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Editorial Board: Vivian Segall '73, Editor (13 Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, George F. Hulme '77, Susan Bohman Main Street, Noank, CT 06340) / Joanne New London, CT, four times a year in Winter, Faigle '63, and Sally Duffield Wilder '46, Furtak '84, Intern I Katherine Gould '81 / Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage Directors I Committee Chairmen: Jeanne Sarah Hargrove Harris '57 I Wayne Swanson paid at New London, CT 06320. Send form Caldwell Raudenbush '69 (Nominati?g)./. _ I Marilyn Ellman Frankel '64 / Roberta 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut Mary Ann Garvin Seigel '66 (Alumm .GIVlng)I Finley '71, Class Notes Editor / Elizabeth College, New London, CT 06320. CASE Carole A. Filice '74 (Clubs) I Lee While Damerel Gongaware '26, Assistant EdilOr / member. Graham '61 (Finance and Programs) / George Warren T. Erickson '74 and Louise Stevenson Alumni Association Executive Board: Andersen '41, ex officio. F. Hulme'77 (Classes) I Maarten Terr~ '83 Warren T. Erickson '74, President J Mary Ann (Undergraduate / Young Alumni Relau.ons) I The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine Garvin Siegel '66, Vice President I Heather Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 (Executive (USPS 129-140). Official publication of the Turner Frazer '62, Secretary J Lee White Connecticut College Alumni Association. All Director) and Vivian Segall '73 (Atumm Graham '61, Treasurer J Joann Walton publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted Magazine Editor), ex officio. Leavenworth '56, Jane Muddle Funkhouser '53 Communications to any of the above may be only by permission of the editor. Published by and Edith Gaberman Sudarsky '43, Alumni the Connecticut College Alumni Association at addressed in care of the Alumni Office, Trustees. Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320. The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine

Volume 61. No.1. Fall 1983

Page 8 teered at Learned House for over Manners Maketh Man 50 years. Today, Marc Baylin '85 By Charles E. Shain leads an organized, committed Novels, tombstones, silver hip group of 35. flasks and boy-meets-girl behavior. Page 16 Children in the Crossfire By Sally Abrahms '75 Childsnatching has reached epidemic proportions, and with the divorce rate soaring, it's Page 2 bound to get worse. See Jan Run Page 19 By Sara Townsend '83 Books Jan Merrill runs the same ground she did ten years ago. Only faster. Want to buy a World War II flying ace bomber jacket? Learn Page 5 how to burn coal more cleanly? Remove Gum from Hair With Peanut Butter Page 20 By Elizabeth Gorvine :83 Round & About And other tips from Vicki Lansky, Doing battle with comma splices best-selling writer and popular and run-on sentences at the authority on child-rearing. college's Writing Center.

Page 12 The Head of the Class Page 23 Letters By Peter Strand '85 When Marie Garibaldi was appointed to New Jersey's Page 24 Supreme Court, she said Class Notes simply: "Great! I accept." Page 37 Page 14 A Sporting Chance? Forthe Next Million Days By Esther Coyne Flanagan '49 By Joanne Furtak '84 Hard facts about the necessity for Connecticut students have volun- Connecticut's new athletic center. Wi thin one year of beginning serious training, runner Jan Merrill '79 made the SEEJAN RUN national All-Star team. Six months later she was on the Olympic team. Miss Merrill ranks as one of the most versatile, most consistent woman runners of the last decade. The two-time Pan-Am gold medalist and Olympic games finalist owns II national titles in cross-country, road racing, indoor track, and outdoor track. She holds both the two-mile world record with her 4:33.2 and the lO-kilometer American mark of 32:02. At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Miss Merrill is best remembered for her semifinal 1,500 race. With 200 meters to go, she sprinted from sixth to first place, only to be passed in the last 40 meters. She set the American record of 4:02.6. In the winter of 1978 Miss Merrill set an indoor world record of 8.57,6 in the 3,000 meters. Later that same year she claimed the American record in the 3,000 meters with her 8:42.6 at the Bislett Games in Norway. Miss Merrill also holds the world record, claims the press, as the most elusive runner to interview. "Her contempt for reporters is as legendary as Jackie O's for paparazzi," wrote Anita Verschoth in her 1979 Sports Illustrated profile of Miss Merrill. This reputation for reclusi veness is as much her trademark as are her "M" sweatshirt, knee- socks, and long brown pony tail. But while the press has often painted Jan Merrill as the prototypical lonely long-distance runner, to her fellow athletes, she's known for her loyalty, courage, and modesty. In fact, her most recent display of teamwork enabled the American women to win the 1983 World Cross-Country meet in Gates- head, England. The Americans were boxed behind slow- ing Spanish and Swedish runners, while the fa vored Soviets roared ahead. Miss Merrill wedged a space, and teammates Margaret Groos, Jon Benoit and Betty Springs followed. After 800 meters of the 4,072 meter Jan Merrill 79 at the Ottawa Citizen Games race, Miss Merrill had brought the Ameri- can women back into contention, accord- THE TWO-TIME PAN AM GOLD MEDALIST ing to Renny Moore's "It Was a Muddy AND OLYMPIC FINALIST RUNS THE Good Show Of Teamwork," in Sports Illustrated. SAME GROUND SHE DID TEN YEARSAGO Sara Townsend '83, an English majorjrom ONL Y FASTER. Summit, New Jersey, is currently a re~ porter at the Darien News-Review. As an undergraduate, she had a career internship BY SARA TOWNSEND '83 with Conde Nast Publications, where she was an editorial assistant. 2 From a shy 17-year-old who shunned said Mrs. Merrill, who seldom goes to her mile) cross-country race in the Arboretum. publicity, Jan Merrill has matured to an daughter's races. Norm Higgins, the race organizer, became unassuming, self-possessed, 26-year-old Jan's older brother is accustomed to her coach and manager, but that year she woman. She runs the same ground she did being interviewed about his famous sister. trained only one day a week with him. 10years ago. Only faster. Most runners of "No one ever pressured her. My family When the next Spring she broke the five- her world-class stature move to Eugene, always encouraged us to do whatever we minute mile at a Dartmouth meet, Miss Oregon, or to the official United States wanted to," said John Merrill, who is assis- Merrill realized her potential as a runner. Olympic training center in Colorado tant di rector of admissions at Connecticut Not until her graduation, however, did she Springs. Miss Merrill, however, chooses College. The Merrills are supportive of begin serious training with Higgins, a 1966 her own environment. their children's success, he added, but not national marathon champion. She loves the beautiful wooded trails of vicariously involved. In fact, nothing aggra- By the following Spring she had qualified Southeastern Connecticut, the coach she vates Mrs. Merrill more than being asked if for a national team that was running against met 10 years ago, and her family's seaside she is the runner's mother. She usually an- China. She likens her initiation to team life home in Waterford. "I'm situated here," swers, "Yes. And I also have four other on this trip to a freshman's experience at she explained. "Some people excel when child ren I'm very proud of." college. In her first major running success they're with others doing the same thing, All the Merrill children are athletic, but Miss Merrill won the gold medal in the 1,500 like in Oregon. Others function best when Jan seems to have a special discipline and meter at the Pan-Am games in Mexico City they're by themselves, integrated into the drive. Mrs. Merrill recalls her daughter as in 1975. While taking classes at Thames mainstream. In this area everyone's living the only one of the children to get anything Valley State Technological College in Nor- their own life. And there aren't so many out of piano lessons, because she was the wich, she prepared for the Olympics. people doing what I'm doing. It's more only one who would practice. "If she'd ap- At the 1976 Olympic Games, just three reality for me." plied the same drive to music she has to years after her first I,SOD-meter run in the Her training, she added, is mapped out running, she'd have really gone places with Arboretum, Jan Merrill set an American for her in Connecticut. She runs through it," Mrs. Merrill said. Her daughter still record at the semifinals, qualifying her for the wooded trails near Connecticut College plays the piano and clarinet. Even though the finals. When, in January 1979, she won and uses the Coast Guard Academy's 200- Miss Merrill's mother and brother insist the I,SOD-meter race at the Olympic lnvita- meter indoor track and 400-meter dirt she's quite talented, she only admits, "I'll sit tional indoor meet, she received the Ama- track. down at the piano or pick up my clarinet, teur Athletic Union's Cross-Country Jack- Another part of Miss Merrill's environ- but it's just for relaxation." son Award as the country's outstanding ment is the wood-paneled house her father Miss Merrill seems to take after her female track and field athlete of 1978. built 200 yards from Long Island Sound. father, a talented swimmer who is national In the 1981 World Cross-Country meet, Her father, a former department head at master competition champion in the back- she won the silver medal, second only to the Navy's Underwater Systems Center, stroke. In fact, she views discipline as her Grete Waitz. She is particularly proud of now teaches mathematics and computer chief asset. "It's still hard work. It doesn't her July 1982 victory in the East German science at Mitchell College in New Lon- get any easier either," the five-foot six-inch, dual meet with the United States. And vic- don. Her mother is a lab instructor at 11O-pound runner said. "Of course I have tories have been numerous: at one time or Mitchell. natural athletic ability. I was always out another for the past ten years, Jan Merrill Over Jan's bed hangs an oil painting ofa playing ball with the kids." She added, "I'm has held all of the American records for the pair of yellow running shoes with three talented, but not as much as others. So I 1,000 to 5,000 meter runs, as well as several runners in the background. Her mother, have to counteract that fact with discipline." world records. who painted it, explained, "Painting helps And when Jan Merrill speaks of disci- Connecticut College seemed an obvious me keep my sanity in this home where every- pline, she means it. She gets up to run at choice after she received her A.A. degree one's talking of times." In the living room is 5:30a.m. everyday but Sunday-when she from Mitchell. "I've never seen a campus as another painting: Miss Merrill in her Olym- allows herself to sleep until 7:30. She also beautiful as Connecticut," the runner said. pic sweats, running through the woods. takes off Christmas Day, walking five to "I've been to a lot of schools. There aren't "We're just ordinary people," insists Jose- ten miles instead. too many like Connecticut." A mathematics phine Merrill. In fact, Mrs. Merrill is rather Her athletic routine began early. At age m~jor at Connecticut, she also particularly extraordinary. At age 46 she returned to eight she was swimming competitively for a enjoyed her French and music Courses and college, graduating from Connecticut in local Y. Her coach then was Cliff Larabee, appreciated the sympathetic professors 1970 with a B.A. in chemistry. now the women's swim coach at Connecti- who helped her make up work she missed Patiently, as if used to questions about cut College. In high school she ranked as when she tra veled. While she was attending Jan, Mrs. Merrill says, "Janny happens to one of the top six breast-strokers in the Connecticut, Miss Merrill wore the col- be a runner. The whole family doesn't state. She also starred on the Waterford lege's name on her sweats at races even. revolve around that." Only a few trophies High's field hockey team, earning All-Con- though she wasn't competing for the college. are displayed in the house, and half are ference honors all four years. Track was An average day for Jan Merrill while Miss Merrill's father's and brother's. While just another of her many sports. In her last not a nine-to-five one, is just as much a the Merrills are and have always been a two years of high school she won the mile routine. During her early morning work- family that excelled in swimming, the elder and the half-mile state championships. outs~ she runs 20 to 30 minutes at a pace Merrills aren't the typical parents of star In the fall of 1973, as a high school varying from an easy eight- or nine-minute athletes. "I hate Little League parents," senior, she ran her first 1,500 meter (metric mile to an under-six-minute mile. She drives

3 back to her house, showers, eats, and relaxes, before going to work at nine. A.her tending Higgins' New London sporting- goods store, she trains again, running for 40 to 90 minutes at a pace varying from an eight- to a five-minute mile. Even though she still lives at home, she sometimes will not see her family for three or four days. "Everyone's independent," she la ughs. The family usually ea ts together Saturday evenings. Ater 10years she still calls her coach Mr. Higgins, even though everyone else calls him Norm. He uses a traditional Connecti- cut Yankee approach to training. It's not scientific. "He's an excellent coach, probably a genius in middle-distance running," Miss Merrill said. "If you're able to do his preparation, you'll be successful." He is also her manager, taking care of things she doesn't want to worry about. But, she insists, her six-foot three-inch coach is not her "shield," as the press has called him. "I wasn't scared of the press," she explains. "I wanted to start something new, original. Francie larrieu, who wasmymain competitor, liked to gab to the press and tell her life story. I wanted a new approach where if I did't feel like talking to the press, I wouldn't." Before a race she must concen- trate. And after a race, she explained, reporters wouldn't wait for her to shower and catch her breath. Also, the press "psyched her out," paying attention to her only when she won. If she were 2nd or 3rd they didn't want to talk. So she just decided to tune them out. "When it's running, I'm serious, I'm business. I'm not a person to talk to a competitor before or after a race. I have to do my thing. That's the way I operate," she said. Originally, the family wished she would talk more to the press because they felt her fans were interested. Now the Merrills ac- knowledge that Jan knew what she was doing. "Janny's just quiet and reserved by ogy involved. Everyone's always keyed on else to make the Olympic team in the 1,5?0 nature," Mrs. Merrill said. "It's the kind of me. lfthey beat me that's a significant break- or 3 000 meters" she said. This Fall, while life we live. No one blows his own horn." through, even if you're injured or up or trai~ing toward' the Olympic ~rials set.for "I used to have to wear hats and sun- down. They beat Jan Merrill." She explains, June 1984, she has been runnmg lO-kJio- glasses to hide my face when I went to the "I run for my own achievement. I know I meter road races around the United States. grocery store," Miss Merrill recalls. Even was born with something and I'm trying to Miss Merrill recently came in second to now, when strangers recognize her she is see how much God gave me. If you're given Boston Marathon winner Joan Benoit in a embarrassed. Recently, she was grabbed by a talent you want to see how far you can Ifl-kilometer race in Brookline, Massachu- an eager fan in a grocery store, where she take it. Even with all the obstacles." Re- setts. She also finished second to a New had stopped to buy yogurt after a run. A cently she's been frustrated by injuries woman who had seen an ad for a sports Zealander in another ltl-kilometer contest stemming from a 1980 accident in which a in Los Angeles. The race culminated at the special on Jan Merrill kept pulling at Jan's jogger ran into her and hurt her lower back. shirt saying, "I saw you on T.V.!" new Olympic stadium in Los Angeles. In the last eight years Jan Merrill has run The rush from the public may have died After 1984, Jan Merrill says she Will run on 25 national teams. Her immediate goals more road races. Her career has just begun. down, but the pressure to perform consis- include making the 1984 Olympic team. "I tently has not. "There's so much psychol- If you liken it to an ed ucation, she adds, it's think I have as good a chance as anyone as if she's just graduated from high school.

4 AND KEEP A RUBBER BAND AROUND THE TOILET TISSUE,SAYS VICKI LANSKY, VETERAN PARENT AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

BY ELIZABETH GORVINE '83

Vicki Rogosin Lansky '63, career woman peets of nutrition for young children, as ing carrots and I left a spoon in the blender! and mother from Deephaven, Minnesota, well as some whimsical feci pes like Cocka- People probably remembered me because has become one of America's most popular doodle Stew and Play Dough a la Peanut they were sympathetic." authorities on childrearing techniques. Butter. Feed Me I'm Yours originally be- Sympathy or not, the 41-year-old mother Since 1975, Ms. Lansky has published five gan as a fund raising activity for the local of two established herself as an expert in books for parents as well as a hi-monthly prepared childbirth group, and as the child rearing by compiling helpful hints for newsletter with over 10,000 subscribers. book's popularity increased, Ms. Lansky pare~ts. Her projects range from recipes to Success began with her first book, Feed began traveling around the country dem- cure junk-food addicted children to nam- Me I'm Yours, a baby and toddler food onstrating the art of baby food-making. ing your baby. Vicki Lansky's second cookbook, with over one million copies in "I'd never made baby food until Iwas on cookbook, published in 1978, is called The print. In this book, Ms. Lansky included T.V.," she confided with a wink. "It was a Taming of the CA.N.D. Y. Monster. The sections addressing the more serious as- bit of a disaster, though. Here I was mash- acronym stands for "Continually Adver-

5 tised Nutritionally Deficient Yummies." This cookbook is designed to provide par- How to drown out ents with information about sugar, salt, and other additives, without sacrificing the thunder convenience and flavor. Also included is a Vicki Lansky has been collecting • Cover swing chains with sections section on children who are allergic to parenting tips since her first child of garden hose to avoid torn milk, and a cha pter filled with "tasty alter- was born, Here are a few of the clothes and provide a more com- natives to junk-food snacks." 1.000 ideas from her best-selling fortable grip. Ms. Lansky credits the success of The book. Practical Parenting Tips.that Taming of the CA. N. D. Y. Monster to her we thought were the most unusual. • Use metal shower curtain rings as appearance on the Phil Donahue show and locks for yard gates. the publicity the book received. "Phil • On burping your baby: Tie a bib Donahue literally made CA. N. D. Y.a best around YOUR neck if you get tired • End a verbal argument by hav- seller," she said. "It became number one on of a diaper. and switch the bib ing the kids SING their complaints the best seller list in 16 weeks." She from shoulder to shoulder as you to each other. grinned. "Oh, yes! And he's darling, too!" switch the baby. Ms. Lansky said she looks everywhere • Play records of marching music for ideas for books and publications, and • Tape record the sound of a run- to cheer a child afraid of a thunder- reads every magazine and book that's writ- ning dishwasher or of water filling storm. The loudness of the music ten for parents. Over 10,000 people, includ- the tub and piay it to lull a child to will drown out the thunder. and ing Ann Landers, read Vicki Lansky's news- sleep. The sound of running water marching will give him or her some- letter, Practical Parenting, established in simulates intrauterine sounds. thing active to do. 1979. According to the newsletter, "Read- ing Practical Parenting is like being at a big • Keep the baby from sliding down • On drinks in the car: Put the coffee party with loads offriends who share in a highchair by putting a rubber liquids in well-washed plastic with you the satisfactions and frustrations sink mat or stick-on nonslip bathtub lemon or lime juice dispensers. of parenthood." From the newsletter, the daisies or strips on the seat. (Remove the inserts with a sharp- best ideas sent from parents with children ened object. replace after filling to age 5 became Practical Parenting Tips in • Keep a rubber band around the and screw the caps back on.) if 1980. toilet tissue to prevent waste and you freeze them before you leave. Laughing, Ms. Lansky recalled one of clogged toilets due to "flushing the drinks will stay cool as they her favori te time-sa ving tips-offered by a fascination." melt. newspaper editor who was interviewing her. The editor told Ms. Lansky, "Oh, I'm • Shake stuffed toys in a bag with so embarrassed, but at night when I send generous amounts of cornmeal, my children to bed, I dress tbem in their and the dirt will come out. Corn- next day's clothes. They're loose-fitting starch or baking powder will work and don't wrinkle," the editor continued. as well. "It saves so much time." Presently, Mrs. Lansky is gathering tips for a sequel for • Melt old crayons of the same parents of 6- to 12-year-olds. color (With paper removed) in In 1978, Vicki and S. Bruce Lanski co- empty juice cans set in hot water authored The Best Baby Name Book in the over medium heat on the stove. Whole Wide World. Besides cataloguing Pour the wax into the cups of an over 10,000 girls' and boys' names, the aid muffin fin. cool and unmold- book lists the most popular names, reveals fun crayons for young children. celebrities' real names, explains ways to create names, and mentions stereotypes • Remove gum from hair with associated with certain names. Her latest peanuf butter. Work it into the hair book, Dear Babysitter, which Ms. Lansky and then comb out the gum and describes as "the babysitter's book I pea nut butter. wanted and could neverfind," was released in 1982. A guide for sitters, Dear Bobysiner These tips are reprinted with per- encompasses everything a babysitter would n:lsslon ~rom Practical Parenting ever need to know, including tips to cope TIps.For Information on the Practi- with medical emergencies, reasonable ex- cai Parenting newsletter. write to: pectations from children, hints foramusing Practical Parenting. Deep Haven. young children, as well as house rules. Minnesota 55391. According to Margaret Keenan Sheri- dan '67, associate professor of child de-

6 velopment at Connecticut, "Vicki Lansky's books are for any parent who hasn't had exposure to children and hasn't had professional training related to children. This kind of book is useful," she continued, "because it helps make problems manage- able." Mrs. Sheridan said that many childrearing books are intellectualized and foreboding, but Ms. Lansky's books give parents ways to change important things in life with tactics as opposed to conflicts. Mrs. Sheridan, a mother of two boys, received Feed Me I'm Yours as a gift when her children were young. Her favorite section was on birthday parties. "Limit the party to one hour," she recalled as the advice for a first year birthday party. "It was probably the best advice in the whole book," she said, laughing. Characterizing Ms. Lansky's style, Mrs. Sheridan noted, "It's a low-key, pragmatic approach that allows parents to use common sense. Also, she's very careful not to be dogmatic." Mrs. Sheridan further ap- plauded Vicki Lansky's developmental awareness and realistic expectations of children. Reflecting on her own recent divorce, Ms. Lansky is planning to write a series of books about helping children cope with divorce. "I'm really lucky to have so many little projects going," she said. "Every- thing's working out so neatly." Other projects include a series of parenting books for Bantam, daily Associated Press radio spots, and a possible contract with a cable television network. "I've had this incredible system of networking with contracts," she confided, "that one thing leads to another. It's all in place for me." Vicki Lansky admitted that her wealth of experience comes from practical knowledge she discovered as a parent or was given by parents across the country. "I never worked on a school paper or year- Vicki Lansky with Doug and Dana book," she explained, apparently unable to believe she is an established writer. "I After Feed Me I'm Yours was published, me. 'Why, I recognize your voice,' she learned to write like I talk. Conversational, Vicki Lansky enrolled in a course at the said." On a recent vacation to Tokyo with mother-to-mother. I package it and know University of Iowa in nutrition and food her children Doug, 12, and Dana, 9, Ms. what I want it to look like." science. Since then, she's appeared on the Lansky set up a publicity presentation. "I At Connecticut College, Vicki Rogosin Donahue and John Davidson shows, and had an incredible turnout," she said with Lansky started out as a psychology major has been featured regularly on the Today amazement. "That really did blow me but changed to art history right before her show. Also, many popular magazines in- away." senior year. "I could go in to teaching, ad- cluding People, Us, Parents, Families, Reflecting, Vicki Lansky said she's not vertising or retailing," she said of her grad- Woman s Day, and Family Circle have fea- the same person she was 10 years ago. "l uation options. She ended up at Lord and tured Vicki Lansky and her helpful hints. was retiring, embarrassed. I apologized for Taylor as assistant buyer for a year, and Being famous has its drawbacks, though. writing Feed Me I'm Yours. I wasn't a then transferred to a buying office in the "Two years ago I was yelling at Dana in a salesperson," she said. "Now I feel good garment district. In 1972, she moved to supermarket." she said in an interview with about what I'm doing." It would appear Minnesota, planning to raise a family. Parents' Press. "And a woman came up to that her millions of readers do, too.

7 MANNERS MAKETH MAN

Tennis match beside New London Hall, 1920

BY OUR BEHAVIOR IN SOCIETY OUR MANNERS, DO WE CREA TE OUR ESSENTIAL SELVES? A LOOK AT NOVELS, TOMBSTONES, SILVER HIP FLASKS AND THE NEW MANNERS OF THE TWENTIES

BY CHARLES E. SHAIN PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF THE COLLEGE

8 I gave this talk the title it has to suggest that sat in someones limousine. outside the here at Connecticut College, even at spring Country Club in Louisville. festival weekends, we are no slouches in "J don't know. I'mjustfull of the devil." our respect for history, the history of ideas, "Lets be frank-we'll never see each the history of our language, which lie at the other again. [wanted to come out here with center of a liberal education. Last spring I you because [ thought you were the best- believe you nostagically yearned to live in looking girl in sight. You really don't care Renaissance Europe. To get a running start whether you ever see me again, do you?" on the American Twenties, I start you off "No-but is this your linefor every girl? even earlier, in the 14th century. The motto What have [done /0 deserve it?" Manners Maketh Man was given by Wil- "And you don't feel tired dancing or liam of Wykeham, the great Bishop of want a cigarette or any of the things you Winchester and Chancellor of the Realm said? You just wanted to be . " under two English kings, to his two great "Oh. let's go in, "she interrupted. "If you educational foundations, Winchester Col- want to analyze. Let's not talk about it." lege and New College at Oxford. They re- All this revelation of the new manners of main two of the most distinguished institu- your grandparents' generation did shock tions of their kind in Britain. The Bishop's the general public in 1920. Social historians choice of a motto teases us because both of tell us that college students did read This his foundations were religious institutions Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald's novel did created to prepare learned priests and lords actually announce the beginning of the of the church. Why not, then, choose some- Jazz Age. If you go back to the novel like a thing like Lux et Veritas on the shield of nosy kid digging in your grandfather's Congregational .Yale, or-to translate- trunk in the attic, you won't be entirely Under the Divine Power it Goes Forward, disappointed by its ring of authenticity. like Presbyterian Princeton? In what sense There may be some things that need explan- did the Bishop want to keep reminding the ation: Doctor Johnson told Boswell that teachers and the students at his two col- "all works that describe manners need leges that manners make man, and what on notes after 60 or 70 years." There was in- earth has this to do with celebrating the deed during the Twenties a revolutionary American Twenties? Freshman Pageant, 1920 change of manners in America and, once Well to relieve some of the anxieties begun, the changes seemed to come along threatened by that opening paragraph, let had a drink between cabaret acts it should with increasing speed. For example, it me say that I would like in this talk to play have been out of a silver hip flask. And would not be long after Amory's revela- some variations on the theme of human perhaps there was an impulse to go even tions about what was happening in the manners, in response to your intention to further and follow the boy-meets-girl con- back seats of cars that a Peter Arno car- play this weekend with the man~ers of the ventions as reported by Amory Blaine, the toon would appear in The New Yorker, Twenties. Manners is a big, heavily-loaded Princeton undergraduate in Scott Fitzger- founded in 1925, which depicted a young word with a long history. (It has a much ald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, man-about-town and his chorus-girl date longer history than 'life style' and to my 1920: standing up at a bar in a speakeasy. The mind is infinitely to be preferred. Forexa.m- On the Triangle trip Amory had come into man is saying to the bartender, "Fill her pie, I shall find myself later .on talking constant contact with that great current up about tombstones as an expression of man- American phenomenon. the "petting par- Now may I go on to make the obvious ners. Life style in that instance would not ty." None of the Victorian mothers-and pedagogical reminder that some uses of our do at all.) From its beginning, from ~he most of the mothers were Victorian-had manners in novels and plays are trash and year 1225 according to the Oxford English any idea how casually their daughters were some become literature and part of a liberal Dictionary, manners has meant t'our social accustomed to be kissed. arts curriculum. How do we learn to distin- conduct as shown in our prevailing cus- Amory saw girls doing things that even guish? Perhaps it's this way. All of our toms" "the customary mode of acting or in his memory would have been impossible: manners, when they display significant beha~ing in an individual or a (,;omm.unity." eating three o'clock after dance suppers in social conduct, hum and buzz with implica- And so last night at the party you paid your impossible cafes; talking of every side of tions. Our manners send emotional and sentimental respects to your grandparents' life with an air half in earnestness, half in moral messages back and forth communi- college days by certain kinds of conduct mockery, yet with afurtiveexcitement that cating ourselves and therefore, in a way, that imitated their manners. You should Amory considered stood for a real moral creating ourselves. (We remember the pro- have tried to learn the Charleston. If you letdo';"n. But he never realized how wide- verbial and probably apochryphal old lady spread it was until he saw the cities between who is reported to have said, "How do I Presidenr Emeritus Charles E. Shain was New York and Chicago as one vastjuvenile know what I think 'till I see what I say.") Is keynote speaker at the college s Twenties intrigue. this what William of Wykeham meant by weekend last spring. This article is adapted "Why on earth are we here? "he asked the his motto: by our behavior in society, by from his address. girl with the green combs one night as they our manners, we create our essential selves?

9 Students gather in Knowlton Salon, 1926

If you ever visit his tomb in Winches- keen sense of his contemporaries, he wants your coming-of-age novels, with scenes ter Cathedral you will pass on the way the to imitate. In his novel the flapper and her already sketched in from a mythical cam- grave of Jane Austen. What counts in a boy friend do not actually pet behind the pus called Connecticut College. novel of manners written by Jane Austen is closed doors of the smoking room. They Your college generation is said to have the moral worth, the moral sensibilities, of talk. And each one says to the other, uncon- no national politics to speak of, except t~e what her characters' manners communi- vincingly, "Tell me about yourself. What world-wide threat of nuclear war. The lit- cate. do you feel?" Meaning, "Tell me about my- erary voices of the Twenties had no politics (There is another tombstone in the self, how do I feel?" The real story of This to speak of either, and H. L. Mencken was cathedral close at Winchester which may Side of Paradise is a report on a young their gloomy prophet. He was a st.ubborn be appropriate to mention in this talk on man's emotional readiness for life. The combination of cynical conservative and manners, to illustrate, in this case, British only interesting morality it presents is the an anarchist. If he were still here he would manners. The stone marks the grave of a implied morality that comes as a part of the probably be voting with the Liber.tarian Winchester College schoolboy who was hero's feelings as he distinguishes or fails to Party. (He voted for Alf Landon 10 the killed in a "town and gown" riot early in the distinguish between an honest and a dis- second Roosevelt election.) If there was a 19th century. The inscription in Latin was honest emotion. politics in the Twenties liter.a~ure .of man- translated for me by a Winchester master The coming-of-age novel like This Side ners, it was the politics of dlSlllUSJOn~e.nt who was showing me the sights. I think I of Paradise has always been a rich field for with American democracy. That pessrrrus- can remember it almost exactly. "Here lies our novelists of manners. The making of an tic frame of mind goes back to Huckleberry John Humbolt, who was killed by a flung American-Gertrude Stein's The Making Finn, which, you remember, Ernest.Hem- stone. He stood first in his form, and it is of Americans was published in 1925-is a ingway said was the book from which all hoped he does not stand last in Heaven, phrase we Americans continue to under- modern American literature springs. The whither he has gone instead of to Oxford." stand as if we were each the latest produc- moral statement that Hemingway gave his What Fitzgerald is showing us in This tion model of a novel social experiment Side of Paradise is the growth of a moral hero Frederick Henry in A F.arell'ell to only 200 years old. Hence the impact years Arms about the First World War was this: sensibility, how a young American of his ago of The Catcher in the Rve and several own generation discovers what sort of fig- decades later of Philip R~th's Goodbye We had heard the words sacred, glorious ure he wants to cut, what modes of con- Columbus. I will turn in a minute to speak and sacrifice and {he expression in vain. duct, gotten out of books as well as out of a of those of you who have begun writing sometimes standing in the rain almost out

10 of earshot so that only the shouted words songs condescended to all financial pres- manently mislaid do let me know. I shall came through, and had read them, on proc- sures, though they have a lot to say about accept thefact with equanimity as I had no lamations that were slapped up by billpost- money. They rhymed it with sunny, honey business to make you responsible for them ers over other proclamations. now for a and funny. The message they still send is for six yean. But I want to know because I long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, this: who needs it when you've got? ... you needfield glasses all the time over here and and the things that were glorious had no know what. You can find "a million dollar the ones you lent me are cross-eyed and glory. and the sacrifices were like the baby in a five and ten cents store." "The myop nc and always have been. I don't stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done rich get richer and the poor get children. mind buying a new pair because they add with the meat except to bury it. But in the meantime, in between time, ain't so much 10 every excursion but I'd rather we got fun." The song we did dishes to in not ifthere s any chance of getting my own (This returns me to another variation on our kitchen-having an older brother and back in June. Are you coming over? What my theme of manners.) Hemingway's bit- sister helps in this trip down memory on God's earth has become of you! terness, born in his experience of the First lane-was "My baby don't care for shows, Now, having bawled you out I'll give you World War and its disillusioning after- my baby don't care for clothes- my baby the news. We've been here over a year dur- math, was most effectively expressed as a just cares for me." That song came from a ing which I have done a lot 0/ work, saved writer's disgust with the "manners" of pub- Broadway show called with simple ele- money and had a fascinating and most in- lic language, the hypocrisy of that lan- gance Whoopie. There was one song writ- structive time. We have spent rhe spring guage. (George Orwell found the same ten from the other side of the tracks. It here in Capri but next month (April) wego literary means for venting his disgust with began "I've gone to see my broker, find out to Paris/or 8 mos. so adress me there. political immorality in his novel 1984.) For what he can do, cause I'm in the market for I have written a fifteen thousand word members of your generation, this passage you." story abOUTyou called The Rich Boy. It is from A Farewell 10 Arms may be a particu- One other suggestion and then I'm fin- so disguised that no one but you and me larly appropriate one to remember if you ished. It is addressed to those among you and IWO of the girls concerned would recog- go, as I did recently, to the Vietnam Vete- who intend to write fiction in the novel of nize, unless you give it away, but is in a rans Memorial recently installed on the manners tradition, coming-of-age depart- large measure the story ofyour life. toned Mall in Washington. As if the words given ment. Your first novel will of course in- down here and there and symplified. Also to Frederic Henry had retained a shadowy clude barely disguised portraits of your may gaps had to come out of my imagina- presence in the designer's mind-if indeed friends here. In preparing this talk, I found tion. It isfrank, unsparing bur sympathetic she had ever read them-no public lan- I had a photocopy of a letter from Scott and I Think you will like it it is one of the guage invades her memorial except the Fitzgerald 10 one of his close college best things I have ever done. Where it will stark language of names. The only rhetori- friends, Ludlow Fowler. Fitzgerald is writ- appear and when I don't as yet know. cal statement made is a list of the names of ing from the Isle of Capri where he and Question? How did Connie Bennet take 57,000 Americans set down in the order of Zelda Fitzgerald were beginning their first Phil Planr s engagement? Had they split up their death. The art of public monuments is adventure in living in Europe, to save before? Is Judy Smith that 30-year-old always a significant expression of a nation's money, he said. It is early in [925; he has prom troller or another Judy Smith, changing manners, and you are the first just finished The Great Gatsby. I'm pre- How of Virginia, Dot McCheveril, Ada? generation of Americans to ponder this senting it here as a model of the letter you The law business? Eleanor and AI? Your one. Will it speak to your present orfuture will write to your close friendjust after you mother? Powell? john Bishop and 'Ring politics? have written a story about him, saying in Lardner send me my only news and I have All this talk about manners and the effect, I've used you pretty literally, it isn't none 01 allfrom you. With all good wishes Twenties is about to come to an end. Later flattering, but don't worry, etc. etc. and hopes of seeing you in June. I would like to hear from you about how The story was "The Rich Boy" and it is Ever your Friend the manners scene is changing on this cam- one of Fitzgerald's best stories. It begins SCOll pus. You know: After the Preppie Hand- with the rather well-known statement, "Let Finally a short coda to conclude my book. What? I gather from reading about me tell you about the very rich. They are Twenties variations on a 14th century you that one of the central concerns of your different from you and me." The whole theme by William of Wykeham. That Phil college world is simply money. You all letter, to my knowledge, has never been Plant in Scott Fitzgerlad's gossipy conclu- seem to figure in a strange, no-win eco- printed, and so I will leave a copy with Mr. sion was the son of Morton P. Plant, the nomic equation that poses a future threat Brian Rogers for our library, and the curi- first Chairman of the Board of Trustees of to this college among many others, to wit: ous among you can read it there, if only for Connecticut College. If we have a William that many non-affluent students cannot af- the fun of seeing how you can become a ofWykeham, it is he. His gift of one million ford to come to this college or to stay here, good novelist without ever becoming a dollars-see the new history of the College once they've come, and that, conversely, good speller. by Gertrude Noyes for the colorful de- the college cannot afford to have them Guaranry Trust Co. tails-firmly established the institutional come and sometimes stay. If you and your I Rue des ltaliens identity of all of us here today. And who friends and mine are discouraged about Paris was Constance Bennet, not to speak of her this, and you want to escape personal eco- Dear Lud: even prettier sister Joan, and her other sis- nomic depressions, at least for a while, I This isa last desperate appeal. Twice I've ter Barbara, who sang in Manhattan's suggest you learn to sing this weekend the written you in vain-have you or haven 't swankiest spots? Perhaps you could ask popular songs of the Twenties. Twenties you gar my field glasses. If they are per- your grandfather.

II HEAD OF THE CLASS

THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE HAS A PRODIGIOUS MEMORY AN INFECTIOUS lAUGH, IS A WONDERFUL DANCER AND AN ABSOWTEL Y TERRIBLESKIER

BY PETERSTRAND '85

Marie L Garibaldi sat hunched excitedly familiarity quotes from Franklin Delano sweat and blood ... who spends himself over her office desk like a college student Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, she in a worthy cause-who at best if he wins cramming foranexam, scribbling furiously spoke the words that have come to embody knows the thrills of high achievement- with a sharpened pencil on a yellow legal her life: and if he fails at least fails while daring pad. "The only thing we have to fear is fear greatly-so that his place shall never be As if preparing for Marjorie R. Dilley's itself," she said in her thick New Jersey with those cold and timid souls who know Government lID final, Miss Garibaldi lay accent. "The credit belongs to the man in neither victory nor defeat." down the pencil and, reciting with easy thearena, whose face is marred by dust and Miss Garibaldi has learned her lessons

12 well. From her undergraduate studies at the first bar association president to be "I remember specifically telling Marie: Connecticut College, where she majored in named to the state Supreme Court. Last 'You will be a great lawyer, but only if you economics and government, to her appoint- May, Justice Garibaldi was presented with have an efficient secretary.' She reminded ment last November as the first woman the College Medal, Connecticut College's me of this warning, and said that through- New Jersey Supreme Court member, Marie highest honor. out her life as a lawyer, she had, indeed, Garibaldi has personified the belief that Marie Garibaldi credits her success as a had a highly efficient, literate secretary on through perseverance and hard work you result of being at the right place at the right whom to lean." can do anything. time. "I don't ever remember having my Marie Garibaldi is an extremely attrac- "I have done research on college stu- mind set on being a la wyer when I came to tive, 49-year-old, soft-spoken woman who dents," she begins, "And although 1 have Connecticut," she recalls. "But the first consciously seems to balance her affection- found them hardworking, and conscien- week during orientation, they asked every- ate, modest, down-to-earth attitude with tious, still they remain pessimistic because one to write down what they wanted to be, the austere, formal image of the Supreme of the depressed economy and the threat of and I wrote down lawyer. Court member. When told by Governor nuclear war. As a result they tend to devote "At Columbia, Ijust happened to be the Kean of her appointment to the Court, she little time to improving social issues, and right age when people were looking to responded in a manner not quite typical of shy away from challenges." promote women and young enough to get a the loquacious style of lawyers: "Great! I "Obviously, I've been reading the wrong good position. It's important for a young accept." things," Miss Garibaldi quips, breaking up person to be visible. Someone can be a She also has a sense of humor and an the sermon-like tone, and laughing so hard genius, but if people don't know, it isn't infectious laugh. Pointing out a framed her horn-rimmed glasses slip off her nose. much good." picture of the seven black-robed justices, "Why are young graduates responding in Miss Garibaldi has spent her life in the which decorates a long discussion table in this way to the world?" She continues, republic eye, yet remains something of a mys- the center of her office, Miss Garibaldi composing herself. "Because many are tery. She is a most remarkable paradox: a dead pans "That's me on thefar left. .. The afraid of failure. They shirk new challenges vivacious, unpretentious, sociable person one that looks like Queen Elizabeth." because they are afraid that they will not be in a powerful profession that tries to shelter Speaking at the Drew University com- able to cope." Miss Garibaldi has not its workings from the public. mencement, she told the graduates that "we shirked many challenges. For as long as she "How would I describe myself?" Gari- have lots in common. We both commemo- can remember she has been the underdog, baldi repeats the question, and looks long- rated great events wearing black robes." the child of immigrant parents. ingly at the white ceiling as if magically the Shirley O'Neill, a law school classmate, "My grandfather used to say'No hits, no answer were written there. "Regular friend and law partner of the justice said, runs, no errors,''' she recalls affectionately. Casual Informal Optimistic "You could get the impression that Marie's "Failure is something we can always avoid. and I hope cheerful." entire life was spent practicing law and car- We can easily say nothing, do nothing, be Regular? One of the most powerful ing for her widowed mother and that she nothing." women in New Jersey, with a Dean's List of must spend her Saturday nights reading Marie Garibaldi has been something spe- accomplishments, regular? her favorite sections of the Internal Rev- cial from the time she was born in Jersey Professor Emeritus Ruby Turner Morris enue Code. City, New Jersey, on November 26, 1934. first met Marie Garibaldi many years ago "She is much more likely to have been She received her bachelor's degree from in an elementary economics course, at dancing the night away, so much so that Connecticut College in 1956, and her law Connecticut, and later served as her she has even been known to miss our Sun- degree from Columbia Law School, where advisor. day morning doubles game," Ms. O'Neill she was one of only 12 women in a class of "She was a handsome, well-appointed, said. "Marie is an excellent swimmer a 295, in 1959. She earned a master's in tax mature and impressive-looking woman," wonderful dancer, an intermediate ten~is law from New York University in 1963. Mrs. Morris said, sounding like a proud player, and an absolutely terrible skier." Before being appointed to the bench, she parent. "She gave the impression of sub- Justice Garibaldi's home is in Weekaw- had been a tax lawyer for 13 years with the stantiality, and responsibility. She has re- ken, New Jersey, overlooking the New Newark law firm of Riker, Danzig, Sherer, mained much the same. Intellectually she York skyline. Profiling her the day after and Hyland. was very active in class, and her only flaw she was sworn in at the Supreme Court, the In 1973 Miss Garibaldi became the first being a Republican, conservative in incli- Hudson County Dispatch wrote: "Although woman to be named a partner at the firm. nation. She never discussed the courts, but located in one of the township's more af- She was also the first woman to serve of the as a senior indicated she intended to be- fluent neighborhoods, the Garibaldi home New Jersey State Bar Association and is come a lawyer." which she shares with her mother, is mod- Mrs. M orris remembers that her student est by most standards. The Mercedes in the Peter Strand '85 is an English major from was a terrible speller. "Her papers were well driveway and hired help that might befit a Millington, New Jersey, who is interested written but were terrible in polish, a thing I partner in one of the state's most presti- injournalism. He is active in the college's emphasized strongly, telling the students gious corporate law firms are noticeably intramural sports program and runs three they had to rewrite sloppy work, but they absent. She even answers the doorbell." to four miles daily. Left, Marie Garibaldi would appreciate the discipline when, as Yet th~re is an unmistakable quality adjusts her collar after taking the oath of was likely, they would hold executive posi- about MISS Garibaldi: she answers ques- office, as Gov. Thomas Kean and Miss tions and have to write annual reports or tions in a practiced, lawyerly way. And Garibaldi's mother look on. theses. Continued on page 30.

13 If you drive down Bank Street, past the thrift shops, fast-food joints and broken- FOR THE NEXT down warehouses, hang a left at the light with the Courtyard Cafe on your right and the Playpen Cafe on your left, and head about one block down Shaw Street, you'll MILLION DAYS come to a red brick rectangle of a building resting on a concrete slab. Metal ietters stuck to the brick proclaim this "The RP. Learned Mission," but the kids just call it the Mission. Depending on the weather, kids might be clustered outside, playing basketball or jumping rope. The playground consists ofa set of rusted swings and a basketball court-two rims, one net. Stretching beyond it is nothing but barren ground. Bull- dozers push piles of rubble. Huge storage tanks dot the horizon. Shaw Street and the surrounding area are part of New London's urban renewal project, but little progress has been made so far. Learned House is a sanctuary for the neighborhood children, some of whom come from single-parent homes. Some live with grandparents, or with fathers or mothers who work for much of the day. The Mission is a place for the kids to go after school; a place to play games, participate in programs, or just hang out. This year marks the 56th anniversary of Connecticut College's involvement with Learned House. It began as the brainchild of the Reverend Gordon Wilcox, pastor of the Second Congregational Church. Rever- end Wilcox founded the Bradley Street Mission in 1859, hoping "to give some of the more unfortunate children of New London wholesome activities with a reli- gi ous atmosphere." In 1917, the name was changed when a wealthy benefactor, Bil- lings P. Learned, left the majority of his estate to the mission. Connecticut College enters the story IOyears later. At that time, the Social Service League was a campus organization second only to Student Gov- On the Learned House whale watch ernment in popularity. Marion Nichols Arnold '32, the secretary of the League, heard of the success of the mission, and WHETHER IT'S PHOTOGRAPHY LESSONS, suggested that interested students try teaching folk dances, sewing, and recitations to MAKING TUTTI-FRUTTIKOOL-AID PUNCH, the children. Sewing and recitations have given way to OR ORGANIZING A HAUNTED HOUSE, photography and ping-pong, but the rela- CONNECTICUT STUDENTS HELP MAKE tionship between Connecticut College and Learned House has endured, forging a LEARNED HOUSE THRIVE mutually beneficial link between the campus and the New London community. Stu- dents put in over 600 volunteer hours last BY JOANNE FURTAK '84 semester alone, entitling Learned House to

14 Armed with a green paperback optimis- tically entitled Easy Cooking, we headed off on foot to purchase supplies at the supermarket. Toby, killing time before football practice, set the pace; Telly, a little boy in an unseasonably warm and oversized plaid shirt, brought up the rear. The rest of us ambled along, arguing about what to make. "Banana prune whip!" Mike closed the cook book in disgust. "There ain't nothing good in there that I like." The main course was still a matter of debate when we reached the supermarket. Mike suggested squishing grapes to make jelly, but the idea didn't really catch on. "We ain't making no food that's small," cautioned Toby as we strolled down the aisles, shivering at the sudden temperature switch from t-shirt sticking heat to teeth- chattering cold. We finally decided on a refreshing and easy-to-prepare dish: Tutti Frutti Kool-Aid punch with orange sherbet and cookies. The decision-making process had been highly complex, for each succes- sive item entailed a group conference. The participants solemnly stated their prefer- ence (vanilla wafers or graham crackers) with Lisa and Robin mediating. "The idea," Lisa explained, "is to spend as little money as possible." All agreed that the 79~ box of honey grahams was the best buy. Marc Baylin 115and a friend at Learned House Back at the Mission, the labor was split equitably. Some kids prepared the punch, additional funds from the United Way. helping at the Haunted House. "Working others planned next week's menu. Dawn "They provide not only people, but the en- with the volunteers, there was such a sense piled graham crackers neatly on a plate. ergy, interest and skills to offer us a varied of unity, just the warmth and caring about Marianne brought out paper cups brim- program," said James Montford, executive the kids," she said. "I was the wicked witch ming with pink and orange foam. Everyone director of Learned House. "The eight and I lost my voice, but I was there from sat around, scooping sherbet onto crackers, months they're here, Learned House really noon to midnight and had so much fun." slurping the rest. thrives." Though some students do join to test "Guess what we do now?" "Clean up," The students who work at Learned career possibilities in child care, the range Toby answered desultorily. Robin tried House are a special breed. Few join merely of majors is extraordinarily varied. Dance, again. "Do you guys want to start bringing to vent altruistic impulses, and the ones English, History, and Classics are all repre- in all the empty cups?" Nobody leapt to the who do don't last. "There are a lot of people sented. "It's one of the only activities that task, but somehow the dishes got washed who say, 'Oh, wouldn't it be nice to go and gives you direct contact with kids," said and the tables wiped. The lessons for the spend an afternoon with the kids," said vol- zoology major Lisa Cherbuliez '85. "It day had been little ones: How to spell tacos, unteer coordinator Marc Baylin. "That's gives a student of any year, any major, a and the importance of comparison shop- the wrong person-stay away from that chance to be with kids, which is something ping. Still, the kids had started and finished person. The 'Daddy's Little Girls' do not you don't get on campus." a task together, and seemed to enjoy doing survive as Learned House volunteers." Volunteers put in a minimum of two it. Not bad for the two- or three-hour gap Often, it's the novelty of seeing kids on hours per week. They leave from Crozier- between school and dinner. campus that sparks a potential volunteer's Williams student center at 3:00 Monday Cooking is just one of several organized interest. Learned House / Connecticut Col- through Thursday, and arrive at the mis- activities, reflective of a new stress on struc- lege collaborations like the Halloween sion at about the same time as the kids. ture at Learned House. Arts and crafts Haunted House, Fall Carnival, and Spring Programming varies from day to day. The field trips, tutoring, and photography ar~ Olympics are open to everyone, and the day I visited, Miss- Cherbuliez, a new now offered on specific days and require screams of laughter and excitement draw volunteer, and Robin Patch, an experi- preregistration. James Montford recently many a curious student. Tammy Brown enced senior, were teaching cooking. They began charging a $2 membership fee, and '84, now in charge of special activities for convened in the hallway with Telly, Toby, required both children and their parents to the "Friends of Learned House," began by and Mike, who were all interested in eating. Continued on page /8.

15 CHILDREN IN THE CROSSFIRE

WHY ARE 100,000 CHILDREN KIDNAPED BY THEIR NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS EVERY YEAR? AND WHAT DOES THIS EPIDEMIC OF CHILDSNATCHING DO TO THE CHILDREN?

BY SALLY ABRAHMS 75

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My child stealing "career" began three guished mothers and fathers, who told of home I didn't even like that much." Wept years ago when I wrote an article on the having their youngsters violently ripped another child from Ohio, who had been subject for The New York Daily News. from their arms, their feelings of pain and stolen back and forth six times in a year Friends and colleagues had never heard of powerlessness when their children abruptly and a half by both parents: "When I'm with the problem. "What do you mean, a parent disappeared, the ceaseless agonizing-Are one parent, I always worry that my other kidnaps his child?" they gasped. "That's they safe? Are they alive? What have they parent will come and steal me again. My ridiculous. It doesn't happen. You're mak- been told? dad is now so scared that my mother will ing it up." After speaking with snatchers and par- take us that he watches my brother and me Sobering insights into the dimensions of ental victims, I wondered how the children every minute. Whenever I go somewhere, the problem became apparent after I re- themselves were faring. Their comments my brother has to stay because my dad searched the topic for 20/20, where Iwas were curiously absent from articles on the doesn't want both of us out at the same the associate producer on a parental kid- subject. Instead, I would see quotations' time. Ican't believe this is really happening. naping segment. Instead of finding a few from psychiatrists and social workers testi- I keep hoping I'll wake up and it will be a ill-fated mothers and fathers, I stumbled fying to the children's suffering. dream." upon an epidemic. The head of one fathers' Rather than rely on others to tell their Up until now, it has been widely believed rights group told me: "Every divorced man stories, I wanted to learn about the expe- that kidnaping parents treat their children Iknow has thought of it as an option. Some rience first-hand, from the children. Was it well, that since they abduct out of "love," of us do it. We all have our plane tickets in as dreadful as family therapists contended? the kids are catered to and coddled. My our back pockets, waiting for the right Orcould running off with Mom or Dad ever book, Children In The Crossfire, explodes moment." be fun? this myth by revealing that many kidnap- Every year, more than 100,000 boys and I decided to wrote a book that focused ing fathers sexually abuse their daughters, girls are abducted by their non-custodial on the children. Childsnatching is so new a and that both boys and girls routinely parents. The number of cases has doubled subject that no studies were available on suffer physical abuse. I was startled by my in the last five years, and with the divorce how it affected children. I had to do some findings, which I unveiled to psychiatrists rate soaring, childsnatching will increase sleuthing on my own. The problem proved and psychologists. According to Dr. Jean- even more. The American Bar Association to be two-fold: not only to locate these nette Minkoff of Rochester, New York, estimates that seven out of ten children children, but more important, to convince "Male abductors don't have an opportu- kidnaped by a parent will never see their their parents to let them be interviewed. nity to identify with women their age. other parent again. Some refused, saying "My child is too dis- These people have physical needs and go a Fathers have found parental kidnaping turbed. Perhaps someday when he gets bet- little beserk and begin to put the children in especially attractive. Because men lost cus- ter he can speak with you." Or: "My daugh- love relationships." tody of their children 92 percent of the ter was in such bad shape when she was I discovered that parents who had never time, many discouraged by the unfavorable returned. She is finally leading a more abused their children before kidnaping ratio decide to circumvent the legal system. normal life. Ican't risk a relapse." Or: "You them were often violent afterwards. Often Still, Idiscovered that most parents do not can't talk to my son because I have to pro- the parents had to give up their jobs to go kidnap their children because they want tect him. His father certainly never did. I into hiding and did not realize what a re- custody. It is spite-a desire to hurt their am the only one left who can." sponsibility the children would be-espe- ex-mates-that makes them steal. Despite my difficulty in finding SUItable cially homesick children. The abductors Abductors were eager to explain why subjects, Ispoke with a variety of children: wanted to wound their ex-mates more than they stole their children. Usually they those found as long ago as twelve years, or play full-time babysitter. The children be- would claim the other parent was unfit, recovered only the day before; away for a came stand-ins for the kidnaper's ex- which was rarely the case. Most viewed decade or a few days; whisked to the next spouse, so that anger meant for a former themselves as Robin Hood-naughty for town or to another continent; snatched just husband or wife was displaced on the child. breaking the law, but noble for taking the once and back for keeps or taken more , found that some children were aban- risk. than once, interviewed "in between" abduc- doned, neglected-even killed-by their I also interviewed the other side: an- tions. I quizzed boys and girls returned to abducting mothers and fathers. their custodial parents and some still Children who were not hurt or fondled SalJy Abrahms '75 -has written extensively trapped with their non-custodial kidnap- almost always suffered from insecurity, onfamily law issues for New York, Ladies' ers. I even managed to talk with youngsters triggered by their perpetual pickup and go Home Journal, McCal1's, The New York left behind in a snatch, who described lifestyle. Like prisoners of war, they were Daily News, and other publications .. She watching their fathers or mothers steal forced into endless marches from place to also served as legal consultant for the their siblings, but not choose them. My place, often motel to motel, always on the Columbia Pictures film, And Justice for subjects recalled feeling all alone, of having alert for a midnight move to yet another All. A segment reported by her for ABC's no support, no one in whom to confide, secret retreat. Even children transplanted 20/20 won a 1980 Emmy nomination. She always running, hiding, being hunted, and to only one town were still uprooted from lives with her husband. attorney David of longing desperately to be caught and their familiar communities. They ached for Rosenthal, and two children in Boston, returned to their lawful guardians. '" was absent parents, grandparents, friends, and where she is contributing writer at Boston so miserable," one San Francisco boy con- pets. Frequently their names were changed Magazine. Ms. Abrahms has a master's in fided about his four months in captivity, and their hair dyed to confuse' the searching journalism/rom Syracuse. "that I dreamed of being with kids back parent. A .Michigan girl, constantly run-

17 IN THE CROSSFIRE daughter's name?" she pressed, even though LEARNED HOUSE Continued from page 17. the support group's letter explained her Continued/rom page 15. ning with her kidnaping father, pretended question. "How do I know you haven't sign a contract setting down rules for be- she was the daughter of a show business duped the group and are only pretending to havior. Marc Baylin made a parallel effort tycoon to justify her abnormal existence. write a book, all the time on the payroll of to structure the volunteer system, organiz- Every time they packed up and fled, she my ex-son-in-law?" ing and planning with unabashed zeal. A would graciously bid adieu to her recently An endless supply of rich research mate- history major with a minor in music, Mr. acquired friends. "We've got to leave now, rial came from parents whose children were Baylin admits he has a tendency to turn but it was so nice meeting you," she'd say. still missing. Most were referrals from everything into a business. "I spend my "The only reason we're on the road is be- ABC and Ladies' Home Journal, where I whole life in meetings," he said. "I'm either cause my father is an entertainer. It's a had worked on child stealing pieces. Des- at meetings or I'm sleeping, and the meet- wonderful, exciting life for me." It couldn't perate parents had telephoned the televi- ings are winning so far." Mr. Baylin's dedi- have been too wonderful. She attempted sion network and magazine after seeing cation has paid dividends for Learned suicide in yet another two-bit town. these stories, looking for leads, and were House. When he took over as a sopho- Child after child catalogued the devas- urged to call me. Day after day, parents more, there were eleven volunteers, most of tating tales he and she had been told by would plead with me to help. They spoke of whom were graduating. The number of abductors: "Mommy is a whore"; "Daddy the indifference and arrogance of prosecu- volunteers is close to 35 now, and many are knows where you are. If he wanted you, he tors and police, the incompetence of attor- returnees. would have come to get you"; "Mommy is neys, of being cheated by unscrupulous Mr. Baylin speaks with special pride of dead." Children told me they passed out detectives. It was quickly apparent that the new Learned House van, for which the from fear when they were reunited with a even those who wanted to act often did not Friends raised a total of $900. He spear- parent, having been told that parent was know how. One call came from a Minne- headed the drive, writing letters, organiz- dead, and thinking they had seen a ghost. seta judge's clerk, who wanted information ing money-making schemes, rallying media Like returned youngsters, custodial par- on child stealing laws! attention, and hounding people-a busi- ents proved elusive. When I tried to locate I was disturbed by my power. By my ness skill he has honed to Wall Street or several I had interviewed in the past, I responsibility. I listened to these victims' Madison Avenue sharpness. The college found they had vanished. Apparently my stories and schemes, offered what assis- responded generously to the plea for help, contacts had been reunited with their chil- tance I could, but never advocated illegal and donations came from clubs, classes, dren and now they were on the run from tactics. Yet I also knew that unless they dorms, facuity, administrators and staff. their former spouses. I had called one resorted to them, it was unlikely they With the van, field trips no longer entail woman in Pennsylvania several times when would ever see their children again. I be- awkward caravans of cars and kids. Volun- I did the ABC show. A year later, I dialed came enraged at a legal system that encour- teers now have a back-up means of trans- her number to get an update for the book. aged parents to break the la w, even though portation and spontaneous excursions are A man answered, told me tersely I had the the parents were more than willing to work possible. Wednesday, for example, during wrong number, that he had never heard of through proper channels. a photography class, one of the kids sug- this woman, and that he had had the same I also cultivated a network of profes- gested going down to Bank Street. Some- telephone number for 30 years. I called sional child stealers, some who com- one else suggested the beach. Within five back twice, convinced I had dialed incor- manded as much as $20,000 to abduct a minutes, three volunteers and five kids rectly. "Wrong number," he insisted. When child. They would call me from as far away were strapped into the light blue van and this mother and I last spoke, she had just as Europe, bragging of their latest kidnap- headed toward Harkness Beach. Another gotten her son back and had been terrified ing, trying to woo me with their yarns of ten minutes, and they arrived. of a resnatch. Obviously the man was cov- muscle and derring-do, so I would mention "Who wants to take a picture?" a volun- ering up for her. She was hiding. them in my book. While at ABC, I watched teer asked as the kids piled out of the van. One support group for parental victims a kingpin in the childsnatching business, Four eager hands shot up, but Phillip was warned me that parents whose children who brags of 1,000 successful recoveries, first. The others clambered into a large, were returned might question my motives bungle an abduction from a California I leafy beech tree. Posing patiently, they for contacting them. They were accus- schoolyard. With the rest of the ABC crew, dangled from the lower limbs while Phillip tomed to all sorts of ruses from their exes. I wound up in the principal's office, trying learned to focus. Kim Burgess '85, showed How could they be sure I had not been to explain the embarrassing episode. him the technique, and CLICK, Phillip was hired to track them down? To prove I was My book is for all parents-married, a photographer. Down came the kids, turn- "legitimate," I wrote a letter explaining my separated, ordivorced. Sadly, child snatch- ing cartwheels in the grass. The brilliant book project to the members of this group, ing can happen to anyone. "I'm no different blue of sea and sky, and long stretches of and instead of sending it directly to them, from other women," moaned one mother verdant green made the gray rubble. and forwarded it to the head of the organiza- whose child has been missing for five years. dull red brick of Bank Street seem more tion. She passed it on to the membership "I met my ex-husband in college. We than a van ride away. We had to head back, with her own note, confirming that I was weren't weirdos. We were normal, average but everyone would get a chance next time. really a reporter and not a spy. It didn't people." In this pitiful war between the "Are you going to be back next Tuesday, so make much difference. Parents were still parents, it is the children who are caught in you can take a picture?" a volunteer asked. paranoid. One anonymous call came from the crossfire. Child stealing is the heart- "I'm gonna come for the next million a grandmother. "How did you get my break of the 80s.0 days," the boy replied.D

18 BOOKS

Many Connecticut College alumni have more nor less than daily life. But the way cal way to burn coal. Cleaning processes been putting pen to paper-or fingertips to we see ourselves day to day and the way we aim to improve the quality of coal by re- keyboard-and managing to find publish- live are forcefully affected by the assump- moving varying amounts of sulfur, ash and ers for their efforts. Though there's not a tions we bring to the events we encounter." other wastes before combustion. Writing Sidney Sheldon in the lot, the range of Judith Milstein Katz is associate profes- under the aegis of INFORM, a nonprofit subjects is quite wide, and the scholarship sor of psychology at Atkinson College, New York City-based research group, co- substantial. York University, in Toronto. authors Gould and Hutton evaluate coal The scenario of a childsnatching sounds John Russell, First Earl of Bedford: One cleaning technologies, profile 12 of the like a "Movie-of-the- Week" melodrama; of the King's Men (London, Royal Histori- nation's most sophisticated coal cleaning yet every year more than 100,000 children cal Society, 1981), is both biography and plants, and summarize the views of utilities are kidnaped by one parent from another. political analysis. In chronicling a typical and plant owners on the market for cleaned Eighty percent of the kidnaped children noble's 50-year participation in Tudor coal. suffer serious psychological damage. In politics, Diane Willen '65 sheds light on After graduating magna cum laude from Children in the Crossfire: The Tragedy of both the man and his contemporaries. Rus- Connecticut College, Robert Gould went Parental Kidnaping (New York, Athe- sell's letters to Henry VIII and Cardinal on to earn master's degrees in social work neum, 1983), Sally Abrahms '75 takes an Wolsey are as revealing of 16th century and public health-environmental sciences exhaustive look at the causes and conse- England and the Tudor system of gover- at Columbia University. He edited and quences of childsnatching. A journalist nance as are his more formal accounts of supervised the research and writing of the who has written extensively on family law the diplomatic, military and administrative 1982-83 Resource Recovery Yearbook, issues for New York, McCall's, the New duties he performed. Based on her exten- and is working for Governmental Advisory York Daily News and various other publi- sive research, Dr. Willen's book recon- Associates. cations, Sally Abrahms spent two years re- structs the life of the Tudor "new man" The title alone is a mouthful, the book searching this seldom covered but increas- with admirable clarity. itselfa full-course meal. In The 100% Natu- ingly widespread problem. Ms. Abrahms An associate professor of history at ral, Purely Organic, Cholesterol-Free, breaks new ground by interviewing the Georgia State University, Diane Willen is Megavitamin, Low-Carbohydrate Nutri- stolen children themselves, as well as researching the role of women in pre-indus- tion Hoax, Dr. Elizabeth Murphy Whelan speaking with the parents, professional trial York and Norwich. John Russell, '65 covers everything from food fads to child stealers, and experts from various First Earl of Bedford is her first book, and cancer cures. She and co-author Dr. Fred- fields. Their stories are sobering, often is volume 23 in the Royal Historical rick J. Stare adopt a common sense ap- shocking accounts of life-on-the-run. Society Studies in History Series. proach to the plethora of myth and hype Why Don't You Listen to What I'm Not The Aviator's Source Book (New York, surrounding today's nutritional theories. Saying? (Garden City, Anchor Press, S1. Martin's Press, 1982), is a compendium Not out to make friends, the doctors knock 1981), by Judith Milstein Katz '64 is an of information for the flying enthusiast just about every diet on the market, and explanation of a psychological theory in who's looking to buy. EditorBarbara Bal- continue the anti-health food crusade they terms the layman can both understand and linger Buchholz '71 provides the potential began in their 1975 book Panic in the Pan- ) apply. Constructive psychology, explains consumer with facts, photographs, and try. Chapter headings like "We're not Dr. Katz, differs from traditional theories performance ratings of hundreds of planes, undernourished, but we're trying," and in its acceptance of ambiguity and its accessories, services, and educational mate- "Additives aren't Always 'Unnatural'" are recognition of choice. While conventional rials. Whether you're debating between sure to raise the wrath of health food advo- psychology stresses the role of environ- King Air E90 and a Crusader 303, or you cates once again. ment and unconscious impulses in deter- just want to know where to buy a World However controversial Dr. Whelan may mining actions, constructive psychology War II flying ace bomber jacket, The Avia- be, her credentials are impeccable. She argues that we often shape our interpreta- tor's Source Book puts the facts at your holds a doctorate from the Harvard School tions of experience in a self-fulfilling way. fingertips. of Public Health and a master's degree in We "see" what we expect to see. Dr. Katz Coal, though plentiful, is a flawed fuel. public health education from the Yale considers this a radical twist in perspective. When burned, the impurities coal contains School of Medicine. A sociology major at "The ideas in this book present a view of are transformed into sulfur dioxide and Connecticut, Dr. Whelan received the the world signally and powerfully different other air pollutants. Cleaning up Coal by Connecticut College Medal in 1979. She is from the view now held," writes Dr. Katz. Robert N. Gould '75 and Cynthia Hutton, currently the executive director of the "The anecdotes and examples are common- examines technology's current answer to American Council on Science and Health. place-they are concerned with nothing the search for a cleaner and more economi- -Joanne Furtak '84

19 ROUND & ABOUT

Doing battle with comma splices

Some students rush there in desperation, while others stroll in casually; whichever their style, a record number of students at Connecticut College have been to the Writ- ing Center this Fall to improve their writing skills. Thirty-six students used the facilities in September alone, a figure exactly doubled from the same month last year. The Writing Center is in its fourth year of operation and is directed by Theresa Ammirati, who is also a visiting instructor in English. The Center is not connected with the English Department and is a separate, college-funded program. Accord- ing to Mrs. Ammirati, the Center, which now employs eight tutors and three part- time receptionists, was modelled after similar programs at the University of Hartford and UCLA. Two tutors are graduates from the class of 1983. Jerry Murphy and Joanne Coppola, and the rest are under- graduates, master's degree candidates, and high school teachers. Last year, 200 students from all classes found their way up and down the creaky stairs and through the twisted hallways of Thames Hall, where the Center is located. "The Writing Center here differs from others in that we are a small school, so that Center also gives seminars on exam anx- a service like this is very able to suit its coaching for the seemingly intangible "A" iety, study habits, time management, and paper. unique constituency," Mrs. Ammirati com- note taking, as well as on writing papers. mented. "The students are good ones, so "I came to Connecticut with a pretty "We don't want to do band-aid surgery that there aren't a lot of problems with severe writing problem," said Chip Orcutt for a rush-job paper," Mrs. Ammirati said. of Acton, Massachusetts. "But with Mrs. spelling and grammar. The trouble in- "Rather, we want to get at the underlying volves developing a cogent thesis with sup- problem. Ammirati's help for the past three years, porting ideas." I've overcome it. 1 think it's a great place." "We get a good number offreshmen who The method of helping the student is a The Writing Center itself is composed of find that college writing is a difficulty they one-to-one tutorial session, in which the one large, airy room and a smaller adjoin- didn't expect, in addition to sophomores, rough draft brought in is picked over sen- ing office for its director. Walking in, one IS both newcomers and old visitors, and tence by sentence. The Center holds gen- greeted by a bright blue rug and by red seniors who need assistance injob applica- eral daytime hours and also works by ap- patterned curtains fluttering to reveal.the tions and cover letters. Oddly enough, we pointment. Some students come in with the spectacular view of the Thames River get the fewest amount of juniors," Mrs. idea of improving their writing skills in across the way. Visitors help themselves to Ammirati said, musing that juniors "think coffee, and are received by a friendly recep- general, for which there are a multitude of they know it all after two years." quizzes, ranging from topics like "run-on tionist, most likely a fresh-faced student. The Center, she added, also gets a good sentences" to "comma splices," neatly The work tables for the sessions are large, number of students who are dissatisfied stacked in cubbyholes on the walL The and have a harem of inviting chairs around with perpetual B-plusses and 'need extra them. The shelves of a huge bookcase are

20 bent with the weight of informational since my mobility isn't terrific. I did some to Donald C. Jones '79, who is pursuing an books on writing, with titles like The Ele- preliminary research, writing and calling M.A. degree at Drew University; to Elea- ments of College Writing and Writing companies that make wooden canes. I nor C. Shea '8 J, who is enrolled in the Latin Themes about Literature. Cheery and in- thought up some designs, and I lined up American studies program at Georgetown spirational posters adorn the walls. Hang- some art students willing to hand-paint University; and to Lucia M. Paolicelli '83, ing and potted plants are the final touch of them on a piecework basis." who is studying clinical psychology at the welcome to all visitors. Once she was able to persuade a cane State University of New York at Stony Space has been planned in the renova- company to omit the polyurethane finish Brook. tion of Palmer Library for the Writing for her, she began buying black, white and Alumni who are interested in applying Center, although Mrs. Ammirati admits mahogany canes by the dozen. She had her for the scholarship this year should write to that "we're very homey here in Thames." artists paint the designs directly onto the the Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa, Box 140I, Future plans include the expansion of wood in bright, durable acrylic paint. Now, Connecticut College, New London, CT workshops, and the addition of a word- her business, Margie's Raising Cane, sells a 06320. Applicants need not be members of processor to be used in drilling students as variety of six designs painted on solid Phi Beta Kappa. The deadline for alumni well as research for improving the present wood, rubber-tipped standard walking applications is March 11, 1984. system. canes. There are designs for men and "But, again, we're a small school, so I women, including Dorais, butterflies, wild intend not to expand too much. I'd like to strawberries and ferns. When possible, she keep the bureaucracy to a minimum," Mrs. will take a custom order. Ammirati said, laughing. "We'd like to "I was approached by the wife of a gen- In the limelight continue to do what we do and do it even tleman who is an avid fisherman," Margie better." says. "He ties fishing flies asa hobby. But a -Rosemary Battles '85 hip problem makes it necessary for him The Penny Ante Theater, a touring chil- sometimes to use a cane. I'm working on a dren's'theater founded by Nancy Kerr '78, design incorporating painted fishing lures has won a $3,800 grant from the Connecti- with his initials on the handle. His wife feels cut Commission on the Arts. The grant it will be an extension of his talents, some- helped the theater group develop three Raising cane-in style thing he'll feel good about using instead of shows presented in schools, libraries, festi- being embarrassed. The focal point be- vals and community centers throughout Reprintedfrom the May 10, /983 issue of comes not the disability, but how creative Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Family Circle Magazine. © 1983 THE FA M- you can be in coping with it." Island. Ms. Kerr is artistic director of the IL Y CIRCLE, INC. By Gerri Hershey Margie's hand-painted canes are avail- Penny Ante Theater, whose productions able at $49.95 each, plus $3 postage. (New reach an audience of about 700 children "I was darned angry when I was diagnosed Jersey residents, add $2.50 sales tax.) For and adults each week. as having multiple sclerosis J 2 years ago," inquiries and a description of the patterns, Louise Fay Despres '66, a French says Margie Henderson Whitmore'59. She colors and sizes available, send a self- teacher at New Canaan High School, was was a mother, with an active life in Essex addressed, stamped envelope to Margie's one of98 teachers in the United States who Fells, New Jersey. "The initial anger sub- Raising Cane, J 75 Devon Rd., Essex Fells, received summer fellowships from the Na- sided some," she says, "but worse, five N.J. 07021, or ca11201-226-5058. tional Endowment for the Humanities years ago, when I had to start using a cane, (NEH) and the Council for Basic Educa- I somehow felt ashamed. All the canes I Margie Henderson Whitmore s beautiful tion. The awards are aimed at enriching saw were clinical and clumsy. They were canes have been featured in Angela Tay- humanities curricula at the nation's public ugly things that only reminded me of my lor's column in The New York Times as and private secondary schools, and Mrs. handicap." well as in Family Circle magazine. Joan Despres used her grant to study the French Hoping to encourage her to stay mobile, Hamburg of WOR radio has done IWO sto- poets Cesaire, Appolinaire and Rimbaud her husband searched until he found a ries on Margie s Raising Cane. The canes for an advanced placement course. Mrs. more attractive hand-painted cane. She will be available at Boutique Noel in New Despres, who did her research at the Con- began using it, and receiving compliments. York this fall, as well as by mailfrom Mar- necticut College and Yale libraries, ap- The cane was still a necessity, but it had the gie Henderson. peared in the Alumni Magazine last appearance of a stylish accessory. When Spring, along with six of her former French you are fighting a long-term battle, Margie students who are now enrolled at Con- says, such small victories mean a lot. She necticut. was pleased when her sister presented her Eric R. Carlson '81 presented a paper with a second cane for Christmas. She had Phi Beta Kappa entitled "Structure-Activity Studies of the painted a design of bright daisies down its scholarship Acidic, Proline-rich Proteins" at the annual length. As Margie used it, she received even session of the American Association for more compliments. Dental Research in Cincinnati. According "People wanted to know where to get Each year the Connecticut College Chapter to Mr. Carlson, currently a third-year stu- them-for themselves, or for friends and of Phi Beta Kappa awards one or more dent at the University of Pennsylvania relatives with disabilities. I thought about scholarships to an alumna, alumnus, or School of Dental Medicine. the research it and decided to try to produce some my- senior who is planning to do graduate determined the mechanism of action of a self. A home business wasn't a bad idea, study. Last year scholarships were awarded protein present in saliva which. is involved

21 in the reversal of the ini tial stages of tooth decay. The research, performed at t?e For- syth Dental Center in Boston dunng the summer of 1982, was supported by a grant from the University of Pennsylvania. A biochemistry major at Connecticut, Mr. Carlson received the Jean V. Johnston Prize in Chemistry at graduation. He intends to pursue a career in oral and max- illofacial surgery. At the age of 90, Ruth Trail McClellan '19 is Connecticut College's oldest living alumna and a member of the college's first graduating class. She traveled from her Oregon home to Groton this summer for a multi-generation family reunion, and rem- inisced for the New London Day about her childhood among the peach orchards and potato fields of Poquonnock Bridge-a Groton neighborhood now studded with shopping centers. Mrs. McClellan described her method of getting to campus from Groton: by trolley to the ferry station off Thames Street, across the river by ferry, and then another trolley ride or a long walk up to the college from downtown New London.

Alumni perform in dance, theater and music An ebullient Nancy Wainich 76 leads her class at Connecticut

her own company, Dancereach, in April. storyteller, Jody Steiner '78 conducted ~he When Nancy Wanich '76 couldn't attend Though young, Dancereach was one offive meditation at the September 18 Evening the Dance Department's three-day Alumni companies chosen to perform in the "Cho- Vespers Service held in Harkness Chapel. Gala last March, she felt guilty. Each year, reographers' Showcase," which will be Ms. Steiner, whose credits include mem- when the college solicited contributions, presented in November at the Dance bership in the Theatre of the Deaf reper- she felt guilty. No more. Ms. Wanich re- Theater Workshop in New York. tory company, stayed after the service to turned to campus September 30 and 31 to A petite, pony-tailed woman, Ms. Wa- tell stories and speak with interested. stu- give her own freelance gala. She taught nich guest-taught classes on Friday in the dents. She is currently living in Cambndge, classes, conducted a workshop on the Crozier-Williams East Studio. Obedient Massachusetts. Alexander technique, and performed with feet slapped rhythmically against the hard- Sylvia Pasternack Marx '57 joined with her own dance company, all as her gift to wood floor, the students following her lead Marcia Flaks, a graduate of Skidmore Col- the college. with varying degrees of success. Ms. lege, to perform a collection of piano works "My feeling is, I'm a dancer," Ms. Wanich's stacatto movement and instruc- for four hands in the Dana Concert Hall on Wanich explained. "I appreciate what I tions seemed an attempt to compress and Sunday, September 25. After graduating learned here and I feel I can give back what convey the sum of her post-graduate expe- from Connecticut College, Ms. Marx I've learned since, completing that circle of rience, to somehow pass that knowledge on earned a master's in education from the reciprocity through my work, rather than intact, within four hours on a Friday after- through financial means." Harvard School of Education, and has noon. "You've got to be braver," exhorted continued to study and teach piano. She The recipient of the Louis Horst Dance the now-experienced alumna. "If you want Scholarship while at Connecticut College, first collaborated with Ms. Flaks at the to dance and you go to New York, no one's Ms. Wanich spent her first year after gradu- suggestion of their teacher, Ale~ander going to pick you out. You've got to say- ation living in New London and teaching at Petruska. The duo developed an Imme- 'I'LL GO!' and they say, 'tomorrow." the Pine Point School in Stonington. She diate rapport, and have performed to- A culture-rich month at Connecticut then moved to New York, where she gether at the Carnegie Recital Hall, the College, September saw alumni contribut- danced with various companies and taught Westchester Conservatory of Music, and ing to the full spectrum of arts activities. at the 92nd Street Y. Ms. Wanich formed the Scarsdale Women's Club. Donating her talents as both an actress and -Joanne Furtak '84

22 Images of Senegal Publication of the directory will be han- dled by Harris Publishing Company of produced on calendar White Plains, New York. This company is LElTERS the sole authorized agent for the produc- Is an American audience interested in pho- tion and marketing of the directory, and To the Editor: tographs of the rural people of Senegal? assumes all financial obligation, including I am writing in response to Cassandra Julie Solmssen Steedman '59 wasn't sure at the compilation, editing, billing, and distri- Sturman Bright's article, "According to first, but public reaction to her one-woman bution of the volume and will cover its costs our Fathers' Wishes," which appeared in exhibit in Ann Arbor and to an Alumni through individual book sales to alumni the Summer 1983 issue of the Alumni Magazine article last winter have con- only. This plan will assure the publication Magazine. vinced her. An unusual number of alum- of a professionally compiled volume. In essence, I couldn't agree more. Except ni-including other photographers, former During the next several months alumni for a motivated few, most of us took our Peace Corps volunteers, and people who will be contacted by telephone for verifica- education pretty much for granted-a brief have lived in Africa-contacted the maga- tion of the information to be printed in the interlude rather than the start of something zine or Julie Steedman to talk about her directory. At that time, and at that time significant. work. only, alumni will be asked if they wish to I feel that today's students are fortunate Encouraged by the interest in her photo- purchase a copy. The number of directories in that the prevailing social climate encour- graphs, Mrs. Steedman has reproduced a printed will be based on the number of ad- ages them to really consider the matter of a selection of them in a 1984 calendar called vance orders received via the phone calls. career and what they might do following Images of Senegal, as well as on a series of Alumni who have not returned their ques- graduation. notecards. For information about ordering tionnaires and are not reached by telephone Our education was certainly not a waste either the calendar or the notecards, write by the Harris firm will be listed in the direc- but it could have been much better to Julie Steedman, 1047 Martin Place, Ann tory with the address, if current, provided directed. Arbor, Michigan 48104. by alumni records. If you have not received Patricia A. Fletcher '60 your questionnaire or you do not wish to New York, NY appear in the directory, please notify the Alumni Office in writing. Alumni urged to return data for new directory Tour Europe with Connecticut faculty

Alumni and friends of the college are The price of the program will include invited to participate in Europe on round-trip air fare from New York; land Tour, an introduction to the music, art transportation via first class rail; hotels and architecture of Europe led by two and breakfasts; and entrance fees and Connecticut faculty members. A non- tickets to scheduled museums, exhibits, credit course sponsored by the college's historic sites, opera and musical per- evening division, Europe on Tour will formances. The cost is estimated at All alumni should have received a postcard run from March 9-24, 1984, and will $1,695 for double occupancy, $1,845 for request for the information required to as- visit selected cities in Germany, Austria, single. Enrollment is limited. For an sure complete data in the new Connecticut Italy and France. Assistant Professor of itinerary and further information, please College Alumni Directory. The Alumni Music John Anthony and Instructor in contact the Office of Continuing Ed uca- Association urges all alumni to reply to the Art History Richard Chaffee will lead tion, Fanning Hall, Connecticut Col- mailing so that our new directory, tenta- the group and offer an optional series of lege, New London, CT 06320; tbe tele- tively scheduled for release in July 1984, lectures before departure. phone number is (203) 447-7566. will be as complete and accurate as possible.

23 CLASS NOTES

I am sorry a miserable summer cold which the busiest member of '28, agreed to carryon. She is Brown". Crowfoot, Gordon", Heurich, M. Jones, 19 hung on for weeks kept me from reunion and now our President, our Vice President and Treasurer. King", Lippincott, Owens'", Pierpont, Suffren, and commencement. I was disappointed not to hear Lewis accepting the lalter post with the proviso that Marjory Van Horn". If I have omitted anyone, forgive, it's Thomas, the commencement speaker. I've enjoyed his Jones, Beq uest Chairman, assist. Our slate of officers is reunion-lag. writings so much. especially his last book The Youngest now; President and Vice President, Roberta Bitgood Correspondent: Mrs. George Schoenhur (Sarah Science. Of course, it poured all weekend as it has for Wiersma; Treasurer, Roberta and Marjory Jones; Sec- Emily Brown). Five Corners on Potato Hill, Ely, VT the last 18. retary and Class Correspondent, Sarah Emily (Say 05044 Marenda Prentis also couldn't make it. as she was in Say) Brown Schoenhut; Class Agent, Roberta; Bequest a wheel chair with a bad knee, the result ora fall in May. Chairman, Marjory Jones. Margaret (Peg) Burroughs Kohr and her hus- She has graduated to a walker and hopes to make her Abbie Kelsey Baker received kudos for a well done 29 band Bob had a pleasant stay in FL this winter. usual visit to the Cape. Meantime, she is looking for- job of chairing our reunion. They reported a nice visit with Gordon and Eleanor ward [0 a visit from grandniece Grace, Roberta's We ancient and honorables are now members of the (Ellie) Newmiller Sidman. They have also had a Yel- daughter, who is coming from California for 10 days. Sykes Society (those who have achieved a 50th). This lowstone trip with their daughter and family and a Prent also told me that Evelyn Bitgood Coulter's oldest group met Saturday for a mellow, genial dinner at Pacific trip to Australia. granddaughter, Victoria Mertz, was to be married June which we were addressed by President Ames and our Frances(Fran) Fenton MacMurtrie is still exhibiting II. Gertrude Abramson Borstein who had flown in from in flower shows. She is active in League of Women's Sadie Coit Benjamin went to Reunion and took Rosa Israel the day before. She spoke on "My beloved Affairs and lives in the Adirondacks. Wilcox Tappey and her husband. They were the only Israel," a restrained, sensitive description of Israel to- Bertha Francis Hill and husband are still in Cran- members of our class there, but Ruth Newcomb, who day. It was low-key and avoided internal politics and ston, Rl, and say they are lucky to have their son was a special student when we were in college, was there international misunderstandings. She was very tired, Thomas and family-wife and four children-nearby. and sa! with Sadie and Rosa at lunch. Ruth is now 93 experiencingjetlag. It had been a long journey and we Reading and gardening add to the retirement days and very well and interested in college affairs. were privileged to hear her. Somewhere during this Bertha finished teaching ten years ago. Charlotte Keefe Durham and her husband have evening we sang the Alma Mater. Our voices were high, Flora (Pat) Hine Myers and husband Glenn had their given up their home in New London and are now living even shrill. In complete contrast, Roberta played a usual winter holiday in St. Croix. at the Carol ton in Fairfield, CT. recent recording of this, sung by a mixed CC chorus, a Grace (Beth) Houston and Alanson Murch have Correspondent: Virginia C. Rose, 20 Avery Lane, rich and very moving interpretation. passed their 50th wedding anniversary. They have also Waterford, CT06385 Which '28ers came?(Maiden names with. indicating finished (they hope) with asthma trouble and cataract a husband.) Abramson, Baker, Bigelow's, Briggse, surgery. Both were looking forward to their grandson's Correspondent: Mrs, Emory C. Corbin (Olive graduation from Tulane. 21 Liuiehales], 9 Brady A~'e., New Britain, CT 06052 Elizabeth (leke) Speirs spent February and part of In Memoriam March in St. Simon's, GA. and visited several friends en Correspondent: Mrs. Sidney P. Tuthill (Ade- route. Elizabeth Utley Lamb went on an eventful two-week 23 laide Sauerly), 76 Hunt Ave., Apr. I-A, Pearl River, NY 10965 Harriet Bynon Rolfe '22 trip to the Soviet Union in May. The winter was made Eleanor Thielen Wunch '22 notable by having a grandson at nearby Wesleyan. Frances (Fran) Wells Vroom and Mary Scattergood Correspendem, Emily Warner, 23 Mariners Josephine Burnham Schell '24 Lane, Yarmouth Port, MA 02775 Norris had a pleasant telephone chat. No special news 25 Stella Levine Mendelsohn '25 from Scat. Fran says Bob Vroom had successful sur- Honor P. Kingsbury Helen Lehman Buttenwieser was honored in '26 gery last winter and they expected to spend July at their April by the Legal Aid Society with the presen- Evelyn Davis Fernald '28 beach place on Long Island, as usual. . 27 Mary Walsh and Ernie Gamache celebrated the.l.r tation of its 6th annual Servant of Justice Award given Elizabeth Seward Tarvin '29 "in recognition of her lifelong endeavors to defend Virginia Best Linden 50th wedding anniversary on three trips-to Hawan. human rights and her commitment to the principle of '34 Ireland and the Adriatic, visiting Greece, Italy and equal justice for all." Martha Murphy Russell '39 Yugoslavia. They spent their usual Cape vacation in Correspondent: Madelyn Clish Wankmi/ler, 422 Catherine Keeler Irwin '41 Brewster and enjoyed their annual picnic with the Mil{ St., Worcester, MA 01602 Kohrs in Orleans. The vr ooms and the Sid mans were Shirley M, Simkin '42 Frances Stout Chick there, as well. Fifteen of us "oldies," with seven husbands '44 We report with regret the death in April of the hus- Barbara A. Palmer 28 showed up for our 55th, a gentle, reminiscing: '45 band of Nellie Fuller Mattacotti in Hartland. WI satisfying renewal of our earlier years. Informal, easy, Eftima Velles Troupakis '47 Correspondent: E. Elisabeth Speirs, 40 Awry as hurned or leisurely as one wished, including as many Elizabeth Lewis Marx '48 Heights, Hanford, CT06106 events as one wished to attend. The campus was green Margaret McDowell Lewis and lush, there was sun with a Saturday morning '49 Lillian Burnstein Hendel is active in several Deborah Wildes Granger shower to remind us we were in New London. We '54 31 organizations, In L.A., her oldest grandson IS enjoyed the younger alumni, especially those with their Catherine C Warne '60 in urban development, and her granddaughter, a speech kinder, but we missed the students. Our class meeting Geraldine Coors Straus '64 pathologist, has a Master's from Ohio State. Another was a short and hilarious gathering (husbands included Susan Hodgdon Hansen daughter is assistant athletic director at U of NH. A for fear of losing them). Elizabeth(Betty) Gordon Stae- '64 grandson is an honor student at American U. Her 81- lin, our President and Vice President, felt this was her Heidi Margaret Fiore '80 year-old husband left retirement for the more active time to retire. We are grateful for all she has done over Senga Ronaele Gomez '80 business world. the years for our class and college. Pamela Scott '80 Yvonne Carns Wogan, on high ground. escaped the Roberta Bitgood Wiersma, our AAGP Class Agent. David S. Kliman Mississippi flood. "That muddy river was too thIck to '81 drink and too thin to plow." She extends a welcome to

24 all who attend '84 World's Fair. he is making good recovery. Marjorie Disbro Fichthorn spends each winter at the Ruth Fordyce McKeown's husband died in Jan. after Arizona Biltmore, but this year switched to Scotland a long illness. The McKeowns had their first family and Ireland. Christmas in Evanston since 1969. Tom enjoyed it thor- Lois Eddy Chidsey is secretary of New Milford Zon- oughly-especially having Torn, Jr. Clark and the ing Commission. drives for a volunteer organization three grandchildren there. In Feb., Ruth visited Kathe- and enjoys birds and pool in summer, FL in winter. rine (Kay) Woodward Curtiss in Fl for ltldays and saw Harriet Hickok Hardy Kenyon has married a retired all the gals. lawyer. living winters in a NY apartment and summers Martha Funkhouser Adamson Berner took a Greek in her Galena, OH home. Island cruise with friends in the fall. The month of Ruth Johnson, after two years at CC, studied nursing March was spent in a condominium on Marco Island, at Yale and received her MA and PhD at Columbia. FL. There she had visits from friends and from her two She is retired granddaughters. In April, she went to Winterthur with Jane Moore Warner's volunteer activities keep her Class Notes Editor her Garden Club. Her granddaughter's graduation from college in Lynchburg, VA, was in May. Easter was intellectually stimulated. Son in Fort Worth calls for Roberta Finley '71 travel. Other son and three grandchildren are nearby. spent in VA to see her greatgrandson for the first time. Martha (Marty) Hickam Stone and Charles are Vivien Noble Wakeman covered New Guinea and a R FD 3, Lewis Road enjoying Tucson. They escaped the '82 summer heat by few unexplored islands before stopping for a few week's Norwich, CT 06360 taking trips in the Southwest and a cruise to AK. In rest en route home. Viv claims 13 grandchildren and Feb .. they met several couples in Hawaii and took a three greats. Delray was her rest spot. week's cruise. In Hawaii, she had lunch with Helen Marjorie Platz Murphy's eight grandchildren are Kirtland Pruyn who is "as pretty as ever." ages three to 20 years. Her winters are in Palm Beach Virginia Latham Pearce feels she is very fortunate to and summers in La Crosse, WI. to Jane Williams Howell for the death of her son. be able to keep active-volunteering in the hospital and Grace Reed Regan's oldest granddaughter has been Correspondents: Wilhelmina Brown Seyfried, 37'S. taking evening sewing classes at the community college. accepted at Cc. The Regans took another trip to Eng- Main St .. Nazareth, PA 18064; Lois Truesdale Gaspar, Daughter Susan works in San Diego and son Alan has land, a favorite place. P.O. 80x 145, Old Saybrook, CT06475 moved back home to NC. Herbigevent in '82 was a trip Virginia ReitZI'll is filling board positions and volun- to the Pacific Northwest from Calgary to SF. Coopera- teering at Historical Society and at Presbyterian tive weather made it possible to see and do everything Crippled Children's Society planned except view Mt. St. Helens. Caroline Rice urges all to participate in our AAGP Correspondent: Jessie W. Burack (Jessie Esther (Marty) Martin Snow and Bill love their new After much rain, she joined Alice (AI) Kindler and Wachenheim). Box 616, RD I, Lakeshore Dr.. 33 retirement horne. The '82 summer was spent with their Margaret (Peg) Bristol Carleton '29 for their annual Putnam Valley, NY 10579 13 grandchildren (ages one to 15). They took them. two birding trip. at a lime. on vacations at inns or tenting. In Aug., Elizabeth Rieley Armington took a Royal Viking Marty's two grandsons new from Atlanta for a visit. In Cruise from New England to Montreal. Later, she Feb., she Spent nine days in Stone Mountain, GA, visited AK. babysitting three grandchildren and the boxer dog, Margaret Rood McLean hasa retired husband. three Lydia (Jill) Albree Child and Sam have decided while son Bob, Jr., and Katy vacationed in the Baha- married children and seven grandchildren. After 47 to return to Middletown. CT, permanently and mas. In March, her younger son, Richard. was married years of moving in and out of Methodist Church par- 35 take up where they left offin 1977. They keep busy with to Jo Lee Roberts in Eugene. OR. sonages, they live in their own home in NC. Having volunteer work in the local hospital. the Meriden Soup Janet Paulson Kissling reports that son Lee is a completed courses at a local community college, Peggy Kitchen, and church work. For four months last year, happy bachelor banker in Scottsdale. AZ. Daughter is serving the needy at a Christian Ministries Cenler. they tra veled in their camper 10 the Canad ian Rockies. Barbara. her husband and two children live in Bir- Gertrude Smith Cook spent a week with lawyer son. A K, and the West Coast. They visited one son in Seattle mingham, MI, where he works for 3M. As for Janet, Lee, in Atlanta and a time with sister Madelyn Smith and one in CA and met their first granddaughter. They she's well, happy and busy. She plays a lot of golf, some Gibson '26 in NY welcomed another grandson in Boston in Aug. '82. bridge. and does needlepoint Anna Swanson Varnum enjoys senior citizens and Olive Birch Lillich and Frederick spent Jan. in AZ Mary Savage Collins had been coping since Christ- church. Dolly nics from CA to RI for a month at the and Juneand July in the Northwest and British Colum- mas with a bout of shingles in the scalp, eye and ear. She shore. bia. Their newest grandchildren are twin girls, born in says that "like other things. this. too, shall pass." Her Lois Truesdale Gaspar saw Jane Williams Howell in Nov. The Lilliches found the So. CA winter wet. but not three children are fine, happily married and involved in FL attended Jim's Yale reunion and the went off to cold. their careers. She has two grandchildren. Son Tom, in Germany. Lois' oldest, a major in the Air Force. is Catherine(Kay) Cartwright Backus and Gene spent a public relations with Mobil, has returned to NY from almost through a doctorate. busy '82. They visited friends and relatives in AZ and Chicago and he and his family will be living in Stam- Muriel Williams spent a week with Dorothy (Dot) CA. went to OH for a family wedding. and to Europe ford, CT. Hare Moore in avocado capital of world. Fallbrook, where they toured Italy. France and Portugal in cele- Elizabeth (Beth) Sawyer, with 100 Ibs. of German CA and another week with Margaret (Betty) Rathbone bration of Gene's retirement. Their first gra ndchild was Shepherd, spends six months in Washington, NH, and '32 in DC. born to son David and Donna April 7. Son Paul was goes south to Norwich, CT for the six cold morTths. Elinor Wells Smith'sdaughter-in-lawstudies nursing married March 31. She's still amazed to find a chem major writing the at Texas Women's U. Oldest grandson is on his own. Corinne (Rene) Dewey Walsh, after three months in alumni column, and even more amazed to have written, Two others are in school. Bridge and senior citizen casts, now has successful plastic joints in both thumbs. this year, a "History of Christ Church. Norwich." It was events keep her going. She traveled to Arbuckle Moun- By the end of May, she was able to visit China for a derived from the vestry notes, 1747to 1981, The reading tain, OK. month. In July. the eldest son and family will move into proved very difficult with many of the pages photo- Beatrice Whitcomb took a Grand Orient Tour. Bea a house across the street from her stated (white print on a black background) and others recommends a survival course before that trip from Ruth Fairfield Day finds retirement great. She left faded longhand. Tampa to Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Bali, Hong the luggage shop in '82. Em left Northwestern Medical Lois Smith MacGiehan reports the birth to daughter Kongand finally the Panama Canal. Thereare over 150 School in '81. They are very thankful to feel so healthy Ruth of a new granddaughter in Greenville, SC in Jan in her area CC Club and still full of vigor. The news of their children: Tad, Lois spent 10 days there helping out and admiring. In Evelyn Whittemore Woods spent some time with his wife and three children are in Minneapolis where he ApriL she visited daughter Judy in DC. There. she was daughter and family in Houston. In Stratton, VT she loves his work in physics at the Gray Freshwater Bio- introduced to roller skating competition by grand- and husband ski and revel in books at the inn's library. logical Institute. Bob and his son Christopher live in daughter Nancy I I. already a beautiful skater. Jane Williams Howell entertained many visitors in Mundelein. He works at SI. Therese Hospital in IL. Virginia (Ginny) Whitney MeKee had a busy winter Sarasota. Among them were Fanny Young Sawyer '30, Nancy and her three children live in Chappaqua. NY. in Sanibel Island, FL. despite very cool and rainy Alta Colburn Steege and Lois Truesdale Gaspar. For Bonnie is an attorney in St. Louis. MO. Shery. pres- weather, She often sees Margaret (Peg) Bear Gardner summer, Jane returned to VT. ently in Seattle with an M.A. in quantum chemistry, '40 and Elisabeth (Betsy) Beals Steyaart '36. In the fall Virginia Yancey Sanford plans to look up the CC hopes 10 enter medical school in the fall. of'82, she and Henrydrove 9500 miles to OH, MN, WA Club on her next trip to FL. where she stayed recently Merion (Joey) Ferris Ritter and Julius spent a couple and OR and the Southwest. In May, they planned a trip for six weeks. of days on the CCcampusat the "Directions" program. to N.E. for Henry's 50th reunion at Dartmouth, then Wilhelmina (Billie) Brown Seyfried's annual trip to They came away with their minds buzzing with new home. via Cape Cod and New London. daughter and family in northwest MI was a delight. The thoughts-a comprehensive picture of the college today Agatha Zimmerman Schmid has two children, Susan children follow the seasons-from downhill to water and ambitious plans for tomorrow. Joey feels that Calderwood lives in Liberty. ME with her two children. skiing. going coed has added new dimension to campus life. Charles, married to Linda Dexter '64, lives on Bain- We extend sympathy to the families of Harriet Bah- athletics and scholarship. Her life in MA is busy with bridge Island, WA with their two children. ney Wylie, Virginia David Morrison, Imogene Man- four grandchildren next door. Although FL was rainy Our class extends sincere sympathy to Ruth ning Tarcauanu, M.D. and Marjorie Smith Sites. to last winter. she says "at least it didn't have to be shov- Me Keown and her two sons on her husband Thomas' Gertrude Smith Cook for the loss of her son, Bruce. and eled." In March, Julius underwent major surgery, but death.

25 Correspondent: Elizabeth W. Sawyer. I I Scotland French. One of ther granddaughters graduated from Janet Thorn Waesche and Russell's youngest. lillian. sa.. Norwich Town. CT06J60 high school. and won a trophy for the second time for graduated from Washburn U. Law School in Topeka best actress. and passed the Kansas Bar Exam. Their other-children Mary "Betty" Corrigan Daniel's middle daughter, live in Fort Worth. Mill Valley. CA. and Louisville. Lisa. was married in March to Steven McKenna and They enjoy living in mid-America but look forward to Since Dorothy Bald~in retired, s~e has be~n will be close to Cleveland in Perry, OH. The eldest their annual summer month on Long Island 37 busy spinning, weavmg and making bobbin daughter. Mary. and her family are nearby so Betty sees Elizabeth von Colditz Bassett and Ralph were in lace. Dot is active as recording secretary for four groups her three grandchildren often. Amy. the youngest southern Germany and Austria for three weeks in May in NJ-New England Women, Overseas Neighbors. daughter is in Stephens College. Betty keeps busy at with a small group from the senior center and half of Montclair Historical Society, and Descendants of home and in her garden and is also a trustee at Hath- their German class. Betty saw Mildred Garnett Metz Founders of NJ (before 1685), the latter of which she away-Brown School. when she was in Evanston. II.. for a high school was a founder. She is also treasurer of the Montclair Ellen Cronbach Zimmerman and Ruth Barr Robb reunion. Women's Club and DAR Chapter in Montclair. In have visited on Longboat Key, FL, where Ruth now Dorothy Wadhams Cleaveland is.still under her doe- addition. Dot travels a great deal, enjoying trips to the lives and where Ellen spends the winters. tor's care but was well enough to enjoy a VISitfrom her Orient. Antigua, St. Maarten. and England and Scot- Virginia Deuel is in the throes of planning her 50th son and his wife last November and one from her land. high school reunion which we arc all "celebrating" this daughter and family just before Easter. Beulah Bearse West and Art don't spend all their time year. She spent the month of March in FL playing golf Bernice M, Wheeler discovered the charm of Cedar on the golf course in Sun City, having spent a, month in spite of the terrible weather. . Key on the west coast of FL this winter and saw her first touring Fiji. ~ew Zealand, Austraha and Tahiti, and Barbara Fawcett Schreiber reports that she IS still living manatee. She continues her volunteer work at the taking a three-week bus tour through Denmark, Nor- deep in education, completing her 20th year on the Thames Science Center and Lyman Allyn Museum. way and Sweden. They also visited one son in VA and Canton. OH City Board of Education and her sixth as a The class extends its deepest sympathy to Barbara one in Denver and spent two weeks in the East, where director of the National School Boards Association, Haines werbe on the death of her husband. Tom. m they visited CC-"whatluxury they enjoy there now." representing nine states of the Central Region. She is February and to Mildred Garnett Metz on the death of Lois Beckwith Ottinger and Guy have been Northern now president of the Canton Recreation Board andjust her husband, Don. in March. Californians ever since Guy retired from USCG as a completed a six-year term as president of a Girl Scout Correspondent: Winifred Seale Siougtner. 8 Crom- captain in '60, joining Lockheed until '73. Both are Council. Last October she was honored by the Canton well Place, Old Saybrook. CT06475 much involved in volunteer work In that area. Their Chamber of Commerce with their Community Award three sons are westerners also. Lois and Guy have two of Appreciation and in February she received the grandchildren in San Diego. Rotary Paul Harris Award which provides a scholar- Virginia Belden Miller and Ed have lived seven years ship for foreign exchange study for an American stu- During the 45th Reunion Weekend 30 class- in ME "with the mountains at our backs and Penobscot dent. Presently she chairs the Advisory Committee for rna tes and 14 husbands returned to the campus. Bay as our front yard." and keep busy with volunteer 38 the Educational Dept. of Walsh College and is secretary jobs. many visitors. and gardening. Their CA son visits representing 13 states and London. England. The first for the Walsh College Advisory Board. In May she was once a year and the other son and daughter live in M A annual parade by classes and the picnic were rained out. elected a trustee of Malone College. In addition, she has and visit more often. Jinny and Ed have six grandchil- Therefore. after a picnic in Harris Refectory. our c.lass five grandchildren living ncar and reports life is full. dren. Jinny keeps up with her music by playing piano meeting was held in the House Fellow's room 10 Wright Dorothy Fuller Higgins and Henry made their Janu- duets and two piano once a week with a talented new Dormitory. In the absence of Pres. Elizabeth (Liz) ary trip to CA to help their grandson celebrate his first friend. Fielding, M.e. Jenks Sweet, Pres. pro tern and Re- birthday. He is the son of their younger daughter Margaret Bennett Hires and Dick opened up their union Chairman, opened the meeting by reading a let~er Deborah and Richard Blomgren of Lakewood. Dot hideaway on Cape Cod and then left for a trip to from Liz. Winifred (Winnie) Frank Have!t gave a brief enjoys 'all the usual activities of retirees, plus acting as Norway, Sweden. and Denmark, returning to the Cape Treasurer's report. After presenting a copy of G.ert~ude docent at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in in June. Noyes. "History of Connecticut College" to Wmme.F South Norwalk, CT. Good news was received from Norma Bloom Hauser- Havell. the meeting was turned over to Jane Hutchin- Adelyne Gitlin WilsorJ and her sister Betty '30, who man-a new house on Lake Toxawag in western NC, son Cauffield, nominating chairman now lives with her. went to Europe and Israel. Adelyne where she and John will spend six months of the year New officers elected are: Pres. Winnie F. Havell, still teaches. subbing an average of three days a week. and six months in FL They have two new grandchil- Trees. Katherine (Kay) Boutwell Hood, Class Agent and keeps fit by walking five miles daily. dren-a son to John Jr. and wife Margy and a daughter Winifred Nies Northcott, Cor. Sec. M.C. Jenks Sweet. Fay Irving Squibb and George winter in Naples, FL to their youngest daughter Annette and her husband Reunion Committee: Selma (Sally) Kingsdale Lewen- Their eldest da ugh ter, Dianna. who is curator of decor- and see Frances Wallis Sandford often. They have nine berg, Kay B. Hood, Marjorie Mintz Dietz, May Nel- ative arts at the Brooklyn Museum. is preparing a show grandchildren and are expecting two more-"light of son Selma Silverman Swatsburg and M.e. J. Sweet. our lives." called "The Machine Age," depicting how the machine Fra~ces Walker Chase spoke briefly about the Chase pulled us out of the great Depression. Norma and John Katherine Kirchner Grubb saw Egypt this spring Memorial Fund established in memory of her husband. work constantly on the MS Board in Florida with her 15-year-old granddaughter. a sophomore at Richard and our classmate Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Hotchkiss. It was so great, she may also take her to Italy Edith Burnham Carlough and Carlton have made no Chase Scully, and Greece. Kay enjoyed a visit with Ruth Scales After the meeting adjourned. several of us .we.ntto world-wide field trips but do visit their son and family Snyder in Newtown, CT. Kay says a big part of her life in Hershey. PA and their two daughters in Boston. Prof. and Mrs. Chu's Open House. Others went 10 all now revolves around a darling redheaded 3-year-old directions, to fa verite haunts on and off campus, and to They enjoy the Cape after all the tourists "have gone grandson. the various activities and meetings planned for the week- back to wherever they carne from." Alexandra Korsmeyer Stevenson and AI. who have a Constance Campbell Collins wrote that she recuper- end. One we attended. was the bus tour of downtown son and family in Australia, a daughter and her hus- New London and the new college sports complex. ated for over two months after suffering from bronchial band in London, and a daughter in New York, spent pneumonia in March. Forty-three people, including our guests. Charles and two months in French Polynesia, Fiji, Australia and Emroy Carlough Roehrs and Kurt spent the winter in Betty Chu. climaxed the day with a delicious dinner at New Zealand last winter. Alex also visited a friend in Flood Tide Restaurant overlooking the Mystic RIver. Cocoa Beach and were delighted to see Elh:lIbeth FL where they were both guests of Elizabeth (Liz) Ayer The crowning touch was the large bouquet o~ carna- (Betty) Von Coldttz Bassett and her husband Ralph on Newman and Frank. Al and she also see Cornelia Had- Merrill Island nearby. Emroy is hopeful we can whip tions, sent by Mary Hellwig Gibbs with the WIsh that sell Mott and Garret. AI has now retired to consulting. up a lot of enthusiasm for a big 50th reunion in '87. each classmate be given a flower. . . J, Blanche Mapes Klein and Gardner spent Thanks- Dorothy Chalker Panas spent Easter in Ft. Smith, Regarding our lost banner and its origin, according giving In NV VISltlng daughter Catherine and while AR, visiting and enjoying Adam's daughter, grand- to the secretary's report brought to reunion by Marcella there, the floor of their 8-foot fireplace and the entire children, and star-of-the-visit. great-granddaughter. Brown in our freshman year. designs fora banner were 10-foot stone hearth of the old (circa 1737) side of their DOllie keeps busy during the winter in Ft. Pierce with submitted to a committee of ten, On Jan. 10, 1935. the house in W. Long Branch. NJ fell into the cellar. The concert series, boat trips. and the Embroiderer's Guild. winner was Katherine Schnee, d h~anh was their Customary perch for reading the eve- They also enjoy golfing. the beach. and Burt Reynolds I regret to report that Greta Anderson Schultz passe nmg paper. They had much to be thankful for at Dinner Theater. Thanksgiving. away in Jan. 1983. After a very busy tax season in Green Valley. AZ. Correspondent: Mrs. Wiffiam L Sweet (Me. where she works for a local CPA, Priscilla Cole Duncan Margaret McConnell Edwards still volunteers four Jenh), 361 WesISI .. Needham, MA 02194 and Jim took a trip in their travel trailer to southern mornings a week at a downtown school in Cincinnati NM and southern AZ. Saw several big-horned owls and she and George, who is still Chief Judge of the 6th with owlets and caught a glimpse of the coppery-tailed C.ir~uit U.S. Court of Appeals, have taken up scuba dIVing, which they call "Under Golden Pond." Peg saw ttogon at Cave Creek. Frances O'Keefe Cowden is president of the Elizabeth Mendillo DeFelice for lunch in Miami last The MarchI April issue of Spinning Wheel magazine Democratic Women of Westport. Since Jack winter. Petey lives in Boynton Beach. 39 published Louise Cook Swan's five-page anicle on retired, the Cowdens have traveled a lot-to Greec.e. After a broken left ankle and a broken right hip in Canadian cut glass and the publisher is now examining Egypt, Franeeand fall of'83 to portugal where they wIll 1981, Dorothy Richardson has resumed h~r activities in her manuscript for a book on American Brilliant rent a villa. They have five fabulous grandchddren. the DAR, women's clubs, hospital auxiliary. etc. She Period cut and engraved glass. Louise still teaches Elisllbeth (Betts) Lyon Bagg has had a difficult tWO and her brother .do a great deal of traveling and recently piano, sings in church choir. and tutors a student in years, including the death of her husband He~ry from were in Washington and Williamsburg. cancer in May '82. This spring she spent SIX weeks

26 Cummings. Social highlights werea party at the Niantic home of Larry and Betsey Pease Marshall, our reumon chairman. Betsey's handmade quilts were admired. At the banquet, our outgoing president, Barbara Bachelor Hamlin was honored; Brooks Johnstone R E N I N Saltsman is our new president. Janet Sessions Beach u o announced our gift of $2,000 to the college. We are iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Ju n e 1- 3, 19 8 4 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii particularly proud of Martha Boyle Morrisson, who was awarded the Agnes Berkeley Leahy award for outstanding service to the Alumni Association. Sunday afternoon at Grove Beach, Barbara Heil- mann and .hcr brother, Vic. hosted a cookout for a group. Betsey and Larry Marshall, Bob and Jane Storms Wenneis, Mary Jane Dole Morton, Kathryn (Kay) Hadley Inskeep, and Claire Peterson Kincaid. We wafted our Alma Mater over Long Island Sound. We are looking forward to our 45th and 50th reunions with better intentions of communicating more often with each other; we urge those who did not attend to plan to do so-they will be glad they did. Correspondents." Mrs. LAwrence B. Marshall (Betsey Pease), 4 North Rd.. Niantic. 06357; Mrs. Stafford Campbell(Margie Livingston); 3861 Wayland St., Jack- sonvitte, FL32211

Peripatetic '45-ers could have staged a reunion 45 at the Great Wall. Note that five members of the class visited China recently. Any others? Carolyn Arnoldy Butler came to the States from the Philippines for daughter Susan's May 21 marriage to . Thomas Niblock in DC, which brought all six Butler offspring together for the first time since '68. Arriving out-of-town guests attended the rehearsal dinner, high- Mark your calendar, call your friends, and plan now lighted by a gorgeously costumed exhibition of Philip- for a terrific reunion weekend at Connecticut pine dances. Lynn BUller, a physician at Brooklyn Jew- ish Hospital, was maid-of-honor. Also assembling for the occasion were Betty Barnard Berdan, Patricia Feldman Whitestone, Eleanor Koenig Carleton, Nancy McKewen Curme, Florence Murphy Gorman and respective spouses. All '45-ers let their hair down afterwards at the Carletons' new Rockville, M D, home, visiting their four children in L.A., NJ and MA. While senior citizens and their activities on Cape Cod. Brad looking at old CC photos, even singing old Conn Show in Omaha she and her daughter went to Kansas City to talks with Elizabeth (Beth) Main Chandler (part-time songs and vowing to get together more often. visit Jane Guilford Newlin for two days and also saw admissions at Wellesley) and Barbara Berman Levy, Jean Thomas Lambert moved to Columbus in Nov. Louise Carroll McCorkle for a great reunion. Dr. Estelle Fasolino Ingenito has been an epidemiol- '82 where she volunteers at a day care center. Tennis Another reunion was the annual one on FL's West ogist at the Metropolitan Hospital in Philadelphia for and traveling are other favored activities. While in the Coast-this year grown to ten. Doris Houghton Ott five years. Previously, she had been 12 years with the Virgin Islands, Jean bought a condo on SI. Croix. and Major came from PA. Virginia Taber McCamey PA Dept. of Health and the Governor's Council on Other trips included Copenhagen. England, the Greek and Frank from GA, Carol Prince Allen and Lew from Drugand Alcohol Abuse. Husband Francis is a systems Isles and skiing in CO with son Tom. NJ and Elaine DeWolfe Cardillo and Bob from VA to analyst. Mary Ann Riegel Lockbart continues on the Planned join local residents: Barbara Myers Haldt and Peale, Pres. Virginia Newberry Leach and Philip recently Parenthood board. Visited China Spring '83, a hard Rachael Homer Babcock and Willard. Beatrice (Rea) returned from a trip to Indonesia. They attended the trip but a fascinating experience. After almost 40 years Dodd Foster and Bud, Nancy Weston Lincoln and Pops Concert for CC in Boston; then, into the hospital of marriage, Mary Ann finds life as exciting, "but it John. Winifred Valentine Frederiksen and Eunice for Ginny for a total hip replacement. takes more time to get things done." She leaves CA Cocks Millard. Among the events was a splendid pot Jane Merritt Bentley and Richard. new residents of often to visit her father, children and nine grandchil- luck dinner hosted by the Lincolns. Nevada City. CA, also love their winters in Tucson with dren on the East Coast, MN and IL. Smaller reunions in '84 will give way to the big45that the dry heat and eternal sunshine. Alice McEwan Perkins still loves her busy life of Cc. Don't miss it. Phyllis Walters Williams and Jack still enjoy travel- retirement in Walpole. NH. Two weddings in '82-'83 Correspondent, Mrs. Robert J. Cardillo (Elaine ing. especially a trip from Portland, OR, sailing the make a perfect score with all five children married. DeWolfe). /325 Baycliff Drive, Virginia Beach, VA Columbia and Snake Rivers. Enjoyable also was visit- Constance Barnes Mermann is batting three for four with the wedding, May 21 in Guilford, CT, of daughter 23454 ing beautiful Harbor Springs, ML Shirley Stuart Fick is doing volunteer tutoring on a Elizabeth to Steven Defelice. Connie is a librarian at Lots of new grandbabies recently born: regular basis for Literacy Volunteers of America. Carl's the local high school, while husband Alan has given up 41 Andrew Christopher to Margaret Kerr Miller latest book, Disturbance in Paris, is doing well. his pediatric practice to become chaplain at the Yale and Edgar. Millers enjoyed a Rower and Garden Tour Get well Patricia (Patty) Fulmer Landis in Dayton. Medical School of Western Europe, a big family reunion in Missouri Daughter is a CC grad. Marjorie Schultz, program planner for the Council and their 39th Reunion. Kerry is recovering from very Sympathy is extended 10: Edythe (Chipes) VanRees in Social Work Education, is responsible for the annual bad fall Frustrating for anyone, especially a golfer. Conlon and family on the death of Andrew, husband program meeting of social work educators from accred- First baby boy 10 our daughter, Nan Newman San- and father; and to Virginia Davidson Shield's family. A ited schools of social work in the US and Canada, with filippo (77) and Mike, and nephew 10 aunts Rose Ellen letter from her sister Peggy Pharr'44 notified us. Ginny approximately 2,000 attendees last year in Ft. Worth Sanfilippo ('77) and Catherine (Cathy) Newman '82. leaves three children. (Peggy in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, Schultzie lives in NYCand holidays on Nantucket. She We spent this summer near Meredith NH, and missed a is friendly with and plays tennis with Nancy Tremaine has seen Jane Taylor Huffman and Lucile Lebowich meeting with Sally Schley Manegold and Bob who were DeWoody '39, Sally Tremaine North and Janet Peto Darcy and reports both are well. reuning at Dartmouth writes class correspondent Jane McClain.) Marjorie McClellan Feeney has been teaching math Kennedy Newman, Correspondent: Jane Kennedy Newman, Paradise for the past 25 years at Mac Duffie School in Spring- Meanwhile, keep planning for the fabulous-to-be Park, Rt, A, Box 89, Punta Gorda, FL 33950 field, MA. The school sends students to CCand Marjo- 45th in '86. Carol Chappell will be alerting you soon. rie enjoys keeping in touch through them. Daughter Janet Bunyan Kramer and Henry welcomed their Fifty excited alumni converged on campus for Susan heads MacDuffie's science dept., teaching chem- first granddaughter, Janet 43 our 40th Reunion to relive memories and istry, AP biology and whatever science is needed. The Jessie Ashley Scofield is happy to have new grand- cement friendships. A cocktail party to honor Pres. and Feeneys raise and show Shetland sheep dogs son, Peregrine. Mrs. Ames, followed by dinner at Harris was only the . Marjorie Lawrence Weidig, who moved to the Cape Jane Whipple Shaw and Ernie celebrated their 35th beginning of grand gab fest. Our parade avec balloons six years ago when David retired, is now advertising with a trip to Ireland. Second grandchild, Jeffrey, was was rained OUl, but events planned by the college were mgr. for The Cape Codder. a twice-weekly newspaper also welcomed. well attended-faculty open houses, Norman Rockwell based In Orleans. She also does theater reviews in Mary Bradley Langdon Kellogg is still busy with her exhibit at Lyman Allyn, and Alumni Art exhibit at summer. but still misses teaching. Son Blair married

27 , Barbara Palmer died in March '83 after a long illness three years ago and is a chef at the Downtown Club in is married, an aspiring guitar player who supports him- "The class extends deepest sympathy to Barbara's Boston. while wife Beth is a PhD candidate in clinical self and wife by painting houses, but just appeared in family. psychology at BU. Daughter Jane entered Andover Ground Zero, a musical benefit for "No Nukes" Correspondents: Mrs. Dorsey Whitestone (Patricia Newton Theological in September. Marge saw Ethel directed and choreographed bydaughter Margot. Peter Feldman). 73 Kerry lane. Chappaqua. NY 10514:Mrs. Schall Gooch last Fall, says Jane Oberg Rodgers and contributed an animated filmstrip. The entire family £. Brown Leslie. 10 Grimes Road, Old Greenwich, CT Don and Mabel Cunningham were there too. She re- spent two weeks in ME celebrating-the Crosrnans' 40th 06870 ported that the Gooches were in China wedding anniversary. Trimmie is manager of pro- Elaine Parsons Ruggles returned to Montpelier. VT, gramming at Berlex Labs in Wayne, NJ and Dor from a trip to the Far East and Southeast Asia with the designs toys for CBS Toys. MARRIED: Joan Jensen to Douglas Johnston emphasis on China, "the best experience yet." The Elizabeth Seissen Dahlgren's first communication (Williams '35),1/82. Ruggles spent the summer in their house in NH where says Wallic retired from the Coast Guard 10 years ago 47 Joan Jensen Johnston lives in Houston and still they expected Wilda Peck O'Haolon and her husband and has taught in their Lutheran church school ever operates a highly successful design studio. No children to visit. Meanwhile. Billie wrote from Melbourne that since. The Dahlgrens love Hawaii, spending about nine she loves FL. even year found, that she still plays tennis months there, the rest at their Lake George, NY. home. married yet. Susan is a journalist: Nancy, an artist in and does hospital volunteer work but regrets that she They studied Chinese before a three-week trip to China NYC Katy. looking for the perfect job: and Mike. an investment banker. hasn't seen a CC-er in ages. last summer and expect to get to the CC Academy for Charlotte Service Church and husband are finally Wallie's 40th reunion. Betty says that although Eliza- "Delighted to hear our class is to make the class note retired and loving it. Tony had a quadruple .heart beth Elsworth Starbuck and Ray have a home on the column this year-at long last," writes June Williams bypass last year and is just fine now-quite an ordeal other side of the island from the Dahlgreos. they Weber. Many others echo her remarks. She and her however. The Churches spent much of last winter in FL haven't lived there much, as they are back in Saudi husband retired to Hendersonville. NC, in 1973 and and the summer touring Prince Edward Island and Arabia for a year or so. Seiss also reports that Mary have three grandchildren; she keeps busy with many Cape Breton. Offspring Skip. Barbara and Mark are all Brillhart Hackle and George were in Honolulu a few hobbies and sees Nancy Yeager Cole often in nearby well. Barbara and Sarah, 8. and she and her family live days on their way back from visiting one of Molly's Asheville. She attended Nancy's daughter's wedding in Pensacola daughters and family on Fiji. instead of coming to reunion. Helen Savacool Underhill says all goes well in the Jane Oberg Rodgers wrote from Barcelona while Mary Spencer Ransome reports that six of nine aging process: Francis is up to his ears in the local showing daughter Cami a bit of Europe; Spain because child ren are married and there are eight grandchildren. hospice and yours truly back at the local community she is taking Spanish at Wake Forest. Janc-O says this She volunteers for the Leukemia Society. college teaching ESL to Haitian and Cuban migrants was a big year for her-from a large wedding fordaugh- Joan Perry Smith's happy news is a front porch and Cambodian and Polish refugees in the community. ter Holly'74, now a full-Fledged lawyerin CT, in Oct. to wedding of daughter. Susie to David Smith in August The UnderhiJls spent two glorious months back on the Thomas Wescott '75, with loads of CC-ers from classes '82 and a new grandson. Owen Smith, now almost two. old beat in Asia-proving that you can, at least for a '40 to '76; then a Caribbean sojourn at Mabel Cun- Playing golf. gardening and volunteer work keep short while, go home again. They spent two weeks ningham's condo in St. Croix in Feb. with Betty Jane Nancy Noyes Thayer busy when she isn't visiting me to aboard a Scandinavian cruise ship in and around Indo- Gilpin Griffith (Penny); and thence immediately to see a daughter or NJ to see Jean Abernathy Duke. She nesia as guest lecturers, payment for which was the air Lake Tahoe for spring skiing and a family reunion with sees Mary King Urban often and calls her two grand- tickets that took them on the nostalgia sojourn. "The brother Don Oberg's group. She also reported that children "the icing on the cake." way to go" says Savvie. hoping to be invited to do the Nancy Walker Hempton had just returned from seeing Stan and Janice (Choddie.) Somach Schwalm love Borneo cruise next year. both sons and grandson on West Coast. that Panzo's suburban Palm Beach (Wellington) and although he's Louise Markley DeLisle, still holding out at "Fort daughter Wendy is at the U. of MD; and that Ethel retired. she is busy selling real estate. Twins Barbara Delisle." Scottsdale, AZ, has a large class of piano Schall Gooch is on a trip to China, where Warne was and Peggy work for Wang and Pan Am respectively: pupils and IS active in the Phoenix Piano Teachers invited as an engineering consultant. and Cathy '69 has a daughter who may become a fourth Assn. Lunched with Corinne Myers Stransky when Margery Rogers Safford visited her prep school generation CC alum. She and Stan are Australia bound Teed visited In Feb. and caught up on news of The classmate, Jean Harris, in the Bedford (NY) Correc- this summer, She reports seeing Elizabeth (Candy) Chicago Crowd. Louise hopes to make reunion one of tiona! Facility. The Saffords then had a reunion dinner Faulk looking wonderful and asks any classmates In these years- "the 50th'?" with Patricia (Pat) Feldman Whitestone and Dorsey in So. FL to be in touch. (Alumni Office will send class- . Elsie Macmillan Connell wrote the day after husband Chappaqua. The Saffords live in Williamstown MA mates' addresses on requcst.] JIm, an IBM attorney, officially retired (with a lot of (Lou's hometown) where Midge is a docent at theClark After 20 years as an economist for the U.S. Dept. of embarrassing pomp) and they moved to Edgartown. Art Institute and Lou is 90 percent retired but active in Commerce, Jeanne Stiefel Goodman retired last year MA, for the summer. Scottie's view now was misty Williams affairs and on the piano keyboard. The Saf- on disability. She is associate editor for the Newsletter marsh and steel-gray pond and sky, typical of a Mar- fords spent Garden Week in VA after a month's art of the Parkinson Support Group in DC area. and a tha's Vineyard early spring, instead of the turquoise history trip to Italy with five others. They have a choco- volunteer for an experimental medical program con- Gulf of Naples, FL. Next step: an addition to the shack late lab. two grandsons and three children. all of whom ducted at the Nat'! lnsututes of Health researching so they can stash their belongings. They haven't missed still live in Cleveland. cause and cure of Parkinson's. Oldest child, Nancy, has the NYC area yet. Jeffrey Ferguson is pursuing new career as voca- presented them with their only grandchild. seven-year· Eleanore Strohm Leavitt reported that since this is tio~a.l deacon in Episcopal ch urch.j ust started two-year old Jonathan and she works for Computer ServIce the y~ar of. one of the big ones (age 60), Margot Hay trarmng program. She is an active volunteer with Girl Corp., develo~ing computer services for Saudi Ara~ia. Harr~son, five others and herself recently had a wonder- Scout board, Church camp board United Way and Michael (oldest son) is a meteorologist in DC workmg ful BIrthday Bash. The Leavitts enjoy visits from their MEY . ' . N outh ~amplng Assn, where she is outgoing pres. for a consulting firm out of the Goddard Space Fhght grand~a.ughter (age one May '83), a few weeks in ancy Bailey Neely enclosed a rcprmt of an article Center. Brian graduated from James Madison U. '82. Hawaii I~ Feb. and are currently working on the golf describing her expa nded and very successful Shun Pi ke He works in Virginia Beach for Cox Cable TV with and tennis close to their Hilton Head Island home T.ours: She and husband Marvin offer personalized sales and marketing. Husband Seymour t5 a retired ~ouise Schwarz AlIi~ skies in the winter (Zer~att. Foreign Service Officer and retired Com.mere.e Dep!. Switzerland and St. Christoph, Austria)and golfs in the historical tours of the four-county area surrounding policy and planning expert in the export!lcensmg pro- s.ummer near home in Milwaukee. The Allises have also Bucks Cou~ty, PA and limousine service to the major gram. Having spent five years in Northern Ireland and fished for Atlantic salmon off Iceland the past two transportation terminals in the area and NYC She the Republic of Ireland. and having tasted !lfe In summers. Mugsy's daughter lives in Casablanca wntes.that. although her first interest is her family, France. Spain, and Italy. their next trip will take them Morocco, where her husband heads Citibank Mug , ~ncludlng five grandchildren. she wants to keep work- had l.u~ch in Chicago with Corinne (Teed) Strans~~ Ing and. it is hard work with little time off. The article to Austria and Greece. Priscilla Baird (Prill) Hinckley has just had her first who IS In the travel business. ends wah the quote "I may go crazy but I wo,'t b' bored," piece on African art published in a magazine by the Mary.AlIen Thompson Barnes Naulin married D same name. She's off for twO months to the Upper Naulm In Jan. '82. Originally from Milwaukee b~~ L Marcia Faust McNees and husband Jack visited recently from Rochester. NY, he is an old family f;iend Mondon. Monaco, France. Spain and Portugal in Volta to complete rescarch on a children's dance., She and ."':'Idower.of several years. The Naulins' combined arch '83 She writes that Betty Ann Anderson Wiss- visited (4/82) with journalisL Joan Whalen Ed\<\ards famll~es conSIst o~ hiS three grown children and Mar mMan'sdaughter Laura Jeanne had her second daughter (covering Central America) and Mary Jo Culbertson Allen s three still In school (Caroline at P' .. C y ay I. 1983. Pendleton in WA and "to talk for threc solid days affer lege adS h . rtnClpla 01- S. n .et and Amandaat Principia Upper School) b A:ntoinette Corson Rothfuss' husband Bill sold his a 25-year interim was terrific:' ~~ce their weddmg, the Naulins have traveled to CA ,,;slness. They spend most winters sailing their ketch "Olc" and Joanna Swain Olsen retircd three years avedancer In the C 'bb . ' ago a Ild divide their time a mong three granddaughters. a . FL.,L?ndo~ ..Scotland and Antigua. After gettin - Antigua and' h an ean and last wmter visited d t the Cana- Master s In pohtlcal SCIence, Mary Aile' I f g . t e Grenadines. She notes that the Roth- summcr sailing north from PugetS oun 0 k fuss famIly has bee .. d b job In that field is on hold. n span or a . n Jome y three grandchildren in dtan Gulf Islands. vol unteering at Ihe local food ban.. th I EIi1.abeth Trimble Crosman and 0 east two years Th . . and enjoying the Orient. She strongly recommends vlS M or went to SF in and a , d . elryoungestson Pcterisstillsingle eo r . ay to see daughter Darcy receive her certificate as s u ent at the U of GA iting China "before the navor gets lost in Ihe nam. Charlotte Kava h D' . Journeyman welder in. Local 342 of Steamfitters an~ boro Nih nag uvally WTlles from Willing- progress." I can certainly second that after our VtSlttn Welders. She was the fIrst of two women t d h after'a .,.t ~thusbandJerrypassedawayinOct.1982 fall '82. ..' . h doll house and the Union Hall celebration was boi~t 0 so t ere. MemphiS IS the site of C. Robm Ltd .. ted pathy ~'h"fll1lne~s. The class extends its deepest sym- e Crosman childrcn. all SF residents. attende~~~~s~ ~:~ . ar otte IS stIll working DIU' . shop that Mary Ellen (Mel) Luff Clayton has own k engineering librarian. at rexe nlverSltyas and run for six years. She and John traWl 10 kecp trae

28 of six children and five grandchildren throughout the recently moved to Clinton to split the commute. Her through Vero Beach. Judith Damery Miner (Janice's country. husband is adminisrrative law judge in New Haven with daughter. CC '83) has won a Fulbright-Hays Scholar- Constance Walker Thompson keeps busy with Social Security. Last summer they planned to visit Scot- ship for 1983·84. Her major is European history and she volunteer work. travel. (daughter in Dallas and son in land and then travel continuously whcn they retire in a hopes to study in Germany and plans a career in foreign GA) and work on an old house with four apartments few years service that she bought in Baltimore several years ago. Marilou Widdell Wynne and Don retired a few years Ada Maislen Goldstein is still regional director at "Thirty-six years, three children and six grandchil- ago and split their time between vero Beach and Cleve- Conn General Ins. Co. (CIGNA) in Hartford. Her hus- dren later find me teaching special ed. at Winthrop land. They have a condo on the Inland Waterway- band retired this year giving him more time to improve elementary school right behind the CGA:" writes Mary Indian River and go boating, play golf and tennis. Saw his tennis game. Her son is corporate counsel for Hart- Vance Smeraldi. In March '83" she and Ange had an Janice Damery Miner at their son's 1981 wedding and ford. Her daughter just completed a Ph.D. in econom- incredible two-week legal tour of China. They have would love to see any other classmates who pass ics from Penn, is married, living in NYC and working for the Federal Reserve Bank. She and her daughter went to Russia in May with the Friendship Force and have enjoyed travel to london and Israel in the past few years. The winter found Elizabeth McKey Hulbert traveling from ME to FL now she's back home in Manset, MA. in her shoreside house where she does freelance articles for Yankee. Ftberans. N. Arner Decoy. Maine Life, and Down East. Hereldest son, Bill. and wife have moved to Barngate. NJ; daughter Kate works at Rhine- beck Country School with retarded children; and son Tom is a soccer player and student at U, of So. ME. Elizabeth saw our President, Ann Wetherald Graff, on her travels this winter. Aneh has been busy this year trying to get an artists cooperative off the ground. There are 20 artists represented-established and emerging-with diverse styles She invites classmates to visit if they are in the Pough- keepsie area. She and her husband visited Dick and Lorraine (Larry) Pimm Simpson in Largo this winter. Anch and larry drove north and stopped to see Nancy Yeager Cole in Asheville and Barbara Otis in DC Barbara has changed from Commerce to State Dept. and is involved with small business information for the Third World Countries. Travel in the line-of-duty gets Barbara to far-away places. Ann (A.B.) Riley Browne divides her time between Planned Parenthood, three grandchildren, travel with Morgan. FL, winters, and tennis in New Canaan and elsewhere. She's looking forward to our next reunion. For the past 24 years, Susan Studner Solomon has been on staff half-time at Family Consultation Service of Eastchester, NY; for 20 years, private practice at home; for 34 years full-time married to the same man; and for 24 years mother of two daughters. Sue says "the space and opportunity to grow in all of these time spans Links in a distinguished chain has been liberating-sometimes painful-so what else is new?" At FCS she does psychotherapy with people from many walks of life, supervises interns, consults Dressed for the New London weather, with teachers at a variety of grade levels, and has put "After the library, the second evidence together a mental health skit called "Family Follies," of academic quality that impressed the above, are some of the distinguished which has been taped for a local cable station. She has accrediting agencies was the chain of faculty members during President Mar- seen Janice Damery Miner, Marna Seaman Evans, and distinguished faculty," writes Gertrude shall's administration: Left to right: Ruth Barry Klaas within the past year. Henry Wells Lawrence, professor of Norma (Rosy) Wittelshorer Fink is taking a breather E, Noyes '25 in her book, A History of after 12 years of work heading a federally-funded pro- Connecticut College. "From its earliest history; David D. Lieb, professor of gram to prepare women for managerial roles. She has publications the College had professed mathematics; Herbert Z. Kip, professor also been working for Gulf Oil Management Institute 'to offer college work of grade and value of German; Garabed K. Daghlian, pro- and teaching at Harvard. She will soon "continue to fessor of physics and astronomy; and work in the area of adult preparation for changing second to none.' Under President Sykes' careers in the context of publicj private consortiums." leadership the College's experimental William Bauer, professor of music. Her husband. Aaron. retired recently as supt. of schools outlook had attracted lively minds to its Please send $20 plus $2 for postage in Newton. MA. and is now senior consultant to the faculty, and President Marshall was and handling for each copy of the col- College Board. They have two daughters, Patty at lege history to: The Alumni Associa- Kaiser Permanent HMO in CA and Amy, dairy farm- careful to maintain the high level of ing in MA. In addition to work she and Aaron travel- appointments. " tion, Box 1624, Connecticut College. most recently to China where he headed a delegation of educators who were invited to see the Chinese system- and spend time at their VTfarm. She says she feels sadly OUI of touch with her CC pals. but many returned postcards with news for this column will remedy that. Name ~ _ Janet Pinks Welti and Phil have had quite a year- two weddings 10 weeks apart! Craig in Tampa where he lives; Gail at home in Fort Wayne. Son, Ward, traveled Address _ from Phoenix to be in both weddings. Gail has been in remission for three years from Hodgkins disease, and she and Bruce will move to Boulder, CO, where he will ______Zip _ continue to design software computer programs. Phil is recovering well from three by-passes and hopes to retire soon. Pinky continues on the Old Fort Wayne Board of Directors, an historical reconstruction; quilts, sews, Please enclose gift card O. Message _ gardens, refinishes antiques, and claims to be "addicted to both duplicate bridge and golf." Two of our class are active in politics. Josephine

29 (Jodie) Murdoch Donaldson is a Borough Council- cookout. Instead. we resorted to an indoor picnic. By JUSTICE GARIBALDI woman and serves on the Advisory Council of Bergen evening, t he weather had improved and we were able to gather for a cocktail party held by Mary Jane Coons Continued from page /3. County, NJ, office on aging. Joan Rosen Kemler is in her fifth term as a CT State Johnson and her husba rid. Robert. at their magnificent during her first year on the Supreme Court, Representative. She says "hanging in there" is the name 18th century home in Old Lyme. Due to further kind of the game. and "continuity in the legislative branch arrangements by the Johnsons. we went on to the Old she has been careful not to label herself in strengthens its role as overseer." They are happy as two Lyme Country Club for a scrumptious meal. ideological terms, saying instead, "I was so children have moved back home, although it means After dinner, outgoing Pres Virginia Berman involved in my first term getting organized more frequent trips 10 the market. Slaughter presided at an informal meeting. It was voted that I did not have time to analyze my Marvelous page I picture of Patricia (Pat) Robinson to establish a book fund from our class treasury in and her lobstering partner, Arlene Hanchett in the memory of our deceased classmates. They are: Mar)' decisions. " Kennebec Happening-and the tale of their enterprise Coleman Armstrong, Ashley Davidson Roland, The report cards on Justice Garibaldi's on Bailey Island, ME, where Pat has lived [or five years. Dorothy Inglis Pritchard, Henriette Newfield Savin, initial term however, ha ve been consistently Before that Pat was a physical ed. instructor at Bates Eleanor Roberts, Mary J. Tait, Kathryn Veenstra outstanding. She quickly put her freshman and UConn. They now teach an exercise class at the Schaeffer, Marjorie Vosgian Feely and Mary Young- man Holland. At the conclusion of the meeting. all status behind her and participated in the Brunswick Naval Air. Station, head a children's swimming program at the Bath YMCA, and are members of those who made this reunion so successful were for- Court's work as actively and aggressively the Bailey Island Fire Dept. Pat spent time at Harbour mally thanked: Maggie, Ginny, Angie. Carol Conant as her more experienced colleagues. She Island, the Bahamas this past March. Podesta and Bertha Mayer Romanow, Class Agent did not sit back and vote consistently with Mary (Mibby) Batt Taylor and Arnett are very busy Chairperson. for achieving the highest percentage of the majority, but wrote a number of dis- Shaklee distributors. They even sailed their boat, givers to AAGP ever. Summerwind. to Baltimore for a meeting and took Following the meeting, Carol. using her radio talent senting opinions. In one minority opinion, people on harbor tours. They put out a newsletter, as emcee, entertained us by interviewing some of the Justice Garibaldi argued that New Jersey Press On, every two months. Mibby was in CA in June class notables. such as Patricia McGowan Wald, Judge high school students were protected by the for son's graduation and a family visit. of the DC US Court of Appeals: the noted playwright Fourth Amendment against unreasonable Frank and I, Margot Grace Hartmann are having a and author, Carolyn Blocker Lane: SNET vice presi- wonderful time with golf-oriented travel to FL, Nassau. dent Jean Handley and adventuresome Polly Amrein, searches of their lockers. The lockers had Bermuda, and in July to Europe. Frank is with the en route to teach in China. Carol deserves credit for been searched for marijuana. American Senior Internat'I team in Belgium, Holland sorting and summarizing the questionnaires into per- Dr. Paul Hardin, Drew University pres- and France. Daughter, Margot, will join us for part of centage facts and figures, the results of which, we hope. ident, said that Marie Garibaldi was "a our stay from her home in London. Frank is director of will be included in a class letter. marketing at the Meadowlands, Sports Complex After the festivities, many returned to campus for the lawyer of integrity, industry, and ability, (arena, stadium, race track). I still work at the Costume night and departed the following morning. with expres- who has been judged on her merit and Inst. at the Metro Museum on Wed. Lunch, anyone? sions of hope to return for our 40th. found worthy of great trust and responsi- Our class dues pay for mailings requesting news for Our new slate of officers is: Pres. Mary Flanagan bility." Marie Garibaldi will, of course, be this column. No dues, no news. Please send dues of $5 Coffin: VP and Reunion Chairman Rita Large Gena- remembered as the first woman Supreme to our tre~surer: Mrs. Daniel L. Miller 3rd (Peg Stir- nick: Trees. Mary (Pat) Pallerson Law. ton), II Lake View Dr., Niantic. CT 06357. Correspondent: Mrs. Edwin Wmer Mead (Edith Ie Court Justice in New Jersey, but her enth u- The class extends sincere sympathy to Janet Thamer Wilt). Deacon Gram Farm. Norfolk. CT06058 siasm and insatiable desire for learning in- Cooper, Anne C. Rothberg Reed,and Virginia Stauffer dicate that she will be remembered as an Hantz on the loss of their husbands. example of the progress women have made Janet writes that Coop died of lung cancer on Labor Day weekend and had had lesions of the brain for years. in the work force as well. Their son lives close by and is a great help. Cynthia Carey Taylor.writes that after teaching "Nothing is easy, but neither is anything Anne Reed reminds us that she was the first married 49 religious studies for rune years at Anna Mana impossible," she declares. "If you ever get f~eshman ever accepted by the college. She works full- College, she was appointed director of career counsel- discouraged, compare yourself to your first ume a~ Kemper Insurance Co. and plans to stay in ing and placement there-"an enjoyable career. change Summll, NJ. Her son, Ted, is a financial writer with the for the sunset years." Daughter Amy was married Ja?- ancestral family who came to America. Fresno (CA) Bee and daughter Liz is assoc. director of uary '82, son Bruce has been working for an MA In Most of them were unable to speak the lan- career planning at MIT. computer science. guage, were poor, uneducated, unskilled, Virginia Stauffer Hantz keeps busy as church trea- Margaret (Martie) Portlock Barnard istaking sewmg often subject to blatant discrimination. All surer, board member of Bristol (NH) Visiting Nurse and photography classes and cooks once a week to feed they had going for them was guts, faith in Assn, part-time bookkeeper for hardware store, owner 325 "street people" at her church. Husband Lloyd, a of Flag and Pole, a small home-based business selling themselves, and in America. It was enough consulting engineer, is doing energy studies around the flags and poles. She writes about her four children- world for the government. I spoke to Martie on the for them and I believe it is enough for us Jack~e, staff assistant with a management consulting phone recently, as she was calming down her seven- today." firm tn Atlanta; Bobbie, executive director for the NH week-old granddaughter, Karen, born Apnl '83. Son Republican State Committee in Concord; Andie, Bill and wife Kay live in Atlanta. where he works ~s ,a In true professorial style, Miss Garibaldi recent grad of Bryant College with a business degree. continues her recitation, saying that the systems analyst with a computer company. Martie )s and BenJY, electrical engmeering student at Worcester delighted to see the baby so often. lheirson, soon.end Polytecnic Institute. promise of America endures as it was ex- wife Shane have bought an old home in histonc.Savan- Correspondent: Mrs. Frank Hartmann (Margot pressed by Thomas Wolfe nearly 50 years nah which they look forward to restoring. as he,ls nowa Grace). Tower Wesl 9B. 6050 Blvd East, West New licensed architect. Son Stacey has finished his sopho· ago; "To every man his chance ... To every York, NJ 07093 man regardless of his birth, his shining more year at Auburn. Mary Bill Brooks Price also reports birth of Cole B. golden opportunity ... To every man the Price I V. February 12, '83, almost 9Ibs., which amazed right to live, to be himself and to become them as Merrie Lee is a tiny size 5. whatever thing his manhood and his vision Mary Lou Strassburger Treat writes that she taught a can combine to make him . This, this is 48 Our3.5th was testimony to those who worked course in research experience in high schoollibranes at the promise of America." . so diligently to make this our biggest and best Taft School, summer '82, after attending wedding. of reu~lOn. So It was that 65 members of the class of'48, in "I believe it is still the promise of Amer- Wendy Howes, where they also saw Herb and Manon addition to 25 husbands, met for this occasion. The Luce Butler, and Bill and Leona (Lee) Berlin Lehmen. ica," she acknowledges. "It is ours for the we~t coast was well represented, but Frances Norton After attending the AASL conference in Houston In taking. We've got to reach out for it. Don't SWift traveled farthest from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. October, they spent two wonderful days with Laura be afraid. Don't be among the timid and . The reunion, chaired by Margaret Milliken Tyson Allen Singleton and Dorset Townley Mosely WIthnon- aided by her husband, Ralph, was not assisted by the ~old souls. Keep ~Iugging, and don't forget stop conversation and activities. In March '83 Bob, weather. But the ram hardly interfered with the excite- Taffy & Rory visited Jessica in Mexico. Theyarrived.at If you become discouraged, think of your ment an~ surprise of seeing classmates, some returning the Howes for Easter before Taffy left for Alexandria. first ancestors who came to America and for the flr.sl timc in 35 years. Following Fri. evening's Egypt to be on an evaluation team for Schultz School you will realize how far ahead you start al.l-class dinner we settled down to view Angela Sbona's She and Bob are planning 'round the world journey from your ancestors." slIdes of all of our p~st reunions. We owe Angie our when they are on sabbatical for academic year '83-'84. thanks .and apprecianon for continuig this traditional Daughter Sharon graduated June '82 from Georgetown Marie L. Garibaldi, go to the head of the entertaInment. class. Law and now is asst. deputy public advocate for NJ. Sa~:s typical New London drizzle cancelled plans for Carolyn graduated Colby. June '82 and is now ~n a the FIrst Annual Alumni Parade as well as forthe noon Watson Fellowship in Pietra Santa. Italy. apprenticed

30 and. although she puts a lot into the work, says .she to a marble sculpture workshop for the year. Jessica is when Sue Geller, already a married woman, was "cam- receives so much in return. All is not work for she sailed teaching English as a second language in Mexico City. pused" for missing A marge and could not see Jack for all last summer. is taking sailing lessons. and last year Roger works in nearby VT and Rory is a sophomore at the weekends. There was also a recollection that Jack traveled to Italy and Switzerland. This year her trip ISto Northfield Mount Hermon. eventually worked something out with Dean Burdick. Austria, Germany, Budapest and Switzerland Georgia Risk Burien writes that she and AI are in With our daughter Wendy and son-in-law Bill. we were Manchester. CT. only a few miles from where they met, preparing for birth of our first grandchild in June. After Julio's death ten years ago, Vivian Sauvage courtesy of Jean Sherman's Glastonbury wedding to Cindy is a teacher at City & Country School, New York Vargas continued teaching high school Spanish. taking AI's buddy John Muste. Bruce finished up at Wharton City. Deborah is an aspiring actress. Chris will be a a sabbatical to acquire her M.A. She began 10 collabo- in May of '81. and now the children live within three senior at Brown and is now working at North Shore rate with some university friends on Spanish texts for blocks of one another on Lexington Ave. Georgia was Hospital. Manhasset. the local tennis courts and as a Random House(Telemundo and puenasere two of the sorry to have missed the 30th reunion. A family wed- painter and roofer titles). T ravel. mostly back to Spain to "renew the soul." ding. Bruce's graduation from Princeton and AI's 30th Don't forget our reunion-first weekend in June has been an important part of her life. Vivian's son reunion there were all they could handle. 1984. Michael plays piano professionally in NYC. Recently Patricia Moreell reports from Boca Raton that she is Correspondents: Mrs. Oliver Howes (Jennifer she reestablished contact with Rosemary Luke not missing, just quiet. She has been in FL since 1969. Judge), 29 Maple Drive, Great Neck, New York 11021: Morgan. where she received a teaching degree in early childhood Mrs. Richard Bivin (Joan Jessen], /659 Crespo Drive, Phyllis Hoffmann Driscoll wrote that, on their way and elementary education. In '73 she started the wal- UJ Jotta. California 92037 back down to NJ after spending Easter weekend with dorf Kindergarten and Nursery. one of more than 300 their banker daughter in NH. she and Frank stopped Waldorf Schools around the world, She keeps in loose off in CT at Brent and Vivian Johnson Harries' new touch with Phyllis Peters Bellah, travels, plays tennis condo in Stamford, The Harries sold their two NJ and swims. homes and moved to their condo overlooking the water Estelle Parsons performed at the Public Theatre in For a very busy Jane Swelt Lonsdale, her where Brent can look out at his boat all year. NYC in Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo by 51 proud husband wrote of her accomplishments. Yiv and Chloe Bissell Jones had a mini-reunion in Daria Foand Franca Rame, a cycle of nine one-woman Lons wrote that Janie was recently promoted to head NYC in Jan. when Chloe was out for the antique show. plays. Estelle says "they arc comic pieces about nine counsellor at Edgehill, an alcohol rehabilitation center Phyl had to miss the visit since Frank had just come different kinds of Italian women and their relationships in Newport. RL The new job along. with two hours of home from the hospital after a hip replacement surgery. with men. I'll do three plays in one evening. in rotating commuting. leaves her with little time or energy for Phyl is still asst. business mgr. for the Lawrence Town- rep. Joe Papp says I'm going to be my own dance other things. The Lonsdales became grandparents for ship Bd. of Ed. The Hoffmans' son Pete is an asst. golf company." the second time in May. pro at a private club in York, P A, and is seeking a job as Jennifer Judge Howes and Ollie have recently re- Nancy Klein Mannes has made a job change, She is head pro turned from busv weeks in CA, which ranged from workingasadevelopment officer at the National Build- Don and Justine Shepherd Freud also had a mini- getting stuck in 20 feet of snow to swimming in the ing Museum. a fabulous museum endowed by Con- reunion-to celebrate the first sunny Saturday in eight Pacific at La Jolla, where I visited Lee Berlin Lehman gress. with a home in the Historic Pension Building in weekends. Walt and Inez Marg Hemlock, Jack and and Bill. They moved there in March '83 and live within DC. Nancy came to this position from the National Pamela Farnsworth French, Bob and Barbara Wie- a block of Joan Jessen Bivin and Dick. We had a Archives where she had put together a volunteer and gand Pillote, Neil and Helen Pavlovich Twomey and mini-reunion at the Bivins, overlooking the Pacific, tour program. Of her three children. two are married. Mona Gustafson Affinito were there to toast the sun- with Jack and Suzanne (Sue) Brenner Geller. The Leh- Also embarking on a new career is Merritt McQueen shine and look at pictures of grandchildren and chil- mans had just returned from visiting daughter Lori in Heathcote. Having worked in the secretarial and inte- dren's spouses as well as to catch up on the latest events Paris and daughter Terry, Todd and grandson Benjy in rior design fields, Merritt will be doing interior design in the respective families. Milwaukee. Sue is working as a research assistant in on her own. With her youngest starting at Iowa State, Mary Stuart Parker Cosby has moved and is living endocrinology at Metcy Hospital, where Jack is on the Merritt thought it time to stretch her horizons. outside Seattle. Husband John is director of the Epis- staff. They will be traveling to Canada and France this Vera Santaniello McQuown, in her 25th year teach- copal Camp and Conference Center. The Cosbys enjoy summer, where Jack will deliver papers on endocrinol- ing second grade in Groton.just transferred to an inte- music, ballet and theater. Mary Stuart is enjoying the ogy. We had many laughs recalling old events, such as grated school in an underprivileged area. She loves it refreshing, free, unencumbered life of N KAH (no kids at horne) although she does her share of volunteering. She keeps in touch with her four offspring, three in the East and one working nearby as well as her one grandchild Emily Perrins Chaffee began the year with a two- week art history trip to Italy with her daughter Jean. In Feb. Bill and she started their vacation with 48 hours in Kennedy airport. courtesy of a passing blizzard. March found them in New Orleans for a week at a cardiology conference, and in May they traveled from son Bob's graduation from Columbia Business School to MA for daughter Jean's graduation, with honors, from Smith Daughter Anne and husband are in Cleveland, both as second year residents, she in pediatrics. he in medicine. In between all the traveling, Emily keeps busy with LWV, bridge, sewing, reading, two cats and one dog. Martha Potter Dewing and husband Bruce had a marvelous cruise down the New England coast, stopping at every bright light from ME to CT, and ended up in New London for the CGA homecoming. Martie retired as pres. of the garden club but is still busy with the area council and district boards. She plays tennis and bridge and does volunteer work. Bruce is retired from the CG and is director of finance for the Ports- mouth school system. Their oldest, Doug, is a lawyer in Norfolk. VA. Andrew is a junior and Henry a sophomore at Washington and Lee, both majoring in physics- engineering and building computers. Janet Silber Paper writes from St. Paul, MN. that in Feb. she spent a delightful month at Long Boat Key, FL, and decided that the west coast of FL is definitely for her. Her eldest daughter is working in Hennepin General Hasp. in Minneapolis. Her younger daughter is an artist and will be entering the U. of Chicago's Graduate School of Fine Arts in the fall. After 25 years of active volunteering, Janet has pulled out of just about everything and is enjoying visiting with friends and having the opportunity to listen to more music read more poetry and pursue some simple pleasures. ' Correspondent: Helen Pavlovich Twomey, 338 Can- Faculty soccer team, 1922 terbury Lane, Wyckoff. NJ 07481

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Our 30th reunion was a great success, thanks to husband, Horace, rece ntly retired from the Navy, has a Homemaking Association. and is a swimmer in the 53 the outstanding work cf Leta Weiss Marksand new job in transmission engineering. Pacific Northwest Masters' Swimmers Assoc. She took Jeanne Garrett Miller. Some 25 from the class were Jane Dornan Smith is a bridge Life Master and part, in August '82, in the U.S. Masters National Long present; 12 were accompanied by husbands. Frederica enjoys tournaments. She lives in New London and Course Championships in Portland. She placed in the Schneider Douglas and Eugenia (Jennie) Eaeker Olson keeps in touch with the college through her daughter. top nine in four of the five events she entered, and her were back for the first time since graduation. The beau- CC '84. Another daughter isa teacher and her son is the relay team rated third in the nation for that age group. tiful campus was enhanced by beautiful weather when general manager of a baseball team. Shirley Sidman Hogan has been living in MN for 17 most of us arrived Friday afternoon. Sondra Cetb Myers is president of the Citizens for years. She works as an insurance agent in the life and We heard Jane Graham Pemberton participate in the the Arts in PA, chairman of the PA Humanities Coun- health field. She hopes to celebrate her 50th birthday Mini Alumni College, discussing "Skills to Realize your cil, a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. by taking a trip to Austria this fall. Daughter Jennifer Expectauons,' as taught in her own business, "Skills," chairman ofthe Lackawana Co. Commission on Cultu- works for Bankers' Trust in NYC, son Rick is at Hamil- in Amherst, MA. A reception was held on the Harris ral Affairs and a member of the visiting committee to ton, and two younger daughters are in the 9th and 6th Green to honor Pres. and Mrs. Ames. Mrs. Ames feels the religious studies dept. at C'C. She has two sons, one grades. at home with our group since she is a 'S3 from Bryn working in education in Cambridge, MA, and the other Frances (Frannie) Steene Baldwin enjoys working in Mawr. Miss Mulvey sat with us at the Alumni Banquet. in graduate school at Tel Aviv University. a gift shop and continues to sail on vacations. Son Tyler She retires this year and will remain in New London. Carol Hilton Reynolds is a single parent, with a was married in June and willanend business school this Having seen Mi~ Mulvey and Miss Noyes, some of us daughter at wheaton and a son in Day School in Wes- fall. Susan, CC '82. is working for Sports Iiiustrated. decided that we may have grown older but they remain ton, M A. Having slarted as a real estate broker. she has David is at Wesleyan. untouched by the passage of time. become an expert in the mortgage field, organizing Judith (Judy) Stein Walker has gotten an MA in We enjoyed the organ and voice concert in Harkness loans for the First National Bank of Boslon. She says guidance counseling and isjob hunting. Son Chris is in Chapel after dinner, followed by revelry in Crozier- she received much valuable support from her class- graduate school at the U of Ml, working toward a PhD Williams to the accompaniment of two lively banjo mates at our 25th when she was going through the in philosophy. Son Bruce has just graduated from players. Back at the Hospitality Suite. Jeanne and divorce Colby, and daughter Anne will start college this fall. Harry Miller arrived for a surprise birthday party for Claire Levine Harrison Reed's PR firm is the 62nd Carole Struble Baker continues to work playing the Joan Rudberg Lavin and Leta passed out our memen- largest in the SF Bay area. Her daughter. a Phi Beta piano and singing-tunes from the 40s through the 80s. tos of the reunion-attractive sun visors with 1953 and Kappa graduate of Berkeley, has joined the firm. Son She has recently completed an engagement in Captiva, the CC seal. Stephen teaches cello and coaches chamber music at FL. One daughter is in the 10th grade, and the eldest isa The rain came early Sat. morning cancelling the First Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. legal secretary in Miami. Annual Alumni Parade but most of us made it over to Jane Lyon LeRoy says CC has become very popular Mary Ann Wolpert Davis' daughter Laura gradu- the Meeting of the Alumni Assn. and the panel discus- in the Philadelphia area. Her eldest daughter is going ated last spring from Cc. Daughter Elizabeth is at law sion by four male pioneers from the class of '73. The for an MBA at BU. Jane's other three daughters are still school. and Alice is at Hamilton. Mary Ann is a part- noon picnic was held indoors and there was plenty of in college. time substitute teacher and is involved in volunteer wonderful ice cream. Our class dinner Sat. night was Katherine (Kay) Lyon Mel! sells real estate in the activities at a Music School Settlement, the nature cen- something special. Leta had arranged for an excellent Wilmington area. Her husband is an English professor ter, and her church. dinner at the Dock 'N Dine in Old Saybrook. Cocktails at the U. of DE. Sally Young Howard enjoys traveling with her hus- were enjoyed cruising up the Conn. River. Valerie Marrow Rout says that her daughter band Jim. Both her sons are in school taking criminal New officers were announced at the class meeting: Romanie is a member of the class of '86 at Cc. justice. Her eldest daughter Sally has made her a Eva Bluman Marchiony, Pres.; Jane Graham Pember- Adele Mushkin Stroh is now the asst. head of the grandmother. and Kate, age 18, is starting Wells ton, V.P. and Reunion Chairman; Barbara Painton public edecation dept. of the Whitney Museum, having College. Doyle, Treasurer; and Ann Hutchison Brewster, Nom- formerly taught English in a NYC high school for 17 Correspondent: Rachel Child Prudhomme, 270 inating Chairman. years. Her two daughters live in CA and CO. Wigmore t».. Pasadena. CA 91105 Correspondent: Dorothy Bomer Fahland, 5/52 Cynthia (Cynie) Myers Young continues to teach art Wedgewood Road, Lynchburg. VA 24503 at Northern VA Community College. She had a fellowship at the VA Center for the Creative Arts at Sweet Briar in the summer of '82, and this past spring had a After the last time we listed those of you who drawing exhibit at the Foundry Gallery in DC. Hus- have children attending CC or are graduates, band Avery works for TRW after retirement from the 57 we received some notes about omissions. Here are some submarine service. Daughter Meredith is entering the Maida Alexander Rahn still manages a book additions: Lucie Hoblltzelle Iannotti's son. Anthony. corporate world as an intern at Metropolitan Life. 55 and stationery shop in Longmeadow, and en- '83; Judy Clark Smultea's daughter, Mary Ann. '85. Ruth Parker See's daughter Jennifer is entering 11th joys marketing gifts and invitations. Her two sons are Anyone else we've missed? grade. Another child is at Whitman majoring in geol- finished with their education, one a lawyer, and the Joan Gilbert Segall, Ph.D. of New Paltz, NY, was ogy. Ruth lives in the San Diego area, and is still a other working with his father. selected by the U.S. Department of Education and the working mother. Alicia Allen Branch reports her daughter was mar- Board of Foreign Scholarships 10 participate in the ried i~ August. Another daughter works at Harper & 1983 Fulbright Seminar on History and Cultur~ In Row 10 NYC. and her son is a senior at Hobart. Korea this past summer. Joan was one of 20 American Gail Anderson Myers has had good reviews for her educators to be hosted by the Korean government and b.ook: A World a/Sports/or Girls, and says Ms. maga- the Korean-American Educational Commission. She is zme-rs to publish the chapter on "Getting a Scholar- employed by the Roxbury (NJ) Board of Education as ship" this fall. She enjoys Visiting her daughters in Utah supervisor of social studies. during the ski season. Barbara Humble Hill works with her husband, John, Suzanne Bernet Ritter's daughter graduated from a consultant in the metalworking industry. The Hills CC in Mayand particularly enjoyed her history profes- live in Walpole, MA. Daughter Kathy works for sors. Suzanne's son is a freshman at the U. of DE. Codex, a division of Motorola; Jack is a graduate of ~a.r~ Lou Breckinridge Fennel is dean of faculty at Ithaca College; Jeffrey a senior at Hobart and Steve isa Principia College in IL and enjoys the company of two grandsons and one granddaughter. high school junior. Betty Weldon Schneider is commissioner of ~he Barbar~ Diamond Lupoffs son Jeffrey, CC '81, is municipal utilities commission of Willmar. MN. which working 10 London for Lloyd's Bank. Another son ~eter, is in NYC. Barbara is a librarian and splits he; installed the country's first hot water district ~eating tl~e ~etween work at a local public library and at the system. She is also a director ofthe First Bank willmar. Ringling School of Art Library in Sarasota . Son David isa high school senior and daughter Lynnea . B.arb.8T~ Dieckmann Lawson and husband Blair spe- junior. Irene Pantages, a Manhattan resident, teaches Span- cJallz~ 10 installing telephone computer systems. She is especially proud of one recently installed in a school for ish at Eastchester High School. She frequently t~avels .Cynt~ia (B~zzy) Reed-Workman learned to ski last dyslexic children. Daughter Heidi is a great sailor- to Europe, especially Spain, and enjoys hiking III the winter, IS taking motorcycle riding lessons, and dislo- daughter Laura a bicycle racer and student at tiC San mountains. Diego. cated he~ knee by standing in the surf in Mexico. She's June Tyler, Ph. D. is a freelance consultant and writer had t? give up Scottish dancing. but is trying to learn Carolyn Diefendorf Smith spends 80 percent of her as well as coordinator of educational services for The Spanish ~nd brush up on her German. All this while still time working as development director for CO Academy First Experience, Rocky Hill, CT. She is also a consul- a ,pr~ct~c.mg att~rney in MA and a volunteer for the in Denver. Her youngest two daughters attend the tant to the Department of Education in Connecticu.t on B nat B r.lth Senior Citizens' Housing Corp. school. An older daughter, CC '84, is a new member of social studies and state assessment. June, who received Cy.nthla Russell Rosik reports that she has two chil- Conn Chords. One son is job hunting and attending her doctorate from the U of WA. has published exten- dren m Pasadena, daughter Suzyattending Caltech and graduate ~chool, and another graduated from Colgate sively in the educational field. She has traveled while son ~hrts, a third year student at Fuller Theological In the spnng. doing research in China. Russia and Western Europe. Se~ln~ry s Grad.uate School of Psychology. Cynthia is Nancy Dohring Leavitt has moved to NJ where her Sylvia Pasternack Marx has been studying piano, actIve In the Pnnce Co. (WA) Home Economists in teaching and concertizing in recent years. She performs

32 both solo and four-hand concerts. On September 25, Sylvia and Marcia Flaks gave a four-hand concert fea- turing works of Brahms. Mozart and Schubert at Cc. Sylvia's son, Richard is a Yale graduate and daughter Nancy is a senior at Yale. Helene Zimmer Loew of Albany, NY, is president- elect of the American Council on the Teaching of For- eign Languages, a national professional association of second language teachers. A member of the state Edu- cation Department. she is currently supervisor of its Resource Allocation Plan. Helene is the author of numerous articles on aspects of foreign language and international education and has conducted many workshops on these topics. Emily Graham Wright of Redlands, CA, writes that she was in the East in the Spring for her youngest child's graduation from Chatham Hall. Susan is attending Trinity in San Antonio, with hopes of making the tennis learn. We Elaine (Lainie) Diamond Berman and husband Richard, Suzanne (Sue) Krim Greene and Bob and Elaine Manasevtt Friedman and husband Bob spent a wonderful Easter weekend at our condominium in Hil- ton Head, S'C. Hard to believe that our children are now the ages we were when we first developed our friendships. Nancy Keith Lefevre writes that she'll never know the empty nest syndrome. "Just when Cathy is leaving for Hampshire College and Ted is a sophomore at Brown, Ned is retiring after 33-1/2 years of teaching:' Nancy reports that Bernette (Bunny) Curtis Millan and Professor William Niering will lead Anne Deterando Hartman both have sons in Penn's freshman class. Also, Kathryn (Kate) Crehan Bow- seminar expedition to the Galapagos man's older child had a wonderful first year at Carnegie-Mellon. Alumni are invited to join an unusual tellectual retracing of the paths followed Correspondents: Elaine Diamond Berman, 33 Norrh traveling seminar to Ecuador and the by Orellana, Humboldt, Darwin and Wyoming A venue, South Orange. NJ 07079; Emily Galapagos Islands, from January 9·26, other naturalists. With accommodations Graham Wright, 111 Sierra Vista Drive, Redlands, CA ranging from deluxe hotels to a unique 92373 1984. Sponsored by the alumni associa- tions of Connecticut College and Wes- floating hotel and lodge on the Rio leyan University, the seminar will be led Napa, participants will study a rich va- Our 25th Reunion was an unqualified success, by a distinguished professor from each riety of life zones. The trip will explore 58 with 55 classmates and 26 guests on hand for coJlege. Connecticut's WiJliam Niering neotropical forests, the Galapagos Is- the hugs, handshakes and endless conversations. Spe- (above, talking with a television report- lands, as well as the relatively barren cial mention must go to Beatrice (Bea) Rittenberg Gila! er) is Katharine Blunt Professor of Bot- landscape of an Andean volcano. For and Patricia (Patsy) Steiger Salazar, who traveled from Israel and Peru, respectively, to be with us. any and Director of Arboretum, while more information about the trip, which The '58 hospitality center, Marshall dorm's living Jelle Z. de Boer is the George J. Seney will cost about $3,075 per person, con- room, was buzzing 'til the wee hours Saturday morning. Professor of Geology at Wesleyan. tact the Connecticut College Alumni The New London rains (even the weather was authen- Entitled Evolving Life on a Changing Association. tic) cancelled the parade of classes (pillowcases back to the closet for another five years) and moved the cook- Earth, the seminar is a physical and in- out in. but did not dampen our spirits. Aileen Wood Wieland presented Pres. Ames our class gift, over $25,000; thanks to all who gave. Follow- ing that Alumni '('ssn. meeting, we heard an enlighten- ingand entertaining discussion by four men of the Class Mary Edwards is the Kress Fellow in art his- BORN: to Bette Jane Raphael and Joel Miller, Jacob of '73, the first four-year coed class to graduate. Our tory at Columbia and had an article on the 14th Raphael Miller, 5/81. class dinner that night in Mystic was delicious, in our 61 century tomb of an Italian sold ier of fortune published Carolyn Jones Scharer and family have been trans- private room overlooking the water. Eating was man- in Konsthlssorik: Tidskrift, an art historical periodical ferred to Rome, where husband Dave is with the U.S. aged between picture-taking, more greetings, and sur- published by the U of Stockholm. Embassy. Lonnie had been studying for her degree in prise gifts. Betsy Wolfe Biddle kindly invited all to her Joan Knudsen Perkins reported from drought- architecture at VA Technical College, and is working "island" on Sunday afternoon for more farewells and striken Australia. Kristin is 18, Lisa 17. and Ann, 14. on a way to finish her degree while living in Rome. The grinders. Cheers and thanks go to Marilyn Leach Cas- Family, tennis and teaching ikebana keep her busy. Scborers and their three children have previously lived sidy and Sydney Wrightson Tibbetts for their work in Linda McCormick Forrestal, in Atlanta, is regional in Bangkok, Leningrad. Istanbul and home base, DC. organizing this wonderful reunion. The reunion book- managerfor Leiters Designer Fabrics. Tom is president Barbara Thomas Cheney and Dexter are in Royal let is a permanent and personal memento. of warrenr Sherer, Inc. Son Tom is at the Naval Oak, MI, where she is assistant rector at SI. John's Our newly-elected officers are: Pres, Barbara Cohn Academy, Will is at Georgia Tech, Dan is heading for Episcopal Church. Dexter, also an Episcopal priest, has Mindell; VP & Reunion Chairmen, Marilyn Leach Duke, and Jenny 15 and Catherine 12are still at home. a church on the East side of Detroit, S1. Columba. Cassidy and Sydney Wrightson Tibbetts; Freas, Jean I, Joan Swanson Vazakas, see Elizabeth (Betty) Barbara's daughter Diana isa freshman at the U of MI, Tierney raub; Nominanting, Judith (Judy) Ankarstran Zuraw occasionally during the Tanglewood season. I've and son Lee is a sophomore in high school. Carson; Correspondent, Mildred Schll1'idtman dusted off my violin and am playing with the Stock- Mary MacNaught Monahan, an architect, is moving Kendall. bridge Chamber Orchestra, where I've recently been to Peterborough, NH, where she will be practicing with Corresp on deru: Mrs. N.F. Kendall (Mildred joined by Christine DiMaggio '82. Oldest son Laki her husband, Rick, also an architect. Duncan 16 is at St. Schmid/man), 916 Maryland Ave, N.£. Washington, heads for Tufts in Sept. My co-correspondent, Janice Mark's School and Ian and Corinna are in school in DC 20002 (Jan) Hall McEwan, and I regret that we hear from so DC. few of you. Jo Lindseth Busser popped in for a quick visit this Correspondents: Joan Swanson Vazakas, 140 Alfred spring. She, Bob and their three sons are still in Colum- Correspondents: Virginia R. Levick (Virginia Drive, Pittsfield, MA 01201; Janice Halt Me Swan. bus, where Bob is an architect. Jo passed her OH bar 59 Reed), JO Sargent La., Atherton, CA 94025; Rose Farm, Lyndeboro, NH 03082 exam and is ready to practice. Anne German Dobbs (Anne-Marie German), 10 Caroline (Linda) Osborne and I had a telephone Roland Dr., Darien, CT06820; Mrs. Joan P. Thomp- MARRIED: Barbara Thomas Devries to reunion; she is stillliving in and loving SF. Linda is in son rCi. Peterson], 451 Conil Way, Porrola Valley, CA 63 Dexter Cheney, 9/26/81; Mary MacNaught p.r. and insurance. She often sees Gael Dohany 94025 Spencer to Rick Monahon, summer 1982. Alderson-Smith who is busy producing films.

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everyone who sent us news and have enjoyed being able Our 20th reunion was a warm, wonderful weekend Pete 14, Susan I I, and Mike 9, and caring for a myriad to renew our own friendship through it. We're delighted and a great opportunity to pick up some news. of pels: mice, hamster, two cats and a dog. Carole and to turn the position over to IWO terrific classmates, Elizabeth (Betty) Andersen obtained her M.A at the Ed arc also involved in preparing mystical training Roberta Slone Smith and Jo O'Donnell Lohmann. U of Chicago in English and an M.A in biology at sessions at their church. They a re eager to receive news from us all. especially in Harvard. She is on the USA World Orienteering Team Diane Schwartz Climo and her family are in and has traveled to Norway. Finland and Switzerland. Andover, MA and are settling into their passive solar light of the many requests at the reunion to hear more Nancy Holbrook Ayers is back from living in Japan contemporary home. Their girls are: Alison 13, Amy about our class. and is in Greenwich, CT. with husband Doug and son. 11, and Elane. 7. Diane teaches kindergarten at a school Correspondents: Carolyn Boyan Torok. 60 Long Douglas, 6. She is with Mobil Corp. in NYC and was for the deaf. serves on the board of Andover ABC (A Lots Road. Westport, CT06880; Robin I.eI' Hellman. recently nominated by the chairman to a task force in Better Chance) House and worries about nuclear build- 71 Oakland Beach Ave .. Rye. NY 10580 charge of renovating the 42-story headquarters build- up and gypsy moths. ing. Nancy is successfully recuperating from a mastec- When Robin and I accepted the job as class corres- tomy in March and would like to help anyone who may pondents, little did we know that the position would Correspondent: Susan A. Fmseth (Susan be facing a similar operation. last for 15 years. We have enjoyed being in contact with Susan (Sue) Lienhard Holmes and husband Jim are 65 Peck). 1028 La Salfe Dr .Sunnyva!e. CA 94087 living in Pleasantville. NY, with Amanda 16, Anne 13 and David 9. Sue enjoys "backyard country living, keeping bees, and raising plants in our primitive solar greenhouse." Sue teaches English as a second language Correspondent: Mrs . Jonathon T. Dawson to adults and Jim teaches history at Pace. 67 (Rohin Frost). 800 Joydens Hill Rd .. Fairfield. Nina Heneage Helmsand Larry live in Chatham. NJ, CT06340 with Steve 17. who will be attending Ohio Wesleyan this fall, Craig 13,and Bobby 7. Larry has a consulting firm in NYC. Randall-Helms Fiduciary Consultants, and Nina is a computer operator for the firm. BORN: to Edward and Ruth Amdur Tanen- Sara Manwell Bradrord, her husband, Derek, and haus, Allison Tracy. 3/2/83; to Mike and two daughters live in Providence. The Bradfords run an 69 Nancy Brush Edwards, Adam Joseph, 3/4/83; to Mat- architectural firm; and Sally teaches part-time at the thew and Ellen Lougee Simmons, Emma Adams. R.1. School of Design and is currently chairperson of the R.I. Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects. 6/12/83. Ruth Amdur Tanenhaus' new daughter Allisonjoins Susan Bohman Faigle, her husband John and sons John 12. and Richard 9, are in Yorktown, PA, where Jeffrey 3. Anne Ronniol Pringle and husband Harry attended Sue is involved in various volunteer programs. She is director-at-large of our Executive Board of the Alumni Harry's l Sth reunion at Princeton in Spring '83 along Assn. As such, she is the liaison between the Associa- with Mary Saunders Hande and Susan Scharlotte Wal- tion and the admissions office-an appropriate spot for ton and Princeton husbands Ken and Jim. Anne and someone who has been an admissions aide for 10 years. Harry bought a 19-foot sailboat and plan on lots of John is Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard Re- sailing in Casco Bay. ME. serve Training Center in Yorktown. They had a three- Suzette devogelaere had lunch in NYC with Ruth week vacation in May in Hong Kong and China. Kunstadt Culp in fall '82. Roberta Slone Smith, Pamela 13, Katherine II, and Christina Downs Dondero, husband Tim, and their Steve like living near Princeton and continue to enjoy five children have ret urned to Atlanta, after 2-1/ 2 years family camping expeditions. They are backpacking this in Cameroon, Central Africa. year in Colorado. Roberta is enjoying gardening. learn- Marjorie Holland was interviewed by fellow CC ing to play bridge. taking piano lessons and ringing alum Rhoda Meltzer Gilinsky '49 for an article which hand bells. The Smiths' most recent acquisition is a appeared in the Sunday 11/7/82 New York Times. In beautiful French angora rabbit which is Pamela's 4-H the article, Marge, who earned her master's in ecology project. from Smith and a doctorate in botany from UMass. Sally Elson received her MBA and MFA from discusses the issue of water, one of our cheapest natural Columbia after graduation from cc. Since 1974, she resources. and the need to manage it wisely. Currently has been selling bonds and is currently with Smith an asst. prof. of biology at the College of New Rochelle, Barney in NYC. She especially enjoys visiting muse- Marge is director of several environmental groups. She ums, art galleries and auctions in the Big Apple. has been nominated by the College of New Rochelle for Evelyn Erthimion Draeon, Harry and their two chil- the Recognition Award for Young Scholars and is a dren are loving their restored Victorian home in upstate Attention, research associate at Smith. NY. Evie has her own business, a tearoom-art gallery. Katherine Montgomery finished a two-year tour in Roslyn (Roz) Raskin Grundhoder is in international alumni composers the Office of East-West Trade at the State Dept. and advertising in NYC. She and her husband live on the has begun a tour in Bangui, Central African Republic Upper West Side and have a dog and two cats. Her The Department of Music, with the sup- as second secy. and cultural attache. She lives in a large husband has a computer programming school port of the Charles R. Shackford Memo- house overlooking the Oubangui River and we1comesa Patricia (Patti) Keenan Mitchell and Tom are in visit from anyone who makes it to thaI remote part of Manchester. MA, with Tommy 13, Mollie 1Land Tricia rial Fund, is sponsoring a Connecticut Col- Africa. 8. Tom is in the computer field with lSI Inc. and Patti lege Alumni Composition Recital on April Catherine Robert has a joint appointment teaching teaches computer and Sunday school. works at a food 18, 1984,at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Shackford wasa English at Bryn Mawrand Haverford Colleges. She has co-op. plays tennis and runs a children's sailing a book coming out on Mark Twain and has lots of gray program. teac?er of composition and theory at Con- hair. Judith (Jo) O'Donnell Lohmann, Carl, Cindy 7. and necticut from 1965 to 1979 and a concert Sara (Sally) Rowe Heckscher and family took a trip Chris 12, are in DC where Carl is with the internat'I h.as be~n given in his mem~ry each spring to 7-D Ranch in Cody, WY, where they climbed 10.000 division of the Treasury. They have spent two tours in slO~e his death, though this is the first cen- ft. to Copper Lake. Sally volunteers for Magic Circle. a Brazil.and one in Colombia. Jo started the first EngJish- Cincinnati mental health program which trains speaking nursery school in Brasilia and taught math in termg on composition of alums, teachers to raise students' self-esteem the American School there. Interested alums-and you need not I. Susan Paull Neff, traveled with my husband Tom Penelope (Penny) Vaughn Connors, her husband ?a~e been a student of Mr. Shackford-are to Portugal 5/83. We visited Mary Garlick SI. George, an~ their five children are living in Niagara Falls, On- IOvlt~d to submit one to three works for her husband Alan and daughter Molly 3, in their home tan~. Penny IS busy wah David 18. Lisa 16, Kate 15, outside Lisbon. Mary and Alan, architects, live an alto- Christopher 13 and Matthew, 3. She also volunteers at consideration. Scores (and if possible gether romantic life in a rustic but charming home they a Communit~ Info Center and teaches at a nursery t~pes) of solos or chamber works for up to renovated from a former granary. Mary speaks fluent school for children who are developmentally behind. five players should be sent to the Depart- Portuguese. Penny also leads courses in parenting. ment of Music, Box 1636, Connecticut Col- Correspondent: Mrs. Thomas 1. Neff(Slisall Paull). Carole Hunt Iwanicki and Ed are both in education 96 Round Hill Rd .. Greenwich. CT06830 administratio~ in Mansfield. CT. She is assistant prin- lege, New London, CT 06320, not later cipalin the middle school and he is assoc. dean of the than January 15, 1984. School of Education at UConn. Carole has completed . Inquiries are welcome and should be the cou~sework forher PhD in education at UConn and dIrected. to Thomas S toner, Department IS Correspondent: Linda S. Herskowilz. 21 w. working on her d issenation. She is very involved with Chan. 71 MI. Pleasant Ave., Philadelphia. PA 19103

34 Correspondents: Carot P. McCurdy (Carol to remain for an improvised afternoon softball game Peter Craft received a master of law degree in 73 Proctor), 81 Courter -tve.. Maplewood, NJ and one last meal at Mr. G's before finally surrendering taxation. 07040: Susan D. Krebs. 444 Uncoln 51., York, PA to the time and the real world. For everyone. thc week- Debra Daigle graduated from Emerson College with 17404 end was a very special and slightly strange passage back an M A in mass communications and works as a special to our college years. Thanks are due to the work of the assignment reporter and part-time anchor on WBET- alumni committee, especially Clifford (Clien Kozem- AM in Brockton. MA. Correspondents: William B. Thomson, 84 Riv- chak, who kept the weekend simple and easy for the In NEW ENGLAND, Terrence (Terry) Fairfield is living in Fairfield. CT. and is a financial analyst for G E. 75 erside Dr .. ApI. 4, New York. NY 10024; Dena alumni to enjoy. Wolf Yeskoo (Dena Wolf), 76 Beekman Rd .. Summit. Correspondents: Lourie L. Heiss. 25 Shell Ave .. Mil- He is working towards his MBA at NYU. NJ 07901 ford. CT06460; Jay Krasner. 56 Oak Hill SI .. Newton Barbara Goodman, a plantscape consultant for a Centre. MA 02159 Bridgeport interior landscaping co" lives in Cromwell. Tim Luce and Rita Macinnis Luce are teachers in MARRIED: Kenneth Tobler to Melissa Dee Cornish, NH 77 Rose, 1/22/83; Andrew Halsey to Sally Davies Pamela (Pam) Crawford is a kindergarten teacher at '78,3/12/83. the New Canaan Country School. She traveled to BORN: to Michael and Nan Newman Sanfilippo, MARRIED: Eleanor Buckley to James Egypt recently to attend her sister's wedding. Michael Anthony, 2/83. 79 Sugarman, 8/28/82; Lawrence Gotlesman to Erica (Hoefnagel) Del.auz is working in retail in Rose Ellen Sanfilippo is the aunt to Nan and Michael Joan Kingsley, 5/30/83; Deborah Cohen to Nick Hol- Middletown, CT. and living in Wallingford, where she Sanfilippo's son, Rose Ellen is an editor for a book lard '78, 6/83: Victoria Chesler to Martin Kouner. raises vegetables. flowers and dogs publishing company on L.I. 7/83; Thomas (Tim) Luce to Rita Macinnis '82; Jody Elaine Rosen received her MSW from Smith 8/83. Joah Lowe performed the opera 'The Tumbler of Paskow to Barry Gold, 8/20/83; Barbara ft, Bates to Mark McLaughlin lives on Cape Cod, where he is a Notre Dame" which was written and composed espe- William H. Davis II, 8/27/83; Alexandra Clayton to reporter for the Falmouth Enterprise. cially for him by David Ahlstrom. Joah was planning to John Moran, 9/10183 Donald (Don) Jones has been teaching English in present his Aston-Patterning technique at two confer- BORN: to Ance English and Erik Johansson, Lars rural New Hampshire and is now at Drew for a master ences this summer, one at Duke and the other in Olav, 7/2/83. of letters degree. In PHILADELPHIA. Terry Hazard is teaching, Minneapolis. In NYC: Ira Todd Cohen graduated from NYU Corresp ondern: Mrs. George F. Hulme (Pam School of Medicine 6/83 and is doing his residency in painting and showing her watercolors at the Marian Locks Gallery. She summered in Florence Sharp). /6 Auburn SI., Framingham. MA 01701 pediatrics at Jacobi/ Momefiore Hospitals. Vicki Chesler is publishing and editing a 50,000 circu- John D. England is attending the Amos Tuck School lation news magazine for condo and coop owners with of Business and has a summer job with Tower Perkins Forster and Crosby. " The Class of 1978 graduated the yearSwr Wars her husband. Mary Wright is attending Columbia for an MBA. Barbara Lynch graduated from Bryn Mawr School was released, so it is fitting tha t we return for 78 of Social Work. 6/83. our fifth reunion just as Return of the Jedi appears. The Jamie Marshall is an assoc. editor with Ski reunion, like its Star Wars counterpart, was well worth Magazine. In DC, Paul D. Greeley is working for the law firm of Antonelli, Terry and Wands. the wait. The weekend offered a vivid reminder of the Martha Rago continues with her creative endeavors. elements which together make CC a very special working for an NYC clothing designer. . Amy Biderman is a writer and media relations spe- Nina Korelilz has her MBA from NYU and is work- cialist for the American Council of Life Insurance/ exoenence. Health insurance Assn. of America On Friday there was a series of lectures in the college ing at Elizabeth Arden. Christine (Tina) Gould received her MA in Chinese library entitled Great Expectations. Alumni were pre- Steven Gutman loves his work at Time, Inc .. where he is corporate manager for Fortune. Previously, he history and is working for the Cl A as a political analyst. sented with an academic blueprint for the future in was acting manager of advertising production for Peo- She lives with Beth Michelman '80 and John Talty '80 areas of sports, career skills, and medicine. After the pte. Time and Sports Illustrated. and heads the alumni admissions program for the DC lectures, there was a reception to honor Oakes and area. Louise Ames. For those early '78 arrivals who couldn't David Fiderer has joined CBS sports television as a wait to once again dine in the splendor of Harris Refec- writer. after experience at Burson-Marstellcr. Public In the MIDWEST, Beth Kukla is teaching second tory, a Friday night dinner was served. While there werc Relations. grade boys at the University School, a private boys additional activities scheduled for the evening, the real Larry Gottesman is in his third year at Brooklyn Law school in Shaker Heights, OH. She was at Lesley Col- lege for her M.Ed. dunng the summer. social activities took place in Larrabee-our weekend School and is notes editor of the Brooklyn Law Review Patricia Cirillo graduated from St. John's Law dorm-as alumni started to arrive in greater numbers Edward (Ned) Colt is a TV newscaster in Duluth School and is working for an NYC firm and living in After holding a social hour in the hallways, most of the Sara Koruz is at. Case Wes:ern's University Hospi'tal in Cleveland, starting her residency in Ob/Gyn Friday night dorm residents found thcir way down to "lovely" Queens Noah Sorkin continues his work with the Brooklyn Kevin Clifton received an MBA from Northwestern Mr. G's to recapture the finer aspects of CC life. DA. where he is actually on the streets fighting crime The next day-provided everyone a chance to take a 12f82 and rs at Rauch Co., a commercial real estate Noah visited Kenneth Hochberg in SFearlier this year. developer. He was married last year to Sandy Stap and good look at the campus and to attend a state of the Susan Zakin, after a year as a reporter, attends they live in Chicago. college address by Pres. Ames. The changes on campus were noteworthy: a skating rink, a renovated Cro which Columbia School of Journalism. She lives on the Upper In the SOUTH, Mark Jones isattending U of KY West Side and escapes to the country on weekends. Law School and living in Louisville. includes a new dance studio and a multi-functional In BOSTON, Jody Paskow, with an M.Ed. from social room where rhc bowling alley once existed. Only A~thur B~rg is a sal~s manager for Sheraton Corp Harvard in consulting psych, is doing behavioral and months ago ground was broken fora new athletic facil- and IS working and enjoying himself at their resort in nutritional counseling at the Nutritional Management Savannah. ity. Although rain had forced the cancellation of a first annual alumni parade and moved Saturday's picnic Clinic. In "" WEST, Virgi~ia (Gi~~y) Chukson is living in inside, the remainder of the weekend weather was per- Barry Gold graduated cum laude from BC Law L.A. WIth Marya Malinowski 78 and is USlOgher MA fect. By the afternoon it had cleared enough to allow School and will join the firm of Burns and Levinson. fr?m UC~A In dancefmovement therapy. working alumni to take full advantage ofjlumerous faculty open Jody and Barry's honeymoon was a European tour, with handicapped children and schIZophrenic adults houses or play Frisbee. The open houses gave former including London. Paris and Switzerland. She reports she made the front page of the L.A. Time; and the TV loca: news. She is still COllecting flip tops students a chance to reunite with former professors and Laura Ellis received her MS in nursing from Pace to remember what they did to fill the time in between and will be completing an internship in family nursing Gerard FranCIS (Beaver) Morrin is living in Orang~ County and now calls himself Fran the Cro bar operating hours .. in Boston, where she plans to be a family nurse The highlight of the weekend-from our point of practitioner. . Alison (Holland) Thompson is working in admis- view-came Saturday evening with the class dinner. Barbara Bales is a legal assistant with Foley. Haag SlOnsat the FashIOn Institute in L.A. and plans to grace followed by the Alumni Ball in thc new ConnCave. Our and Eliot. the East coast when she attends the wedding of Kim Bowden '80 dinner was held in Smith-Burdick dining room, which William (Bill) Davis is an assistant sales director for only added to the nostalgia. After dinncr, class elections Creative Professional Services. a direct mail marketing ~: .Leigh And~rson is. managing data processing co. Barb and Bill have a new house in Bedford. MA. actiVItIes for a Jomt Sovtet-Amencan fishing C . were held before David Cruthers entertained us with his Seattle_ o. m own New England humor. Christopher (Chris) Phinney Eleanor Buckley Sugarman is director of the Cam- A~drea Freed continues to work for the US Forest and William (Will) Swan held a rcunion ofthcir own to bridge Nurscry School. where she teaches four-year- benefit our alumni cocktail party. The alumni ball was olds. She received her M,Ed. from Lesley College this Service on the Quinault Ranger District of the Olym ic NatlOnal Forest. WA. p in reality a very relaxed evening of laughter and dance. year. and eventually transferred back to Larrabee when the Conn- James C. Garvey works as an industrial sales rep. for ABROAD. Michael Harvey will be studying in Mos- Cave affair wound down to the older alumni pace. The Sign ode Corp. cow after spen.dlllg the summer as an interpreter on a Soviet proceSSing ship. party ran into the traditional early morning hours and Marjorie Kaufman is still looking for the right apartment. job. man and daisy. We regret 10 report thc death of Austin D Wicke, then some. 6/28f82. Sunday morning offercd one last event-the Fun Lisa Rinaldi is doing editorial work with Index Sys- Run-which included a strotlg field of ten '78 alums. tems, a consulting firm. Correspondents: Ira Todd Cohen, 5470 Musholu After a last glimpse of the sunny old campus. most went Anne Garrison is working with an architectural pho- Ave .. Brollx. NY 10471: Claire Quail, 512 Lillcoln SI Carlstadl. NJ 07072 " on their way. It is rumored that a few alumni managed tographer. doing color photos.

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MARRIED: Sara Parton 10 James Pelgnft, Marsha Williams is working with a psychologist in 198!, and her son Augustus and daughter Andrea 81 9{ 18/82; Usa Shaw to Philip O'Connell, Ill. Shaker Heights and volunteers at a nonprofit clinic for graduated from UConn in 1980 and 1983. 3/20/83; Anne Clark to Jeff Lupoff, 6/4/83; Martha women called Womankind. William Pappadake '77 lives in Newport News. VA. Jove to Jim D'Amato; Karen Lanphear to Wayne Scott Williamson is in the Boston area and is still He will receive his PsyD this fall from the VA Consor- Malinowski, 6/3/82. loving the MA life. tium for Professional Psychology. BORN: To Judith (Juddi) Harteis Brennan and John Weyrauch moved in June to Missoula, MT. Jeffrey Reif '79 is assistant vice president. manager of John, Ian. 10/30/81 and Liam Francis, 8/7/83. where he is the assistant to the director of labor rela- sales and marketing development for Naples Federala Emily Bloch is back from her escapades in Costa tions for one of Champion International's mills. division of NAFCO Financial Group, Inc. He lives in Rica, where she taught English for a year and a' half. Correspondents: Ellen Levine. 121 Park Place. Naples. FL, with his wife, Sharon, and nine-month-old She is living in DC. Brooklyn, NY /1217.- Marsha Williams, 2580 N. More- daughter. Jessica. He is completing a MBA at the U of Heleigh Bostwick is still attending Penn grad school land /t15 F. Shaker Heights. OH 44120. South Florida and working at the university's computer programming James A. Azar '79 received a PhD in marine studies center. from the U of DE in 1981. He is now with the Center for Eric Carlson is truly gaining "wisdom" at Penn Den- Coastal and Environmental Stud ies at Rutgers, study- tal School by learning the fundamental "roots" of Corresponde'}LS: Karen H. Neilson. 278 r: ing inland wetlands of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. dentistry. 83 town Turnpike. Wilton. CT 06897; Erica H Diane McCue '80 teaches mathematics at the Wil· Anne C1llrk Lupoff and Jeff moved 10 FL after a Van Brimer, 287 N. Poverty Rd .. Southbury, CT06488 Iiams School in New London. She and her husband, Bermuda honeymoon. Stephen, have three daughters and they traveled to Mary Ann Cramer has recently received adiploma in Ireland this summer. Spanish language and culture from the U. of Madrid James Sparrell '80 is working toward a PhD in clini- John (Jack) Finneran is living in Ridgewood, NJ. Frances Rawling Hayden '41 lives cal psychology at SUNY at Buffalo. He has been teach- and working in international sales for West Point Pep- GRAD in Charleston, SC, and has retired ing psychology courses at SUNY and at Buffalo State. perrill in NYC. after teaching chemistry in high school from 195910 Ruth Parry '81 has been working as a research coor- Alison Fraser is back from Paris where she shared an 1981. Her husband, James Hayden, died in 1979. dinator at the Health Services Research and Develop- apartment with Constenza ("Coco'") Stein and is work- Leah T. Spitz '67 has been president and treasurer of ment Center at Johns Hopkins School or Hygiene and ing in the Big Apple. the City Coal Co. of New London since her husband Public Health. She is particularly concerned with a Janine Frana is on the road, working as a sales died in 1979. She has traveled extensively in Asia and statewide high blood pressure control project and has representative for McNeil Consumer Products Co. in Europe. presented professional papers at several national con- Boston. Peter Richman '69 got his PhD in clinical psychology ferences. She has completed a second master's degree. Dana Friedman is workingat Howe & Garden mag- at the U of Ottawa in 1974. He worked at the Riverside this time in administrative science, in 1983 at Hopkins. azine in CA. County (CA) Mental Health Services from [974 to 1980 She will be project coordinator for a three-year study Juddi Harteis Brennan is doing graduate work at San and at present is clinical psychologist at Kaiser Founda- on social isolation entitled "Aged Living Alone: Medi- Diego State toward an MS in home economics. tion Medical Care Program in SF. He has three chil- cal and Psychiatric Consequences," Funded by the Martha Jove D'Amato is studying audiology at grad dr-en aged 13,9, and 2. National Institute on Aging at the University of school in NYC. John F, Mara '72 has two children and a third on the Maryland. Brian Kelley is involved in management training way. He taught for 10 years and is now working full- Marcia Hamilton Perrolle '81 has 30 credits beyond program with the First Bank of New Haven. time in Shaklee, a corporation in the Fortune 500 that her masters from CC and teaches in elementary school Mindy Kerman is teaching emotionally disturbed makes products in harmony with nature. Has just in South Kingston, RI She and her husband Jacques children at a kindergarten in Manhattan and plans to returned from Paris and Monte Carlo. have two children and traveled in Great Britain this travel in England in the near future. Levi (Lenny) Reiter'72 received a PhD in psychol- summer. Karen Lanphear Malanowski is teaching nursery ogy in 1978 from the U of Rochester. He worked at the Richard Alan Rose '81 is singing and dancing in a school and coaching crew and gymnastics, and Wayne U of Kansas Medical Center in research and clinical revue called "Outrageous, Bold, and Beautiful," at Bal- is studying mechanical engineering at U Mass. Wayne audiology where he developed a new test of deafness ly's Park Place in Atlantic City. and Karen are surviving the "dorm parent" position at a He is presently assistant professor of audiology and Leona Chu '65 is working at Stanford University private school where they supervise 70 high school hearing science and lab director at Hofstra. Heand his Hospital in the architectural planning department. She boys. wife Renee have four children, 7, 4, 3, and L is an a vid baroque recorder player in a group called the William (Bill) Malinowski is studying journalism at Lethal Chamber Music Society. She is also pursuing Northwestern in Chicago and is enjoying the change of Mary Tedesco Stehle '73 and her husband Cliff have her interest in graphic design and other visual arts scenery. just returned from visiting Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam areas. John Mayer is an assistant buyer at Gimbels in NYC. and London. As an art student she particularly enjoyed Julie DiJoseph '73 is a senior account executive in Laurie McDevitt is working with emotionally dis- visiting the museums. GMA Research Corporation whose specialties arc re- turbed children at a residential treatment center in Christopher Vadala '73 has been touring and record- search into travel and tourism. restaurants and health Boston. ing with the Chuck Mangione Quartet as a woodwind care. Her avocation is traveling and she has been to Sara Parton Pelgrift and Jim had been living in Lon- player and percussionist for the past seven years and Africa, Mexico, Canada and Hawaii. don, and Sara was working at Manufacturers Hanover has performed all over the world. He is also a clinician Trust. for the Selmer Band Instrument Company and has Joya Granbery Hoyt '74 is presently the producer of Sanctuary, a film for the World Council of Churches. Howard PoJiner is back to the books attending law written articles for numerous music magazines. He is school at Hofstra in NY. married to the former Kathleen Cooper (CC'72) who is She has just completed one year of filming refugees in Nicaragua, Africa, Middle East and Los Angeles. She Thomas (Tom) Seclow is working as an account currently completing a DMA at the U of Maryland in executive for the Procter & Gamble account at Wells plano. has also received a grant from the NEA for the com- Rich & Greene in Manhattan. ' Brenda and Bob DeVellis '73 received PhD degrees in pany "Sisters" to do a dance video piece with Roger Lisa Shaw O'Connell is an assistant account execu- social psychology from George Peabody College in Christiansen of the O'Neill Theater in Waterford, her tive at Young & Rubicam in Manhattan Nashville and are working at the U of North Carolina sister Pamela Granbery and composer Otis Read Diane Smith is enjoying her New London lifestyle as Brenda is an assistant professor in the department of Dana Holby '75 is artistic director of Coincidence the box office manager at Cc. health educanon and Bob is assistant director of the Company in Brattleboro, VT, which is on the Vermont Nancy Smith spent her summer chaperoning a group Rehabilitation Program Office in the School of Council on the Arts Touring Registry. of teenagers to France, after teaching middle school in Medicine. Adrienne Hawkins '77 is artistic director of the Denver. Cheryl Shipman '73 lives in Hammelstown, PA, and Impulse Dance Company in Boston. She has taught teaches the Suzuki method in violin in the Harrisburg dance workshops in Denmark and Germany. area. Her three sons are aged r I, 7, and 5. Laurie Gayle Boyd '80 is currently teaching .at the. U Robert Brust '75 is self-employed as an artist and has of NC as well as choreographing and perfurmmg With won several awards in juried shows. He serves on the the Platmakers Repertory Theater. She spent t.he last board of the PIllS burgh Society of Artists and the Penn- two summers in Anchorage. AK, chorecgraphinf for sylvania Art Association, but still misses Connecticut. the Alaska Repertory Theater. Credits Jane Leger '75 is currently teaching French at St Suzanne Faurot Warner '80 is teaching piano at Bernard's High School in Montville, CT. She is work- Drawings: G, Putnam Goodwin '82, inside home and also has a class for pre-schoolers. She is 109 for a 6t~ yea~ in Education Administration at working on a piano primer. front cover; Hopi Windle '84, page 16; UConn. She IS particularly interested in exchange pro- Laura Messier '82 is a PhD candidate in clinical Kambrah Garland '83, page 20 and back grams f~r young students and took a group of teenagers psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson. She is a clinical abroad 10 June. cover. psychology intern at the BU Medical Center. Photographs: Ellen Wildermann Bodin 'SO . Leslie Pfeil '75 married Ralph Mariano and they live Marian Mathews Smith '82 married Ralph W. 10 Wayne, P A with their two children. She did further page 22 and opposite; Mary D. Taylor: Sabine in July 1982 and they live in Guilford, CT. graduate wo.rk at Southern CT State and has worked at Deanne Minty Waters '82 is currently taking a break the Connecticut Correctional Center page 33, from a teaching career to raise her two-year-old son. Cover: photo by Ellen W. Bodin 'SO. Lorraine Schwalb Vacaro '76 teaches third grade in Correspondent: Eleanor Blackall Read, 604 Masons Groton. Her daughter Alicia graduated from CC in Island, Mystic, CT06355

36 A SPORTING CHANCE? The Athletic Center is not a luxury, but a necessity. And it needs funds.

By Esther Coyne Flanagan '49

With apologies to my favorite English teacher, Catherine Oakes, I take pen in hand to warn you about an attitude that 1, too, have been guilty of-complacency. Connecticut College has had, and will continue to have, a big influence on my life. I returned for my tenth, twentieth and thirtieth reunions. renewed old friendships and made new ones. The energy, vitality and wonderful spirit that made Connecticut College so special are still very much in evidence today. I come back to the campus and am once again part of all this creativ- The sweeping, dynamic curves of Connec- at 10 percent of that goal. ity. I return home full of enthusiasm. I am ticut's new athletic center are rising along If the athletic center's bold shape looks complacent. the riverbank. Will alumni contributions familiar, it should. The building is the work Connecticut has made the transition keep pace with construction? Scheduled to of Dan Tully Associates, the firm that de- from women's college to a coeducational open in the Fall of 1984, the athletic center signed our handsome and energy-efficient one and has maintained its position among will cost $3.9 million. Funding now stands skating rink, the Dayton Arena. its peers as a highly respected institution of learning-deservedly so. There is one area, however-a very important one-where Connecticut falls far behind its competi- to maintain the physical fitness that is so with learning. Connecticut College was tors. This is in the area of athletic' and important in the scheme of things? discussed but, because the building of the recreational facilities. Make no mistake. The colleges compet- sports center was only in the beginning We read about the impressive records ing with Connecticut for qualified students stages, it did not appear on his final list of made by our teams and individual athletes have these facilities now. Look at the facts choices. This, unfortunately, is not an iso- and are proud that the college has joined and figures Charlie Luce took a year off to lated incident. the New England Small College Athletic compile. Connecticut is at the bottom of Each of you has been, or should be Conference (NESCAC). We are delighted the list! If the college is to continue to thinking about your part in the Campaign that the wonderful generosity of the Day- attract the kind of student and faculty for Connecticut College and perhaps has ton family has made possible the ice arena member that it has in the past, the new your particular interest in mind. Unre- which adds a new dimension to college life. athletic center must become a reality soon. stricted giving is, of course, the vital back- We probably are, as I was, complacent. Plans have been drawn, ground has been bone of any annual college budget ami When Tom and I began thinking about broken and building is underway. Needless must be maintained. Over and above this, our part in the Campaign for Connecticut, to say, funding for the center is vital. however, stands one cold, hard and ines- the discussion quickly turned to athletic The concept ofa sound mind in a healthy capable fact. Connecticut College has al- facilities. Having seven sons, and having body has been with us since the time of ready begun to lose well qualified students made many college tours-the latest one Greek civilization. At my thirtieth reunion, because of its lack of recreational facilities. being this past summer-we feel somewhat the program that most impressed me was This situation must not continue if the col- qualified to speak about this subject. Last one in which members of the first graduat- lege is to maintain its position of respect March we journeyed to Connecticut and it ing class talked in glowing terms about this among its peers. was then, as we were given a personal tour very concept and their belief in it-a belief The sports center is not a luxury, it is a by Athletic Director Charlie Luce, that I which is obviously still with them these crucial necessity. We must all face this fact. was jolted out of my complacency. How I many years later. They were determined to I am asking you to give this your thorough wish each of you could take that tour. The adhere to the idea of a sound mind in a consideration, as you think about your college is very fortunate to have Mr. Luce sound body, and made do with little or no contribution to the Campaign for Connec- as its athletic director. His dedication, facilities. Today's potential student and ticut College. Complacency is an attitude knowledge and enthusiasm are definitely faculty member will not make do with poor that none of us who love Connecticut so contagious. The Dayton Arena is a marvel- facilities-they don't have to! well can afford! ous sight to behold and the athletes, men I can make this point in a very personal and women, are an inspiring and dedicated way. Our youngest son is a senior at Mer- Tom and Esther (Andy) Coyne Flana- group. But what of the others-students, cersburg Academy and made the college gan '49, after talking with Athletic Director faculty members-all those who make up tour with us this summer. For him, athlet- Charles Luce, pledged their Campaign gift the college community? Where do they go ics and physical fitness go hand in hand to the new Athletic Center. It'sthe season to celebrate! * Celebrate the great professors you hod * Celebrate the beauty and growth of our at Connecticut. and the college's continu- hilltop campus Ing commitment to the best liberal arts education. * Celebrate the role you play in keeping The Connecticut a stcn! Please send your 1983- Campaign Celebrate the friendships you made here 84 Alumni Annual Giving Program contribu- for. * Connecbcut and Connecticut's positive impact on your tion. to the Development Office. Connecticut College life since college. College. New London. CT 06320