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Colby Alumnus Vol. 72, No. 3: June 1983 Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1983 Colby Alumnus Vol. 72, No. 3: June 1983 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 72, No. 3: June 1983" (1983). Colby Alumnus. 118. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/118 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. ;rhe COLBY ALUMNUS JUNE 1983 ;rhe COLBY ALUMNUS JUNE 1983 page4 Contents 4 Genetic Engineering: Panacea or Pandora's Box? A relatively simple technology prompts complex questions about its applications. 9 "A Legacy of Good Will and Good Works" Students and colleagues of Dean Ernest Marriner '13 recall his productive and giving nature. 12 BA R Instills Concept of Responsible Drinking A campus committee enters the second phase of its alcohol edu­ cation efforts. 13 Annual Giving Generates Flexible Resources with Immediate Impact Alumni, parents, and other donors provide a key component of Colby's budget. page 13 14 Beyond Personal Goals: Agents Invest Time and Creativity in Colby The rewards of the class agent are many but often subtle in com­ parison to the agent's enormous responsibility. 16 Two Long-standing Faculty Members Retire With a composite of 59 years of Colby teaching behind them, Paul E. Machemer and Robert L. Terry have added dimension to the College's evolution. 18 Kelly Dodge: A Solitary Man Cum Campus Leader The senior class president has relinquished many personal plea­ sures in favor of team efforts. 19 New Coach to Drive Mules Head football Coach Chris Raymond takes the reins with confi­ page 12 dence and optimism. 20 Come gentle Spring! A photographic essay captures the relaxed side of spring semester. DEPARTMENTS 1 News from the Hill 21 Class Correspondence Volume 72, Number 3, June 1983 34 Milestones Editor: Lane A. Fisher Alumni Club News (inside back cover) Editorial Intern: Karen Jo Giammusso '86 Design and Production: Martha Freese Shattuck Photography: Lynn Mosher Bushnell, unless otherwise credited Articles on commencement and reunion activities will appear in the August issue. The Colby Alumnus is published quarterly by Colby College for alum­ ni, parents, and friends of the College. Postmaster send form 3579 to The Colby Alumnus, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901. Front cover: Biology Professor Miriam Bennett supervises biology Letters to the editor are invited. Letters of 100 to 150 words should be majors Karen Holtz '83 (Brookline, Mass.) and David G. Brown '84 signed and sent to the College editor. (Valley Forge, Pa.) as they examine insects and crabs in an inverte­ brate biology laboratory. Address changes and alumni news should be sent to the Office of Back cover: High anxiety prevails during the egg-toss competition at Alumni Relations. mid-April's Spring Carnival. Commission Begins Thorough Assessment of Campus Life Chairman H. Ridgely Bullock '55 named a 17-member Trustee Com­ mission on Campus Life at the Board of Trustee's April meeting, charging the group to conduct a broad examination of residential and social life at Colby. Bullock emphasized that the official inquiry would be a positive process of determining the best policies and practices to promote a healthy residential and social envi­ ronment on campus, and he acknowledged that the timing of the commission's formation was influenced by "burning issues" surrounding fraternities. Some of those issues lead to more complex questions of how Colby can most Cotter Visits Venerable Alumna effectively support liberal arts Wh en Ina Taylor Stinnefo rd graduated from Colby in 1898, it was still called a goals and meet students' nonaca­ university, and Nathaniel Butler, Jr., was its twelfth president. When she turned demic needs through its housing, 105 on March 22, she celebrated in the company of Butler's sixth successor, dining, and social facilities and William R. Cotter, and fi fty of her companions at the Colonial Manor Nursing programs. Among the questions Home in Waterville. She is Colby's oldest known alumna, Waterville's oldest resi­ the commission will weigh is dent, and the oldest member of several local and national organizations. Sentinel photo. whether fraternities and sororities are, in fact, appropriate to Colby today. Of the 17 trustees, over­ include several surveys, as well as Braunmuller Goodman '69-and seers, alumni, faculty, and hearings in Waterville, Portland, five overseers-Kenneth A. students, 11 commissioners are Boston, and New York during Sep­ Johnson '37, Robert A. Lindgren, fraternity or sorority members. tember and October. In a special William T. Mason, Jr. '47, Elaine The commission's agenda set full newsletter sent to members of the Zervas Stamas '53, and William D. board discussion of the final report Colby community in April, Pugh, Wooldredge '6 1. and recommendations for the Bullock, and President William R. Dulaney majored in economics January 13- 14, 1984, meeting in Cotter also welcomed written com­ at Colby and received an M.B.A. Boston. "It is a tight schedule, but ments and suggestions. Inquiries from Harvard in 1963. Currently much of the fact finding is already should be directed to Dean of the senior vice-president and director done," Bullock said. The board is College Earl Smith, who serves as of Smith Barney, Harris Upham ''trying to keep this from being a secretary to the commission. and Company in New York City, long, long examination with the he is also a director and executive outcome determined well in committee chairman of Prime Computer, general partner of First advance," he explained, noting New Trustees and Overseers that the uncertainty within the Century, chairman of Smith Join Boards Colby community during the Barney Capital Corporation, and interim could be detrimental if the The composite experience and director of the Valleylab and Ber­ process were not managed as effi­ perspectives of Colby's leadership wind corporations. He will serve ciently as planned. have been broadened by the on the educational policy and plan­ Lawrence Pugh '56 will oversee appointments of two trustees- ning committees. the commission's work, which will J ohn S. Dulaney '56 and Rae Jean Goodman was declared elected 1 by the Alumni Council in March College, and as a board member of tion to be accredited by the coun­ and began her board term on several social service organizations. cil, Colby offers courses in surgical Commencement Weekend, joining Stamas, who sang in the Glee techniques, anesthesiology, obstet­ incumbent alumni Trustees Warren Club and Colbyettes, has also rics, otolaryngology, and forensic, Finegan '51 and Patricia Rachal maintained strong interests in nuclear, and emergency medicine, '74. Goodman, assistant professor music. The English major served to provide just a sampling from of economics at the U.S. Naval Colby as a class agent in 1956, this year's schedule. The 1983 Academy, received her master's 1958, and 196 1 and continuously "Pediatrics" faculty includes degree in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1976, in a myriad of informal capacities. William Tsiaras '68, M.D., who both from Washington University, She has traveled widely with her teaches in the departments of and was designated a Woodrow husband, Stephen, who is a vice­ medicine and ophthalmology at Wilson Dissertation Fellow in president at Exxon and a trustee Brown University. Other faculty 1972. and director of several organiza­ members are drawn from an array Overseer Johnson, assistant tions of international foci. The of institutions as close as Mid­ headmaster and history instructor family resides in Scarsdale, N. Y. Maine Medical Center and as dis­ at Boston Latin School, received a William D. Wooldredge '61 is tant as Chicago Medical School. Colby Brick in 1962, and was a executive vice-president and chief Two seminars, one on dermatol­ trustee from 1972 to 198 1. He financial officer of B.F. Goodrich, ogy and the other on marine medi­ holds a master's degree from Har­ which he joined in 1972. The hus­ cine, are co-sponsored by Colby vard, was a John Hay Fellow in band of Brenda (Lewison) '62, he and other organizations, the humanities at the University of has served as director of Transohio American Academy of Dermatol­ Oregon in 1972, and was a Ful­ Finance Corporation, the Salvation ogy and the Undersea Medical bright Scholar at the University of Army Advisory Board, the Akron Society. The latter is the only Nigeria in 1964. He has been a (Ohio) Child Guidance Center, and course held off campus and continual ambassador for Colby the Northeast Ohio chapter of the includes diving instruction near its and his service to Boston Latin Financial Executives Institute. location on the Isles of Shoals in students is reflected in a scholar­ Wooldredge earned an M.B.A. the Gulf of Maine. ship presented in his name since from Harvard in 1964. The Division of Special Pro­ 1976. grams' projections indicate that A 1960 graduate of Yale and vis­ medical and other courses will iting committee member for its , Special Programs Division draw 7 000 to 8,000 persons to School of Music, Lindgren is a campus during this summer. Stu­ Keeps Up Good Work partner in Rogers and Wells in dents who are not physicians will New York City. A singer in the "Colby College is commended for include calligraphers, church musi­ glee club and Whiffenpoofs at offering a superior milieu for cians, and cheerleaders. Such well­ Yale, he is well known in New learning by student-faculty interac­ established courses as the piano York music circles.
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