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CC: Summer 2013, Volume 21, Number 3
• ,q. ---• � // FEATURES -�..... � "' 95TH COMMENCEMENT i'vleet the Class of 20 I j 'WORK HARD AND BE NICE' 18 Emmy-winning producer I loward Cordon shares his .secrets of success THE TRAILBLAZERS The first Posse Scholars haw owrcome THIS PAGE, JIM MORAN '92 ANO PAUL NEWMAN, CO-FOUNDERS OF CO OP BRANO PARTNERS. SPEAK AT THE COLLEGE'S SECOND adversity - and changed the College ANNUAL STUDENT-PRODUCED TEOX ON APRIL 13 WITH THE THEME "ON THE SHOULDERS Of GIANTS"
A SACRED JOURNEY PHOTO BY KOi THON Photographer David l Con nVPc tlC,· Uf e...... DEPARTMENTS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Alumni and fou1hy hook, 36 PRESIDENTS MESSAGE THE CAMPAIGN FOR NOTEBOOK CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 40 Library renma1ion, h1lhrigl11,, wain polo and morl' CLASS NOTES 42 LIVES ALUMNI CONNECTIONS Jerry and ( :;1rolyn I folk-ran '60 (; p·o-, 68 Jessie, i\mmira1i ''J·i, Jamil· Roger, ·o., REUNION 2013 7 0 letters, etc. To the Editor: CC:CONNECTICITT COLLEGE�- After pending three weeks in India, I Please a ept graceful appreciation for Volume 21 / umber 3 read with inter r your profileof Martha the newly de igned : Magazine. After Alter hen '65 (' round reality" in the year of overempha izing lighthearted Winter 2013 i sue). Her a compli hment campu -life appeal, the magazine at lasr EDIT R: Pam impact, especially in empowering women Connecticut College 2 0 Moh n ,-,nue to ega through education, economic opportunity, Thi may be an unu ual letter the cw London, CT06320 and acces co birth control? I am interested editor, but I wane d co u e the in ide or rmml ro 11/umm(j!Y'o1111roll.rd11 co hear her respon e to chi concern. cover of che Winter 2013 i ue co illustrate a point: The be c feature of the l\»1m,a.m·r: 'M-nJ.uJJ� ch1ngn 10 '(. t.onnecti\.UIColl c.-gc- MJg.tlmC',.ro .\lohrgan AH·nue, �('Y, Jennifer Ward Angyal '72 magazine chi month wa che picture I ondon, I 06.120-t l % Gibsonville, NC of che recycled-black-oak ouncer. This C'O:-1. I t7ICVJ C'OI LEU BOARD 01 TRI.,�111 \ P,1.md.10. Z1lly ·-r;.Ch,ur, \\:'illi;un I� S;amck'8 1. l 'l(t ('/,,,,,.Juduh program keep rhe black oak "alive" in I 1nJ,1.IOpJlmf ''2. \'iu CJ,.ur, Debo P AJrgb1lc ''JI, l...1u� J. ;\JIC'n ' 1),-,d \'<" 11,rh Kennebunkport, Maine children. They have three. PnntN m U.S bl Lme Pr , Burlington, \'1. 2 CC CONNECTICUT COLLCG£ MAGAZIHC SUMMER 20ll >president's message Liberal arts: fo a ion for life g ucce Leo 1 Higdon,Jr. EVERY SPRING, I feel honored and privileged co The les on here is chat career paths forliberal arcs preside over Commencement and watch our newest students aren't always obvious or linear, nor should group of graduates as they set offon their next great they be. In face, one of the srrengrhs of a liberal arcs adventures. Thi year, I congraculaced the Class of education is how well it prepares cudencs co grow and 2013, confident in the knowledge that when the e adapt not only co a changing employment landscape, young people gather for their five-year reunion in 2018, bur also co a changing society. they will have already accomplished a grear deal. A few weeks after Commencement, I had a chance How can I be so sure? We recencly completed a ro reconnect with many of those 2008 graduates during comprehensive effort to find our exaccly what our 2008 Reunion and co hear firsthand how they are u ing their graduates are doing now, five years after earning their Connecticut College education co make their mark on Connecticut College degrees. We found more than 97 the world. I couldn't be more proud of our graduate . percent are currently employed or enrolled in graduate Now we've launched another great class into the school or both. world. I am sure ic includes fucure docror , lawyer , Many of these young alumni are now working in entrepreneurs, professors, bankers and authors. l am jobs and occupations that are direcdy connected co sure it also includes community activists who will their majors. There are economics and international help shape public policy, scientists who will make new relations majors working as global financialadviser , di coveries, and arci cs who will challenge the world to forexample, arc history majors employed at national think in new ways. museums and galleries, and psychology majors New federallegislation introduced this spring would conducting research or working in clinical settings. require colleges and univer ities co collect and report On the ocher hand, many ochers have found their more data about the employment and alaries of newly way co incerescing and productive jobs by less direct minced graduates. Asking inscirutions co how their routes. Among my favorites are a math major who value is a worthwhile goal, bur I would caution the served in the Peace Corps and then founded a noc-for policy makers against focu ing coo narrowly. T�e full profit organization co help empower women in Africa, value of a liberal arc education i not revealed in the and a philosophy major who earned a master's degree fir c job our of college, or even ar che peak of� career. in library science and technology who now works as a Instead, ic unfolds across a liferime in many d,fferenc corporate librarian. venues and dimensions. ·---·•--.a-...... ,3 notebook A RENDERING BY SCHWARTZ/SILVER ARCHITECTS GIVES A 7 lhon r o t1 SENSE OF THE CHANGES ENVISIONED FOR SHAIN LIBRARY will transform Shain library AT ITS MEETING IN MAY, rhe Board ofTrusree moved to rhe main Aoor and become a 24-hour rudy approved a 7.5 million renovation and expansion space. The library al o will hou e the new Academic of hades E. hain Library rhar will provide more Re ource enrer. ( ee related rory ar right.) individual and collaborative rudy pa e , transform che onsrrucrion i expected co begin by ummer 2014. entry and upply more natural light in cudy areas. raffare working on plan ro en ure chat library and The renovation will add more than 100 new eat information ervi es will be provided wirh limited incer ro rhe building, quadrupling the number of collabora rupci n during the year of on cruccion. tive rudy area urrendy available. A new technology hain Library wa built in 1976 and dedicated at a commons located on the lower level will provide flexible ceremony featuring author Kure Vonnegut as che keynote individual and group area with acce ro in rruccional speaker. The renovation will be che finalbuilding project cechnologie . An expanded Blue amel afe will be of the 200 million ampaign for onnecricuc ollege. 4 CC CONNECTICUT COLL(Gf liilAGAZlNE SUMl.4£R 2011 notebook cadem·c Re ource C nte making an impact IT'S ONLY EXISTED FOR ONE SEMESTER, but kill enhancement and academic r ource to help them the Academic R ource enter i already having an impact become more efficient and effective learner . " on student uccess. The center will al o as i t tudenr in developing quan "The benefiti tremendou and empowers students to titative kills such as using statistical reasoning, modeling be fully ngaged in their learning," ay arol Akai, the empirical data, formulating mathematical descriptions and Bennen As i rant Profe or of Human Development. theorie , and u ing mathematical techniques to explain The center will provide tutoring, workshops and group data and predict outcome tudy that focu not only on academi , but al o on study In his first emester, arrecc held about 50· one-on-one skill and time management. le will encompas the Roth m ecing with rudent which, according to students and Writing enter and the fli eof Di ability ervices, and faculty, re ulted in improved test ore and tudy habit . it raffwill work do ely with staffand faculty in the Joy Molly Huy man '16 ought arrett' as i ranee with hechtman Mankoff enter forTeaching & Learning. time management. "I am now able to tay on track bener "Many colleg offer tutoring center ," ay oel and even found that l had more freetime than I thought," arrett, who was named the enter's inaugural director he reported as the emester drew to a do e. in January. "Our aim i to tran form the way that looks, The center, which was funded and endowed by an creating a new model for tudent su ce s. We want this anonymou $11 million gift to the ollege, will occupy to be a centralized place where exceptional tudenrs can a 2,500- quare-foot pace on the econd Aoor of hain maximize their potential, but at the same time, offer basic Library, following the library's renovation. Making the CONNECTICUT COLLEGE was named to the President's 2013 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in March, the fifth time the College has been included on the list since it was first published in 2006. Compiled yearly by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the honor roll recognizes colleges and universities nationwide that support innovative and effective community service and service learning programs. Each year, STUDENTS AND STAFF PITCHED IN ON A SATURDAY IN APRIL TO ENCLOSE THE HOOP HOUSE IN THE NEWLY EXPANDED SPROUT ORGANIC GARDEN BEHIND CROZIER-WILLIAMS WITH more than 500 Connecticut THE SHELTER OF THE HOOP HOUSE, STUDENT GARDENERS WILL BE ABLE TO START CROPS College students volunteer, intern, EARLIER AND EXTEND THE GROWING SEASON INTO THE FALL. OVERALL PLANTING SPACE work and study in local schools, HAS BEEN INCREASED FIVE-FOLD AT THE GARDEN'S NEW LOCATION, ALLOWING STUDENTS agencies and other nonprofits. TO PLANT AS MANY AS 30 DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF PRODUCE THIS YEAR. VERSUS FEWER THAN IO AT THE OLD LOCATION » for more news, 10 to www.conncoll.edu 5 notebook What should students I ar ? ASK A GROUP of onneccicuc ollege graduate process. rage I, which rook place during che past about cheir experience with ene�al Education ( £), eme rer, wa co build a faculry con en u around desired and rwo different kind of an wer emerge. ome say learning ourcom or goals for E. chat fulfillingthe requirements, which include one A working group of faculty, caffand rudencs, our e each from even broad discriburion areas, led chaired by Zimmer and uzuko Knott, as i cane chem to an exciting topic or field of mdy rhar they profe or of erman, oliciced input from aero campu would never have di covered otherwi e. ther alumni, via panel , di cu ion , surveys and other accivicie . ne however, ay char GE requirements were imply cla ses recurring di cu ion point was about the acqui irion of rhey had co cake beforethey could tudy their true areas incellecmal kills - uch as critical thinking, writing of intere c. and re earch skill - ver u content. cher question These divergent view , along with the changing centered on whether and how GE hould fo rer a shared namre of higher education, have prompted che faculty er of value or ethical framework. to cake on a daunting ca k: review and reform of the Ln May, the faculty approved a et of learning ollege's E requirements, which have been in place outcomes (see below) that are "de igned to develop with few modincarion since 1973. (One change was educated citizens who will demon crate curio iry about che introduction of a mall fir t-year eminar for every the namral, physical and social world (past, present, and mdenc in 2004.) future) and one' place in it, caking into account global "In char cimeframe o much has changed," ay Marc concern : su rainabiliry, ocial location, and ethics." Zimmer, the Tempel Profe or of Phy ical cience and A new working group will work through the ummer co-chair of a 12-member E Working Group. "We have on cage 2 of the proces - de igning curricular model an opportunity co rethink our curriculum to upporr to meet those learning goal that will be presented for new kind of learning and chinking." broader di cussion and review in the fall. Lf all goe well, Becau e changing GE requirements i nororiou ly the new requirements will be voted in during the next conrrover ial faculry leader decided on a mulri-srage academic year and will take effect for the lass of 20 I 8. In May, the facultyapproved the Skills • Obtain, evaluate, ethically use and following learningoutcomes for a • Develop cultural competence, present information new General Education program. including how to engage with and • Approach a central problem from a respect diverse local and global variety of perspectives and disciplines Knowledge communities and their languages • Apply learning in a way to engage the • Acquire and integrate ideas from the • Critically examine, synthesize, and campus, the local community, or both humanities, natural sciences and assess written, visual, quantitative, • Employ creative problem solving and mathematics, social sciences, and and oral arguments develop imaginative thinking the arts • Formulate a research question and • Develop awareness and broad collect and evaluate data using Ethics knowledge of diverse cultures, past relevant methods and technologies • Reflect on the ethical significance and present • Communicate powerfullyand of one's learning • Understand that human inquiry is persuasively - orally and in writing • Incorporate multiple perspectives in a social practice and that every - taking into account audience learning and decision making discipline has a history and context • Apply learning to live a socially • Understand one's social location, • Express one's ideas using non responsible life on campus power and privilege verbal forms and beyond -6 CC.CONNCCTICUT COll[G[ MAGAZINE SUMMER 2013 notebook ecre l"fe of trees THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has awarded Rachel picer, as i canr professor of botany, a chree year, 395,000 grant for research char addre e fundamental question about how tree grow. The work ha practical application for biofuel development and fore t generation. The project will provide advanced urnrner research opportunirie for nine onnecricut ollege undergraduates plus an additional fivero IO rudent during rhe academic year. The grant begin in the fall of2013 and includes funding for equipment and fortravel ro r earch conferences BOTANY PROFESSOR RACHEL SPICER INSIDE CONNECTICUT by picer and her rudent . COLLEGE'S NEWLY RENOVATED GREENHOUSE picer is re earching how the fast-growing poplar tree lay down the intricate sy tern of micro copic pipes char move cis ue formedin previous year . water and ugar through the wood ro the leaves and root . Few undergraduates have the opporruniry ro do chis level Her re earch will hed light on how the vasculature - the of re earch, picer ay . "The cherni cry involved i quire piping network - is established. challenging," he says. The pipe crucrure determine the perrneabiliryof the Tw o rudencs are already helping with independent wood, which in turn determine optimal u e of a given research and, nexr year, will write senior ches related ro wood. The piping sy tern al o affect how fa r a tree can get the project. picer hope the project will encourage more water ro its leaves, which can influencethe tree's growth rare. rudents ro pur ue career in plane biology. picer' cudencs will do advanced work on gene picer, who e grandfather was a tree biologist, has alway expression - measuring where and how much a gene i loved trees. he decided co become a forestry major after rurned on or off- and they will use mas pecrro copy to eeing tree vascularure under a micro cope as a freshman at measure che level of auxin - a hormone chat helps create the Universiry of Mas achusett . the vascularure - in different parts of a cree. Tracking the "Jr was the most beautiful ruffI'd ever een," she says. rnovernenrof auxin from the young leave co rhe woody pi er earned a master' degree from regon care rem below, picer and her rudents will be able ro trace the Univer iry and a Ph.D. from Harvard. he joined connection between new pring growth and the woody onneccicur College in 20 I 0. Professor collects tor es o re lie ce VIETNAMESE STREET VENDORS cell their srorie rapidly growing urban economy, but in three new docurnencarie produced by Profes or of they do thi preci ely o chat they and Econorni Rolf Jen en. The project i a onrinuation of their famili can maintain their rural r earch he and fellow economics profe or Don Peppard idenritie ," ay Jen en. have been conducting for more than a decade with che The film were cornrni ioned by ROLF JENSEN help of tudent in the allege' rudy-abroad program the Vietnamese Women' Mu eurn in in Vietnam. Hanoi and are part of the museum's permanent exhibition The vendors featured in the films are rural women on women and the family. They can be found online ar who leave their children and hu bands ar home to work as http://virneo.com/channel / creervendor . creer vendor in Hanoi, oftenfor weeks ar a rime. Ir' nor The r earch chat Jen en and Peppard have been ju c long eparacion from family chat make the migration conducting with their rudent will al o appear in a difficult: The women hare cramped quarter and often forthcomingbook, co-authored with Vu Thi Minh Thang muse evade police who occasionally enforce vague law of che Univer iry of ocial ciences and Humanities ar about creer vending. Vietnam acional Univer iry-Hanoi, cicled "Women on the "They migrate ro work in che informal eccor of Hanoi' Move: Hanoi' Migranr Roving creet Vendor ." » for man, news,www.conncol.edu IDto 7 notebook Founders Day honors e edi h THE COLLEGE CELEBRATED it 102nd birthday on April 5 along with another important in cicucional anniver ary: the 25th anniver ary of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to the late Profe or of Engli h William Meredith. To kick offthe celebration, the Harkne s hapel bell tolled I02 time - marking the number of year ince the ollege' charter was igned in 19 I I. Faculty, caffand srudencs gathered in ha.in Library to remember Meredith and read from hi poetry. An all-campus reception followed. I. THE WILLIAMS STREET MIX PERFORMS THE CENTENNIAL SONG A CAPPELLA AT THE FOUNOERS DAY RECEPTION. 2. ROBLEY EVANS, LEFT, ANO ALAN BRADFORD, RIGHT, BOTH EMERITUS PROFESSORS OF ENGLISH, AND JANET GEZARI, THE ALLYN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, CHAT FOLLOWING THE MEREDITH POETRY READING . 3. PRESIDENT LEO I. HIGDON, JR., ANO WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE BLANCHE BOYD, THE WELLER PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, LOOK THROUGH A BOOK OF MEREDITH'S POETRY. 8 CC CONNECTICUT COUCG( MACAZIN[ SUMMER 2011 notebook Communit allege part ership brings new talent to campus JOSEPH Headen maintained a 4.0 grade-point average in HEADEN '14 rhe biology honor program at Henry Ford. ow he AND LEAH i majoring in behavioral neuro cience and preparing MANTEi '14 co apply co medical school. ver rhe ummer, through a connection of hi advi er, Associate Professor of euro cience Jo eph chroeder, he is interningwith WHEN JOSEPH HEADEN '14 arrived on campu a professor ar Wayne care University, working on lase fall, after a 13-hour drive from Michigan, he brought psychopharmacology project . He is al o finishingup omerhing char few of hi classmates po ed: an associate an independent r earch project on phy ical activity as degree froma community college. a treatment for depres ion, under rhe direction of Ruch Headen and another ri ing enior, Leah Manrei, were rahn, as ociare professor of psychology and director of rhe fir t ruden to enroll under a new nnecticur College rhe behavioral neuro cience program. initiative co amact qualifiedtransfer srudencs from elected While Headen had never been outside Michigan before community colleges. Headen and Mantei completed their applying co onnecticur College, Mancei pent her junior associate degreesin a mall honor program at Henry Ford year of high chool in Mi.in cer, ermany, and peaks Community College in Dearborn, Mich. erman Auencly. With her asso iace degree in Arabic 'Tm excited about che porential for chis program," ay cultural rudies, he has been able co elf-de ign a major in Carolyn Denard, dean of the ollege and enior diver icy Middle Eastern language and culture; he will spend rhe officer. "Weare expanding access co a onnecricur ollege fall em cer studying in Egypt. education for high-achieving, highly motivated srudents The liege i al o working wirh ocher potential and, at the ame time, expanding rhe range of per pecrives community college partner and may expand rhe program and life experiences represented in our rudent body, which further.The program i financially supported by rhe contribur co rhe quality of education for all." oodnow Family Community College Partnership Fund. E R CHing the community THIS SPRING, 94 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE as workshop leader , and 77 erved as mentor and tudents volunteered in a pilot program for ew London curors. They led the middle school students in activities middle school student rhac could become a national designed co engage student in learning and provide model forafter- chool enrichment programs. opportunities in rhe art and other areas char are hand - From February through May, 100 tudencs from ew on, including inging and ongwriting, Afro- aribbean London's Bennie Dover Jackson Middle chool came co dance, art and craft , Arabic language and culture, campus after chool several days a week for homework hine e language and culture, cheater, henna and Middle guidance, reading and writing in truction, and a whole lot Eastern culture, poken word, improvisation, Zumba, of fun.The program, called E RJ H, wasdeveloped by phy ical limes and more. The College al o provided Bennie Dover reacher and administrator with help from healthy snacks. rhe College' fficeofVolunreer for Community ervice. The program built on nearly two decad of Connecticut liege "really cepped up co the place and partner hip between the ollege and Bennie Dover, delivered in a major way," Ali on Ryan, Bennie Dover's including active tutoring and mentoring programs. principal, cold The Day new paper in a March 11 article. The program was fundedby the Ford Foundation and evenreen onneccicur ollege student were trained the arional enter on Time & Learning. » for more news, &O to www.conncoll.edu 9 notebook PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING COLUMNIST NICHOLAS KRISTOF TALKS WITH STUDENTS FOLLOWING HIS FEB. 13 LECTURE. A SPRING SEMESTER FOCUS on global ju tice i ues began with a randing-room-only lecture in Evans I• Hall by ew York Times columnise icholas Kristof' Gooooooo a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author of "Half the ky: Turning Oppre ion into pportuniry CONNECTICUT COLLEGE for Women Worldwide." has received Gold Certification Kri cof di cussed the maltreatment, marginalization for LEED (Leader hip in Energy and brutality char women and girl face in many and Environmental De ign) for developing nation . Bur he al o emphasized Storie of the new cience enter at ew women who overcame difficult ob cacles - women like London Hall. LEED recognizes Beatrice Biira '08, who e elementary chool education the u e of green building was made possible by the donation of a goat to her material and practice and the familyin Uganda through Heifer Lnternacional. installation of energy-efficient y rem . In addition Kristof surpri ed the audience when he pulled out hi to the eco-friendJy and recycled material u ed in cellphone mid-talk to call Biira and ask about the impact it con truccion, the renovated and expanded ew y char education had on her life. London Hall is heated and cooled by a rem of " oming from Uganda, and coming co onnecricuc geothermal well under Tempel Green. allege, I feel so empowered," Biira aid through a rah ugenr '10 led the certification team speakerphone. "I have the chance co make very at tephen Winter As ociares a con ulting firm meaningful, thought-our choice for how I live my life retained by the ollege co guide the certification proce . and how I impact the lives of ocher ." The lecture and ub equent event in the series were Thi i the third LEED certification for the co- pon ored by the ollege' five interdisciplinary ollege, after the LEED ilver designations earned by academic center . ilfen Auditorium and the Fiene mer. IO cc CONN(CllCUl COll[C[ MAGAZIN[ SUMMER 201l notebook A different kind of (ng break Retiring FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS scacrered around che globe for SIX FACULTYMEMBERS service and rudy trips during the ollege' rwo-week March break. with 181 years of combined service Among chem: to Connecticut College retired this year: • reve Loomis, the Tempel Profe or of Biology, and Manuel Lizarralde, as ociare professor of echnobotany, rook rudencs in "Tropical Biology" • Paul Althouse, professor of music to Belize to rake rock of rainforest diver ity. (43 years) • Pablo Turillo '13 traveled to Qatar co pre enc a paper on the po icion • Thomas Ammirati, professor of of influential women in early I lam at an international conference; he physics (44 years) wrote the paper for a ollege class, "I lamic Tradition . " • Bridget Baird, professor of • Pre-med students hannon Brady '14 and Kel ey Row '14, both mathematics and computer certified EMTs, spent IO day in Haiti delivering medical supplie science and former director of the and teaching fir t aid and publi healch to Haitian tudents and their Ammerman Center for Arts and teachers. Technology (31 years) • Eight rudencs traveled with Residential Education and Living Director ara • David Lewis, the Margaret W. Rothenberger on a community ervicetrip co ouch Africa. Kelly Professor of Chemistry, • Hi ae Kobayashi, enior lecturer in Japane e, cook the tudenc in her former provost and interim intermediate Japanese class to Japan to learn about the culture and president of the College (18 years) exercise their language kills. • Richard Moorton, professor of • A group of profe or traveled co ouch Africa to study biodiversity. The classics (30 years) trip was part of a larger project, led by Jane Dawson, the Weinmann • senior lecturer in Profe or of Government and Environmental rudies, to develop a Ann Robertson, global environmental ju rice curriculum ac the ollege funded by a mathematics (15 years) $200,000 grant from the Chri cian A. John on Endeavor Foundation. TROPICAL BIOLOGY STUDENTS EXPLORE THE RAINFORESTS IN BELIZE. » for mare ,-s, FIDwww.conncol.edu11 notebook Kovic Six awarded Fulbr· hts SIX CONNECTICUT COLLEGE SENIORS and wins the recent alumni have been awarded 2013 Fulbright U. rudent Program grant to conduct re carch or reach o d( ate ) abroad for an academic year. onnecticut ollege i con i cendy recognized as a top producer of Fulbright fellow , with 37 winner in even year . JUNIOR YUMI KOVIC ha been awarded che llege's Thi year' recipient arc: fourth Barry oldwacer cholar hip in the lase five year . The holarship, authorized by the United tate • Rebecca Tisherman '13, Fulbright Re earch Award ongress in 1986 in honor of en. Barry M. oldwacer, to hina, to research the effect of hale gas drilling encourage out randing rudents to pur ue careers in (commonly referred to as "fracking") on cience, mathemaci or engineering. cholars are elected groundwater resource on the basi of academic merit to receive a one-year d1olarship of up to 7,500. • Candace Taylor '13, Fulbright Re earch Award A member of the ollege' cience Leaders Program to icaragua, to u e dance and anthropology to which i designed to prepare women and ocher document cultural hi tories. underrepresented tudents for career in the cicnces, • Monica Raymunt '09, Fulbright rudy/Research Kovic i a biochemistry major with an interest in rant for Beginning Professional Journali ts to immunological sciences. he plans to pursue a medical Germany, co research access, funding and the role of degree and doctorate in biochemistry and hopes co one government in the German higher educacion sy rem. day practice medicine in a teaching ho pita! where he • Evan Piekara '07, Engli h Teaching Assistantship to can research autoimmune disease . Poland. Piekara has chosen not co cake the Fulbrighc "It has alway fascinated me that a leading cau e of and, in read, has accepted an employment offer from disease i our own cells," he says. BOO, a large accounting company, where he will be working to launch a federal management con ulting practice. • Andrew Greaves '13, Engli h Teaching As i cant hip to Malaysia, co reach Engli h ac a primary or econda.ry school. • Andrew Gatti '10, Engli h Teaching As i cant hip to Hungary, co work ac the Fulbrighc EducacionU A Advising enter and the Je uic Roma Residential ollege in Budapest. Lilypad debuts MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2013 DESCEND THE LAUREL WALK INTO THE ARBORETUM TO ATTEND LILYPAD. A NEW SENIOR WEEK EVENT DESIGNED BY THE SENIOR CLASS COUNCIL WITH SUPPORT FROM DEAN OF THE COLLEGE CAROLYN DENARD. STUDENTS ENJOYED LIVE JAZZ MUSIC. A DJ. HORS D'OEUVRES AND A CHAMPAGNE TOAST WITH SPARKLERS AT MIDNIGHT. 12 CC CONNCCTICUT COlLCGC MAGAZINE SUMMCR 2013 notebook er a ard supports student research AS THE 2013 WINNER of the ollege's Myers how community Research Fellow hip, Gabrielle Arenge '14 i conducting perception , a cudy of creativity in Kenya' largest lum chi summer. culture and cudent renge i a p ychology major and arr minor from participation can olumbu , .J ., and a scholar in rhe Holleran enter determine the for ommunity Action and Public Policy. he previou ly effectiveness of a studied abroad in Kenya and founded an arr-based creative arr after- LIZ DE LISE • 13 mentor hip program there with a I 0,000 Davi Projects chool program," Arenge ays. for Peace grant. Liz de Lise ' 13, an anthropology major, musician and The Myer R earch Fellowship provides up to 5,000 ongwrirer fromAmbler, Pa., was the inaugural winner of to a ophomore or junior of extraordinary promise to the award.De Li e pent the summer of2012 rudying upporr a elf-directed and inten ive ummer of research, the culrure of nomadic street kid living in Porrland, re. exploration and travel. Ir was tabli hed by the Myers Her research erved as rl1e basi for her senior honors rl1esis, family in 2012 in honor of Minor Myer jr.P'00 '03, a " iruating rreer Kid : Ethnography of omadic treer Kid profes or of government at Connecticut ollege from ulrure in Porrland, Oregon," and in pired a number of 1968 to 1984 who later served as the president of Illinois ongs he wrote as part of an independent study. Wesleyan Univer icy for 14 year . De Li e ays she learned as much about her elf during Arenge's Myers research, which involves implementing the cour e of her research a she did about the creer kids and evaluating a creative curriculum in an after-school arts she ob erved and interviewed. program, builds on her previous work in Kenya and will "Looking back, I would probably change a million inform her enior honors chesi . thing about my project, bur the beauty of the Myer i "I hope to use research data from chis summer to draw chat it allow one to dive into che great unknown - and links between creativity and empowerment and examine emerge, ready forthe next challenge," she ay . cout g alent in Pakistan ARTS PROGRAMMING Director Robert Richter cultural institutions and ar the '82, the man behind the on cage at onnecticur College International Young Alumni performingartist series,recently spent two weeks in Paki tan Conference (IYA ) hosted by the couting talent for a new U ..cultural exchange program. U ..Embassy in Islamabad.The Richter toured Pakistan evaluating contemporary art IYA was the largest gathering of performance forCenter cage, an initiative of the U .. alumni of U ..cul rural exchange ROBERT RICHTER '82 Department of care char bring artists from abroad co the programs ever ho red by an embas y. U ..co engage Americans in cul rural diplomacy. "The tare Department has a long history of ending He and three ocher member of the advance ream mer U ..arti ts abroad, bur enter rage is the first program with arti ts in Lallore, Karachi and l lamabad to help elect where they are bringing foreignarti ts co the U ..," Paki tani music ensemblesto tour the U ..in the fall of20l4 Richter ay .The firstCenter rage artists, fromIndonesia, and to gathercontextual information to supportthe tours. Paki can and Haiti, toured the U ..lase fall. onnecricur ln addition, the U .. team pr ented 10 workshops on ollege was a cop for Haitian inger/songwrirer BelO, topics uch as arcs management, career in the arts and who performed on campus in ovember as pare of the promoting ocial change through the arts ar universities, on cage eries. » for morenews, &O towww.conncoll.edu 13 sports m n' ter pol wins league championship WATER POLO IS A QUIRKY SPORT, with a ba kecball-like Aow, a o cer-like ecup and culcure-based rule reminiscent of golf. oache can be di mi ed (a police way of aying ejected) from a game for any number of rea on . Which i why, wich ju c minutes co go in his ream' league champion hip game on April 13, head coach COACH JJ ADDISON (CENTER, IN WHITE) CELEBRATES WITH MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S WATER POLO TEAM MOMENTS AFTER JJ Addison was crouched in che doorway of hi office in THE TEAM WON ITS FIRST CWPA DIVISION Ill CHAMPIONSHIP. Lore acacorium, as do e co che pool deck a he could b without couching ic. De pite having a young ream, onnecticut ollege Di mi ed from che game for challenging call , Addi on was ho ting the cournamenc after po ring an impres ive wa a bundle of nerve and energy as he waited for the 12-6 regular season record (12-3 again t Divi ion Ill final econds co rick offthe clock. When the march opponents) and garnering a o. 8 national ranking. ended, the amel had b acen chree-cime defending By halftime, the amel were up 2-1 and had champion Grove icy ollege 6-3 co claim the fir t league the momentum. championship in the hi cory of water polo ac onneccicuc "I was so hyped up; I don't know why I was ollege. For Addi on, who sprang from the doorway and que tioning call ," Addi on ay . "It wa clear we had leaped inco the pool co celebrate with his players, ir wa a control of the game. I wa ju c o excited." dream 10 years in the making. The amel were up 4-J with fiveminutes left when onneccicuc ollege' men's and women's water polo Addison received a red card, which meanr he had to leave programs were carted ju t I 3 year ago, with a grant from the bench. As iscant coach RyaJ1 Pryor had received a the U. . lympic Commircee as part of an effortco grow red card during me emifinal march and was sirring out the spore at the collegiate level. With no other var icy the champion hip game, per AA rules. Thar left the programs in the ew England mall ollege Athletic Camel with no coach. onference ( CA ), che women's ream compete in "le was crazy," recalls cournamenc MVP icky Jab on the ollege Water Polo As ociacion' ( WPA) Divi ion 't 5. "1 was o focu ed during che game thac I didn't even III league, formed in 2009 for team from onne cicuc, realize what had happ ned uncil we had co cop the game." Pennsylvania, ew York, Wi con in and Minnesota. A frantic earch ensued co find a ollege repr entacive rove icy had won all three previous Division III who could fill in for Addi on, per CAA rule . Athletic titles. Bue Addi on, who has coached the Camels for I 0 trainer Daniel iopa, who wa warching the game from year , was confidenr going inco the champion hip game. the stand , assumed coaching re pon ibilicie and i credited as the winning coach, per CAA tandard , for the game and champion hip. Water polo season highlights "I've never played wacer polo in my life. I never dreamed I'd win a championship," jokes iopa, who ay • Overall record: 17-7; 17-4 • First-ever wins against he will retire from coaching the spore with hi vs. non-Division I opponents Division II teams undefeated record. • 17 wins equals the team's • Won 13 of last 14 games In the end, the change on the bench did lircle to previous two best seasons • CWPA Division Ill di rupc che amel offen e, which increa ed the lead co 6-t combined (eight wins in Champions before all of the ream' enior were ub deuced in. 2010, nine wins in 2012) • Placed ninth at the CWPA "Coach Pryor and I felc good about the factthat we'd • First win over a top-10 team Championship (highest coached the players so well all year they didn't even need • Seven wins against teams among non-DI teams) us for those la c few minute ," Addi on ay . Connecticut College had • Ranked in top 10 nationally With the win, the College earned an automatic bid co never beaten (DIii) for most of the year the WPA Championship in Michigan where the team fini hed ninth, the highe t fini h for a Divi ion III chool. 14 CC CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMCR 2013 sports Camels m e up in NESCAC rankings ,.· , CONNECTICUT COLLEGE spores ceam racked J ' ,. ' ... up 39 win in the ew England mall ollege Athleci ....- •.t Conference ( E ) chi year, placing che amel ahead of Wesleyan, Hamilton, olby and Bates in total win percentage for che IO team chat compete with a full round-robin conference chedule. The amels boast a nonleague winning percentage of nearly70 percent, and one team - women' volleyball ,, • - qualifiedfor the CAA tournament. The ollege - 81 J al o did well in pores chat compete outside of the �- E , including water polo and ailing, and port in which athletes compete individually in addition to as � a ream, uch as cro country and cenni . The water polo . ream won its conference champion hip ( ee page 14), for example, and Mike LeDuc '14 became the ollege' 2•0 RD third CAA champion when he won the 3,000-mecer ' r· steeplechase in dramatic fashion on May 25. onnecticur ollege hasn't been in last place in the MICHAEL LEDUC '14 (above, center) became CA randings since the 2006-07 academic year, Connecticut ollege' third CAA champion with and progre has been consi rent, with the amels a dramatic win in the 3,000-mecer reeplechase at winning at least 33 conference game every year the CAA Oivi ion lII Outdoor Tr ack and Field ince 2009-10. hampionship May 25 in La ro e, Wi . After hitting " ur succe s is a testament to the investment we have the finalbarrier on the cour e - the fir r barrier he made in athleci , both in facilities and in support for had hit all year - and nearly falling, LeDuc charged coaches and athletes, including training, recruiting and in che final trecch co overtake top-seeded Jack Davies leader hip development, ' aid President Leo I. Higdon, of Middlebury at the finish line. LeDuc b red Davie Jr. "We have escabli hed a firm foundation for future by ju r .08 second , fini hing with a chool record rime growth, and I ee potential forConnecticut ollege to of 8:50.58. Thetime was the fasce r in Divi ion III chi break into the top ranks of che E year and the sixth-fasce tin CAA Divi ion Ill history. THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE women's rowing team cook home the gold medal in che women' var icy four ac the Eastern ollege Athletic onference acional lnvicarional ollegiare Regatta in Worce rer, Mass., on May 12. oxswain Maureen weeney '13, rroke Anne peranza '16, three sear aralie alhoun '16, two ear eana iekrnan '13 and bow ear Lindsay ook 'I 5 po red a time of7:59. onneccicuc oUege al o placed third in the fourth-level finalof the var icy eight regatta with a time of7:56. »b more news, 1111 towww.conncoLedu15 COMMENCEMENT 2013 ON MAY 19, UNDER A GRAY SKY, the ollege as College Marshal Ann loan Devlin read the name of community celebrated the 95th Commencement exercises the graduates one by one. They traip ed aero s the grassy on Tempel reen. The rain held offfor the bagpipe-led dai to receive their diplomas, hug or hake hand with procession, speeches and a lew of awards, including the the pr idem and po e brieflyfor a photo. By then, no one ollege' top two rudent honor , two College Medal and really cared about the weather, becau e there they were - an honorary degree for peaker Howard Gordon, creator the 445 newest graduat of onnecticut ollege, ready to of televi ion' "24" and "Homeland." Drops began to fa.lJ take the world by torm. The applau e was thunderou . MEET THE CLASS OF 20 3 Degrees Awarded Incernacional tudies and the a few had plan co travel before Bachelor of Arts: 443 Liberal Arcs: 29 joining che workforce. Master of Arcs: 2 Earned a certificate in Many employer of the las mu eum cudie : 7 of2013 are large and well known; Fields of Study Earned reaching certification: 13 major ho pitals, accounting firm and financial ervice companies are Mo t popular major : economi , represented. ther are mall and p ychology, biology, government, Honors pccialized, including a erman international relation Inducted into Phi B ca Kappa: 43 travel agency, a dan e company and Double major : 94 Latin honors: 14 L an organic farm.Th e mo t common Mo t popular combination Deparcmencal honor : 186 cicle for chc c fir t po c-college of major : economics and interna Three Fulbright fellow hip winner , job are bu inc analy c, reacher, tional relation a Davi Project for Peace winner re earch as i cane and paralegal. Triple major : I (dance, o iology and eight All-American achlcce The graduate planning co and French) continue ch ir rudie immediately Mo c unu ual major: po c-colonial Where They Came From are enrolling in a wide range of lingui tic anthropology (one of tx 29 care in che U.. and L 9 ocher graduate and profe ional program cudenc elf-designed major ) countries or cerricorie (Angola, at public and private univer icie Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, aero s the United race . Many ambodia, ameroon, anada, Signature Experiences graduate arc pur uing master' hina, roatia, eorgia, Kenya, cudied abroad: 182 degree in fields a varied as public epal, orway, Pakistan, ierra Performed community ervice: health cconomi , fine arcs, Leone, ingapore Tanzania, Tuni ia, 67 percent nuclear engineering and forensic United Kingdom and Vietnam) ompleced a College-funded intern- psychology. cher are going hip or um mer re earch: 77 percent to doctoral program or chool Earned a certificatefrom an Where They're Going Next of law, m dicine, denci cry and academic center: 67 As chcy packed up their dorm veterinary medicine. A few of the • Ammerman enter for Arcs & room , the graduate of2013 new graduate will be leaving the Technology: 5 were heading in many different U ..co cudy, including at che • oodwin- iering enter for che direction , from fir c job co grad London chool of Economi , the Environment: 10 chool co service organizations Univer icy ofOrcawa, the Univer icy • Holleran enter for ommunicy such as Arneri orp and Teach of xford, Pari ollege of Art Action and Public Policy: 23 for America. ome were rill job and chc orwegian Univer icy of • Toor umming enter for hunting or reviewing their option ; cience and Technology. Coverage continued on nextpage ► 'Work hard and be nice' By Howard Gordon 'VE WRITTEN AND PRODUCED hundreds of hour of television. I've never once lose ighc of whar a privilege ir is co cell rorie co million of people every week. ln our fractured, freneticsociety, a compelling TV how can become COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER HOWARO GOROON IS PRESENTED WITH HIS HONORARY DOCTORAL HOOD BY PAM ZILLY '75. CHAIR OF THE a collective experience - a kind of mas ive campfire BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND PRESIDENT HIGDON where people gather co hear a srory char moves chem and make chem chink. privilege comes the respon ibility co give back co rho e The terrible event of9/1 I made "24" relevanr in a way who haven't had your advantage . none of u could have anticipated. After uanranan10 and I've been talking about the power of torie . The most Abu hraib, Jack Bauer became a much more controver ial powerful one you'll ever gee co cell is your own. Ir won't be figure. ome journali r wenr o fur as co find a causal about your achievement or award or how much money link berween "24" and the promotion of torture as an you've made. It will be about how you couched people acceptable means of inrerrogacion. uddenly, I wasn't jusr and how you lee chem touch you. What story do you want writing a celevi ion how, I was ar the center of a national co cell? What cory do you wane ocher co cell about you? debate I'd never igned up for. rill, I was graceful co have Jc may sound like fortune-cookiephilo ophy, but chi been pare of a dialogue chat needed co happen. Ir made me even-word enrence in pir me every day from a poster on re on ider the line berween ocial responsibility and free the wall of my office: "Work hard and be nice to people." peech. And it howed me the power of celling rories. Hard work doesn't guarantee ucc . Many people With "Homeland," I've been able co explore ome of work hard and fail, bur [ have yet co meet a uccessful the big qu tion we've all been asking in the decade since per on who hasn't worked hard. o when you gee lucky and 9/ l 1. What' the real human co t of going co war? How omeone opens a door for you, be ready to walk through it. far can we go co defend our value without lo ing them As co the econd half of my philosophy, being nice along che way? How much of our privacy are we willing co co people i like the trunk of a tree with many branche acrificeco be secure? And can we ever be truly secure? - humility, respect, com pas ion, empathy and love. The fictional character I create live in the ame crazy, Whether I'm creating a bipolar 1A agent or the world's complicated world as the rest of us. How they navigate mo c wanted rerrori c, my job i co make chem calk and through the world i what make chem compelling. How behave like real people. To do chat require under randing you navigate your way through the world will make your their point of view, as differenta they may be frommy cory compelling. own. Li rening co ocher people i the root of empathy. od know , you've got great ource material: the Ir's made me a better writer, bur more important, it' widening gap berween rich and poor; an economy chat' made me a better per on. lt take practice, and it rakes lo ing ground co the growing economic of India and patience. But your cory will be better for it. hina; a warming planet chat' cau ing our ocean co ri e, I wane co leave you with a finalthought. l think it the implication of which we're only ju t beginning co was Montaigne who aid this - or maybe ic was Homer under rand. imp on - "Donut . I there anything they can't do?" The Ii r goes on. You'll inherit the world ooner than Okay, chat was Homer. Bur Montaigne aid, "Ic's the you chink, and the ooner you und r rand its challenges, journey, not the arrival, chac matter mo t." the better equipped you'll be co meet them head on. I hope you all findhappines in your journey . You're all leaving onneccicut ollege with invaluable ood luck. cool : the capacity for critical chinking chat come from having earned a fir c-rare liberal art education; the ability Howard Gordon is the co-creator ofthe Emmy-winning to ask good que cion , even when there may be no good television series "24" and "Homeland."This articleis excerpted answer ; and the under randing char along with your fromhis Commencement address to the Class of2013. } 8 CC CONNECTICUT COUCGE MAGAZINC SUMMU 2013 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY N HIS REMARKS co the las of 2013, Douglas . Bern rein (3), a religiou cudie major President Leo I. Higdon, Jr. (I), reAecced on che new from Bethesda, Md., received rhe ake and Loui e graduates' achievements ar onne cicuc ollege, as Ame Prize for che year's mo c oucsranding honor che i . well as che many opporruniti ahead of chem. Bern rein' che i analyzed internal conAicr within the "I hope you continue co embrace learning in all elugpa chool of Buddhi m. form ; continue ro cro boundaries and co make Marline . John on (4), a psychology major and connection ocher don't ee; and continue co live the arr minor from hicago, Ill., received rhe Anna Lord va.luesof che Honor ode and co re peer and value trau Medal for out tanding community ervice and equity and inclu ivene as part of your lifelong learning. commitment co ju rice and equicy. Above all, plea e stay connected co onnecncur Pre ident Higdon al o pre enred the onneccicuc ollege," he aid. ollege Medal co rwo emericu tru tee , Linda J. Lear enior clas peaker Amy E. heetham (2), of '62 (5) and Raymond J. Debbane P'09 'l 3 (6). Lear, Monroe, Maine, urged her clas mares co keep exploring an author and hi corian, was lauded for her s holarship and following their pas ion . and environmental advocacy, as well as her ervice and "Our mo c powerful cool i our liberal art genero icy co che ollege. Debbane was cited for hi education," he aid. "We've been caught co chink work on global hunger and nutrition i ues, hi ervice critically about che very foundations of modern society: co the ollege and his strong upport of che ollege's co que cion our actions and our ideas, and che thoughts international programs. and deed of tho e who came before us. When we leave An honorary doccorace of lecrer was awarded co here today, our mosr immediate challenge may be relevi ion writer and producer Howard Gordon, who renting char fir r apartment and gerring that fir r job. gave che ommencemenr add re . Bur our bigge r challenge i one we'll face for the rest of For excen ive coverage of ommencement, including our live : co u e our education co chase our pas ion and srorie , peeche , photo , video and ocial media, please cling co chem for dear life." go co hcrp://commencement.conncoll.edu. ■ PHOTOS BY BOB MACDONNELL ANO KHOI TON CC CONN[CTICUl COLLCGC MAGAZINC SUMMER 2013 19 The first Posse Scholars have changed their lives - and the College by lisa Brownell N AUGUST 2009, 12 STUDENTS nneccicut ollege ele red the 12 "Po e I" from hicago arrived on campus lugging srudent in December 2008, halfway ch rough heavy suitcase and bag of recent purchases their enior year of high school. For the next eight from Target. Like all fir c-year cudent , they month , they mer weekly with Po e leader for came with their own hope and dreams for workshops on leader hip development, ream college, as well as the u ual anxieties. Bue, building and communication, diver icy and unlike their peer , the e cudents carried academic preparation, as well as ervice day , career another ec of expeccacions and re pon ibilici development events and a final three-day retreat their pioneering roles as onneccicuc oUege's first in Michigan. Po e cholar. Within the group, there were significant dif Po e cholar are cho en for their academic ference in background and life experience. ome and leadership potential by the ew York-based students came fromhomes in which mod r finan Po se Foundation and admitred co a elect group cial mean were offset by extraordinary support of private colJeges and univer ities char provide and in piration· ochers grew up in familie affected full cholar hips along with trong mentoring and by gang violence, drugs and crime. They had support. The program i based on the premi e that graduated from 11 different hicago public high rudent from di advantaged background who chools, ranging from highly competitive magnet enroll in college with a "po e," or peer group, of school co re ource-poor inner city chool . ix similar student are more likely to per evere were African-American, five were Hispanic, and and graduate. one wa Asian-American. Only rwo had a parent Esrabli hed in 1989, Pos e has placed more who was a college graduate; rwo were the children than 4,800 studenrs from nine urban areas ac 45 of immigrants. partner colleges and univer itie , wirh an overall "Ir rook u quire a while co form true bond of graduation and per i tence rare of more than 90 friend hip " ays Milan aunder 'I 3. percent. In 20 I 0, President Barack barna recog nized Po e' ucces by designating the foundation heir first reaction to college were mixed. co receive a share of hi 1.4 million obel Peace The phy ically afe environment was a wel Prize award. come change for Ashton Evan 'l 4, who had Pos e aim co identify and develop rudenc often been cold as a child char n ighborhood who will rake on leader hip roles and change cam gunfirewas ju r fireworks. "For the fir r rime, I was pus culture. "Po e can inject a kind of dynamic able co look up and make eye contact when I was diver icy that a college might noc have enjoyed in walking," he say . "I began co ay 'hi' and co mile the past," ay former Dean of the ollege at tranger . Ir felt quire awesome." Armando Bengochea, now a program officer Ar the arne time, ome of rhe cud nt felt a over eeing diver icy initiative at the Andrew W. certain cruciny on a carnpu where American cu Mellon Foundarion. dents of color were only 15 per enc of the rudenr POSSE MENTOR CANDACE HOWES, THE FERRIN PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS. IS SURROUNDED BY MEMBERS OF POSSE I (SEE PAGE 23 FOR STUDENTS" NAMES) co l1nued ► CC CONNECTICUT COlL[GE MAGAZINE SUMMER 20ll 21 population. ocioe anomic difference were le s vi ible applications from hicago overall.) While many on cam but equaJly important: About 85 percent of onnecticut pu may not even know which tudent are Pos e, faculty ollege student have at least one parent with a college and admini trator ay the tudents' diver e per pe rive degree; more than haJf do not quaJify for need-based ace changing campus conver acions, in ide and out ide financial aid. the cla room. "We ruck out like a sore thumb, u ays Marline John "Po e rudenc have an extraordinary effect on all son '13. "You had a smaJI group of kid coming from in ocher tudent ," ay Jeffer on inger, the Faulk Founda ner city hicago entering a predominantly white s hool. tion Profe or of P ychology and mentor to Po e 2. We had a mini-magnifying glas on u . " For tudent from di advantaged background , the ver the next four year , many of the student impact i particularly significant. "Jc didn't cake me long struggled academically; ocher had trouble finding their to ee how involved che Po e cudents were here and niche outside che cla room. ne tudent left in the fir t how they made it much ea ier for tudents who do not year and two in che e ond, for per onal and academic nece arily come from private chool or uburban neigh reasons. (A fourth, Evan , took a eme ter offand will borhood ," ay Elena Ro acio 'I 4. graduate next year.) ia alcagno '14, a member of Po e 2, agree . The The departure hocked and saddened the other Pos e I student "would not let us fail," he ay . "We student . "We were a po e," ays Wynndee Ree e '13. were trong becau e they hawed u how co be crong." "We're supposed to be here for each ocher." The remaining nine rudents overcame their ob stacle and took advantage of the ollege's ignature experiences, including tudy away, funded intern hip , RONALD ARTICA interdisciplinary certificates and faculty- tudent r earch. By che time they graduated last month, they had won THE HST OF FIRE their share of honor and taken on leader hip role such onaJd Arcica was a high as admission fellows, Aoor governors, hou efellow , club chool enior when a officer and more. school coun elor recom mended him for a Po e or the fir c two year , their official mentor, andace cholarship. "I ju t didn't take Howes, the Ferrin Professor of Economi , met with ic eriou ly at first," he ays. che students weekly as a group and every ocher week The on of Honduran im individuaJly. migrant , Artica had aJready " andace i the backbone of our pos e," ay John faced chaJlenge , uch as being ceased for hi accent and on. " he played mentor, patent, therapi t and prof; or riding che bu home after dark through gang-ridden all at the same time. Every one of u confided in her; he neighborhood . To avoid has les, che high-achieving wa , and till i , one of our biggest upporter and fans." student kept a low profile omside the classroom. In 2011, as the two-year mentoring proce officiaJly The coun elor persi ted, and Anica agreed, joining ended, Howes invited the group to her 1765 farmhouse 2,500 candidate from aero the ci ty. Multiple round of in ew Hamp hire for an informaJ celebration. Many interview and as e ment winnowed the group to 250 had never seen anycl1ing like the rustic home in cl1e finaJi c,who were matched with one of Po e hicago' wood or spent time in a rural environment. IO partner college and univer ities. The final phase Working with Po e has been eye-opening for Howe occurred in December: a group es ion with 25 other a well. "It expanded my world," she ay . 'Tm really finali cs and a onnecticut ollege election committee. do e to chem. It was a reaJ privilege to ee their world "It was the te t of fire," Anica ay . in a way chat would never have been po ible for me. le The quiet young man, who liked playing occer, made me under cand what i going on under che urface cooking came molida and caJking policies with hi father, of all our tudenc , not ju t Pos e." put aside his hyne and jumped into the discus ion. Thi past year, with rhe arrivaJ of Posse 4, 42 Posse Hi effort paid offwith an offer of admission from on student were enrolled aero four year . (Thanks to neccicut allege. Po e publicity, the ollege has aJ o een an uptick in Anica arrived planning to major in mach, but 22 CC CONhECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2013 rruggled in his fir r college-level math cour e. His goal changed in hi econd emesrer, when he enrolled in "Jnrroducrion co Larin American Hi cory" with As ociare Profes or of History Leo Garofalo. "Ronald was engaged in che rudy and debare of ideas and policies from che fir t clas ," ay Garofalo, director of the enter for che om- pararive rudy of Race and Ethnicity ( RE). In pired in pare by hi own h ritage, Arrica began co re earch African population in the Americas and re i ranee co lavery by runaway in the aribbean. "I don'r chink I would've ruck ir our if ir hadn'r been for char hi cory clas ," ay Arrica, PORTRAIT OF A POSSt who was ub equencly awarded a Mellon May FRONT ROW L R, in the Children's Program Undergraduate Fellow hip. and volunteer at the Regional "Profi or arofalo has given me faith chat I Tenzin Palmo '13 Economics Multicultural Magnet School. Next can do bigger rhings," he ay . major; studied in Vietnam; interned step: Applying for middle school Along wirh hi newly minced degree, Arrica at PricewaterhouseCoopers. teaching Jobs in Chicago. ha a new ambition: to pur ue a docrorare in Next step: Working at PricewaterhouseCoopers. BACK ROW LR hi cory and become a ocial acrivi r. Rasheed Mitchell '13 Government Anthropology Wynndee Reese '13 and American studies maier with a major and pre-med student; concentration in comparative race self-designed minor in traditional and ethnicity; studied in South medicine and biomedicine in WYNNDEE REESE Africa. Next step: A marketing Africa; interned in Malawi. Next internship at OluKai Footwear INDEPENDENT step: Applying to medical school. THINKER in California. Ronald Artica '13 History Garrett Brown '13 Theater and ynndee Ree e's and Latin American studies sociology-based human relations older i ter was major; awarded Mellon Mays major; interned as a teaching a Po e cholar Undergraduate Fellowship. Next assistant and housemaster at the step: Working in Chicago while ar another liberal art Summer Institute for the Gifted at applying to doctoral programs college. Wynndee Yale University; involved in multiple in history. wanted co follow her campus theater productions; also was floor governor, housefellow i rer' example - bur in her own way. Milan Saunders '13 Environmental and co-chair of 2013 Senior Giving he broughr her independent pirir co on studies major and member of the program. Next step: Tutoring math College's Science Leaders program; necticut allege as a member of Po e 1. " or and English with City Year Chicago. a week goes by char omeone doe n'r ay co me, conducted summer research in 'I never would have expecred char of you,' afrer the Arboretum as part of its long Marline Johnson '13 Psychology runnmg vegetation studies; ALANA I've expressed an idea," Ree e ay . major and art minor; winner of the volunteer. Next step: Tutoring and College's Anna Lord Strauss Medal Ai1 inrroduccory cour e in anthropology mentoring with City Year Chicago. for community service. Next step: led her co major in anthropology while al o A master's degree in art therapy Human fulfillingpre-med requiremenr . Working wirh Andrea Lewis '13 from the Art Institute of Chicago. Profe or of Anthropology acherine Benoir, development major with K-6 Reese elf-de igned an academic minor in teaching certification; Teaching Ashton Evans '14 Film studies and traditional medicine and biomedicine in Africa. Scholar for the Golden Apple economics major; took a semester Foundation, Chicago; numerous off and plans to graduate next year; a cholar in the Goodwin- iering enter for volunteer roles on and off campus, currently doing a College-funded including ALANA coordinator, internship at a film and television co tin ed on page 24 ► volunteer/teacher's assistant casting agency in New York City. CC:CQkN{CTICt.lf COU(GE MAGAZ NE l\,l.t,1t,1, R 'I ll 2 3 the Environment, he did her center intern hip at World deep commitment to community ervice. amp, Inc., in Malawi. Her activities included mentoring on campus and in 'Tm proud of my elf for not limiting my elf, for the ew London chool , and he led creativity work picking a major that was out ide the box and blazing my hop in the E RJ H after- chool program. ( ee tory own trail," he ay . on page 9.) During a emester at Rhodes Univer icy in Each year, he has taken on ome new leadership ouch Africa, he volunteered in a local organization for role, including working as an admi ion fellow and a high chool rudent affected by HN/AlD . At om hou efellow. hortly beforegraduation he was a paneli c mencement, she wa awarded the Anna Lord crau for a discus ion on rede igning General Education. ( ee Medal, the College's highest rudent honor forpublic or tory on page 6.) he plan to attend medical school and community service. become a foren ic cienti c. ln the ummer after her junior year, John on did a Reese joke that he majored in"people-watching," ollege-funded internship at the In cirute for Therapy and he i a keen ob erver of her fellow Po se chol- through the Arrs in Evan ton, 111., and founda career ar ."We all have an innate ability to adapt and adapt goal chat combine her intere c : Thi fall, he cart a quickly," he ay ."You may get knocked down, but you master' degree in arc therapy at the Art In tirute get right back up." of hicago. Although Ree e de cribes her elf as "fiercely inde pendent," she has learned to value the group' upport. "Po e has taught me the benefit of a team working together," he ay ."I rely on che ocher member ." HNZIN PALMO OUTSIDE HER MARLINE JOHNSON COMFORT ZONE om in India to Tibetan HEALING THROUGH ART parents who had been or her enior arc project, r ertled there, Tenzin Marline John on created Palmo was 2 when her fam black-and-white photo- ily moved co hicago. For graphic portraits of everal a while, their home was a friend u ing a technique tudio apartment not much bigger tl1an her fir t dorm chat suggests cran parent room in Burdick Hou e. layer ."As human we're o A high-achieving student who attended one of the complex - there are many best public high chool in lllinoi , she knew how co different layer co u ," he explain . earn cop grade . Mastering life outsidethe clas room was In her fir t year, John on hared her per onal scory at not as easy. che Black Hi tory Month onvocacion. In a powerful In her second year, Palmo, an economics major, chal peech, he related the death of her father hortly after lenged her elf"co go out ide her comfortwne, and even her fir t birthday in a gang-related hooting, her mother' outside the Po e." drug addiction and her early upbringing by her grand Afterjoining one pore team where he felt ouc of mother."Even to chi day, I've yet to ee a picture of my place a the only non-white student, she eventually father,the man who gave me life," he said. found her niche in che women's rugby club."I became After her grandmother became ill, a lawyer who had pare of the campus community after chat," he ay ."l'd become a family friend was named legal guardian co found the confidence co do ocher things." Marline and her brother and rai ed chem. oon, he was bu ine manager for the rudent-run With her empathetic per onalicy and analytical mind, offee round cafe as well as a member of the Peggorty John on may have been de cined to major in p ychology. lnve cment lub and rudenc for a Free Tibet. Bue as he did with her portrait , he layered on addi During junior year, he spent a semester with the tional dimen ion , including a minor in rudio arc and a ollege' rudy away program at Vietnam acional 24 CC CONHCCTICU1' COlLEGC MAGAZINC SUMMEII 2013 Univer icy. In Hanoi, he di covered another hidden In hi junior year, Mitchell spent a eme ter at rrengrh - he was le s squeami h than her clas mares. Rhodes Univer icy in ouch Africa, where he fo used "My friend from more privileged background had on ontemporary African political theory. The follow never een a rat before, o eeing rats the ize of car run ing ummer, he interned at rhe Kenwood al CC CONNECflCUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2013 2 5 I T S TA R T E D with a leap offaith. Photographer David Katzen tein '76 met heikh Fara Gaye, a ufi Muslim, at a New York icy prayer-for-peace event in 2003. ufism is the my tical tradition of Islam, and Gaye i a di ciple of Mouridism, a ufisect centered in hi native enegal. Katzen tein, who wanted to explore po itive aspects of I lam in the post 9/11 environment, asked Gaye to accompany him on the Magal, the seer's annual pilgrimage to the city ofTouba. "He said, 'I'll meet you in the airport in Dakar next year,"' Karzenstein cold a onnecticut ollege audience in February. A year lacer, Katzenstein was on a Right to the capital of enegal, wondering ifthis man he hardly knew would remember hi promise. "Then someone capped me on the houlder," Katzen tein aid. "He was on the plane with me." Contined next page > Special trains bring pilgrims from Senegal's capital to Touba. The city's perma nent population of about 900,000 swells into the millions during the Maga!. The inside of this baobab tree has a vast space that serves as a prayer room protected from the weather. An exhibition of Kaczenstein's photo from work. It was founded in To uba by heikh their trip encicled "Islam in Africa: A Pilgrimage to Amadou Bamba. The Maga! commemorates To uba," was mounted in Cummings Arcs enter Samba's exile by the French colonjal government in chi spring alongside another Katzen cein exhibition 1895 and culminate at his burial site under To uba's called "World Views: Ritual and elebracion in great mosque. Global ulture." Kaczenscein and Gaye, now do e friends, gave a For decade , as both a commercial and fine art joint lecture at the ollege on Feb. 13. photographer, Kaczenscein has been drawn to capture "These people in Africa are lookjng ac you, and daily life and communal rituals around the globe. He you are lookjng at chem," Gaye said of Kaczenstein's has documented Hindu ceremonies in rural India, photos. "Thi is the magic of art. It's between the anceria ritual in Cuba, Zulu dancers in ouch hearts of people, bringing chem into one humanity." Africa, Easter processions in Guatemala, Buddhi t Kaczenscein works in a "reportage" cyle of festivals in Bhutan, Islamic ceremonie in Egypt and photography inspired by che French photographer Jewi h worship in I rael. Henri Carcier-Bre son. U ing a wide-angle len , he With Gaye's help, Kaczenscein al o has been stay do e to hi subjects to avoid objectifying them. documenting the large community of enegale e He does nor crop or ocherwi e manipulate hi images immigrants who live in ew York icy, in a eccion after he takes them. of Harlem known as le Perie enegal. "The challenge for me is to capture omeching Mouridism is a sect char emphasize religious in the world as a moment, and also co have it be ritual, scudy of the Koran and the value of hard arci cically complete," he say . ■ 28 CC CONH[CflCUT COllCGE MAGAZINE SUMMU: 2013 CAROLYN ANO JERRY HOLLERAN POSE WITH STUDENTS FROM THE HOLLERAN CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND PUBLIC POLICY DURING A RECENT VISIT TO CAMPUS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THE STUDENTS ARE: KELSEY BURKE '13, ELIZABETH KAPLAN '13, LUCY WALLACE '13, GABRIELLE ARENGE '14, ALIA ROTH '14 AND VALENTINE GOLDSTEIN '14. Paying it For Carolyn and]erry Holleran, gi.ving back is a way oflife By Monica Raymimt '09 IN THE FALL OF 1956 at the then Connecticut beneficing from the genero icy of the donor who had College forWomen President Ro emary Park informed built and upported the ollege ince its founding. the newly arrived first-year students, "You are all here "I learned that everyone here i walking on the on cholar hip." houJder of many, many people who cared a great Eighteen-year-old Carolyn McGonigle was sho ked; deal, and gave," ays Carolyn Mc onigle she was sure that her father, the pro perous owner of a Holleran '60 GP'07. Pennsylvania pretzel company, had senc a check for her It' a credo that arolyn and her husband Jerry live full tuition. by- and work hard to impart to other . Over more than President Park went on to explain chat tuition didn't three decade , they have donated millions of dollars and cover the full co t of education, and that all students were councl hours to causes and organization ranging from 3Q CC CONN[CflCUT COLLCG.C MAGAZINE SUMM£11t 2013 lives mall, local program in their homecown of Reading, Pa., three condition : Jerry mu r keep up hi grades, mow his co the alleges Holleran enter for ommunicy Action benefa tor' lawn in the ummer for pending money, and Public Policy, which they endowed in 1999. and, at ome point in the future, "return the favor." "Their vi ion and generosity are extraordinary," ay Jerry did nor forger.In 2009, he and arolyn donated President Leo I. Higdon, Jr. 2 million to arnegie Mellon as achallenge grant char The Council of Independent allege honored the ulrimacely created 100 new endowed cholarship . To couple with its 2012 Individual Award for Philanthropy educate the cholarship recipients about the importance of in recognition of their upporc of higher education, philanthropy, the couple al o provided an endowment chat which, in addition co onnecricut allege, has included gives the Holleran cholar 5,000 a year to collectively multimillion dollar giftsto Jerry' alma mater, arnegie donate to a charity of Mellon Univer icy, and AJvernia Univer icy, a Catholic their choice. college in Reading. In recent year , the CAROLYN Carolyn an economic educacor and community economic downturn has hie HOLLERAN '60 GP'07 volunteer leader, and Jerry, a bu ines man and investor, hard in Berks County, Pa., married in 1982, each bringing three children froma wher the couple live. In I JEROME previou marriage. Their fir t joinr project, renovating a r pon e, they have focu ed HOLLERAN GP'07 row house into two aparrments for low-income families, more of their giving in the er a pattern for their ub equent philanthropy. region, including gifts co "We fund programs where we can see the impact," upport economic literacy, afrer- chool program , arc rolyn ay . program , human ervicesand environmencal usrainabilicy. From 1995 to 2005, arolyn erved on the ollege's fren,th ey po ition their contributions asseed money co Board ofTruscees, including four year as vice chair. develop an ideaor co leverage larger donations. A hi cory and Engli h major, he credits onnecticut "We're very comfortable getting involved in pilot allege with teaching her how co chink critically and progran1s," Jerry say. "le' been exciting co ee the results." communicate clearly- and co under rand philanthropy At onnecticut allege, the resulcs of the Holleran ' as an obligation of citizen hip. genera icy are visible aero s campu with upporc of "The preservation of democracy requires chat everyone project as varied as rhe student-run prouc organic participate, not only by voting, but al o by caring to garden and the turf field forathletics. The mo t far rai e the bar foreveryone - improving every American' reaching impact, however, is through the Holleran quality of life," he ays. enter's Program in Community Action, which prepares Jerry earned hi undergraduate degree in tudent through cour ework and experiential learning electrical engineering as well as a master's in busin co lead change through community collaborations. ince admini cracion from arnegie Mellon, where he has the program was founded in the late l 990s, 255 rudents erved on the board of tru tee . He retired in 20 IO as (includjng Kacie William '07, one of the Holleran ' 10 chairman of che board of Preci ion Medical Produce , a grandchildren) have graduated and now work in a variety pecialized medical device company he co-founded. of ocial justice, advocacy, community-building and For both Holleran , philanthropy i ried co faith and public policy roles. family. Carolyn's father was a uccessful busines man, Among chem is Tiana Davi Hercul '04, who but he and her schoolreacher mother came from humble after graduating, earned a master's degree in bu ine beginning . Helping other was part of daily life. admini trarion and a law degree from the University "We alway had a big box in one of the do ets char was of onnecticuc. A native of ew London, he i now filled with things going to other families," Carolyn recall . program director forthe icy of Hartford, where she Jerry, born during the Depres ion, was the youngest of works to deliver comprehen ive education, employment seven children in a acholic family.'Thinking of ocher and economic tabilicy ervices to cicy residents. was an expeccarion," he ay . "We learned chat the center "The name in itself- Program in ommunicy of attention in life is your fellow man, not yourself." Action- in pired me," Hercules ay . "It was nice Back in the 1950 , when Jerry could not afford co co have a clas room full of people who were really attend Carnegie Mellon, a local research scienri t tepped committed co chi ideal of ocial ju rice, community up and paid the bill. In exchange for hi upporc, he sec ju tice and community accivi m." CC CO,,.NCCTICUT COU£GE MAGAZINE SUMMU 2013 31 lives The play' s the thing Jessica Ammirati '94follows her passion for theater By Jordana Gustnfion 'O 1 JESSICA AMMIRATI HAS A FAVORITE LINE a play with dance, i based on che crue story of a from rhe 1995 movie "Apollo 13." Ju r after the fir r newlywed couple in 1939 Poland, who, heeding ch manned spacecraft land on rhe moon Tom Hanks, advice of a dream, Aed che azi ; ir's cheduled to run playing asrronaur James Lovell Jr., ay "Ir' nor a June 18-30 ar ew York' Flamboyan Theater in rhe miracle. We just de ided to go." lemente oco Velez ulrural and Educational enter. Thar line could al o de cribe Ammirati' decision "I marvel ar her eemingly endle energy," ay co establish her own cheater company, oing co Tal1iri Ann apolicano '94, who e fir r novel, "Within Arms Production ( TTP), in 2007. Until then, he had been R ach," i next on TTP' production Ii r. cobbling rogerher production gig and parr-rime job Ammirati found her calling in high hool when he while trying co make a career in cheater, bur rhe death directed an adaptation of a Hemingway hon cory. As of a beloved uncle - a painter and bookstore owner - a theater major at onnecticur ollege, he developed prompted her co reevaluate. her craft and cook on an ambiriou enior project - a "I tarred chinking, 'How can I make chi matter? production of the Broadway mu ical "Pippin." To How can I do something char mak a mark?"' she ay . get ir done, she had to call on all her r ources and "Life i short, and you never know how short ir' going relationship , including family. amilla operated the co be." podighr, and their ocher i rer, Jennifer Ammirati he borrowed rhe company's name from a childhood Doyle '91, played the Auce. game he and her rwo i rers played wich their uncle. Today,it till takes a village to put on a cheater TTP launched ir first show "In the Ebb," ar production. With production budget berween age Theater in Times quare in 2008. The how, a 12 000 and 20,000, Ammirati' bigge t challenges collection of horr play written by her i rer Camilla, are financial. Each how i funded through individual wa repri ed in 2012 ar the ew York Inrernarional donation , ticker ales, fundrai ing even cs and online Fringe Festival. ne critic called ir "extremely funny fundrai ing campaign ; the goal is simply to break even. even as it peer into the aby " and lauded Ammirati' "I am nor exaggerating when I ay it is a daily juggling direction for"creating a cries of haunting rableaus char acr," he ay . mirror the dark lyrici m of the rexr. ' Helping Ammirati keep the ball in the air i a Today the TTP en emble include 28 acror , upporting cast of family and friend led by hu band de igner and cheater technician , and che company has John Mark, her i rer and her parent . ( he' the raged a coral of eighr daughter of ean of cudies Theresa Ammirati and produ rion including retired Profc or of Phy i Thomas Ammirati.) JESSICA AMMIRATI '94 a well-received While he has learned to love all aspe r of adaptation of Jane production, Ammirati's pas ion i still directing. Au ren' "Persuasion." When he talks about it, she could be de cribing her In a male-dominated indu try, Ammirati i particularly phi lo ophy of life. proud char all the production co dare have been written 'You ome in and have a picture of what you want by women and char the production ream have been at it to be," he ay . "Bue what it really cum out to be least 50 percent female. is chinking on your feet, figuringit our as you go and The company' ninth production, "Bella' Dream," figuringit our in a way char works." 32 CC CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUlillMER2013 JESSICA AMMIRATI '94 ON LOCATION AT THE SECRET THEATER IN LONG ISLAND CITY From director to doula JESSICA AMMIRATl'S ju c-do-ic accicude extends a daughter co Rhonda Harrington, an actor and member beyond che cheater. of the GTIP en emble. In 2003, tired of paying che bill wich nine-co-five Both as a director and a doula, Harrington ay , Am adminiscracive job , he wenc back co chool co become a mirati has a ralenc for Ii rening, watching and raking cue mas age therapi c. When money i cighc, he supplements from tho e around her. he' particularly good at allowing her income wich a shift ac a local spa. he al o reaches an people co di cover thing about chem elves, in their own occasional Lamaze clas for expeccanc mother . way. In 20 I 0, he added another credential co her eclectic " he would never ay, ' ay the line chi way,' or 'You re ume - cercificacion as a doula, a childbirth as i cane houldn't have char much pain right now,"' Harrington who help che new mother before,during and after the say . "le makes you feel good about your journey." birth. "Basically, I've alway been fascinated with che hu Ammirati ees a common thread in her diver e occu man body in general and birch in particular," he ays. pation . "I like being needed,'' he ay . "I like being able Under the busines nan1e Birth Angel , he has ac co help. I like caking care of people. l do the ame thing cended more than 40 birch , including the 2011 birth of as a director. I try to cake care of my actor and my crew." CC COHfol[CllCUTCOlL[GC MAGAZINE SUl,I_,.£" 2 IJ 33 lives Coffee with community A lawyer-turned-entrepreneur is buildingsocial capital, one espresso at a time By Jessica Brassard IN THE EARLY PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY, The Pu heart community has included ocher the creec of Manhattan' Lower Ease ide teemed wich Camel , roo: Rachel ro inger '04 i a former director pu heart elling anything from apple co crap metal. of marketing and evenr , arah Trapido '08 helped open They were easy, acce ible pla e co ee a familiar face Cowboy Pizza, and Rafael uiiez 'JO managed the pizza and gee a bic of new . When Jamie Roger '04 opened re cauranr for even months. Pu heart offee, a neighborhood coffee hop on Ease "If you wane the re pon ibility, Jamie i willing co Broadway, in eprember 2011, he wa honoring char give ic co you," uiiezsay . "If there' an idea you wane legacy of fellow hip and commerce. co cry, he lees you cry ir. If ic becomes coo much he' " lot of the thing we do are geared coward alway chere co help. Bue if you can handle ic, he lees empowering the community by creating a community you do whac you need co do." environment," Roger ay . Ac onnecricur ollege Roger honed hi With a height chart and coy for kid , a crowded ornrnunity ideal - along with hi rnulcicasking community bulletin board and menu icern ourced kill - as a rudenr leader. He majored in hi cory and from ocher local bu ine e , everything about the coffee American rudie , earned a certificate fromthe Holleran hop is de igned co bring people together. Active ocial enter for ommuniry Action and Public Policy, media and community evenr such a an after-hour edited the ollege Voice, founded a literary journal and writing group, a Torah cudy group and donation-based was elected young alumni rru tee. He al o earned his yoga create additional connection . commercial pilot licen e and wrote a enior rhesi on Aero the creer is Roger ' newe c venture, owboy the ocial history of Aighc in America. Pizza, where on a recent afternoon he was reaching In 2005, Roger enrolled at ornell Univer ity Law children from a local after- chool program about chool, where he erved a executive diror of che Law pizza making. Cowboy Pizza al o offer a weekly farm Review and organized student ervice trip co ew produ e pick-up, pare of a community- upported rlean after Hurricane Katrina. After graduating agriculture program. from ornell, he interned for a nongovernmental In ccober, Rogers and co-owner Li a Fi choff organization in Bogota, Columbia, chen spent a year opened a econd Pushcart location on 21 sc creer and with Arneri orps. In lace 20 I 0, he cook a job as a law e ond Avenue, ju r a few weeks before Hurricane firm as ociare, bur he quickly realized char he wanted a andy roared through. With power knocked our more entrepreneurial ercing. When a coffee hop in hi aero lower Manharcan, the Pushcart team fired up a neighborhood was about ro do e it door , he aw an generator and stayed open, providing food, coffee opportunity - and Pu heart was born. and a massive charging ration for cu corners' Two year lacer, Roger ha electronic devices. plan for more growth. After "Thi wonderful group of people came co the rescue all, ew York i full of people JAMIE ROGERS '04 of a neighborhood they were new co," one cu corner looking co be connected and wrote on yelp.corn. "Their genero ity (and deliciou in pired in new way . coffee) have made me a dedicated patron." "The more way we can empower people co explore Jamie worked with hi iscer Maggie Roger '11 co their own potential, the better," he ay . "The best build a commercial baking facility in the ba ernenrof a rnanife rationof a pu heart chat we have today i char building aero from Pu heart; now she upplie all of en e of entrepreneur hip and community piric and the baked good for ale in the hop and i developing raw energy. o chac' what we do: We have a lot more a whole ale bu iness. community co build."■ CC CONN[CTICUT COLLCCE MAGAZINE SUMMER 20tl 3 5 >ink My Mother of Invention An Individual History By Michael Collier I By Michael Collier '76 The needle goes up and down on my mother's Singer, 2012, W.W.Norton &Company, $25.95 squat black with its gold scroll and script, In chi lender shaped like a smokestack turned on its side. volume of poetry, oi Have you ever seen a dipper bobbing in a stream? lier explore It's like the Singer but so much slower. Its beak the relacion- makes thread of water and sews patterns of spreading ripples. h ip berween per onal and publi hi tory. Such a fierce engine at the center of creation Portrait of and beautifully sculpted, a porcelain boot his parent or a falconer's gauntlet. The dipper likes the action and grand- parent - of a cataract, the rapid tumble of rapids, differently and if it wants walks easily along the stream's pebbly bottom. perceived ac different moment in hi life - are mixed with reAeccions on honey Hour after hour, my mother's fingers fed the fabric bee in Lebanon, Homer' reece, a old War childhood and hi own experience through the pressing foot, kept the seams flat, as a father. The cicle poem introduces one while thread spooled out and the bobbin coaxed up of oilier' mo c haunting metaphor : his from its metal gear held the stitch. "crazy" maternal grandmother, who pent fivedecades in mental in cicucion "before, during, and after the time of atomic fallout, The American Dipper? What joy in finding such a bird. Au chwicz, the akba, DDT." Its short trills punctuated by sharp, clear zeets. oilier i director of che Breadloaf Its eyelid white against total gray, when it blinks. Writer onference ar Middlebury ol lege, profe or of Engli h ac the Univer iry If it didn't exist, you'd have to make it up. of Maryland and former poet laureate of You'd have to give it its own day of creation, Maryland. In 20 I I, he wrote " ix Reveries on the Occasion of the onneccicuc a day of translucent patterns, pinking shears, and pins. College entennial." You'd have to say, come see how the sewing machine in its sleek skin dips and bobs and swims, and how my mother, white eyelid lined blue, sings her same stitched tune - never remembered so never heard - and how like a solitary ALUMNI AND FACULTY AUTHORS: Please have review copies and publicity calls out, now in air but under water. materials mailed to Editor, CC: Magazine, Becker House, Connecticut College, 270 Reprinted from 'i1n Individual History: Poems byMichael Collier." Mohegan Ave., New London, CT Copyright ©2012 byMichael Collier. Used with the pem1ission 06320-4196. ofthe publisher, W.W.Norton & Company, Inc. 36 CC CONN[CTICUl COLLCGC -..AGAZ1hf SUMMER ZOU ink , \I Ir! L I \It I I A Wheel in a Wheel The Affordable Poem by Gretchen chafer Housing Reader C kelley '49 Edited by J. Ro ie Tighe '98 2011, Antrim House, $10 and Elizabeth Mueller ' In 1949, recchen chafer J. 2013, Routledge, $47.95 kelley was the fir t recipi - . Tighe, an a istant professor ent of the ollege' Benjamin of geography and planning r-b� T. Mar hall Prize for Poetry. ac Appalachian race Univer- C.,..,tch..n r., --.L-1.,, After graduation, life went icy, and Mueller, an as i cant in another direction as she profes or ar che University of rai ed a family, volunteered in Texas at Austin, have com chools and che community, piled che lace c research on hou ing planning and and caught hatha yoga at Hartford ollege for Women. _ policy. Tighe' research and reaching focu on a rdable ow, he has publi hed her fir r book of poetry, w1rh �� hou ing, racial and clas policie , and urban polmcs. themes of pa ing rime, the fragility of love and the redemptive power of nature. Flock Book Poems FLOCK BOOK A Wedding By Kacie Uman 'O 1 �ATIE UMANS in Haiti 2012, Black Lawrence Books, $14 By Julia Alvarez '71 Farmer u e "flock books" to 2012, Algonquin regi rer and track livestock, Books ofChapel including parentage, owner hip, Hill, $22.95 ::. birth , cran fer and deaths. ::. More than a Uman ' poems urvey the an.xi- decade ago, Do erie of thi regi cry, the comfort minican author of helter versus conformity, the and poet Julia chreac of removal and che de ire to stray. Alvarez and her hu band befriended Pici, a young Haitian work ing in the Dominican Republic. The book i "for Mischief done" Alvarez' fir c-per on account of their friend hip, including nvo trips to Haiti, in 2009 for Pici' By Jan chenk Gros kopf '81 wedding and in 20 IO to bring Piri's home ick 2013, Andres& Blanton, $12 wife ro vi it her family. Illu traced with In the early 1990s, while doing Alvarez' per onal snap hoes, the book pa.int a re earch in the onnecricut vivid porrrair of Haiti before and after the care archives, Gro skopf 2010 earthquake. rumbled on rhe records of a Alvarez i the author of 19 books, including 1786 ew London court ca e the be cselling novels "How che Garcia Girls JAN SCIIEN GRO KOPF that resulted in the execution Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of che of an I I -year-old "mulatto" Butterflies." he attended onnecticur ollege girl for the murder of a from 1967 co 1969. 6-year-old neighbor. Gros kopf. who has a doctorate in history, decided to cell the tory in novel form. cc COH"f[CTICU1' coucac MAGAZINE SUMMUt 2013 37 ink Public Apology Book Art Studio i. AfllilGa.U't"\.U • u,-n,11111 Of'lltlOlltll. ONI INCIOCNI .. • r-. By David Bry '93 Handbook 2013, GrandCentral By tacie Dolin and GY Publishing, $23.99 Amy Lapidow '83 PUBLIC APOLO Bry i • orry for every 2013, QuarryBooks, mi rake he's ever made, 24.99 and he want the world The era.fr man hip of to know it. The book, Lapidow and Dolin, both described as 'a sort of of whom rudied book memoir cold through binding at Bo con' orrh incident of regrerrable Bennett rreer chool, i behavior," grew our on di play in chi well-illu traced handbook intended to of Bry' blog at reach "technique and method for binding books, cre www.rheawl.com. ating album , making boxe and enclo ure , and more." Lapidow, who is al o a librarian, periodically present bookmaking workshop on campu . Makers, Shakers Tomorrow There Q'YV\J)YYotv MAKERS and Takers I Will Be Apricots I fltt�vJi II �(, offer � I KERS By Roy Eaton M.A. '78 By Jessica '07 AKERS 2012, Tate Publishingand 2013, Houghton Mifflin ,, Enterprises, LLC, $13.99 · AtriU)ts HarcourtPublishing ROY EATO Eaton' es ay touch a Co., $24 variecy of topics including � In chis debut novel about public policy, hi boyhood family, love, grief and food, friendship with Donald 14-year-old Lorca rrie Tr ump, and the life of hi to win her mother' love JCS51CA SO,.P'a. R late Father the ollege' by learning to cook her campu afecy director mother' favorite meal, in the 1970. a Middle Eastern di h called masgouf. A History of Collegiate Rowing in America By Daniella K. Garran '94 2012, chijfer Publishing, ltd., $39.99 arran, a middle chool hi tory reacher and freelance writer, fell in love with rowing at onneccicut ollege, where he was coxswain for the men' ream. Her pas ion hines in a coffee cable book packed with photo , fact and rowing lore. 38 CC CONNECTJCUT COl.LEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2013 ink The Good Life Wynter's Horizon By u an Kieczman '82 By Dianne Cavaliere 2013, KensingtonBooks, $15 May'92 In her women' fiction debut, 2013, Evernight Publishing, former journali t u an ebook, $5.99, print, $16.99 Kietzman tell the rory of a avaliere' paranormal wealthy, beautifulwife and romance, publi hed mother, who e eemingly under the name Dee . idyllic exi tence begin to May, features a beautiful, unravel when her aging troubled enior at an parent move into the unnamed college in family gue thou e. ew London. World Rat Day The Ballerina By J. Patrick Lewis, Monsters Go to illustrated by Anna Raff'99 2013, Candlewick the Zoo Press, $15.99 Written and illustrated by Raffillu crates humorous Kate Ledogar '94 poem by the U ..children' 2013, A Proper Mob, poet laureate about hocolate- ebook, $2.99 overed Anything Day, Three little girl run wild at the World Turtle Day and other zoo and end up behind bar obscure holidays. uncil their mother, "fortified by a trong cup of tea," rescue them. Ocean Counting By Janet Lawler '74 2013, National Geographic Children'sBooks, $16.95 Vibrant photo of marine life illustrate thi ocean themed counting book; fact boxes throughout the text provide information on the ea creatures' habit and habirar. CC COHH[CTICUT COLLCGE MA.GUIN[ SUMMCII 20U 39 TH AMPAI for E Tl T LLE E •campaign Annual Fund: A critic I reso ce for the College THE PREMIER EVENT FOR FALL WEEKEND SUPPORT FOR CONNECTICUT 2013 will b cl1e celebration of the ampaign for onnecticuc ollege, an event for the entire onnecticuc ollege through annual giving has been a ollege communiry. prioriry throughout the ampaign and will ome to campu cc. 18-20 to cake part in all the traditional continue to be a primary focus of fundrai ing Fall Weekend favorites- Harv cfesc, picnic on the reen and effort in the future. u rained annual giving a cappella concert - and ome new addition that will catch critical becau e it help the ollege both your attention co mark the extraordinary a hievements of the immediately and in the long term. ampaign and how it has cran formed the liege. The Annual Fund has grown ignificancly The long sweep ofTempel reen, a beloved campu space, during the ampaign, from 3 million initially will erve as the main cage for all the we kend' evenc . It to levels consi tendy exceeding 5 million. represent both the ollege' beginning and its future promi e. ontinued po itive growth to level of more than In a fe rival-like acmo phere, the communiry will come together 6 million i key to en uring nothing !es than an co enjoy a packed chedule full of in pirational talks, live extraordinary education for our rudent . entertainment and dynamic activities co commemorate chi The arrival of Anna Long caff'00as the new special occa ion. dire tor of annual giving in April add both o mark your calendar and plan co join alumni, parents, exp rti e and experience to the team. In addition friends, tudent , faculry and stafffor our fe rival celebration to her commitment to be t practices in annual thi fall. For more information, vi it: giving, he is dedicated to engaging increasing numbers of alumni and parents to upporc the ollege through annual giving. www.conncoll.edu/alumni/programs-events/fall-weekend/ 4Q CC CONNECTICUT COlUGE MAGAZINE SUMMCR ZOil MILLION+ Transforming the College $201 CAMPAIGN TOTAL las of April 26. lCll .ll STUDENT I H I· C � M I' A I C, I CJ R EXPERIENCE: CONNECTICUT COLLEGE $9 MILLION8 ■ Funded need-based ■ Created the Academic scholarships to nearly Resource Center and 50% of students. supporting resources for students to reach their highest academic SCIENCE potential. ■ Established eight EDUCATION: endowments to support international experiences for 1,700 students. ■ Provided support for College-funded �3gMIUUION '" . ·.� internships in the United States and abroad. ■ Supported an exceptional liberal arts education each and IN�NCIIU �ID. every day. ■ Supported the Teaching and Learning 1 Center to provide faculty 1 the best tools and 1 ■ Brought nearly 40 MIUUION visiting dancers to campus. technology available. Created Science Lead ■ Invested in science ers Program to increase and research equipment, the number of women and including a transmission ANNUAL FUND: minority students pursuing electron microscope and science degrees. liquid chromatograph. $47 MILLION ■ Renovated the historic Increased financial aid Steel House. spending by 67%. CC:CQk'fCCTICUT COllf.GC MAGAZJ�C SUMM[R 2013 41 '.·, 19'notes .. • ' • • • • • • . .i -- • f. � ..,,,, �> \,,..., �l Mi f IN I % (far left) accepts an Oscar for best documentary short for his folm, "Inocente." Fone, who self-designed a major in zoology and filmmakong at Connecticut College, was Joined on stage by hos wife and co-director Andrea Nox Fone, editor Jeff Cons1gloo and the film's 18-year-old subject, Inocente lzucar, a homeless artist and undocumented immigrant who finds solace on painting. This was the couple's first Oscar won and second nomination; they were also nominated on 2008 for "War/Dance," a documentary about children from Uganda who aspored to won a national music competition. show that I haven't a lot of time to with twoacres that areprofess1onally Cathyand Boschwere close fnends has an independent-liVlng apartment finish severalprojects I'm worlung caredfor. Millie still climbs the stairs in college. Brucesaid his mother had in Great Bamngton, MA. One of on." One projectIs a map showing to her upstairs bedroom.She has diedon 4/12/12.Bosch's obituary her twosons lives nearby, and the Correspondent,1935 Sabnna (Subby) U.S. expansionduring the 20th beenw,dowed for 12 yearsand has ran in the Fall2012 issue of this other has a prospectiveretirement BurrSande/5, 33 Mill St.. Unit 4E, Wethe15f1eld, CT 061 O!J century.Mims taught U.S. history a sonwho livesin CO and a daughter magazine, but Cathyand I had missed home in the area. Salhas givenup and still thinksabout waysto teach nearby. At 92, Millie drives,plays il Boschhad threechildren, eight her car; the parking facility was II; fortunately, collaborators from bndge, cooksand enjoyseating out grandchildren and threegreat-grands. too far, particularly in the winter.A the U.of Hartford are helping her and seeingmovies with friends. The Classof '41 sends sympathyto seiviceaccommodates her shopping Correspondent:1937 Class Notes Editor. w,tha teacher's manual, "adding Cathy Elias Moore is a Dorothy'sfamily and friends and needs-shestill cooks.In July, she CC: Magazine, 270 MoheganAve., some student technicalinteractions numismatist (a dealer in precious thanksto Brucefor his concern. heard Yo Yo Ma's SilkRoad Ensemble New London, CT 06320, (in my time this wasn'tan option)' metals, coins, etc.l. Shelives in an I put Cathyin touch with Ginny open the season at Tanglewood."It [email protected] and l!yingit out in a classroom. apartment in PAand goesto her Chope Richmond, whophoned me to was interestingand excitingto hear "I'vebeen working on this for about nearbyoffice every day. Sheis well saythat theyhad talkedfor an hour all the exoticinstruments ... lwithl fiveyears, and I haveto remind my and adjusting to the newoffice, which and It was fun. Ginny gaveup dnvmg beautifulcostumes as wellas lots collaborators that time is running she finds larger than necessary.Cathy lastsummer whenshe brokeher of Asianmusicians, including Yo Yo Correspondent,Class Notes Editor. 1938 out.' Mims Is alsoworking on a small wentto a conventionon WallStreet pelvls.She hopes to start again this himself.He workshis cello into the CC: Magazine, 270 Mohegan Ave.. New London, CT 06320, bookcalled "My FeloniousFriends,· and was overwhelmedby the elegant summer. SheenJoys "Downton Abbey." mix.· Sallyspent her junior year at [email protected] which deals withher expenence flffany & Co.store, among other sites. I hopeto get more of youout there Swarthmore,where she was Phi Beta with pnsoners she got to know when Shenever knew there was another to bereporters for me.This job is not Kappa.She returned to CC for her Visitingan inmate for eight yearsin Tiffany besidesthe one on Rfth getting any easieras my 94th birthday senior yearand graduatedwith our the '50s and '60s."Will my memory Avenue.Cathy Is an aVld baseball fan, comescloser. class.Sally's granddaughter Sadie Correspondent,1940 Frances Sea/5Baratz, hold out till I'vewrapped that up?" particularly attachedto her beloved I had a lovelyphone chat w,th Is in schoolin lowerManhattan, and 87 Plant St., New London, CT 06320, Her book "Just SayYes " is still selling Phillies.She has beena tremendous MarthaChapman Poe, wholives in when Hurricane Sandy struck, she [email protected] "but very slowly." help to me as classcorrespondent as her ownapartment and enjoysclassic was sent home for a weekuntil power Miriam (Mims) Brooks she reports to me about classmates mOV1eson lV.She goes to a central was restored."Hurricane Sandywill ButterworthIs still happy that she talks to. dining roomfor meals. The foodis be a memory for her like our 1938 she decidedto move to Seabury,"a Sherecently talkedto Doris good,and she sits withfnends. She hurricane Is for us." lively retirement home.· whereshe Correspondent, EthelMoore Wills, Goldstein Levinson and saysDons has four children: a sonwho lives in I had a fun talk wrth Susan Shaw has many newfriends and "almost P.O.1941Box 443, Northport, Ml 49670, Is wallungless because her ankles Franceand threedaughters who live Keffer, who is liVlng in her own too much to do." Shewrote in the [email protected] I chattedwith Mildred (Millie) are weak.Cathy and Donstraveled m Austin, TX,as doesshe. All of her house with full-time help. She lived midst of the Feb. 8 blizzard,reveling together from NYC when theywere children have children "toonumerous in Mosher House freshmanyear and that she didn't have to worry about Lascalzo Vanderpool last Aug.(too returningto the College to counl• Martha has givenup dnving later movedto the newcooperative, plowing, staying warm, getting fed late to make the last issue-I didn't Cathyspoke to Dorothy (Bosch) and traveling,prefemng to "stay pul • Emily Abbey. She remembers being in or evenbeing entertained ·1 can't forget, Millie!). Shehas beenIIVlng in Boschen Holbein's sonBruce. Sally Kiskadden McClelland FanningHall whenthe '38 hurricane believeI will soon be95! Statistics the samehouse in LAfor 55 years, 42 CC CONNCCTICUT COlLCGE MAGAZINC SUMMER 201l class tes struck. Fivestudents, including her, houseshe livesm l SonHenry lives a granddaughter, wholives m NH, a weekand takesa collegeclass held hands to struggleback to their nextdoor and 1s on call whenthings where she has launcheda careerm on the Middle East. Theyhave three house. Sheremembers that Professor needfoong or Lydianeeds help of Correspondent Class NotesEdrtor. CC, natural medicineand acupuncture. great-grandchildren but not close Rosemond Tuve,who livedin New any kind. SonDavid 1s a card1olog1st Magazrne,1943210 Mohegan Ave., Mariechen Wilder Smith's enough to seevery often. Luckily, London and was given five minutes New London, CT 06320, longtime companion, Kirk. passed daughter Wendy 1s in the nexttown; in Philadelphia,married to Katnna, ccmag@connco/1edu to evacuate,reported that she had a lawyer.Third son Clement livesin away last fall. This has meant many she IS "helping Wilk wnteup his hie." changes,but she 1s getting back Sukireared from docentwork last savedall the wrongthings but made DR, and he v,s1tedhis mother when nextday. Susan1s in involvedm life at CarolinaMeadows, yearbut still attends meetingsand 11 to class the she broke her right wrist m a fall, 1944 N-1Jitlit!WMH touch withMary Lou Sharpless Correspondent Jane Brtdgwater including taking golf lessons,despite eventsat the Clark Museum across leav,ngher in a large castand quite Swift, Bettie Smith Twaddell and Hewes,Sprrng uke Village. 5555 a bout with bursitis. ·1 eventry to the street"Good luck to youand our helpless Lydia'sdaughter, also MontgomeryDr. #53, SantaRosa, CA Elizabeth (Brickie) Brick Collier. 95409, wlhewes1r@aol.com keepa freeday for myself each classmates." The Classextends sympathy to namedLydia, who wentto CC for week ... I haveenJoyed making a Patricia Feldman Whitestone the family and fnends of Kay Ord twoyears but graduatedfrom the pomt of entertaining more often.· and Dorseymoved about seven miles Mcchesney, who sel\ledfaithfully u_ of NewHampshire, lrvesm South Manechenalso attends Citizens from their condo on the CT shoreline for many yearsas our class Pans.ME. where she 1s a fifth-grade Correspondent·Ann LeuevreHermann. Collegem Pittsboro,about 20 miles to a life-care retirement community in teacher. One of her sons graduated 68091945Turban Ccurt, FlMyers, FL away. The community and the county NorthBranford. At wntlng. theywere correspondent.She died 7/19/12. I 33908, annlhermann26@gmarlcom from BowdoinCollege Just at the staff havecreated a seven-lecture "stlll getting settled."Pat continues feelcompelled to thank her for her Greetings, classmates. At holiday series about getting to know your to read a lot and works on the Study many yearsof serviceto the Class time of our Reunion last May, and our time, I heard from severalof you county and how 1t works.Manechen Group Committeeof the Yale U. of '41. Lydiawent to rt instead of coming Barbara AveryJubell is happy still drivesat night, but her long- Women's Organization. And, the Classextends sympathy to Reunion. (We wouldall make the about her moveto a senior facility distance traveling daysare over: Lucile Lebowich Darcy wrote to fnends and family of Phyllis samechoice, 11 wehad to.) Lydia's in VernonHills, I� near her daughter "Email and phone calls fill that me just after I sent in the last Walters Williams, whodied other hobbies are localpolitics, and family. Betsy Dale Welles is void!"She phoned Marjorie (Marje) column; she had lost track of 9/2Vl2. knitbng. swimmingand church. She also happy to be near her two sons Lawrence Weidig on Ma�e·s contact information for a couple of still drivesand is trymg to learnto in SantaCruz, CA Anne McCarthy birthday. Marje still livesm her home classmatesand askedif I could I Garrison and husband Earl must typeso she can use her computer, but m Orteans on the Cape. help. YfS' I have a current lrst of our Correspondent:Jane "Woodie·Worley be doing okaym Lower Gl\ynedd, that was on hold while her wnst was classmates and sent the addresses Peak,1942 VinsonHall, Apt. 306,6251 Old PA; their address hasn't changed, MaryWatkins Wolpertbrightened m a cast. Lydiaowns twocottages; and phone numbers she needed.If- Oomrn,onOrrve, McLean, VA 22101, and I still receivetheir Chnstmas my Irle with a long, chatty email! one m SouthPans, ME, where she youneed updated information, Just [email protected] messages Elizabeth (Trim) Trimble Sadly,she reportedShirley Jamar's goes everyJuly, and the other m the ask! I am happy to help reactivate Back m '42, whenwe graduated, Crosman developed a nasty illness death a fewmonths ago. Shirley was mountains in northernNH, not far contacts with as many of you as 12 of our classmatesstarted a round- whilein ME last summer.As I recall. withus m Vinal Cottagefreshman possible robin. Seventyyears later (who's from the Canadianborder. a daughter and Tnm scrambled to year; Maryand Shirl had remained Now, 1t wouldbe nice 11 Lucile counting?) the round-robin is still The other threeround-robin Boston for treatment and eventually good fnends eversince. "The last sharedwhat she has learnedfrom going strong. withfive participants. participants are: got home to C.A, where she recovered I saw Shirl was when she v,s1ted contacting her "belovedfnends." One of them. Mary(Pete) Winnie Stevens Freeman, of completely. us m Tucsonmaybe 15 yearsago. I Lucile, can we expectto hear more Franklin Gehrig, wasat our Hinsdale, IL; she has threechildren, Marcia Jo Faust McNees also sawanother Vinal Cottagegal, from you? 70th reunion in '12, and your SIX grandchildren and threegreat- appreciatesall the travelingand Elizabeth (Betsy) Payne Shannon, correspondentneglected to include grands. and she vacations m northern celebrating she doeswith her in the summer of '11. We lunched Closing witha good-naturedreport from MaryWatkins Wolpert: "Things her! I apologize. Shewas there with Ml each July. wonderfulfamily. LastOct., they near the DenverArt Museum, where Betsyhas volunteeredfor many are pretty quiet here now that her daughter, SuzanneGehrig Kranz Lois Weyand Edwards has two attendedFall Weekend and dined in a '68,and her granddaughter, Kate years.·Mary also sent me a photo we'vemade ii through tax time.and children and threegrandchildren. newwaterfront restaurantoverlooking Kranz'03. Petehas livedm the takenfreshman during yearof our I'm recovenng from getting my She livesin a retirement community the Thames River. Ruth Veevers Cypress, a retirement community Vinal Cottageclassmates. Together firstspeeding ticket in 40 years!!! in FL in the winter months and visits Mathieu joined them for the special at Hilton Head, SC,since '93. She dinner. In May, Jo's youngestmece, weidentified all 16 and recalled The cost of living has really gone withold fnends in Birmingham, Ml, in 1s veryhappy there, and why not? KacieQuick • 13, graduatedfrom roommates! ·we gaveup our up-$152 for this one. It's slow and the summer. She is wellcared for, with one meal CC. Jo sharedan amazing story: Her Tucson apartmentlast spnng and easyfor me from now on!" Thank you, providedevery day and transportation Cynthia Schofield Cleary, paternalgrandfather, who diedin haveenjoyed our first winter m CO, Mary, for giving us all a good chuckle! to all her medicalappointments. known to us as Scho,rounds out 1930 in Schenectady,had owneda especiallyseeing more of our Boulder (Aswe grow older, our lives seem to the round-robin letter writers. beautiful woolcape. Apparently a son and his family" Your correspondent1s charmedby Joyce Stoddard Aronson sent consist of one medicalappointment diligent workerin a thnft shop in CorrespondentJanel Kennedy after another!) Shekeeps busy with the convenienceof Facebookand westernMA found the capewith other greetingsand good health wishesand Murdock,1946801 Yale Ave., Apt. 819, exerciseprograms there and credits instant messaging,but wonders1f obv,ously "old family estate items" loveto all. Sheexpressed sadness Swarthmore, PA 19081, them for keepingher in as good her grandchildren's dear fnends will and took the time to search the over some recent newsnotes. After [email protected] conditionas she is. She still dnves remain in ongoing correspondence70 Internetand contact twohistorical chamng her community library Reading the latest CC Magazine, but only in her 1mmed1atearea. yearsfrom now. societies Somehow,she found a committeefor many years, Joyce I'm impressedat howthe College Daughter Suzanne,recently divorced. I am sorry to reportthe death of rightful Faust family member m has passedthe torch, but she 1s still keepsup its momentum; I think we busyand feelsblessed. Joyce reads has movedfrom PAto Fl,but visits Olive (Bunte) Mauthe Stone, of 2011 his grandson in lX! When do, too.It appearsthat the game m Hilton Head as often from a lot and wntesthat she evenlooks of choice is bndge, book clubs are her mother Struthers,OH, last Christmas Day. Jo's nieceKatnna graduates as she can. medical school. she will receive the foiwardto reading our Class news ve,vpopular and '46ersare trying After graduating from CC. Bunte went Lydia Phippen Ogilby 1s another cape,which belongedto her great- columnwhen CC Magazine arrives... newthings to Kathenne Gibbs Schoolin Boston of the round-robin parllc1pants.She grandfather, the first of 12 doctors m so do sendyour news! Marie (Ann) Bloomer Patterson livesalone, except for her standard Shewas marriedto her husband, the Faust family. Suzanne (Suki) Porter Wilkins gaveup photography and 1s now poodle, Daria,as she has done John, for 70 years,and theyhad three It was good to hear from Lois and husband are both m goodhealth studying and workingwith clay. since her husband diedm '50, m daughters, Barbara, DeborahSlone (Toni) Fenton Tuttle. Tom shared and havebusy lives. They don't Shirley (Chips) Wilson Keller a house builtm 1791 m Belmont, Mager '70 and Martha, as wellas SIX that Joanne Viall Davis diedin travel much, Just a fewthree-hour preparesfood for community meals, MA, fivemiles from Boston.One of grandchildren and four great-grands. Dec.after havingbeen in failing tnps to Boston and the Capem the takescourses through the U. of her hobbies1s preservation,and The Class sends sympathy to John health for some time. Asfor Tom, summer. Theylook foiwardto golf Binghamton and has Joineda class by that she means preserving the and Olive'sextended family. she has SIX great-grandchildren and season.Suki does yoga threelimes calledAlive Drums. Shedoes strenuous CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 43 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni drumming withsbcks on a huge QueenTakes the Train," by William partnerand CEO of ProV1denceEquity Pomeroysattended a fam1� wedding a Russianfamily , experiencingtheir ball seton a bucket.The classhas Kuhn. Partners."He has beeninterVlewed in Washington,MA, andsaw Reda Sox stupendoushospitality. to switchtechniques whenever the We sendour sympathy to Jean by Charlie Rose and has traveledall game.They met Pat FoltsDooley for Dorset Townley has livedin teacherchanges the music. "It's good Mount Bussard and Suzanne White overthe world.He has officesin Ne\'/ lunch; she1s doing welland looksgreat Houston since 1978 and is still in exerciseand fun, and welaugh a lol • Frank, whosehusbands, Willis Delhi,Hong Kong,NY. ProVldence, Emily Lee Garrison wentto her home (withfour cats and a dog!). Mary (Tawie) Eastburn Biggin Bussardand Arman Fran� diedlast London. and who knowswhere else. northernItaly to paml In early fall SheenJoys the cultural act1v11iesof livesat Pennswood,a Quaker-run winter. He has signedthe GMng Pledge she will have an exhibitin VT with the city as wellas V1S1ts with children communityShe has cut back Pleasesend me wordabout !createdby 8111 and Melinda Gates twoother artists.She mentioned Mr. and grandchildren. her volunteerwork from seven yourselves,a comment on the world and Warren Buffett!. It was in all MayheYI;remember his art history Selma Weiner has livedin NYC committeesto three,mostly ones or a book tltle, and 1f youcome to the papers,CNN Moneyand the course? Leehas produceda film since1956. She still works part lime dealing in financial matters. Philadelphia to visit the newBarnes Wall StreetJournal. He had already titled"Scattergood Moore: Artist and as a travelagent and takes courses Evelyn Black Weibel has taken Museum, let me know and I'll meet underwnttena gorgeousne\'I fitness Teacher.· at NYU, and she lovesbeing closeto twolong tnps to family weddings youthere for tea. center at Brown, which was dedicated Anne Glazier has a busy life in plays,lectures and musical events. sinceour 65th Reunion. A book last year,and I couldgo and on.· in Enfield, CT. LastOct., a snowstorm Helen (H.J.) Wettach's aclMt1es clubber,for light reading she Jane's other son livesin Newton,MA, knockedout powerfor eight days are limitedby the effectsof a recommendsthe Women's Murder 1947 and worksfor £MC. Jane's daughter Anne left on the third day to stay 2004 stroke and congestiveheart Caresponden/:C/a$$ Notes Ed,tor, CC: Club senes. Magazme,210 Mohegan A11e., New Just retiredas a speechand language with a fnend. Sheplays cards at failure. Shesees Catharine (Kitty Eleanor Tobias Gardner, now London,CT £n'O,ccmag@conllalll edu pathologist "All havegraduate the senior center and belongsto a Lou) Wilder Pope, who alsolives livmg in a retirement community m Jane Sapinsley Nelson wasthe degrees,MBA, Ph.D., M Sc.,etc. I am singing group. Theygive concerts at in Chapel Hill. and she maintains StateCollege, PA, told me that after class baby, bornDec. 7, 1926, and so lucky!!' Chnstmas and in the summer and contact with Carolyn Beattie graduation, a master's from Penn enteredCC at 16, twoyears after entertainat nursing homes.Anne Garbutt, Jean Sherman Muste, Stateand a teaching Job at a fnends' PearlHarbor was struck.She attended visited with Estelle Markovits Mary (Mimi) Haskell McDowell, schoolin Philadelphia,she returned CC threefull years,got engagedand 1948 Schwartzat Barbara Norton Gale Craigie Chidlaw and Joyce Carespondent,Ginny Giesen Rlchardsoo, to PennState to workfor the CIA (it mamedat the end of Junior year,and 5555Dnve, Montgomety Santa Rosa, CA Fleming's funeral. Silhavy Harper. was then a ne\'Iorganization grOW1ng followedher husband when he was 954Q9,�[email protected] Estelle Parsons livesin NYC Elizabeth Anderson Culbert out of the wartimeOSS) When Toby's stationedfirst at fortSam Houston and 1s in the play 'Nice Work If You and family havelived all over with boyswere older, she had a shop there in SanAntonio. lX,and then at fort CanGet IL· When I mentionedhow her foreign SerV1cehusband, finally with designer fabncsand fine wools. Sill,in Lawton,OK, where the nearest 1949 1--WC•■ilWMti gracious she 1s to her CCclassmates settlingin Maple Valley,WA, south Shealways recommends a book;this collegewas in Oklahoma City or Correspondents:Mabel Brennan Rsher, who come to her shows,Estelle of Seattle.Betty enioys hiking and 1s lime 1I 1s "Thomas Jefferson The Art Dallas-fl Worth,both of which were 6602Sulky Lane, N Bethesda,MD said,"I'm glad theycome.' Her two involvedin church activitiesand the of Power,"by Jon Meacham. 20852, [email protected];Maqorie daughters are well.One 1s an actress; League of Women Voters. too far away for commuting."As my StutzTurner, Club 6696 HouseLane, Lygia De Freitas Charlton, husband was already a dentist and Apt104, Warrenton, VA 20187, the other teachesyoga and edits Margaret Ashton Biggsand in CA,has recoveredfrom homfic a captain,we had all the pnvlleges [email protected] magazines. husband Charlie live in the house pneumonia, and she recommends of the officers' clubs, and I met lots Carol Young Pomeroy and Miriam (Mimi) Berberian is theybuilt for their retirement in any books by Len Deightonfor good of interesting people,and probably husband movedto a smaller house still in her Worcester, MA, home. She Berkeley Spnngs,WI, where theyare spy stones. got more out of that than another in Portsmouth,VA. Bothdaughters keepsan office at Clark U., where she involvedin environmental issuesand I havetwo books to suggest, yearof college,any,vay . • Jane has are attorneys,and one sonworks doesthe technical editingfor a book 'Pooh"1s a master gardener. "C1t1zens of London, The Americans lots of youngfriends, and since she in CO,MT and WYas an energy on howhuman activitiesaffect the Barbara Ayers Herbst is sbll in Who Stoodwith Bntain in Its Darkest, 1s connectedto Brown U., attends all expert.Another son 1s a musician in environment. Shealso volunteers for her home in Summit,NJ, where she Finest Hour,'by Lynne Olson and, for kinds of functions and lectures.Son NaslMlleand headof theAmencan the lnternalionalCenter of Worcester. enioysthe garden club and church well-wnttenlighter reading,'Mrs. Jonathan M Nelson is the founding fe:lerabonof Musicians union. The She VisitedRussia and stayedwith actiV1ties. NYC enthusiast Edith Barnes Bernard claims 11 1s a great place to livewhen you're old, becauseit's so easyto get around. Edie volunteersat the Metropolitan Museumand goesto the gym.She and Jane Smith Moody, Vicky Simes Poole, Joan (Johnnie) Jossen Biven, Esther (Andy) Coyne Flanagan and Jean Webber Clark get together occasionally. In Alexandna,VA, activeFrances Brigham Johnson and husband are thinktank consultantsand sponsors, workingwith organizations such as Hentage foundation, CatoInstitute and Brookings Institute. Marjorie Byck Levy livesin an over-55 activecommunity in ShfeYISbury,NJ. She volunteerswith the League of Women Voters, plays bndge, and doesaerobics and tai chi. Elizabeth Costa Formica taught math for many yearsat several campusesof SuffolkCounty (Lil CommunityCollege, retmng in '03. Now she and her husband �nJoy a AlexandraIsrael 'JO, Johanna Gregory'10, JessicaBombasaro-Brady '11, SkyeRoss 'JO, StephanieBanim 'JO and MelissaLindsay '10 got together "happy, contentedretirement" in a for a Ne\'/Year's celebrallon. 44 CC CONNECTICUT COU(G( MAGAZltrr.t SUMMClt ZOil class ote houseon the water in Matt1tuck, NY, live nearby Another daughter livesin correspondent,Packie, are amazed months in the winter to visit her two earty Dec.After Chnstmas in on the easterntip of Long Island FL Jameegets together withNorma that many of our children are now daughters. Williamsburg, VA, withdaughter TheyenJoy boatmg, fishing, gardening Gabianelli Le Febvre yearly. senior citizens-twofor her and Janet Surgenor Hill is emptying I.Isaand her family, Mona and Doug and woodworking. Sarah Blaisdell Dorn and threefor me. Elaine continuesto her West Hartfordhouse and putting embarkedagain, cruising for four Esther Coyne Flanagan, still in husband are still in their house,and vacation on Nantucket Island each it on the market. Sheplans to live weeksfrom Singapore to Thailand, her home in Norwich,NY, 1s mostly a son livesin the sametown. Sarah summer For many years,she and withher daughter in Portsmouth, Cambodia,Vietnam, SouthKorea, homebound with her husband, 93, knits and enJoysgardening. her husband owneda large house NH. The Class sends condolences, as China and Japan. "From Singapore who has limitedmobility TheyenJoy Retiredteacher Elizabeth (Betsy) there, but she sold 11 after his death Janet has Just lost her youngersister. to Nagasaki,we followed degrees of visits withtheir sevensons and BraggCrane has beenin (',Afor four 10 yearsago. Shenow lrvesin West Mered1th Byrne'13, our recoveryfrom colonialism, civil war families,all of whomlrve nearby. years,where she has family. Shealso Hartford,CT, in the samehouse scholarship recipient,graduated in and intrusion,always finding that Suzanne Brenner Geller still has children in Denverand Phoenix. in whichher parents livedbefore May An mtemat1onal relations maJor there are no 'exotic'(i.e., fore1g,v livesin the home she movedto in One daughter 1s a retiredteacher, she was born!Elaine sometimes who hopesto pursuea master's strange) people,Just folkswho live 1975 in La Jolla, (',A Her daughter as is a grandson.Betsy currently gets together withJean McClure degreein mtemallonal development, in different countriesm different and family, including dogs, livewith teachesin the ESOLprogram. She Blanning, who also livesin West Meredithhas done outstanding circumstances-an amazing her Suzannepaints, goesto the gym, keeps in touch withHelen (HJ.) Hartford. Jean'sgranddaughter, fieldwork,including a grassroots expenence." travels, takescourses at UC San Wettach and Catharine (Kitty Lou) Allison Hamilton Blanmng '16, communitygarden proJectin a low Pat Roth Squire and David Diegoand enJoysthe theater. She Wilder Pope. attends CC; her parents wentto Fall income area of Staten Island. She attendedthe dedicationof the new lovesher animals and is active in Lois Braun Kennedy spent Weekendand were very pleasedwith later internedwith a government Science(',enter at NewLondon Hall animal organizations Thanksgivingwith a sonin Denver her choice. organization that aids refugeeyouth last fall. Theywere pleased to see Anne Cobey Spencer livesin a and Chnstmas with another son and Jan DohertyMcCarthy continues in their educationalendeavors in how wellthe newblended with the condo in SanRafael, (',A Alwaysa his family in London. Lois 1s in her to behappy with her renovatedbarn Cameroon. old In Feb., when she wrote,Pat lover of the outdoors, she continues third yearas a trustee of the New home on the Hyannis, MA, coast.She and David had 1ust returned from to walk and to count birds, but has York Crty PoliceMuseum, which keepsbusy with the activlt1es of her a wonderfultrip to Panamaand curtailedsenous hiking and her ·is amazing and doessome great SIX grandchildren, wholive in town. 1951 a cruise through the canal on a Correspondents,Barbara Wiegand environmental volunteerwork. She children's programs· Lois keepsin Jan plans to returnto Naples,FL P,/lole,3200 Le,sure N. World Apt.Blvd., small ship, withJust 77 passengers comeseast each summer to visrt touch with Carol Young Pomeroy this winter,where she playsgolf and 511, SilverMD Spong, 20906, from all overthe world.They saw children and grandchildren in Boston. and Gale Craigie Chidlaw. bndge. She has learnedto usean rp,[email protected];Justrne Shepherd the construction of the newcanal, Gloria Barnett Levin keepsan Mabel Brennan Fisher and 1Pad.Husband Bill lives in a nursing Freud, 1585Bayhi/1 Dnve, Johns Creek. ongoing 24/7,which 1s scheduledlo GA3fXJ91, [email protected] apartmentin FL Her nexttnp 1s to husband no longer travel, buta year home; unfortunately, he doesnot finish in 2015. The tnp wrappedup It's beena while, but wewere glad Italy, accompaniedby her mece. ago theytook a four-day cruise to havemuch "quality of Ille.· with a stop in CostaRica and visits to to hear from so of you. Glona travels to Clevelandto see Bermuda,leaving from Ballimore. Our classpresident, Marie (Mimi) many a coffeeplantation and an amazing Classpresident Mona Gustafson family and also to (',A SheenJoys her Mabel1s sllll activein her garden Woodbridge Thompson, did not wildliferefuge. Affinito sentgreetings in Jan., many fnends in Atlanlic Beach club and church. make 1I to the SykesSociety Luncheon Marge Erickson Albertsonand Mary Benton Gemmell and becauseof a broken arm. She did wnlingof a fabulous two-week Murray spenttheir Chnstmas holidays husband movedto a retirement make the FallWeekend and willsoon cruise to Australia and NewZealand, on a Caribbeancruise with their community threeyears ago and 1950 send a classletter M1m1 keepsa whichshe enJoyedwith son Dougin daughter and her family. One of their are veryhappy. Bothhave health Correspondents.Alice HessCrowell, busyschedule with a yearlytrip to 3500West Chester Pike,Apt 821/, granddaughtersis now a freshman problems, whichkeep them from NewtownSquare, PA 19013, HI, summer staysat a NH cabin and Traveling somewhere at Notre Dame, whereshe servesas a beingvery active. Their greatestJOY 1s hr [email protected];Man/yn Leaming in Retirement coursesat St. special' Doing something volunteerfor the footballteam! their four children, SIX grandchildren PackardHam, 800Southerly Road, RegisU., which 1s near her home in especially cool for your Jane SwettLonsdale and Adrian Apt. 1511, Towson,MD21286-8403, and twogreat-grandchildren. Wayland, MA. Cynthia Hill Williams Job or with your family' winteredin NorthForl Myers,F L [email protected] Marion Bernstein Walldorf 1s in one of her classes. Snap a picture and use 1s doing well.Her daughter and ArtemisBlessis Ramaker Rhoda Freed Mann and Paul ttwheremyc,1111els.1t grandchild visitedrecently. One son attendedthe 2012 SykesSociety have found an ideal retirement home on Twitter. Facebook and livesnearby, the other acrossthe wncheonwith Marilyn Crane in Auburndale,MA, situatedon the lnstagram to share your country Manon keepsin touch with Williams and sawGerry Foote campus of LaSalleCollege. Rhoda Journey with the Camel Barbara Himmel! Springer. Dolliver, Joan Pine Davis and seesAdrienne Najarian Rabkin community' Elizabeth Brainard Sandwick's Diane RobertsGibson. Artemis and Jeanne Wolf Yozell. daughter, V1ctona SandwickSchmitt weatheredthe big storms in RI well. Joan Thompson Baker and '73, and twogranddaughters, Shenever lost power,so she took husband movedto Middlebury,VT, StephanieBnggs '06 and Eleanor in other members of the family. some yearsago. Nowthat she is LangleySchmitt '12, are all CC Theyhad trouble openingthe doors widowed,Joan has relocatedto a alumnae. Elizabethpresented one becauseof the dnfting snow. retirement community of about 120 granddaughter her diploma. Another JamesGleick. son of late people,where she can still enJoy granddaughter teaches Native classmate Beth You man Gleick, Middlebury Collegeact1v1ties and Amencan children in Albuquerque. 1s now a successfulscience wnter. small-townhie. Elizabeth volunteersat the Akron His most famous book. "Chaos: has The Marilyn Packard Ham family ArtMuseum; helped found Progress beenprinted in many languages sufferedthe lossof Manlyn's son Through Preservation,focusing (Seewwwaround.com.) ·chaos· Gordon, 57, in Sept.He was buned on preservationof h1stonc and/ acknowledgementsinclude, ·rm also in Arlington Nallonal (',emetery,as he or noteworthy buildings; and 1s a indebtedto my parents. Bethand had seived 20 years in the Navy memberof the Akron ArtsAlliance. David Gle1ck. who not only brought Sue Little Adamson who has She1s in touch withMary Stecher me up nght but editedthis book· beenin l'.Asince 1954, occasionally Douthit and Sarah Blaisdell Dorn. Ginny Amburn has beena patient seesGabby Noswothy Morris Despitea vision problem, Janice at Bayviewin Waterford.CT. for some Suekeeps busy with plays and Braley Maynard is able to livealone years.Has anyonekept in touch church. Shehas SIX grandsons She and care for herself and evendoes withher 7 seesNancy Budde Spooner when Mona Gustafson Affimto '51 and son DougenJoyed a cruise from Singaporeto crossword puzzles Twodaughters Elaine Tille Lowengard and your Nancycomes from Essex, CT, for two Nagasakiin February2013. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alurnni 45 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni and still manage to play tenmst hit by a drunk dnver,totaling her in ME this winter. Boband I stayed the Cubans theymet werevery poor happy wewere in goodshape Met Adnan, already the author of two car and catching his on fire. She home this winter, and fortunately the but very fnendly and welcoming wonderfulpeople in Trento, Ch1zzola, nonficllon books, haswritten a was hospitalizedwith a fractured really coldweather and snowpassed to Americans She recommendsa Pesch1eradel Garda. On our way newbook, "Scotch and Water,· nght ankle. Hopefully,by now, her us by. We thought often of our NJ and tnp there, saying that the country to Italy, westopped in lunch and a fictionalizedaccount of his ankle, muscles and nerveswill have NewEngland classmateswho weren't 1s lovely. Innsbruck, wherewe did some great grandfather's e,qilo1tsas the skipper recovered.And Pam Farnsworth so fortunate. I am verysorry that President hiking. This was a fabulous tnpl" of a CoastGuard vesselchasing ·rum French calledto saythat although And on a sadnote: The Class Higdon 1s rellnng. The campushas While many of us traveledto exotic runners·in the PacificNorthwest It she 1s nowhousebound, she wants extendsdeepest sympathy to the neverlooked better, and he 1s well placesin 2012, the big eventof the 1s available online and has a fNe-star to be rememberedto all. Roldah family of Rennie Aschaffenburg likedby students and faculty. I'm sure yearfor Pat Wardley Hamilton rating from Barnesand Noble. Northup Cameron sends greetings Christensen, who diedlast Nov., weall send bestwishes to him in his was Humcane Sandyin late Oct Nancy Bohman Rance wrote from Basking Ridge, NJ, where she especiallyto her sister, Edie nextendeavor. ·we knew11 was coming,of course, from Highland Beach,FL. where seesHelen Pavlovich Twomey Aschaffenburg Wilhelm '48, and her Monique Maisonpierre Wood but there wasn't much wecould she movedseveral years ago to be occasionallyin the d1mng hall. daughter, Linda Chnstensen Wnght had beenan addictedtennis player; do except stock up on battenes, nearher daughter.Her condolooks Ginny Eason Weinmann was '87 Our sympathyalso to the family threerotator cuff surgeries put an flashlights and water, all of which out at docksideon the fascmating recovenngfrom shingles when of Pat Krug1er Jackson, whodied end to that, so she took up biking. provedto bevery useful. The mght 1I lntracoastalWateiway. When not she wrote, but the SuperBowl, in Feb., to Jo Willard Nesteruk, Sheand Davtd livein ·a biker's hit Grand Viewthere was a full moon, enjoying the beach,Nancy keeps busy followedby Mardi Gras, helpedto whose husband, John, diedlast Dec.; heavenarea" in Lincoln, r.A,near with high tide e,qiectedat 11 p.m. withher piano, her family and many divert attenllon from the pain. She and to Judy Adaskin Barry, whose Sacramentoand lake Tahoe.They bike As wewaited, hoping for the best, localconcerts. heartily recommends a visit to the husband, Nate, diedon Valentine's about 120 miles a weekwith a fun the wind blewdirectly at us from the Jus Shepherd Freud recently newNallonal WorldWar II Museum, Day. In wntingto tell us of Nate's bike group in their activeretirement east at about 70 knots, and really notedin the advice column of her recentlyopened in NewOrleans. death, Judy saysshe will stay in community "Had alwaysthought that enormous wavesfrom the Hudson localnewspaper that whena woman Jeanne Tucker Zenker has Dartmouth,NH, enJoymg her children a bikeand barge tnp wouldbe fun Riverrolled into the yard. While we inquiredabout help withher husband movedto a smaller home in and keepingbusy. when I got old-we'reold.· Solast held our breath, the nvercame to whohad becomeinterested in male Momstown, NJ. Her threechildren Stay in touch. Sept..Monique, Davtd and 14 friends withinfour feetof the kitchen door ... compamonsh1p,the columnist and 10 grandchildren are among her from the bikegroup arrangeda bike and then beganto recede.No water recommendedthat she seekguidance many blessings. Phyllis Hoffman tnp from Balzanoto Venice.They came inside, no treesfell on the from the websitewwwstra1ghtspouse. Driscoll, m Hilton Head, 1s still 1952 wereon their own the first four days, house;we were tru� fortunate.When Correspondent.Janet 8. Ke flock. I 5 org-AmityPierce Buxton's playing golf (14 holes,her choice) Library St.,Mystic, CT 06355, with maps and hotel reservallons. daylight came, wediscovered we company, now operatingworldwide to and walking twoand a half miles [email protected] "The most excitingpart was Lake had a backyard full of debns-big glVeadvice in such s1tuallons. Jus and daily. Shehears from Ellie Tuttle Cordy Ettl Clement wentto Garda, where wewould have likedto pilings and piecesof lumber from Donare doing fine, but feelii might be Wade, who 1s active in the Vero Cuba in Jan. for eight dayswith stay, but wehad to reach the barge, docksthat had beendestroyed, time to think aboutan ass1sted-livmg BeachAmencan Associationof Road Scholars(formerly Elderhostel). our hotel for the nexteight days." a couple of telephone poles.Our facility in the Atlanta area Umvers1tyWomen, and Chloe Bissell Theyhave perm1ss1on from the U.S. The barge was brand newand very seawall had beenreduced to rubble, Al presstime, Sally Buck Jones, still enJoying her garden in governmentto run educational comfortable, with amazing food.·we but this was nothing comparedto Thompson wrotethat she hadn't Fife Lake, Ml. tnps there. Cordie's tnp was called did worllit off, on our bikes at 8:30 the damage many of our neighbors gone to fl this winter because the Harriet Bassett MacGregor "Peopleto People• Her group met to returnby 6. It was a veryun-tourist suffered.Glass windows smashed, day beforeshe wasscheduled to welcomeda great-grandson in Jan., withstudents, artists,wnters, senior tnp until Venice. We wentfar from bottom floors totally flooded and all leavefor SiestaKey, her car was in the midst of all the snow theyhad c11izens and a vocal group. Shesaid the barge up and down hillsides, furnishingsruined We werewithout TaylorNeff '03 and Daniel Eberle '03 weremamed 8/4/12 in Phippsburg.ME. Classof 2003 Camelsin attendance,from left. Evan Olmstead, Liza Eleoff,Sara Kelly, Sarah Besky, the groom and bride, KateGrandbois, Mary Rafter, Elem Kotsoms,Whit Richardson '02, SeanHagan, ColeyWard Back row ZveeGeffen, HenryKesner, Stefan Apse, Jeff Mandel '04, Chris Percy'04, and Anme Tselik1s'04. 46 CC CONNECTICUl COll[Gf. MAGAZIN[ SUMMUI 2013 class o es powerfor fTVedays, but that was no welland, going to the doctor,we years.She spent five weeks m the personal.At the SuperBowl m New other '56ers.Please let BettyAnn and big deal sincewe are usedto livmg weresurpnsed to learnthat she had DominicanRepublic, in a small village Orleans with her family m filb.,she Jan hear about 111 on the boat and made out fine with cancer. Mayo Clime did their best withno electnc1ty and no running wntesthat the importantquestion "Hungary m World War II. Caught a kerosene lamp and cookmg on the but to no avail. Hospice was very water.The project focuseson helping 1s not whowon but "Where Were m the Cauldron," Debby Gutman gnll outside. Many people in nearby helpful m her final weeks.Posie 1s peoplelearn to cook and conduct You When the Lights Went Out?" Cornelius'book about 20th-century Nyack were without powerfor two survivedby threechildren, three business matters,and to improve According to Joan, 11 she ever were Europeanhistory from a central weeks.So our 120-year-oldhouse stepchildren, mne grandchildren their livmg conditions. Bible study 1s to write her autobiography, 11 would Europeanviewpoint, 1s at last being and its aging occupants held up OK. and twogreat-grandchildren, which also offered.The projeclhas installed bebUed "Bathrooms I Have Surveyed translatedmto Hunganan. And so did our boat. whichweathered makes quite a gang. We had been four pumps in the village to provide Throughout the Countryand Around In Feb. '12, Jan AhlbornRoberts the storm m the boatyard when many mamedfor 35 years.She was, as one clean water for area inhabitants. the World." "It was 1romcally fitting thought 11 wouldbe fun to enter m others did not· of the grandchildren remarked,'the Henny Jackson Schoeller has that the 34-mmute blackout found me the local June flowershow a 30" x Jean Hewitt Thomas has finally glue that held the family together' beenbusy shoveling snow. She 1s strandedalone m a pitch-black Super 8" planter filledwith pretty summer jOmedthe unemployed Sheretired and willbe greatly missed."We send involvedwith renovating the interior Domeladies room!" Finally returning flowers.Rules for this sort of thing (at age 82) from helping to run the our condolences to 8111 Kellyand of her church and assisting the new to her seat her greatesthumiliation are stringent.and by May, sheerpamc fertility clime at NewYorll Hospital Pos1e'sfamily minister m attracting the ·nones· was that no one had evenrealized setm and she sought help from an Shewill now livefull time m her BecauseI am verydeaf, contact (peoplewho don't identify with any she was missing. expertm floral design With regular Danen home, near daughter Heather me at jbkellock@attnet 11 you religion). Lucky to be mgood health, Frances Steane Baldwin counsel,Jan wona first. plus a and threegrandchildren. Knowing haveany newsfor our next issue. Henny attendeda women'sretreat. reportsthat daughter SusanBaldwin Growers'Choice Award. Jean, I am sure she willshortly be Please do1 "Finding Inner Peace." Kietzman'82 has publisheda novel, Faith Gulick livesm a 1712 veryinvolved m something. Jane Doman Smith and husband "The Good Life," and is workingon housewith a barn, which houses her Barb Ackroyd Elder has movedto Weewent offto FL m March to her second,scheduled to come out antiquesbusiness m SandyHoo� CT. a retirement community m Medford, "freeload"with their son for a couple nextFeb. Frannie wentto Las Vegas, Shebecame an unexpectedobserver OR, to becloser to sonWin. SonWyatt Correspondent L¥ Jonathan Musoke 'DO and CartaLaracuente Musoke weremamed la � spnng From left:Lauren Butler '00, Laura lsraellian Petras'00, Jeannine filrrerZapata '00, Jennifer Deleon'99, Mana Perez '01, Daniel Carrero'01, the bride and groom, JasonAllababid1 04, AndrewMusoke '04, Tito Molina '80, JacquesGeorge '00, Adam Musoke'1 I. fillixFofie '00, Enc Williamson '01, M1tzchka Ortiz'99, RodneyOrtiz '99 and Michael VascoVllz'10. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 47 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni A safanto Tanzaniawas the yearsafter a significant stroke. He Helene Zimmer-Lowe has BusinessSchool and tookthe second spouses.Wendy had a long career highlight of 2012 for me. Betty Ann recoveredto relativelystable health, enJoyedher first yearof ·not working half of the yearin London to study as a psychotherapist,as wellas Smith Tylaska. We sawthe Big f'ive and wewere able to en1oy that lime full time (not retirement!)." They and do an internship.They also spent published"Path Through the fire," a and multitudesof other animals and together. Having all six children living movedto a Chicago apartment threedays in BathV1s1ting some old bookthat recountedher expenence birds. Memonesof the leopardthat nearby has beena blessing.and overlookingLake Michigan and fnends. "Aside from the total absence withbreast cancer.Her strength walkedpast us and of the lion that theyhave beenvery attentive and BelmontHarbor. Helen's son and of the sun and unusually cold overher 19-yearbattle with cancer crawledunder our vehicleand then supportive." family livenearby, so they see weather,we had a great bme." was inspmng to all. Betty Weldon dashedout to catcha zebra will stay Elizabeth (Bettine) Horigan their twogranddaughters often. Susan Adam Myers' son, Schneider and Sandy Weldon with me forever. Montgomeryand 8111, along with Helene workedas a consultant for Adam, and his wife, Karen,have Johnson V1s1tedWendy after our 55th Betty Ann Tylaska's sortieto Sally Read Dow and Bryden, a third-party study abroad provider beengrOW1ng their newbusiness, Reunion, "The threeof us laughed Tanzaniamust bes1m1lar to unusual enJoyedour 55th Reunion.• Sally kept and traveledthe world.She still Our Pleasure 2 Help. TheyproVIde overour escapadesas students. Journeysby others of you- please everyoneorganized so they didn't doespresentabons in the U.S , most nonmed1calconvenience services Wendy was a classacl Shecould let us know whatyou've been doing, missanything! Later that summer recentlyon the EU and using art to seniors and other busy people lead, empathize, inspire and entertain in travel, of course, but also your in their Chatham, CapeCod, home, museums in language class. Helene throughout the Bostonarea. Most us. Her life includedfamily and a volunteering.work (we seem never to Bettineand Bill had a mini-reunion, had fun sk11ng withSue Krim Greene requestsare for transpartallon to career At the end, hospiceand her bewithout that, either), and hobbies, Dolores Pagani Tutt and Bob, Kate in Jan. Mark's MS 1s progressing. but airports and medicalappointments, family helpedWendy help us all focus someof which must alsotied with Crehan Bowman and Phil, and Sally he 1s still able to get around and do but they can fill a vanety of client on a celebrationof her life. Shewill workand volunteenng7 and Brydenall camefor a fewdays some things for himself. "All in all, needs. bemissed." to talk and catch up. Bettineand life IS good . " Sally Read Dow enJoysretirement The Classsends condolences also Bill are doing well,three of their six Life for Anne Hildreth Russell after40-plus yearsof beinga to the family of Bernelle (Bunny) 1957 children and familieslive close by in is rolling along in Portland,ME. She children's libranan. but finds she 1s CurtisMillan of Simsbury,CT, who CcnespondentElaine Diamond Berman, 72Stanton Lane, Pawcatuck, CT 06379. VA and MO; the others are in Boone, volunteerteaches ESI., sings, en1oys busier than everwith mahJong. yoga, diedin Nov. She1s suivrvedby her [email protected]/ NC; ColoradoSpnngs, CO; and Mill eahng out, cross-country skis dunng community gardening, aerobics, husband of 54 years, Raymond"T ito· At our 55th Reunion, Barbara Valley,('.A "These are all great places the endlesswinter, and 1s generally book club, bndge, Audubonboard Millan, a daughter, twosons and five Wasserstrom Alpertlooked to visit,plus, of course,our real JOY 1s adjusting to widowhood-"I hate and lots of travel. She took a tnp to grandchildren. Bunny was an artist, great and spake enthus1as!lcally seeingfamily." that term.· She enJoysreading. Yellowstonewith the local Audubon docent, needlepointer,cook, gardener about her threechildren and eight Sarah (Sally) Hargrove being outdoors, and embracing chapter, then VISttedchildren in CA, and participant in many community grandchildren. Sheemailed with Harris and Chns are now great grandchildren, family in the Portland and finally spentlime unwindingat actMttes. Shefought a bravetwo more. "Joel 1s professorand chairman grandparents-an adorable baby area and being involvedin her new home in �mpscott, MA, near the yearbattle withleukemia of ped1atncsemeritus and a dean boywas bornlast June to the community. beach.She enJoysher recentrescue at the BostonU Schoolof Medicine.· granddaughter of the late Linda Sarah Greene Burger attended dog adoption, a dachshund-shaped The Alpertshal'll wintered in Palm Robinson Harris Sallyand Chns the CC holiday party in Washington, southerncoon dog "who takes me for 1958 Correspondent. JudrlhAnkarstran BeachGardens, Fl, for the past 10 wenttrekking witha small group DC."No classmates,but lots of long runs along woodedtrails.· Carson.P.O. Box5028, Edwards,CO years,with summers in ME. of "younger, fitter folk" in Croatia young, enthusiastic recentgraduates. Sadly,Wendy Allen Wheeler 81632,J(icafS()()@centurytel.net Condolencesto Caroline (Caco) last spnng. Sallystill volunteers Great fun!" passedaway at home in CT on Feb. Kathy Gregory Hearn and Bruce Myers Baillon, whose husband, and designspublications. "And Lynne Twinem Gorman and 6. TheClass sends deepestsympathy have relocatedto their old hometown John, diedDec. 27. ·we had been I'm happily singing again, with a friend John spent 10 daysin England to her husband of 53 years, Robert of Cincinnati. They are happy to be mamed54 years,so youcan imagine regionalworld music chorusand with during the winter. Theyrented a flat B. Wheeler,and to her twosons, surroundedby all threechildren and the voidin my life. I was fortunate, a smaller group that specializesin and v1s1tedher oldestgrandson, twodaughters, 10 grandchildren, families. however,that he livedmore than five hospicesinging.· who was in his first yearat Villanova twosisters, brother and all of thetr The Classextends sincere sympathy to Sandy Sturman Harris on the death of her husband, David. 1959 HU■itlWMt■ Correspondents CarolynKeefe Oakes. 3333Warrensville Center Road, Apt. 412. ShakerHe,g/lts, OH 44122, [email protected],Lynn Graves M1tchell, [email protected] Anne Earnshaw Roche and husband Visitedfrom NewZealand, seeingMargy Brash Crispand husband in CAand taking a tnp on the Napa ValleyWine Train. Theytook a National Geographictrip on the Columbiaand SnakeRivers, following in the footstepsof Lewisand Clark. In Portland,OR, Anne had lunch withJoella Wer1in. Theycompleted their tnp by celebrating Anne's75th birthday in Maui, spendingtime at their beach withfamily and fnends. Annehas been playing piano duets witha fnend. Judy Petrequin Rice and husband MansaOlsen '06 and Will Grosvenor '06, weremarried on 10/7/12at CastleHill Inn in Newport,RI Front row, KathenneBrant '07, Emily Whipple traveledfor threeweeks in Australia '06, KathenneMcCord '06, RachelHumphreys '06, the bride,the groom, JoeGnffin '07, VirginiaFuller '06, KelseyComstock '06, NedLeutz '06. Back row, and NewZealand. SonJim livesin David Grosvenor,Jordan Savage'07, Thomas Anderson '07, PatrickJones '06, Makena Cahlll'06, ColinWhitney '07, Colin Pagnam'06, Graham Lincoln Clevelandwith a daughter, 13, who '06, Brendan Ramp,'06, PeterLl!'lltan '06, KathenneBrodie '06, Nate Dooley-Hayes'06. 48 CC CONfiil[CltcUf COlLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 201) class otes swims,and twrn boys,12, whoplay Connie1s proud of Gigi, whowon professors,as wellas the wonderful Edie Berkowitz Hargreaves becomea submanne skipper baseball and basketball. Daughter an Emmy for wntingand producing fnends wemade. had a brush with cancerm '11, but Diane Miller Bessell wrotethat Debbielives m Scottsdale;her son the Disney Channel's "The W1Zards Judy Bassin Peknik had her all is clearafter treatmenl Shestill theysold their island waterfront and daughter are mto swimminglong of WaverlyPlace.· Connie's oldest firstsolo art exh1b1t1on through the worksfull time as a psychoanalyst, housein Bnt1sh Columbiaand bought distances,like to Alcatraz and the grandson attends Wesleyan. Stamford Art Association.She sold her including running clinical seminars a house m SonomaCounty, where length of the Golden Gate Bndge! Son Marcia FortinSherman and John home and has movedto a downtown on Skypewith a group m Russia theycan entertain grandchildren. Baileylives m Chicago withtwo sons havebeen taking mm1 courses,doing apartment, whereshe has an urban and Ukraine. Edie enJoysher family, Connie WhartonNasson whoare into vanous sports Judy went choir rehearsals,building Habitat Vista. gfOWlngvegetables, and cats, dogs organizeda reunion at Hilton Head, to KYfor a family reunion Theyspend houses,and attending P.£.0.funct1ons Jean MaccarthyMarshall left and horses.She 1s a confirmed NC, with Debbie Tolman Haliday, wintersin Scottsdaleand summers m and meetings.They spent time m Fl Botswanain 1966 for M� where Londoner now. Marti Flynn Petersonand Barbara Cleveland. and had an adventureby a1rboat, she livedfor 25 years.Husband Ian Edmea da Silveira McCarty 1s Roby Nixon. Theytry to do this every Ann Seidel Fletcher 1s busy travelingamong alligators.They also changedhis Job from architectto a conference interpreter, but takes fewyears. witheight children and their families had a family gathenng m Ml, where manne artist. and Jean workedas a shorter businesstnps sinceshe 1s and their many actMbes.With fMl their sonfixed a great meal. town planner and then for Eastern semi-retired.She lovesparllc1pating children out of town,they VISlted Salt Jean Alexander Gilcrest had Mame DevelopmentCorporation in a totally Italian-speakinggroup. 1960 Correspondents:Joan Murray Webster. Lake City,CT and NJ Theyhad a big successfuleye surgery. Her daughters on twoNavy base closures with Sheand her husband livein Old Town, 6440Wild Horse ValleyRoad, Napa, CA. family gathenng m TX when Ann's took her to Sedona,f,.l, to celebrate SenatorsCollins and Snowe.Her Alexandria,VA, and en1oy cultural 94558, [email protected], son got mamed.They V1S1ted Palm her 75th birthday, and theytoured oldestdaughter maJoredm theater eventsand walking everywhere Adele Mem/1 Welch,53 Shipper's Desertand took a tnp to Italy, seeing the areaand the Grand Canyon Jean but decidedto becomean architect, Their latest cruise was on the Rhine, Lane. Tenants Harbor. ME 048SO, Venice, Rorenceand Rome. Theyeven spentlime m LasVegas with one studiedat Cambndge mEngland, precededby V1s1ts withfriends of 60 W1/[email protected] did a cookingclass mVinci, Ila� Ann daughter Other daughter Gretchen, workedm London, and then got a yearswho live in Normandy and Bern. All is wellfor the family of gardens, doesyoga and volunteers whowas widowed,Just remamedand Job m TX. whereshe mamedan Her children livein Brwl, Mexico Camilla Richards Laney, of North at the arboretum.Her husband 1s livesabout 25 milesaway Argentinian and nowhas a son, 5. City and Tallahassee.Her youngest Falmouth.MA, especiallywith their workingon his master gardening Mims Matthews Munro Sheteaches art, architecture and grandson attendedschool m Spam daughter, Melissa. whose family cerlificate. celebratedher 75th withher family of danceat SouthernMethodist U and livedwith a family, as she had livesnearby, allowing Camilla Gail Glidden Goodell has fMl 14 at the beach. Daughter RebeccaMarshall '90 was done. A fewyears ago theycelebrated and husband Lou to attend their grandchildren, ages I to 11. She Ginger Reed Levick and husband an economicsand dancemaJor. She the1r 50th anniversary with three grandson's sports and music events. spenttime in KeyWest, at Lake traveledto Cuba.Lynn Graves attendedBoston Conservatory for generations on St George'sIsland. A former directorfor the Woods Hole Winnipesaukem NH, and at a Glidden Mitchell celebratedwith her family dance,JOmed Prometheus Company, Pat Chambers Moore's grandson Library, Camillanow sel'leSon the family reunion m NH. She sawthe Tall in SantaFe, NM, at Chnstmas. Lynn's and livedin Bostonand San Francisco, graduatedfrom high school, and her board of trusteesand finds time to Slupsin Boston.For her 75th birthday, granddaughter 1s a freshmanin the whereshe met her husband, a skatinggranddaughter transferred to organize and sell used books. A May Gailwent to Turkey,where she sailed PennState Schreyer Honors College BraZ1lian mus1c1an, and together they Ml so that she and her dance partner trip took the Larreys tor.A to v1s1t along the TurquoiseCoast of the Olga Lehovich movedto a nice movedto London, where Rebecca1s can tram withRussian and European old friends, and in Oct, theyplan to Mediterraneanand had a hot-air apartment back in NewLondon, NH, executrveproducer of a modemdance coaches.They havemade Team USA travelto Italy with a tour group balloon nde. withoutthe mouseproblem she had in company Jean's sonwas a classical and now willcompete worldwide. Frances Gillmore Pratt v1s1ted Connie Snelling Mccreery and the old place. Shespent lime withher ballet dancer who retiredand studied Pat'soldest son 1s m Singapore CC recently to check out the new family celebratedthe holidaysat Napa brother overChnstmas and withhis law and nowworks m M1am1. Jean and workingfor a bank in charge of science center, which she descnbes Valley,r.A One daughter and family threegrandchildren. Shereminisced Ian movedto NH, whereIan returned SoutheastAsia. Her youngestson as ·most 1mpress1ve.• She was traveledfrom Japan, and her other about collegeand the personal to architecturelong enough to design completedhis Joint servicetour at pleasedto find that her sculpture, daughter, Gigi, and family met them. attention wereceived from our the1r house. Strategic Command Centerand will Synergy,looks even better in its Follow Above,Patnc1a Steiger Salazar '58 picturedhere on a canopy walk suspended # where111yc.111wl,.it acrosstree lops in the Amazon. on Twitter, Facebook and lnstagram to see Camels Left Joella Wer1m '59 and Anne EarnshawRoche '59 m Portland,OR, last fall. around the world. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 49 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni newlocallon than wherert had been interestedin medratronand rs her home turf, she loveswalking the to all who emailed,phoned and placedat the time of itsdedication. pursuing educatronin that area.Living beachesand talking to the seals,who othe1W1setracked down classmates in Potomac,MD, withchildren Aimee are veryattentive. 'All of the Capehas to encouragetherr partrcrpatron in Ju� will find Francesand all of her Coffespondent SeyrllSiegel, l 7263 fami� (11!) in HI to celebrateher 75th and Jeff nearbyin the DCarea, get- educated retirees involved in animal Boca1962Club Blvd., Apt. 2, BocaRaton, FL our yearbookand our Reunion birthday-rt is ·most exciting.·she togethers are frequent care, seniorcare, student careand 33487,[email protected] Newsfor the nextissue rs due by says,for none of the family has been Nancy OsterweisAlderman , in any causeyou can think of.· Shers earty Ju�. For those whowere not to HI before! North Haven,er, must bare� find trme divorced,with a happy and acbve includedin KoineGold. please take Carolyn McGonigle Holleran to takea breath!She rs presidentof famrly; her oldestgrandchild rs 24, lime nowto connectwith our class rs alsotraveling �nsrve�. In Jan., C-Otrespondent BonnieCampbell and sendnews of your Irle. Everyone Environmentand Human Health, Inc., and the youngest,6. 'Life rs good- 811/mgs,1963 [email protected] during a three-weekovertand tnp a businesswortung to protecthuman come and Visit'" By the lime youread thrs, many else,please keep us updated. to SouthAmenca, Caro� and Jef!Y health from enVlronmental harms. Last, but neverleast, our classmate of us will probably strll be on a high It rs with great sadnessthat we V1s1tedChile, Argentina and Brazil. Multiple researchproiects include Cynthia Enloe is alwayson thego from our 50th Reunion weekend. reportthe deaths thrs yearof two I 'The tnp was educational,exerting and efforts to ban minors from using and educatingas she goes •1 cafTY I can only hopethat everyoners classmates,Duffy MacNaught exhausting.·Within thelast twoyears, tanning beds(irrefutable melanoma the alum magazinewith me to my follOW1ng throughon commitments Monahon and Susan Passel! twogranddaughters weremamed, relatronshrp), to ban tracking waste favontelunch eatery.I loveseerng made to stay rn touch withold fnends Koenigsberg. Theyremrnd us of the and last Nov.,the Hollerans welcomed from comrng into er,to reduce whatall of our wonderfulclassmates and new. fragility of lrfe and the importanceof therr first great-grandchild!Carolyn pestrcrdeexposure to children rn are up to! Greetingstoday from TX. I'm afrard there rs no way to marntarning fnendshrps. The Class continuesto workout at the gym therr schools,and a newproiect thrs Yes.Women's studiesstudents and come up with Class Notes for thrs sends condolencesto family and and still devoteslime to worthwhile year,to researchthe harms of usrng faculty are everywhere!"Cynnie rssuebeyond suggesting that anyone friendsof Duffyand Susan. communityactivities. "Life is good!" fireretardants rn the development admrts that her travelschedules and who drd not get a copy of our 50th Jean Sloan Chappell wroteof of numerous products.To learnmore talkshrther and yonare hectic,but Reunionyearboo� Korne Gold, please l-Jll•liD•MH her fantastic tnp to SouthAfrica last aboutthe V1talresearch Nancy's such a lifestytekeeps her brain cells order rt now from the Alumni Office 1964 summer, whrchshe found a beautiful company rs accomplishing.Visit the jumping. Recentcommitments have Correspondent,Jean Klmgens/em, for $55 rncluding shrpping. 400W. Ontano St.. Apt l 703, country,very different from Tanzania website,whrch gets 90,000 hrtsa day: taken her to LA. and NYC, and last Our KoineGold includes the Ch,cago,IL 60654-7162, (whrchshe had Visitedrn '11), httnJ/ehhjorg. Nancy and husband Nov. she was at the U. of Icelandfor biographical summanesand [email protected] completewith a lot of greengrass, M�eshave four grandchildren; when a weekof teaching a GenderEquality observatronsof the past 50 years treesand rolling hills. "Soweto,whrch the youngestenters collegethis fall, Training Program,which was arred from over 185 classmates, along I rememberseeing in picturesas all four willbe rn college! on C-SPAN.'I keepthinking howI'd with current photos and many photos shacks,Is nowfull of small houses, Barbara Eaton Neilson retired loveto talk aboutall of !hrswith from our collegedays, reunions COffespondents,Susan PeckRobinson, withmrlliona1res living there. Nelson twoyears ago from a management LouiseHolborn," lher CCprofessor [email protected];1965 Les/le Setterholm and informal get-togethers over Curtis, les/[email protected] Mandela's former home rs a museum. positionrn CapeCod. MA, and and mentor!. "Everytrme I go through the years.Thanks especiallyto the Our guide saidthat the country is immediate�began traveling. However, NewLondon, I lookup at CCthere on tirelessand tenacious effortsof senous�concerned about what will she conbnuesto accomplishmonthly the hill and silentlygive a waveof my twoco-editors, Lonnie Jones C-Otrespondents,Patnc,a Dale and happenwhen Mandela dies."We never "temping" rn her former office, 'which thanks."Cheers to all! Scharer and SusanHall Veccia, Carol1966Chay/un, ccno/[email protected] stop learnrng.do we?! Is goodfor the brain.· Shetells us: our KoineGold rs the largestand Harriet Kaufman Breslow and ·umwortd's# I luxurynverboat Donna Altieri had cocktails most comprehensive everpublished! during the holiday season rn husband skiedrn COthrs winter. wasthe crownof all tnps." Other Thanksto everyonewho shared their Backhome, the BreslowsenJoy therr destrnalions,thanks to the locations Correspondent,Lesile Pomeroy Denver,CO, withyounger friend McGowan,19612606 Essex Road, lives,memories, photos and other granddaughter, 2. In contrnuingher of family and fnends, rnclude LA. JeffreyWoodruff and hrs mother, Ann Arbor,Ml 48104, memorab1l1a to make thrs a hugely whohappened to be visiting from socialwork, Harne! has become r.A,MO, FL, TX,VA, VTand TN. On les/[email protected] successfuleffort. And special thanks Follow 11whert'111yc,rnwl,,1t on Tw,tter, Facebook and lnstagram to see Camels around the world Ethel BottcherCullman '67 v1s1tedDebby Greenstein '67 in Fort Lauderdaleand posedwith the DebbyGreenstern '67 VisitedBetsy Wilson Zanna '67 last fall rn Canada The photo was taken on a camel 10 the BonnetHouse courtyard. wall overlooking the Ottawa Valleyrn Gatrneau Park. 50 CC CO�NCCTK:UT COUCGC MAGAZINE SUMMUI 2013 class otes NYC. Donnaand the V1SJling mother psychotherapyto twodays a week. lovehaV1ng her parents nearby in other enV1ronments for older people made a quick discovery Wheredid she can spend more bme on her art Venice, FL wherethey live for six and children and the health and yougo to college? In Connecticut. and on traveling,including winters 1967 months in the winter.They return to restorativevalue of parks and public Correspondenls,Debbie Greens/em, Whatschool? -Connecllcut College in Venice, FL She took up Jewelry debbyg83l@venzonnet, Kennebunkport,ME, for the rest of openspace Shewas elevatedto l.Jfe forWomen. Whatclass 1-J966 So making in the fall, loves 11, and may Marr:,aMatthews, the yearTheir threesons and nine Fellow of the PlanningInstitute of did I, and wenever crossed paths ... tum it into a newbusiness venture marr:[email protected] grandchildren are outside Boston, Australia in Nov. '11. Shehas served Donna1s delightedto havemet Older son Tucker1s engaged,younger Asyour new class correspondents, so theysee them often when they on boards in SouthAustralia and Rona Shor as a newfnend from an son Eben 1s mamed,and bothlive in weare delightedto be the are in ME. Every Jan., theygo to Queenslandand 1s the award-winning old world. the area Roxcywould loveto hear repos1tonesof all Class of '67 news. NYC, where theyconnect with Judi author and co-author of several Anne Backus left SantaFe, NM, from any classmateson the west We hope youwill respond to the Rosman Hahn and Nancy Blumberg bookson housing and community early this yearto teach third grade coast of FL during the winter. thrice-yearlycalls for information, Austin and theirnice husbands. The engagement. You can reach her at at the Amencan lnternat1onalSchool Susan Rothschild and Kathy but feelfree to be in touch more often Matthewsare very grateful for their www.sarluss1an.com.au. in Chenna1, India Her students are LeggV1s1ted Bernice Abramowitz 11 youwant to share yournews as blessings. Priscilla (Cilia) Smalzel Delas from Korea,Japan, SouthAfnca, Shor in NJ in Jan. to celebrate 11 happens We also needyour help Nancy Blumberg Austin works earneda degreein educationfrom England and France,as wellas from Bernice'sreturn to her building after locating missingclassmates The as a child psychologistthree days a BostonU She earnedher M.Ed. in India. Anne has a spacious apartment a fire kept her away from her home Collegeis eager to reach out to all of weekm Mamaroneckand Manhattan. psychologyand educationwhile and wouldwelcome any CC fnends for 16 months. Bernicecontinues to our classmatesin preparation for our Sheloves liV1ng m NYC and enJoysher managmg a postdoctorate program in as V1S1tors. workas an elementary school Basic big 50th Reunion, and weare sure four grandchildren, who livenear her sciencesat Northeastern.Cilia taught Jackie Cogan Smith returned Skills teacher, which she finds both many of youhave newsof peoplewith office in Mamaroneck.Nancy looks grades threeand four until moving from a fantastic tnp withRoad challenging and rewarding.Kathy whom the Collegehas lost touch. If forward to her regularv1s1ts in NYC to France,where she has livedfor 30 Scholarsto Costa Rica, which she enJoysbeing a literacytutor in an youare willing to help, contact one of withJudi Rosman Hahn and Marcia yearsin a suburb westof Pans.She found to be abeautiful, amazingly adult educalionprogram withthe us, and wewill send you the list Hunter Matthews also has a country house in the Loire b1od1versecountry NewYork Public l.Jbrary.Susan still Speakingof Reunions, our 45th Wendy Sarkissian 1s currently Valleyfor weekendsand summer Louise Fay Despres, husband workstwo days a weekin NYC as a was wonderful DespitehaVlng only ad1unct associateprofessor, Curtin vacations. Daughter Em1he, 33, and Bob, and their fox temer, Jack. psychotherapist,and whenat home about 30 classmatesin attendance, U., SustainabilityPolley Institute; her mate are rebuilding a house spentthe wmter m their new condo in MA, volunteersfor her local wemade enough of an 1mpress1on ad1unct professor,Bond U., School nearbyin Maison Lafitte. Daughter in Williamsburg, VA. TheyenJoyed land trust to bedubbed the ·tun class" by the of SustainableDevelopment, and OliV1a, 31, livesin the city and 1s very the many cultural actMbesin the Marian Silber sent winter College We had our owndinner on adJunct professorin the Schoolof busywith cultural life. Cilia belongs area, especiallyprograms on Native greetmgsfrom Naples,F L where she Fnday night. a Saturdaymorning Communityand RegionalPlanning, to twobook groups, sings in a chocale Amencansand Afncan Amencans had a lovelylunch and afternoon classbreakfast with speaker, and U. of British Columbia.She has an group, and keepsfit by going to a in the eighteenth century. Louise VlSIIwith Wilma Probst Cohen and another dinner complete with karaoke M.A. in literature, a Master of Town sports center and walking, especially is wnting a shortbook on French husband Louis in Jan. And she spent and a OJ on Saturday,so wehad lots Planning degree(from Adelaide), in the woods around the country influencesin the eighteenth lime withRuth Zaleske Leibert, of time to catch up and a Ph.D. in environmental ethics house. Shehopes to be in Cohasset century.She would love to hear from whoalso wintersin Naples Asia Deborah (Debby) Greenstein (Murdoch U.). Wendy built a career and westernMA this summer, where classmates, either in VA or in the Rial Elsbree, wholives in Naples V1S1ted BetsyWilson Zanna last fall. as a social planning consultant and she seesDeborah (Debbie) Jenks. Chicago area, where the'/live from full lime, Joinedthem at the Naples Betsy,who INes m Waterloo,Canada, pioneeredinnovatrie planning and In Pansshe seesPatri cia Gallagher Apnl to Nov. Museumof Artfor a tour withthe CC servedas tour guide for a tnp to developmentapproaches in a variety Gastaud, whointroduced Cilia to her When her Mashpee,MA, home lost Club of SouthwestFlonda, where they Toronto, Ottawaand Montreal of contexts.She has earnedover French husband, Fran�1s powerdunng the blizzardin Feb., met up withabout 15 other alums. Marcia Hunter Matthews and 40 professionalawards. Shehas Judith (Judy) Robb has taken on Ellen Kagan was evacuatedto high In NYC, Manan keepsin touch with 8111 are enJoymg retirement. They expertisein the designof housing and a newJob for threeyears in the U. of school shelters, first in Sandwich Carol Katz and Rona Shor. as they and then, after the generator died, in meetoccasionally for lunch, dinner Falmouth. She was veryimpressed, and theater eveninspired, by the excellentwork of Betsey Staples Harding and the American RedCross, the Medical Sara (Sally) Walbridge reconnected ReserveCorps, Amencorps,and the by accidentover plans for a tnp to peoplewho caredfor animals brought SouthA fnca-Betseyhaving recently to the shelter Ellen wasinterv1ewed beenand Saraabout to go Betsey in Sandwichby SeanTeehan for his was thnlledto catchup withSara article in the Feb. 10 issueof Cape and wrote, "Sarad1V1des her time CodTimes. betweenBoothbay and SouthPortland Olga Karman Christiansen 1s in ME. and Hale's Locabonin NH, I'm a boardmember of threeliterary in Jackson, NH, pretty much full lime. organizalions in Buffalo: the King What fun to discoverhow much we CenterCharter School, the city's first havein common.as wellas someof charter school,founded in 2000; the our (perhapstemporary) differences Just Buffalo LiteraryCenter, a not-for Sara1s youthfully embarkingon profil that helps local wnters,bnngs rock climbing and other temhc wntersto schools, and inV1tes·star" adventures,while rm hard at work wntersto Babel.its 1nternat1onal recovenngfrom kneereplacement· literary author lecturesenes; and The Classof '66 sendssy!'lpathy BLOOM, a c11y,V1denonficllon book to the family and fnend of Sandra club, whererabbis, mag1c1ans, Welch Mitchell who d1 id1 0 professors,government officials and Jan 12 wntersmake presentabonsand lead Thank youto Ml)'l)newho wrote d1scuss1ons. in' We all enJoyhearing from u Now that Roxcy Platte has pleasecontinue to stay in touch Classof 1967 reunionattendees Deb Small Russel, Dana Freedmanl.Jebman, Candy Silva Marshall, DebbyGreenstein, cut back her pnvate practicein BetsyWilson Zanna. NancyBrown Slimak and Lil BalboniNolan (behmdDebby) haV1ng a pre-dinner dnnk at the Ma moll. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 51 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni NewHampshire's provost'soffice. extremely endearing.She is haVJng Judy hopesfor a chanceto make a a blasl Husband Mark Bittner 1s true mark while remaining in one of workingon a memoir, "StreetSong,· the worst-payingJobs in the counlly! and has almost reacheddraft three. She1s also trying to find a way to give Each of these proJectshas taken (and back to CC while helping to support will take) many years. her adult children and maintain an Judith Greenberg 1s relocating inheritedvacation home in FL to Cooperstown,NY. In July, she 1oins The Class of '67 sends sympathy the psychiatryfaculty at Bassett to the family and fnends of severalof Hospital as their secondchild/ our classmates, Ann Morgenstern adolescentpsychiatnsl Rural central Jones, who diedin '06, and Nancy NY 1s an underservedarea for child/ Ross Livermore, whodied in '96. adolescentpsychiatry, so she looks The Class also sends condolences forward to quite a challenge. At to the family of Sarah (Sally) wnling,she was workingboth in Donavan Goodrich, who diedin private praclice (Huntington, NY) 2010. Sallyled a hie devoted to and as a staff psych1atnstat Long Shownal the openingof the Lascaux flchib1t1onin Bordeaux.France. are the catalog's designerPhilippe Psa1la, educationand helping those in need, Island JewishMedical Center (for photographer Ana1s Psaila,English translator Venella Bell Valin '69 and author PedroLima including a careerm elementary school-basedhealth programs and educationand board membership on as medicaldirector of a substance Follow many organizations. After the loss of abuseclime). Shelooks forward to Found in translation r.wheremycamelsat son Peter,she co-foundedFamilies of this ma1or change, which will allow on Twitter, Facebook and Alumna helps bring prehistoric September11, as wellas the PeterM. a more rational professional setting lnstagram to see Camels GoodnchMemonal Foundation, and and quality of hie. Judith wouldlove masterpieces to an American audience around the world led1mt1abves to aid and understand to meet with other alums who reside Afghani people.Sally 1s surv1ved in the CapitalD1stncVl.eatherstocking VENETIA BELL VALIN '69 began her career a a Fren h-Engli h by her husband, Don:a daughter regionof NY. translator 43 year ago while living in Malay ia wirh her fir c hu band, and son and their spouses; three Brooke Suiter enJoysbeing brothers; fivegrandchildren; and retiredfrom teaching and beinga a French diplomat. ne ofh r recenr project i the Engli h tran larion multiple niecesand nephews.See a grandmother to twolittle girts. As of the 150-page catalog for a landmark inceraccive exhibition on the full obituary in this issue. a volunteerguardian ad !item for Paleolithic ave painting of La caux, France, that opened in March at neglectedand abusedchildren, she the Field Mu eum in hicago and will move on to Hou ton, Monrreal V1s1ts the children and then wntes 1968 reportsto help the Judgesdetermine and Denver. Correspondent.Mary Clarlteson Ph1/ltps, 36 TheCrossway, Delmar.NY what 1s in the child's bestinterest. La aux, a world heritage ire, i considered the birthplace ofhuman 12054, mph11/[email protected] She also reads voraciously and works arr and reariviry, buc ic ha been do ed to the public ince rhe early Carla Meyer keepsthinking it's in her organic garden, which 1s now 1960 be au e che painting , created 170 cenrurie ago, are so fragile. lime to retire, then some newproject a certifiedwildlife habitat and which comesalong that proves1rres1stible. she has filledwith mostly native alin aid rhe mo r challenging a peer of rhe proje c was its horr Last yearshe workedwith Leonardo plants. SheenJoys travel, both to Visit rime frame: he had ju r rwo and a half month to tran late rhe richly D1Capno on "J. Edgar" and Oliver her threechildren in SanFrancisco, illu rrared catalog, which explore the hi tory and ignificance of Stoneon his nextmovie, "Savages." London and easternWA, and to see La caux along with rhe ophi ricared reproduction technique u d in Who wouldhave thought being a interestingnew places. This year: a dialectcoach would take her down m1ss1on tnp to CostaRica, a camping the exhibition. somany interestingroads ? Her other tnp to Botswanaand SouthAfnca, Bell divide her rime between home in Pari and Bordeaux and great interestsare in the animal and a Danube Rivercnuse. Life 1s is already immer ed in her next rran lacion project: a hi tory of rhe wortd.Since CC. Cartahas become good. a vanat1on of an East Coastcowgirl amondo banking family, known a the "Roth child of rhe Ea t." Janet Herrmann had breakfast Shestill competes in reining events with Kathy Burnam Flood in in SouthernCA, and devotesher Cambridge.Kathy was in Bostonwith spare time to NewLeash On Life, her husband, ChartesBracelen Flood, the animal rescuegroup on whose while he altendeda book fair for his board she serves. HusbandChuck has book, "Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses beens1gmhcantly more successful at S. Grant's Heroic Last Year" Janet retirement and manages to keeptheir also enioysseeing Trudy Glidden menagerie and her from devolving around town in Winchester, usually into a Pigpenswirt of dog fur, cat hair at a meetinghaving to do withsocial and paperwork'In all of this, she 1s Justice. still so grateful for her time at CC Last June, threegenerations of and the fnends from Harkness and Suzanne Gehrig Kranz's family Hamilton. attended Reunion.Her mother, Judy Irving1s workingon a Mary Elizabeth Franklin Gehrig '42, documentary, "PelicanDreams." celebratedher 70th reunion with about brown pelicans and the people the class of '42. Theywere Joined in who know and lovethem. Elegantas NewLondon by Suzanne'sdaughter, theysoar. awkward as theywaddle, KathrynKranz '03. comical and intelligent as theylive Cathy Hull was 1nv1ted,as a Chnsllne Miller SL Jean, Dana FreedmanLiebman, MaijoneLipshu tzSimon and CandaceSli va Marshall at their their lives,these flying dinosaurs nonmember parlic1pant,to take 1967 class reunion. are tolerant of human beingsand part in the exh1b11ion"Celebrating 52 CC.CONHCCTICUT COI.L[G[ MAGAZINE SUMMCR 2013 class tes Women's Work" at The Pen& Brush are no longer enough to go into Gallery.The Gallery Is dedicatedto businessas a writer.· ·women in the Visual, Literaryand Cordalie Benoit has been PerformingArts Smee 1894 elected to the board of the Amencan NASA physicist honored The Classsends condolencesto Community Gardening Association HARVEY MOSELEY '72, a senior a trophy icisr at A A' oddard Dorinne (Dori) Lee Reiley, who (www.communitygarden.org),which wrote that her husband, Bill, diedin willcelebrate ,ts 40th anniversaryin pace Flight enter, ha been recognized for "extraordinary invention " Jan. '12, "after 25 wonderfulyears 2015. "It Is wonderfulto get together char could help reveal the origin of the univer e. The international together." She had a nicetime at withso many like-mindedpeople. ociery for opri and phoroni (known a PIE) ha given Mo eley the the SarasotaCC luncheonin March The headquarters are at Franklin Park 2013 eorge W. oddard Award "in recognition of hi extraordinary and met Marcia Hunter Matthews, Conservatoryand BotanicalGardens who started with Class of '67 but in Columbus,OH, a beaullful place invention of uper onducring imaging array for a rronomy." graduated with us after mamage. worththe V1sIt If you are in the area." Mo eley' invention include micro huccer array forthe Jame Miriam Daniel and husband Larry Evelyn Marienberg was named Webb pa e Tele ope, a joint proje r of A A wich che European Wolff have livedin ChevyChase, MD, a top doctor in rad1abon oncology and anadian pa e agencie . The Webb tele cope will permit derail d for 30 years Mmam retiredfrom her in the Dec.18 issueof the Long law practicesix yearsago and now Island NewsdayTop doctorlistings cudy of rhe fir r galaxie co form in che univer e after che Big Bang a travels frequently to Israel, where wereselected after peernomination, well a rhe formation or cellar y cem capable or upporring life on she helps a Reform synagogue and extensiveresearch, and review Earth-like planer . Moseley earned hi ma ter' and do coral degree community center in Tel Aviv, called and screeningby a doctor-directed from the Univer iry or hicago. Be1tDaniel. whichwas startedby researchteam. her parents in '92. Her speciallove Katherine (Kate) Saner Is a program in whichyoung, post Pennington realizesshe hasn't stay busyV1s1ting the threegrandkids SaintGeorge's School still keeps that's summertimein Uruguay) collegeAmencans volunteer, work communicatedvery much in the last in Ph1ladelph1aand daughter Amy Maria Varela Berchesi busyand "Al age 4, my delightfulgrandson and study in Jaffa (a neighborhood 44 years,·as life rushedby, but now and family in Washington, DC.They happy. The newsecondary school speaks Spanish to all of us, but he in Tel Aviv), one of the fewplaces lhal I'm retired,I havea bit more vacationedin the Bahamas-first has had good academic resultsin turnsaround and speaksEnglish to in Israel where Jewsand Arabs live lime. As Iread that back, I haveto lime for Kate-andshe wentto bothEnglish and Spanish,·so I am his mother. I can't get over11 1 He Is together Twoyears ago she and her laugh I actually think I haveLESS Sedona,Pl withher yogagroup. "My veryproud of 11 all.· Middle son remarkablyprecise and detailed at husband bought a cabin overlooking time'" Kateand Philreared in 'I 0 mother (now99) usedto ask me how Sebastiangraduated as an engineer building all kinds of Legotrucks and PleasantLake in Casco,M� an hour and immediatelymade more senous I wouldfill my lime onceI retired .. last July but discoveredthat he cars a future engineerin the works from Portland.Mmam lovesthe use of their boat(a Monk 36 Trawler, there Is no problem, as there Is very en1oysadmin1strabon, so he manages already, and he still hasn't learned summers in ME, especiallywhen kept on KentIsland in the Chesapeake little down lime to have to fill!" the secondaryschool whilestaying to read!" Maria's husband, Juan, Is her twochildren V1SIlRebecca flies Bay) Last summer, theytraversed the On a bnef tnp north in Jan., Ann involvedin engineenng.Daughter fine, still playing tennis and working for a weekfrom Seattle,where she Bay southto Portsmouth, VA, then Tousley Anderson and Andyhad �ustina passedher final examat some,but at a slowerpace. Mana worksat Microsoft. SonDaV1d, now en1oyedseveral more weeks-long a wonderfulreunion withHelen university and, after subm1ttmg looksforward to a numberof tnps looking for a Job teaching music in tnps. In Aug., theytook their annual Harasimowicz Walters and Vin in her dissertation,will graduate as later in the year."I figure that as long Washington DC, Is a more frequent cartnp to WellesleyIsland, on the St. Ambler,PA. "Their canine-themed a biochemist. �ushna teaches as my legsand eyesare fit. I haveto vIsItor.In ME, Miriam swims, kayaks LawrenceRiver, where son Jeff and his Christmas treewas a spectacular mathematicsin English for the IGCSE keep moving!" and looks for loons. Larry,an wife,Missy, who livenear Philadelphia backdrop for a remarkablegourmet examsfrom England at the secondary Alice Wellington's photo, educator who workedfor many years withtheir threekids, havea year meal Adorable dogs Zoeand Jack school,as wellas workingat the "Walden Pond Springtime." was in at the World Bank,Is wntingabout round cottage. This summer, Kate Bauerprovided the floor show· researchlab at the university Elder the BostonGlobe's Westsection on Israel's educationsystem, when not and Philwill take the boat all the Ann reportsthat Helen's cooking son Gabnel and his family V1s1ted March I 0, part of the article on the distractedby the lake and the loons. way up there V1athe Hudson River skills have beenauctioned off at for NewYear's from CA,and the Concord Museum exh1b1ton Thoreau Mmam seesHelen Epps, who lives and Ene Canal,beginning in June local chantable events;she's family had a wonderfullime at the and climate change "My photo will in DC, regularly for lunch; had a and returningin SeplKate and Phil that good' beach in Punta del Este (remember, be a 7 x 9 mural behind a display of wonderfulvIsIt with Ricki Chapman McGlashan at Obama's inaugural; and recentlycaught up withBetty Fluegelman Kahn in Brooklyn. Please keepyour newscoming; we all love to know what Is happening in the lives of our fnends from CC. 1969 #-WiolilWMU Correspondent:Jud, BambergManp, 1010 Sugar SandsBlvd #384, RIV/eraBeach. FL33404, 1gmar,[email protected] Alice Boatwright's book, "CollateralDamage." made the Small PressDistnbut1on bestsellerhst for the summer. She was delighted to seea mention in the CC alumni news;"word Is getting out." V1s1t her Marcia Hunter Matthews'67, Nancy BlumbergAustm '67 and Judi Rosman Hahn '67 at websiteat wwwcollateraldamage.us, their recentreunion in New York. whereyou can samplethe bookand find linksto Alice's blog; Facebook Right flond1an Ann TousleyAnderson '69 planneda tnp northin January page, Twitter,etc. "All requiredthese to include a V1s1t with Helen Haras1mOW1czWalters '69 in Ambler, PA days.A penciland a pieceof paper CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 53 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni Orab Walrath Goldstein has moved opportunitiesto spendtime With to Annapolis, MD, wherehusband her threegrandchildren. Ruth and Allen starteda newpcsIbon at the husband Larrystill raise puppies for Helping Afghan women National lnslitute for Standardsand Gu1dmg Eyesfor the Blind and are on their I 0th puppy. ha been elecced chair of che board of director Technology, workmgon smart gnd ROZ RUSTIGIAN '73 technologies.They enjoy sa1lmgon Orquidia Acosta-Hathaway for che lnitiacive co Educate Afghan Women, a Providence, R.I., non the Chesapeakeand bemgcloser retiredlast Julyafter 22 yearsas a profitchat eek co develop Afghani women a leader through higher to their older twosons. NonnaIs distnct-leveladm1mstrator for K-12 education in che Un iced cace , leader hip craining and career guidance. pleased to becloser to CC graduate educationin r.A.She has startedan educational consultmgbusmess and In che 10 years ince it was founded, che initiacive has helped 57 women PattiLenehan Breyley'70, wholives m Medford,NJ, and she wouldlove alsoworks With the county office of earn undergraduate degree ; five more ar expecced co graduace in 2013. to get m touch with Filch High School educationas an administrativecoach Ruscigian is che owner ofV. eorge Rustigian Rug in Providence. and CC graduate Elizabeth Kennedy, for newpnnc1pals. She may come who livesm DC.A publishedpoet out of retirement to teach full time and editor,Nonna is busywnting and at the post-gradlevel with the r.A Thoreau's des�bed, etc. Woo-hoo!" catalog projects and are particularly consultmg until the pertectfull-time umversitysystem. She and husband The Classof '69 sendssympathy proud of "How We Survived,•a academic or governmentposI1ion Mike(USCGA '72) have twodaughters to the family and fnends of book for Child SuMvorsof the comesthrough. and fivegrandchildren hV1ng W1tl11n 15 minutesof them in Huntington Catherine Ramsey Kane, who died Corres1971pondents: /.Jsa McDonnell, I 34 Holocaust, Los Angeles,because of Meg Gemson Ashman and p Beach,r.A, and another daughter in W. Ma leSt., Granville, OH 43023, its beauliful quality. Find out more husband Jay tooka break from on Feb. 12. SanFrancisco. Mike worllsfor the [email protected];i..ols Pnce, at www.charlesallen.com,especially leading a study abroad program and With only threemore issuesbefore 308East MulberryStreet. Kennett CoastGuard Support Centerin San 19348-3818, 1f youhave a bookprojecl Doreen teaching m Belize,which they've our 45th Reunion, it Is not too early Square, PA, Pedro,after a 26-yearactive-duty @y welcomesvisitors to their home in done for most of the past fewwinters. to make note of the date: May 30 /opn<;e ahoo.com careerwith the CoastGuard. They June I, 2014. Reunion Co-chairsAlice Pasadena,r.A, where they'velived for Instead, they spenta fewmonths more than 30 years. feelfortunate that Orqui's mom and Wellmgton ([email protected]) m Panama,stud�ng Spanishand Mike's dad are in their 90s and still Beverly (Bev) Alfano Ahrensdorf and Ann Barber Srmth (abarberl I@ teaching English to adults. In the fairly healthy. retiredafter teaching for 38 yearsm spring, theyreturned to Burlington gma1l.coml wouldlove your ideas Correspondents:Dr Peg Musche/1 Laurie Stewart Otten majored 1972 inner city Philadelphia.She moved and contmuedteachmg at the U. of and assistance.To bekept up to Jackson, 6300Stevenson Ave., in music history at CC, but her real Suite 4Q3, Alexandria. VA 22304, in Nov. to Naples,FL and lovesit ... VennonlThey're lookmg forwardto loveIs pertonnmg.Singing in choirs date on importantdetails and urgent [email protected] back to sun, fitnessand needlepoint! seeing Maria Spencer Freedberg classmate news,be sure to send Doreen Chen Allen's daughter, sinceage 2, she continuesto smg Husband Leestill worllsbut can do this summer. as the soprano soloist at a church yourcurrent email address to me at Laura, finishedlaw schooland spent ii anywhere.Son Drew, 28, livesin Ruth Ritter Ladd contmuesto in Wellesley.She has rejoinedthe fivemonths m Ecuador domg a study [email protected] Manhattan and worksin finance, workat the NewEngland Dlstnct TanglewoodFestival Chorus (chorus of for the Nature Conseivancy.Doreen and daughter Leigh, 26, Is 10 Boston Corpsof Engineersin the Regulatory the Boston Symphony), after a hiatus and Charleycelebrated their 40th workingat Children's Hospital in Division as a supeMsorywetland of 30 years.She lovessinging great weddinganniversary this yearand are finance and attending Boston College b1olog1st. Although she could worllsof music with theseternfic verybusy withtheir photography and Correspondent:1970 M yrnaChandler for her MBAat night retire, as long as it's enjoyable musicians. Shealso does solo concert Golds/em, 5 WoodsRoad, End l..mcoln, book production business.They have After 20 yearsas an academic and satisfying,why stop working? workand occasionallypertonns MA OJ 173, [email protected] workedon more than 100 book and dean at twocolleges in WA, Norma The only downfallis that it reduces in localmusical theater.Younger son Mike startedcollege last fall. Husband David still worksat MIT, but m Oct. theytook a two-weekroundtrip drivefrom Bostonto Orlando,FL via Parents'Weekend in Rochester, NY. SonJim is marriedand livesand worksm Seattle.Laurie's niece,Tory Stewart'15, enjoyslife at CC. Laune attendedCC's 100th birthdayparty, along with our 40th Reunion, and hopesto seemore classmates at the nextone! Nancy Burnett spent the summer gathenng oral h1stonesfor a book about her hometown and tending her bluebemes,blackbemes and a host of flowergardens. Shestill teachesat the localstate universityand lovesIL Margo W. R. Steiner is one of Above,left to nght: Elizabeth "Liz" Buell Labrot '55, Anne "Missy" FennerStolberg '74, Carole our most fearlessclassmates! Her "yearof living dangerously,· mcluded Fabbri'92, Elizabeth"Betsy· Payne Shannon ·45 and SusanHazlehurst Milbrath '76 in January at the Collegefor a Day event10 Denver her firstskydive, an unforgettable expenence.She followed that withher first polarplunge-into 38- 54 CC CONHECTtCUT COLUGC MAGAZINE SUMMDI 2011 class otes which11 exists- Niger, Pakistanand WrigleyField- "satin the catbird Afghanistan. seat Go Cubb1es1111You're next.· After Margo's news,mine 1s He had lunch at Harry Caray's on Architect builds community positively sedate!My husband, Paul, the NavyPier. "Chicago-the City of and I are moving back to our Walnut Broad ShoulderslGreat experience." WALTER SCHACHT '75, co-founder and principal of chachr A lani Creek, CA,home this summer. The Archicecrs in eatde, Wash., ha been elecced co che American Institute of naval engineenngfirm that Paul worksfor 1s openinga WestCoast Architecc' ollege of Fellows, in the cacegory of design. chachr focu e Correspondent. Kimberly-Toy Reynolds officeand Paulwill head up the Pellenno,1977/[email protected] on crong, modern building d igned to bring people together and proJeclMy consultingpractice 1s enhance the quality of civi life. Hi commis ions have included a library growing on the WestCoast so the movemakes sense. We willkeep our addition, a eatde fire ration and building at a communiry college. After Alexandria, VA, condo,as westill Correspondent Susan Cale(Tobiason. graduating wich a degree in architectural cudies, chacht spent ix year as havebusiness on the East Coast.The 701978 Park Terrace East, Apt. 41, New York, a woodworker and builder with a ucce ful contracting bu ine in My cic, NY 10034,[email protected] Amenca's Cup will be in full SW1ng onn. He de crib hi arch ice rural pra cice a the inter ection of hi focus in SanFrancisco this summer, so let "on community and craft." me know1f you are in town, and we'll 1979 1-Wi•liDWMe■ get together. correspondents: Vicki Chesler. vches/[email protected];Sue Avtges lime!" SonDaniel is a junior at the U. Chinese lntemat1onal School'snew in Portlandhaving surgeriesand Kayeum,[email protected] of Maryland. Jeff conllnues to teach mnth-grade China immersion center radiation, while her kids enjoyedtheir Vicki Chesler 1s lhnlledto Correspondent. Nma Davit, chemistryat the Naval Academy, in Hangzhou,which opensthis fall lakesidecottage in NH. Her sister-in announcethat she and husband Matt [email protected] and Lynda continuesto run the (ccc.c1s.edu.hkl.She also works law tookcare of them soMark could are finishedpaying collegetu1t1on! dance departmentat Anne Arundel for g-Meo,out of NYC, pr0V1ding bewith her. 'I got to Join them at the Daughter Kelseygraduated cum CommunityCollege. She attended the internshipand researchopportumt1es lake for the last twoweeks. just in IW••liiWMtl /aude in May from NortheasternU. 1974 BatesDance Festival last July and for universitystudents at their lime to bethere for my daughter's Correspondent:Deborah Hoff. witha degreein biology.She wants centers in Chengdu and Suzhou(www. bike accident. Her helmet savedher Deborahhoff@embarqma,lcom to workin wildlifeconservation in took a class with Larry Ke1gwm,Cathy gmeochina.com).Son Eliot. who life, but 11 was a scarycouple of the Bostonarea. so send any leads Young and Shonach M1rk and had a weekswaiting to seeif there would' youmay have!Daughter Melissa, fabulous time. "Look me up tt you're graduatedfrom Middleburyin '10, beany lasllng deficit from her head who graduatedthree years earlier everin the Annapolis area • 1s an NCAAtennis champion and Correspondents:Mmam Josephson Hilary Henderson Stephens lives now worksfor UGl a wind turbine m1ury. She has completely recovered, Whitehouse,1975P.O. Box 7068, Cape from Boston U. with a degreein film Po(fXllse,ME 04014, casablancal@ and telev1s1on.has workedin NYC in in Washington, DC,with husband company in NYC. Daughter Grace as have I, and weall have a greater gw,.net;Nancy Gruver, 2650 Umvers,ty music Videoand televisionproduction Ty. She1s the developmentdirector is a senior at Western Academy of appreciationfor life.· Kimhas come Ave. W #101, St.Paul, MN 55114. eversince. "While in Bostonfor for a nonprofit calledBest Buddies Beijing,where she will completethe acrosstwo other CCgrads in OR, both [email protected] Kelsey's graduation, Matt and I had and is currently organizing a chanty InternationalBaccalaureate program from later classes.'One of them 1s Douglas Renfield-Miller semi an extremelyamusing eveningon the cyclingevent planned for Del20 in "Shelooks forward to collegenext my children's homeopath, and the retiredin July and now workspart waterfrontand in the North End with the nation's capital."If youare a year. Maybe she will be a Camel!We other mamed the daughter of good time as COOat a hedgefund. With Mark Mclaughlin and Jay Faber. I cyclistand looking for a century(I 00 still en1oy our summers in Ml and I fnends. You neverknow where you'll his freelime, he and wifeJean also had a wonderfuI In pto Seattle miles)or metnc century(62 miles) keepin touch withmy dear friends find a Camel." Renfield-Miller final� realizeda and the NorthCascades wrth Anne event,please Join our nde at www. l'.'lrenJesperson Hutton '78 and Judith Krones has beenin long-held dream and sailedhis boat. McCarthy Garrison, who travelled bestbudd1eschallenge.of&-'dc."In Wayne Hutton '78 and Emily Stimson Washington,DC, since '90-'it Thales("thank you,Lester Reiss"), up from SanDiego to meetme and Apnl, Hilary and Ty caughtup with Sugg." 1s hard to believemy kids are down to the Canbbean.After nding my fnend Cathylast summer. It was son Chnst1an in Buenos Aires,where Mark Teschner Just wonhis Washingtonians!" She is a Certified out Hurricane Sandyin Hampton, VA, wonderfulto reconnectwith Edward he wasspending a semester abroad. fifth Emmy for Castingfor 'General NurseMidwife and works in various Dougsailed to Tortola, BVI, as part of (Ned) Colt up in the Elizabeth "Somany Amencan kids in BA.1t is Hospital.' Congratulations,Mark i fac1lilles and organizations in the Canbbean1500 Rally."After eight Islands of MA last fall. Nedlives in staggenng.From there weheaded up It 1s with great sadnessthat DC.Husband David Schorris an daysat sea. wecrossed the finish line Jordan but gets back to the States to Mercedesand some of the best wereport that Sharon Robinson environmental policy consultant at seventhout of 36 boatsand fourth a couple of timesa year.Matt and I fly fishmg m the worldat PtraLodge, Shields passedaway suddenly on theWildlife World Fund. Daughters in our class,suMVJng a stonnat sea havebeen doing a lot of sailingout locatedon the lberaMarshlands, one �9/12 Rom! and Natanya are in I Ith and with gustsover 60 knots. Thales will of Stamford, and wehad a beautiful of the most fascinatingwetlands on eighth grades,respectively. "We will stay in the Canbbeanfor the next eveningsail with Jamie Marshall Earth, 3,500,00D acresof unexplored bestarting the collegetours this year. coupleof seasons,and I'm looking and uninhabitedmarshland m the We haveroom for visitorsif anyone and husband Greglast summer.· Correspondents,COnme Smith northeasterncomer of Argentina' wants to come seeONC." forward to island-hopping withJean Vicki and Matt wenton their annual Gemmer.1980180 Glenwood Ave., Portland, and other fami� and fnends. • Canbbeancharter in Jan. and spent Greattnp for our 20-somethings and ME 04103,conme@bartongmgold. The seconded1t1on of Rick 10 daysin the Grenadines. Their their parents!" com, ToddHudson, Semiatin's boo� 'Campaignson the marketing business, Highpoint Barry Norman's latest film, [email protected] Cutting Edge,· was published by CO Ventures,has taken them into the "Tears of Bankers," was screened It's beenan eventfulyear for Press.'Now, I'm ready to go into a Correspondents.1976 Kenneth Abel, 334 W city regularly to seeclients, and in NYC at the AnthologyArchives Samantha (Kim) Sager and family rest home (loll. Had a great summer 19thSt., Apt 28, New York, NY 10011, kenn616@ao/com;Susan Hazlehurst severalreal estatepro1ects upstate Building at 32 SecondAvenue on (husband Mark; sonArtem, 11, and going to the CheyenneRodeo, seeing Milbrath, P.O Box3962, Greenwood keepthem busyas well "Thanks to Sept4 Congratulat1ons, Barry' daughter Anya, 10). Theyleft their the NewYork Philhannonicin Vail, CO, Village, CO 80/55-3962, everyonefor sendingin all yournews. Frances Fremont-Smith has been mountain home of 12 years outside and not wnbngany books!" shm1fbrath@gma1/com It keepsour sectionof the alumni in China for 34 years,ever since her Ashland,OR, and movedinto townto In June '12. Connie Smith Bradford Peck V1s1tedChicago magazine interesting'· daysat CC Shestill livesin Be11ing bewithin walking and biking distance Gemmer sold hersmall public affairs last Oct for the first time. He took Lynda Plavin Fitzgerald and Jeff with her husband of 30 years,U. of grocenes,restaurants. the library consulting finnto POWER Engineers. the Chicago Riverarchitectural tour are the proud parents of a college J1a, who now worksfor eBayafter 20 and fnends. "I lovewalking my Shenow directs the strategic by boal, listening to building history: graduate' SonMatt graduatedin yearswith Amencan Express,followed daughter to schoolin fiveminutes commumcallonsdivision for POWER, "Amazing buildings." He sayshe had May from St.Michael's Collegein VT by Brown Brothers Hamman. Frances instead of dnving half an hour'" Kim whichmeans she is still seMcmg great pizza;went to SoldierField for 'Hopefully, by the limeyou're reading continues to workin education. was diagnosedwith breast cancer numerous clients in Ml as wellas Canesvs. lnsh; and took the tour of this, he'll be gainfully employed,full heading up externaladm 1ss1onsfor last June and spenther summer directinga numberof projects around CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 55 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni wentback to a lessintense workout go, whatto see,what to do and what routine.· Last summer. sailingand not For those seekinga Job abroad, I Correspondents:19841tUlit•WMtiLucy Marshall Sandor. golf werethe pnmary actMtIes; can help out with advice and possible Actor's ally 251 KatydidLane, Wilton, CT 06891. Cushing was in the Mediterraneanfor connections."Please contact the [email protected]:Sheryl Edwards Alumni Office at 860-439-2306 for Labor relation attorney SUSAN GORVINE Ra1polt, 11 Pheasant Lane, Monroe,CT IO days,sailing between Spam and mformallon on how to reach Nicole. NELSON '80 ha been named exe urive 06468,sra1polt@us 1bm.com: /Jz Italy and around the northernpart of Kolber Wollloff. 119 Estate Dove. Sardinia.He also spentsome lime in dire tor of rhe ew England local of A - Jeocho. NY 11153,//z/rpnnc@aolcom MN, where he and a couple of fnends AFTRA, rhe union repre enring profe ional wonthe Yngling Open NorthAmencan Correspondents:Jenifer KahnBakkala, actor and broadca cer . el on ha work� in Champ1onsh1ps. ·1 sail out of the 511987 Wesson Terrace, Northborough, MA 01532, Jkbb/[email protected],1111 labor relation for more than 25 year ; mo c Correspondents:Deborah Lowry SakonnetYacht Club, where several Maclean,198542 Catb,rd Court, former and current CCgrads also sail. PerlmanPienkos, 1038am Hill Lane. recently he was coun el to che onnecncur Lawrenceville, NJ 08S48-2045, Newington, CT 06lll, including Adolf Haffenraffer '05. I see Jrpertman@snelnel race Employee A ociacion. he majored in deb [email protected],Meg Macri, [email protected] Sue Kur Lees everycouple of months Dawn Ellingboe Carleton has Engli h and governmentand earn d her law Cushing Anderson and wife withher family, and Lisa Sohmer Is beenin the SanFrancisco Bay area degree at rhe Univer icy of onne cicuc. Suelive in Boston's SouthEnd and great about sta�ng in touch, loo. I for more than 20 years,teaching at have a cottage in RI, where he can love reconnectingwith classmates. so the sameschool for 14. Currently, workremotely all summer. ·our cal, if anyone lives in or Is visiting Boston, she Is social studies curriculum Boelh1us, has Just turned17, so must pleaselet me know.· chair. d1vers1ty chair and the fifth• the countryfor her newemployer. Joy Jerome Turtola,who lives becons1denng colleges.but like all grade teacher. ·Each day Is a new It's busy. The timing was perfect, in Portland.OR, entered2013 very teenagers,he doesn't talk to us about adventure!" she wntes. "lnteresling as she had recentlyconcluded grateful for modernmedicine. Last importantthings like that· Cushing CorrespondentJames BradleyWade, fact, One of my colleagueshere Is a her involvementon the Alumni year,his son, Cody,underwent loves his job as a market research 141986 Davis Chapel Rd., Candler.NC CC alumna from the Class of '97!! Assoc1ationboard at CC. Connieand twoseparate surgenesto remove analyst,mainly researchinghow 28715, [email protected] Small worfd!"Dawn has also played Fredstill hvein Portland,ME. Not yet organizations train their employees In 2002. Nicole Meuderscheid some ice hockeyon a co-edteam empty-nesters,they have plenty of cataracts he developedafter being on steroids for over a yearfollowing his and howcompanies leverage Gast gol mamedand movedto the "I'veloved heanng how successful extrabeds for visitors. businessconsultants. He workswith beautiful countrysideof Schleswig bone marrow transplant in '07 Cody the Lady Camelshave beenon the MeganSantosus '87 and Rich Vancil Holstein ("that's where the black· ice sinceI was a student. Women's now has 20/20 vIsIon for the first '82. Cushing has also beenworking and-whitecows come from") lo ice hockeywas merely a club when I time in fiveyears and quite literally Correspondent:Ta//e Ward Hams, with Brad Thorpe P' II to help livewith her husband and two cats was at CC." Dawn has two children, seesa whole newworfd. Joy Is grate homerb1rd@hotma1/.com1981 organize IDC-sponsoredCC seniors nextto a farm with about 70 cows. who both graduatedfrom college ful to his fnends and family, whohave for internshipsat their offices around "It's quaint here, but after living in this spring. providedlove and supportdunng his the world.They sent Vinh Pham'13 NYC, lunch and Hamburg, it's also Randel Osborne lives in Essex, ongoing Journeyas a parent and Gyanendra Sharma'13 lo Prague a bit qwetl Somy office,'apartment CT, with his wife, Molly TysonOsborne Correspondent E//zaHelman Kraft. 13 last summer. and David Romanow Is in the city of Hamburg (by the '88; sons Garrett (GeorgiaTech • 16), Primrose1982St., Katonah. NY 10536, Please note that due to corre '12 to Chile overwinter break. In his way· gorgeous.green, great harbor. Floyd and Roald; and a collection l1za.lvaft@gma1lcom spondent error, Joy was inadvertently spare time, Cushing sails.reads lots cosmopolitan attitude, more bndges of Labrador retrievers.He's the referredlo as "she" in the fall issue. of books,plays golf and squash, and than Venice), to which I commute four information technologydirector for He legallychanged his name to Joy triesto stay in shape "I completed daysa week.To anyoneinterested in the East Haven Public Schoolsand Correspondent,Claudia Gould fie/lung in 1995, and he Is still very much a 90 daysof the P90xworkouts in 2011 vIsIt1ng North Germany, I'm happy to spends his spare lime sailing,wnting 65331983Mulroy St., McLean, VA 22101· man. He prefers to becalled Joy or and got halfway through in earfy supply any CC student with a place music and making custom electronic 5511. [email protected] J.l We apologize for the mistake. 2012 before I IOJUredmyself and to stay and good advice on where lo instruments. Michael Ridgway'75 and Michael Collier '76 on the shoresof Lake Champlain in From left. Holly BurnetMikula '80, Dawn TatsapaughHerdman '80, Jill Elsner ·so and Linda Garant '82 got Westport,NY. in August 2012. Photowas taken after lunch with Robin Rice '72 together on a warm October weekendm Boston. 56 CC CONNECTICUT COll[CC MAGAZINE SUMMtR 20ll class o e Jonathan Rosenson and wife Harry PotterWorld to workon the1r Jennifer 1s also studymg creative time on the water, however,1s devoted Ph.D.at MIT m oceanographyand Rebeccarecently welcomed the1r spells Wife Susan1s developingand nonfiction wr1tmg and 1s wr1tmg to cruising with the family around the manne geology. Smeethen, Bill secondchild, Alex,who JOIOS big expandinga language program m the a memoir."My intent is to msp1re Northeastaboard our Sabre38." has beenwith Shell lnternabonal sister Sarah,6. Jon 1s still working as school system.They 've seenDorothy others to take the Ume to enioy and Kristen MacKenzie Pollard and Explorallon and Production.He and an emergency room phys1c1anat Oak• Dudley Kenefick de Saint Phalle, honor their bodies,relax for peace husband Samopened their secondtoy wife Kellie,with dogs Bellaand land and Richmond MedicalCenters John Zuckerman '90 and Rena of mind, and tap mto their creative store m Salem,MA, and have owned Copper, enioy the nicewinters in m the SanFrancisco Bay area. He 1s Whitehouse'87, who stoppedby on spml My work1s my hie passion, and Mud Puddle Toysm Marblehead Houston, TX ("and suffer through the also on the faculty as an assistant her way to Yosemite.They also spent for that I am grateful.· She1s m touch for nme years SonGraham ,s m summers") professorat the medicalschool at Ume m Portlandwith Rod Woodley '86 with Bruce Sutphen and enJoys high school and playsthree sports; l.Jfem England 1s still entertammg U. of California-SanFrancisco m the and his fami�, and theysaw Pete heanngfrom other CC grads. daughter Clara 1s m Junior high and for Alison Edwards Curwen. "The Department of EmergencyMedicine. Mohr ·1 havea Chris Coyne original Alyssa Smallwood-Dalsass loves doesevents with her horse, Image. Grand Nallonal was a wonderful "All is well,·he wr1tes,·and 11 any lpamtmgl m my officethat routinely workingas a nursepracbt1oner m "Marblehead 1s a meccaof CC yetwe1rd spectacle to behold.·As Camelsare out our way, pleaseget getsgood reviews, not quite the BucksCounty, PA, and raising three grads-fun to keepin touch'" teachers, Alisonand husband Austin m touchl" sameas SpiralGalleiy • A tnp back children, ages12, 10 and 7, with Carlos Garcia livesm northwest havesummers off and head back eastbrought a reunion with Nick husband Andrew A former Schwiff, Washington,DC, and is startingto to the East Coastfor warm weather Burlingham and CamilleHames she still sings, "but usually only with rally support for CC among alumni and lime withfamily and fnends. 1988 Burlingham'85 my kids, who are all singers too!" and fnends in the Mid·Atlant1c Alison worl Above:Vicki Chesler'79 and her husband Matt (far left) met up with Marx Mclaughlin·79 and Jay Faber'79 whenthey were m Boston for daughter Kelse{s graduation from Northeasternm May 2012. Right Vicki Chesler '79, left, and Anne Gamson '79, nght, hiking in the North Cascadesof Washington stale withVicki's fnend (center), wholives m Seattle. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 57 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni threechildren. She continuesto work (you can find himon Facebookl.We full-servicehospitality, including a Classof '90 alumni callhim to go out 'I conbnuelo en1oy tryingto stnke withher dancecompany, Present welcomehelp from anyone,near remote officefor telecommuting,and, in the city a balancebetween my workas a TenseDance, and teachesat the or far. up in Sacramento(hopefully you can Workingnear Rich is Bruce designerand hie as a marriedperson, U. of Rochester.Last Aug., she was In Feb., Liz Arnold Bollt achieved beyour own Judge of this at Reunion), Maclaren, who for the last three parenting threekids," saysRachel. namedthe presidentof the New York her goal of competingin and finishing Paul Clauss has not ageda day since yearshas beenthe Chineseart For fun, Rachel1s soanngthrough StateDance Education Association. a winter tnathlon in Ottawa, Canada. school! I met Andrew Bechgaard at specialistfor BonhamsAuctioneers' the air, taking a flying trapezeclass. Shealways enJoys spending time Shewas one of twoU.S. c1bzens the Glasgowairport and spenta week NYC gallenes.When not traveling,he Really I'veseen the v,deo. withclassmate Sarah Webb and her who competedwith 250 others in driving around Scotland.Seems my livesnorth of the citywith his wife Also in the Seattlearea 1s Abbe wonderfulfamily. the race, whichincluded an eight nav,gabon skills werelacking, and and 13-year-oldson. BartlettLynch, wholoves the And, from across the Atlantic, kilometer skate,five-kilometer run weroutinely got lost eventhough we John Rubin and Mary (Mare) outdoors(when it's notdnzzling), Francesca Sommariva wntes, and 5-kilometer cross-countryski. weren'tgoing anywherein particular. Neary-Rubin are rocking out in hanging withher husband of 15 "I'm currently living in Deauville, 'The kids and husband are great Paige Margules Tobin was enticed the WestVillage witha coolnew years,Andy, and threekids, Kieran, France,working for the GroupeLucien My oldestturned 16 this year,and ii to escape for a girls' weekend.There business venture calledReplay 10; Drew,5; and Sarah,2. 'My kids Barriere as MICE salesmanager for feelslike his collegedays are right are lots of other classmatesI'd love Studios,a music rehearsalspace enJoy all the outdoor opportunit1es our threelocal luxury hotels. Still around the bend. My youngest excels to see,so hopefully my 'traveling to a for musicians, with an afterschool skiing, hiking, messingaround with mamedwith twokids, ages 13 and in music and mathematics,and townnear you'tour willcontinue.· rock-band program for kids. John has boats, snowboarding.And it appears 14, I welcomeall alumni v1s1bng the my middle son wona sciencefair beendreaming about this for a while I'm becominga hockeymom area. I sbll hopeto returnto the U.S. last yearand wenton to a national and wantedto make a careerchange. Kieran's beenplaying for threeyears, for good somedaysoon!!" She 1s in competition.· 1990 Mare wntes:·11 is excitingthat we and Drewhas just started."Abbe is at Correspondent: TonaBlett. 3Q touch withBeatrice Spadacini and Helen Dewey, whoapparently have becomesmall businessowners, the FredHutchinson Cancer Research Monique Galassi. Washington Ave.,Northampton, MA hasn't checkedin with us in a while, 0/06(), v,ctonatxett@comcastnet but life is busier than ever.Good thing Centerdoing administratJVW sent in a very long report, which I Greetingsfrom Toria Brett, our kids are already 11 and 13 and operational work.She continuesto 1989 i-iJitlitJWMCi took the liberty of distilling: "The yournew class correspondent. I much more independent!' The perk row,as she did in college,and raced Correspondent: DebDorman Hay, dust 1s finally settling from last figure I can't do worsethan the last of being a Camel:John and Mare are at the SanDiego Crew Classic for the 582/N. 22ndSt., Arlington, VA 22205, year'smove (exited suburban life and correspondent,since there wasn't offering any NYC alums a freehour of first timein Apnl, especiallyenJo�ng [email protected] returnedlo life as a city dweller). studio lime: www.replaymusicstudios. 'the sun and warmth-andthe fish Caroline Bennett and her one, and it has beenlong enough It's nice to be liberatedfrom home since the witty and wry Kristen com. tacos. Life is full, life is good." husband and family are back in renovations. I'vebeen traveling and Victoria Shaw-Williamson, For the last 16 years,Josh Motta the U.S. this summer for a month, Lofblad Sullivan resignedthat I getting to seelots of Camels- coffee won'tsuffer by companson. Speaking Rachel Arp Ramstad and I got has workedat Brandeis U. in mail travelling the loop of the East Coast in NYC with Tappan Heher and Joe together in NYC this fall. Victona services.He livesin Waltham,MA. from Torontoto NYC v,a Bostonto see of, Knstinlives in Cambndge,MA, St.Cyr '87; the Scottishgames with speaks for many of us when she Also in MA, former CC net men are Heather Meeker Green'90 and her with her husband and 4-year-oldson Bob Calhoun; a leisurely 'ladieswho saysshe 1s a proud memberof the connectingon the courtin Chestnut husband, Rish, and hopefullyother and worksat Harvard. CCbuddies. Her children are Freddy, lunch' in Philadelphia with Chesca Meanwhile, the children of sandwichgeneration, madly dashing Hill, where Tim Smith 1s the director 14; Ella. 12; and Felix,I I. ·we really Sheldon Mayser and Alexandra Rich Petersen invadedColonial around while runninga three of junior tennis at the Longwood hopeto pop into CCto relivesome (Alix) Davis Cum min (just be sure Williamsburg in R!b.,astounding generational household in Manhattan. Cncket Club. In March, Tim hired great times." theyget home in time to meetthe colonistswith their musketryand Victona 1s a furniturespecialist at TrevorProphet 'I I lo his coaching Our 25th Reunion 1s Just around kids after school ... sorry about thaO; milkmaid skills. The Petersensare lstdibs.com in NYC. Rachelwas staff. Brad Freer '91, alsoof the the comer! We hopeto have a record and DCpower catch-up sessions headquarteredin Brooklyn, where v,srting from Seattle,where she men's team, visitedin July for the tumoul If youwant to help, check with Anne Mickle and Deborah their threechildren attend Packer likesto hang with Galen Grossman National Father-Sonevent held al the in with Reunion Chair Mark Howes (Deb) Dorman Hay. Then on to San Academy. Rich works in midtown Hermelee now that Galen has club each year. Francisco... Mark Howes provides Manhattan and likes1I whenv,s1ting movedback to Seattlefrom London. Asfor me, I livein Northampton MarkTeschner '79 with his 5th Emmy Award for Castingfor General Hospital. EnkaEsposito '02 and husband Brent Pfisterwith their children from left:Grahm PatnckPfister (born 7/28/09), Natalie Mane Pfister(born on 12/12/12),Sophia Danielle Pfister(born 3/l/07). 58 CC CONNECTICUT COll[GC MAGAZINE SUMMClll 201J class ates withGeoff Schaefer and our daughters, Sophia,13, and Lila, i-1U#itJWMH 10. Geoffstill playsa lot of hocke,, Correspondent.1994 TikaMarlin, 3221 sometimeswith Dan Crowley'93. Carter Ave.,Unit 116, Manna de/Rey, Digital leader CA. [email protected] We spendtime in the summer on an Susan Cotter recenWpublished VINCENT FARRELL '96, has been named ro island off the coastof ME. a great her first twoteen e-nOYels, "Miss che newly created position of global chief content respitefrom inland living. Ken Rosen r.a1cu1a11on·and "Miss alwn,' under the officer at Hava Worldwide, an integrated marketing Visitsus there almost annually for penname Sue Seabury The Ihm! nOYel communication agency headquartered in ew sailingtnps, a shift from his life in the senes,"Miss Understanding," 1s York. Farrell will develop the agency' digital-at-che- as a Chinese medicineand spa expectedout thissummer. professional in Asia.Tina Hunstein core model with over ight of content creation, curation, development, Cornell livesnearby in Chesterfield production and distribution. withher twokids and husband, Correspondent: Stephan,e Wilson Farrell came co Hava from RIGA, where he helped build and manage though wedon't seeher as much as Mendez,1995 5328 0/rverAve S, che agency' digital cudio, experiential, retail and pre entation design we'dall like.We did spend a fewdays Mmneapohs, MN, 55419, [email protected] capabilitie . Before char, he directed content and integrated marketing inSyracuse LA. with Joe and Lisa production at pikeTV.com. He al o ha a background in independent Addario last spnng, gleaning "Inside filmproduction. Hi documentary "ME@THE ZO ," which map rhe Holly,wod'info about the moVJethey wrote("Parental Guidance,' stamng Correspondent, Ker,Sarajlan, rise of a controver ial video blogger from mall-town Tenne ee, premiered Billy Crystaland BetteM1dler), and ker,[email protected] at the undance Film Festival in 2012 and was di rribured by HBO. our kids had fun hanging out with their coolCA kids, Augie and Lulu Correspondent:Ann BevanHollos, CarlaLaracuente 'OJ and 14431997 BeaconSt. #105, Brook/me,MA 1999 i-1U#itJWMCI Jonathan Musoke weremarried 02446, [email protected] Correspondents:Megan Tepper• on 5/27/12.r.amels in attendance Jorge Vega Ill recentlyaccepted Rasmussen Soi,o/n,c/u, KentSchool, 1 Correspondents. KatieMcA/ame, Correspondent: AmyLebowitz Rosman, includedLauren Butler, Laura a pos1t1on at the EthicalCulture MacedomaRoad, Kent, CT 06757, lrmcalame@gma1/.com;2002 Mellssa 1201991Round Hill Road, East Hills. NY lsvaelian Petras, Jeannine Zapata, Minehan, 7533Buclungham Orrve, • Fieldston Schoolin NYC as director sokD/mclum@kent•schooledu; 11577, rosman5@hvecom of technology.Jorge was previously Dame/leleB/anc Ruggiero, Jennifer DeLeon '01, Mana Perez'01, Apt. 2E, Clayton, MO 63150, dame/le_rugg,[email protected] Daniel r.arrero·o I. Jason Allabab1di [email protected];Ulla employed at the SageSchool as lyrre/1, 418 SaintAsaph, A/exandna, VA director of technology. 'Afternearly '04, AndrewMusoke '04. Tito Molina '80, Jacques George, Adam Musoke 22314, [email protected] eight yearsin MA, we'recoming Erika Esposito and husband Brent Correspondents,Maggie Ruvo/di, Correspondent:Kat,e Stephenson, 54 'II. Felix Fofie, Enc Williamson '02, home to NY, and I'm mOV1ngon to the Pfisterare thrilledto announce the [email protected];1992 Dug (Donald) biggestchallenge of my IT career.· Rope2000Ferry Road, Unit 13811, Waterford, M1tzchkaOrtu '99, RodneyOrtiz '99 Stowe,[email protected] CT 06385, [email protected] and Michael VascOV1tz'10. amval of their third child. Natalie Liz Gonzalez-Quinones is the Mane Pfisterwas bornon 12/12/12 Teacher of the Year at the Regional in Greensboro,NC. Enkaand Brent's Correspondents, Alec Todd, 1045 Mulllcultural Magnet School,a K-5 other children include daughter Correspondents:John Battista,5225 Correspondent: M,chael Carson, P.O. N1998 Utah St., Arlington, VA 22201, magnet schoolin NewLondon, CT, SophiaDanielle Pfister(born 3/1/07), [email protected]; AbbyClark, Siu/Iman2001Ave., Apt 2C, Woodside, NY Box1993914, East Orleans, MA02643, where she teachesfourth and fifth 5326/h Ave.#31., Brooklyn, NY 11215, 11377, [email protected];Jordana and sonGrahm PatnckPfister carson.m,chael@comcaslnet ab1ga1/[email protected] grade in a bilingual program. Gustafson,[email protected] (born7/28/Wl Emma Hantos '07 and Max Petersonat the1r weddingin Newport,RI, on 12/1/12 From Left Amanda r.alkins'05, Andrew Marcela Gandy '93, Gustavo Correa'94, James Palten'04 and Wilham Baker '06, SarahMcKitterick '07, the groom, KendallDoble '07, the bnde, Anelle DezuraPatton '07, BenCourchesne 'OS, Wuyke in M1am1 for the M1am1 Half Marathon. BradleyWray Cooke'07, KevinCooke '07, Hunter Patton'05. Evan Piekara'07 was also in attendance. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 59 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual& Transgender Savage'07, Thomas Anderson '07, Community SeMcesCenter (the Patrick Jones, Makena Cahill, Center)m NYC, Skyler'spassion and ColinWhitney '07, Colin Pagnam, Thirsty in Brooklyn? dedicationfor youthwork inspired Graham Lincoln, Brendan Rampi, When BRADFORD NICOLL '01 and hi busine s partner ara his pursuit of the MSN.The Center Peter Levitan, Katherine Brodie William recencly opened The aim arherine, a new bar and cafe in nominatedSkyler to an eventat and Nate Dooley-Hayes. Vice PresidentJoe Biden's home rhe Prospecr Heighr / rown Height ection of Brooklyn, ome of the celebrating the nextgeneration of fir r gue rs through rhe door were a half dozen friends from onnecricut LGBT Leaders.Sk�er attended the eventon 9/19/12 and was recognized Correspondent:Chns Redly, ollege. icoll, who has lived in rhe area for even year , aims to [email protected] make the place a neighborhood hangout wirh a menu of comforr food as an LGBT Emerging Leader. After fiveyears of teaching in Susan (Suzie) Connor and Ryan rhroughour che day and into the evening. Hungry and thirsty amels Boston Public Schools,Te-Ana Harris (Woody)Woodward '04 weremarried is in medicalschool at TuftsU. School can follow hi progr on lnstagram or Twitter@ ainr athBK. at HarknessChapel on 9/16/11 They of Medicine. gatheredwith fnends in memory Emma Haritos and Max Peterson of their Frisbeeteammate, Connor Jessalyn SadlerCorrea and (Kate) Brooks Grandbois, Mary announce his marriage to Leslie are happy to announce their marriage Donohue '07, at his memonal tree. on 12/V12at the Hotel Viking, husband Steven Correa are thrilledto Rafter, Eleni Kotsonis, Whit Dougherty,which occurred on Del13 Suzie and Woody now livein MO, Newport, RI. Camels in attendance announce thebirth of their first child, Richardson '02, Sean Hagan, Coley at the Aldnch Mansion in Warwtck,RI. where she worksas a physician's includedBradley Wray Cooke, Daniel GeorgeAlvarez-Correa. Daniel Ward, Zvee Geffen, HenryKesner, The'fcurrently residein Providence, assistantand he worksin salesfor Kevin Cooke, Arielle Dezura was bornon Feb. 11 m Providence, Stefan Apse, JeffMandell '04, Chris RI. Matt met Leslie,who is ongmal� EMC. Many fellow Camelswere in Percy'04, and Annie Tselilus '04.1 Patton, Hunter Patton '05,Kendall RI. Daniel was welcomedhome by his from Washington,DC, while the'/ were attendance:Jeff Mandell '04, Jasper Doble, Evan Piekara, Amanda "big sister," the family's Jack Russell students at BostonCollege Law School. Kan'04, Chris Percy'04, Matt Calkins'05, AndrewBaker '06 and temer, Hazel. Sofar, Daniel enJoys 2004 i-iJuditJWMt■ Molberger, Jim Folger '05, Elizabeth Sarah McKitterick. listening to Mommy sing, cuddling Correspondent,Kelly McCall Lane, Bennett'08, Laura Gosnell, Bonnie Patrick Heffernan 1s proud to withDad and soaking m the tub. mccall./<[email protected] Prokesch'04, Annie Tselikis '04, announce the formation of the Law Holly Simpson and GerardBerry Correspondents,Cecily Mandi Macy, Justin Chiu '04, Rich Kappler'04, [email protected];2005 Officeof PatnckJ. Heffernan,located weremarried on 6/30/12at the Matt (Presto) Preston'04, Katherine in Salem,MA. Patnckis licensedto Stephanie SavageFlynn, (Kate) Reardon, Mallory Littman, PennsylvaniaAcademy of Fine Arts, [email protected] practice in both MA and M[, and his Correspondents, Melissa Higgins,15 Philadelphia,PA. Alter IMng in AlexLanstem '07 and nmna Clarh2003St. 113,Boston, MA 02109, firm focuseson cnmmal defense, me/Issa [email protected]; Cleveland,OH, where Holly workedas Molberger. domesticrelations, and employment Leslie Kalka,418 W. 49thSt., Apt. an ophthalmolog1st, theyare moving Marisa Olsen and Will Grosvenor and labor law. He livesm Salem,MA, 4A, NewYorlr, NY10019, to Chapel Hill, NC, this summer. Correspondent:Julia PnntzJacobson, weremamed on 10/7/12at Castle with his wife, Casey. lj/r319@hotma1/com SuzieConnor '06 and Ryan 1u//[email protected] Hill Inn in Newport,RI. Camelsin Taylor Neff and Daniel Eberle (Woody) Woodward weremamed at Skyler Cruz (formerly Christine attendance included KathenneBrant weremarried 8/4/12in Phippsburg, HarknessChapel on 9/!fvlI. Seethe Cruz)earned his Master of Social '07, Emily Whipple, Katherine ME. Camelsin attendancewere Evan '06 Class Notes columnfor Work at the SilbermanSchool of McCord, Rachel Humphrey, Joe Correspondent.Sally Pendergast Olmstead and Liza Eleoff, Sara more details. SocialWork at Hunter Collegein Gnffin '07, Virginia Fuller, Kelsey McCance,2008sally.mccance@gma,i.com Kelly, Sarah Besky, Katherine Matthew Parker 1s happy to May. kl afour-year employeeat the Comstock, Ned Leutz, Jordan Christine Jackson Remy M. Grant Hogan '07 and Stefanie Weiss '07 (bothscholars in the Toor Cummings Centerfor International Studies and the Liberal Arts)at the 2013 Joselyne Flores '10 mamedhigh school sweetheartJose Ochoa 12/22/12in a small ceremony attendedby the Presidential Inaugurationin Washington,DC parents of the groom, Ben1ammand Glona Ochoa, and the parents of the bride, David and Mana Flores. 60 CC CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAOAZINE SUMMU 2013 class notes and Joseph Remy are happy to almost threetimes in size in the the U.K. as a Fulbnght Scholarat the announcetheir mamage on &'w'12 past year.Kathryn works on brands U. of Leeds.He 1s more excitedthan in SL PetersburgBeach, FL They ranging from HarryWinston to Sam everabout the future, with V1s1ons currently reside in Tampa,FL Laura Edelman and YankeeCandle, planning of startinga technologycompany in Writing for kids Robertsonwas one of the guestsin and buying all media,including healthcare. If you are a student or A mu ical wricten and directed by attendance at their intimate beach outdoor, d1g1tal, pnnt and broadcast. graduate and a rock-star developer ASHLEIGH CATSOS '06, was showca ed at wedding. Michael Meade loveshie in or designer,contact JusUn at the ew York hildren's Theater Festival in SantaFe, NM, where he grows [email protected],and check out Manhattan chi pring. "Molly Bloom-Lately" 2009 1-VC•liiWMt■ withMany Gardens, a gardening his websites,Jkoufopoulos.com and Correspondent. Caro/meGransee. program at �a Fna Elementary thequantifiedme i about a third grader who, after being caroflne.gransee@gma1/.com Schoolin collaborationwith Santa Fe Chris Muscatello livesin ceased, learns to rand up for and believe in Community Farm,a local nonprofit Chicago, pursuing a master'sdegree her elf. at o live in ew York icy; in dedicatedto feedingthe needyIn in mamage and family therapy. He 2010 April, the program hosteda spnng recentlyaccepted an internshipat addition co her life in the cheater, he i al o Correspondents EnnOsborn, break camp to introducechildren to ResurrectionHealth Care,where he a yoga instructor and teaches the newe t eosbom@connco/1edu; Grace willbe working with both adults and Champ/am Astrove. 12316 Spur gardening, natural arts and crafts, member of the Blue Man roup. Lane, Rockv1/le, VA 23146, earthen building, animal husbandry children. [email protected]: and other life skills. Ben Gitkind IS lead English ccnotesJO@gma1/.com Joselyne Flores alwaysknew teacher at the NabVJtySchool of Emma Krane has beenliving in other areas around the worldthat Grace Astrove earnedher she wantedto workwith children, Worcester. ruralCambodia with the PeaceCorps needmedical aid M.A. in arthistory from Virginia and in June '12 the doors to Early witha primary assignment as an SiddharthRatho is in his second CommonwealthU. in Dec.She Bird FamilyChild Careopened. They English teacher/teachertrainer since yearat the GovernmentLaw College recentlymoved to NYC, where she 1s offer quality daycarefor infants, Correspondent.2011 RachelJacobsen, July'11. She1s scheduledto end her in Mumbai. He expectsto complete interningin the curatorial department toddlers, and school-agedchildren [email protected] servicein Aug. and willbe returning his law degreeby May '14. He has at the JewishMuseum. near downtown LA.They also work Rachel Cimino completedher to the States. Veronica (Nica) Botsford internedin threedifferent law firms withlow-income families,offenng final semesterat PrattInstitute, Brigid O'Gorman graduatedfrom and 1s currently at the SupremeCourt recentlymoved to SanDiego, !'A quality subsidizeddaycare. Opening Tulane U. Schoolof Public Health and finishing her MPS in creativearts of India in NewDelhi. He has det1ded to study massagetherapy at the this daycarehas not beenthe only TropicalMedicine with a Masters of therapy. Sheworked on a study to take up liligalion as a career InternationalProfessional School of life-changing eventin Joselyne's life. about the effectsof art therapy Sciencein Public Health from the Lizzy Aiello livesin NYC and Bodywork(IPSB). So far it's going On Dec.22, in an intimate ceremony interventionson autism. departmentofT rop1cal Medicine. great, and she looks forward to a withjust family, Joselyne mamedher Brittany Shinn 1s attend mg Last summer, she internedat the worksat the HewittSchool, a pnvate careerin the healing artsof massage. high-school sweetheart,Jose Ochoa. graduate school at ColumbiaU Botswana-BaylorChildren's Clinical girts' schoolon the UpperEast Kathryn(Kat) Torrey 1s working Theyare now focusing on expanding for occupationaltherapy and loves Centreof Excellencein Gaborone, Side.She continues to teach yoga as a mediaplanner at the NYC full Early Bird FamilyChild Careand liVJngin NYC. She will graduate next Botswana,in the ped1atncand family in her neighborhoodand will begin selVlceboutique advertising agency, hopeto servemore familiesin their yearwith her master's degree.She HIV clime. Bng1d aspiresto become a master's degreein socialwork at Lipman, which was startedas a community is currently workingin the mental a pediatricianwith a specialtyin ColumbiaUniversity this fall. Lizzy creativeagency led by OaVJd Lipman Justin Koufopoulos 1s haVJng health field but willhave a vanety of infectiousdisease and to continue willbe traveling this summer before and has gamedmany clients, grOW1ng hie-changing expenencesliving in expenencesbefore she graduates traveling to sub-SaharanAfnca and she goesback to school. JessalynSadler Correa '02 and husband. StevenCorrea, are thnlled to announce the birth CaitlinMcIntosh Greenhouse'05 and Michael Greenhouse'06 welcomedElijah Kimball of their first child, Daniel GeorgeAlvarez-Correa Greenhouseon 12/2/12. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 61 SUBMIT CLASS NOTES ONLINE www.conncoll.edu/alumni John OJ.) McGregor moved U. in the department of horticulture Cecy Cuevas hvesin Chicago, enrichment. squash instruction and 2012 out of Meribelin the French Alps and landscapearchitecture, earningher master's in Latin communityseMce. Correspondent·Anakena Paddon, when he was pickedup by a new specializingm enology with a bit of Amencan and Latino studies. Samantha Sgourakes is a Peace Flat8. 37 ChestertonRoad. London teamin Re1ms, France. He nowlives viticulture. Anne enJoysrock climbing Currently workingas a T.A., she Corpsvolunteer in Sorot1,Uganda. As W/0 SLY.England, witha host family and playsfor the and hiking the Rocky Mountains. She plans to go to law school when a literacycoach and teachertrainer [email protected] Re1ms Phenix of the French 0Ms1on also trainedfor her firstmarathon, she graduates. at AsuretPnmary School, she works Grace Gunderson worksas I Ligue. "It's an amazing town, the the Colorado Marathon, in May. She Karam Sethi 1s doing a Fulbnght withteachers to utilize student a staffing assistant at Vertex champagne capitalof the world!" still bakesand has developednew in Malaysia After training in Kuala centeredteaching methodologiesand Pharmaceuticalm Cambndge, Brenner Green coachedthe recipes that are altitude fnendly. Lumpur, he was placedin the state to incorporatereading, wntingand MA. She also volunteersas a Job boys'and girls' cross-country teams She bumped into BeccaPava '11 in of Johor, where he's a teacher's critical thinking into the classroom coordinatorwith the Greater Boston at Mo1aveto fourth placein d1vis1on the anatomy and zoology building assistantfor a pnmanly Chinese Shehves only twohours away from Chapter of the Amencan Societyof and 10th in regionals.He's now recently-Becca1s at CSUfor secondaryschool. the orphanage where she internedfor Training and Development head distance coach for track and vetschool! Dan Seehausen livesin Laos the past twosummers thanksto CHS Megan Reback worksas the field and continues teaching the Anakena Paddon was working and worksfor an environmental and OVCS, Asayo's WishFoundation, assistantto the publisher at Quartz SEC (severe emotionallychallenged on a one-yearmaster's program developmentfirm on a proJectthat the placethat capturedher heart. and The Atlantic. She worksdirectly students) room through the Teach in contemporary artat Christie's usescombustion from 100% human Alex Hsu tutors kids ranging under Jay Lauf '86. She hvesm for Amenca program in Las Vegas. Education, in London, England. waste to produceelectricrty i While from middle schoolto high school in Brooklyn with Eva Jablow and He is also enrolledin the Masters She returnedto CC twice(in Oct the proJectmay seemoff-putting, it's Washington, DC.The group tutoring Annie Anderson. of Education in SpecialEducation and March) to attend the board of actually veryexciting, and they sessionscover all schoolsubJects, Catherine Lawton and Jacqui program at the U. of Nevada-las trusteesconferences and are oplim1st1c regardingthe and Alexprovides his help and Durand werethnlled to meetfellow Vegas. looks forward to attending economicreturns. supportwherever needed. CamelWill Clark '79 in ParkCity, Alex Owen livesin NewOrleans, Commencement2013. Caith McKee lives in Munich, Amy Hannum held a solo show UT, and appreciatedhim shanng his workmgat the Greater NewOrleans Ali McPherson was acceptedinto Germany, and worksfor a start-up at the PigeonHole Gallery in New knowledgeof the local mountains FairHousing Centerpreventing the Yale Schoolof MedicinePhys1c1an company. London, CT, last fall and was awarded and city. housing discnmination. He also AssociateProgram and starts m Aug. Catherine Monahan spent a scholarshipto attend the Seventh Rachel Buonaiuto worksat a playsmusic, leading his ownNew Jazmin Long movedto Cleveland, last summer teaching drawing and InternationalEncaust1c Conference global educationcompany in Boston Orleansjazz band and playing with OH, last Aug. to attend the Mandel painting, studio artand ceramicsat in Provincetown,MA, in June. Three calledEF Education First other bands. Schoolof AppliedSocial Sciences at NorthfieldMount Hermon Summer of Amy's workswere selected for the Erik Karwatowski, Sam Mauck Alli Arrigoni worksat twolabs CaseWestern ReserveU. This summer, Session.She lives in NewHaven, CT, Cottonuhibilion at FountainStreet and David Ma livetogether in a and took the MCATin April, after she's working for a foreign exchange servingas a public ally withPublic Fine Art Galleryin Framingham, MA, satelliteAbbey House in Brooklyn,NY. which she celebratedwith a tnp to company, Academic Yearin Amenca. AlliesConnecticut and workingas m Jan. and severalpieces from her Brannen Liang worksas a lab Disneyland. in Stamford, Cl Shespent a weekin the coordinatorof communications "Migration· seneswere exh1b1ted technicianat U. of ConnecticutHealth Anne Kearney 1s in her first year Poznan,Poland, taking coursesat at SquashHaven, an afterschool at the ChelseaGroton Bankin Centerin Farmington,CT. He co as an MS candidateat ColoradoState their school of social work. program that combinesacademic NewLondon. authoreda secondmanuscript to be publishedm Blood, the journalof the American Societyof Hematology,with his research contnbutions on CD-13, a moleculewith potential beneficiary effectsdunng myocardial infarction. On the weekends,he visits Camels in NYC and Boston to help with his "post-grad depression• Brendan Heussler worksfor a federalcontracting firm, developing software for the Departmentof Defense. In a CHS miracle, Jon Markson landeda Job at the Gallery Recording Studioin Brooklyn, NY, wherehe'd previouslyinterned. He's beenbeefing up his portfolio of clientele and workingon his own music, including tounng overseasfor twomonths with the band SuchGold in Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., Australia and Japan! After restingup in Austin, TX, withfellow alums from Shakethe Baron, Jon headedback to the East Coas�with plans to visit CC. Olivia Za11ara1s back in Vienna, Austria, whereher family lives.Last Sept,she startedgrad schoolin internationalbusiness and loves 1t so far William Tarimo 1s at Brandeis U , laking on a Ph.D m GraceAstrove '10, Juha Hamett Lenzi 'IO and Alicia Cauterucc10'12 traveledto Martha'sVineyard last summer. Theywill return again this summer for their computer science. secondannual Camelreunion weekend 62 CC CONNECTICUT COLLCGC MACAZlNt SUMMU 2013 ob1tuarie J: Your classmates would love to hear To submit your news to CC: Magazine, photos must be at least 300 dpi and 4x6 u from you. The fastest way to share send notes and digital photos to your inches. You may also mail prints to us at :::::> your news is through the Alumni Online class correspondent. If no correspondent the address below. 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Women's Boardof the Youngstown OBITUARIES Bank& Trust and servedon Wilton's 26. A history and government Phyllis Elizabeth Walters Hospital, Ohio GenealogicalSociety Emma Howe Waddington '38 planning and zoning commIssIon. double major,Harriet wenton to Williams '41 of St.Petersburg, Fla , and NilesH1stoncal Society Shewas diedMarch 5. No further details were Margaret was predeceasedby her receiveher master's degreeand diedSepl 21. An English major, precededm death by her husband, available at the time of this pnnting husband, Daniel C. French. and her teaching certificationfrom the U. Phyllis servedas secretaryof the William B. Jones.Margaretta Is Eunice Morse Benedict '38 cousin,Neltje S VanDeVelde'39. She of ConnecticutShe served on the board for All Children'sHospital su1V1vedby a son; threedaughters; diedSepl 25. No furtherdetails were Is sulVlvedby her son.two daughters board of directorsfor the Connecticut m St.Petersburg, Fla. Shewas on a sister; six grandchildren; and six available at the time of thispnntmg. and granddaughter. Education Association and was the board of the SouthPinellas Red great-grandchildren Frances Henretta Whiting '38 Helena Jenks Rafferty'39 P'63 presidentof the Old Saybrook Crossand a founding memberand Olive Mauthe Stone '42 P'70 diedJuly 27. No further details were '65 ofHartford, Conn., died Jan. 28. A Education Association.Hamel was presidentof the StuartSociety at the of Poland,Oh10, diedDec. 25. A available at the lime of this pnnting. zoologymajor, Helena volunteeredfor predeceasedby her husband, James Museum of Fine Arts.Phyllis was dedicatedvolunteer, Olive servedas Elizabeth Butler Close '39 of the Collegeas classagent Sheearned R. Stram. SheIs survivedby her predeceasedby her first and second presidentof the Women's Board for Dallas, Texas,died Feb. 1 A French her master's degreem teaching from daughter, granddaughters and great- husbands, W.Henry Stoverand John the YoungstownHospital Associalion. major, Bettyand her husband, Walter, Central Connecticut State Collegeand grandchildren. H. 'Jack" Williams, respective�. Shewas an active member of the residedfor many yearsm Scarsdale, taught elementary schoolfor nearly Margaret Schultz Marr '40 Sheis su1V1vedby her children, Village Club. Garden Club and New N.Y. An activevolunteer, Betty worked twodecades. An activevolunteer, of Duxbury, Mass.,died Jan. 5. A stepchildren, grandchildren and CenturyClub. A Hispanic studies withmany community organizations, she held severalleadership roles psychologymajor, Margaret worked step-grandchildren. major, Oliveen1oyed traveling and including the Junior League of m her church. including seMng as a readingspecialist for Duxbury Anne Bates Dorman Atherton spending timewith her family. She Scarsdale, Scarsdale Women's Club, as deaconnessand on themusic public schools for many years. '42 of Old Saybrook,Conn., died was predeceasedby her parents GreeflVllleCommunity Churchand committee.Helena was predeceased Shewas an active volunteerm Ocl 14. A psychologyand zoology and brother. OliveIs survivedby White PlainsHospital. Sheand Walter by her husband, AllenH. Rafferty,and severallocal schools.Margaret was double major, Anne workedfor many her husband, JohnH. Stone; three spent50 happy yearstogether before fivesiblings. Sheis sulVlvedby four predeceasedby her husband, ColinD. yearsat an art magazine basedm daughters, including Deborah Stone his death. Bettywas predeceased children, including PeggyRafferty Marr, and a brother. She is survived Centerbrook,Conn. She enjoyed Mager '70; six grandchildren; and by her daughter Valerie and is Reduker'63 and SusanRafferty by her sister; twodaughters and tennis, walking on the beach and four great-grandchildren. sulVlvedby twodaughters and six Williams '65; nine grandchildren; and sons-in-law; eight grandchildren; and attending church seMces.She was Carol Metcalf Hole '42 of grandchildren. 10 great-grandchildren. 15 great-grandchildren predeceasedby her sister, Alice VineyardHaven, Mass , diedJan. 16. MaryChapman Watts '39 Evelyn Braunwarth McKinley '40 Margaret Lafore Wyatt '41 of DormanWebster '36; son Timothy; Carolwas an activemember of the diedJune 22. No furtherdetails of Petersborough,N H , diedOct 14. PortolaValley, Calif., died Nov 4. An and husband. AlbertC. Atherton. l>NascoCountry Club. In add1bon to wereavailable at the timeof Aneconomics major, Evelyn,known as English major, Pegworked for the Anne is survivedby her daughter; volunteering.she enjoyedplaying this pnntmg. Browme, earneda bachelor's degree Collegeas a classagenl Her hobbies son, eight grandchildren; two golf and tennis. SheIs survivedby Janet Jones Diehl '39 of m politicalscience from the U. of includedtraveling, going to the beach great-grandchildren; and niecesand her threesons. nme grandchildren Skaneateles.N.Y., died Jan. 9. An Pittsburgh A dedicatedmember of her and enjoying the OregonShakespeare nephews. and 15 great-grandchildren. Carol's economicsmajor, Janet volunteered community, she held electedoffices Festival.She was predeceasedby JoanHadley Ewaka '42 of New husband, LegareRomig Hole, for the Collegeas a classagent m the League of Women Votersand her first and secondhusbands, Allan Castle.Oel., died Dec. 30, 2011*. predeceasedher. and classcorrespondent She AAUW,as wellas the PTAand Fnends Moltzenand ReverendJack Wyatt, A child developmentmajor, Joan, Billy Mitchell Young '42 taught Hp readingfor more than 12 of the Library.Brownie's hobbies respectively.Margaret Is suMvedby known as Virginia, attendedSleeper's ofHickory, Pa.,died Sepl21 A years.Throughout retiremenL Janet mcludedpainting, pol1l1csand sailing. four sons. BusinessCollege. She enjoyed chemistry major, Billy workedfor volunteeredat many organizations, Shewas predeceasedby her husband, Doris Porter Smith '41 of singing and volunteering.She was SunOil for many years She was including the C.A.R.E. Animal Shelter Robert, and is sulVlvedby three West Lebanon, NH., diedDec. 24 predeceasedby her husband, Michael predeceasedby her husband, James and the SouthBay Hosprtal. She daughters. four granddaughters and Alter her time at the College,Dons Ewaka,a son and a grandson. DonaldYoung. Billy Is sulVIVedby her was predeceasedby her husband, fivegreat-grandchildren. workedat SmithAuto Sales,a family Virginia Is survivedby twochildren, daughter, twosons and respective GeneDiehl, and twosiblings. Janet Shirley Rice Pallucchini '40 of business.She was a skilledgolfer sevengrandchildren and 12 great- wives;SIX grandchildren; and niece. IS sulVlvedby twochildren. five Honolulu.Hawa11, diedMarch 5. She and avid watercolor artist.She grandchildren. Sarah Turner McKelvey '42 of grandchildren. SIX great-grandchildren was predeceasedby her husband, was predeceasedby her husband, MargarettaHosack Jones '42 Youngstown, Ohio. passedaway Jan. and a goddaughter ManoHugo Pallucch1ni.No further KennethSmith, a sister and brother. of Annapolis.Ohio. diedFeb. 16. A 18. A French major, Sarahwas an aVJd Margaret Weston French '39 details wereavailable at the bme of DonsIs survivedby a sister; two mathemabcsmajor, Mamy was an volunteer,se1V1ng on the boards of of Wilton, Conn, diedSept 18.A this pnnting. sons; threegrandchildren; three activemember m many local cIV1c Youngstown Societyfor the Blind and CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 63 Disabled,the Monday Musical Club, Hildegard Meili Van Deusen Williamsporl,Pa., died Ocl 12. An m NewYork City for many years. A Hispanic studiesmaJor, Mary CampFire Girlsof America, ParkVista '43 of wayne,NJ, diedMarch 6. economicsmajor, Joan workedin Norma Is survivedby her cousins and earneda master's degreeat the U. and the PinkRibbon Tea Committee An English major, she graduatedPhi retail at G Fox and Brozman's. She godchild. of Virginia. Mary was predeceased of the Junior League. Sarahenjoyed BetaKappa. Hildy ledan involved servedon the board of directorsof Mary Maynard Roberts'45 of by her husband, PaulV Purkrabek, reading, travelingand playing bridge. careerin journalism,serving as a the WilliamsportHome. Her hobbies Bloomfield Hills, Mich., diedNov. and brother Maryis survivedby Shewas predeceasedby her husband, researcher for Life magazine, wnter includedstorytelling, baking and 14. A history major, Mary enjoyed her four daughters; twosons; four William B. McKelvey;a son; a brother; for the Journalof MedicalEconomics knitting. Joan was predeceasedby spending time withfamily and sons-in-law;two daughters-in-law; and sister-in-law, L Margaret and editorof The Forum, a magazine a daughter and sister In addition to fnends, as wellas cheenngon the 17 grandchildren; five great McKelveyAnderson '36. Sarahis of Al-Anon. Shealso collaboratedwith her husband, Jack V McKee,she is DetroitTigers. She was predeceased grandchildren; and many niecesand survivedby her brother; sister, Helen the Dukeof Windsor on his memoir, "A surv1vedby a daughter, grandchildren by her husband, William £. Roberts, nephews GrayceMcNe1sh '46; sevenchildren; King's Story.· Hildy enjoyed golfing, and great-grandchildren. and is survivedby four children and Lynette Ronci Kohn '47 of 21 grandchildren; and many nieces photography and internationaltravel Elizabeth Monroe Stanton '44 of their spouses;SIX grandchildren; and Stuart,Ra , diedDec. 9. An education and nephews. Sheserved on the College'sAlumni Hamilton, Mass., died Aug. 5. Dunng threegreat-grandchildren. major, Lynette dedicatedher time to Ann Whitmore Carter '42 Board,was a class agent. helped her time at the College,Betty studied Charlotte Service Church '45 her fami� and to the Catholicfaith. of Millsboro, Del.,died Feb. 5. plan Reunions and servedas class English. Shewent on to earnher of Pensacola,Ra., diedMarch 18. SheIs surv1vedby her husband, Ann graduatedas a history and president. Her extraordinaryservice teaching certificate from Bridgewater An economicsand sociologydouble Edmund R. Kohn;daughter; twosons; governmentdouble major. She to the Collegeearned her the 2013 State U. and taught at the R1verv1ew major, Charlotte was a memberof the and fivegrandchildren. mamednaval officerWilliam A Alumni Tnbute Award, which was School.Betty was instrumental in Historical Societyof Early Amencan Jacquelin Fihn Isaac '48 of Carterand settledin Millsboro awardedposthumously at Reunion founding Bradford Books,a nationally Decoration,the Avon Historical St.Columbus, Oh10, diedMarch to raise their children. Ann was 2013. Hildegardis surv1vedby her acclaimedpublishing company that Societyand the Garden Club of Avon. 16. Ounng her timeat the College, predeceasedby her husband. She husband; her daughter; twosiblings, was later acquiredby MIT Press.A She servedas the deaconessof Avon Jackie studiedFrench. Jackie was is surv1vedby her daughter; son including sister KathenneMeih literature enthusiast, Bettyworked CongregationalChurch for several predeceasedby her husband, Arthur in-law; son; six grandchildren, two Anderton '40; threestepdaughters; as a senior acquIsrlions editorfor years.She was predeceasedby her J. Isaac,and daughter. She is surv1ved step-grandchildren; and two great eight grandchildren; and twogreat Bradford BooWMITPress for many husband, Hollis F.Church, and two by threechildren and their families. grandchildren grandchildren. years,as wellas servedas a trustee sons. SheIs survivedby her daughter; Joan Dimmitt Whittington Alice Dimock'43 of NewLondon, Jean Wallace Douglas '43 P'75 of the Ipswich Public Libraryof threegrandchildren; and twogreat '48 GP'06 '11 of ChevyChase, Conn., diedMarch 30. A German of washington, D.C., diedSept 23, Ipswich,Mass., and of the Hamilton grandchildren; nieceMarguente £. Md., diedSepl 19 An economics major, Alice earnedher bachelor's 2011.* An artmajor, Jean worked Wenham Public Library. In addIt1on Gehlmeyer'84; and sister-in-law, major, Joan receivedher master's degreein comparative religion from briefly with the Office of Strategic to volunteering,Betty enjo�ng BeverlyChurch Gehlmeyer'53 P'84. degreefrom the U of Maryland, BarnardCollege. She worked as a Serv1ces.Daughter of Henry A. gardening, sailing,local government Joanne Viall Davis '45 P'72 CollegePark. She volunteered social workerin NewYork and wasa wanace,secretary of agnculture and and whitewaterrafting. She was G'06 'OB of Essex,Conn., died for the Collegeas a classagent. member of the DenisonPequotsepos vice presidentfor Franklin Roosevelt. predeceasedby her husband, Henry Dec.6. A fine artsmajor, Joanne alumni adm1ss1onsrepresentative Nature Center.Alice enjoyedreading, Jean was known for her pIoneenng B. Stanton BettyIs surv1vedby her volunteeredas a classagent She and Reunion committeemember. studying foreign languages and supportof conservation,farmland four children. was predeceasedby her husbands, Joan was predeceasedby her first traveling.She is survivedby her protectionand farmer's markets. She Helen Rippey Simpson '44 of John T. Monzani and F.Kelso husband, Edward Williams lewis, sister, twonieces and threenephews servedon the boardsof American Stamford, Conn.,died Jan. 4. An Davis, respectively,as wellas two Jr., and stepson. SheIs surv1ved Anne Godchaux Polack '43 FarmlandTrust, AccokeekFoundation, English major, Helen was a member daughters. Sheis survivedby two by her husband, Richard M. of BatonRouge, La., diedJan. 4. A Audubon and the Conservation of the board of trusteesfor the daughters, including SusanMonzani Wluttington, M.D.; daughter; son; French major, Anne volunteeredfor Fund. In 2003, Jeanwas awarded BrunswickSchool. She worked for the Johnson '72 P'06 '08; twosisters; threestepdaughters; one stepson; the Collegeas a classagent Anne the CollegeMedal. In recognitionof College as a classagent A dedicated and SIX grandchildren, including threegrandchildren; and four was a dedicatedvolunteer, serv1ng m her lovefor gardening and natural ph1lanthrop1sl Helen was awarded Merrill A. Swig'06 and John A. step-grandchildren, including Sarah leadershipposilions such as service resources,she receivedthe Garden the Clara BartonAward m 1990 for Swig'08. A. Whittington '06 and Daniel J directorfor the CancerServ1ces of Club of Amenca's highestaward m her leadershipwithin the RedCross Ceres Gieger Henkel '46 of Whittington'11. Greater Baton Rouge. In addition to 2004. Jean was predeceasedby her Army. Shewas predeceasedby her Fairbury,Neb., diedJuly 16. An Joan Williams Sokoloff'48 volunteenng,Anne enjoyedbooks and husband, W LeslieDouglas. She Is husband, GeorgeH. Simpson,Esq., economicsmajor, Cereswas activem of Greenwich,Conn., died Oct 8. crosswordpuzzles SheIs survivedby surv1vedby her son,two daughters, and sister, SusanRippey Polleys dorm council, chmr and volunteenng. An artmajor, Joan was a warm, her husband, JosephA. Polac�two including Ann W. Cornell'75; and SIX '47 Helen Is surv1vedby threesons, She was predeceasedby her husband, compassionate,good-humored, children; a daughter-in-law; a son grandchildren fivegrandchildren and a great Clarence£. Henkel, and cousin, adventurous and kind person. She in-law; threegrandchildren; and two Alyce Watson McAllister '43 granddaughter. Margaret Lynn Hiatt '46. She Is Is surv1vedby her husband, Bons great-grandchildren. of Carlsbad,Calif., died Sepl I. A Lois Webster Ricklin '44 survivedby her sister, children, mece, Sokoloff,Jr.; twochildren; and three Mary Ann Knotts Walsh '43 mathematicsmajor, Alyceserved on GP'Ol of Bnstol, RI.. diedOct. nephewand grandchildren. grandchildren. of Denton,Md., diedSept 16. the board of directorsof PalosVerdes 28. A chemistrymajor, Lois worked Jean Putnam Daily '46 of Desert Phyllis Peters Bellah '49 of A psychologymajor, MaryAnn Golf Club. An avid golfer, she wonthe as a chemist at Metal & Therm1t Hot Spnngs,Calif., died Nov 7 A Norfolk,Va , diedMarch 15. An was a superv1sorfor foster care Women's Club Golf Championship Corporation, a researchassistant m historymajor, Jeanwas the first economicsmaJor, Ph�lisworked as and adoptions for the Maryland fivetimes. She was predeceasedby ornamentalhorticulture at Rutgers womanelected to a park district and a realtor for over30 yearsand was Departmentof SocialServ1ces. She her husband, Bil�. and Is surv1ved U. and as a lectureassistant at state commIssIonin the state of Ill a memberof the Hampton Roads was passionateabout h1stoncal by her sons, daughters-in-law and Brown U. Lois workedfor the College She continuedher leadership m Calif., Realtors' AssociationCircle of preservalionand recordedher grandchildren. as a class president,class agent whereshe servedas presidentof Excellence. Shewas an avid member personalexpenences from limes of Frances Yeames Prickitt '43 of and Reunion chair Lois Is survived the SandpiperOwners Assoc1a!lon m of the ChryslerMuseum of Art, war in her memoir, "Golden Days Middlebury, Vl, diedOcl 9. Frances by her husband, SaulRicklin; three PalmDesert and a docent at the Los the Episcopal Church of the Good and Gentle ways My World from the servedas a memberof the jud1c1ary sons; a daughter; grandchildren, AngelesZoo. Jean's passionsincluded Shepherdand the Algonquin Garden Wooden PorchSwmg, 1922-1939." board as an undergraduate and later including Ruby Wells 'O I; and great photography, traveling and spending Club. Ph�liswas predeceasedby Her husband, Lt Commander as a classagent. Sheworked for grandchildren. time with fnends and family She her husband, CaptainJames Bellah, Quentin Robertwalsh, predeceased Middlebury Collegeas a secretary Norma Foley'45 of Newtown Is survivedby her husband, Robert USNRel SheIs surv1vedby a sister, her. Mary Ann Is surv1vedby her Frances was predeceasedby her Square,Pa ,died June I. An English Fisher Daily; children; grandchildren; threesons, daughter and three sister; twobrothers; threechildren, husband, HenryB. Pnck1tlShe is major who enjoyedthe theater, Norma and great-grandchildren grandchildren. four grandchildren; and 10 great surv1vedby her sonand daughter. was a pIoneenng businesswoman Mary Ellen O'Brien Purkrabek Elizabeth Dangler Taylor '50 grandch1ldren. Joan Decker McKee '44 of who workedas an office manager '46 of Monroe, Ohio, died Jan16. of FairportHarbor, Ohio, diedMarch 64 CC CONNECT1CUT COlUGC MAGA.llNC SUMMUI 20l3 - d obit anes 12. A psychologymaior, Bettywas an activeph1lanthrop1st who volunteered withEuclid Hospital for over25 years.She en1oyed playing cards. She was predeceasedby her parents, daughter, brother and two sisters. Betty 1s survwedby a daughter, son, Linda Herr brother, cousin, fivegrandchildren 1940-2012 and twogreat-grandchildren. Jeanne Dixon Papy '50 of Savannah,Ga., died Dec. 31. Jeanne attendedConnecticut College and the LINDA HERR, a profes or emeriru of U of Georgia Sheworked as a real theater who cran formedrhe ollege' estatebroker for over40 years.She rhearer program inro a fullacademic studiedphotography and published deparrmenr and major, died Dec. 23, her workin numerous galleries acrossthe country and world She 2012, in Easr Lyme, onn. he was 72. was predeceased by her husband A Jan. 1 9 memorial service in rhe and a son. Jeanne 1s sulVivedby ollege's Palmer Audirorium honored twosons; a sister; a sister-in-law; Herr' dedi arion ro the ollege and threegrandchildren; and twogreat grandchildren. accompli hmenrs as an acrre , direcror Virginia Dravis Ellison '50 of and cholar. Mary Fo ter onklin '79 rold FederalWay, Wash., diedNov. 20. rhe crowd,"Thi room i alive wirh Linda An aV1d volunteer, Virginiawas an and alway will be." activemember of her surrounding community Shewas a memberof the Herr was in rrumenral in rhe opening lacomaGarden Club, lacomaCountry of the ollege' Ta n ill Theater, where he & GollClub and lacomaOrthopedic direcred Academy Award-winning acrres Assoc1abon.She was predeceasedby her husband, RobertE. Ellison,and Estelle Par on '49 in "Medea." Herr al o direcred producrion of"The Wairing Room," a daughter. Virginia is survwedby by Lisa Loomer; " uddenly Last ummer," by Tennes ee Williams; and "Love of rhe a daughter, brother-in-lawand two ighringale," by Timberlake Wertenbaker. granddaughters. Robley Evan , profe or emeritu of Engli h, recalled how "Linda pulled a coup d'erar Barbara Mehis Lee '50 of Vero Beach,Ra., diedFeb. 19. Anart maior, by building a rhearer departmenr our of norhing. Her impacr helped propel rhis college Barbarawas an rntenor decorator inro a much broader, more complex insriturion." for over50 years.She was an active As an acrre s, she immer ed her elf in her role - and rhen drew fromher experience volunteer,seMng the Collegeas a ro help srudenrs bring rheir own pas ion ro the cage. Among orher role , Herr was casr classagent and regularlydedicating her lime to the AmencanCancer as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth," Maggie in" at on a HotTin Roof,'' Martha in "Who' Societyand Ga�ordHospital. Barbara Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and Amanda in "Private Live ." waspredeceased by her husband, Herr' former srudenr noted her extraordinary kill and talenr ro recognize their Robert T. Lee,and a granddaughter. di tinctive abilitie . As ociate Profes or ofTheater David Jaffe '77, now chair of the cheater She1s suMvedby her threechildren, eight grandchildren, and sister, department, aid, "My very fir t acting clas in 1976 was taught by Linda Herr. Ir was a MaureenMehis Kiernan'60. rurning poinr for me. In 1989, he invired me ro come here and reach, and I've been doing Elsie Miller Palmer '50 of ir ever since." Sudbury,Mass., died Sept 17. A child Robert Richter '82, direcror of arr programming ar the ollege, aid Herr was developmentmaJor, Elsie and her late husband, RussellC. Palmer,spent in trumenral in crearing multiralenred arrisr- cholar . "We are all pare of her legacy of a life many yearsin Hartford, Conn.,where well-lived," he aid. she was a member of the Junior Former rudenr al o po red to an online gue rbook in the local newspaper, prai ing her league, Townand CountryClub and GolfClub. SheenJoyed bowling and acting, direcring and reaching kill . was a perennialchampion. Elsie 1s "I rook a drama cla from Linda Herr my first eme rer at onnecticur ollege, and it survivedby a sister, fivechildren, changed my life - for the berrer!" wrore imon 'Rourke '92. 11 grandchildren and twogreat Herr' service ro rhe ollege wenr well beyond rhearer. In addirion ro erving as chair of grandchildren. MaryPorter Walsh '50 of rhe rhearer department for mo r of her renure, Herr wa dean of academic programs from Oklahoma City, Okla , diedDec. 22. An 1997-2000; erved as chair of rhe Planning, Prioririe and Budget commirree from 1987- English ma1or, Mary and her husband, 1988; and was chair of the Fa ulry reering and onference ommicce from 1983-1985. LawrenceEd Walsh, traveledto Pans he was al o acring direcror of the gender and women' cudies deparrment in 1996 and for the PansPeace Talks and livedin N Y. for many yearsbefore returning acting o-chair of rhe dance deparrmenr in fall of 1993. Afrer 33 year of teaching ar the to Okla. Mary1s survivedby her ollege, he rerired in 2009. husband, threechildren and three grandchildren CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 65 Anne Russillo Griffin '50 of for many yearsand enjoyedgolf, volunteer,dedicating her time to Children's Hospital and the Junior Lynn Millen Simon '57 of Norfolk, Va., diedMarch 18. A bndge and dogs. She Is suMvedby organizations such as UnitedWay League. She was predeceasedby her Middlebury, 1',onn.,died Feb. 13. Lynn governmentmajor, Anne served her husband, James M. Hutchinson, and the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. She husband, l',olbornM. Addison, and was a memberof the Temple B'Na1 the l',ollegeas a classagent and twosiblings; fivechildren; and 12 alsoserved as a Reunion committee Is suMvedby her brother; twosons; Israel of Southbury and participated classcorrespondent She spent her grandchildren, including Brian J. member.Dorothy was predeceasedby daughter; five grandchildren; and in the Sisterhoodof the Temple. Lynn life volunteenngfor philanthropic Hutchinson '03. her lifetime companion, a sister and extendedfamily was also a memberof Hadassahand orgamza!lons, including Meals on Charlotte Chapple Bennett '51 twonephews. Nancy Brown Hart'55 of the 1',ountryClub of Waterbury.She Wheelsand Birthnght of Norfolk. P'Bl of Verona, Pa.,died March 13. Shirley Sly Kreitler '52 of Haddam Neck,1',onn., died Dec. 10. is suMvedby her husband, Aaron Anne enjoyedSW1mming, "Wheel Charlotte, knownas Charde, worked WestChester, Pa.,died Feb. 24.An A chemistry major, Nancyearned her Emanuel Simon,and threechildren. of Fortune"and crosswordpuzzles as a reading specialistat the U. of economicsmajor, Shirleyvolunteered ACScertification from the l',ollege Patricia Hermes '58 of Shewas a dedicatedmember of the Pittsburgh.She was predeceased for the l',ollege'sadm1ss1on office beforecompleting a master's degree Woodbury, 1',onn., diedJan. 9. A SacredHeart Catholic Church.Anne by her sister, CarolynChapple Reed and the Amencan Associationof from WesleyanU. She was an active botany major, Patriciaworked for waspredeceased by her husband, '54 Charde Is survivedby her Uniwrs1ty Women. She workedat the volunteerfor the l',ollege,seMng Time Inc. for threedecades. She JamesW. Gnffin, and a daughter.She husband, David PatersonBennett, SummitTrust (',ompanyand enjoyed as a Reunion committeemember, servedon the planning and zoning Is survivedby her threedaughters; Jr.; four children, including Rebecca summers at the lake and pla�ng classcorrespondent and alumni commIssIon of Roxbury, 1',onn. fiw sons; twosiblings, including L Bennett'81, nine grandchildren; tennis. ShirleyIs suMVedby her ambassador.She taught high school SuMvorsinclude a sister; brother; sister Julie Russ11loHathaway '52, and a sister. husband, PaulC. Kreitler; brother; and middle school sciencefor more nephew,niece; great-nephews; and 23 grandchildren; and SIX great A. Vaughan Groner Spilsbury threedaughters; fiw grandchildren; than two decades.Her hobbies extendedfamily and friends. grandch1ldren. '51 of Huntington, NY., diedJuly 2. and one great-grandchild. includedskiing, gardening, volunteer Audrey Bateman Georges '58 Elizabeth Steane Curl '50 of A governmentmajor, Vaughan was an Beverly Weber Raynor '52 work,and artsand crafts. Shewas P'B3 of ChevyChase, Md., passed Hilton Head, SC., diedNov. 12. A activemember in student government of Bedfortl,N.H., diedJuly 2. A predeceasedby her parents, including away March 6. An English major, history major, £1izabeth workedas and chorus. Sheearned her master's governmentmajor, Beverlyserved as LouisaRhodes Brown '32 P'55; and Audreyhad a longtime interest m a genealogist. An avid volunteer, degreein internationalrelations a class agent and class presidentA her husband, RobertW. Hart.Nancy Is dancing, theater and public speaking. she worked closelywith the Toledo from Tufts U. and volunteeredfor the dedicatedmother and enthusiastic survl'ledby threechildren and eight Sheworked for many yearsas an Museumof Art to exposelocal l',ollegeas a class agent. Vaughan Boston sportsfan, Bevertyactively grandchildren. administrativelaboratory manager schoolchildren to art.Elizabeth was predeceasedby her husband, workedwith the League of Women Elinor Burman Herman '56 of and a pubhc speaking coach at a enjoyed reading, traveling and Walter G. Spilsbury.She Is survivedby Voters and her church. Shewas PearlRiver, N.Y., diedApril 28. Elinor, local high school. Audreyvolunteered golfing. SheIs survivedby her her children. predeceasedby her husband, a zoologymajor, was a founding for the l',ollegeas classagent and husband; sisters,including Frances Rosemary Dunne Kelly '52 Reginald,and Is survivedby her son, memberof BethAm Temple and an classpresident She Is survivedby SteaneBaldwin '55 P'82; children; of Phoenix. Ariz., diedSept 28. A daughter, SIX grandchildren, and aVld supporter of the Humane Society. her daughter; twosons, including grandchildren, and nephewsand French major, Rosemary, or Pos1e, severalnieces and nephews. Shewas predeceasedby her husband, Christopher Georges'83; daughter nieces,including SusanBaldwin was an activemember of the MarthaLogan Atkinson '53 E. PhilipHerman. Sheis survl'led in-law, SarahGoldstein '82; five Kietzman'82. Sedona,Anz., community. Shewas of Norwich,1',onn., died Nov t 0. A by her sister, daughter, son and grandchildren; and partnerJohn S. Marilyn Goldthwait '51 of a dedicatedmember of St. John music major, Marthawas a piano granddaughter. Friedhoff. Winchester,Mass , diedDec. 5 VianneyCatholic Church, where teacher for 40 years.Her passion Nancy Sutermeister Heubach Barbara Jenks Harris '58 died Manlyn, a psychologymajor, worked she servedas a bereavementgroup for music ledher to positions '56 of PaloAlto, Calif.,died Dec. 30. Sepl 13. No further details were as an administrativeassistant facilitator. Pos1eis suMvedby her including choir director,music A physicsma1or, Nancyserved the available at the lime of this printing. at Boston U. and as a directorof husband, William Kelly;six children; director,pianist. organist and choir l',ollegeas an alumni board director. Mary Dawes Armknecht '60 publications at Massachusetts Bay nine grandchildren; and twogreat accompanist Shewas predeceased Shewent on to workas a scientific of Scottsdale,Ariz., died Nov. 25. 1',ommunityl',ollege. She enjoyed grandchildren. She was precededin by her son and daughter-in-law. computer programmer for the A zoologymajor, Maryearned a gardening. Manlyn was predeceased death by her first husband, Richard She is survivedby her life partner, Stanford ResearchInstitute, where master's degreeat Babson l',ollege. byher sister and is suMvedby Henry Carson DeborahI.yon; children; a brother; she met her husband, Henry. Later, Ownerof MaryArmknecht's Gardens, a brother. Shirley Kline Wittpenn '52 P'74 and grandchildren. Nancyrejoined the workforceas a Mary enjoyedgardening and seMng Renate Aschaffenburg of Vero Beach,Fla , diedFeb. 7 Ruth Nissen Schmidt '53 of copyeditorfor the CaliforniaSociety as a national horticulturejudge Christensen '51 P'87 of Holliston, Dunng her threeyears at the l',ollege, Oconomowoc,Wis., diedMarch 20. of CPAs.An actiw member of her for the GardenClub of America. Mass.. diedNov. 30. A mathemabcs Shirleystudied English Sheserved An English major, Ruth, knownas community, Nancyenjoyed sk11ng, Maryvolunteered extensive� for major, Rennie servedthe l',ollege as president of the North Jersey M1m1, was an activemember of the bicycling,traveling and reading. She the l',ollege,including servingas as a classcorrespondent. class 1',onnecticutl',ollege Alumni Club, Glen Good Shephertl UnitedMethodist Is suMvedby her husband, daughter, classpresident. She Is suMVedby treasurerand classagent for many Ridge DrugAwareness 1',omm1tteeand Church, UnitedMethodist Women and granddaughters and brother. her husband; sister; twobrothers; years.An innovativebusinesswoman, Friends of Matheny School.Shirley Church Women United.As a member Bernelle Curtis Millan'57 of daughter; son; twograndchildren; she helpedestablish EN-R-GY Saver, was a co-founderof a GirlScout Troop of UnitedMethodist Women, she Simsbury,1',onn., died Nov. 29. A 19 niecesand nephews;and two Inc., withher husband, RobertN in Newark.NJ. Shevolunteered for servedas secretary,vice president SOCIOiogymajor, Bernelle,or Bunny, cousins,£1izabeth Foss '67 and Anne Christensen,who predeceased her. the l',ollegeas class correspondent, and presidentof the Oconomowoc traveledextensrvely throughout the £1izabethAlexander Lathrop '63. Rennie's many passions included class agent and classvice president and MilwaukeeDistrict M1m1 is worldwith her husband, Raymond Joanne Short Forman '60 of singing, cheenngon the RedSox. Sheis suMvedby her husband, Jack suMVedby her husband, Robert "Tito" Millan. A devotedvolunteer, Providence,R.I., diedMarch 25. A knitting and crocheting.Rennie Is Wittpenn;two daughters, including "Bob"Schmidt; a daughter; twosons; Bunny initiatedand chairedthe sociologymajor, Joanne earnedher survivedby her children, including SusanH. Ott '74; twosons; and seven and her granddaughter. first Festivalof Treesat the Everson master's degreein educationat Linda ChnstensenWnght '87; seven grandchildren Emilie Camp Stouffer '54 of Museumof Artm 9/racuse,N.Y. RhodeIsland l',ollege.Joanne was grandchildren, and her sister, Edith Dorothy M. Shaw '52 of Quaker Estero, Fla., diedSept 5. A zoology Bunny's hobbiesinduded traveling, lhe founder of the annual Sisterhood Aschaffenburg Wilhelm '48. Hill, 1',onn.,died Feb. 10. A history major, Emilie was active in women's downhilland cross-countryskiing, FilmFestival at Temple Beth-El.She Iris Bain Hutchinson '51 GP'03 major, Dorothyearned her master's tennis and SW1mming.She earned and creatingcollages. In addition to was predeceasedby her husband, of BomiaSpnngs, Fla , diedMarch degreein socialwork from the U. of a master's degreefrom 1',ornellU. her husband, Bunny Is survivedby two Roy Forman, and Is survivedby her 9. An economicsmajor, Irisserved 1',onnecllcutShe workedfor the State SuMvorsinclude her children. sonsand daughters-in-law; a daughter; twobrothers, two sons, daughter and the l',ollegeas a class correspondent of 1',onnecbcutin socialservices Sybil Rex Addison '54 of a sister-in-law; fiwgrandchildren; an sevengrandchildren and classagent Shewas activein posIllons for many years,including l',olumbus, Ohio, diedFeb. 26. aunt severalnieces and nephews; Jeanne Hubbell Asher '61 of alumni affairs in Naples, Fla., and seMngas the regional directorof An economicsmajor, Sybil was a and numerous cousins,including Guilford, 1',onn.,died Feb. 19. A music Indianapolis Ins was a successful the Departmentof Children and member of St.Alban's [p1scopal Judith WarnerEdwards '61 Shewas major, Jeanneattended graduate real estateagent in Indianapolis Youth SeMces.Dorothy was an aV1d Church, PleasureGuild of Nationwide predeceasedby abrother. schoolat Teachers College,l',olumbia 66 CC. CONN[CllCUT COUEGC MAGAZINE SUMMER 2013 o ituanes U .. Shewas one of the first teachers Peterborough,N.H., dredJan. 27 A grandchildren; and many nieces CountyDepartment of PublicWorks. Andrea Talbott-Butera '80 of at Head Start Jeanne enjoyedrntenor governmentma1or, Mary, known as and nephews. Sheenjoyed traveling and skiing. Franklin, Mass.,dred Feb. 8. Andrea, decorating.antiques and writing. Duffy. earnedher master's degreern Virginia Dunn '68 of Brooklyn, Cathenneis su!Vlvedby her husband, a child developmentmajor, worked She volunteeredat the Darien Public architecturefrom the U. of Maryland. N.Y., diedApnl 8, 2011.* No further John B. Kane,and sons. as an elementary teacher and as Library and tutoredin NewHaven. Shewas an active member of the details wereavailable at the lime of Joean Taschner Doherty '69 an early educator.for more than 30 Shers suMvedby her husband, Peterboroughcommunity, seMng this pnnting. of Bradenton, Ra., diedOcl 19. years,Andrea workedat vanous early EverettGa�e Asher;three children, on the PeterboroughConseivation Joanna J. Berkman '68 of A French ma1or, Joeanearned her educatroncenters, most recentlyat fivegrandchildren; and twosisters. Comm,ss,onand the Hentage SilverSpnng, Md., dredJan. 6. master's degreein Spanishand the DeanCollege Children's Centerrn She was predeceasedby her Comm,ssron An accomplished A PhrBeta Kappa English ma1or, French from Tufts U. For over30 Franklin. Andrea enjoyed gardening parents, rncludrng Ruth Seanor archrtect,she workedto preserve Joanna earnedher master's degree years,Joean was a French teacher and dancing. Shers survivedby her Hubbell'32 P'61 local historicalsites. Duffy is suMved from Johns Hopkins U An avid and a chair of the language husband, Stephen A. Butera; two Sally Foote Martin '61 of Cape by her brother, threechildren and wnter, she publishedpieces rn The departmentat Acton Boxborough sons;daughter; twobrothers and a Elrzabeth,Marne, dredSept 25. A four grandchildren. WashingtonPost and SanFrancisco RegionalHrgh School.She was a daughter-in-law. magna cum laude English major, Sally Andrea Mallo! Smart'63 of Chronicle, taught wntrng at Haivard memberof EasternMassachusetts Mark S. Podolsky '80 of was a member of Phi BetaKappa, Shelby Township, Mrch., dredSepl U., reviewedmov,es for junedfilm ForeignLanguage Administrators. Wellesley,Mass., dredSepl 23. student governmentassoc,at,on, 23, 2003.* No furtherdetails were festivals,and authoredthe Fodor's Joean is survivedby her husband, Mark, a sociologymajor, founded Schwiffsa capella group and chief available at the time of this pnnling travelguide, "Fun rn Rio.· Joanna's William T. Doherty,and several Financial SolutronsAssociates. He justrceof the honor court Sheserved Carol A. Barbera '66 of Lowell, hobbies includeddancing, speaking cousins. servedon the board of directors the Collegeas a club leader, alumni Mass.,died Feb. 13. An economics Portugueseand reading. She rs Heidi Winter '71 of for the Massachusettschapter of admrssrons representatrve,club v,ce major, Carolwas a buyerfor G survivedby her sister, niece,nephew Charlottesville,Va , diedDec. 18. An Financial Planning Associationand presidentand classagent Sallywas Fox, head of human relations at and numerous cousins. art maior, Heidi held vanous positions was chairman of Wild Lens, Inc. Mark a high school English teacher who Comfed Sav,ngs Bank, directorof Suzanne Rossire Mclaughlin at the U of Virginia MedicalCenter. rs suMvedby hrs wife, CandacePoole enjoyedwriting, playing the piano, AffirmativeAction at Branders U. '68 of Seattle,Wash., dredOcl 6. A Shewas passionateabout astronomy, Podolsky'79; twochildren; son-in cooking and spending time with and a careercenter counselorat the botany ma1or, Suzannewas an active eventuallyholding a positronwith law; father; stepmother; and hrs her family. She rs su!Vlvedby her Commonwealthof Massachusetts. volunteerrn the Seattlecommunity. the National RadioAstronomy four siblings husband, Allan K. Martin;two sons; She was a lifelong memberand A preschoolinstructor, she was Observatory.Heidi rs survivedby her one daughter; and s,x grandchildren. advocate of St.Anne's Episcopal passionateabout teaching children father, threebrothers, and several IN MEMORIAM Linda Bailey Lautner '62 of Church. Carolrs su!Vlvedby her music and art SheenJoyed balle� niecesand nephews. . PortolaValley, Calif., dred July 14. A mother, sister, son, daughter-in-law, theater and murder mysteries.She Ellen E. McCarthy'73 of Boston, Richard F. Schneller, of Palm chemistry major, Linda earnedher three grandchildren, and nephew is suMvedby her husband, John Mass., diedApnl 10, 2012.* Ellen Desert,Calif., died Feb. 5. A trustee ACScertification from the College. and family. F.Mclaughlin; twosiblings; two was an English major at the College ementus of the College,Schneller She workedfor the majonty of Sandra Welch Mitchell '66 of children; twograndchildren; and and volunteeredfor the Collegeas a was a dedicatedphrlanthroprst her professionalhfe as a medical Edina. Mrnn., dredJan. II, 2011.* A many extended family members. classagent Shers suMvedby her and a devotedsupporter of higher technologistat the Veteran's history ma1or, Sandravolunteered as Janet V. Finkelstein '68 died husband, Mark Mazar; four siblings, educabon.He representedthe state Administration of PaloAlto. An av,d a club treasurer and club secretary Nov. 25. An rnternatronalrelatrons including KathanneMcCarthy '81; of Connecticuton the executive gardener, Linda was passionate for the College.She rs suMvedby her major, Janet part1c1patedrn the and twostepchildren. committeeof the NewEngland about e11V1ronmentalconseivation. husband, John. student newspaperand Korneand James T. Briggs'76 of Rochester, Associationof Schoolsand Colleges. Her other interestsincluded baking. Sarah Donavan Goodrich '67 of was a community seMce volunteer. N.Y., diedNov. 25. A government Schnellerserved as a trusteeof the sewingand home decorating.Linda Bennington,VI., dredDec. 18, 2010.* Sheworked as the senior adv,serto major, Jamesserved the Collegeas a U. of Connecticutand was named was predeceasedby her parents, Sarahattended the U. of Vermont the Minister of Defensern France. classagent and alumni admrssrons an honorarylife trusteeof the rncludrng Barbara BentBailey '29. and earnedher master's degreefrom Catherine Ramsey Kane '69 representative.He workedfor GoodspeedOpera House. He served Shers survivedby her husband, Bill; Boston U.. She workedwith remedial of BelArr, Md , diedFeb. 12. An many yearsat La-,,yersCooperal!ve five terms rn the ConnecticutState son and daughter-in law; sister and reading students at elementary economicsmajor, Cathennewas PublishingCompany, where he Senate,serving in leadershiproles on brother-in-law; and grandson. schools throughout Vl and Mass. and a member of Ph, BetaKappa. She completedhis careeras president the Education and Urban Development Martha Willis Dale '62 of Wayne, servedas the Title One Coordinator earned her master's degreein urban of thecompany. James enjoyed committees.Schneller served on the Pa.,died Sepl 24 A sociologymajor, for the North Adams Public School studies at the U. of North Carolinaat golfing, sailingand volunteenngfor boa rd of trusteesof the Collegefor Martha was an administrator at system.A passionate actMs� Sarah Chapel Hill and a certrficateof social organrzationsincluding the Associa!Jon 10 years.He was predeceasedby hrs Cabnni College.She also servedas a co-foundedthe Goodnch Foundatron, workat the U of Marylandat College for theBlind and Visually Impaired first wife,Nancy Schneller. Schneller board memberof the RadnorA Better which fundedhealth care ,nitratrves, Park.Cathenne served the Collegeas and the RochesterBroadway Theater rs suMvedby hrs wife,Mary Patncra Chance program. Martha rs su!Vlved sustainable farming and educational an alumni adm1ss1ons representative. League. He rs sulVl'ledby hrs w,fe, Schneller;three daughters; three by her husband, John Luther Dale, opportunitresrn Afghanistan. Sarah Sheworked as assistant directorof PaulaDrain Bnggs'76; twosons; a sons-rn-law;srx grandchildren; and as wellas her sons, stepsons and was precededrn death by a son. the BaltimoreCounty Department daughter; twosisters; parents;nieces threegreat-grandchildren. grandchildren. Sheis suMvedby her husband, of SocialSeMces and later held the and nephews;and many extended MaryMacNaught Monahon Donald W Goodrich; twochildren and positronof management assistant family members,including brother-rn "TheCollege only recenUy '63 and her husband, Richard, of their spouses;three brothers; five to chief of opera!Jonsrn the Harford lawPeter F. Drain '79. learnedof this death. CC,Magazine requiresan official notice of death to belisted rn the magazine and online. ObrtuanesWIii be pnnted as spaceis available. Tosubmit information to the Collegeabout alumni who havedied, pleasecontact [email protected]. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 67 alumni onnecr on Alumni on campu The Alumni Association congratulates le acy tu of the Class of 2013 Our alumni are working in intemtingjobs across the United tates and around the globe. Th ey return to campus often to share • I obel Tanner (Anne Baade '81) • Joseph Krevolin (Andrew their advice and experiences with current students. • Luke arneal (Katharine wan Krevolin '77) arneal '82) • Pamela Lovejoy (Kathryn arlin Annie Scott '84, trustee of the College and director • Kimberly hapman ( raig Lovejoy '85) of informationcechnology at Middlesex ommu hapman '77 and errie • Hannah Pli htin ( ynthia r ni y ollege in Middletown, onn., delivered the Kowalchuk hapman '36) Harkavy Pli hcin '56) keynote address at the Connecticut College Black • Amy heetham (Thomas • Robert Landry Uaner Pinney Hi tory Month onvocation Feb. 4. heetham '74 and Joan hea '50) Zaprzalka heecham '75) aiclin pragu (Howard • Aaron Feldman (Li a Rome Three alumni from ew York iry di cu ed their career in prague '78) Feldman '82) marketing and public relation Feb. 24. Moderated by Monica • Delaney Vartanian (Marcia • arah Fiecke (Kristine iew r ullivan '76) Raymunt '09, a writer in the Office of College Relations, the Fiecke '78) • Timothy wan (William wan panel included Hanif Perry '05 enior as ociate ar Prophet • arah Gold cein (Ada '78 and aroline Buttrick Brand trategy; Silvie Snow-Thomas '05, senior raffmember Mai len old cein '47) wan '82) at Mi sy Farren & Associates, Ltd.; and Mimi Crume Sterling • helby Greeley (Paul reeley '79) • Alexander Vancil (Parricia reen '99, executive director of public relations for Hearst Magazines. • amantha Harvey (David Harvey '74) Vancil '82 and Richard • Vancil '82) Fritz Folts '82, tru tee of the College and enior • Jennif, r Herb rt (Margaret • Lauren heintop Oacqueline managing director at Windhaven Investment Herbert '84) • Alli on Hibbs (Elizab th Markun Wei enberg '57) Management, delivered a keynote, "The Road to hriscie Hibb '82) • Asa Welty (Rachel Perry Wall creec: How to avi ce a areer in the World ga • Timothy Jarrett (Ellen Welty '84) of Finance," Feb. 28. Four alumni al o di cussed Ramsborrom Jarrett '78 and laycon Wirrer Qanec Young their finance career : Ethan Powell '04, vice president ac Brown Peter Jarrett '78) Wiccer '51) Brother Harriman & Co.; Peter Lelek '05, director ac Black Rock Financial Management; Lauren Luciano '03, recruiter at MF Investment Management; and Aminata Ly '11, investment Alumni Awards II f r no mation banking analy cat J.P.Morgan. THE COLLEGE and Al11m11i Harriet Buescher Lawrence '34 Lynn Cool '76, the . H. Long Professor of G�netics, ey Association give several awards Prize profi or of cell biology,and profi or of molecular, cellular and to recognizeoutstanding al11m11i Recognizes leader who crive co r developmencal biology at Yale Univer i y, delivered a calk on Feb. achievements, and these awards improve ociety or in pire others 28 char addr ed the complexities as ociaced with the cellular are typicallypresemed to al11m11i for good, either through ervice or production of reproductive cells among dro ophilia, a genus of ulebrati11g their re11nio11. changing the climate of human life mall flies. materially, ocially, ethically Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award or pirirually. Career in the fields of human Recognizes oucscanding ervice co che Mach Arom '89 Award � rights, empowerment and advo- oil ge through active parci ipacion in dass/regional programming or Honor ervice co che ollege � cacy were di cu ed at a Feb. 28 ! board of directors activiti (nomine and di tingui hed achievemencs :il panel presentation that included: must have graduated 15 year ago). in the recipient' profe ional field Lauren Burke '06, sup rvi ing raffattorney ac the ew York (nominees muse have graduated Asian Women' enter, adjunct clinical profi or ac Brooklyn Alumni Tribute Award within past 15 year , except Law chool and executive director and co-founder of Adas: Honor continuous and current crusce and the extraordinary ervice co the ollege DIY; Jamie Rogers '04, co-owner of ew York iry' Pu heart Alumni ociacion board with the purpo e and spirit of the offee and Cowboy Pizza,LL ; and Tiana Davis Hercules '04, of director ). r Alumni Association. program director of the i y of Hartford. Nomi11atio11s, with mpporti11g Go Award i11fomiatio11, sho11ldbe mu to Bridget Chris Hensman '03, forei serviceofficer in the gn Awarded for enthu iascic and active Mc ha11e, Director ofAlum11i ass Emb y, Kabul, Afghanistan, wasthe guest peaker at participation in Alumni o ,anon Relations, Co1111ectic11t Colkge, 270 the Asian Pacific Island r ConvocationApril I . He dis program /activities and ignificanc Mohegan Ave., New London, CT cussed how his liberal arcs educationand experien contribution co the ollege 06320; bridget.mcsha11e@co1111coll. prepared him for a careerin foreign policy. community. edu; 860-439-2302. 68 CC CON"l(CTICUl COlLCGE M.MlAZU11( SUMMU 2013 alumni connec 10 Alumni e ent Why I volunteer Philip Dolan '88 Philip Dolan '88 is the chiefmarketing officer at Navicure, Inc, a leading Internet-based medical claims clearinghouse in Georgi-a. Previo11S positions include posts at Merinl, LLC, 11 leadingglobal animal health company; Colgate-Palmolive; Heineken; and the Coca-Cola Company. He majored in English and economics. Why do you volunteer? Volunteer upporc enhances the ollege's reputation and increase che value of a onnecricuc ollege degree. While giving financially i GeneGallagher, the ParxProfessor of Religious Studies,talks with alumni at the always appreciated, volunteering is omeching every one of u can do. PiedmontDnvmg Club m Atlanta, Ga , in March about the advantagesof classroom It al o keep me connected to people who were very important to me mteract100 as comparedto online learning. during chi period of my life. What advice would you share with a volunteer? iving rime and calenc i omerhing all alumni can contribute in :1 meaningful way. Taking the fir t rep i the harde r pare, but being in volved keep u connected to onnecricur ollege. If we treasured our four year at che chool, volunteering allow each of us to ex.rendchar experience, keep in touch with pecial people - and ensure char future generation of rudent have che ame opportunity. How have you given back to your alma mater? I have contributed both financiallyand through volunteer ervice. I have organized ocial events foralumni in ew York City and in Atlanta where 1 now live. Ir' a great way co reconnect with classmates, meet new people and demonstrate my support of the oUege. I was also a clas Alumni gather at the home of TrusteeEstella Johnson '75 m Hillsborough. N.C .. m representative for the Annual Fund and an admi ions interviewer. Apnl to hear Associate Professorof Sociology RonaldFlores' talk about the holistic liberalarts expenence.From left to nghl YvetteCrews. Yolanda ScarlettP'l6. prospectivestudent Symooe Crewsand AlexandriaGomes Coole-, '04 What brought you to Connecticut College? The ollege' excellent academic reputation and strong commitment co the liberal arc were key factor . I al o loved the mall ize of che tudent body and campu and knew that I would e rabli h lasting friend hip with many people, which I have. What aspect of your experience do you most value? I learned to chink critically and holi cically about problems and chal lenge che scacu quo. ln my experience, critical thinking and intellectual curio icy are the most important building blocks foreffective leader ship, innovation and po itive change in the world. These attributes are qualities I eek in every per on I interview for a job. How importantare the liberal artstoday? I volunteer becau e I believe wholeheartedly that the liberal a.rt a.re Dana Curran Mortenson'97 talks withclassmates Brendan Jones·97 and Jenny e ential to addres ing economic, ocial, political, religiou and ethical Greeman·97 about her careerand the company she co-founded,World Sawy, at a challenge we facetoday. We need great thinker and problem solvers, gathering of alumni 10 NewYorx Citym Apnl. and liberal arcs graduate excel in the e areas. CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 69 The Classof 1963 parades downCro Boulevardbefore Alumni Convocation. AV 31 J E 2 MORE THAN 1,000 alumni, family and friends turned out for Reunion 2013. Alumni traveled from far and near to reconnect with old friends, revisit special places on campus and rediscover fond memories of their college days. www.conncoll.edu/alumni/programs-events/reunion Among other things, you can ... Watch a video of the weekend's highlights Download podcasts of several lectures and discussions See photos of your friends and classmates and new memories made Read firsthand comments and see photos posted by Young Camelstook full advantage of the many act1vrtieson Tempel Green. attendees on social media 70 CC CONNECTICUT COlLEGC MAGAZINC SUMMER 2013 I IT ED COVER A favonte Reunion tradition,the Downeast lobsterbake. prOVJded a greatopportunity for casual conversation FernandoEspuelas '88 deliveredthe keynoteaddress, "Arnenca, The overa delicious meal on TempelGreen NewRome." The spintedClass of 1988 celebratedits 25th Reunion. Amy Gross'63 gave the SykesSociety luncheon keynote The receptionfor CelebrationVIII was wellattended and proVJded address,"Waking Up: The Searchof a Lifetime." a great opportunityto reconnectwith friends and reminisce. The Agnes Berkeley Leah y Award The Alumni Tribute Award HIL 43 (posthumously) The Goss Award The Mach Arom '89 Award Jonathan Cobbaccepts the CollegeMedal from TrusteeDavid Barber'88 on behalf of his mother, former Deanof the CollegeJewel Plummer Cobb. The VeryReverend Laurence Harriet Buescher Lawrence '34 Prize LaPointe,a long-time collegechaplain, was also awardedthe CollegeMedal dunng Alumni ConvocationSaturday morning CONNECT WITH YOUR CLASSMATES: www.conncoll.edu/alumni 71