition to • his ing for PT A, church, etc. Rick Drake is the Methven wrote from Proctor Academy in An­ career as a trial attorney for Campbell AssOC1- • & � proud father of a son born last summer as well as dover, N.H., where it sounds like he is running the ates of Boston, David is an elected member the of a 3-year-old one. Rick was recently appointed VP place. In 1987 he was named Teacher of the Year Natick Town Meeting And in a September • / for Axia Services It was great hearing from old for his achievements in the history department. wedding, Randy Papadellis married Cathy • Annt Maryliz Moynihan, Smith. Randy is the vice president of marketing Boston apartmentmate who, The following year he was a dorm parent and the al upon meeting the "man of her dreams," Robert soccer /hockey coach coaching an all-league goalie Cadbury-Schweppes Boston Harbor and • the the efforts of Levy, is headed toward the altar this spring. She (who started for Colby this fall). Currently he is ecology are benefiting from Mani works as a director of corporate publkations for adviser to the student-run fire department, which De Vito, who is a contracts manager for the Mas-

38 COLBY Water Re ources Authority. Marie is land, Maine's designer home ut ::.achusetts furnishings bou­ the MITRE Corp. in Burlington, ass., as electrical Arlington, Ma s., and escapes to the tique, which opened in December :'vi living in . 1988 and fea­ engineers. Bob i pursuing his master' in bu i­ nshine of tropical climates whenever possible tures a rich mix of classic contemporary furniture, ness administration at Bentley College • Janice • hich isn'toften enough with the demands of her sleek Italian lighting, and hand-crafted wooden Sandeen wrote from Brooklyn, Y., where she up the . '.'\ caree�� r; it takes a long time to clean harbor!) furniture by Maine cabinetmakers, chief among has been teaching at Parsons School of Design in Dwight Darrow is also serv'.11g the public; m whom is Gregg • Joanne Shannon and Paul New York Citv. Janice has her M.F.A. from Rhode • . ' private law practice m Sheboygan, O'Donnell were married on 11 1� addition to his . /11 /89 in Cohas­ Island Schooi of Design and has traveled quite a served one term on the c1ty council and set, Mass. Among their guests were Wis., he . . Chris '79 and bit since graduation. She seems to be very happily ran for re-election last Apnl. Hts full life also Karen Starkey Webber, Bill and Mary Lou Eck­ busy and productive. Janice reminds the rest of us l wife Cheryl and parental duties for two land Jackson, Julia Greenwood Kreutz, ncludes lain '82 that she has room for i\1 YC visitors (] have her hildren and a membership in the Sheboygan and Ann Albee Hoefle, Ben 79 and Joanne Lynch address). She wonders what issues our classmates l �Yacht Club • After several years as a district cargo Thorndike(with second child almost due), and are faced with now other than income, 1.e �piritu­ manager for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Bev Nalbandian Madden Joanne and Paul honey­ ality and personal growth. I would encourage sales . Charlotte, .C., Michael Viniconis is headed for mooned in Cancun and now reside in Ton\'alk, anyone to respond with as much depth a you new horizons as KLM's first American trainer for Conn. Joanne is a vice president in the health-care wish • Jeff Paradis wrote telling us that he is the sales force at their world headquarters in lending area of Connecticut Bank Trust, a sub­ married to Lynne and works as a di c jockey for & 1 Mike and his wife have a son, Mi- sidiary of her former employer, t4 Amsterdam. Bank of ew KOST-FM in Rochester, �.H. His wife i a dental chael Paul, Jr., who no doubt will inherit Dad's England. hygienist and they have a .+-year-old son, Ryan affection for travel • Jane Venman Ledebuhr did Class secretary: DIANA HERRMANN, 360 Jeff mentioned that Troy Dagres and his wife. !j such an outstanding job (thank you,Jane!) that she E. 65th St. #3H, New York, N.Y. 10021 . Janet, are running the Sportsman Lounge in left me with a fairly empty file. Help me out! Newburyport, Mass. Jeff had a chance to travel to Please drop me a line with your news of impor­ France, Switzerland, Belgium, West Germany, and tance: career changes, marriages, births, etc. I am the Caribbean since graduation • Alan Paperny looking forward to hearing from all of you! wrote to let us know that he is a "big-firm" lawver Oasssecretary: EMILY GROUT SPRAGUE, in Rocky Hill, Conn., having graduated from 75 Gotham St., Watertown, .Y. 13601 . 8J-- Boston University School of Law. Al dream oi 8 living the slower-paced lifestyle in New 1ex1co, I received a news dipping announcing the mar­ Colorado, or Idaho. Good luck, Al! • In Peabody, riage of Pamela Lee Bushey and Robert John Mass., is Addison-We ley Publishing Co.' assis­ Wallace on June 10, 1989. Congratulations to them tant editor, Christine O'Brien, who poses the both • Bill Maley wrote that he and his wife, questions to our class: "do you feel you have been 80-- Janet, live in ew Haven, Conn., and have two successful since graduation?" and "do you feel children, David, born 5/87, and Sarah, born3/8 9. Colby has served you well?" Again, send your Bill has been working at a family manufacturing comments my way to share with all or just to air 10th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Lauren Dustin is • company since graduation-his company makes your feeling • John Northrop wrote to inform avicepresidentofthe U.S. Trust Company in ew lighting and signs for Mass Transit Vehicles-and me that he is the manager of Sweetwaters Restau­ York City, where she's been working for five ,Ja he is doing volunteer activities and fund raising rant in Burlington, Vt., and keeps in touch with years. She was recently engaged to Abid Acosta, a 'O for the Long Wharf Theatre in ew Haven • I also many from our class. He stays fit with lots of fellow banker, and they've purchased a new home 10 received a letter from Michael and Lisa Romano. basketball and skiing and enjoys the area's beau­ in Montclair, .J. • Last spring, Tom Eyman Their first child, Stephanie Leigh, was born April opportunities for biking and hiking. He has l·ecame the international specialist of The Maine tiful !Tf 5, 1989. The Romanos live in Windsor, Conn., been busy since Colby and wishes he saw more World Trade ssociation, an organization that r where Mike works as a supervisor in the audit '83ers. John wonders whether a seven-and-a-half­ provides counseling, educational programs, and department for Great American Insurance Com­ or eight-year reunion would be a possibility, as he research studies on trade issues to Mame busi­ pany. Lisa works as a systems consultant for really enjoyed the fifth reunion and can't wait nesses and helps local companies participate in Vantage Computer Systems, Wethersfield, Conn. until 1993! Please keep those cards and letters internationaltrade shows. Since Colby, Tom earned • • I recently ran into Scott Vandersall at a com­ and photos coming and feel free to comment and his master's in international affairs from George mercial lending seminar. Scott is married to Amy question as you wish. The more we hear from you Washington University and worked with the in­ (Boyle) '83 and has two children. Scott works as an the better. My best to alll ternational trade law firm of Weadon, Rehm & assistant vice president commercial lending for Class secretary: SALLY LOVEG REN MER­ Associates Washington, D.C. • Jim and Jenni :U m Fleet Bank. I would love to have more news for CHANT, Box 2448, Mount Desert, Maine 04660. l ore are the proud parents of Jasmine, Scully E m you all but no one is writing to me. Please keep the who was born on July 16, 1988, at 30 weeks of letters corning. gestation-a rocky start to her life. In July they Class secretary: PAULA HINCKLEY BUR­ moved from Portland, Maine, to Rochester, Minn., ROUGHS, Box 118A, Hillsboro, .H. 03244. Lii for Jim to start a two-year fellowship in peripheral RRl, vascular surgery at The Mayo Clinic • Karen 8'-1=- Caine Babbitt has two children, Emily (born May 1a Hi, everyone! There hasn't been too much news in 1987)and John Isaac III (called Ike, bornSeptem­ ber 10, 1988) and enjoys living in their new home, my mailbox from you all, and the envelope of clip­ Al which was completed in October 1988. She served pings the College sends me was about as bare as the trees outside my window in Cambridge this as ge neral contractor • Rev. Jane Dibden and her � husband, David Schwab, are living in Farming­ ovember afternoon. I'll be resorting to question­ Class secretary:EMIL Y E. CUMMINGS, 74 Myrtle naires unless you limber up those writing fingers .\1 ton, Maine, with their daughter, Lisa Priscilla Dibden Schwab (born September 8, 1989). David St. #1, Boston, Mass. 021 14. and drop me a letter or postcard sometime soon • i employed by Forster Manufacturing in Wilton, We've had numerous weddings, including that of while Jane is a tutor for Franklin County Adult Tom Reilly to Maureen O'Haire. Tom works in Ba Education. Jane and Jean McCord were Wellesley, Mass., as treasurer for the Boston Re­ ic sources Financial Group and bride5maids at the wedding of Diana Small and • David Rocco Susan Fierro were married on July 1, 1989. David Richard Snow on October 21, 1989, in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard • Peter Hedberg �-- is a CPA for Leydon and Gallagher and is living in Revere, Mass. • Peter Burton wed Catherine graduated last spring from the University of Greetings! Not too much new news of our class­ O'Brien this past September • Leary and Phil Anzona's College of Medicine, where he won the Ann DeSirnone'85 were married on October 20. Plenty Van Winkle Award for excellence in surgical re­ mates, so I urge you all to not only get writing but of Colby grads were on hand for the celebration • search, was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha write often and get into the habit of it. Also, send In business-related news, Steve D'Andrea is a honorary student organization, and won a com­ photos so we may have them for a scrapbook for marketing brand manager for Reynolds Metals mittee excel!P'lcein research award • Sara Crisp our golden years • Under wedding bells, I see that Company in Richmond,Va. Prior to working for and her husband, Gregg Lipton, are partners in Bob Giallombardo has wed Susan Langlais. The Reynolds, Steve was employed by Durkee-French Dimora (Italian for "abode" or "dwelling"), Port- couple live in Groveland, Mass., and both work at

COLBY 39 I Foods in Wayne, N.J. Jeff Wickman is the • offensive coordinator for the Plymouth State Col­ lege Panthers in Plymouth, N.H. As for myself, • I've spent the past three months filling in for striking NY EX workers, installing and repairing telephones in New Hampshire. As I write this column there is hope that the strike will end in the next couple of weeks. While this has been an incredibly interesting and challenging experience, must admit I'm elated at the thought of returning I to my regular job in Boston' Class secretary: AMY CARLSON, 58 Gran­ ville Rd. #2, Cambridge, Mass. 021 38.

5th reunion: June 8-10, 1990 Cathy Urstadt, • married in October to Wing Biddle, is a custom banking representative at the Bank of New York • Suzanne Orcutt, married in September 1989 to Daniel Kelly, is employed by Lucas Aerospace as a personnel administrator Dr. Donna Boyler • AMe chanic of theNa tural World was married in August to Dr. Anthony DiScipio. She is a resident in internal medicine at Dart­ mouth/Hitchcock Hospital Chris Rona was During her senior year at Colby, Colleen Balch '87 took Professor of Geology Donald • also married in August. She is employed as a legal Allen's geology Jan Plan in the Mojave desert. "It was a really hard Jan Plan," says product manager at Fidelity Investments • Balch, "but it introduced me to the Mojave, and I was enthralled with the desert." Gretchen Miller was married last April to Tho­ During that month of study, Balch met her future boss at Mitchell Caverns, took a tour mas Crowley. She is studying at San Francisco that she herself would later give, and saw the hogan where she would soon live. "A State University James King and Michele Stofle • were planning a December wedding. He is a TV I was leaving the desert," Balch says, "I realized that I'd go back." news anchor and reporter in Binghamton, N.Y. In September after she graduated, Balch began working for the Providence • Virginia Prigge was married in March to Thomas Mountains State Recreation Area as the park "interpretive specialist," giving tours, Turner. She is a senior production underwriter at taking weather information, and developing "native species" displays. The job also CIGNA Insurance Co. Philip DeSimone has • joined Nordblom Management Co., Inc., Burling­ involved maintaining trails, issuing camping permits, and cleaning latrines. ton, as a property manager Neal Kalechofsky In the Mojave, Balch lived in a hogan, which was a "fourteen foot in diameter • is a graduate student in physics at the University domed structure made of stone and whitewashed on the inside." A rectangular box, of Massachusetts John E. Anderson, Jr., isa vice • the bathroom, stuck out of one side. "I usually had electricity eight to ten hours a day, president at Fleetway Sales and Services, Inc., in and then I used battery lights," says Balch. "We used propane for the fridge and the Rhode Island. He has a 2-year-old son, John, and a new daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born October 6, stove." She remembers Essex, Calif., as it looked on her first visit only a few months 1989. Congratulations' Julie Briggs is living in before she moved into the desert: "From my Colby mindset it seemed desolate • and Washington, D.C., and working at Adia Personnel abandoned, but later, when I was living 25 miles from there, Essex was where I went Services. Last April she was involved in the pro­ if I wanted to get my mail or to use the closest phone. It was civilization." choice march on the Capitol. She is engaged to Jon Blosser, a naval photographer Carol Eisenberg Because maintenance responsibilities became more time consuming than her • traveled in Israel during November Sazy specialized work, Balch began looking for another job after six months. With the help • Seymour Gaeddert is the director of student of Professor of Biology David Firmage, she looked into jobs from Maryland to ministries at Sterling College in Kansas, where she California and eventually took a position 10 hours north of her Mojave hogan. recruited Tracy Gowen as director of student ac­ Today, Balch lives in a log cabin in Yosemite Park at an elevation of 4,500 feet. As tivities. Suzy's husband, Barry, recently won a trip to Hawaii and a new Honda on "Classic Concen­ a field teacher for Yosemite Institute, a private, nonprofit environmental school, she tration" Tom Colt is an admissions officer at teaches "nuts and bolts ecology and geology, the mechanics of the natural world," she • Kimball Union Academy, N.H. Tom's job takes says, although her courses also cover global environmental issues such as acid rain, him all over the East and to Texas recruiting tropical deforestation, world wildlife trade, and waste disposal problems. At Yosemite students. Last summer he vacationed in Alaska for several weeks. Recently Tom has run in two Institute, Balch says they hope to foster students' "appreciation and attachment to the marathons, one in 85-degree heat! Julie Engel world and to Yosemite. As a coworker of mine put it, we teach them 'how to walk • has returned to school to get her master's in physi­ lightly on the earth."' cal therapy at the University of Michigan Jenny Armstrong • Balch will be with the Yosemite Institute through June. Now searching for a received her master's in theology from master's program in education, she has goals of running a 12-year school in which Harvard. She is now just a few courses and a thesis away from a doctorate in philosophy from U. students would "emerge as globally responsible people." Balch feels that schools Mass. She is teaching philosophy at U. Mass. and today do not allow students "to see world problems and to theorize their own at a local prep school Chris Feiss is an analyst • solutions." Her educational plan, she insists, is not the trendy cause of some "flaming at Alex, Brown Sons in Baltimore, Md. His wife, & liberalism" but rather is a structured and serious re-evaluation of our existence. The Hadley (Hubbard) '86, has been accepted into the Johnson Flight Center Program for aspiring astro­ future of our race depends on this kind of educational process, Balch says. "If we nauts. Good luck' I am working part time for a continue to live as we do, it will mean the end of human life as we know it." • fuel assistance program and taking care of my son, Alex. ClassRemember secretary: to keep MARY in touch' ALICE WELLER­ Cinda H. Jones '90 MAYAN, R.D. 2, Box 149, Camden, Del. 19934.

40 COLBY band, Mark, are living in Arlington, Mass., where learn that Kirstein Geiger i traveling in Austra­ Amy is a financial administrative assistant • lia. Sound familiar? Clearly a favoritespotamongst Michael Donohue '87 married Nadine Worth in ' Bers I just recently heard about Thomas • Sf; September 1989, and "Tory" Fiske tied the knot Charlton. Apparently, in.the ultimate pursuit of a __ last fall as well Look for more updates on the graduate program degree in Bible history, Tom • Class of '86 in the next issue. As always, thanks for spent a year after graduation from Colby at the wonderful letters last fa ll. writing and continue to keep in touch. Best wi hes Institute of Holv Land Studies injerusale�, Israel, Thanks for all of your graduated from Stan­ to everyone for continued happiness and success! where he participated in a number of archeologi­ Catherine Woodward Gill law in Boston. She Class secretary: GRETCHEN BEAN LU­ cal digs concerning the history oflsrael A rather ford and is now practicing • December, where her RIE, 334 . Atlantic Blvd., Apt 103, Alhambra, belated official congratulations to Amy Lumbard traveled to South Korea last Calif. 91801. serving with the U.S. Army Rick for her marriage to Guy Holbrook '86. The Colbv hu band was • in couple were wed September 9 at the First Church Frank is hoping to practice dentistry Hawaii atTufts Jennifer lmhoff of Christ in Sandwich, Mass. After spending the aftercompletingschool • • year after graduation in Washington, D.C., work­ and her husband honeymooned in Vancou­ Foley dding. are ing for Senator Mitchell, Mary Federle ha� re­ ver, B.C., following their fall we They turned to \\'Ork for Colby. As of last August, :vlary now at home in Maine David and Wendy • has been assistant in the Alumni Office. She's Barrows Mace '87 purchased a new home in was promoted to engaged and plans to wa lk down the aisle in Julv Warwick, R.l., last fall. David Greetings, class! I haven't heard from many ofyou Carpet Products, Inc., and Of our Boston contingency, news ha 1t th�t purchasing manager of in quite some time. sent out questionnaires in • taken up golf Kris Jensen is in his ! Bevin Dockray is working for a public relations has recently • December and I'd really appreciate it if you could Last summer company, Jackson and Company, as an account final year at Emory Medical School. fill them in and send them back to me with all the at Beth Israel assistant providing events planning and media heserved a rotation in rheumatology latest news of everything that's going on in your in nephrology at San support for the Boston Beer Company, the Jordan Hospital in Bo ton and one lives. !'m going to thank you all in advance for Marsh Company, and the Campeau Corporation Diego's Naval Hospital Among the 35 guests in • helping me out I don't have much class doings of Chris '85 and • accounts Believe it or not, it's been two year attendance at the June wedding to fill you in on, but I do have some important • Carolyn Kuenne, since our graduation and still I have not heard Hubbard Feiss were news that I can't pass up: I'd like to congratulate Hadley '85, and Jamie Goetz '85 Bill Don- from many of you. Please let the rest of your Paul Burns • Jennifer Erlandson and Michael Ayers '88 on traveled to American classmates know what you're doing! Do ah ue and Dwight Trainer their fall engagement to be married. As you read took part in a two­ Class secretary: EMILY ISAACS, 294 Bridge Samoa last July, where they this they're probably bu y making plans for their n, St., Northampton, Mass. 01060. seminar on hypnotism Bill Yardly is a week • June 1990 wedding! I'd also like to congratulate Northeastem'sM.B.A. full-timestudent(again!) in Mitch Cook and Jeanne Morrison, who have set ik program Molly Couch spent last summer at • an August 1990 wedding date. Best of luck to all ice hockey ii' Colby's occer camp, Paul Vincent's four of you, and much happiness in the future! and camp in Easthampton, fishing in Canada, Class secretary: LUCY T. LENNON, 9 Well­ Are horseback riding and four-wheelingin Ohio. stone Drive, Portland, Maine 04103. you ready for the Olympics now, Molly?! Erik • ig received a four-month grant for re­ Gunderson �5 search on medical technology assessment in Chile and Co ta Rica in the fall of 1988 and began medical school at the University of Wisconsin in 88-- lia September 19 9 Miu Kwini took Miranda • Mamabolo to be his bride last summer. They are rsa now living in southern California and Miu is a Why has our correspondent been negligent as of Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry. They are late, you a k? Let me tell you. o longer under the all looking forward to a trip to South Africa this year organized, responsible, and comparatively mt Barnes Hurley is a financial analyst for the wealthy protection of Colby and private educa­ • Amy la Shamut Bank in Boston and is also enrolled in tion, lam now struggling in Massachusetts's public Bentley College's M.B.A. program Lt. James education. Underpaid, undereducated, and gen­ • Campbell is stationed in Hawaii and is enjoying erally ignored by state legislators, I, along with fatherhood with his daughter, Catherine Ruth, 25,000 other students, am struggling desperately age Stephen Potts gained acceptance to a to get the education I was promised! How I long 2 • the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan in and miss for those days of yore in Waterville, 1lat Ann Arbor, thus "ensuring four more years of his Maine! Seriously, my appreciation of the dedica­ eternal studies program" Colette Cote moved tion, hard work, and luxury of my education at • to Grenoble, where she is a European research Colby grows daily. Watching my students here at relations specialist for Open Software. She is de­ U. Mass struggle to get half of what I took for lighted to be back in France and had a nice visit granted at Colby has made me look back with from Katherine Sullivan '87 and literally ran into thanks to all those who supported and worked for Tim and Kelly Kastrinelis in Monte Carlo last my education at Colby. Enough on me John • May Ellen Field is in business school in NYC. Davie writes from law school-U. Penn-to tell • She enjoyed a trip to Ausrralia last year over us that "the old saying that law school scares you Christmas vacation Marine 1st Lt. Robert to death in the first year, works you to death in the • to won his "Wings of Gold" following 18 second year, and bores you to death in the third Loynd months of flight training Amy Scott is an active year is ringing true so far." After a summer job • Colby alumni interviewer in Connecticut when with the Pennsylvania Department of Transporta­ he's not working for Bloomingdale's. Three years tion, where John claims he was "every drunk after college food, Amy was delighted to be back driver's worst nightmare--the faceless bureau­ to a size 8! Doug Scalise graduated crat tucked away in the library writing appellate . • cum /aude with a master of divinity from BU last May and briefs which, through their incredible persuasive married Jill Wertz '88 in July. They reside in Penn­ power, insure that suspended licenses stay sus­ ylvania, where Doug is pastor of Prospect Hill pended" -John is suffering through his second Baptist Church Sue Roberts and Evan Dangel year and, it seems, surviving Others in Pennsyl­ t • • are planning for a June 23 wedding at Colby. Sue vania include Tom Jester, who is in his first year at loves her job as senior account administrator with Penn, studying historical preservation. In his U. of Boston, and Evan is busy as a financial practically nonexistent free time, John sees Harold Bank co�ultant with Merrill Lynch Amy Bleakney Rider, who lives in Wilmington, Del., and man­ • eil was married last August. She and her hus- ages commercial property. From John we also

COLBY 41 ILESTONES

MARRI AG ES Teresa A. Clement '87 to Russell E. Peters, Sep­ tember 16, 1989, Madison, Maine.

Maren L. Sherman '60 to Bruce Trembly, Septem­ Kristin E. Hoitt '89 to Scott T. Nason, August 12, ber 3, 1989, East Boothbay, Maine. 1989, Saco, Maine.

Janet Brooks '66 to Arthur Hupsel, July 29, 1989, Katherine T. Bassett 15, Portland, Maine. to David L. Varney, July 1989.

John]. O'Brien '75 to Maura Ann Casey, Newton, Mass. Lydia H. McAnemey '76 to John W. Orrison, B I R T H S August 26, 1989, St. Paul, Minn.

Lesley] ohnson '78 to Steven Gelb, June 17, 1989. A son, Cyrus Coolidge Morgan Hardenbergh, to William H. Leete '79 to Emily Dickinson, August Margaret and Chalmers Hardenbergh '67. 26, 1989, Kennebunkport, Maine. A son, Jonah Maxwell Miller, to Arleen and Jon­ David Vivian '79 to Rachel Siebert, September 16, athan L. Miller '73, June 4, 1989. 1989, Northampton, Mass. A daughter, Dana Sills, to A. Ronald and Pat ] ohn W. Andrews '81 to Kathryn Dougan, August Skillings Sills '73, March 1, 1988. 1989, Salt Lake City, Utah. A son, Baron Collins, to Candace and Stephen Ariele Sara Goldman Robert ]. Leary, Jr. '82 to Patricia V. Brennan, Collins '74, February 11, 1989. Dedham, Mass. A daughter, Lindsey Caroline Kildow, to Alan Christin A. Chamberlain '83 to Peter M. Man­ and Linda Krohn Kildow '74, October 18, 1984. A son, Gregory Thomas Buffum, to Timothy '7l i ning, Harwich, Mass. and Magdalene Christolow Buffum '81, Marcb ; A daughter, Karin Lucy Kildow, to Alan and 11, 1987. Stephen R. Finch '83 to Ruth M. Parker, Septem­ Linda Krohn Kildow '74, December 5, 1988. ber 16, 1989. A daughter, Anna Elizabeth Dalton, to Cami and [I A son, Benjamin James Reed, to Jay '75 and Gail Mark Dalton '80, August 19, 1989. l Daniel M. Matlack '83 to Allison Webster, August Hansen Reed '74, December 22, 1984. ·h 5, 1989. A son, William Michael Gearan, to Michael and n A daughter, Genna Clare Reed, to Jay '75 and Gail Elizabeth Nelb Gearan '80, March 22, 1989. Carolyn Boynton '84 to Kevin F. Bruen '85, June Hansen Reed '74, April 29, 1987. 10, 1989, Swampscott, Mass. A daughter, Johanna Maria Kreutz, to David and A daughter, Julia Molly Muller, to William '75 Julia Greenwood Kreutz '80, May 12, 1989. Thomas Reilly, Jr. '84 to Maureen O'Haire, Wa­ and Barby Beran Muller '75, August 24, 1989. tervliet, N.Y. A son, Spencer Robert Lee, to Peter '80 and Lynne A son, Caleb Muir Davis, to Joth '76 and Karen Anne Seeley-Lee '80, October 21, 1989. Cheryl L. Snyder '84 to John P. Hogan, July 8, Brown Davis '76, September 22, 1989. '.I 1989, Midland, Mich. A son, Jonathan Hampton Rice, to David and 11 A daughter, Laurian Bartlett Pope, to Dana '76 Lauren Hampton Rice '81, September 17, 19 9 Sandra V. Winship '84 to Wayne A. Eddy, Sep­ and Carolyn Anderson Pope '75, July 11, 1989. I\ tember 9, 1989. A daughter, Allison Pratt Valyo, to John and Mari· 111 A daughter, Ariele Sara Goldman, to Larry and Ellen Pratt Valyo '81, July 4, 1989. '.I, Janet Lamoreau '85 to Thomas Cyr, August 19, Lauren Siegel Goldman '77, November 21, 1988. 1989, Portland, Maine. A daughter, Katherine Amelia Sotos, to John and ., A daughter, Kristen King Beaudouin, to Mark and Mary Anne Leach Sotos '82, September 26, 19 9 Steven Lawson '85 to Suzanne Ribeiro, October 3, Kit Cunningham Beaudouin '77,January 13, 1986. 1989, Chicopee, Mass. A daughter, Molly Elizabeth Cousins, to Neal '84 A daughter, Olivia Driscoll Beaudouin, to Mark and Elizabeth Mason Cousins '83, September 5. Catherine C. Urstadt '85 to Willing Biddle, Octo­ and Kit Cunningham Beaudouin '77, February 1989. ber 14, 1989, Bronxville, N.Y. 29, 1989. A son, Alexander Weller-Mayan, to Mary Alice Stephen G. Poirier '86 to Brenda Ward, June 17, A son, Alexander David Cahill, to David and Weller-Mayan '85, April 23, 1989. 1989, Waterville, Maine. Adelaide Aime Cahill '78, October 11, 1989. A son, Galen Jacob Pardee, to Hearne Pardee and Douglas V. Scalise '86 to Jill Amy Wertz '88, A son, Seth Traynor Cowan, to Timothy and Sarah Associate Professor of Art Gina Werfel, Augu I Newton, Mass. Pollard Cowan '78, October 23, 1988. 23, 1989.

Robin B. Blanchard '87 to Scott Laughinghouse, A daughter, Catherine Anne Lary, to Steven P. A daughter, Caitlin Lee Bourgaize, to Karen and July 15, 1989, Keene, N.H. Lary '78, August 2, 1989. Assistant ProfessorofChemistry David Bourgaize

42 COLBY DEATHS Lowell P. Leland '29, July 28, 1989, in Bowling graduate work at ew York University and at the Green, Ohio, at age82. Born in Sangerville, Maine, University of Paris. In 1954 he became associated he attended Cony High School in Augusta. He with the Equitable Life Insurance Societv. He was participated in debating and was commencement a member of St. Mary's Parish in Shrewsburv. He '19, September 4, 1989, in � Elizabeth R. Eames speaker for the Class of '29 at Colby, where he is survived by his wife, three sons,Jeffrev Co don, Born � Waterville, Maine, at age 91. Wmslow, she majored in Latin, graduating Stephen Condon, and Andrew Cond n. and a rn su111111n rnm /a11de, uated from Coburn Classical Institute at the and was a member of Ph.i Beta Kappa. Tn 1933 he granddaughter. grad of 15. After Colby, she took graduate summer received his master's degree in English from the age the courses at McGill University, Harvard, and University of Maine, and he went on to receive a in Sorbonne in Paris. She taught French various Ph.D. in English at Ohio State University. After rugh schools in �w York and Maine, retiring serving as a private in the U.S. Army from 1942 . Waterville High School 1962 after more until 1945, he returned to his post as an instructor from m than years of teaching. Following her retire­ of English at Westminster CoUege in Pennsylva­ 30 ment, she was a substitute teacher at Oak Grove nia. In 1946 he became an associate professor of Academv in Vas alboro, Maine. She attended the English at Bowling Green State University and in Benton Falls Congregational Church, where she 1949 a full professor. He was a member of the wa·a ctive in the Church Christmas pageants for American Association of University Professors, yea r. Survivors include a nephew, John H. the Modern Language Association, and the Na­ 30 Eames, and two grandnephews, Frederick Eames, tional Council of Teachers of English. He retired with whom she made her home for the last 23 from Bowling Green in 1976 as professor emeritus ears, and Richard Eame . in English. He had two sons, John and Will. Survi­ vor include his wife, Virginia. Drew May 5, 1989, in Jamaica Plain, Hazel A. '22, Mass.She was a medical secretary for 25 years and Norris A. Scribner 29, April 30, 1989, in South ' pastmember of the Trinity Church in Boston. Waterford, Maine, at age 82. Born in Kingfield, a There are no known survivors. Maine, he attended Stratton schools. He was a real estate agent in the Waterford area. He had worked MargueriteStarbird Lunt '23, July 5, 1989, in as a bakery salesman for Cushman and M M & Brunswick, Maine, at age 89. Born in Oxford, she Bakeries and also had been a woodsman and a attended Oxford High School before coming to Maine Guide. He was a memberof the Barbershop Colby. A member of Chi Omega sorority and Phi Hillsmen Chorus and a deacon of the Congrega­ Beta Kappa attheCoUege, she received a bachelor's tional Church in Waterford. A resident of South degreein library science from Simmons CoUege in Waterford for over 40 years, he served on the Boston in 1924. Before her marriage in 1927, she Waterford Planning Board. Surviving are his wife, held library positions at the University of Maine Dorothy, two daughters, six grandchildren, and and at Connecticut College for Women in ew his sister. Conn. She then served on the staff of the William Downey London, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. From 1952 until her retirement in 1972, she was the assistant librar- William "Bert" Downe '30, July 1989, in ian at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. She y 21, h1 Mount Vernon, Wash., at age 82. He was born in \i is survived bv her husband, Everett Lunt, and a Syracuse, N.Y., and graduated from Welle ley � sister, Mario Starbird Pottle '18. High School in Wellesley, Mass. At Colby he was active with the YMCA and belonged to the profes­ Ethel Mason Goetz '25, May 14, 1989, in Grand na: sional fraternity Kappa Phi Kappa. In 1935 he Rapids,Mich.,atage84. Bornin Waterville, Maine, received his bachelor of divinity from Andover she attended Waterville High School before enter­ Newton Theological Seminary and became a cler­ el ,. ingColby. A member of Sigma Kappa sorority at gyman in the United Church of Christ. Before the College, she taught Latin and mathematics at retiring in 1970, he served as a minister in churches i Rochester High School in Rochester, Vt., from in New England, New York, North Dakota, Min­ to 1927. She was a homemaker in Michigan nesota, and Iowa. During World War IT he served 1dar 1925 for her re maining years. She is survived by a as an Army chaplain in Europe, and during the l sister-in-law, Mary Childs. Korean Conflict he served as an Army chaplain in South Korea, retiring from active duty in 1953 as a lni: . Laurence B. Townsend '25, February 10, 1986, in captain with a Bronze Star. He is survived by his Meriden, Conn., at age 83. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, a daughter, two sons, two stepsons, a Hazel, and a son, Laurence. sister, three granddaughters, and two grandsons. d a: wife, 1Q1 Muriel Lewis Baker '28, August 3, 1989, in Hart­ Dana W. Jaquith '35, August 28, 1989, on Peaks rord, Conn.,at age 82. She was born in Waterville, Island, Maine, at age 78. Born on Peaks Island, he l Mir Maine, and attended CoburnClassical Institute. A a !tended Portland High School. A double major in member of Chi Omega sorority at the College, she sociology and economics at Colby, he was a was Colby's assistant librarian in 1928-29. She member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity,an Echo 111a; d at from the Hartford Art School and be­ staff reporter, and a member of both Phi Beta •, r gra u ed came an authority on crewel work in the United Kappa and Pi Gamma Mu. He took graduate ea!' States and Europe, as well as an expert on early Chester F. Condon courses in economics and accounting at Brown American art. She was a past president of the University, ortheastern University, and the nbe: folk Connecticut River Chapter of the Embroider's Chester F. Condon '30, August 28, 1989, in Boca American Institute of Banking. He was an ac­ Guild and wascertified to teach and judge the art Raton, Fla., at age 81. Born in Shrewsbury, Mass., countant with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers re •Ali ofc wel. Among her many books, A Handbook of he received his master of education degree from from 1942 to 1943 and an industrial engineer with and Worcester Teachers CoUege after completing his the U.S. Rubber Company from 1943 to 1945. Later Amenca11 Crewel, ABC's of Canvas Embroidery, have been widely Colby education. He was a veteran of Army Air he became a stockbroker and investment banker, X)Z's of Canvas Embroidery, textbooks. She also wrote numerous ar­ Intelligence in World War Il, serving as a captain first in Providence, R.I., with The Tillinghast-Stiles ee• used as dealing with embroidery and early decora­ in China, where he was cited for meritorious Co. and later in Boston with Tucker, Anthony and \ugi- tides . tion methods. Her late husband, Frederick Baker service and received a Bronze Star. In 1943 he R.L. Day. He made hi home for 30 years in Bar­ '27,and her father, Caleb Lewis '03, both attended married Marjorie Frances Smith. He was a teacher rington, R.I., where he was active in Colby alumni C �na; the ollegt. She is survived by a sister, Marion with the Shrewsbury school system for 20 years activities. In 1956 he married Mary C. Smith, his Le11

COLBY 43 Francisco AIDS Foundation. In his three-and., Joseph B. O'Toole, Jr. '36, March 23, 1989, in Persian cats, and her Elysium Catery produced the Cat Fanciers' Federation Cat of the Year in half year bout with A IDS, he lea med to hangglid, Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 74. Born in Portland, . made his first tnp to Europe, and continued Maine, he was a chemistry major at Colby, senior 1975, along with six other grand champions. She to!> was also involved in numerous activities at North active in a ski club. His twin brother, Neill, class vice president, managing editor of the died Echo, Shore Country Day School. She is survived by two 1978 in a small-plane crash in Georgia. in member of both Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and He i, survived by his parents, David and Ruth Caslu Phi Beta Kappa, and active in many other campus sons, John and Jeffrey '79, two brothers, a sister, and by two brothers. organizations. From 1940 to l 941 he studied at the and three grandchildren. University of Hawaii, eventually joining the U.S. HONORARY Army Corps of Engineers. He retired as chief of Robert James Ferriman '60, August 31 , 1989, in the procurement and supply division. He is sur­ Provincetown, Mass., at age 52. Born in Melrose, John Jay McCloy, LLD. '47, March 11, vived by a son, Stephen, and a brother, John. Mass., and raised in Winchester, Mass., he at­ 1989,atag, tended Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N .H., 93. A captain of artillery during World Warl,h, honored with a Croix de Guerre. Arthur R. Chavonelle, Jr. '39, September 2, 1989, before coming to Colby. At the College he was a was He gradu­ ated from Harvard University after the ar in Quincy, Mass., at age 74. Born in Arctic, R.I., he business administration major and a member of w Dur. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.In the early 1960s he ing World War he served as assistant secretan attended Waterville High School, where he was 11 of war, attending historic conferences a'i.1- active in football, tennis, hockey, and various served with the Army Green Berets in Germany in C I and while there took courses at the University of blanca, Cairo, and Potsdam as well as the academic clubs. After graduating from Colby with UnileJ Munich and the U.S. Military Language School. Nations conference at San Francisco in a degree in English, he became a salesman and 1945. H, awarded the Distinguished Service eventually joined the management team of the He later attended Northeastern University. In 1968 was Medal foi in developing lend-lease legislatio Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company, managing stores he joined LFE Corporation of Waltham and Clin­ work n, reor ton, Mass., a producer of electronic systems and ganizing the War Department, and setting in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. up th, He was a member of St. Patrick's Parish in Lewis­ equipment, and from 1974 to 1983 he served as the machinery for the administration of civil affairsu company's executive vice president. He was a occupied territories. After the war he returned ton, Maine, and was active in the Boy Scouts. He le s vin was also a charter member of the Brunswick trustee of the Osterville, Mass., Free Library, past his private law practice, at the same time er i ( Kiwanis Club. He formally retired in 1978 and at president of the Electronic Industries Personnel on the State Department Committee on Atomic Association of Greater Boston, and past president Energy. ln 1947, the same year he recei the time of his death resided in Mulberry, Fla. He ved ar CoUegt is survived by his wife, Dorothea, two sons, and a of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Winches­ honorary doctor of laws degree from the elected president of the World Bank,andu daughter. ter. He was also active in Kimball Union and he was Barnstable High School activities and in the Boy 1949 President Truman appointed him U.S. high commissioner of Germany. In 1953 he Harold S. Wormuth '50, August 27, 1989, in Sch­ Scouts. Survivors include his wife, Susan, three becam, sons, and his mother. chair of Chase National Bank, which d n enectady, N.Y., at age 70. He was born in Law­ un g hJ, yersville, N.Y., and graduated in 1938 from Coble- term merged with the Bank of Manhattan Co.lo become the nation's second largest commema! kill High School, Cobleskill, N.Y. Heattended the • bank. He retired from that post in 1960 to University of Syracuse for two years before serv­ become chair of President Kennedy's three-man coord1· ing during World War II with the U.S. Army 1962,a< Corps of Engineers in England and France. A nating committee on the Cuban crisis. In member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Colby, a lawyer specializing in arms and disarmamenl he was president of the lnterfraternity Council he deba led the Berlin crisis and disarmamentwith Soviet Premier Khrushchev. He later served and sang in the chapel choir, chorus and glee club, a, and the Colby Eight. He received his master's special consultant to United ations Ambassador ( degree in educational administration from Adlai Stevenson. He is survived by his son,JohnJ Syracuse University in 1954, and he also studied at McCloy, Jr., and his daughter, Ellen McCloy. Temple University and Wesleyan University. Jn 1973 he retired after 22 years as eighth-grade science teacher at Cobleskill Central School. A past president of the Cobleskill Central School Teachers Association, he was a member of the New York State Teachers Association, the Na­ tional Education Association, and the Science Teachers Association of New York State. He is survived by his wife, Jean, his brother, and his si ter.

Kenneth Richard Graham, Jr. '51, October 1, 1989, in Hartford, Conn., at age 59. Born in Hartford, he attended Thomas S. Weaver High School. A member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at the College, he did graduate work at Columbia Uni­ versity and Trinity Collegein Hartford. He taught at the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minn., and at the Fay School in Southboro, Mass., was dean of Paul A. Casto boys at the Buckley School in New York City, and was director of the Upper School, where he also Paul A. Casto '75, December 26, 1988, in San served as assistant to the headmaster. He was lay Francisco, Calif., at age 35. He was raised in San reader at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in South­ Jose, Calif., and Schenectady, N.Y. A philosophy boro, Mass. He is survived by a daughter, Christine and religion major at Colby, he worked a year in Elizabeth Graham, his mother, and two sisters. Albany, N.Y., with the state legislature. Later he Contributions to a memorial established by his attended UCLA, where he prepared to be a para­ family may be made to the Kenneth Graham legal specializing in real estate law. He was em­ Memorial Library Fund at Colby. ployed by Miller, Starr and Regalia in Oakland before joining the Shanti Project staff, where he Joanne Kershaw McKeage '57, September13,1 989, became the first person with AIDS to become an in Lewiston, Maine, at age 54. Born in Sanford, emotional support volunteer. In April 1988, the Maine, she attended schools in Sanford before first person with AIDS to become a paid staff coming to Colby. She received a B.A. from Boston member of Shanti, he became coordinator of vol­ University in 1958. She lived on the North Shore of unteers of the emotional support department. He Massachusetts, where she raised and showed also coordinated the speakers' bureau for the San

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