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Editorial Board: Vivian Segall '73, Editor (13 New London, CT, four times a year in Winter, Faigle '63, Directors / Committee Chai~me~: Main Street, Noank, CT 06340) / Katherine Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage Jeanne Caldwell Raudenbush '69 (Nomlllaung) Gould '81 / Sarah Hargrove Harris '57 / paid at New London, CT 06320. Send form ! Mary Ann Garvin Seigel '66 (Alumni Giving) Wayne Swanson! Marilyn Ellman Frankel '64 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut ! Carole A. Filice '74 (Clubs)! Lee White / Roberta Finley'7l, Class Notes Editor I College, New London, CT 06320. CASE Graham '61 (Classes and Finance) / Warren Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26, Assistant member Erickson '74 (Programs) I David V. lves '80 Editor! Helene Zimmer Loew '57 and Louise Alumni Association Executive Board, (Undergraduate/Young Alumni Relations / Stevenson Andersen '41, ex officio Helene Zimmer Loew '57, President / Mary Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 (Executive The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine Ann Garvin Siegel '66, Vice President ! Director) and Vivian Segall '73 (Alumni (USPS 129-(40), Official publication of the Warren Erickson '74, Secretary! Lee White Magazine Editor), ex officio. Connecticut College Alumni Association. All Graham '61, Treasurer / Joann Walton Cover: Blackstone House in November. by publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted Leavenworth '56, Jane Muddle Funkhouser '53 Ellen Wildermann Bodin '80. only by permission of the editor. Published by and Edith Gaberman Sudarsky '43, Alumni Communications to any of the above may be the Connecticut College Alumni Association at Trustees. addressed in care of the Alumni Office, Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, George F. Hulme'77 and Susan Bohman Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320. The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine

Volume 60, No. I, Fall 1982

Page 2 Page 14 Frances Nevins '51: Friend, A Human Tragedy , . t······,.... Scholar, Wife, Nun, Mystic By Marjorie Craig Benton '55 • ... By Joan Ward Mullaney The chairman of Save the Chil- ...• ~...- dren Federation writes about the :::::::0. ,., Reflections on an exceptional tragedy of Africa's five million woman, by her close friend and refugees. biographer.

Page 4 Page 16 Families in Trouble Books By Robert W. Hampton An important work on four decades of the black struggle for Family violence is an indication equality, and research on the of families in trouble. Looking at Page 8 Mexican poet SOl Juana. stress can illuminate this disturb- Choices for the Future ing problem. Page 18 Members of the Committee on Round & About Connecticut's Future discuss recommendations for changes in Connecticut's academic pro- Page 19 grams, extracurricular life, and In Memoriam admissions policies. Page 20 Class Notes And other items, including the Agnes Berkeley Leahy and Goss Awards, Croissants in Cro, and a talented sculptor.

Page 24 Page 6 The Big Weekend Abused Children Alumni Council, the Campaign By Anne H. Cohn '67 kickoff, and Homecoming/Okto- Over one million children will be berfesL President Emeritus Rose- Opposite page: National Campaign mary Park Anastos (looking abused this year, and 2,000 of Chairman June Linsley '50, Vice Chair- them will die. What can be done man Jane Smith Moody '49, and a student marvelous, left) gives a stirring keynote speech. to prevent it? peer into a tree outside Palmer Library. Marjorie Craig benton '55 is committed /0 children and 10 disarmament, and her work in thesefields is nothing short ofastonish- ing, Mrs. Benton is chairman a/the board AHUMAN ofSave the Children Federation and is our ~afjon:~ representative ro UNICEF She serves on The advisory committee for the Agency for International Development TRAGEDY (A ID). \Vas a delegate ro the United Stares mission fa the United Nations special session on disarmament, and co-chaired Americans lor SA L T. Mrs. Benton was Why are there five million refugees also a Uni!~d Slates commissioner/or [he Internationat Year of the Child. and in in Africa- /978. UNICEF presented her with lis award/or outstanding public service. and why should Americans be concerned Mrs. Benton's volunteer activities take her all over the world. and when the about people in developing countries? Alumni Magazine caught up with her. she hadjust returnedfrom a mission/a Africa. Besides her work on beholfofchildren and peace, she has found time /0 playa major role in the Democratic Party. serving as a delegate /0 every Democratic National By Marjorie Craig Benton '55 Convention and Mid- Term Convention since 1972. In 1976. she was Jimm v Carter's convention floor leader for Illinois. Nev- ada and Oklahoma. Somehow. in addition to this crushing schedule of responsibilities. Mrs. Benton serves on the boards of over a dozen a/her organizations. including the American Woman S Economic Development Corpor- ation and the Carnegie Endowment for tnternanonal Peace. Her interests range from a grass roots neighborhood group like The Woodlawn Organization in Chi- cago to Raben Redford's Sundance lnsti- tute in Utah. In 1981. she was one ofthe founders 01" The Peace Museum in Chi- cago. which presents problems of \\'ar and peace through the visual arts. Among her many awards are /11'0 honorary doctorates. including onefrom the Notional College of Education in Evanston. where she received her B.A.

It is estimated that today there are 10 million refugees in the world. Of this number, S million are located in Africa. Because I have recently returned from a trip to the Horn of Africa for UNICEF, I'd like to concentrate in this article on the African situation. Why are there so many refugees in Af- rica? I believe there are six main reasons. They are: the after-effects of colonialism, the violation of human rights, economic disparity throughout the continent. oppres- sive political regimes, religious intolerance,

2 the refugees would allow a large majority and finally, disastrous climatic changes. To look at a specific case, what happens to return to their homelands, but Somalia Africa is composed of 52 countries with a to a country like Somalia when 1.2 million needs to anticipate that a large number of population of approximately 350 million refugees cross the Ethiopian-Somalian refugees will remain and will have to be people. The continent contains 21 of the border into their country? absorbed into the Somalian economy. This world's 31 poorest countries, with annual Until about a year ago, few Americans effort will be further complicated because incomes of less than $100 a year per person. were aware that there were more refugees the current refugee camps are not suited for One in every five persons is seriously mal- 'in Somalia than in any single place in the long-term development due to inadequate nourished, six out of every 10 persons go to world. The country was a disaster zone. water supplies and poor soil. Large num- bed hungry each night. Population growth Every fourth person there was an ethnic bers of refugees will therefore require reset- is accelerating at a rate of 2.8 percent while Somali or Oromo seeking asylum. A paral- tlement elsewhere in the country. food production is increasing only 1.4 per- lel situation would be the influx of 80 mil- An intermediate phase before the estab- cent per year, a tragic and dangerous situalion refugees into the United States in the lishment of integrated agricultural settle- tion. Although 70 percent of the people live space of one year. The strain on Somalia's ments would be the supplying of handtools in rural areas, 18 percent less food will be economy, water, grass and trees was de- and seed to the refugees so they could grow produced in the year 2000 than in 1970, stroying the country. some of their own food. At the same time, because of chronic neglect and overuse of Today, thanks to a coordinated international relief effort and the extreme generos- food distribution must be a half-rations or the land. a work-for-food plan will have to be Why should we here in the United States ity of the Somalian government (which initiated. be concerned with, what happens in the de- committed 10 percent of its budget), acute If the Somalian government does not veloping countries of Africa? There are starvation among the refugees has been approve a resettlement program now, it several reasons. The first is, simply, a averted. Life in Somalia's refugee camps will be up to the major donors to initiate humanitarian one. To paraphrase a prayer has improved since ApriL when heavy rains and develop model programs that the of Father Ted Hesburgh , president of Notre brought an end to two years of drought. Somalian government can look to in the Dame University: "For those who have The better weather and the lessening of guerrilla warfare inside Ethiopia have near future. This is a necessity not only for hunger, give them bread. For those who the refugees, but for coping with Somalia's have bread, give them a hunger for justice." made it possible for 5,000 refugees each own rural development crisis. Another reason is that developing coun- month to return to the Ogaden region. And so there has been a major decline in Agricultural settlements-and I include tries are much more important to the livestock. forestry and fisheries-can serve United Sta tes than is generally assumed. In the camp population with the current as a stimulus for integrated rural develop- fact, in terms of our long-term security, United Nations estimate at 650,000 per- ment, generating employment, and eventu- both economic and monetary. we are sons. Because of the massive and effective relief effort. in many parts of Somalia the ally, higher standards of living. Donor funds strongly linked to the Third World. Over should no longer be tied just to the refugee the past 20 years, the vitality of the Ameri- indigenous rural people are worse off than the refugees, and this will certainly start to population but to the development plans can economy has become very dependent and requirements of the entire country. on the Third World for exports and invest- create tensions and resentments. The situation remains precarious. Once the irnme- At this point in its history, Somalia can- ments. For example, we rely on Africa for not solve the problems of the human the following strategic imports: 75 percent dia te needs of the refugees-shelter, clothing, medical care. water and sanitation, tragedy within its own borders, the refu- of our diamonds, 65 percent of our gold, 74 gees or its own weakened economy without percent of our cobalt, 30 percent of our transport and logistics, some basic education and the beginning of self-sufficiency the help of the international community manganese and 20 percent of our copper. over the medium and long term. Alongside the growth of United States- projects-are met, the international community must begin to look toward helping What can each of us do to encourage a Third World economic ties, a military and strong United States foreign aid policy in security relationship has developed. Our the Somalian government strengthen its agricultural and economic infrastructure. order to be a major force in the interna- government has recently sought and re- tional community? Obviously, there can- ceived crucial military arrangements with The challenge becomes how to get the refugees to become participants instead of not be a strong American foreign aid policy Kenya and Somalia. without strong public support behind it. Finally, we need to believe that the polit- recipients and how to avoid the alienation. dependence and eventual anger that char- That will require all of us to educate and ical instability of the world is due not only then influence public opinion by doing a to the acquisition and stockpiling of deadly acterizes the "chronic" camp, such as the 30-year-old Palestinian refugee camps in better job of explaining the stakes involved. nuclear weapons, but to the fact that a We must beable to make a convincing case significant portion of the world's popula- the Middle East. How can this be done? It is my opinion for continued and expanded assistance. It tion is in danger of being exterminated by will mean that we must require thisadminis- hunger and other problems associated with that long-term development's major prior- tration-through our actions-to broaden underdevelopment. The World Bank, in ity should be the settlement of new lands in Somalia. Why? Because as the World Bank its one-dimensional approach to Third recent studies, describes a world where 250 World problems and to understand how million people are packed together in said, "A turnaround in agriculture is a pre- important a strong economic aid program shanty towns and other inadequate hous- condition of r.enewed growth" in Africa. This is especially true in Somalia, where 60 is to our interests. We must all understand ing; 300 million persons are permanently that the friendship of people in the develop- unemployed: 550 million people are illiter- percent of the current population are ing world can only be won through our ate, and 900 million people have incomes of nomads. Obviously. the best political solution for respect and generous friendship. less than 30

3 An assistant professor at Connecticut, Robert Hampton is also a research associate at the Training Program in Family Violence at Children's Hospital in Boston, FAMILIES IN where medical professionals and researchers work together in a clinical setting. Mr. Hampton, who wasa fellow at the program for two years, introduces his article with a TROUBLE case from the family violence program.

Susan, age 9. was seen in a major hospi- ralfor diagnosis a/possible chronic phvsi- cal abuse. Although there were no signs of severe abuse, Susan had numerous scars and healing bruises on her arms and torso. There was a long history a/allegations that one or both parents had abused Susan. ranging from hitting her 10 burning her. The school and neighbors had reported their concerns on man/" occasions. Susan \. parents, who were separated, reported/am- ily difficulties associated with [requeru layoffs at work.

It is difficult to relinquish illusions about the family. Many people are saddened to learn that their image of the family has never really existed for the majority of our 111 society. lrurafarnily violence has been doc- Irtll/1l1t , umented since the recording of history. Infanticide of unwanted children and other It 1111111/' forms of lethal violence were practiced by parents in many civilized societies from Greece to China. A wealth of evidence 1\1111 shows that American family members have 11111/11 1//111111 engaged in violence against one ano~her 1/1111111//1 I<. ranging from horse whipping, choking. and stabbing, to murder. Child maltreatment and family violence are perhaps best thought of as indicators of It's hard to give up our illusions families in trouble. Many factors can place a family in jeopardy and lead to family about the family. violence. and this multiplicity of causes complicates the task of understanding the But violence has been a part of origins of family violence. One must take into account realities that might mark par- family life ticular vulnerabilities in a child, parent. or family. heightening their susceptibility!v since Cain and Abel particular stresses that might end up In VI.O- lenee toward a child or other family member. Family violence is found at all social lev- cis. Officially reported cases of child abuse, By Robert w. Hampton however. are much higher among the ~oor than among the upper strata in oursoclety. Assistant Professor of Sociology Perhaps we see this difference becau:c the poor must use public, rather than pflva.te. medical facilities. and because the police and other officials are quicker to make charges against the poor.

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Discussing social class differences alerts Distinguishing among the types and us to many issues of family life associated sources of stress allows us to better under- with a family's social position. Households stand the role of stress. including socioeco- where the husband is unemployed or under- nomic factors. on family violence. Individ- employed have the highest rates of violence ual and family characteristics may provide between spouses and violence by parents a family with the ability to cope with some toward children. Unemployed men are stresses and reduce its ability to cope with twice as likely to use severe violence on others. People respond to stress in many their wives as men employed full-time. ways. of course. and some of the negative Men who work part-time have a rate of responses include depression, withdrawal, wife beating three times the rate of those rigidity. confusion. alcohol abuse and with full-time jobs. violence. The rate of child abuse among fathers Coping refers to behavior that protects employed part-time is nearly twice as high people from being psychologically harmed as the rate for fathers employed full-time. by stress. At the very heart of this concept is Clearly, several factors are operating here. the assumption that people respond active- one of which involves the resources ac- ly to forces that impinge upon them. Some quired through fathers' full-time employ- individuals. however. select coping strate- ment. A second issue is time: unemployed gies that are potentially harmful to them. and part-time employed fathers would tend To reduce the level of family violence to have more hours available to spend with and to promote healthy ways of coping other household members. thereby increas- with stress, we must provide families with ing the amount of time available for inter- , support groups and support networks. So- action. both violent and non-violent. Final- Robert W. Hampton cial support systems serve a multitude of ly. there is the stress associated with lack of functions, including technical help. emo- employment. Stress research in the past decade has tional support, the shari ng of social reality, Several researchers have shown the im- focused primarily on acute stress. Life and listening. When families encounter portance of stress in understanding family changes-moves. the death of a loved one. others in their environment who fulfill violence. Some have suggested that over- marital disruption. pregnancy, illness, a these functions, they can go a long way zealous physical punishment of children by mother or wife returning to the labor toward reducing stress-related family parents may be as much a result of various force-req uire energy for adjustment. And violence. stresses ex perienced by t he parents as it is a adapting to acute stresses like these often Technical assistance to families ranges result 'of the desire or need to control the involves a severe transition in role. from instructions on how to obtain food child's behavior. However. some of the Poverty. long-term unemployment or un- stamps, student loans or employment. to literature on family violence has failed to deremployment. social isolation, housing. help with parenting and child care. No mat- differentiate between the types and sources and neighborhood/community develop- tel' how competent an individual may be. of stress. It is quite useful to look at stress in ment are examples of external endemic there are areas in which he or she will need terms of type-endemic and aeLlle-and stresses. While each of these conditions is technical assistance. source-external and internal, stressful. one researcher has suggested that Family members need effective emo- Endemic stress is a condition of continu- they interact to produce "social impover- tional support as well. By emotional sup- ous and manifest changes. demands. ishment." Economic deprivation under- port we mean people who are willing, at threats. or deprivations embedded in the mines families. particularly where the mar- least some of the time. to provide uncondi- events of daily life. Several structural fea- ital relationship is weak. Chronic poverty tional support. When families experience tures may contribute to conflict within and economic deprivation. both on the stressful situations. whether they be due to families. Among these are the great amount family and community level. interfere with the death of a loved one. the loss of a job. or of time family members spend in face-to- the normative functions of family life. an unplanned pregnancy, people appre- face interaction. the high level of emotional Families depend upon support from the ciate the fact that there are others they can involvement. and family size. with large community and the larger society to be turn to. Emotional support does not re- families placing a greater demand on par- effective. Therefore. concentrations of so- quire specific technical expertise: what it does require is someone or some group ents than smaller ones. cioeconomically distressed families are Many other endemic stressors can be at- most likely to be at high risk for child who cares. tributed directlv to internal family pro- maltreatment. Another support group function is the cesses. Children' who require special care, External acute stresses can include fac- sharing of social reality. This implies there perhaps due to handicaps or hyperactivity. tors like job loss. the incarceration of a are individuals in your support system who place heavy demands on families. These family member, a child being suspended can fully appreciate your perspective. problems, along with parent-produced from school or running away, or sudden Someone who has had similar experiences stressors-depression, low self-esteem. and shifts in the economic, political and social may validate a person's sense of reality and substance abuse, for example-can be climate. These stressful events generally may be able. as well. to discuss possible quite formidable for a family. Some of invoke a sense of shock. followed by anx- courses of action. these problems are intensified in one- iety or grief. Gradually. the family then Social isolation has been found to be a Continued on page 20. parent families. begins to marshall its adaptive resources.

5 Ann H. Cohn '67 is executive director oj the National Comrnirtee for Prevention of Child Abuse. As a White House Fellow in /979-80. she was special assistant to ABUSED Patricia Roberts Harris. Secretary of Health and Human Services. At the lime she was chosen/or the White House Fellow- ship Dr. Cohn was already a Congressional Science Fellow in the office ofSen. Alber! CHILDREN Gore. Jr., coordinating a congressional investigation of hazardous waste disposal sires across the country. Anne H. Cohn holds a master's in medical sociology/rom tun« and M. P. H. and D. P.H. degrees in he~!lh administration and planning from Berkelev. As a member of Berke/ev Plan- ning issociores, she directed the first national evaluation ofgovernmentfunded child abuse and neglect programs.

According to a recent poll by The Harris Survey, over 90 percent of the adult Ameri- can population feel that child abuse is now a "serious problem in this country." As a country we now know that more than one million American children suffer from child abuse each year and more than 2,000 of these children die; for many of those who live, the hurts inflicted on them as children influence their entire lives. And ours. Abused children suffer a wide variety of long-term developmental and emotional problems. Given that these problems are rarely tended to early on. it shouldn't be surprisi ng that child hood histories of abuse are commonly reported by many juvenile delinquents, teenage drug addicts and prostitutes, runaways and adult criminals. And, many abused children grow up to repeat the patterns of parenting they learned at an early age-they themselves Over one million American children become abusers. This article will describe what child abuse is. why it occurs. how it will be victims of child abuse can be treated and how it can be prevented.

this year. What is Child Abuse? Child abuse can be defined as an injury Two thousand of them will die. or a pattern of injuries to a child that is nonaccidental. including nonaccidenral What can we do to prevent it? physical injury. physical neglect. sexual abuse. and emotional abuse . • Nonaccidenta! physical injury may include severe' beatings. bruises and welts, burns, human bites. brok~n By Anne H. Cohn '67 bones, strangulation. or immersion In scalding water as well as serious internal injuries. . • Physical neglect is withholding or fal.l- ing to provide a child with the baSIC necessities of life: food. clothing. shel-

6 ter, hygiene, medical growth and de- If the child's life or health is immediately threatened, the child may be removed from velopment. the home by a court order. Whether or not • Sexual abuse is the exploitation of a [' the child is removed, if the investigation child for a sexual gratification of an shows that abuse has occurred, a treatment adult. It may range from exhibition- ism and fondling to intercourse or use program will usually be offered to strengthen the family and to avert future abuse. of a child in the production of porno- Treatment usually includes counseling and graphic materials. family su pports such as day care.job train- • Emotional abuse includes excessive, ing or legal assistance. Unfortunately, the aggressive, or unreasonable parental child seldom receives therapeutic care. Al- demands that place expectations on a though recent studies present discouraging child beyond his or her capabilities. findings about the overall success of treat- Emotional abuse can show itself in ment programs-often only half of the constant and persistent teasing, belit- families appear to be rehabilitated-some tling, or verbal attacks. Emotional approaches to treatment appear to be more abuses also include the failure to pro- promising than others. Self-help groups vide the psychological nurturance such as Parents Anonymous and parent necessary for a child's psychological aide or lay therapy programs have been growth and development, for exam- shown to be more effective than other ple, providing a child with no love, no strategies. care, no support. no guidance.

Aline H. Cohn '67 How Can Child Ahuse Be Prevenred? Who Are the Abusers? Child abuse is a community problem and Abusers are our friends. our neighbors thus professionals believe it can best be and our relatives. It is a sad irony but many Child abuse does not belong solely in the prevented through activities at the com- abusers genuinely love their children. Yet domain of the poor. Abusers come from all munity or local level. These activities must they find themselves caught in life situa- economic. racial, ethnic and religious be designed to meet the special needs of the tions beyond their control and do not know groups. Money problems. however-espe- cultural. ethnic. religious and economic how to cope. They are often isolated from cially the grinding money problems of the groups in a given neighborhood or com- friends and family and may have no one to poor-contribute to abuse. Other stresses. munity. Because child abuse is such a com- give them emotional support. They may such as a shaky. fight-filled marriage. also plex problem, no one community activity is not like themselves and may not know how contribute to abuse. enough; a number of different strategies to get their emotional needs met. In many Whether it be one stressful circumstance must be used. The earlier support can be cases, they were abused as children them- or a number of crises that actually trigger provided, the better. and yet families need selves, and because this is the only kind of abuse, it is clear that a combination of fac- support at different times. parenting they have known. they repeat it tors builds so that a person simply cannot cope any longer. Promising approaches include: with their own children. • Support programs for new parents. Abusers often perceive a child as being such as perinatal bonding programs, "different" or having special needs that set How Can Child Abuse Be Treated? to prepare people for the job of beinga the child apart from other children. Per- Although there are many ways in which each of us can help neighbors. friends and parent. to aid in the earlydevelopment haps the child was illegitimate or the result of a loving relationship and strong at- of an unplanned pregnancy or difficult relatives who are having parenting problems, when serious child abuse is suspected, tachment between the new parent and birth, or a planned birth but the baby the infant. and to promote family- wanted for the wrong reasons. Sometimes professional intervention is indicated. The .: centered birthing opportunities. the child's mannerisms or behavior re- first step in determining whether abuse is act ually occurring and in getting treatment • Education/or parents, to provide par- minds the parent of his own childhood self ents with information about child or of another adult whom the parent now to a family is to involve the appropriate state agency. development and skills in child care as dislikes. Sometimes there are very real spe- well as information about local social cial needs that set the child apart from Child abuse and neglect are defined and governed solely by state law. and each service and health resources. which other chi ldren such as a physical ha ndica p . are helpful to new parents. mental retardation or a chronic illness. state's law is different. Each state law • Early and regular child and famiiv Sometimes. in a family of several children, designates at least one statewide agency to receive and investigate reports of child screening and treatment, such as that just one will besingled out asa victim while provided by home health visitors, to the others lead relatively normal lives. In abuse. This agency is usually called the De- partment of Social Services or Children identify and deal with physical and other cases. all the children will be abused. developmental problems in children at Abusers tend to have unrealistic or inap- and Family Services. Once a report of suspected child abuse is received: the appro- an early age and to advise parents on propriate expectations of their children. wel1 child care. They may set standards that are impossibly priate agency makes an investigation to • Child care opportunities, like day care high. They may wrongly believe that chil- determine whether the child is in imme- centers, Head Start. neighborhood dren should always be quiet. or never make diate danger and whether he or she has Continued on page 20. a mistake. been abused.

7 Connecticut College has raken a long look at the future and, in the process, a hard look 01 itself. The college is now working on the recornmendations of the Comrninee CHOICESFOR on Connecticut s Future (Cc F), which received irs mandate from President Ames in December 1980 and released its final report in the summer of 1982.

As Bruce Kirmmse pointed OU! in our THE FUTURE last issue. Connecticut draws 75 percent of its st udents from (he Northeast, where the J 8-year-old college-hound popularion is expected to drop 40 percent. The CCFwas asked "fa suggest and consider steps that will enable Connecticut to attract a larger share of the cohort of 18-year-alds who wi!! be headed/or college. ,. The CCF's first reports presented dora and general re~ommendationsabout demo- graphics, admissions, academic andfinan- cial resources, and student life. Later, the task force reports were more specific. The CCi strongly recommended strengthening the curriculum in mathematics, computer studies, physical sciences and economics. This recommendation, and another calling for a new athletic center, ha ve been centro- versial. Adding positions in mathematics and science clearly means subtracting positions in other areas. Was Connecticut sacrificing its strengths in arts and hurnani- lies 10 build up mathematics, physical sciences, economics and computer studies? Seven faculrv members signed a letter calling the CCF report "unprincipled and naive "and complaining that the report was dominated by "marketing" concerns. Fi- nally, however, the faculty voted over- whelmingly 10 accept the CCF report, The Alumni Magazine asked several CCF members to discuss their major findings and recommendations. They were, standing (l-rj, Dean of the Faculty R. Francis (Frank) Johnson; R. SCali Warren, professor of botany and CCF chairman; sealed, Paige Cottingham '83, former stu- Members of the Committee on Connecticut's den! government president, Bruce Kirmmse, associate professor of history; and Ann Future discuss their recommendations Sloan Devlin, assistant professor of psychology. Other CCF members, and their for changes in the college's departments, were: Nancy Rash-Fabbri, art history; Helen Mulvey, history; Wayne academic programs, extracurricular life, Swanson: government; Gerald Visgilio, economics; Deans Jeanette Hersey and and admissions policies. Alice Johnson; Jason Baurn '82; W. Tho- mas Zeigler '82; Oakes Ames, exofflcio;and participating members Louise S. Andersen '4/, Alumni Association, Jane Bredeson, assistant to the president; David Edwards, development; Roy Knight, treasurer-

8 ANN: There are people who aren't happy VIVIAN: I'd like to begin with a rather conclusions, but that doesn't change their with the assumptions we made. I think we broad question, What were the CCF's most validity. Besides being sobering, the report approached this as a task which required important recommendations and why are has provoked a good deal of discussion and gathering objective pieces of information. they so important? Who would like to try thought. I don't know of anybody who raised the flag and said, "Wow, I'm happy," Some people, I think, disagree with that 10 answer that? but a lot of people have told me they whole approach and felt that the priorities SCOTT: The chairman will try. Connecti- thought it was a very carefully researched should be decided on some other basis. cut College is a highly selective, academical- and necessary piece of work. ly rigorous, residential liberal arts college. FRANK: It's important to note that the This is the essential character of the college BRUCE: The reaction generally has been Board of Trustees has been very positive in and our greatest strength and must be pre- positive in the sense that people think we its response to this report. They considered it a very fine. careful and non-self-serving served. We are, however, facing difficult did a thorough and objective job. A few assessment. I have been immenselyencour- times and changes are inevitable. The chal- people have been very vocal in their dissat- aged to know that there are colleagues on lenge is to control those changes so that the isfaction, but for the most part people have college emerges strengthened. Bruce's arti- respected the job that was done, and they this faculty who would give the time to do this amount of work, would do it with such cle in the last issue of the Alumni Magazine haven't seen it as a partisan one. They intimate care that it would not be consid- described the demographic nature of the understand that we were led to support ered sloppy or faulty in its research, and problem facing the college in some detail, positions we might not personally have who would look at the best interests of this but a one-sentence summary is that, basi- favored two or three years ago, but which college as a whole and not the best interests cally, the number of potential 18-year-old we see as necessitated by educational as of their departments or of their niches freshmen will drop by about 40 percent well as demographic considerations. within their departments. I think that's over the next 15 or so years. In the face of this we have only three very heartening. options: one is to recruit more effectively- BRUCE: One indicator of the response is to attract and to enroll more and better that although some people were taken applicants. The second is to contract the aback when part one of the report came out size of the institution in order to maintain in the late fall, in the spring, when we solic- the quality of the student body in the face ited volunteers for task forces to help carry of a shrinking applicant pool. The third is out the second part of the work, we had to lower admission standards to some de- almost 50 faculty members working on gree. Realistically we cannot make up 40 those task forces and a large number of percent with one or two of these ap- students as well. It involved more people in proaches; to varying degrees we will have a common undertaking than I have ever to rely on all three. Obviously the more we seen on anyone task at Connecticut increase our attractiveness the less we will College. have to rely on the other two, more painful alternatives. This involves issues both of VIVIAN: I would like to go on now to form-how we present ourselves-and of another question. How can we make the substance-what we are in fact presenting. college better able to compete for students? We have made recommendations that we What percentage of a 40 percent shortfall believe will improve Conn's attractiveness in applicants can we reasonably hope to by strengthening our academic program as PAIGE: That is also pretty much the feel- meet by improving our competitiveness? well as extra-curricular aspects of student ing of the students. At first people were wondering what all this talk was about, but SCOTT: To answer that-how to make life. We also recommend very strongly that the college better able to compete, we're Connecticut carefully contract the size of when the findings of the CCF were explained to the students-first in a small really talking about some other questions. its student body, while maintaining present Why do we need more recreational facili- admissions criteria, before relying on eas- group from the Student Government and then as it filtered out-people realized we ties? What about science and math? We can ing of admissions standards. I hope we will generalize by saying that we must improve be able to discuss the reasons for this later were seriously considering what would happen to Connecticut College, not just in the quality of residential life, which in- in the interview. a few years, but far ahead into the future. cludes where and how students live, things VIVIAN: What has been the reaction on They realized that changes were necessary they do when they're not in class and that campus to the CCF report? and that besides helping those people who includes recreational facilities for both athletics and social events. We can also SCOTT: Mixed. I think it has been sober- would see some of the immediate changes, it would help all of us in the long run by compete better by allowing our curriculum ing. The CCF report had its share of bad to evolve a bit in order to reflect more fully news in that it outlined, in very real terms, making Connecticut stronger. There were a few people who questioned some of the disciplines that people arc increasingly the nature of the demographic problem interested in studying. This is not just to be and where we sit in terms of the competi- priorities, but overall everyone seems to agree we needed to consider the drop in fashionable, either. There are important tion with comparable schools for good stu- population and our future, and iI'S good areas, some bra nd new, that as a liberal arts dents. Nobody likes bad news, so that college we must address. wasn't welcome. We didn't like some of our that it is being considered now.

9 BRUCE: One point I would like to make is to meet the 40 percent drop in applicants. Is this a radical change? How does our that our conclusions were based on very In what order and to what degree should allocation of faculty compare with that of extensive research. We sent out question- we be prepared to contract in size and to our peers in the Twelve College Exchange naires to every admitted applicant to Con- dip into the pool of applicants and why? and, f nally, how different will Connecticut be after we make the recommended shifts? necticut College in two recent years- SCOTT: We must contract first and dip everybody both who enrolled and who second. Connecticut's single most effective BRUCE: In the report, the CCF did call went elsewhere-and got a very high rate of recruiting tool is its reputation as a quality for improving and strengthening the staff- return. The questionnaire gathered a tre- institution. It is a highly selective school. If ing levels and budget allocations to mathe- mendous amount of data as to why people we throw that away, it's a very fast and matics. computer science, economics. and choose us and why they don't. We also slippery slope, and we will lose applications the physical sciences. but it did not quote made campus-wide surveys of all students from the better students. Therefore we any specific level of staffing changes. Itjust currently enrolled. We looked at surveys of must contract first and maintain, or per- said. "The Trustees and Administration entering freshman classes which compared haps even improve, our selectivity so that should move quickly to improve these responses of our students to those of 46 when we are faced with the necessity of areas." To answer the question, we would "very highly selected independent schools." going into an applicant pool. we'll have a have to make a guess about how many new We had quite a wealth of data and it all stronger pool in our waiting list to draw net positions would be added, and I'm will- converged on the areas Scott and the others from. ing to make that guess. Compared to our will point out. peer schools, Connecticut College allots a BRUCE: One of our student members. ANN: There is a parallel here. There were rather small percentage of its faculty to Tom Ziegler, told us that kids and parents three major strategies recommended in the mathematics and the sciences. (Professor watch the average SAT scores and class CCF's first report: shrinking slightly, com- of Government) Wayne Swanson did a ranks of the students admitted to various peting more effectively and perhaps loosen- study of schools in the Twelve College Ex- colleges "like stock market quotations" so ing admissions standards somewhat. Then change, excluding Dartmouth, plus Bates. that they know where they should apply there were three major strategies for com- Colby. Middlebury, Oberlin and Swarth- and where they should n't. It is very com pet- peting more effectively with other presti- more. He found that, of all those schools, itive out there. and if we start lowering the gious college for students. One strategy has Connecticut alIotted the smallest propor- average SA T's or the average class rank of to do with changing the allocation of facul- tion of its faculty to math and science, the students we admit. the word gets back ty resources slightly, another with improv- namely 15 percent. and the greatest pro- very fast and parents will not allow their ing the social and recreational environment portion to arts. humanities, and lan- children to apply to our school. here, and a third with telling the public guages-overall about 55 percent. We were what we've known all along, that Connec- ANN: We are also leery of dipping into the number one in that area, and the last. ticut College is a fine institution. waiting list because the list is heavily weight- number 16, in the other area. If we were to BRUCE: Many task force recommenda- ed toward females. In fact. 87 percent of the add a net offour new positions to the math- tions involved specific changes that may waiting list we had looked at last year was science area now. our relative position make a terrific difference at little or no cost. female. Because the college is fully commit- would change very little. We would then These dealt with advising. honors pro- ted to coeducation. if we start dipping into have about 17.5 percent allocated to the grams, interdisciplinary programs. joint the waiting list, we are going to tip that math-science area. putting us third from programs with other schools, and so on. balance further. We want to achieve a bet- the bottom. The administration is now preparing these ter coeducational balance. and dipping A more realistic assumption would be proposals and sending them to faculty into the waiting list will not aid us in achiev- that we add a net of four new positions to committees for action. ing that goal. math and science, and that by 1990the rest of the faculty has contracted sufficiently. to VIVIAN: What about the second part of BRUCE: The single most important rea- make up a 10percent contraction in the stze the question-how much of the 40 percent son cited by women who turn us down for of the institution. Even then, the math and drop in the applicant pool can we make up another college is that they don't like our science proportion of our faculty would for? coed ratio. There are not enough men. Ifwe only be 20 percent. That would put us fifth go into the waiting list and we tip even from the bottom. still. in strength in math BRUCE: You have to figure most of our further toward the women. we may gain a competitors are very well endowed, better and science. And our strength in arts. few students this year and next year out of humanities. and languages would still be endowed than we are. They are also aware the waiting list but our yield will go down in of the demographic crisis, and will pour a about second. third. or fourth from the top. the subsequent years because we have lost There would be very little overall change In tremendous amount of energy and capital ground on the coed ratio. into the same areas. Much of what we will our academic program. We would still ~e spend we would have to spend just to stay ANN: This year I understand we did bet- strongest or very nearly the strongest In where we are. Expecting more than a 10 or ter, with about 43 percent males in the those areas where we have traditlOnally 15 percent increase in our relative position, freshman class. been st rong. we would still be quite modest or a great jump in our yield, is unrealistic. in our commitment of resources to the VIVIAN: What sorts of changes in the sciences and mathematics. But we are talk- VIVIAN: The CCF report says that the academic structure of the college. in per- ing about making the minimum changes college will have to become smaller and dip centage allocation of faculty to various de- necessary to produce viable programs In deeper into the pool of applicants in order partments. are called for in the CCF report'? those areas.

10 Colby. Bowdoin, Holyoke, Smith. Wes- FRA NK: We also made comparative ob- nent to courses in philosophy. psychology, servations about allocation of faculty or religious studies or in English literature. leyan and Vassar. If academically they're all very good. people start to make deci- resources in economics and the pattern is ANN: I'd also like to point out that in the essentially the same as Bruce has described sions on criteria other thanjust academics. campaign goals for the college. number one Also, the faculty sometimes fails to for science and mathematics. We are close on the list is the renovation of Palmer to being the lowest in percentage offaculty remember that students live here. They Library as a humanities center. It's impor- spend 24 hours a day here, and things resources in economics. tant that we recognize that priority. and besides academics are very important if VIVIAN: Is economics a department that what it will mean for our academic vitality. you're living in an institution like this. An has really leaped in popularity? SCOTT: Another piece of evidence is the athletic facility is not a trivial expenditure. dean of the faculty's hard work this sum- It's essential for the students, PAIGE: There definitely is more demand mer on the application to the National En- for those economics and math-science ANN: There is a lot of data to support the dowment for the Humanities for a grant to courses, Everyone-whether their major is proposal for an athletic center. A good bit renovate Palmer. That is a clear financial, art or whatever-seems to be somewhat comes from a report prepared by Charlie as well as moral. commitment. business oriented because that is the way Luce, director of athletics. His findings the world has focused us. Just to have an were scandalous. He compared our indoor introductory course in macro or micro recreational space with our competitors- behind you, is to your advantage whether how much space we provided per student. you are going into the job market or going We ended up right on the bottom of the list. to continue your education. And a lot of We offer something like 30 square feet per faculty advisors are suggesting that before student and the next school. Wesleyan. you graduate you take economics or com- offers 54 square feet. We rank very poorly puter studies. in providing recreational and athletic opportunities. As our student body has in- SCOTT: If you want evidence-go to reg- creased from 800 to 1.200 and finally to istration and see the lines of students in 1,600, the amount of recreational space front of the economics department desk. hasn't changed proportionally. We actually have fewer square feet per student than VIVIAN: Some members of the College we did in the early 60s. community have said that weare adding to math. computer studies. economics and BRUCE: We have one-third fewer square physical sciences at the cost of excellence in Are we adding to math, feet per student than we had in the 50s and humanities. How would you respond? computer studies, econom- 60s. SCOTT: I don 't think it's at the cost of ics and physical sciences at ANN: In our research. we asked students excellence in the humanities. and the com- who were admitted here but who enrolled mittee certainly wouldn't want it to be. It the cost of excellence in elsewhere to explain what influenced their may be at the cost of a few faculty positions the humanities? choice. A good number mentioned they in humanities. found our recreational and athletic facilities inadequate. And I'd like to point out BRUCE: Even in the worst case scenario VIVIAN: Some people have questioned the difference between recreational and that I sketched two minutes ago-we the high priority given to a new athletic athletic activities. Our students see our would still be one of the top three or four center. How would you respond? How program for the intercollegiate athlete as schools out of the 16 we surveyed in our cramped is our indoor athletic space and quite adequate. But the typical student who allocation in the humanities. So that is how do we compare with our peer colleges? isn't on a varsity team but likes to go out simply not true. PAIGE: A new athletic center would offer and play racquet ball. hit a squash ball. or whatever. says our facilities and programs ANN: It's not a major change. It's an ad- students here something they really need. justment to allow us to offer adequate pro- Cro gymnasium must house many different are less than adequate. The number of sports clubs and activities has more than grams in these other areas. where we are activities for both interscholastic and not able to do that now because of the intramural sports. People who are just doubled in the past decade. There are many more people interested in recreation today. numbers of faculty involved. recreational joggers or basketball players, or who just want to work out. can only use and we simply don't have the space to FRA NK: My sense is that this modest shift Cro when the varsity teams are finished. accommodate them. would, in fact-enhance work in the human- Water polo intramural games start at II BRUCE: We have one indoor racquet ities because it would produce students in p.m .. because that's when the pool is free. court. It's a very old squash court. It's humanities courses with a broader back- almost impossible to get playing time. It is ground in subjects that havea very interest- SCOTT: And another point to remember booked up all day and most of the night ing impact in the study of humanities. Stu- is that Connecticut is competing for stu- way in advance. The court is used all the dents who can move around in quantitative dents who are also admitted to other very time except in the winter. when you have a analysis. have some sense of science and high quality academic institutions. We are cold snap and the floor heaves up-and technology. bring an important compo- excellent academically, but so are Bates,

II then nobody can play on it for days. And room in Cr o last night, and it was wonder- participate more in what goes 011 here. ful. There was something we really didn't that's it for racquet sports. in the winter BRUCE: Great. Apropos of Ann's point.! think would be a reality, at least while we time at Connecticut College. think the existence of CCF itself had a were here. It gi ves you the feeli ng thi ngs are Furthermore, there is no such thing as a salutary effect on the whole community. It casual recreational game of basketball at being accomplished and the needs of the students are being addressed and taken made us think and operate together as a Connecticut College. There is no such common community of concern, and not thing as going down and shooting a few seriously. The living rooms were also im- simply as several parochial divisions at baskets. It doesn't happen-it can't hap- proved, with couches, modern televisions, odds with one another. or who don't take pen. All winter long, what do people do? and sturdy tables. People appreciate things like that. More students are coming down one anot her into consideration. It hink that ANN: Going back to something Scott to the living rooms because there has been will make itself felt in the faculty relation- mentioned, we have to consider the qua lity furniture to sit on. In the past, people said. ship with students and the faculty's atten- to of life we're able to provide here. Certainly why go if you can't sit anywhere. It shows tion the dorms. I for one had not been we're all concerned with what goes on in- you can get good results by investing a aware of the miserable kinds of facilities for side the classroom. But we do need differ- moderate amount of money. holdinga party until I had my eyes opened. ent kinds of possibilities for camaraderie. Now that I see how beautiful that multi- conversation, and activity outside the purpose room in Cro is. I realize what we classroom. And we simply have not been were missing. able to provide those options. Creating a FRANK: I've been very pleased with mod- new facility for a thletics and recreation will est improvements Physical Plant made free a decent amount of space in Cro so UM", I T~INI( "'IE'R' during the summer for faculty teaching some very badly cramped activities like 1;01N(, TO &E J\llT " spaces and for some faculty offices. They Career Counseling and Placement, the LITTL.£ even converted, in a magnificent way. one campus radio station, and other student (.RO"O'Cl, of the old bathrooms in Winthrop that had clubs will have adequate space to conduct been claimed by the males on the third their business. floor. and made it into a lovely new faculty VIVIAN: What sorts of changes has the office-for a female. We even had a party CCF recommended in the recreational to celebrate that conversion! area, and are there improvements that can VIVIAN: Is there a factor you can point to. be made at low cost? aside from the 40 percent drop in the popu- ANN: Frankly, I don't think you can get lation of 18-year-olds, that seems to under- away from the recommendation that we lie and unify the CCF's proposals for aca- need a new facility. What can be done at demic and non-academic changes at Con- lower cost? Our task force on the quality of necticut'! student life recommended changes in pol- SCOTT: Even in the absence of the demo- icy to extend the longevity of dorm living graphic reality, our curriculum would have rooms-for example," using heavy, more to continue to evolve. To be a viable insti- durable furniture. But again. that's still an tution, holding any claim to academic in- expenditure. These are major problems. tegrity in the liberal arts in the latter part of and I don't think the college is going to get the 20th century. you must deal with com- away with inexpensive solutions. puters, for example. You can't ignore them. And no matter what thedemograph- FRANK: During the summer, we made ics would be, we couldn't continue to some changes in Cro. They weren't cheap. but they weren't astronomical, either. ignore the small size of the economics I<. There were resources to pay for these department. changes because of well balanced budgets ANN: In fact. the faculty has voted to the last couple of years. The new all- change the general education requirements purpose room in Cro is extremely attrac- to divide Area I into two paris, so that both tive. It improves the building. The new ANN: When the student life task force a course in the physical and biological dance floor in the Main Lounge is an ~sked students if they wanted more faculty sciences and a course in the quantitative immense improvement over the rather Involvement in the dorms, the overwhelm- and logical discipf nes will be required. The dismal space in the old bowling alley. It just mg answer was yes. Students would like faculty came to grips with the need of stu- never functioned well. faculty affiliated with dorms-not living dents to be educated in those areas. there, but perhaps attending suppers fre- PAIGE: Often. in the task forces, we won- quently and planning programs. These are BRUCE: The change in the relations be- dered what good all the talk was doing, but th.ings that will improve the quality of life tween the sexes is also crucial. Women are students returned after the summer and WIthout costing anything. We are moving flooding into areas formerly dominated by saw something was actually being done. toward considering what happens in the males. They are going into the quantltatlve The senior class had a party in the new dorm, and how we as a community might disciplines. They are going into business.

12 with that very difficult problem. It's painful law. medicine. the professions. In their en's college. in order to convince their but it's necessary. courses. it's the same thing. and in athletic potential students they are a serious place. activities: they're converging on the for- they have had to invest heavily in the sci- VIVIAN: I think we're ready for my last merly "male" side. There is no doubt men ences at great expense, much more heavily question. The report of the Committee on and women are doing the same sorts of than they would have had they gone coed. Connecticut's Future suggests that Con- things, more and more. If we were a women's college, we would necticut must maintain its strengths, move have faced most of these changes earlier resources into quantitative disciplines, and ANN: Wellesley. in the alumnae magazine and in a more radical way. contract somewhat in enrollments. and I just received. has announced the creation VI VIAN: Has the college begun to imple- therefore, in faculty size. Can it do all of a depart ment of computer st udies. And a ment some of CCF's recommendations? three? new athletic facility is one of their highest priorities. At all the women's institutions, ANN: You've heard about the space EVERYONE: Yes. It can. you see the same kinds of pressures and changes in Cro. improvements in academic ANN: It can and it will. It has to, priorities. facilities. and in dormitory life. Those things are underway. BRUCE: The details are contained in the FRANK: It's not just these pragmatic answers to all the other questions we al- assessments. but also the sense that a lib- ready addressed. eral arts college has a responsibility to produce intelligently competent citizens who FRANK: [ think it's important to let our can grapple with complex issues that are friends and supporters k now of the outside going to involve science, technology, the e recognition the college has received. The ,._ . MacArthur Foundation selected Connec- power of computers, economic controver- , .. Gl I·..• ticut as one of 16 small liberal arts colleges sies and choices. They may not be the ,.-, o wizards in these fields. but they should be ..., to receive an endowment grant of $300.000 to support the hiring of a new younger able to ask intelligent questions of people I,·I··-·"~ •• who propose simplistic or tyrannical solu- :::.:::::... ' faculty member. That grant has enabled us to appoint a new associate professor of tions. mathematics. Then, the Alfred P. Sloan BRUCE: The world is changing. In the Foundation invited us. along with 29 other 19th century at Oxford and Cambridge, liberal arts colleges. to compete in their until about 1850. you could not study any program to try to raise the level of quanti- modern languages. You could not study tative skills and understanding of technol- any history after 1066. You could not study ogy among liberal arts graduates. To be any mathematics after Euclid. You simply picked out by two outside foundations is a could not study those things. and when very high compliment to the quality of the there was an attempt to introduce these college and to their sense that we are modern subjects-sciences and modern lan- strong, that we will thrive, and wewill meet guages and modern history-there was a these challenges and probably be better for brouhaha such as those schools had not FRANK: This year we added one full-time it. seen in many. many years. It took an act of new position in economics. and two-thirds PAIGE: I have just one thing I'd like to Parliament to get those things changed, of a position to the mathematics staff. The say, although it's not really in answer to and I think that Connecticut College, by department has added that to a previous any question. I think, and I think every- contrast. has reacted relatively modestly. one-third staff member and created one body might agree. that it's a good thing new full-time position. The overall staffing VIVIAN: Some people will ask whether Connecticut College has taken a look at its recommendations presented to the Board these changes would be necessary if Con- future. It may have happened sooner or of Trustees for 1983-84 will incorporate necticut had not become coeducational. later. but it's good it happened now-that these additions plus two more full-time What sorts of changes do you think the we stepped back and took a look at our- positions allocated in the area of math, college would have had to make even if we selves. We have seen how good we are and computer studies a nd science. And we will hadn't gone coed? we've made a list of priorities to address retain the current size of the faculty while some things we can stand to improve. It's ANN: Women's colleges are doing the doing so. important that everyone has had a part in same things we are doing now. because of ANN: To plan how the college may have to this process-students. administrators, the change in our culture. contract its faculty in the next decade. each staff. faculty. It's made Connecticut Col- lege the wonderful family-type place we BRUCE: Thc colleges that remained single department has been asked to respond to a always talk about-but you could really sex institutions invested earlier and much set of criteria issued by the president. We sec it this past year. I'm sure this will con- more hea vily in the sciences and mat hemat- must consider what we'd do if our depart- tinue as the changes we've talked about ics than we are talking about doing. They mental staffing level were reduced by one actually begin taking place. We might not had to. to survive. In a very interesting or two people. how that would affect our have liked to hear all the things we found interview in The Wall Street Journal. the offerings. and to think about continuing to out. but at least it has been doing us some president of Mt. Holyoke said recently that offer viable majors in various departments. good. because Mt. Holyoke has remained a worn- Each department is trying to come to grips

13 After a remarkable life, Frances Drake Nevins '51 died in December 1980 as a Frances Nevins '51: Carmelite nun. She had been a brilliant student at Connecticut, earned a master's in history at Radcliffe, and taught severely friend, scholar, wife, disturbed and delinquent girlsar the House of the Good Shepard in Boston and in Peekskill, New York. As a postulant in [he nun and mystic Sisters of {he Good Shepard in 1960, she realized she had a vocation/or a contem- plative life, and entered the Carmelite community in Schenectady, New York, in December of that year. The bishop oj the Diocese of Albany, Howard J. Hubbard, asked Joan Ward Mullaney, dean at Catholic University in Washington, D. c., to write the life story of Frances Nevins. The biography. along with journal and retreat notes Frances wrote as Sister Christine Marie of the Holy Spirit, will be published to coincide with the fourth centenary of Sister Theresa of Avila, founder of the Carmelites. Dean Mullaney has agreed to sketch a brief profile of Fran- ces Nevins for the Alumni Magazine, and would welcome any communicationsfrom Frances 'friends at Connecticut, "Mysticism is not a singular parapsycho- logical phenomenon, but a genuine experience of God/rom the very heart of our existence. "-Karl Rahner Frances Drake Nevins left family, fortune, husband, friends, the scholarly life for one reason-the love of God. She was born August 17, 1930, in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and as a small child, was close to her father. She graduated from the Master's School, Dobbs Ferry, New York, and entered Connecticut College in 1947. Gertrude E. Noyes '25, who was then dean of freshmen, has described the array of academic honors The late Frances Nevins was all of Frances earned: she was the class' Win- throp Scholar, won departmental honors these: friend, scholar, wife, in history, and also shared the History Prize for Understanding and Originality of nun, mystic. Thought in the Study of History. H.er honors paper, directed by Professor of HIS- She was also, as one young novice put it, tory F. Edward Cranz, was entitled ".The Relation Between Christianity and Philos- more a guide than a teacher. ophy in 51. Augustine and Nicholas Cusanus." Mary (Mike) McNab Bunn '51 remem- bers that during a wonderful trip to Europe in 1950 with classmate Joyce Anderson By Joan Ward Mullaney Nicholson, Frances spent hours arguing with several young Jesuit priests about ~he Dean, Catholic University meanings of the parables. "She had," Mike McNab Bunn recalls, "read the New Testa- ment in Greek, of course!" The 1951entry

14 line with sound theology, in her great kind- in Kaine, the yearbook. rings true lO those some sadness.fear, etc" but this is all under who were close to Frances at the time: control nOll', and the peace is what domi- ness and delicacv. she had a way ofinviting "Frannie" . Amazing combination of nates. The beginning of this is usually tiS to look again and her own thought on mind and matter The well-shaped rather sudden and definite. and rhen it the subject would make it clearer, We never felr "turned ofl" when she pointed our Winthrop Scholar Intriguing almond groll's until it rakes possession of me, and if fuzzy thinking or a mistake, eyes. . "Talk louder, I have my earplugs it is a situation in which there has been a To our surprise and hers roo, our topic in" Automatic coffee dispenser. grear storm offeelings (rebellion, despair, would so develop that before we knell' it Down to earth only in her dislike of etc.), there comes a great calm. Along with her point \1'05 made and we stumbled all the shoes. Morning paralysis and evening it I seem to be aware of all increase in my treasure together. It was all so simple like walks . Friendly, impulsive . Modern love for Cod and my determination to do close friends speaking together about what intellect brought to bear on the Middle His will no matter what it cost s me. they love most, One could easily see in her Ages. The cost was a well-kept secret between classes thefruit of her a\\'/7 prayer and deep Between 1951 and 1959, Frances earned God and herself. To the end, her step was reflection. She gave something to us that a master's in history at Radcliffe: married quick. her habit "just so" and her way nO text book could give (though she used and divorced a man she loved; acted on her warm and personal. Although her circula- books a lor to make a point or enhance baptism as a Catholic; and, in 1960. entered tory system had all but shut down, there something) she gave herself. In some of the a community of cloistered religious wom- was no trace of "grim and inevitable" about classes, I'd say she gave 0.1" her deepest self. en. She remained in the Carmelite Monas- her. She still took delight in the search for her very soul. I learned a great dealfrom tery in Schenectady until her death on knowledge. and in the sharing of it. Mother Sr. Christine, perhaps more from her December 16. 1980, This too spare para- Mary John. the prioress of the monastery, wonderful example thanfrom words. I am graph includes events that require much assigned her the congenial task of acquaint- forever grateful to Godfor this soul. more explanation. What can be said briefly ing three young novices with the Marian I am afraid, Mother, I have expressed is that the link among them was her grow- tradition in the Carmelite order. Sister mvsetfpoorlv. but I pray it will be a little ing love of God, and her determination to Therese wrote these observations shortly after Frances' death. help! pursue that love. no matter what it cost her. -Sr. Therese In a remarkable letter written in 1958 to Mother, Carmelite communities are very small, Charles Reardon. the Jesuit theologian Since rou askedfor afew impressions of with no more than 21 nuns in each monas- who instructed her in the Catholic faith. our classes with Sister Christinefor Joan, tery. The major part of the day is occupied she provides a step-by-step explanation of I'll trv to do my best. II is a tittle hard in prayer. common worship. spiritual read- her approach toward ma king choices because my love for my dear "big" sister ing and meditation: the nuns devote be- about the events in her life within the con- and my impressions of her as a person are tween six and seven hours to these duties. text of her primary relationship with God: so deep in my heart, Well, simply here are In still other aspects, life in the Carmel has l thought t ought 10 write to In' TO my impressions, the characteristics of the "desert": poverty, explain 10 you my wal' of dealing with m.1 'found Sister Christine 10be afanrastic silence and seclusion, As in the old monas- difficulties and temptations. and hall' it teacher. She was more guide than reacher tic colonies. work is to be performed, as far often seems TOme thot Cod makes things though, Our classes with her were ver\" as possible, not in common rooms. but by clear TOme or these limes. Whenever I have simple and informal. She mainly shared each nun in her own room. anv difficultv or perplexitv or temptation, with us her own personal reflections on a There have always been persons in small or large. I present it all TOCod, drop parliculartopic she lI'ished to lell usaboUf. whom the basic human urge "to be alone il at his feel, so TOspeak, and I tell Him rhal Her class 11'0.1' nol a "rap session" and her with the Beloved"-which G.K. Chester- I am .w~r.l'for all my ~I"ong allitudes in this sharing didn '{lake awayfrom the fact that ton has brilliantly called the primary and situalion-be il fear or repugnance or she had a very deji'nile poinl to make and infallible test of love-has asserted itself. uncharitl' or discouragemenl or II"hat- an end in viell'. For a person with this vocation, the monas- ever-a~d I accept all the trials and hard- She 1\'0.1' kind oj'like someone I\'ho takes tic life is neither worldly nor unworldly, [t ships TOmyseffinvolved. 'ask Him to help j/-iends all a treasure hunl, she hen'efj' is merely liberated and simple, dedicated me see Ihe situarion as He wanlS me to see knoll'ing all Ihe while Il'here Ihe treasure is. Instead of dumping Ihe Treasure in our lap, completely to the love of God and God's ii, and to produce in me Ihe dispositions He .\"0 10spe~k, she gave us hinrs and clues as TO people, The voluntary suffering in such a 1\'anlS me 10 have TOward iT. life is primarily acceptance of what comes A r rhe same time, {j'il is a perplexitl' of lI'here the treasure was hidden. To her it along, using that suffering to remove any- some kind Ihal could be helped by reason- meant more (/ we discovered rhe treasure thing that hinders. distracts or weakens the ing or studrinK, 'eirher reason it all bur for ourselves. So lI'e kind of worked as a innux of the divine. (sometimes on paper) or read I\·harever I ream lI'ilh her as coach. can find on Ihe subject but all the rime She had a great love and enrhusiasmfor • ••• • rhe ropics she shared lI'ith us, She II'0uld References aski;lgfor liRhr fO understand whal I read Rahner. Karl. Concern for the Church. as Cod wanls me TOundersland it, or 10 Take a topic and have us look at il rogelher New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1981. reason correcrly. from dUlerenl angles and dUlerent aspecls of ir, She lI'ould make a re.flection or a Goerres. I. The Hidden Face. New York Sooner or later there generallr comes 10 Pantheon Press. 1959. me, eilher I\'hen' am reading or praying, or comment and ask, "What do you think?"or Merton. Thomas. ConreJllplatioll in a even \I'hen , am doinK somethinK £>Ise,a ..Hall' does it slrike you?"or" Whal do you World (~j'A('lion. Garden City: Doubleday time when the difficulr .. seems 10 be re- see?"and \I'e'dshare our thoughls. Ij'one of Image Books. 1973. solveel. On rhe .I"~~face'rhere slill may be our thouRhlS \I'ere kind of./iizzy or not in

15 This study forcefully reveals through its integration of case studies and statistical material the strong interrelationship be- BOOI(S tween enforceable legal sanctions against discrimination '(public policy), a general condition of economic growth, and black militancy for black progress. Striking a chord similar to the Congressional Black Caucus and many civil rights organizations, the authors write that "a decent and Protest, Politics and The book'sdominant theme is that black permanent income through meaningful achievement or lack of achievement is employment is the prerequisite for mean- Prosperity: Black closely associated with our nation's eco- ingful participation in our nation's social Americans and White nomic growth, public policy, and the black and economic institutions. The question of Institutions, 1940-75 struggle for equality. The interrelation- black unemployment and its effects on ships among these factors are clearly artic- other aspects of black involvement in ulated in the introductory chapter and rein- American society continues to be a burning By Dorothy Krall Newman '33, forced through careful empirical analysis. issue Nancy j. Amidei, Barbara L. The authors argue that one of the most Protest, Politics and Prosperity includes a carefully detailed and meticulously doc- Crater, Dawn Day, William j. important forces for greater equality is one over which blacks have little control: the umented presentation of events; an inter- Kruvant, Jack S. Russell economy. A growing economy implies pretation carefully derived from data; and Pantheon Books, 1978 more jobs for everyone, including blacks. a cautious analysis which nonetheless leads A fast rate of economic growth has been to the conclusion that America's largest what is often called "necessary but not a racial minority does not enjoy the same sufficient condition" for black gains. In rights and privileges as white Americans. By Robert W. Hampton reality, national prosperity has not meant Even though there have been dramatic Assistant Professor of Sociology as many jobs for black workers as for white changes since the 1940s black Americans workers. This is primarily because eco- do not have equal access to the key institu- nomic growth does not eliminate the one tions of American life. In 1943, Gunnar Myrdal published An condition most basic to black employment American Dilemma, one of the most prospects: discrimination in the market- important works in the area of race and place. ethnic relations written in the 20th century. The authors are critical of our nation's In Myrdal's view there is a fundamental public policy and particularly of our Virtue or Vice? Sor Juana's ethical dilemma in the United States, a con- employment policy. In both the public and Use of Thomistic Thought trast between the democratic principles of private sectors of our economy, they doc- the Declaration of Independence and the ument a history of discrimination that has subordination of groups such as black contributed to the black unemployment By Constance Morhardt Americans. Protest, Politics and Prosper- rate remaining significantly above five per- Montross '70 ity examines the extent to which black cent every year except one since 1948 and Americans progressed in their drive to above ten percent in ten different years. University Press of achieve equality in our nation's social and Even important executive orders and con- A rnerica, 1981 economic institutions. It consciously builds gressional legislation have, for the most upon the foundation laid by Myrdal and part, failed to open the doors to employ- others and sadly arrives at a similar conclu- ment opportunity. Although progress has sion. The book is the work of a research been made, the authors argue that the pace By Glen L. Kolb group sponsored by the Carnegie Corpora- of progress has not always risen as quickly Professor of Hispanic Studies tion of New York and directed by Dorothy as expectations. Krall Newman '33. Although the economy and public policy The authors chose an historical perspec- significantly affect black progress, the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the brilliant and tive from 1940 to 1975 both because Myr- authors correctly note the paramount renowned poet of seventeenth-century dal's analysis included data only through importance of the black struggle as a driv- Mexico was a feminist far in advance of the early forties and because the three and ing force for achievement. There is full her time. As a woman and a nun, she faced one-half decades provided a necessary documentation for their contention that formidable obstacles in her efforts to com- perspective for understanding the course of black Americans achieved the most when pete with men. But her personal beauty, social change. The authors take full advan- they themselves militantly struggled for and especially her intellectual attainments, tage of the historical perspective by provid- their rights. The struggle has had least suc- enabled her to gain the recognition and ing a macro social analysis of economic and cess in desegregating housing, but has en- protection of both civil and ecclesiastical social policy changes that affected black joyed relatively greater success in higher authorities at the viceregal court of Mex- progress. education and health care. iCD. Having learned to read at the age of

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contact with the Creator. But we must note three, she soon entered upon a program of S1. Thomas or his writings in the works of that she wrote at a time when a long period study, including Latin, mathematics, phi- Sor Juana, and Mrs. Montross does not, in of Spanish mysticism (from Santa Teresa losophy, theology, music and science. At fact, attempt to establish such a close rela- to San Juan de la Cruz) had profoundly the age of 15, SOT Juana submitted to an tionship. But the works of the great theolo- affected religious attitudes in both Spain examination, arranged by the Viceroy, in gian were exceedingly well known in Sor and Spanish America, and the idea of spir- which she astonished a panel of 40 eminent Juana's time, and the examples that he itual union with God was thought of as men with her knowledge in many fields of offered for purposes of illustration and intuitive rather than intellectual. The cen- learning. Meanwhile, she engaged in writ- argumentation were so often repeated that tral and dominant theme of Spanish ing (by her own account, mostly at the they became almost the common property baroque art in all of its forms (the novel, urging of others) and her literary produc- of both lay and clerical writers. On the drama, poetry, music, painting, sculpture tion included conventional love poems, other hand, both St. Thomas and Sor and architecture) was not the question of mystical religious verse, dramatic pieces Juana make direct reference on many occa- belief in the existence of God, but the prob- and satire against men who hypocritically sions to such earlier authorities as Aristotle lem of salvation of the soul. What is known spoke ill of women. In 1689 all of SOT and S1. Augustine, and this again was a common practice among such writers as as "Thomistic thought" was undoubtedly Juana's works were published in Madrid. attractive to a basically intellectual person In the following year, 1690, the Bishop of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina like Sor Juana, but the fact that she even- Puebla, Mexico, published the nun's Carra and many others. tually abandoned her studies, gave away all Antenag6rica. an analysis and criticism of It is generally recognized that the great contribution of S1. Thomas Aquinas to her books, devoted herself to prayer and a sermon given by a Jesuit priest, Antonio signed a prostestation of faith in her own Vieira, some 40 years earlier. In this com- Christian theology was his clear and force- blood is clear evidence that she was by no position Sor Juana, while affecting an atti- ful demonstration that there is no conflict means exempt from the torturing doubts tude of humility and obedience to her between faith and reason. In the many examples presented by Mrs. Monstross, he and emotionalism of her time. ecclesiastical superior, performed some- Mrs. Montross, who is assistant profes- thing ofa tour deforce in her skillful use of regularly uses the word "intellect" in refer- ring to man's efforts to "know" God, the sor of Spanish at Sweet Briar College, Aristotelian logic, and syllogism and other has presented a book that is well written elements common to scholastic methods of inference being that faith would be the result of a logical process of thought and and thoroughly documented. It is a useful argumentation. Shortly thereafter, how- addition to the already extensive list of crit- ever, the same bishop, using the pseudo- reason. Sor Juana, however, in considering the same problem, uses the word alma ical works on the writings ofa talented poet nym "Sor Filotea," directed a letter to Sor of colonial Spanish America. Juana in which he praised her writings, but (soul) as that part of man which can make admonished her to confine herself to religious rather than secular matters. In her response, Respuesta a Sor Filotea, the nun defended her intellectual activity as a God- given right and declared that, even without N books, she found it impossible to avoid RE UN I o study when all of Nature presented matters inviting analysis and understanding. Professor Constance Morhardt Mont- ross '70, in the work under review here, seeks to demonstrate "Sor Juana's use of Thomistic thought" in the two letters mentioned above and in the nun's long poem Primero Suetio in which she imitates both the culteranismo and the conceptismo of the great Spanish innovator, Luis de Gon- gora y Argote. The method adopted by Mrs. Montross for this purpose has been to reproduce a series of quotations from the works of both St. Thomas Aquinas (prin- cipally from his Summa Theologica) and Sor Juana. The examples selected from the nun's works are presented in the original Span- ish, whereas the excerpts from the S1. Thomas text are offered in English transla- tion. These quotations are interspersed with comments and explanations by Mrs. Mark your calendar, call your friends, and plan now Montross to demonstrate similarities of for a terrific reunion weekend at Connecticut thought and concept in both writers. No instance is given of any direct reference to

17 ROUND & ABOUT

In the limelight Dr. Elsie M. Tytla '47, a former deputy director of the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., has been appointed chief of staff at the Veterans Administra- tion Medical CenterIn Wichita, Kansas. She will also serve as associate dean and assistant professor of pediatrics at the Uni- versity of Kansas Medical School. A former resident of New London, Dr. Tytla had a private practice here and was a city council member for five years. Radcliffe College has chosen Ann- Louise Stickler Shapiro '66 as a fellow in the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute. Dr. Shapiro, achievement and service. Dr. Thompson, who received her master's in history from who earned her master's and doctorate in Connecticut and herdoctorate from Brown, psychology at the University of Virginia, has taught at Boston College. Her study at held a Philip Francis DuPon! Fellowship the Bunting Institute, which will be sup- for three years and was a National Science ported by the National Endowment for the Foundation Fellow for three years as well. Humanities and the American Council of The Beneficial Hodson Fellowship will Learned Societies, will focus on the histori- permit her a sabbatical to do graduate cal development of occupational health work in industrial and organizational psy- and safety in France. chology and to develop courses in that Last year, President Reagan threatened area. Celebrating a decade to cut in half the national endowments for The Organization of American States the arts and humanities. The arts and has awarded Nancy Grosselfinger '67 a fel- of dance at Connecticut humanities now have a lobbying voice in lowship to conduct dissertation research This spring will mark the tenth year Con- Congress, thanks to the efforts of Ken A. on criminal sentencing and the judiciary in necticut College has offered a dance major, Crerar '77. Mr. Crerar, who was profiled in the Dominican Republic. Ms. Grossel- and the dance department is preparing for the Boston Globe last summer, quit his finger earned a master's in criminal justice a three-day festival that will culminate in staff job in Senator Christopher Dodd's from Rutgers University and is pursuing alumni performances. office in order to set up the Political Fund her doctorate at Florida State University. "We've had a department for 11 years, for the Art and Humanities. "In the past." Jean Mayshar La Vecchia '73 has been and a major for ten," explained department he told the Globe. "members of Congress promoted to assistant secretary and assis- chairman Diana Schnitt. "And this year have supported the arts out of a sense of tant treasurer at Southern New England I we're feeling festive." goodness, Mom and apple pie." Now, the Telephone. Mrs. La Vecchia. who earned Alumni are invited to attend workshops. Political Fund for the Arts and Humanities her M.B.A. from the University of Connec- J master classes, discussions and exhibits on will raise funds and make campaign con- ticut, joined SNET as a staff engineer in March 10. 1I, and 12. An informal concert tributions, like other political action com- 1973. is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, at mittees. Mr. Crerar is a former member of The San Diego County Christian Writ- 8:00 p.m. in the East Studio. Major alumni the Alumni Association Executive Board, ers Guild has chosen Linda Hess Schiwitz performances will take place Friday and where he was liaison between undergradu- '59 its "Christian Writer of the Year." Mrs. Saturday nights at 8:00, also in the East ates and alumni. Schiwitz, a freelance writer and lecturer. is Studio. Annette Spera Thompson '62, professor author of Come Alive: A Non-threatening If you are interested in attending or par- of psychology at Hood College, has been Guidebook for New Christians. published ticipating in the anniversary celebration, named a Beneficial Hodson Faculty Fellow by Ronald N. Haynes Publishers of Palm please contact Diana Schnitt, Chairman, for the 1982-83 academic year. The fellow- Springs, California. Mrs. Schiwitz will Dance Department, Box 1607, Connecti- ships recognize outstanding contributions donate to Connecticut all royalties from cut College, New London, CT 06320. to the college through teaching, scholarly books sold to alumni, and asks those who

18 have bought the book to write her at 1410 Perlman of Cleveland, class correspondent position in Lattices," had been written Teton Drive, EI Cajon, California 92021. for 1946. Patricia Adams Sheehan '71 spot- under the direction of Professor Reinhold Baer. Modern Algebra, in particular, the After 20 years at Time magazine, Betty ted the prodigal yearbook in a used book- study of systems with a single operation Suyker '51 has decided to devote herself to store in Rhode Island and bought it for 25<1: and with minimal structure requirements, writing and has produced both a mystery as a birthday gift for her mother, Con- remained her research interest throughout novel and a play. The mystery, Death stance Geraghty Adams '44. In response to Scene, is available in bookstores, and the a note in the summer issue of the Alumni her career. After receiving her doctorate. she taught play, Violaro- Virtuoso was produced at Magazine. Patricia decided instead to send at Temple University and at The Pennsyl- the Coconut Grove Playhouse and at the volume along to Betty Perlman. vania State University, and she worked for Actor's Studio. Marilyn (Lynn) Boylan '49 of New York a while at the Frankford Arsenal. She Judy-Arin Peck Krupp '58, a specialist in and Barbara Cowgill Perrins '49 of Bran- joined the Connecticut College faculty as adult learning, staff development and ford, Connecticut, also wrote, offering Professor of Mathematics in 1962, after a stress, has written The Adult Learner. in their [946 Komes. year as Visiting Professor at Mt. Holyoke which she details 34 characteristics affect- College. Since the then chairwoman of the ingadult learners. Dr. Krupp, who received Mathematics Department, Professor Julia a Ph.D. from the University of Connec- Wells Bower, was granted a year's leave of ticut, consults for school systems and absence that year, Aileen began her service ind ustry. Phi Beta Kappa scholarship here as acting chairwoman with. as it Margaret Creighton Green '35 is author turned out. a department that consisted of Genetic Variants and Strains of the Each year the Connecticut College Chapter entirely of new faculty members. Her good Laboratory Mouse. published in 1981 of Phi Beta Kappa awards one or more sense, her quiet good humor, and her care- by Gustav Fischer Verlag of Stuttgart, scholarships to an alumna, alumnus, or ful , deliberate judgment allowed us to get Germany. senior who is planning to do graduate study. Last year three scholarships were through a year that had its complications awarded: to Martha Vibbert '78, who is and difficulties. When Professor Bower pursuing a Ph. D. in child clinical psychol- retired several years later. there was no ogy at New York University; to Debbie question that Aileen would succeed her as Kuo '82, who is studying at Parsons School chairwoman. She occupied that post for Alumni invited to of Design; and to John Faulkner'82. who is seven years and then returned to her full- studying at the University of Seoul, South time teaching duties. During her sabbatical Florida club events Korea. leave in 1968-69, she was a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow. divid- Alumni who plan to spend part of the win- Alumni who are interested in applying ing her time between the University of ter in Florida are invited to attend meetings for the scholarshi p this year should write to Oklahoma and Tulane University. of the Connecticut Col1ege Club of Flori- the Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa, Box 1534, In addition to memberships in honorary da's West Coast. These temporary resi- Connecticut College. New London. CT societies-Phi Kappa Phi. Sigma Delta dents may not receive announcements of 06320. Applicants need not be members of Epsilon. Pi Mu Epsilon and Phi Beta club meetings because the Alumni Office is Phi Beta Kappa. The deadline for alumni Kappa-she belonged to the New York not aware of their winter addresses. This applications is March 1[, 1983. Academy of Sciences. the American Asso- winter's schedule of meetings is: January ciation for the Advancement of Science, 22. 1983, at the South Bay Cafe in the the American Mathematical Society, and South Bay Shopping Center, located on the Mathematical Association of America. U.S. 41 between Osprey and Venice; Here. on our campus. she served with March 19, 1983. at the Crown House in distinction on the Academic Policy Com- Sarasota. located on Highway 301 and mittee. as President of the Delta of Con- DeSoto Road. just south of the airport. necticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. as Meetings begin with a social hour at In Memoriam well as on several other committees. She 11:30, luncheon follows at 12:30, and a was very highly regarded and respected by program runs until 2:00 or 2:30 p.m. For Lois Aileen Hostinsk» her students and by her colleagues. additional information a bou t reservations, Aileen Hostinsky's untimely death on contact Isabelle Bartlett Hogue '32, club Lois Aileen Hostinsky grew up in Rileyand October21. 1981.leaves a great void on our president. at 83 Phillippi Shores Drive, in Manhattan. Kansas. She did under- campus and. especially, in the Department Sarasota, FL 33581 or telephone (813) graduate work at Kansas State College which. in 1943. awarded her the degree of of Mathematics. She was a fine friend and 957-0239. Bachelor of Science with high honors, an exemplary colleague. AU of us who together with a Phi Beta Kappa scholar- knew her will miss her greatly. ship. After a year's full-time teaching of Ernest C. Schlesinger mathematics at the University of Illinois. Professor of Mathematics she began graduate study at that institution Contributions in memory of Professor The prodigal Koine in 1944. receiving her Master of Arts degree Aileen Hostinskv //lay be sent to the Development Office. Box 1604. Connecti- It was a circuitous path, but a 1946 Koine in J945and the Ph.D. in 1949. Her disser ta- cut College. has at last found its way to Betty Finn tion. "Endomorph isms and Direct Decorn-

19 ABUSED CHILDREN Security Act. Prevention services. still a FAMILIES IN TROUBLE Continued from page 7. rather new concept. are provided by var- Continuedfrom page 5. ious organizations. most of which are local babysitting cooperatives and crisis and private. Since 1935 federal funds have principal concomitant of child abuse. If nurseries, lO provide respite for par- been available to states for the protection parents are without friends. have no tele- ents and socialization opportunities and care of neglected children; in 1962 phone contact with the outside world. or for children. amendments to the Social Security Act are detached from contact with other • Programs for abused children and required states to make child welfare ser- ad ulrs. they will have no access to support voung adults-through various pro- vices available to abused children. Some in times of trouble. Many families feel fessional and self-help approaches- private funds are also used in the provision rejected by their communities. and the vari- to minimize the longer-term effect on of treatment. ables of the employment market keep children and young adults who have The federal budget cutbacks of the Rea- many others on the move. Isolation can be been abused and to reduce the likeli- gan administration will have a significant both a characteristic of an individual's per- hood of their becoming abusive par- impact on the availability of treatment ser- sonality or a given family's style: it may ents. vices for child abusers and their families. as also be imposed by the exigencies of the • L~l"eskills training for children and will the proposed New Federalism policies. economic or social setting. young adults-through a variety of With fewer dollars available from the fed- Family members frequently need one or media including the dramatic arts-to eral government, states will have to trim more people who are willing to listen to equip young people with skills. knowl- their programs: with few restrictions on them in a nonjudgmental way. They need edge and experience necessary 10 cope how the states spend their federal funds. someone with whom they can share the with crises, to seek helping services, those recipients with the weakest voices- agony and ecstasy of life. They need some- and to succeed in adulthood, particu- like children-are likely to get the least. one with whom they can share conflicts as larly in the role of a parent. well as trivial everyday events. The listener • Self-help groups and neighborhood What Is Happening Outside Government? is an important part of a family's support support groups, like Parents Anony- Increasingly. private and volunteer- network. and can be part of the extended mous, and the individual support pro- based organizations are taking a role in family or another community member. He vided by foster grandparents or parent responding to the problem of child abuse. or she is an important element in reducinga aides, can reduce the social isolation Treatment programs like Parents Anony- family's sense of social isolation. so often associated with abuse, partic- mous, self-help groups for abusive parents. It is possible for one individual or a ularly for higher risk groups such as Parents United. a self-help group for sex- group of individuals to work as a family teenage parents. ual abusers and their families, and lay- support system. Often, families need a • Family support services provide fami- counseling programs that link abusive par- large network of individuals and organiza- lies with the coping skills they need to ents with a neighbor or friend are growing tions as supports. Social support systems deal with the stresses of life and to stay in number. And increasingly. emphasis is can act as mediators or buffers for families. together. These services, which in- being placed on prevention rather than As buffers, they can help reduce the effects clude hot-line counseling and other treatment. of mundane and acute stress on families. emergency services, as well as longer- The National Committee for Prevention lowering the probability offamily violence. term support like alcohol and drug of Child Abuse has been a leading organi- A certain level of family violence will counseling, nutrition counseling and zation in advancing prevention programs. always exist, given the structure and nature family planning, can be particularly A pu blicly supported, nonprofit vol unteer- of family life in this country. The product important for the parents of children based organization whose mission is to of many factors, not of one influence acting with special needs. prevent child abuse, NCPCA is a network alone, family violence involves parents. of thousa nds of concerned corporate. ci vic, child and society and must be addressed as The Federal Government Response lay and professional people. NCPCA con- a multi-level problem. Although stress is an l n 1974 the U.S. Congress passed the ducts a nationwide public awareness cam- important factor in violence. stress is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment paign: publishes monographs, booklets. product of and is mediated by many other Act, which established a National Center and pamphlets: furnishes technical assis- variables. on Child Abuse and Neglect in the U.S. tance and consultative services throughout Family violence is a problem for. ?ur Department of Health and Human Ser- the country: sponsors workshops, semi- society as well as for individual families. vices, and a national focus for the problem. nars, and conferences: and provides train- Policies and programs which will provide The Center has disseminated approxi- ing for professionals, paraprofessionals. education for parents, child care opportu- mately $20 million a year for research. and volunteers. The organization also acts nities, and social support networks for fam- demonstration programs, training, techni- as a cleari nghouse for i nf ormation on child ilies are policies which will, in the long run. cal assistance and other programs which abuse prevention: serves as an active advo- enhance the quality of life and reduce the foster a better understanding of abuse and cate for children, families, and child abuse level of family violence. Policies or pro- stimulate state and local activities. The prevention: funds and supports model grams, on the other hand. which provide Center does not directly support ongoing prevention programs: cond ucts research to for socially impoverished environments treatment and prevention services. Rather. improve knowledge about prevention: and and leave families with choiceless choices. treatment services are primarily provided has assumed a central role in the National will at best maintain the status quo and at by state social service agencies. often with Child Abuse Coalition. composed of organ- worst increase the amount of family federal funds emanating out of the Social izations concerned with child abuse. 0 violence. 0

20 Verne Hall continues to participate in local church activities but is having a problem with her circulation Flora (Pat) Him MyCfs and Glenn will be entertain- ing two of their teen grandchildren from Georgetown. CLASS NOTES MA. during the summer. Pat planned several trips to Essex. Tanglewood , Thames Science Center and t he College. Frances Hubbard lives with a friend in Middletown. CT. where she earned her MA. at Wesleyan many years 'go Phyllis (I'hyl) Heintz Malone's 1981 cruise to Spain. Portugal and France was lovely. Phyllis is a volunteer reacher of English to foreign-speaking students. She mentions an interesting case of an Iranian woman who Priscilla Ford xchcnke writes from Naples. FL spring of 1981 and stopped off 10 visit their daughter Judy in Ohio on the way back, Larry attended his 50th spoke no English when they started of a dinner there where President Ames spoke Winifred (Winnie) Link Stewart is seeing a lot of her 19 MIT reunion and showed slides ofthe campus. She was amazed at the daughter Anne Carol and her family. Anne Carol has a Margaret (PeJ:) Bristol Carleton's husband walks changes. Clarissa Ragsdale Harrison (1920) also lives in much better than he has in years since his recent new studio in rhc old Tuthill farmhouse where xhc and Naples and attended the dinner Priscilla still gets in her her family live, Winnie's son John is director of policy operation daily swim. Katharine (Kay) Capen MacGreJ:llr sent word of the and budget for the TVA in Knoxville Marion Kofsky Harris is gelling around again after Frances (Fran) McElfresh Perry wrote she would be sale of house and shop in Hopkinton. NH, and the being laid up with a bad back-but in bed or not . she building of another house (without scperute shop) in happy when house painters leave her lakes catc of her invalid brother's business affairs and Helen Minckler Dawsun and her husband had a fine Durham. NH. schedules his round-the-dock nursing. Thanksgiving 1981 holiday with his daughter's family. Muriel (Skeets) [wing, after Columbia School of Esther Batchelder has pulled up Slakes in Old San Elizabeth (Bell)') Williams Morton is living at the Journalism. worked in rnat hernatics at the Ballistic Re- Juan. PRo and sold their home there. She is located in search Lab in Aberdeen. MD. where she remains on a Heritage Village in Southbury. CT. Betty has won a Sarasota. FL. We arc looking forward 10 a visit with series of awards for her accomplishme11ls in the real part-time basis Devoted to the theater. she has written Hatch when Marenda Pre ntis. Sadie Coil Benjamin and estate field and service organizations such as the Red an article. Shm' Boat s If COll/ill'which appeared in the I have our annua l l1lini-reunion in New London this Cross. Recent recognition of her career appears in the Spring 1981 issue of Mlfryllflld. summer My chid' excitement recently has been trying Faith Grant Brown and husband have recently made "World Who's Who of Women." to get in and out of my driveway between tear-ups Eleanor (Ellie) Newmilier Sidman's husband re- a lot of adjustments. They sold their homes in Pitts- incidenta Ito the insta lIation of sewer lines a nd d odgi ng covered well from his First hip operation but may need burgh and Winter Park. FL bought another in Winter the behemoths spreading and rolling road surfacing. to have an operation on the other. They are thrillcd over Park and established a summer residence in the "barn" Members of '19 will be sorry to learn that Longshaw grandson Andy's choice of Wesleyan. where Sid went on their daughter's place in W. Granby, CT. There, Porrit. former husband of Alison Hastings Thomson, Fa it hand her h usba nd ha vc all four children and seven A 11their grandchild reo's careers are closely watched by was killed in February when a fire destroyed his home Ellie and Sid, Ellie met Mary White Hubbard while grandchildren nearby. and plenty of gardening to keep shopping at Boca Raton. in Canton, CT her busy. CC '2gers are welcome to call on them Emetta weed Seeley died in April. She had been Perc and Catharine(Kip) Ranney Weldon have both Elizabeth (Lib) McLaughlin Carpenter and Joel were paralyzed for the past three years and was unable to in Alaska at the time of a grandson's wedding in July been hospitalized but have made fine recoveries speak. but attended church and family gatherings and Rebecca (Beck)') Rau was to leave for Damascus via and were at their usual Moose Pond. NY, in Aug was always a cheerful presence. She had led a very London and a three-week trip to Jordan, Syria. Jerusa- Marjorie Smudge Love Studley and husband Vic arc active life in Durha rn. NC, where she orga ni led tile G irl lem, the Petra Rest House. a horseback journey to louking for a house to buy in the Montpelier. VT. area. Scout Council and was its first e xccuuvc director Wadi Musa r-unless I have enough sense to relax at the They stopped at Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whilman\ for The class was also saddened to hear of the death of Petra Rest House"). Tel Aviv and again to Londonand Lillian Shadd Elliott in April. She had been ina nursing lunch Amelia (Greenie) Green Fleming reports a happy home. home for the past tWO ycars, We remember her forays Elizabeth (Bibbo) Rile~' Whitman and Burt have re- visit from a granddaughter who stayed to live. Greenie on the hockey field and her flashing smile has been appointed class representative to a workshop turned from a marvelous trip to Banff. They enter- Just as we ~vcrc going to press word came of the death ta ined a nu mber of '2gers and thei r husba nds. and were helping to plan 1983 and 1984 reunions at the college on September 29 of Josephine Shain, wife of President off again to a banking meeting. stopping off in Corn- Shain. Both she and Dr. Shain wcre made honorary wall. NY. long enough to see a sister and Teresa (Terry) members of our class, and our sympathy goes 10 him at Homs Cameron, this time A contribution from 1919 is being made to the Priscilla (Pris) Rothwell Garland is sent our best. on Memorial Gardcn to be established in thc Connccticut In Memoriam her recovery from a slight strokc. Arboretum in Mrs. Shain's memory. Abby C. Gallup '21 Bob and Mary (Seal) Scattergood Norris celebrated Corre,lpo/1(lcl1I: Vir~il/i{/ CRose, 2() Al'er,l' LallI', Antoinette Burr Knight '24 their 50th at a party in Villanova. Muriel Whitehead WalFrlrml. ('1'06385 Jan'is, one of Scat's bridesmaids. was lhere. Margaret Call Dearing '24 Elizabeth (Belly) Seward Tarvin and husband wetH Marjorie E. Thompson '26 to the annual meeting of the Joslin Soc. in Brunswick- Curre.lpondetll: /l1r.I' ElliOt\' C Corhin (Olive Ernestine Crone Doan '28 ME. Bell\" Jan. Greenie, Bibbo and Katherine (Ka)') 21 N Lillle/wles), 9 Brady A \'ellUe, Nell' Sriwill. Hazel Gardner Hicks '28 Bartlell Nichols attended a So. ME c.c. dinner in Port CT06052 EliJ:abeth Catharine H. Greer '29 Mary Sla)'ler Solenberger, now situated in Ells- Elizabeth Kane Marshall '29 worth. ME, ncar her daughter. was visited by Zeke in Corresponde/1/: EII/ily Warner, 23 Mariners Bianca Ryley Bradbury '30 September. The old apartment-mates had a lot to talk Lune, )'armoulh Pul'!, AlA ()2675 Alice Burger Cheney '31 about. 25 Helen Stephenson Wbite reports herst'lf ""hale and Imogene H. Manning '3! hearty" and hopes to attend our 55th reunion. Co-curresponde/){: JHadelrn C. Wallkill iller Elma Kennel Varley '34 Mar)' Walsh Gamache and her husband were on 27 (Madelrn Olsh), 422 ,"'/if! 51.. Worcester. MA Ruth Babcock Stevens '40 Cape Cod for three weeks and had visited with Mar- 01602: Millllie' W Peck (Minnie Walchinskl'), Illi Ann Magill Sullivan '43 garet (I'eg) Burroughs Kohr, Ernie has recovered from SaralOKo A 1'1'.. Apr. f. Sail Jose, CA 95/29 a hip replacement operation Dianne Robinson Westerfield '54 Elizabelh (Zeke) Speirs reports pleasant recetH after- Patty Saute McEnroe '60 noons spent with DOl Kilbourne '25, Elizabeth Utley Margaret (Marg) Anderson Hafemei~ter a.nd Deborah Kornblau '62 Lamb, Esther Stone Wenl.el and Sue Chillcnden 29 her Saratoga, FL brother had a ntce VIStt John Summerfield Brayton '82 Cuningham '27. All are well and happy. together- cither in Alaska or Florida Frances (Fran) Wells Vroom reports a successful Janet Boomer Barnard and Larry went south in the

21 operation to relieve a pinched nerve in he.r right hand Madlyn Hughes Wasley and Fran enjoy their family ,IanI'I Jones Diehland 1:1Ig:~le1110ve(/,10Sun She and her husband spend much of their summer at of 15 tllll Iti-racia I gra ndc hi Id reno They all congrega tc a t 39 City Center, FL. III 19XO l'bcv go North to their place on Long Island bcach. the Wasley home in Nantucket in the sum mel' and at Ska neatclcs every su miller, but love the FL cli matt'. JHomer Babcot'k and Willard have moved Skrainka, in September in St. Louis Virginia Latham Pearce silys "Retired" Maybe. if into a new condominium in Venice. FL As we go to press we regretfully report t hc death of working harder than eV<:I'is being retired." She takes Another Fl. west coast mini-reunion took place in Catharine H. (Speedie) Greer. classes in sewlllg and Furniture refinishing. She, has March '82 with Nanc}' Weston Lincoln, Winifred Val· Correspondent, E. Elizabeth Speirs. 40 A I'ery taken farni!v antiqucs to the latter class and IS thrilled ennne Frederiksen, Beatrice Dodd Foster, Barbara Heights. Hartford. CT06106 with the results. Slfe also volunteers at thc local hospi- Myers l-laldl, Eunice Cocks Millard and, Elaine tal . .July 4 found her at the Firecrackcr400 in Daytona De Wolfe Cardillo at lu nch Later t he Fosters. Lincolns. with herson Alan who has moved back to NC. Thanks- Haldts and Cardillo, met for a co-ed luncheon Co-correspondents: Mrs. Charles J. Gasnar giving was spent with her daughter Susan in San Diego. Carol Prince Allen and Lc w have joined the "no- 31 (Lois Truesdate ). P.o. Bux 145. Old Saybrook, Her on!v living aunt from Miami spent three months mads" 01' '.19. traveling about to find a favorite retire- CT 06475: Mrs. Ernest A Se.rtried (Wilhellllilla C. with her. mcnr spot. They visited the west coast FL contingent In BrO\\'II). J7 SOUlh Maill 51.. Na:arnh. PA 18064 Mar}' Savage Collin.~ has had a 16-hour iI wed job in April. West Hartford. She is assistant to the editor ofa ljuar- Bea Dodd Foster and Bud have plirchased a home in terly magaline published by the Handweavers Guild of the same compound as Winnie Valentine Frcdcriksen America. an orgilnil.ation of weavers. spinners and in Venice. FL but continue their travelsatlcast half tile Corres!Jolldem: Mrs. /:.,.,\'ill F. Grimmeise." dyers, [n Sept. 1981 she spent a month with a friend vcar. (Encka E. Lallghalllll1er), 1249 Hili 51.. Sul- 33 livi ng on the eastern coast of Spili n. SOLlth of Barcelona . Gertrude Clark Kuhlman writes from Tempe. AZ fidd. CT06078 While there. they took a trip to Mildeira. Herdaughter "Enjoying ollr retil'emenl to the fuliesL SlI~~W; in the Tara and her husband are in NYC. Tom and his family North and houseguests here in the Wlntcr, I raveled to arc still living in the Chicago area. and Bill and his wife Ha wa ii for t 11'0wee ks visit ing the different island\. Plan Lydia (Jill) Albree Child and :am ~ave nearl.y have relocated to Knoxville. In OCt. ·81. Mar~' visited 011 a trip 10 Knoxville. Atlantic City and CT this 35 decided that Middletown. C L will be thclr Ha..:el Depew Holden in Rl. sUlllmer. The Southwest is wonderful-don't know permanent headquarters. They headed June I for the Eslher (Marty) Martin Snow and Bill have moved will' we didn't move herc sooner'· West Coast in their VW camper to do the CanadIan into their new I'etirem"nt home which Bill built. They Helena (I.ee) .Jenks Rafferty is in her 18th year of Rockies. Seallie and So CA to visit the western con- took off Nov. i1nd Dec. of '81 and saw son Richard in teaching 3rd grade. hoping to make it to 20 a~d a ti ngcnt of their family and meet t heir first granddaugh- OR. They tented from OR to Atlanta. finding the best pension. Husband Allen has been retired for.-,ome ltme ter. Rebecca, born in Nov. to their second son. TheIr campsite at Lady Bil'd Johnson's in TX, They visit"d Four childr('n and grandchildren are alltlUlvmg and a winter was busy with Literacy Volunteers. FL relatives and returned 10 Atlilnta to bilby-sit and source of grcat joy. Lee expects to ha\'e knce replaee- Olive Birch Lillich and Frederick lead the hectic, spend Christmas. mcnts in t he ncar fut ure and hopes to hear from anYOne happy life of the retired who are blessed with grand- Lois Smith MaeGiehan says she ha, no ncll's. but who has experienced the operation children and friends from all over the world who con- that all is serene with them. Co/"respOlldl'l/l." oUr,I'. Robl'fl J. Cardill/), (Eluil1e stantly visit, When she wrote. they were about to leave Virginia Whitney McKee enjoys living on Sanibel De Wolli-) I J25 lJaycl!ll" Dril'e. Virginia Beach. VA Camarillo, CA, to spend the "Merne Month of May" In Island. FL She now belongs to a new c.c. Alumni 23454. Europe. celebrating their 40th anniversary. group in Fl. Meyers. There, shc has seen Betsy Beals Calhrrine (Kay) Cartwright Backus reports that Steyaart '36. Jane Wyckoff Bishop '36. LOLlise Ressler Gene retired Jan. I. and they promptly went to AZ and Faust'42.and Margaret BearGardner'40. The McKees Donna Ed Reynolds writes from Myrtle Beach CA to visit relatives and friends. Their sor, Stephen has travel. play goifillld bridge and Ginny volunteers at the Sc. that she und Fred relired earll'and moved completed law school and passed the Bar. 41 Sanibel library. to that gall' capital. Lots of volunteer work and golf Margaret Creighton Green's book. Genf'lic Varianu Marjorie Wolfe Gagnon spent last yeal·travelingand keep her busy. Parents of thrcc In Nell' England, they and Slfains of Ihe LoboralOry Mouse has been pub-_ settling into her new homc. Most of feb. and all of also hilvc fivc grandchildren. May I;arrell Morse and lished in Nov .. 1910 by Gustav Fischer Verlag. Stutt- March were spent in CA from Los Angeles to Santa gart. Margaret was editor and author of more than half Ray are guests. ,. Rosa. north of San Franeis(·o.ln Mav, she had a IO-day Carla Eakin White, living in Lafayette. CA. has had a the contents. She worked on the book after her retire- vacation in Toronto. In June. she plans another try at ment in 1975. "not so sunny CA wintct", rain and typical CTweather: "Elderhosteling:· this time in Bradford. MA. Aug. to Corinne (Rene) Dewey Walsh spent five weeks in plus increases in the cost of ilving:' She suggests Ill" mid-Sept. should find her in thc Far East India. Nepal and Sri Lanka-countries with beautiful trilvelcrs visit Ihc capital. which has been redone. and With sadness. we report the death of Ann Trepp temples and cities. gorgeous women in saris. and Old Sacramento. Husband Richmond still is in t~e Koenigsberg. Our class extends sympa t hy to her fa mi Iy. delightfully friendly people. A Sikh led their group of

22 The class of'42 returned to New London with The winter c.C A/IIIIIIII M{/~o::itll, noted thai our May Monte Mclaughlin in Cape May Court House, 59 classmates and 28 husbands, II was great 10 library was cnric hcd hy a lar gc gift from Wilbur G, and NJ. is a Coast Guard wife. She and Gerard have five 42 see so many familiar faces with husbands in tow. Our Dorothy Gardner Downs. Some 2.500 volumes WcTC children. six grandchildren old slogan was "in with the breeze and out with the given on ornithologv. natural history and angling with Edith Patton Cranshaw of Wellesley has her master's draft." Now add: reunc with a flood. Our class dinner 11,prinkling of books on other subjects. An article on in social work and is with the Cit v Missionary Society and meeting were hcld at t he New London Country this donation appcar s in the Lihrorv 811/1<'1111 Dorothv in Boston. Her prime commitment is to issues of racism. Club and were enjoyed by all. Dean Noyes entertained has three children. four step-children. four grandchil- Edic is adjusting to widowhood. with amusing bits of c.c. history gleaned during her drcn. seven step-grandchildren. They travel and fish Katherine Ord McChesney lives in Sea Ranch. CA research for her new book. A HiSlOry of Connecticut Loved New Zealand. Hawaii and France After golf. her vocation is real estate. She met Maryl.ou College. Many of us were able 10 have copies auto- Margaret Kerr Miller and Ed toured Banff. Lake (Mibs) Gibbons Mullen in Maine after her daughter's graphed. In spite of New London weather carnraderie Louise and Alaska and attended an Elder hostel. They graduation from Colby. Mibs' daughter is on the triumphcd. are bad in GA. golfing again. "Muppcts' staff. and gets a credit on TV. Our new class officers are: Pres .. Mary Rita Powers; Phyllis Walters Williams writes from St Pete Mar)' Reisinger Stevens lives in Ft. Lauderdale and YP and reunion chairman. Constance Hughes Ikaeh-"Perhaps we should have a winn-r dircctorv fOI' has two children. and four grandchildren. McBrien; Secy and class correspondent. Mary Black- rhc snow birds," (Check the Alumni Office for clubs Margaret Robinson Manning of Wilmington missed mon Smith: Trees .. Justine M. Clark; Nominating there is a West Coast FL club.) Phil has two children. reunion. choosing a trip to Franceand Spain. instead. Chairman. Charlotte Craney Chamberlain. "inherited" three by marriage. four grandchildl·en. and Meg's four children include two lawyers. one house- Corres{JolldeJII: Mrs. James S. SIII/ih. (Mary Black- seven grandchildren of Jack's. wife-teacher. one Navy wife and five grandchildren 11(011).RD 4. Box / I, Towanda. PA f8848 Virginia Newberry Leach and Phil report our class She is retired from 20 years in the M 0 state legislature. baby. Robin Leach Moody. is 40. The familyeelebrated Ann Rubinstein H usch of 51. Louis has fi vc child ren in CT for the occasion Ginny W<;continues on a pan-time basis for they've kept "horses. dogs. cats and huge populations of an cditor of Yllchling magazine, While lOuring NE. Wheaton's capital campaign. She gets away from the hummingbirds and orioles," She sent a copy of her Kilty stayed with Maril)'n Klein Pratt and Tracy book. and has been promised a sequel if this one does Carol Chappell loves ··retardment,'· She enjoyed cold for a while in St. John. Being in the right place at the right time was fun for wcll. trips to Ihe Galapagos. Ecuador and Peru in April. your correspondent. En route to our si;><;thchild·s grad- Traill Arnold Kenety left on a trip to Italy in late Kathryn VeriI' Pugh graduated from Tufts M.edical March with her sister-in-law. She's been occupied with School and has practiced in New London on the obstet- uation at Ce.. "Stevie" cailed to invite me to a mini- reunion at Dux·s in Hingham, Present werc Elizabeth improvemcnts and a new living room added to her ric and gyn staff at Lawrence and Memorial Hosp. She (Liz) Morgan Keil, Edie Patton Cranshaw. Margaret Cockeysville. M 0 home now is an emergency physician at L & M and a member Thelma Gustafson W}'land received a degree in of ACEP, She and Richard travel and have a condo in (Peg) Munsell Palmer. Barbara (Behbe) Berman Lel')". Thea Dutcher Coburn. Eli:tabeth (Bets) Byrne Ander- music in 1981 from Bellarmine College in Louisville. FI. Laudcrdale. though they have not retired KY. She teaches a few piano studel1!s in the prep Ann Bn·yer Ritson lives in Summerland Key. en son, Virginia (Ginn)') Newberry Leach and Helen Henderson Tullie. Stevie. with Mary Emily Pettengill department. as well as English as a second language to route to Key West She and Ian love anything to do with Smith-Pedersen. co-chaired the Abbot. Andover 40th refugees. Most have been from Indo-China. with some boats and water. and growing things. They have spent Ethiopian and Haitian. June brought the first group time in Australia and hope to return there. Ann·s still reunIon. Sympathy lO Shirley Stuart Fick and Carlon the from Poland, Thelma hosted Edith (Ga)') Gaberman writing; her first book was published this year. sudden death of their son in S. W. Harbor. ME. He had Sudarsky and Joe a year ago at the Kentucky Derby. Catherine Elias Moore has been a professional Our sympathy to lhe three sons and husband Carl numismatist since ·52. She was 2nd VP of the Interna- been principal of the school there Margaret E. Hanna Canfield died in March in Pitts- Oxholm Jr. in the loss of our classmatc Eleanor Coun- tional Association of Professional Numismatists. and burgh, Our sympathy is also extended 10 Susan Shaw selman Oxholm in an automobile accident in Devon. on the board for "ears. Annual meeting kept her from Speight on thc death of her husband. and 10 Anne PA in March ·81 reunion, Last ye;r she traveled 10 Spain. "82 Austria. Henry Clark on the dcath of her husband in January Correspondent: Kalhryn ft,fcKee Moe Vickor, to Por- Look her up in Philly or Wynnewood Correspollde/l/: Mrs. John Nellman. Jr. (Jone /fidge Lane. Darien. CT06820 Wilma Swissler Barlholomay·s second daughter was Kl'II/JI'dr), Poradis,' Pork. Rle. A. Box 89. PIIIIIO married in Seottsdalc ·'Swiss'· has had "40 years of Gorda, FL 33950 voluntcerism. active in Jr. League. church. and the Fine Georgine Downs Cawley has retired after 13 Arts Com," 45 years as a high school librarian and is enjoying Allaync Ernst Wiek of Gates Mills. Ohio. busies such frivolous pursuits as tennis. bridge and garden herself with golf. gardening and needlepoint She is clubs while deciding what to do next. The Cawleys are pres. of the junior board of St. Luke's Hospital and enjoying their first grandchild who lives with his par- Hathawav Brown School. The 40th reunion of that ents. Mike and Debby in West Hartford, Their other I'enerabl~ school included. besides Laync. Janc Wray twO sons arc in the Northeast; the oldest is in Troy. New Lindsay, Janel Bun)'an Kramer and Nancy Tremaine York. with the Preservation League and the youngest is DeWoody '39. a graduate studenl at Yale. Whcn in N L look up Ph)'lIis Glassman Hnrowitl in Patricia Madden Dempsey and Jack also welcomed a the Captain's Walk. new grandson. Their fifth grandchild was born last Phyllis Gro\'l' Slocum still works for community ser- April. and they fcelluckylhat four of the five are in NJ. vices in Milwaukee. She and Sid have four children. 12 The fIfth is in NH. Pat volunteers at two hospitals. grandchildren bowls and plays winter indoor tennis and golf the rest of Margaret Hard)' Sehwei'/er, like many of us. has the year. Their recent travcls included CA. FL. and Cat donc the millions of unpaid. but necessary job~. Meg Cay in the Bahamas. has three offspring in Dartmouth. Nance Funston Wing "absolutely adorcs"life in their Janice Herrernan Whiting of Norfolk has been a J740farmhouse in Madison. CT. where they live accord- realtor and hcld many civic post~. including Cousteau Class Notes Editor ing to the seasons. She enjoys digging in Ihcdirl. tcnd- Society, mental health. Common Cause. and Roberta Finley '71 ing vcgetables. nowers. herbs and berry patches and conservattOn. harvcsting the same. [n winter thc hearths arc aglow Jane Merrill Bentlev. a new resident of Nevada City. RFD 3, Lewis Road and Nance has had great success cooking on a wood CA. in the Gold Cou'ntry. admits to being a "house- Norwich, CT 06360 stOvc. In spring they tap their maple trees. Comple· wife,'· but her avocations arc antiquing, hi~torical menting all these good works arc summer cruises on research and genealogy. oil painting and gardcning.

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door and walked into my office Club of Florida's West Coast with a big smile on his face," said (bottom right). Oakes Ames in his State of the Col- Councilors and campaign vol- lege address, happily announc- unteers heard a masterful piece of ing another balanced budget. speech-making from President Afterwards, Arturof Guzzy) Guz- Emeritus Rosemary Park Anas- man '73, vice-president and re- tos on Friday night. The next union chairman of his class, dis- morning, they were in for more as played his magnificent moustache the college unleashed Kenneth and unusual choice of socks (top Dayton, chairman of the Dayton- left). Sophia Hantzes Maass '74, Hudson Corporation, husband president of the c.c. Club of of Judy Winton Dayton '49, Chicago and co-editor of the father of Judson '80 and Duncan Connecticut College Cookbook '8 I, and an unabashed booster of (top right), and Betty Beck Bar- Connecticut. "Oakes has given rett '51, president of her class and me the simple job of telling you of the c.c. Club of Maine (back- how to raise $30 million," Mr. ground) were on hand for the Dayton said merrily, and pro- clubs workshop. So, too, was Dr. ceeded to reveal his "three simple A. Parks (Parkie) McCombs steps." '25, past president of the c.c. "I represent a corporation that The Big Weekend

The first weekend in October sent the campus spinning into hyperactivity, as the college kicked off its $30 million campaign, 150 key volunteers arrived for Alumni Council, and hundreds of students and young alumni downed 30 kegs of German beer and countless knackwursts, brat- wursts and ice cream sundaes at Oktoberfest/ Homecoming. De- spite the soccer team's 2-0 loss to Wesleyan, the mood was jovial, the weather cooperative, and the air filled with the pleasant scent of charcoal fires. "For the seventh year in a row, the treasurer knocked on my

24 - for over 30 years has given 5 percent of its pretax earnings to worthy causes," the dazzling Mr. Dayton said. "I happen to believe we're in business not to make money but to serve society, and profit is our reward for doing it well." (Ken and Judy Dayton walking across campus, below.) Allover campus-in the partly renovated labs of New London Hall, in Palmer Library, unreno- va ted and filled with 50,000 used easels and talked about the col- books for the annual book sale, lege's needs and plans. Above, and in Cra-faculty, students Director of Athletics Charles and administrators stood before Luce described proposals for a new athletic center. Mr. Luce was assisted by Megan Vosburgh '83, Nigel Bentley '83, and Assistant Professor of Religion Eugene Gallagher. "Our lack of space has restricted participation at every level," said Miss Vosburgh, the sister of Barbara Vosburgh Omo- hundro '72. "When 1 was on the lacrosse team, often on rainy days we had to go down to the Coast Guard Academy at 10:00 or 11:00 at night and practice till 1:00 a.rn."

25 Connecticut's handsome new ice arena was officially named the Dayton Arena, in honor of the Dayton family. Duncanand Jud- son (top left), who played ice hockey for Connecticut, gave the bulk of the funds for the rink, and their parents also contributed. We caught one of the newest trustees, Joanne Toor Cummings '50, at the campaign reception (center), and spotted Warren Erick- son '74, Alumni Association secretary, chatting with Randy Bangs (bottom). Dean of the Faculty R. Francis Johnson showed off architect's plans for transforming Palmer Library into a humanities center (top right). "I was pleased to read in Gertrude Noyes' book that this building was dedicated on the day I made my debut in Bedford, Virginia. I don't mind telling you the day-it was May I, 1923," Mr. Johnson said. "And I would like to see this building together again before I make my exit."

26 their 30-foot Danish sloop. Nance is studying econom- once again, this time by the trustees. She ic, and investments at Yale seminars. Both Wing sons now holds down a major role in the Cam- are married. SCOlt is assistant headmaster

27 M.D .. a bio-statistician and a teacher. She has tWO grandchildren. two sons-in-law. and one daughter-in- law and a "marvelous husband" to top life off. Ria's husband. Bob USCG retired. is a senior mechanical engineer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Bob and Ria just celebrated their 28th year of marriage. Their son. Bob. is an engineer with the Bechtel Corp, In CA. Daughter Betsy is an economics major at U. of MD. Ria continues to enjoy her job as head nurse in psychiatry at Sibley Hosp in DC. . Anne Kelley Elmore and Frances wilson conunuc to be active in their chosen professions. Anne still teaches Latin and English in high school and is a partner In Elmore Jewelers. She and Vernon enjoy their two grandchildren and feel that "life is pretty good t~ us," Frannie. as a result of her work as an occupational therapist. is listed in Who:I' 11Iho ill tho East, She recently participated in the National AOTA Conven- tion in Philadelphia. Helen Pavlovich Twomey, retired as an occupational t hera pist. is busier than ever working at the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art as a docent for the handicapped. and fund raising for the Pro Arte Chorale and the Friends of the Library. She recently added the job of secrctarv and office manager of husband Neil's investment banking firm. Pavy visited with Mona Gustafson Affinito in the spring. Mona is ending her year of sabbatical and working hard to finish her book before the end of 1982. Pavy also caught up on classmates Inez Marg Hemlock and Harriet Bassett McGregor. Enic is very active as t he chairman of t he Glastonbury Housing Author and designer dotes, and meticulous research, all united Authority. working to rehabilitate low income umts bya deep love and firsthand knowledge of and construct more units for the elderly. Hattie. whose recognized husband Bob started April 30 to fulfill a retirement the college. dream to walk the length of the Appalachian Trail. is A great deal of time, talent and affection Sally Harris, a professional designer finding she hardly has a chance to live a "single life." went into making A History of Connecti- with Yale University Press who has for what with being very busy with nursery school and cut College. This year's Goss Award was many years donated her talents to the visits from her three daughters and son Wilham's two children shared by the book's author, Gertrude E. Alumni Magazine and Alumni Givingfund Bob and Barbara Wiegand PiI10te returned from a Noyes '25, and its designer, Sarah Har- appeals, worked for a year to transform golf weekend in Southern Pines. NC, in April in time grove Harris '57" Miss Noyes' personally typed manuscript for a visit from Bob and Renate Aschaffenburg Chris- Miss Noyes, dean emeritus of the college into a handsome volume that captures the tensen. Rennie and Bob were in the M 0 area to visit their daughter Linda on spring break. Bobbie reports and professor emeritus of English, spent visual essence of the college, It's clear that her two daughters are new homeowners. Lynn in Ohio the last several years writing the history. It the collaboration between author and and Kathy in PA. Bob Jr. has joined his Dad in the is filled with dear writing, revealing anec- designer was a ha ppy one. practice of law. Barbara Thompson Stabile has moved back to the DC area. She and Ben will have a four-year tour there Ben has been appointed vice commandant. the In posi- during intermission of Sophisticated Ladies and heard herself to writing. Her play. viotoro-Vmuoso was pro- tion in the USCG. and promoted to vice admiral. They that the Sc helpertx' youngest daughter Elizabeth will be duced at the Coconut Grove Playhouse and also at have a year-old granddaughter. Dianna. The Stabiles a member of the C.C. class of'86. Actor's Studio had an overnight catch-up with Phyllis McCarthy Don and Leda Treskunoff Hirsch are still working on The class extends its sympathy to Jane Muir Petrone Crosby and Howard in the spring their new. old house-this year from the outside. Lcda's on the loss' of her son. Fred. Wi-th regret we report the Nancy Libby Peterson developed and organized a Ph.D. was granted this past winter. She says it feels death in Mav of Christine Griggs Nimick. The class volunteer program for the Child and Family Services of good to have the "beastv-c-hcr dissertation----':delivered extends sympathy to her family Newport in her newly-created position of volunteer and put aside. The Hirsch's daughter is married and Correspondent: Mrs. Nei/ F. Twomey (lie/en pavto- coordinator. Carl and Libby took their annual winter competently mothers Shawn. their two-year-old vich]. JJ8 Camerburv tane. Wytkidf NJ 07481 Caribbean tri p to S1. M aarten and spent t he su rnrner at grandchild. their COllage in Maine. golfing and enjoying their Herb and Barbara Nash Hanson spent Feb. in Palm family. Springs. In May" Bar's daughter, Lynn Sullivan was Barbara Marks Spiro is enjoying her work as Also in the Caribbean but on a family cruise were married to Jeffrey Dooley. Bar said. "How more Irish 53 travel consultant doing vacation planning. William and Mar)' Martha Suckling Sherts and their can you get!" Husband Bob. who practices surgery. recently finished four children. They spent a week in Cancun last March Jane Muir Petrone writes that she gardens a lot but a 2-year term as director of surgery at the local hospitaL using their time-share. M.M:s two older children are life has not been a bed of roses. Four months after her Son Tom. graduate of Wesleyan and Yale Law SchooL working. one in business with Ethan Allen and the divorce. her son Fred. 19. and a sophomore at Reed. is a Wall St. law firm tax associate. Son Jim, wesleyan other as an organic farmer. Charlie is ar rhe U. of VT was killed. Herdaughter Christina is now a sophomore graduate. is completing a bank management trammg and Amy is at Boston College. at Albany and her daughter Eleanor. 14. is a high school program. Bobbie occasionally sees Eva gtumen Mary Pennywilt Lester with husband Skip and son freshman. Jane is active with the local Civil Liberties Marchiony. d h Luke traveled to Barbuda last winter, Luke is at Cor- Union and has been working on the nuclear freeze Joan (Suzy) Bloomer Collins reports that she an er nell. Their daughter Tara. who loves living and working Several elassmatl's have been making news. Ethel husband spend as much time as possible at a small in the Big Apple. is training to be a reinsurance brokl'r Manville Woolverton is one of the governors of lhe house they bought and renovated on the 5 River out- for Thomas A. Greene Westover School. Ethers husband William is a partner side Annapolis. Husband Jerry is still thnvlng on the Elizabeth Saurrsopf Haderer started with 15 inter- 111 an export firm. Their son Douglas is an electronics trial law circuit. Daughter Laurie presented SU7.yand ested people and by March had 120 paid members of engineer: Lynni is a business manager for a division of Jl'rry wil h a grandson last Christmas. Son Fred ISl11law the newly formed Eastern Long Island Quilter's Guild Sotheby Parke-Bernet: Hl'll'ne is doing graduate work school in New Orleans. Jody is in secretarial school and of which she is recording secretary. In April Betty saw in England and Nina is a sophomore at Franklin Col- Jerl'miah is in sixth grade, Suzy says she frequently the fruits of her other volunteer work when she. with 58 lege in Switzerland. Ethel is an active voluntcer with the talks to Nancy Camp, who teaches at the potomac students. journeyed to The Concord for the N. Y. State Lighthouse for the Blind. Red Cross. tutoring cerebral School. Ii VICA Skills Olympics palsied chIldren and the Garden Club of Oyster Bay. Alice Dreifuss Goldstein and her husband had a Ive- Roldah Northup Cameron's son Bruce graduated Betty Suyker, (Remember Sophology'!l. has hcr first week visit to the People"s Republic of China They wer~ from Harvard Business School in June and married in novel. a mystery titled Death Scene in the book stores guests of the government and Chlnese Academy a July. Heand his bride. Gayle. both havl' MBA"sandare and on your library shelves which is where yourcorres- Social Science to give lectures and sympOSia on popula- employed by Paine Webber in NYC. Roldah and Nor- pondent found it. Good reading for mystery buffs! tion issues. especially urbanization. They cruised down man ran into John and Joann Appleyard Schelpert Betty. after 20 ycars with Timl' maga7.ine. left to devote the Yangtzc River and visited a number of rural areas

28 The trip gave them many insi gbts into Chinese life. Peace Institute and has three children in graduate Ruth Parker See has lived in La Jolla, CA. fnr [0 espccially their handling of population issues, Alice school and one in college years, Son Chris is at Whitman College. Ruth and her continues her research on problems of fertility and Alicia Allen Branch's son Bill is a sophomore at 9-year-old daughter have been involved in the Girl migration in less developed countries as well as on 19th Hobart. Daughter Cindy. a Colgate graduate. is living Scouts. century population change. She presented papers on and working in NYC. Oldest daughter Lisa is working Joan Parsells Schenck's hobby is playing duplicate both topics at the Population Association of Ame-rica for Merrill Lynch in Boston The Branches visited Shir- bridge. Daughter Marty is at Allegheny and hoping to in San Diego. Daughter Beth is studying for her Ph.D ley Smith Earle and Frances (Frannie) Steane Baldwin go to medical school. Daughter Betsy is gelling a mas- in educational policy at U. of WI: David is working on this year. ter's at Texas A&M in geological oceanography. and his Ph.D. in environmental biology at UCLA: Brenda Dorothy Beek Kinzie's daughter Diana is at Carleton daughter Barbara is at Ashland majoring in marketing. took a year working with community organization College working as a research assistant during her ju- Cynthia Reed-Workman works for the MA Housing groups in New Orleans before entering the Berkeley nior year. Daughter Dee Dec is a freshman at Knox Financc Agency and enjoys the intracaeies of finance School of Public Health Collegc. plays in the chamber orchestra, on the girls' for multi-million dollar apartment buildings, One son is Barbara Painton Doyle spent two weeks in Vienna varsity basketball team and is a member of Pi Phi. Son married. working for a landscaping design firm, An- with her son. (Dartmouth graduate) who works for the Tripper. age I I. is involved in sports and the piano. other is applying to college after taking several years UN. In his spare umc he is developing a water polo I promised to give you my news. After 10 years or off, The oldest. Gordon. is being trained as assistant team, Daughter .lc nn yis at c.c. and loves it. Daughter living in either NYC or Europe. Rachel Child Prud'. rna nager of a motorcycle shop. Buzzi is VP of t he B'na. Pany gave hirth to a lillie girl. K ir sten. making Bar-bara homme is still mildly surprised to find herself in LA .. Irrith Senior Citizens Housing Corp. and volunteers on a very happy grandmother. Barbara has made a career occupying a large collapsing pink house along with her the construction of 150 units of housing for the elderly. She skis at every opportunity and is a member of the change from education to industry. She lost her special husband. two daughters. floating population of house education position due to budget CUISand was selected guests. demented cats. and others. Daughter Julia is off Royal Scottish Dance Society. Mary Rossman Letourneau says the federal funding for a computer training program. She is now at for a PG year in Europe. Emily is a student at the of her job with the city of Augusta. ME may be cut. She Honeywell and loves it West ridge School. I work part-time at Cahcch inter- also has her own real estate office and enjoys rehabili- Frederica Schneider Douglas updates us on her activi- viewing and editing for an oral history project. tating properties on her own. Her daughter is at Tufts ties since graduation. She attended Oxford U. and Teach- Nancy Dohring Leavitt and husband Horace have ers College at Columbia. where she got her M.A. At Jane lived in DC for 13 years. Son Matt graduated from the studying engineering. Shirley Sidman Hogan says she's had it with the snow Addams School of Social Work (U. of l L} she earned Naval Academy in '715and is aboard a submarine in in Minneapolis this past winter, She is an insurance her M.SW. She is chief of social service at the US Charleston. Daughter Lisa graduates from VA Tech agent, Daughter Jennifer lives in NYC: son Rick is at Soldier's and Airmen's Home. a retirement community. with a degree in industrial engineering. For the past five Hamilton: daughters Missyand Katie arc still at home. Frederica. her husband (2nd marriage) and their five years Nancy has been the administrative assistant for Cassandra (Cassie) Coss Simonds is a parmer in The children recently enjoyed a Car! bbcun cruise. Da ughter the annual Navy Ball in DC. Educational Planning Group-an information and ad- Marsha is a commercial artist in Boston: son Gary is Julia Evans Doering's husband Roger died in 19!10 visory service that assists and counsels individuals and working on his dissertation in industrial psychology: and she has published a book and given a series of corporations on educational opportunities a vailab!e Clifford is in law school at U. of MI: Steven is in the workshops on -Gcning Ready To Go It Alone"-the here and abroad. It specializes in finding the right etc- drama dept. of the Catholic U. of America: Jennifer is result of her increased a ware ness of women's ignora ncr mcntary and secondary school, college, summer ca 111p. at ISU. Frederica's three-Clifford. Steven. Jennifer. and lack of preparedness to their statistical survival interim year. etc .. for your child were born respectively in NY. Japan and CA, She lives over their par t ners. Daughter Lisa graduated from Marilyn Smith Hall is in her 7th year with the Educa- in the DC area Hartwick and is with 1st Nar"L Bank of BOSlOn. Son tion and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Repre- Joan (Flugy) Fluegelman Wexler (dean of admis- Matthew is at Hartwick, daughter Margot is a high sentatives. She is active volunteering with her church. sions. Wheelock) reports that Jerry left his Job of 20 school senior. and daughter Carrie is in Sth grade and hcr particular interests include human rights and years in furniture 10 go into the oil exploration busi- Ann Fishman Bennet has enjoyed cross-country and writing. Son Jonathan is graduating from high school. ness. Youngest son Bill is in the real estate business in downhill skiing. and has come in first in her age group Son David is working in printing and graphics. NYC. married in January. Debbie (C.c. '79) worked in in a six-mile race. Daughter Eve, age 14. ran the 26-mile Frances Steene Baldwin is thoroughly enjoying her Cambridge as a travel agent and moved 10 Phoenix Baltimore Marathon and came in first in her age group. "empty nest" with all the children away. She chaired a after side trips to Tahiti. Morea. and Bora Bora. lauric Polly Haebler Van Dyke works for Planned Parent- highly successful church fair last fall and continues to is a commercial designer in NYC. Ftugy says she speaks hood and the Audubon Society. She also raises money play paddle tennis and tennis. She has just started hos- to Sue Weinberg Mindlin oftcn and is in touch with for the University School of Milwaukee, for a building program and endowment fund. pice training BeU)' Ann Schneider Ottinger. Joan Walsh Asker works with her husband in a fam- Janice Cleary Parker moved to Pittsburgh where Marta Lindseth Jack took a trip to Austria last fall. Son Craig, a senior at University School. was accepted ily real estate business. Of special interest 10 her is a they built a comem porary house and helped her daugh- weekly Bible class that she teaches and a course in ter and son-in-law open a table service restaurant at Princeton and Duke. Son Doug is at the same school. German she is Hiking prior to a European trip. The (called Lawrence's) in the heart of Pittsburgh. For Askers have been involved with the school activities of recreation they do private Flying. Jan has gone from , daughter Sarah. Daughter Joanne graduated from single engine trainer 10 pressurized twin. with first trip UCSC last year: daughter Amy is married and living to CA scheduled this fall. She has two sons: one at nearby. Son Jonathan spent his Junior year at the Uni- Kenyon: one in high school. versity in Marburg. Germany. Eugenia (Jeanne) Eacker Olson writes she still man- Cynthia (Sue) Donnelly's husband. Steve. died of a ages the Executive Tax Service for H&R Block. She heart attack in early Jan. Her address is 227 43rd Street. chairs a task force for the Presbytery of Great Rivers Virginia Beach. VA 23451 whose goal is to get at the rOOI of hunger here and Correspondent: Rachel Child Prud'homme. 270 abroad. She enjoys gardening and golfing. Husband Wigmore Dr .. Pasadena. CA 91105 Bill works for Caterpillar. Daughter Laurie works for Harbor General Hospital. She married a civil engineer who works for Chevron. wend! works at Johnson and It was probably one of the wettest reunion, on Higgins in Chicago record. but it couldn't have been more fun. Mae Rubinstein Riefberg has been teaching elemen- 57 , Elaine Vardakas Rallis coordinated a superb program. tary school for several years Her daughter Vivian and we all laughed and sloshed our way through the graduated from Harvard and is in public relations in more than [J inches of rain. More than 60 of us turned NY. Son Lawrence graduated from Tufts and UConn ouL despite the weather. Law School. Mort is an allorney in Danbury_ She and Class officers elected for the next five years include her husband are going 10 Israel for their 25th ) Elaine Vardakis Rallis, president: Joan Schwartz anniversary. Buehler, vice president and 30th reunion chairman: Don't forget our 30th reunion is June 3-5. [983, so Suzanne (Sue) Krim Greene, treasurer: Nancy Hamil- mark your calendars ton MacCormac, head of nominating committee: and It is with deep regret that I report the death of Laura Alumni Art Exhibition Emily Graham Wright and Elaine Diamond Berman, (Puff) Bulton Brooks. She died of cancer in Feb. 1982 class correspondents Our class sends deepest sympathy 10 her family and All alumni who are artists or crafts persons As far as we can put IOgether. following are '57 friends. are invited to participate in an art show and alumnae children who have anended or are currently Correipondent: Mrs, Wa/ler A Lill/eriefd. (Judilh sale in Cummings Arts Center during attending Connecticut-Bill Regan '82 (Gerry Maher Morse), Whillier Terrace Box 157. We,51Boxford, MA Regan), Kate Crow '83 (Ann Henry Crow), Eric Berk- 01885 Reunion Weekend, June 3-5, 1983. Plans will proceed only if enough interest is owitz '84 (Marilyn Benstock Berkowitz Snyder), Marc Greene 'S5 (Sue Krim Greene), Robert Buehler '85 shown by January 31. If interested, please (Joan Schwarl7. Buebler), Stephen Josephson '86 (Geri RUlh Ann Appley Cohen is living in San Fran- contact Ellen W. Bodin '80, Assistant Fluegelman Josephson) and Heidi Geiges '86 (Myrna cisco and has changed her name to Ann Appley. 55 Goldberg Geiges). Can anyone add to this list?'! She works for the Northern CA Council of Churche.s' Director of the Alumni Association,

29 The snack shop in Crozier-Williams re- opened this fall with new kitchen equipment, gleaming navy blue tiled walls, and a French delicacy that has been an overnight success on campus: fresh croissants. Cro's croissants are definitely the real tbing: golden brown, with a delicately flaky outside and a tender, buttery inside. What are these masterpieces of cuisinery doing in a typical hamburger, milkshake and sandwich shop. nestled among artifically flav- ored and colored junk foods? "They're what the students like. A sophisticated student body appreciates sophisticated croissants," said Mrs. Marijane Geiger, director of residence hall and food services at Connecticut. Mrs. Gieger, a croissant-lover herself for years, introduced the prized French pastries to help create an overall "new image" for the student snack bar. "I was looking to renovate Cro because it wasn't keeping up to date with what the 80s were doing," she explai ned. "American palates have become more sophisticated. People are more sensi- tive to what they eat." Mrs. Geiger feels the croissants help era keep up with this image. People. she points out, are steering away from fast food. "The croissants are rich but they're not the same kind of greasy doughtnuts people ate 15 years ago." . CROISSANTS Along with. the "sophisticated" crors- sams, Cro snack shop's new image includes the addition of two more pedestrian items, IN CRO? French fries and onion rings. Modernized equipment allows food to be prepared on stoves in front of the student and faculty Qui! And Scott Hefter '81 of the customers. rather than in the back kitchen. "The renovations are designed for more Vie de France Corporation efficiency," Mrs. Geiger said. is Connecticut's French connection. The story behind the origins of the croissants at Connecticut is actually quite unusual, according to Mrs, Geiger. The croissants are made by the Vie de France Cor- poration, which owns a bakery in West- By Mari Smultea '85 port, Connecticut, that distributes the frozen croissants throughout the southern New England area. By coincidence, Scott Hefter '81 is Vie de France's general man-

Nancy Hamillon MacCormac has the distinction of Donna MacKenzie Renard and family live in Nor- We have IWO children at Yale-Andy is a junior and being the only mayor among our classmates. Nancy has folk where husband, Jack. is c om mandinz officer of a Cindv a freshman, Tom is a senior in high school I been mayor of Davidson, NC. for the past four years. large naval ship. Daughter Kit has been married for (Elai~e [Lainte} Diamond Bermanl am now workin~ In Nancy and Earl have two daughters. One anends Smith almost two years and twins. John and Josie will gradu- New York as head of reader service for 51'/}magalll1:. and the other is in high school. Earl reaches philosophy ate this year. John from UV A and Josie from Randolph So anyone who comes through. please call and let's at Davidson College. Macon have lunch! . III Annie Hildreth Russell and Willie have two daugh- Sarah (Sail}') Bloomer teaches fourth grade in Win- Co-rorrespondenis: /;:lI1ilr Graham WflXJU, ters and a son. Annie teaches dyslexic children in Lin- chester. MA, She is enjoying the condominium she Sierra Vista. Redlands. CA' 9237J: £Iaim' Di(JI~IO~,j coln. MA recently purchased Berman. JJ NOI'/I! Wyu/lJing AI'l' .. 5011111Orlll1~(, Sarah (Sadie) Greene Burger lives in DC One daugh- Monica Hyde Peyton. husband Scott, Courtney. 16. 07079 ter is ajunior at Wesleyan and the other is a freshman at and Justin. 12. traveled to Europe this summer. Barnard. Sadie is back in school once again-working Met Patricia (Patty) Rashba Levine in New York for for a Master's in Public Health at Johns Hopkins lunch in May. Pauv leaches special I'd in Pittsburgh, Mar}' (Mimi) Adams Bitzer gradUilled 12 8.1 Jane Buxton Brown is also working for a Master's at where she. has lived since leaving Connecticut. Daugh- from Duquc nsc U. with a B.S. in nursing. Sbc IS Johns Hopkins-in liberal am. Jane helps run a cloth- 59 ter Susie IS a graduate of Washington U. and Patty's now an R. N.. having passed her State Boards in Mar~h ing store in Ruxton. MD. where the Browns live. Son other thrcc attended Penn- Hank is a graduate. David In February '82 Mimi vacationed in Palm Island With Peter. 23. is a graduate of UNC and daughter Coady is a a scruor and Betsy a junior. Husband Stanley is in the Melinda (Linda) Brown Beard. Mimi also sa~' Kath- senior at New England College ha rd wa I'e business. leen (Kalhy) Walsh Rooney and her family of five boys

30 ager for Connecticut. dents." A bowl of soup or salad and a crois- Ann Frankel Robinson has been writing and produc- ing radio commercials for four years and recently But Mrs. Geiger had no idea of the con- sant is a popular lunch item with the became executive director of the Grand Monadnock nection when she phoned the company. "1 faculty. Arts Council. Husband Jim is an internist with Keene almost collapsed when I found out it was The regular buttered croissants are the Clinic. Ann has three daughters: the eldest is a freshman Scott!" she said. "It's such a small world hottest sellers at 55~ apiece. The almond at Skidmore. Marion Friedman Adler lives in Stockbridge, MA. with Connecticut alumni." and chocolate croissants are next in popu- She is a founding member of the Board of the Hospice "It was the funniest thing," Mr. Hefter larity at 65¢ each while a croissant stuffed of South Berkshire and 11 dealer in out-of-print chil- said. "She was just a week ahead of my with ham and cheese sells for $1.35. "The dren's books. Oldest son John is a freshman at UMass calling her!" Mr. Hefter, who double ham and cheese croissants make a nice and two teenage sons arc still at home. Carolyn Frederick teaches Spanish in CT but man- majored in government and economics, sandwich," Mrs. Geiger said. "but llike the ages to be involved in a 500-acre development near usually works in the office behind the buttered ones." Atlantic City proposed by the John Madin Design Westport bakery. His job does offer an These prices are cheap considering the Group of Swuvcrtand. Carolyn takes an exercise class at c.c. and is assistant unit leader in the CT State unusual respite from office routine. how- quality of the pastries, but it is still a profit- Police Aux. ever. "Sometimes when I get tired of paper able business for Cro snack bar. "We aren't Marcia Fortin Sherman lives in the Detroit area. work," Mr. Hefter said. "1 go into the bak- as profit-oriented as bakeries," the resident substitute teaches and has a major job in their church. ery and make things." director explained. In fact, it's difficult to Husband John's job with Goodyear requires that he find good fresh croissants anywhere else in travel to Japan several times a year so both have been Mr. Hefter admits that croissants don't lea ruing japanese. Their daughter . .Iulie. is a freshman New London. "We just try to meet our appeal to him quite as much as they once at U of Ml did. "I don't actually eat them, because we needs and please our students." she said. Barbara Gimpel Schaefer lives in Wayne, PA where used to bake a million a week and someone "We suggest a selling price of 55

31 and Gallagher in NYC She started a fihn cornpa ny and vestment property and partnerships. Her daughtcrc Liv. ncved from the most distant points to join us: Marina was executive producer for a feature film TlIl,'Olll- is ar UVA majoring in international relations. Suvic 16 N;ris from San Jose. Nire Gabbay Koters from On- dnnrxsers. a spoor of the wilderness family type movie. and Erik I j are still at home in Vienna. VA. ta rio. Ellen Watson Payza nt from Oklahoma City. It was scheduled to be released in the summer. .lack and Dorothy (Dee) Fleming King recently took I'atricia (Pat) Illgala Scalzi from Hudson. 0 H. Barbara Pam Byecrofl Wetherill. David. and their two bovs a trip to Hawaii. sailing a 46© boat through the Lee- Burris from DC. Heather Turner Frazer from Ocean spent three weeks in Greece last summer seeing what wards and Windwards in the Caribbean. The Kings live Ridge. FL. and top travel honors go to Seyril Siegel she has been teaching ill ancient hist ory for the last five in Texas "amid palms and humidity and have never from Quito. Ecuador. where she is U.N. Deputy Resi- years. The family has taken lip skiing and the boys. II been happier." dent Rc presentarivc. Seyril says rhe welcome mat is out and 9. arc bcucr than thcir parents. Pam also teaches Constance (Connie) Wharton Nasson has been work- for all 'ezcrs. math at the Hackley School in Tarrytown. NY, Barbara ing as a Ircctancc writer for children's magazincs. Her Dara Zeiber Perflt sum med up thoughts discussed at Luntz Fragomen and family are their neighbors. and older son is at Guilford College in NCand their younger reunion with this comment: "Even though many of us her boys arc in Pam's classes. son is a midshipman at Annapolis arc not involved in careers directly rctared to our Donna Maulsby Stnerson and her husband Joe and Olga B. Santos received her M.A. in special cd uca- majors. Conn. College taught us how 1O think:' daughter Christina (7th grade] live in Fairfax. Vfl.. Joe tion last summer and is a bilingual special cd teacher at WI; missed classmates who were unable to attend We was just tenured at Georgetown. where he is an asso- a junior high in Worcester. Olga has started a doctoral hope they wilt join us in '87 for our 25th. and in the program at B.U. with research work in dyslexia as her meantimc. write their news to Jane Crandell-Glass who ciate prof. of English. Donna is a systems analyst and database designer for TRW goal. will continue as class correspondent. Our other class Judith (Judi) Wheeler Cere! runs her own travel officers are: president. Heather Frazer; vicc-p rcsidcnts. Karen Met/ger Gan1. is director of counseling ser- agency in Natick. MA. Husband Ronald has his own Kay Fer rls and Joyce Payer: treasurer. Ann Morris vices for WEBS. a literary-based career counseling ser- insurance agency, Son Adam is a pre-med at Bowdoin loring; and nominating c hairma n. Janet Wright vice 1'01' all of Westchester County. Beth is in high and daughter Raleigh works in an ad agency in Boston. Evans. school. and David is in middle school. Karen plays Judi is working towards a master's in Far East Asian Corrcsp ondent: JUlie Crandell-Glass. 21 BOll' Rd .. tennis and platform tennis in her spare time Jane Anderson Morse and family moved to Norfolk Studies

32 master pri nter. "At my age," she ex plained , Patricia Gumo Stumpp. an officer in the international division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co .. "I wanted the content to be all mine. I just received an M.B.A. from NYU in Feb. She traveled 10 wanted to learn technique." Lima. Peru. forthe bank for two weeks in 12 81. Nell' The Beth El Congregation asked Gale husband Gary is an associate at the law firm Cadwal- Du Brow to design a memorial to the vic- adcr. Wickersham and Taft. NYC. Christina Downs Dondero is busy with their five tims of the Holocaust. Members of the children and music lessons in piano. violin. and synagogue had been impressed by Mrs. recorder which she gives to her own children and many Du Btow's firs! show, which included prints others in Cameroon. Central Africa. where husband inspired by her trip to Israel. "I was very Tim works in epidemiology for the State Dept Laura Davenport Petcavage and Ed arc enjoying surprised when this request came in to do thci r new ba by. Ellen. who has a lready been out bi rding the sculpture," she said. "I questioned how with her proud parents. They hoped to teach her gar- anyone could deal with the Holocaust in a dening this summer. literal or figurative way. But then I did Leslie Melson Roach. husband Ron. and sons Scan 41!J and Geoffrey arc moving from CA to Mercer come up with an idea, presented it. and Island. W f\. to "tryout" t he Pacific Non hwest. Lee and they liked it." Ron traveled in Ma yBlto Moscow und Leningrad and The sculpture is austere and disturbing: a in Ocr 'Slto northwestern England where thcv motored powerful hand and forearm are thrust out the canals. • Paula Cisco vcrdu was promoted to VI' at the CT of two black metal cubes. Dedicated last Bank and Trust Co, She's area head of personal trust year during the same week that a confer- portfolio management. Husba nd Pete works in pension ence of Holocaust survivors met in lsrael. it investment for Travelers Investment Mgmt. Co. Thcv stands outside the synagogue, where Gale play golf in their spare time. . Catherine (Cathy) Robert is leaching at Haverford DuBrow sees it often. College. She presented a paper there in the Spring "People's reactions to the piece arc one entitled "Choreographic Effects in the Poetry of Wall of the most gratifying parts of the expe- Whitman .. Due to an injury she has not been dancing rience," said Mrs. DuBrow, who attends Sarah (Sail)') Rowe Heckscher is president of the C.c. Club of Cincinnati and an admissions aide. She services at Beth EI. "All the reactions are attended the Alumni Council admissions workshop. very emotional. It's not a pretty sculpture." Kim 9y'! and Peter 61!Jplay soccer and Sally does yoga. A matter of technique Mrs. DuBrow returned to painting once Middle Eastern dance. Girl Scout>. Jr. League and the piece was completed. And although she church work Eugenic Bresnan Seybold exhibited her hand- If anything, Gale Was hton Du Brow '66 is is concentrating on oil and prefers to work molded and hand-painted terra cotta tiles at the New- flexible. A history major at Connecticut with large canvases, she remains flexible. ton Free Library. Newton Corner. MA. in March. .E.ugenie is a partner with Sue Ladr '68 in Policarpo who earned a master's in education from "Different ideas can best be expressed in different media," she said. "I don't. there- 1tleworks of Boston She has taught art at the Wads- Tuftsand taught high school history, she is worth Atheneum in Hanford and at the Portland now a painter and print maker in Phoenix. fore, restrict myself to just painting or just School of Art in Portland. ME. And although trained in drawing, painting prints. Anything is open to you if you have Karen Fraser has been appoi rued director of person- the tools and know the techniques. An nel planning and development. corporate personnel and lithography, she spent the better part operations. in the systems and human resources divi- ora year working on a 14-fool metal sculp- artist has so many options." sion of CT General Life Ins. Co. Candy is a member of ture for Beth EI Congregation in Phoenix. In addition to painting full-time. Gale the American Society for Personnel Administrators "After my second child was born, I de- Wash ton DuBrow is an admissions aide for and the Human Resource Planning Socictv. Connecticut and will represent the college The class extends its heartfelt sympathy'to the fami- cided to give in to my increasing desire to lies of Sail}' Bishop vestewlg and Chnsnne Matteson. gel into art," said Mrs. DuBrow, who is still at several high school programs in Phoenix Sally passed away May I. 191;2. and Chris just a week learning to lock herself into, and her family this year. She returned to campus for an before. on April 22. 1982. Classmates who wish to out of. her studio at home. She plunged admissions aide workshop last fall-her honor Sally's and Chris' memories with a gift to the first trip back since graduation. "I just college may send a check 10 the Office of Development. back into college as a freshman, earned a It has been suggested that any gifts in Chris' me morv be B.F.A. in painting and drawing in 1978 loved it." Mrs. DuBrow said. '" attended designated for East Asian Studies. her major. ~ from Arizona State University, and took classes taught by three of my former Correspondent: Mrs. Thomas J, NejT(Susal1 Pal/II}, graduate courses in lithography from a professors-they were still there!" 96 Round Hitl Rd.. (ireenwirh. CTOf!830

Correspondent: Linda S. Hersk owitz, 2/ w. 71 MOl/III PIl'O.\'a/1IAI'C.. Philadelphia. PA /9/03 Somogyi: and nominating chairman. Barbara Sachner Jo Ann Hess Myers sent in this reunion report Royle. Robin Frost Dawson has taken over as our new 67 Our 15th reunion included a cozy number. three husbands. Barry Liebman. Tony Sheridan ("74) class correspondent. Reunions are fun. Everything is planned down 10 the MARRIED: Carol Williams to Alexander and Paul SI. Jean: eight children. Christy and Timmy last detail. When the power went off Sunday morning. Hannenberg (Vassar '75). Britton. Amv and Mark Levenstein. Susanna and 73 we had a candlelight breakfast. Plan 10 attend our 20th BORN: to Barbara Guibord and Gerard Homsv. Molly Mvers: and Keenan and Tosh Sheridan: and 14 .10 Ann enjoyed hearing from so many of you during Elizabeth Abuuchar . 5 27 82: to Tony and Laure~e elassmat;s. rjLoughun bans. Katherine Elizabeth. 12 16 79and The small attendance and the wet weather pulled us the past year We have just learned of the death of Anne Shulman Bethany Wright. 8 20 81: to Michael and Ann Petten- together. and we had a lovely. intimate time. Programs Rozen on November 23. 1980. We extend our heartfelt gill Shea. Caitlin Thayer. 3 18 82: to Marilyn Yaffee of special interest included a presentation by our class- Clark and Roy. jonaihan David. S II; 81: to Doug and sympathy to Ann's family and friends. mate. Roberta (Bobbie) Bars! Cohen, who. with her . Correspondent: Mrs . jonarhan T. Dawson (Robin Barbara Smith Cole. Jason. born 8 74 and died 4 75. husband. runs a sophisticutcd. award-winning interior Seth.4 79. and Joshua. 3 76: to Barhara Lubow Lein- Frost). 800 Hoydens Hill Road. FaI(jkld. CT06430 design business in New Haven: and an informative talk wand and Steven. Jason Aaron. 7 17 79: to Jan delivered by classmate. Hedi Leistner Mizr ack , assis- Withe)' Stamell and Gene. Emmie Roc. 10 SI. tant professor of pediatrics at NYU School of Medi- Melissa (Mind)') Ross DeMarsh left lntcrnauonat cine. on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. We had a Pa per after eight years a nd is now an officer wit h Chem- delicious class dinner at New London's toasty Ship's MARRIED: p.atricia Cumo to Gal·y D. ical Bank in Wall Street area, She manages all interna- Wheel where. in addition 10 drinking. eating. laughing tional trade financing products for the bank. Mindy Stumpp 3/7/1;1 and talking. we elected our class officers fOI the next 69 recen'ed her M.B.A. In February after se\'en ycars. BORJ'\: to Tim and Christina Downs Dondero. five years Maril}'n YaffeI' Clark took a four-month leave of Maria Louisa 5{81: to Edwal'd and Laura Davenport They arc: president. Margaret (Peggy) Keenan abscnce from Big Brothers-Big Sisters of CT to have Petea\'age, Ellen Mary I 21 82: to Ron and Leslie Sherida n; vice- p resid e n tl re u n i on c ha iflTIa n. Oa na Jonathan and an appendectomy. Summer of '82 Melson Roach. Geoffrey Dearborn 2 19 82 Freedman Uebman; treasurer. Elizabeth Young

33 or y. chemistry and medicine. 1690-1730. marked the beginning of full-time motherhood for her. son. Jay also directed the campaign of tor mer state Jacqueline (Jacquie) Buza was featured in an article Marilyn is serving her second two-year term as YP of Rep. Patricia T. Hendel for the Democratic nomina- in the FallB! issue of Arthritis Aceelll, highlighting her the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut tion for Secretary of State achievements as a duct or. Mary Maloney is takinga year's training in dermato- Barbara Lubow Leinwand teaches at the Connecti- Ben Polan has opened a dental practice in Salem, logic surgery in San Francisco arthe Kaiser Santa Clara cut Institute of Art and Design. She rides and shows her horse. Barbara's son. Jason. will begin taking his pony MA. Hospital. Monica Rothschild-Bores received her Ph.D. inclas- Barbara Smith Cole, in addition to full-time mother- in lead line classes. Husband Steve was recently elected sical archaeology from UCLA in 6{82. Her vacation hood, is co-leader of a community support group for to the Common Council. plans include a trip 10 Italy with her husband. David mothers in Newton. MA. She also coordinates the local Carol Williams Hannenberg reports that there is life and I-vcar-nld Lauren. elementary school program. Understanding Handi- after Conn. She has been a surgical resident at the New Victoria (Vick)') Leonhart graduated from the Ver- caps. Barbara's husband. Doug. has just endured the England Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Fifth Surgical mont Law School. receiving her J.D. and a master'sin Oral Radiology Board Exam in louisville. Service in Boston. She began her chief resident year last Christina Van Horn left her career as a newspaper fall. and will finish her training in November. Carol's environmental law. Our class dues pay for mailings requesting news for reporter and editor to return to college at Wellesley to husband. Alexander. is now an anesthesia resident at finish her BA. and will graduate in 1983. She lives in Beth Israel Hospital. They live in an old house in Ded- the Alumni Magazine. The treasury is running on Allston. MA and is working on a research project to ham. MA. empty. No dues. no news. Please send dlles-$to for republish a novel by a 19th century American woman Ellen McCarthy is director ofpersonncl for the Gcn- five years-to Benjamin L Polan. 3 Little Dr .. Suzanne (Sukie) Pennink Ream and Bruce still live in e ra l Mills Fashion Group in NYC. She handles person- Danvers. MA 01923. Cranston. Rl. She reports that her family is now com- nel work for all five companies in the group Co-correspondents: William B. Thomson. 84 River- plete with Matthew and Jasper. Bruce works for Zaca LeI' Mills Appelbaum was laid offfrom her teaching side Drive. ApI. 4. Nell' York. NY 10024: 1I1r.\'.Richard Mesa winery selling wine from Maine to Florida. Sukie job and is looking forward to at least a year offulltime C. Yeskoo (Dena L wort). 76 Beekman Road. 511111- will begin nursing school in the fall. with midwiferyas mot herh ood. She is work ing for teacher ccrt ification in mil, NJ 07901 her final goal. an additional subject and hopes to pursue an M.A. in Frances (Fran) Wojcicki Edgerton received her history M.B.A. in 8/8) from Sacred Heart. This past year she Sandra Smith Nawrocki reports that she and Pete taught an introductory computer course at Post Col- have seen Pamela (Pam) Kalish Edel and Leslie Sund- lege. Fran spends the rest of her time with her three berg '69. MARRIED: Cecctle M. Weiss to David G. daughters, traveling between Brownies, PTA. nursery Sherry Smith Hlock gave up her job at Pfizer to 77 Strand. 2/16{80: Margaret Kunze to John B. school and gymnastics. become a full-time mother to Erik. She and John arc Hynes. 4/25/81: Henry Gitcnstein to Harriet Davidoff. Ann Pettingill Shea and husband Michael continue restoring an 18th century farmhouse in lyme. along 5{17/81: Lauria Conover to Jack Corkey. 7/81: Mar- work on their IO-room colonial home which is nowfour with gardening. raising chickens. and chopping wood garet Bradley 10 Charles Felton. 1981~Sharon Keirnan years old and unfinished. Her maternity leave ends Sherry sees Paula Rubino Roeder, Janet (.Jan) Komo- to Michael DuFrane. 9/81: Jane Whitehead to Peter 9/82. when she will return to teaching children with rowski Rothhaar, Deborah (Debby) Myers Kueharik, Guenther 5{1/82. learning disabilities at Hebron Elementary School. Deborah (Debbie) Fraser, and April Hrown. BORN: to Jack and Elizabeth Field Reynolds, Src- Ann frequently sees Margaret (Peggie) Ford, Donna Nanc y Stroup is still at Yale working for a Ph.D. in phcn Mark. 6f21/81: to Richard and Gail Roberts Bellantone and Polly Willard. epidemiology. During the summers she works at the Cardattco, Kristi Lynn. 9/6{81: to Michael and Trace)' Carol Proctor McCurdy reports that Michael. 2. National Cancer Institute in DC. Nancy hopes to work Stephan Koff, Sarah Caitlin. 1O{2,181: to Jody and keeps her busy. and that in spite of what the experts at NCI permanently after graduation. She has seen Michael Duggan. Conor. 3/5,182~ to John and Bonita claim. 2 is a great age. NaOl:y Voye and her husband. Mark. who commute to (Bonnie) Greenwald McCardell, John Malcolm. Ill. Barbara Raimondi received an M.A. from Brown in work together from CT. 4/6/82. American literature in 1975. She taught 2nd grade in Co-correspondents. Susan D. Krebs. 444 Lincoln Over 80 members of the class of'77 braved the wind Cranston for one year. followed by a year in Boston as 51" York, PA /7404: and Mrs. Gary W. Yohe (Linda a nd rain to return for our 5th reunion. ConslanCe an assistant editor. In 1980. she graduated from SU Citrano): 107 William 51.. Portfand. CT06480 (Connie) Ktachif', our reunion chairman. welcomed us Law School. Barband Bill have moved to Maine where in the hospitality suite of Larrabee with a handmade she is a trial lawyer with Lipman. Parks. Bill is also a 1977 banner and prepared us for the weekend events. lawyer. working for Berman. Simmons in Lewiston. He BORN: to Tony and Julie Crofoot Simons, Ann Rumage supplied us with buttons as a memento of recently won the largest verdict in Maine history in a 75 Mark Demane 1/19/82: to Ben and Bonnie our first post-grad gathering. Great thanks go to them personal injury case. Barbara and Bill have bought a Polan, Briana Ruth 7/19{81 both for our reunion planning. horse and also enjoy gardening and camping Jean Renfieid-Miller will leave her job as director of Friday night after a cocktail reception and dinner Jay Levin practices law with Dupont and Tobin in afternoon activities at the Hewitt School to attend the with Charles Chu and Jane Bredeson. we found our- New London where he also serves as the 1982 Chairman Harvard Graduate School of Education selves at the Dutch. Saturday brought more rain but of the United Jewish Appeal. Since leaving t he prosecu- Anita Guerrini, a doctoral student at Indiana U.. has our spirits were not dampened as we met in Harris for tor's office. he has again become involved in political been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant to our "picnic" and Michael's Dai ryice crca m. Manl'ofu, campaigning. working for Chris Dodd and Sam Gejden- do research in Great Britain on Newtonian matter the- were found in the same scats as five years ago. Dinner

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34 A number of classmates live and work in the New was at Anthony's Steam Carriage at the RR station department at Save the Children in NYC. She will enter York area They include: followed by a dance at Cro with Andv Williams and his the NYU l.aw School this rail. Linda R. Sittenfeld graduated from Fordham School David Ftdcrer. who is playing well for his softball band. We all had a great time catching up with each tea III as a shortstop in the NY Central Park League for other as well as remembering some of our past, Sheila of Law in 1981. She was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1982 and has published twice. The second Burson-Marsteller. where he works. Saunders presented us with our class historv and rna vbe Carolyn Reapb. who has been a research associate at ourfutu~ -. article is on the international transfer of technology in National Eco. Research Associates and will be return- We enjoyed seeing our classmates from far and wide the Journal of taw] Tcchnologv, 3rd Quarter. 1981. 11 ing to school for hcr MBA at Columbia. with at least two from CA and one from Bermuda, We was presented at a conference sponsored by the World Peace Through La w Center in Brazi lin t he fa Il of 1981 Mark (Moose) Shuster, who received his MBA from were sorry our class president. Ken Crerar, was absent NYU, is an assistant product manager for Clairol. He along with many others whom we hope to sec in '87. Stuart Sadick graduated from the Sloan School of Management at MIT in june 1981. He works for claims he's in the hairspray division Our new class officers arc: president. Ann Rumage; Carter Sullivan will be attending Columbia this fall VP and reunion chairman, Beth Barry: class co- McKinsey and Co .. a ma nagcmem consulting firm in to begin his MBA correspondents. Sharon Mcintire and Louise (Pam) Chicago Valerie Gale Simpson and Jeffrey Simpson moved to Timothy Scull was spotted in the Village where he is Sharp Hulme, living but he's working on the Upper East at Smuh und Ceceue Weiss Strand and David live in PA where St. George's School in Newport. RI, this summer where jeffrey will teach English and history while Valerie Wollensky Steak House and reports he's made his first David is a prof. of political science at Dickinson Col- commercial. The former creator of Floralia plays a lege. specializing in China. Next year they will head to continues as librarian at East Greenwich High School. Fran Scholl began studying for an M.B.A. this balloonman. Beijing U. in China. summer. She will complete her master's in international Leslie Wise has also hecn seen in the Village where Margaret Kunze Hynes and husband Jack live in she is dancing. dancing, dancing. Bermuda where he works for U,S. Customs. Margaret ma nagcment at the American Graduate School of Inter- nauonal Management starting in January. She travels Dehorah Thomlinson is workingat the Bank of New is painting and doing freelance work York and living on the Upper East Side. Debbie. along Henry Cttenstetn received his M.B.A. in corporate to Europe for vacation this summer. She often sees Deborah Sorkin, as they work in the same building. with Mark Shuster, David Stern and Ira Todd Cohen, finance from Pace. He works for Riverside Shirt and worked for the AAGP Phone-a-thou and have reported Kathleen (Kalhy) Kief y Seifert works at Martin Underwear Corp, as vice-president. finance. He is in- that the Class of '79's generosity is surpassed only by volved in production and travels bi-monthlv to their Marietta outside of DC. She lives in Columbia, MD. with her husband who works for Reliance Insurance their graciousness factories - Noah Sorkin, who has just received his JD from Company. Laurie Conover Corkey lives in Hollywood, where GTo ....'I1. will be working for the Brooklyn D.A."s office Brian Glassman is a staff attorney in the older per- her husband. Jack. is an actor, Laurie works part-time Henry Friedman, with his ncw J D from BU will be a for ao energy consulting firm and continues her music sons unit of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. He works in such areas as landlord-tenant. consumer wel- clerk with a New Jersey judge in Newark career as an accompanist with both piano and harpsi- David Stern's JD from Columbia has taken him to fare hcncfus and probate. chord. Benita Garfinkel lives in NYC where she is an adver- the Manhattan firm of Weil and Gotschal. Margaret Bradley Felton and husband. Charlic. live .Iohn Anderson received his JDalso from the Univer- tising sales representative for P!a.r~;rlcovering the con- in Cleveland. Charlie is doing a pulmonary fellowship sity of Bridgeport sumer electronics field. at Univcrsity Hospitals while Margaret works for a Alexander (Lex) Richardson has finished his first Louise Richter is II law clerk to US District Court magazine publishing company. Margaret received her year in Yale's Professional Managcment Program and Judge Carol Mansmann in Pittsburgh, She is a member master's in anthropology from Southcrn Methodist U. is working in Manhattan at Ogilvic and Mather for the Sharon Keirnan DuFrane and husband Michael live of the PA. MAand DC Bars. Pamela Greenhalgh received her M.Ed. from Rhode summer on their Maxwell House account. in Boston. Sharon works as a customer service super- In the Boston area. Melissa Eleftherio is as busy as lsland College in May. She teaches at 51. Michael's visor for New England Nuclear Corp. School in Fall River. MA. Pam traveled to Germany, ever, She freelanced as a graphic designer and is pres- Jane Whitehead Guenther is a production coordi- entlyemployed by Data Instruments in Lexington. MA Austria, and France last year and hopes to return next nator for Waldenbooks in Stamford. Her husband, as an advertising specialist Peter. a westevan grad, is a n officer or the Union Trust April Lisa Podoloff is a n associate prod uccr with a Boston .lody Paskow continues to work for an education Company in Stamford. master's degree in counseling at Harvard U. film production public relations firm. Gail Roberts Cardalieo is busy with her three chil- Marjorie Kaufman is doing promotional pieces and Leslie Margolin practices labor law with the Hart- dren. Keith 4, Katie 3. and Kristi 8 mos. Her family ford firm of Murtha. Cullina. Riehtcrand Pinney. She print purchasing for Arnold and Co. spends much time skiing in Vermont and camping in recently published an article on employee rights in the [\'an Stone is a copywriter for the DR Group. the summer In the Washington. DC area. Caroline Baldwin is S('1U1i Hall La\\' Rel';ew and has leCtured on various Tracey Stephan Koff will teach an adult education- topics including "Women and the law" and "PractiCe research assistant for Urban Systems Research and GED program this fall while continuing her master's in and Procedure of Labor Arbitration."' She is training Engineering. She graced NYC with her prescnce this health service ad minist ration. Her husband. Michael. is for lhe NY Marathon and plays soccer with the CT spring while doing research for the NYC Rent Guide- director of operations of the pathology department at Women's Soccer Lcague. I.eslie will bl." traveling Iines Board and clai ms she could be converted to a NYC the 110spital of 51. Raphael in New Haven through England and France Ihis spring. resident. Michael Duggan lives in Atlanta with his wife and Beth Barr}' is a psychotherapist in the Community Charles Mallon is an aide to Sen. Bumper of child where heworks for a "Fortune 500" corporation. Mental Health Center in the Bronx. Arkansas. He gets together with Dick Kad:tis '76at Atlanta Braves 1'liIar~' Henderson is doing public relations and fund David Jaffe attends lhe Yale School of Drama. baseball games Ann Farwell Chamberlin teaches outdoor education raising work for thc Special Olympics. Patricia Burns worked two year<; forthe Peace Corps in the Easton. M A. elementary schools. She spent a Marlha Nelson has moved to Seattle to join Susan in Chad. Africa where she taught high school ina small month last summer hiking and climbing in the Rockies. Da\'is. Susan Bierbaum and Andrea Freed, They have village. After her return, she began an e;>;ceutive train- Brian Chertok and Lauri live in NYC where lauri isa all had an assortment of jobs but dancing remains lhe ing program with Hahnes department store in N.I. She fashion illustrator and Brian is head of creative services common denominator will soon be personnel and operations manager of one Peler Stokes is living in Philadelphia and worki ng for for the computer division of CBS. of their branch stores Stephen Levy. along with several other members of a brokerage firm Karen Ray Littlefield, husband Randy and son Patricia CUller will be attending school at Santa William A. White & Sons, received an award from the Christophel' are moving to Glencoe. MD. where Karen Real Estate Board of NY for the "most ingenious"deal Clara, CA. for her MBA. will be chairman of the Spanish dept. of Old fields of the year. The deal for the Actors Equity Building in Conslance Whitehead has recently returned from School and will tcach math. Her husband will teach Japan where she was teaching English. She hopes to be NY received notice in Thc Nclt· York Times. able to share this experience with others in a book she is history full-time. CO-forrespondel/ls: ['tllII Sharp Hulme (Mrs. Andrl'w Chintz is working towards his master's in Georfil' F.). /6 Auburn Suerl, Framingham, MA writing. historic preservation at Columbia. He is looking for a Frances Fremont-Smith is teaching English at Jilin 01701: Shtlron L. Mclll/ire, 304 E. 20,11 51., ApI. 4-D, Job in real estate development. Teachers' College in Chang Chun at the Chinese .Ncll· York, NY 10003. Ana Maria Portela has finished her first year at Har- Academy of Agricultural Mechani7ation of Sciences in vard Busi ness School after work ing four yea rs for 18 M Beijing in New I-Iaven. Lisa Sehwar17. Glassner has completed her M.A in Janet Noves is a social worker for the State of CT clinical psych at Farleigh Dickinson and is a candidate Department of Children and Youth Services. She is MARRIED: Kalhleen (Kathi) Finn to Ensign for her doctorate at Bryn Mawr. learning sign language Robert J. Malkowski 1/81: Alison Anne Hoi- SUlanne Hand is an administrative assistant at Nut- Ann Rumage is the office director for Sen. Chris- 79 land to Harlan Holt Thompson 7/10/82: Frances meg Pavillion Health Care in New London topher J. Dodd's Fairfield County, office in Stamford. Lillian Risch enjoys the Seattle area where she is a Fremont-Smith to Jai Li Jun. 1/82, in Beijing, China: wholesaler toy and game salesperson for the Western She oflcn plays bridge with Michael Bromle~'. Lisa Sch ....'artl to Mark Glassner 6/13/82: Phillip Mak- Janina Calacicco Price works for A.L. Buschman. part of \VA. She frequently visits classmate Martha ris to Jean Von Klcmperer '78 5182. -lne, in Westport, CT as overseas traffic manager. BORN: to Ed and Janice Bomely Stack, Christopher Nelson and Karin Wimberger ('82). Daniel Cohen lives in Jamaica Plain. MA. with Blos- Our class dues pay for mailings requesting news for Edward Stack, 2f82. som and .Ion Levine '76. They all manage a mycological Kathi Finnand her husband are living in Mansfield. this column, Nodltes, no news. Please send yourdues of $5 to Dan Levy. 6 Natural Park Apal'tmellts. Marsh research project under a grant from the Arnold MA. and she's working towards her master's at Tufts Aboretum Road. West Willington. CT 06279. Mimi Ginott currently heads the pl'ess relations Dental School in Boston

35 Beth Offenhartz is living in W. Hartford, where she is Kevin Sullivan has joined thc creative team at Arnold We send our sympathy to the family of Princess a cl~im representative in a managerial training program & Company Inc .. a Boston-based advertising, market- Yangehen Abraham whose father. the King of Sikkim. at Conn General Insurance Co ing, and public relations firm. as a mechanical artrst. died Ij81. Nancy Smith is an assistant art teacher at St. Paul's Amy Wey works as a computer programmer for Co-correspondems: Ira Todd Cohen, 435 East 30lh school in NH. She is also coaching the cross country Si., New York. NY /0016: Claire Qual!' 512 Lincoln John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. David Geller is selling warehousing equipment for and basketball teams 51.. Carlstadt, NJ 07072 David Waldman is attending U. of Rochester in a Bunman Iron Works. Inc. nuclear physics grad program. lisa Kingman works at the Home Savings Bank. John (Johnny Y) weyeauch lives in Stamford. CT. Ellzabeth Libbey has been very busy since gradua- MARRIED: Susan Cole 10 Jeffrey Ross. where he is a human resource analyst for Champion tion. She received her second bachelor's degree in geol- 81 8/23/81: Laura Martineau to David lves '80. International. ogy from Beloit College. then spent two months 011 a 4/11/81; Janice Parker to Lt. Malcolm Whitaker. Jr.. Dana Friedman is an editorial assistant in the feature geological excursion in New Zealand before moving 1/2/81; Debra DiMarco 10 John T. Hanley. Jr.. articles department at Mademoiselle magazine in NYC. back to Boston. 5/23/81; Lisa Gersumky to Paul Geberth, 6/6/81. Chris Gernhard is a management trainee at Bankers Kathryn Bonner is a research assistant at the Carrier Many '81 grads have left the country. Trust. Foundation in Bene Meade. NJ. and is co-writing a Alison Fraser and Constanza (Coco) Stein headed for Paris in February with hopes of finding an apart- Usa Shaw settled in NYC after nine months of living book on neuropsychological assessment. and working in Paris. She works for Young and Rubi- Heleigh Bostwick and Eric Carlson are both in grad- ment and work. cam Advertising. uate school at Penn. Heletgh is studying landscape Susan Perter is in Shizuoka. Japan. working for the government as an English advisor for the local high Claire (Bailey) greene is work ing for the Sports tttus- architecture. and Eric is a dental student. trated division of Time. Inc. Michael Kimmel is also in Philadelphia. working schools. Ellen Levine, Brian Elowe, and Peter Melle share an towards a Ph. D. in microbiology and immunology at Wayne Roth is studying Judaism at Yeshiva Aish Hatorah in Jerusalem apartment in Brooklyn. Ellen now is an account rep at Temple U. Career Blazer's after an interesting experience as an Barry Twomey is enrolled in the Graduate School of Amelia (Amy) Provatas traveled through Greece executive trainee at Bloomingdale's. Brian is an Business at the U. of Chicago. He writes that he is after graduation. and now lives in Thcssalonika where account rep at Marsh and McLennan. and plays hockey learning how to make money and avoid taxes. she teaches English at a private school. on the side. Peter is an underwriter for Commercial Janice Parker Whitaker is very happy in Lawton. Emily Bloch is living and teaching in Costa Rica. OK. working as a technical editor with Telos Comput- Paula Fotopoulos is loving every minute of her life in Union Insurance Co. on Wall SI. Linda Wiatrowski and Gloria Craighead are surviv- ing, Inc. Switzerland. She lives in the vineyards and works in ing the executive trainee program at Bloomingdale's. Tamara vertereuure works as a technical writer/edi- Geneva Terry gohonncn is working as a production assistant tor at Sonalysts in Waterford. CT. She is living with Mark Hall is well and happy in the Peace Corps. He Todd Hudson '80. and wrote asking. -where's Tom is teaching English and African literature in the Peo- at Michael Uhlich Productions. John Angevin wrote. "I'm sort of living the NYC Bates?" ple's Republic of Benin in French West Africa. Tom Bates is teaching math and English aboard a Lynn Lesniak is living in Manhattan and dancing life." He is working at a modeling agency and is pursu- deployed ship for the Navy. with the Nikolais Dance Theater. After a three-month ing his interest in acting Sally Langer wrote from Worcester. By day. she tour of Europe. the Theater will return to NYC. Lynn Russell Gregg is a legal assistant for a law firm in the works as a membership enrollment representative for also teaches at Kirnencs. Wall 51. area. the Small Business Service Bureau. By night. she is a Scott Kling was doing research on problems of deser- Leslie Kreisman is teaching neurologically impaired drummer in a female punk rock band called "The tification in Europe. the Middle East, and Africa on his jr. high school students in the Bronx. She is also work- Worst." Watson Fellowship. He has since returned to the states. ing towards a master's in early childhood/ special ed. at Linda Rosenthal has returned to the U. S. after travel- having contracted malaria. Bank S1. College of Education in NYC. ing in England and working briefly in London. She is Alb: Denicolay spent eight months in Europe. and is Margaret (Maggie) Lowenstein had enough of the working at a summer camp in Maine now working for the UN as an assistant to the speech Big Apple. After working a year at a private nursery Several '81 graduates have settled in the Boston area. writer of the Secretary General. school in Manhattan, she returned to her hometown of Laura Allen is working as a research assistant 10 a Christine Saxe is a marine analyst for a research and San Antonio portfolio manager at Thorndike. Doran. Paine & consulting firm on Long Island. She shares a carriage William (Bill) Barrack commutes 10 NYC. where he Lewis. house apartment on an old North Shore estate with is an underwriter at Chubb & Son, Inc. He lives in New Christine (Christy) Beckwith is production assistant Laurie Cummings '80. Canaan with Dan Gallagher. at D.C. Heath Publishing. Siri Wright lives in Arlington. VA. works full-time as Linda Gurwitz is an administrative assistant to the Jennifer (Jenny) Burns is program assistant at the a legal secretary. and is pursuing a master's in rehabili- general rna nager of a n insurance company in Syracuse. International Institute in Boston. tation counseling at George Washington U. Debra DiMarco-Hanley does financial planning for Mary Goldberg and Jacqueline (Jacquey) Zucker- Scott Williamson is living and working in Wellesley Investors Diversified Services. Inc. man work at Harvard. Mary is a research assistant in as a sales representative for an independent distributor Susan Cole Ross is teaching at the Middlesex School the Development Office and plays the viola in two local of data communications equipmenL in NH orchestras. .lacquey is an ad ministrative assistant to the Cathleen (Cathy) Carabee is pursuing a career in Hilary Chittenden has been living in W. Hartford director of Career Planning and Placement. She fre- higher education as a resident director at Marymount and attending the Computer Processing Institute. quently sees Colin Corkery running by her apartment. College in Tarrytown, NY Douglas Fishkind lives in New Haven and works as a Joyce Judovits is also in Beantown. working as an Victoria Floyd has been attending CA College of research assistant at Yale's Biology Dept assistant manager at the Harvard Coop. Arts and Crafts for graphic design. Robert (Bob) Broad teaches at a nursery /elementary Helen Moore is a data control coordinator at Tufts. Linnea Elsesser and Paul Escoll are also in CA. Lin- school in DC. Nancy Pettengill is in the merchandising training nea is an executive trainee at Macy's in San Francisco, Linda Haynes Lotz is an administrative assistant for program at Filene's. and Paul is working in LA. at the William Morris the Alumni Association of the Coast Guard Academy Elizabeth (Liz) Rosoff is attending grad school at agency. in DC. Mass General for medical social work. Eileen (Sue) Fraser Frankewicz has been named Also living in DC are John Voorhees. David lief!, executive director of CO NT ACT of Southeastern CT. a Chris Revaz, Richard (Rick) Gersten, Margot Moser, telephone crisis intervention service. and Christiana (Kit) Burnett. Ellen Gordon counsels teenage parents at a Familv Anita (Brooke) Perry wrote from Silver Spring. M D. Service agency in Taunton. M A. - asking about the DC Conn. College parties. She is Melis~a Guyette spent a month touring the Rocky working at Bloomingdale's. Mountains on a bicycle. She is the business manager at Marsha Williams completed a harrowing year at Credits Southern Vermont Art Center Washington U. in St. Louis. where she has obtawed a Andrea Heap is a veterinarian apprentice in Marble- master's degree in clinical psychology. She recently Photographs: Ellen Wildermann Bodin dale. CT. bumped into Susan Oleinik, who moved to SI. Louis '80, cover, inside front cover, I, 8, 24 (top Martha Jove is a grad student at UConn, where she is with Laura Miller, Sue is an executive trainee at studying special ed left, 25 (bottom), 26 (top left and center), Famous-Barr Co. Karen Lanphear and Wayne Malinowski are both No dues. no news! Class dues arc needed to cover our 27, 28; Ken LaFalle, 24 (top right, bot- working at Northfield Mt. Herman, Karen teaches class' mailing costs-like t he cost of postcards request· tom), 25 (top), 26 (top right, bottom); The nursery school and coaches gymnastics and crew ing news for this column. Please send yolir $5 dues 10 Day, 4. Way~e is a mcmber of the residence faculty. He is also Amy Wey, 20 Bennington SI., Needham. MA 02194. studying mechanical engineering at Western New Eng- Co-correspondents: Ellen R. Levine. III Park Place. land College. Brooklyn. NY //2/7; Marsha £. Williams. 1J37 B. Art: Katherine R. Gould '81; except page Julia Mack is living on her own in Chicago. where she McCmcheon Rd.. 51. Louis, MO 63 f44 32, by Sarah Hargrove Harris '57. has been accepted into Northwestern's Clinical Psy- chology grad program. Ellen Meyer enjoys teaching at the Potomac School Corre,lpondelll: .Iii! S. Crossman, 358 Race- in VA. 82 brook Road, Orange. CT06477

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A History of Connecticut College

"One of the red-letter days in the College's ture as they marched on their historic history was March 27, 1923, "Moving task." Half a century later, a smiling Presi- Day," when the students joyfully trans- dent Charles Shain counted Connecticut's ferred some 18,000 volumes to their new first male graduate, George W. Gager '71 home," Gertrude Noyes writes in her new (left), who made history on May 31,1971. college history (Above). "The weather was To order A History of Connecticut Col- uncooperative, cold and blustery; and the lege, please send $20 plus $2 for postage for students, headed by President Marshall each copy to the Alumni Association, Box with his huge armfuls, made a heroic pic- 1624, Connecticut College.

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