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▲ Fond Farewell to Retiring Professor John Bott ▲▲▲▲Wail of the Wild–Summer with the Loons of Winnipesaukee Transfer Students Follow Their Hearts to Colby-Sawyer A Passion for Politics Nature as Classroom

W INTER 2008 EDITOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES David R. Morcom Anne Winton Black ’73, ’75 CLASS NOTES EDITORS Chairman Tracey Austin Mike Gregory William S. Berger Vice-Chairman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mitch Capelle Suzanne Simons Hammond ’66 Kate Dunlop Seamans Executive Secretary Kimberly Swick Slover Pamela Stanley Bright ’61 VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Alice W. Brown Elizabeth A. Cahill Timothy C. Coughlin P’00 Thomas C. Csatari DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Richard Dulude Kimberly Swick Slover Karen Craffey Eldred ’86 Joan Campbell Eliot ’67 COVER PAINTING Stephen W. Ensign Professor John Bott Eleanor Morrison Goldthwait ’51 William E. Gundy G. William Helm Jr. DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Lisa Swanson Erik Edward Joh Patricia Driggs Kelsey Second Story Design Joyce Juskalian Kolligian ’55 Manchester, N.H. A. John Pappalardo P’10 David B. Payne PRINTING Mark A. Peterson P’08 Penmor Lithographers Richard N. Thielen Lewiston, Maine Jean M. Wheeler Daniel H. Wolf

HONORARY LIFE TRUSTEES David L. Coffin P’76 Peter D. Danforth P’83, ’84, GP’02 William H. Dunlap P’98 Charles J. Lawson

LIFE TRUSTEES EMERITI Mary Trafton Simonds ’38, P’64 Barbara Johnson Stearns ’32

ADDRESS LETTERS AND SUBMIT ARTICLE IDEAS TO: David R. Morcom, Editor Publications Office Colby-Sawyer College 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 Phone: (603) 526-3730 © Copyright 2008 Colby-Sawyer College E-mail: [email protected] C LBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE

FEATURES

Farewell to John Bott...... 10 After 30 years of teaching art to Colby-Sawyer students, the popular professor is ready to “sit in the front yard and drink coffee and talk about the things we did when we were 16” with his old high-school buddies.

On the Cover: Professor John Bott’s Wail of Patchwork Trout, a watercolor he the Wild ...... 14 painted in 2006, was one of the Chris McClellan ’08 fulfilled many pieces which were greatly his Colby-Sawyer internship admired by art lovers at the retro- requirement by spending last spective of his work presented in a September/October exhibit in the summer with the loons on Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery. Lake Winnipesaukee.

Finding Their Place ...... 18 Transfer students who followed their hearts to Colby-Sawyer find they came to the right place.

A Passion for Politics ...... 28 Colby-Sawyer alumni and current students revel in the political campaign spectacle and value its larger purpose in our democracy. DEPARTMENTS Nature as Colby-Sawyer Matters . . . 2 Classroom ...... 32 Sports Round-up ...... 24 Professors and students embark on an informative and exciting Alumni Notes...... 35 exploration of water resource management in the Colorado Class Notes ...... 39 River Basin.

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College Joins Higher Education Leaders to Fight Global Warming

Colby-Sawyer has committed to a “climate-neutral” campus, which means off-setting or mitigating the impact of carbon-based activity (burning fossil fuels in any form). The pledge came with President Tom Galligan’s signing of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment Business Officers and reads as follows: puts Colby-Sawyer out there on this (ACUPCC) in which he joined the “The making of decisions that integrate issue,” says Professor John Callewaert, leaders of 330 institutions across the environmental, social and economic director of Colby-Sawyer’s Institute for country and made Colby-Sawyer a opportunities across campus and within Community and Environment. “And charter signatory institution. the broader community.” our new membership in the Association While there are numerous ways The college will work to create a for the Advancement of Sustainability to become climate or carbon neutral, comprehensive institutional action plan in Higher Education will provide impor- there are two which are the most to move toward climate neutrality, tant resources as we move forward with common. The first is to generate an which could take a number of years. In sustainability. While Colby-Sawyer is amount of energy from non-carbon- the short term, Colby-Sawyer will build just getting into this movement, I think based sources (wind, solar, etc.) equal on its commitment to campus sustain- we will be able to move fast given our to the amount of carbon-based emis- ability, a growing movement in acade- size and our culture of cooperation and sions. The second is to balance the mia toward living within the limits of communication.” carbon equation by doing something the earth’s resources. such as planting trees that will absorb The Presidents Climate Commitment the carbon that is released through the pledge was recommended by the col- CSC Fun Fact burning of fossil fuels. lege’s Community and Environmental Each time chicken nuggets, “Climate change and global warming Studies majors who, in 2006–2007, a mealtime favorite, are served in the are among the defining issues of our conducted a Campus Sustainability dining hall, Colby-Sawyer students time,” says President Galligan. “We Assessment for their Green ROUTES pro- gobble up 5,440 of them. believe human activities have signifi- ject. The group’s recommendations met cantly contributed to the problem, and with wide support from students, the we are committed to working together to administration and trustees, and faculty solve it. Creating a culture of concern for and staff. The Climate Commitment, the environment, including a commit- a program of the Association for the ment to sustainability, is critical to our Advancement of Sustainability in Higher success. Colby-Sawyer College is proud Education, was launched in June 2007, to be among those leading the way.” and is the first effort by any major A good definition of the word sector of society to set climate neutrality sustainability as pertains to this initia- as its target. tive was developed by the National “Being one of the charter signatory Association of College and University institutions of the ACUPCC really

2 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE IN MEMORIAM President Everett M. Woodman

Everett M. Woodman, who served from 1939 to 1941, when he departed as the third president of Colby Junior for military service in World War II. As a College from 1962 to 1972, passed lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, he served in away at age 91 on July 31, 2007, in New France and participated in the D-Day London, N.H., following a period of Battle of Normandy. After three years in declining health. Colby-Sawyer College the service, he returned to Colby Junior hosted a memorial service for him on Aug. College to teach until 1946. 25, which was attended by his family and In 1941 President Woodman married his many friends and colleagues from the Colby Junior College alumna Ruth community will cherish President college and surrounding communities. Randolph ’40, and they became the par- Woodman’s legacy—both as an influen- President Woodman led Colby Junior ents of four daughters: Betsy, Lee, Jane tial college leader and a close friend of College through a decade of growth and and Deborah. After completing his doc- the college. “He expanded the reach of transformation. In a time of national toral studies in 1948, he taught at the Colby Junior College through his broad unrest related to the Vietnam War, he University of Illinois and was appointed international experience and desire to emphasized the importance of interna- a Fulbright Lecturer at the University connect the college to the global commu- tional perspectives in education and of Lyon and Strasbourg in France. nity,” President Galligan says. “He and promoted new campus events such as From 1952 to 1954, President his wife, Ruthie, are beloved and respect- United Nations Day and Reaching the Woodman worked in Madras, India, as a ed members of our community, and we Questioning Mind Overseas. He was cultural affairs officer for the U.S. Informa- will miss his presence on campus.” known as a collaborative leader who tion Agency and as acting public affairs Margaret Wiley, assistant professor cultivated strong relationships with the officer for South India. For the next four of Humanities, often saw President college’s faculty, staff, students and years he served as an attaché at the U.S. Woodman at the Susan Colgate alumnae. Embassy in New Delhi and as director of Cleveland Library/Learning Center, Following President Woodman’s the Educational Exchange Program where he was a frequent visitor and had passing, many alumnae shared their between India and the United States. placed his papers in the archives in 1996. memories through calls, letters and In 1958, President Woodman joined “Everett Woodman had a deep love for e-mails. “I have a beautiful letter from the Ford Foundation as an educational Colby-Sawyer College and its students,” him in my scrapbook, pictures of him consultant to the government of India’s Professor Wiley says. “He’d come into escorting me in his garden as May Ministry of Education. He held that the library on his quad canes and go up Queen, and a copy of his speech to the position until his appointment as presi- to students, asking them their majors student body following some unrest on dent of Colby Junior College in 1962. and what they were working on. He had the campus,” wrote Marta King Stone Following a decade of service at Colby a real gift for making others feel valuable.” ’69. “His life was one well lived.” Junior College, he became president of Professor Wiley also recalls President Sue Chapman Melanson ’66 shared a the Nature Conservancy in Washington, Woodman’s expansive world view. “His distinct memory of President Woodman D.C., and was later appointed director of personal interest in the well-being of the dealing swiftly and compassionately the Peace Corps in Morocco. college community was matched by his with a student who had just lost a Colby-Sawyer College presented concern for all of humanity,” she says. brother in an accident. “He told her the President Woodman with an honorary “A keen follower of world events, he felt news, walked her upstairs so she could Doctorate of Humane Letters in May strongly that global education and dedi- gather some things, then personally 1995. Long after his presidency he and cation to lifelong learning was necessary drove her to the airport. He was a master his wife lived in the New London area, in today’s world.” of detail, compassion and caring.” where he remained intensely interested The legacy of President Woodman President Woodman was born in in the college, participated in campus will live on in part through the recently Franklin, N.H., on Feb. 11, 1916, and was activities, and maintained many friend- established Everett M. Woodman educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, ships across campus. Scholarship at Colby-Sawyer College. Dartmouth College (A.B.) and Boston Colby-Sawyer President Tom Galligan, This $8,000 annual award seeks to University (Ed.D.). His first teaching who became acquainted with the former make the college more affordable and position was at Colby Junior College president in the last year, says the college accessible for transfer students.

Gifts in memory of President Woodman can be made to Colby-Sawyer College, Office of Advancement, 541 Main Street, New London, NH 03257 or the Clough Center, 273 County Road, New London, NH 03257.

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Professorship, Endowed Faculty Chairs Announced

Colby-Sawyer College honored three long-time faculty members, Pat Anderson, Randy Hanson and Leon-C. Malan, as the recipients of a new profes- sorship and two endowed faculty chairs in an investiture ceremony on campus. The ceremony, in which the profes- sors officially took on their new roles, was held in Wheeler Hall on Oct. 18, and was attended by the college’s Board of Trustees, family members of the benefactors for the named professor- ships, and many members of the college community.

The Gibney Distinguished

Professorship PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS (L to r) Professor Randy Hanson, President Tom Galligan, Professor Pat Anderson, and Professor Leon-C. Malan. Humanities Professor Pat Anderson, who has taught at the college since 1977, continues to host, along with students in “It has been the signal privilege and was awarded the Gibney Distinguished the Communications Studies Program, a honor of my academic career to have Professorship. The professorship was film-review program called “Reel Talk,” been offered the opportunity and made possible through a gift from Albert which is featured on WSCS-FM, the stu- challenge of filling his dream of sup- L. Gibney, long-time friend and husband dent-run radio station at Colby-Sawyer, porting the college’s central mission— of alumna Eloise Beach Gibney ’36, and and is also produced by faculty and pursuit of excellence in the classroom,” was created to promote public speaking students as a cable television show. Professor Stecker said. across the college. “His vision has lifted the whole “Professor Anderson is a beloved The David H. Winton Endowed community’s standards of excellence. and respected teacher and campus Teaching Chair I believe the Wintons’ extraordinary leader known for his boundless pas- Randy Hanson, professor in the History, philanthropy of mind and resources sion for and extensive knowledge of Society and Culture Program, was named allows those of us who teach and learn American literature, Native American as the new recipient of the David H. here to understand it is not enough to culture, and film,” said President Tom Winton Endowed Teaching Chair, practice inquiry in Descartian terms Galligan, who presented the award to established in 2002 in honor of former (cogito ergo sum: I think, therefore I am), Professor Anderson. “Pat is a fabulous trustee chair and benefactor, the late but that we must enlarge that notion and committed teacher and an active David H. Winton. Through one of his to demonstrate the characteristics of role model in the life of this college. major gifts to the college, Winton, the a mind alive to new ambiguities, para- It is therefore with great joy and honor father of alumna and current trustee doxes, challenges and new forms of that we name him as the Gibney chairman Anne Winton Black ’73, ’75, creativity—with undiminished joy.” Distinguished Chair.” sought to recognize the college’s In a nod to her successor’s fluency in In his new role, Professor Anderson professors and exemplify their vital Spanish and current sabbatical research will steward the Gibney Public Speaking roles as teachers. in Mexico, Professor Stecker peppered Initiative, which will include establish- Humanities Professor Ann Page her address with some Spanish lan- ing an advisory group, setting goals and Stecker, the first recipient of this guage, which seemed to surprise and planning events and activities for the endowed chair, introduced and lauded delight Professor Hanson. initiative, and writing for scholarly her successor, close friend and colleague, “I believe he teaches in his sleep…” publications. Professor Hanson, whom she described she said. “We know he teaches walking Professor Anderson has been hon- as the “Aristotelian, peripatetic teacher down the halls, scurrying from one class ored with the Jack Jensen Award for and learner.” She began her remarks to the next. We observe him teaching Excellence in Teaching in 1998, and with a remembrance of benefactor everywhere—at his Day of the Dead cel- in 2004 he was selected as a George David Winton, whom she described ebrations, at faculty meetings, in front of Washington Distinguished Professor/ as “winsome, debonair and a commit- a jam-packed tent at Commencement, Scholar by the New Hampshire Society ted presence” during her early days and on the racquetball court.” of the Cincinnati. He also founded and on campus. Professor Hanson was recognized

4 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE with the Jack Jensen Award for Like Professors Anderson and He also stated that Professor Excellence in Teaching in 1999, the Hanson, Professor Malan, who teaches Malan, in his 14 years of teaching at CASE/Carnegie Professor of the Year courses in business administration and Colby-Sawyer, has superbly combined for New Hampshire award in 2003, community and environmental studies, teaching, professional activity and com- and with a nomination for a New is an exemplary teacher and scholar munity service. “Leon is a demanding Hampshire Excellence in Education who was recognized with the Jack Jensen and inspiring teacher who sets high Award. He served as coordinator of the Award for teaching excellence in 2006. expectations, is tough and fair, and college’s Liberal Education Program His teaching and research reflect his supports students who show they are from 2002 to 2007, overseeing the new strong interests in the globalization of willing to put in the time required. program, working with the Pathway business and industry and its impact on Students exposed to Leon’s innovative faculty, coordinating the proficiency and responsibility for global environ- combination of business sense and and exploration courses, and assisting mental issues. He conducts research in environmental ethics cannot help but in launching the innovative Learning management and organizational theory, emerge wiser and better prepared to take Portfolio for students. business strategy, globalization, and on leadership roles.” In addition to his teaching and environmental studies with a focus on Professor Malan is also engaged as leadership roles, Professor Hanson is the interaction between organizations a leader on campus and in the commu- engaged in research and scholarship and their external environment, in- nity. He was active in the design and both in liberal arts education and the cluding the natural environment. implementation of the Community and history of Mexico. He has written arti- Professor Joe Carroll, the first faculty Environmental Studies Program (CES) cles and delivered presentations on member to hold this chair, had the and recently assisted the students who many aspects of liberal arts education honor of introducing his successor. After led Green ROUTES, a CES project, in for educators at the local, regional, thanking M. Roy London’s son, Roy understanding the financial impact of national and international level. London, family friend Peg Cawley and a movement toward campus sustain- the London family, Professor Carroll ability. He also serves on local commu- The M. Roy London Endowed Chair said there is no one who better per- nity boards such as the Blaisdell Lake Professor of Business Administration sonifies the focus on community and Protection Association and Sutton Leon-C. Malan was appointed to the environment than Leon-C. Malan. He Conservation Commission. M. Roy London Endowed Chair, which recalled Professor Malan’s reference In closing the ceremony, Deb Taylor, honors a faculty member whose work to Ubuntu, or human connectedness, academic vice president, said that while and vocation combine excellence in during Professor Malan’s Commence- these professorships recognize three teaching and a strong, positive influence ment address in 2006. “It is clear that extraordinary professors, their larger on campus and in the wider communi- he lives by the principles he urged our purpose is to celebrate and honor all ty. This endowed chair was named in graduates to adopt, that is, the value Colby-Sawyer faculty members, whose memory of M. Roy London, an educator of contributing to their communities dedication to teaching is the heart of who spent more than 30 years at Colby- in a spirit of caring and respect,” said the college’s academic programs and Sawyer as a teacher and dean. Professor Carroll. students’ educational experience.

New Trustees Join degrees in physical education and Center, the Salem County YMCA, math from Boston University and and the vestry of Trinity Episcopal Colby-Sawyer Board Rowan College. She was a physical Church. She captains two U.S. Tennis education teacher at several schools Association teams in Middleburg, and Colby-Sawyer College before becoming an is a volunteer at SOME (So Others welcomed four new athletic director and Might Eat). She and her husband, members to the Board of coach. She served as Robert, have two children and three Trustees in 2007: Joan chair of the Middleburg grandchildren. Campbell Eliot ’67, Community Center William “Bill” E. Gundy of New William “Bill” E. Gundy, and as president of the London and Vero Beach, Fla., is a Erik Edward Joh and A. Middleburg Tennis Club. Dartmouth College graduate and retired John Pappalardo P’10. Joan also served on the managing director of business develop- boards of the Farmers and Joan Campbell Eliot ’67 ment from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Merchants Bank, The Hill of Middleburg, Va., earned His career included 22 years in the com- School, Notre Dame an associate’s degree from puter/technology industry and 20 years Academy, Piedmont Colby Junior College and (Continued on page 6) Joan Campbell Eliot ’67 Child Development went on to earn bachelor’s

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New Trustees at Colby-Sawyer College (continued) in the financial services industries, Erik Edward Joh is an attorney with Harriman Award. He has also served as which included heading a startup com- his own firm, Erik Edward Joh, P.A., president of the Florida Governor’s puting company, serving as a regional who also serves as counsel to Hinman, Hurricane Conference and as trustee, trea- vice president of Datacrown, a Canadian Howard & Kattell, LLP, Binghamton, surer and vice-chair of Albany Law School, remote computing services firm, and in N.Y. He graduated from Dartmouth Albany, N.Y., and as a trustee of Florida a variety of senior positions with State College and earned a law degree from Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fla. Street Bank & Trust He is co-trustee of Company. Bill has the Gertrude E. served on the Skelly Charitable Colby-Sawyer Foundation and a College President’s trustee of several Advisory Council other charitable since 2003. He is foundations. Erik is a a member of the former rowing coach Board of Directors at Dartmouth College for the Summer and football coach at Music Associates Christian Brothers and of the Choir Academy in Albany, and Stewardship William “Bill” E. Gundy Erik Edward Joh A. John Pappalardo P’10 N.Y. He recently Committee at First retired as a football Baptist Church, both in New London. Albany Law School of Union University. official after 34 seasons. He and his wife, He and his wife, Malora, have five A former member of the Board of Gov- Vicki, live in the Village of Golf, Fla., children and 14 grandchildren. Bill’s late ernors of the American National Red where he is vice-mayor. wife, Jane, was a member of the Colby Cross, Erik received the organization’s A. John Pappalardo P’10, a graduate of Junior College Class of 1957. highest award for leadership, the Bowdoin College and Suffolk University

College Welcomes Largest The students are actively engaged in National Guard. Twenty-five new athletics and recreation, as well as students have come to the college as Class in History extensive travel and community service. transfer students, mainly from commu- One new student operates a success- nity and technical colleges in the New Colby-Sawyer welcomed 381 new ful graphic design and printing business, England region. students to campus this fall, the largest another is a trapeze artist, and yet This record-breaking fall enrollment incoming class in the college’s recorded another is a member of the Junior follows a year in which the Colby- history. The students come from 18 states National Fencing Team. Others are polit- Sawyer community has worked hard to and five countries, with 35 percent from ical activists, hunters, honor students, personalize the recruitment process for New Hampshire and 91 percent from mountaineers, and former military ser- each prospective student and empha- New England. vice men and women or members of the sized the college’s people, programs and “You are a special group of people with a diverse set of experiences,” Vice President for Enrollment Management Greg Matthews told the students at Convocation, the official opening of the academic year, on Sept. 7. “One of you has come from 7,700 miles away in Nepal and one lives within four miles of here. Several of you have served in the armed forces, and we thank you.” The students are academically strong, with their top five intended majors in nursing, business administration, exercise and sport sciences, child development and psychology. Following national PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS trends in higher education, 70 percent Members of Colby-Sawyer College’s largest class in history heading toward Convocation, the ceremonial of the new class members are women. opening of the academic year.

6 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE IN MEMORIAM Law School, is a co-managing share- holder with Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Richard E. Crockford, Former Vice President His areas of practice include securities and Dean of Faculty fraud; health care and pharmaceutical fraud; corporate ethics; grand jury ichard E. practice; criminal taxation; and federal R “Dick” Crockford, litigation. He has taught classes at a member of the Suffolk University Law School and Colby-Sawyer lectured at Harvard law School. John faculty from 1955 has been employed in various capa- to 1972, died on cities as an attorney for the state of Friday, Sept. 28, Massachusetts, including as a U.S. 2007, after a brief Attorney, Deputy Attorney General illness. He served as and Ward Commission Deputy Chief the college’s dean of Counsel. He has been listed in the studies from 1968 2006 and 2007 Best Lawyers in America, through 1970 and Marquis Who’s Who in America, and as vice president and dean of facul- open people’s eyes,” according to Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2005, 2006 ty from 1970 through 1972. He is Professor Cleveland. He and his and 2007. John has served as director the father of Elizabeth “Beth” C. first wife, Claire, and their children of the Bowdoin Club of Boston, and Crockford, Colby-Sawyer’s current were fully engaged and respected as commissioner of the State Ethics academic dean and associate pro- members of the community, Commission. He and wife, Karen, live fessor of Business Administration. she recalled. in Hingham, Mass. Their son, Jonathan, Dean Richard Crockford was Former Dean and Provost is a member of the Class of 2010 at born in 1927 in Miami, Fla., and Wally Ewing, who succeeded Dean Colby-Sawyer College. served in the U.S. Navy during Crockford, recalled him as the World War II. He later attended quintessential New England dean. Bowdoin College, where he earned “He filled the role admirably. He place, according to Tracey Guarda an A.B. in government in 1950, had the look, the manner and the Perkins ’01, director of admissions. and Boston University, where he temperament of a dean,” Dean In a campus-wide communications earned an M.A. in English in 1955. Ewing said. “I knew I would have effort faculty and staff, coaches, and He went on to teach and serve in big shoes to fill.” current students have become even the administration of several Dean Crockford left the college more involved in welcoming prospec- schools, ranging from elementary in 1972 to become the tenth tive students to campus and responding to junior colleges and Boston president of Dean College in to their individual interests in academic, University. Franklin, Mass., where he served athletics and other co-curricular Dean Crockford joined the until his retirement in 1991. programs. faculty of Colby Junior College in During his tenure there, the According to Perkins, the communi- 1955. He taught English for 13 college developed new transfer- ty has tried to convey the distinct char- years before becoming dean of and career-oriented associate acteristics of a Colby-Sawyer education: studies and, later, academic vice degree programs and opened small and challenging classes, accessible president and dean of faculty. several new facilities. These professors, staff, coaches and adminis- Professor Emerita Hilary Cleveland, included the Children’s Center, trators, and an engaged and active com- who has taught at the college a laboratory pre-school, the munity in which individuals matter and since 1955, came to know Dean Academic Computer Center, a can make a big impact. Crockford and his family well. college radio station, and the “Our goal was to reach out to pros- “He certainly was one of the Telecommunications Center. pective students and their families at most dynamic English teachers at Enrollment in the Division of all the vital points in the application the college,” Professor Cleveland Continuing Education grew to process and to really get to know the said. “He always challenged his more than 1,200 part-time stu- incoming students,” Perkins said. “Not students’ views and tried to get dents under President Crockford only does Colby-Sawyer know the them to see other points of view.” and he was presented with a Class of 2011 better than any group His style, which could sometimes Distinguished Service award before them, but the new students really seem confrontational, “was always from Dean College on Friday, understand the college and arrived with meant to get at the truth and Oct. 27, 2006. an unprecedented sense of community.”

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Colby-Sawyer College and first-grader who gets extra attention offices and guidance offices, and in from a college student in the classroom, the athletic programs. Kearsarge Regional School to our future teachers and nurses, who Each year for three and a half District Recieve a Carter gain professional skills by working months, dozens of future teachers Partnership Award Grant alongside experienced mentors across devote 40-hour weeks to working with the district. The partnership instills in teachers and students across the district. everyone who participates a deep sense Colby-Sawyer interns also work each olby-Sawyer College and the C of what it means to contribute to and semester with district guidance coun- Kearsarge Regional School District benefit from being part of a strong and selors, special educators, athletic direc- (KRSD) were recognized with a Jimmy caring community.” tors, preschool teachers, after-school and Rosalynn Carter program coordinators Partnership Award grant and coaches to gain for Campus-Community professional experience Collaboration. The award and provide support to honors a strong and vital their supervisors. partnership that has “Our students bring directly benefited stu- energy, enthusiasm and dents from kindergarten excitement to their through high school and teacher mentors and provided college students the children,” said Janice with professional devel- Ewing, chair of Social opment experiences and Sciences and Education opportunities for com- at Colby-Sawyer. The munity service for the younger students benefit last four decades. from student teachers’ The Carter Partnership capacity for bringing Award was presented on new research from the Nov. 6, 2007, by former PHOTO: GIL TALBOT field of education into First Lady Rosalynn Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was joined on stage by (from left) KRSD Superintendant Thomas Brennan and Colby-Sawyer President Thomas Galligan during the Carter Partnership the classrooms. Carter to Colby-Sawyer Awards dinner. Art education major President Tom Galligan Sarah Heaney ’08 is a current student and KRSD Superintendent Thomas A Partnership in Education teacher at Kearsarge Regional Middle Brennan as part of the 10th anniversary The partnership between Colby-Sawyer School, working closely with art teacher celebration of Campus Compact for College in New London and the Karla Salathe as her supervisor. “I slowly New Hampshire. Awards were also Kearsarge Regional School District took over and eventually became respon- presented to St. Anselm and Keene (SAU #35), which includes the New sible for all 11 art classes, spanning 6th State Colleges to recognize exemplary Hampshire towns of New London, through 8th grade, with about 300 kids collaborations by colleges and universi- Newbury, Bradford, Springfield, Sutton, for three consecutive solo weeks,” says ties, in partnership with community Wilmot and Warner, brings the two Sarah. “The internship has definitely groups, in addressing critical public educational institutions together for been a great learning experience for me. needs. collaboration in many areas, ranging Every day I find myself loving it more President Galligan expressed gratitude from teacher education and preparation and feeling more comfortable in front to the former President and Mrs. Carter to community service and the sharing of the class,” she says. “I also feel much for their support of college and commu- of human and physical resources. more a part of the community now.” nity partnerships and for the inspiring The core of Colby-Sawyer College’s examples of their lives and work. He also academic mission is to integrate aca- Engaging in the Community thanked the Kearsarge Regional School demic preparation with professional Through its Harrington Center for District, as well as Colby-Sawyer students, experience, and 98 percent of the col- Career Development, Colby-Sawyer staff and faculty, for their ongoing lege’s students participate in internships encourages civic engagement and engagement in this multifaceted and in their fields of study, according to community service as an integral part mutually beneficial partnership. President Galligan. Many of the college’s of students’ education and preparation “Colby-Sawyer College’s dynamic students who are preparing for careers as as citizens and community leaders. and enduring partnership with the teachers, nurses, psychologists, coaches The center supports three national Kearsarge Regional School District has and athletic trainers work closely with AmeriCorps Programs that benefit been great for the college and our stu- K-12 students in the school district, students in the elementary and middle- dents,” President Galligan said, “and it gaining professional experience through schools, including After School Buddies, has enriched the lives of many, from the their work in the classrooms, in nurses’ America Reads and Elementary and

8 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Middle School Mentors. coordinated the mentoring Through these programs and program at the Kearsarge the middle school’s The Zone Regional Elementary School after-school program, dozens for the last two years, and she of college students volunteer and a fellow student expanded their time each week to teach, the program to the district’s mentor, provide companion- middle school this year. ship to and to generally serve “It’s amazing to see how as positive role models for much the little buddies look many younger students. up to their mentors,” she said, LuAnne Ryall, community “and how much of a difference service coordinator at the the big buddies are able to PHOTO: LUANN RYALL Harrington Center, said young Colby-Sawyer students Sarah Heaney ’08 (left) and Ashlee Willis ’08 displayed make in the little buddies’ students often relate to and are posters about the college’s partnership with Kearsarge Regional School District lives—but also, the other before the Carter Awards presentation. inspired by college students, way around!” and the positive relationships that form emerged as a layer of a broad and deep For LuAnne, one factor stands out as between them encourage youth to con- union between two organizations com- emblematic of the enduring partnership sider college in their own futures and to mitted to providing opportunities for between the college and the school incorporate community service into education and civic growth,” she said. district. “There is a shared intention their own lives. Ashlee Willis ’08, co-president of to build programs and relationships Through her work with Colby- Colby-Sawyer’s Community Service that provide more for both institutions Sawyer students and the Kearsarge Club, promotes community service for than could be realized if there were no school district, LuAnne has discovered her fellow college students as a way of banding together to share human and the depth and breadth of dynamic having fun while making a positive campus resources,” she said. partnership. “Each individual program difference in people’s lives. Ashlee

Investing in Our Community’s Future

efore making her life income gifts to Colby-Sawyer more To honor and celebrate their commitment to the college, than ten years ago, Joan Kaufman Kirkpatrick ’54 Med Joan and Charles are members of the Heritage Society. Along BTech was a loyal supporter of the Annual Fund. Each year with other alumni and friends of the college, this is their way of her current gifts enriched our campus community in many recognizing their important role in ensuring the college’s fiscal ways, benefiting key areas such as teaching and learning, well-being in years to come. scholarships, and faculty development. Planned gifts help protect individual assets, allow you to Joan returned to New London with her husband, Charles, provide for your family or heirs, and can create a guaranteed in the fall of 1995 to begin a new life after each had experi- income stream during your lifetime or that of a beneficiary. enced the loss of a spouse. They immediately discovered that In exchange for an irrevocable gift of cash, securities, or other Colby-Sawyer “could be a genuine and important resource in assets, the donor receives an immediate income tax deduction, providing opportunities to assist in the transition from single as well as capital gains tax savings on gifts of appreciated to married life once again.” Joan and Charles are active swim- assets. The payments are guaranteed by the general resources mers and can be found at the college’s Hogan Sports Center of the college. In most cases, part of each payment is tax-free. pool seven days a week. The only interruption to their routine Our community is grateful for the special trust that Joan and is when they go to Florida in the winter. Charles says he and Charles Kirkpatrick and many other alumni and friends have Joan feel strongly about their return to New London each placed in us through a variety of planned gifts. If you have spring. “Both the college and the town are magnets forcing us included Colby-Sawyer in your will, estate plan, or trust please to return, renewing the delight and pleasure of the close asso- let us know. We welcome the opportunity to invite you to mem- ciation and support of Colby-Sawyer and New London.” bership in the Heritage Society to celebrate your future gift now. The generous contributions Joan and Charles make each year to add to their planned gifts bolster the college’s ongoing suc- To learn more about bequests, charitable gift annuities and cess. These additions, they say, “are expressions of our gratitude other planned gifts, please contact Peg Andrews ’85 at for the benefits we enjoy in our relationships with the college (800) 266-8253 (toll-free) or (603) 526-3726, or via e-mail and, in a larger sense, the greater New London community.” at [email protected]

WINTER 2008 9 A Farewell Conversation with Artist and Professor

John Bott PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS Surrounded by friends, colleagues and admirers, John Bott shares a laugh at the by Kate Dunlop Seamans opening reception for the retrospective of his work in the Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery.

AN ARTIST DOESN’T STOP BEING AN ARTIST AND A TEACHER DOESN’T STOP BEING A

TEACHER JUST BECAUSE OF A RETIREMENT PARTY, BUT CAREERS DO COME TO A

CLOSE. AFTER 30 YEARS AT COLBY-SAWYER, PROFESSOR JOHN BOTT IS PLANNING

TO LEAVE THE CLASSROOM BEHIND AT THE END OF THIS COLLEGE YEAR.

In tribute, the Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosted “I’ve almost always painted pretty paintings,” says John, a retrospective of paintings, drawings, print and sculpture by “and I got a lot of criticism for painting pretty because it’s not Professor Bott. At the opening reception, crowds filled the deep, there’s no tragedy. At some point I decided that because Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery to view the work of the man everyone else thought it was the wrong thing to do, it must who has taught and created at Colby-Sawyer since 1977. be the right thing to do—I like them pretty and I’m going to Born in West Virginia and adopted as a child, John doesn’t do them pretty. This is a different time. When I started really know if there are other artists in his family, but he started getting into painting in the 1960s, in grad school, everybody painting at age 13 with the support of an uncle who bought did one painting after another that was almost just like the him art supplies. He also cred- other, and you got criticized its his school’s art program for if you broke that style. early cultivation of his talent. Something happened in the John received his M.F.A. from On Expression: “Art is a ’80s and people decided it was the University of North all right to do any kind of style Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has way to express yourself, and the more you wanted. It was pluralism. exhibited works throughout There’s no one big school of art the eastern United States and confidence you have in yourself, the now like there was in the ’50s the Midwest, as well as in and ’60s. There’s no pop art to Germany and Japan. He says more you’re able to express yourself, strive to be a part of. It’s a he knows where almost every world that’s exploding in no one of his large pieces is, but also, the more you express your- one right way, and I just go and that includes significant along with the flow.” collections and institutions self, the more confidence you have.” While there may no longer across the world. be one school of art to study or

10 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE with which to conform, John has a definition of art readily available—in short, art is a mirror. “The most important thing there is, is culture,” he says. “We’re held together by culture, by that set of beliefs that peo- ple believe in and act on. Culture’s supported by mythology, and it doesn’t make any difference if the myth is right or wrong as long as people buy into it. Art is a part of that mythic struc- ture that tells people what the culture does and doesn’t believe in. That’s Art, with a capital A, and it includes poetry and nov- els and movies and everything. Bellingrath—Acrylic on canvas, 1997 “Artists are not people who deliberately understand all of these things and make up marvelous symbols to put out for everyone to see. The real talent of art is being able to pick up on the spirit of the age, an awareness of what’s happening, before most people do. That funnels into the art and then the culture changes or is made stronger. I don’t think many artists really change the culture like Jackson Pollock and the others that you can name, but most kind of support the culture. Art’s a reflec- tion of the time in which it’s made, but it’s scary if you’re mak- ing art and you think it might be important. It’s much more fun to make it and just have it be enjoyable.” Though culture-changing artists may be the rare titans of art history books and museums, John is generous with his view of who can help support and subtly shape the culture at large. He thinks it’s everyone. “I think we all have the capability of being artists, but not visual artists necessarily,” he says. “We have to look at our own nature, what it is that we’re drawn to do and find the art in that. If you’re a writer it’s because you can do it. You didn’t Self portrait/Walking in a Meadow—Watercolor, 2000 want to be a writer initially because you wanted to write the

On Painting: “I’ve never been a down- and-out struggling artist, though I came from relatively lower middle-class circumstances. Just being able to do what you want to do and keep a roof over your head and eat well is a pretty good thing.”

Great American Novel. No, it was because in the third grade you started getting compliments about how well you could write. I know by the fifth grade I was the class artist because I could do it, and that’s how you get your reputation. Some people are football players and some people are artists. Everybody has some kind of talent.” Back in 1977, John was attracted to Colby-Sawyer because of the significant and traditional presence the Art Department had within the small college. Diana and Nymphs—Watercolor, 2000

WINTER 2008 11 boomers have done a wonderful job raising these kids. They seem to be getting younger every year; it’s difficult to look at On Teaching: “I’ve always them and think of them as being college students, but it’s still fun to see someone go from a freshman to a senior with a whole taught, I’m very biased about that. I different bearing about them.” It’s the students that John will miss next year when he no don’t think you can teach art unless longer has a class roster and grade book to consider. From his 16 acres on top of a mountain in Unity, complete with trout you do it. And teaching feeds the art.” pond in the front yard, John will continue painting and send- ing works to galleries, but the vitality of campus life won’t be there. “I’m going to miss the company of people in those magical “Colby-Sawyer had, and has, one of the very best art depart- college years. It’s a great time for kids and they’re fun to be ments in New England,” John says. “Part of the philosophy is around; they keep you young. For the last three years, I’ve been that you don’t have to have a nuclear reactor to have a good art working fairly hard not to get too attached to new ones, since department, all you need is five teachers. The great programs I’m leaving, but I do have a couple and I’m going to miss them. have all been small. Art departments have a habit of getting too And I’m going to miss conversations with all the faculty who big—you have weaving and this and that, and, next thing you know things I don’t know—if you pump them just right they’ll know, it’s a big crafts play-school instead of a serious, hardcore, talk about marvelous things. classical art department, which is what we’ve had. It’s been a “This has been a wonderful place to work and live. My hope tradition of art here at this college since it was founded to have for the place is that it continues in the direction it’s headed. serious stuff, and lots of people have come here to study art.” We’ve gotten academically better, and I hope the young facul- Colby-Sawyer’s appreciation for the arts offered a space ty they bring in all believe they can do it here, that they don’t where John could pass on his own love for creating, and many have to be at an Ivy League school to be a good teacher. Colby- of his students have gone on to graduate school and success in Sawyer has been a great place to have my career—I’m happy the art world. and proud of what I did while I was here.” ■ “If a student comes into my class, they want to paint,” John says. “No one gets stuck in there who doesn’t want to do that. What I have to do in the beginning is help them figure out how to do what they On Retirement: “I’ll go down south for a already want to do. I don’t think you can look at a student’s work and tell them it’s couple of the miserably cold months up here and hang good when it’s not because they’re smart enough to figure that out. But they’re not out with old high-school buddies. We’ll sit in the front really smart enough as a general rule to fig- ure out what they’re doing well, so you yard and drink coffee and talk about things we did point that out to them. “I’d like to say that right now we have when we were 16. It’ll be a lot of fun, actually.” some of the nicest students; the baby

Birds Gotta Swim; Fish Gotta Fly—Watercolor, 1998 New Hampshire Suite: Fall—Acrylic, circa 1980

12 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Thoughts Upon the An Artist at Work: Retirement of John Bott

hen I came to Colby-Sawyer, John Bott welcomed me what had come before them, but also as a method of under- as a new teacher. He offered advice about teaching standing how new works could derive their understructure from Wand emphasized the importance of helping students historical references. to challenge their ideas and the importance of providing them John’s own work shows a continuum of subtle changes and with the skills to create well-formed ideas. He did this through examinations. New concepts are generated and layered over the constant conversations, pulling ideas from them that helped the bones of preliminary ideas, creating new visual outcomes. John’s students find their voices as artists. He would amble through the understanding of color theory is superb, and his love of color is studio chatting about the work at hand, but also asking about constantly beaming off his canvases and watercolors for everyone the students and what they were thinking and feeling. to enjoy. Pure saturated colors are woven and threaded through John warned us against teaching at the students, or teaching every image and shape, and his work radiates with new spatial as we were taught, because he said every student is an individual realities as the colors recede or bounce off the canvas. and each deserves attention. He connected with his students in I have appreciated John’s, and his wife Kathy’s, friendship over a way that seemed like front porch conversations, but those con- the years. My memories of our time together range from quiet, versations uncovered the layers of meaning until every student late-afternoon fly fishing excursions to cooking lessons at their was creating work that was meaningful home and sitting on their porch watch- to them. Through the years that I have “Listen to all of John Bott’s stories ing the birds while chatting about the watched John Bott teach, his strengths array of flowers in the garden. I still were evidenced in how he connected and soak up whatever you can have iris tubers from their garden that with each student—he took the time because he has lived in such an bloom every spring. that was required. These are memories that will always John has taught painting, drawing, exciting time of art and the come to mind when I think of John, but watercolor, design, creative expression generation of important artists also I will remember the orations at fac- for the liberal education area, and many ulty meetings and the genuine intent art history courses during his tenure at we look at, like Pollock. He has behind his being, at times, the devil’s the college, and in each area he devel- some wonderful ways of talking advocate during discussions. John has oped curriculi and fostered learning out- about art, really nice insights contributed much to the life of this comes that would be universal within college, and to the life of this faculty the department no matter who taught with so much to offer. He is a member who so many years ago was the course. John has always felt that art wealth of information.” given a hearty welcome by this won- history should be included in each of the derful artist and wonderful teacher. –Rebekah Tolley, director of the Mugar Art studio experiences as the basis of all Gallery and assistant professor of Fine –Loretta Barnett, chair, Fine and work, not only so students could see and Performing Arts Performing Arts Department

Patchwork Trout—Watercolor, 2006 You Can’t Get There—Acrylic on canvas, 2001

WINTER 2008 13 Wail of theWild

A Summer with the Loons of Lake Winnipesaukee

by Kate Dunlop Seamans PHOTOS: KATE DUNLOP SEAMANS

sk Chris McClellan ’08 about past summer jobs and “Loons are an indicator species, so the presence of loons he’ll off-handedly mention working at his small indicates health in an ecosystem,” says Chris. “The more loons AVermont town’s grocery store and as a camp counselor. we have, the better for the lake.” Ask him about fulfilling his Colby-Sawyer College internship The state’s loon population, however, has dropped an esti- requirement, though, and he’ll smile before telling you about mated 40 percent in the last four years, according to the latest his paid post as a field biologist this past summer at the annual census organized by the LPC. Sadly, the haunting wail Loon Preservation Committee’s (LPC) Loon Center in of the loon is heard echoing across our mountain lakes and Moultonborough, N.H. ponds less and less often. Chris, a Community and Environmental Studies (CES) major at Colby-Sawyer, spent 40 hours a week on Lake Landing Among the Loons Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire’s largest body of water. Commuting by boat from his grandparents’ cottage on Bear A self-funded project of the Audubon Society of New Island, where he spent childhood summers, Chris tracked and Hampshire, the LPC was founded in 1975 in response to a recorded data on the lake’s loon population. declining loon population and increased human activity on

On the Water = On the Job Spending a day on the job with Chris made it easy to understand how the work could be both fascinating and fulfilling. On this August morning the water is mirror-calm, the sun is hot, and the air is still. Chris figures it beats being in an office. “The first thing we have to do is get gas,” he says, stepping into the 16-foot, 60- horsepower Boston Whaler and shaking the red gas can to gauge how much is left. Just minutes after leaving the Loon Center’s dock at Lee’s Mill on his way to Ambrose Cove, he spots a single loon and stops. The bird is so close that its banded leg is visible, and Chris notes its color combination in his waterproof field journal. Unfazed by the presence of the biologist or another boat towing a water skier, the loon floats on the surface even as the engines rev. Shifting back up to speed, Chris is relaxed as he navigates. “I knew the lake pretty well before, but in the beginning, back at the end of May, I was nervous about rocks and buoys,” Chris says. “Now I can get anywhere.”

14 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE lakeshores. The committee strives to “restore and maintain a healthy population of loons throughout New Hampshire; to monitor the health and productivity of loon populations as Caution, Baby Loons sentinels of environmental quality; and to promote a greater The politics of Washington feel very far away from the understanding of loons and the natural world.” mountain-ringed lake, though, and Chris is happy in the Chris’s grandmother, Dorothy “Dorrie” Ernst Bean ’51, an moment as he spots two pairs of loons. There are no babies LPC member, thought the organization and Chris would make with them, which means they are chickless for the season. a perfect pair, and she suggested he inquire about an internship. One of the males yodels, and the boat moves on. LPC staff biologist John Cooley Jr. took Chris’s call and liked Chris heads across Moultonborough Bay to Langdon what he heard about the prospective intern’s coursework and Cove, where a pair of loons has produced a chick. Still a experience at Colby-Sawyer College. brown puff ball, the baby sticks close to its parents but swims “The field biologist position has a range of tasks, but it is an on its own instead of hitching a ride on a parent’s back. entry-level job, so one doesn’t have to have expertise in a spe- “My first chick hatched July 1,” Chris says, guiding the cific area,” Cooley says. “We look for people with outboard boat through the shallow water. “There are about 40 loons motor boating experience, who have an interest in and enthu- on the lake not including juveniles, and eight pairs have siasm for the natural history of lakes and loons, who have chicks. They’re strong observational skills and can take good field notes. Softer getting big now; skills include being able to work with people—our volunteers most are about and visitors—and in that case Chris’s group project Green three weeks old ROUTES (Redirecting Our CampUs Toward Environmental and developing Sustainability) that he did at Colby-Sawyer was very relevant. nicely. It’s fun to His familiarity with the lake was a real plus, so in the end, Chris watch them just really fit the bill.” grow.” Chris was one of the Loon Center’s six summer field biolo- At the marshy gists, but the only one assigned to monitor Winnipesaukee, and rear of the cove, he covered the entire lake. Weather dictated his activities, Chris hauls yellow which also included slideshow presentations and bird banding ropes marking a at night, but he spent 90 percent of his time on the water and nesting area into sometimes went out up to eight days in a row. the boat and covers a floating sign that reads “Loon nesting sanctuary, please stay away” with a bright orange message: “Caution, Change at a Local Level Baby Loons.” With a clear passion for resource management, Chris envisions Stowing the ropes, Chris comments, “This internship has a career in environmental policymaking. “Some of my friends been my most rewarding job, but also the most challenging. are pretty jealous that for my internship, I get to drive a boat on Some people don’t like what [the LPC is] doing; they think one of the prettiest lakes around, but to be honest, I wouldn’t we’re some radical group doing crazy stuff and preserving want to do it for the rest of my life,” he says. “I’d like to work something that doesn’t need preserving. Sometimes they with Washington [D.C.], but not in Washington; I’m not a big don’t like where we put these signs, but my job is to make fan of politics. people aware that they’re sharing the lake with loons. “As long as what I’m doing eventually gets to the level “I think a lot of people feel like we’re trying to stop their where real national or international laws are being passed, I’ll fun, but we’re not,” Chris adds. “The point of our job is to be happy. But you have to start local, which is what I’m doing make it so loons and people can coexist on this lake and here. A lot of the research LPC did affected legislation to outlaw both can have healthy environments. The loons need the lead sinkers; loons would swallow them and die. So change can lake for nesting and people want it for summer fun. There definitely happen at the local level.” has to be some kind of balance.”

WINTER 2008 15 The World Around Us In Buzzell Cove, a small C of water wrapped around an island, Chris motors past the resident pair of loons floating near shore with their two chicks and heads for the nest he knows is hidden at the water’s edge. Just a packed heap of dirt coated with twigs and bearing the indentations of the birds’ bod- ies, the nest would be easy to miss and trample, but it still holds the shell fragments from the chicks’ hatching. Collecting them in a plastic bag, Chris points out how impor- tant good observational skills are to his work. “I found this nest by accident when I just happened to see a loon enter the water and knew it had to be leaving its nest,” he says. “If you spend a lot of time on the water with the birds you get to know what their behavior means. If a loon were acting skittish and weird now, for example, you’d know that it probably had a chick and lost it.” Always one to enjoy hiking and being in the woods, Chris’s appreciation for loons and their environmental challenges has increased over the summer, and he plans to check on the birds’ progress in future summers. “The more courses I take for the CES major, the more I appreciate what’s around in the world,” he says. “People in general have to pay more attention to what’s around them; most don’t know what they’re missing.”

Environment, had the opportunity to observe Chris at work on Balance: Humankind & Nature Winnipesaukee last summer. What he saw is exactly what all The coexistence of humankind and nature is often addressed in faculty hope for with student internships. “The experience was his CES courses, Chris says. He cites Water Resources (CES201), great for Chris,” says Professor Callewaert. “He’s been able to which he took with Nick Baer, assistant professor of Natural learn important skills, as well as apply his knowledge of field Sciences, as a course that examines ecosystems with the goal of research and natural history. Most importantly, though, understanding humans’ impact on water resources. I think this internship showed Chris the importance of working Chris mentions another course he took at Colby-Sawyer, with the local community for effective environmental Desert Communities (BIO/CES 366), that clarified for him how management, as well as the importance of groups like LPC.” people exploit water. “People think it’s okay to use thousands of gallons of water to have lawns in inappropriate locales such as deserts and lakesides. Water is such a huge resource that Life and Death on the Lake needs different, better regulations. I can’t think of anything else People often don’t see the effects they and their actions have that’s more important than that,” he says, with the determina- on the wildlife around them. Though the LPC successfully tion of someone set on making change in the treatment of campaigned for a ban on lead sinkers, many fishermen still the environment. have some left over from before they were outlawed, and many “Through my CES courses, I better understand the role of more have sunk to the bottoms of lakes over the years. certain species in an ecosystem. If you tell someone on the Ingesting lead is the leading cause of death for adult loons in street that loons are an indicator species they’re not going to New Hampshire, and Chris had to confront the slow death necessarily understand what that means,” he says, “but taking process, as he described in his journal: those classes shows how important the presence of biodiversity July 9: I got a call from lake residents reporting that a really is to an ecosystem.” loon had beached itself at their house, a bad sign. I drove out John Callewaert, Chris’s academic advisor and director there and spent a good half hour observing the loon. He let of Colby-Sawyer College’s Institute for Community and me get within two feet before he even raised his head. He was

16 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE in an awkward position, with his head resting on his back. Occasionally, he would tremble and look around, blinking both sets of eyelids very slowly, not seeming to register any- The Work Goes On Back at the Loon Center, Chris fills out a biological collection thing going on around him. His lack of fear at my presence report for the eggshell fragments, and an expense report for was unnerving, and I was almost 100 percent certain he had the tank of gas per day that the boat consumes. Surrounded ingested a lead sinker. by loon posters, stuffed birds and other loon paraphernalia, I had no materials with which to collect the bird, and did Chris and his not know where I could take him if I got him in my car, so I supervisor, John called my supervisor. He came with a large net, a cardboard Cooley, talk easily box, and several towels. The box was lined with water- about leg band soaked towels to keep the bird cool. color combina- I slipped a dry towel over the bird’s head and back to tions, the high subdue him a little so I could get close enough to grab him. number of birds Then I carefully grabbed his beak and the back of his head so on the water that he wouldn’t freak out and impale me, and John (Cooley) morning, and the grabbed underneath his legs and lifted his body. Together we plan for the rest set him in the box, poured water on his feet to keep him cool, of the day. and made sure the towel was softly draped over his head In the evening, to keep him calm. John took him to an animal hospital for Chris will present x-rays but unfortunately, it was indeed a lead sinker, and the a slideshow on loon had to be put down—it was too late to save him. the life history of Though the LPC has not recruited at Colby-Sawyer before, the loon at the and Chris is the first student from the college to work at Appalachian Mountain Club’s Three Mile Island Camp. The The Loon Center, Cooley says he would be happy to talk with next night, he will captain the boat on another lake for a other CES majors about the possibilities. Chris’s detailed paper- banding trip from dusk until 3 a.m. (an early night). When work, dedication and group-work experience at Colby-Sawyer he hears that a Fish and Game employee will be present, contributed both to a successful internship and to the LPC’s Chris laughs and exclaims, “Good, she can net and grab research. its head!” “This work has been totally new to me, and if I have another Banding seems simple, he explains, but it’s actually a class where we have to do an exercise in the field or monitor bit complicated. The loon is caught in a spotlight, which something, I think the way in which I do it will be more effi- confuses it, and then scooped out of the water with a net. cient,” Chris says. “My experience at LPC has really made me “The beak is snapping and the bird’s struggling,” Chris appreciate those who do field work for a living—the research is says. “An adult male can weigh 15 pounds so we have to just as important as the work done by those who pass laws— grab the head pretty quickly. It takes more guts to see this but policy is where the action is and where decisions are made. big bird in your boat and grab it than people might think. That’s where I want to be.” Then we work the bird up, measuring its bill and weight Someday, no doubt, Chris McClellan will be making those before snapping the band around its leg. We let it go in the big decisions, and he will smile fondly anytime he hears same spot we netted it, and though a bit dazed, the birds the plaintive wail of a loon and remembers his summer pro- always swim off okay.” tecting this iconic bird on the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee.

For more information about the Community and Environmental For more information about the work done by the Loon Preservation Studies major at Colby-Sawyer College, go to www.colby-sawyer.edu/ Committee, visit www.loon.org ■ academic/ces/index.html

WINTER 2008 17 Transfer students follow their hearts to Colby-Sawyer

by Kate Dunlop Seamans

mong the college’s record-breaking number of incoming students this past September were 26 transfer students, bringing the total transfer population at Colby-Sawyer to 80. While they are the minority at a school where most students still fall into the traditional student profile, theA transfer students are representative of the changing “average” college student. “There is a new trend of students attending a community college for a year or two and then transferring to another institution to complete their bachelor’s degree,” says Colby-Sawyer’s Associate Director of Admissions and Transfer Coordinator Jen Jacques. “They might be starting out at a community college for a variety of reasons, such as financial, because after two years the student can transfer and receive a degree from a larger college or university but pay that higher price tag for only two years. The move could be for social reasons: the student may need more time to grow before leaving home. It could also be academic—sometimes students have that light bulb go on a little late, and academically they need to show they are capable of handling college-level work.”

Other reasons Jacques cited include deciding that their first school is too large/small/far/close to home, that the culture isn’t a good match, and that often, one person in a relationship will transfer to be closer to a girlfriend or boyfriend.

Each transfer student’s journey to Colby-Sawyer is unique, but love has a lot to do with it— romantic love, love for humanity, love of learning, and love for Colby-Sawyer itself. Here are some of their stories.

18 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE “I Knew I Needed a Change”

uan Banuelos had his daughter Elisa J right where he wanted her—close to home at one of the large schools in the California State University system. And that’s where Elisa thought she wanted to be, too. After all, it fit her criteria of a big school, and she was having a lot of fun as a business major. By sophomore year, though, the love affair was fading fast as she found it difficult to get the classes she wanted. Finding little guidance from her advisors, and feeling anonymous in Elisa Banuelos classes of up to 150 students in which Class of ’09 professors had to use microphones to lecture, she decided she needed to make a change. From the other side of the country, Elisa’s boyfriend and best friend since age 11, Armando, encouraged her to seek out a smaller school so she could experience the lively classroom interaction and per-

sonal attention he was enjoying as a stu- PHOTO: ED GERMAR dent at Dartmouth College. “I found Colby-Sawyer online and friend growing up, and here I’m the only hard worker, but his family always read about the required internship, Mexican person on campus—it’s really comes first. That’s why I want to work which I thought was unique and great weird,” Elisa says. “At the beginning I did for myself. I want to have the flexibility because a college degree isn’t enough,” feel isolated, but I also think it probably to be with my family. I don’t want to be Elisa says. “Experience is what employers had a lot to do with myself because it was a parent who’s always traveling. I’ve look for, and I thought that would suit all so new and I didn’t know how to seen it and I just don’t want that me. When I found Colby-Sawyer, I react. This semester, I came back with a lifestyle. I want to go into fashion and stopped looking.” whole new outlook that I’m going to go own my own shop. Working closely with Transfer out of my way to talk to people, and “At Colby-Sawyer we do a lot of group Coordinator Jen Jacques, Elisa filled out that’s helped. I’ve been going out a lot work in classes; at my other school you all the paperwork to make the transition. more and been more open to new things. were just on your own. But I’ve learned By January, she was enrolled at Colby- But in the very beginning it was really here that to be a good businesswoman, Sawyer. hard. I would call my mom and cry. I feel you have to know how to talk to people “Jen Jacques was really nice, and this experience will make me a stronger and manage conflict because there are she’s probably the reason I’m here right person, though. In my first semester here going to be people with different opin- now,” says Elisa. “I called her so many I grew more than I ever have—my out- ions. I have to stay true to my values, but times, and she was so helpful. Through look on my education, people, myself—I still see other points of view.” her is how I see all of Colby-Sawyer: became more mature.” Despite missing her grandmother’s warm and friendly.” The oldest of five children, Elisa grew cooking, adjusting to the New England Not as warm was the day of Elisa’s up surrounded by business—her mother, weather, and getting used to a smaller arrival on campus—she moved into her Nestoria, has a bachelor’s degree in busi- campus, Elisa knows she’s now at the residence hall in the middle of a snow- ness, and her father, Juan, owns two right college. storm. “It was the first time I’d seen companies. At a young age, Elisa went to “It’s still hard,” she says. “I thought snow in my whole life,” Elisa says. “At work with Juan, did some accounting, about going home, but there’s no com- first it was pretty, but then it was like, and even managed his store. Majoring in parison academically. My Colby-Sawyer ‘Oh, my God, when is it going to end?’ Business Administration felt like second professors are more willing to talk to me, It snowed forever.” nature. they e-mail me, ask how I am—I feel For a city girl from California, New “From my parents I learned that you more connected to this school than my Hampshire was a whole new world, and can have a career but still be there for last one. The education I’m getting is it wasn’t always easy adjusting to the your family. Both my parents know how amazing.” change. “Back home I had one white to juggle that,” Elisa says. “My dad’s a

WINTER 2008 19 “I Should Have Listened To My Heart”

t seemed like a good match. Kellie ITingle’s sister was already a senior at a prestigious Massachusetts women’s college, and Kellie liked the school, which offered her a financial aid package she felt she couldn’t turn down. But Kellie, from Thomaston, Conn., who spent her freshman year at her sister’s college, is now a sophomore at Colby- Sawyer. Colby-Sawyer had been on her Kellie Tingle radar a long time—she had heard about its excellent ski racers—and she had Class of ’10 visited the New London campus three times as a high-school senior. “The first time I came, I just fell in love with the place,” she recalls. Despite the instant connection, Kellie chose to attend her sister’s college in Massachusetts based on its financial aid offer. “It’s a great school, but it just wasn’t the place for me,” says Kellie. “Being at an all-women’s college was difficult; the environment wasn’t what I was used to. I have a brother and have always had guy friends. I like having guys around just to add that humor aspect to my life. Another thing is that, at Colby-Sawyer, everyone’s very outdoorsy and laid-back for the most part. I didn’t find that at my old school at all, and I felt like I could PHOTO: ED GERMAR be happier somewhere else.” Though she made some great friends that year everything was in order. Arriving on what I have at Colby-Sawyer. I certainly and still keeps in touch with them, they campus, Kellie found Colby-Sawyer’s wouldn’t say that I regret going there; the weren’t enough to keep her in orientation program very helpful as she school just wasn’t for me. I love it here. Massachusetts. adjusted to her new school, especially Transferring has been such an easy expe- After a lot of thought, and with because her group was comprised entire- rience compared to what I expected. It the support of her family, Kellie decided ly of transfer students. She also likes hav- feels like I’ve been here forever.” to transfer to Colby-Sawyer for her ing a roommate this year, a new experi- If Kellie could offer high school sophomore year. Jen Jacques, who had ence. She hopes to make the ski team, seniors one piece of advice regarding worked with Kellie the year before, was but is glad to know that if she doesn’t, choosing a college, it would be to go delighted to work with her again as a there are still plenty of people on campus where they know they want to be. “There transfer student. who share her love for the sport. was a huge difference in financial aid “Kellie knew her heart was here at This semester, Kellie, a Child Develop- offers, and that’s what I based my deci- Colby-Sawyer and that this would be a ment major who wants to be a teacher, is sion on. If you can make it work, though, better fit. I had felt that, too, when I taking ecology, psychology, history and go where you want. It’s costing more to worked with her the first time, and that sociology classes, and academically, she go here, but it’s worth it. I used to think is the hardest part of getting to know stu- sees little difference between the oppor- I should go where I could get the most dents and families so well. I was thrilled tunities offered at her two schools. financial aid, but now I would say that’s to hear from her again,” says Jacques. “I’m challenged here just as much as I wrong. I should have listened to my Kellie was surprised when Jacques was there, which is good. I love my class- heart, because when I came to visit remembered her “right off the bat” and es,” she says. “I think the year at my first Colby-Sawyer, I knew I would love it stayed in weekly contact to make sure school heightens my appreciation for here, and I do.”

20 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE “Where did you bring me?!”

arried couple Zachary and Marianne MLamas, both 21, will graduate this spring, Zac with a degree in biology and Marianne with a degree in psychology. While most of their classmates sleep on-campus and eat at the dining hall, Zac and Marianne live on his grandparents’ Raccoon Ridge Farm in nearby Salisbury, N.H., and dine on meals made of ingre- dients the family grew themselves: rabbit, carrots, tomatoes, onions, herbs, mushrooms and peppers, for example. He is deeply attached to the land and what it can produce; she is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do who loves the martial arts. Theirs is an accelerated love story that left friends shaking their heads in wonder, but giving their blessing nonetheless. Zac, from Connnecticut, and Marianne, from Fremont, California, met the summer before their senior year of high school. Zac had flown west to stay with an aunt and take summer Latin classes at Zachary and the University of California, Berkeley. He Marianne Lamas got a job maintaining a Web site for a consignment shop and met Marianne’s Class of ’08 mother, an artist, when she dropped by to sell some pieces. Zac made quite an impression. “You just have to meet this Zac,” PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS Marianne’s mother told her daughter. Connecticut, returning to California in financial security that he proposed in “You have to know that there are people November and again in April to attend January, and after their June wedding, like him in the world.” Feeling a bit sorry Marianne’s prom. The six months apart Marianne joined Zac at DeAnza. for the guy with no friends in California, were “grueling torture,” but by then “DeAnza was actually great because Marianne agreed to meet him. they knew they wanted the same the students were generally older, but “When I first met her, I thought she things: a family, to live in a rural area, those who were our age were living on was 14, and I kept wondering why her and each other. their own,” says Zac. “It was more like a mom was introducing us,” says Zac. “I Marianne, graduating from a high teacher-adult relationship than the thought she was rather odd, actually. school where people cried if they got teacher-student one here at Colby- Then later I saw her driving a car and anything below an A, wasn’t sure what Sawyer.” realized she was my age, and it was won- she wanted to do about college, but she Though Zac’s two-year degree is in derful.” rejected the idea of attending a state uni- German, an environmental studies class “Yeah, he thought I was 14, and I versity because she “wasn’t ready to go he took at DeAnza turned his interest didn’t think he was anything special, so out and have an apartment.” Instead, she toward biology. After many discussions that’s our funny story; we weren’t really attended a community college in her and a lot of soul searching, the couple impressed with each other,” laughs hometown for a year to take care of gen- decided to head east. Marianne had Marianne. “But then we started talking eral education requirements. never left California, but once the deci- online and decided to hang out, and Zac skipped his own graduation and sion was made, she dove into researching then it was like we were both just hit on moved to California in May to attend their options. the head. We were 17, but we both pret- DeAnza College, a community college “I was the one who found Colby- ty much just knew.” serving the San Francisco area. Zac’s job Sawyer,” Marianne says. “I was looking Zac finished high school in coaching a swim team offered enough for colleges in New Hampshire and

WINTER 2008 21 when I told Zac about Colby-Sawyer, he intense snow storm with high winds. Zac Sawyer students live on campus, and was so relieved. It was close enough to hopped out of the car and rushed off to laments the 30 units of credits he lost in his grandparents that we could accept class, only to be stopped in his tracks by the transfer, he appreciates the open labs their invitation to live with them, but I Marianne’s dismayed scream of “Where that make it easy to get work done and wanted to make sure this was a college I did you bring me?” the support he’s had from professors actually wanted to go to—and it fit. “The wind was just howling at her, regarding his agricultural interests. Colby-Sawyer has good psychology and it was so cold,” Zac says, bemused. “She “What do I want in life?” Zac asks. biology departments, and I thought it was still standing by the car, paralyzed “To lie in a hammock and watch my was really neat that it was small because by the cold.” kids play in the yard. I see farming as the I’ve had classes with hundreds of kids. I “We didn’t visit before applying. We best way to be able to do that. I have rel- really wondered what it would be like to were just going on blind faith, but every- atives who make big salaries, but they’re be right there with the professor. It thing really has turned out well,” says always working. We’re mortal, so I value turns out I’ve really liked that about Marianne. “The application process was time. I love husbandry; right now we Colby-Sawyer.” very easy; Colby-Sawyer is really on top have a cow, six pigs, too many chickens There was at least one moment of of things. And I love New Hampshire. It’s and rabbits. Ultimately, we’d like 60 doubt, as Zac recalls. One day last winter, so nice here.” acres, though the right one acre would their first together in New Hampshire, While Zac would like professors to be enough to handle our farmer’s mar- the Lamases arrived on campus in an appreciate more that not all Colby- ket produce and the smaller animals in

year and a half of chemotherapy and radi- ation treatments. She was very determined to overcome cancer, and she held onto that determination until she had no strength or The Path energy left,” says Jim. “Near the end of her life she was apologizing for how much work it had been to take care of her and I of Love assured her that I had enjoyed being her caregiver, that it was a blessing to me. I told her, ‘I think this is what I could be happy doing, taking care of other people.’ She told me that I had been a wonderful nurse to her, and that I’d be a wonderful nurse to others. Then she told me she just couldn’t do it anymore, that there was nothing left Jim Godfrey in her, and she thought she was going to Class of ’10 die that day. I said I understood. “There was a marvelous thing that hap- pened…that same morning she said, ‘I was born at 8:55 in the evening, and that’s PHOTO: ED GERMAR when I’m going to die.’ She was very weak he son of an Army hospital administra- The road to Colby-Sawyer has been a and slept a lot, but it was two days later T tor and a social worker, all signs pointed long, and at times very painful, journey. that she fell unconscious. For about six to Jim Godfrey going into a medical or Eight years ago, the isolation of computer hours before she died, her siblings and humanitarian field, but it’s only now, at programming was beginning to wear on friends were there, singing and talking, but age 57, that the former computer pro- Jim, and he considered going into nursing. when she stopped breathing, it was 8:55 grammer finds himself answering the call The nurses he knew, however, talked him in the evening. Her death was so peaceful to enter nursing. out of it with tales of their own dissatisfac- and gentle, it was one of the most moving Colby-Sawyer considers any student tion with the profession, especially a lack of and awesome experiences of my life—as who has previously attended college a respect from physicians and the growing much as I realized her life was ending, it transfer, regardless of how long it has paperwork that kept them away from was a beautiful and lovely experience.” been, and Jim, a sophomore, is older than patients. When Donna died, they had been mar- most of his professors. He has nearly as The life change Jim sought came in a ried 14 years. Their daughter, Hester, was many credentials, too: a degree in mathe- form other than a new career when his 11. Jim resigned from his job completely. matics with a minor in philosophy from wife, Donna, was diagnosed with breast “I had to help my little family to heal, to West Virginia University, and a graduate cancer. be able to grow again,” says Jim. He con- degree in mathematical logic from the “I cut back to working part time and tinued doing volunteer work at Hester’s University of Notre Dame. became her primary caregiver for about a school, then started looking into nursing

22 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE the beginning. We’ll see. The classes I’ve “The culture of the place is really taken here at Colby-Sawyer have been neat,” she says. “The people are really very helpful, and my grandfather is a nice to be around, and the professors are wealth of knowledge. I talk to him and great—it’s turned out that I like it a lot. get a second education—usually by me Some of the classes I’ve taken have really messing up and him showing me how to changed my life, and I didn’t expect that. do it.” I think it’s so neat that I have my own While Zac pursues his dream of a academic advisor who teaches in my family farm, Marianne is contemplating major. It’s great that the professors have a career as a guidance counselor, a deci- so much time for you. At the bigger sion she hopes her internship at schools, if you have a question you’re Kearsarge Regional High School this pretty much out of luck. You’re not going spring will help her make. to get to talk to the professor. I want to While Colby-Sawyer may have started learn from the real deal, someone who out as a means to an end, with its conve- has experience, not a teaching assistant nient location and the right departments who’s a year older than me. And experi- for the Lamases’ interests, Marianne says ence is what the professors here have, ■ it’s become more than that. which is awesome.” PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS

schools and learned about the program at concerned Jim, but he says he has met memories and experiences. I feel brand Colby-Sawyer, just half an hour from his terrific people. “I was concerned that other new.” home. He found a warm welcome from students might feel like they didn’t have There are a lot of options in that new the Admissions Office and took classes on a anything in common with me, or be puz- life, and while there are several areas of part-time basis for a couple of years. zled by me, but they’ve been very wel- nursing that appeal—pediatric nursing When Colby-Sawyer was flooded with coming,” Jim says. “They’ve come up to has a strong pull, as does oncological nurs- applications for the nursing major and had me to talk, or invite me to events on ing and hospice care—Jim’s plan is to to give priority to full-time sophomores, campus. On Mountain Day, someone from work in a general hospital for a few years Jim explored other schools’ programs, my acting class spotted me and said, and gain some solid experience. some quite far away, because he was will- ‘Come over here and sit with us,’ so I “I do feel a strong urging toward gen- ing to move. Friends urged him to check joined their picnic. Some class projects are eral relief work, though,” he contemplates. again with Colby-Sawyer, and when he for pairs or groups, and people have made “Responding to emergency situations like did, there were some openings in the nurs- me feel very welcome.” Katrina, or working in poverty-stricken ing program for sophomores, right where One advantage of returning to college areas…and HIV is so widespread in Africa he would belong with the classes he had later in life is the freedom of inquiry. …it seems like a vivid calling for me to be already completed. When Jim was 20 and didn’t understand able to respond to that in some way.” This semester, his first as a full-time something in a lecture or class, he was Jim’s choice of words, when he says student, Jim is taking Introduction to embarrassed to ask about it. Not any- nursing is a calling, is no accident. His faith Professional Nursing; Environmental more. “It’s been so liberating to be able to is a major aspect of his life, and he says the Issues; Computer Concepts and Appli- ask professors questions,” he says. “And guiding principle of his life is to ask, “From cations; a Spanish language course, and they’re happy I ask because it encourages here now, what is the path of love? Acting I. the other students to get involved, so I “I refer back to that question very “My classes are using very different don’t hesitate a bit. It makes the learning explicitly in my mind when dealing with aspects of my personality. They are a real process so much more enjoyable not to global issues or national politics, social whirlwind, actually,” says Jim. “I go have the fear.” issues or how I relate to my community through a whole mix of emotions: joy and If there’s any advice Jim would share and other people,” Jim says. “I just look celebration and discovery about the peo- with his classmates, it would be to ask for the path of love. I think that love is the ple I’m meeting and the subjects I’m tak- questions and explore a broad range of expression of God’s presence in the ing, and then there are also times of fear, subjects. “Don’t narrow your focus; use world. I’m constantly aware of how much when I think, Oh, I’m in way over my head, your college years to broaden your expe- God loves me, and that makes me want to what am I doing? But, of course, I would rience,” Jim suggests. “You need to major spread that around through my whole feel that way; it’s all so new. It’s a full body in something, but branch out as much as life. I don’t put any limits on God, any and mind workout. Next semester I’ll have you can. More than ever, people have limits on love.” a lot more nursing courses, so this is a options for second or third careers. You Jim Godfrey is proof that there’s no good opportunity to cover a variety of don’t have to figure out your whole life limit on dreams, either. He’ll turn 60 a things and meet faculty and students in a when you’re 20. I feel like my life is just month after he earns certification as a wide range of areas.” beginning, and I feel so blessed to be Registered Nurse. ■ How students would react to him had able to begin a new life with so many

WINTER 2008 23 PRTS S --UPUP ROUND ROUNDby Mitch Capelle; photos by John Quackenbos FALL 2007

Women’s Volleyball the No. 1 seeded Endicott Gulls 3–2 in (28–8, 8–2 TCCC ) a hard fought match. In the program’s third trip to the The Chargers began the season with a ECAC tournament, the Chargers made 16–1 record, the best start in program quick work of their opponents, downing history, and they ended the season with Smith College 3–1 in the quarterfinals a mark of 28–8, the second highest win and the United States Coast Guard total in school history. Academy 3–0 in the semifinals. In the The Chargers opened the season by championship match, the Chargers winning the Springfield College Invi- squared off against the Judges of tational Tournament, which included Brandeis University, falling 3–0, but an impressive, first-ever win over earned a second consecutive Eastern Springfield College. Colby-Sawyer went College Athletic Conference Division on to finish 8–2 in The Commonwealth III New England Women’s Volleyball Coast Conference (TCCC) and reached Championship Runner-Up award. the conference championship match for The Chargers efforts in conference the 11th time in the past 12 seasons play did not go unnoticed, as junior where the No. 2 seeded Chargers fell to Taylor Forsberg (Moultonborough, N.H.) was named Libero of the Year Mary Francis ’10 earned two all-conference and freshman Michelle Doody recognitions. (Franklin, Mass.) was named Rookie play, but the Gulls fought back, cap- of the Year. Both earned first-team turing five of the six singles matches on All-TCCC accolades. Junior Kristen their way to ending the Chargers season. Romanko (Mansfield, Mass.) and For their efforts on the season, four sophomore Genny Moore (Centerville, Chargers women were named to the Mass.) both received second-team all-conference team. Freshman Hannah all-conference honors from TCCC. White (Stockbridge, Mass.) was selected as TCCC Rookie of the Year in addition Women’s Tennis (13–4, 8–2 TCCC) to earning first-team doubles honors The Colby-Sawyer women’s tennis team with her partner Jen LaChance started the season 6–0, which included (Killingworth, Conn.). White also an 8–1 win over Salve Regina. The earned honorable-mention accolades Chargers finished the regular season for her singles play, and LaChance also with a record of 12–3 overall and headed earned second-team honors for her into the conference tournament as the singles play. Sophomores Mary No. 3 seed. In the tournament, the Francis (Steuben, Maine) and Brittany Chargers advanced to the semifinal Mailman (Freedom, N.H.) also earned round thanks to a 5–1 victory over all-conference recognition, as Francis Nichols College. In the semifinals against was named to the first-team for her the Endicott Gulls, the Chargers jumped singles play and the pair received Rookie of the Year Michelle Doody ’11. out to an early 2-1 lead after doubles second-team doubles accolades.

24 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE proved to be too much for the Chargers, England Men’s Soccer Championships. as they won the shootout 4–2. They qualified for the tournament by Two Chargers were named All- virtue of their most wins ever in TCCC TCCC for their efforts on the season. action. The Chargers advanced to TCCC Senior Phoebe Wolcott-Macausland semifinal round play with a 1–0 win (Enosburg Falls, Vt.) and junior over Gordon College in the quarter- Elise Kapp (Yarmouth Port, Mass.) finals, but were bounced from the con- earned second-team honors. Wolcott- ference tournament by Western New Macausland was second on the team England, 2–1. In the ECAC tournament, in goals (9) and points (20). Kapp the Chargers were unable to overcome earned her third all-conference award two first-half goals by Framingham in three years, leading the team in State, as the Chargers fell 2–1. goals (10), assists (6) and points (26). Three Chargers earned all-conference awards, as seniors Chris Rafferty Men’s Soccer (9–9–2, 8–3–1 TCCC) (Milford, Mass.) and Nic DeZenzo (Methuen, Mass.) each earned first- The men’s soccer team earned the No. team honors, while junior Doug Second Team All-TCCC Elise Kapp ’09. 7 seed in the Eastern College Athletic Currie (Harvard, Mass.) earned Conference (ECAC) Division III New Women’s Soccer second-team honors. (8–8–3, 6–6–1 TCCC)

Under the direction of first-year Head Coach Paul Cleary, the women’s soccer team qualified for their third conse- cutive postseason, earning the No. 7 seed in The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) tournament. In the opening round of the tournament, the Chargers faced No. 2 seeded Western New England. The Chargers battled the Golden Bears through both halves and two overtimes to a scoreless tie, with neither team able to capitalize on several scoring opportunities. For the second time in as many years, the Chargers advanced to penalty kicks to decide their fate in the conference tournament quarter- finals. In penalty kicks, the Golden Bears Seniors Nic DeZenzo (left) and Chris Rafferty (right) each earned first-team honors at the all-conference awards.

Coffin Field House Sporting a New Floor This fall the Colby-Sawyer volleyball and basketball teams began competing on a new hardwood floor in the Coffin Field House, which is part of the Dan and Kathleen Hogan Sports Center. The attrac- tive maple floor replaced the original rub- berized surface that had been in use since the Coffin Field House opened in 1991. At a cost of over $250,000 that came from generous donors the 20,000-square-foot floor gives athletes and students a gym of which they can be proud. Whether our stu- dents are welcoming visiting teams for The Commonwealth Coast Conference Champi- onship or using the gym for an intramural title, the new floor makes the Chargers’ home court a great place to compete.

WINTER 2008 25 The Chargers Club:

Story and photos by 25 Years of Support for Athletics Kimberly Swick Slover

oday Colby-Sawyer College student- college and community friends gathered Weathers Campbell in charge of the Tathletes, both men and women, are to celebrate the Chargers’ 25th anniver- popular Bloody Mary beverage station, tough competitors on 16 varsity teams. sary. Surrounded by many of the the group auctioned off golf clubs, art Chargers teams sport beautiful blue-and- Chargers Club’s founding members—Pat work, and whatever other items were white uniforms and warm-up suits and Kelsey, Gusta Teach, Emily Weathers donated to benefit the teams. travel throughout the Northeast to com- Campbell and Janet Kidder—current “The teams needed basic things such pete at a high level—often making it to club president Jen Ellis ’85 reflected on as uniforms and warm-up suits, and the semi-finals or winning champion- those early days, when as a student, she big-ticket items such as tennis courts,” ships in their conference. and her teammates showed up for tennis says Janet Kidder, the club’s treasurer. So it’s hard to imagine the life of a matches in any old blue T-shirt. “We didn’t have any trouble getting student-athlete 25 years ago, when Colby- Ellis grew teary-eyed as she recalled people interested in donating and sup- Sawyer was still a women’s college and how good it felt when she and her team- porting the club. It wasn’t grand—just athletic teams competed without uni- mates arrived wearing brand new uni- people in the community who wanted forms or much of the basic equipment forms to face their always formidable to help out.” they needed for their sports. Though the opponent, Middlebury College. The work The Chargers Club also initiated an athletes played hard and loved to com- of the Chargers Club, this small and annual awards ceremony and banquet pete, few people attended their games, unassuming local group of friends, had to honor the student-athletes, a tradi- and their efforts went largely unnoticed. helped the student-athletes feel like a real tion that continues today. “We wanted The Chargers Club changed all that. college team and an athletic force to be to make a fuss over what the student- Twenty-five years ago, in January 1982, a reckoned with and respected. athletes were doing,” said Pat Kelsey. small group of New London women “They worked so hard and deserved gathered on campus to form the club and Just Friends some recognition.” consider how they could support athlet- In 1982, then Athletic Director Judy For Kidder, the club was simply a new ics—both financially and otherwise — Newcomb approached Pat Kelsey, a cur- way for the community to get involved and help the athletes gain the attention rent trustee who once taught physical in and support the college. “The college and recognition they deserved. Today, education at Colby Junior College, about is important to the community, just as the Chargers Club pursues the same the need for a community-based athletic the community is important to the col- goals, and it has raised more than booster club to help support the teams. lege,” she said. “It’s as true today as it was $340,000 for athletics since its founding. The college, then led by President Nick 25 years ago.” This past summer at a gathering on Muller, was struggling financially and Kidder Point, overlooking Pleasant Lake unable to meet the basic needs of the How the Chargers Make with Mount Kearsarge in the distance, athletic teams. Pat, who today serves on a Difference the college’s Board of Trustees, jumped at In the Chargers Club’s first year, they the chance. “Well, I’ll get one started,” raised nearly $3,000 for athletic pro- she said, and called on her many friends grams, and, by 1989, had helped to bring in the community to join. She asked in more than $130,000 to build the six Gusta Teach, who often organized com- original Kelsey Tennis Courts. In 2001 munity activities, to serve as president alone, the club purchased $20,000 worth while she took on the secretarial role. of equipment for athletics and close to “In those days, women’s athletics $7,000 was spent on the Annual Senior wasn’t high on anyone’s agenda,” says Athletic Awards Reception. Teach. “The kids on the teams were so Over the years, the club has made the devoted, but they weren’t getting any athletic programs better in ways small attention. We thought it would be help- and large for athletes, students, parents, ful to have someone behind them—not and fans, purchasing team bags for stu- just financially, but also there cheering dent-athletes and a John Deere all-terrain them on.” vehicle to keep the playing fields in To raise funds, the club members excellent condition. They’ve contributed asked community members and business sound and video systems and a lighted leaders to donate items for Chargers Club scorer’s table for the Coffin Field House, Nancy Teach ’70, ’84, and her mother, Mary Teach ’43, joined the anniversary celebration. Both alumnae auctions, which they held on campus as well as a swimming records board for served on the Chargers’ Board for 20 years. during Parents Weekends. With Emily the Knight Natatorium.

26 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE every day that we trained and compet- ed,” he said. Jim Daley ’08 plays on the men’s soccer team and serves as student mem- ber of the Chargers Club Board. He believes the club is an essential part of all the athletic teams, providing equipment and accessories, and ensuring that all athletes can compete at a high level. “As part of the Chargers Club,” he said, “I’m able to experience the generosity and help the members are able to pro- vide to the athletic community.” Jen Ellis ’85, president of the Chargers Club, expressed her own, and the club’s, appreciation to The New Era its founding members. Jen Ellis joined the Chargers Club Board Erica DeSanty ’05, a former tri-captain in 1989 and became its president in 1992. of the women’s basketball team, said that She continues in that role today and has athletics programs in New England,” while the “material advancements” been part of the club’s, as well as the McGrath said. “We have more work to brought about by the club made her ath- college’s, evolution. “As the college grew do, but are well on the way to providing letic experience better, the involvement and prospered, it could now afford to a truly quality experience for our student- and support for her team meant even operationally support 16 varsity teams. athletes. I’m so appreciative and offer my more. “As strong supporters of our team, The club tries to make the programs kudos to the entire membership which the Chargers Club personally made me better and nicer by purchasing items the has given so much of its time and energy feel like I was a great athlete by coming coaches and administration request— over the years.” to all of our games, hanging signs in the above and beyond the basics to make our The Chargers Club’s mission remains gym, and always telling each of us how program stand out among others in our much the same as it was in 1982, but well we did. That will improve the col- conference,” Ellis said. benefit auctions have been replaced by lege experience of any athlete.” Athletic Director Debi Field McGrath an annual tennis tournament on cam- Trevor Dorian ’05, a former co-cap- ’68 believes the involvement and support pus, small retail and raffle efforts, and a tain of the men’s baseball team, benefit- of the Chargers Club is what makes broad-based annual appeal letter sent to ed specifically from the Chargers Club’s Colby-Sawyer’s athletic program special. alumni and friends of the college. The contributions to his team, which made “Their personal commitment to students club now raises about $20,000 annually dugouts and indoor batting cages and and teams, as well as their financial sup- to support the athletic awards ceremony other equipment possible. “The Chargers port, has helped to launch Colby-Sawyer and fulfill the teams’ wish lists. Club made a difference for the team as one of the premier Division III “We may add another larger annual event to our schedule soon to allow us to raise more friends and funds for Colby- Sawyer athletics,” Ellis explained. The founders of the Chargers Club still take pride in their accomplishments, in part because what began as a tiny group of friends with good intentions has grown deep roots in the college and community. “Jen Ellis’s guidance has helped to realize our vision—that the Chargers Club would become an important part of the community,” said Janet Kidder. “I’ve been involved in all kinds of boards and organizations, but I’m really proud to have been a founding member of the Chargers Club because it’s still going The president and the founding members of the Chargers Club share a proud moment at the 25th Anniversary strong. They are a wonderful group, and party. (L to r) Emily Weathers Campbell, Jen Ellis ’85, Pat Kelsey, Janet Kidder and Gusta Teach. I’m so pleased to have been part of it.” ■

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hen presidential poli- strators at Kent State College in tics were heating up May 1970. Win the first primary When she was urged to state of New Hampshire, a few run for one of two local seats candidates and their campaign at the state’s Constitutional representatives were finding Convention, a short-term posi- their way to New London to tion in the State House, she meet voters in town and on the thought it would be an oppor- Colby-Sawyer College campus. tunity to participate at a new Many Colby-Sawyer community level. She campaigned door to members enjoy the quadrennial door and won the election. “I rituals while others grow weary was very naïve and inexperi- of the media hype and the cam- enced in terms of running a paigns that last longer and cost campaign,” she said. “It was my more than ever. first taste of running and win- Yet another group of com- ning.” The work was mundane munity members has a great and the issues not as weighty as passion for politics. They revel she hoped, but, she says, “it was in the campaign spectacle and the beginning of my addiction.” value its larger purpose in our From there McMahon began democracy. They believe in N.H. State Representative Ricia McMahon ’79 greets her old friend, Senator working for various Democratic government’s ability to make Hillary Clinton, for whom she is campaigning in the 2008 presidential candidates for state offices, life better for citizens and feel election. PHOTO: SOPHIA PARIS which reinforced for her the compelled to play a role. value of forging close connec- Ricia McMahon ’79 was a faculty spouse, young mother and tions and speaking out about her beliefs. In 1976 she was Colby Junior College student when she began a journey into tapped to become the executive director of the state Democratic political life that has led her into state and national politics Party. She took the job and two years later was invited to the and her current role as a representative in the New Hampshire White House by President Jimmy Carter’s staff to discuss the Legislature. Students Xanthe Hilton ’11 and Brendan O’Neil political climate in New Hampshire and the state’s role in the ’08 are two of the many college students inspired to work next presidential election. “What I found validating was that for Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. And my opinion was being sought, and it mattered that I had ideas Zachary Irish ’08 is president of the Student Government about how things could be improved,” she said Association and a college representative for Mitt Romney’s Many years and political campaigns later, McMahon was presidential campaign. asked to serve as the New Hampshire co-chair of a Steering Committee for Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, who was begin- Another Time, Same Place ning his run for the U.S. presidency. She later became his state The late 1960s and ’70s were a time when college campuses political director and was on hand to provide counsel and sup- were rife with political tension and activism related to the rise port as he cleared some high hurdles before emerging as the of feminism and debate over the Vietnam War. Ricia McMahon “comeback kid” in the New Hampshire primary and going on to had begun taking classes while caring for her young children win the Democratic nomination and the presidential election. and getting involved in community life. She recalls meeting McMahon then headed to Washington, D.C., as chief of with other women on campus for “consciousness raising” and staff for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a position marching down Main Street in New London with students and she held throughout the Clinton administration. She then faculty members to protest the shootings of student demon- returned to her home in Sutton, N.H., and soon after ran for a

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seat in the state House of Represen- mistic, and I believe in the American tatives. Again, she went door to door, system of government,” she says. “I greeting old friends and meeting new really, really would like to see Obama as voters. “The one key is understanding president because he’s the one person your community,” she says. “I heard who can change the country.” someone say, ‘I know she’s a liberal, but Hilton is spreading the message she’s our liberal.’” about Senator Obama through events and word of mouth on campus and Campaigning through her travels around the state, for Change phone calls and her extensive use As Xanthe Hilton ’11 arrived on the of online global networks such Green at Dartmouth College on Sept. as Facebook. Although she’s a 26, 2007, the night of the Democratic Xanthe Hilton ’11 shows her passion for her candidate, Pennsylvania resident, she registered to Senator Barack Obama, at a rally at Dartmouth College Presidential Candidates Debate, vote in the New Hampshire Primary, this fall. PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS throngs of students chanting and which college students are permitted to carrying signs for different presidential do, because she feels her vote will candidates were gathering. She quickly found some friends and count more here than elsewhere. grabbed a bullhorn from the Obama campaign, for which she “Obama has strong support among college students,” she volunteers while serving as president of Students for Obama in says. “It’s just a matter of getting them out to vote.” New Hampshire. A group of supporters for Bill Richardson Last summer Brendan O’Neil ’08 and fellow volunteers from shouted at her and she reeled around and launched into a loud the Obama campaign showed up with their campaign signs at “Obama! Obama!” retort that overwhelmed the Richardson the New England 300 NASCAR race in Loudon, N.H., a place team. where they did not expect to find a receptive audience. “Some Before long Hilton was leading a high-decibel battle against people said, ‘I can’t believe you guys are here,’ and we got a a formidable force of Hillary Clinton fans, and once again the lot of heckling, but it was good for us to be seen there,” he Obama supporters emerged as arguably the loudest, and defi- says. “People see that this is important to us. We’re saying the nitely the most creative and enthusiastic, in their chants and politics can be different from what we have now.” dances. Hilton, the tall, blond ringleader, could barely speak for A Communication Studies major with a Philosophy the next two days. minor, O’Neil worked as a field intern for the campaign’s “I’m one of those people who was always taught that Concord, N.H., office for three months of 60-hour weeks to if something was wrong, I had a responsibility to change fulfill his major’s internship requirement. He canvassed it,” she says. “I’ve seen things neighborhoods, attended events wrong—I’ll say it—with this [pres- and worked in the office, helping idential] administration and want to build grass roots support for to change it.” Senator Obama’s candidacy. Hilton hopes to do that by Like Hilton, O’ Neil was raised working for the candidate whom in a politically active family, and she believes stands the best chance he believes that government can of bringing about dramatic and and should be a force for good. “I positive change in Washington think politics can be positive and and in the nation. She likes that definitely working for government Senator Obama is relatively new to can be. I’d love to run for local Washington and agrees with his office at some point,” he said. “If plans to support universal health everyone pitches in, it makes soci- care and end the war in Iraq. On a ety better off.” personal level, she says she likes Though politically active in high his honesty and how he listens to school, O’Neil has found few stu- people. dents who share his zeal at Colby- “A lot of people are cynical Sawyer. “Most people my age are Brendan O’Neil ’08 (left), along with Obama campaign field about life and especially about poli- representative Jack Mahoney, on the campaign trail in New completely disillusioned or disen- tics, but I’m hopeful. I’m very opti- Hampshire. COURTESY PHOTO gaged from politics,” he says.

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“There’s a lot of apathy. We’re in kind is my strength, and that’s important, of a bubble here—people are happy, but I’m also very approachable.” and we’re not bombarded with nation- Colby-Sawyer offers “unlimited al news and issues, so it’s easy to forget opportunities for students to have their there’s a world out there.” voices heard,” according to Irish, and he O’Neil is critical of the roles that finds the college’s leadership “amazing” media and money play in the presi- in responding to students’ concerns. dential race and its negative result for This year students have spoken out citizens. “Our campaign system is to the SGA most vehemently on three financially beneficial for a lot of TV issues: extending quiet hours in resi- media; it becomes a big media circus dence halls; whether to prohibit smok- that generates a lot of revenue and ing near the entrances to campus turns the race into a beauty pageant,” buildings; and allowing coed apart- he says. “Rather than focus on the ment suites in Rooke Hall. Irish and issues, candidates’ personal attributes the other SGA officers have worked become the major focus—Obama hard to give students ways to express being black, Richardson Hispanic, Zachary Irish, president of the Colby-Sawyer Student their opinions, holding special meet- Government Association, addresses his fellow students, Romney’s Mormonism. These become ings, setting up a bulletin board to parents and college community members during the things that people vote on.” Convocation 2007. PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS solicit views, and sending out surveys To identify which candidate he’ll on e-mail. Once the SGA collects support, O’Neil digs deeper to learn enough feedback, they’ll make recom- about their record and views on the issues. While he most close- mendations to the college administration about whether to ly identifies with Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s views, he change current policies. likes Obama’s approach to governing and believes he is the “You’re here to represent the people who elected you,” he more electable candidate. “To stay informed and involved, I says. “That’s what I feel government is not always doing have to make a conscious effort, especially because I don’t live so well.” in an urban area,” he says. Although the demands of his SGA role, classes and a current teaching internship have left little time for presidential politics, A Belief in Representative Irish has signed on as a college representative for Mitt Romney’s Government campaign. A conservative Republican, Irish likes Romney’s take For as long as Zachary Irish ’08 can remember, his mother and on important issues and thinks he seems like a presidential his grandfather have discussed politics over breakfast. They figure. A staunch supporter of the current administration in the have always been well informed and passionate about express- past, Irish now thinks it’s time for a change. ing their opinions on the issues, according to Irish. “That’s “I will never say I don’t support the president, but some where my interest comes from and why I’m involved in gov- things have changed my views about his credibility. One of the ernment. Everyone should play a part,” he says. “You should most important aspects of leadership is being trustworthy,” Irish not complain unless you get involved. I feel it’s really important says. “I will never change my views from being Republican, but to have my voice heard.” we definitely need a change in administration.” Acting on that belief, Irish, a History, Society and Culture In the spring semester, when he’s less busy and the early pri- major and future social studies teacher, has taken on many maries have thinned out the field of candidates, Irish plans to leadership roles at Colby-Sawyer. He’s served on Community engage more in presidential politics. “I will get more engaged, Council, as a resident assistant, and in various elected offices in whether it’s working for a candidate or trying to get students the Student Government Association (SGA), currently as presi- involved,” he says. His job as a social studies student teacher dent. These experiences have given him opportunities to con- requires him to stay current on the issues, which he believes is vey his views and to represent students to the administration an asset to any leader. “I don’t think the student body realizes and trustees and at major college events. These roles have that some of these issues will affect them, such as social securi- taught him to listen and seek input from as many people as pos- ty and health insurance. I’m not sure what it will take to get sible before reaching conclusions and acting on their behalf. their attention, but I’ll probably start in the residence halls, “The ability to communicate, that’s the biggest thing,” he talking about the issues, the candidates, and asking some says in describing the attributes of good leaders. “Organization engaging questions.”

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Acting on Core Beliefs Now in her second term in the New Hampshire Legislature, McMahon has brought her pas- sion for politics and govern- ment policy, and her knack for building relationships, to work for her constituents. The house has addressed issues such as funding for education in the state, health insurance for low- income children and for college students, civil unions, and the Xanthe Hilton (third from right) gathered with her fellow supporters to meet Senator Obama following a campaign event in Concord, N.H. COURTESY PHOTO protection of Mt. Sunapee, for which McMahon wrote a bill as a freshman legislator. second biggest issue (after education funding) we’re facing, Her biggest challenge in the legislature so far has been the and Ricia has really risen to the top in terms of leadership and complex and contentious issue of retirement benefits for state knowledge.” workers, in which she has played a leadership role in gaining Speaker Norelli describes McMahon as collaborative and support for overhauling the system. The state’s investment in tough when she needs to be. “She tries to build consensus but the retirement funds had fallen far short of what was promised, she doesn’t have any qualms about saying no, when necessary, which led to tough negotiations about the state workers’ needs to friends or advocacy groups with whom she usually agrees. versus the tax burden on citizens and municipalities. “I’m very They appreciate her forthrightness,” she adds. proud that we stood up to the challenge and did the right McMahon also serves as co-chair of the state’s steering thing,” she says. “I can see how important it is that people feel committee for Hillary Clinton and has been tapping into her secure as they age.” extensive networks to gain support for the senator’s presi- Speaker of the House Terri Norelli says McMahon jumped dential bid. She offered to work for Clinton before the cam- into the issue with both feet, educating herself and others in paign even approached her. “Speaking up for what you the house and creating appropriate legislation. “This is the believe in…it’s part of my core values,” she says. “Believe it, and it becomes the fabric of your life.” Hilton, Irish and O’Neil are also likely to continue to act on their core beliefs. Hilton plans to serve as an intern for New London Rep. Randy Foose in the State House next semester and continue her work for the Obama campaign and as a freshman SGA senator. After graduation, O’Neil would like to volunteer for a govern- ment program such as Vista for a year before going on to graduate school and eventually teaching political phi- losophy. In addition to his teaching career, Irish hopes to run for a seat in state government one day. O’Neil says service projects through Vista will give him a path to give back in positive ways. “I always feel if I don’t contribute to society then I’m not doing any- thing worthy.” Hilton adds, “One thing I know for sure is that I will always remain an active voter and voice for what I believe is right. Nothing can change who I am.” ■ State Representative Ricia McMahon in the historic House of Representatives chamber in the State House in Concord, N.H., which seats the nation’s largest state legislature. PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS

WINTER 2008 31 Nature as Classroom: Exploring Western River Communities by Kimberly Swick Slover Photos by Nick Baer, Carl Herz ’09 and Leon-C. Malan

“I’M A FIRM BELIEVER IN GETTING STUDENTS OUT OF THE CLASSROOM and into experiences in nature,” says Nick Baer, assistant professor of Natural Sciences. “If students get out of their element and to a new place that stimulates their senses, that’s where the best learning happens.”

Professor Baer and his colleague, Leon-C. Malan, professor has an amazing allure, and it’s the classic example of an of Business Administration, set out to test this theory last spring extremely altered river.” by leading eight students in the college’s new field course, River The Colorado River originates in the Rockies and winds Communities (CES 350), an exploration of water resource man- through the West and Southwest, with 20 dams along the way, agement which culminated in a 10-day trip to the Colorado until it reaches—and some years fails to reach—the Sea of River Basin in Colorado and Utah. Cortez in Mexico. “There are all these competing needs for the The course began on campus with the reading of two texts, water resource from municipalities, agricultural and industrial The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, by John interests, native people, and, oh yeah, the natural biology,” Wesley Powell, and Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water continues Professor Baer. “The objective of the course was to and the Future of the West by Charles F. Wilkinson. There were familiarize students with how people balance all these demands also weekly discussions on the social, economic, political and on a finite resource.” ecological implication of water resources in the western The class traveled out West to speak with many of the play- United States. ers engaged in the balancing act between human needs and The scarcity of water there has led to a complex system of desires and the area’s fragile environmental resources. They also determining water rights and distributing this vital natural wanted to experience for themselves the magnificence of the resource among demanding stake- natural landscape. holders, which range from small They hiked and camped in the towns and sprawling desert cities to Rockies to see where the spring individual farmers and massive hydro- snowmelt spawns the Colorado electric plants. River; they met with municipal “The idea is to use the Colorado hydrologists to discuss water use; River basin as a model for how we and they listened to attorneys spe- utilize water resources,” says Professor cializing in water laws and farmers Baer. “The Colorado is a favorite who depend on irrigation to ensure model because it’s well known and the survival of their farms. After

Students (from left) Geoff Rush, Carl Herz, Sam Grinnell, Amanda Lambert, Sarah Champagne, Amy MacMahon, Stephanie Seavy, and Sean McCaffrey pose while hiking to acclimatize to the elevation of the Rocky Mountains.

32 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE visiting Arches National Park in nature” and “don’t fall into the Moab, Utah, the class flew in tiny rapids”), but was mesmerized by the bi-planes and followed the Green stark beauty of Utah’s Arches River north over the desert. They National Park and the wildlife in the ended the trip with an exhilarating region. “I will never forget the beau- four-day rafting trip. tiful places, the animals we saw The journey was an intense learn- (bears, elk, beavers, etc.), the cough ing experience wrought with intel- of a mountain lion in the night, the lectual and physical challenges for cliffs and plateaus, and how close we the faculty and students. After hik- all got to one another,” he says. ing, camping, cooking, rafting and Carl also witnessed mankind’s writing poetry in the wilderness, tendency toward short-sighted self- often while coping with a lack of interest relative to the use of natural bathrooms and showers, they resources. “In Denver, where water emerged as a closely connected— Amy MacMahon and Stephanie Seavy enjoy a new learning will run out in something like seven experience as they tour a hydroelectric facility. and fairly grungy—group of people years if the city keeps expanding, with a deep understanding of human people use more than 50 percent dependence on water. of their household water for land- scaping,” he says. Some Utah desert farmers grow watermelons, each of An Amazing Experience which consumes about 120 gallons with Hard Lessons of water. It was disheartening for The eight students, mostly Biology Carl to realize that such huge issues or Community and Environmental may not be addressed until the situ- Studies (CES) majors, were drawn to ation becomes catastrophic. the class for different reasons, includ- CES major and Biology minor ing the desire to see their knowledge Amanda Lambert ’08 was also sur- gained from texts and the classroom prised by how tightly Western states put into action. They also cited as regulate water resources among so their impetus for taking the course many stakeholders and yet still fail the opportunity to travel and recreate Students learn about the Uncompahgre River diversion that to resolve the dire need for conser- in parts of the country they’d never supplies the agricultural area of Montrose, Colorado. vation measures that will preserve seen while learning from the two the supply for the future. “I never extraordinary teachers and mentors knew people had to be so careful who were leading the adventure. about every aspect of their water sup- The students included Amanda ply,” she says. “It made me respect Lambert, Amy McMahon, Carl Herz, the watershed both at home and in Sam Grinnell, Geoff Rush, Sarah dry areas.” Champagne, Sean McCaffrey and Stephanie Seavy. Canyons as Classrooms For Carl Herz ’09, a CES major and Sean McCaffrey, a non-traditional Psychology minor, the trip was “non- student and the college’s men’s and stop fun and adventure.” He learned women’s tennis coach, described some lessons the hard way (“respect the trip as one of the most amazing

Farmer Mike Olberg explains his drip irrigation system to Professor Leon Malan (far left) and students Sam Grinnell, Carl Herz, Amanda Lambert, Sarah Champagne and Sean McCaffrey.

WINTER 2008 33 learning experiences he’s ever had. During the trip, he and the Sarah, like Carl Herz, was struck by the absurdity of the idea other students were required to become “experts for a day” that, while Denver may run out of water in less than a decade, and share their research over the previous months on subjects water is pumped into desert communities such as Las Vegas and such as indigenous people, history, geology, ecology and Phoenix to keep lawns and golf courses green. “The water conservation. resource issues we came in contact with were things I had never “These assignments not only allowed students to speak to fully understood,” she says. “Seeing these problems first hand what they had learned and share their personal stories of how allowed me to gain an understanding that I would not have their research evolved, but they also allowed the entire group to been able to do in the classroom.” round out their own knowledge base by active involvement while on the river,” Sean says. “While learning about water and Savoring the Quiet Moments ecology, we had the chance to actually be on the Green River The course was a huge success in giving students an apprecia- (which flows into the Colorado River). While trying to under- tion of the complexity in managing water resources, Professor stand farming practices in the West and how natural resources Baer asserts, and exposing them to career paths they have never are utilized, we had the chance to visit some fantastic farms and considered. “The students interacted with environmental attor- damming facilities. Reading about these practices in a book will neys, hydrologists, river guides, farmers, all people tied to water never compare to actually being in the field and learning first and all with very different views, and they were incredible expe- hand from those who employ tactics to help conserve the valu- riences,” he says. able natural resources.” Along with all the intensity, the group enjoyed quiet While everyone felt exhausted by the end, the trip was a moments at night by the fire, reading poetry and even com- life-changing experience for each participant, according to posing a few poems of their own. “It was lovely, a very lovely Sean. “Our tents became our dorms, our backpacks acted as experience,” he adds. “People got along well and they were desks, our professors exchanged suits and ties for sandals and really adaptable.” shorts, and the canyons and mesa doubled as a classroom,” he The River Communities course will be offered every other says. “The knowledge one gains from being immersed in an year, alternating with another field course, Desert Communities educational experience like the Rocky Mountains is great, but (CES/BIO 366), which takes place near Tucson, Arizona. coupling this with two phenomenal Judging from their enthusiastic educators plus seven other students, response to the course, the students was fantastic.” who took part seem to affirm Sarah Champagne ’08, with a Professor Baer’s premise that “if stu- major in CES and minor in Business dents get out of their element, in Administration, opted for the course a new place that stimulates their because it sounded “extremely excit- senses, that’s where the best learn- ing” and would be led by two of her ing happens.” favorite professors. Some of the high- Sarah Champagne’s comment lights of the trip for her were rafting echoes those of the other down the Green River and meeting students. “A field study with people and organizations who course is such a great form deal with the day-to-day challenges of of learning,” she concludes. managing competing demands for “I recommend it to limited water resources. everyone.” ■ Sean McCaffrey takes the oars to guide the raft in Desolation Canyon on the Green River.

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Save the Date! Reunion 2008! From Friday, May 30–Sunday, June 1, the Colby-Sawyer College campus will be abuzz with alumni spanning seven Susan Austin Kraeger ’68 endeavors to help women decades to celebrate Reunion 2008. The weekend will pro- in Africa with the organization Women’s Trust ...... page 61 vide a wonderful opportunity to renew old friendships, to Gregg Carville ’95 lights the way for the make new friends, and to see and learn about the Colby- Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine ...... page 72 Sawyer College of today. While the college will honor those classes with years ending in “3” and “8,” all Colby-Sawyer alumni are invited to participate in the weekend’s festivities. Mark your calendar, call your friends and classmates, and bring the family to New London for Reunion 2008! Busy Diane Shugrue Gallagher ’57 takes time Alumni Awards to chat ...... page 54 Each year we take great pleasure in honoring alumni Musician Shannon McLaughlin Scully ’91 who have provided exceptional service and commitment checks in with us ...... page 70 to Colby-Sawyer College, their community and their profession. The Alumni Service Award and the Young Alumni Achievement Award are presented annually at Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Reunion Weekend. Nominations for next year’s awards will be accepted through February 29, 2008. To nominate Tracey Austin (603) 526-3886 Co-Director of Alumni Relations [email protected] a deserving alumna/us or to learn more about these awards and Annual Giving visit www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends/awards or contact Chris Reed (603) 526-3797 the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving. Co-Director of Alumni Relations [email protected] and Annual Giving Athletic Hall of Fame Nominations Tarren Bailey ’06 (603) 526-3727 The Colby-Sawyer College Athletic Hall of Fame honors Assistant Director of Alumni [email protected] the achievements of the college’s outstanding individual Relations and Annual Giving athletes, teams, coaches and supporters who have enhanced Mike Gregory (603) 526-3724 and reinforced the college’s commitment to athletic excel- Assistant Director of Alumni [email protected] lence. Nominations for the 2008 class of inductees will be Relations and Annual Giving accepted through March 1, 2008. To make your nomination Tracy Poland (603) 526-3722 or to learn more visit www.colby-sawyer.edu/athletics/ Assistant Director of Alumni [email protected] Relations and Annual Giving Athletics_HOF.html or call the Department of Athletics at (603) 526-3610. Mailing address Toll-free number 541 Main Street (800) 266-8253 To learn more about the members of the Class of 2007 inductees, New London, NH 03257 see the inside back cover of this issue.

WINTER 2008 35 Get Involved and Stay Connected Alumni Photos Every year hundreds of alumni are involved in the life of To submit photos for the class Colby-Sawyer College through their volunteer service. By notes section of the Alumni volunteering their time and talent, these caring alumni are vital to the strength and well-being of Colby-Sawyer. The Magazine, send photos to the following are some of the many ways that alumni can Office of Alumni Relations and volunteer and make a difference. Annual Giving or e-mail digital photos to [email protected]. Class Correspondents—Correspondents gather news and All photos must include the full name and class write class columns for the Alumni Magazine. Through their year of everyone pictured. Digital photos must be at ongoing communication, they keep classmates connected to one another and the college. a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Cell phone camera photos will not be accepted. Photos of babies/children Class Agents—Class agents are responsible for working will only be published if an alumna/us is also in the with their classmates to encourage philanthropic support photo. We cannot guarantee publication of every of the Colby-Sawyer College Annual Fund. submitted photo. Reunion Committees—Members of the reunion committee foster a sense of excitement and camaraderie among their Alumni Marketplace classmates through the planning and promotion of Reunion Weekend activities. Get the latest Colby-Sawyer gear by visiting the Alumni Marketplace at www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends/gear. Alumni in Admissions—Working with the staff in the From Colby-Sawyer flip-flops and golf balls, Office of Admissions, these alumni serve as Colby-Sawyer to custom-made diploma frames and campus ambassadors by promoting awareness of the college and prints, the marketplace has a wide variety of helping to recruit new students. items for you to purchase and show your Mentor Program—Alumni career mentors share their school spirit! wisdom and experience by volunteering as a resource to assist students and fellow alumni in their career exploration and development. Mentors may share career advice, provide networking contacts, and share strategies for finding employment, internships or gaining admission to graduate/ professional school. Student Intern Sponsor—Internships provide an opportu- nity for students to enhance their academic programs with field experience related to their career interest. Alumni can provide students with this meaningful experience by spon- soring an internship with their business or organization. Regional Host—Throughout the year, the college hosts regional alumni events and activities throughout the coun- try, and alumni can volunteer to host these events or pro- vide assistance in the planning process. If you are interested in any of these volunteer opportunities, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving.

Colby-Sawyer College Alumni Inaugural Delegates During the past months, Colby-Sawyer alumni represented President Tom Galligan and their college as official delegates to inaugural ceremonies at other colleges and universities. We are grateful to those who accepted invitations. Mary Ellen Blatchford Walker ’80 at Saint Michael’s College on September 29, 2007. Mary Knox Tatnall ’57 at Haverford College on October 6, 2007. Eleanor Morrison Goldthwait ’51 at New England Conservatory on October 27, 2007.

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Winter in New England may be a Susan Chapman Keith Pearcy ’77 time for hearty fare, but what better way Melanson ’66 had three conceived and pro- to conjure the memory of summer than books in the last install- duced a CD back in with a tasty salad? In her tantalizing cook- ment of this column. Her 1998, but since it’s book Raising the Salad Bar (Lake Isle Press) prolific output humbles remained a top seller Catherine Walters ’76 serves up healthy, us, though she has since then, we felt delicious variations on the dish managed obliged to mention it. that is too often an only two Guitar Lullaby (Ellipsis Arts) features the afterthought. Say good- works this calming, melodic work of classical guitarist bye to iceberg lettuce time. Radiation Buddies (Lulu Ricardo Cobo. With awards from the smothered with ranch Publications), written with American Library Association and dressing. Here, wheat Archie Campbell, is an inspiring the Parent’s Choice Foundation, berries are paired with a tale of the authors’ friendship it’s a work that transcends the genre tangy citrus dressing, since high school, a bond that of lullaby recordings. while seared scallops are becomes their lifeline as they It’s been a big year for Suzanne Voth served with watercress each battle Gorman ’77. Her CD Open Book and pineapple. Bursting cancer. The yielded the single “Heartbreaker,” with color and helpful Sallie and Stacy which, as of this hints, this is a cook’s guide Saunders Story (Lulu writing, was in that sails right over the salad bar. Publications) takes us back contention to be to the early 20th Century Grants for Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual a Grammy nomi- for the true-life tale of the (Neal-Schuman Publishers), by nee. Another eponymous couple: she, a Pamela Herd song, the 9/11 Tufts-educated doctor at a MacKellar ’69 and tribute “We’ll time when there were few Stephanie K. Gerding, Remember,” has women in the medical has been praised as also garnered serious radio play. In April profession; he, a blind lawyer “the Boy Scouts’ field she joins a United Nations tour that whose sight is surgically restored after manual” of grant-writ- includes Whitney Houston, Kool and the seventeen years. The multigenerational saga ing. It’s a step-by-step Gang, and the ubiquitous Bono. of the Saunders offers a window onto a roadmap for librarians larger history of New Finally, leave it to the surreal comedians on the tricky road of England as it steps of Joppa to make their way into a column grant funding, an into the modern age. about books and music…with a film. Mike indispensible aid in this Mooney ’02, Thom Neff ’01 and Ben time of tight budgets. We noted last time Watts ’03, along with co-conspirator the rerelease of the From Jan Moore Kevin Kerner ’01, Lumby books by Canavan ’67 we learn have branched out Gail Fraser ’74. that she recently had from their online Lumby’s Bounty, the her work published in comedy to bring us third in the series, Horse Tales for the Soul, The Joppa Movie. is due out this Vol. 6 (K&B Products). Available as a month under the This popular series, special edition NAL imprint of compiling stories two-disc DVD, Penguin Group. from horse lovers the movie is proof around the world, Also due out this month is the debut positive that there’s focuses on the life CD by the Boston rock band Optimo. something funny in lessons to be learned from Fronted by Jeff Vangel ’99, the group has the water of Newburyport, Mass. Find out these noble animals. been playing their brand more at www.whatisjoppa.com. of bass-heavy psyche- delia in various area venues. Take a listen to a selection of songs at www.myspace.com/ optimoband.

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1924 1939 1949 1963 Dorothea Lamson Stibitz Marilyn Cross Cross Margery Stouffer Biggar Patricia J. Hussey JULY 4, 2007 OCTOBER 7, 2007 APRIL 12, 2007 JUNE 1979 Louise Sprague Danforth Susan Horton Weissberg NOVEMBER 7, 2007 1941 1950 JUNE 1979 Barbara Owens Geiger Anastasia Payne Rooke Diane Steeves Gasperack 1933 MAY 2, 2007 OCTOBER 16, 2007 APRIL 15, 2006 Barbara Parker Thieme Helen Newton Peterman Ruth Kinney Gould MAY 12, 1989 JUNE 4, 2007 NOVEMBER 1, 2007 1967 Phyllis Brown Bateman Virna Farrington Covington Nancy Keister Wellington JANUARY 6, 2001 JULY 12, 2007 1951 JULY 4, 2007 Barbara Allen Fowler Ruth Leach Howard Joan Howlett White JULY 8, 2005 JUNE 16, 2007 DECEMBER 14, 2006 1969 Patricia Smith Mulhern Jane Radcliff Weimar Viola Pica Bernard FEBRUARY 10, 2006 1943 OCTOBER 21, 2007 AUGUST 20, 2007 Frances Murray Davidson 1935 AUGUST 14, 1997 1952 1970 Mildred Messer Burnett Jeanne Chaput Noyes Jean Scheckler Scully Julianne Lawlor Muniz MARCH 29, 2007 OCTOBER 1, 2007 MARCH 31, 2007 FEBRUARY 2, 2007 Ina Faulkner Bourgard Joyce Hill Richardson Susan Bonanno JUNE 17, 2007 1944 SEPTEMBER 14, 2007 JULY 13, 2007 Mary Metzler Szafarz Marjorie Parker Meador 1953 1971 JUNE 17, 2007 MARCH 18, 2007 Dorothy Wood Kuhn Lynn E. Connors Margaret Schmeltz Hawkes Mary Elford Raynsford OCTOBER 15, 1997 JULY 24, 2007 SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 JULY 6, 2007 Barbara Delano Harding Patricia Parry Powell 1972 1936 AUGUST 29, 2007 JUNE 13, 2000 Nicola Conn Deyo Edna Ostheimer Henderson Myrna Perry Heald JULY 12, 2007 AUGUST 2, 2001 1945 JUNE 2, 2007 Judith Clarke Kitchen Ruth Jordan Cushing Joyce Bertram Diehl 1976 OCTOBER 7, 2007 FEBRUARY 10, 2007 JUNE 22, 2007 Amy L. Bohaker Laurania Nickerson Janet Butterfield Haworth Pauline Cluff Stevens OCTOBER 18, 2007 OCTOBER 26, 2007 O’Connell SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 JUNE 8, 2007 1991 1937 Charlotte Epps Irion 1955 Bonnie Hoyt Gambill AUGUST 3, 2007 Sally Stayman Palmer Lois Alley Ferguson AUGUST 10, 2004 OCTOBER 23, 2007 JANUARY 23, 2007 1947 Constance Market Day Former Faculty 1938 Janet Beaudry Kingsley JUNE 14, 2007 Kathleen E. Torsey OCTOBER 1, 2007 Martha Gorrie Knowlton JULY 22, 2007 SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 Patricia O’Connor Joyner 1956 Former President Everett M. OCTOBER 21, 2007 Barbara Ann Lyons Elinor Pederson Healey Woodman OCTOBER 1, 1991 JANUARY, 22, 2007 1948 JULY 31, 2007 Dorothy Hill Shea Richard E. Crockford AY Martha Fronefield Guerry 1957 M 11, 1994 SEPTEMBER 28, 2007 SEPTEMBER 9, 1995 Marcia Gilmore Nickerson Virginia Chase Fritts JULY 29, 2007 Charles J. Beauchamp PRIL Joan McGrath Moran A 10, 1995 OCTOBER 6, 2007 MAY 19, 2006 Narrina Peckham Mitchell 1959 APRIL 23, 2004 Barbara Felch Wilson JULY 6, 2007 Nancy Nielsen Williams Martha McCracken Howard JULY 29, 2007 JULY 9, 2007

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seems her same cheery self. She’s Send your news and photos to your on oxygen all the time and using a walker—great “girl.” I also 1935 class correspondent or to the Office of talked to Dodie Reece French, Ethelyn “Jackie” Dorr Symons Alumni Relations and Annual Giving: who was living in Manchester c/o Sue Symons and who attended our 75th 1088 Crockett Farm Road Reunion. She moved to CA early Coupeville, WA 98239 e-mail: [email protected] in Nov. to be nearer her 2 daugh- (360) 678-0403 mail: Colby-Sawyer College ters. You’ll miss your lovely win- As time was short for these class Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving ters here, Dodie! Unfortunately notes, Sue Symons, daughter of 541 Main Street she fell recently and broke some Ethelyn “Jackie” Dorr Symons, bones in her foot—ouch! I am New London, NH 03257 called all the alumnae for whom still hanging in, have had some we had telephone numbers. It tooth problems, but think I’m was a nice way to spend a Sunday all set now. My youngest great- afternoon—chatting with the granddaughter just received her class of ’35! Frances Crosby ACADEMY 1931 doctorate in “The Warming Allen lives alone in Fort Myers, Please send your news to the Please send your news to the Trend,” the same subject for FL. She was just about to go out Office of Alumni Relations Office of Alumni Relations which Al Gore received the to dinner, as she does each and Annual Giving and Annual Giving Nobel Peace Prize. I’m very proud evening. Her children, who live 541 Main Street 541 Main Street of her. I’m still taking Adventures in MA and NH, call and visit New London, NH 03257 New London, NH 03257 in Learning courses—adult edu- often. She is doing well and says e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] cation at Colby-Sawyer. In the “Hello to Colby!” Doris “Dottie” fall term I took classes on opera It is with great sadness that we Evelyn Cooper, who also lives on and Japan. A new series starts in her own, in Lake Worth, FL, hap- report the passing of Louise Jan. and I hope to enroll. Sprague Danforth on November pily remembers all the wonderful 1932 days at Colby. Although she was 7, 2007. Louise had served as the Barbara Johnson Stearns Academy class correspondent in the hospital and nursing home Woodcrest Village from 1987 until her death, and for 14 weeks in 2006, Dottie is 356 Main Street, Apartment 217 1933 she will be missed dearly. doing well now. She commented, New London, NH 03257 Please send your news to the “As long as I can eat 3 good Please See In Fond Memory (603) 526-6339 Office of Alumni Relations meals a day and handle my own and Annual Giving stock portfolio, I am just fine.” The years really do pass quickly 541 Main Street Barbara Stone Cornwell is and news time seems to come New London, NH 03257 having a good time living on around before I’m ready. How- 1930 e-mail: [email protected] her own on the 5th floor of her ever, I did hear from 3 members Please send your news to the retirement home. Her 2 children of the class of ’32. Dorothy Please See In Fond Memory Office of Alumni Relations live in Roanoke, VA, and near Melendy Scott and Dick have and Annual Giving Dallas, TX. She has 2 grand- moved to Sunapee Cove, an 541 Main Street children, and one great-grandson, assisted living place in Georges New London, NH 03257 who is 3 and “a wild thing.” She Mills, NH. They have 2 more 1934 e-mail: [email protected] is in good health, getting up daily great-grandchildren, which Please send your news to the at 8 a.m. Her doctor says at 92 brings their total to 2 girls and 3 Office of Alumni Relations she can do whatever she wants. boys. I’m jealous about the girls, and Annual Giving For Barbara, that means eating ice for I have only 3 boys. I talked to 541 Main Street cream when she wakes up at 2 Nancy Gaunt Bradford, who New London, NH 03257 e-mail: [email protected] a.m.! Lucille Smith Davison still

WINTER 2008 39 lives at home in Manchester, NH. New England Revolution (soccer). and our lives were full of music, She has daily caregivers come in Staying active for Mary included sports and fun. Gail graduated and help her out. Connie Alley plans to go sailing with her fami- from Colby in 1963, the twins French has moved into a house ly this past fall. Marjorie Rolfe graduated in 1986, CoraMae grad- next door to her daughter in East and her cat live in Penacook, NH. uated from UNC in 1974, and Calais, VT. Having her daughter Though Marjorie lives alone, she John from ECU in 1976. I lost pop in daily is quite nice, goes out for rides with friends to Zimmie after 17 happy years. All although the move also means keep busy. She fondly remembers children are married except for learning new numbers and living on the same corridor with John. In Sept. I’ll have 12 great- getting a new driver’s license. Jackie Dorr Symons and Dottie grandchildren. In 1977, I opened Connie loves her house that Cooper. Catherine Whited a maternity shop with a friend, her daughter redecorated for her. Shoemaker lives alone in but we had to give it up in 1985. She says that all her furniture fits Fearrington, NC. She has a nurse I now live in an apartment, but beautifully, as if it were made for come in during the week and her had to give up golf. I am still a VT house. This autumn she daughter from Cleveland comes plugging along at 91. My nick- will have visits from her grand- to visit. Catherine is a Tiger name now is BeeZee.” Many daughter, her grandson (who Woods fan and watches all the Betty Pond Zimmerman ’36 has 12 thanks for getting us up to date is getting his Ph.D. at Stanford games in which he plays. She great-grandchildren—which might (Betty) BeeZee! As I write this, the in CA), and her sister from FL. reminisced how much she loved explain the big smile! weather is warm, the leaves are Connie, remembered by many of Colby and Dr. Sawyer, as well as turning color, the sky is blue her Colby classmates as “a very how he truly made Colby-Sawyer brunch in Palm City, FL, early crystal clear and it is MOUNTAIN pretty girl,” says, “I get a kick College. She laughed when she this year to meet President DAY! That should bring back lots that the class of ’35 has moved remembered, “Dr. Sawyer used to Galligan and other Colby Jr. and of memories. Happy days ahead up to the 1st page of the alumni call me a ‘Westerner’ because I Colby-Sawyer alumni and friends. to all, Barb. notes.” Sadly, Margaret Schmeltz was from Cleveland!” Marjorie It was such a lovely occasion. I Please See In Fond Memory Hawkes passed away on Sept. 8, Cain Spence lives alone, as do realized I was the oldest one 2007. Katharine Field Hinman many of the class of ’35. Nearby attending, but I felt young at reads 4-5 books a week at her her home in Whitinsville, MA, heart remembering my Colby Sausalito, CA, home. Her family she has 2 sons, 5 grandchildren, days and knowing the college 1937 of 2 sons, 5 grandchildren, and and 6 great-grandchildren, who continues to be quite special. Best Gladys “Glad” Bachman Forbes 2 great-grandchildren all live all come to visit her. Her health is wishes to all.” A long letter came 9229 Arlington Boulevard, nearby, with one granddaughter good and she plans to drive a few from Betty Pond Zimmerman, Apartment 235 away in San Diego, CA, studying more years. Remembering the apologizing for not writing since Fairfax, VA 22031-2525 for her master’s degree. Katharine class of ’35, Marjorie commented, leaving CJC. Here is a condensed (703) 352-4519 still drives and takes walks, both “We were a good group!” Jackie version of her letter. “Upon grad- e-mail: [email protected] of which she does “not very fast.” Dorr Symons is recovering slowly uation I was offered a job with Barbara Crampton Jones says from her fall last winter. She has Dr. Young in Skowhegan, ME, Please See In Fond Memory that she gets out in her wheel- regular companions who keep who was the father of my first chair and her daughter and her company daily, taking her roommate, Elinor Young Griffin granddaughter come to visit out in her wheelchair for walks ’37. While I was in Skowhegan, daily. She still knits for the and hair appointments. Her sons I was offered a job at the Smith 1938 Linus Project and enjoys cross- and daughters visit her often, as College Infirmary, North Mary Trafton Simonds word puzzles. Ruth Phillips do her 2 grandchildren. Her Hampton, MA, where I met my 1010 Waltham Street, Jones laughed throughout our grandson, Alex, is a cadet at VA first husband, Norman Burnett, Apartment 320 conversation. She was busy Military Institute and her grand- a geology professor. We had Lexington, MA 02421 watching golf and also enjoys daughter, Whitney, is in high 4 children, losing our first 8- (781) 862-7131 cheering for the Red Sox and the school in Centreville, VA. month-old boy to pneumonia, Editor’s Note: Welcome and Patriots. She likes her home in but have a daughter Gail and Please See In Fond Memory special thank you to Mary Trafton the Village at Duxbury, where her twin boys Bradford and Bruce. Simonds, who has agreed to serve family visits her often. She no After losing Norman to cancer, I as class of 1938 correspondent. longer drives, but still goes out married John Zimmerman and for dinner, unless the sports on 1936 the family increased with another Losing touch with dear friends is the television are too good to daughter, CoraMae, and a son, not what we want, so with your Barb Melendy Parker miss! Mary Giddings Lawsing at John. We moved to Westford, NJ, help I’ll try to keep you updated. 14 Little Britton Lane 91 has moved into a retirement New London, NH 03257 home in Longmeadow, MA. She (603) 526-2724 enjoys visits from her daughter, son and 6 grandchildren. One Due to a change in the produc- Colby-Sawyer may be coming grandson is a senior at US Naval tion schedule of the Alumni Academy in Annapolis, studying Magazine and a lack of time, there to an area near you! to be a Naval Aviator. One of is very little news from the class her granddaughters is spending of 1936. Look for more in the Check out www.colby-sawyer.edu/ a year studying in Germany. next issue when we are back on alumni-friends/events to see a Mary paints in oils as a hobby; schedule. The following arrived “It’s time-consuming and very too late for the last issue. Lee complete list of upcoming satisfying.” Other hobbies are Strickland Letherland writes, alumni events. watching the Red Sox and the “I was pleased to attend a Colby

40 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Through the years the Aaslands Editor’s Note: Welcome and We’ve got all kinds of Colby-Sawyer and Nattis have kept a 3-genera- special thank you to Janice tion friendship going. My Wilkins, who has agreed to serve gear in our Alumni daughter, Susanna, has illustrated as class of 1941 correspondent. about 70 children’s books and Please See In Fond Memory Marketplace. her husband, Alan Willsky, is an MIT professor. Their daughter Visit at Lydia is 24, and is starting her Class agent needed! This volunteer position encour- http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/ Ph.D. in secular religions studies ages participation in the Colby- at Vanderbilt. Kate, 21, is doing alumni-friends/gear Sawyer College Annual Fund. a junior semester in Paris for Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Pomona College. At this point I Many thanks for the first 4 symphony, museums, shopping, [email protected] if am ‘de-booking’ my house which prompt cards that encourage me etc. Still drive daytimes and you are interested. overflows with books—but have to think “we can do it” and to volunteer at Cambridge Hospital. lived here since 1947.” Barbara Rightman who replied Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon for her mother. Hope other enjoyed a great summer at her Please See In Fond Memory daughters and sons will keep lake camp in Acton, ME. Like all me informed! I have heard that of us, there are aches and pains, 1942 Martha McCracken Howard but she regularly volunteers at Barbara “Bobbie” Boyd Bradley died after moving to FL to avoid her church shop “Budget Boy.” 1939 Jan. 1 – May 1: ME’s cold weather. Nina Parker Inez talked with Barbara Rounds Fran Holbrook Armstrong 601 Seaview Court, C-311 Gardner has Alzheimer’s. She is Carson, who summers in her Birchwoods at Canco Marco Island, FL 34145-2939 fortunate to be in a 6-person Phippsburg, ME, home after 86 Holiday Drive #123 (239) 394-2881 board and care home. Lots of wintering in Athens, GA. Her Portland, ME 04103 e-mail: [email protected] caregivers and loving companion- family of 5, plus grands, join her. e-mail: [email protected] May 2 – December 31: ship, but alas, she no longer What a gorgeous sandy beach Fran Holbrook Armstrong 865 Central Avenue, writes. Shirley Johnson Watt they have near Fort Papham! moved to ME this past fall to be Apartment 1203 enjoyed an exciting year with the Hopefully Barbara is getting closer to her sons. Needham, MA 02492 weddings of 2 granddaughters, around without her walker, (781) 400-5249 one in May, second in Nov. She which she told me about last Please See In Fond Memory e-mail: [email protected] keeps active, but reports she’s Dec. Joan Davidson Whitney slowing down. Aren’t we all? and her husband really enjoy Hi, everybody. As you all know Barbara Symonds Ayers lost her the retirement community they by now, ’42 had no column in dear husband, Ray. Her home on moved to over a year ago. She 1940 the last issue due to, let’s say, a a pond with 100 ft. of waterfront especially likes the 2 doctors on Judy Conover Reinicker computer glitch! Therefore, we’re near Sanbornville, NH, is a gem. site, bank, fitness center, and 107 Cardiff Court West including the highlights this Alas, it’s up for sale. Any buyers? being served dinners every night Newark, DE 19711-3442 time. Just as well because the Barbara Howard Welch still lives in a beautiful dining room! Joan (302) 239-0965 latest news is very slim. I need in her lovely home at Hilltop and continues outside activities with e-mail: [email protected] more diligence from all of you, watches our little town of New her Garden Club, the Cancer PLEASE! Marcia “Penny” Sickels Janet Canham Williams has London and Colby-Sawyer grow Center and duplicate bridge. Crowley came for cocktails while moved into Woodcrest Village by leaps and bounds. Many grad- They have club trips and have we were spending last winter in in New London. She says all is uates live here, but not many met many interesting new people Marco Island, FL—a chance for well and she is grateful for the from ’38 or before! And another in their retirement home. Joan’s us both to catch up! Penny sent family and friends nearby. We move, Bill and Barbara Knowles 6 children, 5 grands and great- me her news, which I will quote: can look back with pleasure to Merrill left Sebago Lake, ME, and granddaughter are all fine. Mary “I still manage to keep up with the many picnics we had at moved to Vero Beach, FL. Three Lee Kingman Natti returned a my various public service com- Ragged Mountain when we married children—2 sons and a fascinating card from her MA mitments. They take me near came back for Reunions. daughter—live nearby, while son home. She writes, “In ’37–’38 and far. I received a much appre- Scott lives in CA with 3 daughters I met Ann-Marie Gjerlow ciated award in Washington, DC, and a first great-grandson! Aasland ’37, a Norwegian Class agent needed! in March for my work, given by This volunteer position encour- Barbara commented, “Taking life exchange student at Colby Jr., 2 national organizations dedicat- ages participation in the Colby- easy, getting around nicely, but and a lifelong friendship began. ed to public administration. Son Sawyer College Annual Fund. we are old.” Betty Champlin During WWII she married Arne Stephen is heading the national Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Bottorf has also changed her Jacob Aasland and they had 5 global warming challenge of the [email protected] if address, to Walnut Creek, CA, to kids: Olaf, Kirsten, Dag, Gro, and Sierra Club. He is a high school you are interested. be close to her youngest child Tora Aasland ’63, who was also teacher in VT with a master’s and 17-year-old granddaughter. an exchange student at Colby Jr. in environmental education. She misses CT. Finds life different, and spent vacations with us on Daughter, Joan Crowley ’69, but happily left in the east are Cape Ann. In 1965 Robert, our has moved back to MA from VA 2 granddaughters and 3 great- children Susanna and Peter, and 1941 now that her daughter, Caitlin, is at VA Tech. Joan’s professional grands in CT, plus a MA daugh- I spent 2 unforgettable weeks in Janice Wilkins focus is marketing. Son David is ter! Sounds like a great family! As Norway—especially one in their 20 Longwood Drive, working toward a master’s at for me, Mary Trafton Simonds, cabin on a little island in a Apartment 274 Harvard and also on an interest- life at Brookehaven Retirement Norwegian lake. Tora for some Westwood, MA 02090 ing autism study at MacLean Home keeps me happy and out time has been governor of (781) 320-3240 of mischief. Lots of trips to the Rogaland Province in Norway. Hospital. Peter and his wife, Liz,

WINTER 2008 41 have a construction management on the Vineyard. Mary is a happy but traveling was too difficult. I firm, building million dollar camper living in Todos Santos, heard that a lot! Our age is begin- vacation homes in Ludlow, VT. Mexico. She has kids in Waban, ning to show! Marion Huggins 1943 Their daughter, Abby, is only 5, MA, which brings her to New Brown also couldn’t go, but she Peg Morse Tirrell but already a star skier. Their son, England when Mexico is steamy lives in Needham so I hope to get Post Office Box 37 Tim, hopes to raise alpacas one hot. That’s all for last issue’s the CJC Needhamites over for Lower Waterford, VT 05848-0037 day. My time is about equally news, time for what’s really new! lunch soon. I talked to Ruthie (802) 748-8538 divided between distribution of Reunion this past June was great, Murray Carkeek, who lives in e-mail: [email protected] federal and state funds for transit, although the turnout for ’42 was VA. Steve is still recovering from roads, bridges, and bike paths, pathetic. Only Marcia “Penny” his stroke and traveling isn’t easy. Sincere thanks to all who and also statewide environmen- Sickels Crowley and Dave and JoAnn Peterson Jones and her responded to our plea to hurry tal issues.” Jane Knowles Webb I made it to the hill, and we’re husband live in Groton, CT, and return the postal as class returned my card last spring to glad we did. The weather was but couldn’t make Reunion. news deadlines have been estab- say, “Life is much the same. We beautiful and the many meals Everyone else I tried to contact lished as Oct. 1 and April 1. are in the same house in Weston (too many) were delicious! And either had no answer or a busy Wonder how many noticed our for 46 years. We have had our the events were fascinating and signal and time ran out. A nice class news started on the third 63rd anniversary. We are busy fun. Since our class was so small, surprise came from Judy Lind page of that section in the last with tennis, writing, and bed and not even our pictures were taken; Williams—unsolicited! A nice issue of our wonderful Alumni breakfast guests. Our new asset is probably just as well! We are newsy letter! We haven’t heard Magazine. Also interesting was a 2-year-old Australian sheep definitely getting to be the from her for a long time. Judy that almost every single postal dog; we take him to many of “older group!” In trying to drum lost her husband in 1976 when we received included the words, Weston’s 65 miles of trails.” up classmates to go, Marci and her oldest son graduated from “Please say hello to all our class- Shirley Parsons spent last winter I called most everybody in New college, 2nd son from West mates” or “Best wishes to all.” working on her family genealogy England, and in so doing gleaned Point, 3rd son in college and Loved the note from Pricilla and finding out many things she lots of news, even though no daughter in high school. When Coan Barnes, which read, “Jim never knew! (Good or bad, one could go. I talked to Mardy she was an empty nester, she sold and I are still busy doing volun- Shirl?!) She had to miss Reunion Jack Johnsen’s son and learned her house, lived in CA and con- teer work and are thankful for as she was attending her sister’s sadly that Mardy has advanced tinued traveling. She was a TWA the health to keep busy. We 50th birthday celebration. She Alzheimer’s and is now a widow hostess for 6 years! And now I know at our age good health is a also sent the sad news that and living in a care facility in CT. quote: “I have had a fabulous life gift and not a gimme.” Last July, Nancy Bowman Rutherford Jean Craig Brooks’ husband said filled with adventure and blessed 34 of their family members came lost her husband, George, very she isn’t well enough to travel with good health. I stay very together for a reunion. MN, FL, suddenly last winter. Heartfelt and stays pretty close to home. busy with activities including IL, CO, NM, CT, AR, and OK condolences from all your class- Terry Allen Cadwell had a date golf and bowling, etc., and vol- blended together for a fun time. mates, Nancy. A card from conflict and couldn’t make unteering.” She has 6 grandchil- Or as Jean Thurman Ramsey Nancy Eads Hornberger tells of Reunion, but both she and her dren and now lives in Hampton, wrote, “Life goes on with normal a trip 2 years ago to the college husband are well and enjoying VA. As for me, I still hobble changes as we age! (And are we on the hill. She reports it looks many visits from her family. around, dependent on my cane. ever aging!).” She and Frank con- great! Nancy lost her husband in Speaks well for that VT air! We are so happy here at North tinue to enjoy their life in retire- 2000. Her son, Bob, a lawyer, Marcia “Mish” Barnes Shaw- Hill and keep very busy with the ment village. Even though he has lives in Ft. Smith, as does Nancy. Straube had just arrived north many activities they offer and a very severe case of macular Her daughter, Ellen, lives in to Scarborough, ME, from Vero count our blessings to be here! degeneration, they play 9 holes Dallas and works for Price Beach, FL, literally just unpacking, Our children are of golf 4 times a week and she Waterhouse Cooper, a global so another trip just wasn’t possi- nearby and keep track of us— says he’s rather remarkable at auditor, with whom she’s been ble. Ginny Newins Blondell no night driving, long trips, etc. times. They had a great time in since graduating from Emory U. couldn’t go, but she lives around Their rules remind me of when July when they went to NH to Nancy has one granddaughter, 3 the comer from me and I hope to they were under our regime! My celebrate his 90th birthday. All 4 grandsons and 5 great-grands! get together with her soon. Lou sadness right now is the death of children and their families plus Mary Reed Cody e-mailed from Prior Clark lives in Yarmouth, my middle sister. She had lived friends were there for the celebra- Mexico, which she happily calls ME, but traveling is difficult for in CA for over 60 years but came tion. Shirley Hobbs Craven’s home, saying she spent a lot of her. She had a stroke and speaks to ME each summer, so we saw husband, Tom, is also 90. As she time in Canada last winter, but mechanically (very well). Her fun her every year. We are off to CA writes, most of their activities are misses her annual get together personality shone through. Janie for her services as I write this in appointments to doctors, with Nancy Bowman Rutherford Rayner Groo hated to miss it, Nov., so Marco Island, FL, has to although when he is able they wait until Jan. Please keep news exercise at Synergy. She keeps coming my way. My job is hope- house and enjoys studying the Want to find out if other Colby-Sawyer alumni less without it! Bible, watching the scenery at live in your area? Get in The Loop! ocean side, playing cards, and Class agent needed! dining out. Barbara Preston MacPhie and Franklin celebrated This volunteer position encour- their 65th anniversary this past ages participation in the Colby- Nov. They are enjoying their Sawyer College Annual Fund. move to Derry, NH, but still miss Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or FL and hope to get down there [email protected] if this winter. Their son and his you are interested. lovely lady were married in Sept. www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends at a gorgeous spot on Cape Cod.

42 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE oldest son does the driving. They A picture is worth a thousand words. live in RI for 7 months and on an island in Webster Lake, MA, 1944 Send us yours. for 5 months. Margo DeGraff Jean Bush Gabriel Guidelines for submitting Hotaling is doing quite well 1014 Gazebo Circle digital photos for inclusion with the usual aches and pains Reading, MA 01867 at our age. She tries to keep in (781) 942-0408 in the Alumni Magazine: touch with Barbara “Connie” Digital photos must be roughly Jeanne “Penny” Losey Bole Constantine Johnson and Jean 72 Old Village Road 3" x 5" in size and have a resolution of Aronson Rea, but hasn’t seen Shelburne, MA 01370 at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). E-mail your photos to them since their last visit. She (413) 625-9730 still lives alone in a big house in e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] the country with her beautiful 4-legged companion, Colby, and It’s always great to have news So much happiness for all. Mary While continuing to sketch and keeps busy with volunteer work. of our class of 1944! Natalie Scheu Teach had just returned draw, Carolyn Sigourney Holtz In Sept. at Dartmouth class of ’45 “Nancy” Macbain has developed from attending a grandson’s also studies French to keep the mini-reunion dinner, Doc and I a balance problem so she walks graduation from Marine Boot little grey cells active. Still on the sat next to Connie, who looks with a cane. She is living at Camp at Parris Island, SC, which go in Miami is Ginny Hansen great, and had a grand time chat- Faulkways, a continuing care was very impressive. He is the 1st Gato. She volunteers 2–3 times ting. At that time she owned 3 active place. Nancy’s former Marine in her family, which also a week at a local hospital, plus homes and was living in her New roommate Janet Peters Gardiner has representation in the Navy, a little gardening, knitting and London residence! Fortunately, keeps active, but has given up Army, Coast Guard and Air Corp. maintaining her home keeps when the sale of her Quechee golf. Shirley Merz Bryant spends Recently she drove down to her busy. Then add weddings, home fell through, Martha and winter months in Hobe Sound, Williamstown, MA, with Jean engagements and showers. The Jim were able to move in, so it FL. She is moving to Bermuda Bush Gabriel ’44 to visit Sally last grandchild is a high school remains occupied by family until Village Retirement Resort in King Cramer and see the Monet senior this year and her great- it sells. By the time you read this Advance, NC, and would like to Show at the Clark Museum. In grandson is now 8 years old. Time Connie will be back in Marana, know Colby graduates in the June she also went to a Teach sure does fly. Olive Heyman AZ, enjoying her view of those 27006 zip code. Grandson Ryan family wedding at the San Juan McLaughlin has had a busy few mountains. Instead of returning is playing football for UNC. Shirl Capistrano Country Club and years. She spent the last 2 as her postal, my CJC roommate, will attend games, and spends then flew up to San Francisco to secretary of the Residents Council Joan “Mandy” Manda Mueller, summers in Hague, NY, on Lake visit granddaughter Jessica Teach and is now president, spending surprised me with a phone call. George. Jane Titus George is a Navarro ’97 and her husband, the summer sorting through 10 Keeping up with her 2 sons and real estate broker, an educator Kenn. While there she also pages of bylaws. She also keeps daughter and Melissa’s 3 grand- at the Philadelphia Zoo, and is had lunch with Enid Belden busy playing both social and children keeps her busy. Our “Banana Guru” at one of the Robertson Logan, who has never duplicate bridge, plus swimming postals to Jean Stewart Hilton largest superstores 3 mornings a lost her enthusiasm despite losing 4-5 times per week, which she in Barnstable, MA, and Jane week for a couple of hours. Her 2 husbands as well as her hearing finds good for her arthritis. Hamlin Horton in San Antonio, grandkids have been in Iraq and due to cancer treatments many Although life has slowed down TX, were returned, so if anyone Jane is annoyed at newspaper years ago. Back home she was for Shirley Webster Sheldon has their correct addresses we’d coverage that never tells the greeted by a 6-month-old great- since her stroke, she wrote that appreciate receiving them for the “good things about what our granddaughter, Madilyn Scheu her life is still wonderful with her next mailing. We have been for- guys are doing.” Ann Tilton Moulton. An enthusiastic note dear husband of 63 years. She tunate to be able to continue our Carpenter plays golf, tennis and from Enid also mentioned that has full-time care and still enjoys involvement with the square and bridge. She has a grandson in “Shiner” with her 2 angel daugh- painting, although her style is round dance activities. Some day Beaverton, OR. Myrtle Furbush ters, Nancy and Donna, were different now. She also reads and we’ll slow down, but not quite Mansfield has had 2 mastec- there for lunch and a visit at her has an electric chair for outside. yet. If you did not return your tomies. She went to a “Moose home. Enid still volunteers at the Unfortunately Julia Ann Keeney postal card, we’ll welcome it Festival” in Colebrook, NH, hospital and on the Altar Guild Walton tripped and fell on an anytime and save it for the next attended FL and AL football at church. “Summer has gone uneven sidewalk in May, which issue. As Enid wrote, “Hugs to this past fall, belongs to 2 quilt fast,” writes Doris Douglas kept her off the golf course for you all.” groups, and enjoys knitting. Butler. She took a 4-day trip to most of the summer. Just after Ann Richmond Knipe, living Please See In Fond Memory Meredith, NH, with her youngest she mailed her postal they left in Belleair Bluff, FL, goes to son and an AARP trip to ME for a cruise on the Great Lakes. Gloucester, MA, each summer for along Route 1, which was very They plan on being in Venice, Class agent needed! 2–3 months. This past summer This volunteer position encour- interesting. She also spent a few FL, from the middle of Jan. until she had a luncheon with Jeanne ages participation in the Colby- hours in Kennebunkport before April. When Shirley Mowry “Penny” Losey Bole. Cynthia Sawyer College Annual Fund. heading back home to CT. Reichenberg’s husband, Bob, Alexander Carlson has 3 daugh- Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Charlotte Shapiro Krentzel is retired 4 years ago, their son, ters and 8 grandchildren. She was [email protected] if at Lasell Village in Newton, MA. Blair, moved their business to heading to FL at the end of Oct. you are interested. Her grandchildren and 3 great- the Mad River Valley of VT and for 6 months. Betty Van Gorder grandchildren live within walking is now manufacturing brushes Minkler lost her beloved hus- distance. All are well. It seems in Waitsfield. It’s still called band, Don, in May on their 61st strange to her to be at Lasell, Woonsocket Brush Company. anniversary. In Aug. she spent a which, like Colby-Sawyer, has They visit home once a year for week at Mt. Shasta with 4 grand- become a co-ed 4-year college. a few days. Fortunately, their children and extended family,

WINTER 2008 43 and in Oct. she was going to Aug. with Kappie and Dau and the summer. Jane looks great and Thomas still plays golf 3 times a China with her son to retrace Jeff Sullivan and poodle, Betsy this past fall stopped in to visit in week, weather permitting, in Oak their roots. Margaret Kentfield Sperry, daughter and husband New London. Shirley Tunison Hill, VA. She has 10 grands. By Burkey’s first great-grandson was Bob, and Christine Browning—a Eustis wishes she’d been in New the time you read this, she will born in June. Her Navy son Paul fun crowd! Jessie Fyfe Armstrong London for the summer breezes. have returned from her first and his family are moving beside has 2 grandchildren in college Shirl had a few trips to New York cruise. Bet it won’t be your last, them next July so she will have 5 and one in private school. She City to see Ben, 3, her only Doadie! Nancy Dean Maynard is grandchildren living next door! lives in Chatham and plays a lot grandson. They were all at Bay settled into her new apartment Ann Norton Merrill plays bridge of bridge. Jane Cooper Fall spent Head, NJ, for half of Sept. Shirl in Lowell, MA, where she will be and tennis with Ann Tilton the summer at Bow Lake near and I, Jean Bush Gabriel, got close to her daughter, Barbara. Carpenter. Dudley will be 95 and Rochester. There was a bad storm together in New London at the Shirley “Shal” Glidden Splaine is doing well. Hope we can get that felled 20 tall pine trees. Jane end of Sept. as representatives has had a busy summer with the together in New London soon. had back surgery on June 12, but for our class on the President’s Doll Museum in Ashland, NH, Janet Colby Gordon is coping has played some golf since. Alumni Advisory Council. I am and her ever-expanding garden! with the onset of Alzheimer ’s Penny Losey Bole had a magical spending more time in New Blows my mind that she does disease and will be moving soon trip to Hawaii, a land of beauty, London. Do call if you are most of the gardening herself. As to be with her son in CO. Good multicultural people, sunshine, visiting up there. Had a knee I write, Gus and I are planning luck, Janet. Alice Crowther exotic flowers, and a warmer replacement last Jan. It was diffi- for our cruise on the Queen Mary Brooks is living in a life-care Pacific Ocean. Penny and Deek cult, but I’m in fine shape now! A II. Sounds really posh with several community in Naples, FL, with a are once again in Dunedin, FL, for big hello to all my classmates! formal dinners etc. A little differ- myriad of things to do, like par 3 warmth at wintertime. Catherine ent from our current lifestyle, Please See In Fond Memory golf courses. Bill, her husband, is English Kipe recently returned but we look forward to being busy with art, though he recently from 2 weeks in Norway, where pampered. Next news will be broke his hip. Barbara Phillips she had a wonderful coastal water due April 1, so you’ll be hearing Mello was celebrating her 65th trip. The scenery was spectacular, 1945 from me before then. Remember, reunion from high school. She even though it was a bit rainy if you don’t send me any news Ruth Anderson Padgett has been dealing with painful and foggy. Mary Mitchell …I’ll make up something! 2535 Ardath Road scoliosis and arthritis. Great- Williams is still in Fairfield, CT. La Jolla, CA 92037 Please See In Fond Memory grandchildren were due in Oct. They had a great trip cruising on (858) 454-4623 Spoke on the phone to her room- Seven-Seas Voyager to Russia via e-mail: [email protected] mate, who is now in a wheel- the Baltic Sea, and particularly chair. Mary Jane Niedner loved St. Petersburg. They spend Here it is after Labor Day and 1946 Fletcher Mason visited me, Jean one month in April in FL. Janet yesterday I received the last Ramona “Hoppy” Hopkins Bush Gabriel, after going to a Peters Gardiner lives in Palos Alumni Magazine. At the same O’Brien 100th birthday party nearby. We Verdes Estates, CA. She would time, I was advised that the news 54 Texel Drive visited a place in Rockport, MA, really like to be able to visit is due Oct. 1 for next issue! Oh Springfield, MA 01108-2638 that her grandfather owned and the Colby-Sawyer campus, but well, here we go: Leah Keever (413) 739-2071 sold. Her daughter Bonnie’s son is because it’s too far, she enjoys Cotton still lives in Duxbury, e-mail: [email protected] moving to Newport Beach, CA, to reading about the college in the MA, but spends summers in start an editing career. Pauline Alumni Magazine. Janet looks Nova Scotia. Charlotte “Char” Here it is again—time for more Tringa Beckley has a new great- forward to hearing news about Epps Irion sounds very happy news about the Class of ’46. After grandchild, Emma Kate. Three her classmates. She keeps in at Sommerset Retirement making 9 telephone calls, I finally daughters live close by, and touch with Nancie MacBain and Community and has a great got an answer. Busy girls we are! Pauline enjoys gardening and exchanges Christmas cards with friend, Bill, with whom she Shirlee Woodman Colcord shopping. Patsy Leonhard Miller Mary Helen Williams. Janet travels and enjoys life with. —love the way she spells her first returned from her cottage in Sand sends her best wishes to all. Jane Go for it, girl! Mary “Ricky” name, don’t you?—is taking it Lake, Ontario, Canada, Labor Day MacCabe Kelly and Tom have Philbrick Jones has 12 grands easy these days due to a leg weekend with 3 Miller grand- decided to spend life at Waverly and her 3 daughters, all living in problem. Shirlee states, however, sons—a senior at CA Polytech, Heights Retirement Community Summit. How lucky can you get? “I’m very fortunate.” She has and sophomores at UCLA and in Gladwyne, PA, but will She sees Betsy Dunn Kennedy 4 children who live near by Westdale High—and their mom, return to their lovely home on ’42, who wrote the song “Colby and are able to help her “oh so Judie. She went to the lake in Winnipesaukee at Mirror Lake in Forever”…wonder if they still much.” Being a Red Sox fan and sing that one? She also used to occasional trips to Foxwoods keep see Jane “Tish” Philbrick Eleanor Chandler Hall going Armstrong ’46, who sadly passed these days. Recovering from her Send your news and photos to your away in April. Nancy Erickson stroke, Eleanor is again “going class correspondent or to the Office of Murphy and her hubby, Cal, strong.” She is very proud of her have celebrated their 61st 22-year-old granddaughter who Alumni Relations and Annual Giving: anniversary and live part-time in recently graduated from Simmons Sequim, WA, and the rest of the College in Boston and now works e-mail: [email protected] year in San Miguel de Allende, as a full time RN. I had a nice Mexico. I recently found a chat with Betty Abt Hardy. After mail: Colby-Sawyer College “Nancy Murphy” recipe from a bout with health problems she Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving her days in San Diego. It’s a is once again feeling well. Janice 541 Main Street good one, too! They have 6 Hesse Somerville has “doctor- New London, NH 03257 grands and 3 great-grands. itis” as most of us do! Her many Dorothy “Doadie” Johnson doctor appointments take up

44 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE much of her time these days. I had a serious operation in Dec. caught her just as she was pack- 2006 and was in the hospital for Colby-Sawyer may be coming ing for a trip to their home in FL. almost 2 months. He is doing She was spending a month there much better now, but Peggy to an area near you! before heading home to Marion, doesn’t think he will be playing MA, to celebrate the holidays golf any more. She adds, “I am Check out www.colby-sawyer.edu/ with her family, then returning to still playing a lot of bridge, golf, alumni-friends/events to see a FL until May. Janice still misses and of course volunteering at Colby classmate Jacquie church. I was 80 years old this complete list of upcoming Pennicke Coughlin, deceased, past Aug.—I probably look it, but alumni events. and her husband, Jack, but says inside I feel 23!” she has wonderful friends in both Please See In Fond Memory the former mining settlement tour and saw everything that was MA and FL. Jean Cammett that flourished during the CO offered in the vicinity of Cape Olsson and her husband, Olaf, Silver Boom in the late 19th Town, Table Mountain, and the have been married for 39 years. century. US Highway 40 passes Winelands, and Robbin Island, They enjoy their 2 daughters, one 1948 through Empire as it ascends where Mandela was in prison. son and 4 grandchildren. Though Phyllis “Les” Harty Wells towards Berthoud Pass. The town Cape Point was particularly they’ve had their share of health 6305 SW, 37th Way is on a direct route between interesting, as it’s where the issues, they look forward to fami- Gainesville, FL 32608-5104 Denver and Rocky Mtn. National Atlantic and Indian Oceans con- ly visits—the younger ones keep Phone and fax: (352) 376-8475 Park, about 50 miles west of the verge. We also toured Pretoria, them going! I spent a delightful e-mail: lesmase@bellsouth.net continental divide. Another of Johannesburg and Soweta. We 4 days in Washington, DC. My our CO residents, Cornelia were in a perfect size group of nephew, Charles (Terry) Hopkins This year I will celebrate my 20th “Nini” Hawthorne Maytag, was 12 plus our guide. We left South II had been nominated and year as your class correspondent. in CA during Aug. so missed Africa for Nambia’s Skeleton confirmed as Asst. Secretary for I’ve enjoyed keeping up with Shoe’s visit. They got together in Coast on a minibus that shud- Veterans Affairs. My sister, Colby those of you who are good Baltimore in Sept. for a tour of dered along bumpy, graded, but alumni Charlotte Hopkins enough to write. It’s been a great the Eastern Shore of MD’s his- unpaved, roads and we marveled Morneau ’48, and I were invited opportunity for me to learn to toric homes. They saw many at the great distance between the to the swearing in ceremony. It know my ’48 classmates through- beautiful homes, each with acres rustic towns. Landscapes were was a very happy and enlighten- out their adult years. I suddenly of farmland. One lovely home varied, as well as the desert ing affair. I especially enjoyed realized that I know most mar- was practically surrounded by plants and animals. Ostrich, talking to these dedicated young ried names and that I rarely have water and had a long beautiful kudu, springbok, oryx, camels, men and women who work for to check them out anymore. It’s beach! Nini enjoyed her month and mercats all survive and blend the dept. President Bush sent fun for me, but if there is anyone in Del Mar, CA, and had a fun into the desert. We ate “bush boxes of chocolates to be given to out there who would like to birthday celebration at Rancho lunches” in the middle of Terry’s family, complete with the “have a go” at the column, I’d Valencia in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, nowhere and sometimes ate at an White House seal on each box. I be happy to let you take over. with all of her family in atten- oasis. Highlights were seeing the was so very proud and honored I’m afraid my style of writing dance. I had a fun trip in April Sossusvlei red sand dunes in to be there. It is certainly some- is getting old and it might be and May when Mase and I flew Nambia, Victoria Falls, and an thing I will never forget. That’s nice to have a change! When I to Africa for a 21-day tour of AIDS village in Zambia. It was about all the news I have for mentioned this to Carol “Shoe” South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, a fantastic trip and not at all dif- now. I have a new e-mail address, Shoemaker Marck she com- and Botswana. Mase has dreamed ficult for us. Our county health [email protected], that will mented, “Les, old dear, there is of doing an African trip since he office had recommended we get make it easier for everyone to NO ONE who could ever take was a very young boy. The hard- several shots, take hand wipes, send their news, happenings, your place as most of us are too est part was getting there. Time- preventative meds, water puri- thoughts—anything that you’d lazy. You seem to have the key wise, it’s like flying to Europe fiers, etc., so we’d have no like to share with the ’46 alumni. and enjoy and love the whole twice. We flew from Atlanta to concerns about malaria or other I’m hoping this will make it easi- gang and we love to share our Dakar, Senegal, where we had a diseases. It turns out that we er for everyone to get in touch. news with you. You are UNIQUE 2-hour refueling stop. Senegal’s didn’t need anything and we Write a little; write a lot. We have and I want that to be printed in airport security was tough. A never did see a mosquito, even a whole ‘nother year to keep our your column, verbatim, please. large crew came aboard and on the safaris. There was bottled classmates informed. Come on, Quite honestly, Les, it boggles checked out every single row, as well as safe drinking water ladies! Share your lives with us! my mind to think of all the nook, and cranny in our plane. everywhere. We traveled in 4 notes and letters you must write Everyone stood up and watched, politically stable countries and to get news out of us!” Thanks, dumbfounded, as security guards found the white and black Shoe, I appreciate your faith in proceeded to rip open each vel- Africans to be a happy lot, always 1947 me. Shoe and Chuck took their cro-held seat and back. We’re not smiling, agreeable and friendly. Class Correspondent Needed semi-annual trek to Snowmass, sure what they were looking for, We did everything that was CO, in July. Before they made Please send your news to the but it took the better of the 2 offered, including riding on ele- their way home to PA in Aug. Office of Alumni Relations hours. Through the flight passen- phants. We brought home over they stopped in Empire, CO, and and Annual Giving gers were not allowed off the 700 digital photos and to this had coffee with Emy Lu Simson 541 Main Street plane unless they had a current day I’m still trying to decide Croke. Shoe commented that New London, NH 03257 visa for Senegal! It was another which ones to throw away! Emy is still the “neat gal” we e-mail: [email protected] long flight to Johannesburg, We’re saving our Delta-American knew at CJC. Emy’s son and where we had to change planes Express Skymiles for the next Margaret “Peggy” Fish Langa daughter-in-law come to stay again for Cape Town. After a few trip to Tibet, Cambodia, and writes that her husband, Paul, with her often so they, too, enjoy days on our own, we joined the Vietnam, or an easy trip to New

WINTER 2008 45 for the bi-annual Williams family by gardens. During the winter Want to stay in touch with your friends reunion at Twin Lakes Villa, just months, she goes to the local down the road from CSC. Family theater in the round where she and classmates? Get in The Loop! members from 2 to 87 years sees many great musicals and enjoyed every minute of their plays. She enjoys the monthly time together. They had their symphonies and is president of usual golf tournament using her local historical society. She Janet’s father’s unique golf rules. feels extremely lucky that 3 of Janet said she spent a lot of her her 4 daughters plus 6 grand- time in the woods and in the daughters live just 10 minutes water! She and Harry stopped at away. Betsy Wyman Chase and CSC and said the campus looked hubby Francis had their 60th www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends beautiful. Janet particularly likes anniversary in Nov. She has lost the library, as it’s a remarkable touch with her CJC bridesmaids, London, NH. Do make a note on bone in her upper left arm. She’s oasis that beckons all to come Pat Bentley Nye and Claire your calendar to save May 30– left handed so it made her quite use it for study and reading. Preston Twohy. Unfortunately, June 1, 2008, for our 60th handicapped. The break location Their younger generation has I found that Claire is now reunion. Our class is not getting made it impossible to cast but already made reservations for deceased. The Chases spent the any younger and we should she said it healed quickly for an another reunion in summer last 2 winters in Stuart, FL. They make a point to try and attend “old lady.” The therapy that was 2009. It will take place at Twin have a place on Canoe Lake, while we’re still in fair shape and given for her unused muscles Lake Villa again, even if some of close to other relatives. Betsy alive and kicking. Most of us presented more problems than the family might be missing had to have a 2nd hip replace- head right to the class notes the the actual break. In Sept. the from the ranks! The Williams ment in June and was doing OK. minute the Alumni Magazine Willises rented a house on the were also looking forward to Aug. She still enjoys painting and is arrives. It’s those classmates’ ME coast for 3 weeks and had when they spend some time in active in her church, as well as notes that keep our column many visits from friends and the Adirondacks. They have a the Barnstable, MA, Historical interesting. Just remember this their family. Belated congratu- camp at Blue Mountain Lake, Society. Barbara “Bobbie” over the holidays. I know that lations go to Nancy “Hob” where they enjoy lots of canoe- Hamilton Hopkins and husband many of you write a newsletter Hobkirk Pierson and Jim, who ing, swimming, reading and do a Rich are well and happy. In April to go with your holiday cards. sent news that their #10 grand- whole lot of relaxing. Maddy and May 2007 they had a memo- Just please add my name to your child was born in the spring. Pennicke Cattell got a phone rable trip to Italy, visiting Rome card list and send me a copy of Hob is another one who loved call from Barbara “BJ” Smith and the Amalfi area. The 2nd your newsletter. Some of you South Africa and has been trying Barnett’s son that his mom had part of their Italian visit was a have done this for years and I do to squeeze in a trip to Ghana passed away. BJ and Maddy have bike trip along the flat coast of appreciate it. It makes it easy to with her oldest daughter, Amy. corresponded at Christmastime Puglia in Southeastern Italy. communicate with me without In June, the Piersons’ anniversary since our college days. BJ lived Bobbie regretted not being able putting yourself out or having to took a back seat to Jim’s 80th by herself and was unwell, on a to spend more time in their New write me personally. I always sift birthday, as both events occurred walker, and on 24-hour oxygen London, NH, house, but was kept through the news and promise I the same weekend. They had a as well. Maddy is well and thor- busy with summer activities in won’t use any personal news big party in a beautiful garden oughly enjoys life at Penn State’s CT. Their 14-year-old grandson that’s too delicate to print! In the spot with friends from most of retirement “Village.” She says stayed with them for the 2nd summer months, a lot of you Jim’s groups: skiers, Glen Ridge she’s lucky as most of the resi- summer while he participated in take vacations, travel overseas, neighbors, Bernardsville neigh- dents are great and lots of fun. a sailing program at Riverside YC. and have family reunions. All bors, his YMCA exercise class, a Jean Klaubert Friend feels fortu- The R.Y.C.’s summer cruise was this makes for interesting read- few golf buddies and, of course, nate that she and Paul are still most enjoyable, particularly ing. Do the class a big favor and all his family. Jim had a great able to play lots of golf. Three of when they made a stop in tell us something about life at party as Hob collected 60 guests the Friends’ grandsons brought Padanaram, a MA coastal village present. When I told Sara and brought in some excellent their own friends to visit in that is part of the town of Ackerman Frey we were going to wine and music! Their children, Pinehurst. Jean hoped they could Dartmouth. Other great stops Africa, she asked if I remembered grandkids, and sons-in-law all keep up with the kids. I bet Paul were made in Buzzards Bay, when we all were reading Cry the had something funny to say, so it and Jean gave the kids some golf Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Beloved Country. Mase and I did really was a very upbeat birthday. tips! Nat Taylor Dutton writes and Cuttyhunk. In Sept. they re-read it before our African trip. Hob spent most of the summer that she has been a widow for 25 took to their bikes again and Sally keeps a regular school in VT with a few scheduled trips years but her kids, grandkids, and traveled through ME’s Acadia routine until June. As soon as back to NJ. Now that she has 2 nearby relatives keep her lifestyle National Park. Bobbie frequently school was out the Freys went to daughters in VT, her summers are active. Living by the ocean in sees Patricia Anderson Schmitt Chicago for a conference of The busier than ever. Her peaceful Kingston, NH, is another plus. now that Pat lives in Stamford, North American Dictionary time in VT is no more, as she She was near New London last CT. Heloise “Weezie” Pike Society. One of the highlights helps out daughter Amy in her spring so swung over and walked Mailloux and hubby Ken have was a tour of 2 Frank Lloyd knitting store whenever she’s around the campus. It brought been at Stonebridge Retirement Wright buildings. Betsey Cook needed, and daughter Phoebe back so many fond memories. Community for 4 years and find Willis and Dave said they, too, now has 2 babies for Hob to play She remarked, “Weren’t those each year they become more had toured Southern Africa and with. The 2-year-old, Abby, and good years?” Ann Buckman involved with the community’s would like to go on a Central Hob have become good pals. Hob Dickson has led a quiet life since committees. She wrote on African safari sometime. Betsey did manage to get her garden she lost her George in ’02. She notepaper that was a gift from a had no Irish luck at all on St. planted as well as some painting. had her pool completely redone 14-year-old grandniece who Patrick’s Day when she fell on a In June, Janet “Westie” West and spends a lot of time swim- toured Africa with her musical concrete sidewalk and broke a Williams and Harry were in NH ming, plus attending to the near- group. It’s the closest to Africa as

46 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE the Mailloux will get. She writes told me that Carol “Weissy” that anyone who has stuck with Weissenborn Smith had lost her the ’48 column for as long as husband, Gil, this past summer. 1949 1950 I have surely deserves 100% par- We send our very deepest sympa- Class Correspondent Needed Pat Davis Hoffman Post Office Box 231 ticipation from her classmates. thy from the class, Weis. Beej Please send your news to the Topsfield, MA 01983 I agree and hope you hear her often sees Weis at the Bay Head– Office of Alumni Relations (978) 887-9971 message! Susan “Sue” Hight Rumsom Duplicate Bridge Tourn- and Annual Giving e-mail: [email protected] Denny writes that her younger aments. In Oct. Beej had a great 541 Main Street son, Steve, and his wife presented time cruising along the Danube New London, NH 03257 Hello to the class of 1950! We her with another grandson in on a River Boat in Eastern Europe e-mail: [email protected] have some good news here. Betty Oct. Her son had many interest- and highly recommends it to all. Alden Parker is president of her Priscilla Allen Walton writes, “I ing names selected, but he was I hadn’t heard “boo” from women’s club and sees family was sorry to see that we had no unnamed at the time I sent the Martha “Patsy” Dimmitt White and friends often. She and I had representation in the last issue of news in to CSC. Her first grand- in a while and found that she the great experience recently of the Alumni Magazine. I have been son, Nicholas, is now 9 years old. had changed her e-mail address. visiting the Colby-Sawyer College living on the Cape for 21 years Jane Maynard Gibson and Jack She says she and Peter are both campus and surroundings. now—BUT I’m not retired. I’m took the auto train up to Lorton, in great health and currently Visited with Ellie Morrison a real estate broker in Chatham, VA, and spent 3 weeks driving bragging about their grand- Goldthwait ’51 and Sue the Nantucket of Cape Cod. thru PA, NY and VT, ending up daughter, a senior at San Diego Morrison Mayer. Both live (Chatham Village Realty if you’re in Dixville Notch, NH. It was a State. She had the distinguished nearby. We all dined at the New looking to buy or rent.) I see lovely trip on some beautiful honor of being inducted into Phi London Inn and at the college. Sally Jenkins Kimball every highways and they occasionally Beta Kappa! Patsy and Peter also Betty and I also were royally once in a while, as we both found themselves the only car had a wonderful river cruise from entertained at Ellie’s home. belong to the Chatham Platform on the road. They returned Amsterdam to Vienna last year. During Betty’s recent travels she Tennis Association, where I play home from NH via Montclair, After leaving Vienna, they took a chatted with Carol Lynch 4 or 5 times a week from Oct. Philly, Baltimore, New Hope and train to Salzburg, ending up in Hermance, a McKean Hall class- through April. It’s a beautiful Princeton, and saw all the kids Italy, and eventually flew home mate. Joan Hubley Sundeen and spot, right on Pleasant Bay—you and grandkids along the way. from Milan. She also highly rec- hubby Bob recently celebrated couldn’t ask for more. Believe it Jane remarked it was good to ommends river cruises. Patsy is the 55th wedding anniversary of or not, there are 4 or 5 Colby get home. Barbara Jane “Beej” still a very busy gal, holding a her twin sister, Jean Hubley Junior College members, but Smith Thompson spends most number of volunteer positions. Meyer, and her husband, Dick. Sally and I are the ‘seasoned’ of her winters in Vero Beach and She chairs the Marin County Jean works one day a week for a members of the group. Ed and I Sanibel, FL. She enjoyed a great Economic Commission, is a co- dentist while Dick tends a large celebrated our 50th anniversary evening in Vero last winter and founder and on the board of a garden and the family dogs. this year and our 3 children and met the new CSC President, small advocacy group working Many of us remember Jean and their respective spouses rented Thomas C. Galligan, Jr. Beej for affordable housing in their Dick’s great and good news, the a great house right on Lake community of Novato, and on first kiss, the “peaches” nickname Champlain in VT where we spent the board of the local YMCA. and the chewing gum enclosed a wonderful 10 days. It’s not She is giving a lot of thought to in letters to Jean from Dick, all often when you can get 17 peo- coming back east for our 60th! during our student days. Both ple together at the same time, Finally, a note from Judy twins, Joan and Jean, are actively but they did an outstanding job Conover Reinicker ’40 stated involved in the medical field as of organizing the whole affair. that an exhibit of paintings and well as with family and friends. Our 3 children have a combina- drawings by Ann Wyllie Jarrett Jean Holmes Duffett and hubby tion of 9 children, ages 8 was held in Wilmington, DE, this John enjoy the companionship through 27, and they live in MI, past Oct. at the Westminster of Marjorie “Mardie” Hamilton CT and RI. The grandchildren Presbyterian Church. Her show Gorham and her husband, Jim. used to like to come to visit on was titled “Living with Color” Cheers to Mardie and Jim on the the Cape, but everyone is older and was part of Wilmington’s Art recent celebration of their 50th now and they have jobs, camp, on the Town event sponsored by wedding anniversary. They enjoy etc. Not much else to report. the DE Division of the Arts. 2 sons and their wives, as well as Hope everyone is well and able their 2 teenage granddaughters. Correction: In the last issue, to get up and take nourishment Greetings from Barbara Blake editorial errors resulted in some every day—that’s my goal.” mixed-up news for Nini Maytag Erdogan, who spent her first and Hob Pierson. The notes should Please See In Fond Memory year with us. Barbara later have stated that Hob and Jim—not attended Syracuse U. and Pratt Nini and Jim—have 2 daughters Class agent needed! Art Institute. She and her hus- living near their VT vacation home, This volunteer position encour- band, Fazil Erdogan, have 2 and that it was Hob who went on ages participation in the Colby- children and 8 grandchildren. a painting retreat over the summer. Sawyer College Annual Fund. Barbara recalls that when she In addition, Emy Lu Croke was Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or was a student here, she was 5’9" referred to by her legal first name, [email protected] if tall and especially enjoyed her Emily, which, we are assured, she you are interested. art classes. Our congratulations never uses. The editors apologize to to Barbara “Bobbie” Bishop Babs Conkey Armstrong ’49 and her those mentioned and to Les Harty MacLean, who now serves husband, Ed, enjoying the summer Wells for these blunders. on Colby-Sawyer College’s President’s Alumni Advisory sun in North Carolina. Please See In Fond Memory

WINTER 2008 47 Council. Bobbie and hubby Phil keep active with 2 sons, daughter and the grandchildren. Bobbie volunteers also with the DAR, where she is active in her local chapter, state committee and national committee, and tennis when possible. Debbie Price Gundersen sends her best wishes. Debbie reports the death of her husband, Ken. Their totals of 8 children and 23 grandchildren now give her some time also for the executive service core, dupli- cate bridge and art/painting classes. Cheers to 2008! May it be our best yet. Let’s hope that we hear from you soon.

Please See In Fond Memory A mini-reunion took place on Sept. 29, 2007, with (l to r) Joan White Snively ’51, Anne Rantoul Sturtevant ’51, Bobbie Green Davis ’51, Ruth Gray Pratt ’51 and Mary Loudon Eckert ’51.

New London. Anne Rantoul given and Ellen said she felt so Skidmore.) Afraid this is all I 1951 Sturtevant and her new husband, honored. Her golf and swim have to report at this time. Bobbie Green Davis Bill, Joan White Snively, Mary programs are in their 10th year, Don’t hesitate to write any 107 Columbia Avenue Loudon Eckert, Ruth and I were and she has 6 grandkids that news you have. Swarthmore, PA 19081 there. It was a beautiful day, keep her going. Our condolences Please See In Fond Memory (610) 543-6688 enjoyed by all. Anne and Bill go to Marilyn Asbury Taylor on Hope you all had a nice summer. also joined Pat Gulick Kempton the loss of her husband from a As I write this in the fall, we just at Marcia Cowles Bushnell’s stroke. Ann Harrison Michels returned from a trip to New house in VT last Aug. Ellen has 2 paintings to be exhibited 1952 Duane Stumpf writes that she in galleries, one in NY and one England seeing friends and Rayma Whittemore Murray was named “Volunteer of the in TX. Her granddaughter is at classmates. We had a nice lunch 1521 Coral Oak Lane Year” for Oconee County. It was Skidmore and is now in Paris. at Ruth Gray Pratt’s cottage on Vero Beach, FL 32963 the first time this award was (Ann is also a graduate of Perkins Pond in NH, not far from (772) 231-1935 e-mail: [email protected] I was remiss in reporting news for the last edition of the Alumni Magazine. Marilyn “Woodsie” Woods Entwistle reported that she and Nancy Angel Turnage and Elizabeth Carlson Salomon went to Jean Roach Tozier’s memorial service on July 29, 2006. They were glad to have some time with Ralph Tozier and their daughters. They told silly CJC stories and then took a fun trip to New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. As for 2007, it was a Reunion year for our class, and 15 loyal alumni of the class of ’52 returned to campus in June for the event. I want to thank Mary Jane Fritzinger Moeller who worked so hard on the In Memoriam book for our class. Last year we also had 2 classmates that were honored, and I want to be sure they get their due. Nancy “Shum” Shumway Adams was Colby-Sawyer Flashback: After the photograph above ran on page 45 of the spring/summer presented the 2007 Alumni 2007 issue of the Alumni Magazine, we heard from many members of the class of ’52 identifying their classmates. Service Award at Reunion, while Thank you to the first respondent, Noel Henriques Brakenhoff ’52, who let us know the gals in the picture are (l to r) Marilyn “Chasie” Chase was Doris Smart Sandstrom ’52, Jan Staley Pellerin ’52, Nan Norton Wasniewski ’52, June Ammon Harris ’52, Joan inducted into the Colby-Sawyer Salmon Nesbit ’52, Beatrice Paris ’52 and Carol Woods Searing ’52. The ladies were involved in the theater group College Athletic Hall of Fame in called Rouge Pot.

48 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Oct. Kudos to them both! Shum made 3 visits to campus last year: one for Reunion and her great 1953 recognition in June, another for Mrs. Jane Pearl Dickinson the President’s Alumni Advisory 237 Maple Street Council meeting in Sept., and Danvers, MA 01923 again in Oct. for Chasie’s sports (978) 777-2778 award. Nancy continues to be a e-mail: tireless worker for Colby-Sawyer [email protected] and we owe her many thanks. Noel Henriques Brakenhoff Hello, classmates! I will start with underwent a complete hip the “good news,” a thank you for replacement this summer. She your many interesting responses said it was a horrible operation, to the mailing. I was hoping for but she is doing great. Noel and 100%, but we have made a good Holland and Belgium in Bloom. Meeting abroad in spring ’07 were (l to r) Joan Salmon Nesbit are the step towards that goal. The Susan Roesser Putnam ’51, Bobbi Johnston Rodgers ’53, Trish Dobbs chairs of our 60th Reunion in “bad news” is that my husband, Montgomery ’53 and Sally Roesser Johnston ’55. 2012. We want it to be a BIG Thom, passed away on Oct. 9, so one. Please keep this in mind I have been very distracted. It is and make plans accordingly. the saddest time in my life and Ken and me in July, along with grandchildren. I keep in touch Shum and her husband, Roger, the only way I can tell you how family reunion to celebrate Edie’s with my roommate, Lynn Pond hosted Chasie and me as we trav- it feels for me is that I feel a hole 75th. I stopped counting years Bonasia (she encouraged me eled to New London for Chasie’s in my heart. It is unbearable at ago! Hope you’re doing well. to write) and Elaine Olson induction into the Athletic Hall times, but I have faith and I am Thanks for your efforts for CSC.” Smith. Midlothian is just 15 of Fame. It was a magnificent fall leaning on that right now. Now, Susan Wiesner Bray says she is miles outside of Richmond. day as MJ Montgomery, Joan here goes…Nan Langdon Darche still very busy doing estate sales Anyone traveling north-south or Salmon Nesbit, Polly Heath writes, “We are living in PA in in NY and FL, where they reside the reverse is welcome.” Florence Kidder, Virginia Farnsworth the summers. Our daughter, Gail, 6 months of the year. “Anyone Fayle Garofalo has some exciting Allison ’53, Nancy Shumway has a farm and 4 children, so in or near Ft. Myers give us a call news. “On Sept. 12 in Lynnfield, Adams and Rayma Whittemore we’re helping out where we can (239-437-3240) and we will do MA, I married a wonderful man, Murray assembled to honor and enjoying it. We’re both still lunch! Have 5 great grands: 4 in Luigi Garofalo, a retired execu- Kelly Bryant Belanger ’87, Mary well and enjoying life with college and one in 3rd grade. All tive from Gillette Corporation.” Drueding ’83, Katie Sykes Follis eleven grandchildren—lots in doing well and having fun. One Joan Vincent Donelan writes, ’00, Jim McGilvery ’96 and our college. Never thought I’d see of these days I might think of “My former husband, Tom very own Marilyn. Chasie was a that day.” Carol Jones Balch retiring, but not yet. Best to Donelan, passed away suddenly field hockey, basketball, tennis writes, “After seeing Lou all!” Tracy Rickers Siani writes, on April 22. He will be dearly and alpine ski-racing athlete, Dumontier Gaumer I had “Spring was spent in Italy with missed by the American Red playing prominent roles on each to respond. Moved back to friends to share the delight of Cross in New Canaan, CT. My of her teams and receiving the Hingham, MA, approximately Pompeii, Vesuvius, Capri and the large family has been very help- CJC sports award for excellence 30 years ago—have 4 children, 6 art of Naples. Summer consisted ful. My 11 grandchildren keep in her senior year. She was also a grandkids and 2 great-grandkids. of family visits to Lake Waukewan me busy with acting in NYC, member of the CJC recreation I am in the phone book for all in NH and Belfast, ME, also a college, soccer, ice hockey and association and ski patrol. passing through. Still mowing family wedding in Salerno, Italy. figure skating. Everyone gathers Marilyn was a player in 3 US my own lawn, painting what- In between we enjoyed some at Cape Cod in the summers, Field Hockey Assoc. National ever, and still working part time wonderful snorkeling out my including my daughter’s family Tournament games. At UVM around the corner from where back door, singing, helping the from Switzerland. They are now she served as head field hockey I live. If you throw a rock back- Children’s Home Society and the AFS exchange students. I seem to coach (’65–’73), head women’s wards from my old house you’ll Autism Project of Palm Beach keep busy on Cape Cod.” ski-racing coach (’66–’72) and hit the one I’m in now.” Gordon County, local politics, town Barbara Young Camp loves her head tennis coach (’75–’78), in McAllen Baker spent a wonderful newsletter reporter, booster for new home in the woods with 5 addition to being a tenured 2 weeks in Greece last year. She ‘El Sol’ Immigrant Day Labor small grandchildren next door. physical education faculty mem- shares, “I’ve wanted to go there Center and 3 meals a day in the “I spend a lot of time in my ber. Her passion for golf won her forever, and it was just fabulous. kitchen.” Virginia Merklen patio and rock gardens. It’s a the club championship in three Beautiful weather, nice people Hutchins offered me generous different states. As for me I had and most Greeks speak English, thanks for being our class cor- a great 75th birthday party. My which makes it easier. The only respondent and says she has children and grandchildren came downside was the thousands of always looked forward to reading Check out the to Vero Beach from AZ, CT and other tourists everywhere.” Jane news of her classmates. She Colby-Sawyer VA to join me and meet my dear Carpenter Patterson sent in writes, “I’ve been living in friends. Ginna Farnsworth news of her and her sister, Edie Midlothian, VA, since 1995—a College Allison ’53 came from NH to Carpenter Sapp. She writes, great place to retire. My husband Web site: completely surprise me. Chasie “Edie and I had a fun sister time passed away in Aug. He had M.S. was another guest. I am grateful together in Denver at her daugh- for a very long time with no to everyone for making the ter’s. Edie had open heart surgery remissions. In spite of this we effort. Remember 2012! in July there, then moved back lived in Hong Kong for 5 years home to Phoenix and is doing and Toronto for 12. We have 2 Please See In Fond Memory fine. A fun trip to Nova Scotia for sons, a pilot and a lawyer, but no www.colby-sawyer.edu

WINTER 2008 49 work in real estate. She says, “Our youngest, a CSC grad, and her husband, just did an Eco- Tones performance at the college. Environmental tips and music combined. They have been on ‘Prairie Home Companion’ and Hallmark Channel.” Patricia Themelis Langley shared about her life after Colby. She writes, “I was married in 1959 to Dr. James Langley. Had 3 children: 2 boys and one girl. Lost my husband to cancer in 1985. Became a real estate broker in 1986 to pay for college tuition. My children all spent 5 years in college—had a difficult time trying to decide on a career. My oldest is an executive with UPS, my daughter is a physical therapist, and my youngest is a commercial pilot. I have 7 grandchildren. Good luck.” Polly Black Koerner says her life is a happy one, with Colby-Sawyer Flashback: Do you recognize these gals? If you can identify any of the good health and many activities. alumnae in this photo, please contact Tracey Austin in the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at She has 4 (still married) daugh- (603) 526-3886 or [email protected]. ters and 11 grandchildren: 3 in college, 2 more going next year. Polly writes that she is “dividing challenge to find flowers and to be with her grandson and daughter in AZ (Fountain Hills) time between farm life and a shrubs that deer, as well as bun- substitute teaching at Kildonon is married, 2 daughters, 6 and 4. house on Lake George. There’s nies, don’t like,” she says. Joan School for dyslexics. She is also The other one in Dubai—home not enough time for my water- Kaufman Kirkpatrick writes, “reading like crazy.” Marty Funk now but moving back. She was colors. I’d love to paint 3 hours a “Spend 6 months in New Miller and her husband, Wayne, there to start a company for a day,” she shares. Patricia Stevens London, NH, and swim daily in celebrated their 50th wedding couple she found on the Internet, Wesselhoeft says that her hus- the CSC pool. Other 6 months anniversary on Sept. 21. “We now going back to start another band retired this year and they are spent renting in Vero Beach, took our children and one grand- company—exciting place.” Jane are doing a lot of traveling. They FL. Daily swim outdoor all win- child (the love of our life), age 9, Thompson Belsky says not have 4 granddaughters and one ter!” Also living in 2 places is to CO to the Broadmoor for a much has changed over the last recent grandson. Jane Bingham Nancy Bijur Wallace. She resides vacation celebration. We’ll never few years other than moving Fawcett says, “I’m in the messi- in Crystal Lake in Frankfort, MI, forget it! Still see my roommate, to a condo after 42 years in est stage of a move to ME to a from May through Oct., and Cathy Oberrender Von Glahn their home. “Our children have dear small house in Boothbay Tuscon, AZ, the rest of the time. and her husband, Ted, on our thanked us for that! Seven grand- Harbor. I’ll be able (almost) to She says, “My partner, Bill, and I way to FL every year. My life is children between the ages of 14 roll out of bed on the mainland play a lot of tennis and sail on filled with joy and happiness! I and 11—2 sets of twins. Joe and onto Squirrel Island, our both Crystal Lake and Lake thank God every day for such a continues to practice endocrinol- family’s summer home since Michigan. In AZ, we again play blessing.” Joy Appel Halsted has ogy—we say part-time, but I’m 1900. I have two beautiful ball- tennis and take advantage of the been married 52 years to Tom not so sure. We both are slowing room dancing daughters, one a outdoor sports. Three grand- Halsted. They have 2 kids, Tom down but continue to enjoy our Jungian therapist, the other an children with my pediatrician Jr. and Beth, both married with 2 house in RI, our ‘culture trips’ to attorney in training.” Bobbi daughter and husband in girls each. Joy says, “After Colby, NYC, occasionally extended trips Johnston Rodgers writes, “In Colorado Springs. A son living in I graduated from Bennington and, of course, family.” Sinclair April John and I went on a trip MD.” Sue Bice Huetteman College. Lived in Washington, “Claire” Smith Siragusa writes, to see ‘Holland and Belgium in writes, “This has been a year of DC, for 24 years, then moved “After serving 3 years on Colby- Bloom’ with my roommate, Trish ‘betweens.’ Living between our RI north of Boston to Gloucester— Sawyer’s Board of Trustees as Dobbs Montgomery and her hus- home and our Sun City Center now Manchester-by-the-Sea—for alumni representative (off last band, Jack. It was so marvelous seasonal home in FL with hus- the last 27 years. Time flies when May), I can say to all alumni the to be able to take leave of NH band Al. Between finishing a you’re having fun! Have been a college has never looked better. during that cold, snowy, windy, middle-grade novel and finding a professional fine artist for 40+ Dorms are being redone, new rainy Nor’easter! The Netherlands publisher to love it and sketching years as well as a graphic designer buildings are marvelous and were warm, sunny and dry; the the next one. Between a finished before that.” Sonia Collom there is a wonderful feeling flowers were beautiful, and the book and lyrics and the compos- Oram writes, “Have retired from among students. We can be tulips and bulbs in the Keukenhof er’s score for a stage musical. Chappaqua, NY, to Savannah, proud! Best to you.” Gretchen Gardens in Lisse were spectacular. How lucky can I get!” Audrey GA. Still enjoying it. Lots of golf Hoch White reports that she and And, we met 2 more Colby- Davis Walker reports that her life (6 courses), great people, and her husband, Brad, are doing Sawyer alums, the Roesser sisters! is regulated by visits to Singapore Savannah is a great place. One well in New London. Both still What a small world!” Ellen

50 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE from timeshare to timeshare. Kennebunk for the holidays. A picture is worth a thousand words. This past year they have enjoyed Mary Mills Presby sent a letter several lunch meetings with that brings us up-to-date and Send us yours. Nancy Paige Parker, and Helen tells of her exciting writing Guidelines for submitting Johnson Sargent and her new accomplishment. She only spent digital photos for inclusion husband, Dick Lindholm. In a year at Colby, but it was a Aug. Helen, Jack and she intro- happy one. After that she spent in the Alumni Magazine: duced Dick to the Berkshires a year with her parents in India Digital photos must be roughly and Tanglewood, The Mount, and then completed her educa- 3" x 5" in size and have a resolution of Norman Rockwell Museum, and tion in San Francisco. She met at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). E-mail your photos to Ventfort Hall. I, Glenice Hobbs her husband in the theater and Harmon, remember going in the moved to Los Angeles 2 years [email protected] water in Hampton, NH, in July later. In 1960 their only child, a with daughter and grandkids and son, was born. Her husband died Barrows Van Winkle did not the water temperature was 65 11 years ago and she continued have the best summer. “I had 2 degrees, which is “warm” for working at her 25-year job as a back surgeries in March and July 1954 Hampton. Kids had their boogie deputy to the president of the and lots of therapy following. We Jo-Anne Greene Cobban boards and we had so much fun. Los Angeles City Council. Prior did get to CT for 10 days. Good 9 Mayflower Drive Recently my stepdaughter and to working for him she worked as break for me. Sorry this writing is Keene, NH 03431 her husband visited from AZ and a social worker for the County of hard to read. I have Parkinson’s (603) 352-5064 we enjoyed a day trip to the L.A. After her boss’s death, she Disease and the first thing to Glenice Hobbs Harmon Berkshires, although foliage was retired and returned to her first go was my handwriting. We 88 North Lowell Road not at its peak color. Last April love of acting and writing. She are also going to cruise after Windham, NH 03087 while visiting daughter and had many short pieces published Thanksgiving.” I, Jane Pearl (603) 432-5726 family in UT, we spent 4 days in while working and is now inch- Dickinson, just had to get the e-mail: [email protected] Bryce and Zion National Parks ing toward completion of her last word in. During Thom’s and the scenery was beautiful. first novel, which “has been both death I was constantly in touch Several of you have had travel Another classmate, Joan Potter a frustrating and satisfying jour- with Janet Arminio Connelly adventures and also have kept in Nelson, had a visit from Mary ney.” Her son and his wife have a and she stayed with me during contact with other classmates, Balzac, whom she had not seen 6-year-old girl, who is the “apple the funeral and several days after. which is great! Natalie Langley for 53 years. Joan writes it was so of my eye.” Three years ago she I don’t know what I would have Webster visited England and nice to see them. Joan and her met a lovely widower and they done without her. Her 4 children took a Hebridean cruise trip to husband were in ME until Nov. are very happy together and have are all doing extremely well. North Africa, Tunis (Carthage) and then headed south. Another taken trips, not only to her child- I have also heard from Lou and Libya (Leptis Magna). She classmate who enjoys Cape Cod hood home of Chile, but also to Dumontier Gaumer, who is says that very little remains of is Harriet Johnson Toadvine. Greece and Turkey. Mary adds, well, living with her daughter in Carthage, but magnificent She and her husband had a lovely “If any of my classmates visit TX, and wintering in FL. Her Roman period in Leptis, which summer in Wianno. Their next L.A., I do hope they will contact husband died and it has become is only partially excavated. “All trip is to South Africa. She adds, me, as I’d love to see them.” a very lonely life for her. Thom ‘the ladies’ still very active and “my husband has his 2nd new Mary, do let the Alumni Office and I had lunch in Feb. with now all are in NH!” Margot knee and is dancing!” Amazing at Colby-Sawyer know when Marina Filides Latchis and her Thompson attended the how well joint replacement your novel is published. What an significant other, Hud, while we President’s Alumni Advisory works, isn’t it? Harriet sends best exciting adventure you’ve had! were visiting with my daughter Council in March and enjoyed wishes to all her classmates. Nancy Fish Perior says that all is in Orlando. Janet and Marina a wonderful day on campus. Helen Johnson Sargent says, well and that the kids and grand- both look great and seem to be In Aug. she came back to New “Life is good.” She and her kids are great and doing well. She doing well with “happy aging.” England for a reunion at physical husband, Dick, returned this writes, “I relax and enjoy at last! I was disappointed not to hear therapy school in VT, then drove fall from a Norwegian Coastal Deb and Andy are doing great from my former roommates, to NH and saw Jean Cragin Voyage, including the North and the addition on the house is Sheila and Sally. I hope you are Ingwersen and Anne Dwyer Cape and passing through the going smoothly. Lindsey is in both well. I hope to have even Milne. “Always special to see Arctic Circle. They were home 2nd grade and loves school. The more news next go round, but classmates and catch up.” She in Kennebunk, ME, just long family in WI is very busy with only if you keep the information spent the rest of the time on enough to pack for Dick’s all the kids’ activities, etc. Hi, coming. You can always e-mail to Cape Cod. She says that all is home in SC, then were back to and love to all.” Jean Samuels [email protected]. well in CO and she stays busy. Thanks for responding. Carol Nelson Reid writes that they have made many new Want to find out if other Colby-Sawyer alumni Please See In Fond Memory friends at Brooksby Village in live in your area? Get in The Loop! Peabody, MA, where they moved Class agent needed! over 3 years ago. They enjoy This volunteer position encour- going to the Berkshires 3 times— ages participation in the Colby- spring, summer, and fall. In Sept. Sawyer College Annual Fund. they go to Cape Cod after the Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or hordes have left, but the weather [email protected] if and water are ideal. In Jan. and you are interested. Feb. they go to FL, visiting friends along the way, moving www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends

WINTER 2008 51 “Bill and I ,plus 31 family and grandchildren will be living We’ve got all kinds of Colby-Sawyer members, enjoyed a weekend in RI. Bob and I still try to travel at Dexter’s Inn near Sunapee and we have done a lot over gear in our Alumni Harbor for our 50th wedding our 51 years together. Both of us anniversary. It was celebrated on love to cook and we do lots of Marketplace. our wedding date, Aug. 10, and it together. Bob is still active in we all had a wonderful time, his textile business and I have Visit at especially because the Inn was a home studio in which I do http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/ the perfect place to have a family personalized stationary, wedding, alumni-friends/gear get-together. Many of our family Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and party invi- had never been to NH and were tations. I am also a party planner thrilled with its beauty. We toured and love planning events for Stephens writes that at the next trip to the hill. From the the CSC campus and bought CSC people and organizations. I have Lawrenceville School in Sept. Cleveland House to the comfort- sweatshirts to remember the been doing this for 29 years. Of she was honored at the start of able living quarters of Peg Lewis occasion.” Congratulations, Sally. course, we love living in RI. I her 50th year in the Dept. of Moreland, we enjoyed going out You came up with a wonderful hope this finds you well.” Helen Performing Art. Congratulations, to lunch together before attend- way to celebrate the occasion. McWalter Finan sent a note Jean! There is a dorm at ing the play “Amadeus” at the We were happy to hear from with a NH address and proudly Lawrenceville named for the New London Barn Playhouse, Diana Ziskind Glashow, who announced that #9 grandchild Stephens family. Her grandson which was celebrating its 75th mentioned that she had been was born in May. “It’s a girl— graduated a year ago and he is Diamond Anniversary Season. living in RI for 51 years. She Molly Finan and #1 grandchild, the 4th generation to attend Interestingly enough, there was a writes, “We started out in Julia Bowers, has graduated from Lawrenceville. Peg Lewis notation in the program about Barrington and then moved college.” Our FL resident, Shirley Moreland has had a very busy the history of the barn. They back to the city 25 years ago. Wax Baron, is happy that her year. Last Jan. she moved into opened on July 12, 1983, offering We have 3 children, all married, sons are both living in the state Woodcrest (assisted living) on a play called “Milestones,” and and 7 grandchildren, ages 5-19. so that she and Bob can enjoy Main Street across from New Dr. H. Leslie Sawyer, President of Our oldest granddaughter is at time with 3 grandsons, who are London Inn. “It was hard for me Colby Junior College, was its first Endicott College in Beverly, MA. growing up fast! She actually to leave our house in the woods, usher. That name stood right out Twin granddaughters are interest- said that they were enjoying the but there comes a time.” She is on the page! We remember him! ed in Colby-Sawyer, now juniors warm weather; surprising since involved in many activities The first of Oct. the Cobbans in Barrington High School. These reports and firsthand visits indi- including a trip to Dorset, VT, to spent a few days around the Lake are 3 sisters. Our oldest grandson cated it was a very hot summer. learn about the marble there. She Winnipesaukee area, enjoying is a junior at Moses Brown They must just ignore it as writes that she never thought warm weather and leaves begin- School in Providence and is a Shirley reports that she plays she would be playing Bingo ning to turn color. My room- very fine golfer. His brother is a golf, “which somehow never every week. She still has her car mate, Joan Batchelor Brown, freshman at Moses Brown, too, improves” and duplicate bridge. and would be lost without it. her husband, Wen, and daughter and is very involved in the Our PA resident, Carleen Good for you, Peg, making the Marie joined us for dinner at the theater and swimming. Our “Sunny” Madsen Dukstein, adjustment you had to make. A Wolfboro Inn in the town known youngest grandson, age 8, is in moved 3 years ago to Masonic day trip to New London in Aug. as the oldest resort in America. the 3rd grade at Moses Brown Village in Sewickley, a retirement proved to be very interesting for Later, we had a chance to visit and his sister, age 5, is in kinder- area that is beautifully located me, Jo-Anne Greene Cobban, with Joan’s daughter, Helen, and garten at Lincoln School in in the hills north of Pittsburgh, and my husband, Jim. Traveling her husband in their new home Providence. The family moved close to their son and grandsons. north, we stopped to take in the with a picture-perfect view. back from Kansas City, MO, “I have no hobby, but workout view of Sunapee Harbor. The Speaking about Sunapee Harbor, where they had lived for 10 3 times a week and on off days clear smooth lake, colorful a note from Sally Browne years. We are thrilled and feel I walk around the campus. gardens around the parking lot, Foster, who lives in OH, wrote, very lucky that all our children Hubby Dick has become quite and “mates” busily washing the windows of the MV Mt. Sunapee II Tour Boat gave us a moment’s thought of lingering there all day. Up and over the hills to New London and through a busy Main Street to the alumni building, I arrived looking at the Cleveland House marked Museum. Entering the side door I was greeted by the friendly staff, who answered my questions and gave me a tour of the house, and I imagined what life might have been in the Victorian era. The wonderful warm interior of the house is certainly a benefit to those who work there and those of us who pay them a visit. Pictured enjoying an evening out are (l to r) Larry Smith, Ollie Appleman Heldberg ’56, Marilyn Stott Smith ’56, Be sure to check it out your Carole Scherer Judge ’56, Roy Judge and Fred Heldberg.

52 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Brad took a semester sabbatical from the U. of Albany to care for 1956 her, calls himself a ‘manny.’” Nancy Hoyt Langbein Arlene Annan Demoss and Rich 2 Appletree Drive have had a very busy year travel- Brunswick, ME 04011 ing in their RV. Jan. through (207) 729-3879 March were spent touring the e-mail: [email protected] Mayan Pyramids in Yucatan, Thanks so much to those Belize, Guatemala, into central classmates who responded to Mexico and back through Mexico the e-mail asking for news. I was City. Wanting more travel, they thrilled to hear from all of you, toured the Northwest Territories but especially those who have of Canada going past the Arctic never sent class news. Many of Circle and to the Arctic Ocean. you have been celebrating 50th Arlene said that both trips were anniversaries in a variety of ways. fantastic! Enough travel? NO! Marilyn Stott Smith and Larry Now they are off to Europe to Marilyn Stott Smith ’56 and her husband, Larry, with their family at their renewed their wedding vows in cruise down the Danube with a 50th wedding celebration. Oct. ’06 on the beach at their stop in London, and then to summer home on L.I. with their Munich, the Black Forest and the artist—pastels and oils. He couldn’t help wondering if she Zurich. What an exciting year, spends a lot of time in the art had heard of Cobban, WI. 2 children and their families in attendance. Their family then Arlene! All her children and studio. I’m trying to be an artist, Researching Jim’s family tree, we grands are doing well. Her oldest but I’m not very talented. I used found that his grandfather was surprised them with a party at a local winery. What a very special grandchild is a freshman at San to paint in the 1960s but some- born in that state after his great- Jose State and her youngest is 18 where along the way, I lost the grandfather had moved there. memory for you. While at their beach house this summer they months. Edith Braman has done talent.” The Duksteins planned We only knew it was a very small some interesting things since to drive to New England the end town by the Chippewa River and had a delightful lunch with Arlene “Ollie” Appleman leaving CSC. She worked at the of Sept. and early Oct. Good that it was named after his great Newport, RI, hospital for 31 timing—before the “leaf peepers” uncle, who also settled in the Heldberg and Carole Scherer Judge and husbands. There were years, has driven a taxi around fill up the roads. Our HI resident, same area and became a well that historic town for 12 years, Frances “Frannie” Pryor Haws, known businessman. Lee Ann lots of laughs and reminiscing! In early Oct., Marilyn was headed and has enjoyed giving tours didn’t move off the island last found and sent us a map and the along Ocean Avenue, telling peo- summer. Instead she doubled town is shown quite clearly. We back to Annapolis and looked forward to a busy winter of com- ple about the beautiful “summer her volunteer duties at Castle have another piece to include in cottages” of the rich and famous. Hospital and taught 2 of their 5 Jim’s family history binder to munity activities. Lorna Burke Tseckares has been working at a Several years ago Edie went on a grandchildren to swim. “I feel share with family and descen- bus tour with Barbara McIntire privileged to be able to swim and dants. Thanks, Lee Ann! Keep the vet clinic off and on for the past 15 years. She has owned a horse Haskins, with whom she still play with them. We did some news coming! It was good to keeps up. When Edie’s mom deep sea fishing and played golf. hear from all of you! since the 70s and enjoys riding regularly. Twice a year, for 5–6 passed away they sold the house Two of our girls and great-grand- in Middletown, RI, and Edie children live on the Island and Class agent needed! weeks, she and her Morgan mare go to central MA to work with a bought her bungalow in Newport. our son lives on the Island of This volunteer position encour- combined driving trainer. Lorna Now her time is spent with Kwajalein in the middle of the ages participation in the Colby- says she has so much fun and painting and lawn work. Marsha Pacific.” Frannie invites us to go Sawyer College Annual Fund. has learned so much. Lorna and Smoller Winer and Nate had a and see her and always signs off, Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Charles have 2 girls, both happily “milestone year” party held at “Aloha.” We’re beginning to [email protected] if married, and 2 grandchildren. their home in CA in Aug. when think that Arline Soderberg Ely you are interested. lives in the moving apparatus of They went to Charles’ 60th cars, trains, buses, boats and Dartmouth reunion this past planes. She always writes she June, but unfortunately were is on the move. This time she away for our big 50th. Lorna says, “Met my son, Thom, in 1955 says that now she knows how to Anchorage and toured the Kenai Gretchen Davis Hammer send e-mails, I will get news from Peninsula in June for a week. My 1165 Morrison Hill time to time. Carol Molander daughter, Laura, turns 50 in Dec. Barnet, VT 05821 Linsley also couldn’t be at our and I will fly to Minneapolis to (802) 633-3803 50th Reunion. She writes, “We celebrate the momentous occa- e-mail: [email protected] attended Ralphs’s 50th reunion at Colgate U., which was at the sion. Finally, I am semi-retired Please See In Fond Memory and only escorting a few tours. same time so I had to choose Just got back from a week’s tour which to attend. Later that Class agent needed! month we took a great 2-week in CA and in Nov. head for Rome This volunteer position encour- on an 11-day Mediterranean trip from Moscow to St. ages participation in the Colby- Petersburg. In July ’06 our cruise.” Jo-Anne and Jim Cobban Mary Knox Tatnall ’57 represented Sawyer College Annual Fund. eldest son, Brad, 46, and wife, were very pleased to get a note Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Colby-Sawyer College at the from Lee Ann McGrath Harling. Charla Beth Mobley, had their inauguration of President Stephen [email protected] if first child, our 6th grandchild, a We know WI is a big state, but you are interested. Emerson at Haverford College in girl named Linsley Grey Mobley. Haverford, Penn.

WINTER 2008 53 bottle washer since her illness and Pat hopes she will be back to her “old swinging self” soon. Diane Shugrue Gallagher ’57 Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Pat. Our thoughts and Which dorm did you live in? prayers also go to Cynthia Oswald Sipos, who recently lost Colgate, both years. We had five beds in one room (two bunks and one single). Maria Roehrig her 18-year-old grandson in a Chernin ’57, Bibby Grayson Deal ’57, Elaine McKenzie Kutrosky ’57 and Carol Salvatore ’58 MT. traffic accident. Cynthia and the We were called the Fabulous Five. We ruled…kinda, sorta. family have been helped through How might your classmates remember you? this terrible time by the love and As someone involved in everything. Maria called all my activity medals “fruit salad.” She’d say, “Here support of Mark’s many friends comes Shugrue with all her fruit salad on her Colby Blazer.” Incidentally, I still have the medals and and Cynthia’s strong faith. Cynthia stays busy playing golf the blazer. in a neighborhood women’s Any amusing memories to share of your time at the college? group and taking a watercolor I was part of the Civil Air Patrol during the Korean War. One night I was in the top of Colgate during class, both of which she thor- a blizzard, just the right conditions I thought for an air attack. And then I heard the engines; the oughly enjoys. She also finds noise was loud and getting closer and closer. I called and gave the skinny as far as I could fathom, time to do active counseling in a and was told they’d send a plane up to check it out. Time passed…and then the source of the noise ministry through her church. In came into view: a gigantic snow blower coming around the corner of Colgate. They told me not to the spring she took a trip with report to work any more after that. her daughter to visit a grandson stationed at Vandenberg Air So, what are you up to these days? Force base in CA. Cynthia also I’m an archivist at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. I’ve interacted took her 6th trip to visit English with some amazing people whose holdings we have, including Angela Lansbury, David Halberstam, gardens with her traveling Luise Rainer, Kitty Carlisle, Senator Edward Brooke, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Dan Rather. I also friends. Cynthia hopes to return recently received the President's Call to Service Award this fall to New England to see for outstanding volunteer service, which was given for family and her very good friend, the three years I spent as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liz Zeller Curley. Cynthia Cape Verde, West Africa. I was in my early 50s when I doesn’t think she will get to joined the Peace Corps and I’ve written a book about New London, but she says she my experience, which I hope to have published soon. will never forget her alma mater! Marjorie “Mickey” Schick Sounds like you’re still earning your fruit salad. Kenny and John also joined the Okay, time for the frivolous questions. 50th year club. They planned to Favorite TV show? celebrate in Dec. with a dinner Hands down, “The West Wing.” reception for family and friends who have made their 50 years Favorite movie? so special. Until next time… “Fargo,” then “The African Queen,” quickly followed Please See In Fond Memory by “Casablanca.” Last book read? Diane Shugrue Gallagher receives the President’s Call to Service Award for outstanding volunteer Still reading Great Dames by Marie Brenner. service in the Peace Corps. 1957 Favorite quotation? Jill Booth Macdonell “People do not quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.” 1303 8th Avenue Sacramento, CA 95818 What might your classmates be surprised to learn about you? (916) 446-3927 I walked on the back of a crocodile in Burkina Faso, West Africa. I was terrified, but thankfully he e-mail: [email protected] wasn’t hungry. Sandy Dennis Allen writes that And finally, any secrets from your college days that can now be revealed? Sally Little Dussault called and 1 Hmmm. Once I came home in the trunk of a car from a wild Dartmouth party because I was late surprised her—they live /4 mile and would be in big trouble. But they got me. from each other in North Port, FL. She also still manages to see For more installments of Q&Alumni, visit www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends/faces. Nancy Bailey Smith once a year. Sandy has 3 grandchildren they see in the summer. Sally all their friends and family were since pre-college days. Along mates. Pat Anderson Little said Matherson Carlson and George available. The party was to with their 3 children, Marsha’s before 70 everything was fine, (Dartmouth ’59) moved to Spring celebrate Marsha’s 70th (March) sister, Corinne Smoller Goldstein but now she is falling apart! She Hill, FL, in ’06. They built an and their upcoming 50th in Dec. ’52, and her husband, Jerry, is learning to breathe with one in-law apartment onto their Marsha said they partied all joined many friends and relatives lung and is doing really well, youngest son’s home and are weekend and among the guests who have made the last 50 years although her strength has not happy to be with 3 grandchil- was Phyllis Leader Paladino, special. She is enjoying life and fully returned. Her retired hus- dren. Their other 2 sons are still who has been a friend of Marsha’s sends best wishes to her class- band has been chief cook and in MA. Now that they’re retired,

54 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE they are looking forward to where we are living now on the as an archivist full time. And the traveling the USA. Elizabeth Coromandal Peninsula have beat goes on…4 children, 2 left “Bibby” Grayson Deal went superb views of the Pacific coast, 2 right coast, 2 grandkids to Mexico with her daughter Ocean. We are now a 2 hour who I revel in and with. Was just Kimberly’s family and they had mountainous drive to Auckland. 70 and plan to work ’til I am 75, an opportunity to swim with the It will be an adjustment when we then off I go traveling. Went to dolphins. She said, “It’s some- move. Famati Beach is very flat Japan, Turkey, India, Ireland and thing I’ve always wanted to do— and looks onto the Tasman Sea.” Italy in the last few years—as it was the icing on the cake.” Diana added that her husband Mark Twain said, ‘to travel is the Mary Robbins McHeffey writes, has been involved with many thing.’” I, Jill Booth Macdonell, “My husband, Glenn, and I have volunteer organizations and am photographing the homeless, lived in Poway, CA, since the was recognized for his work by readying a new exhibit, writing Navy landed us here in 1972… receiving the Queen’s Service an autobiography and writing both retired now. I was an ele- Medal. Barbara Koontz Adams some free-form essays. I’m mentary school secretary for 18 writes that she recently had a enjoying my 2 grandchildren, Ann Parsons Klump ’60 graduated years and worked in the Poway skiing accident in which she Evan and Elizabeth. My youngest from Worcester State College last Library for 19 years. I now spend broke her hip. She says the daughter, Lucinda, married spring, earning a bachelor of science most of my free time recycling biggest activity in her life right Michael Janover in the Napa degree in urban studies. flowers from a local grocery now is her involvement with the Valley, near San Francisco, on store. Their discards are turned art community, which started May 27, her brother Jamie’s into arrangements for local when she retired from her psy- 43rd birthday and her niece nursing homes and the senior chotherapy practice in 2000. She Elizabeth’s 2nd birthday. One 1960 center lunch tables. I also belong paints in both oils and pastels, long table in the grape vineyard Class Correspondent Needed to the Garden Club and San and is a founding member of the with 100 people on each side, Please send your news to the Diego Knitting Guild. We have Pastel Society of NH and a mem- with his family from ME and Office of Alumni Relations 3 children and 4 grandchildren. ber of the NH Art Assn. She con- us all from SF and Sacramento. and Annual Giving Our kids are an artist, an LPGA tinues, “The other part of my life The stars were aligned. 541 Main Street teaching pro and a high school that is just wonderful is having Please See In Fond Memory New London, NH 03257 English teacher. Grandkids are both my son and daughter in NH e-mail: [email protected] at Williams College, Andover with all 6 grandchildren nearby. Academy, and elementary school. Also, my husband has a daughter Linda Read Stewart writes from Glenn and I are planning to in CT with 2 grandsons, whom 1958 Scotland that 2007 was a busy spend part of the winter in we try to see as often as possible. year. Her daughter, Lindsay, who Cynthia Grindrod van der Wyk Stuart, FL. I have been wondering Debbie Kent Springer and lives in Hope, ME, with her hus- Huntington Harbour Bay Club about my old roommate, Ann Charlie came to visit us several band, Christopher, gave birth to 4167 Warner Avenue, Reynolds Smith.” Diana Caddy years ago while touring New their first child, Cameron Stewart Number 105 Litten married a New Zealander England. We hoped to get out to Pinchbeck, on April 3. Linda says, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 and has lived there for 42 years. CO to repay the visit, but so far “Of course we went out to see (714) 840-7200 They have 3 sons: a National the timing just has not worked.” them and it is nice that we have e-mail: [email protected] Park Ranger, married, who works Diane Shugrue Gallagher says a little house in Hope, so we are in Carlsbad Caverns, NM; a that her time in the Peace Corps very near. Also, our son, Andrew, property developer in Australia; in Cape Verde, West Africa, from Class agent needed! was married on June 24, so there and a research chemist who did 1990–93 doing small business This volunteer position encour- was another reason to be in ME. his post-doc at the U. of Berne, development, was the 2nd most ages participation in the Colby- It was a lovely country wedding Switzerland, followed by 3 years extraordinary experience of her Sawyer College Annual Fund. in the Hope Apple Orchard and in Basel and Stockholm. Diana life. “First was my 4 children. Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or it seems that the minister who writes, “Thanks to our sons and They taught me more than I ever [email protected] if married them was in one of my their professions, we have been taught them. I wrote a book you are interested. 3rd grade classes when I was able to travel extensively through- about my experiences (took me teaching in VA many years ago! out the world. We have 3 grand- 5 years). Now have to get it in Diana Davis Kingman and her children who are now back with some kind of shape to find a their parents from Sweden and literary agent and publish it. Fell 1959 are living in Wellington, NZ. in love twice—not in my job Mrs. Jane Bruns Lenher Shortly we will be moving to a description—one a lovely, gentle 10438 East Watford Way Nominate a retirement village close to them. gentleman, one a 2-year-old boy, Sun Lakes, AZ 85248 classmate for an For a girl from NYC it was an who I brought back to the US (480) 883-1096 adjustment living on a sheep and is now graduating from high e-mail: [email protected] Alumni station. The Litten family were school and lives with a wonderful Award! sheep and dairy farmers from the family. Then I was a recruiter for Mrs. Marsha Halpin Johnson mid-1800s. This is the equivalent the Peace Corps, New England, Post Office Box 265 in NZ history to the early New for l5 years. Then NE recruiting Elkins, NH 03233 England settlers. The family manager for Census 2000 for 2 (603) 626-4506 farmed for many years. As the years (man, have some really e-mail: [email protected] city expanded, the farms were wild stories about that job), Please see the class of 1968 Find out more at developed into residential homes then—make that now—7 years column for news on Judy www.colby-sawyer.edu/ and a small shopping center. at Boston University’s Howard Anderson Anderson ’59. Both our homes in Howick and Gotlieb Archival Research Center alumni-friends/awards Please See In Fond Memory

WINTER 2008 55 summer of 2008, as the rain in England makes her miss our summers. At age 36, she has now 1962 lived in England as long as she Gail Graham lived in the US. Our son and wife 49 North Shore Road live in a nearby town and I have Pocasset, MA 02559 been enjoying babysitting my (508) 564-4505 11/2-year-old grandson. He is a e-mail: real delight and we are so fortu- [email protected] nate to have 4 very smart and Eight of us from the Class of ’62 beautiful grandchildren.” spent a great Reunion Weekend in New London this past June. The campus becomes more beautiful with each visit, with 1961 new buildings and ball fields Susan Olney Datthyn springing up. However, there Post Office Box 1018 was consensus that most of the New London, NH 03257-1018 dorms need major renovations, (603) 526-2283 or, that we are getting to be old Pictured last year at their 45th Reunion are (front row, l to r) Carol Schmid It was great to hear from Susan fogies and couldn’t survive in von Wattenwyl ’62, Jean-Jacques von Wattenwyl, Marcia Mayer Snyder ’62, Lawsing Dow this past summer. that environment. In any case, (back row, l to r) Jill Schofield Wainwright ’62, Gail Graham ’62, Pat White She and her husband, Peter, ski, those of us who were there hope Nash ’62 and Ellen Forbes ’62. sail, and work a little bit. On one that many of you can put forth of their family sailing trips, they the effort to attend our 50th in husband were at the wedding; really looking forward to being visited Jackie Taft Lowe in ME. 2012. I recently heard from Pam they have a summer house near there for 6 months as I will be The Dows reside in Longmeadow, Smith Boehm, who lives at The us on an island in ME. I stayed in able to play golf and pickleball. MA, and have 2 sons. Sue’s mom, Woodlands in TX. After CJC, she the US for June and July and There is so much to do one must Mary Giddings Lawsing ’35, transferred to the U. of Denver some of Aug., which was nice as choose carefully. I will continue also lives in Longmeadow and is where she received her degree we have had a terrible summer in with my rug hooking and attend doing well. Carole Abdelnour in 1964, majoring in Spanish. Scotland and the fields are still a school, Off the Ocean Rug Awad writes that she is now She is widowed, has 2 married pretty wet. I am now gearing up Camp, in Jacksonville, FL, in Jan. retired from a civil engineering daughters, Tracy and Jill, and she for the winter curling season as Then I hope to attend the Nancy job in Hillsborough County, FL. recently retired as office manager I curl for 3 different teams Lopez golf school at The Villages Carole has a son, daughter-in- at the Community Clinic, a non- and love it.” Patricia Canby in Feb. As to the house in FL, I law and 3 grandchildren. She profit, free medical/dental clinic Colhoun had a wonderful hope to have some landscaping is traveling a lot and enjoys it serving the uninsured. She is a summer that went by too fast. done. Then the house should be very much. Thanks for your member of the Junior Forum and She spent a working vacation finished and ready for visitors.” note, Carole! Had a nice chat National Charity League, enjoys in Paris, where she helped her Ann Parsons Klump recently with Elizabeth “Tizzie” Grove serving God by being available to daughter, Annie, paint her went back to school and grad- Schweizer. She and her husband, help others in the community, apartment and do some sewing, uated from Worcester State Fred, reside in Ithaca, NY, where and does gardening, sewing, and also took time to travel and College as part of the Class of they are active in the community needlepoint, and Pilates. Alice sight-see. In the fall she was 2007, earning a bachelor of and keep especially busy with Beebe Davies, who lives in headed to Darien, CT, to the science in urban studies. She their grandchildren. Tizzie has Portland, OR, has been married wedding of Emily Baldwin, the has also been busy caring for her maintained her 35 lb weight loss 40 years and has 2 daughters, daughter of her roommate, Gale husband. Twice this past year, at Weight Watchers for 4 years. one son, and 7 fabulous grand- Hartung Baldwin. Then she while he was in rehab, she was She never missed a meeting. children. She has worked in real planned to close her house in able to visit their daughter in Tizzie has been an inspiration estate since 1977, while her hus- ME and return to her home in England. She writes, “My daugh- to me in the weight loss depart- band is retired from financial The Villages, FL. Patricia writes, ter and her husband have adopt- ment. Thanks to her, I am down management. Alice enjoys golf- “I moved in 3 days before the ed 3 beautiful children, now ages a little over 100 lbs and feel like a ing, walking and traveling. tornado last Feb. It struck about 3, 4 and 5. They all visited here million dollars. We both highly Lesley Getz lives in Bermuda 3 blocks from me. I slept through Christmas ’06, but she wants to recommend the Weight Watchers Dunes, CA, where she teaches it, but the dogs woke me up. I am make the next family trip in the program. Tizzie reminded me of ESL at a community college. an old saying: “Help someone up After CJC and one year in France the hill and you get closer to the and Italy, she returned to UC top yourself.” What a true state- Berkeley where she got a B.A., ment! Marty Holding Coughlan M.A. and Cand.Phil. in compar- Colby-Sawyer may be coming and her husband, George, reside ative education. In 1976 she to an area near you! in the Adirondacks where they married an Englishman; sadly, like to boat and garden. Their he passed away in 1992. She has spent time teaching, working, Check out www.colby-sawyer.edu/ son and daughter live near them and they have 3 grandsons. In and traveling in Europe and alumni-friends/events to see a the winter, the Coughlans reside Latin America, and continues to complete list of upcoming in FL, as George retired about 10 be interested in international alumni events. years ago. It was nice to hear development, civil rights and from you, Marty! human rights. Susan Sawyer says

56 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE full and I wonder how I ever Naples, FL, where they’re both Want to find out if other Colby-Sawyer alumni thought retirement might be in a nursing home. We sold our live in your area? Get in The Loop! boring!” We have much more condo here and bought a good news from the Reunion Memory size home. Our beautiful B&B, Book which will be told in Meadowood Farm in VT, is up the next issue of the Alumni for sale, but no takers so far. If Magazine. Please e-mail me with no sale by spring, we’ll lease it all your news. Life is short, and to a local couple who’ve always it is important that we keep in wanted a B&B. In the process touch with the many friends we of moving paperwork for 2 busi- www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends made at Colby. nesses and 4 lives, I’ve misplaced the e-mails sent by my CJC Please See In Fond Memory classmates. Please send them that her time at CJC was the best prison. He has become a success- again for the next magazine, and 2 years of her life. She learned to ful businessman and was able to Class agent needed! those who’ve not sent your latest This volunteer position encour- ski and wouldn’t be living and purchase his own home. Jane news, please do so. At this time, ages participation in the Colby- still skiing in CO if she hadn’t! Howe Trainor of Bluffton, SC, I can take on only a part-time Sawyer College Annual Fund. Janice Goodwin Rupert also writes that after retiring in 2005, job so I’ve procured one as a Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or loves to ski—so much that she she and Bob left New England licensed real estate assistant and [email protected] if and her husband bought a condo to learn about southern living. referral agent for a Naples firm. you are interested. in Big Sky, MT, where they go They are enjoying the wonderful Classmates, check out Naples from Jan. to March. They like world of sun, golf, new history and look me up. to play golf, too, so they also adventures, and meeting many bought a condo on a golf course wonderful people. The Hilton Please See In Fond Memory in Naples, where they play every Head-Savannah area is a great 1963 day when they are in FL. Janice area with constant new attrac- Class agent needed! Donna Dederick Ward also sails and bikes: she sailed on tions and places to explore. This volunteer position encour- 4350 Queen Elizabeth Way the Chesapeake in 2001 and 2005 They travel to New England to ages participation in the Colby- Naples, FL 34119 in a Rolex Women’s International visit son and grandson, as well Sawyer College Annual Fund. (800) 935-2440 Keel Boat Championship, and as travel to MN to visit daughter Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or e-mail: has ridden in many charity bike and grandchildren. They are [email protected] if [email protected] rides. She has also been involved involved in Habitat for Humanity, you are interested. with prison ministry and has church, and local historical With my elderly parents’ issues, mentored a fellow through groups. Jane says, “Our lives are I’ve permanently moved to

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WINTER 2008 57 graduation! Susie moved to the A picture is worth a thousand words. San Francisco Bay Area in 1965 1964 and 5 years later began working Leslie “Lee” Norris Gray Send us yours. at Stanford, where she is current- 33 Gale Road Guidelines for submitting ly manager of the Civil and Hampton, NH 03842 digital photos for inclusion Environmental Engineering Dept. (603) 926-3443 She has a daughter, Laura, who e-mail: [email protected] in the Alumni Magazine: recently turned 40 and lives with Digital photos must be roughly Great response from the e-mail her husband, Mike, in Salt Lake 3" x 5" in size and have a resolution of to you all. So good hearing what City. Laura has a geology degree is up with your lives. I was on at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). E-mail your photos to and is a project manager for an campus in the fall and ran into [email protected] environmental consulting com- Nancy Woodring Hansen. She pany. Susie writes, “Seventeen writes how much Colby-Sawyer years ago I remarried Jim Leckie, has meant to her over the years. Columbia, working in a clinic for ning to retire for a few years. who is a professor of environ- “I am so proud of how it looks, an AIDS research doctor. Her son, Her daughter, Janet, is in HR in mental engineering here at the plans to keep it in good Curt, is unmarried, lives in San Diego and loves it there. Stanford, and added 2 sons and repair, and current for the stu- Boston, and works at Bank of Kathrine no longer works for another daughter to the family. dents of today.” She and Roger America. Betsey and Bob spend Simon Pearce…a long 7 years They are all about the same age are getting used to his retirement most of their free time boating and she is very happy not as Laura and went to the same and the changes that it has and horseback riding. She has presently working. She keeps in high school together. Jim and I brought to their lives. They are spent the last 4 winters in touch with Hedy Ruth Gunther have a second home in Santa Fe, selling their large home on Wellington, FL, with her dressage and Ann Franklin Ewig, both of NM, and spend as much time as Spofford Lake, NH, and moving horse, which she had to retire whom are enjoying their grand- we can there. We hope to retire to a smaller one in Keene, NH. last spring. After all these years children: Hedy has twins, a boy soon and maybe make Santa Fe They also enjoy their 2nd home she is without a horse; however, and girl, and Ann at last count our permanent home. The only in Craigville, MA, on the Cape, she is able to school her friend’s had 6. Kathrine says, “We had alum I have seen since graduating which they bought from her horses and hopes to find another such a good time at our last is Betsy Stanton Stockdale, who family. Nancy enjoys being back of her own next year. This winter Reunion, so have a couple of lives in the area.” I, Lee Norris in the small village where she plans are to clean out her house years to plan for the next. We Gray, retired from real estate spent her early years on the in preparation to sell, though could be living in New England about 2 years ago and my hus- Cape. She volunteers at the going where and when was still by then…” Ellen Terhune band plans to retire as of Jan. Thorne-Sagendorf Art Gallery at up in the air. Lois Richardson Schauff and Cathy Wood 2. We can now start to do the Keene State College and is co- Strauss and her husband still Hallsworth ’65 and I still try traveling that we have looked chairperson of the gallery’s own Papoose Pond Resort and to get together a couple of times forward to for years. We have education program. Her eldest Campground in Waterford, ME. a year for lunch, usually in one son who lives with his fami- daughter, Sonja, is head of the This past summer they went on a Concord, NH. (Anyone in the ly in St. Augustine, FL, another math dept. at Keene State 5-week cruise from Boston, visit- area would be welcome to join son and family in Seattle, and College. She and her husband ing ports in Newfoundland, us…let me know.) This past July, the 3rd son and family in NH; have 2 daughters, both at UNH. Greenland, Iceland, Netherlands, Liz Ridley Mills joined us. She so, we will be doing lots of cross- Nancy’s son, Christian, is admin- Great Britain and Norway. In and her husband are living in country traveling. I continue to istrator at the Lahey Clinic in Oct. they were headed south for Rensselaer, IN, where he is presi- volunteer with our local summer Burlington, MA. He lives in 6 months to Estero, FL, where dent of St. Joseph’s College. They chapel, the Women’s Golf Chelmsford and has 2 children, they have a second home in a have a condo in NH, so get back Association, and at CSC as 12 and 9. Her youngest, Inga, is a 55+ development of single family east once in awhile. They will your class correspondent and as freelance writer in Los Angeles. homes. She says, “Life is good. remain in IN for another couple part of the President’s Alumni “Our lives are rich and full and We love being snowbirds.” Sarah of years until Ernie retires, then Advisory Council. In between I we’d love to read about other Caldwell Anderson writes that will go between their condos in enjoy a great book club, tennis, classmates.” Alice Lawton she has been a retail regional NH and Hilton Head, as well as golf and my counted cross Lehmann writes that she and manager for the past 30 years visiting their 2 sons and families. stitching—finally finishing the Bill welcomed their first grand- with too much travel and long Ellen Terhune Schauff lives in last of 6 Christmas stockings for child on Oct. 10. “Being a grand- hours. This past year she has New London with her husband, the grandchildren. Thanks to all parent is over the top and having been home staging for the real Dietrich. They return to Germany of you who e-mailed with your Gus 5 miles from us is sensation- estate market. Sarah also assists once a year for approximately 3 news. Keep it coming. al.” Diana Tripp lives in Boulder, seniors who are downsizing with months, and were headed there CO. She is an artist, working furniture placement and acces- in the fall this year so that they Class agent needed! primarily with pastels, and says sorizing. She and her husband could enjoy the holidays in the This volunteer position encour- she simply loves the work and are repairing and restoring their states. Cathy Wood Hallsworth ages participation in the Colby- area. Betsy Meyers Hunnewell 300-year-old home. Her daughter ’65 MT retired this fall as director Sawyer College Annual Fund. and Laura Whittemore joined has 3-year-old identical twins, of administration for her town of Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or the Reunion of 2000 and saw the whom she loves to spoil and Hollis, NH, a position she held [email protected] if beginnings of changes at Colby- enjoy. Kathrine Conathan for 7 years. She began working you are interested. Sawyer. Betsy and her husband, Reardon writes that her son, for the town in 1993, and while Bob, still live in Sudbury, MA. Tiger, was married Sept. 8 in a she will miss the camaraderie of Her daughter, Chrisa, lives in very small wedding in New her coworkers, she says, “It was Montclair, NJ, is married with Milford, CT. Kathrine’s husband just the right time.” Susan Sauer 2 children, and is an NP at is still with FedEx and not plan- Stone sent in her first news since

58 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE talk to the students during that public affairs from UT–Dallas and very stressful time in our lives. receiving the U.S. Presidential 1965 His wise voice will be missed Management Fellowship. Married Christina “Chris” Murray McKee by all.” Pamela Dodd has been to John for 38 years, we have 518 Burpee Hill Road in touch with Judith Emery 2 sons: Craig, 34, and wife, New London, NH 03257 Schoolwerth, but the e-mail Veronica; and Todd, 31, all living (603) 763-2761 address she sent came back. in Dallas. We have extended fam- e-mail: [email protected] Hope to hear from you. Pam ily all over the U. S. and attended The Class of 1965 wishes to writes, “I’m still hanging out the first Macaulay reunion in express to the family of Dr. in Orlando, FL. Spend most of Keystone, CO, this summer. In Woodman our sincere condo- my time online—I have 2 Web mid-Sept we are having our first lences, and our appreciation for sites, www.babybirthchart.com “Tucker” reunion at my brother’s his sensitivity and caring. We (astrological birth charts for in Niantic, CT. I am the oldest of were freshmen in 1963 when the children) and www.best-of-time- 13 cousins, and we decided, after world was rocked by the assassi- management.com (digital version my mother and favorite uncle nation of John F. Kennedy. Dr. of my Amazon bestseller, The 25 died last year, that a reunion was Woodman spent many hours Best Time Management Tools and a must—there’ll be 54 of us (ages consoling us for which, many Techniques). I’m also head mod- 84 to 7) attending from Seattle, years later, we are still grateful. erator on a large international Minneapolis, Dallas, and all over Several of my classmates men- Internet marketing forum. When New England! I am very interest- tioned his passing in their notes I’m not glued to my computer ed in contacting my 2-year Muffy Nottage Miller ’65 demon- and all of us were saddened by screen, we’re off visiting our 5 Colgate roommate, Suzanne strates her hula skills during the the news. Ruth Elliot Holmes: grandkids—3 in the Chicago area Bradley Hoeffner—last known 25th Annual Kupuna Hula Festival in “Dr. Woodman was really our and 2 in western MI. Our 3rd off- address Montclair, NJ. Where are Kona, Hawaii. president and we stayed in close spring lives in NYC and is getting you?” Last fall, Kahren “Muffy” contact since graduation. Even married soon. Also, my husband Nottage Miller competed in the my daughter, Sarah Holmes and I have spent a good deal of 25th Annual Kupuna Hula in the ‘Metroplex,’ do come and Tucker ’95, visited him regularly. time in the last 2 years being Festival in Kona, HI. She had a see me at World Market in Fort Our handwriting business keeps treated for Lyme Disease. I figure solo, “Sweet Lei Lehua,” written Worth. Now that I am an urban us criss-crossing the country with I had it from before my Colby by King David Kalakaua, as well dweller, I no longer have gardens speaking, jury and forensic experience. Who knew!” Ann as two group numbers. She writes, to plant, pool to clean, lawn to assignments a la “CSI.” In June Gorman Schenck is now retired “All songs had to be written for mow, house repairs to make…it we were with Mike Wallace of and serves on a number of com- or by Hawaiian royalty, which is refreshing for now. My sister “60 Minutes” when Dr. munity boards, including the DE means most of them were from lives nearby and we are getting Kevorkian was released from State Arts Council. She writes, the 1800s. Our Maui group, Na reacquainted (she is also an prison, and he has been living “My husband, Tim, is teaching, Kupuna Hula O Kaunoa, is com- alumna from Colby, class of with us for almost 4 months. after taking early retirement from prised of 17 women, ages 56–93. ’63).” Susan Clapp Douglas This is his halfway house until he DuPont. Our daughter, Sarah, her Aloha!” Leslie Seymour Wears coordinates a place-based learn- resumes his independence again. husband and one-year-old son has had a difficult time for the ing program for high school stu- There is never a dull moment have recently moved from Boston last several years, due to family dents in the San Joaquin Delta around here, since the world is to Wilmington, where we live. losses and sickness. She retired 2 around Stockton, CA. She writes, beating their way to our doorstep Both Sarah and her husband years ago and is grateful that she “Many people don’t realize the to meet him.” Barbara Frank practice medicine in our area. We has time to spend with her hus- importance of this Delta and all Guilford: “I was so saddened to have a small place on the Gulf band who, after serious illness, is the food the country receives hear of Dr. Woodman’s passing. Coast in FL where we spend the on the mend. Hope you have an from its rich soil. Students spend He was our president and father winter. Life is good!” Susan easier time in the future and can 3–6 field days learning about the figure while we were at Colby. I Woodruff Macaulay loves to write us with better news next Delta, planting native species, can remember the day JFK was read the class news and hopes year. Cathleen Earl Kostamo has and supporting threatened assassinated, and we were all more of us will contribute. She some news. She writes, “I was animals or birds through their glued to our TVs in the living writes, “At the end of 2007 I am known as Cathy Earl at Colby, efforts. They also learn about room of Burpee Hall, and Dr. retiring from Federal service after but go by Kate Kostamo now. In career options and how to get 1 Woodman came around and 12 /2 years with the U.S. Dept. June I sold my house in FL and there. I feel constantly chal- reassured us all that this great of Health and Human Services am living in downtown Fort lenged and inspired by this won- nation was going to be okay. in Dallas Region VI. I joined in Worth, TX, for this year! I guess derful opportunity. In my spare He went all over the campus to 1995 after receiving my master of you would call me an ‘empty time, I explore the countryside, nester’ now—have been divorced create mandalas, and try to grow for 5 years and my son, Sam, spiritually. My one daughter, is in his last year at UNF in Molly, is currently enrolled at We’ve got all kinds of Colby-Sawyer Jacksonville, FL. I transferred my the Aveda Institute in Denver.” job with Cost Plus/World Market Victoria Hinrichs Silks says she gear in our Alumni to Fort Worth—I am the ‘wine usually doesn’t have time to send lady,’ specializing in selling wine in a class note but felt like it this Marketplace. to enthusiastic Texans. I find Fort time. “Perhaps,” she writes, “it is Worth to be a charming small the memory of Dr. Woodman. Visit at city with oodles of restaurants Anyway, life is full and my http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/ and music venues, but easy to dreams of being an international alumni-friends/gear get around. If any alumnae are color consultant/artist are coming

WINTER 2008 59 her husband, Jim, went on a marvelous British tour for 2 weeks this summer, which she describes as a trip of a lifetime. She writes, “My roots go back to John Alden and Priscilla Mullen on the Mayflower and Thomas Munson’s founding of New Haven, CT. in 1637. Jim’s roots go back to his father, who left Scotland when he was 8. I still love being a paraprofessional in a special ed resource room in our elementary school. Jim teaches 2 GED classes a week and tutors a couple of high school students weekly in math. Son Tom is a high school senior and looking into a few New England colleges for next year. Our other son, Christopher Fulton ’96, is daddy to Kaileigh, age 3, and with wife Kath is expecting baby No. 2.” Linda Ford Hodges-Marcotte was recently married and lives in Goffstown, NH. She has been an ER nurse in Franklin, NH, and is soon to retire with her husband somewhere to the south. She has 4 grandchildren and says that life Colby-Sawyer Flashback: Do you recognize these gals? If you can identify any of the is good! Chris Murray McKee alumnae in this photo, please contact Tracey Austin in the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at and Tina Biggs Ferraro are on (603) 526-3886 or [email protected]. the President’s Alumni Advisory Council and we spent a busy day at the college this past Sept. The true. I have been married 24 years paign reunited us. We will be time this past summer, traveling session dealt with the arts pro- now to the love of my life, Robert getting together for sure. Sheni around New England and spend- grams and was really impressive. Santacroce. Our son, Christopher- works for the World Bank in ing a week at the Berkshire The plans for the new building Michael, works at Christie’s as an Washington, DC. She has 3 Choral Festival, a fabulous expe- are fabulous. We also played a art handler in NYC. Lovely to see daughters and one granddaugh- rience for choral singers around round of golf together, which the joy of our life get a fabulous ter. She’ll be retiring soon and the world. She writes, “The most was really fun. My news is that job in the art world. I travel and returning to New Delhi. Sheni’s fun is my new scooter, or rather, I am living in New London, teach about color all over the family lived next door to the motorcycle! Yes, I am, as a client working for Coldwell Banker world with a non-intrusive Woodmans in Delhi and so she of mine calls me, a ‘motorcycle Milestone, just renovated our system called Aura-Soma, based came to Colby at his suggestion. Momma!’ Have always wanted home, and most exciting is I in England. Off to Japan and It is such fun to be back in touch one, and now I have one. So if have a new grandbaby, Samantha then England. Interested folks and she sounds just the same! you see a silver Aprilia Scarabeo McKee Willard, born July 20. can learn more on my Web site, Dorothy “Darcy” Holland has in your neighborhood, just wave! That really changes perspectives www.victoriasilksdesignstudio.net. been an independent Eldercare I still enjoy having my 93-year- on everything. I love it! Sandy Hope everyone else feels as much manager for more than 8 years. old mom living independently Coburn O’Dell is also a new fulfillment in their lives as I do For the past year, she has also just 5 miles away. We trip to grandmother! in mine. Love to all.” Shahnaz worked with a major Boston Bermuda twice a year, and she “Sheni” Menon Rana was my North Shore hospital system to continues to be an inspiration in roommate and we had completely develop their care management my life. Hope I can be the same lost touch, but this e-mail cam- program. Darcy had a wonderful for someone when I am in my older years! Hope all of you are 1966 well and enjoying life.” Sue Susan Weeks Want to find out if other Colby-Sawyer alumni Hewson Wise has been in touch 3 Winona Circle live in your area? Get in The Loop! with Tina Biggs Ferraro, Gail Lebanon, NH 03766 Taylor Meyer and Beverlee (603) 448-6962 Fisher Anderson. “I see Beverlee e-mail: several times a month as we are [email protected] docents at Santa Fe’s Museum I, Susan Weeks, continue to work of Fine Arts. I am also in touch at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical with Kathie Drohan Flatley and Center with some alumni from Sarah Pitts Andresen. I am still other classes: Laura Cogswell ’72 www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends trying to break l00—very frus- and Linda Miller ’78. There trating!” Lois Gilbert-Fulton and are also several students from

60 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Colby-Sawyer’s nursing program coming through the ICN during the year. It’s nice to see them here, knowing they are carrying Susan Austin Kraeger ’68 forward the educational excel- lence of my alma mater. New Hampshire may be far removed, geographically and culturally, from West 1967 Africa, but thanks to the efforts of Susan Sis Hagen Kinney Austin Kraeger ’68, they are more connected 104 Downing Drive than one might imagine. As the executive Summerville, SC 29485 director of Women’s Trust, based in Wilmot, (843) 871-2122 N.H., Susan is helping impoverished families e-mail: [email protected] in rural Ghana, while creating a model for microenterprise that is inspiring others to Robby Bell ’67 MT retired from the Alberta Children’s Hospital follow suit. lab in Sept. so she can expand It was a chance meeting at a cocktail Susan Austin Kraeger ’68, executive director of Women’s her landscaping company and party that introduced Susan to Dana Dakins, Trust, pictured with Gertrude Ankrah, program develop- still have time to ski, travel founder and president of Women’s Trust. ment director. and enjoy the finer things! For “Dana was looking for someone to help her,” Francie King, summer 2007 recalls Susan. “I was looking for diversity.” With was a season of highs and lows. a background in fundraising, including several years in the Advancement Office at Colby-Sawyer, She was married June 30 to Susan saw the opportunity to apply her skills to a truly worthy project. Robert Erbetta, with her family Women’s Trust is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that focuses on the Ghanaian village of all around her, including her Pokuase, aiding women through a program of microlending. The model is simple yet highly effective. father who’d been ill with lung Small loans are given to women who have formed a group of four or five; when all the women in the cancer for 2 years. Then, pre- group have repaid their loans, the group is eligible for another, larger loan. The numbers testify to the cisely 2 months later, she lost success of the program: In the fall of 2006 Women’s Trust had 100 clients; by the fall of 2007, says her dad. She says that things are Susan, that figure had climbed to 900. righting themselves, but anyone In her position, Susan oversees program development and communicates with the staff in Ghana. who’s lost a parent knows the Her biggest challenge, she says, is managing the growth of the project without overextending the struggle. She says she gets a “big available resources. Susan makes regular trips to Africa, having gone to Pokuase four times this past Italian family as a bonus” with year. With her connection to Colby-Sawyer, she has formed an affiliation with the Nursing her new marriage. Francie con- Department. In January 2008 three students, accompanied by Assistant Professor of Nursing Shari tinues to love her work at the Goldberg, will be traveling to Pokuase. Museum of Fine Arts. She also Susan’s tireless work has laid a path for others to follow. “It’s a very replicable model,” she says. reported that one of the nicest “We offer the ability for a group to partner with a town contiguous to Pokuase.” Ultimately for Susan, parts of the early fall was going it is her passion for the project that drives her. “I’m taking a lifetime of skills and using them all in this up to Colby-Sawyer for the job—mediation, relationship building, fundraising, everything’s getting a workout. To be able to use President’s Alumni Advisory them this way is incredibly soul satisfying.” Council meeting in Sept. and see- To find out more about Women’s Trust, visit www.womenstrust.org. ing up close the state of the Art —Mike Gregory Center, which she feels is “pretty needy.” A motivator if ever there was one, and a new building pro- ovarian cancer. Karen further of frozen shoulders to overcome; that life in Needham, MA, is ject well worth supporting. She says that her life in Mickleton, months of physical therapy con- rolling along with the same adds, parenthetically, “But Pru NJ, just outside Philadelphia, is vinced her how important house, same husband, same job, Hostetter, where were you? Please full and busy. Her son, Zack, is a weight work and strength train- same dog, and same kids as last e-mail me at [email protected]! junior at Perkiomen School in ing is in keeping our middle-age year. She celebrated turning 60 We need a catch-up.” Francie Pennsburg, PA, about an hour bodies strong. Karen also says with 2 surprise parties and a nice reported that the rest of the from her, and they’re beginning they belong to Christ Church, long weekend in Nantucket with campus looked spectacular, and to look at colleges. Zack is Philadelphia, and she enjoys her the family. She spent Aug. at work continues on the renova- focused on the professional golf work with the Altar Guild, their house on Long Island, ME, tion of the dorms (McKean gets programs at a few schools. He Hospitality and Ushers commit- with lots of good books and its facelift next summer). She was and Karen played a lot of golf tees. She says it’s wonderful to quality beach time. Daughter impressed with the energy of our this past summer and entered belong to such a vital and histor- Amy is engaged so they are in college president and with his several tournaments; it was a fun ical church. She is also active in the beginning stages of planning good staff and feels that they are and enjoyable time for them the NJ Colonial Dames and was the Sept. 2008 wedding. Son a great group asset for Colby. both. Karen says, “At 60, I finally interested in hearing that Anne Greg still lives at home and Karen Kaiser Falone was thrilled earned my A rating as a golfer Wadsworth Markle ’68 was works in the next town, so he to read of Joan Campbell Eliot’s and had my first hole-in-one. I active in the PA Dames. Beth has no immediate plans to move. appointment to the Board of hope to be in single digits by the Holloran Bourguignon says that Beth thinks of Taydie Poor Trustees and feels she will be time I am 65.” This has been “at our age I sometimes think Drummond often and the battle terrific. Karen says they see each very rewarding for Karen as she that ‘no news is good news’ as that she has been waging. Beth’s other occasionally, and that Joan had knee surgery and a long bout the old saying goes!” She says health is terrific after reaching has survived a horrific bout of

WINTER 2008 61 her goal weight, trying to keep a tomed to seeing her at least once regular schedule at the gym, and a month. I guess I’ll have to bite being a breast cancer survivor. the bullet and apply for a pass- Beth sends her best to everyone port so I can do some traveling in the class of 1967. From Sue overseas with her at the end of Schauman Paull ’67 MT we hear her time in India! And, that’s that the biggest news coming about it for our group, ladies. from Duxbury, MA, is that her Please See In Fond Memory lacrosse team won the state title in Division II. They had a record of 19–3 overall and beat Winchester 16–13 in the final 1968 state tournament game. Sue start- Kelly McWilliams Dvareckas ed the girls lax program in 1995, 18 Cannon Drive so they have come a long way in Nashua, NH 03062-2000 12 years. Duxbury is now one of (603) 891-2282 the powerhouses in girls lacrosse. Kelly McWilliams Dvareckas ’68 poses with members of her family. e-mail: [email protected] As for me, Sis Hagen Kinney, I’m enjoying teaching 4th grade The final segment of today’s a beautiful autumn, and the 16 years, Chris and I have no for the 2nd year. I have a great CBS News Sunday Morning showed aspen/cottonwood leaves are at time constraints in having to group of students and still, with a spectacular clip of sunshine- their peak of gold/coral/orange pick Cody up at school. He is a 15, have a small class compared drenched aspens in Dubois, WY. now. We have sold part of the junior in high school this year, to some schools. Despite my It reminded me that I needed outfitting business this year and so he is beginning to look at 45–65 minute drive (depending to get this column submitted. hope to sell the rest by next year. colleges. Cody is a mountain bike on traffic!) I love where I’m You ask, what’s the connection? I retired from my conservation and cyclocross bike racer and he teaching. Daughter Natalie began Dubois, WY, is home to Meredith job this June, and it’s wonderful recently was 4th in the nationals study abroad in Hyderabad, Dodd Taylor ’69 MT and her to have the freedom to do what I at Mt. Snow. As a family we go India, at the end of Dec. This will husband, Tory. It’s only fitting want now. It’s a glorious fall, and to beautiful places where we be a real change for me and my that I begin the column with her I’m enjoying the freedom on the can bike and hike and sightsee. husband, Bobby, as we are accus- news. Meredith wrote, “It’s been eve of my 60th birthday next Cody’s goals are the 2008 junior spring.” I’m glad to hear that world championships (mtn. somebody is embracing the idea biking near Lake Como and of turning 60. I pointed out cyclocross near Venice). I have to Meredith that her picture probably jinxed him by writing appeared in the Spring-Summer this, but they are worthy and Alumni Magazine. She was play- obtainable goals at any rate. We ing the guitar in the picture on all still love to ski. As hard as it is Page 56. News from the west for me to accept the skiing of continues. Lisa Dillmann Cox today with the hype and crowds, wrote from CO, “Hi, Kelly! It was I will never give up alpine skiing, really fun to see the latest Alum especially when some of the best magazine. What fun to see the is right here. But we spend much Colby girls at the wedding of of our ski time cross-country the daughter of Janet Sawyer skiing, skate skiing, and back- Campanale ’67! Jan doesn’t look country, where one is still able to any different than she did when enjoy the peace and unspoiled she left Colby! And for that mat- beauty. I would love to meet up ter, neither do Polly Whisnand with any Colby friends skiing in Butler ’67, Martie Siegfried CO.” What a great invitation Fritz ’67 and Lynn Macdonald from Lisa. If you’re planning a Bishop! It was also fun to see ski trip to CO, look her up. It’s Judi Cook Kestenbaum and you! hard to believe that you have It has been a long time since I now spent 4 years retired from have seen any Colby people. I teaching, Lisa, and I have just have been in touch with Judi and begun my 4th year of teaching. Sallie Saunders March, but that Sounds great that your family is all. I am enjoying a 4th year gets to travel together. Good of retirement from teaching; luck to Cody! JoAnn Franke although I have kept my hands Overfield ’68 MT wrote from Colby-Sawyer Flashback: The photo above ran in in it a bit by substituting in WA to share a bittersweet trip the last issue of the Alumni Magazine, but we’ve only been able to identify Steamboat, and more recently that she made to Cape Cod, two of the gals pictured. Joan Steward Jeffries ’69 called to let us know that supervising student teachers at MA, last summer. “I had a great she recognized the gal with the loom on her lap as Leila Peterson Chaucer CSU-Pueblo. My husband, Chris, visit on the Cape with Holly ’69, and after reading Kelly McWilliams Dvareckas’ class of ’68 column, has also been retired this long so Lippmann Trevisan and Nello. we realized that the gal playing the guitar is Meredith Dodd Taylor ’68. we have a full and active life. It They have lived in Orleans, MA, If you can identify any of the others, please contact Tracey Austin in the has been a milestone this year for a number of years, and this is Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at (603) 526-3886 or with my son, Cody, driving; after the first time I was able to get [email protected].

62 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE would make the climb up Mt. CT. In my immediate family, our Kearsarge for Mountain Day. I 2 kids are doing great. Casey lives also remember my first Parents’ in Chelsea, MA, and is in his 4th 1970 Weekend in New London. My year at Northeastern majoring in Gail Remick Hoage mom and Sue Schantz Spiro’s entrepreneurship. He expects to 64 Valley Road parents came up for the weekend. graduate in Dec. 2008. Jill works New Durham, NH 03855 We spent Saturday up on King as a paralegal at a law firm in (603) 859-3241 Ridge hiking and gazing out at Washington, DC. Her future e-mail: [email protected] the spectacular foliage. Back to plans include law school. My From the last newsletter, I hope Aug. 2007 when my sister, Patti, realtor husband, Jack, is eagerly you all had a chance to view the was back east in Barrington, RI, anticipating an upswing in the Web sites of Sarah Haskell, celebrating her 50th high school cyclical real estate market. My Wendy Hazen and Elizabeth reunion. A brunch was held at 2nd grade self-contained class in Early Sheehan, as they are awe- the home of 2 classmates. I loved Manchester, NH, has 10 refugee/ some! I am still waiting to hear picking my sister up from the immigrant students from Asia Colorado Springs resident Lisa from you all…please drop me an final event so I could reacquaint and Africa. Every day is an Dillmann-Cox ’68 is a big fan of the e-mail. Sadly, Susan Bonanno skiing in her hometown. myself with her longtime friends. adventure! Thanks to everyone died in Italy, losing her long As I made my way across the for your news. Get in on the next battle with cancer. I was happy out there. On a sadder note, the hosts’ living room, I noticed an spring-summer publication and that she came to visit me as I reason I was out on the Cape was embroidered blanket over the e-mail your news to me along told you in my last news. She to attend the memorial service back of the sofa. I could just with a digital picture. Cheers! loved Colby-Sawyer and her for my wonderful friend and CSC make out a few letters—I saw Col dream was to open a secondhand grad Nancy Keister Wellington and just below it New. The letters Class agent needed! store with all proceeds going to ’67. Nancy and I knew each peaked my interest. I opened up This volunteer position encour- the school. Although this didn’t other since 7th grade, went to the blanket to read Colby Junior ages participation in the Colby- come to pass, a few years ago she CSC together, and decided to College New London, NH. The Sawyer College Annual Fund. did start The Susan R. Bonanno expand our horizons and not be brunch hostess was Judy Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or ’70 Book Fund to help Colby- roommates. She roomed in Anderson Anderson ’59. Judy [email protected] if Sawyer students purchase neces- Shepard. Nancy went on to and her husband, Jack (yes his you are interested. sary texts for their courses. Sue graduate from Dickinson College last name is also Anderson), Moe-Raposo ’71 is working hard and worked as a writer for her used to have a vacation house to really establish Sue’s Book local newspaper and as a free- in Wilmot Flat. We reminisced Fund as a tribute to her memory. lancer. She and her husband, about Colby Junior and New She is asking that we find it in London and bemoaned the 1969 Charlie, and 2 boys lived on the Debi Adams Johnston our hearts to contribute by Cape in Cotuit for as long as I demise of King Ridge. I thor- 3727 Moorland Drive pledging $5, $10 or whatever can remember.” Our condolences oughly enjoyed my summer and Charlotte, NC 28226-1120 amount you are able to give. You to Nancy’s family and friends. traveled to Los Angeles to see (704) 542-6244 may, with sincere thanks, send it Judi Cook Kestenbaum lives in another sister. She and I, and our e-mail: [email protected] to Colby-Sawyer College, SC and sent this news: “After families, have been vacationing Alumni Relations and Annual seeing my picture in the CSC together since our sons were Please See In Fond Memory Giving, 541 Main Street, magazine I figured I better do newborns. That’s the benefit of New London, NH 03257-7835. an update. Jeff and I love seeing having them born six weeks Class agent needed! A nice note from Kathleen Lynn Macdonald Bishop and apart. It has been a great way to This volunteer position encour- Johnson Peterson says she and Dave and wish they would come have the bicoastal cousins grow ages participation in the Colby- her husband relocated 3 years more often to Hilton Head. It is up together. This year we went to Sawyer College Annual Fund. ago to Philadelphia and are paradise. Jeff retired from AIG in Cape Cod in Aug. for a long Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or enjoying the advantages the city June and loves it—me too, as we weekend. It was our 20th year at [email protected] if offers. She was recently promoted sometimes meet for lunch. We the Cape. She and I then went you are interested. to division program manager are always on the run playing up to Bar Harbor, ME, for a small with ADP and, on the cultural golf, tennis, walking the beach, family get-together. In Oct. our side, she plays the celtic harp riding bikes, etc. We travel a lot cousins partied en masse to cele- and would welcome the opportu- to see our 4 kids and the grand- brate an anniversary and have a nity to play with anyone inter- kids, which number 7 and range family reunion in Stonington, ested in Irish music. Kathleen in age from 2 months to 6 years. would love to hear from some of My 2 horses keep me at the barn her Colby Dorm housemates, almost every day, which I love; A picture is worth a thousand words. especially Mary Heroy! Let us and our 4 golden retrievers keep Send us yours. know, Kathleen, if you hear some us company when the kids are news that we could publish. not around. LIFE IS GOOD!” Life Guidelines for submitting As for me, my job is great. I am sounds very full for Judi. My digital photos for inclusion still the dean at a cosmetology news starts off with a weather in the Alumni Magazine: school, which recently partnered update and trip down memory with Paul Mitchell Systems. The Digital photos must be roughly lane. Earlier this week the tem- educational and travel benefits peratures were in the high 80s 3" x 5" in size and have a resolution of have been phenomenal! Son here in southern NH. As I write at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). E-mail your photos to Jarrod is playing hockey, and my this it is a crisp New England fall [email protected] other son Nick’s daughter, Lily day, reminiscent of when we (my granddaughter) turned 2

WINTER 2008 63 the other day. She is talking up Thomas is the grandmother of a storm and loves chocolate Colby-Sawyer may be coming 4! Lydia has left her job raising no-bake cookies! That’s all the money for Central Park in NYC news from me. Hoping to hear to an area near you! and was heading to London at from you very soon. the end of Sept. with a cousin and then starting a new job Please See In Fond Memory Check out www.colby-sawyer.edu/ alumni-friends/events to see a search in Oct. She would like to work in the environmental field complete list of upcoming and the “greening” of NYC 1971 alumni events. initiative. Brooke deLench gave a wonderful talk to alums Bonnie Pratt Filiault at Reunion about her recently 650 Old Stage Road of company! Sophie Brett have a chalet in the mountains, published book, Home Team Centerville, MA 02632-1804 Merrill wrote that she was so or a villa on the Mediterranean? Advantage. Her book addresses the e-mail: [email protected] sorry to hear about Inger Shaw’s In closing, I am proud to critical need for mothers’ involve- passing. Sophie is a Grammy announce that my daughter, Jen, Thank you all who found the ment in youth sports—not only now and has 2 granddaughters! who graduated from UVM in time to write and communicate a as supporters of their children’s Her children, Jason, 32, and May, is deeply and passionately little bit for us! This summer a efforts, but as coaches and Amy, 30, live within an hour so involved in Clean Power Now. wonderful reunion took place administrators. It was a very she sees them often. She has Her work with alternative energy between Anne Alger Hayward, thought-provoking dialogue. stayed in touch with Betsy Ward will, I think, pay off in huge Anne Pouch, Jean Bannister Reunion was a fun time—some Holm and Lisa Shattuck Halpin dividends for our ever-changing and Bonnie Pratt Filiault at the great classes were offered by and they see and talk to each world. Please write with any new beautiful farmhouse that current faculty, and our new pres- other at least a few times each news or other information you Margot Woodworth Seefeld and ident is terrific. He’s a man with year. Katy Leach Connors wrote would like to share with the rest her husband, Bill, built on North a great vision for our beloved that she retired in June and has of our class! Haven Island off the coast of ME. school and the energy and sense 2 grown sons. They have a We had a wonderful time remi- Please See In Fond Memory of humor to make it happen. You primitive cabin up north in WI, niscing, helping Margot unpack all should have been there! I where her family spends most of all her brand new things for her think anyone who attends these the summer. She stays in touch brand new house, eating, drink- Reunions comes away with that with Laurel Denison and Sara ing, and riding bikes all over her 1972 warm sense of friendship and Warner Blackburn, but would picturesque island. If she’s agree- Linda Kelly Graves camaraderie that so touched us love to see other classmates from able, I think we should make it 880 Tannery Drive 37 years ago when we checked Burpee when she gets back to the an “annual” and invite anyone Wayne, PA 19087-2343 into Colby. I know the 6 of us East Coast and NH. Need to else who’s interested in a little (610) 688-0230 did. Colby-Sawyer continues to make some plans, girls! Angela nostalgia! There’s always the e-mail: [email protected] promote that atmosphere that George Laufer wrote that she is beautifully renovated Nebo made it so special to so many of the mother of 4 girls: 2 have I knew I was not going to be the Lodge to stay at! Later on during us, despite its growth to almost already graduated from college, only person coming to our 35th the summer, Mira Fish 1,000 students. It remains a 1 is a junior and her youngest (count ’em) Reunion, though I Coleman, Anne Pouch, and I vibrant, caring, forward-thinking is a sophomore in high school debated whether I should make had a gathering at Anne Alger community—I wouldn’t have it in Chester, NJ. Angela had just the trek or not, having just Hayward’s new lake home on the any other way. Come back and returned from a wonderful celebrated my son’s wedding the Cape in Marstons Mills. She and feel it for yourselves! 2-week trip to Italy. Now that weekend before with dear Colby her husband, Bill, have been ren- would be a fun reunion, if any- friends. I knew that Brooke Please See In Fond Memory ovating and the finished product one wants to put together a trip deLench would come, as she is close at hand; I’m sure by to Europe somewhere! Anyone was scheduled to speak! Well, printing they’ll be ready for lots Class agent needed! wasn’t I pleasantly surprised to This volunteer position encour- find 4 others from our class ages participation in the Colby- attending for a total of 6! We beat Sawyer College Annual Fund. our 30th reunion turnout by 3! Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or You go, girls! Anne Quantrell [email protected] if Dennen was there from Camden, you are interested. ME, where she has lived since graduating from UVM, majoring in PE. Anne has two sons, 23 and 21, and is a trustee at her prep school in MA. Cindy Warren 1973 Kelley lives in Duxbury, MA. Her Nancy R. Messing husband is preparing to retire. 908 Ponce de Leon Drive One of Cindy’s sons works in the Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 insurance field in Bermuda and (954) 779-7449 her other son is in culinary arts. e-mail: [email protected] Nancy Schaffer VonStackelberg Hello, everyone. It was so nice is moving to the Duxbury area. to here from those of you who She has a son pursuing a degree Sharing a smile are (l to r) Mira Fish Coleman ’71, Anne Pouch ’71, Anne responded to my e-mail. I ran in architecture and one doing a Alger Hayward ’71 and Bonnie Pratt Filiault ’71. into Cathy Fontaine Cantwell PG year at Exeter. Lydia Biddle at the supermarket in Wellesley

64 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE one day in Aug., when I was under the tutelage of Dorothy beloved 1895 Victorian in the taking my dad shopping. She Crum. Betsy volunteers with north end of Woonsockett, RI. Class agent needed! looks fabuloso! She and Dick hospice as a family care giver, Luckily for them they have a This volunteer position encour- raised their 3 sons in Wellesley, and through their church does carriage house out back in which ages participation in the Colby- but after 24 years they have hospital home visits, leads a Bible to store costumes, props and to Sawyer College Annual Fund. decided it is time for a change study group for women, and is build sets. In their spare time Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or and are moving to the San Jose on vestry. Betsy, Jim and Chris they also breed Maltese puppies. [email protected] if area, where warmer weather had a wonderful time traveling As for me, Nancy Messing, our you are interested. awaits! Dick is now with Cisco to Germany in Aug., visiting daughter, Caroline, is in the Systems as a consultant in the cities where Jim’s ancestors lived. 10th grade at Pine Crest School Internet Business Solutions “Being able to go on vacations is here in Ft. Lauderdale. She is on Group. Their son, Brian, has a blessing. 51/2 years ago when I the varsity crew team and just 1975 been living in Chicago for the had breast cancer surgery, having loves the sport. She traveled to Nancy Eaton Welch past 4 years, but will be moving chemo, being bald…a vacation Chattanooga in Nov. to partici- 292 County Road back to New England next fall to seemed only to dream about. We pate in The Head of the Hooch New London, NH 03257 attend business school. He is have taken many great trips since race and said it was one of the e-mail: recently engaged to his college then.” Lilly Heckman Cleveland best days of her life! When her [email protected] sweetheart. Steve is working in and her husband, Mark, live in team rows in Miami, my husband Minneapolis with Apple and Duxbury, MA. In addition to and son often travel down the Laurie Ferguson is still executive their youngest son, Andrew, is a working part time at the Alden Intercoastal Waterway the after- director of New Hampshire junior at Lafayette in PA. Cathy’s House Historic Site, Lilly trains noon before the race and spend Made, promoting all foods, prod- brother lives nearby in Los Altos, public school art teachers in the night on our boat. Our son, ucts and services in NH. You can so that will be nice for them. watermedia, a very unusual yet Peter, is in the 5th grade and has learn more at www.nhmade.com. Jane Haslun Schwab is in her popular method for watercolor. taken up fencing at school. It is a This past Oct. she was honored 12th year as a teaching assistant She is also the gallery artist at the great sport for him and is played by the NH Business Review with a at a junior high in Warwick, RI, South Shore Art Center in indoors (think air conditioning). Business Excellence Award for where she lives with her hus- Cohasset and exhibits at The Please give some thoughts about Marketing Excellence. Laurie sent band, Bill. She loves her job and Front Street Gallery in Scituate. returning to New London May her oldest son, Buckman, off to schedule, as it means having She had shows coming up at the 31–June 1, as our class celebrates Western New England College summers off and provides lots of South Shore Conservatory in our (cough) 35th Reunion! It will this fall, where he’s majoring in time for yard work and garden- Hingham and at the Attleboro be great to see you! engineering, and her youngest ing. It also gives Jane lots of Museum, both in MA. Sharon son, Canon, off to Proctor opportunity to get together with Sawyer Cross and her husband, Class agent needed! Academy (across the street from her sister, Nancy Haslun Wall, Chuck, have founded a theatre This volunteer position encour- her house!). Her life is dominated who lives in CT. Jane’s oldest group in Providence, RI, called ages participation in the Colby- by work and kids, but she plans daughter, Lindsay, is in her last RISE on Broadway. They are the Sawyer College Annual Fund. to visit soon with fellow Burpee year at RI College, where she resident company of the historic Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Dorm friends when they are in majors in elementary education. Columbus Theatre in Broadway [email protected] if New London, including Nancy Other daughter, Taylor, graduated in the Federal Hill district of you are interested. McIntire Zemlin, Sandra from UNH in May, and is fulfill- Providence. They have received Comstock and Jill McLaughlin ing her “California Dreaming” great reviews, a grant from the RI Godfrey. Arden Avedisian wish in San Diego. She arrived State Council for the Arts, and reports that she is still substitute just in time for the wildfires; were producing 2 shows for the teaching, meeting and greeting at except for being able to smell the holiday seasons: “It’s A Wonderful 1974 the airport and traveling! She smoke, she was fortunate to be Life” and “A Christmas Carol.” Sue Brown Warner had a leisurely summer traveling, unaffected. She will decide in It’s no wonder their 13-year-old 48 Spring Street, unit 7 the next few months whether or daughter, Chandler, has been in Greenwich, CT 06830-6129 not to stay out there. Christine almost 35 productions! Last (203) 629-1454 Gram Croarkin and her husband summer she was Puck in “A e-mail: [email protected] are also packing up and moving! Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Lisa Burke Hennessy writes that They have been living in the and she has recently finished she has been living with her New Canaan, CT, area for many her roles as Louisa in “The Sound family in Bedford, NY, for a little years, as Richard was with Nestle of Music” and the Genie in over 11 years. She and her hus- Waters, North America. He is “Aladdin.” Chandler is an band, Peter, have 8-year-old twin now with Alcon Pharmaceuticals excelsior honors student and is boys, Andrew and Brooks. Peter in Fort Worth, TX. Good Luck to involved in many school clubs is in commercial real estate in you both! Betsy Williams Shake and activities and community NYC. Lisa has been involved in and her husband, Jim, are proud service work. Their son, Clay, the interior decorating business parents of Chris, a junior at graduated from UNH/Keene last for the past 4 years. In addition, Bucknell, majoring in mechanical year with a degree in business they are busy re-constructing an engineering. Betsy works in management. He has written 2 old house in Bedford. Prior to a gourmet kitchen shop in CDs, has performed at numerous moving to Bedford, both Peter Marcellus near Syracuse, and locations on the east coast, and is and Lisa worked in NYC; she for In October Laurie Ferguson ’75 was Robin Mead ’72 came in recently taking his talents to CA to pursue Institutional Investor, a financial honored at the New Hampshire —what a surprise! Betsy and his dreams in music. Let us publishing company. Lisa would Business Review Business Excellence Robin sang together with the know, Sharon! Meanwhile, she love to hear from any classmates madrigal singers in London and Chick are still restoring their Awards for her work as executive and/or former roommates. director of New Hampshire Made.

WINTER 2008 65 moved back east from TX (both time!” Sue Graham Winslow are public school teachers and writes, “I was just in New enjoy groaning about it), they London over the weekend, and it recently visited Jan at her home looked as beautiful as it did back and had a blast! Then, Ellen in ’76 and ’77 when we were all reconnected with Lisa, who is there. My son is at school in now communicating with the Meriden, NH, so we try to swing gang as well. Carolyn and Gail through town to Peter Christian’s Gorton Bowman (VT) also have when we’re in the area. I am still a yearly visit. CVV says that married to Scott Winslow. We Sarah Munford continues to run have 3 children: Lexie (20) who her flower store in Norwalk, VA. is at Oxford U. in England; Sam (18) who is at Kimball Union Academy; and Keelie who is 15 and still at home. I write for The 1976 Equine Journal, run our horse Janet Spurr farm, and enjoy volunteering in 52 Rowland Street, Apartment 1 therapeutic horseback riding at Marblehead, MA 01945 Windrush Farm in Boxford. I am (781) 639-1008 still in touch with Susan Pratley e-mail: [email protected] Rillovick, who lives with her family in Farmington, NH, and Please See In Fond Memory owns an antique shop. I hope all is well with you and I send my Class agent needed! best to the women from Cutting This volunteer position encour- House.” Janice Lowell Tilley ages participation in the Colby- says that things haven’t changed Sawyer College Annual Fund. much on her end. She still lives Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or in Newburyport and works in [email protected] if Peabody as an accountant. Janice you are interested. recently celebrated her 25th wed- ding anniversary and has 2 boys, Matthew and Jason, and one grandchild, Michael. Matthew is 1977 the GM of the Danvers Butchery Wendi Braun and Jason is getting his master’s Colby-Sawyer Flashback: Do you recognize this 5 Carnegie Place at Penn State. Janice drove by gal? If you can identify her, please contact Tracey Austin in the Office of Lexington, MA 02420 the college last fall and says, Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at (603) 526-3886 or (781) 863-1502 “The campus has changed a [email protected]. e-mail: [email protected] little over the last 30 years. It is still beautiful.” Suzanne Voth sleeping late and doing water aer- interesting since Old Lyme has a Hello, ladies! I sent an e-mail to Gorman e-mailed an update on obics with Amy Schimelfenyg. population of about 8,000! Ray all of you who have registered her singing career. She will be Arden and her boyfriend, Hank, and Barb now have 2 great cities on the CSC alumni site, The going on a United Nations tour took a New England/Canada to explore. She has lost touch Loop, to submit your news and in April 2008. She says, “This is cruise where Christina LoBello with Carolyn Van Vleck and updates. I would encourage you called International World Peace met them at the ship in Portland. Debbie Perkins Williams, so if to register with The Loop at Tour4children. I am opening for On the day I received her news anyone out there knows where www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni- Whitney Houston and Bono and she was leaving on a trip to they are she would love to know. friends to stay in touch with many others. Stay tuned.” Honolulu. After that she was I would, too! Please send me your your past/present/future friends. Debbie Pratt writes, “I’m living headed to Budapest for a cruise news. I, Nancy Eaton Welch, am Many thanks to those who sub- in Middleborough, MA, with my on the Danube, and her hope still living in New London and mitted their update! The news husband, Ted. I have 2 children, was to spend Christmas and New working at Dartmouth College. from Anne Delaporte Smith Andrew, 21, and Kate, 23; 2 step- Year’s in South America! Barbara I celebrated my 30th wedding was that their son, Tom, is now a children, Tom, 26, and Amy, 22; Petzoldt Koski currently lives anniversary on Oct. 8. Life is freshman at Emory U. in Atlanta, and 2 Springer spaniels, Addison in Old Lyme, CT, and has been good. If any of you are ever in GA, while their daughter, Jensen, and Huck. I would love to hear married to Ray for 28 years. They town, please give me a call. is a sophomore at Robinson High from Sue Michaud Diddel, are new empty nesters, having Having hit the age when the kids School, where her club soccer Roxanne MacDonald Curley, dropped their youngest son, are leaving home, and it’s time team, the Vista Fury, won the Barb McKenzie Holch, Debbie Tom, at Northeastern U. this fall. to reconnect with old friends, so VA State Cup. Anne continues Bray Mitchell ’79, Sara Kruger Their oldest son, Ben, graduated has it happened. Carolyn Van in her position as the office Bressin, etc. all from Burpee.” 2 years ago from Haverford Vleck (VT), Lisa Love Blazewski manager for D3 Systems, Inc., And from Lynda Coombs College in PA. He has just relo- (NJ), Ellen Wallace (NY), and and her husband, Tom, is still an Coville: “We were just starting cated from the Washington, DC, Jan Linart Murphy (NY) have IT consultant. Anne writes, “We, to enjoy our empty nest status area to NYC, where he is working done just that. Though Ellen like everybody else I’m sure, are (2 children in college) and are on for The New York Times. Both and Carolyn have been in semi- busy, busy—but would love to the move again. NJ and ME have boys are enjoying city life... constant touch since Ellen hear from my old classmates any been our home for the last 10

66 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE years, but we thought the PA side as a laboratory manager in central of the Delaware River would be CT for 21/2 years now and would We’ve got all kinds of Colby-Sawyer wonderful and started to build. love to network with anyone Two years later our home is regarding career changes—e-mail gear in our Alumni complete, but we won’t be able her at [email protected]. to enjoy it. We are moving to Paula Magnanti is northeast Marketplace. England after a 10-year absence, regional director of healthcare so must rekindle friendships delivery for EDCO Group Inc., Visit at abroad. Our free time is filled a company specializing in http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/ with golf and tennis, which keeps processing health information alumni-friends/gear the family active and entertained. management. Prior to this, she It’s hard to believe that AARP founded and managed Strategic Hi, everyone. This past summer eyes and I can recall those perfect status is right around the corner!” Healthcare Solutions, a health- I ran into some Colby-Sawyer days of beautiful scenery and a The news from me, Wendi care consulting firm. For her alumni, right here in the crisp feeling in the air. One day, Braun, is that I recently left Tufts dedication to the Healthcare Philadelphia suburbs. Dabney I have to take my family back to Health Plan in Watertown as Information and Management Woolford Blackwell ’83 lives in CSC and experience the foliage their learning and development Systems Society (HIMSS) the area with her husband and in its peak. I have never seen manager. I am starting a new Community, Paula was the 3 children. She is working as a anything similar here in Europe. position at Sapient in Cambridge recipient of the May 2007 Spirit speech therapist. I also met Mary I love to travel, and this summer as senior consulting manager in of HIMSS Award, was nominated Knox Tatnall ’57, who recently we went to some wonderful learning and development. I’m in 2006 for the HIMSS Chapter celebrated her 50th Reunion at places, including a spa stay in very excited about this transition. Leader of the Year Award, and CSC. She mentioned that she one of the natural hot springs of Everyone on the home front is was awarded the 2005 NE HIMSS will be hosting a reception for Tuscany, a trip to the enchanting healthy and happy. I hope all Board Recognition Award. CSC President Tom Galligan in city of Venice, a week of beautiful my fellow alumni are also well. the spring of ’08 here in the walks and adventures in the Don’t forget to register on The Class agent needed! Philadelphia area. Those alumni Italian Alps, Valle de Funes, Loop so we can keep in touch— This volunteer position encour- interested in attending may con- which was the place where just go to www.colby-sawyer.edu/ ages participation in the Colby- tact her at [email protected] the famous mountain climber alumni-friends. Sawyer College Annual Fund. or contact the Alumni Office. I Reinhold Messner grew up, and a Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or am now packing my bags and week at the Club Med in Nabuel, [email protected] if Class agent needed! preparing to head up to New Tunisia, for some crazy fun! One This volunteer position encour- you are interested. London for a friend’s wedding. of the best advantages of living ages participation in the Colby- I look forward to visiting the in Europe is that the vacations Sawyer College Annual Fund. campus! I hope to hear from are amazing, without travelling Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or more of my classmates this year, too far. I am in the process of [email protected] if so please send me your news! planning a ski vacation in France you are interested. 1980 Natalie “Lee” Hartwell Jackson for the early spring. Have to Cypress Creek Estates brush up on my French. I did 6180 9th Avenue Circle NE hear from some of you. Here’s Bradenton, FL 34202-0561 1982 the news…Kim Boyle Birrell 1978 (941) 747-0406 Melissa Buckley Sammarco writes, “Our family just got back Jody Hambley Cooper e-mail: [email protected] Viale Alessandro Magno, 446 from visiting Martha Munroe 89 Main Street, Unit 3 00124 Rome Callahan and her family in DE. Post Office Box 1943 Italy We flew down there and went to New London, NH 03257 011-39-06-509-8273 a Boston Red Sox game together (603) 526-4667 1981 e-mail: [email protected] in Baltimore. We all had a blast, as we always do when we get e-mail: [email protected] Pamela Aigeltinger Lyons I have such fond memories of together. Martha’s oldest daugh- 436 Round Hill Road Colby-Sawyer College around the ter and my oldest are both in col- Saint Davids, PA 19087 time of year that I write this— lege now, so we had our younger (610) 989-0551 the fall foliage season. There is daughters and husbands with us. 1979 e-mail: [email protected] no place in the world like New All had a great weekend. Martha Debra Bray Mitchell England in the fall. I close my 17 Rope Ferry Road and I still have so many wonder- Hanover, NH 03755 ful memories of our days living (603) 643-7138 in Abbey Dorm! We hope every- e-mail: [email protected] A picture is worth a thousand words. one is doing well.” Lisa Dargis Send us yours. Nickerson’s husband, Nate, Editor’s Note: Welcome and retired from the Navy on July 1 special thank you to Debra Bray Guidelines for submitting after 23 years. He now works as Mitchell, who has agreed to serve digital photos for inclusion a government contractor in the as class of 1979 correspondent. in the Alumni Magazine: Norfolk area. Their son, Michael, Karen Huntley Freeman writes Digital photos must be roughly graduated from high school in June and has started his freshman that in Aug. she took a magical 3" x 5" in size and have a resolution of year at the College of William trip to France and Italy with her at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). E-mail your photos to husband and 2 kids: Sarah, a and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. senior, and Jacob, a sophomore [email protected] Lisa writes, “We decided to do in high school. Karen has worked all of our big changes in a one-

WINTER 2008 67 him again and I just know I the President’s Alumni Advisory operations manager for Huttig Nominate a won’t have to say a thing to him Council, which was created to Building Products. We will be because he will already know. In give alumni a voice in college celebrating our 20th anniversary classmate for an my adult life, we always had a conversations. PAAC meets twice this month. Penny MacDonald Alumni somewhat strained relationship. a year, spring and fall. I attended Sirjane ’86 was our maid of Award! We actually are a lot alike, much my first meeting this past March. honor, is Jonathon’s godmother, to my dismay. He never had time Regrettably, I was unable to and we are still very close! I can’t for me as a child; I never had attend this fall’s meeting due to a believe how time has flown. I time for him as an adult. What a back-to-school night conflict for certainly don’t feel any older, but great vicious circle that is! My my two high school students! am surprised when I look at my Dad was a little damaged, a little When I was visiting last March I two 6 ft. boys, especially as they Find out more at vulnerable, a little proud, a little did bring my son, PJ, along, who near the time to head off to www.colby-sawyer.edu/ sad, a little pig-headed, a little is presently a senior. While I college!” As for me, Gail Smart alumni-friends/awards bit a product of his generation. attended meetings he was given a Scibelli, I relocated to Miami this He drank too much, smoked too tour of the school, interview and past fall. We found a place on much in his early years, woman- had lunch with a student. He did the water near Coconut Grove. month period! We are down ized too much his whole life, join me at the end of the day at Of course moving is never fun to just Megan now and we are and made many mistakes, but he President Galligan’s house for a and I will miss New England ter- already starting the college search ‘did it MY way,’ as he so often reception. It was an informative ribly. But Tony (my fiancé) and I with her as she’s starting her pledged. On the other hand, I day for us both! Well, that’s all are excited for a new adventure! junior year in high school. I left was a little damaged too, but I for now! Thank you for doing I would love to hear from other the school nurse position a cou- learned to be who I am: a strong, this for the Alumni Magazine.” folks from the Class of 1983, so ple of years ago. It was a good intelligent, honest, unwavering please keep me posted on your job for where we were in our woman. At this point in my life, latest developments. You can lives, but once we knew Nate was nothing scares me. I say this not reach me at gscibelli1963@ going to retire from the Navy out of cockiness, but out of expe- 1983 yahoo.com. and start a new job, I changed rience and the opening of the Gail Smart Scibelli Please See In Fond Memory jobs. I now work 4 days a week mind. Yes, I am still a sensitive, 339 Virginia Street in pre-op surgery at one of the loving person, but I guess I have Apartment 201 hospitals. Big change from hardened in a way, and although Coconut Grove, FL 33133 school nursing, but I do really I’m not sure I like this fact, it is e-mail: [email protected] 1984 like it.” Ann-Marie Grzybowski okay, and I accept it. I think it Greetings to the Class of 1983. I Lisa Reon Barnes McWilliams writes, “My son comes with the territory: our heard from Beth Knapp Olesen, 11 Allen Place Douglas E. McWilliams is U.S. society. This is sad. Regardless, I who lives happily in Portland, Sudbury, MA 01776 Navy “Seabee” with NMCB 74— never doubted, through years of ME, with her husband, Kevin, (978) 443-6816 the Fearless Battalion. He was sometimes not talking to each and 2 sons, Jonathon, 17, and e-mail: [email protected] deployed to Iraq from Oct. 2006 other, that my Dad loved me. Casey, 15. After graduating from through March 2007, and he Where does this come from? It is CSC, Beth worked for the Unum received a medal and a letter of instilled, it is taught, and it is Insurance Company as the man- commendation for his service learned. Be sure to instill in your from Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. ager of competency development 1985 children the fact that you love in human resources. She stayed Carla Byers He will deploy again in Feb. them, no matter their choices, there until 1999 when she decid- 123 South Street, Apartment 9 2008, so please keep him, and no matter their lifestyles. Also, ed to stay home with her 2 boys. Northampton, MA 01060 the rest of our military, in your instill in them “The Golden Beth stayed busy, working in e-mail: [email protected] prayers.” Ann-Marie volunteers Rule.” It isn’t a matter of being retail and spending time with with Liberty USO of PA/Southern religious, it is only a matter of her family. She also operated her NJ, is a member of the Blue Star being a good human. Treat oth- own HR company, assisting Mothers of America, and has ers like you wish to be treated worked at Aetna for the past 10 others with resume development 1986 yourself. Communication is the and interview preparation. She years. She says she still loves rock key to success. Honesty is the Molly O’Shea Piercy returned to Unum about 3 years and roll, and catches whatever best policy. I am happy that in Post Office Box 1554 ago as a consultant. “I love the concerts she can in the NJ area. my Dad’s last days we had a real- New London, NH 03257-1554 freedom of being able to set my Carol Engan Borrelli sent me ly great relationship, and many (603) 526-2346 own hours and work from this essay about her spiritual happy times together. He loved e-mail: [email protected] home,” she writes. “This past journey after the recent death of where he lived, he loved my Ladies, can you believe we year, I began working as a per- her father: “My Dad died in Feb. husband, and we had a nice missed the deadline for getting sonal trainer while training for a and I’ve had a lot on me since family feeling when we could get this newsletter info out to all of marathon along with the rest of that time. It is amazing how life together…which wasn’t often you in a timely fashion? (We can, my family. Jonathon and Casey gets away from us. It behooves us even though he lived 5 miles but thought it would look good are both high school honor stu- to make the most of our time from me. Life is short. Live it to acknowledge this in the first dents and they play soccer and here on earth, with our loved well.” Gretchen Richter Massey sentence!) Just a reminder that lacrosse.” Jonathon will attend ones...to live each day as if it writes, “Thought I would pass on the deadline for the next one is the U. of Southern ME next year. were our last. I so wish I could that I hosted a CSC reception March 20, so please mark your Beth loves living in ME because have some time back so that I with Nancy Keefe Hirschberg calendars and send us an e-mail of the seasons, as well as being could say some things that I ’52 at the Larchmont Yacht Club. with all of your exciting news by able to sail and ski and enjoy the never had the courage to say to President Tom Galligan was in then! Sandy “Sofa” Couch-Kelly lakes, oceans and mountains. my Dad. One day I will meet attendance. Also I recently joined ’87 was spotted on campus “My husband, Kevin, is the

68 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE attending a recent President’s prospective students hosted by 7th grade, Kendall in 6th grade Alumni Advisory Council meet- Cheryl Flint Libby ’69. Elizabeth and Katherine and Kennedy in ing. She lives in ME with her still works in a gallery picture the 3rd grade. My high school 1992 husband and 2 children. Patricia framing and Sandy is raising 2 sweetheart, now husband for 13 Jennifer Barrett Sawyer Spiegel Montville e-mailed to kids, Sarah and Sophia. Elizabeth years, Brian, and I are realizing 57 Field Road say she has been married for says, “Constance Hooker that CA is home, though we will- Marston Mills, MA 02648 almost 10 years and has 3 boys. Panetski, Lizabeth Harrington ingly head back to Boston at least (508) 428-9766 Christopher is almost 7 and in ’88 and I socialize continuously twice a year to see our families. e-mail: [email protected] 1st grade, Conner is 4 and is in where we stretch across 3 towns Due to the current demand at Kelly Lynch Collins preschool, and Joe is 2 and that are connected (well, nearly home I am still a stay-at-home 3621 Cabernet Vineyards Circle happy to be home having Tricia connected coastally!)—Bath, mom. My Colby-Sawyer educa- San Jose, CA 95117 and all his brothers’ trucks all to Yarmouth and New Gloucester.” tion helped me for years in the (408) 241-4019 himself. She works part time from work force, but now the calling is e-mail: [email protected] home, recruiting senior level to be around for my daughters. managers in the insurance and We have high hopes that this Heidi Walkup ’93 writes, “I’ve financial service field throughout 1988 winter we will bring the girls to been reading the Alumni Magazine the USA. She loves what she does Letticia Kelly Brown-Gambino New London. Only my older 2 for 15 years and every issue I say, and feels very fortunate to be 768 Main Street girls have been to Colby-Sawyer ‘I have to write in and let people able to be a stay at home/work Plymouth, CT 06782 with me when they were really know what I have been doing mom! Thanks, Tricia. Betsy e-mail: small. Thank you for keeping us with my life.’ Then time passes Civetta Pontius says she sees [email protected] connected!” and life gets in the way and I Sarah Ketchum Reilly ’85 every never do. Well, here it is in a Editor’s Note: Welcome and summer—she and her husband nutshell. In 1992, after CSC, I special thank you to Letticia Class agent needed! had dinner at Betsy’s husband’s This volunteer position encour- moved to Boston where I worked Kelly Brown-Gambino, who has awesome restaurant, Finely JP’s, ages participation in the Colby- as a personal trainer at the agreed to serve as class of 1988 in Wellfleet, MA. Everyone Sawyer College Annual Fund. famous Boston Racquet Club in correspondent. should try it; they have done a Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or the financial district. I had some fabulous job! I received a phone Melissa Clemons Russell writes [email protected] if wonderful clients and made call out of the blue from Karen that she and her husband were you are interested. plenty of money, but missed the Bowers ’87! What a fun conver- visiting her parents in Concord, horses tremendously. In 1993 I sation that was! She is living back NH, from Whidbey Island, WA, bought and sold an equestrian in Hartford, CT, getting her mas- in Aug. and took a trip up to facility and moved to ‘Horse ter’s. We laughed a lot and filled New London. She says, “My Country’—Louisville, KY, where I each other in on all the CSC mother, Judy Clemons ’89, and 1989 owned and campaigned a string news! It was great to hear from I made a visit to Colby-Sawyer to Carrie Cherubino McGraw of race horses and show hunters. her. So please feel free to send us peruse the bookstore and were 311 Mountain Cloud Circle While showing at the 2000 an e-mail or a phone call and surprised to see it was still in the Highlands Ranch, CO 80126-2208 Winter Equestrian Festival in give us the scoop. Look forward same place as when we attended. (720) 344-2612 Wellington, FL, I met and mar- to hearing from everyone. Lots of new merchandise and a e-mail: ried Stephen S. Lengyel, a horse few new class subjects. We both [email protected] professional from a family of came away with metal alumni Editor’s Note: Welcome and horsemen in Houston, TX. Since license plate frames, free, and special thank you to Carrie 2002 we have been proud owners 1987 then a few other bought items! Cherubino McGraw, who has of Wall Street Inc., a world class Susan Brown Danaher We joined our husbands for agreed to serve as class of 1989 equestrian facility on 55 scenic 51 Stepstone Hill Road lunch at Peter Christian’s, correspondent. acres in Riverview, FL, about 20 Guilford, CT 06437 which was just as delicious as we minutes south of Tampa. We (203) 453-9544 remembered. It was a beautiful focus on sales, breeding, and e-mail: [email protected] fun day in New London!” For showing top hunters and the past 14 years, Lauren Forbes jumpers. While the farm keeps us Elizabeth Holloway writes that 1990 busy we still find time to travel a Mulvaney has been living in Janette Robinson Harrington she and Sandy Couch-Kelly couple times of year to the FL Newport Beach, CA—except for 13 Sherwood Road run into each other regularly Keys and Cape Cod, still trying 18 months in Charlotte, NC, in Hingham, MA 02043 in Falmouth, ME. They both to make our way to New London 1999. She writes, “Our 4 daugh- (781) 749-2571 attended the Nov. cocktail recep- to see all the changes that have ters are all in school: Kylie off to e-mail: tion for alumni, parents, and transpired since 1992. I also own [email protected] The Bull & Bear Boutique, Inc., Want to find out if other Colby-Sawyer alumni an upscale jewelry boutique that live in your area? Get in The Loop! caters to the equestrian commu- 1991 nity. No children thus far, but we are the proud parents of 5 Gretchen Garceau-Kragh Chihuahuas, 2 black labs, 2 315 Adams Street mutts, 2 barn cats and 40+/- San Antonio, TX 78210 horses and ponies. Our Web site (210) 226-7079 is www.wallstreetfarm.com and I e-mail: [email protected] invite all CSC equestrian alumni Please See In Fond Memory to stop in for a visit if ever in www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends sunny FL. Actually, last year I

WINTER 2008 69 Shannon McLaughlin Scully ’91

Which dorm(s) did you live in? That’s what we’re here All except Best and Abbey. Burpee wasn’t really open back then, for. Anything else to and by the time it was, I had moved off campus. plug while you’re at it? I have a new band, The Which staff or faculty member had the biggest impact on you? Albergs—called that Fine and Performing Arts Professor Jerry Bliss and Director of because all three of us Academic Affairs Nancy Teach ’70. Jerry was a great drama teacher, live on Alberg-designed an excellent human being, and taught me a lot. And Nancy was sailboats. You can listen one of the hippest, most straight-up people I knew. She never to the rough cuts of our CD at www.myspace.com/thealbergs. talked down to us, she was real. We plan on taking all three of the Albergs out rafting one weekend Where do you live now? to a place called Redfish Island where we’ll give a floating concert. It should be a blast. Kemah, Texas, on my sailboat, Silverheels. Time for the important questions. Favorite TV Show? How’d you end up there? “Reno 911.” I was trying to make it as a musician in Austin, Texas, “The Live Music Capital of the World.” I was doing alright, had cut a few Favorite record? CDs and received good reviews, but after my blues band fell apart, I have had so many different musical influences my whole life I thought, there has got to be something more than this. Inspired I don’t think I can answer that definitively. Possibly “Talking by the book Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman, I Timbuktu” by Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder. Or anything by realized that what I really wanted to do was travel the globe in a Led Zeppelin. sailboat and make music with the people that I encountered. So my partner, Mike, and I bought a sailboat and we moved onto it Last book read? last year. I am currently reading Don Quixote. I realized the other day that I had never read it. An oversight on all my teachers’ parts, I am sure! Okay, we’re intrigued. Tell us more about this nomadic plan. You can find out all about it on my Web site www.officialoneworld What was your New Year’s resolution? onesong.com. The idea is to spend years on a journey of music and I don’t make New Year’s resolutions because, as soon as I tell myself global communication. I’m planning a documentary about the that I can’t do something, I go right ahead and do it. With a journey as well as recording music. We’re looking for investors, vengeance. sponsors, musicians, and educators to get involved. Anyone that’s For more installments of Q&Alumni, visit www.colby-sawyer.edu/ interested can email me at [email protected]. How’s alumni-friends/faces. that for shameless self promotion?

sold 2 horses to CSC alumni— Greetings, class of ’94. We hope club’s annual 3-day camping and small world. I run into former that everyone had a fun summer off-roading event, which went graduate and coach Mary 1993 and a wonderful fall. I know that off without a hitch. We had Drueding ’83 in the winters at Dawn Hinckley spending time on the Cape and almost 100 people in 70+ trucks HITS Ocala Horse Shows and we 11646 Old Hills Lane in PA with my family this sum- off-roading in the Hancock, NH, catch up on how she is in the San Antonio, TX 78251 mer was a much needed break area for 3 days. It was amazing. collegiate horse world. Well (618) 719-7184 from the craziness of life. David I’m also restoring a ’74 Land that’s it, 15 years in 3 paragraphs. e-mail: [email protected] Morin writes, “We’ve had a Cruiser FJ55 in my garage, though Hope I didn’t bore y’all to death!” very busy summer in the Morin it wasn’t ready in time for our Robyn True gave birth to daugh- Class agent needed! household. Our son, Jack, is near- event.” Heather Stockford Van ter number 2 on Aug. 29. She This volunteer position encour- ly 5 and it seems we’ve always got Gelder wrote to us from MO, says that everyone is well in ages participation in the Colby- something planned for the week- where she has lived for the past their house. Sawyer College Annual Fund. ends. Sara started a local chapter 2 years with her husband, Scott. Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or of the AIGA and has been very She is a video producer for the [email protected] if busy with that. I’m in my 2nd largest hospital in Springfield and you are interested. year as president of the New is back in school to get her M.Ed. Check out the England Chapter of the TLCA in technology. Heather and Scott Colby-Sawyer (Toyota Land Cruiser Assoc.). I were married in FL on Feb. 25, College also just celebrated 10 years here 2007. She states, “Life is different at Nomad Communications. living in the Midwest, but I am Web site: 1994 We’ve spent the summer remod- happy.” Jeanne “Bean” Crowell Class Correspondent Needed eling our kitchen with the help Willis writes that she is still at of Sara’s father. It’s something the same job at JPMC. Her 2 kids Editor’s Note: Special thanks to we’ve wanted to do since we are 7 and 4 and are doing all of Theresa “Rene” Whiteley- bought our house 9 years ago the fun things that they do for Warren and Tracy Sutherland and it’s great to finally have it their age group. She also writes, www.colby-sawyer.edu Fitch, who served as ’94 class finished. I’ve been busy all sum- “My husband and I just cele- correspondents from 2001–2007. mer planning my Land Cruiser

70 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE brated our 10-year anniversary spring, Parker. Tracy and I both I welcomed Kelsey Corcoran by going to Buffett at Gillette want to thank everyone for the Wiggin into the world on Stadium and sitting in one of the information you have sent us for Sept.18, weighing 7 lbs 8 oz and luxury boxes. A bit different from the past 7 years and to let you measuring 20 inches. We’re all 10 years ago when we were on know that we are going to take a doing great and Gavin loves his the lawn at Great Woods! We break from this position. We are new role as big brother. Class spent a lot of time on the looking forward to reading the correspondent Wendy Mansson Cape this summer, staying in notes in the years to come and Olsen and her husband recently Cummaquid and spending a lot wish everyone well. moved to Portland, OR, with of time at the family’s cottage their twin boys. Amy Henderson at Sandy Neck.” Jack Tremblay has moved to Mooresville, NC, and his wife, Heather Quigley where she teaches high school Tremblay ’95, live in St. Albans, 1995 English and works as a motor- VT, with their boys Jacob (4) and Caroline Miriam Herz sports journalist and an editor Teddy (14 months). He is an art 350 East 62nd Street on Frontstretch.com, one of the director at Direct Design in Apartment 2D largest independent motorsports Burlington and Heather is a stay- New York, NY 10021 sites on the Web. “I love it here,” at-home mom with a part-time (212) 688-6998 she writes. “I’m still riding and Jeanne Corcoran Wiggin ’95, her job every other weekend at e-mail: [email protected] showing when I have the time, husband, Matt, and their son, Franklin County Health & Rehab. but my horse is still back in NH, Wendy Mansson Olsen Gavin, welcomed daughter/sister He will become a partner at his so I’m riding some different Kelsey Corcoran Wiggin into the 5790 Ridgetop Court firm next year. Jack also says, horses at the moment. If anyone world on Sept. 18, 2007. Lake Grove, OR 97035 “After spending some time with is in the area, feel free to drop me e-mail: [email protected] am in charge of kids and get to Dan Berry and Patricia Randall a line at [email protected]. tell teachers how to teach—who Berry and their kids in Bar Jeanne Corcoran Wiggin I’d love to hear from you!” would have pegged that one?” Harbor, ME, this past summer, 136 Penn Drive Lynn Hart Cutting resides in Chris was finishing his CAGS this we are now looking forward to West Hartford, CT 06119 Hampton, NH. Her daughter, past Nov. and taking care of his catching up with more friends at (917) 368-0451 Paige, started Kindergarten last 4-year-old daughter. Jill Rivers Friend’s Thanksgiving in Oct. e-mail: [email protected] year and loves it. She will be 6 in is now teaching 4th grade at This year we’re being hosted by Jan. and Lynn’s son, Parker, is in Thanks to everyone who sent the same school (Stone Ridge, a Dave Morin and Sara Hodgkins 2nd grade and will be 8 in Jan. “I updates on such short notice. For Sacred Heart school in Bethesda, Morin ’95 and their son, Jackie, hope all is well and everyone those of you who haven’t had an MD). She had a great adventure and we expect a great turn out, from CSC is enjoying life,” Lynn opportunity to visit The Loop yet, over the summer. “I volunteered including Ally Goff Sharpe and writes. Chris Andriski still lives definitely check it out. It’s a won- in Monteverde, Costa Rica, with her family, Chris Gasparro, and in Portsmouth and sees many derful resource for alumni and an Global Volunteers (the same Tony Librot and his wife, Sue, CSC alumni. He is currently the easy way to reconnect with old organization I worked with when who will be attending with assistant principal at Newmarket classmates and friends. Just go to I went to Australia),” she writes. their new son, Harrison.” Tobi Jr./Sr. High School and is looking www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni- “I was in Monteverde for 2 weeks Harrington Murch let us know to take over next year, as his friends. I, Jeanne Corcoran and worked in a small mountain- that she and her husband, Rich, principal is about to retire. Wiggin, had a busy fall. My ous town in the Cloud Forest welcomed a little boy this past “That’s right,” Chris writes, “I husband, Matt, son Gavin, and called San Luis. I ended up

Sherwood/Barth Wedding

Pictured (l to r) are Lynne Morse ’95, Sara Gilderdale Morcom ’95, Robert Barth, Patrick Desmond ’95, Brenda Sherwood Barth ’95 married Rob Brenda Sherwood Barth ’95, Kimberly Lunt Dugas ’98, Jacqueline Swain Coe ‘95, Jill Kleimon Votano ’95 Barth on Feb. 24, 2007. and Laurel Rickert Ciechon ’95.

WINTER 2008 71 Gregg Carville ’95

The Merrill Auditorium is the premier performing arts facility in Portland, Maine. Known to locals simply as “the Merrill,” it seats almost 2000 people, is home to the Portland Symphony Orchestra, boasts a world class pipe organ, and is a venue Jill Rivers ’95 stands in front of the mural she designed, created and drew for ballet, concerts and during her trip to Costa Rica. theater. Overseeing the logistics of bringing in creating a mural for the front of Association, which will put me in hundreds of performers a this elementary school. Global line to become Chairman of the year is the daunting task Volunteers’ philosophy is to work Board in 2010. I was also nomi- of the technical director, a with the locals to strive to be nated as one of the 3 finalists position held by Gregg Carville ’95. self-reliant and building commu- for the Restaurateur of the Year When Gregg arrived at Colby-Sawyer he wasn’t sure which nity. So for every volunteer work- Award in NH also by the NHLRA. career path to pursue. Making good use of the liberal arts cur- ing there is a local person work- It’s keeping me very busy, but riculum, he explored a wide range of subjects, including history, ing alongside. We hardly spoke it’s worth the time to fight for business and art. It wasn’t until his senior year and the gentle any Spanish and they didn’t restaurant and lodging establish- prompting of the registrar that he finally declared a major, opting know a word of English, but we ments here in NH. My wife, for arts management. In high school Gregg had acted in a few communicated and worked col- Christen Wallingford Kozlowski plays and helped build sets, but he hadn’t considered a theater laboratively despite the barriers, ’96, is still doing great with real career. Encouraged by his college advisor, Fine and Performing and painted the mural (on corru- estate. Things have dropped Arts Professor Jerry Bliss, he began to audition for student plays. gated metal) in 4 days! Living in somewhat in the market, but “At some point,” Gregg recalls, “Jerry said, ‘I need someone to the rainforest for 2 weeks and have leveled off in this area. meeting 16 other people from Dominic is now 11/2 years old light a show.’ And that’s how I was thrown into the world of around the US was also memo- and enjoyed dressing up as a technical theater.” rable. For recreation (nights and monkey for Halloween.” Rob Starting with the first show of his sophomore year, Gregg weekends) we went zip lining Peaslee writes that he and his designed the lighting for seven shows over his Colby-Sawyer through and above the rain- wife, Katie, still live in Boulder, career. After graduation, he went on to New York University forests, toured coffee plantations, CO. “I will graduate with my where he received a master’s in lighting design. New York City and went on hikes. We also went Ph.D. in media studies from the was exciting but not a place he particularly wished to call home, to La Fortuna to see Arenal (an U. of CO, Boulder, in Dec. 2007, so he returned to Portland, Maine. When the position at the active volcano), went sightseeing, after which I will go on a 3-week Merrill opened up, Gregg was thrilled to be able to find work in horseback riding, and relaxed in bender before resuming my his field right in his hometown. the hot springs! I spent a 3rd harrowing, soul-crushing search As technical director, Gregg facilitates the use of the space week further south in Gilfito, for gainful employment. I have by all kinds of groups, who perform for one night or for a week Costa Rica, with my sister and several application packets out before making way for the next group. With performances her family. Truly a fantastic trip for tenure track teaching posi- scheduled 250 days a year, it’s a continual balancing act to and experience.” Chris “Koz” tions all around the country and make sure that everything runs smoothly. Fall is a particularly Kozlowski writes that a lot is could end up anywhere from San heavy time, with 40 to 50 shows passing through the Merrill happening on the east side of Diego to UNH. Meanwhile, I’m from October through New Year’s Eve. NH these days. “I was just paying the bills by doing some Ironically, Gregg credits his career to the fact that Colby- elected Vice Chairman of the research work and bartending at Sawyer does not have a theater major. While his peers at NYU NH Lodging and Restaurant a little spot in Boulder called The typically arrived having lit one or two shows, Gregg already had much more hands-on experience, benefiting from the relative lack of competition and his own hunger to learn as much as he could. “There’s always something new to learn,” he says. “If you don’t We want to see your face, too. learn something in theater then you’re not really trying.” When asked what advice he would pass on to others considering a Baby photo policy: career in theater, he cautions, “If you have the desire to do While we love to receive photos of your anything else, you do it. I’ve been blessed—or cursed—with adorable children, our policy is that the desire to do this. And I wouldn’t change it.” an alumna/us must also be present —Mike Gregory in the photo in order for it to be published in the Alumni Magazine.

72 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Colby-Sawyer Alumni Night at Fenway Park On June 29, 110 Colby-Sawyer alumni and friends cheered on the Boston Red Sox as they defeated the Texas Rangers, on their way to winning the 2007 World Series.

(Back row, l to r) Jen Wood ’06, Lisa Woodbury ’06, Heidi (L to r) Jess Tucker, Sarah Holmes Tucker Julia Costello ’06, Kristin Koslowski ’06 and O’Brien ’06, Bonnie Lull ’06, (front row, l to r) Matt Danahy ’95 and Brian Ahrens ’96 (far right) and Travis Soule ’06. ’05 and Heather Billings ’02. his girlfriend, Gina DeFusco.

President Tom Galligan (right) and his (Back row, l to r) Neil Cremin ’94, Kate “Irish” Ireland ’98, T.J. Jen Wood ’06, Bonnie Lull ’06 and Tarren daughter, Sarah. Gondek ’95, Jeff DelliColli ’95, (front row, l to r) Nicole Cremin Bailey ’06. (wife of Neil Cremin), Marcy Bronzino Bettencourt ’93 and Melissa Tucci ’93.

(Back row, l to r) Chris Gray ’05, Peter Sula ’03, Sarah Crete ’04, (front row, (Rear, l to r) Beth Freeman ‘99, Melanie McCabe Robinson ’01, (front row, l to r) Hanni “Maria” Lincoln ’05, Lynsey Ells ’04 and Becky Brault ’04. l to r) Jennifer Mitchell Buckler ‘99 and her guest, Kate Lovell ’00 and Jen Prudden ’00.

Kitchen (if anyone finds their sary in Nov. 2007. “It seems so their moms only. Elizabeth and of sponsorship sales. It’s a good way into town, they should stop hard to believe that it has been her husband do not have any opportunity getting into a by). Katie and I just celebrated that long already. We just bought kids, but they have not ruled management role, overseeing our 1-year anniversary last Aug. our first house last Aug. and are them out. Patrick O’Neill ’96 our sales managers and account Finally, I recently lost to Jay still getting settled in. We are traveled to Kauai, HI, in July coordinators. It’s a different Geiger ’94 in fantasy football, living up in Campton in a new 2007 to be the best man at the world on the other side of marking the 7,102nd contest development. So far we are the wedding of Scott Curtis ’96. the desk, but I’m enjoying it. in which he has bested me.” ‘youngest’ couple there. It has Matt Godbout writes, “Things Gabrielle is now 4 and Andrew Elizabeth Ford Breton ’96 writes been so beautiful with the leaves are good out here with Denise is 11/2. It’s a new adventure that she and her husband, Mike, changing up there.” They spent and I. I accepted a promotion at every day with them—always celebrated their 5-year anniver- their first Thanksgiving with the Indianapolis Colts to director something new and interesting.

WINTER 2008 73 minute, and love spending time some updates may be abridged Back to Class with pals Sara Gilderdale compared to what you sent to us. Morcom, Lynne Morse and Lastly, we have been instructed Jacqueline Swain Coe.” Thanks that the magazine will no longer again to everyone for writing in. print pregnancy news, but is Please keep the news coming. happy to include birth announce- Wishing everyone a happy and ments. So, to those of you who healthy 2008. kindly sent us news of pending births, please send us the news of the baby’s arrival! Business aside, we hope this update finds you all 1996 well. The Mulready house has Kristin Sneider Mulready been a bustle of activity. Our 3 Brownlea Road children are in the full swing of Framingham, MA 01701-4213 school; Cameron is in 2nd grade (508) 788-6353 and Connor is in kindergarten e-mail: this year. Josh Mulready has [email protected] gone back to work part time at the fitness center at Nortel Jen Rowell Pedersen Networks and he can sometimes 15 Michela Way Lynn Hart Cutting ’95 posing with daughter Paige and son Parker, on be found at the fitness center at Nottingham, NH 03290-5309 their respective first days of school. Boston Scientific as well. In his (603) 734-2070 free time he volunteers at the e-mail: [email protected] boys’ school and otherwise keeps Congrats to Jim McGilvery ’96 later we welcomed our 8-week Hello, class of ’96! Before launch- us all in order. We were very for being inducted into the CSC old golden retriever, Marley, into ing into an update, we want to excited to host a reunion with Athletic Hall of Fame—quite our home in Concord. Now at 8 bring you all up to speed on some the families of 5 members of the an accomplishment.” Brenda months, we're finding that life recent policy changes for the 6-pack this past summer: Jen Sherwood and Rob Barth were before her wasn't nearly as fun. magazine. As always, the Alumni Rowell Pederson, Donnelle married on Feb. 24, 2007, after She keeps us on our toes and Office appreciates pictures being Mozzer Bowers, Kim Parent a short engagement. It was a makes ‘the little things’ even sent in, but does request that you Flanagan and Laurie Bowie perfect, yet cold, winter day in more special. I still work at Bow are in the picture; they also may Foberg ’97. Given busy summer NH. Brenda writes, “Two months High School and enjoy every edit our column for length so schedules, we were happy to find

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74 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE husband, Tom, wanted to get Christopher Quint back to NH, so they have moved 130 Granite Street to Whitefield (“North of the Biddeford, ME 04005 Notch”), where he took a job at (207) 283-4274 the regional high school as a e-mail: [email protected] guidance counselor. Tanja says, “I Hey, everyone! I hope this finds traded in my busy ED job for a everyone in good health and much slower paced (but closer to happiness. Next year it’s our 10th home) ED job at Weeks Medical reunion. Can you believe it’s Center in Lancaster. Sigh...But been that long since we walked the best part about 2007 for us the halls of Rooke, Burpee and was the arrival of our first baby, Page? I, Jamie Gilbert, have been Ryan Max, in March during the busy buying a home and moving -20 degree weather. He made this to the country in CT. I’m still our Year of Joy!” Be sure to check studying to be a doula while out the online alumni commu- working 2 jobs and taking care of nity, The Loop, at www.colby- my 4-month-old puppy! I barely sawyer.edu/alumni-friends! have time to breathe. In Sept. I traveled to ME to be at the wed- Class agent needed! ding of Frank “Rizzo” Abel ’97. This volunteer position encour- There were a lot of CSC alums ages participation in the Colby- in attendance, including Rob Amanda Wood Lopardo ’96 poses with her family. Shown are (l to r) Charlie, Sawyer College Annual Fund. Kasprzak, Shane Hoover ’99, age 3, Amanda, Emma, age 1, Lily, age 3, husband A.J., Lucy, age 2, and Contact us at (800) 266-8253 or Seth Hurley ’00, Lahn Penna Nicholas, age 5. [email protected] if ’99, Kyle Battis ’99, Chad you are interested. O’Neill ’99, Nick Burchard ’99 a weekend that most of us could Diabetes Center Affiliate with and Pat Desmond ’95. It was a attend! Also, while vacationing at Chris Beaudet ’05 and formerly great time, despite the rain and Storyland we ran into Jolene with Kerri Thompson ’05, who cold weather. Chris Quint is Thompson Stratton ’97 and her was promoted and is helping 1997 doing great. He and his wife, 2 adorable little boys, and later to start a new practice in the Amy Sichler Baringer Kim, are enjoying the life in ME in the season Corenna Reeves foundation. Kathy also reported 13 Margaret Drive raising their daughter. Chris was ’98 and her beautiful son. that she still gets together with Wilton, NY 12831 venturing to Boston this fall to (Apologies to Corenna—I am Heather Bigelow Oberheim e-mail: [email protected] catch up with some friends from so sorry and embarrassed that ’95 and her husband, Dave CSC. I’m sure everyone has been I did not recognize you!) Kathy Oberheim ’94, and their chil- Regan Loati Baringer busy this year with weddings, Duval Winslow sent a wonderful dren, 6-year-olds Marita and Max 22622 Quiet Lane marriages and new jobs. I’ve update. She and her husband, and 4-year-old Michael. She also Leonardtown, MD 20650 heard from a few people, but I’d Dave, along with their 2 sons, recently spent some time at a (301) 997-0781 like to hear from all! Lisa 5-year-old Alex and 2-year-old lake with Susan Stepanek e-mail: Lachesky is still busy working Matthew, live in Bedford, NH, Lavertu, her husband, Dave, and [email protected] with Northwest Airlines based and are celebrating Alex’s transi- their children, Ian, 3, and out of Boston. She’s been in tion into kindergarten. She has Connor, 1. Kathy also had dinner contact with Lisa Cote, who just been working for Southern NH with Rebecca Duboff Greenstein bought her first home with her Medical Center at the Joslin ’95 while passing through 1998 boyfriend in Salem, MA. I hear Bennington, VT. Kristine Smiley Jamie Gilbert Rob Gagnon is going to be get- Phelps and Matt Phelps have 10-2 Countryside Lane ting married soon to his fiancée, been traveling a lot with their 3 Middletown, CT 06457 Peggy. Congrats, Rob! Beth children (4-year-old twin girls (860) 305-4641 Ferreira Webster and Kevin and 3-year-old son.) Last winter e-mail: Webster wrote the following to all the kids learned how to ski, so [email protected] Chris: “Hey everybody, just want- they hoped to enjoy more time ed to drop a note to let everyone skiing as a family this winter. Kristine enjoys being a full-time mom and still works part time as a special ed teacher for Saratoga A picture is worth a thousand words. County Early Intervention. She Send us yours. also continues to work with the Guidelines for submitting business she started with her sister, evaluating young children. digital photos for inclusion Matt has changed jobs and is in the Alumni Magazine: now a coordinator for work site Digital photos must be roughly health promotion for MVP 3" x 5" in size and have a resolution of Health Care. He also has fun Patrick O’Neill ’96 (shown at left) at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). E-mail your photos to traveled to Kauai, Hawaii, in July coaching his daughters’ first 2007 to be the best man at the soccer season. Tanja Carlsson [email protected] wedding of Scott Curtis ’96. Mauzy writes that she and her

WINTER 2008 75 1999 Kelley Healey Blake 3 Judson Road Weymouth, MA 02188 (781)331-1367 e-mail: [email protected] Suzanne Blake Gerety 4 Captain’s Way Exeter, NH 03833 (603) 772-2546 e-mail: [email protected] It is always great to hear from you. Keep on sharing the good news with us. I, Suzanne Blake Gerety, had a busy summer with our kids: Ryan is 2 and Shannon is 9 months. We took our first Heather Gardiner Shupenko ’99 trip to Storyland and Santa’s enjoys “hanging around” with her Martin and Missy Binette hosted a BBQ at their Amesbury, Mass., home this Village. I think I had more fun son, Noah, who was born in July. summer. Guests included (front row, l to r) Matt Follis ’99, Pat Quinn ’98, on the rides than the kids! It was (2nd row, l to r) Katie Sykes Follis ’00, Nate Camp ’98, Caroline Camp, (3rd appointed to assist in running row, l to r) Martin Binette ’98, Melissa Eckman Binette ’99, Camden Binette, great to get together at the end the departmental e-mail box Beth Bryant Camp ’92, Ellie Camp, (back row, l to r) Megan Donnelly Hydock of summer with Cara Falconi ’99, Ari Lombardi Willey ’99, Brook Willey, Brian Wilder ’99 and Shea Wilder. and her son, Ian; Melissa for issues that occur during the Eckman Binette and her son, death claim process. Heather know all is going well down here great 10 year Reunion. If you Camden; Ari Lombardi Willey Gardiner Shupenko and her in Dartmouth, MA. Brayden is have any suggestions, please send and her daughter, Brooke; Kelley husband, Craig, welcomed their doing awesome. He turned 3 them along to me or Chris. Also, Healey Blake and her son, Colin; first child, a son, Noah David on Halloween and is non-stop if you aren’t already registered on and Nat Ciulla Katz and her Thomas Shupenko, into the action. Hope everyone is doing The Loop, the online CSC alumni adorable dog, Colby. We had a world in July. They are adjusting well.” Mark Macenas writes “Just community, it’s a great and fun day by the pool and spent to being first-time parents, but moved from firefighter up to easy way to connect with other most of the time chasing around totally love it. She says, “It is hard driver on the ladder truck in the alums! Sign up at www.colby- the kids, but it was special to get remembering what life was like city of Durham, NC. Traveled in sawyer.edu/alumni-friends. If time to reflect on our CSC bond. before the little guy came.” Noah Rarotonga in the Cook Islands you have any information about Hilary Crane writes that she has met several CSC alumni, and to New Zealand. All else is yourself or about your fellow enjoyed a wonderful 10-day including Adrienne Shrekgast, well. Still living in Youngsville, alums for the next edition of vacation in San Francisco and up Sara Burman ’00, Kara Crane NC.” I hear that Kim-Laura Boyle class notes, forward it on to Chris the coast through Portland and and Katie Reagan. Heather stays is back on campus working as a or me. Take care, and see you in Seattle at the end of summer. in touch with Ron Coleman, professor. She recently earned her June ’08! She still enjoys her job at The Colleen McInnis Roaf ’00 and doctorate in physical therapy. Hartford and was recently James Wiley and Danielle Hello, Dr. Boyle! Jake Fish has recently moved to Dallas, TX, from Pensacola, FL, to take a position with a PR agency. Brian Dyer ’99 and Mindy Rumery Dyer live in Saco, ME, with their 2 daughters, Olivia Grace and Gabrielle Hope. Shannon Zimmerman recently purchased a 10-acre horse farm and works as a physician’s assistant at Holy Cross Hospital. Meredith DeCola Trudel is busy working as an operations delivery manager at Fidelity and keeping up with daughter Chloe. She and her family were planning a trip to Europe in the fall of ’07. Martin Binette and wife Missy Eckman Binette ’99 had their first child, Camden Michael Binette, on Alumni Baseball Game Former baseball players participating in the annual alumni baseball game included (back row, June 21. Congratulations to you l to r) David Shoreman ’02, Shawn Herlihy ’01, Justin Litchfield ’04, Chris Lane ’04, Ryan Smith ’00, Chris Ames ’05, both! A small committee has Jason Few ’00, Greg Genest ’06, Jon Clay ’04, Kevan Donovan ’08, Jason Howse ’07, (Front row, l to r) Garrett Chambers ’03, Jon Nicholas ’07, Ryan Willey ’00, George Sylvester ’00, Eric St. Onge ’99, Ben Warnick ’07, Coach been put together for creating a Jim Broughton and Nate Duncklee ’07.

76 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Cartier Wiley. Jennie Mitchell she had her 2nd child, a boy Buckler welcomed her 3rd child named Hunter, in March. Her in Sept., a boy named Reed other son, P.J., has been the best Hayden Buckler. Reed’s big big brother. Tracy was able to get brother, Ryan, is 3 and his other together with Sara LeRoy last brother, Nicholas, is 2. Jennie summer, which she said was fun. writes that it is so much fun Joshua Bailey graduated from PT having 3 boys. Congrats, Jennie! school with his doctorate in May Beth Freeman writes that in and passed his boards in July. Aug. she bought a house in Josh had been working in the Ashuelot, NH. She has a new outpatient facility at Southern position at work as a trainer, ME Medical Center since May, which she loves. Beth visited but was changing jobs in Oct. to Jennie Mitchell Buckler in Aug. Saco Bay Orthopedic and Sports for a long weekend. She also saw Physical Therapy, in Saco, ME. Jen James Ensign and her new He writes that he is excited about baby earlier in the summer. Kim the move, more room for future Kogut Cote was married in June learning and lots of potential. to Adam Cote, who is a longtime Josh also recently was engaged friend of hers and of the family. to a girl named Lisa from Kim and Adam currently live in Millinocket, ME, and they will Laconia, NH. In Sept. they honey- be having an Aug. 2008 wedding mooned in the Poconos in PA in Portland, ME. Congrats, Josh! Jennie Cocchiaro LaBranche ’01 poses with her daughter, Lily, and her hus- and were making an offer on a Adam Catalano e-mailed, “I’m band, Ryan, who recently completed an 18-month tour of duty in Iraq. house in Belmont, NH. Kim was writing from my first night of a promoted to loan officer at the family vacation to Marrakech, manufacturer, and he has a cou- Tara Schirm Campanella and NH Community Loan Fund in Morocco. My wife and 7-month- ple featured in the winter 07–08 her husband, Jon, welcomed a July. Shane Hoover writes that old little girl, Eleonora, are here catalog. He says that he still new addition on Sept. 30. She his son, Simon, is now 3 years with me as we explore the desert watches the Patriots and cheers writes, “Sofia Grace came into old and his daughter, Sadie, is and Moroccan culture.” David them on from way out in CO. the world rather quickly at 7 lbs, just 4 months old. In Sept. Shane Bourassa still lives in CO and 6 oz and 19 in, joining mommy, and his wife, Sarah, attended the works in student life at Rocky daddy, and big sister Gianna. We wedding of Frank “Rizzo” Abel Mountain College of Art in are tired but enjoy having anoth- ’97 to his longtime sweetheart, Denver. Several of his photos 2000 er little girl to spoil with love.” Jeni. Shane was honored to be a will be published in the “Ski the Jennifer Prudden part of the wedding party and 14ers” coffee table book due out 19 Henchman Street, got to see numerous alumni. In around Christmas. The book Apartment 3 attendance to celebrate were documents professional skier Boston, MA 02113 2001 Chad O’Neill, Nick Burchard, Chris Davenport’s quest to ski all (978) 852-2601 Kristy Meisner Lahn Penna, Kyle Battis, Seth of the 14,000 ft. peaks in CO in e-mail: [email protected] 211 Randall Road Number 76 Hurley ’00, Rob Kasprzak ’98, one year. Here’s a link to the Lewiston, ME 04240 Tara Schirm Campanella Eric Kreis, Jess Warner ’00 and project: www.skithe14ers.com/ (207) 576-0181 15 Lattu Court Jamie Gilbert ’98. He writes, the-project.php. Dave has also e-mail: Middletown, RI 02842 “It was a great time, a beautiful had some photos published for [email protected] e-mail: wedding, and a great setting on Black Diamond, an outdoor gear [email protected] Another fall has come and gone the water in Waldoboro, ME.” so quickly! It is amazing to think Shane is still employed at Digital Kelly Sargent-Feciuch writes 10 years ago we entered CSC as Credit Union underwriting home that she was married in May first-year students. How fast time equity loans. He will be studying 2006 to Mike Feciuch ’01. They flies! Things in ME have been to become a financial advisor in recently bought their first house great. I, Kristy Meisner, have the near future. Chad O’Neill in Londonderry, NH. Kelly says been very busy planning my and his wife bought a home in they see Greg Hooven ’99 and June 7, 2008, wedding, as well as North Adams, MA, in the spring John Durocher ’98 and their picking up some new job respon- and they love being homeown- wives, as well as John Gosselin sibilities. I had the pleasure of ers. Chad is in his 2nd year of ’99 and Liz Cronin Gosselin ’97. counseling at McCann Tech High and is still the director of a camp for adolescents with disabilities during the summer. He writes We’ve got all kinds of Colby-Sawyer that his photography has become gear in our Alumni more of a passion than a hobby. You can check out some of Chad’s Marketplace. photography at fanartreview.com; his screen name is ChadO. He Visit at gets to see his CSC friends at Heather Thomson ’01 married Bob http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/ annual events and weddings. Arrighi on Sept. 22, 2007, at Lake Tracy Rowse Crowell writes that Pearl Luciano’s in Wrentham, Mass. alumni-friends/gear

WINTER 2008 77 Kim Morrison Miller ’01 with her son, Peyton, and Amanda Rucci ’01 at the wedding of Hillary Andrus ’01.

mer with Mike’s 30th birthday. A backyard beirut BBQ! I still teach K-1 at Sparhawk School in Amesbury, MA. Hope all is well with everyone!” Heather Thomson married Bob Arrighi on Sept. 22, 2007, at Lake Pearl Luciano's in Wrentham, MA. Bob is a probation officer at Brockton District Court. They met while Attending a summer BBQ at the Rochefords’ new home in North Billerica, Mass., were (back row l to r): Marisa volunteering at an evening recre- Tescione Fagan ’01, Rob Fagan ’01, Noah Smith, Erik Rocheford ’01, Katie Lynch Rocheford ’02, April Smith, Jen Savio ational program geared towards Smith ’01, Woody Smith ’01, (front row, l to r) Mike Spinney ’00, Connor Spinney and Kristin Giannino Spinney ’01. keeping teens off the streets and engaged in structured activities. spending Columbus Day weekend little things that they accomplish fun. I was in 3 weddings, one He has a 12-year-old son, in the Adirondacks celebrating on a daily basis. Amanda Rucci being Marisa Tescione Fagan Brendan, who is just an amazing the nuptials of Melissa Brown lives in Manchester and works as and Rob Fagan’s. Marisa looked stepson. Heather still works at and Adam Kane. It was an amaz- a title 1 instructor in an elemen- BEAUTIFUL. It was a blast! I the Plymouth County District ing day! Missy was such a beauti- tary school with 3–5 graders. Last don’t think anyone left the Attorney’s Office as the director ful bride. My fiancé, Jason, and I summer she welcomed a German dance floor all night. It was great of program services. Her job carpooled with Jennifer Pesare shepherd/mix puppy into her to see many CSC people there. entails writing for federal, state and her boyfriend, which made home. She also had fun at Hillary We enjoyed a BBQ at Katie and local grant opportunities and the drive so much more exciting. Andrus’ wedding in July, which Lynch Rocheford ’02 and Eric then working with partners to Other alumni in attendance were was a lobster bake on an island in Rocheford’s new house. It was implement effective programs Nikki Fowler Martin ’02 and the ME. Kimberly Morrison Miller great to visit with Jenn Savio addressing community needs. recently engaged Randi Everett was there, too, and said that she Smith and Woody Smith as Sara Hammond is officially an ’02. It was a great mini-reunion had a blast. There were other well. Their son, Noah, and our attorney, working for a firm in weekend in the Adirondack CSC alums in attendance as son, Connor, had fun playing Salem, MA. She was recently Mountains! Congratulations well, including Julie McFarland with ‘Uncle Rob.’ Connor had engaged and is planning a again to Missy and Adam Kane! Casey, Jaime Babine Wetmore a blast on his first trip to Walt wedding for Nov. 8, 2008. Jennifer Pesare obtained her and Megan Smith. Kim writes, Disney World. We spent many Congratulations, Sara! Noble master’s in elementary ed and “Jay, Peyton and I are still living days at the beach, park, vacation- Chipley Farrow writes, “We’re special ed. She’s been hired by a in Raleigh, NC. Everything is ing in ME, and a cruise to the doing well, my son is now one rural school district in Northern good. Peyton turned 1 on Aug. Caribbean. We ended the sum- year old and walking and talking RI as a self-contained special ed 2.” While Kim was visiting on teacher with students from grades the east coast she ran into 2–5. Jen’s students are wonderful Jennifer Caron-Small. Jennifer and have been teaching her to writes that things up in ME are slow down and appreciate the going well. Michelle Opuszynski Schwenger writes, “My husband, Chris, and I love every second of being parents. Our daughter, Olivia, turned one on Aug. 2. We have so much fun with her. We have been very busy with great playdates with Katie Moynahan Burke ’02 and her son, Colin; Kasia Fadrowski and her son, Matthew; and Julie Tyrrell Olsen and her son, Gavin. We also saw Amanda Rucci and her boy- Jen Panther ’02 and Katie Berger friend, Sean, not too long ago.” Missy Brown Kane ’01 married Adam Kane on Oct. 6, 2007, in Inlet, N.Y. ’03 enjoyed themselves recently at a Kristin Spinney writes, “The Alumni in attendance were (l to r) Randi Everett ’02, Kristy Meisner ’01, friend’s birthday party. summer was busy, but a lot of Missy Brown Kane ’01, Nikki Fowler Martin ’02 and Jen Pesare ’01.

78 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE opportunity to be a stay-at-home mom, while teaching the best student, her own child. Danica Letarte Medeiros writes, “My husband, Mark, and I had a baby girl in Winchester, MA, on July 13. Her name is Natalie Francesca and she weighed in at 7 lbs 14 oz. Our summer has been fun taking care of her. I’ve gotten to visit with Susanne Day Teachout and Lisa McNamara on a few occasions this summer. We’re still living in Arlington, MA, and looking forward to our baby growing.” Travis Dunbar and his wife, Carrie, and son, Ethan, are living in their new home in Lisbon, ME. He works at Westside Neurorehabilitation Services as a rehabilitation technician with folks with brain injuries. Travis writes, “I am also racing on the NASCAR Super Cup Series and I finished 4th in the National point standings this year. It was In May 2007 alumni gathered in Keene, N.H., to celebrate the marriage of Nikki Fowler Martin ’02 and Ben Martin. my 2nd season on the tour. I got (Back row, l to r) Bob Behn ’02, Erik Rocheford ’01, Matt Ferguson ’03, Brendan Carney ’02, Jenny Buck ’02, Erica my first career win at the Hudson Reeder ’04, Ben Reeder ’99, Keith Perkins ’99. (Middle row, l to r) Katie Lynch Rocheford ’02, Kate Rocheford ’04, Speedway in Hudson, NH, and Heather Billings ’02, Stephanie Vickers ’02, Lucia Savage-Reeder ’02, Tracey Guarda Perkins ’01. (Front row, l to r) will be heading to LEE USA Nikki Fowler Martin ’02, Missy Brown Kane ’01, Karen Kotopoulis ’02, Randi Everett ’02 and Erin Slavin Tate ’02. Speedway at the end of Oct. for the SUPER CUP Nationals. I drive like crazy. I’m teaching art classes and I am now the director of purchased a home in Goffstown car #44, a Toyota Camry that is at the YMCA at night and we’re admissions counseling. I love while her husband, Cpt. Ryan primarily sponsored by Emerson planning our first family vacation being on campus everyday. I LaBranche, completes his 18- Toyota and Goodwill Industries for Oct. to S. Padre Island, TX, will be finishing my master’s in month tour in Iraq. An intelli- of Northern New England. I also which should be fun.” Tracey organizational leadership from gence officer embedded with the have a ton of secondary spon- Guarda Perkins and Keith Southern NH in May of 2008. If Iraq National Police in Baghdad, sors. I have used the race season Perkins ’99 are still in Goshen, any classmates are ever in New he returns home from the Middle to spread awareness of autism as NH, with their 2 dogs and 10 London, swing by Colgate Hall East this holiday season. Then I have the Autism Puzzle Pieces acres. Tracey is doing her very for a visit!” Jennie Cocchiaro the LaBranche family is off to all over the cars. I also gave away best to recruit many high school LaBranche and daughter Lily, Augusta, GA, their next stop on a trophy to a child at each race students to come to CSC! Tracey now 21/2, are enjoying the their Army adventure. Plans are event. If people have a business shares, “I did get a promotion seasons back here in NH. They to extend their family with more or are just looking for a tax babies, while her husband plans deduction, we are always looking to take command of a military for sponsors who want to adver- intelligence company at Ft. tise and market themselves and/ Gordon. Jennie really enjoys the or their businesses. I can always

Kimberly Morrison Miller ’01 and her family during a visit to Dresden, Courtney Norris Francisco ’02 and her husband, Jim, welcomed their son, Germany. Parker, into the world on May 21, 2007.

WINTER 2008 79 Bob Behn ’02 married Kristin Raccio Behn on Aug. 3, 2007, in CT. be contacted at (207) 577-2567 and my e-mail is lightningmiler @hotmail.com.” Grace Gravelle says that she loves her life in Lucia Savage-Reeder ’02 married Ben Reeder ’99 on Sept. 16, 2007, in Lee, N.H. Representing Colby-Sawyer were (l Cincinnati, OH. She frequently to r) Jen Cawley ’02, Aidan Danaher ’02, Adriana Goff ’02, Katie Reeder ’02, Alexi Bobolia ’00, Lucia Savage-Reeder visits Cara Walmsley Robitaille ’02, Ben Reeder ’99, Erica Reeder ’04, Mike Bernard ’99, Nikki Fowler Martin ’02, Thom Neff ’01, Debbie Panza ’00 and her baby, Logan, who Brenner ’02 and Kevin Kerner ’01. was born on Jan. 8, 2006. In July Foundation’s 50th anniversary. that taking a CSC alumni picture absolutely romantic and wonder- Grace drove home to NH to pick I am so happy to hear all the slipped our minds. We were so fully relaxing. Lucia also shared up the rest of her belongings exciting news of engagements, disappointed when we realized that she has accepted a new posi- from her parents’ house. She weddings, babies and new pets! days later. There was such a great tion as a substance abuse coun- writes, “I’m finally settling down Please remember you can e-mail group of Colby-Sawyer alums selor for adolescents at the Child after 3 years of traveling and me anytime with news you’d like there to help us celebrate.” Katie and Family Services of NH. exploring! My car was totaled in to share with our class. Again, and Erik spent their honeymoon Congratulations, Lucia and Ben! an accident in Aug., but nobody please make sure to check out The in Aruba and returned to settle Keeping with the wedding was hurt, and I am now the Loop at www.colby-sawyer.edu/ into their new home as husband theme, Bob Behn married Kristin proud owner of a newer, wonder- alumni-friends; it’s a great way to and wife. Congrats, you two! It Raccio on Aug. 3, 2007, in CT ful Honda Civic!” Grace had lots stay in touch. I hope everyone definitely was a wonderful day. surrounded by numerous Colby- of fun trips planned for last fall, has a happy and healthy start to It’s great to be able to share news Sawyer alums. The couple then including 2 to NH, for Heather the winter. Take care! of two CSC alums tying the knot. honeymooned in Jamaica. Best Thomson’s Sept. wedding, and Speaking of which, Lucia wishes, Bob and Kristin! Hilary her 10-year high school reunion Savage-Reeder married Ben Cogen Ryan was married on in Nov. She also planned to go Reeder ’99 on Sept. 16, 2007, at Aug. 25, 2007, to Chris Ryan at camping in Oct. with her 2002 Flag Hill Winery in Lee, NH. Not the Publick House in Sturbridge, boyfriend, Bob, in Mammoth only were there many alums in MA. Hilary says that the day Cave, KY, for the Cave Research Nikki Fowler Martin 44 Van Buren Street attendance, but they also graced was amazing and several Colby- Albany, NY 12204 the couple with their many tal- Sawyer alums and staff were in (315) 854-0641 ents. Kevin Kerner ’01 played attendance. “Everyone had a e-mail: guitar while Thom Neff ’01 blast and danced the night away [email protected] videotaped the ceremony. Katie just like old times!” The newly- Reeder and Erica Reeder ’04 weds honeymooned in San Cheryl Lecesse sang and Addie Goff helped Diego. Congrats, Hilary! Hil con- 117 Central Street, Apartment 6D design a beautiful guestbook. tinues to work as an admissions Acton, MA 01720 The newlyweds went on a “mini- counselor at Colby-Sawyer and (508) 397-2267 moon” to Jackson, NH, for a few is busy traveling around New e-mail: days, which Lucia reports was England recruiting students. [email protected] The past 5 years have seemed to Want to find out if other Colby-Sawyer alumni fly right by! As always it was interesting and exciting to get live in your area? Get in The Loop! updates from people. Katie Lynch Rocheford and Erik Rocheford ’01 were married on June 2, 2007. Katie writes that “it was a perfect day! We were surrounded by all our family and friends and had an amazing Katie Lynch Rocheford ’02 and Erik time! In fact we were so caught www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni-friends Rocheford ’01 were married on June up in all the excitement and fun 2, 2007.

80 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE If anyone is interested in volun- teering with Admissions, please e-mail her at hcogen@colby- sawyer.edu. Brendan Carney asked Jenny Buck to marry him in April through a very creative scavenger hunt that involved many friends and family. They are planning a Sept. 2008 wed- ding. Jenny recently started a new job as a senior graphic designer at a marketing firm in Waltham, MA. Brendan is finish- ing up his final year studying acupuncture and Chinese herbs, as well as Tai Chi, Kung Fu and medicinal Qi Gong therapy. Cogen/Ryan Wedding Hilary Cogen Ryan ’02 married Chris Ryan on Aug. 25, 2007. In attendance from Colby- Sawyer were Matt Sweeney’s date Alyson Theeman, Debbie Panza Brenner ’02, Jessie Price ’04, Courtney Wright Stephanie Vickers married her DeTore ’02, Tony DeTore ’00, the groom—Chris Ryan, Hilary Cogen Ryan ’02, Tracey Guarda Perkins ’01, Keith boyfriend, Jack Heddon, on Oct. Perkins ’99, Elizabeth Steward Bryer ’02, Chris Bryer ’01, Professor Don Coonley, Adam Montcalm ’02, Derek Flock 20, 2007, at Alyson’s Apple ’02, (2nd row) Jacob Jarvela ’02 and his date Elizabeth Chasalow, Ben Reeder ’99, Lucia Savage-Reeder ’02, Matt Orchard in Walpole, NH. The Danahy ’04, Matt Sweeney ’02, Ryan Smith ’00 and Dave Houghton ’04. couple headed to Quebec for a short honeymoon, and then Stef and in April their market/deli/ Elizabeth, spent the summer Valley Community College in joined her husband in Bangor, liquor store re-opened in a new traveling to Sweden, Finland, Troy, NY, but have started a new ME, where her company has location and is doing very well. Estonia and Denmark. Jen position as an academic advisor approved her to work from Kelsey Barberi LaPerle shares Panther shares that she and in the School of Business. I’m home. An office with a lakefront that “in July I started my 6th Katie Berger ’03 are once again very excited about this new view doesn’t sound too bad to year with Head Start as a class- roommates, but this time in career path! As always, thank you me! Casey Mitchell Mescher room teacher. I did not make it Austin, TX! The 2 visited NH to those of you who shared your married Joe Mescher on Sept. 22, to Reunion this year as we had over the summer and even updates and pictures. I encourage 2007, in VT. Randi Everett such a busy summer, but I hope stopped by Colby-Sawyer to walk everyone to share your exciting became engaged to her boy- everyone had a good time.” around. Jen says, “The 3rd floor news with your classmates! friend, Tim Korona, on Sept. 29, Kelsey’s daughter, Alicen, is now of Colgate has not changed at all. 2007. They are currently building 21/2 and continues to amaze her In fact, that was my first time on a log home in Sharon Springs, parents everyday. Kirsty McCue campus since graduating—it was NY, and will start making wed- and her boyfriend bought a a trip!” Matt Sweeney lives in 2003 ding plans soon. Congrats, house in Wolfeboro, NH, which Cambridge, MA, with his girl- Lisa Noyes Randi! Kerri Tuttle writes that they are busily remodeling and friend, Aly, and works at the 124 Great Bay Woods she has been busy working on redecorating. She writes that she Community Health Center. He Newmarket, NH 03857 her master’s degree in special ed has started a new job as the head is finishing up his last year of (603) 926-7046 at Lesley University. Her boy- athletic trainer at Brewster the MSW program at Simmons. e-mail: [email protected] friend of 7 years, Jeff, recently Academy and so far it’s great. Erin Slavin Tate is living in Hello, everyone! Sounds like the proposed and they are planning Heather Billings still lives and Chelmsford, MA, with her class of 2003 had a very eventful an Aug. 2008 wedding. Kerri also works in Boston where she is husband, where they are busy summer, so let’s get right to it. shares they have recently fin- always on the go, whether it be working on their house. She July 7, 2007, was a very lucky ished remodeling their house in going to Red Sox games or even continues to work for Verizon as day for me as I was married to Attleboro, MA. Enjoy the wed- going on a cruise to Bermuda a business development manager. Adam Hardenbrook in Hampton, ding planning, Kerri! Neill with her family over the summer. As for myself, Nicole Fowler NH. Natasha Deane, Kayde Ewing-Wegmann is still the She recently passed her social Martin, after our wedding in Feb. Czupryna and Jenny Woodbury lead graphic designer at the Print work exam and is now a licensed my husband, Ben, and I threw a ’04 were part of my bridal party. Shop in Portland, ME, and had social worker. Congrats, Heather! party in May to celebrate with Also in attendance were a big art show in Oct. He was Beth Burnham ’03 has returned friends and family. We had a very Elizabeth Park Cote, Kali engaged in Sept. and enjoys his from her stint in the Peace Corps busy summer with many wed- Coleman ’09 and Jayson Thyng new role as a stepfather to a very and was accepted into a master’s dings and get-togethers with ’99. Everyone had a wonderful sweet 3-year-old boy. Besides of education program in Boston. friends. I still work at Hudson many weddings and engage- She spent the summer in Los ments, the class of 2002 has also Angeles and San Francisco and brought some new additions into now calls Boston home, where the world. Courtney Norris she is also working at Starbucks. Colby-Sawyer may be coming Francisco and her husband, Jim, Jacob Jarvela has been very busy to an area near you! welcomed their son, Parker as well! He graduated in May Gerald Francisco, into the world from The Center for Cartoon on May 21, 2007. Best wishes to Studies in White River Junction, Check out www.colby-sawyer.edu/ your new family, Courtney! VT, with an MFA and is now alumni-friends/events to see a Courtney and Jim have also been applying for employment oppor- complete list of upcoming busy since they opened their tunities in the graphic design alumni events. own real estate business in Feb. field. Jacob and his girlfriend,

WINTER 2008 81 Lisa Noyes ’03 and her husband, Adam, at their wedding reception on July 7, 2007.

Anne DeCosta Bousquet ’03 and her 11/2-year-old son, Caleb Thomas. Helping Sam Fucile ’03 and his wife, Harolyn, celebrate their wedding this past summer were (back row, l to r) Garrett Chambers ’03, Matt Cartmill ’03, Jed Norris ’03, Justin Pill ’03 (center, l to r) Erika Sagendorf Norris ’02, with the reception at Sugarloaf. Ashley Lamontagne, Eric Chandler ’03, Rob Ryder ’03, Sam Fucile ’03, Chris Reed, Mike Cornell (front, l to r) brides- Meredith Winnicki, Lara maid Rebecca Jessel, Harolyn Swartz Fucile’04 and Andrea Martin ’04. Winnicki and the bride’s sister-in-law, Kristin Danforth time and Adam and I have great quite often. Elizabeth loves her Pignone had a beautiful wedding Surowiec ’02, were bridesmaids. memories of the day! On Sept. 29, job teaching kindergarten at St. on June 24, 2007. She and her After the wedding, Kristen and 2007, we attended the wedding Mary’s School in Alexandria. husband spent a relaxing and Riley moved to Aspen, CO. of Elizabeth Park to Douglas Jesse Wilfert writes, “I am adventurous week in Mexico and Kristen left her kindergarten job Cote ’06. It was a perfect autumn officially off the Vineyard and then explored the Bahamas later in ME and is now working at the day with many Colby-Sawyer residing in Boston. I work full in the summer. She is now set- Aspen Early Learning Center. She alums in attendance, including time at Boston Sports Clubs in tling into married life and looks hiked a lot this fall and looks Shelby Curran as one of West Newton, MA, as a personal forward to various travel plans forward to a great ski season. She Elizabeth’s attendants. The newly- trainer. I have developed a liking for 2008. Kristen Surowiec also will be coaching the little weds live in Alexandria, VA, and for tennis and hope to compete Tippet married Riley Tippet on kids ski program on the week- travel into Washington, DC, in a triathlon this year.” Karissa Aug. 18, 2007, in Kingfield, ME, ends. The summer months will be spent back home in ME. Sam Fucile was married on Aug. 11, 2007, at the Attitash Grand Summit Resort and Hotel, the same place he asked his wife to marry him. Sam writes, “We were very lucky to be able to share this day with many family and friends, but especially those who were also from CSC.” Sam and his wife, Harolyn, had a spectac- ular time and have a wonderful memory to look back on forever! Tim Ingraham attended the wedding of Scott Bailey and Sarah Welch, which he says was phenomenal! He met up with Micah Lasher, Chris Russell ’04, Rob Ryder and Ben Rozak to On Sept. 8, 2007, Ellen Lampman Reed ’03 married Scott Reed at The celebrate the day. Tim says that Grand Isle Lake House in Vt. Pictured (l to r) are Jamie Winton, Nicole Micah and Chris had a blast Kristin Surowiec Tippet ’03 and her LeBlanc ’04, Stephanie Moran, Kevin Moran ’04, Ellen Lampman Reed ’03, cutting the rug with Scott’s husband, Riley, enjoyed a beautiful Meagen Pollard ’05, Adam Robitaille, Anne DeCosta Bousquet ’03 and grandmother all night! He also wedding day on Aug. 18, 2007. Michelle Greim ’03. attended a function at the Jesser

82 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE student-athletes to coach! Ana Aponovich has some very excit- ing news. She was engaged to Christopher Pickford on Feb. 14, 2007, and is getting married on June 21, 2008, in Portsmouth, NH. Renee Thayer, Beth Harvey and Lib Perry will be brides- maids. Ana works as a graphic designer for an engineering com- pany in Bedford, NH. She has also kept up with her watercolor painting since college and recent- ly had a very successful art show in Milford, NH, at the Milford Antique Co-op. Also, Ana’s fami- Beth Burnham ’03 and Julie Bragg ’02 recently enjoyed a dinner out Jenny Tooley ’03, Ali Quinton ’04, Tamsen Bolte ’04 and Cecily Danver ’04 ly was chosen as the “It” family together. celebrate with Jolene Rackliff Damon ’03 at her Oct. 12, 2007, wedding at for NH Magazine’s It List of 2007; the article is in the Nov. 2007 the Granite Rose in Hampstead, NH. as a professional mortgage con- issue. We look forward to hearing sultant. He also buys and reno- compound, where he met up Kirchdorfer lives in Miami and is about Ana’s big day in a future vates houses. Stacey Fraser has with Susanna Jesser ’02, Greg working on her second master’s issue! Ann DeCosta Bousquet moved to Portsmouth, about 5 McGown ’04, Topher Plimpton at the U. of Miami. Jaz is working still works part time for minutes from downtown. She ’05, Ethan Nosel ’04, Alex as a staff therapist, which she Community Newspaper says that she really enjoys being Darrah ’04, Pearson Neal ’07, says is challenging but really Company in Marshfield, MA, there and loves the atmosphere. Corey Felton, Matt Hagerty interesting! Liz Joseph continues doing layout/pagination. She is Stacey had help from Erin ’02, Hillary Cross ’02, Ashley to work as a nurse at Dartmouth also a mom to 11/2-year-old Caleb Sawler Massa, which she said Bramwell ’02 and Jess Wilfert. Hitchcock in labor and delivery. Thomas Bousquet, and the family was very lovely of her to do. Tim is still with Fischer Skis, She recently moved from will soon be moving! Well, that Stacey is enjoying her first year working in the race department. Sunapee, where she was living is all. This has been one of the of graduate school at UNH. She He spent Nov. in CO working with Kelli Converse ’04, to most exciting class notes I have is learning a lot about museums and skiing. Rob Ryder attended Wilder, VT, buying a house with written. Keep the news coming and how to run them in her many weddings this summer and her boyfriend. They are living everyone, and I hope to see you program. Currently she works at saw many CSC alumni. He still happily with their two cats and a all in the spring for our 5th year Strawbery Banke and is learning lives in Dover, NH, and works at dog. Kerstin Swenson says that Reunion. a lot from the “real world” expe- a recruiting firm in Stratham. nothing super is happening. She rience she is receiving. Stacey Rob hangs out with many alumni still lives in Ketchum, ID, and planned to spend some time in in the Dover area including teaches preschool. She has gone DC and NYC over winter break Ethan Betts, Karen Lewis ’04, back to school online through 2004 and also hopes to travel to FL Ben Stehle ’05, Matt Cartmill ’03 Western Governor’s U. for a mas- Eric Emery with Erin to visit Becca Groene and Sam Fucile. Jenn Ljungvall ter’s in teaching and hopes to be 6354 South Chase Street and Lisa Maggio. Lauren is working her way through grad completed within a year. Adam Littleton, CO 80123 Kovach still lives in Concord, school to get her master’s in clin- Schlesinger and Brandy Vose (303) 936-6409 ical psychology. She is going to have been together for just over a e-mail: [email protected] school part time and working year now and are living in Mary Lougee Lambert full time as a family intervention Walpole, MA. They are in the Post Office Box 301 specialist, providing support, process of house searching since Elkins, NH 03233 education and coordinating ser- selling Brandy’s condo in Sept. (603) 748-0920 vices for children and families in They hope to find something in e-mail: need. Jenn has one more year of southern NH. Brandy works for a [email protected] school left. Good luck! Jazarae law firm in Burlington, MA, and is currently about half way Hello, everyone! I hope this finds through law school. Adam still everyone doing well. There is lots works for Progressive Insurance of great news for this issue! as a commercial claims adjuster. Krista Lind-Tracey and her He makes sure that truck drivers fiancé were married on Nov. 3, get their insurance needs! 2007, and recently bought a Meredith Buzzi writes that she house. Eric Emery moved into has no babies or weddings to a house with his wife, Andrea report, but a new job in an Chula Emery ’02, in Littleton, entirely different state. She has CO. Eric says that he has been moved to OH to be the head promoted to senior account exec- women’s lacrosse coach at utive with Enterprise and Andrea Kenyon College. She got the job is working for a non-profit called in July and moved out there Cerebral Palsy of Denver in their Danielle Thibeault Williamson ’04 Ana Aponovich ’03 and her fiancé, shortly after. She says that it is child care program. Brian Larson married Nick Williamson on June Chris, plan to be wed this June. a great gig with some great lives in Worcester, MA, and works 16, 2007, in Newport, R.I.

WINTER 2008 83 Mary Lougee Lambert ’04 and her In August a group of alumni went camping at Lake Francis. Shown “roughing it” are (l to r) Jess Murray ’04, Jon husband, Nate, welcomed their son, DeYoung ’04, Chip Fisher ’05, Jen Dube Fisher ’05, Michael Sullivan ’04, Kim O’Connell ’04, Jon Evans ’04 and Giacobbi, on July 16, 2007. Maggie Warner ’04.

NH, where she has worked for in Sturbridge, MA. She says that new job as a financial analyst for DeYoung, Chip Fisher ’05 and the Concord Hospital for 3 years. she will soon be moving down Vermont Yankee. She recently Jen Dube-Fisher ’05. Maggie says Lauren started grad school at south to be with her boyfriend, moved into a house in Guilford, she is back at Sanford High for UNH to get her master’s in public David; they are looking to buy VT, which she and her husband her 3rd year teaching photogra- health. She says she has been to their own home. When time have been building for the past phy and studio art. She also a lot of CSC weddings recently, allows Courtney meets up with year. In July 2007, Liz Graham advises the environmental club where she was able to catch up Natasha Deane-O’Donnell ’03 was married to Christian and in the spring she will be the with a lot of CSC alumni. Caron and Kayde Czupryna ’03. Mary Anderson in Bristol, VT. She new JV girls lacrosse coach. Barber bought a house in Ann Prescott had a baby girl works at Norwich U. and in Dec. Maggie also went white water Portland, ME, with long-time named Kendall on May 28, 2007. began a master’s program in jus- rafting on the last 8000 release boyfriend Justin Hall ’03. Caron Mary moved to Gilford over the tice administration. Erica Reeder of the Kennebec in Moxie Gore. is in a full-time MSW program at summer and began teaching says that she is living in MA with She says it was a blast and she UNE. James Blundon says that again in Sept. Over the summer her fiancé and that she just wel- can’t wait to do it again. Melissa everything is pretty much the she spent a lot of time with comed Lucia Savage ’02 to the Tobin works as a marketing pro- same in his life and he is expect- Melissa Tobin, Amy Soubosky, family as her brother’s wife. This ject manager for Reflex Lighting ing to graduate in May of ’08 Anne Coulter ’06 and Karen past spring, Erica flew to CO to Group in Boston. She is also in with a B.S. in criminal justice. Tryon ’05. Charlie Bazdanes has visit Eric Emery and Andrea the process of getting her mas- Nina Lavigne-Shedd was mar- worked at Odyssey Systems as a Chula Emery, which she says ter’s at Harvard. Melissa says that ried on Sept. 22, 2007, to Brian business development research was very fun. Erica is busily plan- she was busy as a bridesmaid at Shedd, with many CSC alumni analyst for 3 years. He says that ning her own wedding and con- the wedding of Lauren Barry, in attendance. Nina says that he will complete his master’s tinues to work in the social work and that recently she had a night they are hoping to relocate to degree in marketing at Rivier field. Maggie Warner writes that out in Boston with Lauren VT, where they both grew up. College in May and he is she spent the summer attending Barry-Annarelli, Sarah Crete, Courtney Stevens has completed enrolled at Southern NHU for a weddings and soaking up the sun Fawn Sack, Amy Soubosky, her first year of a grad program Ph.D. in international business. on the beach in Wells, ME. She Karen Lewis, Kendra Seavey, in international studies at U. of Charlie was also recently went to Lake Francis in Aug., Nicole Leblanc and Amanda WY. She is currently writing her engaged to Alyssa Levesque. where she saw fellow alumni Jon Ashe. Julie Murray wrote in to thesis on fair trade. Courtney Beth McElwee was married on Evans, Kim O’Connell, Mike say that she and her boyfriend, works part time at a historic inn Sept. 29, 2007. She also has a Sullivan, Jess Murray, Jon Dimitri Dimakis ’03, recently

Posing at the wedding of Jenn Allen Malon ’04 are (l to r) Kelly Bateman This past spring, Erica Reeder ’04 (pictured at right) went to Colorado to visit ’05, Tina Burnell ’04, Amy Tarte ’06, Jenn Allen Malon ’04, Jess Murray ’04, Eric Emery ’04 and Andrea Chula Emery ’02. Kim O’Connell ’04, Michael Sullivan ’04 and Jenny Blodgett ’04.

84 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Alumni Soccer Game A large and enthusiastic group of former soccer players made the trip to campus on Oct. 6 for the annual alumni soccer game. Participants included (back row, l to r) Adam Perron ’06, Kate Solazzo ’07, Erin Stepro ’07, Pearson Neal ’07, Doug Slater ’07, Ryan St. Lawrence ’07, Dimitri Tsihlis ’01, Liz Cronin Gosselin ’97, Kim-Laura Boyle ’98, Marisa Tescione Fagan ’01, Leisa Jesser ’01, Susanna Jesser ’02, Heather Barber ’99, Jolene Thompson Stratton ’97, Brett Soucy ’05, Coach Peter Steese , Greg Ladd ’06, (front row, l to r) Assistant Coach Ray Juneau, Matt Wheel ’03, Greg McGown ’04, Dimitri Dimakas ’03, Keven Kenney ’98, Ryan Willis ’04, Matt Solazzo ’04, John Perkins ’05, Eric Capodiece ’06, Assistant Coach Travis Dezotell ’99 and (lying down) Dave Fitzpatrick ’06. got engaged and are planning sales manager job for a LED also got to go to the wedding of Hitchcock Medical Center in their wedding for Oct. 2008. Erin message center company. He also Laura Fulmer Uden and David admissions as well as the emer- Sawler Massa spent the summer says that he travels all over the Uden ’03, where she saw Allison gency department. I love it and it in Mammoth, CA, with her hus- mid-Atlantic. Last year Ben got Heppler ’05, Justin Svirsky ’03 is tons of fun interacting with band, Eric, where they worked together in Baltimore for a Sox and Lisa Maggio. Stuart Lander patients and making sure every- for August Camp. They did a lot game with Joe Caforia, Neil lives in the New London area thing runs smoothly. Also, my of mountain biking and climbed Rawding, Eric Marshall, Justin and works in West Lebanon, run- husband and I had a little boy, Mt. Whitney, which is the tallest Jaundoo ’03 and Julian Frey ’05. ning a company with one other Giacobbi Gabriel Lambert, on in the lower 48 states, as well as Amanda Gaukstern says that she person. He is also developing his July 16, 2007. He is amazing and Half Dome in Yosemite. Erin says is currently living in Nashua with photography business. Stuart says I could not be more blessed to she is back to work as an art her boyfriend and 2 cats, Wallace he specializes in action sports but have him in my life! This fall I teacher. She also helped Stacey and Papoose. She is working in also shoots weddings, family had a Halloween party where I Fraser move to Portsmouth, Merrimack as the senior graphic photos and any and all jobs was fortunate enough to see where they frequently meet up. design manager for Stamp News people may need. He adds that many of my CSC friends. I am Other than that, Erin was just Magazines. They publish weekly life is going well. As for me, still enrolled in Granite State and waiting for the snow so she and monthly magazines for Mary Lougee Lambert, a lot am working towards my degree could go skiing. Ben Barr has stamp collectors. Amanda says has happened. I got a new job in in business management, though moved to VA, where he took a that she is in the process of start- Aug. working for Dartmouth- my time has become quite a bit ing her own Web design business, WebsitesByAmanda. Jessica Murray wrote in to say that the week she spent camping at Lake Francis with the same crew that Maggie mentioned was an absolute blast and she cannot wait to do it again next summer. Jess also attended Liz Graham Anderson’s wedding in July, as well as the wedding of Jenn Allen, where she saw Tina Burnell, Maggie Warner, Kim O’Connell, Mike Sullivan, Kelly Bateman ’05, Amy Tarte ’06 and Jenny Blodgett. Jess currently teaches 4th grade in Glastonbury, CT. She says she absolutely loves it and is glad to be putting her degree to use. Steph Hicks says Pictured at the wedding of Nina Lavigne Shedd ’04 are (back row, l to r) that by the time this is read, she Heidi Auclair ’05, Amanda Githens Brougham ’04, Lauren Kovach ’04, Krista Nina Lavigne Shedd ’04 married will be married. Her wedding was Lind ’04, Don Coonley, Nina Lavigne Shedd ’04, Sarah Crete ’04, (front row, Brian Shedd on Sept. 22, 2007. on Oct. 27, 2007. This fall she l to r) Jessica Price ’04 and Debbie Panza Brenner ’02.

WINTER 2008 85 Alumni Rugby Game 2007 (back row, l to r) Justin Holshuh ’06, Assistant Coach Jim Howell, David Bagley ’07, Josh Daneault, Ethan Wright ’06, Eric Keskula ’03, Rick Bowers ’10, Jason Feitelberg ’04, Liam Murphy, Jed Norris ’03, Cam Wiese ’10 (middle row, l to r) Devon Clougherty ’07, Chuck Mayer ’06, Jason Kelly ’07, Joe Page ’04, Tim Morin ’04, Pete Mailloux ’06, Head Coach Chris Reed, Erik Rocheford ’01, Adam Therrien ’04, Robert Ryder ’03, Eric Driver ’10, Nick Watson ’09, Malcolm Smith ’08, Michael Bacote ’11 (front row, l to r) Shawn Kithcart ’07, Megan Cardwell ’07, Jennifer Madigan ’07, Shannon Lange ’07, Cheryl Olivera ’05, Jeff Blaszka ’06 and Sam Fucile ’03

Meghan Gately and Tony Cortney Soderberg, a girl he met and their families live). Through Giroux are still out in Vail, living while attending grad school at the clinic they saw about 100 the dream. Tony really enjoys Springfield College. Congratu- people per day, handed out med- working at the Vail Golf Course lations, Trevor! He’s currently ications for things as simple as as an irrigation technologist. employed by the L.A. Dodgers the common cold, gave everyone Meghan is still at the Steadman- and worked as a strength coach a dose of bug juice to rid/prevent Hawkins Clinic working for a for the AA affiliate in Jacksonville, them from worms, handed out hip specialist. They live with FL, this past summer. He spent food and clothing, had an eye- Matt Athorn, who works at the fall completing his thesis and glass station, and even did games the Red Lion and enjoys the enjoying the off-season. Over the and activities with the kids. outdoor sports CO has to offer. summer Emma Sewell went on a Although everyone changed jobs Euginnia Manseau is also still weeklong mission trip to the everyday, she ended up sticking in Vail, working at the Ski and Dominican Republic. In that with the kids and leading the Snowboard Club Vail, and they week she helped set up a medical games. Every station had a trans- were all excited for the ski season clinic each day at a different lator except for hers, so she was to begin. Vanessa Mitchell is batey (where sugarcane workers forced to relearn her Spanish, attending veterinary school on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts at the Ross Univ. School of Veterinary Medicine. Chip Fisher Over the summer, Emma Sewell ’05 was married on Aug. 25, so Jen went on a weeklong mission trip to Dube is now Jen Fisher. Chip the Dominican Republic. says unfortunately now the hon- stretched! Thanks for all your eymoon and fanfare is over, so updates. I hope everyone is doing it’s back to work. Tucker is still well! doing well, too! Gwen O’Neil Beaudet and Chris Beaudet celebrated their first wedding anniversary in Oct. by spending 2005 a week in Aruba! Chris still works Monica Michaud at Southern NH Medical Center 89 Webster Street and is pursuing his accreditation Lewiston, ME 04240 as a certified diabetes nurse (207) 577-7372 educator at the Joslin Office in e-mail: Nashua. In addition, Chris was [email protected] promoted to the position of night clinical leader at the Cody O’Leary hospital (for his floor). As for 22 Irvington Road Gwen, she still works at the Brandi Ballard ’05 wed Michael Tainter on Sept. 1, 2007, in Phippsburg, Somerville, MA 02144 same hospital as Chris. Trevor Maine. Shown (l to r) are Laura Kubasek ’05, Michael Tainter, Brandi Ballard e-mail: [email protected] Dorian recently got engaged to ’05, Danielle Durfey ’05 and Kelly Crawford ’05.

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for us all to keep in touch. (If youngest sister, Sara, just started you haven’t yet, please go to her first year! She hopes everyone www.colby-sawyer.edu/alumni- is doing well. Since graduation, friends and sign up!) Danielle Krystal Heins has moved to Caisse is currently completing Boscawen, NH, and teaches 7th her executive MBA at Rivier in grade language arts and social Nashua, NH, and should be done studies at Merrimack Valley by the end of next summer. She has also become a licensed and certified veterinary technician, and currently is head technician Attending the alumni swim meet this past fall were (back row, l to r) Meaghan Smith ’05, Kara Bordeau ’06, Jess Harris ’04, Kristy Gerry ’05, and practice manager at Canobie Sarah Listewnik ’04, swim coach Rick Goerlitz, (center row, l to r) Cailee Lake Vet Hospital in Windham, Hawkins ’07, Heather O’Leary ’07, Signe Linville ’06, Breien Milton ’07 and NH. Beth Norris is in her 2nd (front row) Jeff Blaszka ’06. year at Thornton Central School in Thornton, NH, working as a which surprisingly came quick special education assistant, which and easy. Overall, Emma said it she absolutely loves. She was was the most amazing thing she 2006 recently accepted to the graduate had ever experienced. She fell in Tarren Bailey studies program at Plymouth love with the people, the culture 541 Main Street State U. and has started pursuing and the beauty and can’t wait to New London, NH 03257 her master’s degree in English go back next summer! As for me, (603) 526-3727 education for grades 5–12. She Cody O’Leary, I’m still living in e-mail: [email protected] expects to finish in the winter of Somerville, MA, working as an Hello, class of 2006! Thanks to all 2008. Beth tells me she and her event/conference planner, and of you who have sent me your family are very excited to have traveling a ton. I recently saw Becky Schaffer ’06 was married this updates for this magazine. It is started a family legacy here at Chris Burke, who is now living summer to Jack Gaudreau in great to hear what everyone has Colby-Sawyer now that her Montreal, Quebec. in Lynn and just got a new job as been up to. It has also been nice an accounting support analyst to see how many of you have for Deltek, Inc., so congratula- joined our new online commu- tions to him! nity, The Loop. It’s an easy way

Last year’s Superbowl was the perfect time for a mini-reunion. Enjoying the festivities were (back row, l to r) Matt Payne ’06, Chris Pugliese ’05, Lisa Rachel Allen Ensign ’06 married Peter Ensign on July 14, 2007. Shown are Cole ’06, Nikki Barletta ’05, Jonathan Emmons ’05, Kelly Grant ’08, Kate (cockpit, l to r) Becky Mello ’06, Mark Farber, Peter Hustis, Eric Ensign, (bow, Drapeau ’08, (front row, l to r) Shawn Fleisner ’06, Cody O’Leary ’05, Matt l to r) Sarah Allen, Jen James Ensign ’99, Rachel Allen Ensign ’06 and Peter Pallotta ’06 and Allie Locke ’06. Ensign.

WINTER 2008 87 Middle School. Alyssa LaBelle Bell has begun working at ME Center for Integrated Rehab (MCIR) as a rehab technician, working with clients with brain injuries. She says it’s a lot of fun and very rewarding. In Feb. she was married to Ryan Bell, so she had an easy change from LaBelle to Bell. Life for her these days is busy, but going well. Travis Soule began working as the graphic designer for Saint Joseph’s College in ME. Nicole Eaton lives in Fairfield, ME, and works in publishing. She spends as much time as possible with fel- low alumnae Allison Stacey, Beth Norris, Nikki Iapicca ’07 and Falon McGuire ’07. Ashley Lorance is back home with her family in Pembroke, MA, after time spent floating around the Caribbean. She is working at lululemon athletica, traveling as much as possible and hanging out with the original “Colby crew.” Matt Voss reports that he Alumni Tennis Match (Back row, l to r) Tamsen Bolte ’04, Matthew Larson ‘11, Matthew Pallotta ’06, Justin Tardif is currently employed as an ’08, Tarren Bailey ’06, Daniel Munsey ’07, Jennifer Wood ’05, Andrew Pillsbury ’07 and (front row) Trevor Davis ’08 emergency room technician at enjoyed some mixed doubles action in the 1st annual alumni tennis match in Oct. Exeter Hospital and a volunteer Rachel Allen got married to for a mini-reunion. While in 1-AA football team, which she firefighter/EMT at Kingston Peter Ensign on July 14, 2007. RI she spent time with Anne says is going great. After grad Fire Dept. He attends NHTI in Jen James Ensign ’99 and Rachel Coulter, Krista Woznakewicz school she hopes to return to Concord and is in the associate are now sisters-in-law (they ’07, Kathy Couture and the Northeast, or at least the east degree program in para medicine, married brothers!). Also in the Marthe Fidler. coast, and find work as an athletic and is due to graduate in May wedding party was fellow 2006 trainer. Christine Francis writes, 2009. He is also taking firefighter alumna, Rebecca Mello. Becky “I’m working for the Health Care level 2 courses and has passed Shaffer was also married this past & Rehabilitation Services of the CPAT for firefighting (physi- summer, in Montreal, Quebec, 2007 Southeastern VT (HCRS). My cal and written), with hopes of to Jack Gaudreau. It was a very Ashley Rodkey official title is employment joining a dept. full time in the simple and memorable ceremony 56 Meetinghouse Road specialist, which means I help near future. On top of all that, in Old Montreal. Last winter Pelham, MA 01002 individuals with developmental Matt became engaged in Sept. they traveled to Southeast Asia (413) 253-7867 disabilities find employment while in Boston, and he bought a (Cambodia, Thailand and Laos) e-mail: [email protected] in the community. So far I’m house in Fremont, NH, in July for 3 months and had an amaz- meeting a lot of great people, with his fiancée. They are cur- Editor’s Note: Welcome and ing trip! Over the summer, Becky and loving my job. I’m also rently planning their fall 2008 special thank you to Ashley spent some time in Newport, RI, volunteering with the Special wedding. Speaking of weddings, Rodkey, who has agreed to serve Olympics as a soccer coach this as class of 2007 correspondent. fall season. I miss CSC, but the Stephanie Guzzo is pursuing her real world is going well!” David master of science degree at Bonin and Rachel Pierson Indiana State U. in Terre Haute, became engaged this past IN, which she expects to finish summer and are planning a fall this year. She has a graduate 2009 wedding. Both are living assistantship with their division in Charlotte, NC.

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88 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE he Colby-Sawyer College Athletic Hall of Fame celebrates the accomplishments of Colby-Sawyer athletes, coaches, teams and supporters who have enhanced and reinforced the college’s commit- Tment to excellence. This fall five new inductees were honored. Kelly Bryant Belanger ’87 (IHSA) competition. She was an assistant coach during the team’s A three-sport athlete in soccer, tennis and basketball, Kelly was National Championship year of 1989, and, in 1994, she became known mostly for her accomplishments in basketball. In 1984 she head coach. During that season Mary led the Chargers to their sec- was named the team’s Most Valuable Player and finished the sea- ond National Championship. She is currently the head equestrian son ranked seventh in the nation in rebounds per game. A two- coach at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. time New Hampshire Athletic Conference Most Valuable Player and All-Conference selection, Kelly still ranks in the top five in several Katie Sykes Follis ’00 categories, including rebounds in a career (1,200) and points in a Katie Sykes Follis ’00 was a four-year competitor on the equestrian career (1,282). In addition to receiving the Colby-Sawyer team, earning several regional and national awards. As a sopho- Outstanding Athlete award for basketball in 1986, Kelly was cho- more, she won her first National Championship in the open flat and sen as the Class of 1987’s commencement speaker and was also a finished third in the open fences, helping the team to become Rhodes Scholar nominee. Reserve National Champion in 1998. In her junior year, in addition to being the team’s Most Valuable Rider, Katie was also the Marilyn Chase ’52 Cacchione Cup rider, finishing the season as the top rider in the A field hockey, basketball, tennis and alpine ski racing athlete, region. After her career at Colby-Sawyer, Katie turned to riding Marilyn played prominent roles on each of her teams and compet- professionally and coaching. She is currently a trainer and com- ed in two sports, alpine ski racing and basketball, during the same petes in the open jumpers and Grand Prix jumpers at the U.S. season. She received the Colby Junior College sports award for her Equestrian Federation (USEF) level. excellence in sport her senior year. Marilyn was a member of the Northeast Field Hockey Team from 1957-61 and a player in three James McGilvery ’96 U.S. Field Hockey Association national tournament games. At the In his junior and senior years, Jim served as basketball team captain University of Vermont, she served as head field hockey coach (’65- and was named the Most Valuable Player in the Commonwealth ’73), head women’s ski racing coach (’66-’72) and head tennis Coast Conference. In his final season as a Charger, Jim won several coach (’75-’78) in addition to being a tenured physical education awards for his efforts, including First Team ECAC Division III New faculty member. England All-Star. In addition to his many regional and national accolades, Jim was chosen as the Colby-Sawyer Male Athlete of the Mary Drueding ’83 Year. He still ranks among the leaders in several statistical categories, Mary spent four highly successful years with the equestrian team, including points (1,939), rebounds (709), steals (162) and three- serving as the team’s Most Valuable Rider for her first two seasons pointers made (191). Jim went on to play professional basketball and as team captain for two seasons. She returned to the team with the N.H. Thunderloons of the U.S. Basketball League as an assistant coach in 1988 and was instrumental in the Chargers’ (’96) and with the Plymouth Raiders of England’s first-ever qualification for the Inter- National Basketball League Division I (’96-’98). collegiate Horse Show Association

Colby-Sawyer’s second class of inductees into the Athletic Hall of Fame includes (l to r) Katie Sykes Follis ’00, Kelly Bryant Belanger ’87, Jim McGilvery ’96, Mary Drueding ’83, and Marilyn Chase ’52. PHOTO: MICHAEL J. SEAMANS NON-PROFIT Office of Advancement ORGANIZATION Colby-Sawyer College U.S. POSTAGE 541 Main Street PAID New London, NH 03257 LEWISTON, ME PERMIT 82

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