C LBY-SAW Y E R ALUMNI MAGAZINE ▲ 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. WINTER 2008 1 C LBY-SAWYER MATTERS by Kimberly Swick Slover and Kate Dunlop Seamans 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.