Alumni @ Large

Colby Magazine Volume 91 Issue 4 Fall 2002 Article 9 October 2002 Alumni @ Large Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Recommended Citation (2002) "Alumni @ Large," Colby Magazine: Vol. 91 : Iss. 4 , Article 9. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol91/iss4/9 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. ’20s/’30s-1940s Alumni at Large Alumni Association Awards The Club Circuit For a list of club events go to www.colby.edu/alumni/regionalclubs Hope Palmer Bramhall ’56, Alumni Council Awards Committee Arizona, Cindy Castro Minnehan ’86. chair, reminds Colby readers that the committee meets three times a year Atlanta, Chris Tierney ’89. to select deserving alumni and friends of the College to receive Alumni Austin, Texas, Lambie Bickford ’01. Association awards. Boston, Christopher Sullivan ’97. Any alumni can submit nominations for the following: Charlotte, N.C., Farrell Burns ’98. Outstanding Educator Award: Given to an alumnus/alumna for excep- Chicago, Mike Cuzzi ’98, Sarah Ummell ’97. tional distinction in the classroom (2002 recipient: Diane Scrafton Cohen Colbiana (Mass.), Elizabeth Wade Drum ’47. Ferriera ’61). Colby North by Northwest (Boston’s North Shore to Southern New Ernest C. Marriner Distinguished Service Award: Given periodically to a Hampshire), Cherrie Dubois ’69. member of the Colby family for exceptional dedication to the College (2002 Colorado, Katherine Walker ’88, Peter Weinberg ’91. recipient: Earl Smith). Down East, Andrea Krasker Gavin ’93 and Chip Gavin ’90. Colby Brick Award: awarded annually to three to five members of the Fairfield County, Conn., Janet Breslin Gilmartin ’76. Colby family who have demonstrated outstanding loyalty to the College Hartford, Franc-Eric Wiedmer ’90. through consistent and dedicated service (2002 recipients: William Alfond London, Stephen Reed ’85. ’72; Stephen Roy ’77 and Valerie Jones Roy ’76; Leland Potter ’67 and Linda Los Angeles, Rabbi Zachary Shapiro ’92. Mitchell Potter ’66; Douglas Shair ’76; James E. Fell ’32). Minnesota, Kendra K. Shank ’02. Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award: awarded periodically at Alumni New Hampshire, Tony Baldasaro ’94. Reunion Weekend to an alumnus/alumna who has achieved unusual distinction New York City, Diana Herrmann ’80. in his or her profession or avocation (2002 recipient Allan van Gestel ’57). Philadelphia, Kirk Paul ’79. Edson V. Mitchell Distinguished Service Award: awarded periodically to Providence, Sarah Dressler ’02. an alumnus/alumna, within 25 years of graduation, who has demonstrated San Francisco, Ruth Bender ’89, Elizabeth Baker ’97. sustained dedication and leadership in support of the College (2002 recipient: Sarasota, Fla., Ernie Fortin ’51. John B. Devine Jr. ’78). Seattle, Sarah English ’95, Corley Hughes ’98. Shanghai, Susanna Schneider ’82. Special consideration is given to candidates in their reunion years, Bramhall Southern Maine, Demetra Giatas ’88, Rebecca Birrell ’92. said. She noted that nominations can be made on the Colby Web site, with the form Tokyo, Ari Druker ’93. in Colby magazine, and directly to Alumni Relations staff. Washington, D.C., Kevin Fahey ’80. Waterville, Jon Eustis ’69. 40 Our regulars were present for ceremonies for the General Atomic reunion again this year: Doris Rose Facility. The reader may make the 20s/30s Hopengarten, Ernie Marriner, connection between Prof. Bohr and Merrill S.F. Greene ’20 was recognized by Alleen Thompson and Lin Work the fascinating play, Copenhagen, on the Maine Legislature with a proclamation man. We marched proudly (and last) Broadway. [An intriguing play indeed, honoring the 102-year-old World War I in the Parade of Classes, pushing even if you never had a single thing veteran, one of two in Maine. In World the lone marcher from 1941, John to do with physics—NCP.] It centers War II he went into uniform again as a U.S. Hawes, who was in front of us. A on a visit during WWII by Werner Army doctor. “Wherever the troops were, thoughtful note from Trophy Fred- Heisenberg, a leading German nuclear I tried to be there,” Dr. Greene told the erick transmitted Halsey’s obituary, physicist, to his former professor in Lewiston Sun At the 16th annual Alfond which was a tribute to his avocation Denmark, Niels Bohr. What exactly Youth Center Awards Dinner in May, retired of breeding and training dogs for the transpired between the two of them National Field Trials. No letters, no remains unknown. Did Germany fail Waterville, Maine, lawyer Lester T. Jolovitz e-mails and, therefore, no news from to build the bomb before the end of ’39, a board member for many years of both the the rest of you. We can’t share what the war out of lack of understanding Waterville Boys & Girls Club and the YMCA, Merrill S.F. Greene ’20 we don’t know. or for other reasons? What is sug- received a special service award recognizing —Ernest C. Marriner Jr. gested is that Heisenberg returned his gifts of time, talent and treasure to Waterville youngsters. to Germany and possibly worked to 45 Fascinating stuff in a recent hinder the effort to build the bomb Deaths: Marion Merriam Hooper ’25, June 19, 2002, in Waterville, Maine, article in The Log-Year 2002 by Bill by overstating the difficulties around at 99 Dorothy Farnum Scott ’26, July 21, 2002, in Annapolis, Md., at Whittemore, who’s a nuclear physi- making it. It may also be interesting 97 Seneca B. Anderson ’30, June 21, 2002, in West Falmouth, Mass., cist: “I have had opportunities to to learn that the sale of each bottle or at 90 Wendell A. Tufts ’30, February 8, 2002, in New Hampshire, meet with interesting individuals and can of Carlsberg beer results in funds at 94 Mary Louise Kelly ’32, June 2, 2002, in Middlebury, Vt., at discuss with them scientific problems. contributed each year to the Bohr 93 Josephine Porter Cunningham ’34, July 24, 2002, in Freeport, In addition to my work with Edward Institute in Copenhagen. Enrico Maine, at 90 John J. Leno ’34, April 30, 2002, in San Diego, Calif., Teller and Freeman Dyson . I have Fermi in the field of nuclear science at 94 Wilma Stanley Hill ’35, August 5, 2002, in Hamilton, Mass., at had the pleasure to sit with and discuss was a modern day scientific adventurer. 88 Florence Cayer ’37, July 17, 2000, in Glendale, Calif., at 85 Arnold interesting topics with the Nobelists, Ferdinand Magellan charted the path A. Green ’37, March 29, 2001, in Trinidad, Texas, at 86 Joyce Porter Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi. previously unknown to circumnavigate Fox ’38, June 6, 2002, in Caribou, Maine, at 84 Willetta Herrick Hall My meeting with Prof. Bohr took the globe. Fermi in his world accom- ’38, May 18, 2002, in Bar Harbor, Maine, at 84 Lucile E. McClintock place in June 1959 during the fes- plished something not unsimilar. He ’38, May 22, 2002, in Fairfield, Maine, at 86. tivities associated with the dedication was the prime scientific guide for the C O L B Y • F A L L 2 0 0 2 | 39 Alumni at Large 1940s-1950s 1940s Correspondents as many as 24 countries that has led MILESTONES to lasting friendships. We have been 1940 brought into everyday contact with How about a concert at Carnegie Hall in honor Ernest C. Marriner Jr. vastly different kinds of food, cultures, of your birthday? Last May the New York 10 Walnut Drive educational systems, homes and living Choral Society celebrated the life and music Augusta, ME 04330-6032 conditions. In 1958, one of 12 Korean of Robert R. DeCormier ’43, music director 207-623-0543 trainees in La Jolla did not have money of the society for 17 years, on the occasion [email protected] enough for room rent and food. He of his 80th. DeCormier has written works 1941 lived in our house and shared our food ranging from choral to ballet to Broadway Bonnie Roberts Hathaway for about six weeks before returning to scores and conducted the Robert DeCormier 400 Atlantic Avenue #34C Korea. He moved up through the Singers on tours throughout the United States Leominster, MA 01453 Korean hierarchy to become an impor- and Canada. For many years he was conduc- 978-343-4259 tant member of the Korean Atomic tor and arranger for Harry Belafonte and has [email protected] Energy Commission.” Bill goes on to been music director for Peter, Paul & Mary tell even more. In April, Muriel Robert R. DeCormier ’43 for the past 20 years The late Dominic M. 1942 Marker Gould, Helen Strauss and Puiia ’48 was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in June. He was 1943 I had another opportunity to hear a member of the basketball, football and baseball teams at Colby and played 1944 a piece composed by Hugh Aitken, on the East-West College All-Star team in 1946 Dexter, Maine, native c/o Meg Bernier Laura Tapia Aitken’s husband. A Colby College Horace P. Landry ’49 published his second suspense novel in June. Death fine composition titled “Duo,” it was on the Rocks takes place in Ellsworth, Winter Harbor, Augusta and Bangor Office of Alumni Relations performed beautifully by a cellist and Waterville, ME 04901 and begins in 1947 in a college town on the Kennebec River. “I changed a pianist at Hunter College. Also Colby College to Chamberlain College, for the Civil War hero [Joshua 207-872-3185 in April, Laura and Muriel were the Chamberlain],” Landry told the Waterville Morning Sentinel. [email protected] ’45ers who along with 12 other Col- [email protected] byites attended a tour of New York’s Deaths: Ruth Lewis Nowlan ’41, June 14, 2002, in Foxboro, Mass., at [email protected] Metropolitan Opera House.

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