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Making the best use of global information resources 1 cc: 1 Connecticut College Magazine THE FIELD OF INFORMATION two years, 10 to 15 faculty each summer technology is advancing at an unbeliev- have worked with information technolo- Volume 10/ Number 3 able speed. Whereas the equipment we gy experts at the Tempel Institute on acquire for science laboratories is expect- campus redesigning their courses to take ed to have a l Gcyear or longer useful life, better advantage of the electronic Ediror: Lisa H. Brownell computers move back from front-line resources available to them. There is no Associate Ediwr/Class Notes: Mary Howard uses in just two to three years, and shortage of ideas and enthusiasm for new News Editor: Nina Lentini become almost useless within five years. ways of teaching and learning. r Editor, Transformations: Nancy Lewis Faculty and students are clamoring At the same time, we hear a lot of neg- Contributing Writers: for more high technology-equipped ative things about the technology revolu- 'Irish Brink, Patricia Carey, Rebecca Nash, classrooms to enable more ready access tion. Besides the loss of public confi- Nancy Lewis, Mike Salerno to, and sharing of, data relevant to their dence in technology investments (recent Art Director: Susan Lindberg studies in all academic areas. Even the declines in stock valuations on the NAS-

Administrative Assistant: Joan Ainscough most highly endowed colleges and uni- DAQ), some reports in the press have versities are struggling with the reality suggested that the advent of personal Editorial Advisory Board that technology costs are substantial and computers has not resulted in significant Warren Cohen '89, Chair, Maria Braden ongoing. So where is all this leading? increases in personal productivity, at least Clark '68, George Willauer, Allen Carroll '73. Should Connecticut College continue to in terms measurable in the corporate be a leader in this area? world. Many of us in the academic world

CC: Connecticut College Mtlgflzine is published Almost a decade ago, Connecticut also know of the huge demand that e- by Connecticut College. The magazine's mission is College made the decision to embrace mail has made on our time. And much of [0 maintain ties between the college, its alumni and emerging technology. The campus was the popular literature presents the revolu- all other constituents, and [0 repon on issues of importance to these groups. strung with fiber optic cable so that com- tion in information technology as the puters in classrooms, faculty and staff province of young people who are miles Contributions: CC: Connecticut College offices and all student residence rooms ahead of their parents and teachers. In his Magazine will consider but is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, proposals and photographs. could be interconnected and could read- most recent book of essays on the Inrernet Address correspondence to: ily access digital resources. Groups of fac- (NEXT, The Future just Happened, Ediror, CC: Connecticut College Magazine, Becker House, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New london, ulty, staff, students and trustees visited WW Norton & Co.) Michael Lewis tells CT 06320-4196. Phone: 860-439-2500; sites around the country where commu- us about child prodigies who have made FAX: 860-439-5405. nications technology was being applied fortunes in the high-flying world of secu- CC: Connecticut College Mngazine (USPS 129- in creative ways in order to identify the rities day trading, buying stocks and then 140) is published four rimes a year, in summer, fall, best ways to make use of these new capa- hyping them in chat rooms to drive up wimer and spring, and is mailed free of charge ro bilities. Our unique Center for Arts and their prices. This may cause people to members of the Connecticut College Alumni Association and friends of the college. Periodicals Technology was founded, giving the arts question whether technology has a valid class posrage paid at New London, CT, and at access to emerging technology for pres- place in the classroom. additional offices. entation of visual and audible images. Yet for college faculty and students,

Alumni: Send address changes to The library and information technol- the key word in information technology Alumni Office ogy staffs were merged ro create a new, is Information. 1 wish that everyone Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue integrated concept of managing informa- reading these words could spend a day in New London, CT 06320 tion services. Gifts and grants have sup- the newly renovated Brown Auditorium, or c-mail to [email protected] ported the installation of a center for cre- watching the variety of skills that faculty

Postmaster: Send address changes to ating digital presentations for the class- and students bring to bear during a class CC: Connecticut College Magazine, room and laboratory, and we are convert- or laboratory session or examining rela- 270 Mohegan Avenue, tionships and answering questions that, New London, CT 06320-4196 ing classrooms into advanced multi- media teaching facilities as quickly as until recently, could only be answered by funding becomes available. For the past extensive library research outside the

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Conneccicur College Board of Trustees Duncan Nelson Dayton '81,Chair, Carolyn R. classroom. Not that this replaces research access, evaluating it and then using that Holleran 'GO,Vice Chair, ]udich Ammerman 'GO, Ford W. Bell P'02, James S. Berrien '74, Jerrold B. outside the classroom, but the resources information appropriately. Without Carringmn '79, Barbara Zaccheo Shattuck Dubow available through technology enrich the access to the most up-to-date and com- '72, Fernando J. Espuelas '88, Marna Wagner Fullerton '56, P'91, Vedar Gashi '01, Kathryn M. classroom discussion and make it possi- prehensive information, and the knowl- Godowsky '99, David A. Harris P'OI, Ann Werner ble to cover more ground during each edge of how to evaluate and use that Johnson '68, Andrew Ketterer '71, Wcndy Lehman class session. (See story p. 40) information, all the other analytical and Lash '64, Kenneth B. Lerer '74, David K. Lewis P'95, Interim President, Virginia Slaughter Loeb '48, P'77, communications skills students learn will Students can now ask the advice of a Sylvia Pasternack Marx '57, Helen Fricke Mathieson faculty member, and even submit drafts be of relatively little use to them. '52, Jonathan D. McBride '92, Philip Robert McLoughlin P'02 & 'OS, Richard Menschel P'04, of term papers and lab reports from their In my view, we must continue to fully Sue B, Mercy 'G3, P'91, Nancy S. Newcomb '67, rooms or the library, and expect a prompt embrace technology and the Information Joan Redmund Platt '67, Mary Lake Polan 'G5, P'02, reply, without having to schedule a visit Age and to commit significant financial Douglas C. Renfield-Miller '75, Adrienne S. Rumble '00, LYIl Gordon Silfen 'G7, Ellen CL. resources to ensure that our students get to the faculty member's office. Again, this Simmons '69, P'04, Frederick P. Stratton Jr. P'91 & does not replace the face-to-face meet- beyond the fun and games of computing '96, Dhuanne S. Tansill 'G4, Jean c. Tempel '65, and into the productive use of global Frank M, Turner, Dale Chakarian Turza '71, Stephen ings, bur helps students and faculty pre- A. Van Dyck 1"98, james R. Vest, Virginia Eason information resources. We must also, on pare better and make their office appoint- Weinmann '51, Diane Buchanan Wilsey '65, P'91, ments more productive. The excitement a frequent basis, determine the direction Rufus R. Winton '82 the field of information technology is generated by the many new ways of find- Alumni Board of Direcrors headed, so that we commit our financial ing our what information is out there President, Dale Chakarian Tuna '71 Vice President, resources in ways that will enable our stu- Rae Downes Koshetz '67: Alumni Trustee, Barbara waiting to be used and gaining immedi- Zaccheo Shanuck Dubow '72; Alumni Trustee, dents to be the most engaged learners and ate access to that information truly stim- Jonathan McBride '92; Direcrors, Judith Hartt our faculty the most productive teacher- ulates learning. Acker '57, Laura ]. Allen '81, Samantha Capen '88, scholars. We are indeed fortunate that, in Warren Cohen '89, Ehzaberh Grenier '91, Andre R. Through a liberal arts education, stu- Lee '93, Carmen Perez"Dicbon '78, Karen D. addition to the college's highly experi- dents ought to acquire lots of facts and Quinr '87, Douglas Renfidd-Miller '75. Alexander enced and hard-working Information D. Richardson '79, Roberta Slone Smith '63, Loulie useful skills, and gain understanding Services staff, many CC alumni and par- (Dodie) Surra Crawford '89, Rufus R. Winton '82; through discussion with faculty and Ex-Officio, H. Nell Bourgoin ents are also experts in various aspects of peers. This enables them to be successful technology-they are a wonderful addi- CC: Conneccicur College Magazine Copyright and fulfilled as they pursue advanced 2001 by Connecricm College, all rights reserved. tional resource. We welcome their advice Reproduction in whole or in pan without wrinen education or find stimulating and and assistance as we grapple with the permission is prohibited. Views expressed herein are rewarding jobs. Bur perhaps the most those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect issues involved in staying on top of infor- official policy of the college. useful skill a student can acquire in col- mation/communications issues. PRINTED IN U.S,A. by The Lane Press, Inc., lege is "learning how to learn" through Sourh Burlington, Vermont. familiarity with methods for finding OUt David K. Lewis P '95 what information is available, gaining Interim President www.connecticurcollege.edu

Ruby Turner Morris kept CC exciting

I WAS SO TOUCHED to see the story and photograph of Ruby Turner Morris in the Magazine. She was one of the most influential people in my entire life. She was a remarkable intellect, but beyond that, she was a truly caring Professor. She demanded cc: Connecticut College Magazine excellence, but she also knew each of us as humans and cared for us as young people. welcomes letters fom readers Before I close, I take umbrage to Duncan N. Dayton's comment that when he Contact lIS by: graduated Conn College was "a nice but somewhat sleepy place." Can he even Voice Mail: 860-439-5135 imagine what it was like back in 1951? It was such an intellectual stimulant for E-mail: ccmag@conncolLedu me, a young person from a small (Own in Maine. I believe that it was an incredi- Fax: 860-439-5405 ble college then, and that it is now, bur never "sleepy" ... not with Ruby Turner Write: Morris at the podium, or Paul Fussell strutting around the front of the class. Editor CC: Connecricur College Magazine Perhaps CC has changed with the times, but I feel confident that in everyone of 270 Mohegan Ave. its iterations, it was right for those who were lucky enough to be studying there. New London, Cr 06320-41 %

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McVeigh's execution: the legacy of violence will continue by Catherine McNichol Stock

XECU:fING T- MOT Y MCVEIGH 1676, demanding more land and fuller state of Indiana is known today for its may have brough an enS. to a painful representation in colonial government, bumper crops of native corn and chapter-irr-rhe-iive of Americans touched they were - historians later suggested - "Hoosier" basketball players. Between by the bombing and mutder of 168 men, harbingers of national independence. 1870 and 1930, however, it was also womenallil-cnilClren m Oklahoma City When Daniel Shays led frontiersmen to known for its production of rural radi- on Ap il 19, 1995. It did nothing, how- confront Massachusetts troops at the fed- cals; many farmers had suffered econom- er, to erase the histo~of vigilantism eral armory in Springfield a century later, ic hardship too long to let business as t at is the seedbe of modern-day terror- even the venerable Thomas Jefferson was usual monopolize the political process. ism or end the chapter of American not alarmed: a "little rebellion," he One of the most important early farmers political history-t at his crimes represent. argued, was a good thing for democracy. organizations - the Grange - had its start While it may have been decided that The unabashed racism in the states of the Old McVeigh was better off dead, it would be that accompanied McVeigh's Northwest, as farmers foolish ~ and dangerous - to cast him anti-federalism has been demanded fair prices from and his kind aside without recognizing matched in the American the raiJroads, and ultimately, their essential connectedness to the larg- past as well. The "darker more power in local govern- er fabric of American political life. Rather side" of American populist ment. The most important than pretend that the history of ami-gov- rhetoric includes Indian- of the Indiana radicals - ernment radicalism, violent racism and hating, red baiting, vigilan- Eugene V. Debs - was born vigilantism will cease with the last beat of tism, lynching and anti- and rose ro political promi- McVeigh's heart, we need co know that Semitism. Pennsylvanians nence in Terre Haute itself these things are a parr of us, in the past, who drove out tax collectors Debs fought for the rights of present and, most l.ikely, the future - in the Whiskey Rebellion of common men and women even in Terre Haute, a town which only a the 1790s had previously against the power of big few hundred miles from both Mcveigh's driven out peaceable, business and big govern- home in upstate New York and his con- Christian Indians-by mas- ment through the Populist victed co-conspirator Terry Nichols' farm sacring them. Reconstruction Parry, the American Railway in Sanilac County, Michigan. Southerners who wanted to Union and the Socialist The American past is replete with show the victorious North Parry of America. In the men and women - especially those who that they could still dictate presidential election of lived on the frontier or in other rural local affairs created a new 1912, Debs won nearly a areas - who distrusted, resented, even vigilante organization, the million votes. hated, the federal government. Their Ku Klux Klan, to prove it. And what about the story is as old as the story of America In an attempt in the 1930s "darker side" of rural radi- itself, sometimes cast as grassroots "pop- to protect farmers from fore- calism? From its 20th centu- ulist" democracy. When frontiersmen in closure, North Dakota ry rebirth on Stone Virginia burned down Jamestown 111 Governor William Langer suggested: Mountain, Georgia, the Ku Klux Klan "Treat the banker like a chicken thief. spread quickly through the states of the EDITOR'S NOTE: AN EARLIER VERSION OF Shoot him on sight." South and Middle West, where, along THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE SUNDAY, Even the people of Terre Haute can with African Americans, whites targeted MAY 13, 2001, "PERSPECTIVE" SECTION connect their pasts with the politics of all those who did nor fit the familiar cast OF THE DENVER POST. [he Oklahoma City bombing; such a of small-town Protestant culture: immi- home-grown pan of American political grams, anti-prohibitionists, Catholics, ideology will not be silenced easily. The Jews, and Communists, among others.

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was convicted of second-degree murder THAT VVAS, THE ESSENCE OF A in the brutal kidnapping, rape and sec- campus debat~that took place in late THE CHAPEL BELLS BECAME THE FOCUS OF A ond-degree murder of an Indiana April and May, mainly within the faculty CAMPUS DEBATE. woman named Marge Oberholtzer. e-mail lists~ough groups of Stu- Of course, the politics of rural radi- dents were overheard discussing the issue calism - borh democratic and anti-dem- as 't>ell. rejecting capital punishment." ocratic - does not belong only to our ~he focus of the controversy was the "Obviously, there are people within past. Granted, anti-terrorism activists appropriateness of the college's role in an this country and, I would guess, at this have quelled the public rhetoric of mili- Amnesty rnternational (AI) campaign institution who support the death penal- tia groups and white supremacists. against the.~eath penalty. At the request ty," said Michael Monee, professor of Private rage at the government, corporate of aenniferlPlatt '01, chair of Amnesty physics. "Did I miss the campus-wide agriculture, globalization, and the diver- International's campus chapter, the chap- debate over the use of a campus facility sification of society still exists. In Iowa, laincy, agreed to ring the chapel bells for political purposes?" Randy Weaver, the survivalist whose wife every~ execution took place in the John Gordon, professor of English, a and son were killed by FBI agents at United States until the last day of spring member of Amnesty International for 41 Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, has received semester classes. Most faculty weighing years, agreed with Monee's position. over 30,000 letters of support. At gun in on the matter were opposed to the "Ringing the bells ... just feeds the shows, lines of people wait to shake h~s bells being rolled for this purpose. obnoxious tendency of modern-day hand. Among them was one man who Garrett Green, Class of 1943 American academics to view dissenting declared that American farmers have Professor of Religious Studies, saw the opinions as evidence of moral leprosy." become the "largest non-profit organiza- issue as one of "moral arrogance on the Following a column about the tion in the United States." Like Terry assumption that we all hold the proper debate, which was printed in The Day of Nichols' family, tens of thousands of point of view. New London, J Ranelli, visiting profes- families have fought off farm foreclosure "While we're at it, why are we ringing sor of theater, wrote a lengthy letter to since the late 1970s - and lost. The J 996 bells for condemned murderers but not "Freedom ro Farm Act" for many has for their victims?" he asked his colleagues. ... the cbaplaillcY __ --. only given them more freedom to fail. Rabbi Aaron Rosenberg, a college Discussions on AM radio talk shows in chaplain, told faculty members in a agreed to ring the rural states-Indiana, along with many broadcast e-mail: "Thanks to Jen Platt chapel bells every day others-reverberate with the voices of and the college AI group, the issue of rage and despair in the "heartland." the death penalty has been amply dis- an execution took place Should economic prosperity not cussed on our campus. On two occa- in the United States ... rerum and political acumen not be sions campus chaplains participated in turned to rural problems, that despair - if panel discussions on this topic with history tells us anything - will eventually leaders of other faith communities. the paper's editor in which he said, "In find another public venue for expression. Regardless of our diverse traditions, we passing over the fretwork of history, the- were all in consensus that life is sacred ology, literature, politics and symbolism Catherine McNicol Stock, a proftssor of and that it is wrong for a government to that might have fortified the present and history and director of the American take a life. We noted that although some the future debate on capital punishment, Studies Program at Connecticut College,is Biblical passages condone capital pun- the chaplains chose instead to put their author of Rural Radicals: From Bacon's ishment, modern religious thinkers by considerable influence behind a gesture Rebellion to the Oklahoma City and large oppose it. Moreover, many ... expressive of nothing less or more Bombing. religious organizations are on record than their opinion." -NML

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Switching on renewable energy

HAROLD SI-fAPIRO

IN A MOVE THAT WILL SUPPORT ner and circulated a petition seeking THANKS TO A STUDENT EFFORT. THE ELECTRI· cleaner sources of electricity and signifi- support for the $25 fee. The Student CAL POWER IN THE HORIZON ADMISSION cantly; reduce its emission of air pollu- Government Association overwhelming- BUILDING, AND ALL OF THE COLLEGE CAMPUS, tants, CC has joined the Connecticut ly supported the initiative and the col- MAY ONE DAY COME FROM 20 PERCENT RENEWABLE RESOURCES. Energy Cooperative as an organizing lege's Board of Trustees unanimously partner. It is the first college in the approved the measure. and audited by independent companies. United States to commit to support 100 Renewable electricity resources are In addition to supporting green percent, Green-e certified, renewable generated from water, wind and recov- power purchases, students have pledged electricity, according to the Co-op. ered methane from landfills. to work to dramatically reduce the envi- As an organizing panner, the entire "Connecticut College students have ronmental impact of the college through CC community will have access to all challenged every other student body in reduced energy use. The Co-op will assist Co-op products and services, including America to accept responsibility for the students, staff and faculty in developing a reduced lifetime memberships for private energy they consume and the pollution strategic energy management plan, audit lise. The staff and faculty have the oppor- their campuses generate," said Bob building energy use, suggest ways to use Maddox, Co-op marketing director. tunity to purchase conventional elecrrici- energy more efficiently and conduer edu- Green-e certification is issued by the ty at 5.25 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh) cational seminars. Center for Resource Solutions based in compared to Connecticut Light & Power The students' goal is the purchase of San Francisco. That organization adminis- Co.'s 5.5 cents/kwh cost. 20 percent of the college's electricity ters national and international programs The Co-op, based in Hartford, is a through renewable resources. According that preserve and protect the environment state-approved, licensed electricity sup- to (he Co-op, the full purchase would through the design of sustainable energy plier that provides its members with reduce the emission of sulfur oxide, strategies and technologies. Companies commercial natural gas, fuel oil, propane, which causes acid rain, by 17,254 that use the Green-e logo are monitored energy efficiency services, low-cost long- pounds per year; the emission of nitrogen distance telecommunication and electric- oxide, which causes smog, by 3,612 ity. It was the first supplier in New pounds per year; and the emission of car- England to offer 100 percent renewable bon dioxide, which is considered the electricity and operates on a not-far-prof- Connecticut College cause of global warming, by 2.3 million it patronage basis. pounds per year. CC students spearheaded the move, students have Ulysses Hammond, vice president for raising the funds to join the Co-op challenged every administration, commended the stu- through student-sponsored bake sales dents for spearheading the effort. and agreeing to support a $25 fee to pay other student "They have been working on this the costS associated with purchasing body in America since September," he said, adding that all renewable energy from the Co-op. to accept facets of the campus community were "Our environment is suffering severe- given an opporrunity to weigh in on the ly," said Sarah Zisa, a sophomore and co- responsibility for decision. "This program is very impor- president of the Connecticut College the energy they tant to Connecticut College's on-going Renewable Energy Club. "The students commitment to be environmentally needed to do something." Zisa is majoring consume and the responsible." Hammond said the bene- in environmental studies and is enrolled pollution their fits provided to the staff (a lower indi- in the CISLA certificate program. campuses vidual membership, free home energy With the support of the student body, analysis and low long-distance telephone Zisa and club co-president Kassie generate. rates in addition to the electricity Rohrbach '03 raised the $1,500 needed options) were crucial in gaining support to join the Co-op as an organizing part- for rhe Co-op program. - NML

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TALES OF "THE SECOND STORY be pan of the permanent holdings. The Club," known in its heyday as New collection was formed by author Louis London's bohemian center where play- Sheaffer 111 connection wi th his wright Eugene O'Neill and his friends acclaimed two-volume biography, gathered for cards, cheer and readings O'Neill: Son and Playwright and O'Neill: from rare books; Whale Oil Row, a col- Son and Artist. lection of buildings whose owners' wealth "Many of the photos and much of stemmed from whaling in the mid-19th the historical content, which includes cemury; and the Monte Cristo Cottage, stories about O'Neill and his interaction O'Neill's boyhood home that served as a with many significant New London res- blueprint for the set design for Long Day's idents, are drawn from the college's journey Into Night are among 20 historical O'Neill collection," said Richter. stops highlighted in "Touring Eugene "Visitors or guide readers will gain a rich O'Neill's New London," a guidebook perspective, in a relatively short period released this month. of time, of the lifestyles and optimism of The guidebook was created as part of those living in New London at the turn Eugene O'Neill's New London: The of the last century," Influence of Time & Place, a millennial Consultants for the guidebook celebration and exploration of Eugene include Lois Erickson McDonald and O'Neill and New London County in the Sally Thomas Pavetri, associate curator late 19th and early 20th and curator, respectively, centuries (1885 to 1915), Monte Cristo Cottage; sponsored by Connecticut Sally Ryan, New London College and the Arts municipal historian; and Alliance of Southeastern Susan Lindberg, a graphic Connecticut. O'Neill is designer at Connecticut America's only Nobel College. Prize-winning playwright. The publication was The guidebook traces made possible with fund- landmarks that were signif- ing from the Connecticut icant during O'Neill's Humanities Council, youth and influenced his Bodenwein Public work, according to Robert Benevolent Fund, New A. Richter '82, manager of London City Center arts programming at District and New London Connecticut College and director of the Main Street Project, The guidebook is Eugene O'Neill's New London project. being distributed free of charge through He noted that the guidebook is the result the Monte Cristo Cottage, New London of months of research, much of which County Historical Society, New London was gleaned from the college's extensive Landmarks and New London Main Louis Sheaffer-Eugene O'Neill Street Project and Connecticut's Mystic Collection at Shain Library, where it will & More tourism district. -PAB

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Venus and the Lute Player

An art history student finds there'smore than meets the eye in Titian's canvas

WITH EXTE SIVE R DING by attaching to it a mythological signifi- of the baser values inherent in man. In rima!Y, ource{for all paper .signm nts in cance. In the painting the viewer is in no Titian's portrayal of Venus and the Lute Art Hist ry, Robert qaldwin 'gets his stu- way a part of the scene, but instead used Player the goddess is instead set inside, d1'b!a read,Uoak,aq'lifink an~~ir awn as an audience for an important portray- lounging on a settee, accompanied by Instead al!uhesit'g the war of athy al of the goddess' creation. the lute player and a puto, and backed scholars,hi,ttudents writ'{rigi IsChir- Titian's painting, however, shows by what seems to be a sort of loggia or ship t!'itied by cantempar~texts. Par he Venus in a manner that relates her far window onto a pastoral landscape. paper on Titiarj "\lenus and the ute more closely to the viewer. Venus is set in Despite the voyeuristic sexual fantasies Player" in Art History 29, " igh a palace or villa, very likely similar to that that are doubtless associated with the Renaisshnee-in Italy, "studen react Lbo in which the painting may have been painting due to the goddess' nudity, and Castiglione before analyzing the nexus placed by the patron. She is also accom- posture and props (the recorder in her of class, gender, nature, and music in the panied by a young nobleman dressed in grasp is obviously, and probably inten- courtfy art of Titian. Devon McHugh l Srh century garb. Although evidence tionally, phallic), the artist makes a clear wrote the fOllowing paper on Titian shortly suggesting this figure to be a portrait of distinction between this scene and con- before the class spent 11 days touring art the patron has not been uncovered by temporary paintings featuring nude sites in venice, Mantua and Ravenna. in scholars, it is clear that this figure is mythological figures. the spring semester of 2002, Baldwin will meant to be associated with Titian's The structure of the painting empha- lead a Study Away- Teach Away (SATA) wealthy employer. sizes the difference between the figures program in \!enice. This proximity to the nude goddess is indoors and the dancing figures pictured likely developed from the expanding in the garden. Although authors of the Traditional Renaissance depictions popularity of mythological eroticism that l Sth century greatly praised the simple frequently show the goddess Venus in a ran rampant through the humanist cul- values of the country and the joys of pas- garden or outdoor setting. This sort of ture of the 16th century. With the rise of toral villa culture, the urban elite of Italy placement emphasizes her associations the positive view of nature came corre- was not interested in transferring their with nature and creation, as well as with sponding physical and voyeuristic fan- luxurious lifestyles to the country and fertility as a deity of sexuality. This use tasies, often developing the theme of a truly embracing the simple values of the of a goddess so closely tied to sexuality man stumbling upon a nymph or shep- peasant. Peasant life was associated with

(from her birth (Q her primary attrib- herdess bathing in a stream or peacefully a lack of education, civility, and intelli- utes) is well used as an example of asleep in a glen. The themes had been gence, and although the simplicity of a changing views of love, gender, and sex- common in antiquity and the literary life without the complications of urban uality in the l fith century. Comparisons works of the Medieval court, and 16th- troubles seemed attractive in theory, no between Titian's "Venus and the Lute century literature and paintings associat- aristocrat would be willing to play the Player" of the mid-1500s and earlier ed with this theme also abound. The sub- peasant in any way more permanent depictions of the goddess show develop- ject matter of these works is greatly based than a pastoral masquerade at a lavish ments in ani tude toward the female on power: power of man over woman, country villa. body in particular. Earlier representa- power of wealth over poverty, power of Titian's painting uses the window tions of the goddess, such as Bocrecelli's civilization (a male attribute) over the behind the reclining Venus to separate "Birth of Venus," portray her in a much raw abundance of nature (very clearly the figures in the foreground from those less physical manner, although she is represented in the voluptuous women behind them. Venus and the nobleman equally unclothed in the two paintings. who had a tendency for public bathing relax in jeweled splendor among velvet Bottecelli's depiction shows the goddess and nude napping). curtains and cushions, and they hold in a far less intimate setting, distancing These depictions, however, were set courtly musical instruments like the lute the viewer from the nudity of the figure out of doors, where nature rook control and recorder, associated with the high

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says, "I shall speak of the kind of beauty minded musical talents of the humanist dance in the glen, some nude or partially Inow have in mind, which is that seen in aristocracy. They clearly represent so in a fashion far less sophisticated than the human body and especially the face enlightened humanists at rest in a villa that of the goddess. These woodland crea- and prompts the ardent desire we call setting while still remaining within the tures commonly had associations with love." As goddess of beauty, Venus is a sphere of aristocratic serenity and good base sexuality in the Renaissance, repre- prime representation of rhis theory. breeding. Bembo illustrates this point in senting the raw pleasures of sexual actions This use of references to the high- Gli Asolani, attributing love with the cre- in the country, away from the civilized ation of the arts: ''As men lived in this presence of culture and music. minded love shared between the two fig- new way love gathered strength and with Venus, on the other hand, represents ures inside the palace is emphasized by the use of references to royalty in the love grew the arcs." The garden revelers, something closer to love of the mind, however, are entertained not by sophisti- especially with the presence of the well depiction. Cupid hovers above the cated instruments and practiced arts, bur dressed nobleman. In Bernbo's eli lounging goddess as he crowns her with a circlet of flowers. The lounging goddess instead by a simple bagpipe played with Amlani this sort of love is characterized what the viewer can only assume is rudi- by serene beauty and pleasure of the eye is also heavily bejeweled, a clear representation of her wealth. The clothing of the mentary skill. The bagpipe is an instru- and ear. Bembo writes at length on the ment with clear associations with rustici- pleasure derived by gazing at one's lover, young man also shows his high station. Even the relationship established ty, just as the lute held by the nobleman as well as the sweetness that can be between goddess and musician is one is an instrument of skill and talent. gained from the sound of music played based in medieval courtly society, in the The response of each group to the by a loved one or of conversation gallantry of the chivalrous love affairs music also shows the clear distinctions between two lovers. The gaze of the lute between an admiring nobleman and a between the classes portrayed in Titian's player is focused on Venus, but he does painting, and, more generally, between not gawk at her voluptuous nudity bur virtuous and unattainable woman. This repertoire of courtly images leads aristocratic land owners and tenants in the instead at her face. In lfirh-cenrury writ- 16th century. Venus is relaxed and serene, ings on love it is the sweet face of a lover the viewer to associate the painting with while the lute player sits with his instru- that most frequently captures authors' other aspects of courtly life, especially the ment. Both are composed and unruffled, pens, "and so outward beauty is a true similarities between the scene in the and the pose and presentation of the god- sign of inner goodness" (Castiglione). In painting and Bembo's description of the court of the Queen of Cyprus in his dess keeps her nudity from seeming vul- Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier the work, eli Amlani. Writes Bembo: "The gar. In contrast, the nymphs and satyrs character of Bembo (based on the behind them take part in a boisterous author) discusses this relationship. He Queen was wont, when dinner and entertainment of eye and ear were over,

to withdraw with her maidens to her apartments and there to sleep or do what pleased them most ... " Titian's Venus has

retreated in a similar fashion to relax in private apartments, while outside nymphs and satyrs frolick. Bembo's eli Asolani also refers in many passages to the anthropomorphized Love as the cre- ator of all nature. Titian's Venus sits in her queenly surroundings backed by a scene of nature, perhaps intended as a display of her creative works.

-Devon McHugh '01

TITIAN'S IDEALIZED PAINTING HOLDS CLUES ABOUT RENAISSANCE SOCIETY. THE AUTHOR EXPLORED THE ERA DURING AN 1I-DAY TRIP TO VENICE WITH HER CLASS.

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Science on summer vacation

Faculty/student research harnesses brainpower on and off campus

TH RTY-FIVE CC SCIENCE STUDENTS Using part of the Howard Hughes sor of physics, worked with three stu- spent theij summer vacations hard at Medical Institute's grant to introduce dents, Jamie Goode '02, Melanie work alongside their professors, study- genomics proreomics to CC, Grassel has Gryboski '01, Lauren Harrzell '03, ing everythingJmm faraway galaxies to purchased "cutting-edge equipment to on continuing river restoration and nat- miscroscopic algae. A poster session do very advanced research, including an ural channel characteristics research. held in July in the Olin Science Center experiment in genomics. In one experi- "For most of the summer we have

drew a large crowd of students, faculty ment we compare over 1,000 genes In been working in the experimental flume and invited guests, who observed the different situations to see if they are in the basement of Olin or visiting the ongoing research and heard students 'turned on' or 'turned off'." Salmon River for research on sediment explain their work. Doug Thompson, assistant profes- movement in natural channels," he said. Martha Grassel, George and Carol In June, Thompson, Milne Assistant Professor of Zoology, Goode and Gryboski trav- was ~rking with students in her lab on eled to Colorado to collect cell-division research, "but we've started data on the strength of tur- concentrating on research in the brain bulence in river pools. "We and nervous system. Neuroscience is a did work on the North very exciting area of research and the Fork Cache la Poude River combination of cell division and neuro- near Fort Collins and on science allows us to ask some really excit- North Saint Vrain Creek in ing questions that could help paralyzed Wild Basin adjacent to patients." Grossel worked with three stu- Rocky Mountain National dents in her lab: Cassandra Jabara '03, Park," said Thompson. Peter Slomiany '04 and Alex Mroszczyk- "Over the two-week McDonald '03. period we collected

CANCER RESEARCH - are "hyperexpressed," or more prevalent, in people with spinal column injuries can recover. melanomas and squamous cell carcinomas. We may have found a way to de-differentiate Cassandra Jabara '03, a biochemistry, cellular these cells - or find a way to get the cell to and molecular biology major, and Peter return to its original form," said Mroszczyk- Siomiany '04, also a BCMB major, are working SPINAL COLUMN INJURIES McDonald. He explained they are searching for with Martha Grossel, the George and Carol RESEARCH ways to get an astrocyte to "back up and redi- Milne Assistant Professor of Zoology, researching rect it down another path to become another two proteins key to cell growth and cell division Also under Grossel's tutelage is Alex type of cell. If we can do that, then some day that may lead to a better understanding of can- Mroszczyk-McDonald '03, a pre-med student scientists could possibly learn how to grow cer. "Human cells are built so they have safety and human development major, who is con- new neurons; that way, Christopher Reeve mechanisms that prevent uncontrollable growth ducting research that may some day allow could grow new neurons and possibly be able or mutations being passed on. With cancer, those with spinal column injuries to walk. He to walk again." these safety mechanisms are overridden or dis- is focusing on astrocytes - or a type of cell rupted or eliminated altogether, so now these that is found in the brain and that has checks and balances are no longer functional. reached a stage in its life cycle in which it Basically, cancer is cells uncontrollably divid- cannot regenerate. ing," Cassy explained, noting that the two pro- "People have been trying for years to fig- teins cells they are studying - CDK4 and CDK6 ure out a way to re-grow neurons so

10 cc. CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 approximately 1.5 million velocity meas- brain activity and anxiety in rats. urements, which will be used to deter- Nwcgu's work is funded by a grant mine the strength of turbulence and its from the Howard Hughes Medical

ability to move sediment." The research Institute as part of the summer science is part of a continuing National Science program; Tartaglia is supported by a Foundation grant. grant from the Keck Undergraduate In the neuroscience lab, Ruth Grahn, Science Program. assistant professor of psychology enlisted "Anxious behavior can be observed in a rat by placing him on the elevated plus-maze," said Grahn. "This is an elevated platform with four arms. Two anxiety is related to brain function. of the arms are enclosed by "Our lab is most interested in under- walls, and since rats are natu- standing how the neurotransmitter sero- rally burrowing animals, they tonin is related to anxiety. We can meas- prefer these enclosed arms. ure how many serotonin neurons Rats are also rather curious become active under anxious conditions creatures and will venture out by counting the number of cells that onto the other two arms, the express an activation marker called c-fcs. open arms, which are less pro- The technique that we use is called tected. Rats who spend less double-labeling immunohistochemistry time exploring the open arms and allows us to see serotonin, which is are considered more anxious stained brown, and c-fos particles, which than rats that spend more time are stained black, in the same celL The on these arms. One clue that more anxious a rat is, the more serotonin open arm activity is an index of cells become activated." anxiety is that when rats are Other summer research topics includ- given a drug that reduces anxi- ed: the effects of impoundment on fish ety in humans, such as Valium, and invertebrate populations; CCD observations of the galaxies Markarian the help of MO students, Chidinma they will spend more time on the open Nwogu '04 and Stanley Tartaglia '03. arm than they did without the drug. 50 1 and B2 Lacertae; greenhouse gases, They investigated the link between Thus, we can better understand how firefly luciferase and other topics. -NML

that are acidifying are the ones that are not ACID RAIN RESEARCH I'm not saying acid rain is not a problem; it really is. However, we are finding that some lakes storing excess sulfide in their sediments. If we Wyley Scherr '03, and Matt Veigas '02, are just don't seem to follow the typical trend." can figure out why, then maybe we could stim- working with Professor of Physics Michael In areas like the Adirondacks, in upstate ulate that process and help other lakes that Monee and Peter Siver, the Charles and New York, some lakes are highly affected by seem not to be doing as well." Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany, acid rain. Comparatively, "we're finding a higher To improve the research process, Scherr who are complementing each others' work, content of sulfur stored in lake sediments in and Veigas are working with Monee, testing the analyzing and interpreting the results of acid this (Connecticut) region," he said, explaining effectiveness of the college's state-of-the-art rain related research. "We're analyzing lake that just as humans use oxygen to complete mass accelerator. Currently, Siver must test the sediment samples to better understand the the digestive process, emitting carbon dioxide, lake sediments for sulfur or other minerals con- effects of acid rain on our aquatic ecosys- bacteria located in the deep dark portions of sidered players in the acid rain phenomenon tems," said Siver. Siver is finding that many lakes convert sulfates into sulfides, the latter one at a time and with different pieces of lakes in Connecticut and Cape Cod have not process resulting in the formation of chemicals equipment. The mass accelerator allows Monee been impacted negatively by acid rain. "In that offset the effects of acid rain. "The lakes and his students to speed up the process, test- Connecticut we've found that lakes that ing samples for different minerals simultane- should be acidifying according to the EPA ously. ~PAB (Environmental Protection Agency) are not.

CC: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ]vIAGAZJNE SUMMER 1001 11 KRISiTA THIVIERGE '96, BENDS Justin explains, as he points out Kela's dose to Naku, a 1,500-pound female belly button. Visitors may pat each beluga whale." You can hear her; she's whale, feel irs dorsal ridge, gently scratch takin~ a breaths" sne ~ys. Soon Justin its tongue, even learn some hand signals Richard '03, will hold open Naku's that it will respond to. "Face him, put mout , so people can reach in and feel your hands out," Krista instructs a visi- her flat teeth. tor, who does just that and is thrilled This is the Beluga Contact Program at when Inuk responds by making a long, Mystic AquariJm~ in Mystic, Conn., low sound. where Kcdra is an )~uariSt (a trainer) and The contact sessions are only part of Justin is an Intern. At several contact ses- the job. "It's not just playing with the sions each week, dit::y and their col- animals," Krista says. There are also leagues help u~ to si~ visitors to don research and training projects, along with

waterproof gear step ~(Q waist-high daily chores like maintaining water qual- water, and get aquamteo with Naku and iry, keeping records, cutting up fish and two other belugas - Ke1a, a 1,100- "lots of scrubbing of buckets." pound female, and Inuk, a 2,1DO-pound And it's worth the scrubbing, to be male. The program, launched July 1, is with belugas. "It's just great to be able to one of only two in the country that lets work with such intelligent animals," says they're very distinct individuals." people into a pool with belugas, to learn Justin. Krista says, "They're very social. A Jewett City, Conn. resident, she about their physiology and behavior. They enjoy having their tongues scratched. began visiting the aquarium as a young- "Belugas give birth to live young," They're curious; they look around. And ster, then went on to take internships

12 cc: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 and jobs there while she majored courses at rhe University of Hawaii before in environmental science. justin scarred returning to CC; eventually, he'd like to volunteering at the aquarium through be a marine mammal trainer. the college's Office of Volunteers He and Krista note the imporrance of for Community training and Service. Both credit research, including Paul E. Fell, some training that Katharine Blunt simply enriches professor of zoolo- the animals' lives. gy at CC, wi rh Justin has been being an important training twO of the influence. belugas ro take a "Dr. Fell is bril- ball in their liant III martne mouths, carry it biology. He was down to the bot- my mentor," says tom of the pool Krista, who con- and then release it. tinued to work at "The ball will float the aquarium after right back up," he graduation. She left says, which gives to do clinical the belugas a research, but rhar game ro play, even turned out not when trainers aren't to be for her. "A around. static environment During an earli- computers, er stint at the aquar- papers," she says. "I ium, Krista aided needed more A MEETING OF THE MINDS LEFT: KRISTA researchers who meaning." Having THIVIERGE '96, AN MAT. CANDIDATE AT CC, IS were studying dol- always enjoyed rhe AN AQUARIST (A TRAINER) FOR MYSTIC phins' response to AQUARIUM'S NEW BELUGA CONTACT PROGRAM. teaching aspect of varIOUS sounds. ABOVE: INTERN JUSTIN RICHARD '03 BELIEVES her aquarium work, These days Justin is HE HAS FOUND HIS CALLING IN STUDYING helping with a and having been MARINE MAMMALS. grearly inspired by research project that teachers like Fell focuses on whales' and the late urination patterns. William A. Niering, she decided to enter At Mystic and elsewhere, researchers want Conn's Master of Arts in Teaching pro- to breed belugas, and looking at the hor- gram. She'll receive her M.A.T. in mones in urine samples can help them to December and plans to teach middle develop a reliable pregnancy test for the school science. animals. The aquarium will share its find- "Dr. Fell, my adviser, has been a great ings with other institutions. help," says Justin, who is swirching his But as the contact session ends, there major from biology to zoology. As an are more immediate tasks, like helping aquarium volunteeer, he got interested in the visitors to bestow goodbye hugs on marine mammals; as an intern, he has the belugas. Naku, Kela and Inuk all joined the regular staff in caring for, train- rest their big heads on the visitors' ing and studying them. "It's what T want shoulders, then each receives a reward to do," he says, "for the rest of my life." - a nice, fresh fish, from Krista, Justin Justin, who is from Templeton, Mass., and their colleagues. will spend the fall semester taking zoology - Carolyn Battista

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Why in my backyard?

A CC confirence examines the issues of environmental justice

DO POOR AND MINO ITY COMMU- status, and dilemmas of the environmen- try are replacing "old town dumps" with nities shoulder a dispropprtionarc share tal justice movement. The audience regional waste disposal systems. of s0ciety's environmental risks? Do these included representatives of federal, state Professors Timothy Black and John ris s cause substantial pollution-related and local governmems, concerned citi- Stewart of the University of Hartford I health problems tor the residents of disad- zens, individuals from NGOs, and stu- discussed Connecticut's system for dis- vantaged communities? Environmental dents and faculty from Connecticut posing of solid waste. Their work is the justice is a grassroots ~ovement that College and other universities. Students first environmental equity study to show deals ~ith environmental burdens and in the Center's Certificate Program that regional facilities in Connecticut are their consequences. It is a form of com- attended the conference and wrote located near minority and poor commu- unity empower.ment ~ a desire by papers in which they summarized and minorities and the poor 0 actively par- evaluated presentations. Several certifi- ticipate in the decision making process as cate students indicated that prior to the -It perraInSlO '"' I oca I environment - al Issues.i conference they had little or no knowl- The conference, A Quest for edge of environmental justice. Molly Environmental Justice: Healthy, High Lippman '03 admitted, "I was unaware Quality Environments for all of the complexities of this concept, of its Communities, was held at the college on inherent ties to issues such as race, cul- April 20 and 21. Two organizations, rhe ture, public health, and politics." Other Connecticut Coalition for Environmental students like Sarah Lathrop '03, "had nor Justice and the Southeastern Connecticut considered the overlap of social injustices Indoor Air Quality Coalition, joined the and environmental problems" and college's Goodwin-Niering Center for viewed environmental degradation and Conservation Biology and Environmental racial discrimination as separate issues. Studies as conference sponsors. One of Bunyan Bryant, the Chair of Resource the major questions posed by the confer- Policy and Behavior Concentration at the ence was to explore whether racial University of Michigan, gave the keynote minorities and the poor are being envi- address in which he discussed the history ronmentally victimized. In advancing its and the struggles of the environmental agenda of social equity, the environmen- justice movement. Environmental justice tal justice movement takes the position became a national issue in 1982 when that historically disadvantaged commu- several hundred people protested the sit- nities. Black and Stewart found the data nities are more likely to be damaged by ing of a landfill in Warren County, for Hartford and Bridgeport especially pollution and less likely to be protected North Carolina. In his address, Bryant troubling since the facilities in these by regulatory enforcement. This is a recognized that the dumping of contami- cities handle the bulk of the state's incin- position that provokes an adversarial cry nated soil in Warren County provided erated trash. of environmental racism: a cry that "activists an opportunity for champi- Erhnobotanisr Manuel Lizarralde, Christopher Foreman, a professor at the oning civil rights" in a different light. By assistant professor of botany at University of Maryland and speaker at uniting civil rights and environmental Connecticut College, brought a global

the conference, perceives to be a "superb activists the Warren County demonstra- perspective to the gathering with a talk mobilizing cool" in the "repertoire of tion gave rise to the "contemporary envi- on "green imperialism." Lizarralde community advocacy." ronmental justice movement." argued that multinational corporations The conference provided an opportu- In response to federal regulations, use "biodiversity prospecting" to exploit nity for scholars to discuss the history, state governments throughout the coun- indigenous people by taking natural

14 cc: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMhiER 2001 .. resources and other materials from their energy use is soaring, and our waste is - Gerald Visgilio, Associate Director and lands without just compensation. These increasing. However, we are simultane- Diana Whitelaw, Assistant Director, The resources often include genetic materi- ously developing more technology and a Goodwin-Niering Center jor Conservation als from which the agricultural and greater knowledge of problems and thus Biology and Environmental Studies pharmaceutical industries realize enor- alternatives." Others concluded, as did mous profits. Maria Sinnamon '02, that "community Additional conference information action is very important but unti] (we) Effective citizen involvement in local can be found at or neighborhood issues is fundamental learn to use sustainable resources and ccbes.conncoll.edu/ejconf.htrni to the success of the environmental jus- limit the amount of waste there will still tice movement. On this point, be environmental injustice for all of us." University of Pittsburgh Professor Harvey White spoke about the politics of syndrome behavior. White presented examples of syndromes such as "Not In My Backyard" (NIMBY) and "Why In My Backyard" (WIMBY). The NIMBY syndrome is usually observed "in more economically and politically affluent communities," while WIMBY is found in "low income, minority communities." From White's perspective, poor minority communities are more "reactive than proactive" in their response to environmental risks. These communities often lack the resources to wage a successful NIMBY campaign. Health is an issue where environmental justice activists mobilize community support against alleged inequalities. Minority and poor communities often carry the worst environmental burdens: quality-of-life issues such as traffic con- gestion, noxious odors, noise, dilapidat- ed buildings and unsanitary conditions. Virginia Ashby Sharpe, the Deputy Director of the Hastings Center, argued that viewing health in a more inclusive framework of "public health and development paradigms" provides a "richer conception of what it would mean to be healthy - either as a society or as an individual." Many students echoed the sentiment expressed by Hannah Shayler '02 that "one leaves the conference with an overwhelming sense of responsibility to pro- mote fairness when dealing with issues of environmental quality." Leys Bostrom '02 saw cpportuniries for change in that we "are entering a period in which our population is rising, our

CC: CONNECfJCl/TCOLLECE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 15 ORMAN FAlNSTEIN has always welcomed a challenge. Whether training for a marathon at age 35 or enrolling in freshman French when he was in his late 40s, he has enjoyed putting himself to the test. Now, as President-elect of Connecticut College, he is taking on yet another challenge, one that he considers the greatest honor of his career. On]uly 10, several hundred faculty members, staff and students crowded into Oliva Hall for a first glimpse of the college's next president. Fainstein, an internationally prominent scholar of urban studies who is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, was met with a standing ovation. What was going through his mind as he modestly acknowledged the

applause and prepared to deliver his first remarks as President-elect of Connecticut College? "1was wishing that my grandmother was alive and could have seen me," he reflected afterward. "When I became a professor at Columbia, in 1970, she was very proud, bur she could never understand why I wore blue jeans, which is what I wore in the classroom for about 10 years. She would have liked seeing me stand up well-dressed, in a suit and tie." .A5 he met his new community for the first time, Fainscein jokingly compared the situation to "an arranged marriage" between himself and the college, one in which a committee had played the role of matchmaker. In less than half an hour, the audience learned many facts about this individual that are not on his impressive 13-page curriculum vitae. He is, among other things, a devoted husband and father, a gourmet cook, a "retired"

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d marathon runner, a Yankees fan and the owner of a of his own life. His grandfather immigrated to New Labrador retriever named Wilson. York'slower East Side from Russia in 1920. A skilled Ir was a bittersweet moment for the man who has watchmaker, he was able to save enough money to been named the ninth president of the college. .fu he bring over his wife and son - Painstein's father, then looked back on his career, he described a journey that an infant. Mother and child had fled by boat from the began wirh his boyhood in West Haven, Conn., and Crimea to Turkey and lived alone in Istanbul until they continued wirh distinguished academic achievement, could join his grandfather. on a full scholarship, at the Massachusetts Institute of Born in New York "five days after D-Day" in 1944, Technology. Then came professorial and administrative Norman Fainstein spent the first two years of his life in appointments at Columbia University, the New School Brighton Beach, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, with his for Social Research, the City University of New York mother and her parents. His father, who was in the sec- and Vassar College. Now that journey was bringing him ond wave that landed at Normandy, was an Army back to the Connecticut shoreline where he began. combat engineer. "My mother had no idea whether he He will succeed Claire L. Caudiani '66, who was alive or dead on that day," says Fainsrein. announced last fall she would step down June 30 after Fainsrein's earliest memories focus on the family's serving the college since 1988. David K. lewis began move to West Haven, Conn., in 1951, where his serving as interim president July 1 and will continue in grandparents had purchased a small jewelry store. that capacity until Fainsrein's officialarrival on campus From the time he was 13, he worked in the store after October 15. Lewis, the college'sprovost and Margaret school and during the summer monrhs. Often his W Kelly Professor of Chemistry, began serving as act- duties included riding the trolley alone, carrying dia- ing president on January 1, 2001. monds and gold jewelry to engravers and other jewel- The unanimous choice of the search committee, ers in New Haven. Painscein believes that he is a good match for the col- He recalls another early memory, that of watching lege as well. the beacon of a distant airport with his younger sister, "This college suits me because of its values, includ- Barbara. Neither one had ever been to an airport, nor ing social engagement, internationalism and the role of had they ever flown on a plane. They nagged their the four academic centers. It fits exactlywith what I father, then a skilled worker at United Aircraft, about believe in," he asserts. "The college is on the right tra- where the planes came from and where they went. They jectory, and I see myselfas an enabler, to assure that the also gazed across Long Island Sound to POrtJefferson. resources are in place and that the machinery is func- "Asan adult, reflecting back on our days in the tioning in a proper, communal and democratic way." 1950s, growing up in an ordinary town among hard- Search committee member Stanley]. Tartaglia, Jr. working and unpretentious families, I keep returning to '03, a psychology major from Arlington, Texas, those images of the Sound, and of the airport beacon expressed wholehearted suppOrt for Fainstein. and of wondering where the course of life takes you." "He is the right fit for Connecticut College and Encouraged by his parents and grandparents, the understands our unique abilities and desires to remain young Norman Fainstein began distinguishing himself innovative both technologically and with our curricu- as a student at an early age, already demonstrating his lum. He is a person with utmost integrity, a communi- studious nature. He remembers being inspired and nur- ty builder, a scholar, a fine administrator, and finally, tured by his fifth grade teacher, Mr. Finn, who had he is compassionate and sensible." been a "belly gunner" during World War II and was both a hero and a mentor to his students. He was the first of many who helped Fainstein raise his sights high- RETURNING er throughout his schooling and ensured that he would be the first in his family to graduate from college. TO HIS ROOTS A turning point in his life came in the form of a gift: the Donald L. Brown Scholarship from rhe Family ties are important to Fainstein, and he knows Norden Division of United Aircraft, awarded each year the stories of his relatives and ancestors as well as those to the son of a shop floor worker who committed MOUS CHOICE

CC: CONNECTlCUTCOLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 17 NORMAN FAINSTEIN: A TIMELINE himself to becoming an engineer or scientist. The scholarship paid for Born June 11, 1944 Fainsteins entire college education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including room and board, though his interest rook a decided EDUCATION rum from science and mathematics toward the social sciences, particularly political science. The sweeping social changes of the late 1960s focused his B.S. in Political Science, 1966, interest in urban studies, "the most exciting terrain at that time." Massachusetts Institute of Technology In 1966, Fainstein earned a bachelor of science degree with highest honors from MIT He continued at the university as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow Ph.D. in Political Science, 197], and National Science Foundation Fellow in political science and received Massachusetts Institute of Technology his docrorate with highest distinction in 1971. He wrote his thesis based on research he conducted in a grammar school in Manhattan in the early days PROFESSIONAL HISTORY of the "open classroom." While at MIT, he was also a Stouffer Fellow in the 1970-1974 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies. Columbia University "I was the beneficiary of many great teachers and worked with them on their research, which is something that happens here at Connecticut 1974-1976 Associate Professor of Sociology, College," he says. "They had a profound influence on my life." He cites Columbia University among his mentors Leonard]. Fein, who later taught at Brandeis 1971-1976 Deputy Chair for Undergraduate University, and Alan Altshuler, professor of urban policy and director of the Programs in General Studies and Taubman Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Director of the Summer Session, In graduate school, he met and fell in love with his future wife Susan. Department of Sociology, She had been previously married and had two boys, who were ages 3 and 5 Columbia University when Norman and Susan married 32 years ago. The young couple "created 1976-1981 Associate Professor of Urban an intellectual enterprise" that forged an unforgettable bond between them; Policy and Management, they wrote everything together for the next 15 years. Susan is a professor of Graduate School of urban planning and policy developmenr and director of doctoral studies at Management, Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey. New School for Social Research Susan and Norman Painsrein have co-authored numerous books including Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban RedeveLopment 1981-1987 Professor of Urban Policy and and Urban Political Movements: The Searchfor Power by Minority Groups in Management, Graduate School American Cities. Fainstein has authored dozens of articles on urban social of Management, movements, urban economic development, racial stratification and the pol- New School for Social Research itics of urban planning. He has presented papers at numerous conferences 1983-1987 Associate Dean for Academic internationally and was at the University of Amsterdam chairing a plenary Affairs, Graduate School of session and participating in an International Sociological Association meet- Management and Urban ing on Urban and Regional Development the week following his presiden- Professions, tial appointment. New School for Social Research

1987-1995 Professor of Public Policy, Baruch College, Professor of NEW CHALLENGES Sociology, The Graduate School, City University of New York. Ask Norman Fainstein which of his many achievemenrs gives him the most pride and satisfaction, and he will answer, "Becoming a good father. 1 think Dean, School of Liberal Arts and the greatest success for any parem is (Q enjoy spending time with your adult Sciences, Baruch College, children and knowing that they like spending time with you." City University of New York One of the greatest challenges he recalls was becoming a runner ar age 1995-2001 Professor of Sociology, 35 afrer never participating in any kind of serious athletics in his life. Vassar College "I decided that 1 wanted to be a marathon runner," he says. He began Dean of the Faculty, training, running up to 55 miles a week for several years in a strict training Vassar College regimen. A5 a result, he successfully completed five marathons, including the New York City Marathon three times. 200 I - President-elect, Another challenge, this one more cerebral than physical, came in the Connecricur College late 1980s when he decided (Q learn French. When he was dean of the fac- President, after October 15 ulty at Baruch College, he enrolled in freshman French ("That was kind of brave of me!") and then made three trips to France where he lived as a

boarder for two (Q four weeks with French families. Surrounded by fellow

18 cc: CONNEClKUT COLLEGE MAG.~ZINE SUMMER 200) students who were 19 or 20 years old, he put himself in the rarive Web technology to enhance administrative efficiency; role of an undergraduate and a neophyte in a language. and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant emphasizing "1 understand the value of study abroad. After rhat first trip new capacities in bioinformatics, community outreach and there was a quantum leap in my ability to communicate and minority recruitment to science careers. understand in French. I have always been committed to a glob- "We are sorry to lose a superb dean but know Connecticut al approach to education, but that really solidified my belief." College will be extremely well-served by everything Norman By the time he came to Vassar,he had gained an apprecia- will bring to the position," says VassarPresident Frances D.

tion for "how hard it is to apply yourself to learning something Fergusson. "He has a very wide-ranging knowledge of all the new in areas in which you are not naturally talented." primary issues of higher education, particularly those of liberal fu chief academic officer at Vassar,Fainstein supervises 42 arts colleges, and he is highly regarded by all of his peers." academic departments and programs, as well as 10 administra- Vassar student Kat Landry, president of the college'sstudent tive offices, including the library, admission and financial aid, association, says that the student body respected and worked grants, athletics, computing and information servicesand the well with Fainstein. art gallery.He currently chairs project committees supervising "As students, we truly value administrators and faculty who about $40 million worth of new construction and renovations are very direct, open and honest. He will be rruly missed and leads an academic facilities development project that will because of that." involve about $125 million in renovations and building over As he contemplates a new role the next decade. he regards as the pinnacle of Since 1995, Fainsrein has been active in the work of the his career, the president-elect Andrew W Mellon Foundation, where he helped develop has no doubts about his national programs in several areas, including the library of the latest goaL future, information technology and the liberal arts, and facul- "I would like to preside ty career enhancement at liberal arts colleges. He has extensive at the Centennial of the foundation and corporate fundraising experience, having college, to celebrate 100 helped Vassarsecure numerous National Science Foundation years of Connecticut College and National Institutes of Health research and facilities and to know that ir will be grants. Under his leadership Vassar won several Mellon here another 100, 200 and even Foundation grants for technology, foreign languages, the art 300 years among the truly grear museum, multi-media technology for the library and collabo- liberal arts colleges." - LHB

ful campus. One sees here in this space a your first experience with a liberal great tradition and a concern for creat- arts education? ing an aesthetic quality of life. I love the My first experience really carne through symbolism of having the athletic field in my sons, Eric and Paul, who graduated the middle of the green- symbolizing from Vassar and Hampshire Colleges that the individual is both mind and respectively in the 1980s. I saw that they body. Then, of course, rhere was the gained an opportunity to mature intel- opportunity to return to Connecticut. What attracted you to Connecticut lectually and socially in a supportive and caring environment that paid attention College' Why do you think that you are a good fit fOr this college' to the individual. I also saw the close First and foremost, its curriculum is personal relationships that they devel- I came up through the ranks of the fac- what attracted me. It has one of the oped with faculty. most innovative curriculums in the ulty. I understand that a college is built United States today. It provides a rigor- around and by its faculty. I have been What will be your first priority as an effective senior administrator at a ous education, one that is internationally President? well-run institution. I've also been focused, embraces public service, and is My first priority is to get to know the active on a national level with the tailored to meet the individual needs of people and the college. I plan to spend a Andrew Mellon Foundation and have students. The four academic centers lot of time talking with people. Anorher been particularly concerned with tech- were my dream. I could see that the col- to nology and faculty development. priority is solidify the financial base of lege was poised to continue ever more the college. One of my first efforts in rapidly on a positive trajectory. rou earned your academic degrees this regard will be to recruit a vice presi- Also, there was the absolurely beauri- from a large university. What was dent for development. Of course I also

CC: CONNECnClJT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SU!l.1MER 2001 19 intend to further the priorities already minority ten ure track faculty from 9 social community mat provides oppor- established in the recent past. We must percen t to 15 percent. I also had a role tunity for as many students as possible continue the kind of collegial decision in the increased use of information tech- from as diverse a ser of backgrounds as making and community building of the nology and adapting that technology to possible. Far from being the elitist insti- past year. the purpose of a liberal education. tutions that some people think we might be from reading the popular press, we How would you characterize your What wi!! you miss about Vassar? are, in fact, the model of how our socie- leadership style? I have made many good friends there ty could function if people from differ- I have always thought of myself as a col- and I am very sorry to leave. My col- enr backgrounds learned to live together, legial person. To be successful, you suc- leagues on the faculty and students are to work together, and to reason together. ceed by helping others do their jobs first-rate. The campus has been my One of my tasks is to make sure we con- well. The best leadership in academia is home, so it's a bittersweet departure. I tinue to maintain the financial resources collegial. At Vassar, I believe that I loved the Hudson Valley and will miss ro allow that to happen. I think that lib- helped to reinforce traditions of demo- the mountains. Then again, I welcome eral arts colleges represent an ideal com- cratic faculty governance. returning to the seashore. munity; they show the way in which ideas can inform every aspect of life, that What about the collegesinvolvement reason can be the basis for social interac- in New London? W1Jatis your vision of tion. They show the way in which the A5 I got to know Connecticut College, I different parts of life can be integrated liked the kind of engagement its stu- higher education? - social life and inrellecrual Iife and dents have with society and New work life, sports and thinking, the mind London and the orientation of students My vision for all of higher and the body. This is a very remarkable toward improving social conditions education is that America has environment. It's a very remarkable wherever they are. I certainly think the chosen to use education as flame that we keep lit in our society. college has an educational mission that the vehicle to create a better What kind of books do you like to makes it a good citizen to places like society. It has not mainly read outside of your field' New London. In many ways, the college chosen to use redistribution reaches out to the community through of income, the creation of a My favorite authors are contemporary the schools and bringing students to fiction writers. I like John Irving, and very powerful and effecrive campus. I certainly think the college just read his latest book, The Fourth welfare state. So if education ought to play this kind of role in New Hand. Margaret Arwood, Francine Prose, London and the region. Faculty and is going to be this vehicle- Philip Roth and David Lodge for his aca- administrators should be good citizens and ir has served us very well demic satires. One of my great favorites in the community. - it's gor ro be properly is Ursula Hegi's Stones.fromthe River. supported, in all of irs What does Connecticut College have differenr dimensions for all of Youve said you like to cook. What in common with lItzssar? kind of cuisine do you like the best' the different constituencies it Its size, of course, is comparable. They serves. Period. My favorite cuisine is Mediterranean, were both famous women's colleges, both and so it's really southern French, olive went coed in 1969 - some of us at Vassar oil-based cuisines and the various influ- think Connecticut College did it a little ences that come in from northern better than we did. Vassar is in a city, How is that vision manifested by Africa, and from the Caucasus and the Poughkeepsie, that is not completely dif- liberal arts colleges' Middle East. My favorite television chef ferent from New London. They were I think that a remarkable thing has hap- is Mario Barali. both very important colonial cities that pened in the last 40 or 50 years in the went through the same cycle of industrial strong liberal arts colleges. They have What about the other member of your growth. In general, New London is more taken a profoundly important leadership ftmily, your black Labrador retriever? vibrant than Poughkeepsie today. role, starting in the 1960s, in responding Wilson is looking forward to being "first to the increasing racial diversity of our dog" and to being near the ocean. He was What do think wereyour greatest society and in recognizing the social and a dropour from the Gujding Eyes for the accomplishments at Vassar? economic diversity that always existed in Blind training school; he failed the "no I think I was successful in introducing our society. They've committed them- jumping" part of his final exam. He's diversity in its curriculum and faculty. I selves, and Connecticut College has seven years old and enjoys running, play- helped to increase the percentage of committed itself, to creating the kind of ing "stick" and chasing a frisbee.

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he six-month search for the next TRUSTEES President was an intensive one. The Barbara Zaccheo Shattuck Dubow '72, trustee; and managing direc- Presidential Search Committee screened 80 tor, Shattuck Hammond Partners, Inc., New York City, New York. to 100 candidates and then narrowed the field Chair. to about 20. Five finalists were chosen for inter- Ford w.: Bell, trustee and parent of a student in the Class of 2002; views in the last six weeks of the search. and president of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation "The search yielded an extraordinarily talented field Jerrold B. Carrington 79, trustee; and general partner, INROADS of nominees, and Norman Fainstein was the Search Capital Partners, L.P., Evanston, Ill. Committee's unanimous first choice. We look forward Duncan N. Dayton '81, chair, Board ofTrusrees; and President, to welcoming him to campus," said Duncan N. Tamarack Investments, Inc., Wayzata, Minn. Dayton 'Bl , chair of the Board of Trustees. George M. Milne, Jr., trustee and parent of a 1999 graduate; and "His enthusiasm is infectious and his credentials are executive vice president, Pfizer Global Research and Development, impeccable," said Barbara Zaccheo Shattuck Dubow and president, Worldwide Strategic Operations & Management, '72, a Connecticut College trustee, and chair of the Pfizer, Groton, Conn. Presidential Search Commitree.t'He is a scholar with Jean C. Tempel '65, trustee; and managing director, First Light extensive management experience who understands aca- Capital, Boston, Mass. demia in the context of the greater world." Dale Chakarian Turza '71, trustee; and partner, Clifford Chance The Boston-based executive search firm of Isaacson, Rogers & Wells LLp, Washington, D.C. Miller served as consultant to the search process. Carol J. Ramsey '74, trustee emeritus; and Director, Corporate Isaacson, Miller specializes in finding leaders for univer- Contributions, the Raytheon Company, Long Beach, Calif sities, research institutes, foundations and other non- Rufus R. Winton '82, trustee; and general partner, Winton Partners, profits. Among the firm's recently completed searches is New Canaan, Connecticut. Alumni Representative the appointment of Ruth]. Simmons as president of Brown University. FACULTY The 17-member Presidential Search Committee Alexis Dudden, the Sue and Eugene Mercy] r. Assistant Professor of included eight trustees, one alumni representative, five History faculty members, three administrators and two students. Eugene v: Gallagher, the Rosemary Park Professor of Religious Studies Abigail A. Van Slyek, the Dayton Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Stuart A. Vyse, Associate Professor of Psychology George J. Willauer, Charles]. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies, Chairman of the English Department and College Marshal, was secretary to the committee.

ADMINISTRATORS Lee Coffin, Vice President for Enrollment & Public Affairs and Dean of Admission Naima Gherbi, Director, Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations, Office of Development Bonnie Wells, Associate Director of Communications & Marketing, staffed the work of Professor Willauer and the committee.

STUDENTS Anna Loreto Hitchner '02, of Baltimore, Maryland; art history major Stanley Tartaglia, Jr. '03, of Arlington, Texas; psychology major

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would be charging the government with crimes against human- way torn asunder from the skin that housed them. ity the following month. Because the tribunal had no recog- One of the two chief prosecutors, Patricia Viseur-Sellers, nized authority, however, Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro's office reframed O'Heme's point in her closing statements, "Consent did not respond. No government spokesperson attended the tri- did not make you a slave. There has never been one witness bunal. One Japanese spectator sitting near me cried quietly who has ever had a choice." when she heard that her government refused to cooperate. Her The detailed points that lawyers and historians argued two friends simply shook their heads. throughout the three days of hearings often made the women As I listened to the organizers' hopes for the tribunal, the impatient as they waited their turn to tell the world their sro- song that had filled the hall during the previous evening's open- ries. The click of canes on the linoleum floor from the sound of ing ceremonies brought the event into focus. A recorded version the women walking in and out to the bathroom or to have a of "We Shall Overcome" had caught me off guard, especially as cigarette distracted my attention - as it should have done- Korean women in their 80s wearing hanbok paraded in to its away from arguments abour sovereignty or post-traumatic stress verses with Filipina women following in white, and Indonesian to the reality of the women's faces. At the end of the tribunal, women in batik. East Timorese women, Malay, Chinese, however, the women's pleasure at hearing and seeing judges in Japanese, Dutch and Taiwanese walked in as well. long black robes pronounce Hirohiro and the current govern- Like the followers of Martin Luther KingJr., "we" the peo- rnenc of Japan guilty brought them jumping to rheir feet, and ples of the Asia-Pacific region follow a non-violent path to over- the tedium of the proceedings vanished. Several of them rushed come the violence done to "us." The part of the old hymn and the stage and bowed before the judges. The tribunal determined sharecroppers' song that stood out most in the Tokyo auditori- rhar the women had the dignity to tell their history; and the um was hearing the words: ''And the most important verse is music of "We Shall Overcome" followed them and their sup- the one we wrote down in Montgomery, Alabama." porters out onto the street. We are nor afraid Whatever reservations Ihad or continue ro have abouc the We are not afraid tribunal dissolve with a single memory. The judges called a day- We are nor afraid today long recess before giving the summary of their judgement dur- Oh deep in my heart ing which time the New York-based Women's Caucus for I do believe Gender Justice sponsored a Public Hearing on Crimes Against We shall overcome someday Women in Recent Wars and Conflicts. At first, I thought that a Not only do the lyrics in this verse hit on the key obstacle day of horror stories from around the world would scatter the that the Tokyo Tribunal women (like their civil rights' focus that the tribunal had so effectively created for counterparts) have had to overcome - fear - bur the women involved in Japan's military sexual this is the one part of the song that uses a pres- slavery. However, warching the elderly ent, not future, verb tense to galvanize action. women who had lived outside history for With this connection running in my stayed 50 years listen to much younger head, the Tokyo Tribunal took on the ener- women tell stories of similar experi- gy of an oral history sit-in. The women ences, crushed my insensitivity. gave their own narratives, some in person, cause I The younger women had been some via video. Some sat silently as empowered in the past decade to courageous visual evidence still not ready tell their histories in the relative to speak our for a public record. The see my present tense, partly because the women testified according to prosecution Tokyo Tribunal women had come teams that were arranged nationally, but the ther," forward. Guatemalan Yolanda Aguilar consonance of their stories revealed the uni- Urizar rook the stage to speak. After formity with which those who perpetrated sex- calmly describing her imprisonment at ual slavery regarded the women: as disposable age 15 and the repeated gang rapes her tor- chattel. turers inflicted upon her, she looked our into One of the Dutch survivors, Jan Ruff O'Heme, best the audience and said, "I thought about my mother. I drew the tribunal's attention to how the women had further- wanted to see my mother. If I die, I will not see my mother and more been bound together during the years beyond their I want to see my mother. I stayed alive because I wanted to see enslavement. "The one thing that ties us together," she my mother." As she talked, an SO-year old Korean woman four explained, "is that we could never enjoy the pleasure of sexual rows in front of me clutched her earphone tightly to her head, intercourse even with our husbands (if we got married)." The making sure not to miss a syllable of interpretation. As statement was neither provocative nor clinical. Instead it caused Yolanda Urizar talked about her mother, the Korean woman a disquieting awareness that the bodies of the often smiling began to rock back and forth - almost violently - collapsing women who sat in the Tokyo Tribunal auditorium - 70 or so the categories of time and geography that continue to entrap the women between the ages of 65 and 90 - remained in some victims and survivors of radical evil. •

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deceived or abducted and forced (0 Acknowledging wrongs in the past may past seven years, the Japanese govern- become prostitutes, euphemistically actually strengthen the present claims of ment has apologized to the South called "comfort women," for the the current government." Korean government for 'wrongs com- Japanese army. As an undergraduate at Columbia mitted in the past," explains Dudden. Seventy former sex slaves attended the University, Dudden did not intend to "The wateriness of the expression at five-day tribunal. "Historically, these peo- study Asian history. "No historian ever once infuriates those who want an apol- ple haven't been allowed to exist," says has a good reason for entering the field," ogy and those who don'r think Japan has Dudden. Though the women were held she says with a smile. "Otherwise, to continue apologizing for its past." prisoners for periods ranging from a week they're lying." A member of the CC fac- It is hardly surprising that Dudden, to more than four years, the idea of repa- ulry since 1998, she literally flipped a who also served on the presidential ration was previously "thrown out as a coin to decide whether to study Japanese search committee, stalls when asked non-issue." The United States also would or Russian. Though she chose to study what she does for fun. "I'd like to ger to not hear any demands for atonement. Japanese, she originally considered a the point where I have hobbies," she Seeing the women at the tribunal, career as a geologist. Her first visit to says. The recipient of grams from the many of whom were in their 80s, dance Japan was to study the country's volca- American Council of Learned Societies, and sing to "We Shall Overcome" - the noes. But Dudden had a series of "very the Japan Foundation and the U.S. tribunal's theme song - was an experi- good teachers" in Asian language, histo- Department of Education: Fulbright- ence Dudden will not soon forget. She ry and literature. She graduated magna Hays Program, Dudden, who is fluent tells of women crying, hugging and even cum laude in 1991 with a degree in East in Japanese and "struggles along" in pulling up their shirts to show knife Asian studies. She was also elected to Phi Korean, will spend the upcoming aca- wounds inflicted upon them by Japanese Bera Kappa. demic year in Tokyo and the following soldiers during the war. "One woman Dudden went on to earn a master's year in Seoul. - MYH

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WHEN TINA SAVELL TREADWELL '63

BEGAN HER BATTLE WITH BREAST

CANCER SHE WASN'T ALONE. THIS IS A HUSBAND'S STOlt,

by David Treadwell

DECEMBER 18, 1996,6:00 P.M. Nothing extraordinary about the day or the ime or the setting. I'd come upstairs·,from my office in the basement, pleased with a good day's work. Chowder, our robust Black Lab - the Pavarotti of dogs, we have joked - had been fed and walked. I was sitting down to catch Cher -and Natalie on the Channel 5 news. Tina was due home, any minute, from an appointment. Icouldn't retyember where. Then the door opened. Tina walked in. And life turned upside down. "Davia, I have a lump ... and it's the wrong kind!" "A lump? What do you mean, a lump?" But her pained expression screamed the news I could not bear. Tina doesn't rattle easily, but she does know about lumps. And what they might mean. She ... 1 ... we both knew that a most unwelcome stranger was banging on our door. She breathlessly explained how her regular check-up, a week earlier, had resulted in a request for a mammogram - her first in three years _ which led to some concern and the need for further tests and how a biopsy would be necessary to see if "the lump" was malignant and how there was no cancer in her family and that she was supposed to die of a heart attack some day, which did run in her family, but not now, and how she wasn't ready to die and Each pained word pierced my soul. Our of normal and a lumpless Tina to me. But it was not breath. Ashen face. Beads of sweat. "Are you all to be. This was no dream. right?" she asked, "I'm the one who's supposed to "I have to step outside," I gasped, "have co get be sick!" Typical Tina: feisty, loving, straight-to-the- my bearings." I felt ashamed to have reacted so un- core. My best friend and life partner, the Raggedy calmly, so un-reassuringly, so ... emotionally. But Ann to my Andy. Okay, God, enough's enough. my reactions arose from some dark and fearful Let's delete the last five minutes and return life to place, an inner child, in terror, at sea. I hate to see

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Tina in pain, not my Tina, not the spir- ties, not the gore. And I never get sick, a The next few days whisked by in a ited woman I married eight years ago, a Schmoo Tina calls me. Have to be blur, filled with questions, fraught with second marriage for both of us, a one- strong. Have to be there for the person I anxiety. Christmas was coming up. Do plus-one-equals-three pairing on all care more abour than anything in the we tell her twO sons? My two sons? Our counts. And I can't stand, let alone world. I went back inside to get the full friends? No, first we - I say we because understand, things medical. Small CUtS story and ro help plot a course for the breast cancer strikes the husband as well make me wince. I watch ER for the sro- battle we both now faced. as the wife, in my experience - musr

CC: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2GO! 27 have the biopsy. Maybe it's a falsealarm; Tina read several books on cancer; I, cried. An old saying came to mind, help- maybe the tumor is benign. Why ruin medical phobic that I am, skimmed a ful to husbands at times like these: "A Christmas with a false alarm? We decid- few pages, focusing mainly on the charts, closed mouth gathers no feet." ed to keep our silence - for now. the odds, the prospects for Tina's future. We learned a lot about breast cancer She had the biopsy on December 23. She talked to a good friend, a social from reading and talking to friends. First Her sons, Ed and Andy, and my dad worker at Dana Farber, whose insights of all, it's everywhere. Everyone, it were to arrive for Christmas on the proved invaluable, then and later. seems, knows someone who has had 24th. The biopsy results were due on the Our own talks and feelings revolved breast cancer. Most, but far from all, of 26th. She confided in a close friend who around little more than cancer at this the stories we heard had ended on a pos- called on the evening of the biopsy. The stage. Cancer and early death and the- itive note. One in eight women get it at friend rook great issue with the "silent" odds-of-this-or-that, and dashed hopes some point in their lifetimes. And 80 approach: "You have to tell your sons and deep fears. I remember getting percent of the women who get breast right now! You'll need their suppan as angry, at one point, with Tina's all-con- cancer have no family history of the dis- well as David's." She told them. They suming focus on a disease she might ease. Middle-age, Tina's age (54), was as hugged her. We talked. Our army was gaining strength. Together, we shared Christmas, deeper than usual, more loving, more PRI9RI+IES SHIF+ WHEN touching, less teasing. We faced the first fork in the road, the next day's biopsy results, with fearful optimism. We wish CANCER ENTERS YOUR you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish ... But ... HOME. LIFE'S NUISANCES bad news. The biopsy showed that the tumor was malignant, though, thank God, rather small. A lumpectomy was NO LONGER RATTLE. scheduled for December 30 to remove the rumor. The lumpecromy went well, the sur- geon told me on the phone. She had gotten "good margins." If the doctor was pleased, then I was pleased. 1 rerurned to the recovery room to find Tina tired bur in good spirits. We already have beaten! "I don't want to "good" a time as any to get it, because played Scrabble. (She won.) die!"... "You won't!" ... "You don't treatment at this age level often yields The doctor was optimistic that she know that!" ... "Everybody's going to many healthy years. "got it all," but cautioned that lymph die!" "But I'm too young." I didn't want We also discovered, all too firsthand, node surgery would be required, com- cancer to crush our lives, to beat us the elusive and capricious nature of this mon procedure, to make sure and to down. Neither did she. But it was with disease. "They" don't really know what determine the next steps. Radiation, at us. Sometimes we just sat and held each causes it. And "they" don't really know least, we were told. Chemotherapy, the other, saying nothing, feelings too deep how to cure it. You read and hear almost very word chills my hands even as I for tears. daily about how diet and exercise and a write this, if the lymph node surgery One day, standing in front the mir- "good" (that is, cancer-free) family histo- suggested the presence of cancer in other ror, Tina said, softly, a rarity for her, "I ry lessen your odds of being one of the parts of the body. The doctor seemed may lose my breasts." "I love you," I unlucky "1 in 8." That may be true. But optimistic. So did we. A little. replied, "I don't love your breasts." it wasn't in Tina's case. Everything about Lymph node surgery was required to "What, you don't love my breasts?" 1 Tina's life habits and family history sug- determine if any lymph nodes contained want you, alive and well, with or with- gested she would, should, be spared. cancer cells.The surgery was scheduled out breasts, you!" 1 tried to recover from That's why she had been casual about for January 15. We faced the next fork in the gaffe. Unsuccessfully. Sometimes we getting regular mammograms. Yes,she the road. Does this journey have no end? men, it's true, just don't get it. Mea should have been getting mammograms What to do besides worry - and read? culpa. Eventually, we both laughed. And every year, not every two or three years.

28 cc: CONNECTICUT COUEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 Bur that's easy hindsight. The message? undergo their chemotherapy treatments didn't - argue. A closed mouth .... Every woman is vulnerable. together. Our armies merged forces. When the first sign of hair was due to She underwent the lymph node sur- Even before the first chemotherapy return, a few weeks after the end of gery on January 15. Again, the surgery treatment, we had discovered one of the chemotherapy, Tina searched her scalp went well. Bur Tina felt awful. And the life-changing impacts of cancer: the love like a hopeful miner panning for gold. It surgery didn't go well enough, revealing of good friends and even total strangers happened to appear when her 13-year small spots in two lymph nodes, a sign for whom cancer, alone, was the com- old niece was visiting. They got out the that the cancer had begun to spread. mon bond. Tina received at least one let- magnifying glass to see the first small We met with Dr. Susan Sajer, an ter or phone call daily - usually several sprouts. "It's there!" she crowed. Tina oncologist at Emerson Hospital, to dis- - from someone, somewhere, for the hoped that by the time we took our cuss the options. Chemotherapy would first three or four months. Wishing her post-cancer treatment trip to San be required. Bad news. Her breasts could well. Offering support and prayers. Two Francisco in September, she wouldn't be spared, at least for now. Good news. good friends vacationing in Hawaii even have to wear a wig. Dr. Sajer asked if Tina would be inter- sent a care package, filled with sand I've never seen Tina as scared as she ested in participating in a clinical trial from the beach, a theater review, a was the morning we headed off to the which involved the possibility of receiv- church program, a golf score card. We first chemotherapy treatment. The assur- ing stronger than standard dosages of both wept, touched by their thoughtful- ance of the "known" (chemotherapy standard chemotherapy drugs. Half of ness from thousands of miles away. usually "works") gave way to the fear of the patients in this nationwide test were Before describing the first the "unknown" (what would the reaction getting the experimental protocol; the chemotherapy treatment, let me say this be?). So there we were, the four of us other half received a standard protocol. about hair: Hair matters. At least it does plus the oncology nurse. Tina and Tina didn't like the idea of the regular to the woman who shares my life. Bad Cynthia chatting nervously away in treatment, let alone the experimental hair days? What about no hair days? Dr. reclining chairs. Michael wanting to one. Tina chose to participate and we Sajer had said that Tina would lose all know everything that went on - and neared yet one more fork in the road. her hair - everywhere - two or three in. Me staring at the ceiling, trying to She was chosen, fifry-fifry chance, to weeks after starting chemotherapy. Tina's absorb everything while avoiding the receive the experimental protocol. Dana Farber friend said that, while she stark medical realities. The nurse, Anne Misgivings notwithstanding, there was would need a wig for special occasions, Marie, being very efficient and profes- no turning back. She had signed the most women with cancer seldom wear sional and pleasant. forms warning of scores of possible dire one, preferring colorful scarves or just The "treatment" - first a saline solu- effects including, in cheerless legalistic plain old hats. tion, followed by an anti-nausea drug, terms, death from this treatment. After some wig research, we headed followed by a slow, steady input of "the" Another operation was suggested north to Tyngsboro to purchase a wig. drug (a ghoulish deep red concoction) prior to chemotherapy, the installation The first wig she tried on seemed per- through the port - lasted about three of a "port" in her chest to facilitate the fect, but Tina being Tina, and wig pur- hours. At the end, Tina and Cynthia administration of the drug. Using a port, chasing being an uncommon event, she both felt groggy,almost giddy, as if they'd we were told, would be easier than find- tried on several others. "How about been drinking. We all walked out to the ing a vein each time. She chose to have blond?" "Do redheads turn you on?" parking slowly,feeling quietly elated. the port. Surgery was becoming almost We had a good time, both swapping This wasn't so bad. One treatment was routine around our household, like a jibes, she donning new personalities. over. We were going to beat this beast. trip to the recycling center. Then we bought the wig that made While we had lost at every fork in the Tina look like Tina. Incidentally, road thus far, we had won two new though rhe wig ("Wiggy") remained a friends: Cynthia and Michael, a couple constant presence for months, perched going through the same experiences at proudly on our piano while we were CHE¥O'S RIdYIHMS RULED the the same time, almost to the day. home and toted dutifully along when next few months. Felt okay, then tired, Cynthia and Tina had spent the night in we were away, it seldom got put on then a~en pretty,good, then the same hospital room following lymph Tina's head. She preferred scarves and almost normal, then wham, another hit. node surgery and shared a personal bond hats to the hot and scratchy, though Seve~ts in all. that went deeper than cancer. Moreover, lifelike, wig. She mostly preferred being Icontinued to work during "the Cynthia was to be in the drug-heavy bald. "Why hide who I am and what I chemo," but my heart was upstairs with protocol group as well. They arranged to have," she reasoned. I couldn't - and continued on page 37

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, 'You know, I never write against them. Savor this. Remember this with a diploma, into the unruly, vulgar a speech because I feel day, May 26th 200 1, and remember mass of competition, political intrigue, how you're going co combat world backstabbing and street level hustle that when you write hunger, desegregate the schools, attack known as the workforce. something, you go long. commercialism, sexism, fascism, racism You'll get the perfect job and the But for this one, I wrote one, and if it and every other kind ofTsm,' because worst job, you will be promoted and goes long, I might just Stop in the mid- there's a bunch of 'isms' that haven't yOll will be fired (never justified, never dle of it and start playing. Now, this is been found yet. Remember that you're your fault) over the dumbest thing.

kind of new; I've never actually read one, going (Q get rich, be famous, be respect- You'll become rich and impoverished; so excuse me while I try to find my ed in your field, find the perfect spOllse, your heart will sprout wings and it will right, proper angle. get a great job and have wonderfully cry; you will marry and you're going to Acting President Lewis, President well-behaved and mannerly children. divorce. You will have children or not. Gaudiani, students, friends, family, boys Brothers and sisters, revel in the last days You will experience unspeakable joy and and girls, Boss Jeter, Wyn and Simeon: of babyhood. All, I look out and I can tragedy beyond tears. k you now sit in full bloom of even see without the sun shining down Yes, Brothers and Sisters, someone youth, ingest the sweetness of this com- on us that all of you have a shine, a will come up to you and ask you, munal moment in celebration of your glow; you possess the eternal optimism "'X'here did you go to school and when academic achievement. Twant you all to of the untried, the untested, the inexpe- did you graduate?" and you will say, bathe in this mom em as if it were the rienced, the unimpressed. Check your- "Connecticut College '01," and they will noonday sun, which as you can see is not self our, 'cause it's a beautiful thing. say, "Hrnrn! You don't look that old," and going to come our today. Look around And someday soon - maybe today you will smile and reply, "Thank you." at family and friends and savor what you - someone you don't know will ask But now, many of us will no longer all have accomplished. All, bask in the you, "Where did you go to school? shine and glow of youthful optimism to afterglow of good feeling as this day When did you finish?" And you will the point of arrogance. Oh no, many of

wears on and you end up sloshing smile and say, "Connecticut College us will bend our integrity to the times or through today's and tonight's and, in '01," and they will smile and say, "Wow! the situation. Many of us will thirst for some exceptionally festive cases, next You're so young," and you'll smile, too. justice and equality only when our own week's parties. Get as close co your And you'll go on from this blissful throats are parched; many of us will lose freshly educated feelings and thoughts time so pregnant with possibility, armed our sense of outrage as 'ism' after 'ism' is as you can stand to be without overdosing on your own magnifi- cence. Lord have mercy. Feel the Jazz great Wynton Marsalis tells Connecticut College, full weight and power of your presence and enjoy the respect due one who has survived this four- year baptism by book. "Optimism is But before you remove your cap and your gown today, I wan t you co go inside yourself and reflect on our greatest who you are and want CO be in the world out here: big, chaotic and not-giving-a-damn world who possession." is no respecter of people large or smaU. Take stock of your graduation day cliches: "You will change the world with the incorruptible strength of your personal integrity;" "your unquenchable thirst for justice;" "your unwavering courage in the face of an uniformed public duped by lying leaders and an even more lying media." Savor these last sublime momems of parents financing your rebellion justified through repetition, redefinition, backstab, and connive or remain stoically them graduate or not and some other then dismissal. After all, we have a lot to silent and advise; asyou rush life away to too-long speaker will attempt to inspire protect: our jobs, our kids, our homes, get ahead Ot lazily slump and fall far your kids to embrace life with some set our standing in the community, our very behind, take stock of time. of principles or laws or rules that will or fundamental way of living. You will be told that "time is your won't work, and you will look at your Bur still there will be those blood- greatest enemy, time is your greatest pos- kids and grandkids and assess this very hounds amongst us that never lose the session. Hey, you better be careful with moment that we're in right now as an scent of this day. 1 can look out and time because time don't come back;" achievement once again in your life. And point you all Out, almost; they're going "Time flies." "Time is of the essence." they in the full bloom of youth will look to pursue and pursue and pursue, and "Don't waste time." "You must control past you to their friends and their future. they're going to find. There will be those your time," and, above all else, "Be on And you will finance their rebellion shining individuals that remember May time - Be on time." Well, friends, in against you. 26, 2001 and the promises born of the words of the great Louisiana jazz Will you, when your kids and grand-

youthful naivete. They will stand firm in trumpet man, Enure Johnson, "Son, kids sit here, will you be still in the full the barter's box - we're talking about don't worry about being on time, be in bloom of youth? Will you be still stead- baseball, and Mrs. Robinson is here - time." Because when you are in time, fast in your integrity, bubbling and left- or right-handed, still swinging for you can accept and experience a much seething with anger over the 'isms' that the fences though life has thrown curve larger slice oflife as it unfolds. Instead of need to be confronted, arrogant and after curve after curve for strike after imposing your will on every situation, unimpressed by things large and small? strike after unhirrable strike. And further you focus on including everyone else, Will you be on the firing line with the on we all shall go; those who strike out and just that little adjustment of attitude same zeal you possess right here today? and those who strike. gives you the space to understand where Or will you be broken by the unceasing Before removing your cap and gown and who you are. pressure of the crass, the commercial, today, I want you all ro look again upon You see, time is actually your friend. the garish, the vile, the reprehensible your parents and grandparents and your He don't come back because he never and the ugly? Will you follow the step-parents. I want you ro look real close goes away. And you will go on. And you much-decorated heroes of fraud and and recognize yourself in them. And you will see YOUtkids graduate or nor, and corruption and imitate the Raws of your know what? If you really don't see it your candidate will win or nor - or get nation and the flaws of your time? Or because you're too lost in yourself, I want cheated even; sometimes that happens will you remember and shine with the you to look a little closer or step a little - and you will gain too much weight or glow of expectation and excitement for further away.In full bloom and youth of you'll lose some; your husband will or possibility of improvement? life, take srock of time and the passing of won't get caught; your kids will elate or Your daughter or granddaughter- time. And as you are promoted or demot- disappoint you; you will stay or move to on their graduation day, will you sit fat- ed, asyou purchase cars and computers Florida; and you will defend a corrup- tened and blinded by a life of conformi- and homes and trinkets and pay mort- tion (to protect your earnings, of course) ty and hoarding of wealth, battered and gagesand alimony and child suppOrt, or with philosophy, prose and politics, and broken by the bone-crushing grip of per- not; as YOLL skillfully scale the slippery your kids will not agree, and you will sonal folly, forced to pin all of your most slopes of successor fail as you gossip and blame it on their youth. You will see precious and sacred aspirations on the

32 cc: CONNECTICUTCOI.LEGE MAGAZlNE SUMMER 2001 head of a child too young to marry and ing good, Pops," and you will smile and the education of your parents: the heroic toO light to carry your leftover dreams? say, "Thank you." sacrificial act of love that is raising kids This is a one-time ceremony. Before But you realize that these are the last ends today! They have put their young- you take off your cap and your gown and days of babyhood and be ye saint or sin- sters through college. So I don't want declare your individuality, perhaps ner or both, yOLlsee through your gener- you all to be too cynical when you look through some cliched and ill-timed act of ations that what you have done or not out on your future. We're all here on the irreverence, look around and see. Because done will continue to be not done and last rung of your education, graduate, it in this perfect moment, mother and done by your sons and grandsons is to know yourself and sing for us a daughter are as one in memory and real- because time does not pass - we do. song that has never been heard: your ization that what was, is, and what is, will But we also continue as teachers contin- song. And when you come to know be. So as you graduate, and momma and ue through their students. Shakespeare yourself and to believe in our collective grandmomma all beam and shine with said it so well: "To be, or not be: that is humanity so abundantly evident right the excitement of what is to come, as you the question:" and the answer is - yes, here today; when you act on the basis of

celebrate education as a way to achieve the great I AM of affirmation. all the spiriruallegacies that have been greater glory for civilization, all here So realize this, graduate of the great passed down to us from every corner of today under the gloomy skies still possess Connecticut College Noble Class of'Ol: the globe, where some kind of song was an eternal optimism unaffected by the as you pass through time with your sung to free the human spirit; when you passage of time. You hope as your parents righteous anger or unquestioning accept- share your song with us, well, we might hoped and as your children will hope, ance of dogma or even indifference to just end up feeling as though we are and all, on a day like this, will be proud. the great spanking board of life that will reborn as children, singing ourselves Now, you have been told that your greet both of your cheeks quite happily with such freedom that our lives- greatest possession is time; once it's gone and humbly quite soon, it is not money, long-ago shattered - could sprout new you don't get it back. But today it is once or fame, or respect, or tradition or hard wings and fly. In the words of the great again affirmed that your greatest posses- work that has brought you here today. It bluesman Hoghead Harris, "Ain't noth- sion is actually optimism. We're opti- is the blue-edged blade of love and him ing wrong with living, but dying.". mistic that it will not rain. Optimism is cur sharp both ways - the bitter and why we wake up all across the globe and the sweet. And when he cur you deep in initiate sons and daughters and grandkids your heart and knock you to your senses, into the ascendant journey towards I don't want you to cry or shout or curse. knowledge. And this very initiation is Sing! Sing and make it a song with some also a part of momma and daddy and soul; make it your song - then you will grandmomma's education, too. sing for ali of us. The Old Bard said that, Yes, you are glowing today, grandpa, too. He said, "To thine own self be and someone is going to ask you, "Are true." But, really, the old Mississippi you an alumnus?" and you will say, bluesman Hoghead Harris said it best: "Connecticut College, Class of'01," and "It's out there for you Baby. I got mine." they will think, "Damn! You're old," but Strange though it may seem, your they're going to say, "Man, you're look- education today is the culmination of

CC: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MJlGAZINE SUMMER 2QQ I 33 On Saturday, June 2, more than 1,000 alumni, friends and families braved the uncertainties of New England weather to celebrate

Reunion 2001. It was also an opportunity (Q observe the 90th anniversary of the college and ro honor outgoing President Claire Gaudiani '66 and the more than 1,500 alumni who volunteered for the college this year as class agents, class officers, alumni club leaders, admission volunteers and career services volunteers. Alumni journeyed to campus from 32 states, DC, and nine foreign countries; the alumnus who traveled the farthest was Bradford Freer '91, who came from Hong Kong. Reunion also attracted alumni from Israel, France, Germany, Dubai, London and Monmouthshire, United Kingdom; and from Nova Scotia and Ontario, Canada. Alumni President Dale Chakarian Turza '71 told those assembled in Palmer Auditorium, "Today we celebrate all those who have helped make the college what it is today at 90 years. Thanks to many alumni over the years, we are moving confidently toward our Centennial in 2011." The Goss Award, established by Cassandra Goss Simonds '55 and given to alumni for enthusiastic participation in programs and activities that have made a significant contribu- tion to the Connecticut College community, was presented to Elizabeth Grenier. Three Alumni Tribute Awards for extraordinary service to Connecticut College were awarded to Connie Bischof Russell '91, Jill Long Leinbach '56, and Jeanne Tucker Zenker '51. Alys Griswold Haman '36 and Marny Morris '66 both received Agnes Berkeley Leahy Awards in honor of outstanding service demonstrated by continued interest in the

34 cc: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 1001 A Tribute to FAR LEFT: THE CLASS OF 1951 ASSEMBLED FOR A CLASS PHOTO IN THE LIBRARY AMPHITHE- Claire Gaudiani '66 ATER. LEFT: TWO CLASS OF '76'ERS SPORT ZANY HEAD GEAR BELOW: CHARLES CHU, PRO· Duncan N. Dayton '81, chair of the FESSOR EMERITUS OF CHINESE, PRESENTS ONE OF HIS PAINTINGS TO CLAIRE GAUDIANI '66 AS Board of Trustees, saluted the outgoing A GIFT FROM HER CLASS. president of the college. "During your 13 years as president, Alumni Association and sustained active you have worked with many trustees, while you traveled the country on behalf participation in class, club or Executive not only the 39 currently on the Board, of the college," Dayton joked. Board activities. but also a host of emeritus and former The chair of the board noted that The College Medal, rhe highest trustees. You have impressed us all with Gaudiani had given the college a won- honor the college can confer on those your vision and your energy, and you derful scholarship, that she was, herself a whose accomplishments and services helped bring the college to new heights. scholarship student here 35 years ago, have enhanced its reputation and nour- Even though we try not to make and that she has long been a champion ished its growth, was presented to three national ratings the central focus of the of need-based scholarships. honorees. college, many of us remember the "In your honor, the trustees, emeri- Marny Morris Krause '66, Director excitement we felt when the college was tus trustees and former trustees of the of Development at Skidmore College, first rated among the top 25 colleges in college, as well as business associates and was honored for outstanding service to the nation. You did much to bring us to others have joined together to create a the college and to the Alumni that point." Generation of Scholars fund that will be Association. After becoming a director "We wanted to give you something named for you. This endowed scholar- of the Connecticut College Alumni appropriate to remember us by. We ship fund will assist one student in each Association, she served as president from thought of having your cell phone class each year at Connecticut College- 1994-1997, during which rime the bronzed-since so much important in perpetuity. This means that every Alumni Association officially became business was conducted by cell phone year, there will be four Claire Gaudiani parr of rhe college. She chaired the scholars here on campus." (See story in Annual Fund from 1992-1995, served Transformations page 42.) as class agent and then class agent chair Dale Turza '71 presented Gaudiani from 1987-1991. with a Connecticut College Bag and Frances Freedman Jacobson '56, a thanked her for her many contributions. school psychologist and family therapist, "During Claire's tenure as president, served for four years on the Connecticut the Alumni Association officially College Board of Trustees and was acrive became part of the college ~ it had, for in several volunteer capacities in devel- many years, been a separate entity. It opment and alumni relations. was a smooth transition, and because we Joan Jacobson Kronick '46 served work together, we are able to do lots rwo terms on the Board of Trustees, was more, in terms of events and networking president of her class and of her local for alumni. Thank you, Claire for help- CC club, and served on the Alumni ing make this possible. We have been Association Board. She has been class honored to work with you. We hope we agent chair for rhe Class of 1946 for will see it Bying proudly over Groton many years, leading her class to a Long Point, snapping in the sea breeze, record-breaking 50th Reunion in 1996 letting everyone know how proud we and continuing a tradition of strong are of you and of your accomplishments class suppOrt today. at this college." Gaudiani's classmate, Mary Ann Garvin Siegel presented her with a gift from her class: an original watercolor by Charles Chu, professor emeritus of Chinese.

CC: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAG.~ZINE SUMMER 200) 35 Reflections on change by Claire L. Gaudiani '66

s I sit this summer in my office enabled him to imagine how it couJd be people." For all of us in times of in the Yale Law School, 1 refiecr and should be in the next phase of life, change, this wisdom creates the force A on change, on transitions in life. as change occurred. Others might have for our optimism and openness. I am reminded of the words of WE.B. seen losses or created conflict. He taught The book T am writing now began DuBois who saw change as mandatory us a better way. with a focus on the wisdom traditions but also as just and generous. DuBois was of course referring to advocating generosity. T caught these change in race relations and in opportu- texts as part of my course, "Literature, There must come a vast nities for African-Americans. But his Service and Social Reflection." The social change in the insights apply to the changes that happen book has morphed and now presems United States; a change constantly in societies, institutions and these sacred and civic texts, along with individuals. For instance, the country is the work of Americans who recognized not violent but by the will in the midst of a change in national lead- them as significant assets to the growth of the people; certain and ership. The stock market is in a change of our democratic society and especially from the past 15 years. Liberal education of our market economy. I feel keenly inexorable, carried out is facing change through technology. The the privilege of spending time on such "with malice toward none city of New London is engaged in major engaging work. change toward economic health. And but charity [or all"; with Writing chis "former president's importantly, the college is also in a tran- page," in the spirit of Du Bois and meticulous justice to the sition to new leadership. Smith, I want to thank alums, parents, rich and thrifty and com- For CC parents, these four years cre- students, staff, faculty, trustees, and so ate great change: first child away from many friends. Your suPPOrt over the last plete sympathy jor the poor, school, or perhaps, an empty nest or last 13 years, through so much hard work the sick and the ignorant; tuition check. For students, each year and travel, has raised my every effort to brings transitions to majors, career direc- the nexr power. with fieedom and democ- tions and overseas commitments that set Thank you as well for the hundreds racyfOr America, and on agendas that last for years. and hundreds of letters, e-mails, calls, earth, peace, good will I am also making a major transition: and gifrs you have sent me since r from college president, ro writing at announced the end of my term as presi- toward men. Yale for the next year, and then to a demo I also want ro thank publicly my new career direcrion after that. Like all dear husband, David, and my children, Sometimes, change creates a tenden- of us in change mode, I will bring my who have so willingly cooperated with cy to worry, pull back or lash out. knowledge and experience ro my transi- rhe demands of the presidency of my Instead, transitions can occur with the tions, but DuBois' words remind me ro alma mater. kind of confident and thoughtful spirit bring a spirit of generosity and benevo- I look forward to all of our changes that DuBois suggests. Rereading his lence roo. Perhaps he was familiar with with confidence and wish you each God words and knowing the profound Adam Smith's words about the impor- speed. I invite you to stay in touch with change he was expecting, I am moved at tance of these virtues. "No benevolent me as all of us, and our college, embark the firm progress he anticipated and the man ever lost altogether rhe fruits of his on life changes. openness and optimism he projected. benevolence. If he does not always Refusing to look. back, he prepared for gather them from the persons from Claire Gaudiani '66 change to make way for growth-new whom he oughr ro have gathered them, [email protected] ideas, new and better directions. The he seldom fails ro gather them, and Yale Law School force of his positive view of the world with a ten-fold increase, from other New Haven, CT 06520

36 oct CONNECTICUT COLLEGE "lAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 speechllanguage pathologist working a rainy day; any day; every day. Yes, every A HUSBAND'S STORY with babies and small children, three day matters. Every minute counts. continued from page 29 days a week. Her hair is growing back. We certainly discovered anew the Her blood count is going up. Her spirits value of friends. They are many, and have never seemed higher. She's taking they are life sustaining. We drew suste- Tina. She spent most of her time resting, an anti-cancer drug orally and will con- nance from the support of family: my sleeping, listening to music or books on tinue to do so for the next five years. parents, my two sons and daughter-in- (ape. Snow Falling on Cedars, all 13 The prognosis is good. Tina's on the law, my siblings and their families as unabridged tapes of it, ranked as the mend. I still work in the basement. well as Tina's sons and brother and best. We took a long walk every day, Chowder still demands plenty of food nieces. Tina and my niece, Linda who, over the hills and through the woods at a and walks. And life is good, even better in her mid-twenties had a malignant nearby reservoir. The walks meant a lot than it was before the stranger broke brain rumor, developed a special bond. to both of us, especially to Tina, she says down our door. I've noticed changes, too, in my own in retrospect. And Chowder, who never Do I wish the stranger had passed life apart from Tina. Priorities shift when took a walk he didn't like, was in dog- Tina by? Absolutely! But I am glad for cancer enters your home. Life's nuisances heaven-on-earth. the lessons that cancer has taught. And, no longer rattle. Unreasonable clients? A During one of the down moments, in truth, Tina is too. blip on the screen. An errant golf shot? and there were many, Tina said, "If I die, I want you CO go out and find a sweet young thing." "I don't want a sweet young thing!" I said fiercely. "Or a sweet old thing! I want you. You will get better." ... "You don't know that!" . "Yes, I do!" .... "You're in denial!" ... ''I'm in love. And the odds are with you!" "The stupid odds-said I wouldn't get cancer, and I did. What about that?" Silence. Tears. So many questions. No good answers. In most cases, in Tina's case, radiation follows chemotherapy. Just as day follows night, it could be said, because radiation, for Tina, proved to be much Cancer showed me what a special per- My wife had cancer. A bad weather fore- easier, mentally and physically, than son Tina is. I knew, but I didn't really cast? It's good to be alive. Gloomy media chemotherapy. Two quick (30 seconds know. Her spunk and spirit and reports? Take a walk or read a book or each) zappings every day (except week- resilience continue to amaze me. I will call a friend. ends) for six and one-half weeks. never, ever, rake her for granted again. All that said, I don't want to be a And then, on August 12 she was The things she does that once bothered Pollyanna about the future. We both done. We were done. Treatment was me seem trifling now. The whole unvar- know that Tina's "cure" may be over. That very day we headed up to the nished package, cancer or no cancer, ephemeral, a false hope. The cancer may coast of Maine for a two-week vacation. breasts or no breasts, is real- and really rerum. Odds are it won't. Those odds We took two cars. I stopped in Exeter, perfect for me. Nothing, not even cancer, again, but it may. We both have to live New Hampshire, on the way up to buy will ever conquer the love we share, ever with that. In the meantime, we both Rowers. She was greeted with that bou- tear the bonds forged by this experience. have to live. We are. And we will. Today quet and two others - good old Ed and On our walks, during periods at is a very good day .• Andy - upon her arrival in Maine. It home or away, at all times, Tina has was the best vacation we ever had. shown me the importance of savoring David Treadwell is a freelance writer and More than a year has passed since the the small things: a jack-in-the-pulpit in editor who focuses on communications for beastly stranger that is breast cancer the woods; a majestic blue heron stand- educational institutions. He and his wife entered our house and upended our ing tall in a low marsh; a good cup of live in Boxborough, Mass. lives. Tina is back at work, as a coffee; a talk with a friend; a sunny day;

cc: CONNECfICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 37 transformations

create endowed profl'ssorships. The goal: THE MULTICULTlJHAUSM AND diver- in addition: in the spring semester; a L:OOp- erative program planned by Unity House according to Leslie Williams ~38,assistant ano the AmericHII St the!; Program high- dean of the college for multiculunul affairs lights multicultural 1 -nsions of (he and director of Uniry House. is to '·create a .\m car experience. cadre of leaders who will inspire 01hers 10 Th dinners and dis- improve the multicultural and diversity ('-U ens are often done content of the existing curriculum, and

III 'OIlJlIllction with who will have the scholarly credentials and <.:0 lC'llorations such experience to implement and improve as fack History upon curricular models that exist in other mal rho ian Awareness insriunions." Concurrently, a faculty committee is addressing the needs specific to ;:;;;======;\li~1 t!!tJl\U1"l.ndIntercultural Awaren 55 week, and recruitment and retention of a diverse fac- involve 'aculry from a ulty. Over the past four years, 29 percent wide range of disciplines of the new tenure-track Iaculry hires have been persons of color. closely the diverse [)w;\ multicultural society in exploration of topics of c trent interest. A prognull that is still in the design in which we live. Stepping up activity in A long-range goal: wh~:h will support stages will involve Connecticut College is area has been lativelv cas t: becnus and further dcn:-}o the programs students In working with yOWlg students in many of' the programs and projects are described above, is the recruitment of a urban schools. This program will give extensions of earlier initiatives put forward faculty leader in each of the four academic Connecticut College students who aspire to through Unity House. Still, there is much areas. Four new tenure lines have been teaching careers a leg up by broadening work to be done in order to meet the goaJs approved, and funding is being sought to that the campus community has established, and-in true Connecticut College style----committces of faculty, staff and students are actively engaged in this work. \Vhat they have accomplished so far has enriched campus life immeasurably. During the academic year: a lecture series explores multicultural issues within the four academic areas of the curriculum. Two lectures each semester, each by a scholar representing the CUTS: natural sciences/mathematics: social sciences or the humanities, give the campus community opportunities to see these academic areas In new and interdisciplinary ways.

CHIDINMA NWOGU '04 EXPLAINS THE RESEARCH

SHE CONDUCTED WITH RUTH GRAHN. ASSISTANT

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, AND STANLEY

TARTAGliA '03. NWOGU IS ONE OF THREE STU· DENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN A PILOT PROGRAM,

FUNDED BY A GRANT, THAT HELPS RECRUIT AND

PREPARE STUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL AS COL-

LEGE SCIENCE MAJORS

38 cc: CONNECTIClJf COLLEGE~IAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 Giving opportunities for Connecticut College's new Strategic Plan

their experience, and it will also be a boon to the students and teachers in the partici-

pating urban schools. It is hoped, LOO~ that these relationships will lead to connections between the participating schools and the CC Admission Office. Significant steps are being taken in the area of recruitment and retention of a diverse and multicultural student body. Open House programs at Unity House, training for peel' advisors and housefellows, improving access to mentors and tutors and seeking wa ys to bring secondary school students to campus for visits arc efforts that arc underway. A program funded by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant helps recruit and prepare students to be successful as college science majors. This program is targeted ro those who

aspire to major in II science but n lay not have had access to top science progl'mns during their secondary school preparation. As Unity House becomes more heavily used for highly successful lectures, panel discussions and other programs related to the multiculturalism and diversity initia- rive, Dean Williams is looking ahead to technology upgrades for the building. This is still in the planning stages. ThoughtfuJ planning, plus enthusiastic student: staff and faculty involvement make this initiative of the strategic plan a

wise investment III the Futuro of Connecticut College.

Donors who are interested in supporting the multiculturalism and divers/?)""initiative can establish an endowed professorship

($1.2 million); j;1I7d (In endowed scholarship (1)'50,000 and up); or fund an endowed lecture series ($150,000 $500,000). Other opportunities exist through the Annual Fund. For more irfor- motion. contact Susan C. Suu, uuing oice president Jor development and alumni relations, at 800-888- 7549, extension 2.j.08.

CC: CONNK'ICLrl·COLI.EGE MAG ....ZINE SUMMER 2001 39 "Smarter" classrooms are in great demand

Suppor/ for technology upgrades /:<; TEACHING STYLES AND RESOUHCES [here arc three generaJ "packages" based needed to createadditional high-tech: class- have changed over the years. It is now a on the type and size of room. Seminar rooms. A gffi of $12,000 will upgrade a common occurrence for a music professor rooms or smaller lecture rooms can be seminar or small lecture room. Technology t.o request a classroom with a ceiling- upgraded with a wall screen, projection upgrades to targer seminar rooms cost mounted projection system, or for a lan- system and technology carl which contains $25,000 and auditoriums can be upgraded guage professor to request a classroom with a OVD player; VCR and input ports for fac- jar $50,000. Maintenance [unds CClIl also web capabilities. There is no doubt that ulty laptop projection networking. be established to ensure continued techno!- technology is being incorporated into L3Jw;>.rlecture halls have more complex ogy upgrades. Donors interested in. the teaching m all academic areas at technology requirements, and upgrades Connecticut College. In fact, there is such a include a technology podium, a large, technology support initiarioe o.{the col/ege's electrically controlled wall strategic plan should con/act Susan C. screen and an appropriate Still, acting vice preside/it Jar deoelopment projection systemo The and alumni relations, at 800-888- 7549, , technology podium con- extension 2":108. sists of a flat surface for lecture notes, <1 ovn player, VCR, input ports for faculty laptop projection and networking, and cas- The 2001 Tempel sette and laser disc players. Summer Institute In auditoriums where faculty use side-by-side slide projectors, the electronic nfll'('11 f;wlilly Illt'IIIIl('I'~ IJarlic'i- equivalent is provided with pah'd ill tll(' S('('Hlul alllmBI 'll'lIJlwl two parallel data/video SIIIlIlIWI' lustinuo. a lH"o~'rnm Ihal 1. PAGE OWEN JR., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF projection systems designed for large III'II)S fac'lIlly 111t"1111)('1'~ilwcl"'llU'ah' BOTANY, DEMONSTRATES THE CAPABILITIES OF tl'l'hliolugy illll) IIU'ir tl'adlilll! allfl THE RENOVATED BROWN AUDITORIUM DURING rooms, as well as a technology

AN OPENING CEREMONY LAST FALL. podium/room control center and two l'ours.' curr-k-ula. IlIsntute partid- large, electrically controlled wall screens. pallts lal~.' part ill wol'l

40 cc: CoNNECTlCUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER :!001 Leveling the playing field gives CC the advantage

A GRANT FROM THE Horace \if and then use, by Connecticut College varsi- keep construction vehicles and workers at Coldsmith Foundation is the driving force ty teams. The plan for construction was a distance. behind a new playing field that will soon subsequently approved by the college's As the project began; silt fences were be ready for the Connecticut College COIll- Facilities and Land Management constructed at the downward sloping end munity. Tom Slaughter ·77. a director of Committee as feasible and in keeping with of the field ill order to catch sediment erod- the. Goldsmith Foundation) a former soccer the college's Master Plan. ed during rainstorms. These particulates player at the college and an enthusiastic Much of the Goldsmith Foundation's can then be collected and reused, as car I the advocate for improving its athletic facili- investment in athletic fields is not visible to top soil and turf that were stripped off in the casual observer. HOWCVCI; it is the work order to begin the leveling of the field. underground that preserves and protects a The project is progressing very smooth- superb playing surface, and the college is ly, slightly ahead of schedule. The held will fortunate to have such strong support for be ready for practices this year and games that work. From the surface, a playing in the fall of 2002. NO!.only will CC soccer field appears to be a simple construction and lacrosse teams have great practice and project of dirt and grass; in reality, it playing areas, but the renovated fields also includes a carefully leveled and sloped compare favorably with those at other sub-grade, utility and sewer conduits, an NESCAC schools. The improved fields irrigation system. a perimeter drainage enhance the overalllook and beauty of the system and properly compacted topsoil. As campus and help make Connecticut part of the construction project, the field College particularly attractive to prospec- TOM SLAUGHTER '77, A DIRECTOR OF THE also includes an underground irrigation tive student athletes. HORACE W. GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION, WITH HIS Automatic thur FORMER SOCCER COACH, BILL LESSIG, AND system. timers ensure INTERIM PRESIDENT, DAVID K. LEWIS P'95. sprinkling will begin and end at optimal times with the right amounts of water; and a rain gauge connected to tile system protects against excessive watering during ties, initiated the grant. This is the third periods of heavy precipitation. field renovated with the Foundation's Connecticut College is known for funding. Silfen and Harkness fields were "green" projects, and lhe construction and completed during the summer of 1999. maintenance of the new playing field During a recent visit to campus) Tom's includes a variety of ceo-friendly aspects. mother; Virginia Slaughter Loeb '48~ a Jt was decided before construction began trustee of the college, had an opportunity to that the field should meet NCAA and observe how the construction is progress- NESCAC size regulations, meaenring 2-+0 ing. Together; their support of this project feet wide by ~~60feet long, and would run VIRGINIA SLAUGHTER LOEB '48 P'77, will assure tJ1Utin the future, many more north to south ill order to favorably CONNECTICUT COLLEGE TRUSTEE AND MOTHER students will enjoy the fun of parucipeung accommodate the movement of the sun. OF TOM SLAUGHTER '77, SURVEYS THE CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS In team sports. This will allow spectators 10 take advan- The current project, with additional tage of the slope in front of Cummings Art support from an anonymous donor, pre- Center as a prime viewing location. '\iith sented a number of challenges for a com- these directions in mind, the placement of mittee composed of coaches, administrators the field then had to be carefully planned Donors interested infunding renorouon. and staff. They reviewed the possibilities in order to avoid damage to trees and their or maimenance oIalhlelic,/i.1Cl'lities on cam- and made the decision that an existing) root systems. Temporary barriers encir- pus should coruacc Susan C. Stitt, octing non-regulation field neal' Freeman House cling all trees in the vicinity of the COII- {licepresident jor development and alumni presented the best aspects for renovation) suucuon site were put in place in order to relations, at 800-5185- 7549, ext. 2408.

CC: CONNECI'lCUr COLl.EGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 41 Scholarship honors Claire L. Gaudiani '66

staff members heard about WHEN CLAIRE L. CAUDl~NI '66 as a student and continued the fund and joined in. These announced that she would he stepping with the scholarship she generous donors have down as president of Connecticut College, and her husband. David ensured that Caudiani's the college Trustees immediately bega.n to Burnett, created at name will forever be associ- think of an appropriate way to honor her Connecticut College. ated with providing scholar- years of service to the college. Thinking The scope of donors to ship assistance and many about Caudiam's many accomplishments this fund shows the wide promising students will ben- and wide-ranging interests led to the idea range of people who were efit from the fund. of establishing an endowed scholarship influenced by Gaudiani's named in her honor. presidency and her work Donors interested in mak- The establishment of the Claire L. in the community. The THE CLAIRE L. GAUDIANI '66 ing a gift to this fund ill Caudiani '66 Ccncration of Scholars fund fund started with Trustees, GENERATION OF SCHOLARS honor of Ckure ,L. Caudiani was announced at Reunion 2001 and will emeritus Trustees, former FUND WILL HONOR THE '66 should call Susan C. provide scholarship assistance to a student Trustees and business FORMER PRESIDENT'S LONG- Still, acting oicepresidentfor in each class each yem. associates who made gifts HELD COMMITMENT TO deveLopmen.t and alumni The former president has long been a to establish the Claire L. SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR WORTHY STUDENTS. relations, at 800-888- 7549, champion of scholarship assistance for Caudiani '66 Ccnerarion extension 2.;08. worthy students. This commitment began of Scholars fund. Senior with the scholarship assistance she received administrators and other

42 eel CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SU]I,iMER ~OO\ • The youngest donor makes her final and lasting gift to Connecticut College

A BEQUEST FROM Elizabeth Chappell of the college, and her husband continued A FINAL GIFT, Reeves, friend and longtime supporter of A BEQUEST. in the family tradition and served on the the college .. brings new meaning to the FROM ELIZA- Board of Trustees in the 1960s. The

11 expression "a lifetime or giving - she BETH CHAP- Chappell-Reeves family Lies to made her first gift to the college when she PELL REEVES Connecticut College continue into the HONORS was just two years old. next generation - their daughter, Carol NINETY YEARS Ninety years ago; as Connecticut OF FAMILY Beeves Parke, gradu3tflrl with the Class of CoUege was beginning the first campaign TIES TO THE 1958. In addition, two nieces attended to build an endowment and secure its COLLEGE. Connecticut College - Jean S. Chappell, charter; Elizabeth was the first female Class of 1960 and the late Annette M. contributor to this ellen. and began her Rapin. Class of 19.50. longtime connection with Connecticut College. Although Elizabeth never attend- If.you are interested in including a ed Connecticut College, her family con- bequest to Connecticut College iri J"0UI" nections with CC are impressive. '\'hen Elizabeth married \~~lIialll estate plans, contact MUlJ~ Sanderson, Her sistel; Carol Ohappell. graduated Reeves, her family connections to the col- director off!41 planning, at 800-888- 7549 with the Class of "1941 and, during her lege doubled. Her rather-ill-law \Villimn extension 2414. lifetime, was an active volunteer for tile H. Reeves served as the second treasurer college including serving as an alumni trustee from 1960-1965. Their father; Frank Valentine Chappell. was an original member of the Board of Trustees and its second chair. He retired from the Board in 1959 after serving for 48 years. Mr. Chappell's father (Carol and Elizabeth's grandfather). Alfred, assisted with the incorporation of the college and served as the first treasurer of the Board of Trustees. An uncle. George Chappell, helped prepare the original plans for the college, including designing the quad and a science center.

CC: CONNECTIClJf COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 43 Charitable Gift Annuities

Excerpts from an interview with Maloy Harrison Beggs '52 ll-fE CHARITABLE CIFT ANNU1TY is an excellent way La make a significant gift while retaining a lifetime income from the gifted asset. Almost all charities in the country now have a variety of opportunities for giving money. Ihave looked at them all from outright gifts to bequests to various types of planned gifts. 111c gift annuity was particularly appropriate for what I wanted to do. lt enabled me to give a larger gift than I could have made outright. It is something that people in my age bracket should particularly examine because it provides an excellent mechanism for "having your cake and eating it [00.11 Being able to desig- nate the use of the gift while you arc still living is an added bonus! Funding a gift annuity with appreciated stock works very well. In this case, you give the stock to the college, and it is gone. It is out of your port/o- lio and out of your estate, so it is a gift - make no mistake about that. The college immediately sells the stock, but the capital gain is not taxed immediately, as it would be if you were to sell it yourself. Based on the total value of the stock, the college provides a lifetime annuity, depending on your age, of 6%, 7%, 8% or more. vou receive an immediate charitable tax deduction, plus the opportunity to indicate where you ultimately want the principal to go. Connecticut College's Development Office makes it very simple to set up the annuity, and the beauty of a stock or cash donation is that the day it is received by the college it begins to emil income for you. Unquestionably Connecticut College cOLJd raise a great deal more if alumni were fully aware of how well this type of planned giving works. It's a win-win proposition.

Mw)" Harrison Beggs '52, a se((described "good gw- dener and bad golfer;" credits her inures! in gardening to a doss unth 0/: Richard Goodwin, Katharine Blunt Professor Emcntus o/Botany: Connecticut CoLlege also helped instilL in. her a sense ~/dl)ic re:,ponsibilr'~y:An active ooluntee: she describes hersdjos "a.jock ofall trades lil volunleenilg" and has been inuoioed ill local, slate and notional politics. She has olso ooiunieered with lIIany ediuuuonal and charitable organizations, induding Connecticut College, the 51..Louis Symphony Orchestra, fTb{/7/np Centerfor Ihe Performing Arts and tlie Smuhsonian. MOlY maintains her connections to Connecucot College through ooiunteer work, her gijis to the collef:!;eand as a. grandparent ojincoming jieshman, Elizobeth 1"0.1:'05 :class notes Class Notes Editor Correspondent. CC: Connecticut Co//ege Magazine Ann (Andy) Crocker Wheeler 270 Mohegan Ave. WHERE TO FIND IT: Box 181 28 New London, CT 06320 34 WestpoH Pl., MA 02791 [email protected] Edith Richman Stolzenberg sends greetings Alumni Calendar ..65 Dorothy Pasnik Cramer is a retired junior to "our hardy remainder." She says, "All's well Camel Tracks ..... 61-63 high school English teacher. Son Allan Cramer with no goals save those dealing with culture Regional news, alumni news, Alumni Sons & is an attorney in Westport, CT. Grandson and comfort!" Daughters Program Perer Cramer is a Hollywood movie producer Emma Howe Waddington wrires, "Lost Obituaries ...... 58 ("October Sky"). Granddaughter Alison my husband in Aug. after a long illness, but On the Up & Up ...47 Cramer is a dancer and choreographer. I'm still 'perking along." The class sends sym- Scrapbook...... 59-60 pathy to Emma and her family . 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To Marion Nichols Arnold; Contact, Associate Director of 65TH REUNION May 30·June 2, 2002; Class President share your news, write to your class correspondent Alumni Relations Becky McEnery, 800-888-7549 Eliza Bissell Carroll; Contact, Associate Director of Alumni using the deadlines listed in the box above. if Relations Becky McEnery, 800-888-7549 there is no correspondent listed for your class, Three generations of CC alumnae celebrated the birth of Laurel .Ana Rosenbaum on 4127/0 I. please send your news to: Class Notes Editor, Martha Louise Cook Swan's book, American Laurel is the daughter of Lee and Judy Connecticut College Magazine, 270 Mohegan Cut and Engraved Class: the Brilliant Period in Musicanr Rosenbaum '95; the granddaughter Ave., New London, CT 06320. Historical Perspective, was published by Krause of Carolyn Rubin Musicant '65; and the great- Publishing. "Considered a classic." Class Notes Editor granddaughter of Leah Savitsky Rubin. CC: Cannectiaa Co/lege Magazine Constance Bennett Crail writes, "At last! Correspondent 270 Mohegan Ave. A relative of mine, my great-nephew David Mary Caroline (M.e.) Jenks Sweet New London, CT 06320 26 Merrill, is happily enrolled in the Class of '041 1 361 West Sr. [email protected] continue to beat the drum for our college." 38 Needham, lvl.A 02494 75TH REUNION May Stl-June 2, 2002; Class VP From San Juan, it was a pleasure to hear Gretchen Snyder Francis; Contact, Associate Director of Class Notes Editor PR, Alumni Relations Becky McEnery, 800-888·7549 CC: Connecticut Col/ege Magazine that Hope Franz Hartman is in good health 270 Mohegan Ave. New London, CT 06320 Grace Parker Schumpert is living in a small 33 [email protected] assisted living facility just outside of Madison, Wl, not far from her daughter, Marira. She Dorothy Krall Newman taught at "Edith Richman enjoys area musical events. International College in '99 and '00. Her Stolzenberg '34 sends courses were Conversations About Race in Class Notes Editor America and Americans' Income and Wealth. greetings to 'our hardy CC: Connecticut Co/lege Magazille Joanna Eakin Despres writes, "As usual, I 270 Mohegan Ave. am in France Jan. through April this year- remainder.' She says, New London, CT 06320 27 painting wherever I am. Bur I'm stiff in the mvhow'Pconncoll.edu joints." 'All's well with no goals Mary Wilcox Cross writes, "I am enjoying The Class of'33 sends sympathy to Betty save those dealing with friends and services here at The Arbors, a con- Kunkle Palmer and her family. Betty's hus- tinuing care facility in CT. My two children, band, Hap, passed away on 5/26/01 at the age culture and comfort!'" six grandchildren and three great-grands visit of 96. and pamper me!"

CC: CONNECfICUTCOLLEGEMAG.\ZINE SUMMER 2001 45 Lastly, on another sad note from your cor- - due, she says, to her swimming and daily So far she "likes it a lot." She's still in Boulder, respondent, Henrietta Dearborn Warson, I walks on the beach. CO, ;'here many of her friends live. lost my dear husband, Joe, on 2/26/01 after 56 Joan Roberts Robertson is enjoying good Janet Mead Szaniawski writes, "Sad year years of marriage. It's a very different world for health and 10 grandchildren and one great- for me this year. I lost my husband, Ed. me now, but I am grateful for all the.wonderful granddaughter. In June '01, the Roberrsons Thankfully, he didn't suffer toO long. H.ope to years we had together. Family and friends are continue 'poking' you all for your contribu- ~mbarked upon the Lewis and Clark such a comfort. tions." The classsends sympathy to Janet for her Expedition, completing the first ~egin 11 days, h our class gets smaller, let's try to keep in using family vans. About 15 fan:ulf membe~s loss. touch with each other by sending in whatever Virginia Taber McCamey ~evisited her expect to complete the journey It1 03. Joan s news we may have. oldest son, Allan, made arrangements. Joan birthplace in Maine last Aug. with four generations. "We were there for the 200th year cele- and Robbie spend their winters in PaIn: ~each Correspondent: Jane Worley Peak but voted in Wisconsin. Joan wonders If our bration of Wadsworth Hall, built by a Vinson Hall, Apt. 306 song" is still sung on campus. If you re.mem- Revolutionary general, from whom I am 6251 Old Dominion Dr. ber Pal Williams Ferris wrote rhe lyrics and descended. " 42 McLean, VA22101 [can the music, and we won the '38 songfest. Class Correspondent M.e. Jenks Sweet Correspondent: 60TH REUNION May 30·June 2, 2002, ClassPresident Lil l. Maxwell; Contact, Associate Director of Alumni Relations writes, "Since Bill developed macular ?egener- Elizabeth Thompson Dodge arion, our lives have taken on a new dimen- 21 Old Pepperidge Lane, Apr. 22 Becky McEne~, 800-888-7549 Werhersfield, CT 06109 sion, and our routine has changed. Maybe that 40 June Perry Mack, who lives in Glenc~e, IL, has happened to you, as only one return came Polly Frank Shank missed Reul~io~ 'O?, back from my request for news. For health rea- and her 15 grandchildren send a beautiful . "regrettably," because she was pa1.llnng In Valentine's Day card every year, complete WIth sons, my youngest son and his wife moved to Bulgaria. Her next trips will be to Kenya and color photographs and poems and f~lUof news NY." the Seychelles Islands with her son and grand- of her activities for the year. Her children are Elsie Schwenck Taylor has changed her children. scattered from CT to OR, with some in NYc, address in Sr. Pete. IL and CO. Her grandchildren go ro the U. of The class extends sincere sympathy to Correspondents: Hen.ricna Dearb?rn Denver; Loras College in Dubuque, lA; . Billie Foster Reynolds, whose husband, Bill, Watson, 6060 CUrrituck Rd., Kitty Oberlin; and rhe U. of Colorado. One has Just died on 12/27100 of congestive heart failure. Hawk, NC 27949 and Kay Ord Billie had a heart arrack on Thanksgiving Day, McChesney, 15 Fountain Grove Circle, graduated from Colorado College, and another 41 Napa, CA 94558 will enter Cornell in rhe fall. June does a good but is okay now and trying to adjust. The class also extends sympathy to job keeping track of them all! She visits her sis- Jane Whipple Shaw regrets that.a trip to Nova Margaret Mulock Bastian and Peg Grierson ter, Elaine Perry Sheldon '40 in Albany Scotia prevented her from attending our 60rh Gifford, who lost their husbands not too long frequently. In June '00, Elaine a~d June took Reunion. She sends a "hi" to all. ago; Peg had a stroke about rwo years ago but all of their children and grandchildren to Meg Robinson Manning is sorry ab~ut is now able to get out and about. Jamaica to celebrate June's 80th. There were 48 reunion but had a granddaughter graduating assorted Macks and Sheldons there for a week from the Naval Academy in Annapolis. at the HalfMoon Club at Montego Bay. In corres.'Pondems: Betsy Parcells Arms, P.O. Box 118, Marion, MA 02738 and Congrars! Meg says she was with us in spirit. addition swimming, scuba diving, and snork.el- Beatrice Dodd Foster, 3730 Cadbury Kay Ord McChesney has m~ved from ing, they had their own family golf and renrus 39 Circle, Apt. 704, Venice, FL 34293- Napa, CA, to a retirement home In Medford, tournaments, and all of them held hands while 5291, [email protected] OR. Good luck in your new venture, Kay. they climbed up the fabulous waterfall there. Phyllis Walters Williams writes, "Between Reaching the advanced age of 80 seems to The Class of '39 is proud to have reached the us, Jack and I have fivegreat-grandchildren. I'm be the incentive for big birthday celebrations. A 60th anniversary of its Round Robin letter! It still active in several charities and our museum number of our classmates have written to me consisted of 12 members originally and ends of fine arts. 1 spend a lot of time at bridge, and I about parties their families held for them. If yOll with eight at the new century. ~our of us have do travel- this year, Italy, WA, MI, CA and have had a special birthday celebration, please lived very close to one another It1 FL for 2.0 Hilton Head, Sc." write to me about it so I can share it with the years! Yearlymini-reunions. have reSl~ted 111 a Dorothy Cushing Jealous is also a great- rest of our classmates. closeness that will not be dissolved with rhe grandmother. Her oldest granddaughter had a Florence Crockett Harkness' Such was the closing of the Round Robin in 2001. daughter, Katherine, in Oct. '99. Husband occasion for a family gathering in Baltimore at We challenge any other class to be.atthis Bradford has five grear-grandchildren. the home of her son. Twenty-two members of record. Carol Prince Allen, Mary Wmton I am afraid that this time our column has her family helped her celebrate. Flo lives in Dickgiesser, Beatrice Dodd Foster, Barbara more sad news than glad. We will be getting Falmouth Foreside, ME. Myers Haldr, Virginia Taber McCamey, back to [he double postcards after reunion and Eunice Cocks Millard, Doris Houghton Ott Doris Kaske Renshaw, a "Bronze Life then will be able to catch up with everyone's lat- Master" in bridge, has sold the house where she and Henrietta Farnum Stewart. In memori- est adventures. was born and grew up in East Norwalk, CT, am: Elizabeth Baldwin, Carolyn Neef The classsends deepest sympathy to Cathy and moved to Chapman Woods, a retirement Headley, Elizabeth Fessenden Kenah and Elias Moore on the loss of her husband, Earl, community in Niantic. She spends the sum- Nancy Weston Lincoln. 88, on 1/05/01. He was involved in insurance, Perhaps other classeswill take note and try mers there, near her daughter Nancy, but lives real estate and historical manuscripts. We also in Boca Raton, FL, every winter. to emulate this. For a few years we even had send sympathy to family and friends of our "The Laurel Chain" of husbands! We always Peggy Mitchell Boyer enjoyed a CC lun- classmate, Gene Mercer, who died on 3/31/01 cheon in Sarasota, FL, with Ginny Frey included photos. We now have family histories in Pittsburgh, PA. Linscott and Ellen Cronbach Zucker. through this letter. A letter from Bobby Yohe Williams tells of Bea Dodd Foster and Barbara Myers Robert Calvert, husband of Janet Carlson [he loss of her husband, Frank, on 2127101 after Calvert, who died in '97, is helping to found Haldt visited Henrietta Farnum Stewart in 58 years of marriage. We send her our condo- ME, following a vacation on the Cape ".Barbara Franklin, CT's first library in [he memory of his lences. Vera Van Nest Judd's husband, Wylie, late wife. He donated $100,000 (challenging spends her summers there at her home 111 died suddenly on 2/5/01 after 61 years of mar- the town to match his gift, which they did) and Pocasset, MA. Bea writes that Mary Winton riage. They had just moved from OH to a Dickgiesser is busy reading and doing needle- Janet's collection of 1,300 books to create the reriremenr complex in MD. Janet Carlson Calvert Library. work and group activities. We had word that our classmate May Jane Kelton Shoemaker has moved from Susan Parkhurst Crane writes, "1 have a Monte Mclaughlin died several years ago in great-grandson, born 3/25/00. A grandson is her condo to a "fun-activity" retirement home. Cape May, NJ. now a pastor and performed his first wedding

46 cc: CONNELTIClJrCOLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 • this (past) summer. I am busy teaching a course in drama. One of my sons has his own Web site and is selling his original guitar compostions. Another son still goes to Third World countries to help children with facial deformities. My International documentary photographer Daryl Hawk daughter also goes to impoverished countries to '79 will present a lecrure, "North to South: A Day in rhe help people with poor eyesight. All voluntary." Life of a Documentary Photographer," at the Explorers' Constance Hughes McBrien has a granddaughter at Glenville State in WV, another Club, 46 East 70th Street in New York Ciry, on October 1 granddaughter at Arizona State and a grandson at 7 p.m. Hawk has traveled to some of the most remere at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. places in the world, documenting native cultures and isolar- Our 60th Reunion is less than a year away. ed landscapes. This presentation cover various trips he Franny Hyde Forde, Lit Weseloh Maxwell will and Justine Clark are involved in the planning, has taken throughout North, Central and South America- so it should be a good one. Make your plans starting in the Canadian Arctic and ending in Antarctica. now to be in New London in 20 02. The Class of '42 sends sympathy to Eloise Stumm Brush, who lost her husband, Chris, Grissel Benitez-Hodge '86 has been hired as program o n 11/20100. coordinator; for Youth Net New London, a social justice initiative of the New London Development Corporation (NLDC). She is participating in the United Way's loaned execu- Correspondent: tive program, in which a business allows a worker to take time off to work within the commu- Jane Storms Wenneis 27 Pine Avenue niry. Benitez-Hodge will take a one-year leave of absence from her position as associate dean at Madison, NJ 07940 43 Wesleyan University ro run the program. This new yourh initiative will enhance and expand Wilma Parker Redman had a "lovely lun- programs to keep New London children busy after school and during vacations. Benitez also cheon" with Ginny Foss Post last summer. resigned from her position on the Board of Directors of the NLDC to take the position, which "We plan to get together this year, too. I was is funded by the NLDC the United Way and the Community Foundation of Southeastern fond of Claire Caudiani and wish her well." 1 Marilyn Sworzyn Haase wem on an Connecticut. Benitez-Hodge worked at the college for 17 years, starring out as a secretary and Elderhostel to POrtugal in May. Since '91, she's eventually becoming the dean of freshman. She is a member of the college's Unity Alumni been a docem at the Oakland Museum of Council and serves as a class agent for her Class of'86. She is also a former director of the California. For her role as a docem for the trav- Alumni Association. Benitez-Hodge holds a master's degree in higher education planning eling exhibit, "Forbidden City of China," she used an old CC textbook as a resource. from Harvard. Margaret Heminway Wells writes, "I'm still well and wishing all my classmates were, Patricia Roos Frutlg '67 has joined the firm of Seeley Savidge & Eben Co., LPA, as too. I see Betty Pfau Wells often. She seems the firm's division of estate planning, business succession and probate. She has concentrated in fine and is going strong." Nan Christensen Carmon is still working these legal areas for the past 10 years as an independent law practitioner. Rrurig received her full time in her family business which she and JD from Cleveland Marshall School of Law. her husband founded in '46. "With my three sons, we have five funeral homes in north cen- a CPA and a partner in rhe National Risk & tral CT. ~Y grandson Frank IV has just joined Nancy Newman-Limata '72, our firm. Quality function of Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP, was elected president of rhe New York Julia Rich Kurtz. enjoys Naples, FL, from State Society of Certified Public Accountants at the society's annual election and dinner meet- Oct. to May. She had 15 members of her fami- ing in May. As risk management and assurance policy parmer at PriceWarerhouseCooper, ly for a week at Thanksgiving to celebrate her 80th (a surprise). Newrnan-Limata consulrs on general risk management issues and auditing and reporting issues. She is additionally designated as a firm specialist for prospective financial information. Correspondents: Elise Abrahams Josephson, 7006 Upland Ridge Dr., Adamstown, MD 21710, Ina Cushman '76 has been elected president-elecr of the American Academy of 44 [email protected] Physician Assistants (AAPA). Cushman took office on June 10, and in June 2002 will step Weller, 423 Clifton Blvd., E. Lansing, MI48823 into the position of president of the academy. Cushman is senior surgical physician assistant at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Braintree, MA. She is a graduate of the Yale Elinor Houston Oberlin is much berter after a University School of Medicine Physician Associate Program and was recently named a bour with shingles. She and Dave, who is still enjoying golf and is in good health, are proud «Distinguished Alumna" by the program. of granddaughter Elinor, who made the dean's list in her first semester at CC and hopes to Louis Carter '96, a consultant with Linkage, Inc., a leadership development firm, led a become a doctor. Another 20-year-old grand- session on building and leading (earns at the ASTD (American Society for Training and daughter is a singer. She is a music major at Meredith College in Roanoke. Development) 2001 International Conference and Exposition in Orlando, FL, on June 1. Ruth Hine is in her ninth year in ASTD 2001 is the premiere event for professionals involved in learning and workplace perfor- Oakwood Village. She has a nice apartment mance. More than 12,000 training and human resource professionals,learning executives; with increased care available "as she adds more business leaders and e-learning managers from around the globe attended the conference, years and less know-how." The birdfeeder on the balcony brings a dozen kinds of birds and which was held from June 1-7. Carter is (he author of Best Practices in Organization flying squirrels. The primary project for Ruth Development and Change (jessey Bass/John Wiley and Sons, 2001); Best Practices in Knowledge now is compiling a 30-year history of her Management and Organizational Learning and the Toolkit for Developing Leaders, (Linkage church camp. Betty Hassell Styles's son and family visit- Press, 2001).

CC: CONNEcnCUl COLLEGE MACAZINI; SUMMFR 2QOI 47 Dorothy Chapman Cole has three kids. Kidseum in Santa Ana, CA. She visits fre- One is a dentist, one a lawyer and one is in quently with her four children, 10 grandchil- "Since my children are finance. They have growing families. One dren and three great-grandchildren. "Since granddaughter is at the U. of Washington, and my children are all over 50, feeling 27 years over 50, feeling 27 three are juniors in high school. One high old is harder." school sophomore is taking college-level classes Louise Parker James writes that the sru- years old is harder." at the local university. Dorothy's interests dent pavilion on the Westbrook College Mary Ann Riegel include kids, dogs, horses, walks in their lovely Campus at the U. of New England was . valley, reading and watercolors. "Just being named the Parker Pavilion, honoring LOUIse, Lockhart '45 alive and well. Who could ask for more?" her sister Wilma Parker Redman' 43 and Susan Marquis Ewing is still in the same another sister, Eleanor Parker Merrill. home in Lakewood, OH. She is enjoying retirement, their five grandchildren and four great- Correspondent. Parricia Smirh Brown ed on her birthday and she expects her daugh- grandchildren. One daughter and husband and 9 Richard Rd. ter and grandson for Easter. Activities include one grandson and family live in Cleveland; Lexington, MA 02421 another daughter is in Denver. Others are in 46 line dancing, church work, volunteering at the cultural center, aerobic exercise, golf and KY,:MA and NH. Reunions are in Lakewood. Greetings! I am your new correspondenr. I art classes. She hopes to sell something at the Nancy Troland Cushman writes "John have agreed to collect news and pass it on for class art show in April. and I, each born to Army families, approach editing. The postcards from the college are a Libby Massey Ballinger and Monty have our ninth decade in reasonable health, gather- thing of the past, so it's up to you now - send moved to a life care facility in Newtown ing with our young to sing the 'Golden news! Square, PA, now that he is on oxygen all of Oldies.'" I could smell the ocean as 1 left the train at the time and walks minimally with a walker Mary Jean Moran Hart is sorry to inform New London. Eighteen of the class returned after breaking his hip. He remains a good us of the death of Phyllis Smith Gotschall's for "Reunion 55," but we missed the rest of sport. Libby is his primary caregiver. She also husband George. According to a newspaper you. Though the parade and picnic on the leads a women's group at Trinity Episcopal obituary rhar Mary Jean enclosed, George and green were washed out, the weather cooperated Church. Libby shares the following quote: Phyllis were pen-pal correspondents during most of the time. We even had a thick fog "The afternoon of human life must have a \VWll and he decided to propose before they Saturday night in true New London style. We significance ofits own and cannot be merely a ever met. The Harts and the Cotschalls were were busy all the time, as there was much to pitiful appendage of life's morning." close friends who played golf and rraveled over- see and do. Virginia Passavant Henderson invited seas rogerher. The Harts moved to Walden in Those who saw the Mashantucket Pequot her four kids to join her on a nip to Kenya in '79 to be near the Corschalls Our whole class Museum on Friday were most impressed. June '00. Two could not ger away, so three sends sympathy to Phyl. Muriel Evans Shaw described it; "As you grandsons - ages 2 J, 20 and 16 - came Janet Witte Brooks writes, "The high- approach the Pequot Museum you are srunned along. It was a fabulous trip, where they felt light ofO! was raking the Concorde to Paris by the size of the building. As you enter, the the "wonders and worries of Africa." She had - and the Chunnel to London. Glad I did it structure and wonderful design becomes taken previous trips with the same guide, who when I did!" apparent. Great soaring spaces allowing the picked places the family loved and appreciat- woods to be part of the museum as planned. A ed. "It's a trip of a lifetime. Try it!" Correspondent .. guide welcomes visitors. It would take hours to Margaret Worherspoon Miller Phyllis Miller Hurley, still traveling with see all the displays. We only had an hour and a enthusiasm, recently returned from Egypt. 5105 Yuma Place, NW Washingwn, DC 20016 half, so only visited the totally amazing walk- Grateful for good health, she plays tennis, 45 through diorama of Native American life, with practices rai chi and does volunteer church Bernice (Bunny) Riesner Levene (now realistic figures in natural settings with audio. work and the gardening required by her home Pepper) married Dan Pepper, a semiretired All this from gambling dollars!" of 30 years. CPA from Scarsdale, on 4/7/01. The couple Friday night we shivered through the deli- Joan (Penny) Decker McKee is enjoying met five years ago. Bunny's daughter gave her cious Tuscan feast, as we were outside near good health again after a year of fighting can- away, and the couple's grandchildren were Freeman House, where the cold breeze came in cer wirh surgery and chemotherapy. "I am flower girls and ring bearer. The Peppers from the ocean. We laughed at the Capital now back volunteering as an aid with a read- divide their rime between White Plains, NY, Steps. Saturday I had a mimosa after breakfast. ing program for third-graders and helping and Singer Island, FL, and enjoy the ballet, At the alumni meeting Claire was honored them on field trips as needed." opera, theater, dancing and cruises. "Ain't our with gifts and the college medal. We saw OUf Mary Ann Griffith Reed and her hus- dotage grand?" queries Bunny. She saw Sally own Joan Jacobson Kronick receive the col- band had a brief reunion with Barbara Pfohl Hosack Schaff for lunch in NYC recently. lege medal, and heard her tales of trying to Byrnside and Ben in March at rhe Byrnside's Sally, who lost her husband on New Year's spot enemy planes from the roof of Bill Hall. lovely new home in Southern Pines, NC. The Day, was in town to meet her children and Some of us enjoyed the champagne recep- Bymside's son, Ben, and the Reed's daughter, grandchildren from various parts of the coun- tion while viewing the Chu-GriAis Asian An Ginny, were in rhe same class ('73) at try and to see some theater and do some Collection and the presentation of plans for a Bucknell. That was the last time Barbara and carching up. Sally looks great according to first-floor room in the library to display this Mary Ann saw each other. Mary Ann keeps in Bunny, who said, "We had such a nice, nostal- wonderful artwork. Dr. Chu was almost danc- touch bye-mail with Connie Geraghty gic lunch ... a good chat-fest." ing in delight. At the reception for David Adams and Mary Ann Swanger Burns. Patricia Hancock Blackall and Patricia Lewis, acting president, I had time to meet Hopefully our next reunion will not coincide Feldman Whitestone enjoyed getting to him and taste some wonderful cheese, before with that of her husband's. know Liza Eleoff'03, this year's awardee of dashing off to change for dinner. However, Jeanne Jacques Kleinschmidt has eight the Class of'45 Scholarship Fund in Honor of rushing was not necessary, as there was an hour wonderful gtandchildren - four boys and Dean Burdick, at the College's Scholarship before dinner to socialize. We senior folk four girls. One, Thea Daniels, received early Recognition Luncheon, May 4. The Class received wonderful care and were taken by van acceptance to Harvard for this fall. Jeanne should be proud of its scholarship student, anywhere we wished on campus. Sunday was and Roger returned in late March from Spain. who has made the dean's list each semester the early arboretum walk, through wildflowers They visited Spain with their middle daugh- and who has a 3.75 GPA. Liza goes to Oxford and around the pond, and then the service of rer, Gail Daniels, and her husband, Bruce. for a semester this fall. remembrance. They have traveled for four years - Paris, Mary Ann Riegel Lockhart is busy with Muriel wrote: "Reunion was fun - missed Rome, london and now Madrid. "love to the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art and the all who didn't make it. The campus looked go. Love to come home."

48 cc: CONNECfICUTCOLLEGE ~IACAZINE SUMMER 2001 beautiful. and we were well cared for. I am a with Don. Volunteering at our Center for the is a ridiculous mathematical error." rerun for president, and Shirley (Chips) Arts. Great living in Vera Beach, FL." Sandra Strotz Keiser is still living in the Wilson Keller for vp. Patricia Smith Brown Ann McBride Tholfsen spent a "lovely same house near Dallas. Sadly, her husband, is replacing Skip as correspondent." weekend" with Lois Johnson Filley and Jean John, died on 4/30101. "My thanks to CC Chips wrote: "In five years everyone who Witman Gilpatrick in Lynchberg, VA last Aug. friends for their sympathy. Come to visit me missed reunion should try to come back - we Ann Bett Riley Browne writes, "Morgan and meet my granddaughters, Andie (8) and had a ball!" and I have checked into an 'old folks home' - Becky (11)," Members of the Class of'46 who attended a very elegant one, but one, nonetheless. Valet Irma Klein Schachter and Joe had a Reunion '01 were: Patricia Smith Brown, parking, etc. We're well and very happy. It's fanstastic year of traveling in '00. They went to Ginger Niles Del.ong, Mary Topping like living in a very expensive hotel. Would Israel, Egypt, CA and Eastern Europe and the Defoe, Juana Guruceta Flagg, Mary Lee love to have classmates visit!" Ukraine. They also cruised the Caribbean with Minter Goode, Mary-Nairn Hayssen Jean Gumport Black writes, "Fortunately their "whole gang" in celebration of their 35th Hartman, Shirley Wilson Keller, Joan enjoying good health and good times. Have wedding anniversary and Joe's 75th birthday. Jacobson Kronick, Lorraine Lincoln just returned from a month-long trip to Clare Willard Minor is enjoying retire- Lieberman, Dana Davies Magee, Jessie Australia and New Zealand and that will satisfy ment in CT after many years in TX. Her Macfadyen Olcott, Kate Niedecken Pieper, our wanderlust for another year." children are grown, and she has a great-grand- Priscilla Wright Pratt, Anne Woodman Barbara Rowe Perkins writes, "Now son. Stalter, Muriel Evans Shaw, Evelyn Black retired from working for League of Marilyn Viets Davis moved back to Weibel, Cynthia Terry White and Jane Conservation Voters, an environmental Tucson, AZ, from Kennebunk, ME. She Montague Wilson. fundraising, educational and political action helped Mary Stecher Douthit and Hal cele- Barbara Thompson Lougee and Dick had organization in NH. Am a library educational brate their 50th anniversary on 11/25/00 in a wonderful family get-together for five days in assistant in an elementary school in Goffstown, Tucson. Jean Carter Bradley and Art also July 'DO at the Westin La Paloma Resort in NH, part time." attended. Tucson with their children and grandchildren Barbara Pinchback Carter and J unie cele- in celebration of their 55th. Class Notes Editor brated their 50th anniversary last Ocr. at a Janet Cruikshank McCawley writes, "Ted CC: Connecticut College Magazine dinner party given by their three children. and I are happily ensconced 'off-island' in a 270 Mohegan Ave. Family and wedding party friends attended, as New London, CT 06320 safer, lovely place to help contain his MS. We 48 well as the couple's two granddaughters. mvhowe'conncoil.edu explore the Berkshires daily and enjoy events at Estelle Markie Schwanz wrote in about Williams college. It's not the Vineyard but a EDITOR'S NOTE. Your class is in need of a her grandson, Eli, who took first place last year beautiful, mountain environment." correspondent. If you are interested, please in the national math tests and led the VI math Anne Woodman Stalter and a friend had a contact Associate Editor Mary Howard at 860- team ro the nationals in PA last June. Her son, great trip to France last July 'DO - making 439-2307 or mvhowe'conncoll.edu for more Bill, is president of his local Rotary club. stops in the Riviera, Provence, Rhone Valley information. Daughter Judith Schwanz '74 is teaching at and Burgundy. Emily Gaskill Veenstra writes, "For the Keene State in NH. Estelle is the assirant state Helen (Robin) Riblet Kuehler married past 15 years, I have spent six months a year in coordinator for AARP's safe driver course cov- Sam Eastman on 5/27/00 in Princeton, NJ. Spain, in a little town called Nerja on the ering Windham, Rutland, Windsor and They dated 53 years ago in Erie, PAl "We now Costa Del Sol. Age and a few infirmities have Bennington counties in VI. She is on the live in Shell Point Village, Ft. Myers, in the caught up with me. With regret, I have moved board of RSVP and is a representative to the winter and in Erie and Garrett County, MD, to Tequesta, FL, for the fall and winter Counsel on Aging in southeastern VT and is on in the summer." months. I found living in Spain fascinating the advisory committee for the Green Phebe Clark Miller went to Israel in April and have many foreign friends of various Mountain Red Cross. "And I still have time to '00 and Newfoundland in Aug. "Both trips nationalities. Living in northern MI in the enjoy the grandkids!" were wonderful." summer, where I built a house in '93, it is Sally Whitehead Murphy enjoyed a "most Gloria Frost Hecker had an ankle replace- essential that 1 spent winter in a warm climate. exciting, adventuresome, four-week trip to ment in June '00. Husband Art had a gallblad- (I'm spoiled.) I'm sure I'll love FL ifI ever get Anrartica." der operation. In Nov. 'ad, they cruised to settled." Nassau, Bahamas, where they met Aileen Sallie Ward Lutz and Mim Ward Ferkes Correspondent: Moody Bainton - "highlight of the trip." Christine Hair Kurtz-White went to Australia and New Zealand last May. Barbeur Grimes Wise is working as a 220 Grear Hill Rd. still Phyllis Barnhill Thelen was elected to the property manager. She's been with the same Tamworth Village, NH 03886 Marin Women's Hall of Fame in Spring '00. 50 [email protected] ku rtzwh company for 15 years. She vacationed in She was appointed to the city of San Rafael Holland in Aug. '00. And there were two new General Plan Steering Committee and featured Yes, dear classmates, you do have a class corre- grandchildren in '01. Son Andy and his wife in the San Francisco Chronicle for founding an spondent. But, somehow, she has let you down adopted a baby girl from China in April. art center. and is now scurrying to make up the silence Daughter Cindy adopted a baby boy from that has greeted you with each issue of CC: Romania in March. Congratulations! Class Notes Ediror Connecticut College Magazine since our fabulous CC: Connecticut College Magazine 50th Reunion last year. So, please bear with me Correspondent: 270 Mohegan Ave. as I scramble to honor the gracious deadline Margaret Camp Schwartz New London, CT 06320 49 Associate Editor Mary Howard has extended to 2624 Bernt Hill Road [email protected] 47 Endicott, NY 13760 me so that we can "make" this issue. rschwarns'prcnetisp.ner Jennifer Judge Howes visited Laura Allen First, kudos to Ruth Kaplan, who filled her Singleton and Dorset Townley in Houston correspondent role so beautifully and valiantly 55TH REUNION May 30-June 2, 2002; Contact, Class three times this past year. Mary Lou over recent years. Ruth, on behalf of all of our PresidenVReunion Chair Nancy Blades Geiler, 513-922- Strassburger Treat visited in Oct. "We had a class, please accept our sincere appreciation for 4191, [email protected] great time at operas, museums, birdwatching your thorough, sensitive and conscientious and TALKlNG." She and Oliver spent two reporting on the unfolding of our lives! Marilou Widdell Wynne writes, "We have weeks in Tuscany in May. My "transplant" from FL to NH in '99- four great-grandchildren - ages 2, 5, 12 and Gale Holman Marks writes, "I shot a 38 to become an assistant innkeeper with my 15. The two older ones are great squash players on the first nine holes of a challenging golf youngest daughter, Virginia, and her husband, and are ranked in their age groups on the East course. The best I've ever done. To think my Bob, and to be "grandmorruner" to the two Coast. Am back playing golf after a 10-year son is almost 50 and my grandson is in college youngest of my 12 grandchildren: Robert, G, absence. Love that and taking long beach walks and DeGrasse,S - has taken root. 1 am happy

CC: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 49 Barbara Ackroyd Elder and husband Wy class of 151 graduates. Despite the cancellation to report that I am flourishing in this totally have retired to Bend, OR. She says they don't of the "march" of the reunion classes, many of new lifestyle! miss the East at all and love to take advantage And one of the greatest benefits has been us hiked from Blaustein Humanities Center to Palmer Auditorium. We were attired in navy of great skiing and golf. to realizethat northern New England is a des- Mary Ann Rossi, Ph.D., and husband tination for many of you! Even before our and white, well enhanced by beautiful silk scarves created specially for us, with a blue and Bruce Brackenridge.celebrated their 45th Reunion last year, Betty Muirhead Garden, anniversary recently in Richmond, VA, with husband Newell and I discovered that we were white tree motif (and a barely visible '''51'') and CC umbrellas, defiantly raised against the rain. friends from 12 stares and Scorland. Mary Ann only a few miles apart. They have a marvelous continues to work for women's ordination in farmhouse in Center Sandwich, NH, which Class participation for our gift was 100 percent! Jeanne Tucker Zenker received a well- the Roman Catholic Church. She also translates they frequent many times during the year- the Latin Fathers for www.womanpriests.org. and it's "just over the hill and through the deserved Alumni Tribute Award for her many hours of hard work. Other events included a Elizabeth Lahm Heller invires classmates to dale" from Tamworth. We broke bread a cou- visit her at the Museum of Modern Art on ple of times: I at their wonderfuI200-year-old memorial for our deceased classmates, inaugura- tion into the Sykes Society and college-spon- Tues. or at the Whitney Museum on Thurs. in home and they (with son and daughter) at our NYc. She staffs the membership desks. Tamworth Inn! In fact, we'll be seeing each sored tours of Harkness Park, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and the Lyman Allyn Art Pidge Hoadley O'Connell has recovered other during the first week in June when they from a broken vertebra and has been "on the journey up for a brief summer sojourn. Museum. We also enjoyed political satire by the Capital Steps in Palmer Auditorium. go" at top speed. She's active in the DAR and And even before those delightful get- involunteer activities bur is most interested in rogerhers with the Gardens, Marlis Blumen New officerswere announced at our class dinner and meeting. They are: President Bobbie researching her genealogy. Powell and husband Jay joined me for lunch Bunny Wood Whitaker tells us that she, at the Inn in Aug. '99. When Marlis learned "Wiegand Pillote, Vice President Margie Erickson Albertson, Class Correspondent Sheila Burnell Sawyer, Nancy Jackes that I was living in Tamworth, she called me Mulvihill, and Nan Schlesinger Kempner had to say they would be up in Aug. at the Rock Naomi Salit Birnbach and Reunion Co-Chairs a mini-reunion this past winter in FL. Nan was House Mountain Farm (again, just "over the Justine Shepherd Freud and Judy Adaskin in Palm Beach signing copies of her cookbook, hill") where they have attended an annual Barry. Congratulations. R.S. v.P., now sold our after its third printing. "house party" with family and friends for more Finally, I wish to commend the college for Sheila lives in Atlantis, FL, and Nancy lives in than forty years. Of course, we were at all the effort that was put into the weekend, the Delray Beach, FL, in the wintertime. Reunion last year. Then, in Aug., they made friendly and helpful staff, the beaurifu! book We have a high-seas mariner among our their pilgrimage ro the farm, and I had the about our alma mater and the great accommo- classmates. Pat Wardley Hamilton and her opportunity to tour this charming vacation dations. I am very happy to have a grandson husband sailed their 46-foor sloop across the retreat. Afterwards, Marlis took me to lunch. attending our vibrant college and am passing the Atlantic in '99 and cruised parts of France and In fact, I just spoke with her this week and beautiful book to other grandchildren in hopes Spain. They left the boat in Spain for the win- they plan to be up - if the construction of a that - should they qualify - they make ter and returned in Spring '00. After cruising new kitchen (it is, she says, the comfortable Connecticut their first choice. I also want to the coast of Portugal, they sailed back to kitchen she has always wanredi) goes smoothly. urge all of yOlito attend our 55th. The whole America via Bermuda. Marlis also reported that she and Jay took weekend was rewarding and wonderful fun. Pat Ahearn Berger and Ellie Souville an art gallery tour in France, sponsored by the Seeing so many dear classmateswas very special. Levy get together frequently in Hilton Head, Montclair Art Museum. Joining the rour were usually at Starbucks. Ellie has been the world Ann MacWtlliam Dilley and Fritzi Keller Correspondents: Ellie Souville Levy, 21 Cygnet Court, Hilton Head, SC 29926, traveler this year, visitingAK and Australia. She Mills - so it was a small "deja vu" of rhe plevy752\[email protected] also travels to France often with her French Reunion. 52 Ahearn Berger, 3 Cordonia Tree Cr., husband and enjoys his three daughters and Alice Hess Crowell was the highlight of Hilton Head. SC 29926 eight grandchildren, who live there. Pat and July. She spent twO days with me as parr of her auto tour of New England. It was just like "old 50TH REUNION May 30-June 2, 2002; Class President Ellie hope to see all of you at our 2002 times" - easygoing and fun. We tooled Mary Harrison Beggs; Contact, Reunion Chair Corinne Fisher Reunion. around the area and our Inn Pub "regulars" Smythe, 216-464-0811 Sympathy from the class goes our to Helen welcomed her with New England hospitality. Fricke Mathieson, who lost her husband, Elizabeth McConaughey Barker runs the Mary Harrison Beggs, our class president, Drew, in Feb. Ford Creek Guest Ranch in Augusta, MT, reports that our 50th Reunion Committee has with her husband, Travis. Visit them online at been working diligently. Our reunion co-chairs, Correspondents: Leta Weiss Marks, 98 Corrine Fisher Smythe and Brenda Bennett Colony Rd., West Hartford, CT 061\7, www.goflyfish.com. markse'mail.hanford.cdu and Sue I look forward to hearing from all of you. Bell, have started to assemble committees to Weinberg Mindlin, 4101 West 90th Sc., work on our class dinner and Golden Koine year- 53 Just think - it's only four more years until Prairie Village, KS 66207, our 55th Reunion! book. Ruth Stupell WeinHash, class agent, is [email protected] The Class of 1950 sends sympathy to organizing volunteers to work on a significant Nancylee Hicks Henrich, whose husband, class gift. Nancy Alderman Kramer has agreed Hello, classmares. We hope all of you are well Harry, died on 12/20/00. to be our classrepresentative on the committee and happy, bur since no one wrote, we have no coordinating the Sunday morning Service of news to share with you. For our next issue, we Correspondent: Remembrances. Barbara Gueinzius Gridley hope you will flood us with items about your Naomi Salit Birnbach will chair the dinner committee, and lives: travels, work, grandchildren. What are 1165 Park Ave. Marguerite (Pidge) Hoadley O'Connell has you doing, reading, writing, wondering about? 51 NcwYork,NY10128 signed up to work on the yearbook. Mary Beggs Write, call, e-mail or come in person -but says that these volunteers have made a good please let us know what you are up to. Looking This wrap-up of our great 50th Reunion will start, but we're going to need more help in ere- forward to hearing from you. - Leta and Sue be my last duty as class correspondent. Naomi aring a splendid, multifaceted weekend. If you Salit Birnbach has graciously answered the would like to volunteer, contact Mary at jima- Correspondent: Lois Keating Learned call to put together our Class Notes with wit ryO [email protected] or write her at 5408 Falmouth 10 Lawrence St. and humor, a trait that has eluded this eco- Road, Bethesda, MD 20816. Remember our Greenlawn, NY 11740 L5arned@aoLcom nomics major. reunion dates: May jn-june 2,2002. 54 For those of you unable to attend our In other news, Mary Harrison Beggs reunion, spearheaded by Pavy, we'll pass on a Nancy Wilson Raynolds, who lives in West reports that she and husband Jim feel lucky to few highlights. There were 72 of us in atten- Springfield, MA, keeps busy with her family. have all of their children and six grandchildren dance, which iswell over half our remaining Son, Ned, a Coast Guard Academy grad, lives now living in the DC area.

5a ee: CONNECTIClIT COLI.EGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 1001 nearby in NH and is in energy conservation. at the Atrium Gallery of the McLean Project He has two children: Travis, born in '98, and For the Arrs in McLean, VA. Unfortunately the Annaliese, born in Nov. '00. Alice is in Boston show will be over when you get this informa- and is working on her CPA. Nancy sees Reggie tion. I am sure it was a success. "I totally enjoyed being Tate, who is living with her sister Emily Tate In January Judy Pennypacker Goodwin Rudolph '58 in Deep River, CT. Nancy's e- sent me a note bringing up memories of a soccer mom once I mail address is nraynoldss'earthlink.com. Harkness Chapel and Sunday night choir. The got the rules down and Joan Negley Kelleher has nine grandchil- college is indeed a mystical place to visit. dren! Ali four of her children live in San A note from Barbara Rosen Goodkind, learned how to drive a Antonio, TX. Herb is cutting back on his "My husband Bob and 1 still reside in Rye, duties at Southwest Airlines, which suits Joan. NY. We have seven grandchildren, a great joy Suburban." - Sally They also spend time at a cattle ranch in west to have then all living nearby. Iam a painter Ashkins Churchill '54 TX that has been in her family for 125 years, and work in my studio daily. Bob is an attor- and in Jackson, WY, where Joan enjoys fly-fish- ney in NYc. ing. Her e-mail is joannkellerherteaol.corn. It's official. Marilyn (Skip) Smith Marsh Ann Matthews Kent writes from Seabrook and Walter Noll were married and are now liv- Island, Sc, that she and Tom are off traveling ing in Pittsburgh. It was a great town in the Kathy serves as a CASA, court appointed spe- after hosting a grandson for a week. First they '50s when Jocelyn Andrews Mitchell and J cial advocate, for six cases involving neglected were at the Family Circle Tennis T ournamenr lived there. I'm sure they will contribute much. and abused children. Berween them, Kathy and in Charleston. No, they were nor competing! J went to lunch several weeks ago with Dick have 11 grandchildren, all of whom enjoy Tom worked the scoreboard, and Ann gOt a Judy Pennypacker Goodwin, Mary Lou summer visits with them at their family home- pass. Then they drove from CA through OR Moore Reilly and Helen Quinlan. Besides a stead in Ogunquit, ME. and WA. They wok a ferry to Victoria, BC, sense of continuing participation in the activi- Start thinking about Reunion 2002! and finally cruised on the Columbia and Snake ties of Family and the world, 1 was impressed Rivers. Her e-mail is bombomcsaol.corn. with how beautiful these ladies were. Not old Correspondent: Sally Ashkins Churchill keeps busy on the or cranky or decrepit. And yet we are almost, J udith Ankarstran Carson Cape (Bass River) heading a fundraising com- well- that age. My wish is that we all feel 174 Old Harbor Rd. Westport, MA 02790 mittee to create a cultural center. In Feb., she beautiful when we look across a table at family 58 jcarson@meganeLnet went to TX, near Houston, to babysit two and friends or peer into a mirror. grandchildren while the parents (son Wick and Please note that I now have an e-mail his wife, Claire) went on a cruise. "I totally address. 1 hope it may make communication Correspondents: Virginia Reed Levick, 10 enjoyed being a soccer mom once IgOt the easier for some of you. Sargent Ln., Atherton, CA 94027, rules down and figured our how to drive a [email protected] Peterson Thompson, 451 Conil Way, Portola Suburban." Her daughter, Amy, is finishing her Correspondents: Edirh Fay Mroz, 2075 59 Valley, CA 94028 M.A. in library science at Simmons and is a Sharon Hill Rd., Dover, DE 19904 and full-time librarian in Carver, I'viA. Amy has two Jan Ahlborn Roberts, 7 Gwen's Ln., Orleans, MA 02653, [email protected] Debbie Tolman Haliday writes, "It's been a girls, ages 10 and 12. Sally's e-mail is 56 hectic year for my husband and me, as we schurchrs'cape.com. made a number of trips to FL and one to AK to In Feb., I, Loie Keating learned, rook a Correspondent. help other family members deal with illnesses trip to FL to see my stepson and his wife's new Evelyn Caliendo Moss and deaths. We did get to see our two grand- digs in Mr. Dora (an hour outside of Orlando). 622 Embree Crescent children several times, both here in The trip allowed me to see Dudy Vars Westfield, NJ 07090 57 Fredericksburg, VA, and FL. Future visits with McQuiJling very briefly in Vero Beach and 45TH REUNION May 3D-June 2, 2002; Class President, them will be limited. Our son, a Marine Corps Enid Sivigny Gorvine in Punta Gorda. Enid is Sandra Weldon Johnson; Contact, Reunion Chair Joan lieutenant colonel, and his family are moving adjusting to life without Bill and enjoying her Gilbert Segall, 845-255-7321 to CA, where he will be taking command of a stint as trustee of a local community college. Marine Corps support group. We sold our con- She's also training two tiny dogs: a Yorkie and a Nancy Keith Lefevre was kind enough to pass do in the White Mountains of NH last Nov. miniature pinscher. J also saw Ann Dygert on some news of classmates after speaking to - though we still own a condo garage up Brady in Sarasota. She's glad to be back in them on the phone. there. We've rented a condo in Waterville Familiar territory and is learning the ropes Susan McGovern Herndon's husband, Valley this summer for two months. We love (again) of following children around to after- Roy, still enjoys his private medical practice the Fredericksburg area - an hour's drive school sports activities - this rime it's grand- near Los Angeles. Their son and his family live south of DC. George has joined the church children. We had dinner with Jan Rowe nearby. Their daughter and two children live choir, and I have taken up handbell ringing Dugan, who recommends we all read Anita in Phoenix, where the Herndons enjoy week- with the bell choir." Diamant's "It will give us some- The Red Tent. end visits. Lynn Graves Mitchell is "up to her eye- thing to discuss at the next reunion." Ann's e- Meredith Prince Morris's husband, brows" in volunteer work at the Institute For mail is [email protected]'s is Lawrence, died in June '00. Her daughter, Research on Women and Gender at Stanford j. ro.dugants'netsrq.com. Lydia '88, and husband Jeff welcomed as co-chair of the Associates Board. "Our func- A shan note from Ann Marie Strosherg Alexander, Meredith's first grandchild, in Feb. tions are fundraising and information dissemi- Savas informed me of the sudden death of Barbara (Boo) Garlock Hinckley makes nation about research." Lynn and Dave find Marilyn Thornton Williams on 11/]3/00. Ft. Myers, FL, her winter home but enjoys ger- time to go to Santa Fe, where they enjoy Marilyn had just retired after 30 years as a pro- ring to Wakefield, RJ, for summer months, babysitting their toddler grandson, Rowan. fessor of history at Pace College in Westchester, where she is near her four children. Her mar- Lynn's al~,o "doing a tiny bit of art and hopes to NY. She and Ann Marie had met in Oct. '00 ried son runs a coffee shop on Martha's do more. for their 50th high school reunion. Vineyard, where her only grandchild lives. For the past 16 years, Pat Turley During her working years in the Hartford, CT, Nighswander has been working for the Correspondent. .. area, Boo had extensive experience with foster National Border Patrol Council (her official Nancy Brown Han 75 Quarry Hill Road and child protective care service work - an title is executive director), a coalition of union 55 Haddam Neck, cr 06424 offshoot from her child development major. locals across the country - all border patrol [email protected] Katherine Gray Drisco lives in Hollis, agents - who work For INS. She spends most NH, where husband Dick won a seat in the of her time deFending agents in employment A beautiful card from Cynthia Myers Young New Hampshire House of Representatives. disputes at arbitration hearings in AZ, south announced her show "ARCHAlC MIRROR" TX, Southern CA, MT, ME, MI and FL, so

CC: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER lOOI 51 Correspondent: Antoinette Currer Rogers Correspondent: Kay Srewarr Neill 1692 Saefern Way P.O. Box 1126 Annapolis, MD 21401 Layton, UT 84041 [email protected] ..I know I'm a senior 62 [email protected] 66 Marylin Corbett Brown writes, "In 1999, 1 citizen, but I'm having 40TH REUNION May 30-June 2,2002; Class President Joan Dickinson Karter; Contact, Reunion Chair Susan Miller retired from Eastern Connecticut State U. after teaching there for 25 years. Since then, 1 hav.e a hard time accepting Burke, 757-833-7221 r [email protected] combined teaching there part rime with serVll1g the fact. Who were all as editor for a professional journal, traveling to Correspondents: Roberta Slone Smith, 1G Europe with my husband, Allan, and doing those old folks on the Greene Dr., West Windsor, NJ 08550- volunteer work. Our daughter, Corey, received 4912, [email protected] and Bonnie her MBA in May 2000 and is working for the bus? Certainly no one I Campbell Wauters, P.O. Box 58, Taber 63 Hill Rd., Srowe, VT 05672, international firm Schon Corp. could identify with." [email protected] Ch;; Nore Editor - Susan Camph Cynthia Nichols Travers and husband John CC: Cannecticsa Coffege Magazil/e spent a month in london to celebrate her 60rh 270 Mohegan Ave. VanTrees'59 New london, CT 06320 birthday and their 40th wedding anniversary. 67 [email protected] Their children were able to join them there fat brief, bur fun, visits. Because their booking 35TH REUNION May 30~June 2, 2002; Class President she has lots of frequent Ayer miles. Last year agent somehow losr rheir hotel reservations, Dana Freedman Liebman; Contact, Reunion Co-Chairs she took a month off to travel in China, Tibet they were compensated by being given Rudolf lynn Weichsel Hand, 603-421·9581, lynnhand@earth· and Bali - a great trip. "One of the best trips Nureyev's "old place," which was very elegant link.ret: Sue E. Hallstein, 216-283-0660; and Helen I have ever taken was a three-week trip to and well located. Young Somogyi India. It was organized and directed by a social Marcia Rygh Phillips received her master's worker! educator from New Delhi - a won- degree in adult education and human resources Janet Levy Rivkin writes, "My husband larry derful, enthusiastic and brilliant Indian in Dec. '99 from Virginia Commonwealth U. and I JUSt celebrated our 10th wedding anniver- woman. The focus of the trip was women's She has been working in noncredit programs - sary. In honor of his birthday and our issues. We hit the major tourist sites but also sometimes called business and professional anniverary, we are heading to Tuscany with the spent time in schools, leper colonies, snake development - at one of the local community entire family. The three grandchildren have charming villages and labor camps. We were colleges in Richmond. She also does some given me the best present .. being 'Nann.' 1 primarily in Rajasthan. We also went on a teaching on a contract basis and in the public- work part time on special real estate projects camel safari and spent three days i11 Pushkar access progtams (one-day workshops). Marcia and continue to be active nationally with Girls (along with 200,000 camels) at the Camel develops and oversees foundational skills pro- Inc. and serve as vice chair of the board of Festival. I am now a grandmother - my son grams for local businesses rhar want to develop Partnership for the Homeless." She enjoys and his wife have twO daughters, ages 5 and 3. their workforces. She writes that something new cooking and gardening at their weekend home They live only two miles from me, and 1 love happens every time the phone rings! Her chil- in northwest CT. being able to spend time with them. I would dren have graduated from college and are find- Suzanne Rossell Boyer lives and works as a welcome hearing from and seeing anyone who ing their ways. She and husband, Dale, are graphic designer in McLean, VA. Her husband has occasion to come to DC. beginning to think about retirement. is an attorney in DC. They are the joyful and Susan Camph VanTrees is still selling real Patti Keenan Mitchell recently attended a proud grandparents of a 9-monrh-old who lives estate, remodeling her house and managing her lovely memorial service in Beverly Farms, MA, in Cleveland. properties. She and her SO, Steve, recently where William Meredith read a poem. She had Martha Robbins Lugger's son, Peter, mar- took a senior citizen bus trip to "Lorusland," a raken one of his poetry classes and enjoyed see- ried an Australian woman on June 2 outside of botanical paradise in Montecito. 1 think Susie ing and talking with him again. Vienna. He plans to settle in the U.S. after echoed the sentiments of many us when she I, Roberta Slone Smith, recently attended a working for three years in Vienna. His brother, wrote, "1 know I'm a senior citizen, but I'm CC reception in Philadelphia where I met and Paul, lives in Boston. having a hard time accepting the fact. %0 enjoyed talking with Jo Lindseth Busser, who Debby Greenstein retired from HUD on were all those old folks on the bus? Certainly inquired about Carolyn Boyan. I was able to 11/3/00 and spent the following winter as a no one I could identify with." put them back in touch with each other. IF any- snowbird in Ft. lauderdale. "I loved it, and From Ginger and Joan: We're both flying one else would like to reconnect with class- look forward to doing it again!" Debbie can be around frenetically, involved in a myriad of mates, please contact the Alumni Office at 800- reached at [email protected]. activities. We're doing our best to gather news 888-7549, ext. 2300. I recently attended a rug Susie Terrell-Saunders is still teaching art about '5gers via postcards and e-mail. But we hooking class at the Shelburne Museum in VT, history at Moore College. "Our boys are bi- can't do it without your help. Please return the where I discovered that a fellow classmate was coastal- l.A. and NYc. postcards we send or keep in contact with us Laurie Blake Sawyer's sister-in-law. This is via e-mail: [email protected] or another milestone year for almost everyone in Correspondent. Phyllis Benson Beighley [email protected]! our class. Happy Birthday to all! J409 Devonshire Dr. Columbia, SC 29204 [email protected] C,.n-e$prmdent: Nancy Waddell Correspondaus. Leslie Setrerholru Fox, 68 6575 Staats Rd. 110 Care Corner Rd., Colchester, CT Patricia Hitchens-Bonow retired as modera- Clinton, WA 98236 06415 and Susan Peck Robinson, 173 nanc}'\\~whidbey.com 65 Wirherall Ln., Manchester Center, VT tori board chairman at her church and now 60 05255 freelances for publications in Chicago, especial- Ruth Barngrove Sauer has a new art gallery ly NorthShore Magazine. A graduate of Medin with exhibition, studio and teaching space in Three generations of CC alumna celebrated the Journalism School, she was invited to join Salem, NY, called Arts 220. birth of Laurel Ana Rosenbaum on 4/27/0] . Northwestern's AJumni Board and is still active Laurel is the daughter of lee and Judy Musicant on tb~ Executive Board of the Chicago Correspondents: Lee \!;rhire Brown, 8 Rosenbaum '95; the granddaughtet of Carolyn Salvation Army Auxiliary. Husband Bob Noja Trail, Canton, CT 06019 and Rubin Musicant; and the great-granddaughter Bonow is chief of cardiology at Northwestern's Nancy Cozier Whitcomb, 19 Starbuck of Leah Savitsky Rubin '32. medical school. The family visited Japan on Rd., Nantucket, MA 02554 61 spring break this year. They found Hiroshima sobering but a worthwhile educational experi-

52 cc: CONNECTICUTCOLLEGE)l.j,~GAZINE SUMMER 2001 ence for 12-year-old Sam and lo-year-old There's more school in her future, but right Just finishing my second term on the National Robby. They spent June in Italy. Since Bob now she wants to work for a few years. Marya, Cartoonists Society's board of directors. goes to Italy often to lecture, Patricia decided 19, is taking some time off from school to see if Barbara Rein Hedman is happily living in to learn Italian. "When I went back to grad she really wants to pursue a career as a chef. She Gold Hill, OR, with her husband, John, and school at the age of 47 for journalism, I had no is working in the kirchen at Icarus in Boston's "our four-legged, furry family members. While trouble getting back into academics; learning South End. "No, she doesn't cook for us at I've rarely returned to the Northeast, I keep up Italian, however, has been humbling. The spir- homel" on CC news from Paula Ammataro Messina it is willing but the memory is weald" Joyce Todd O'Connor writes, "Don and I and CC Magazine." Helen Reynolds writes that Alice, 7, and spent our first 'season' in Naples, FL. It was a Dinny, Karen Dunn Martin, Suzanne John, 11, along with teaching one or two eco- pleasure to escape the gtay skies and snow of Emery Grogins and Sue Morgan Baker spent nomics classes a semester and doing her eco- Pittsburgh. Our home in Naples was finished a wonderful spring afternoon with Kathy nomic consulting, take up almost all her time. in Dec., and we love it. I managed to do my Heneage Anderson reminiscing about old Her single scull mostly gathers dust but occa- work by telecommuting. Don is working part- times, shortly before Kathy passed away on sionally gets a tour of a small lake. She visited time in his law practice and will retire at the April 20. The reunion was a very special one, Kathy Spendlove and husband Pierre Salle in end of the year. We now have eight grandchil- and Kathy will be missed greatly. Philadelphia last Ocr. After a quick overnight, dren and they are a delight. Had a long tele- they headed off to New London at the crack of phone conversation with Linda Mauriello C'. trespondent: Judi Bamberg Mariggio dawn to attend a memorial tree planting at the Franklin '69, and we caught up on news." 1070 Sugar Sands Blvd. # 384 Riviera Beach, FL 33404 college in memory of a fellow Hamilton Silvia Powell Cooper is a school coun- [email protected] House denizen, Sidney Davidson '67, who selor. Daughter Narasia is a freshman at 69 died last year. "On the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Syracuse. Son Emilio is a VP for First Union After transferring to the U. of Miami in '67, about 15 minutes into the trip, the tire blew. Bank in NY, and san Daryl is a program coor- Susie Aldridge earned both a B.S. and a M.S. After Pierre rescued us, we were on our way dinator for SEI Investment Co. She has two in accounting. She was able to retire from fami- again. We missed the ceremony and half the grandchildren: Jared, 6 mos. and J ustin, 2. ly-owned Aldridge Electric, Inc. (Libertyville, lunch, but we saw some old buddies from the Peggy Magid-Elder writes, "Life is full. IL) at 48 to raise sons Brian, now 16, and Eric, Class of'67.Itwas Parents' Weekend, and rhe One daughter completed her freshman year at 13. "1 proudly state now that I am a stay-at- campus was jumping. The changes in the Tufts V., and one son is abour to begin his first home mother and will be until the youngest complex make it almost look livable." year of high school ... Just rerurned from a doesn't need me anymore - maybe 25? Other month in New Zealand (again) and am leaving Judy Jones McGregor lives in Aspen, than that, I have a nice home on 2.5 acres with CO, with husband Dick Callun and three in June for a summer in Israel. Philadelphia four dogs, four cats, and a flower and vegetable remains home base, however." dogs. She's been a psychotherapist for more garden ... enough to keep me really busy." than 25 years. Son Skip, 31, was married last Linda Demikat is the principal at Paula Cisco Verdu's husband Pete has Sept. Patsy, 29, is a stylist for photo shoots in Woodbury Middle School, Regional School retired from Amsouch Bank to pursue his NYc. Daughter Kathleen Schlesinger District 14, Bethlehem/Woodbury, CT. She dream of teaching investments at the college received a Ph.D. in education administration McGregor '97 graduated from Harvard School level. Paula continues to be involved in golf, of Education in June. They travel a lot- from UConn in May '99. investing and a bit of gardening. She writes that Paris and Venice last fall, a three-week road Thanks to all, from your correspondent, spring in Birmingham is glorious. "We plan to nip in the Southwest with their dogs, China Phyllis Benson Beighley. We will no longer remain in Ai for most of the year but are look- be able to send postcards to ask for informa- for three weeks this June. "We love Aspen. ing to summer in a cooler clime. It will be a come and visit!" tion, so e-mail will be the best way to commu- while before we decide where, but finding the Shirleyanne Hee Chew's son Jonathan nicate. Most of these notes came to me via e- area will be an adven ture." graduated from Cornell in '00 with a double mail, bur my address book is incomplete. Please Francesca Decioccio Jones has renewed major in economics and psychology. He works e-mail me your most current e-address as well inreresc in the college since her son is a very as those of any of our classmates you're in for Mars & Co. in CT, but lives in NYC. Her happy member of the class of2004. touch with. My address is daughter, a sophomore at Holy Cross, plans to With a son still in college, a wedding to double major in Asian studies and art history pbeighleys'ois.staee.sc.us. Thanks for your plan for her second daughter and trips to Israel assistance. and spent a semester in Beijing. Shirleyanne's to visit her daughter and son-in-law stretching husband's antique shop was a year old in May. Susan Bristol writes, "This past year I was into the future, Barbara Feigin Milenky sees Recently Kathleen Jordan, Brooke made an honorary member of the American herself "working with deaf students and Johnson Suiter and Ann Fertig Tiemann got Institute of Architects (AlA), recognizing the Hebrew school children untilI'm a little old together again after years of correspondence, writing I've been doing for the profession since lady. It's a good thing I enjoy my work!" thanks to the Internet. I moved to Vail in '70. I also work for the Faye Green Steaey teaches at Cermanrown Adrienne Bergman Beebe's husband, Golden Bear in Vail, doing window displays Friends School in Philadelphia. "My own kids Ken, retired from General Electric this sum- and designing and selling custom jewelry. I've have gone to school here and Bonnie Eidler mer, after finishing a long-term assignment in gotten several beach fixes on the coast of Hayes's children also attend." Quintana Roo in Mexico and on Puako Beach Italy. She joined him for several weeks of After 15 years in the Tampa area, Judy sightseeing between engineering tests. They're in HI. Skiing was great this year here in Vail. I Hellyer Nefainger is moving to Chapel Hill, would love to hear from classmates visiting the excited about becoming grandparents. NC, and looking forward to seasons again. Allyson Cook Gall is still executive direc- area. My son, Alexander, just finished posc-bac "We hope to see some snow next year since our tor of (he American Jewish Commitree for NJ. study in painting at the Art Institute of 13-year-old-daughter hasn't experienced snow Her "baby" is 21 and spent his fall semester Chicago and is taking next year off to paint falling yet." away from Brown in Ireland. They visited him before going on for an MFA. I am happily An assistant director of admissions at divorced for the past seven years. Other than and found all the good things they had heard Skid mote College, Jane Weiskopf Reisman rotator cuff repair, life is excellent." about the people and the land to be true! "Life occasionally meets CC classmates in the wait- Dinny Stearns Taylor recently became is good. Marty, my spouse, and I work. We ing room when they bring their sons or daugh- chief technology officer at Williams College. take care of parents and children. We hike, lis- ters for interviews! "It's a fun job, with varied Son Aaron received his Ph.D. from Yale in ten to all kinds of music, take a cottage in the responsibilities. I love being on a campus." She Spring '00 and is now working in NY. summer, occasionally go contra-dancing and also sees Mary Scheckman Hubka, Heather Daughter Kirsten will be attending Duke Law are still lovers and best friends." Morrison and Alicia Brackman Munves from School in the fall. Nancy Finn Kukura writes that Elizabeth, time to time and reportS that everyone still Polly Leonard Keener writes, "Working 21, graduates from Yale in May and has taken looks the same. hard on my cartoon strip, 'Hamster Alley,' syn- a job as a paralegal in a law firm in DC. Nancy Werner continues happily teaching dicated to weekly papets by DBR Media of FL.

cc: CONNECTjCUTCOLl,EGEM.~GAZINE SUMMER 2001 53 kindergarten in San Francisco. She has three Correspondents: Miriam Josephson leadership from Sacred Heart U. (CT). [ have children. Maia graduated from college and Whitehouse, P.O. Box 7068, Cape been employed by the State of Conn eccicue Porpoise, ME 04014, lives nearby in Oakland. Daniel just graduated vocational technical school system (17 high [email protected] Nancy schools) for] 0 years and have been transferred from high school and Nora from middle 75 Gruver, 2127 Columbus Ave., Duluth, to Grasso Tech in Groton as assistant director school. MN 55803, [email protected] Writing from CA, Linda McGilvray and vice principal, effective this fall. I have Walker looks forward to seeing East Coast Cheryl Foote Grede continues her eight-year spent a great rwo years in the same posirion at friends more frequently. Daughters Sarah and battle with breast cancer. The cancer got into Ellis Tech in the northeastern corner of CT but Rebecca are enrolled in the Yale Class of '05. one of her lungs in the fall of '00, but she is look forward to returning to rhe shoreline." CC was among their rap choices. "Of all the now doing well after two new rounds of Andy Williams writes, "I still believe that collegepresentations we attended (and with chemotherapy. Working for an employment inner children are welcome if accompanied by two children with divergent requirements that law firm has been a big advantage. Her an adult ... so Igo sailing a fair amount on number seemed endless), Connecticut employer, Littler Mendelson, has been very delivery crews. Lasr summer, I made several College's Alumni Sons and Daughters supportive and allowed her to have a modified bluewater runs, including one from Holland to Weekend was by far the best program, with the schedule that has let her keep working Newport on a 70-foot ketch. Ispent my birth- most useful and practical information." throughout the cherno process. Her prognosis day in Amsterdam and recovered in the Azores. Phillip and Susan Judd Harris celebrated continues to be good, especially with all the In berween trips, I do cabinetwork to pay the his retirement from UPS by moving to Destin, new treatments that have been approved for bills while I finish the renovation of a little cot- FL Son jeff has stayed at alma mater Auburn breast cancer. Cheryl lives in CA with hus- tage in Stonington. Still love golf Will be play- for grad school, and Zach is still at East band Dave and 7-year-old daughter Kathryn. ing in Scotland with Trae Andersen 79 this Carolina. Pam Cutler Baxter writes, "I just recently Sepr. Have let the social work degree go on a started a part-time job as the director of reli- professional level and now just live those ideals Carrapondan: gious education at my church (Unitarian in everyday life ... Would like to write a book." Myrna Chandler Goldstein Fellowship of West Chester). I've been writing 5 Woods End Rd. a weekly column on vegetable gardening for Correspondents: Carrie Wilson, 31 Lincoln, MA 01773 our county newspaper. It's great - now I Brookview Rd., Holliston, MA 01746, 70 [email protected] snewbold@:lOl.com and Susan Calef always have an excuse for working in my garden or visiting someone else's: it's work! Iam 78 Tobiason, 70 Park Terrace EaST,ApI. 41, Susan Lee moved back to the U.S. in feb. '00. New York, NY 10034, She is now president and chief operating offi- also the newsletter editor for the Valley Forge [email protected] cer of an investment managment subsidiary of Audubon Society and for the Green Valleys Northern Trust. Association. I'm playing cello in the Providence Chamber Orchestra (Phoenixville, PA) and in a Correspondents: Chnsrine Fairchild, 6 Correspondent: Lucy Van Voorhees piano trio at my church. Last summer, on my Jonathan Sr., Belmont, MA 02478, 14 West Virginia Ave., Box 285A way home from our annual vacation in Blue [email protected] Martire, 211 Vine Si., Philadelphia, PA Fenwick Island, DE 19944 Hill, ME, Istopped to visit Elaine Lang 79 19106, c1l1'islinem@chadwyckcom 71 [email protected] Cornett at her family's summer home in Friendship. Igot to catch up with Elaine, meet her husband, Bob, and her children, Ian and Conespondenn: Elizabeth Hardie Correspondents: Deborah Garber King, Sarah, and chat with her parents. My son is 17 548 Matcekeesctt Sr., Pembroke, MA Nelson, 12 Church Street, Bristol, VT 02359 and Meg Cemson Ashman, 139 and finished his junior year at Northfield 05443. [email protected] Robinson Parkway, Burlington, vr Mounr Hermon school. He's excelling in math 80 Littlefield, 220 Washington Ave., 72 Chestertown, MD 21620 05401 and compurer science." Born: to Paul (Tony) Littlefield and Lauren, 30TH REUNION May 30-June 2, 2002; Class President Correspondents: Kenneth Abel. 334 W. Martha Kessler Huckins; Contact, Reunion Chair Amy 19th Sr., Apt. 2B, New York, NY Joseph Cameron 1/14/01. Lewis Tabor, 516-674-3414, [email protected] 10011, [email protected] and Susan Tony Littlefield comments that having an 76 Hazlehurst Milbrath, 5830 S. Galena l l-pound baby at age 43 is like having a 111~ Carol Adams is an attorney specializing in s., Greenwood Village, CO 80 III, pound b~by. "I should have spent more rime at estate administration and is counsel to the law shmilbrarhtf'aol.com t~e gym! ~ra:ldma Georgia (Ricky) Geisel firm of Ronald Fatoullah and Assoc. Her hus- Littlefield 55 IS extremely pleased at the birth band, Gary Shaffer, is an attorney for the New of her first grandchild. York City Law Dept. Daughter Rachel, 16, Correspondents: Kimberly-Toy Reynolds Huh, 1000 N. Lake Shore Dr., Apt. Jonathan Etkin married Amy Harrison on spent the summer in Spain and is a high school 405, Chicago, IL 60611 and Paul 8/20/00. Jonathan and Amy were wed on a junior at Poly Prep, Brooklyn. Son Andrew, (Pablo) Fitzmaurice, 4017 Evans Chapel beautiful day at NYC's Chelsea Piers on the 13, is in eighth grade there. "We spend much 77 Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211, Hudson. Michael Litchman was in attendance. [email protected] of our free time at (girls') soccer and (boys') Sadly, JOl:arhan lost his father just months after basketball games, but try to also take advantage 25TH REUNION May 3D·June 3,2002; Class President the wedding, but he is happy char his dad was of the cultural lifeNYC has to offer.JJ Steven M. Levy; Contact, Reunion Co-Chairs David R. able to attend the ceremony. Sargent Jr., 802-649-3127, [email protected] Jane Banash Sagerman left-London for Correspondents: Nancy Jensen Devin, sunny.L1 [olla, CA, lasr Aug. She has put her 30 Franklin Terr., Portsmouth, Rl and Sheila Saunders, 626-441-8384, amasheilaee@hot- 02871, najdev@aoLcomandMary mai1.com career In corporate finance at Ciribank on hold Ann Sill Sircely, P.O. Box 207, to spend time with daughter Lia, 9, and hus- 73 Wycombe, PA 18980, band Eric. Steven Levy writes, "Benjy (8) joined his masircelysi'sircely.com brorhers, David (12) and Michael (12), at Bernice Flanagan Burns married George sleep-away camp in ME last summer. So for the H. Burns on 9/25/99. Bernice was awarded her first time since '88, Leora and Iwere 'empty MBA from the John E. Anderson School at Correspondent. UCLA in Sept. '99. September seems to be a Anne Swallow Gillis nesters.' We have been racing our sailboat suc- 722 Granite Sr. cessfully. This year we won the JI120 North great mont~ for Bernice - way to go! 74 Pacific Grove, CA 93950 American Championships. Iam looking for- ~ne-Ll~dsay Makepeace has spent the ward to seeing everyone at our 25th reunion laseSIX years 111 Tokyo with husband Tarurn next june," and rwin toddlers Maya and Zubin. Time left- Margaret Yost Ormond writes, "I JUSt over from tending the kids is spent battling the completed my sixth-year degree in educational Japanese language, calligraphy, and promoting

54 cc. CONNECfICIJTCOLLEGE MAGA2JNE SUM~-IER2001 community relations between the foreign and Museum. Several cameras were used and r ALL-CAMEL FAMILIES: local communities. would love to have a copy of the negative so A LEGACY RECORD William Miller wrote to catch us up on that I can make copies. the years since graduation. Bill married Barbara That's all the news from Chez Nelson. WHEN KEVlN WILKINSON '01 stepped up Spiess 79 in 1982. They have three children: Please write and write often. to receive his diploma on May 26, it was Meredith, 16; Melissa, 12, and Tyson, 7. Bill and Barbara welcome any news from fellow Correspondents: Mary Goldberg Nash, 34 presented to him by his parents Andrew and CoCo alums. Galway Cr., Lenox, MA 01240, Theresa Ann Wilkinson, who graduared Tamara Saunders Bingham has been [email protected]; Andrew Mahony, from CC in 1974 and 1973, respectively. 95 Stetson Rd., Norwell, MA 02061 working and studying in the Atlanta, GA, area. 81 But he wasn't the first "double legacy" in the and Jeffrey Michaels, jmichae!@capac- She is the pianist for a smalllocaJ musical/act- cess.org college history. ing troupe. Life is good down sourh with hus- Sudana Qadir '98, daughter of band Glen and son Austin. Siri Wright Wine is the founder and director Muhammad RTC '94 and Jamelah RTC Patti Stern Winkel is taking a hiatus from of the Siamese Cat Rescue Center in Locust '93 was the first to hold this honor when she her L'i-year career as a marketing consultant to Dale, VA. The center, established in '98, just received her diploma three years ago. In his the entertainment and technology industries in rescued its 1,000th cat. Contact Siri at remarks at Commencement, Interim order to devote herself to the care of her sons: vasrcs'siarneserescue.org for more information. President David K. Lewis P '95 erroneously Ben, 9, and Matt, 4-1/2. identified Wilkinson as the first "double Hello from your newest class correspon- Correspondent: legacy," and the mistake was not caught dent, Beth Hardie Nelson! And rhank you to Deborah Salomon Smirh until a week later. He extended apologies all Ellen Harris Knoblock for so many years of 236 Lori Lane Norwalk, CT 06851 around. sending along tidbits and stories about our 82 The colJege maintains records of all family classmates. I am happily rooted in Bristol, VT, 20TH REUNION May 30-June 2, 2002; Class President alumni legacies, and a change in the applica- with my forester husband, Joe, and my two Gay Sweet Bitter; Contact, Reunion Co-Chairs Paul Barry tion procedure for RTC students probably children, Rosie, 8, and Tommy, 7. After years Weiss, 415-454-2907, [email protected]; Kimberly resulted in the oversight. Are there any other away from teaching, I have gone back to Gibbs O'Hayer, 401-454-1689, [email protected]; kindergarten, teaching mornings in a local and Tom Proulx, 510-528-3147, [email protected] "double legacies" out there? If so, please e- school. On the side, I am also doing freelance mail ccmagrs'conncoll.edu. graphic design projects. Correspondent: Claudia Gould Nancy Hagan in Cary, NC, writes, "I have 4722 South 30th Sr. four cool kids: Declan, 13; Claire, 11; Ciara, 6, Arlington, VA 22206 15TH REUNION May 3D-June 2, 2002; Class President and Ashlyn, 3. I am no longer a professor at 83 [email protected] Priscilla Geigis Antonioni; Contact, Reunion Co-Chairs North Carolina State u., but 1 am working Debrah Tullo Brooks, 781-622-7210, with migrant farm workers and the year-round, Correspondents: Lucy Marshall Sandor, [email protected] Maureen Tiernan-Meech, growing Hispanic population. Declan is a 253 Katydid Ln., Wilton, CT 06897, 561-64H945 lacrosse star, which is the best thing that could Ilicysa;[email protected]; Sheryl Edwards have ever happened to him. Claire is 5: 1".' Rajpclr, 17 Pheasant Ln.', Monroe, CT 84 Born: to Helen Murdoch and Abdalla Ciara is learning how to read and do addition 06468, [email protected]; and Liz [ahadhmy, Sophia Io/i/oo;'to Brad Dinerman and subtraction. Ash is a rascal; whenever she Kolber, 400 East 7Ist Sr., 5L, New York, NY 10021, lizkprincs'aol.com and Davida, .Ari Sherman 1/2/0 I. does something 'naughty,' she blames it on the Helen Murdoch is srill teaching history dog. Me: Who did. ? Ash: I don't know, Born: to Joanne Knowlton Gabriel and and yearbook at a high school in Santa Barbara, maybe Reilly." Steven, Jack Knowlton Gabriel 4/2510 I. CA. She's added on the responsibilities of com- Scott Hafner writes, "I saw Bates puter specialist as well. She welcomed daughter Childress when he was here on business. I have Correspondents: Lisa Levaggi Boner, 174 Sophia last fall. also been in touch with Francesca and that East 74th Sr., Apt. 4A, New York, NY Davida and Brad Dinerman also have a New Orleans Clam Girl Margaret Mintz. 10021, [email protected] new family member. Ari was born in Jan. "He's Things here at the winery continue to go well. and Mary-Ann Giordano Ziluca, 25 85 already his big sister Abigail's best friend." My brother and I are now the managing part- Deacon Abbott Rd., Redding, CT 06896, zilucats'prodigy.ner Abigail is 3. ners, as my parents step back and we transition to the next generation. I continue to chair the Born: to Sharon Ephraim and David Kite, Correspondents: Alison Edwards Curwen, board of directors of the Horizons Foundation Aaron William 11/5100; to Duncan 5025 Thacher Rd., Ojui, CA 93023, in San Francisco, which is the nation's oldest Robertson and Caroline, Miranda Jane 8/8/00. [email protected], (22 years) gay and lesbian communiry founda- 1955 Jefferson Sr., San Francisco, CA Sharon Ephraim is still at Wheels Inc. as 88 94123, [email protected] tion. My partner, Bill, and 1 are co-chairing a treasurer and assistant vp. Her department capital campaign for Pacific School of Religion includes all debt/lender managemen t and Married: Alison Shaw to Douglas Thornton, in Berkeley, where I have been on the board of accounts receivable and billing operations. trustees for six years. PSR is the oldest seminary 10/2/99. Deb Lowry MacLan is working as a chil- west of the Mississippi and a member of the Born: to Lydia Morris and Jeff Muchnick, dren's ministry coordinator at a church in Graduate Theological Union." Alexander 2/15/01; to Alison Edwards Princeton, NJ, where husband Mark is associ- Curwen and Austin, William Taggart Margaret Mintz writes, ''I'm married with ate pastor. Hannah, 9, enjoyed meeting Deb's two kids and live in Seattle. I'm not working 12/30/00; to Kim LaClair and Burke LaClair, classmates at Reunion 2000. She hopes to now bur am busy volunteering at school and in Lindsay Ann 2/99. bring the whole family to the next one. Patty Stickley and husband Tim bought a my community. Trying to make more time to write music and do art work." house in Orange County, NY, and are loving it. Correspondent: Barbara Malmberg Alison Shaw and Douglas Thorn ton were I received this new job at our 20th Reunion 442 Glendevon Drive NOHh married in Oct. '99. She got engaged in Cape last June - it was loads of fun! Thanks to all West Haven, CT 06516 involved - especially Loredana Musser, who [email protected] Town, South Africa. After living in London for 86 nearly 14 months, they traveled through seven writes, "I wanted to thank everyone for helping make our 20th reunion a memorable event! It African countries, Australia, New Zealand, and was wonderful to see so many classmates and Correspondents: Michelle Austin, 506 the Cook Islands until finally buying a house Main Sr., Hingham, MA 02043 and spend a great weekend together. I am also try- and settling down in Harvard, MA. Joann jenifer Kahn Bakkala, 51 Wesson Scheiber Donnelly, Lynn Tapper, Kristen ing to track down a copy of our class picture, T efface, Northborough, MA 0 1532, which was taken in from of the Lyman Allen 87 MacKenzie Pollard, Rachel Thomas and [email protected]

CC:CONNECTICUTCOLLEGEMAGAZINF. SUMMER lOO] 55 couple lives in Huntington Beach, CA, where rearing experience as a "spiritual awakening" Dave Thomas '86 were at the wedding. Eric has competed on the Bluerorch surfing cir- that has led them to seek greater meaning in Burke LaClair and Kim Priest LaClair cuit. Amy is working in the Irvine, CA, school life. To that end, they've sold their home in Rl have been living in Great Barrington, MA, district as a first-grade teacher. and most of their possessions and moved to a since '98. Burke enjoys his job as town manag- Sharon Cournoyer married sculptor Tom "spiritual growth center" in Albuquerque, NM. er, and Kim keeps busy at home with Ian and Howell, and they are living in Boston. Sharon They encourage all CC friends to visit. Lindsay. is working on her Ph.D. in poetry at Harvard Shelia Gallagher is an artist in Boston and and ralks to Jorie Johnston, "still my best teaches at Wellesley College and the Art Correspondent: Amy Lebowitz Rosman 49 Lambert St. friend. " Institute of Boston. Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 Lani Gonzales has been in NYC since '94. Stephanie Reinert recently moved to the rosmants'art.ner She's working at INC Barings and taking dance Boston area to pursue professional studies at 91 classes at Dance Space Center, where favorite the Boston Architectural Center and is hoping Married: Adam Ferrari to Debbie Moses, former Connecticut College dance teachers, to finish her thesis for her master's in historic 4/21101; Anton Malko to Hilary Magowan Jackie Villamil, Ron Brown and David preservation planning from Cornell. '94, 9/8/00. Dorfman, teach. She remains in close touch Laura Graetzer Snable was on vacation Born: to Hilary Silver-Carreras Fox-Mills with a lot of alums. Most recently she attended last Ocr. and visited Barb Holland Toomey, and Philip, Finn 6/26/00. Monique Antoine's wedding, where she saw Kate Stiffle, Burke LaClair, Kim LaClair, Hilary Silver-Carreras Fox-Mills is living Beth Fiteni and Ventrice Shillingford. At a jen Bleezarde Gauthier and Janet Kalunian. in Bedford, NY, with husband Philip and her recent NY alumni event, Lani met up with Barb, jen, [en Perry '89 and Laura also got twO sons. Finn was born on 6/26/00, and Julia Baez, who is now married. "Life and together on campus for a Sunday brunch. Georges turned 2 in May. Hilary is still great work in NYC has been good and being around friends with Ariel Apte, Shannon Gregory and and remaining close to CC friends have made it Carrespondent: Deb Dorman Hay Pam Goldberg. They are all doing welL Ariel satisfying and quite a lot of fun! Greetings to 5821 N. 22nd St. and Pam live in NYc. Shannon is in Baton Arlington, VA 22205 all!" [email protected] Rouge. Laura Tseng writes, "I am starting my last 89 It is with a bit of sadness that I write this last year of residency at UPenn Veterinary Hospital Born: to Gabrielle Antoniadis and Norman column as your class correspondent. I have in Philadelphia. It is going really well, but it enjoyed receiving your letters and e-mails over Riker, Isabelle Anroniadis Riker 7/23/00; to will be great to finish and have a real job! the past five yeats and look forward to reading Sarah Dllion Gedicks and Brian, Peter Joseph Philadelphia is a fun city. I recently started 4/5/0 l. about your news in the years to come. Best playing ultimate Frisbee in a huge league here. Alexandra Abbott and husband, Shaun wishes to all! - len Our team has traveled this year to Boston, NC Pederson '88 live in Brookline, .MA. Alexandra and Italy for tournaments." C"mp,,,d,,,,.. works as an interior designer for an interior Beth Emmons Lowenstein just embarked design/architectural firm in the Back Bay in Liz Lynch Cheney 51 Trumbull Ave. on a new career ... that of mother. She and Ben Boston. The firm mostly focuses on high-end Sroningron, CT 06378 are the proud parents of Ariella (Ellie) Mayo residential projects within New England but 92 [email protected] Lowenstein, who was born on 5/20/0l. has done some commercial work for CEO's Stephanie Simons Neal married David offices of Fortune 500 companies and a new 10TH REUNION May 30·June 2, 2002; Class President, Jim Neal on 9/23/00 in Somerset, N]. The couple Moran; Contact, Reunion Co-Chairs Jennifer Quigley·Harris, performance theater in Harvard Square in bought a house in Fanwood, Nj, last fall and 207-451-9118, [email protected] Cambridge. have bee~ learning t.he highs and lows of home- Elizabeth lynch Cheney, 860-439·2400, [email protected] Gabrielle Antoniadis is working for the ow~ershlp, Stephanie is working in NYC for Nature Conservancy and is enjoying life in the Last Occ., Laura Burden gave birth to a won- Well, Gotshal & Manges, a large law firm in Hudson River Valley with her new baby girl. derful baby boy, Sebastian Albert Shames. "I midtown, in the IT department, not as an had no idea having a baby could be so much attorney. She is also stage managing for local Correspondent: Kristin Lofblad fun!" Laura is living in Baltimore and just fin- theater when she finds the rime. 152PeariSt. Beth (Hodges) Mercurio was married last Cambridge, MA. 02139 ished her master's in urban and community [email protected] planning at the U. of Maryland at College Park. May and has been living in Hanover, !viA, with 90 her new husband. After a stint in the dot-com "I'd love to hear from other alums - especially Abbe Bartlett Lynch writes, "Nothing too those in the area. My e-mail is world, Beth will be at Babson full time to get new here - working, rowing, enjoying our [email protected]." her MBA. She recently spent some time with two dogs (Hudson and Cleo), and anticipating Erica Bos Callahan and Dan Callahan had Jenn Ianniello, who was back east for a visit. Andy's "Match Day," when we'll find out a baby boy, Tucker Willianl, on 3/23/01. Erica ~er a five-year engagement, Teresa Hsiao where we'll spend his residency years. I've been and Dan are still at Suffield Academy. Dan is rnarried Joerg Zehe on 5/19/01 at the UN lucky since work travel has kept me out in CA director of publications, and Erica is working in Chapel in NYC. Rachel O'Connor and quite a bit, so I've been able to see Julie Perry admissions part time and is also finishing her Stephanie (Bott) McLemore were in the wed- Varrier almost three or four times a year." counseling degree. ding. T.eresa and joerg live in Brooklyn, where Jen Cook is a recruitment coordinator for Teresa IS a senior manager at AOL programs abroad with AFS Intercultural Correspondent: Tali Durant has been promoted to general Programs in Baltimore. "Sailing my Laser in Mike Carson counselor at Semorus Solutions, Inc. (formerly Annapolis year-round." 123 Sr. Botoloph Sr., Apr. 10 Datalink.ner}, Boston, MA 021 15 Sandra Albrecht Wurzburger is enjoying a Sarah Benson lives in Austin, TX, with her 93 mikec l@Ziplinknet new part-time job in retail. The rest of the boyfriend, E~ic. She's beginning a master's pro- time, she's parenting her three-year-old daugh- Married: Eric Widmer to Amy Ventres, gram 111 architecture at the U. of Texas. ter, Brooke. 6/24/00; Kristen Ekedahl to Charlie Tauber, Andre Lee. is the director of marketing for Randy Kline and J enifer Thacher are liv- 4/8/00; Stephanie Simons to David Neal, Urbanworld FIlms, a newly formed distribution ing in Port Townsend, WA, with daughter 9/23/00; Teresa Hsiao to joerg Zehe, 5/19/0 1. company that is drawing on the successful for- Charlotte. Born: to Beth Emmons Lowenstein and mula of Urbanworld Film Festival. They have Greer Kessel Hendricks is living in Ben, Ariella Mayo 5/20/01; to Christy five films for the '01 slate. "The best part is that Brooklyn Heights with husband John. She is a Halverson-Ross and Garth Ross, Simon Stone 1 also get to handl~ tal~nt from our pictures." senior editor at Pocket Books, a division of Abbleby 6/26/0 l. Nat Damon lives 111 Santa Monica CA Simon & Schuster. The camel friends of Eric Widmer and where ~e teaches at Harvard-Westlake Scho'ol Greg Pilgrim and Sloane DeAngelis had a Amy Ventres gathered together last June to wit- and write screenplays. He is trying to organize baby boy, Garrett. They describe their child- ness their Connecticut shoreline wedding. The an LA.-based CC club and will work harder on

56 cc: CONNEcnCUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER1001 it next fall. This summer he was in Harwich, around the world producing the swimsuit issue. won the Master's Women's 'A' Eight at the San MA, writing and sailing and enjoying the She also worked for MTV styling Rebecca Diego Crew Classic in April. They are unde- reaching life. Romijn for the "House of Style" show. Since feated in Seattle area regattas as well. Chris McGuire was in Tacoma, WA, rig- leaving NYC, she has made her passion for Jill Pearson was on a jury this spring with ging and fitting out the Robert C. Seaman S this photography a career. Vin Farrell '96. In the entire city of NY, twO pasr summer. In Sept., he moved to the Cape A;; for me, Mike Carson, I am still working people from CC were on the same 12-person with his girlfriend, Virginia, who was recently for Hyatt Hotels at the Hyatt Harborside in jury! Jill also works with twO CC alums at the hired as a faculty captain ar SEA. "I'm driving Boston. The benefits of working for a hotel Princeton Review, Anton Malko '91 and Doug The Spirit of Massachusetts in the fall for a ] 0- company are awesome! I have moved again, as I Pierce '99. Such a small wotld. week high school semester program from sold one condo and bought another! I see Carrie Gray accepted an exciting position Boston to Puerto Rico." Amanda Frederick regularly. 1 was part of a with PUJv1A (the shoe company) and will be

Emma Scioli is working toward a Ph.D. III surprise at Andrew Schiff's birthday in Feb., relocating to their German headquarters near classics at UCLA and will be teaching at the along with Jeff Berman. Isaw Beth Hodges Nuremberg. Carrie would love to hear from Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Mercurio at a recent G.O.L.D. event and saw any CC alums in Germany Rome, Italy, during the '01-02 academic year. Jessica Schwarz and Swam Soldate in Seattle (carrie.grays'art.net). In June, she came back to Craig Kaplan and Rose Reich Kaplan '94 in July! Andrew Gibian sent his best to all in a CC to attend the wedding ofPhiJ jett '94 and are living in Boston. Craig is working at Credit phone conversation recently. He is married and Sarah Huntley '94. Carrie was in a horrid traf- Suissse First Boston in the Private Client a happy homeowner in CT. fic jam in downtown Seattle in April when she Services Group. They are moving from Please keep the notes coming. I am rebuild- noticed a Connecticut College sticker on the Brookline, MA, to NY in July. Rose is about to ing my e-mail database and will continue to car in front of her. She honked and got the dri- finish her pediatric residency at Children's keep everyone updated! Hope all is well! ver's attention - it turned out to be Amanda Hospital. Geller '90! Makes her realize what a small world Yadira Rodriguez has been" hanging out" cormpOlJdent:, Tika Martin it is and that Camels are everywhere! with Lani Gonzales in NYC and would love to 305 2nd St. Megan Kelly is still working on her mas- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 hear from old friends. Her e-mail is ter's in divinity degree at Harvard. She has been [email protected] [email protected]. "Hugs and kisses to 94 living in Portsmouth, NH, for an internship ar the Unitarian-Universalist church in town. She my college roommates, Krista Ray and Molly Married: Hilary Magowan to Anton Maiko Embree." '91,9/8/00, has officiated at weddings, funerals and child Jennifer Mann is back in Denver after dedications. So if any CC people are looking for a minister to marry them, Megan is official- spending two years in Grand Junction. She is Correspondent: still working for the Colorado State Public Stephanie Wilson ly clergy. She will be moving to Cambridge for Defender's office doing trial litigation. She 6823 Radcliffe Dr. two more years of school. (The degree takes would love to hear from anyone in the area. 95 Alexandria, VA 22307 four years. It's the longest master's program Nuala Thompson Sheets moved to San [email protected] there is.) Francisco, CA, and would love to hear from Shannon Poulin also lives in Portsmouth, Three generations of CC alumna celebrated the alumni there. and Megan sees her all the time. She and her birth of Laurel Ana Rosenbaum on 4/27/01. Sharon LePage is moving back to CT fiance bought a house last summer and are set- Laurel is the daughter of Lee and Judy ("gening out of OH") and will be living and tling in. Musicant Rosenbaum; the granddaughter of working in Greenwich at Eagle Hill School, a Carter Page is still living in NY and works Carolyn Rubin Musicant '65; and the great- private school for students with learning dis- for Deurschebank, though she's considering a granddaughter of Leah Savitsky Rubin '32. abilities. "Looking forward to being near Maj.!" move to CA. In April, she attended the wed- writes Sharon. ding of Kimberly Gresalfi '98 with lots of other Correspondents: Lisa PaOl,le, 44 Falmouth Camel sailors, including Maria Coppola '96 Iveris Martinez received her Ph.D. in Rd., Longmeadow, IvlA 0 II 06, anthropology and population dynamics from [email protected]; Rick Stratton, and Drew Buttner '98. She is continually run- Johns Hopkins U. this past May. She lives in 96 rsrranonrf'epigraph.com: and Erik ning into CC grads in the ciry. It makes NY Portland, OR, and works as a research analyst Raven, ekravrsconncoll.edu seem really small. Carter sees Ally Kurker, who for OR's Department of Senior and Disabled is in the city, and Maria Coppola, who is get- Services. She'd love to hear from her old Laura Mathews earned a Ph.D. in environ- ting a degree at Columbia. She also saw Jamie friends and former residents of Abbey House. mental and evolutionary biology from the U. of Kleiman at Kim's wedding. Jamie is living and Iveris may be reached at iverisjuaninezre'hot- Louisiana, Lafayette, in May. Her dissertation working at a school in Madison, CT, for special mail.com. was titled, "Social Monogamy Without needs kids. It is very demanding but very Kristen EkedahI and Charlie Tauber were Biparental Care: Empirical Tests of the rewarding. Carter ran into Paul Polakowski, married on 4/8100 at the Cosmos Club in DC. Territorial Cooperation and Mate-Guarding who works at DB, too. Maria Padro is living in Philadelphia, Hypotheses." Alex Teixeira lives in San Francisco and is where she is doing her residency. She traveled teaching ESL and environmental studies. to Boulder, CO, with Pete Francis and Randy Correspondents: Ann Bevan Hollos, 1001 Holly Doyle is in law school at Syracuse. E. Bayaud Ave, # 709, Denver, CO "Tex" Scott to visit Rick Guthke in Aug. She Sarah Folger is a kindergarten teacher in 80210, [email protected] Meg promises a picture of the rrip! Hammond, 1001 Oakland Ave., #2, Jackson Hole, WY. Bonnie Silberstein Edelman married John 97 Phil Bowen lives in DC, and works for Ann Arbor, MI48104 Edelman on 5/16/98. Marcela Ganly mahammonts'umich.edu AMS (American Management Systems) doing Cunningham was maid of honor. Marcela flew technical consulting and programming. all the way from Argentina for the weekend, 5TH REUNION May 30-June 3,2002; Class President Jeremy Ashworth is completing his fourth Allison Terpack; Contact, Reunion Chairs Brad Dolan, got deathly ill with a stomach flu, but was well B. year of rabbinical school at the Hebrew Union 860-951-0589, [email protected] just in time to share in the festivities. John College in Cincinnati and is also working on a and Dardy Muldaur, 860-437-1397, [email protected] works in his family business producing leather master's degee in education admin. at Xavier U. for interior design. John and Bonnie are now Jess Haynes is working as a project director Meg Barry is living in Seattle and working building their dream house in Ridgefield, CT. in the interactive department at Cramer, a mar- with GCSI as the service program manager in On 11/3/00, Olivia Ingeborg Edelman was keting communications company in Boston. their IT Services Department. last fall, she born. "She is enormous, like her parents. "I'm doing my MBA at night at BU, raking a began rowing after three years of coaching a (Bonnie is 6' 2", and [olin is 6' 4".) Olivia is couple of classes each semester, hoping to grad- high school team and now rows with the 29" long already!" Bonnie worked in fashion uate in '03. Other than that, I see Meg Ryan Cascade Rowing Club at the Pocock Rowing for six years for Clamour, Seventeen magazine and Courtney Minden a bunch - we all live Center in Seattle. She and her crew recently and, most recently, Sports ILLustrated. She flew in Somerville, MA.»

CC: CONNECTJCUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 200157 CC, Mrs. Murphy graduared cum laude from Isabelle Ewing Knecht '32, of Woodvi lle, Correspondents: Alec Todd, 6212 Syracuse U. in '46. She volunteered for the Shanda Dr., Apt. M, Raleigh, NC TX, died on Jan. 14. She was preceded in death United Way, the Junior League, the Syracuse 27609, [email protected] by her husband of62 years, Frank. Survivors Clark, 475 Commonwealth Ave. #401, Symphony, the Everson Museum and the include twO daughters, two sons, seven grand- Boston, MA 02215, abclarkll@hot- Saratoga Performing Am Center. The wife of 98 children, 13 great-grandchildren and one great- mail.com the late Joseph Murphy, she is survived by twa great-granddaughter. daughters, three sons and nine grandchildren. Margaret Hazlewood '32, of Waterford, Rebecca Crosby is in her second year at Yale Joan Roberts Altrock '47, of Pittsburgh, CT, died on July 27. A retired assistant profes- Divinity School in an interdisciplinary pro- PA, died on May 13,2000.* sor of English, Miss Hazlewood was also a grad- gram that studies religion and art history Katharine Bartlett Brewster '49, of uate of Yale School of Drama. together. Baltimore, MD, died on June 16, 1999. *t Jean Stimson Wucox '32, of Lamy, NM, Barbara Thatcher MacKay '49, of Avalon, died on Feb. 27. The widow of Stewart C. Correspondents: Megan Tepper- NJ, died on March 14. After attending ee, she Rasmussen, P.O. Box 2006, Kent Wilcox, she is survived by twO sons, a daughter, School, Kent, CT 06757, six grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, and transferred and graduated from Norrhwesrem U. A forrner teacher, Mrs. MacKay is survived tepperm@kent-schoo!.edu and twO brothers. 99 Danielle leBlanc, [email protected] Mary Curnow Berger '34, of White Plains, by her husband, John; three sons; two daughters; twO sisters; seven grandchildren, and twO NY, died on Dec. 23, 2000.* Mildred Doherty Buxton '34, of Bellevue, great-grandchiJdren. Correspondents: Jami DcSamis, 22 Judith Schultz Huhhell '49, of Glendenning St., Norwalk, 06851, WA, died on June 20. She leaves her husband of cr Doylestown, PA, died on OCt. 1,2000.* jldesantisrs'hotmail.com and Katie 67 years, Capt. Winslow Buxton, VCSG (Rer.): ()() Stephenson, 83 Mansfield Rd. #325, Nancy Ford OIr 'SO, of Timonium, MD, four children, seven grandchildren and 12 great- died on July 9. She leaves her husband, Warren; New London, CT 06320, grandchildren. ksre@conncolLedu Jane Perrequin Hackenburg '34, of three daughters and twO grandchildren. Hudson, OH, died on june 9, 2000.* Jean Chandler Frazier '53, of Phoenix, Sarah Gemba writes, "I was married on Elizabeth Hislop Kellander '38, of New AZ, died on June 5, 2000.* 5/5/01 to Pepe Fuentes of Seville, Spain, in London, CT, died on May 10. Mrs. Kellander Doris Furlow Bailey '53, of Streamwood, Marblehead, MA. We live in Salem, MA. I was head teller for the Savings Bank of New IL, died on April 14. She is survived by her hus- have been working since graduation in human London, retiring in 1978. She is survived by her band of 47 years, Robert; twO daughters, one resources for iBasis, an Internet communica- husband, Stanley; two sons, and twO sisters. son and seven grandchildren. tions company based in Burlington, MA. I Ellen Marshall Gilmore '39, of Oakmont, Janet Rourke White '53, of So. Windsor, love my job and am so happy to be with Pepe PA, died on July 4, CT, died on July 9, 2000.* in the same country. We are looking to possi- 1999. "t Emma Patterson Kraemer '39, of Louise Leve '54, of Southbury, CT, died bly move back to Spain in a few yeats. I see Melbourne, FL, died on April 29. The wife of March 11,2000.* Jules Feldman, Sandra Cruzzavala and Charles Kraemer, she is survived by one son, Leith Austin Warlick '55, of Vinalhaven, Lana Luciano around the Boston area and two daughters, four grandchildren, a brother ME, died on Oct. 17,2000.* love to visit with Irene Lord, Kelly Witman, Margot Harper Zeeb '56, of Knoxville, Anna Wilson and Brett Wiss, who are in the and two sisters. Jane Wray Lindsay '41, of Cleveland, OH, TN, died on March 23.* NYC area." died on Feb. 28, 2000.* Susanne Rike Bowers '59, of Houston, Virginia Seens Frantz '42, of Beverly Hills, died on Feb. 2, 2000. * Class Notes Editor Nadyne Loeffler MacKinnon '60, of CC: Connecticut College Magazine MI, died on Sept. 29, 2000.* Concord, OH, died in May." 270 Mohegan Ave. Jeanne Corby Bell, '43, of Stratford, CT, New London, CT 06320 died on July 25. She is survived by her husband, Dorothy Jean Ohlson Dabney '60, of 01 [email protected] Kenneth; one daughter; one son, and three Sausalito, CA, died on June 21. She is survived grandsons. by her parents, Louis and Kathleen Ohlson of Mary Lucas Crolius '43, ofGroron, CT, Santa Rosa; two brothers; two sisters; 11 nieces died on June 11, 2000.* and nephews and three great-nephews. OBITUARIES Jane Howarth Yost '44, of Centerville, Barbara VanWinkle Clifton '63, of MA, died on Nov. 26, 2000.* Rutherford, NJ, died on March 16,2000.* Marion Keene Hawes '21, of Chesmur Alese Joseph Shapiro' 44, of Swanton, VT, M~ Langdon, a part-time adjunct profes- Hill, MA, died on April 4.* died on Dec. 29, 2000.* sor of voice and opera at the college, died on Margaret Lamberton Sweatt '24, of Mary Melville Heron' 44, of Hingham, June 1. She lived in Mystic. From 1947 until Wayzata, MN, died on May 2. She was prede- MA, died on June 2. She is survived by two her death, Mrs. Langdon had a career as a voice ceased by her husband, Charles. Mrs. Sweatt is sons, twO daughters, four grandchildren and twO teacher and soloist in concert, opera oratorio survived by two sons, twO daughters, eight great~grandchj[dren. She was predeceased by her and recit~s throughout New England. She was grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. husband, George. featured Il1 five editions of Who:' Who in Eleanor Richmond Smith '27, of Anne Price Earle '44, ofWesterIy, Rl, died An:e~ican Women. A 1936 graduare of the Monroe, OH, died on Sept. 10,2000.* on July 8. She is survived by twO sons, one Wl11Jams Memorial Institute, she continued her Margaret Osborn Shelby '31, of brother and two grandchildren. studies at Hartt College of Music, the U. of Branford, CT, died on May 17. Mrs. Shelby Elizabeth Brown Leslie '45, of Old Hartford, juilliard School of Music and the was a medical technologist for Yale-New Greenwich, CT, died on July 2. She was a para- Manhattan School of Music. She is survived by Haven Hospital for 40 years. After her retire- legal and retired from Dewey Ballantine in '91. a son, a daughter, one grandchild and two ment, she was a part-time teacher and operated Mrs. Leslie was a volunteer with The Junior great-grandchildren. Her husband, Wilbur, pre- a greenhouse in vr. She leaves one daughter League, the Garden Education Center, and the deceased her in '9l. and numerous nieces and nephews. She was Arts Council of Greenwich, CT, and a member * A full obituary was unavailable at time of predeceased by her first husband, John of the New York Horticultural Society and publication. Hanrahan; one sister and one brother. Shenorock Shore Club Survivors include one t CC: Connecticut CollegeMagazine only Lucille Poppe '31, ofWashingron, DC, daughter, two sons and six grandchildren. She learned of this death recently. died on July 15. A supervisor for more than 38 was predeceased by her husband, Robert. EDITOR'S NOTE. Please send obituaries years with the Chesapeake & Potomac Patricia Lick Sieck '46, of Wormleysburg, to Class Notes Editor, CC: Connecticut College Telephone Co., Miss Poppe is survived by a PA, died on May 27. The widow of Charles Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave., New London, sister, Winifred Newbury, of Norwich, CT. Sieck [r., she is survived by two sons. CT 06320, [email protected]. Virginia Yancey Sanford '31, of Helen McGuire Murphy '46, of Bonita Rochester, NY, died on March 20.* Springs FL, died on Feb. 19. After attending

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GWENDOLYN COOKE '91 AND JOHN

LOMBARDO WERE MARRIED ON 8/21/99

BECKY BROWN '97 MARRIED ZACH EDWARDS ON 6/9/01 IN SAN

FRANCISCO. PICTURED FROM LEFT, STACEY SLETTEN '97, KATHERINE MOODY '98, EILEEN SULLIVAN '98, THE GROOM AND BRIDE, LIZZIE

CARLETTA '97, ELLIE JEFFERS '97, KEVIN WARD '97 AND GINGER WARNER '97.

CC ALUMNI PICTURED AT THE WEDDING OF MARY CATHERINE LEEMING '84 AND PATRICK ANDERSEN ON 7/29/00 IN CHICAGO. FROM LEFT, SIDNEY

BROWN KINCAID '52, FAIRFIELD FRANK DUBOIS '52, DOUGLAS BUCK '89, THE BRIDE AND GROOM, LESLIE ANN LEEMING '84 (MAID OF HONOR), JOYCE

LEEMING MAYFIELD '52 (AUNT OF THE BRIDE) AND RACH PERRY WELTY '94. DAPHNE GREEN '94 MARRIED ROB RUSSELL ON 7/29/00 IN SALEM, OR. PICTURED FROM LEFT, MARY BETH PALAZZOLA

'94, KATHY ARTHUR '94 (BRIDESMAID), THE GROOM AND BRIDE, AND LAURIE NATHANSON KAUFMAN '94.

SARAH BALL '93 AND JAMES GARINO '93 WERE MARRIED ON 6/24/00

IN PLAINFIELD, NH. TOP ROW, FROM LEFT: SPENCER LUCKEY '93, FELIPE GRIN IAN '92, DOUG ROBERTS '91, JENNIFER GARBUTT

ROBERTS '91, ESTY WOOD '93, MELANIE HUGHES '93, TIM OLSEN CC ALUMS GATHERED AT THE APRIL '00 WEDDING OF CHARLIE TAUBER '93 AND '93, KRISTEN SUPKO '92, NICENE PASCAL '93 AND ANDY D'AMOUR KRISTEN EKEDAHL. FRONT ROW, FROM LEFT: ANDREW CURTiS '93, DAVE BRY '93 '92. BOTTOM ROW, FROM LEFT, CARTER LAPRADE SERXNER '92, AND JAY SCHINDERMAN '93. SECOND ROW, FROM LEFT: ANNE RENO GEDDES '93, NICKI HENNESSEY BRUSTMAN '93, THE BRIDE AND GROOM, AMY LIZ SCHNEIDER '93, DEVON DANZ PRESON '93, THE BRIDE AND GROOM, BARBARA NORRIS HAMILTON '92, LAURIE SACHS '92 AND KEVIN WALOR '90 GOLDMARK TAUBER '64, L1DA WILLEY ORR '93, HOLLY HANDMAN '93, AND MIKE

REY '93. THIRD ROW, FROM LEFT: TIM ARMSTRONG '93, LUKE BEATTY '93, TODD SCHWARTZ '93, CARSON SMITH '93, GREG ROONEY '93, JOHN JESSOP '93 AND TIM OLSON '93.

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JACKSON WISE JOHNSON, SON OF

JENNIFER HARTLEY JOHNSON '92 )

LUCY DOYLE (DAUGHTER OF JENNIFER AMMIRATI DOYLE '91 AND KELLEY DOYLE '93) AND BEN ROSMAN (SON OF DAVID AND AMY

LIEBOWITZ ROSMAN '91) SMILE FOR THE CAMERA IN BOSTON, MA, ON 4/l2/01

JUDY MUSICANT ROSENBAUM '95 SENT IN

THIS PICTURE OF FOUR

GENERATIONS. STANDING, FROM LEFT, ARE JUDY AND HER MOTHER, CAROLYN RUBIN MUSICANT '65,

SEATED IS JUDY'S GRAND-

MOTHER LEAH SAVITSKY RUBIN '32 HOLDING JUDY'S ONE-WEEK OLD

DAUGHTER, LAUREL ANA ROSENBAUM, THE PIC-

TURE WAS TAKEN IN MAY, "~"~:..." ,tt' ... ' 1 VIRGINIA ALDOUS '83 MARRIED BENJAMIN EMERSON ON

6/1l/00 IN WEST ROXBURY, MA. PICTURED AT THE RECEP- TION ARE, FROM LEFT, SHARI WEATHERS RANDALL '83,

TERRI PARADIS LEDUC '83 AND LAURA HAAS '83.

KAREN MALLEGOL '96 AND ROBERT DRISCOLL '94 WERE MARRIED ON

MARTHA'S VINEYARD ON 9/30/00, PICTURED, KNEELING, FROM LEFT: JESSE PERKINS '96, COURTNEY SKULLEY '95, LISA PERANER WALES '96, JEN

EISEN BURG '96, LAUREN SANTEUSANIO '94 AND DAVE SANTEUSANIO '94,

SEATED, FROM LEFT, KATIE GOERING '96, MARK DRISCOLL '98, THE GROOM AND BRIDE AND LAURA BAYON '96, STANDING, FROM LEFT: MELISSA MALONE

'96, MATT MALONE '96, DUSTIN BEAUDRY '94, JOEY DRISCOLL '00, ROY

DUNWORTH '95, LACROSSE COACH FRAN SHIELDS, ALEX SEABOLT '96, TOM EMILY KLAYMAN '84 MARRIED DOUGLAS JACOBSON IN WASHINGTON, DC, HUDNER '95, RICH HARDING '95, SIOBHAN DOHERTY SMITH '97, GERRY RINN ON 1/16/00. PICTURED, FROM LEFT: MARGARET FERGUSON CORRIGAN '97, MARK ROONEY '95, BROOKS WALES '97, DYLAN DEPETER '98, SARAH '84, FREDERIKA GRANGER '84, THE BRIDE AND MARCIE CROSS DORION '97, JAY JAROCH '96, PETE MARSTON '95 ANO COLBY MCDONAGH '95. SANDALOW'84.

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fad (fad) n. [< Brit dial.] a style, etc. that interests ~ many people for a short time; passing fashion q)tdf/n/luialwd ~ ~~ "I can't believe I acrually wore that!" CC: Connecticut College Maga:z.ine is doing an article on fads for an upcoming issue. and we want [0 hear from you. Did you wear a beaverskin coat? Grow an Mea? Or try to stuff all 15 of your closest friends into a GREAT Volkswagon? What about mood rings? Or punk rock and purple hair? Send us your fad stories at [email protected] or to CC: Connecticut Colkge Magazine, 270 MoheganAve.,New London,CT 06320. NAMES at CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

ROB HALE '88 PRESIDENT OF NETWORK PLUS, INC. From C-O-N-N to C-E-o.· One Camels Road to Success Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.

EDWARD BURGER '85 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS,WILLIAMS COLLEGE Mathematics: Is the Formula Faster Than the Eye? Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. Co-sponsor: Mathematics Department, Bower Lecrure

DR. KATHERINE WILLIS '69 PRESIDENT, CYBERSTATE.ORG, MICHIGAN Being Wired: How Can Higher Education Assist Our Communities in Using Technology as a Force fOr Social Change! Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. Co-sponsor; Center for Arts and Technology

KARYN BARSA '83 PAST CEO OF SMITH & HAWKEN AND COO/CFO OF PATAGONIA Values-Centered Leadership: Can Companies Do Well By Doing Good! Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.

Alilecrures will rake place on campus.

The Office of Alumni Relations is taking nominations for our Distinguished Speaker Series 2002-03. Nominations should be sent to Maria Caporale, Office of Alumni Relations, Connecticut College,270 Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320; 860-439-2303 (fax); [email protected].

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COLORADO. Colorado alumni gathered community. Sixty alumni, family and on Jan. 15 for in-depth lectures and stimu- friends of the college attended this lating discussion at "College for a Day." delightful event, which was the first of This annual Denver event is coordinated many to welcome our new president. jointly by the alumni clubs of Connecticut College. Bryn Mawr, Mills, Mount CAPE COD. On July 26, Sandy Holyoke, Skidmore, Smith, Sweet Briar, Westennan '58 hosted a reception at her Vassar and Wellesley. This year's audience home in Chatham, MA. The annual lun- was enlightened and entertained during a cheon followed at the Chatham Wayside day-long series of seminars by professors of Inn. Secretary of the College and General ]udiac studies, English and art from Bryn Counsel Aaron Bayer was the guest Mawr, Mills and Wellesley. Liz Buell speaker. (Mark your calendars for next Labrot '55 and Betsy Payne Shannon '45 year: July 25,2002. Location TBA.) served as Connecticut College committee representatives for this popular and suc- FRESHMAN SEN DOFFS were held in cessful venture. For more information, visit the following areas: North Yarmouth, www.collegeforaday.com. Maine, Aug. 7, hosted by Connie Bischof Russell '91 and husband Liam SOUTHEASTERN CT. On July 25, Russell '90; New York City, Aug. 9, Interim President David K. Lewis P '95 hosted by Dr. Hedi Leistner Mizrack and wife Nancy hosted a garden reception '67; Seattle, Aug. 5, hosted by Geoffrey at their Stonington home to welcome Buscher '84 and wife Belinda; Denver, President-elect Dr. Norman Fainstein Aug. 12, hosted by Susan Hazlehurst and his wife, Susan, to the college and Milbrath '76.

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Schooling can't he let her stay") and finally gives in Excerpt from Schooling ("It was only a kiss on the cheek but he Chapter 1 should have known she wouldn't sleep if

Heather McGowan '89, Doubleday, 2001, he was going to kiss her on the cheek").

314 pages, fiction Canine and Gilbert become inseparable Did it grieve me to bring the girl. Of

friends - and take turns pulling each course it did. Add to that her mother just A bold, moving debut novel about a other toward trouble. gone and knowing how it is from my girl interrupted McGowan was born in the States but own gone young well of course ir grieved by 15 had lived in Belgium, France and me. I said as much to her shooting Your first impressions of Heather England. She began Schooling while get- silences all the way up to Chirtock Leigh. McGowan are that she's funny, smart, ting a master's at Brown. Because of the What a fine June day, I kept saying, Mild solitary and, at the moment anyway, sort [oycean (or is it Virginia Wool fish?) isn't it Carrine Catrine to which she of freaking out. She wants her first novel, nature of her novel, some agents swore always replied, Yes Father. Well, 1 eventu- she'd never sell it. "I thought, 'Oh, my Schooling, (Q speak for itself. She declined ally suggested, Let's have some publegs. God, I have just spent six years doing to pose for a book-jacket photo, and her Just then we passed the Horse & Trap. about-the-author blurb says virtually something that will never be published. Look, bach, here's six for me already. Six? nothing about the author. Now you've No one is interested and I have no career she said, Six, what kind of horse has six called her in Providence for an interview, and what the hell am I going to do with legs? Well, I said patiently, What kind of a photographer's on the way and my ljfe?' " A couple of suggestions? trap is it without a driver. Maybe it's Worry a little less. Write a lot more. McGowan has an endearing case of stage parked, she said moodily to her shoes. I fright. You ask her who she reads, and - Jeff Giles. From Newsweek, june 18 pointed to the upcoming pub on her side there's an epic pause:

64 cc: CONNECIKUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2001 Catholic Revival in diplomat husband to South America in examine the balance between work and the 19th century. Editor Evelyn Cherpak home. "I write to make sense of what I'm the Age of the Baroque: '63 pulled the "most historically signifi- thinking," she says. Using statistics and Religious Identity in cant and personally revealing entries" interviews with more than 90 women from the six diaries Mrs. Hunter kept from diverse backgrounds, Lo creates a Southwest Germany, during that time. compelling chronicle of the choices 1550-1750 From 1834-48, Mrs. Hunter was the working mothers make to create a bal- wife of the highest United States official ance between career and child rearing. Associate Professor of History Marc Forster, in Brazil, and her She is also the author of Between the Cambridge University Press,2001, 268 writings create a Lines: A Catalog of Mens Lecherous Lines pages, nonfiction. window into the and W'omens Resonant Responses (iuni- life of a lyrh-cen- verse.com,2001). Marc Forster's newest book explores tury woman whose Catholic reform, popular Catholicism expenences were and the development of confessional both extraordinary identity in southwest Germany. Based on Building the Global and commonplace. extensive archival study, Catholic Revival Writes Cherpak, Fiber Optics in the Age of the Baroque argues that "The world was a Catholic confessional identity developed Superhighway larger place 10 primarily from the identification of vil- Mary's time: sex roles were more defined; lagers and townspeople with the practices C. David Chaffee '73, 2001, Kluwer life was lived at a slower pace; values of Baroque Catholicism - particularly Academic/Plenum Publishers, 140 pages, were surer; and religion assumed a larger pilgrimages, processions, confraternities nonfiction. part in everyday life. The diaries give one and the Mass. The book is, in part, a cri- woman's insight into what it was like to A reworking of Chaffee's The Rewiring of tique of the confessionalizarion thesis live in Brazil during the Regency and America (Academia, 1988), this profes- that dominates present-day scholarship Second Empire, and in Montevideo and sional book describes the fiber optics rev- in this field. Buenos Aires during a civil war; how it olution. There have been many changes Forster completed the research for felt to be trapped in a loveless marriage in the fiber optics field since his first pub- Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque without hope of escape; and, finally, lication. This new edition details these through an Alexander von Humboldt what it was like to be a woman in what advances including optical networking; Stifrung grant and a National Endowment was essentially a man's world." the additional bandwidth created by the for the Humanities fellowship. A member Internet and association data services; lib- of the college's faculty since 1990, he .is eralization of the global telecommunica- also the author of The Counter- Superwoman Didn't Do tions industry and the rewiring of the RefOrmation in the Villages, (Cornell world's oceans with fiber optics. University Press, 1992). Forster received a Us Any Favors The author is owner of Chaffee Fiber Guggenheim Fellowshipin 2000. Optics, www.chaffeefiberroday.com. Frances Belknap 1.0 MAT '01, 2000, based in Ellicott City, MD. ilfniuerse.com, 132pages, nonfiction A Diplomat's Lady A well-researched and intelligent book, in Brazil Superwoman Didn't Do Us Any Favors Journey Around Boston examines the idea of working part time as From A to Z a solution to the difficulties women face Edited by Evelyn M. Cherpak '63, 2001, when combining career and family. Newport Historical Society, 435 pages, Martha Day Zschock '88, 2001, "Why don't we hear more about mothers nonfiction Commonwealth Editions, 32pages, chil- who work part time?" asks author Frances dren's nonfiction Published by the Newport, Rhode Belknap La. "More mothers of children Island, Historical Society, A Diplomat's under the age of six work part time or parr Journey Around Boston From A to Z offers Lady in Brazil chronicles 14 years in the year than work full time." an illustrated tour of historic sites in and life of the Mary Robinson Hunter, a Lo, a teacher and mother of three, around Boston for children of all ages. Newport resident, who followed her wrote the book as a way to personally Author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock

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'88, a third-grade teacher on Cape Cod, and mentor, a prominent local judge, to American and Filipino audiences. He developed the book from field trips with arrested for the crime? What does she is also a business development manager her students. She includes the places and have or know that's worth killing for? with a scart-up call center, Customer historic stories that most excited her And what are the most powerful people Contact Center, C3. third graders. in Newport - a senator, a dying professor and his embittered wife, a rep-notch security expert and a cadre of criminals Synchronicity Trust Me Once - determined to hide? With danger dosing in, Sarah is Ben Robinson '82, 2001, Metro- Video forced to turn to Owen Dean, a man she Production, audio compact disc Jan Coffey (Jim McGoldrick '77 and barely knows - a man who has secrets of Nikoo McGoldrick), 2001, Mira, 400 his own. But what she needs to stay alive Can your mind influence your surround- pages, fiction ... is someone she can trust. ings? Is it possible that events From a long Light the fire. Fluff the quilt. Grab a The latest book from husband and wife forgotten past can suddenly affect the sreamy mug of tea and enjoy. ream Jim '77 and Nikoo McGoldrick, present? Professional stage magician Ben Trust Me Once, written under the pseu- Robinson '82 answers these questions as donym of Jan Coffey, is the couple's first he explores the phenomena of meaning- foray into the world of contemporary ful coincidence through a series of true- suspense thrillers. Already seasoned life stories. The CD is narrated by para- romance novelists using the name "May Also published: psychologist Joanne D.S. McMahon, McGoldrick" (The Thistle and the Rose, Ph.D. Call 1-800-694-0320 to order. The Dreamer, The Enchantress and The Pasig: River of Life Firebrand), Jim and Nikoo have a knack for creating "cuddle up in a chair and First Tuesday Reynaldo Gamboa Alejandro and Alfred simply enjoy" stories, according co best- A. Yltson with contributing writer and selling romance author Heather Graham. Oren S. Tasini '83, 2001, production consultant Martin E. Lopez With Trust Me Once the McGoldricks www.greatunpubLishedcom,fiction '97,2001, Unitever Philippines Inc., 186 again pen a well-written tale that grabs pages, nonfiction Within days of an American presidential the reader from the first few pages. The election, the winner is assassinated. A body count rises as the mystery deepens. This coffee-table book, the first ever on shadowy group of revolutionaries claims Attorney Sarah Rand returns home Manila's Pasig River, brings to life the responsibility. Their goal? To undo the from abroad (Q discover she is a dead glory and grandeur of the Philippines' popular vote of the people by using the woman. In shocked disbelief, she realizes legendary waterway. Fully illustrated, peculiarities of the electoral college sys- the mur- with contributions from notable Filipino tem to benefit their desired candidate. der victim writers and artists, Pasig: River of Life is a Attorney Oren Tasini came upon the mistaken- reference tool and a bridge between the idea for his first novel during the 1992 ly identi- romantic, historical past and the appreci- election, when Ross Perot's third party fied as her ation of future generations. Proceeds challenge raised the possibility of no was really from the sale of this book go to the Sagip candidate receiving a majority of the her best Pasig Movement. electoral college. friend. No Marrin Lopez, a native of the First Tuesday is available as both a one knows Philippines, graduated from secure electronic download and a paper- Sarah's Connecticut College with a double back from www.grearunpublished.com. alive major in economics and Asian studies, except the with a minor in Chinese. He holds a cer- killers still tificate from the Toor Cummings Center hunting for International Studies and the Liberal her down. Arts. In the Philippines, he runs his own Alone and on the run, she desperately arts management company, SinagTala searches for answers. Why was her boss ("shining star"), bringing Filipino artists

66 cc: CONNEC1"ICUTCOLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 200! the rocks. Though it wasn't exactly how they met, it's the scory that appears in their press packet. In creating a story, Nikoo supplies Jim with the vivid images, and Jim adds the "what if?" component. "The two of us continue to talk and experiment and think about characters who would strug- gle and achieve with a given set of problems ... and on and on it goes." Their was better than anything the formula, though perhaps unorthodox, are rem bly ~ose.Teys end most of McGoldricks had written separately. works. The couple writes so fast, their their ti e ogether, 5 ar hobbies and With Jim's background in English publisher can't keep up. In addition to in eres a d ve Fmflh e eh other's sen- and Scottish history, they decided to pen the May McGoldrick historical ten e . Ni 00 ana Jim N'fcGoldrick '77 a work of historical fiction. After writing romances and Jan Coffey suspense are \llch cou~e - "'Xl! absolutely love a 3D-page outline, they visited their local thrillers, they've added young adult fic- ~en(lin timeyog th r - ~nd they library in Bucks County, Penn., and tion ("PG romances") to their repertoire. H ve ~de their closeness their career. came up with names and addresses for Along with Trust Me Once, the Since 995, wh~n t~y published their 19 agents who dealt with women's fic- McGoldricks have a new historical debut historical romance, The Thistle tion. Not knowing they needed a com- tomance, The Promise, out this month. and the Rose (Penguin), under the pseu- pleted book before they started looking In 2002, rhey will publish another Jan donym of May McGoldrick, Nikoo and for a publisher, they sent off their out- Coffey book, Twice Burned, and yet Jim have ridden a wave of success. They line. Five days later, an agent from another romance, The Rebel. They've have co-authored more than a dozen California phoned. "She told us she even chronicled their recipe for success books (10 are available on amazon.com) loved our book," says Nikoo. "When I in a nonfiction book, Marriage of and have won numerous awards for their told her there was no book, only an out- Minds: Collaborative Fiction Writing work. This summer, their debut suspense line, she asked, 'How fast can you (Heinemann, 2000), to "help other writ- thriller, Trust Me Once (Mira), written write?" That phone conversation took ers who might be looking for an alterna- under the pseudonym of Jan Coffey, hit place in March of 1994. By the follow- tive way to tell their stories successfully." the bookstores. ing September, Jim and Nikoo had Jim admits he was a less-than-stellar How did a former engineer (Nikoo) signed a multi-book contract, and May undergraduate English major at and a professor of lorh-cenrury English (Jim's grandmother's name) McGoldrick Connecticut College. "I read every- literature (jim) become romance novelists? was born. thing, just nothing that was on any syl- After their younger son successfully "There are so many things in life that labus." (Though Nikoo is quick to came through heart surgery as an infant, pull a couple apart," says Jim, "so we've point out that Jim had a 4.0 GPA while the couple knew it was time to reassess always looked for things we can do working on his Ph.D.) ''At Conn, I con- their lives and goals. "It was a wake-up together." During their 21 years of mar- centrated on rowing," says Jim, who call," says Nikoo, who was putting in riage, the McGoldricks have shared the remembers coach Ric Ricci as a "great long hours as an engineer in upper-level hobbies of quilting, golf and rowing. "He guy." Jim also credits the late Professor management. On a whim, the forced me to take rowing lessons when I of English James R. Baird, with show- McGoldricks ~ who both always loved was nine monthspregnant," jokes Nikoo. ing him the importance of discipline. to write ~ decided to work on a short Jim glances in his wife's direction. "Okay The closeness that Jim and Nikoo story together. "I'd written a short story ... I was four months pregnant." This is share extends to their life with their sons, in graduate school and asked Nikoo to a marriage of storytellers. Cyrus, 12, and Samuel, 10. take a look at it," says Jim. Nikoo laughs Jim and Nikoo met in Southeastern The idyllic life of Nikoo and Jim as she remembers her initial reaction to Connecticut when Jim was working for McGoldrick ~ marriage, family, career Jim's work. "It was terrible," she says, giv- Electric Boat and Nikoo was studying at ~ is summed up in a paragraph from ing her husband a thumbs down. But the University of Connecticut. On their their press packer. "We are living our together, they reworked the piece. "A!:, third or fourth dare, Nikoo helped Jim grand passion. Living and working with soon as we did, we knew we had some- pull an old rowboat co shore after a the one you love is the best life has to thing special." Their collaborative work storm had washed the battered craft Onto offer." - MVH

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Bruce Branchini

A chemistryproftssor finds the right formula to bring the art of science home.

Branchini decided to spend a semester- travel abroad, he said. "It was legitimate eyes Oil Florence as the guest of his Italian long sabbatical in Florence working at and relevant." relatives. the European Union-supported Center So it came to be rhar these students Nearly a quarter of a century later the for Magnetic Resonance (CMR) located sat around a phalanx of tables in a ris- Hans ~Ella MGCollum-Vahlreich '21 on the city's outskirts. I roranre one warm afternoon in March as Professor of

68 cc: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER2001 Bouchard, a Return to College student, and Peter Driscoll, Mike O'Sullivan, Kristen Park, Nathan Portier, Sarah Reisman, Eric Welch and Kevin Wilkinson, all of whom graduated in May, were glad to have had such an opportunity. For Sarah Reisman, this was her second visit to Florence. She had been in the city previously for a one-week visit with her step-brother, Matt Frongillo '01, who was spending the semester there. Reisman is planning to attend Yale in the fall, where she expects to earn her doctorate in chemistry, and then go on, perhaps, to teach. The TRIP to Florence was her only chance AW THAT HOLDS at CC to go abroad. "Chemistry stu- that wery waiter, every auto mechanic in dents have so many courses to take, and LosAngeles is peddling a screenplay is no some are offered only every other year lesstrue toHaythan it was during the hey- so you can't miss one," she said. "This day 0f Hollywood and Vine. A small shorr story by Philip K. Dick. Best was a great opportunity." army of as iring screenwriters - many of known for the novel that became the In Italy the students toured the them recent collegegraduates in $50 hair- film Blade Runner, Dick was a sci-fi CMR, the Menarini Research Institute, curs - fillsthe city: they drag laptops to visionary sometimes compared to Borges luminescence research facilities at the lacre Dars, talk story outside the for his eccentric imagination. The University of Florence, and the Institute Hollywood 'i1v1CA,waiting for their big Minority Report, for instance, takes place and Museum of the History of Science. break. Most of them won't get one. in a police state of the future where the It was on his way out of the Museum Three thousand miles away, typing in authorities can predict crimes before of the History of Science that Porter saw the third floor of his Victorian home, sits they happen. None of this, of course, a group of Italian schoolchildren also Jon Cohen. His glasseswere not designed made adapting the 32-page story any departing and noted, "The children by Giorgio Armani. Without ever aspir- easier for Cohen, who departed from the seemed more excited abour their visit ing to it, Cohen '77 has landed one of story "utterly, completely." Explains than [American] kids would." He was screenwriting's biggest prizes: He's one of Cohen: "1 took the idea of the Precrirne impressed because "there's nothing several writers behind the next Steven organization that had the ability to pre- flashy" inside the museum. Instead, they Spielberg blockbuster. The lines he dict, a week in advance, that somebody had seen the telescope used by Galileo, banged out in his house in Swarthmore, was going to commit a murder. The idea pieces of scientific equipment "set out as Penn., while his kids wrestled and played of getting arrested before you committed art," and globes on which maps had been tuba a few floors below, will be spoken, a crime was the central idea that hand-drawn showing North America next summer, by Tom Cruise and Max intrigued me. From there Ire-imagined attached to Asia. von Sydow. "To this day, it's not my the idea, just hugely." That's not just about science, as Bruce ambition," says Cohen with a laugh. He Though he's hard pressed to explain Branchini discovered so long ago. It's often speaks with a Groucho Marx indi- how, Cohen's path to Hollywood began also about art. - NML rection. "It's almost perverse the way it's at Connecticut College. He majored in fallen into my lap. But there's something English, concentrating in American liter- else at play, as well - almost as if you ature; his memories are of a pleasant, were rewarded for the thing that you contained place where he made good You can read more about the weren't looking for, because you kept to friends. He especially remembers James TRIP to Florence at the true path." Baird, an English professor with whom hltp://cameI2.conncoll.edu/ Cohen's luck, this time around, he studied Faulkner, Fitzgerald and early ccacad/nip/trip/index.html brought him to adapt the script for 20th-century American literature. "Minority Report," based on a 1956 "Wonderful man - absolutely terrify-

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ing," Cohen recalls. "He was so exacting. that since he never struggled to break But when you got to know him, he was into Hollywood, it awes him less. He's lovely. If I had any guidance in valuing now met with all kinds of Hollywood tal-

the word, it was from him." His experi- ent, from leggy actresses to Oscar-win- ence with creative writing was less suc- ning directors. "And in none of those sit- cessful. "I was surrounded by 20 people, uations did my throat dry up nor did 1 all of us probably talented, eager to be panic. And I'm not sure why that is, heard. And I could feel some negative because I'm not a particularly courageous thing rising, some competitive 'hear me guy. As for the trappings of it - you fly roar' kind of thing. It creeped me OUL" first class, and yOLLstay in the first class He quit during the first week. hotels - 1 get a kick out of it the way Upon graduating, Cohen felt lost and any tourist would. I'm not jaded." headed straight to nursing school. What The movie, which was shot this drove him into nursing? "Fear. And lack spring and summer, will likely be credit-

of ability to address my own talents." His ed to Cohen and at least one script doc- first job wok him to the cancer ward of a tor. (The screenplay is currenrly in credit downtown Philadelphia hospital, a stint arbirrarion.) And while the movie doesn't he recalls as "terrifying and overwhelm- open until next July, Cohen's already ing." Within a year he was back at his par- received a huge professional bounce. ents' house, working as a nurse for a few Though Cohen prefers not to discuss his months at a time, then taking some time work in progress, he's been hired to adapt to write short stories, then back to nurs- a science-fiction short story for Nicole ing - a pattern he held for most of the Kidman and is pitching a script of his '80s. He sent his work to literary maga- own. "1 have no end of projects coming

zines - The New Yorker, Esquire. "But to me," he says, conceding that he never the stories tended to be odd little Twilight knows which ones will hit. "It's a combi- Zone-y things. As it turned out, I was nation of Christmas and lotto." showing my movie side early on, in my Despite the lures of Hollywood, sensibilities, and in my style of writing." Cohen won't budge from Swarthmore, Despite what he calls "billions of where he grew up with a family of yarn- rejections" and a few publications, spinners. "It keeps me grounded," he says Cohen moved to novels, publishing of small-town life. three, none of which sold terribly welL One of his agents told the Philadelphia Strangely, though, this was where things Inquirer that Cohen would "do for took off for him: Film producers began Swarthmore what Stephen King did for to bid for movie rights to his novels, and Maine." Cohen's self-image is more hum- by 1990 he was able to quit nursing and ble: "I see myself as somebody who hire an agent. He began to make five fig- lucked into a story form that allows me to ures here, six figures there - still not suPPOrt myself. I am mostly JUSt up here sure be was going anywhere. None of his in my room, trying to get the sentence sales resulted in movies. Then Jan De right." He seems that rarest of happy men Bent, who directed "Speed" and - someone who enjoys what he does "Twister," asked him to adapt "The every day. He could be a character Out of Minority Report." Capra, the Everyman whose good heart His big break? After all the effort, his and native wits win the day. "The best finished script got a few bites, but no tak- parr of it is that I'm a free man." ers. Then in late 1998, Spielberg called - Scott Timberg is a staff writer at the Cohen and invited him to Los Angeles to alternative weekly New Times Los discuss it. His meeting with Spielberg, he Angeles. A former reporterfor The Day in says, was "very professional and gracious, New London, he also contributes to GQ, and all about the story." Cohen figures Slate and The Hartford Courant.

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